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...
October 16, 2019
THE DIVE (HATZLILA)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Leaving Tel Aviv to return to the small kibbutz near the Israel-Lebanon border where he grew up, sensitive, battle-scarred veteran Yoav knows all too well the emotional (and literal) battleground he’s about to step into. With gung-ho, my-country-right-or-wrong brother Itai and youngest brother Avishai, who’s deeply ambivalent about his upcoming tour of duty, the...
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
CAPERNAUM (CAPHARNAÜM)
DescriptionBiosDescription Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Nadine Labaki’s CAPERNAUM follows Zain as he journeys from gutsy, streetwise child to hardened 12-year-old adult: fleeing his abusive, negligent parents, surviving through his wits on the streets, taking care of Ethiopian refugee Rahil (Yordanos Shiferaw) and her baby son Yonas (Boluwatife Treasure...
October 16, 2019
CAT DAYS (NEKO NO HI)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Jiro, a little boy, feels sick. His father takes him to the doctor. She diagnoses a harmless condition, but it shakes the core of the boy's identity. Bios Jon Frickey lives in Hamburg, Germany. Having previously worked as an art director in advertising, he has been a freelance animation director and illustrator since 2006....
October 16, 2019
DESERT RATS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Out in the Salt Flats, people think nothing can survive, but Lily did. Directed by AFI Conservatory Directing Workshop for Women alumna Shaz Bennett. Bios Shaz Bennett’s (AFI Directing Workshop for Women, Class of 2012) debut feature ALASKA IS A DRAG has won numerous awards in festivals. Bennett's television writing credits include THE GLADES...
October 16, 2019
DESTROYER
DescriptionBiosDescription In the tradition of films such as HEAT, TO LIVE AND DIE IN LA and TRAINING DAY, director Karyn Kusama drops us into the world of Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman), a hardened LA detective who, many years ago, barely survived a brutal undercover operation. When a dead body turns up on the concrete banks...
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...
