October 16, 2019
CAPERNAUM (CAPHARNAÜM)
DescriptionBiosDescription Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old adult: fleeing his abusive, negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, taking care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw) and her baby son Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure...
October 16, 2019
CAT DAYS (NEKO NO HI)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity. Bios Jon Frickey lives in Hamburg, Germany. Having previously worked as an art director in advertising, he has been a freelance animation director and illustrator since 2006....
October 16, 2019
DESERT RATS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Out in the Salt Flats, people think nothing can survive, but Lily did. Directed by AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women alumna Shaz Bennett. Bios Shaz Bennett’s (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2012) debut feature ALASKA IS A DRAG has won numerous awards in festivals. Bennett's television writing credits include THE GLADES...
October 16, 2019
DESTROYER
DescriptionBiosDescription In the tradition of films such as HEAT, TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA and TRAINING DAY, director Karyn Kusama drops us into the world of Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), a hardened LA detective who, many years ago, barely survived a brutal undercover operation. When a dead body turns up on the concrete banks...
October 16, 2019
BLACK MOTHER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription With rawness and emotional intensity, director Khalik Allah weaves a rapturous dream-state of a documentary, at once a love letter to and a prayer for his family's ancestral home of Jamaica. From lush farmland to gritty street-corners, from prostitutes to preachers, BLACK MOTHER is a lyrical tribute to mothers and the motherland — and...
October 16, 2019
BLOOMSTREET 11 (BLOEISTRAAT 11)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription As summer progresses, the bodies of inseparable best friends start to morph and shift as puberty interrupts their bond. Bios Nienke Deutz is a Dutch director and artist currently living and working in Rotterdam. In 2010, she received her Bachelor in the Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht, before moving...
October 16, 2019
BLOWIN’ UP
DescriptionBiosContactDescription BLOWIN’ UP is an intimate portrait of the Queens Human Trafficking Intervention Court, a groundbreaking model of progressive justice, and the rebel heroines working to change the way women charged with prostitution are prosecuted in America. Director Stephanie Wang-Breal follows sex workers — many undocumented — as they share the complicated stories of prostitution...
October 16, 2019
DAUGHTER OF MINE (FIGLIA MIA)
DescriptionBiosDescription 10-year-old Vittoria (Sara Casu) is a quiet girl whose uneventful Sardinian summer becomes upended when she discovers her birth mother is the town drunk, Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher). As Vittoria begins to split her time between Angelica and the more stable woman who raised her (Valeria Golino), she finds herself struggling with something deep and...
October 16, 2019
DEAD HORSE NEBULA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Entrenched in Turkish cinema traditions though entirely its own, Tarik Aktaş’ feature debut DEAD HORSE NEBULA is either a real or imagined childhood memory of adults attempting to remove the body of a dead horse from an open field. What follows is a string of encounters between humans and the natural world — to...
October 16, 2019
DEAD PIGS
DescriptionBiosDescription Five lives collide in Cathy Yan’s quirky and comic debut. A bumbling pig farmer has an interest in VR and paying off his gangster loans, but his pigs are mysteriously dying and floating in the river towards Shanghai. His sister, a salon owner, battles against the giant real-estate company gentrifying her neighborhood. An American...
