Award-winning films to screen on Sunday

Two award-winning films will screen this Sunday as part of Bermuda Docs Weekend Film Series. 

A River Changes Course is winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary category at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen at 3pm. French dramedy In the House — winner of the FIPRESCI International Critics’ Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival — will screen at 5.15 pm. 

A River Changes Course, described as a “cinematically spectacular and sensory journey” is a profound portrait of Cambodians marching from their ancient culture into a globalised economy, with a focus on the human cost of this transformation. Both will screen at the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute.

In The House has been hailed by The New York Times as “one of the year’s outstanding films”. The story is about 16-year-old Claude (Ernst Unhauer) insinuates himself into the house of fellow high school student Rapha (Bastien Ughetto), writing about his family in essays that blur the lines between reality and fiction for his jaded literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini). 

Trailers of the films can be viewed at www.bermudadocs.com. Tickets are on sale now at the Oceans Gift Shop at the BUEI, or by calling 294-0204.