October 16, 2019
AGE ISN’T EVERYTHING
DescriptionDescription A very funny comedy with edge about a young man whose dreams of being an astronaut are squashed by his ambitious parents who talk him into a Wall Street career. Externally he agrees but internally he rebels - in an extraordinary way. He becomes old inside, talking and behaving like an 83-year-old grandfather and...
October 16, 2019
THE ADDICT
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
BERDEL
DescriptionDescription A sensitively told tale of a family tragedy, Berdel is also a bitter polemic against the inhuman practice of bartering women which still takes place in Anatolia today. Omer's obsessive desire for a male child, backed up by custom, blights the lives of all the women around him. When his wife Hanim gives birth...
October 16, 2019
BIRCH STREET GYM
DescriptionDescription The "best" of 1991's I ive-action shorts, the Oscar nominees for short films. Last Breeze of Summer by AFl's own Arik Caspi and David Massey, is a moving and authentic story of school desegregation in 1957 Texas told from the perspective of a 14- year-old girl. In Seth Winston's Oscar-winning Session Man, musician McQueen...
