October 16, 2019
THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
DescriptionDescription The most active of the surviving Nouvelle Vague/Cahiers du Cinema players, 80-year-old writer-director Jacques Rivette has built a five-decades-long career centered on one preoccupation: the difficulty of cinematic representation. Rivette often uses the codes of theater as an exaggerated means of redefining film space and employ s a variety of acting styles to reveal...
October 16, 2019
ECHO
DescriptionDescription When a divorced man kidnaps his own son because he cannot bear the thought of losing him, he falls off the edge of reason and into a haunting fantasy that is both thrilling and horrifying. As a police officer, Simon is expected to be in control of his emotions, but when he decides to...
October 16, 2019
DOGHEAD (CABEZA DE PERRO)
DescriptionDescription Director /screenwriter Santi Amodeo (ASTRONAUTS) utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful story of a man looking to get outside. Samuel is an 18-year-old boy who has suffered from a strange neurological disease since childhood. Sometimes he stops hearing, can't see or is incapable of walking or uttering a word. As...
October 16, 2019
DOWNHILL SKIING IN SUMMER
DescriptionDescription The Lauberhorn ski race, the world's longest downhill ski race, has been postponed until summer. The 10,000 wooden slats give their account of the perfect line, which is highly sought after but never achieved in winter. The viewers become the ski racers and the newscaster is live on the scene to accompany the viewers...
October 16, 2019
DESTINY MANIFESTO
DescriptionDescription Paintings of the American western frontier and contemporary images of the conflict in the Middle East fuse in a painted collage.
October 16, 2019
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (LA SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON)
DescriptionDescription Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle France, is blessed with money, talent, love and children. And then, in a moment, he is suddenly paralyzed from head to toe. This tragedy, however, doesn't deter Bauby's determination to communicate with the world. The latest meditation on the creative process for Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS)...
October 16, 2019
DEAR BILL GATES
DescriptionDescription A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture . Combining original and archival film, video and images from the Internet, DEAR BILL GATES draws unexpected connections between mining, memory and Microsoft.
October 16, 2019
DEFICIT
DescriptionDescription Actor Gael Garcia Bernal's directing debut is infused with an infectious, youthful energy, voyeuristically following his complex characters at a house party just outside of Mexico City. Bourgeois, rich kid Cristobal (Gorda Bernal) is having his friends over for a barbecue at his parents' weekend home. His younger sister (Camila Sodi) and her hippie,...
October 16, 2019
CONTINENTAL, A FILM WITHOUT GUNS
DescriptionDescription A middle-aged man wakes up on an abandoned bus in the middle of the forest. He walks off the bus, disappears into the forest and is never seen or heard from again. Louis, when asked why he is interested in taking the disappeared man's job in insurance sales, replies, "I am looking for change."...
October 16, 2019
THE COUNTERFEITERS (DIE FALSCHER)
DescriptionDescription Austrian writer/director Stefan Ruzowitsky tells a little-known, true-life story of World War II. Solomon Sorowitsch, (Karl Markovics) a gifted artist, black-market forger and Russian Jew, is plucked from almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp and put in charge of a massive Nazi effort to flood England and America with counterfeit currency. Sorowitsch...
