Why the Library is For Cinephiles

Foreign film fans, did you know that the Library has a large selection of free foreign and independent movies? Every month a new film is screened at the Library and then made available for library patrons to check out.

This month’s film “Teddy Bear” is from Denmark. It will be shown at the Main Library at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 13.

The film focuses on a 38-year-old bodybuilder named Dennis. He’d like to find true love, but has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love must be easier to find in Thailand. He knows his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he tells her he is going to Germany. Dennis has never traveled before, and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls – who want to see and feel his muscles - bruise Dennis’ naïve ideal of love, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman Toi.

Mads Matthiesen won Best Director – World Cinema at Sundance for this film, which is based on his award-winning short Dennis.  Dennis and another of Matthiesen’s shorts Catherine  are included on the DVD, which will be available to Library patrons for checkout after the public showing.

The film, which runs approximately 96 minutes in Danish, Thai, and English with English subtitles, is free and open to the public. The film is unrated.

The movie will be shown in the Catherine Drake Meeting Room, which is handicapped accessible from Church Street. Patrons are welcome to bring light refreshments.

Teddy Bear  is one of over 90 foreign and independent movies in the Film Movement series featured at the Library.  Do a keyword search for “film movement” to see a complete list in the Library catalog.

For more information, call 610-258-2917 ext 307.