05 Oct 2023 - 15 Oct 2023
The Mill Valley Film Festival will take place on October 5-15 in theaters in Marin, Berkeley, and San Francisco, as well as online. The program includes the Swedish films Goodbye Julia, The Hypnosis, and The Promised Land.
Goodbye Julia
Director: Mohamed Kordofani
Goodbye Julia is a powerful drama set against the 2011 split of Sudan into two countries. A friendship develops between two women from different religions and social standing but brought together by the violence of men and racist politics. Goodbye Julia is a co-production of Sudan, Egypt, Germany, France, Sweden and Saudi Arabia. Swedish producer Issraa Elkogali Häggström was the first Sudanese student at Sweden’s Royal Academy of Art in 2012.
When:
Where: Cinearts Sequoia, 25 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
For tickets and more information: https://www.mvff.com/program/goodbye-julia/
The Hypnosis
Director: Ernst De Geer
The Hypnosis is Swedish film maker Ernst De Geer’s debut. It is a cringe comedy and touching love story about an aspiring entrepreneur developing a socially conscious phone app with his girlfriend Vera. Right before they attend a crucial business seminar, Vera sees a hypnotherapist to quit her smoking habit and unexpectedly also loses all her inhibitions.
When:
Where: Cinearts Sequoia, 25 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
For tickets and more information: https://www.mvff.com/program/the-hypnosis/
The Promised Land
Director: Nikolaj Arcel
A captivating epic set in the arid no-man’s-landscape known as Danish Jutland in the 1750s. Captain Ludvig seeks to establish a settlement in the name of the Danish King, in the hopes of being rewarded a royal title for himself.
When: October 12 at 3:30 PM at the Sequoia
Where: Cinearts Sequoia, 25 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley
When: October 14 at 12:00 PM at the Lark
Where: Lark Theater, 549 Magnolia, Larkspur
For tickets and more information: https://www.mvff.com/program/the-promised-land/
For more information about the Mill Valley Film Festival 46: https://www.mvff.com/
