October 16, 2019
NONNIE AND ALEX
DescriptionDescription A young boy's mother has recently passed away. His journey leads from denial to acceptance which he finds with the help of his best friend. Festival screenings: Sundance FF - Honorable Mention; Aspen Short FF - First Place.
October 16, 2019
O QUATRILHO
DescriptionDescription "Quatrilho" is the name of a card game which requires its players to betray their partners in order to win. At the beginning of this century, in a small Italian immigrant community in the southernmost region of Brazil, two couples will incur the wrath of their church and community in their search for security....
October 16, 2019
ON OUR SELECTION
DescriptionDescription Based on turn of the century articles by Steele Rudd about his family, this lively Aussie efltry delivers an earthy look at the hardships involved in working a small parcel of land (or "selection"). In a sepia toned flashback, the family arrives at their 150 acre bush property, and then must fight drought, plagues...
October 16, 2019
CROWS (WRONY)
DescriptionDescription A simple, lyrical, stylishly photographed story from award winning director Dorota Kedzierzawska about nine year old Wrony (Crow), who desperately wants to love and be loved. A loner expelled from school, she wanders the streets where she meets and kidnaps a three-year-old girl. They spend a day going "to the end of the world"...
October 16, 2019
THE MONKEY KID
DescriptionDescription Based on the director's childhood experiences, this is a lyrical, rhythmic chronicle of the daily life of a child of intellectuals during China's Cultural Revolution. When her parents are sent to the countryside for "re-education," (in truth brainwashing) a nine year old girl remains in Beijing on her own. With a freedom unnaturally formed...
October 16, 2019
THE MOOR’S HEAD (DER KOPF DES MOHREN)
DescriptionDescription Georg, a physicist at a testing laboratory, finds himself face to face with the horrific image of one of the victims of a fatal toxic gas leak in a nearby chemical plant. He becomes obsessed with protecting his family from the certain upcoming environmental apocalypse. Sinking deeper into paranoia, fueled by the ubiquitous TV...
October 16, 2019
THE NEON BIBLE
DescriptionDescription A moving story of a young boy growing up in a small 1940s Bible Belt town in America's Deep South. The film boasts a strong cast, including the extraordinary Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae, who brings a dash of glamour and excitement to the small town; cult comedian Denis Leary as the boy's father;...
October 16, 2019
CRIMINAL
DescriptionDescription A poetically haunting story about the loss of innocence and imagination in an indifferen'f world. Based on the true story of Simon Willerton, who hanged himself in jail in 1990 at the age of seventeen, this is a bittersweet, compelling and poignantly humorous piece of fiction which draws you into the world of a...
October 16, 2019
MIRACLE ALLEY (ELL CALLEJON DE LOS MILAGROS)
DescriptionDescription We are proud to open the TRIBUTE CONTEMPORARY MEXICAN CINEMA with the film most honored this year by the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Adapted from a book by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, the film's three stories take place in downtown Mexico City's Miracle Alley. The first story is that...
October 16, 2019
MISSION TO MOSCOW
DescriptionDescription M ission To Moscow tries to explain Soviet Russia to American audiences. Real-life U.S. Ambassador Davies (Walter Huston) talks up the lovable side of misunderstood mass murderer Joseph Stalin, while Mrs. Davies discovers Moscow's marvelous day care facilities.
