After years away, theater director Jeanine (Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried) re-enters the opera world to stage her former mentor’s most famous work. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, Jeanine allows her repressed trauma to color the present as her personal and professional lives begin to unravel. Renowned director Atom Egoyan (Exotica, The Sweet Hereafter) reunites with Seyfried in SEVEN VEILS, a visually stunning, propulsive work, filmed on location during the staging of Egoyan's acclaimed production of "Salome."
DESPERATE LIVING
John Waters
90 minutes
1977
English
Saturday March 22
9pm
Sunday March 23
7pm
The third installment of legendary cult filmmaker John Waters’ Trash Trilogy is a deranged, fractured fairy tale. A neurotic society woman (played with high-strung perfection by Mink Stole) murders her husband with her maid's help; on the lam, they escape to Mortville, a homeless community populated by a wild bag of criminals and outcasts trying to exist outside of conventional society. Mortville is Oz filtered through a psychedelic garbage heap, and sits in the shadow of a looming castle, ruled over by a fascist queen (the great Edith Massey) with the help of her leather and mesh-clad police guard. But revolution is in the air. DESPERATE LIVING’s gleefully nihilistic depravity and mean-but-hilarious spirit is fulfilling in a way that few contemporary films can match. A work of true trash art for a world losing its mind.
Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes of families - the largest single act of forced transfer ever carried out in the occupied West Bank. He crosses paths with Yuval, an Israeli journalist who joins his struggle, and for over half a decade they fight against the expulsion while growing closer. Their complex bond is haunted by the extreme inequality between them: Basel, living under a brutal military occupation, and Yuval, unrestricted and free. NO OTHER LAND was co-created by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists during the darkest, most terrifying times in the region, as an act of creative resistance to Apartheid and a search for a path towards equality and justice.
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