October 16, 2019
49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE
DescriptionBiosDescription The compelling and amusing story behind one of San Francisco's most visually arresting signposts and the design change that tarnished a legacy. Bios Bradley Smith is an artist and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His award-winning film 49 MILE SCENIC DRIVE premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2018, and went on to...
October 16, 2019
ACID FOREST (RŪGŠTUS MIŠKAS)
DescriptionBiosDescription A wispy strip of land stretching between Russia and Lithuania is home to the unlikeliest of attractions. At the top of a narrow staircase in the Curonian Spit, a platform designated for tourists overlooks a dying forest of leafless trees, with branches resembling brittle fingers clawing the sky. What was once a plantation of...
October 16, 2019
3 FACES (SE ROKH)
DescriptionBiosDescription Eight years and four films into a 20-year government-imposed filmmaking ban, Jafar Panahi continues to expand on themes of artistic repression with his latest and most expressly feminist film in over a decade. 3 FACES is at once a gentle prodding at the absurdity of certain cultural traditions and a more somber indictment of...
October 16, 2019
ZOLTAR FROM ZORAN
DescriptionDescription Jimmy, a twelve-year old boy, claims to be an alien in order to escape his cruel family life and the horrors of junior high.
October 16, 2019
WOUNDINGS
DescriptionDescription Set in a futuristic world reminiscent of Kubrick's CLOCKWORK ORANGE and Orwell's 1984, WOUNDINGS unfolds in a remote post-apocalyptic island under rigid militaristic rule and occupied by lonely shell-shocked soldiers whose job is to keep the peace and hopefully colonize the island. To that end, the government has enlisted fresh new recruits from the...
October 16, 2019
THE WOUNDS
DescriptionDescription True story of two under-age criminals (is) harrowing, shocking, the reflection of a society that has been devastated by political and moral upheaval. Dragojevic hasn't pulled any punches with this film-the wounds alluded to by the title are more than skin-deep; Dragojevic addresses the terrible impact of war on a generation that, in his...
October 16, 2019
ZACHARIA FARTED
DescriptionDescription While on a long awaited fishing holiday, Michael (writer/producer Colin Cunningham) and Brian (Benjamin Ratner) stumble on a blank headstone out in the middle of nowhere. What starts off as a quick investigation becomes a seven day safari through the southwest in search of a name, a ghost and themselves. Michael Rohl's first feature...
October 16, 2019
WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
DescriptionDescription With his new film, writer/director Adam rifkin documents the meteoric rise of actor Nick Decker from complete unknown to Hollywood superstar. From his first role on BAYWATCH, a film shoot in Las Vegas, the Academy Awards, the Sundance Film Festival, and finally to an heroic attempt at a death defying stunt at the Cannes...
October 16, 2019
WITHIN OUR GATES
DescriptionDescription Film preservation also means exhibition to AFI. This extraordinary program of rare films saved and/or restored by AFI includes the long lost first OUR GANG movie, the oldest surviving AfricanAmerican feature, a lost Harold Lloyd comedy and a lost Edison color film. The OUR GANG/UTILE RASCALS movie titled OUR GANG ( 1922, 8 min)...
October 16, 2019
WAKING NED DEVINE
DescriptionDescription A disarmingly original comic fable about the true' meaning of fortune, WAKING NED DEVINE invites audiences into the enchanting village ofTullymore, population 52 ... and shrinking. Jackie and Michael are life-long friends who have a talent for getting into mischief. In their cozy Irish village, even a modest jackpot would go a long, long...
