World Cinema
Worlds Apart
Part of our “New U.S. Indies and World Cinema” program.
Director: Niels Arden Oplev
Country: Denmark (2008)
Language: Danish with English subtitles
Running Time: 108 minutes
Screening: Sunday, March 29, 2009, 1:00 p.m.
Sara and her family proudly belong to Jehovah’s Witnesses. In the local community, they go from door to door and preach about Judgment Day and the eternal salvation for Jehovah’s chosen ones. But when Sara falls in love with Teis, she is confronted with her most difficult choice in life.MORE »
Tricks
Part of our “New U.S. Indies and World Cinema” program.
Director: Andrzej Jakimowski
Country: Poland (2007)
Language: Polish with English subtitles
Running Time: 96 minutes
Screening: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 1:oo p.m.
The charming, bittersweet narrative unfolds from siblings Stefek, 6, and Elka, 18, and Elka’s car mechanic boyfriend during a sun-drenched summer in a provincial Polish town. The siblings live with their shopkeeper mother, whose husband dropped her for another woman years earlier, and Stefek’s worldview is shaped by his sister’s bargaining with destiny.MORE »
Kisses
Part of our “New U.S. Indies and World Cinema” program.
Director: Lance Daly
Country: Ireland (2008)
Language: English
Running Time: 72 minutes
Screening: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 5:00 p.m.
On the fringes of Dublin, two kids, Kylie and Dylan, live in a suburban housing estate lacking life, color and the prospect of escape.MORE »
Big Man Japan
Our Saturday night Midnight Madness feature.
Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Country: Japan (2007)
Language: Japanese with English subtitles
Running Time: 113 minutes
Screening: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 11:30 p.m.
Read Erik McClanahan's review of this film.
Living in a grim, graffiti-laced slum of Tokyo, Mr.MORE »
Before Tomorrow
Opening night to feature Before Tomorrow, winner of the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival’s Best Canadian First Feature Award.
Director: Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Piujuq Ivalu
Country: Canada (2008)
Language: Inukitut with English subtitles
Running time: 93 minutes
Screening: Wednesday, March 25, 7:30 p.m.
Set in the mid-nineteenth century, Before Tomorrow, based on well-known Danish novelist Jørn Riel’s book Før Morgendagen, tells the story of transition and transformation as a small, remote Inuit community is changed forever by its first contact with white MORE »
A Man's Job
Director: Aleksi Salmenpera
The story of a laid-off worker, Juha, who, out of the need to provide for his family, resorts to a career as a male prostitute for single, lonely or older women, Salmenperä invests his drama with an impressive degree of maturity.
MORE » Alexandra
Director: ALEKSANDER SOKUROV
Opera legend Vishnevskaya (wife of the late Mstislav Rostropovich) gives a performance for the ages as Alexandra, an elderly but feisty Russian widow who undertakes a long and dangerous journey from Russia to the war-torn Chechen countryside to see her officer grandson, long-stationed at a ramshackle army camp.
MORE » Alien, The Man of the Future
U.S. PREMIERE
Director: MAURO JOHN CAPECE & PIERPAOLO MOIO
In this stylized satire, like something out of Buster Keaton in a futuristic world of the modern metropolis, Alien, a special man, is born. The environment in which he evolves and interacts selects him as the father of future generations.
MORE » And Along Came Tourists
Director: ROBERT THALHEIM
In this pleasantly laconic story about a young German who befriends a stubborn, grumpy concentration camp survivor and falls for a Polish interpreter, Dir. Robert Thalheim (Netto - winner of the Max Ophüls 2005 prize and a MSPFF entry) proves that it is possible to talk about Auschwitz from today’s perspective in an intelligent, emphatic and edifying way.
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