October 16, 2019
THE BLAZING SUN (SIRAA FIL-WADI)
DescriptionDescription After discovering Omar Sharif while sitting in a Cairo cafe, director Youssef Chahine gave the handsome young actor his first film role as Ahmed, the son of an estate manager. Set in contemporary 1950s Upper Egypt, this pastoral tale provides a glimpse into the rigid caste system that existed at the time, and the...
October 16, 2019
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (LES INVASIONS BARBARES)
DescriptionDescription Denys Arcand is one of Canada's most celebrated filmmakers, and the ferociously witty and achingly sad THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS revisits his 1986 film THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. This time, the Declins are in their 20s and doing what estranged family members do - struggling to make sense of one another. The scandalous...
October 16, 2019
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
DescriptionDescription In BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, actress-turned-director LisaGay Hamilton (BELOVED, TRUE CRIME, THE PRACTICE) has made a stylishly smart film revealing the remarkable life of distinguished African American actress, teacher, poet and social activist, Beah Richards. Arriving in Hollywood, young Beulah Richardson became Beah Richards. She has portrayed everyone's mother including LisaGay Hamilton's in...
October 16, 2019
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
DescriptionDescription Imagine a beauty pageont "in a country where women are not allowed to bore their skin. Take it a step further - the country has been labeled part of the "Axis of Evil." Welcome to Libya, home of Miss Net World 2002. Heralded by the slogan "Beauty will save the world," the first-ever Libyan...
October 16, 2019
AT THAT POINT…. REBECA
DescriptionDescription One morning, Rebeca wakes up to discover her overwhelming weight in AT THAT POINT.... REBECA.
October 16, 2019
AUNT LUISA
DescriptionDescription AUNT LUISA is an old woman who thinks she hears Guy Lombardo and his band serenading her at home.
October 16, 2019
ANGST (DER ALTE AFFE ANGST)
DescriptionDescription Falling in love is the easy part. Staying in love is the bigger challenge for two people in this tense drama from writer/director Oskar Roehler (NO PLACE TO GO). Playwright Robert Hennicke) and physician Marie (Marie Baeumer) have come to a crossroads in their 10-year relationship. Robert is not able to keep up his...
October 16, 2019
AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON (PANJ E ASR)
DescriptionDescription The third film from 23-year-old director Samira Mokhmalbaf (THE APPLE, BLACKBOARDS) is set in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban. Nogreh wants to be her country' s first female p resident, but first she has to find a way to attend school. Nogreh's father is a devoutly religious man who wants his two...
October 16, 2019
AN ALMOST ORDINARY STORY (SKORO SASVIM OBICNA PRICA)
DescriptionDescription Boy meets girl, boy gets girl, girl wonders why they're together. In what maybe the first Serbian romantic comedy, two age-old questions are addressed: how to sustain a long-term relationship and how to, survive your best friend's advice. Belgrade 20-somethings Vlada and Irena repeatedly meet by chance leading to a night of passion and...
October 16, 2019
AMERICAN MADE
DescriptionDescription AMERICAN MADE is the story of an Indian American family stranded on the side of a desert road who are faced with issues of tradition, faith and conformity.
