Saturday, Nov. 7, don't miss Remnants and Umbrellas: Dance & Film Installation in Plaza de España Inspired by the work of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy, during Sleepless Night Miami Beach!

Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo)
Directed by Kore-Eda Hirokazu/Japan/2009/114mins. With Hiroshi Abe, Yui Natsukawa, You, Kazuya Takahashi

Beloved director Kore-Eda Hirokazu (“After Life,” “Nobody Knows”) returns to the forefront of world cinema with “Still Walking,” an exquisitely detailed family drama. The film was one of the most critically acclaimed works at the Toronto, Tribeca, and San Francisco International Film Festivals. Lushly photographed, and with an expert script that incorporates elements of director Kore-Eda's personal experience, “Still Walking” is a quiet pleasure unlike anything else you will see this year. Recalling the delicate splendor of Yasujiro Ozu's “Tokyo Story,” Kore-Eda shows complete mastery of his characters while revealing the complex dynamics of an ultimately loving family. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Friday, Nov. 6, Sunday, Nov. 8, and Sunday, Nov. 9 at 7 p.m.

Amreeka
Directed by Cherian Dabis/USA/Canada/96mins. With Nisreen Faour, Melkar Muallem, Hiam Abbass

“Amreeka” chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois.  In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle. Told with heartfelt humor by writer-director Cherien Dabis in her feature film debut, “Amreeka” is a universal journey into the lives of a family of immigrants. In English and Arabic with English subtitles.
Friday, Nov. 6, Sunday, Nov. 8, and Monday, Nov. 9 at 9:15 p.m.

Vu Par Varda Series
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Directed by Jacques Demy/France/1964/91 mins. With Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon, Marc Michel

Considered one of the most beautiful color films ever made, Jacques Demy's masterpiece of music and romance — and winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize — catapulted the 20-year-old Catherine Deneuve to international stardom. This restoration, supervised by Demy's widow Agnès Varda, restores one of the great French classics to its former glory. In French with English subtitles.
Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8:30 p.m.

SLEEPLESS NIGHT
Remnants and Umbrellas: Dance & Film Installation in Plaza de España
Inspired by the work of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy

This site-specific kaleidoscope of movement, music, and film on Española Way at Plaza de España is produced by Thought Loom and the MBC, and incorporates Jacques Demy's “Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and Agnès Varda's films from the Nouvelle Vague period. Admission to this celebration of the moving image fused with dance, colors and rich black and white graze sparse canvases; mirror-clad palms and umbrellas become screens which reflect images of an era as seen through the eyes of two visionaries who changed the world of cinema is free.
Saturday, Nov. 7 at 9, 10 and 11 p.m.

Who Does She Think She Is?
Directed by Pamela Tanner Boll & Nancy Kennedy/73mins

This is a groundbreaking, national one-time only screening event for the award-winning documentary “Who Does She Think She Is?” (from the producers of “Born Into Brothels”) which follows five women artists as they navigate the challenges of making work outside the elite upper echelons of the art world.  It examines some of the most pressing issues of our time:  parenting and creativity, partnering and independence, economics and art. This event will also feature a live interactive panel discussion between national women leaders that will be taking place in New York City.  The audience will be able to see the panelists in real time and ask questions to them via cuberspace, which will be broadcast online.
Sunday, Nov. 8 at 3:30 p.m.

Miami International Film Festival and Miami Book Fair International present “The Big Read Film Series” focusing on Native American Cinema
The Wind and the Water (Burwa Dii Ebo)
A film by Vero Bollow & the Igar Yala Collective/Panama, 100 min.

A young indigenous teen seeking his fortune in Panama City struggles to acclimate to chaotic urban life, where he becomes enamored with a girl from a wealthy, assimilated family. Later, he encounters his crush once again — but this time the landscape and tradition define their interaction. In Kuna and Spanish with English subtitles. Free admission.
Tuesday, Nov. 10 at 7 p.m.

Silents Please: Silent Film with musical accompaniment
Margarette’s Feast (A Festa de Margarette)
Directed by Renato Falcao/Brazil/2002/90mins. With Hique Gomez, Ilana Kaplan, Carmen Silva

A modern silent masterpiece using the style and techniques of Brazil’s cinematic past, “Margarette’s Feast” tells an allegory of Brazil’s social struggles without words while making dazzling use of exhilarating Brazilian music. After losing his job, goodhearted but penniless Pedro comes into possession of a miraculous suitcase that never runs out of money, allowing him to throw an extravagant birthday party for his wife. Silent film with English subtitles. The film is accompanied by Brazilain guitar by Cezar Santana.
Wednesday, Nov. 11 at 8:30 p.m.

A Taste of Lars Von Trier Series
Period One: “The European Trilogy”
Europa (Zentropa)
Directed by Lars von Trier/Denmark/1991/112mins. With Jean-Marc Barr, Barbara Suvoka, Max von Sydow, Udo Kier

“You will now listen to my voice . . . On the count of ten you will be in Europa . . .” So begins Max von Sydow’s opening narration to Lars von Trier’s hypnotic “Europa” (known in the U.S. as “Zentropa”), a fever dream in which American pacifist Leopold Kessler (Jean-Marc Barr) stumbles into a job as a sleeping-car conductor for the Zentropa railways in a Kafkaesque 1945 postwar Frankfurt. With its gorgeous black-and-white and color imagery and meticulously recreated (if then nightmarishly deconstructed) costumes and sets, “Europa” is one of the great Danish filmmaker’s weirdest and most wonderful works, a runaway-train ride to an oddly futuristic past. In English and German with English subtitles
Thursday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.

The Miami Beach Cinematheque is located at 512 Espanola Way, Miami Beach.
For more information call 305-673-4567 or visit mbcinema.com.

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