Jacky Comforty has created documentary films and videos in the United States, Germany, Israel, and Bulgaria. He will host discussions following screenings of 3 of his films. Jacky Comforty is known for the effective, sensitive, interviewing techniques he has developed for oral histories and other projects requiring on-camera discussions that are genuine, meaningful, and in-depth.
An intriguing mix of espionage thriller, family memoir, and film noir, beautifully unveiling decades of family secrets indicative of the intense paranoia of Stasi Germany, which darkly parallels surveillance concerns of today.
The first film of its kind to offer a comprehensive view of the Jewish settlers in the occupied territories of the West Bank. The Settlers offers an intimate look at those people at the core of the most daunting challenges facing Israel and the international community today.
A middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends. Kostis is a chubby balding man who arrives on a small Greek island for a deadend job. Summer comes and the the island blooms into a youth paradise for uninhibited counterculture drifters
A young woman named Anna mourns her late fiancé Frantz, who died on the battlefield during World War I. She spends most of her time fending off advances from another local man and visiting Frantz’s grave site. It’s here that she comes across the mysterious Adrien, who claims to be Frantz’s longtime friend from Paris, even though neither Anna or Frantz’s parents have heard of him. Frantz is a thinking person’s mystery
Cynthia Nixon delivers a triumphant performance as Emily Dickinson. The acclaimed actress personifies the wit, intellectual independence and defiant spirit of the poet whose genius only came to be recognized after her death.
Following her César Award-winning performance in Clouds of Sils Maria, Kristen Stewart re-teams with acclaimed director Olivier Assayas for this mesmerizing 21st century ghost story. By day, American in Paris Maureen (Stewart) works as a personal shopper, motor-biking around the city buying up deluxe couture for a jet-setting celebrity client. By night, she attempts to channel the spirits of the dead
In a postcard-perfect seaside village in 1910, an eccentric (to put it mildly) leisure-class family whiles away the summer. But something troubling is afoot: what’s behind the string of tourists gone mysteriously missing?
Chasing Trane traces the great saxophonist/composer’s career from his hardscrabble childhood in North Carolina and Philadelphia to his days playing with Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.
Upon finishing her schooling in a convent Jeanne, a young aristocrat, marries a local Viscount. But marriage is not all it’s cracked up to be. Adapted from the novel Une Vie by Guy de Maupassant, A Woman’s Life is a tale of love embedded in the social and moral codes of marriage and family in 19th century Normandy.
Saturday and Sunday, July 15 and 16 at 4pm at the Art Sanctuary in Martinsville The Rural Route Film Festival was created to highlight works that deal with unique people and places outside of the bustle of the city. Taking in a Rural Route program is like choosing the road less travelled, and learning something […]
A successful Bangkok architect in the midst of a midlife crisis is reunited with an elephant he knew growing up.
It’s a shame no one wants to talk to them at parties, because obituary writers are a surprisingly funny bunch.
The musicians of the Buena Vista Social Club exposed the world to Cuba’s vibrant culture with their landmark 1997 album. Now, against the backdrop of Cuba’s captivating musical history, hear the band’s story as they reflect on their remarkable careers and the extraordinary circumstances that brought them together.
A railway worker in Bulgaria finds a sack full of money in this “incisive, funny cinematic parable.” – NY Times
From the juke joints to the church, up the mountain and down the bayou, I AM THE BLUES transports you to the Mississippi crossroads together with the last legends of the blues.
Tomorrow showcases alternative and creative ways of viewing agriculture, economics, energy and education. It offers constructive solutions to act on a local level to make a difference on a global level.
Shades of Patricia Highsmith and Claude Chabrol infuse this thinking person’s thriller set on the picturesque French/Swiss border starring two of France’s most celebrated actresses.
Two of France’s most distinguished stars, Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot, share the screen in The Midwife. Claire is a tireless midwife whose sense of pride and responsibility clash with the depersonalised efficiency of modern hospitals. One day she receives a strange phone call, a voice from the past. Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), the extravagant and frivolous mistress of her late father, has pressing news and wants to see her again.
Back By Popular Demand! – 3 Night Only! Cézanne Et Moi traces the parallel paths of post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola, from school pals in Aix-en-Provence to working artists in the rowdy art world of 19th-century Paris.
Afterimage is the final film by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, who died last year at the age of 90. In a career already marked by many illustrious films, including Ashes and Diamonds, Afterimage is a late masterpiece.
Bring a blanket. Bring the dog. And watch free screenings of classic films in Bloomington’s parks.
In a middle school classroom in Czechoslovakia in 1983, a new teacher asks each student to stand up, introduce themselves and tell her what their parents do for a living. It slowly becomes clear that the pupils’ grades are related to how willing their parents are to helping her out with her errands, her housecleaning, and other random services.
Amanda and John teach English and Rock ’n’ Roll at a Hogwarts-like boarding school in Ireland. This eccentric couple have worked magic in hilarious fashion on children for nearly 50 years, but leaving is the hardest lesson to learn.
Cate Blanchett plays 13 characters in 13 unique vignettes in this amazing collaboration between the Oscar winning actress and German visual artist Julian Rosefeldt. From a raging homeless man to a stock exchange drone, from an elementary school teacher to future-world scientist, Blanchett brings each character to life with a diamond-sharp ferocity.