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...
September 26, 2024
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring drama about two daughters defying their conservative father courted controversy in his native Iran, not only for its allegorical critique of the regime and depictions of real-life protests but also for its realistic depiction of women without head scarves on at home – which has been censored in Iranian cinema since...
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
A REAL PAIN
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the standout sophomore feature from multi-hyphenate writer-director Jesse Eisenberg (WHEN YOU FINISH SAVING THE WORLD) is an odd-couple road movie for the ages, an irreverent, funny, but deeply empathetic comedy that doubles as emotional exploration of complex family dynamics and intergenerational...
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
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
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
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
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...
