Cordillera of Dreams
Cordillera of Dreams
Philadelphia, PA
Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival, master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's The Cordillera of Dreams completes his trilogy (with Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button) investigating the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his ...
Thursday, April 2 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Made in Hong Kong
Made in Hong Kong
Philadelphia, PA
The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The result is a tough, pessimistic ...
Wednesday, April 1 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Aferim!
Aferim!
Philadelphia, PA
Jude’s international breakthrough is a picaresque odyssey through 19th-century Romania, which tackles one of the most shameful episodes in the country’s history: the enslavement of the Roma people. As a bounty hunter and his son scour the mountains for a fugitive slave, they are thrown into a ser...
Friday, March 27 2020
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Crulic - The Path to Beyond
Crulic - The Path to Beyond
Philadelphia, PA
This chilling documentary is “narrated” by Claudiu Crulic, a young Romanian in Poland who was arrested for a crime he didn’t commit, only to become a pawn in a Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice that resulted in his death from a hunger strike. Combining innovative hand-drawn, cutout, and collage a...
Thursday, March 26 2020
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
12:08 East of Bucharest
12:08 East of Bucharest
Philadelphia, PA
Winner of the 2006 Camera D’Or prize, this sociopolitical satire focuses on a group of characters who commemorate the 16th anniversary of Ceaușescu’s fall on December 22, 2005. “12:08” refers to the exact time of day in which Ceaușescu fled, whereas the original Romanian title roughly translates ...
Saturday, March 21 2020
8:00 PM
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9:30 PM
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
The Death of Mr Lazarescu
Philadelphia, PA
The film that for many people signaled the emergence of the new Romanian cinema, Cristi Puiu’s second feature was the revelation of Cannes 2005, where it took top prize in the Un Certain Regard section. A sardonic, darkly humorous, compulsively vibrant feature, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu seems so...
Saturday, March 21 2020
3:00 PM
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6:00 PM
Snail's Senator
Snail's Senator
Philadelphia, PA
Senator Vîrtosu (Dorel Vișan) spends the weekend at a guesthouse formerly owned by the Communist Party, where in true Communist tradition, he’s presented with gifts from its employees and petitions from the local villagers. But his relaxing weekend is disrupted by a crew of Swiss journalists film...
Friday, March 20 2020
7:00 PM
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The Oak (4K Restoration)
The Oak (4K Restoration)
Philadelphia, PA
The Oak is an absorbing, complicated black comedy about Romania at the end of the Ceauşescu regime. A young schoolteacher named Nela embarks on a spiritual journey after the death of her father, a former government official, whose ashes she takes to toting in a coffee jar. On her wanderings throu...
Friday, March 13 2020
7:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Videograms of a Revolution
Videograms of a Revolution
Philadelphia, PA
For Videograms of a Revolution Andrei Ujică and Harun Farocki collected amateur video and material broadcast by Romanian state television after it was taken over by demonstrators in December 1989. The audio and video represent the historic firsteverrevolution in which television played a major ro...
Thursday, March 12 2020
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Punk the Capital
Punk the Capital
Philadelphia, PA
When punk invaded our nation's capital in the mid-late 1970's, it was a culture clash – a collision between the music of anarchy and a city known for its conservatism. It was a recipe for potential disaster – but it resulted in a powerful cultural movement that flamed, ruled, and burned out all i...
Friday, February 28 2020
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