October 16, 2019
RADIO STAR-THE AFN STORY
DescriptionDescription Filmed in Germany, America and Korea, Radio Star is a nostalgic trip to the past. For 50 years, the Armed Forces Network (AFN) was a radio station on special duty at the front, giving the troops a "radiophonic feeling of home" and perhaps more. Extraordinary and in part unpublished archive materials are to be...
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
NO LOANS TODAY
DescriptionDescription Surprisingly intimate and non-judgmental, this document of life in the African-American community of South Central Los Angeles offers a revealing exploration of the unseen resilience of the people who live here, with the pawnshop as a metaphor for survival. Since the riots of the 1960's the pawnshop, or "fringe banks", have become a hub...
October 16, 2019
NO QUARTER
DescriptionDescription In an ever increasing world of absurdism and loathing, our hero Sisyphus battles against parking tickets, heavy traffic and an agoraphobic girlfriend. A bleak comedy about the existential dilemma of choosing insanity over suicide. Behind the blissful smile of life hides the insidious nightmare that is No Quarter. Festival screenings: Worldfest Houston - Finalist;...
October 16, 2019
NONNIE AND ALEX
DescriptionDescription A young boy's mother has recently passed away. His journey leads from denial to acceptance which he finds with the help of his best friend. Festival screenings: Sundance FF - Honorable Mention; Aspen Short FF - First Place.
October 16, 2019
O QUATRILHO
DescriptionDescription "Quatrilho" is the name of a card game which requires its players to betray their partners in order to win. At the beginning of this century, in a small Italian immigrant community in the southernmost region of Brazil, two couples will incur the wrath of their church and community in their search for security....
October 16, 2019
ON OUR SELECTION
DescriptionDescription Based on turn of the century articles by Steele Rudd about his family, this lively Aussie efltry delivers an earthy look at the hardships involved in working a small parcel of land (or "selection"). In a sepia toned flashback, the family arrives at their 150 acre bush property, and then must fight drought, plagues...
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 NEON BIBLE
DescriptionDescription A moving story of a young boy growing up in a small 1940s Bible Belt town in America's Deep South. The film boasts a strong cast, including the extraordinary Gena Rowlands as Aunt Mae, who brings a dash of glamour and excitement to the small town; cult comedian Denis Leary as the boy's father;...
