October 16, 2019
MACADAM TRIBU (MACADAM TRIBE)
DescriptionDescription The Tarmac Tribe are confused. With Africa in the throes of economic modernization, its people find themselves severed from their tribal roots. The story of their search for work, love and an identity, Macadam Tribe is a vision of Africa that is a fragmented, postmodern world away from your standard shots of wildebeest and...
October 16, 2019
MENNO’S MIND
DescriptionDescription In the near future, Menno, a naive government computer technician, is drawn into a web of intrigue by a rebellious underground determined to stop a rogue politician from stealing an impending national election. The rebels force Menno to download the contents of their murdered leader's brain into his own. He is slowly transformed from...
October 16, 2019
LA MIA GENERAZIONE
DescriptionDescription 1983: A warm-hearted police captain is assigned to take a convicted Red Brigade terrorist from a Sicilian prison to his waiting girlfriend in Milan, only to find that it is a sinister trap to elicit the names of the terrorist's accomplices.
October 16, 2019
MOTHER NIGHT
DescriptionDescription In 1961, Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an obscure American playwright, is delivered to an Israeli prison. Awaiting trial as a Nazi war criminal, Campbell finds himself in the cell directly below that of the notorious Adolph Eichmann, who is also about to stand trial for his crimes against humanity. Asked by the Israelis to...
October 16, 2019
THE EDGE OF THE HORIZON (O FIO DO HORIZONTE)
DescriptionDescription "We have two lives: the real one which we dream about in childhood; and the false one which we share with others, and which finishes in a coffin."-Alvaro de Campos. Just another shooting on Lisbon's docks-but as nightshift pathologist Claude Brasseur examines the body he gets a very rude shock of recognition. A shock...
October 16, 2019
THE LOVE LESSON
DescriptionDescription Seventeen years ago, two women made an agreement. Grace, a civil servant, would raise the son of Camille, a gallery owner-with the provisions that the three would live in close proximity and that the adoption be kept from the child forever. As the son, Christopher, grows older, however, some vague but true connection between...
October 16, 2019
LOVE’S DEBRIS (POUSSIERES D’AMOUR)
DescriptionDescription "This film is based on the deeply held conviction that everything we express through the voice is the 'product' of our quest for closer contact with another person, with love and every possible expression of love. In order to verify this fundamental idea, I invited singers to the Abbey of Royaumont, to create situations...
October 16, 2019
LUMIÈRE AND COMPANY (LUMIÈRE ET COMPAGNIE)
DescriptionDescription A lively tip of the hat to the pioneers of the moving picture, this film is an anthology of short pieces by forty contemporary filmmakers wt,o used a restored camera which had belonged to the Lumiere brothers to make their own "Lumiere" films. Thus, the filmmakers were required to work according to the same...
October 16, 2019
LUST AND REVENGE
DescriptionDescription Claudia Karvan plays bored, wealthy divorcee Georgina Oliphant, spoiled daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon George Oliphant. George urgently needs to reduce his company's profits for tax purposes, and decides to sponsor the creation of an ambitious bronze statue, 100% tax deductible, to be donated to a new wing of the National Gallery. When out-of-work Karl-Heinz...
October 16, 2019
EARTH
DescriptionDescription This movie is so beautiful and strange that those qualities alone recommend it. The hero is an exterminator-he specializes in killing the bugs that infest the red, rather Martian soil of a marvelous bleak stretch of Spanish countryside. Moreover, he thinks he's an angel: his head is forever in the stars; he confides wonderful...
