All screenings with English subtitles in April
Joe Speedboot (April 16th - screening with English subtitles)
In a sleepy Dutch village, Fransje Hermans’s life is turned upside down in an instant by a bizarre accident: he is confined to a wheelchair, unable to speak or move, except for one functioning arm. When the charismatic and reckless Joe Speedboot moves to the village, an unlikely friendship blossoms between the two young men. Fransje throws himself wholeheartedly into the rollercoaster ride that Joe Speedboot creates. Will it help him realize his passionate dreams, or is he just the latest project of the adventure-seeking Joe?
Spoken language: Dutch
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Paprika (April 16th - screening with English subtitles)
In the near future, the DC Mini makes it possible to enter dreams for psychotherapy. Therapist Dr. Atsuko Chiba uses the device as her dream alter ego, “Paprika,” to help patients. When three prototypes are stolen, the thief manipulates people through their dreams, blurring the line between dream and reality. Paprika must find the culprit before the world descends into chaos.
Spoken language: Japanese
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Per te (April 19th - screening with English subtitles)
Paolo is barely forty when he receives a devastating diagnosis: he has a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer’s and will lose his memory. As his world begins to fade, he chooses to live each day to the fullest, together with his wife and their 11-year-old son Mattia. Yet telling his son the news is the hardest thing he has to do, so he puts it off for as long as possible. As more and more pieces of his memory fade away, Paolo focuses on “quality time” with Mattia, filled with things he still wants to teach him, such as shaving, tying a tie, and driving a car.
Spoken language: Italian
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El Topo (April 22nd - screening with English subtitles)
El Topo, a man clad in black leather, rides a horse through a desert-like landscape. When he comes across a village that has been massacred by a sadistic colonel, he manages to rescue a woman who had fallen into the hands of the bandits. Mara persuades El Topo to seek out and defeat the four Masters of Truth, so that he may possess their wisdom. But can she really be trusted?
Spoken language: Spanish
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Calle Malaga (April 24th - screening with English subtitles)
Seventy-four-year-old Maria Angeles leads a quiet life within the close-knit Spanish community in Tangier, Morocco. Her world is turned upside down when her daughter Clara arrives from Madrid with a plan to sell the apartment where Maria has lived her entire life. Determined to stay in the city where she grew up, Maria resists this decision and fights to keep her home—and the memories tied to it. Along the way, she discovers, to her own surprise, that love and longing know no age.
Spoken language: Spanish
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A Useful Ghost (April 27th - screening with English subtitles)
When dust starts swirling around, March decides to buy a vacuum cleaner. But soon the machine starts acting strangely and even... cough? Fortunately, customer service immediately sends a technician to repair it. Intrigued by the mysterious handyman, March listens intently to his story about a deceased wife who returned to her husband as a ghost inside a vacuum cleaner. The beginning of an absurd odyssey toward the acceptance of their rediscovered love.
Spoken language: Thai
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Votemos (April 27th - screening with English subtitles)
What starts as a routine residents’ meeting about replacing the apartment building’s elevator quickly spirals out of control. When it comes up that one of the owners wants to rent out his apartment to a colleague who takes medication for mental health issues, tensions run high. The discussion devolves into a bitter argument in which no one is spared.
Spoken language: Spanish
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Yellow Letters (April 28th - screening with English subtitles)
Aziz, a theater director and professor at Ankara University, receives the “yellow letter” informing him of his dismissal. When his wife Derya, a renowned actress, receives the same letter, it is the final blow for the couple. Their dismissal is the result of their political views, which brought them to the government’s attention. They move to Istanbul with their daughter to live with Aziz’s mother. Balancing this new, difficult situation with their political convictions will put their marriage to the test.
Spoken language: Turkish
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Africa Filmfestival (April 22nd - April 26th)
The following movies of the Africa Filmfestival will be screened with English subtitles:
Thursday April 23rd at 17h00 --> La noire de...
Thursday April 23rd at 19h30 --> My Father's Shadow
Friday April 24th at 14h00 --> Belgian Shorts
Friday April 24th at 17h00 --> Didy
Friday April 24th at 19h30 --> On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Saturday April 25th at 11h00 --> Fantastique
Saturday April 25th at 14h00 --> the YAFMA-program
Saturday April 25th at 20h00 --> Bad Like Brooklyn Dancehall
Sunday April 26th at 11h00 --> Le peuple sentinelle
Sunday April 26th at 17h00 --> Katanga, la danse des scorpions
Sunday April 26th at 19h30 --> Memory of Princess Mumbi
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