NIGHT TRAIN

DescriptionDescription Diao Yinan, the award-winning director of UNIFORM, once again uses his hometown Xi' an as the backdrop for a meditation on Chinese provincial life. Diao's spare images and non-psychological approach to storytelling form a portrait of the almost-monastic life of his characters. Wu Hongyuan (Liu Dan) is a taciturn female bailiff for a court...

NOISE

DescriptionDescription Henry Bean won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2002 with THE BELIEVER, a stunning portrait of a young Jewish man who became a determined neo-Nazi. Bean's Follow-up Feature deals with another articulate intellectual New Yorker with a Fanatical gripe. This time, the campaign is against car alarms, and the tone is tragic-comic instead...

NAKED (NAAKT)

DescriptionDescription Eric is 8-years-old. He visits a sauna for the first time with his mother and he cannot believe his eyes. As he leaves he encounters a beautiful young woman .

NEVER APOLOGIZE: A PERSONAL VISIT WITH LINDSAY ANDERSON

DescriptionDescription A unique hybrid of film, theater and literature, NEVER APOLOGIZE combines actor Malcolm McDowell's personal reminiscences with his readings of pieces written by and about his friend and mentor, celebrated British director Lindsay Anderson. Anderson, the award-winning director, critic, essayist, and anarchist, cast McDowell in his first starring role as the rebellious Mick Travis...

MUNYURANGABO

DescriptionDescription Lee Isaac Chung, a Korean-American filmmaker working out of New York, makes his feature debut with an outstanding film about two young Rwandan men, one Hutu and the other Tutsi, on a journey through Rwanda's haunted countryside. Set in the years after the Rwandan genocide of 1994, the film opens with Ngabo (Jeff Rutagengwa)...

MY BIODEGRADABLE HEART

DescriptionDescription A story about puppy love and how long it would take said puppy to decompose.

MR. WARMTH, THE DON RICKLES PROJECT

DescriptionDescription If you're old enough to remember his hysterical live performances seated on Johnny Carson's TONIGHT SHOW couch during the 60s, then you know that Don Rickles is simply one of the legendary Kings of Comedy. What you might not know is that, in his 80s, he's happily married and still packing in crowds on...

THE MUGGER (EL ASALTANTE)

DescriptionDescription He's a mugger in a three-piece suit; the kind of thief who'd fit in quite nicely in a French New Wave piano bar circa 1957. Ramos oozes avuncular charm as he pulls his gun and asks for the cash in the school safe, but his eyes betray his weariness and the grey in his...

METAMORPHOSIS

DescriptionDescription METAMORPHOSIS is a new film by acclaimed Irish artist Clare Langan. It depicts a world in an unrelenting state of transformation and motion, shifting between scenes of stormy landscapes to snow filled interiors, and from frozen glacial surroundings to violent seas. It is the latest in Langan's catalogue of work exploring mankind's fragile existence...

MOMENT OF GLORY (MOMENT DE GLOIRE)

DescriptionDescription A man's infinite patience pays off as he approaches the climax of a monumental project.

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