September 24–27
THE DANISH POET/DEN DANSKE DIKTEREN — Canada/Norway, 2006 (15 min.) Dir.: Torill Kove. Narrator: Liv Ullmann. Danish poet has star-crossed romance with a farmer’s daughter he meets while en route to Nobel Prize-winning writer Sigrid Unset. 2007 Oscar Winner, Animated Short.
THE LIVES OF OTHERS/DAS LEBEN DER ANDEREN* — Germany, 2006 (137 min.) Dir.: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. With: Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch, Ulrich Muhe, Ulrich Tukur. An actress and her dramatist partner, intellectual stars in the former East Germany, are spied on by secret police under orders from the Ministry of Culture. 2007 Oscar Winner, Foreign Film.

October 15–18
AWAY FROM HER — Canada, 2006 (109 min.) Dir.: Sarah Polley. With: Julie Christie, Michael Murphy, Gordon Pinsent. A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer’s disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER/MAN CHENG JIN DAI HUANG JIN JIA* — Hong Kong/China, 2007 (114 min.) Dir.: Zhang Yimou. With: Chow Yun-Fat, Gong Li, Liu Ye, Chen Jin. Set in 10th century China, the film portrays the imperial Chinese family rapidly losing internal strength due to a power struggle between the emperor, the empress, and the couple’s three sons.

November 12–15
WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY* — Germany/Italy/ Spain/France/Ireland/U.K., 2007 (127 min.) Dir.: Ken Loach. With: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham. A sympathetic look at Republicans in early 20th century Ireland, and two brothers who are torn apart by anti-British rebellion. Golden Palm, 2006 Cannes Film Festival; 2007 Oscar Nominee, Foreign Film.
NOTES ON A SCANDAL — U.K., 2007 (91 min.) Dir.: Richard Eyre. With: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy. This psychological thriller portrays two women caught up in a drama of need and betrayal as a result of a pottery teacher entering into an affair with one of her students.

December 10–13
AFTER THE WEDDING/EFTER BRYLLUPPET* — Denmark/ Sweden, 2007 (120 min.) Dir.: Susanne Bier. With: Mads Mikkelsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Rolf Lassgård. A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret. 2007 Oscar Nominee, Foreign Film.
THE HOUSE OF SAND/CASA DE AREIA* — Brazil, 2006 (103 min.) Dir.: Andrucha Waddington. With: Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra. A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

January 7–10
THE QUEEN — U.K./France/Italy, 2006 (97 min.) Dir.: Stephen Frears. With: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell. Intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public’s demand for an overt display of mourning. 2007 Oscar Winner, Actress in a Leading Role.
CHILDREN OF MEN* — U.K./U.S., 2006 (109 min.) Dir.: Alfonso Cuarón. With: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine. In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child’s birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

February 4–7
PAN’S LABYRINTH/EL LIBERINTO DEL FAUNO* — Mexico/ Spain/U.S., 2006 (119 min.) Dir.: Guillermo del Toro. With: Ivana Baquero, Sergi López, Maribel Verdú. A gothic fairy tale set against the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain where a bookish young stepdaughter of a sadistic army officer escapes into an eerie but captivating fantasy world. 2007 Oscar Nominee, Foreign Film.
ROAD TO GUANTANAMO* — U.K., 2006 (95 min.) Dir.: Michael Winterbottom. With: Riz Ahmed, Farhad Harun, Waqar Siddiqui. Part documentary, part dramatization, this film is the terrifying first-hand account of the Tipton Three, a trio of British Muslims who were held in Guantanamo Bay for two years until they were released without charge.

March 3–6
PERFUME–THE STORY OF A MURDERER — Germany/ France/Spain, 2006 (147 min.) Dir.: Tom Tykwer. With: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman. Set in 18th century Paris, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born with a superior olfactory sense, creates the world’s finest perfume. His work, however, takes a dark turn as he searches for the ultimate scent.
VENUS — U.K., 2006 (95 min.) Dir.: Roger Michell. With: Peter O’Toole, Leslie Phillips, Jodie Whittaker, Vanessa Redgrave. An aging English actor finds his life changed by the arrival of a friend’s precocious grandniece.

March 31–April 3
RED ROAD* — U.K./Denmark, 2007 (113 min.) Dir.: Andrea Arnold. With: Kate Dickie, Tony Curran, Martin Compston. Employed by the Glasgow police, a young woman watches a bank of TV monitors focused on the city’s crime-ridden areas then one day sees a man on her monitor whom she never wanted to see again but now is compelled to confront him.
THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND — U.K. /Germany, 2006 (121 min.) Dir.: Kevin MacDonald. With: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington. Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s. 2007 Oscar Winner, Actor in a Leading Role.

April 28–May 1
BLACK BOOK* — Netherlands/Belgium/U.K./Germany, 2006 (145 min.) Dir.: Paul Verhoeven. With: Carice van Houten, Sebastian Koch, Thom Hoffman. Set in Holland during World War II, this is the story of a Jewish singer who joins the resistance against the Nazis.

* English subtitles / Sous-titres anglais

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