October 16, 2019
TWO FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A split screen separates two distinct worlds that are closer than they appear. Bios Christopher Eales and William Bishop-Stephens have worked together on a range of creative projects over the past seven years. Will is a sculptor, animator, published writer and illustrator and program leader in Animation and Illustration at the University of East...
October 16, 2019
TUESDAY (SALI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An ordinary school day for a teenage girl in Istanbul. Bios Ziya Demirel was born in 1988, in Adana, Turkey. While studying industrial engineering at Galatasaray University, he directed his first short film THE TITLE OF THE FILM. After his graduation, he continued his studies for film directing and screenwriting at the Prague Film...
October 16, 2019
TWELVE TALES TOLD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The dream factory folds in on itself. Bios Johann Lurf was born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009 he received his diploma after studying under German director Harun Farocki. Contact Sixpack Film America
October 16, 2019
THOSE WHO FEEL THE FIRE BURNING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Morgan Knibbe’s poetic experimental documentary captures with raw force the modern migrant experience in Europe, as seen through the eyes of a deceased shipwreck victim. With darkly sparkling cinematography and Malick-esque fragmented voiceover narration, we follow the path of migrants from a terrifying, visually suffocating sequence at sea to an alien-seeming Europe made up...
October 16, 2019
THE TREASURE (COMOARA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription AFI FEST stalwart Corneliu Porumboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) returns with his latest tale of present-day Romanians still in the grip of their country’s politically tumultuous history. In this utterly deadpan comedy, Adrian implores his neighbor, family man Costi, to join him on a search for valuable coins he believes his grandfather buried at his family’s...
October 16, 2019
TRACKS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his girlfriend's young daughter on the day of a championship tournament. Bios Logan Sandler obtained his MFA in Film Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2014, and was recently awarded the Institute’s Franklin J. Schaffner Award. His first feature film LIVE CARGO is in the finishing...
October 16, 2019
THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OKSANA BAIUL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of Olympic champion figure skater Oksana Baiul. Bios In 2012, Kitty Green moved to her mother’s native Ukraine to live and shoot with the provocative protest movement Femen. Her documentary UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL premiered at the 2013 Venice...
October 16, 2019
THIS WAY UP
DescriptionDescription This Way Up tells the story of a construction worker who lost his home in the housing market crash. With construction at a halt, Charlie finds himself out of work, homeless, and living in a storm drain underneath the Las Vegas Strip. Ashamed, Charlie keeps his life hidden from the person he cherishes most,...
October 16, 2019
TALE OF TALES (IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Matteo Garrone’s TALE OF TALES is a collection of three ancient Italian fairy tales, all intertwined and illustrated with a blazing cinematic style that brings these unusual stories to the screen for the first time. A flea grown to enormous size, a king who fights a sea serpent for fertility, an old woman who...
October 16, 2019
TEETH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription That which is neglected is lost. Bios UK-born directing duo Tom Brown and Daniel Gray met in a Welsh film school in 2003. Their graduation film T.O.M. won awards at festivals including Sundance, Ottawa and Annecy, and at the British Animation Awards. They work together under the name of Holbrooks. Contact Holbrooks Trailer Film...
