Spring 2013 Film Movement Film Series

2013 Spring Film Movement Film Series

 

 

          Looking for a fun, free, laidback way to spend a Thursday evening? Join Media and Reserve Services in room 043 (bottom floor of the Herman B Wells Library) for a bi-monthly movie break throughout the semester. We will be showing 6 award-winning films from around the globe. These unique films have all won major awards at various international film festivals, and we are bringing them right to your front door. We hope you will join us as we showcase films from Israel, Uruguay, Czech Republic, France, United States, and Turkey.

 

          So take a break, bring a snack, and enjoy the latest film series from Media and Reserve Services! Read on for descriptions of the films and a schedule.  Be sure to check out the film posters displayed at the entrance of Media & Reserve Services on the bottom floor of the Wells Library. All films are free and open to the entire IU community. 

 

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FEBRUARY:

 

SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN  (98min., ISRAEL)

Director:  Omri Givon

February 14  5:30-7:30pm

Winner:  Best Debut Feature, Warsaw Film Festival

 

Galia, a young woman from Jerusalem, and her boyfriend Oren board a local bus.  The bus explodes, leaving Oren in a coma and Galia with severe burns and memory loss; she has no recollection of the day of the terrorist attack and the days leading up to it.  The film begins one year after the attack,  upon Oren's Death.  As Galia undergoes physical and mental therapy, she attempts to stitch together the shattered fragments of her life and soul.  A necklace sent o her from an unidentified source sets her off on a journey to find the missing pieces of the puzzle from that fatal day.

 

 

 

BAD DAY TO GO FISHING (107min., URUGUAY)

Director:  Alvaro Brechner

February 28 5:45-7:45pm

Winner:  Best Film, Los Angeles Latino Film Festival

Jacob van Oppen - formerly "the strongest man on earth," now a washed-up alcoholic and his crafty manager, Orsini, make good money staging bogus wrestling matches in small South American towns.  When this oddball duo arrives in the unassuming village of Santa Maria, business really takes off. The local newspaper sponsors the fight, and the quiet hamlet becomes plastered with posters announcing an open challenge to a worthy adversary.  The ever-resourceful Orsini is sure he can find the right opponent to throw the fight, but fishing in Santa Maria yields a bigger catch than he'd hoped for.

 

 

 

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MARCH:

 

PROTEKTOR (102min., CZECH REPUBLIC)

Director:  Marek Najbrt

March 7, 5:30-7:30pm

Winner: Best Film, Denver Film Festival

1938, Prague. Emil, a radio reporter, is married to the beautiful Hana, an actress whose new film has catapulted her into fame.  As the Nazis come to power, however, Hana's Jewish heritage precipitates her fall from stardom to the bottom of the social ladder.  In order to protect her, Emil compromises himself collaborating with the new Nazi-controlled state radio station.  But as Emil starts enjoying the attention and respect that had previously evaded him, his fidelity and loyalty towards his wife begin to falter.  The assassination of the Third Reich Deputy Protector and a chance encounter on a bicycle bring their lingering marriage to a crisis, possibly sealing Hana's fate.

 

 

 

FREE MEN  (99min., FRANCE)

Director:  Ismael Ferroukhi

March 21, 5:30-7:30pm

Official Selection:  Toronto International Film Festival, Abu Dhabi Film Festival

In German-occupied Paris, a young unemployed Algerian named Younes (played by break-out star, Tahar Rahim) earns his living as a black marketeer.  Arrested by the French police but given a chance to avoid jail, Younes agrees to spy on the Paris Mosque.  The police suspect the Mosque authorities, including its rector Ben Ghabrit, of aiding Muslim Resistance agents and helping North African Jews by giving them false certificates.  At the Mosque, Younes meets the Algerian singer Salim Halali, and is moved by Salims's beautiful voice and strong personality.  When Younes discovers that Salim is Jewish, he stops collaborating with the police and gradually transforms from a politically ignorant immigrant into a fully-fledged freedom fighter.

 

           

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APRIL:

 

 

PRAIRIE LOVE (81min., UNITED STATES)

Director:  Dusty Bias

April 18, 5:30-7:30pm

Winner: Emerging Artist Award, Santa Cruz International Film Festival

 

As a mysterious high plains drifter travels across the wintry North Dakota prairie, he finds a man lying unconscious in the middle of the road and stops to lend a hand.  After defrosting, the man explains that he's on his way to meet his pen-pal girlfriend for the first time, as she's being released from prison.  Desperate for a girlfriend of his own, the drifter sees this as an opportunity to change his lonely existence, and hatches a plan to steal his new companion's identity, forever changing the destinies of all three people.

 

 

 

BEFORE YOUR EYES (102min., TURKEY)

Director:  Miraz Bezar

April 25, 5:30-7:30pm

Winner: Best Director, Best Actress, Best Music, Istanbul International Film Festival

Ten year old Gulistan and her brother Firat live in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan.  Tragedy strikes when their parents are shot down by paramilitary gunmen before their very eyes.  Traumatized and orphaned, Gulistan and Firat try to care for their infant sister, but their money soon runs out and they're forced onto the street.  It is there that Gulistan meets the part-time escort Dilara.  Accompanying her on a hotel call one day, Gulistan is shocked to recognize Dilara's client as the murderer of her parents, and she devises a method of revenge.

 

       

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