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Lions and Viola
99% - The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Audrey Ewell, Aaron Aites, Lucian Read, Nina Kristic)
The Occupy movement erupted in September 2011, propelling economic inequality into the spotlight. In an unprecedented collaboration, filmmakers across America tell its story, digging into big picture issues as organisers, analysts, participants and critics reveal how it happened and why.
La Antena (The Aerial)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2007; Director: Esteban Sapir; Writer: Esteban Sapir; Stars: Valeria Bertuccelli, Alejandro Urdapilleta, Julieta Cardinali, Rafael Ferro, Raúl Hochman, Ricardo Merkin, Sol Moreno, Gustavo Pastorini, Carlos Piñeiro, Florencia Raggi), Official Site
Dystopian fairytale about a 'city without a voice'.
After Tiller
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Martha Shane, Lana Wilson)
A look at the work of late term abortion providers in the US.
Any Day Now
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Travis Fine; Writer: George Arthur Bloom, Travis Fine; Stars: Alan Cumming, Garret Dillahunt, Isaac Leyva, Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry, Jamie Anne Allman, Chris Mulkey, Don Franklin, Kelli Williams, Alan Rachins, Mindy Sterling, Miracle Laurie, Michael Nouri, Jeffrey Pierce, Anne O'Shea)
A gay couple fight for the right to look after a Down's Syndrome teenager.
Beyond The Grave
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro)
In a world struck by some unspecified disaster, a vengeful police officer is hunting a possessed killer. With the dead walking the earth, and the living that remain almost as dangerous, the Officer picks up two teenagers, Nina and The Shooter, and hits the road.
La Antena and Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic
Blackfish
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Gabriela Cowperthwaite)
The plight of killer whales in captivity.
Burn It Up Djassa
(Country: Cote d'Ivoire, France; Year: 2012; Director: Lonesome Solo; Stars: Abdoul Karim Konaté, Adelaïde Ouattara, Mamadou Diomandé, Souleymane Bamba)
A story of life, dance and poetry in the Wassakara slum just before the outbreak of war.
Colors (Cores)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2012; Director: Francisco Garcia; Writer: Francisco Garcia, Gabriel Campos; Stars: Maria Célia Camargo, Graça De Andrade, Pedro di Pietro, Simone Iliesco)
A deadpan comedy about a tattoo artist, drug dealer and tropical fish store worker who dream of escape.
Die Welt
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2013; Director: Alex Pitstra; Writer: Thijs Gloger, Alex Pitstra, Abdallah Rezgui; Stars: Abdelhamid Nawara, Ilse Heus, Judith Van der Meulen, Mohsen Ben Hassen, Rahma Ben Hassen, Marwa Agrebi, Slim Al Amiri, Houcem Al Bib, Brahim Ben Ammar, Mehdi Ben Amor, Ons Bahri, Mariem Bedoui, Mohammed Hassine Belkhala, Kamel Ben Khalfa, Abdelmajid Bibasse)
Fiction/documentary hybrid, depicting Tunisia shortly after the 2011 Jasmine revolution.
Extraordinary Stories
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2008; Director: Mariano Llinás)
An adventure in storytelling, secret identities, missing persons, lost treasures, exotic beasts and desperate criminals.
Lovelace and Any Day Now
Frances Ha
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig; Stars: Greta Gerwig, Mickey Sumner, Adam Driver, Michael Zegen, Patrick Heusinger, Teddy Cañez, Hannah Dunne, Grace Gummer, William Todd Levinson, Marina Squerciati, Finnerty Steeves)
Lightning-in-a-bottle, Noah Baumbach’s love poem to his star and co-writer Greta Gerwig recalls Godard’s early celebrations of Anna Karina, but, as a New York movie, it’s beautiful in a brand new way.
Generation Um
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Mark Mann)
Stealing a video camera and recording the sights and sounds of the city almost at random, a lonely man turns the camera on others and on himself as he shares an unexpectedly intimate evening with two self destructive party girls he’s picked up along the way.
Halley
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2013; Director: Sebastian Hofmann; Writer: Sebastian Hofmann, Julio Chavezmontes; Stars: Alberto Trujillo, Lourdes Trueba, Hugo Albores)
Alberto is dead and can no longer hide it. Before surrendering to his living death, he forms an unusual friendship with Luly, the manager of the 24-hour gym where he works as a night guard.
Inch'Allah
(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2012; Director: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette; Stars: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Yousef Sweid, Sivan Levy, Carlo Brandt)
A French Canadian doctor commutes between Israel and the West Bank, bringing an outsider's perspectiveto two very different worlds.
Kuro
(Country: Japan; Year: 2012; Director: Daisuke Shimote)
Three people with nothing in common except the experience of a recent trauma in their lives, decide to leave Tokyo and live together in a deserted inn by the sea.
Blackfish and Frances Ha
Lions (Leones)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Jazmín López; Writer: Jazmín López; Stars: Macarena del Corro, Tomas Mackinlay, Pablo Sigal, Diego Vegezzi, Julia Volpato)
Five young people are lost in a forest - and perhaps in time itself.
Lovelace
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman; Writer: Andy Bellin; Stars: Amanda Seyfried, Peter Sarsgaard, Hank Azaria, Adam Brody, James Franco, Sharon Stone)
The story of Deep Throat star Linda Lovelace.
Richard Pryor: Omit The Logic
(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Marina Zenovich; Writer: Peter Morgan)
Profile of the stand-up comedian.
Viola
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2012; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: María Villar, Romina Paula, Agustina Muñoz, Elisa Carricajo, Esteban Bigliardi)
The lines between fiction and reality blur for an all-female Shakespeare troupe.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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