TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1

On Screen: 4:30pm and 7:30pm (you pick!)

Reading Town Square Cinemas (Auditoriums 14 & 8)

Cinema Chat and Introduction begins 30 minutes prior to screenings

Discussion follows screenings

Two Academy Award Submissions for Best Foreign Language Film—France and Bulgaria (You Pick!)

Auditorium 14

Academy Award Submission, Best Foreign Language Film

FRANCE

Audience Award, Chicago, Odessa and American Film Institute Festivals

Winner, Label Europa Cinemas, Cannes Film Festival

MUSTANG

Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that has unexpected consequences. The family home is progressively transformed into a prison; instruction in homemaking replaces school and marriages start being arranged. The five sisters who share a common passion for freedom, find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them.

Running Time: 97 Minutes

Rated PG-13 for mature thematic material, sexual content and a rude gesture

Please Note: MUSTANG is in Turkish with English Subtitles

Auditorium 8

Academy Award Submission, Best Foreign Language Film

BULGARIA

Winner, Heartland Film Festival Audience Award

From the Director of THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER

THE JUDGMENT

This is the story of Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area near the Bulgarian-Turkish-Greek border. Mityo has lost his wife, the respect of his 18-year-old son and the job that enabled him to pay off the loan for his mortgaged house. Desperate, he accepts a proposal from his former military commander (Predrag Manojlovic) to smuggle illegal Syrian immigrants across the border he once had to defend. The road leads across a peak called The Judgment, a place full of dark memories from thousands of years of history, but also from Mityo's own past. The revelation of his terrible secret will force him to face the past, in order to regain his internal peace and find forgiveness from his son.

Please Note: THE JUDGMENT is in Bulgarian with English Subtitles

Running Time: 107 Minutes

Not Rated