New York Film Festival 2019

The festival is running a full programme of shorts, including those below.

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Austral Fever (Fiebre Austral) (Country: Chile; Year: 2019; Director: Thomas Woodroffe; Writer: Camila Aboitiz, Gabriel Goicoechea, Thomas Woodroffe)
Amanda, an obliging and solitary woman, lives with her son Daniel in Chile’s southern mountain range. Octavio, one of Daniel’s friends, is accidentally injured while they’re hunting in the forest. Amanda takes charge of the curing sessions, developing an intimate relationship with the boy. Both discover that contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.
Demonic (Country: Australia; Year: 2018; Director: Pia Borg; Writer: Pia Borg; Stars: Angie Christophel, Hanna Gabriella, Galbraith, Robert Blake)
Demonic revisits the infamous Satanic Panic of the 1980s, a mass hysteria where people around the world recovered false memories of debauchery, murder, human sacrifice and satanic cults.
Party Day (Dia De festa) (Country: Portugal; Year: 2019; Director: Sofia Bost; Writer: Tiago Bastos Capitão; Stars: Rita Martins, Melissa Matos, Sandra Celas, Sara Gonçalves, Teresa Madruga, Fernanda Neves, Mariana Silva)
Mena organises a birthday party for a daughter. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught.
Please Speak Continuously And Describe Your Experiences As They Come To You (Country: Canada; Year: 2019; Director: Brandon Cronenberg; Writer: Brandon Cronenberg; Stars: Deragh Campbell, Neil Bennett, Ian Goff, Deragh Campbell, Neil Bennett, Ian Goff)
Emily is a patient at an experimental psychiatric facility where a brain implant prototype allows her to relive her dreams.
She Runs (Country: China; Year: 2019; Director: Qui Yang; Writer: Qiu Yang; Stars: Xue Jiayi)
In an ordinary Chinese winter, a small city junior high student, Yu, tries to quit her school aerobic dancing team.
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