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
DRIFTING CLOUDS (KAUAS PILVET KARKAAVAT)
DescriptionDescription There's something at once familiar and unconventional about Aki Kaurismaki's Drifting Clouds. For those who've savored the flying Finn's oeuvre-embracing such films as Ariel, Match Factory Girl and La Vie de Boheme-the new outing reiterates a dead pan fatalism that's oddly compelling yet essentially unthreatening. In this film, the good life is ephemeral. Ilona...
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...
October 16, 2019
CLINIC E
DescriptionDescription This black comedy about the power of denial follows the misadventures of Jack Everhart. Upon being called in for an HIV test per the submitted list of an ex-lover who has tested positive, Jack embarks upon an obsessive search to discover who it was that reported his name.
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
CON RABBIA E CON AMORE
DescriptionDescription Claudio, superficial middle-class university student, one day meets young and wise Francesca at a bus stop, where they strike up a friendly relationship. As Francesca is walking away, however, she is caught in a crossfire and shot. During the next 14 days, the lives of Claudio and his family are forever changed, as he...
October 16, 2019
COOLBREEZE AND BUZZ
DescriptionDescription A girl and her father, separated by time and by his love for the unfettered life, meet again and become re-acquainted in the Florida panhandle.
October 16, 2019
A CORNER IN GOLD
DescriptionDescription In his pursuit to become a legend in the chaos of the gold pit, a young man named Dare journeys on a train which travels repeatedly to the gold market and back. Dare works diligently towards his goal until finally the train reaches the "end of the line," where he must confront the origins...
October 16, 2019
THE CHINESE FEAST
DescriptionDescription No figure within the Hong Kong New Wave has been more influential than Tsui Hark-director of Peking Opera Blues and the best of the Once Upon a Time in China series, and a producer of John Woo's The Killer and the Chinese Ghost Story and Swordsman series. A dazzling stylist, Tsui continually reinvents himself,...
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
