October 16, 2019
ADAM RESURRECTED
DescriptionDescription Like his Oscar-nominated AFFLICTION ( 1997), Paul Schrader's latest film deals with on individual tormented by memories of horrific violence . Like MISHIMA ( 1985), it jumps boldly through time and space . And like AUTO FOCUS (2002), it serves up on alternately playful and disturbing mix of sordid reality and stylized, sexually charged...
October 16, 2019
3 WOMEN (SE ZAN)
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Manijeh Hekmat unfurls a beautifully paced, visually rich and emotionally insightful story about a family of three women. On a day that should be ordinary, Minou, a museum rug conservator, sets out with her aging, senile mother to visit the doctor. Already distracted and fretting over her daughter Pegah, who's simply...
October 16, 2019
ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE (AKIRES TO KAME)
DescriptionDescription The West has no real analogue to Takeshi "Beat" Kitano. One of Japan 's best-known celebrities, he has been a stand-up comic, TV personality, novelist, pointer, academic and , as international film buffs know, a major film director. The fluidity he's demonstrated in his creative life is also echoed in his film work ,...
October 16, 2019
24 CITY (ER SHI SI CHENG JI)
DescriptionDescription Jia Zhangke goes one (magnificent) step further in his idiosyncratic exploration of both the thin border between documentary and fiction and the self-imposed destruction experienced by China in her march toward a free-market economy. Though factories were once the temples in which socialism was built, with their workers treated as heroes, they are now...
October 16, 2019
THE YEAR OF THE NAIL (AÑO UÑA)
DescriptionDescription THE YEAR OF THE NAIL is a thoughtful, evocative portrayal of friendship, love, longing and the sometimes static nature of life. Director/Screenwriter Jonas Cuaron (Alfonso Curaron's son) tells this story through photographs and voiceover. Using a year's worth of photos that he took of spontaneous events and day-to-day activities, Cuaron creates an understated but...
October 16, 2019
YOURS TRULY
DescriptionDescription Frank and Charlie sacrifice their morals to find love as two worlds collide.
October 16, 2019
WHITE MAN IN A BLACK BOX
DescriptionDescription Yourself seen through the lens of a camera by young kids of a Himba tribe from northern Namibia'.
October 16, 2019
WITH YOUR PERMISSION (TIL DODEN OS SKILLER)
DescriptionDescription There's a point where permanent optimism becomes something darker, something pathological. Jan, a controlling restaurant manager, is the type of fellow who could put a positive spin on eternal damnation and might well twist off his own head before admitting that he - or anyone else, ever - had done something wrong. The rollicking...
October 16, 2019
WATCHING IT RAIN (VER LLOVER)
DescriptionDescription Some like watching the rain, others would rather get wet.
October 16, 2019
WELCOME TO NOLLYWOOD
DescriptionDescription Nigeria produces 2,400 films a year-it's the third largest film industry worldwide. Nigerian filmmakers are not dreaming about making it big in Hollywood, they're just picking up a camera and making a movie in Nollywood. Nollywood director lzu Ojukwu learned how to make movies by building a projector from scratch. At the center of...
