October 16, 2019
FUGUE (FUGA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription After a two-year disappearance, free-spirited Alicja is reunited with her parents, husband and young son despite having no memory of them. Suddenly thrust back into a domestic life she has no recollection of choosing, Alicja struggles to reconcile her new and unfamiliar roles of dependability with the unshackled independence sprung by her recent mental...
October 16, 2019
GENESIS (GENÈSE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Guillaume is an outwardly confident teenager in a posh boarding school. Intelligent and brash, he veers between likable and overbearing both in the faculty's and his fellow student's eyes. When surprising new feelings of love and alienation consume him, his veneer of composure begins to crack. Meanwhile, his older sister Charlotte has just wriggled...
October 16, 2019
GINGERBREAD
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1862, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly agrees to join Mary Todd in a séance to contact their recently departed son. Bios Kendell Courtney Klein (AFI Class of 2014) is drawn to biopics that explore misunderstood and forgotten figures. Since graduating from AFI, her screenplays have won the...
October 16, 2019
EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Laura (Penélope Cruz) has returned to Spain for her sister's wedding. The mood in her bucolic hometown is festive, and many faces from the past are present for the nuptials, including Paco (Javier Bardem), a longtime friend of the family. But when Laura's daughter goes missing late into the night of the celebration, and...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Kate Stone (Taylor Schilling) is career-focused, and enjoys her life that way. Her brash attitude keeps relationships at arm's length, making her an outcast in her own right. When her estranged brother calls asking her to babysit her tween niece Maddie, Kate reluctantly agrees to help. But babysitting overnight unexpectedly turns into a week,...
October 16, 2019
GINGERBREAD
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1862, during the bloodiest days of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln reluctantly agrees to join Mary Todd in a séance to contact their recently departed son. Bios Kendell Courtney Klein (AFI Class of 2014) is drawn to biopics that explore misunderstood and forgotten figures. Since graduating from AFI, her screenplays have won the...
October 16, 2019
GOD NEVER DIES (DIOS NUNCA MUERE)
DescriptionBiosDescription Living in hidden America, Paula, a Mexican farmworker, struggles to raise her two children on her own. Bios Barbara Cigarroa is a Mexican-American filmmaker from South Texas who currently resides in New York City. Her screenplay was invited to IFP's 2018 Film Week; and her 2018 short, DIOS NUNCA MUERE was an official selection...
October 16, 2019
DRYLONGSO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Forthright and plucky Pica Sullivan (Toby Smith) is an art school student growing up in Oakland, CA, who is determined to document “America’s most endangered species”: the African-American male. While photographing men in the neighborhood out of fear they will soon be extinct, Pica meets Tobi (April Barnett), a woman disguised as a man...
October 16, 2019
DULCE
DescriptionBiosDescription In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim, so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest piangua shellfish with other women in the village. Bios Guille Isa is a director and production designer based in Lima. The seven short documentaries he has co-directed for Jungles in Paris have played...
October 16, 2019
EGG
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg, then repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. Bios Martina Scarpelli is an Italian filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Academy of Brera in Milano and a bachelor in Animation from Experimental Cinematography...
