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Montclair Film Festival Announces Diverse 2025 Lineup
10 Sep
Summary
- Montclair Film Festival's 2025 lineup includes major films like "Jay Kelly" and "Christy"
- Actress Ayo Edebiri discusses ongoing work for #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements
- Brendan Fraser stars in "Rental Family," the festival's fiction centerpiece
The 2025 Montclair Film Festival is set to take place from October 17-26, and the organizers have just announced the lineup for the highly anticipated event. The festival will open with Noah Baumbach's "Jay Kelly," starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, and Laura Dern, and close with David Michôd's "Christy," featuring Sydney Sweeney as real-life West Virginia boxer Christy Martin.
In a viral interview, actress Ayo Edebiri discussed the ongoing work needed for the #MeToo and Black Lives Matter movements, emphasizing that the fight for equality and justice is far from over. Meanwhile, the festival's fiction centerpiece will be Hikari's "Rental Family," starring Brendan Fraser as an actor who joins a "rental family" agency in Japan, forming unexpected connections.
The documentary centerpiece, Ryan White's "Come See Me in the Good Light," tells the love story of poets Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley amid Gibson's battle with terminal cancer. The film is set to release on November 14.
