Schedule of the Event:

Friday, November 15, 2024

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

Join us for a viewing of Mrs. Brown (1997) - 1hr 38min

A biographical drama about the unlikely bond between Queen Victoria and her Scottish servant, John Brown, after her husband’s death.

Friday, December 6, 2024

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

Join us for a viewing of The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013) - 1hr 54min rated (R)

On his 100th birthday, Allan Karlson leaps out a window of his nursing home and begins an unexpected journey.

Friday, December 20, 2024

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On December 20th, we'll be showing Love, Actually (2003) - 2hr 10min (R):

Set in London, this romantic comedy chronicles the affairs of several couples during Christmastime. The seemingly perfect wedding of Juliet and Peter brings many of the principals together, including heartsick best man Mark, who harbors a very unrequited crush on Juliet. There's also recent widower Daniel, trying to help his lonely stepson Sam express his true feelings to a classmate. Across town, devoted working mother Karen tries to rekindle the passion of her husband.

Friday, January 3, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

Friday, January 17, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On January 17, we'll be showing The Road Dance (2021) - 1hr 57min Rated (NR)

In a small Scottish village at the dawn of World War I, Kirsty (Hermione Corfield) yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. When the village hosts a road dance for departing soldiers, the sense of community is soon shattered by an unspeakable incident that changes Kirsty’s life forever.

Friday, January 31, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On January 31, we'll be showing several short films:

The Neighbor's Window (2019) - 20min, Rated (PG): It tells the story of a middle aged woman with small children whose life is shaken up when two free-spirited twenty-somethings move in across the street. Academy Award® winner, Live Action Short Film 2020.

The Crush (2010) - 15 min, Rated (NR): In this Oscar-nominated short film, we follow Ardal -- an 8-year-old schoolboy who's in love. There's just one problem. The object of his affection is his Second Class teacher, Miss Purdy. But when her boyfriend arrives on the scene, Ardal is heartbroken. His reaction, though, is a little unexpected. He challenges Miss Purdy's boyfriend to a duel -- to the death.

Chant d'Amour (1950) - 25 min, Rated (R): The only film made by the French novelist Jean Genet. Visually reminiscent of Jean Cocteau's Blood of a Poet, Belle et la Bete and Kenneth Anger's Fireworks. The story, set in a prison with three main characters, a guard and two prisoners, is a voyeuristic, confrontational, poetic masterpiece. Forbidden in France upon its release, and only available in the US in censored form and through underground distribution, UN CHANT D'AMOUR is now released from its obscurity and is presented in its complete version.

The Masterpiece (2023) - 20 min, Rated (NR): A rich couple invite two scrap dealers, a father and his son, to their house to recycle more objects.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On February 14, we'll be showing Love, Rosie (2015) - 1hr 42min Rated (R)

Rosie and Alex have been best friends since they were 5, but are their own worst enemies when it comes to love, life and making the right choices. One awkward turn at 18, one missed opportunity, and life sends them hurtling in different directions. Will they find their way back to one another or will it be too late?

Friday, February 28, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On February 28, we'll be showing several American: An Odyssey to 1947 (2022) - 1hr 42min, Rated (NR)

In the early 1940s, director Orson Welles navigates his meteoric Hollywood rise. As WWII begins, a Japanese American boy visits abroad, and an African American soldier enlists in the army. As the story heads towards 1947, each character follows their own ambitions in search of their American identity.

Friday, March 14, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On March 14th, we will be watching Little Forest (2018, PG-13, 1hr. 43 min.)

Hye-won grows tired of life in the city and returns to her hometown in the countryside. After a year of living in the countryside with her old friends, Hye-won finally realizes what she has always been searching for. Based on an original story by Igarashi Daisuke, which has been noted for the Tetsuka Osamu Culture Award, one of the top 3 comic awards in Japan. This adaptation is created in director Yim Soon-rye's warm conceptualization of Korea's beautiful nature and various foods.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Do you miss the Valley Film Society? Join us for a series of independent, foreign, and art house films at the library! In collaboration with Riverside Film Festival, we'll show a movie on selected Fridays and leave plenty of time afterward for discussion.

On this date, we will be watching Alone With Her Dreams (2019, 1 hr. 39 min.)

Lucia must stay behind under the care of her stern and overbearing grandmother in 1960's Sicily, while her parents and younger brother emigrate to France to find work. The girl is distraught and bitter about being left behind, and mopes the days away as the relaionship with her grandmother grows more and more contentious. Lucia grows increasingly curious about her grandmother's hatred towards other members of the family on the island, and begins to befriend them behind her grandmother’s back until one day she discovers the reason why and uncovers a terrible secret.

Date: November 15, 2024 - March 28, 2025

Time: 2:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: Butman Fish Library, 1716 Hancock, Saginaw, MI 48607

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