Friday Flicks with Riverside Film Festival

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On January 31, we'll be showing several short films:

The Neighbor's Window (2019) - 20min, Rated (PG): It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street. Academy Award® winner, Live Action Short Film 2020.

The Crush (2010) - 15 min, Rated (NR): In this Oscar-nominated short film, we follow Ardal -- an 8-year-old schoolboy who's in love. There's just one problem. The object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene, Ardal is heartbroken. His reaction, though, is a little unexpected. He challenges Miss Purdy's boyfriend to a duel -- to the death.

Chant d'Amour (1950) - 25 min, Rated (R): The only film made by the French novelist Jean Genet. Visually reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Belle et la Bete and Kenneth Anger's Fireworks. The story, set in a prison with three main characters, a guard and two prisoners, is a voyeuristic, confrontational, poetic masterpiece. Forbidden in France upon its release, and only available in the US in censored form and through underground distribution, UN CHANT D'AMOUR is now released from its obscurity and is presented in its complete version.

The Masterpiece (2023) - 20 min, Rated (NR): A rich couple invite two scrap dealers, a father and his son, to their house to recycle more objects.