October 16, 2019
VIKTORIA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Maya Vitkova’s sharply satirical and surreal debut mixes the personal and the political, seeking out clever parallels between the life of a young woman and the political upheaval of modern Bulgaria. Viktoria is a girl born unwanted. Her mother attempted to abort her and then gave birth, only to find, astonishingly, her baby had...
October 16, 2019
VILLA TOUMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription VILLA TOUMA shines light on the Palestinian aristocracy – nearly forgotten since the 1967 Israeli occupation. Filmmaker Suha Arraf makes use of the static camera and confines most of this reclusive domestic melodrama to a Ramallah house – where a Palestinian teenage orphan is sent to live with her three aristocrat aunts. The women's...
October 16, 2019
TU DORS NICOLE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription At 22, Nicole is a typical post-college aimless spirit. Living with her parents, she passes the summer by watching her brother’s band practice in the family home. She occasionally lusts after young men, and is lusted after by a little blond-haired boy she used to babysit, Martin (played by a child actor but hilariously...
October 16, 2019
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The world-renowned Dardenne brothers (KID WITH A BIKE, AFI FEST 2011) return to the festival with this powerful tale of collective bargaining and solidarity. Marion Cotillard gives a stunning performance as Sandra, a Belgian working mother who has one weekend to convince her co-workers to forego their much-needed bonuses so that she can keep...
October 16, 2019
TITLI
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Possessing the ability to give escalating dramatic conflict an unaffected realism and honesty, director-screenwriter Kanu Behl infuses his first feature with the kind of character-driven specificity found in many international breakout films. Shot in Super 16 and starring a gifted newcomer (Shashank Arora), this layered crime drama churns into a bittersweet, intricate coming-of-age tale....
October 16, 2019
THE TRIBE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf and mute, THE TRIBE follows new student Sergey as he gets a crash course in who’s really in charge. The decrepit institution is awash in drugs, prostitution and organized petty crime. This incredible film has one particularly daring aspect:It is acted entirely in sign language without...
October 16, 2019
THOU WAST MILD & LOVELY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In her sophomore feature, Josephine Decker crafts an erotic drama, filled with psychosexual tension, examining the darkness that lingers in the secrets we keep. Quiet and grounded farm worker Akin takes a summer job working for the oppressive and confrontational Jeremiah, who lives on the farm with his daughter, Sarah. When a sexual attraction...
October 16, 2019
TIMBUKTU
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Contemporary epic TIMBUKTU is acclaimed Mauritanian-born filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako's indictment of armed Islamic jihadis' persecution of West African Saharans. Lamenting a pained, very recent era where everything from music to soccer is illegal, Sissako's tragic parable is set in 2012, as a jihadist group takes over northern Mali. The film’s structure is a tapestry...
October 16, 2019
STILL ALICE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Julianne Moore gives a powerful performance as Dr. Alice Howland, a linguistics professor who is diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Possessed of a brilliant mind, Alice is in a unique position to understand what her diagnosis holds in store. As she journeys through denial, diagnosis and the decline of her mental capacities, she is forced...
October 16, 2019
TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For more than 25 years, a quiet menace crept in secret through the shadows of South Central Los Angeles. In 2010, police arrested a suspect in the brutal murders of at least 10 women. Documentary provocateur Nick Broomfield, whose gifted eye has an uncanny knack for finding truth amidst America's chaotic inequalities, turns his...
