March 7, 2019 – March 21, 2019
Djon África
Directed by João Miller Guerra, Filipa Reis
Co-scripted by Pedro Pinho (The Nothing Factory, PIFF 41), this intensely colorful and alive fiction debut by documentarians Guerra and …
An Elephant Sitting Still
Directed by Hu Bo
A student of Hungarian master Béla Tarr, Hu Bo completed this stunning debut feature at age 29 before taking his …
Blind Spot
Directed by Tuva Novotny
Making her feature debut with this immersive single-take family drama, actress-turned-director Novotny delivers one of the year’s most emotionally gripping …
The Chambermaid
Directed by Lila Avilés
Set entirely inside an opulent, one-percenter Mexico City high-rise hotel, Avilés’ stunning debut follows Eve (Gabriela Cartol), a maid working …
A Family Submerged
Directed by Maria Alché
Argentinian actress Maria Alché (Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl) steps behind the camera with the sensitively-pitched A Family Submerged, one …
Chained for Life
Directed by Aaron Schimberg
A conventionally beautiful actress Mabel (Jess Weixler) finds herself starring in a misguided, independent film production alongside a collection of …
Crystal Swan
Directed by Darya Zhuk
With a shock of dyed hair and a wildly colored wardrobe to match, 20-something Velya (a breakout role for relative …
Dead Pigs
Directed by Cathy Yan
Yan’s playful, compulsively entertaining debut brings several storylines together around an ecological crisis in a mid-sized Chinese city outside Shanghai. …
Jessica Forever
Directed by Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
Up-and-coming filmmakers Poggi and Vinel bring us a video-game-influenced, hyper-stylized blast. Led by the mysterious Jessica (Aomi Muyock), a pack …
One Day
Directed by Zsófia Szilágyi
A day (and a half) in the life of a married middle-class mother of three adolescents with a husband and …
Rafiki
Directed by Wanuri Kahiu
A star-crossed love story between two young women, Kena (Samantha Muatsia) and Zika (Sheila Munyiva), whose fathers are political adversaries …
Ray & Liz
Directed by Richard Billingham
Known for his unflinchingly intimate portraits of his family, fine art photographer Billingham turns in one of the year’s most …
The Dead and the Others
Directed by João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora
Directors Salaviza and Messora spent several years living and working with the indigenous Krahô people in Tocantins, a northern Brazil …
The Load
Directed by Ognjen Glavonic
Opening on a gray landscape in Bosnia are distant explosions from NATO airstrikes, setting the scene for this quietly piercing …