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
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
THE QUIET ROOM
DescriptionDescription Rolf de Heer's audacious new film takes the viewer into the mind of a 7-year-old girl whose parents are separating. This is an interior picture in more ways than one. Most of the action takes place in two rooms, the brightly painted bedroom of an unnamed girl and the bedroom of her parents next...
October 16, 2019
REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE
DescriptionDescription Just your typical southern Army base, wracked by repressed homosexuality (Marlon Brando), crazed love in a berry patch (Elizabeth Taylor), and a whip fetish (Brando and Taylor). Gothic, garish, and over the top performances are strangely balanced by innovative, delicate cinematography. Directed by John Huston, from the book by Carson McCullers. 1967. 108 mins.
October 16, 2019
RICHARD III
DescriptionDescription Afi Fest is proud to present the world premiere of the restored print of an epic l 91 2 version of Shakespeare's Richard Ill, a film previously believed to be lost. Being shown publicly for the first time in eighty years, Richard Ill was one of the earliest feature- length releases and the first...
October 16, 2019
ERMO
DescriptionDescription Ermo is a hard-working woman who sells her home-made noodles by the roadside in a rural town. l.1er husband is ill and a stranger to her mind, and her small son spends much of his time at the neighbor's house, watching their coveted television. When the neighbor's husband offers to drive her into town,...
October 16, 2019
FIRST DATE
DescriptionDescription What happens when a man asks out a woman he's only iust met? He realizes he's got more than he bargained for, and begins the process of understanding what it means to be dating in the nineties.
October 16, 2019
THE PIANO
DescriptionDescription Ada, her nine-year-old daughter and her piano arrive to an arranged marriage in the remote bush of nineteenth century New Zealand. Of all her belongings, her husband refuses to transport the piano, and it is left behind on the beach. Unable to bear its certain destruction, Ada strikes a bargain with an illiterate tattooed...
October 16, 2019
PRETTY VILLAGE, PRETTY FLAME (LEPA SELA LEPA GORE)
DescriptionDescription Based on a story written from eye-witness testimony, Pretty Village Pretty Flame follows one incident in the lives of one group of Serbian soldiers during the conflict in Yugoslavia. In the spring of 1992 a group of men found both refuge and imprisonment in a tunnel as they hid from Croatian soldiers outside. Blocking...
October 16, 2019
PRISONER OF THE MOUNTAINS
DescriptionDescription Shot during the bloody conflict in Chechenya not far from an actual location which a number of Chechen rebels called home, this film about love, brutality and humanity in a time of war achieves an unusual immediacy. Two wounded Russian soldiers are taken prisoner by AbdulMurat, a Chechen man who hopes to trade them...
