October 16, 2019
PICCADILLY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription After the headlining act quits at an outré London nightclub, the owner turns his obsessive attentions to a preternaturally talented member of the kitchen staff: Shosho (Anna May Wong), a humble dishwasher who enjoys entertaining her fellow backroom employees by vamping around the kitchen. Shosho is promoted to the spotlight as the new headliner...
October 16, 2019
PREVENGE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription British comedy actress Alice Lowe makes her feature directorial debut with this pitch-black comedic tale of a pregnant woman whose fetus has a lust for killing. Seven months pregnant, Ruth receives murderous instructions from her misanthropic unborn baby, who has a vendetta against society for leaving her fatherless. Coached by the fetus, Ruth lures...
October 16, 2019
PEARL
DescriptionDescription Set inside their home, a beloved hatchback, PEARL follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. From Academy Award®- winning director Patrick Osborne comes a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love, and about nding grace in the unlikeliest of places.
October 16, 2019
PEDRO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Pedro gets home at dawn. Before he falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach. Bios André Santos and Marco Leão started their long-lasting collaboration in 2008. Since then, they co-directed WILD HORSES (2010), INFINITE (2011), BAD BLOOD (2013) and OUR NECESSITY FOR COMFORT (2015). All of their films were screened at...
October 16, 2019
PATRIOTS DAY
DescriptionBiosDescription An account of the Boston Marathon bombing, PATRIOTS DAY is the powerful story of a community's courage in the face of terror. In the aftermath of an unspeakable attack, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders (Mark Wahlberg) joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the bombers before...
October 16, 2019
PATERSON
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, PATERSON is the latest film from America’s punk poet laureate Jim Jarmusch. Adam Driver stars as the title character, a working-class poet and bus driver living in Paterson, NJ. Eschewing the comforts of modern life, he lives a routine existence, finding beauty in everyday details. From this...
October 16, 2019
PANAMERICAN MACHINERY (MAQUINARIA PANAMERICA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription There isn’t a better workplace than Maquinaria Panamericana. Employees are in a convenient location, with an expansive workspace. They have a generous boss who treats his workers as family. It all feels more like fun than labor, until the day owner Don Alejandro is found dead at the back of the warehouse. Suddenly everything...
October 16, 2019
THE ORNITHOLOGIST (O ORNITÓLOGO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Behold the latest fever dream from director João Pedro Rodrigues. As the film begins, the title character, while blissfully studying birds, is tossed out of his kayak by a rogue current and swiftly becomes incapacitated. Once rescued, he finds that each supposed port along this river harbors more risk than the last. Chinese tourists,...
October 16, 2019
OSCURO ANIMAL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Gorgeously shot and paced with patient rigor, feature debut director Felipe Guerrero’s OSCURO ANIMAL follows three Colombian women who are all brutally affected by the country’s armed conflict. Rocio returns from a routine laundry trip to find her small village gutted; homeless, she travels to Bogotá (but not without more violence en route) and...
October 16, 2019
ONE WEEK AND A DAY (SHAVUA VE YOM)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For Eyal and Vicky, it is the end of Shiva, the seven-day Jewish mourning ritual when a bereaved family opens their home to visitors. Grieving the death of their 25-year-old son, the couple tries to return to their lives in different ways. Vicky is eager to get back to teaching her elementary school students,...
