October 16, 2019
STILL DEVOUT
BiosContactTrailerBios Melissa Y. Perez is a Mexican-American filmmaker from Victorville, CA. She is a 2016 AFI Conservatory Directing alumna, a 2014 OUTSET alumna and a Latino Donor Collaborative & Women in Film Scholar. Her work often centers on themes of conflicting identities within family, sexuality and mental health. STILL DEVOUT is her latest short film....
October 16, 2019
SUMMER 1993
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When her mother dies of an AIDS-related illness, six-year-old Frida has to leave her home in Barcelona to live with her uncle, aunt and four-year-old cousin in the Catalan countryside. Though surrounded by loving and understanding family members, with visits from her religious grandmother, the adjustment is hard for everyone. Amid the film’s striking...
October 16, 2019
SPOOR (POKOT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Polish master Agnieszka Holland delivers an animal rights murder mystery for the ages in this genre-bending pleasure. Agnieszka Mandat stars as Duszejko, a middle-aged hippie living in the Klodzko Valley, a region in Poland known for grand, heart-stoppingly beautiful forest landscapes, plentiful wildlife and a vicious hunting season. Holland lovingly photographs the forest creatures, and Duszejko’s...
October 16, 2019
A SKIN SO SOFT (TA PEAU SI LISSE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Québécois director Denis Côté, who so deftly travels between documentary and narrative filmmaking, is one of the most powerful voices emerging from the contemporary Canadian film scene. His latest film, focusing on a group of French Canadian bodybuilders, follows the men as they go about their days, cavorting and even encountering tragedies, all while...
October 16, 2019
SOLLERS POINT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Keith is out on probation and living in his father’s house in a working-class Baltimore neighborhood. He’s resolved to set his life right, but old ties from the past keep pulling him dangerously back toward an existence of hustling and crime. As Keith navigates a tense living arrangement with his dad (played by Jim...
October 16, 2019
SHORT CUTS
DescriptionBiosDescription In his last Los Angeles-set film, Robert Altman adapts the work of author Raymond Carver in what is widely seen as the best cinematic treatment of Carver’s writing to date. Based on nine short stories and one poem by Carver, SHORT CUTS presents 22 characters in various states of ennui and crisis. Swapping Carver’s...
October 16, 2019
SILICA
DescriptionBiosDescription Array Bios Pia Borg was recently named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine. In 2017, her work was featured in the Maltese Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 Locarno Film Festival Pardino d'Oro for best international short for...
October 16, 2019
THE SHAPE OF WATER
DescriptionBiosDescription The luminous Sally Hawkins stars as Eliza Esposito, a mute cleaning lady living in a nondescript coastal city ensconced in 1950s Cold War paranoia. Her work at a government lab brings her into contact with an unusual government asset, a mysterious Amphibian Man. When Eliza forms a bond with the soulful creature, her need...
