October 16, 2019
CYRANO FERNANDEZ
DescriptionDescription Once honor was the sole possession of those few rich enough cultivate it. Nowadays it is a fossil, a self-imposed handicap for moral Luddites. Certainly that's the case for Cyrano Fernandez (Edgar Ramirez), a true idealist whose devotion to the notion of romantic, courtly love is both his reason for being and his Achilles'...
October 16, 2019
CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY (IL VA PLEUVOIR SUR CONAKRY)
DescriptionDescription CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY takes us into urban Africa, where the new-beauty pageants, Apple laptops, recording studio, beachside bars-clashes with the old, and in Conakry, the weatherman is predicting rain. Bangali (known as BB) secretly works as a cartoonist at the city paper for his girlfriend's father, satirizing the local religious zealots. Unfortunately for BB,...
October 16, 2019
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
DescriptionDescription This is the quintessential Los Angeles story. Young people with heads full of lofty dreams move to Los Angeles with hopes of making it big. But fate holds far too many twists for the naive newcomers, and before long they are slapping on spandex for a living. CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHEROis a feature-length documentary...
October 16, 2019
CHOP SHOP
DescriptionDescription Combining the powers of observation and understatement, director Ramin Bahrani is able to render an emotional tale of two siblings who struggle to stay together and get their own little piece of the American dream. Small in stature but huge in ambition, 12-year-old Dominican orphan Alejandro works every angle in his struggle to support...
October 16, 2019
CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY
DescriptionDescription One of the most touching love stories of the year, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's CHRIS & DON . A LOVE STORY chronicles the 30-year relations hip between British born author Christopher Isherwood (whose novel The Berlin Stories would later become the film and musical CABARET), and his much younger partner, artist Don Bachardy....
October 16, 2019
BODY OF WAR
DescriptionDescription One of the most effective ways to give an important story life beyond the 60-second news bite is to present it in o film. So it is no surprise that Phil Donahue, one of the fathers of the modern television talk show, has collaborated with veteran documentary filmmaker Ellen Spiro to give us an...
October 16, 2019
CARAMEL
DescriptionDescription ln her gorgeous and love-affirming feature debut - which was the sleeper hit of this year 's Cannes Film Festival - Nadine Labaki finds gold in the hot goo used to strip body hair. Set in and around a Beirut beauty salon, CARAMEL stirs together the stories of five women's lives. In Beirut, five...
October 16, 2019
BLIND MOUNTAIN (MANG SHAN)
DescriptionDescription A demographic time bomb haunts China today. Den Xiaoping 's One-Child Policy has left too few women available for Chinese men to marry, especially in the less prosperous countryside. Writer/director Li Yang's film, which received sustained. ovations at Cannes uses this society-wide crisis as the basis for raw and powerful melodrama. The promise of...
October 16, 2019
BLISS
DescriptionDescription Director Robert Todd's haunting, evocative work will spill over our public space for all to enjoy. With deep ties to the natural world, Todd's films have elevated modern experimental filmmaking.
