October 16, 2019
LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Awarded the coveted Camera d’Or prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, César Augusto Acevedo’s magnificently photographed minimalist feature debut reveals rich pleasures beneath its luscious veneer. With his estranged son gravely ill, an old farmer returns to the sugarcane fields of rural Colombia where the family and land he long ago abandoned have...
October 16, 2019
THE LADY IN THE VAN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Based on the smash hit play of the same name, THE LADY IN THE VAN stars Maggie Smith as Miss Mary Shepherd, a cantankerous yet eloquent homeless woman who sets up residence on the curb outside the home of a single writer. As the writer struggles to navigate having a lunatic on his front...
October 16, 2019
LANCASTER, CA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A portrait of love in the California desert. Bios Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at Cal Arts, where he received his MFA degree in Film/Video. He recently completed his desert trilogy, which includes the films LITTLEROCK, PEARBLOSSOM HWY and LAKE LOS ANGELES. He is currently in post-production on his new feature, the Untitled Denver Project,...
October 16, 2019
KRISHA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription First-time filmmaker Trey Edward Shults has crafted an incredibly personal and intense family Thanksgiving experience. Estranged relative Krisha arrives to make amends and get to know her family again, but as the day unfolds, she can’t seem to escape her dark past and family history. Tension begins with the very first frame and continues...
October 16, 2019
JAMES WHITE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Josh Mond’s directorial debut is an observational coming-of-age drama about a young New Yorker who is forced to take control of his self-destructive lifestyle as he navigates his mother’s fight with a serious illness. Having served as producer on AFTERSCHOOL (AFI FEST 2008), TWO GATES OF SLEEP (AFI FEST 2010) and SIMON KILLER (AFI...
October 16, 2019
I REMEMBER NOTHING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An epileptic seizure told in five phases. Bios Zia Anger’s work has screened at the Locarno, New York and New Directors/New Films film festivals. She has made music videos for independent artists including Angel Olsen, Julianna Barwick and Jenny Hval. Anger was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film...
October 16, 2019
IXCANUL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young Mayan woman lives with her parents on a coffee harvesting farm at the base of a volcano in the Guatemalan highlands. She is poised to enter an arranged marriage when everything is thrown into chaos. She becomes pregnant with a local boy’s child, a secret her determined mother desperately tries to cover...
October 16, 2019
IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (L’OMBRE DES FEMMES)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Husband and wife Pierre and Manon live and work in Paris as poor but happy documentary filmmakers. When Pierre meets Elizabeth, an intern at the film archives, he quickly takes her as a lover, hoping to fulfill his desire of having both a mistress and a wife. But a complex study of devotion and...
October 16, 2019
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For one week in 1962, two titans of cinema met in person for the first time in Hollywood. Shining star of the French New Wave François Truffaut conducted a series of exhaustive interviews with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Spanning Hitchcock’s entire career, film by film, with painstaking detail, Truffaut sought to understand the very...
