11am Taste of Freedom w/ Food That Saves You
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Taste of Freedom
After losing her job due to a lack of demand for haute cuisine at a roadside cafe, a young cook runs away to pursue her dream of becoming a chef at a prestigious restaurant in the big city. However, her life takes an unexpected turn, when she stumbles upon a rare and forbidden cookbook from 1929, authored by the legendary female chef Olga Franko.
Ukraine, 2023, 117 minutes
Director: Oleksandr Berezan
2pm The Lebanese Burger Mafia w/ Bring Back the Whistle Dog
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The Lebanese Burger Mafia
The Lebanese Burger Mafia captures the trials and tribulations of Arab immigrants by telling the story of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain likened to the mob. To unearth the mysterious origins of the chain, filmmaker Omar Mouallem (himself an heir to a Burger Baron throne) travels across rural Alberta where the institution persists despite the restaurant’s many dysfunctions. He discovers how hundreds of immigrants like his parents spread their trade secrets to uplift their communities, while paradoxically fighting one another for ownership of a company none of them created.
Canada, 2023, 103 minutes
Director: Omar Mouallem
5pm She Chef w/ Kota
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She Chef
Young chef Agnes is on an ambitious journey to mastery through some of the most outstanding restaurants in the world. The self-confident twenty-something finished her apprenticeship at Austria’s top-restaurant Steirereck, won the 2018 culinary world cup with the Austrian team of all men, and is on track to rattle the kitchens of the world’s top restaurants.
Austria/Germany, 2022, 105 minutes
Directors: Melanie Liebheit & Gereon Wetzel
8pm Food and Country w/ Seeds of Change
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Food and Country
Ruth Reichl—trailblazing NY Times food critic, groundbreaking Gourmet Magazine editor, best-selling memoirist, and for decades one of the most influential figures shaping American food culture—grows concerned about the fate of small farmers, ranchers, and chefs who are wrestling with both immediate and systemic challenges as the pandemic takes hold.
USA, 2023, 99 minutes
Director: Laura Gabbert