international cinema presents

fall 2018 Sept. 7-8: Encore Weekend Faces Places Cinema Paradiso Faces Places follows 89-year-old film- Oscar winner in 1990, this enduring IC maker Agnès Varda and 33-year-old favorite tells the story of Toto growing photographer/street artist JR as they up in post-WWII Sicily. Mesmerized by travel around rural France exploring the local movie theater and its quirky what makes each place and person culture, he befriends the aging projec- unique. This documentary/road movie tionist who later inspires him to leave captures the essence of both JR and town and pursue his own dreams of Varda’s innovative work. filmmaking.

French. 94 min. Italian. 124 min. Agnès Varda & JR. 2017. Giuseppe Tornatore. 1988.* Sept. 12-15: Childhood Stories Documentary Series Lamb Custody Dark Fortune Won’t You Be My Neighbor In this strikingly beautiful film, a young Silver Lion award winner, Custody A psychologist becomes involved with This touching doc- Ethiopian boy moves in with distant follows eleven-year-old Julien caught a traumatized boy in the aftermath umentary examines relatives following his mother’s death. in a bitter custody battle. When his of the serious accident that killed his the life, career, and en- When they ask him to sacrifice his mother seeks sole custody to protect family, and she finds herself embroiled during legacy of Fred beloved sheep, he hatches a plan to him from a father she claims is violent, in the dispute regarding the boy’s Rogers, the beloved save the animal and return home. he is pushed to the edge in the esca- future. host of children’s TV lating conflict between his parents. show Mr. Roger’s Amharic. 94 min. Swiss German. 113 min. Neighborhood. Yared Zaleke. 2015. French. 94 min. Stefan Haupt. 2016. Xavier Legrand. 2017.* English. 94 min. Morgan Neville. 2018. Sept. 19-22 The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki Police, Adjective The Train of Salt and Sugar Poverty, Inc. Awarded Un Certain Regard at A young detective suspects a teenage Civilians traveling by rail through war- Shot over 4 years in Cannes and based on the true story witness is offering misleading testimo- torn Mozambique must work with a 20 countries, this doc- of famous Finnish boxer Olli Mäki, this ny about his pot-smoking friends, and troop of ill-disciplined soldiers to fight umentary examines charming film follows him on the day his pursuit of the case raises ques- off rebels and repair sabotaged track the rise of foreign aid of his 1962 match to win the World tions about the line between what is in order to reach safety. An important as a multibillion dollar Featherweight title, the day when he right and what is legal. Winner of Un example of new African cinema’s industry. A must-see unexpectedly fell in love. Certain Regard at Cannes. attempts to examine the continent’s for anyone wanting to difficult history. solve global poverty. Finnish. 92 min. Romanian. 115 min. Juho Kuosmanen. 2016.* Corneliu Porumboiu. 2009. Portuguese. 93 min. English. 94 min. Licinio Azevedo. 2016.* Michael Matheson Sept. 26-29 Miller. 2014. The Young Karl Marx The Order of Things Cemetery of Splendor Leaning into the Wind This biopic portrays the early years of In this probing look into the human A middle-aged housewife tends to Environmental artist Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Jen- side of the current migration crisis in soldiers at a clinic who are suffering Andy Goldsworthy ny Marx through exile as they work to Europe, a senior Italian official clashes from a mysterious sleeping sickness makes surprising art in transform the labor movement during with Libyan militia factions, European and troubled dreams in this beautiful, this visually arresting its development into the modern era. politicians, and his own conscience haunting, and hypnotic look at mod- exploration of the when negotiating for African asylum ern-day Thai culture. world and our connec- German, French, English. 118 min. seekers trying to find a new life in tions to it. Raoul Peck. 2017.* Europe. Thai. 122 min. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 2015.* English. 97 min. Italian. 115 min. Thomas Rie- Andrea Segre. 2017.* delsheimer. 2017. Oct. 3-6: Courtroom Cinema The Insult Court The 10th Judicial Court In what might be read as a metaphor In this critique of India’s antiquat- A fascinating look for Middle East relations, a minor in- ed, colonial judicial system, a folk into French culture cident between a Lebanese Christian musician is arrested and accused of through its judiciary and a Palestinian refugee escalates performing an inflammatory song. LDS General Conference. system, this film fol- into an explosive court case that gets As the trial unfolds, the lives of the lows 12 misdemeanor national attention and divides the two accused, the lawyers, and the judge Only three movies this week. hearings in a Parisian communities, forcing the two men to are examined in an insightful look at courtroom. confront their prejudices. everyday life in contemporary India. French. 105 min. Arabic. 114 min. Marathi, Gujarati, English, Hindi. Raymond Depardon. Ziad Doueiri. 2017.* 116 min. Chaitanya Tamhane. 2014. 2004. Oct. 10-13 Driver The Summer of Flying Fish The Guilty In the Intense Now A driver on the fringes of an ultra-or- While on vacation with her father in In this taut thriller, a police dispatch- Vivid and intimate, thodox community in Israel makes southern Chile, teenager Manena er answers a call from a kidnapped Salles examines the his living by taking Haredi beggars to experiences first love and also comes woman, but when the call is suddenly revolutionary spirit of wealthy homes to tell their stories and to terms with the tension between disconnected, the search for the ‘68 in France, Czecho- inspire philanthropy. His questionable her father, a rich, landowning-farmer woman and her kidnapper begins. slovakia, Brazil, and actions invite us to consider the role who is exterminating carp fish in the Möller masterfully weaves together China through insight- of stories and storytelling in helping area, and the local Mapuche tribe that narrative strands with innovative ful analysis of amateur us to understand the world. stands up to him. minimalist techniques. archival footage of the unfolding events. Hebrew. 92 min. Spanish. 95 min. Danish. 85 min. Yehonatan Indursky. 2017. Marcela Said. 2013.* Gustav Möller. 2018. Portuguese. 127 min. João Moreira Salles.* Oct. 17-20 2017. Death of a Cyclist Dede Western Thank You For the Rain A couple having an affair accidentally In 1992, Dina’s promised fiancé In this play on the Western genre, Kisilu, a Kenyan farm- strike and kill a cyclist. Out of fear for comes home from war with his friend a group of German construction er, uses his camera to his burgeoning career and her wealthy Gegi and she falls in love with him. workers begin a challenging job at a capture his family, his marriage, they decide to flee the scene She chooses to defy the traditions of remote site in the Bulgarian coun- village, and the effects but then become the subject of black- her remote village deep in the Cauca- tryside where they find themselves of climate change be- mail. Borrowing from both Hitchcock sus Mountains but at what cost? confronted with their own prejudices coming a community and film noir, the film provides a subtle about language and culture on the leader and an activist Georgian. 97 min. critique of Franco-era corruption. European frontier. on the global stage. Mariam Khatchvani. 2017. Spanish. 88 min. German, Bulgarian. 121 min. English. 90 min. Juan Antonio Bardem. 1955. Valeska Grisebach. 2017.* Julia Dahr. 2017.

SUPPORTED BY THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES 250 KMBL | SHOWTIMES: IC.BYU.EDU | FREE OF CHARGE EST. 1968 | CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL CINEMA *Some content is customized. All films shown adhere to BYU visual media guidelines. Oct. 24-27: Women Unseen Documentary Series

Angels Wear White Disappearance What Will People Say Jane Mia, a teenage girl working in a sea- A young couple’s intimacy causes Outside her traditional Pakistani Using never-be- side hotel, is the only witness to the problems when an ensuing medical home, Nisha acts like a typical Nor- fore-seen footage, assault of two schoolgirls by a male crisis and fear of repercussions force wegian teenager, but when her father Jane tracks the patron, and chooses to keep silence them to go from hospital to hospital finds her with her boyfriend, she is young Jane Good- out of fear of losing her job. The film in modern-day Tehran. Denied control sent to family in Pakistan to adapt to all’s groundbreaking provides a probing look at gender over her own body, the bonds of their her parents’ culture in this explora- fieldwork with chim- dynamics in China and women’s relationship and commitment to each tion of the clash of generations and panzees, as well as struggle to be seen. other become strained. cultures in a globalized world. her relationship with cameraman and future Mandarin. 107 min. Persian. 89 min. Urdu, Norwegian. 106 min. husband, Hugo van Vivian Qu. 2017.* Ali Asgari. 2017. Iram Haq. 2017.* Lawick.

English. 90 min. Oct. 31 - Nov. 3: Global Frankenstein Brett Morgen. 2017.

Frankenstein Conquers the World Bride of Frankenstein The Spirit of the Beehive Anote’s Ark A human heart taken from Dr. Fran- In what many consider to be one of Two sisters living in an isolated village The South Pacific kenstein’s lab to a lab in Japan during the best Frankenstein movies, Dr. in the aftermath of Franco’s victory nation of Kiribati faces WWII is exposed to the radiation of Frankenstein is called upon to resume in the Spanish Civil War see the 1931 imminent annihilation the bombing of Hiroshima. It mutates his experiments in creating new life. Hollywood horror movie Frankenstein, from rising sea levels. and grows into an indestructible feral Meanwhile, the Monster remains and Ana becomes obsessed with the This film follows boy of 20 feet and is eventually called on the run from those who want to Monster in this symbol-rich master- the stories of those to battle with a rampaging reptilian destroy him. piece of Spanish cinema. struggling to survive in monster. a world with a rapidly English. 75 min. Spanish. 99 min. changing climate. Japanese. 94 min. James Whale. 1935. Víctor Erice. 1973. Ishirō Honda. 1965. English, Kiribati. 77 min. Matthieu Rytz. 2018. Nov. 7-10: WWI Remembered

Comradeship A Very Long Engagement Wings Wooden Crosses The End of the Ottoman Empire In a mine on the border of France Simultaneously dark and playful, Featuring stunning aerial footage, France’s answer to All Quiet on the This film explores the and Germany, an underground Jeunet foregrounds the problems this very first Academy Award win- Western Front, Wooden Crosses processes that led to explosion leads to the entrapment of trauma and remembering the ner for Best Picture (1929) starring uses jarring documentary-like the fall of the Otto- of a group of French laborers. Great War. When Mathilde learns Richard Arlen, Charles “Buddy” camerawork during the battle se- mans after WWI, and German and French miners work of her fiancé’s mysterious death on Rogers, and Clara Bow, follows ro- quences and a rich visual vocab- how the collapse of together to save the workers in the front in WWI, she undergoes a mantic rivals from the same town ulary to depict the haunting and the empire continues this post-WWI, anti-war allegory. relentless search to find out what that both end up as fighter pilots terrifying experiences of a French to affect the Balkans really happened. during WWI. regiment fighting in WWI. and Middle East German, French. 110 min. today. G.W. Pabst. 1931. French. 134 min. Silent. 144 min. French. 115 min. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 2004.* William A. Wellman. 1927.* Raymond Bernard. 1932. English, French, Ger- man. 107 min. Mathilde Damoisel. Nov. 14-17: 100 Years of Ingmar Bergman 2018.

Summer Interlude Persona Fanny and Alexander This Is Congo In one of Bergman’s best early films, Persona is Bergman at his best. The Bergman declared Fanny and Alexan- This Is Congo puts Marie, a ballerina, meets Henrik film is self-aware and probes the der to be his last film, it reprises many you on the frontlines and falls into into a sweet summer boundaries of identity and cinema’s of the ideas and themes that made of Africa’s longest romance with him that ends tragically. ability to create reality. A famed stage him one of the world’s most renowned continuing conflict by Years later, she returns to archipelago actress suffers a breakdown and filmmakers. Fanny and Alexander’s following a whis- where she met Henrik in an attempt to experiences a strange emotional lives change dramatically when their tleblower, a patriotic come to terms with the past. convergence with her nurse while loving father dies unexpectedly, and military commander, a recovering on a remote island. their mother marries the tyrannical mineral dealer, and a Swedish. 96 min. bishop. displaced tailor. Ingmar Bergman. 1951. Swedish. 85 min. Swedish. 188 min./312 min. Ingmar Bergman. 1966.* English, French. Ingmar Bergman. 1982.* 93 min. Daniel McCabe. 2017. Nov. 21-24. Thanksgiving Break. No showings.

Nov. 28 - Dec. 1: Courtroom Cinema

The Third Murder 12 Anatomy of a Murder Cielo A respected attorney takes on the de- Based on the classic courtroom dra- In this courtroom classic, a soldier A poem to the night fense of a murder suspect that freely ma 12 Angry Men, 12 follows a group murders a man for raping his wife. sky, Cielo explores admits his guilt, but the case is more of jurors from a fragmented Russian A small town lawyer (James Stewart) and contemplates complicated than it first appears. In society who must decide the fate of agrees to defend him in a case in the galaxies as seen this suspense thriller, Kore-eda invites a Chechen teenager on trial for killing which the motivations of the murderer, through astronomical us to question what we think we know his stepfather, a soldier in the Russian wife, and victim are all suspect. The observatories and about guilt, innocence, and justice. army. film features a brilliant score by jazz desert dwellers on great Duke Ellington. the Atacama Desert Japanese. 125 min. Russian. 160 min. in Chile. Hirokazu Kore-eda. 2017. Nikita Mikhalkov. 2007. English. 161 min. Otto Preminger. 1959. Spanish, English, French. 88 min. Alison McAlpine. Dec. 5-8 2017.

Reprise Om Shanti Om Poetry Guangzhou Dream Factory In this debut film by one of Europe’s Starring Shah Rukh Kahn, perhaps Amidst the early onset of Alzheimer’s, A compelling critique best young filmmakers, competitive the most popular actor in the world, a grandmother deals with the involve- of 21st century global best friends work to support each this Bollywood musical follows Om, ment of her grandson in a crime and capitalism, this film other’s literary ambitions through trials a 1970s movie extra who has a crush a conspiracy to keep the victim’s tells the story of of love, depression, and developing on a secretly married superstar. When family silent. As her mind changes, so Africans who travel careers. Described by Trier as explor- Om witnesses her murder and then too does perspective, and the loss of to Guangzhou where ing the “poetic details of boy culture” dies in the fire trying to rescue her, he language introduces a new state of they buy goods to sell in Oslo. is reincarnated as a superstar in the consciousness. back in Africa. 2000s and seeks to avenge his love. Norwegian. 107 min. Korean. 139 min. English, Mandarin, Joachim Trier. 2006.* Hindi, Urdu. 196 min. Lee Chang-dong. 2010.* French. 66 min. Farah Khan. 2007. Christiane Badgley. 2016. international cinema presents fall 2018