Eugenie, an esteemed cook, has been working for over the last 20 years for Dodin, a fine gourmet. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her. Price includes After Party. Tavern will feature a no-host menu. Cocktail Attire requested

OPENING NIGHT FILM PREMIERE + AFTER PARTY

Red Carpet Screening | Cocktail Attire requested

November 9, 2023

Village Theatre 

4:00 p.m. - Screening 

7:00 p.m. - Screening

Both screening include access to the AfterParty

Badge Holders are FREE 

Tickets are not sold separately for the film and the after-party.

AFTER PARTY THE TAVERN 

The Opening Night continues at The Tavern. A Coronado hotspot with a rustic elegant vibe that will serve up hosted classic cocktails, and comfort-food bites.  Additional no-host menu items will be available. 

Sony Classic Pictures
San Diego Premiere
Australia’s Official Oscar Selection for Best International Feature:
A young Iranian mother takes refuge in an Australian women’s shelter with her 6-year-old daughter during the two weeks of Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Her path to freedom is jeopardized when her estranged husband arrives.

Q+A with Executive Producer, Coco Francini and Producer Actors, Mojean Aria

The film competed for the Palme d’Or at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. It is also selected as the Finnish entry for the Best International Feature Film award at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. Ansa (which means ‘trapped’ in Finnish), is single and lives in Helsinki. She works on a zero hour contract in a supermarket, stocking the shelves; later she sorts recyclable plastic. One night she accidentally meets the equally lonely worker Holappa, an alcoholic. Against all odds and misunderstandings, they try to build a relationship. As a result, Holappa manages to get his alcohol addiction under control. According to Alma Pöysti, the female lead, “the film is about lonely people with baggage, who meet later in life. It takes courage to fall in love later in life.”

Approaching the end of his twenties and his relative youth, a man decides to quit his cushy desk job and 'embrace life' - only to realize he has no idea what to do with this newfound freedom.

Eugenie, an esteemed cook, has been working for over the last 20 years for Dodin, a fine gourmet. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her. Price includes After Party. Tavern will feature a no-host menu. Cocktail Attire requested

OPENING NIGHT FILM PREMIERE + AFTER PARTY

Red Carpet Screening | Cocktail Attire requested

November 9, 2023

Village Theatre 

4:00 p.m. - Screening 

7:00 p.m. - Screening

Both screening include access to the AfterParty

Badge Holders are FREE 

Tickets are not sold separately for the film and the after-party.

AFTER PARTY THE TAVERN 

The Opening Night continues at The Tavern. A Coronado hotspot with a rustic elegant vibe that will serve up hosted classic cocktails, and comfort-food bites.  Additional no-host menu items will be available. 

Set in the competitive world of chess, we follow Nana’s (Academy Award Winner Mercedes Ruehl) journey in a heartwarming feel-good comedy about reuniting her grandsons (Will Peltz and Nolan Gould) and supporting her retirement community.

DOG lives in Manhattan and he's tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80's NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again?

Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story, a nod to his mother’s love, is a tender and intimate portrait of visionary and innovator Tyler Perry: his harrowing but faithful road to the top of an industry that didn’t always include him. CIFF is proud to be host the San Diego Premiere of this amazing documentary.

This exquisite fly-on-the-wall environmental doc is also a gripping and up-to-the-minute tale of geopolitical, scientific, and corporate intrigue that exposes the destructive machinations of a secretive organization empowered to extract massive amounts of metals from the deep seafloor.

Sponsored by Emerald Keepers

COMMON GROUND is the sweeping and uplifting story of the pioneers of the “Regenerative Movement” who are forgoing the toxic seeds and sprays pushed by Big Ag in order to produce tremendous quantities of nutritionally dense food while bringing our entire ecosystem back to life.