October 16, 2019
THE POLISH BRIDE
DescriptionDescription One of four Dutch films in a cinematic quartet that explores the end of the millennium in Holland, this is an exquisitely tender love story between misanthropic farmer Henk and Anne, the abused woman he takes in, whose life of forced prostitution leaves her mentally and physically beaten. The unlikely couple slowly begin to...
October 16, 2019
QUEST
DescriptionDescription Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during the Halloween season plus the rarely seen otherworldly animations of Ian Emes and more....
October 16, 2019
QUIET DESPERATION
DescriptionDescription An alienated man's isolation is broken by quarreling neighbors.
October 16, 2019
RACE TO ATLANTIS
DescriptionDescription Chris Padilla, who presented last year's popular FEATS OF CLAY for AFI Fest, hosts a high caliber program of the latest imaginative, bold efforts pushing the envelope in animation. This series includes several films that make for perfect viewing during the Halloween season plus the rarely seen otherworldly animations of Ian Emes and more....
October 16, 2019
THE OTHER CONQUEST
DescriptionDescription Through a startling visual and aural tapestry of fact. fiction and spirituality, THE OTHER CONQUEST tells the story of Emperor Moctezuma's illegitimate son, the Aztec scribe Topiltzin, who is trying to adapt to a new, hostile world after the 1521 Spanish Conquest of Mexico. When the Spaniards discover a clandestine human sacrifice, Topiltzin is...
October 16, 2019
OUR GANG
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
PAIN CHAIN
DescriptionDescription Three characters' lives are overturned by the arrival of an enchanted amulet that has the power to transfer pain from one person to another.
October 16, 2019
PALJAS
DescriptionDescription In an unusual mix of realism and whimsy, this masterful South African drama takes an inspired approach to the question of prejudice in small town communities. The once-normal McDonald family is now isolated and nine-year-old Willem has stopped talking. When a circus train full of animals is left behind at the town railway station,...
October 16, 2019
A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS
DescriptionDescription A PLACE CALLED CHIAPAS is an exemplary documentary that vividly and lucidly explores a modern Mexican standoff. Filmmaker Nettie Wilde notes that in 'canada, the North American Free Trade Agreement, which went into effect Jan. 1, 1994, was a matter for debate; in the state of Chiapas, one of the poorest in Mexico, it...
October 16, 2019
THE POLISH BRIDE
DescriptionDescription One of four Dutch films in a cinematic quartet that explores the end of the millennium in Holland, this is an exquisitely tender love story between misanthropic farmer Henk and Anne, the abused woman he takes in, whose life of forced prostitution leaves her mentally and physically beaten. The unlikely couple slowly begin to...
