October 22, 2019
BIKRAM: YOGI, GURU, PREDATOR
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: Eva Orner (Director) With his chiseled physique, simple but demanding program, and charismatic teaching style, Bikram Choudhury, the founder of Bikram Yoga, rode the wave of yoga’s growing popularity in the U.S. to build an empire of yoga studios and teaching programs. Raking in millions of dollars and frequenting TV talk shows,...
October 22, 2019
BLESSED LAND
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A middle-aged woman and her son visit her late husband’s grave - situated in a former fishing village she hasn’t been to in decades. In the cemetery on the sandy dunes, they wander around for a long time without finding the headstone. Has her memory eroded, or has the grave been concealed somewhere underneath...
October 22, 2019
BLACKBIRD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Talent attending: David Bernardi (Distributor), Sherryl Clark (Producer) Battling a terminal illness, Lily (Susan Sarandon) has decided to end her life on her own terms. Lily and her husband (Sam Neill) request their loved ones come to their seaside home for a final weekend together. Their daughters (Kate Winslet and Mia Wasikowska) arrive with...
October 22, 2019
BEANPOLE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription RUSSIA OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM OSCAR® SUBMISSION Talent attending: Kantemir Balagov (Director) Amid the aftermath of war-ravaged Russia, Iya (Viktoria Mironshnichenko), a nurse nicknamed “Beanpole” for her lanky stature, cares for injured soldiers as well as her best friend’s son Pashka. While working around the clock at the hospital, she must confront and navigate her...
October 22, 2019
BALLOON (QI QIU)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Shepard Dargye and his wife, Drolkar, live a simple life with their sons and Dargye’s father on the family farm in rural Tibet. With government quotas on family size recently imposed, Drolkar visits the health clinic for condoms (which are later mistaken for balloons by her mischievous boys). Meanwhile, Drolkar’s sister bumps into her...
October 22, 2019
THE BANKER
DescriptionBiosDescription World Premiere Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) has always been a fast learner who is fascinated by numbers. Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) is a shrewd business owner with money to invest. Both are confident about taking a risk and starting a real estate empire. The problem: it’s the 1950s and being black entrepreneurs does...
October 22, 2019
BALLOON
DescriptionContactDescription Talent attending: Christina Cha (Producer), Jeremy Merrifield (Director), Michael James Scott (Executive Producer) The only way Sam knows how to survive junior high is to stay under the radar. But that’s impossible after Jason picks a fight with him and it quickly becomes the school’s next viral video. His only friend pressures him to...
October 22, 2019
AZIZA
DescriptionBiosDescription A dynamic take on the life of Syrian refugees told through black comedy. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 2 Bios Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director, born in France. She studied theater criticism at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria and filmmaking at Saint Joseph University (IESAV) Lebanon. Her films have screened internationally...
October 22, 2019
BACURAU
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Talent attending: Udo Kier (Talent) In this outrageous, transgressive thriller, Brazilian auteur Kleber Mendonça Filho teams with longtime collaborator Juliano Dornelles in a decidedly unconventional approach to genre cinema. A sci-fi western and modern colonialist critique, BACURAU takes place in the not-so-distant future in a remote Brazilian village whose inhabitants have come together for...
October 22, 2019
BABYTEETH
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Much to her parents’ dismay, 15-year-old Milla falls for Moses, a quirky, smalltime drug dealer at a train station. Their relationship blooms quickly despite Milla’s rapid decline in health, igniting in her a new fervor for life. Milla continues loving with reckless abandon and fearlessly pushes the boundaries of the people in her life,...
