NEW World Cinema announces summer film series

NEW World Cinema
Fox Cinema Café, 400 Third Street, Menasha (map)
Show times: 8:00 PM Ticket: $5
Each showing will be followed by discussion
All movies have English subtitles

June 29 & 30, 2008
Adam’s Apples (Denmark, 2005)
Rated R Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen
Sentenced to community service at a small, countryside church, Adam, a middle-aged neo-Nazi, is warmly welcomed by the cheerful vicar, Ivan. Although Adam is crude, full of hostility, and beyond redemption, Ivan encourages him to choose a goal that will occupy his time there. When Adam dismissively tells the vicar that he will bake an apple pie, Ivan assigns him the task of nurturing the church's lone apple tree.

July 27 & 28, 2008
Persepolis (France, 2007)
Rated NR Dir: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
Marji Statrapi and her family are happy with Shah's defeat in the Iranian Revolution of 1979. While growing up, she discovers how the new Iran has become a repressive tyranny on its own. Marji refusing to remain silent at this injustice is sent to Vienna to study for a better life. However, this change proves equally difficult with the young woman finding herself in a different culture. When she returns home, Marji finds that both she and homeland have changed too much and she must decide where she truly belongs.

August 24 & 25, 2008
The Band’s Visit (Israel, 2006)
Rated NR Dir: Eran Kolirin
When the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel from Egypt for a cultural event there is no one to meet them and take them to their destination of Petah Tiqva. They find their own ride and arrive instead at the remote town of Beit Hatikva. Stuck there until the next morning, the band gets help from Dina,who offers to put them up for the night. As the band settles in as best it can, eachof the members attempts to get along with the natives in their own way.

For more information contact the Fox Cities Rotary Multicultural Center at 920.882.4056 or contact@foxcitiesmulticultural.org