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Angeles, Cruz

Don't Let Me Drown Don't Let Me Drown

Two Brooklyn teens search for solace in a city brimming with hatred and trepidation in this comical and touching coming-of-age drama. A month after 9/11, Lalo and Stefanie meet at a birthday party. Lalo's father cleans up at Ground Zero, where Stefanie lost her sister in the attacks. As their friendship blossoms into a romance, they're forced to keep each other hidden from their families, each struggling with still-fresh wounds.

105 minutes

Annonier, Ruxandra Medrea

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

In 1964, director Henri-Georges Clouzot and his gorgeous ingÉnue, actress Romy Schneider, began filming an ambitious project to revolutionize the art of cinema. Today, it languishes in film cans, unfinished and unseen. How Clouzot set about realizing his vision—and what went wrong along the way—is the subject of this fascinating doc.

French with subtitles, 102 minutes

Anthony, Derrick

Popous Pane and the Kids He Loves to Hate Popous Pane and the Kids He Loves to Hate

Two brothers, unaware of each other's existence, are brought together by their fathers deceptions. Caught off guard by the revelation, the brothers reflect on their separate, but equally painful, childhoods.

Popous Pane and the Kids He Loves to Hate will be presented as part of the short film program, Shorts 5: Best of the American Black Film Festival: Information & Show Times

13 minutes

Arnold, Andrea

Fish Tank Fish Tank

Oscar® winner Andrea Arnold asserts her place at the pinnacle of contemporary British cinema with Fish Tank, her keenly observed and unflinchingly realistic portrait of life in a rough Essex housing project. Mia (Katie Jarvis, a revelation in her first screen role) is an alienated, emotionally volatile teenager whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of her mother's charming new boyfriend Connor (Michael Fassbender, named best actor at last year's Festival for Hunger).

124 minutes

Now showing rows 6 - 9 of 9

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