Event Preview: Cine-World Film Festival

It's no secret that Sarasota is home to a plethora of artistic showcases; we have the Film Festival, Ringling International Arts Festival, the Chalk Festival and visual-and-performing-arts events galore.

One of the hidden gems in this realm, though, is the annual Cine-World Film Festival. Hosted by the Sarasota Film Society, this festival showcases the best of the lesser-known new foreign and independent films.

The festival kicks off this Friday, Nov. 7 and runs through the following Saturday, Nov. 16, with showing at Burns Court Cinemas and Lakewood Ranch Cinemas. Tickets are available via passes or individually both online and at the respective theaters.

Here are a few of the films we're most excited for. What are you planning to see? Click here for a virtual program.

PARADISE LOST:

Classic love story. Boy meets girl; falls in love; finds out girl's uncle is Pablo Escobar. Who hasn't been there? Plus, Benicio del Toro can practically do no wrong.

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POINT AND SHOOT:

This aptly titled documentary by two-time Academy Award nominated director Marshall Curry follows Matt VanDyke, a timid 26-year-old Baltimore native who sets out on a three-year, 35,000-mile “crash course in manhood” on his motorcycle. The trip eventually takes him to Northern Africa and the Middle East, where he finds himself fighting in the Libyan Revolution and being captured and held in solitary confinement for six months.

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ARLO AND JULIE:

Seemingly content couple Arlo and Julie begin receiving pieces of a jigsaw puzzle in the mail, spiraling them into obsession, detachment from reality and increasing mistrust of one another and their relationship.

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THE IMMORTALISTS:

This documentary explores the latest incarnation of the age-old quest for everlasting life. Since the dawn of time, people have contemplated the possibility of immortality, and these two eccentric scientists are no different, seeking new treatment methods and theories as they deal with their own aging and the loss of loved ones in their increasingly personal search.

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LITTLE ACCIDENTS:

A small coal-mining town, still reeling from a tragic accident, is shaken by the disappearance of a teenage boy, which brings together a surviving miner, the wife of a mining executive and a local boy in a web of secrecy.

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