October 22, 2019
AMERICAN FACTORY (美国工厂)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Steven Bognar (Director) When a giant Chinese auto glass company takes over a shuttered GM plant in Dayton, OH, it is greeted like a savior by locals desperate to reclaim the good jobs that have largely disappeared from America’s dwindling manufacturing sector. For a time, enthusiasm runs high. But under...
October 22, 2019
AND THEN WE DANCED
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription SWEDEN OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Levan Akin (Director), Ketie Daniela (Producer), Levan Gelbakhiani (Talent), Nino Jincharadze (Producer), Bachi Valishvili (Talent) A dancer in the National Georgian Ensemble, Merab is descended from a line of traditional dancers. The training at the academy is demanding. Its instructors are conservative and severe, maintaining...
October 22, 2019
THE AERONAUTS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, we invite you to witness death-defying feats with our two charismatic heroes and one giant balloon! THE AERONAUTS is an exhilarating fictionalized account of pioneering meteorologist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne), a scientist with his head in the clouds, and who is struggling for respect. His theories about weather...
October 22, 2019
ADAM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription MOROCCO OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Maryam Touzani (Director) Samia, heavily pregnant and alone, walks the streets of Casablanca knocking on doors, seeking shelter and work. With an illegitimate child on the way, Moroccan society has shunned her until Abla, a modest baker and single mother of an eight-year-old girl, reluctantly...
October 22, 2019
ALAN PAKULA: GOING FOR TRUTH
DescriptionBioContactDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Matthew Miele (Director), Hannah Pakula (Attendee) Producer/director/writer Alan Pakula created some of the most emotionally penetrating, culturally significant and artistically brilliant films of the 60s, 70s and 80s. This insightful documentary portrait includes interviews with Jane Fonda, Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Meryl Streep. Bio Matthew Miele is a director...
October 22, 2019
16 DECEMBER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bios Alvaro Gago...
October 16, 2019
WORMWOOD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A Tribute to Errol Morris. What made Dr. Frank Olson plunge out of a hotel window in 1953? Did he jump? Did he fall? Or is the truth darker and more complex than that? In WORMWOOD, master storyteller Errol Morris uses an array of filmmaking techniques to expose the dark history of the CIA’s...
October 16, 2019
THE WORKSHOP (L’ATELIER)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Palme d’Or-winning French filmmaker Laurent Cantet has never shied away from controversy or pushing boundaries, and his latest effort is no different. Parisian author Olivia leads a small writing workshop for teens, where she battles indifference, disruptive cell phones and raging hormones. But when a real threat rears its head, Olivia must find a...
