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Attention International Series Members
The World Exchange Plaza cinemas have closed and we must relocate the International Series.

We are pleased to announce that our 2014 screenings will be held at the Mayfair Theatre starting in February. Please continue to attend on the evening your membership is valid (Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday). There are no date or program changes from February to May but the January 14-16 screenings are rescheduled to June 3-5. There will be no screenings in January.

Thank you for your patience and special thanks to everyone who helped in the fight to save WEP!


September 10-12
A ROYAL AFFAIR*. Denmark, 2012 (historical drama, 137 min.) Dir.: Nikolaj Arcel. With: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. Grand period drama. Denmark, 1760s, German doctor Johann Struensee attends to the mentally ill King Christian and catches the Queen’s eye. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013.

WAR WITCH/REBELLE*. Canada, 2012 (drama, 90 min.) Dir.: Kim Nguyen. With: Rachael Mwanza, Eric Lino Mic Eli Bastien, Serge Kanyinda. Inspired by stories of real child soldiers. Point of view of a 12-year-old girl kidnapped from her village and forced to become a rebel soldier. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013.

October 8-10
AMOUR*. Austria/France/Germany, 2012 (drama, 127 min.) Dir.: Michael Haneke. With: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert. A couple, both retired music teachers, are tested as they try to cope in their later years when one of them has a stroke. Winner Palme d’Or Cannes Film Festival 2012. Winner Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013.

HABEMUS PAPAM*. Italy/Fance, 2011 (comedy/drama, 102 min.) Dir.: Nanni Moretti. With: Michel Piccoli, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa. A cardinal, the recently elected Pope, questions accepted precepts such as infallibility, tradition and the role of the Catholic religion in a rapidly changing world.

November 5-7
CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD/INFANCIA CLANDESTINA*. Argentina, 2011 (drama, 112 min.) Dir.: Benjamìn Àvila. With: Natalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio, César Troncoso. In 1979, under military rule, twelve-year-old Ernesto must live in secret when his family is forced to go underground to escape terrorism directed at left-wing guerilla groups.

STORIES WE TELL. Canada, 2012 (documentary, 108 min.) Dir.: Sarah Polley. With: Pixie Bigelow, Deirdre Bowen, Geoffrey Bowes. Director explores the secrets kept by her family and discovers that the truth depends on who is telling the story. Winner Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary Canadian Screen Awards 2013.

December 3-5
FLOWER SQUARE/CVJETNI TRG*. Croatia, 2012 (drama, 102 min.) Dir.: Krsto Papic’. With: Drazen Kuhn, Dragan Despot, Mladen Vulic. Nationalism, church and organized crime make for an unholy trinity in this powerful and modern story of a man trapped in a world he not only never made, but also wants no part of. Film courtesy of the Embassy of Croatia.

THE SAPPHIRES. Australia, 2012 (bio/musical comedy, 103 min.) Dir.: Wayne Blair. With: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy. In 1968, four Australian aboriginal sisters from a remote mission change their musical repertoire from country & western to soul to entertain U.S. troops in Vietnam.

January 14-16

NO FILMS. PROGRAM RESCHEDULED TO JUNE 3-5.

February 11-13
KON-TIKI. U.K./Norway/Denmark/Germany, 2012 (historical adventure, 118 min.) Dir.: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg. With: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård. Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal’s 4000-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947 in an effort to prove that South Americans settled Polynesia. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013.

BLANCANIEVES*. Spain/France, 2012 (B & W silent drama/fantasy, 104 min.) Dir.: Pablo Berger. With: Maribel Verdú, Macarena Garcia, Daniel Giménez Cacho. A twist on the Snow White fairy tale set in 1920s Seville. A young girl joins a troupe of bullfighting dwarves to escape her wicked stepmother.

March 11-13
THE LADY. France/United Kingdom, 2011 (biography, 132 min.) Dir.: Luc Besson. With: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett. Aung San Suu Kyi becomes the core of Burma’s democratic movement in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the first Asian woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD. U.S.A., 2012 (drama/fantasy, 93 min.) Dir.: Benh Zeitlin. With: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly. Hushpuppy, an imaginative six-yearold, and her hot-tempered father try to survive after floods in the Louisiana bayou. Four Oscar nominations 2013.

April 8-10
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA*. Turkey, 2011 (drama, 150 min.) Dir.: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. With: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel. A local prosecutor, the police and a doctor accompany grave diggers to search for a body after a man confesses to the murder. Grand Prix Cannes Film Festival 2011.

May 6-8
THE HUNT/JAGTEN*. Denmark, 2012 (drama, 115 min.) Dir.: Thomas Vinterberg. With: Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Annika Wedderkopp. A teacher, falsely accused of being a child molester, is shunned by his community. Best Actor & Ecumenical Jury Prize Cannes Film Festival 2012.

QUARTET. United Kingdom, 2012 (comedy/drama, 98 min.) Dir.: Dustin Hoffman. With: Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly, Pauline Collins. In a home for retired musicians, the retirees prepare for a yearly benefit concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday. Nominee Best Actress Golden Globe 2012.

June 3-5
NO*. Chile/France/USA, 2012 (drama, 118 min.) Dir.: Pablo Larrain. With: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Luis Gnecco. Historical drama of an ad executive hired to run the NO campaign during Chile’s 1988 referendum to extend Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship. Nominee Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2013.

INCH’ALLAH*. Canada/France, 2012 (drama, 102 min.) Dir.: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette. With: Evelyne Brochu, Sabrina Ouazani, Sivan Levy. Chloé, a young Canadian doctor living in Jerusalem and working in a clinic in the Palestinian quarter, is torn between the two sides of the conflict.


* English subtitles / Sous-titres anglais

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