October 16, 2019
MIRACLE (MIRAKEL)
DescriptionDescription The screening of MIRACLE is part of AFl's Screen Education Program, in which students from public high schools in Los Angeles County are invited to participate in AFI FEST 2001 programs through curriculum, special screenings and other educational opportunities. MIRACLE is accompanied by a curriculum on the evolution and use of subtitles in international...
October 16, 2019
MONSTER’S BALL
DescriptionDescription MONSTER'S BALL is a hard-hitting Southern drama tempered by a story of powerful, life-changing love. Hank, an embittered prison guard working on Death Row in rural Georgia, begins an unlikely but emotionally charged affair with Leticia, the wife of a man he has just executed. Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry and Sean Combs,...
October 16, 2019
THE MEDICINE SHOW
DescriptionDescription Wendell Morris deftly handles this romantic comedy about cancer. When sardonic cartoon writer Taylor is diagnosed with colon cancer, he resolves to drink and deadpan his way through the entire affair, from the insufferable sympathy of friends and co-workers to the inherent indignities of hospitalization. But Taylor meets more than his match in Lynn,...
October 16, 2019
MILLENNIUM MAMBO
DescriptionDescription The film opens with Vicky (the vivacious Shu Qi) bouncing along an elevated pathway, lit by overhead fluorescents. A simple opening that in Hou Hsiao Hsien's hands (and the eyes of cinematographer Mark Lee) becomes a scene that's beyond beauty in color, mood and music, a moment of pure cinema. Vicky is shacked up...
October 16, 2019
MAYA
DescriptionDescription For 12-year-old Maya, life is very simple in her village located in rural India. She and her foster brother Sonjay are perfectly matched in size, athletic ability, adventurousness and mischievousness, while their mother and father are loving, supportive and wealthy enough to live graciously and generously. But everything changes when Maya becomes the victim...
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...
