October 16, 2019
THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription If a movie could dream, it might look something like THE FORBIDDEN ROOM. Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson invite audiences to glimpse what fills the human interior: urges, repressed memories, nightmares and dreams-within-dreams. The film is a pure manifestation of Maddin's distinctive cinephile delirium tremens. An international cast including Mathieu Amalric,...
October 16, 2019
FLYING DOWN TO RIO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription This 1933 RKO musical, best known as the first on-screen pairing of fleet-footed screen icons Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, stars the gorgeous Dolores del Río as Belinha, an irresistible woman who seduces the leader of a band touring Miami. So enticed is the man that he follows Belinha, as the title suggests, all...
October 16, 2019
FIELD NIGGAS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Khalik Allah’s FIELD NIGGAS is a stylized documentary chronicling summer nights spent at the intersection of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem. Portraiture is woven together with non-sync audio conversations with the neighborhood’s most oppressed and exhausted inhabitants, giving us a deeper sense of their dreams, regrets, opinions, arguments and observations. Allah uses his...
October 16, 2019
THE EXQUISITE CORPUS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes, myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome and ecstatic dream. Bios Peter Tscherkassky was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. He is the founding member of Sixpack Film, and has organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. Since...
October 16, 2019
EVERYTHING WILL BE OKAY (ALLES WIRD GUT)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A divorced father picks up his eight-year-old daughter. It seems like every second weekend, but something isn't right. Bios Patrick Vollrath grew up in central Germany. In 2013 he was a participant of the Berlinale Talent Campus. He has won several national and international prizes for his work. His latest film EVERYTHING WILL BE...
October 16, 2019
EVOLUTION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Lucile Hadžihalilovićs sophomore feature is a fantastic tale of an island town inhabited only by women and boys. On this island live 10-year-old Nicolas and his mother. Nicolas and the island’s other boys are regularly subjected to strange medical procedures at the hands of the women. When Nicolas senses that his mother is lying...
October 16, 2019
E.T.E.R.N.I.T.
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A Tunisian immigrant working in asbestos removal must make a radical choice in the name of his family. Bios Born in 1984, Giovanni Aloi has directed LA PROMESSA, a true story that took place in the early 1980s about a rising football star killed by heroin; and LIVES, a portrait of auteurs including Charlie...
October 16, 2019
EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (EL ABRAZO DE LA SERPIENTE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The shaman Karamakate waits warily by the edge of the river as a German explorer approaches. The stranger seeks the Yakuna, a legendary rare flower that can cure the man of his mysterious sickness. Only the shaman knows its location, hidden deep within the recesses of the Colombian Amazon, but he is distrustful. It...
October 16, 2019
DON’T BE BAD (NON ESSERE CATTIVO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in the drug-fueled scene of the mid-‘90s, DON’T BE BAD follows a pair of twentysomething best friends who are forever chasing the next high. When an alluring woman enters their lives, everything they know comes into question. As they drift apart and then together again, the lure of the hard-partying lifestyle threatens to...
