October 16, 2019
BLUE GATE CROSSING (LANSE DA MEN)
DescriptionDescription Unexpectedly moving, Yee Chih-Yen's BLUE GATE CROSSING proves that sometimes the simplest beginnings-a high school love affair-can lead to the most complicated, and satisfying, endings. Kerou and Yuezhen are high school girls who seem destined to be friends forever until the arrival of Shihao-guitar player, swimmer, Scorpio and handsome loner, the kind of guy...
October 16, 2019
BOBBYCRUSH
DescriptionDescription BOBBYCRUSH is the story of 13-year-old Bobby, who is in love with best friend Dylan. Dylan doesn't feel the same way.
October 16, 2019
THE BLESSING BELL
DescriptionDescription Call it destiny or call it chance as one fateful day in the life of an ordinary man is staged with the elegant simplicity of a fairy tale. As day posses into night, the never-identified man is mistaken for a murderer, charges into a burning building, is hit by a car, sees a ghost,...
October 16, 2019
BLIND SHAFT (MANG JING)
DescriptionDescription Banned in China, Li Yang's BLIND SHAFT rips open the seams of Chinese working-class life to unearth a haunting story that's as touching as is provocative. In the darkness of a remote mine, loners Jinming and Zhaoyang kill a fellow worker. Claiming that the victim is a relative and threatening to alert government authorities,...
October 16, 2019
THE BIG EMPTY
DescriptionDescription Steve Anderson's debut feature is a sun-baked modern noir. Jon Favreau ploys on out- of-work actor trying to make sense of a blue suitcase, 75 missing people, a neighbor who loses his head and a cryptic cowboy. Deep in debt, John Person (Favreau) accepts a high-paying courier job from alien-obsessed Neeley (Bud Cort). Ignoring...
October 16, 2019
THE BLAZING SUN (SIRAA FIL-WADI)
DescriptionDescription After discovering Omar Sharif while sitting in a Cairo cafe, director Youssef Chahine gave the handsome young actor his first film role as Ahmed, the son of an estate manager. Set in contemporary 1950s Upper Egypt, this pastoral tale provides a glimpse into the rigid caste system that existed at the time, and the...
October 16, 2019
THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS (LES INVASIONS BARBARES)
DescriptionDescription Denys Arcand is one of Canada's most celebrated filmmakers, and the ferociously witty and achingly sad THE BARBARIAN INVASIONS revisits his 1986 film THE DECLINE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE. This time, the Declins are in their 20s and doing what estranged family members do - struggling to make sense of one another. The scandalous...
October 16, 2019
BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS
DescriptionDescription In BEAH: A BLACK WOMAN SPEAKS, actress-turned-director LisaGay Hamilton (BELOVED, TRUE CRIME, THE PRACTICE) has made a stylishly smart film revealing the remarkable life of distinguished African American actress, teacher, poet and social activist, Beah Richards. Arriving in Hollywood, young Beulah Richardson became Beah Richards. She has portrayed everyone's mother including LisaGay Hamilton's in...
October 16, 2019
BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
DescriptionDescription Imagine a beauty pageont "in a country where women are not allowed to bore their skin. Take it a step further - the country has been labeled part of the "Axis of Evil." Welcome to Libya, home of Miss Net World 2002. Heralded by the slogan "Beauty will save the world," the first-ever Libyan...
October 16, 2019
AT THAT POINT…. REBECA
DescriptionDescription One morning, Rebeca wakes up to discover her overwhelming weight in AT THAT POINT.... REBECA.
