Over the last 34 years, the Heartland International Film Festival has made a name for itself as one of the premier names for film festivals in the Midwest, taking place during the fall across Indianapolis. This year, for the festival’s 34th year, some heavy hitters are scheduled to be screened, including several films with ties to the festival’s home state.
Opening the festival on October 9 is the film Rental Family, starring Academy Award-winning actor Brendan Fraser, who was actually born in Indianapolis. The film follows Fraser, who plays an American actor in Japan working for a “rental family” agency. This isn’t the only Indianapolis-born actor present at Heartland, as Indianapolis-born actress Katy O’Brian stars in both the Sydney Sweeney-led biopic Christy, as well as the horror-comedy Queens of the Dead, directed by heiress to zombie royalty Tina Romero. The film closing out the festival on October 19 is Nuremberg, featuring Oscar-winner and University of Evansville graduate Rami Malek, who plays a WWII psychiatrist amidst the infamous Nuremberg Trials.
Some other notable features include Bradley Cooper’s new standup-centric film Is This Thing On?, starring Will Arnet and Laura Dern; After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and the Emmy-winning Ayo Edebiri; animated feature Arco starring Natalie Portman, Will Ferrell, and Mark Ruffalo; alongside many other notable films.
The 34th Heartland International Film Festival takes place in Indianapolis Indiana from October 9-19.
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