September 25, 2025
9 MILLION COLORS (9 MILIONŮ BAREV)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 The ocean is paradise for Fran the shrimp. For blind fish Milva, it’s a fight to survive. Fran sees Milva as beautiful and wants her to see the ocean in the same way. Bios Bára Anna is a director, writer and artist focused on...
September 25, 2025
ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU (اللي باقي منك)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Unfolding over seven decades, ALL THAT’S LEFT OF YOU is an epic, deeply moving portrait of three generations of a Palestinian family and their struggles against the unrelenting pressures of occupation. The film opens in the Occupied West Bank of the 1980s, where Salim (Saleh Bakri) lives with his wife Hanan (writer/director Cherien Dabis)...
September 25, 2025
AMARELO BANANA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 2 After yet another night of insomnia, a man comes across a strange community living in his building and discovers an elaborate illusion they have created. Bios Alexandre Sousa is a film and animation director. His work includes animation projects for international clients and...
September 25, 2025
AL BASATEEN (THE ORCHARDS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription U.S. Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In 2015, the Basateen al-Razi district of Damascus was destroyed as punishment for the population's uprising against Bashar al-Assad's regime. A decade later, memories are awakened, resisting deliberate erasure. Bios Antoine Chapon is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work using cinema, CGI animation...
September 25, 2025
1001 FRAMES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter, editor and producer Mehrnoush Alia and producer and actor Mohammad Aghebati. A procession of young actresses interview and audition for the role of Scheherazade in A THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, opposite a famous director (Mohammad Aghebati) whose comments and questions become increasingly interrogatory, innuendo-laden...
October 8, 2024
Pitch Perfect: Crafting Impactful Visual Decks from a Storyteller’s Perspective
Featuring a conversation with acclaimed cinematographer Lawrence Sher, ASC Step into the world of cinematic storytelling with Lawrence Sher, ASC—the visionary, Academy Award-nominated cinematographer behind hit films such as JOKER, THE HANGOVER, GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS, and GARDEN STATE—as he shares his creative approach and visual storytelling techniques. Sher—also the creator of the popular...
October 2, 2024
NICKEL BOYS
DescriptionBioDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter RaMell Ross and cinematographer Jomo Fray moderated by Carla Renata. Elwood Curtis’ college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he is sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the...
September 26, 2024
CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 5
WHEN BIG PEOPLE LIE USA 13 MIN DIRECTOR Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz SCREENWRITER Gianfranco Fernandez-Ruiz, Pablo Cervera PRODUCER Gus Murray, Kouxiao Amy Zhang DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Miko Malkhasyan EDITOR Ziyang Guo PRODUCTION DESIGNER Nymisha Gummadi Hurt by his mother's lies on the whereabouts of his biological father, an eight-year-old must choose between outing her to U.S. immigration...
September 26, 2024
CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4
FOWL PLAY USA 12 MIN DIRECTOR Anabelle LeMieux SCREENWRITER Anabelle LeMieux PRODUCER Shams ur Rehman Pasha DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Nevo Shirazi EDITOR Tianxiao Christine Chen PRODUCTION DESIGNER Mo Xiaoyu Jiang Julia, a strong-willed single mother, is determined to provide Thanksgiving dinner for her children at all costs. However, the pursuit quickly spirals into a chaotic...
September 26, 2024
CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 3
JAMILA USA 14 MIN DIRECTOR Julia Freij SCREENWRITER Julia Freij, Meg Dudley PRODUCER Peri Michael DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Pascale Williams EDITOR Ivanka Lawrence PRODUCTION DESIGNER Camila Rodriguez The morning of a wedding, a Palestinian American teenager begrudgingly accompanies her aunts to a salon. She is overwhelmed by her eclectic family who challenge her assumptions about...
