Popular York Public Library Film Festival adds summer series
YORK VILLAGE - The York Public Library will extend its popular Sunday Film Festival series through the summer with four exceptional award-winning films.The first presentation will be at 7 p.m. this Sunday, June 11, with the screening of "Nowhere in Africa," the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flees the Nazi regime in 1938, abandoning family and friends in a once-comfortable life in Germany to land in Kenya.
The father, Walter, an attorney, resigns himself to the role of caretaker of a working farm while his wife, Jettel, resists adjustment at every turn. By contrast, their five-year-old daughter embraces their new life, learning the local language and customs and establishing a friendship with Owuor, the farm's cook.
With the war raging in other parts of the world, the trio's relationships with their strange new environment - and each other - become increasingly complicated.
The film, written and directed by Caroline Link, and based on the best-selling autobiographical novel by Stefanie Sweig, is a vibrant, profound and honest introspection of human complexities and paradoxes. It was the winner of the 2002 Academy Award for best foreign language film, as well as five 2002 German film awards, including best film, best direction and best cinematography.
The summer film series at the York Public Library will continue with Oscar winners "Some Like it Hot" with Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe on July 9; "The Sound of Music" with Julie Andrews on Aug. 13, and "Pat and Mike," the quintessential Kate Hepburn-Spencer Tracy comedy on Sept. 10.
Admission is free, as always, and refreshments and free popcorn will be available. For further information, please call the library at 363-2818. It's more than just books.
