Nomadland Streaming Film Festival

On various days throughout the festival s nine day run.

Nomadland streaming film festival. Chloé zhao s richly textured follow up to her acclaimed the rider recounts a year in the life of fern frances mcdormand a stoic stubbornly independent widow who having spent her adult life in a now defunct company town repurposes an old van and sets off in search of seasonal work. Frances mcdormand illuminates chloé zhao s follow up to the rider a humane and lyrical film about people living on the road in the american west. Nomadland screened as part of the bfi s london film festival 2020. Follows a woman in her sixties who after losing everything in the great recession embarks on a journey through the american west living as a van dwelling modern day nomad.

Movies become available to rent at 6 p m. Out in uk cinemas 1st january 2021. The fact that the film can appeal on so many different levels is its rewarding feature. For an off kilter year in which moviegoing has been curtailed and new films have debuted online and not in theaters it s fitting that the low key and muted nomadland has recently been celebrated this melancholic ode to independence won the golden lion at venice and the audience favorite prize at toronto and occupied the plum position as the new york film festival s centerpiece selection.

However each film is available to rent only within a fixed 24 hour window. And as one of the outstanding films of the year it s cinema at its finest. Nomadland chloe zhao s film about nomad workers starring frances mcdormand and real life nomads debuted its teaser trailer on september 8 ahead of premieres at the venice and toronto. Indie ethos costume drama and rich fantasy won the day at the world s top cinematography event energacamerimage film festival on saturday with joshua james richards naturalistic filming.

Mixing professionals and non actors nomadland is a road movie for our precarious times. As with her previous works the film is populated with intimate and compassionate studies of real people playing versions of themselves such as fern s compatriots on the road. The very different from usual philadelphia film festival kicked off friday night with a drive in screening of nomadland at the venue known as the pfs drive in at the navy yard while the exhibition was less than ideal it s a truly fantastic film of the sort that would have been a worthy opener in a standard non pandemic year. Directed by chloé zhao.