The Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val runs un­til May 28 at Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain and from May 22-28 at Movi­eTowne, To­ba­go.Tick­ets are $30, with tick­ets for chil­dren and stu­dents in uni­form or with stu­dent ID priced at $20.For more in­for­ma­tion, vis­it the EFF Face­book page at Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val–Trinidad and To­ba­go or www.ttfilm­fes­ti­val.com/eff

TO­DAY's Movies

To­day's sched­ule for Eu­ro­pean Film Fes­ti­val

Movi­eTowne, Port-of-Spain

11am

Lessons of a Dream

Di­rec­tor: Se­bas­t­ian Grob­ler

2011/Ger­many/113 mins/Fam­i­ly dra­ma/GA

Kon­rad, a grad­u­ate of Ox­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, is hired to teach Eng­lish at a strict­ly run Ger­man boys' school in 1874. In or­der to stir up en­thu­si­asm for the lan­guage, Kon­rad in­tro­duces his stu­dents to a cu­ri­ous British sport: foot­ball. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, his un­con­ven­tion­al teach­ing meth­ods soon make him many en­e­mies.

1.15 pm

Cool Kids Don't Cry

Di­rec­tor: Den­nis Bots

2012/The Nether­lands/96 mins/Fam­i­ly dra­ma/GA

Twelve-year-old Akkie loves foot­ball and lives to play in the school tour­na­ment. Con­fi­dent and spir­it­ed, she stands up to her class­mate, Joep, who doesn't think girls should be al­lowed to play a "boys'" game. But Joep soon dis­cov­ers how much he has un­der­es­ti­mat­ed Akkie when she is di­ag­nosed with leukemia.

3.30pm

Dear Al­ice

Di­rec­tor: Oth­man Karim

2010/Swe­den/97 mins/Dra­ma/14+

Franzis is a new­ly ar­rived im­mi­grant from Gam­bia to Swe­den. Karin is a lawyer about to get a ma­jor pro­mo­tion. Bosse is a TV star who is fired from his own show. These lives and more in­ter­sect in an in­tense dra­ma about prej­u­dice, kind­ness, in­jus­tice and, ul­ti­mate­ly, for­give­ness.

5.30pm

My Broth­er the Dev­il

Di­rec­tor: Sal­ly El Ho­sai­ni

2012/UK/111 mins/Dra­ma/16+

Mo lives in a tra­di­tion­al Egypt­ian house­hold on a Lon­don coun­cil es­tate. He idolis­es his old­er broth­er Rashid, a gang mem­ber, and wants to fol­low in his foot­steps. How­ev­er Rashid wants a dif­fer­ent life for his broth­er and deals drugs hop­ing to put Mo through col­lege. Events soon threat­en to tear the sib­lings apart.

8pm

2 Days in Paris

Di­rec­tor: Julie Delpy

2007/France/96 mins/Com­e­dy/16+

Mar­i­on, who is French, lives with her Amer­i­can boyfriend Jack in New York. On va­ca­tion to rekin­dle their ro­mance, they stop in Paris. But the com­bi­na­tion of Mar­i­on's over­bear­ing par­ents and flir­ta­tious ex-boyfriends, and Jack's ob­ses­sion with pho­tograph­ing every­thing and con­vic­tion that French con­doms are too small, threat­ens to make things worse.