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
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
PIG (KHOOK)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Hasan is a past-his-prime filmmaker who obsessively worries about his fallen status in the Tehrani creative community. When it becomes clear that a serial killer is picking off relevant local filmmakers one by one, Hasan suddenly has a new insecurity on which to fixate: why hasn’t he been killed yet? In veteran filmmaker and...
October 16, 2019
PIU PIU
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A restless young woman yearns to escape the confines of romance in order to find her superpower. Bios Naima Ramos-Chapman is from Brooklyn, New York. She makes movement with body, word, image, silence, sound and technology, telling stories of transformation and understated bravery. Her stories stem from true events, incorporate magical realism and seek...
October 16, 2019
SIR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription When her wealthy employer's wedding is abruptly called off, Ratna — a maid with ambitions to break free of domestic work and become a high-end tailor — returns to her boss' high-rise Mumbai apartment. As she dutifully tends to Ashwin (whom she may only call "Sir"), the two gradually discover an unexpected spark between...
October 16, 2019
STAN & OLLIE
DescriptionBiosDescription The true story of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, two of the world’s biggest stars, and how they fell from grace, losing not only their fortunes but their best friends. Delightful performances from Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the titular duo transport audiences to Hollywood's Golden Age. Bios Jon S. Baird began...
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
PERIOD. END OF SENTENCE.
DescriptionBiosDescription In an effort to improve feminine hygiene, a machine that creates low-cost biodegradable sanitary pads is installed in a rural village in Northern India. Bios Rayka Zehtabchi is an Iranian-American film director based in Los Angeles. Her directorial debut, MADARAN, qualified for the 89th Academy Awards® and screened at festivals worldwide. Zehtabchi’s senior thesis...
