October 16, 2019
NOTHING MORE (NADA MAS)
DescriptionDescription Winner of the Best First Feature Award at the Havana Film Festival, NOTHING MORE enlists a cadre of innovative techniques-crisp black and white cinematography, fanciful language juxtaposed with absurd satire and slapstick, and colorful bursts of animation-all used to punctuate this quirky and stylized tale. When we first meet Carla, she is awaiting an...
October 16, 2019
MILLENNIUM ACTRESS
DescriptionDescription Renowned anime director Satoshi Kon exhibits a respect and fondness for Japanese history and culture through jaw-dropping animated sequences in MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, a compelling romance/adventure where fantasy and reality collide. A director named Genya Tachibana is hired to film a documentary about legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who 30 years earlier, abruptly ended her career,...
October 16, 2019
MONA, MON AMOUR
DescriptionDescription An animated view of rules for dating in New York best describes MONA, MON AMOUR.
October 16, 2019
MAX
DescriptionDescription In 1918, 15 years before ascending to the rank of Chancellor of Germany, Adolph Hitler was just another struggling painter scouring the streets of Munich with a sketchpad under his skinny, unwashed arm. Hitler's penciled drawings of cocker spaniels and landscapes didn't suit the new era of anarchic Dadaism, any more than his conservative...
October 16, 2019
MBOUTOUKOU
DescriptionDescription Locating the perfect termite mound in MBOUTOUKOU is precisely what 12-year-old Napo sets out to achieve.
October 16, 2019
MAN ON THE TRAIN (L’HOMME DU TRAIN)
DescriptionDescription Simplicity in art is often only discovered after a lifetime of work. In this superbly imagined and deeply moving film, Patrice Leconte strips away artifice and extraneous detail to focus on two unlikely men. MAN ON THE TRAIN features two of France's most famous entertainers-Jean Rochefort and singer-actor Johnny Hollyday-providing them both with a...
October 16, 2019
MANITOU’S SHOE (DER SCHUH DES MANITU)
DescriptionDescription Move over BLAZING SADDLES and make room for this English dubbed German box office record-breaking madcap Western spoof that holds nothing sacred. In order to buy a saloon for his tribe, Apache Chief Abahachi takes out a loan from a Shoshone lender. As it turns out, the real estate agent is actually a really...
October 16, 2019
A MAP OF THE HEART (DER FELSEN)
DescriptionDescription Who would think that the most difficult place in the world to run away from your problems would be an island in the Mediterranean Sea? Writer/director Dominik Graf explores Corsica, along with the possibilities of digital video, in this tale of good-byes, bad decisions and obsession. Katrin agrees to a final farewell trip with...
October 16, 2019
A LUCKY DAY (UNA DIA DE SUERTE)
DescriptionDescription With a staunch disregard for normal narrative form, Sandra Gugliotta's documentary background infuses her debut feature film A LUCKY DAY with an electric melding of genres. A forceful tale of illusive passion, 25-year-old Elsa lives in Buenos Aires, a city of unrest, unemployment and poverty. She struggles to make ends meet with temp work...
October 16, 2019
LUCKY MAN
DescriptionDescription Are the stakes too high in LUCKY MAN, for a lifetime loser who attempts to play out the perfect poker hand?
