(Norway/Denmark/UK 2012,119 min.)
In Norwegian. Rating TBA

In 1947, the world is gripped with excitement as the young Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl embarks on an astonishing expedition - a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean on the Kon-Tiki raft. From his days living in the Marquesas with his wife Liv, Thor suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by ancient South Americans from thousands of miles to the east. Despite his inability to swim and fear of water, Thor decides to prove his theory by sailing the legendary voyage himself. After replicating the design of an ancient raft in balsa wood, Thor and five fellow adventurers set sail from Peru. Their only modern equipment is a radio, and they take a parrot along for company. A natural leader, Thor uses the stars and the ocean’s current to navigate the raft. After three dangerous months on the open sea, encountering raging storms, sharks, and all the dangers the Ocean can muster, the exhausted crew sight Polynesia and make a triumphant landing. Having sacrificed everything for his mission, even his marriage, the success of the Kon-Tiki expedition proves bittersweet for Thor.

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(USA 2012, 108 min.) PG

Winner of the Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival 2012.

“In a typically ambitious project, Jarecki sets out to cover a huge amount of political, historical, and even personal ground. The film begins with an intimate glimpse into the story of Jarecki’s own childhood nanny, who lost her son to drugs, and from there goes on to show a range of interviewees including current and former drug addicts and dealers, police officers, prison guards, professors, and former police reporter and creator of The Wire David Simon. Reluctant cops express their disillusionment over increased tensions with the community, and judges bristle with bitterness about the injustices of minimum sentencing. The dealers meanwhile are not easy-to-dismiss villains but depressingly ordinary people who peddle to support families in places so poor and without prospect that they make the old mantra of “Just Say No” sound laughably naïve. All confirm Jarecki’s thesis that the War on Drugs is a vicious cycle that hurts more than it helps.” Film Comment
“A superb, insight-heavy critique of America's war on narcs, that picks up where Traffic left off with a coherent argument against currently policy. A must-see.” Empire Magazine

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