October 16, 2019
REMOVAL
DescriptionDescription Cole is a likeable, regular guy. Except that ever since he witnessed a gruesome murder-suicide, things haven't been quite right. His wife left him, he is tormented by hallucinations and his career has nosedived into a blue-collar job with a carpet cleaning service. Just when it seems his life has reached bottom, Cole is...
October 16, 2019
PUTTY HILL
DescriptionDescription In a spore room of on abandoned home tucked away in a low-class, rural suburb of Baltimore, Cory overdosed on heroin The people we meet in the film ore the people who knew him, some better than others. As the funeral creeps up, those who were port of his time on earth go about...
October 16, 2019
RABBIT HOLE
DescriptionDescription Adapted from David Lindsay-Aboire's Pulitzer Prize-winning ploy, RABBIT HOLE is a vivid, honest and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations Just eight months ago, Becca and Howie Corbett (Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart) were a happy suburban family. Now they ore caught in...
October 16, 2019
QUADRANGLE
DescriptionDescription An unconventional documentary about two "conventional" couples who swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early '70s, hoping lo pioneer on alternative to divorce and the marriage of the future.
October 16, 2019
THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER
DescriptionDescription When the ravishing Morie de Mezieres is betrothed to the Prince of Montpensier, a fateful chain reaction commences. Whisked away to the Montpensiers' castle, she is entrusted to the Count of Chabonnes, the prince's confidante and a tormented deserter, whose task is to educate her on everything from penmanship to astronomy. But as she...
October 16, 2019
PULSAR
DescriptionDescription In this GASLIGHT for the digital age, writer / director Alex Stockman examines the dominion communication technologies hold over our lives. PULSAR narrates the long-distance love story between Samuel in Brussels and Mireille in New York. The couple stays constantly connected through phone, text, email, Skype and IM. But Samuel's new best friend, the...
October 16, 2019
PRECIOUS LIFE (CHAIM YAKARIM)
DescriptionDescription As a tangible document of hope for peace in the Middle East, former war correspondent Shlomi Eldar's PRECIOUS LIFE conveys the need to bypass politics and nationalism in order to protect our children and improve their quality of life. Born without on immune system, the four-month-old Palestinian baby Mohammad Abu Mustoffo will die without...
October 16, 2019
POETRY (SHI)
DescriptionContactDescription Lee Chang-dong returns to AFI FEST after his triumphant 2008 screening of SECRET SUNSHINE with his latest film, POETRY This quietly precarious film opens with an enigmatic scene of a young girl's corpse floating down a river The story then settles in with an elderly woman who cares for her troubled grandson in their...
October 16, 2019
PIXELS
DescriptionDescription The real world undone by retro video game favorites.
October 16, 2019
PINK SARIS
DescriptionDescription With her documentaries DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE (1998), SISTERS IN LAW (2005) and ROUGH AUNTIES (2008), director Kim Longinotto has made a name for herself as a chronicler-without-borders of women's fight for justice. In PINK SARIS, Longinotto follows Sampat Pal Devi, leader of the "Pink Gang," a group of female activists from the Dalit caste....
