MAGIC ALPS

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription An Afghani refugee arrives in Italy with his goat and seeks political asylum for both of them. Bios Andrea Brusa and Marco Scotuzzi are two Italian award-winning filmmakers. Brusa holds an MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA. He wrote VIOLA, FRANCA, which was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival. Scotuzzi is a commercial director who...

MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Directed by Josie Rourke, MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary (Saoirse Ronan) defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. But Scotland and England fall under the rule of...

MEETINGS OF ANNA (LES RENDEZ-VOUS D’ANNA)

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Anna (Aurore Clément) is a respected Belgian filmmaker on a no-frills European tour promoting her latest film. As she travels from city to city, she has a series of startling encounters with different men and women — from an ex-lover, to her mother and even complete strangers — all of which seem to underscore...

THE MEMPHIS BELLE: A STORY OF A FLYING FORTRESS

DescriptionBiosDescription In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. Bios William Wyler (1902 – 1981) was an Oscar®-winning director, known for such classics films as BEN-HUR, THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES and MRS. MINIVER, among many others.

METEORITE

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Bird men suffer mysterious falls in the search for where the sun rises. An altered reality through rites that converge in one objective: die to generate life. Bios Mauricio Sáenz is a visual artist and filmmaker with a practice between experimental and docufiction. He obtained a master's degree in artistic production from the Polytechnic...

LEMONADE (LUNA DE MIERE)

DescriptionBiosDescription Based on a true story, this feature debut follows Mara, a young mother from Romania who is awaiting a green card. As she begins to navigate the labyrinth of modern U.S. immigration, she soon realizes that the American Dream is much darker than it seems. Corruption and abuse lie in wait for Mara and,...

A LITTLE BREAK (LES PETITES VACANCES)

DescriptionBiosContactDescription While on their summer break, two young women explore their sexuality. Bios The first of seven siblings, Louise Groult left rural Normandy for Nantes at 18 to study filmmaking. In 2010, she moved to Paris, where she earned a Master’s in Film from Paris 8. In 2014, she began studies in screenwriting at France’s...

MAGIC ’85

DescriptionBiosDescription During the height of the AIDS epidemic in LA, Gabriel, a lonely hospice worker, helps lead his patients to a conscious death. An AFI Conservatory Thesis Film. Bios Annika Kurnick recently graduated from the directing program at the AFI Conservatory (Class of 2017) with the MFA that now mocks her BFA in Drama from...

MAYA

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Roman Kolinka (EDEN, THINGS TO COME) reunites with director Mia Hansen-Løve as Gabriel, a French war reporter who has just been released from months of forced captivity in Syria. He decides to reassess his life and priorities by returning to his childhood home of India, where he meets his godfather’s daughter and the film’s...

THE KOMINSKY METHOD

DescriptionDescription Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas), a once-famous actor, now spends his days as an acting coach in Los Angeles. In this comedic new series created by Chuck Lorre (THE BIG BANG THEORY, TWO AND A HALF MEN), Kominsky tackles late-in-life curveballs with his longtime agent, Norman Newlander (Alan Arkin).

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