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Now in its 27th year, the Stony Brook Film Festival, live and in-person this year, offers 38 films from more than 28 countries. Opening the festival will be the North American Premiere of Peaceful, starring Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and Gabriel A. Sara. A life-affirming drama about acceptance and resilience, Peaceful follows Benjamin, an acting teacher with a terminal illness, as he navigates his final months and days. The beating heart of the film comes from Gabriel Sara — a cancer specialist from Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan in real-life — who portrays Benjamin’s very humane specialist, Dr. Eddé. Catherine Deneuve’s powerful performance as Benjamin’s mother is unforgettable.

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The Stony Brook Film Festival (SBFF), presented by Island Federal, returns to Staller Center for the Arts, July 21-30. It was announced today by Festival Director Alan Inkles. For film and pass information, visit www.stonybrookfilmfestival.com

Women will take center stage at this year’s SBFF, both in front of and behind the camera. SBFF’s opening and closing night features and shorts were all helmed by female directors. In all, 17 of the Festival’s 38 films were directed by women. Two films, Kitchen Tales and Before Seven, were made with nearly all-female crews. The Jackie Stiles Story and Nasima are two completely different documentaries about female athletes from the middle of nowhere – a small Kansas town and a small seaside village in Bangladesh – who both beat the odds and made a huge impact in their respective sports of basketball and surfing. There are heroines from all walks of life, whether in the New Zealand drama The Justice of Bunny King, the Israeli epic Image of Victory, the Albanian thriller Vera Dream of the Sea, or the American indie Peace in the Valley, all of which feature knock-out performances by their lead actresses.

Movies from around the world, with themes ranging from science fiction to women’s athletics to the history of Ukraine, will play at this year’s Stony Brook Film Festival, which announced its full lineup Tuesday.

The 27th edition of the festival runs July 21-30 at the Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University.

The festival’s roster confirms its reputation as a showcase for foreign films and American independents. The opening night selection, “Peaceful,” about an acting teacher diagnosed with a terminal illness, features Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and Gabriel Sara, a real-life cancer specialist from Mount Sinai West Hospital in Manhattan. 

The Stony Brook Film Festival returns to Staller Center this July 21-30 for the festival’s 27th installment. The festival packs 38 films from more than 28 countries.

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Opening the 2022 Stony Brook Film Festival will be the North American premiere of Peaceful, starring Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel, and Gabriel A Sara.

"Jackie Stiles is considered by many to be the greatest female college basketball player of all-time. Jackie was a three time All-American, won the Wade Trophy as the nations best player and set the All-Time NCAA scoring record. In her first year in the WNBA, she was selected Rookie-of- the Year as well as the WNBA All-Star team."

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Women will take center stage at the 27th Stony Brook Film Festival Presented by Island Federal — both in front of and behind the camera.

Screen legend Catherine Deneuve delivers a powerful performance in Peaceful, the opening night feature directed by acclaimed actress and director Emmanuelle Bercot, and the closing night feature, Lost Transport, written and directed by Saskia Diesing, is a powerful and deeply moving film set during the final days of World War II, uniquely told from a female perspective.

Now in its 27^th year, the Stony Brook Film Festival, live and in-person this year, offers 38 films from over 28 countries. The Stony Brook Film Festival is produced by the Staller Center for the Arts on the campus of Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY. All films are shown on our 40 foot screen in the Staller Center’s Main Stage Theater which seats over a 1000 patrons.

"1) Stony Brook Film Festival will host its opening night on Thursday, July 21. The event features food trucks, games, and more starting at 5:30 p.m. at the Staller Center steps."

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Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts turns into a movie lover’s mecca when new independent films screen at the Stony Brook Film Festival from Thursday, July 21 to Saturday, July 30. The popular event pairs memorable short films with an array of features you won’t see anywhere else, making it a favorite of moviegoers and filmmakers alike.

The 26th annual Stony Brook Film Festival, presented by Island Federal Credit Union, wrapped up with a Closing Night Awards Reception on July 31. The evening recognized the outstanding new independent films screened at the festival, which was held at Staller Center for the Arts at Stony Brook University from July 22 to 31.

PRINCETON — Princeton filmmaker Trey Nelson's documentary "The 5th Man" is running well on the film festival and awards track.

The film was featured on opening night at the recent Stony Brook Film Festival in Stony Brook, New York, where Nelson won Special Achievement Award.

Barbara Crampton has been acting in horror movies for almost 40 years now and has classics like Body Double and Re-animator on her resume (alongside more recent cult favorites such as Lords of Salem and You’re Next), but she’s never had a part that utilizes her talents as thrillingly as the title role in Jakob’s Wife. 

The Stony Brook Film Festival hosted its live awards ceremony on Saturday, July 31, at the Staller Center for the Arts, presenting awards to seven films.

Anchorage, an American film directed by Scott Monahan and written by Dakota Loesch, won the Grand Prize, and Willow, from the Republic of North Macedonia written and directed by Milcho Manchevski, won the Jury Award for Best Feature.

Anchorage directed by Scott Monahan is the winner of the Grand Prize at the 2021 Stony Brook Film Festival, held at the Staller Center for the Arts. In the film, two brothers attempt to drive a trunk full of opioids from Florida to Alaska to cash-in big in the Land of Gold, but their plans don’t go as expected.

Another Stony Brook Film Festival, Long Island’s largest film fest, is in the books. And the winners were recognized at a ceremony Saturday night.

This was the 26th installment of the festival, held at Staller Center for the Arts on the SBU campus.

LORELEI is an official selection of the Stony Brook Film Festival. It screens on Friday July 30, 2021 AT 7 PM. For more information, visit https://stonybrookfilmfestival....

Lorelei was also an Official Selection of the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. It won the Jury Prize at the 2020 Deauville American Film Festival and the Jordan Ressler First Feature Award at the 2021 Miami Film Festival. The film was also supported by a Stella Artois Women in Film Finishing Grant.

The 26th annual Stony Brook Film Festival, presented by Island Federal, has returned to live, in-person screenings at the Staller Center for the Arts through July 31, and will hold an encore presentation online a month later.

This festival presents 35 new, independent films from new American premieres to the best foreign-language films. There are options to attend both in person and virtually. $75+. Staller Center, 100 Nicolls Rd., Stony Brook. Stonybrookfilmfestival.com July 22-31.

Stony Brook Film Festival: The New York festival opens tonight with the world premiere of The 5th Man, a documentary on Paul Limmer, a former track coach who racked up hundreds of wins and changed the lives of countless students at Bellmore’s Mepham High Schools not far from Stony Brook. The film, by director Trey Nelson, will be preceded by Feeling Through, an Oscar-nominated short featuring deaf-blind actor Robert Tarango of Selden, which is also near Stony Brook. More details are here.

The 26th installment of the Stony Brook Film Festival, Long Island’s largest film fest, is now fully underway at Staller Center for the Arts, located at the University of Stony Brook campus.

At The Stony Brook Film Festival this year the opening night film will be,"The 5th Man," a documentary on Paul Limmer, a former track coach at Bellmore's Mepham High School.  Credit: Trey Nelson

Stony Brook Film Festival, now in its 26th year, kicks off on Thursday, July 22 with the world premiere of The 5th Man, a documentary on Paul Limmer, a former track coach at Bellmore’s Mepham High School. During his 50-year career there, Limmer racked up hundreds of wins, though director Trey Nelson focuses on the story of all the other kids – the ones who never felt “seen” – until Paul Limmer came into their lives.