October 16, 2019
AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
DescriptionDescription "This is the most personal and most disturbing film I have made. I knew Aileen over the course of twelve years, and the barbaric nature of her death had a profound effect on me ... It was one film I didn't choose to make; I came to it as a witness and ended up...
October 16, 2019
ADAM & EVA
DescriptionDescription Paul Harather's exquisitely charming ADAM & EVA is a comic, disarming and accomplished dissection of the quintessential fairytale ending. Fireman Adam saved the beautiful Eva from a fire four years earl married her-a fairy tale come true. But instead of living happily ever after, Adam is bored with Eva's predictability. Eva, in turn, is...
October 16, 2019
AFTERLIFE
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Audience Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, few films capture our universal yearning Jar connection as simply and effectively as Alison Peebles' heartfelt and beautifully crafted AFTERLIFE. Kenny Brogan (Kevin McKidd), on ambitious journalist is working on a story about a doctor suspected of assisting terminally ill patients with suicide. He...
October 16, 2019
XX/XY
DescriptionDescription Don't let the simple title fool you. Writer/director Austin Chick has fashioned a rich, involving drama about the sheer messiness of being in love, told in two parts held together by Mark Ruffalo's thoroughly natural and commanding performance. Part One chronicles a year in the salad days of Coles, an irrepressibly charming, hopelessly immature...
October 16, 2019
THE WISER SEX
DescriptionDescription THE WISER SEX is a virtually unknown Claudette Colbert film produced in the pre-Code era. Colbert has a lively double role as a woman of independence, who pretends to be a gold-digger to save her boyfriend, played by Melvyn Douglas, from a trumped-up murder charge. Colbert makes friends with the culprit, and, with the...
October 16, 2019
THE WORMHOLE
DescriptionDescription We open with WORMHOLE, which allows us to view a boy's struggle with the disappearance of his younger brother.
October 16, 2019
A WEDDING IN RAMALLAH
DescriptionDescription "I cannot take another broken heart again, you know?" says Bassam Abed on the eve of his second wedding. After a painful divorce from an American woman, Bassam returns to his native Palestine, seeking a traditional wife willing to fetch his slippers and do his laundry. The first woman who accepts his. offer is...
October 16, 2019
WEST BANK BROOKLYN
DescriptionDescription With wit, charm and irreverence, writer/director/producer/actor Ghazi Albuliwi's WEST BANK BROOKLYN contrasts the different interpretations of God and religion for three young Muslim friends living in Brooklyn where Jewish, Muslim and Catholics live side-by-side. Albuliwi plays a chameleon-like realist who adopts a Puerto Rican name and look to avoid the stigma of being named...
October 16, 2019
WHITE LIKE THE MOON
DescriptionDescription WHITE LIKE THE MOON poses the idea that if the sun makes you darker, then the moon will make you lighter.
October 16, 2019
VINCENT
DescriptionDescription VINCENT tells how a young boy's perspective on life is colored by an early mishap, but nothing can dull Vincent's hopes for a bright future full of love.
