October 16, 2019
SUN ALLEY (SONNENALLEE)
DescriptionDescription "Rock and roll... and passport control!" In his feature debut, Leander Haussmann takes us on a hip and edifying look at East Germany in the early 1970s, an era where Big Brother is watching while the city's inhabitants bask in all things western. Even the Berlin Wall can't contain the explosion of pop culture...
October 16, 2019
SPRING OF LIFE (PRAMEN ZIVOTA – DER LEBENSBORN)
DescriptionDescription An emotional and artistic tour de force, SPRING OF LIFE is the moving story of a young woman caught in the gears of the Third Reich's machine. During the winter of 1938, young, blond Czech women are brought to the Isolde estate to be impregnated by SS officers, as part of the "Lebensborn project."...
October 16, 2019
STOCKHOLM (ESTOCOLMO)
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
SOMETHING SWEET
DescriptionDescription With flawless execution and fluid storytelling, it's hard to believe SOMETHING SWEET is writer/director Olivia Pi-Sunyer's debut feature film. Under the weight of her family's lofty expectations, Mel returns from college to be with her dying father and hardened grandmother in their New England family home. She leaves her sensible paralegal position and takes...
October 16, 2019
SONGCATCHER
DescriptionDescription With a dazzling cast led by Academy-Award-nominee Janet Mc Teer, Aidan Quinn and newcomer Emmy Rossum, SONGCATCHER won the Sundance 2000 Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Ensemble Performance. It is both a journey into one woman's soul and a revelation of the Appalachian songs that have deeply influenced American music. In 1907, musicologist Lily...
October 16, 2019
SPRIGGAN
DescriptionDescription Based on an 11-volume Japanese mango comic strip, SPRIGGAN was directed by Hirotsugu Kawasaki and supervised by Katuhiro Otomo (creator of the renowned AKIRA). The result of their collaboration is an impressive achievement of consummate artistry. More than 90 thousand lrames-20% more than the typical anime feature of the same length-were necessary to complete...
October 16, 2019
THE RIGHT STUFF
DescriptionDescription Named the best film of 1983 by Siskel & Ebert, this adaptation of the Tom Wolfe book is that rarest of cinematic birds-an epic with a sense of the absurd. Gleefully cynical about the media circus surrounding NASA's Project Mercury (listen for the locust-like hum whenever the press corps swarms onscreen), and the political...
October 16, 2019
SENTINELLES
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
REJECTED
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
THE RIDE HOME
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...
