October 16, 2019
HIGH HEELS
DescriptionDescription Aging pop star Becky Del Paramo returns to Madrid after 15 years to perform and, in passing, to resolve her relationship with the daughter she abandoned as a little girl in favor of her .career. When she meets Rebecca's new husband, it turns out to be Manuel, Becky's former lover who Rebecca married without...
October 16, 2019
UNDERGROUND
DescriptionDescription "This is supposed to be a very personal view of my country's history in recent times," says Emir Kusturica, "an attempt ... [to] offer a clearer notion of the situation in this chaotic part of the world, which has been twisted out of recognition by a media fed on malicious propaganda." Encompassing a span...
October 16, 2019
UNDERTAKER
DescriptionDescription A filmic interpretation of a poem written and performed by Patricia Smith, this film confronts the issue of violence amongst young men in America.
October 16, 2019
UNHOOK THE STARS
DescriptionDescription Rowlands plays Mildred, a financially secure widow whose husband has left her a comfortable suburban house that she now shares with her rebellious teenage daughter, Ann Mary Margaret. After yet another loud argument with her mother, Ann Mary takes off with her boyfriend, leaving Mildred alone in the oversize house. But unexpected company arrives...
October 16, 2019
THE USUAL CHILDREN
DescriptionDescription A couple's romantic evening is shattered by the squabbling of their two children. In an attempt at mediation, the father proceeds to tell a story, only to be sucked into the fantasy world which he and his children are now creating together. Scoop proclaims that his sister, Helo, is dead; she lives on as...
October 16, 2019
HEARTS AND MINDS
DescriptionDescription South Africa in the late l 980's is a country divided, wracked by anti-communist para· noia and sliding headlong towards civil war. Against this background, we find Andries Fourie, 'an officer in the South African Police, a man devastated by guilt and at the edge of his sanity. Fourie is a member of the...
October 16, 2019
TUMULT
DescriptionDescription Shot almost entirely in Los Angeles, Tumult is set during the abortive 1960 attempt by imperial guards to overthrow Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie. The fictional tale follows the life of Yoseph, an aristrocatturned- revolutionary who secretly masterminds the coup d'etat. Yoseph is a graduate of an American university. Frustrated by the autocratic government of...
October 16, 2019
TWO CRIMES (DOS CRIMENES)
DescriptionDescription Accused of a crime he did not commit, young Marcos Gonzalez leaves Mexico City to hide out with his wealthy Uncle Ramon in the small town of Muerdago. There, he becomes involved with his adventure-seeking cousin-in-law, Amalia, and her daughter, Lucero. Marcos' passionate and impulsive ways soon prove a threat to the rigid social...
October 16, 2019
UBISTVO S PREDUMISLAJAJEM (PREMEDITATED MURDER)
DescriptionDescription Premeditated Murder contrasts a recent love story ( 1992) with a past romance (1944), both doomed by the inhumanity of Yugoslav politics. While Builka takes photos of anti-war sit-ins and demos at the university for a with-it young publisher, she stumbles across Bogdan, a soldier on leave from the front with a broken leg....
October 16, 2019
HEARING THE LIGHT
DescriptionDescription Michael Gordon, a successful deaf painter whose hearing is restored through laser surgery, experiences a crisis of faith when he realizes that his popularity may be more a result of exploitative marketing of his former handicap than his actual talent as an artist.
