October 16, 2019
IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
DescriptionDescription In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off to Warsaw to live with his eccentric Aunt Idalia, who has a penchant for...
October 16, 2019
ISOTTA
DescriptionDescription An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
October 16, 2019
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
DescriptionDescription Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about a bridge to be built across the river. The government has decided to bring...
October 16, 2019
JUICEHEAD
DescriptionDescription Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him to confront his condition and the man responsible for it.
October 16, 2019
DRIFTING CLOUDS (KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT)
DescriptionDescription There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre-embracing such films as Ariel, Match Factory Girl and La Vie de Boheme-the new outing reiterates a dead pan fatalism that's oddly compelling yet essentially unthreatening. In this film, the good life is ephemeral. Ilona...
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
THE HOLY WEEK (WIELKI TYDZIEN)
DescriptionDescription The horror of the Nazi years have been done to death and often inadvertently turned into soap opera by filmmakers. For Andrzej Wajda, though, those years are no abstract symbol-they're a flesh and blood memory, and he makes them come alive here with the authority of firsthand observation. What's more-restricting his story to the...
October 16, 2019
I’M SO-SO
DescriptionDescription Shot in May of 1995, I'm So-So uses a combination of interviews and brief film clips to explore the life and art of the renowned Polish director who had just announced his decision to retire from making films. Among the specialists who analyze and help make up this portrait of Kieslowski are a priest,...
October 16, 2019
DEAD HEART
DescriptionDescription In the scrubby desert village of Wala Wala, a jailed Aboriginal is found dead in local lawman Ray Lorkin's police lock-up. In Wala Wala, justice is black and white-Aboriginal traditions vs. Australian law. In an attemp't to reconcile the need for due process and satisfy the demands of tradition, Ray allows Mannga, the father...
October 16, 2019
HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
DescriptionDescription 40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita Dias and Pedro Hestnes get mixed up in a murder and have to pay...
