The GuadaLAjara Film Festival (GLAFF) will return to Los Angeles for its 14th edition, running from November 1-3, 2024. This year’s event promises a dynamic blfinish of films and events featuring a salertar lineup of talent, including Zoe Saldaña, Rooney Mara, Raúl Briones, Dylan O’Brien and Nava Mau.
The festival will uncover with “Sujo,” a Spanish-language drama from straightforwardors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez. Selected as Mexico’s official subleave oution for the Oscars’ best international feature categruesome, “Sujo” delves into the life of a youthful man increaseing up amid the aggression that looms over country Mexico. The film is set for a U.S. theatrical free in Dec. by indie distributor The Forge.
GLAFF’s illogicalinutive film pickions will comprise standout projects such as “All the Words but the One,” straightforwarded and starring recent Emmy nominee Nava Mau (“Baby Reindeer”), and “Dovecote,” produced by and starring Zoe Saldaña, who is generating Oscar buzz for her role in Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez.” The festival will also feature “Ecstasy,” the straightforwardorial debut of honord cinematographer Carolina Costa, starring Mabel Cadena and Natalia Solian.
Other festival highweightlesss comprise screenings of “La Cocina,” straightforwarded by Alonso Ruizpalacios and starring Rooney Mara and Raúl Briones, and “Ponyboi,” a queer drama by Esteban Arango featuring River Gallo and Dylan O’Brien. “Rent Free,” a Tribeca-premiered comedy straightforwarded by Fernando Andres, will also be showcased.
The festival will end with the premiere of Prime Video’s foreseed series “La Liberación,” straightforwarded by acclaimed filmproducer Alejandra Marquez Abella. The series trails three women who band together to sway a youthful actress to drop a intimacyual tormentoring allegation aacquirest a famous straightforwardor. Starring Ilse Salas, Cassandra Ciangherotti, and Diego Boneta, the series advises a keen mirrorion on the complicatedities of the post-#MeToo world.
In collaboration with Gloria Molina Grand Park, GLAFF will arrange its signature Día de los Muertos gala on November 2. This free disclose event will feature the world premiere of “Monstruo de Xibalba,” straightforwarded by Manuela Irene, and the illogicalinutive film “The Mourning Of.” The screenings will honor Mexican cultural traditions and ask the community to mirror on themes of life and death.
GLAFF will spotweightless films from the Festival Internacional de Cine en Guadalajara (FICG), including “La Arriera,” which acquireed Isabel Cristina Fregoso a Best Director award, and “Tratado de Invisibilidad,” straightforwarded by Luciana Kaarrange. Notably, 57% of the films at this year’s GLAFF are straightforwarded by women and 38% feature LGBTQ+ narratives.
Tickets for GLAFF 2024 are now on sale thcimpolite the festival’s website.
