Category: Film Festival 2021 – Filmmaker Conversations

Shiva Baby (2020) | June 6

College student Danielle must cover her tracks when she unexpectedly runs into her sugar daddy at a shiva – with her parents, ex-girlfriend and family friends also in attendance. – JustWatch.com

Director: Emma Seligman

Cast: Rachel Sennott, Molly Gordon, Polly Draper, Danny Deferrari, Fred Melamed, Dianna Agron, Glynis Bell, Sondra James, Deborah Offner

Country: United States

Distributor: Utopia

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 18 minutes

Platform: Video-on-Demand

Special Events: Closing Night, Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Marona’s Fantastic Tale (2020) | June 6

Marona, an innocent and empathetic little female dog, remembers the life she has shared with different masters, whom she has loved unconditionally. – JustWatch.com

Director: Anca Damian

Cast: Lizzie Brocheré, Bruno Salomone, Thierry Hancisse, Nathalie Boutefeu, Shirelle Mai-Yvart, Maïra Schmitt, Georges Claisse

Country: France

Distributor: GKIDS

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 32 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

Special Programming: Family Films

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Lingua Franca (2020) | June 5

Olivia, an undocumented Filipina immigrant paranoid about deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY. When the man she’s secretly paying for a green card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s a trans woman. – JustWatch.com

Director: Isabel Sandoval

Cast: Isabel Sandoval, Lynn Cohen, Eamon Farren, Ivory Aquino, Lev Gorn, P.J. Boudousqué, Andrea Leigh, Leif Steinert, Roman Blat

Country: United States

Distributor: ARRAY Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Events: Filmmaker Retrospectives, Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

The Other Lamb (2020) | June 4

A girl born into an all-female cult led by a man in their compound begins to question his teachings and her own reality. – IMDb.com

Director: Małgorzata Szumowska

Cast: Michiel Huisman, Raffey Cassidy, Denise Gough, Eve Connolly, Kelly Campbell, Isabelle Connolly, Charlotte Moore, Zara Devlin

Country: Ireland

Distributor: IFC Midnight

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes

Platform: Hulu

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Martin Eden (2019) | June 4

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class. – JustWatch.com

Director: Pietro Marcello

Cast: Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Elisabetta Valgoi, Pietro Ragusa, Carlo Cecchi

Country: Italy

Distributor: Kino Lorber

Rating: TV-PG

Runtime: 2 hours, 5 minutes

Platform: MUBI, Kanopy

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Falling (2020) | June 4

John Peterson lives with his partner Eric and their adopted daughter in Southern California. When he is visited by his aging father Willis from Los Angeles who is searching for a place to retire, their two very different worlds collide. – JustWatch.com

Director: Viggo Mortensen

Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Lance Henriksen, Sverrir Gudnason, Laura Linney, Hannah Gross, Terry Chen, David Cronenberg, Paul Gross

Country: Canada

Distributor: Quiver Distribution

Rating: R

Runtime: 1 hour, 52 minutes

Platform: Hoopla

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Girls of the Sun (2018) | June 4

Bahar, the commanding officer of the Daughters of the Sun, a battalion made up entirely of Kurdish female soldiers, is on the cusp of liberating their town, which has been overrun by ISIS extremists. – JustWatch.com

Director: Eva Husson

Cast: Golshifteh Farahani, Emmanuelle Bercot, Zübeyde Bulut, Behi Djanati Atai, Evin Ahmad, Erol Afsin, Arabi Ghibeh

Country: France

Distributor: Cohen Media Group

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 51 minutes

Platform: Prime Video

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Beginning (2020) | June 3

In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles. Yana’s inner discontent grows as she struggles to make sense of her desires. – JustWatch.com

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili

Cast: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Saba Gogichaishvil, Giorgi Tsereteli, Ia Kokiashvili

Country: Georgia

Distributor: MUBI

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hours, 6 minutes

Platform: MUBI

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations

Shook (2020) | June 2

When Mia, a social media star, becomes the target of an online terror campaign, she has to solve a series of games to prevent people she cares about from getting murdered. But is it real. Or is it just a game at her expense. – IMDb.com

Director: Jennifer Harrington

Cast: Daisye Tutor, Emily Goss, Nicola Posener, Octavius J. Johnson, Grant Rosenmeyer, Stephanie Simbari, Joy Gohring

Country: United States

Distributor: Shudder

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes

Platform: Shudder

Special Programming: Midnight Movies

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Filmmaker Conversations

Residue (2020) | June 2

A young filmmaker returns home after many years away, to write a script about his childhood, only to find his neighborhood unrecognizable and his childhood friends scattered to the wind. – JustWatch.com

Director: Merawi Gerima

Cast: Obinna Nwachukwu, Dennis Lindsey, Taline Stewart, Derron “Rizo” Scott, Jacari Dye, Julian Selman, Tyree Wormley

Country: United States

Distributor: ARRAY Releasing

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Platform: Netflix

Special Events: Filmmaker Conversations

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Filmmaker Conversations