“I DO NOT CARE IF WE GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS BARBARIANS”
2018 World Cinema Narrative | narrative feature | 140 min US Premiere In the latest provocation from Romanian director Radu Jude, local theater director Mariana Marin (Ioana Iacob) prepares to stage a public recreation of the 1941 Odessa Massacre, an often-ignored eth …Directed by Radu Jude
11/8/16
2017 Documentary Competition | documentary feature | 104 min World Premiere On the day of the 2016 presidential election, filmmaker Jeff Deutchman surveys the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Americans as they head to the ballot box. Told in brief vignettes from across the …Directed by Duane Andersen, Yung Chang, Garth Donovan, Vikram Gandhi, Raul Gasteazoro, Jamie Goncalves, Andrew Beck Grace, Alma Har'el, Daniel Junge, Alison Klayman, Ciara Lacy, Martha Shane, Elaine McMillion Sheldon, Bassam Tariq, Don Argott, Sheena M. Joyce, Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker,, Curated and Produced by Jeff Deutchman,,Executive Produced by Dana O'Keefe
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2017 Shorts Program | documentary short | 16 min With the assistance of innovative technology, Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss ensures she will be able to tell her story forever.Directed by Davina Pardo
15: A QUINCEAÑERA STORY
2017 Shorts Program | documentary short | 26 min World Premiere With the help of her trans-madrinas (godmothers), fifteen-year-old Zoey prepares for her Quinceanera celebration the older women were never able to have themselves.Directed by Matthew O'Neill, Thalia Sodi
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2018 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 85 min New York Premiere In the years since his departure, twenty-something Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) has long since left behind the speed and politics of his small Texas hometown. Returning to his family for his first Ch …Directed by Yen Tan
ABOVE AND BEYOND: NASA’S JOURNEY TO TOMORROW
2018 Air, Land & Sea | documentary feature | 90 min On the eve of its 60th Anniversary, Academy Award®-nominated director Rory Kennedy charts the history of The National Aeronautics and Space Administration with a look at its myriad contributions to …Directed by Rory Kennedy
ABSENT
2017 Shorts Program | narrative short | 16 min World Premiere Wearily resigned to caring for her bedridden mother, Zola sees a fleeting chance to break free from this tedious routine when she runs into an old crush.Directed by Sudarshan Suresh
AFTER LOUIE
2017 Spotlight | narrative feature | 100 min New York Premiere Still reeling from survivor’s guilt in the years following the AIDS epidemic, NYC artist Sam (Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-nominated actor Alan Cumming) spends his days working on a seemingly never- …Directed by Vincent Gagliostro
AKEDA (THE BINDING)
2018 Shorts Program | narrative short | 18 min New York Premiere The humanity of a young orphan boy is tested when a film director encourages him to give a violent performance that blends fiction with reality.Directed by Dan Bronfeld
ALL GOOD “ALLES IST GUT”
2018 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 93 min US Premiere When an encounter at her school reunion ends in an non-consensual sexual encounter, Janne’s immediate response is to use the same rationale that has driven much of her adult life: “If you don’ …Directed by Eva Trobisch
ALL INCLUSIVE
2018 Short Films | documentary short | 10 min US Premiere A surreal and satirical observation of a cruise holiday, where every last minute is scheduled with nonstop “fun.”Directed by Corina Schwingruber Ilić
Anatomy of a Scene: GET OUT
2017 A Conversation With | panels and events | 60 min The 25th Anniversary will host a special event for Universal Pictures’ breakout hit GET OUT, from writer/director/producer Jordan Peele. The critically acclaimed speculative thriller tells the st …
AND BREATHE NORMALLY
2018 Conflict & Resolution | narrative feature | 95 min New York Premiere The disparate paths of a struggling Icelandic single mother and an asylum-seeking Guinea-Bissauan woman interweave in Ísold Uggadóttir’s (Screenwriters Lab 2015) award-winning first feature. Th …Directed by Ísold Uggadóttir
ARRHYTHMIA “Aritmiya”
2017 World Cinema | narrative feature | 116 min US Premiere ARRHYTHMIA, Boris Khlebnikov’s explosive portrait of a fractured marriage, follows the young, gifted paramedic Oleg (Alexander Yatsenko) and his wife Katya (Irina Gorbacheva), who works as a nurse …Directed by Boris Khlebnikov
AS SHADOWS
2018 Shorts Program | narrative short | 15 min World Premiere An encounter with two strangers at a late-night diner prompts a stranded cult member to consider her future.Directed by Alexis Vail
ASK FOR JANE
2018 World Cinema Narrative | narrative feature | 108 min World Premiere Between 1969 and 1973, The Jane Collective operated underground in Chicago, helping over 11,000 women receive safe, illegal abortions throughout the metropolitan area, learning and performing the pr …Directed by Rachel Carey
BATHTUBS OVER BROADWAY
2018 Special Screenings | documentary feature | 87 min As a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman, Steve Young waded through thousands of record bins in search of quirky albums to showcase on the recurring segment “Dave’s Record Collection. …Directed by Dava Whisenant
BEAUTIFUL BOY
2018 Spotlight | narrative feature | 111 min East Coast Premiere Adapted from father and son David and Nic Sheff’s best-selling memoirs, HIFF alum Felix van Groeningen (THE MISFORTUNATES, HIFF 2009 and THE BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN, HIFF 2013) chronicles the stru …Directed by Felix van Groeningen
BEN IS BACK
2018 Spotlight | narrative feature | 103 min US Premiere On Christmas Eve, the Burns family is stunned by the unexpected arrival of their son Ben (Academy Award® nominee Lucas Hedges), returning home for the first time after entering rehab for opioid add …Directed by Peter Hedges
THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM
2018 World Cinema Documentary | documentary feature | 91 min East Coast Premiere In 2011, documentary filmmaker John Chester and his wife, professional chef Molly Chester, made a life-altering decision: the couple left their jobs to move to a patch of land north of Los Angeles a …Directed by John Chester
BILBY
2018 Shorts Program | narrative short | 8 min East Coast Premiere Out in the dangerous Australian desert, a lonesome Bilby reluctantly takes responsibility of a helpless baby bird.Directed by Liron Topaz, Pierre Perifel, JP Sans
BIRDLIME
2017 Shorts Program | narrative short | 11 min An exotic bird struggles to adapt to his new life in captivity.Directed by Evan DeRushie
BIRDS OF PASSAGE “Pájaros de Verano”
2018 World Cinema Narrative | narrative feature | 125 min New York Premiere In the follow-up to his visually stunning foreign language Oscar®-nominated EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (HIFF 2015), director Ciro Guerra depicts a single Colombian family who find themselves increasing …Directed by Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra
BLACK LINE “Ligne noire”
2018 Air, Land & Sea | documentary short | 11 min East Coast Premiere Ignoring the warnings broadcasted throughout her community, a woman defiantly drags a fishing net through the murky river.Directed by Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi
BLACK MOTHER
2018 Views From Long Island | documentary feature | 77 min Filmmaker, photographer, and Long Island resident Khalik Allah’s second feature is, much like his debut film FIELD N*****, a mesmerizing documentary portrait. Allah casts his lens on two dissonant …Directed by Khalik Allah
