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Lessons of Darkness

A haunting meditation on the aftermath of modern warfare, Lessons of Darkness is set amidst the blazing oil fields of Kuwait at the end of the first Gulf War. Herzog reimagines the scene using a science-fiction scenario crafted from a mix of his inimitable voiceover narrations, passages of classical music, and stunning aerial footage of this otherworldly setting.

Leviathan

Paving the way for an entirely new type of non-fiction filmmaking, Leviathan is set entirely on board a fishing vessel off the coast of New England, and captures the brutality of sea life in refreshing, breathtaking fashion. Cameras are seemingly everywhere, capturing every minute detail from every possible vantage point, creating less of a narrative than a total immersive experience.

Life in Pink

Narrative Short. Bob and Peg have a romantic encounter based around jazz tunes of the 1940s inside a Laundromat, revisiting past memories and rekindling a passion 50 years in the making.

Life Kills Me

Life and death come wrapped in a mutual embrace, both absurd and poignant, in this smart comedy about an unlikely friendship between a grieving cinematographer and a morbidly obsessed drifter. At work on a schlocky, low-budget horror film, Gaspar is still reeling from the untimely death of his older brother when he meets Alvaro at yet another premature funeral.

Living with the Land

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Earth Day screening

Living With the Land is a documentary about people who use what is naturally in their environment in their everyday lives. Subjects include an environmental artist, a forager, woodworkers, an archaeologist/trapper, and a systems engineer. Learn about wild food and medicine, making tools from bone, creating art from found natural objects, having fun building furniture, and designing a modern off-the grid home.

Lollywood

Documentary Short. Liberian war orphan Edwin loves watching popular Nigerian films. Now, after assembling his entire cast and crew in a single day, he decides to making his own “Nollywood” film.

See director Todd Looby's Be Good in New American Visions.

Lonely Boy

The romantic misadventures of a schizophrenic bachelor. Franky lives in a hauntingly bare apartment and works a dead-end job. As a uniquely spirited young man in constant pursuit of romance, Franky attempts to navigate the mercilessly harsh world of dating. There’s just one caveat: he suffers from schizophrenia and recently decided to liberate himself from his medication. When he finds a genuine connection with Alex, he inadvertently sets on a path towards self-actualization. However, what he finds may in fact cloud his reality further.

Low Movie (How to Quit Smoking)

NOTE: Tickets to Low Movie (How to Quit Smoking) are ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE.

Special ticket price:
$24 - April 12 Minneapolis Premiere Screening + Intimate Performance by Low at Aster Cafe (limited tickets available)
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Lucky

An emotional tale of unlikely friendship, Avie Luthra’s film follows Lucky, a recently orphaned boy in post-apartheid South Africa, who strikes up in unlikely relationship with an elderly Indian immigrant who harbors racial resentment toward her neighbors. While the odds are staggeringly against him, Lucky is determined to get an education, and, after learning that there are government stipends for those housing orphans of AIDS victims, Padma reluctantly agrees to assist him.

 

Lunarcy!

The title of this goofy documentary, which examines an eclectic group of individuals all connected by their unyielding obsession with the moon, really says it all. In Lunarcy!, we meet a man pedaling a 30-year-old book about future life on the moon, another who claims to own the moon, and a third who works tirelessly to achieve his ultimate dream of living on the moon. Director Simon Ennis is much kinder to his subjects than many others might be, which is what makes this film as endearing as its unusual characters.

Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, The

Director Tinatin Gurchiani decided to make a documentary about her home country, Georgia, so she put out an ad for young Georgians to submit their stories. Gurchiani documents all types of tales from all regions of the country – a girl looking for the mother who abandoned her, a governor raked with indecision, a boy looking to free his brother from jail. The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, buoyed by the kind-hearted Georgians inhabiting the frame, showcases a diverse cross-section of this poor European state.

Made in Ash

Slovakia’s 2013 Oscar submission offers a gritty look at a Slovak Romany girl’s sad trajectory from textile factory novice to sex worker. With no jobs available at home, naïve Dorotka travels to the Czech town of Ash, near the German border, where foreign girls like her toil long hours as seamstresses and live in crowded hostels. There she falls under the influence of her hustler roommate who pimps her to an unattractive, older German man, one of many who cross the border to sexually exploit the financially-strapped Eastern European women.

Making Light in Terezin

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Feature Documentary. Even in the darkest places on earth, there is always the need for light, for laughter. Making Light in Terezin explores the little-known role that theater, cabaret and comedy played in improving and even saving the lives of some of the Jews who lived in the Terezin ghetto in WWII.

Mama Illegal

Post-film discussion led by Matthias Falter, Doctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Austrian Studies

Man at the Door

Narrative Short. When a middle class white woman, who has recently separated from her husband and moved to Chicago, goes downstairs to her apartment lobby with a UPS slip in hand, she finds an illegal Mexican laborer at her doorstep, bleeding from a stab wound and begging to be let in. The decision she makes forces her to face the dangers of the city and its seemingly unfamiliar inhabitants.

Marcel: King of the Tervuren

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Animated Short. Marcel survives the bird flu, alcohol, sleeping pills and his son Max. Though blinded in one eye, he remains the King of Tervuren. Greek tragedy as acted out by Belgian roosters.

MN-Made Animated Shorts screens with Persistence of Vision.

Medicine Lake

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Documentary Short. A slice of Minnesota: cold, outdoor, art, lake.

About the filmmaker: Photographer and filmmaker, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, living and working in Minneapolis. www.horaciodevoto.com

Men with Arms

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Feature Narrative. Sidney is a quiet and hard-working clock repairer and a loving yet distant single father constantly preoccupied with his work. His son, Lloyd, takes after his father’s qualities as well as his work.

Merry Christmas

As the stock market tumbles, nine well-to-do New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen, and opt for a more modest celebration in a Pennsylvanian B&B, complete with a disco themed murder-mystery game.

Shot in 2 1/2 days with no script, no rehearsal & no second takes, Anna Condo’s debut feature is an outlandish satire that will stick with you well beyond its final frame.

Midnight’s Children

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Midnight’s Children is an epic film from Oscar-nominated director Deepa Mehta (Water), based on the Booker Prize winning novel by Salman Rushdie.

At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, as India proclaims independence from Great Britain, two newborn babies are switched by a nurse in a Bombay hospital.

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