Movie Buffs Rejoice—

Foreign And Indie Film

Series At Booth Library

While Edmond Town Hall Theater has done a great job of bringing some quality foreign films to local audiences, Newtown art and independent movie lovers usually have to travel to Bethel Cinema to catch first run art house films.

C.H. Booth Library has launched a new Foreign and Independent Film Series to highlight major festival winners that rarely make it to suburban theaters. The programming offers local movie lovers a to see recent, acclaimed foreign and independent gems that rarely get to nonfestival audiences. Each evening offers a full feature film and a short film. Admission is free.

The series will continue on Thursday, February 26, at 7:30 pm, with Inch’ Allah Dimanch. The film is in French with English subtitles. Its running time is 98 minutes.

Inch’Allah Dimanch is film about the immigrant experiences of an Algerian family in France, set in the aftermath of WWII. In an attempt to replenish its weakened work force, France recruits men from North Africa. Decades later, in 1974, the government invites their wives and children to join them and immigrate to France.

Zouina (played in a near-silent and richly emotional performance by Fejria Deliba) is an Algerian woman with three young children who travels with her mother-in-law, Aicha (played in an abrupt, hostile, and powerful performance by Rabia Modedem), to meet her husband, Ahmed (Zinedine Soualem).

Torn from her own loving mother and harshly browbeaten by Aicha, Zouina rejoins a distant husband who scorns her and she finds herself imprisoned in a land that is foreign and unaccommodating to her Algerian traditions.

The short film will be Black Rider by Pepe Donquart.

C.H. Booth Library, at 25 Main Street in Newtown, can be reached 426-4533.