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
BULBUL CAN SING
DescriptionBiosDescription Bulbul is an independent girl living a typical teenage life in the Assam region of India. She practices her singing, and begins a sweet romance with a boy who wrote her a love poem. She spends most of her time with her two best friends — Bonny, who also has a beau, and Sumu,...
October 16, 2019
CAM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription CAM plunges the audience into the world of online camgirls — young women who make a living and control their own boundaries while securing their agency and identity via webcam. Lola (Madeline Brewer of THE HANDMAID'S TALE) has her own strict set of rules: “I don’t do public shows, I don’t tell my guys...
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
BIRD BOX
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this unpredictable sci-fi thriller, based on the bestselling novel of the same name, a mother, Malorie (Sandra Bullock), and two children navigate a hostile, even demonic landscape after an apocalyptic event. As Malorie confronts her ambivalence toward motherhood while learning the rules of her new uncertain existence, she and a small group of...
October 16, 2019
BIRDIE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A casual gesture of friendliness quickly spirals into a paralyzing moment for a woman on a train. Bios Classically trained as an actress, Shelly Lauman comes to filmmaking via a career on some of Australia’s most prestigious stages. She earned her MFA in Directing at the AFI Conservatory (Class of 2015) and is the...
October 16, 2019
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
DescriptionBiosDescription Joel and Ethan Coen have crafted another musical yarn, this time as a wildly entertaining anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “Western tales.” So saddle up for these brilliantly bizarre ballads of mortality, brutality and fortune, performed by an ensemble cast of settlers and scoundrels, including Tim Blake Nelson as...
October 16, 2019
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
DescriptionBiosDescription Filmmaker John Chester documents the eight-year effort of an ambitious, life-changing personal venture: moving out of Los Angeles with his wife, Molly, and building a diverse, sustainable farm. We follow the highs and lows of this adventure, as the couple takes a barren, drought-ridden land in the foothills and transforms it into an orchard...
October 16, 2019
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (JIANGHU ER NV)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription It's 2001, and Qiao (Zhao Tao) is the tough-minded girlfriend of low-level gangster Guo Bin (Liao Fan), who runs a nightclub and gambling den. When Guo Bin is attacked on the street by a group of thugs on motorcycles, Qiao spares no time in putting everything on the line for her boyfriend: She jumps...
