Friday, April 30
When Father Was Away on Business
dir. Emir Kusturica, Yugoslavia 1985

Emir Kusturica creates a lyrical, humorous, poignant, and captivating tale of innocence, political turmoil, and forgiveness in When Father Was Away on Business. Using recurring episodes that depict absence of free will and self-determinism, Kusturica creates an understated, yet incisive examination of the overreaching political suppression and heavy-handed authoritarian control endemic in postwar Yuguslovia's difficult and uncertain transition towards modernization and self-government [...]. - Strictly Film School