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Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8 PM (B1)
Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7 PM (B4)
Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6 PM (B1)
Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12 PM (C21)
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LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB
DIRECTOR: Klaus Härö - FINLAND
When Leila is pardoned after serving 12 years of a life sentence, she agrees to work as an assistant to Father Jacob, answering the letters of those who write asking for his help. Although she regards the pastor’s correspondence as pointless, the letters ultimately play a role in her redemption.
A simple but transcendent story about faith and human frailty, Letters to Father Jacob achieves a state of grace. Surprised when she is pardoned 12 years into a life sentence, hard-bitten killer Leila (Kaarina Hazard) takes the prison warden’s suggestion and winds up at the ramshackle rural parsonage of Father Jacob. The blind elderly man needs an assistant to pursue his main joy in life: answering the letters of those who write to ask for his help. Although Leila regards the pastor’s correspondence as pointless, it ultimately plays a role in her own redemption and heart-rending self-forgiveness.
Filmography: As If I Didn’t Exist (02), Mother of Mine (05), The New Man (07).
This year’s Finnish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
85 Minutes
Interests:
Oscar Submissions,
Narrative Feature.
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Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 12:45 PM (B4)
Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 12 PM (WH)
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MOOMIN AND MIDSUMMER MADNESS
DIRECTOR: Maria Lindberg - FINLAND
When a volcanic eruption forces the Moomin family to take refuge in an old theater, Moominpappa decides to write a play for the family to perform.
Based on Tove Jansson’s well-loved “Moomin” books, this visually striking animated film will delight young children and big kids alike. A tranquil summer day is interrupted by a volcanic eruption, causing a flood in the Moominvalley. The water rises higher and higher in Moominhouse, forcing the family to take refuge in a strange house that floats by. The unusual lifeboat turns out to be a theatre. Moominpappa begins to write a play for the others to perform.
First Feature Film.
Ages nine and up.
Sponsored by Scandinavian Heritage Foundation.
75 Minutes
Interests:
Narrative Feature,
Animation,
Family Fare,
Literature.
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