Irene Carraway, Director of the WFFS, is delighted to announce the 2023-2024 foreign films. “Our Committee views many, many films from multiple countries so we can handpick the best 5 films for our Weston audience”, she notes. “It is time-consuming, but so rewarding to hear the positive responses we get each month.”
This year’s offerings include pictures from Bolivia, France, Denmark, Japan and Italy. They feature social issues, emotional issues, hidden secrets – all the plots that will intrigue you. The films are subtitled in English and shown at the AMC Weston 8 Theater with two starting times, 4:45 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
The first film from Bolivia, in Spanish, is “Utama”. In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Tickets will go on sale October 2 at these locations: Weston Community Center, checks only; the Weston Friends room in the Weston branch library (afternoons only), checks only, and online at www.1weston.com.
Ticket prices are – five series tickets for November 2023 – March 2024 are $40; four series tickets for December 2023-March 2024 are $35; single tickets, pending availability, at the ACGW table in the theater lobby.
Laura Dobrzanski, ACGW President, comments, “It is such a pleasure to partner with the City of Weston and the AMC Weston 8 Cinema to bring such a well-attended event. There is clearly a desire for foreign films and our community has taken the series to heart year after year.
Monday, November 13, 2023
UTAMA – 1 hr, 27 min – Spanish
In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.
Monday, December 11, 2023
PERFUMES – 1 hr 40 min – French
Anne Walberg is a master in perfumes. She creates fragrances and sells her incredible gift to many companies. She is a diva, selfish and temperamental. Guillaume is her new driver and the only one who dares facing her. This is probably why she does not fire him.
Monday, January 8, 2024
AFTER THE WEDDING – 2 hr – Danish
A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Monday, February 12, 2024
SHALL WE DANCE – 2 hr, 16 min – Japanese
A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.
Monday, March 11, 2024
VIVA LA LIBERTA – 1 hr, 34 min – Italian
When a politician disappears his (mad) twin brother is brought to replace him.
For further details, please visit www.1weston.com.
