October 16, 2019
LIFT
DescriptionDescription LIFT won Best Film at this year's Urban World Film Festival and was developed at the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Co-directors DeMane Davis and Khari Streeter's sophomore feature film is stylishly smart, with moments of pure cinematic audacity. LIFT takes us into the world of "boosters"-professional shoplifters. Niecy is a saleswoman at a large department...
October 16, 2019
JSA-JOINT SECURITY AREA (GONG DONG KYUNG BI KU YUK)
DescriptionDescription In JOINT SECURITY AREA, a bloody shootout at the Korean DMZ leads to a tortuous investigation of murder, friendship and the disarming beauty of cigarettes and late-night conversations. Major Sophie Jang heads a bilateral investigative team · responsible for uncovering the truth of one dreadful evening-which has left two dead bodies, one man badly...
October 16, 2019
KANAKE
DescriptionDescription A German skinhead dresses up as a Turkish immigrant for the costume contest during the carnival in Cologne, Germany.
October 16, 2019
ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS (ITALIENSK FOR BEGYNDERE)
DescriptionDescription Awarded the Silver Bear at the 2001 Berlin International Film Festival, ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS takes the Dogme rules in a new direction, where the script, rather than the photographic style, contains delightful surprises. The story follows six lost souls searching for love. Soon after arriving in a small gray town, a young, sensitive minister...
October 16, 2019
JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP
DescriptionDescription Writer/director/actor Hoch is a pure force to be reckoned with, presenting nine indelible characters in a seamless flow of kinetic energy set to a pulsing hip-hop beat. JAILS, HOSPITALS & HIP HOP is Danny Hoch's one-man stage show brilliantly conceived for the screen. Danny Hoch is a man with much to say and an...
October 16, 2019
INVISIBLE CHILDREN (LOS NIÑOS INVISIBLES)
DescriptionDescription Just think if you were a child and you were invisiblethe world would be yours. Rafael is seven years old and desperately in love with Martha Cecilia, whom he wants to see without being noticed. This attraction motivates Rafael to literally become invisible with his two partners in crime, Gonzalo and Fernando. However, the...
October 16, 2019
IT’S A SHAME ABOUT RAY
DescriptionDescription There seems to be an overwhelming theme present in our short filmmakers' collective consciousness-death, dying and what comes next. We selected some of our favorites and put together an eclectic group of films, each with a profoundly unique perspective. BULLET IN THE BRAIN: Based on a short story by Tobias Wolff, a meditation on...
October 16, 2019
THE ICE STORM
DescriptionDescription THE ICE STORM is Ang Lee's penetrating adaptation of Rick Moody's novel about America's upper middle-class suburbs in the 1970s. It's a beautifully interwoven story of two families' lives, their sexual awakenings and the effect that parents' decisions have on both their teenage children's relationships and their views of the world. The story, based...
October 16, 2019
THE ICELANDIC DREAM (ISLENSKI DRAUMURINN)
DescriptionDescription Writer/director Robert I. Douglas' wry, bittersweet comedy about a rudderless young man's feeble attempts to get ahead was an instant hit in Iceland and one of the country's highest grossing films of the past year. For Toti, a disgruntled, 30-year-old soccer-obsessed divorced father, the fall from grace isn't a very long journey. His ex-wife...
October 16, 2019
IN THE BEDROOM
DescriptionDescription Todd Field's unforgettable feature debut starring Sissy Spacek, Tom Wilkinson, Marisa Tomei and Nick Stahl, is a delicate, suspenseful film about class, loss and getting on with your life. Based on a short piece of fiction by author Andre Dubus, the film is set on the coast of Maine and tells the story of...
