That They May Face the Rising Sun
2025-04-20 18:30 - 20:30 (America/Denver) | Boedecker Theater, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Apr 16-20
Based on internationally acclaimed Irish author John McGahern’s award winning novel of the same name, Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among a small, rural, lakeside community in Ireland near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in the life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters that move about them unfolds through the rituals of work, play and the passing seasons as this enclosed world becomes an everywhere, a vivid evocation of nature, humanity and life itself, set in a 1980’s rural community in Ireland. (Pat Collins, 2024, Ireland, 1:51, NR)

BENOFF: The Hermit of Treig
2025-04-20 16:00 - 17:30 | Dairy Arts Center, Walnut Street, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States
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Apr 20
A meticulous diarist and avid photographer, Ken Smith has spent the past four decades in the Scottish Highlands, living alone in a log cabin nestled near Loch Treig, known as ‘the lonely loch’. He has no electricity or running water. He lives off the land, fishing for his supper, chopping wood, and even brewing his own tipple. Filmed over 10 years, director Lizzie Mackenzie poetically captures Ken’s profound, spiritual relationship with the wilderness: “If you love the land, it loves you back”. Now in his 70s, Ken reflects upon the reasons he turned his back on society, the vulnerability of old age and the awe and wonder of a life lived in nature in this humorous, transcendent and life affirming feature documentary. (Lizzie Mackenzie, 2022, UK, 1:19, NR)
