Crossroads International Film Festival 2012
When: Sundays in February 2012, both matinee and evening showings. (See schedule below)
Where: Darkside Cinema, 215 SW 4th Street in downtown Corvallis
Who and How? Passports are available for $40. Each passport allows admittance to 6 films. Tickets $8 for adults and $7 for students per show. The passports make great gifts! To purchase a passport, e-mail urmila.mali@oregonstate.edu or at the show times on Sundays.
Tickets will be available at Darkside Cinema, downtown Corvallis, prior to each show or in advance of future shows.
What: Six films, cultural activities, food, festivities. Attendees can travel the world in a comfortable seat, at a local independent cinema.
Schedule of Films:
1:30 pm
4:00 pm
6:30 pm
2/5
Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (91min)
HOP (104 min)
Inch’Allah Dimanche (98 min)
2/12
For my Father (100 min)
Ocean of Pearls (98 min.)
Carols’ Journey (100 min)
2/19
Inch’Allah Dimanche (98 min.)
Long Life, Happiness & Prosperity (91 min)
HOP (104 min)
2/26
Carols’s Journey (100 min)
For my Father (100 min)
Ocean of Pearls (98 min.)
Film descriptions:
Set in the 1970's, Zouina is a woman who is torn from her home in Algeria. With her 3 children and abrupt mother-in-law, she rejoins her husband, who was recuited to serve in the French army, in a foreign and unaccomodating land. She finds herself feeling imprisoned between a distant husband, a hostile mother-in-law and a neighbor who is afraid of her "otherness". After meeting a special friend and taking secret excursions, she finds herself coming to terms with the difficulties of immigration, change and adaption to a new culture.
Justin longs to just watch soccer matches with his father but after his father's deportation, Justin is forced to embark in a thrilling adventure to reunite with his father. Justin must enlist the help of a former anarchist to find his father.
Tarek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father's honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his suicide vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Tarek is forced to live amongst the people he was planning to kill. Tarek meets Israelis, finds love and is forced to make a life-changing decision. He becomes caught between the men who sent him (who can and will detonate the bomb remotely within 48 hours) and the new love he has found among former enemies.
Twelve-year-old Mindy Ho tries Taoist magic to fix her single mother's (Sandra Oh) financial situation and seemingly hopeless romantic prospects. Set in the Chinese Canadian community, this film is a story of hope and the importance of keeping faith in this sometimes difficult world.
As a Sikh man, with a full beard and turban, Amrit Singh is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to reexamine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.
Carol, a Spanish-American twelve year old girl brought up in New York, travels with her mother to Spain for the first time in the turbulent spring in 1938 to meet her mother's family. Her separation from a father she adores and her arrival in her mother's native village brings out her innocent and rebellious nature which drives her to oppose conventional world new to her. Carol's trip takes her on an unforgettable and bittersweet journey into the world of adulthood.
Crossroads International has an outstanding list of sponsorships for the 2012 Film Festival. Thanks to all of the supporters below:
OSU Office of Academic Affairs
OSU School of Language, Culture and Society
OSU Office of Vice Provost for Student Affairs
OSU International Programs
OSU INTO
International Students of Oregon State University (ISOSU)
Carol Trueba, Keller Williams
Iyengar Yoga Center of Willamette Valley
David and Cecilia Gore
We look forward to seeing you in February!
