October 22, 2019
I WAS AT HOME, BUT… (ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER…)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Angela Schanelec’s cryptic, disjointed and enigmatic winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 2019 Berlin Film Festival takes place two years following the death of Astrid’s (Maren Eggert) husband. As Astrid attempts to maintain a sense of stability, the disappearance of her 13-year-old son Phillip and his sudden return plunge...
October 22, 2019
THE HISTORY OF MONSTERS
DescriptionDescription Talent attending: Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz (Director/Writer) Evelyn lives isolated in a cabin in the woods haunted every night by monsters of unknown origin. One day she finds a man in the forest and decides to help him. She becomes entranced by the stranger and struggles between her safety and her sexual desires. Part...
October 22, 2019
A HIDDEN LIFE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Elizabeth Bently (Producer), Dario Bergesio (Producer), Valerie Pachner (Talent) Terrence Malick returns with this harrowing true-life tale of conscientious objector Franz Jägerstätter (August Diehl), eliciting comparisons in scope to his Academy Award-nominated TREE OF LIFE. The rise of the Third Reich in Austria shatters the peaceful illusion that is Franz’s daily life...
October 22, 2019
HE DREAMS OF GIANTS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Lucy Darwin (Producer), Keith Fulton (Print Source), Lou Pepe (Director) In Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe’s irresistibly entertaining 2002 documentary LOST IN LA MANCHA, celebrated director Terry Gilliam attempted to complete a film adaptation of Cervantes’ masterpiece DON QUIXOTE. A string of impossibly unfortunate events — raging floods, a lead actor struck...
October 22, 2019
HELLO AHMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Unable to return home to attend Grandma’s funeral because of immigration bureaucracy, a young Singaporean girl new to America searches for Grandma’s reincarnation in a pet store turtle. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Siyou Tan is an LA-based filmmaker originally from Singapore. Her short HELLO AHMA premiered in competition at the 2019 Toronto...
October 22, 2019
THE HUMAN FACTOR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Behind the scenes, American diplomatic envoys and experts have borne witness to — and shaped — some of the most intense and tenuous negotiations of the Middle East peace process. THE HUMAN FACTOR presents a unique perspective on decades of high stakes peace talks by focusing on the recollections of these key, but mostly hidden, government officials. Some surprising stories surface: closed...
October 22, 2019
THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT (SINGLE CHANNEL)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Filmed on location in Harlem, USA and in Claude Monet’s historic gardens in Giverny, France, THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT is a multi-textured cinematic poem that meditates on the safety and bodily autonomy of Black women. Through audacious formal experimentation, filmmaker and artist Ja’Tovia Gary unleashes an arsenal of techniques and materials including direct animation on...
October 22, 2019
GRACE
DescriptionContactDescription GRACE is a father/son drama that tells the story of Lucas Walker, a charismatic pastor's teenage son, who discovers that his father’s alternative religious movement has become a dangerous and seductive cult of personality. He must shatter the only world he’s ever known to escape his father’s shadow. It's a thrilling and twisted coming-of-age...
October 22, 2019
HALA
DescriptionBiosDescription Talent attending: Minhal Baig (Director), Geraldine Viswanathan (Talent) Breathing new life into the classic American high school coming of age movie, writer/director Minhal Baig, making her feature debut, masterfully navigates the usual tropes of the genre to craft this thoroughly authentic and heartfelt story. Hala, a first-generation Pakistani-American teenager, is caught between the loving...
October 22, 2019
THE GOLDEN LEGEND (LEYENDA DORADA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A summer day at the swimming pool of the village of Montánchez, Spain. From above, Our Lady of Consolation of the Castle keeps her watchful gaze. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Chema Garciìa Ibarra was born in Spain in 1980. His “domestic science-fiction” films have screened at festivals internationally, including the Berlinale, Quinzaine...
