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BOULDER COUNTY AUDUBON SOCIETY: BOULDER RIGHTS OF NATURE FILM FESTIVAL

This Festival celebrates our place within nature by showcasing films that honor the inalienable rights of ecosystems, native wildlife and traditional cultures to exist and flourish. The rights of nature movement gained momentum when hundreds of thousands of Ecuador’s indigenous peoples marched on the capital requesting that natural beings be given the same rights as corporations. With the enactment of a 2008 constitutional amendment, Ecuador became the first country in the world to codify the rights of nature. Bolivia, Nepal and several dozen municipalities in the United States including Lafayette, also have adopted specific laws. This first annual festival will honor acclaimed filmmaker Les Blank, whose timeless documentaries poetically portrayed authentic beings in their natural surroundings. Films include: Puamana; Heart of Sky, Heart of Earth; The Condor’s Shadow; Horn; Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change; DamNation; Cry Rock; Micronesia Sanctuary; The Legend of Pale Male; Green; Burden of Dreams. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE DISCOVERERS

Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Oscar and Emmy nominated Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenage kids — Zoe (Madeleine Martin, Californication) and Jack (Devon Graye, American Horror Story) — on a road trip to a conference in hopes of putting his career back on track. But when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley (Emmy Award-winning Stuart Margolin) goes AWOL on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family members find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

FRANK

See full review on page 51. At Boedecker.

GOD HELP THE GIRL

Set in Glasgow, Scotland, this pop-musical is about a girl called Eve who deals with her emotional problems through songwriting. She finds herself in the city, where she meets James and Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own. What follows is a story of renaissance over the course of a long, dream-like summer. Written, directed and scored by the lead singer/ songwriter of Belle and Sebastian. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

K2: SIREN OF THE HIMALAYAS

This film follows world-class alpinists Fabrizio Zangrilli and Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner with veteran climbers Jake Meyer and Chris Szymiec in a breathtaking high-altitude mountaineering experience. Director Dave Ohlson joins this group’s epic K2 journey on the 100-year anniversary of the Duke of Abruzzi’s landmark expedition in 1909. The documentary also examines the history and geography of the Karakoram mountains while contemplating the risks, rewards and personal nature of exploration in an age when there are few blank spots left on the map. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

SANS SOUCI FESTIVAL OF DANCE CINEMA

The Dairy Center is pleased to once again host the Sans Souci festival collections, dance within a cinematic aesthetic — an integration of the forms. In this, their 11th year, they offer a rich program of short art films from North America and Europe. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

SCIENCE ON SCREEN: THE SOCIAL NETWORK

Public social data conveyed on social networks has changed how society interacts with itself, and it has also changed the computing landscape. We will pick apart some of the more fascinating technical implications of “Big Data” via social networks and connect them to The Social Network, the movie. We’ll explore some of the computing infrastructure necessary to handle the astounding amount of human expression that transpires every second on social networks. The Social Network tells the story of Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg who created the site that would become known as Facebook, but was later sued by two brothers who claimed he stole their idea, and the co-founder who was later squeezed out of the business. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater

THE ZERO THEOREM

See full review above. At Boedecker and at IFS Munzinger Auditorium.

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

The following films are showing at CU’s International Film Festival this week: please go to https://internationalfilmseries.com for full descriptions, times and locations: Mood Indigo; All About Eve; The Zero Theorem; Life Itself; The Last Day of Summer; Je T’aime Je T’aime.

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