Downtown Huntsville Library
Winter Dreams: An International Film Series
Monday, December 16, 2024 5:30 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
After being teased by a bunch of teen boys whose rock band practices at the local youth center, two 13-year-old girls decide to form a punk band of their own out of spite – despite the fact that they have no musical skills whatsoever – and rope an unpopular girl in their class who can play guitar into their band.
We Are the Best! was directed by acclaimed Swedish director Lukas Moodysson, who adapted the screenplay from his wife Coco Moodysson’s graphic novel memoir about growing up in Stockholm in the 1980s.
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)
December 16: We Are the Best! (Sweden, 2013)