The Movies at Midway to open two limited release movies Sept. 4

The Movies at Midway will open two limited release movies Friday, Sept. 4.

"Meru - Believe in the Impossible" is a film by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhely. MERU is a harrowing and ultimately moving documentary and winner of a Sundance Film Festival Audience Award for US Documentary.

In the high-stakes pursuit of big wall climbing, the Shark's Fin on Mount Meru may be the ultimate prize. Sitting 21,000 feet above the sacred Ganges River in Northern India, the mountain's perversely stacked obstacles make it both a nightmare and irresistible calling to some of the world's toughest climbers.

In October 2008, renowned alpinist Concrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk arrived in India to tackle Meru. Their planned seven-day trip quickly devolved into a 20-day odyssey in sub-zero temperatures with depleting food rations. Within 100 meters of the elusive summit, their journey-like all previous attempts- fell short of the goal.

Heartbroken and defeated, the trio returned to their everyday lives, where the siren song of Meru continued to beckon. By September 2011, Anker had convinced his team to reunite and undertake Shark's Fin once more, under even more extraordinary circumstances.

Meru is the story of that journey, an expedition through nature's harshest elements and one's complicated inner demons and ultimately on to impossible heights.

"Meru is one of the best adventures ever told on film! Equal parts edge of the seat thriller and sensitive character study, Meru is more exciting that any big-budget blockbuster, and one of the more inspiring odes to the power of the human spirit." Ted Metrakas, Film Forward.

Go to merufilm.com for more information.

"Mistress America" is an (R) rated comedy written, directed and produced by Noah Baumbach.

In "Mistress America", Tracy (Lola Kirke), is a lonley college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon to be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig), a resident of Times Square and adventurous gal about town, she is reduced from her disappointment and seduced by Brooke's alluring mad schemes.

Go to mistressamericathemovie.com for more information.

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