The best new cinema that wouldn’t screen in Knoxville otherwise.
International Currents
Highlights from the year’s top international festivals, with a particular interest in work that demonstrates ways of approaching “regional” filmmaking. The International Currents program at FILM FEST KNOX 2023 began with Bas Devos’s particular vision of Brussels, Belgium as a site of migration, construction, and pockets of natural beauty in Here, and ended with Aki Kaurismäki’s typically dry and romantic view of working class Helsinki, Finland in Fallen Leaves.
2023 Program