AWFJ highlights films made by and about women:

Wedenesday, December 2

• Before Tomorrow - Igloolik Isuma Productions, 93 mins., limited, NY - Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu direct this screenplay by Susan Avingaq, Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu which is the third and final chapter in the Inuit film trilogy, The Fast Runner, set in ancient times when Inuit people lived a traditional life.
• Made for Each Other - IFC, limited NY

Friday, December 4

• Across the Hall - Image Entertainment, limited NY, LA
• Armored - Screen Gems, 88 mins.
• Brothers - Lionsgate, 110 mins. - Jim Sheridan’s update American remake of Susanne Bier’s Brødre, original Danish film.
• Everybody’s Fine - Miramax, 100 mins
• The Last Station - Sony Pictures Classics, 112 mins., limited NY, LA
• Paa - Reliance Big Pictures, 133 mins., limited
• Serious Moonlight - Magnolia Pictures, 84 mins., limited NY, LA - Cheryl Hines makes her directorial debut with Adrienne Shelly‘s screenplay, a dramady about a couple whose troubled marriage survives his affair and their being held captive in a home invasion and robbery that is, oddly, reminiscent of the real life incident during which Shelly was murdered in her New York apartment on November 1, 2006.
• The Strip - Fortress Productions, 91 mins., limited
• Transylmania - Full Circle Releasing, 92 mins., limited
• Until the Light Takes Us - Variance Films, limited NY - Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites directed this documentary about the history, ideology and aesthetic of a group of Norwegian black metal music makers who are associated with a series of church burnings and murders.
• Up in the Air - Paramount Pictures, 109 mins., limited (expands Dec. 11; wide: Dec. 25)