Scottsdale International Film Festival 2012

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Festival Sponsors

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Welcome Letter from the Executive Director

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Festival Policies

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Donations

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Programming Highlights

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Featured Guest Biographies

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Membership Benefits and Form

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Ticket Information & Prices

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The Eye of The Storm - Opening Night Film

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The Sessions - Closing Night Film

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Centerpiece Films

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Films

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Film Schedule

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Moderator Biographies

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Free Screenings Information

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Acknowledgments

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WELCOME TO THE

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An even dozen, and still counting.

When I first thought about mounting such a festival those many years ago, I never dreamed that we would be so successful, not only becoming an international film festival but also a film festival internationally recognized and lauded for its originality and range. This year we will show 38 films, 69 times, over a five-day period! The Festival planners, the volunteers, and the viewing audience can be justifiably proud of what we have made happen in Scottsdale.

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New Mission: The Scottsdale International Film Festival is a destination event and catalyst for connecting diverse filmmakers from around the world with film lovers in a fresh, thought-provoking, and enduring community of support.

New Vision: Uniting Arizona with the world through the expression of film.

Even the most casual look at this year’s line-up reveals a blend of films to satisfy a broad range of interests and tastes. There are smaller films for the appreciative, daring cineaste; and bigger, more mainstream films that reveal the burgeoning of the commercial market — a wonderful mix of film genres from light-hearted comedies to period dramas, chosen from all corners of the world. We have films from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America — films not only in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian but also in Turkish, Icelandic, and Kinyarwanda! As the world continues to shrink economically and geopolitically, the Festival brings us an ever-expanding wide angle view of the ethos and cultures of exotic lands. There is so much to see and something for everyone!

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ELECTRONIC DEVICES POLICY

Please turn off your cellphone, pager, and other communication devices upon entering the auditorium. The staff will require cellphone users to leave the theatre until they have finished their calls. The staff will also require anyone operating a handheld device with an illuminated screen to leave until they have finished viewing the screen. Therefore, please do not send or review text messages during the films.

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Audio and video recording devices are prohibited inside the Film Festival theatres. Admission will be denied to any ticket or pass bearer who attempts to enter with a recording device. If a recording device is utilized, it will be forfeited and the operator will be removed from the theatre. Unauthorized recording will be reported to the appropriate authority.

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PROGRAMMING HIGHLIGHTS

DIRECTORS & PRODUCERS

FRED SCHEPISI, DIRECTOR THE EYE OF THE STORM OPENING NIGHT FILM Mr. Schepisi is scheduled to present his film and participate in a post-film discussion on Friday, October 5th starting at 7:30 PM Fred Schepisi (b. Melbourne, 1939) began his production career in the advertising world before joining Cinesound Productions then starting the Film House, where for 20-plus years he directed both commercials and documentaries. His first feature-length film was the semi-autobiographical The Devil’s Playground (1976), which won six AFI awards including Best Film and established Fred’s reputation as a talented director, writer and producer. The success of his second film, The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), took Fred to the U.S where he directed Barbarosa (1981), Iceman (1983), Plenty (1985), and Roxanne (1987), before returning to Australia to co-write and direct Evil Angels (a.k.a. A Cry in the Dark, 1988). Evil Angels received numerous awards and nominations including the AFI Best Achievement in Direction and Best Screenplay Adaptation and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Screenplay and Best Director. Fred also produced and directed the screen adaptation of John Guare’s play Six Degrees of Separation (1993) starring Stockard Channing, Donald Sutherland and Will Smith. His other film credits as producer and director include The Russia House (1990), Mr. Baseball (1992), IQ (1994), Last Orders, (2001) and It Runs in the Family (2002). In 1996, he was called in to direct new material and restructure Fierce Creatures. In 2004, Fred co-produced and directed the film adaptation of the best-selling novel by Richard Russo Empire Falls (2004). Starring Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Joanne Woodward, Robin Wright Penn and Helen Hunt, the film debuted in the U.S on HBO, was nominated for a number of awards and won Golden Globes for Best MiniSeries or Motion Picture made for Television and Paul Newman as Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television. It was also nominated for various Emmys with Paul Newman winning as Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Fred has just completed work as producer and director on THE EYE OF THE STORM (2011) starring Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling, Judy Davis, Alexandra Schepisi, Helen Morse, John Gaden and Robyn Nevin. Fred was recently awarded the Order of Australia for his service to the Australian film industry first as a mentor and then as a director, producer and screenwriter.

JULIO BÁRCENAS, PRODUCER THE LAST CHRISTEROS Mr. Barcenas is scheduled to present his film and participate in a post-film discussion on Saturday, October 6th starting at 4:00 PM and again on Sunday, October 7th starting at 9:00 AM. JOSH DRAGOTTA, DIRECTOR SATAN’S ANGEL: QUEEN OF THE FIRE TASSELS Mr. Dragotta is scheduled to present his film and participate in a post-film discussion on Saturday, October 6th at 8:35 PM. Josh Dragotta has been making films for the past 18 years beginning in New Jersey. While living in New Jersey he attended a community college in Bucks, County Pennsylvania where he studied cinematography. It was there that he began his passion for telling stories, shooting and editing short 16mm films and submitting them to local film festivals. Josh later moved to Tucson, Arizona where he continued his craft and shifted toward digital video. While attending the University of Arizona he studied photography and produced several short films as well as an annual film festival. Originally intended to generate funds for film projects, the Back Alley Film Festival took on a life of its own and ran for 10 years. In 2007, Josh moved to Los Angeles where he met his producing partner Tony Marsico. The two formed a creative partnership and formed Retrograde Productions, LLC. They have produced short films, music videos and commercials. Their work has been selected in film festivals, and they have garnered distribution. Their most recent and first feature film, SATAN’S ANGEL: QUEEN OF THE FIRE TASSELS, premiered at the prestigious Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival: Outfest. The two are preparing for their next project. Josh resides in Los Angeles with his wife and three dogs.

KORINNA SEHRINGER, DIRECTOR SHOUTING SECRETS Ms. Sehringer is scheduled to present her film and participate in a post-film discussion on Sunday, October 7th at 4:50 PM and again on Monday, October 8th at 5:05 PM Korinna Sehringer, born and raised in Switzerland but currently living in Los Angeles, is an American Film Institute (AFI) Directing Alumni. She has written, directed and produced five award-winning short films (i.e. The Cookie Thief), and produced and directed the TV documentary One Nation: Voices of America

traveling across 30+ states right after 9/11.

In 2010/11 she cast, produced and directed her first feature film SHOUTING SECRETS.

ACTORS

ANGEL WALKER SATAN’S ANGEL: QUEEN OF THE FIRE TASSELS Ms. Walker is scheduled to present her film and participate in a post-film discussion on Saturday, October 6th at 8:35 PM. Born Cecelia Angel Walker, Satan’s Angel’s life has been anything but uninteresting. A San Francisco girl at heart, Angel started stripping on San Francisco’s legendary Broadway in North Beach during the early 60s. It was the amateur strip contests that led Angel Dahl to be known as Satan’s Angel. Competing with acts became challenging so she found a unique take on the art of striptease with a finale that would set audiences ablaze! Satan’s Angel was now Queen of The Fire Tassels and her signature move was setting her ta-ta’s on fire. It was a hit! She found herself dancing burlesque in Las Vegas and all over the world. She entertained the troops in Vietnam. Promoters like Barry Ashton, Harold Minsky and Ann Corio booked her regularly. From swinging with the Rat Pack to smoking dope with Janis Joplin and Jimmy Hendrix, Angel has lived a life of sexual freedom. Angel has never denied her sexuality. Her life has brought her many loves and losses, from stage door johnnies to movie stars. She has always been open about her life at times causing her physical harm. In the mid 80s, Angel retired from dancing and battled addiction.

After fleeing the East Coast from a motorcycle gang Angel returned to the West Coast. In 2000, Angel came out of retirement and emerged in the burlesque world. Her first dance was at Teasorama and was welcomed with a standing ovation. Her status as a legend has helped bring attention to the pioneers of burlesque, and her commitment to the preservation of burlesque keeps her busy traveling and telling stories. She has had drinks named after her, songs sung about her, countless articles written about her, and has had a play written about her. In 2012, a feature documentary chronicling her life was produced with wide appeal. Her name is Satan’s Angel.

SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE

French comedies, dramas and history have figured prominently in the Festival throughout the years. When we tally up the overall attendance at our previous French film offerings, it’s obvious that there are many thousands of Francophile/ cinéastes in the Valley who support this endeavor. As a merci beaucoup to you, we decided to go all in with not one, not two, not even three — but FOUR (!)

French language films: THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART; HENRY OF NAVARRE; LET MY PEOPLE GO!; THE WELLDIGGER’S DAUGHTER OSCAR CONTENDERS ARE STILL HERE

We know that you expect the program to include those Oscar® contenders that didn’t win the coveted Foreign Oscar’s “Best” award. This year’s special selection of four official film submissions to the 2012 Foreign Film Academy Awards are: ABU, SON OF ADAM; AMNESTY; VOLCANO; and THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK SPOTLIGHT ON LATIN AMERICA

The Festival regularly presents films from Latin America as part of its programming.

We are very proud to be featuring: CRAFT; FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN; THE FINGER; JUAN IN A MILLION; THE LAST CHRISTEROS; and THE PRIZE JEWISH FILMS & JEWISH THEMES

Although we are not a Jewish film festival, the high caliber of Jewish films and Jewish themes from which to choose each year is nothing short of bountiful.

We are particularly delighted by the variety of themes available in our line-up: THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART; LET MY PEOPLE GO!; LORE; NICKY’S FAMILY; and POLICEMAN SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENINGS/ARIZONA PREMIERES

We are privileged to offer eight highly anticipated releases! These films will be screened theatrically later this year (or in 2013), but you can be the first to see: THE EYE OF THE STORM; LORE; NICKY’S FAMILY; QUARTET; THE SESSIONS; SHADOW DANCER; STARLET; and STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

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HOW TO PURCHASE VIP PASSES, PACKAGES & TICKETS...

Before The Festival – (Sept. 5th – Oct. 4th by no later than 5:00 PM)

During The Festival – (Only from Oct. 5th - Oct. 9th)

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Harkins Shea 14 Box Office 7354 East Shea Boulevard • Scottsdale 85260

PASS & TICKET POLICIES — please read the instructions below before making any purchase!

BOX OFFICE HOURS: Friday: 10:30 AM to 10:00 PM • Sat & Sun: 8:30 AM to 10:00 PM Mon & Tue: 9:30 AM to 10:00 PM The VIP pass provides priority position in lines, does not require a physical ticket to see any given film and does permit the holder to remain in the auditorium between films. VIP Pass holders must still arrive 30 minutes before their films start, and seating is not guaranteed to anyone once a film has begun. Please note that VIP Passes are also included with memberships starting at the level of Supporting Member and above.

Single ticket and multi-ticket package holders alike will leave the auditorium after each screening/Q&A and join a holding line for their next film. This policy is fairer to the VIP Pass holders, who have paid a premium price for the privilege of avoiding lines. Please plan your schedule accordingly.

The Full Festival Discount Package offers those die-hards who want to see as

many films as possible a way to do so affordably! If your derriere can actually make it through a possible 23 films, this package is the one for you! Or, share your tickets with a pal, because you get to decide how to allot them.

Please note that this year, Monday, Oct. 8th is Columbus Day and you may not need to go to work! Now many of you can stay up late on Sunday, Oct. 7th to see more films.

VIP PASS, PACKAGES & TICKET DESCRIPTIONS...

VIP Pass – Only available BEFORE the Festival starts, until 5:00 PM, Oct. 4th.

One VIP Pass allows bearer into any Festival films. VIP pass holders receive priority position in lines and are admitted into the theatre first, provided that they arrive 30 minutes prior to the scheduled screening time. Only holders of VIP passes are allowed

Full Festival Discount Package Only available BEFORE the Festival starts, until 5:00 PM, Oct. 4th.

See up to 23 films! With this package, you must pre-select your tickets at the time of purchase. Please remember, you will be required to leave the auditorium after each screening/Q&A and join a line for your next film, so plan your schedule accordingly.

to remain in any auditorium after a film has ended to await the next movie showing in that theatre. In the event of a sellout, no one is guaranteed a seat after the film has started. Each pass holder will receive one complimentary medium popcorn and one medium

soda. Please note that VIP passes are included with several levels of Membership. Limited number of VIP Passes are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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With this package, you must pre-select your tickets at the time of purchase. Please remember, you will be required to leave the auditorium after each screening/Q&A and join a line for your next film, so plan your schedule accordingly

With this package, you must pre-select your tickets at the time of purchase. Please remember, you will be required to leave the auditorium after each screening/Q&A and join a line for your next film, so plan your schedule accordingly.

Voucher Packs are non-refundable and non-returnable. A voucher does not guarantee admission to any screening.

Only available BEFORE the Festival starts, until 5:00 PM, Oct. 4th. Five tickets for $45.

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Only available BEFORE the Festival starts, until 5:00 PM, Oct. 4th. Ten tickets for $90.

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Only available BEFORE the Festival starts, until 5:00 PM, Oct. 4th.

Ten vouchers for $100.

They are intended to be distributed as gifts and/or as incentives and are not discounted from the single ticket price. Vouchers may not be detached from their booklet

by anyone other than a Harkins Box Office Sales Staff Member and must be exchanged at the Harkins Box Office for tickets to regular Festival screenings starting on Friday, October 5th. Detached vouchers are null and void. Vouchers may not be redeemed prior to the opening date of the Festival. If tickets are sold out for any performance a voucher will not guarantee admission to those sold out performances. Patrons who already hold passes and tickets have access to seats before those with vouchers.

Vouchers are only available in packs of 10.

Pass and Package Prices – Only available before the Festival starts.

VIP PASS ................................................................................................................................$215 FULL FESTIVAL DISCOUNT PACKAGE.......................................$185 VOUCHER BOOKLETS.......................................................................................$100 BUILD-A-TEN PACKAGE..................................................................................... $90 BUILD-A-FIVE PACKAGE ................................................................................... $45

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Shows Starting 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM............................2-for-$10 Only available before the Festival starts (See above) Shows Starting after 12:00 PM ................................................$10

PASS, PACKAGE & TICKET INFORMATION...

Pre-Orders: Tickets, passes, and packages ordered by midnight Thursday, Sept 27, 2012 will be mailed.

Handling Fee: There is a $5 handling fee added to all orders, including Will Call. (This is a flat per order fee, not per ticket.)

Will Call Tickets: Orders placed after Thursday, Sept. 27 and before 5:00 PM Thursday, Oct. 4th will be waiting for you at Will Call at the Harkins Shea 14 Theatre when you attend your first screening. To claim your order, please present a photo ID or the card you used to make the purchase.

Tickets At-The-Door during Festival: Subject to availability, single tickets may be purchased at the Harkins Shea 14 Theatre Box Office starting Friday, Oct. 5 before the first show time. Student discounts are available at-the-door. Students purchasing tickets must show a current student ID. The Harkins Theatre Box Office opens 30 minutes before the first screening of the day and remains open through the start time of the last Festival film of the day. Please note we do not accept Harkins movie passes.

**Student Discount at-the-door ...................................................$8 (*Excludes opening — **Valid student ID required)

Suggested: To avoid sellouts, plan your Festival schedule ahead of time, and purchase tickets as early as possible.

Sold Out? We try to hold back some tickets for sale a few minutes before show time when a screening is sold out, but remember, your best opportunity to buy tickets or passes is before the Festival starts.

Accessibility Seating: All Harkins Theatres are ADA compliant.

Refunds and Schedule Changes: All sales are final. No refunds or exchanges. In the unlikely event that a film becomes unavailable, the Scottsdale International Film Festival reserves the right to make a substitution. If a performance must be canceled after tickets have been sold, you will be able to exchange your ticket for one of equivalent value through the Festival box office. There are no exceptions to this policy. If there are changes, they will be announced at the Festival.

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CLOSING NIGHT FILM

Variance Films and Sycamore Entertainment PRESENTS – A Fred Schepisi Film

Fox Searchlight Pictures PRESENTS – A Ben Lewin Film

THE EYE OF THE STORM

THE SESSIONS

Fred Schepsi is scheduled to participate in a post-film discussion with the audience.

AWARDS: Sundance Film Festival - Audience Award/Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting

In a Sydney suburb, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. In dying, as in living, Mrs. Hunter remains a formidable force on those around her. It is via Mrs. Hunter’s authority over living that her household and children vicariously face death and struggle to give consequence to life. Estranged from a mother who was never capable of loving them Sir Basil, (Geoffrey Rush), a famous but struggling actor in London, and Dorothy (Judy Davis), an impecunious French princess, attempt to reconcile with her. In doing so they are reduced from states of worldly sophistication to floundering adolescence. The children unite in a common goal — to leave Australia with their vast inheritance. Moving through Sydney’s social scene, they search for a way to fulfill their desire. Using the reluctant services of their family lawyer Arnold Wyburd (John Gaden), a man long in love with Mrs. Hunter, they scheme to place their mother in a society nursing home to expedite her demise. Panic sets in as the staff sense the impending end of their eccentric world. Mrs. Hunter confesses her profound disappointment at failing to recreate the state of humility and grace she experienced when caught in the eye of a cyclone 15 years earlier. For the first time in their lives, the meaning of compassion takes the children by surprise.

Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O’Brien, THE SESSIONS tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined, at age 38, to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality.

PRINCIPAL CAST: Judy Davis, Geoffrey Rush, Charlotte Rampling WRITER: Judy Morris PRODUCERS: Antony Waddington, Gregory Read CINEMATOGRAPHER: Ian Baker EDITOR: Kate Williams MUSIC: Paul Grabowsky

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DIRECTOR: Fred Schepisi COUNTRY: Australia YEAR: 2011 RUNTIME: 119 minutes FORMAT: DCP SHOWS: Friday, Oct. 5th at 7:30 pm

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DIRECTOR: Ben Lewin COUNTRY: USA YEAR: 2011 RUNTIME: 94 minutes FORMAT: DCP SHOWS: Tuesday, Oct. 9th at 8:05 pm

Principal Cast: John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Adam Arkin Writer: Ben Lewin Producers: Judi Levine, Ben Lewin, Stephen Nemeth Cinematographer: Geoffrey Simpson Editor: Lisa Bromwell Music: Marco Beltrami PRESENTED BY:

CENTERPIECE FILMS The CENTERPIECE films (at time of print) are advance premieres and are scheduled on Saturday, Sunday and Monday evenings in prime time. They are QUARTET; SHADOW DANCER; and STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Please refer to the film listings on pages 12-15 for the summaries and schedule information.

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ABU, SON Movie TitleOF ADAM (Adaminte Makan Abu) DIRECTOR: Salim Ahmed COUNTRY: India RUNTIME: 101 minutes LANGUAGE: Malayalam, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP AWARDS: National Film Awards, India - Best Film/ Best Actor/Best Cinematography/Best Music Director

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An aged Indian couple decides to sacrifice everything to make a once-in-a-lifetime Hajj Synopsis (pilgrimage) to Mecca. Debut director Salim Ahamed presents a rare and poignant tale of Muslim community life in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Abu is coming to the end of his working life, and the traditional perfumes he hawks are no longer in fashion. Alone with his wife Aisa, in their small country house, Abu decides to fulfill their lifetime ambition — to go on the Hajj, a religious pilgrimage to Mecca, for which he has been saving rupees for years. The couple soon realize that this ambition will require severe sacrifices on many fronts. This gentle tale of irrepressible hope and true companionship is one not to miss. ~ BFI London Film Festival

AMNESTY (Amnistia) DIRECTOR: Bujar Alimani COUNTRY: Albania RUNTIME: 83 minutes LANGUAGE: Albanian, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD AWARDS: Berlin International Film Festival - Forum of New Cinema

BAIKONUR DIRECTOR: Veit Helmer COUNTRY: Kazakhstan RUNTIME: 95 minutes LANGUAGES: Russian, English, French, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP OSCAR CONTENDER

A new national law allowing conjugal visits for inmates brings together a man and woman visiting the same prison to meet their incarcerated spouses. Elsa’s dutiful contact with her husband is part of a routine consumed with job searching, raising her two sons and getting along with her fatherin-law. When she meets Spetim, a quiet man visiting his imprisoned wife in equally passionless encounters, they slowly find the sympathy and companionship missing from their lives.

Principal Cast: Luli Bitri, Karafil Shena, Todi Llupi, Mirela Naska

Principal Cast: Salim Kumar, Zarina Wahab, M.R. Gopakumar, Mukesh

BAIKONUR is a most unusual love story. The Baikonur Cosmodrome, an entire Kazakh city administered by Russia, encompasses a space launch facility. Riding furiously across the barren steppes outside Baikonur are rival groups of Kazakh horsemen, intent on being the first to reach newly landed space junk, which they recycle for a profit. The villagers’ motto: Whatever falls from heaven is a gift from God and belongs to the first who finds it. The launches are monitored by a ham radio operator calling himself Gagarin, after the Soviet cosmonaut. One day, a capsule containing a beautiful French space tourist crashes to Earth, rendering her comatose. Gagarin takes her tenderly into his yurt and places her on a bier, like Sleeping Beauty. What will happen when she wakes up? ~ Cleveland International Film Festival Principal Cast: Alexander Asochakov, Marie de Villepin, Sitora Farmonova

CRAFT (Riscado) Director: Gustavo Pizzi Country: Brazil Runtime: 85 minutes Languages: Portuguese and French, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD AWARDS: Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival - Best Actress; São Paulo Association of Art Critics Awards - Best Screenplay Bianca manages a precarious living as a talented but underemployed actress in Rio de Janeiro, performing for private events, dressed as female movie icons. Troubled by the thought she has missed her chance at a “big break,” she perseveres with single-minded dedication to her craft—until an audition leads to a rare opportunity and possible redemption for years of social marginalization. But her world may still prove too insecure, even for one as gifted and deserving as Bianca. Set against rich visuals and a down-to-earth tone, Karine Teles’ remarkable lead performance drives an enveloping drama of everyday tragedy in the working world of an artist.

Principal Cast: Gisele Fróes, Lucas Gouvêa, Otávio Muller

THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART (Et Soudain Tout le Monde Me Manque) DIRECTOR: Jennifer Devoldère COUNTRY: France RUNTIME: 98 minutes LANGUAGE: French, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

DEAD MAN’S BURDEN DIRECTOR: Jared Moshé COUNTRY: USA RUNTIME: 93 minutes FORMAT: Blu-ray

Families are complicated… especially when Eli, the father, who’s about to be 60, is expecting a baby with his new wife. Upon hearing this news, his two grown daughters, Dom, who is trying to adopt, and Justine, who flits from one boyfriend to the next, are shocked. To become closer to Justine, whom he has never gotten along with, Eli has the bright idea of making friends with all of her exes...without her knowledge. But when Justine falls in love again, and Eli is about to ruin everything, the family teeters on the verge of falling apart. Will they all be able to make peace before it’s too late?

The year is 1870, and a fragmented America still strains to pick up the pieces after a savage Civil War. Martha (exciting newcomer Clare Bowen) and her husband Heck (David Call, Tiny Furniture) are living on a homestead that Martha’s father purchased on the rural New Mexico frontier, and they’re struggling to make ends meet. When a mining company expresses interest in buying their land, Martha and Heck see their ticket to a better life. Their hopeful plans are soon complicated when Martha’s oldest brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs, Shotgun Stories)—whom she believed was killed during the war—returns to the family homestead after learning of their father’s death. Torn between a desire to reconcile with the only family they have left and their clashing convictions, tension and suspicion continue to mount.

Principal Cast: Mélanie Laurent, Michel Blanc, Géraldine Nakache, Florence Loiret Caille, Claude Perron, Guillaume Gouix, Sébastien Castro, Manu Payet, Jean-Yves Roan, Romain Levy, Alexandre Steiger, Daniel Cohen, Luce Mouchel

Principal Cast: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor, Richard Riehle

FAT, BALD, SHORT MAN (Gordo, Calvo Y Bajito) Director: Carlos Osuna Country: Colombia Runtime: 91 minutes Language: Spanish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD

FILLY BROWN Directors: Youssef Delara, Michael D. Olmos Country: USA Runtime: 101 minutes FORMAT: DCP

THE FINGER (El Dedo) Director: Sergio Teubal Country: Argentina Runtime: 93 minutes Language: Spanish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD

Lonesome, middle-aged virgin, Antonio Farfán, is picked on and ridiculed as a matter of course, whether by coworkers or his bullying mooch of a brother (who only calls when he needs money).

An employee of a notary’s office, his status improves a bit when his new boss—and strangely affable doppelganger—takes an interest in him. But Farfán’s deep-seated shyness and insecurity are only partly assuaged. And when he joins a self-improvement group, he slowly confirms what the undulating lines of this sly, rotoscopic story suggest: everything is in motion, and change is inevitable. The question becomes: How can he make use of it?

Maria Jose “Majo” Tonorio is a tough-as-nails LA street poet who spits from the heart. When she’s not refining her skills on the mike at “Pocos Pero Locos,” a local Latin Rap web show, Majo is at home trying to be the good daughter to Jose, a devoted single parent who does an admirable job of being both father and mother to Majo and her younger, more reckless sister, Lupe. Convinced that a record deal will deliver much needed money for the family, Majo is suddenly faced with some stark choices. Does she accept the deal and turn her back on the friends who got her to the precipice of success, or does she let a golden opportunity slip away?

Principal Cast: Álvaro Bayona, Julio Medina, Sandra Reyes

Principal Cast: Gina Rodriguez, Jenni Rivera, Lou Diamond Phillips, Edward James Olmos

After seven years of local dictatorship, a remote village in Argentina formally becomes a town, with the birth of its 501st inhabitant. Hidalgo, a slick and ingratiating scion, is eager for the new post of mayor. Smelling a rat, Baldomero (a beloved natural leader with a habitually tapping digit) runs against him—and soon turns up dead. His shopkeeper brother vows revenge, keeping Baldomero’s severed finger in a jar, initially as a remembrance. But eventually it becomes an absurd icon of leadership that spurs the town to defy crooked elections, interloping powers and Hidalgo to go its own way. Based on real events, this charming dramatic comedy pokes fun at small town ways while celebrating true democratic values.

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TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: WWW.SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM GREY MATTER (Matiêre Grise) Director: Kivu Ruhorahoza Country: Rwanda Runtime: 100 minutes Languages: Kinyarwanda and French, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD

HENRY OF NAVARRE – (Henri IV) Director: Jo Baier Country: Germany Runtime: 153 minutes Languages: French and German, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

Set in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, this radiantly self-referential film-within-a-film describes the vision and trials of a determined filmmaker named Balthazar, as he tries to produce his first feature, The Cycle of the Cockroach. The trenchant drama, about a brother and sister dealing with the aftermath of genocide, finds no support from agencies only interested in funding upbeat policyfriendly films. As Balthazar borrows recklessly from a loan shark, the Cycle plays out on the screen, subtly measuring the horror and systematic madness of events hardly unique to Rwanda, while offering bracing insight into the nature of political violence.

France,1563. Protestants and Catholics are fighting for land and power, invoking their religion as justification. At the head of the Protestants stands Henry of Navarre, leading his men against Paris, against the Catholics, and against his mother‘s powerful rival, Catherine de Medici, Queen of France.

Principal Cast: Ramadhan Bizimana, Tamim Hakizimana, Kennedy Jones Mazimpaka

Catherine de Medici offers Henry the hand of her daughter, Margot, as a sign of reconciliation but the wedding ends in a terrible bloodbath. Henry survives the St. Bartholomew‘s Day Massacre but is kept prisoner in the Louvre, until he escapes after four long years. He will change religion five times in the course of his life, fighting and resorting to any tactics to climb his way to the throne.

He eventually becomes a monarch who can genuinely claim to be one of the first true humanists.

Principal Cast: Julien Boisselier, Joachim Krol, Roger Casamajor, Andreas Schmidt, David Streisow

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IN THE FAMILY Director: Patrick Wang Country: USA Runtime: 169 minutes FORMAT: DCP AWARDS: San Diego Asian Film Festival - George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award/Jury Award - Best Narrative Feature; San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival - Jury Award for Best Narrative Feature/Emerging Filmmaker Award Eschewing formula and stereotype, Wang delivers a heartfelt story woven around child custody, “two-Dad” families, parental loss, interracial relations, and the human side of the law. The film opens with the daily routines of an ordinary family in Tennessee, where Joey (Patrick Wang) and Cody (Trevor St. John) are raising their precocious son Chip. The narrative shifts after tragedy forces Joey to raise his son alone. Joey’s grief is compounded when he discovers that Cody’s sister has been granted custody of Chip. Wang allows the film to patiently interweave flashback sequences that reveal the complex nature of Cody’s relationship with Joey and their relationship with Cody’s family.

Refusing to demonize the family, Wang offers a transcendent narrative that embraces how light and shadow both shape the human heart. ~ San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival Principal Cast: Sebastian Brodziak, Peter Hermann, Susan Kellermann, Kelly McAndrew, Brian Murray, Park Overall, Trevor St. John, Patrick Wang

JUAN IN A MILLION Directors: Sergio Allard, Denis Arqueros, Nico Klein Country: Chile Runtime: 92 minutes Languages: English and Spanish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

THE LAST CHRISTEROS (Los Últimos Cristeros) Director: Matias Meyer Country: Mexico Runtime: 90 minutes Languages: Spanish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP Producer, Julio Bárcenas is scheduled to present his film and participate in a post-film discussion.

LET MY PEOPLE GO! Director: Mikael Buch Country: France Runtime: 86 minutes Languages: French and Finnish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

Juan Pablo Garcia is applying to study an entire year at Harvard. On a December morning, before summer vacation, Juan goes to his university to deliver his final application forms. He returns home to rest before a legendary night of partying, and is looking forward to an awesome summer.

When he wakes up, Juan discovers that the entire city is abandoned, and that he is left behind.

Juan begins searching where did all the people go? And most important why was he left behind?

In early 1930’s Jalisco, a group of men refused to accept amnesty and continued to fight against religious persecution. This is the story of five valiant men who stood up against the Mexican army and hid out in the rugged mountain terrain of the high desert near Guadalajara. The skilled survivalists take us along the mountain trails they know best. The Cristero War (also known as the Cristiada) was an uprising and counter-revolution against the Mexican government’s persecution of Roman Catholics in the 1920s and 1930s. Director Matias Meyer adapted Antonio Estrada’s novel, “Rescoldo, The Last Christeros,” which was based on Estrada’s years spent hiding with his family in the mountains. Meyer’s cast of nonprofessional actors lends an authentic impression to the characters of these Mexican revolutionaries; a few of them are actually relatives of the original historic group. ~ Seattle International Film Festival

A sweet and hilarious fusion of gay romantic comedy, Jewish family drama and French bedroom farce, Mikael Buch’s LET MY PEOPLE GO! follows the travails and daydreams of the lovelorn Reuben (Regular Lovers’ Nicolas Maury), a French-Jewish gay mailman living in fairytale Finland (where he got his MA in “Comparative Sauna Cultures”) with his gorgeous Nordic boyfriend. But just before Passover, a series of mishaps and a lovers’ quarrel exile the heartbroken Reuben back to Paris and his zany family—including Almodovar goddess Carmen Maura (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Volver) as his ditzy mom, and Truffaut regular Jean-François Stévenin as his lothario father.

Principal Cast: Nicolás Tortello, Eusebio Arenas, Camila Stuardo, Florencia Astorga

Principal Cast: Nicolas Maury, Carmen Maura, Jean François Stevenin, Amira Casar, Clément Sibony, Jean Luc Bideau

Principal Cast: Alejandro Limón, Antonio García, Jesús Moisés Rodríguez, Salvador Ferreiro, Abel Lozano Sponsored by:

LORE – SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: Cate Shortland Country: Germany Runtime: 109 minutes Languages: German, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

LUCKY Director: Avie Luthra Country: South Africa Runtime: 100 minutes Languages: Hindi, English, Zulu, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

MOURNING (Soog) Director: Morteza Farshbaf Country: Iran Runtime: 85 minutes Language: Persian, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD Darrell Copp will moderate a post-film discussion with the audience.

The year is 1945. At the end of the war in Germany, a group of children set out to cross a devastated country to reach their grandmother some 900km to the north. The eldest, LORE, has been left in charge of her younger siblings when their SS Nazi parents were taken into Allied custody. The children undertake a harrowing journey that exposes them to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. After meeting the charismatic and intriguing THOMAS, a young Jewish refugee, Lore soon finds her world shattered by feelings of both hatred and desire.

She is transfixed by her fear of the young man, but must trust the one person she has always been taught to hate in order to survive.

How could a recently orphaned, 10-year old homeless South African boy ever be called Lucky?

Over the grave of his dead mother, Lucky makes a promise to make something of himself.

Leaving the security of his remote Zulu village for the big city, with the hope of going to school, he arrives on the doorstep of an uncle who has no use for him. Lucky then falls in with Padme, an elderly Indian woman with an inherent fear of Africans, who takes him in as she would a stray dog. Together, unable to speak each other’s language, they develop an unlikely bond. Through an odyssey marked by greed, violence, and, ultimately, belonging, Lucky shows how a child’s spirit can bring out decency, humility, and even love in adults struggling to survive in the new South Africa.

AWARDS: Deauville Asian Film Festival - Best Film/ Critic’s Prize; Pusan International Film Festival - FIPRESCI

Principal Cast: Jayashree Basavra, Sihle Dlamini, James Ngcobo, Vusi Kunene, Brenda Ngxoli

Principal Cast: Kiomars Giti, Sharareh Pasha and Amir Hossein Maleki

Principal Cast: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina Lardi

From a black screen, a man and a woman are heard arguing and hurrying away from a house.

Afterward, the screen radiates brilliant green countryside, traversed by a small black car. Subtitles relay a conversation by another man and woman, but now we hear no voices. Kamran and Sharareh, a deaf couple, are driving Sharareh’s young nephew, Arshia, back home to Tehran.

Something terrible has happened. But the couple keeps the news from Arshia, debating his future in a language not as private as they believe, and turning a car trip into a subtly humorous and deeply compassionate meditation on communication and emotional disability.

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MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV (Moi Papa Baryshnikov) Directors: Dmitry Povolotsky, Mark Drugoi Country: Russia Runtime: 88 minutes Language: Russian, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

NICKY’S FAMILY – SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: Matej Minac Countries: Czech Republic / Slovak Republic Runtime: 96 minutes FORMAT: DCP Janet Robinson will moderate a post-film discussion with the audience.

AWARDS: 10 U.S. Audience Awards for Best Documentary.

PEGASUS (Pegase) Director: Mohamed Mouftakir Country: Morocco Runtime: 104 minutes Language: Arabic, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD

Russia in the time of Perestroika – the borders are opening up, and rock music is hitting the alleyways of Moscow. It’s 1986 and black-market jeans are the quickest way to get you into the cool crowd. For Boris, the clumsiest pupil at the famous Bolshoi Theater Ballet Academy, supplying these jeans to his classmates is his ticket to popularity, along with his claim that he is the son of Russia’s most famous ballet dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov, an idea fed to him by his mother. It is only a matter of time before these illusions catch up with Boris. In a place where decorum and conformity rule, Boris’s dreams are met head on in a hilarious and heart-warming way, which takes us back to the 80s when the world was starting to rumble under the headphones of the portable Walkman.

NICKY’S FAMILY is an emotional retelling of the remarkable efforts one man took to rescue 669 Czech children from death during WWII. Sir Nicholas Winton was a young English businessman at the time; but when chance brought him to Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia, he put aside his own pursuits and began organizing the many children of Jewish refugees to escape Nazi clutches.

While this emotional journey of sacrifice is moving in its own right, the greater value of director Matej Miná’s work is the exploration of where the survivors are now. ~ Cleveland International Film Festival

Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman found in the street muttering unintelligibly about “The Lord of the Horse.” A flashback sequence returns us to Rihana’s childhood, where her dictatorial father, horseman chief of his tribe, raises her as the son his legacy demands. Trapped in parental delusions, Rihana falls in love with a young man with whom she carves out the beginnings of her own life. Soon, Rihana’s story awakens repressed thoughts in Zineb’s own troubled mind, and reality merges into a haunted fever-dream of fear and denial in this visually striking, psychological thriller.

Principal Cast: Dmitry Vyskubenko, Anna Mikhakova, Anatoly Kot

Principal Cast: Sir Nicholas Winton, His Holiness Dalai Lama, Elie Wiesel

POLICEMAN (Ha’Shoter) Director: Nadav Lapid Country: Israel Runtime: 112 minutes Languages: Hebrew, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP AWARDS: Jerusalem Film Festival - Best Cinematography/Best Israeli Screenplay/Best First Feature Film; Nantes Three Continents Festival Audience Award

THE PRIZE (El Premio) Director: Paula Markovitch Country: Mexico/Argentina Runtime: 99 minutes Language: Spanish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD AWARDS: Berlin International Film Festival Outstanding Artistic Achievement; Havana Film Festival - Best First Work; Jerusalem Film Festival - Best Feature; Yerevan International Film Festival - Best Film

POLICEMAN is a boldly conceived drama that pivots around the initially unrelated activities of an elite anti-terrorist police unit and some wealthy young anarchists. Provocative and timely, in light of recent unrest tied to social and economic inequities in Israel, this is a powerfully physical film in its depiction of the muscular, borderline sensual way the macho cops relate to one another, as well as for the emphatic style with which the opposing societal forces are contrasted and finally pitted against one another. ~ New York Film Festival

Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine beach. As her mother listens for news from the radio with sad stoicism, restlessly curious seven-yearold Cecilia joins a nearby school overseen by a kindly teacher. A childhood idyll, however, soon becomes contaminated by the general political crisis, as the teacher recruits the class for a patriotic essay contest sponsored by the army—the very people that may have already disappeared Cecilia’s father—in this superbly acted and engrossingly atmospheric drama about innocence in perilous times.

Principal Cast: Keren Mor, Menashe Noi, Michael Aloni, Michael Mushonov, Yaara Pelzig, Yiftach Klein

Principal Cast: Majdoline Drissi, Anas El Baz, Majdouline Idrissi

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QARANTINA Director: Oday Rasheed Country: Iraq Runtime: 90 minutes Language: Arabic, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD Fred Linch will moderate a post-film discussion with the audience.

A broken family under the domination of an incestuous patriarch lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated Baghdad house. The pregnant daughter has fallen silent, finding some protection provided by the patriarch’s young second wife and his preteen son. Meanwhile, hard up for money, the household must live with a sullen and imperious boarder, a contract killer. In such a house, though, it may be that freedom and safety actually lie beyond the gates. Iraqi filmmaker Oday Rasheed’s second feature gorgeously captures contemporary Baghdad’s moody interior and stunned atmosphere, echoed in performances by a formidable cast who suggest unexpected resilience in the wake of catastrophe.

Principal Cast: Asaad Abdul Majeed, Alaa Najem, Hattam Auda

Principal Cast: Laura Agorreca, Paula Galinelli Hertzog, Sharon Herrera

QUARTET Monday Night Centerpiece – SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: Dustin Hoffman Country: UK Runtime: 95 minutes FORMAT: DCP The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, QUARTET is a comedy starring Maggie Smith (Harry Potter franchise, Gnomeo and Juliet), Billy Connolly (Gulliver’s Travels, The Last Samurai), Michael Gambon (Harry Potter franchise, The King’s Speech) and Pauline Collins (Albert Nobbs, From Time To Time). QUARTET tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday, which also raises funds for the home. Reggie’s ex-wife Jean (Smith) arrives at the home and creates tension, playing the diva part but refusing to sing in the concert.

QUARTET was written by Sir Ronald Harwood.

SATAN’S ANGEL: QUEEN OF THE FIRE TASSELS Director: Joshua Dragotta Country: USA Runtime: 72 minutes FORMAT: DCP Director Joshua Dragotta and star Angel Walker are scheduled to present their film and participate in a post-film discussion.

Lesbian burlesque star Satan’s Angel has been setting nightclubs ablaze with her legendary flaming tassel act from the early ‘60s to today. Now 68, Angel Walker recounts her childhood, affairs with movie stars and battles with addiction. Both a raucous look at the history of burlesque (featuring legends like Dixie Evans and Kitten Natividad) and a tender tale of love between Angel and her devoted girlfriend Vic, you won’t want to miss a moment of Satan’s Angel’s sexy life story.

Principal Cast: Angel Walker, Vic Crotwell, Dixie Evans, Kitten Natividad, Michelle L’Amour, Lilli Von Schtupp, Terry Earp, Angie Pontani, Tara Mi Sioux

SHADOW DANCER – Sunday Night Centerpiece SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: James Marsh Country: UK/Ireland Runtime: 102 minutes FORMAT: DCP Single mother Collette McVeigh is a Republican living in Belfast with her mother and hardliner IRA brothers. When she is arrested for her part in an aborted IRA bomb plot in London, an MI5 officer (Mac) offers her a choice: lose everything and go to prison for 25 years or return to Belfast to spy on her own family. With her son’s life in her hands, Collette chooses to place her trust in Mac and return home, but when her brothers’ secret operation is ambushed, suspicions of an informant are raised, and Collette finds both herself and her family in grave danger.

Principal Cast: Clive Owen, Andrea Riseborough, Gillian Anderson, Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Bríd Brennan, David Wilmot

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TICKETS AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: WWW.SCOTTSDALEFILMFESTIVAL.COM SHOUTING SECRETS Director: Korinna Sehringer Country: USA/Switzerland Runtime: 87 minutes FORMAT: DCP Director Korinna Sehringer is scheduled to present her film and participate in a post-film discussion.

AWARDS: American Indian Film Festival - Best Film/ Best Actor/Best Supporting Actor SHOUTING SECRETS is the universal story about a family coming back together during the chaotic event of a parent’s sudden illness. Although having grown up within circumstances unique to their ancestry, the children have each followed distinctly different paths in order to separate themselves from one another and their upbringing on the Indian reservation. SHOUTING SECRETS relates to the moment most of us face as a family ages together, regardless of efforts we may make to avoid the ones we are bonded to for life.

Principal Cast: Chaske Spencer, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tyler Christopher, Tonantzin Carmelo

SHUN LI AND THE POET (Io Sono Li) Director: Andrea Segre Country: Italy Runtime: 100 minutes Language: Italian, with subtitles in English FORMAT: Blu-ray AWARDS: Lecce Festival of European Cinema Mario Verdone Award; London Film Festival - Satyajit Ray Award; Reykjavik International Film Festival - Special Mention; Tetouan International Mediterranean Film Festival - Best Actor/Best First Work; Venice Film Festival - FEDIC Award/Laterna Magica Prize/ Lina Mangiacapre Award Shun Li, a young Chinese immigrant, is driven by one burning desire — to get her papers and bring her young son from China to join her. The tavern where she works has always been the traditional meeting place of the local fishermen, and for years the handsome old Slav fisherman “The Poet” Bepi, an immigrant who came to the Veneto when he was just a youth, has been among them. A tender, delicate bond grows between Shun Li and Bepi. For both of them, it is a poetic universe that shatters their solitudes, a silent dialogue between their two cultures, so different, yet not at all distant

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STARLET – SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: Sean Baker Country: USA Runtime: 103 minutes FORMAT: DCP

STARLET explores the unlikely friendship between 21-year-old Jane (Dree Hemingway) and 85 year-old Sadie (Besedka Johnson), two women whose worlds collide in California’s San Fernando Valley. Jane spends her time getting high with her dysfunctional roommates. Sadie, an elderly widow, passes her days alone tending to her flower garden. After a confrontation between the two women Jane attempts to befriend the caustic older woman, and secrets emerge as their relationship grows.

Principal Cast: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Karren Karagulian * This film depicts graphic sexual situations and contains nudity.

Principal Cast: Tao Zhao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini

STRUCK BY LIGHTNING – Saturday Night Centerpiece SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING/ARIZONA PREMIERE Director: Brian Dannelly Country: USA Runtime: 90 minutes FORMAT: DCP

TEDDY BEAR Director: Mads Matthiesen Country: Denmark Runtime: 93 minutes Language: Danish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP AWARDS: Sundance Film Festival - Directing Award World Cinema

High school senior Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer, Glee) was destined for bigger things than his close-minded small town could ever offer. He was on a path to greatness, but destiny had a different plan when he was suddenly killed by a bolt of lightning in his school parking lot. Carson recounts the last few weeks of his life via witty flashbacks, including a blackmail scheme targeting the popular kids in school that he concocts with his best friend (Rebel Wilson, Bridesmaids). His mother (Allison Janney, Juno, The West Wing) is more interested in the bottle than her son’s future, and an estranged father (Dermot Mulroney, My Best Friend’s Wedding) suddenly appears with a pregnant fiancée (Christina Hendricks, Mad Men). ~ Tribeca Film Festival

The 38-year-old bodybuilder Dennis would really like to find true love. He has never had a girlfriend and lives alone with his mother in a suburb of Copenhagen. When his uncle marries a girl from Thailand, Dennis decides to try his own luck on a trip to Pattaya, as it seems that love is easier to find in Thailand. He knows that his mother would never accept another woman in his life, so he lies and tells her that he is going to Germany. Dennis has never been out traveling before, and the hectic Pattaya is a huge cultural shock for him. The intrusive Thai girls give big bruises to Dennis’ naive picture of what love should be like, and he is about to lose hope when he unexpectedly meets the Thai woman of his dreams.

Principal Cast: Chris Colfer, Allison Janney, Dermot Mulroney, Christina Hendricks, Sarah Hyland, Rebel Wilson

Principal Cast: Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, David Winters, Allan Mogensen

Principal Cast: Serkan Ercan, Zafer Diper, Nur Aysan

VOLCANO (Eldfjall) Director: Rúnar Rúnarsson Country: Denmark, Iceland Runtime: 95 minutes Language: Icelandic, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

THE WELL-DIGGER’S DAUGHTER (La Fille Du Puisatier) Director: Daniel Auteuil Country: France Runtime: 110 minutes Language: French, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK (Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank) Director: Marlon Rivera Country: Philippines Runtime: 87 minutes Language: Tagalog and English, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DCP

AWARDS: Chicago International Film Festival - Silver OSCAR CONTENDER Hugo New Directors Competition; Denver International Film Festival - Best Feature Film; Edda Awards - Best Film/Director of the Year/Screenplay of the Year/ Actor of the Year /Actress of the Year; Montréal Festival of New Cinema - Film Critics Award Best Film/ Feature Film Award; Reykjavik International Film Festival - Fipresci Award/Golden Puffin The Church of Iceland Award; São Paulo International Film Festival - International Jury Award Best Actor; Transylvania International Film Festival - Best Direction; Valladolid International Film Festival - Best New Director A gruff working class retiree relearns what makes life precious in this heartrending drama. Although witnessing the indignities of aging and infirmity won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, this poignantly performed film strikes grace notes that feel both universal and uniquely Icelandic. After 37 years as a feared school janitor, the future for Hannes looms like an empty void. From a more conservative time, when a man was king in his home, and expressions of affection were limited to women and Christmas time, he’s alienated from his adult children and his young grandson. After his wife Anna suffers a sudden stroke, Hannes must summon long repressed emotional resources. ~ Palm Springs International Film Festival Principal Cast: Theódór Júlíusson, Margrét Helga Jóhannsdóttir, Elma Lísa Gunnarsdóttir, Thorsteinn Bachmann

Pascale is a widower living with his six daughters in the Provence countryside at the start of World War I. His eldest, Patricia, (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey) has returned home from Paris to help raise her sisters, and Pascale dreams of marrying her off to his loyal assistant Felipe (Kad Merad). But when she becomes pregnant by a wealthy young pilot, (Nicolas Duvauchelle) who promptly abandons her for the frontlines, Pascale is left to contend with the consequences. THE WELL-DIGGER’S DAUGHTER is an exquisitely crafted, sun-drenched melodrama, set to a score by Academy Award-nominee Alexandre Desplat.

Principal Cast: Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Kad Merad, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Sabine Azema

TOLL BOOTH (Gise Memuru) Director: Tolga Karaçelik Country: Turkey Runtime: 96 minutes Language: Turkish, with subtitles in English FORMAT: DVD AWARDS: Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival WBest Actor/Best Cinematography/Best First Film; Sofia International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize A taciturn tollbooth attendant shuffles between a suffocating home life with his ailing father and the monotony of the box where he works. Desperate to resist his father’s attempt to marry him off, while determined to prove his worth by fixing his family’s broken-down car, he drives himself toward a nervous breakdown. After a reassignment to a desolate country road, he begins a flirtatious relationship with a woman who drives by each day. But is this salvation for the aging bachelor, or the further unraveling of his mind? An expert cast and keen art direction contribute to this wry, heartbreaking ode to lost dreams in a sleepwalking world.

OSCAR CONTENDER AWARDS: Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival - Audience Award/Best Actress/Best Director / Best Film /Best Screenplay; Golden Screen Awards - Best Director/Best Editing/Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)/Best Musical Score/Best Original Screenplay/Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Musical or Comedy); Star Awards for Movies- Digital Movie Editor of the Year/Digital Movie Musical Scorer of the Year WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK comically chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate, but misguided filmmakers as they set out to do a quick pre-production at Starbucks. Director Rainier, Producer Bingbong, and Production Assistant Jocelyn are well-to-do, well-educated film school graduates who are dead set on making an Oscar-worthy film. Soon enough, they are faced with reality, as they come face to face with the real effects of their chosen subject. WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK is a comedy about misguided ambitions, the art of making art, and the romanticization of poverty.

Principal Cast: Eugene Domingo, JM De Guzman, Kean Cipriano, Cai Cortez

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SCHEDULE OF FILMS – Timetable of all movies shown at the Scottsdale International Film Festival 9 am

MONDAY October 8 TUESDAY October 9

1 pm

2 pm

3 pm

4 pm

5 pm

6 pm

7 pm

My Dad Is...

10:55 am Baikonur

9:40 am The Woman In The Septic...

Theater 4

9:15 am Pegasus

Theater 6

9:10 am Toll Booth

11:15 am Qarantina

Theater 4

9:20 am Pegasus

Theater 6

9:10 am Toll Booth

Theater 3 Theater 1 Theater 14

11:35 am Teddy Bear 11:30 am In The Family 11:40 am Mourning 11:15 am Qarantina

10:30 am Baikonur

10:15 am Policeman 10:30 am Volcano

2 pm

4 pm

The Last Christeros 4:15 pm Dead Man’s Burden

The Prize

3:50 pm The Finger

1:55 pm Craft

9 pm

10 pm

6:35 pm Struck By 8:35 pm Satan’s Angel Lightning 6:45 pm Juan In Q&A 8:40 pm Starlet A Million 6:25 pm Shun Li & 8:25 pm Amnesty The Poet 5:55 pm Fat, Bald, 7:55 pm Grey Matter Short Man

11 pm

Q&A Q&A

1:40 pm The Day I 3:55 pm Nicky’s Family Q&A 6:45 pm Shadow Dancer 8:55 pm Policeman Saw Your...

2:50 pm Juan In 7:15 pm Let My 4:50 pm Shouting Secrets Q & A 9 pm Starlet A Million People Go! 4:30 pm Dead Man’s 6:40 pm Shun Li & Q&A 2:15 pm The Prize 8:50 pm Amnesty Burden The Poet 5:55 pm Fat, Bald, Q & A 1:55 pm Craft 3:50 pm The Finger 7:55 pm Grey Matter Short Man

12:35 pm Lucky

10:40 am The Woman In The Septic...

4:10 pm Lore

1:40 pm Abu, Son of Adam

11:35 am Volcano 11:25 am Mourning

9:15 am The WellDigger’s...

9 am The Last Q&A Theater 3 Christeros

Theater 1

1:05 pm Henry Of Navarre

Q&A

Theater 3

8 pm

7:30 pm The Eye Of The Storm

Theater 1

SUNDAY October 7

12 pm

Theater 14 Theater 1 9 am

SATURDAY October 6

11 am

Q&A

FRIDAY October 5

10 am

2:55 pm My Dad Is...

12:40 pm Abu, Son of Adam 12:35 pm Lucky

3 pm

Let My People Go!

5 pm

The WellDigger’s...

5:05 pm Shouting Secrets

2:45 pm Henry Of Navarre

12:40 pm Lore

3:05 pm Nicky’s Family

7:20 pm Quartet Q&A

5:50 pm Teddy Bear Q&A

7:40 pm Filly Brown 7:50 pm Filly Brown

5:55 pm The Day I Saw Your Heart

8:05 pm The Sessions

POST–FILM Q & A DISCUSSION SCHEDULE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5 Special Guest: Director Fred Schepisi THE EYE OF THE STORM - 7:30PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6 Moderated by Fred Linch QARANTINA - 11:15 AM Moderated by Darrell Copp MOURNING - 11:25 AM

Special Guest: Producer Julio Barcenas THE LAST CHRISTEROS – 4:00 PM

Moderated by Fred Linch QARANTINA - 11:15 AM

Special Guests: Actor Angel Walker and DirectorJoshua Dragotta SATAN’S ANGEL: QUEEN OF THE FIRE TASSELS- 8:35 PM

Moderated by Darrell Copp MOURNING - 11:40 AM

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7 Special Guest: Producer Julio Barcenas THE LAST CHRISTEROS – 9:00 AM

Moderated by Janet Robinson NICKY’S FAMILY - 3:55 PM Special Guest: Director Korinna Sehringer SHOUTING SECRETS – 4:50 PM

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 Special Guest: Director Korinna Sehringer SHOUTING SECRETS – 5:05 PM TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 Moderated by Janet Robinson NICKY’S FAMILY - 3:05 PM

FESTIVAL DIRECTOR’S RECOMMENDATIONS - Don’t Miss These Films!

THE EYE OF THE STORM, NICKY’S FAMILY, SHADOW DANCER, STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, and THE SESSIONS, have been heavily praised by ďŹ lm fest audiences and with critics around the world. Off the beaten path, the following ďŹ ve picks are certainly buzz worthy and ďŹ lms which I’m glad to have seen:

ABU, SON OF ADAM BAIKONUR

HENRY OF NAVARRE IN THE FAMILY

MY DAD IS BARYSHNIKOV

Good Fest! – Amy

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FESTIVAL MODERATORS DARRELL COPP –

SCC Moderator. Darrell Copp received his BS in Communication and Performance Arts from Eastern Michigan University and his MA in Communication from ASU. He coordinates the Film Humanities program in the Department of Communication and Performance Arts at Scottsdale Community College.

FRED LINCH –

OSHER Moderator. Since the age of six, Fred has had a passion for the world of great cinema. At 72, he still has that passion. He recently traded his work on film festival juries and film festival production to teach in the ASU Lifelong Learning Program for people over 50 at the Tempe Library.

JANET ROBINSON –

SCC Moderator. Janet Robinson has been teaching film studies at Scottsdale Community College since 2000. With years of experience in the film business in Los Angeles, and her Master’s degree in Education, Janet has taught foreign film abroad, ranging from silent film in China to Czech film in Prague, through the Education Abroad Program at SCC.

KEVIN SANDLER –

ASU Moderator. Kevin Sandler is an Associate Professor and Director of Internships in the Film and Media Studies Program at ASU. He specializes in the contemporary U.S. media business, with a particular focus on censorship, convergence, and animation. He is the author of The Naked Truth: Why Hollywood Doesn’t Make X-Rated Movies (Rutgers, 2007), the co-editor of Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster (Rutgers, 1999), and editor of Reading the Rabbit: Explorations in Warner Bros. Animation (Rutgers 1998). His upcoming books include Animation, Conglomeration, Convergence (Duke) and The Shield (California). He also has published in a wide number of anthologies and journals, including Cinema Journal, Animation Journal, and The Velvet Light Trap. What do (Duke) and (California) mean?

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SNEAK PREVIEWS FESTIVAL PROGRAMMERS

DURRIE PARKS –

Durrie Parks is a media producer, activist and entrepreneur. She gained initial prominence in the Los Angeles music industry during the 1960s/70s, and more recently in the Arizona film community as a board member of the Arizona Film Society.

Durrie was also the first female executive at Warner Brothers Records.

MICHAEL SIMONYI –

Mike Simonyi is a foreign film buff, and a former Reggae and World Music Album Critic, writing for Down Home Music Monthly newsletter for 7 years and assisting with the Scottsdale Film Festival’s programming throughout the last 9 years.

MICHAEL TUCKMAN –

A veteran of the independent film industry for 15 years, Michael Tuckman began his career at The Cinema Guild, where he started the company’s theatrical distribution division. He served as Director of Feature Distribution for nearly four years, releasing such films as The Interview and A Love Divided, each of which played in more than 100 theaters nationwide. Tuckman went on to serve as the vice president of Theatrical Sales for THINKFilm, where he was one of the original executives and remained with the company for more than seven years. At his current venture, he provides theatrical booking services to independent film distributors, including Paladin, Elephant Eye, Variance and Entertainment One, while also releasing films directly with filmmakers under their own banners. Tuckman is a member of the Motion Picture Bookers Club and is on the Honorary Committee of Showeast. He has served as a panelist and juror at multiple film festivals and is a frequent participant in film industry panel discussions.

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thanks the following foundations, sponsors and individuals for their generous support

Our Members and Donors make the difference! The Scottsdale International Film Festival depends upon memberships and contributions to remain viable and to grow. A certain percentage of our costs are covered by ticket sales, but the rest comes from foundations, sponsors and individuals like you.

SCOTTSDALE FILM FORUM MEMBERS:

Caralee Allsworth

Taki Ernst

JP & Monique Millon

Kay Bouma

Loretta Forrest

Eve & Dennis Mykytyn

Lucinda Boyle

DeeDee and Rick Friedlander

Kitty Nagy

Mary Boyle

Sandra Fromm

Durrie Parks

Nancy Brandl

Selma Glass

Joy Partridge

P. Michelle Cavalier

Robert Graci

Fran Reich

Vanna Chisamore

Michael Haberkorn

Anne Samyn

Catherine & Gene Colby

Justin Hines

Kathryn Schwarz

David Connell

Kathy Hotchner

Elizabeth Stewart

Ruth Cox

Maureen King

Pamela Taylor

Carol Dobson

Betty Leibsohn Book of Life Fund

Wayne Erichsen

Max McQueen

DONORS: Mary & Terry Bohnsack – Matching Donation

Mary Anne Desmond

Raymond Lee

Joy Partridge

Gandolfa G Stegmann

Corn Products International Matching Donation

Carol Dobson

Thomas Loden

Iris Peschel

Kelly Stone

Christopher Farris

Lesley Lustgarten

Judy & David Reno

Duanne A. Summers

Diane Frank

Jean & Stan Margul

Robert Reymont

David Taylor

Selma Glass

Suzanne Miller

David Rich

Pamela Taylor

Ruby Gore

Melissa A Myers – Camelback Retirement Planners

Loran T. Rodewald

Janet Voyk

Patricia Myers

Lori & Dennis Rusk

Maria Warner

Bruce Scharbach

Stanley Webb

Richard & Rosemary Sedowski

Lois Weinshienk

Hal Smith

Barbara Weist

Ana Arbel Denise Atwood Phyllis Avalon-Pai Catherine Bell Barbara Berman The Boyle Family Charitable Fund Iris Cashdan-Fishman Elaine Cohen David Connell

Michael Haberkorn Kay Halverson Beth Hoffman Joanne Hurni Roslyn Klein John A Lafko

Tedy Newhall Ellen Nusbaum Springboard Content & Publishing. LLC Marion Nusbaum Faryl Palles

Ruthkolb Smith

Mary Lee Winer

Linda Spanier

John Wise

The following sponsors and individuals deserve special mention. They are all indispensable to the Festival and their support of the Festival is crucial to its success: FOUNDATION SUPPORT Century Arts Foundation GRANT SUPPORT Arizona Commission on the Arts/ National Endowment for the Arts City of Scottsdale Scottsdale Cultural Council

SPONSORS AND INDIVIDUALS: Francine Archer — Consulado General de Mexico The Arizona Republic Brienne Chance — Jennifer Blackmon — The Arizona Republic The Ritz-Carlton Brooke Christofferson — Randy Brick — Brickprint

The Arizona Republic

Cactus Stone & Tile Company

J. Compton and N. Wentworth

California Pizza Kitchen

Julie Condie — The Arizona Republic

Cliff Fontaine – KJZZ-FM and KBAQ-FM/NPR

Cami Kaiser — The Arizona Republic

Tracey Phalen — The Arizona Republic

Borg Siburg — Speedpro Imaging of Scottsdale

Tyler Cooper — Harkins Theatres

Kirk Griffin — Harkins Theatres

Legends Cadillac

Ben Rayes — Harkins Theatres

Wendy Sue Early — AJ’s Fine Foods

Dan Harkins — Harkins Theatres

Krista Levine — AJ’s Fine Foods

Melissa Rich — Harkins Theatres

Martin A. Uniacke — Festival Genius

Angie Horney — Hampton Inn Scottsdale

Nancy Mitchell — KJZZ-FM and KBAQ-FM/NPR

Leah Rutman — Hampton Inn Scottsdale

Ana Bertha Iberri — Consulado General de Mexico

Jerry Mittelman — Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival

Scottsdale Quarter

James Eggimann — The Ritz-Carlton

Luis Ãngel Castañeda Flores —

Jim Williams — The Arizona Republic

The following is a list of the people who work on the Festival throughout the year and during the event. The Festival would not exist without the dedication of everyone who pitches in: Lori Alderfer — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing Dana Arbel — Social Media/ Fundraising Team Zac Atherton — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing Verity Bendel — Hospitality Coordinator Mike Binder — Social Media Regina Blakely — Focus Group Team Leader

Patrick Brogan — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing John Burns — Ovationtix.com Nick Butler — Fundraising Team Leader Bonnie Cameron-Wells — Mission & Vision Statement Team Regina Castillo — Barclay Communications Dave Connell — Bookkeeping/ Fundraising Team/Mission & Vision Statement Team

Darrell Copp — Scottsdale Community College Liaison/ Moderator Tim Cullison — Festival CPA Perrine Dalaigre — Mission & Vision Statement Team Lindsay Derr — Barclay Communications Diane Frank — Editor Alison Frost — Barclay Communications

Kolby Granville — Board Member

Dunya Kops — Web Designer

Melissa Myers — Board Member

Bob Hammond — Media Solutions

Fred Linch — Moderator/ Fundraising Team

Ellen Nusbaum — Board Member/ Mission & Vision Statement Team

Aaron Marion — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing

Rodney W. Ott — Grant Writer Durrie Parks – Programming/ Mission & Vision Statement Team

Diane Hammond — Fundraising Team Ryan Kaupe — ASU Intern/ Customer Service Lauren Kawaam — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing Tom Kenney — Team Leader/ Mission & Vision Statement Team Ted Kirby — Festival Manager

Nadine Martin — Fundraising Team Rosetta Minner — Fundraising Team Ryan Mix — Video Production Manager Matthew Mona — Customer Service

Janet Robinson — Scottsdale Community College/Moderator Lori Rusk – Office Assistant/ Fundraising Team Nicholas Salerno — Editor

Patty Pelfrey — Customer Service

Kevin Sandler — ASU Intern Coordinator/Moderator

Alexandra Perakis — Ovationtix.com David Reno – Marketing/Mission & Vision Statement Team Judy Reno – Marketing/ Fundraising Team

Mike Simonyi — Print Traffic/ Programming/Mission & Vision Statement Team

Jessica Sotelo — Allied Advertising & Integrated Marketing Sheldon Stanley — Office Assistant Michael Tuckman — Programming Denise Troy — Board Member Claudia Work — Board Member

Jason Scronic/Campbell & Mahoney Chartered — Festival Attorney

Thanks to the Festival’s incredible Event Volunteers for their spirit of giving. Some names were not available at press time (8/27) but we thank you ALL just the same: Christian Adame Carol Alabaster Mary Baker Stephanie Beard Carol Bedner Aurora Betson Claire Bickel Saskia Blanco Christine Blunt

Kassee Bulen Marian Cepuran Andrew Cornwall Sue Cotner Tim Cullison Leon DeHaven Lin DeRight Jenna Faville Grace Fillucco

Sarah Fox Selma Glass Bonnie Godfrey Diane Goullard Lynn Grossman Tamara Hock Miriam Iverson Eileen Kane Maureen King

Tom Kenney Donna Koehler Terry Kramer Elaine Lessell Herb Lessell Alyssa Lombardi Ruth Margolin Ayn Mattei Robin Miner

Rosetta Minner David Nassberg Roni Nassberg Cindy O’Dell Anne Owens Gary Palmer Jackie Persky Mike Rahm Joyce Ramacciato

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