TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Welcome to the Festival MSPIFF Year-round Letters How to Fest Membership Sponsors Community Partners Consulate and Community Support
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Off-Screen Events Festival Forums Galas, Parties & Events Ticket Stub Deals
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Program Overviews Guide to Festival Awards Guide to Film Programs Guide to Festival Voices
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Film Programs Special Presentations Emerging Filmmaker Competition Documentary Competition Minnesota Made Competition Cine Global LGBTQ Currents Women and Film Images of Africa Cine Latino Asian Frontiers Midnight Sun World Cinema Documentaries New American Visions Culinary Cinema Dark Out Childish Films
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Short Films Childish Shorts Shorts Programs Music Videos
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Credits Staff Acknowledgements Volunteers
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Indexes Schedule Grid Title Index Country Index Voices Index Shorts Index
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34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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WELCOME FROM THE FILM SOCIETY’S EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Among the many things I love about our Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is its power to reflect our increasingly interconnected global community. Our 2015 lineup of some 200 films is as varied and diverse as ever, presenting a range of perspectives, people, places and stories. At the same time it reflects the many parallels among cultures here in Minnesota and around the world. This is a major theme we bring you this year, one evoked by our main 2015 spotlight, Cine Global. It’s a showcase of films from countries around the globe that share commonalities with others–whether a narrative thread, a language, a theme, a trait or a movement. Look for the Cine Global icon on the pages in this guide and on our website designating films and events that make up the program. The films in this year’s Festival come to us from more than 60 countries–and from filmmakers representing a wide spectrum of experience. From Minnesota productions to work hailing from China, Russia, Argentina, Mexico, Denmark, France, Morocco, Cuba, to name just a few. Over one hundred filmmakers from around the world will be joining us with many first-time filmmakers screening their works alongside veterans of the global film industry. We also wanted to emphasize the work of women filmmakers this year. 45 feature-length films in the program are directed by women.
WELCOME
Finally, rather than offering a selection of my own personal “must-see’s” as I’ve often been asked to do (quite frankly, it’s impossible to choose just a few!), I encourage you to join me in navigating the wonderful abundance of cinema in this year’s festival and to discover, together with our fellow festivalgoers, something unexpected, something enlightening, and something new.
Susan Smoluchowski Executive Director Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul
MSPIFF PROGRAMMERS’ STATEMENT MSPIFF offers a sweeping survey of contemporary national and world cinema that in most cases would not be seen on the big screen in the region, ever! Selections for the Festival are made by collaborative consensus using rigorous criteria that champion artistic vision and excellence, innovation, subject matter, diversity of viewpoint, and premiere standing (International, National, Regional). MSPIFF often presents films that may be considered provocative or touch on controversial issues. That said, we do not necessarily endorse the views expressed in these films. We do, however, welcome the conversation that such films can spark. Let’s make those conversations happen together!
PROGRAMMERS: Jesse Bishop, Deb Girdwood, Isabelle Harder, Craig Laurence Rice, Alissa Simon, Kathie Smith BOARD PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE: Anne Carayon, Chair, Tom DeBiaso, Rob Silberman, Susan Smoluchowski
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Reyelts Community Leader, Board Chair Melodie Bahan Vice President Communications, Artspace Projects, Inc. Anne Carayon Professor, Macalester College Richard Cohen Minnesota State Senator Tom DeBiaso Dean of Graduate Studies, MCAD Jacob Frey City Council Member, 3rd Ward Minneapolis
Karen Heithoff Community Leader Max Musicant Principal, The Musicant Group Rob Silberman Professor of Art History, University of Minnesota Susan Smoluchowski Executive Director, Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul Karen Sternal Community Leader Mark Tierney Executive Chairman, mPay Gateway Frances Wilkinson Owner/President, Mount Curve Company
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The Film Society year-round
THE FILM SOCIETY’S YEAR-ROUND PROGRAMS International independent cinema. 365 days a year. Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul is a nonprofit member-based organization with a rich 50-year history of year-round exhibition of the very best of contemporary, repertory, local, national and international cinema. Our curated daily programming and regular film series inform Minnesota audiences about cultures, histories, news and filmmaking artistry from countries around the world, all through the evocative and moving power of film. The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is the Film Society’s centerpiece.
Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival For its annual program of 200+ dramatic and documentary films from around the globe, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival–or MSPIFF–brings together outstanding films and enthusiastic audiences eager for new perspectives and voices. Since its founding more than 30 years ago, the Festival has delivered countless films of note, otherwise unseen on the local big screens, to ever-growing audiences, along with unforgettable experiences for filmmakers and filmgoers alike. MSPIFF champions works by new and established artists, and provides intimate opportunities for audiences and filmmakers to connect and share in the discovery of the best that cinema has to offer.
HISTORY Al Milgrom Founder/Artistic Director Emeritus, Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul In 1962, Mr. Milgrom founded the groundbreaking University Film Society, which introduced international film and filmmakers to Twin Cities’ audiences. Milgrom has long played a key role in bringing notable international film to the Upper Midwest, through year-round Film Society programming and through the MSP International Film Festival. Milgrom’s contributions to cinema in MN are legendary. This year, Milgrom has become a filmmaker in his own right, with both feature length (pg 97) and short (pg 114) films in this year’s lineup.
Tim Grady Founder, Film Festival/Board Member Emeritus In 1981 Mr. Grady founded the Minneapolis Film Festival, which launched the international film festival tradition in the region and inspired the MSP International Film Festival. Grady has remained involved in the film industry through his various successful business ventures, including Adopt Films, a new international independent film distribution company responsible for this year’s Victoria (pg 61). As a longtime Film Society board member, Grady has made important contributions to the overall activities and to the quality of programming of MSPIFF.
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THURSDAY
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11:00
1:00 12:30pm To Life! 90min, p140
1:00
12:15pm In the Basement 81min, p102
12:20pm Magical Girl 127min, p71
12:15pm The Fool 116min, p125
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2:15pm Alive 179min, p77
4:30pm Beatles 114min, p85
5:45pm Tangerines 87min, p138
5:00pm El Crítico 98min, p68
6:00
6:00
5:00pm Tokyo Fiancee 100min, p140
5:00 4:40pm NN 94min, p72
5:00
8:00
7:45pm - The Royal Road, 65min, p111
7:00pm Dukhtar 93min, p123
7:10pm Tired Moonlight 76min, p149
7:15pm - Marshland w/ Ady and the Polygraph 113min, p71
7:00 6:45pm Victoria 140min, p61
10:00
11:00
10:00pm Betibú 99min, p67
9:45pm Voice Over 96min, p75
9:50pm 52 Tuesdays 114min, p117
10:00 11:00 10:15pm Free Fall w/ Telephone 92min, p160 9:40pm Speed Walking 108min, p89
9:00pm XYZ Party at HDMG, p32
9:00
9:00pm Opening Night Party at Aster Café, p32
7:20pm - The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, 114min, p53
7:00 8:00 9:00 7:00pm - The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, 114min, p53
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3:00pm Monument to Michael Jackson, 95min, p131
2:45pm Los Hongos 103min, p70
3:00 2:40pm The Owners 93min, p135
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2:10pm Life of Riley 108min, p129
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11:00am Belle and Sebastian 104min, p163
11:10am La Sapienza 101min, p128
11:00am - Virtuosity w/ The Past is in the Present...,98min, p114
10:55am All of Me 90min, p91
11:00 12:00 11:00am No One’s Child 97min, p134
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11:00am Fiddlesticks 82min, p163
1:00pm Medicine of the Wolf, 75min, p106
1:15pm Secrets of War 95min, p165
98min, p168
Someone Else’s Shoes
1:20pm - Shorts 2: In
1:15pm Poverty, Inc. 97min, p110
Every Face Has a Name,73min, p98
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1:00 2:00 1:15pm Zemene 69min, p65
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65min, p111
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4:00pm Panel: Music For Motion Pictures,p30
3:30pm I Am Here 88min, p100
3:30pm - Shana: The Wolf’s Music 96min, p166
4:10pm - Shorts 3: Short Stories/Big Screen, 79min, p169
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92min, p123
5:30pm Decor 116min, p63
5:45pm For Grace 92min, p154
6:40pm 1000 Rupee Note 89min, p77
6:40pm Pot (the movie) 93min, p109
6:00pm The Dinner
100min, p97
The Dinkytown Uprising
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4:00pm - Clouds of Sils Maria w/ Creased Map 128min, p57
3:30pm Out in the Night 75min, p108
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9:00pm - Music Meets Film: A Party for MN Musicians, Filmmakers, and Everyone Else! at Third Bird, p32
8:30pm The Fool 116min, p125
9:30pm W 130min, p83
100min, p121
11:00
9:30pm The Kindergarten Teacher 119min, p128
9:45pm Corn Island
9:00 10:00 9:00pm Madame Bovary 118min, p60
10:00pm Breakup Buddies 116min, p78
9:50pm Love at First Fight 98min, p130
9:50pm Girlhood 112min, p126
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11:00 12:00 10:45pm Cub w/ Invaders 92min, p159
9:45pm The Second Mother 114min, p73
10:00
9:00pm Cine Global Celebration at St. Anthony Main, p32
8:00pm - These Are the Rules 75min, p139
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7:15pm 1000 Rupee Note 89min, p77
7:10pm - Ciudad Delirio w/ Cecilia Schiller 103min, p68
7:00pm - Virtuosity w/ The Past is in the Present..., 98min, p114
8:00 9:00 7:50pm Madame Bovary 118min, p60
7:20pm -Every Face Has a Name 73min, p98
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6:00pm - MN Made Music Videos at Amsterdam Bar & Hall,p168
6:00 5:45pm Nena 95min, p132
Medicine of the Wolf, 75min, p106
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4:00pm - Panel: We Need a Music Video! at McNally Smith , p30
4:00 3:40pm Ghadi 100min, p125
3:00pm Labyrinthus 95min, p164
2:00pm Cinematographers Meetup, p30
2:00pm Dukhtar 93min, p123
4:00pm Wildlike 104min, p150
4:40pm For Grace 92min, p154
5:00
Follow us on Twitter @MSPFILMSOCIETY for updates, breaking news and last minute alerts. Use #MSPIFF to join the conversation. 3:00 4:00 3:00pm Pot (the movie) 93min, p109
2:15pm Out in the Night 75min, p108
2:00
1:00pm Lola on the Pea 90min, p164
11:30am A Brilliant Young Mind 111min, p142
60min, p150
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1:10pm Poverty, Inc. 97min, p110
1:00 1:00pm Afterlife 90min, p119
11:15am Language Matters with Bob Holman, 110min, p103
11:00 12:00 11:00am The Second Life of Thieves, 87min, p83
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2:30pm Good Things Await 100min, p154
2:45pm The Dark Horse 124min, p122
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5:20pm That Sugar Film 90 min, p156
4:45pm - The Creator of the Jungle,77min, p95
4:45pm Zemene 69min, p65
5:20pm Finding Gaston 75min, p153
5:00 6:00 5:15pm Iris 83min, p102
4:30pm A Borrowed Identity 105min, p120
5:10pm The Lesson 107min, p129
4:45pm - Every Face Has a Name,73min, p98
4:15pm Papusza 131min, p135
3:00 4:00 3:15pm The Owners 93min, p135
3:10pm Tales 88min, p138
3:15pm Marie’s Story 95min, p131
2:40pm Unlikely Heroes 94min, p142
1:45pm Breakup Buddies 116min, p78
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4:00 5:00 4:15pm Ghadi 100min, p125
7:00pm -Warren MacKenzie: A Potter’s Hand w/ Rediscovering John Berryman, 74min, p114
7:00pm - The Sound of Redemption, 84min, p113
6:40pm Shorts 4: Sports Shorts,79min, p169
7:15pm - Operation Popcorn w/ Soundtrack of Phillips, 87min,p107
7:10pm Cheatin’ 76min, p146
7:00 8:00 7:10pm The Connection 135min, p58
Lobby w/ Neighborhoods,71min, p147
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7:30pm Mr. Kaplan 98min, p72
7:15pm Cowboys w/ Once 111min, p121
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7:20pm Amour Fou 96min, p119
7:00 7:00pm Cheatin’ 76min, p146
9:40pm Felix and Meira 105min, p124
9:50pm Red Amnesia 115min, p81
9:45pm The Reaper 98min, p136
9:10pm The Golden Era 178min, p80
9:00
10:00 11:00 10:00pm - Free Fall w/ Telephone 92min, p160
9:40pm The Strongest Man 99min, p149
9:35pm Black Coal, Thin Ice 106min, p78
Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Rolll,105min, p98
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9:30pm - Don’t Think I’ve
10:00 9:30pm They Are All Dead 93min, p73
9:15pm Difret 99min, p63
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2:30pm Tokyo Fiancee 100min, p140
3:00 2:45pm - These Are the Rules 75min, p139
2:00pm Veve 95min, p64
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2:50pm Tangerines 87min, p138
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2:30pm Gods 120min, p126
2:30pm Next to Her 90min, p133
2:45pm Speed Walking 108min, p89
3:00pm - The Songs of Rice 75min, p112
3:00 2:40pm I’m Not Him 123min, p127
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2:40pm Corn Island 100min, p121
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4:50pm That Sugar Film 90min, p156
4:50pm Life of Riley 108min, p129
4:45pm The Iron Ministry 82min, p103
5:00 4:30pm La Sapienza 101min, p128
6:00
5:00pm - The Second Life of Thieves, 87min, p83
4:40pm 52 Tuesdays 114min, p117
5:00pm All of Me 90min, p91
4:50pm A Brilliant Young Mind 111min, p142
5:00 6:00 5:10pm The Farewell Party 93min, p124
4:00pm Operation Popcorn 81min, p107
4:00
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7:00pm - The Creator of the Jungle, 77min, p95
6:50pm - Love Marriage in Kabul 84min, p104
7:15pm - Shorts 6: Femme Regarde 110min, p170
7:00pm - The Russian Woodpecker 80min, p111
7:30 pm - The Decade of Discovery, 62min, p97
7:00 8:00 7:10pm The Wolfpack 89min, p61
7:00pm The Hunting Ground 102min, p59
7:00pm The Mask You Live In 97min, p105
7:05pm - Shorts 5: Experimental 79min, p170
7:10pm - Clouds of Sils Maria w/ I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, 127min, p57
7:20pm -The Sound of Redemption, 84min, p113
7:00 8:00 7:15pm Best of Enemies 87min, p57
9:30pm - The Grump w/ Crow’s Reckoning 107min, p86
10:00pm Marshland 105min, p71
9:30pm Girlhood 112min, p126
11:00
9:50pm The Kindergarten Teacher 119min, p128
10:00 9:50pm Ciudad Delirio 99min, p68
9:50pm Margarita, with a Straw 100min, p130
9:50pm Nowhere in Moravia 102min, p134
9:45pm NN 94min, p72
9:55pm Los Hongos 103min, p70
10:00 11:00 10:00pm Cub w/ Invaders 92min, p159
9:00pm Minnesota Made Party at the Red Stag Supperclub, p32
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Noon
11:00am Lola on the Pea 90min, p164
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Best Buy Theater (UMN)
10:30am - Childish Shorts at the Downtown Library! p167
10:30am - Intermedia Arts SAM 4 Student Film Showcase (FREE), 90min, p31
11:00am School of Babel 94min, p112
12:15pm Exit 94min, p79
11:00 12:00 11:20am Decor 116min, p63
Noon
2:00
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4:00pm - Panel: Editing/Editors p30
7:30pm- The Russian Woodpecker, 80min, p111
7:20pm Happy Times 80min, p69
7:00 8:00 7:00pm - Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy, 106min, p95
8:00 7:30pm - Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile, 70min, p106
9:00
9:00pm Mid-Fest Party at Vic’s on the Riverfront, p32
10:30pm A Hard Day 111min, p160
9:45pm Tu Dors Nicole 93min, p141
Midnight
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10:15pm In Order of Disappearance 116min, p87
9:50pm Slow West 84min, p137
10:00 11:00 10:00pm - Monument to Michael Jackson 95min, p131
9:00pm - Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy After-party at Aster Cafés River Room, p32
9:30pm Black Coal, Thin Ice 106min, p78
8:30pm Tired Moonlight 76min, p149
7:45pm El Niño 136min, p69
11:00
10:00pm The Keeping Room 95min, p161
9:50pm Results 105min, p148
10:00 10:00pm Magical Girl 127min, p71
9:15pm Shorts 7: Animation 85min, p171
9:00
7:40pm - The Grandad w/ Crescent Collective, 96min, p86
8:00pm 3 Hearts 106min, p117
7:20pm Happy Times 80min, p69
7:00
7:15pm - Patchwork Family w/ Terri Huro: Within the Skin, 98min, p136
6:30pm The Dark Horse 124min, p122
6:00pm The Day After 97min, p96
5:00pm - Shorts 8: Heavy Levity 92min, p171
4:15pm - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, 116min, p93
5:30pm H2Omx 82min, p99
4:40pm Bread and Butter 89min, p145
5:00 6:00 4:50pm - Crescendo! The Power of Music 85min, p96
5:00pm - Kebab & Horoscope 75min, p127
4:30pm Tales 88min, p138
5:00pm Hand Made with Love in France 70min, p99
6:00
5:10pm No One’s Child 97min, p134
5:00
4:45pm - Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll, 105min, p98
3:45pm - Things of the Aimless Wanderer, 77min, p64
3:00pm Labyrinthus 95min, p164
2:00pm - Panel: Women and Film p30
1:00pm - Shana: The Wolf’s Music 96min, p166
1:30pm - The World’s Largest Ball of Twine, 81min, p115
2:20pm - Hand Made with Love in France,70min, p99
2:00 3:00 1:50pm - Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy, 106min, p95
1:00pm Almost There 93min, p92
1:00
4:00
car2go Day at the Festival!
2:15pm Chagall – Malevich 120min, p120
3:00pm Nena 95min, p132
2:30pm W 130min, p83
3:00 2:30pm The Look of Silence 99min, p104
2:00pm Beatles 114min, p85
12:45pm Margarita, with a Straw 100min, p130
12:30pm - All the Time in the World 87min, p91
1:00 12:30pm Natural Resistance 85min, p155
12:20pm Hello! Jun’ichi 91min, p80
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11:00am Fiddlesticks 82min, p163
11:30am Iris 83min, p102
11:00am - The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods w/ Aberdeen,63min, p107
11:15am Accused 97min, p118
11:00 12:00 11:00am Letter to the King, 75min, p87
Noon
APRIL 19
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1:00pm H2Omx 82min, p99
2:00pm Felix and Meira 105min, p124
3:00pm Voice Over 96min, p75
4:45pm The Hunting Ground 102min, p59
5:20pm The Dinner 92min, p123
4:45pm Theeb 100min, p139
5:30pm I Am Here 88min, p100
7:00pm - All the Time in the World 87min, p91
6:30pm - The Farewell Party w/ Triolet for Laika, 95min, p124
7:30pm Capturing Grace 61min, p94
7:30pm Venice 74min, p74
8:40pm Alive 179min, p77
11:00
11:00
9:40pm The Second Mother 114min, p73
10:00pm - Kebab & Horoscope 75min, p127
9:40pm Next to Her 90min, p133
10:00
9:15pm The Sacred Arrow 97min, p82
9:00pm Nuoc 2030 98min, p81
9:00pm Life in a Fishbowl 129min, p88
9:00 10:00 9:00pm A Borrowed Identity 105min, p120
8:00 9:00 8:00pm The Cut 138min, p122
8:00pm Gods 120min, p126
8:00
7:15pm - Shorts 9: Dramatic Crossroads 92min, p173
7:00
6:30pm Good Things Await 100min, p154
5:15pm - Love Marriage in Kabul 84min, p104
6:15pm About a Girl 104min, p118
6:30pm - If I Give My Soul 58min, p101
6:45pm Marie’s Story 95min, p131
6:00 7:00 6:15pm Almost There 93min, p92
5:00 6:00 5:15pm - The Outrageous Sophie Tucker 96min, p108
4:15pm The Fort 110min, p79
3:45pm - The Songs of Rice 75min, p112
3:00 4:00 3:15pm They Are All Dead 93min, p73
2:00pm - The Dinkytown Uprising 95min, p97
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4:00pm - Panel: Crowd-Source Funding, p31
3:30pm The Mask You Live in 97min, p105
3:45pm Behavior 108min, p67
3:15pm To See the Sea 91min, p166
2:00pm - Panel: Cine Global Conversation p31
1:00pm Belle and Sebastian 104min, p163
5:00
4:00pm - Crescendo! The Power of Music,85min, p96
4:00 3:30pm Beyond the Divide 85min, p93
3:15pm - The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, 116min, p93
3:00
1:30pm - Difret w/ Traveling Museum 105min, p63
1:15pm Magicarena 84min, p105
1:30pm The Grump 104min, p86
1:00 2:00 12:45pm - The Outrageous Sophie Tucker, 96min, p108
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3:15pm Magicarena 84min, p105
2:40pm Patchwork Family 91min, p136
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5:00pm - Antarctic Edge: 70° South 72min, p92
4:50pm - Warren MacKenzie w/ Rediscovering John Berryman 74min, p114
4:40pm Mr. Kaplan 98min, p72
5:15pm History of Fear 79min, p70
5:00pm - Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story w/ Sandorkraut 87min, p155
5:00 6:00 4:45pm Nowhere in Moravia 102min, p134
4:45pm Beyond the Divide 85min, p93 5:30pm Pervert Park 77min, p109
5:00pm School of Babel 94min, p112
5:00 4:30pm To Life! 90min, p140
4:15pm The Lesson 107min, p129
4:00
3:15pm Finding Gaston 75min, p153
3:00 2:30pm Amour Fou 96min, p119
3:00pm Red Amnesia 115min, p81
2:30pm Love at First Fight 98min, p130
2:45pm About A Girl 104min, p118
3:00 2:30pm Natural Resistance 85min, p155
2:15pm White Shadow 117min, p65
2:00
2:00
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7:30pm Venice 74min, p74
7:00pm Nuoc 2030 98min, p81
7:30pm - Letter to the King w/ Dodecahedron, 81min, p87
7:00pm Call Me Lucky 105min, p94
7:20pm The Center 72min, p145
7:10pm - 3 Hearts w/ How Not to Need Resurrection 108min, p117
7:00 8:00 7:00pm - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 108min, p60
7:20pm Welcome to Leith 95min, p115
6:45pm Capturing Grace 61min, p94
7:15pm - Results w/ Aaron Squadroni 111min, p148
7:00 6:30pm The Cut 138min, p122
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11:00
9:40pm Revivre 93min, p82
10:00pm Alléluia 93min, p159
9:45pm - In Order of Disappearance 116min, p87
9:30pm In the Basement 81min, p102
10:00 9:30pm 1001 Grams 93min, p85
9:30pm The Treatment 127min, p141
9:45pm I’m Not Him 123min, p127
10:00 11:00 10:00pm A Hard Day 111min, p160
9:40pm - I Touched All Your Stuff 91min, p101
9:00pm Wildlike 104min, p150
9:00
Midnight
12:00
Midnight
12:00
Misc
Best Buy Theater (UMN)
SAM 5
SAM 4
SAM 3
SAM 2
SAM 1
friday
Misc
SAM 5
SAM 4
SAM 3
SAM 2
SAM 1
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St. Anthony Main Theatre
St. Anthony Main Theatre
Noon
11:00
12:30pm The Iron Ministry 82min, p103
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12:15pm Life in a Fishbowl 129min, p88
12:00
Noon
12:00
APRIL 24
11:00
APRIL 23
3:00 4:00 2:40pm - I Touched All Your Stuff 91min, p101
3:00pm - Refugees in Cinecittà (FREE) 52min, p110
3:00pm Revivre 93min, p82
2:50pm The Fort 110min, p79
2:30pm - Antarctic Edge: 70° South 72min, p92
2:20pm - Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story w/ Sandorkraut 87min, p155
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5:00 4:45pm Slow West 84min, p137
4:45pm Accused 97min, p118
5:15pm Betibú 99min, p67
5:00pm Tu Dors Nicole 93min, p141
5:15pm Pervert Park 77min, p109
4:30pm Red Knot 81min, p148
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5:00pm - How to Dance in Ohio 89min, p100
4:30pm The Strongest Man 99min, p149
3:30pm The Golden Era 178min, p80
2:45pm The Grandad 90min, p86
3:15pm Things of the Aimless Wanderer 77min, p64
5:00 4:40pm El Crítico 98min, p68
4:15pm The Sacred Arrow 97min, p82
3:00 4:00 2:30pm Summer of Sangaile 88min, p137
2:00pm Exit 94min, p79
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8:00
7:30pm The Treatment 127min, p141
7:15pm No Man’s Island 93min, p133
7:20pm Knucklehead 81min, p147
7:10pm Two Shots Fired 104min, p74
7:00pm - Unlikely Heroes w/ The Long Deployment, 97min, p142
7:00 8:00 7:00pm The End of the Tour 106min, p58
10:00 9:30pm El Niño 136min, p69
10:00 9:30pm Veve 95min, p64
9:00pm Friday Night Party at Mattie’s on Main, p32
10:00pm Alléluia 93min, p159
9:50pm History of Fear 79min, p70
10:00pm The Center 72min, p145
11:00
10:00pm Hello! Jun’ichi 91min, p80
9:45pm - Not Ready to Die 75min, p88
9:15pm Call Me Lucky 105min, p94
9:00
11:00
10:00pm The Keeping Room 95min, p161
8:45pm - Shorts 10: Call to Create 98min, p173
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8:30pm Film Trivia! at New Bohemia, p32
7:10pm Sunshine Superman 100min, p113
7:00pm City of Gold 96min, p153
7:20pm Heart of Wilderness 84min, p146
6:30pm The Look of Silence 99min, p104
7:00 7:00pm Red Knot 81min, p148
Midnight
12:00
Midnight
12:00
Misc
Best Buy Theater (UMN)
SAM 5
SAM 4
SAM 3
SAM 2
SAM 1
saturday
St. Anthony Main Theatre
11:00am Secrets of War 95min, p165
11:15am Sunshine Superman 100min, p113
11:30am White Shadow 117min, p65
1:00pm - TBA
1:00pm Labyrinthus 95min, p164
1:00 12:45pm Theeb 100min, p139
11:45am - How to Dance in Ohio 89min, p100
11:00 12:00 11:00am Not Ready to Die 75min, p88
Noon
APRIL 25 3:00 3:00pm The Reaper 98min, p136
5:00 6:00 5:15pm - 1001 Grams w/ Andrea Steudel 98min, p85
4:00pm City of Gold 96min, p153
4:00pm - Producer’s Workshop: International Co-financing, p31
5:00pm - Afterlife w/ Emily Stover 96min, p119
4:15pm Chagall – Malevich 120min, p120
4:15pm - Shorts 11: It Takes a Village 95min, p175
4:00
3:00pm To See the Sea 91min, p166
2:00pm Welcome to Leith 95min, p115
2:10pm - Summer of Sangaile 88min, p137
2:15pm - I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story, 90min, p59
2:00
8:00 7:30pm Love & Mercy 120min, p55
7:10pm - Heart of Wilderness 84min, p146
6:45pm No Man’s Island 93min, p133
6:45pm Two Shots Fired 104min, p74
7:00pm The New Girlfriend 105min, p132
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Best of Fest begins Sunday, April 26! Stay tuned to mspfilm.org for the Best of Fest lineup.
10:00
9:00pm Closing Night Party at Mattie’s on Main, p32
9:45pm - TBA
9:30pm Knucklehead 81min, p147
9:40pm - TBA
9:15pmCowboys 107min, p121
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11:00
Midnight
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5/30/15: SAVE IT. University of Minnesota Recreation & Wellness Center For tickets and more information visit: mspmag.com/fitfest
GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA
Dear Film Lovers and Festival Organizers: Welcome to the 34th Annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival!
Since its inception in 1981, this film festival has grown to become the largest in the Upper Midwest, showcasing the talents and inspiration of filmmakers from all over the world. This year, films from over 65 countries will be shown.
MINNEAPOLIS
I want to thank all of the artists, orgaCITY OF LAKES nizers, and audience members who will make this year’s film festival an extraorJACOB FREY dinary cultural event. Council Member – Third Ward
350 South 5th Street –Room 307 Minneapolis, MN 55415-‐1383 Office 612-‐673-‐2203 Dear Festival Attendees, Fax 612-‐673-‐3940 TTY 612-‐673-‐2157 As Minneapolis Council Member represent
Once again, welcome to Minnesota. I send you all my best wishes for an exciting and enjoyable festival experience.
My best regards. March 25, 2015 Sincerely, Dear Festival Attendees, As Minneapolis Council Member representing Ward 3, hom Minneapolis St. Paul, I am pleased to welcome you to the F Mark Dayton Minneapolis t. Pthe aul State International Film Festival. GovernorSof of Minnesota The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is the la region and one of the region's most extraordinary annual c remarkable work by talented filmmakers from around the w significant contributor to the growing vibrancy of the Minn Downtown Minneapolis, creating a destination attracting in My thanks to the artists, visitors and residents alike. organizers, and au dience members who will make this year’s festival not-to-be-missed My film thanks to tanother he artists, organizers, and culturaudience member al event. Welcome to Minneapolis. While year’s film festival another not-‐to-‐be-‐missed cultural event you are here, I hope are able toyou take Minneapolis. While you ayou re here, I hope are able to ta advantage of the Mississippi Riverfront, Mississippi Riverfront, our walking and bike trails, and our g ourtheater, walkinglive and bikeatrails, andmour class music, nd much ore. great restaurants, world-class theater, live music, and much more. I look forward to meeting you while you are here. I look forward to meeting you while you are here. Sincerely, Sincerely,
www.minneapolismn.gov/ward3 ing Ward 3, home of the Film Society of jacob.frey@minneapolismn.gov Minneapolis St. Paul, I am pleased to welcome you to the Film Society’s 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.
The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is the largest film festival in this region and one of the region’s most extraordinary annual cultural events, showcasing remarkable work by talented filmmakers from around the world. The Festival is a significant contributor to the growing vibrancy of the Minneapolis Riverfront and Downtown Minneapolis, creating a destination attracting increasing numbers of visitors and residents alike.
WELCOME
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCILMEMBER - THIRD WARD
Jacob Frey Minneapolis City Councilmember, Ward 3 Jacob Frey Minneapolis City Councilmember, Ward 3 350 S. 5th St., Room 307 Minneapolis, MN 55415 612-‐ 673-‐2203 in cultivating an impassioned strumental and devoted Minnesota audience for jacob.frey@minneapolismn.gov indie films. Our cultural landscape is enriched because of it.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MINNESOTA FILM AND TV BOARD Welcome to the 34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival! Since its founding, the Festival has built a well-deserved reputation as the Upper Midwest’s most comprehensive showcase of international independent cinema. Recently MSPIFF has expanded its frame to include narrative features and documentaries made right here in Minnesota. Whether they are made in Serbia, Argentina, Italy or Lake Itasca, MSPIFF showcases films that audiences might not otherwise see on a big screen. Affirmative Action Employer
This long-term commitment to celebrating diverse world cinema has been in-
Thanks to a small but mighty group of festival programmers and volunteers led by Susan Smoluchowski, Jesse Bishop, and Eric Wilson, this year’s festival promises to be the best ever.
Enjoy.
Lucinda Winter Executive Director Minnesota Film and TV Board
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MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS Welcome to the 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival!
We want festival-goers to feel welcome not just at the festival, but everywhere in the city.
By joining us for this year’s Festival, one of the great international film festivals in the country, you play a key role in assuring that Minneapolis retains and grows its reputation as the premiere cultural and economic hub in this region. The Festival plays a key role in the development of a dynamic Minneapolis downtown and riverfront, something I am so very proud of. Your attendance at and support of the Festival contributes greatly to the vitality of our city.
Congratulations to the hundreds of local, national and international filmmakers whose CITY OF 65+ SAINT PAUL films–more than 200 from countries Mayor Christopher Coleman –serve as the artistic foundation ofB.this remarkable three-week event. And thanks to the Festival board, staff and volunteers whose dedication ensures that this festival continues to grow both in quality of programming and in national and international standing. I offer you all my warmest welcome to Min-
neapolis our 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul April 3,and 2014
International Film Festival. I have no doubt that you will experience moments both off and on-screen that will inspire and impasDear Film Enthusiasts, sion you to return, and inform and illuminate your day.
WELCOME
To those filmmakers and guests joining us from out of town, I welcome you to our great city and encourage you to take the opportunity to explore all that Minneapolis has to offer. Stroll down the Mississippi Riverfront, grab a bite to eat at one of the many restaurants that represent some of the best in the Midwest, visit our museums, catch a concert, or take a bike ride through one of our 197 city parks to see for yourself why Minneapolis consistently ranks as one of the cities with the best quality of life in the US.
ItEnjoy is my great pleasure to welcome you to th the show! The Minneapolis Saint Paul International F Over the course of several weeks, you will of art that will challenge, provoke and insp
IMayor admire The Film Society of Minneapolis/ Betsy Hodges City of Minneapolis event possible. The Film Society of Minnea film/arts organizations on the country, and
MAYOR OF ST. PAUL Dear Film Enthusiasts, It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Over the course of the next several weeks, you will have the opportunity to view more than 250 films that will challenge, provoke and inspire your imagination. I am hugely thankful for the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, whose efforts have made this popular cultural event possible. They exist as one of the largest and most diversified film and arts organizations in the country and the largest exhibitor of artistic films in the upper Midwest. I must also thank each contributor and filmmaker who is sharing their artistic vision and accomplishments with us. I commend the hard work and dedication
Thanks to all of the contributors and filmm of all the volunteers and staff, whose accomplishments with us. I commend the h help is essential in order for us to have whose help is essential in order for us to ha the best film-going experience.
am very very excited excited to II am to see see this this festival festival take pl take place here in the Twin Cities, and visitors to use this time to relish in this vibr I strongly encourage you all to take adinternational independent films. Moreover, vantage of everything Minnesota’s capital city has tocapital offer, including Minnesota’s city has sports, to offer- includ outdoor recreation, shopping, theater, museums. music and museums.
Once again, – I hope everyone Once again,welcome welcome to Twin Cities. I hop will have a great time and enjoy this wonfilm festival. derful film festival.
Sincerely, Sincerely,
Christopher B. Coleman Mayor Christopher B. Coleman Mayor City of St. Paul
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TICKET OPTIONS General $12
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Select screenings, including Opening Night and Closing Night, have special ticket prices. This information will be noted on the film’s page.
FESTIVAL PASSES HOW TO FEST
Passes are the ultimate way to experience the Festival. Depending on which Pass you purchase, benefits include entry to films and events, priority seating in Ticket Holder Lines, entry to the Passholder Lounge, and more. Visit us online at mspfilm.org or in person at the Festival Information Office for information or to purchase Passes. Passholders, please note! A ticket is required for entry to any film. You must redeem your pass online or in person at the Box Office and have your ticket in hand at least 15 minutes prior to showtime to ensure entry to any film.
GETTING TICKETS
BOX OFFICE HOURS & LOCATIONS
Tickets Go On Sale March 10 - Film Society Members (Closing Night only) March 19 - Film Society Members (all films) March 24 - General Public (all films)
St. Anthony Main Theatre Box Office 115 SE Main St, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Now-April 8: Box Offices open 15 minutes before the first show is scheduled to begin and close 10 minutes after the final show is scheduled to begin.
Get Tickets Online Ordering online is easy. Browse our website, find a film you want to see, and on the film’s page click the showtime of the screening you wish to attend. Members! Be sure to log in using your member number or username and password to receive your member discount! Get Tickets in Person Tickets, Passes and Ticket Packages for all screenings may be purchased at the venues during regular business hours. 6-Packs and Festival Passes may be purchased at the Festival Information Office during business hours. Ticket Pickup and Will Call Patrons who select “Will Call” as their ticket delivery method can pick their tickets up at the designated “Will Call” desks at each venue.
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April 9-25: Mon-Fri, Box Office opens 15 minutes before the first show is scheduled to begin and closes 10 minutes after the final show is scheduled to begin. Sat-Sun, 10:30am - 10 minutes after the final show is scheduled to begin. INFORMATION OFFICE HOURS OF OPERATION 125 SE Main St, First Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Now through April 5: Mon-Fri, 10:30am-6pm April 6-April 25: Daily, 10:30am-close Best Buy Theater at Northrop Auditorium 84 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455 On days that films screen at the Best Buy Theater, Box Office and Will Call will open 30 minutes before the first show is scheduled to begin at Northrop and close 10 minutes after the final show is scheduled to begin. Wehrenberg Theatres Galaxy 14 Cine 4340 Maine Ave SE, Rochester, MN 55403 Box Office opens 15 minutes before the first show is scheduled to begin and closes 10 minutes after the final show is scheduled to begin.
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FESTIVAL LINGO Ticket Holder Lines Prior to admittance to any theatre, you will be directed to a Ticket Holder Line. These lines form approximately one hour before showtime and are seated on first-come first-served. Passholders receive Priority Status in Ticket Holder Lines and will be admitted into the theatre first. Rush Tickets Didn’t get the tickets you wanted to that sold out film? Go Rush! A Rush Line is formed when advance tickets are no longer available for a film screening. Each venue will have its own Rush Line. Patrons waiting in the Rush Line may have the opportunity to purchase unclaimed tickets on a first-come first-served basis. Regular Vs. Premium Screenings Regular: Any screening priced $12 or less per ticket General Admission. Premium: Any screening priced more than $12 per ticket General Admission.
HOW TO FEST
Schedule Changes On rare occasions, programs must be changed, rescheduled or cancelled. Schedule updates will be posted online and noted at Festival venues. Ticket Voucher Redemption Vouchers can be redeemed at the St. Anthony Main Theatre Box Office or Festival Information Office. Please note – vouchers do not guarantee you a seat until they are redeemed for a ticket. Festival Policies MSPIFF reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. Please note that many of the films do not carry an MPAA rating. Recording devices are not permitted in the theatres. All bags are subject to inspections. Auditoriums must be cleared between screenings. No saving of seats.
HELPFUL TIPS! Check the Venue! Unless otherwise noted, all screenings take place at the St. Anthony Main Theatre. Venue information will be noted on that film’s page on mspfilm.org, as well as near the showtimes within this guide. Print Your Tickets at Home! Beginning this year, you can print your ticket at home and skip the Box Office lines. If you choose to print your ticket at home, be sure to bring the ticket with you and hop into the correct Ticket Holder Line. Arrive Early! Help us keep the show on schedule! Ticketholders must arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled screening time or the reservation may be released and the seat may be sold. Ticket Stub Deals! Hold on to that ticket stub! Many restaurants and businesses in the area offer special deals if you show your MSPIFF ticket stub. Visit page 35 for details Parking! St. Anthony Main Theatre: St. Anthony Falls Ramp (tunnel-connected) on the corner of 2nd Ave & 2nd St. Best Buy Theater: Church Street Garage, 80 Church Street SE. Lost Something? All items are kept in the venue or the theatre where they were found for the duration of the Festival. After the Festival, items will be kept until the end of May before being donated to charity.
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During the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival Discounts on all festival tickets, packages and passes Access to Members-only line for ticket purchases Advance purchase window for tickets and ticket packages Two free tickets to the MSP International Film Festival Acknowledgement in the Official Festival Guide Access to the Festival Hospitality Center Priority Seating at Festival screenings MSPIFF Silver Pass MSPIFF Gold Pass
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Generous Support for the German films provided by the Consulate of Germany
The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul is proud to acknowledge and thank the Official Sponsors of the 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Sponsor support reflects a commitment to ensuring the future of independent film in the region, a celebration of the creativity and ingenuity of independent filmmakers around the world.
PRESENTING SPONSOR
SPONSORS
PRODUCING SPONSOR
FOUNDATION SUPPORT
Cedarwoods Foundation
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OFFICIAL FESTIVAL HOTEL
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danish teak classics vintage modern furniture I art glass I ceramic art pastries | ice cream | artisan breads | viennoiseries
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pastries | ice cream | artisan breads | viennoiseries
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COMMUNITY PARTNERS Consulate & community support
Alliance Francaise of Minnesota Allied Integrated Marketing American Civil Liberties Union Minnesota American Swedish Institute Amsterdam Bar & Grill Art Institute International Artspace Asian Media Access Association of Writers and Writers Programs Conference Aster Café and River Room Augsburg College Bakken Museum Barbette Benessere Body in Balance Bryant Lake Bowl Carleton College Casa de Espana CB Burnet – Leslie Bush City of Minneapolis City of St. Paul Citypages Concordia University Council on Crime and Justice Cynthia Froid Group Czech and Slovak Cultural Center Dakota Jazz Club Fitzgerald Theater Food and Wine Magazine Fredrikson & Byron French American Chamber of Commerce Minnesota (FACCMN) German Chamber of Commerce Global Market Guthrie Theater
Hamline College Hennepin Theatre Trust Humphrey School of Public Affairs IFP Minnesota iMyne In Progress In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater India Association of Minnesota Italian Cultural Center Italian Cultural Center Japan Society of Minnesota Joyless Creatures Jungle Theater KFAI Radio Kilimanjaro Entertainment Kilimanjaro Entertainment KMSU: La Hora Communitaria Kyatchi La Gran America Landmark Theaters Latino Communications Network Lynne Steele Casting Macalester College MacPhail Center for Music Matt Kane Mattie’s on Main McNally Smith College of Music MEET Minneapolis Mercado Central MetroTransit Midwest Mountaineering Midwest Mountaineering Migizi Communications Mill City Commons Mill City Farmers Market
Minneapolis College of Art and Design - MCAD Minneapolis Community Technical College - MCTC Minneapolis Downtown Council Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis Jewish Federation Minneapolis Public School District Minneapolis Riverfront Partnership Minneapolis Undergound Film Festival Minnesota Advocates for Immersion Minnesota Consular Corps Minnesota Cuba Committee Minnesota Film and TV Board Minnesota Institute for Nigerian Development Minnesota International Center Minnesota Music Coalition Minnesota Women in Film and Television Minnpost Mizna MN Telecommunications Network MotionPoems MSP Airport Foundation Nash Gallery National Parkinson Fdn Minnesota Nemer Fieger New Bohemia NightOwlDiscovery North High School Northern Spark Northrop Auditorium’s Best Buy Theater
One on One Ordway Theater Parkway Theater Partnership Resources Inc. - PRI Pat’s Tap Project Success Red Stag Supper Club Renaissance Depot Hotel Rochester International Film Group Russian Museum Sabes JCC Minneapolis Science Film Festival Scott Brown Marketing SOKOL Southside Pride SPCO’s Liquid Music St. Olaf College St. Paul Public School District Star Tribune and Vita.mn Surdyk’s Liquor and Cheese Surly Brewing The Heavy Table The Soap Factory Trialon Microcinema Twin Cities Daily Planet Twin Cities Jewish Film Fest Twin Cities Polish Festival Twin Cities Public Television Union for Concerned Scientists University of Minnesota UNO Branding Vic’s on the Riverfront Walker Art Center weeCinema Whole Foods
VENUE PARTNERS
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Consulate & community support
CONSULATE SUPPORT
MAJOR SUPPORTERS Significant support has been received from the following individuals. This support helps to sustain The Film Society and the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival’s ability to serve independent film artists and audiences in so many ways. We are deeply grateful to each of them. Melodie Bahan, Michael Bahauddin Jeremy Beck Ron Berg, Julie Berg George Bergquist, Denise Bergquist Gerardo Bernaldez, Maria Jato JoAnn Boraas Susan Boren, Steve King Ralph Bovard, Marnie Wells Carol Brandenburg Priscilla Brewster Gwen Briesemeister, Ed Briesemeister Stephen Brooks, Rachel Martin Maria Antonia Calvo, Steve Rosenstone Terry Campbell, Chip Lindeke Anne Carayon, Dan Pennie Thomas Caswell Adam Clarke David Coggins, Wendy Coggins Senator Richard Cohen Debra Cohen, Craig Fields Diane Connor Julie Corty Sue Cross Tom DeBiaso, Laura DeBiaso Chuck Dewey, Elise Smith-Dewey Stephanie Dillon, Reilly Dillon Nickie Dillon, Dennis Dillon Dan Dodds Alvin Easter Karla Ekdahl, Peter Hutchinson Nancy Engh, Rolf Engh Alberto Fierro, David Dybiec Bob Fogerson David Francis Jacob Frey James Gerlich
Michael Goldner Jason Gonzalez Elly Grace Robert Greenberg, Susan Greenberg Roger Hale, Nor Hall Jule Hannaford, Betsy Hannaford Charlie Hartwell, Maureen Pelton Wendy Hearn, Bill Hearn Peter Heegaard, Anne Heegaard Karen Heithoff, Ken Heithoff Michael Herbert, Lindsay Herbert Cecily Hines, Tom Pettus Thomas Hoch, Mark Addicks Antonia Hommeyer Kim Jackson, Catherine Jackson Rachel Jarosh Ralph Jenson Tom Johnson, Victoria Johnson Nathalie Joly Miriam Kelen, Erwin Kelen Paul Kennedy, Nancy Kennedy James Kriz Larry LaBontĂŠ, Kathryn Shaw Larry Lamb Gretchen Lang, Jeffrey Lang Daniel Lussenhop, Nancy Lussenhop John Lyon Ann MacDonald, Reid MacDonald Mary Marsden, John Marinovich Rosa Marroquin Stuart Mason, Martha Mason Kevin Matheny, Maggie Knoke Don McNeil Leni Moore, David Moore, Jr. Charles Moore
Max Musicant Stuart Nielsen, Kate Nielsen Paola Nunez-Obetz, Christopher Obetz Judith Olsen, Myke Rachu James Olson David Olson, Margo Otterness Bonnie Palmquist, Ed Mack Bharat Parekh, Karin Parekh Suzanne Pepin, Rick Pepin Merrell Peters, Anne Russell Kathleen Reilly Lew Remele, Connie Remele Mary Reyelts, Paul Reyelts Win Rockwell, Binky Wood Martha Ruddy Dan Satorius, Tonda Mattie Jeff Siegal Robert Silberman, Anedith Nash Susan Smoluchowski Arne Sorenson Karen Sternal, Lowell Pickett Jim Storm, Karen Storm John Stout, Marcia Stout Graeme Stout Mark Tierney Laura Tiffany, Ned Foster James Ulland, Kris Ulland Jim Van Houten, MaryAnn Nelson Sue Westerman Phil Wilkie Frances Wilkinson, Frank Wilkinson Karen Wilson, Howard Wilson Brian Zelickson Stephen Zuckerman, Pamela Zuckerman
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FORUMS Compelling panel discussions and conversations that illuminate important topics in international, national and local independent cinema and connect Minnesota’s filmmaking community with the world of film.
OFFSCREEN – FEstival Forums
Forum events are free unless otherwise noted. Panelist bios can be found online at mspfilm.org. St. Anthony Main Address: 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414 McNally Smith College of Music: 19 E Exchange Street, St. Paul, MN 55101 Amsterdam Bar & Hall Address: 6 W 6th St, St Paul, MN 55102
CINEMATOGRAPHERS MEETUP Saturday, April 11 2:00pm | MSPIFF Filmmakers Lounge Network with cinematographers and meet award-winning Sturla Brandth Grøulen, cinematographer of Victoria (see page 60) and winner of the 2015 Oustanding Artistic Contribution Silver Bear from the Berlin International Film Festival.
WE NEED A MUSIC VIDEO! Saturday, April 11 4:00pm | McNally Smith College of Music Presented by the Minnesota Music Coalition The music industry today relies heavily on music videos for the marketing and promotion of new songs, and the introduction of new artists. The creation of a strong and effective music video is a challenging undertaking, and one that many try and many fail to accomplish. This panel of professional filmmakers will discuss the principles of what makes for a successful video, both artistically and financially. Join us for the music video screenings at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul. See page 168 for details.
MUSIC FOR MOTION PICTURES Sunday, April 12 4:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor Presented by the Minnesota Music Coalition Take part in a conversation between the audience and several industry professionals exploring the varied uses of music in motion pictures. Topics will include the creation of music from an underscore composer’s perspective, music sourcing and placement, the legal structures of music publishing and licensing, the roles and responsibilities of a music supervisor, the recent connection between music and sound design, and much more.
WOMEN AND FILM Sunday, April 18 2:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is dedicated to representing the work of women filmmakers as a critical part of its programming. Join us for a special presentation on women and film where we will take a look into the history of women in the world of cinema, provide insight into what it is to be a woman filmmaker today, and encourage a lively discussion about what the future holds for filmmakers.
EDITING/EDITORS Saturday, April 18 4:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor “The foundation of film art is editing.” -V.I. Pudovkin. Editing exercises such enormous power over a film that it can give the editor perhaps one of the strongest roles within the entire process–from story development and enhancement of emotion to how the final film will impact the audience. What makes a good editor? Why is it so important to select the right editor for a film? How does After Effect and Motion Graphics factor into the final product? How does one enter the world of professional editing? Panelists will discuss their craft and how editing can form a film.
Join us for the after-party at Third Bird in Minneapolis! See page 32 for details.
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Ar t . C h an ge s . E v e ry t h i n g.
STUDENT FILM SHOWCASE Saturday, April 18 10:30-1pm | St. Anthony Main Theatre Presented in partnership with Intermedia Arts Join MSPIFF and Intermedia Arts for a special showcase of films made by Twin Cities youth! Don’t miss a special selection of films made by students and youth from Intermedia Arts, Migizi Communications, In Progress, and Asian Media Access.
CINE GLOBAL Saturday, April 19 2:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor Directors and Producers from around the world share their unique perspectives on filmmaking. They will offer valuable insight on how culture informs storytelling style and structure, discuss their country’s indigenous film industries, and the universal challenges of surviving in a tough business: finding an audience, securing financing and telling stories that are true, honest and entertaining.
CROWD SOURCE FUNDING Sunday, April 19 4:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor Film financing is more difficult than ever before. A new mode of producing a film has gained enormous popularity in the independent filmmaking world in the last few years—crowd sourcing. Inherent in this structure are three entwined functions: raising money to make the film, assisting to define the future audience for marketers of the product, and engaging the funders/ audience in something bigger, giving them a reason for participating beyond the financial return. The panel will address questions ranging from how to achieve successful funding for a project to the importance of creating a “financing and award” model that works for your specific film.
PRODUCER’S WORKSHOP: INTERNATIONAL CO-FINANCING Saturday, April 25 4:00pm | St. Anthony Main, First Floor As the world moves toward a global economy, co-financing is becoming more the norm in raising money for film production. This workshop is designed to be a conversation for film producers to discuss the varied steps and parameters of putting together funds for long–form films.
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MSPIFF Parties & Events OFFSCREEN – PARTIES AND EVENTS
Minnesota Made Party Opening Night Party!
Thu, April 9, 9pm Aster Café - 125 Main Street SE, Minneapolis Following the Opening Night Presentation of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (page 53), head over to the Aster Café to kick off the festival in style. Mingle with fellow festivalgoers and filmmakers over drinks, appetizers, and entertainment as we usher in the start of this year’s fest!
XYZ @ HDMG
Fri, April 10, 9pm HDMG Studio - 555 1st Ave. NE, Minneapolis It’s Friday night! Join MSPIFF and Vita.mn at the HDMG studios (next door to the Red Stag Supperclub in NE Minneapolis) for some funk and soul music by DJ Hotpants, drinks, appetizers, and appearances by visiting filmmakers. Cocktails provided by Revel Avila and Bittercube, wine by Dark Horse, and beer by Summit Brewing.
Cine Global Celebration
Sat, April 11, 9pm St. Anthony Main, 1st Floor - 115 Main St SE, Minneapolis Join us as we celebrate the Festival’s spotlight program, Cine Global. Live music by Robert Everest.
MN Music Videos at Amsterdam
Sat, April 11, 7pm Amsterdam Bar & Hall - 6 W 6th Street, St. Paul Presented by the Minnesota Music Coalition Join MSPIFF and the Minnesota Music Coalition at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in St. Paul as we celebrate Minnesota’s local music video community. Don’t miss this special screening of a selection of Minnesota-made music videos followed by live musical performances.
Music Meets Film: A Party for Musicians, Filmmakers and Everyone Else!
Sun, April 12, 9pm The Third Bird - 1612 Harmon Pl, Minneapolis Join MSPIFF and the Minnesota Music Coalition at The Third Bird restaurant as we bring the worlds of film and music closer together with an evening of music, film, cocktails and conversation. Live music by Lynn O’Brien & Steven Hobert.
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Thu, April 16, 9pm Red Stag Supper Club - 509 1st Ave NE, Minneapolis For filmmakers and filmgoers alike, this annual party celebrates Minnesota’s home-grown film industry. Meet and network with filmmakers, actors and industry up-and-comers while enjoying drink specials, complimentary appetizers, and live music from Clustercuss.
Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy After-party
Fri, April 17, 9pm Aster Cafe River Room - 125 Main St SE, Minneapolis After the screening of Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy (page 95), join the Star Tribune and MSPIFF at Aster Cafe’s River Room to peruse a selection of incredible art by cartoon artists from around the world, and meet Jeff Danziger and Star Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Sack.
Mid-Fest Party
Sat, April 18, 9pm Vic’s on the Riverfront - 201 Main Street SE, Minneapolis Celebrate the midpoint of the Festival over drinks, appetizers, music and more, with one of the best views in town and in the company of visiting filmmakers.
Film Trivia!
Thu, April 23, 8:30pm New Bohemia - 233 E Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis What is Indiana Jones’ greatest fear? What room should Danny never enter in The Shining? Gather your friends and show off how much you know about the wide world of film. Win a host of prizes – including tickets to MSPIFF screenings!
Friday Night Party
Fri, April 24, 9pm Mattie’s On Main - 43 Main Street SE, Minneapolis Head down to Mattie’s on Main to unwind after a long day of film!
Closing Night Party
Sat, April 25, 9pm Mattie’s on Main - 43 Main Street SE, Minneapolis Close out the festival with a bang! After the screening of Love & Mercy (page 55), join us at Mattie’s on Main for special cocktails, appetizers, music, and much more. Musician Adam Levy (of The Honeydogs fame) will cover Beach Boys hits - don’t miss it!
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FESTIVAL AWARD The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is proud to unveil our first-ever trophy to be awarded to winners of our juried Festival competitions.
Award designer Timothy Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on kinetic sculpture and installations. He is a current MFA candidate at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and received his BFA at the University of Oregon. Timothy has recently exhibited locally at Soo Visual Arts Center in his solo show If You Cling To Me, I’ll Clang To You and in the group show Body and Machine at the Northrup King Building, as well as numerous exhibitions regionally and in Oregon. Inspired by film science and technology, this first-ever trophy for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival features the unseen aesthetic of silver-halide crystals coalescing into an image in the shape of Pangaea, referencing the ways that film brings people together and transports us to new environments through their stories.
EMERGING FILMMAKER
Emerging Filmmaker Competition
This juried competition recognizes new and up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world for their achievements in narrative filmmaking. A $2500 cash prize is awarded to the film that demonstrates standout excellence in creativity, storytelling, technique, and innovation in the narrative form.
FESTIVAL AWARDS
Emerging Filmmaker Competition Films: Page Dukhtar, Pakistan/USA/Norway, Afia Nathaniel 123 Exit, Taiwan/Hong Kong, Chienn Hsiang 79 Ghadi, Lebanon, Amin Dora 125 Happy Times, Mexico, Luis Javier M. Henaine 69 Nena, Netherlands/Germany, Saskia Diesing 132 Tired Moonlight, USA, Britni West 149 Emerging Filmmaker Jurors: Tim Horsburgh – Director of Communications & Distribution, Kartemquin Films Since 2009, Tim has driven all external marketing, public relations and social media for Kartemquin and all their films. In 2014 he began overseeing distribution, working with filmmakers on festivals, theatrical, broadcast and digital releases. He is also responsible for assessing and managing potential new Kartemquin projects. He has led audience building campaigns for award-winning films including Life Itself, The Interrupters, Typeface, The Trials of Muhammad Ali, The Homestretch, Almost There, No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, As Goes Janesville, A Good Man, Prisoner of Her Past, and many more. Tim is a founding member of the Indie Caucus. Claudia Puig – Lead Film Critic, USA Today Claudia has been a film critic at USA Today since 2001, becoming lead film critic in 2006, and is also a regular contributor for National Public Radio’s Film Week. She has discussed movies on NBC, CBS, CNN and on Mitch Albom’s syndicated radio show and radio programs in Boston and Washington DC. She was named Entertainment Journalist of the Year in 2009 by the Publicists Guild. Claudia began her journalism career at the Los Angeles Times covering city government, crime and courts and was part of the team that won a Pulitzer for its coverage of the L.A. Riots in 1991. In 1993 she began covering the movie business at the LA Times. Helen du Toit – Artistic Director, Palm Springs International Film Festival Helen has over 15 years experience in independent film and TV production, international festival programming and consulting. Helen has programmed for the Toronto and Seattle International Film Festivals, has created and hosted panels of international experts and taught Independent Producing for the Canadian Screen Training Centre, and currently holds the position of Artistic Director for the Palm Springs International Film Festival. As a producer, she has developed original ideas with writers and directors, worked closely with distributors and sales agents and pitched projects at international film financing conferences. Helen produced Treed Murray, a Genie award-winning feature film distributed internationally by Alliance Atlantis. Previous Winners Include: 2011 Small Town Murder Songs, Ed Gass-Donnelly 2012 Swirl, Helvécio Marins Jr., Clarissa Campolina 2013 The Color of the Chameleon, Emil Christov 2014 Harmony Lessons, Em Baigazin
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WA L K E R CINEMA walkerart.org
CELEBRATE 25 YEARS OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT FILM! Summer Nights/Cool Cinema July 8 – August 12
Walker Dialogues: 25 Years Opens May 2, 2015
Escape the heat this summer by attending the Walker Cinema’s weekly screenings celebrating films shown over the past 25 years as part of the Walker Dialogue and Retrospective series. Crowd-sourced from community voting, the top ten films screen this July and August.
The most innovative and influential filmmakers of the past 25 years have come to Walker Art Center to talk about their work, their ideas, their influences, and their love of cinema. Watch memorable clips, starting with Clint Eastwood in 1990 through Steve McQueen, of onstage Dialogues by over sixty directors who have shaped the way we think about contemporary film. Playing as a three-monitor installation within the exhibition Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, the program will run through December.
Walker Dialogues and Film Retrospectives were launched with support from The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and sustained over the past 25 years with generous support from the Regis Foundation and Anita and Myron Kunin.
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
Documentary Competition
The juried Documentary Competition recognizes national and international documentary filmmaking that exemplifies the very best in presentation, diversity, innovation, and powerful storytelling. A $2500 cash prize is awarded to the chosen film. Documentary Competition Films:
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All of Me, Mexico, Arturo González Villaseõr 91 Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy, France, Stéphanie Valloatto 95 Every Face Has a Name, Sweden, Magnus Gertten 98 The Russian Woodpecker, UK/Ukraine/USA, Chad Gracia 111 School of Babel, France, Julie Bertuccelli 112 The Songs of Rice, Thailand, Uruphong Raksasad 112 Documentary Competition Jurors: Deirdre Haj – Director, Full Frame Documentary Festival At Full Frame, Deirdre created the year-round screening series and PNC Roadshow, the “Teach the Teachers” program, “The School of Doc” and the “A&E IndieFilms Speakeasy” venue. Under her leadership the festival is an Oscar qualifying festival for short documentary. Engaging local business leaders, she created the Full Frame Theater. She serves on the boards of the Film Festival Alliance, the first not-for-profit organization of Film Festival professionals and has moderated/participated in panel discussions at several universities and film festivals. Previously, she consulted for the Motion Picture Association of America and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and worked as a film producer. Peter Kinoy – Principal, Skylight Pictures Peter founded Skylight Pictures in 1981 and has produced and edited numerous documentaries about social transformation. He made films about the US involvement in Central America including When the Mountains Tremble (Special Jury Prize Sundance). In the 1990s he made documentaries about poor people organizing in the US. Recent work includes The Reckoning and Granito. Kinoy has a passion for teaching and is a longtime member of The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. Michael Tuckman — Principal, mTuckman Media Michael is a fifteen-year veteran of the independent film industry, beginning his career at The Cinema Guild where he started the company’s theatrical distribution division, and going on to serve as Vice President of Theatrical Sales for THINKFilm, handling theatrical release strategies for Oscar-winning and nominated films including Spellbound, Born Into Brothels and Taxi to the Dark Side. He now operates his own distribution services company, mTuckman Media, working directly with filmmakers under their own banners. Most notably, he has handled Rory Kennedy’s Best Documentary Academy Award nominee Last Days in Vietnam; Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color; and Detropia, from the Academy Award nominated directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. Previous Winners Include: 2011 The Interrupters, Steve James 2012 The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger Bert Stern: Original Madman, Shannah Laumeister 2013 These Birds Walk, Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq 2014 Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus, Madeleine Sackler 34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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SHORTS COMPETITION This juried competition recognizes national, international and local narrative and documentary short form filmmaking. Shorts Competition Jurors: Paul Aaron – Founder, Suntaur Entertainment Paul Aaron has been creating successful productions since he began his professional career as the youngest director in Broadway history, discovering a young Bette Midler and casting her in his rock musical hit, Salvation. Upon moving to Hollywood, he was hired to direct his first feature film A Different Story, recognized as a groundbreaking independent comedy classic. For over 35 years Mr. Aaron has written, directed, and produced award winning and critically acclaimed productions for the big and small screen. He has founded two production companies including his most recent, Suntaur Entertainment, which recently closed financing for a slate of feature films, TV series and transmedia projects. Shelli Ainsworth – Writer/Producer/Director Writer/Director Shelli Ainsworth is a Minnesota-based artist whose work in experimental theater and film has earned her national recognition. She is the past recipient of grants and fellowships from ITVS, The Bush Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Minnesota State Arts Board and the McKnight Foundation. For her first feature film, Stay Then Go (2014), Ms. Ainsworth was the recent recipient of the “Pioneering Women in Screenwriting” award from the Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival. Selina Lewis Davidson – Co-founder, GreenHouse Pictures Selina Lewis co-founded GreenHouse Pictures, a documentary production company dedicated to telling diverse stories from a variety of perspectives that enlighten, educate and entertain. Selina has produced more than 12 nationally broadcast independant documentaries exploring a wide range of topics. Her films have garnered awards at the Sundance film festival, SXSW, Full Frame documentary festival, San Francisco International Film festival among others. Simon Edery – Producer Simon Edery is a versatile and successful Producer/Line Producer affiliated and a voting member at the Directors Guild of America (DGA), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, (BAFTA) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA). Simon Edery has realized over 20 feature films, television series, miniseries, documentaries, short films and multi-screen performances, for Paramount, Warner Bros., Buena Vista, Showtime, HBO, PBS, American Zoetrope, Mirage Films and a number of independent production companies.
Aberdeen The Album Blue Eyes, Twenty One Days Of China Crooked Candy Death and the Maiden Elgin Park The Gnomist Growing Home Mallwalkers Not Done Loving One Lungers: The Andy Englund Story Putting the Ribbon Back On Sandorkraut Sharkey Spearhunter Steel // Spirit The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller The Poachers Unmappable
Narrative Shorts:
After Air Between Us The Andes Birthday Carry On County State USA: Sweet Corn Day One A Doctor and a Security Guard in Love Eighty-Sixed Flat Chested Greco Roman Greenland Home Delivery Invaders Knightsville Lambing Season The Light of Each New Day Meat Midway Muted Voices Neighborhoods Night Shift Notes From There Passione The Place Where You Live Pet Therapy Sea Beach Local Seduction Theory Stag Stealth STRANGERS Syntax Telephone Westbound
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Representative of the abundance and diversity in local filmmaking, Minnesota Made returns with a slate of must-see new feature length and short films from Minnesota-based and Minnesota-native filmmakers.
Documentary Features: Page Beyond the Divide, Jan Selby 93 The Dinkytown Uprising, Al Milgrom 97 If I Give My Soul, Andrew Johnson, Ryan Patch 101 Medicine of the Wolf, Julia Huffman 106 Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile, Norah Shapiro 106 The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure, Jed Anderson 107 Warren Mackenzie: A Potter’s Hands, Marc Lambert 114 The World’s Largest Ball of Twine, Bryan Duggan 115
Narrative Features: Page The Center, Charlie Griak 145 Heart of Wilderness, Towle Neu 146 Knucklehead, Ben Bowman 147 Wildlike, Frank Hall Green 150
FESTIVAL AWARDS
For our home-grown juried competition, awards are given for films that exemplify standout achievements in Feature and Short form filmmaking. This year’s Minnesota Made program is generously supported by a grant from the McKnight Foundation. Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
Minnesota Made Narrative Competition
Minnesota Made Jurors: Kirk Hokenson, Meghan McGurie, Mike Reano, Henry Schneider, Jon Thomas, Jason Wallace, Maya Washington, Greg Winters, Will Wright, Mariko Yoshimura-Rank. Programmed by Craig Laurence Rice Previous Winners Include:
2011 Thicker Than Water, Bradley Rappa, Minnesota Made Feature Rough Tender, Joe Dressel, Minnesota Made Feature Bike Race, Tom Schroeder, Minnesota Made Short 2012 Journey to the Fallen Skies, Mong Vang, Bryan Vue, Minnesota Made Feature White Space, Maya Washington, Minnesota Made Short 2013 Too Cold Out There Without You, Amy Gattie, Minnesota Made Feature Golden, Kjell Kvanbeck, Minnesota Made Short Alma, Brennan Vance, Minnesota Made Short 2014 The System, Juan Antonio del Rosario, Minnesota Made Feature The Starfish Throwers, Jesse Roesler, Minnesota Made Documentary Domina, Justin Staggs, Minnesota Made Short Narrative Sermon of the Serpent, Mark Brown, Minnesota Made Short Documentary 34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Championing diverse voices, Asian Frontiers embraces must-see blockbusters to challenging hidden gems from an expansive region, including South Korea, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Cambodia and Thailand.
Pages 77-83 Programmed by: Kathie Smith, Jesse Bishop
CHILDISH FILMS
Pages 163-167
Dedicated to providing vibrant filmgoing opportunities for families and young children, MSPIFF’s Childish program features films for the next generation of filmgoers.
Programmed by:
CINE GLOBAL
Noted throughout guide:
With Cine Global, the Festival continues its annual Spotlight on Minnesota’s growing international communities. Cine Global will explore the unique while illuminating the shared aspects of cultures, showing where music, dance, food, fashion, sports, art, history or geography can converge to create parallels stronger than any differences in background, occupation, income, race, ethnicity, religion, self-identification or affiliation. Cine Global has great artistic merit as a carefully curated program of films representing countries and regions in which filmmaking may have a rich history or may be emerging as an artistic expression of political and social change, but whose films are rarely seen in this part of the world. Cine Global is intended to reflect and welcome new and diverse audiences as participants in our programming. The Film Society is privileged to have received a significant Legacy Grant in support of the program. CINE GLOBAL TITLES:
The 100 Year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared 53 Alive 77 All of Me 91 Antarctic Edge: 70° South 92 Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy 95 City of Gold 153 Ciudad Delirio 68 The Creator of the Jungle 95 Crescendo! The Power of Music 96 The Cut 122 Decor 63 Difret 63
FILM PROGRAMS
ASIAN FRONTIERS
Deb Girdwood, Isabelle Harder
Cine Global
Programmed by: Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith Alissa Simon, Craig Laurence Rice Advisory Board: Maria Antonia Calvo (Chair), Abdi Roble, Alberto Fierro, Alondra Cano, Anne Carayon, Beth Pacunas, Bharat Parekh, Bruce Karstadt, Charlie Sugnet, Chris Fisher, Christa Tiefenbacher, Christina Bouzouina, Csilla Grauser, Elena Polukhin, Franklin Curbello, Jamshed Merchant, Jeremy Bandow, Joelle Vitiello, Jojo Ndege, Maria Gonzalez-O’Brien, Marlina Gonzalez, Max Musicant, Mustafa Jumale, Paola Nunez-Obetz, Roma Stocks, Rudi Gutmann, Scott Pollock, Sylvia Ontaneda.
Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll 98 Dukhtar 123 El crítico 68 El Niño 69 Girlhood 126 H2Omx 99 I Am Here 100 If I Give My Soul 101 Language Matters with Bob Holman 103 Letter to the King 87 The Lobby 147 The Look of Silence 104 Love Marriage in Kabul 104
Margarita, with a Straw Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile Not Ready to Die Operation Popcorn Patchwork Family Poverty, Inc. Refugees In Cinecittà The Second Mother The Strongest Man Tales That Sugar Film Unlikely Heroes Veve Zemene
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CINE LATINO Travel the world and the world of cinema through the captivating and colorful lens of Latin American and Spanish filmmakers. This special program of Spanish-language films is an homage to a rich cinematic history, an unveiling for Minnesota audiences of some of the best films being made today, and an opportunity to celebrate the rich and surprising diversity of Latino cultures in this region.
FILM PROGRAMS
CULINARY CINEMA Some like it hot. Some like it cold. Some like it in the pot… or not. Satisfy your appetite for great films about food and how to prepare it. Savor both documentaries and features in a program of some 12 flavorful foodie films from around the world.
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Pages 67-75 Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
Pages 153-156 Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
DARK OUT
Pages 159-161
Genre, grit, guts ‘n’ guns, and the absolutely bizarre. Dark Out returns with a lineup proving that sometimes it’s good to be afraid of the dark. Be sure to bring a friend and hold on tight...because it’s gonna be a wild ride.
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DOCUMENTARIES
Pages 91-115
This program delivers on the promise of cinema’s power to educate and inform, showcasing feature length documentaries on a broad array of topics from talented filmmakers from around the globe.
Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon, Craig Laurence Rice
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IMAGES OF AFRICA
Pages 63-65
Experience the vivid, innovative and inspiring approaches to narrative and documentary filmmaking that are emerging from countries all across the continent of Africa.
Programmed by:
LGBTQ CURRENTS
Noted throughout guide:
LGBTQ CURRENTS TITLES: 52 Tuesdays Margarita, with a Straw Nena The New Girlfriend Out in the Night
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The Royal Road The Second Life of Thieves The Summer of Sangaile They Are All Dead
MIDNIGHT SUN Take in the sights and sounds from a part of the world where, at least for a few days each year, the sun never sets. This selection of exceptional narratives and documentaries from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland offers a snapshot of new Nordic cinema, and a nod to Minnesota’s Nordic heritage.
LGBTQ Currents
FILM PROGRAMS
LGBTQ films have expanded beyond niche programming in the same way they have broadened well beyond definite themes and target audiences. Reflecting social changes worldwide, the LGBTQ Currents at MSPIFF arrive from countries as diverse as Australia, France, India, Lithuania, and Malaysia.
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith
Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
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Pages 85-89 Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
NEW AMERICAN VISIONS
Pages 145-150
Celebrating the groundbreaking works of new and established American auteurs, New American Visions features narrative films from filmmakers whose work is redefining the future of American filmmaking.
Programmed by:
Jesse Bishop, Craig Laurence Rice, Kathie Smith
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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Pages 55-61
Whether on the heels of a splashy debut or the latest picture from one of the great contemporary auteurs, these new high-profile films from around the world are making their mark and staking their claim as modern cinematic classics.
Programmed by:
WOMEN AND FILM
Noted throughout guide:
WOMEN AND FILM TITLES:
52 Tuesdays 117 Accused 118 Afterlife 119 All the Time in the World 91 Amour Fou 119 Antarctic Edge: 70° South 92 Beyond the Divide 93 Bread and Butter 145 Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy 95 City of Gold 153 Ciudad Delirio 68 Crescendo! The Power of Music 96 96 The Day After 123 Dukhtar 124 The Farewell Party Finding Gaston 153
Women and Film
Programmed by:
Susan Smoluchowski, Beth Pacunas, Jeremy Bandow, Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon, Craig Laurence Rice
Girlhood The Golden Era Good Things Await Handmade with Love in France How to Dance in Ohio I Touched All Your Stuff The Lesson The Lobby Madame Bovary Margarita, with a Straw The Mask You Live In Medicine of the Wolf Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile Nena Not Ready to Die Out in the Night Papusza
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Pervert Park The Royal Road School of Babel The Second Mother The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story The Summer of Sangaile Sunshine Superman Tales They Are All Dead Tired Moonlight The Wolfpack Zemene
WORLD CINEMA
Pages 117-142
From Oscar® entries to box-office breakers to sleeper hits, rediscover the world from a multitude of new perspectives in this showcase of new narrative films from countries around the globe.
Programmed by:
FILM PROGRAMS
The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is dedicated to representing the work of women filmmakers as a critical part of its programming. Look for the Women and Film tag as you decide what to see at the 2015 Festival. It identifies the outstanding films by women directors and related events that are part of the Festival’s program this year.
Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
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Jesse Bishop, Kathie Smith, Alissa Simon
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Quick Guide to
VOICES
What speaks to you in cinema? Is it a goofy short from one of cinema’s up-and-comers? Or a provocative documentary from one of the world’s best storytellers? Whatever you’re feeling, we’ve made it easier to find a feature film in the fest that matches your tastes. In addition to the Festival’s traditional categories and programs, we’ve organized all the features into nine groups we’ve called Voices. You can browse the films by Voice online, find them in the index on the adjacent page, or find them arranged by Voice in the Festival’s newsprint magazine.
VOICES Guide
PANORAMA
Artin PICTURES The intersection of music, art and film. Biopics, artist profiles, music docs, films on literature and writing, performances, concerts, musicals and everything in between.
CINEMATIC
SCIENCE(?) Science, technology, sci-fi, the environment, and films that blur those lines…
FILM ON THE
FRINGE
Films, characters, and stories that push the boundaries of your expectations and challenge your notions of what film can be
LAUGH OUT LOUD
Movies on the lighter side that will have you chuckling in your seat...
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Enlightening narratives and documentaries on history, politics, social change, and global current events.
DRAMA-RAMA! Compelling stories that ask meaningful questions and explore astounding realities.
TRAVEL THE WORLD Exceptional narrative and documentary films that take you places – whether it’s a trip to a far off and exotic land, or somewhere new and unexpected right in your own backyard.
SHOW ME THE LOVE
From the classic romance to the peculiar parable of passion, this is where you can go to find love in all its manifestations.
THE EDGE Thrills, chills and unexpected surprises… Here you’ll find films that will keep you clinging to the edge of your seat.
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Art in Pictures Almost There Capturing Grace Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Chagall-Malevich The Creator of the Jungle Crescendo! The Power of Music Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll The End of the Tour Hand Made with Love in France I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story I Am Here Iris La Sapienza Los Hongos Love & Mercy Magicarena Not Ready to Die The Outrageous Sophie Tucker The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story Virtuosity Warren Mackenzie: A Potter’s Hands The Wolfpack
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Cinematic Science(?) 1001 Grams Antarctic Edge: 70° South The Center The Decade of Discovery Good Things Await H2Omx Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Medicine of the Wolf Natural Resistance Nuoc 2030 Pot: The Movie That Sugar Film
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Drama-Rama! 1000 Rupee Note 52 Tuesdays About a Girl Accused Beatles Behavior Decor The Dinner Exit Ghadi Girlhood The Golden Era The Kindergarten Teacher Knucklehead The Lesson Life in a Fishbowl Life of Riley The Lobby Lola on the Pea Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nena The New Girlfriend Next to Her
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Film on the Fringe Alive Corn Island Free Fall I Touched All Your Stuff I’m Not Him In the Basement The Iron Ministry The Royal Road The Songs of Rice Things of the Aimless Wanderer White Shadow
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Laugh Out Loud The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared 53 Afterlife 119 Bread and Butter 145 Breakup Buddies 78 Cowboys 121 The Farewell Party 124 The Grandad 86 The Grump 86 Happy Times 69 Hello! Jun’ichi 80 Kebab & Horoscope 127 Monument to Michael Jackson 131 Nowhere in Moravia 134 Patchwork Family 136 Results 148 The Second Mother 73 Speed Walking 89 Tu Dors Nicole 141 Unlikely Heroes 142 Panorama All of Me Belle and Sebastian Best of Enemies Beyond The Divide The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Call Me Lucky The Cut The Day After Difret The Dinkytown Uprising Every Face Has a Name The Fool How to Dance in Ohio The Hunting Ground If I Give My Soul Language Matters with Bob Holman Letter to the King The Look of Silence Marie’s Story The Mask You Live In Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile Operation Popcorn Out in the Night
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Papusza Pervert Park Poverty, Inc. Red Amnesia Refugees in Cinecittà The Russian Woodpecker School of Babel Secrets of War Tales Tangerines These are the Rules Welcome to Leith Zemene
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Show Me the Love 3 Hearts Amour Fou A Borrowed Identity Cheatin’ Ciudad Delirio El crítico Felix and Meira Love at First Fight Love Marriage in Kabul Madame Bovary Margarita, with a Straw The Summer of Sangaile Tokyo Fiancée
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The Edge Alléluia Betibú Black Coal, Thin Ice The Connection Cub El Niño Gods A Hard Day History of Fear In Order of Disappearance The Keeping Room Labyrinthus Magical Girl Marshland The Reaper Sunshine Superman The Treatment The Unearthing Victoria
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Travel the World A Brilliant Young Mind All the Time in the World City of Gold Clouds of Sils Maria The Dark Horse Dukhtar Fiddlesticks Finding Gaston For Grace The Fort Heart of Wilderness Mr. Kaplan No Man’s Island The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure The Owners Red Knot The Sacred Arrow Shana: The Wolf’s Music Slow West Theeb Wildlike The World’s Largest Ball of Twine
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VOICES Guide
INDEX BY VOICE
NN No One’s Child Revivre The Second Life of Thieves The Strongest Man They Are All Dead Tired Moonlight To Life! To See the Sea Two Shots Fired Venice Veve Voice Over W
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A wonderfully odd comedy from Sweden that is both dark and life-affirming by turns, Felix Herngren’s adaptation of Jonas Jonasson’s international best-seller has been likened to a cross between Forrest Gump and Zelig for the way in which its titular centenarian is inextricably linked to key events in the 20th century. As Allan Karlsson’s 100th birthday approaches, the energetic fellow decides that life in his retirement home is just too darn boring. The picaresque adventure that follows—and the flashbacks to Allan’s younger days that accompany it—involves, among many other things, elephants, explosives, motorcycle gangs, decapitations, frozen bodies and the invention of the atomic bomb, not to mention meetings with Stalin, Franco, Truman and Reagan.
Felix Herngren is an award-winning Swedish filmmaker known for his hit television show Smash, featuring his iconic on-screen characters Papi Raul, Dan Bäckman and Tim Hibbins. Herngren has worked in the industry for more than twenty years, producing, writing, directing and acting for television, film, and commercials. THU THU
4/9 4/9
7:00pm 7:20pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
PREMIUM SCREENING. Ticket prices: $35 General Admission | $30 Film Society Members Tickets provide entry to the Opening Night Party. See page 32.
Director: Felix Herngren Producer: Malte Forssell Felix Herngren Henrik Jansson-Schweizer Patrick Nebout Screenwriter: Felix Herngren Hans Ingemansson Jonas Jonasson Cinematographer: Göran Hallberg Editor: Henrik Källberg Principal Cast: Robert Gustafsson Iwar Wiklander David Wiberg Running Time: 114 min Print Source: Music Box Films Website: musicboxfilms.com Director’s Filmography: Every Other Week(‘06) Awards: Audience Award, Chicago International Film Festival
special presentations
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
OPENING NIGHT
Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann
Cine Global
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Director Bill Pohlad Attending. Love & Mercy presents an unconventional portrait of Brian Wilson, the mercurial singer, songwriter and leader of The Beach Boys. Set against the era defining cata log of Wilson’s music, the film intimately examines the personal voyage and ultimate salvation of the icon whose success came at extraordinary personal cost. Director Bill Pohlad alternates his narrative between two distinct periods in Wilson’s life—the mid to late 1960s during The Beach Boys heyday including the making of Pet Sounds as Paul Dano plays Wilson; and the 1980s when Wilson (here played by John Cusack) was under the care of manipulative therapist Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti). With just the right amount of fan-serving specificity and artistic infused ambiguity, Love & Mercy is a moving and entertaining portrait of an enigmatic man.
Bill Pohlad is an Oscar-nominated producer, director and writer from Minnesota. He is known for producing 12 Years A Slave(‘13), The Tree of Life(‘11), Into the Wild(‘07), and Brokeback Mountain(‘05). Love & Mercy is his return to directing after nearly 25 years.
SAT
4/25
7:30pm
Director: Bill Pohlad Producer: Bill Pohlad Claire Rudnick Postein John Wells Brian Wilson Screenwriter: Michael A. Lerner Oren Moverman Cinematographer: Robert D. Yeoman Editor: Dino Jonsäter Principal Cast: Elizabeth Banks John Cusack Paul Dano Paul Giamatti Running Time: 120 min Print Source: Roadside Attractions
special presentations
USA 2015 English
CLOSING NIGHT
Love & Mercy
St. Anthony Main
PREMIUM SCREENING. Ticket prices: $30 General Admission | $25 Film Society Members Tickets provide entry to the Closing Night Party. See page 32.
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USA 2015 English
WED
4/15
7:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker Invited. Few things are more entertaining and thought provoking than watching conservative celebrity William F. Buckley and liberal superstar Gore Vidal verbally spar like prima donna hell cats. Co-directors Robert Gordon and Oscar® Winner Morgan Neville (Twenty Feet from Stardom, MSPIFF 2013) take Buckley and Vidal’s iconic 1968 televised political coverage and elucidate between the lines of this fascinating, off-the-rails relationship and unprecedented moment in media. Best of Enemies is a memo of a bygone era, when intellectuals held popular status and news had daring pizzazz. Documentary Feature.
Sils Maria
Clouds of Sils Maria
France/Switzerland/Germany/USA/Belgium 2014 English/French/German/Swiss German with English subtitles
SUN WED
4/12 4/15
4:00pm 7:10pm
special presentations
Best of Enemies
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago, only this time she will take the role of the older woman. Seeking refuge in Sils Maria, a remote region of the Alps, to rehearse the play, she takes stock in her career and her unknown future with her young assistant. Director Olivier Assayas takes pleasure in being coy with his two stars—Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart (the first American actress to win a Cesar award)—as he knowingly layers references to their own lives and roller coaster careers. Narrative Feature. 4/12 screening includes:
Director: Morgan Neville Robert Gordon Producer: Robert Gordon Morgan Neville Screenwriter: Robert Gordon Morgan Neville Cinematographer: David Leonard Mark Schwartzbard Graham Willoughby
Editor: Eileen Meyer Aaron Wickenden Running Time: 87 min Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Website: bestofenemiesfilm.com Director’s Filmography: 20 Feet from Stardom(‘13) Johnny Cash’s America(‘08)
Motion Poems: Creased Map of the Underworld Bryan Michurski, 4 min 4/15 screening includes:
Motion Poems: I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast Dan Sickles, 3 min Director: Olivier Assayas Producer: Charles Gillibert Screenwriter: Olivier Assayas Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux Editor: Marion Monnier
Principal Cast: Juliette Binoche Kristen Stewart Chloë Grace Moretz Lars Eidinger Johnny Flynn Running Time: 124 min Print Source: IFC Films Director’s Filmography: Something in the Air (‘12) Carlos(‘10) Irma Vep(‘96)
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La French
The Connection
The End of the Tour
TUE
FRI
special presentations
France 2014 French with English subtitles
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4/14
7:10pm
St. Anthony Main
USA 2015 English
4/24
7:00pm
St. Anthony Main
Inspired by true events, The Connection tells the story of real-life Marseilles magistrate Pierre Michel (played by Jean Dujardin from The Artist) and his relentless crusade to dismantle the most notorious drug smuggling operation in history: the French Connection. In his crosshairs is charismatic and wealthy kingpin, Gatean “Tany” Zampa (aka La French), who runs the largest underground heroin trade into the States. Shot entirely on 35mm, Cédric Jimenez’s The Connection is a throwback to a time when 70’s Italian and American crime dramas reigned supreme. Narrative Feature.
In 1996 shortly after the publication of Infinite Jest, Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky engaged in a five-day interview with the book’s author David Foster Wallace. Never published, the interview, experience and shelved audiotapes became the basis for Lipsky’s memoir, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself, that he wrote following Wallace’s suicide. In his follow up to The Spectacular Now, James Ponsoldt brings humor, tenderness and poetic grace to this road trip conversation, with perfect casting of Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky and an evocative Jason Segel as Wallace. Narrative Feature.
Director: Cédric Jimenez Producer: Alain Goldman Screenwriter: Audrey Diwan Cédric Jimenez Cinematographer: Laurent Tangy Editor: Sophie Reine
Director: James Ponsoldt Producer: David Kanter Matt DeRoss James Dahl Mark Manuel Ted O’Neal Screenwriter: Donald Margulies Cinematographer: Jakob Ihre Editor: Darrin Navarro
Principal Cast: Jean Dujardin Gilles Lellouche, Celine Sallette, Melanie Doutey Running Time: 135 min Print Source: Drafthouse Films
Principal Cast: Jesse Eisenberg Jason Segel Anna Chlumsky Joan Cusack Mamie Gummer Mickey Sumner Running Time: 106 min Print Source: A24 Director’s Filmography: The Spectacular Now(‘13) Smashed(‘12)
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USA 2014 English
WED MON
4/15 4/20
7:00pm 4:45pm
Best Buy Theater Best Buy Theater
I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story USA 2014 English
SAT
4/25
2:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Special On-Campus Presentation A timely call for action, Kirby Dick’s alarming exposé on sexual assault on U.S. campuses is a must see for men and women, young or old. Chronicling institutional cover-up (made all the more reprehensible by recent attempts to discredit the film), The Hunting Ground delivers numerous testimonies from victims right alongside piles of statistics for a powerful effect. The documentary’s masterful editing and fact finding aside, it’s the bravery of the young women and men who speak out against goliath bureaucracies that will galvanize everyone in the room. Documentary Feature.
For the past 45 years Caroll Spinney has been Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, and, at 80 years old, he has no intention of stopping. By way of a Forest Gump-like journey through American history, Spinney’s personal stories are a look behind the scenes of one of the most iconic and well-known American television shows. With the aid of archive footage and photographs, I Am Big Bird tenderly draws a portrait of the man behind the feathers—an unsung hero to millions of children across the world and across the decades. Documentary Feature.
Director: Kirby Dick Producer: Amy Ziering Screenwriter: Kirby Dick Cinematographer: Thaddeus Wadleigh Editor: Douglas Blush Derek Boonstra Kim Roberts
Director: Dave LaMattina Chad N. Walker Producer: Dave LaMattina Chad N. Walker Screenwriter: Dave LaMattina Cinematographer: Chad N. Walker Editor: Chad N. Walker
Running Time: 102 min Print Source: Film Sprout Website: thehuntinggroundfilm.com Director’s Filmography: The Invisible War(‘12) This Film Is Not Yet Rated(‘06) Outrage(‘09)
special presentations
The Hunting Ground
Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Film Movement/Tribeca Film Website: iambigbird.com Director’s Filmography: We Must Go(‘14) Brownstones to Red Dirt(‘10)
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Madame Bovary
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
SAT SUN
WED
special presentations
Germany/Belgium/USA 2014 English
4/11 4/12
7:50pm 9:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers Invited. Gustave Flaubert’s masterpiece finally gets an adaptation by a female director. Sophie Barthes takes this decided feminist material and creates a visually mesmerizing and narratively enthralling movie from this classic work. Mia Wasikowska is perfectly cast as Emma Bovary, the beautiful and bookish young wife of a dull country doctor. As Emma dreams of larger things in life, a series of men fatefully crosses her path. Barthes and her crew breathes new life into this gripping and still very contemporary tale of oppression, desire and tragedy. Narrative Feature.
Director: Sophie Barthes Producer: Sophie Barthes Felipe Marino Jaime Mateus-Tique Joe Neurauter Screenwriter: Gustave Flaubert (novel) Sophie Barthes Felipe Marino Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh Editor: Mikkel E.G. Nielsen
Principal Cast: Mia Wasikowska Ezra Miller Paul Giamatti Laura Carmichael Henry Lloyd-Hughes Rhys Ifans Running Time: 118 min Print Source: Alchemy Director’s Filmography: Cold Souls(‘09)
USA 2015 English
4/22
7:00pm
St. Anthony Main
Greg is content to spend his senior year hanging out with his only friend Earl and making adoring lo-fi parodies of films found in his dad’s cinephile repertoire. However, things take a turn for Greg when his mother embarrassingly forces him to visit a girl he barely knows who has just been diagnosed with leukemia. Much to his (and her) surprise, the pair hit it off with a like-minded sense of humor and attitude towards life. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s spunky realization of Jesse Andrew’s novel shines with an incredible all-star cast. Narrative Feature.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Producer: Steven Rales Dan Fogelman Jeremy Dawson Screenwriter: Jesse Andrews
Principal Cast: Thomas Mann Olivia Cook R.J. Cyler Nick OFferman Molly Shannon Jon Benthal Connie Britton Running Time: 108 min Print Source: Fox Searchlight Pictures
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Germany 2015 German/English with English subtitles
FRI
4/10
6:45pm
St. Anthony Main
US Festival Premiere. Sturla Brandth Grøvlen attending. Shot in one 134-minute whirlwind take (with no digital slight of hand), Victoria pulls you to the edge of your seat and holds you there in this impressive show of stunt filmmaking. Victoria, on hiatus from responsibilities in Madrid, spends her nights and early mornings clubbing in Berlin. On this particular early morning she meets Sonne and his ruffian friends and joins them for a few drinks. When Victoria gets roped into a simple heist, director Sebastian Schipper puts his largely improvised drama into overdrive, taking us into the electrifying unknown. Narrative Feature.
Director: Sebastian Schipper Producer: Jan Dressler Sebastian Schipper David Keitsch Annatol Mitschke Catherine Baikousis Christiane Dressler Screenwriter: Olivia Neergaard-Holm Sebastian Schipper Eike Frederik Schulz Cinematographer: Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Editor: Olivia Neergaard-Holm Principal Cast: Laia Costa Frederick Lau Running Time: 140 min Print Source: Adopt Films Director’s Filmography: Sometime in August(‘09) A Friend of Mine(‘06) Gigantics(‘99)
The Wolfpack USA 2015 English
THU
4/16
7:10pm
special presentations
Victoria
St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker Invited Locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the Angulo brothers learn about the outside world through the films that they watch. Nicknamed the Wolfpack, the brothers spend their childhood re-enacting their favorite films using elaborate homemade props and costumes. With no friends and living on welfare, they feed their curiosity, creativity, and imagination with film, which allows them to escape from their feelings of isolation and loneliness. Everything changes when one of the brothers escapes, and the power dynamics in the house are transformed. The Wolfpack must learn how to integrate into society without disbanding the brotherhood. Documentary Feature.
Director: Crystal Moselle Producer: Hunter Gray Crystal Moselle Alex Orlovsky Izabella Tzenkova Screenwriter: Crystal Moselle Editor: Enat Sidi
Running Time: 89 min Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Website: thewolfpackfilm.com Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Women and Film
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Egypt 2014 Arabic with English subtitles
SUN SAT
4/12 4/18
5:30pm Best Buy Theater 11:20am St. Anthony Main
Maha (portrayed masterfully by Horeya Farghaly), the heroine of this gorgeous black-and-white psychological drama, is a film production designer and expert at creating imaginary worlds. Under immense pressure at work, she sights another life on the horizon and begins slipping between realities—one resembling the film set she’s designed and the other her supposed real life. As she grows ever more entangled in each, the border between the real and imagined becomes blurred. Maha walks a fine line between her parallel lives, and must decide for the first time what she truly desires. Director Ahmad Abdalla (Microphone, MSPIFF 2011) offers a subtle and surrealistic comment on contemporary female identity. Narrative Feature. Director: Ahmad Abdalla Producer: Zein Kurdy Screenwriter: Sherin Diab Mohamed Diab Cinematographer: Tarek Hefny Editor: Sara Abdallah
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Horeya Farghaly Khaled Abol Naga Maged El Kedwany Samar Morsi Running Time: 116 min Print Source: Visit Films Director’s Filmography: Microphone(‘10) Heliopolis(‘09)
Difret
Ethiopia/USA 2014 Amharic with English subtitles
MON SUN
4/13 4/19
9:15pm 1:30pm
images of africa
Decor
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
On her way home from school, Hirut, a 14-year-old girl, is kidnapped with the intent of forcing her into an arranged marriage—a tradition in Ethiopia that many girls face. Hirut fights to escape, forcing a chain of events that leads her to an empowered young lawyer willing to fight for Hirut’s rights and putting her between tradition and modernity. Based on a true story and shot entirely on location in Ethiopia, first-time director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari’s Difret is a powerful portrayal of a country confronting equal rights. Narrative Feature. 4/19 screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Traveling Museum Beth Peloff, USA, 2014, 6 min Public artists Lisa Bergh and Andrew Nordin bring art where it doesn’t usually go with The Traveling Museum, their mobile lab/exhibition venue for contemporary art and ideas. Director: Zeresenay Berhane Mehari Producer: Emanuel AG Carrie Lynn Certa Leelai Demoz Angelina Jolie Screenwriter: Zeresenay Mehari Cinematographer: Monika Lenczewska Editor: Agnieszka Glinska
Principal Cast: Meron Getnet Tizita Hagere Running Time: 99 min Print Source: IFC Films Website: difret.com Awards: Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival. Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival
Cine Global
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Things of the Aimless Wanderer
Veve
SAT THU
THU FRI
images of africa
Rwanda/UK 2015 English
4/18 4/23
3:45pm 3:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
When the first western explorers visited East Africa, the local Bantu populations called them “wazungu,” from the verb “kuzunguka” (to spin around), as a result of the explorer’s propensity to get lost in their wanderings. Kivu Ruhorahoza (Grey Matter, MSPIFF 2012) metaphorically explores the status of these aimless wanderers in modern African culture through a series of cryptic narrative strands. Each vignette has three chess pieces—an African man, an African woman, and a Western man— that tackle the sensitive topic of relations between locals and Westerners. Narrative Feature.
Director: Kivu Ruhorahoza Producer: Kivu Ruhorahoza Antonio Rui Ribeiro Screenwriter: Kivu Ruhorahoza Cinematographer: Kivu Ruhorahoza Editor: Antonio Rui Ribeiro
Principal Cast: Justin Mullikin Grace Nikuze Ramadhan Bizimana Eliane Umuhire Wesley Ruzibiza Running Time: 77 min Print Source: Moonroad Films Director’s Filmography: Grey Matter(‘11)
Kenya/Germany 2014 Swahili/English with English subtitles
4/16 4/24
2:00pm 9:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Veve is the latest vivid and socially conscious film from the Nairobi/Berlin collaborative producers of the award-winning dramas Nairobi Half Life and Something Necessary. Set in Kenya, it documents the double-crossing lives of those trading in khat or ‘veve’, a mildly narcotic crop grown in the Meru region of the country. As Amos, a corrupt politician, attempts to edge a competitor out of the khat business for his own greed-fuelled gains, his wife finds solace in the arms of the local bad-boy—not knowing that her new lover is intent on destroying her husband. Narrative Feature.
Director: Simon Mukali Producer: Sarika Hemi Lakhani Tom Tykwer Siobhain “Ginger” Wilson Screenwriter: Natasha Likimani Cinematographer: Shiv Mandavia Mayye Zayan Editor: Roselidah Taabu Yogo
Principal Cast: Emo Rugene Lizz Njagah Conrad Makeni Lowry Odhiambo Running Time: 95 min Print Source: The Festival Agency
Cine Global
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White Shadow
Zemene
WED SAT
SUN TUE
4/22 4/25
2:15pm St. Anthony Main 11:30am St. Anthony Main
Artist-turned-filmmaker Noaz Deshe’s debut feature is a shocking portrayal of the lucrative trade of albino body parts for their supposed restorative properties. (There is a saying in East Africa, “Albinos don’t die, they just disappear”.) Alias is a young albino boy on the run after witnessing the death of his father at the hands of brutal muti harvesters. He escapes to the city under the care of his uncle, but Alias quickly learns the city is no safer than his home in the bush. Narrative Feature.
Director: Noaz Deshe Producer: Ginerva Elkann Francesco Melzi d’Eril Screenwriter: Noaz Deshe James Masson Cinematographer: Noaz Deshe Armin Dierolf Editor: Xavier Box Noaz Deshe Robin Hill Nico Leunen
Principal Cast: Hamisi Bazili James Gayo Glory Mbayuwayu Salum Abdallah Running Time: 117 min Print Source: Indiepix Website: whiteshadowfilm.com Awards: Best Direction, Durban International Film Festival. Best Feature, East End Film Festival. Nominee – Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Ethiopia/USA 2014 English/Amharic with English subtitles
4/12 4/14
1:15pm 4:45pm
images of africa
Tanzania/Germany/Italy 2013 Swahili with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Melissa Donovan attending. When the spirit holds fast to hope and courage, the impossible becomes possible. Zemene is a shy 10-year-old living in rural Ethiopia with a rare, life-threatening curvature of the spine that limits her world, when a chance encounter with an American doctor enables her to secure medical attention and gain an education. With her physical limitations lifted and the confirmation that her life matters, she blossoms into a confident young woman, using her newly found capabilities to bring hope back to her village. Gorgeously filmed in the Ethiopian countryside, Zemene is a poignant testament to the strength of the human spirit–and a powerful depiction of how much impact one person can have on another’s life. Documentary Feature. Director: Melissa Donovan Producer: Melissa Donovan Screenwriter: Melissa Donovan Cinematographer: Melissa Donovan Editor: Dina Guttmann Melissa Donovan Christo Tsiaras
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Zemene Tiget Adababy Dr. Rick Hodes Menormelkam Endashaw Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjie Running Time: 69 min Website: zemenefilm.com Awards: Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Boston Film Festival
Women and Film
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Behavior
Cuba 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
SUN
4/19
3:45pm
St. Anthony Main
Betibú
Argentina/Spain 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
FRI FRI
4/10 4/24
10:00pm St. Anthony Main 5:15pm Best Buy Theater
A hit in its home country of Cuba, Ernesto Daranas’ Behavior portrays Havana’s kids with gritty and controversial realism. Chala is eleven years old and lives alone with his drug addicted mother. To make ends meet, he trains carrier pigeons and fight dogs. His only advocate is his sixth grade teacher, who will risk everything to help Chala. Developed through a collaboration with students in a workshop at Cuba’s Instituto Superior de Art, Behavior displays an authenticity rare in such classroom oriented dramas. Narrative Feature.
When a wealthy man is found murdered on his country club estate, an unlikely trio of sleuths join forces to solve the mystery—Jaime, a veteran crime reporter; Saravia, new to the journalistic beat; and Nurit, a fading crime novelist nicknamed Betibú (Spanish for “Betty Boop”). The three follow a winding road of clues that uncover unexpected secrets of Buenos Aires. Delivered by the same production company as The Secrets in Their Eyes, Betibú once again proves Argentina’s dexterity with polished neo-noir. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ernesto Daranas Producer: Ernesto Daranas Screenwriter: Ernesto Daranas Cinematographer: Alejandro Pérez Editor: Pedro Suárez
Director: Miguel Cohan Producer: Vanessa Ragone Mariela Besuievsky Gerardo Herrero Screenwriter: Ana Cohan Miguel Cohan Cinematographer: Rodrigo Pulpeiro Editor: Irene Blecua
Principal Cast: Alina Rodriguez Armando Valdes Freire Silvia Aguila Yuliet Cruz Running Time: 108 min Print Source: Latido
cine latino
Conducta
Principal Cast: Mercedes Morán Daniel Fanego Alberto Ammann José Coronado Running Time: 99 min Print Source: Latido Awards: Best New Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay, Argentinean Academy
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Ciudad Delirio
El Crítico
SAT THU
FRI THU
cine latino
Colombia/Spain 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
4/11 4/16
7:10pm 9:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Nothing raises your spirits (or romantic inclinations) like a little salsa music and dancing. Chus Gutierrez’s Ciudad Delirio taps into the undeniable joy of salsa, coming alive with vibrant music and eye-popping choreography. Sparks fly when salsa dancer Angie meets charming Spanish doctor Javier who is visiting Cali for a conference. But how will it affect her current relationship with her dancing partner and their dance competition aspirations? Easily winning hearts worldwide, Ciudad Delirio was a box office hit in Colombia. Narrative Feature. 4/11 screening includes:
Argentina 2013 Spanish/French with English subtitles
4/10 4/23
5:00pm 4:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
A playful yet heartfelt take on the rom-com genre, El Crítico follows Victor Tellez, a world-weary Buenos Aires film critic who prefers to think in French and eschews romantic clichés...until he finds himself living one. Tellez drifts from screening to screening in search of cinematic perfection, casting judgment on filmmakers and their films with scathing incisiveness. But when a chance meeting throws him into the jarring world of gorgeous thrill-seeker Sofia, he starts to question his meticulous, intellectual routine and realizes there’s more to his story than he ever dreamed. Narrative Feature.
Forecast Public Art: Cecilia Schiller
Matt Ehling, USA, 2013, 4 min Cecilia Schiller creates and installs a water-driven kinetic sculpture in a Ramsey Washington Metro Watershed District rain garden at Maplewood Mall. Director: Chus Gutiérrez Producer: Diego F. Ramírez Elena Manrique Screenwriter: Chus Gutiérrez Elena Manrique Cinematographer: Diego Fernando Jiménez Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Cine Global
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Women and Film
Principal Cast: Carolina Ramírez Julián Villagrán Jorge Herrera John Alex Castillo Ingrid Rubio Running Time: 99 min Print Source: Media Luna Website: ciudaddelirio.com
Director: Hernán Guerschuny Producer: Hernán Guerschuny Hugo Castro Fau Carlos Nuñez Screenwriter: Hernán Guerschuny Cinematographer: Marcelo Lavintman Editor: Agustín Rolandelli
Principal Cast: Rafael Spregelburd Dolores Fonzi Blanca Lewin Running Time: 98 min Print Source: Music Box Films Awards: Nominee – International Jury Award and Best Feature Film, São Paulo International Film Festival
Cine Global
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Tiempos felices
Spain 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
SAT THU
4/18 4/23
7:45pm 9:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Set between Morocco, southern Spain, and the British territory of Gibraltar, Daniel Monzón’s high octane action film pits two driven cops against two young teenage drug traffickers. El Niño is one of the traffickers, willing to traverse the Strait of Gibraltar at a fearless speed while dreaming of a better life. Evoking Michael Mann and Alfred Hitchcock, Monzón constructs raw and unforgettable action sequences without forgetting the emotions and individuals at stake. Narrative Feature.
Director: Daniel Monzón Producer: Álvaro Augustín Ghislain Barrois Edmon Roch Javier Ugarte Borja Pena Screenwriter: Jorge Guerricaechevarría Daniel Monzón Cinematographer: Carles Gusi Editor: Mapa Pastor
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Luis Tosar Jesús Castro Eduard Fernández Sergi López Bárbara Lennie Running Time: 136 min Director’s Filmography: Cell 211(‘09) Awards: Winner of 7 Gaudí Awards: Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Editing, Best Cinematography Winner of 4 Goya Awards
Happy Times
Mexico 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
FRI SAT
4/17 4/18
7:20pm 7:20pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
cine latino
El Niño
Director Luis Javier MH attending. “Not every love lasts forever . . . fortunately,” is the telling logline for Happy Times, a smart, offbeat comedy about how hard it is to end a romantic relationship. Mild-mannered cartoonist Max just can’t break things off with his over-bearing girlfriend. When he tries, in spite of his best efforts, he can’t even get the words out; unfortunately, she assumes that he is proposing. Hearing the news, his slacker barber pals mock him for being a milquetoast. Luckily, one of their customers hands him a card for the Abaddon Agency, which specializes in getting rid of that person who is standing in the way of your life. Narrative Feature.
Director: Luis Javier M. Henaine Producer: Alejandro Blazquez de Nicolas Luis Javier M. Henaine Alejandra Olvera Avila Juan Carlos Sierra Niembro Luis E. Gadea Salinas Screenwriter: Luis Javier M. Henaine Alejandra Olvera Avila Cinematographer: Diego García
Editor: Branko Gómez-Palacio Principal Cast: Luis Arrieta Cassandra Ciangherotti Humberto Busto Running Time: 80 min Website: tiempofelices.mx Director’s Filmography: Cruces desiertas(‘06) Awards: Nueva Vision Award, Santa Barbara Film Festival
Emerging Filmmaker Competition
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Historia del miedo
History of Fear
Los Hongos
WED FRI
FRI WED
cine latino
Argentina/Uruguay/Germany/France 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
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4/22 4/24
5:15pm 9:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Colombia/France/Germany/Argentina 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
4/10 4/15
2:45pm 9:55pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
In his debut feature, Benjamín Naishtat slowly moves from one provocative scene to the next, as he builds a psychological thriller pulled taut by the unseen enemy of social anxiety. A group of loosely connected people feels the mounting tensions of mundane occurrences—a faulty house alarm, electrical blackouts, a hole in a fence, and a man who simply starts acting strange in a fast food restaurant for no discernable reason. Mining human curiosity but also our increasing disconnect with our neighbors and friends, History of Fear is a disquieting yet visually mesmerizing drama. Narrative Feature.
Director Oscar Ruiz Navia’s second feature is fiercely creative, decisively independent, and assuredly tender. A construction worker by day and a street artist by night, Ras is fired for stealing paint to complete a huge mural next to his house and no longer able to support his mother. He skateboards across Cali looking for Calvin, another young graffiti artist who studies fine arts and is having difficult days since his parents’ divorce and his grandmother’s cancer. Inspired by the slogans of the Arab Spring, namely “We will never be silent again,” the boys join in a nocturnal movement of artistic defiance. Los Hongos is marked by genuine humor in its earnest depictions of teen spirit and the numurous endearing scenes of familial life. The boys’ prolific bike/board wanderings through the city act as a poem to graffiti culture and cinematic social realism. Narrative Feature.
Director: Benjamin Naishtat Producer: Benjamin Domenech Santiago Gallelli Screenwriter: Benjamin Naishtat Cinematographer: Soledad Rodriguez Editor: Andres Quaranta Fernando Epstein
Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia Producer: Diana Bustamente Gerylee Polanco Uribe Oscar Ruiz Navia Screenwriter: César Augusto Acevedo Oscar Ruiz Navia Cinematographer: Sofia Oggioni Editor: Felipe Guerrero
Principal Cast: Jonathan Da Rosa Tatiana Gimenez Mirella Pascual Claudia Cantero Francisco Lumerman Running Time: 79 min Print Source: Visit Films Website: reicine.com Awards: New Directors Prize, San Francisco International Film Festival. Grand Prize, Jeonju Film Fesival
Principal Cast: Jovan Alexis Marquinez Calvin Buenaventura Átala Estrada Running Time: 103 min Print Source: FiGa Films Website: loshongos.com Director’s Filmography: Solecito (‘13) La Sirga (‘12) El Vuelco Del Cangrejo (‘10) Awards: Special Jury Prize, Locarno International Film Festival. Lions Film Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
La isla mínima
Spain/France 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
FRI FRI
4/10 4/17
12:20pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Alicia is an ailing child who dreams of the dress in the Japanese anime series Magical Girl Yukiko; Luis is her father, who will do anything he can to make her dream come true; Bárbara is a pretty young girl with psychological issues; and Damián is a teacher who has retired from everything except his stormy past. All will be trapped in a net of obscure blackmailing where instincts and reason spar with one another in a tragic moral fable. Narrative Feature.
Marshland
Spain 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
FRI THU
4/10 4/16
7:15pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
cine latino
Magical Girl
True Detective, Spanish-style! A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters—both detectives in the homicide division—to investigate the cases. With deep divisions in their ideology, detectives Juan and Pedro must put aside their differences if they are to successfully hunt down a killer who for years has terrorized a community in the shadow of a general disregard for women rooted in a misogynistic past. Alberto Rodriguez paints a gritty noir portrait of rural Spain circa 1980, rich with style, ambience and character. Narrative Feature. 4/10 screening includes:
Director: Carlos Vermut Producer: Amadeo Hernández Bueno Alvaro Portanet Hernández Screenwriter: Carlos Vermut Cinematographer: Santiago Racaj Editor: Emma Tusell
Principal Cast: Marina Andruix Julio Arrojo Luis Bermejo Running Time: 127 min Print Source: Films Distribution Website: magicalgirlfilm.com Director’s Filmography: Diamond Flash (‘11) Awards: Best Lead Actress, Goya Awards. Golden Sea Shell, Best Film, San Sebastian Film Festival.
Forecast Public Art: Ady and the Polygraph Barbara Weiner, USA, 2014, 8 min A year ago, Ady Olson read an article on Cleve Backster, the CIA polygraph expert who spent his life trying to prove plant ‘consciousness’ . Now she is on an adventure to try his experiments for herself with her very own suitcase polygraph. Director: Alberto Rodríguez Producer: José Antonio Félez Mercedes Gamero Ricardo García Arrojo Gervasio Iglesias Mikel Lejarza Manuela Ocón José Sánchez-Montes
Screenwriter: Rafael Cobos Alberto Rodríguez Cinematographer: Alex Catalán Editor: José M. G. Moyano Running Time: 105 min Print Source: Outsider Pictures Awards: Winner of 10 Goya Awards including Best Film and Best Director. Winner of 3 Awards at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Kaplan
Mr. Kaplan
Uruguay/Spain 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
cine latino
MON WED
72
4/13 4/22
7:30pm 4:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
NN
Peru 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
FRI WED
4/10 4/15
4:40pm 9:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
This entertaining black comedy focuses on cantankerous retiree Jacob Kaplan, who lives an ordinary life in Montevideo. Like many of his other Jewish friends, Jacob fled Europe for South America because of World War II. But now, as he turns 76, he’s become fed up with his dull life and his family’s lack of interest in its own heritage. One beach bar may, however, provide him with an unexpected opportunity to achieve greatness: its owner, a quiet, elderly German, raises Mr. Kaplan’s suspicion. Could he be a runaway Nazi? Ignoring his family’s concerns about his health, Jacob secretly recruits Contreras, a more loyal than honest former police officer, to help him investigate. Narrative Feature.
When a photo is found in a pocket of an unclaimed body exhumed from a mass grave, Fidel, a member of the forensic team, takes on the task of solving the mystery. Who is this man, dead over 25 years? And who is the woman in the picture? Director Hécto Gálvez plunges NN (which stands for Non Nomine, the identifier for bodies that cannot be recognized or classifed) into the pain and politics of Peru’s disappeared—victims of military campaigns against left-wing fighters in the 1980s and 90s—but does so with great humanism and compelling style. Narrative Feature.
Director: Álvaro Brechner Producer: Álvaro Brechner Mariana Secco Screenwriter: Álvaro Brechner Cinematographer: Álvaro Gutiérrez Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Director: Héctor Gálvez Producer: Enid Campos Screenwriter: Hector Galvez Cinematographer: Mario Bassino Editor: Eric Williams
Principal Cast: Héctor Noguera Néstor Guzzini Rolf Becker Running Time: 98 min Print Source: Menemsha Films Director’s Filmography: Bad Day to Go Fishing (‘09) Awards: Best Latin American Feature Film, Mar del Plata Film Festival. Best Screenplay, Huelva Latin American Film Festival.
Principal Cast: Paul Vega Isabel Gaona Antonieta Pari Running Time: 94 min Print Source: Habenero Film Sales
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Que horas ela volta?
Todos están muertos
Brazil 2015 Portuguese with English subtitles
Spain/Mexico/Germany 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
SAT MON
4/11 4/20
9:45pm 9:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
They Are All Dead
MON MON
4/13 4/20
9:30pm 3:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Val is the kind of live-in housekeeper who takes her work seriously. She wears a crisp maid’s uniform while serving perfect canapés; she serves her wealthy São Paulo employers day in and day out while lovingly nannying their teenage son whom she’s raised since toddlerhood. Everyone and everything in the elegant house has its place until one day, Val’s ambitious, clever daughter Jessica arrives from Val’s hometown to take the college entrance exams. Jessica’s confident, youthful presence upsets the unspoken yet strict balance of power in the household; Val must decide where her allegiances lie and what she’s willing to sacrifice. Narrative Feature.
Lupe (Elena Anaya) is a former punk rock star who now lives in a valium induced agoraphobic state, slowly losing touch with her teenage son. Lupe’s mother (Angélica Aragón) sees little option but to solicit the help of Diego—Lupe’s deceased brother and bandmate—by way of a Day of the Dead ritual. With large doses of offbeat humor and compassion, Beatriz Sanchis’ feature debut takes an adventurous leap to cinematically explore one woman’s path to healing catharsis. Narrative Feature.
Director: Anna Muylaert Producer: Fabiano Gullane Debora Ivanov Gabriel Lacerda Anna Muylaert Screenwriter: Anna Muylaert Cinematographer: Barbara Alvarez Editor: Karen Harley
Director: Beatriz Sanchís Producer: María Zamora Stefan Schmitz Screenwriter: Beatriz Sanchis Cinematographer: Álvaro Gutiérrez Editor: Nacho Ruiz Capillas
Cine Global
Women and Film
Principal Cast: Regina Casé Antonio Abujamra Helena Albergaria Michel Joelsas Running Time: 114 min Awards: Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival. C.I.C.A.E. Award, Berlin International Film Festival
cine latino
The Second Mother
Principal Cast: Elena Anaya Angélica Aragón Nahuel Pérez Biscayart Cristian Bernal Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Latido Awards: Best Opera Prima Mexico, Guanajuato International Film Festival. Best Actress, Málaga Spanish Film Festival.
Women and Film LGBTQ Currents
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Dos disparos
Venecia
Argentina/Chile/Germany/Netherlands 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
Cuba/Colombia 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
Two Shots Fired
cine latino
FRI SAT
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4/24 4/25
7:10pm 6:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Venice
MON TUE
4/20 4/21
7:30pm 7:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Martín Rejtman attending. Sixteen-year-old Mariano finds a gun in his house and impulsively shoots himself twice—both failing, somewhat miraculously, to do any harm. With a quirky blend of drama and comedy, Two Shots Fired watches as Mariano absorbs the random aftereffects of his attempted suicide, which he seems to understand no more or less than we do. Martin Rejtman, the founding father of New Argentine Cinema, delivers pitch perfect deadpan absurdity using what he calls a “’narration machine,’ where situations flow from one another with a perhaps unconventional cause-effect.” Narrative Feature.
Actress invited. It’s payday for Mónica, Violeta, and Maylin who work in a hair salon in Old Havana, and they decide to have a night out on the town. Over a period of one day and one night, we follow the three women as they share intimate details of their lives with each other with sparks of humor and sadness. Shot independently, Venice excels with vibrant performances and inspired camerawork, capturing a unique side of Havana from a distinct female perspective. Narrative Feature.
Director: Martín Rejtman Producer: Violeta Bava Rosa Martínez Rivero Bruno Bettati Christoph Friedel Jan van der Zanden Screenwriter: Martín Rejtman Cinematographer: Lucio Bonelli Editor: Martin Mainoli
Director: Kiki Álvarez Producer: Ivette Liang Ivonne Cotorruelo Kiki Álvarez Nicolas Ordonez Ruben Valdes Screenwriter: Claudia Muniz Kiki Álvarez, Nicolas Ordonez Marianela Pupo Maribel Garcia Garzon
Principal Cast: Rafael Federman Susana Pampin Benjamin Coehlo Running Time: 104 min Print Source: Ruda Cine Website: rudacine.com
Cinematographer: Nicolas Ordonez Editor: Joanna Montero Principal Cast: Claudia Muniz Marianela Pupo Maribel Garcia Garzon Jorge Molina Jazz Vila Running Time: 74 min Print Source: Habanero Film Sales
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
La voz en off
Voice Over
Chile 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
4/10 4/20
9:45pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Cristián Jiménez’s (Bonsai, MSPIFF 2011) multigenerational family portrait peels back the layers of dysfunction with a balance of humor and tension. Sofia is an unemployed actor who decides it’s time for a reset and takes a “disconnection vow”—not only from technology but also her husband and two kids. Meanwhile, her sister moves back from Paris surrounded by chaos, and her father decides to leave her mother. But that’s only the beginning of the familial mayhem that spoils Sophia’s attempt for peace and simplification. Narrative Feature.
Director: Cristián Jiménez Producer: Bruno Bettat Augusto Matte Nadia Turincev Julie Gayet Nicolas Comeau Cristián Jiménez Screenwriter: Cristián Jiménez Daniel Castro Cinematographer: Inti Briones
cine latino
FRI MON
newpublica N E W AU D I E N C E S N E W CO M M U N I C AT I O N S
Editor: Soledad Gaspar Principal Cast: Ingrid Isensee Cristián Campos Paulina Garcia Maria Siebald Shenda Roman Niels Scheider Maite Neira Running Time: 96 min Print Source: Outsider Films Director’s Filmography: Bonsai(‘11)
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Ek Hazarachi Note
San-da
India 2014 Marathi with English subtitles
South Korea 2014 Korean with English subtitles
SAT SUN
4/11 4/12
7:15pm 6:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Shrihari Sathe attending. Independent film producer Shrihari Sathe (co-producer of Dukhtar, also playing MSPIFF 2015) makes his directorial debut with a feature that explores the power and corruption of money. During a political rally in a small village in Maharashtra, Budhi, a poor old woman receives a few one thousand rupee notes from a politician. Excited about the prospect of having more money than she ever imagined, she goes shopping in the nearby market town with her neighbor. Fate, however, has other plans. Narrative Feature.
Director: Shrihari Sathe Producer: Shrihari Sathe Screenwriter: Shrikant Bojewar Cinematographer: Ming Kai Leung Editor: Shrihari Sathe
Principal Cast: Usha Naik Sandeep Pathak Shrikant Yadav Ganesh Yadav Pooja Nayak Running Time: 110 min Print Source: 3 Monkeys Films Director’s Filmography: Debut feature
Alive
FRI MON
4/10 4/20
2:15pm 8:40pm
Asian Frontiers
1000 Rupee Note
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Park Jungbum’s second feature is a Sisyphean tale of epic proportion, addressing the crushing personal effects of economic and social marginalization. Park casts himself in the lead role of Jung-cheol, a man at the bottom of the economic ladder but not for his lack of hard work and perseverance. Jung-cheol fights day in and day out to create a better life for himself, his mentally distressed sister, and her young daughter. Gritty and powerful in its simplicity, Alive is a tour de force on human tenacity. Narrative Feature.
Director: Park Jungbum Producer: Park Jungbum Kim Youngjin Jang Byungwon Jay Jeong Lee Sangyong Screenwriter: Park Jungbum Cinematographer: Kim Jongsun Editor: Jo Hyunju
Principal Cast: Park Jungbum Lee Seungyeon Park Myunghoon Shin Heatbit Running Time: 179 min Print Source: Finecut Director’s Filmography: The Journals of Musan(‘10)
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Bai ri yan huo
Xin hua lu fang
China 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
China 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
Asian Frontiers
Black Coal, Thin Ice
MON FRI
78
4/13 4/17
9:35pm 9:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Breakup Buddies
SAT TUE
4/11 4/14
10:00pm St. Anthony Main 1:45pm St. Anthony Main
Combining elements of a psychological character study and a dark film noir, Diao Yinan’s award winning movie that takes place in China’s far north follows a dysfunctional cop on the trail of a cold murder case. After an arrest goes horrifically and comedically wrong, detective Zhang becomes a directionless drunk. That is until he stumbles upon a case of murder and dismemberment similar to the one that ruined him. High on atmosphere, Black Coal, Thin Ice solves its mystery through ambiguity, as if to say there are no easy answers to China’s troubled times. Narrative Feature.
A box office hit in its home country, Breakup Buddies is a slapstick road movie fueled by a special brand of infectious cinematic ADHD. Hao Yi convinces his recently divorced buddy, Geng Hao, to take a road trip from Beijing to Dali and conquer the “thousands of women” that they will meet along the way. Needless to say, reality veers far from their fantasy. Popular Chinese director Ning Hao (Crazy Stone, No Man’s Land) creates another box office hit and works his comedic magic with a post-modern pastiche of knee-jerk humor, stylish violence, and tug-on-yourheartstrings drama. Narrative Feature.
Director: Diao Yinan Producer: Vivian Qu Wan Juan Screenwriter: Diao Yinan Cinematographer: Dong Jinsong Editor: Yang Hongyu
Director: Ning Hao Producer: Wang YiBing Ling Hong Screenwriter: Xing Aina Sun Xiaohang Zhang Yifan Yue Xiaojun Cinematographer: Song Xiaofei Editor: Du Yuan
Principal Cast: Liao Fan Gwei Lun Mei Wang Xuebing Wang Jingchun Running Time: 106 min Print Source: Fortissimo Films Website: thin-ice-murder.com Director’s Filmography: Night Train(‘07) All Tomorrow’s Parties(‘03) Awards: Golden Bear for Best Film, Silver Bear for Best Actor, Berlin International Film Festival
Principal Cast: Huang Bo Xu Zheng Yuan Quan Zhou Dongyu Xia Yu Running Time: 116 min Print Source: China Lion Entertainment
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Hui guang zoumingqu
Killa
Taiwan/Hong Kong 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
India 2014 Marathi with English subtitles
SAT THU
4/18 4/23
12:15pm St. Anthony Main 2:00pm St. Anthony Main
The Fort
MON FRI
4/20 4/24
4:15pm 2:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Ling is a middle-aged woman who just lost her job. With her husband working away from home and her teenage daughter absent and aloof, Ling faces a midlife empty nest alone. Her two social salvations are caring for her mother-in-law in the hospital (where she forms a strange relationship with another patient) and the temptation of tango dancing through a friend from work. Noted cinematographer Chienn Hsiang (Blue Gate Crossing) expounds on an obvious influence from Tsai Ming-liang, putting his visual skills to work in a very moving debut feature. Narrative Feature.
Young Chinu is having a hard time settling into his new home. He and his mother have relocated from the city to the countryside following his father’s death so his mother can find work. Gaining the local boys’ acceptance is only his first hurdle, and Chinu quickly realizes that he and his mother’s trials have only just begun. Director Avinash Arun’s debut feature tells an affecting coming-of-age story amidst the backdrop of picturesque landscapes in a charged story on the resilience of the human spirit. Narrative Feature.
Director: Chienn Hsiang Producer: Chen Pao-ying Cinematographer: Chienn Hsiang Editor: Terng Jaw-chyang Liang Chueh-han
Director: Avinash Arun Producer: Alan McAlex Madhukar R. Musle Ajay Rai Screenwriter: Tushar Paranjape Upendra Sidhaye Cinematographer: Avinash Arun Editor: Charu Shree Roy
Principal Cast: Chen Shiang-chyi Easton Dong Pai Ming-hua Yu An-Shu Huang Tsi-Yi Running Time: 94 min Print Source: MM Square Films Co.,Ltd Awards: Best Actress, Golden Horse Film Festival. Best Feature, Best Actress, Taipei Film Festival
Asian Frontiers
Exit
Principal Cast: Amruta Subhash Archit Deodhar Running Time: 110 min Print Source: 3 Monkeys Films
Emerging Filmmaker Competition
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
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Huangjin Shidai
Harô! Jun’ichi
China/Hong Kong 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
Japan 2014 Japanese with English subtitles
Asian Frontiers
The Golden Era
TUE THU
4/14 4/23
9:10pm 3:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Hello! Jun’ichi
FRI THU
4/17 4/23
12:20pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Hong Kong master Ann Hui vividly brings the life of pioneering 20th century female novelist and poet Xiao Hong to the screen. Hui’s lavishly shot period piece shifts perspective, narrators, and time periods freely as it chronicles Xiao Hong’s struggles—an oppressive family, an arranged marriage, a fiery affair with fellow writer Xiao Jun, and her passion, compulsion and talent for writing—until her death at age 30 in 1942. Tang Wei (Lust, Caution, Blackhat) plays Xiao Hong with headstrong grace and subtle heartbreak. Narrative Feature.
Katsuhito Ishii, a wildly adventuresome director with a very big heart, turns his attention toward the everyday failures and successes of being 9 years old. Junichi is a painfully shy third grader who can’t find the courage to return an eraser he borrowed from his secret crush. But the arrival of an unorthodox assistant teacher named Anna pushes Junichi and his friends to find the confidence to face their fears and turn them into something amazing. Hello! Junichi embraces the familiar yet magical essence of childhood with surprising humor and generous compassion. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ann Hui Producer: Qin Hong La Peikang Bill Kong Yuan Mei Tsui Titkwan Ma Yi Wen Shen Hao Dele Lui Screenwriter: Li Qiang Cinematographer: Wang Yu
Director: Katsuhito Ishii Kanoko Kawaguchi Atsushi Yoshioka Screenwriter: Noriko Ishii Atsushi Yoshioka Kanoko Kawaguchi
Principal Cast: Tang Wei Feng Shaofeng Running Time: 178 min Print Source: China Lion Entertainment Director’s Filmography: A Simple Life (‘11) Night and Fog (‘09)
Principal Cast: Tatsuya Gashûin Yôhei Hotta Chizuru Ikewaki Running Time: 91 min Print Source: T-Joy Director’s Filmography: The Taste of Tea (‘04) Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl (‘98)
Women and Film
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34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Chuangru Zhe
Vietnam 2014 Vietnamese with English subtitles
SUN WED
4/19 4/22
9:00pm 7:00pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
Red Amnesia
China 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
TUE TUE
4/14 4/21
9:50pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
The year is 2030 and Vietnam has been all but submerged below an ocean that has swelled due to global warming. Against this futuristic backdrop emerges a murder mystery: the dead body of a farmer is found floating in the water and his wife is left to piece together the clues to his death. Using flashbacks and a beautiful canvas of a world reduced to a seascape, director Nguyen-Vo NghiemMinh (Buffalo Boy) gives life to a unique vision under the brand of sci-fi eco-thriller. Narrative Feature.
Sixth generation Chinese filmmaker Wang Xiaoshuai’s latest is a taut thriller haunted by the ghosts of Communism’s past. Stage veteran Lu Zhong plays Mrs Deng, an overbearing widow in her 70’s who struggles to take care of her aging mother, her two sons, and her grandson. Her daily routine is disrupted when she starts receiving anonymous phone calls. The calls force her to look back upon a 40-year-old mistake made during the Cultural Revolution, one of moral compromise, which she must now face. Red Amnesia is the final chapter in Wang’s Cultural Revolution trilogy. Narrative Feature.
Director: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo Producer: Bao Nguyen Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo Screenwriter: Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo Cinematographer: Bao Nguyen Editor: Julie Beziau
Director: Wang Xiaoishuai Producer: Liu Xuan Screenwriter: Wang Xiaoshuai Fang Lei Li Fei Cinematographer: Di Wu Editor: Yang Hongyu
Running Time: 98 min Print Source: Premium Films Website: nuoc2030.com
Asian Frontiers
Nuoc 2030
Principal Cast: Lü Zhong Shi Liu Feng Yuanzheng Qin Hao Amanda Qin Running Time: 115 min Print Source: Chinese Shadows Website: chineseshadows.com Director’s Filmography: 11 Flowers (‘11) Shanghai Dreams (‘05)
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Hwajang
Wucai shenjian
South Korea 2014 Korean with English subtitles
China 2014 Tibetan with English subtitles
Asian Frontiers
Revivre
WED FRI
4/22 4/24
9:40pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Master filmmaker Im Kwontaek, the father of modern Korean cinema with his 102nd feature film, delivers a sobering drama of human perseverance, fallibility, and ephemerality. Advertising executive Oh Sangmoo (powerfully played by Ahn Sungki) finds himself emotionally and physically stretched between the pressures of his job, the responsibility to his dying wife and the attention of a young and beautiful colleague. Adapted from a short story, Revivre is a moving and unflinching meditation on love, bereavement and desire—contradictory sentiments reflected in the film’s Korean title, Hwajang, a homonym for “cremation” and “makeup”. Narrative Feature.
Director: Im Kwontaek Producer: Shim Jaemyung Screenwriter: Song Yunhee Cinematographer: Kim Hyungkoo Editor: Park Sunduck Steve M. Choi
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Principal Cast: Ahn Sungki Kim Qyuri Kim Hojung Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Finecut Director’s Filmography: 102 feature films including Painted Fire (‘02) Chunhyang (‘00) The Surrogate Woman (‘87)
The Sacred Arrow
SUN THU
4/19 4/23
9:15pm 4:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
US Premiere In the Tibetan region of Amdo, the neighboring villages of Lhalong and Damo compete in an archery contest for the Sacred Arrow, a traditional totem representing strength, bravery, peace and joy. According to the thousand-year custom, the winner gets to keep the Arrow until the following year’s contest. In a story of competition, friendship and love, Pema Tseden (Old Dog), one of the premier Tibetan directors working today, perfectly captures the clash of traditions and the modern world facing Tibet today. Narrative Feature.
Director: Pema Tseden Producer: Sangye Gyamtso Screenwriter: Pema Tseden Cinematographer: Luo Pan Editor: Liu Fang
Principal Cast: Zinchen Denchu Sonam Nyima Dekyid Dobskyab Running Time: 97 min Director’s Filmography: Old Dog (‘11) The Search (‘09)
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The Second Life of Thieves
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SAT WED
SUN FRI
4/11 4/15
11:00am St. Anthony Main 5:00pm St. Anthony Main
4/12 4/17
9:30pm 2:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
US Premiere Tan, well past middle age, discovers that his wife has disappeared with his friend Lim. The mystery of their sudden disappearance is slowly patched together through flashbacks that divulge Lim’s adult daughter’s version of the past and finally Tan’s own memories of the past—and together they embark on an emotional journey that will open old and new wounds alike. Inspired by his uncle who lived a secret life in the closet, pioneering Malaysian producer and director Woo Ming Jin weaves a meditation on love, loss and regret. Narrative Feature.
US Premiere Because she tested poorly on the national entrance exam, Neung ended up with her last choice for college: the Sports Science Faculty. The film follows the intertwining lives of Neung and her new friend Ploy as they independently traverse the trials of family, friendship and love. First time director Chonlasit Upanigkit (editor for Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy, MSPIFF 2014) perfectly captures those fragile and isolated moments of adolescence when facing the anxieties of an uncertain future.
Director: Woo Ming Jin Producer: Woo Ming Jin Edmund Yeo Screenwriter: Woo Ming Jin Edmund Yeo Cinematographer: Kong Pahurak Editor: Edmund Yeo
Director: Chonlasit Upanigkit Producer: S.C. Sehgal Shivang Sehgal Screenwriter: Tarun Madan Chopra Editor: Altaf Shaikh
Principal Cast: Chung Kok Keong Mayjune Emily Lim Running Time: 87 min Print Source: Mosquito Films Website: mosquitofilmsdistribution.com Director’s Filmography: Mamak Cupcake (‘14) KL Zombi (‘13) Salon (‘05)
Asian Frontiers
Malaysia/Netherlands/Switzerland 2014 Thailand 2014 Chinese (Mandarin & Cantonese)/Malay with English subtitles Thai with English subtitles
Narrative Feature.
Running Time: 130 min Print Source: Mosquito Films Director’s Filmography: Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy (‘13) Awards: Nominee – Best Asian Feature Film, Singapore International Film Festival
LGBTQ Currents
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1001 Grams
Norway/Germany 2014 Norwegian/French/English with English subtitles
WED SAT
4/22 4/25
9:30pm 5:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
With the kind of wry humor that we’ve come to expect from Norwegian director Bent Hamer (Home for Christmas, MSPIFF 2011; Kitchen Stories), 1001 Grams offers a minimalist meditation on life’s magical abstractions. At the Norwegian Institute of Weights and Measures, Norway’s kilo—kept under lock and key—must be transported to Paris to be calibrated. Marie is put in charge of traveling with the kilo as she contemplates obtuse scientific quantifications with more personal concepts of love, life and death. Narrative Feature.
Beatles
Norway 2014 Norwegian with English subtitles
FRI FRI
4/10 4/17
4:30pm 2:00pm
Midnight sun
1001 Gram
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Beatlemania is sweeping the world, and four teenage boys in Oslo—Kim, Gunner, Ola and Seb—have the fever as well. They each take on one of the Fab Four personas and plan to start their own band called The Snafus. But first they have to get instruments! Based on the best selling Norwegian novel by Lars Saabye Christiensen, Beatles explores what it means to be an ambitious, wide-eyed 13 year-old set against the backdrop of social and political upheaval. Narrative Feature.
4/25 screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Andrea Steudel Nick Clausen, USA, 2014, 5 min One artist is curious about the dimly lit alleyways in downtown St. Paul. Andrea Steudel explores them after dark, and hopes people will see them in a new light. Director: Bent Hamer Producer: Bent Hamer Screenwriter: Bent Hamer Cinematographer: John Christian Rosenlund Editor: Anders Refn
Principal Cast: Ane Dahl Torp Laurent Stocker Hildegun Riise Stein Winge Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Director’s Filmography: Home for Christmas(‘10) Factotum(‘05) Kitchen Stories(‘03)
Director: Peter Flinth Producer: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg Screenwriter: Axel Hellstenius Cinematographer: Philippe Kress Editor: Vidar Flataukan
Principal Cast: Louis Williams Håvard Jackwitz Ole Nicolai Myrvold Jørgensen Halvor Schultz Running Time: 114 min Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute Director’s Filmography: Superclásico(‘11) Submarino(‘10) The Fakir(‘04)
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Afinn
Mielensäpahoittaj
Iceland 2014 Icelandic with English subtitles
Finland 2014 Finnish with English subtitles
Midnight sun
The Grandad
SAT THU
4/18 4/23
7:40pm 2:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
A hilarious and touching film about life at the crossroads and the meaning of it all, The Grandad may be the first-ever film to have a running (and very funny) prostate joke. It centers on mild-mannered Gudjón, a father of two, who is approaching retirement. A dream trip to the Canary Islands with his wife doesn’t turn out the way he expects and forces him to take a good, hard look at his marriage and the inevitable aging process. This smart cinematic adaptation of director Bjarni Thórsson’s wildly successful play features spot-on comic timing and an extremely sympathetic performance from Sigurur Sigurjonsson, one of Iceland’s best-known and most versatile actors. Narrative Feature. 4/18 screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Crescent Collective John Akre, USA, 2014, 6 min Laura Bigger, Artemis Eitsen and Teréz Iacovino are the Crescent Collective, three artists working to create public art that grows food. This video looks at three prototype sculptures they made to experiment with different models of hydroponic growing systems that could be constructed in the public realm. Director: Bjarni Thórsson Producer: Bjarni Thórsson Ingvar Þórðarson Screenwriter: Ólafur Egilsson Bjarni Haukur Thórsson Cinematographer: Jóhann Máni Jóhannsson
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Editor: Guðni Hilmar Halldórsson Principal Cast: Þorsteinn Bachmann Sigurður Sigurjónsson Birgitta Sigursteinsdóttir Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Icelandic Film Center
The Grump
THU SUN
4/16 4/19
9:30pm 1:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
A stubborn, set-in-his-ways, 80-year-old farmer from rural Finland is forced to spend some time in the capital where he rants about the modern world. Director Dome Karukoski creates an entertaining comedy of bad behavior. The Grump is both an old-school Everyman and an extreme force of nature—politically incorrect and guilty of recounting the good ol’ days when “children weren’t spoiled and people didn’t spend money on useless things.” The Grump is a movie that will tickle your funny bone as well as tug on your heartstrings. Narrative Feature. 4/16 screening includes:
Motion Poems: Crows Reckoning Alex Hanson, Edward Chase Masterson, 3 min
Director: Dome Karukoski Producer: Jukka Helle Markus Selin Screenwriter: Dome Karukoski Tuomas Kyrö Cinematographer: Pini Hellstedt Editor: Harri Ylönen
Principal Cast: Antti Litja Iikka Forss Mari Perankoski Running Time: 104 min Print Source: The Yellow Affair Website: solarfilms.com Director’s Filmography: Heart of a Lion(‘13) Lapland Odyssey(‘10) Awards: Best Actor, Jussi Awards
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Kraftidioten
Brev til Kongen
Norway/Sweden/Denmark 2014
Norwegian/Swedish/Danish/Serbian/German with English subtitles
Norway/ United Arab Emirates 2014 Kurdish/Norwegian/English/Persian with English subtitles
SAT WED
SUN WED
4/18 4/22
10:15pm St. Anthony Main 9:45pm St. Anthony Main
Nils snow plows the wild winter mountains of Norway and was recently awarded Citizen of the Year. When his son is murdered for something he did not do, Nils wants revenge and justice. His actions ignite a war between a vegan gangster named “The Count” and a Serbian mafia boss named “Papa”. Winning a blood feud isn’t easy, especially not in a welfare state, but Nils has something going for him: heavy machinery and beginner’s luck. Dry wit and not-so-random acts of violence collide for a rollicking tale of dry humor and raw vengeance. Narrative Feature.
Director: Hans Petter Moland Producer: Finn Gjerdrum Stein B. Kvae Screenwriter: Kim Fupz Aakeson Cinematographer: Philip Øgaard Editor: Jens Christian Fodstad
Principal Cast: Stellan Skarsgård Pål Sverre Hagen Bruno Ganz Running Time: 116 min Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute Director’s Filmography: A Somewhat Gentle Man(‘10) Aberdeen(‘00) Awards: Best International Film, Fantasia Film Festival, Nominee – Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
Letter to the King
4/219 4/22
Midnight sun
In Order of Disappearance
11:00am St. Anthony Main 7:30pm St. Anthony Main
Letter to the King weaves together portraits focusing on the plight of five Kurdish immigrants in Norway. Given permission to leave their refugee camp and travel to Oslo, five individuals take advantage of the opportunity, each with a specific purpose in mind. They will be confronted by their destinies as they discover happiness, suffer humiliation, find love, and seek revenge. Their five stories are bound together by a letter, written by eighty-three year old Mirza, intended for the King of Norway. Narrative Feature. 4/22 screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Dodecahedron Kevin Obsatz, USA, 2014, 6 min A short documentary following artist Jess Hirsch as she conceives and executes her “Peace Haven” project – a small, twelve-surfaced geometric structure to serve as a greenhouse and meditation space for the residents of the Black Dog Hill Shelter for women and children in rural Minnesota. Director: Hisham Zaman Producer: Alan R. Milligan Hisham Zaman Screenwriter: Hisham Zaman Mehmet Aktas Cinematographer: Marius Matzow Gulbrandsen Editor: Sverrir Kristjansson Inge Lise Langfeldt Arild Tryggestad
Principal Cast: Alibag Salimi Ivan Anderson Nazmi Kirik Hassan Demirci Running Time: 75 min Print Source: New Morning Films Director’s Filmography: Before Snowfall(‘13) Bawke(‘06) Awards: Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Amanda Awards, Norway
Cine Global
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Vonarstræti
Jag är inte beredd att dö än
Iceland 2014 Icelandic with English subtitles
Sweden 2014 Swedish/English with English subtitles
Midnight sun
Life in a Fishbowl
SUN FRI
4/19 4/24
9:00pm St. Anthony Main 12:15pm St. Anthony Main
The lives of three characters intertwine in this strongly acted, sensitively directed drama that offers a naturalistic portrait of Reykjavik on the eve of the country’s 2008 economic meltdown. Unable to make ends meet as a nursery-school teacher, pretty Eik moonlights as a high-end prostitute. Poet and novelist Mori, a raging alcoholic since a tragic incident 20 years earlier, looks and behaves like a down-and-out street person, although he actually owns a nice home in a desirable district. Meanwhile, Solvi, a former soccer star recruited into the snake pit of international banking, wants the rights to Mori’s property in order to facilitate a major downtown development. Touching a nerve on its home turf, Fishbowl became one of Iceland’s biggest-ever domestic hits. Narrative Feature. Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson Producer: Júlíus Kemp Ingvar Þórðarson Screenwriter: Birgir Örn Steinarsson Baldvin Zophoníasson Cinematographer: Jóhann Máni Jóhannsson Editor: Sigurbjorg Jonsdottir
Principal Cast: Thor Kristjansson Hera Hilmar Ingvar Þórðarson Running Time: 129 min Print Source: Icelandic Film Centre Website: kisi.is Director’s Filmography: Jitters(‘10) Awards: Winner of 12 Edda Awards, Iceland
Not Ready to Die
THU SAT
4/23 4/25
9:45pm St. Anthony Main 11:00am St. Anthony Main
US Premiere Laleh Pourkarim is Sweden’s biggest female musical artist and one of the few who is a songwriter, producer and performer. As opponents of the regime, her parents Houshang and Atefe were living underground in Iran when Laleh was born. Soon, the family went into exile and on an odyssey through the Soviet Union and Germany, winding up in Sweden. Laleh grew up in a Gothenburg suburb, and the rest is history. In this affecting musical portrait, she talks candidly about life and death, and her music and career. About being female in a male-dominated profession. About coming to Sweden as a refugee child. About her parents’ lives and deaths. And about the gift she received from them and the responsibility to manage it. Her life and her freedom. Documentary Feature. Director: Fredrik Egerstrand, Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm Producer: Fredrik Egerstrand Karl Gustafsson Kalle Gustafsson Jerneholm Cinematographer: Conny Fridh Editor: Björn Lindgren
Principal Cast: Laleh Pourkarim Gustaf Thörn Benny Andersson Jens Stoltenberg Mattias Wachtmeister Running Time: 75 min Print Source: Egerstrand & Blund Director’s Filmography: The Soundtrack of Our Lives & Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra(‘10)
Women and Film
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Kapgang
Speed Walking
FRI WED
4/10 4/15
9:40pm 2:45pm
Midnight sun
Denmark 2014 Danish with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
From the Scandinavian director of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, here’s a very funny and authentic coming-of-age tale that manages to hit the perfect note between tragedy and comedy. In a small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business, 14-year-old Martin is getting ready for one of Denmark’s most formal transitions from boyhood to manhood: his confirmation. It is 1976, music is in the air and hormones are blossoming. But in the middle of it all, Martin’s beloved mother suddenly passes away and her tragic death triggers a series of events that not only change Martin’s life forever, but also affect everyone else in the local community. Martin seeks comfort with friend Kim and girlfriend Kristine. Narrative Feature. Director: Niels Arden Oplev Producer: Thomas Heinesen Screenwriter: Bo Hr. Hansen Morten Kirkskov Cinematographer: Rasmus Videbæk Editor: Anne Østerud
Principal Cast: Villads Bøye Anders W. Berthelsen Sidse Babett Knudsen Running Time: 108 min Print Source: Danish Film Institute Website: trustnordisk.com Director’s Filmography: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo(‘09)
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All of Me
Mexico 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
SUN WED
4/12 4/15
10:55am St. Anthony Main 5:00pm St. Anthony Main
All the Time in the World Canada 2014 English
FRI MON
4/17 4/20
12:30pm St. Anthony Main 7:00pm Best Buy Theater
Every day since 1995, a group of women stand at the tracks near the Mexican town of La Patrona waiting for La Bestia—the train used by thousands of migrants from Mexico and beyond to get to the US border. Deemed “Las Patronas,” the women toss water and homemade food to the weary travelers. First time director Arturo González Villaseñor chronicles these compassionate women’s motivations, sympathies, and their own personal struggles as they commit to helping those dreaming of a better life. Documentary Feature.
Concerned with the fundamental disconnect of living in the city, a family of five leaves the comforts of home behind for a remote cabin in the Yukon wilderness, camera in tow. Without running water, electricity, phone or even direct road access, Suzanne Crocker, her husband and three children (ages 10, 8 and 4) embark on a nine month experiment. Making do with no crew and limited equipment, Crocker skillfully chronicles her family’s unique personal discoveries and turns them into a universal story of life, family, and adventure. Documentary Feature.
Director: Arturo González Villaseñor Producer: Indira Cato Screenwriter: Indira Cato, Nicolas Celis Cinematographer: Juan Antonio Mecalco Cruz Editor: Lucrecia Guitérrez Maupomé
Director: Suzanne Crocker Producer: Suzanne Crocker Screenwriter: Nettie Wild, Suzanne Crocker Cinematographer: Suzanne Crocker Editor: Michael Parfit
Cine Global
Documentary Competition
Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Outsider Pictures Website: llevatemisamores.com Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Mexico First Award, Los Cabos International Film Festival
documentaries
Llévate mis amores
Running Time: 87 min Website: allthetimeintheworld.ca Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Most Popular Canadian Documentary Film, Vancouver International Film Festival
Women and Film
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Almost There
Antarctic Edge: 70° South
SAT SUN
WED FRI
documentaries
USA 2014 English/Spanish with English subtitles
4/18 4/19
1:00pm 6:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Dan Rybicky attending. Almost There is a coming-of-(old)-age story about 83-year-old Peter Anton, an “outsider” artist living in isolated and crippling conditions whose world changes when two filmmakers discover his work and storied past. Shot over eight years, Almost There documents Anton’s first major exhibition and how the controversy it generates forces him to leave his childhood home. Each layer revealed reflects on the intersections of social norms, elder care, and artistic expression. Documentary Feature.
Director: Aaron Wickenden Dan Rybicky Producer: Aaron Wickenden Dan Rybicky Screenwriter: Dan Rybicky Cinematographer: Aaron Wickenden David Schalliol Editor: Aaron Wickenden
Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Kartemquin Films Website: kartemquin.com Awards: Best Exploration of Documentary Ethics, Columbia Daily Tribune, True/False Film Festival
USA/Antarctica 2015 English
4/22 4/24
Best Buy Theater St. Anthony Main
In 2014, scientists declared West Antarctic ice sheet melt unstoppable, threatening the lives of millions of people over the next century. In the wake of devastating climate events such as Hurricane Sandy and Typhoon Haiyan, Antarctic Edge: 70º South follows a team of scientists who choose to live a life at sea in a race to understand climate change in the fastest winter-warming place in the world. While trekking through the dangerous and uncharted landscape of the West Antarctic Peninsula, these scientists push the limits of their research and come to terms with the sacrifices necessary to understand this rapidly changing world. Documentary Feature.
Director: Dena Seidel Producer: Dena Seidel Cinematographer: Chris Linder Dena Seidel Editor: Steve Holloway Dena Seidel Ryan Harris
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5:00pm 2:30pm
Running Time: 72 min Print Source: First Run Features Website: beyondtheice.rutgers.edu Director’s Filmography: Atlantic Crossing: A Robot’s Daring Mission(‘10)
Women and Film
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Beyond The Divide
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
SUN TUE
SAT SUN
4/19 4/21
3:30pm 4:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
USA 2015 English
4/18 4/19
4:15pm 3:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Jan Selby attending. Fifty years have passed since the beginning of the Vietnam War. Yet, the politics and casualties are a history with deep scars between those who served and those who fought a different war at home. This long-standing divide is symbolized in the controversy of a peace symbol in Missoula, Montana. Through the courageous acts of a Vietnam veteran and a peace advocate, Beyond the Divide illuminates a path to healing old wounds and demonstrates authentic peace building. Documentary Feature.
Producer Laurens Grant attending. Whether they were right or wrong, whether they were good or bad, more than 40 years after the Black Panther Party was founded in Oakland, California, the group, and its leadership, remain powerful and enduring figures in our popular imagination. Making its mark at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, The Black Panthers weaves voices from varied perspectives who lived this story—police, FBI informants, journalists, white supporters and detractors, those who remained loyal to the party and those who left it. Documentary Feature.
Director: Jan Selby Producer: Jan Selby Cinematographer: Elgin Smith Editor: Bill Kersey Composer: Chris Koza
Director: Stanley Nelson Producer: Stanley Nelson Laurens Grant Screenwriter: Stanley Nelson Cinematographer: Antonio Rossi Rick Butler Editor: Aljernon Tunsil
Women and Film
Running Time: 85 min Website: beyondthedividefilm.com Director’s Filmography: A Circle and Three Lines(‘10)
documentaries
USA 2014 English
Running Time: 116 min Print Source: Long Shot Factory Website: theblackpanthers.com Director’s Filmography: Freedom Summer(‘14) Freedom Riders(‘10)
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
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Call Me Lucky
Capturing Grace
WED FRI
MON TUE
documentaries
USA 2015 English
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7:00pm 9:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
USA 2014 English
4/20 4/21
7:30pm 6:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker invited. Comedian turned director Bobcat Goldthwait uses his inside line as a stand-up to shine a light on the troubled and complex life of Barry Crimmins, an unsung hero of the craft. But as Goldthwait’s documentary reveals, there is much more to his friend and mentor Crimmins than meets the eye. There are many surprises to Call Me Lucky, and they are all delivered with a patient restraint that provides an emotional wallop. Documentary Feature.
Director David Iverson attending. Capturing Grace is an award-winning documentary that tells the unlikely story of what happens when New York’s legendary Mark Morris Dance Group joins forces with people with Parkinson’s disease to stage a unique performance. Filmed over the course of a year, Capturing Grace is a story about the power of art and the enduring strength of the human spirit. Documentary Feature.
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait Producer: Charlie Fonville Clinton Trucks Screenwriter: Bobcat Goldthwait Cinematographer: Bradley Stonesifer Editor: Jeff Striker
Director: David Iverson Producer: David Iverson Screenwriter: David Iverson Cinematographer: Eddie Marritz Editor: Gail Huddleson
Running Time: 105 min Print Source: MPI Media Website: callmeluckymovie.com Director’s Filmography: God Bless America(‘11) World’s Greatest Dad(‘09)
Running Time: 61 min Website: capturinggracefilm.com Awards: Audience Favorite Award, Mill Valley Film Festival. People’s Choice Award, Denver Film Festival
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Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy
Sobre la marxa
FRI SAT
TUE THU
France 2014 French/English with English subtitles
4/17 4/18
7:00pm 1:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Cartoonist Jeff Danziger attending. Freedom of expression is under attack, and, as highlighted in the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, it’s the artists on the front lines. In Stéphanie Volloatto’s timely documentary, twelve loveable lunatics capture the comic and tragic from four corners of the planet—France, Tunisia, Russia, US, Burkina Faso, China, Algeria, Ivory Coast, Venezuela, Israel, and Palestine. These cartoonists risk their lives to defend democracy, with a smile on their faces and a pencil as their only weapon. Documentary Feature. Don’t miss the afterparty on 4/17! See page 32 for details.
Director: Stéphanie Valloatto Producer: Radu Mihaileanu André Logie Screenwriter: Radu Mihaileanu Stéphanie Valloatto Cinematographer: Cyrille Blanc
Cine Global
Women and Film
Editor: Marie-Jo Audiard Running Time: 106 min Print Source: Kinology
Documentary Competition
The Creator of the Jungle Spain 2014 Catalan with English subtitles
4/14 4/16
4:45pm 7:00pm
documentaries
Caricaturistes, fantassins de la démocratie
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
In the woods near the Catalan village of Argelaguer, a man, simply known as Garrell, has spent nearly half his life constructing and reconstructing a fantastical playground. Creating tree houses, mazes, swimming pools and waterfalls, this compulsive project was initially a way for Garrell to embrace his child-like sense of play but then transforms into a set for a home movie adventure shot by a local teenager with Garrell in the lead role. Using footage that spans more than two decades, director Jordi Morató paints a portrait of a larger than life personality that you must see to believe. Documentary Feature.
Director: Jordi Morató Producer: Isa Campo Isaki Lacuesta Jordi Morató Screenwriter: Jordi Morató Cinematographer: Jordi Morató Laia Ribas
Editor: Jordi Morató Laia Ribas Running Time: 77 min Print Source: La Termita Films SL Website: latermitafilms.com
Cine Global
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Crescendo! The Power of Music
documentaries
USA 2014 English
SAT SUN
4/18 4/19
4:50pm 4:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
L’Endemà
The Day After
Spain 2014 Catalan/Spanish with English Subtitles
SAT
4/18
6:00pm
Best Buy Theater
Director Jamie Bernstein attending. Music can change the world. That is the simple premise behind El Sistema, an innovative music program for young people developed in Venezuela 40 years ago. Crescendo! follows three kids, two in West Philadelphia and one in Harlem, as they participate in a pair of Sistema-inspired youth orchestra programs. For each of the kids, their struggle and perseverance with their instrument counterbalances their trials and tribulations in their personal lives. Directed by Jamie Bernstein (daughter of Leonard), Crescendo! is a passionate testament to the power of music. Documentary Feature.
Catalonia is experiencing a period of great upheaval where the decisions made in the coming months will effect generations to come. Although the majority of Catalans want independence, many remain understandably cautious about the implications of separating from Spain and France. Through the eyes of a myriad of interviewees, The Day After examines the advantages and pitfalls of a Catalan state: the fiscal deficit, infrastructures, pensions, dual nationality, the EU angle, and the boycott on Catalan goods. Documentary Feature.
Director: Jamie Bernstein Producer: Jamie Bernstein Cinematographer: Ben Bloodwell/Claudia Raschle Editor: Jonathan Oppenheim
Director: Hug Cirici Isona Passola Producer: Aleix Castellón Alba Forn Cinematographer: Hug Cirici Josep M. Civit
Running Time: 85 min Print Source: The Film Sales Company Website: crescendofilmdoc.com Director’s Filmography: Feature debut
Editor: Raúl Román Running Time: 97 min
Supported by the Catalan Casal in MInnesota Cine Global
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Women and Film
Women and Film
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
The Decade of Discovery
The Dinkytown Uprising
THU
SUN MON
4/16
7:30pm
St. Anthony Main
USA 2015 English
4/12 4/320
6:00pm 2:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker attending. Joe Looby’s documentary details a government attorney’s quest to find a better way to search White House e-mail. The documentary also tells the story of a teacher who took a stand for civil justice on the electronic frontier—and in the way law is practiced and the government operates. Together they sparked a revolution in the way law is practiced. The Decade of Discovery chronicles the impact of the information explosion on the courts and the government during the years 2002 to 2012. Documentary Feature.
World Premiere. Director Al Milgrom & Co-director Dan Geiger attending. The year is 1970 and the disastrous Vietnam War keeps escalating. Protests are erupting all over U.S. campuses. But in Minneapolis, word that the national Red Barn Restaurant chain wants to erect a new fastfood franchise in old, venerable Dinkytown, the “war at home” takes a different turn. This documentary chronicles the unprecedented 40-day, 40-night continuous Dinkytown “Occupation” to prevent construction of an unwanted hamburger joint. From film programmer-turned-filmmaker Al Milgrom, the story is recounted by seven participants whose varied reminiscences about defending the neighborhood becomes a microcosm of the memorable ‘70’s Generation. Documentary Feature.
Director: Joe Looby Producer: Joe Looby Screenwriter: Joe Looby Cinematographer: Joe Looby Editor: Joe Looby
Director: Al Milgrom Dan Geiger Producer: Al Milgrom Screenwriter: Al Milgrom Cinematographer: Al Milgrom
Running Time: 62 min Website: 10thmountainfilms.com
documentaries
USA 2014 English
Editor: Dan Geiger Running Time: 100 min Director’s Filmography: Feature debut
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
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Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll
Every Face Has a Name
MON FRI
SAT SUN MON
documentaries
Cambodia/USA/France 2014 English/French/Khmer with English subtitles
4/13 4/17
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
4/11 4/12 4/13
7:20pm 1:00pm 4:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
During the 60’s and early 70’s as the war in Vietnam threatened its borders, a new music scene emerged in Cambodia that took Western rock and roll and stood it on its head, creating a sound like no other. Through the eyes, words and songs of its popular music stars, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten examines and unravels Cambodia’s tragic past, combining interviews with surviving musicians, never-before-seen archival material and rare songs to track the winding course of this incredible infectious music. Documentary Feature.
US Premiere. Director Magnus Gertten attending. In Every Face Has A Name (a sequel of sorts to Harbor of Hope, MSPIFF 2012), director Magnus Gertten tracks down and interviews survivors from German concentration camps seen in a 35mm film reel showing their arrival at the harbor of Malmo, Sweden on April 28, 1945. The group includes Jews from all over Europe, Norwegian prisoners of war, Polish mothers and children, members of the French resistance, British spies, as well as a young Italian-American accused of being a spy—with personal reactions that are both powerful and moving. Documentary Feature.
Director: John Pirozzi Producer: John Pirozzi Andrew Pope Screenwriter: John Pirozzi Cinematographer: John Pirozzi Editor: Daniel Littlewood Matt Prinzing Greg Wright
Director: Magnus Gertten Producer: Lennart Ström Magnus Gertten Screenwriter: Magnus Gertten Jesper Osmund Cinematographer: Adam Makarenko Caroline Troedsson Editor: Jesper Osmund
Cine Global
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9:30pm 4:45pm
Sweden 2015 Swedish/Polish/Norwegian/English with English subtitles
Running Time: 105 min Print Source: Argo Website: dtifcambodia.com Director’s Filmography: Sleepwalking Through the Mekong(‘07)
Running Time: 73 min Print Source: Rise & Shine World Sales Website: riseandshine-berlin.de Director’s Filmography: Harbor of Hope(‘11)
Documentary Competition
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Le Temps Suspendu
H2Omx
Hand Made with Love in France
SAT SUN
4/18 4/19
5:30pm 1:00pm
France 2014 French with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
FRI SAT
4/17 4/18
5:00pm 2:20pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director José Cohen attending. A rallying cry for government and collective action, this handsome, well-researched and smartly assembled documentary makes a persuasive case that the time is nigh to remedy the status of water management in the Valley of Mexico. Raising awareness a la Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth, H2Omx employs dramatic aerial photography, easily assimilated statistics presented in eye-catching graphics and animation, along with testimony from experts and ordinary people. Much of the region’s water problem stems from the fact that Mexico City was built in the middle of a series of ancient lakes. The Spanish colonists fought against nature, building massive drainage systems and importing fresh water from elsewhere. Unfortunately, these same outdated tactics are currently in use today. Documentary Feature.
Filmmaker invited. Hand Made with Love in France tells the story of three craftsmen who work for the greatest couture houses of Paris. With great sense of humor and strong straightforwardness, they freely criticize the fashion world: Made in France products that aren’t made in France, clients who don’t know what they buy, and every day a more uncertain future for real luxury items. As these three artisans near retirement, who will assure the making of haute couture collections once they are gone? Documentary Feature.
Director: José Cohen Producer: Jose Choen Alejandra Liceaga Hugo Van Belle Screenwriter: Olga Caceras Cinematographer: Sylvestre Guidi Gaetan Mariage Jaime Reyneso Guillermo Rosas Bernabe Salinas
Director: Julie Georgia Bernard Producer: Gregory Bernard Screenwriter: Julie Georgia Bernard Editor: Julie Georgia Bernard
Editor: Omar Guzman Lorenzo Hagerman Paula Heredia Running Time: 82 min Print Source: Icarus Films
documentaries
Mexico 2014 Spanish with English subtitles
Running Time: 70 min Print Source: Realitism Films
newpublica N E W AU D I E N C E S N E W CO M M U N I C AT I O N S
Cine Global
Women and Film
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How to Dance in Ohio
documentaries
USA 2015 English
THU SAT
4/23 4/25
5:00pm St. Anthony Main 11:45am St. Anthony Main
Wo Jiu Shi Wo
I Am Here
China 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
SUN MON
4/12 4/20
3:30pm 5:30pm
Best Buy Theater St. Anthony Main
A first kiss and a first dance are the rites of passage for kids from all walks of life. These first steps toward intimacy are at once exciting and terrifying, but for some teenagers and young adults on the autism spectrum, the transition can be nothing less than paralyzing. In Columbus, Ohio, a group of young people with an array of developmental challenges prepares for an iconic event—a spring formal dance. Entertaining, funny and heartbreaking, How to Dance in Ohio challenges us to question and celebrate the path to human connection and to rethink the definition of normal. Documentary Feature.
Lixin Fan, director of Last Train Home, is back with another perspective on 21st century life in China— where youth and celebrity culture reign supreme. The focus is a hugely popular reality television show, which combines elements American Idol and Big Brother, called Super Boy. I Am Here shows the earnest dreams of a handful of young men within a rigorous, market-driven system. Lixin Fan’s critique of the show and its values is coy, sympathetically embracing ambitions fueling the machine. Documentary Feature.
Director: Alexandra Shiva Producer: Bari Pearlman Alexandra Shiva Cinematographer: Laela Kilbourn Editor: Toby Shimin
Director: Lixin Fan Producer: Rebecca Liu Yun Zeng Screenwriter: Lixin Fan Cinematographer: Paul Morris Editor: Xu Jing
Women and Film
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Running Time: 89 min Print Source: The Film Sales Company Director’s Filmography: Stagedoor(‘06) Bombay Eunuch(‘01)
Running Time: 88 min Print Source: Cat & Docs Director’s Filmography: Last Train Home(‘09) Up the Yangtze(‘07)
Cine Global
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I Touched All Your Stuff
If I Give My Soul
TUE FRI
SUN
Brazil 2014 Spanish/English with English subtitles
4/21 4/24
9:40pm 2:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Working in the tradition of Errol Morris’ more fantastical documentaries, I Touched All Your Stuff plucks eccentric and mysterious personality Christopher Kirk out of the obscurity of a Brazilian prison. This is a movie about Kirk, an American who moves to Columbia after reading about Pablo Escobar’s hippopotamuses, but this is also a movie about V., an enigmatic woman he becomes infatuated with. I Touched All Your Stuff (with an equally equivocal Portuguese title that translates to The Secret Life of Hippopotamuses) teases out the particulars of this fascinating and unpredictable story with a masterful touch. Documentary Feature.
Director: Maíra Bühler Matias Mariani Producer: Matias Mariani Screenwriter: Maíra Bühler Matias Mariani Cinematographer: Pedro Eliezer Basil Shadid Editor: Luisa Marques
Women and Film
Running Time: 91 min Print Source: Primo Films Director’s Filmography: Ela Sonhou que Eu Morri(‘11)
USA/Brazil 2015 Portuguese/English with English subtitles
4/19
6:30pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker attending. Rio de Janeiro’s prisons acutely reflect the city’s wider racial and social injustices. But inside some of Rio’s most brutal prisons, Pentecostal practices turn cellblocks into intensely religious places where inmates strive to live moral and dignified lives. Directors Andrew Johnson and Ryan Patch dive into the social constructs of being an inmate, investigating the motives behind their religion and exploring their journeys from hardened criminal, conversion in prison, and to their release back into society. Documentary Feature.
Director: Andrew Johnson Ryan Patch Producer: Andrew Johnson Ryan Patch Screenwriter: Phil Anema Ryan Patch Jimmy Chalk Cinematographer: Andrew Johnson Ryan Patch Editor: Ryan Patch
Cine Global
Running Time: 58 min Website: ifigivemysoul.com
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
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documentaries
A vida privada dos hipopótamos
Im Keller
In the Basement
Iris
FRI WED
TUE SUN
documentaries
Austria 2014 German with English subtitles
4/10 4/22
12:15pm St. Anthony Main 9:30pm St. Anthony Main
Award-winning documentarian Ulrich Seidl returns with this odd and sometimes disturbing investigation of activities in the basement of seemingly average Austrians. Not unlike his Paradise Trilogy, Seidl mines curiosity, sympathy and humanity in people’s obsessions. “Many Austrians spend more time in the basement of their home than in their living room, which often is only for show. In the basement they actually indulge their needs, their hobbies, passions and obsessions. But in our unconscious, the basement is also a place of darkness, a place of fear, a place of human abysses.“ - Urlich Seidl
USA 2014 English
4/14 4/19
5:15pm St. Anthony Main 11:30am St. Anthony Main
Iris pairs the 87-year-old Albert Maysles (the recently deceased great documentarian) with Iris Apfel, a quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. More than a fashion film, the documentary is a story about creativity and how, even at Iris’ advanced age, a soaring free spirit continues to inspire. Iris portrays a singular woman whose enthusiasm for fashion, art and people are life’s sustenance and reminds us that dressing, and indeed life, is nothing but an experiment. Documentary Feature.
Documentary Feature. Director: Ulrich Seidl Producer: Ulrich Seidl Screenwriter: Veronika Franz Ulrich Seidl Cinematographer: Martin Gschlacht Editor: Christoph Brunner
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Running Time: 81 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Website: ulrichseidl.com Director’s Filmography: Paradise: Hope(‘13) Paradise: Faith(‘12) Paradise: Love(‘12) Import/Export(‘07) Dog Days(‘01)
Director: Albert Maysles Producer: Jennifer Ash Rudick Laura Coxson Rebekah Maysles Cinematographer: Albert Maysles Editor: Paul Lovelace
Running Time: 83 min Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Website: magpictures.com/iris Director’s Filmography: Grey Gardens(‘75) Gimme Shelter(‘70) Salesman(‘68) Awards: Best Documentary Feature, Hamptons International Film Festival
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
USA/China 2014 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subtitles
THU FRI
4/16 4/24
4:45pm St. Anthony Main 12:30pm St. Anthony Main
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, The Iron Ministry traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. The Iron Ministry, directed by J.P. Sniadecki (Foreign Parts, People’s Park), immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world’s largest railway network. Documentary Feature.
Director: J.P. Sniadecki Producer: J.P. Sniadecki Screenwriter: J.P. Sniadecki Cinematographer: J.P. Sniadecki
Running Time: 82 min Print Source: J.P. Sniadecki Website: theironministry.com Director’s Filmography: Yumen(‘13) People’s Park(‘12) Foreign Parts(‘10) Awards: Best Documentary Feature – Special Mention, Camden International Film Festival
Language Matters with Bob Holman USA 2015 English
SAT
4/11
11:15am St. Anthony Main
Bob Holman attending. There are over 6000 languages in the whole world and we lose one every two weeks. At this rate, hundreds will be lost within the next generation, and by the end of this century, half of the world’s languages will have vanished. Language Matters was filmed around the world: on a remote island off the coast of Australia where 400 Aboriginal people speak 10 different languages; in Wales, where Welsh, once in danger, is today making a comeback; and in Hawaii, where Hawaiians are fighting to save their native tongue. Documentary Feature.
Director: David Grubin Producer: David Grubin Screenwriter: David Grubin Cinematographer: James Callanan Bob Richman Editor: Deborah Peretz
Running Time: 110 min Website: languagemattersfilm.com Director’s Filmography: Downtown Express(‘11)
Cine Global
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documentaries
The Iron Ministry
The Look of Silence
Love Marriage in Kabul
FRI THU
THU SUN
documentaries
Denmark/Finland/Indonesia/Norway/UK 2014 Indonesian with English subtitles
4/17 4/23
2:30pm 6:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Joshua Oppenheimer’s powerful companion piece to The Act of Killing, The Look of Silence focuses on a family of survivors who discovers how their son was murdered in the 1965 Indonesian genocide, as well as the identities of the killers. The youngest son, an optometrist named Adi, decides to break the suffocating silence by confronting the men who killed his brother and, while testing their eyesight, asks them to accept responsibility for their actions. “The Look of Silence is, I hope, a poem about a silence borne of terror—a poem about the necessity of breaking that silence, but also about the trauma that comes when silence is broken.” -Joshua Oppenheimer Documentary Feature.
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen Werner Herzog Errol Morris André Singer Screenwriter: Joshua Oppenheimer Cinematographer: Lars Skree Editor: Nils Pagh Andersen
Cine Global
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Running Time: 99 min Print Source: Drafthouse Films Website: thelookofsilence.com Director’s Filmography: The Act of Killing (‘12) The Globalization Tapes (‘02) The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (‘97) Awards: Grand Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival. Peace Film Award, Berline International Film Festival
Australia/Afghanistan 2014 Persian with English subtitles
4/16 4/19
6:50pm 5:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Producer Pat Fiske attending. Mahboba Rawi is a strong-willed Afghan-Australian woman who has dedicated her life to help orphans in Afghanistan. She is the founder of Mahboba’s Promise and a mother figure for thousands of orphans and widows currently supported by her programs. Abdul, one of these orphans, is in love with Fatemeh, the girl next door. The two have been exchanging romantic letters for almost a year and hope to marry each other one day. But Fatemeh’s father has other plans – he has decided to marry her off to anyone who can offer a large sum of money as her dowry. With nothing to Abdul’s name, the fate of the couple depends entirely on Mahboba’s ability to meet or negotiate the father’s terms. But Mahboba only has one month and limited resources. Documentary Feature. Director: Amin Palangi Producer: Pat Fiske Screenwriter: Amin Palangi Cinematographer: Amin Palangi Editor: Bill Russo
Running Time: 84 min Print Source: Bower Bird Films Website: lovemarriageinkabul.com Director’s Filmography: Seeing the Elephant(‘13)
Cine Global
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Magicarena
The Mask You Live In
SUN WED
4/19 4/22
1:15pm 3:15pm
USA 2015 English
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
WED SUN
4/15 4/19
7:00pm 3:30pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater.
US Premiere Directors Andrea Prandstraller and Niccolo Bruna give a behind-the-scenes look at a massive production of Verdi’s Aida at Italy’s Verona Arena, an outdoor Roman amphitheater built in the first century. Celebrating the centenary of the area and the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth, the production is far from a traditional performance, created by the Spanish avant-garde theater troupe Fura dels Baus. From rehearsals to the opening night, Magicarena is an enthralling treat as we follow workers and artists determined to design and shape a show larger than life. Documentary Feature.
Filmmakers attending. Few documentaries are as timely as The Mask You Live In, tackling the tough issues of how we raise boys and the violence in American male culture. Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom follows boys and young men as they struggle to stay true to themselves while negotiating America’s narrow definition of masculinity. Experts in neuroscience, psychology, sociology, sports, education, and media weigh in, offering empirical evidence of the “boy crisis” and tactics to combat it—ultimately illustrating how we, as a society, can raise a healthier generation of boys and young men. Documentary Feature.
Director: Andrea Prandstraller Niccolò Bruna Producer: Nicola Fedrigoni Agnese Fontana Screenwriter: Agnese Fontana
Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Producer: Jessica Anthony Jessica Congdon Jennifer Siebel Newsom Screenwriter: Jessica Congdon Jennifer Siebel Newsrom Cinematographer: John Behrens Editor: Jessica Congdon
Running Time: 84 min Print Source: Wide Management Director’s Filmography: Polvere - Il grande processo dell’amianto(‘11)
Running Time: 97 min Print Source: The Film Sales Company Website: therepresentationproject.org Director’s Filmography: Miss Representation (‘11)
Women and Film
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documentaries
Italy 2014 Italian with English subtitles
Medicine of the Wolf
Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile
SAT SUN
SAT
documentaries
USA 2015 English
4/11 4/12
4:45pm 1:00pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
USA/India 2014 English/Tibetan with English subtitles
4/18
7:30pm
St. Anthony Main
World Premiere. Director Julia Huffman attending. Filmmaker Julia Huffman travels to Minnesota and into wolf country to pursue the deep intrinsic value of the wolf and our forgotten promise to the species. Questioning the rational of wolf hunts, the film features captivating testimony from world renown environmentalist and National Geographic photographer Jim Brandenburg, someone who has studied and been on the ground with wolves for 45 years—longer than anyone in history—as well as a Medicine Man, Chi Ma’iingan (Big Wolf), from Red Lake Nation and Wolf Scientist John Vucetich. Documentary Feature.
Director Norah Shapiro attending. High in the Indian Himalayan epicenter of the exiled Tibetan world, a maverick impresario stages a most un-Tibetan spectacle: a western-style beauty pageant. When a Tibetan-American teenager travels to India to participate in this “pageant with a difference,” she is forced to confront the intersection between her cultural identity and her life in the western world. Documentary Feature.
Director: Julia Huffman Producer: Julia Huffman Rudolf Buitendach Screenwriter: Julia Huffman Fernanda Rossini Cinematographer: Lawrench Schweich Editor: Rudolf Buitendach
Director: Norah Shapiro Producer: Norah Shapiro Kelly Nathe Lisa Blackstone Cinematographer: Ronny Novick Editor: Jennifer Steinman Lisa Blackstone Norah Shapino
Women and Film
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Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
Running Time: 75 min Website: medicineofthewolf.com
Miss Tibet ticket purchasers! Meet the director at a pre-screening reception at the Aster Café River Room at 5:30pm on April 18.
Cine Global
Women and Film
Running Time: 70 min Website: misstibetbeautyinexile.com
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
USA 2014 | English
SUN
4/19
11:00am St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. This film tells the story of the Grammy Award-winning children’s musicians The Okee Dokee Brothers’ month-long hiking trip on the Appalachian Trail, the songs they wrote on their trek, and a life-long friendship. It includes educational segments, camping shenanigans, music videos, interviews, and pristine nature scenes. The film’s goal is to inspire kids and families to embrace the natural world as a means of respecting the animals, people, and life that surrounds us. Documentary Feature. Screens with:
Aberdeen Kristen Froebel, Kevin Obsatz, USA, 2013, 12 min A dreamlike blend of road movie, concert film and family portrait, Aberdeen follows the Brass Messengers, an old-school 11-piece hippie-gypsy-punk brass band from Minneapolis, to a gig in Aberdeen, South Dakota. Director: Jed Anderson Producer: Jed Anderson Justin Lansing Joe Mailander Screenwriter: Alex Johnson
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
Cinematographer: Justin Lansing Joe Mailander Editor: Jed Anderson Running Time: 49 min
Operation Popcorn USA 2015 English/Hmong with English subtitles
TUE THU
4/14 4/16
7:15pm 4:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
World Premiere. Director David Grabias attending. During the Vietnam War, the CIA recruited Hmong tribesmen in the hills of Laos to fight the Communists, then brought them as refugees to America. Forty years later in California, someone who might be a CIA operative approaches a Hmong human rights activist about buying weapons to continue the fight. Operation Popcorn shows how the aftershocks of war reverberate across continents and generations, and how playing politics in a community defined by its military history is a dangerous game. Documentary Feature. 4/14 Screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Soundtrack of Phillips Mark Wojahn, USA, 2014, 7 min Mankwe Ndosi brings her microphone onto the streets of the Phillips neighborhood in Minneapolis to create a digital soundtrack—blending her own vocal work with contributions from neighborhood residents and field recordings.
Director: David Grabias Producer: David Grabias Anne Edgar Screenwriter: David Grabias Cinematographer: Howard Shack Shana Hagan
Editor: Christopher Brannan Matt Coddaire Victor Livingston Running Time: 81 min Print Source: Artifact
Cine Global
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documentaries
The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure
Out in the Night
The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
SAT SUN
SUN MON
documentaries
USA 2014 English
4/11 4/12
2:15pm 3:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
USA 2014 English
4/19 4/20
12:45pm St. Anthony Main 5:15pm St. Anthony Main
Director blair dorosh-walther attending. A group of young friends, out and proud African American lesbians, are verbally assaulted by an older man. When the man turns violent—yanking hair out of the head of one woman and choking another—Patreese Johnson pulls out a knife to defend her friends from being killed. The fight breaks up, the cops are called, and the women are accused of a gang attack. blair dorosh-walther’s daring documentary serves as a clear indictment against sensationalized media (who label the women “Gang of Killer Lesbians”) and ineffective justice that assumes guilt until proven innocent. Documentary Feature.
Filmmaker invited. Here’s the rags to riches story of Sophie Tucker (1887 – 1966), the iconic superstar who ruled the worlds of vaudeville, Broadway, radio, television and Hollywood throughout the 20th century. Before Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Bette Midler, Marilyn Monroe and Mae West, Sophie Tucker (born Sonya Kalish) was the first woman to entrance audiences with a bold, bawdy and brassy style unlike any other. Producers Susan and Lloyd Ecker spent years combing through Tucker’s 400+ personal scrapbooks. The archival photos and footage alone are worth the price of admission. So are the letters from FBI chief Hoover, who requested one of Sophie’s cast-off gowns. The documentary also includes other delicious bits of show business gossip and intrigue. Documentary Feature.
Director: blair dorosh-walther Producer: Giovanna Chesler Mridu Chandra Yoruba Richen Abigail E. Disney blair dorosh-walther Screenwriter: blair dorosh-walther Cinematographer: Daniel Patterson Editor: Kristen Huntley Sarah Devorkin
Director: William Gazecki Producer: Lloyd Ecker Susan Ecker Phil Ramone Gene Schwam Screenwriter: William Gazecki Cinematographer: William Gazecki Editor: William Gazecki
Running Time: 75 min Print Source: The Film Collaborative Website: outinthenight.com Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Best Documentary Feature, New Orleans Film Festival. Audience Choice Award, Image + Nation Festival Cinema LGBT Montreal Film Festival
Running Time: 96 min Print Source: Menemsha Films Website: sophietucker.com Director’s Filmography: Show Me the Way(‘09)
LGBTQ Currents Women and Film
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34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
Pervert Park
Pot (the movie)
TUE FRI
4/21 4/24
5:30pm 5:15pm
USA 2015 English
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
In St. Petersburg, Florida there is a trailer park that 120 convicted sex offenders call home. The Florida Justice Transitions, otherwise known as “Pervert Park,” was founded by a mother of a convicted sex offender who couldn’t find a place to live after his release. Frida and Lasse Barkfors’ unflinching new film is about the people no one wants as a neighbor. It follows the everyday life of the sex offenders as they struggle to reintegrate into society and gives us a chance to understand who they are and how the destructive cycle of sexual abuse can be broken. Documentary Feature.
Director: Frida Barkfors Lasse Barkfors Producer: Frida Barkfors Anne Kohncke Screenwriter: Frida Barkfors Lasse Barkfors Cinematographer: Lasse Barkfors Editor: Lasse Barkfors Signe Kaufmann
Running Time: 77 min Print Source: The Film Sales Company Director’s Filmography: Feature debut Awards: Special Jury Prize, Sundance Film Fetival
SAT SUN
4/11 4/12
3:00pm 6:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
World Premiere. Director Michael Hope attending. In January 2014, Colorado became the first state to allow for recreational sale and use of Marijuana. Filmmaker Michael Hope spent the year exploring the issue and the policy cavern between legalization in Colorado and the strict prosecution in his home state of South Dakota. From the irrepressible recreational use to the much-needed medicinal use, Pot (the movie) looks at all the facets to this growing multi-billion dollar industry. Documentary Feature.
Director: Michael Hope Producer: Michael Hope Screenwriter: Michael Hope Cinematographer: Sean DeVaney Editor: Ben Downs Nathan Edwards
Running Time: 93 min Director’s Filmography: Feature debut
Women and Film
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documentaries
Denmark/Sweden/USA 2014 English
Profughi a Cinecittà
Poverty, Inc.
documentaries
Haiti/Kenya/Rwanda/Ghana/USA/UK 2015 English/Haitian Creole with English subtitles
SAT SUN
4/11 4/12
1:10pm 1:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Refugees in Cinecittà Italy 2012 Italian with English subtitles
FRI
4/24
3:00pm
Best Buy Theater - FREE
Director Michael Matheson Miller attending. Fighting poverty is big business, but who profits the most? This critique of the international development establishment examines the rise of the vast multi-billion dollar poverty industry, a system that often benefits multinational corporations, large NGOs, and geopolitical interests more than the people actually living in poverty. From TOMS Shoes to international adoptions, from solar panels to U.S. agricultural subsidies, the film challenges each of us to ask the tough question: Could I be part of the problem? Documentary Feature.
Filmmaker Noa Steimatsky attending. Free screening. Refugees in Cinecittà portrays the transformation that Cinecittà, a large film studio in Rome considered to be the hub of Italian cinema, went through in the years between 1943 and 1950 as it experienced the Nazi occupation, the creation of a refugee camp run by the Allies and finally the re-birth of the so-called “Hollywood on river Tiber”. Documentary Feature.
Director: Michael Matheson Miller Producer: Michael Matheson Miller James Fitzgerald, Jr. Mark Weber Anielka Munkel Screenwriter: Michael Matheson Miller Simon Scionka Jonathan Witt
Director: Marco Bertozzi Screenwriter: Marco Bertozzi Noa Steimatsky
Cinematographer: Simon Scionka Editor: Simon Scionka Running Time: 91 min Website: povertyinc.org Awards: FreedomFest Grand Prize, Anthem Film Festival. Best Documentary Feature Award, Topanga Film Festival.
Cinematographer: Ezio Gamba Editor: Angelo Musciagna Running Time: 52 min
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Cine Global
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Cine Global
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The Royal Road
The Russian Woodpecker
FRI SAT
THU FRI
4/10 4/11
7:45pm 5:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
UK/Ukraine/USA 2015 Russian with English subtitles
4/16 4/17
7:00pm 7:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Jenni Olson attending. From acclaimed filmmaker Jenni Olson, The Royal Road is a stunning feature-length cinematic essay that offers up a primer on the Spanish colonization of California and the Mexican American War alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, the quest for unattainable women, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo—all against a contemplative backdrop of 16mm urban California landscapes, and featuring a voiceover cameo by Tony Kushner. Documentary Feature.
Director Chad Gracia and artist Fedor Alexandrovich attending. A Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life by revealing it amid growing clouds of revolution and war. Chad Gracia’s debut feature launches into contemporary social and political issues facing Ukraine today while weaving a fascinating tale of conspiracy surrounding the 1986 disaster. Direct from Sundance, where it won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, The Russian Woodpecker will be one of the most absorbing documentaries you will see all year. Documentary Feature.
Director: Jenni Olson Producer: Julie Dorf Screenwriter: Jenni Olson Cinematographer: Sophia Constantinou Editor: Dawn Logsdon
Director: Chad Gracia Producer: Mike Lerner Ram Devineni Chad Garcia Screenwriter: Chad Gracia Cinematographer: Artem Ryzhykov Editor: Chad Garcia Alan Berliner Devin Tanchum
LGBTQ Currents Women and Film
Running Time: 65 min Print Source: The Film Collaborative Director’s Filmography: The Joy of Life(‘05)
Running Time: 80 min Website: russianwoodpecker.com Director’s Filmography: Feature debut Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Documentary Competition
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USA 2015 English
La cour de Babel
Pleng khong kao
France 2014 French with English subtitles
Thailand 2014 Thai with English subtitles
documentaries
School of Babel
SAT TUE
4/18 4/21
11:00am St. Anthony Main 5:00pm St. Anthony Main
The Songs of Rice
WED MON
4/15 4/20
3:00pm 3:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
They are Irish, Senegalese, Brazilian, Moroccan, and Chinese; they are between 11 and 15 years old and have just arrived in France. For a year they will be together in the same adaptation class of a Parisian secondary school—24 students, 24 nationalities. In this multicultural arena, we see the innocence, the enthusiasm and inner turmoil of these teenagers who, caught in the midst of starting out on a new life, question our preconceived ideas and give us hope for a better future. Documentary Feature.
Award-winning director Uruphong Raksasad (Agrarian Utopia, Stories From the North) caps off his rice trilogy with a visual record of rice culture and its influences on the people in Northern Thailand. Through a lyrical structure, this non-narrative documentary evokes the propulsive rhythms of life in the rice fields: a hula-hooping grandma, water buffalo races, kids hunting rodents in the fields, and a fireworks festival with a dazzling display of design and pyrotechnics. Lavishly shot and mesmerizing from start to finish. Documentary Feature.
Director: Julie Bertuccelli Producer: Yael Fogiel Laetitia Gonzalez Cinematographer: Julie Bertuccelli Editor: Josiane Zardoya
Director: Uruphong Raksasad Producer: Pimpaka Towira Screenwriter: Uruphong Raksasad Kriengsak Wittayaaniwat Cinematographer: Uruphong Raksasad Editor: Uruphong Raksasad
Women and Film
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Documentary Competition
Running Time: 94 min Print Source: Pyramide Distribution Website: unitedpeople.jp Director’s Filmography: The Tree(‘10) Fresh Bait(‘95) Awards: Nominee – Best Documentary Film, César Awards
Running Time: 75 min Print Source: Mosquito Films Director’s Filmography: Agrarian Utopia(‘09) Awards: FIPRESCI Prize, Rotterdam International Film Festival
Documentary Competition
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The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story
Sunshine Superman
TUE WED
THU SAT
4/14 4/15
7:00pm 7:20pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
USA/Norway 2014 English
4/23 4/25
7:10pm St. Anthony Main 11:15am St. Anthony Main
Director N.C. Heikin attending. Frank Morgan was a prodigal alto sax player who, like so many of his fellow musicians of the era, saw his career plagued by drug addiction. What sets Frank apart is not just his exceptionally beautiful, classic alto playing, but also the amazing fact that he survived 30 years of revolving door incarceration and drug abuse and went on to a much heralded comeback career in the last 22 years of his life. His story is one of brilliant promise in his youth, a journey through the depths of hell, and redemption through his art. N.C. Heikin’s documentary film tells the story of his life and transformation through interviews with fellow musicians and people who were close to him. Documentary Feature.
Filmmaker invited. A heart-racing documentary portrait of Carl Boenish, “the father of BASE jumping,” whose early passion for skydiving led him to ever more spectacular—and dangerous—feats of foot-launched human flight. Carl Boenish was possessed of an infectious— some would say “crazy”—enthusiasm that drove him to realize his dream of foot-launched human flight. His journey was filled with incredible achievements and daunting setbacks, with the distinct possibility of death at every turn. Known as “the father of BASE jumping,” he documented his feats obsessively on 16mm colour film and audiotape. In her impressive debut, director Marah Strauch incorporates this jaw-dropping footage into a complex portrait of Boenish as lovable, rebellious, nerve-wracking, and mysterious. Documentary Feature.
Director: N.C. Heikin Producer: James Egan Su Kim Screenwriter: N.C. Heikin Cinematographer: Kyle Saylors Editor: Kate Amend Katie Flint
Director: Marah Strauch Producer: Eric Bruggemann Lars Løge Marah Strauch Screenwriter: Marah Strauch Cinematographer: Carl Boenish Vasco Nunes Nicolay Poulsen
Women and Film
Running Time: 84 min Website: thefrankmorganproject.com Director’s Filmography: Kimjongilia(‘09)
Editor: Eric Bruggemann Kevin McGuinness Marah Strauch Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Website: sunshinesupermanfilm.com Director’s Filmography: Debut feature
Women and Film
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documentaries
USA 2014 English
Virtuosity
Warren Mackenzie: A Potter’s Hands
SAT SUN
TUE WED
documentaries
USA 2014 English
4/11 4/12
USA 2013 English
7:00pm St. Anthony Main 11:00am St. Anthony Main
Director Christopher Wilkenson attending. What does it take to be a concert pianist? At the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, director Christopher Wilkinson takes us behind the scenes to give us an intimate portrait of the group of young finalists. Capturing their fears, dreams, and everyday realities through candid interviews, Virtuosity also dazzles us with their talent—whether casually demonstrating for the camera or performing live in front of 2,000 people. This documentary celebrates the joy of music and the tenacity of these young musicians, but it also pays tribute to the memory of Van Cliburn. Documentary Feature. Screens with:
THE PAST IS IN THE PRESENT: AT HOME WITH GUNTHER SCHULLER Mary Trunk, Paul Sanzhez, USA, 2014, 11 min A short documentary portrait that captures an intimate visit with Pulitzer prize winning composer, Gunther
4/14 4/22
7:00pm 4:50pm
Best Buy Theater St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. At 90 years old, Minnesotan potter Warren MacKenzie remains an energetic and creative force in the national and international pottery community. This documentary showcases Warren’s artistic process, provides a view into the creation of the art form, and imparts to Minnesotans the artistic value of pottery, as well as its historic and cultural significance to society as a whole. Documentary Feature. Screens with:
REDISCOVERING JOHN BERRYMAN Al Milgrom, USA, 2014, 27 min Forty years after his death, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and scholar, John Berryman’s legacy is examined and celebrated in the short film. This documentary features numerous scholars, experts, and musical artists that have been inspired by Berryman’s prolific career.
Schuller.
Director: Christopher Wilkenson Producer: Lori Miller Screenwriter: Christopher Wilkinson Cinematographer: Larry McConkey
Editor: Gabriel Wyre Running Time: 87 min
Director: Mark Lambert Producer: Mark Lambert Towle Neu Screenwriter: Mark Lambert Towle Neu Cinematographer: David Schnack Editor: Towle Neu
Running Time: 46 min Print Source: Website: apottershands.org
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
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Welcome to Leith USA 2015 English
English
4/21 4/25
7:20pm 2:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Leith, North Dakota is a registered ghost town of 24 people. The town has an apocalyptic beauty set against a prairie backdrop of wide-open sky and fields of wheat. In 2012, an outsider moved in and started buying up property with dubious motivations. Welcome to Leith offers a glimpse into a town struggling for sovereignty against one man’s extremist vision. That it takes place in the shadow of the biggest oil boom in North Dakota’s history makes the film a complex document exploring unforeseen causes and effects. Documentary Feature.
Director: Michael Beach Nichols Christopher K. Walker Producer: Jenner Furst Joey Carey Joshua Woltermann Julia Willoughby Nason Michael Beach Nichols Christopher K. Walker Screenwriter: Michael Beach Nichols Christopher K. Walker Cinematographer: Michael Beach Nichols
Editor: Christopher K. Walker Michael Beach Nichols Joshua Woltermann Running Time: 95 min Website: welcometoleithfilm.com Director’s Filmography: Flex is Kings(‘13)
SAT
4/18
1:30pm
St. Anthony Main
Director Bryan Duggan attending. A quirky story about two Midwest farm towns and the values their Twine Balls represent. Francis Johnson of Minnesota and Frank Stoeber of Kansas go head-to-head in a ‘Battle of the Balls’ for over a half a century. In the end, a Texas Rancher, using plastic twine and a machine would beat them both. Documentary Feature.
Director: Bryan Duggan Producer: KC Duggan Screenwriter: Bryan Duggan Cinematographer: Bryan Duggan
Editor: Bryan Duggan Running Time: 81 min
Minnesota Made Documentary Competition
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3 Hearts
France/Germany/Belgium 2014 French with English subtitles
SAT WED
4/18 4/22
8:00pm 7:10pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Veteran French director Benoît Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen, À tout de suite) returns with a classic melodrama of the heart fueled by the emotional sparks of an incredible cast. Chiara Mastroianni and Charlotte Gainsbourg play sisters who serendipitously fall for the same man, played by Benoît Poelvoorde. This beautifully made movie balances its plot twists with richly drawn and portrayed characters, rounded out by Catherine Deneuve as the sisters’ matronly mother. Narrative Feature. 4/22 screening includes:
Motion Poems: How Not to Need Resurrection Diego Vasquez, 2 min
Director: Benoît Jacquot Producer: Alice Girard Edouard Weil Screenwriter: Julien Boivent Benoît Jacquot Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch Editor: Julia Gregory
Principal Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde Charlotte Gainsbourg Chiara Mastroianni Catherine Deneuve Running Time: 106 min Print Source: Cohen Media Group Director’s Filmography:
Farewell, My Queen(‘12) À tout de suite(‘04)
52 Tuesdays Australia 2014 English
FRI WED
4/10 4/15
9:50pm 4:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender reassignment and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week—only on Tuesdays— these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation. Sophie Hyde’s debut narrative feature is an incredibly compassionate and honest look at Billie’s mom’s transition as well as Billie’s exploratory path as an invincible teenager. Narrative Feature.
Director: Sophie Hyde Producer: Sophie Hyde Matthew Cormack Bryan Mason Rebecca Summerton Screenwriter: Sophie Hyde Matthew Cormack Cinematographer: Bryan Mason Editor: Bryan Mason
Principal Cast: Tilda Cobham-Hervey Del Herbert-Jane Running Time: 114 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Website: my52tuesdays.com Director’s Filmography: Life in Movement(‘11) Awards: Crystal Bear, Berlin International Film Festival
LGBTQ Currents Women and Film
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world cinema
3 coeurs
Charleen macht Schluss
Lucia de B.
Germany 2014 German with English subtitles
Belgium/Luxembourg/Netherlands/Sweden 2014 Dutch with English subtitles
world cinema
About a Girl
SUN TUE
4/19 4/21
6:15pm 2:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Accused
SUN THU
4/19 4/23
11:15am St. Anthony Main 4:45pm St. Anthony Main
15-year-old Charleen is a typical teen who hates being a typical teen. Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan, she also shares some of his fatalism and rebellion. After a brush with near death, Charleen starts to shed some of her nihilism for a quirky spice for life that she never knew existed. This upbeat, feel-good coming-of-age dramedy stars sensational breakout star Jasna Fritzi Bauer in a spot-on depiction of a teen who is able to revise her view on life. Narrative Feature.
Paula van der Oest’s Accused, shortlisted for Best Foreign Film Oscar, turns a compelling true story into an engaging, heart-pounding thriller. Neonatal nurse Lucia has a knack for quieting crying babies but is scorned by her colleagues for being independent and private. After being present at one inexplicable death too many, Lucia gets caught up in hospital politics and a very ugly witch hunt. Ariane Schluter gives a gripping and down-to-earth performance that makes this drama riveting from start to finish. Narrative Feature.
Director: Mark Monheim Producer: Martin Rehbock Screenwriter: Mark Monheim Martin Rehbock Cinematographer: Daniel Schönauer Editor: Stine Sonne Munch Melanie Landa
Director: Paula van der Oest Producer: Reinier Selen Screenwriter: Moniek Kramer Tijs van Marle Cinematographer: Guido van Gennep Editor: Marcel Wijninga Principal Cast: Barry Atsma Fedja van Huet Annet Malherbe
Principal Cast: Jasna Fritzi Bauer Heike Makatsch Aurel Manthei Simon Schwarz Running Time: 104 min Print Source: Global Screen Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Best Young Actress, Bavarian Film Awards
Running Time: 97 min Print Source: Fortissimo Website: luciadebdefilm.nl Director’s Filmography: The Domino Effect(‘12) Black Butterflies(‘11) Tiramisu(‘08) Awards: Oscar Shortlist – Best Foreign Film. Golden Film, Netherland Film Fund
Women and Film
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Afterlife
Hungary 2014 Hungarian with English subtitles
SAT SAT
4/11 4/25
1:00pm 5:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Tender, funny and surprising, Afterlife is a sweetly absurdist coming-of-age tale that explores the relationship between Mozes, an anxious twenty-something guy and Janos, his controlling pastor father—not only while the older man is alive, but also after his death. A timid vegetarian who has just been released from a mental hospital, Mozes sorely tries the pastor’s expectations of what a real man should be. Before Janos gets the chance to force Mozes to volunteer at a leprosy mission in the Ukraine, he keels over from a heart attack. But his ghost lingers on, appearing only to his frustrated son, who tries to help the apparition find eternal rest. Narrative Feature.
Amour Fou
Austria/Luxembourg/Germany 2014 German with English subtitles
MON WED
4/13 4/22
7:20pm 2:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Loosely based on the famous suicide pact between Henriette Vogel and poet Heinrich Von Kleist, director Jessica Hausner (Lourdes 2009) turns this melancholic material into an absurdly comedic examination of two personalities within an irrational situation. Young writer Heinrich is deeply affected by depression and is seeking a soul mate to conquer the inevitability of death through love. Unexpectedly he meets Henriette, the wife of a business acquaintance suffering from a terminal illness. Amour Fou is a romantic comedy like you’ve never seen before. Narrative Feature.
4/25 screening includes:
Forecast Public Art: Emily Stover Anna Goranova, USA, 2014, 6 min The video shows the way an artist is trying to start a conversation about the different usage of corn and about what it means to us not only as a crop but also as part of the American culture. Director: Virág Zomborácz Producer: Ferenc Pusztai Screenwriter: Virág Zomborácz Cinematographer: Gergely Pohárnok Editor: Károly Szalai
Women and Film
Principal Cast: Márton Kristóf Zsolt Anger Eszter Csákányi László Gálffi Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Magyar Filmunió Awards: Best Film, Valladolid Film Festival
Director: Jessica Hausner Producer: Martin Gschlacht Antonin Svoboda Bruno Wagner Bady Minck Alexander DumreicherIvanceanu Philippe Bober Screenwriter: Jessica Hausner Cinematographer: Martin Gschlacht Editor: Karina Ressler
Principal Cast: Christian Friedel Birte Schnoeink Stephan Grossmann Peter Jordan Running Time: 96 min Print Source: Film Movement Website: amourfou-film.com Director’s Filmography: Lourdes (‘09) Hotel (‘04) Awards: Best Script, Best Editing, Austrian Film Awards
Women and Film
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world cinema
Utóélet
Aravim rokdim
A Borrowed Identity
Chagall–Malevich
MON SUN
FRI SAT
world cinema
Israel 2014 Arabic/Hebrew with English subtitles
4/13 4/19
4:30pm 9:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Russia 2014 Russian with English subtitles
4/17 4/25
2:15pm 4:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Eran Riklis, one of Israel’s most acclaimed filmmakers, delivers a poignant coming-of-age story on the foundation of late 80s Israeli politics. Eyad, a boy from an Arab village, has the opportunity to attend a prestigious boarding school in Jerusalem. Eyad tries hard to fit in with the Jewish-Israeli, developing a close friendship with a young man with muscular dystrophy and falling in love with a Jewish girl. However, as Saddam Hussein’s Scud missiles loom over the horizon, things start to shift for Eyad, potentially changing his life forever. Narrative Feature.
A story of love and passion, hatred and egotism, and the clash of huge creative personalities, Chagall – Malevich is based on real events that occurred during the time of Marc Chagall’s short-lived Vitebsk period (1917-18), a time in which he created an Academy of Modern Art inspired by dreams of a bright and beautiful future. More than 140 copies of paintings by Chagall and his brilliant colleague Kazimir Malevich were made for the film. Here, too, is the story of Chagall’s wife Bella and her selfless love for her husband. It’s a story further complicated by her former childhood friend and one-time suitor Naum, a bitter man who is now a Soviet Commissar. Narrative Feature.
Director: Eran Riklis Producer: Bettina Brokemper Antoine de ClermontTonnerre Chilik Michaeli Michael Eckelt Screenwriter: Sayed Kashua Cinematographer: Michael Wiesweg Editor: Richard Marizy
Director: Aleksandr Mitta Producer: Maksim Koroptsov Elizaveta Lisovaya Aleksandr Mitta Screenwriter: Aleksandr Mitta Kristina Schneidermann Cinematographer: Sergey Machilskiy
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Principal Cast: Tawfeek Barhom Ali Suliman Yaël Abecassis Running Time: 104 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Website: strandreleasing.com Director’s Filmography: Zaytoun(‘12) Lemon Tree(‘08) The Syrian Bride(‘04)
Principal Cast: Leonid Bichevin Anatoliy Belyy Running Time: 120 min Print Source: Intercinema Agency Website: intercinema.ru Director’s Filmography: The House of Sun(‘10) Trial By Fire(‘98) Ekipazh(‘80)
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Simindis kundzuli
Kauboji
Georgia/Germany/France/Czech Republic/Kazakhstan/Hungary 2014
Georgian/Abkhazian/Russian with English subtitles
Croatia 2013 Croatian with English subtitles
SUN THU
MON SAT
4/12 4/16
9:45pm 2:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
The Inguri River forms a natural border dividing Georgia from Abkhazia. Tensions between the two nations have not abated since the war of ‘92–93. Every spring the river brings fertile soil from the Caucasus down to the plains of Abkhazia and northwestern Georgia, creating tiny islands. Local peasants find them perfect for the cultivation of a crop to supplement their income. An old Abkhaz farmer builds a hut for himself and his teenage granddaughter on one of these islands. He ploughs the earth and together they sow corn. As his granddaughter blossoms into womanhood and the corn ripens, border patrol boats from the two feuding countries frequently pass, reminding us and them of the dangers of cultivating in no-man’s land. Narrative Feature. Director: George Ovashvili Producer: Nino Devdariani Eike Goreczka Guillaume de Seille Karla Stojáková Sain Gabdullin Screenwriter: Nugzar Shataidze George Ovashvili Roelof Jan Minneboo Cinematographer: Elemér Ragályi Editor: Sun-Min Kim
Principal Cast: Ilyas Salman Mariam Buturishvili Irakli Samushia Tamer Levent Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Ramonda Ink Director’s Filmography: Gagma napiri(‘09) Awards: Crystal Globe, Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Bridging the Borders Award, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Cowboys
4/13 4/25
7:15pm 9:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Set in a down-at-heel industrial town as deprived of culture as it is of working electricity and meaningful employment, Cowboys niftily blends social drama with absurdist comedy, as a bunch of provincial no-hopers stage an American Western as a musical. Among the performers: a mama’s-boy postal worker, a deeply closeted gay guy, a rough type who’s either a gypsy or a Serb or both, and a young woman who’s either soft in the head or a performance artist. Skillfully juggling tone and ambience, director Mrsic takes a few sly digs at the region’s enduring ethnic conflicts while affectionately goosing a genre that he also, to judge from the soundtrack, clearly loves as much as he does the people and the place his movie lampoons. Narrative Feature. 4/13 screening includes:
Motion Poems: Once Angela & Ithyle, 4 min Director: Tomislav Mrsic Producer: Suzana Pandek Screenwriter: Tomislav Mrsic Cinematographer: Predrag Dubravcic Editor: Hrvoje Mrsic
Principal Cast: Sasa Anocic Rakan Rushaidat Radovan Ruzdjak Krunoslav Klabucar Running Time: 107 min Print Source: Wide Management Director’s Filmography: 72 Days(‘10) Awards: Best Cinematography, Maverick Movie Awards
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Corn Island
The Cut
world cinema
Germany/Armenia 2014 Armenian/Arabic/Turkish/Kurdish/Spanish with English subtitles
MON TUE
4/20 4/21
8:00pm 6:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Director Fatih Akin attending. Controversial and powerful, Fatih Akin’s final installment in his Love, Death, and the Devil trilogy (after Head-On and The Edge of Heaven) tackles the dramatic events best known as the Armenian Genocide. 1915 in the city of Mardin, Nazaret (Tahar Rahim), a young blacksmith, is rounded up by the police and separated from his wife and two daughters. Fate would allow him to survive the horrors of the genocide, and he becomes driven to travel the world over in order to find his two daughters rumored to still be alive. Narrative Feature.
Director: Fatih Akin Producer: Faith Akin Karl Baumgartner Reinhard Brundig Screenwriter: Faith Akin Mardik Martin Cinematographer: Rainer Klausmen Editor: Andrew Bird
Principal Cast: Tahar Rahim Simon Abkarian Makram J. Khoury Hindi Zahra Kevork Malikian Running Time: 138 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Director’s Filmography: New York, I Love You(‘08) The Edge of Heaven(‘07) Head-On(‘04) Awards: Special Mention, Venice Film Festival
The Dark Horse New Zealand 2014 English
TUE FRI
4/14 4/17
2:45pm 6:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Genesis Potini (Cliff Curtis of Once Were Warriors and Whale Rider fame) is a New Zealand legend: a bipolar Maori who spent time in and out of institutions, he joined the Eastern Knights chess association and used chess to turn around the lives of some 15,000 Maori kids. This superbly realized biopic traces Potini’s damaged but ultimately rewarding life. And there is much humor to be found amongst the drama, especially from the many unbridled children—all damaged, all essentially still innocent—Potini teaches. Narrative Feature.
Director: James Napier Robertson Producer: Tom Hern Screenwriter: James Napier Robertson Cinematographer: Denson Baker Editor: Peter Roberts Principal Cast: Cliff Curtis James Rolleston Kirk Torrance Xavier Horan
Running Time: 124 min Print Source: Seville International Website: thedarkhorsefilm.com Director’s Filmography: Everything We Loved(‘14) I’m Not Harry Jenson(‘09) Awards: Best Film, New Zealand Film and TV Awards. Audience Award, Rotterdam International Film Festival
Cine Global
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I nostri ragazzi
The Dinner
Dukhtar
SUN MON
4/12 4/20
6:00pm 5:20pm
Pakistan/USA/Norway 2014 Urdu/Pashto with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Adapted from Herman Koch’s bestselling novel of the same name, Ivano De Matteo’s The Dinner daringly improves on the book’s biting social critique by making subtle changes and stylistic choices. Two brothers and their wives maintain a weekly tradition of dinning together at an upscale restaurant despite the fact that they don’t see eye to eye. The underlying tensions grow exponentially as a dark secret involving their teenage son and daughter rises to the surface. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ivano De Matteo Producer: Marco Poccioni Marco Valsania Screenwriter: Valentina Ferlan Ivano De Matteo Herman Koch (novel) Cinematographer: Vittorio Omodei Zorini Editor: Consuelo Catucci
Principal Cast: Alessandro Gassman Giovanna Mezzogiorno Luigi Lo Cascio Barbora Bobulova Running Time: 92 min Print Source: Film Movement Director’s Filmography: One Life, Maybe Two(‘10) La bella gente(‘09) Awards: Europa Cinemas Award, Venice Film Festival. Best Actress, Federazione Italiana Cinema d’Essai
FRI SAT
4/10 4/11
7:00pm 2:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Producer Shrihari Sathe attending. Pakistan’s Official Submission to the Oscars® for Best Foreign Language Film, Dukhtar carefully combines an emotional story with a thrilling adventure. Allah’s 10-year-old daughter has been promised to an old tribal leader to settle a blood feud. Determined to protect her daughter at all costs, Allah enlists the help of a reluctant truck driver and changes the course of her simple life forever. Afia Nathaniel’s assured debut, based on a true story and shot entirely on location in Pakistan, makes her a filmmaker to watch. Narrative Feature.
Director: Afia Nathaniel Producer: Muhammad Khalid Ali, Afia Nathaniel Shrihari Sathe Screenwriter: Afia Nathaniel Cinematographer: Armughan Hassan Editor: Armughan Hassan
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Samiya Mumtaz,Mohib Mirza,Saleha Aref Running Time: 93 min Print Source: 3 Monkeys Films Website: dukhtarthefilm.com Director’s Filmography: Debut feature
Emerging Filmmaker Competition Women and Film
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Italy 2014 Italian with English subtitles
Mita Tova
Felix et Meira
Israel/Germany 2014 Hebrew with English subtitles
Canada 2014 French/Yiddish/Spanish/Hebrew/Italian with English subtitles
world cinema
The Farewell Party
WED MON
4/15 4/20
5:10pm 6:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home construct a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help a terminally ill pal in this poignant, provocative dramedy. Boasting a dream cast of septuagenarian talent, a finely honed visual sense and superbly ironic comic timing and dialogue, the compassionate film pits the ethics of assisted suicide against the right to die with dignity. Brimming with humanity and heart, the film continually riffs on the theme of who has the right to play God. This becomes more than a rhetorical question when the hospitalized Max begs his wife Yana and best friend, the inventor Yehezkel, to put him out of his terrible suffering. Narrative Feature.
Felix and Meira
TUE MON
4/14 4/20
9:40pm 2:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
What happens when tradition is thrust into a modern world of star-crossed love? Meira is a cloistered Hasidic woman married with a child, searching for something new. Félix is an eccentric and penniless French Canadian whose wealthy father is dying. They were not meant to meet, let alone fall in love. Félix and Meira tells the miraculous love story between two individuals from two distinct communities, who attempt to love each other against all odds. Narrative Feature.
4/20 screening includes:
Motion Poems: Triolet for Laika Alicia Reese, 2 min Director: Tal Granit Sharon Maymon Producer: Haim Mecklberg Estee Yacov-Mecklberg Talia Kleinhendler Osnat Handelsman-Keren Screenwriter: Tal Granit Sharon Maymon Cinematographer: Tobias Hochstein Editor: Einat Glaser Zarhin
Principal Cast: Ze’ev Revah Levana Finkelshtein Aliza Rozen Ilan Dar Rafael Tabor Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Samuel Goldwyn Website: 2teamproductions.com Director’s Filmography: A Matter of Size(‘09) Awards: People’s Choice Award, Venice Days
Director: Maxime Giroux Producer: Sylvain Corbeil Nancy Grant Screenwriter: Maxime Giroux Alexandre Laferrière Cinematographer: Sara Mishara Editor: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo
Principal Cast: Martin Dubreuil Hadas Yaron Running Time: 105 min Print Source: Oscilloscope Pictures Website: felixandmeira.com Director’s Filmography: Jo pour Jonathan(‘10) Awards: Best Canadian Feature, Toronto International Film Festival
Women and Film
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The Fool
Russia 2014 Russian with English subtitles
FRI SUN
4/10 4/12
12:15pm St. Anthony Main 8:30pm St. Anthony Main
Ghadi
Lebanon 2013 Arabic with English subtitles
SUN MON
4/12 4/13
3:40pm 4:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Dima is a simple and honest plumber who works as a municipal repair-crew chief in a small Russian town. When the pipes burst in a large housing complex, Dima discovers a fracture in the building’s foundation that puts hundreds of people—all of them lower class citizens—in immediate danger. It’s a race against the clock, as he attempts to convince the city’s corrupt bureaucrats to act. Yuriy Bykov’s moral rollercoaster ride exposes the culpability of the powers-that-be as a gripping diplomatic shell game. Narrative Feature.
A gently barbed social satire about bigotry and redemption, Ghadi unfolds in a traditional Lebanese coastal town. After a difficult youth where he is teased for his stutter, Leba becomes a beloved music instructor and marries his childhood sweetheart Lara. Eventually, Lara gives birth to two beautiful daughters, followed by their son, Ghadi. Ghadi is born with Down’s syndrome and he makes loud noises as he tries to imitate his father’s singing. Without much understanding of the disability, the village people start calling the boy a “demon”, and try to evict him from this town. Unwilling to send his son away to some institution, Leba hatches a clever plan to convince his neighbors to change their minds. Narrative Feature.
Director: Yuriy Bykov Producer: Elena Bystrova Filipp Pastukhov Kira Saksaganskaya Aleksey Uchitel Screenwriter: Yuriy Bykov Cinematographer: Kirill Klepalov Editor: Yuriy Bykov
Director: Amin Dora Producer: Gabriel Chamoun Screenwriter: Georges Khabbaz Cinematographer: Karim Ghorayeb Editor: Rana Sabbagha Principal Cast: Georges Khabbaz Lara Rain Emmanuel Khairallah Camille Salameh
Principal Cast: Artem Bystrov Nataliya Surkova Boris Nevzorov Kirill Polukhin Darya Moroz Yury Tsurilo Irina Nizina Running Time: 116 min Print Source: m-Appeal Director’s Filmography: The Major(‘13) Awards: Best Actor, Locarno International Film Festival
Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Fortissimo Website: ghadithemovie.com Awards: Audience Award, Busan. Audience Award, Arabian Sights. Best Film, Best Actor Fondacion Liban Cinema
Emerging Filmmaker Competition
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world cinema
Durak
Bande de filles
Bogowie
France 2014 French with English subtitles
Poland 2014 Polish with English subtitles
world cinema
Girlhood
SAT THU
4/11 4/16
9:50pm 9:30pm
Gods
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
WED SUN
4/15 4/19
2:30pm 8:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in the gang, hoping that this will be a way to a new life. Director Céline Sciamma (Water Lilies, Tomboy) cements her cinematic expertise in exploring the many facets of young female identity with her most powerful and electric film yet. Narrative Feature.
Riveting, fast paced, compelling and filled with humor, Gods is the story of the rebel cardiac surgeon, Zbigniew Religa, who performed the first successful heart transplant in Soviet controlled Poland in 1984. With the support of his renegade medical team, he battled everyone including fellow doctors, the communist bureaucracy and a shocked religious community, Religa, to make history and become a national hero. Narrative Feature.
Director: Céline Sciamma Producer: Bénédicte Couvreur Screenwriter: Céline Sciamma Cinematographer: Crystel Fournier Editor: Julien Lacheray
Director: Lukasz Palkowski Producer: Krzysztof Rak Piotr Wozniak Starak Screenwriter: Krzysztof Rak Cinematographer: Piotr Sobocinski Jr. Editor: Jaroslaw Barzan
Cine Global
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Principal Cast: Karidja Touré Assa Sylla Lindsay Karamouh Marietou Toure Running Time: 112 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Director’s Filmography: Tomboy(‘11) Water Lilies(‘07) Awards: Best Cinematgraphy, Best Film, Stockholm Film Festival
Principal Cast: Tomasz kot Piotr Glowacki Szymon Piotr Warszawski Cezary Kosinski Running Time: 120 min Director’s Filmography: Wojna zensko-meska(‘11) Awards: Winner of 4 Golden Lions, including Best Film, Gdynia Film Festival
Women and Film
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Ben o degilim
Kebab i horoskop
Turkey/France/Germany/Greece 2013 Turkish with English subtitles
Poland 2014 Polish/English with English subtitles
WED TUE
4/15 4/21
2:40pm 9:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Kebab & Horoscope
FRI MON
4/17 4/20
5:00pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Middle-aged unmarried loner Nihat works in a hospital canteen. When young colleague Ayse invites him to her house for dinner, he accepts despite the rumours that her husband Necip is in jail for a serious offence. When Nihat sees a wedding photograph, he notices that Ayse’s imprisoned husband looks an awful lot like him. The awkward relationship that ensues changes Nihat’s life more profoundly than he could ever have foreseen. Narrative Feature.
Two down-and-out men, Kebab and Horoscope, go on a quest to get a fresh start. Based on his horoscope, Kebab decides to quit his job and then serendipitously meets Horoscope, the author of his life changing fortune. Together, the two join forces in an impossible and somewhat ludicrous attempt to re-establish themselves as marketing experts in a dead-end carpet shop with no customers. Propelled by quirky characters and deadpan humor, Kebab & Horoscope is a one-of-a-kind feature film debut. Narrative Feature.
Director: Tayfun Pirselimoglu Producer: Veysal Ipek Nikos Moustakas Guillaume de Seille Irfan & Inci Demirkol Mustafa Dok Konstantina Stavrianou Screenwriter: Tayfun Pirselimoglu Cinematographer: Andreas Sinanos Editor: Ali Aga
Director: Grzegorz Jaroszuk Producer: Agnieszka Kurzydlo Screenwriter: Grzegorz Jaroszuk Cinematographer: John Magnus Borge Editor: Aleksandra Gowin
Principal Cast: Ercan Kesal Maryam Zaree Running Time: 123 min Print Source: Ramonda Ink Director’s Filmography: Hair(‘10) Haze(‘10) Awards: Best Turkish Film of the Year, Istanbul International Film Festival. Best Screenplay, Rome Film Fest
Principal Cast: Piotr Zurawski Bartlomiej Topa Justyna Wasilewska Tomasz Schuchardt Running Time: 75 min Print Source: New Europe Film Sales Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Best Debut Feature, Raindance Film Festival
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I’m Not Him
Haganenet
The Kindergarten Teacher
La Sapienza
SUN THU
SUN THU
world cinema
Israel/France 2014 Hebrew with English subtitles
4/12 4/16
9:30pm 9:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
France/Italy 2014 French/Italian with English subtitles
4/12 4/16
11:10am St. Anthony Main 4:30pm St. Anthony Main
Nadav Lapid’s follow-up to Policeman (MSPIFF 2012) is a unique emotional tempest centered on a teacher’s intellectual adoration of her young student. In a world that does not appreciate artists and in which sensitive souls don’t stand a chance, Nira, a poetry-loving kindergarten teacher, discovers 5 yearold Yoav, a young genius who spontaneously creates poems far beyond his conceptual capacity. Her love of poetry and her appreciation (and perhaps jealousy) for Yoav’s savant-like talents spark a very complex relationship. Narrative Feature.
At the height of his career, Alexandre decides to set off for Italy with the idea of completing his draft—interrupted years earlier—of a book on Borromini. He is accompanied by his wife Alienor who feels her relationship with her husband gradually slipping away along with the passion it used to inspire. Having reached Stresa they happen to meet siblings Goffredo and Lavinia: the former about to embark in architectural studies, the latter suffering from a nervous disorder. Eugene Green’s exceptional fifth feature packs intellectual ideas and profound emotions into an incredible tour of Baroque architecture. Narrative Feature.
Director: Nadav Lapid Producer: Osnat Handelsman-Keren Talia Kleinhendler Carole Scotta Screenwriter: Nadav Lapid Cinematographer: Shai Goldman Editor: Era Lapid
Director: Eugène Green Producer: Alessandro Borrelli Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre Screenwriter: Eugène Green Cinematographer: Raphaël O’Byrne Editor: Valérie Loiseleux
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Principal Cast: Sarit Larry Avi Shnaidman Lior Raz Hamuchtar Running Time: 119 min Print Source: Le Pacte Director’s Filmography: The Policeman(‘11) Emile’s Girlfriend(‘06) Awards: Israeli Film Critics Forum Prize, Jerusalem Film Festival
Principal Cast: Fabrizio Rongione Christelle Prot Ludovico Succio Arianna Nastro Running Time: 101 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Director’s Filmography: The Portuguese Nun(‘09) Toutes les nuits(‘01) Awards: Best Film, Seville European Film Festival
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Urok
Aimer, boire et chanter
Bulgaria 2014 Bulgarian with English subtitles
France 2014 French with English subtitles
MON TUE
4/13 4/21
5:10pm 4:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Life of Riley
FRI THU
4/10 4/16
2:10pm 4:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Nadezhda is a hard-working elementary school teacher in a small Bulgarian town who is struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent their mortgage payments on other things, and now the bank is threatening to auction off their home. The agency where she translates legal documents to English for extra cash is going under and unable to pay her, and a thief in her class has stolen the last few dollars out of her purse. With few options left, Nadezhda solicits help from a local loan shark. With repossession looming, she resorts to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved. Narrative Feature.
Three couples have just found out that their good friend, the eponymous George Riley, doesn’t have long to live. Although George never appears on screen, the sudden flux of their relationships centers on the charms and manipulations of the dying man. The entire drama, structured as a play within a play within a movie, takes place under the glow of heartwarming wit. Life of Riley is a spry reminder of Alain Resnais’ legacy and nothing short of a grande fête, with a whimsical spark and collective cast that has dominated his last decade of work. Narrative Feature.
Director: Kristina Grozeva Petar Valchanov Producer: Kristina Grozeva Magdelena Ilieva Konstantina Stavrianou Petar Valchanov Screenwriter: Kristina Grozeva Petar Valchanov Cinematographer: Krum Rodriguez Editor: Petar Valchanov
Director: Alain Resnais Producer: Jean-Louis Livi Screenwriter: Laurent Herbiet Alex Reval Cinematographer: Dominique Bouilleret Editor: Gérard Hardy Gérard Lamps Hervé De Luze
Principal Cast: Margita Gosheva Ivan Barnev Ivanka Bratoeva Running Time: 107 min Print Source: Film Movement Website: eyeonfilms.org Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: ARTE International Prize, Berlin International Film Festival. Grand Jury Prize, Angers European First Film Festival
Principal Cast: Sabine Azéma Hippolyte Girardot Caroline Silhol Michel Vuillermoz Running Time: 108 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Director’s Filmography: Last Year at Marienbad(‘61) Hiroshima Mon Amour(‘59) Night and Fog(‘55) Awards: FIPRESCI Prize, Alfred Bauer Award, Berlin International Film Festival
Women and Film
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world cinema
The Lesson
Les combattants
Choone Chali Aasman
France 2014 French with English subtitles
India 2014 English/Hindi with English subtitles
world cinema
Love at First Fight
SAT TUE
4/11 4/21
9:50pm 2:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Breathing drolly enjoyable new life into an old genre and adding new riffs on the theme of small town boredom, debut director Thomas Cailley’s decidedly skewed romantic-comedy throws together mild, take-itas-it-comes young Arnaud (Kevin Azaïs), a small-town guy working in his family’s timber plant, and hard-asnails Madeleine (Adèle Haenel), a young survivalist with visions of the Apocalypse, to relentlessly funny effect. When he follows her into an army training course, the acerbic barbs in Cailley and Claude Le Pape’s screenplay fly between the mismatched couple faster than the paintball bullets in their near–lethal guns. Narrative Feature.
Director: Thomas Cailley Producer: Pierre Guyard Screenwriter: Thomas Caille Claude Le Pape Cinematographer: David Cailley Editor: Lilian Corbeille Principal Cast: Adèle Haenel Kévin Azaïs Antoine Laurent Brigitte Roüan William Lebghil Thibault Berducat
Running Time: 98 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Website: lescombattants-lefilm.fr Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Winner of four Cesar Awards for Best Film, Best First Feature, Best Actress, Best Newcomer
Margarita, with a Straw
WED FRI
4/15 4/17
Undeterred by her cerebral palsy, Laila is a young free spirit living in Delhi ready to explore the world. An aspiring writer, she receives a scholarship to study in New York City, and her world opens up to new experiences including opportunities of sexual discovery. At an Occupy protest she meets and becomes fast friends with a fiery activist. Director Shonali Bose treats Laila personal journey—from her disability to her blossoming relationship with another woman—with an honesty and respect that is rare on the big screen. Narrative Feature.
Director: Shonali Bose Producer: Shonali Bose Nilesh Maniyar Ishan Talkies Screenwriter: Shonali Bose Atika Chohan Cinematographer: Anne Misaw Editor: Monisha R Baldawa
Cine Global
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9:50pm St. Anthony Main 12:45pm St. Anthony Main
Principal Cast: Kalki Koechlin Revathy Sayani Gupta Running Time: 100 min Print Source: 108 Media Director’s Filmography: Amu(‘05) Awards: Bes Actress, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. NETPAX Award, Toronto International Film Festival
Women and Film LGBTQ Currents
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Marie Heurtin
Spomenik Majklu Dzeksonu
France 2014 French/Sign Language with English subtitles
Serbia/Germany/Macedonia/Croatia 2014 Serbian with English subtitles
MON SUN
4/13 4/19
3:15pm 6:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
At the turn of the 19th century, a humble artisan and his wife have a daughter, Marie, who is born deaf and blind and unable to communicate with the world around her. Desperate to avoid sending her to an asylum, the Heurtins send fourteen-year-old Marie to the Larnay Institute, where an order of Catholic nuns manage a school for deaf girls. Based on a true story, and one that mirrors Helen Keller in time period and miraculous recovery, Marie’s Story is an inspiring and compelling drama. Narrative Feature.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris Producer: Denis Carot Sophie Révil Screenwriter: Jean-Pierre Améris Philippe Blasband Cinematographer: Virginie Saint-Martin Editor: Anne Souriau Principal Cast: Isabelle Carré Ariana Rivoire Brigitte Catillon Noemi Churlet Gilles Treton Laure Duthilleul
Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Film Movement Director’s Filmography: The Man Who Laughs(‘12) Romantics Anonymous(‘10) Awards: Variety Piazza Grande Award, Locarno International Film Festival
Monument to Michael Jackson
FRI SAT
4/10 4/18
3:00pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Desperate to win back his wife who is tired of life in a dying Serbian town, Marko hatches a plan to bring excitement to their small town—to replace a communist-era monument with a statue of Michael Jackson. Set in 2009 before Jackson’s death, Marko furthers his charade by falsifying a letter from the King of Pop convincing the town that Jackson will attend the unveiling. Monument to Michael Jackson is full of sharp wit and a very colorful cast of characters. Narrative Feature.
Director: Darko Lungulov Producer: Darko Lungolov Snezana Penev Screenwriter: Darko Lungolov Cinematographer: Mathias Shoningh Editor: Dejan Urosevic
Principal Cast: Boris Milivojevic Natasa Tapuskovi Dragan Bjelogrlic Toni Mihajlovski Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Films Boutique Director’s Filmography: Here and There (‘09) 2005(‘05) Escape(‘04) Awards: Best Eastern European Film Award, Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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Marie’s Story
Nena
world cinema
Netherlands/Germany 2014 Dutch/German with English subtitles
SAT FRI
4/11 4/17
5:45pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
The New Girlfriend France 2014 French with English subtitles
SAT
4/25
7:00pm
St. Anthony Main
North American Premiere It is the summer of 1989 and half of Europe is in tumult. Sixteen-year-old Nena’s life takes a dramatic turn when her paraplegic father’s suicide attempt shatters her own bliss. Angry and despondent, Nena is nonetheless obliged to face up to the fact that her father can no longer bear his own life. Torn between her love for her father and coming to terms with his death wish, Nena begins to ask herself some tough questions and tries to overcome her fears of losing him. Writer-director Saskia Diesing uses her own personal experiences to contemplate an individual’s right to determine their own life. Narrative Feature.
Childhood best friends Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) and Laura are utterly inseparable, so it comes as a particularly devastating blow when Laura becomes ill and dies, leaving her husband, David (Romain Duris), to raise their newborn daughter Lucie by himself. As she stops by the house one afternoon, door unlocked, she finds a strange woman holding Lucie, who, on closer inspection, turns out to be David in a blonde wig and one of Laura’s dresses. François Ozon, no stranger to taboos, creates an absurd yet touching psychological thriller. Narrative Feature.
Director: Saskia Diesing Producer: Hanneke Niens Hans de Wolf Screenwriter: Saskia Diesing Esther Gerritsen Cinematographer: Aage Hollander Editor: Barbara Toennieshen
Director: François Ozon Producer: Eric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer Screenwriter: François Ozon Ruth Rendell (Novel) Cinematographer: Pascal Marti Editor: Laure Gardette
Principal Cast: Abbey Hoes Gijs Blom Uwe Ochsenknecht Monic Hendrickx Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Key Film Awards: Best Feature Film, Berlin International Film Festival
Emerging Filmmaker LGBTQ Currents Women and Film Competition
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Principal Cast: Romain Duris Anaïs Demoustier Raphaël Personnaz Isild Le Besco Aurore Clément Running Time: 105 min Print Source: Cohen Media Director’s Filmography: In the House(‘12) Swimming Pool(‘03) 8 Women(‘02) Awards: Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival
LGBTQ Currents
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At Li Layla
Senki szigete
Israel 2014 Hebrew with English subtitles
Hungary 2014 Hungarian/English with English subtitles
WED MON
4/15 4/20
2:30pm 9:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
In this strikingly shot, intensely performed film, Chelli is a pretty security guard who is raising her mentally disabled younger sister Gabby on her own. Although Chelli hates the idea of putting Gabby in any kind of institution, she has no qualms about locking her in the flat and leaving her alone while she’s at work. Her attitude is that Gabby is hers, and that she knows what’s best for her. While Gabby’s problems are plain to see, it slowly becomes clear that Chelli has major co-dependency issues. The two twenty-something women dwell in an intimate, feral state with no personal boundaries, until Chelli’s co-worker Zohar literally comes between them. Narrative Feature.
Director: Asaf Korman Producer: Moshe Edery Leon Edery Yigal Mograbi Haim Mecklberg Estee Yacov-Mecklberg Screenwriter: Liron Ben-Schlush Sari Ezouz Berger Cinematographer: Amit Yasour Editor: Shira Hochman Asaf Korman
Principal Cast: Liron Ben Shlush Dana Ivgy Yaakov Zada Daniel Sophia Ostrisky Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Films Boutique Director’s Filmography: Editor, Big Bad Wolves(‘13) Awards: Best Film, Haifa Film Festival. Winner, New Directors Competition, Chicago International Film Festival
No Man’s Island
FRI SAT
4/24 4/25
7:15pm 6:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
US Premiere. Director Ferenc Tôrôk attending. Vera is a cab driver who has been saving up for years to buy a house and settle on No Man’s Island in the Pacific, to escape the world she lives in. Zoli has what it takes to be a professional basketball player, but he is a coward who flees from his own talent. The two youngsters, each on the run in their own way, are joined by Mia, the runaway bride. Three lives clash and intermingle as they journey towards an unexpected solution. The film is a modern fairy tale about people driven to seek happiness. Through Mia’s ethereal purity, they come to love themselves and find a way to realise their dreams. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ferenc Török Producer: Pál Sándor Screenwriter: András Szekér Cinematographer: Martin Szecsanov Editor: Nóra Richter
Principal Cast: Juli Jakab Tamás Mohai Eszter Bánfalvy Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Magyar Filmunió Director’s Filmography: Eastern Sugar(‘04) Moscow Square(‘01)
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world cinema
Next to Her
Nicije dete
Díra u Hanusovic
Serbia/Croatia 2014 Serbian with English subtitles
Czech Republic 2014 Czech/German with English subtitles
world cinema
No One’s Child
SUN FRI
4/12 4/17
11:00am St. Anthony Main 5:10pm St. Anthony Main
Nowhere in Moravia
WED WED
4/15 4/22
9:50pm 4:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Based on a true story, this tale about the desire to be loved and to belong is told from the perspective of a feral boy confronting civilization for the first time. It raises fundamental questions of human nature: what makes us human and what turns us into beasts? What makes this story unique is its context, defined by Balkan wars at the end of the 20th century. In the early spring of 1988, hunters capture a wild boy among the wolves deep in the Bosnian mountains. Without an identity, the boy is randomly given the name Haris and dispatched to an orphanage in Belgrade. But in 1992, former Yugoslavia breaks apart and the Bosnian authorities demand his return. Narrative Feature.
The village dramedy is a perennial staple of the Czech cinema, and here, noted actor and theater director Miroslav Krobot puts his own darkly humorous stamp on the genre. Cast mostly with performers from his prize-winning Dejvice Theater in Prague, who play in the local dialect, it centers on the lives of those who dwell in the isolated Jesenik Mountains of the former Sudetenland, a place of harsh beauty and an even harsher lifestyle. At the center of the loose action is bartender and former teacher Maruna (Tatiana Vilhelmová), young enough to be the burg’s resident hot babe but old enough to hear the ticking of her biological clock. Narrative Feature.
Director: Vuk Rsumovic Producer: Miroslav Mogorovich Screenwriter: Vuk Rsumovic Cinematographer: Damjan Radovanovic Editor: Mirko Bojovic Principal Cast: Denis Muric Pavle Cemerikic Isidora Jankovic
Director: Miroslav Krobot Producer: Ondrej Zima Screenwriter: Miroslav Krobot Lubomír Smékal Cinematographer: Baset Jan Strítezský Editor: Jan Danhel Principal Cast: Tatiana Vilhelmová Lenka Krobotová Johanna Tesarová
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Running Time: 97 min Print Source: Soul Food Distribution Awards: Best Screenwriter, Venice Film Festival. New Voices/ New Visions Grand Jury Prize, Palm Springs International Film Festival
Running Time: 102 min Print Source: Evolution Films Director’s Filmography: Revival(‘13) Awards: Winner of 3 Czech Lions
34th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival | April 9-25, 2015 | www.mspfilm.org
The Owners
Kazakhstan 2014 Kazakh with English subtitles
FRI TUE
4/10 4/14
2:40pm 3:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Papusza
Poland 2013 Polish/Roma with English subtitles
TUE
4/14
3:15pm
St. Anthony Main
25 year-old John, his teenage brother Erbol, and their sickly 12 year-old sister Aliya, are forced to leave their house in the Kazakh city of Almaty. By luck their mother left them a house in a remote village, where they plan to prepare their comeback. But the house appears to be on the wish list of the District Officer’s alcoholic brother, who has lived there illegally for 10 years. The police will do everything in their power to make the brothers’ lives in the village impossible. Through the alembic of the absurd, The Owners depicts routine injustice growing to unexpected cruelty, against a background of general indifference. Narrative Feature.
Bronislawa Wajs, also known as Papusza was the first Roma woman to put her poems into writing and publish them, confronting the traditional female image in the gypsy community. Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauzefollows’ beautifully shot biopic in cinematic black and white follows Papusza’s life from birth to old age. Her meeting with the Polish poet Jerzy Ficowski, who discovered her great talent for poetry and revealed her work to the world, led to a tragic paradox in which her own community rejected her for betraying their secrets. Narrative Feature.
Director: Adilkhan Yerzhanov Producer: Adilkhan Yerzahnov Olga Khlasheva Serik Abishev Screenwriter: Roelof Jan Minneboo Adilkhan Yerzhanov Cinematographer: Yerkinbek Ptyraliyev Editor: Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Director: Joanna Kos-Krauze Krzysztof Krauze Producer: Lambros Ziotas Screenwriter: Joanna Kos-Krauze Krzysztof Krauze Cinematographer: Krzysztof Ptak Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmanski Principal Cast: Jowita Budnik Zbigniew Walerys Antoni Pawlicki
Principal Cast: Yerbolat Yerzhan Aidyn Sakhaman Aliya Zainalova Bauyrzhan Kaptagai Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Urban Distribution International Director’s Filmography: The Owners(‘14) Constructors(‘13) Awards: Free Spirit Award, Warsaw International Film Festival
Running Time: 131 min Print Source: New Europe Film Sales Website: papusza-film.pl Director’s Filmography: Saviour Square(‘06) Awards: Special Jury Prize, Istanbul International Film Festival. Best Film Score, Polish Film Awards. Best Cinematography, Polish Film Awards
Women and Film
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world cinema
Ukkili kamshat
Du goudron et des plumes
Kosac
France 2014 French with English subtitles
Croatia/Slovenia 2014 Croation with English subtitles
world cinema
Patchwork Family
FRI WED
4/17 4/22
7:15pm 2:40pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Pascal Rabate’s third feature puts provincial France under the microscope in this quirky and heartwarming dramedy. Christian is a middle aged single guy who has a long list of half-hearted failures in his life, including his marriage and his swindling career as a salesman for termite treatments. His one bright spot is his teenage daughter Vanessa, and with hopes of impressing her, he signs up to compete in a triathlon. His new-found athletic aspirations and a new woman in his life just might be his ticket for starting over. Narrative Feature. 4/17 SCREENING INCLUDES:
Forecast Public Art: Terri Huro: Within The Skin Emily Goldberg, USA, 2013, 7 min Terri Huro’s project Within the Skin is a photography project documenting tattoos, scars, and birthmarks and collecting the stories of the participants. The project was exhibited at the Kanabec County Fair in Mora, MN. Director: Pascal Rabaté Producer: Xavier Delmas Screenwriter: Pascal Rabate Antoine Pinson Cinematographer: Benoît Chamaillard Editor: Jean-Francois Elie
Principal Cast: Zinedine Soualem Talina Boyaci Laura Genovino David Salles Running Time: 91 min Print Source: Films Boutique Director’s Filmography: Holiday by the Sea(‘11)
The Reaper
TUE SAT
4/14 4/25
9:45pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Aided by a superb, seasoned cast and stellar camerawork, three intertwined stories unfolding over a single night in an isolated Croatian village add up to grim but compelling viewing in this tense, nuanced drama. The opening scenes establish a mood of tension and dread as Mirjana leaves her stalled vehicle and walks down a dark, deserted road. In spite of the hour, sad-eyed, tight-lipped Ivo is at work harvesting in a cornfield. Ivo drives the nervous woman back to her car, determines that she is out of gas, and then takes her to a gas station. But anxiety mounts when the station attendant, offers to drive her himself, telling her that Ivo is a convicted rapist. Narrative Feature.
Director: Zvonimir Juric Producer: Ankica Juric Tilic Eva Rohrman Screenwriter: Zvonimir Jurc Jelena Paljan Cinematographer: Branko Linta Editor: Dubravka Turic Tomislav Pavlic
Principal Cast: Ivo Gregurevic Mirjana Karanovic Igor Kovac Running Time: 98 min Print Source: New Morning Films Website: kosac.com.hr Director’s Filmography: The Blacks(‘09) Yellow Moon(‘10) Awards: Best Cinematography, Best Actor, Pula Film Festival
Cine Global
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Sangaïlé
Slow West
The Summer of Sangaile
SAT FRI
4/18 4/24
9:50pm 4:45pm
Lithuania/France/Netherlands 2015 Lithuanian with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
THU SAT
4/23 4/25
2:30pm 2:10pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Jay (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is a lovelorn 17-year-old Scottish aristocrat who travels to the American West at the close of the nineteenth century to track down his former lover. Confronted with the harsh realities of the frontier, he falls in with a rough and mysterious traveler named Silas (Michael Fassbender), who soon discovers that the focus of Jay’s affection has a price on her head. With performances buoyed by Fassbender’s enigmatic and modern take on the stoic Western hero, a wry sense of humor, and stunning panoramic cinematography, Slow West is a surreal journey through a gorgeous yet inhospitable landscape. Narrative Feature.
17-year-old Sangail is fascinated by stunt planes. Afraid of heights, she has never dared to even enter in one of the cockpits. At a summer aeronautical show, nearby her parents’ lakeside villa, she meets Auste, a local girl of her age, who unlike Sangaile, lives her life to the full with creativity and daring. As the two girls become lovers, Sangaile allows Auste to discover her most intimate secret, and find in her teenage love the only person to truly encourage her in flying. Narrative Feature.
Director: John Maclean Producer: Iain Canning Rachel Gardner Conor McCaughan Emile Sherman Screenwriter: John Maclean Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan Editor: Roland Gallois Jon Gregory
Director: Alanté Kavaïté Producer: Zivile Gallego Antoine Simkine Screenwriter: Alante Kavaite Cinematographer: Dominique Colin Editor: Joelle Hache
Principal Cast: Michael Fassbender Kodi Smit-McPhee Ben Mendelsohn Running Time: 84 min Print Source: A24 Website: see-saw-films.com Director’s Filmography: Screenwriter, High Fidelity(‘00) Awards: Grand Jury Prize, Sundance Film Festival
Principal Cast: Aiste Dirziute Julija Steponaityte Running Time: 88 min Print Source: Strand Releasing Website: filmsdistribution.com Director’s Filmography: Fissures(‘06) Awards: Directing Award, Sundance Film Festival
Women and Film LGBTQ Currents
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UK/New Zealand 2015 English
Ghesseha
Mandariinid
Iran 2014 Persian with English subtitles
Estonia/Georgia 2013 Estonian/Russian/Georgian with English subtitles
world cinema
Tales
MON FRI
4/13 4/17
3:10pm 4:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Tangerines
FRI THU
4/10 4/16
5:45pm 2:50pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
After eight years of making documentaries, Iran’s best-known female director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad returns to fiction with a feature that strings together a series of short stories that flirts with social critique in the everyday dramas of crushed hopes, addiction, abuse and love. “Tales is a journey through seven lives & characters that make ends meet in not extraordinary circumstances, but in perfectly ordinary situations, just like the rest of us in the society. Tales is a review of people’s fate & the social circumstances in the past three decades.” – Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Narrative Feature.
There have been Estonian settlements on the Caucasian Black Sea Coast for over one hundred years. The 1992 outbreak of the bloody conflicts between Georgia and the Russia-supported republic of Abkhazia forced the majority of Estonians to return to the country of their forefathers. Their villages turned into ghost towns–only a few people stayed behind. Among them are aging carpenter Ivo and his neighbor Markus, who makes a living cultivating tangerines. When a battle takes place right outside his door, Ivo takes in two badly wounded men: Achmed, the Chechen and Nika, the Georgian. But he soon discovers that housing deadly enemies is not easy. Recently nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, this deeply pacifist chamber drama is as tense as a thriller. Narrative Feature.
Director: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Producer: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Screenwriter: Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Cinematographer: Koohyar Kalari Editor: Sepideh Abdolvahab
Director: Zaza Urushadze Producer: Ivo Felt Screenwriter: Zaza Urushadze Cinematographer: Rein Kotov Editor: Alexander Kuranov Principal Cast: Lembit Ulfsak Elmo Nüganen Giorgi Nakashidze Misha Meskhi Raivo Trass
Cine Global
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Principal Cast: Habib Rezaei Mohammad Reza Forutan Mehraveh Sharifinia Running Time: 88 min Print Source: Noori Pictures Director’s Filmography: Mainline(‘06) Under the City’s Skin(‘01) Awards: Jury Grand Prize, Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Best Screenplay, Venice Film Festival
Running Time: 87 min Print Source: Samuel Goldwyn Director’s Filmography: Bolo Gaseirneba(’12) Three Houses(‘08) Awards: Nominee – Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards. Nominee – Golden Globe. Best Director, Warsaaw International Film Festival. Best Motion Picture, Satellite Awards.
Women and Film
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Takva su pravila
Jordan/Qatar 2014 Arabic with English subtitles
MON SAT
4/20 4/25
4:45pm St. Anthony Main 12:45pm St. Anthony Main
A bedouin story of brotherhood and betrayal, set in Wadi Rum 1916. Theeb (Wolf) lives with his Bedouin tribe in a forgotten corner of the Ottoman Empire. Having recently lost his father, it falls to Theeb’s brother, Hussein, to raise him. Hussein tries to teach Theeb the Bedouin way of life, but the young boy is more interested in mischief than mentorship. Their lives are interrupted with the arrival of a British Army Officer and his Guide on a mysterious mission. Unable to refuse help to his guests for fear of dishonouring his late father’s reputation, Hussein agrees to escort the pair to their destination, a water-well on the old pilgrimage route to Mecca. If Theeb is to survive he must quickly learn about adulthood, trust and betrayal. He must live up to the name his Father gave him. Narrative Feature.
Director: Naji Abu Nowar Producer: Bassel Ghandour Rupert Lloyd Screenwriter: Naji Abu Nowar Bassel Ghandour Cinematographer: Wolfgang Thaler Editor: Rupert Lloyd
Principal Cast: Jacir Eid Al-Hwietat Jack Fox Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Film Movement Director’s Filmography: Debut feature Awards: Best Director, Venice Film Festival. Best Cinematography and Artistic Direction, Cairo International Film Festival
These Are The Rules
Croatia/France/Serbia/Republic of Macedonia 2014 Croatian with English subtitles
SUN THU
4/12 4/16
8:00pm 2:45pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Ivo and Maja live a quiet life in a dull suburb of Zagreb. One night their only son Tomica is violently attacked on the street by another teenager, beaten and left severely injured. Their world of false security collapses. As they go through an unbearable ordeal, they are forced to re-examine their lives and question everything they believed in. Inspired by real events, Ognjen Svilicic’s heartbreaking drama is effectively painted with an understated candor that underscores Ivo and Maja devastating ordeal and the ineffective bureaucracy of public protection and justice. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ogjnen Svilicic Producer: Janja Kralj Svetozar Rostovski Damir Teresak Nikolina Vucetic Screenwriter: Ognjen Svilicic Cinematographer: Crystel Fournier Editor: Atanas Georgiev Principal Cast: Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Stjepan Peric Goran Bogdan Ljubomir Bandovic
Running Time: 75 min Print Source: Urban Distribution International Director’s Filmography: Two Sunny Days(‘10) A Call Girl(‘09) Awards: Best Director, Warsaw International Film Festival. Best Actor, Venice Film Festival. Best Cinematography, Stockholm Film Festival. Grand Prize of the Jury, Les Arcs European Film Festival
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world cinema
Theeb
Auf Das Leben!
To Life!
world cinema
Germany 2014 German with English subtitles
FRI TUE
4/10 4/21
12:30pm St. Anthony Main 4:30pm St. Anthony Main
Tokyo Fiancée
Belgium/Canada/France/Japan 2014 French/Japanese with English subtitles
FRI THU
4/10 4/16
5:00pm 2:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Jonas–a young man on the run–arrives in Berlin just in time to save Ruth’s life. Evicted from her apartment, the sarcastic but warm-hearted Ruth–an ageing Jewish cabaret singer–saw no other way out than suicide. Jonas, meanwhile, is driven by a secret, and fleeing from his love and his future. As Ruth recovers, she and Jonas begin to form a deep bond. Age-old Jewish culture and music are brought into the light of day as she tells him the story of her own impossible, tragic love for a non-Jewish man in postWWII Germany, a love burdened by the legacy of the horrors perpetrated by Nazi Germany. Narrative Feature.
A Belgian free spirit recalls a winsome cross-cultural romance with her Japanese French-language student in this charming free adaptation of prolific author Amelie Nothomb’s semi-autobiographical novel. Mixing playfulness and intellect, the film is also a coming-of-age story, a portrait of the artist as a young woman who grows to understand what she wants and what is most important. Quirkily costumed to look like a cross between the real-life Nothomb and cinema’s Amelie Poulain, gamine Pauline Etienne plays Amelie, who was born in Japan and, more than anything, wants to be Japanese. Complications, misunderstandings and double meanings in both French and Japanese provide humor and fodder for thought throughout the film. Narrative Feature.
Director: Uwe Janson Producer: Alice Brauner Screenwriter: Thorsten Wettcke Stephen Glantz Cinematographer: Peter Joachim Krause Editor: Boris Gromatzki
Director: Stefan Liberski Producer: Jacques-Henri Bronckart Olivier Bronckart Richard Lalonde Sylvie Pialat Screenwriter: Stefan Liberski Cinematographer: Hichame Alaouie Editor: Frédérique Broos
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Principal Cast: Hannelore Elsner Max Riemelt Sharon Brauner Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Menemsha/Global Screen Website: globalscreen.de Director’s Filmography: Die Schlikkerfrauen(‘14)
Principal Cast: Pauline Etienne Taichi Inoue Julie Le Breton Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Films Distribution Website: filmsdistribution.com Director’s Filmography: Eldorado(‘08)
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The Treatment
Tu Dors Nicole
TUE FRI
SAT FRI
Belgium 2014 Dutch with English subtitles
4/21 4/24
9:30pm 7:30pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
Canada 2014 French with English subtitles
4/18 4/24
9:45pm 5:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother. Based on Nick’s testimony, their neighbor, Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx still lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. The only person who is aware of this drama is his department chief. She is reluctant to involve Nick in a new, very disturbing case in which an intruder held a couple captive for three days and then vanished along with their 9-year-old son. Nevertheless, Nick insists on heading the massive search, which turns into a relentless manhunt. Narrative Feature.
A 20-something Quebecoise has some growing up to do in this sweetly absurd, wryly comic film. Vibrantly shot in textured black-and-white 35mm, it displays a disciplined visual sense, a good ear for dialogue and characters that become ever-more endearing as the episodic action progresses. Nicole is a tart-tongued 22-year-old who still lives in her parents’ comfortable home. She has an undemanding job, a casual sex life, and spends loads of time doing nothing in particular with her pretty best friend Veronique. But her aimless summer brings her into contact with an assortment of odd and original characters. Foremost among these is her former babysitting charge who boasts a prematurely deep voice and a precocious desire to get into her pants. Narrative Feature.
Director: Hans Herbots Producer: Peter Bouckaert Screenwriter: Mo Hayder Carl Joos Editor: Philippe Ravoet
Director: Stéphane Lafleur Screenwriter: Stéphane Lafleur Cinematographer: Sara Mishara Editor: Sophie Leblond Principal Cast: Julianne Côté Pierre-Luc Lafontaine Luc Senay Anne-Renée Duhaime
Principal Cast: Geert Van Rampelberg Ina Geerts Johan van Assche Laura Verlinden Running Time: 127 min Print Source: Artsploitation Website: debehandeling.be Director’s Filmography: Verlengd weekend(‘05)
Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Website: tudorsnicole-lefilm.com Director’s Filmography: Editor, Monsieur Lazhar(‘11) Familiar Grounds(‘11) Awards: Best Canadian Film,Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Vancouver Film Critics Circle
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world cinema
De Behandeling
Schweizer Helden
Unlikely Heroes
A Brilliant Young Mind
MON FRI
SAT WED
world cinema
Switzerland 2014 Swiss-German/German with English subtitles
4/13 4/24
2:40pm 7:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
One woman, 11 asylum seekers, and just a few days to put on a play. Will it be a success, or a total disaster? Sabine is slightly down on her luck. Her kids are on vacation, her husband has left her, and things aren‘t going very well at work. Over Christmas, she decides to volunteer at a refugee camp, preparing a play with the residents in time for New Year‘s. While Sabine concentrates on directing the group, the asylum seekers have other problems to deal with: staying in the country, love, family, and, of course, the German language. Will they be ready for the curtain call? Narrative Feature.
UK 2014 English
4/11 4/15
11:30am St. Anthony Main 4:50pm St. Anthony Main
Preferring to hide in the safety of his own private world, Nathan struggles to connect with people, finding solace in numbers and mathematics. Mentored by his unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr Humphreys, Nathan wins a spot on the British team competing at the International Mathematics Olympiad. From England to Taipei and back again, this inspiring and life-affirming story follows the unconventional and hilarious relationship between student and teacher, whose roles are often reversed, and the unfathomable experience of first love. Narrative Feature.
4/24 screening includes:
Motion Poems: The Long Deployment Nicole McDonald, 3 min Director: Peter Luisi Producer: Peter Luisi Ausführender Produzen Screenwriter: Peter Luisi Jürgen Ladenburge Cinematographer: Nicolo Settegrana Editor: Patrick Zaehringer Bigna Tomschin
Principal Cast: Esther Gemsch Karim Rohoma Komi Mizrajim Togbonou Running Time: 94 min Print Source: m-appeal Director’s Filmography: The Sandman(‘11) Verflixt verliebt(‘04) Awards: Audience Award, Locarno International Film Festival
Director: Morgan Matthews Producer: Laura Hastings-Smith David M. Thompson Screenwriter: James Graham Cinematographer: Danny Cohen Editor: Peter Lambert Principal Cast: Asa Butterfield Rafe Spall Sally Hawkins
Running Time: 111 min Print Source: Samuel Goldwyn Director’s Filmography: Britain in a Day(‘12) The Fallen(‘08) Beautiful Young Minds(‘07) Awards: Best Film,Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Best Emerging Producer, Rome Film Fest
Cine Global
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Bread and Butter
The Center
SAT
WED FRI
4/18
4:40pm
St. Anthony Main
USA 2015 English
4/22 4/24
7:20pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Director Liz Manashil attending. Amelia, 30, is a late bloomer but ready to break out of her shell. Enter potential suitors Leonard and Daniel—two equally idiosyncratic men dealing with their own emotional issues. Bread and Butter is an anti-romantic comedy: the story of a lonely person who finally makes a decision to strike out on her own after learning that romance isn’t the only way to fulfill her desires. The setup of a classic love triangle offers its own message that finding yourself is just as important as finding a life partner. Narrative Feature.
Director Charlie Griak, cast & crew attending. Produced by Jonathan Demme and shot locally in St Paul, Charlie Griak’s atmospheric debut focuses on a vulnerable young man who falls into the trap of a cultlike group. Ryan is a recent college grad searching not only for a job but also for a meaning in life. When he comes across a self-help organization, simply known as The Center, with a charismatic leader, Ryan seems to have found what he has been looking for. The Center is a tense and surreal portrait of the dangerous nature of groupthink. Narrative Feature.
Director: Liz Manashil Producer: Tiffany Gray Valerie Weiss Stephen Gibler Screenwriter: Liz Manashil Cinematographer: Katie Walker Editor: Bruce Novotny Lindsay Morrison
Director: Charlie Griak Producer: Jonathan Demme (Executive Producer) Annie Einan Judd Einan Wendy Griak Charlie Griak Screenwriter: Charlie Griak Cinematographer: Brandon Boulay Charlie Griak Editor: Thom O’Connor Charlie Griak
Women and Film
Principal Cast: Christine Weatherup Micah Hauptman Bobby Moynihan Eric Lange Running Time: 90 min Website: breadandbuttermovie.com Awards: Best Feature, Big Apple Film Festival
Principal Cast: Matt Cici, Judd Einan, Ramon Pabon, Shawn Boyd, Annie Einan, Rogery Wayne, Amanda Day, Megan Hensley, Rachael Davies, H.T. Altman, Dan Carroll Running Time: 72 min Website: thecentermovie.com Awards: Jury Select Encore Day, Cinequest Film Festival
Minnesota Made Narrative Competition
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new american visions
USA 2014 English
Cheatin’
Heart of Wilderness
New american visions
USA 2013 English
MON TUE
4/13 4/14
USA 2015 English
7:00pm 7:10pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
THU SAT
4/23 4/25
7:20pm 7:10pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Bill Plympton attending. Taking a turn from his shock value animation from the Spike and Mike shorts, Bill Plympton draws an adult-only story about love, jealousy and, as the title implies, adultery. Jake and Ella’s marital bliss is hijacked, but only until Ella procures the use of a “TransSoul Machine” to inhabit Jake’s fleeting female interests. Funded partially by fans from Kickstarter and almost completely hand-drawn, Plympton’s surreal yet earthbound fairy tale underscore his wild visual imagination. Animated Feature.
Filmmakers attending. Trying to provide for his wife and daughter, Travis Wallien becomes entangled in a drug deal that goes south. To save himself and his family he must convince his wife to flee with him to the wilderness, where their already strained relationship is put to the test. Against the backdrop of the icy waters of Northern Minnesota, the secrets they keep are revealed and the fight for their future begins as they are forced to decide how far they will go for the ones they love. Narrative Feature.
Director: Bill Plympton Producer: Bill Plympton Desirée Stavracos Screenwriter: Bill Plympton Editor: Kevin Palmer
Director: Towle Neu Producer: Kevin Byrnes (Executive Producer), Mark Steele (Executive Producer) Michael Forstein Towle Neu Screenwriter: Kevin Byrnes Towle Neu Cinematographer: Andre Durand Editor: T.J. Misny Towle Neu
Running Time: 76 min Website: cheatinmovie.com Director’s Filmography: Idiots and Angels(‘08) Married a Strange Person!(‘97) Awards: Special Jury Award, Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Principal Cast: Patrick Mulvey Sarah Prikryl Chris Carlson Emily Dooley Bruce Bohne Running Time: 84 min
Minnesota Made Narrative Competition
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Knucklehead
The Lobby
FRI SAT
4/24 4/25
7:20pm 9:30pm
USA English
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
MON
4/13
6:45pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker attending. A mentally disabled man (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in the Brooklyn housing projects when his brother (Amari Cheatom) is shot. Now under the control of his abusive mother (Alfre Woodard) he must take his future into his own hands. He sets out to find the one doctor he believes can help him cure his incurable mental disorder. Narrative Feature.
World Premiere. Filmmaker attending. A man finds himself intrigued by a woman wearing a hijab who sits alone in the lobby of his building between certain hours of every night. He decides to find out what she is trying to get away from. It’s the beginning of a love story about friendship and cultural differences. Narrative Feature.
Director: Ben Bowman Producer: Ben Bowman Gbenga Akinnagbe Jonathan Gray Screenwriter: Ben Bowman Bryan Abrams Cinematographer: Soopum Sohn Editor: Katie Ennis
Director: Fathia Absie Producer: Fathia Absie Screenwriter: Fathia Absi Cinematographer: Ismail Ousssaddine Editor: Kevin Dragseth
Minnesota Made Narrative Competition
Principal Cast: Alfre Woodard Amari Cheatom Gbenga Akinnagbe Running Time: 81 min Director’s Filmography: Awards:
Screens with:
Neighborhoods Marcus Castillo, USA, 2014, 11 min Akbar and Aisha pick up their onetime friend Sharif from jail; but he only wants to meet up with the same people that got him arrested. This short film explores the changing relationships of these characters living in the Somali community of Minneapolis.
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Douglas Sidney Fathia Absie Running Time: 56 min Director’s Filmography: Broken Dreams(‘11)
Women and Film
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new american visions
USA 2015 English
Red Knot
Results
New american visions
USA/Argentina 2014 English
THU FRI
4/23 4/24
7:00pm 4:30pm
USA 2015 English
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Scott Cohen and Vincent Kartheiser attending. Set on a research vessel en route to the icy wastes of Antarctica, Peter Harrison (Vincent Kartheiser) is a writer sharing his dream of going to the ends of the earth with his wife (Olivia Thirlby). The confines of the ship and the wide open spaces of the southern ocean set the stage for an unraveling marriage encountering their first rite of passage as a couple. Red Knot is a narrative feature film that invites a broader conversation around themes that are at once universal and personal: our closest relationships and the wilderness that lies between us. Narrative Feature.
Director: Scott Cohen Producer: Scott Cohen Screenwriter: Scott Cohen Cinematographer: Igor Martinovic Michael Simmonds Chris Webb Editor: Dominic LaPerriere
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Principal Cast: Olivia Thirlby Vincent Kartheiser Running Time: 81 min Awards: New American Cinema Award, Seattle International Film Festival
FRI TUE
4/17 4/21
9:50pm 7:15pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Recently divorced, newly rich, and utterly miserable, Danny (Kevin Corrigan) would seem to be the perfect test subject for a definitive look at the relationship between money and happiness. Danny’s well-funded ennui is interrupted by a momentous trip to the local gym, where he meets self-styled guru/owner Trevor (Guy Pearce) and irresistibly acerbic trainer Kat (Cobie Smulders). Soon, their three lives are inextricably knotted, both professionally and personally. Narrative Feature. 4/21 SCREENING INCLUDES:
Forecast Public Art: Aaron Squadroni Lucas Langworthy, USA, 2014, 6 min This short documentary explores the work of Aaron Squadroni. Influenced by his background in architecture, Aaron designs sculptures that are thoughtful and beautiful. This film looks at a work in progress that explores life in the iron range. Director: Andrew Bujalski Producer: Paul Bernon Houston King Sam Slater Screenwriter: Andrew Bujalski Cinematographer: Matthias Grunsky Editor: Robin Schwartz
Principal Cast: Guy Pearce Cobie Smulders Kevin Corrigan Running Time: 105 min Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Director’s Filmography: Computer Chess(‘13)
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The Strongest Man
Tired Moonlight
MON FRI
FRI SAT
4/13 4/24
9:40pm 4:30pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Writer/Director Kenny Riches (Must Come Down, MSPIFF 2014) creates an endearing socially conscious portrait of Miami characters in the quirky, yet refreshingly grounded The Strongest Man. The lives of Beef, an anxiety-ridden Cuban twentysomehting construction worker, and his Korean friend Conan get bumped off track the moment they agree to attend a spiritual meditation class. Not fully understanding the metaphor, Beef and Conan embark on a journey to find their respective power animals on the streets of Miami, where both wild dogs and chickens seemingly run rampant. As Conan’s relationship with his family crumbles, Beef’s relationship with his neighbor, a charming young woman named Illi, unexpectedly begins to flourish. But even with this excitement, Beef can’t seem to escape a looming anxiety that lurks around every corner. Narrative Feature.
Director: Kenny Riches Producer: Jesse Brown Kenny Riches Anthony Pedone Screenwriter: Kenny Riches Cinematographer: Tom Garner Editor: T.J. Nelson
Cine Global
Principal Cast: Robert “Meatball” Lorie Paul Chamberlain Ashly Burch Patrick Fugit Lisa Banes Running Time: 99 min Website: thestrongestmanmovie.com Director’s Filmography: Must Come Down(‘12)
USA 2015 English
4/10 4/18
7:10pm 8:30pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
Director Britni West attending 4/10. Every town has a post office, lovers, guns, switchblades and beer—you just have to know where to look and when to look the other way. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, Tired Moonlight wanders through Solitaire games (always won), secrets lost in cavernous hearts, and the fifty miles of bad road that always gets you home. Britni West’s directorial debut, which won the Jury Award for Narrative Feature at this year’s Slamdance, peels back the layers of small town USA to discover the extraordinary in the ordinary. Narrative Feature.
Director: Britni West Producer: Britni West Screenwriter: Britni West Cinematographer: Adam Ginsberg Editor: Britni West
Women and Film
Principal Cast: Liz Randall Paul Dickinson Hillary Berg RainLeigh Vick Hillary Berg Jenisha Love Green Alex Karpovsky Charles Smith Nicholas Stockton Running Time: 76 min Awards: Jury Award for Narrative Feature, Slamdance
Emerging Filmmaker Competition
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USA 2014 English/Spanish with English Subtitles
The Unearthing
Wildlike
SAT
SAT TUE
New american visions
USA 2015 English
4/11
11:00am St. Anthony Main
USA 2014 English
4/11 4/21
4:00pm 9:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker attending. A teenage girl moves with her father into the town of Stillwater, Minnesota. She meets two misfit kids, and together they work to unearth a secret the town hides. Narrative Feature.
Filmmaker attending. 14-year-old Mackenzie, a troubled but daring teenage girl, is sent by her struggling mother to live with her uncle in Juneau, Alaska. She runs away and an unlikely friendship forms in the spectacular Alaska wilderness, giving a runaway girl hope and sanctuary in America’s last frontier. Narrative Feature.
Director: Tristan James Jensen Producer: Tristan James Jensen Screenwriter: Tristan James Jensen Cinematographer: Tristan James Jensen Editor: Tristan James Jensen
Director: Frank Hall Green Producer: Julie Christeas Schuyler Weiss Joseph Stephans Frank Hall Green Christine Vachon Screenwriter: Frank Hall Green Cinematographer: Hillary Spera Editor: Mako Kamitsuna
Principal Cast: Riley Yeary Angelina Masciopinto Kaleb Miller Running Time: 60 min
Principal Cast: Ella Purnell Bruce Greenwood Brian Geraghty Ann Dowd Nolan Gerard Funk Diane Farr Running Time: 104 min Website: wildlikefilm.com Awards: Best Narrative Feature, Eugene International Film Festival. Best Directo, Best Narrative Feature Film, Wild Rose Independent Film Festival
Minnesota Made Narrative Competition
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Buscando a Gastón
City of Gold
Finding Gaston
THU SAT
4/23 4/25
7:00pm 4:00pm
Peru 2014 Spanish/Quechua/Swedish with English subtitles
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Filmmaker invited. The adventures of a food critic never looked as good or as interesting as they do in Laura Gabbert’s engaging documentary. In this case, the subject is eclectic food critic Jonathan Gold who has transformed the Los Angeles food scene by embracing hole-in-the-wall eateries and out-of-the-way ethnic restaurants right alongside the city’s finest haute cuisine. Gold, the only food critic to ever win a Pulitzer Prize, reveals the essence of his writing through his passion for art, music, and, of course, all of the food his city has to offer. Documentary Feature.
Director: Laura Gabbert Producer: Holly Becker Laura Gabbert Braxton Pope Screenwriter: Laura Gabbert Cinematographer: Jerry Henry Goro Toshima Editor: William Haugse Greg King
Running Time: 96 min Print Source: IFC Films Director’s Filmography: No Impact Man: The Documentary(‘09)
TUE WED
4/14 4/22
5:20pm 3:15pm
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Can a cook change his country through his food? Finding Gaston follows acclaimed chef Gaston Acurio, of Lima’s Astrid y Gaston, who is largely credited with creating and popularizing Peruvian cuisine, to find out the stories, the inspirations and the dreams behind the man who has taken his cuisine outside the kitchen on a mission to change his country with his food. Peruvian-born director Perez films Gaston traveling the country, sampling regional fare and praising local quinoa farmers practicing traditional crop-raising techniques, as well as fishermen whose methods privileged sustainability long before it was a fashionable concept. Join the culinary journey into the world of Peruvian cuisine to discover the power of food in Peru - and around the world. Documentary Feature. Director: Patricia Perez Producer: Patricia Perez Screenwriter: Patricia Perez Cinematographer: Ed Talavera Editor: Patricia Perez
Running Time: 75 min Print Source: Film Movement Website: gastondoc.com
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Cine Global
Women and Film
Women and Film
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culinary cinema
USA 2015 English
Så meget godt i vente
For Grace
Good Things Await
culinary cinema
USA 2015 English
SAT SUN
4/11 4/12
4:40pm 5:45pm
Denmark 2014 Danish with English subtitles
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Filmmaker attending. Curtis Duffy, one of the country’s most renowned chefs, is building his dream restaurant at the worst time of his personal life. Already the recipient of two coveted stars from the Michelin Guide, Duffy has ambitions for his Chicago restaurant Grace to become the best in the country. But his laser focus on his cooking career cost Duffy his marriage and two young daughters. For Grace is a story about food, family, balance and sacrifice. Documentary Feature.
Director: Kevin Pang Mark Helenowski Producer: Kevin Pang Mark Helenowski Cinematographer: Kevin Pang Mark Helenowski Editor: Kevin Pang Mark Helenowski
Running Time: 92 min Website: forgracefilm.com
TUE SUN
4/14 4/19
2:30pm 6:30pm
St. Anthony Main Best Buy Theater
An octogenarian biodynamic farmer battles bureaucracy in his quest to preserve Danish Red dairy cattle and practice crop and animal husbandry in a manner that respects the earth and the animals’ primal instincts in this inspiring, good-looking, observational documentary. Biodynamics is a spiritual-ethical-ecological approach to agriculture, food production and nutrition, and the stubborn, hard working, articulate Niels Stokman is the movement’s prime practitioner in Denmark. Although Niels and his wife Rita Hansen raise some of the world’s finest consumable products, grown in harmony with the universe, and sourced by his country’s most prestigious restaurants, including NOMA and Restaurant Julian, his methods are not popular with the agricultural authorities. Director Ambo shows the hardships involved. Documentary Feature. Director: Phie Ambo Producer: Malene Flindt Pedersen Screenwriter: Phie Ambo Cinematographer: Phie Ambo, Maggie Olkuska Editor: Anna Heide Theis Schmidt
Running Time: 100 min Print Source: Cat & Docs
Women and Film
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Canada/UK/USA 2014 English
WED FRI
4/22 4/24
5:00pm 2:20pm
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We all love food. As a society, we devour countless cooking shows, culinary magazines and foodie blogs. So how could we possibly be throwing nearly 50% of it in the trash? This is the question Just Eat It asks, as filmmakers and food lovers Jenenny Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin dive into the issue of waste from farm, through retail, all the way to the back of their own fridge. After catching a glimpse of the billions of dollars of good food that is tossed each year in North America, they pledge to quit grocery shopping cold turkey and survive only on foods that would otherwise be thrown away. Documentary Feature. Screens with:
SANDORKRAUT Emily Lobsenz, Ann Husaini, USA, 2014, 12 min A portrait of the acclaimed food writer and “fermentation fetishist” Sandor Katz, whose revival of ancient culinary practices has transformed his relationship with life and death. Director: Grant Baldwin Producer: Jenny Rustemeyer Screenwriter: Jenny Rustemeyer Grant Baldwin Cinematographer: Jenny Rustemeyer Grant Baldwin Editor: Grant Baldwin
Running Time: 75 min Print Source: Films Transit Website: foodwastemovie.com Awards: People’s Choice Award, Calgary International Film Festival. Canadian Documentary Feature Award, Edmonton Internternational Film Festival
Resistenza Naturale
Natural Resistance Italy/France 2014 Italian with English subtitles
FRI TUE
4/17 4/21
12:30pm St. Anthony Main 2:30pm St. Anthony Main
Organic wine makers in Italy have an uphill battle against an industry that favors chemically grown vintages. Director Jonathan Nossiter profiles four radical vineyard proprietors committed to making all-natural wines. What looks like a bucolic paradise, where intelligent people produce wine according to time-honoured and organic methods, is actually revealed to be a battleground. Through pointed interviews and casual conversations (one that includes film preservationist Gian Luca Farinelli), Natural Resistance unveils the passions, ideals and dreams at the heart of this small but mighty rebellion. Documentary Feature.
Director: Jonathan Nossiter Producer: Jonathan Nossiter Paula Prandini Santiago Amigorena Giacomo Claudio Rossi Screenwriter: Jonathan Nossiter Cinematographer: Jonathan Nossiter Paula Prandini Editor: Jonathan Nossiter
Principal Cast: Stefano Bellotti Elena Pantaleoni Corrado Dottori Giovanna Tiezzi Running Time: 85 min Print Source: Coproduction Office Director’s Filmography: Rio Sex Comedy(‘10) Mondovino(‘04)
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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
That Sugar Film
culinary cinema
Australia 2014 English
MON THU
4/13 4/16
5:20pm 4:50pm
well flocked for celebrations
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Director and “human lab rat” Damon Gameau embarks on a unique experiment to document the effects of a high sugar diet on a healthy body, while consuming only foods that are commonly perceived as ‘healthy’. Under the guidance of scientists and nutritionists, he eats a high sugar diet of 40 Tsp. of sugar a day for 60 days. The catch is that he does this without consuming any soft drinks, chocolate, ice cream or confectionery. Entertaining and provocative, That Sugar Film will forever change the way you think about ‘healthy’ food. In sweeping away the illusions and clarifying the facts about sugar, the film aims to educate and create a lasting dietary change around the globe. Documentary Feature.
Director: Damon Gameau Producer: Nick Batzias Damon Gameau Rory Williamson Screenwriter: Damon Gameau Cinematographer: Judd Overton Editor: Jane Usher
Running Time: 90 min Print Source: Samuel Goldwyn Website: thatsugarfilm.com
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Welp
Belgium/France 2014 French with English subtitles
WED FRI
4/22 4/24
10:00pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Cub
Belgium 2014 Flemish/French with English subtitles
SAT WED
4/11 4/15
10:45pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
Prepare for a wild ride in this taut, stylish and brutal French language update on the 1969 cult classic The Honeymoon Killers. By way of online dating, Gloria (expertly played by Spanish actress Lola Duenas) meets the ineffably charming Michel, a wry and callous con man praying on women’s desires and insecurities. Yet he meets his demented match in Gloria, whose obsessive desire knows no bounds. Director Fabrice Du Welz casts a perfect balance between gritty ambience, psychological study and unconventional flare, including a surprising musical number. Narrative Feature.
Proving once again that camping can be fatal, Jonas Govaerts’ feature film debut is a campfire horror story come true. After finding their campsite occupied, a group of Cub Scouts head to a remote area of the woods avoided by people who know better. Young Scout Sam tries to warn the leaders that something is awry, but only gets blamed for making up stories. As his warning goes unheeded, all hell breaks loose when the group finds themselves in a bloody game of cat and mouse. Narrative Feature.
Director: Fabrice Du Welz Producer: Clément Miserez Vincent Tavier Matthieu Warter Screenwriter: Fabrice Du Welz Vincent Tavier Roman Protat Cinematographer: Manuel Dacosse Editor: Anne-Laure Guégan
Director: Jonas Govaerts Producer: Peter De Maegd Screenwriter: Jonas Govaerts Roel Mondelaers Cinematographer: Nicolas Karakatsanis Editor: Maarten Janssens
Principal Cast: Lola Dueñas Laurent Lucas Stéphane Bissot Edith Le Merdy Running Time: 93 min Print Source: Music Box Films Website: alleluia-lefilm.com Director’s Filmography: Vinyan(‘08) Calvaire(‘04) Awards: Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, Best Picture, Fantastic Fest
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INVADERS Jason Kupfer, USA, 2014, 7 min A pair of home invaders consider their potential character choices just prior to their planned invasion. Principal Cast: Stef Aerts Evelien Bosmans Titus De Voogdt Gill Eeckelaert Jan Hammenecker Maurice Luijten Ricko Otto Running Time: 85 min Print Source: Artsploitation Website: cubthemovie.com Awards: Best Director, Sitges Film Festival
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dark out
Alléluia
Szabadeses
Kkeutkkaji Ganda
Hungary/South Korea/France 2014 Hungarian with English subtitles
South Korea 2014 Korean with English subtitles
Free Fall
dark out
FRI TUE
4/10 4:14
10:15pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
There are few directors like György Pálfi (Hukkle, Taxidermia) and there are few films like Free Fall. The woman who slowly makes her way up seven flights of stairs to the roof of her apartment building to casually jump—and live—is the first thing you experience but the least strange. Over the course of the movie we are allowed to peak behind the doors of her bizarre neighbors in a series of vignettes that range from grotesque to surreal—an alarming and thrilling experience that will haunt your subconscious! Narrative Feature.
A Hard Day
SAT TUE
4/18 4/21
10:30pm St. Anthony Main 10:00pm St. Anthony Main
On the way back from his mother’s funeral, special crimes detective Gun-su gets into an accident, killing a man instantly. Gun-su goes to great lengths to cover his crime, but nonetheless finds out that someone knows his secret and is trying to blackmail him. Meanwhile, his unit is being investigated for corruption. From the opening sequence, Kim Seong-hun’s brutal noir thriller never stops to let you catch your breath. One bad decision leads to another and where it ends, nobody knows. Narrative Feature.
Screens with:
TELEPHONE Nathan Hoffman, USA, 2014, 9 min Lucy gives Dani a toy telephone made from tin cans and a string. When they move into a new house and Dani goes missing, a more sinister voice begins to echo out of the telephone.
Director: György Pálfi Zsófia Ruttkay Producer: Ferenc Pusztai Screenwriter: György Pálfi Zsófia Ruttkay Cinematographer: Gergely Pohárnok Editor: Réka Lemhányi
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Principal Cast: Piroska Molnár Miklós Benedek Tamás Jordán Réka Tenki Running Time: 83 min Print Source: KHM Film Director’s Filmography: Taxidermia(‘06) Hukkle(‘02) Awards: Best Director, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Director: Seoung-hun Kim Producer: Cha Ji-Hyun Lee Dong-Yoon Screenwriter: Kim Seoung-hun Cinematographer: Tae-Sung Kim Editor: Changju Kim
Principal Cast: Lee Sun-kyun Cho Jin-woong Running Time: 111 min Print Source: Kino Lorber Director’s Filmography: How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men(‘06) Awards: 3 Blue Dragons for Best Editing, Best Film and Best Director. Best Director, Grand Bell Awards, South Korea.
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The Keeping Room USA 2014
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dark out
FRI THU
When you hear “home invasion thriller,” you don’t think Civil War period piece. But The Keeping Room willfully bends expectations by mixing genres—predatory horror, revisionist western, feminist drama, and brutal cat-and-mouse thriller. The story focuses on the violent resilience and dramatic camaraderie of three Southern women as their home is besieged during the purges at the close of the American Civil War. Forced to defend their land and fight for their lives, the women take up arms against oppressors, shattering gender and genre conventions in the process. Narrative Feature.
Director: Daniel Barber Producer: Jordon Horowitz David McFadzean Dete Meserve Patrick Newall Judd Payne Screenwriter: Julia Hart Cinematographer: Martin Ruhe Editor: Alex Rodríguez
Principal Cast: Brit Marling Hailee Steinfeld Muna Otaru Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Drafthouse Films Director’s Filmography: Harry Brown(‘09) Awards: Nominee – Bronze Horse, Stockholm Film Festival
Joyless
Creatures
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Belle et Sébastien
Quatsch und die Nasenbärbande
France 2014 French/German with English subtitles
Germany 2014 German with English subtitles
SUN SUN
4/12 4/19
11:00am St. Anthony Main 1:00pm St. Anthony Main
Fiddlesticks
SAT SUN
4/11 4/19
11:00am St. Anthony Main 11:00am St. Anthony Main
Adapted from the popular series by Cécile Aubry, Belle and Sebastian is a breathtaking adventure set high in the snowy Alps during a dramatic time in history. Sebastian is a resourceful young boy raised by an eccentric guardian (played by Tchéky Karyo, one of France’s most popular actors) in a peaceful mountain village. Sebastian meets a much feared wild dog, known by herders as ‘The Beast.’ Playing together in the alpine meadows and water holes, the boy and the dog come to love and rely upon one another; Sebastian calls her ‘Belle’. When German Nazis arrive, looking for Jewish refugees crossing the treacherous pass to Switzerland, courageous Belle and Sebastian join the resistance. Suggested age: 8+ Narrative Feature.
Inspired by The Little Rascals, Fiddlesticks is a children’s adventure full of hilarious mischief. Bollersdorf, a homogenous small town in the belly-button of Europe, is discovered to contain the perfect ‘average’ specimens by a society of consumer researchers. Green cornflakes, lab-generated foods, and useless devices soon invade their homes. When a team of silver-suited market researchers seize control by banning anything unusual, including their highly skilled pet coati and eccentric grandparents, the children unite with the seniors and bring on giggling, creative chaos with a series of unforgettable stunts, breaking Bollersdorf out of mediocrity by setting new world records. Suggested age: 8+ Narrative Feature.
Director: Nicolas Vanier Producer: Frédéric Brillion Gilles Legrand Clément Miserez Screenwriter: Juliette Sales Fabien Suarez Nicolas Vanier Cécile Aubry Cinematographer: Eric Guichard Editor: Stéphanie Pedelacq Raphaele Urtin
Director: Veit Helmer Producer: Veit Helmer Screenwriter: Hans-Ullrich Krause Cinematographer: Felix Leiberg Editor: Vincent Assmann Principal Cast: Benno Fürmann, Fritzi Haberlandt, Rolf Zacher, Alexander Scheer Running Time: 82 min
Principal Cast: Félix Bossuet Tchéky Karyo Medhi El Glaoui Running Time: 104 min Print Source: Film Movement Director’s Filmography: Loup(‘09) Siberian Odyssey(‘06) The Last Trapper(‘04) Awards: Audience Award Best Feature, Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival
Print Source: Veit Helmer Productions Director’s Filmography: Baikonur(‘11) Absurdistan (‘08) Gate to Heaven (‘03) Tuvalu (‘99) Awards: Audience Award, Zurich Film Festival. Emerald Star Award for Best Feature Film for a Children’s Audience, Cinemagic Belfast 2014. Enfants Terribles Award Best Feature film (12 and under, Gijon Film Festival. Audience Award, Juniorfest Plzn
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childish films
Belle and Sebastian
De Dwaaltuin
Lola auf der Erbse
Belgium/Netherlands 2014 Dutch with English subtitles
Germany 2014 German with English subtitles
childish films
Labyrinthus
SAT SAT SAT
4/11 4/18 4/25
3:00pm 3:00pm 1:00pm
Lola on the Pea
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SAT SAT
4/11 4/18
1:00pm St. Anthony Main 11:00am St. Anthony Main
Discovering a backpack containing a USB key and a strange old camera, 14 year-old Frikke unknowingly starts a computer game that uploads real children, animals, and objects from his world into a gigantic labyrinth in the gaming world. Ordinarily, Frikke is expert at computer games; but this one is real! Frikke’s avatar must help his friends, Nora and Marco, through the labyrinth, escape from the game’s evil creator, and break the code that will release them. At least one third of the action takes place in a CGI animated alternate reality; the rest in Ghent, Belgium. Frikke must find the connection between these two worlds, before its too late! Suggested age: 9+ Narrative Feature.
Nine year-old Lola and her free-spirited mom live on a houseboat called ‘The Pea’ in a small German town. Ever since her father split, Lola has vowed not to cut her hair and wants nothing to change until he returns. Frustrated, losing friends, driving her mother (who is ready to move on!) crazy, finally Lola meets an intriguing new friend named Rebin, who sometimes disappears. Checking into Rebin’s mysterious behavior, Lola discovers his Kurdish family is struggling to get by as undocumented workers. Together, Lola and Rebin navigate their colliding cultural worlds with humor and learn to trust in their future in spite of it all. Suggested age: 8+ Narrative Feature.
Director: Douglas Boswell Producer: Bart Van Langendonck (Savage Film) Peter Bouckaert (Eyeworks) Screenwriter: Pierre De Clercq Cinematographer: Reinier van Brummelen Editor: Liesbeth Beeckman
Director: Thomas Heinemann Producer: Super Neun Screenwriter: Thomas Heinemann Cinematographer: Tobias Jall Editor: Laura Richter Principal Cast: Christiane Paul Tabea Hanstein, Arturo Pereia Bigwood Tobias Oertel
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Principal Cast: Spencer Bogaert Emma Verlinden Felix Maesschalck Nell Catrysse Herwig Ilegems Tine Embrechts Ivan Pecnik Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Ramonda Ink Website: labyrinthusdefilm.be Awards: Youth Award, São Paulo International Film Festival
Running Time: 90 min Print Source: superNeun Filmproduktion Awards: Audience Favorite, Best Feature Film, Seattle Children’s Film Festival. ECFA Award, Olympia International Film Festival
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Oorlogsgeheimen
Secrets of War
SUN SAT
4/12 4/25
childish films
Netherlands 2014 Dutch with English subtitles
1:15pm St. Anthony Main 11:00am St. Anthony Main
In a Nazi-occupied Dutch village that’s slowly changing, 12 year-olds Tuur and Lambert initially incorporate the war into their childhood games until the boys begin to question what they see: a toy appearing out of a passing train; traces of people’s belongings in the underground caves; secretive parents. Befriending Maartje, a new girl in town, the boys’ friendship is tested when they learn a powerful secret of their own and the reality of war changes their childhoods forever. An award-winning adaptation of the bestseller by Jacques Vriens, Secrets of War portrays WW2‘s fascism and resistance through the tender humanity of wartime friendships and three children’s points of view. Suggested age: 10+ Narrative Feature. Director: Dennis Bots Producer: Michiel Bartels Screenwriter: Karen van Holst Pellekaan Jacques Vriens (novel) Cinematographer: Rolf Dekens Editor: Peter Alderliesten Principal Cast: Maas Bronkhuyzen Joes Brauers Pippa Allen Loek Peters Eva Duijvestein Nils Verkooijen Annemarie Prins
Running Time: 95 min Print Source: Film Movement Director’s Filmography: Cool Kids Don’t Cry(‘12) Awards: Best Film, Castellinaria International Festival of Young Cinema. Best LiveAction Feature Film, Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
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Shana: The Wolf’s Music
childish films
Switzerland/Nation of the Interior Salish peoples of British Columbia/Canada 2014 English/Nłeʔkepmxcín with English subtitles
SUN SAT
4/12 4/18
3:30pm 1:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Pojedeme k mori
To See the Sea Czech Republic 2014 Czech with English subtitles
SUN SAT
4/19 4/25
3:15pm 3:00pm
St. Anthony Main St. Anthony Main
Since the loss of her mother, 13 year-old Shana has hoped for a sign. Shana hangs daily letters to her mother upon an ancestor tree, watched by a white wolf. When her grieving father loses himself in alcohol, Shana quits school and stops playing violin, the gift she shared with her mother. A new teacher discovers Shana’s vulnerability and talent, and takes her in as her protégé. But it’s not until Shana makes an unexpected quest that she is able to reconnect with her ancestors and find herself as she lets her mother go. Filmed by a Swiss director with the Scw’́exmx, People of the Creeks, Lower Nicola Indian Band near British Columbia. Suggested age: 10+ Narrative Feature.
The world’s first film made (as if) by an 11 year-old boy. Tomas gets a video camera for his birthday and becomes the narrator, cinematographer, and director of his own story filled with suspenseful investigations into his family and friends’ complicated behavior and unfolding truths. A deeply human, intimate comingof-age film perceived entirely by Tomas’ point of view about the joys and troubles of a boy on the verge of teenage years. With his best friend Haris, a Croatian immigrant, the boys mix lightness with courage in the face of life’s struggles with refreshing honesty and heartwarming humor. Parental discretion advisory: realistic scenes of one family’s parental intimacy and another’s domestic abuse. Suggested age: 12+ Narrative Feature.
Director: Nino Jacusso Producer: Franziska Reck Screenwriter: Nino Jacusso Cinematographer: Severine Barde Editor: Loredana Cristelli Principal Cast: Sunshine O’Donovan Delilah Dick Alana Aspinall Marcel Shackelly
Director: Jirí Mádl Producer: Miloslav Šmídmajer Screenwriter: Jiří Mádl Cinematographer: Edita Kainrathová Editor: Jakub Vansa Principal Cast: Petr Šimčák Jan Maršál Lucie Trmíková Ondřej Vetchý Jaroslava Pokorná
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Running Time: 96 min Print Source: Reck Filmproduction Awards: More than 15 awards including Made in the Northwest Film Prize for Best Film, Children’s Film Festival Seattle. Greek Federation of Film Societes’ Award, Olympia International Film Festival for Children & Young People, Best Youth Cinema, Dreamspeakers Film Festival
Running Time: 91 min Print Source: Arrow Entertainment Director’s Filmography: as actor Borgia in Four Suns, Colette. Directorial debut Awards: Best Feature Film for Children & Children’s Jury Main Prize, Zlín International Film Festival for Children and Youth
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Childish Shorts Program
SAT, APRIL 18, 10:30AM - FREE! Minneapolis Central Library (downtown). Pre-show performance by the Bunny Clogs. Enjoy a free community celebration in the library for the Festival’s newest, youngest audience members with award-winning children’s short films from around the world. For more info: supporthclib.org/events/childish-films/
One Man, Eight Cameras Naren Wilks, UK, Animation, 2 min 8 synchronised cameras and a man in a circular room create a kaleidoscopic world. Tzdafa (A Shell) Maya Tiberman, Israel, Live Action, 7 min A boy finds a shell in the sand. In his hands, the shell magically turns the quiet beach and its surrounding urban landscape into an infinite, colorful and vibrant playground. BZz Luca Fatore, Denmark, Animation, 2 min A minimalistic story of two flies that get trapped in a spider web. Inspired by montage cinema of the 1920s and the cut-out masterpieces of Henri Matisse.
Anatoles Little Saucepan Eric Montchaud, France, Animation, 6 min Anatole always drags a little saucepan behind him. It starts to get him down. One day, Anatole has had enough. Fortunately, he meets an extraordinary person who understands. Zebra Julia Ocker, Germany, Animation, 2 min A zebra bumps into a tree and knocks his stripes off. He is bothered by changes in his pattern; until he hears the applause from the herd. Eddie Allison Coon-Come, Cree Nation, Live action/Animation, 4 min The journey of a toy car over hill-and-dale: a memorable journey in a childhood land. Numberlys William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, US, Animation, 11 min Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers. In an homage to Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (for kids!), the Numberlys invent letters and transform their world. Balloons Sitora Takanaev, US, Live Action, 5 min A midwestern city girl brightens her urban landscape with balloons and sidewalk chalk.
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Cherish Garden Miho Yata, Japan, Animation, 4 min The tiny seeds of dreams sprout in a hand knit garden with birds, butterflies, kittens and a flute-playing bunny.
Shorts 1: MN Made Music Videos
SAT 4/11 Doors: 6:30pm. Event: 7-10pm Amsterdam Bar & Hall in downtown St. Paul
The MN Made Music Videos are screening in partnership with the Minnesota Music Summit, held at the Amsterdam Bar & Hall in downtown St. Paul.
SHORTS PROGRAMS
The event will feature live performances from Chastity Brown, MaLLy,Tiny Deaths and more! Final Boss – Doomtree Director: Maria Juranic Never Lover – Phox Director: Trent Waterman My Yellow Heart – Sandra Kolstad Director: Dan Huiting Northside Nightmares – Muja Messiah Director: Adam Stanzak Never Really Knew – Simian Ghost Director: Dan Huiting Talk 2 Me feat. Kerry Roy – Psymun Director: Braden Lee Blast – Alan Kingdom Director: Ryan Thompson Wild Animals – Trample By Turtles Director: Phil Harder Oceans – Father you See Queen Director: Maria Juranic Heart it From a Friend – Lolo Director: Dan Cummings
Shorts 2: In Someone Else’s Shoes SUN
4/12
1:20pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 98 min
Not Done Loving Director: Jeff Brandt, USA, 20 min, 2014 A loud Greek woman moves into a sleepy Scandinavian town and the reserved townspeople are drawn to her zest for life. When she develops cancer, they fight for her in a wonderful and unexpected way. Growing Home Director: Faisal Attrache, USA, Jordan, 22 min, 2014 Samer, a displaced Syrian barber, has taken refuge along with his young family in the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Despite filling his time with meaningful work, caring for his family and improving his living conditions, the daily distractions cannot diminish his desire to return home. Putting the Ribbon Back On Director: Richard Louprasong, USA, 20 min, 2015 An unlikely victim of HIV finds her greatest gift when she builds a camp for families affected by this disease. The Album Director: Ray Rea, USA, 15 min, 2014 The Album pays homage to a photo album created by a Gay Great Uncle. The film contrasts the eloquent silence of Pre-Stonewall discretion with the ‘out, loud, and proud’ of today’s Queer/Trans scene. Blue Eyes, Twenty One Days Of China Director: Yida Ji, China, 21 min, 2013 Luke Helgeson who spends most of his life in a small town called Duluth. In the summer of 2013 he travels to China. In twenty one days he crosses 6 provinces 8 cities, but he is facing some of the biggest challenges in his life...
Envision – Supreme Cuts feat. Channy of Poliça Director: Braden Lee Sound the Bells – Dessa Director: Dan Cummings
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4/2
4:10pm
St. Anthony Main
Shorts 4: Sports Shorts TUE
4/14
6:40pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 79 min
Filmmakers attending. TRT 79 min
Night Shift Director: Richard Higson, UK, 13 min, 2014 An easy kidnap in the country’, they said. Lenny and Chris head to a mysterious manor house for a special job. But it gets complicated. Very complicated...
Spearhunter Director: Adam Roffman, Luke Poling, USA, 14 min, 2014 Deep in the wilds of rural Alabama, a spear-hunter proclaims himself the world’s greatest and erects a museum dedicated to himself. An offbeat cast of lovers, acolytes, and critics of the megalomaniacal hunter remember his distinctive tactics both for killing and for leaving a legacy.
Westbound Director: James Curry, USA, 12 min, 2014 Alonzo Rey has returned home early from his flight via taxi unbeknownst to his girlfriend Hoa Linh to face a set of old problems. While Hoa sleeps inside, Alonzo enters her house. Hoa thinks a stranger has entered her home and dials 911 before discovering it’s Alonzo. When officers respond and enter Hoa’s home to verify the validity of their relations, Detective Ruby and his partner Walsh join the affair to settle an old score. Eighty-Sixed Director: Alexander Kohnstamm, USA, 8 min, 2014 A waitress (Amanda Day) for a mafia run bar, discovers her boss’s (Kenton Holden) secret, and must protect her own. The Place Where You Live Director: Alexis Van Hurkman, USA, 15 min, 2014 A professor of physics is abducted by her counterpart from an alternate dimension--one where her husband has died. Replaced by her doppelganger, she struggles to rebuild the machine and reopen the gateway between worlds to regain the life that should be hers. Syntax Director: Matthew Peterson, USA, 8 min, 2015 A young American surveillance agent finds herself in a crisis of conscience. County State USA: Sweet Corn Director: Jonathan Nowak, U.S., 23 min, 2014 After robbing the town bank and having his quickchange plans fall apart, a local teen carjacks a hapless farmer selling sweet corn on the side of the road. As they attempt to get out of dodge the farmer decides to help the teen escape and stick it to the very bank that is foreclosing on his property.
One Lungers: The Andy Englund Story Director: Matthew Adams, Keith Adams, USA, 12 min, 2014 Each winter the Long Lake Vintage Snowmobile Racing Association hosts a series of vintage snowmobile races using one-cylinder sleds or ‘One-Lungers’. Each vintage sled has a story to tell: each racer does too. This is Andy’s. Sharkey Director: Mark Brown, USA, 7 min, 2015 Minnesota professional wrestling legend Ed Sharkey has trained a governor and wrestled a monkey over the course of his long and storied career. The Poachers Director: Matthew Koshmrl, USA, 20 min, 2014 In 1952, ten friends bought a ranch fifty miles north of the small mining town of Chisholm, Minnesota. With only one of the original members alive, and each generation moving further away the traditions established are in danger of being lost. Mallwalkers Director: Sean Clark, USA, 15 min, 2014 In the wee hours, one of the world’s largest shopping malls is opened almost exclusively to a small group of walkers who get to roam the 4.2 million square mile atriums for their daily exercise. Every Day Director: Gabe Spitzer, USA, 11 min, 2014 At 86, Joy Johnson was the oldest woman to run the 2013 New York City Marathon. This is the story of an inspiring athlete with an uncommon passion for her sport, and for life.
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Shorts 3: Short Stories for the Big Screen
Shorts 5: Experimental
SHORTS PROGRAMS
WED
4/15
7:05pm
St. Anthony Main
Shorts 6: Femme Regarde THU
4/16
7:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 79 min
Filmmakers attending. TRT 110 min
Cherry Blossoms Director: Philip Harder, USA, 3 min, 2015 Cherry blossoms from the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, Spring 2014.
After Director: Rosemary Williams, USA, 20 min, 2015 After is the story of a solitary woman in the wake of an unspecified apocalyptic event who engages with a world of objects left behind at an abandoned farm.
Cento Director: M. Thomsen, USA, 16 min, 2014 Cento is a layered, metamorphic exploration of art and life, revolving around the assemblage sculpture work of artist M. Thomsen. The Voyage of the Soul - Not Life Alone Director: Marie Ketring, USA, 6 min, 2015 An experimental short film documenting the exhilaration and fear experienced while walking on thin ice. Music by Michael Legan. Nudes Director: Nicole Brending, USA, 5 min, 2013 Shot on analog video and without the aid of digital filters, Nudes is a sensual audio-visual experience of abstracted figures in slow motion. Accompanying score by Alexander Sigman. Controversies Director: Ryan McKenna, Canada, 17 min, 2014 In the 1980s, the popular Action Line talk show was a colourful record of Winnipeg caller reactions to hot-button issues of the day. Using archival audio as a formal foundation (with host Peter Warren’s voice removed), McKenna carefully composes monochromatic portraits of Winnipeggers as stark silent listeners, while voices from the past illuminate how much and little has changed in Canada’s gateway to the West. The Photoplay Situation in America, 1915 Director: Tom Schroeder, USA, 32 min, 2014 Excerpts from Vachel Lindsey’s “Art of the Moving Picture” are organized as a narrative over the music of Waschering Maschine.
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Stag Director: Kevin Newbury, USA, 14 min, 2015 In the summer of 1963, a sixteen year old girl investigates the mystery of her father’s basement. The Andes Director: Grant Swanson, USA, 8 min, 2014 A dying man tries to live out his dream with the woman he loves. Lambing Season Director: Jeannie Donohoe, Ireland/USA, 15 min, 2013 An American woman travels to the Irish countryside to track down her long-lost father while posing as a stranger. On a sheep farm full of secrets, nature has its way of delivering the truth. Notes From There Director: Ann Prim, USA, 14 min, 2015 Pepca and Martine are lovers and dance collaborators torn apart by the immigration arrest of Martine. They must learn to be there, no matter where there is. STRANGERS Director: Eric D. Howell, USA, 20 min, 2014 Strangers is an intriguing novella about two broken characters who awkwardly meet at a crossroad where they touch on the possibility of love. Muted Voices Director: Rachel Goldberg, USA, 19 min, 2014 Muted follows the Gladwells, a family who struggles to get support from the media & law enforcement when their teenage daughter disappears.
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FRI
4/17
9:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Shorts 8: Heavy Levity SAT
4/18
5:00pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 85 min
Filmmakers attending. TRT 92 min
Patterns in the Tide Director: Christian Moser, USA, 3 min, 2014 A desolate whaling voyage depicts the genesis of the American ethos. Plumb Director: Caleb Wood, USA, 3 min, 2014 A continuous vertical freehand digression. An animation drawn on a wall. SHADOWS - Saving the Rain Forest Director: Isaac Kerlow, Singapore/USA/Spain, 12 min, 2014 Life in the rain forest is interrupted when the intruders arrive to destroy it. Humble Pie Director: Cynthia Hogan, USA, 4 min, 2014 A fly learns the difference between want and need in a tale of insects and violence. Goodbye Rabbit, Hop Hop Director: Caleb Wood, USA, 4 min, 2013 A mind in the city looks inward, and escapes into the rabbit’s domain. I Am Gone Director: Nicholas Clausen, 3, 2014 min, 2014 Nostalgia takes an unexpected twist. Afloat Director: Scott Wenner, USA, 12 min, 2014 An animated film about a revolving door of crime and punishment. A Place Called Hospice Director: John Akre, USA, 5 min, 2014 We went with my mother as she met her death, caring for her in hospice, and this is what it felt like. Wire Cutters Director: Jack Anderson, USA, 9 min, 2014 A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet. Isola del Giglio Director: Tom Schroeder, USA, 11 min, 2014 An impressionistic film about the Italian island in sketchbook form. Totem Director: Caleb Wood, USA, 2 min, 2014 A celebration of anima. Speed Dating Director: Meghann Artes, USA, 11 min, 2014 Desperate to find the man of her dreams, sweet and plain Ava tries a last ditch effort, speed dating.
Meat Director: Michael Forstein, USA, 15 min, 2015 Desperate for work, Darren agrees to a one day trial as a door-to-door meat salesman. Greco Roman Director: Theo Sena, USA, 5 min, 2014 Two old friends take an awkward walk into their past. Greenland Director: Oren Gerner, Israel, 17 min, 2014 Exploring the boundaries between documentary and fiction, this film follows an everyday family and the charged process of leaving home and parents. Flat Chested Director: Kristyn Jo Benedyk, USA, 23 min, 2014 Amanda, after testing positive for the BRCA gene mutation, has a specific plan to say goodbye to her breasts the weekend before her preventative double mastectomy, but her sister comes to town with a list of her own ideas for the weekend. Pet Therapy Director: Catherine Orchard, USA, 7 min, 2014 An earnest young woman struggles to find her creative voice in New York City and turns to her faithful dog— and a cast of opinionated animals–to find both herself and the courage to be confident in life and her art. A Doctor and a Security Guard in Love Director: Lyle Corbine Jr., USA, 10 min, 2014 A day in the life of a young American couple struggling to find time for each other during an economic struggle. Sea Beach Local Director: Dean Peterson, USA, 15 min, 2014 A young woman from Ohio comes to New York City for the first time to pick up the ashes of her long lost father. When she gets waylaid for 24 hours she’s left to wander around the city with his urn trying to make a connection with the man she never met.
Aubade Director: Mauro Carraro, Switzerland, 6 min, 2014 In a surrealist backlit scene, swimmers and birds witness the spectacle of the dawn, hypnotized by the music of a cellist.
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SHORTS PROGRAMS
Shorts 7: Animation
Monday-Thursday Monday-Thursday
MON
4/20
7:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Shorts 10: Call to Create THU
4/23
8:45pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 92 min
Filmmakers attending. TRT 98 min
Two Strangers Meet in a Bar Director: Máté Bede-Fazekas, Nolan Funk, United Arab Emirates/Hungary/USA, 13 min, 2014 An interactive narrative short. Audiences work together by using their cell phones to seamlessly change the plot in real time, affecting the meeting of two complete strangers.
Crooked Candy Director: Andrew Rodgers, USA, 6 min, 2014 Kinder Surprise chocolate eggs are enormously popular all around the world. Everywhere, that is, except in the United States, where they’re considered a choking hazard and are illegal. This is the story of a Kinder smuggler.
The Light of Each New Day Director: James Byrne, USA, 14 min, 2014 A gentle portrait of a zealous book collector who struggles to keep her life from spinning out of control. Midway Director: Jonathan Oster, Grant DeMesquita, USA, 10 min, 2014 After waking up in a strange place, a young man is guided by mysterious forces to alter someone’s fate. Carry On Director: Yatao Li, China,USA, 17 min, 2014 Carry On tells a story of looting set in Japan-occupied China during World War II. Air Between Us Director: Kjell Kvanbeck, USA, 9 min, 2015 Air Between Us explores the relationship between a mother and her son, and the lengths we will go to for those we love, even if misguided in our attempts to help one another. Passione Director: Hisham Bizri, Italy/USA, 17 min, 2015 This is a film psalm for Pier Paolo Pasolini’s cinema, for his poetry, his Marxist politics, and for his shifting Catholicism. Birthday Director: Chris King, USA, 12 min, 2015 When a young military wife gets news that her Marine husband has been severely wounded in combat, she discovers that life ahead for them is going to be a difficult and yet amazing journey.
The Gnomist Director: Sharon Liese, USA, 20 min, 2014 In this true story about the mysterious appearance of fairy homes in a suburban forest, three broken women discover that magic is real. Elgin Park Director: Danny Yourd, USA, 10 min, 2015 Elgin Park dives into the life of Michael Paul Smith – a reclusive artist turned viral sensation – recognized for creating 1950’s utopias out of pain, love, and miniature cars. Unmappable Director: Diane Hodson, Jasmine Luoma, USA, 23 min, 2014 Unmappable weaves together the life and work of iconoclastic psychogeographer and convicted sex offender, Denis Wood. Steel // Spirit Director: Keri Pickett, USA, 10 min, 2014 Combining motion and stills, Keri Pickett documents movement artist Yves Musard performing with artist Richard Serra’s weathered steel sculpture at New York’s Gagosian’s 21st Street Gallery. Tamara Douglas-Morris writes a reflective score accompanying Musard’s chants. Death & the Maiden Director: Yael Lotem, Israel/Germany, 29 min, 2014 Shortly after WWII, 1000 paintings were found in a Cellar in southern France. The paintings were created by a Jewish artist called Charlotte Salomon. She painted her turbulent life story in a creation named “Life? Or Theater?“.
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Shorts 9: Dramatic Crossroads
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Shorts 11: It Takes A Village SAT
4/25
4:15pm
St. Anthony Main
Filmmakers attending. TRT 95 min
Home Delivery Director: Tom Brandau, USA, 15 min, 2014 Baltimore, 1974. Two newspaper delivery boys (one white, one African-American) struggle to deal with the racial devices between their adjacent neighborhoods.
Stealth Director: Bennett Lasseter, USA, 22 min, 2014 The heartwarming story of a brave, transgender tween. Knightsville Director: Aly Migliori, USA, 12 min, 2015 In returning home to celebrate a Catholic feast, a young woman faces a family that now feels foreign and culture she no longer understands. Knightsville examines the painful disconnect, and deep connection, one has towards home. Seduction Theory Director: Steven Ascher, USA, 21 min, 2014 A dark comedy about a 12-year old contending with his psychoanalyst father, the teachings of Sigmund Freud and the girl he hopes will save him. Written and directed by Oscar nominee Steven Ascher.
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Day One Director: Henry Hughes, USA, 25 min, 2014 On her first day in Afghanistan, an interpreter for the US Army is forced to deliver the child of an enemy bomb-maker.
Executive and Management Staff Susan Smoluchowski, Executive Director Jesse Bishop, Programming Director Eric Wilson, Festival / Strategic Partnerships Director Programming Kathie Smith, Programmer Alissa Simon, Programmer Craig Laurence Rice, Programmer, Minnesota Made Deb Girdwood, Programmer, Childish Films Isabelle Harder, Programmer, Childish Films Alex Wolf, Print Traffic / Programming Assistant
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Exec. Producer: Kara Wayne, Creative Director: Eric Riggs, Director of Photography: Todd Isaacs, Gaffer: Matt Kane, Key Grip: Dan Garritsen, Projectionist: Alan De Leon Taverna, Grip: Ben Watkins, Cast: Sarah Rogers, Al Saks, Tamara Clark, Casting Agent: Lynne Steele, Hair & Makeup: Candra Ruiz
All the extras from this year’s trailer:
Rebecca Arendts,Tamara Ariole, Brian Arnold, Reneé Austin, Kathy Bakkenist, Anna Balendinu, Matt Bappe, Eric Beck, Kenneth Bingsley, Dana Bogema, Jill Boogren, Patty Boris, James Buckvold, Mollie Buelow, James Buffington, Kathryn Burow, David Byrd, Sarah Callahan, Mike Cameron, Tamara Clark, Sharon Collins, Roxanne Denysiuk, Tyler Eichorst, Kiah Eide, James Farnsworth, Eric Ferrey, Ryan Gilmer, Jean Goodman, Robert Guo, Elizabeth Anna Hall, Masaya Hashimoto, Evan Hatcher, Alan Haynes, Gabrielle Helmin-Clazmer, Nadia Honary, Eli James, Alison James, Sarah Jaumann, Chas Jensen, Ralph Jenson, Peggy Jondahl, Anne Kleinhenz, Adrienne Kleinman, Caitlin Krause, Michealyn Kvasnik, Joanna Lees, Colleen McGough, Barb Minnerath, Nancy Moltaji, Nancy Nielsen, Jacob Nokovic, Maggie O’Connor, Catherine O’Neil, Sarita Pillay, Julia Plonski, Lisa Pogoff, Abraham & Stella Riker, Kari Rise, Sarah Rogers, Ryan Ross, Al Saks, Lynn Schulte, Donna Schwartz, Robert Schwartz, Rabiya Sehgal-LaRocque, Sara Rogers, Melissa Semrad, Pamela Sheen, Check Smith-Dewey, Nadine Snead, Robert Spikings, Meredith Steck, Mark Steiner, Quinn Tessman, Judith Thompson, Reilly Tillman, Marshall Toman, Helen Torrens, Vanessa Vagher Twomey, Marisa Vape, Taryn Verley, Laurel Vernon, Diane Visser, Sarah Wariner, Becky Warren, Kara Wayne, Brian Williams, Jan Willms, Jeff Zuckerman, Theresa Zylka
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Aaron Wickenden, Abdi Roble, Adam Olson, Adam Roffman, Adam Stanzak, Aida Lipera, AJ Peterson, Al Milgrom, Alan Hofman, Alberto Fierro Garza, Aleksandra Bilic, Alex Garcia, Alexander Kohnstamm, Alexis Van Hurkman, Alfredo Calvino, Ali Selim, Alison Oase, Allison Coon-Come, Amy Brendmoen, Amy Cocchiarella, Amy Rowland, Amy Sperling and Scott Parkin, Ana Forcinito, Ana Luisa Fajer, Andrea Brown, Andrea Graham, Andrew and James Wilson, Andrew Carlin, Andrew Duff, Andrew Johnson, Andrew Petterson, Andrew Rodgers, Ange Hwang, Ani Backa, Anja Dziersk, Ann Husaini, Ann Prim, Anna Christoforides, Anna Goranova, Anne Saxton, Anne Saxton, Antoine Versabeau, Antoinette Beenders, Antonio Ramos Gascon, Antonio Rui Ribeiro, Anya Achtenberg, Arkaitz Basterra, Arnaud Bélangeon-Bouaziz, Ashley Brown, Barbara Weiner, Beatriz Sé, Ben Bowman, Ben Garvin, Ben Mena, Ben Sand, Bennett Lasseter, Beth Bowman, Beth Dooley, Beth Pacunas, Beth Peloff Yatao Li, Bill Plympton, Bill Pohlad, Bill Thompson, Billy Eigen, blair dorosh-walther, Bo Hakala, Bob Holman, Bobcat Goldthwait, Bonnie Shock, Braden Lee, Braden Lee Ryan Thompson, Brandon Jernigan, Brendan Young-Dixon, Britni West, Bruce Karstadt, Bruce Rubin, Bryan Duggan, Caleb Wood, Carla Fleisher, Carla Riehle, Carol Byrne, Catherine Orchard, Catherine Wang, Cesar Chico Chavez, Chad Gracia, Chad Larson, Chad Olson, Chad Olson, Charlie Griak, Charlie Hartwell, Charlie Sugnet, Chris Fream, Chris Hudson, Chris Osgood, Christa Tiefenbacher-Hudson, Christian Juhl Lemche, Christian Moser, Christie Healey, Christina Carleton, Christine Esckilsen, Christine Tschida, Christine Walker, Christof Wehmeier, Christopher Walker, Christopher Wilkenson, Chuck and Mary Leer, Cindy Froid, Cindy Walker, Claudia Puig, Colin Covert, Connie Everson, Connie Remele, Craig Drehmel, Craig Fields, Cristina Baldwin, Crystal Moselle, Cynthia Hogan, D.A.Bullock, Dan and Angelica Getahun, Dan and Nancy Lussenhop, Dan Cummings, Dan Geiger, Dan Huiting, Dan Huiting, Dan Jensen, Dan McAllister, Dan Reed, Dan Rybicky, Dan Satorius, Dan Satorius, Dan Vere, Dana Bogema, Dana Thompson, Daniel, Daniel Bergin, Daniel Carranza, Daniel Getahun, Daniel Satorius, Danielle Martha Ruddy, Danielle Smith, Danny Yourd, Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, Dave Iverson, David Dancyger, David Dybiec, David Grabias, David Grubin, David Nugent, David Rhees, Dawn Kuehl, Deacon Warner, Dean Otto, Dean Peterson, Dean Schlaak, Deb Girdwood, Debra Cohen, Deirdre Haj, Djenane Saint juste, Dominique Leppink, Doug Killian, Ed Rajtar, Elizabeth Brambilia, Ellen Kennedy, Ellen Stanley, Elodie Dupont, Emily Goldberg, Emily Hanson, Emily Lobsenz, Emily Rothschild, Eric Bresler, Eric D. Howell, Eric Lorberer, Eric Montchaud, Erin Owens, Euan Kerr, Faisal Attrache, Fathia Absie, Ferenc Török, Filiberto Nolasco, Frances and Frank Wilkinson, Frank Hall Green, Franklin Curbelo, Fredrik Egerstrand, Gabe Spitzer, Gabriel Figueroa, Gary Smaby, Gene Merker, Geoff Sass, Geoff Warner, Germain Labeille, Gisela Wiltscheck, Gordon Quinn, Grant DeMesquita, Grant Swanson, Greg Jones, Greg Klave, Greg Winter, Grégoire Graesslin, Gulgun Kayim, Gunnar Almér, Gunnar Christiansen, Hafed Bouassida, Hakim Abderrezak, Hamil Griffin-Cassidy, Helen du Toit, Henry Hughes, Hilde Hoffmann, Hisham Bizri, Hishman Bizri, Howard Oransky, Ida Martins, Ilaria Gomarasca, Ioana Dragomirescu, Isa Campo Vilar, Isa Campo Vilar, Isaac Kerlow, Isabelle Harder, J.P. Sniadecki, Jack Anderson, Jack Reuler, Jaclyn O’Grady, James Byrne, Jamie Bernstein, Jamshed Merchant, Jan
Selby, Jan-Lodewijk Grootaers, Jane Bardon, Jason Kupfer, Jason Mclean, Jason Tonner, Jason Wallace, Jay Beck, Jay Coogan, Jay Oh, Jeannie Donohoe, Jed Anderson, Jeff Arundel, Jeff Brandt, Jeffrey Winter, Jenni Domingo, Jenni Olson, Jennifer Brisson, Jennifer Labovitz, Jennifer Weismann, Jeremy Bandow, Jeremy Wilker, Jesse Dubus, Jessica Anthony, Jessie Lussenhop, Jim Browne, Jim Brunzell III, Jodee McCallum, Jodi Elowitz, Joe Harewicz, Joe Looby, Joelle Vitiello, John Akre, John Archer, John Briel, John Heavey, John Holderried, John Rimarcik, John Schott, John Stout, John Taft, John Wright, Jojo Ndege, Jokay Stoehr, Jon @ Honey, Jon Stobezki, Jon Thomas, Jonathan Nowak, Jonathan Hertzberg, Jonathan Oster, Jordan Mattos, Jorge Raasch, José Cohen, Josef Harris, Josephine Settmacher, Josh Carleton, Julia Huffman, Julia Ocker, Julianne Amendola, Julie Corty, Julie Georgia Bernard, Julie Ingebretsen, Julien Sexsmith, Justin DiPietro, Justine Nagan, Kara & Hal Lovemelt, Karen and Howard Wilson, Karen Heithoff, Karen Scher, Kari Lie, Kari Rise, Karin Krull, Karla Ekdahl, Kasia Karwan, Katalin Vajda, Kate McEdwards, Kathy Lantry, Katie Deboer, Katie Stroup, Katie Stroup, Katie Welch-Peterson, Katie Wilharm, Katja Lenarcic, Katy Gaynor, Kay Bashford Troan, Keith Adams, Kel Nelson, Kelli Guck, Kelly Doran, Ken Abdo, Ken Rance, Keri Pickett, Kevin Horn, Kevin Newbury, Kevin O’Callaghan, Kevin Obsatz, Kevin Obsatz, Kevin Pang, Kevin Ramach, Kjeil Kvanbeck, Knut Skinnarmo, Kory Kingsbury, Kris Chucko, Kristen Froebel, Kristin Berg, Kristyn Benedyk, Kyle @ New Bohemia, Kyle Spicer, Lana Barkawi, Larkin McPhee, Larry Lamb, Laura Crosby, Laura Espondaburu, Laura Ivey, Laura Talsma, Lauren Shira, Laurens Grant, Lennart Ström, Leslie Bush, Lindsay Herbert, Lindsay Kiesow, Lisa Clark, Lisa Richie, Livia Bloom, Liz Armstrong, Liz Gardner, Liz Manashil, Lorenzo Fabbri, Lori Miller, Lowell Pickett, Lu Lippold, Luca Fatore, Lucas Langworthy, Lucas Verga, Lucinda Winter, Luis Fitch, Luke Poling, Lux Stupia, Lyle Corbine Jr., Lynn Lukkas, M. Thomsen, Maelle Guenegues, Maggie Henjum, Maggie Henjum, Magnus Gertten, Mar Bordanova, Marah Strauch, Marc Al, Marcus Castillo, Margit Ahmann Wilson, Margreth Trumpi, Maria Antonia Calvo, Maria Gonzalez, Maria Greenwell, Maria Juranic, Maria Reyes, Marianne Wargelin, Marie Ketring, Marina Scardaccione, Marisa Parzenczewski, Marjo Pipinen, Mark Andrew, Mark Brown, Mark Forgy, Mark Helenowski, Mark Johnson, Mark Lambert, Mark Ritchie, Mark Steele, Mark Weber, Mark Wojahn, Martha Driessen, Martha Kissell, Martin Ludden, Martín Rejtman, Martin Wendel, Mary Anne Quiroz, Mary Stucky, Mary Trunk, Massimo and Anna Bonavita, Máté Bede-Fazekas, Matt Berg, Matt Clarity, Matt Ehling, Matt Ehling, Matt Kane, Matt Perkins, Matthew Adams, Matthew Koshmrl, Matthew Peterson, Matthias Angoulvant, Maureen Masters, Maureen Pelton, Maureen Pelton, Mauro Carraro, Maury Steinman, Maxwell Wolkin, Maya Tiberman, Megan O’Hara, Meghann Artes, Meighan McGuire, Melissa Donovan, Melissa Surdyk, Michael Anschel, Michael Forstein, Michael Hope, Michael Matheson Miller, Michael Nichols, Michael Paredes, Michael Tuckman, Michelle Baroody, Michelle Goering, Mickey Jurewicz, Miho Yata, Mike Lerner, Mike Wendt, Milena Gross, Mohannad Ghawanmeh, Morgan Neville, N.C. Heikin, Naren Wilks, Natalia Zakharova, Nathan Faustyn, Nathan Hoffman, Neil Friedman, Niccolo Bruna, Nicholas Clausen, Nicole Brending, Noa Steimatsky, Nolan Funk, Nor Hall, Nora Paul, Norah Shapiro, Norm Munk, Oren Gerner, Orn Arnar, Oscar Alonso, Oskar Alegria, Otto Suuronen, Paige Ware, Pål Håberg, Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, Paola Obetz, Pascale Ramonda, Pat Fiske, Patrick Reis, Paul Aaron, Paul Hudson, Paul Marchant, Paul Reyelts, Paul Sanchez, Pete Tedrow, Peter Kinoy, Peter Kinoy, Peter Moore, Phil Harder, R.T. 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Thank you to: The cast and crew from this year’s trailer:
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FEATURE INDEX BY Title 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The 1000 Rupee Note 1001 Grams 3 Hearts 52 Tuesdays About a Girl Accused Afterlife Alive All of Me All the Time in the World Alléluia Almost There Amour Fou Antarctic Edge: 70° South Beatles Behavior Belle and Sebastian Best of Enemies Betibú Beyond The Divide Black Coal, Thin Ice Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, The Borrowed Identity, A Bread and Butter Breakup Buddies Brilliant Young Mind, A Call Me Lucky Capturing Grace Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers for Democracy Center, The Chagall-Malevich Cheatin’ City of Gold Ciudad Delirio Clouds of Sils Maria Connection, The Corn Island Cowboys Creator of the Jungle, The Crescendo! The Power of Music Cub Cut, The Dark Horse, The Day After, The Decade of Discovery, The Decor Difret Dinkytown Uprising, The Dinner, The Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Dukhtar El crítico El Niño End of the Tour, The Every Face Has a Name Exit
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53 77 85 117 117 118 118 119 77 91 91 159 92 119 92 85 67 163 57 67 93 78 93 120 145 78 142 94 94 95 145 120 146 153 68 57 58 121 121 95 96 159 122 122 96 97 63 63 97 123 98 123 68 69 58 98 79
Farewell Party, The Felix and Meira Fiddlesticks Finding Gaston Fool, The For Grace Fort, The Free Fall Ghadi Girlhood Gods Golden Era, The Good Things Await Grandad, The Grump, The H2Omx Hand Made with Love in France Happy Times Hard Day, A Heart of Wilderness Hello! Jun’ichi History of Fear How to Dance in Ohio Hunting Ground, The I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story I Am Here I Touched All Your Stuff I’m Not Him If I Give My Soul In Order of Disappearance In the Basement Iris Iron Ministry, The Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Kebab & Horoscope Keeping Room, The Kindergarten Teacher, The Knucklehead La Sapienza Labyrinthus Language Matters with Bob Holman Lesson, The Letter to the King Life in a Fishbowl Life of Riley Lobby, The Lola on the Pea Look of Silence, The Los Hongos Love & Mercy Love at First Fight Love Marriage in Kabul Madame Bovary Magical Girl Magicarena Margarita, with a Straw Marie’s Story Marshland Mask You Live In, The Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
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124 124 163 153 125 154 79 160 125 126 126 80 154 86 86 99 99 69 160 146 80 70 100 59 59 100 101 127 101 87 102 102 103 155 127 161 128 147 128 164 103 129 87 88 129 147 164 104 70 55 130 104 60 71 105 130 131 71 105 60
106 106 131 72 155 132 132 133 72 133 134 88 134 81 107 107 108 108 135 135 136 109 109 110 136 81 148 110 148 82 111 111 82 112 83 73 165
Shana: The Wolf’s Music Slow West Songs of Rice, The Sound of Redemption, The Speed Walking Strongest Man, The Summer of Sangaile, The Sunshine Superman Tales Tangerines That Sugar Film Theeb These Are The Rules They Are All Dead Things of the Aimless Wanderer Tired Moonlight To Life! To See the Sea Tokyo Fiancée Treatment, The Tu Dors Nicole Two Shots Fired Unearthing, The Unlikely Heroes Venice Veve Victoria Virtuosity Voice Over W Warren MacKenzie: A Potter’s Hand Welcome to Leith White Shadow Wildlike Wolfpack, The World’s Largest Ball of Twine, The Zemene
166 137 112 113 89 149 137 113 138 138 156 139 139 73 64 149 140 166 140 141 141 74 150 142 74 64 61 114 75 83 114 115 65 150 61 115 65
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Medicine of the Wolf Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile Monument to Michael Jackson Mr. Kaplan Natural Resistance Nena New Girlfriend, The Next to Her NN No Man’s Island No One’s Child Not Ready to Die Nowhere in Moravia Nuoc 2030 Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure, The Operation Popcorn Out in the Night Outrageous Sophie Tucker, The Owners, The Papusza Patchwork Family Pervert Park Pot: The Movie Poverty, Inc. Reaper, The Red Amnesia Red Knot Refugees in Cinecittà Results Revivre Royal Road, The Russian Woodpecker, The Sacred Arrow, The School of Babel Second Life of Thieves, The Second Mother, The Secrets of War
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FEATURE INDEX BY ORIGIN
Argentina Betibú El crítico History of Fear Two Shots Fired Australia 52 Tuesdays Love Marriage in Kabul That Sugar Film Austria Amour Fou In the Basement Belgium Accused Alléluia Cub Labyrinthus Tokyo Fiancée Treatment, The Brazil I Touched All Your Stuff If I Give My Soul Second Mother, The Bulgaria Lesson, The 129 Cambodia Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll Canada All the Time in the World Felix and Meira Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Tu Dors Nicole Chile Voice Over China Breakup Buddies Golden Era, The I Am Here Red Amnesia Sacred Arrow, The Black Coal, Thin Ice Colombia Ciudad Delirio Los Hongos Croatia Cowboys Reaper, The These Are The Rules Cuba Behavior Venice Czech Republic Nowhere in Moravia To See the Sea Denmark Look of Silence, The Pervert Park Speed Walking Good Things Await Egypt Decor Estonia Tangerines
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67 68 70 74 117 104 156 119 102 118 159 159 164 140 141 101 101 73
98 91 124 155 141 75 78 80 100 81 82 78 68 70 121 136 139 67 74 134 166 104 109 89 154 63 138
Ethiopia Difret Zemene Finland Grump, The France 3 Hearts Belle and Sebastian Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers for Democracy Clouds of Sils Maria Connection, The Girlhood Hand Made with Love in France La Sapienza Life of Riley Love at First Fight Marie’s Story New Girlfriend, The Patchwork Family School of Babel Georgia Corn Island Germany About a Girl Cut, The Fiddlesticks Lola on the Pea Madame Bovary To Life! Victoria Haiti Poverty, Inc. Hungary Afterlife Free Fall No Man’s Island Iceland Grandad, The Life in a Fishbowl India 1000 Rupee Note Fort, The Margarita, with a Straw Iran Tales Israel Borrowed Identity, A Farewell Party, The Kindergarten Teacher, The Next to Her Italy Dinner, The Magicarena Natural Resistance Refugees in Cinecittà Japan Hello! Jun’ichi Jordan Theeb Kazakhstan Owners, The Kenya Veve Lebanon Ghadi
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137 83 91 99 69 132 165 122 85 85 87 87 123 153 72 126 127 120 125 64 131 134 77 160 82 95 96 69 71 71 73 53 98 88 142 166 79 65 112 83 127 142 111 137
Uruguay Mr. Kaplan USA (Including Minnesota Made) Almost There Antarctic Edge: 70° South Best of Enemies Beyond The Divide Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, The Bread and Butter Call Me Lucky Capturing Grace Center, The Cheatin’ City of Gold Crescendo! The Power of Music Decade of Discovery, The Dinkytown Uprising, The End of the Tour, The For Grace Heart of Wilderness How to Dance in Ohio Hunting Ground, The I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story Iris Iron Ministry, The Keeping Room, The Knucklehead Language Matters with Bob Holman Lobby, The Love & Mercy Mask You Live In, The Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Medicine of the Wolf Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure, The Operation Popcorn Out in the Night Outrageous Sophie Tucker, The Pot: The Movie Red Knot Results Royal Road, The Sound of Redemption, The Strongest Man, The Sunshine Superman Tired Moonlight Unearthing, The Virtuosity Warren Mackenzie: A Potter’s Hand Welcome to Leith Wildlike Wolfpack, The World’s Largest Ball of Twine, The Vietnam Nuoc 2030
72 92 92 57 93 93 145 94 94 145 146 153 96 97 97 58 154 146 100 59 59 102 103 161 147 103 147 55 105 60 106 106 107 107 108 108 109 148 148 111 113 149 113 149 150 114 114 115 150 61 115 81
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Lithuania Summer of Sangaile, The Malaysia Second Life of Thieves, The Mexico All of Me H2Omx Happy Times The Netherlands Nena Secrets of War New Zealand Dark Horse, The Norway 1001 Grams Beatles In Order of Disappearance Letter to the King Pakistan Dukhtar Peru Finding Gaston NN Poland Gods Kebab & Horoscope Russia Chagall-Malevich Fool, The Rwanda Things of the Aimless Wanderer Serbia Monument to Michael Jackson No One’s Child South Korea Alive Hard Day, A Revivre Spain Creator of the Jungle, The Day After, The El Niño Magical Girl Marshland They Are All Dead Sweden 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The Every Face Has a Name Not Ready to Die Switzerland Unlikely Heroes Shana: The Wolf’s Music Taiwan Exit Tanzania White Shadow Thailand Songs of Rice, The W Turkey I’m Not Him United kingdom Brilliant Young Mind,A Russian Woodpecker, The Slow West
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Art in Pictures
Almost There Capturing Grace Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy Chagall-Malevich The Creator of the Jungle Crescendo! The Power of Music Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll The End of the Tour Hand Made with Love in France I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story I Am Here Iris La Sapienza Los Hongos Love & Mercy Magicarena Not Ready to Die The Outrageous Sophie Tucker The Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story Virtuosity Warren Mackenzie: A Potter’s Hands The Wolfpack Cinematic Science(?)
1001 Grams Antarctic Edge: 70° South The Center The Decade of Discovery Good Things Await H2Omx Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story Medicine of the Wolf Natural Resistance Nuoc 2030 Pot: The Movie That Sugar Film Drama-Rama!
1000 Rupee Note 52 Tuesdays About a Girl Accused Beatles Behavior Decor The Dinner Exit Ghadi Girlhood The Golden Era The Kindergarten Teacher Knucklehead
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The Lesson Life in a Fishbowl Life of Riley The Lobby Lola on the Pea Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Nena The New Girlfriend Next to Her NN No One’s Child Revivre The Second Life of Thieves The Strongest Man They Are All Dead Tired Moonlight To Life! To See the Sea Two Shots Fired Venice Veve Voice Over W Film on the Fringe
Alive Corn Island Free Fall I Touched All Your Stuff I’m Not Him In the Basement The Iron Ministry The Royal Road The Songs of Rice Things of the Aimless Wanderer White Shadow
129 88 129 147 164 60 132 132 133 72 134 82 83 149 73 149 140 166 74 74 64 75 83 77 121 160 101 127 102 103 111 112 64 65
Laugh Out Loud
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Afterlife Bread and Butter Breakup Buddies Cowboys The Farewell Party The Grandad The Grump Happy Times Hello! Jun’ichi Kebab & Horoscope Monument to Michael Jackson Nowhere in Moravia Patchwork Family Results The Second Mother Speed Walking Tu Dors Nicole Unlikely Heroes
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All of Me Belle and Sebastian Best of Enemies Beyond The Divide The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution Call Me Lucky The Cut The Day After Difret The Dinkytown Uprising Every Face Has a Name The Fool How to Dance in Ohio The Hunting Ground If I Give My Soul Language Matters with Bob Holman Letter to the King The Look of Silence Marie’s Story The Mask You Live In Miss Tibet: Beauty In Exile Operation Popcorn Out in the Night Papusza Pervert Park Poverty, Inc. Red Amnesia Refugees in Cinecittà The Russian Woodpecker School of Babel Secrets of War Tales Tangerines These are the Rules Welcome to Leith Zemene Show Me the Love
3 Hearts Amour Fou A Borrowed Identity Cheatin’ Ciudad Delirio El crítico Felix and Meira Love at First Fight Love Marriage in Kabul Madame Bovary Margarita, with a Straw The Summer of Sangaile Tokyo Fiancée
91 163 57 93 93 94 122 96 63 97 98 125 100 59 101 103 87 104 131 105 106 107 108 135 109 110 81 110 111 112 165 138 138 139 115 65 117 119 120 146 68 68 124 130 104 60 130 137 140
The Edge
Alléluia Betibú Black Coal, Thin Ice The Connection Cub El Niño Gods A Hard Day History of Fear In Order of Disappearance The Keeping Room Labyrinthus Magical Girl Marshland The Reaper Sunshine Superman The Treatment The Unearthing Victoria Travel the World
A Brilliant Young Mind All the Time in the World City of Gold Clouds of Sils Maria The Dark Horse Dukhtar Fiddlesticks Finding Gaston For Grace The Fort Heart of Wilderness Mr. Kaplan No Man’s Island The Okee Dokee Brothers’ Through the Woods: An Appalachian Adventure The Owners Red Knot The Sacred Arrow Shana: The Wolf’s Music Slow West Theeb Wildlike The World’s Largest Ball of Twine
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159 67 78 58 159 69 126 160 70 87 161 164 71 71 136 113 141 150 61 142 91 153 57 122 123 163 153 154 79 146 72 133 107 135 148 82 166 137 139 150 115
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SHORTS INDEX BY TITLE Aaron Squadroni Aberdeen Ady and the Polygraph Afloat After Air Between Us The Album Anatoles Little Saucepan The Andes Andrea Steudel Aubade Balloons Birthday Blast - Allan Kingdom Blue Eyes, Twenty One Days Of China BZz Carry On Cecilia Schiller Cento Cherish Garden Cherry Blossoms Controversies County State USA: Sweet Corn Creased Map of the Underworld Crescent Collective Crooked Candy Crows Reckoning Day One Death & the Maiden A Doctor and a Security Guard in Love Dodecahedron Eddie Eighty-Sixed Elgin Park Emily Stover Envision - Supreme Cuts feat. Channy of Poliça Every Day Final Boss - Doomtree Flat Chested The Gnomist Goodbye Rabbit, Hop Hop Greco Roman Greenland Growing Home Heard it from a Friend - Lolo Home Delivery How Not to Need Resurrection Humble Pie I Am Gone I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast Invaders Isola del Giglio Knightsville Lambing Season The Light of Each New Day Long Deployment, The Mallwalkers
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Meat Midway Muted Voices My Yellow Heart - Sandra Kolstad Neighborhoods Never Lover - Phox Never Really Knew - Simian Ghost Night Shift Northside Nightmares - Muja Messiah Not Done Loving Notes From There Nudes Numberlys Oceans - Father You See Queens Once One Lungers: The Andy Englund Story One Man, Eight Cameras Passione The Past is in the Present: At Home with Gunther Schuller Patterns in the Tide Pet Therapy The Photoplay Situation in America, 1915 A Place Called Hospice The Place Where You Live Plumb The Poachers Putting the Ribbon Back On Rediscovering John Berryman Sandorkraut Sea Beach Local Seduction Theory SHADOWS - Saving the Rain Forest Sharkey Sound the Bells - Dessa Soundtrack of Phillips Spearhunter Speed Dating Stag Stealth Steel // Spirit STRANGERS Syntax Talk 2 Me feat. Kerry Roy - Psymun Telephone Terri Huro: Within The Skin Totem Traveling Museum Triolet for Laika Two Strangers Meet in a Bar Tzdafa (A Shell) Unmappable The Voyage of the Soul - Not Life Alone Westbound Wild Animals - Trampled by Turtles Wire Cutters You’re Gonna Be My Baby - Tickle Torture Zebra
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