October 16, 2019
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (LA SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON)
DescriptionDescription Jean-Dominique Bauby, the editor of Elle France, is blessed with money, talent, love and children. And then, in a moment, he is suddenly paralyzed from head to toe. This tragedy, however, doesn't deter Bauby's determination to communicate with the world. The latest meditation on the creative process for Julian Schnabel (BASQUIAT, BEFORE NIGHT FALLS)...
October 16, 2019
DEAR BILL GATES
DescriptionDescription A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic essay exploring the ownership of our visual history and culture . Combining original and archival film, video and images from the Internet, DEAR BILL GATES draws unexpected connections between mining, memory and Microsoft.
October 16, 2019
DEFICIT
DescriptionDescription Actor Gael Garcia Bernal's directing debut is infused with an infectious, youthful energy, voyeuristically following his complex characters at a house party just outside of Mexico City. Bourgeois, rich kid Cristobal (Gorda Bernal) is having his friends over for a barbecue at his parents' weekend home. His younger sister (Camila Sodi) and her hippie,...
October 16, 2019
CONTINENTAL, A FILM WITHOUT GUNS
DescriptionDescription A middle-aged man wakes up on an abandoned bus in the middle of the forest. He walks off the bus, disappears into the forest and is never seen or heard from again. Louis, when asked why he is interested in taking the disappeared man's job in insurance sales, replies, "I am looking for change."...
October 16, 2019
THE COUNTERFEITERS (DIE FALSCHER)
DescriptionDescription Austrian writer/director Stefan Ruzowitsky tells a little-known, true-life story of World War II. Solomon Sorowitsch, (Karl Markovics) a gifted artist, black-market forger and Russian Jew, is plucked from almost certain death in a Nazi concentration camp and put in charge of a massive Nazi effort to flood England and America with counterfeit currency. Sorowitsch...
October 16, 2019
CYRANO FERNANDEZ
DescriptionDescription Once honor was the sole possession of those few rich enough cultivate it. Nowadays it is a fossil, a self-imposed handicap for moral Luddites. Certainly that's the case for Cyrano Fernandez (Edgar Ramirez), a true idealist whose devotion to the notion of romantic, courtly love is both his reason for being and his Achilles'...
October 16, 2019
CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY (IL VA PLEUVOIR SUR CONAKRY)
DescriptionDescription CLOUDS OVER CONAKRY takes us into urban Africa, where the new-beauty pageants, Apple laptops, recording studio, beachside bars-clashes with the old, and in Conakry, the weatherman is predicting rain. Bangali (known as BB) secretly works as a cartoonist at the city paper for his girlfriend's father, satirizing the local religious zealots. Unfortunately for BB,...
October 16, 2019
CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHERO
DescriptionDescription This is the quintessential Los Angeles story. Young people with heads full of lofty dreams move to Los Angeles with hopes of making it big. But fate holds far too many twists for the naive newcomers, and before long they are slapping on spandex for a living. CONFESSIONS OF A SUPERHEROis a feature-length documentary...
October 16, 2019
CHOP SHOP
DescriptionDescription Combining the powers of observation and understatement, director Ramin Bahrani is able to render an emotional tale of two siblings who struggle to stay together and get their own little piece of the American dream. Small in stature but huge in ambition, 12-year-old Dominican orphan Alejandro works every angle in his struggle to support...
October 16, 2019
CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY
DescriptionDescription One of the most touching love stories of the year, Guido Santi and Tina Mascara's CHRIS & DON . A LOVE STORY chronicles the 30-year relations hip between British born author Christopher Isherwood (whose novel The Berlin Stories would later become the film and musical CABARET), and his much younger partner, artist Don Bachardy....
