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- 15 Corners of the World (dir. Zuzanna Solakiewicz) (Poland)
Imagine the sound that can be touched and seen by each of us. You can see unknown corners of the world. Just let your eyes follow your ears. - The Avian Kind (dir. Shin Yeon-Shick) (South Korea)
A novelist’s search for his wife, who disappeared from view 15 years ago. - The Ceremony (dir. Lina Mannheimer) (Sweden)
France’s most famous dominatrix, two close friends and two lovers share their innermost thoughts about love, friendship, dominance and submission – as we meet the unusual and fascinating author Catherine Robbe-Grillet and her inner circle. - Free Entry (dir. Yvonne Kerékgyártó) (Hungary)
Free Entry is an adventurous journey to adulthood as two 16-year-old girls risk their first steps towards independence, in different ways at the biggest international summer festival of Hungary. - Good Things Await (dir. Phie Ambo) (Denmark)
Niels is one of the last idealistic farmers in the agricultural country of Denmark. But Niels’ ways of farming in accordance with the planets and the primal instincts of the animals are not too popular with the authorities. - Invasion (dir. Abner Benaim)
Invasion documents the US military siege of Panama that ousted dictator Noriega 25 years ago while wreaking untold collateral damage. It sets out to shatter the willful amnesia of a country all too eager to bury its troubled past. - Limbo (dir. Anna Sofie Hartmann) (Germany)
A small town on the outskirts of Denmark. Two women – a teenage girl and her schoolteacher – build a strange connection that transforms both of them. A subtle, beautiful, personal film on the state of youth and the uncertainty of being. - Monte Adentro (dir. Nicolás Macario Alonso) (Colombia/Argentina)
Monte Adentro explores the universe of one of the last muleteer families in Colombia and follows the lives and mule train of two brothers as they get together for an epic mule driving journey to the highest peaks of the Andes.
Festival Favorites
- Adult Beginners (dir. Ross Katz)
Out of a job after a disastrous product launch, a big-city yuppie retreats to his suburban childhood home, in this heart-warming and hilarious film about crashing hard, coming home and waking up. - Being Evel (dir. Daniel Junge)
Millions know the man; few know his story. Academy Award-winning director Daniel Junge and producer Johnny Knoxville take a candid look at American daredevil Evel Knievel, while reflecting on our voracious public appetite for heroes and spectacle. - Best of Enemies (dir. Morgan Neville, Robert Gordon)
Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex. - City of Gold (dir. Laura Gabbert)
City of Gold is a documentary portrait that takes us into Jonathan Gold’s universe to tell the improbable story of a revolution inspired by the pen, but driven by the palate. - Entertainment (dir. Rick Alverson)
En route to meet his estranged daughter and attempt to revive his dwindling career, a broken, aging comedian plays a string of dead-end shows in the Mojave desert. - Finders Keepers (dir. Bryan Carberry, Clay Tweel)
Finders Keepers follows recovering addict and amputee John Wood in his stranger-than-fiction battle to reclaim his mummified leg from Southern entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant, who found it in a grill he bought at an auction. - Heaven Knows What (dir. Joshua Safdie, Benny Safdie)
The latest from acclaimed sibling directors Josh and Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs) blends fiction, formalism and raw documentary as it follows a young heroin addict who finds mad love in the streets of New York. - The Last Man on the Moon (dir. Mark Craig)
One man’s part in mankind’s greatest adventure… - The Look of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
Director Joshua Oppenheimer’s follow-up to the earth-shattering, Academy Award® nominated The Act of Killing. - Lost River (dir. Ryan Gosling)
A family tries to hold on to their home in the ruins of a disappearing city. - Ned Rifle (dir. Hal Hartley)
Ned Rifle is the third and final chapter of Hal Hartley’s tragicomic epic begun with Henry Fool (1998) and continued with Fay Grim (2007). In this swiftly paced and expansive conclusion, Henry and Fay’s son, Ned, sets out to find and kill his father. - The Overnight (dir. Patrick Brice)
Two families meet at the park and set up a playdate that has unexpected outcomes for all. - Results (dir. Andrew Bujalski)
A take on self improvement culture in America – with all it’s promise and absurdity – stuffed into a peculiar romantic comedy. - Salt of the Earth (dir. Wim Wenders, Juliano Riberio Salgado)
For the last 40 years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, which is a tribute to the planet’s beauty. - Unexpected (dir. Kris Swanberg)
An inner-city high school teacher discovers she is pregnant at the same time as one of her most promising students and the two develop an unlikely friendship while struggling to navigate their unexpected pregnancies. - The Visit (dir. Michael Madsen)
This film documents an event that has never taken place – man’s first encounter with intelligent life from space. - Welcome to Leith (dir. Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
A white supremacist attempts to take over a small town in North Dakota. - Western (dir. Bill Ross, Turner Ross)
For generations, all that distinguished Eagle Pass, Texas, from Piedras Negras, Mexico, was the Rio Grande. But when darkness descends upon these harmonious border towns, a cowboy and lawman face a new reality that threatens their way of life.
Special Events
- 7 Days In Hell (dir. Jake Szymanski)
A fictional documentary-style expose on the rivalry between two tennis stars who battled it out in a 1999 match that lasted seven days. - Doug Benson & Master Pancake interrupt Leprechaun 3 (1995) (dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith)
“The directness with which this movie went to video is apparent in nearly every single element.” Tim Brayton, Antagony and Ecstasy. - Jonathan Demme Presents Made In Texas (dir. Louis Black, Mark Rance)
The restoration of six films made in Austin in the early 1980s including David Boone’s Invasion of the Aluminum People. The program was originally curated by Jonathan Demme and presented at the Collective for Living Cinema in NYC. - The Road Warrior (dir. George Miller)
In the post-apocalypse future, where humans fight over the few remaining stores of gasoline, Mad Max offers to drive a tanker through a gauntlet of psychos to safety on the coast. Special Q&A to follow with George Miller. - A Space Program (dir. Van Neistat)
The artist Tom Sachs and his team of bricoleurs build a handmade space program and send two female astronauts to Mars. - Trainwreck (Work in Progress) (dir. Judd Apatow)
Blockbuster filmmaker Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, This Is 40) directs Universal Pictures’ Trainwreck, starring breakout comedic actress Amy Schumer (Inside Amy Schumer). - Vertical Cinema (dir. Sonic Acts)
Vertical Cinema is a series of ten newly commissioned large-scale works by experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists, which are presented on 35mm celluloid and projected vertically with a custom-built projector.
