October 16, 2019
PLEASE VOTE FOR ME
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Sterling Audience Award at the SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival, PLEASE VOTE FOR ME is one of the most insightful and enjoyable documentaries of the year. At a school in Wuhan, China, it's class monitor election time. Three eight-yea r-old contenders are chosen to square off: the incumbent known for...
October 16, 2019
THE PASSENGER
DescriptionDescription Michelangelo Antonioni's last great movie appeared in 1975 when he was in his early 60s. It's officially a French-Spanish- Italian co-production, with an American star, Jack Nicholson. The film immediately escapes categories, beginning in stark desert terrain and following a man called Locke who assumes the identity of another man called Robertson. The director...
October 16, 2019
PERSEPOLIS
DescriptionDescription Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical novels detail her upbringing in Tehran from the overthrow of the Shah through the years of Ayatollah Khomeni's Islamic fundamentalist regime and the Iran-Iraq war. Her gripping personal journey from childhood through adolescence, followed by her sexual awakening and an unhappy marriage, has been transformed by Satrapi and co-director Vincent Pasrranaud...
October 16, 2019
ORANGE REVOLUTION
DescriptionDescription Like something out of an old world spy novel, a popular politician is poisoned in an attempt to install a ruthless opponent. Welcome to the ORANGE REVOLUTION. Steve York's riveting documentary chronicles what led to the Orange Revolution in Ukraine surrounding the 2004 election between Viktor Yushchenko, the people's choice, and Viktor Yanukovych, the...
October 16, 2019
OUSMANE
DescriptionDescription Dakar, Senegal Ousmane, a 7-year-old child begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.
October 16, 2019
ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS
DescriptionDescription This surprising, disorienting comedy is a missile, a brilliantly smart bomb fired straight at the heart of mainstream cinema. It begins as the chronicle of counterculture folk hero Judas (played alternately by Aaron Ruell and Eddie Kaye Thomas) and his quest for love. But it grows in myriad and unexpected directions, exploring the process...
October 16, 2019
ONE DEVIL AND HIS DOG
DescriptionDescription The devil has lost his dog. Everybody run.
October 16, 2019
OPERATION FILMMAKER
DescriptionDescription After seeing a documentary about a 25-year-old Iraqi film student whose school was destroyed, Liev Schreiber decided to help. So he invited Muthana Mohmed to work on the production of his film EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED in Prague. But getting coffee and making copies is not Mohmed 's idea of learning how to direct. And...
October 16, 2019
NOSALTRES
DescriptionDescription One man has paid 750 euros to be smuggled out of Africa, while another has lived in the small town in Catalonia all of his life: What do these two men say to each other as they pass each other on the street each morning? Nothing. Award-winning Senegalese filmmaker Moussa Toure takes us to...
October 16, 2019
OLDEASTSIDE
DescriptionDescription Very short five-minute, non-malignant parody by Khavn De La Cruz on the ultra-long films by Lav Diaz in general and the five-hour BATANG WESTSIDÉ in particular. Diaz himself chose the five quotes that are digitally deconstructed. The film was made for a conference about piracy in Manila (a hotbed of DVD pirates) and based...
