PRESENTED BY:

U OF M EUROPEAN STUDIES CONSORTIUM

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SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 7:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 9:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: ANDRZEJ WAJDA

An Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film, this latest offering from legendary Polish director Wajda (Pan Tadeusz, Man of Iron¸ Kanal) examines one of the most painful chapters in his country’s history.

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SCREENINGS:
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 9:10PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 28, 5:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: ALBERT TER HEERDT

In this gritty and hilarious culture clash comedy, two young Moroccan Dutchmen discover the ironies and misunderstanding in European multicultural society as they confront the various layers of Dutch society.

PRESENTED BY:

CARA’S IRISH PUBS

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 7:20PM; ST. ANTHONY  

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 6:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: TOM COLLINS

Quintessential Irish actor Colm Meaney turns in one of his finest performances in this moving story of fate, friendship and national identity.

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SCREENINGS:
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 4:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 9:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

U.S. PREMIERE

Director: NORA HOPPE

Shot at an abandoned harbor in Trieste rundown cafe that’s regularly visited by a lonely, destitute Serb seaman (veteran Serb actor Miki Manojlovic), whose meagre income as a smuggler is set aside to purchase a piece of land back home. One day, his world is turned upside-down when the local mafi a boss dumps on his boat a crate containing a young woman refugee (Bulgarian actress Diana Dobreva) presumably from Iran.

PRESENTED BY:

SOFITEL

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SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 4:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: CATHERINE BREILLAT

Controversial director Catherine Breillat (Romance, Fat Girl) moves from edgy erotic films to a period costumer with The Last Mistress. Adapted from the novel by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly, the film is set in 19th-century France, when the world was a seemingly much more innocent place.

PRESENTED BY:

FINNISH CONSULATE

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SCREENINGS:
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 5:10PM; ST. ANTHONY

SATURDAY APRIL 26, 3:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

U.S. PREMIERE

Director: MARKKU PÖLÖNEN

A large family of so-called “Travellers,” once court tailors for Czar Nicholas II of Russia, flee in and out of Finland during the 1917 Russian Revolution until they settle in the Leijsa region of north Karelia. Accused of being Bolsheviks, the family spreads far and wide (even the U.S.) but return again in the 70s, supposedly the town of their dreams.

PRESENTED BY:

7 SUSHI

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SCREENINGS:
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 7:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 5:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: TAO PENG

This heart-tugging glimpse into the depths of how a society based on greed will treat its children was considered a nearly “perfect film,” by the Vancouver film-fest people where it premiered this year. With almost no budget, a hand-held digital camera and a bunch of vivid, energetic long takes, first-time director, Peng Tao, brings small town China to suspenseful life.

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BRIT’S PUB

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SCREENINGS:
SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 9:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 7:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: PAUL ANDREW WILLIAMS

As a beat-up young hooker and a teenage runaway wait for the fast express out of Victoria Station to a hideaway at Brighton seaside, their breathless race against time brings the British gangster thriller up to speed in an assured debut by writer/director Paul Williams in the genre that Grahame Greene once made famous.

PRESENTED BY:

PIZZA LUCE

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, MAY 2, 7:00PM; OAK STREET

Director: GIOVANNI VERONESI

In this follow up to last year’s fest, hugely successful Manual of Love, this sequel to the rolling-on-the-floor farce has again four interconnected stories romping through tragedy, ill-fated love affairs, passions and ephemeral relationships.

PRESENTED BY:

NORWEGIAN CONSULATE

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SCREENINGS:
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 10:00PM; ST. ANTHONY WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 9:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: EVA DAHR

This romantic comedy starts where others end -- as happy “power couples” on career upswings - Ida, an ambitious architect, and Mathias, the ideal man, have found each other, have a good life, challenging jobs and great children.