Cinema Society Winter Film Festival: Greatest Hits Vol 2
November 8: AMAL (Canada/India, 101 minutes): Auto rickshaw driver Amal is content with the small but vital role he serves—driving customers around New Delhi as quickly and safely as possible. But his sense of duty is tested by an eccentric, aging billionaire, who, moved by Amal’s humility, bequeaths him his entire estate before passing away. In Hindi with English Subtitles.
December 13: Purple Dreams (USA, 72 Minutes): An inspirational window into the lives of inner-city, at-risk students who succeed at their passion while embracing the transformative power of their arts education.
January 31: Gloomy Sunday (Germany/Hungary, 112 minutes): Gloomy Sunday centers on two men—a restaurant owner and a piano player— who fall for the same woman in pre-World War II Budapest. In German and Hungarian with English subtitles.
February 28: THE PATRIARCH (MAHANA) (New Zealand, 103 minutes): From the author of The Whale Rider, a tale of family rivalry and reconciliation, set against the stunning backdrop of rural New Zealand in the 1960s. In English and Maori.
March 13: THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER (Bulgaria, 110 minutes): This sweet intergenerational drama about an amnesiac helped toward recovery by his charismatic grandfather encompasses over 30 years of social and identity crises, with backgammon as a metaphor for life. In Bulgarian, German, Italian, Slovenian English and Hungarian with English Subtitles.
April 10: STARBUCK (Canada, 108 minutes): As his lover announces her pregnancy, a forty-something slacker receives other life-changing news: 142 people, all of them the result of artificial insemination, have filed a class action lawsuit against him, their biological father. In French, with English subtitles.
Reserved Seating: $195 per person for the series
General Seating: $145 per person for the series.