October 16, 2019
BLACKBOARDS (TAKHTE SIAH)
DescriptionDescription Twenty-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf co-wrote her second feature with her filmmaker father, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who also edited. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, BLACKBOARDS is a daring and provocative account of the struggle for survival on the Iran-Iraq border. Disenfranchised teachers carry blackboards through mountainous Kurdistan in search of people to educate. Trying to...
October 16, 2019
BILLY JONES
DescriptionDescription The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little too far. BLACK XXX-MAS, a dark and violent look at human nature, reminds us...
October 16, 2019
BLACK PEOPLE HATE ME….
DescriptionDescription The Dark and Quirky Comedy Shorts Program contains seven offerings ranging from the inventive and humorous to the scary and dismal. The program opens with RATILER, the story of a Samaritan who takes the good neighbor scene just a little too far. BLACK XXX-MAS, a dark and violent look at human nature, reminds us...
October 16, 2019
BEFORE THE STORM (FORE STORMEN)
DescriptionDescription Seldom does a film come around with the startling originality and craftsmanship of Reza Parsa's BEFORE THE STORM. Parsa has created a piece of cinematic poetry, flawlessly executing a complex narrative style that combines and contrasts the stories of two extremely different people. Ali is a taxi driver who has done his best to...
October 16, 2019
THE BIG ANIMAL (DUZE ZWIERZE)
DescriptionDescription Director and veteran Polish actor Jerry Stuhr passionately brings to the screen this previously unproduced screenplay by the late, acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski. Where do the roots of intolerance lie? When we go against standards and counter the norms of society, do we bring upon ourselves loneliness and isolation? Respected bank clerk Sawicki...
October 16, 2019
THE ALCOHOL YEARS
DescriptionDescription In this stylish, revealing film that reshapes the boundaries of the documentary art form, British filmmaker Carol Morley recounts five self-destructive years of her life in Manchester in the early 1980s. THE ALCOHOL YEARS is a lyrical retrieval of that era, highlighted by music by the Buzzcocks and New Order, in which Morley's rediscovered...
October 16, 2019
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
DescriptionDescription The film BEFORE NIGHT FALLS is based on the life of Reinaldo Arenas, exiled Cuban novelist and poet, who was born in 1943 in Oriente Province, rural Cuba and died in New York City in 1990. It contrasts his early years, a childhood of absolute poverty yet absolute freedom, with the horrors and difficulties...
October 16, 2019
THE AGE OF CONSENT
DescriptionDescription The latest film preserved by the American Film Institute, THE AGE OF CONSENT was made in the pre-censorship pre-Code era and is quite a daring film for its time. Gregory LaCava, one of Hollywood's finest directors of the 1930s (MY MAN GODFREY, STAGE DOOR), handles with deft skill this story of collegiate sexual shenanigans....
October 16, 2019
ALCATRAZ AVENUE
DescriptionDescription Imagine a writer who gets all his ideas from real life situations-only he creates the situations himself, filling his work with suspense and the destruction of innocent people. In writer-director Tom Edgar's ALCATRAZ AVENUE, David-an aspiring writer with a very disturbed family history-wants to write a novel about the "normal" American Family. He poses...
October 16, 2019
6IXTYNIN9 (RUANG TALOK 69)
DescriptionDescription Likened to such cinematic luminaries as the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, director Pen-ek Ratanaruang has already entertained audiences at the Rotterdam Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival with his second feature. In the midst of a depression over losing her job, Tum discovers a box of money outside her door. As visitors...
