2020 Film Festival
Film Archive
The 11th Green
Maverick director Christopher Munch challenges our notions of reality in this wild speculative fiction set largely in Palm Desert about a muckraking journalist who uncovers long-buried secrets involving UFOs, President Eisenhower, the military industrial complex, Obama, and an E.T. named Lars!
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14 Days, 12 Nights
After losing her young adopted daughter in an accident, Isabelle (Anne Dorval) returns to Vietnam, the land of her child’s birth, in search of the girl’s birth mother in this beautifully photographed and powerfully performed drama centered on love and culture.
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37 Seconds
When Yuma, a talented but socially inexperienced comic-book artist with cerebral palsy, applies for a job at an erotic manga magazine, she is told to explore her sexuality to give her work more realism, which she does in increasingly surprising ways.
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About Endlessness
The wry, singular Swedish master Roy Andersson returns with his latest deadpan distillation of the human comedy in which the banal — a father tying his daughter’s shoelaces — and the epochal — Hitler dying in his bunker — intermingle in timeless, tragicomic tableaux.
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Adventures of a Mathematician
Director Thor Klein’s handsome biopic of Stanisław Ulam, the brilliant Polish mathematician, details the conflicted genius’s contributions to the Manhattan Project, and his grappling with the subsequent ethical fallout of thermonuclear war.
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Advocate
This intimate and moving documentary spotlights fiercely optimistic and compassionate human rights attorney Lea Tsemel as she continues her lifelong mission of defending the defenseless, despite the torrent of backlash she receives for being an Israeli lawyer seeking justice for Palestinians accused of terrorism.
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An Almost Ordinary Summer
In this delightful and big-hearted Italian farce, a seaside summer vacation erupts into class and sexual warfare when two middle-aged grandfathers — the rich, cosmopolitan Tony and the hunky, blue-collar Carlo — announce to their big, shocked families their plan to marry.
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