September 26, 2024
RECURRENCE (QUTAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK Cows flee from a cottage as a planet approaches Earth. Fearfully, the cottage owner runs away, leaving his crippled son. As the cows return, they're plunged into a monstrous, eerie nightmare. Bios Ali Alizadeh is a writer, director, editor, photographer and graphic designer from Tehran. He...
September 26, 2024
RIPE!
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Nothing says "it's complicated" like breaking your crush's arm. Bios Tusk is a directing duo based in LA whose short RIPE! just won Best Narrative Short at the Tribeca Film Festival and is now being developed as a feature film. In 2024, Tusk made ADWEEK's...
September 26, 2024
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actor John Turturro and cinematographer Edu Grau moderated by writer Steven Gaydos. In his first English language feature film, Spanish iconoclast Pedro Almodóvar adapts Sigrid Nunez’s novel, his love of complicated woman, eye-catching production design and lurid melodrama effortlessly translating into a new tongue. Bestselling author...
September 26, 2024
REAS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In her sophomore documentary feature, Argentinian filmmaker Lola Arias (THEATRE OF WAR) continues to explore themes of collective memory, cathartic expression and healing through reenactments of shared trauma. Centered on a vibrant, varied group of former Buenos Aires inmates all performing as themselves, REAS is a unique combination of hybrid documentary and prison musical....
September 26, 2024
PAVEMENTS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actors Nat Wolff and Logan Miller and producers Peter Kline, Danny Gabai and Lance Bangs. Alex Ross Perry’s imaginative documentary about the ‘90s-era indie rock band Pavement follows a dreamlike logic: this band should have been bigger back in the day, so why not create a...
September 26, 2024
THE PUZZLE PALACE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 In a Boca suburb, a couple retire to a second marriage of freedom, play and the world’s largest puzzle collection. Bios Jenny Schweitzer Bell and Brian Bell are a husband-and-wife filmmaking team based in New York City. Together, they produced several independent narrative features. Over the...
September 26, 2024
PERCEBES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Set in the sea and the urban Algarve, we follow the complete life cycle of a special shellfish, percebes, from their formation to the dish. Bios After graduating from the Fine Arts University of Lisbon, Alexandra Ramires and Laura Gonçalves began working in...
September 26, 2024
PARTHENOPE
DescriptionBiosDescription North American Premiere Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta), a young woman possessed of near supernatural beauty, embarks on a sentimental education in her life and academic career in Naples in Paolo Sorrentino’s gorgeous dreamworld of a film. Named for the mythical siren who lent her name to the ancient Greek settlement where Naples now exists,...
September 26, 2024
RAT!
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted fans descend on his remote cabin to wreak havoc and seek retribution. Bios Neal Suresh Mulani is a queer filmmaker exploring self-perception, masculinity and identity in the digital age. His short...
September 26, 2024
ONE DAY THIS KID
DescriptionBiosContactDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 An exploration of silent struggle and unspoken tension as Hamed, a first-generation Afghan Canadian man, navigates an undefined future with his father. Inspired by David Wojnarowicz's renowned text. Bios Alexander Farah is an Afghan-Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at Berlinale, Telluride and...
