GOING TO KANSAS CITY

DescriptionDescription Finnish exchange student Mikko is going to Kansas City, but instead of landing in a hot-spot of jazz and blues, he finds himself stranded in a tiny farming community light years from his dreams. Here he's introduced to the best and worst of rural America as his youthful passion clashes with suspicious minds. This...

AMY

DescriptionDescription A little girl (played by a luminous 8-yearold Alana De Roma) rendered speechless after witnessing a harrowing event years prior is taken by her mother from the country to the city to get their lives back together. Her mother's attempts to find a cure for her daughter's seemingly impenetrable ailment takes her to the...

ANGELMAKER

DescriptionDescription A dark and atmospheric folk tale wherein a young girl confronts a series of moral choices in a rough turn-of-the-century Appalachia.

GEORGICA

DescriptionDescription This Estonian film ravishes you with the simplicity of its story and the competence of its imagery. Jakub is an old preacher who lives alone on an island, until one day a young mute boy comes to live with him. The film slowly unfolds its riches, sensuously detailing Jakub's routines for staying sane and...

GERI’S GAME

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....

GOD SAID, HA!

DescriptionDescription Filmed before a live audience, GOD SAID HA! brings SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE alum Julia Sweeney's critically-acclaimed stage production (that had its world debut in San Francisco) to the screen. Shortly after Sweeney moves into her dream Hollywood bungalow or, as she likes to call it, her "symbol of independence," her life begins to spin...

ACCIDENT

DescriptionDescription An accide nt involving a little boy is not what it seems.

AIRBAG

DescriptionDescription AIRBAG sets out to be frenzied, fun, and daring .. .Th1s third, long awaited feature from 30-year-old helmer Juanma Baja Ullos is a $6 million postmodern comedy thriller that shows equal traces of John Woo and Quentin Tarantino ...w ithout neglecting the quirky kitsch of Pedro Almodovar...With a speaking cast of more than 50,...

AMERICAN MASTERS – LEONARD BERNSTEIN: REACH FOR THE NOTE

DescriptionDescription One night in 1943, twenty-five year old Leonard Bernstein stepped in to guest conduct for the New York Philharmonic's ailing Bruno Walter and became an overnight sensation. Two years later, he was appointed symphony director - the first American director of a major orchestra in the world. Bernstein kept this post for 11 years,...

FREE ENTERPRISE

DescriptionDescription SWINGERS and DINER meet MY FAVORITE YEAR in this quirky romantic comedy about two lifelong film fanatics struggling with turning 30 who meet their idol, William Shatner, and discover he's even more screwed up than they are. Wrestling with the mutual dilemmas of work and women, they realize Shatner is no "Captain Kirk''. .....

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