Embrace the unfamiliar! Especially within yourself. Ride a horse in a New York minute, kick a habit, find your calling, join the circus, leave the circus... but don't leave your baby by the side of the road. These characters enter unfamiliar terrain and let their freak flags fly. Running time: 92 minutes.
Isabel Bader Theatre: Friday June 8, 4:15 pm
Isabel Bader Theatre: Saturday June 9, 10:15 pm
| Reinaldo Arenas
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| An accidental immigrant laments his cruel passage into an alien environment and muses on the unimpressive moral character of its local inhabitants. A riveting experimental documentary, based on a true story.
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| Ursus
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| A bear working as a motorcycle acrobat in a travelling circus is tired of feeling like a buffoon. He yearns for the wilderness of home. But has it disappeared? Stunning and sensitive hand-drawn animation illuminates this lovely allegory of wildlife issues
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| I Am John Wayne
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| Struggling to cope with the death of his best friend, Taco takes his friend's foster horse on a fateful ride through the streets of Brooklyn. Naturalistic performances and understated direction create an atmospheric portrait of the young man as urban cowboy.
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| The Crossing Of The Living Room
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| Determined to reinvent her life after a stint in rehab, Céline must cope with her concerned daughter and the monotony of sobriety. The farther she gets from her old habits, the farther she has yet to travel.
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| Odysseus' Gambit
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| Plucked from his Cambodian homeland as a child by the U.S. military and adrift ever since, Saravuth Inn maintains his livelihood and sanity by playing chess in the heart of NYC. An engrossing doc about life, chess, and the moves that don't pay off.
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| The Changeling
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| Hans Christian Andersen meets biblical moral in this medieval fable about a married couple who adopt a troll baby when their own is stolen. A funny and provocative tale about accepting the dark side within us all.
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| The Immigrant
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| After being deported back to his native Canada, once-famous comedian Bob London (Scott Thompson, The Kids in the Hall) attempts a Hollywood comeback after being smuggled across the Mexico-U.S. border. Michael Cera, Will Forte, Margaret Cho and Dave Foley co-star in this hilariously self-deprecating satire.
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