Arts & Entertainment
The Wide, Wide World of Shorts, Presented by the Talking Pictures Festival
Evanston's Talking Pictures Festival presents an exceptional lineup of independent films from March 8-11.
Join us for a trip around the world with this diverse collection of shorts! Told with deadpan Finnish humor, Henri Savolainen’s 2B (Finland) depicts an elderly couple who eavesdrop on their neighbors, while James Cunningham’s witty animated FIRST CONTACT (New Zealand) explores why there’ve been fewer alien sightings lately. Karin longs to interrupt her daily routine as a metal factory worker in Anna Linke’s beautifully observed WORKERS LEAVING THE FACTORY (Germany). When her best friend pushes Cass to get over her ex-boyfriend, unexpected new directions open up in Becca Roth’s RAIN IN SUMMER (USA), while Rachel Mersky‘s MARTA (Czech Republic) takes us to 1980s Prague, where Marta just wants her activist dad and more cautious mom to stop quarreling. Plus great animated and fiction films from Italy, Spain, and the UK.
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