October 16, 2019
KITTY
DescriptionBiosDescription A young girl finds herself transformed. Bios Actress Chloë Sevigny got her start in acting in the highly acclaimed and controversial hit KIDS (1995), and was later nominated for an Academy Award® and a Golden Globe for BOYS DON'T CRY (1999). She starred for five seasons on HBO’s BIG LOVE, for which she won...
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...
October 16, 2019
KILL ME PLEASE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription This debut film follows 15-year-old Bia and her friends as they grow up in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro. As the girls try to navigate the usual pitfalls of puberty, a wave of murders sweeps the city and bodies begin to appear in the group’s usual stomping grounds. What starts as morbid...
October 16, 2019
KATI KATI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Without any memories or knowledge of who she is or why she is there, Kaleche finds herself in a field. Soon she finds a group of strangers in the nearby resort who tell her the truth: She is dead and this is the afterlife, not quite heaven or hell, where everyone is waiting to...
October 16, 2019
JACKIE
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription JACKIE is a searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Natalie Portman, in one of her best performances). JACKIE places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband’s assassination....
October 16, 2019
JULIETA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When we meet Julieta (Emma Suárez), she seems to be a relatively happy, well-balanced woman preparing for a move away from Madrid with her boyfriend. But a chance encounter on the street leaves her reeling, and she’s tossed back into the turmoil of her painful past. In flashback, we see Julieta as a younger...
October 16, 2019
JÁAJI APPROX.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The distance between a father and son is narrowed when locations and language meet. Bios Sky Hopinka is a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians. His work centers on personal positions of homeland and landscape, designs of language and the facets of culture contained within. He received his BA...
October 16, 2019
THE ITCHING
DescriptionBiosDescription A shy Wolf tries to connect with a group of hip, party-loving Bunnies but finds her body is in revolt. Bios Dianne Bellino is a NYC-based director/writer of live-action and animated films. Her latest short film, THE ITCHING, a collaboration with animator Adam Davies, premiered at Sundance, where it was awarded the Debra Hill...
October 16, 2019
IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING: GENRE EXPANDS INTO VR
DescriptionDescription Join the Dark Corner Studios creators, Seed&Spark creative director James Kaelan and others who have brought genre stories to the immersive VR space.
October 16, 2019
IT’S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD (JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For his sixth feature film — which took the Grand Prix at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival — AFI FEST favorite Xavier Dolan teams with a powerhouse cast of French superstars to adapt an intimate, observant stage play by Jean-Luc Lagarce. Gaspard Ulliel stars as Louis, a writer returning home after years away to...
