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Foreign Films New to View January 2018
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Aquarius
(Portuguese) Clara, a vibrant former music critic, avid swimmer, grandmother, cancer survivor, willing lover and widow with flowing tresses, is the only remaining apartment owner in a gracious older building targeted for demolition by ruthless luxury high-rise developers. As the builders tactics to remove Clara become increasingly hostile, Clara proves to be a force to be reckoned with.
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Clash
(Arabic) Set entirely within the confines of a police van, the story dramatizes the ongoing political unrest in Egypt two years after the Arab Spring. It is 2013 and mass protests have led to the ouster of the ruling Muslim Brotherhood by the army. A series of arrests finds rival demonstrators trapped in a paddywagon together under the threat of impossibly stifling heat.
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Dheepan
(Tamil) A Sri Lankan Tamil warrior flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker of a housing block outside Paris in a crime-ridden neighborhood
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Felicite
(African) Felicite is a proud, free-willed woman working as a singer in a bar in the Congo's capital Kinshasa. Her life is thrown into turmoil when her fourteen-year-old son gets into a terrible car accident. To raise the money to save him, she sets out on a breakneck race through the streets of electric Kinshasa.
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Golmaal Again!
(Hindi) Yet another fun filled ride about two gangs who are unable to stand each other since their childhood and how they repulse each other even after they grow up. It is yet another hilarious adventure with its fair share of thrills that are sure to surprise the audience and fill their hearts with laughter and joy.
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Hindi Medium
(Hindi) A couple from Chandni Chowk aspire to give their daughter the best education and thus be a part of and accepted by the elite of Delhi.
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King's Choice
(Norwegian) On the ninth of April, 1940, the German war machine arrives in the city of Oslo. The Norwegian king faces a choice that will change his country forever.
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Liar's dice
(Hindi) After her husband takes a distant construction job and she does not hear from him for five months, Kamala and her daughter set out on the treacherous journey to find him with the help of an army deserter
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Nakom
(African) Upon his father's sudden death, a talented medical student must return to his home village in Ghana to fight for his family's survival.
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Polina
(French) A young girl studies classical ballet. As a young woman, she turns to modern dance and choreography.
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Santoalla
(Portuguese) Progressive Dutch couple Martin Verfondern and Margo Pool had only one dream, to live off the land, far from the constraints and complications of the city. But, when they arrive in the crumbling Spanish village of Santoalla, the foreigners challenge the traditions of the town's sole remaining family, igniting a decade-long conflict that culminates in Martin's mysterious disappearance.
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Shock Wave
(Cantonese) When a terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of an underground tunnel, he threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.
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The Teacher
(Slovak) In a classroom behind the Iron Curtain, the futures of all the families are at stake, as the film examines how each family must wrestle with standing up for what they believe in or silently keep the status quo.
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The wound
(African) Xolani, a lonely factory worker, travels to the rural mountains with the men of his community to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. When a defiant initiate from the city discovers his best-kept secret, Xolani's entire existence begins to unravel.
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Zoology
(Russian) Natasha is a middle-aged admin employee at a zoo, where her female co-workers take pleasure in making fun of her. She lives with her God-fearing mother and leads a dull existence without prospects, until one day she grows a tail. Medical examinations follow where she meets Peter, a young radiologist, and her dreary life is turned upside down.
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Harford County Public Library
1221-A Brass Mill Rd Belcamp, Maryland 21017 410-273-5600 hcplonline.org
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