The Love That Remains
Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker […]
Kokuho
Special Pre-Show live performance by Oto-Wa Taiko – Friday, February 20 Shortlisted for the Best International Feature Film Oscar Directed by Lee Sang-il (“Rage”), “Kokuho” stars renowned Japanese actors Ryo Yoshizawa and Ryusei Yokohama. The film became an unexpected hit, reaching the highest-grossing domestic live-action film mark in 22 years at the Japanese box office. […]
Drawn In: Fantastic Planet (La Planète sauvage)
Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel Fantastic Planet, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of giant blue native inhabitants (Draags). After Terr, kept as a pet since infancy, escapes […]
