October 16, 2019
THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING (KUNSTEN A TENKE NEGATIVT)
DescriptionDescription At times both horrific and hilarious, THE ART OF NEGATIVE THINKING is a stunning debut film . Director Bard Breien and actor Fridtjov Saheim have created a countercultural hero for the ages. Geirr is a depressed but bitterly funny and articulate paraplegic who rejects the sympathy his injury generates. Given his isolation , weapons...
October 16, 2019
ATENCO, A CRIME OF STATE
DescriptionDescription Atenco is a symbol of pride in Mexico. The documentary that bears its name captures the peoples' revolt frame-by-frame as it unfolded on May 3 and 4, 2006, by a collective of filmmakers who recorded the darkest days in Mexico's recent history. Atenco villagers formed the "Peoples Front for Defense of their Land" in...
October 16, 2019
ALEXANDRA
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed Russian director Alexander Sokurov (FATHER AND SON, THE RUSSIAN ARK) continues his career-long meditation on the state of the Russian soul in his latest work, an anti-war story set in a Russian army camp in Chechnya. Alexandra (Galina Vishnevskaya) is a grandmothe r who take a train to visit her army officer grandson...
October 16, 2019
ALICE SEES THE LIGHT
DescriptionDescription Alice laments the loss of her view of the night sky, one of her initial reasons for living in the country. The change in her environment is the result of" security lighting" for a large corporate storage facility.
October 16, 2019
AFTER THE FUNERAL
DescriptionDescription After his wife's funeral, a widower listens to his favorite record and imagines one last moment with his lost love.
October 16, 2019
AFTERMATH ON MEADOWLARK LANE
DescriptionDescription While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past-based on a true story.
October 16, 2019
THE AERIAL (LA ANTENA)
DescriptionDescription White text on a black screen reads, "Once upon a time... there was a city without a voice." A pop-up storybook city fills the frame and the black and white homage to silent cinema begins. Although the inhabitants of the unidentified city have lost their voices, their words appear as text on the screen...
October 16, 2019
AFGHAN MUSCLES
DescriptionDescription Danish director Andreas Mol Dalsgaard's relentlessly entertaining documentary follows the most popular sport in Afghanistan, male bodybuilding. And this is not the Afghanistan of your nightly news. Just check out the hilarious scene at a qualifier for the men's national team: competitors strut their stuff in spray-on tans and Speedos while robed, bearded men...
October 16, 2019
1000 JOURNALS
DescriptionDescription Like a modern day message in a bottle, "Someguy" from San Francisco sent 1000 journals out into the world. Offering them via his Web site, leaving them on park benches and restrooms or just handing them to strangers, they began a world tour. With the return of completed journal #526 , the question became...
October 16, 2019
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (4 LUNI, 3 SAPTAMINI SI 2 ZILE)
DescriptionDescription Winner of Cannes' Palme d'Or, writer/director Cristian Mungiu's masterwork manages to be political without a single conventional reference to politics. The story, set in the final year of Ceaucescu's dictatorship in Romania, depicts a college student (the magnificent Anamaria Marinca) in her attempts to help her roommate (Laura Vasiliu) obtain an illegal abortion. As...
