October 22, 2019
PRESENT.PERFECT. (WAN MEI XIAN ZAI SHI)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription An immersive depiction of the proliferation of self-documentation in China before its suppression by the country’s 2017 Cybersecurity Law, Zhu Shengze’s enthralling found-footage documentary compiles live streaming footage assembled from over 800 hours of material. By enabling individuals — many of whom are disabled, marginalized or from the working class — to candidly engage...
October 22, 2019
THE PLANTERS
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Milen Angelov (Talent), Sam Barnett (Animator), Jacqueline Beiro (Producer), Phil Danyew (Musician), Alexandra Kotcheff (Director), Thomas (Composer), Hannah Leder (Director), Phil Parolisi (Talent), Pepe Serna (Talent), Louis Weeks (Music Producer) In a vast and lonely desert, two women meet under strange circumstances. After some introductory abnormalities, they begin planting things in the sand...
October 22, 2019
NOBADI
DescriptionBiosContactDescription In sunny Vienna elderly Robert awakes to find his dog has died. He wants to bury him in the garden, but a stubborn tree root impedes his progress. He goes into town to hire some help and encounters young immigrant Adib. Hiring him for a low wage, he brings him back to his house....
October 22, 2019
ONE CHILD NATION
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription FREE SCREENING Talent attending: Nanfu Wang (Director) After becoming a first-time mother, filmmaker Nanfu Wang (HOOLIGAN SPARROW) reflects on her childhood in China, deciding to turn her camera on the experience and history of the country’s one child policy. From 1979 to 2015, China’s government enforced families to have one-child households, favoring male babies,...
October 22, 2019
OUT OF PLACE
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Irene Yang (Producer) Under the pressure of an impending exam that will determine the fate of her career as a concert pianist, Hui practices frantically that nearly pushes herself over the edge. Her fear of failure and disappointing her mother leads to Hui’s lying to her mother on the phone. After “failing"...
October 22, 2019
MTHUNZI
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The film follows Mthunzi walking home from the shops as he sees a lady go into seizures in her driveway - he is then asked to help carry her in by her niece and so becomes caught up in a world he does not belong. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 5 Bios Born in the...
October 22, 2019
OLIVER SACKS: HIS OWN LIFE
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Rick Burns (Director) Famed neurologist and best-selling author Oliver Sacks (THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT and many others), who died in 2015, led an extraordinary life. Less well known are the many obstacles he faced: a tortuous boarding school, a mother who shunned him for being gay, a...
October 22, 2019
THE MINORS
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A slice of life film about a Grandpa and his grandsons, the future and the past. Oh, and they started a band! Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 1 Bios Born in the small town of King City California, and raised in the DIY Punk culture, Robert has been taking photographs his whole life and making...
October 22, 2019
MS SLAVIC 7
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Talent attending: Sofia Bohdanowicz (Director) Indiscriminately housed in the Harvard Houghton Library is a collection of elegantly composed letters exchanged between Nobel Prize-nominated author Jozef Wittlin and poet Zofia Bohdanowiczowa, retrievable using call number MS Slavic 7. The correspondence extends decades following their displacement from Poland during World War II but, consisting of only...
October 22, 2019
MORS DAG
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Elena Aksenova (Producer), Jeanine Frost (Director/Writer), Erin G. Wesley (Cinematographer) Ellen succeeds well at keeping her past and shattered self-perception at bay by focusing on her freelance producing job, away from her family. But on Mother’s Day, when Ellen discovers her adopted daughter Lilly has gotten her period, the trauma from her...
