October 16, 2019
THE GREAT BEAUTY (LA GRANDE BELLEZZA)
DescriptionBiosDescription At the age of 65, after years of being content to entertain the masses as the host of a parade of endless conga line and cocktail-fueled rooftop terrace extravaganzas frequented by Rome’s upper class – aristocrats, nobles, politicians, celebrities, artists and intellectuals – Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo) begins to contemplate his own mortality when...
October 16, 2019
THE GREEN INFERNO
DescriptionBiosDescription Seeking to make a difference in the world, a group of college students sets out for the Amazon jungle to undertake an act of environmental protest. They are scared of being labeled eco-terrorists but when their trip goes awry and the students fall into the hands of a cannibalistic native tribe, they soon discover...
October 16, 2019
GABRIELLE
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Gabrielle (winningly played by upbeat first-timer Gabrielle Marion-Rivard) is a 22-year-old woman with Williams syndrome, a genetic disorder that often slows cognitive skills while increasing outgoingness and musical talent. She sings in a Montreal choir for other disabled adults, where she’s met and fallen in love with the dashingly handsome Martin. The bliss of...
October 16, 2019
GLORIA
DescriptionBiosDescription Director Sebastián Lelio’s fourth feature film is an intimate portrait of social life in contemporary Chile as seen through the character study of a unique woman who seizes control of her own reality and achieves self-reliance with dignity and elegance. Gloria Cumplido is the woman – a confident, divorced mother of two in her...
October 16, 2019
GRAND CENTRAL
DescriptionBiosDescription Anything can go wrong at the nuclear power plant where Gary Manda (portrayed by the boyish Tahar Rahim) is recruited as a low-level worker – each day is a perilous struggle against the “colorless, odorless, invisible dose” of radiation. Gary is quickly adopted into the motley community of workers who must daily entrust each...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY IN THE PARK (UN DÍA EN FAMILIA)
DescriptionContactDescription On a Sunday afternoon in the park, happiness exists but it comes at a price. Contact Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)
October 16, 2019
THE FAKE (SAIBI)
DescriptionBiosDescription South Korean animator Yeon Sang-ho’s sophomore feature film is an intriguing and controversial exploration of blind faith and the distorted beliefs that define good and evil. A small rural village is on the verge of being flooded to construct a hydro-electric dam. Scared and confused about the future, the entire community’s only hope is...
October 16, 2019
THE EVENT
DescriptionDescription Love and a severed foot, at the end of the world.
October 16, 2019
EXHIBITION
DescriptionBiosDescription In director Joanna Hogg’s third feature, married artists known only as D and H (played with commendable naturalism by former punk singer Viv Albertine and artist Liam Hillick) find dormant anxieties and buried frustrations bubbling to the surface after they agree to sell their home of 18 years. The London house, a stunning modernist...
October 16, 2019
DRONES
DescriptionBiosDescription In a doublewide trailer somewhere in the Nevada desert, a general's daughter (Eloise Mumford) on her first day of deployment and a high school dropout airman (Matt O'Leary) decide the fates of "terrorists" from a height of five miles up. As the action plays out in real time and their window to “drop the hellfire”...
