THE FAKE (SAIBI)

DescriptionBiosDescription South Korean animator Yeon Sang-ho’s sophomore feature film is an intriguing and controversial exploration of blind faith and the distorted beliefs that define good and evil. A small rural village is on the verge of being flooded to construct a hydro-electric dam. Scared and confused about the future, the entire community’s only hope is...

FAMILY IN THE PARK (UN DÍA EN FAMILIA)

DescriptionContactDescription On a Sunday afternoon in the park, happiness exists but it comes at a price. Contact Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)

THE EVENT

DescriptionDescription Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.

EXHIBITION

DescriptionBiosDescription In director Joanna Hogg’s third feature, married artists known only as D and H (played with commendable naturalism by former punk singer Viv Albertine and artist Liam Hillick) find dormant anxieties and buried frustrations bubbling to the surface after they agree to sell their home of 18 years. The London house, a stunning modernist...

AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF AN IRON PICKER (EPIZODA U ZIVOTU BERACA ZELJEZA)

DescriptionBiosDescription Bolstered by the harrowing true-life events inflicted upon a Roma family in Bosnia, renowned filmmaker Danis Tanovic (NO MAN’S LAND) ingeniously obliterates the line between fact and fiction by casting the actual participants of dramatic events in the recreation of their own ordeal. Nazif struggles daily to provide for his family, picking iron from scraps...

DRONES

DescriptionBiosDescription In a doublewide trailer somewhere in the Nevada desert, a general's daughter (Eloise Mumford) on her first day of deployment and a high school dropout airman (Matt O'Leary) decide the fates of "terrorists" from a height of five miles up.  As the action plays out in real time and their window to “drop the hellfire”...

DEMOCRACY (DEMOCRACIA )

DescriptionContactDescription Please gather in the conference room. The boss has a life-changing announcement guaranteed to boost morale. Contact Kimuak

DOCUMENTEUR

DescriptionBiosDescription Subtitled “an emotion picture,” DOCUMENTEUR is Agnès Varda’s impressionistic study of a French typist (played by the film’s editor, Sabine Mamou), recently separated from her lover, who searches with her eight-year-old son (played by Varda’s real son, Mathieu Demy) for a modest place to live in L.A.’s then-dilapidated Venice Beach. Shot on location, the...

THE DATE (TREFFIT)

DescriptionDescription Tino’s manhood is put to the test when he hosts a date for the family's stud cat.

DECLARATION OF WAR

DescriptionContactDescription A mesmerizing montage of audiences reacting to George W. Bush's announcement of Operation Enduring Freedom told entirely through footage captured during the speech. Contact Bad Fever LLC

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