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Images courtesy of IFC Films


Images courtesy of IFC Films
Images courtesy of IFC Films

Contemporary Screen

Area and regional premieres, films fresh from the international film festival circuit, award-winners and recent audience favorites...You'll find films you won't see anywhere else in central Ohio on the Contemporary Screen schedule.

The Secret of the Grain

Cleveland International Film Festival Preview Party on March 6 at 6 PM

(Abdel Kechiche, 2007)

Fri, Mar 6 - Sat, Mar 7, 2009  |  7:00PM
Film/Video Theater

The film that swept the 2007 César Awards (the French Oscars), The Secret of the Grain is a touching and exuberantly humanistic story that captures the dreams, loves, and struggles of a large Arab immigrant family living in a French port town.

The aging male head of the family decides to open a restaurant specializing in fish couscous dishes only to be met with resistance from the local bureaucracy. (151 mins., 35mm)

33rd Cleveland International Film Festival Columbus Preview Party on March 6 at 6 PM
Join Amy Juravich, Linda Taylor, and Clay Lowe of WOSU's Open Line Weekend along with guests from the Cleveland International Film Festival (CIFF) and the Wexner Center for a special reception on March 6 beginning at 6 PM. Enjoy free food, cash bar, chances to win prizes including CIFF All-Access passes and an overnight hotel stay, previews of this year’s festival films, and more.

To RSVP to the reception, please e-mail Michele Mooney at mmooney@wexarts.org.

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