The Other Side of Hope: Sunday, April 8
Admission $5
Showings @ 2pm, 5pm and 7:30pm
Discussion following the 2pm show
Finland-Germany, comedy-drama, 100 minutes, unrated
Syrian refugee Khaled (Sherwan Haji) smuggles himself unintentionally into gloomy Helsinki, where he applies for asylum. Meanwhile, middle-aged salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and old job behind and opens a sad little restaurant staffed by glum misfits who don’t know how to cook. How the refugee and the restaurateur’s paths cross is the main plot of this funny/sad tale. “Director Aki Kaurismaki does not traffic in the harsh, immersive naturalism that has recently flourished on the international festival circuit, and his movies feel more like fables than like bulletins. Which is not to suggest that there is anything naive or fantastical about this tale of struggle and resilience. On the contrary, it’s at once honest and artful, a touching and clearsighted declaration of faith in people and in movies.” — New York Times
Douglass Theatre
355 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Macon, Georgia 31201
Films are presented the second Sunday of each month at 2pm and 5pm, with a discussion following the 2pm show. Documentaries are quarterly on Tuesdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $5.00 at the Douglass Theatre in downtown Macon.