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Lineup For 9th Annual BAMcinemaFest (Jun 14\u201425)<\/strong>Posted by Wilson Morales<\/p>\n

May 5, 2017<\/p>\n

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BAMcin\u00e9matek announces the full lineup for the ninth annual BAMcinemaFest (Jun 14\u201425)<\/strong>, hailed as \u201cThe New York film festival for independent films\u201d (The New Yorker<\/i>). A 12-day festival presenting premieres of emerging voices in American independent cinema, this year\u2019s lineup features 24 New York premieres, one North American premiere, and two world premieres. The Wall Street Journal <\/i>is proud once again to join BAMcinemaFest as the title sponsor.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of the program our team has put together,\u201d<\/strong> says Gina Duncan, Associate Vice President, Cinema. \u201cFrom the endearing comedy The Big Sick <\/i>to the micro-budget Princess Cyd <\/i>and Lemon<\/i>, the audacious first feature from Janicza Bravo, the line-up truly reflects the breadth of American independent cinema today. Other highlights include the world premiere of Jim McKay\u2019s, En el S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda <\/i>an instant classic all the more powerful for its relevance, Aaron Katz\u2019s sophisticated genre piece, Gemini<\/i>, Common Carrier<\/i>, a cinematic mixtape from the Bushwick based filmmaker, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, and for the first time, two features from the same filmmaker, Michael Almereyda\u2014Escapes <\/i>and Marjorie Prime<\/i>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 14 is the New York premiere of Aaron Katz\u2019s Gemini<\/i><\/b>. <\/i>Katz returns to BAMcinemaFest (Cold Weather<\/i>, BAMcinemaFest 2010) with this stylish, LA film noir starring Lola Kirke and Zo\u00eb Kravitz. Jill (Kirke) is the overly eager personal assistant to Heather (Kravitz), a young Hollywood ing\u00e9nue who\u2019s creating more enemies in Hollywood than friends. When Heather is found murdered, everyone is suspect and Jill scrambles to find out what happened before the blame falls on her. Gemini <\/i>is a NEON release.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s Closing Night selection is the New York premiere of Brooklyn filmmaker Alex Ross Perry\u2019s fifth feature, Golden Exits<\/i><\/b>. Golden Exits <\/i>is a keenly observed film relaying the story of a small circle of Brooklynites whose lives are upset by the arrival of a young Australian visitor (Emily Browning). The film also stars former Beastie Boy Adam Horowitz as well as an eclectic ensemble cast featuring Jason Schwartzman, Mary Louise Parker, and Chlo\u00eb Sevigny. Alex Ross Perry is a multiple BAMcinemaFest alum, having screened Color Wheel <\/i>at the 2012 festival and Queen of Earth <\/i>as the Centerpiece selection at the 2015 festival.<\/p>\n

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As this year\u2019s special Centerpiece selection, BAMcinemaFest is proud to announce the world premiere of Jim McKay\u2019s En el S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda<\/i><\/b>. McKay\u2019s first feature in over 15 years (during which time he\u2019s directed television shows including Breaking Bad<\/i>, The Wire<\/i>, The Americans, <\/i>and Mr. Robot<\/i>) was filmed entirely in Brooklyn. An affecting film that speaks humanely and pointedly to our country\u2019s current social climate by providing an important glimpse into an undocumented worker\u2019s daily struggles.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s free, outdoor screening is a special retrospective showing of Jim McKay\u2019s last feature film, Our Song <\/i><\/b>(2000). In McKay\u2019s nuanced depiction of female friendship, three best friends living in Crown Heights, Lanisha (Kerry Washington, in her film debut), Maria (Melissa Martinez), and Joycelyn (Anna<\/p>\n

Simpson) navigate teenage anxieties\u2014the closing of their high school, an unplanned pregnancy, and tumultuous family lives. Our Song <\/i>is an IFC Films release.<\/p>\n

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This year\u2019s Spotlight selections are Gillian Robespierre\u2019s Landline <\/i><\/b>and David Lowery\u2019s A Ghost Story<\/i><\/b>. Jenny Slate, John Turturro, and Edie Falco star in writer-director Gillian Robespierre\u2019s (Obvious Child<\/i>) new feature Landline<\/i>, an irreverent \u201890s-set comedy about sex, lies, and discord within a Manhattan family.<\/p>\n

Landline <\/i>is a Magnolia Pictures release. In A Ghost Story<\/i>, director David Lowery (Ain\u2019t Them Bodies Saints<\/i>) reteams with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in this hypnotic, existential drift through time and eternity. A Ghost Story <\/i>is an A24 release.<\/p>\n

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The BAMcinemaFest main slate includes the North American premiere of James Kienitz Wilkin\u2019s Common Carrier<\/i><\/b>, a documentary about the lives of artists in contemporary Brooklyn, and the world premiere of Alex\u00a0H. Fischer and Rachel Wolther\u2019s blissfully bonkers spectacle Snowy Bing Bongs<\/i><\/b>. This year\u2019s festival also includes a trio of essential-viewing social justice documentaries including Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous\u2019 The Work<\/i><\/b>, focusing on a four-day intense therapy session by and for maximum security inmates; Sabaah Folayan\u2019s Whose Streets?<\/i><\/b>, <\/i>a first-hand account of the protest movement in Ferguson following Michael Brown\u2019s death; and Peter Nick\u2019s The Force<\/i><\/b>, winner of this year\u2019s Sundance documentary prize for Best Director, which investigates the role of police enforcement in our lives through the lens of the Oakland PD.<\/p>\n

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Other documentary titles include Sundance\u2019s Documentary Grand Jury Prize winner Dina<\/i><\/b>, directed by Dan Sickles and Antonio Santini, as well as Michael Almereyda\u2019s Escapes <\/i><\/b>(and Almereyda\u2019s narrative, Marjorie Prime<\/i><\/b>) and Nanfu Wang\u2019s I Am Another You<\/i><\/b>, winner of the Special Jury Prize and Chicken and Egg awards at this year\u2019s SXSW film festival. Returning BAMcinemaFest alumni include Stephen Cone with Princess Cyd <\/i><\/b>(Henry Gamble\u2019s Birthday Party<\/i>, BAMcinemaFest 2015), Andrew Dosunmu with Where is Kyra? <\/i><\/b>(Mother of George<\/i>, BAMcinemaFest 2013) and Lauren Wolkstein (Collective Unconscious<\/i>, BAMcinemaFest 2016) and Christopher Radcliff with The Strange Ones<\/i><\/b>. Two, debut feature films from Cfest short-film alumni include Jennifer Reeder\u2019s Signature Move <\/i><\/b>and Janicza Bravo\u2019s Lemon<\/i><\/b>. <\/i>Other feature selections include the directorial debut from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Taylor Sheridan, Wind River<\/i><\/b>, Michael Showalter\u2019s The Big <\/i>Sick<\/b>, Jim Strouse\u2019s The Incredible Jessica James<\/i><\/b>, Alex Smith and Andrew Smith\u2019s Walking Out<\/i><\/b>, Kogonada\u2019s Columbus<\/i><\/b>, and Marianna Palka\u2019s Bitch<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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BAMcinemaFest announces nine short films, including seven New York premiere and three world premieres\u2014Tyler Rubenfeld\u2019s Innards<\/i><\/b>, Dane Mainella\u2019s Men, <\/i><\/b>and Jay Giampietro\u2019s Educators<\/i><\/b>. Innards <\/i>relays the story of a former child actor reconnecting with his twin brother, reminiscing on a film role they once shared. Innards <\/i>will screen with BAMcinemaFest feature and winner of the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at South By Southwest, Ana Asensio\u2019s Most Beautiful Island<\/i><\/b>. In the experiential documentary short Men, <\/i>the northeastern Pennsylvania woods are the setting for a weekend of partying for some young men. Educators <\/i>captures a darkly humorous conversation between two New York City teachers at a diner. Films making their New York premieres in this year\u2019s shorts program are Stephen Jacobson\u2019s Hardware<\/i><\/b>; Xander Robin\u2019s Lance Lizardi<\/i><\/b>; Agostina G\u00e1lvez and Francisco Lezama\u2019s <\/i>Dear <\/i>Renzo, <\/b>and Chloe Dumont\u2019s <\/i>documentary short All Good Things<\/i><\/b>. A collection of New York premiere shorts are paired with BAMcinemaFest features including Kevin Byrnes\u2019 documentary Harvest <\/i><\/b>screening with Matt Spicer\u2019s Ingrid Goes West<\/i><\/b>; and the documentary Have No Fear <\/i><\/b>by Beata Calinska and Sarah Jacobson\u2019s screening with Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous\u2019 The Work<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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\uf0b7 The Big Si<\/strong>ck (Michael Showalter) NY Premiere Narrative
\nComedian and Silicon Valley scene-stealer Kumail Nanjiani scores a brilliant big screen breakthrough as the co-writer (with Emily V. Gordon) and star of this hilarious and poignant romantic comedy based on his own life. When struggling Chicago standup Kumail (Nanjiani) meets grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan) they quickly spark. At first their romance seems threatened by his fear of disappointing his traditional Pakistani parents who want nothing more than for their son to settle down with a nice Muslim girl. But when fate throws the young couple a life-or-death curve ball, Kumail is forced to do some serious growing up. Working with director Michael Showalter and producers Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel. Nanjiani brings a fresh and personal perspective to this cross-cultural love story. An Amazon Studios\/Lions Gate Films release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Bitch <\/strong>(Marianna Palka) NY Premiere Narrative
\nA suburban family goes to the dogs\u2014literally\u2014in this savage feminist satire. Unappreciated by her four bratty kids and treated like garbage by her chauvinist husband Bill (Jason Ritter), tormented housewife Jill (Marianna Palka) has an epic breakdown from which she emerges as a snarling, feral canine. With mommy now under the delusion that she is a wild dog, all order breaks down and Bill is forced to either confront his toxic behavior or watch his family unravel. Blending pitch-black comedy with subversive social commentary, Bitch is a daring, provocative domestic horror show.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Columbus<\/strong> (Kogonada) NY Premiere Narrative
\nWhen his architecture expert father falls into a coma during a visit to Columbus, Indiana\u2014a small Midwest city renowned for modernist wonders designed by the likes of Eero Saarinen and I. M. Pei\u2014expat Jin (John Cho) flies in from Korea to be with him. He forms an unlikely friendship with Casey (Haley Lu Richardson), a bright young local who\u2019s dealing with another kind of sick parent, and the two find themselves opening up to one another in surprising ways. Making brilliant use of the emotional possibilities of architectural space, this formally exquisite debut by director-to-watch Kogonada is a mesmerizing work that\u2019s at once intellectually rigorous and warmly human.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Common Carri<\/strong>er (James N. Kienitz Wilkins) North American Premiere Documentary
\nThe quotidian dramas of various New York artists hover and collide in a digital haze in this experimental documentary from rising art star James N. Kienitz Wilkins. Through a dense layering of sound and images\u2014every shot is a superimposition and omnipresent radio broadcasts from WNYC and Hot 97 drift in and out\u2014Common Carrier creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of a screenwriter, an actor, an urban shaman, and the director himself, all contending with everyday annoyances like broken appliances, FedEx frustrations, and a sick parrot as they struggle to fulfill their creative tasks. The result is a heady, slyly witty look at the work of being an artist.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dina<\/strong> (Dan Sickles & Antonio Santini) NY Premiere Documentary
\nDina is an irrepressible, 49-year-old suburban Philadelphia resident who, despite an array of mental disabilities, has largely managed to live life on her own offbeat terms. Scott is a Walmart greeter whose Asperger\u2019s makes human connection a challenge. This touching, truly one-of-a-kind love story\u2014which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance\u2014follows the pair as they move in together, prepare to get married, and navigate the issues that intimacy poses for each of them. Propelled by its heroine\u2019s infectious optimism, Dina is a deeply affecting look at two people taking on life\u2019s obstacles in order to find their happy ending. The Orchard Release.<\/p>\n

En el S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda<\/strong> (Jim McKay) World Premiere Narrative
\nAcclaimed director Jim McKay\u2019s (Our Song, Girls Town) first feature in over a decade is this timely, compassionate, often humorous look at life in New York as an undocumented Mexican immigrant.
\nJos\u00e9 works long hours doing bicycle deliveries for a restaurant in Carroll Gardens and then spends his day off on the soccer fields of Sunset Park. When his team makes it to the championship, he and his teammates are thrilled. But Jose\u2019s boss throws a wrench into the celebration when he tells him he has to work on Sunday, the day of the finals. Knowing he\u2019ll be fired if he doesn\u2019t show up for work, Jose is forced to choose between his job and his loyalty to his team. Shot on the streets of Brooklyn, En el S\u00e9ptimo
\nD\u00eda vividly captures the everyday struggles and camaraderie that binds this community together in a universally relevant story of fortitude and dignity.<\/p>\n

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Escapes<\/strong> (Michael Almereyda) NY Premiere Documentary
\nAnyone who has kicked around Hollywood as long as Hampton Fancher is bound to have some good stories, and Michael Almereyda captures them in this wonderfully discursive deep dive into the life and career of an entertainment industry journeyman. Though best known for scripting Blade Runner, Fancher began as an actor in the late 1950s, appearing in numerous B movies, TV westerns, and cop shows throughout the \u201960s and \u201870s. Weaving together clips from Fancher\u2019s work with the star\u2019s own colorful anecdotes, Escapes (with executive producer Wes Anderson) is a retro-fantastic tour through mid-20th century pop culture as related by a singularly engaging raconteur. A Grasshopper release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\uf0b7 The Force<\/strong> (Peter Nicks) NY Premiere Documentary
\nThis gripping documentary takes viewers inside the troubled Oakland Police Department during a period of turmoil and upheaval. Filmed over the course of two years beginning in 2014, director Peter Nicks charts the shake-ups that ensue as an idealistic new police chief attempts to clean up the scandal-plagued department and restore community trust. But a series of police brutality incidents, the rise of Black Lives Matter, and bombshell allegations soon reveal how difficult reform may be. With startling immediacy and a v\u00e9rit\u00e9 even-handedness worthy of Frederick Wiseman, The Force offers a vital look at the ins and outs, failings and challenges of policing in the 21st century. A Kino Lorber release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Gemini<\/strong> (Aaron Katz) NY Premiere Narrative
\nOne of the finest independent filmmakers working today, Aaron Katz (Cold Weather, BAMcinemaFest 2010) returns to BAMcinemaFest with this stylishly seductive LA-set murder mystery. Jill (Lola Kirke) is the unflappable personal assistant to Heather (Zo\u00eb Kravitz), a volatile Hollywood starlet, whom Jill protects from the unforgiving glare of the media. When Heather is found dead and suspicion falls on Jill, the young assistant embarks on a labyrinthine investigation to uncover the killer and prove her innocence. Bathed in a moody, noir atmosphere, Gemini is both a sleek guessing-game thriller and a canny dissection of image, identity, celebrity, and the city of Los Angeles. A NEON release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 A Ghost Story<\/strong> (David Lowery) NY Premiere Narrative
\nDirector David Lowery (Ain\u2019t Them Bodies Saints, BAMcinemaFest 2013) reteams with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in this hypnotic drift through time and eternity. After his sudden death in a car accident, a man (Affleck) returns as a ghost\u2014enrobed in a classic white bed sheet\u2014to the Texas home he shared with his wife (Mara). It\u2019s the beginning of a vigil that stretches through centuries past and present as he bears silent witness to the home\u2019s changing inhabitants and transformations wrought by time. Rendered in spectral, gorgeously gauzy imagery, A Ghost Story grows into a profound and, yes, haunting rumination on mortality, impermanence, and life after death. An A24 release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Golden Exits <\/strong>(Alex Ross Perry) NY Premiere Narrative
\nWunderkind director Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip, Queen of Earth) returns with another biting comedy of unease built around a dynamic ensemble cast. Lovingly shot in 16mm by cinematographer extraordinaire Sean Price Williams, Golden Exits trains its sights on a bevy of Brooklynites whose innermost insecurities are unleashed by the destabilizing presence of a young Australian woman (Emily Browning). As is his specialty, Perry creates a fully realized micro-universe of compellingly prickly, complex characters in the midst of quiet upheavals.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 I Am Another You <\/strong>(Nanfu Wang) NY Premiere Documentary
\nNanfu Wang follows up her acclaimed Oscar-shortlisted Hooligan Sparrow with this poignant portrait of a young man lost. While traveling through Florida, the Chinese filmmaker meets Dylan, a handsome, charismatic drifter who has rejected his comfortable, middle-class upbringing to lead a vagabond lifestyle, sleeping on streets, scrounging for food, and living out what he sees as the ultimate freedom from the bonds of materialism. But as the director digs deeper, Dylan\u2019s rebellion is gradually revealed to be darker and altogether more complex. Unfolding like a low-key mystery, I Am Another You (winner of the Special Jury Prize and Chicken and Egg awards at this year\u2019s SXSW film festival) is an incisive examination of the myth and bitter realities of America\u2019s rugged individualism. A FilmRise release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 The Incredible Jessica James<\/strong> (Jim Strouse) NY Premiere Narrative
\nFormer Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams delivers a quick-witted, magnetic, sure-to-be-star- making performance in this romantic charmer about an aspiring Brooklyn playwright waiting for her big break while navigating the fallout of a big breakup. When she meets the nerdy Boone (Chris O\u2019Dowd), who himself is reeling from a recent divorce, it seems like mutual heartbreak is all they have in common. But the unlikely pair soon discover there may be a real spark between them. A Netflix release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\uf0b7 Ingrid Goes West <\/strong>(Matt Spicer) NY Premiere Narrative
\nIngrid Thorburn (Aubrey Plaza) is an unhinged social media stalker with a history of confusing \u201clikes\u201d for meaningful relationships. Taylor Sloane (Elizabeth Olsen) is a Instagram-famous \u201cinfluencer\u201d whose perfectly curated, boho-chic lifestyle becomes Ingrid\u2019s latest obsession. When Ingrid moves to LA and manages to insinuate herself into the social media star\u2019s life, their relationship quickly goes from #BFF to #WTF. Built around a brilliantly disarming performance from Aubrey Plaza, Ingrid Goes West (winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at Sundance) is a caustically funny journey into the dark side of our obsessively on-brand, Insta-perfect age. A NEON release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Landline<\/strong> (Gillian Robespierre) NY Premiere Narrative
\nOn the heels of their breakout hit Obvious Child, whirlwind talent Jenny Slate and writer-director Gillian Robespierre once again tackle a thorny subject with contagious irreverence. Landline tracks the splinters that form within a Manhattan family when sisters Dana (Jenny Slate) and Ali (Abby Quinn) discover that their father (John Turturro) is cheating on their mother (Edie Falco), as they themselves give in to their own taboo temptations. Set amid the retro-wonderland of the 1990s with period-perfect detail\u2014from stone-age Macintosh desktops to stonewashed jeans\u2014this brash comedy is counterbalanced with deeply felt observations on family, relationships, and commitment. A Magnolia Pictures release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Lemon<\/strong> (Janicza Bravo) NY Premiere Narrative
\nDestined to be the most audacious feature debut of the year, Janicza Bravo\u2019s brilliantly bizarro, black-as- the-void comedy is as unnerving as it is subversively funny. It follows the singularly strange travails of Isaac (Brett Gelman), a neurotic (to put it mildly), failed actor whose life goes into freefall when his blind girlfriend (Judy Greer) walks out on him. Along the way he directs an unhinged staging of Chekhov\u2019s The Seagull, attends the Passover Seder from hell (culminating in a weirdly catchy sing-along about matzo balls), and attempts to woo a new flame (Nia Long). With its startlingly stylized visuals, off-the-wall musical cues, and head-spinningly absurdist humor, Lemon has the earmarks of a cult classic in the making. A Magnolia Pictures release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Marjorie Prime<\/strong> (Michael Almereyda) NY Premiere Narrative
\nIf you had the chance to remember your life differently, would you? In a not-too-far-off future, octogenarian widow Marjorie (Lois Smith) reconnects with her deceased husband. Or, rather, with an artificial intelligence hologram of his younger self (played by Jon Hamm) who feeds off the information he gleans through conversations with her. It\u2019s an opportunity for Marjorie not only to relive her past, but to reshape it, bringing comfort to the old woman but raising troubling issues for her daughter (Geena Davis). Driven by virtuoso performances from its powerhouse cast, the new film from the restlessly adventurous Michael Almereyda poses provocative questions about love, technology, memory, and mortality. A FilmRise release<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Most Beautiful Island<\/strong> (Ana Asencio) NY Premiere Narrative
\nThe directorial debut from Ana Asensio, winner of the Narrative Grand Jury Prize at South by Southwest, is a gritty, nerve-shredding thriller that plumbs the dark flipside of the American dream. Luciana (played by Asensio herself) is an undocumented Spanish woman living in the shadows of New York City as she struggles to get by on demeaning odd jobs. When she\u2019s offered a chance to make what seems like an easy $2,000, she jumps at the opportunity. But the money, she soon finds, comes with a sadistic catch. Inspired by the director\u2019s own experiences overstaying her visa, Most Beautiful Island combines twisted genre thrills with a sobering depiction of life on the margins.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Our Song<\/strong> (McKay, 2000), Narrative
\nOver the course of a sweltering summer in Crown Heights, best friends Lanisha (Kerry Washington, in her film debut), Maria (Melissa Martinez), and Joycelyn (Anna Simpson) navigate a host of teenage anxieties\u2014 the closing of their high school, unplanned pregnancy, and tumultuous family lives\u2014all between rehearsals with the legendary Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band (who punctuates the movie with rousing performances). Jim McKay\u2019s (En el S\u00e9ptimo D\u00eda) refreshingly honest, nuanced depiction of female friendship captures the growing pains of adolescence, as well as the sights, sounds, and feelings of Brooklyn summer. An IFC Films release<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Princess Cyd<\/strong> (Stephen Cone) NY Premiere Narrative
\nNine years after a traumatic childhood incident, brash 16-year-old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) heads to Chicago to spend the summer with her aunt (Rebecca Spence). Spending languorous, sunny days at the beach and barbecues, Cyd develops a budding relationship with the androgynous Katie (Malic White) while grappling with issues of sexuality and spirituality. Featuring naturalistic performances and moments of unexpected lyricism, this new film by Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble\u2019s Birthday Party, BAMcinemaFest 2015) is a portrait of a young woman testing the waters of the real world for the first time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\uf0b7 Signature Move<\/strong> (Jennifer Reeder) NY Premiere Narrative
\nPakistani-American lawyer Zaynab (Fawzia Mirza) juggles a demanding job, a budding romance with Latina bookstore owner Alma (Sari Sanchez), and a newfound hobby: lucha libre wrestling. On top of all that, she\u2019s adapting to living with her recently widowed, traditionalist Muslim mother (Indian superstar Shabana Azmi), to whom she\u2019s not out of the closet. As Zaynab\u2019s relationship with Alma grows more serious, she\u2019s forced to reconcile her love for her girlfriend with her love for her mother. Set against the multicultural mosaic of Chicago\u2019s immigrant communities, Signature Move is a tender, vividly realized look at falling in love from the perspective of queer women of color.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Snowy Bing Bongs<\/strong> (Alex H. Fischer and Rachel Wolther) World Premiere, Narrative
\nThis blissfully bonkers whatzit from unclassifiable dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team is part psychotropic performance art spectacle, part absurdist sketch show. The three Bing Bongs\u2014Tallie Medel, Sunita Mani & Eleanor Pienta\u2014lounge about, pass gas, and periodically break into wondrously strange dance routines, with outer space interludes, a serious consideration of doctor boners, and a \u201890s-style girl group meltdown along the way. It all plays like a live action cartoon piped in from a cotton-candy-colored alternate universe.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 The Strange Ones<\/strong> (Lauren Wolkstein & Christopher Radcliff) NY Premiere Narrative
\nFollowing a violent incident, two young men (Alex Pettyfer & James Freedson-Jackson) go on the run through a desolate rural landscape. As relationships, identities, and realities shift in unexpected ways, tensions mount, creating an atmosphere rife with unease. This masterful feature debut by Lauren Wolkstein and Christopher Radcliff, hauntingly lensed to emphasize both the majesty and menace of nature, is a spellbinding psychological mystery.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Walking Out<\/strong> (Alex Smith & Andrew Smith) NY Premiere Narrative
\nFourteen-year-old David (Josh Wiggins) heads to a remote stretch of Montana for an annual visit with his reclusive father Cal (Matt Bomer). After reluctantly agreeing to accompany his dad on a hunting trip in the wilderness, David must rise to the occasion when a series of extreme events leaves an injured Cal dependent on his son to make it back alive. Strikingly shot against dramatic mountain landscapes, Walking Out is a moving survival tale, forgoing easy thrills in favor of harrowing realism and genuine emotional heft. An IFC Films release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Where is Kyra?<\/strong> (Andrew Dosunmu) NY Premiere Narrative
\nMichelle Pfeiffer delivers a coolly devastating performance in this noir-tinged portrait of a middle-aged Brooklyn woman driven to extremes. Following the death of her mother, Kyra finds herself jobless and heavily in debt. Desperate to keep from losing her apartment, and with the help of her concerned quasi- boyfriend (Kiefer Sutherland), she resorts to a shocking scheme. Stunningly shot in moody, color-saturated twilight tones, this new film from Andrew Dosunmu (Mother of George, BAMcinemaFest 2013) simmers with slow burn suspense until its shattering conclusion.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 Whose Streets?<\/strong> (Directed by Sabaah Folayan, Co-Directed by Damon Davis) NY Premiere Documentary
\n\u201cOur streets!\u201d This electrifying, on-the-ground dispatch from the frontlines of America\u2019s ongoing civil rights struggle captures how the protests that erupted in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown grew into a worldwide movement. Weaving together original footage, smartphone video, and social media records, it\u2019s an unfiltered look at the protests from the points of view of the community members and activists who took to the streets\u2014and faced down a heavily militarized police force\u2014to demand justice. The result is a much-needed counter-perspective to the prevailing media narrative and an essential record of a galvanizing moment in American history. A Magnolia Pictures release.<\/p>\n

\uf0b7 The Work<\/strong> (Jairus McLeary & Gethin Aldous) NY Premiere Documentary
\nWinner of the Documentary Grand Prize at South by Southwest, The Work takes you behind the walls of California\u2019s notorious Folsom State Prison and brings you face to face with a group therapy session unlike any other. Over the course of four explosive days, three inmates and three men from the outside world engage in an intense emotional exorcism as part of a program designed to benefit both convicts and civilians. As they delve into their deepest fears, traumas, and failings, macho posturing gradually gives way to raw vulnerability. For the prisoners and free men alike it\u2019s a cathartic, soul-shaking experience. For viewers, it\u2019s a riveting emotional rollercoaster that proves disarmingly moving.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\uf0b7 Wind River<\/strong> (Taylor Sheridan) NY Premiere Narrative
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