Season Two - Spring 2015

For the second season, we got a bit more calendar-savvy as we adopted themes from the UN calender of special holidays. This produced themes like Scottish cinema (for Robbie Burn's Night), Chinese Romance (Chinese New Year), The Irish Woman (St Patrick's Day and International Women's Day) and Space Flight, (International Space Day).




1) Filth (2013)
To depict the theme of : Scottish Cinema (Robbie Burn's Night)

Scottish crime comedy drama, based upon a book by Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting.  A drug-addled, mainpulative misanthrope (James McAvoy) begins to experience increasingly severe hallucinations as he tries to solve the murder of a Japanese student.

 
2) Coming Home (2014)

To depict the theme of: Chinese Romance (Valentines Day)

Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him. 

3) Blackfish (2013)
To depict the theme of: Wildlife (International Wildlife Day)

This documentary tells the story of Tilikum, a captive killer whale that has taken the lives of several people, underscores problems within the sea-park industry, man's relationship to nature and how little has been learned about these highly intelligent mammals.
 

4) Philomena (2013)
To depict the theme of: The Irish Woman (St. Patrick's Day, International Women's Day)

In 1952, Irish Teenager Philomena, (Judi Dench) became pregnant out of wedlock and was sent to a convent. When her baby, Anthony, was a toddler, the nuns took Philomena's child and away from her and put him up for adoption in the United States. For the next 50 years, she searched tirelessly for her son. When former BBC correspondent Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) learns of the story, he becomes her ally. They travel together to America to find Anthony and became unexpetedly close in the process.

5) Interstellar (2014)
To depict the theme of: Space Travel (International Space Day)

In Earth's future, a global crop blight and second Dust Bowl are slowly rendering the planet uninhabitable. Professor Brand, a brilliant NASA physicist, is working on plans to save mankind by transporting Earth's population to a new home via a wormhole. But first, Brand must send former NASA pilot Cooper and a team of researchers through the wormhole and across the galaxy to find out which of three planets could be mankind's new home.

6) Going Clear: Scientology and the prison of belief (2005)
To depict the theme of: science/religion

An in-depth look at the inner-workings of the Church of Scientology. Directed by Alex Gibney, it is based on Lawrence Wright's book Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief (2013). Produced by HBO, the film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.