‘September 5’, ‘The Last Showgirl’, ‘Anora’, ‘Queer’ and ‘The Outrun’ at Red Lorry Film Festival

Ticketing platform BookMyShow is bringing back the Red Lorry Film Festival for a second edition. Among the movies and documentaries that will be screened between March 21 and 23 in Mumbai and Hyderabad are Universal Language, Hollywoodgate, I’m Nevenka and The Story of Souleymane.

The opening film is Tim Fehlbaum’s September 5, which recreates American network ABC TV’s coverage of the hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Sean Baker’s Oscar-winning Anora and Jacques Audiard’s musical Emilia Perez are among the big-ticket titles.

Also noteworthy are Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl, starring Pamela Anderson as an exotic dancer at a Las Vegas revue on the verge of closure. Luca Guadagnino’s Queer stars Daniel Craig as a writer besotted with a younger man.

In Magnus von Horn’s Oscar-nominated The Girl with the Needle, loosely based on an actual case, a seamstress has a fateful encounter with a woman claiming to be a benefactor. The Outrun stars Saoirse Ronan as a recovering alcoholic. When the Light Breaks, about a woman grieving for her dead lover, was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

The programme has at least 120 films across genres, such as Failure!, To Die Alone, This Time Next Year, Sew Torn, Winter in Sochko, Cold Wallet, 999: The Forgotten Girls, A World Apart, The Accidental Getaway Driver, Emanuelle, Rita, The 47 and Red Rooms.

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