Sudbury Indie Cinema Co-op, located at 162 Mackenzie St., has a great lineup of films it will screen during the month of May.
Tickets cost $10 for members, $14 for non-members, $5 for Wednesday matinees and $5 on Tuesdays. Visit sudburyindiecinema.com.
Here's a list provided to us by the group:
Audience of Chairs (opens May 2)
A mother living with mental illness struggles to cope after losing custody of her two daughters. Film shot in Sudbury and Newfoundland.
Keely & Du (opens May 8)
Keely awakens to find herself captive in a cabin in Northern Ontario. Alone with Du, who has been assigned to be her guard and caregiver, she will be forced to bring her pregnancy to term by an extremist anti-choice faction. Film was shot in Temagami.
Woman at War (opens May 3)
Halla is a 50-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist.
Sir (opens May 2)
In modern Mumbai, young widow Ratna gets a job as a live-in maid for a young man from a wealthy home, who is engaged to be married. However, Ratna has a dream to find a better life for herself. Ashwin slowly begins to fall in love with Ratna, whose drive and courage make her very different from the spoiled wealthy women his family wants to set him up with.
Far: The Story of a Journey Around the World (opens May 16)
The extraordinary journey of a young couple who set off into the east, to return from the west three and a half years later with a new, third member to their family. On a small budget and without taking any planes, they explore the world with natural curiosity and buoyant spontaneity.
The Brink (opens May 9)
Filmmaker Alison Klayman follows political strategist Stephen K. Bannon as he tries to mobilize and unify far-right parties during the 2018 U.S. midterm elections.
Faces (opens May 9)
An actress, distraught by a provincial girl’s video plea for help, abandons her shoot and turns to her director for help. They travel by car to the rural northwest where they have amusing encounters with the charming folk of the girl’s mountain village. But the city visitors soon discover that the protection of age-old traditions is as generous as local hospitality.
The Third Wife (opens May 23)
In 19th-century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of a wealthy landowner. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.
Le Rire de Ma Mere (opens May 11)
A young boy has to deal with increasing family and school pressures as his mother's disease worsens.
The Sower (opens May 16)
After the republican uprising in 1851, a French village is left without any men for two years. The local women decide that if any man returns to the village, he will be their shared husband.
