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INTERNATIONAL CINEMAWINTER 2019 JANUARY 11-12 ENCORE WEEKEND THE GUILTY WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? In this taut thriller, a police dispatch- This touching documentary exam- SHOWTIMES: IC.BYU.EDU er answers a call from a kidnapped ines the life, career, and enduring woman, but when the call is legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved suddenly disconnected, the search host of children’s TV show Mr. Rog- 250 KMBL for the woman and her kidnapper er’s Neighborhood. begins. Möller masterfully weaves FREE OF CHARGE together narrative strands with inno- vative minimalist techniques. Danish. 85 min. Gustav Möller. 2018.* English. 94 min. Morgan Neville. 2018. DOCUMENTARY SERIES JANUARY 16-19 ROUTES & ROOTS LION RAMEN SHOP YOMEDDINE KING IN THE WILDERNESS This Oscar-nominated biographical A ramen chef from Tokyo travels to Egypt’s submission for best for- This documentary explores the diffi- drama tells of the true experiences Singapore to discover his culinary eign-language Oscar film tells of cult final years of Martin Luther King of Saroo Brierley, who was adopted heritage and reconnect with long- a middle-aged leper and a young Jr.’s life as the civil rights movement by an Australian couple after being lost family members. Unabashedly orphan who travel across the stood at a crucial crossroads and separated from this family in India. sentimental, the film shows how sun-bleached Egyptian desert to stared down opposition from both Years later, Brierley sets off to locate the joy of food transcends cultural reconnect with their families in Cairo sides of the political spectrum. his hometown and what remains of boundaries and historical traumas while experiencing life as outcastes his family. that divide contemporary Asia. in contemporary Egypt. English. 118 min. Garth Davis. 2016.* Japanese, English. 90 min. Eric Khoo. 2018. Arabic. 97 min. Abu Bakr Shawky. 2018. English. 111 min. Peter Kunhardt. 2018.*

JANUARY 23-26 NOTORIOUS FIRST REFORMED MOTHER IMPULSO Hitchcock summoned darker Paul Schrader’s move toward inde- This engrossing psychological Spanish dancer and choreographer shades of suspense and passion pendent cinema is a gripping thriller thriller by acclaimed director Rocío Molina is the new shining star by casting two of ’s most about a crisis of faith that is at once Joon-ho Bong blends a satirical of flamenco and modern dance, beloved stars ( and personal, political, and planetary. A appropriation of Korean melodrama using public improvisations called ) starkly against type. troubled pastor of a small church with a shocking examination of the impulsos to create choreographies. The film represents a pinnacle of struggles after a soul-shaking en- violent effects of blind devotion and Belmonte captures Molina at work as both its director’s legendary career counter with a radical environmen- the repression of past traumas. she prepares for one of her biggest and classic Hollywood cinema. talist and his pregnant wife. shows yet. English. 102 min. . 1946. English. 113 min. Paul Schrader. 2017.* Korean. 129 min. Joon-ho Bong. 2009.* Spanish. 87 min. Emilio Belmonte. 2018.

JAN. 30-FEB. 2 MAN AGAINST THE MACHINE ARABY OLD STONE ARRHYTHMIA EATING ANIMALS This Brazilian political road movie In this lean thriller, director Johnny Focusing on the struggle of health- How much do you know about the begins when a teenager living in an Ma examines the Kafkaesque care professionals dealing with food that’s on your plate?Eating industrial neighborhood finds the bureaucracy of the Chinese health demanding jobs in contemporary Animals is an urgent, eye-opening handwritten journal of a local facto- care system and the maddening Russia, Khlebnikov combines look at the environmental, economic, ry worker, whose life as a wandering futility of doing the right thing in human drama with a naturalistic and public health consequences of laborer was filled with both hardship a bureaucratic society. The film’s examination of the frenetic nature factory farming and common sense and insight, accompanied by local neo-realist style of gritty storytelling of emergency medicine and the de- solutions to a growing crisis. songs and American blues. has earned acclaim from critics. humanizing effects of the industry. Portuguese. 97 min. Affonso Uchoa, João Dumans. 2017.* Mandarin. 80 min. Johnny Ma. 2016.* Russian. 112 min. Boris Khlebnikov. 2017.* English. 95 min. Christopher Dillon Quinn. 2017.*

FEBRUARY 6-9 BERTOLT BRECHT IN FILM HANGMEN ALSO DIE THE THREEPENNY OPERA RIFIFI THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS Directed by the legendary Fritz The sly melodies of composer Kurt Rififiis the ultimate heist movie, a In 1980s New York, three identical Lang, this noir war film is Brecht’s Weill and the daring of dramatist mélange of suspense, brutality, and triplets who had been separated at only screen credit for a Hollywood Bertolt Brecht come together dark humor that was an interna- birth and then adopted by three dif- production. A resistance fighter on-screen under the direction of tional hit, earning Dassin the best ferent families finally meet each oth- kills the dreaded “Hangman of Eu- German auteur G. W. Pabst in this director prize at the Cannes Film er. Their incredible reunion becomes rope” in war-occupied Prague, but classic adaptation of the Festival. The film has proven wildly a huge sensation but also unearths it will take steely resolve from oth- Weimar-era theatrical sensation. influential on decades of heist the unimaginable secret behind their ers to defuse the Nazis’ revenge. thrillers following in its wake. separation. English. 135 min. Fritz Lang. 1943. German. 110 min. G.W. Pabst. 1931. French. 118 min. Jules Dassin. 1955. English. 96 min. Tim Wardle. 2018.

FEBRUARY 13-16 THE DESERT BRIDE THE FIGURINE CITY OF THE SUN In this classic , a This humanistic road film tells of IC’s first ever Nollywood film is This film captures the mountainous couple (Cary Grant and ) the experiences of a middle-aged a supernatural, suspense thriller landscape and industrial wasteland doubt each other’s fidelity. After Argentinian woman who finds probing the boundary between the of the Georgian city Chiatura—once filing for divorce, they both rush into romance after years of serving traditional and the modern. Friends a thriving mining town—and the lives new relationships but soon realize as a maid in Buenos Aires. This take a figurine from an abandoned and ambitions of the few inhabitants that their love has never died as unsentimental tale of unexpected shrine. After seven years of good who continue to live there. they scramble to ruin each other’s love is told against a visually poetic fortune, their luck changes. Is it the newfound romances. Argentine landscape. curse of Araromire? English. 91 min. Leo McCarey. 1937. Spanish. 80 min. Valeria Pivato, Cecilia Atán. 2017.* English, Yoruba. 122 min. Kunle Afolayan. 2009.* Georgian. 104 min. Rati Oneli. 2017.

FEBRUARY 20-23 LOS REYES MEXICANOS DE HOLLYWOOD THE SHAPE OF WATER BIUTIFUL CHILDREN OF MEN HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING In Del Toro’s nostalgic paean to Biutiful relates the journey of a The year is 2027, and two decades Composed of intimate moments Hollywood monster films, a lonely conflicted man (Javier Bardem), who of human infertility have left society in a rural community, this unique janitor forms a unique relationship struggles to reconcile fatherhood, on the brink of collapse. This ac- documentary provides an affective with an amphibious creature held crime, guilt, and mortality amidst the claimed dystopian thriller, directed impression of black lives in today’s in captivity at a top-secret research dangerous underworld of modern by Alfonso Cuarón, explores the South, trumpeting the beauty of life facility. This acclaimed film took Barcelona. Bardem received the first challenge of maintaining hope and and consequences of the social home the 2017 Oscars for Best Best Actor Oscar nomination ever for faith in the face of overwhelming construction of race, while simulta- Director and Best Picture. a Spanish-language performance. futility, violence, and despair. neously a testament to dreaming. English. 123 min. . 2017.* Spanish. 148 min. Alejandro González Iñárritu. 2010.* English. 109 min. Alfonso Cuarón. 2006.* English. 76 min. RaMell Ross. 2018.

SUPPORTED BY THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES FEB. 27-MAR. 2 BORG VS. MCENROE TRUMAN CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? In 1980, Björn Borg was the top- Famed actors Ricardo Darín and Agnès Varda eloquently captures Director Astra Taylor takes us on a ranked tennis player in the world. Javier Cámara portray friends Paris in the sixties with this real-time philosophical journey from ancient One obstacle stood between him reunited just as one of them has portrait of a singer set adrift in the Athens’ experiments in self-gov- and a record-breaking fifth Wimble- decided to forgo treatment for city as she awaits test results of a ernment to the roots of capitalism don title: the highly talented but fe- terminal cancer. Together they set biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes in medieval Italy to socio-economic rociously abrasive young American, out to make final arrangements in of one woman’s life,Cléo from 5 to crises of modernity in a film that John McEnroe. Fire vs. ice in one of this heartfelt and surprisingly 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and provokes and inspires as it questions the greatest matches of all time. humorous film. melodrama. what democracy really means. English, Swedish. 108 min. Janus Metz Pedersen. 2017.*Spanish, English. 109 min. Cesc Gay. 2015.* French. 89 min. Angès Varda. 1962.* English, Greek, Arabic. 107 min. Astra Taylor. 2018.

MARCH 6-9 CREATIVITY & DISABILITY WOMEN IN POLITICS MADEMOISELLE PARADIS A SILENT VOICE MAUDIE ON HER SHOULDERS In this curious and gorgeous This coming-of-age feature by This biopic about the life of Nova Nobel laureate Nadia Murad survived Rococo-era period piece, a blind Japan’s leading female animator Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis (Sally the 2014 genocide of the Yazidis harpsichordist in 18th-century Vi- examines the cruelty of school cul- Hawkins), follows the artist as she in Northern Iraq and escaped the enna works with a physician, Franz ture and the empowering effects of works as a live-in housekeeper for hands of ISIS to become a relentless Mesmer, to restore her sight. As her empathy. Along with its unflinching an angry fisherman (Ethan Hawke), beacon of hope for her people, even sight returns, however, she soon examination of social problems, the and begins honing her skills as when at times she longs to lay aside realizes that her talent is rapidly film is notable for its breathtaking, an artist to eventually become a this monumental burden and simply diminishing. hand-drawn animation. beloved figure in the community. have an ordinary life. French, German. 97 min. Barbara Albert. 2018.* Japanese. 130 min. Naoko Yamada. 2016. English. 116 min. Aisling Walsh. 2016.* English, Arabic, Kurdish. 94 min. Alexandra Bombach. 2018. MARCH 13-16 OPPRESSION & SELF-EXPRESSION COLD WAR THE FENCER BLACK KITE RBG From the Academy Award-winning A memorable story of compassion, Arian gives up his passion for kite RBG is an intimate portrait director of Ida, Cold War depicts sacrifice, and beauty against the flying when the Taliban take power, exploring the remarkable life and the passionate love story of a odds, this Golden Globe-nominated however, to give his daughter a career of Supreme Court Justice musical director and young singer film tells the true story of a fencing sense of childhood that he once Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has from different backgrounds and master who risks his life to teach had he risks his life to find and fly developed an exceptional legal temperaments against the his sport to school children in the kites again. Director Tarique Qayumi legacy that has changed the world background of the Cold War in oppressive environment of Soviet risked his own life to shoot the film for women while becoming an 1950s. Estonia in the 1950s. covertly in his native Afghanistan. unexpected pop culture icon. Polish, French. 90 min. Paweł Pawlikowski. 2018.* Estonian, Russian. 90 min. Klaus Härö. 2015.* Dari. 88 min. Tarique Qayumi. 2017.* English. 98 min. Betsy West, Julie Cohen. 2018. MARCH 20-23 TRANSIT DAUGHTER OF MINE THE SEA INSIDE THE JUDGE When a man attempts to flee -Na In this beautifully acted and crafted This Academy Award-winner for Erika Cohn documents the work zi-occupied France, he assumes the tale of self-discovery, a ten-year-old Best Foreign Film in 2004 tells the of Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first identity of a dead author and finds girl is torn between two Mothers— factual tale of a quadriplegic from woman to be appointed as a himself stuck in Marseilles with oth- her birth mother and her adoptive Spain (Javier Bardem) who inspires judge to a Sharia court, whose ers waiting for a transit visa. There one—during an emotionally heated others to overcome challenges career supplies rare insights into he falls in love with a young woman Sardinian summer. even as he wages a legal battle to Islamic law as well as gendered searching for her missing husband— earn the right to end his own life. justice in the Middle East. the very man he’s impersonating. German, French. 101 min. Christian Petzold. 2018.* Italian. 100 min. Laura Bispuri. 2018.* Spanish. 125 min. Alejandro Amenábar. 2004.* Arabic. 80 min. Erika Cohn. 2017.

MARCH 27-30 OPERA ON FILM ELEKTRA FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE THE MAGIC FLUTE MANKILLER In this modern, expressionistic Providing a look inside the vibrant This scintillating screen version of This is the true story of modern retelling of literature’s most dysfunc- world of Peking Opera, this Os- Mozart’s beloved opera is one of American hero Wilma Mankiller, tional family, Elektra grieves over the car-nominated epic tells the story of the most exquisite opera films ever the first woman Principal Chief of murder of her father. This staging of two apprentices who develop into made. Bergman’s deep knowledge the Cherokee Nation, who faced Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s Elektra celebrated luminaries in the opera of music is on display in this cele- rampant sexism and overcame was recorded at the Vienna State world over the course of fifty years bration of love and forgiveness that insurmountable obstacles in her at- Opera house and is one of the glo- of political turmoil in twentieth-cen- expresses an appreciation for the tempts to give a voice to the voice- ries of live opera on film. tury China. artifice and spectacle of the theater. less and fight against injustice. German. 109 min. Brian Large. 1989. Mandarin. 172 min. Chen Kaige. 1993.* Swedish. 138 min. . 1975. English. 74 min. Valerie Red-Horse. 2017.

APRIL 3-6 GLOBAL ANIMATION AZUR AND ASMAR MIRAI INVISIBLE HANDS Ocelot presents a stunningly beau- A four-year-old struggling to cope Invisible Hands exposes child labor tiful animated tale about encoun- with the arrival of a little sister finds and trafficking within the supply tering and transcending difference. a magical garden and meets his GENERAL CONFERENCE. chains of the world’s biggest com- He draws upon Arabic artistic younger sister from the future. She panies. Filmed in six countries, it is styles to turn the tables on French guides him through time to encoun- ONLY THREE MOVIES a harrowing account of children as immigration debates as Azur and ter relatives from the future and young as six years old making the Asmar take turns being strangers past helping him to become the big THIS WEEK. products we use every day. in each other’s homelands. brother he was meant to be. Arabic, French. 99 min. Michel Ocelot. 2006. Japanese. 98 min. Mamoru Hosoda. 2018. English. 80 min. Shraysi Tandon. 2018.

APRIL 10-13 GIANT BAD GENIUS A MATCH MADE BY GOD BURMA STORYBOOK In a tale of brotherly love, Martin Drawing on the resources of teen Starring “The King of Bollywood,” Burma Storybook is a creative returns home from war in 1843 to melodramas and international Shah Rukh Khan, Aditya Chopra’s documentary about a country his Basque hometown to find that heist films, this entertaining thriller 2008 musical comedy follows Su- emerging from years of dictator- his brother Joaquín has grown about a cheating ring at an elite rinder Sahni, an introvert, trying to ship, told through Burmese poetry. into a giant and been turned into high school in Thailand critiques win the heart of movie loving Taani. The film circles around the story of a circus act. Winner of ten 2018 class inequalities and institutional He willingly reinvents himself into the country’s most famous living Goya Awards (Spanish Academy corruption in the Thai educational the Bollywood hero she longs for, dissident poet, as he waits for his Awards). system. but can he keep up the charade? long-lost son to return home. Basque. 114 min. Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi. 2017.* Thai. 130 min. Nattawut Poonpiriya. 2017.* Hindi. 167 min. Aditya Chopra. 2008. Burmese. 81 min. Petr Lom. 2017.*

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