October 16, 2019
H.
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Helen of Troy, New York, spends her days coddling creepy, ultra-realistic “reborn dolls” as her husband, Roy, quietly dreams of release from their 40-plus-year marriage. Meanwhile, another Helen of Troy, one half of a performance art duo with husband Alex, silently endures his intense self-involvement as they await the birth of their first child....
October 16, 2019
HALF WET
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A man with large pores tries to escape the realization that he's slowly evaporating. Bios Sophie Koko Gate is an animation director and illustrator based in London. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. Her shorts have screened internationally at festivals including London, Slamdance and South by...
October 16, 2019
GROUP B
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A rally car driver mounts a comeback after a long and troubled absence. Bios Nick Rowland is a directing student at the National Film and Television School (UK). His work has received BAFTA and BIFA nominations. His films have been screened around the world at festivals such as AFI FEST, Sundance and Edinburgh, where...
October 16, 2019
THE GULLS (CHAIKI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Filmed in winter near the Caspian Sea, THE GULLS is the masterful debut feature of rising writer/director Ella Manzheeva, a native of the small Russian republic of Kalmykia. The first film of its kind from the region in decades, this brilliantly cast story is about a fisherman’s wife who becomes emancipated from her suppressed domestic existence...
October 16, 2019
FUNNY BUNNY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Three misfits with unusual obsessions form an awkward friendship in this character study by Alison Bagnall (THE DISH & THE SPOON, AFI FEST 2011). Gene, depressed by his ever-dwindling relationship with his ex-wife, works as a childhood-obesity activist going door to door. During one of his house calls he meets Titty, a breast-fixated reclusive...
October 16, 2019
GRAND FINALE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The end of a Fourth of July evening in Detroit. Bios Kevin Jerome Everson is Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. His artwork — painting, sculpture and street photography — as well as seven feature films and over 125 short-form works, has exhibited internationally at film festivals, art institutions, museums, biennials...
October 16, 2019
FREE IN DEED
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Based on true events, FREE IN DEED tells the story of a young mother struggling to raise her special-needs son. When she turns to a local storefront church for help, a lonely Pentecostal minister is forced to confront his own demons as he wrestles with the boy’s seemingly incurable illness. Writer/director Jake Mahaffy spent...
October 16, 2019
FRANKENSTEIN’S BRIDE (LA NOVIA DE FRANKENSTEIN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription At her summer job, Ivana learns it's easy to create a circle of lies, fiction and love when you're bored. Bios Born in Buenos Aires in 1987, Francisco Lezama is a film director, researcher and distributor. In 2011 he co-directed the medium length film YET IT REMAINS, winner of the SIGNIS award at IndieLisboa...
October 16, 2019
FUCKKKYOUUU
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A lonely girl finds love and rejection with her past self in this alluring collaboration with Flying Lotus. Bios Eddie Alcazar is an American director, writer, producer and game developer. He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. He is directing JOHNNY, a feature film on World Champion Boxer...
