October 16, 2019
OBJECT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A hypnotic underwater search is seen from the point of view of the rescue team, the diver and the people waiting on shore. Bios Born in 1987 in Kowary, Poland, Paulina Skibińska studied animation in Wrocław with a specialization in film. She earned her MA degree in screenwriting at the Łódź Film School, where...
October 16, 2019
NECKTIE YOUTH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Twenty-three-year-old writer-director Sibs Shongwe-La Mer referenced a painful loss as a teen to make this personal, stylized debut. The film offers an authentic perspective of life in Jo’burg, or Johannesburg, South Africa, as he knew it. The film begins on a harrowing note: A wealthy white teen has hanged herself from a tree, using...
October 16, 2019
NEON BULL (BOI NEON)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Iremar is a modern-day cowboy working the Brazilian rodeo circuit. He spends his days covered in mud and feces, looking after the bulls and preparing their tails before releasing them onto the Vaquejada track. A recent textile boom is providing new opportunities for people in the region, and Iremar dreams of becoming a famous fashion...
October 16, 2019
MYNARSKI DEATH PLUMMET
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A handmade historical micro-epic and psychedelic photochemical war picture about self-sacrifice, immortality and jellyfish. Bios Matthew Rankin was born in Winnipeg and studied Québec history at McGill and Université Laval. An alumnus of the Sundance Film Festival, Matthew was a 2013 artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. In 2014, his body of...
October 16, 2019
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF PÉROLA (A MISTERIOSA MORTE DE PÉROLA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young student leaves her home and boyfriend behind to study art in France, where she moves into an old apartment and begins to lose herself in her loneliness and nostalgia. She becomes increasingly frightened of open doors and windows, and begins to feel that someone is watching her. This fear causes reality to...
October 16, 2019
NAHID
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Sareh Bayat (A SEPARATION, AFI FEST 2011) plays Nahid, a woman whose whole life is a struggle. Her typing job has maimed her hand, and it doesn't pay enough to cover her rent or the tuition for her son's school. Though she impoverishes herself to support her son, he refuses to study, preferring to...
October 16, 2019
MUSTANG
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription France’s Foreign Language Oscar® submission and winner of the Europa Cinemas Label award at the Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s debut feature is a coming-of-age story that follows five sisters living in a Turkish village. When a seemingly innocent act challenges the notion of how young women should behave, the sisters are locked...
October 16, 2019
MY GOLDEN DAYS (TROIS SOUVENIRS DE MA JEUNESSE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Arnaud Desplechin’s 1996 film MY SEX LIFE…OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT gets a prequel of sorts in this dazzling coming-of-age story, a film that stands on its own as a visual feast with the sprawl of a great novel. Paul Dédalus, the protagonist played by Mathieu Almalric in Desplechin’s 1996 film, returns...
October 16, 2019
MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART (SHAN HE GU REN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription MOUNTAINS MAY DEPART is Chinese auteur Jia Zhang-ke’s nostalgic depiction of his country; a place where the rigidity of old class order has been complicated by the recent introduction of capitalism. A transcontinental and multilingual epic that spans three time periods, this story about love and separation follows a single family and their efforts...
October 16, 2019
EL MOVIMIENTO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A stark black-and-white vision of anarchy, Benjamín Naishtat’s EL MOVIMIENTO follows various groups of armed men who drift aimlessly across a war-scarred landscape. They claim to be working for “The Movement.” This vague, Kafkaesque stance allows the gangs to take what they want and kill anyone who stands in their way. But power corrupts,...
