October 16, 2019
SHE GOT GAME
DescriptionDescription Tennis might be the most glamorous and lucrative of all women's sports. But as SHE GOT GAME shows, it also might be the most lonely and heartbreaking. Bobbi Jo Krals and Abbey Jack Neidik's absorbing documentary follows the journey of Sonya Jeyaseelan, ranked #47 in the world. She struggles daily to overcome injuries, end...
October 16, 2019
SHUI HEN
DescriptionDescription SHUI HEN is the story of a Chinese girl in Hong Kong who rejoins her family in Cuba after being left behind 15 years earlier.
October 16, 2019
SANSA
DescriptionDescription Imagine what a trance might look like through the eyes of the hypnotized and you might approximate the experience of watching writer/director Siegfried's boldly original film, in which Roschdy Zem turns in a perfectly mesmerizing performance as the alluring and elusive title character. Writer/director Siegfried's much-admired first feature LOUISE (TAKE 2) depicted a young...
October 16, 2019
SEXUAL DEPENDENCY (DEPENDENCIA SEXUAL)
DescriptionDescription Masterfully using the split-screen format, verite camera work and emphasis on spontaneous dialogue, SEXUAL DEPENDENCY explores individual identity versus societal expectations. An appealing young ensemble cast inhabits complex characters whose revelations occur unexpectedly, making them all the more powerful. As the film begins, a billboard featuring a ripped blond hunk in briefs stares down...
October 16, 2019
ROSENSTRASSE
DescriptionDescription Jewish husbands of Aryan wives were protected from deportation to concentration camps and the near-certain death sentences that awaited them. However, during the " final roundup" of mid-winter 1943, many of these protected Jews were suddenly taken to a detention center on the Rosenstrasse, a street in Berlin. We start in present-day New York,...
October 16, 2019
THE SAME RIVER TWICE
DescriptionDescription Working as river guides for much of the 1970s, director Robb Moss and his friends lived an unscheduled, communal (often naked), outdoor life committed to counter-cultural ideals. Cutting between images of a month-long river trip filmed 25 years ago and the current lives of five people from that trip, the film explores bodies, the...
October 16, 2019
THE PURIFIED (DE LUTREDE)
DescriptionDescription Jesper Jargil's THE PURIFIED punctures the myths and misunderstandings of the Dogme revolution, revealing the truths behind the movement that, in many ways, transformed filmmaking, even as it threatened to collapse under the weight of its own ambitions. In 1995, in an effort to reclaim the joy of filmmaking, world-renowned filmmaker Lars von Trier...
October 16, 2019
THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE
DescriptionDescription Australian rocker Ben Lee makes his feature debut as Placid Lake in this sly comedy with hysterical performances by Miranda Richardson and Garry MacDonald as his parents, THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE is a sweet, twisted coming-of-age story. When Placid finishes high school, he decides to rebel. Having been born to a couple of...
October 16, 2019
RED ROSES AND PETROL
DescriptionDescription The seemingly incongruous title is a fitting one writer/director Tamar Simon Hoffs' elegy about an Irish family's scars, secrets and shared experiences contrarily recalled. Malcolm McDowell delivers a typically stellar, powerfully understated, performance. The death of patriarch Enda Doyle, a respected, college librarian and poet, reunites a combustible Irish family. While waiting for their...
October 16, 2019
PUPENDO
DescriptionDescription Part dark comedy, part biting drama, PUPENDO navigates that nasty grey area between complicity and compliance that pervaded society in the former Soviet Bloc countries leading up to the fall of socialism. Mora is a highly talented sculptor who has fallen from his former prestigious posit ion at the Academy of Art; now, he...
