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| ARTIST IN RESIDENCE | DARK WAVE | DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION | FAMILY SCREENINGS | FORD AMPHITHEATRE | FREE SCREENINGS | FUTURE FILMMAKERS SHOWCASE | GALAS | GEORGE LUCAS SELECTIONS | GUILTY PLEASURES INTERNATIONAL SHOWCASE | MUSIC VIDEO SHOWCASE | NARRATIVE COMPETITION | SHORTS | SPECIAL SCREENINGS | SPOTLIGHT: ISRAEL | SUMMER PREVIEWS | TRIBUTE SCREENINGS |
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| Recalling the work of Jean-Pierre Melville and Samuel Fuller, Gela Babluani’s debut is a fantastically gritty and lean slice of neo-noir where a young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in a underground world of power, violence, and chance. |
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The Aura
Director/Writer: Fabián Bielinsky
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| Aura Fabián Bielinsky In this moody thriller from the director of Nine Queens, an epileptic taxidermist stumbles upon the opportunity to commit the perfect crime. |
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Babooska
Directors/Writers: Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
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| Directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel take an episodic, revealing journey through a year in the life of a contemporary Italian circus performer and her family’s traveling big top show. |
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| The paths of three people cross as they search for the same mysterious man. With echoes of Antonioni's L'Avventura, Before Born employs provocative character doublings, role reversals and disappearances to weave a mesmerizing study of isolation. |
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| Alexander Hacke, a member of the seminal German band Einstürzende Neubaten, and director Fatih Akin explore the vibrant, genre-defying music scene in Istanbul and the extraordinary personalities who create it. |
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Gradually...
Director:Maziar Miri
Writer: Parviz Shahbazi |
| This provocative film tells the powerful and hopeful story of a man’s quest to locate his missing wife and to survive the harsh stigmas his community attributes to her disappearance. |
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| In this quietly beautiful film, single mom Cui Shunji sells illegal kimchi and struggles to adapt as best she can to her difficult circumstances, but nothing could prepare her for what lies ahead. |
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| Real-life mother and daughter Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres star in this spectacularly photographed fable about three generations of women who yearn to escape their isolated existence in the Brazilian desert. |
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| Chronicling the daily life of Aimie, a young Korean immigrant who lives with her mother in the suburbs, this stunningly beautiful film offers a passionate study of cultural adaptation and adolescent longing. |
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Kinetta
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Writers: Giorgos Kakanakis, Yorgos Lanthimos
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| In a Greek seaside town a cop, a photographer and a hotel maid reenact a series of recent murders with obsessive attention to detail. Mysterious yet highly compelling, Kinetta explores darker aspects of human desire and obsession. |
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Lucy
Director: Henner Winckler
Writers: Henner Winckler, Stefan Kriekhaus
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| Maggy is the mother of an infant daughter, but she’s also an ordinary high school-aged girl with little clear idea of what she wants and even less of how to get it. Presented with deceptive simplicity, Lucy is a stunning portrait of a woman on the cusp of maturity. |
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Molly's Way
Director: Emily Atef
Writers: Emily Atef, Esther Bernstorff
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| An Irish woman travels to a depressed Polish town in search of the man with whom she’d had a one-night stand in Emily Atef’s perceptive story of loss and self-discovery. |
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| Writer-director Ali Zamani Esmati coaxes touching performances from his extremely young cast in this case of a young Iranian girl searching for a stolen cassette player. |
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Our Daily Bread
Director: Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Writers: Wolfgang Widerhofer, Nikolaus Geyrhalter
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| Otherworldly images and surrealist landscapes of peppers, apples and soft, yellow chicks by the hundreds make Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s sparse, near-silent documentary a riviting visual tour through food-manufacturing factories. |
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The Gacaca tribunals are an attempt to bring accountability and reconciliation to bear on the Rwandian genocide. But while the process has brought closure to some, it is far from perfect, as seen in this riveting documentary. |
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| Visiting his family at their beach house for Easter, a man introduces his free-spirited girlfriend, whose passions threaten the household’s tenuous ties. |
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Sisters in Law
Directors: Kim Longinotto, Florence Ayisi
Writer: Kim Longinotto |
In a coutroom in the tiny town of Kumba, Cameroon, the formidable Judge Beatrice Ntuba and prosecutor Vera Ngassa are crusaders for justice, righting the wrongs and proving that individuals can revolutionize an unjust system. |
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| In this humane and darkly humorous tale of three childhood friends wrestling with life’s disappointments, Monika is waiting for her boyfriend; Tonik is waiting, unrequited, for Monika; and Dashais just trying to keep it together. |
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Stranded
Director: Stuart McDonald
Writer: Kathleen O'Brien
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| Stranded tells the sweet and sordid story of Claudia, a world-weary seventeen year-old who attempts to flee her seriously dysfunctional family by camping out in her dead mother's car. |
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This poignant, compelling drama examines the strained relationship between a sensitive young man just beginning his mandatory Korean military service and a childhood friend who serves as his senior officer. |
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| Shamans and punching bags are the cornerstones of 17-year-old Nalla’s training in Cheikh Ndiaye's engaging film, set in the world of Senegalese wrestling, a traditional art that has become a national phenomenon. |
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