Our Struggles

Belgium • 2018 • 98 minutes

Director: Guillaume Senez

WORLD CINEMA NOW

Olivier’s life is turned upside down when his wife Laura leaves him and their children seemingly out of the blue. Guillaume Senez’s second feature paints a sensitive portrait of a family in crisis learning to care for each other.

Saturday, January 12 • 5:30 pm • Camelot

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Sibel

Turkey • 2018 • 95 minutes           

Directors: Çagla Zencirci, Guillaume Giovanetti

WORLD CINEMA NOW

Sibel, a mute, is considered bad luck by the superstitious villagers who have made her an outsider. She only communicates with her father, using a whistled language practiced by few. Determined to kill a wolf that’s been hunting around the village, she spends a lot of time in the woods setting traps. There she encounters a young fugitive whose arrival will trigger new feelings within her.      

Sat, January 12 • 9:30 am • Regal

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L'Animale

    

Austria • 2018 • 100 minutes

Director: Katharina Mueckstein

QUEER CINEMA TODAY

A tomboy teen’s status among her gang of motocross-riding guy friends becomes threatened when gender dynamics shift and loyalties conflict. Sophie Stockinger delivers a superbly sullen and taut performance in a coming-of-age story bursting with youthful energy, angst and electronica.

Sat, January 12 • 11:30 am • Camelot

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Leto

    

Russia • 2018 • 126 minutes

Director: Kirill Serebrennikov

WORLD CINEMA NOW

Capturing the paranoia and parties that fueled the underground music scene behind the Iron Curtain of 1980s Leningrad, Leto is a kinetic punk rock ode to the early years of famed songwriter Viktor Tsoi and a love triangle that could usurp a musical revolution.

Sat, January 12 • 7:00 pm • Annenberg

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Long Day's Journey Into Night

China • 2018 • 140 minutes

Director: Bi Gan

WORLD CINEMA NOW

In the year’s most stunning cinematic achievement, a man returns to the rain-soaked streets of his hometown searching for a mysterious woman and traces of his bloody past before he is lost in a mesmerizing dream, captured in one, breathtaking 3D take.

Sat, January 12 • 10:00 am • Mary Pickford

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Shadow

    

China • 2018 • 116 minutes

Director: Zhang Yimou

MODERN MASTERS

To deceive the royal court, a wounded commander trains a doppelgänger to serve in his stead in this bravura martial arts epic of the Three Kingdoms period directed by legendary Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yimou.

Sat, January 12 • 1:15 pm • PS High School

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Shéhérazade

    

France • 2018 • 106 minutes

Director: Jean-Bernard Marlin

FOCUS ON FRANCE

U.S. Premiere

In this exhilarating, darkly luminous film, Shéhérazade and Zachary meet and quickly fall in love on the tough streets of Marseille. But their relationship is complicated by the fact that Zach is trying to get his life on track after a stint in juvenile detention and Shéhérazade is a teenage prostitute.

Sat, January 12 • 4:30 pm • Mary Pickford

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Saf

Turkey • 2018 • 102 minutes

Director: Ali Vatansever

WORLD CINEMA NOW

U.S. Premiere

In Turkey’s competitive workforce, jobs are spread thin, and Kamil has been unemployed for some time. When the opportunity for work finally arrives, it’s in the form of a lower-paid job that displaces a Syrian refugee. Kamil takes the job in secret, working nights, but his problems worsen when he needs to pay for the necessary permits to operate the machinery used or risk losing his job.

Sat, January 12 • 3:30 pm • Regal

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Shirkers

    

USA • 2018 • 96 minutes

Director: Sandi Tan

TRUE STORIES



In 1992 in Singapore, cinema obsessed teen Sandi Tan was making an independent guerrilla film called Shirkers, until her collaborator disappeared with all the footage. Twenty years later, director Sandi Tan goes looking for the film in this powerful personal portrait.

Sat, January 12 • 2:30 pm • Camelot

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