October 16, 2019
CLOSED CURTAIN (PARDE)
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Jafar Panahi continues to defy Iran’s brutal 20-year ban on his right to make films with CLOSED CURTAIN, an allegorical narrative that takes aim at his country’s oppressive laws. It is an emotional piece of meta-fiction, examining the director’s government-imposed artistic frustration. Initially, the film casts a critical eye on an Islamic law declaring dogs...
October 16, 2019
CAUCUS
DescriptionBiosDescription Every four years, a new cast of presidential hopefuls congregates in Iowa. The first state to hold its caucuses, Iowa serves as both a training ground and a battleground for the primary candidates. AJ Schnack's documentary takes us behind the scenes of straw polls and sound bites to watch the 2012 field of Republican...
October 16, 2019
CHILD’S POSE (POZITIA COPILULUI)
DescriptionBiosContactDescription Călin Peter Netzer won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale this year for this dark tragicomedy about an overly protective and domineering mother, Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu), who uses all of the means at her disposal to keep her adult son, Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache), out of jail when he is accused of killing a child...
October 16, 2019
CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO
DescriptionBiosDescription With text taken solely from transcripts of real black box recordings, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO employs both stark theatricality and 3-D photography to insert the audience into the experience of aviation disasters. The film, which takes its title from phonetic aviation slang for Cockpit Voice Recorder, is a “performance documentary,” created and reenacted by members...
October 16, 2019
CARLOTA
DescriptionDescription He will be in love with her very soon. He is sure of this.
October 16, 2019
CATHERINE
DescriptionDescription Catherine is ready to come back to work.
October 16, 2019
BREATHE IN
DescriptionBiosDescription Keith Reynolds (Guy Pierce) is a high school music teacher who has long replaced his dream of being a professional musician – except for an occasional stint as a symphony sub in Manhattan – for a family life outside the city. It’s a picturesque life that his wife Megan (Amy Ryan) is desperate to...
October 16, 2019
BUTTER LAMP (LA LAMPE AU BEURRE DE YAK)
DescriptionDescription An inventive and heartfelt travelogue through reality, dreams and memory told through the eyes of two Tibetan photographers and their clients.
October 16, 2019
BLUE RUIN
DescriptionBiosDescription A classic American revenge story, BLUE RUIN follows a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. Proving himself an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. Steeped in the moody, cramped...
October 16, 2019
BORGMAN
DescriptionBiosDescription Borgman is rousted from his underground dwelling by an angry group of men pursuing him. He escapes to find himself outside a modern country house and decides to beg a family for assistance. The overly aggressive response he receives sets off a chain of surprising events. After this unsettling and unexpected introduction, we follow...
