New Directors/New Films and Film Comment Selects 2014 General Forum thread

[Chris Knipp]

First day of press screenings of New Directors/New Films 2014

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (Ana Lily Anirpour 2013)

Sundance hit: A hip Iranian-American women's lib, skateboarder, hijab-wearing Nosferata vampire romance, with a vintage Ford Thunderbird and a cat. In Farsi and with Iranian actors but shot in California.

OF HORSES AND MEN (Benedickt Erlingsson 2013)

An Icelandic feature that's essentially a sequence of short films depicting mishaps involving the indigenous short-legged horses in a beautiful Icelandic valley.

WE COME AS FRIENDS (Hupert Sauper 2014)

Another devastating and provocative documentary by Austrian-born, French-resident Sauper (of DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE), this time about the new nation of South Sudan and how it is being exploited and colonized by Chinese and American businessmen, Teas missionaries, superficial UN officials, and others.