October 16, 2019
VISION
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In the lush mountains of Nara, Japan, thoughtful and withdrawn Tomo has taken refuge from the madness of the world, sharing a quiet life alongside mysterious herbalist Aki, a blind seer who possesses an otherworldly understanding of the ways of the forest. Yet their peaceful life is about to change with the arrival of...
October 16, 2019
VOX LUX
DescriptionBiosDescription As a teenager in 1999, Celeste (Raffey Cassidy) survived a brutal school shooting in Staten Island. To process her grief, young Celeste wrote and performed a song that unexpectedly catapulted her into the national spotlight; and so a country's trauma created a teen girl's career as a pop star. Starting with this brilliantly cynical...
October 16, 2019
WAR PAINT
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A young, South LA black girl experiences a series of events that intersect racism and sexism during the Fourth of July holiday. An AFI Directing Workshop for Women film. Bios Katrelle N. Kindred (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2018) is a native of South Los Angeles and an award-winning director, writer and...
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
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...
