September 26, 2024
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
DescriptionBiosDescription 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
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
SEPTEMBER 5
DescriptionBiosDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actor Peter Sarsgaard. At the 1972 Munich Olympics, the ABC Sports broadcasting crew led by Roone Arledge (Peter Sarsgaard) must suddenly pivot to covering hard news when the Israeli Olympic team is taken hostage by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September. The tragic events from that...
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
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
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with actor John Turturro. 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 Ingrid (Julianne Moore with a bold red lip and...
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
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
PAVEMENTS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Alex Ross Perry. 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 world where they were, with a museum show, biopic...
