The Barrie Screen One film series goes Brazilian next month by showing the film The Year My Parents Went on Vacation Wed., August 6.
The films are shown at Imperial 8 Cinemas, 55 Dunlop Street West. Tickets are $9 for adults, $7 for students and seniors.
This touching coming-of-age story is set in Brazil in 1970.
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation is one of those rare films that taps into the personal, social, historical and the political, while staying true to its essential subject matter: the trials of journeying into adulthood.
Awards for The Year My Parents went on Vacation:
Won, Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, 2008
Won, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, ABC Cinematography Award, 2007
Won, Audience Award, Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, 2006
Screenings are at 4, 7 and 9 p.m.
Drama, PG, 104 minutes, Portuguese, Yiddish with English subtitles.
