Algoma International Film Association

.. the newest and most significant in Canadian and International films right here in Sault Ste. Marie.

The Algoma International Film Association promotes the viewing and appreciation of films not usually available to the community commercial cinema. We are a member of the Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto International Film Festival Group is a charitable, cultural and educational organization devoted to celebrating excellence in film and the moving image.

Welcome to our 42nd season! This year, films are shown at either Sault College (Sunday screening) or the Galaxy Cinema (Mondays)…but all start at 7:00pm. Please refer to the schedule for details. Our membership fee is $20 & passes are $85. Ticket prices are $6 for members & $8 for non-members.

Entre Les Murs / The Class

Year: 2008
Country: France
Director: Laurent Cantet
Leads: François Bégaudeau
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 128 minutes
Rating: PG-13 (language)
Language: French

Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Laurent Cantet's Entre les Murs / The Class is an absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year in a milieu reflecting the ‘new’ France. François Begaudeau--an actual teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based--is utterly convincing as the lead; an openminded teacher in charge of a classroom of youngsters from a wide variety of backgrounds, who butts heads with other adults who don't appear to have any sympathy for their students.

Reviews:

Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun: “Entre Les Murs ranks with the very best films ever made about teaching, and it's unlike any English or American film about teaching ever made.”

Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]: “French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with it in this fresh piece of humanist, realist, optimist cinema.”

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: “The movie is bursting with life, energy, fears, frustrations and the quick laughter of a classroom hungry for relief.”

Official web site: http://www.sonyclassics.com/theclass/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1068646/