FUSE (GORI VATRA)

DescriptionDescription Landmines still explode and the black market thrives in a rural village in Bosnia. War may be over, but the hard-fought struggle for existence continues until a ray of hope arrives-US President Clinton plans to visit. The mayor announces that if the town can pass UN inspection, economic good times may be ahead. But...

FRAGILE

DescriptionDescription One day in September a woman starts a long journey in FRAGILE, visiting the people she loves to say goodbye.

FRANKIE AND JOHNNY ARE MARRIED

DescriptionDescription "Never spend your own money," and never work with your wife. Director Michael Pressman (SOME KIND OF HERO, CHICAGO HOPE) illustrates the folly of ignoring the two cardinal rules of show business in a film that is by turns hilarious, touching and romantic. Pressman is a successful director and producer. His actress wife Lisa...

THE FLYING CLASSROOM (DAS FLIEGENDE KLASSENZIMMER)

DescriptionDescription Expelled from eight boarding schools, Jonathan arrives at St. Thomas School, home of the world-famous boys' choir. Joining his new roommates at their secret meeting place, an abandoned. train car, he discovers a mysterious stranger named Bob-and the script for a play, The Flying Classroom. The kids decide to spiff it up with new...

THE FOG OF WAR

DescriptionDescription Master documentarian Errol Morris (THE THIN BLUE LINE; A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME; FAST, CHEAP AND OUT OF CONTROL) has created a 20th century fable of an American dreamer who rose from humble origins to the height of political power. Robert McNamara was both a witness to and a participant in many of the...

THE FOREST (DE LA FOREST)

DescriptionDescription Starring Eriq Ebouaney (LUMUMBA), THE FOREST is a magnificently perceptive story that probes the power and tensions of globalization. Disillusioned with Gabon's lazy political state , Gonaba disappears deep into the forest. Once there, he hopes to use formal education to help liberate the Pygmies from political persecution and social exclusion. However, it soon...

FISHY

DescriptionDescription Glenda, an unemployed misfit falls in love with Freddie, her goldfish in FISHY.

FIVE SIDES OF A COIN

DescriptionDescription To comprehensively articulate a cultural phenomenon as complex as hip-hop is impossible, but director Paul Kell presents the "five sides" in a seamless Flow of kinetic energy-creating on infectious, vibrant documentary, blasting the screen with red-hot beats and intensity. This film explores hip-hop through the eyes and voices of those within and around the...

FASSBINDER IN HOLLYWOOD

DescriptionDescription Working at a furious pace, master German fimmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder completed more than 40 films before his untimely death at the age of 36 in 1982, What would have happened if he had moved to Hollywood? Through interviews with collaborators Ulli Lommel, Hanna Schygulla and Michael Ballhaus, we learn much about Fassbinder's method...

FIRE WITHIN

DescriptionDescription This documentary is the product of the annual international exchange program of the Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI), which chooses 10 Israeli Jewish, 10 Israeli Bedouin and 10 American Jewish teenagers to interact together in Spain and Israel for two weeks. We follow the project as the teens and their chaperones meet in...

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