Icelandic couple María and Ingvar live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their farmland, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected prospect of a new family brings them much joy, before ultimate destruction.
January 2022
Andrea Arnold’s documentary is an endeavor to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way, but in a real way. It's a film about one dairy cow's reality and acknowledging her great service to us.
Following the screening, conversation (in Heb.) with director Aharon Keshales
After getting paroled, Jimmy vows to stay out of trouble and take care of his dying girlfriend. But life is always full of unexpected turns. What starts like a typical crime drama quickly becomes a Topsy-Turvy excursion of the slightly rougher surfaces.
Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented with an all-new English translation in an abridged 90-minute adaptation, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as its rags-to-riches princess. Maestro Emmanuel Villaume leads a delightful cast, which includes mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo as Cinderella’s Prince Charming.