October 16, 2019
POST TENEBRAS LUX
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Winner of the Best Director prize of the 65th Cannes Film Festival, POST TENEBRAS LUX further establishes Carlos Reygadas as a distinctive voice in contemporary Mexican cinema. The film details the life of Juan and Natalia, a wealthy couple living in a stunning house in the country with their two little children (played by...
October 16, 2019
QUARTET
DescriptionBiosDescription QUARTET tells the story of retired opera singers and lifelong chums Wilf and Reggie who, together with their former colleague Cissy, reside in the Beecham House retirement home. At the home, the residents hold an annual fundraising concert on Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday. This is usually a pleasant highlight of the year for the aging...
October 16, 2019
REALITY
DescriptionBiosDescription REALITY opens with a gorgeous aerial shot that follows a beautiful horse-drawn chariot to a wedding celebration where the real guest of honor is surprising, a reality television star. Watching in the wings is Luciano (Aniello Arena) in a clownish drag costume that he dons at family and friends’ weddings. Luciano’s clown would be...
October 16, 2019
THE PIRATE OF LOVE
DescriptionTrailerDescription An oral history of one man's soulful songs of love, pride and loneliness. Trailer https://vimeo.com/35468355
October 16, 2019
PIETA
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Kim Ki-Duk (ARIRANG) returns to AFI FEST with his Golden Lion winner, PIETA, the story of a man working as a loan shark who threatens and cripples those who can’t make their payments. One day, a woman appears on his doorstep claiming to be the mother who abandoned him as a baby. At first...
October 16, 2019
PARADISE: LOVE
DescriptionBiosDescription This first installment of Seidl’s PARADISE trilogy tells the story of Teresa, an aging European woman, as she embarks on a sex tourism trip. Traveling to Kenya, she finds herself on a beach with muscular young men lining up to have sex for money. Reticent to fully embrace her authority over these boys and...
October 16, 2019
PEARBLOSSOM HWY
DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show, so he can prove to his brother that he isn’t a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, selling sex to save enough money to...
October 16, 2019
PARADISE: FAITH
DescriptionBiosDescription In the second installment of the controversial PARADISE trilogy we meet Anna Maria, a fanatically devout Christian and the sister of Teresa, the protagonist in the first film. Anna Maria takes time off from work to travel the countryside, attempting to spread religion everywhere she goes. Her rapturous love of Christ not only make...
October 16, 2019
THE PACK (LA MANADA)
DescriptionDescription After school, a group of friends hang out in a ditch, testing each other's boundaries in mean ways
October 16, 2019
OUR CHILDREN (À PERDRE LA RAISON)
DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription Armed with a remarkable team of writers and actors, Joachim Lafosse’s fifth film continues his exploration of family dynamics by detailing when a mother snaps under uncontrollable circumstances. This psychological drama begins with the love story of Murielle, a Belgian schoolteacher, and Mounir, a Moroccan immigrant. The two happily marry and decide to live...
