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THIS YEAR WE INVITE YOU TO BEAR WITNESS… TO THE STORIES BEING TOLD OF TRUTH, JUSTICE, CHANGE, BEAUTY AND OF HOPE… Welcome to the 13th annual Berkshire International Film Festival! During these four days at the BIFF you will experience an incredible array of storytelling. We found stories from the four corners of the globe that are reflective of our times. They are political and environmental, socially active and inspirational. They are full of passion, art, survival, humor and love.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Trustees // 3 Advisory Board // 3 Sponsors // 3 REEL Friends // 4 Thanks // 6 Volunteers // 8 Tips and Tricks // 8 BIFF Pass Info // 10 2017 Recap // 13-14

GREAT BARRINGTON

Opening Night // 17 Rachel Weisz Tribute Event // 19 Special Event Reading of Mamut // 21 Closing Day // 23 Tea Talks // 25-27 Friday Schedule // 29 Saturday Schedule // 31 Sunday Schedule // 33

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Opening Night // 35 Next Great Filmmaker Award // 35 Saturday Schedule // 37 Sunday Schedule // 39

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Ad Index // 95 Film Index // 95 Where to Eat // 96 Where to Stay // 96 Where to Watch // 96

BIFF will open at the Beacon in Pittsfield with the rock-and-rolling BAD REPUTATION about the one and only Joan Jett. The documentary follows her incredible, uncompromising and influential career. You will leave singing “I love rock ‘n’ roll!” The opening night begins with a party at the Beacon Cinema followed by the presentation of the NINTH annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” sponsored by Berkshire Bank—cast your vote until before May 30 at www.biffma. org and be part of the excitement!

It is a pleasure, and a huge honor, to pay tribute to the Academy Award-winning actor, Rachel Weisz for her remarkable achievement in film. Over the past 25 years, Ms. Weisz has displayed her fearlessness, intelligence and talent in over 64 roles and has won or been nominated for nearly every industry award—from a BAFTA, to a Golden Globe, to an Oscar. We celebrate the incredible body of work she has already created and the creative peaks she continues to climb. After a conversation with Ms. Weisz on the stage of the Mahaiwe, BIFF will screen her new film DISOBEDIENCE. The special event’s festivities, sponsored by GWFF, include a cocktail party and dinnerby-the-bite for pass-holders catered by The Red Lion Inn at the BIFF tent.

Finally, BIFF’s biennial gala is this Labor Day weekend—BOLLYWOOD IN THE BERKSHIRES! To introduce the Berkshire community to the wonderful film world of Bollywood, BIFF presents 3 FREE Bollywood films at Simon’s Rock on June 2. Join us in celebrating, Bollywood in the Berkshires!

Thank you to everyone that who has joined and continues to support the REEL Friends Film Society. It is vital to the BIFF and allows us to bring the best films to the festival and throughout the year. I must thank my incredibly dedicated and generous board of directors, our new executive director Laura Palmer, Lauren Ferin and the festival staff, the endless and selfless efforts of the advisory board, Lillian Lennox and the programming producers, the generous support and loyalty of our sponsors, the energy and spirit of our volunteers, the Triplex, Beacon, Mahaiwe and Simon’s Rock staff as well as the tremendous support from the towns of Great Barrington and Pittsfield.

So, leave your passport at home because BIFF will bring the world to you! Join me as we kick-off another wonderful cultural season in the Berkshires and let the cameras roll!

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The festival opens this year with the Sundance hit AMERICAN ANIMALS. This docudrama is the extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in US history. At its Sundance premiere, a Variety reviewer wrote, “this Sundance crowd-pleaser is a… wildly entertaining true-crime thriller.” The Hollywood Reporter had this to say, “Both as a writer and director, Bart Layton delivers the dramatic goods here with the skill of a pro at the top of his game while adding the rueful perspective of time’s reassessment of youthful indiscretions; this has to rate among the most accomplished and fully realized big-screen debuts of recent times.” Opening night festivities also include dinner, drinks and a dance party for pass-holders catered and sponsored by MAX Ultimate Food.

In addition to the dozens of remarkable films, BIFF will host some special events throughout the weekend including GWFF USA’s Juried Prize Award for narrative and documentary filmmaking, free family film screenings, and panel discussions. It is also our second year hosting “Tea Talks.” This year’s lineup includes a conversation with the Berkshires own, Cynthia Wade, preceded by a special sneak preview of her new prereleased film GRIT. The filmmaker and crew will be in attendance. We are also hosting a conversation with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Charles Randolph (THE BIG SHORT) who will be joined by acclaimed artist, Gregory Crewdson. Our third Tea Talk will be a sneak preview of a film from an award-winning director who will be in attendance for a conversation with his cast and crew. And don’t miss the staged reading of the upcoming film MUMBET followed by a Q&A with the director, writer, cast, producers, designers and special guests.

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Feature // 40-47 Documentary // 56-64 Shorts // 74-76 Kids Flix // 80 Jury Prize // 85-88 Bollywood in the Berkshires Spotlight! // 91

While this year’s festival will transport you to foreign lands, we are also bringing you important, engaging, powerful and fun stories from around the US and right here in the Berkshire community.

BIFF will close with the highly acclaimed Sundance hit, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? about the life and legacy of Mr. Rogers. The film was directed by Academy Award-winning director Morgan Neville and produced by Nicholas Ma who will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening.

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REEL SUPPORTER $75- $199 Jean Adelson Pamela and Mark Beiderman Adolph Berger Hinda and Bill Bodinger Robin Weiser and Peter Bodnar Barbara Bonner Rachel Brier Stan and Susan Brown Christine Casarsa Eileen and Michael Cohen Suzanne Crerar Katherine Dean and Frederic Gordon Catharine Deely Hilary Somers Deely and Phil Deely Cia Elkin and Laurence Gadd Laurily Epstein Mindi Faigen Susan and Hank Ferlauto Pat and Jim Fingeroth Molly and Frank Fitzmaurice Elisa and Larry Frankel Meryl and Barry Freedman Sandra L. Garrelick Judy and Sam Goldfarb Beth and Julian Gott Linda Greenhouse Randolph Hawthorne and Carliss Baldwin Maria Horn

THE REEL FRIENDS FILM SOCIETY BIFF’s mission is to present a world-class film festival as an integral part of the cultural fabric of the Berkshires; providing educational experiences and programs to filmmakers, the local community, and the general public.

Our REEL Friends Film Society provides the financial support we need to continue to bring you our annual film festival and these year-round events and special programs.

Won’t you join us? Visit our REEL Friends tent outside the Triplex Cinema to learn more about what we do and the upcoming special events and screenings —including BOLLYWOOD IN THE BERKSHIRES Labor Day weekend.

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Thanks Official Sponsor of the Tribute Event Party and Film in Great Barrington and the 9th Annual Juried Prize RONALD FROHNE AND GWFF U.S.A. Official Theater Sponsor and Home of the BIFF RICHARD STANLEY, THE TRIPLEX CINEMA AND THE BEACON CINEMA Triplex Cinema Staff Tim Danner, Manager Steve Johnson, Assistant Manager/Projectionist Beacon Cinema Staff Lydia Shulman, Manager Tony D’Angelo, Assistant Manager Chris Vaber, Social Media A big thank you to all the Triplex Cinema and Beacon Cinema Staff. There are too many to mention!

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2018 Jurors KAREN ALLEN JAYNE ATKINSON JOSH BRAUN SCOTT COHEN DARREN DEAN NANCY HULT GANIS SID GANIS MICHEL GILL KENT JONES PETER RIEGERT Official BIFF Industry Partners A24 A&E THE FILM COLLABORATIVE FOCUS FEATURES HBO DOCS MAGNOLIA NEON MEDIA NYICFF AND GKIDS THE ORCHARD OSCILLOSCOPE PBS VISIT FILMS Official 2018 Filmmaker Summit Producers MARY MOTT GORDON SIMMERING CAROLYN LANCASTER, FILMMAKER SUMMIT PRODUCER, CL PRODUCTIONS, NYC BIFF Collaborative Partners BARD COLLEGE AT SIMON’S ROCK BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE CLASSICAL TENTS JACOB’S PILLOW THE MAHAIWE THEATER ST. JAMES PLACE DOUG AND JULIA TRUMBULL Home Office Kelley Vickery, Founder & Artistic Director Laura Palmer, Executive Director Lauren Ferin, Executive Assistant Anne McLaughlin, Special Events Coordinator Lillian Lennox, International Festival Programmer Charley Seckler, BIFF Intern David Unterberger, BIFF Intern

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GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR BIFF EXPERIENCE! There are a lot of moving parts to the BIFF. The following rules and suggestions are to ensure that everyone who comes to the BIFF has the best experience possible and that our volunteers and staff can manage all of our events and screening.

ADMISSION

NOTE TO OUR PASSHOLDERS: To guarantee admission and priority early entry, you must be present at the venue 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time—a standard for all film festivals. Late seating is only permitted if easily accessible seats are available. Empty seats will be sold to festival-goers waiting patiently in our RUSH LINE.

RE-ENTRY INTO THEATERS

If you must exit the theater you must alert a BIFF usher to ensure re-entry to that same screening.

This policy applies to passholders too.

FESTIVAL ETIQUETTE

• Do not bring outside food into the festival theaters. In addition to their ongoing support of the BIFF, our theater partners offer a variety of food and drink through their concession stands.

• Exit the theaters immediately after all screenings.

This will allow staff and volunteers to clean and ready the theater for the next screening.

• Do not save seats for other guests between shows.

• Take your trash with you when you leave the theater.

• Keep talking to a minimum when exiting theaters as to not disturb patrons in other theaters.

• Recording equipment is not allowed in the theater.

• Turn off all cell phones during the screening.

• Refrain from talking during the screening so all of our guests may enjoy the film.

• There is no late seating if the theater is at full capacity.

• Lines may lead outside of the theater and temperatures in the theater vary. For your comfort, bring layers and dress appropriately.

HOW TO GET TICKETS PRE-ADVANCE SALE FOR REEL FRIENDS:

APRIL 26 AND 27 ONLY

MAIN BOX OFFICES:

APRIL 28-JUNE 3 You may purchase tickets for all films during regular business hours at:

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THE BEACON CINEMA 57 North Street, Pittsfield 413.358.4780 // Call for hours THE MAHAIWE THEATER* 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington 413.528.0100 Wednesday through Saturday, noon to 6 pm

*The Mahaiwe box office will only sell tickets for films screened at the Mahaiwe during regular box office hours.

ONLINE: APRIL 28-MAY 31 Tickets are available online at www.biffma. org until noon on Thursday, May 31. When the festival begins, advance tickets may only be purchased at the screening venues.

DAY-OF-SHOW SALES:

MAY 31-JUNE 3 During the festival, tickets may be purchased at the theater box office where the film is being screened. If the show has reached RUSH LINE status, please see below.**

WE ARE UNABLE TO OFFER EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS OF PURCHASED TICKET ALL INDIVIDUAL TICKETS $12 RUSH LINE $10 OPENING NIGHT $20 TRIBUTE EVENT $30 CLOSING NIGHT $15 SPECIAL EVENT & TEA TALKS $15

RUSH LINE TICKET SALES** Seats that have been reserved for passholders will be released for sale 5 minutes prior to the screening.

Plan to arrive at the theater 30 minutes before the screening time and wait in RUSH LINE for available tickets. All tickets will be sold on a firstcome-first-serve basis.

RUSH LINE TICKETS ARE CASH ONLY. NO REFUND OR EXCHANGES ALLOWED.

HOW TO PICK UP YOUR PASS MAY 14-31: Passes may be picked up at the BIFF OFFICE located at 40 Railroad Street, Suite #5 from 11 am to 4 pm, Mon-Fri. Special arrangements to pick up your passes at the Triplex Cinema or Beacon Cinema after BIFF business hours or during the weekend can be made by contacting Lauren at lauren@biffma.org or calling the BIFF office at 413.528.8030.

ON OPENING NIGHT-MAY 31: Passes may be picked up at the Mahaiwe Theater, located on 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington starting at 3 pm until 30 minutes after the Opening Night film begins.

All unclaimed passes after Opening Night will be available for pick up at the Triplex Theater, Friday June 1 beginning at 8:30 am and throughout the BIFF weekend.

Note: All-Access ($200) and 25 and under ($99) passes do not include the Tribute Night on Friday, June 1 and will need to purchase individual tickets.

VOLUNTEERS The BIFF simply would not be possible without the support, energy, and commitment of dozens of volunteers.

They enable us to bring you the event-filled and inspiring festival that you have come to expect.

There are many ways you can become involved in the BIFF. E-mail Lauren Ferin (lauren@biffma.org) to learn more.

ERICA HEINLEIN Great Barrington Volunteer Coordinator

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Pittsfield Volunteer & Program Distribution Coordinator

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SPECIAL EVENT SCREENPLAY READING OF MUMBET IN GREAT BARRINGTON 8PM Please join us for a staged reading of the upcoming film “MUMBET” and Q&A after the reading with the cast and crew.

(Open to the public, $15. FREE to passholders)

SUNDAY 6.3.18 CLOSING DAY IN GREAT BARRINGTON 11AM Intimate brunch with jury, filmmakers and nominees to announce the Juried Prize at allium Restaurant.

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CLOSING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON

5-6:45PM Cocktails and dinner-bythe-bite catered by The Red Lion Inn at the BIFF Tent across from the Mahaiwe.

(All-Inclusive and Tribute Event Passholders)

7PM BIFF presents the closing night film and Sundance audience favorite, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, by Academy Award winning director Morgan Neville.

Producer Nicholas Ma will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.

(Open to the public, $15. FREE to passholders)

7PM SPECIAL EVENT Tribute to Academy Award winning actor, Rachel Weisz rin conversation with David Edelstein, chief film critic for New York, as well as film critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning, at The Mahaiwe Theater.

8PM Tribute Screening of DISOBEDIENCE. (Tickets are $30 and open to the public for the Tribute Event and screening of DISOBEDIENCE. Free to $300 and $600 Passholders ONLY.) SPONSOR: GWFF

CLOSING NIGHT PARTY at the Prairie Whale featuring music by The Lucky 5.

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6:30PM Berkshire Bank presentation of the 9th Annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” and the screening of the award winning documentary about Joan Jett, BAD REPUTATION. (TICKETED EVENT! Party and screening open to the public, $25. FREE to passholders, but must have a ticket. Please call BIFF Office to reserve in advance. 413-528-8030.)

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THURSDAY 5.31.18 OPENING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON 6PM Opening Night Presentation of the Massachusetts Premiere of AMERICAN ANIMALS, nominated for the Grand Jury Prize Award for best dramatic feature at Sundance Film Festival, directed by Award-winning British director producer Bart Layton.

Q&A TO FOLLOW. (Open to the public, $20. FREE to passholders)

“This Sundance crowdpleaser is a… wildly entertaining true-crime thriller” - Variety “Both as a writer and director, Layton delivers the dramatic goods here with the skill of a pro at the top of his game while adding the rueful perspective of time’s reassessment of youthful indiscretions; this has to rate among the most accomplished and fully realized big-screen debuts of recent times.”

- Hollywood Reporter

8:30PM Cocktails, dinner and dancing at the BIFF Tent across from the Mahaiwe.

(All-Inclusive and Opening Night Passholders)

AMERICAN ANIMALS US, 2017, 115 min.

Film Courtesy of The Orchard

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Director/Writer // Bart Layton Producers // Derrin Schlesinger, Katherine Butler, Dmitri Doganis, Mary Jane Skalsi Cast // Evan Peters. Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson, Ann Dowd, Udo Kier

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American Animals is the extraordinary and thrilling true story of four friends who brazenly attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in U.S. history. Centering on unpredictable wild child Warren (Evan Peters) and aspiring artist Spencer (Barry Keoghan), two friends from the middle-class suburbs of Lexington, Kentucky, the film follows the duo through college life at separate universities, as adult pressures begin to weigh heavily on their futures. Realizing their lives may never be important, they organize the brazen theft of some valuable books from the special collections library of Spencer’s college, including Audubon’s Birds of America, valued at $10 million. Enlisting two more friends, budding accountant Eric (Jared Abrahamson) and fitness fanatic Chas (Barry Jenner), the gang meticulously plots the theft and subsequent fencing of the stolen volumes, taking cues from popular heist movies. But the thieves’ plan goes awry, placing their bright futures in limbo. Unfolding from multiple perspectives, and shifting between the fictionalized central narrative and documentarystyle interviews with the real-life figures on which the story is based, writer-directed Bart Layton (The Imposter) elevates the heist movie to bold and thrilling new heights.

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FRIDAY 6.1.18 SPECIAL EVENT TRIBUTE IN GREAT BARRINGTON 5-6:45PM Cocktails and dinner-bythe-bite catered by The Red Lion Inn at the BIFF Tent across from the Mahaiwe.

(All-Inclusive and Tribute Event Passholders) 7PM SPECIAL EVENT Tribute to Academy Award winning actor, Rachel Weisz in conversation with David Edelstein, chief film critic for New York, as well as film critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning, at The Mahaiwe Theater.

8PM Tribute Screening of DISOBEDIENCE. (Tickets are $30 and open to the public for the Tribute Event and screening of DISOBEDIENCE. Free to $300 and $600 Passholders ONLY.)

Photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe

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BIFF 2018 ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM HONOREE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTOR

RACHEL WEISZ

Like a moth to a flame, Rachel Weisz gravitates to some of the most challenging roles in many of the most provocative films of our time.

From taking on Holocaust deniers in DENIAL, to inhabiting the dystopian world of THE LOBSTER, to exposing pharmaceutical corruption in THE CONSTANT GARDENER to playing a lesbian in the Ultra-Orthodox world in DISOBEDIENCE, Rachel Weisz has displayed her fearlessness and intelligence in over 64 roles spanning film, television and theater since launching her career 1994.

It is a pleasure, and a huge honor, to have the extraordinary Rachel Weisz be our special guest at this year’s Berkshire International Film Festival

From Sebastián Lelio, the director of the Academy Award-winning A Fantastic Woman, Disobedience follows a woman as she returns to the community that shunned her decades earlier for an attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.

Director // Sebastián Lelio Writters // Sebastián Lelio, Rebecca Lenkiewicz Book // Naomi Alderman Cast // Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Alessandro Nivola

Film Courtesy of Obscured Pictures

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For her work she has been nominated or won nearly every award given out to actors: The Saturn, The Genie, British Independent Film Award, The Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, Critics Choice Award, BAFTA Award, numerous Critics Choice awards and, in 2005, the Academy Award for her role in the extraordinary THE CONSTANT GARDENER.

US, 2017, 116 min.

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Traversing stage, television and film with equal daring, she has taken on comedy, historical drama, fantasy, action thrillers, political thrillers, science fiction, psychosexual dramas, crime dramas, literary adaptations, comic book adaptations, romantic comedies, caper films, etc, etc.

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SATURDAY 6.2.18 MUMBET SCREENPLAY READING SPECIAL EVENT 8PM Please join us for a staged reading of the upcoming film “MUMBET” and Q&A after the reading with the cast and crew.

(Open to the public, $15. FREE to passholders)

SPECIAL EVENT SCREENPLAY READING OF MUMBET IN GREAT BARRINGTON 2018, 90 min.

Director/Producer Alethea Root, Writer Stephen Glantz, Producer Kim Waltrip, Executive Producers Jayne Atkinson and Elizabeth Aspenlieder, Co-Producer Jana Laiz, Diane Pearlman and Jameelah Nuruddin, Production Designer Carl Sprague, and Costume Designer Kevin Draves, Governor Deval Patrick and State Representative Smitty Pignatelli will be in attendance.

More special guests to be announced.

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She could neither read nor write, yet with fearless courage, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman used the very words written by the men she served, “all men are created free and equal” to challenge the courts and sue for her freedom, changing the course of history, 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation. This is the true story of an unsung American hero who was truly a founding Mother of our country.

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SUNDAY 6.3.18 CLOSING DAY IN GREAT BARRINGTON 11AM Intimate brunch with jury, filmmakers and nominees to announce the Juried Prize at allium Restaurant.

(All-Inclusive Passholders) The brunch is generously hosted and underwritten by

CLOSING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON 7PM BIFF presents the closing night film and Sundance audience favorite, WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?, by Academy Award winning director Morgan Neville.

Producer Nicholas Ma will be in attendance for a Q&A following the film.

(Open to the public, $15. FREE to passholders) CLOSING NIGHT PARTY following screening at the Prairie Whale featuring music by The Lucky 5.

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? US, 2018, 98 min.

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Director // Morgan Neville Producers // Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma

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Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville’s latest documentary takes an intimate look at America’s favorite neighbor: Mister Fred Rogers. A portrait of a man whom we all think we know, this documentary is an emotional and moving film that takes you beyond zip-up cardigans and the land of make-believe, and into the heart of a creative genius, who inspired generations of children with compassion and limitless imagination.

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TEA TALKS

TEA TALKS Tea Talks celebrates the craft of making movies, from screenwriting to directing, cinematography to producing.

Tea Talks puts you in the story as you spend time with those closest to the action.

Come listen as we bring you some of the great minds of movie making today.

Tea Talks. Don’t miss a second.

FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN TEA TALK WITH CHARLES RANDOLPH, GREGORY CREWDSON

CHARLES RANDOLPH Charles Randolph is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. Randolph was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a cultural studies[ and philosophy professor. At age 33, Randolph spent a weekend in Los Angeles and through a series of events, was inspired to attempt screenwriting.

The rest is history.

Gregory Crewdson is a fine art photographer who lives and works in the Berkshires. Originally from Park Slope, Brooklyn, he is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and the Yale School of Art, where he is currently Director of Graduate Studies in Photography.

In conversation with Charles Randolph and Gregory Crewdson

How does the written word become the spoken word?

Not easily.

What are the steps the writer goes through? How are they sure the listener is listening... and understanding? How do they stay true to their story?

Join us as we delve into these issues and more with writers on the front line of making movies.

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Crewdson’s work has been exhibited widely in the United States and Europe and is featured in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Brooklyn Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. His most recent body of work, Cathedral of the Pines, opened at Gagosian New York in early 2016, and has since been exhibited in Paris, London, Brussels, and Toruń.

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Randolph has written screenplays for several films and TV movies including The Life of David Gale (2003), The Interpreter (2005), Love & Other Drugs (2010) and The Big Short (2015). In 2016 Randolph received the Writers Guild of America Award, the Critics Choice Award, and the Bafta Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, He also won the Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay for co-writing The Big Short with Adam McKay.

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TEA TALK WITH CYNTHIA WADE

Saturday, 6/2, 1:30PM, Mahiwe

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FILM SCREENING AND Q&A

GRIT US/Indonesia, 2018, 80 min.

Academy Award® winning documentary director Cynthia Wade spent six years following the extraordinary story of drilling gone wrong in Indonesia. Exclusive to BIFF is a special advance screening of the feature-length documentary GRIT, to be widely released in late 2018. Join Cynthia Wade for a Tea Talk after the screening on Saturday, June 2nd at 1:30 pm at the historic Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington.

SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW

Directors // Cynthia Wade, Sasha Friedlander

English Subtitles Filmmaker in Attendance Advance Screening

TEA TALK WITH FILMMAKERS

Sunday, 6/3, 2:30PM, Mahaiwe

US, 2018, 90 min.

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Screening and Q&A with director, cast and crew in attendance immediately following.

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SNEAK PREVIEW of a soon-to-be-released new film from an award-winning writer and director. The film was shot entirely in the area and includes an Emmy-Award winning actress and a wonderful ensemble cast. The director and members of the cast and crew will be in attendance immediately following the film.

An event you do not want to miss!

When Dian was six years old, she heard a deep rumble and turned to see a tsunami of mud barreling towards her village. Her neighbors ran for their lives. Sixteen villages, including Dian’s, were plunged under 60 feet of mud. A decade later, nearly 60,000 people have been displaced from what was once a thriving industrial and residential area in East Java, Indonesia. The cause?

Lapindo, a multinational company drilling for natural gas in 2006, struck an underground pocket of mud and unleashed a violent flow of hot sludge from the earth’s depths.

Despite initial assurances to do so, Lapindo has not provided promised reparations to the victims. With factories and offices buried deep, the victims turn the disaster site into a popular tourist destination. Dian’s mother spends her days guiding curious Indonesians across the wasteland so the tourists can snap photos of the boiling muck spurting violently into the sky. The vast lunar landscape is littered with bizarre activities: fashion photographers take stylish photos of models in ball gowns; vendors sell selfie sticks; protesters smear mud over their bodies in stubborn acts of resistance. Dian is determined to rise out of the muddy life. She and her mother fight against the corporation accused of one of the largest man-made environmental disasters in recent history. The film bears witness to Dian’s transformation into a politically active teenager as she questions the role of corporate power and money in the institution of democracy itself.

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HOCHELAGA, TERRA DES AMES

11:15AM

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Canada, 2017, 100 min.

FEATURE Page 41

1:30PM

SHORTS #1 116 min.

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OF FATHERS AND SONS

11:30AM

HOUSE OF TEETH

1:45PM

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SHORTS #2 104 min.

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JULIE, BLUE

9:30AM

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA

Japan/US, 2018, 100 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 62

OUT OF MY HEAD

US, 2017, 77 min.

DOCUMENTARY

Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar 2017, 99 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 61

4:00pm

5:00pm

US/Jordan, 2018, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 63

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1:45PM

3:00pm

DATELINE SAIGON

THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY

9:30AM

12:00PM

US/Iceland, 2018, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

SHORTS #3 67 min.

SHORTS Page 76

THE HUMAN ELEMENT

2:00PM

IMPOSED PIECE

Belgium, 2017, 75 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

GONE IN AN INSTANT

US, 2017, 85 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

US/Ukraine, 2018, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 43

6:00pm 6:15PM 7:00pm 7:00PM

THE LONG DUMB ROAD

GETTING NAKED: A BURLESQUE STORY 9:15PM

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THE CHARMER

Iran/Holland, 2017, 100 min.

FEATURE Page 40

7:00PM

RACHEL WEISZ TRIBUTE

US, 2018, 85 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

8:30PM

MAZE

Ireland, 2017, 93 min.

FEATURE Page 44

DISOBEDIENCE

US, 2017, 116 min.

FEATURE Page 19

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US, 2018, 98 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 62

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10:00pm

US, 2017, 95 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

US, 2018, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 43

8:00pm

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE

11:00pm

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ALIGARH India, 2015, 110 min.

BAJIRAO MASTANI India, 2015, 120 min.

PIKU India, 2015, 110 min.

TRIPLEX #1

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TRIPLEX #3

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9:00am 9:00AM

9:15AM 10:00am

11:00am

Germany, 2017, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 42

11:30AM

US, 2018, 95 min.

FEATURE Page 40

1:00pm

2:00pm

EIGHTH GRADE

1:30PM

L’INSTANT INFINI

9:00AM

11:30AM 11:45AM

DARK MONEY

US, 2018, 98 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57 1:15PM

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1:30PM

SHORTS #2 104 min.

SHORTS Page 75

TEA TALK WITH CHARLES RANDOLPH, GREGORY CREWDSON

2:15PM

IT WILL BE CHAOS

TEA TALK & SCREENING OF GRIT WITH CYNTHIA WADE Page 27

US, 2018, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 60 3:45PM

EDIE

4:00PM

SHORTS #1

UK, 2018, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 40

5:00pm

116 min.

SHORTS Page 74

4:30PM

6:15PM 7:00pm

LOVE, GILDA

US, 2018, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 60

RESTORING TOMORROW

US, 2017, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 62

6:00pm

6:30PM 6:45PM

BREWMASTER

DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION

8:00PM

8:45PM 9:00PM

SILK ROAD

UNDER THE TREE

SCREENPLAY READING OF MUMBET Page 21

Iceland, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 47

11:00pm

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Netherlands/Spain, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 46

FILMMAKER PARTY ONSTAGE

67 min.

SHORTS Page 76

8:30PM

US, 2018, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57

5:00PM

SHORTS #3

US, 2018, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

8:00pm

10:00pm

US, 2017, 85 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 63

US, 2018, 112 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

3:00pm

9:00pm

WHAT LIES UPSTREAM

306 HOLLYWOOD

US/Hungary, 2018, 88 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

France/Switzerland, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 42

4:00pm

9:00AM

CRIME + PUNISHMENT

US, 2018, 95 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 63

THE INVISIBLES

11:00AM 12:00pm

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STREAKERS

11:00am

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1:00pm

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FEATURE Page 46

11:30AM

France, 2017, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 42

US, 2018, 95 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 61

11:30AM

THE ETERNAL FEMININE

Mexico, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 41

9:30AM

KID FLIX MIX

9:30am

60 min.

SHORTS Page 80

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE

Canada, 2017, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 43

11:45AM

11:30AM

THE GUILTY

Denmark, 2018, 85 min.

FEATURE Page 41

MOVING STORIES

US/India/Iraq/Romania/ South Korea, 2018, 85 min.

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1:30PM

2:00pm 2:00PM 3:00pm

THE HOUSE

BY THE SEA

ON HER SHOULDERS

UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER

US/France, 2018, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 47

THE GODDESSES OF FOOD

France, 2017, 115 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

2:00PM

SCAFFOLDING

Israel/Poland, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 45

2:00PM

TEA TALK, SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING AND Q&A WITH FILMMAKERS Page 27

4:00pm 4:00PM

4:15PM 5:00pm

WOMAN WALKS AHEAD US, 2017, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 47

6:00pm 6:30PM

8:00pm

LOVELING

Brazil/Uruguay, 2018, 95 min.

FEATURE Page 44

4:00PM

NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE

Germany/Italy, 2018, 95 min.

FEATURE Page 46

6:15PM 7:00pm

THREE PEAKS

THE WORKERS CUP

UK, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 64

Iran, 2017, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 44

6:30PM

BAD REPUTATION

US, 2017, 95 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 35

7:00PM

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR?

US, 2018, 98 min.

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10:00pm BIFFMA.ORG

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by Mission.

6:30PM Berkshire Bank presentation of the 9th Annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” and the screening of the award winning documentary about Joan Jett, BAD REPUTATION. (Open to the public. $25 for non-passholders)

BAD REPUTATION US, 2017, 95 min.

HELP US SELECT THE NEXT GREAT FILMMAKER! Berkshire Bank, in collaboration with the Berkshire International Film Festival, has created The Next Great Filmmaker Award.

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Joan Jett is so much more than “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll.” It’s true, she became mega-famous from the number-one hit, and that fame intensified with the music video’s endless play on MTV. But that staple of popularity can’t properly define a musician. Jett put her hard work in long before the fame, ripping it up onstage as the backbone of the hard-rock legends The Runaways, influencing many musicians— both her cohort of punk rockers and generations of younger bands—with her no-bullshit style. Bad Reputation gives you a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning ’70s punk scene, and their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage. The theme is clear: even though people tried to define Jett and keep her stuck to one hit, she never compromised. She will kick your ass, and you’ll love her all the more for it Director // Kevin Kerslake Writer // Joel Marcus Exec. Producers // Dan Braun, Justus Haerder, Kathy Rivkin-Daum

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UK, 2017, 90 min.

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THE CHARMER

EDIE

EIGHTH GRADE

Iran/Holland, 2017, 100 min.

UK, 2018, 115 min.

US, 2018, 95 min.

The Charmer” is an intense psychological drama about Esmail, a young Iranian man who is desperately looking to meet women who can secure his stay in Denmark. As time is running out he falls in love and his past catches up with him.

Edith Moore (Edie) is a bitter, gruff woman in her eighties. In the months following her husband George’s death, Edie’s strained relationship with her daughter Nancy begins to worsen. The question over Edie’s future looms large; while Edie tries hard to convince Nancy she can manage fine by herself, Nancy is making plans for her mother to move to a retirement home. Edie feels like it is the beginning of the end. It seems she will die with all the regrets of her past intact and one regret haunts her most of all. When Edie was married, her father planned a climbing trip for them in the Scottish Highlands. Edie yearned to go, but her husband George, a difficult and controlling man, made her stay at home, nearly thirty years later, Edie decides to make the trip herself alone.

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school—the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year— before she begins high school.

Director // Milad Alami Writers // Ingeborg Topsoe, Milad Alami Cast // Ardalan Esmaili, Lars Brygmann, Stine Fischer Christensen, Austa Lee Jesperson

English Subtitles

Friday 6/1, 6:00PM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 4:15PM, Beacon #2

Director // Simon Hunter Writers // Edward Lynden-Bell, Elizabeth O’Halloran, Based on an idea by Simon Hunter Cast // Sheila Hancock, Kevin Guthrie, Amy Manson, Paul Brannigan, Wendy Morgan

Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

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Director/Writer // Bo Burnham Producers // Scott Rudin, Eli Bush, Lila Yacoub, Christopher Storer Cast // Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton

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Saturday 6/2, 11:30AM, Triplex #1

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THE ETERNAL FEMININE

THE GUILTY

Mexico, 2017, 90 min.

When police officer Asger Holm (Jakob Cedergren) is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. Asger, confined to the police station, is forced to use others as his eyes and ears as the severity of the crime slowly becomes more clear. The search to find the missing woman and her assailant will take every bit of his intuition and skill, as a ticking clock and his own personal demons conspire against him. This innovative and unrelenting Danish thriller uses a single location to great effect, ratcheting up the tension as twists pile up and secrets are revealed. Director Gustav Möller expertly frames the increasingly messy proceedings against the clean Scandinavian sterility of the police department, while Cedergren’s strong performance anchors the film and places the audience squarely in Holm’s tragically flawed yet well-intentioned mindspace.

Rosario Castellanos is an introverted university student who doesn’t seem to belong to her time. In the early 1950s in Mexico City, she is fighting to have her voice heard in a society run by men. She is about to become one of the biggest female writers in Mexican literature, but her tumultuous love story with Ricardo Guerra will manifest her fragility and contradictions.

At the peak of her career and her marriage, she will ignite a discussion that will mark a turning point in her life.

Director // Natalia Beristain Writers // Javier Penalosa, Maria Renee Prudencio Cast // Karina Gidi, Tessa La, Danie Gimenez Cacho, Pedro De Tavira

English Subtitles

Sunday 6/3, 11:30AM, Triplex #2

Denmark, 2018, 85 min.

Director // Gustav Moller Writers // Gustav Moller, Emil Nygaard Albertsen Cast // Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen, Omar Shargawi

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Magnolia

HOCHELAGA, TERRA DES AMES Canada, 2017, 100 min.

A tremendous downpour hits Montreal, and a spectacular sinkhole opens up in Percival Molson Stadium in the middle of a football game. The stadium is evacuated, and a few hours later, it becomes a protected archaeological site. Centuries of history are revealed beneath the field.

Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny begins investigating, and he will discover the multitude of generations who have occupied this land, each with buried secrets. Baptiste then sets out to find what he has spent his career searching for: the vestiges of the village of Hochelaga where his Iroquoian ancestors met French explorer Jacques Cartier in October 1535.

HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS explores 750 years of history in one single spot where the souls of all centuries and all cultures come together.

Director/Writer // François Girard Cast // Samian, Raoul Max Trujillo, Vincent Perez

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Friday 6/1, 11:15AM, Triplex #1

Sunday 6/3, 11:45AM, Triplex #3

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THE HOUSE

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L’INSTANT INFINI

THE INVISIBLES

France/Switzerland, 2017, 90 min.

Germany, 2017, 110 min.

France, 2017, 110 min.

Young and pretty Mary believes she’s responsible for the death of her little daughter and became a self-pleasure addict to keep her mind from reliving the terrible event.

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become “invisible.”

Hanni, Cioama, Eugen and Ruth. Four ordinary German youths trying to navigate the scarcities and prohibitions of Berlin at the height of World War II. They hailed from different social classes and different neighborhoods, but they shared a single common secret: they were Jews. While Goebbels infamously declared Berlin “free of Jews” in 1943, some 1,700 managed to survive in Nazism’s capital until liberation.

Claus Räfle’s gripping docudrama traces the stories of four real-life survivors who learned that sometimes the best place to hide is in plain sight. While moving between cinemas, cafés and safe houses they dodged Gestapo and a dense network of spies and informants, knowing that certain death was just one mistake away.

Yet their prudence was at odds with their youthful inclination towards recklessness, sometimes prompting them to join the resistance, forge passports, or pose as Aryan war widows. Masterfully weaving the different story threads together, THE INVISIBLES is a testament to the resourcefulness, willpower, and sheer chance that permit us to survive against incredible odds.

By a little bay near Marseille lies a picturesque villa owned by an old man. His three children have gathered by his side for his last days: Angela, an actress living in Paris, Joseph, who has just fallen in love with a girl half his age and Armand, the only one who stayed behind in Marseille to run the family’s small restaurant. It’s time for them to weigh up what they have inherited of their father’s ideals and the community spirit he created in this magical place. The arrival, at a nearby cove, of a group of boat people will throw these moments of reflection into turmoil.

Director // Robert Guediguian Writers // Robert Guediguian, Serge Valletti Cast // Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan, Jacques Boudet, Anais Demoustier

English Subtitles

Sunday 6/3, 11:30AM, Triplex #1 Sunday 6/3, 2:00PM, Beacon #3

Director/Writer // Douglas Beer Cast // Jennifer Rihouey, Leonard Delacroix, Mathieu Chardet

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Director/Writer // Klaus Rafle Cast // Max Mauff, Alice Dwyer, Ruby O. Fee, Aaron Altaras, Victoria Schulz, Florian Lukas

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THE JUNIOR LEAGUE

JULIE, BLUE

Canada, 2017, 115 min.

As a young woman comes into her own in war-torn Ukraine, she finds her path towards independence and a brighter future challenged by an unexpected love.

5 years after the events of “Les Pee Wee 3D”, Janeau Trudel and Joey Boulet are now playing for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens and are looking forward to the Draft at the end of the year. Little do they know, the road to the playoffs and the infamous draft is full of obstacles Director // Eric Tessier Writers // Martin Bouchard, Emmanuel Joly Cast // Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Rémi Goulet, Alice Morel-Michaud

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Sunday 6/3, 9:30AM, Triplex #3

US/Ukraine, 2018, 90 min.

Director/Writer // Roxy Toporowych Cast // Polina Snisarenko

English Subtitles Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

Friday 6/1, 4:00PM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 2:00PM, Beacon #3

THE LONG DUMB ROAD US, 2018, 90 min.

Nat, a 19 year-old aspiring photographer, leaves his parents’ Austin, TX nest, bids goodbye to his recent ex-girlfriend, and heads out onto the open highway heading towards Los Angeles. When his car breaks down, he meets Richard, a drifter with mechanic skills who offers to fix his old minivan in exchange for a ride to a nearby bus station. Thus begins the road trip of a lifetime – a bar fight in Marfa, TX with cowboys, a visit to Richard’s now grown teenage love and her bratty daughter that doesn’t go well, a drunken night with two sisters: Rebecca and Nina and of course, as with any road trip, Nat and Richard get even with the guy who leaves them stranded with no car, money, or cell phone in the woods – all before Nat must start classes and move into his dorm.

Director // Hannah Fidell Writers // Hannah Fidell, Carson Mell Cast // Tony Revolori, Jason Mantzoukas, Taissa Farmiga, Grace Gummer, Ron Livingston, Casey Wilson

Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

Friday 6/1, 7:00PM, Triplex #1 Saturday 6/2, 11:45AM, Beacon #1

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LOVELING

MAZE

Brazil/Uruguay, 2018, 95 min.

Ireland, 2017, 93 min.

Irene is married to Klaus. They live in Petrópolis, a small city on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, and have four children.

Fernando, Rodrigo, and the twins. The couple has been struggling for years to finish building their new house. Irene works as an independent seller while finishing her studies to get her high-school diploma.

Klaus runs a small copy shop where he also sells books. Fernando, their eldest son, plays handball. After being the highlight of the season, the boy is invited to join a professional team in Germany and will leave his parents house much sooner than expected. Among the everyday issues of their family’s life, Irene will have to deal with the early separation from Fernando and adapt to a new life without him

MAZE charts how inmate Larry Marley, played by Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Love / Hate), becomes chief architect of the largest prison escape in Europe since World War II – an escape which he plans but does not go on himself. Up against him is the most state-of-the-art and secure prison in the whole of Europe - a prison within a prison. While scheming his way towards pulling off this feat, Larry comes into close contact with prison warder Gordon Close, played by Barry Ward (Jimmy’s Hall). Larry and Gordon’s complex journey begins with cautious, chess-like moves. Initially, Gordon holds all the power in their relationship and rejects all of Larry’s attempts at establishing a friendship between them. Bit by bit, Larry wears down Gordon’s defenses, maneuvering himself into a position of trust. As each man begins to engage with the other as an equal, the barrier between prisoner and warder has been broken.

During all this time, however, Larry has been scheming behind Gordon’s back, gleaning as much information as he can and working with other prisoners in a separate block, trying to engineer their escape. When the escape finally takes place, thirty-eight prisoners reach the main gate and nineteen get away. Gordon is stunned by Larry’s betrayal and his own foolishness. Still, both of them have been irrevocably changed by their interaction. Their relationship represents the beginning of dialogue between the two sides, the first green shoots of the eventual peace process. As both the epicentre of an enduring conflict and the source of its eventual resolution, the story of MAZE is the story of the troubles themselves.

Director // Gustavo Pizzi Writers // Gustavo Pizzi, Karine Teles Cast // Karine Teles, Otavio Muller, Adriana Esteves, Konstantinos Sarris, Cesar Troncoso

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Director/Writer // Stephen Burke Cast // Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh, Niamh McGrady, Ross McKinney

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NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE Iran, 2017, 115 min.

A seemingly minor traffic collision has far-reaching consequences in this story of a well-meaning medical examiner haunted by the death of a child he might have prevented. As the story unfolds, his fate becomes inextricably bound up with that of the grieving family. In only his second feature, Jalilvand coaxes brilliantly understated performances from a superb cast for this compelling, considered meditation on guilt and grief.

Director/Writer // Vahid Jalilvand Cast // Navid Mohammadzadeh, Amir Agha’ee, Hediyeh Tehrani, Zakiyeh Behbahani, Sa’eed Dakh, Alireza Ostadi

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Noori

Sunday 6/3, 4:00PM, Triplex #3

FILMS FEATURE

PIEDS NUS DANS L’AUBE

SCAFFOLDING

SHELTER

Israel/Poland, 2017, 90 min.

Israel, 2017, 90 min.

Canada, 2017, 115 min.

17-year-old Asher has always been the impulsive troublemaker, from primary school, all through junior high and high school. It’s hard for him to concentrate in class, and he is compelled by a lot of rage and violence; yet he is also endowed with a considerable amount of charm and street wisdom. While his strict father sees him as a natural successor to the family’s scaffolding business, Asher finds a different masculine role model in his gentle literature teacher Rami and forges a special connection with him. Torn between the two worlds, Asher looks for a chance for a new life and new identity. When a sudden tragedy occurs, he has to take the ultimate test of maturity.

Two women trapped in a safe house where nothing is safe and no one can be trusted.

Based on “The Link” by Shulamit Hareven.

A subtle thriller set in Germany involving Mona, a Lebanese woman (Golshifteh Farahani), and Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent (Neta Riskin) sent to protect their informant while recovering from plastic surgery for her new identity. Mona and Naomi - together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg. A safe house. A shelter. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned and choices are made that are not their own. And yet their fate takes a surprising turn in this suspense-laden, elegant neo-noir.

La Tuque, autumn 1926. Félix Leclerc, 12, accompanies his father Léo, his brother and his uncle on their daily work. Along the way, he meets Fidor, a boy his age from a very poor family. The two kids build a strong bond of friendship throughout the coming year, which is filled with a number of firsts and lasts for Felix.

The first impossible love with the pretty nurse who shelters his horse in the Leclerc stable. His first perilous trip to a remote corner of the Mauricie, where Léo, a coureur des bois in his soul, intends to found a village. It’s also Félix’s last summer in La Tuque, because next September, he’ll be leaving the parents he loves to go to school in Ottawa.

Director // Francis Leclerc Writers // Francis Leclerc, Fred Pellerin Cast // Shauna Bonaduce, Roy Dupuis, Marianne Fortier

Director/Writer // Matan Yair Cast // Asher Lax, Ami Smolartchik, Yaacov Cohen, Keren Berger

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Director/Writer // Eran Riklis Cast // Golshifteh Farahani, Neta Riskin, Dorald Liddawi, Haluk Bilginer, Mark Waschke

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SILK ROAD

STREAKERS

THREE PEAKS

Netherlands/Spain, 2017, 90 min.

Switzerland, 2017, 100 min.

Germany/Italy, 2018, 95 min.

When a 20-year old girl meets the charismatic boy living across the street, it starts her on the road to becoming a successful drug dealer on Silk Road. Along the way she gets caught up in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game played by police, criminals, and her own boyfriend. How far will she go? Who can she trust – and just who is using who?

In order to get out of a financial crisis, high school teacher Balz Naef (53) starts recruiting and training streakers for illegal sports betting. While he and his team help streaking become the new trend sport, his situation does not improve. On the contrary: His troubles have only just begun.

As a man courts the acceptance of his girlfriend’s son, the unstable triangle heads for a harrowing fight for survival.

Fatherhood, suspicion and resentment are a combustible formula in Jan Zabeil’s elegant, unnerving domestic thriller. German Aaron (Alexander Fehling, Homeland) has found the woman of his life in his French girlfriend Lea (Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) but her young son Tristan still imagines his mother reconciling with his American father. On what should be an idyllic vacation in the soaring Italian Dolomites, Aaron fights to win over Tristan and cement his place in this family, while Lea wrestles with conflicting loyalties to her son and her lover. Yet when Tristan disappears into the mountains, it’s unclear who is in the most danger. Complex, deceptive and gripping to the last second, THREE PEAKS chips away at our darkest nightmares to reveal the everyday anxieties on which they feed.

Director // Mark de Cloe Writers // Marc Linssen, Roeland Linssen Based on an idea by Sacha Gertsik Cast // Olivia Lonsdale, Gijs Blom, Jonas Smulders

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Saturday 6/2, 9:00PM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 2:15PM, Beacon #2

Director // Peter Luisi Writers // Peter Luisi, Beat Schlatter Cast // Beat Schlatter, Doro Muggler, Bendrit Bajra, Luna Wedler

English Subtitles

Sunday 6/3, 9:15AM, Triplex #1 Sunday 6/3, 3:45PM, Beacon #1

Director/Writer // Jan Zabeil Cast // Alexander Fehling, Berenice Bejo, Arian Montgomery

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UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER

UNDER THE TREE

WOMAN WALKS AHEAD

US/France, 2018, 90 min.

Iceland, 2017, 90 min.

US, 2017, 110 min.

UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER is a comingof-middle age tale that follows bourbon salesman Stuart (VEEP’s Matt Walsh) after a heart-crushing break up in Paris sets in motion a life crisis that lands him on a journey across the French countryside where a possible romance blooms with local wine saleswoman, Louise (Cesarnominated actress, Judith Godreche).

Featuring a notable comedy ensemble cast including Reid Scott (VEEP), David Wain (WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER), Gary Cole (TALLADEGA NIGHTS), Michaela Watkins (CASUAL), and Dylan Gelula (FLOWER), the dark comedy landscape of UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER takes the viewer on an emotional comedic journey where, like wine, the heart can transform and age to its proper multi-layered vintage.

UNDER THE TREE follows a man who is accused of adultery and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked into a dispute between his parents and their neighbors over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat between suburban neighbors unexpectedly and violently reaches a boiling point, soon spiraling out of control.

Based on a true story, this riveting western follows a headstrong New York widow (Jessica Chastain) as she takes a dangerous journey west to paint Sioux chief Sitting Bull, facing off with an army officer (Sam Rockwell) intent on war with Native Americans.

Director // Archie Borders Writers // Archie Borders, David Henry Cast // Matt Walsh, Judith Godrèche, Reid Scott

Film Courtesy of The Orchard

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English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Magnolia

Director // Susanna White Writer // Steven Knight Cast // Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Ciaran Hinds, Michael Nouri, David Midthunder, Michael Greyeyes, Bill Camp

Film Courtesy of A24

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US/Hungary, 2018, 88 min.

In 1998 there were less than 1,500 breweries in the United States - now there are over 7,000. BREWMASTER tells the story of the rise of craft beer through two young men pursuing their dreams in the world of beer. Drew is a New York lawyer who wants to start his own brewery. He uses every free moment to make this a reality while preparing for a pitch with a potential investor. Brian, an ex-telemarketer, is studying to become a Master Cicerone - the beer equivalent of a sommelier which requires taking a test only 13 people have ever passed. Set in the craft beer community, the film features successful brewers Sam Calagione, John and Jen Kimmich, Jim Koch, Garrett Oliver and Rob Tod.

When siblings Elan and Jonathan Bogarín lose their grandma, they uncover an extraordinary universe in the seemingly ordinary home they inherit. Their overwhelmed mother tells them to “Sell the house, and throw everything out!”, but instead they embark on an epic journey to discover what life remains in the objects left behind. Grandma’s house and all of the collected junk at 306 Hollywood Avenue springs to life in the cinematic playground of this rule-breaking, magicalrealist documentary. The filmmaking duo’s odyssey leads from suburban New Jersey to ancient Rome — using fashion, physics, dance, and archeology to illuminate how the most ordinary objects can transform into a vast metaphor for the nature of memory, time, and history.

US, 2018, 90 min.

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US, 2018, 112 min.

Directors // Douglas Tirola, Susan Bedusa

Amidst a landmark class action lawsuit over illegal policing quotas, CRIME + PUNISHMENT intimately observes the real lives and struggles of a group of black and Latino whistleblower cops known as “The NYPD 12” and the young minorities they are pressured to arrest and summons in New York City. Over four years of unprecedented access, the film cinematically exposes the interconnected stories of systemic injustice in New York City policing through the bold efforts of a group of active duty officers, an innocent young man stuck in Rikers and one unforgettable private investigator.

They bravely risk their safety, careers and livelihoods to bring light to harmful policing practices which have plagued the precincts and streets of New York City for decades.

Filmmaker in Attendance

Director // Stephen Maing

Directors // Elan Bogarin, Jonathan Bogarin Writerss // Jonathan Bogarin, Elan Bogarin, Nyneve Laura Minnear

Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

CRIME + PUNISHMENT

Film Courtesy of The Film Collaborative Saturday 6/2, 6:45PM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 9:00AM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 9:15AM, Beacon #3

FILMS DOCUMENTARY

DARK MONEY US, 2018, 98 min.

DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide— to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impacts of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.

Through this gripping story, DARK MONEY uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections are bought and sold. This Sundance award-winning documentary is directed/produced by Kimberly Reed (PRODIGAL SONS) and produced by Katy Chevigny (E-TEAM).

Director // Kimberly Reed Writers // Kimberly Reed, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg

Film Courtesy of PBS

DATELINE: SAIGON US, 2017, 90 min.

Lies, deceit, and the dangerous search for truth: Tom Herman’s critically-acclaimed and timely documentary Dateline: Saigon chronicles the controversial and groundbreaking reporting of five Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists – The New York Times’ David Halberstam; The Associated Press’ Malcolm Browne, Peter Arnett, and photojournalist Horst Faas; and United Press International’s Neil Sheehan during the early years of the Vietnam War. With the reality on the ground vastly different from the official White House version, their courageous reporting ushered in a modern era of journalism that sought to speak truth to power and hold the government accountable. Fake news is a challenge faced not only by today’s reporters – and public – but by all generations.

Director/Writer // Thomas Herman Cast // Sam Waterson

Saturday 6/2, 11:45AM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 2:00PM, Beacon #2

Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE DALLAS COWBOY CHEERLEADERS US, 2018, 90 min.

DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION is the never-before-told story of Suzanne Mitchell, the fiercelyloyal den mother of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Seen by many as regressive and exploitative, this diverse sisterhood of small-town “girls next door” became a controversial pop culture phenomenon at the height of the Sexual Revolution, changing the game of football -- and America -- forever.

Director // Dana Adam Shapiro Producers // Carra Greenberg, Joshua Greenberg, Stacey Reiss, Will Staeger, Gregory Stern Cast // Cindy Villarreal

Filmmaker in Attendance

Saturday 6/2, 8:30PM, Triplex #1 Friday 6/1, 11:15AM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 9:15AM, Beacon #1

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GETTING NAKED: A BURLESQUE STORY

THE GODDESSES OF FOOD

GONE IN AN INSTANT

France, 2017, 115 min.

US, 2018, 85 min.

GETTING NAKED: A BURLESQUE STORY peels back the curtain to reveal the sexy sub-culture of the neo-burlesque scene in New York City. This verité documentary intimately follows four performers, each of whom has discovered a newfound identity and belonging in a world of bawdy comedy and striptease. However, they find all that glitters is not necessarily gold, as this liberating community does not insulate from the harsh realities of sexism, illness and existential crisis. GETTING NAKED explores what it means to be an artist, an entertainer, and a woman in the toughest city on Earth.

In the male dominate food universe, discover the women changing the game on all levels. Presenting the best female chefs, including multi Michelin star chefs Dominique Crenn and Barbara Lync, and introducing rising new stars and those making incredible food in all corners of the world. A global journey exploring the female strength in gastronomy. Prominent chefs and journalists investigate what holds women chefs back in the modern mediated world of cuisine and what needs to be done to change the way women in the food industry are viewed. Featuring Michelin chefs, and sommelier from USA,France, Italy, UK, Spain.

Director // James Lester

Director/Writer // Verane Frediani

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English Subtitles

A contemporary cautionary tale on fiscal responsibility that chronicles the rise and fall of NBA superstar Antoine Walker’s fame and fortune. Antoine Walker’s story speaks for itself. Amassing over $110 million during a 13-year NBA career, Walker went from being an NBA All-Star and World Champion to facing felony charges stemming from gambling debt in Las Vegas and every financial misstep leaving him unable to emerge from financial ruin. Vice was not his sole enemy; his generosity to more than 70 family members and friends evenly contributed to the drain of his fortune.

Now successfully navigating bankruptcy, Antoine is on a mission to educate others on financial literacy, using his own story as a warning and an effective platform for others to learn from his mistakes. How do you blow through more than $100 million?

Antoine Walker tells ALL for the FIRST time ever, along with accounts from NBA, NFL, Entertainment and Music superstars.

Friday 6/1, 8:30PM, Triplex #2

Sunday 6/3, 1:30PM, Triplex #2

US, 2017, 85 min.

Director // Anthony Holt

Filmmaker in Attendance Film in Juried Competition

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Friday 6/1, 3:45PM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 11:45AM, Beacon #3

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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE

THE HUMAN ELEMENT

IMPOSED PIECE

US/Iceland, 2018, 80 min.

US, 2017, 95 min.

Renowned environmental photographer James Balog (CHASING ICE) uses his camera to reveal how environmental change is affecting the lives of everyday Americans. Following the four classical elements— air, earth, fire and water— to frame his journey, Balog explores wildfires, hurricanes, sea level rise, coal miners, and the changes in the air we breathe.

With compassion and heart, THE HUMAN ELEMENT tells an urgent story while giving inspiration for a more balanced relationship between humanity and nature.

IMPOSED PIECE is a cinematographic chronicle revealing one of the most prestigious violin’s competition: the Queen Elisabeth. Through this documentary, the audience meets some of the twelve finalists and follows their intense preparation.

These young and talented musicians finally have the chance to manifest themselves as soloists after years of practice and sacrifices. Pressure and expectations are high. In complete seclusion and during an eight-day period, they must study a compulsory piece and a concerto of their choice. Little by little, the film reveals how they prepare, how they cope with stress and how they reflect on their past and future.

André Leon Talley has been a fixture in the world of fashion for so long that it’s difficult to imagine a time when he wasn’t defining the boundaries of great style. Kate Novack’s intimate portrait, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ takes viewers on an emotional journey from André’s roots growing up in the segregated Jim Crow South to become one of the most influential tastemakers and fashion curators of our times. Weaving together a wealth of archival footage from the most glamorous moments in fashion history with André’s poignant reflections on his life and career, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRÉ is a cinematic monument to one of the most unique figures of 20th Century American culture.

Director // Matthew Testa Writers // James Balog, Lyman Smith, Matthew Testa

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Belgium, 2017, 75 min.

Director // Brecht Vanhoenacker Cast // 12 Finalists of the Queen Elisabeth competition

English Subtitles Filmmaker in Attendance Film Courtesy of Wide

Director // Kate Novack

Friday 6/1, 12:00PM, Mahaiwe

Friday 6/1, 6:15PM, Triplex #2

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IT WILL BE CHAOS

LOVE, GILDA

US, 2018, 90 min.

In her own words, comedian Gilda Radner looks back and reflects on her life and career. Weaving together recently discovered audiotapes, interviews with her friends (Martin Short, Lorne Michaels, Paul Shaffer, Laraine Newman), rare home movies and diaries read by modern day comedians inspired by Gilda (Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Cecily Strong), LOVE, GILDA offers a unique window into the honest and whimsical world of a beloved performer whose greatest role was sharing her story.

Life in Southern Italy is thrown into a tailspin when refugees arrive by the thousands and the locals are left to fend for themselves.

Eritrean survivor Aregai, trapped in the Italian faltering immigration system, goes underground to reach Northern Europe.

Through his journey, intercut with the road trip to Germany of a Syrian family, the clash between the newcomers and the locals escalates in real time.

Directors // Lorena Luciano, Filippo Piscopo

US, 2018, 90 min.

English Subtitles Filmmaker in Attendance Film Courtesy of HBO Documentaries

Director // Lisa Dapolito Cast // Chevy Chase, Lorne Michaels, Laraine Newman, Paul Shaffer and Martin Short), rare home movies and diaries read by modern-day comedians inspired by Gilda (Bill Hader, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph and Cecily Strong

Saturday 6/2, 2:15PM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 11:30AM, Beacon #2

Film Courtesy of Motto Pictures Filmmaker in Attendance

Saturday 6/2, 6:15PM, Triplex #1

MOVING STORIES US/India/Iraq/Romania/South Korea, 2018, 85 min.

Six dancers from an acclaimed New York dance company travel the world, working with young people who’ve experienced war, poverty, prejudice, sexual exploitation, and severe trauma as refugees. The film follows them to India, where they work with girls rescued from sex trafficking and gender violence; to Romania, with Roma (gypsy) kids from one of Europe’s worst slums; to South Korea, with young North Koreans who risked their lives to escape; and to Iraq, where they work with a gifted young Muslim dancer, fighting to survive.

Incredibly, they have just one week to teach the tools of choreography and collaboration to kids who may be enemies, who may have been abused, who may be suspicious and fearful, so that they can tell their stories through dance and perform for their communities. As they struggle to break through, the dancer-teachers confront their own frustrations. Yet their students respond in extraordinary ways - and as they prepare to perform in public in what seems an impossibly short time, both students and teachers experience surprising transformations, unlocking feelings and stories in wellsprings of creativity.

Director // Rob Fruchtman Writer // Cornelia Ravenal

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Q&A immediately following the screening with dancers, Artistic Director and Jacob’s Pillow Director Pamela Tatge as part of the collaboration between the BIFF and Jacob’s Pillow Dance.

Sunday 6/3, 11:30AM, Mahaiwe

FILMS DOCUMENTARY

OF FATHERS AND SONS

ON HER SHOULDERS

Germany/Syria/Lebanon/Qatar, 2017, 99 min.

US, 2018, 95 min.

Talal Derki returns to his homeland where he gains the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses on Osama and his younger brother Ayman, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up in an Islamic Caliphate.

Director // Talal Derki

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Auto Look Film in Juried Competition

Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed

by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people. Away from the podium, she must navigate bureaucracy, fame and people’s good intentions.

OUT OF MY HEAD US, 2017, 77 min.

A filmmaker, seeking treatment for her daughter’s migraines, discovers a confounding neurological disease, and learns why a condition that is so ubiquitous, and can be so severe, remains deeply misunderstood.

Director/Writer // Susanna Styron

Director // Alexandria Bombach Cast // Nadia Murad

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Oscilloscope

HOUSE OF TEETH Friday 6/1, 1:30PM, Triplex #2 Sunday 6/3, 4:15PM, Beacon #3

Sunday 6/3, 9:30AM, Triplex #2

US, 2017, 24 min.

Lucy whipsaws between tears and laughter until her adult daughter, Charlotte, comes to visit. On her second day there, the mail brings a package from Greg, returning a matchbox filled with Charlotte’s baby teeth. Lucy and Charlotte respond to this unnerving gesture by getting stoned and discussing the myth of the Tooth Fairy, among other of life’s dashed expectations.

When Charlotte decides her mother needs to “get back in the game” and takes steps to make it happen, Lucy comes up against the limitations – and liberation – of life on her own.

Director/Writer // Susanna Styron Cast // Deborah Hedwall, Amanda Nichols, George Sherman, Michael Cullen, Stephen Bogardus

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Friday 6/1, 11:30AM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 11:30AM, Beacon #1

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RESTORING TOMORROW US, 2017, 80 min.

In these divided times, as young adults drift away, director Aaron Wolf’s personal journey of rediscovery comes alive in RESTORING TOMORROW. The film tells the extraordinary story of a treasured local temple near demise and a community’s determination to achieve the impossible, serving as a microcosm of what could happen in any community.

Director // Aaron Wolf

Filmmaker in Attendance

Saturday 6/2, 4:30PM, Triplex #3 Sunday 6/3, 9:15AM, Beacon #2

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA Japan/US, 2018, 100 min.

One of the most important artists of our era, Ryuichi Sakamoto has had a prolific career spanning over four decades. From techno-pop stardom to Oscar-winning film composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life journeys. Following Fukushima, Sakamoto became an iconic figure in Japan’s social movement against nuclear power. As Sakamoto returns to music following a cancer diagnosis, his haunting awareness of life crises leads to a resounding new masterpiece. RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA is an intimate portrait of both the artist and the man.

Director // Stephen Nomura Schible Cast // Ryuichi Sakamoto

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Wide

Friday 6/1, 9:30AM, Mahaiwe

STUDIO 54 US, 2018, 98 min.

Studio 54 was the epicentre of ’70s hedonism—a monumental magnet for beautiful stars, casual sex, and mounds of cocaine, a den of excess that defined its own rules and enshrined the ostracized, queer, and fabulous. Matt Tyrnauer (Valentino: The Last Emperor) chronicles the rise and fall of this nightclub’s founders: two best friends from Brooklyn, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, who conquered New York City only to have it crumble before their eyes. With rare footage, a parade of colourful patrons and staff, and brutally honest interviews with Schrager himself, STUDIO 54 is a riveting study in contradictions. Inside the palatial theatre-turned-disco, the crowd revelled in an atmosphere of total acceptance, whether drag queen, octogenarian, waiter, or celebrity. Yet outside, a frenzied, excluded mob yearned to be noticed by the doorman and ushered into the sanctum of pulsating love. Schrager and Rubell’s glittering creation sprang from carefree naiveté and unbridled ambition—yet those same instincts managed to destroy it.

This bracing story reveals how even the most culturally potent and transformative phenomena can be vulnerable and fleeting.

Director // Matt Tyrnauer

Film Courtesy of A&E Documentaries

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Friday 6/1, 9:15PM, Triplex #1

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS

WHAT LIES UPSTREAM

US/Jordan, 2018, 90 min.

US, 2018, 95 min.

THIS IS HOME is an intimate portrait of four Syrian refugee families arriving in America and struggling to find their footing. Displaced from their homes and separated from loved ones, they are given eight months of assistance from the International Rescue Committee to become self-sufficient. As they learn to adapt to challenges, including the newly imposed travel ban, their strength and resilience are tested. It is a universal story, highlighted by humor and heartbreak, about what it’s like to start over, no matter the obstacles.

New York, 1980: three complete strangers accidentally discover that they are identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-yearolds’ joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but it also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

In this detective story, filmmaker Cullen Hoback investigates the largest chemical drinking water contamination in a generation. But something is rotten in state and federal regulatory agencies, and through years of persistent journalism, we learn the shocking truth about what’s really happening with drinking water in America.

WHAT LIES UPSTREAM is a powerful document for the world at large on the perils of believing government organizations and corporations will take care of the human species. We all must join in the movement to protect water now and for generations to come.

Director // Tim Wardle

Film Courtesy of Neon Media Film in Juried Competition

Director // Alexandra Shiva

English Subtitles Film Courtesy of Film Sales Corp

US, 2017, 85 min.

Director // Cullen Hoback

Saturday 6/2, 9:00AM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 9:00AM, Mahaiwe

Friday 6/1, 9:30AM, Triplex #3

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Daniel’s Art Party A Springtime Festival at the Daniel Arts Center

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THE WORKERS CUP UK, 2017, 90 min.

THE WORKERS CUP is a close and personal look inside Qatar’s labour camps, where the World Cup is being built on the backs of a million-plus migrant workers.

The film follows a team of labourers living a real-life version of fantasy football. By day they sweat to build the World Cup; while by night they compete in a workers welfare football tournament, playing in the same stadiums that will one day host the world’s greatest players. We join one team of men from Nepal, India, Ghana, and Kenya whose only common ground is love for football. Each match offers a momentary escape from the homesickness and isolation they struggle with as the lowest class in the world’s richest country. Even as pawns in the World Cup’s marketing game, they can’t help but lose themselves in the purity of football.

Director // Adam Sobel

English Subtitles

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The Elgar Variations Tour

June 12–14, 7:30 p.m. | June 15, 7:30 & 9:30 p.m.

June 16, Gala Performance and Reception

Experience Victorian composer Edward Elgar’s life through a site-specific, pop-art ballet, walk-through tour of the gorgeous Daniel Arts Center. Directed and choreographed by Ken Roht, co-choreographed by Andrea Blacklow and Ellen Gorman of Moving Arts Exchange, and featuring the Berkshires’ own Martin Jason Aspery as Edward Elgar.

The Secret City

June 17 & July 1, 12:00 p.m.

This secular revival show is a sincere and fabulous community celebration of art and creativity, with outrageous outfits! From the heart and mind of Obie Award-winning performer Chris Wells.

Maestro Doolally and the Choir June 17, 19, & 24, 7:30 p.m.

A majestic choral concert gone hilariously wrong, featuring the Cantilena Chamber Choir and James Warwick as the grand and flappable Maestro Doolally.

Scavenger Hunt

June 16, 1:00 p.m. & 4:00 p.m. | June 17, 2:00 p.m. & 5:00 p.m.

Embark on a sprawling, multimedia scavenger hunt produced by director/ designer Michael Counts, hailed by The New York Times as a “master of immersive theater”and directed by Ashley Tata. The playful, sci-fi storyline of the hunt features fantastical creatures by Huck Elling. Prizes go to the winning players!

Leatherheads: Berkshire Firefighters Tell Their Stories

June 20, 7:30 p.m. | June 24, 3:00 p.m.

Sunday 6/3, 6:15PM, Triplex #2 Saturday 6/2, 4:30PM, Beacon #2

This in-depth group interview features exciting photo-documentary media

by Fire Chief Ed Harvey who brings together many of his fellow firefighters to share their lives as honored members of our communities, with musical accompaniment by the Danju String Quartet.

Danny’s at the Fair June 22 & 23, 7:30 p.m.

With all the fun and heart of an outdoor fair, farming and livestock communities join local vendors and entertainers to create an onstage variety show. A pie-eating contest, Most Delicious Cheddar Cheese, Most Photogenic Goat, and the Ms. Danny’s at the Fair Pageant. Plenty of surprises in store! And only the very best win the big, blue ribbons!

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Orange Star Smasharoo!

June 27–30, nightly at 7:30 p.m.

This rollicking, folk-musical farce swirls around a stage full of dining audience members as they, and the rest of the audience, experience a high-drama night in the life of a colorful, slightly bawdy Wyoming family. [Parents be advised: some naughty adult themes] Written and Directed by Ken Roht, and starring Broadway belter Lauren Elder (Hair, Side Show) as our Queen of Dinner Theater, Orange Star!

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CREDITS left to right: Maxfield Parrish. The Lantern Bearers, 1908. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. Photography by Dwight Primiano.

N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), In the Crystal Depths, 1906, oil on canvas, 38” x 26”. Brandywine River Museum of Art, Museum purchase, 1981.

Norman Rockwell, Girl at Mirror, 1954. Norman Rockwell Museum Collections. ©SEPS: Curtis Licensing, Indianapolis, IN.

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ART GARDEN Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Lithographs

in the Center House Leonhardt Galleries

MAY 26-OCT 8

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Visit. Stroll. Be Dazzled.

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The Barrington: Private residence on historic Main St GB. Views of Monument Mtn, East Mtn and Main St. Unique ‘soho style’ 2800 sf loft condo. Gourmet cooks kitchen, sun filled open dining/living room linear gas fireplace 11’ ceilings., 8’ windows. New construction in a 1900’s building. Parking on site w/ elevator access. Unique opportunity to live in the heart of downtown. 3rd bdroom easily added. 2 Condos available for immediate occupancy.

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CATA

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Help us bring life-changing arts workshops to hundreds of people with disabilities in our community. photo: John Dolan / Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation

Visit CATAarts.org to learn about our vibrant arts programs, where people with disabilities explore new talents and tap into their potential.

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JACOB’S PILLOW 2018 SUNDAY FILM SERIES Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer’s Eye | Four choreographers interpret Bergman’s style The Dancer | Loie Fuller & Isadora Duncan are depicted in this biographical feature film Gravity Hero | Exploring the work of Trey McIntyre

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working in the U.S illegally for almost 20 years. Ever since the election of President Drumpf, who’s made a promise to the American people to crack down and deport illegal immigrants, Zsuzsanna has been living in fear. The constant worry of eventually being found out, captured and deported by ICE is one of many reasons she decides to leave on her own terms.

This film highlights Zsuzsanna’s final 72 hours of a place she once called home.

Daniela, a young girl, finds a bird with clipped wings and struggles to make her new friend fly again. While on this quest, Dani also wrestles to thwart her overprotective single dad, Juan, who wants Dani to stay a child forever.

Directors/Writers // Lucien Flores, Michela Smith Cast // Chris Garcia, Sarah Lynne

Filmmaker in Attendance

Director/Writer // Julie Neumann

GAME

Filmmaker in Attendance

US, 2017, 15 min.

AJ Green, a new kid in town, shows up at the high school boys basketball varsity tryouts and instantly makes an impression.

Coach takes notice, and so do the other players, some of whom feel threatened by the new blood. The school’s team is excellent—second best in the state—and this is the year Coach plans to win it all.

AJ proves himself on the court and clearly has talent, heart, and drive… as well as a big secret. Will AJ make the team once the players and coach discover the truth?

Director/Writer // Jeannie Donohue Cast // Nicole Williams, Jamie McShane, Rick Fox, Tye White

COOLPOOL US, 2017, 8 min.

BABS UK, 2018, 12 min.

An estranged son discovers an alarming purchase made by his late father.

Directors/Writers // Celine Held, Logan George Cast // Logan George, Andrew McDonald

Filmmaker in Attendance

An unassuming driver picks up a mysterious passenger through his ride sharing service, CoolPool. The passenger named Frank, threatens the driver with a gun if he drops him off and the night takes a wild turn as the other passengers get in the car without knowing that Frank has a gun.

Director // Zachary Myers Writer // Madeleine Ours (head writer), Daniel Peaslee Cast // Nathan Crabb, Dutch Bultema, Peter Brinkman

Filmmaker in Attendance

SURVIVING NEW YORK #SELFIE Germany, 2017, 7 min.

A couple on holiday in Berlin. Everything is perfect, but then he wants to take a selfie...

Director/Writer // David M. Lorenz Cast // Daniel Collins, Zoe Howard

US, 2018, 21 min.

In an effort to use her tragic story as a catalyst for change, Ana Wagner began advocating for children’s civil rights in New York State. Despite the demands of motherhood, the demands of marriage, cultural oppression, and the haunting memory of her devastating experience, Ana is doing what she once wasn’t able to as a child - fight

NIGHT US, 2018, 7 min.

A young woman confronts her fears when returning home late from work.

Director/Writer // Christian Scales Cast // Addison Atanga, Aida Neitenbach, Aidan Newell, Sarah Hirsch

Director // Megan Miller

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DEPORTING MYSELF US, 2018, 11 min.

DEPORTING MYSELF is a documentary about Zsuzsanna, an undocumented New York housekeeper, who’s been living and

FLY LADY FLY US, 2018, 11 min.

ADVENTURE NOT WAR Iraq/US, 2018, 24 min.

Three U.S. veterans travel back into the mountains of Iraq on a mission to heal

struggling under this tension - and finally decide to go all in.

Director // Max Lowe Cast // Stacey Bare, Robin Brown, Matthew Griffin

Director // Fatmir Dolci, Maik Schuster, Max Poschke Writer // Fatmir Dolci Cast // Aram R. Sabbah, Hamisi Mwangume, Lovre Krnčević

SHORTS #2

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FEVAH US, 2018, 13 min.

US, 2018, 8 min.

A man and his dog get stuck at a red light.

The longest red light ever. Five billion years long! And so they wait, and watch, while the entire history of the world passes them by.

THE SILENT UK, 2017, 11 min.

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wounds and to experience the country and its culture, relieved of the shadow of war.

A heartbroken single mom is about to plunge into a new relationship when her child’s missing father returns with a secret.

Director/Writer // Randall Dottin Cast // LaRoyce Hawkins, Russell Hornsby

We scratch the surface of normality in a quiet coastal town and discover a disturbing truth of violence and mental torture hidden behind closed doors.

22-year-old Tom has been isolated from his friends, raped and beaten by his abusive older partner, Steve, but like the millions of men experiencing domestic abuse worldwide, he remains silent; a silence that threatens to end his life. His safety lies in the unlikely hands of pensioner, George Wilkins. On the towns promenade, George and Tom finally meet, setting in motion an unforeseen future for them both.

Directors/Writers // Karen Turner, Dom Lee

Filmmaker in Attendance

Director/Writer // Chris Hume

HEIMLICH US, 2017, 12 min.

EMERGENCY US, 2018, 12 min.

Faced with an emergency, a group of young black and Latino friends weigh the pros and cons of calling the police.

Nina and Alex are married with a beautiful toddler, Elsie. Nina’s had enough.

Director/Writer // Lisanne Sartor Cast // Rachel Sondag, Rick Gifford

Filmmaker in Attendance

YOU’RE WELCOME

Director/Writer // Otoja Abit Cast // Walker Hare, Jason Patric, Angelic Zambrana, Jonny Beauchamp

Germany, 2017, 9 min.

You want to drink your coffee peacefully but instead you end up in a situation where people start to stir up hatred against refugees – what do you do? Based on a true story.

Director/Writer // Rebecca Panian Cast // Björn von der Wellen, Daniela Schulz, Liv Killing

English Subtitles

EVE US, 2018, 21 min.

EVE is about a woman of age who suffers a profound loss; the death of her beloved husband and succumbs to a paralyzing grief. Through writing letters to her husband, the healing process begins, and she embarks on her journey to the light.

Along the way, she experiences a sexual

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A short film dealing with the energy generated through human confrontations with walls. The urge for freedom and fulfillment is just as human as the urge to build walls for everyday order. Three individuals in different countries are

Minutes before his nuptials, a neurotic young man locks himself away in the back room of a church, with the best man he knows. Recalling the woman of his past, he questions his choice.

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Palestine/Croatia/Germany, 2017, 7 min.

US, 2018, 12 min.

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Director // Carey Williams Writer // Kristen Davila Cast // Darrell Lake, Jason Woods, Peter Pasco

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awakening, and discovers how to curate the next chapter of her life. So, from the ashes of despair came EVE Director/Writer // Susan Bay Nimoy Cast // Susan Bay Nimoy, Joan Scheckel, Paolo Costanza, Alexander DiPersia

SHORTS #3

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Filmmaker in Attendance

WITH MY TWO HANDS France, 2017, 4 min.

A life through his hands and those around him.

Director/Writer // Michael Barocas

REBUILDING IN MINIATURE Turkey, 2017, 7 min.

Ali Alamedy, a displaced Iraqi artist, makes incredibly detailed dioramas of places he has read about but has never been.

Director/Writer // Veena Rao

Director // Olympia Stone Writer // Jody Becker Cast // Elizbeth King

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Filmmaker in Attendance

DOUBLE TAKE: THE ART OF ELIZABETH KING

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of the human body is intertwined with her early role as a caretaker to her mother, who contracted polio when Elizabeth was a child. A generous presence, King devoted nearly 40 years to nurturing her adoring students at Virginia Commonwealth University, inspiring a generation of younger women artists in the school’s renown Sculpture Department. Newly retired from her teaching position, King is more than ever able to focus on her work, and examine her motives and making, and with major solo shows driving her, King seems poised to get her due. In studio visits, conversations with peers and art world figures, Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King invites the viewer to consider what looking and seeing one another means in our increasingly visual world.

Double Take: The Art of Elizabeth King illuminates the aesthetic and engineering questions sculptor Elizabeth King puzzles over with an acute sensitivity to both life, and the life-like. Elizabeth King is a quiet iconoclast in the art world. She has created her own genre at the intersection of the classical and automata. An accomplished artist with an eye for the intimate meaning of gesture, King obsessively manipulates her materials to produce pieces that both approximate and challenge the viewer.

Consumed by questions of art and automation, King approaches each day in the studio as an opportunity to problem solve on the way to making a piece work.

A sought after solo exhibitor, whose work is featured in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, LACMA and the Hirshhorn, King’s individual and group shows punctuate her workaday world that is focused on parsing the distance between the automated and the alive. Her work is informed by a passionate interest in the fabled histories of objects that come to life.

Her interest in the capacities and nuances

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9TH ANNUAL KID FLIX MIX Recommended for Ages 3 – 7 A diverse community must put aside their differences to enjoy a tasty meal in Stone Soup (France/Belgium), a hungry creature devises a way to get his fill in Tiger (Germany), and a young croc enjoys a tasty treat in Crocodile (Germany). With visually innovative animation and many Audience Award winners from New York International Children’s Film Festival 2017, Kid Flix 1 is truly delicious for ages 3-7.

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Directors // Tatiana Poliektova

Directors // Mari Miyazawa

Directors // Xiya Lan

Russia/Australia, 2014, 3 min The best cinema of all reflects what is right in front of us, in this homage to all things that capture our eye.

Japan, 2015, 5 min Konigiri Kun, a curious rice ball with a penchant for shopping, goes out to market and is tempted all around in this hilarious nod to overconsumption.

USA, 2016, 4 min Sometimes we amplify our fears.

Usually, they’re not so bad at all.

THE BIRDIE Directors // Yekaterina Filippova

Russia, 2015, 3 min Once a birdie met a hippo.

Teaming up makes everything easier.

A HOLE Directors // Maribel Suarez

Mexico, 2016, 5 min A little girl longs for a playmate in the garden. Her efforts go unnoticed— until they finally take root.

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Germany, 2016, 4 min A little tiger, happy but hungry, devises clever means to fill his belly and satisfy his cravings.

CROCODILE Directors // Julia Ocker

Germany, 2016, 4 min A relaxing evening on the couch turns into a noshing nuisance for one peckish croc.

SPRING JAM Directors // Ned Wenlock

New Zealand, 2016, 6min Lone Stag lacks a certain something in the antlers department: the antlers. How will he get any birds to help him make music for the spring jam?

WATER PATH FOR A FISH Directors // Mercedes Marro

Spain/Colombia/France, 2016, 8 min Oscar rescues a goldfish from the clutches of hungry cats, but with the drought, has trouble caring for it. When the faucets turn on, the challenge truly begins.

SPIDER WEB Directors // Natalia Chernysheva

Russia, 2016, 4 min Anyone can get caught in a bind, but working together means weaving new webs of strength in one spider’s dilemma.

STONE SOUP Directors // Clementine Robach

France/Belgium, 2015, 7 min Times are tough in one little town: first no food, now no electricity. Eventually, the transformative power of community nourishes all in more ways than one.

MR. NIGHT HAS A DAY OFF Directors // Ignas Meilunas

Lithuania, 2016, 2 min Why is the night changing the day? Well, when you don’t like something, you change it.

THE POCKET MAN Directors // Ana Chubinidze

France/Switzerland/Georgia, 2016, 7 min Good things come in all sizes and packages. Especially the pocket man, whose kindness abounds.

THE PITS Directors // Mike Hayhurst

USA, 2016, 3 min We know it’s not always easy being green-but it all works out in this charming quest for a perfect match.

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By providing filmmakers with direct access to these professionals, the Summit expands their perspective and knowledge of the industry: from development to exhibition, insurance to financing, scheduling to marketing, and the influence of fields such as social media, new media and mobile platforms.

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coaches acting students. She is married to actor Michel Gill. Together they have one son.

KAREN ALLEN

JAYNE ATKINSON

Karen is an award winning actor and director

Jayne Atkinson has enjoyed a long and varied

in film and theatre. She began her carreer in

career as an actress, director, and producer.

Washington, D.C. experimental theatre with

A graduate of Northwestern University and

the Washinton Theatre Laboratory. She moved

Yale Drama School, she has appeared in re-

to NYC in 1976 and was cast in her first film

gional theatre, off-Broadway, and Broadway,

role as Katy in Animal House, opposite Peter

and counts two Drama Desk, an Outer Critics

Reigert. She has since starred in over 45 feature

Circle and two Tony nominations to her name.

films including The Wanderers, A Small Circle

She is best known on television for her long-

company based in New York. Recent films

of Friends, Raiders of the Lost Ark (Saturn

running roles in 24, Criminal Minds, and the

sold by Submarine include CREEP, FINDING

Award for Best Actress), Starman, Scrooged,

current Netlix original series House of Cards,

VIVIAN MAIER, THE ONE I LOVE, THE

The Sandlot, Glass Menagerie (Spirit Award

and on film for her roles in Free Willy and Free

CASE AGAINST 8, IVORY TOWER, THE

nomination), Malcolm X, The Perfect Storm,

Willy 2. Directing and producing credits in-

GREEN PRINCE, DINOSAUR 13, PING

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal

clude benefit productions of Motherhood Out

Skull, White Irish Drinkers (BIFF 2013), Bad

Loud and Can You Hear Me, Baby?, for WAM

PONG SUMMER, BATTERED BASTARDS OF

Hurt (BIFF 2015), Year By the Sea (BIFF 2016),

Theatre and the Berkshire Festival of Women

and recently completed the film, Colewell. On

Writers. She also runs Jadana Productions,

Broadway she portrayed Helen Keller in The

which specializes in entertainment develop-

SUMMIT, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, QUEEN

Monday After the Miracle (Theatre World

ment. After working in regional theatres, in-

OF VERSAILLES, SEARCHING FOR SUGAR

Award), and her roles off Broadway include

cluding Connecticut’s esteemed Long Wharf

MAN, ME AT THE ZOO, BLACK ROCK,

The Country Girl, Extremities, Speaking In

Theatre in New Haven, Jayne appeared in the

CHASING ICE, ROB ZOMBIE’S LORDS OF

Tongues, The Miracle Worker, Temporary

Manhattan Theatre Club’s off-Broadway production of Bloody Poetry in 1987. That same

SALEM, NO PLACE ON EARTH, TABLOID,

Help, Glass Menagerie and most recently A Summer Day at the Cherry Lane Theatre in

year, she made her Broadway debut in a re-

NY. She has appeared in numerous television

vival production of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons.

films and series including East of Eden, The

Broadway credits also include The Rainmaker

Challenger, All the Winter’s That Have Been,

(Tony nomination), Our Town, Enchanted April

DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO

My Horrible Year, Rapture, Voyage, Law &

(Tony nomination, Drama Desk nomination;

TRAVEL, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS,

Order, and Bluebloods. In the theatre Karen

Outer Critics Circle Award) and Blithe Spirit.

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directed

and

She has also appeared off-Broadway in a

FURNITURE, WINTER’S BONE, MAN ON

Frankie and Johnny in the Clair du Lune at the

number of productions, including The Art of Success (Drama Desk nomination) and The

WIRE, FOOD INC, JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF

Berkshire Theatre Festival, and directed the Obie Award winning production of Ashville at

Skriker (Drama Desk nomination). Many may

the Cherry Lane in NYC. She recently adapted

recognize Jayne from her film and television

and directed her first short film, A Tree. A Rock.

roles. Her feature film credits include Free

A Cloud. (BIFF 2017) based on a Carson

Willy, The Village and Syriana. On television

A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and produced

McCullers short story. It won numerous

she is known for her guest appearances on

the cult horror hit HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, as

awards in festivals across the world in 2017.

the hit series The X-Files, Gossip Girl, Chicago

well as IVORY TOWER, PAGE ONE: INSIDE

She is a professor in the Theatre Dept. of Bard

Med and The Good Wife, among others. As

THE NY TIMES. Documentaries Executive

College at Simon’s Rock, a lifetime member of

a recurring character, she has played Karen Hayes on the award-winning 24, Erin Strauss

Produced by Mr. Braun include SEAMLESS,

the Actor’s Studio, and has been on the Board of the BIFF since 2008.

on Criminal Minds and, most recently, Secre-

Moonchildren,

Extremities

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tary of State Catherine Durant on the Netflix original series House of Cards. In addition to acting, Jayne runs Jadana Productions, which specializes in entertainment development. Her other areas of expertise include coaching for professionals in the area of public speaking and project presentation, directing and teaching. In her spare time, she promotes women’s 86

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WORK, VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR and others. Previously, Mr. Braun was an executive producer on David Cronenberg’s

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EASY

RIDERS

BULLS, KILL YOUR IDOLS.

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Maura Tierney; and appeared in the American premiere of Caryl Churchill’s “Drunk Enough To Say I Love You” at the Public Theater with Sam

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NANCY HULT GANIS

West. As a producer, Mr. Cohen is working to procure rights and guide multiple projects for web based series, Television and film. Along

Mr. Cohen is recognizable from his many character portrayals in television, theater and film. A very versatile actor, Cohen has garnered rave reviews for his varied, wide range of performances. Cohen stars opposite Famke Janssen and AnnaSophia Robb in

with his acting projects, Cohen is an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Hunter College, also serves on the Columbia County Film Festival Advisory Board, now in its 17th year and is on the Board of the NY International Children’s Film Festival.

Nancy Hult Ganis co-founded Out of the Blue…

Entertainment with her business partner (and husband) Sid Ganis to produce feature films and television—including the award-winning Akeelah And The Bee for Lionsgate and the ABC series Pan Am. Current projects include

Janet Grillo’s JACK OF THE RED HEARTS,

Virginia Hall: about the most important and

and recently starred in Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s

unknown American spy of WWII; Resistance

AS YOU ARE, Sundance ’16 Jury Prize winner,

of the Heart by author Nathan Stoltzfus’s book

opposite Mary Stuart Masterson and Charlie

of the same name with Oscar-nominated

Heaton and the upcoming Stacey Cochran

filmmaker Ziad Doueiri attached to direct.

DARREN DEAN

Film, A+, with Emily Mortimer and Finn Whitrock. Cohen can be seen on Showtime’s

The story is about the only successful protest against the Nazis in Berlin led by non-Jewish

BILLIONS opposite Paul Giamatti and the upcoming Jim Carrey’s I’M DYIN’ UP HERE

women to free their Jewish husbands before Darren Dean is an American producer, writer and

they were sent to the death camps; The Long

director. A three-time Independent Spirit Award

Way Home is the true story of a civilian Pan Am

nominee, Dean is responsible for producing

crew escaping the Japanese and Nazis by flying

some of the most notable independent features

the most technologically advance Boeing 314

of the last 10 years. Together with frequent

flying boat around the world through uncharted

collaborator Sean Baker, he created the award-

territory, culminating with a secret mission to

winning features PRINCE OF BROADWAY

save the world; and A Children’s Song, the

(which he co-wrote), tangerine, Clio Award-

dramatic feature about how the Chinese people

Winning

2017’s

provided a safe haven in Shanghai during WWII

Spirit and Oscar nominated THE FLORIDA

for more than 20,000 Jewish refugees from

PROJECT. He has also produced such Award-

Europe. Nancy began her journalism career in

Winning fare as 2010’s KINYARWANDA (dir

the newsroom of KQED (PBS) in San Francisco

Alrick Brown), which won the World Cinema

before moving to entertainment overseeing

Audience Award at Sundance, H.O.M.E. (dir

such prime-time documentaries such as The

Daniel Maldonado), THE OTHER KIDS (dir

Making of ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’, Marx

Chris Brown) and the short film PIONEER HIGH

Brothers in a Nutshell, and The Case of Dashiell

(dir Suha Araj). He has also been nominated

Hammett and helped launch the long-running

for an NAACP Image Award (KINYARWANDA)

PBS series, Comedy Tonight. Over the years

and has won the GLAAD Media Award for

she has worked as a media consultant with

Outstanding Feature (for the groundbreaking

numerous

tangerine). In 2016, his body of work was

Zaentz, Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Phil

“Mysteries of Laura” and “Unforgettable”. On

recognized with a nomination for the prestigious

Kaufman--and politicians, co-producing the

stage, Cohen starred in the Broadway comedy

Independent Spirit Piaget Producer’s Award.

opening ceremonies for President Bill Clinton’s

“Losing Louie” for the Manhattan Theater

His upcoming projects include the recently

Inauguration. She continued to develop and

Club, in David Ives’ “The Other Woman” and

announced SHORT HISTORY OF THE LONG

produce programming for PBS including the

“A Nervous Smile” opposite Amy Brenneman.

ROAD (dir Ani Simon Kennedy), as well as

groundbreaking Straight Talk series on women

Cohen’s prolific stage work also counts

soon-to-be-announced projects from Directors

and men’s health. Nancy holds a Masters in

numerous appearances at the Williamstown

Chris Brown (THE OTHER KIDS; FANNY,

Journalism and a Bachelor’s in History from the

Theater Festival, including “The Big Knife”

ANNIE AND DANNY) and Matt Barber (TV’s

University of California, Berkeley. She served

and “La Ronde,” both directed by Joanne

Lethal Weapon; GUARDIAN).Dean is directing

as a Trustee for the UC Berkeley Foundation

Woodward. Recently, Cohen was seen at

his first feature in 2018, the Spanish-language

Board and is currently on the Board of Advisors

Bard College in the play “In Audela” written

NO SUGAR TONIGHT. He continues to develop

for UC Berkeley’s (no.1 ranked) Goldman

by his wife, Anastasia Traina; he starred in

his adaptation of Will Eisner’s legendary

School of Public Policy. She is also a member

the Playwrights Horizons production,” Three

graphic novel A Contract with God for the

of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

Changes” alongside Dylan McDermott and

big screen.

and the Producer’s Guild of America.

on SHO. Last season, he starred opposite Hope Davis in NBC’s ALLEGIANCE. Other recent film projects include Tim Blake Nelson’s ANESTHESIA and the upcoming WHO ARE WE NOW with Emma Roberts. Cohen starred opposite Natalie Portman in Don Roos’ film adaptation of “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.” He also appeared in the Robert DeNiro film, “Everybody’s Fine”, in the Nicole Holofcener project, “Please Give,” and Ed Zwick’s film, “Love and Other Drugs.” Cohen wrapped the third and final season of the USA hit, “Necessary Roughness”, where he played “Nico”, the team’s mysterious fixer. Cohen has a loyal following for his role as Max Medina on “Gilmore Girls”, his portrayal of Wolf in “The 10th Kingdom”, and Harry Denby in his two season arc on NYPD BLUE. His recent and diverse television credits include ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm“, “Elementary”, “Person of Interest”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Good Wife”,

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Sid Ganis founded OUT OF THE BLUE ENTERTAINMENT in 1996 following a distinguished career as an executive at major studios including Sony Pictures, Lucasfilm, Warner Bros. and Paramount.

Over the past several years, Mr. Ganis has been working extensively in China with the Chinese government on various film projects.

Currently, he and his producing partner and wife, Nancy Hult Ganis, are developing a feature film with the newly launched The H Collective, a US based company partnered with Beijing Film Culture in Beijing, China.

He is also a consultant with leading U.S. entertainment technology companies Dolby Laboratories and THE VOID, a start-up virtual reality company focusing on true immersive experiences.

As a producer, Mr. Ganis found box office success with Big Daddy, Deuce Bigalow, Mr. Deeds and the critically acclaimed Akeelah and the Bee, which he coproduced with his wife Nancy Hult Ganis. He Co–Executive Produced the 2012 ABC series Pan Am on which Hult Ganis was creator and Exec Producer. Recent projects include the highly acclaimed music documentary BANG! The Bert Berns Story and an award winning short film titled A Children’s Song, focusing on China’s willingness as one of the few countries on earth to accept emigrating Jews from Europe during WWII and will soon be developed into a feature. Releasing later in 2017 is the supernatural thriller ISABELLE, starring Adam Brody and Amanda Crew. Mr. Ganis served four consecutive, year-long terms as the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has also served 10 years on the Board of Directors of Marvel Entertainment until its sale to Disney in 2009, as well as the boards of FIND (Film Independent) and University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive and the San Francisco’s SF FILM.

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MICHEL GIL MICHEL GILL: B’WAY: A Man for All Seasons (w/ Frank Langella) Off-B’WAY: Speaking in Tongues (Roundabout) A Winter’s Tale (CSC w/ David Strathairn) Naked (CSC) Othello (N.Y. Shakespeare Fest. w/ Christopher Walken and Raul Julia) Lincoln Portrait (Joyce Theatre) Da Caravaggio (MCC) Coyote Ugly (New York Theatre Workshop) REGIONAL: Over 30 plays in leading roles: Yale Rep., Long Wharf, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Folger, The Old Globe, The Huntington, Portland Stage, The Alley, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theatre. FILM/TV: Chicago Med (2018), Ray Donovan, Who Killed JonBenet, Mr Robot, The Get Down, House of Cards President Garrett Walker, Forever, Person of Interest, The Good Wife, Law and Order CI, L.A. Law, Guiding Light, All My Children. The Juilliard School of Drama: 1985

KENT JONES Kent Jones is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker. He is the author of several books of criticism, has been a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine for many years, and was selected as a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. He has worked with Martin Scorsese throughout the years on numerous documentaries – he was the co-writer of his survey of Italian cinema, MY VOYAGE TO ITALY, the writer and director of the 2007 film VAL LEWTON: THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS which Scorsese produced and narrated, and the co-writer and director with Scorsese of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Awardwinning 2010 film, A LETTER TO ELIA. They are currently at work on a follow-up to MY VOYAGE TO ITALY. Jones co-wrote Arnaud Desplechin’s Portrait of Jimmy Picard starring Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, which is currenly in post-production. He is preparing a feature film, IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND. Jones was appointed Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation in 2009, and he currently serves as its Artistic Director. In November of 2012, he was appointed Director

of Programming for the New York Film Festival.

Kent Jones recently shot is latest film DIANE in January and is in post-production. The film stars Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacey, Deirdre O’Connell, Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Joyce Van Patten.

PETER RIEGERT Has been acting, writing, directing and producing for nearly 45 years. His movies include: ANIMAL HOUSE, LOCAL HERO, CROSSING DELANCEY, CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, COLDBLOODED, UTZ, OSCAR, PASSED AWAY, THE MASK, TRAFFIC, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, and MIDDLETON and the short films THE WALK and THE RESPONSE, which received the ABA Silver Gavel and was short listed for an Academy nomination for live-action short. Television credits include: THE SOPRANOS, DAMAGES, GYPSY, BARBARIANS AT THE GATE, CONCEALED ENEMIES, LAW AND ORDER SVU, THE GOOD WIFE and ONE TREE HILL. On Broadway he was in THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, THE NERD and DANCE WITH ME. Off B’Way includes: SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, MOUTAIN LANGUAGE, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC and A ROSEN BY ANY OTHER NAME. His directorial film debut was the Academy nominated short BY COURIER, followed by his first feature, KING OF THE CORNER, with Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, Beverly D’Angelo, Eric Bogosian and Dominic Chianese. He is currently preparing a TV series based on the novels of Cornelia Read and her Madeline Dare character. He’s working on a documentary about the oldest cemetery in Queens, NY, PROSPECT CEMETERY, est. 1668 (see Kickstarter campaign). Books on Tape include: THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION by Michael Chabon; WHERE I’M CALLING FROM (11 short stories) by Raymond Carver; BLACK MONEY and THE CHILL by Ross McDonald and THE LAWGIVER by Herman Wouk. He played Oscar Newman in David Simon’s upcoming mini-series for HBO, SHOW ME A HERO, with Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener.

It’s based on Lisa Belkin’s non-fiction book of the same name and was directed by Paul Haggis. He’s Denis Leary’s father in his new FX series, SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL.

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GWFF ............................................... 18

FEATURES

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Abbotts Limousine Service ................. 9

Haven Café ...................................... 26

AMERICAN ANIMALS....................... 17

ADVENTURE NOT WAR ................... 74

Alander Construction ........................ 77

Hotel On North ................................. 92

THE CHARMER ................................ 40

BABS ............................................... 74

Alarms of Berkshire County .............. 92

The Togut Family .............................. 77

DISOBEDIENCE ............................... 19

COOLPOOL ..................................... 74

EDIE ................................................. 40

DEPORTING MYSELF ...................... 74

Alta Restaurant & Wine Bar .............. 15

Jacob’s Pillow .................................. 73

EIGHTH GRADE ............................... 40

Aston Magna .................................... 78

Jane Iredale Cosmetics .................... 22

THE ETERNAL FEMININE ................. 41

DOUBLE TAKE: THE ART OF ELIZABETH KING ........ 76

Baba Louie’s .................................... 79

Jess Cooney Interior Designs ........... 65

THE GUILTY ..................................... 41

Barrington Stage Company .............. 94

Julia B Kaplan Photographer ........... 84

Beacon Cinema .................................. 2

Karen Allen Fiber Arts ....................... 84

Berkshire Bank ................................. 34

Karen Beckwith Creative................... 49

THE INVISIBLES ............................... 42

Berkshire Bontanical Gardens........... 69

Limelight Productions ....................... 78

THE JUNIOR LEAGUE...................... 43

Berkshire Co-Op Market ................... 50

Lou Boxer Builder ............................. 93

The Berkshire Eagle ........................... 9

Max Ultimate Food ........................... 16

Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative .......................... 26

MCLA ............................................... 78

MAZE ............................................... 44

Mcteigue & McClelland ..................... 91

NO DATE, NO SIGNATURE .............. 44

Berkshire Health Systems ................. 70 Berkshire Mountain Distillers ............... 7 Berkshire Museum ........................... 79

Methuselah Bar & Lounge ................ 67 Micheles Salon & Day Spa ................ 66

HOCHELAGA, TERRA DES AMES ... 41 THE HOUSE BY THE SEA ................ 42 L’INSTANT INFINI ............................. 42

JULIE, BLUE .................................... 43 THE LONG DUMB ROAD ................. 43 LOVELING ........................................ 44

PIEDS NUS DANS L’AUBE ............... 45 SCAFFOLDING................................. 45 SHELTER ......................................... 45

EMERGENCY ................................... 75 EVE .................................................. 75 FEVAH .............................................. 75 FLY LADY FLY .................................. 74 GAME............................................... 74 HEIMLICH ........................................ 75 HOUSE OF TEETH ........................... 61 JITTERS ........................................... 75 THE LONG RED LIGHT .................... 75 NIGHT .............................................. 74 REBUILDING IN MINIATURE............. 76 #SELFIE ........................................... 74 THE SILENT ..................................... 75 SURVIVING NEW YORK ................... 74 WALLS ............................................. 75

Norman Rockwell Museum ............... 67

SILK ROAD ...................................... 46

One Mercantile ................................. 68

STREAKERS .................................... 46

Berkshire Property Agents ................ 85

Pawsh Buddies ................................ 68

THREE PEAKS ................................. 46

YOU’RE WELCOME ......................... 75

Berkshire South Community Center .. 72

Pine Cone Hill ........... Inside Back Cover

UNDER THE EIFFEL TOWER............ 47

KID FLIX

Berkshire Theater Group .................. 51

Praire Whale .................................... 69

Betty’s Pizza Shack .......................... 66

Qualprint........................................... 30

Bizalions ........................................... 54

Red Lion Inn ..................................... 19

Bizen ................................................ 15

Robin’s Candy .................................. 48

Blantyre ............................................ 15

Rubiner’s Cheesemongers & Grocers............... 28

Berkshire Natural Resources Council ........................... 36

Blue Q .............................................. 81 Bollywood In The Berkshires ............. 86 Borneman & Associates CPA, P.C. ..... 9 Botanica ........................................... 69 Brava................................................ 50 Carlo Huber Selections ..................... 53 CATA ............................................... 71 Chocolate Springs ........................... 52 Classical Tents .................................. 54 Java Me Up ...................................... 55 Country and Abroad ........................ 38 Cranwell ........................................... 72 Design Menagerie ............................. 79 Dory & Ginger ................................... 68 Steve Erenburg, Cohen & White Associates ............... 48

Schantz Galleries .............................. 55

UNDER THE TREE ........................... 47 WOMAN WALKS AHEAD ................. 47

DOCUMENTARY 306 HOLLYWOOD............................ 56 BAD REPUTATION ........................... 35 BREWMASTER ................................ 56 CRIME + PUNISHMENT ................... 56 DARK MONEY.................................. 57

OUTDOOR CINEMA ......................... 80 THE BIRDIE ...................................... 80 A HOLE ............................................ 80 TIGER............................................... 80 CROCODILE .................................... 80 KONIGIRI KUN: SHOPPING ............. 80 SPRING JAM.................................... 80 WATER PATH FOR A FISH ............... 80

Seven Salon Spa .............................. 72

DATELINE: SAIGON ......................... 57

SPIDER WEB ................................... 80

Bard College at Simon’s Rock ......... 64

DAUGHTERS OF THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION ..................... 57

YOU LOOK SCARY .......................... 80 STONE SOUP .................................. 80

GETTING NAKED: A BURLESQUE STORY .................... 58

MR. NIGHT HAS A DAY OFF ............ 80

THE GODDESSES OF FOOD ........... 58

THE PITS.......................................... 80

Shakespeare & Company .....................

Shandell’s ......................................... 70 The Short List ................................... 32 SoCo ............................................... 81

GONE IN AN INSTANT .................... 58

Stella Artois ...................................... 24

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ANDRE ....................................... 59

Stone House Properties...... Back Cover

GRIT ................................................. 27

Stonover Farm .................................. 11 Studio Two ......................................... 5

THE HUMAN ELEMENT ................... 59 IMPOSED PIECE .............................. 59 IT WILL BE CHAOS .......................... 60

Suzann Lavarack Ward, CBR............ 70

LOVE, GILDA.................................... 60

The Barrington ................................. 28

MOVING STORIES ........................... 60

Toole Insurance ............................... 52 Town Vibe ........................................ 12

OF FATHERS AND SONS ................. 61 ON HER SHOULDERS ..................... 61

THE POCKET MAN .......................... 80

BOLLYWOOD IN THE BERKSHIRES SPOTLIGHT! ALIGARH .......................................... 91 BAJIRAO MASTANI .......................... 91 PIKU ................................................. 91

SPECIAL EVENT SCREENPLAY READING OF MUMBET .................... 21

OUT OF MY HEAD ........................... 61

Fairfield Inn & Suites ........................ 53

Trattoria Rustica................................ 93

RESTORING TOMORROW ............... 62

Fairview Hospital....... Inside Front Cover

Triplex ................................................. 2

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: CODA........... 62

Filmmakers Summit .......................... 83

Ward’s .............................................. 67

Flynn Dealership ............................... 50

Wheatleigh ....................................... 49

THIS IS HOME: A REFUGEE STORY ......................... 63

Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio ................................ 48

Zinc Bistro & Bar .............................. 66

THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS ..... 63

STUDIO 54 ....................................... 62

THE WORKERS CUP ....................... 64

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Greylock Federal Credit Union .......... 93

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WHAT LIES UPSTREAM ................... 63

Fuel ................................................. 93

Guido’s Fresh Marketplace ............... 92

WITH MY TWO HANDS .................... 76

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