Independent Films from the Film Movement Series

2008

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Note: Independent films shown in the InfoZone
are typically not rated and are intended
for mature audiences over the age of 17.

Remember! All movies and events in the InfoZone are FREE!

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The Way I Spent
the End of the World

Saturday, May 17, 7 p.m.

Drama – Romania; English subtitles
Directed by Catalin Mitulescu
Executive Produced by Martin Scorsese and Wim Wenders

      Bucharest 1989 – Last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. Eva is expelled and transferred to a reformatory. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva’s decision to leave. So, with his school mates, he devises a plan to kill the dictator.

 

 

A Peck on the Cheek

Saturday, June 21, 7 p.m.

Drama-Comedy – India; English subtitles
Directed by Mani Ratnam

      Amudha, adopted by Thiru and Indira and growing up with the couple’s two sons, is blissfully unaware of her parentage, until the couple decides to inform her of it on her ninth birthday. At first shocked into disbelief, Amudha then expresses her determination to seek out for her biological mother. The search takes the family to strife-torn Sri Lanka, where Amudha comes face-to-face with reality, and reconciles herself to it.

 

 

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