THE REFUGEE ALL STARS

DescriptionDescription THE REFUGEE ALL STARS tells the remarkable and ultimately life- affirming story of a group of six Sierra Leonean musicians who come together to form a band while living as refugees in the Republic of Guinea. In the midst of o brutal civil war, the residents of the West African coastal country of Sierra...

PRINCESS RACCOON

DescriptionDescription "No man should love a Tanuki. Even less should this enchanted forest creature ever love a man." So begins the latest film from Seijun Suzuki. The 82-year-old veteran filmmaker serves up a highly stylized, musical fairytale about forbidden love between a human prince and a mythical shape-shifting creature. Zhang Ziyi (HERO, HOUSE OF FLYING...

QUEENS (REINAS)

DescriptionDescription A laugh out loud send-up of the perfect wedding day, QUEENS is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp from acclaimed director Manuel Gomez Pereira (SALSA ROSA). Set in and around the first ever gay wedding in Spain, QUEENS is a touching and contemporary ensemble comedy. As five headstrong women (Marisa Paredes, Veronica Forque, Carmen...

RAW

DescriptionDescription A woman chooses to leave an abusive lifestyle. RAW is an ambiguous and beautiful depiction of her dual realities.

PABLO: THE POET’S LIVES

DescriptionDescription A surreal cinematic tribute to one of the world's greatest poets, PABLO, THE POET'S LIVES is an impressionist's homage that beckons you to spend some time reveling in the words and images that drift before you. The story of Chile's Pablo Neruda, winner of the World Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature,...

PELE FOREVER (PELE ETERNO)

DescriptionDescription In another time, athletes played for family or for country or, yes, for the love of the game. In another time, fans cheered wildly for their team and applauded greatness in an opponent's efforts. And, in that time, a man widely regarded as the greatest soccer player of all time roused entire stadiums of...

NO GRAY TWILIGHT

DescriptionDescription A cinematic meditation on the ritualized preparations of several young cowboys as they get ready for their rough stock events at an America rodeo, NO GRAY TWILIGHT was inspired by the city symphony films of the early 20th century, the backstage paintings of Degas and the Americana portrait photography of Avedon, Strand, Arbus and...

ON THE OTHER SIDE (AL OTRO LADO)

DescriptionDescription Writer/director Gustavo Loza's visually stimulating, hauntingly timely film punctures the surface of immigration with a distinctive and unconventional storytelling style. Three countries, three cultures, three different realities serve as background for the stories of three children (a Mexican boy, a Cuban boy and a Moroccan girl) who share the same loss-the absence of a...

MUTUAL APPRECIATION

DescriptionDescription After his first feature film FUNNY HA HA, Andrew Bujalski won the IFP's 2004 "Someone to Watch" Spirit Award and Filmmaker magazine selected him as one of the "New Faces of Indie Film." With a nod to Linklater and Warhol, Bujalski's second feature is a lo-fi, black and white, comically laid back film that...

NEXT DOOR (NABOER)

DescriptionDescription Norwegian writer/director Pal Sletaune (JUNK MAIL) cites Alfred Hitchcock as his greatest influence, and this gripping and involving psychosexual tale would no doubt please the master of suspense. Breaking up is hard to do as John finds out when he's dumped by his already on-to-the-next-guy girlfriend Ingrid. Meek and vulnerable, John is set upon...

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