Cinema

Playing Lecuona brought together Tenerife native producer-director JuanMa Villar Betancort in collaboration with Cuban director Pavel Giroud to present not a biography, but a musical journey from Cuba to Spain – via the U.S. – to demonstrate the timeless virtue of Lecuona’s music. Their proponents are masters in their own right, a matchless trio of Grammy-laden pianist/composers, to wit, Cuba’s greatest living … +

Diana Lowenstein gallery presents screening of The Rebound A Wheelchair Basketball Story, to experience the spirit of a sport in this true story of the Miami Heat Wheels quest for glory, and the journey of 3 adaptive athletes in search of new dreams. The gallery also invites to the walkthrough of the exhibition: To Seep and Bleed into the World by artist … +

Award-winning filmmaker Doug Blush (1984 Winner in Cinematic Arts) presents 20 Feet from Stardom, winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary that follows the careers of backup singers living in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Featured in this documentary is 2002 YoungArts Winner in Voice, Judith Hill. National YoungArts Foundation 2100 Biscayne Boulevard Miami, FL 33137 www.youngarts.org

The Japanese movie Sweet Bean by Naomi Kawase – her first in traditional Japanese mode – is a graceful ode to the invisible essence of existence considered beautifully shot and acted, accorded to The New York Times, now playing at Coral Gables Cinema. Sentaro runs a small bakery that serves dorayakis – pastries filled with sweet red bean paste. When an old … +

PAMM presents a variety of films on view throughout Pérez Art Museum Miami’s galleries including a newly-acquired film installation by Stan Douglas, a selection of works by filmmaker and video artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz and a documentary highlighting Doris Salcedo’s work. Pérez Art Museum Miami 1103 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 305.375.3000 www.pamm.org

A documentary film about the Survivors of The Holocaust from all the countries in Europe, who arrived to Latin America, Venezuela. They present their testimonies as a legacy to humankind. The film encompasses a historical narration of the events that led to the systematic destruction of the European Jewry during World War II as well as other minorities victimized by the Nazis. … +

This 2000 horror/thriller directed by Robert Zemeckis stars Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. Claire Spencer (Pfeiffer) lives on a lake in Vermont with her husband, renowned scientist Dr. Norman Spencer (Ford). A couple has just moved in next door and are heard to frequently engage in loud arguments. Overhearing Mary Feur sobbing one day, Claire becomes concerned. When she sees Mary’s husband … +

Considered Kurosawa’s final epic masterpiece the film RAN is Akira Kurosawa’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear. The great Tatsuya Nakadai is unforgettable as the 16th-century warlord who decides to abdicate in favor of his three sons, but the dominant force looming over every element of this film, down to the smallest detail, is Kurosawa himself. Unusual for a foreign language film, Ran … +

O Cinema & Popcorn Frights Film Festival are proud to present the 20th Anniversary of Wes Craven’s Scream. Scream was credited with revitalizing the horror genre in the 1990s, which was considered to be almost dead following an influx of direct-to-video titles and numerous sequels to established horror franchises of the 1970s and 1980s. Scream (1996) written by Kevin Williamson and directed … +

PAMM will host the opening night of ScreenDance Miami, a festival produced by Tigertail. Festival shows internationally acclaimed Cinedans of the Netherlands. This series presents four films that have been curated and will be introduced by Martine Dekker, director of Cinedans Dance on Screen. In its second day six short dance works created for the camera as part of ScreenDance Miami will … +

Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads have gotten themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces … +

Oct 13, 2015 The Miracle A masterpiece by world-renowned director Mahsun Kirmizigul. Turkey’s most popular film in 2015. To celebrate this Miami Debut, the festival will be welcoming Director Mahsun Kirmizigul and producer Murat Tokat. Oct 14, 2015 Coming Soon The Husband Factor Oct 15, 2015 Sivas Turkey’s entry to the Oscars. Directed by Kaan Mujdeci, Sivas has won awards around the … +

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien). Through elaborate dances and … +

Featuring special screenings of documentaries, independent films and thought-provoking stories, during this Short film series the filmmaker on tour Ian Samuels will be present within the audience. From his filmography: Myrna The Monster, Caterwaul, The eyes and the ice, Nancy and the Dapper Toad. Ian Samuels is a director based in Los Angeles. His hybrid work has screened internationally at festivals and … +

Best of Enemies. Buckley vs. Vidal. The 10 Debates that Changed Television Forever tells the story who changed television news in 1968. Directed with consummate skill by filmmakers Robert Gordon and Sundance Film Festival alumn Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet From Stardom), Best of Enemies unleashes a highbrow blood sport that marked the dawn of pundit television as we know it today. Dead … +

Through Oppenheimer’s footage of perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide, a family of survivors discovers how their son was murdered, as well as the identities of the killers. The documentary focuses on the youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, who decides to break the suffocating spell of submission and terror by doing something unimaginable in a society where the murderers remain in … +

Kurt Cobain, legendary lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of Nirvana, “the flagship band of Generation X,” remains an object of reverence and fascination for music fans around the world. His story is told for the first time in a fully authorized feature documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. Directed by Brett Morgen. The first documentary to be made with the cooperation of … +

In this tense, psychological thriller based on the notorious true story, Billy Crudup stars as Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast 24 student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and … +

America’s most prolific filmmaker is at it again. Here is Woody Allen’s 45th opus. Neither a drama nor a comedy, but a dramedy instead, Irrational Man involves the arrival on campus of Abe Lucas (Joaquin Phoenix), a professor that “should put some Viagra into the Philosophy department.” Gravitating toward Abe-in-a-funk are science colleague Rita (Parker Posey), locked into a loveless marriage, and … +

First love, school bullies, British New Wave … and SCUD missiles. This bittersweet 80s coming-of-age drama from director Eran Riklis (The Syrian Bride, The Lemon Tree) adapts two semi-autobiographical novels by the popular Arab-Israeli Sayed Kashua. Eyad is a gifted Arab teenager who wins the chance to attend one of the most prestigious Jewish boarding schools in Israel. Isolated and lonely at … +

Juanito moved to New York to make it big as an actor. Years later, he still hasn’t managed it and he is living as best he can. One day, he gets a visit from his cousin, who seems to be successful and has gotten "everything one ever hopes to have". During their time together though, the true reality of both of their … +