World Cinema Showcase Films

After the Wedding ( Efter brylluppet)
Runtime: 120 minutes
Denmark

Presented by IFC Films

Directed by: Susanne Bier
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Christian Tafdrup

Screening Times:
Friday, April 13th at 11:00pm
Tuesday, April 17th at 7:00pm

2007 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. Jacob Peterson had dedicated his life to helping street children of India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jorgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions…not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jorgen’s daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between the past and the future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life.

Eagle vs Shark
Running Time: 95 minutes
New Zealand

Presented by Miramax Films

Directed By Taika Waititi
Cast Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement,Brian Sergent, Rachel House, Craig Hall, Joel Tobeck

Screening Time:
Saturday, April 14th at 11:00pm

From New Zealand comes a wickedly offbeat love story – a funny, fractured romance between two total misfits, woven into an all-consuming quest for revenge, and shot through with the strange, sweet hilarity of the human condition. It all begins with Lily a lonely oddball and fast-food waitress who happens to be a hopeless romantic. Then there’s Jarrod, the man of Lily’s dreams, another lonely oddball and video game clerk, who has spent the last decade plotting ultimate vengeance on a bully from his high school past. When these two connect at a “dress as your favorite animal” party, she’s an anemic Shark and he’s a fluffy-headed Eagle. It’s a match that seems made in outcast heaven, but when Lily decides to risk everything for love, her hopes are nearly dashed. After a brief fling, Jarrod dumps Lily because he’s too busy “training” for his all-important payback mission. But neither of them can anticipate just what kind of grit the steadfastly optimistic Lily will show in her heartbreak. As Jarrod’s day of reckoning arrives, and everything hits the fan, Jarrod and Lily will find something that goes beyond romantic fantasies and revenge -- faith in who they are.

Killing the Shadows (Hacivat Karagoz)
Runtime: 135 minutes
Turkey

Presented by Bosphorus Art Project – www.bosphorusartproject.org

Directed by: Ezel Akay
Cast: Haluk Bilginer

Screening Time:
Monday, April 16th at 7:10pm

This is a story of two legendary men, Karagoz and Hacivat, who lived and died by their sense of humor. Bursa, 330, an ancient, crowded Roman city at the border of Byzantium. Changed hands 4 years ago and the small Ottoman tribe is just being transformed as a local state, on the remains of the old Eastern Roman Empire. The story takes place in an unrecorded period time, the last 2 months in the lives of two legendary Turkish stand-up comedians, Karagoz & Hacivat? They lived and died during the first clashes of the decaying Eastern Roman Empire and the first Ottomans of the 14th century Anatolia. Their stories and characters are adapted for traditional shadow theatre of the later Ottoman Empire, in modern Turkey and all over the Middle-East, Greece, and western Asia. Their legend and the truth about their tragic deaths are twisted and distorted, although their stingy humor still lingers on. After the the leader of the growing tribe of Ottomans, Orhan Gazi, notices the talents of two construction workers, famous among their friends with their clever and unending jokes, he rewarded them. But they were executed when he learns that they were keeping their co-workers laughing at their jokes during work hours, and causing a delay in the construction of the mosque to be named after Orhan Bey.

Away From Her
Runtime: 110 minutes
Canada

Presented by Lionsgates’ Films

Directed by: Sarah Polley
Cast: Julie Christy, Michael Murphy, Olympia Dukakis

Screening Times:
Sunday, April 15th at 11:15am
Wednesday, April 18th at 5:00pm

Fiona and Grant are an Ontario couple who have been married for over 40 years. Now, in the oncoming twilight of their years, they are forced to face the fact that Fiona's "forgetfulness" actually is Alzheimer's Disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, they agree she must go into a nursing home. For the first time in the five decades their relationship has spanned, they are forced to undergo a long-time separation since the nursing home has a "no-visitors" policy for the first 30 days of a patient's stay, so they can adjust to their new surroundings. When Grant visits Fiona after the orientation period, he is devastated to find out that not only can has she seemingly forgotten him, Fiona has transferred her affections to another man. The other man is Aubrey, a wheel chair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home. As the distance between husband and wife grows, Grant must draw upon his love for Fiona to perform an act of self-sacrifice in order to ensure her happiness.