2010 films

Showtime: Sunday, January 17, 2010, 3:00pm

Director: Andrea Staka
Original Title: Das Fräulein
Country: Germany

Ruža left Belgrade more than 25 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. Now in her fifties, she has completely detached herself from the past. She owns a cafeteria and maintains an orderly, joyless existence. Mila, a waitress there, is a good-humored Croatian woman who also emigrated decades ago, but, unlike Ruža, she dreams of returning to a house on the Croatian coast. Both of them receive a jolt when Ana, a young, itinerant woman who has fled Sarajevo, breezes into the cafeteria looking for work. Ruža hires her but is annoyed by Ana's impulsive and spirited efforts to inject life into the cafeteria. Gradually the acrimony will dissipate, as Ana, who hides a tragic secret under her passionate spirit, begins to thaw Ruža's chill, and their relationship will change both women in ways they never anticipated.

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Showtime: Monday, January 18, 2010, 7:00pm

Director(s): This Lüscher
Country: Switzerland

On a Swiss alp a man watches the finals of the european football-championship 2008 with Switzerland playing. Just before the game ends, there is a heavy bang and the TV turns black. The man discovers that the ball from the game is stuck in his satellite dish. Suddenly HE is in control of the outcome of the game. Read more »

Showtime: Monday, January 18, 2010, 2:00pm

Director(s): Emmanuel Shirinian
Country: Canada

Rabbi Yosef Slomon’s life has become very ordinary. His grooming rituals are indistinguishable from his prayers at the synagogue. The once vibrant Rabbi has become ineffectual until a catchy, ubiquitous pop tune invades his sould and threatens to send him scrambling to the dance floor or back to the Torah. Read more »