October 22, 2019
ONE CHILD NATION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Nanfu Wang (Director) After becoming a first-time mother, filmmaker Nanfu Wang (HOOLIGAN SPARROW) reflects on her childhood in China, deciding to turn her camera on the experience and history of the country’s one child policy. From 1979 to 2015, China’s government enforced families to have one-child households, favoring male babies,...
October 22, 2019
NOBADI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In sunny Vienna elderly Robert awakes to find his dog has died. He wants to bury him in the garden, but a stubborn tree root impedes his progress. He goes into town to hire some help and encounters young immigrant Adib. Hiring him for a low wage, he brings him back to his house....
October 22, 2019
THE MINORS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A slice of life film about a Grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past. Oh, and they started a band! Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Born in the small town of King City California, and raised in the DIY Punk culture, Robert has been taking photographs his whole life and making...
October 22, 2019
MONSTRUO DIOS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription God is now a Power Plant. On a misty night cows escape, a child is chosen, and a teenager tries to find freedom. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Director of photography, colorist and image and sound designer, Agustina San Martín wrote and directed THE CRY OF THE OXEN (2015), which premiered at Cartagena,...
October 22, 2019
MISS BOUNDLESS (弄璋记)
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Siyi Ren (Producer) During the Qing Dynasty, a young girl competes with her male cousin for the right to inherit leadership of a powerful house. Part of SHOWCASE 3 Contact Siyi Ren ren55mil@gmail.com 213-572-9695
October 22, 2019
MS SLAVIC 7
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Talent attending: Sofia Bohdanowicz (Director) Indiscriminately housed in the Harvard Houghton Library is a collection of elegantly composed letters exchanged between Nobel Prize-nominated author Jozef Wittlin and poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, retrievable using call number MS Slavic 7. The correspondence extends decades following their displacement from Poland during World War II but, consisting of only...
October 22, 2019
MORS DAG
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Elena Aksenova (Producer), Jeanine Frost (Director/Writer), Erin G. Wesley (Cinematographer) Ellen succeeds well at keeping her past and shattered self-perception at bay by focusing on her freelance producing job, away from her family. But on Mother’s Day, when Ellen discovers her adopted daughter Lilly has gotten her period, the trauma from her...
October 22, 2019
MACK WRESTLES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription FREE SCREENING Transgender wrestler Mack Beggs broke records and changed history by winning the Texas high school state title two years in a row. With college on the horizon, Beggs must grapple with what comes next. Followed by Q&A with NBC News. Part of MEET THE PRESS SELECTS Bios Erin Sanger is a writer...
October 22, 2019
MATERNAL
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Maura Delpero (Director) Teenage mothers, Lu and Fati, live in a Catholic residence called Hogar in Buenos Aires with their children. Fati is pregnant with her second child after being raped and can’t go back home. One day Lu leaves the shelter to live with her boyfriend, abandoning her young daughter, Nina....
October 22, 2019
MARRIAGE MATERIAL, THE MUSICAL!
DescriptionDescription Talent attending: Maor Azran (Producer), Oran Zegman (Director) After her boyfriend rejects her marriage proposal, Leah Schwartzman checks herself into the “Late Blooming Bride” retreat, which prides itself on transforming less-than-perfect women into “Marriage Material.” Part of SHOWCASE 2
