October 16, 2019
A WAR (KRIGEN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Tobias Lindholm’s third film examines the moral complexities of split-second decision-making in battle and the ramifications of those choices. Claus Pedersen is a company commander stationed in Afghanistan. At home, his wife is caring for their three children and trying to keep things on track. During a routine mission, the soldiers come under heavy...
October 16, 2019
UNTIL I LOSE MY BREATH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Serap is a quiet but hotheaded adolescent working long hours in a cramped clothing workshop as a runner. Only one thing keeps her going: the hope of moving into an apartment with her father, a long-distance truck driver. When her father proves indifferent to Serap's wishes, she decides to take matters into her own...
October 16, 2019
VICTOR XX
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In a small seaside town, a young person makes a personal discovery while experimenting with gender. Bios Ian Garrido was born in Granada in 1988. In 2014 he made the television series pilot QUEER, and the short film VICTOR XX, about a transsexual man living in a small fishing village south of the country....
October 16, 2019
TWO FILMS ABOUT LONELINESS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A split screen separates two distinct worlds that are closer than they appear. Bios Christopher Eales and William Bishop-Stephens have worked together on a range of creative projects over the past seven years. Will is a sculptor, animator, published writer and illustrator and program leader in Animation and Illustration at the University of East...
October 16, 2019
UNDER THE SUN (RI GUANG ZHI XIA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An attempted act of kindness sets two families on an irrevocable collision course from which there is no return. Bios Qiu Yang was born and raised in Changzhou, China. His 2014 short THE WORLD was selected into several international film festivals, including the Melbourne International Film Festival. His 2015 short UNDER THE SUN was...
October 16, 2019
TUESDAY (SALI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An ordinary school day for a teenage girl in Istanbul. Bios Ziya Demirel was born in 1988, in Adana, Turkey. While studying industrial engineering at Galatasaray University, he directed his first short film THE TITLE OF THE FILM. After his graduation, he continued his studies for film directing and screenwriting at the Prague Film...
October 16, 2019
TWELVE TALES TOLD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The dream factory folds in on itself. Bios Johann Lurf was born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. In 2009 he received his diploma after studying under German director Harun Farocki. Contact Sixpack Film America
October 16, 2019
TRACKS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his girlfriend's young daughter on the day of a championship tournament. Bios Logan Sandler obtained his MFA in Film Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2014, and was recently awarded the Institute’s Franklin J. Schaffner Award. His first feature film LIVE CARGO is in the finishing...
October 16, 2019
THE TREASURE (COMOARA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription AFI FEST stalwart Corneliu Porumboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) returns with his latest tale of present-day Romanians still in the grip of their country’s politically tumultuous history. In this utterly deadpan comedy, Adrian implores his neighbor, family man Costi, to join him on a search for valuable coins he believes his grandfather buried at his family’s...
