October 22, 2019
TAKE ME TO PROM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A colorful, celebratory intergenerational retelling of seven queer people’s prom experience. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Marked by their intimacy, Andrew Moir’s documentaries bring audiences into seminal moments of peoples’ lives. He typically works with small crews and with subjects for multi-year spans of time. Festival screenings include Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC...
October 22, 2019
TALKING ABOUT TREES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Ibrahim, Suliman, Manar and Eltayeb — filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years —meet regularly in the capital of Khartoum as the Sudanese Film Group. Their mission is to screen films for the public, which, after decades of war and division, has grown up without access to the cinema, and to resurrect a...
October 22, 2019
SONG WITHOUT A NAME (CANCION SIN NOMBRE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Melina Léon (Director) Inspired by actual events in 1988 Peru, Georgina is a 20-year-old indigenous woman whose newborn is kidnapped in a child-trafficking scheme where itinerant medical centers recruit impoverished pregnant women on the promise of cost-free childbirth services. Discouraged after repeated attempts to engage the police, Georgina persuades a journalist to...
October 22, 2019
SON-MOTHER (PESAR-MADAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere When Leila, a single working mother of two, is laid off from her factory job, she faces a choice: marry bus driver Kazem, a single father who is ardently pursuing her, or live with her children on the streets. The marriage proposal comes with a catch — due to Iranian custom, it...
October 22, 2019
SOUTH OXFORD, ALL IOWA LAWN TENNIS CLUB, MARAVILLA, SERVE
DescriptionBiosDescription Talent attending: Darius Clark Monroe (Director) Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe returns to the screen with a series of intimate nonfiction vignettes exploring America’s culture and passion for tennis and handball. Richard Northern and his wife reflect on owning a tennis club for almost two decades in Brooklyn. In Iowa, Mark Kuhn shares his story...
October 22, 2019
THE SONG OF NAMES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: François Girard (Director), Robert Lantos (Producer), Clive Owen (Talent), Howard Shore (Composer) Director François Girard (HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS) takes Norman Lebrecht’s acclaimed novel and orchestrates a stellar ensemble as its players in this potent film about two Jewish boys, connected by World War II. Spanning generations, the story follows violin prodigies Martin and Dovidl...
October 22, 2019
SOPHIE’S CHOICE
DescriptionBiosDescription Alan J. Pakula’s SOPHIE’S CHOICE stars Meryl Streep in an Academy Award®- winning performance as Sophie, a Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor living in a post-war Brooklyn boardinghouse. Her romantic relationship with Nathan (Kevin Kline) is seen through the perspective of friend and aspiring writer, Stingo as he begins to discover their secrets. Bios...
October 22, 2019
SIN CIELO
DescriptionDescription Based on true stories. Memo, 15 and working low level jobs with his best friend for the local gang faction to make ends meets Delia, a sixteen year old girl who likes engineering and collecting old computer parts. Their teen love is pretty apparent to everyone, but just as things seem like they might...
October 22, 2019
THE SLEEPWALKERS (LOS SONÁMBULOS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription While preparing to spend a reluctant summer holiday at her mother-in-law’s family cottage, Luisa (Érica Rivas) discovers her teenage daughter Ana (Ornella D'elía) sleepwalking naked outside of their apartment. Now in the countryside surrounded by extended family, tensions heighten and Luisa’s concerns for Ana linger while restrained clashes with her husband’s family cause deep-seated...
October 22, 2019
SOMETHING TO REMEMBER (NÅGOT ATT MINNAS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A lullaby before the great disaster. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Niki Lindroth von Bahr is an artist and animation director based in Stockholm. Her award-winning short films THE BURDEN (2017), BATH HOUSE (2014) and TORD AND TORD (2010) have screened at festivals including Cannes, Sundance, the Berlinale and the Toronto International Film...
