October 16, 2019
SLING BLADE
DescriptionDescription This dark southern tale follows the life of Karl, a man who has just been released from an asylum after having hacked up his mother and her lover with a sling blade over 25 years before. Deemed "cured", Karl secures a job fixing engines in his small Southern hometown. He bonds with a young,...
October 16, 2019
LA SECONDA VOLTA
DescriptionDescription University professor Alberto Sajevo lives life with a bullet lodged in his skull. One day, he has a chance encounter with the the woman who shot him twelve years earlier in a terrorist attack. Taking advantage of the woman's lack of recognition, Alberto establishes a manipulative friendship with her in his obsessive quest for...
October 16, 2019
SIGNAL LEFT, TURN RIGHT (DA ZUO DENG, XIANG XOU ZHUAN)
DescriptionDescription The third in Huang's "Urban Attitude" trilogy, Signal Left, Turn Right is a sharp social satire on the contradictions of modern Chinese life in the face of open door economic policy. Using the automobile as a symbol of prestige and mobility in a changing society, the film is set in a policerun driving school...
October 16, 2019
SIGNS OF FIRE (SINAIS DE FOGO)
DescriptionDescription 1936: Engineering student Diogo Infante arrives at his aunt and uncle's seaside town for· his summer vacation, reuniting with old flame Ruth Gabriel and assorted schoolmates, even as all the Spanish tourists leave amid the looming Civil War. It is not long before the police of Salazar's Portuguese dictatorship start rounding up the Spaniards...
October 16, 2019
THE SANDMAN (DER SANDMANN)
DescriptionDescription The young TV journalist, Ina Littmann, is responsible for the background research for a personality talk show. The show's next guest is to be the infamous author, Henry Kupfer, whose latest work deals with the story of a serial murderer. Having himself spent ten years behind bars for murdering a prostitute, Henry is definitely...
October 16, 2019
A SATURDAY ON EARTH (UN SAMEDI SUR LA TERRE)
DescriptionDescription This murder mystery, with its puzzle-like construction, is comprised of slowly unfolding personal histories and the taped testimonies of "witnesses" involved in the case. The story is set in Normandy, where the meandering fates of a brother and sister will finally and inexorably meet. Both in their late twenties, these two natives of the...
October 16, 2019
SALÓN MÉXICO
DescriptionDescription A crime has been committed in the 1930's Mexico City dance hall Salon Mexico, an oasis of lovers dancing the danzon. In one of its dressing rooms two people lie dead: the taxi dancer, Mercedes, and her lover, the robber and pimp known as Paco. Police inspector Castellon is brought on to investigate, and...
October 16, 2019
SAMBÓLICO
DescriptionDescription A Finnish conductor spends a relaxing afternoon on the beach in Rio when he spots a dark-eyed beauty in need of his help. They embark upon a wild journey through the sights and sounds of Rio, but there is a price to be paid for this fleeting passion …
October 16, 2019
ROUND EYES IN THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
DescriptionDescription This film tells the story of the Caucasian residents of China from the l 930's to the present. It follows a family ?f Westerne?s who fled China as the revolution spread in 1949, b,μt focuses on one man who stayed, a Russian Jew who joined Mao's revolution. Why Israel Epstein joined the communist revolution...
October 16, 2019
SAINT-EX
DescriptionDescription In July of 1944, an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft piloted by Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappeared over the Mediterranean and was never found. Saint-Ex returns to the magical world felt and documented by the author of Night Flight, Wind, Sand and Stars, and, of course, The Little Prince. We journey through his childhood, his obsession with...
