October 16, 2019
LIGHT WORK MOOD DISORDER AND HE WALKED AWAY: AN EVENING WITH JENNIFER REEVES
DescriptionDescription Soon after she began making short experimental works in 1990, Jennifer Reeves attracted attention for her bold and personal compositions. Her film CHRONIC is a haunting, romantic and tragic depiction of a self-destructive young girl who cuts herself to escape the emotional pain of her world. The combination of a semi-narrative drive and striking...
October 16, 2019
KIDS + MONEY
DescriptionDescription Teens in Los Angeles discuss money: getting it, spending it and learning to live without it. KIDS + MONEY is an original short film by award-winning filmmaker and photographer Lauren Greenfield.
October 16, 2019
THE LAST MISTRESS (UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE)
DescriptionDescription Catherine Breillat is known for her transgressive studies of female sexuality in film. In shocking contemporary dramas including FAT GIRL and ROMANCE, she combines graphic interest in female sexual pleasure with ironic portrayals of power struggles in a male-dominated society. THE LAST MISTRESS sets these themes in a strikingly different setting: the aristocratic universe...
October 16, 2019
JUNO
DescriptionDescription While most girls in Dancing Elk, Minnesota are updating their MySpace pages or shopping at the mall, Juno, a whip-smart teen, lives by her own rules. A typically boring afternoon becomes anything but when Juno has sex with the charmingly unassuming Bleeker (Michael Cera of SUPERBAD). Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, she and best...
October 16, 2019
KEY LIME PIE
DescriptionDescription In this animated spin on the noir genre, a man's obsession with key lime pie brings him to the brink of insanity
October 16, 2019
IT’S BETTER IF GABRIELA DOESN’T DIE (MEJOR ES QUE GABRIELA NO SE MUERA)
DescriptionDescription Have you ever met someone and then forgotten they ever existed? That's what happens to telenovella writer Miguel (Mauricio Isaac), who talks his way out of a ticket by supplying the policeman with 'inside information' about a future plotline. Unfortunately , Bracho (Dagoberto Gama) is a cop with an inflated self-image , and when...
October 16, 2019
JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT)
DescriptionDescription Co-directed by popular Israeli novelist and short story writer Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, this entertaining, memorably unsettling film introduces us to three women at a Tel Aviv wedding. Batiya (Sarah Adler) has lost a boyfriend and works at the wedding in a dead-end waitress job. Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), a...
October 16, 2019
I MET THE WALRUS
DescriptionDescription Raskin romances Lennon in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.
October 16, 2019
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
DescriptionDescription SEXLESS, the 2003 film by comedy director Alex Holdridge is the only movie to have won both the Jury and Audience Award for best feature film at the SXSW Film Festival. Holdridge's new work is a comic and tender ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles. Wilson (Scoot...
October 16, 2019
IRINA PALM
DescriptionDescription Rock star turned actress Marianne Faithful is mesmerizing as a woman trying to help her grandson in any way she can. Maggie needs money urgently. Her grandson is seriously ill in the hospital, and the medication that could save his life is more than his parents can afford. Desperate, Maggie, a middle-class Londoner in...
