October 16, 2019
SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this sparse yet resonant film resolutely follows one man through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in October 1944. Isolated from the rest of the camp, Saul is a Sonderkommando, a member of a unit of prisoners forced to assist in the horrifyingly inhuman process of...
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...
October 16, 2019
SEMBENE!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Ousmane Sembène is a crucial name in the history of cinema. The first indigenous director to make films in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning in the 1960s, he is known — deservedly — as the Father of African Cinema, and yet his work is not as well known stateside as that of film pioneers from other...
October 16, 2019
SEA CHILD
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young girl on the verge of womanhood is consumed by nightmares. Bios Minha Kim was born in South Korea and recently graduated from the National Film and Television School. Her thesis film SEA CHILD has been selected by film festivals including Animafest Zagreb in Croatia, Anima Mundi in Brazil, Rhode Island International Film...
October 16, 2019
SAFETY LAST!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the most famous images from the silent era of classic Hollywood can be found in Harold Lloyd’s brilliant SAFETY LAST!: Lloyd clinging desperately to the hands of a city clock atop a skyscraper, as traffic drives past far below. In that vein, the torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts in...
October 16, 2019
SAM
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription SAM follows the journey of young, handsome New York City playboy Sam Wellman -- a man’s man and professional woman hater -- and his relationship with Doc, his best and only friend. One strange, drunken night Sam stumbles into an Old Curiosity Shop, where the elderly proprietor offers him tea along with sage advice...
October 16, 2019
RONALD REAGAN LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription President Reagan conducts a delicate task. Bios Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie Spray), which screened at AFI FEST 2013, won a Golden Leopard at the...
October 16, 2019
RONALD REAGAN PARDONS A TURKEY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The President makes a tough call. Bios Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie Spray), which screened at AFI FEST 2013, won a Golden Leopard at the...
October 16, 2019
REVIEW
DescriptionTrailerDescription A young woman recounts a story to a group of friends who listen with rapt attention, but the tale sounds very familiar. Trailer
October 16, 2019
RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Fans of the incendiary, sharply realized body of work from Korean master Hong Sang-soo can expect a degree of welcome familiarity in his choice of subject matter, character traits, setting and themes. Nearly all of his feature films center around male filmmakers and students whose narcissistic tendencies overtake their morality as they pursue a...
