WHAT’S SHOWING | Global Lens 2010 films
“Ocean of an Old Man”
Details: Directed by Rajesh Shera, India, 2008.
Show times, locations: 3:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in Room 117 of the Tech Building at Kent Trumbull; and at 4 p.m. Dec. 4 at The Lemon Grove.
Synopsis: In the devastating aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, an elderly British schoolteacher comes to grips with his own loss as he searches for missing students on the remote Indian islands of Andaman and Nicobar.
“Ordinary People”
Details: Directed by Vladimir Perisic, Serbia, 2009.
Show times, locations: 3:30 p.m. Nov. 17, Kent State Trumbull (Tech Building, Room 117); and 8 p.m. Dec. 5 at the Lemon Grove.
Synopsis: One quiet afternoon, a busload of young soldiers is unexpectedly forced to question the morality of their profession after being enlisted to execute civilian prisoners at a remote facility in the Serbian countryside.
“My Tehran for Sale”
Details: Directed by Granaz Moussavi, Iran, 2009.
Show times, locations: 5 p.m. Nov. 18 at Kent Trumbull (Tech Building, Room 117); and at 8 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Lemon Grove.
Synopsis: An ailing actress fighting for political asylum, and waiting to clear Australian immigration, recounts her attempts to live, work and love in Tehran’s thriving yet turbulent arts subculture.
“The Shaft” (Dixia De Tiankong)
Details: Directed by Zhang Chi, China, 2008.
Show times, locations: 4 p.m. Dec. 11 at the Lemon Grove.
Synopsis: In three intertwined stories, a father, son and daughter fight to hold onto hope and family as they face the harsh realities of life in a poor western Chinese mining town.
“Shirley Adams”
Details: Directed by Oliver Hermanus, South Africa, 2009.
Show times, locations: 8 p.m. Dec. 12 at the Lemon Grove.
Synopsis: In the depressed Cape Town neighborhood of Cape Flats, a single mother contemplates her fate and cautiously accepts the help of an overeager social worker as she struggles to care for her paraplegic and suicidal son.