October 16, 2019
BUS NUT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The 1955 Montgomery bus boycott articulated as an educational video on school bus safety. Bios Akosua Adoma Owusu is a filmmaker with Ghanaian parentage whose films have screened worldwide in prestigious film festivals, museums, galleries, universities and micro-cinemas since 2005. She has been named one of ArtForum‘s Top Ten Artists and one of The...
October 16, 2019
BOYS (POJKARNA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription At a home for wayward boys, Markus prepares for a very important appointment. Bios Born in 1987, Isabella Carbonell is a filmmaker, screenwriter and actor living and working in Stockholm. She has a background in social work and is currently studying to become a sign language interpreter. She has written and directed several short...
October 16, 2019
BOB AND THE TREES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Burning with a working-class authenticity as rare in contemporary American filmmaking as it is refreshing, writer-director Diego Ongaro’s absorbing debut feature tells the story of middle-aged logger Bob (first-time actor and real-life logger Bob Tarasuk, giving an extraordinary performance), who gambles his personal and professional livelihood on harvesting a piece of land that refuses...
October 16, 2019
THE BIG SHORT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Almost no one saw the 2008 housing crisis and subsequent global financial crash coming. Almost — yet a handful of investors and financial analysts who looked deep into the ready-to-pop bubble discovered that the country and the world were on the precipice of disaster. They did what anyone working in finance would do with...
October 16, 2019
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD (SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Beginning in 1965 with the classic FISTS IN THE POCKET, Marco Bellocchio has never wavered in his allegiance to politics and uncomfortable sexuality in his 50 years of filmmaking. BLOOD OF MY BLOOD incorporates his enduring obsessions into a dual narrative of lust in a convent in the 17th century and the contemporary story...
October 16, 2019
BLOOD BELOW THE SKIN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Three teenage girls from different social circles form unexpected bonds when they discover the secrets that lie below the skin. Bios Jennifer Reeder constructs personal films about relationships, trauma and coping. Her award-winning narratives are innovative and borrow from a range of forms including after-school specials, amateur music videos and magical realism. These films...
October 16, 2019
BASKIN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription First-time feature director Can Evrenol audaciously mashes up a cop movie and a satanic cult slasher in BASKIN, the unholy spawn of their union. Gorkem Kasal brings sensitivity and strength to his performance as the vulnerable cop, who has a role to play in the mystery that entraps his squad in the basement of...
October 16, 2019
ANOMALISA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription We all are self-obsessed, but customer service guru David Stone is especially so. He’s in Cincinnati for one night to speak at a conference and sign his latest book. As he settles in his chicly generic hotel room and orders room service, it becomes clear that there’s something wrong with the world around him....
October 16, 2019
BAD AT DANCING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A perpetual third wheel and awkward outsider inserts herself into her roommate's relationship. Bios Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker and cinematographer based in Brooklyn. She recently wrote, directed and edited short film BAD AT DANCING, which was awarded the Silver Bear Jury Prize at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival. Her films have screened...
October 16, 2019
AFERIM!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Celebrated filmmaker Radu Jude returns to AFI FEST with a refreshingly crisp historical drama, delving deep into the past to produce a Romanian Western teeming with life and bursting with cynical satire. Based on historical documents and traditional folklore, Jude’s odyssey through the landscape of feudal Eastern Europe concerns an easygoing gendarme who, with...
