3 Needles Thom Fitzgerald, Canada, 2005 7:15pm

With tour de force performances from its star-studded cast (Chloe Sevigny, Lucy Liu, Sandra Oh, Stockard Channing, Olympia Dukakis), this is a remarkably powerful film by the director of The Hanging Garden. Three vignettes set in Africa, China, and Canada create a complex picture of the global AIDS pandemic. In the first tale, a young nun (Chloe Sevigny) who teaches HIV prevention to a tribe in South Africa is forced to negotiate a dark deal to save the lives of the disease-stricken children in her mission. In the second, Lucy Liu is Jin Ping, a government worker who pays poor Chinese farmers for their blood, unaware she is spreading death. In the final story, a Canadian porn actor (Shawn Ashmore of X-Men) hides his illness so he won’t lose his job, while his mother (Stockard Channing) makes her own death pact with the disease in order to care for him.  35mm, 124 min.

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