A CITY IN THE FOREST

US PREMIERE In northern Italy’s Piedmont, generations of families have harvested fine wines for the world’s immense pleasure. Yet as the landowners age, their artisanal legacies are undergoing unprecedented stresses: Climate change threatens the health of their livelihoods, and many of their scions are abandoning familial inheritances for urban life. As unscrupulous foreign investors hover with malicious intent, Low Lies the Land finds ancestral strength in the steadfastness of patient time and the durability of intertwined vines. - Jaie Laplante

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Emanuele Gerosa.

All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.

WORLD PREMIERE What if plants are not passive resources but intelligent beings with complex ways of sensing, communicating, and responding to their world? Forester Suzanne Simard, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, and philosopher Paco Calvo combine scientific inquiry with radically different ways of understanding our relationship to nature. Through luminous macro imagery, time-lapse photography, and animation, Understory offers a revelatory invitation to see ourselves not above nature but interconnected within its astonishing web of life. - Ruth Somalo

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Su Rynard and producer Nadine Pequeneza.

All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.

NYC PREMIERE The central Indian city of Panna is home to a tiger reserve and a whole ecosystem around it: Indigenous tribes who have called the forest home for centuries, tourists who often mar the sanctity of that home, tour guides and conservationists who walk the tightrope of balancing the travel economy with animal safety. The film is a longitudinal study of the community that rises and falls with the tiger populations. - Bedatri D. Choudhury

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with writer/director Sarthak Verma and cinematographer Karan Salunkhe.

All in-person screening venues provide sound amplification headphones upon request with venue management. IFC Center can also provide a T-Coil loop for compatible devices.