October 16, 2019
GAZE
DescriptionDescription This beautiful video abstraction further meditates on the common themes in Arandi's video work.
October 16, 2019
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
DescriptionDescription Graham and his mother both love God, but in very different ways.
October 16, 2019
FROM HERE TO BREATH
DescriptionDescription Abstract depiction of life and death. One must die to be born again. Water is used as a medium to purify the body and soul to prepare for re-birth.
October 16, 2019
FARO: GODDESS OF THE WATERS (FARO – LA REINE DES EAUX)
DescriptionDescription In this assured debut from Salif Traore, a former assistant to Souleymane Cisse and Abderrahmane Sissako, we follow the story of an engineer who returns to his rural village in Mali many years after having been cast out for being born out of wedlock. Zanga (Fili Traore) returns to the village of his birth...
October 16, 2019
THE FLIGHT OF THE RED BALLOON (LE VOYAGE DU BALLOON ROUGE)
DescriptionDescription Made in conjunction with the Musee d'Orsay, and inspired by Albert Lamorisse's classic family film LE BALLON ROUGE, master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien moves away from his usual investigations of Taiwanese identity, both historical and contemporary, and visits Paris. The result is a subtle meditation on the themes of alienation and life as an outsider....
October 16, 2019
EXPIRED
DescriptionDescription Claire (Samantha Morton , typically superb) and Jay (Jason Patric, in a surprising comic performance that's a career-best) share the unhappy distinction of working at one of those jobs that society holds in lowest esteem-they ticket drivers whose parking meter has expired. Claire is hyper-sensitive and lonely, and has mainly reduced her life to...
October 16, 2019
FAAT-KINE
DescriptionDescription When Kine (the marvelous Venus Seye), a gas-station manager in present-day Senegal, realizes that she is financially unable to provide for her two college-age children's desired European travel and study, she starts to reevaluate her own life of dreams deferred and achievement denied. She was a student once too, with aspirations of becoming a...
October 16, 2019
ELVIS PELVIS
DescriptionDescription Two interlaced stories about hero worship and fatherhood echo one another in Nigerian/UK filmmaker Kevin Aduaka's striking debut ELVIS PELVIS. Elvis Pelvis is a story told in two parts; "THE SUIT" tells of a family living in London in the early '80s and the effects of the legacy of Elvis Presley on them. Ten-year-old...
October 16, 2019
EMERGENCY NEEDS
DescriptionDescription From acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Everson comes a unique meditation on the July 1968 uprising in Cleveland Ohio and the reaction of Mayor Carl Stokes.
October 16, 2019
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK
DescriptionDescription A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life or lack thereof.
