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...
October 22, 2019
TAKE ME TO PROM
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A colorful, celebratory intergenerational retelling of seven queer people’s prom experience. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Marked by their intimacy, Andrew Moir’s documentaries bring audiences into seminal moments of peoples’ lives. He typically works with small crews and with subjects for multi-year spans of time. Festival screenings include Hot Docs, Sheffield, DOC NYC...
October 22, 2019
THE STERILE CUCKOO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Pookie (Liza Minnelli) is an eccentric, neurotic, and positively adorable college student determined to make reserved entomologist Jerry (Wendell Burton) fall madly in love with her. Alan J. Pakula’s 1969 feature debut is tender and profound, a contained story of first love whose impact resounds even 50 years later. Bios Alan J. Pakula was...
October 22, 2019
TALKING ABOUT TREES
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Ibrahim, Suliman, Manar and Eltayeb — filmmakers and friends for more than 45 years —meet regularly in the capital of Khartoum as the Sudanese Film Group. Their mission is to screen films for the public, which, after decades of war and division, has grown up without access to the cinema, and to resurrect a...
October 22, 2019
SUICIDE BY SUNLIGHT
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Valentina, a day-walking black vampire protected from the sun by her melanin, is forced to restrain her bloodlust to regain custody of her estranged daughters Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 3 Bios Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra Leonean-American filmmaker Nikyatu Jusu's films have screened at festivals internationally. With a BA from Duke University...
October 22, 2019
STORY
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription 'Story' is a reflection about modern man in an age of omnipresent technology. Looking through stories - a popular function in many social media platforms - we see people who are lonely, lost or already indifferent about reality surrounding them. Action takes place during one day and it's told by short, often (auto)ironic scenes,...
October 22, 2019
THE SONG OF NAMES
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: François Girard (Director), Robert Lantos (Producer), Clive Owen (Talent), Howard Shore (Composer) Director François Girard (HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS) takes Norman Lebrecht’s acclaimed novel and orchestrates a stellar ensemble as its players in this potent film about two Jewish boys, connected by World War II. Spanning generations, the story follows violin prodigies Martin and Dovidl...
October 22, 2019
SOUTH OXFORD, ALL IOWA LAWN TENNIS CLUB, MARAVILLA, SERVE
DescriptionBiosDescription Talent attending: Darius Clark Monroe (Director) Filmmaker Darius Clark Monroe returns to the screen with a series of intimate nonfiction vignettes exploring America’s culture and passion for tennis and handball. Richard Northern and his wife reflect on owning a tennis club for almost two decades in Brooklyn. In Iowa, Mark Kuhn shares his story...
October 22, 2019
SOPHIE’S CHOICE
DescriptionBiosDescription Alan J. Pakula’s SOPHIE’S CHOICE stars Meryl Streep in an Academy Award®- winning performance as Sophie, a Polish immigrant and Holocaust survivor living in a post-war Brooklyn boardinghouse. Her romantic relationship with Nathan (Kevin Kline) is seen through the perspective of friend and aspiring writer, Stingo as he begins to discover their secrets. Bios...
October 22, 2019
SON-MOTHER (PESAR-MADAR)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription US Premiere When Leila, a single working mother of two, is laid off from her factory job, she faces a choice: marry bus driver Kazem, a single father who is ardently pursuing her, or live with her children on the streets. The marriage proposal comes with a catch — due to Iranian custom, it...
