October 16, 2019
THE SAME RIVER TWICE
DescriptionDescription Working as river guides for much of the 1970s, director Robb Moss and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal (often naked), outdoor life committed to counter-cultural ideals. Cutting between images of a month-long river trip filmed 25 years ago and the current lives of five people from that trip, the film explores bodies, the...
October 16, 2019
THE PURIFIED (DE LUTREDE)
DescriptionDescription Jesper Jargil's THE PURIFIED punctures the myths and misunderstandings of the Dogme revolution, revealing the truths behind the movement that, in many ways, transformed filmmaking, even as it threatened to collapse under the weight of its own ambitions. In 1995, in an effort to reclaim the joy of filmmaking, world-renowned filmmaker Lars von Trier...
October 16, 2019
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
DescriptionDescription Australian rocker Ben Lee makes his feature debut as Placid Lake in this sly comedy with hysterical performances by Miranda Richardson and Garry MacDonald as his parents, THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE is a sweet, twisted coming-of-age story. When Placid finishes high school, he decides to rebel. Having been born to a couple of...
October 16, 2019
RED ROSES AND PETROL
DescriptionDescription The seemingly incongruous title is a fitting one writer/director Tamar Simon Hoffs' elegy about an Irish family's scars, secrets and shared experiences contrarily recalled. Malcolm McDowell delivers a typically stellar, powerfully understated, performance. The death of patriarch Enda Doyle, a respected, college librarian and poet, reunites a combustible Irish family. While waiting for their...
October 16, 2019
PUPENDO
DescriptionDescription Part dark comedy, part biting drama, PUPENDO navigates that nasty grey area between complicity and compliance that pervaded society in the former Soviet Bloc countries leading up to the fall of socialism. Mora is a highly talented sculptor who has fallen from his former prestigious posit ion at the Academy of Art; now, he...
October 16, 2019
THE PUPPETEER
DescriptionDescription THE PUPPETEER is made in the tradition of the best of Egyptian melodramas; it involves a moral fight between good and evil intertwined with so and dance. Omar Sharif stars as an aging puppet-player, a self-declared artist with a message against social injustice. The film poignantly captures his heroic struggles to fund his son...
October 16, 2019
POEM – I SET MY FOOT UPON THE AIR AND IT CARRIED ME (POEM – ICHE SETZLE DEN FUSS IN DIE LUFT UND SIE TRUG)
DescriptionDescription Cast aside all narrative notions and open your mind lo the visual possibilities that erupt from this mod marriage of celluloid and poetry. POEM combines the words of great writers with carefully chosen documentary footage and dramatized interpretations. Working like a musical composer, director Rolf Schmerberg selected more than a dozen poems by Rilke,...
October 16, 2019
PORNOGRAFIA
DescriptionDescription "Pornography" means different things to different people . To Frederic and Witold, two middle-aged men living in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943, it is entirely a mental exercise, the savoring of imaginary erotic scenarios created through their love of mind games. Frederic directs film and theater productions; Witold is a writer. The two take their...
October 16, 2019
THE OLIVE HARVEST
DescriptionDescription Writer/ director Hanna Elias eschews convention in this heartfelt drama set in a small Palestinian village. By avoiding the calcified rhetoric of extremists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-choosing instead to explore a painful love triangle-the film smartly emphasizes the universality of the human condition. Younger brother Taher greets Mazen upon his release...
October 16, 2019
OSAMA
DescriptionDescription Based on the true story of a young girl living under the rule of the Taliban, this Afghani film met with standing ovations and a Special Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In a society where women are forbidden to show their faces in public, a 12-year-old girl disguises herself as a...
