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Good Bye Lenin!
German.
Germany, 2003 (Comedy, Drama, Romance)
Wolfgang Becker
121 minutes
For the benefit of his fragile mother, recently
emerged from a coma and unaware of major historical events, a young man goes to
great lengths to maintain the illusion that the fall of the Berlin Wall never
happened.
Screening: Sunday,
April 7th, 1–3pm
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El
hijo de la novia / Son of the Bride
Spanish. Argentina, 2001 (Comedy,
Drama)
Juan José Campanella
123 minutes
A
wedding in the family is just one more reason for 42-year-old Rafael to have a
mid-life crisis.
Screening: Sunday,
March 31st, 3–5pm
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Kangamba
Spanish, Portuguese, Afrikaans. Cuba,
2008 (War)
Rogelio Paris
96 minutes
In 1983, Cuban troops intervene in the
Angolan Civil War.
Screening: Friday,
March 29th, 2–4pm
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Sub-Terra
Spanish. Chile,
2003 (Drama, Romance)
Marcelo Ferrari
105 minutes
In 1897, in the midst of strikes over brutal working
conditions, a miner rekindles an old romance with the boss’ daughter.
Screening: Saturday,
April 13th, 3–5pm
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Sholay
Hindi. India,
1975 (Action, Adventure)
Ramesh Sippy
188 minutes
Two criminals are hired to hunt down the man who
murdered an ex-policeman’s family.
Screening: Saturday,
March 30th, 4–7pm
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Confucius
Mandarin. China, 2010 (Drama)
Hu Mei
115 mins
Based on the life of the Chinese
philosopher.
Screenings: Saturday,
March 23rd, 3–5pm
Friday,
April 12th, 6–8pm
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Viva
Cuba
Spanish. Cuba, 2006 (Comedy, Drama)
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
and Iraida Malberti Cabrera
80 minutes
When
one of them learns of her mother’s plans to leave Cuba, two children from very
different backgrounds decide to run away from home rather than be separated.
Screening: Thursday,
April 11th, 3–5pm
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Mononoke-hime
/ Princess Mononoke
Japanese. Japan, 2001 (Animation,
Fantasy)
Hayao Miyazaki
134 minutes
A
young warrior, afflicted with a terrible curse, sets out on a quest to save his
own life.
Screenings: Sunday,
March 31st, 1–3pm
Saturday,
April 13th, 5–7pm
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Terug
naar de kust / The Dark House
Dutch. Netherlands, 2009 (Thriller)
Will Koopman
110 mins
A
woman takes her children to a lonely beach house to elude the person who is
sending her mysterious death threats.
Screening: Friday,
March 29th, 6–8pm
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Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus / Cinema, Aspirins and
Vultures
German,
Portuguese. Brazil, 2005 (Drama)
Marcelo Gomes
99 minutes
In 1942, Johann, a German aspirin salesman, and his
assistant, Ranulpho, venture into rural Brazil in search of different kinds of
freedom.
Screenings: Thursday, March 14tht, 3–5pm
Friday, April 5th, 6–8pm
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Eva Perón
Spanish.
Argentina, 1996 (Drama, History)
Juan Carlos
Desanzo
120 minutes
Based
on the life of the beloved, if controversial, Argentine first lady.
Screening: Thursday, March 14th, 1–3pm
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Hwang Jin Yi
Korean. South
Korea, 2007 (Biography, Drama, History)
Youn-hyun Chang
141 minutes
Based on the life of the famous 16th -century Gisaeng,
or traditional Korean female entertainer.
Screening: Sunday,
March 17th, 5–7pm
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Das Lied in mir / The Day I Was Not Born
German,
Spanish. Germany, 2010 (Drama)
Florian Micoud
Cossen
95 minutes
After a German woman’s father is forced to confess
that she was adopted from Chile as a young child, they set out together to find
her biological parents.
Screenings: Saturday,
March 16th, 5–7pm
Friday,
March 29th, 4–6pm
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La Nana / The Maid
Spanish. Chile, 2009 (Comedy, Drama)
Sebastián Silva
95 minutes
After 23 years as the Valdes’ maid, the ailing Raquel
hatches desperate schemes to keep from being replaced.
Screening: Thursday,
March 28th, 1–3pm
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Não por Acaso
/ Not by Chance
Portuguese.
Brazil, 2007 (Drama)
Philippe Barcinski
100 minutes
In São Paulo,
tragedy changes the course of two men’s lives.
Screenings: Saturday,
March 23rd, 5–7pm
Thursday,
April 11th, 1–3pm
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Om Shanti Om
Hindi, Urdu.
India, 2007 (Musical, Comedy, Drama)
Farah Khan
162 minutes
A man reincarnated from the 70s must solve his own
murder while searching for the woman he loves.
Screening: Saturday,
March 16th, 2–5pm
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La guerre est déclarée / Declaration of war
French. France, 2011 (Drama)
Valérie Donzelli
100
minutes
A couple fight to save their young son when he is diagnosed
with a brain tumour.
Screenings: Thursday,
March 21st, 1–3pm
Saturday,
April 6th, 1–3pm
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Mimi wo sumaseba / Whisper of the Heart
Japanese.
Japan, 1995 (Animation)
Yoshifumi Kondô
111 minutes
A
literary-minded schoolgirl discovers that all the books she borrows from the
library have already been checked out by the same boy.
Screenings: Saturday,
March 23rd, 1–3pm
Sunday,
March 31st, 5–7pm
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Capsulas/ Capsules
Spanish. Guatemala, 2011
(Drama)
Verónica Riedel
103 minutes
The home life of an apparently privileged boy grows ever more
unbearable.
Screening: Saturday,
March 30th, 1–3pm
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Sound and Fury
American Sign Language,
English. USA, 2000 (Documentary)
Josh Aronson
80 minutes
Parents must decide whether their deaf daughter should have a
cochlear implant.
Screenings: Monday, April 1st, 4–6pm
Thursday,
April 4th, 1–3pm
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Cenizas eternas / Eternal Ashes
Spanish.
Venezuela, 2011 (Drama)
Margarita
Cadenas
100
minutes
A Yanomami girl goes in search of her mother, believed dead after an
accident in the Orinoco River.
Screening: Thursday, March 28th, 3–5pm
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Reverón
Spanish. Venezuela, 2011 (Biography, Drama, History)
Diego Rísquez
110 minutes
Based on the life of the
Venezuelan painter Armando Reverón.
Screening: Sunday, April 7th, 5–7pm
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The Hammer
American Sign Language,
English. USA, 2010 (Drama)
Oren Kaplan
108 mins
The true story of Matt Hamill, the first deaf wrestler to win a
National Collegiate Championship.
Screenings: Sunday,
March 17th, 3–5pm
Monday,
April 1st, 2–4pm
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Rue cases nègres / Sugar Cane Alley
French,
French Creole. Martinique/France, 1983 (Drama)
Euzhan
Palcy
103
minutes
A boy
grows up in 1930s Martinique.
Screenings: Thursday, April 4th, 3–5pm
Sunday, April 14th, 3–5pm
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Du
Lala sheng zhi ji / Go, Lala, go!
Mandarin. China, 2010 (Comedy)
Jinglei Xu
110 mins
A
woman learns to balance her personal life with her professional one.
Screenings: Sunday,
March 17th, 1–3pm
Saturday,
April 6th, 3–5pm
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La Manzana Azul / The Blue Apple
Spanish.
El Salvador, 2006 (Documentary)
Tomás Guevara
44 minutes
Documentary about the life of
the artist Salvador Salazar Arrue.
Screening: Saturday,
March 16th, 1 pm –2 pm
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Espiral / Spiral
Spanish.
Mexico, 2008 (Drama)
Jorge
Pérez Solano
99 minutes
As two Mexican men in the United States chase better lives for their
familes, those they’ve left behind struggle to stay afloat.
Screening: Sunday,
April 14th, 1 pm – 3 pm
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El estudiante / The Student
Spanish.
Mexico, 2011 (Drama)
Santiago
Mitre
110
minutes
A retiree who has always dreamed of studying
literature enrols at a university, where he comes to discover not only Don
Quixote but a whole new generation.
Screening: Friday, March 22nd, 6 pm – 8pm
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De hel van '63 / The Hell of '63
Dutch. Netherlands, 2009
(Drama)
Steven de Jong
108 mins
The true story of a brutal
ice-skating race.
Screenings: Sunday,
March 24th, 3–5pm
Sunday,
April 14th, 5–7pm
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El método / The Method
Spanish.
Spain, 2005 (Thriller)
Marcelo
Piñeyro
115
minutes
Seven competitors for a cushy executive job
submit themselves to gruelling psychological tests while trying to identify the
mole among them.
Screening: Saturday, April 6th, 5–7pm
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Los santos inocentes / The Holy Innocents
Spanish.
Spain, 1984 (Drama)
Mario
Camus
107
minutes
An impoverished farming family work the
estate of a callous aristocrat in Francoist Spain.
Screening: Sunday, March 24th, 1–3pm
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Ever Amado
Spanish. El Salvador, 2007
(Short)
Victor Ruano
44 minutes
A man who left El Salvador illegally in hopes of a better life finds
himself in a miserable situation.
Screening: Saturday,
March 30th, 3–4pm
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Biguine
French,
French Creole. France, 2004 (Musical, Documentary)
Guy
Deslauriers
90
minutes
At the close of the 19th century, two
Martiniqueans leave a plantation to pursue a life of music.
Screenings: Thursday,
March 21st, 3–5pm
Sunday,
April 7th, 3–5pm
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Kingkongeul deulda / Bronze Medalist
Korean. South
Korea, 2009 (Comedy, Drama)
Geon-yong Park
120 minutes
An over-the-hill former Olympian weight-lifter begins
a new life as a high school coach.
Screenings: Sunday,
March 24th, 5–7pm
Saturday,
April 13th, 1–3pm
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Intouchables / The Intouchables
French. France,
2011 (Comedy, Drama)
Oliver Nakache,
Eric Toledano
112 minutes
Driss, who comes from the rough suburbs of Paris, is
hired as the caretaker of a wealthy and sophisticated quadriplegic man.
Screenings: Friday,
March 15th, 6–8pm
Monday,
April 1st, 6–8pm
