October 16, 2019
20TH CENTURY WOMEN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Mike Mills brilliantly pulls back the curtain on the struggles, tragedies and triumphs of three generations of American women living in 1979 Santa Barbara. Annette Bening stars as Dorothea, a smart and resourceful woman in her 50s, raising her son by herself for many years. Surrounding Dorothea’s small family is Abbie (Greta Gerwig),...
October 16, 2019
YOLO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Filmed in the remains of Soweto's historic Sans Souci Cinema (1948-1998), YOLO is a makeshift structuralist mash-up created in collaboration with the Eat My Dust youth collective. Bios Born in 1976, Ben Russell is an American media artist and curator whose films, installations and performances foster a deep engagement with the history and semiotics...
October 16, 2019
YOUTH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Paolo Sorrentino, whose previous film THE GREAT BEAUTY (AFI FEST 2013) went on to win the 2014 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar®, returns to the festival with YOUTH, boasting one of his most impressive casts yet. Michael Caine, in a career-defining performance, plays an aging composer who has retreated to a picturesque Swiss...
October 16, 2019
YELLOW FIEBER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Athens was covered in a strange yellow dust. No one expected what was about to happen. Bios Konstantina Kotzamani was born in Komotini in 1983. She studied cinema at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has participated at the Berlin and Sarajevo talent campuses as a director. Her short films have been selected in...
October 16, 2019
THE WHITE KNIGHTS (LES CHEVALIERS BLANCS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription From joyful creation to maddening self-destruction, entangled family dramas have held recurring prominence in the works of award-winning Belgian filmmaker Joachim Lafosse (OUR CHILDREN, AFI FEST 2012). In THE WHITE KNIGHTS, Lafosse’s latest project unveiled at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, duplicitous adults willingly compromise basic moral obligations as parents and guardians to the...
October 16, 2019
WORLD OF TOMORROW
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of the distant future in the latest opus from Don Hertzfeldt. Bios Don Hertzfeldt is an Oscar®-nominated American filmmaker whose animated films include IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, THE MEANING OF LIFE, BILLY’S BALLOON and REJECTED. His work has played around the world, and recently...
October 16, 2019
WAVES ’98
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Omar is lured into the depths of segregated Beirut. Isolated from reality, he struggles to keep his sense of home. Bios Lebanese director Ely Dagher was born and raised in Beirut. He graduated with an MA in New Media and Contemporary Art Studies from Goldsmiths College in London. His latest short film WAVES ’98...
October 16, 2019
WHERE TO INVADE NEXT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription It’s been six years since renowned political agitator and stalwart purveyor of institutional dissent Michael Moore wielded his camera as a tool to raise uproarious his voice on the subject of national consciousness. With his latest madcap call to action, it’s clear that during his time away he’s been plotting and planning his largest-scale...
