October 16, 2019
THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1ST AND 2ND JOURNEYS)
DescriptionDescription Eminent French documentarian Marcel Ophuls ( The Sorrow and the Pity, Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie) has turned his eye to Bosnia from the perspective of the journalists who cover the war. From 1993 to 1994 Ophuls made four trips to war-torn Sarajevo. He examines the high-risk physical aspects of...
October 16, 2019
TRINITY AND BEYOND
DescriptionDescription On August 6th and August 9th, 1995, the world observed the 50th anniversaries of the most destructive forces ever unleashed in human history: the dropping of atomic bombs by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Filmmaker Peter Kuran has dedicated the past three years to the production of this chronicle of the...
October 16, 2019
TOLERANCE (GONDOVISELES)
DescriptionDescription A young couple, imprisoned for the husband's work-related thievery, lose their children to a foster home. Upon their release, they endeavor to regain custody of their young daughter, only to find their dreams of a family reunion crushed by the desires of the foster parents. Emotionally and economically broken, the small family inevitably breaks...
October 16, 2019
TRIAL
DescriptionDescription A dynamic and intelligent courtroom drama scripted by Don Man'kiewicz. A Southern California murder trial with overtones of (gaspl) interracial sex is ruthlessly exploited by left and right wing forces. Sound at all familiar? Watch for the famous "Sea of Green" mass rally.
October 16, 2019
TERMINUS BREST (BAHNHOF BREST)
DescriptionDescription On the Russian-Polish border lies a city named Brest. Unlike its French and Bulgarian counterparts, this Brest has not remained untouched by the ravages of war. Taking the Brest train station as a starting point, former East German filmmaker Gerd Kroske uses archival footage from Russian and contemporary images of war to visualize the...
October 16, 2019
TALE OF THE THREE JEWELS (HIKAYAT AL-JAWAHER AL-THALATH)
DescriptionDescription The stark contrast between the grirn' realities of life in contemporary Gaza and a young boy's liberating imagination imbue this Palestinian tale with a haunting quality ... Youssef is a 12-year-old lad whose precarious family unit includes a fugitive brother and a father imprisoned by the Israelis ... The focus of this piece becomes...
October 16, 2019
TAKE CARE OF YOUR SCARF, TATIANA (PIDÄ HUIVISTA KIINI, TATJANA)
DescriptionDescription A quirky, droll road movie about the deadpan adventures of two Finnish men, driving a black Volga station wagon through Finland some time in the mid-sixties. Vallo, the owner of the car, drinks enormous amounts of coffee. Reino, a mechanic, drinks booze and blabbers endlessly. Enter two women-one Estonian, one Russian-and in spite of...
October 16, 2019
SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA
DescriptionDescription SWORN TO THE DRUM: A TRIBUTE TO FRANCISCO AGUABELLA, depicts the Afro-Cuban drummer and composer, a fixture on the U.S. Latin music scene since the 1950s, honored with the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award in 1992. Known for his vital cinematic portrayals of roots music and musicians ( The Blues Accordin'...
October 16, 2019
SWEETIES (CARAMELLE)
DescriptionDescription Anna's physical decline is irreversible, but she is a voluptuous woman in the prime of life. And she will do anything to rekindle her husband's waning desire. When diets and aerobics fail to do the trick, she turns to a fortune teller for help. One love potion is tried, and then another-each with results...
October 16, 2019
STREETLIFE
DescriptionDescription A tough story shot through with humor and compassion centers on a group of women in a grim, South Wales housing project for whom a steady job means doing someone else's ironing or engaging in a little amateur prostitution. They get by with black humor, blue jokes and a healthy cynicism about their less...
