October 16, 2019
HOT DOG HANDS
BiosBios Matt Reynolds grew up just north of San Francisco. His films have screened at festivals such as SXSW, Annecy, Ann Arbor Film Festival and Animafest Zagreb. In 2016, he received his MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts. He now lives in Los Angeles, freelancing and teaching animation.
October 16, 2019
HOW’S YOUR PROSTATE?
BiosContactBios Co-directors Jeanne Paturle and Cécile Rousset met while studying at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Both Paturle and Rousset then became educators. Teaching at the same school over two years inspired their previous film, THE PREDICATE AND THE POPPY. HOW'S YOUR PROSTATE? is their third film together. Contact Xbo...
October 16, 2019
HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS (HOCHELAGA, TERRE DES ÂMES)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Arriving on Canada’s 150th anniversary, HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS is a poetic tapestry of stories across time, all stemming from an excavation dig in Montreal following a deadly sinkhole during a college football game. Historian and Mohawk Baptiste Asigny (Canadian rapper Samian) tells a rapt audience that the McGill campus is the long-elusive site...
October 16, 2019
HOSTILES
DescriptionBiosDescription Captain Joseph Blocker (a stellar Christian Bale) is nearing the end of a respected military career when he’s given an assignment he can’t refuse: Escort an ailing Native prisoner, Chief Yellowhawk (Wes Studi), up to his Montana homeland to die. Bearing deep-simmering resentments against Natives, Blocker detests the idea of providing safe passage to...
October 16, 2019
HI STRANGER
BiosBios Kirsten Lepore is an LA-based director and animator, and alumna of CalArts. Her stop-motion episode of ADVENTURE TIME won 2016 Emmy® and Annie awards and her other films have taken top prizes at SXSW and Slamdance, among other festivals. Lepore has been featured in Juxtapoz and Shots, and was named one of Creativity Magazine's...
October 16, 2019
HIGH FANTASY
DescriptionBiosDescription Lexi and her friends Xoli, Tatiana and Thami head to her family’s isolated Northern Cape farm for an overnight camping trip, capturing the excursion on their cell phones. When they awake the next morning to discover they’ve all swapped bodies, the friends are forced to examine each other’s identities in the labyrinth of so-called...
October 16, 2019
HAVE A NICE DAY (HAO JI LE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Banned by the Chinese government from screening at the world’s most prestigious animation festival in Annecy, France, HAVE A NICE DAY is a morbid, hilarious noir that cuts deep into the greed fueling the Chinese economic miracle. Security guard Xiao Zhang steals a bag of money from a gangster to pay for a trip...
October 16, 2019
HAPPY END
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The Laurent family has issues. Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant), the aging patriarch of the wealthy Callais clan, is more interested in exiting this world than enjoying it. Anne (Isabelle Huppert) has a repellent adult son to deal with, and Thomas (Mathieu Kassovitz) is having a graphic online affair. The match to this tinderbox of dysfunction...
October 16, 2019
HANNAH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Charlotte Rampling gives another career-defining performance in this taut and layered sophomore feature from Andrea Pallaoro. In a seaside Belgian town, Hannah (Rampling) attends an acting class and has a quiet dinner with her husband. The next day, she lays out his clothes for a trip to take him to prison. As the truth...
