Cinema St. Louis Announces Lineup for 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (No

ST. LOUIS - EntSun -- The 28th Annual Whitaker St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF) — held Nov. 7-17 — provides St. Louis filmgoers with the opportunity to view the finest in world cinema: international films, documentaries, American indies, and shorts that can only be seen on the big screen at the festival. SLIFF will screen 389 films: 81 narrative features, 63 documentary features, 227 shorts, and 18 film programs exclusive to the Cinema for Students program. The fest also will feature 12 special-event programs, including our closing-night awards presentation. This year's festival has 63 countries represented.

SLIFF will present our usual array of fest buzz films and Oscar contenders, including "The Apollo," "Atlantics," "The Chambermaid," "Clemency," "Cunningham," "A Faithful Man," "Frankie," "A Hidden Life," "Just Mercy," "The Kill Team," "Little Joe," "Marriage Story," "Nomad," "Olympic Dreams," "Portrait of a Lady on Fire," "Premature," "The Report," "The Rest," "Seahorse," "The Song of Names," "Sorry We Missed You," "Synonyms," "A Tramway in Jerusalem," "The Traitor," "The Truth," "The Two Popes," "Waves," "The Whistlers," "The Wild Goose Lake," and "Zombi Child."

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The festival will honor a trio of significant film figures with our annual awards:

• Josh Aronson and Brad Schiff with Charles Guggenheim Cinema St. Louis Awards
• Lisa Cortés with a Women in Film Award.

The festival will kick off  on Thursday, Nov. 7, with the local premiere of the much-lauded "Marriage Story," starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver, and directed by Noah Baumbach. A 6:30 PM reception precedes the film and features complimentary wine and Urban Chestnut beers.

As part of the fest's ongoing response to the Ferguson uprising, SLIFF again will feature a major stream of programming entitled Race in America: The Black Experience and offer a fourth edition of Mean Streets: Viewing the Divided City Through the Lens of Film and Television, which addresses the persistent issue of segregation.

The fest schedule, ticket and venue information, and a complete list of films (with descriptions) are available at the Cinema St. Louis website (https://cinemastlouis.org/festival-home).

For more information, the public should visit cinemastlouis.org or call 314-289-4150.