INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
September 2021 – May 2022
This Month's Movie:
The Trip to Bountiful
From:
U.S. (1985)
Dir. by Peter Masterson
Date & Time:
Friday, December 17, 2021
At 7:30pm
“Kindness – the Fruit of Love and Sacrifice”
Coming through the pandemic, through fear into hope, we are confirmed by the promise of our God who raised Jesus through death into Life. This is why God became human. Only the God who enters history can conquer fear. “Only this God saves us from being afraid of the world and from anxiety before the emptiness of life.” – Pope Benedict XVI. Human kindness assumes a deeper meaning through the past year. Artists are our compass reminding us that death and life – despair and hope can bring us closer together:
“Kindness”
Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment…Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing…You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows…Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend.
– Naomi Shihab Nye. Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, 1995.
Films will be introduced and followed by a brief discussion facilitated by a Maryknoll missioner. Come, enjoy and reflect on our faith through the art of film.
September 2021 – May 2022
In-house seating is limited. All visitor/attendees must be masked and bring proof of COVID-19 vaccination.
Temperatures will be taken upon arrival.
Friday, December 17, 2021
The Trip to Bountiful
1985 – U.S.
Dir. Peter Masterson
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers Kicks Off
Its 2021/2022 International Film Festival Season.
The Trip to Bountiful
In 1940s Texas, Carrie Watts may be old, but she suffers no shortage of spirit. When her carping daughter-in-law and overprotective son forbid her to travel alone from Houston to her childhood home in Bountiful, she strikes out anyway. Learning that trains no longer stop there, she takes a bus instead, and en route meets a young woman with whom she shares both secrets and memories.
FILM FEST REGISTRATION – FREE ADMISSION
You can also register by calling (914) 941- 7590
In-house seating is limited. All visitor/attendees must be masked and bring proof of
COVID-19 vaccination. Temperatures will be taken upon arrival.
Coming Soon
- Friday, September 17, 2021
“Mustang” Turkey/France/Germany 201 - Friday, October 15, 2021
“The Kid with a Bike” Belgium 2011 - Friday, November 19, 2021
“From Mao to Mozart” US 1979 - Friday, December 17, 2021
“The Trip to Bountiful” US 1985 - Friday, January 21, 2022
“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” UK/US 2008
- Friday, February 18, 2022
“Just Mercy” US 2019 - Friday, March 18, 2022
“A Special Day” Italy/Canada 1977 - Friday, April 22, 2022
“Secrets and Lies” UK/France 1996 - Friday, May 20, 2022
“First Cow” US 2020
