October 16, 2019
EVERYBODY KNOWS (TODOS LO SABEN)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Laura (Penélope Cruz) has returned to Spain for her sister's wedding. The mood in her bucolic hometown is festive, and many faces from the past are present for the nuptials, including Paco (Javier Bardem), a longtime friend of the family. But when Laura's daughter goes missing late into the night of the celebration, and...
October 16, 2019
DAUGHTER OF MINE (FIGLIA MIA)
DescriptionBiosDescription 10-year-old Vittoria (Sara Casu) is a quiet girl whose uneventful Sardinian summer becomes upended when she discovers her birth mother is the town drunk, Angelica (Alba Rohrwacher). As Vittoria begins to split her time between Angelica and the more stable woman who raised her (Valeria Golino), she finds herself struggling with something deep and...
October 16, 2019
DEAD HORSE NEBULA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Entrenched in Turkish cinema traditions though entirely its own, Tarik Aktaş’ feature debut DEAD HORSE NEBULA is either a real or imagined childhood memory of adults attempting to remove the body of a dead horse from an open field. What follows is a string of encounters between humans and the natural world — to...
October 16, 2019
DEAD PIGS
DescriptionBiosDescription Five lives collide in Cathy Yan’s quirky and comic debut. A bumbling pig farmer has an interest in VR and paying off his gangster loans, but his pigs are mysteriously dying and floating in the river towards Shanghai. His sister, a salon owner, battles against the giant real-estate company gentrifying her neighborhood. An American...
October 16, 2019
DULCE
DescriptionBiosDescription In coastal Colombia, a mother teaches her daughter how to swim, so that she may go to the mangroves and harvest piangua shellfish with other women in the village. Bios Guille Isa is a director and production designer based in Lima. The seven short documentaries he has co-directed for Jungles in Paris have played...
October 16, 2019
EGG
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A woman is locked in her home with an egg. She eats the egg, then repents. She kills it. She lets the egg die of hunger. Bios Martina Scarpelli is an Italian filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Fine Art from Academy of Brera in Milano and a bachelor in Animation from Experimental Cinematography...
October 16, 2019
THE CRUZ BROTHERS AND MISS MALLOY
DescriptionBiosContactDescription This charming feature debut from recently rediscovery Kathleen Collins (LOSING GROUND) follows three Puerto Rican brothers who, under the guidance of their deceased father, are enlisted to assist an eccentric elderly woman in restoring her crumbling Victorian home. When the brothers set out to accomplish this colossal task, the woman matter-of-factly announces her plans...
October 16, 2019
CYCLISTS (BICIKLISTI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription During the final race of the cycling season, two men in the lead compete for more than the Grand Trophy. Bios Veljko Popovic graduated in 2003 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, Department of Painting. In 1998, he started working with computer graphics and co-founded Lemonade3d, a CG and animation studio. Since...
October 16, 2019
DOGMAN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Matteo Garrone's latest film is a gripping drama about Marcello, a gentle yet cowardly dog groomer who finds himself caught up in Italy’s criminal underworld. Marcello forms a dangerous, one-sided relationship with former boxer and cokehead Simone, who terrorizes the community. Before long, Marcello is part of his reckless antics. It is only after...
October 16, 2019
DOWN THERE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription A blissful night is unexpectedly interrupted by a sound from downstairs. Different reactions are triggered as well as indifference. Bios Zhengfan Yang started making films after he graduated from law school. Together with Shengze Zhu, he co-founded Burn The Film in 2010. His debut feature DISTANT has screened at Locarno, Warsaw and Vancouver, among...
