October 16, 2019
DOWN IN THE DELTA
DescriptionDescription Maya Angelou's feature-length directing debut opens in Chicago where Loretta, played by three-time Emmy Award winner Alfre Woodard, lives with her mother and two children. Unskilled and unable to make a living, Loretta falls into an alcohol-fueled tailspin. Loretta's mother, determined to pull her daughter and grandchildren out of harm's way, executes a risky...
October 16, 2019
THE DREAMLIFE OF ANGELS
DescriptionDescription A raw, clear-eyed melodrama about two young women and the fragile friendship they form. When 20-year old homeless backpacker Isa buoyantly enters the emotionally cool world of Marie, the two become reluctant friends, and Isa eventually moves into Marie's apartment as they begin to share more and more of their lives. As Marie involves...
October 16, 2019
DEAD LEAVES
DescriptionDescription DEAD LEAVES is a dark, poetic meditation on suicide, selfmutilation and the romantic themes of melancholy, mortality, eternal love and loss. The story's doomed hero Joey (played by Israeli actor Haim Abramski) saves the body of his deceased lover, the beautiful Laura (introducing Canadian top model Elisabeth Gondek) and escapes on a self-destructive voyage...
October 16, 2019
DETENTION
DescriptionDescription A seemingly stable and thoughtful teacher who hasn't been in a classroom in 25 years is called back as substitute teacher in a suburban high school. Having been in high school himself 30 years prior, it couldn't have changed that much. Or so he thinks. What he isn't ready for is the surreal world...
October 16, 2019
DANCEMAKER
DescriptionDescription Paul Taylor has been hailed as "the world's greatest living choreographer," having created a stunning body of dance work over the last forty years. When the curtain opens on the Paul Taylor Dance Company, audiences see a troupe of dancers soaring through the works of this formidable genius. But behind the scenes lies a...
October 16, 2019
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
DescriptionDescription It makes sense that, with its exceptionally strong sense of place, Brian Friel's popular, award-winning stage play would translate beautifully to the screen. Pat O'Connor's adaptation of "Dancing at Lughnasa" brings the play's pre-war Ireland to life, creating a lovely musical and almost mythical region on the verge of cataclysmic change. The film is...
October 16, 2019
THE CRITIC
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
CUSP
DescriptionDescription After surviving a stalker's attack, Marie, a neophyte artist, finds herself and her art transformed, but at what price .. .???
October 16, 2019
CARESSES
DescriptionDescription One of the most prolific and adventurous filmmakers in contemporary Spanish cinema, Ventura Pons offers up a kaleidoscopic x-ray of peculiar urban behaviors. A circuit of abrupt meetings between displaced city dwellers links the encounters of characters infected with a strange virus of badtempered loneliness which they appear to pass from one to the...
October 16, 2019
CAUGHT IN THE SPRAY
DescriptionDescription A young, homeless documentarian finds himself losing his sanity in the middle of a film deal with a neurotic producer and a gunwielding rap artist.
