October 16, 2019
RABBIT-PROOF FENCE
DescriptionDescription Over the past several years, Australia has been taking measures-on both governmental and social levels-to address the agony of the "Stolen Generation" of aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families. Director Phillip Noyce's RABBIT-PROOF FENCE is based on the true story of three girls, aged 14, 10 and eight, who fled a state-run dormitory...
October 16, 2019
RESPIRO
DescriptionDescription Shot on the sun-drenched Sicilian island of Lampedusa, RESPIRO does a superb job of capturing the everyday rhythms of a small fishing village and the tensions that threaten to tear apart a lively local family. The ocean is the backdrop of this story of love and jealousy. The local fishermen eke out a meager...
October 16, 2019
PROFILES IN SCIENCE
DescriptionDescription PROFILES IN SCIENCE will enlighten you about the life of the fictional Dr. Chung, on unsung pioneer of time-lapse photography.
October 16, 2019
PROM NIGHT IN KANSAS CITY
DescriptionDescription The only memory filmmaker Hali Lee retains about her high school prom is the hangover she had the next day. In her search to find the real reason why this quintessential American ritual still endures, Lee, along with co-director Peter von Ziegesar, headed home to Kansas City to hang out with today's teens as...
October 16, 2019
ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE
DescriptionDescription From acclaimed documentarians D A Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus (MONTEREY POP, STARTUP.COM, DON'T LOOK BACK, ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS) comes a rocking documentary about the rhythm and blues performers who were the backbone of Stax Records and the Motown sound. These are the musicians who survived and kept on working: Wilson...
October 16, 2019
PHOTOS TO SEND
DescriptionDescription Winner of the San Francisco International Film Festival's Golden Gate Award, PHOTOS TO SEND retraces Life magazine photographer Dorothea Lange's footsteps in County Clare, Ireland, after nearly 50 years, to find that time has stood still in this small, farming community. American photographer Dorothea Lange is best remembered for her striking photographs of 1930s...
October 16, 2019
NOWHERE IN AFRICA (NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA)
DescriptionDescription Winner of German Film Awards for Best Film and Best Director for Caroline Link, NOWHEREIN AFRICA is based on Stefanie Zweig's best-selling autobiographical novel depicting her German-Jewish family's escape to Kenya from Nazi terror during the 1930s. Leaving their loved ones behind, the Redrich family find themselves far from their bourgeois existence, thrust into...
October 16, 2019
OKAY
DescriptionDescription It's not easy being the only person who can keep it together when everything falls apart. Nete has always seen herself as the responsible one in her family. But after years of stress and worry, her concern for everyone is veering dangerously close to contempt. In her cramped apartment, she casually belittles her husband...
October 16, 2019
MORVERN CALLAR
DescriptionDescription After Lynne Ramsay's first short film received the 1996 Cannes Jury Prize, she continued to win critical acclaim with her feature debut, RATCATCHER. MORVERN CALLAR is the assured sophomore film from Ramsay, starring the stellar Samantha Morton (SWEET & LOWDOWN, MINORITY REPORT, JESUS' SON). When Morvern's boyfriend unexpectedly commits suicide, she's left alone and...
October 16, 2019
MOZAMBIQUE WHERE FILM GOES (MOZAMBICO DOVE VAL IL)
DescriptionDescription Rarely has the increasingly familiar tale of filmmakers making movies about movies been explored with such impact and resonance as in MOZAMBIQUE WHERE FILM GOES. The depiction of the moving images featured in this documentary-and the audiences' reactions to these images-has lyrical beauty. From August to October 2001, "Cinemovel" has crossed Mozambique. Screening films...
