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
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...
October 16, 2019
NITRATE KISSES
DescriptionBiosDescription This debut feature from acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer is at once an experimental excavation of queer histories, a celebration of difference across communities and a lamentation for histories lost to cultural repression. In this poetic, beautiful and, at times, shocking collage, powerful testimonies from different segments of queer culture reclaim memories from "the...
October 16, 2019
NON-FICTION (DOUBLE VIES)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Alain and Selena (Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche) are an affluent Parisian couple in a seemingly content marriage; he's the head of a prestigious publishing imprint, and she's an actress in a weekly crime drama. As Alain attempts to navigate the terrain of his swiftly evolving industry — that's been turned on its head...
October 16, 2019
PEREZ – “LES VACANCES CONTINUENT”
DescriptionBiosDescription A music video that embraces the bloody, neon soul of KNIFE+HEART. Bios Yann Gonzalez was born in 1977 in Nice. He directed primarily short films before his feature debut, YOU AND THE NIGHT (2013). KNIFE + HEART is his sophomore feature. Both films premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. His short film, ISLANDS, played...
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...
October 16, 2019
PIERCING
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Reed (Christopher Abbott) is a seemingly normal guy struggling to channel some dark urges involving an ice pick. To keep his family out of harm's way, he checks himself into a hotel and orders a prostitute, with the secret intention of taking his methodical violence out on her. But when call girl Jackie (Mia...
October 16, 2019
METEORITE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life. Bios Mauricio Sáenz is a visual artist and filmmaker with a practice between experimental and docufiction. He obtained a master's degree in artistic production from the Polytechnic...
October 16, 2019
MY BRILLIANT FRIEND (L’AMICA GENIALE)
DescriptionDescription MY BRILLIANT FRIEND adapts the first book in Elena Ferrante’s renowned coming-of-age saga, with the fidelity and attention to detail to satisfy even its most obsessive readers. Written and directed by Italian filmmaker Saverio Costanzo (2014’s HUNGRY HEARTS), it is the first non-English series to premiere on HBO, adapting even the Neapolitan dialect. The...
