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VICTORIA - Screening November 26 (Thanksgiving Day) thru December 3.
Shot in one single two-hour-and-eighteen-minute take with no cuts, no CGI, and no cheap tricks. Victoria, a young woman from Madrid, meets four local Berliners outside a nightclub. Sonne and his friends promise to show her a good time and the real side of the city. But these lads have gotten themselves into hot water: they owe someone a dangerous favor that requires repaying that evening. As Victoria’s flirtation with Sonne deepens into something more, he convinces her to come along for the ride. And later, when things become more ominous and possibly lethally dangerous for Sonne, she insists on coming along. As the night takes on an ever more menacing character, what started out as a good time quickly spirals out of control. As dawn approaches, Victoria and Sonne address the inevitable: it’s all or nothing and they abandon themselves to a heart-stopping race into the depths of hell.
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MEDITERRANEA - Screening December 4 thru December 10.
This remarkably timely, eye-opening film charts the death-defying struggle of African migrants as they risk everything to start a new life in Europe. Ayiva (first time actor Koudous Seihon in a revelatory performance) and Abas (Alassane Sy) are close friends from Burkina Faso determined to make it to Italy in order to find work and provide for their families back home. But even after surviving the harrowing journey - desert bandits, a treacherous sea voyage, arrest - nothing can prepare the two men for the hostility and violence that awaits them. A gripping tale of survival told with vivid realism, Mediterranea immerses viewers in the heart of a humanitarian crisis that for far too many is a lived reality.
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THE GIRL KING - Screening December 4 thru December 10.
This lush English-language period drama recounts the life of Sweden’s Queen Kristina, an enigmatic, flamboyant, and unpredictable woman centuries ahead of her time who ascended the throne at age six, was raised as a prince, and strived to bring peace and education to her country—while pursuing an illicit romance with her female royal attendant. Growing up as a tomboy with a strong intellectual appetite, young Kristina (an electric Malin Buska) finds herself thrown into a political frenzy as a teenager. Saddled with the Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics, Kristina steers her country away from the conservatives while privately grappling with her own sexual awakening, in the form of Countess Ebba Sparre (the radiant Sarah Gadon), her lovely lady-in-waiting. Her quest to understand love runs parallel with her quest to understand humanity and the violent and restrictive forces conspiring against her. Torn between the conflict of political and personal aspirations, Kristina chooses to make one of the most controversial decisions in history.
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NOW SHOWING & COMING SOON to the Film Society’s St. Anthony Main Theatre
Now Showing through November 25 - CINE LATINO (program: Cine Global)
November 23 at 7PM + November 29 at 1PM - NT LIVE: CORIOLANUS (program: Stage to Screen, National Theatre Live)
Nov 28 at 1PM (SOLD OUT) + Dec 3 at 7PM + Dec 14 at 7PM + Dec 26 at 1PM + Dec 27 at 1PM - NT LIVE: HAMLET (program: Stage on Screen, National Theatre Live)
November 26 - December 3 - VICTORIA (program: New Releases)
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 at 5:23PM
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