Going Global

Our Glenviewings film series resumes next Friday (September 21st) for a new fall season.  We break away from our extended "Year's Best" series and turn our focus to some global themes.  Please join us this fall as we journey from southern California and the Mexican border to urban Iran to a small village in South Africa.  In September, A Better Life , selected for Hispanic Heritage Month, chronicles the painful story of a hardworking illegal immigrant father and his son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey that teaches them both that family is the most important part of the American dream.

In October, 2012 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language, A Separation tells the story an Iranian couple that plans to flee the country with their young daughter, but finds their marriage suffering after their plans fall through due to an unforeseen complication.  Alissa Simon of Variety magazine said, "the provocative plot casts a revealing light on contemporary Iranian society taking on issues of gender, class, justice, and honor, as a secular middle-class family in the midst of upheaval winds up in conflict with an impoverished religious one."

With the last film in the series we travel to South Africa in November for Life, Above All.   Follow twelve-year-old Chanda as she desperately tries to hold her family together against prejudice, disease, and ignorance, as this harrowing film, adapted from a young adult novel by Allan Stratton, was an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

All films screen at 2:00 and 6:30, September 21, October 19 and November 16. We hope to see you at the movies!