Season 9 - September Is Different

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.

Kirovakan, Armenia, 1968. A street in the town is being renamed, but nobody seems to know whom after. A chance encounter between a student running late to his thesis defense, and a young woman determined to leave the town forever. 25 years earlier, Genrikh Zakaryan, a young resistance fighter, smuggles a secret Nazi operations map through occupied territory. Imaginings and history meld into one, echoes of past and future coalesce: “the fate of Genrikh Zakaryan is intangibly intertwined with the fate of today’s youth.”

A man gets obsessed with a filmmaker whose films become inextricably entwined with his own life.

Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.

Memories tells the story of Alex, a 19 year old boy who lives his life peacefully. Until one fateful day, his future could be compromised.

Nesrin and Erdem talk about their relationship, which they don’t remember in exactly the same way. Çevik’s visually stunning essay uses their conversations to forge a pensive treatise on what it means to forget, where word and image play an equal role.

He really likes Poughkeepsie Crispies. Maybe too much. A darkly funny, minimalist loop of repetition, ritual, and barely-hinged performance.

Bizarría, a short film about the reality in which we live in a utopian way, as a feeling and desire for the improvement and perfection of life, knowing that even with the ups and downs it has, it is wonderful and pleasant, and that if it were not for these moments we would never realize how good it feels to be alive and all that experiences leave us.

A man attempts to regain the life he used to lead after being mysteriously forgotten by everyone he’d ever met.

Everything changes in P's haunting life when he comes across a peculiar being dancing in the middle of a forest.

A cinematic and conceptually inventive film that explores the haunting memories of Asia’s late 20th-century modernization through the large-scale export of wigs during the Cold War. Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.

A woman travels away from her hometown to discover old memories and dreams.

Dissociés

THE ECHOES OF HOME

A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first love, which ended 17 years earlier.

Leo (Alex Ross), loses the love of his life Charlie (Elena Salzberg), in a tragic accident. On her birthday the following year, he goes on a journey to honor her. He reflects on the short but wonderful time they had together by placing her favorite flower (roses) at places where they shared memories together.

Set in 1980s Sweden, an immigrant boy navigates a chaotic world of identity, love, and belonging. A kaleidoscopic journey through fragile places where acceptance lives.

An old sage with a troubled past attempts to extract the badness from within himself.

Arindam, a matinee idol, is going by train to collect an acting award. On the train, he is confronted by Aditi, a journalist who somewhat unwillingly starts to take his interview. Arindam, won over by Aditi's naivete, starts to disclose his past, his fears and his secrets.