October 16, 2019
THE MAN OF THE YEAR (O HOMEN DO ANO)
DescriptionDescription A simple haircut triggers a bloody chain of events in Jose Henrique Fonseca's spellbinding feature debut. After challenging him to a modern-day duel, Maiquel, a lost and unsure loner, kills Suel, a criminal everyone loves to hate. Fearing reprisals and prison, Maiquel prepares to flee, until an outpouring of thanks and adulation from neighbors...
October 16, 2019
A LITTLE BIT OF FREEDOM (KLEINE FREIHEIT)
DescriptionDescription Memories can cast long shadows that cross international boundaries. Trying to make new lives for themselves in Germany, two young refugees are confronted by ugly reminders of their past. Teenaged Baran works diligently at a fast-food restaurant in Hamburg while keeping one eye out for the police. Having fled Kurdistan after the disappearance of...
October 16, 2019
LIVE FOREVER
DescriptionDescription "It was just madness," says Oasis' Noel Gallagher from the comfort of his leather throne. He's waxing pompous about the mid-'90s, those glory years when he and his friends (and enemies) orchestrated the British takeover of rock. In the wake of Thatcherism, American chart domination and all-things Cobain, the capricious, melodic UK pop scene...
October 16, 2019
THE M WORD
DescriptionDescription THE M WORD is the story of two ambitious executives who decide to negotiate a future together.
October 16, 2019
KOPS (KOPPS)
DescriptionDescription From the creator of the award-winning JALLA JALLA comes a sweet, quirky comedy that takes place in a small town in Sweden where there hasn't been a single crime in over 10 years. When the tightly knit local police force hears that their station is being closed down and the officers transferred elsewhere, they...
October 16, 2019
THE LETTER
DescriptionDescription "How long until we ore like Somalia?" asks a frustrated citizen of Lewiston, Maine. It sounds like a ludicrous question, but Ziad H. Hamzeh's engaging documentary explores the complicated story behind this divided town. Once, Lewiston's 97% Caucasian population made it a uniformly white berg in the whitest state in America, while its profitable...
October 16, 2019
KITCHEN STORIES (SALMER FRA KJOKKENET)
DescriptionDescription Many filmmakers have focused on the conflict between science, which is presumably cold and rational, and volatile human needs. Few, however, have done it as humorously -- or with as much heart -- as Bent Hamer in KITCHEN STORIES. Falke (Tomas Norstrom) is an employee of a Swedish home science company assigned to observe...
October 16, 2019
KNIGHT GAMES (RITTERSCHLAG)
DescriptionDescription Held in prison by two dragons the beautiful princess cries for help in KNIGHT GAMES, but the attacking knights don't realize that dragons also need to practice.
October 16, 2019
KAMCHATKA
DescriptionDescription It's easy to see why this was Argentina's submission for Best Foreign Language Film-KAMCHATKA is an achingly wrought drama set against the backdrop of the coup in 1976. Director Marcelo Pineyro's wrenching story of children caught in the political cross-fire is told from the point of view of a 10-year-old boy, who, along with...
October 16, 2019
KILL ME TENDER (HAZ CON MIGO LO QUE QUIERAS)
DescriptionDescription Ingrid Rubio shines as a troubled young woman with a Circe-like ability to enchant men, even as she struggles to find her place in the world. Writer/director Ramon de Espana deftly weaves comedy and tragedy in this twisted meditation on love. A recent widower agrees to hire his maid's daughter, only to find himself...
