Schedule & Synopses:

Tuesday, August 26, 6:30 p.m. Dreams of Dust - French with subtitles
Mocktar, a Nigerian peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him.  In Essakane, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland and strange timelessness manage to exist simply from force of habit.  The beautiful Coumba, however, is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter after the death of her family.  Mocktar will soon be fighting not only to survive, but also to provide a better future for his mother and her child.

Tuesday, September 23, 6:30 p.m. Adam's Apples - Danish with subtitles
Ivan is an unusually optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to.  His newest “helper” is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously serving his community service time so he can return to hell-raising.  Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he’d like to bake a pie.  Ivan cheerfully takes that statement at face value and puts him in charge of the parish’s pride and joy: the only apple tree in the vicinity.  Grasping the extent of Ivan’s crazed, preternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam decides to shake Ivan out of his rose-colored world.

Tuesday, October 28, 6:30 p.m. Arranged - English
Rochel is an Orthodox Jew, and Nasira a Muslim of Syrian origin.  They are both young teachers at a public school in Brooklyn.  They also have something else in common – they are going through the process of getting “arranged marriages” through their respective religious and traditional customs.  With both family pressure on the one hand, and the rejection of traditional values by the outside world on the other, Rochel and Nasira will have to rely on each other and their friendship to pull through this difficult time of their lives, striving to be strong women in charge of their own happiness, while keeping their deep religious and cultural convictions.

Tuesday, November 25, 6:30 p.m. Her Name is Sabine - French with subtitles
An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, the famous French actress Sandrine Bonnaire.  Through personal footage filmed over a period of 25 years, it is revealed that Sabine’s growth and many talents were crushed by improper diagnosis and an inadequate care structure.  After a tragic five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine finally finds a new lease on life, in a home together with other young people living with similar mental and emotional illnesses.  This very intimate film also sends an urgent message to a society that still does not know how to properly take care of its citizens with physical and psychological disabilities.

Tuesday, December 23, 6:30 p.m. The Way I Spent the End of the World - Romanian with subtitles
Bucharest 1989, the last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship.  Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year-old brother Lalalilu.  One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu.  They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee and Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment.  There, she meets Andrei, and decides to escape Romania with him.  Lalalilu becomes convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva’s decision to leave.  So, with his friends from school, he devises a plan to kill the dictator.