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...
October 16, 2019
ANONYMOUS LOVE LETTER (SIN REMITENTE)
DescriptionDescription A young woman, disillusioned with love, plays a cruel joke on her elderly neighbor whose cat is his only companion and who strongly disapproves of her promiscuous lifestyle. The joke consists of a series of anonymous love letters, which she leaves under his door day after day, pretending to be a secret admirer who...
October 16, 2019
COLD COMFORT FARM
DescriptionDescription John Schlesinger reveals again his masterly touch in Cold Comfort Farm, a deliciously eccentric, fabulously acted comedy of manners, based on Stella Gibbons'. popular 1932 novel ... its playful mood and wicked wit are likely to delight film audiences. In the 1930s set saga, Flora Paste, a sophisticated young woman, suddenly finds herself orphaned...
October 16, 2019
COUNTDOWN (VISSZASZAMLALAS)
DescriptionDescription A somber, finely crafted film about the pitfalls of the system of private enterprise now taking hold in Hungary, Countdown is a very pessimistic film but an emotionally involving one ... a truck driver who decides to go into business for himself puts all his savings into a truck he buys at an auction....
October 16, 2019
CRIMINAL
DescriptionDescription A poetically haunting story about the loss of innocence and imagination in an indifferen'f world. Based on the true story of Simon Willerton, who hanged himself in jail in 1990 at the age of seventeen, this is a bittersweet, compelling and poignantly humorous piece of fiction which draws you into the world of a...
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 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
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
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
CAPRICIOUS SUMMER (ROZMARNÉ LÉTO)
DescriptionDescription This is a not to be missed delight from award winning director Jirf Menzel ( Closely Watched Trains, My Sweet Little Village, Cutting It ShorO. At a second-rate turn of the century resort, the pool manager, a priest and an ex-major spend a sleepy summer day swimming, drinking, eating and pontificating on life in...
