Bella Vista

Sep 26, 2014

Vera Brunner-Sung - Missoula, MT - 83 min

U.S. premiere!
Director and lead actresses Kathleen Wise and Hiroka Matsushima in attendance!
Opening film: Local Sightings Film Festival 2014
Join us for a pre-screening reception at 7pm, sponsored by Naked City Brewery and Taphouse!

A meditation on displacement and adaptation in the contemporary American West, Bella Vista follows the lives of outsiders in Missoula, Montana. Teaching English to a group of international students, thirty-something Doris finds herself increasingly alone. While she grasps for the connection that might save her, it’s her students who understand what it takes to belong.

Brunner-Sung’s unobtrusive camera captures objects, people and landscapes in ways that reveal understanding of her characters without the crutch of exposition. It is this formal mastery and human insight that signals the arrival of a major directorial talent.

Shot in only 12 days and directed, written, edited, produced and DP’d by women, Bella Vista had its world premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

  • Join us 7pm for a pre-screening reception, sponsored by Naked City Brewery and Taphouse! Complimentary drinks for ticketholders (21+)!
     
  • Start your evening off with a viewing of the free Feeling Time installation, at 6:30pm. Read more >

Bella Vista (official trailer) from Vera Brunner-Sung on Vimeo.

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