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Blindsight
BLINDSIGHT follows the gripping adventure of six Tibetan teenagers who set out to climb the 23,000-ft Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest. A dangerous journey soon becomes a seemingly impossible challenge, all
the more remarkable because the teenagers are blind.
(Japan, 2006) 104 min.
Taxi to the Dark Side
Academy Award® Winner for Best Documentary Feature
Oscar winner, TAXI TO THE DARK SIDE, the latest documentary from now two-time Oscar-winner, Alex Gibney, confirms his standing as one of the foremost non-fiction filmmakers working today. A stunning inquiry into the suspicious death of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002, the film is a fastidiously assembled, uncommonly well-researched examination of how an innocent civilian was apprehended, imprisoned, tortured, and ultimately murdered, the victim of policies made at the very highest level of the United States government.
Combining the cool detachment of a forensic expert with the heated indignation of a proud American who holds his country to a high standard, Gibney reveals how the Bush administration has systematically betrayed the very ideals it professes to uphold.
(US, 2008) 106 min.
Teeth
High school student Dawn works hard at suppressing her budding sexuality by being the local chastity group's most active participant. A stranger to her own body, innocent Dawn discovers she has a toothed vagina when she becomes the object of violence. As she struggles to comprehend her anatomical uniqueness, Dawn experiences both the pitfalls and the power of being a living example of the vagina dentata myth.
(US, 2006) 87 Min.
.: Official site
.: Trailer
.: Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert Review
Dark Matter
This film, starring Meryl Streep as a wealthy patron of Chinese culture, and Aiden Quinn as a cosmology professor, tells the story of Liu Xing, a Chinese science student pursuing a PhD in the US in the early 1990s. Driven by
ambition yet unable to navigate academic politics, Liu Xing is inexorably pushed to the margins of American life until he loses his way.
(US, 2007) 86min
The Year My Parents Went On Vacation
In 1970, Brazil seems to have been turned upside-down, but 12 year-old Mauro's worries have nothing to do with the military regime which controls the country. His biggest dream is to see Brazil become three-time winner of the World Cup. Suddenly, he is torn from his parents and taken to live in a "strange" and fun-filled community - Bom Retiro, a district in Sao Paulo which is home to a large Jewish and Italian community, among others cultures. A moving story about overcoming your limits and solidarity.
Loony and Lunar
- Carrot (Partell Tall, Estonia); a snowman and rabbit compete for the same carrot;
- We've All Fallen from Mars (SAF Cakovech workshop, Croatia); fantasies from a kid's view;
- Flutterby (Cynthia Pepper, US); about dancing like butterflies;
- Puss and the Moon (Suzanne Tuyman, Netherlands); about a lunar cat;
- Jungle Beat—Born to Be Wild (Brent Dawes, Zimbabwe); about a nervous mother giraffe;
- Hard-Boiled Chicken (Arjan Wilschut, Netherlands) and Meany (Sarah Klein, US); about mean people;
- And finally, Moonman (Fritz Böhm, Germany); a fairy tale, luxuriously photographed by Tomi Ungerer.
(69 min)
Recommended for ages 6 and up.
Voyage of the Red Balloon
Suzanne (Juliette Binoche) is a charming single mother of two, snowed under by obligations. Her son, Simon, and their young Taiwanese babysitter, Song Fang, share an imaginary world: a strange red balloon follows them everywhere. Song Fang becomes more important in Suzanne's life, and her Asian perspective helps Suzanne come to grips with her life.
(France, 2008)
The Witnesses
The time is 1984. The place is Paris. A young, handsome man (Johan Libéreau) arrives and strikes up a platonic relationship with a wealthy doctor, Adrien (Michel Blanc), who exposes him to Sarah (Emmanuelle Beart) and Mehdi (Sami Bouajila), a young couple who have just had their first child. An unplanned love affair at the onset of a new, unnamed epidemic upsets the tranquility of their lives. The four friends are confronted with the end of the sexual revolution; each facing new possibilities.
(France, 2007) 112 min.
Chop Shop
CHOP SHOP is the story of Alejandro (Alejandro Polanco), a twelve-year-old street orphan in Willet’s Point, also known as the "Iron Triangle," a vibrant, sprawling, industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Queens, New York. Alejandro works at one of the many auto body repair shops that line the street, spending his days running errands, hawking his boss's garage, and learning how to paint and repair cars. Despite harsh conditions, he carves out a life for himself in the wasteland of the Iron Triangle.
When his sister, Isamar (Isamar Gonzales), moves in with him, they realize that creating a better life for the two of them is their best bet at staying together, and find themselves forced to make the kinds of difficult decisions that most adults never have to face. Intimate, heartbreaking and yet ultimately hopeful, CHOP SHOP is a portrait of children navigating through a chaotic adult world.
(US, 2007) 84 min.
Irina Palm
Marianne Faithfull stars as Maggie, a middle-aged widow who, desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson's medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club. She soon transforms herself into the much sought after and highly paid “Irina Palm.” Along with her new persona, Maggie gains renewed self-confidence, realizing she is not as old and unattractive as she thought. But her two worlds collide as her clandestine existence provokes the suspicions of her family and inquisitive neighbors alike.
(Belgium/Luxembourg/UK/Germany/France, 2008) 103 min.
Jellyfish
Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival
Poignant, often witty and exceedingly cinematic, JELLYFISH (MEDUZOT), tells the story of three very different Tel Aviv women whose intersecting stories weave an unlikely portrait of modern Israeli life. Batya, a catering waitress, takes in a child apparently abandoned at a local beach. Batya is one of the servers at the wedding reception of Keren, a bride who breaks her leg escaping a locked toilet stall, ruining her chance at a dream Caribbean honeymoon. And attending the event with an employer is Joy, a non Hebrew-speaking domestic worker who has guiltily left her son behind in her native Philippines.
As this distaff trio separately wends their way through Israel’s most cosmopolitan city, they struggle with issues of communication, affection and destiny—but at times find uneasy refuge in its tranquil seas.
(Israel/France, 2007) 78 min.
Up the Yangtze
In China, it is simply known as “The River.” But the Yangtze—and the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly spectacular transformation wrought by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history, the Three Gorges. From the vantage point of a luxury “farewell cruise” that wends its way up the River, we are witness to the dramatic shift: peasant families are forced to relocate their entire lives as floodwaters steadily engulf their villages; young tour-boat employees warily grasp at a more prosperous future; Western tourists catch a final glimpse of a disappearing culture. Returning to the scene of his grandfather’s riverbank youth, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang has crafted a singularly moving and cinematically breathtaking depiction of contemporary China and a disquieting glance into a future that awaits us all.
(Canada, 2007) 93 min.
The Edge of Heaven
Nejat’s widower father chooses a prostitute, Yeter, for a live-in girlfriend. Nejat, a young professor, initially disapproves, but warms to her when he learns that she sends most of her hard-earned money home to Turkey for her daughter’s university studies. Events take Nejat to Istanbul to search for Yeter`s daughter Ayten, a political activist. Ayten, though, is already in trouble with the Turkish police. A compassionate foreigner abandons everything to help Ayten, and soon, plot lines intertwine, forever changing the lives of all the characters.
(Germany/Turkey, 2007) 122 min.
Tekkon Kinkreet
From the creators of Animatrix comes this visually stunning, new anime film based on a popular Japanese manga written by Taiyo Matsumoto. In Treasure Town, where the moon smiles and young boys can fly, life can be both gentle and brutal — as it is for our heroes, Black and White. They are street urchins who watch over the city, doing battle with an array of old-world Yakuza and alien assassins vying to rule the decaying metropolis. TEKKON KINKREET is a dynamic tale of brotherhood that addresses the faults of present-day society, true love lost, and the kindness of the human heart.
Water Lilies
(La Naissance des Pieuvres)
Selected Premiere, 2007 Cannes Film Festival: Un Certain Regard
It's synchronized swimming season at the vast municipal swimming pool and social hub in the Paris suburb of Cergy. Floriane (Adele Haenel), a valued team member and star of the teen social set, confides in Marie (Pauline Acquart), who isn't on the team, and uses her as a cover for her romantic assignations. Marie's best friend, Anne (Louise Blachere), begins to feel expendable. This rich coming-of-age tale makes palpable the aching doubts and offhand cruelty of teenage girls.
(Belgium, 2007)
Favela Rising
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Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
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