All films shown Friday and Saturdays at 8:00 pm, and Sundays at 2:00 p.m. in ARH 302.

January 30-February 1 Still Life
(2006, Director Jia, Zhang-Ke, in Mandarin Chinese w/English subtitles, 108 mins.) Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to remarry. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look for her husband who has not been home for two years. The couple embrace each other and waltz under the imposing Three Gorges dam, but feel they are so apart and decide to have a divorce. The old township has been submerged, while a new town has to be built. Life persists in the Three Gorges - what should be taken up is taken up, what should be cast off is cast off.

February 20-22 Nowhere in Africa
(2001, Director Caroline Link, Germany, 141 mins.) Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Nowhere in Africa is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Abandoning their once-comfortable existence in Germany, Walter Redlich, his wife Jettel (Juliane Köhler) and their five-year-old daughter each deal with the harsh realities of their new life in different ways. While the war rages on the other side of the world, their relationship with their strange environment becomes increasingly complicated.

March 6-8 Private Property
(2006, Director Lafosse, Joachim, in French w/English subtitles, 95 mins.) Pascale lives with her twins Thierry and François in the house she got from her ex-husband. The family is co-dependent, both intimate and aggressive. The brothers are adults, but they still have violent fights. Pascale tries to revamp her life introducing her boyfriend to her sons, and they dont hide their disdain. She assesses that her only chance to break free is to sell the house and kick them out. But this triggers all out war among the three, each fighting to get his way.

April 3-5 One Day You¹ll Understand
(2008, Director Amos Gitai, in French w/English subtitles, 89 mins.) During the Klaus Barbie trial of 1987, a French businessman uncovers the truth about his family's actions during the Holocaust; a meditation on loss, memory, identity and family legacy, directed by acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï (KADOSH, KIPPUR, FREE ZONE) and starring Jeanne Moreau.

April 24-26 Beaufort
(2007, Director Joseph Cedar, in Hebrew w/English subtitles, 132 mins.) Winner of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival's Best Director award, BEAUFORT chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit¹s tense, painful withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic bunker inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation.

May 1-3 Underground
(1995, Director Kusturica, Emir, in Serbo-Croatian w/English subtitles, 167 mins.) A great circus full of tragicomic satire, UNDERGROUND is a visionary masterpiece where hope, laughter and the joy of living overcome the difficulties of survival. In the midst of war, Marko and Blacky - two opportunistic buddies sharing a spirited lust for women, booze and madcap brawling - attain riches and heroic praise dealing arms to the war's resistance fighters. When things get too hot, they move into an intricate cellar packed with refugees whom Marko encourages to manufacture the contraband. With Blacky convinced he should remain hidden in the cellar until the war ends, Marko conspires to leave him there as he grows richer from the toils of the people living underground. Over fifteen years pass before a web of lies unfolds and Blacky emerges from the shelter to seek his revenge.