Enjoy the best of worldwide cinema every Friday with selections critics recognize as some of the finest cinema from across the globe. New to the series are independent films and documentaries, further expanding the audience experience. Films are screened with English subtitles at 4 and 7 p.m.
The International Film Fridays series is made possible in part by the Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation’s Robert H. Gartner Cultural Endowment Fund.
APRIL
Celebrating diversity as Carlsbad Reads Together.
April 5
The Pez Outlaw
Documentary, Comedy
(2022, PG, 1h 25m)
Steve Glew spent the 1990s smuggling rare pez dispensers into the USA from Eastern Europe, making millions of dollars. It was all magical until his arch-nemesis, The Pezident decided to destroy him.
April 12
The Past/ Le passé
France, Drama, Mystery
(2013, PG-13, 2h 10m)
An Iranian man deserts his French wife and her two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.
April 19
Billion Dollar Heist
Documentary
(2023, NR, 1h 24m)
The story of one of the most daring cyber heists of all time, the Bangladeshi Central Bank theft. Tracing the origins of cyber-crime, from basic turn of the millennium credit card fraud by individuals to global criminal organizations.
April 26
The Taste of Things/ La passion de Dodin Bouffant
France, Drama, History, Romance
(2023, NR, 2h 25m)
The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet with whom she has been working for over the last 20 years.
MAY
Remember when?
May 3
Judy Blume Forever
Documentary, Biography
(2023, NR, 1h 37m)
An exploration of the influence and creativity of noteworthy author Judy Blume and her impact on pop culture and the occasional controversy.
May 10
Duckweed/ Cheng feng po lang
China, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
(2017, NR, 1h 42m)
In the near-death after an accident, a sports car driver time-travelled back to the 1990s to meet his severe father and never-seen mother in a small Chinese town.
May 17
The Duke
United Kingdom, Biography, Comedy, Crime
(2020, R, 1h 35m)
In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, steals Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
May 24
Woman in Motion
Documentary, Biography
(2019, NR, 1h 36m)
Nichelle Nichols' daunting task to launch a blitz for NASA, recruiting 8,000 of the nation's best and brightest, including the astronauts who became the first Black, Asian and Latino men and women to fly in space.
May 31
Pumping Iron
Documentary, Sport
(1977, PG, 1h 26m)
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lou Ferrigno face off in a competition for the title of Mr. Olympia in this critically acclaimed film that made Schwarzenegger a
household name.
JUNE
There are no limits to our dreams.
June 7
T11 Incomplete
Independent, Drama
(2020, TV-14, 1h 45m)
A visiting home health aide and recovering alcoholic, strives to rebuild her broken life, only to have it fall apart once again when she falls in love with her young, paraplegic patient then betrays her trust.
June 14
Sam and Mattie Make a Zombie Movie
Documentary
(2021, NR, 1h 47m)
Two teenagers with Downs Syndrome escape their social isolation by convincing the entire state of Rhode Island to help them make an extremely questionable zombie movie.
June 21
Adam
Independent, Comedy, Drama, Romance
(2009, PG-13, 1h 39m)
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
June 28
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Documentary
(2022, NR, 2h 2m)
Follows the life of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty who was greatly responsible for the opioid epidemic's unfathomable death toll.
