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Festival!

Sunday, October 16^th

Pendery Auditorium

5-8pm

Join us for an evening filled with

international culture, art and exploration

The Wyoming City Schools’ International Education Action Committee has selected 5 films for your viewing pleasure:

LOVE AAJ KAL (2009) – India – London-based Jai and Meera meet, fall in love, and she introduces him to her family. Shortly thereafter, they decide to part as she wants to re-locate to India, while he re-locates to America. Restauranteur Veer attempts to convince Jai to pursue her, but Jai moves on and falls in love with Caucasian Jo and Meera is all set to marry her employer. This Bollywood film portrays the feeling of pure love which never changes over time (love "now" and "then"), but also the perspective of realizing one's soul mate has changed over time as well. – 13+; unrated by MPAA

SPIRITED AWAY (2001) – Japan - In the middle of her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and monsters; where humans are changed into animals; and a bathhouse for these creatures. – Rated PG for some scary moments (ghosts); appropriate for most ages.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (1997) – Italy - In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to hold his family together and help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido imagines that the Holocaust is a game and that the grand prize for winning is a tank. – Rated PG-13 for Holocaust-related thematic elements.

THE CHORUS (2004) – France - The new teacher at a harshly administered boys' boarding school works to positively affect the students' lives through music. – Rated PG-13 for some strong language and violence.

RABBIT-PROOF FENCE (2002) – Australia - Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-caste children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, "to save them from themselves." Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are 14, 10, and 8) arrive at their Gulag and promptly escape, under Molly's lead.  Can the girls survive? – Rated PG for emotional thematic elements.

Special thanks to the Judy Hand Memorial Endowment Fund, PSA, Citizens Advisory Committee  (CAC) for Global Awareness and Exchange Program, French Club, Latin Club, Spanish Club, The Alliance and Model UN for their support