October 16, 2019
YARA
DescriptionBiosDescription A gently paced romance, Abbas Fahdel’s YARA captures the elation of first love and the crushing pain of its loss. Yara lives alone with her grandmother on a remote Lebanese mountainside. Hers is a world disconnected from modern civilization, where the perpetual rustling of leaves, changing of light and intermittent tableaux of insects and...
October 16, 2019
X
DescriptionBiosDescription X, a young black kid, wanders through Los Angeles while confronting the difficult realities of adolescence while being black in America. Bios Yara Shahidi is an actress, activist and breakout star of the comedy series BLACK-ISH. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form narrative and documentary video at The New York Times. She is particularly driven...
October 16, 2019
WIDOWS
DescriptionBiosDescription Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen returns with a crime thriller where women take charge. Veronica's (Viola Davis) decadent lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when her husband is killed, along with his criminal gang, in a heist gone wrong. She soon discovers the debt with which she, and other widows from his gang, are suddenly burdened....
October 16, 2019
THE WILD PEAR TREE (AHLAT AGACI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Palme d’Or winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s THE WILD PEAR TREE is an achingly beautiful portrait of an ambitious young writer returning home after college. Hoping to enjoy momentary solace in the company of nature’s calming indifference and with parents whose lives are already settled, Sinan finds only guilt in confrontations with the too-early failures...
October 16, 2019
WHERE THE WATER RUNS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription During the most drastic and prolonged drought in California history, a water truck delivery driver uses his resources to return water to the communities that need it most. An AFI Conservatory thesis film. Bios DuBois Ashong (AFI Class of 2017) focuses on telling stories centering on under-represented communities around the world. Largely self-taught DuBois'...
October 16, 2019
WHILE I YET LIVE
DescriptionBiosDescription Five acclaimed African-American quilters from Gee's Bend, Alabama, talk about love, religion and the fight for civil rights as they continue the tradition of quilting that originally brought them together. Bios Maris Curran's films have shown at Berlinale, TIFF, Sheffield Doc/Fest and MoMA, among 50 other prestigious festivals and institutions. Her debut narrative feature,...
October 16, 2019
THE WATER SLIDE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Tragedy strikes the world's tallest water slide. Bios Nathan Truesdell recently directed BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE and THE ART OF MAKING MONEY. Truesdell was the lead cinematographer of SPEAKING IS DIFFICULT. He produced WE ALWAYS LIE TO STRANGERS, CONVENTION and CAUCUS. He was a cinematographer and editor on KILLING THEM SAFELY and was the...
October 16, 2019
THE WEEKEND
DescriptionBiosDescription Despite remaining friends, stand-up comedian Zadie is “extremely single” ever since her breakup with Bradford. When she invites him to her mother’s bed and breakfast for the weekend, Bradford invites his girlfriend. What begins as a fun weekend getaway quickly becomes riddled with baggage, jealousy and desire. Tension between the guests build as secrets...
