October 16, 2019
QUEST FOR LOVE
DescriptionDescription An intelligent and compassionate film tracing the political and sexual confusion of a woman living on a post-independent island in South Africa. Alex is a willful political activist struggling to rebuild a school in Manzania, and coming to terms with her love for another woman. Jana Cilliers gives an excellent performance as the tormented...
October 16, 2019
THE PLAGUE SOWER (DICERIA DELL’UNTORE)
DescriptionDescription An al I-star cast headed by Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave and Fernando Rey star in this engrossing Kafka-esque Italian fable about the inhabitants of a sanitarium in the period just after World War II. The story, based on Gesualdo Bufali?o's novel, focuses on a soldier with TB sent to recuperate who becomes fascinated by...
October 16, 2019
PUAMANA
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
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
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...
