October 16, 2019
KRISHA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription First-time filmmaker Trey Edward Shults has crafted an incredibly personal and intense family Thanksgiving experience. Estranged relative Krisha arrives to make amends and get to know her family again, but as the day unfolds, she can’t seem to escape her dark past and family history. Tension begins with the very first frame and continues...
October 16, 2019
I REMEMBER NOTHING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An epileptic seizure told in five phases. Bios Zia Anger’s work has screened at the Locarno, New York and New Directors/New Films film festivals. She has made music videos for independent artists including Angel Olsen, Julianna Barwick and Jenny Hval. Anger was named as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film...
October 16, 2019
IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN (L’OMBRE DES FEMMES)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Husband and wife Pierre and Manon live and work in Paris as poor but happy documentary filmmakers. When Pierre meets Elizabeth, an intern at the film archives, he quickly takes her as a lover, hoping to fulfill his desire of having both a mistress and a wife. But a complex study of devotion and...
October 16, 2019
IXCANUL
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A young Mayan woman lives with her parents on a coffee harvesting farm at the base of a volcano in the Guatemalan highlands. She is poised to enter an arranged marriage when everything is thrown into chaos. She becomes pregnant with a local boy’s child, a secret her determined mother desperately tries to cover...
October 16, 2019
HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription For one week in 1962, two titans of cinema met in person for the first time in Hollywood. Shining star of the French New Wave François Truffaut conducted a series of exhaustive interviews with his idol, Alfred Hitchcock. Spanning Hitchcock’s entire career, film by film, with painstaking detail, Truffaut sought to understand the very...
October 16, 2019
H.
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Helen of Troy, New York, spends her days coddling creepy, ultra-realistic “reborn dolls” as her husband, Roy, quietly dreams of release from their 40-plus-year marriage. Meanwhile, another Helen of Troy, one half of a performance art duo with husband Alex, silently endures his intense self-involvement as they await the birth of their first child....
October 16, 2019
HALF WET
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A man with large pores tries to escape the realization that he's slowly evaporating. Bios Sophie Koko Gate is an animation director and illustrator based in London. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins. Her shorts have screened internationally at festivals including London, Slamdance and South by...
October 16, 2019
GROUP B
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A rally car driver mounts a comeback after a long and troubled absence. Bios Nick Rowland is a directing student at the National Film and Television School (UK). His work has received BAFTA and BIFA nominations. His films have been screened around the world at festivals such as AFI FEST, Sundance and Edinburgh, where...
October 16, 2019
THE GULLS (CHAIKI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Filmed in winter near the Caspian Sea, THE GULLS is the masterful debut feature of rising writer/director Ella Manzheeva, a native of the small Russian republic of Kalmykia. The first film of its kind from the region in decades, this brilliantly cast story is about a fisherman’s wife who becomes emancipated from her suppressed domestic existence...
