October 16, 2019
FORGOTTEN SILVER
DescriptionDescription This wickedly clever hoax "documentary" is a highly amusing satire on the recent spate of historical documentaries made to celebrate the centenary of cinema. The film deals with the career of a supposedly forgotten pioneer of international cinema, Colin McKenzie, who was allegedly born in rural New Zealand in 1888. McKenzie had been completely...
October 16, 2019
FRONTIERLAND (FRONTERILANDIA)
DescriptionDescription The title refers not to a location, but rather to those spaces where cultures intertwine. This film is an experimental, poetic documentary of the Lafino experience in border towns-an exploration, say the directors, "of the mythical perceptions which both sides of the border have about each other." The spontaneous imagery mirrors the development of...
October 16, 2019
CON RABBIA E CON AMORE
DescriptionDescription Claudio, superficial middle-class university student, one day meets young and wise Francesca at a bus stop, where they strike up a friendly relationship. As Francesca is walking away, however, she is caught in a crossfire and shot. During the next 14 days, the lives of Claudio and his family are forever changed, as he...
October 16, 2019
COOLBREEZE AND BUZZ
DescriptionDescription A girl and her father, separated by time and by his love for the unfettered life, meet again and become re-acquainted in the Florida panhandle.
October 16, 2019
THE EIGHTH DAY (LE HUITEME JOUR)
DescriptionDescription Pascal Duquenne plays Georges, who has been in an institution for the mentally handicapped since the death of his mother a few years earlier. Work-obsessed Harry (Daniel Auteuil) is presented giving a seminar on sales technique. His is a colorless existence, made even bleaker by the sudden departure of his wife, Julie, and their...
October 16, 2019
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
DescriptionDescription Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the Countess at her castle, which she shares with her philandering husband. Though Lilly initially...
October 16, 2019
THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
DescriptionDescription The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without assistance, still haunted by the memory of a certain Gao Jianli. Through a flashback,...
October 16, 2019
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"...
October 16, 2019
THE COME-ON (EL ANZUELO)
DescriptionDescription A middle class couple disregards the romantic yearnings of their young daughter Alejandra and promises her hand in marriage to Alfonso, who is many years her senior but economically well-off. To celebrate the event in style, the bride's parents spend over their means on an extravagant wedding banquet to entertain the guests. All goes...
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...
