September 12–14
VA, VIS ET DEVIENS/LIVE AND BECOME* — France/Israel/Belgium/Italy, 2005 (150 min.) Dir.: Radu Mihaileanu. With: Moshe Agazai, Yaël Abecassis, Rosdy Zem. The trials and tribulations of a young Ethiopian refugee who is passed off by his mother as a Jew so he can be saved from the famine that ravaged Ethiopia in the mid 1980’s by being repatriated to Israel.

October 17–19
THE UNBURIED MAN/A TEMETETLEN HALOTT* — Hungary/Slovakia/Poland, 2004 (110 min.) Dir.: Márta Mészáros. With: Jan Nowicky, György Cserhalmi, Marianna Moór. The biography of Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary in 1956 from the revolution to his execution by the communist regime in 1958. To be confirmed
ORGANIZED JOBS/ORGANIZE ISLER* — Turkey, 2005 (105 min.) Dir: Yilmaz Erdogan. With: Demet Akbag, Ebru Akel, Tolga Cevik. All jobs are organized and organization always works in Istanbul, the world’s wonder city, where “who is saving who?” and “who is being ripped off by whom?” is always uncertain.

November 14–16
TSOTSI* — U.K./South Africa, 2005 (94 min.) Dir.: Gavin Hood. With: Presley Chweneyagae, Mothusi Magano, Israel Makoe, Percy Matsemela. Set amidst the bustling townships of Johannesburg, Tsotsi is an extraordinary portrait of the choices we make in life and the personal triumph that comes from choosing love over rage. Best Foreign Film Oscar 2005.
THREE TIMES/ZUI HAO DE SHI GUANG* — Taiwan, 2006 (120 min.) Dir.: Hsiao-hsien Hou. With: Chen Chang, Qi Shu, Mei Di. Three love stories, each set in a different era—a 1966 pool hall, a 1911 brothel and present-day Taipei.

December 12–14
JOYEUX NOËL* — France /Germany/U.K. /Belgium /Romania, 2005 (116 min.) Dir.: Christian Carion. With: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet. This movie is inspired by a true story which occurred in the trenches of a World War I battlefield on Christmas Eve in 1914— soldiers come out of their trenches, leaving their rifles behind to shake hands with the enemy. Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Film 2005.
THE HOLY GUEST/USHPIZIN* — Israel, 2005 (90 min.) Dir.: Giddi Dar. With: Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand, Shaul Mizrahi. A revelatory and humorous look at the daily lives of ultra-orthodox Jews learning, living and loving in modern-day Israel.

January 9–11
C.R.A.Z.Y.* — Canada, 2005 (129 min.) Dir.: Jean-Marc Vallée. With Michel Coté, Danielle Proux, Marc-André Grondin. Voted the best movie from Quebec of all times, a touching chronicle of a family through the turmoils of the 50‘s through to the 80's in Quebec. The title is an acronym for the five boys whose adventures are chronicled, as well as the the classic country and western ballad by Patsy Cline.
THE SUN/SOLNTSE* — Russia/Italy/ France/Switzerland, 2005 (110 min.) Dir.: Aleksander Sokourov. With: Issey Ogata, Robert Dawson, Shiro Sano. On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan realizes that the war is lost. After meeting General Douglas McArthur, he renounces his divine status, and addresses his people, something no other emperor had ever done before.

February 6–8
GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK — U.S., 2005 (93 min.) Dir.: George Clooney. With: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr. Film chronicles that real-life conflict between esteemed television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy.
THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA* — U.S./France, 2005 (121 min.) Dir.: Tommy Lee Jones. With: Tommy Lee Jones, Barry Pepper, Julio Cedillo, Dwight Yoakam. Ranch hand Pete Perkins undertakes a quixotic journey in order to fulfill the promise to his recently deceased best friend to bury him in his hometown in Mexico.

March 6–8
WATER* — Canada/India, 2006 (117 min.) Dir.: Deepa Mehta. With: Lisa Ray, Seema Biswas, Kulbhushan Kharbanda. Set in 1938 colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi’s rise to power, the film examines the plight of a group of widows forced into poverty at a temple in the holy city of Varanasi.
HEAD-ON/GEGEN DIE WAND* — Germany/Turkey, 2005 (121 min.) Dir.: Fatih Akin. With: Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli, Catrin Striebeck. A marriage of convenience in Hamburg between two troubled Turks changes both their lives in this fine, gritty, contemporary love story.

March 27–29
VOLVER* — Spain, 2006 ( 121 min.) Dir.: Pedro Almodóvar. With: Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas. After her death, a mother returns to her home town in order to fix the situations she couldn’t resolve during her life.
PARADISE NOW* — France /Germany/Netherlands/Israel, 2005 (90 min.) Dir.: Hany Abu Assad. With: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal. The story of two young Palestinian men as they embark upon what may be the last 48 hours of their lives. Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Film 2005.

April 24–26
SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYS* — Germany, 2005 (120 min.) Dir.: Marc Rothemund. With: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs. A dramatic recreation of the interrogation and trial of the White Rose conspirators in Berlin in 1944. Oscar Nominee Best Foreign Film 2005.
MRS. HENDERSON PRESENTS — U.K., 2005 (103 min.) Dir.: Stephen Frears. With: Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young. During WWII, to compete with other London theatrical productions, a widow decides to employ nude performers to rave reviews.

* English subtitles / Sous-titres anglais

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