October 16, 2019
EXPIRED
DescriptionDescription Claire (Samantha Morton , typically superb) and Jay (Jason Patric, in a surprising comic performance that's a career-best) share the unhappy distinction of working at one of those jobs that society holds in lowest esteem-they ticket drivers whose parking meter has expired. Claire is hyper-sensitive and lonely, and has mainly reduced her life to...
October 16, 2019
FAAT-KINE
DescriptionDescription When Kine (the marvelous Venus Seye), a gas-station manager in present-day Senegal, realizes that she is financially unable to provide for her two college-age children's desired European travel and study, she starts to reevaluate her own life of dreams deferred and achievement denied. She was a student once too, with aspirations of becoming a...
October 16, 2019
ELVIS PELVIS
DescriptionDescription Two interlaced stories about hero worship and fatherhood echo one another in Nigerian/UK filmmaker Kevin Aduaka's striking debut ELVIS PELVIS. Elvis Pelvis is a story told in two parts; "THE SUIT" tells of a family living in London in the early '80s and the effects of the legacy of Elvis Presley on them. Ten-year-old...
October 16, 2019
EMERGENCY NEEDS
DescriptionDescription From acclaimed filmmaker Kevin Everson comes a unique meditation on the July 1968 uprising in Cleveland Ohio and the reaction of Mayor Carl Stokes.
October 16, 2019
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK
DescriptionDescription A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life or lack thereof.
October 16, 2019
THE DUCHESS OF LANGEAIS
DescriptionDescription The most active of the surviving Nouvelle Vague/Cahiers du Cinema players, 80-year-old writer-director Jacques Rivette has built a five-decades-long career centered on one preoccupation: the difficulty of cinematic representation. Rivette often uses the codes of theater as an exaggerated means of redefining film space and employ s a variety of acting styles to reveal...
October 16, 2019
ECHO
DescriptionDescription When a divorced man kidnaps his own son because he cannot bear the thought of losing him, he falls off the edge of reason and into a haunting fantasy that is both thrilling and horrifying. As a police officer, Simon is expected to be in control of his emotions, but when he decides to...
October 16, 2019
DOGHEAD (CABEZA DE PERRO)
DescriptionDescription Director /screenwriter Santi Amodeo (ASTRONAUTS) utilizes personal insight and poetic storytelling to craft a thoughtful story of a man looking to get outside. Samuel is an 18-year-old boy who has suffered from a strange neurological disease since childhood. Sometimes he stops hearing, can't see or is incapable of walking or uttering a word. As...
October 16, 2019
DOWNHILL SKIING IN SUMMER
DescriptionDescription The Lauberhorn ski race, the world's longest downhill ski race, has been postponed until summer. The 10,000 wooden slats give their account of the perfect line, which is highly sought after but never achieved in winter. The viewers become the ski racers and the newscaster is live on the scene to accompany the viewers...
October 16, 2019
DESTINY MANIFESTO
DescriptionDescription Paintings of the American western frontier and contemporary images of the conflict in the Middle East fuse in a painted collage.
