October 16, 2019
SEND ME TO THE ‘LECTRIC CHAIR
DescriptionDescription Guy Maddin straps his muse Isabella Rossellini to an electric chair and plunges the viewer into a feverish world of death wishes and heroic acts.
October 16, 2019
A ROOM AND A HALF (POLTORY KOMNATY ILI SENTIMENTALNOE PUTESHESTVIE NA RODINU)
DescriptionDescription Andrey Khrzhanovsky's bittersweet, endlessly imaginative film begins with the revered poet Joseph Brodsky (Grigory Dityatkovsky, bearing an uncanny resemblance to the Nobel Prize-winning poet) approaching his beloved St. Petersburg after a decades-long exile imposed by the Soviet state In a Proustian wave of memories, his past comes to life, centered around the tiny but...
October 16, 2019
THE ROAD
DescriptionDescription After an unspecified calamity, the world has been destroyed, leaving nothing but shells of cities-and the road. A father and son walk through an ash-gray landscape ducking the ever-present, terrifying threat posed by other survivors. This astonishing adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel strips away the pretension and artifice of science fiction-style apocalypse....
October 16, 2019
S/T
DescriptionDescription What matters in the cinemo? Lisandra Alonso shows us, with help from an imposing owl who stares at the viewer and commands total attention of the eye and ear.
October 16, 2019
PRECIOUS
DescriptionDescription Set in Harlem, this vibrant, honest and resoundingly hopeful film follows the story of Clareece "Precious" Jones (Gabourey Sidibe, a 16-y ear-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. Pregnant for the second time by her absent father, she waits hand and foot on her poisonously angry, abusive mother (Mo'nique) School...
October 16, 2019
A PROPHET (UN PROPHÈTE)
DescriptionDescription Like the Depression-era gangster classics PUBLIC ENEMY and LITTLE CAESAR, Jacques Audiard's story follows a disadvantaged young man as he masters the codes, rules and tactics of professional criminals. A PROPHET unfolds in prison, amidst a little-known conflict between an older Corsican gang with fraying ties to the Italian mob, and the Arab-Muslim immigrants...
October 16, 2019
PETITION (PETITION: LA COUR DES PLAIGNANTS)
DescriptionDescription Zhao Liang filmed this documentary, without permission, over more than a decade, building a harrowing testimony of suffering on the part of Chinese citizens who spend years of their lives appealing various injustices and abuses committed by Chinese authorities Zhao used hidden cameras to record the plight of these petitioners - farmers expelled from...
October 16, 2019
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (POLITIST, ADJECTIV)
DescriptionDescription After researching the subject of POLICE, ADJECTIVE - which begins with the depiction of a cop on the beat and and ends with a comic inquiry into the meaning of the word "conscience" - filmmaker Corneliu Porimboiu (12:08 EAST OF BUCHAREST, AF/ FEST 2006) realized "that the truth of my character lies in the...
October 16, 2019
OIL CHANGE
DescriptionDescription Kole and Teresa never thought they had a need for fancy cars, big houses or a clean track record to make their relationship work. But then, they got to know each other better.
October 16, 2019
PERPETUUM MOBILE
DescriptionDescription Nervous about leaving the nest, a 24-year-old truck driver still lives with his mother. They keep a careful distance until they stumble upon a body
