October 16, 2019
THE FRONTIER (LA FRONTERA)
DescriptionDescription The wild, inspiring beauty of Southern Chile and the untamed spirits of those who live there get equal attention in first-time director Ricardo Larrain's successful and engaging film, awarded a Silver Bear at the 1992 Berlin Film Festival and heralded by many as the best Chilean film in two decades. When a teacher is...
October 16, 2019
THE BRUCE DIET
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
BULLETS FOR BREAKFAST
DescriptionDescription Personal/experimental filmmaker Holly Fisher's intriguing film mixes Western author Ryerson Johnson, feminist poet Nancy Nielson, postcards of European paintings and clips from My Darling Clementine on an optical printer to explore the viefont underside of persistent gender barriers. A fascinating comb·ination of experimental and documentary technique, Bullets for Breakfast deliberately blurs the line between...
October 16, 2019
BROTHER’S KEEPER
DescriptionDescription Delbert, Bill, Lyman and Roscoe Ward are illiterate bachelor brothers who never ventured beyond their dairy farm in New York state. Their quiet life was shattered when the ailing Bill was found dead and Delbert confessed to suffocating him as an act of mercy This fascinating documentary captures a real-life murder mystery as it...
October 16, 2019
THE FIFTEENTH PHASE OF THE MOON
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
FIT: EPISODES IN THE HISTORY OF THE HUMAN BODY
DescriptionDescription Actress Linda Hunt narrates this outstanding and vivid chronicle of America's attitude towards physical fitness from the 1890s to the 1960s. The material is thought-provoking, the writing is sharp, and the wealth of archival footage used to illustrate the essay is impressive and very entertaining. Director Laurie Block keenly shows that attitudes toward the...
