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Carol's Journey- Imanol Uribe
Carol is a 12-year-old raised in New York by her American father and Spanish mother: In spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War, Carol travels to her mother's home village while her father serves as a pilot in the International Brigades. Rejecting at first the strange, vaguely threatening world to which she's been brought, Carol gradually accept her new home on its own terms through the help of the local teacher, Maruja and local village boy Tomiche. Yet the war raging all over Spain will eventually make its way to this remote village and into Carol's own life. Uribe's film is a haunting tale of a young girl's bittersweet initiation into the evasions and duplicity that often characterize the world of adults. (104 mins.) Print courtesy of Sogecable.
Filmography: Bilbao Blues (86), Numbered Days (94), Bwana (99), Plenilune (00).
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A Christmas Carol for the Homeless-Chumilla Carbajosa,
Still believing in the magic of Christmas,
a homeless person asks Santa for a pair of sports shoes and the love of a beautiful woman who sings in the subways for change. (16 mins.)
Showtimes: 2/26, 5:30pm GU and 3/1, 4:30pm BW.

Mondays in the Sun- Fernando León de Aranoa
After losing their jobs at a shipyard in Vigo, in Northern Spain, a group of friends tries to cope with the emotional and spiritual consequences of unemployment. Evoking both the neorealist Italian comedies of the 1950s and the more recent social realist works of Ken Loach, director León sets the story of these men's lives against a grim post-industrial landscape, where the vivid cast of characters struggles collectively to maintain dignity in the face of overwhelming economic hardship. Javier Bardem solidifies his reputation as one of the great contemporary European actors in his portrayal of Santa, an indignant yet kind-hearted man raging against the broken promises of modern capitalist society. Winner of the Grand Prize at the San Sebastian Film Festival and this year's Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. (115 mins.) Print courtesy of Lions Gate Films.
Filmography: Barrio (97), Familia (98).
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Bamboleho- Luis Prieto
Miguel, a runaway squatting on a rooftop in Barcelona, finds his life spiraling out of control as he becomes mixed himself up with the criminal underworld. (14 mins.)
Showtimes: 2/23, 4:45pm and 2/28, 6:45pm WH.

Poniente- Chus Gutiérrez
"In recent years Spanish agriculture has experienced a remarkable boom; membership in the European economic community has opened up vast new markets, and now Spain has become the veritable 'vegetable garden' of Europe. Thanks to the help of cheap African labor, that is; the vast tomato plantations covering the southern parts of Spain depend on a constant supply of cheap immigrant labor in order to function. Poniente is a hard-hitting, deeply felt look at this new reality; Lucía leaves Madrid with her daughter after inheriting her estranged father's agricultural properties in the countryside. Yet as an outsider she still doesn't know the hierarchies and codes that define the business and personal relationships between Spaniards and the immigrants.
A threatened labor action by the newly organized workers leads to a terrible showdown between the workers and owners, a confrontation that will force Lucía to decide on which side she truly stands. Crisply narrated and featuring a wonderful performance by Cuca Escribano as Lucía, Poniente is an important work whose observations have a resonance far beyond Spain."-Film Society of Lincoln Center.
(94 mins.) Print courtesy of Olmo Films and ICAA.
Filmography: Sublet (91), Oral Sex (93), Gypsy Soul (95).
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Never is Sunday- Carlos Owners
Berta, upon her daughter's marriage, decides it's time to change her life too.
(19 mins.)
Showtimes: 2/28, 4pm and 3/1, 9:15pm BW.

Octavia- Basilio Martín Patiño
Rodrigo returns to his childhood home of Salamanca for a conference after a four-decade absence. After a career as a guerrilla in Latin America, secret agent in the Eastern Bloc and official for an international agency, it is time to assess the realities of a new political age. While Rodrigo may have attempted to put his past life behind him, the memory of his now deceased, wayward mother and his old-world family returns to haunt him. In an old city dominated by the weight of tradition, Rodrigo discovers a daughter whose existence he had never known, as well as a grand-daughter, the enigmantic and beautiful Octavia. A rebellious teenager, Octavia dismisses her grandfather's old politics, possessing her own sense of what freedom means. Patiño's film is a poetic, assured contemplation on the pain of returning somewhere you never really left and the accompanying ironies of a man obsessed with history who cannot face his own. (130 mins.) Print courtesy of Golem and ICAA.
Filmography: Nine Letters to Berta (65), Love and Other Solitudes (69), Songs for After the War (71), Lost Paradise (85), Madrid (87).
Showtimes: 2/25, 9pm BW and 2/26, 9:00pm WH.

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