There’s the fall festival season, which is represented by Venice, Telluride, TIFF and New York, but the first part of the year is also slammed with back-to-back fests. Sundance has wrapped, Berlin kicks off soon and next month comes SXSW, and today they’ve unveiled their full feature lineup.
In addition to previously announced titles like Richard Linklater‘s "Everybody Wants Some" and Jeff Nichols‘ "Midnight Special," there’s some interesting fare coming. After a not so great reception at TIFF, Jake Gyllenhaal‘s "Demolition" will go to Texas, and following Berlin, John Michael McDonagh will bring "War On Everyone." There will also be World Premieres of new films by Mike Birbiglia ("Don’t Think Twice") and Ti West ("In A Valley Of Violence").
Check it out all out below. SXSW runs from March 11-19.
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NARRATIVE FEATURE
COMPETITION
Ten
world premieres; ten unique ways to celebrate the art of storytelling. Selected
from 1,442 narrative feature submissions in
2016.
The Arbalest
Director/Screenwriter:
Adam Pinney
The
inventor of the world’s greatest toy reflects on his decade-long obsession with
a woman who hates him. Cast: Mike Brune,
Tallie Medel (World Premiere)
Before The Sun Explodes
Director:
Debra Eisenstadt, Screenwriters: Debra Eisenstadt, Zeke Farrow
After
his wife kicks him out, an anxious comedian is lured in by an intriguing woman
with a stalker. Cast: Bill Dawes, Sarah
Butler, Christine Woods, Michael Rivkin, Amir Arison, Kerri Safran, Anna
Margaret Hollyman, Gene Serritella, Kristin Slaysman, Eric Fillipkowski (World
Premiere)
Claire in Motion
Directors/Screenwriters:
Lisa Robinson, Annie J. Howell
Claire
is sure of herself, her work and family, until — like a bad dream — her husband
disappears, leaving a trail of puzzling secrets that shatter her certainty. Cast: Betsy Brandt, Chris Beetem, Zev
Haworth, Anna Margaret Hollyman, Sakina Jaffrey (World Premiere)
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collective:unconscious
Directors:
collective:unconscious (Lily Baldwin, Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone,
Josephine Decker, Lauren Wolkstein), Screenwriters: Jamal Batts, Lily Baldwin,
Frances Bodomo, Daniel Patrick Carbone, Mariama Diallo, Lauren Wolkstein, Dan Schoenbrun (Concept By)
Five
of independent film’s most adventurous filmmakers adapt each other’s dreams for
the screen. This is going to get strange… Cast:
Frank Mosley, Will Blomker, Lily Baldwin, Tonya Pinkins, Daniel Ryan, Ryan
Cassata, Sanda Weigl, MJ Frank, Samuel John Damon, Jamal Batts (World
Premiere)
Donald Cried
Director:
Kris Avedisian, Screenwriters: Kris Avedisian, Kyle Espeleta, Jesse Wakeman
Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters
childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns
into a long van ride into two friends past. Cast:
Kris Avedisian, Jesse Wakeman, Louisa Krause (World Premiere)
Hunter Gatherer
Director/Screenwriter:
Josh Locy
After
a three-year stint in prison, an unreasonably optimistic middle-aged man
returns to his stagnant neighborhood to win back his girlfriend only to find
that she and his family have done what they always wanted to do – forget he
exists. Cast: Andre Royo, George Sample
III, Kellee Stewart, Ashley Wilkerson, Kevin Jackson, Antonio D. Charity,
Celestial, Alexis DeLaRosa, Jeanetta Arnette (World Premiere)
Miss Stevens
Director:
Julia Hart, Screenwriters: Julia Hart, Jordan Horowitz
Stuck
at a crossroads in her personal life, it falls on Miss Stevens to chaperone
three of her students — Billy, Margot and Sam — on a weekend trip to a drama
competition. Cast: Lily Rabe, Timotheé
Chalamet, Lili Reinhart, Anthony Quintal, Rob Huebel, Oscar Nuñez (World
Premiere)
The Other Half (Canada)
Director/Screenwriter:
Joey Klein
A
grief-stricken man and a bipolar woman fall in love and try to forge a simple
life together. Cast: Tom Cullen, Tatiana
Maslany, Suzanne Clement, Henry Czerny, Mark Rendall, Deragh Campbell, Nancy
Palk (World Premiere)
A Stray
Director/Screenwriter:
Musa Syeed
Trying
to outrun his bad luck, a young Muslim refugee in Minneapolis seems like he
just might make it — until he crosses paths with a stray dog. Cast: Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Ahmed ,
Christina Baldwin, Ayla, Fathia Absie, Jamaal “Happy Khalif” Farah, Abdullahi
Haji-Mohamed, Ifrah Mansour, Rhiana Yazzie, George McCauley (World
Premiere)
Transpecos
Director:
Greg Kwedar, Screenwriters: Greg Kwedar, Clint Bentley
For
three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot
within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives. Cast: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton
Collins, Jr. (World Premiere)
Narrative
Feature Jury: Lindsay Bahr, Associated Press; Richard
Brody, New Yorker; and Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
COMPETITION
Ten
world premieres: ten real world stories that demonstrate innovation, energy and
bold voices. Selected from 1,013 feature
documentary submissions in 2016.
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race
& America
Director:
Matt Ornstein
Daryl
Davis has an unusual hobby. As a musician he has played with legends like Chuck
Berry and Little Richard, but in his spare time he likes to meet and befriend
members of the Ku Klux Klan. Join Daryl on his personal quest to understand
racism. (World Premiere)
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Alive and Kicking
Director/Screenwriter:
Susan Glatzer
Alive
and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insider’s view into the culture of
the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern
American society. (World Premiere)
Best and Most Beautiful Things
Director:
Garrett Zevgetis
In
a celebration of outcasts everywhere, a precocious young blind woman disappears
into quirky obsessions and isolation. With humor and bold curiosity, she chases
love and freedom in the most unexpected of places: a provocative fringe
community. (World Premiere)
Goodnight Brooklyn – The Story of Death
By Audio
Director:
Matthew Conboy
Death
By Audio, an underground art and music venue, is forced to close in 2014. The
film focuses on the struggles of maintaining a community in the face of
Brooklyn property development, hostile construction workers and a one
billion-dollar company. (World Premiere)
The Liberators
Director:
Cassie Hay
A
tiny Texas town. $350 million worth of medieval treasure. The discovery is just
the beginning. (World Premiere)
Orange Sunshine
Director/Screenwriter:
William A. Kirkley
The
never-before-told story of the Brotherhood of Eternal Love – a spiritual group
of surfers and hippies in California who became the largest suppliers of LSD
and Hash in the world during the 60’s and 70’s. (World Premiere)
Ovarian Psycos
Directors:
Joanna Sokolowski, Kate Trumbull-LaValle
In
East Los Angeles, three young misfit women find solace in an unapologetic,
feminist bicycle crew. They call themselves the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade.
(World Premiere)
The Seer
Director:
Laura Dunn
The Seer is a cinematic
portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the
changing landscapes of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture and
the redemptive beauty in taking the unworn path. (World Premiere)
The Space in Between — Marina Abramovic
and Brazil
(Brazil)
Director:
Marco Del Fiol, Screenwriters: Marco Del Fiol, Marina Abramovic, Fabiana
Werneck Barcinski
In
search of personal healing and artistic inspiration, Marina Abramovic travels
through Brazil experiencing sacred rituals and exploring the limits between art
and spirituality. How far will she go to create another work of art? (World
Premiere)
TOWER
Director:
Keith Maitland
An
animated and action-packed look at America’s first mass school shooting, when
the worst in one man brought out the best in so many others. (World Premiere)
Documentary
Feature Jury: David Edelstein, New York Magazine; Jen
Yamato,The Daily Beast; and Stephanie Zacharek, Time Magazine
HEADLINERS
Demolition
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee, Screenwriter: Bryan Sipe
Davis (Jake Gyllenhaal), a successful investment banker,
struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis
(North American Premiere)
Don’t Think Twice
Director/Screenwriter: Mike Birbiglia
An improv group loses the lease on their home theater at the
same time that one of their cast members gets chosen for the biggest sketch
comedy show on TV. Cast: Keegan-Michael
Key, Gillian Jacobs, Mike Birbiglia, Kate Micucci, Tami Sagher, Chris Gethard
(World Premiere)
Everybody Wants Some
Director/Screenwriter: Richard Linklater
In Richard Linklater’s anticipated “spiritual sequel” to Dazed and Confused, a group of college
friends navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of the
wild final weekend of the summer of 1980. Cast:
Will Brittain, Zoey Deutch, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Blake Jenner, J.
Quinton Johnson, Glen Powell, Wyatt Russell (World Premiere)
Hardcore Henry (Russian
Federation)
Director/Screenwriter: Ilya Naishuller
An unflinchingly original, first-person action film where YOU
are the main character, Henry. Resurrected from death with no memory by your
wife, your mission is find her, solve the mystery of your existence and
discover the truth behind your identity. Cast:
Sharlto Copley, Danila Kozlovsky, Haley Bennett, Andrey Dementyev, Dasha
Charusha, Sveta Ustinova (U.S. Premiere)
In A Valley of Violence
Director/Screenwriter: Ti West
From Blumhouse, the film tells the story of a drifter named Paul
who arrives in a small town, seeking revenge on the thugs who murdered his
friend. Sisters Mary Anne and Ellen who run the town’s hotel, help Paul in his
quest for vengeance. Cast: Ethan Hawke,
Taissa Farmiga, James Ransone, Karen Gillan, John Travolta (World Premiere)
Midnight Special
Director/Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols
A father goes on the run to protect his young son and uncover
the truth behind the boy’s special powers in writer/director Jeff Nichols’
sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, a
film as supernatural as it is intimately human. Cast: Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver,
Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard (North American Premiere)
Pee-wee’s Big Holiday
Director: John Lee, Screenwriters: Paul Reubens, Paul Rust
In Pee-wee’s Big Holiday,
a fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take
his first-ever holiday in this epic story of friendship and destiny. Cast: Paul Reubens, Joe Manganiello, Jessica
Pohly, Alia Shawkat, Stephanie Beatriz (World Premiere)
Tony Robbins: I Am Not
Your Guru
Director: Joe Berlinger
Granted unprecedented access, Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru captures renowned life and
business strategist Tony Robbins behind the scenes of his mega seminar Date
with Destiny, pulling back the curtain on this life-altering and controversial
event (World Premiere)
NARRATIVE SPOTLIGHT
9 Rides
Director/Screenwriter:
Matthew A. Cherry
An
Uber driver gets life changing news on the busiest night of the year. Cast: Dorian Missick, Omar Dorsey, Robinne
Lee, Xosha Roquemore, Amin Joseph, Skye P. Marshall, Thomas Q. Jones, Tracie
Thoms, Aasha Davis, Sujata Day (World Premiere)
Another Evil
Director/Screenwriter:
Carson D. Mell
After
encountering a ghost in his family’s vacation home, Dan and his wife Mary hire
an "industrial-grade exorcist" named Os to get rid of the beings. Cast: Steve Zissis, Mark Proksch, Jennifer
Irwin, Dax Flame, Steve Little, Dan Bakkedahl (World Premiere)
BLACK (Belgium)
Directors:
Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah, Screenwriters: Nele Meirhaeghe, Adil El Arbi,
Bilall Fallah, Hans Herbots
Mavela,
15, is a Black Bronx. She falls madly in love with Marwan, a charismatic member
of a rival gang, the 1080s. The young couple is forced to make a brutal choice
between gang loyalty and the love they have for one another. An impossible
dilemma. Cast: Martha Canga Antonio,
Aboubakr Bensaihi (U.S. Premiere)
Black Mountain Poets (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter:
Jamie Adams
Two
professional con artist sisters go on the run and assume the identities of The
Wilding Sisters, guest stars of the a poetry retreat in the depths of the Black
Mountains. A romantic comedy drama about love, crime, spirituality and soul. Cast: Alice Lowe, Dolly Wells, Tom Cullen,
Rosa Robson, Richard Elis, Laura Patch, Roger Evans, Hannah Daniel, Ben
McGregor, Claire Cage (North American Premiere)
From Nowhere
Director:
Matthew Newton, Screenwriters: Matthew Newton, Kate Ballen
Three
undocumented Bronx teenagers are graduating from high school while navigating
the treacherous waters of trying to get their papers to stay in the US. Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Denis O’Hare, J.
Mallory McCree, Octavia Chavez-Richmond, Chinasa Oghuagu, Raquel Castro,
Tashiana Washington, Sydni Boudin, Jim Norton, Portia Johnson (World
Premiere)
I Am Not A Serial Killer (Ireland, United
Kingdom)
Director:
Billy O’Brien, Screenwriters: Billy O’Brien, Chris Hyde
In
a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt
down and destroy a supernatural killer whilst keeping his own inner demons at
bay. Cast: Max Records, Christopher
Lloyd, Laura Fraser, Karl Geary (World Premiere)
Jean of the Joneses (Canada, United
States)
Director/Screenwriter:
Stella Meghie
Chaos
ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their
doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tries to win over
acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a
boil at the funeral. Cast: Taylour Paige,
Sherri Shepherd, Gloria Reuben, Michelle Hurst, Erica Ash, Mamoudou Athie,
Francois Arnaud, Demore Barnes, Anna Hopkins (World Premiere)
Long Nights Short Mornings
Director/Screenwriter:
Chadd Harbold
An
examination of the romantic life of a young man in New York City and his
sometimes fleeting, sometimes profound experiences with the women he
encounters. Cast: Shiloh Fernandez, Ella
Rae Peck, Paten Hughes, Layla Koshnoudi, Christine Evangelista, Cassandra
Freeman, Helen Rogers, Stella Maeve, Natalia Dyer, Ebonee Noel, Addison Timlin
(World Premiere)
The Master Cleanse
Director/Screenwriter:
Bobby Miller
Down,
out and heartbroken, Paul attends a spiritual retreat to cleanse himself and
fix his broken life but soon discovers that the cleanse releases more than
everyday toxins… a lot more. Cast: Johnny
Galecki, Anna Friel, Kyle Gallner, Diana Bang, Kevin J. O’Conner, Oliver Platt,
Anjelica Huston (World Premiere)
My Blind Brother
Director/Screenwriter:
Sophie Goodhart
Love
for the same woman causes conflict between an over-achieving blind athlete and
the brother who made him that way. Cast:
Adam Scott, Nick Kroll, Jenny Slate, Zoe Kazan, Charlie Hewson, Maryann Nagel,
Greg Violand (World Premiere)
Rainbow Time
Director/Screenwriter:
Linas Phillips
A
developmentally delayed 40-year-old man named Shonzi is sent to live with his
brother Todd. But when Shonzi developes a crush on Todd’s new girlfriend
Lindsay, he threatens to reveal past secrets that could ultimately tear the
couple apart. Cast: Melanie Lynskey,
Linas Phillips, Timm Sharp, Tobin Bell, Lauren Weedman, Artemis Pebdani, Jay
Duplass, Reagan Yates, Austin Fryberger (World Premiere)
Shovel Buddies
Director:
Si&Ad, Screenwriter: Jason Mark Hellerman
After
the death of their best friend, Jimmy (Alex Neustaedter) enlists childhood
friend Dan (Kian Lawley), little brother Lump, and crush Kate (Bella Thorne) to
fulfill his last request. Cast: Bella
Thorne, Kian Lawley, Alex Neustaedter, Anton Starkman, Philip Labes, James C.
Burns, Jenny Cooper (World Premiere)
Slash
Director/Screenwriter:
Clay Liford
Neil
is a questioning teen who secretly writes erotic fan fiction about popular
sci-fi characters. When his classmate Julia discovers his writing, she leads
him down a rabbit hole deep into the world of ‘slash’ fiction. Cast: Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks,
Michael Ian Black, Missi Pyle, Jessie Ennis, Peter Vack, Sarah Ramos, Robert
Longstreet, Tishuan Scott, Lucas Neff (World Premiere)
Suntan (Greece)
Director:
Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Screenwriters: Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Syllas
Tzoumerkas
On
a hedonistic Greek island, a local doctor becomes obsessed with a young female
tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard-partying friends. Cast: Efthymis Papadimitriou, Elli Triggou,
Dimi Hart, Hara Kotsali (North American Premiere)
The Trust
Directors:
Ben Brewer, Alex Brewer, Screenwriters: Ben Brewer, Adam Hirsch
Two
corrupt Las Vegas police officers plan to rob a large stash that they find in
connection to a local drug operation. Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood, Sky Ferreira, Jerry Lewis (World Premiere)
The Waiting
Director:
Kasra Farahani, Screenwriters: Mark Bianculi, Jeff Richard
Two
high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an
unsuspecting neighbor. Cast: James Caan,
Logan Miller, Keir Gilchrist, Laura Innes, Edwin Hodge, Bailey Boble, Lili
Reinhart, Anne Dudek, Mindy Sterling, Tamlyn Tomita (World Premiere)
War On Everyone (United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter:
John Michael McDonagh
Two
corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal
unfortunate enough to cross their path in this volatile jet-black action
comedy. Cast: Michael Peña, Alexander
Skarsgård, Theo James, Tessa Thompson (North American Premiere)
DOCUMENTARY SPOTLIGHT
Asperger’s Are Us
Director: Alex Lehmann
In this coming of age
documentary, four friends on the autism spectrum whom have bonded through humor
and performed as the comedy troupe Asperger’s
Are Us will prepare for one final, ambitious show before going their
separate ways. (World Premiere)
The Bandit
Director: Jesse Moss
The Bandit is a film about
70s superstar Burt Reynolds, his best friend, roommate and stunt-double Hal
Needham, and the making of their unlikely smash-hit Smokey & The Bandit. (World Premiere)
Beware the Slenderman
Director: Irene Taylor
Brodsky
Beware the Slenderman tells the story of a Boogeyman lurking on the internet
and two 12-year-old girls who would kill for him. A horrifyingly modern
tragedy, this film explores children’s accountability in the online age. (World
Premiere)
Chicken People
Director: Nicole Lucas
Haimes
In a high stakes world
where a single broken feather can mean a shattered dream, Chicken People follows the trials and tribulations of those who
breed exotic birds in the world of competitive poultry. (World Premiere)
The Dwarvenaut
Director: Josh Bishop
The Dwarvenaut is a dreamlike documentary chronicling Brooklyn-based
artist Stefan Pokorny’s lifelong quest to inspire humanity through the one
medium he knows best: Dungeons & Dragons. (World Premiere)
Fantastic Lies
Director: Marina Zenovich
Ten years after the Duke
Lacrosse case exploded into the national media, we revisit the case which divided
America and explore how it affected the lives of those involved. (World
Premiere)
Hit it Hard
Directors: Gabe Spitzer,
David Terry Fine
Hitting it hard is the only
way John Daly knows. It’s how he plays golf. It’s how he lives life. After 25
years of extreme highs and devastating lows, this film explores why Daly has
remained one of America’s most beloved athletes. (World Premiere)
The Hollywood Shorties
Director/Screenwriter: Ryan
Steven Green
In 1980s Los Angeles, a
professional dwarf basketball team composed of recognizable-but-typecast actors
finds itself the unwitting vanguard of a revolution to represent little people
as something other than objects of curiosity. (World Premiere)
The Incomparable Rose Hartman
Director: Otis Mass
With a career spanning
decades Photographer Rose Hartman is known for her iconic photos from Studio 54
and the fashion world, her boisterous personality and ever presence capturing
the New York social scene. (World Premiere)
Insatiable: The Homaro Cantu Story
Director: Brett A. Schwartz
Chef and inventor Homaro
Cantu helped put Chicago on the culinary map and wanted to change the world. Insatiable takes you on a dizzying and
thrilling ride with Cantu, in a story that moves from redemption and
inspiration to tragedy and back again. (World Premiere)
Learning To See
Director: Jake Oelman
One man’s transformational
journey to find the Amazon’s strangest creatures. (World Premiere)
Mr. Gaga (Israel)
Director/Screenwriter:
Tomer Heymann
Mr. Gaga tells the story of
Ohad Naharin, renowned choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva
Dance Company, an artistic genius who redefined the language of modern dance.
(North American Premiere)
Seven Songs for a Long Life (United Kingdom)
Director: Amy Hardie
The intimate story behind
our changing relationship with death – with great songs! (North American Premiere)
Silicon Cowboys
Director: Jason Cohen,
Screenwriters: Steven Leckart, Jason Cohen
Three friends dream up a
portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon battle IBM, the world’s
most powerful tech company, for PC supremacy. Compaq Computer’s improbable
journey altered the future of computing and shaped the world we now know.
(World Premiere)
The Slippers (Canada)
Director: Morgan White,
Screenwriters: Derek Lageunesse, Morgan White
The Slippers pulls back the Wizards curtain the unbelievable story of
Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers from The Wizard of Oz, and their impact on popular
culture, and the now multi-million dollar a year industry of Hollywood
memorabilia collecting. (World Premiere)
Starving the Beast: The Battle to Disrupt and Reform
America’s Public Universities
Director/Screenwriter:
Steve Mims
The story of money, power
and politics and the well organized, yet little noticed, efforts to radically
disrupt and reform America’s public universities. (World Premiere)
Thank You Del: The Story of the Del Close Marathon
Director: Todd Bieber
Fifteen years after Del
Close’s death, thousands of comedians (both famous and unknown) gather to
celebrate modern comedy’s most important person that no one knows. (World
Premiere)
VISIONS
The Alchemist Cookbook
Director: Joel Potrykus
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in
the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic
attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes
something far more sinister and dangerous. Cast:
Ty Hickson, Amari Cheatom (World Premiere)
American Fable
Director/Screenwriter: Anne Hamilton
When an 11-year-old girl named Gitty discovers that her father
is holding hostage a wealthy man on their family’s remote farm, she chooses to
dive into a dark and magical world in this Midwestern-set, fairytale thriller. Cast: Kip Pardue, Peyton Kennedy, Gavin
MacIntosh, Rusty Schwimmer, Zuleikha Robinson, Marci Miller, Richard Schiff
(World Premiere)
Baby Bump (Poland)
Director/Screenwriter: Kuba Czekaj
Growing up is not for kids. Cast:
Kacper Olszewski, Agnieszka Podsiadlik (U.S. Premiere)
I Am Belfast (United
Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Mark Cousins
A visual, poetic depiction of Belfast and its citizens, told
with love and passion by someone who has left the city many years ago but is
still fascinated by it. (North American Premiere)
In Pursuit of Silence
Director: Patrick Shen
In Pursuit of Silence is a
meditative film that explores our relationship with silence, sound, and the
impact of noise on our lives. (North American Premiere)
Jules and Dolores (Brazil)
Director: Caito Ortiz, Screenwriters: Lusa Silvestre, Caíto
Ortiz
Jules and Dolores is a pop
comedy about the theft of the World Cup Trophy that occurred in Brazil in 1983.
Curiously enough, nobody truly knows the details surrounding this unbelievable
event, until now. Cast: Paulo
Tiefenthaler, Taís Araujo, Danilo Grangheia, Milhem Cortaz, Fabio Marcoff,
Pedro Wagner, Álvaro Diniz, Thelmo Fernandes, Otto Jr (World Premiere)
KARAOKE CRAZIES (Korea,
Republic of)
Director: Kim Sang Chan
Welcome to ADDICTION KARAOKE and let’s sing till the end! (World Premiere)
Little Sister
Director/Screenwriter: Zach Clark, Story by Zach Clark, Melodie
Sisk
A young nun returns home to visit her estranged family. Cast: Addison Timlin, Ally Sheedy, Keith
Poulson, Peter Hedges, Kristin Slaysman, Molly Plunk, Barbara Crampton
(World Premiere)
LOEV (India)
Director/Screenwriter: Sudhanshu Saria
A weekend trip between friends takes a sudden turn, making them
each examine what love is and what it means to them. Cast: Shiv Pandit, Dhruv Ganesh, Siddharth Menon (North American
Premiere)
My Beautiful Broken Brain (United
Kingdom)
Directors: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland
Her brain is broken. Her mind is limitless. A film about a young
woman’s cerebral hemorrhage with outcomes no one could have predicted. (North
American Premiere)
Operator
Director: Logan Kibens, Screenwriters: Sharon Greene, Logan
Kibens
JOE, a programmer and obsessive self-quantifier, and EMILY, a
budding comedy performer, are happily married until they decide to use one
another in their work. Operator is a
dark comedy about love, technology, and what can’t be programmed. Cast: Martin Starr, Mae Whitman, Nat Faxon,
Cameron Esposito, Retta, Christine Lahti, Kate Cobb, Kristopher Lofton, Tim
Hopper, Trevor Dawkins (World Premiere)
Spaceship (United
Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Alex Taylor
A girl fakes her own alien abduction and disappears, leaving her
father to search for her in a strange teenage world of unicorns and black
holes. Cast: Antti Reini, Alexa Davies,
Lara Peake, Lucian Charles Collier, Tallulah Haddon, Steven Elder, Jack
Winthrop, Kristof Gerega, Harry Jarvis (World Premiere)
Teenage Cocktail
Director: John Carchietta, Screenwriters: John Carchietta, Sage
Bannick, Chris Sivertson, Amelia Yokel (Story By)
Teenage Cocktail is the
story of how Annie and Jules fell in love and how it all got weird. Cast: Nichole Bloom, Fabianne Therese, Pat
Healy, Michelle Borth, Joshua Leonard, AJ Bowen (World Premiere)
Under the Sun (Czech
Republic, Germany, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of, Latvia, Russian
Federation)
Director: Vitaly Mansky
“My father says that Korea is the most beautiful country,"
says schoolgirl Zin-mi. Despite continuous interference by government handlers,
Under The Sun reveals a
never-before-seen glimpse of one family’s life in North Korea. (North American
Premiere)
EPISODICS
Outcast
Director: Adam Wingard,
Screenwriter: Robert Kirkman, Showrunner: Chris Black
Outcast, based on the Skybound/Image comic title by creator
Robert Kirkman and artist Paul Azaceta, follows Kyle Barnes, a young man who
has been plagued by demonic possession all his life. Cast: Patrick Fugit, Philip Glenister, Wrenn Schmidt, Reg E. Cathey,
David Denman (World Premiere)
Preacher
Directors: Seth Rogen, Evan
Goldberg, Screenwriter: Sam Catlin
Preacher is a supernatural, twisted and darkly comedic drama that
follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who – along with his
ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy – is thrust into a
crazy world, much bigger than he is. Cast:
Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Colletti, W. Earl Brown, Lucy
Griffiths (World Premiere)
Search Party
Directors/Screenwriters:
Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers
Search Party is a dark comedy about four self-absorbed
twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former
college acquaintance suddenly disappears. Cast:
Alia Shawkat, John Early, John Reynolds, Meredith Hagner (World Premiere)
Vice Principals
Directors: Jody Hill, David
Gordon Green, Screenwriters: Danny McBride, Jody Hill
A dark comedy series that
tells the story of a high school and the two people who almost run it, the vice
principals, who are engaged in an epic power struggle for the top spot. Cast: Danny McBride, Walton Goggins,
Kimberly Herbert Gregory, Georgia King, Busy Philipps, Shea Whigham, Sheaun
McKinney (World Premiere)
You Me Her
Director/Screenwriter: John
Scott Shepherd
You Me Her is a poly-romantic half hour series that merges Billy
Mernit’s classic Romantic Comedy Structure with the style and tone of a Woody
Allen film in a dynamic love story unlike anything we’ve ever seen before on
television. Cast: Greg Poehler, Rachel
Blanchard, Priscilla Faia, Jarod Joseph, Melanie Papaila (World Premiere)
24 BEATS PER SECOND
The American Epic Sessions
Director:
Bernard MacMahon, Screenwriters: Allison McGourty, Bernard MacMahon
On
the 90th anniversary of the first electrical sound recordings, twenty of
today’s greatest artists test their skills against the lost recording machine
that first gave America her voice.
And Punching the Clown
Director:
Gregori Viens, Screenwriters: Henry Phillips, Gregori Viens
Comedian
Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his
story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry
must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a living, or be the butt of
them. Cast: Henry Phillips, Sarah
Silverman, Tig Notaro, J.K. Simmons, Jim Jefferies, Ellen Ratner, Mike Judge,
Mark Cohan, Clifton Collins (World Premiere)
The Art of Organized Noize
Director:
Quincy ‘QD3’ Jones, III
Screenwriter: Joshua A. Krause
Organized
Noize shaped the landscape of Hip Hop music with a distinct sound created in
the confines of a dungeon. They’re responsible for the careers of Outkast,
CeeLo, Goodie Mob and the Dungeon Family. This is the story of the Art of
Organized. (World Premiere)
Artist & Repertoire (United Kingdom)
Director:
Matthew Jones
A
pulsating documentary charting the extraordinary life and career of underground
DJ icon, music producer and global trip hop mogul, James Lavelle. Starring DJ
Shadow, 3D of Massive Attack, Futura, Ian Brown, Grandmaster Flash and Josh
Homme. (World Premiere)
BANG! The Bert Berns Story
Directors:
Brett Berns, Bob Sarles
Music
meets the Mob in this biographical documentary about the meteoric career and
tragic life of Bert Berns, the most important ’60s songwriter that you never
heard of. His hits include Twist & Shout, Hang On Sloopy, and Piece Of My
Heart. (World Premiere)
Born To Be Blue (Canada, United
Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter:
Robert Budreau
Ethan
Hawke lights up the screen as jazz legend and icon of cool, Chet Baker, whose
comeback from heroin addiction is thrillingly told with wit, verve, and style
to burn. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo,
Callum Keith Rennie, Tony Nappo, Stephen McHattie, Janet-Laine Green, Dan Lett,
Kedar Brown, Kevin Hanchard, Tony Nardi
Gary Numan: Android In La La Land (United Kingdom)
Directors:
Steve Read, Rob Alexander
The
Godfather of electronic music is on a one-way trip to crack America, returning
to the studio for the first time in nearly a decade. Android is a celebration
of a music-making pioneer and the love story that helped him turn his life
around. (World Premiere)
Honky Tonk Heaven: Legend of the Broken
Spoke
Directors:
Sam Wainwright Douglas, Brenda Greene Mitchell
The
Broken Spoke has hosted country greats like George Strait, Willie Nelson,
Ernest Tubb, Bob Wills, George Jones and Roy Acuff. A profile of “the last of
the true Texas dance halls” and the tenacious family keeping it alive amid
rapid urban growth. (World Premiere)
I Go Back Home – Jimmy Scott (Germany, United
States)
Director:
Yoon-ha Chang
In
I go back home – Jimmy Scott we meet
54 year old Ralf Kemper, a successful German music producer. He takes on the
journey to produce a record with the almost forgotten jazz icon Jimmy Scott.
(World Premiere)
Miles Ahead
Director:
Don Cheadle, Screenwriters: Don Cheadle, Steven Baigelman
Inspired
by events in his life, Miles Ahead is
a wildly entertaining, impressionistic, no-holds barred portrait of one of 20th
century music’s creative geniuses, Miles Davis. Cast: Don Cheadle, Ewan McGregor, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Lakeith Lee
Stanfield, Michael Stuhlbarg
Miss Sharon Jones!
Director:
Barbara Kopple
Dreams
never expire, but sometimes they are deferred. Miss Sharon Jones! tracks the talented and gregarious soul singer
of the Grammy-nominated R&B band Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings during
the most challenging year of her life.
A Song For You: The Austin City Limits
Story
Director:
Keith Maitland
From
Willie Nelson to Wilco, Ray Charles to Radiohead, A Song For You: The Austin City Limits Story offers the ultimate
backstage pass to 40 years of incredible music from the longest running music
show in television history. (World Premiere)
Soundbreaking – Stories from the Cutting
Edge of Recorded Music
Directors:
Jeff Dupre, Maro Chermayeff
An
eight-part series that explores the nexus of cutting-edge technology and human
artistry that has created the soundtrack of our lives. (World Premiere)
The Smart Studios Story
Director:
Wendy Schneider
From
the outside Smart Studios looked like just another Midwestern warehouse left
behind by the economic decline of the 1980s. No one could have guessed what was
going on inside – and how it would soon change the sound of music forever.
(World Premiere)
We Are X (United Kingdom,
United States)
Director:
Stephen Kijak
X
Japan led a hard rock cultural revolution in Japan during the late 80’s. Twenty
years after their tragedy-fueled collapse, We
Are X tells the story of the most influential band in the world that you’ve
never heard of…yet.
SXGLOBAL
BODKIN RAS (Belgium, Netherlands,
United Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Kaweh Modiri
The people in Forres don’t work. Between
9 and 5 they dissolve into the pubs, where the light shines as a warm glow in
their midst. Then the stranger Bodkin arrives into town. He has come to this
remote corner of Europe to hide and lay low. Cast: Sohrab Bayat, Lily Szramko, Eddie Paton, James Macmillan
(North American Premiere)
Dead Slow Ahead (Spain)
Director: Mauro Herce, Screenwriters:
Mauro Herce, Manuel Muñoz
A freighter crosses the ocean. The
hypnotic rhythm of its gears reveals the continuous movement of machinery
devouring its workers: the last gestures of the old sailors’ trade disappearing
under the mechanic pace of 21st century. (U.S. Premiere)
Ghostland (Denmark, Germany,
Italy, Namibia, Switzerland)
Director: Simon Stadler
For the first time the Ju/Hoansi Bushmen
travel through the Kalahari and then right into the heart of Europe. What
starts as a look at their fascinating culture becomes an even more fascinating
look on our Western lifestyle. (North American Premiere)
kill me please (Brazil)
Director: Anita Rocha Da Silveira
After an encounter with death, she will
do anything to make sure she’s alive. (U.S. Premiere)
Papagajka (Australia, United
Kingdom)
Director/Screenwriter: Emma Rozanski
A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and
barges into Damir’s reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life.
She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence. Cast: Adnan Omerovic, Susanna Cappellaro,
Tina Kerserovic, Sabina Mrgan, Don Guido (World Premiere)
UIO: Take me for a Ride (Colombia, Ecuador,
Mexico)
Director: Micaela Rueda, Screenwriter:
Micaela Rueda
How do you deal with being ‘different‘? Cast: Samanta Caicedo, María Juliana Rángel,
Diego Naranjo, Paty Loor, Monserrat Astudillo, Miranda Zepeda, Anne Dominque
Correa, Domenica Blanco, Ana Belén Bermeo (World Premiere)
YARN (Iceland)
Directors: Una Lorenzen, Thordur Jonsson,
Heather Millard, Screenwriters: Krishan Arora, Barbara Kingsolver
International artists and knitters take a simple
skein of yarn to create their extraordinary ideas and stories. (World Premiere)
