October 16, 2019
IT’S BETTER IF GABRIELA DOESN’T DIE (MEJOR ES QUE GABRIELA NO SE MUERA)
DescriptionDescription Have you ever met someone and then forgotten they ever existed? That's what happens to telenovella writer Miguel (Mauricio Isaac), who talks his way out of a ticket by supplying the policeman with 'inside information' about a future plotline. Unfortunately , Bracho (Dagoberto Gama) is a cop with an inflated self-image , and when...
October 16, 2019
JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT)
DescriptionDescription Co-directed by popular Israeli novelist and short story writer Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, this entertaining, memorably unsettling film introduces us to three women at a Tel Aviv wedding. Batiya (Sarah Adler) has lost a boyfriend and works at the wedding in a dead-end waitress job. Joy (Ma-nenita De Latorre), a...
October 16, 2019
I MET THE WALRUS
DescriptionDescription Raskin romances Lennon in a cascading flood of multipronged animation.
October 16, 2019
IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS
DescriptionDescription SEXLESS, the 2003 film by comedy director Alex Holdridge is the only movie to have won both the Jury and Audience Award for best feature film at the SXSW Film Festival. Holdridge's new work is a comic and tender ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles. Wilson (Scoot...
October 16, 2019
IRINA PALM
DescriptionDescription Rock star turned actress Marianne Faithful is mesmerizing as a woman trying to help her grandson in any way she can. Maggie needs money urgently. Her grandson is seriously ill in the hospital, and the medication that could save his life is more than his parents can afford. Desperate, Maggie, a middle-class Londoner in...
October 16, 2019
HUMBLE PIE
DescriptionDescription In this charmingly deadpan comedy, director Chris Bowman and screenwriter/star Hubbel Palmer make a stylistic show of their skills and decidedly quirky tone with an infectious film about a guy with a dream of a driver 's license. At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy (Hubbel Palmer) is a wide target. When he sets out to...
October 16, 2019
THE HUNTER
DescriptionDescription Each winter Tub hunts with childhood friends Frank and Kenny. Middle-aged and still the butt of every joke, Tub wants this year to be different. And it is. Deep inside a snow-covered forest, his long-buried aggression comes raging to the surface. Based on the Tobias Wolff short story Hunters in the Snow.
October 16, 2019
HOLLYWOOD CHINESE: THE CHINESE IN AMERICAN FILM
DescriptionDescription Produced, directed, written and edited by Academy Award® nominee and triple Sundance award-winning filmmaker Arthur Dong (LICENSED TO KILL, COMING OUT UNDER FIRE, FORBIDDEN CITY, U.S.A.), HOLLYWOOD CHINESE presents 11 of the community's most accomplished Chinese American film arti sts sharing personal accounts of working in film. Ang Lee, Wayne Wang, Joan Chen, David...
October 16, 2019
HONEYDRIPPER
DescriptionDescription Using a steamy blues soundtrack to tell the story of the birth of rock and roll, iconic independent filmmaker John Sayles's (RETURN OF THE SECAUCUS 7, PASSIONFISH) new film HONEYDRIPPERS is set in an Alabama juke joint in 1950, and is steeped in the miasma of the South. The film features an all -star...
October 16, 2019
HAPPY DESERT (DESERTO FELIZ)
DescriptionDescription Is it possible to quantify something so ephemeral as happiness? As we watch Jessica, a Brazilian runaway forced into prostitution, it becomes hard not to wonder when, exactly, she was most happy. Certainly it was not in her sun-blasted hometown, where she was the victim of abuse and neglect. But is she happier now,...
