October 16, 2019
MISS SLOANE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In MISS SLOANE, ruthless and highly successful political strategist Elizabeth Sloane (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain), exposes the cutthroat world of DC lobbyists on both sides of the gun control debate. New legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership is gaining traction in Congress, and Sloane is approached to spearhead the campaign, pitting...
October 16, 2019
MOANA
DescriptionBiosDescription Three-thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped — and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes MOANA, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager, Moana, who sails out...
October 16, 2019
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Steven Okazaki’s thoughtful, elegant portrait of Japanese cinema’s greatest actor is less a straightforward documentary than a creative examination of the formative elements — both personal and cultural — surrounding Toshiro Mifune that contributed to his rise in stardom. The popularity of Chanbara films (samurai sword-fighting films that functioned as Japanese cinema’s Westerns), Mifune’s...
October 16, 2019
MALGRÉ LA NUIT
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription In Philippe Grandrieux's fourth feature, the director's signature tight framings follow a man named Lenz as he falls into the milieu of pornographic snuff films while searching for his lost love Madeleine. In a realm of undefined spaces and intense light, Lenz encounters Lena and Hélène, whose passion for Lenz can't supplant his memories...
October 16, 2019
MADE. NOT BORN!
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A home movie from 1981 turns out to be far more hypnotic than originally planned. Bios Mike Plante makes documentaries, including the shorts THE MASQUE (2012), THE POLAROID JOB (2016) and MADE. NOT BORN! (2016), and the feature BE LIKE AN ANT (2012). As a producer, he helped make the feature docs SCRAP VESSEL...
October 16, 2019
THE LURE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in 1980s Warsaw, Agnieska Smoczy’nska’s debut film follows Silver and Golden, a pair of man-eating mermaid sisters who take human form to explore the world outside of their ocean home. Upon their arrival in this new world, Silver falls in love with the son of a musical family. They track him to a...
October 16, 2019
LOVR
DescriptionDescription A story of love, told through neural activity captured over four seconds.
October 16, 2019
LOVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Affection is described in three different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Bios Hungarian-born Réka Bucsi is an independent animation filmmaker. She attended MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest) in the animation department. Her graduation film SYMPHONY NO. 42 was selected for the shorts competition at the 64th...
October 16, 2019
THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE CONVERSATION
DescriptionDescription An in-depth panel discussion, with clips, on the history behind the documentary THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE, which centers on the unearthing of the film set for one of DeMille’s lavish spectaculars — THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923) — that was 30 years in the making. Alongside other panel guests, filmmaker Peter Brosnan...
October 16, 2019
THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
DescriptionDescription In 1923 Cecile B. DeMille made his first version of The Ten Commandments. He built a huge City of the Pharaoh set. When he was done, it vanished. 30 years ago Peter Brosnan heard this story in a bar and decided to hunt for it. After wandering in the California dunes for years, he...
