October 16, 2019
JUVENILE OFFENDER
DescriptionBiosDescription Kang’s second feature JUVENILE OFFENDER is South Korea’s official entry for this year’s Academy Awards®. An appeal for societal and personal reform, this intimate crime drama peers into the consequences of cyclical, intergenerational abandonment as experienced by a troubled 16 year old boy named Jang. After falling in with the wrong crowd and committing larceny,...
October 16, 2019
INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
DescriptionBiosDescription Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in tow, huddled against the unforgiving New York winter, he is struggling to make it as a folk musician against seemingly insurmountable obstacles – some of them of his own making. Living at the mercy of both friends and strangers, scaring up what work he...
October 16, 2019
THE INVISIBLE WOMAN
DescriptionBiosDescription Nelly (Felicity Jones), a happily married mother and schoolteacher, is haunted by her past. Her memories, provoked by remorse and guilt, follow the story of her relationship with Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) with whom she discovered an exciting but fragile complicity Dickens – famous, controlling and emotionally isolated – falls for Nelly, who comes...
October 16, 2019
IN BLOOM (GRZELI NATELI DGEEBI)
DescriptionBiosDescription First-time filmmakers Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross present a powerful story of two girls challenging outdated patriarchal expectations while living in a country dominated by testosterone-fueled aggression. It’s 1992 in Tbilisi, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but 14-year-old best friends Eka and Natia are unfazed by the fear and insecurity lurking around...
October 16, 2019
I KILL
DescriptionContactTrailerDescription A gruesome, honest portrait of the man who kills your food. Contact New Zealand Film Commission Trailer
October 16, 2019
HERBLOCK: THE BLACK AND THE WHITE
DescriptionBiosDescription A fascinating look at Herbert L. Block, known to millions by his pen name “Herblock,” a man summarized by journalist Ted Koppel as “the most feared editorial cartoonist-journalist in the country” for his 55-year career at the Washington Post. Fellow journalists like Tom Brokaw appear in the film to offer insights on how Herb...
October 16, 2019
HELI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Heli lives in a tiny house on the Mexican plain. His life involves taking care of his young wife and sister and trying to do right by working an honest job at a factory. His younger sister is only 12 years old and has an older boyfriend who has just joined the army. A...
October 16, 2019
HER
DescriptionBiosDescription From the singular perspective of Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH) comes HER, an original love story that explores the evolving nature – and the risks – of intimacy in the modern world. Set in Los Angeles in the near future, the film follows Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix), a complex, soulful man who makes his...
October 16, 2019
HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Nigerian-born British playwright Biyi Bandele translates Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's powerful prize-winning novel of the same name into an emotional drama that gives voice to personal stories of the indignities and atrocities suffered during the Nigerian Civil War. Set in the late ’60s, the film’s main characters, Olanna (Thandie Newton), her sister Kainene (Anika Noni...
October 16, 2019
HARMONY LESSONS (UROKI GARMONII)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription With his stunningly accomplished debut feature, Kazakh writer, director and editor Emir Baigazin firmly announces himself as a filmmaker of tremendous power and lyricism. In its very first images, Baigazin establishes a gripping hypnotic rhythm as 13-year old Aslan silently chases after a sheep. This playful sequence gives way to icy reality as he...
