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“THE ROAD TO JERICHO”
THE STORY – “The Road to Jericho” is a musical and visual journey, a poem in images – a hybrid of documentary and fiction that weaves archival images from earlier films, with the voices of Samuel Fuller, Jeanne Moreau, Arthur Miller, and Yitzhak Rabin, among others, into the contemporary reality of the Bedouins of Khan…
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“IMPERIUM”
THE STORY – A vivid visual exploration of the USSR using archival footage from 1970-73, revealing the Soviet Union’s concealed colonial structures and the enduring strength of its diverse populations. THE CAST – N/A THE TEAM – Sergei Loznitsa (Director) THE RUNNING TIME – 175 Minutes For many around the globe, there has been a…
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“THE LIBERATION”
THE STORY – For Rita, a workaday life as an assistant bank manager, wife, and mother of two approaching empty-nest status has just collided with the re-emergence of a very painful chapter of her family history. She finds various ways, all frustratingly temporary, to cope with her anxieties — that is, until a mysterious new client,…
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“TENDER LOVING CARE”
THE STORY – Amy is a devoted social service worker who puts her heart and soul into her job to care for those in need. At home, however, she finds herself confronting new challenges as her beloved father begins to show the early signs of dementia, and she and her mother must begin to make peace…
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“FURIES”
THE STORY – During Lebanon’s real-life corruption-fueled economic collapse, all the banks freeze accounts overnight, trapping millions of people’s life savings. Maro, a determined single mother, tries to access her own money to pay for her wild-hearted younger sister Dalia’s life-saving surgery. When the bank refuses, the sisters scheme an elaborate all-night heist to reclaim…
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“ELSINORE”
THE STORY – Ian Charleson is widely known as the real-life star of “Chariots of Fire.” Its piano-led ubiquity in pop culture follows the Scottish actor everywhere, making him yearn less for Hollywood and more for his theatre roots. When Daniel Day-Lewis walks off stage as Hamlet at London’s National Theatre, the role of a lifetime…
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“A LONG WINTER”
THE STORY – Lester and his son Mike began a search for their vanished matriarch across the rugged landscape of the American Rocky Mountains in the 1950s, while Mike sorts out his own emotional center. THE CAST – Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor & D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai THE TEAM – Andrew Haigh (Director/Writer) THE…
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“ZERO INTENTION OF LIVING QUIETLY”
THE STORY – Mistreated by people unable to cope with his unique visible difference, actor Adam Pearson glimpses a path away from isolation through his love of cinema. Upon meeting kindred spirit Ellie – a girl who shares his genetic condition, NF1 – their quest begins to forge a new type of movie hero, and finally…
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