Our various festival committees—for features, for shorts—have worked hard to bring you a weekend of varied cinematic fare. You won’t be able to see these films anywhere else in town. Nor in many other towns, for that matter. We are kicking off our programs for features on Friday night, April 27, at 7 pm, with…

Most reviewers of Le Havre, the Finnish film which Filmworks will show on March 9, call it something like sentimental, unreal, or impossibly optimistic, as if these are objectionable qualities in a motion picture. Yet everyone likes this film—they see it as plausibly hopeful. The word “heart” occurs in many of these reviews. Few fault…