October 16, 2019
THE LONG WINTER (EL LARGO INVIERNO)
DescriptionDescription A moving tribute to Catalans opposing the fascists just before the 1939 fall of Barcelona. Director/co-writer Camino recreates with sweeping touches the intrigues, violence, and misery of that winter, threading into the historical upheaval a love story between an idealistic surgeon and a U.S. freedom fighter. The fleeing refugees, the arrival of Franco's troops...
October 16, 2019
THE LETTERS FROM MOAB
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
LISTEN CAREFULLY
DescriptionDescription Paul Warner's In the Name of The Father tells of the relationship between a war-weary medieval knight and the young boy he takes captive The lusciously filmed Rosemary is Dan Halperin's homage to the Edward Hopper painting "Nighthawks" in this tale of love and loneliness. Robert Manganelli brings a hearing audience into a deaf...
October 16, 2019
LEA
DescriptionDescription Four shorts from a special collection showcasing original works from new Quebec screenwriters. In The Visitor, a terrified woman spends the night in her closet listening to an intruder whose uncanny behavior indicates that he belongs there. When a baby mysteriously appears at the door of a childless Hasidic couple in Moise, they can't...
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...
