October 16, 2019
ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS
DescriptionDescription This surprising, disorienting comedy is a missile, a brilliantly smart bomb fired straight at the heart of mainstream cinema. It begins as the chronicle of counterculture folk hero Judas (played alternately by Aaron Ruell and Eddie Kaye Thomas) and his quest for love. But it grows in myriad and unexpected directions, exploring the process...
October 16, 2019
OPERATION FILMMAKER
DescriptionDescription After seeing a documentary about a 25-year-old Iraqi film student whose school was destroyed, Liev Schreiber decided to help. So he invited Muthana Mohmed to work on the production of his film EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED in Prague. But getting coffee and making copies is not Mohmed 's idea of learning how to direct. And...
October 16, 2019
ONE DEVIL AND HIS DOG
DescriptionDescription The devil has lost his dog. Everybody run.
October 16, 2019
NOSALTRES
DescriptionDescription One man has paid 750 euros to be smuggled out of Africa, while another has lived in the small town in Catalonia all of his life: What do these two men say to each other as they pass each other on the street each morning? Nothing. Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Toure takes us to...
October 16, 2019
OLDEASTSIDE
DescriptionDescription Very short five-minute, non-malignant parody by Khavn De La Cruz on the ultra-long films by Lav Diaz in general and the five-hour BATANG WESTSIDÉ in particular. Diaz himself chose the five quotes that are digitally deconstructed. The film was made for a conference about piracy in Manila (a hotbed of DVD pirates) and based...
October 16, 2019
NOISE
DescriptionDescription Henry Bean won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2002 with THE BELIEVER, a stunning portrait of a young Jewish man who became a determined neo-Nazi. Bean's Follow-up Feature deals with another articulate intellectual New Yorker with a Fanatical gripe. This time, the campaign is against car alarms, and the tone is tragic-comic instead...
October 16, 2019
NIGHT TRAIN
DescriptionDescription Diao Yinan, the award-winning director of UNIFORM, once again uses his hometown Xi' an as the backdrop for a meditation on Chinese provincial life. Diao's spare images and non-psychological approach to storytelling form a portrait of the almost-monastic life of his characters. Wu Hongyuan (Liu Dan) is a taciturn female bailiff for a court...
October 16, 2019
NAKED (NAAKT)
DescriptionDescription Eric is 8-years-old. He visits a sauna for the first time with his mother and he cannot believe his eyes. As he leaves he encounters a beautiful young woman .
October 16, 2019
NEVER APOLOGIZE: A PERSONAL VISIT WITH LINDSAY ANDERSON
DescriptionDescription A unique hybrid of film, theater and literature, NEVER APOLOGIZE combines actor Malcolm McDowell's personal reminiscences with his readings of pieces written by and about his friend and mentor, celebrated British director Lindsay Anderson. Anderson, the award-winning director, critic, essayist, and anarchist, cast McDowell in his first starring role as the rebellious Mick Travis...
October 16, 2019
MUNYURANGABO
DescriptionDescription Lee Isaac Chung, a Korean-American filmmaker working out of New York, makes his feature debut with an outstanding film about two young Rwandan men, one Hutu and the other Tutsi, on a journey through Rwanda's haunted countryside. Set in the years after the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the film opens with Ngabo (Jeff Rutagengwa)...
