September 25, 2025
SNOW BEAR
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Set in a rapidly changing world, SNOW BEAR tells the story of a polar bear in an unforgiving environment on his quest to find a friend. Bios Aaron Blaise spent 21 years at Walt Disney Feature Animation, contributing to BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ALADDIN, THE LION...
September 25, 2025
SONG OF SILENCE
DescriptionTrailerDescription Screens as part of CONSERVATORY SHOWCASE 4 In a war-torn 2071 America, Greta must protect a deadly secret in a hidden village of women, forcing her to choose between her only son's life and the safety of her community. Trailer
September 25, 2025
SOUND OF FALLING (IN DIE SONNE SCHAUEN)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Winner of the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, German director Mascha Schilinski’s (DARK BLUE GIRL) stunning sophomore feature is a hypnotic, time-traversing portrait of four generations of women living in the same isolated German farmhouse over the course of a century. Starting in the early 1900s, spanning the Second World War,...
September 25, 2025
SILENT FRIEND
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and screenwriter Ildikó Enyedi For over a century, a ginkgo tree, standing sentinel in the garden of Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, experiences its surroundings — but how and what it experiences is a mystery. Every day, students, professors and staff pass by the...
September 25, 2025
THE SINGERS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 2 In this film adaptation of a 19th-century short story written by Ivan Turgenev, downtrodden patrons commiserating at a lowly pub connect unexpectedly through an impromptu sing-off. Bios Sam Davis is an Oscar®-nominated multi-hyphenate filmmaker with a foundation in cinematography. He produced and shot the Academy...
September 25, 2025
SILENT REBELLION (A BRAS-LE-CORPS)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In this emotive period piece, 15-year-old Emma (in a stirring breakout performance from Lila Gueneau) is a paragon of virtue, living in accord with the strict moral code of her small Swiss village. But, bordering France in 1943, the foundation of that morality is shaken when the village denies safe harbor to French refugees...
September 25, 2025
SHANTI RIDES SHOTGUN
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 2 On Manhattan’s jam-packed streets, NYC’s most iconic driving instructor prepares students for the road ahead. Bios Charles Frank is a director and co-founder of Voyager, a production company that tells stories of all sizes for brands, agencies and audiences everywhere. His work has been featured in...
September 25, 2025
SELENA Y LOS DINOS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Isabel Castro. For any Latino growing up in the '90s, Selena Quintanilla's big, melodious voice could be heard around the clock belting out romantic ballads. The story of her rise from child singer performing in low-key joints in Corpus Christi as the lynchpin of the...
September 25, 2025
RENTAL FAMILY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, screenwriter and producer HIKARI and actors Brendan Fraser and Mari Yamamoto. Academy Award® winner Brendan Fraser is Philip, an American down on his luck and unable to find meaningful work as an actor in Tokyo, landing only bit parts in commercials and TV shows. That...
September 25, 2025
ROMERÍA
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Winner of Berlin’s Golden Bear for ALCARRÀS (AFI FEST 2022), acclaimed Spanish auteur Carla Simón made her Cannes competition debut with this brilliant, deeply personal meditation on identity, memory and family. With a digital camcorder in hand, 18-year-old Marina (Llúcia Garcia) arrives in the glittering Galician port city of Vigo ready to meet her...
