April 5 Screening: Aaltra
Presented through a special arrangement with
Film Movement.  

Critically acclaimed, irreverent wheelchair road movie by comedians Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern, who wrote, directed, and co-star, Aaltra shows a distinct flair for understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor. Winner of numerous awards including the Fipresci Prize, London Film Festival and an official selection at both the Tribeca and Telluride Film Festivals. 92 minutes. Aaltra will be presented in French with English subtitles and is suitable those who are deaf or have hearing impairments.

Time Out wrote about Aaltra:

One of the funniest black comedies in some time, Kervern and Delépine's deadpan chronicle of this largely wordless wheelchair odyssey is essentially a string of priceless sight-gags - beautifully shot in black-and-white - hung on to the sturdy premise of the steel-jawed protagonists' entirely undisguised dislike of each other and, probably, the rest of the world. Few if any of the gags hinge on their disability, and those that do highlight how the non-disabled world can unwittingly make life unnecessarily difficult for wheelchair-users. 

Wrote Daily Variety:

After so many politically correct heart-wringers, its liberating to watch two people in wheelchairs so thoroughly undemanding of pity.