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.
October 16, 2019
BETWEEN SUMMERS (SOMMAREN)
DescriptionDescription Without using any of the conventional images of grief, the director has created a sobering but beautiful interpretation of the worst tragedy that can befall a family. One hot summer afternoon while Torun is napping, her sister Ellen takes Torun's two children to the beach. Ellen dozes off for a few minutes and one...
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
WOYZECK
DescriptionDescription Bleak but beautiful, Woyzeck is a moving, intelligent transportation of Georg Buechner's theatrical masterpiece. The setting is a Hungarian railroad yard, where unshaven, sweatstained lug Woyzeck serves as a point man, sitting all day in a tiny wooden box by the tracks and suffering daily humiliations from his disciplinarian boss. Woyzeck's personal life is...
October 16, 2019
WYATT EARP
DescriptionDescription The 1994 AFI International Film Festival is honored to open this year with Warner Bros.' epic Western, Wyatt Earp, directed by Lawrence Kasdan and starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, and Gene Hackman. This sweeping tale of the transformation of the American West traces the life of legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, played by Kevin Costner,...
October 16, 2019
THE WILD EAST (DIKI VOSTOK)
DescriptionDescription Rach id Nougmanov's ( The Needle) The Wild East is The Seventh Samurai shot in a radical eclectic style that mixes John Ford Westerns and Mad Max-like post-industrial and postmodern influences. This campy fable is about a group of midgets, the Solar Children, who have fled the chaos of the crumbling Soviet structures to...
October 16, 2019
WOMEN FROM THE LAKE OF SCENTED SOULS (XIANG HUN NU)
DescriptionDescription Frederic Cassidy's Kissing Time is a reverential and referential tribute to silent films, made in the tradition of 1920s cinema. Bloods on the Moon is a textured examination of a father forced to decide which to believe, his instinct or his love for his son. Elizabeth's fiance has left her for another in Shoe...
October 16, 2019
WOMEN IN REVOLT
DescriptionDescription Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, and Jackie Curtis star as three "women's libbers" trying desperately to get away from men. But liberation has its price-one finds movie stardom on the casting couch, another ends up a Bowery wino, and another bears a child to Mr. America. Inspired ad-libbed dialogue and fabulously campy performances make for...
October 16, 2019
WET
DescriptionDescription Hollywood maverick Bob Rafelson (Five Easy Pieces, Mountains of the Moon) sets his erotic tale in Los Angeles at a luxury bathroom fixture store. When a beautiful customer demands the store manager let her test one of the bathtubs, he is forced to comply ... and to face the consequences.
October 16, 2019
WHERE GODS ARE DEAD (DER GUDENE ER DODE)
DescriptionDescription The fighting in the former Yugoslavia has heretofore come to Americans in the form of television sound bites and bloody, but faceless images. From Vibeke Lokkeberg comes a film that observes this brutal conflict from a decidedly human and personal viewpoint. A Norwegian woman travels to the war zone to retrieve her son, a...
