Schedule of Screenings

(Click on title for synopsis and other information. Click here for listing of past screenings.) Please note: Schedule is subject to change due to film availability. MFG suggests confirmation through Douglass Theater box office (478-742-2000), or at info@maconfilmguild.org. Thank you for your support.

May 11
The Band's Visit (Bikur Ha-Tizmoret)
The eight Egyptian members of the Alexandria Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrive mistakenly in a small Israeli town for what becomes an accidental cultural exchange that, with humor, heartache, and the peaceful melancholy polity of music, provides the setting for an unusual examination of Arab/Israeli relations on its most human level. This favorite or audiences and critics -- it has an astonishing 98% rating in Rotten Tomatoes, the online collection of film reviews, after more than fifty reviews --is a small gentle storied inquiry into "the eternal wellspring of peace." PG-13, Arabic.

June 8
Persepolis
A poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi grew up wearing sneakers and beating up boys. She wanted to grow up to be a saint. When she was ten years old, her world changed overnight... (Animated)
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July 13
Woman On the Beach
A creatively blocked film director journeys to an off-season beach resort to finish his script in this slyly observant comedy from Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo. Among the resort’s empty beaches and vacant hotels, a love triangle unfolds that, like the slow roll of the surf, is as languorous as it is hypnotic. Needless to say, not much work gets done. Striking a delicate balance of sympathies, WOMAN ON THE BEACH offers both a fascinating study of human relationships and an intensely entertaining romantic comedy. NR. Korean.

August 10
Still Life (Sanxia haoren)
In “Still Life,” which won the grand prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears. Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The old township has been submerged, while a new town has to be built. Life persists in the Three Gorges - what should be taken up is taken up, what should be cast off is cast off.

September: SILENCE BEFORE BACH

October:ALEXANDRA