October 22, 2019
THE CLINIC
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Amidst a devastating opioid epidemic, a needle exchange and free clinic operates in the shadows of Fresno, California. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Elivia Shaw is an award-winning filmmaker from Washington, DC. She is driven by filmmaking that uses intimacy and personal narrative to question our larger social systems and cultural identities. Her...
October 22, 2019
CLEMENCY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Chinonye Chukwu (Director), Aldis Hodge (Talent), Alfre Woodard (Talent) Commanding the screen, Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, a stoic prison warden challenged with overseeing death row executions. She navigates the physiological complexities and consequences of regularly taking a life, treating her profession with discipline and the inmates with dignity. As the invisible...
October 22, 2019
CITIZEN K
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: John-Paul Bernbach (Executive Producer), Alex Gibney (Director) In this penetrating and gripping documentary, Academy Award®-winning director Alex Gibney charts the fascinating rise and fall —and surprising resurgence — of former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Khodorkovsky formed Yukos, which rapidly became Russia’s...
October 22, 2019
CHILD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, a young mother struggles to connect to her new baby. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bios Talia Zucker is a Sundance Screenwriters Lab fellow. Her short film, CHILD, was developed through the AFI Directing Workshop for Women. CHILD will have its world premiere as one of 12 shorts in...
October 22, 2019
THE CHEF
DescriptionContactDescription In the near future, when all labor works are replaced by humanoids, a Chinese chef, Pu (60s) is ordered to pass on his cooking skill to a humanoid robot William and to teach him Chinese cooking. Designed to satisfy his owner, William tries to follow Pu’s every instruction, but his robotic demand for precision...
October 22, 2019
CARNE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Flesh is about how women are seen as bodys at disposal, judged as time passes as meat cooking stages. Through the form and texture of real materials such as paint, watercolor, clay, 35mm film and virtual image decomposition as glitches and datamosh, five women are represented in animation by women animators to highlight the...
October 22, 2019
THE CAVE
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Feras Fayyad (Director) As Russian bombers and Syrian troops lay siege to the Syrian city of Ghouta, Dr. Amani, an aspiring pediatrician, leads a team of 130 medical practitioners who must go underground to create a makeshift hospital serving 400,000 civilians under attack. When the war becomes increasingly desperate, the...
October 22, 2019
CHEZ JOLIE COIFFURE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Rosine Mbakam (Director) Inside a bustling Brussels shopping center, hair salon Jolie Coiffure has become hub to a vibrant group of African migrants. Through its tall glass windows, manager Sabine can be seen braiding hair or lending advice and support to others, their experiences a reflection of her own. Inviting filmmaker Rosine...
October 22, 2019
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
DescriptionBiosDescription On the night of their mother’s funeral, the Connelly sisters’ lives become much more complicated. After learning about the massive debts left by their mother, the sisters are forced to cover up a deadly act of self-defense (and the ice cooler holding the body). In their desperation to hide their secret, other mysteries come...
October 22, 2019
THE BURNING BUSH (הסנה הבוער)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A poetic story of letting go. Danny mourns the lost love to her ex-girlfriend, symbolized by a small plant. Danny's mother wants her daughter to bury the memories, but when the dust settles something more powerful remains, which will not die. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Noam Greif is a filmmaker and hopeless...
