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 AFRICAN CHILD (L’ ENFANT NOIR)
DescriptionDescription Freely adapted from Laye Camara's 1953 autobiographical account, this is an unsentimental and engaging look at a young man's rite of passage, set in motion when he is torn away from the roots of his traditional home village in Guinea and sent to school in the fast-paced big city Remarkably, Camara's own family relived...
October 16, 2019
BRANWEN
DescriptionDescription This compelling, contemporary film is set in Wales and Northern Ireland, where nationalism is a burning issue that can divide families over conflicting political ideals. Branwen is a passionate Welsh nationalist and her determination is strengthened when she meets a young man from Belfast Against the wishes of her soldier brother Branwen marries the...
October 16, 2019
BRIDE TO BE (NOVIA QUE TE VEA)
DescriptionDescription Two young Jewish women, both Mexican by birth, co-exist in modern Mexico City. One of the girls belongs to a Sefardic family whose speech and customs recall medieval Spain from which the Jews were expelled in 1492. The other is from an Ashkenazy family scarred by memories of the Holocaust. The two struggle to...
October 16, 2019
CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (ROZMARNÉ LÉTO)
DescriptionDescription This is a not to be missed delight from award winning director Jirf Menzel ( Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Cutting It ShorO. At a second-rate turn of the century resort, the pool manager, a priest and an ex-major spend a sleepy summer day swimming, drinking, eating and pontificating on life in...
October 16, 2019
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
DescriptionDescription One of Europe's leading directors tells a story as fragile and transparent as the light of Hong Kong made of silences, expectations and sorrow. An old freighter belonging to a company that has gone out of business drops anchor off Hong Kong. The crew aboard has to wait a week or month to get...
October 16, 2019
BEYOND THE CLOUDS (PAR DELÀ LES NUAGES)
DescriptionDescription Antonioni looks at love in four short stories based on his writings, diaries and short story collection entitled "Bowling Alley on the Tiber." In the first, a young man is so in love with a girl that he cannot decide to sacrifice his desire to pleasure. In the second, the director is fascinated by...
October 16, 2019
BIG JIM MCLAIN
DescriptionDescription The Duke smashes a Communist spy ring infiltrating labor unions on the Honolulu waterfront. One of the few movies that, even during the McCarthy period, favorably portrayed the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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
AWAKENING (ÉBREDÉS)
DescriptionDescription A thirteen year old girl in 1952 Budapest can't cope with the death of her mother. Is it possible comprehend death? This little girl with big eyes and a pony tail finds the perfect solution: she revives her mother. Together they discuss the eternal questions of life and death.
