October 22, 2019
VARDA BY AGNÈS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Mathieu Demy (Representative) Concluding a series of insightful personal documentaries by French New Wave pioneer Agnès Varda, this personally guided cinematic tour became a poetic memorial to a colossal career when the 90-year-old artist died one month following its 2019 Berlinale premiere. Finding humor in the unexpected and beauty even in sadness,...
October 22, 2019
WAX PAUL NOW
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Three New Yorkers will stop at nothing to get Paul Giamatti his own wax statue at Madame Tussauds. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Val Bodurtha is a comedian whose debut novel—written at seventeen—won the 2017 Young Writer’s Publication Contest. She has since transitioned to film and comedy, placing as a finalist in 2019’s...
October 22, 2019
VINCENT
DescriptionDescription On his 21st birthday, Vincent is persuaded to follow his friend Bunny to a brothel where he will meet a woman that looks like his mother. Part of SHOWCASE 4
October 22, 2019
TROOP ZERO
DescriptionBiosDescription Spunky, oddball nine-year-old Christmas Flint loves space. When she learns the prize for the 1977 Birdie Jamboree talent competition is having your voice recorded on the space-bound NASA’s Golden Record, Christmas decides to start her own troop. After recruiting other neighborhood misfits, she convinces the fearless Rayleen (Viola Davis) to help as troop mother....
October 22, 2019
THE TWO POPES
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription After serving as pope for eight years, Pope Benedict XVI summons his ideological rival, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, to the Vatican summer home. Historically, popes are meant to serve the Catholic Church until their final breath, but Benedict tells him he’s decided to abdicate the position, which no pope has done in more than 700 years. ...
October 22, 2019
THE TRUTH
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Upon publication of her memoir, French screen legend Fabienne (the legendary Catherine Deneuve) receives a visit from her screenwriter daughter Lumir (Juliette Binoche), son-in-law Hank (Ethan Hawke) and granddaughter. The book ignites Lumir’s fury over her mother’s many omissions and outright lies. It’s not long before simmering resentments over past wrongs and parental failings...
October 22, 2019
TREE #3
DescriptionContactDescription After he’s been cast (again!) as a background tree in his annual middle school play, an ambitious and imaginative Israeli immigrant boy leads a revolution on stage that his intolerant drama teacher will never forget. Part of SHOWCASE 2 Contact Omer Ben-Shachar omerbenshachar@gmail.com
October 22, 2019
UNDER COVERS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns and everything in between, this stop motion animated film conjures a comforting thought: that weird is relative. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Michaela is a creative director...
October 22, 2019
THE TRAITOR
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING ITALY OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Marco Bellocchio (Director), Pierfrancesco Favino (Talent), Simone Gattoni (Producer) Celebrated Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio (FISTS IN THE POCKET, 1965) steps behind the camera with this ultra-widescreen true story of the Sicilian Mafia and Tommaso Buscetta, the legendary mobster whose shifting allegiances makes for...
October 22, 2019
TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH (TABI NO OWARI SEKAI NO HAJIMARI)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Talent attending: Jason Gray (Producer), Eiko Mizuno (Producer) In his most emotional work to date, J-horror pioneer Kiyoshi Kurosawa delivers a profoundly affecting account of displacement. A Japanese TV crew is shooting a travelogue in Uzbekistan. At the center of the all-male crew is on-camera host, singer and actress Yoko. While on the surface...
