March 7, 2019 – March 21, 2019
A Family Tour
Directed by Ying Liang
Based on director Ying Liang’s own story of political exile, A Family Tour follows Chinese-born dissident filmmaker Yang Shu (Nai …
Amateurs
Directed by Gabriela Pichler
In Pichler’s side-splitting and astute sophomore effort, the lightly fictional small town of Lafors, Sweden is potentially due for a …
Asako I & II
Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Hamaguchi’s feature filmmaking career started with a bang with 2015’s incredible Happy Hour, but his latest is no sophomore slump; …
Birds of Passage
Directed by Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
Veteran director Guerra (The Wind Journeys, Embrace of the Serpent) teams up with longtime partner Gallego (herself a veteran producer) …
Dogman
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Winner of the Best Actor award at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Matteo Garrone’s (Gomorrah) latest film tells the tale …
Fugue
Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska
Director Smoczynska takes a sharp left turn in her follow up to 2015’s The Lure, abandoning the singing, murderous mermaids …
I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History As Barbarians
Directed by Radu Jude
Director Jude has already delivered several well-regarded films, including Aferim! (2015) and Scarred Hearts (2016)—work remarkable for its clarity and …
Keep An Eye Out
Directed by Quentin Dupieux
After discovering a body outside his apartment complex one night, Louis (Grégoire Ludig) is brought into the local police station …
Long Day’s Journey into Night
Directed by Bi Gan
Bi Gan’s sophomore feature is a moody fragmented effort that shatters film noir tropes into a visually dark and spatially …
Redemption
Directed by Yossi Madmoni, Boaz Yehonatan Yacov
Madmoni and Yacov’s deeply emotional spiritual journey highlights the necessity of family and friends, even if that means painfully coming …
Sir
Directed by Rohena Gera
Shy domestic servant Ratna (Tillotama Shome), having moved to Mumbai from the countryside in search of opportunity, works for wealthy …
Stupid Young Heart
Directed by Selma Vilhunen
Kiira (Rosa Honkonen) is pretty, popular, the lead on the high school dance team, and long-time crush of goofy, scrawny …
Styx
Directed by Wolfgang Fischer
A self-assured doctor (Susanne Wolff) goes on a solo yachting trip in the Atlantic and discovers the limits of her …
Ten Years Thailand
Directed by Aditya Assarat, Wisit Sasanatieng, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The political realities of modern day Thailand are challenged in the four chapters of this omnibus presentation, inspired by the …
The Heiresses
Directed by Marcelo Martinessi
In a relationship for over 30 years, Chela (Ana Brun) and Chiquita (Margarita Irun) are settled into a comfortable domestic …
The River
Directed by Emir Baigazin
Five Kazakh brothers, ages five to 16, live with their parents on an extremely spare, dusty steppe in a house …
Too Late to Die Young
Directed by Dominga Sotomayor
In this angular, sun-faded coming-of-age drama, Sotomayor excavates a certain feeling of youth in a teenage girl on the verge …
Winter Flies
Directed by Olmo Omerzu
The Slovenian-born Omerzu’s third feature is a charming and deceptively simple comic road movie following two teenage boys as they …
Woman at War
Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson
In Erlingsson’s confident follow up to his 2013 debut Of Horses and Men (PIFF 37), Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir (Metalhead) stars as …