October 16, 2019
SWORN VIRGIN (VERGINE GIURATA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Laura Bispuri’s debut feature beautifully captures one woman's struggle to escape the confinement of a strict patriarchal society by making a radical choice. As a teenager, Hana decides to escape her destiny of becoming a wife and servant by appealing to an old Albanian law, which allows women who take an oath of eternal...
October 16, 2019
TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When a young woman living abroad receives a letter from home, it’s what she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she's always known herself to be. Bios Matt Porterfield has written and directed three feature films: HAMILTON (2006), PUTTY HILL (2011) and I USED TO BE DARKER (2013), all produced in...
October 16, 2019
SWIMMING IN YOUR SKIN AGAIN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood. Bios Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. His first feature film AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY premiered in the New Frontiers section at...
October 16, 2019
SWEET BEAN (AN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription SWEET BEAN, or AN in its native Japanese, is the latest film by Naomi Kawase. She crafts the heartwarming but subtle story of Sentaro, a man who runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki, or fruit-filled pancakes; and Tokue, an older woman looking for work. At first Sentaro thinks Tokue is too frail for...
October 16, 2019
THE SUN LIKE A BIG DARK ANIMAL (EL SOL COMO UN GRAN ANIMAL OSCURO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Even computers need love. Bios Ronnie Rivera is a self-taught illustrator, photographer and filmmaker working in Miami, Florida. In 2012, Rivera began the art collective Bleeding Palm, which has produced psychedelic impressionistic photography of the Miami music and art scene and satirical web and multimedia projects. Christina Felisgrau is a self-taught commercial graphic artist...
October 16, 2019
STEALTH
DescriptionDescription Sammy is a transgender child. She was born a boy but is living in stealth, as a girl, with the support of her mother and a doctor. At her new school, Sammy finds the friends she has always dreamed of having, and she tells them her secret in confidence. When the threat of a...
October 16, 2019
STINKING HEAVEN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in a crumbling home for recovering drug addicts in the early 1990s, the latest American ensemble piece from eclectic micro-budget filmmaker Nathan Silver offers a grimy, grating yet utterly authentic and compassionate character study. Capturing the human spirit dwelling in a cocoon of rock-bottom behavior, Silver’s elliptical narrative weaves around its inhabitants with...
October 16, 2019
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Johnny and Jashaun, two siblings coping with the loss of their father in distinctly different ways, form the heart of Chloé Zhao’s stunning directorial debut set among the Lakota people of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When Johnny reveals his intention to leave home for Los Angeles with his girlfriend, the siblings’ close relationship...
October 16, 2019
SOUTHBOUND
DescriptionBiosContactDescription On a desert road, a series of characters are irrevocably changed when they encounter sinister forces: a pair of friends reel from the aftermath of a hit job gone wrong; three bandmates visit the home of a strange couple who seem to be hiding something; a man relies on help from 911 to save...
October 16, 2019
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DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription The victim of an unspeakable act gone viral returns to high school. Bios Pippa Bianco studied at Yale University before moving to New York. Her films have won prizes at festivals including Cannes and SXSW, and have been named among Indiewire's Best New American Shorts. She was one of 10 participants in the 2014...
