WINTER 2012 FILMS

SARAH’S KEY 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Director: Gilles Paquet-Brenner
 Runtime: 111 minutes
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles
Ontario rating: PG 

In the summer of 1942, ten-year-old Sarah knows something is wrong. There is a panic spreading through the city. The French gendarmes, supposedly under order from the Vichy government and Nazi occupiers, are going door-to-door arresting Jewish families and imprisoning them in the Vélodrome d'Hiver. Little does Sarah know that, after the imprisonment, they will be sent to Nazi death camps. In an attempt to save her family, she locks her four-year-old brother, Michel in a bedroom cupboard – their secret hiding place. She promises to return for him, but she and her parents are dragged from their home forever.

Sixty years later, a writer is assigned to write a cover story on the Vel’d’Hiv roundup of 1942. What begins as research for her article becomes more personal when Julia discovers that she and Sarah have something in common, prompting her to change her outlook on her husband, her adopted nation and herself

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzDZ9e3mGRE

THE WAY 

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

or THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Director: Emilio Estevez
Runtime: 140 minutes
Country: USA
Language: English
Ontario rating: 

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage. Along the way he learns what it means to be a citizen of the world again and discovers the difference between “The life we live and the life we choose.”   

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5VZKWcgw6c

LE HAVRE 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles

Ontario rating: PG 

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of Le Havre, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of shoe-shiner. He has buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough and lives happily within the triangle of his favourite bar, his work, and his wife Arletty, when fate suddenly throws in his path an underage immigrant refugee from the darkest Africa. 

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7eBp9mo04
 

STARBUCK 

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Director: Ken Scott

Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: Canada
Language: French with English subtitles
Ontario rating: 14A

At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she's pregnant, David's past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck.

Trailer: http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/starbuck/trailer  

TO BE ANNOUNCED  

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS

MONSIEUR LAZHAR 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Director: Philippe Falardeau
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: Canada

Language: French with English subtitles

Ontario rating: PG 

Monsieur Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant, is hired to replace an elementary school teacher who died tragically. While the class goes through a long healing process, nobody in the school is aware of Lazhar’s painful former life, nor that he is at risk of being deported at any moment 

Winner of Best Canadian Feature at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and Canada’s official submission to the Best Foreign Language Film category of the 2012 Academy Awards.

Official trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNCkxnT-xE

TO BE ANNOUNCED 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

TO BE ANNOUNCED 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2012 at either 2:00 or 7:00 at FULL CIRCLE THEATRE, PERTH

 or THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2012 at 7:00 at RIDEAU CANAL MUSEUM THEATRE, SMITHS FALLS 

Series passes have now been sold out for both evening screenings (Wednesdays in Perth and Thursdays in Smiths Falls). However, passes are still available for the matinee screenings in Perth on Wednesday afternoons. The price is $65 for all nine films. Individual tickets will be available at the door for $10 each FOR THE MATINEES ONLY. 

 Pass holders should arrive at the theatre by 10 minutes before screening time to ensure a guaranteed seat.  

Because of limited seating at both venues, viewers should be aware that passes are not interchangeable between times and places. 

All profits after expenses will be donated to the Perth and District Union Public Library and the Smiths Falls Public Library.

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FILM CIRCUIT GROUP IN BROCKVILLE

Are members aware that there is a Film Circuit group in Brockville as well as in Perth/Smiths Falls?

Check out their website at http://www.filmbrockville.ca/ for a schedule of upcoming screenings. This is another opportunity for our audience to see some great Canadian and international films that we are not screening, or that people missed on our film nights.

They show their films in the brand new Galaxy multiplex theatre!