Events and Programs

The Best of the Fests Film Series

About Best of the Fests

Join us at the Alicia Ashman branch for award-winning independent and foreign films, selected from the worlds top film festivals.  In addition to the featured film, special short films may also be shown.  All screening permissions and art courtesy Film Movement, Inc., unless otherwise noted. www.filmmovement.com. View all Film Movement films currently owned by the public libraries.

In Love We Trust (Drama/Mandarin with English subtitles)
Friday, April 17 at 7:00 p.m.
refreshments will be served
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A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are forced to test their love and their commitment to one another by putting their current relationships in danger. A story of parenthood, love, married life, betrayal, trust and giving, which touches upon changes in contemporary society and family life, as well as the moral and ethical dilemmas brought on by modernity.

Eldorado (Drama/Belgium/English subtitles)
Friday, May 1 at 7:00 p.m.
refreshments will be served
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Yvan and Elie are two loners who wander aimlessly through their lives. Yvan is a quick-tempered 40-year-old vintage car dealer while Elie is a young burglar and ex-junkie. One day Yvan catches Elie trying to rob him. Instead of beating him up, he becomes strangely attached to him and agrees to drive him home to his parents in his old Chevrolet. Yvan and Elie are both nostalgic about lost relationships, which is what leads them to undertake a bizarre journey through a region that is as spectacular as it is crazy. Both are trying to find the pieces of a puzzle that they want to put back together, but it might be too late.

Lake Tahoe (Drama/Mexico/English subtitles)
Friday, May 15 at 7:00 p.m.
refreshments will be served
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Teenage Juan crashes his family's car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town, and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her real place in life is as a lead singer in a punk band, and to "The One who Knows", a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. The absurd and bewildering worlds of these characters drag Juan into a one day journey in which he will come to accept what he was escaping from in the first place--an event both as natural and inexplicable as a loved one's death.