October 16, 2019
THE LOBSTER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A man is brought to a picturesque seaside resort because his wife has recently left him. If he is not romantically recoupled within 45 days, he will turn into an animal. And so director Yorgos Lanthimos smashes his audience into the strange reality of THE LOBSTER. As in his previous two features, DOGTOOTH and ALPS (AFI...
October 16, 2019
LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT is a rich and sublime tale of the nature of faith, doubt and the shifting bonds between fathers and sons, wrapped inside the biblical story of Jesus’ 40 days of prayer in the desert. Writer-director Rodrigo García helms this deeply humane interpretation of the famous parable, rooted in a...
October 16, 2019
THE LIAR (GEOJINMAL)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Beautiful, immaculately dressed, in control: Ah-young glides through Seoul’s luxury penthouses, department stores and showrooms with the taste and confidence of the most elite of first-world consumers…until the bill arrives. Home for Ah-young is a dirty, cramped hovel shared with her troubled brother and alcoholic sister, while work consists of injecting Botox into the...
October 16, 2019
THE LITTLE DEPUTY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Trevor tries to have his photo taken with his father. Bios Trevor Anderson is an independent filmmaker based in Edmonton, Alberta. His previous films include THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY, THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE, THE ISLAND and ROCK POCKETS. Anderson plays drums in the Canadian indie rock band The Wet Secrets. Contact Canadian Filmmakers...
October 16, 2019
LAND AND SHADE (LA TIERRA Y LA SOMBRA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Awarded the coveted Camera d’Or prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, César Augusto Acevedo’s magnificently photographed minimalist feature debut reveals rich pleasures beneath its luscious veneer. With his estranged son gravely ill, an old farmer returns to the sugarcane fields of rural Colombia where the family and land he long ago abandoned have...
October 16, 2019
LANDFILL HARMONIC
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When an environmental technician arrives at a landfill community in Paraguay in 2006 to work with gancheros — people who collect materials from the site to recycle for income — his first reaction is that the community’s children deserve better than to work in such bleak conditions, and so he starts up a music...
October 16, 2019
THE LADY IN THE VAN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Based on the smash hit play of the same name, THE LADY IN THE VAN stars Maggie Smith as Miss Mary Shepherd, a cantankerous yet eloquent homeless woman who sets up residence on the curb outside the home of a single writer. As the writer struggles to navigate having a lunatic on his front...
October 16, 2019
LANCASTER, CA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A portrait of love in the California desert. Bios Mike Ott studied under Thom Andersen at Cal Arts, where he received his MFA degree in Film/Video. He recently completed his desert trilogy, which includes the films LITTLEROCK, PEARBLOSSOM HWY and LAKE LOS ANGELES. He is currently in post-production on his new feature, the Untitled Denver Project,...
October 16, 2019
KRISHA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription First-time filmmaker Trey Edward Shults has crafted an incredibly personal and intense family Thanksgiving experience. Estranged relative Krisha arrives to make amends and get to know her family again, but as the day unfolds, she can’t seem to escape her dark past and family history. Tension begins with the very first frame and continues...
October 16, 2019
JAMES WHITE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Josh Mond’s directorial debut is an observational coming-of-age drama about a young New Yorker who is forced to take control of his self-destructive lifestyle as he navigates his mother’s fight with a serious illness. Having served as producer on AFTERSCHOOL (AFI FEST 2008), TWO GATES OF SLEEP (AFI FEST 2010) and SIMON KILLER (AFI...
