October 16, 2019
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (DE VLIEGENDE HOLLANDER)
DescriptionDescription An epic fairy tale for adults set in the 16th Century from award winning director Jos Stelling ( The Pointsman), this is a dreamlike visual retelling of the poetic fable of the sailor doomed to roam the seven seas on an eerie, flying ship. The illegitimate son of the legendary Dutchman learns the story...
October 16, 2019
FRESH BAIT (L’ APPAT)
DescriptionDescription Bertrand Tavernier (L627, Round Midnight) has based this horrific crime drama on the true case of two seemingly ordinary young men and a girl who committed cold-blooded murder to steal enough money to open a chain of boutiques in America. In the girl's statement to the police, she calmly explains that all she did...
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
EXTERIOR NIGHT
DescriptionDescription Mark Rappaport's (From the Journals of Jean Seberg) unique film using the actual background scenes and rear screen process plates from Warner Bros. films from the early 30's to the early 50's, in which a young man travels in time to try to find out about the grandfather he never knew, a Philip Marlowe...
October 16, 2019
FAMILY PORTRAIT
DescriptionDescription An intriguing, somewhat quirky and often painful look at the estranged relationship between an adult brother and sister. Returning to their childhood home to attend to their dying mother, Jane and Johnny Janacek discover some buried truths about their mother and one another. They come to terms with their dysfunctional upbringing in a disturbing...
October 16, 2019
FAREWELL USSR, FILM I, PERSONAL
DescriptionDescription A beautiful and haunting experimental documentary directed by Alexander Rodnyansky, using old and new film footage on unusual stock to present poetic fragments of Babyj Jar and Jewish life in present Russia. Ukraine, 1992, 60 min. Preceded by Sarajevo Film Festival Film, by Johan van der Keuken, Holland, 1993, 14 min.
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 EMIGRANT (AL MOHAGER)
DescriptionDescription The Old Testament tale of Joseph and his brothers is retold from an Egyptian point of view. Three thousand years ago, when Pharaonic Egypt was the center of civilization, the favorite son of a shepherd and scapegoat of his brothers dreams of a better life. Delivered to Egypt by means of a violent accident,...
October 16, 2019
END OF A PRIEST (FARARUV KONEC)
DescriptionDescription A droll comedy in the Czech tradition, this is a philosophical parable about the world. Passing as a priest, a lowly church employee lives off "delighted to have him" parishioners, and spends his time debating with a teacher, explaining to breathalyzing cops that he's partaken "blood" and not wine, and reenacting parables-until a chase...
October 16, 2019
END OF THE ICON
DescriptionDescription A shop repairman yearning for excitement and passion in an otherwise mundane life n·eads to Hollywood in search of his old drinking buddy. After a few days of drunken revelry, the two men realize that the meaning they are searching for lies in their friendship.
