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Three Additional Awards Contenders Join the 2024 HIFF Lineup

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Brandon Wilson stars as Turner and Ethan Herisse as Elwood in director RaMell Ross’

Brandon Wilson stars as Turner and Ethan Herisse as Elwood in director RaMell Ross’ "Nickel Boys," from Orion Pictures. L. KASIMU HARRIS © 2024 AMAZON CONTENT SERVICES LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

A scene from Paramount Pictures’ “September 5,” directed by Tim Fehlbaum. COURTESY HIFF

A scene from Paramount Pictures’ “September 5,” directed by Tim Fehlbaum. COURTESY HIFF

authorStaff Writer on Sep 24, 2024

On September 20, HamptonsFilm announced three new films screening at this year’s 32nd annual Hamptons International Film Festival, which runs October 4 to 14 in East Hampton and Sag Harbor.

In addition to the previously announced program lineup, the festival will now feature Amazon MGM Studios’ “Nickel Boys,” which screens October 9. Directed by RaMell Ross and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Sag Harbor’s Colson Whitehead, the film is based on a true story and chronicles the powerful friendship between two Black teenagers, Elwood and Turner (played by Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson) who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida.

Also showing will be Paramount Pictures’ “September 5,” directed by Tim Fehlbaum. The film screens October 12 and spotlights the ABC Sports broadcasting team that quickly adapted from sports reporting to live coverage of the Israeli athletes taken hostage during the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. Ambitious producer Geoff Mason (John Magaro) leads the on-air coverage in an effort to prove himself to his boss, legendary TV executive Roone Arledge (Peter Saarsgard). As narratives shift, time ticks away and conflicting rumors spread — with the hostages’ lives hanging in the balance — Geoff grapples with tough decisions while confronting his own moral compass in this taut and entertaining thriller

Finally, HIFF will screen this year’s Palme d’Or winner, NEON’s “Anora,” directed by Sean Baker on October 11. The film follows following a young sex worker from Brooklyn (Mikey Madison) who gets her chance at a Cinderella story when she meets and impulsively marries the son of an oligarch (Mark Eydelshteyn). Once the news reaches Russia, her fairytale is threatened as his parents set out for New York to get the marriage annulled.

Member presale for individual tickets will begin Saturday, September 21, at noon, and individual tickets will be made available to the general public beginning Monday, September 23, at noon. To purchase tickets and for more information, visit hamptonsfilmfest.org.

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