ACV MEMBERS RECEIVE DISCOUNT TO:
"FILM COMMENT SELECTS"
FEB. 15-28 | Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center

The line up comes from countries as far-flung as Iran, China, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Austria, Greece, Thailand and Sri Lanka, and features work by new filmmakers like Vimukthi Jayasundara, as well as proven auteurs like Stanley Kwan. Film Comment Selects will premiere Kwan's epically scaled story of women, EVERLASTING REGRET, which begins in Shanghai in the late 1940s and ends after the cultural revolution. Also from China is Wang Xiaoshuai's SHANGHAI DREAMS, another period piece and a coming of age story set in a rural Chinese steel town during the 1980s, and KEKEXILI: MOUNTAIN PATROL, from Lu Chuan, about a group of environmental activists trying their best to defend the endangered Himalayan antelope from evil poachers.

From across the sea in Japan come three extraordinary films. Mysterious master Kiyoshi Kurosawa's LOFT is a ghost story about a writer seeking peace and quiet in a country house whose life is overtaken by strange occurrences at the research facility next door. Masahiro Kobayashi's BASHING, a sleeper success at Cannes, is about a humanitarian aid worker who has been released by her kidnappers in Iraq and returns to Japan not in triumph but disgrace. From the director of the celebrated Eureka comes the mind-bending ELI, ELI, LEMA SABACHTARI? a post-apocalyptic story about a duo of experimental musicians (Masaya Nakahara and art house matinee idol Tadanobu Asano) whose wailing, feedback-driven wall of sound might just destroy the virus that is unleashing suicidal impulses in its victims.

Three short films by international masters Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Wordly Desires), Shinya Tsukamoto (Haze), and Song Il-gon (Magician(s) ) commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival will be shown. Also screening is the New York premiere of Sri Lankan filmmaker Vimukthi Jayasundara's acclaimed debutTHE FORESAKEN LAND, which won the Certain Regard competition at this year's Cannes Film Festival -- "a spare, poetically fragmented, and haunting look at life in the Sri Lankan hinterlands in the aftermath of decades of brutal civil war, where the specter of violence still stalks the land," says Smith.

From Iran comes the exquisite and haunting ONE NIGHT, the debut film from Niki Karimi. It’s a lyrical story of a young woman (played by the filmmaker) who has been sent away from her mother’s house for the night and spends hours being driven through the streets of Tehran by a succession of lonely men.

All films will screen at the Walter Reade Theater, located on the plaza level of Lincoln Center at Broadway and 65th St. in Manhattan.

TICKETS $10 for adults, $7 for students, $6 for ACV/Film Society of Lincoln Center members, and $5 for seniors for weekday matinees before 6 p.m.

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For more information, go to www.filmlinc.com or call (212) 875-5600.