DISAPPEARANCE “Napadid Shodan”
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 88 min US Premiere Rising Iranian filmmaker Ali Asgari, whose short film THE SILENCE took home the Best Narrative Short Competition prize at HIFF 2016, returns to the festival with his mesmerizing feature debut. Set a …Directed by Ali Asgari
NARRATIVE COMPETITION AWARD WINNER
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature On Monday, October 9, we will screen the Narrative Competition Award winners, selected by our esteemed jury: the award-winning short will precede the award-winning feature film at 4:30pm.
OH, LUCY!
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 95 min US Premiere In this offbeat tale, OH LUCY! follows Setsuko Kawashima (Shinobu Terajima)—a lonely, chain-smoking introvert who is wasting away at her office job in Tokyo. Setsuko’s world is turned upside dow …Directed by Atsuko Hirayanagi
SUMMER 1993
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 96 min New York Premiere Following the death of her parents in Barcelona, six-year-old Frida (the haunting Laia Artigas) is sent to her uncle’s (David Verdaguer) picturesque countryside home, in Carla Simon’s autobiogra …Directed by Carla Simón
THOROUGHBREDS
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 91 min East Coast Premiere Two wealthy teenage girls with violent impulses seek to inject excitement into their boring suburban lives in THOROUGHBREDS, Cory Finley’s deliciously twisted filmmaking debut. When Lily’s (Anya …Directed by Cory Finley
UNDER THE TREE “Undir Trénu”
2017 Narrative Competition | narrative feature | 89 min East Coast Premiere “Love thy neighbor” does not apply in the Iceland suburbs of UNDER THE TREE. After his wife kicks him out of the house, Atli (Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson) stays with his parents—just as t …Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson
