October 16, 2019
MOISE
DescriptionDescription Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby mysteriously appears at the door of a childless Hasidic couple in Moise, they can't...
October 16, 2019
MOONDANCE
DescriptionDescription Two couples with contrasting personalities meet for a turbu- lent weekend reunion at a secluded mountain cabin. Bitter, uptight Eric is troubled by a bad relationship with his father, financial problems and the overbearing concern of ti'is wife Amy. When the couple's free-spirited friends Francis and William re-enter their lives, a weekend of self-discovery...
October 16, 2019
MISSING PARENTS
DescriptionDescription The festival once again presents new works from the Discovery Program, a project for emerging filmmakers. All films are productions of Chanticleer Films. A secret long-distance love affair forces a small town waitress to re-evaluate her life and marriage in Mark Krenzien's The Letters From Moab. In Martin Nicholson's Missing Parents, a punked-out teenager...
October 16, 2019
MARC AND ANN
DescriptionDescription Three new short films by documentary master Les Blank explore themes of culture, home and family in three different areas of the United States. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge is an enchanting collection of an 80-year-old Applachian mountain woman's life stories, singing and harmonica playing. Marc and Ann is a portrait...
October 16, 2019
LOVE IS LIKE THAT
DescriptionDescription First-time director Jill Goldman tells this classic love story with warmth and subtlety, in a refreshingly unpretentious style. Lenny and Eloise have many reasons to be cynical about love: she leads a life of overwork and meaningless affairs; he has a violent temper, can't hold a job and doesn't trust people. When the pair...
October 16, 2019
LOSER
DescriptionDescription This New York comedy turns the yuppie nightmare genre on its head by taking a lunkheaded no-hoper and dropping him into Manhattan glitzery. Hank is at the bottom of the heap - out of work, money and love. Then he wins the lottery and everyone wants to know him. Crammed with larger-than-life stereotypes -...
