October 16, 2019
LES ENFANTS MODELES
DescriptionDescription Two child models, like dolls, are being made up to perfection for the preparation of a large fashion shoot. Today's shoot requires that the two children kiss, forcing them to publicly face their adolescent insecurities.
October 16, 2019
THE KING OF MASKS
DescriptionDescription An aging traveling performer named Wang is a master of the Sichuan opera technique of changing masks so quickly that the act appears miraculous. Aging and longing for a male heir to whom he can teach his skills, he buys a small boy nicknamed "Doggie" from an impoverished family. He is happy and his...
October 16, 2019
KIDS RETURN
DescriptionDescription The humorous opening stretch introduces high school buddies Shinji and Masaru as they cut classes and disrupt lessons. They extort cash from their classmates to finance long afternoons ,hanging out at a neighborhood coffee shop and a diner frequented by a local yakuza quartet, whose chief takes a fatherly liking to Masaru. When one...
October 16, 2019
KAMIKAZE TAXI
DescriptionDescription Kantake is a cab driver raised in Peru who still speaks Japanese pidgin style. He is to become the third side of a unique dramatic triangle, conjoining reps of three social groups that rarely crisscross: Japan's 150,000 foreign-raised citizens, its 90,000 yakuza and, according to an opening title, "a few politicians who distort historical...
October 16, 2019
JUICEHEAD
DescriptionDescription Addicted to electricity, Buzzy lurches through life sucking on sockets, unable to touch anyone without shocking them. When he falls for an ace electrician, his cycle of addiction and isolation becomes unbearable, as his desire to touch her forces him to confront his condition and the man responsible for it.
October 16, 2019
IT’S A LONG WAY TO THE SEA…
DescriptionDescription Puwal is a boatman in Nemuguri village, on the bank of the river Dihing in Assam. For three generations, his forefathers have been ferrying people to and fro. Life goes on smoothly until Puwal begins to hear persistent reports about a bridge to be built across the river. The government has decided to bring...
October 16, 2019
ISOTTA
DescriptionDescription An overweight thirty-year-old woman works in a factory, spends her days fantasizing, falls for a Greek businessman, loses him to her best friend and still manages to love life.
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
IN FULL GALLOP (CWAL)
DescriptionDescription In Full Gallop is an autobiographical adaptation of Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's boyhood in the l 950's. As a result of constant surveillance by the Secret Police and the subsequent threat to young Hubert's education, his mother ships Hubert off to Warsaw to live with his eccentric Aunt Idalia, who has a penchant for...
October 16, 2019
WIVES III
DescriptionDescription If Wives was a youthful debate and Wives: Ten Years Later quiet rebellion, Wives Ill is wise and joyful affirmation. This ode to three spirited friends of over twenty years opens on a surprise birthday party for Kaja on board a streetcar in Oslo. In philosophical celebration of a new life era, Kaja, an...
