Expat Cinema: Meet-up | Rialto VU Amsterdam

At Expat Cinema: Meet up we screen recent foreign language films with English subtitles. Afterwards we get together to chat and network over a drink.

📍 Location: film theater Rialto VU.

🎥 Screening: Park Chan-wook's NO OTHER CHOICE on Wednesday 11 February at 18:30.

🎬 NO OTHER CHOICE: For 25 years, Man-su worked diligently as a supervisor in a paper factory, but he loses his job when an American company takes over the factory. Restructuring measures must be taken, people must be let go; the new owners have "no other choice". Finding a new job proves much more difficult than expected, and a year later Man-su is still unemployed. This, of course, has major consequences for his family; they have to tighten their belts even further. At his wits' end, Man-su decides to eliminate his competition in his quest for a new job. Literally...

🙌 Join us and our host Karolina for drinks after the film

At Expat Cinema: Meet up we screen recent foreign language films with English subtitles. Afterwards we get together to chat and network over a drink.

📍 Location: film theater Rialto VU.

🎥 Screening: THE SECRET AGENT by Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho on Wednesday 25 February at 18:15.

🎬 THE SECRET AGENT: In the dictatorial Brazil of 1977, electrical engineer and widower Marcelo has fled in his bright yellow Beetle after discovering a financial scandal involving a minister. He is now on his way to his hometown of Recife, hoping to be reunited with his young son, who lives with his parents-in-law. Once there, with carnival in full swing, he discovers that the city is not as safe as he had hoped. Under a different name, he finds work at a government agency responsible for issuing identity cards. He hopes to find information about his missing mother in the archives. Meanwhile, two hitmen hired by the minister are looking for him...

🙌 Join us and our host Karolina for drinks after the film