FUNNY BUNNY

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Three misfits with unusual obsessions form an awkward friendship in this character study by Alison Bagnall (THE DISH & THE SPOON, AFI FEST 2011). Gene, depressed by his ever-dwindling relationship with his ex-wife, works as a childhood-obesity activist going door to door. During one of his house calls he meets Titty, a breast-fixated reclusive...

FRANKENSTEIN’S BRIDE (LA NOVIA DE FRANKENSTEIN)

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription At her summer job, Ivana learns it's easy to create a circle of lies, fiction and love when you're bored. Bios Born in Buenos Aires in 1987, Francisco Lezama is a film director, researcher and distributor. In 2011 he co-directed the medium length film YET IT REMAINS, winner of the SIGNIS award at IndieLisboa...

FREE IN DEED

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Based on true events, FREE IN DEED tells the story of a young mother struggling to raise her special-needs son. When she turns to a local storefront church for help, a lonely Pentecostal minister is forced to confront his own demons as he wrestles with the boy’s seemingly incurable illness. Writer/director Jake Mahaffy spent...

FUCKKKYOUUU

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A lonely girl finds love and rejection with her past self in this alluring collaboration with Flying Lotus. Bios Eddie Alcazar is an American director, writer, producer and game developer. He was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. He is directing JOHNNY, a feature film on World Champion Boxer...

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription If a movie could dream, it might look something like THE FORBIDDEN ROOM. Canadian auteur Guy Maddin and co-director Evan Johnson invite audiences to glimpse what fills the human interior: urges, repressed memories, nightmares and dreams-within-dreams. The film is a pure manifestation of Maddin's distinctive cinephile delirium tremens. An international cast including Mathieu Amalric,...

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM – A LIVING POSTER

FIELD NIGGAS

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Khalik Allah’s FIELD NIGGAS is a stylized documentary chronicling summer nights spent at the intersection of 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in Harlem. Portraiture is woven together with non-sync audio conversations with the neighborhood’s most oppressed and exhausted inhabitants, giving us a deeper sense of their dreams, regrets, opinions, arguments and observations. Allah uses his...

FLYING DOWN TO RIO

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription This 1933 RKO musical, best known as the first on-screen pairing of fleet-footed screen icons Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, stars the gorgeous Dolores del Río as Belinha, an irresistible woman who seduces the leader of a band touring Miami. So enticed is the man that he follows Belinha, as the title suggests, all...

EVOLUTION OF VERSE

THE EXQUISITE CORPUS

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Based on various erotic films and advertising rushes, myriad fragments are melted into a single sensuous, humorous, gruesome and ecstatic dream. Bios Peter Tscherkassky was born in 1958 in Vienna, Austria. He is the founding member of Sixpack Film, and has organized several international avant-garde film festivals in Vienna and film tours abroad. Since...

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