IFS features `Riders Of Justice inside newly reopened Orinda Theatre
By Sophie Braccini
Image provided Lamorinda can reconquer the full breadth of its international culture now that the International Film Showcase returns to a reopened Orinda Theatre. The first movie is Riders of Justice a USA premiere from Denmark opening on May 14 featuring Mads Mikkelsen. A powerful and sometimes violent reflection on making sense of loss, the film is humorous and surprising, bordering on the absurd - a fitting feature for our troubled times. Markus (Mads Mikkelsen) is a deployed soldier returning home to take care of his teenage daughter after his wife is killed in a subway accident. The only way he knows to cope with trauma and pain is by reacting violently. At home, he finds Mathilde (Andrea Heick Gadeberg) his daughter, whom he does not understand. Those two do not do much to help each other, until a small group of misfit computer and math geniuses find Markus and tell him