Films are shown at 7:15 PM on five consecutive Tuesday evenings at The Garland Theatre.

On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets in Tokyo find a newborn baby in the trash and set out to find her parents. Tokyo Godfathers is irresistibly charming, and manages to be both funny and touching - a beautiful story about family, love and friendship. This movie is not only a technical masterpiece of the Japanese animation style, but also rivals a good independent live-action film in its storytelling. Leave behind your Hollywood ideas of what a movie - and a cartoon - should be.

A rookie prison guard is trapped in Cell 211 when a full scale riot breaks out. Suspense keeps you glued to the screen, hoping the protagonist's identity is not discovered, knowing full well what will happen to him if it is. You will view how loyalty bonds are formed in prison, as well as the prisoners' perspective of injustice within the Spanish prison system.

Advisory: This unpredictable thriller has some ugly scenes of brutality.

"The documentary that's not a documentary" is a small-budgeted fiction film that explores convincingly the serious theme of finding one's place in life and in society. It is about a young man who returns to the village where he grew up to work his ailing father's small grocery van, traveling into the hills and providing daily necessities to aging country people. The director, Eric Guirado, is a real ethnographer who captures real life to perfection. The grocer's son's customers, who are not professionals, are people re-enacting what they do day after day, resulting in a fine blend of documentary and fiction. The scenery is gorgeous, the music is apropos, and the performances by the lead members of the cast are superb. This film takes you on a journey to enjoy a taste of rural French life that is as refreshing as the fruits and vegetables on the traveling grocery van.

The film is much more than the story of a closeted Peruvian fisherman who is haunted by the restless soul of his drowned secret lover. This touching film explores issues of sexual identity and the macho Latino image, as well as what it is to be a man, straight or otherwise. The setting is a small Peruvian fishing village that is built on religion, superstition and respect. The cinematography, musical score, and mix of fantasy capture the rural Peruvian culture.

Advisory: Sexual situations, male nudity, occasional crude language.

What is life like for a Muslim in the U.S. after 9/11? What is it like to live with Asperger's Syndrome? My Name Is Khan will make you laugh, cry, and fall in love with India's most famous star, Shah Rukh Khan. SFCC student, Meredith Moreau states, "Cultural differences play a big role in this film. It pushes us to revise our way of thinking towards people who are different because, in the end, we are all only human."