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September 18-20
A SEPARATION* Iran, 2011 (drama, 123 min.) Dir: Asqhar Farhadi. With: Peyman Moadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat. A married couple are faced with a difficult decision—to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease. Best Foreign Film Oscar 2012.

CARNAGE France/Germany/Poland/Spain, 2011 (comedy, 80 min.) Dir: Roman Polanski. With: Jody Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly. Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behaviour throws the evening into chaos.

October 16-18
MONSIEUR LAZHAR* Canada, 2011 (drama, 94 min.) Dir: Philippe Falardeau. With: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron. At a Montréal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed. Best Motion Picture Genie 2012; Nominee Best Foreign Film Oscar 2012.

IN DARKNESS* Poland/Germany/Canada, 2011 (war drama, 145 min.) Dir: Agnieszka Holland. With: Robert Wieckiewicz, Benno Fürmann, Agnieszka Grochowska. A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the Nazi-occupied Polish city of Lvov. Based on a true story. Nominee Best Foreign Film Oscar 2012.

November 6-8
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL* UK, 2011 (comedy, 124 min.) Dir: John Madden. With: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Maggie Smith, Tom Wilkinson. British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways.

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN* UK, 2011 (comedy-drama, 107 min.) Dir: Lasse Hallström. With: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Amr Waked. A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik’s vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.

December 4-6
VOLCANO/ELDFJALL* Iceland/Denmark, 2011 (drama, 95 min.) Dir: Rúnar Rúnarsson. With: Theodór Júlíusson, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir. Hannes is an old man who has grown apart from his children. Recently retired when his wife gets ill, he tries to reconcile with them and to atone for his cold demeanor in the past. Film courtesy of the Embassy of Iceland.

THE ARTIST France/Belgium, 2011 (nostalgic comedy, 100 min.) Dir: Michel Hazanavicius. With: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, John Goodman. Silent movie star George Valentin bemoans the coming era of talking pictures and fades into oblivion and self-destruction, but finds sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer lighting up talkies like no one else. Best Film Oscar 2012.

January 15-17
ALMANYA – WELCOME TO GERMANY/ALMANYA – WILLKOMMEN IN DEUTSCHLAND* Germany, 2011 (comedy-drama, 101 min.) Dir: Yasemin Samdereli. With: Vedat Erincin, Fahri Ögün Yardim, Lilay Huser. As the seasons change, a married couple deals with the highs and lows of the lives of family members, friends and colleagues. Film courtesy of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

THE WAY* US/Spain, 2010 (adventure comedy, 123 min.) Dir: Emilio Estevez. With: Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger. A father heads overseas to recover the body of his estranged son who died while traveling the “El camino de Santiago”, and decides to take the pilgrimage himself.

February 12-14
A CHINESE TALE/UN CUENTO CHINO* Argentina/Spain, 2011 (comedy, 93 min.) Dir: Sebastián Borensztein. With: Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang. A gentle comedy about a curmudgeon, a Chinese man and a cow that falls from the sky. Roberto, a grumpy shopkeeper is forced to adopt Jun, a Chinese man who has just landed in Argentina and does not speak a word of Spanish. Film courtesy of the Embassy of Argentina.

THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH* Hungary/Canada/Slovenia, 2011 (drama, 107 min.) Dir: Endre Hules. With: Endre Hules, Bea Melkvi, Deborah Kara Unger. There were two brothers—two dancers—in Communist Hungary. One defected, the other stuck it out. One gave his soul to commerce, the other to the Party. After twenty years, they meet again. And the dance begins.

March 12-14
TAKE SHELTER US, 2011 (thriller, 120 min.) Dir: Jeff Nichols. With: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham. Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

NEVER LET ME GO* UK/US, 2010 (dramatic thriller, 103 min.) Dir: Mark Romanek. With: Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield. Three friends spend their childhood at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. When they leave the shelter of the school and the terrible truth of their fate is revealed to them, they must also confront the deep feelings of love, jealousy and betrayal that threaten to pull them apart.

April 9-11
FOOTNOTE/HEARAT SHULAYIM* Israel, 2011 (drama, 103 min.) Dir: Joseph Cedar. With: Sholmo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi, Aliza Rosen. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son as well as rival professors in Talmudic Studies. When both men learn that Eliezer will be lauded for his work, their complicated relationship reaches a new peak. Nominee Best Foreign Film Oscar 2012.

THE SKIN I LIVE IN/LA PIEL QUE HABITO* Spain, 2011 (science-fiction, 120 min.) Dir: Pedro Almodóvar. With: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Jan Cornet. A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe 2012; Nominee Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival 2011.

May 7-9
THE FLOWERS OF WAR/JIN LING SHI SAN CHAI* THE FLOWERS OF WAR/JIN LING SHI SAN CHAI*. China/ Hong Kong, 2011 (historical drama, 146 min.) Dir: Zhang Yimou. With: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Zhang Xinyi. A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan’s rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Golden Globe 2012.

* English subtitles / Sous-titres anglais

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