Room 999

In 1982, filmmaker Wim Wenders engaged 16 of his fellow directors in a compelling discussion about the future of cinema, culminating in the creation of “Room 666.” Fast forward 40 years to Cannes, where director Lubna Playoust revives this cinematic inquiry by posing the same profound question to Wim Wenders and a fresh cohort of filmmakers, including notable figures like James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher, and others: “Is cinema a language on the verge of fading, an art on the brink of extinction?” Watch Room 999 (2023) now. You can stream this thought-provoking film right on cineby or 123Movies, where it can be viewed for free online.