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From Variety Critic’s Pick ‘Memory’ With Jessica Chastain to a Chronicle of a 1925 Indigenous Uprising, This Year’s IFF Panama Audience Award Contenders
IFF Panama’s Audience Award competition also features Fernando Trueba, Aki Kaurismäki, Wim Wenders, a bio of Jean Cocteau’s boxer lover.
Tale centers on Xavier, a Haitian demolition worker who lives in cramped quarters in Miami’s Little Haiti with his wife Esperance, a seamstress and school crossing guard, and their son Junior, who’s pursuing standup comedy while juggling two cultures. Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature this year, Wender’s latest film revolves around Hirayama, a reserved Tokyo janitor, balancing work at a public bath with his love for music, literature, and photography who hides a secret past. An animation feature from Oscar-winning Trueba and celebrated illustrator Mariscal (“Chico & Rita”) join forces once more as they delve into the mystery of Francisco Tenório Júnior, a young Brazilian samba-jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires during the right-wing dictatorship of ‘70s Argentina.
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