COD's Global Flicks Film Festival Spring Session Begins Feb. 7
The spring installments of Global Flicks, a festival of award-winning international films, will be presented on Tuesdays, Feb. 7, March 6 and April 10, in the Mainstage of the McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., in Glen Ellyn.
The films will be shown at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public. Films are shown in their original language with English subtitles in the MAC's 800-seat Mainstage.
Each screening concludes with a moderated discussion of the film and its subject matter. For more information, call the MAC Ticket Office at (630) 942-4000.
“The Baader Meinhof Complex” (Germany) – Feb. 7
Directed by Uli Edel Germany 1967. The children of the Nazi generation have grown up in the devastation their parents created. They vowed fascism would never rule again. In their fight for freedom they lost themselves in the cause and ignited a revolution around the world. Meet the original faces of terrorism, the Baader Meinhof Group, in this Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film based on the true story of the Red Army Faction. (99 min.)
“Dooman River” (South Korea and France) – March 6
Directed by Zhang Lu
Writer-director Zhang Lu's fascinating window into a rarely seen corner of rural China revolves around 12-year-old Chang-ho, living with his grandfather and mute sister along the frozen river-border with North Korea. Although fraught with unemployment and other tensions, his community seems sympathetic toward the Korean refugees fleeing famine and misery; Chang-ho even bonds over soccer with one young border-crosser who comes scavenging for food for a sibling. But he soon turns on his new friend as suspicions mount against the illegal immigrants and his sister reels from unexpected aggression, provoking a quandary over his loyalties in an exquisitely detailed story of compassion and strife across an uneasy geopolitical border. (90 min.)
“Panique Au Village” (France) – April 10
Directed by Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar
Hilarious and frequently surreal, the stop-motion extravaganza A Town Called Panic has endless charms and raucous laughs for children from eight to eighty. Based on the Belgian animated cult TV series (which was released by Wallace & Gromit's Aardman Studios) Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the weirdest events. (75 min.)