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The Son (Le Fils)
(2002) [M]

This intensely focused film from brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne (LA PROMESSE, ROSETTA) follows Olivier (Olivier Gourmet), a man in mid-life working as a carpentry instructor in a blue collar French suburb. By day he teaches teenage boys how to work with wood. By night he leads a drab,...  More

The Seventh Continent
(1989) [MA]

Austrian director Michael Haneke’s first feature introduces us to the themes and characters that have continued to populate his work up to and including his current US remake of Funny Games. Three years in the life of Georg, his wife Anna and their daughter Eva. It’s the story of a bourgeois...  More

The Pursuit of Happyness
(2006) [M]

Set in early '80s San Francisco, the film charts the hard times and eventual comeback of Chris Gardner (Smith), a suddenly single salesman who has custody of his son, but finds that providing for the two of them is a challenge in the increasingly unstable economic climate. In the face of this...  More

Offside
(2006) [PG]

In conservative Iran, public life is is the realm of men only, where women are even banned from attending football matches. As the Islamic Republic competes for a place in the 2006 World Cup, a group of fervent female football supporters disguise themselves as men so they too can watch to see...  More

Shortbus
(2006) [R]

Numerous New York City-dwellers come to the exclusive club Shortbus to work out problems in their sexual relationships. Rob (Raphael Barker) and Sophia (Sook-Yin Lee) are a happily married couple, except for the fact that she has never experienced sexual climax. This irony follows her to work,...  More

The Book of Revelation
(2006) [R]

Daniel (Tom Long) and his girlfriend Bridget (Anna Troy) are principal dancers in choreographer Isabel's (Greta Scacchi) renowned company. During a rehearsal break Daniel goes out and doesn't return for twelve days. Mysteriously abducted and abused by three women, thrown back into the world - a...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 2 (Caterina in the City / After Midnight)
(2004) [R]

Caterina In The City When her parents move from a small town in Tuscay to an apartment in Rome, fifteen-year-old Caterina is ready for something new. Her father (Sergio Castellitto), a teacher in a tech school, has undisguised social ambitions and is delighted to see a list of famous names...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 3 (Good Morning, Night / The Miracle)
(2007) [R]

Good Morning, Night A multi award-winning, unsettling drama based ont he true story of the kidnapping of Italy's former Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978, a crime which stunned the nation, and a story which chillingly resounds in a time when terrorist cells and funamentalism are proliferating...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 4 (The Wedding Dress / My Brother In Law)
(2007) [R]

The Wedding Dress:
Maya Sansa (The Best Of Youth, Good Morning Night) gives a lacerating performance as Stella Algeri, a twenty-five-year-old veterinary student who is engaged to be married. Her wedding plans are shattered, though, when a violent event changes her life. She calls off the...  More

Italian Film Festival 2004: Disc 5 (The Cruellest Day / The Spectator)
(2004) [R]

The Cruellest Day: On March 20 1994, RAI TV news reporter Ilaria Alpi and her cameraman Miran Hrovatin were killed in ambush in Mogadishu, Somalia. Their investigative reporting had brought them too close to a truth they were not supposed to uncover. The Cruellest Day is a powerful drama which...  More