October 16, 2019
COME ON MANDY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A wheelchair-bound woman tries to get her dog to come when she calls. Bios Joshua Wilmott is an American film director and screenwriter. He works in the Documentary, Fiction and Experimental forms. Recurrent in much of his work is the exploration of the funny, sad and absurd in daily life, often focusing on subjects...
October 16, 2019
49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE
DescriptionBiosDescription The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnished a legacy. Bios Bradley Smith is an artist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His award-winning film 49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2018, and went on to...
October 16, 2019
ACID FOREST (RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS)
DescriptionBiosDescription A wispy strip of land stretching between Russia and Lithuania is home to the unlikeliest of attractions. At the top of a narrow staircase in the Curonian Spit, a platform designated for tourists overlooks a dying forest of leafless trees, with branches resembling brittle fingers clawing the sky. What was once a plantation of...
October 16, 2019
ADA
DescriptionBiosDescription Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose. Bios Eleanore Pienta is a director, actor and dancer. Eleanore Pienta starred opposite Jason Schwartzman in Bob Byington’s 7 CHINESE BROTHERS and most recently won a 2017 Special Jury Prize for Best...
October 16, 2019
AKASHA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, documentarian hajooj kuka’s attention-grabbing, narrative debut AKASHA is a delightfully offbeat comedy set in rebel-held Sudan, where fighting has stopped amid the rainy season. Eager to resume battle after the rain subsides, the army commander launches a “kasha” — an annual roundup and arrest of truant soldiers...
October 16, 2019
THE CHAMBERMAID (LA CAMARISTA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Lila Avilés’ intimate debut presents a strong, new voice within the wave of contemporary Mexican cinema. In THE CHAMBERMAID, Eve is a young housekeeping maid in a luxurious Mexico City hotel who struggles with the daily grind of her monotonous work. Determined to make the best of things, she enrolls in an adult education...
October 16, 2019
THE COLD BLUE
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. Incredibly, all of the raw color footage Wyler shot for the Memphis Belle was recently discovered deep in the vaults of the National Archives, and a new film has been constructed out...
October 16, 2019
3 FACES (SE ROKH)
DescriptionBiosDescription Eight years and four films into a 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban, Jafar Panahi continues to expand on themes of artistic repression with his latest and most expressly feminist film in over a decade. 3 FACES is at once a gentle prodding at the absurdity of certain cultural traditions and a more somber indictment of...
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....
