October 16, 2019
RAY & LIZ
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In this immersive debut, director and photographer Richard Billingham returns to the squalid council flat outside of Birmingham where he and his brother were raised, in a confrontation and reconciliation with parents Ray and Liz. As Thatcher-era circumstances progressively worsen in their nicotine-stained, grim existence, familial affection is a rare commodity. With a distinctly...
October 16, 2019
REBIRTH IS NECESSARY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A video-art film exploring the magic and dynamism of Blackness in a realm where time and space are altered. Bios Jenn Nkiru is a visionary artist and director from and based in Peckham, London. An MFA graduate in Film from Howard University, her first film EN VOGUE, shot by Bradford Young and Arthur Jafa,...
October 16, 2019
NORMAL APPEARANCES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription An unsettling supercut of the women of #BachelorNation watching themselves being watched. Bios Nonfiction filmmaker Penny Lane has made three features (THE PAIN OF OTHERS, NUTS! and OUR NIXON) and about a dozen short films. Her awards include a Special Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival. She was admitted into the Academy of...
October 16, 2019
OF FATHERS AND SONS
DescriptionBiosDescription At the outset of Talal Derki’s chilling exposé of children groomed to become jihadi soldiers, the Syrian documentarian echoes his father’s advice: that he should record his nightmares to prevent them from resurfacing. For more than two years, Derki posed as a photojournalist with jihadi sympathies to infiltrate and document the Islamic extremism of...
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...
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
NITRATE KISSES
DescriptionBiosDescription This debut feature from acclaimed lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer is at once an experimental excavation of queer histories, a celebration of difference across communities and a lamentation for histories lost to cultural repression. In this poetic, beautiful and, at times, shocking collage, powerful testimonies from different segments of queer culture reclaim memories from "the...
October 16, 2019
NON-FICTION (DOUBLE VIES)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Alain and Selena (Guillaume Canet and Juliette Binoche) are an affluent Parisian couple in a seemingly content marriage; he's the head of a prestigious publishing imprint, and she's an actress in a weekly crime drama. As Alain attempts to navigate the terrain of his swiftly evolving industry — that's been turned on its head...
