New Haven Free Public Library Parable Film Festival

Tuesday, May 3 at Wilson Branch Library:

5:30 pm - Climate Refugees: The Global Human Impact of Climate Change (2010)
86 min | Directed by Justin Hogan and Michael Nash | USA
Documentary film to exploring in-depth the global human impact of climate change and its serious destabilizing effect on international politics.

Wednesday, May 4 at Ives Main Library:

12:00 pm - Silent Star (1960)                  
93 min | Directed by Kurt Maetzig | Former East Germany
The first science-fiction film brought out in East Germany and featuring a diverse cast for the time, The Silent Star is based on Stanislaw Lem's mysterious novel, The Astronauts (1951).

2:00 pm - Metropolis (1927)                  
153 min | Directed by Fritz Lang | Germany
One of the most famous and influential silent films, Metropolis takes place in 2026, when the populace is divided between workers who must live in the dark underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor. The tense balance of these two societies is realized through images that are among the most famous of the 20th century.

5:30 pm - Sorry to Bother You (2018)    
112 min | Directed by Boots Riley | USA
An American surrealist Black comedy film in which a young telemarketer is swept into a corporate conspiracy.

Thursday, May 5 at Ives Main Library:

12:00 pm - Attack on the Block (2011)   
88 min | Directed by Joe Cornish | UK  
South London teenagers defend their neighborhood from malevolent extraterrestrials.

2:00 pm - Stalker (1979)                          
161 minutes | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky |Former Soviet Union
In an unnamed country at an unspecified time, there is a fiercely protected post-apocalyptic wasteland known as The Zone. A guide leads two men through the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.

5:30 pm - Brown Girl Begins (2017)        
95 min | Directed by Sharon Lewis | Canada
A film inspired by Nalo Hopkinson’s sci-fi novel, Brown Girl in the Ring. In 2049, Ti-Jeanne must revive Caribbean spirits and survive a possession ritual to save her people who are confined to an island off the mainland of Toronto.

About One City, One Read

Join the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, the New Haven Free Public Library, Yale Schwarzman Center, and partners across the city in celebrating the magnificent work of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower as One City, One Read. Featuring events citywide inspired by and related to the core themes and values of Parable, there will be something for everyone: from performances and screenings to lectures, panels, and guided discussions.