Film (2016)
Written and directed by
Barry Jenkins
A touching account of an African-American boy who is brutalized for his homosexual inclinations.
Movies
A Man Called Ove
Film (2015)
Written and directed by
Hannes Holm
Based on the novel of the same name
by Fredrik Backman
Opening in the Boston area
October 14, 2016
Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge
A comedic drama about a depressed elderly widower whose life begins to change when a young family moves in next door.
Hannes Holm
Screenwriter/Director of
A Man Called Ove
Interview
A conversation with the director of the newly released film, A Man Called Ove, Sweden’s official 2017 entry for foreign language film at the Academy Awards.
Up and Coming: Father Joseph
Film (2015)
Documentary
Written and directed by
Jeff Kaufman
Boston screening and
panel discussion,
including the filmmaker
The Boston Foundation
75 Arlington St #1000, Boston
October 7, 2016, 6pm on
An account of the career of an inspiring Haitian social activist who, on a variety of fronts, has stimulated a whole range of social programs.
Florence Foster Jenkins
Film (2016)
Directed by Stephen Frears
Screenplay by Nicholas Martin
With Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant
A hilarious and remarkably touching comedy based in fact, about a society lady who, in the 1940s, thought she could sing though she couldn’t, but made courageous though vain attempts to prove she could.