October 16, 2019
PATTERN FOR SURVIVAL
DescriptionBiosDescription A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude of the individuals involved. Bios Kelly Sears is an experimental animator and filmmaker. She intervenes with archival materials from America’s post war history through cutting up, collaging and compositing film and media source materials. Her work has screened at AFI FEST, and the...
October 16, 2019
PARADISE (MA DAR BEHESHT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Modern-day Tehran is a veritable paradise for some, but the treatment of women depicted in this film presents a tougher portrait. Haneieh is a 25-year-old teacher living in Tehran with her married sister. After an unexpected, violent act throws all of Haneieh's relationships into chaos, she must struggle to find her way out from...
October 16, 2019
OUR LITTLE SISTER (UMIMACHI DIARY)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Hirokazu Kore-eda (LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, AFI FEST 2013) has crafted another carefully observed film about family. Kore-eda again draws a beautiful portrait of an unconventional family, and shows how stepping outside of standard familial structures can reveal truer depths of love and connection. When a family patriarch dies, three sisters travel to...
October 16, 2019
OF THE UNKNOWN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In Hong Kong, millionaires and the working poor live side by side. Bios Eva Weber is a London-based filmmaker working in both documentary and fiction. Her award-winning short films have screened at numerous top international film festivals. Weber’s THE SOLITARY LIFE OF CRANES, described as “one of the most absorbing documentaries of the year”...
October 16, 2019
NO HOME MOVIE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Though not a “home movie” in the conventional sense, the late Chantal Akerman’s sweet, melancholic ode to her mother is a movie about home and the wild places beyond it. The filmmaker's mother, Natalia, who died in 2014, was an Auschwitz survivor. In NO HOME MOVIE we see Natalia puttering around her Brussels apartment....
October 16, 2019
OBJECT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A hypnotic underwater search is seen from the point of view of the rescue team, the diver and the people waiting on shore. Bios Born in 1987 in Kowary, Poland, Paulina Skibińska studied animation in Wrocław with a specialization in film. She earned her MA degree in screenwriting at the Łódź Film School, where...
October 16, 2019
NECKTIE YOUTH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Twenty-three-year-old writer-director Sibs Shongwe-La Mer referenced a painful loss as a teen to make this personal, stylized debut. The film offers an authentic perspective of life in Jo’burg, or Johannesburg, South Africa, as he knew it. The film begins on a harrowing note: A wealthy white teen has hanged herself from a tree, using...
October 16, 2019
NEON BULL (BOI NEON)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Iremar is a modern-day cowboy working the Brazilian rodeo circuit. He spends his days covered in mud and feces, looking after the bulls and preparing their tails before releasing them onto the Vaquejada track. A recent textile boom is providing new opportunities for people in the region, and Iremar dreams of becoming a famous fashion...
October 16, 2019
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PÉROLA (A MISTERIOSA MORTE DE PÉROLA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young student leaves her home and boyfriend behind to study art in France, where she moves into an old apartment and begins to lose herself in her loneliness and nostalgia. She becomes increasingly frightened of open doors and windows, and begins to feel that someone is watching her. This fear causes reality to...
October 16, 2019
NAHID
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Sareh Bayat (A SEPARATION, AFI FEST 2011) plays Nahid, a woman whose whole life is a struggle. Her typing job has maimed her hand, and it doesn't pay enough to cover her rent or the tuition for her son's school. Though she impoverishes herself to support her son, he refuses to study, preferring to...
