October 16, 2019
X
DescriptionBiosDescription X, a young black kid, wanders through Los Angeles while confronting the difficult realities of adolescence while being black in America. Bios Yara Shahidi is an actress, activist and breakout star of the comedy series BLACK-ISH. Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form narrative and documentary video at The New York Times. She is particularly driven...
October 16, 2019
YAEL (CONCEPTION: YAEL)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Becoming a mother is one of the most transformative life experiences. Bios Margaret Cheatham Williams produces short-form narrative and documentary video at The New York Times. She is particularly driven to stories that examine the intersection of health, family and personal identity. In 2018 she piloted CONCEPTION, an animated series about evolving state of...
October 16, 2019
YARA
DescriptionBiosDescription A gently paced romance, Abbas Fahdel’s YARA captures the elation of first love and the crushing pain of its loss. Yara lives alone with her grandmother on a remote Lebanese mountainside. Hers is a world disconnected from modern civilization, where the perpetual rustling of leaves, changing of light and intermittent tableaux of insects and...
October 16, 2019
ROMA
DescriptionBiosDescription Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio) is the live-in maid and nanny for an upper-middle-class family in Mexico City in the 1970s. While Cleo’s days are long, she is content in her role in the house, despite the occasional hushed upbraiding from her employers, and the daily task of cleaning dog excrement from the family’s large garage....
October 16, 2019
SHE (AJO)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription To escape an early marriage arranged by her father, Zana has to make a courageous decision. Bios More Raça is a Kosovar director and writer of short and documentary films. Raça focuses on socialeconomic issues concerning women’s issues and challenges. Apart from her profession, she is actively engaged in the promotion and protection of...
October 16, 2019
SHOPLIFTERS (MANBIKI KAZOKU)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, SHOPLIFTERS tells the tender story of a family of misfits and grifters struggling to make ends meet, but happily making the most of life together in Tokyo. After finding a young girl out in the cold, Osamu and his wife agree to...
October 16, 2019
WIDOWS
DescriptionBiosDescription Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen returns with a crime thriller where women take charge. Veronica's (Viola Davis) decadent lifestyle is abruptly interrupted when her husband is killed, along with his criminal gang, in a heist gone wrong. She soon discovers the debt with which she, and other widows from his gang, are suddenly burdened....
October 16, 2019
RELAXER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription AFI FEST alum Joel Potrykus takes us back to the halcyon days of Y2K for his latest study in broken men and thwarted ambitions – and it all takes place on a couch. Longtime collaborator and frequent muse Joshua Burge reunites with Potrykus, with Burge playing Abbie, a young man whose permanently pained face...
