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
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
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
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
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 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...
