Friday June 14 to Thursday June 20, 2013

“Shawney Cohen calls himself a filmmaker, but he’s actually been a strip club manager for longer. When he was six years old his father bought “The Manor,” a strip club attached to a seedy 32-room motel in Guelph, Ontario. Years later, his father has seen his weight balloon to 400 pounds, while his mother struggles to survive at 85 pounds.

A pair of inquisitive adolescents encounter a charismatic drifter with an incredible story in this drama from Take Shelter writer/director Jeff Nichols.

“Renoir is a lush, involving film that deals not with one Renoir but two, as well as the strong-minded woman who was a key player in their lives. The year is 1915, the setting the gorgeous landscape of the French Riviera, and Renoir the father, the recently widowed 74-year-old Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste, is hungry for inspiration.

Based on the novel by Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist's generally gripping drama painfully confronts the great cultural divide in people’s thinking created by the tragedy of 9/11. It is a serious-minded film whose politics demand soul-searching and attention.

“Tuscan fields, bel canto arias, slow food and movie stars are some of the images synonymous with one of the world’s most adored cultures. Yet many of filmmakers Luca Regazzi and Gustav Hofer’s disenchanted friends have recently emigrated from Italy.