October 16, 2019
CIVIL BRAND
DescriptionDescription Starring Lisa Raye, DaBrat, MC Lyle and Mos Def, CIVIL BRAND is a hip-hop tale of young black women behind bars who rise up against the "prisons for profit." After Frances, a young nurse and mother in an abusive marriage, kills her husband in self-defense,s he is locked up in a prison that harvests...
October 16, 2019
THE CUCKOO (KUKUSHKA)
DescriptionDescription Writer/director Alexander Rogozhkin's 1998 film CHECKPOINT examined the banality and treachery of war. Now, he has produced an exquisitely tuned look at the misunderstandings among three people - a Russian, a Finn and a Lapp, none of whom speak each other's language. It is September 1944, the month in which Finland was forced to...
October 16, 2019
CINEMANIA
DescriptionDescription For most people, movies are a form of entertainment. But for the five New York cinephiles featured in this unique documentary, movies are a psychological necessity-an obsession that dominates every waking moment. We meet the characters in this delightfully deranged world through interviews in movie houses, on the street and in their homes. Many...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF GOD (CIDADE DE DEUS)
DescriptionDescription Told with equal parts aching tolerance and smoldering activism, CITY OF GOD is a raw, honest film. Director Fernando Meirelles and codirector Katia Lund assembled 110 non-professional actors into a stylishly imaginative story of one boy's coming-of-age in the dark suburb of Rio-Cidade de Deus-City of God. CITY OF GOD, adapted from Paulo Lins'...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF NO LIMITS (EN LA CIUDAD SIN LIMITES)
DescriptionDescription Antonio Hernandez's THE CITY OF NO LIMITS combines exceptional performances and unforgettable visuals to tell the story of the inner workings of a family and the never-ending effect of the past on the present. Newly arrived from Argentina, Viktor (Leonardo Sbaraglia) finds his terminally ill father tortured and apparently on the brink of madness....
October 16, 2019
CIGAR BY CAR
DescriptionDescription CIGAR BY CAR follows a narcoleptic attendant and a shoplifter into a mystical cow pasture.
October 16, 2019
CHAOS AND DESIRE (LA TURBULENCE DES FLUIDES)
DescriptionDescription Writer/director Manon Briand (2 SECONDS) has said that her connection to water is like that of a pilot to air. In her haunting second feature film, CHAOS AND DESIRE, she turns this possibility into a profound metaphor for the protagonist's immobilizing detachment from her past. An ambitious seismologist, Alice (Pascale Bussieres) has been living...
October 16, 2019
CHIHWASEON
DescriptionDescription In a time of political upheaval in 19th century Korea, an uncouth beggar child grows up to become one of the most brilliant and beloved painters of his era. Korean master Im Kwon-Taek won the award for Best Directior at this year's Cannes Film Festival for his biography of the uncompromising genius of "Ohwon"...
October 16, 2019
THE CIDER HOUSE RULES
DescriptionDescription The Opening Night film of AFI FEST 1999 and John Irving's adaptation of his own best selling novel, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES is brought to the screen by celebrated filmmaker Lasse Hallstrom. Central to this story set during World War II is Homer (Tobey Maguire), a young man raised in a Maine orphanage, where...
October 16, 2019
BRAZIL
DescriptionDescription Otto is separated from his unfaithful wife in BRAZIL, and seeks a most unusual revenge.
