October 16, 2019
OVER THE OCEAN (MEEVER LA YAM)
DescriptionDescription Set in Tel-Aviv in 1962, this film tells the story of Eastern European holocaust survivors Rosa and Menachem Goldfarb who emigrated to Israel after the war. The Goldfarbs are experiencing a common dilemma: the troubled daily existence in the young state, versus the dream to emigrate to another, better place "over the ocean" where...
October 16, 2019
PAINTING THE TOWN
DescriptionDescription This witty and engrossing documentary reveals Richard Osterweii's fascinating double life for the past eighteen years this New York painter has been crashing thousand dollar-aplate dinners, celebrity funerals, and hi Qi'! society parties while driving a cab during the day, earning just enough to pay for painting supplies and food. Filmmakers Sara Sackner and...
October 16, 2019
NORHA AND THE MICROBABE
DescriptionDescription Four wildly different comedies from emerging filmmakers. The Bruce Diet is Jeff Baron's comedy/horror film about the "perfect diet" in which you can eat as much as you like and lose weight forever - all for only $75. In John Helliker's offbeat Norha and the Microbabe, a self-centered avant-garde couple become parents of an...
October 16, 2019
NO REPLY
DescriptionDescription Florida filmmaker Kenneth Brian Jones brings us The Clearing in which a boy becomes entranced by a traveling storyteller seeking an heir to his legacy In Daresha Kyi's Land Where My Fathers Died, a young couple find a common bond when they confront painful memories during a family reunion. No Reply, by Malia Karrell...
October 16, 2019
NOH MASK MURDERS
DescriptionDescription Renowned Japanese director Kon Ichikawa brings us an entertaining whodunit which cunningly mixes contemporary and traditional Japanese concerns. The film's complicated plot centers around two strange murders which occur hundreds of miles apart, but the connection between them leads us into the lives of a bickering family and a complex maze of blackmail, more...
