October 16, 2019
A LIGHT-SENSITIVE STORY
DescriptionDescription A touching portrayal of a young woman's struggle to survive in a hostile environment. Juli is a single parent, former photojournalist now reduced to taking school portraits. Her personar'tife is in shambles as she tries to find work, get a new flat, and deal with minor deceits and betrayals. Luck refuses to shine on...
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
KISSES AND SCRATCHES (CSÓKKAL ÉS KÖRÖMMEL)
DescriptionDescription Angi is a free-spirited social worker trying to survive on the fringe of Budapest's gay demimonde. A babysitting stint involves her with a fearful young wife's emerging lesbian identity. Shot in an experimental video style by male feminist and radical filmmaker Gybrgy Szomjas ( The Wall Driller), whose previous work posits prostitution as a...
October 16, 2019
KOREA
DescriptionDescription A stylistically photographed, moody story of a family in a rural Irish village in 1952. Young Eamon Doyle lives with his fisherman father, a grumbling man set in his ways. Other young men in the economically depleted area have emigrated to America to find a better life, only to find themselves conscripted into the...
October 16, 2019
KRISTIN LAVRANSDATTER
DescriptionDescription An epic love story based on Nobel prize winner Sigrid Undset's beloved 1928 trilogy "The Bridal Wreath." Medieval Norway is gorgeously filmed by Sven Nykvist. Kristin, the innocent and virtuous daughter of a prominent landowner, has gone to spend a year in a convent after an attempted rape. Although she is promised in an...
October 16, 2019
LAND AND FREEDOM
DescriptionDescription Land and Freedom is a wonderful, dismayed epic, and the finest film that Englishman Ken Loach has made, a movie worthy of George Orwell and Homage to Cataloma. A young Communist from Liverpool goes off to Spain on his own to join the revolutionary militia. He sees battle- captured with brilliant, nervy exactness-as well...
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
JLG BY JLG: DECEMBER SELF-PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription In one of his most accessible films, Jean-Luc Godard makes philosophical and reflective observations on the worlds of cinema, language and art. At his lakeside home in Switzerland, Godard is a delightful mixture of King Lear and his detective character from Alphaville. Unafraid of lapsing into comedy and a sort of Marx Brothers-inspired lunacy,...
October 16, 2019
THE JOKE (ZERT)
DescriptionDescription Ironies abound-upbeat songs of the revolution overlap labor camp scenes, transistorized rod drowns out a folk band-as Josef Somr ( Closely Watched Trains) returns to his home town 15 years after being sent to the slammer for a "Long Live Trotsky!" postcard to his girlfriend. His mission-revenge on the squealer via seduction of his...
October 16, 2019
A KISS TO THIS LAND (UN BESO A ESTA TIERRA)
DescriptionDescription This wonderful film, the only documentary in this section, follows the lives of seven Jews who emigrated to Mexico from Europe and the Middle East in the first two decades of this century. Narrated by these individuals from the perspective of their old age, the film follows their trials and tribulations as each tries...
