October 16, 2019
STEALTH
DescriptionDescription Sammy is a transgender child. She was born a boy but is living in stealth, as a girl, with the support of her mother and a doctor. At her new school, Sammy finds the friends she has always dreamed of having, and she tells them her secret in confidence. When the threat of a...
October 16, 2019
STINKING HEAVEN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in a crumbling home for recovering drug addicts in the early 1990s, the latest American ensemble piece from eclectic micro-budget filmmaker Nathan Silver offers a grimy, grating yet utterly authentic and compassionate character study. Capturing the human spirit dwelling in a cocoon of rock-bottom behavior, Silver’s elliptical narrative weaves around its inhabitants with...
October 16, 2019
SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Johnny and Jashaun, two siblings coping with the loss of their father in distinctly different ways, form the heart of Chloé Zhao’s stunning directorial debut set among the Lakota people of South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When Johnny reveals his intention to leave home for Los Angeles with his girlfriend, the siblings’ close relationship...
October 16, 2019
SOUTHBOUND
DescriptionBiosContactDescription On a desert road, a series of characters are irrevocably changed when they encounter sinister forces: a pair of friends reel from the aftermath of a hit job gone wrong; three bandmates visit the home of a strange couple who seem to be hiding something; a man relies on help from 911 to save...
October 16, 2019
SHARE
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription The victim of an unspeakable act gone viral returns to high school. Bios Pippa Bianco studied at Yale University before moving to New York. Her films have won prizes at festivals including Cannes and SXSW, and have been named among Indiewire's Best New American Shorts. She was one of 10 participants in the 2014...
October 16, 2019
SERENITY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Everyone remembers their first time. Everyone has regrets. Bios Jack Dunphy is a filmmaker and animator based out of New York. His work blends documentary with fiction, animation with live action and comedy with dark stuff that bums his mom out. His short film SERENITY screened at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Nathan Silver’s...
October 16, 2019
SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Grand Prix at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, this sparse yet resonant film resolutely follows one man through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in October 1944. Isolated from the rest of the camp, Saul is a Sonderkommando, a member of a unit of prisoners forced to assist in the horrifyingly inhuman process of...
October 16, 2019
SEA CHILD
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young girl on the verge of womanhood is consumed by nightmares. Bios Minha Kim was born in South Korea and recently graduated from the National Film and Television School. Her thesis film SEA CHILD has been selected by film festivals including Animafest Zagreb in Croatia, Anima Mundi in Brazil, Rhode Island International Film...
October 16, 2019
SEMBENE!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Ousmane Sembène is a crucial name in the history of cinema. The first indigenous director to make films in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning in the 1960s, he is known — deservedly — as the Father of African Cinema, and yet his work is not as well known stateside as that of film pioneers from other...
October 16, 2019
SAFETY LAST!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the most famous images from the silent era of classic Hollywood can be found in Harold Lloyd’s brilliant SAFETY LAST!: Lloyd clinging desperately to the hands of a city clock atop a skyscraper, as traffic drives past far below. In that vein, the torrent of perfectly executed gags and astonishing stunts in...
