ERMO

DescriptionDescription Ermo is a hard-working woman who sells her home-made noodles by the roadside in a rural town. l.1er husband is ill and a stranger to her mind, and her small son spends much of his time at the neighbor's house, watching their coveted television. When the neighbor's husband offers to drive her into town,...

FIRST DATE

DescriptionDescription What happens when a man asks out a woman he's only iust met? He realizes he's got more than he bargained for, and begins the process of understanding what it means to be dating in the nineties.

THE PIANO

DescriptionDescription Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed...

PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)

DescriptionDescription Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both refuge and imprisonment in a tunnel as they hid from Croatian soldiers outside. Blocking...

PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS

DescriptionDescription Shot during the bloody conflict in Chechenya not far from an actual location which a number of Chechen rebels called home, this film about love, brutality and humanity in a time of war achieves an unusual immediacy. Two wounded Russian soldiers are taken prisoner by AbdulMurat, a Chechen man who hopes to trade them...

THE EMPTY MIRROR

DescriptionDescription The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating his memoirs to a blond officer ... Declaring his legacy "of destruction and grandeur"...

THE NUN (LA MONJA)

DescriptionDescription A young girl dealing with the death of her mother must choose between her two worlds of fantasy and reality which are presided over by her visions of a nun.

PALOOKAVILLE

DescriptionDescription Alan Taylor's debut feature is a refreshing change from the neo-noir violence that currently enshrouds American independent filmmaking. Palookaville, starring William Forsythe, Vincent Gallo and Adam Trese as three Jerseyites driven by unemployment to stick up an armed car, reinvents the blend of neorealism and soulful clowning that made Big Deal on Madonna Street...

PARTY

DescriptionDescription To celebrate their tenth wedding anniversary, Leonor and Rogerio hold a garden party at their beautiful palace in the Azores. Amongst their guests are Irene, a famous Greek actress, and Michel, her lover. Michel feels it his duty to court Leonor, who seems to accept his attentions. Though Rogerio and Irene notice the chemistry,...

PIANESE NUNZIO 14 ANNI A MAGGIO

DescriptionDescription Members of the organized crime scene in Naples attempt to destroy the credibility of an influential priest of the people by misrepresenting his relationship with a young street urchin named Nunzio.

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