Downtown Huntsville Library
Winter Dreams: An International Film Series
Monday, December 9, 2024 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
When a family who supplements their income with shoplifting and other petty crimes finds a neglected child outside in the cold, they invite her home for dinner…and decide to raise her as their own.
Shoplifters received the Palm d'Or (the award for best film) at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and was Japan's submission for Best International Feature Film at the 2019 Oscars.
Winter Dreams (Through Eyes of Wonder)
A series of films about dreams, both literal and figurative – hopes, reveries, desires, ambitions – and about seeing the world through eyes of wonder; in some, the dreamer is youthful and naïve, while in others worn down by experience and struggling valiantly to see the world through a different lens. Though the dreams (and the worlds from which their dreamers come) vary wildly, from the fantastical to the earthbound, those dreams lie at the heart of each film: a dream of finding real magic in a mundane world, a dream of finding friendship and a place to belong, a dream of finding a family and happiness in the midst of hardship, a dream of finding love and escaping the past, and a dream…of being able to dream at all.
November 25: The City of Lost Children (France, 1995)
December 2: 2046 (Hong Kong, 2004)
December 9: Shoplifters (Japan, 2018)