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"Balloon" & "Vitalina Varela" at Stonzek Theatre

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Balloon movie poster Vitalina Varela movie poster

BALLOON
MARCH 13-19
dir. Michael Herbig, Drama / History / Thriller, Not Rated, Germany, English / German with English subtitles, 2020, 125 min.

In the summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families—who had been working on their audacious plan for more than two years—try to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But after the balloon crash-lands just before the West German border, the Stasi find traces of the attempted escape and immediately launch an investigation. In a nerve-wracking race against the clock, the two families attempt to build a new escape balloon as the Stasi get closer and closer each day.

VITALINA VARELA
MARCH 13-19
dir. Pedro Costa, Drama, Not Rated, Portugal, Portuguese with English subtitles, 2020, 124 min.

Vitalina Varela, a 55-year-old woman from Cape Verde, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.


Location 
Stonzek Theatre
709 Lake Ave.
561-296-9382
http://lakeworthplayhouse.org/indie_films.html