October 16, 2019
TRACKS
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his girlfriend's young daughter on the day of a championship tournament. Bios Logan Sandler obtained his MFA in Film Directing from the AFI Conservatory in 2014, and was recently awarded the Institute’s Franklin J. Schaffner Award. His first feature film LIVE CARGO is in the finishing...
October 16, 2019
THE TREASURE (COMOARA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription AFI FEST stalwart Corneliu Porumboiu (POLICE, ADJECTIVE) returns with his latest tale of present-day Romanians still in the grip of their country’s politically tumultuous history. In this utterly deadpan comedy, Adrian implores his neighbor, family man Costi, to join him on a search for valuable coins he believes his grandfather buried at his family’s...
October 16, 2019
THE FACE OF UKRAINE: CASTING OKSANA BAIUL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Adorned in pink sequins, little girls from war-torn Ukraine audition to play the role of Olympic champion figure skater Oksana Baiul. Bios In 2012, Kitty Green moved to her mother’s native Ukraine to live and shoot with the provocative protest movement Femen. Her documentary UKRAINE IS NOT A BROTHEL premiered at the 2013 Venice...
October 16, 2019
THIS WAY UP
DescriptionDescription This Way Up tells the story of a construction worker who lost his home in the housing market crash. With construction at a halt, Charlie finds himself out of work, homeless, and living in a storm drain underneath the Las Vegas Strip. Ashamed, Charlie keeps his life hidden from the person he cherishes most,...
October 16, 2019
TEETH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription That which is neglected is lost. Bios UK-born directing duo Tom Brown and Daniel Gray met in a Welsh film school in 2003. Their graduation film T.O.M. won awards at festivals including Sundance, Ottawa and Annecy, and at the British Animation Awards. They work together under the name of Holbrooks. Contact Holbrooks Trailer http://www.vimeo.com/teethtrailer
October 16, 2019
TALE OF TALES (IL RACCONTO DEI RACCONTI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Matteo Garrone’s TALE OF TALES is a collection of three ancient Italian fairy tales, all intertwined and illustrated with a blazing cinematic style that brings these unusual stories to the screen for the first time. A flea grown to enormous size, a king who fights a sea serpent for fertility, an old woman who...
October 16, 2019
TAKE WHAT YOU CAN CARRY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription When a young woman living abroad receives a letter from home, it’s what she needs to fuse her transient self with the person she's always known herself to be. Bios Matt Porterfield has written and directed three feature films: HAMILTON (2006), PUTTY HILL (2011) and I USED TO BE DARKER (2013), all produced in...
October 16, 2019
SWORN VIRGIN (VERGINE GIURATA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Laura Bispuri’s debut feature beautifully captures one woman's struggle to escape the confinement of a strict patriarchal society by making a radical choice. As a teenager, Hana decides to escape her destiny of becoming a wife and servant by appealing to an old Albanian law, which allows women who take an oath of eternal...
October 16, 2019
SWIMMING IN YOUR SKIN AGAIN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A film about motherhood, banality, Miami, the water, the divine feminine and how to sing in church in a way that calls forth your own adulthood. Bios Terence Nance is an artist born and raised in Dallas, Texas. His first feature film AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY premiered in the New Frontiers section at...
October 16, 2019
SWEET BEAN (AN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription SWEET BEAN, or AN in its native Japanese, is the latest film by Naomi Kawase. She crafts the heartwarming but subtle story of Sentaro, a man who runs a small bakery that serves dorayaki, or fruit-filled pancakes; and Tokue, an older woman looking for work. At first Sentaro thinks Tokue is too frail for...
