Cinema Explorations 2019
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- DirectorJuan Sebastian JacomeStarsSamanta CaicedoDiego NaranjoJuana EstrellaAs Cotopaxi spews ash, issuing an eerie penumbra over Quito, a young woman confronts dormant familial conflicts. Desperate for a place to store her things as volcanic disaster looms, Caridad turns to her long-estranged father Galo for help. Galo abandoned Caridad's mother long ago and is eager to make amends, but questions concerning the nature of his transgressions linger, straining communication between father and daughter and casting grave doubts over the possibility of reconciliation.
- DirectorJonatan RelayzeStarsLiliana TrujilloCindy DíazFranco DiazRosa is a mature police officer who Is forced to take care of her grandson after her daughter steal her savings. Everything takes a wrong turn one night. Only a miracle can save her.
- DirectorRaja AmariStarsHiam AbbassSarra HannachiSalim KechioucheAfter a young Tunisian woman informs on her radical Islamist brother, she arrives illegally in France, finding danger as well as hope.
- DirectorTamer El SaidStarsKhalid AbdallaLaila SamyHanan YoussefA documentary filmmaker in Cairo is having difficulty finishing his film, so his friends send him footage from the cities they live in: Baghdad, Beirut, and Berlin.
- DirectorJúlia MuratStarsRaquel KarroRodrigo BolzanNeto MachadoThe loving relationship between a sculptor and a dancer.
- DirectorEdouard DelucStarsVincent CasselTuheï AdamsMalik ZidiFocused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti.
- DirectorDiane KurysStarsEléonore KlarweinOdile MichelAnouk FerjacA year in the life of two adolescent sisters at an all-girls school in France as they experience a rapid-fire onslaught of 'firsts' during a time of political protest and social change.
- DirectorMarine FrancenStarsPauline BurletGéraldine PailhasAlban LenoirViolette is old enough to get married when her village in the Lower Alps is cruelly deprived of all its men by the repression that followed the republican uprising of December 1851. For the next two years, the village is completely cut off. The women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband, so that life may continue to flourish in each of their wombs.
- DirectorFelix RandauStarsJürgen VogelAndré HennickeSusanne WuestThe Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled near a creek. It is their leader Kelab's responsibility to be the keeper of the group's holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked.
- DirectorGustavo Rondón CórdovaStarsGiovanny GarciaReggie ReyesKirvin BarriosAndrés and his 12 year old son Pedro live in a violent neighborhood in Caracas, but they hardly see each other. One day, Andrés comes home and finds out that Pedro has gotten himself in serious trouble after hurting a boy in a fight.
- DirectorWanuri KahiuStarsSamantha MugatsiaNeville MisatiNice Githinji"Good Kenyan girls become good Kenyan wives," but Kena and Ziki long for something more. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety.
- DirectorBarry AvrichStarsBenjamin FerenczChristian WenaweserDavid SchefferA portrait of Ben Ferencz, the last surviving Nuremberg Trial prosecutor, who continues to wage his lifelong crusade in the fight for law and peace.
- DirectorDominga SotomayorStarsDemian HernándezAntar MachadoMagdalena TótoroDuring the summer of 1990 in Chile, people begin to feel a growing sense of freedom and three teenagers face their first loves and fears.
- DirectorChristian FreiMaxim ArbugaevStarsMaxim ArbugaevGeorge ChurchChristian FreiOn the remote New Siberian Islands in the Arctic Ocean, hunters are searching for the tusks of extinct mammoths. There is a gold rush fever in the air. The price for white gold has never been so high. The thawing permafrost not only releases precious ivory. The tusk hunters find a surprisingly well-preserved mammoth carcass. Such finds are magnets for high-tech genetic scientists. They want to bring the extinct woolly mammoth back to life à la "Jurassic Park". Resurrecting the mammoth is a first manifestation of the next great technological revolution. Man becomes Creator. Genesis two point zero. A Film about the secrets and mysteries hidden within nature and the fundamental difference in view of creation and the role of man in it.
- DirectorJoseph DormanToby Perl FreilichStarsJeffrey WrightA biographical portrait of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, twentieth century colossus: public intellectual, policy specialist, ambassador and U.S. Senator from New York. The film captures the spirit of Moynihan's remarkable ideas as they evolved over the course of his tumultuous life in postwar America, featuring both the triumphs and the controversies. A poor boy who grew up on the streets of Depression-era NY to become a Harvard professor, Moynihan devoted his decades-long career -- serving both Democratic and Republican administrations -- to battling poverty. Possessed of a natural wit that appealed to both elite and street, Moynihan remains one of the most widely quoted people of his generation. Moynihan's legacy continues to be claimed by both the left and right, even as he defies easy categorization. The film is an exploration into the heady and boisterous world of ideas that helped shape his complex worldview, and the policy prescriptions that have stood the test of time. At a moment of degraded political discourse, MOYNIHAN re-elevates the debate.
- DirectorAsori SotoStarsDanilo OttavianiMarc SchöttnerCuban Food Stories is a documentary that follows the various culinary delights made in Cuba, often showing how they're made.
- DirectorShraysi TandonStarsKailash SatyarthiBenjamin SkinnerMark BarenbergInvisible Hands is the first feature documentary that exposes child labor and child trafficking within the supply chains of the world's biggest corporations.
- DirectorLeon MarrStarsLinda ThorsonStuart MargolinLaura de CarteretIn this heart-warming story full of hope, dreams and second chances, two seniors meet and discover that it's never too late to fall in love again.
- DirectorLisa D'ApolitoStarsAndrew AlexanderAnne BeattsChevy ChaseIn her own words, comedienne Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends, rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comediennes (including Amy Poehler), LOVE Gilda offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.
- DirectorJed RothsteinStarsDan DavidMatthew WiechertHerb GreenbergAn unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.
- DirectorRobert SchwentkeStarsMax HubacherAlexander FehlingSebastian RudolphIn the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he's escaping from.
- DirectorRodrigo BarriusoSebastián BarriusoStarsRodrigo SantoroMaricel ÁlvarezYoandra SuárezA Russian Literature professor at the University of Havana is ordered to work as a translator for child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when they are sent to Cuba for medical treatment.
- DirectorJames CrumpStarsJoan Juliet BuckPaul CaranicasMichael ChowSex Fashion and Disco is a documentary film concerning Antonio Lopez (1943-1987), the most influential fashion illustrator of 1970s Paris and New York, and his colorful and sometimes outrageous milieu.
- DirectorWolfgang FischerStarsSusanne WolffGedion Oduor WekesaKelvin Mutuku Ndinda"Styx" depicts the transformation of a strong woman torn from her contented world during a sailing trip.
- DirectorMargarethe von TrottaBettina BöhlerFelix MoellerStarsIngmar BergmanRuben ÖstlundLiv UllmannInternationally renowned director Margarethe von Trotta takes a closer look at Bergman's life and work and explores his film legacy with Bergman's closest collaborators, both in front and behind the camera, as well as a new generation of filmmakers. The documentary presents key scenes, recurring themes in his films and his life, and journeys to the places at the center of Bergman's creative achievement and the focal points of his life such as the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, locations and landscapes from his masterpieces, and the stations from his career in Sweden, France and Germany. Explore the many layers of Bergman's work and life with INGMAR BERGMAN - LEGACY OF A DEFINING GENIUS.
- DirectorQasim BasirStarsOmari HardwickMeagan GoodJay EllisOn the night of the 2016 Presidential election, Cass, an L.A. club promoter, takes a thrilling and emotional journey with Frida, a Midwestern visitor. She challenges him to revisit his broken dreams - while he pushes her to discover hers.
- DirectorJason WiseStarsIan CaubleFred DamePaul DraperThree of the greatest legends in wine meet to drink the rarest bottles of their careers, while the best blind tasters of today gather to settle an age-old argument. The results could change the world of wine forever.
- DirectorAlex PettyferStarsAlex PettyferJennifer MorrisonNicola Peltz BeckhamIn 1993, Harley's dad is shot dead and his mom goes to prison. He has to earn money and look after his 3 kid sisters. No college. Over 2 years, family secrets are slowly revealed. Will a good therapist be enough?
- DirectorFabio GrassadoniaAntonio PiazzaStarsJulia JedlikowskaGaetano FernandezCorinne MusallariAgainst a heavy cloak of secrecy, a 12-year-old girl smitten with her handsome classmate ventures deeper and deeper into the enchanted Sicilian forests to find him, unaware of just how thick is the mystery behind his strange disappearance.
- DirectorLaura BispuriStarsValeria GolinoAlba RohrwacherSara CasuA daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.
- DirectorEric KhooStarsTakumi SaitôSeiko MatsudaMark LeeA young man who is curious about his deceased parents' past takes a food journey to Singapore where he uncovers more than just delicious meals.
- DirectorOfir Raul GraizerStarsTim KalkhofSarah AdlerRoi MillerA German pastry maker travels to Jerusalem in search of the wife and son of his dead lover.
- DirectorJim McKayStarsFernando CardonaGilberto JimenezAbel PerezA group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day of rest on Sundays on the soccer fields of Brooklyn.
- DirectorRaMell RossStarsLatrenda 'Boosie' AshKarmyn BryantKorbyn BryantA kaleidoscopic and humanistic view of the Black community in Hale County, Alabama.
- DirectorPablo SolarzStarsMiguel Ángel SoláÁngela MolinaOlga BoladzAbraham Bursztein, an 88 year-old Jewish tailor, runs away from Buenos Aires to Poland, where he proposes to find a friend who saved him from certain death at the end of World War II. After seven decades without any contact with him, Abraham will try to find his old friend and keep his promise to return one day.
- DirectorAstra TaylorStarsAstra TaylorSilvia FedericiEleni PerdikouriThis documentary examines the philosophy behind the concept of Democracy, from ancient Athens to modern Greece and the American Civil Rights movement.
- DirectorAsh MayfairStarsHong Chuong NguyenLong Le VuNu Yên-Khê TranIn 19th century rural Vietnam, May is ready to become the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Little does she know that her hidden desires will force her to decide between living in safety and being free.
- DirectorMichal AviadStarsLiron Ben-ShlushMenashe NoyOshri CohenLife at work becomes unbearable for Orna. Her boss appreciates and promotes her, while making inappropriate advances. Her husband struggles to keep his new restaurant afloat, and Orna becomes the main breadwinner for their three children. When her world is finally shattered, she must pull herself together to fight, in her own way, for her job and a sense of self-worth.
- DirectorFrançois GirardStarsSamianRaoul Max TrujilloGilles RenaudMohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsConstance BennettLowell ShermanNeil HamiltonThe career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
- DirectorAndrey PaounovStarsChristoAn uncensored look into the artistic process and personal relationships of Christo, an artist known for his large-scale installations. For the first time since the passing of his wife and partner, Jeanne-Claude, Christo sets out to realize, The Floating Piers, a project they conceived together many years before.
- DirectorTom VolfStarsFanny ArdantJoyce DiDonatoMaria CallasAn intimate look at the life and work of Greek-American opera singer Maria Callas, as told in her own words.
- DirectorAntonio Méndez EsparzaStarsAndrew BleechingtonRegina WilliamsRobert WilliamsStanding on the edge of adulthood, Andrew yearns to find his purpose as a young black man in today's America. With his mother longing to find more to her life than parenting, Andrew is forced to take on the mounting pressure of family responsibility. His search for connection with an absent father, leads him to a dangerous crossroads.
- DirectorRuth BeckermannStarsKurt WaldheimRuth BeckermannYasser ArafatA biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .
- DirectorMartin SulíkStarsPeter SimonischekJirí MenzelZuzana MauréryAli Ungar discovers in his 80s a book written by an SS soldier describing how he killed his parents back in Slovakia. He decides to take revenge, but when he arrives at the soldier's house he finds his son instead.
- DirectorÉva GárdosStarsKrisztián KolovratnikRéka TenkiJános KulkaA murder mystery set in Budapest, 1936. Just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler, a young beautiful girl is found dead and no one wants to investigate - except Gordon a crime reporter who has a gut feeling that things are not what they seem.
- DirectorDuki DrorStarsYossi AlpherRam Ben BarakFrank GerrishUnmasking the human faces behind the secrets of the Israeli Mossad.
- DirectorPiotr ChrzanStarsLeslaw ZurekSzymon NowakWeronika LewonWhile walking through the forest during the Nazi occupation, young people find a wounded Jewish man. They now have to decide what to do with him.
- DirectorJafar PanahiStarsBehnaz JafariJafar PanahiMarziyeh RezaeiThree actresses at different stages of their career. One from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, one popular star of today known throughout the country, and a young girl longing to attend a drama conservatory.