October 16, 2019
DYING TO GO HOME (MARTINHO POR CHEGAR A CASA)
DescriptionDescription Manuel, a Portuguese immigrant living in Amsterdam, wakes up in a cemetery and discovers he's a ghost. There's another ghost there: a Chinese man who tells him he will only find peace if he can get his bones back to his native land. This wouldn't be a problem if Manuel weren't invisible, inaudible and...
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...
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
CLOCKS
DescriptionDescription Clocks offers an impression of the work of composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chemin. Accompanied by her own music, we see Elena at work: composing, at the piano, in dialogue with Richard Toop, Daryl Pratt and Elizabeth Burton. -Production notes
October 16, 2019
DEACON BRODIE
DescriptionDescription In 1788, the city of Edinburgh was rocked with the revelation that William Brodie (aka Deacon Brodie), master cabinet maker and town councilor had been found guilty of attempting to steal a fortune from the city's Customs and Excise offices. This film follows the last three months of Brodie's life. A frenetic three months...
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
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
A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
DescriptionDescription Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks upon an affair with a young widow. Several years pass in quiet discontent until...
October 16, 2019
CLINIC E
DescriptionDescription This black comedy about the power of denial follows the misadventures of Jack Everhart. Upon being called in for an HIV test per the submitted list of an ex-lover who has tested positive, Jack embarks upon an obsessive search to discover who it was that reported his name.
October 16, 2019
A CORNER IN GOLD
DescriptionDescription In his pursuit to become a legend in the chaos of the gold pit, a young man named Dare journeys on a train which travels repeatedly to the gold market and back. Dare works diligently towards his goal until finally the train reaches the "end of the line," where he must confront the origins...
