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MONDAY
JUNE 9
7:00PM
Regina Public Library Film Theatre
2311 12th Avenue
 
Odile Bénédicte Delgéhier, France, 2005, 35mm, 10 min. A small bakery off a country road somewhere in France. Behind the counter Odile, daydreaming and waiting for customers. Suddenly, a character dressed in black leather enters the shop, takes off her crash helmet and shakes her long red hair. Odile is stunned but she recognises this beautiful women from their schooldays together when she played pranks on the red-haired girl and had to pay for it dearly. Although the biker does not appear to remember Odile, she leaves a goodbye kiss on the glass door, behind which Odile dares to break free. French with English subtitles
Love My Life Koji Kawano, Japan, 2006, video, 96 min. Imagine coming out to your parents - only to have them come out to you! Effervescent and forthright Ichiko decides it's time to come out. A languages and translation major, she brings her competitive, serious law school girlfriend Eri (Blue's Asami Imijuku) home to meet her father (real-life Japanese author Ira Shida), a famous translator and writer. He gently upstages Ichiko's coming out with his revelation that both he and her mother are gay. Astonished Ichiko seeks affirmation and reassurance, uncertain how to interpret her parents' secrecy. Meanwhile, Eri suggests that both of them separate until after her incredibly demanding law-school exams, and a squabble ensues with Ichiko challenging Eri's motivations. Based on manga-ista Ebine Yamaji's runaway hit series, Koji Kawano's brisk light touch keeps pace with a bouncy soundtrack by the all-girl Bangles-esque group The Noodles. A film about an unbelievably queer family, Kawano tackles Japanese homophobia and sexism in this sweetly upbeat hello-kitty comedy about two women trying to keep it together. Japanese with English subtitles
Sponsor: Regina Public Library


MONDAY
JUNE 9
9:00PM
Regina Public Library Film Theatre
2311 12th Avenue
 
I Don't Want to Sleep Alone Tsai Ming-Liang, Malaysia/China/Taiwan/France/Austria, 2006, 35mm, 115 min.

After being robbed, attacked, and left for dead one night in Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao-kang, a homeless Chinese man is rescued and taken in by some Bangladeshi workers. One of them, Rawang, an immigrant worker, who lives in the shell of a modernist building abandoned during construction, nurses him, and lets him sleep beside him on an old mattress that he had found on the street. Rawang`s feelings for his patient may or may not be sexual, but there's definitely something like lust in the eyes of Chyi, a waitress in a run-down old coffee shop, when they light upon the recovering Hsiao Kang. As Hsiao-kang slowly recovers, he finds himself caught between Rawang and Chyi and so a triangle forms as a blanket of noxious fog settles on the city and everyone has trouble breathing. Simultaneously erotic and comical, the film underpins director Tsai`s deadpan allegory with hints of social realism.

Shooting for the first time in Malaysia after seven features set primarily in Taipei, director Tsai Ming-Liang returns to his birthplace with a film unlike any of his prior works. Different in texture, mood and feel, and featuring a cast of multi-cultural and multi-lingual characters, the vivid, crowded, neon-lit streets of Kuala Lumpur come alive as only master director Tsai Ming-Liang can capture... As with most of Tsai's films, actor Lee Kang-Sheng is featured, this time in dual roles as both a homeless bum and a paralyzed young man.

I Don't Want to Sleep Alone was one of seven films commissioned for the Wiener Mozart New Crowned Hope Festival, Vienna 2006.

Taiwanese, Malay, Mandarin, Bengali with English subtitles
Sponsor: Regina Public Library