October 16, 2019
COME INTO THE LIGHT (ALLA LUCE DEL SOLE)
DescriptionDescription "I came back in order to help good people step out with their head held high," stated father Giuseppe Puglisi, appointed by the archbishop of Palermo to his native parish of Brancaccio, a suburb of the Sicilian metropolis. Three years later, on his birthday, he was shot by the Mafia. In his new film,...
October 16, 2019
DARK HORSE (VOKSNE MENNESKER)
DescriptionDescription Director Dagur Kári's (NOI ALBINOI) sophomore feature, DARK HORSE is a flawlessly executed, highly stylized romp about a cast of well drawn oddballs shot in hypnotic black and white. DARK HORSE is a comedic drama about the charmingly irresponsible graffiti artist Daniel, who lives in Copenhagen and earns his living painting declarations of love,...
October 16, 2019
DEAD MAN
DescriptionDescription William Blake, a young accountant lost in unfamiliar territory and caught in inextricable circumstances that leave destiny beyond his control, travels the western frontier during the mid-19th century. Wounded and branded an outlaw, Blake flees the gunmen hired to hunt h down. Nobody, an outcast Native American, aides Blake along a journey beyond the...
October 16, 2019
CLARA
DescriptionDescription A beautiful and haunting portrait of a little girl alone. This film uses meticulous stop motion animation to create an eerie and otherworldly scenario.
October 16, 2019
CLOSING TIME
DescriptionDescription A surreal fast-food robbery goes awry. Burgers, tigers, and guns. Oh my!
October 16, 2019
CASANOVA
DescriptionDescription Acclaimed director Lasse Hallström (MY LIFE AS A DOG, CHOCOLAT, AN UNFINISHED LIFE) returns to AFI FEST (the US Premiere of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES opened AFI FEST 1999) with the North American Premiere of CASANOVA, a sharp, sophisticated comedy that gives the legend of Casanova a contemporary edge and a new twist. Starring...
October 16, 2019
CINEMA, ASPIRINS AND VULTURES
DescriptionDescription Developed at the first Sundance Film Institute Screenwrlting Workshop in Brazil, CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES won the Prix de Education Nationale at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the dry, arid, barren landscape of the Northeastern Brazilian hinterland, where vultures circle above. Two men meet in the dessert: Johann, a German who has...
October 16, 2019
BURNING MAN: BEYOND BLACK ROCK
DescriptionDescription The man stands atop his temple, looking down upon the makeshift city built just for him in a dry lakebed in Nevada. He will burn in six days. If you've never been to Burning Man, this should serve as the layman's Cliff Notes. Following a handful of artists as they prepare for the annual...
October 16, 2019
C.R.A.Z.Y.
DescriptionDescription Writer/director Jean-Marc Vallée weaves a wonderfully rich tapestry spanning 20 years in the always hectic and dysfunctional, alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, Beulieu household. Born fourth in a line of five sons, Zach always fell cursed by his Christmas Day birth and the burden of his mother's heartfelt belief that he could heal the sick,...
October 16, 2019
BREAKFAST ON PLUTO
DescriptionDescription The latest from consummate Irish director Neil Jordan, BREAKFAST ON PLUTO tells the story, in 36 short chapters, of Patrick "Kitten" Braden (Cillian Murphy) a cheeky and flamboyant transvestite whose tale begins when she is abandoned at birth by his mother, about whom she knows little, except that she is a dead ringer for...
