September 14: A BRILLIANT YOUNG MIND
September 28 DANCING ARABS
October 5 COMING HOME
October 19 MONSOON
November 2 WILD TALES
November 16 1001 GRAMS
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January to April 2016 dates TBA
See below for descriptions of the films.
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September 14: A Brilliant Young Mind (U.K.)
Cast:: Asa Butterfield, Rafe Spall, Sally Hawkins
Year: 2014
Runtime: 111 mins.
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
A socially awkward teenage math prodigy finds new confidence and new friendships when he lands a spot on the British squad at the International Mathematics Olympiad.
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September 28 DANCING ARABS
Director: Eran Riklis
Cast:: Yael Abecassis, Ali Suliman, Tawfeek Barhom
Year: 2014
Runtime: 105 minute
Country: Israel
Language: Arabic, Hebrew w/ English subtitles
Dancing Arabs tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity -- trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him.
Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people's suspicions, in order to work, to love, and, above all, to belong -- he has to make personal sacrifices
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Director: Eran Riklis
Cast:: Yael Abecassis, Ali Suliman, Tawfeek Barhom
Year: 2014
Runtime: 105 minute
Country: Israel
Language: Arabic, Hebrew w/ English subtitles
Dancing Arabs tells the story of Eyad, a Palestinian-Israeli boy from the town of Tira whose parents send to a prestigious Jewish boarding school in Jerusalem. At school he finds himself struggling with issues of language, culture, and identity -- trying to survive and to find his way in a place where war constantly rages around him.
Feeling foreign and alienated, Eyad realizes that in order to be accepted as an equal, in order to allay people's suspicions, in order to work, to love, and, above all, to belong -- he has to make personal sacrifices
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October 5 COMING HOME
Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast:: Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen
Year: 2014
Runtime: 109
Country: China
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, an amnesiac woman struggles to regain her memory and reconnect with her long imprisoned husband, in this enthralling and emotional drama from Chinese master Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero).
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Director: Zhang Yimou
Cast:: Gong Li, Chen Daoming, Zhang Huiwen
Year: 2014
Runtime: 109
Country: China
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles
In the aftermath of the Cultural Revolution, an amnesiac woman struggles to regain her memory and reconnect with her long imprisoned husband, in this enthralling and emotional drama from Chinese master Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero).
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October 19 MONSOON
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Featuring::
Year: 2014
Runtime: 108 minute
Country: Canada
Language: English
Monsoon is a feature documentary from multiple award-winning filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson. Filmed over the course of India's 2013 monsoon season in ultra high definition 4K, the filmmakers chased the monsoon on its annual journey from the southern state of Kerala, where it first makes landfall, to India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya ('Place of the Clouds), where the clouds go to die. Along the way, they meet a remarkable group of individuals whose lives are in different ways entwined with the phenomenon that some call 'the soul of India'.
A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
Featuring::
Year: 2014
Runtime: 108 minute
Country: Canada
Language: English
Monsoon is a feature documentary from multiple award-winning filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson. Filmed over the course of India's 2013 monsoon season in ultra high definition 4K, the filmmakers chased the monsoon on its annual journey from the southern state of Kerala, where it first makes landfall, to India's north-eastern state of Meghalaya ('Place of the Clouds), where the clouds go to die. Along the way, they meet a remarkable group of individuals whose lives are in different ways entwined with the phenomenon that some call 'the soul of India'.
A cinematic journey into the terrain where nature, science, belief and wonder converge in one of the most astonishing and breathtaking landscapes on earth, Monsoon is a film that captures the timelessness and rich human drama of our engagement with the natural world.
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November 2 WILD TALES
Director: Damián Szifrón
Cast:: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Year: 2014
Runtime: 122 minute
Country: Argentina | Spain
Language: Spanish (with English Subtitles)
Damian Szifron's jet black comedy Wild Tales contains six shorts that all tell disturbing and funny tales. Stories about love, deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
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Director: Damián Szifrón
Cast:: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Leonardo Sbaraglia
Year: 2014
Runtime: 122 minute
Country: Argentina | Spain
Language: Spanish (with English Subtitles)
Damian Szifron's jet black comedy Wild Tales contains six shorts that all tell disturbing and funny tales. Stories about love, deception, the return of the past, a tragedy, or even the violence contained in an everyday detail, appear themselves to push them towards the abyss, into the undeniable pleasure of losing control.
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November 16 1001 GRAMS (Norway/Germany)
Director: Bent Hamer
Cast:: Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Hildegun Riise
Year: 2014
Runtime: 93
Country: Norway, Germany
Language: Norwegian, French, English
Director: Bent Hamer
Cast:: Ane Dahl Torp, Laurent Stocker, Hildegun Riise
Year: 2014
Runtime: 93
Country: Norway, Germany
Language: Norwegian, French, English
One of contemporary Norwegian cinema's pre-eminent directors, Bent Hamer
has devoted much of his career to critiques of his country's celebration of
heroic individualism. His typical protagonists are rough-hewn males living in
remote areas who are both ferociously independent and comically stubborn, only
reluctantly accepting the presence of other people in their lives.
In his new film, 1001 Grams, Hamer shifts his focus to urbane urbanite
Marie (Ane Dahl Torp, from Pioneer and Cold Lunch), a thirty-something scientist
whose life is as rigorously controlled as those of any of Hamer's male heroes.
Recently divorced, Marie devotes her life to measurements, spending her days
inspecting ski slopes while studiously avoiding her ex. The pride of the
institute where she works is a perfect kilogram weight, a model for all
measurements in the country, which Marie is supposed to take to a big conference
in France. It's her first time going, and the first time her father, a fellow
scientist and a legend in their field, will not be attending. When a family
emergency jolts Marie even further out of her element, she finds herself
introduced to whole new worlds.
Full of Hamer's trademark offbeat humour, 1001 Grams sharply critiques
those dichotomies - rural versus urban, precision versus poetry, science versus
mysticism, romance versus logic - that Marie routinely accepts. As she explores
her new possibilities, the film seems to unfurl magically, beautifully, the way
the first real day of summer seems to spill over with promise and renewal.