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.
October 16, 2019
PARADISE
DescriptionDescription Michael Almereyda is best known for his hip update of HAMLET, with Ethan Hawke , and his black-and-white vampire film NADJA PARADISE continues his recent for into documentary that began with WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL WORLD. Like a ll of Almereyda's films, PARADISE is a lyrical , melancholy journey that reflects on the...
October 16, 2019
OBSERVANDO EL CIELO
DescriptionDescription The night sky, opened up only for the big screen.
October 16, 2019
OF ALL THE THINGS
DescriptionDescription Dennis Lambert, a 60-year-o ld family man selling real estate in Florida, is about to embark an a whirlwind concert tour to the Philippines. Among those watching will be thousands of fans he never knew he had and his son Jody, who is taking a camera to document this historic moment in his father's...
October 16, 2019
NIRVANA
DescriptionDescription Alisa leaves Moscow for St. Petersburg, hoping to escape her loneliness. But her quest for love and happiness, coupled with a dangerous, intense connection with' her troubled neighbors, threatens to destroy everything she knows . Can she emerge from her own wrecked life and emerge as someone new? This tale of drugs, sex, crime...
October 16, 2019
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION
DescriptionDescription Quentin Tarantino, the mod professor of exploitation cinema, lends his encycloped ic knowledge of genre film to this documentary about the unheralded, raunchy, raucous, blood-soaked cinema shot in Australia in the 7Os and early '80s - "Ozploitotion." Though the images and ideas may remind you of the biker gong and slasher stories that crowded...
