Sagebrush Hills Film Festival is excited to present “Sagebrush Hills X.”, a new one-day movie event in Yakima.
These are movies that challenge the viewer.
They celebrate innovative new filmmaking techniques. They unflinchingly spotlight sensitive topics, new ideas, and fresh perspectives. They step outside the normal constraints of comfort and convention to explore difficult questions.
They’re gritty, possibly violent. They’re dark and confusing and sometimes downright weird.
You won’t always be comfortable, but you’ll definitely remember these movies.
** All content is for mature audiences **
March 3, 2018 @ Glenwood Square Media Works Theater
Complex. Experimental. Perplexing.
Four Lions (10:00 am)
United Kingdom | 2010 | 97 minutes | Christopher Morris
A group of aspiring young British terrorists, convinced they are on a fast track to heaven’s VIP room, plot a suicide attack. But between their infighting, their disastrously destructive visit to a Pakistani training camp, and the fact that one of them “studies” Islam from a children’s book, their own considerable ineptitude is always their greatest obstacle. Four Lions takes the normally-sensitive subject of Islamic terrorism and turns it into a black comedy that skewers and undermines the dread-inducing mystique of jihadists.
Language: English, with English subtitles
Rated R for language and violence
Men & Chicken (1:30 pm)
Denmark | 2015 | 104 minutes | Anders Thomas Jensen
When two peculiar brothers discover that they were adopted, they set out to find their biological father. The trail leads them to a crumbling mansion on a lonely island, where they discover three more brothers they never knew existed, each one highly peculiar as well. And that’s just the beginning of the disturbing secrets uncovered in this hilarious, bizarre, and twisted movie.
You might know him as Hannibal or Le Chiffre, but you’ve never seen Mads Mikkelsen like this - playing an erratic and, shall we say...hormonal?...hothead in this film from his native Denmark.
Language: Danish, with English subtitles
Not Rated, contains strong language, violence, sex and sexual situations, disturbing content
Brick (4:00 pm)
USA | 2005 | 119 minutes | Rian Johnson (Star Wars: The Last Jedi)
When a high school loner gets a frightened call from his ex-girlfriend, it sets him on a path to eventually discover her body and track down her killer. In his 2005 directorial debut (long before Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Rian Johnson takes all the trappings and archetypes of a classic film noir detective story (clenched-jaw antihero, femme fatale, mysterious crime kingpin) and fits them on contemporary high school students. It’s The Maltese Falcon meets The Breakfast Club - a hard-boiled murder mystery in a world of teenage social strata.
Don’t look away - you might miss a visual clue or a snippet of intoxicating gumshoe dialogue. Johnson’s inventive film, now a cult classic, premiered at the Sundance film festival and earned the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision.
Language: English, with English subtitles
Rated R for language and violence
March 3, 2018 @ Glenwood Square Media Works Theater
Complex. Experimental. Perplexing.
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