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 RIFT
DescriptionDescription A drama with elements of a psychological thriller, this is a film about the basic human attitudes and emotions of its main characters: Stefan, a seasonal worker, Joze, the village codger, and two sisters, young Anica and her older sister Marta. The story unwinds in a remote Slovene village in the early '70s. The...
October 16, 2019
THE RIVER OF GOLD
DescriptionDescription Rocha's gripping tale of jealousy is centered around Portugal's river of gold, where his middle-aged, working class characters live and toil. Carolina a levelcrossing keeper, and her boyfriend Antonio, the owner of a dredge boat, decide to get married. But when their sexy niece Melita accidentally ends up in the river, Antonio answers her...
October 16, 2019
PECULIAR PATIENTS PRANKS
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
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...
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 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...
