October 16, 2019
FIRST DAUGHTER
DescriptionDescription An eight year old girl, mourning her father's death, discovers a world of fantasy and her unknown culture when she visits Vietnam.
October 16, 2019
FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER (O QUE É ISSO, COMPANHEIRO?)
DescriptionDescription Best known for DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS, Barreto enters the complex world of politics, based on the true story of the 1969 kidnapping of the American ambassador to Brazil (Alan Arkin). A group of young and naive idealists join together to carry out an act of terrorism, their only means of giving...
October 16, 2019
ARTEMISIA
DescriptionDescription Ravishingly beautiful, this sumptuous romance takes place in seventeenth century Italy, and tells the tale of 17 year old Artemisia, who defies the conventions of her time and pursues her passion for painting. When she meets an arrogant artist who offers to give her lessons, she soon learns that the body is no longer...
October 16, 2019
THE ASSISTANT
DescriptionDescription Against the backdrop of the waning days of the great Depression, this emotionally charged drama paints a story of love and redemption about a young man who applies for a job with a family at their general store . Through his interaction with them, he learns the true value of family. With complex characters...
October 16, 2019
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
DescriptionDescription This is a first rote horror film and the first of Carmon's Poe adaptations. When a suitor arrives at the Usher house to claim his beautiful fiancee, Price as her older brother in one of his best performances comes between them because of a deadly family curse. Truly magnificent in its dark unravelling of...
October 16, 2019
FIRE IN PARADISE (LES RAISONS DU COEUR)
DescriptionDescription On her honeymoon cruise, Juliette realizes that her new husband has married her for her money. Dismayed and angry, she meets a poor bride-to-be on board the ship. This young woman is traveling to India to man-y a missionary she has never met. Juliette feels that her salvation lies in taking on the young...
October 16, 2019
AN AMBIGUOUS REPORT ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD
DescriptionDescription This exquisitely crafted surreal fairy tale for adults by renowned Czech director Juraj Jakubisko takes place in a small village lost in the mountains, somewhere at the end of the world, and offers the fateful story of two sinful lovers in which the prophecy of Nostradamus is fulfilled. A bitter parable of mankind at...
October 16, 2019
ELLES
DescriptionDescription "When you're my age, I'll be 70," ruefully notes a literature professor (Miou-Miou) to her student lover. But her friends have problems of their own. Five women, all edging the wrong side of 40, face life's ups and downs together. Their only imperative: live, love and live some more. This romantic comedy is a...
October 16, 2019
EX VOTO
DescriptionDescription When a reporter investigates the disappearance of a young girl, she begins to question her view of reality.
October 16, 2019
EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE (DONG GONG XI GONG)
DescriptionDescription Screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, this controversial and compelling film centers on a sensitive young gay writer who is arrested at his favorite cruising ground and held by the police for intensive interrogation. The questioning quickly transforms into an unwanted runthrough of his tumultuous life, seen in flashbacks: his childhood, parents, school,...
