2010 Films: Features

Baraboo

Baraboo

USA, 2009, 99 mins.
Director Mary Sweeney

Set in bountiful rural Wisconsin, “Baraboo” follows six people who have each carved out a life at Petersen’s Cabins, a rundown Motel Resort. 80-year-old Bernice, dispossessed of her family farm, moves into the Motel and finds a collection of disconnected and troubled residents. Some are there by choice, others by circumstance.

SCREENINGS:

We 9/22 @ 6:30 pm | GALLERY

Th 9/23 @ 8 pm | SUNTRUST

Dog in the Manger

Dog in the Manger
(El Perro del Hortelano)

Peru, USA, 20??, 89 mins.
Director: Renzo Zanelli Barreto

Dog in the Manger (El Perro Del Hortelano) is a feature comedy about Brus, an indigenous artist, and his efforts to organize his community against an American oil company, Kenny Oil. Searching for answers, Brus joins a local NGO, finding himself entangled in the subversive work of an American researcher, Angie. As Brus explores the surreal world of volunteers and development experts, he ultimately discovers his own way of bringing strength to his community.

In Spanish, with English subtitles

SCREENINGS:

We 9/22 @ 8:30 pm | SUNTRUST

Th 9/23 @ 6 pm | PLAZA CC

Entre Nos

Entre Nos

USA, 2009, 80 mins.
Directors: Gloria La Morte and Paola Mendoza

Mariana is determined to keep her family together. Her young children have grown up in Columbia without their father who immigrated to the US years earlier to make a better life for his family. Finally, the family is reunited in New York City. Soon Antonio announces he has found work in Miami and will move there… alone. He will send for the family when he is settled.

In Spanish, with English subtitles

SCREENINGS:

We 9/22 @ 8:30 pm | PLAZA CC

Sa 9/25 @ 3 pm | WPPL

Here and There

Here and There

Serbia, Germany, 2009, ?? mins
Director: Darko Lungulov

Robert, a jaded middle-aged New Yorker, goes to Serbia to make quick cash by marrying someone for U.S. immigration papers, but the plan goes awry when the promised cash never arrives. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko, struggles in a never forgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to USA.

SCREENINGS:

We 9/22 @ 6 pm | PLAZA CC

Sa 9/25 @ 8:30 pm | SUNTRUST