October 16, 2019
TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS (HIKAYAT AL-JAWAHER AL-THALATH)
DescriptionDescription The stark contrast between the grirn' realities of life in contemporary Gaza and a young boy's liberating imagination imbue this Palestinian tale with a haunting quality ... Youssef is a 12-year-old lad whose precarious family unit includes a fugitive brother and a father imprisoned by the Israelis ... The focus of this piece becomes...
October 16, 2019
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SCARF, TATIANA (PIDÄ HUIVISTA KIINI, TATJANA)
DescriptionDescription A quirky, droll road movie about the deadpan adventures of two Finnish men, driving a black Volga station wagon through Finland some time in the mid-sixties. Vallo, the owner of the car, drinks enormous amounts of coffee. Reino, a mechanic, drinks booze and blabbers endlessly. Enter two women-one Estonian, one Russian-and in spite of...
October 16, 2019
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
DescriptionDescription SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known for his vital cinematic portrayals of roots music and musicians ( The Blues Accordin'...
October 16, 2019
SWEETIES (CARAMELLE)
DescriptionDescription Anna's physical decline is irreversible, but she is a voluptuous woman in the prime of life. And she will do anything to rekindle her husband's waning desire. When diets and aerobics fail to do the trick, she turns to a fortune teller for help. One love potion is tried, and then another-each with results...
October 16, 2019
STREETLIFE
DescriptionDescription A tough story shot through with humor and compassion centers on a group of women in a grim, South Wales housing project for whom a steady job means doing someone else's ironing or engaging in a little amateur prostitution. They get by with black humor, blue jokes and a healthy cynicism about their less...
October 16, 2019
STORIES FROM THE KRONEN (HISTORIAS DEL KRONEN)
DescriptionDescription Sex, drugs, rock'n'roll-that's just the early part of the evening for night-lifer Carlos. The largest grossing film so far this year in Spain centers around a bar in downtown Madrid where Spanish Generation Xers burn both sides of the candle. In U S movie terms, it's Less Than Zero and Bright Lights, Big City...
October 16, 2019
LA STRADA
DescriptionDescription AFI Fest is pleased to present Charlotte Chandler, who will discuss her new Random House book, "I Fellini", about the legendary Italian director Federico Fellini. "I have orr1y one life, and that I have told to you. This is my last testament, I have no more to say," Fellini told his friend of fourteen...
October 16, 2019
SHOTGUN FREEWAY: DRIVES THRU LOST L.A.
DescriptionDescription Like a surreal educational film frorn'ihe 1950s, this tour of Los Angeles' anguished coming of age-from pueblo to condo, explores the lives of 14 Angelenos whose oral histories attempt to illuminate this undefinable, noir city. Ranging from artist to activist to freethinker, these residents take us to the far corners of L.A. to relive...
October 16, 2019
THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET (OBCHOD NA KORZE)
DescriptionDescription Wartime in the fascist Slovak state: although happy go lucky carpenter Jozef Kr6ner's detested brother-in-law gets him the supposedly cushy job of "Aryan controller" of Jewish widow Ida Kaminska's button shop, the oblivious old lady treats him as a simple assistant-but then the deportation order comes down. "The most moving film about anti-Semitism" seen...
October 16, 2019
SHARAKU
DescriptionDescription A stunning depiction of life in ancient Tokyo (then called Eda), this is the sumptuously told story of the real life wood-block artist who became the first ukiyoe (floating world) artist Sharaku, who dared to depict his subjects in a realistic manner, verging on caricature. Since little is known about Sharaku in his later...
