October 16, 2019
KRAMPACK
DescriptionDescription Cesc Gay's second feature is a daring, fresh and candid exploration of sexuality and youth. With their parents away for the summer and their only warning not to over-water the marijuana plants, 16-year-old friends Dani and Nico ore left alone to their sexploits. "Krampack" is slang for masturbation, and the boys waste no time...
October 16, 2019
IN THE WINGS
DescriptionDescription In recent years, filmmakers have been challenged to be different and nowhere is it more evident than in this year's Short Drama selection. In ONE DAY CROSSING, a woman struggles to protect her family during a crisis point in WWII. After watching his father drown a litter of puppies in BURLAP, a young boy...
October 16, 2019
INNOCENCE
DescriptionDescription The surprising sleeper hit on this year's festival circuit, INNOCENCE has been both critically and popularly acclaimed: Paul Cox's film won the Grand Jury and Audience Awards at Montreal WorldFest, received the Prix FIPRESCI at Taormina and was named one of the best films at Cannes by Roger Ebert. Claire and Andreas are reunited...
October 16, 2019
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
DescriptionDescription A variation on the Don Siegel/Jack Finney classic, this full-scale sci-fi horror fable transplants pods from small town America to San Francisco. Kaufman and writer W.D. Richter find a witty, more fantastic analogy to the McCarthy era paranoia in the blissful, selfabsorbed certitudes of the human potential movement. "For undiluted pleasure and excitement, it...
October 16, 2019
THE HUNDRED STEPS (I CENTO PASSI)
DescriptionDescription Winner of Best Screenplay at the 2000 Venice Film Festival, Marco Tullio Giordano's THE HUNDRED STEPS is not a film about the Mafia so much as it is, in the director's words, "about imagination and the happiness of a group of kids who dared to look to the sky and challenge the world." Set...
October 16, 2019
IN THE BOX (V KOCKE)
DescriptionDescription Animation as a whole is in the midst of a real renaissance right now, like a smack in the head-or a body blow, as is evident in the opening short PUMP-ACTION, where balloon animals meet RESERVOIR DOGS. On the more traditional side comes the suburban teen comedy PROUD FAMILY which inlvolves a young girl...
October 16, 2019
HOMELAND
DescriptionDescription Following the lives of four Lakota Indian families on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, HOMELAND offers a fresh change of pace to the usual stories of despair on "The Rez." An intimate and charming portrait of Indian life evolves as we follow the lives of a spiritual leader, a grandmother, an activist...
October 16, 2019
HOUSE!
DescriptionDescription Aided by Kjell Vassdal's striking cinematography and Jonathan Rudd's sharp editing, Julian Kemp's first feature is a stylistic tour-de-force that marks him as a director to watch. Threatened by overwhelming competition from the new Mega Pleasure Bingo Arena, which is stealing not only customers but also La Scala's star caller, the local bingo hall...
October 16, 2019
HENRY & JUNE
DescriptionDescription While hitchhiking through Europe as a young man, Kaufman smuggled a copy of Henry Miller hidden in his underwear through customs. Years later, he tried to get some of Miller's sensibility past the MPAA, and the result was the only major studio film to be released with the NC-17 rating. Based on the diaries...
October 16, 2019
HIS WIFE’S DIARY (DNEVNIK YEVO ZHENY)
DescriptionDescription Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin fled Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution and holed up at a seaside villa with his wife, his young lover and an inspiring poetess. Depicting a tumultuous range of emotions, HIS WIFE'S DIARY is a glimpse into the intricate private life of iconic Russian writer Bunin. Immersed in wealth and love,...
