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ESA is proud to sponsor this film series at the 2003 Wisconsin Film Festival Series co-sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Chicago |
For tickets and more information about the films: http://www.wifilmfest.org
“Journeys: Films from the New Europe”
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Centering on a Senegalese student living in Paris, this film explores issues relating to migration and identity. |
Sat, Mar 29 | 3:15pm | 1h30 | Club Majestic
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(Madison Premiere) Cultures clash with hilarious results as an Indian family living in London tries to raise their soccer-obsessed daughter in a traditional way. |
Thu, Mar 27 | 7:30pm | 2h00 |
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Director Mahamet-Saleh Haroun presents a "documentary fiction" that explores the role of both film and filmmaker within Chadian society. |
Thu,
Mar 27 | 7:00pm | 1h30 | |
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(Madison Premiere) From the acclaimed Belgian director, a film inspired by the fifth volume of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. |
Fri,
Mar 28 | 5:00pm | 2h00 | |
Sun,
Mar 30 | 7:15pm | 2h00 | |
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(Wisconsin premiere) An homage to humanity at the beginning of the 21st century, shot over a year’s time in twelve remote locales on five continents — from Siberia to Micronesia, Sardinia to Namibia — Elsewhere gives us a sense of what unites us all, what divides us and what reactions our actions bring. |
Sun,
Mar 30 | 1:00pm | 4h15 | |
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(Madison Premiere) Chantal Akerman continues her triptych after D'est (From the East) in 1993 and South in 1999. In this film, she focuses on the long and almost impenetrable border between Mexico and Arizona. |
Sat,
Mar 29 | 5:30pm | 1h45 | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Filmmaker Yale Strom travels the Trans-Siberian Railroad to explore the history of the Jewish Autonomous Region of Siberia, artificially invented by Stalin in 1928. |
Thu, Mar 27 | 7:00pm | 1h30 | Bartell Theatre - Drury Theatre |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) In this dark and quirky road movie by Lynne Ramsay (Ratcatcher), a young working-class woman (Samantha Morton) escapes a dreary life with the help of an unexpected gift from her boyfriend. |
Fri,
Mar 28 | 11:00pm | 1h45 | |
Sun, Mar 30 | 7:15pm | 1h45 | Orpheum - Stage Door Theatre |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Perhaps the most emotionally mature Dogme 95 film to date, Susanne Bier's seventh feature is a heartbreaking love story concerning the tragic intersection of two couples' lives. |
Sat,
Mar 29 | 7:30pm | 2h00 | |
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Experimental directors from both sides of the Atlantic visit the past of Europe, using a combination of personal impressions and memories, archival and original images, family footage, and actual traveling. |
Sat,
Mar 29 | 11:00am | 1h30 | |
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(Midwest Premiere) This film brings to light dark sides of Romanian history, while tracing the filmmaker's maternal grandmother's life in Bucharest. |
Sat,
Mar 29 | 2:00pm | 1h30 | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) From the director of Iceland's 101 Reykjavik comes this Shakespearean tale of familial duty and dysfunction. |
Fri,
Mar 28 | 7:00pm | 1h45 | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's simple and austere story about a carpentry instructor who takes on a new apprentice and must come to terms with their intertwined pasts. |
Sat,
Mar 29 | 1:00pm | 1h45 | |
Sun,
Mar 30 | 5:00pm | 1h45 | |
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(Midwest Premiere) "A cinévoyage to a country that no longer exists." — Nicolas Rey. |
Sun,
Mar 30 | 6:00pm | 3h00 | |
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(Wisconsin Premiere) A lyrical, meditative portrait of West African life in transition, from Abderrahmane Sissako, director of the acclaimed millennium film Life on Earth. |
Fri,
Mar 28 | 8:00pm | 1h45 | |
Sun,
Mar 30 | 3:00pm | 1h30 | |
