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tion features Spanish tapas, wine MARTHA’S VINEYARD Welcome and beer, followed immediately by Things You Need To Know INTERNATIONAL Hit the road, circle the globe—and the fi lm THE TRIP TO SPAIN, the FILM FESTIVAL never leave your comfy theatre seat. third in the popular food + travel FESTIVAL VENUES Ticketing Option The Martha’s Vineyard International franchise starring Steve Coogan and Film Festival makes it possible. The Rob Brydon. Closing night, it’s viva Martha’s Vineyard RUSH Ticketing Option festival is a community-oriented l’Italia! Festivalgoers will enjoy on- Film Center Tickets (if not sold out) for fi lms and event inspired by the world around the-road fi lm of a different sort: LIKE events are available for purchase in us. Now in its 12th year, the festival CRAZY with an end-of-fest ltalian 79 Beach Road, Vineyard Haven person at the Film Center, Capawock theater box offi ces 30 minutes prior to has become a culminating highlight feast at the wonderful La Soffi tta. at the Tisbury Marketplace show times. Doors open 30 minutes T. 5-10 of the culture-packed summer Feature fi lms this year are notable Capacity: 177 SEP in advance of show time.. PASS season on Martha’s Vineyard. for their geographic and thematic FESTIVAL Favorite events from previous years variety—not to mention the array of Capawock Rush tickets are often available even return, including the Global Citizen awards they’ve recently garnered, 43 Main Street, Vineyard Haven when advance tickets have sold out. A including from the Cannes Film rush line will form outside each theatre Award and the Short Film Com- Capacity: 197 Festival, Tribeca, the Golden Globes; before showtime. Approximately 10 petition, share a six-day festival minutes prior to the screening, program with new events, including Haifa International Film Festival, There will be no independent (off available unsold tickets will be • Admission to Opening Night, a bilingual children’s concert with Singapore International Film Festival site) box offi ce at the festival this available on a fi rst-come, fi rst-served cocktails, premiere screening year – buy your festival tickets at one Mister G, winner of a Latin Grammy and many more basis. No discounts. Cash, Check, or at MV Film Center of our three theaters. Credit Card at theaters. Award for Best Children’s Album. MVIFF includes three different • Admission to Closing Night, programs focused on short fi lms. A YOU CAN BUY ADVANCE TICKETS cocktails, premiere screening On Saturday, September 9, ac- at the Capawock theater. perennial sellout, the International AT OUR THEATERS FOR FESTIVAL claimed actor and UNICEF Goodwill MOVIES PRIOR TO THE FESTIVAL Methods of Short Film Competition this year • Free drink and popcorn at theater Ambassador DANNY GLOVER and BEGINNING ON SEPTEMBER Payment concession stand. brings 11 entries that will be vying 5th. PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER writer-producer JOSLYN BARNES Box Office: Cash, Personal Check for a $1,000 top prize. Over 300 BUYING ONLINE IN ADVANCE • Plus: a free festival t-shirt while they will receive the MVIFF’s Global (made out to the MV Film Society), AND PRINTING YOUR TICKETS last, special invite to private festival Citizens Award for their charitable fi lms from 25 countries entered the MasterCard, Visa, AT HOME OR BRING AN E-MAIL party with filmmakers, and priority work done around the world. competition; the 11 fi nalists will be AMEX credit cards. selection of tickets via email. screened Saturday, September 9, CONFIRMATION ON YOUR SMART PHONE. Opening and Closing Receptions and the winner announced on the Theatre: Cash, Credit Card , or (All-Access Passholders can preselect offer a taste of Spain, Italy. The Personal Check, (make checks out to movie and event selections via spot. Telephone – 508-696-9369 MV Film Society) opening reception, on September 7, for information. email prior to the festival, contact takes place on the shores of Lagoon Welcome to our small Island-and rich@mvfi lmsociety.com with your Pond, a short walk to the MV Film enjoy the world of fi lm! Ticket Prices selections after your purchase of pass) Center. This year’s tented celebra- Richard Paradise $15 General Admission Parking Movie Ticket Tisbury Marketplace Vineyard Haven $12 Film Society Please note there is parking behind the Downtown Shopping Area Parking Member’s Price and Children under 14 buildings adjacent to the Film Center at Marketplace. Please park behind La Soffitta Event Locations Restaurant $75 Opening Night the building and access the theatre Reception and Film through the rear entrance. After 6 pm Closing Night you are allowed to occupy a 1 hour Reception $35 Closing Night Sunday Film and Party parking space in the front Tisbury Ferry Terminal Marketplace. Some events carry a higher price and are noted. Parking at ACE Hardware After 5:30 pm each festival day, you Capawock can park at ACE Hardware on Beach All-Access Road for night time screenings. Tisbury Wharf Parking Festival Pass During the daytime screenings and $230 parties on Thursday, Friday, Saturday Per Person and Sunday we ask you to park at the Mansion Tisbury Wharf Tisbury Wharf. We thank Mr. Ralph House Daytime Parking $200 Film Society Member Packer for his generosity. • First Choice Admission to any film during festival (Passholders pre-select film and events via email with MVFS Night Time Parking ONLY staff, and arrive 10 minutes before start at Ace Hardware time to guarantee a seat)

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Schedule subject to change. For up-to-date information, please visit mvﬁ lmsociety.com September 2017 The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival Page 3 SPECIAL EVENTS A ticket for both Opening and Closing night events includes movie and party. There will be no tickets sold for only the movie, and not the event.

Festival Warm-ups Opening Night - Gala TISBURY LOCATION: MARKETPLACE AND Thursday, September 7 • 5:30 PM MV FILM CENTER THE LEARS MV FILM CENTER Tuesday, September 5 • 7:30 PM THE TRIP TO SPAIN DIRECTED BY CARL BESSAI DIRECTED BY MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM Canada | 2017 | 99 mins. | NR | Comedy, Drama UK | 2017 | 115 mins. | Not Rated | Adventure, Comedy, Drama Actress Ivy Matheson and Producer Irwin Olian will be joining us after the screening for a After jaunts through northern England and Italy, Steve discussion. Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head World-renowned, cutting-edge architect Davenport to Spain to sample the best of the country’s gastronomic Lear (Bruce Dern), nearing retirement, summons offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff his dysfunctional children to a weekend family banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange retreat in one of his architectural creations, a barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as magnificent Malibu estate. When they learn that more serious reflections on what it means to settle into he has decided to marry his personal assistant middle age. As always, the locales are breathtaking, the that Sunday, it sets off an explosive and funny cuisine to die for, and the humor delightfully devilish. round of devious behavior and conflict as each of them jockeys for position borne by self-interest, Ticket price includes our OPENING NIGHT GALA from greed, and jealousy. In the end, this homage to 5:30 – 7:30pm on the shores of Ferry Boat Pond at Tisbury Shakespeare’s KING LEAR raises fundamental Marketplace, with food, beverages, and live music. The questions about the nature of love, sexuality, family film begins at 8:00pm at The MV Film Center. relationships, and honesty, demonstrating that what lies beneath the surface is often very different from outward manifestations. Closing Night Film LOCATION: CAPAWOCK Sunday, September 10 • 4:30 PM AQUARIUS Wednesday, September 6 LIKE CRAZY 7:30 PM DIRECTED BY PAOLO VIRZI AND FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI will begin DIRECTED BY KLEBER MENDONÇA FILHO OUR CLOSIING NIGHT RECEPTION following the film and is to be held at La Soffitta Italian Brazil | 2016 | 146 minutes | Not Rated | Drama Restaurant – food, libations, and live music Clara, a 65-year-old widow and retired music Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled critic, is the last resident of the Aquarius, one of billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a the few buildings of its age and character that tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her remains in a rapidly changing seaside Recife own mystery. They are both patients at the Villa Biondi, neighborhood. Now that the other apartments a progressive but secure psychiatric clinic. Paolo Virzì’s have been swept up by a company with ambitious new film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving plans for redevelopment, pressures to move on friendship that develops between the two women as surround Clara from all sides. But she has pledged they flee the mental institution in search of love and to leave only upon death, and will engage in a cold happiness in the open-air nuthouse – the world of sane war with the developers to keep a home that has been a silent witness to her entire life. The people. resulting confrontation is mysterious, frightening and nerve-wracking, tingeing even Clara’s Join us at 4:30PM for our Closing Night film at the most familiar routines with the tension of a thriller. Capawock Theatre, then head over to LA SOFFITTA, for a reception (beginning at 6:30PM). 82 Main St., Vineyard Haven SERVING DINNER AT 5PM NIGHTLY CLOSED ON TUESDAYS

508 687-9448 82 MAIN STREET, VINEYARD HAVEN *GLOBAL CITIZENS AWARD PRESENTATION* Live Music Children’s Eventwww.lasoffitta.com Sunday, September 10 • 11:00 AM LOCATION: WITH DANNY GLOVER AND MV FILM CENTER JOSLYN BARNES PRIOR TO MOVIE

WHITE SUN Mister G, a Latin GRAMMY Award winner for Best Children’s Album, Mister G (Ben Friday, September 8, 7:00 PM Gundersheimer) has been called “a bilingual rockstar” by The Washington Post and “irresistible”by People Magazine. His 2017 release, Mundo Verde/Green World, is a collection LOCATION: of environmental-themed songs which were debuted at his concert during the National Climate Rally in Washington, DC. Spanning genres from bluegrass to bossa nova, funk to folk, MV FILM CENTER his dynamic, original music has won praise from The Boston Globe, Chicago SunTimes, People, New York Post, and Parents magazine.

DIRECTED BY DEEPAK RAUNIYAR Nepal, Netherlands, Qatar, USA | 2016 89 minutes | Not Rated | Adventure, Drama “Skilfully manipulating romantic and social frictions which in lesser hands might have PRIOR TO THE SCREENIING OF THIS FILM, THE come across as soapily melodramatic, MV FILM SOCIETY WILL PRESENT ACTORS Rauniyar and Barker construct a parable- DANNY GLOVER AND JOSLYN BARNES WITH like tale whose allegorical aspects are THE MV FILM SOCIETY GLOBAL CITIZEN there for those who wish to find them. But AWARD FOR THEIR CHARITABLE WORK AND their priority is the creation of believable PHILANTHROPY ACROSS THE GLOBE. characters in a pungently atmospheric setting, which then takes shape into a An anti-regime partisan (Dayahang Rai) satisfyingly organic narrative pattern as confronts physical, social and political White Sun — stark title a reference to obstacles after returning to his remote an emblem on Nepal’s uniquely non- mountain village in Nepal for his father’s quadrilateral flag — unfurls.”–Neil Young, funeral. Hollywood Reporter Danny Glover Joslyn Barnes

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Tickets can be purchased on-line now at mvfilmsociety.com or in person at the Film Center box office. All Screenings are in Vineyard Haven at the Martha’s Vineyard Film Center or Capawock Movie theater. There will be no independent (off site) box office at the festival this year – buy your festival tickets at one of our three theaters. YOU CAN BUY ADVANCE TICKETS AT OUR THEATERS FOR FESTIVAL MOVIES PRIOR TO THE FESTIVAL. PLEASE ALSO CONSIDER BUYING ONLINE IN ADVANCE AND PRINTING YOUR TICKETS AT HOME OR BRING AN E-MAIL CONFIRMATION ON YOUR SMART PHONE.

CHILDREN’S CONCERT: MISTER G 11:00 AM 2017 | 50 Mins. | Rated G | Family & Kids, Music Concert

THE FENCER (Miekkailija) 12:00 PM Estonia, Finland, Germany | 2015 | 99 minutes | Not Rated | Drama

LIKE CRAZY (la pazza gioia) 4:30 PM Italy | 2017 | 118 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama SPECIAL EVENT 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM — Closing Night party at LA SOFFITTA Restaurant —Italian Buffet, David Hannon sings the Frank Sinatra song book September 2017 The Martha’s Vineyard International Film Festival Page 5

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countless suicidal men and women through AQUARIUS his wise and compassionate counsel. But A Wednesday, September 6 | 7:30pm Nemoto is now approaching middle-age with E a wife and young boy of his own, when he AFTER THE STORM LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER learns his life is at risk from heart disease, EUROPEAN SHORTS Friday, September 8 | 4:30pm Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho compounded by the heavy emotional Friday, September 8 | 4:30pm Brazil | 2016 | 146 minutes | Not Rated | Drama workload of supporting those who no longer LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE want to live. When saving others takes such a LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER Clara (Sonia Braga), a 65-year-old widow Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda toll, can he find the resiliency to save himself? International | 2017 | 77 mins | Not Rated | Short Film and retired music critic, is the last resident of Japan | 2016 | 117 minutes | Not Rated | Drama The Departure is an intimate portrait of one The MV Film Society has selected a short list the Aquarius, one of the few buildings of its quietly extraordinary man who has helped Dwelling on his past glory as a prize-winning age and character that remains in a rapidly from the European Film Academy’s short film so many learn to live, and now must find the tour which brings the nominated short films author, Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) wastes the changing seaside Recife neighborhood. strength to learn from his own advice. money he makes as a private detective on Now that the other apartments have been to audiences across Europe –and beyond. “Stunning.” – randon Harris, Filmmaker Magazine gambling and can barely pay child support. swept up by a company with ambitious plans Our selection of shorts includes films After the death of his father, his aging mother for redevelopment, pressures to move on “Immensely moving. Lyrical and deeply meditative… composed of productions/co-productions (Kirin Kiki) and beautiful ex-wife (Yoko surround Clara from all sides. But she has digs deep into major questions without being afraid of from Spain, Germany, Kosovo, UK, Norway, the answers.” – Kate Erbland, IndieWire Make) seem to be moving on with their lives. pledged to leave only upon death, and will and China. Renewing contact with his initially distrusting engage in a cold war with the developers to “One of the most moving films at this year’s festival... See details at mvfilmsociety.com family, Ryota struggles to take back control of keep a home that has been a silent witness to gorgeous and contemplative. The Departure is a her entire life. The resulting confrontation is powerful work of documentary, cinema, advocacy, and his existence and to find a lasting place in the art.” – Andrew Parker, Toronto Film Scene life of his young son (Taiyo Yoshizawa) – until mysterious, frightening and nerve-wracking, “A cinematic spiritual quest. A trip to the mountain F a stormy summer night offers them a chance tingeing even Clara’s most familiar routines with the tension of a thriller. top that will leave you moved, teary eyed, and utterly to truly bond again. vibrating with the sense of feeling alive. A small quiet THE FENCER “No modern filmmaker has as sure a grasp on family ““Aquarius” makes a compelling case for looking up film that is thunderous in its effect.” – Steve Kopian, Sunday, September 10 | 12:00pm dynamics as Hirokazu Kore-eda.” from our ubiquitous distractions to take in the world Unseen Films around us - the one that we live in and, whether we’re – Tom Huddleston, Time Out “A beautiful, wise, and deeply empathetic immersion LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE “Endlessly endearing” – The Huffington Post aware of it or not, lives in us.” – Anne Hornaday, Washington Post into one fascinating character’s unique approach to Directed by Klaus Härö “The director keeps his characters and audience suicide prevention. A quietly impressive work whose bobbing together over waters that grow deeper and “This isn’t a movie about a situation; it’s a movie about images, characters, and ruminations linger on long Estonia, Finland, Germany | 2015 | 99 minutes | Not Rated deeper, until it’s impossible to distinguish the everyday a fully formed, red-blooded character dealing with a after the lights come up.” – Scott Macaulay, Filmmaker | Drama from the profound.” – Ty Burr, The Boston Globe situation while also dealing with everything else.” Magazine – Tom Long, Detroit News A young man, Endel Nelis, arrives in “film about passionate love, spanning place and Nominated – Best Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival Haapsalu, Estonia, in the early 1950s. Having sexuality…” Variety Nominated -– Palme D’Or, Cannes Film Festival left Leningrad to escape the secret police, he “…an omnibus collection of six short films by notable Won – Best Actress, Sonia Braga, San Diego Film finds work as a teacher and founds a sports international directors (with one debut) loosely Critics, Mar del Plata, Lima Latin America, and Biarittz THE DIVINE ORDER club for his students. Endel becomes a father connected by themes of sex and romance… an International Festivals. figure to his students and starts teaching artistically ambitious collection.” Saturday, September 9 | 4:00pm them his great passion – fencing, which – The Hollywood Reporter LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE causes a conflict with the school’s principal. Nominated -– Un Certain Regard Award, Envious, the principal starts investigating Directed by Petra Volpe Cannes Film Festival D Endel’s background… Endel learns to love Nominated – Golden Space Needle Award, Seattle Switzerland, 1971: Nora is a young housewife the children and looks after them; most are International Film Festival THE DEPARTURE and mother who lives with her husband and orphans as a result of the Russian occupation. their two sons in a peaceful little village. Tribeca Film Festival 2016 –Best Actress in an International Saturday, September 9 | 9:15pm Fencing becomes a form of self-expression for Narrative Feature, Radhika Apte Here, in the Swiss countryside, little or the children and Endel becomes a role model. LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE nothing is felt of the huge social upheavals The children want to participate in a national Winner Best Narrative Feature at the Hampton that the movement of May 1968 has caused. International Film Festival 2015 Directed by Lana Wilson fencing tournament in Leningrad, and Endel Nora’s life, too, has been unaffected; she is a must make a choice: risk everything to take Japan, USA | 2017 | 87 minutes | Not Rated | Documentary retiring, quiet person, well liked by everyone the children to Leningrad or put his safety ANIMATION SHORTS A remarkable Japanese Buddhist priest uses – until she begins to campaign publicly and first and disappoint them. a range of methods to help desperate people pugnaciously for women’s right to vote, an Throughout the film, Härö vividly captures a sense of SHOWCASE discover the will to live. But when a health issue that will be put before the male voters the late Stalinist-era paranoia, as well as the drabness crisis puts him at serious risk, can he live by on February 7th, 1971. of Soviet life in general. It is also engaging on a human Saturday, September 9 | 4:30pm the same advice he gives out? “Petra Volpe’s cine-history lesson remains a level. These are reserved people, but when they make a LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER Lana Wilson follows up her award-winning mainstream crowd-pleaser adept at inspiring and connection, it is meaningful.”–Joe Bendel, Epoch Times documentary After Tiller with this lyrical, amusing in equal measure.” – Variety.com Nominated—Best Motion Picture Curated by Bill Plympton intimate character study of the complex Winner, Audience Award, 2017 Tribeca Film Festival (Foreign Language), Golden Globes Total Run Time: 70 minutes figure Ittetsu Nemoto, an aimless and Switzerland’s entry for Academy Awards Won—Best International Feature, A collection of some of the world’s best new rebellious former punk rocker-turned- St. Louis International Film Festival Buddhist priest. Most famously, he is short animated films. 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Continued from Page 5 the conclusion of the program. The winning questions about the nature of love, (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award film will be shown again prior to the Closing sexuality, family relationships and honesty, (R)-nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living Night film. demonstrating that what lies beneath the in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can H 1. CARAMEL MOU (UNLEAVENED BREAD) – 8:30 mins surface is often very different from outward and arrives only to discover that Martha has manifestations. disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular Directed by Wilfired Méance, France HOLY AIR An AARP Movies for Grownups Selection. disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the 2. ONCE UPON A LINE - 7:05 mins affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t Friday, September 8 | 7:30pm Nominated—Grand Jury Prize, Nashville Film Festival Directed by Alicja Jasina, USA leave her alone. Replete with the amazing LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE 3. 5 FILMS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY – 4:39 mins antics and intricately choreographed slapstick Directed by Shady Srour Directed by Peter Huang, Canada that has come to define Abel and Gordon’s LIKE CRAZY work, LOST IN PARIS is a wondrously fun and Israel | 2017 | 81 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy 4. ELEVATOR LESSON – 5:27 mins hectic tale of peculiar people finding love Adam is a Christian Arab living in Nazareth Directed by Linda Kuriloff, USA *CLOSING NIGHT FILM* while lost in the City of Lights. – member of a vanishing minority within a 5. THE FINGER - 10:08 mins Sunday, September 10 | 4:30pm “A deliriously funny, continuously inventive, slapstick minority in the Holy Land and the Middle Directed by Chris Carfizzi, USA extravaganza that Buster Keaton fans will devour with East. His wife Lamia is a strong, beautiful LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE relish.” – Brandon Judell, Huffington Post 6. IF WE MUST DIE - 18:37 and progressive Arab woman, who runs a Directed by Paolo Virzi and “Unique physical comedy unlike anything else around foundation for women’s rights. When Adam Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic, USA Francesca Archibugi now.” – Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter hears that Lamia is pregnant and his father 7. DISILLUSIONMENT OF 10 POINT FONT - 1:12 mins Italy | 2017 | 118 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama falls very ill, he evaluates his life and realizes Directed by Greg Condon, USA that he has not achieved much. Despite all LIKE CRAZY will be preceded by a showing his business ideas failing so far, he gives one 8. TIME FLIES WHEN I’M HAVING FUN - 4:30 mins of the “Best Overall” Short Film from last try to make it big. And what’s better Directed by Johan Tappert, Sweden Saturday’s Juried Competition held on. After M to sell in the Holy Land other than the very 9. LA VISTA (THE VISIT) - 12:30 mins the film, patrons are encouraged to join us air that Virgin Mary breathed during her Directed by Romina Schwedler, USA for our Closing Night Party at La Soffitta MAINELAND annunciation? But in order to, as one priest Restaurant, Main Street, Vineyard haven | 10. EL ATRACO (THE ROBBERY) - 9:53 Saturday, September 9 7:00pm tells Adam during confession, bring such Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a product into the market he needs to find allies Directed by Alfonso Díaz, Spain self-styled billionaire countess who likes to LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER from the three cultures ruling over Nazareth 11. RABBIT PUNCH – 15:00 mins believe she’s on intimate terms with world Directed by Miao Wang – the Jewish politicians, the Muslim mafia Directed by Keith Farrell, Written by Hannah Salt, UK leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, With Director Miao Wang and boss and the Catholic church officials. In a Filmmaker/Writer Hannah Salt Will Be In Attendance. a fragile young woman locked in her own Producer Damon Smith In Attendance. politically unstable world where religion is See film synopses at mvfilmsociety.com mystery. They are both patients at the Villa just another merchandise, can the Holy Air be Biondi, a progressive but secure psychiatric China, USA | 2017 | 90 minutes | Not Rated | Documentary Adam’s salvation of is it just an illusion? clinic. Paolo Virzì’s new film tells the story of Filmed over three years in China and the U.S., “The humor in Holy Air is inseparable from its the unpredictable and moving friendship that “Maineland” is a multi-layered coming-of-age poignancy, and every element of the film expresses that develops between the two women as they tale that follows two teenagers of China’s interconnection, from the performances to the spirited, L flee the mental institution in search of love wealthy elite as they settle into a boarding melancholy-laced score by Habib Shehadeh Hanna.”– and happiness in the open-air nuthouse – the school in blue-collar rural Maine. Part of the Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter THE LEARS world of sane people. enormous wave of “parachute students” Nominated-—Best International Narrative Feature, Tribeca Tuesday, September 5 | 7:30 pm “A vibrant and compelling look at friendship, freedom enrolling in U.S. private schools, bubbly, fun- Film Festival and the fine line between sanity and madness.”–Gary loving Stella and introspective Harry come Won—Israeli First Film, Jerusalem Film Festival LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER Goldstein, Los Angeles Times seeking a Western-style education, escape Directed by Carl Bessai from the dreaded Chinese college entrance exam, and the promise of a Hollywood-style With Actress Ivy Matheson and LOST IN PARIS U.S. high school experience. But as their Producer Irwin Olian in Attendance fuzzy visions of the American dream slowly I Canada | 2017 | 99 mins. | Not Rated | Comedy, Drama Friday, September 8 | 9:15 pm gain more clarity, worlds collide as their World-renowned, cutting edge architect LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE relationship to home and country takes on a International Short Films surprisingly poignant new aspect. Davenport Lear, nearing retirement, summons Directed by Dominique Abel “Maineland serves to remind audiences of the power, Juried Competition his dysfunctional children to a weekend and Fiona Gordon family retreat in one of his architectural and beauty, in differences.”–Jessi Cape, Austin Saturday, September 9 | 7:00 pm creations, a magnificent Malibu Estate. When France/Belgium | 2017 | 85 minutes | Not Rated | Comedy Chronicle LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE they learn that he has decided to marry his Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Won—Best Documentary, Special Jury Prize, SXSW Film personal assistant that Sunday, it sets off Gordon’s signature whimsical style, LOST IN Festival International | 2017 | 97 mins. | Not Rated | Short Film an explosive and funny round of devious PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Won—Best Documentary, Independent Film Festival of From over 300+ entries our Film Society behavior and conflict as each of them jockeys Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, Boston festival selection committee has chosen 11 for position borne by self-interest, greed oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s finalists. We will screen each short film and and jealousy. In the end, this homage to (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter our jury will select the “Best Overall” film at Shakespeare’s KING LEAR raises fundamental of distress from her 88-year-old Aunt Martha

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THE MIDWIFE –Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid reflections on what it means to settle into struggling soul who more often than not blocks her own Won—Best Film, Black Movie Festival middle age. As always, the locales are path to paradise.” – Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader Sunday, September 10 | 1:30pm Won—Special Honorable Mention, breathtaking, the cuisine to die for, and the LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER Denver International Film Festival humor delightfully devilish. Won—Best Actress, Screenplay, Costume Design, “Along with the components of The Trip to Spain that Awards of the Israeli Film Academy Directed by Martin Provost we most crave, there’s an increase in harshness, an Won—Best Actress (Noa Kooler), France | 2017 | 117 minutes | Not Rated | Drama acerbic edge that’s hard to ignore.” Haifa International Film Festival –Andy Crump, Paste Magazine Two of French cinema’s biggest stars shine P “Behind the gags, the barbs, the wordplay, and the in this bittersweet drama about the unlikely many, many impressions lurks a sadness...By definition, friendship that develops between Claire POP AYE the pervasion of this theme may make The Trip to Spain WHITE SUN (Catherine Frot), a talented but tightly wound | the least funny of its brethren so far. But it also makes it midwife, and Béatrice (Catherine Deneuve), Friday, September 8 9:15pm the most interesting.” (seto surya) the estranged, free-spirited mistress of LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER – Michael Arbeiter, Nerdist Friday, September 8 | 7:00pm Claire’s late father. Though polar opposites in almost every way, the two come to rely Directed by Kristen Tan LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER on each other as they cope with the unusual Singapore, Thailand | 2017 | 104 minutes | Not Rated Directed by Deepak Rauniyar circumstance that brought them together in Comedy, Drama Nepal, Netherlands, Qatar, USA | 2016 | 89 minutes this sharp character study from the César- On a chance encounter, a disenchanted W Not Rated | Adventure, Drama award winning director Martin Provost architect bumps into his long-lost elephant (Séraphine). on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes THE WEDDING PLAN *GLOBAL ““The Midwife” is one of those movies that could be his elephant on a journey across Thailand, (laavor et hakir) about anything and you’d watch, so enjoyable are its in search of the farm where they grew up CITIZENS AWARD lead actors.” – Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic together–only to discover the truth about Sunday, September 10 | 2:00pm PRESENTATION* “A closely observed, intelligently imagined and realized himself. LOCATION: CAPAWOCK THEATRE presentation of contrasting personalities.” – Mick “The sharply observed screenplay adeptly balances Directed by Rama Burshtein With Danny Glover LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle gentle humor and poignancy in a contemplative examination of loneliness, aging, mortality and regret.” Israel | 2016 | 110 minutes | Rated PG | Comedy, Romance and Joslyn Barnes – Todd Jorgenson,Cinemalogue.com At 32, Michal (Noa Kooler), an Orthodox prior to movie. Won—Screenwriting Award, Sundance Film Festival Jewish woman, is finally looking forward to An anti-regime partisan (Dayahang Rai) Won—Big Screen Award, Rotterdam International the comfort and security of marriage, when O confronts physical, social and political Film Festival she is blindsided by her fiancé’s decision obstacles after returning to his remote to call off the wedding with only a month’s THE ORNITHOLOGIST mountain village in Nepal for his father’s notice. Unwilling to return to lonely single | funeral. Saturday, September 9 9:15pm life, Michal decides to put her trust in LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER fate and continue with her wedding plans, Won--Best Asian Feature Film, Singapore T believing Mr. Right will appear by her chosen International Film Festival Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues date. Confident she will find a match made Won--Audience Award, Fribourg Brazil, France, Portugal | 2016 | 117 minutes | Not Rated | Drama THE TRIP TO SPAIN in heaven, she books a venue, sends out International Film Festival Fernando, a solitary ornithologist, is looking invitations and buys a wedding dress, as for endangered black storks along a remote *OPENING NIGHT FILM* her skeptical mother and sister look on with river in northern Portugal when he is swept Thursday, September 7 | 5:30pm trepidation. During Michal’s month-long away by the rapids. Rescued by a couple of search for a spouse, she enlists the help Chinese pilgrim girls on their way to Santiago LOCATION: MV FILM CENTER of two different matchmakers, goes on a de Compostela, he plunges into a dark, Directed by Michael Winterbottom series of disastrous blind dates and finds an eerie forest, trying to get back on track. But UK | 2017 | 115 mins. | Not Rated | Adventure, Comedy, Drama unexpected connection with a charming but as he encounters unexpected and uncanny utterly unsuitable pop star (Oz Zehavi) – all obstacles and people who put him to the test, Includes Gala Beneath The Tent while dismissing pleas by concerned friends Fernando is driven to extreme, transformative at Tisbury Marketplace and family members that she reconsider her actions. Gradually he becomes a different After jaunts through northern England and risky plan. As the day of the ceremony grows man: inspired, multifaceted, and finally Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark closer and no suitor appears, Michal puts enlightened. on another deliciously deadpan culinary everything on the line to find happiness. “Delightful and narratively adventurous... road trip. This time around, the guys head “Charming, humorous, and enjoyable.” I can’t wait to see it again.” – The New York Times to Spain to sample the best of the country’s – Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter “If nothing else, the film reminds one of how strange gastronomic offerings in between rounds “Witty and sharp in its observations on love, courtship, and beautiful existence can be.” of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. and marriage.” -–Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair – Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent “The film has a remarkable patience and beauty, taking exchange barbs and their patented celebrity “An engaging (and surprisingly entertaining) the time to live in its offbeat, unsettling moments.” impressions, as well as more serious examination, not of belief, but of a believer, a Asha Maya Magrati in Seto Surya (2016)

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