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THE KING’S CHOICE

NORWEGIAN, DANISH 133 min 2017 ERIK POPPE

Based on a true story about three crucial days in April of 1940 during WWII, the King of Norway flees the capital when the German armed forces invade and is faced with the ultimatum of surrender or die.

A TAXI DRIVER

KOREAN 137 min 2017 JANG HOON*

In 1980, a widowed taxi driver strug-gling to make ends meet agrees to take a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju where they encounter large-scale demonstrations against the military government.

YOUR NAME

JAPANESE 107 min 2016 MAKOTO SHINKAI

The highest grossing anime in histo-ry, Your Name tells an innovative and beautifully animated story about two teenagers, a boy from Tokyo and a girl from a rural mountain town, who magically switch bodies and embark on a journey to meet each other.

GOOD BYE, LENIN!

GERMAN 121 min 2003 WOLFGANG BECKER*

In this comic parody of nostalgia for East Germany, Alex’s mother, a good communist, falls into a coma and misses the fall of the wall! Wak-ing up in 1990 with fragile health, Alex must now do everything in his power to make sure she doesn’t see how things have changed.

ROOTS (TV SERIES)

ENGLISH 8 EPS 1977 BEGINS JAN. 23

Roots, an epic saga of the Amer-ican experience loosely following author Alex Haley’s family history from enslavement in colonial Afri-ca down to emancipation, was the most watched TV series ever when it first premiered in 1977 and is an important representation of the history of race in America.

THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE

FINNISH, ARABIC, SWEDISH, ENGLISH 100 min 2017 AKI KAURISMÄKI

A clear response to the current ref-ugee crisis, Kaurismäki’s percep-tive comedy follows a middle-aged restaurateur named Wikström who fortuitously crosses paths with Khaled, a displaced Syrian refugee who has been denied asylum.

REBECCA

ENGLISH 130 min 1940 ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Hitchcock’s first American film, a psychological thriller, creates a strik-ing gothic atmosphere around the story of a young woman trapped by the memory of her husband’s first wife, Rebecca, who died mysterious-ly. New digital 4K restoration.

TEST

RUSSIA, NO DIALOGUE 96 min 2014 ALEKSANDR KOTT

Occurring among early nuclear test-ing, this wordless Soviet-era love story tells the tale of a father and daughter who live a quiet life on a vast plain until two young men fall for the girl.

THE FLYING ACE

US/SILENT 65 min 1926 RICHARD E. NORMAN

Important because of its early use of an all African-American cast, The Flying Ace is a mystery thriller about a veteran fighter pilot who returns home to take on his former job as a detective for a railroad company just in time to track thieves who stole the company payroll.

SAWDUST AND TINSEL

SWEDISH 135 min 1953 INGMAR BERGMAN

The aging owner of a failing trav-eling circus tries to regain his lost family after he left them for a young performer in this atmospheric early Bergman film that captures Berg-man’s fascination with the humilia-tions and frustrations of artists.

NAPPING PRINCESS

JAPANESE 111 min 2017 KENJI KAMIYAMA

Kamiyama’s dazzling animation pres-ents parallel worlds that begin to impinge on one another in this sci-fi fantasy about a young girl forced to find herself while struggling to save her father in trouble.

BLACK ORPHEUS

PORTUGUESE 107 min 1959 MARCEL CAMUS

This IC favorite retells the Greek legend of Orfeu and Eurydice as they fall in love and run through the favelas of Rio during Car-naval, away from Orfeu’s spiteful fiancée and a hitman dressed like Death. Non-pro-fessional actors engaged in authentic ritual and ceremony, bossa nova vibes, Carnaval footage—a classic of ‘native cinema.’

THE LAST TRAIN HOME

MANDARIN 87 min 2009 LIXIN FAN*

This documentary creatively looks at the great migration from village to cities currently underway in China by following a couple who returns home for the holidays to find their daughter has dropped out of school to work in a factory.

AMÉLIE

FRENCH 129 min 2001 JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET*

This crowd-favorite, romantic come-dy presents a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life. A fanciful young woman in Paris slyly orches-trates the lives of the people around her for the better as she deals with her own sense of isolation.

CARAMEL

ARABIC, FRENCH 95 min 2007 NADINE LABAKI

This delightful romantic comedy centers around the daily lives of five women who regularly meet togeth-er in a beauty salon in Beirut as they explore questions about love, duty, and happiness.

LA STRADA

ITALIAN 115 min 1954 FEDERICO FELLINI

In Fellini’s symbol-rich tale of love and cruelty that moved Italy beyond Neorealism, a young woman is sold by her impoverished mother to the brutal strongman in a traveling cir-cus, and lives as his partner until she finds a kindred spirit in a carefree cir-cus fool.

MACHINES

HINDI, ENGLISH 75 min 2016 RAHUL JAIN*

Through memorable imagery and in-terviews, this documentary portrays the grueling daily life of workers in a textile factory in Gujarat, India, in an exploration of the end of the global supply chain and its cost on those who fuel it.

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IES FAMILY STORIES: Roots, Stories We Tell, Summer Wars, Golden Door, The Missing Picture, Murder of a Hatmaker

MIGRATIONS: The Other Side of Hope, The Last Train Home, The Immigrant, Under the Same Mon, Golden DoorCARNIVAL, CLOWNS AND CIRQUES: Black Orpheus, Sawdust and Tinsel, La Strada, Big Fish BERGMAN AT 100: Sawdust and Tinsel, The Seventh Seal100 YEARS OF CINEMA: The Immigrant, An Eastern Westerner, Max Takes a BathANIME BEYOND GHIBLI: Your Name, Napping Princess, In This Corner of the World, Summer Wars

HINDI MEDIUM

HINDI, ENGLISH 150 min 2017 SAKET CHAUDHARY

This popular Bollywood comedy ex-plores questions of poverty and class as it follows a young couple through their struggles to get their daughter into a good English-speaking school so that she can have the best op-portunities that come with English speaking society.

STALKER

RUSSIAN 163 min 1979 ANDREI TARKOVSKY

In this science fiction art film classic, a guide leads a writer and a scientist on a metaphysical journey through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of a mythical room where they will supposedly find all of their earthly desires fulfilled. New digital resto-ration.

THE SEVENTH SEAL

SWEDISH 96 min 1957 INGMAR BERGMAN

Perhaps Bergman’s best known film, The Seventh Seal is an existential al-legory about a disillusioned knight returning from the crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death. He challenges Death to a chess match and works to commit a single redemptive act.

INTIMATE STORIES

SPANISH 92 min 2002 CARLOS SORIN*

This award-winning Argentine film full of humanity and hope portrays three people’s separate but inter-weaving journeys towards the same destination along a deserted road. Expertly acted, the film presents an appealing portrait of the Patagonian desert and its people.

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FÉLICITÉ

LINGALA, FRENCH 129 min 2017 ALAIN GOMIS*

Félicité, a Congolese singer, desper-ately needs money after her son has a motorcycle accident. This evoca-tive portrayal of everyday life in Kin-shasa with streetwise camera-work is nominated for this year’s Oscar for best foreign language film.

IN A BETTER WORLD

DANISH, SWEDISH 119 min 2010 SUSANNE BIER*

Juxtaposing the global and personal while exploring ethical complexity in the modern world, this winner of the 2010 Oscar for best foreign language film tells the story of two young boys dealing with a bully in Denmark that parallels events experienced by one of their fathers in Africa.

IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD

JAPANESE 130 min 2016 SUNAO KATABUCHI

This sensitive and touching anime by one of Japan’s best animators plays out in Hiroshima during WWII where a recently married 18-year-old wom-an battles to maintain the will to live as she struggles to take care of her family while the realities of war creep ever closer.

POLINA

RUSSIAN, FRENCH 112 min 2016ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ & VALÉRIE MÜLLER

Co-directed by world-renowned French choreographer A. Preljocaj, Polina tells the story of a promising Russian dancer rigorously trained in classical ballet who discovers the freedom of contemporary dance, throwing everything she knows into question.

STORIES WE TELL

ENGLISH 118 min 2012 SARAH POLLEY*

In a series of revealing interviews with her family members about her mother, and intercut with faux su-per-8 footage, filmmaker Sarah Pol-ley explores how memory functions in family storytelling.

FILL THE VOID

HEBREW 105 min 2012 RAMA BURSHTEIN

A young Hasidic woman is encour-aged to give up her marriage to a promising young man and instead marry her brother-in-law so that her deceased sister’s child will remain part of their family in this complex and sensitive portrayal of an insulat-ed culture.

COMEDY CLASSICS

THE IMMIGRANT: CHARLIE CHAPLIN, 30 min, 1918, US, SILENTAN EASTERN WESTERNER: HAL ROACH, 27 min, 1920, US, SILENTMAX TAKES A BATH: LUCIEN NONGUET, 8 min, 1910, FRANCE, SILENT

Three comedy classics from a cen-tury ago starring some of the most beloved comedians of all time: Char-lie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd, and Max Linder. All digitally restored prints.

SUMMER WARS

JAPANESE 114 min 2009 MAMORU HOSODA

While wooing his secret crush over the summer break, a teenage math prodigy accidentally puts the world at risk to a malicious AI program. Hosoda’s anime creatively explores how our life is intertwined with actu-al and virtual realities.

UNDER THE SAME MOON

SPANISH, ENGLISH 109 min 2007 PATRICIA RIGGEN

Hoping for a better life, a single mother leaves her young son in the care of his grandmother and illegal-ly crosses the border into the U.S. When his grandmother dies, the boy begins the dangerous journey to join his mother.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY

ENGLISH 112 min 1940 GEORGE CUKOR

One of Hollywood’s best romantic comedies, this witty and crisply direct-ed classic starring Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart tests traditional assumptions about gender roles by pitting a socialite against her ex-husband when he arrives at her fam-ily estate for her upcoming nuptials.

THINGS TO COME

FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN 102 min 2016 2016 MIA HANSEN-LØVE*

Internationally acclaimed, this film beautifully portrays a modern woman (the incomparable Isabelle Huppert) who handles a series of life-shattering circumstances with majesty and sensitivity.

GOLDEN DOOR

ITALIAN, ENGLISH 120 min 2002 EMANUELE CRIALESE

At the turn of the 20th century, a poor Sicilian farmer and widower decides to emigrate to the US with his entire family. Along the way he meets an English woman and to-gether they face the challenging journey to be admitted into the US.

THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM

GERMAN 106 min 1975 VOLKER SCHLÖNDORFF &MAGARETHE VON TROTTA*

In this important example of New Ger-man Cinema, Katharina falls in love with a man she finds out to to be a wanted terrorist. She is harassed by police and hounded by ruthless tabloids, testing the limits of her dignity and explor-ing the ways journalism mediates our realities.

THE MISSING PICTURE

FRENCH 96 min 2013 RITHY PANH

Filmmaker Rithy Panh creatively in-tertwines clay figures, archival foot-age, and narration to recreate the missing images of his childhood as he processes the trauma experi-enced at the hands of Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge between 1975 and 1979.

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FACES PLACES

FRENCH 90 min 2017 AGNÈS VARDA & JR

Faces Places documents 89-year-old filmmaker Agnes Varda and 33-year-old photographer/street artist JR as they travel around French villag-es and take epic-size photographs of locals to display them on public buildings in this charming documen-tary/road movie.

THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION

PORTUGUESE, YIDDISH 110 min 2007CAO HAMBURGER*

Mauro goes to live with his grandfa-ther in São Paulo in 1970 when his parents flee the politically repressive regime. Excited for the upcoming World Cup—the first to be broad-cast by satellite—Mauro befriends the unique characters in his diverse neighborhood.

KAUWBOY

DUTCH 81 min 2012 BOUDEWIJN KOOLE*

A young boy with a volatile father and absent mother finds solace in taking care of a young bird after it has fallen from its nest, which in turn helps him in his difficult relations with his father.

SUPPORTED BY THE BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES EST. 1968 | CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL CINEMA

250 SWKT | SHOWTIMES: IC.BYU.EDU | FREE OF CHARGE*Some content is customized. All films shown adhere to BYU visual media guidelines.

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IES FAMILY STORIES: Roots, Stories We Tell, Summer Wars, Golden Door, The Missing Picture, Murder of a Hatmaker

MIGRATIONS: The Other Side of Hope, The Last Train Home, The Immigrant, Under the Same Moon, Golden DoorCARNIVAL, CLOWNS AND CIRQUES: Black Orpheus, Sawdust and Tinsel, La Strada, Big FishBERGMAN AT 100: Sawdust and Tinsel, The Seventh Seal100 YEARS OF CINEMA: The Immigrant, An Eastern Westerner, Max Takes a BathANIME BEYOND GHIBLI: Your Name, Napping Princess, In This Corner of the World, Summer Wars

BIG FISH

ENGLISH 125 min 2003 TIM BURTON

Described as a Southern gothic pi-caresque, Tim Burton’s adaptation of Daniel Wallace’s novel explores the line between fact and fiction as a frustrated son works to under-stand his dying father’s life.

KILLING OF A HATMAKER

FRENCH 85 min 2006 CATHERINE BERNSTEIN

Through archival documents and photographs, Catherine Bernstein explores the story of her great-aunt Fanny Berger, a successful hatmak-er from Paris who was interned in French camps and killed at Aus-chwitz in 1943.

SUMMER 1993

CATALAN 97 min 2017 CARLA SIMÓN

Six-year-old Frida struggles to adapt to her new life in the countryside with her loving uncle and aunt’s fam-ily following the death of her mother. Summer 1993 is an autobiographical film festival favorite that stunningly recreates the perspective and expe-rience of a child.