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...
October 16, 2019
DRYLONGSO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Forthright and plucky Pica Sullivan (Toby Smith) is an art school student growing up in Oakland, CA, who is determined to document “America’s most endangered species”: the African-American male. While photographing men in the neighborhood out of fear they will soon be extinct, Pica meets Tobi (April Barnett), a woman disguised as a man...
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
COMMUNION LOS ANGELES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription A dystopian vision of the present, this experimental documentary uses poetic time-lapse photography to create an indistinguishable swell of half-audible monologues, radio frequencies and voicemails. This technique builds a decidedly unsettling distance, even as the rhythms of reoccurring highway vistas, flickering street signs, and neon-lit strip malls beckon you to fall under its trance....
October 16, 2019
CONCUSSION PROTOCOL
DescriptionBiosContactDescription By the end of the 2017-18 season, more than 250 players in the NFL will have sustained concussions. For his latest project, data artist Josh Begley tracked these injuries. Bios Josh Begley is a data artist and app developer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is the creator of Metadata+, an iPhone app that...
October 16, 2019
DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription DIVIDE AND CONQUER: THE STORY OF ROGER AILES explores the rise and fall of the titular, late Republican Party heavyweight. Director Alexis Bloom expertly weaves interviews with allies and enemies, revealing how Ailes worked in the shadows to orchestrate media influence, starting with his work on the Nixon presidential campaign. Remarkable archival footage shows...
October 16, 2019
COLD WAR (ZIMNA WOJNA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription It's Poland in the late 1950s and a team of musicians and broadcasters are touring the countryside in search of authentic folk music to spread and inspire patriotism. Wiktor, the star pianist and leader of this effort, immediately falls for young Zula, an incredible singer who stands apart from the provincial peasants. When their...
October 16, 2019
DIAMANTINO
DescriptionBiosDescription He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, but when Portuguese soccer god Diamantino is on the field, his head filled with visions of giant Pekingese puppies frolicking in cotton-candy clouds, he transforms into a football Adonis with a heart of gold. But when he misses a crucial penalty kick, costing his troubled nation...
