October 16, 2019
ASH IS PUREST WHITE (JIANGHU ER NV)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription It's 2001, and Qiao (Zhao Tao) is the tough-minded girlfriend of low-level gangster Guo Bin (Liao Fan), who runs a nightclub and gambling den. When Guo Bin is attacked on the street by a group of thugs on motorcycles, Qiao spares no time in putting everything on the line for her boyfriend: She jumps...
October 16, 2019
BABY BROTHER
DescriptionBiosDescription My baby brother moves back in with our parents. Bios Kamau Bilal is a Black-American filmmaker working in Central Missouri. He was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2018 by Filmmaker Magazine. His work has earned critical praise and been featured in The New York Times, Filmmaker Magazine, Hammer To...
October 16, 2019
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
DescriptionBiosDescription Joel and Ethan Coen have crafted another musical yarn, this time as a wildly entertaining anthology of short films based on a fictional book of “Western tales.” So saddle up for these brilliantly bizarre ballads of mortality, brutality and fortune, performed by an ensemble cast of settlers and scoundrels, including Tim Blake Nelson as...
October 16, 2019
COUNTERFEIT KUNKOO
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In a city that houses millions, Smita discovers a strange prerequisite for renting a house in middle-class Mumbai. She would make an ideal tenant, except for one glaring flaw — she is an Indian woman without a husband. Bios Reema Sengupta is an international award-winning director, writer and editor based in Mumbai. She has...
October 16, 2019
AMAZING GRACE
DescriptionDescription A documentary presenting Aretha Franklin with choir at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles, in January 1972.
October 16, 2019
AND BREATHE NORMALLY (ANDIÐ EÐLILEGA)
DescriptionBiosDescription Lára is a struggling single mother whose new job as a border guard in an Icelandic airport is all that's keeping her and her young son from complete destitution. While training, Lára notices that the passport of Adja, a woman from Guinea-Bissau, has been forged. So begin parallel narratives of two women from very...
October 16, 2019
ANGELS ARE MADE OF LIGHT
DescriptionBiosDescription Filmed over three years, the latest documentary from James Longley follows students and teachers at a school in an old neighborhood of Kabul that is slowly rebuilding from past conflicts. Interweaving the modern history of Afghanistan with present-day portraits, the film offers an intimate and nuanced vision of a society living in the shadow...
October 16, 2019
APPLIED PRESSURE
DescriptionBiosDescription Ease the pain from past physical and mental distress. The body remembers. Aches may linger. Lay prone, breathe deeply, release tension, let go of the pain. Bios Experimental animator Kelly Sears recasts and reframes American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our own social and political legacy. Through combining animated photographic and film documents with...
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....
