The Dryden will screen Kreuzweg (Stations of the Cross, Dietrich Brüggemann, Germany/France 2014, 107 min., DCP, German w/subtitles).

Told in fourteen fixed-angle, single shot tableaux that parallel Christ's journey to his crucifixion, Stations of the Cross is both an indictment of fundamentalist faith and the articulation of an impressionable teen's struggle to find her own path in life. Though from the outside Maria lives in the modern world, her family and her heart are faithful to a Catholic radicalism that requires sacrifice and devotion at every turn. As she struggles to balance her own desires with the dictates of her family's faith, she makes ever more perilous sacrifices, attempting to please a god she worships unquestioningly in the pious hopes of curing the autistic younger brother she adores. Winner of Silver Bear for best script and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2014 Berlin International Film Festival.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2015-Nov-9]