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
RAFIKI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Kena is a teen living in the suburbs of Nairobi, Kenya. Her day-to-day consists of working her dad’s kiosk and kicking around a soccer ball with her boys. Ziki is a bubbly school girl who practices dance routines with her girls. Their paths cross, and the two form an inexorable bond. Amid a community...
October 16, 2019
RAY & LIZ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen in their nicotine-stained, grim existence, familial affection is a rare commodity. With a distinctly...
October 16, 2019
REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A video-art film exploring the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. Bios Jenn Nkiru is a visionary artist and director from and based in Peckham, London. An MFA graduate in Film from Howard University, her first film EN VOGUE, shot by Bradford Young and Arthur Jafa,...
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
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DescriptionBiosContactDescription In the lush mountains of Nara, Japan, thoughtful and withdrawn Tomo has taken refuge from the madness of the world, sharing a quiet life alongside mysterious herbalist Aki, a blind seer who possesses an otherworldly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
PUTIN’S WITNESSES (SVIDETELI PUTINA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription With PUTIN’S WITNESSES, documentarian Vitaly Mansky — former head of documentaries for Russian national television — returns to footage he filmed when commissioned, and provided with unnervingly intimate access, on a propaganda piece promoting Vladmir Putin’s first presidential election. The original documentary had purported to capture an energized pro-democracy movement leading up to the...
October 16, 2019
QUEEN OF DIAMONDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Filmmaker Nina Menkes is a spell caster, a conjurer who weaves a hypnotic trance amid the white bones and blue sky of the expansive and alienating desert landscape. Its dark nights punctuated by neon and the ever-constant chorus of slot machines, the Las Vegas illusion of liveliness is made all the more beguiling in...
