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DORIS DUKE THEATRE

Honolulu Museum of Art, 532-6097, honolulumuseum.org; $8-$10

FILIPINO FILM FESTIVAL 2017

Ends Saturday.

>> “The Sakada Series”

7:30 p.m. Friday, with panel discussion and Q&A session with Sunshine Lichauco de Leon, producer-director of “Curiosity, Adventure & Love.”

Three shorts about immigrant Filipino plantation workers in Hawaii. In English and Tagalog with subtitles. (2016, 0:35)

Screens with:

>> “Curiosity, Adventure & Love”

Jessie Lichauco, a Cuban-born Filipino-American, left the United States in the 1930s for the Philippines, where she experienced a lifetime of love, war and discovery. In Tagalog with English subtitles. (2016, Philippines, 1:00)

>> “Ma’ Rosa”

1 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday

Rosa, a mother of four, owns a convenience store in a poor Manila neighborhood where she and her husband resell narcotics to make ends meet. When they get caught and arrested, the children are willing to buy their parents’ freedom from the corrupt police. In Tagalog and English with subtitles. (2017, Philippines, 1:50)

>> “25 April”

4 p.m. Sunday

Animated film tells the story of the tragic 1915 Gallipoli Campaign of World War I, a defining event for Australia and New Zealand, through six real-life New Zealanders as told through their dairies, letters and memoirs. (2015, Australia, 1:25)

>> “I, Daniel Blake”

7:30 p.m. Sunday; 1 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday

A 59-year-old carpenter recovering from a heart attack befriends a single mother of two, and together they maneuver their way through England’s Kafkaesque benefits system. A 2016 Cannes Film Festival award winner. (2016, 1:40)

>> “Colossal”

1 p.m. Thursday

In this romantic comedy/fantasy tale, Anne Hathaway stars as an unemployed party girl in a rocky relationship who returns to her tiny hometown to straighten up her life. Meanwhile, a large destructive creature that attacks South Korea nightly is mimicking her every move at a local playground, and a second creature emerges for an epic showdown between monsters. Also stars Jason Sudeikis. (2017, 1:50)

>> “Personal Shopper”

7:30 p.m. Thursday

Kristen Stewart stars in this ghost story as a personal shopper to the stars who, as a spiritual medium, haunts her late twin brother’s Paris home in an effort to contact him. Winner of the Best Director Award at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. In French, English and Swedish with English subtitles. (2016, 1:45)

>> “XX”

9:30 p.m. Thursday

Comprising four tales of terror (directed by females with star female leads) — “The Box,” “The Birthday Party,” “Don’t Fall” and “Her Only Living Son” — this anthology is framed by stop-motion animated segments that depict a walking dollhouse. (2016, 1:20)

FAMILY FILM SUNDAY

>> Animation Show of Shows

11:10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Sunday, free

Twelve family-friendly films created with various techniques by animators from Belgium, Canada, France, Israel, Korea, Latvia, Norway, Russia, Scotland, the U.K. and the U.S. Screenings include “Stems,” “Shift,” “Pearl,” “Crin-crin,” “Mirror,” “Last Summer in the Garden,” “Waiting for the New Year,” “Piper,” “Boygen,” “Afternoon Class,” “About a Mother,” “Exploozy” and “Inner Workings.” (1:30)

MOVIE MUSEUM

3566 Harding Ave., 735-8771; $5, $4 members

>> “Spellbound”

12:30, 4:15 and 8 p.m. Friday

A funny horror/romance about a loner with a secret that prevents her from having close friends or lovers: She sees ghosts following her around. For ages 12 and older. In Korean with English subtitles. (2011, South Korea, 1:54)

>> “Far From Men” (“Loin des Hommes”)

2:30 and 6:15 p.m. Friday; 1:30, 5:15 and 9 p.m. Monday

In 1954, a time when Algeria is fighting for its independence from France, a reclusive teacher must escort a villager into a distant town to stand trial for murder. For ages 13 and older. In French and Arabic with subtitles. (2014, France, 1:41)

>> “1066: The Battle for Middle Earth”

12:30, 3:15, 6 and 8:45 p.m. Saturday; 12:30 and 5:15 p.m. Thursday

Compelling stories of intense battles play out when the Vikings and Normans invade England and fight for two months until the Normans win the Battle of Hastings. For ages 15 and older. (2009, U.K., 2:30)

>> “Fences”

Noon, 2:30, 5 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday

Adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play set in 1950s Pittsburgh about a sanitation worker (Denzel Washington) who absorbs decades of hurt and frustration, poisoning his outlook on life and family. With Viola Davis. Rated PG-13. This film was nominated for four Oscars. (2016, 2:19)

>> “A Matter of Principles” (“Cuestion de Principios”)

11:30 a.m. and 3:15 and 7 p.m. Monday

Adalberto discovers that his younger brother owns a magazine volume his boss needs to complete a valuable collection, but Adalberto decides not to sell it because it contains a treasured photo of their father. For ages 12 and older. In Spanish with English subtitles. (2009, Argentina, 1:49)

>> “Dheepan”

3:15 and 8 p.m. Thursday

A Tamil freedom fighter flees Sri Lanka’s civil war and brings along a woman and a little girl in hopes it will be easier to claim asylum. But when violence erupts in Paris, he feels compelled to protect his “family.” Rated R. In Tamil and French with subtitles. (2015, France, 1:55)

SUNDAY SUPPER CINEMA @ WISP

7 p.m. Sunday, WISP Cafe & Lounge, Lotus Hotel, second floor; doors open 5:30 p.m. (for dinner). $5. Reservations: 436-4326.

>> “They Call Her Lady Fingers”

Tribute to Hawaii’s “First Lady of Jazz,” the late Betty Loo Taylor, a budding concert pianist who became leader of her own trio and spent a career performing in Honolulu’s first-class hotels. (2003, 1:02)

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