The 11th annual Fairhope Film Festival is four days in November, at multiple venues in one of the coast’s most picturesque villages. Thousands of film lovers will view multiple short and feature films of world class cinema.

With panels moderated by industry insiders, the Fairhope Film Festival is a true film lover’s festival with films curated from other film festivals. Most have never been streamed nor seen at your local multiplex.

Film titles will be announced October 26, 2023.

Films sell out quickly, so order your tickets early. All tickets are sold online at: fairhopefilmfestival.org. Some tickets will also be available at Fairhope Welcome Center during the festival.

Schedule :

November 9, 2023

6:00pm : OPENING NIGHT MOVIE AND RECEPTION - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Nick Broomfield’s new documentary recounts the life and death of one of rock’s most tragic characters. Jones epitomized the 60’s and then he was gone.

The film-maker and others who knew him talk about the roots of his recklessness in an emotionally arid childhood. Film will be followed by a reception at The Summit Inn.

Cast: Nick Broomfield, Brian Jones

Director: Nick Broomfield

Length: 180 minutes

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November 10, 2023

10:00am : GOLDEN YEARS - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Reminiscent of Bread And Tulips, Barbara Kulcsar directs the affectionate story of an elderly couple in search of happiness with humor and a light touch. Breakout hit at the Swiss box office, ranking as the most successful Swiss feature in years.

Cast: Esther Gemsch, Stefan Kurt, Gundi Ellert, Ueli Jäggi

Director: BARBARA KULCSAR

Length: 91 minutes

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10:30am : INVISIBLE BEAUTY - Fairhope Public Library

Tracing Bethann Hardison’s impact on fashion from the 1970’s-200’s, this is an absorbing record of the racial evolution of fashion and an original contemplation on the life of an unparalleled trailblazer and cultural maverick.

Director: Frédéric Tcheng, Bethann Hardison

Writer: Frédéric Tcheng, Bethann Hardison

Length: 115 minutes

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10:30am : PAST LIVES - Coastal Alabama Community College

Two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro

Director: Celine Song

Length: 106 minutes

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12:00pm : MY SAILOR, MY LOVE - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Beautifully nuanced performances underpin an interesting drama that evolves from late-life romance into study of family trauma across generations. A retired sea captain and his daughter must reassess their strained relationship after he begins a new romance with a widowed housekeeper.

Cast: James Cosmo, Brid Brennan, Catherine Walker

Director: Klaus Härö

Subtitle: FINLAND / IRELAND / BELGIUM

Length: 103 minutes

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1:00pm : TWO TICKETS TO GREECE - Coastal Alabama Community College

The story of two middle-aged women who have not seen each other since their early teens and find themselves traveling together to the Greek Isles. Laure Calamy, Olivia Cote, Kristin Scott Thomas

Cast: Laure Calamy, Olivia Cote, Kristin Scott Thomas

Director: Marc Fitoussi

Region: FRANCE/GREECE

Length: 110 minutes

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1:30pm : THE ROAD DANCE - Fairhope Public Library

As the threat of a world war looms, a young woman navigates life, love, and heartbreak in her remote village in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. As an inexplicable tragedy upends her life, she struggles to reclaim the innocence of her youth. Inspired by true events.

Cast: Hermione Corfield, Morven Christie, Mark Gatiss

Director: Richie Adams

Region: SCOTLAND

Length: 116 minutes

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2:30pm : YOU WILL NOT PLAY WAGNER - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

But, could Wagner’s music transcend the anti-Semitic views of its creator? When an Israeli conductor, announces he will play Wagner in the finals of the Esther Greenbaum International Conductors’ Competition, Esther, a Holocaust survivor, must face a moral dilemma: whether the trauma of the past justifies stifling the future of young talent. Thought provoking-compels us to think from a different perspective.

Director: Lilia Levitina

Region: USA/ISRAEL

Length: 90 minutes

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3:30pm : THE CRIME IS MINE - Coastal Alabama Community College

In 1930s Paris, a pretty, penniless and talentless actress, is accused of murdering a famous producer. Helped by her best friend Pauline, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. A new life of fame and success begins, until the truth comes out. Stars Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini

Director: François Ozon

Writer: Philippe Piazzo

Region: FRANCE

Length: 102 minutes

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4:00pm : REVOIR PARIS - Fairhope Public Library

Illuminated by a masterful performance by French actress Virginie Efira this film makes the unimaginable experience of surviving a violent attack beautifully real and painfully universal.

Cast: Virginie Efira, Benoît Magimel, Grégoire Colin

Director: Alice Winocour

Writer: Marcia Romano, Jean-Stéphane Bron

Region: France

Length: 105 minutes

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5:00pm : THE MIRACLE CLUB - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Three close friends who have never left the outskirts of Dublin (much less Ireland) get the journey of a lifetime — a visit to Lourdes, the picturesque French town and place of miracles.

Cast: Laura Linney, Kathy Bates, Maggie Smith

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Region: UK

Length: 90 minutes

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5:30pm : NEVER TOO LATE FOR LOVE - Coastal Alabama Community College

Astolfo falls in love and struggles with feelings he thought belonged to the past. Encouraged by his loyal group, he makes a brave move and learns delightedly that it is never too late for love. A brilliant comedy that casts a tender and disenchanted eye over the loves, ailments and infinite annoyances of the third age. Stars Alberto Testone and Stefania Sandrelli.

Cast: Alberto Testone, Stefania Sandrelli

Director: Gianni Di Gregorio

Region: ITALY / FRANCE

Length: 97 minutes

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November 11, 2023

10:00am : THE ART OF EATING: THE LIFE OF M.F.K. FISHER - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Described by Auden as “the best prose writer in America,”this doc is about the exciting life and lasting impact of the intrepid mid-century California food writer M.F.K. Fisher, who elevated cooking from a domestic chore to a critical study of life itself. Fisher, Jacques Pepin, Alice Waters

Cast: M.F.K. Fisher, Jacques Pepin, Alice Waters

Director: Gregory Mark Bezat

Region: USA

Length: 86 minutes

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10:30am : DRIVING MADELINE - Coastal Alabama Community College

Two strangers, one day, all they do is talk, with occasional stops for a sandwich or ice cream. Both lives are changed. Less obviously, this is an encounter between old Paris and new Paris, and the way women’s lives have changed. Stars Line Renaud and Dany Boon.

Cast: Line Renaud, Dany Boon

Director: CHRISTIAN CARON

Region: FRANCE

Length: 91 minutes

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11:00am : NO LEGS, ALL HEART - Fairhope Public Library

The Race Across America (RAAM) is a grueling 12-day, 3,082-mile bike race from California to Maryland. Riders combat physical and mental breakdowns, severe sleep deprivation, harsh weather, and hallucinations. But André Kajlich aims to be the first double amputee to complete this arduous endeavor on an adapted bike that lets him pedal with his arms offering inspiration to pursue life’s passions despite the obstacles.

Cast: Andre Kajlich, Mariana Kajlich, Matt Hoffman

Director: PABLO DURANO

Region: USA

Length: 90 minutes

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12:00pm : MY NEIGHBOR ADOLF - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

A Polish Holocaust survivor living in South America suspects that the belligerent German who’s just moved in next door could be none other than der Führer himself. How could that be? Hitler shot himself in his bunker at the end of the war. Or did he?

Cast: David Hayman, Udo Kier, Olivia Silhavy

Director: Leon Prudovsky

Region: ISRAEL / POLAND / COLOMBIA

Length: 96 minutes

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12:30pm : THE ORIGIN OF EVIL - Coastal Alabama Community College

This Hitchcockian thriller is a pulpy, sinfully entertaining confection of family skeletons, duplicitous women, toxic masculinity, and an enormous inheritance… where everyone hides a burning secret or two and absolutely no one is be trusted. With Laure Calamy (Call My Agent)

Cast: Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Weber

Director: Sébastien Marnier

Region: FRANCE/CANADA

Length: 120 minutes

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1:30pm : AGAINST ALL ENEMIES - Fairhope Public Library

Against All Enemies goes deep inside the violent extremist movement in America, with members of the Proud Boys, 3 Percenters and never before seen footage of the Oath Keepers. These groups pose the greatest threat to the United States today.

Director: CHARLIE SADOFF

Length: 106 minutes

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2:00pm : La SYNDICALISTE - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

La syndicaliste is the true story of a whistleblower as much as it is the story of a woman in a world of men unaccustomed to seeing women risk whatever it takes to attack those at the top. Isabelle Huppert is mesmerizing as she embodies Maureen Kearney in this thriller.

Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Marina Foïs, Alexandra Maria Lara

Director: Jean-Paul Salomé

Writer: Fadette Drouard

Region: FRANCE / GERMANY

Length: 121 minutes

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3:00pm : GOLIATH - Coastal Alabama Community College

GOLIATH: France, sports teacher by day, worker by night and activist; Patrick, obscure and lonely Parisian lawyer specializing in environmental law; and Mathias, lobbyist and man in a hurry, will see their destinies turned upside down and intertwined by the terrible act of a desperate farmer. Stars Gillles Lellouche, Emmanuelle Bercot .

Cast: Gillles Lellouche, Emmanuelle Bercot

Director: FREDERIC TELLIER

Region: FRANCE / BELGIUM

Length: 121 minutes

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4:00pm : SHORTS - Fairhope Public Library

FFF is proud to present the 2023 selection of shorts, a compilation of great film work. A short film should present a slice of life, a moment that creates a certain feeling or single idea. These films, through comedy, drama and individual expression, do just that, so sit back and take them all in.

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4:30pm : ANATOMY OF A FALL - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

Set in France, Anatomy of a Fall centers around the legal aftermath following the suspicious death of a husband and father after he fell off a balcony. The main suspect in Samuel's death is his wife, Sandra, who is German. The only other person who could have witnessed anything is their young son, Daniel, who is blind.

Cast: Sandra Hüller, Milo Machado-Graner, Swann Arlaud

Director: Justine Triet

Region: FRANCE

Length: 150 minutes

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6:30pm : THE OTHER WIDOW - Coastal Alabama Community College

A dark, comedic drama that perfectly encapsulates the feelings of unexpected joy followed quickly by disappointment. With outstanding script, performances, and direction.

Cast: Dana Ivgy, Ania Bukstein

Director: Ma'ayan Rypp

Region: ISRAEL /FRANCE

Length: 93 minutes

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7:00pm : RED CARPET PARTY 2023 - EASTERN SHORE ART CENTER

November 12, 2023

10:00am : AUDIENCE AWARD BEST DOCUMENTARY - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

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10:30am : THE STONES AND BRIAN JONES - Fairhope Public Library

Nick Broomfield’s new documentary recounts the life and death of one of rock’s most tragic characters. Jones epitomized the 60’s and then he was gone. The film-maker and others who knew him talk about the roots of his recklessness in an emotionally arid childhood.

Cast: Nick Broomfield, Brian Jones, Freddie Fox, Bill Wyman

Director: Nick Broomfield

Length: 93 minutes

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12:30pm : AUDIENCE AWARD BEST NARRATIVE - Fairhope Public Library

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12:30pm : FH48 Film Scramble - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

The Fairhope Film Festival’s Fairhope 48 for Future Filmmakers’, or ‘Fairhope 48‘ for short, will be a special competition, open exclusively to high schoolers in Baldwin and Mobile counties in Alabama.

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2:00pm : JURIED BEST FILM AND SHORT - University of South Alabama – Baldwin County

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Date : November 9, 2023 - November 12, 2023

Location : Various Location

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