Saturday, December 22, 2018

TOP 30 - BEST OF 2018








My favorite 30 BEST FILMS of 2018 (in alphabetical order):



24 FRAMES
۲۴ فریم 
Abbas Kiarostami (Iran)


ARABY
Arábia
João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa (Brazil)




AVA
 آوا
Sadaf Foroughi (Iran)


BARBARA
Mathieu Amalric (France)




BIRDS OF PASSAGE
Pájaros de verano
Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra (Colombia)


BLACKKKLANSMAN
Spike Lee (US)


BLOODY MILK
Petit paysan
Hubert Charuel (France)


BURNING
버닝
Lee Chang-dong (South Korea)


CAPERNAÜM
کفرناحوم
Nadine Labaki (Lebanon)


COLA DE MONO
Alberto Fuguet (Chile)


COLD WAR
Zimna wojna
Paweł Pawlikowski (Poland)


DISTANT CONSTELLATION
Shevaun Mizrahi (Turkey/US)


DOGMAN
Matteo Garrone (Italy)


EL ANGEL
Luis Ortega (Argentina)


THE FAVOURITE
Yorgos Lanthimos (US/UK)


THE FIRST LAP
초행
Kim Dae-hwan (South Korea)


FIRST REFORMED
Paul Schrader (US)



THE GREAT BUDDHA+
大佛普拉斯
Huang Hsin-yao (Taiwan)



HAPPY AS LAZZARO
Lazzaro felice
Alice Rohrwacher (Italy)


HARD PAINT
Tinta bruta
Marcio Reolon & Filipe Matzembacher (Brazil)


ISLE OF DOGS
犬ヶ島
Wes Anderson (US)


LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT 
地球最后的夜晚
Bi Gan (China)


NEVER LOOK AWAY
Werk ohne Autor
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (Germany)


RADIANCE

Naomi Kawase (Japan)


ROMA
Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico)


RUBEN BRANDT, COLLECTOR
Milorad Krstić (Hungary)


SHOPLIFTERS
万引き家族
 Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)


TIME SHARE
Tiempo compartido
Sebastián Hoffman (Mexico)



THE WILD BOYS
Les Garçons sauvages
Bertrand Mandico (France)


ZAMA
Lucrecia Martel (Argentina)



Friday, December 21, 2018

SFFLA 2019

20th Scandinavian Film Festival L.A.
5, 6, 19, 20, 2019 - WGA in Beverly Hills





SCREENING SCHEDULE:

Saturday, January 5

11:30 Mihkel - Iceland
12:45 To Be Continued - Latvia
02:30 Border - Sweden
05:30 Opening Gala and Buffet
07:30 The Guilty - Denmark



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Sunday, January 6

11:00 Euthanizer - Finland
01:00 Woman at War - Iceland
03:00 What Will People Say? - Norway
04:30 Unknown Soldier - Finland
07:00 Morgen (short) - Norway
07:30 The 12th Man - Norway





Saturday, January 19

10:00 Rendel: Dark Vengeance - Finland
12:00 Ted: Show Me Love - Sweden
02:30 Three August Days (short) - Estonia
03:00 Take It or Leave It - Estonia
05:30 Vultures - Iceland
07:30 The Cake General - Sweden





Sunday, January 20

12:00 Lithuanian Shorts
12:30 Wonderful Losers - Lithuania
02:00 Becoming Astrid - Denmark
04:30 The Green Valley (short) - Norway
05:00 Utoya: July 22 - Norway
07:30 One Last Deal - Finland


For more information please visit SFFLA2019