October 16, 2019
PASSENGERS
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
ONE NIGHT WITH SABRINA LOVE (UNA NOCHE CON SABRINA LOVE)
DescriptionDescription From Pedro Almod6var's ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, Cecilia Roth co-stars as famous porn star Sabrina Love. Roth and newcomer Tomas Fonzi compassionately portray two individuals coming together from opposite worlds who explore their own lessons in friendship, sex, love and life. Seventeen-year-old Daniel writes a letter, which wins him a TV contest prize-one night...
October 16, 2019
PALINDROME
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
October 16, 2019
OKIE NOODLING
DescriptionDescription Gritty, down-home and boldly unique, OKIE NOODLING chronicles the tradition of handfishing or "noodling," in the rural rivers of Oklahoma. Filmmaker Bradley Beesley dives into the murky waters to catch a brief glimpse of this dying breed of obscure fishermen, who catch whole 60-pound catfish with their bare hands, in lieu of fishing poles....
October 16, 2019
ON EDGE
DescriptionDescription The revelations of the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan affair are nothing compared to the unbelievable truths unearthed in ON EDGE, Karl Slovin's satirical, riotous skewering of women's figure skating. ON EDGE follows three unlikely Olympic hopefuls - the 200-pound Wendy; the bulimic, overachieving Veda; and the rebellious punk J.C.- as they prepare for the Regional...
October 16, 2019
NINE QUEENS (NUEVE REINAS)
DescriptionDescription Avoiding guns, explosives and the excesses of a Hollywood budget, Argentine director Fabian Bielinsky has crafted one of the most gripping, irrepressible thrillers in recent memory. Two small-time swindlers, Juan and Marcos, agree to team up, but only on a one-day trial. Their first few hustles reveal obvious and seemingly incompatible differences between the...
October 16, 2019
NO MAN’S LAND
DescriptionDescription Awarded Best Screenplay at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, Danis Tanovic's astonishing first feature film is a provocative fable that takes an uncompromising look at the Bosnian war. The director's years as a front-line cameraman in the Bosnian army add to the realistic look of this absurd struggle. Tanovic uses the plight of three...
October 16, 2019
MORTAL TRANSFER (MORTEL TRANSFERT)
DescriptionDescription After an eight-year absence, acclaimed director Jean-Jacques Beineix (DIVA, BETTY BLUE) returns with a satis.fying, surreal piece of contemporary noir about a narcoleptic psychoanalyst who may or may not have murdered one of his patients. Dr. Michel Durand (an appropriately haggard Jean-Hugues Anglade) is so numb with boredom at his patients' petty rantings that...
October 16, 2019
MR. X (SR. X)
DescriptionDescription Whatever is going on in Latin cinema, we can only hope it's contagious. From the hundreds of Latin submissions, we are proud to present eight of the very best. WEDDING NIGHT: Passion multiplies during a wedding night. BAMBOLEHO: Inspired by the book The Baron of the Trees, by ltalo Calvino. ROGELIO: A dead man...
October 16, 2019
THE NEW COUNTRY (DET NYA LANDET)
DescriptionDescription THE NEW COUNTRY recently received awards for Best Film and Best Screenplay at the Nordic Awards and won the Prix Europa at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels 2001, in addition to the Ecumenical Award at the Berlin Film Festival 2001. The film follows two unlikely friends - Massoud, a 40-year-old Iranian, and Ali,...
