October 16, 2019
THE KEY
DescriptionDescription Sensual, controversial, decadent, yet oddly funny, this is a story of an aging professor's (SHALL WE DANCE's Akira Emoto) perverted desire towards his sexually suppressed young wife. Seeking stimulation to his fading potency, he keeps a detailed diary of his sexual life with her, hoping she will open the drawer and read it, while...
October 16, 2019
KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR
DescriptionDescription Martin has a brain tumor and Rudi is suffering from bone cancer. Their diagnoses: nearly dead. But Rudi has never seen the ocean, so the two steal a baby blue Mercedes and escape from the hospital. With two goofy gangsters, the cops and death on their tail, the two manage to live more intensely,...
October 16, 2019
MANDALA
DescriptionDescription brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes taking years to complete, these articulated visions in clay offer a sensory experience for...
October 16, 2019
KEEP COOL (YOU HUA HAO HAO SHUO)
DescriptionDescription This controversial entry was selected for the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival and then pulled from competition by the Chinese government. In a marked departure in both style and substance, Zhang (RAISE THE RED LANTERN, STORY OF QIU JU) has created a modern comedy set in contemporary Beijing. A bookseller pines with...
October 16, 2019
LOVERBOY
DescriptionDescription A small gang of urchins living in a condemned building jealously destroy a budding romance between two of their elders.
October 16, 2019
LUNCH WITH LOUIE
DescriptionDescription A repressed bureaucrat having lunch in a park finds his solitude disturbed by a somewhat friendly, somewhat threatening derelict.
October 16, 2019
THE JUNKY’S CHRISTMAS
DescriptionDescription brings to audiences the best in contemporary clay animated films of the last 20 years. This landmark collection celebrates the I 00th anniversary of stop motion filmmaking, the earliest form of animation. Produced one frame at a time, and sometimes taking years to complete, these articulated visions in clay offer a sensory experience for...
October 16, 2019
KAOS ON WARWICK
DescriptionDescription A haunting tale about one boy's search for identity and acceptance in a racially divided society.
October 16, 2019
LOVER GIRL
DescriptionDescription Jake is a sixteen-year-old girl who likes candy more than anything else. Abandoned by her mother and turned away by her sister (Kristy Swanson), she is stranded until a massage parlour operator (Sandra Bernhard) takes her in. Before long, Jake is doling out "massages" as part of the American Spa family of women, which...
October 16, 2019
JOURNEY ON THE HOUR HAND (AKREBIN YOLCULUGU)
DescriptionDescription A double winner for best film and best direction in the Istanbul fest's national competition, this existential mystery tale about a clock mender who arrives in a village where time has stopped has a jewel-like perfection ... When a stranger hands the clockmender a key to a mysterious clock tower, he heads off to...
