Get ready for the New Orleans Film Festival!

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The wonderful world of independent film takes the stage in New Orleans for the 28th annual New Orleans Film Festival (a.k.a. Cannes on the Mississippi), sponsored by the New Orleans Film Society. The festival takes place Oct. 11 – 19 throughout several area theaters. Director Sean Baker’s touching “The Florida Project” starring Willem Dafoe, is the festival’s opening night selection and will screen at the Orpheum Theater at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 11.
Thursday, Oct. 12 brings the much-anticipated biopic “Marshall,” the true story of the early years of Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman), America’s first African-American Supreme Court justice. Directed by Reginald Hudlin (“House Party,” “Boomerang”) and co-starring Josh Gad, “Marshall” can be seen at 8:30 p.m. at the Ace Hotel on Carondelet Street, a new addition to the festival’s list of venues.
Also at the Ace Hotel at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 is the festival’s centerpiece film,  “Mudbound.” It’s the story of two families separated by race and social barriers in the Jim Crow South. Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige and New Orleans’ own Jason Mitchell (“Straight Outta Compton”) are featured in a film by Dee Rees (“Pariah,” “Bessie”).
At 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15,  the historic Prytania Theater screens “The Darkest Hour,” directed by Joe Wright (“Atonement,” “The Soloist”). A virtually unrecognizable Gary Oldman leads the race for next year’s Best Actor Oscar as Winston Churchill in this compelling true account of Great Britain’s newly elected Prime Minister, who would alter history by challenging the emerging Nazi menace.
Monday night at 7:15 sees the New Orleans premiere of “The Upside,” screening at Prytania. Neil Burger (“Limitless,” “Divergent”) directs the true story of a paralyzed billionaire (Bryan Cranston) and an ex-con (Kevin Hart) who form an unlikely yet rewarding friendship.
Bryan Cranston returns to the screen the very next evening in “Last Flag Flying,” a comedy/drama concerning three Vietnam Veterans who reunite after 30 years to bury one of their children, killed in Iraq. Laurence Fishburne and Steve Carell co-star in a film directed by Richard Linklater (“Boyhood”). The film screens at 7:30 p.m. at Prytania.
The closing night film is Luca Guadagnino’s “Call Me by Your Name,” a coming-of-age story of a professor’s son (Timothée Chalamet) and his summer of love with a graduate student (Armie Hammer) in northern Italy. You can see it at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 19 at the Ace Hotel.
While these are some of the flagship films at this year’s festival, they only comprise a small sample of the independent features and shorts screening in New Orleans during these nine days. For a complete list of films (in and out of competition) and festivities, or to purchase tickets to any of these films, visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org.

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