Guest director Joshua Oppenheimer, whose wrenching «The Act
of Killing» debuted
at TFF in 2012, has put together an eclectic program that includes Werner Herzog's 1970 «Even Dwarfs Started Small» (with Herzog in attendance), Jon Bang Carlsen's intriguing and obscure «Hotel
of the Stars» (1981), an
hour - long Danish documentary about extras who live in a shabby
apartment hotel in Hollywood; the only movie directed by Charles Laughton, 1955's exquisitely - shot «The
Night of the Hunter,» starring a brilliant, terrifying Robert Mitchum, and fortuitously playing in his centenary year; «Salam Cinema,» Mohsen Makmalbaf's 1995 record
of auditions by aspiring actors; a new print
of Frederick Wiseman's long - banned, corrosive «Titicut Follies» (1967), filmed in a notorious Massachusetts hospital for the criminally insane; and Jacques Demy's glorious, gorgeous musical, «The Umbrellas
of Cherbourg» (1967), starring the glorious, gorgeous Catherine Deneuve.
Good ol' fiction: The River
at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life
of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures
of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris
Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel
of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End
of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals
of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight
of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven
Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage
of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth
of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention
of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days
of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes