SBFF24 BRO19 R8 singles_Layout 1 5/30/19 3:48 PM Page 1 The best in new independent film July 18 -27, 2019 24TH ANNUAL STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL STALLER CENTER FOR THE ARTS 24TH ANNUAL stonybrookfilmfestival.com • (631) 632-ARTS SBFF24 BRO19 R8 singles_Layout 1 5/30/19 3:48 PM Page 2 24th Annual Stony Brook Film Festival Presented by island federal Thurs, July 18 - Sat, July 27, 2019 Buy a Film Pass The Stony Brook Film Festival presented by Island Federal is your opportunity to see the best in SBFF PASSholder PerkS Independent features and short films from the U.S. and around the world. You'll experience the first screening in America of dramas and comedies from Germany, Israel, Get the best the United Kingdom, France and India as over twenty countries are represented at this year's seating and festival. Many of the U.S. films that will screen throughout the ten days will be World, U.S. and East Coast premieres. incredible perks • A Festival Pass is Join us for these stimulating, thought provoking and delightful new films in Staller Center's Main good for all films. Stage Theatre. You'll see some of the world's best actors, directed by world class filmmakers in Only $90. unique and extraordinary stories. Cast and crew from many of these films will be on hand to host question and answer sessions following screenings and discuss the many aspects of the • Receive a creative process. commemorative Film Pass and Film goers will vote on their favorite films throughout the festival and play a role in choosing the Lanyard for Audience Choice Awards presented at the Awards Reception following the closing night film in the easy entry. adjacent Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. • Exclusive Passholder lines in lobby. The best way to experience the Stony Brook Film Festival is to buy a Festival pass for only $90. • Guaranteed seating for passholders up to See all films over 10 days and receive many passholder perks. Buy a Gold Pass and sit in the 15 minutes before screening time. reserved section of the theatre with filmmakers and guests and receive tickets to attend the • Receive a Stony Brook Film Festival Opening Night Party and Closing Night Awards Reception. Whether you purchase tickets for a few as a gift. films or take advantage of the heavily discounted passes, you will be taken on an adventure you insulated travel tumbler will not soon forget. Once you've attended Long Island's premier summer event, you will be back. • Enjoy SBFF Passholder Discounts at local Join the 14,000 attendees who wait all year for this very special annual film experience! restaurants. Good from Memorial Day through Labor Day. Includes Pentimento, Orto, Old Fields Restaurant, Bliss, Wave Seafood Film Pass $90 Kitchen, Hilton Garden Inn-Stony Brook, Gold Pass $250 (includes reserved seating and special events, see page 14.) The Meadow Club, The Curry Club, O’Sole Mio Single tickets go on sale Monday, July 1 (subject to availability) and Bagel Express. General admission: $12, $10 seniors, $5 all students • exclusive access to reception tickets for Closing Night Awards Reception $30, passholders only. Box office hourS closing Night Awards (limited availability.) Mon to Sat, 12 noon to 6 pm and one hour before films stonybrookfilmfestival.com • (631) 632-ArTS [2787] If you plan on seeing more than one film, consider a film pass. Besides perks and At Q&As after screenings Tweet your questions for filmmakers #SBFF convenience, you save $150 off the price of individual tickets. 2 SBFF24 BRO19 R8 singles_Layout 1 5/30/19 3:48 PM Page 3 Schedule PleASe NoTe: play first at screening times. are in parentheses. Shorts as question &Running answer timessessions may delay the start of the second and third screening slots. Later movie start times are approximate ThUrS 18 FrI 19 SAT 20 SUN 21 MoN 22 OPENING 7:00 pm 4:00 pm 4:00 pm 7:00 pm NIGHT FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE (103) (103) (79) (74) Miamor perdido Yao Cause of Death Guest Artist 8:00 pm ShorT: ShorT: ShorT: Sides of a Horn (17) ShorT: FEATURE ASIA A (20) The High Bridge (9) Waiting Game (24) (120) 7:00 pm Balloon 7:00 pm FEATURE 9:30 pm 9:30 pm FEATURE (99) FEATURE The Unorthodox FEATURE OPENING NIGHT (107) ShorT: How To Swim (15) (106) Sweethearts (106) PARTY Celeste ShorT: Portraitist (15) Lady Winsley ShorT: ShorT: 10:30 pm 9:30 pm The Bicycle Thief (8) Intermedium (21) 9:30 pm (Exclusive for FEATURE Gold Passholders) FEATURE (87) (98) Above the Clouds Them That Follow ShorT: Toke Is Cheap (23) ShorT: Percht (17) TUeS 23 Wed 24 ThUrS 25 FrI 26 SAT 27 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm 7:00 pm CLOSING FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE NIGHT (97) (90) (115) In God I Trust Cold Case 8:00 pm Chuskit Babysplitters ShorT: (128) ShorT: ShorT: Hammarskjöld FEATURE The Youngest (18) Homecoming (7) Jupiter (14) Lola & Her Brothers 9:30 pm (105) 9:30 pm 9:30 pm 9:30 pm FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE (99) The Parts You Lose CLOSING (87) The Silent Revolution Made in China A Scientist’s Guide to (111) NIGHT AWARDS ShorT: (75) Living and Dying The Interview (15) 10:30 pm Newborn (6) ShorT: ShorT: Debbie & Doug Drop Acid (Ticket required) in the Desert (25) stonybrookfilmfestival.com • (631) 632-ArTS [2787] For directions to the Festival go to stonybrookfilmfestival.com/directions 3 SBFF24 BRO19 R8 singles_Layout 1 5/30/19 3:48 PM Page 4 THUR18 F Thursday, July 18 • 8:00 pm OPENING NIGHT FEATURE Balloon New York Premiere - Germany - 120 minutes Directed by Michael Herbig. Written by Kit Hopkins, Thilo Röscheisen and Michael Herbig. With Friedrich Mücke , Karoline Schuch , (Text for You) (Hanna’s Journey) David Kross , Alicia von Rittberg and (My Brother Simple) (Fury) Thomas Kretschmann . (Valkyrie) Based on the true story of what may be the most spectacular escape attempt from East Germany ever undertaken. In the summer of 1979, after two years of planning, sewing and tinkering, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families are ready to put their daredevil plan into action: fly from the GDR to West Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. After their initial failure is found out by the THE VIEW FROM HERE Contemporary Perspectives from Senegal authorities, the brave amateurs work frantically to create a second balloon Featuring nearly 50 works by 10 contemporary wh ile trying to avoid discovery by the East German police, who are desperate Senegalese artists. to track down the would-be traitors. This inspiring and nerve-wracking film from director Michael Herbig (star of ) feature’s a who’s-who cast of SBFF Hotel Lux On view at the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery favorites, and will keep you on the edge of your seat to the very end. RECEPTION: Saturday, July 20, 5-7pm Open all ten evenings of the Film Festival. Free admission. In English and German with subtitles The Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery is located on the first floor of the Produced by Michael Herbig. Edited by Alexander Dittner. Director of Staller Center for the Arts. zuccairegallery.stonybrook.edu Photography: Torsten Breuer. A herbX Film, StudioCanal and SevenPictures Film production. From DistribFilms US. 4 SBFF24 BRO19 R8 singles_Layout 1 5/30/19 3:48 PM Page 5 FRI19 F F Friday, July 19 • 7:00 pm Friday, July 19 • 9:30 pm FEATURE FEATURE Miamor perdido Celeste U.S. Premiere - Spain - 103 minutes East Coast Premiere - Australia - 106 min Directed by Emilio Martínez-Lázaro. Written by Clara Martínez- Written and Directed by Ben Hackworth. Lázaro and Miguel Esteban. With Radha Mitchell , (Finding Neverland, Melinda and Melinda) With Dani Rovira, Michelle Jenner, and Vito Sanz . Thomas Cocquerel , Odessa Young (Growing Up) (The Tribes of Palos Verdes) and Nadine Garner. (The Professor) After falling madly in love, comedian Mario and actress Olivia decide to end their perfect relationship before it falls apart on its Hidden away at a crumbling estate, retired opera diva Celeste own. But when their adopted cat Miamor disappears in e (MyLove) anxiously reaches out to her late husband’s son, asking him to com the process of their break up, their perfect plan goes awry. Clara home for her much-anticipated final performance. But his return after Martínez-Lázaro, writer and director of last year’s uproarious the long absence stirs up unsettling memories that pull them both teams up with her father, director Emilio Martínez- Growing Up into a mutually precarious orbit. Set in the lush, tropical splendor of Lázaro, to bring us this insane comedy about love, commitment, the rain forest in Queensland, Australia, this visually stunning feature Schrödinger's cat, and the Theater of the Absurd. mesmerizes as an unfolding mystery and haunting romance. In Spanish with subtitles Produced by Lizzette Atkins, Raphael Cocks. Edited by Peter Carrodus. Director of Photography: Katie Milwright. A Unicorn Films production. Produced by Nico Matji and José Luis Olaizola. Edited by Ángel From LevelK. Hernández Zoido. Director of Photography: Juan Molina. A Discontinuo La Película, Impala, Caos Films and Radio Televisión Española production. From SONY Pictures Releasing España. SHORT SHORT ASIA A Intermedium New York Premiere - World Premiere - United States - 20 min United States - 21 min S A film by Andrew Reid S A film by Erik Bloomquist A young man with a recent spinal cord An obsessive-compulsive teenager injury struggles with his sense of self- struggles to compromise with the ghost worth as a paraplegic. that haunts her family’s new home.