October 16, 2019
LIVE CARGO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Nadine and Lewis, a young couple grieving after a terrible loss, escape to the Bahamas, where Nadine frequently spent time as a child. Though welcoming faces greet them, it’s soon clear that director Logan Sandler’s (AFI Class of 2014) feature debut is not content to frame its location as a carefree getaway. Cinematographer Daniella...
October 16, 2019
LION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train that takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination and a revolutionary technology known...
October 16, 2019
LAYLA M.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Prolific Dutch director Mijke de Jong provocatively frames radicalization as an expression of teenage rebellion and idealism in her latest film, the tough but heartbreaking LAYLA M. Played with assured grace by newcomer Nora El Koussour, Layla is an 18-year-old daughter of middle class Moroccan immigrants in Amsterdam. A crush on devout Muslim Abdel...
October 16, 2019
LIMBO
DescriptionBiosDescription Thirteen kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore. Bios Born in Komotini, Konstantina Kotzamani is a graduate student of the Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have screened in several international festivals and gained several awards. Her film WASHINGTONIA premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014....
October 16, 2019
LAND OF MINE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription After World War II, Denmark faced the problem of how to defuse thousands of mines left buried in the country’s beaches by German soldiers. The fair solution at the time seemed to be defeating the enemy to clear them. However, after seven years of war, the only enemies left were adolescent Wehrmacht conscripts. This...
October 16, 2019
KITTY
DescriptionBiosDescription A young girl finds herself transformed. Bios Actress Chloë Sevigny got her start in acting in the highly acclaimed and controversial hit KIDS (1995), and was later nominated for an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for BOYS DON'T CRY (1999). She starred for five seasons on HBO’s BIG LOVE, for which she won...
October 16, 2019
LA LA LAND
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Damien Chazelle. His debut, GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH, was a loving ode to the city of New York, and to being young and in love; his follow-up feature, WHIPLASH, took audiences by storm with its intense take on a young drummer’s self-destructively ambitious pursuit of music-making. Chazelle fully embraces the big-budget...
October 16, 2019
KATI KATI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Without any memories or knowledge of who she is or why she is there, Kaleche finds herself in a field. Soon she finds a group of strangers in the nearby resort who tell her the truth: She is dead and this is the afterlife, not quite heaven or hell, where everyone is waiting to...
October 16, 2019
KILL ME PLEASE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription This debut film follows 15-year-old Bia and her friends as they grow up in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. As the girls try to navigate the usual pitfalls of puberty, a wave of murders sweeps the city and bodies begin to appear in the group’s usual stomping grounds. What starts as morbid...
October 16, 2019
JACKIE
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman, in one of her best performances). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination....
