October 16, 2019
MEAN PEOPLE SUCK
DescriptionDescription Modern living is held up for target practice in this series of shorts. Whether you reside in the hood or are surrounded by strip malls, you will see a bit of yourself in all these stories. DELUSIONS IN MODERN PRIMITIVISM: Bored with his tattoos and piercings, Jerome looks for an alternative form of body...
October 16, 2019
LITTLE SENEGAL
DescriptionDescription The director of DUST OF LIFE, Rachid Bouchareb, has created a thought-provoking film about race, ancestry and family. After many years as a tourist guide at the Slave Museum in Senegal, Alloune, a 65-year-old widower, decides to go to America in search of his ancestors, who were taken away from his village 200 years...
October 16, 2019
MAIDS (DOMESTICAS)
DescriptionDescription A colorful, spirited look at the lives of a handful of indefatigable maids in Sao Paolo, Brazil. Co-writers/ directors Fernando Meirelles and Nando Oliva! beautifully weave the women's stories of hope, heartbreak and resiliency with just the right blend of humor and respect. Quiterio, like her mother before her, is a maid in the...
October 16, 2019
LANTANA
DescriptionDescription From Australian director Ray Lawrence (BLISS) comes LANTANA, a deeply engaging psychological mystery about love, suspicion, insinuation and distrust, starring Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey. Dr. Valerie Somers (Barbara Hershey) is a successful psychiatrist tortured by the memory of her murdered daughter. Her grief spills over into her marriage and is exacerbated...
October 16, 2019
LATE NIGHT SHOPPING
DescriptionDescription With flawless execution and fluid storytelling, writer Jack Lothian's and director Saul Metzstein's debut feature film LATE NIGHT SHOPPING is an upbeat, oddball, after hours comedy about the ups and downs of sex and shelf-stocking in the 21st century. LATE NIGHT SHOPPING presents the travails of four friends, each working dead-end night shifts. Trapped...
October 16, 2019
LIFT
DescriptionDescription LIFT won Best Film at this year's Urban World Film Festival and was developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Co-directors DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter's sophomore feature film is stylishly smart, with moments of pure cinematic audacity. LIFT takes us into the world of "boosters"-professional shoplifters. Niecy is a saleswoman at a large department...
October 16, 2019
JSA-JOINT SECURITY AREA (GONG DONG KYUNG BI KU YUK)
DescriptionDescription In JOINT SECURITY AREA, a bloody shootout at the Korean DMZ leads to a tortuous investigation of murder, friendship and the disarming beauty of cigarettes and late-night conversations. Major Sophie Jang heads a bilateral investigative team · responsible for uncovering the truth of one dreadful evening-which has left two dead bodies, one man badly...
October 16, 2019
KANAKE
DescriptionDescription A German skinhead dresses up as a Turkish immigrant for the costume contest during the carnival in Cologne, Germany.
October 16, 2019
ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (ITALIENSK FOR BEGYNDERE)
DescriptionDescription Awarded the Silver Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS takes the Dogme rules in a new direction, where the script, rather than the photographic style, contains delightful surprises. The story follows six lost souls searching for love. Soon after arriving in a small gray town, a young, sensitive minister...
October 16, 2019
JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP
DescriptionDescription Writer/director/actor Hoch is a pure force to be reckoned with, presenting nine indelible characters in a seamless flow of kinetic energy set to a pulsing hip-hop beat. JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP is Danny Hoch's one-man stage show brilliantly conceived for the screen. Danny Hoch is a man with much to say and an...
