10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

FILMS 2024:  Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees
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FILMS 2017: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2016: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film
FILMS 2015: A – E | F – L | M – P | Q – S | T –  Z | Feature Film | Short Film

The Holdovers

Alexander Payne: | USA| 2023 | n.s. | 133min

After Nebraska, shot in black and white in 2013, another movie by grandmaster Alexander Payne in the CIFF program. At first glance a simple movie, shot in a straightforward style in the 1.66:1 aspect ratio common in the 1970s.
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The setting is a boarding school for the elite, where at Christmas it is the turn of the lonely and strict classics teacher to watch over the largely deserted school, the cook and some students (the holdovers), who for various reasons cannot go home for Christmas. 

Paul Giamatti stars as the “nanny-teacher” amidst all the gossip about him and the mischief of the remaining students. Between the trio of remaining teacher-cookie-students, a broad story unfolds about racism and white privilege, as well as grief and friendship between polar opposites. A story with a fine mix of lightness and darkness, without becoming sentimental. A movie you will want to see again.

Place: The Cinemas 

Date: April 11

Time: 20:00 

Duration:133min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 13

Time: 13:00 

Duration:133min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 14

Time: 20:45

Duration:133min

Year in
Festival

2024

Director

Alexander Payne

Country

USA

Language

English

Length

133

Year of Production

2023