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Sunday nights on MC3

Metro's programming block features alternative films, offering an array of independents, shorts, documentaries, festival, foreign, and subtitled movies.

Sin Nombre

Sunday, March 7 at 8:20 pm MT


Sayra, a teenager living in Honduras, is hungry for a brighter future. Casper, a young gang member, faces an uncertain future. Together they journey towards the hope of new lives. Nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Winner of the Directing and Cinematography Awards.

Starring:

Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores, Kristyan Ferrer

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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story Of Ozploitation!

Sunday, March 7 at 10 pm MT


A look at "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema showed sex, violence, horror and action.

Directed by:

Mark Hartley

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Trouble The Water

Sunday, March 14 at 8:20 pm MT


The day before the storm makes landfall blocks away from the French Quarter in New Orleans, an aspiring rap artist is turning her new video camera on herself and her 9th Ward neighbours trapped in the city. Nominated for Best Documentary, Features at the 2009 Academy Awards.

Directed by:

Carl Deal, Tia Lessin

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Lemon Tree

Sunday, March 14 at 10 pm MT


A Palestinian woman must fight to save the lemon grove that separates her property from the Israeli defense minister's new home, after the Israeli Secret Service deem the trees a security threat.

Starring:

Hiam Abbass, Doron Tavory

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