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Our second film in June is the entrancing drama, THE BLUE CAFTAN, Morocco's submission to this year's Academy Awards. .


Our Monday Night Foreign Film Series usually screens two films each month, the first and third Mondays at 3:30pm and 6:30pm at Plaza Cinemas 14. We will continue our mission of providing the Best of World Cinema to the Oxnard and Ventura County community along with supporting local filmmakers Thanks and Be Safe, George J. Sandoval, Executive Director


Morocco's official entry for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards.


Halim and Mina run a traditional caftan store in one of Morocco's oldest medinas. In order to keep up with the commands of the demanding customers, they hire Youssef. Slowly Mina realizes how much her husband is moved by the presence of the young man.


"Whenever you think you know where Maryam Touzani’s entrancing drama “The Blue Caftan” is going, she blindsides you with a fierce emotional wallop."


"It’s the equivalent of a cinematic poem, filled with ache, insight and exhilaration."

“The Blue Caftan,” like its title garment, has a handmade, lived-in quality, an authenticity that marks Touzani — a former journalist making her second feature — a director to watch." - G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle

Directed by Academy Award nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, MASTER GARDENER follows Narvel Roth (award-winner Joel Edgerton), the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill (three-time Academy Award nominee Sigourney Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya (Quintessa Swindell) as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel’s spartan existence, unlocking dark secrets from a buried violent past that threaten them all.

"The less you know about Master Gardener going in, the better: tracing the trail of these characters’ secrets is part of the thrill. But it’s compelling for other reasons too." - Stephanie Zacharek TIME Magazine

"It shouldn’t work and, even after seeing it twice, I don’t think that it entirely does, which only makes it more fascinating and strengthens its power." - Manohla Dargis New York Times

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house to supervise its renovation. Her husband, children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter vacation. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

"A riveting Hitchcockian thriller, led by Aline Küppenheim's remarkable performance, that questions indifference and privilege." - Rene Sanchez, Cine Sin Fronteras

"It’s a hell of a performance from Küppenheim as the heroine, precisely because she demonstrates how hard it is to be heroic." - Anthony Lane, New Yorker

'An outstanding performance from Aline Küppenheim is the driving force in this engrossing suspense drama-thriller about an elegant and prosperous woman being drawn into Chile’s anti-Pinochet resistance in 1976." - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

A musical dream in a country on the verge of collapse

Children of Las Brisas is a story of resistance, resilience and perseverance that explores the power of discipline and classical music as tools for survival. The documentary follows three Venezuelan children from the impoverished Las Brisas neighborhood, in their quest to become professional musicians within the ranks of “El Sistema” music program.

Throughout a decade, Edixon, Dissandra and Wuilly try to achieve a better future as they face the great challenges of the country’s dire situation. The Venezuelan crisis makes it impossible for them to accomplish their dreams and in their struggle, they represent a society taken over by an autocratic regime.

Q/A with Filmmakers after each screening: Marianela Maldonado, Director and Robin Todd, Director of Photography