September 26, 2024
SILENT PANORAMA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 Two campers cross a deserted landscape, intrigued by the cracking, trickling and other sounds that give life to this place. Originally drawn and animated on a single sheet of paper as a performance. Bios Nicolas Piret is a Belgian artist and filmmaker who graduated from the...
September 26, 2024
SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Johan Grimonprez. Jazz and colonial politics collide in a forgotten chapter of Cold War history in Johan Grimonprez’s electrifying essay film. The music of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simone and other jazz legends infuse the soundscape of decolonization movements rippling through the...
September 26, 2024
THE SHROUDS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Following the death of his wife (Diane Kruger), businessman Karsh (Vincent Cassel) conceives of a technology that permits video access to monitor the decomposition of loved ones from inside the grave. In staggering 8K resolution detail, Karsh zooms in on his wife’s decaying remains to discover strange growths on her bones. Disturbed and confused,...
September 26, 2024
A SHORT FILM ABOUT KIDS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: FAMILY FRIENDLY Four kids from a refugee camp in Bethlehem decide to visit the sea for the first time in their life. Bios Ibrahim Handal is a cinematographer and filmmaker who graduated from Dar Al-Kalima University in 2019. He has worked as a cinematographer on several...
September 26, 2024
SHEEP AND WOLVES (OVEJAS Y LOBOS)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription North American Premiere Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: LIVE ACTION 1 Set in the height of the Peruvian armed conflict, a mother’s world is shattered when her son vanishes. She searches for him across a perilous, vast and unforgiving landscape. Bios Alex Fischman Cárdenas is a Peruvian filmmaker, passionate about telling unheard, honest...
September 26, 2024
SHEEP OUT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: ANIMATION 1 A story about an animator living a routine life, moving only between home and work. Slowly sinking into apathy, she begins separating herself from the outside world. Bios Born in Radom, Poland in 1998, Zofia Klamka graduated from the animation studio led by Dr. Przemysław Adamski...
September 26, 2024
THE SHADOW WRANGLER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: AFTER DARK An audiobook narrator's attempts to finish recording a western erotica novel in her closet are foiled by disturbances. Bios Grace Rex (she/her) is a filmmaker in New York. Her short films have screened at Slamdance Film Festival and Maryland Film Festival among others. Online, her films...
September 26, 2024
SHOTPLAYER
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 A notorious NYC pickpocket returns to the scene of his crimes, the subway, and through memories begins to dissect the act that has ruled his life for over 40 years. Bios Sam Shainberg grew up in New York and still calls the city home. He is...
September 26, 2024
SANDCASTLES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screens as part of SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 SANDCASTLES parallels two Singapores – one in Southeast Asia and one on the western coast of Michigan – depicting the temporal nature of human edifices built on and destroyed by sand. Bios Carin Leong is a Singaporean documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist based in New York....
September 26, 2024
SANTOSH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Sandhya Suri. After her police constable husband is killed in the line of duty, Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is disowned by her in-laws and told to vacate their government housing, but a little-known policy — that the widow of a slain police officer is...
