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
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...
October 16, 2019
THE INHERITORS
DescriptionDescription This slyly political feature is as much about Austria's rural class system in the 1930s as it is a wry commentary on the nature of utopia. The title refers to seven servants and the windfall they receive when their landowner boss dies under suspicious circumstances. In his will, their mocking master leaves his estate...
October 16, 2019
BLEACH
DescriptionDescription A science-fiction police thriller which deals with memory and traumatic experiences.
October 16, 2019
THE BOOK OF GREAT WISHES
DescriptionDescription The authorities of a sanitarium for elderly and bedridden patients decide to offer shelter to some small girls who have lost their home when their orphanage catches fire. Seven year old Marysia tries to befriend Adam, a man at the end of his life. Although the children have changed the atmosphere of the home,...
October 16, 2019
THE BOXER TRAILER
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
BRIDE OF WAR
DescriptionDescription Based on a true story of love and bravery in war-ravaged Europe, this heart-wrenching film was shot entirely in Poland. It skillfully combines the intensity of combat with the joy and heartache of young romance. A headstrong soldier is captured and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland. Young and fearless, he escapes again...
October 16, 2019
HYDE
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
I WOKE UP EARLY THE DAY I DIED
DescriptionDescription A cross-dressing thief escapes from a sanitarium, wearing his nurse's uniform. The reason for his residence in Casa de la Loco? Random noises trigger a cerebral frenzy, driving him to kill. He embarks on a homicidal larceny bender. .. Clearly a sign from the old Gods of Hollywood that Tinseltown's first century is coming...
October 16, 2019
GREEN FISH
DescriptionDescription Fresh from finishing his military service, Mak-Dong rescues Mi-Ae, a damsel in distress on a train, who only leaves behind her scarf as a memento. Smitten, MakDong returns home to a fragmented family whose remaining members, except for his polio-stricken brother, are indifferent to him. Yearning to earn enough money to open a restaurant...
