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2015 Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films: Last Day Thursday, February 26th

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Catch all of this year’s Oscar nominated short films before the 87th Annual Academy Awards telecast on Sunday, February 22nd!

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2015 program offers viewers the rare opportunity to experience the year’s best short films from across the globe, collected together in this special cinematic showcase.

Me and My Moulton

A personal story about a girl which wishes for a bicycle from her parents, but gets something completely different, showing the different reality in which children and grown ups live in. (Dir. by Torill Kove, Canada, English, 14 minutes)

Feast

The story of one man’s love life is seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and revealed bite by bite through the meals they share. (Dir. Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed, USA, Non-dialogue, 6 minutes)

The Bigger Picture

Two brothers struggle to take care of their elderly mother. (Dir. by Daisy Jacobs and Christopher Hees, UK, English, 7 minutes)

A Single Life

After Pia plays a mysterious vinyl record, she suddenly knows how to travel through her life. (Dir. by Marieke Blaauw, Joris Oprins and Job Roggeveen, The Netherlands, Non-dialogue, 2 minutes) 

The Dam Keeper

A young pig with an important job, and a new friend who changes everything. (Dir. by Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi, USA, Non-dialogue, 18 minutes)

Additional animated shorts that are not nominated will be shown as well.

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Running Time: 77 Minutes77 MIN

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42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival SNEAK PEEK! Force Majeure

Watch Trailer Director: Ruben Östlund
Writer(s): Ruben Östlund
Cast: Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren

For the first time ever, the Athena Cinema will be revealing exclusive SNEAK PEEKS of feature films programmed for the 42nd Athens International Film + Video Festival, which takes place during April 3rd-9th.

A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing and spend some precious time with each other. The sun is shining and the slopes are spectacular but, during a lunch at a mountainside restaurant, an avalanche turns everything upside down. With diners fleeing in all directions, mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life. Reality returns to embarrassed laughter, the anticipated disaster having failed to occur, and yet the family’s world has been shaken to its core, a question mark hanging over their father in particular. Tomas and Ebba’s marriage now hangs in the balance as Tomas struggles desperately to reclaim his role as family patriarch.

Force Majeure is both funny and sad, often in the same glance-averted instant. See it with someone you’d trust to stick around in an avalanche. It’s one of the highlights of 2014.” -Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

“The film is beautifully made, with great visuals of the hotel’s fine, loneliness-inflicting interiors, and mountain-high slopes where families don’t talk to each other very much.” -Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Running Time: 120 min120 MIN
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A Most Violent Year: Last Day Thursday, February 19th

Watch Trailer Director: J.C. Chandor
Writer(s): J.C. Chandor
Cast: Oscar Isaac, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo

In New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city’s history, an immigrant and his family try to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

“‘A Most Violent Year’ is an engrossing, often beautiful film, and a breakout opportunity for Isaac, whose similarly self-contained performance as a sadly self-aware folk singer in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ was unfortunately overlooked last year.” -Ann Hornaday, Washington Post

“Recognize J.C. Chandor as one of the most exciting writers and directors working today – after all of three films.” -Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic

“It’s the kind of uncompromising movie we don’t see much of anymore. And it makes you nostalgic for a time when the world was worse and the movies were better.” -Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly

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Running Time: 125 min125 MIN
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Sustainability Series: GROWING CITIES

Watch Trailer Director: Dan Susman
Writer(s): Andrew Monbouquette and Daniel Susman

 

In their search for answers, filmmakers Dan Susman and Andrew Monbouquette take a road trip and meet the men and women who are challenging the way this country grows and distributes its food, one vacant city lot, rooftop garden, and backyard chicken coop at a time.

Join them as they discover that good food isn’t the only crop these urban visionaries are harvesting. They’re producing stronger and more vibrant communities, too.

FREE SHAGBARK SEED AND MILL POPCORN to the first 20 people.

Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 97 Minutes97 MIN
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Dirt – One Day Only Saturday, February 7th

Director: Nancy Savoca
Writer(s): Richard Guay and Nancy Savoca
Cast: Julieta Ortiz, Deborah Hedwall, and John Tormey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DIRT is the story of Dolores Del Rosario who lives with her husband and son in the vibrant neighborhood of Corona. They are undocumented, having crossed over from El Salvador many years ago. Rudolfo works at odd jobs staying just ahead of the Immigration authorities. Dolores cleans luxury apartments in Manhattan. Dolores’ life is turned upside down by a tragic accident.

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 91 Minutes91 MIN

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Sustainability Series: FOOD CHAINS

Watch Trailer Director: Sanjay Rawal
Writer(s): Erin Barnett and Sanjay Rawal
Cast: Eve Ensler, Barry Estabrook and Dolores Huerta

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers who form the foundation of our fresh food industry are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. Food Chains exposes the human cost in our food supply and the complicity of the supermarket industry. Supermarkets earn $4 trillion globally and have tremendous power over the agricultural system. Over the past 3 decades they have drained revenue from their supply chain leaving farmworkers in poverty and forced to work under subhuman conditions. Yet supermarkets take no responsibility for this.

FREE SHAGBARK SEED AND MILL POPCORN to the first 20 people.

Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 83 Minutes83 MIN
Rating: Unrated
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Children in No Man’s Land – One Day Only Saturday, February 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Anayansi Prado

 

CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND is a documentary that uncovers the current plight of the 100,000 unaccompanied minors entering the United States every year. This film gives this timely political debate about the U.S.-Mexico border a human face by exploring the story of Maria de Jesus (13) and her cousin Rene (12) as they attempt to cross the US/Mexico border alone to reunite with their mothers in the Midwest. Focusing on minors crossing through the Sonora Desert area in Nogales, Arizona, this film explores every detail of these children’s journey as well as the journeys of other children the filmmakers meet on the way.

CHILDREN IN NO MAN’S LAND uncovers in an intimate and personal way where they are coming from, what their journeys have been like and how they’ve gone about it, through to the arrival at their destination — their new home, The United States of America.

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 39 Minutes39 MIN

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Sustainability Series: GROUNDSWELL RISING

Watch Trailer Director: Renard Cohen

GROUNDSWELL RISING, PROTECTING OUR CHILDREN’S AIR AND WATER the new documentary from Emmy Award-winning Resolution Pictures, captures the passion of people engaged in a David and Goliath confrontation. They stand together, challenging a system that promotes profit over health. We meet mothers, fathers, scientists, doctors, farmers and people from all sides of the political spectrum taking a hard look at energy extraction techniques not proven to be safe. With the Oil and Gas industry’s expansion of fracking seen as a moral issue, this provocative documentary tracks a people’s movement, a groundswell rising towards reason and sensitivity, to protect life, today and tomorrow.

FREE SHAGBARK SEED AND MILL POPCORN to the first 20 people.

Sponsored by University College, Alden Library, Environmental Studies, Sustainability Theme: Arts and Sciences.

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Running Time: 80 Minutes80 MIN
Rating: Unrated
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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Unveiled – One Day Only Saturday, March 14th

Watch Trailer Director: Angelina Maccarone
Writer(s): Judith Kaufmann and Angelina Maccarone
Cast: Jasmin Tabatabai, Navid Navid and Bernd Tauber

Fabria (Jasmin Tabatabai), prosecuted in Iran because of her love for a women, flees to Germany. But, her application for asylum is turned down. Her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow-inmate Siamak: she assumes his identity and using his temporary permit of sojourn, is send to a province village. At first glance her survival seems to be assured, but in the refugee home she is obliged to uphold her male disguise in cramped quarters and a single mistake could blow up her cover. In order to pay for forged documents, she takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she meets Anne, who is very solicitous about Siamak’s well-being and derives some kind of pleasure from the strange foreigner. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close and Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity.

“A serious and well-paced drama.” – John Anderson, Newsday

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 97 Minutes97 MIN
Rating: Unrated

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Transcultural Encounters & Border Crossings: Sleep Dealer – One Day Only Saturday, March 21st

Watch Trailer Director: Alex Rivera
Writer(s): Alex Rivera and David Riker
Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela and Jacob Vargas

When Memo Cruz’s family is victim of a drone attack he finds himself with no option but to head towards the U.S./Mexico border, but migrant workers cannot cross. Memo ends up in a strange digital factory in Mexico where he connects his body to a robot in America. Memo’s search for a better future leads him to love, loss, and a confrontation with a mysterious figure from his past.

“Adventurous, ambitious and ingeniously futuristic, Sleep Dealer is a welcome surprise.” – Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

“Sleep Dealer is an unusually thoughtful science fiction film, using the speculative energy of the genre to explore some troubling and complex contemporary issues.” – A.O. Scott, New York Times

Film introductions by professors Katarzyna Marciniak and Michael Gillespie.

Sponsored by The College of Arts and Sciences, Making and Breaking the Law Theme, and the Wealth and Poverty Theme.

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Running Time: 90 Minutes90 MIN
PG-13 Rated

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