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Silent Light
(Stellet Licht)

Director in Person
Screening on Film
$10 Special Event Tickets
Directed by Carlos Reygadas.
With Cornelio Wall Fehr, Miriam Toews, Maria Pankratz.
Mexico/France/Netherlands/Germany, 2007, 35mm, color, 142 min.
German, Spanish, French, English with English subtitles.

Silent Light has restored my love of neo-realism. A great film.

— Peter Hutton 

Silent Light offers a hypnotic and remarkably tender story of a man gripped by his love for two women. Set within a modern day Mennonite community in rural Chihuahua and cast almost entirely by non-actors speaking Plautdietsch, a German-derived dialect, Silent Light is both a poetic documentary of a community deeply rooted in tradition and a moving narrative of spiritual crisis and redemption. A work of unusual maturity and power that has been repeatedly compared to Dreyer, Silent Light is Mexico’s official entry for the 2007 foreign-language Academy Award. 

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