Wednesday, April 25th - 5:15pm - Oak Street Cinema

Thursday, April 26th - 9:15pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Pablo Larrain

Eliseo Montalbán is a musician trapped in an unfinished symphony. As a boy, he witnessed the violent death of his sister who was murdered on top of a piano while composing a melody.

Tuesday, April 24th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Thursday, April 26th - 9:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Directors: Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic

Gang violence in the streets of Port au Prince, Haiti, labled “the most dangerous place in the world,” has never been as graphically portrayed before as in this seat-of-the pants documentary by daring, Danish director Asgar Leth.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:30 PM

Director: Gene Graham USA, 2007 – 90 Minutes

Director Invited A feature length documentary based on Mel Cheren’s powerful auto-biography, “My Life with the Paradise Garage, Keep on Dancin”.

Thursday, April 26th - 7:30 pm - St. Anthony Main :

Director: Slawomir Fabicki

The Polish equivalent of Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, this tough and enterprising first feature by Slawomir Fabicki follows the fortunes of a nineteen-year-old trying to make his way in society.

Thursday, April 26th - 7:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

Director: Francois Favrat

Whether as an actress, writer, or director, Agnès Jaoui is a treasure of contemporary French cinema. Here, in her acting mode, she puts a Gallic spin on such recent diva-fests as Being Julia and The Devil Wears Prada, playing an imperious star who hires a mousy journalist (Karen Viard) as her personal assistant.

Tuesday, April 24th - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Thursday, April 26th - 5:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Bohdan Slama

Dreams of hope, dreams destroyed, life imagined, life as it is. Set in a grey and dingy unnamed Czech city, “Something Like Happiness” is “a strange film of optimism” in the midst of disappointment, unexpected twists and turns in plans, and long-time friends with changing circumstances.

Thursday, April 26th - 7:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director:  Kimon Tsakiris

As in many remote areas, the village of Zaharo (literally, Sugartown) has been hemorrhaging women to the big city. Desperate for a solution, the mayor organizes an expedition to Russia in seach of prospective brides, taking with him three men as local ambassadors. It’s hard not to feel for these nice, simple guys, thoroughly unprepared for the tough Russian gals that await them.

Thursday, April 26 5:00 P.M. – Bell Auditorium

Director: Ye LouChina/France, 2006 – 140 Minutes

It is the mid-1980s, and teenage Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her boyfriend to study at Beijing University. There she discovers a very different world, and falls passionately in love with fellow student Zhao Wei. But though their relationship soon comes to overwhelm everything else in their lives, the weight of history soon pulls them apart - their story, like those of so many others, overwhelmed by the massacre in Tiananmen Square. 

Thursday, April 26th - 7:00 pm - Riverview Theater

Saturday, April 28th - 11:00 am - Bell Auditorium

Director: Dror Shaul

While the Israeli kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian movements, Sweet Mud tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community ill-equipped to cope with individuality and deviations from a rigidly defined norm, and of an adolescent boy stretching to compensate for what the collective cannot provide.