September 26, 2024
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KIDS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: FAMILY FRIENDLY Four kids from a refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life. Bios Ibrahim Handal is a cinematographer and filmmaker who graduated from Dar Al-Kalima University in 2019. He has worked as a cinematographer on several...
September 26, 2024
SHEEP AND WOLVES (OVEJAS Y LOBOS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Set in the height of the Peruvian armed conflict, a mother’s world is shattered when her son vanishes. She searches for him across a perilous, vast and unforgiving landscape. Bios Alex Fischman Cárdenas is a Peruvian filmmaker, passionate about telling unheard, honest...
September 26, 2024
SHOTPLAYER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 A notorious NYC pickpocket returns to the scene of his crimes, the subway, and through memories begins to dissect the act that has ruled his life for over 40 years. Bios Sam Shainberg grew up in New York and still calls the city home. He is...
September 26, 2024
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring drama about two daughters defying their conservative father courted controversy in his native Iran, not only for its allegorical critique of the regime and depictions of real-life protests but also for its realistic depiction of women without head scarves on at home – which has been censored in Iranian cinema since...
September 26, 2024
SECOND CHANCE
DescriptionBioContactDescription North American Premiere Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Subhadra Mahajan, executive producer and cinematographer Swapnil S. Sonawane, executive producer Pan Nalin, actor Dheera Johnson and composers Aniruddha Borahn and Tammy Nguyen. In writer/director Subhadra Mahajan’s distinctly crafted, insightful debut, Nia escapes the city to discreetly heal from an...
September 26, 2024
SANTOSH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Sandhya Suri. After her police constable husband is killed in the line of duty, Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is disowned by her in-laws and told to vacate their government housing, but a little-known policy — that the widow of a slain police officer is...
September 26, 2024
SEPTEMBER 5
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, writer and producer Tim Fehlbaum and actors Peter Sarsgaard and Ben Chaplin moderated by Executive Editor (Awards) of The Hollywood Reporter, Scott Feinberg. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the ABC Sports broadcasting crew led by Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) must suddenly pivot to covering hard...
September 26, 2024
SANDCASTLES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 SANDCASTLES parallels two Singapores – one in Southeast Asia and one on the western coast of Michigan – depicting the temporal nature of human edifices built on and destroyed by sand. Bios Carin Leong is a Singaporean documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist based in New York....
September 26, 2024
A REAL PAIN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the standout sophomore feature from multi-hyphenate writer-director Jesse Eisenberg (WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD) is an odd-couple road movie for the ages, an irreverent, funny, but deeply empathetic comedy that doubles as emotional exploration of complex family dynamics and intergenerational...
September 26, 2024
RECURRENCE (QUTAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Cows flee from a cottage as a planet approaches Earth. Fearfully, the cottage owner runs away, leaving his crippled son. As the cows return, they're plunged into a monstrous, eerie nightmare. Bios Ali Alizadeh is a writer, director, editor, photographer and graphic designer from Tehran. He...
