PRESENTED BY:

CINEQUIPT

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 8:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 5:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: TOMAS VILLUM JENSEN

This viciously witty satire of artistic pretension should ring true for any fi lm fan who’s ever felt shafted a miserable moviegoing experience. After hot-headed junkyard worker ex-convict Tonny (Thomsen, The Celebration, Brothers) is turned away from a sold-out Harry Potter screening, he unwittingly takes his kids to see an obnoxiously artsy Danish movie.

PRESENTED BY:

SUN COUNTRY

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 7:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 9:25PM; ST. ANTHONY

U.S. PREMIERE

Director: CLAES OLSSON

Finland in the 1890s -- As Finnish-Swedes emigrate to America, Hanna, 18, who, after a diffi cult childhood in Bothnia region travels to Colorado. Her goal is to make money for a return to her native land and to seek the respect her family craved.

PRESENTED BY:

INGEBRETSEN’S

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 7:35PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: JOHAN KLING

Former TV producer Kling’s debut feature garnered two Golden Beetle Awards (the Swedish Oscar equivalent) and nominations for four more.  Spoiled Stockholm kid Eva, 24, is having a bad time of it, having recently lost her job, her boyfriend and access to her bourgois mother’s cash flow.

PRESENTED BY:

STAR TRIBUNE

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 5:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: LUIS GALVAO

Teles Aguas Altas, a small village in Portugal, is happy to enter the 21st century by acquiring a website. However, a multinational company in Madrid has trademarked the name for its new campaign to sell sparkling water.

PRESENTED BY:

SUN COUNTRY

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 7:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

DIRECTOR PRESENT (THURSDAY SCREENING)

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 9:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

DIRECTOR PRESENT

Director: MAHAMET-SALEH HAROUN

Chad, central Africa, 2006. The government has granted amnesty to all war criminals. Sixteen year-old Atim is given a revolver by his grandfather so that he may kill the man who killed his father.

PRESENTED BY:

SOFITEL

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 9:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 7:50PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: NIKOS PANAYOTOPOULOS

What’s a shameless philanderer with a gorgeous wife and two nubile mistresses to do when diagnosed with a fatal disease? As Dying In Athens (Pethainontas Stin Athina) would have it, indulge, while belting out a song or two.

PRESENTED BY:

CZECH & SLOVAK  CULTURAL CENTER OF MINNESOTA

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 7:40PM; ST. ANTHONY

THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 7:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: JAN SVĚRAK

With this comic love story about men facing old age. Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun (Zderěk Svěrák who is past retirement age, realizes one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits…dramatically.

PRESENTED BY:

SOFITEL

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 9:40PM; ST. ANTHONY

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 9:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

U.S. PREMIERE

Director: MICHAL KWIECINSKI

This genial comedy tracks the unexpected arrival of a Chinese film crew in a small Polish village.  The highfalutin’ director enlists the locals as background extras in his latest epic.

PRESENTED BY:

EAGLE MEDIA SOMALI COMMUNITY OF MINNESOTA & CANADIAN CONSULATE 

TICKETS SUNDAY:

TICKETS SATURDAY:

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 7:00PM; OAK STREET

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 7:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

ACTRESS PRESENT (BOTH SHOWINGS)

U.S. PREMIERE

Director: HELENE KLODAWSKY

Headstrong Ayan, a refugee from Somalia, has big dreams. New to Canada, she’ll show anyone she can provide for her family. Still, it’s diffi cult to keep it all together. On top of the soaring rent, her daughters, 16-year-old Nasrah and 13-year-old Leila, need braces. And even working two jobs as a cleaner, it’s tough to fi nd enough money to send to her anxious husband and two sons still stuck in East Africa. Ayan’s confi dence is shaken when she is unexpectedly evicted for late payment of rent.

PRESENTED BY:

CANADIAN CONSULATE

TICKETS:

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 8:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 7:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: JEREMY PODESWA

Fugitive Pieces tells the story of Jakob Beer (Stephen Dillane), a man whose life is transformed by his childhood experiences during WWII as it explores the layers of memory as one wrestles with ghosts from a horrible past. Jakob’s story begins in Poland in 1942, when he is nine years old and Nazi soldiers have murdered his parents. Traumatized by this horrific event, Jakob sneaks out of his hiding place and is found by Athos Roussos (veteran actor Rade Sherbedgia), a Greek archaeologist working at a Polish dig.