Stations of the Cross

Foreign Film Series ~ Stations of the Cross

Wednesday, August 26, 2015 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
  • Chief Theater, 813 Lincoln Ave.

The library's free foreign film series continues with an award-winning coming of age film from Germany directed by  Dietrich Brüggmann, screening at the Chief Theater.

"A thoughtful and succinctly constructed picture...Brüggemann has a sense of humor about his subject matter." – Stephanie Zacharek, The Village Voice

Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot, individual tableaus that parallel Christ's journey to his own crucifixion, Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a God she worships unquestioningly in the pious hopes of curing the autistic younger brother she adores.

In German with English subtitles.
Run time: 107 min.
The free screening includes an award-wining short & a cash bar.