Southampton - The Parrish Art Museum's fall film series "New Global Cinema: When Things Go Wrong" will conclude Friday, October 30, at 7:30 p.m., with the Russian film "The Return," which won the Golden Lion at the 2003 Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Language Film.

In contemporary Russia, young brothers Ivan and Andrey have developed a deep attachment due to their fatherless childhood. Running home after a fight with each other, the boys are shocked to discover their father has returned after a 12-year absence. With their mother's uneasy blessing, Ivan and Andrey set out on what they believe will be a fishing vacation with their father.

At first, the boys are ecstatic to be reunited with the man they've only known from a faded photograph, but they soon strain under the weight of their dad's awkward and increasingly brutal efforts to make up for a missing decade of parental supervision. Ivan and Andrey find themselves alternately tested, scolded, scrutinized, and ignored. As truck stops and cafés give way to a wild, rain-swept coastline, Ivan's doubts develop into open defiance. Andrey's powerful need to bond with a father he's never known begins, in turn, to distance him from his brother. The test of wills between Ivan and his father escalates into bitter hostility and sudden violence after the trio arrives at their mysterious island destination. "The Return" is directed by ,Andrey Zvyagintsev, whose own father disappeared from his life when the boy was six.

Selected by guest curator John K. Turnbull, the fall film series explores the ways people confront - or avoid - crises and upheavals in their lives. Admission is $5 for Parrish members, $7 for nonmembers.

The Parrish theater will not go completely dark after October 30. As part of the Fourth Annual East End Black Film Festival, a special showing of the short documentary "Beyond the Bricks" will take place Thursday, November 5, at 7 p.m., at the Parrish and will be followed by a panel discussion including director Derek Koen, producer Ouida Washington, and local educators, teachers, and parent advocates. "Beyond the Bricks" explores the issues that produce consistently low performance of African-American boys in the public school system and focuses on solutions to this critical problem. Admission to the film and panel is free.

And on Saturday, November 7, from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m., a slate of four feature films and two shorts will be screened as the main program of the Festival. A day pass for Saturday's program is $5; Parrish members are admitted free.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, at state agency.