October 22, 2019
16 DECEMBER
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Saturday. Nightfall. The ball travels quickly across the court as the players move to take advantage of gaps in the defense. Lucía, twenty-five years old, leaves handball training and sets off to pick up her brother under the lights of a city she thinks she knows. Part of SHORTS PROGRAM 4 Bios Alvaro Gago...
October 16, 2019
WORMWOOD
DescriptionBiosContactDescription A Tribute to Errol Morris. What made Dr. Frank Olson plunge out of a hotel window in 1953? Did he jump? Did he fall? Or is the truth darker and more complex than that? In WORMWOOD, master storyteller Errol Morris uses an array of filmmaking techniques to expose the dark history of the CIA’s...
October 16, 2019
THE WORKSHOP (L’ATELIER)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Palme d’Or-winning French filmmaker Laurent Cantet has never shied away from controversy or pushing boundaries, and his latest effort is no different. Parisian author Olivia leads a small writing workshop for teens, where she battles indifference, disruptive cell phones and raging hormones. But when a real threat rears its head, Olivia must find a...
October 16, 2019
WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY (HVA VIL FOLK SI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Sixteen-year-old Nisha lives a double life — the perfect Pakistani daughter to her strict parents, and a normal Norwegian teenager with her friends at school. One night when her father catches her and her boyfriend in her bedroom, Nisha’s two worlds brutally collide. Iram Haq’s sophomore feature is a powerful story of a young...
October 16, 2019
WINTER BROTHERS (VINTERBRØDRE)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Living in a remote, snowy area can have a profound effect on the psyche, and working as a miner in this landscape, loner Emil struggles to fit into his hyper-masculine environment. He appears strange and awkward next to his fit and popular brother Johan. When they’re not working, they’re making and selling moonshine, and...
October 16, 2019
WESTERN
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The provocatively titled WESTERN follows Meinhard, a stoic and terse man who begins work with a German construction crew on a site in the remote Bulgarian countryside. Cultural rifts between the rowdy German workers and their unwelcoming Bulgarian neighbors soon become flashpoints of macho hostility and violence, and Meinhard finds himself in the uneasy...
October 16, 2019
WALKING PAST THE FUTURE (LU GUO WEI LAI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Widespread factory layoffs in the post-industrial Chinese metropolis of Shenzen force the parents of Yang Yaoting (Yang Zishan) to retreat to their agricultural background in the northeastern province of Gansu. Once they arrive, her parents find they no longer own their land and that failing health has left them incapable of farm labor. Yaoting...
