Cinéfest Sudbury is hosting A Window on the World, a mini-festival featuring six international films over a three-day period from Nov. 14 to 15 at Silver City.
Joyeux Noel - Nov. 14, 6:45 pm
On Christmas Eve, 1914, in Northern France, officers and
soldiers from Scotland, Germany and France, who fought each
other from trenches barely 100 metres apart on a daily basis,
put down their weapons to share wine and food, exchange
photographs and memories and play a game of soccer in the
snow.
The Science of Sleep - Nov. 14, 9:15 pm
Life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane when
he returns to his childhood home with the promise of a great
job. Wildly creative, his fanciful and sometimes disturbing
dream life constantly threatens to usurp his waking world.
While the job fails to meet expectations, he does strike up a
relationship with his neighbour, Stephanie. As their connection
blossoms, the confidence he exudes in his fanciful dream life
begins bleeding into his real life. But just as everything is
looking up, his insecurities raise their ugly head.
Scoop - Nov. 15, 6:45 pm
The late U.K. journalist Joe Strombel is being mourned by his
colleagues even as, stuck in limbo, Joe remains committed to
pursuing a hot tip on the identity of "the Tarot Card Killer"
at large in London. But how can his legwork get done now? Via
the very much alive Sondra Pransky, an American journalism
student visiting friends in London. During a stage performance
by another American, magician Sid Waterman, Sondra is shocked
to find herself able to see and hear Joe.
The Lives of Others - Nov. 15, 9:15 pm
Set in East Berlin, November 1984, five before its downfall,
the former East-German government ensured its claim to power
with a ruthless system of control and surveillance.
Party-loyalist Captain Gerd Wiesler hopes to boost his career
when given the job of collecting evidence against the
playwright Georg Dreyman and his girlfriend, the celebrated
theater actress Christa-Maria Sieland. What he didn't
anticipate, however, was that submerging oneself into the world
of the target also changes the surveillance agent. 
Infamous - Nov. 16, 6:45 pm
Based on George Plimpton's relentlessly thorough book "Truman
Capote: In Which Various Friends,
Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent
Career," Infamous follows famed author
Truman Capote as he investigates the murder of the Clutter
family in rural Kansas. Assisted in very different ways by
lifelong friend and novelist Harper Lee and local sheriff Alvin
Dewey, Capote gradually establishes a unique and complicated
relationship with Perry Smith, a troubled man with a deeply
conflicted past.
Peindre Ou Faire L'Amour - Nov. 16, 9:15 pm
William and Madeleine live in a town at the foot of mount
ains.  During one of her walks in the surrounding hills, Madeleine sets up her easel in front of an old house and meets Adam. He shows Madeline around the house she is painting, which is for sale. It's love at first sight. William and Madeleine decide to buy it. They organize their new life nearby Adam and his young companion Eva (Amira Casar), whose house is only a few hundred yards away. When their new friends' house burns to the ground, William and Madeleine want nothing more than to take them in.
Tickets are $7.50 each or a mini-fest pass for $30 and can be
purchased at the Cinéfest Sudbury office, located at 45 Durham
St., Suite 103. For more information, visit
www.cinefest.com
or call 688-1234.
