October 16, 2019
THE LURE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in 1980s Warsaw, Agnieska Smoczy’nska’s debut film follows Silver and Golden, a pair of man-eating mermaid sisters who take human form to explore the world outside of their ocean home. Upon their arrival in this new world, Silver falls in love with the son of a musical family. They track him to a...
October 16, 2019
LOVR
DescriptionDescription A story of love, told through neural activity captured over four seconds.
October 16, 2019
LOVE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Affection is described in three different chapters, through an impact on a distant solar system. Bios Hungarian-born Réka Bucsi is an independent animation filmmaker. She attended MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest) in the animation department. Her graduation film SYMPHONY NO. 42 was selected for the shorts competition at the 64th...
October 16, 2019
THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE CONVERSATION
DescriptionDescription An in-depth panel discussion, with clips, on the history behind the documentary THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE, which centers on the unearthing of the film set for one of DeMille’s lavish spectaculars — THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1923) — that was 30 years in the making. Alongside other panel guests, filmmaker Peter Brosnan...
October 16, 2019
THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
DescriptionDescription In 1923 Cecile B. DeMille made his first version of The Ten Commandments. He built a huge City of the Pharaoh set. When he was done, it vanished. 30 years ago Peter Brosnan heard this story in a bar and decided to hunt for it. After wandering in the California dunes for years, he...
October 16, 2019
LION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train that takes him thousands of miles across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination and a revolutionary technology known...
October 16, 2019
LIVE CARGO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Nadine and Lewis, a young couple grieving after a terrible loss, escape to the Bahamas, where Nadine frequently spent time as a child. Though welcoming faces greet them, it’s soon clear that director Logan Sandler’s (AFI Class of 2014) feature debut is not content to frame its location as a carefree getaway. Cinematographer Daniella...
October 16, 2019
LAYLA M.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Prolific Dutch director Mijke de Jong provocatively frames radicalization as an expression of teenage rebellion and idealism in her latest film, the tough but heartbreaking LAYLA M. Played with assured grace by newcomer Nora El Koussour, Layla is an 18-year-old daughter of middle class Moroccan immigrants in Amsterdam. A crush on devout Muslim Abdel...
October 16, 2019
LIMBO
DescriptionBiosDescription Thirteen kids and the carcass of a whale washed ashore. Bios Born in Komotini, Konstantina Kotzamani is a graduate student of the Film Department of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki. Her short movies have screened in several international festivals and gained several awards. Her film WASHINGTONIA premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2014....
October 16, 2019
LAND OF MINE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription After World War II, Denmark faced the problem of how to defuse thousands of mines left buried in the country’s beaches by German soldiers. The fair solution at the time seemed to be defeating the enemy to clear them. However, after seven years of war, the only enemies left were adolescent Wehrmacht conscripts. This...
