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.
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
DESTINATION MOON
DescriptionDescription Call it "1948: A Space Odyssey." Rarely seen on the big screen, the first American space movie is a fascinating could-have-been alternative to the Apollo program. One of the most unabashedly libertarian films ever made in Hollywood, Robert Heinlein's story involves a group of concerned American industrialists who finance a privately run trip to...
October 16, 2019
DEVILISH EDUCATION (DIABELSKA EDUKACJA)
DescriptionDescription It is the turn of the century, and the milkmaid Gosia is caring for her cows in an idyllic rural countryside. The afternoon is hot, so she bathes naked in the river. The next day a stranger in black appears on the scene and shows her a painting he has done of her in...
October 16, 2019
DITA SAXOVÁ
DescriptionDescription In a postwar dormitory for Jewish orphans/Krystyna Mikolajewska dreamily fends off girlish jealousies, an assortment of suitors (director Jirf Menzel is the one with the glasses), and the occasional importunate older man, while converting her dentist father's gold foil legacy into a flashy bracelet and lavish presents-but what is missing? A tour-de-force of black...
October 16, 2019
THE DRESDEN
DescriptionDescription An unforgettable journey through the last great Hollywood lounge, unchanged for 40 years.
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
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
DESERT SEAS (DESIERTOS MARES)
DescriptionDescription A film director suffers from a deep existential crisis when his wife leaves him for another man. This crisis, which leads him to near suicide, takes him through an obsessive reminiscence of a childhood trip from the desert to the sea, which was the last time he saw his father alive. Meanwhile, he writes...
October 16, 2019
DESERT SNOW
DescriptionDescription Downwind from America's nuclear testing fields, Price scavenges for bones on the desert floor. He eventually comes across Madge who spends her days tending to dogs who are hit along the road. Enamored with life, Madge's glow lures Price from the depths of his own cynicism. Desert Snow offers insight into how we sometimes...
