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Drama

I’m Coming From That Crowded City

I’m Coming From That Crowded City

Director: Mina Salimi
Runtime: 12:04 min

Genre: Drama, Foreign, Iranian
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St. Reading, PA
Tickets: $10

Iranian Short Films

Goodbye Olympic

Director: Mojtaba poorbakhsh
Runtime: 18:37 minutes

Maria is a girl whom she is a champion of Kayak; she is waiting for dispatching to the Olympics Qualification which held in France. The schedule of dispatching the kayaking team will be called off because of some troubles.

Synthesis

Director: Mohammad Towrivarian
Runtime: 15 minutes

A poor family has a child with a disability. Due to his inability to pay for medical expenses, the father and his brother decide to kill their child. The father tries to do his job at night, but the mother, who is suspected of his behavior, goes to the road with them.
On the way, the father sees his brother and tells him that he regrets his decision, but his brother humiliates him and makes him miserable and miserable. The brother goes after his brother.
In the morning, he takes care of the woman and puts her to sleep, and picks up the child and puts him on the sidewalk. When she returns to her husband, she is confronted with the scene of her murder.

Inhale

Director: Nasser Zamiri
Runtime: 19:30 minutes

Ebrahim’s chronic insomnia has caused tension between him and his wife, Marziyeh.

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Hermit

Director: Omid Mirzaei
Runtime: 15 minutes

I am American

Director: Omid Mirzaei
Runtime: 15 minutes

ISIS captures an American reporter. He will soon experience the meaning of peace in a different way.

Today is Friday

Director: Mohammad Ahangar
Runtime: 14 minutes

Nader and Saed are arguing with each other because of their problems in the company.
But suddenly something happens which causes some changes to their destiny.

I Come From That Crowded City

Director: Mina Salimi
Runtime: 12:04 minutes

Screening Info

Date: Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 2:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Ape Canyon

 

Ape Canyon

Director: Joshua Land & Victor Fink
Runtime: 73 minutes

n the midst of a quarter-life crisis, Cal Piker drags his big sister Samantha along on a Bigfoot-hunting expedition. And nothing – not the adventure turning out to be a scam, not being abandoned in the woods to die, not a confrontation with an uncommonly large nuclear physicist, not a police pursuit, and certainly not Samantha’s protests – will stop Cal from making his way to Ape Canyon.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 8:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Tarab

Tarab

Tarab

Director: Jennifer Hanley
Runtime: 88 minutes

Mena Isaac is a single, successful Lebanese-American lawyer, married to her career. Sarah, her mother, desperately wants grandchildren and even arranges some “dates” (including, unwittingly, one with a gay Lebanese man). But Mena is getting older and Sarah is losing hope. Although, the Isaacs are a modern Lebanese-American family, their conservative cultural roots are not completely left behind.
Mena has been working so hard on her career that she doesn’t notice that she has lost something. Her natural spark and light have disappeared. But all of that is about to change when she signs up for belly dance classes. Mena finds she is a natural and soon her teacher asks her to perform at a local restaurant/club. Mena has serious misgivings: No one in her family would dance like this in public. Belly dancers are considered one step up from prostitutes, although ironically, they are often hired to dance at family weddings and events. And what if they find out at her conservative law firm? But, Mena is starting to feel something she thought she’d lost forever, reclaiming some piece of herself, and just maybe that is worth the risk?!
Soon, she’s dancing regularly at the restaurant. Her co-workers start to notice something different about her: Does she have a new boyfriend? Extra B12? Mena laughs them off, but how long can she keep up this double life? Inevitably, her secret is revealed in a very public way. Will she lose her job and family’s respect? Will she have to give up the one thing that has reconnected her to herself?!
Tarab will have broad appeal to audiences across many demographics. It touches upon universal themes that transcend age, gender, and cultural differences: Secrets long held, dreams deferred and rediscovered later in life, and the conflict between family obligations vs. personal fulfillment.
Tarab is Arabic for musical ecstasy, bliss, or enchantment; an extreme emotional transformation leading to intense feelings of joy, sorrow, or sadness; a concept with no exact English translation. Its timely themes include the societal and cultural pressure upon women to conform to certain norms, acceptance of homosexuality in Arabic culture, and the difficulties women face in owning their sexuality in today’s climate.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 6pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

The Worry Doll

The Worry Doll

The Worry Doll

Director: Brandon C. Lay
Runtime: 110 minutes

After a series of unexplainable night terrors Tess (Syd Stauffer) becomes obsessed with finding her estranged sister, Janie (Karisa Hope). Tess and her best friend Ashlyn (Kate Huges) enlist her sister’s ex girlfriend Tick-Tick (Jenna McBreen) to help search for her in the drug underworld.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 4pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Immigration & Refugees Block

Are You Volleyball?

Are You Volleyball?!

Director: Mohammad Bakhshi
Runtime: 15 minutes

A group of Arabian spoken asylum seekers arrive to an English spoken country border and can’t keep going. They conflict with border soldiers everyday till a deaf-mute baby becomes a catalyst for better communication between two groups.

Elephantbird

Elephantbird

Director: Masoud Soheili
Runtime: 15 minutes

A mini-bus is on a journey across the mountains to Kabul. Each person on the bus has a reason to take this journey. An old man is traveling to give a turkey to his grandchild, as his last wish before dying. However, the main road is blocked by insurgents. They decide to use an alternative road, which is not very secure, and there is still the possibility of getting caught by insurgents.

Blending into the American Dream

Director: David Helfer Wells​
Runtime: 4:37 minutes

Go inside the Providence Granola Project and hear directly from recent refugees on how making great food empowers them (and the larger community as well.) The workers and founders of Providence Granola Project work hard to meet several bottom lines: making the best granola and building a sustainable business while expanding the job skills of newly arrived refugees.

The Spirit of the Hive

The Spirit of the Hive

Director: Charles de Ville
Runtime: 48 minutes

A small community lives in the village of Duva-Yoo, in the middle of Mexican mountains of Oaxaca.

Its population growth is fast and immigration, self-evidently illegal, where a part of its inhabitants who are attracted to the American dream plays an important but sneaky role in its development, by building the village on one side and destroying it on the other.

Some inhabitants want to free themselves from this dependence and protect their traditional way of life. In turn, they must focus their efforts on the development of a local economy, in search of a long-term viable solution.


Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 2, 2019 at 12pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Original Sin

Original Sin film

Original Sin

Director: Jean Lee
Runtime: 75 minutes

After moving to Spain for her husband, Eva, a Paraguayan woman of class and elegance who always behaves in an appropriate way, finds herself bored, unhappy, and sexually frustrated. After Eva compulsively buys a provocative and offensive piece of art the painter shows up to hand-deliver his work. Their sexual tension grows until they inevitably end up in bed. When Eva’s husband returns home early, an absurd battle of strengths and weaknesses among the three characters ensues.


Screening Info

Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7:30pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Female Filmmakers

Nineteen Ninety Nine

Nineteen Ninety Nine

Director: Grace Uther
Runtime: 12:40 minutes

When a teenage girl starts to feel unsafe at a party on New Year’s Eve, 1999, she wants to get out of there. Amongst the hype of the new millennium dawning and the fear of Y2K chaos, should she trust her instincts, or is she just being paranoid?

The Resistance

The Resistance

Director: Natasha Straley
Runtime: 13:25 minutes

In a dystopian near-future, the USA has been overthrown by a cabal known as The Regime Republic. Best friends Emma and Chloe, looking for a way to fight back, start an underground resistance movement and are ready to spread their message. But when their very first broadcast attempt is foiled by The Regime, they must find a new way to get their message out. Will they succeed, or will the Resistance be dead in the water?

Afraid

Afraid

Director: Lisbet Byler & Grace Wagner
Runtime: 3:31 minutes

AFRAID tells the story of Anna, a young 20-something coffee shop manager, as she closes up for the night and heads to her car in a nearby parking garage. Will Anna make it? Or will her worst fears become reality?

Pieces and Pieces

Director: Alyssa M Pearson
Runtime: 17:09 minutes

A veteran struggles to adapt back into the life she thought she was fighting for.

Casualties

Casualties

Director: Holly Voges
Runtime: 10:30 minutes

CASUALTIES is the story of James, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD. Haunted by the trauma of the past, he struggles to know what is real in the present.

Shatter the Silence

Shatter the Silence

Director: Cheryl Allison
Runtime: 56:38 minutes

Grassroots change starts at the community level and while the film focuses on the Dallas, TX. area, the message is universal. The use of archival footage including suffragettes, Anita Hill, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lady Bird Johnson, JFK and more helps support the modern day voices of women and men as the film weaves together a story of the ongoing fight for gender equality dating back 100+ years. Inspired by the national reckoning that occurred for women in the Fall of 2017, the film highlights prominent ministers, politicians, teachers, students, social workers and more as they discuss the #metoo movement, rape culture, the role of the church and initiatives taking place within the community and State to bring-forth change.


Screening Info

Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 at 7:30pm
Venue: The GoggleWorks Boscov Theater
Address: 201 Washington St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Latino Block

Outside Time

Outside Time (Afuera Del Tiempo)

Director: Marco Velez Esquivia
Runtime: 90 minutes

A man returns to the past to stop his girlfriend from ending their relationship before he can propose to her but every time he comes back she breaks up with him giving him a different excuse. Now he has to change according to her so he can marry her.

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Escucha (Listen)

Listen (Escucha)

Director: Ernesto González Díaz
Runtime: 6 minutes

A couple of sound engineers have stopped paying attention to each other. During a film shooting they see themselves in the actors who play the scene, which makes them understand the importance of listening to one another.

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Diegesis

Diegesis

Director: Gabriel Angulo
Runtime: 7 minutes

A couple of college students are in the car. They finished their night walk of the day. When the girl is about to say goodbye, the boy interrupts her and says that she cannot say goodbye, because he have something to confess: they are fictional characters inside a movie.

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Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 6pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

Bored In The USA

Bored In The USA

Director: Mike Finazzo
Runtime: 82 minutes

“Life is simpler in black and white.” This line, uttered midway through Bored in the U.S.A., could well serve as the film’s thesis statement. Following the budding friendship of Kelly (Kelly Lloyd, Wits End), a bored housewife, and Chris (Chris Milner, Comedy Central), a displaced Londoner, this film takes an honest look at life by disposing of conventional on-screen relationships. Bored exposes the inherent drama in the silences between what people say and don’t say to each other.

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Screening Info

Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 at 8pm
Venue: Reading IMAX Theater
Address: 30 N 2nd St, Reading
Tickets: $10

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