October 16, 2019
COWS (VACAS)
DescriptionDescription In this surreal Spanish melodrama, director Julio Medem contrasts beautifully photographed images of the lush Basque countryside with haunting visions of violence and madness. The film opens during a war as two friends fight together: ultimately one is kill.ed and the other escapes by pretending to be dead. Cows follows sever.al generations of the...
October 16, 2019
ANOTHER HOPE (OTRA ESPERANZA)
DescriptionDescription Another Hope tells the story of a young man who begins working at a power plant near his village, where he learns of many strange disappearances of the factory's workers. Eventually he discovers that the vanishing workers are being subjected to pain which is then transformed into electrical power for the village. It is...
October 16, 2019
CITY OF THE BLIND
DescriptionDescription Alberto Cortes' remarkable film subtly weaves ten stories set in one Mexico City apartment. Beginning in the 40s and moving into the 90s, the film charts everything from the rise and fall of radical politics to the transition from the Beatles to punk rock. A camera movement gracefully transports the action across the years,...
October 16, 2019
CLAUDE
DescriptionDescription A witty, offbeat romantic comedy with a delightful performance by Irene Jacob, who won the best actress award last year at Cannes for her work in The Double Life of Veronique. Claude is a confused young man whose life has recently become a series of bizarre misfortunes he cannot control. When he accidentally sets...
October 16, 2019
THE CLEARING
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...
