October 16, 2019
THE PUPPETEER
DescriptionDescription THE PUPPETEER is made in the tradition of the best of Egyptian melodramas; it involves a moral fight between good and evil intertwined with so and dance. Omar Sharif stars as an aging puppet-player, a self-declared artist with a message against social injustice. The film poignantly captures his heroic struggles to fund his son...
October 16, 2019
POEM – I SET MY FOOT UPON THE AIR AND IT CARRIED ME (POEM – ICHE SETZLE DEN FUSS IN DIE LUFT UND SIE TRUG)
DescriptionDescription Cast aside all narrative notions and open your mind lo the visual possibilities that erupt from this mod marriage of celluloid and poetry. POEM combines the words of great writers with carefully chosen documentary footage and dramatized interpretations. Working like a musical composer, director Rolf Schmerberg selected more than a dozen poems by Rilke,...
October 16, 2019
PORNOGRAFIA
DescriptionDescription "Pornography" means different things to different people . To Frederic and Witold, two middle-aged men living in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1943, it is entirely a mental exercise, the savoring of imaginary erotic scenarios created through their love of mind games. Frederic directs film and theater productions; Witold is a writer. The two take their...
October 16, 2019
THE OLIVE HARVEST
DescriptionDescription Writer/ director Hanna Elias eschews convention in this heartfelt drama set in a small Palestinian village. By avoiding the calcified rhetoric of extremists on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-choosing instead to explore a painful love triangle-the film smartly emphasizes the universality of the human condition. Younger brother Taher greets Mazen upon his release...
October 16, 2019
OSAMA
DescriptionDescription Based on the true story of a young girl living under the rule of the Taliban, this Afghani film met with standing ovations and a Special Jury Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. In a society where women are forbidden to show their faces in public, a 12-year-old girl disguises herself as a...
October 16, 2019
OCULARIST
DescriptionDescription In OCULARIST, an ocular prosthetician's hauntingly sight less prosthetic eyes transform faces, outlooks and lives.
October 16, 2019
THE OLD WOMAN (LA VIEJA DE LA BOLSA)
DescriptionDescription Starting the program, a man meets a strange old woman while crossing the street in THE OLD WOMAN.
October 16, 2019
OLD, NEW, BORROWED AND BLUE (SE TIL VENSTRE, DER ER EN SVENSKER)
DescriptionDescription Do we choose love or does love choose us? This spirited yet bittersweet romantic comedy makes an awfully strong case for the latter, with wonderful writing and vibrant performances from a game ensemble cast. Forty-eight hours before her wedding, Katrine is a typically harried bride-to-be. There are the place cards to calligraphy for her...
October 16, 2019
NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW
DescriptionDescription Award-winning short filmmaker (and son of avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs) Azazel Jacobs makes his feature directorial debut, with a story about self-discovery and constantly changing observations within the poetic landscape of the New York indie film world. Lamont steps outside of life's continual surveillance and becomes the omnipotent viewer (along with the audience), commenting...
October 16, 2019
NOI ALBINOI
DescriptionDescription Presenting a close up view of a strange teenage boy in a remote Icelandic village, Dagur Kari's stunning debut feature has garnered numerous awards worldwide for its masterful fusion of dry comedy, coming-of-age angst and earth shattering myth. Noi lives with his grandmother, doesn't do his homework, has a fort in the basement and...
