October 16, 2019
HIGH HEELS
DescriptionDescription Aging pop star Becky Del Paramo returns to Madrid after 15 years to perform and, in passing, to resolve her relationship with the daughter she abandoned as a little girl in favor of her .career. When she meets Rebecca's new husband, it turns out to be Manuel, Becky's former lover who Rebecca married without...
October 16, 2019
THE HOLY WEEK (WIELKI TYDZIEN)
DescriptionDescription The horror of the Nazi years have been done to death and often inadvertently turned into soap opera by filmmakers. For Andrzej Wajda, though, those years are no abstract symbol-they're a flesh and blood memory, and he makes them come alive here with the authority of firsthand observation. What's more-restricting his story to the...
October 16, 2019
I’M SO-SO
DescriptionDescription Shot in May of 1995, I'm So-So uses a combination of interviews and brief film clips to explore the life and art of the renowned Polish director who had just announced his decision to retire from making films. Among the specialists who analyze and help make up this portrait of Kieslowski are a priest,...
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
HAMSUN
DescriptionDescription This film chronicles the troubling and fantastic life of Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun. Increasingly nationalistic in his writings, the aging writer openly supports the Nazi party during World War II. A known personality around the world, Hamsun takes advantage of his international contacts to promote Hitler's cause. When Norway is occupied by the...
October 16, 2019
HEARING THE LIGHT
DescriptionDescription Michael Gordon, a successful deaf painter whose hearing is restored through laser surgery, experiences a crisis of faith when he realizes that his popularity may be more a result of exploitative marketing of his former handicap than his actual talent as an artist.
October 16, 2019
HEARTS AND MINDS
DescriptionDescription South Africa in the late l 980's is a country divided, wracked by anti-communist para· noia and sliding headlong towards civil war. Against this background, we find Andries Fourie, 'an officer in the South African Police, a man devastated by guilt and at the edge of his sanity. Fourie is a member of the...
October 16, 2019
HERE ON EARTH (AQUI NA TERRA)
DescriptionDescription 40-ish economist Luis Miguel Cintra loses his father then starts going to pieces, hearing sounds no one else does, quitting his job, even alienating his beautiful doctor wife Jessica Weiss. Meanwhile, far away in the country, poor lost kids Rita Dias and Pedro Hestnes get mixed up in a murder and have to pay...
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
HAIFA
DescriptionDescription Haifa is a sensitive story of the days leading up to the peace agreement signed by Arafat and Rabin in Washington and the mixed emotions that followed the historic event. "Everyday people go about their business in a poor, dusty little town somewhere in the Gaza Strip. There is the optimistic Abu Said, who...
