International Cinema Series
ICS Movie: Photograph
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau St, PRINCETON, NJ, United StatesFollowing his quiet, charming drama The Lunchbox, director Ritesh Batra returns with this bittersweet story set in Mumbai. A struggling street photographer is pressured by his aging grandmother to find a wife. In order to appease her, he recruits a stranger to pose as his fiancé, but the two form a bond that neither expected. PHOTOGRAPH is a subtle, layered story about social expectations and human connection.
ICS Movie: Birds of Passage
Princeton Garden Theatre 160 Nassau St, PRINCETON, NJ, United StatesFrom the filmmakers behind 2016’s dazzling Embrace of the Serpent comes another poetic look at South American history. Set in Colombia during a volatile decade of drug trafficking, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that threatens their lives and culture. BIRDS OF PASSAGE is bold and powerful filmmaking that documents a forgotten history of indigenous people in the 20th century.