Film lovers take a seat.
The Shuswap Film Society is back with its fall lineup of North American and European cinema that covers everything from New Zealand manhunts to fighting prejudice as an Indian math scholar.
The 2016 fall films:
Saturday, Sept. 10 at 5 p.m. Captain Fantastic stars Viggo Mortensen, George MacKay, and Samantha Isler. Set in the isolated forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devotes his life to raising his two children through rigiouous training and education.
When they are forced to leave their paradise, he is challenged by what it means to be a parent.
Friday, Sept. 16 to Thursday, Sept. 22. The Man Who Knew Infinity is set in 1913, with a self-taught Indian math teacher (Dev Patel) travelling to Trinity College, Cambridge.
Over the next five years, he forms a bond with his mentor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons) and fights against prejudice.
Saturday, Sept. 24 at 5 and 7:30 p.m. Hunt For The Wilderpeople stars Sam Neill, Julian Dennison and Rima Te Wiata. Defiant city kid Ricky gets a new start in New Zealand with his foster family. When he is threatened with a move to another home, he and his foster uncle go on the run. A national manhunt ensures.
Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 7:30 p.m. The Music of Strangers with Yo-Yo Ma brings together international mastermusicians to form The Silk Road Project.
They travel around the world, especially to small towns, giving concerts that are more than just music; they are an embodiment of the message of harmony and unity.
Saturday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. Sing Street brings another coming of age story of how music can enhance life and bring hope into difficult times.
Growing up in Dublin in the 80s, young hero Connor is faced with a new school and a tough environment of poverty and bullying. He meets a girl he wants to impress and starts a band.
The film is humorous and romantic, but also contains coarse language and gang violence.
Saturday, Oct. 8 at 5 p.m. Our Little Sister entails three-adult sisters living together in their late grandmother’s house in the city of Kamakura.
Both their father and mother ran off with other lovers.
After their father dies, they reluctantly attend their father’s funeral only to meet their teenage half-sister.
Beguiled by her, they want her to live with them. Tranquility and prayer are shown as the strength that guides these girls to deal with family trauma.
Those who saw Like Father, Like Son will appreciate how the director tells the story with tenderness and humanity.
Saturday, Oct. 15 at 5 p.m. Tales of Tales is a dark fantasy, with three intertwined stories, with various kings and queens facing huge obsessions.
In one, Salma Hayek and John C. Reilly are a royal couple struggling to produce an heir.
In another, Vincent Cassel is a sex-maniac king who becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman with a beautiful voice.
In the last story, Toby Jones is a king so fascinated by a magical animal, he neglects his only daughter.
Every story is connected by the themes of blood and duplicity; how obsession can seem like love and compels the protagonists to do things without concern for the consequences.
Saturday, Oct. 29 at 5 and 7:30 p.m. The Dressmaker tells the story of femme fatale Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), who returns to her small home town in the Australian outback.
With her sewing machine and style, she transforms the women and extracts sweet revenge on those who did her wrong in the past. A stylish drama with comic undertones about love, revenge and haute couture.
Tickets are $7 and $30 for a five-film pass.
