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Stony Brook Film Festival 2025 has international flavor - Newsday

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The 30th annual Stony Brook Film Festival has announced its full lineup of 36 features and shorts from 19 countries, including one from Long Island’s East End.

The festival runs July 17-26 at Stony Brook University’s Staller Center for the Arts.

During its milestone year, the festival’s focus on international features continues. The opening night selection, "The Ties That Bind Us," is a French film about a happily childless woman in her 50s (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) who agrees to babysit a neighboring boy during an emergency, then finds herself stuck with him for the foreseeable future. In the Danish drama "Way Home," a military veteran smuggles himself into Syria to find his son, who has been radicalized by ISIS. "Nawi" takes place in rural Kenya, where a teenage girl (Michelle Lemuya Ikeny) must fight her father’s plans to marry her off so she can fulfill her dream of attending school.

Several American films will be at the festival as well, including "Westhampton," a drama set and filmed in the East End village about a man struggling with memories of a fatal car accident; the writer-director, Christian Nilsson, is from East Moriches. "La Gloria" features David Morse as an isolated Texas rancher who accidentally wounds an El Salvadoran migrant (Jaklyn Bejarano) and must now decide how much he’s willing to help her. In "Mad Bills to Pay," a Bronx teenager sees his modest but carefree youth slipping away after his girlfriend gets pregnant.

The festival closes with "The Remnants of You," a drama from first-time filmmaker Gala Gracia about a New York jazz pianist (Laia Manzanares) who returns to her native Spain following the unexpected death of her father.

The festival’s popular FlexPass, which offers entry to any five films for $75, is on sale now. Individual tickets, which are $15, go on sale July 1. For passes, tickets and other information, call 631-632-2787 or go to stonybrookfilmfestival.com.

Rafer Guzmán

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