October 16, 2019
THE CHAMBERMAID (LA CAMARISTA)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Lila Avilés’ intimate debut presents a strong, new voice within the wave of contemporary Mexican cinema. In THE CHAMBERMAID, Eve is a young housekeeping maid in a luxurious Mexico City hotel who struggles with the daily grind of her monotonous work. Determined to make the best of things, she enrolls in an adult education...
October 16, 2019
THE COLD BLUE
DescriptionBiosDescription In 1943, William Wyler, one of Hollywood’s most renowned and versatile directors, went to Europe to document the Air War in progress. Incredibly, all of the raw color footage Wyler shot for the Memphis Belle was recently discovered deep in the vaults of the National Archives, and a new film has been constructed out...
October 16, 2019
3 FACES (SE ROKH)
DescriptionBiosDescription Eight years and four films into a 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban, Jafar Panahi continues to expand on themes of artistic repression with his latest and most expressly feminist film in over a decade. 3 FACES is at once a gentle prodding at the absurdity of certain cultural traditions and a more somber indictment of...
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
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
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
BLACK MOTHER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription With rawness and emotional intensity, director Khalik Allah weaves a rapturous dream-state of a documentary, at once a love letter to and a prayer for his family's ancestral home of Jamaica. From lush farmland to gritty street-corners, from prostitutes to preachers, BLACK MOTHER is a lyrical tribute to mothers and the motherland — and...
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...
