October 16, 2019
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A New Zealand “documentary” crew gets unprecedented access to a house shared by five vampires in the latest from AFI FEST Audience Award winner Taika Waititi (BOY, AFI FEST 2010). First there’s Viago (Waititi), a Baroque-era dandy who struggles to get his housemates to do their chores. Joining him are Vladislav (co-director/co-writer Jemaine Clement),...
October 16, 2019
WHITE MORNING
DescriptionTrailerDescription The violent little boys become violent little men. Trailer
October 16, 2019
WASHINGTONIA
DescriptionContactTrailerDescription The Washingtonia is the only palm tree whose heart is not devoured by the red beetle, because its heart is small and dry and no one likes small, dry hearts. Contact Squared Square Trailer http://washingtoniafilm.com/film/trailers/
October 16, 2019
VIOLET
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A regular day at the local shopping mall turns into a hellish trauma when 15-year-old Jesse witnesses his friend’s murder. As he tries to readjust to the world, spending time with his family and riding the streets and nearby forests with his BMX biker friends, Jesse experiences grief less as a lightning bolt and...
October 16, 2019
VIKTORIA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Maya Vitkova’s sharply satirical and surreal debut mixes the personal and the political, seeking out clever parallels between the life of a young woman and the political upheaval of modern Bulgaria. Viktoria is a girl born unwanted. Her mother attempted to abort her and then gave birth, only to find, astonishingly, her baby had...
October 16, 2019
VILLA TOUMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription VILLA TOUMA shines light on the Palestinian aristocracy – nearly forgotten since the 1967 Israeli occupation. Filmmaker Suha Arraf makes use of the static camera and confines most of this reclusive domestic melodrama to a Ramallah house – where a Palestinian teenage orphan is sent to live with her three aristocrat aunts. The women's...
October 16, 2019
THE VANQUISHING OF THE WITCH BABA YAGA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Jessica Oreck’s stunning essay film finds a fertile metaphor for Eastern Europe’s changing relationship with the natural world in the Slavic folktale of forest-dwelling witch Baba Yaga. Oreck shifts between a haunting, animated retelling of the legend (gorgeously illustrated by Devin Debrolowski and Arik Roper) and vivid modern-day footage of the Eastern European landscape...
October 16, 2019
TU DORS NICOLE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription At 22, Nicole is a typical post-college aimless spirit. Living with her parents, she passes the summer by watching her brother’s band practice in the family home. She occasionally lusts after young men, and is lusted after by a little blond-haired boy she used to babysit, Martin (played by a child actor but hilariously...
October 16, 2019
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The world-renowned Dardenne brothers (KID WITH A BIKE, AFI FEST 2011) return to the festival with this powerful tale of collective bargaining and solidarity. Marion Cotillard gives a stunning performance as Sandra, a Belgian working mother who has one weekend to convince her co-workers to forego their much-needed bonuses so that she can keep...
October 16, 2019
THE TRIBE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in a Ukrainian school for the deaf and mute, THE TRIBE follows new student Sergey as he gets a crash course in who’s really in charge. The decrepit institution is awash in drugs, prostitution and organized petty crime. This incredible film has one particularly daring aspect:It is acted entirely in sign language without...