October 16, 2019
IN SEARCH OF OUR FATHERS
DescriptionDescription This remarkably candid documentary traces director/writer Marco Williams's search over the course of nearly seven years for the father he never knew. Slowly, painfully, after traveling to Paris and to numerous cities in America, Marco Williams ends his search in Springfield and learns the truth about James Berry - the father whose name he...
October 16, 2019
RETURN TRIPS
DescriptionDescription Return Trips is an impassioned documentary which should appeal to anyone attempting to rediscover their cultural heritage. By tracing American Jewish emigration and assimilation through rarely-seen archival photographs and newsreel footage (placing emphasis on their own family histories), filmmakers Rosenbush and Siegel describe their return to the devout Judaism of their ancestors. Colorful interviews...
October 16, 2019
THE REFRIGERATOR
DescriptionDescription Nicholas Jacob's feature debut is a wacky, highly enter- taining throwback to the Teenage Monster Movies of the 50s and 60s. An innocent young couple move into an apartment in New York which harbors an unruly household appliance: a 1963 Norge refrigerator. Soon it is dispatching house guests to the hereafter while taking over...
October 16, 2019
REFUGEES
DescriptionDescription Refugees is a powerful portrait of Salvadoran refugees in the U.S., most of whom are ordinary working class people forced to flee their country. Natives, an unusual documentary with an eye toward the absurd, shows another view of this human tragedy by following middle class, mostly white Americans involved in the San Diego anti-immigration...
October 16, 2019
RAMPAGE
DescriptionDescription This terrifying thriller from Academy-Award winning director William Fried kin begins as a smiling, handsome young man calm- ly enters a suburban house, pulls down the shades, and proceeds to brutally murder an entire family with shocking efficiency. Based on true-life events. Rampage is the haunting story of the capture and trial of this...
