October 16, 2019
PRODIGAL SONS
DescriptionDescription Debut filmmaker Kimberly Reed dives headfirst into on unflinching portrait of her family that is absolutely engrossing and marks her coming-out, in more ways than one. Returning home to a small town in Montana for her high school reunion, Reed hopes for reconciliation with her long-estranged adopted brother But along the way PRODIGAL SONS...
October 16, 2019
PROPER EYES (POR SUS PROPIOS OJOS)
DescriptionDescription This film-which won best actress awards for Ana Carabajal and Luisa Nunez at the Biarritz and the Mannheim-Heidelberg film fests - balances social criticism, fear, fantasy and reality in the lives of the women with family in prison. Far her college thesis, film student Alicia (Carabajal) is making a documentary about the women whose...
October 16, 2019
PLAYING COLUMBINE
DescriptionDescription By reenacting one of the nation's most infamous school shootings , the video game Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (the initials standing for "role-playing game ") instantly provoked more debate and discussion than any game in recent years. Media pundits pointed to it countless times as an example of a society gone off the rails....
October 16, 2019
POUNDCAKE
DescriptionDescription This dysfunctional family comedy with heart stars Academy Award nominee Kathleen Quinlan and Jay O. Sanders and takes place in Buffalo, NY, in the late '80s . On the night before Thanksgiving, Cliff and Carol Morgan gather their three grown children-Robby, a late-night radio DJ, his hypochondriac younger brother Charlie and their adopted sister...
October 16, 2019
PINDORAMA – THE TRUE STORY OF THE SEVEN DWARVES (PINDORAMA – A VERDADEIRA HISTÓRIA DOS SETE ANÕES)
DescriptionDescription Charles , Claudio, Cleidy , Cleidiomar, Zuleide , Gilberto and Rogerio Gomes de Oliveira are siblings, colleagues , friends, competitors and entertainers . Together these seven remarkable people , with their respective families , make up the Pindorama Circus . A full-fledged , old-school circus that tours northern Brazil , the Pindorama 's greatest...
October 16, 2019
PLASTIC CITY (DANGKOU)
DescriptionDescription Yu Lik-woi, the cinematographer-poet of postindustrial spaces (LOVE WILL TEAR US APART, ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES) turns his unbridled visual imagination toward Brazil's thick jungles and multicultural metropolises through the complex father-son relationship of aging Chinese gangster Yudo (the great Hong Kong actor Anthony Wong , recently seen in Johnny To's THE EXILES) and Kirin,...
October 16, 2019
PASSAGES
DescriptionDescription A woman awaiting the arrival of her first child doesn't foresee the hardships that lie ahead.
October 16, 2019
PERFECT LIFE (WAMMEI SHENHUO)
DescriptionDescription Emily Tang's second film confirms what was already striking in her debut, CONJUGATION (2001): a gift for combining minute, mundane details to suggest a larger story (in this case, a tale of globalization, internal exile and loss) She interweaves the fates of two young women who never meet, except briefly in a street market...
October 16, 2019
PALESTINE EN SOLIDARIDAD
DescriptionDescription Two border struggles come face to face as Palestinians visit the U.S.-Mexico border and find parallel injustices.
