FRIDAY & SATURDAY:
7 pm Film, Plus Discussion with Amy & Will Cronise-Mead, Yogadharma
9:15 pm Film Only

SUNDAY MATINEE:
5 pm, Film, Plus Discussion, Director, John Halpern

Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox (FLYING: CONFESSIONS OF A FREE WOMAN), MY REINCARNATION chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan Master allowed such complete access to his private life and it is doubtful that another ever will. With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny. English, Italian, and Tibetan with English subtitles

1 hr 22 mins, rated NR

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Amy & Will Cronise-Mead: Trained in Vinyasa, Anusara, Tibetan Heart Yoga and Astanga, draw from their combined decades of practice to teach others this path to ultimate happiness. Taught with passion, grace and a sense of humor, their classes are an invitation to make the physical practice more meaningful. They offer public yoga classes, workshops, teacher trainings, private lessons, and therapeutic yoga for every body. Based in Bucks County, PA, they also travel to teach around the country and the world. Amy is also a staff member of the Yoga Studies Institute, offering their teacher trainings in Tibetan Heart Yoga. Amy and Will also offer dharma teachings, meditation and spiritual partnership/parenting. Courses include the entire canon of the Asian Classics Institute, and Diamond Mountain’s Advanced Tantric Series (prerequisites apply.)

John Halpern, has directed several noteworthy films on Buddhism including, REFUGE and TALKING WITH THE DALAI LAMA. His videos have been exhibited at the Rena Sofia Musem, Madrid, the National Film Theater of London and at the Watari Museum, Tokyo. His early films were shown theatrically in New York’s Millenium Theater, the Edinburgh Festival, Scotland and at Documenta 6, Germany.

Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 8:35 pm
Sunday matinee: 5 pm

When Luna, a baby orca, gets separated from his pod and unexpectedly starts making contact with people along a scenic fjord in British Columbia, no one can quite believe it. As word spreads about Luna, people become torn between their love for the lonely young whale and fears that human contact might harm him. Narrated by Ryan Reynolds, THE WHALE is an unforgettable documentary film about the mysteries, the dangers — and the promise — of friendship across forbidden boundaries.

1 hr 25 mins, rated G

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Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 8:45
Sunday matinee: 5 pm

In his wry and warm-hearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, legendary Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past, The Match Factory Girl) pays tribute to the Gallic cinema he loves with a film that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Michel Carné. Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics’ prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Kaurismäki’s 16th feature concerns a young African refugee (newcomer Blondin Miguel) who is thrown by fate into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-read bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation.

French w/ English subtitles. 1 hr 33 mins, rated NR

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Friday & Saturday: 7 pm; 8:55 pm
Sunday matinee: 5 pm

The directorial debut of William Monahan, the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of The Departed, London Boulevard follows an ex-con trying to make a fresh start in a relationship with a reclusive actress. A sexy, stylish gangster thriller bristling with wit and brutal intrigue, London Boulevard stars Colin Farrell and Keira Knightley as star-crossed lovers who run afoul of one of London’s most vicious crime bosses.

1 hr 42 mins, rated R

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SPECIAL EVENT!

1:30 pm Film Plus Q & A

SCREENING SIMULTANEOUSLY WITH THE FILM’S WORLD PREMIERE AT FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER IN NEW YORK CITY!

A look at the Joffrey Ballet, the groundbreaking cultural treasure known as the first truly American dance company. Narrated by Tony® and Emmy® Award winner Mandy Patinkin and directed by Bob Hercules (Bill T. Jones: A Good Man), the film documents how the Joffrey revolutionized American ballet by daringly combining modern dance with traditional ballet technique, combining art with social statement and setting ballets to pop and rock music scores. The film features rare excerpts from many seminal Joffrey works including Astarte, Trinity and Billboards.

1 hr 30 mins, rated NR

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