KEEP IN A DRY PLACE AND AWAY FROM CHILDREN

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....

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.

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....

CUSP

DescriptionDescription After surviving a stalker's attack, Marie, a neophyte artist, finds herself and her art transformed, but at what price .. .???

INTERNET LOVE

DescriptionDescription A transcontinental love story that follows electronic pen pals in Los Angeles and Germany who start getting amorous, INTERNET LOVE is as much about the dehumanizing effect of computers as it is about the questionable authenticity of any idealized relationships. When the heartsick Laura gets too frustrated in Germany dating Daniel through her keyboard,...

ISN’T IT ROMANTIC

DescriptionDescription After celebrating a buddy's birthday at a strip bar, Alan, thinking he's helping a stranded motorist, picks up the wrong girl at the wrong time on the wrong stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and ends up busted by the cops a la Hugh Grant. Now, a week later, Alan's wife Laura has kicked him out...

JEROME

DescriptionDescription In this nine-to-five, work-oriented world - who hasn't thought of escaping their everyday responsibilities? JEROME is a day-inthe- life story of one such dreamer, Wade Hampton, who has been trapped for the last 15 years in an unfulfilling existence at an assembly-line factory in Bakersfield, CA. One day, Wade walks away from his job,...

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI

DescriptionDescription Robert Wiene's seminal horror movie, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, remains one of the most inspired and chilling exercises in express paranoia ever made. The plot, about a hypnotist who uses a sleepwalker to carry out his murders, resonates the gloom and uncertainty which characterized post World War I Germany. The film manages its...

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...

IN THE NAVEL OF THE SEA

DescriptionDescription In a remote fishing island in the 1950s, Pepito grows up learning the trade of his mother, the only midwife capable of delivering the newborn babies of the comm'unity. At first, the young son doesn't mind the unusual arrangement, but as he grows older, he begins to resist the role traditionally meant only for...

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