October 16, 2019
NERUDA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Director Pablo Larraín returns to Chilean history with a unique film about the difference between man and artist, person and persona. In 1948, betrayed by the supposed left-wing president he helped support, renowned poet and senator for the Chilean communist party Pablo Neruda went into hiding to escape arrest. Assisted by party members with...
October 16, 2019
MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription “Heightened style,” a term mentioned by one of the animated characters in this audacious disaster comedy, aptly describes the painterly mixed-media visuals created by director Dash Shaw and lead animator Jane Samborski for their surreal take on teen comedies and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE. Grim yet colorful, the images innovatively represent cartoon violence, but also...
October 16, 2019
MOTHER (MADRE)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Sixteen-year-old Andrea travels downtown from her poor neighborhood to audition for a porno film. Bios Simón Mesa Soto is a director/writer born in Medellín, Colombia, in 1986. He was awarded the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his short film LEIDI, the story of a teenage mother looking for the father...
October 16, 2019
MULE
DescriptionDescription A thrilling, emotional journey through the last moments of a man’s life. Chose your ending – do you want to be buried or cremated?
October 16, 2019
MISS SLOANE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription In MISS SLOANE, ruthless and highly successful political strategist Elizabeth Sloane (Oscar® nominee Jessica Chastain), exposes the cutthroat world of DC lobbyists on both sides of the gun control debate. New legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership is gaining traction in Congress, and Sloane is approached to spearhead the campaign, pitting...
October 16, 2019
MISTER UNIVERSO
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Cheeky and full of life, 20-year-old Tairo has grown up in the circus, taming his beloved but aging big cats and building a life with beautiful contortionist Wendy. When a cherished childhood amulet goes missing — a bent iron rod given to him by 1957 Mister Universe Arthur Robin, aka “Black Hercules” — Tairo...
October 16, 2019
MOANA
DescriptionBiosDescription Three-thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped — and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes MOANA, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about an adventurous teenager, Moana, who sails out...
October 16, 2019
MALGRÉ LA NUIT
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription In Philippe Grandrieux's fourth feature, the director's signature tight framings follow a man named Lenz as he falls into the milieu of pornographic snuff films while searching for his lost love Madeleine. In a realm of undefined spaces and intense light, Lenz encounters Lena and Hélène, whose passion for Lenz can't supplant his memories...
October 16, 2019
MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Steven Okazaki’s thoughtful, elegant portrait of Japanese cinema’s greatest actor is less a straightforward documentary than a creative examination of the formative elements — both personal and cultural — surrounding Toshiro Mifune that contributed to his rise in stardom. The popularity of Chanbara films (samurai sword-fighting films that functioned as Japanese cinema’s Westerns), Mifune’s...
October 16, 2019
THE LURE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Set in 1980s Warsaw, Agnieska Smoczy’nska’s debut film follows Silver and Golden, a pair of man-eating mermaid sisters who take human form to explore the world outside of their ocean home. Upon their arrival in this new world, Silver falls in love with the son of a musical family. They track him to a...
