October 16, 2019
SWEET
DescriptionDescription This program bravely tackles the subject of Love. This tantalizing group of shorts range from the bizarre to the macabre to the deeply poignant, bringing us all closer to comprehending the complexities of Love . BIG LOVE: Two parents perform heroic feats to emotionally deal with the fact that their two kids have to...
October 16, 2019
THE SEARCH FOR JOHN GISSING
DescriptionDescription Mike Binder wrote, directed and stars in this corporate comedy of willfully and ruthlessly induced errors. Binder is greatly assisted by droll co-stars Janeane Garofalo as his put-upon wife and Alan Rickman as the title's elusive John Gissing. When innocents abroad Matt and Linda Barnes arrive in London, where Matt has been relocated to...
October 16, 2019
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
DescriptionDescription SENSE AND SENSIBILITY is a beautiful evocation of the 19th century English gentry and its ruins. The film tells the story of a newly impoverished widow and her two daughters and the tangled complications caused by the daughters' love affairs. Based on the Jane Austen novel, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY was nominated for seven Academy...
October 16, 2019
A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND
DescriptionDescription A poetic rapture of energy and release, A SAD FLOWER IN THE SAND is the chronicle of writer John Fante. Often described as a writer's writer, Fante influenced and spoke to several generations of authors, including screenwriter Robert Towne (CHINATOWN), who is interviewed in the documentary and Charles Bukowksi, who wrote the forward to...
October 16, 2019
SALAD DAYS (DESALINADA)
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
October 16, 2019
PUSHING HANDS (TUI SHOU)
DescriptionDescription Ang Lee's first feature film, PUSHING HANDS, tells the story of Master Chu, a retired Chinese Tai-Chi master who moves to New York to live with his son's family, including his American wife and their son. It's a comedy of manners about the conflict between a high-pressure New York lifestyle and the traditional way...
October 16, 2019
ROGELIO
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
October 16, 2019
PLASTER CASTER
DescriptionDescription Legendary artist and rock groupie Cynthia Plaster Caster is world renowned for plaster-casting the penises of rock 'n' roll's finest, including the highlight of her career, Jimi Hendrix. With a music "cast" from Jello Biafra to Noel Redding to Wayne Kramer of MC5, PLASTER CASTER documents Cynthia's latest casting pursuits. Now 50-something, Cynthia Plaster...
October 16, 2019
PROMISES
DescriptionDescription PROMISES goes where no other documentary on the heated Jerusalem conflict has gone-into the future, out of the mouths of babes. Shot between the Palestinian uprisings of 1995 and 2000, the film explores the issues through interviews with seven Israeli and Palestinian children who reside within 20 minutes of each other. Born in the...
October 16, 2019
PULSE (KAIRO)
DescriptionDescription After a computer analyst commits suicide, his colleagues find a computer disc that conceals a virus that contaminates its users, radically changing their behavior. A young computer analyst is found hanging in his apartment, leaving behind a dark stain on the wall. His friends, shocked and disturbed by this discovery, find a computer disk...
