Independent Film Festival Begins At Downtown Library

This Thursday the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library begins for the fifth year its Independent Film Festival. Here is the schedule. Every Thursday evening for 5 weeks at the downtown Library you can see a high quality first-run feature film that will not be in your local multiplex. And best of all, these showings are free. I have attended a number of these in the past, and the films are always of high quality and thought-provoking. They begin at 6:45 pm, and generally there is an optional Library-staff-led discussion of the film afterwards.

This week's film is Familia (2005, directed by Louise Archambault). Here is the description: "Janine’s seemingly comfortable middle-class life is disrupted after her childhood friend Michele--a divorced, unemployed gambling addict--asks for help. Their daughters form an unlikely friendship, leading to cross-generational tension and the question: Must our children be burdened with the traits we despise in our parents--- and in ourselves?"