From Acclaimed Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann!Oblivion (El Olvido)
Oblivion is a film about waiters and bartenders in old Lima restaurants who are fighting a silent struggle against the decline of their lives and of their country. This latest documentary from Heddy Honigmann (Forever, Metal and Melancholy) focuses on Peru's capital city of Lima, revealing its startling contrasts of wealth and poverty, and how its poorest citizens have survived decades of economic crisis, violence, denial of workers' rights, and corruption.
Runs Friday, May 8 - Thursday, May 14
Limited Engagement!Private Century
The political and social upheavals of twentieth-century Czechoslovakia -- war and occupation, the twin specters of Nazism and Communism, the Velvet Revolution -- have never been more intimately rendered than in Jan Šikl's landmark eight-part series, Private Century.
Composed entirely of family home movies, still photographs, letters, and diaries dating from the 1920s to the 1960s, this wonderous 8-part documentary series of films explores, in Chekhovian fashion, how sweeping historical events transform the private lives of ordinary people, and how small domestic pleasures can crystallize into profound and enduring memories.
Saturday, May 9 and Sunday, May 10 only!
One Show Only!Inquiring Nuns
Two nuns quiz Chicagoans' on their happiness in this classic 1968 documentary from Kartemquin Films!
"A quite profound and moving experience...a marvelous revelation of our time and ourselves" -Chicago Daily News
Sunday, May 10th at 12:30pm
Directors Gordon Quinn and Jerry Temaner will be in attendance, along with Kathleen Westling--formerly Sister Arne from the film!
For showtimes, tickets and more, visit the Cinematheque online.
Facets Cinematheque, 1517 West Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614
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