*Presented in collaboration with le Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)* LAST SCREENING July 25: Original version with French subtitles Heshmat is a model husband and father. Pouya is a soldier, patiently awaiting orders. Java slips away from his military service to visit his girlfriend. Bahram goes hunting with his niece, who’s visiting from abroad. All […]
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DOUBLE FEATURE A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his […]
Special screenings with filmmaker Mitchell Stafiej in attendance A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience, mixed in Dolby Atmos.
The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con safecracker planning to leave the criminal world behind after one final diamond heist—but he discovers that […]
Sang-hyun is a Christian priest who, in order to help find a cure, volunteers to be infected with a virus that’s devastating Africa. He’s left with an intense craving for blood and sex. As a hospital visitor he can quench his thirst for blood, and an intense affair with unhappily married Tae-ju provides him with […]
February 10 screening with director Miryam Charles in attendance Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like […]
Presented in collaboration with the FNC Old widow Mantoa lives in the small village of Nasaretha in South Africa. When her son dies in an accident, she decides to make arrangements for her own funeral, but then learns that a dam project will soon flood her land, forcing all the residents to resettle in the […]
Mikhaël Hers double bill: discover director’s The Passengers of the Night In high summer, Sasha, 30, dies suddenly. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York. *International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016
35th Anniversary of Max Films Special screening with filmmaker Jean-Philippe Duval in attendance The year it took Dede Fortin to write and record “Dehors Novembre” is revisited in this film which examines his struggle between despair and creativity; his haunted past and Les Colocs’ future.