Josephine

  • Beth de Araújo
  • USA
2026
120'
Screening schedule
  • Friday, 13 November 2026
  • 10:00
  • Kaptol Boutique Cinema

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  • Friday, 13 November 2026
  • 18:00
  • Kaptol Boutique Cinema

  • Buy a ticket

  • Saturday, 14 November 2026
  • 21:00
  • Museum of Contemporary Art

  • Buy a ticket

When eight-year-old Josephine (Mason Reeves) witnesses a brutal crime in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, her world changes entirely. Based on real events from the director and screenwriter’s own childhood, Beth de Araújo’s Josephine immerses the audience in the perspective of a girl forced to confront a world she does not yet understand. A deeply affecting study of trauma, the film won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Language: EN
Subtitles: HR

Beth de Araújo
Beth de Araújo

Beth de Araújo (San Francisco) is a writer and director with dual US-Brazilian citizenship and a background in sociology and screenwriting. Her debut feature Soft & Quiet earned her a nomination for the Gotham Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award in 2022. Her second feature Josephine participated in the Sundance Directors Lab in 2018, and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2026.

Film information

Director: Beth de Araújo

Screenplay: Beth de Araújo

Cast: Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Philip Ettinger, Syra McCarthy

Director of photography: Greta Zozula

Editing: Anisha Acharya, Nico Leunen, Kyle Reiter

Producer: David Kaplan, Josh Peters, Beth de Araújo, Marina Stabile, Channing Tatum, Gemma Chan, Mark H. Rapaport, Josh Beirne-Golden, Crystine Zhang

Production: Kaplan Morrison, Free Association, Kinematics, Spark Features, Yintai Entertainment, Vibrato

Festivals and awards: Sundance Film Festival 2026 – Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award; Berlin International Film Festival 2026; Toronto International Film Festival 2026; BFI London Film Festival 2026; Zagreb Film Festival 2026

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