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Directed by Cate Shortland

Starring Nele Trebs, Saskia Rosendahl

German w/ English subtitles

109 Minutes, DCP

Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, staunch Nazi believers, are interred by the victorious Allies at the end of World War II, five German children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. Led by the eldest sibling, 14-year old Lore (striking newcomer Saskia Rosendahl), they set out on a journey across a devastated country to reach their grandmother in the north. After meeting the charismatic Thomas, a mysterious young refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire as she must learn to trust the one person she has always been taught to hate in order to survive. Lush cinematography and an evocative, haunting mood infuse this unconventional take on the Holocaust legacy with unforgettable impact.

Based on the book “Lore” by Rachel Seiffert.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQu8dMec-jU

Support local film! Co-sponsered by Landlocked Film Festival!
University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Macbride Hall Auditorium
Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.

Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, producers of the Emmy® nominated  documentary Country School: One Room-One Nation and the award-winning Lost Nation:  The Ioway 1 will premiere their new documentaries Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Macbride Hall Auditorium in Iowa City on Saturday, February 23, 2013 at 6:30 p.m. Following the screening, representatives of the Ioway Nations and other film participants will take part in Q&A.

This world premiere event is free.

When the Ioway were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland of Iowa in 1837 to a  reservation on the border of Nebraska and Northeast Kansas, Ioway leader White Cloud (The Younger) believed his people must relocate to survive. But intermarriage, broken treaties and the end of communal living led to a split in 1878 and the establishment of a second Ioway tribe in Oklahoma. Both tribes endured hardship and challenges to their traditions and culture to achieve successful land claims and self-determination in the 1970s. Lost Nation: The Ioway 2 & 3 brings the dramatic Ioway story full circle.

http://www.iowaymovie.com/

Presented by ABC

Watch the Oscars live streamed at the Bijou.

FREE TO THE PUBLIC!

3 hours

Sponsered by Bijou Cinema, Student Video Productions (SVP) and Campus Activities Board (CAB)

FREE FOR EVERYONE!

Approximately 120 min

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Directed by Rob Reiner

88 Minutes, BluRay

Based on Stephen King’s Short story “The Body”, “Stand By Me” tells the tale of Gordie Lachance, a writer who looks back on his preteen days when he and three close friends went on their own adventure to find the body of a kid their age who had gone missing and presumed dead. The stakes are upped when the bad kids in town are closely tailing – and it becomes a race to see who’ll be able to recover the body first.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUVnfaA-kpI

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Directed by John Schlesinger

Starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight

113 Minutes, BluRay

Texas greenhorn Joe Buck arrives in New York for the first time. Preening himself as a real ‘hustler’, he finds that he is the one getting ‘hustled’ until he teams up with a down-and-out but resilient outcast named Ratso Rizzo. The initial ‘country cousin meets city cousin’ relationship deepens. In their efforts to bilk a hostile world rebuffing them at every turn, this unlikely pair progress from partners in shady business to comrades. Each has found his first real friend.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2yBydiEJrI

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Directed by Just Jaeckin

94 Minutes, BluRay

Emmanuelle is a beautiful young model and lives in Bangkok together with her husband Jean, who’s several years older. She likes him because he’s taught her much, and he likes her because she’s learning so well – and wants to often. Both are very tolerant in matters of extramarital affairs, so he doesn’t mind the young Marie-Ange coming over every so often, although she obviously wants more than talk from his wife. But Emmanuelle is more fascinated by the older Bee, and joins her on a trip into the jungle.

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Directed by Ted Kotcheff

109 Minutes, 35MM

WAKE IN FRIGHT tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s (Gary Bond) descent into personal demoralization at the hands of drunken, deranged derelicts while stranded in a small town in outback Australia.

“The quintessential Australian exploitation film…a harrowing journey, but one you’ll likely want to take again, very soon.” —Drew Taylor, Indiewire

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqWvWR8KYFw

Directed by Jacques Audiard

Starring Marion Cotillard

French w/ English subtitles

120 Minutes, DCP

Ali, a man of formidable size and strength, gets a job as a bouncer in a nightclub. He comes to the aid of STEPHANIE (Marion Cotillard) during a nightclub brawl. Aloof and beautiful, Stephanie seems unattainable, but in his frank manner Ali leaves her his phone number anyway. Stephanie trains orca whales at Marineland. When a performance ends in tragedy, a call in the night again brings them together.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg7skcyYolU

CO-SPONSERED BY LANDLOCKED FILM FESTIVAL

Directed by Jeff Orlowski

76 Minutes, BluRay

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of climate change. Using time-lapse cameras, his videos compress years into seconds and capture ancient mountains of ice in motion as they disappear at a breathtaking rate.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIZTMVNBjc4

Directed by Olivier Nakache

Starring François Cluzet and Omar Sy

French w/ English subtitles

113 Minutes, DCP

A true story of two men who should never have met — a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WIbmXkewU

Directed by Frederico Fellini

English, Italian, French, German
w/ English subtitles

138 Minutes, 35MM

40th Anniversary
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life. One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini’s 8½ (Otto e mezzo) turns one man’s artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. An early working title for 8½ was The Beautiful Confusion, and Fellini’s masterpiece is exactly that: a shimmering dream, a circus, and a magic act.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtDQOF_pU8A

Directed by Ava DuVernay

Starring Emayatzy Corinealdi and David Oyelowo

99 Minutes, BluRay

As Ruby (Emayatzy Corinealdi) rides a bus through the inner city streets, she wills herself to push away memories that crowd her.  Four years earlier, she was a vibrant medical student married to the love of her life, Derek (Omari Hardwick). Now, she makes her way to the maximum security prison on the outskirts of town. This is where her love now resides. Behind coiled razor wire and forty foot concrete walls.  As the couple stares into the hallow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation.

But through a chance encounter with hard-working bus driver Brian (David Oyelowo) and a stunning betrayal that shakes her to the core, she is soon propelled in new and often frightening directions of self-discovery. As we chronicle her turbulent yet transformative journey, we witness the emergence of a broken woman made whole.

Trailers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYu8axSs9qw

Directed by Bill Ross

80 Minutes, BluRay

A kaleidoscopic odyssey into another side of New Orleans, this is a visually exhilarating and aurally immersive record of one night in the many lives of a thriving nocturnal populace. Three young boys are our wide-eyed guides to a parade of entertainers and revelers as they dance through the lamp-lit streets and doorways of the Crescent City. From dusk to dawn, from Rampart to the river, they explore the lives and locales of one of the world’s most unique cities.

“A fever-dream tour of nocturnal New Orleans.” – Eric Hynes, New York Times

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCRD0wbbZqw

Directed by Eugene Jarecki

108 Minutes, DCP

Filmed in more than twenty states, The House I Live In captures heart-wrenching stories from individuals at all levels of America’s War on Drugs. From the dealer to the grieving mother, the narcotics officer to the senator, the inmate to the federal judge, the film offers a penetrating look inside America’s longest war, offering a definitive portrait and revealing its profound human rights implications.

“Fearless! A model of the ambitious, vitalizing activist work that exists to stir the sleeping to wake.” – Manohla Dargis, New York Times

Trailer: http://youtu.be/pvFobm01kBw

Directed by Antoine Delesvaux

French w/ English subtitles

100 Minutes, DCP

Based on the best-selling graphic novel by Joann Sfar, THE RABBI’S CAT tells the story of a rabbi and his talking cat – a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi’s voluptuous teenage daughter.

“Colorful, witty, and inspired.” – Variety

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk6IB_Kgl4E

Directed by Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky

Starring Melissa Leo

74 Minutes, DCP

Academy Award winner Melissa Leo gives a fierce and restrained performance as Francine, a woman struggling to find her place in a downtrodden lakeside town after leaving behind a life in prison. Taking a series of jobs working with animals, Francine turns away others and instead seeks intimacy in the most unlikely of places. Gritty, elliptical, and voyeuristic, Francine is a portrait of a near-silent misfit and her fragile first steps in an unfamiliar world.

Trailer: http://www.francinethefilm.com/html/film_clip.html

Directed by Julia Loktev

Starring Gael García Bernal and Hani Furstenberg

English, Georgian w/ English subtitles

113 Minutes, 35MM

Alex and Nica are young, in love and engaged to be married. The summer before their wedding, they are backpacking in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. The couple hire a local guide to lead them on a camping trek, and the three set off into a stunning wilderness, a landscape that is both overwhelmingly open and frighteningly closed. Walking for hours, they trade anecdotes, play games to pass the time of moving through space. And then, a momentary misstep, a gesture that takes only two or three seconds, a gesture that’s over almost as soon as it begins. But once it is done, it can’t be undone.

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Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

Japanese w/ English subtitles

114 Minutes, BluRay

At the dawn of the new millennium, Japan is in a a state of near-collapse. Unemployment is at an all-time high, and violence among the nation’s youth is spiraling out of control. With schoolchildren boycotting their classes and physically abusing their teachers, a beleaguered and near-defeated government decides to introduce a radical new measure: the Battle Royale Act Overseen by their former teacher Kitano and requiring that a randomly chosen school class is taken to a deserted island and forced to fight each other to the death, the Act dictates that only one pupil is allowed to survive the punishment. He or she will return, not as the victor, but as the ultimate proof of the lengths to which the government is prepared to go to curb the tide of juvenile disobedience.

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

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Directed by Steve James

162 Minutes, BluRay

The Interrupters is a 2011 documentary film, produced by Kartemquin Films, that tells the story of three violence interrupters who try to protect their Chicago communities from the violence they once employed.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC1EOm4o_0A