Nov. 10: “Daughter of Keltoum,” Algeria/Tunisia, 2001, directed by Mehdi Charef, 106 minutes. A young Swiss women travels to her birthplace, an isolated Berber settlement in Algeria, in search of her biological mother.
Nov. 17: “Kinamand” (Chinaman), Denmark, 2005, directed by Henrik Ruben Genz, 88 minutes. A bittersweet, but amusing film about the intersection of two cultures, Danish and Chinese, and human compassion.
Dec. 1: “Buffalo Boy,” Vietnam/Belgium, 2004, directed by Nguyen-Vo Nghiem-Minh, 98 minutes. This is a coming-of-age story set in rural Vietnam in the 1940s.
Dec. 8: “Gadjo Dilo” (Crazy Stranger), Romania, 1997, directed by Tony Gatlif, 97 minutes. An exploration of the Gypsy culture and music, this is the story of a young Frenchman searching for a legendary Gypsy songstress.
Dec. 15: “The Eighth Day,” France, 1997, directed by Jaco Van Dormael, 108 minutes. Daniel Auteuil and Pascal Duquenne shared Cannes’ Best Actor Awards for performances in this humorous and touching film about a disgruntled businessman and a young man with Down’s Syndrome who shows him the light.
Jan. 19: “Village of Dreams,” Japan, 1996, directed by Yoichi Higashi, 112 minutes. Identical twins recall the summer of 1948, their eighth year.
Jan. 26: “Camera Buff,” Poland, 1979, directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, 112 minutes. After a factory worker-father purchases a camera to film his infant daughter, he begins filming everything in sight.
Feb. 2: “Sugar Cane Alley,” France/Martinique, 1985, directed by Euzhan Palcy, 107 minutes. This is the story of a young boy in turn-of-the-century Martinique whose grandmother hopes to see him escape from the wage of slavery of the sugar fields.
Feb. 9: “Whisky,” Uruguay, 2004, directed by Juan Pablo Rabella, 94 minutes. A lonely sock factory owner is visited by a long-absent irritatingly cheerful brother who enlists his assistant to pretend to be his wife.
Feb. 16: “Ballad of a Soldier,” Russia, 1959, directed by Grigori Chukhrai, 89 minutes. A Russian soldier is granted a brief visit to his mother and, as he journeys home, encounters the devastation of his war-torn country.
Feb. 23: “Caterina in the Big City,” Italy, 2005, directed by Paolo Virzi, 93 minutes. A 13-year-old provincial girl moves to Rome and finds her affluent private school is a microcosm of the cultural and political divisions of Italian society.
March 2: “Hollow City,” Angola, 2004, directed by Maria Joao Ganga, 91 minutes. A 12-year-old wanders the streets of Luanda, searching for a way back to his small, war-torn village.
March 9: “Hey Babu Riba,” (the former) Yugoslavia, 1987, directed by Jovan Acin, 109 minutes. Four 18-year-olds from Belgrade share their love of American movies, jazz, blue jeans and a girl named Esther.
March 16: TBA.
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