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
ALL GOOD (ALLES IST GUT)
DescriptionBiosDescription Winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s first-feature competition, Eva Trobisch’s ALL GOOD is an arresting portrayal of a woman who refuses to see herself victimized by sexual assault. Janne (Aenne Schwarz, in a commanding performance) drinks and dances with abandon at her high school reunion. A new friend misinterprets her joy for flirtation and...
October 16, 2019
ALL INCLUSIVE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Under the spell of mass entertainment on the high seas. Bios Corina Schwingruber Ilić was born in 1981, and lives and works in Lucerne, Switzerland, and Belgrade, Serbia. Since 2010, she has worked as a filmmaker and editor. In 2017, she co-founded PRO SHORT (Short Film Association Switzerland). Contact Some Shorts Trailer
October 16, 2019
ADA
DescriptionBiosDescription Ada is an unlikeable competitive walker who makes a dress out of toilet paper and has an unfortunate run-in with a hose. Bios Eleanore Pienta is a director, actor and dancer. Eleanore Pienta starred opposite Jason Schwartzman in Bob Byington’s 7 CHINESE BROTHERS and most recently won a 2017 Special Jury Prize for Best...
October 16, 2019
AKASHA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Premiering at the Venice International Film Festival, documentarian hajooj kuka’s attention-grabbing, narrative debut AKASHA is a delightfully offbeat comedy set in rebel-held Sudan, where fighting has stopped amid the rainy season. Eager to resume battle after the rain subsides, the army commander launches a “kasha” — an annual roundup and arrest of truant soldiers...
October 16, 2019
49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE
DescriptionBiosDescription The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnished a legacy. Bios Bradley Smith is an artist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His award-winning film 49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2018, and went on to...
October 16, 2019
ACID FOREST (RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS)
DescriptionBiosDescription A wispy strip of land stretching between Russia and Lithuania is home to the unlikeliest of attractions. At the top of a narrow staircase in the Curonian Spit, a platform designated for tourists overlooks a dying forest of leafless trees, with branches resembling brittle fingers clawing the sky. What was once a plantation of...
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
ZOLTAR FROM ZORAN
DescriptionDescription Jimmy, a twelve-year old boy, claims to be an alien in order to escape his cruel family life and the horrors of junior high.
October 16, 2019
THE WOUNDS
DescriptionDescription True story of two under-age criminals (is) harrowing, shocking, the reflection of a society that has been devastated by political and moral upheaval. Dragojevic hasn't pulled any punches with this film-the wounds alluded to by the title are more than skin-deep; Dragojevic addresses the terrible impact of war on a generation that, in his...
