October 16, 2019
THE BLUE WAVE (MAVI DALGA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription “Even the ambulance is going somewhere!” This line, said by teen Deniz, captures the adolescent restlessness at the heart of THE BLUE WAVE. Deniz and her friends, all juniors in high school, live in the relatively nondescript, midsize Turkish city of Balikesir. The girls are in a phase when leaving home and “going somewhere”...
October 16, 2019
BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (BAI RI YAN HUO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A trail of dismembered human remains discovered in 1999 in a coal factory in northern China sets the stage for Diao Yinan’s bleak and deliberate detective story. After quickly identifying a suspect in the meticulous slaying, detective Zhang becomes entangled in a merciless and botched shoot-out that ends his career and leaves him traumatized....
October 16, 2019
BLIND
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Acclaimed Norwegian screenwriter Eskil Vogt (REPRISE, OSLO, AUGUST 31ST) makes his directorial debut with a dark comedy about Ingrid, a recently blinded woman who handles the loss of her sight by writing mordant stories that reveal her displacement and isolation from the people and places she’s beginning to forget. Vogt audaciously experiments with the...
October 16, 2019
BATH HOUSE (SIMHALL)
DescriptionContactTrailerDescription The mice are going after the bath house safe in this droll stop-motion puppet short. Contact Swedish Film Institute / Svenska Filminstitutet Trailer http://vimeo.com/84460389
October 16, 2019
AUGUST WINDS (VENTOS DE AGOSTO)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Gabriel Mascaro’s narrative film debut quietly observes the young inhabitants of a small coastal village in Brazil. Shirley and Jeison work on a plantation, where they find time to sneak away and make love among the coconuts. The couple spend their free time at sea, where Jeison dives for octopus and Shirley sunbathes and...
October 16, 2019
ALLELUIA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Michel is a womanizing hustler who cons lonely women into giving him their life savings. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets Gloria, a single mother and nurse, who falls head over heels for him after their first encounter. When she learns of his true intentions, she demands to accompany and...
October 16, 2019
AFRONAUTS
DescriptionTrailerDescription Inspired by true events. It's July 16, 1969: America is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy hopes to beat them to the moon. Trailer
October 16, 2019
ALIVE (SANDA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A harsh and uncompromising film of luscious beauty and terrifying hardship, ALIVE demonstrates great formal strength and understanding of narrative subtlety from one of South Korea’s most promising new talents. Director-writer Park Jung-Bum plays poor mountain laborer Jeong-Cheol, whose expressive face speaks volumes as he juggles a series of responsibilities to provide for his...
October 16, 2019
THE ABSENT (LOS AUSENTES)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription One of the notable voices of New Mexican Cinema, director Nicolás Pereda (GREATEST HITS, AFI FEST 2012) returns to the festival with this moody modern parable about existence. An elderly man lives alone in an isolated cabin deep in the Mexican woods. When a bureaucratic problem calls into question his home ownership, he loses...
