October 16, 2019
AMAZING GRACE
DescriptionDescription A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
October 16, 2019
AND BREATHE NORMALLY (ANDIÐ EÐLILEGA)
DescriptionBiosDescription Lára is a struggling single mother whose new job as a border guard in an Icelandic airport is all that's keeping her and her young son from complete destitution. While training, Lára notices that the passport of Adja, a woman from Guinea-Bissau, has been forged. So begin parallel narratives of two women from very...
October 16, 2019
ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT
DescriptionBiosDescription Filmed over three years, the latest documentary from James Longley follows students and teachers at a school in an old neighborhood of Kabul that is slowly rebuilding from past conflicts. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the film offers an intimate and nuanced vision of a society living in the shadow...
October 16, 2019
APPLIED PRESSURE
DescriptionBiosDescription Ease the pain from past physical and mental distress. The body remembers. Aches may linger. Lay prone, breathe deeply, release tension, let go of the pain. Bios Experimental animator Kelly Sears recasts and reframes American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our own social and political legacy. Through combining animated photographic and film documents with...
October 16, 2019
COMMUNION LOS ANGELES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A dystopian vision of the present, this experimental documentary uses poetic time-lapse photography to create an indistinguishable swell of half-audible monologues, radio frequencies and voicemails. This technique builds a decidedly unsettling distance, even as the rhythms of reoccurring highway vistas, flickering street signs, and neon-lit strip malls beckon you to fall under its trance....
October 16, 2019
CONCUSSION PROTOCOL
DescriptionBiosContactDescription By the end of the 2017-18 season, more than 250 players in the NFL will have sustained concussions. For his latest project, data artist Josh Begley tracked these injuries. Bios Josh Begley is a data artist and app developer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that...
October 16, 2019
ALL GOOD (ALLES IST GUT)
DescriptionBiosDescription Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s first-feature competition, Eva Trobisch’s ALL GOOD is an arresting portrayal of a woman who refuses to see herself victimized by sexual assault. Janne (Aenne Schwarz, in a commanding performance) drinks and dances with abandon at her high school reunion. A new friend misinterprets her joy for flirtation and...
October 16, 2019
ALL INCLUSIVE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. Bios Corina Schwingruber Ilić was born in 1981, and lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland, and Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2010, she has worked as a filmmaker and editor. In 2017, she co-founded PRO SHORT (Short Film Association Switzerland). Contact Some Shorts Trailer
October 16, 2019
AMATEURS (AMATÖRER)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription The small Swedish town of Lafors wants a fresh start. When German investors show interest in building their superstore in the hamlet, community leaders decide to create a promotional video. Tasked with the project, local official Musse turns to high school students for help. Aida and Dana pick up their phones and begin filming....
October 16, 2019
COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription It's Poland in the late 1950s and a team of musicians and broadcasters are touring the countryside in search of authentic folk music to spread and inspire patriotism. Wiktor, the star pianist and leader of this effort, immediately falls for young Zula, an incredible singer who stands apart from the provincial peasants. When their...
