Movie playback error



I have a new install of kodi 21.0 on fedora 40, and I’m having problems with at least 1 movie file. The movie does not show any artwork or movie details when I browse the library under “Movies”, it does correctly show the title and year, with no other metadata. When I try to open it I get an error. Inside the log file I see a bunch of file open errors like:

‘error <general>: Open – Error, could not open file’ Followed by the file name

These errors show up for a bunch of movies, including the one I try to view. The file in question is there, has 755 permissions and file command can read it fine:
# file ‘/movies/Valerian (2004)/Valerian (2004).mp4’
/movies/Valerian (2004)/Valerian (2004).mp4: ISO Media, MP4 Base Media v1 [ISO 14496-12:2003]

What should I check next??

TIA