October 16, 2019
VISION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In the lush mountains of Nara, Japan, thoughtful and withdrawn Tomo has taken refuge from the madness of the world, sharing a quiet life alongside mysterious herbalist Aki, a blind seer who possesses an otherworldly understanding of the ways of the forest. Yet their peaceful life is about to change with the arrival of...
October 16, 2019
VOX LUX
DescriptionBiosDescription As a teenager in 1999, Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survived a brutal school shooting in Staten Island. To process her grief, young Celeste wrote and performed a song that unexpectedly catapulted her into the national spotlight; and so a country's trauma created a teen girl's career as a pop star. Starting with this brilliantly cynical...
October 16, 2019
WAR PAINT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A young, South LA black girl experiences a series of events that intersect racism and sexism during the Fourth of July holiday. An AFI Directing Workshop for Women film. Bios Katrelle N. Kindred (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2018) is a native of South Los Angeles and an award-winning director, writer and...
October 16, 2019
UMBRA (TARIKI)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A few minutes after midnight, a young woman realizes that her partner has disappeared after sex. Worried, she goes out to find him in the dark streets. Bios After graduating from Azad University Tehran in Electronics Engineering in 2006, Saeed Jafarian made his first short docudrama, PD 150, about filmmaking. To date, he has...
October 16, 2019
UNDER THE SILVER LAKE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Hidden beneath the surface of the lives of the young and beautiful in Los Angeles lurks a sinister code to unlocking everything. Sam (Andrew Garfield) is just another failed artist living in Silver Lake, perpetually buzzed on too much pot. When a young ingénue (Riley Keough) moves in downstairs, only to promptly vanish the...
October 16, 2019
TEMPORADA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In a transitional moment personally and professionally, Juliana knows all too well the value of having a steady gig as a member of Brazil’s working class. After relocating to bustling Contagem to take a municipal job with the endemics department, she and a colorful crew canvas the city’s favelas, eradicating mosquito nests while she...
October 16, 2019
TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG (TARDE PARA MORIR JOVEN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor has only made three films in her nascent career but she has already developed a mature and singular aesthetic style. TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG transports us to the 1990s Chilean countryside, where a group of young families have retreated from modern society to build a more utopian world for...
October 16, 2019
STYX
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Rike (Susanne Wolff) is an experienced amateur sailor embarking on a solo voyage through open Atlantic waters. After weathering a brutal night storm, Rike awakens the next morning to spot a vessel in the distance that has been thrust into a dire situation: a boat, brimming with migrants, is sinking. Suddenly, Wolfgang Fischer's taut,...
October 16, 2019
THE SUMMER OF THE ELECTRIC LION (EL VERANO DEL LEON ELECTRICO)
DescriptionBiosDescription Hidden in a house far from the city, Alonso accompanies his dear sister, Daniela. She expects to become the seventh wife of The Lion, a prophet who (according to stories) electrocutes you when you touch him. Bios Diego Céspedes graduated as a filmmaker from the University of Chile in 2017. In 2015, during the...
October 16, 2019
SUNSET (NAPSZALLTA)
DescriptionBiosDescription It’s 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe as World War I approaches. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at Leiter, the legendary hat store that once belonged to her late parents; but she is quickly sent away by the new owner, Oszkaìr...
