October 16, 2019
THE DRESDEN
DescriptionDescription An unforgettable journey through the last great Hollywood lounge, unchanged for 40 years.
October 16, 2019
AUGUSTIN
DescriptionDescription Augustin was not the sensation of last year's Cannes Film Festival, it was something better: most charming, most surprising, wackiest movie of the entire 12-day event. A low-key, totally deadpan comedy, this feature follows its Keatonesque protagonist, beautifully played by Jean-Chretien Silbvertin-Blanc, through a life that alternates between mind-numbing work for an insurance company...
October 16, 2019
CURSED LAWN (GAZON MAUDIT)
DescriptionDescription In this quirky, comic love triangle a ,couple finds their lives forever altered when a cigar smoking lesbian enters their home. The womanizing, macho husband is threatened by the burgeoning relationship between his wife and this unexpected interloper, but is seemingly powerless to stop this liaison. In a typical French comic manner, all eventually...
October 16, 2019
CUTTING IT SHORT (POSTRIZINY)
DescriptionDescription Pure delight, as progress comes to a rural brewery in the '20s: manager Jiri Schmitzer's sidecarred motorcycle sometimes refuses to stop; his stentorian-voiced brother keeps extending that visit; and the brewery's board fusses over his accounts; but then it's time for a pork sausage feast cooked by his beautiful free spirited wile, Magda Vasaryova...
October 16, 2019
DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)
DescriptionDescription A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the sea, which was the last time he saw his father alive. Meanwhile, he writes...
October 16, 2019
DESERT SNOW
DescriptionDescription Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from the depths of his own cynicism. Desert Snow offers insight into how we sometimes...
October 16, 2019
ANONYMOUS LOVE LETTER (SIN REMITENTE)
DescriptionDescription A young woman, disillusioned with love, plays a cruel joke on her elderly neighbor whose cat is his only companion and who strongly disapproves of her promiscuous lifestyle. The joke consists of a series of anonymous love letters, which she leaves under his door day after day, pretending to be a secret admirer who...
October 16, 2019
COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)
DescriptionDescription A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business for himself puts all his savings into a truck he buys at an auction....
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
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"...
