Explorations: The International Film Series

Past Lives

Friday, November 1, 2024
2023 - South Korea - Korean
Drama/Romance - PG-13
105 minutes
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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, get separated when her family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they reunite in New York City for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love and life choices.

In this Academy Award-nominated film, the Korean concept of “inyeon” is used to lead viewers to believe that Nora and Hae-sung are destined to be together – if not in this lifetime, then in the future. All may hope for them to have a happily-ever-after ending, but will they?

The Promised Land

Friday, January 3, 2025
2023 - Denmark/Sweden - Danish/Swedish
Drama/History - R
127 minutes
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In 18th-century Denmark, impoverished war hero Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to tame a vast, uninhabitable land on which seemingly nothing can grow. This beautiful but forbidding area is under the rule of Frederik De Schinkel, a merciless nobleman who realizes the threat Kahlen represents to his power.

As a new community starts to settle in, De Schinkel swears vengeance, leading to an intense confrontation between the two men. Mads Mikkelsen plays Kahlen with granite-faced strength.

BONUS EVENT: Exhibition on Screen
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers

Friday, January 17, 2025
Art - Documentary Film
90 minutes
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Two-hundred years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh, the National Gallery hosted the UK’s biggest-ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and better understand this iconic artist. Focusing on his unique creative process, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers explores the artist’s years in the south of France, where he revolutionized his style, and became consumed with a passion for the landscape.

Poets and lovers filled his imagination; everything he did in the south of France served this new obsession. In part, this is what caused his notorious breakdown, but it didn’t hold back his creativity as he created masterpiece after masterpiece. Explore one of art history’s most pivotal periods in this once-in-a-century show. Made in close collaboration with the National Gallery.

The Eight Mountains

Friday, February 7, 2025
2022 - Italy - Italian/English/Nepali
Drama - NR
147 minutes
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Based on the best-selling novel by Paolo Cognetti, this film spans almost 40 years, showing a lifelong friendship between two seemingly very different people: Men who became fast friends as children and remain friends, even though life, time, and circumstances often drive them apart.

This epic journey of friendship and self-discovery is set in the breathtaking Italian Alps and follows a profound and complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.

Falling for Figaro

Friday, March 7, 2025
2020 - UK/Scotland - English
Comedy/Romance - PG-13
104 minutes
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Millie, a very successful fund manager, realizes one day that her lifelong dream is to become an opera singer. Quitting her lucrative job and moving away from her long-term boyfriend, she travels to the Scottish Highlands, where she hopes to become an opera singer following intense (and hysterical) vocal training from former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. She has fierce competition from other opera singers including Max, Meghan’s other talented student.

And Then Came the Nightjars

Friday, April 4, 2025
2020 - UK - English
Drama - NR
81 minutes
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On his run-down south Devon farm, recently widowed Michael only has his cherished herd of cows to call family - so when foot-and-mouth disease creeps slowly through the valley, he pulls up the drawbridge and hopes to wait it out. Meanwhile, life is hardly easy for local vet Jeff, who’s plunged from being every farmers’ best friend to cattle executioner and village persona non grata. So the question is, can they help each other survive the storm and salvage new lives as everything they once cherished scatters in the wind?

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