October 16, 2019
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET (DER ELEFANT VERGISST NIE)
DescriptionDescription Young and lonely Countess Lilly von Teltow has the good fortune of being rescued from the sight of a car accident by two members of a traveling circus: the circus' elephant and its trainer, the dwarf Ramon. He visits the Countess at her castle, which she shares with her philandering husband. Though Lilly initially...
October 16, 2019
THE EMPEROR’S SHADOW
DescriptionDescription The movie opens in 210 B.C. with Ying Zheng, the first emperor of a united China, making a sacrifice by the churning waters of the Yellow River. Weary from a life of war-mongering and bloodletting, he can hardly stand without assistance, still haunted by the memory of a certain Gao Jianli. Through a flashback,...
October 16, 2019
THE EMPTY MIRROR
DescriptionDescription The Empty Mirror provides Adolf Hitler with the dramatic opportunity to recapitulate, explain and analyze his insidious career. A virtual one-man performance piece by British actor Norman Rodway, pie imagines a postwar Hitler holed up in an underground bunker dictating his memoirs to a blond officer ... Declaring his legacy "of destruction and grandeur"...
October 16, 2019
THE COME-ON (EL ANZUELO)
DescriptionDescription A middle class couple disregards the romantic yearnings of their young daughter Alejandra and promises her hand in marriage to Alfonso, who is many years her senior but economically well-off. To celebrate the event in style, the bride's parents spend over their means on an extravagant wedding banquet to entertain the guests. All goes...
October 16, 2019
A DROP IN THE OCEAN (STAGONA STON OKEANO)
DescriptionDescription The difficulties of love in the modern world: some things are universal. Stage actress Amalia Moutoussi, in a powerful performance, finds romance impinging on her own art as she falls for craggy-faced Giorgos Sfyrides, a billiard-playing wouldbe emigre, who, in love himself, makes for a demanding partner. First film for Eleni Alexandrakis: "Faith has...
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
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...
