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Sat Apr 28
12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-afost?) PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, April 27th - 7:00 P.M. - Bell Auditorium :

Saturday, April 28th - 12:30 P.M. - Oak Street Cinema :
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Director: Corneliu Porumboiu

 

The film is centered around a television debate show on a small-town station taking place exactly 16 years after the collapse of dictator Nicolae Ceausecu's Communist regime, exactly at 12:08 p.m. on December 22, 1989.

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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August the First PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, April 24th - 7:15 P.M. - Oak Street Cinema :

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Saturday, April 28th - 3:00 P.M. - St. Anthony Main :

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Director: Lanre Olabisi

 

The date is August 1, and Tunde is holding his graduation party after putting it off all summer because of the secret surprise guest that he has invited to join the family. The arrival of his father, Dipo, all the way from Nigeria (August was the only time he could make it) draws very mixed reactions from the members of his family.

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
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Eagle vs. Shark PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, April 24th - 7:00pm - Riverview Theater :

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Saturday, April 28th - 4:45pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Director: Taika Waititi

 

Lily (Loren Horsley) works as a cashier at a fast-food restaurant, "Meaty Joe", where Jarrod (Jermaine Clement), a self-aggandizing, clueless geek, works at the electronics store next door.

 
Last Updated ( Sunday, April 08 2007 )
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Flights of Fancy - Animated Shorts PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 11:00 am - Oak Street Cinema

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Enjoy the animated escapades of all kinds of wild, furry, and feathery creatures. A full range of colorful and imaginative animated shorts made by top notch animators from the U.S. and Sweden. Note: Some subtitles.


Films are in English or in Swedish (with subtitles); total viewing time - 64 Minutes.

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Holiday Makers PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 2:30pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director:  Jirí Vejdelek


A comedy based on the novel by the most popular contemporary Czech writer Michal Viewegh. A random group of tourists set off on a bus trip to the Adriatic. They consist of the sympathetic Jolana, her permanently quarrelling parents, charming old ladies, a gay couple and the skirt-chaser Max.

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Journals of Knud Rasmussen, The PDF Print E-mail
 The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Saturday, April 28th - 7:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn

 

Death of spirits or physical death? Banishment of ancient beliefs? Here we are witness to momentous events, the stuff of Shakespeare. The great shaman Avva and his beautiful daughter Apak (also gifted with spiritual powers) are estranged from their community (whose members have been converted to Christianity by missionaries).  

 

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Loach is a Fish Too (Niqui Ye Shi Yu) PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 7:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 5:45 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Yang Ya-zhou

 

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Young provincial woman Ni Qiu (“”loach”” in Chinese), recently divorced, decides to take her twin girls to Beijing in search of a better life. On the train she meets an older man who has the same name as her, a contract labourer who tries to charm her with stories of the big house he'll get for her.

 

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Made in Korea: A One Way Ticket Seoul-Amsterdam PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

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Sunday, April 29th - 2:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

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Director: In-soo Radstake

 

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When he was three months old, film director In-Soo Radstake arrived at Schiphol Airport. Just like the eight other orphans in the same aircraft, he had been adopted by a Dutch couple. Radstake, never looked into his Korean background while growing up and 25 years later he still feels 100% meat-and-potatoes Dutch. But this certainty comes to an end when he decides to look for his former travelling companions.

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 10 2007 )
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Manual of Love (Manuale d'amore) PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 9:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Sunday, April 29th - 7:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

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Director: Giovanni Veronesi


Manual of Love is a hilarious comedy, chronicling the four phases of love: “Falling in Love,” “The Crisis,” “The Betrayal,” and “The Abandonment.’ Tommaso and Giuliia go throught the pleasures and surprises of “falling in love.” 

 

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Me and My Sister (Soeurs fâchées, Les) PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, April 25th - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main :

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Saturday, April 28th - 1:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

Sunday, April 29th - 11:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Alexander Leclere

 

A wonderful French “kitchen sink” drama, a tale of two mis-matched sisters, perhaps more aptly described by its French title,  Les Soeurs Fâchées (The Angry Sisters)!  Growing up in a small town in the provinces, older sister Martine now lives in the Parisian upper middle class with snobbish friends and a boring husband.  Her younger sister,  Louise – natural and straightforward -- works as a beautician in a provincial town.   



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Memory Thief, The PDF Print E-mail
 The Memory Thief

Saturday, April 28th - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium :

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Director: Gil Kofman

 

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This remarkable first feature from director Gil Kofman tells the tale of an aimless young man whose search for identity and meaning leads him to an obsession with survivors of the Holocaust. Mark Webber delivers a powerful and intense portrayal of Lukas, a hapless Los Angeles toll booth operator who spends his free time voyeuristically spying on the traffic at the toll plaza.

 

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Snow Cake PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28 - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main :

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Director: Marc Evans

 

Deeply affecting and quirky to the core, Snow Cake combines childlike wonder with matters of life and death to surprising effect. A taciturn Englishman recently freed from prison, Alex (Alan Rickman) is driving through Ontario when he begrudgingly picks up the vivacious 19-year-old hitchhiker Vivienne (Emily Hampshire).

 

Last Updated ( Tuesday, April 10 2007 )
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Spoon (Lepel) PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, April 28th - 2:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

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Director: Willem van de Sande Bakhuyzen 

 

Recommended for Ages 7+


Lepel’s parents mysteriously disappear in a hot-air balloon. Cruel grandmother takes charge until Lepel escapes and hides in a department store. He becomes friends with Pleun, who lives behind the sweaters. The kids get help from Max, a sales associate who pines for Ms. Broer, the store manager.  Meanwhile, Grandma is trying to get Lepel back. How is this journey going to end, and will Lepel find his parents?

 

In Dutch with English subtitles, Netherlands/Germany/UK, 96 minutes, 2005, 35mm.

Last Updated ( Monday, April 09 2007 )
 
Sweet Mud (Adama Meshuga'at) PDF Print E-mail
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Thursday, April 26th - 7:00 pm - Riverview Theater

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

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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.



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Young Blood (Pura Sangre) PDF Print E-mail

 

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Saturday, April 28th - 5:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

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Director: Leo Ricciardi


Santiago is an eight-year-old boy who lives in the city. His world is turned upside down when his parents die in a car accident just before his estranged family is about to be reunited. He is sent to live in the country with his grandfather, Juan, whom he has never met.

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