All films begin at 7:00pm and are free and open to the public. Screenings on the 1st Wednesday of the month will occur in the auditorium of the Neville Public Museum.
All films are free and open to the public and are unrated but intended for a mature audience.
February 5 The German Friend (Germany/Argentina 2012)In mid-1950s Argentina, Sulamit, the daughter of German-Jewish refugees, and Friedrich, the son of German-Nazi refugees, are close friends, from the fall of Peron's government in 1955 through the years of prison, torture, and death in Argentina in the 1970s. They grow up, move to Germany, and both get involved in the political struggles of 1968. Friedrich, who always rejected his father's Nazi past, becomes a left-winged militant and decides to go back to Argentina to fight against the Military Government. Can their love survive time, distance and politics? |
March 5 The Gravedigger’s Wife (Somalia 2021)Guled and Nasra are a loving couple, living in the outskirts of Djibouti city with their teenage son Mahad. However, they are facing difficult times: Nasra urgently needs an expensive operation to treat chronic kidney disease. Guled is already working hard as a gravedigger to make ends meet: how will they find the money to save Nasra and can they keep the family together? Somali’s official submission for “Best International Feature Film in 2022. Co-sponsored by COMSA. |
April 2 Stay with Us (France 2022)After living and working in America, French-Jewish actor and comedian Gad Elmaleh decides to move back home to Paris. He misses his family and friends. Or, at least that's what he tells his loving yet overbearing parents Régine and David. However, it's not long before they find out the true reason for their son's return — after a long period of ambivalence towards his Jewishness, Gad has officially decided to convert to Catholicism. Dumbfounded by his sudden obsession with the Virgin Mary, and with only five weeks before his baptism, Gad's family tries everything in their power to bring him back to Judaism for fear of losing him forever. Co-Sponsored by the UWGB Retirees’ Association |
May 7 The Dinner (Italy 2014)Based on the bestselling novel by Herman Koch, The Dinner turns an ordinary meal among family into a taut morality play as the limits of polite society are tested and two brothers discover just how little they know about each other. Tensions between the brothers and their families escalate when a video of two teenagers, possibly son of one brother and daughter of the other, beating a homeless woman to death, shows up. Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions? Co-sponsored by Italo-Americano Club |
Sponsors:
Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Brown County Library
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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