International Film Festival: Found Memories

Monday, May 20, 7 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Found Memories (2012. 97 min. Brazil)

Like every morning in Jotuomba, a ghost of a village where time seems to have stopped, Madalena makes bread for Antonio's old coffee shop. Like every day, she crosses the railways where no trains have passed for years; she cleans up the gate of the locked cemetery, and listens to the priest's sermon before sharing lunch with the other old villagers. Still clinging to the image of her dead husband and living in her memories, Madalena is suddenly awakened by the arrival of Rita, a young photographer. A deep relationship is forged between the two women, which gradually builds to have a profound effect on both of their lives, as well as the rest of the villagers.

EPL After Hours: Lincoln

Friday, June 7, 6 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

In 1865, as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion, U.S. president Abraham  Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the United States. However, his task is a race against time, for peace may come at any time, and if it comes before the amendment is passed, the returning southern states will stop it before it can become law. Lincoln must, by almost any means necessary, obtain enough votes from a recalcitrant Congress before peace arrives and it is too late. Yet the president is torn, as an early peace would save thousands of lives. As the nation confronts its conscience over the freedom of its entire population, Lincoln faces his own crisis of conscience -- end slavery or end the war.  Lincoln. (DVD 2013).

Run Time: 150 minutes

Rated: PG-13 (for an intense scene of war violence, some images of carnage and brief strong language)

Iron Jawed Angels

Saturday, June 8, 3 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Iron Jawed Angels recounts the struggles of the defiant young women's suffrage activists who risked their lives to help American women win the right to vote. Stars Hilary Swank, Anjelica Huston,  Vera Farmiga, and Julia Ormond. Co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of  Evanston, in celebration of 100 years of women voting in Illinois. 123 minutes.

International Film Festival: Teddy Bear

Monday, June 17, 7 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

Teddy Bear. 2012. 96 min. Denmark

Dennis, a painfully shy 38-year-old bodybuilder, would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a woman from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find there. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany for a competition. Pattaya turns out to be a huge cultural shock for him. The Thai girls shatter Dennis' naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the woman of his dreams.

International Film Festival: The Dynamiter

Monday, July 15, 7 pm, Community Meeting Room, Main Library

The Dynamiter (2012. 74 min. USA)

All 14-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown, and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother Fess. As the days and nights pass without her return, and with older brother Lucas dangerously in their lives again, Robbie must fact the fact that his dreams may never come true. With social services looming over them, Robbie may even lose Fess, the only family he's ever really had.