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JANUARY 10-11: ENCORE WEEKEND THE FAREWELL MOTHERS’ INSTINCT Billi (Awkwafina), a second This , set in a 1960s Bel- WINTER 2020 SERIES: generation Chinese-American gium suburb, channels Hitchcock INTERNATIONALwoman, learns that her beloved with its sudden turnsCINEMA and Anthropocene Cinem a grandmother only has a short twists. , best friends time to live—a secret that her and both mothers, find them- relatives plan to keep from the selves locked in a psychological Upstairs/Downstairs family matriarch. A Sundance hit, duel after the death of one of this poignant comedy- deals their sons turns their idyllic world Directed by Satoshi Kon with the complexities of identity in upside down. C the Chinese diaspora. Mandarin, English. 100 min. Lulu Wang. 2019. French. 97 min. Olivier Masset-Depasse. 2018.*

JANUARY 15-18 DOCUMENTARY

TEL AVIV ON FIRE BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (FIRST HALF) THE CORDILLERA OF DREAMS A fledgling writer for a popular Javed, a British-Pakistani teenager Widely considered one of the great- The last installment of acclaimed soap opera gains success by in 1987 England, finds inspiration est films of all time, this gangster filmmaker Patricio Guzmán’s collaborating with a brusque and hope in Bruce Springsteen’s saga focuses on the struggle of the poetic trilogy about his native Chile, army commander in this comedy music and lyrics along with an aging patriarch of the powerful Cor- meditates on the mountain chain set against the backdrop of the escape from racism, familial ex- leone mob family (Marlon Brando) making up the country’s spine. Israeli-Palestinian . The film pectations, and everyday life in an and his youngest son (Al Pacino) to The seeming timelessness of the finds unexpected humor in the irresistible blast of music and joy. maintain family bonds amidst the landscape enters into a dialogue with most precarious of situations while A hit at last year’s Sundance Film betrayal and violence of the criminal the nation’s tempestuous history in providing a timely reminder of the Festival. underworld of 1950s America. First this exploration of place, art, and importance of listening. half will run 90 minutes. belonging. Hebrew, Arabic. 100 min. Sameh Zoabi. 2018. English. 118 min. Gurinder Chadha. 2019. English, Italian. 175 min. . 1972.* Spanish. 84 min. Patricio Guzmán. 2019. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA JANUARY 22-25

PHOTOGRAPH EVERYBODY KNOWS THE GODFATHER (SECOND HALF) ANTHROPOCENE: THE HUMAN EPOCH Street photographer, Rafi, Starring in their ninth film together, Widely considered one of the great- An exploration of humanity’s convinces a shy stranger, Miloni, and Penelope Cruz est films of all time, this gangster massive reengineering of the to pose as his girlfriend so as to former lovers facing a shock- saga focuses on the struggle of the planet, this documentary—four convince his lovable but persistent ing event on the heels of her sister’s aging patriarch of the powerful Cor- years in the making and based on grandmother that he is engaged. wedding. Set in Spain’s sun-baked leone mob family (Marlon Brando) the photography of Edward Mumbai is featured as a wine country, the film displays and his youngest son (Al Pacino) to Burtynsky—traverses the globe to itself in this the well-known gift for human maintain family bonds amidst the create a provocative and unforget- about chance encounters and love observation of its Oscar-winning betrayal and violence of the criminal table experience of our species’ across boundaries by the director director, Farhadi (, The underworld of 1950s America. Sec- breadth and impact on the planet. of The Lunchbox. Salesman). ond half will run 87 minutes. Hindi. 110 min. Ritesh Batra. 2019. Spanish. 133 min. . 2018.* English, Italian. 175 min. Francis Ford Coppola. 1972.* Multiple languages. 87 min. Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky, & Nicholas de Pencier. 2019. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA JANUARY 29-FEBRUARY 01 THE BAKER’S WIFE IN THE AISLES WAR & PEACE: ANDREI BOLKONSKY EL RÍO The warmth and wit of Pagnol In this engaging and richly human In the 1960s, Soviet film set out to Galeano takes an anthropological shine in this slice-of-life comedy set story, Christian, newly hired at a prove it could outdo Hollywood with approach to understanding the in his native Provençal countryside. wholesale market, discovers the a production that would dazzle the Amazon river by allowing those Droll and perceptive, the film uses magic of his night shifts where world: a titanic, awe-inspiring who live closest to the river to an understated but judged visual forklifts dance to canned music and adaptation of ’s speak. El Río gives credence style in this portrait of a close-knit a candy worker inspires hope. The classic novel. Innovative and epic, to the importance of ecological village where the marital woes of a absurdities of working in a big box conjures a sweeping knowledge and belief systems for baker and his wife snowball into a store are on display in this quiet vision that overwhelms with its the entangled natural and human scandal engulfing the town. comedy-drama about everyday life. expressionistic power. New digital histories of Amazonia. Filmmaker restoration. Q&A, 30 Jan. French. 134 min. Marcel Pagnol. 1938. German. 125 min. Thomas Stuber. 2018. Russian. 147 min. . 1966. Spanish. 58 min. Juan Galeano. 2019. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA FEBRUARY 05-08 STILL LIFE JINPA WAR & PEACE: NATASHA ROSTOVA OF FATHERS AND SONS Winner of the top prize at Venice, On an isolated road passing Natasha, a young girl, attends her Under false pretenses, documentary Still Life is a lyrical pre-apocalyptic through the vast barren plains of first ball and falls in love with a filmmaker Derki gains the trust of vision of Fengjie, China as it is Tibet, a truck driver chances upon handsome military leader, Andrei the Osamas, a radical Islamist family about to be overtaken by the lake a young man hitching a ride. Little Bolkonsky. Her tragic love story living on the frontline of the Syrian created by the Three Gorges super- does he realize that their short time shows the opulence of the Civil War. With intimate dam. come to together will change everything, Russian aristocracy of the access to the family’s daily life, find their estranged spouses and and that their destinies are inexo- nineteenth century as well as a Derki gives a face to Jihadi radical- become witnesses to the radical rably intertwined in this film that is fascinating look at the Russian ism through a chilling depiction of a transformations of the Anthropo- both a and a . countryside. father preparing his young sons for a cene. life of violence. Mandarin. 111 min. Zhangke Jia. 2006.* Tibetan. 86 min. Pema Tseden. 2018.* Russian. 98 min. Sergei Bondarchuk. 1966. Arabic. 99 min. Talal Derki. 2017. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA FEBRUARY 12-15 BROKEN HILL BLUES WAR & PEACE: 1812 BANKSY DOES Jojo, whose imaginary friend is Norlin’s visual poetry follows A truly massive depiction of October 2013, the anonymous Adolf Hiter (played by Waititi), must a group of teenagers about to Napoleon’s 1812 invasion of street artist Banksy secretly decide whether to reveal a Jewish become adults in a small town in the , this ambitious depiction installed a new work of art each day teenager hiding in his attic. What far North of Sweden. As the earth of war puts Hollywood films of the at locations around , appears at first to be an irreverant around them shakes and rattles from same era to shame with its providing clues of their whereabouts comedy about Nazi youth, turns out the mine underneath it, we are con- extensive use of extras only on , while keeping a step to be a tale of compassion, fronted with the vulnerability of these possible in a state-sponsored ahead of police. Documenting this forgiveness, and understanding. restless characters as they dream of production. A must see on the big month-long scavenger hunt, the change and dig for a better future. screen. film addresses the social role of public art. English. 108 min. . 2019.* Swedish. 80 min. Sofia Norlin. 2013.* Russian. 82 min. Sergei Bondarchuk. 1966.* English. 79 min. Chris Moukarbel. 2014.*

FEBRUARY 19-22 THE WAVE MILLENNIUM ACTRESS WAR & PEACE: PIERRE BEZUKHOV AND THEN THEY CAME FOR US No one believes geologist Kristian In this classic, a filmmaker Napoleon’s advance through This account of the persecution Elkjord’s feeling that something is sets out to interview the reclusive Russia continues, and is and forced incarceration of 120,000 wrong with the mountain overlook- actress Chiyoko Fujiwara about in flames. The destruction is epic Japanese-Americans during WWII ing his scenic town, especially with her illustrious career. What follows as is the fall of Napoleon’s Grande uses photos by Dorothea Lange to tourist season at its peak. But when is a bending, breathtaking Armée. Bondarchuk’s adaptation show the human experience of a landslide sends rock and earth journey across stories within captures the scale of the drama racism and injustice drawing crashing into the sea, everyone has stories highlighting the mastery of without losing sight of the impact of parallels with America’s current ten minutes to outrace the resulting director/animator Satoshi Kon. New war on individuals trying to come to immigration crisis. tsunami in this action spectacular. restoration. grips with their place in the universe.

Norwegian. 105 min. Roar Uthaug. 2015.* Japanese. 87 min. Satoshi Kon. 2001. Russian. 97 min. Sergei Bondarchuk. 1966. Japanese, English. 40 min. Abby Ginzberg. 2017. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA DIRECTED BY SATOSHI KON

*Some content is customized. All films shown adhere to BYU visual media guidelines. Pictured: Sullivan’s Travels, 1942, d. Preston Sturges FEBRUARY 26-29 ÁGA ARCTIC THE GOLD RUSH GENESIS 2.0 Alone in an austere yet astonishing A man stranded in the Arctic after ’s comedic master- On the remote New Siberian Islands Siberian landscape where snow a plane crash must decide whether work—which charts a prospector’s in the Arctic Ocean, hunters search fields are as wide as the sea, to remain in the relative safety of search for fortune in the Klond- for extinct mammoth tusks. One Nanook and Sedna live following his makeshift camp or to embark on ike—cemented the iconic status day, they discover a surprisingly their ancestors’ traditions. Their a deadly trek through the unknown of Chaplin and his Little Tramp well-preserved mammoth carcass lifestyle is in peril, however, when a wilderness in hopes of making it out character. IC will screen Chaplin’s and it piques the interest of scientists mysterious plague kills the animals, alive. A Robinsonade starring the definitive 1942 version, for which he attempting to clone and resurrect the the ice continues to melt, and their incomparable Mads Mikkelsen. added music and narration and re- extinct animal. Their work may well past begins to haunt them anew. stored the original 1925 . turn our world upside down.

Yakut. 96 min. Milko Lazarov. 2018. Danish, English. 98 min. Joe Penna. 2018. Silent, English. 95 min. Charlie Chaplin. 1925 (1942). Russian, Korean, English, Yakut. 112 ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA min. Christian Frei & Maxim Arbugaev. 2018.* ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA MARCH 04-07 HARD LABOR THE CHAMBERMAID PARASITE MAIDEN As Helena starts a new business A young maid working in a luxurious This Palme d’Or winning social Maiden recounts the striking sailing in São Paulo, her husband is let go Mexico City hotel spends long days thriller has taken the cinema world adventure of the first all-women from his job and must try desperately performing dehumanizing tasks while by storm with its representation of crew to compete in the Whitbread to adapt to the demands of a new yearning to create a better life. In her the social strata in South Korean Round-the-World Race in 1989 economy. The family’s maid is her- debut fiction feature, director Avilés society. The Kim family infiltrates led by Tracy Edwards. What these self, in turn, exploited in this genre reveals a world hidden in broad the wealthy Parks’ home by sys- women achieved is inspiring even bending horror-drama about the daylight pertaining to those whose tematically taking each household more so considering the virulent sinister side of work in the 21st century struggles make possible job until their ruse erupts into sexism they faced in addition to the and decay of the social contract. other existences of comfort and ease. shocking violence along class lines. ocean’s tempestuous weather.

Portuguese. 99 min. Marco Dutra & Juliana Rojas. 2011. Spanish. 102 min. Lila Avilés. 2018.* Korean. 132 min. Joon-ho Bong. 2019.* English. 97 min. Alex Holmes. 2018. UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS UPSTAIRS/DOWNSTAIRS MARCH 11-14 WOMAN AT WAR SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? THE TWO FACES OF A BAMILÉKÉ WOMAN In this heart-felt comedy, a Is it a crime-comedy about the Halla is a fifty-year-old, independent Rosine Mbakam returns to her Hollywood director of comedies depression-era South? An adapta woman. But behind the scenes of - native Cameroon to turn the decides to make O Brother, Where tion of Homer’s unadaptable The quiet routine, she leads a double camera on her own mother. This Art Thou?, a serious, socially respon Odyssey? An ode to the comedic life as a passionate, environmental, - sharply observed, nuanced and sible film about human suffering. genius of Sullivan’s Travels? Difficult guerrilla activist. Drawing on Ice- powerful documentary captures the After his producers point out that he to classify and even more difficult land’s stark beauty, unique magical relationship between a daughter, knows nothing of hardship, he hits not to quote, Joel and Ethan Coen’s realist tradition, and a penchant for her mother, and the community of the road disguised as a and film is a comedy unlike any other. understated humor, Woman at War women around them while subtly more trouble than he ever dreamed Featuring along with is both poignant and touching. expressing the disorientation of of ensues. an all-star cast. emigration. Icelandic. 101 min. Benedikt Erlingsson. 2018.* English. 90 min. Preston Sturges. 1941. English. 107 min. Joel & Ethan Coen. 2000.* French, Bamiléké. 76 min. Rosine Mfetgo Mbakam. 2018. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA MARCH 18-21 SOFIA MORGEN ONE CHILD NATION Sofia is about to give birth out of A mild-mannered supermarket Comencini’s charming romantic China’s One Child Policy, the wedlock, a crime in Casablanca, employee hides an undocumented comedy has been described as population control measure that and must provide the father’s Turkish immigrant in his farmhouse, Roman Holiday meeting Before made it illegal for couples to have identity within 24 hours or risk much to the annoyance of his wife, in Sunrise. Gina and Marco meet each more than one child, ended in going to jail. Her family’s search for this gentle comedy set on the Roma- other on their first days of work, 2015, but the process of dealing the father unfolds in this realistic nian-Hungarian border. A winner at but nothing goes as planned. With with it is only just beginning. The drama about the effects of class the Locarno Film Festival, the film is as the backdrop, they are film explores the ripple effect of division, sexism, and bureaucracy a call for kindness and understanding about to find out that their future is this devastating social experiment, in Morrocan society. during today’s border crises. not what they expected. uncovering one shocking human rights violation after another. Arabic, French. 80 min. Meryem Benm’Barek-Aloïsi. 2018.* Romanian. 100 min. Marian Crisan & Anca Puiu. 2010.* Italian. 89 min. Francesca Comencini. 2012.* Mandarin. 88 min. Nanfu Wang & Jialing Zhang. 2019.*

MARCH 25-28 VARDA BY AGNÈS THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED BE NATURAL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF ALICE GUY BLACHÉ An unpredictable film from a Elegant socialites enjoy a lavish The oldest surviving feature-length Alice Guy-Blaché was a pioneer in fascinating figure, Agnès Varda’s banquet in an urban mansion, only animated film,Prince Achmed the early movie business, but she new feature documentary—her last to find themselves trapped inside creatively adapts stories from One has been largely forgotten. This before her death in 2019—sheds when it is time to leave. Recently Thousand and One Nights using a energetic doc is a detective story, light on her experience as a made into a highly-acclaimed opera silhouette technique devel- exploring why this artist faded from filmmaker, bringing a personal by the noted composer Thomas oped by Reininger now memory and the path toward her insight to her decades of work Adès, Buñuel’s surrealist master- beautifully preserved in this reclamation. Shown with shorts by as a director and what she calls piece skewers the politics and restoration of the original colors in this Guy-Blaché and fellow trailblazing “cine-writing.” pretenses of the upper class in ways abstract and vivid pioneering work. director Olga Preobrazhenskaya. that still resonate today. French. 115 min. Agnès Varda. 2019. Spanish. 95 min. Luis Buñuel. 1962.* G e rm a n .8 1 m ni .L o t e R e ni gi e r & C a rl K o c h .1 9 2 6 . English. 103 min. Pamela B. Green. 2019.

APRIL 01-04 HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE SHADOW RAMEN HEADS Growing up is tough, especially When a color-obsessed, Director Shigeno takes us deep when you are a “bad egg” foster filmmaker decides to make a into the world of the award-win- kid like Ricky Baker. Just as he fi- black-and-white film, the ning Tomita Ramen, a small Tokyo nally finds a home, he and his brusk result is familiar yet new. The film noodle shop that has become uncle Hector are forced to the skux may appear to be in black-and- an international food destination. life on the run in the bush. They white but color continually slips Tracking the obsessive approach will have to learn to rely on each through just as their swords cleave of its chef, Osamu Tomita, and the other or Ricky will go back to juvie a tale of warring states into images religious devotion of his fans, the and Hector to jail in this majestical of games like go and chess. film portrays the way a simple dish comedy by Taika Waititi. becomes a work of art. C English. 101 min. Taika Waititi. 2016. Mandarin. 116 min. Yimou Zhang. 2019.* Japanese. 93 min. Koki Shigeno. 2018. ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA APRIL 08-11 TOO LATE TO DIE YOUNG FUNAN TOKYO GODFATHERS HONEYLAND Sotomayor’s haunting third feature In 1975 Cambodia, Chou, leads On Christmas Eve, three quirky Honeyland presents a glimpse of a is a poetic exercise of memory and an enchanted life until the Khmer homeless people find an abandoned disappearing way of life in this tough understanding. Shortly after the fall Rouge madness plunges her newborn in a dumpster and search and tender portrait of the resilient of the Pinochet regime, 16-year-old country into horror. Funan is the through a Tokyo night to find its Hatidze Muratova, the last in a long Sofía seeks an escape from the beautifully animated and incredibly parents. Anime legend Satoshi line of wild beekeepers in a remote commune formed by her father and powerful story of a young mother’s Kon’s caper-comedy is another in region of Macedonia struggling to other idealists at the foot of the fight to save her son and keep her a line of Japanese films, such as maintain the delicate balance be- Andes. Sotomayor is the first woman family together in a barbaric time. last semester’s Shoplifters, that ask tween humankind and nature. ever to win best director at Locarno. “what makes a family?” Awarded the top doc prize at Sundance.

Spanish. 110 min. Dominga Sotomayor Castillo. 2018.* French. 84 min. Denis Do. 2018. Japanese. 92 min. Satoshi Kon. 92 min.* Macedonian, Turkish, Bosnian. 90 DIRECTED BY SATOSHI KON min. Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov. 2019.* ANTHROPOCENE CINEMA

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