October 16, 2019
THE HOUSEMAID (HANYEO)
DescriptionDescription Kim Ki-young's claustrophobic setting of a narrow two-story home is the perfect cage in which to attempt to contain the wild and escalating emotions of this domestic melodrama The film tells the story of Mr. Kim, a music teacher whose guilt over the suspension of a young woman he teaches leads him to question...
October 16, 2019
THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER
DescriptionDescription The human resources manager of Jerusalem's largest bakery is in trouble. He's separated from his wife, distanced from his daughter and stuck in a job he hates. When one of his female employees, a foreign worker, is killed in a suicide bombing and her body remains unclaimed, the bakery is accused of inhumanity and...
October 16, 2019
THE HOUSEMAID
DescriptionDescription This remake of Kim Ki-young's THE HOUSEMAID is far less claustrophobic than the original: the house is bigger, the family is wealthier and thus the boundaries between the family and the housemaid are even more stringent than they were in 1960. When the affair between the husband and the housemaid begins, the expression of...
October 16, 2019
HOUR OF THE WOLF
DescriptionDescription Bergman's surreal masterpiece conjures startling experiences. - David Lynch The torments of creativity underlie Ingmar Bergman's otherworldly HOUR OF THE WOLF. A pointer and his wife - pitch-perfect Bergman regulars Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmonn - retreat to a desolate windswept isle . Struggling with his work and avoiding sleep because of the...
October 16, 2019
HIS & HERS
DescriptionDescription A single female subject occupies the frame she talks about her relationships with the men in her life. This starkly simple structuralist approach renders on e of the most powerful documentaries of the year on love, loss and life. Beginning with infants and progressing chronologically through to elderly women, the film broadly describes the...
October 16, 2019
THE HIGH LEVEL BRIDGE
DescriptionContactDescription Director Trevor Anderson pays homage lo the people and events surrounding Edmonton's High level Bridge. Contact Dirt City Films
October 16, 2019
HAMILL
DescriptionContactDescription We have all seen the sports film about overcoming adversity. HAMILL, a true story based on the life of UFC fighter Matt Hamill and directed by newcomer Oren Kaplan, is not your typical sports film. Matt Hamill grew up deaf in Loveland, Ohio. Matt's journey to winning a National Collegiate wrestling title is marked...
October 16, 2019
HEARTBEATS (LES AMOURS IMAGINAIRES)
DescriptionContactDescription When best friends Marie and Francis befriend the boyishly handsome, self-possessed Nicolas, not only is the dynamic of their friendship upended, but their very identities are called into question. With infuriatingly mixed messages from Nicolas - is he straight or gay, just having fun or searching for a soul mate - and their individual...
October 16, 2019
FREE RADICALS
DescriptionDescription Filmmaker and film archivist Pip Chodorov offers this affectionate overview of some of the leading figures of 20th-century experimental film. Narrating in a personal and plainspoken manner ("I'd like you to meet some of my friends and see their films"), Chodorov combines clips and even films in their entirety with conversations with such luminaries...
October 16, 2019
FILM SOCIALISM (FILM SOCIALISME)
DescriptionContactDescription A gargantuan ocean liner housing teeming pools, garish casinos and even a church drifts through a vast expanse of open water Its windswept decks empty save for a few wandering souls - including Patti Smith as a rumpled troubadour - this hulking mass of floating commerce, insulated from history and the elements, is both...
