Denver Film Festival 49 | Centerpiece Presentation: Behemoth!

Behemoth! screens at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on Saturday, October 24, at 1 PM. It's a centerpiece presentation of the 49th Denver Film Festival, and the screening is followed by a Q&A with David Acord, who was named the 2026 Excellence in Sound Design recipient.

The film follows a gifted cellist who returns home to Los Angeles after twenty years on the road. Music is the constant, all-consuming river of a life that changes him forever. It's distributed by Searchlight Pictures, and this particular screening is one of the festival's centerpiece events, which means it's one of the bigger, more highlighted titles of the year.

Having David Acord there for the Q&A is a good reason to stick around after the credits. He's the one who earned the Excellence in Sound Design award this year, and since the story centers on a cellist, the sound is a huge part of what the movie is about. You'll get to hear from him on how that worked in practice.

So, if you're around downtown on a Saturday afternoon, you can catch the film and the conversation in one go. It's at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House on October 24, starting at 1 PM.