September 26, 2024
A BLUE SUMMER (UN ÉTÉ BLEU)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription World Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 It's the summer holidays at the local swimming pool and it's hot. Louane is lying by the pool, enjoying a moment of peace and quiet, when she is approached by Aïssa. Bios Born in 1996, Juliette Ragot grew up in the Paris suburb of...
September 26, 2024
BUDŌ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Los Angeles Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Just outside of Tokyo lives Miho, a lonely widow. One day, she meets a stray cat that follows her home and makes himself more than comfortable in her tiny apartment in this stop-motion animated film about isolation, adventure and connection. Bios Amanda Aagard...
September 26, 2024
BONJOUR TRISTESSE
DescriptionBiosDescription US Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Durga Chew-Bose and actor Lily McInerny. Fresh off her 2023 Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Breakthrough Performance, Lily McInerny (PALM TREES AND POWER LINES) shines as young Cécile in this electric debut from writer/director Durga Chew-Bose. Adapted from the scandalous,...
September 26, 2024
BUTTERFLY KISS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 Carol panics when her girlfriend Ray unexpectedly proposes. The situation gets worse when she wakes up in a new apocalyptic reality and discovers that Ray has transformed into a butterfly. Bios Zohar Dvir is an animation director based in Germany. Her distinctive animation...
September 26, 2024
A BRAVE NEW WORLD
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Reimagined scenes of everyday life set in the 2020s in Hong Kong. With a twist of absurdity, director Arnold Tam explores the socio-cultural landscape of his homeland as the city heads towards a new era. Bios After graduating in accounting, Arnold Tam co-founded...
September 26, 2024
BIRD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription After a detour into documentary with COW (AFI FEST 2021), AFI Conservatory Alum Andrea Arnold (Class of 1991) returns to fiction with a dreamy social-realist drama that soars into the surreal. On the cusp of adulthood, 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) lives a hard-scrabble but free-range life in a North Kent squat with her deadbeat...
September 26, 2024
THE BALCONETTES (LES FEMMES AU BALCON)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere Following a string of notable performances in films including PARIS, 13TH DISTRICT and TÁR, actor/director Noémie Merlant’s sophomore directorial effort, which premiered in the Midnight section at the Cannes Film Festival, proves a confidently daring tilt of a cultish horror comedy with an emphatically feminist flair. During a blistering heat wave in...
September 26, 2024
BIRD DRONE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 A lonely seagull looking for love struggles to accept that his newfound object of affection is a human-operated drone with a limited battery life. Bios Radheya Jegatheva is an Oscar®-qualified and AACTA-nominated filmmaker from Perth, Western Australia. Born in Malaysia at the turn of the century,...
September 26, 2024
BLACK HERCULES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 A soulfully candid pilgrimage into the life and times of street bodybuilder, Craig Monson, and the social dichotomy of Black LA that made him a legend. Bios Raised on the South Side of Chicago, Emmy®-nominated director Rodney Lucas is known for his uncanny ability to capture...
September 26, 2024
BLACK DOG (GOU ZHEN)
DescriptionBiosDescription Recently released from prison, the hardened Lang (Taiwanese action star Eddie Peng) struggles to adjust to life on the outside. He returns to his dusty little mountain town in the Gobi Desert only to find it overrun by feral dogs. In search of a job, he joins the motley crew (led by CAUGHT BY...
