October 16, 2019
WINTER BROTHERS (VINTERBRØDRE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Living in a remote, snowy area can have a profound effect on the psyche, and working as a miner in this landscape, loner Emil struggles to fit into his hyper-masculine environment. He appears strange and awkward next to his fit and popular brother Johan. When they’re not working, they’re making and selling moonshine, and...
October 16, 2019
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY (HVA VIL FOLK SI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life — the perfect Pakistani daughter to her strict parents, and a normal Norwegian teenager with her friends at school. One night when her father catches her and her boyfriend in her bedroom, Nisha’s two worlds brutally collide. Iram Haq’s sophomore feature is a powerful story of a young...
October 16, 2019
WESTERN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The provocatively titled WESTERN follows Meinhard, a stoic and terse man who begins work with a German construction crew on a site in the remote Bulgarian countryside. Cultural rifts between the rowdy German workers and their unwelcoming Bulgarian neighbors soon become flashpoints of macho hostility and violence, and Meinhard finds himself in the uneasy...
October 16, 2019
WALKING PAST THE FUTURE (LU GUO WEI LAI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Widespread factory layoffs in the post-industrial Chinese metropolis of Shenzen force the parents of Yang Yaoting (Yang Zishan) to retreat to their agricultural background in the northeastern province of Gansu. Once they arrive, her parents find they no longer own their land and that failing health has left them incapable of farm labor. Yaoting...
October 16, 2019
VISIONS OF AN ISLAND
BiosBios Sky Hopinka was born and raised in Ferndale, WA, and is currently based out of Milwaukee, WI. He received his BA from Portland State University in Liberal Arts and his MFA in Film, Video, Animation and New Genres. In Portland, he studied and taught Chinuk Wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin.
October 16, 2019
WAJIB
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Shadi is a 30-something Palestinian architect who’s traveled home to Israel from Rome to assist his father, Abu Shadi, in the distribution of wedding invitations for his sister’s upcoming nuptials. As the two men drive around Nazareth, paying calls to an array of friends, family and neighbors, the ideological divides between father and son...
October 16, 2019
VICTOR & ISOLINA
BiosContactTrailerBios Born in New York, William Caballero graduated from Pratt Institute and New York University. His student film was selected as the mtvU Film of the Week and won the Best Filmmaker on Campus award. He is a Gates Millennium Scholarship recipient and was awarded the 2016 Telly Award for his PBS series THE SMALLEST...
October 16, 2019
VINCENT & THEO
DescriptionBiosDescription VINCENT & THEO examines the relationship between celebrated Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (Tim Roth) and his younger brother Theo (Paul Rhys), a successful art dealer, whose support enabled Vincent to devote his life to painting. Though Theo seemingly held the power to propel his brother’s career forward, he was helpless, bound by his...
October 16, 2019
V.I.P.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The son of a high-ranking North Korean official, the creepily charismatic Kwang-il is committing brutal serial murders around the world. Drawn into this fraught crisis are three different enforcers: Jae-hyuk, a by-the-book, buttoned-up Korean federal agent; Inspector Chae Edo, a world-weary but extremely effective local cop; and a lone-wolf wildcard whose origin is at...
