October 16, 2019
SAM
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription SAM follows the journey of young, handsome New York City playboy Sam Wellman -- a man’s man and professional woman hater -- and his relationship with Doc, his best and only friend. One strange, drunken night Sam stumbles into an Old Curiosity Shop, where the elderly proprietor offers him tea along with sage advice...
October 16, 2019
RONALD REAGAN PARDONS A TURKEY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The President makes a tough call. Bios Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie Spray), which screened at AFI FEST 2013, won a Golden Leopard at the...
October 16, 2019
RONALD REAGAN LIGHTS THE LIGHTS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription President Reagan conducts a delicate task. Bios Pacho Velez works at the intersection of ethnography, contemporary art and political documentary. His current project, THE REAGAN YEARS, explores a prolific actor’s defining role as Leader of the Free World. His last film MANAKAMANA (co-directed with Stephanie Spray), which screened at AFI FEST 2013, won a Golden Leopard at the...
October 16, 2019
THE RETURN OF ERKIN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A man just released from a long-term prison discovers that his former life has vanished, never to return. Bios Maria Guskova was born in 1982. She began studying filmmaking in Sweden and later directing at the Higher Courses of Scriptwriting and Film Directing in Moscow, Russia. In September 2011 she took part in Tonino...
October 16, 2019
RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN (JIGEUMEUN MATGO GEUTTAENEUN TEULLIDA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Fans of the incendiary, sharply realized body of work from Korean master Hong Sang-soo can expect a degree of welcome familiarity in his choice of subject matter, character traits, setting and themes. Nearly all of his feature films center around male filmmakers and students whose narcissistic tendencies overtake their morality as they pursue a...
October 16, 2019
REVIEW
DescriptionTrailerDescription A young woman recounts a story to a group of friends who listen with rapt attention, but the tale sounds very familiar. Trailer
October 16, 2019
RATE ME
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A portrait of a teen escort comes to life via online user reviews. Bios Born in 1985, Fyzal Boulifa is a writer/director based in Tangier and London. He has completed several short films, including WHORE (2009), winner of Cannes’ Grand Prix du Jury Angers Premiers Plans 2010 which has screened in more than 20 international festivals; and THE CURSE...
October 16, 2019
PYROMANCE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A lonely pyrotechnician finds an unlikely spark on the eve of the Fourth of July fireworks show. Bios John de Menil is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and recent graduate of the AFI Conservatory. A native New Yorker, he graduated from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2008 and in 2009 directed the feature-length documentary...
October 16, 2019
RAMS (HRUTAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Sheepherder brothers Gummi and Kiddi have been estranged for years, going about their separate lives on neighboring farms in northern Iceland. When Gummi discovers a fatal outbreak in his brother’s herd, their community spirals into grave uncertainty, unsure how to survive when the animals they’ve built livelihoods around must be put down. What results...
October 16, 2019
QUEEN OF THE DESERT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Nicole Kidman stars in the true story of British explorer, cartographer and archaeologist Gertrude Bell, who, after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, worked with Winston Churchill to draw and define the modern borders of the Middle East. Legendary director Werner Herzog’s epic odyssey recounts Bell’s extraordinary tale with style and aplomb. Bell’s life...
