New Voices New Visions

The Animal Kingdom

Winner: New Voices New Visions.

In this surprising, expectation-defying and often humorous drama, a father (Romain Duris) and his teen son (Paul Kircher) contend with a cross-country move and an unexplained epidemic that causes people to mutate into animals. Read More

Running Time: 130

Animalia

In this highly original and suspenseful Moroccan feature, an expectant mother finds herself separated from her wealthy in-laws and left to fend for herself while a mysterious, menacing force threatens the world around her. Read More

Running Time: 91

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

Winner: Young Cineastes Award.

This charming, funny and stylish play on the traditional vampire tale tells the story of Sasha, a young vampire who can’t bring herself to kill. Facing starvation, she meets a young depressed man who could help solve both their problems. Read More

Running Time: 92

The Kitchen

In a dystopian future London where all social housing has been eliminated, Izi and Benji fight to navigate the world as residents of The Kitchen, a community that refuses to abandon its home. Read More

Running Time: 98

Solitude

Circumstances lead taciturn farmer Gunnar to settle in Reykjavík where he gradually develops a friendship with Ari, the precocious 10-year-old paperboy next door, in this poignant and surprising take on the two-lonely-strangers-forge-an-unexpected-bond tale. Read More

Running Time: 75

Stolen

In this nail-biting thriller, two sophisticated city boys, having witnessed a kidnapping, find themselves embroiled in a harrowing adventure when they try to help the destitute mother find her abducted baby. Read More

Running Time: 94

The Sweet East

After Lillian (Talia Ryder) separates from her classmates on a school trip, she embarks on a Kafkaesque journey across America’s East that quickly begins to resemble a modern-day Wonderland. Deliriously funny, dreamy and freewheeling, here’s a trip like no other. Read More

Running Time: 104

We Have Never Been Modern

In this masterfully mounted drama about privilege, prejudice and gender identity, the discovery of a dead intersex infant amid the rubble of a factory town in 1937 sends shock waves through a society fixated on only one kind of progress. Read More

Running Time: 117