UK
Director: Stephen Frears

When Tamara Drewe sashays back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside down. Tamara

111 min.

France/Iran
Director: Nader T. Homayoun

Ibrahim scrapes by as a beggar on the streets of Tehran with a baby under his arm and the sorrow of his wife’s death on his lips. But not everything is what it seems: the baby is a mere prop, rented from a local gang lord. When the child is kidnapped and Ibrahim is unable to pay back the bloodthirsty owner, he must go to extreme lengths just to save his own skin in this gritty street drama.

Farsi with subtitles, 95 min.

USA
Director: Julie Taymor

In her big-screen adaptation of Shakespeare’s mystical thriller The Tempest, Oscar®

110 min.

Italy
Director: Valerio Mieli

This charming love story establishes an agreeable rhythm all its own as it chronicles the romantic misadventures of two Venetians in a series of elegant vignettes. From their first chance meeting on a riverboat, Camilla and Silvestro find their lives inextricably linked as they find and lose each other over a period of 10 years. As time passes, Ten Winters journeys from Venice to Moscow and back without losing sight of the delicate, mysterious inner workings of the heart.

Italian, Russian with subtitles, 99 min.

USA
Director: Mark Landsman

It’s time for some of that serious funky soul, ya dig? This electrifying, award-winning documentary celebrates the power of music and African American culture in the ’70s through the story of an inner-city high school funk band that rose to worldwide prominence on the back of one charismatic, life-changing teacher. Now the band’s getting back together to honor their beloved 92-year-old mentor, but can they still bring the funk after 35 years?

84 min.