Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash – Sweetgrass Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Ilisa Barbash International Cinema, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Documentary This spare documentary follows a group of shepherds as they guide hundreds of sheep through endless miles of Montana wilderness. Herding the livestock through the Beartooth Mountains, the crew covers...
Amat Escalante – Heli Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Heli is a young man working at a car factory, who doesn’t know that his 12-year-old sister Estela is in love with Beto, her cadet 17-year old boyfriend. The two decide to elope, and Beto gives...
Amat Escalante – Los Bastardos Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature A sharp and heart-rending view of the lives of illegal Mexican workers in the USA, who reach the pick-up point everyday in Los Angeles for yet another day of ill-paid labor. Jesus and Fausto are two...
Amat Escalante – Revolucion / The Hanging Priest Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Revolucion is a cinema project created in honor of 100 years of the Mexican revolution. Ten directors joined together for the project, among them Escalante and Reygadas, and directed each a short...
Amat Escalante – Sangre (Blood) Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature The daily life of Diego and Blanca, described in great detail and precision, includes sitting together on the couch watching soap operas, having sex and Diego’s silence in view of Blanca’s...
Amat Escalante – The Untamed Amat Escalante Amat Escalante, International Cinema Feature Alexandra and Angel have a family with two children, but their relationship hides a secret. They take their son, who is suffering from allergy to chocolate, for treatment at Fabian’s, an uncle...
Dyana Gaye – Saint Louis Blues Dyana Gaye Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature A surprising cinema musical that became a hit world-wide. A battered cab makes its way on a journey that crosses Senegal from Dakar to Saint Louis, its passengers singing their life stories....
Dyana Gaye – Short Films Collection Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature Dyana Gaye’s short films have won great acclaim around the world, and several have been commercially distributed - unprecedented for short films. Each film deals with her main cinematic themes of...
Dyana Gaye – Under The Starry Sky Dyana Gaye Dyana Gaye, International Cinema Feature Between Turin, Dakar, and New York - Sophie, Abdoulaye and Thierno’s three destinies cross paths and echo one another, delineating a contemporary picture of life in exile. Sophie, 24 years old,...
Lisandro Alonso – Fantasma Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Fantasma offers a refreshing interpretation of the strict theatricality of premieres in the cinema itself. Vargas, the protagonist of Alonso's previous film, Los Muertos (2004), stars in this film as...
Lisandro Alonso – Freedom Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature This film closely follows the daily routine of Misael, a woodchopper living in the remote Pampas region of Argentina. The movie plays out as a kind of poetic meditation pondering Michael’s...
Lisandro Alonso – Jauja Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature A remote military outpost in Patagonia, 1882, the "Desert Conquest" war - a heroic term for the genocidal campaign against the region’s native population. Captain Gunnar Dinesen (played by Viggo...
Lisandro Alonso – Liverpool Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Farrell, an ascetic sailor who has lived on cargo ships for twenty years, asks the ship's captain to go ashore to visit his mother. Like Ulysses, Farrell returns to his homeland after many years at...
Lisandro Alonso – Los Muertos Lisandro Alonso International Cinema, Lisandro Alonso Feature Vargas, a 50-something man, leaves prison in Corrientes, Argentina. Once he is freed, he is determined to find his daughter, now a grown woman, who lives in a remote area surrounded by swamps. To get...
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel – Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel International Cinema, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Documentary In the very waters where Melville's pequod gave chase to Moby Dick, leviathan captures the collaborative clash of man, nature, and machine. shot on a dozen cameras - tossed and tethered, passed from...
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel – Somniloquies Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel International Cinema, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Documentary Songwriter Dion McGregor became famous in the 1960s for narrating his dreams in his sleep. His flatmate recorded him doing so. In their new film Somniloquies, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena...
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Ashes and Blood Fanny Ardant International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see her family for years, Judith, in spite of her...
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Free Hands Brigitte Sy International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Barbara is a filmmaker who has been working in the prison environment for a few years now. She is preparing a film written and directed by long-term inmates in a prison in the projects around Paris....
Ronit Elkabetz International Focus – Turk’s Head Pascal Elbé International Cinema, Ronit Elkabetz International Cinema Focus Feature Several lives are changed after a teenager from a rough suburb throws a Molotov cocktail on a car, sending the doctor who was in it in a...
Special Screenings – Asghar Farhadi – The Salesman Asghar Farhadi International Cinema, Special Screenings Feature While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized...
Verena Pareva, J.P. Sniadecki – Foreign Parts Verena Pareva, J.P. Sniadecki International Cinema, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel Documentary A hidden enclave in the shadow of the New York Mets' new stadium, the neighborhood of Willets Point is an industrial zone fated for demolition. Filled with scrapyards and auto salvage shops, lacking...
