October 16, 2019
THE BROTHERS BLOOM
DescriptionDescription Academy Award-winner Rachel Weisz (THE CONSTANT GARDENER), Academy Award-w inner Adrien Brody (THE PIANIST), Mark Ruffalo (ZODIAC) and Academy Award-nominee Rinko Kikuchi (BABEL) star in this globetrotting comedy about the last great adventure of the world's two best con men. Welcome to the world of THE BROTHERS BLOOM, where deception is an art and...
October 16, 2019
BETTER THINGS
DescriptionDescription "Real life was difficult, at best," Gail reads to herself, a good summation of this exploration of people connected by their isolation. An agoraphobia, Gail keeps inside, escaping into romance novels. Mr. and Mrs. Gladwin find their 60-year relationship shifting. In her abiding love, Mrs. Gladwin tries to erode, with little gestures, the barriers...
October 16, 2019
BIRDSONG (EL CANT DELS OCELLS)
DescriptionDescription Albert Serra emerged as a major talent with HONOR DE CAVALLERIA, a retelling of Cervantes's Quixote. BIRDSONG, the Spanish director's second film, follows three ancient kings as they follow signs, omens and angels toward their destination: the birth of a child they believe is the messiah. The story is framed by a succession of...
October 16, 2019
APOLOGY LINE
DescriptionDescription Feeling guilty? The film tells the story of a real-life apology line where members of the public anonymously confess to anything and everything.
October 16, 2019
BEFORE THE FALL (3 DÍAS)
DescriptionDescription Life as we know it ends in three days. The leaders of the world hove just announced that a comet is hurtling toward Earth. No one con stop it, and the object is so immense that there is no hope for any of us to survive. Unfolding against this terrifying backdrop is the story...
October 16, 2019
ALEX AND HER ARSE TRUCK
DescriptionDescription Featuring Baby Shoes, his nymphomaniac girlfriend, her black lover, a mentalist and a pair of drug-dealing lesbians.
October 16, 2019
ALONE IN FOUR WALLS (ALLEIN IN VIER WANDEN)
DescriptionDescription Director Alexandra Westmeier's absorbing documentary offers a poignant look at what a devastated economic structure can do to impressionable youth. This beautifully lensed film about Russian delinquent boys, all under the age of 14, allows its subjects to recount their offenses and share the often-tragic stories of their lives Many of the boys have...
October 16, 2019
AFTERSCHOOL
DescriptionDescription A teenage rites-of-passage drama, AFTERSCHOOL vividly captures the corrosive omnipresence of Web video footage for American teens. From violent You Tube-style clips to Internet pornography, our new media, suggests this debut film from director Antonio Campos, is creating a tangled web of confusion for young people going through puberty. Among them is the skinny,...
October 16, 2019
AGILE, MOBILE, HOSTILE: A YEAR WITHIN ANDRE WILLIAMS
DescriptionDescription A larger-than-life presence, magnetic raconteur and blues-soaked dandy, Andre Williams is o singular figure in American music. On the backs of hit 45s like Bacon Fat, Jail Bait and Shake a Tail Feather, Williams become on R&B star in the late 1950s and early 1960s. At Motown he mentored young Stevie Wonder and worked...
October 16, 2019
ACNE
DescriptionDescription Few films capture the pitfalls of growing up as simply and effectively as Federico Veiroj's heartfelt, beautifully crafted debut. A teenage rite-of-passage drama infused with comedy and raging hormones, ACNE vividly captures the tangled confusion of adolescence and ripeness of puberty for this young Jewish boy. At 13, Rafa Bregman (Alejandro Tocar) is going...
