Norwich Community Cinema

Donald L. Oat Theater, NAC
Free of charge
Contributions appreciated
Doors: 7:00 pm
Movie: 7:30 pm

Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions … Not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jørgen’s daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between past and future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life.

After the Wedding was directed by Susanne Bier, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Sidse Babett Knudsen. The film was a critical and popular success and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film is in Danish with English subtitles.

The movie is Rated R.

Norwich Community Cinema is pleased to announce their Second Saturday Cinema night at the Norwich Arts Center’s Donald L. Oat Theater on Saturday, May 14, 2011 will be transformed into a Shorts Festival.

Short films from all over the world will be featured and bring together many different styles of film making into one incredible evening. Comedy, Drama, Animation, Documentary and many other genres will be represented throughout the evening.

The event will begin at 7:30pm and take place at the Donald L. Oat Theater in Downtown Norwich. Additional details will be forthcoming.

Tiny Furniture
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Donald L. Oat Theater, NAC
Suggested Donation: $7.00
Doors: 7:00 pm
Movie: 7:30 pm

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother’s TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who’s left her to find himself at Burning Man, a dying hamster, and her tail between her legs. Luckily, her trainwreck childhood best friend never left home, the restaurant down the block is hiring, and ill-advised romantic possibilities lurk around every corner. Aura quickly throws away her liberal-arts clogs and careens into her old/new life: a dead-end hostess job, parties on chilly East Village fire escapes, stealing twenties out of her mother’s Prada purse, pathetic Brooklyn “art shows,” prison-style tattoos done out of sheer boredom, drinking all the wine in her mother’s neatly organized cabinets, competing with her prodigious teenage sister, and desperate sex in a giant metal pipe. Surrounded on all sides by what she could become, Aura just wants someone to tell her who she is.

Lena Dunham writes, directs and stars as Aura, the girl who really wants you to know that she is having a very, very hard time. Lena’s mother, photographer Laurie Simmons, plays the fictional mother of Aura, and Dunham’s precocious sister Grace Dunham plays Nadine, Aura’s precocious sister. Alex Karpovsky and David Call are two very different but equally humiliating romantic interests; Jemima Kirke and Merritt Wever are Aura’s diametrically opposed friends. This is Dunham’s second feature film; the first, Creative Nonfiction, premiered at SXSW in March 2009.