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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

SHORT FILMS ........................................135

Letters from the Governor and Mayor ............... 7

SIFF ShortsFest Weekend .............................136

Welcome to the Festival .................................... 9

Short Films Before Features...........................143

Message from the Board .................................11

NEW DIRECTORS SHOWCASE .............144

Sponsors.........................................................13 SIFF Film Center ..............................................21

DOCUMENTARY FEATURES .................151

SIFF Lounge ................................................... 23

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION ...........152

GALAS & SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA .....173

Opening Night Gala .........................................25

FESTIVAL FORUMS .............................. 254

Closing Night Gala ...........................................27

Fly Films ........................................................255

Centerpiece Gala............................................ 29

Northwest Production Summit .......................258

Gay-La ............................................................31

Exploring Film History with James Forsher.....259

A Tribute to Spike Lee..................................... 32

SIFF Classroom .............................................261

Special Presentations ..................................... 39 Secret Festival .................................................47 Emerging Masters .......................................... 49 Archival Films ..................................................57 Archival Special Presentations ........................ 59 Planet Cinema .................................................73 FUTUREWAVE ......................................... 75 FutureWave Shorts Program ........................... 77 FutureWave SuperFly .......................................79 SIFF in the Schools ..........................................81

CREDITS Sponsors.......................................................262 Staff ............................................................. 263 Volunteers .................................................... 265 Supporters ................................................... 266 Acknowledgements .......................................271 INDEXES Advertising Index ...........................................273 Print Sources ................................................. 274 How to Festival ..............................................277

FILMS4FAMILIES .................................... 82

Film Topic Index.............................................279

FACE THE MUSIC ................................... 89

Country Index ................................................291

No Age performs The Bear ............................. 90

Director Index ............................................... 295

MIDNIGHT ADRENALINE ......................101

TIMETABLES ......................................... 297

NORTHWEST CONNECTIONS ............... 113 ALTERNATE CINEMA .............................125

FILM INDEX............................................317

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARDS ......133

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GREETINGS FROM THE GOVERNOR

I am delighted to welcome you to the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

Congratulations to the entire SIFF family on 35 extraordinary years of cinema!

At 25 days, SIFF is the largest American film festival and offers over 400 feature films and shorts from more than 60 countries. Attracting many visitors from around the world, SIFF continues to reach unprecedented attendance, growing each and every year.

I congratulate SIFF on the growth and success of SIFF Cinema, its new state-of-the-art theater in McCaw Hall, which provides a year-round screening facility at Seattle Center.

This exciting partnership between the City of Seattle and SIFF is establishing Seattle Center as a hub for the arts.

Festival organizers and volunteers have worked hard to bring this annual cross-cultural event to the people of the Pacific Northwest and all of our visitors. This celebration of the international language of film can only serve to enlighten us and enhance the diversity of our people.

Thank you all for being a part of this year’s Festival, and please accept my best wishes for a successful event.

Sincerely,

Christine O. Gregoire Governor of Washington

GREETINGS FROM THE MAYOR

On behalf of the City of Seattle, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 35th Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The city is proud to sponsor this renowned celebration of film.

I would like to thank the many organizers, volunteers, staff, filmmakers, and sponsors who worked so hard to bring our city together and the 2009 Seattle International Film Festival to fruition.

For many years, Seattle has been a beacon of light for film lovers all across the Northwest.

Much of this success is due to the Seattle International Film Festival’s 35-year presence in the city. SIFF Cinema brings year-round, unique film opportunities to the people of Seattle.

This year, the city welcomes exciting news of the SIFF Film Center at the Alki Room in Seattle Center, a state-of-the-art facility that will provide more opportunities for film enthusiasts throughout the year.

As the largest film festival in the country, SIFF is an invaluable resource to our community.

I encourage you to take advantage of all the film festival has to offer, from its films and musical performances to its panels and forums.

We are truly happy you are here.

Sincerely,

Greg Nickels Mayor of Seattle 3 5 T H S E AT T L E I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 9

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WELCOME TO THE FESTIVAL

It is a great year for cinema and a very special year for the Seattle International Film Festival as we celebrate our 35th Anniversary. More than ever before, the Festival has expanded its efforts to honor and celebrate the past, present, and future of cinema.

Our archival selections focus on a wide range of genres, styles, and stories. With vital restoration efforts by Gucci and The Film Foundation, we are able to present two of their recently restored classics, A Woman Under the Influence and Le Amiche. Robert Osborne, host of the Turner Classic Movies network, will be on hand to introduce four of his favorite classic films, and we are importing a rare Chinese silent film, Wild Rose, to be presented with live musical accompaniment.

Contemporary international cinema is equally well represented, with more than 260 features and 120 shorts from over 62 countries at this year’s Festival, making SIFF the largest event of its kind in the US. As always, a large number of filmmakers will attend the Festival to present their work and participate in various programs. I’m especially delighted that Spike Lee will be coming to SIFF to accept the Golden Space Needle for Outstanding Achievement in Directing. Later in the Festival, Francis Ford Coppola will be in attendance to present his latest film, Tetro.

A vast array of new talent is emerging in the Northwest, redefining the talent pool and providing new opportunities for those not looking to make compromises within the Hollywood system. It is exciting to see this surge in local production and in the sophistication of our homegrown filmmaking talent with our largest celebration of local filmmaking to date.

Documentary filmmaking has seen explosive growth. With more than 1,000 documentary films submitted to the Festival, it was difficult to winnow the selection down to a mere 54 of the best enlightening and, quite often, very entertaining true stories.

SIFF provides the ability to view the world with a fresh perspective and thereby gain a richer appreciation for everyday life. From our laugh-out-loud opening night film, In the Loop, to our closing night film, OSS 117: Lost in Rio—the sequel to OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, which won our audience award in 2006—and everything in between, I invite you to join us in celebrating this great contemporary art form. You might just find something unexpected.

Carl Spence, SIFF Artistic Director

Dear Friends, I wish all of you could see the Festival from my vantage point. It is a true community celebration in that literally thousands of people make SIFF happen every year. We have almost 100 staff members—some of the most talented and dedicated people I have ever had the opportunity to work with. More than 700 volunteers donate 13,000 hours of their time.

Our 2,000 members and hundreds of sponsors and donors generously support our efforts throughout the year. Then, of course, approximately 150,000 of you come to experience SIFF. It remains profoundly humbling and inspiring to be part of such an effort.

Why do we come together to do this every year? We all have our own reasons, but I’ll offer you mine. I believe cultural celebrations like this are essential and even more important in challenging times. Now more than ever we need to resist the temptation to stay at home and numb ourselves to the outside world. We need opportunities to come together and be challenged and inspired by stories from around the world and from right here in our own backyard.

SIFF provides just such an opportunity. Our mission is to foster a community that is more informed, aware, and alive through the art of cinema. It is my dearest wish that in these next 25 days we fulfill that mission for each and every one of you.

Deborah Person, SIFF Managing Director 3 5 T H S E AT T L E I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 9

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tle t a e S h t 5 3 e th o t e al! m v i o t c s l e e F W m l i F l ona i t a n r Inte On behalf of the Board of Directors and SIFF staff, I’d like to thank our sponsors, filmmakers, volunteers, and especially our audiences for their support of the Seattle International Film Festival.

SIFF spotlights the best in the world of cinema.

With special events, educational programs, discussion groups, filmmaker panels, and celebrity appearances, this year’s programming is richer and more diverse than ever.

While you know us for the Festival, SIFF has been actively growing behind the scenes. We have secured the Alki Room at the Seattle Center as the future home of the SIFF Film Center. The development of the SIFF Film Center, coupled with the opening of SIFF Cinema in 2007, will allow SIFF to bring film to Seattle year-round, as well as extend our reach into the community and serve more people.

We are proud to inform you that we have raised half of our $3 million goal, despite the current economic climate. We hope that, as a friend and fan of SIFF, you will support our efforts to create a permanent home, allowing SIFF to fully achieve its mission and ensure our future sustainability and growth. In celebration of our 35th anniversary, we invite you to join the 35 Club and ask that you consider donating a gift to the SIFF Film Center in the amount of $35, $350, $3,500, $35,000, or more.

Film knows no barriers, and we are truly blessed to have SIFF in our community. This event has had a profound influence on Seattle culture over the years and I, for one, am truly proud and humbled to be a part of it.

Best wishes to everyone for a great Festival.

Sincerely,

Craig Friedson President, SIFF Board of Directors

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“No matter what festivals I’ve shown my films at, the screenings I most look forward to as a Seattle filmmaker are those that occur at home: at SIFF. SIFF has been instrumental in helping to create credibility for my work within my own community, which is very important to me as an artist.”

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In recognition of SIFF’s 35th anniversary, and in support of the SIFF Film Center, you are invited to join the 35 Club. Membership in the 35 Club begins with a gift of $35. “Add a zero” and make a pledge or donation of $350, $3,500, $35,000, or more and receive an invitation to an exclusive celebration at the Alki Room on June 13. Donations and pledges of any amount are welcomed.

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In the Loop THURSDAY MAY 21 7:00 PM PARAMOUNT THEATRE United Kingdom 2009 Director: Armando Iannucci Producers: Kevin Loader Adam Tandy Screenwriters: Jesse Armstrong Simon Blackwell Armando Iannucci Tony Roche Cinematographer: Jamie Cairney Editors: Billy Sneddon Ant Boys Music: Adem Ilhan with the Elysian Quartet Cast: Peter Capaldi James Gandolfini Tom Hollander David Rashe Gina McKee Chris Addison Anna Chulmsky Mimi Kennedy Engo Cilenti Paul Higgins Alex MacQueen Johnny Pemberton Olivia Poulet Joanna Scanlan James Smith Steve Coogan Zach Woods Running Time: 109 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm Print Source: IFC Films Film Website: intheloopmovie.co.uk Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Scabrous British wit is applied to biting political commentary in Armando Iannucci’s adaptation of his hit BBC series “The Thick of It.” This profanity-strewn political farce about the road to war through the corridors of power would be terrifying if it were not so downright funny. When British cabinet minister Simon Foster misjudges events in the run-up to a Middle-East-like conflict, he is exiled to Washington, D.C., by his hair-trigger-tempered prime minister. Trying desperately to look important, he forges a series of questionable acquaintances with American politicos, all with their own axes to grind. This sets off a train of misadventures filled with secrets, lies, leaks, and faulty intelligence—and walls—until, as all good farces should, it concludes with a cinematic shuffle, this time around the hallowed corridors of the United Nations. Blessed with a top-notch cast of British comic talent (and James Gandolfini from “The Sopranos” hamming it up as a Pentagon bigwig, visibly enjoying the role), the manic fun leads us behind closed doors to reveal bungling bureaucrats, obsequious aides and an unscrupulous staffer who doctors intelligence because he believes that “in the land of truth, the man with one fact is king.” Packed with killer quotes and filmed appropriately in quasi-verité style, In the Loop introduces Iannucci as a bright star to shine alongside Sacha Baron Cohen, Steve Coogan, Ricky Gervais et al in the firmament of cutting-edge British comics.

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SUNDAY JUNE 14 6:30 PM CINERAMA France 2009 Director: Michel Hazanavicius Producers: Eric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer Screenwriters: Jean-François Halin Michel Hazanavicius Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman Editor: Reynald Bertrand Music: Ludovic Bource Cast: Jean Dujardin Louise Monot Michel Aumont Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Gaumont Print Source: Gaumont Film Website: oss117.fr Selected Filmography: OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006) Sitcom, A Movie (1999)

Twelve years after his adventures in Cairo, it’s now the groovy 1960s, and agent OSS 117 is back for another mission at the end of the world. Sent on the trail of a microfilm that could compromise the French government, France’s most famous secret agent must team up with Dolores, the Mossad’s sexiest female lieutenant colonel, to capture a Nazi blackmailer. From Rio’s sunbaked beaches to the luxuriant Amazonian forests, OSS 117 takes us on an adventure full of thrills and laughs. No matter the dangers, no matter the challenges or risks, we can count on Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath to come through unscathed. The title character is part James Bond, part Maxwell Smart, and a little Austin Powers thrown in for good measure.

Like its predecessor (OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, SIFF 2006 Audience Award winner), Lost in Rio features sparkling production design, a jubilantly retro score, and a genuine flair for using 1960s film and TV vocabulary to revisit colonial arrogance. A recent critical and box-office sensation in France.

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Humpday FRIDAY JUNE 5 7:00 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE USA 2009 Director: Lynn Shelton Producer: Lynn Shelton Screenwriter: Lynn Shelton Cinematographer: Benjamin Kasulke Editor: Nat Sanders Music: Vinny Smith Cast: Mark Duplass Joshua Leonard Alycia Delmore Lynn Shelton Trina Willard Running Time: 92 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Film Website: humpdayishere.com Selected Filmography: My Effortless Brilliance (2008) We Go Way Back (2006)

ENCORE SCREENING SUNDAY JUNE 7 1:30 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE Settling into his marriage with Anna, Ben has a steady job and plans to start a family. But when his old college buddy Andrew shows up unannounced at 1:30 in the morning, the two quickly fall back into their old competitive ways. A decade after college, they each see each other’s lives very differently: Ben thinks Andrew has become an aimless ne’er-do-well, and Andrew thinks Ben has become emasculated by married life. To save Ben from further domestication, Andrew takes him to a party at a sex-positive commune where booze and drugs abound. When talk at the party turns to a local weekly’s amateur porn contest (based on a real competition sponsored by Seattle’s The Stranger), Andrew wants in. With neither man willing to back down from a challenge, they decide that the most groundbreaking porn two heterosexual dudes can make would be having sex together—on camera. It’s beyond gay; it’s an art project, they tell themselves. But how exactly do they do this? And who’s going to tell Anna? Lynn Shelton has created a hilarious film about the complexities and contradictions of the male ego, mixing knowing satire with profound emotional discoveries, and culminating in one of the most uproariously uncomfortable finales in recent memory.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for the Spirit of Independence)

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THURSDAY MAY 28 7:30 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE Sweden 2008 Director: Ella Lemhagen Producers: Tomas Michaelsson Lars Blomgren Screenwriter: Ella Lemhagen based on the play by Michael Druker Cinematographer: Marek Septimus Wieser Editor: Thomas Lagerman Music: Fredrik Emilson Cast: Gustaf Skarsgård Torkel Petersson Tom Ljungman Running Time: 100 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Swedish, with English subtitles International Sales: Svensk Filmindustri, AB Print Source: Regent Releasing Film Website: patrikage15.com Selected Filmography: Immediate Boarding (2003) If Not (2001) Tsatsiki, Mum and the Policeman (1999) Welcome to the Party (1997) About Em: The Prince of Dreams (1996)

ENCORE SCREENING WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 4:30 PM HARVARD EXIT Director Ella Lemhagen’s dramatic comedy, adapted from a three-person stage play, hinges on a bureaucratic blunder. After facing discrimination in their quest to adopt a child, Swedish gay couple Goran and Sven finally appear to be cleared to take possession of an 18-month-old boy named Patrik. However, due to a misplaced punctuation mark, the “1.5-year-old” turns out to be 15—and a homophobe with a violent criminal record to boot. This sitcom-like plot point is transformed in Lemhagen’s hands into an intelligent rumination on tolerance and gradual understanding in a country that has been surprisingly slow to accept the idea of same-sex-couple adoption. Initially, all involved are displeased about the situation, especially Sven, who has also had his share of youthful run-ins with the law and knows the violence Patrik is capable of unleashing. The couple eventually coaxes positive qualities out of Patrik that go deeper than the teen’s initial disgust about having to live with “homos.” With strong performances by all involved, Patrik Age 1.5 is a sensitive, quietly funny, and surprisingly affecting take on the theme of a same-sex couple raising an adopted child.

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Spike Lee WEDNESDAY MAY 27 7:00 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE Marked by a strong resolve and steadfast confidence from the moment he produced his first-year college project, The Answer, Spike Lee knows how to get people talking. Lee’s “joints” consistently dare audiences to think about the uncomfortable issues most people would rather push aside.

Whether addressing color-ism in 1988’s School Daze or interracial relationships in 1991’s Jungle Fever, Lee exposes the unexplored issues that face the African-American community. His debut film, She’s Gotta Have It, garnered him the 1986 Prix de Jeunesse Award at the Cannes Film Festival, and the Academy recognized his genius for crafting compelling plots and characters in Do The Right Thing with a 1989 Academy Award® nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Though he never purports to speak for the entire black population, Lee demonstrates a talent for applying racial issues to a broader critique of American society in the belief that an all-black film by a black director can still draw universal appeal.

In 1992, Lee applied his talents to Malcolm X, fighting against Warner Brothers studio’s miserly budget and cries of “exploitation” from public interest groups. The commercial success of the film catapulted the oft-misunderstood civil rights leader to legendary status and propelled Lee to a prominent standing among directors. His historical documentary, 4 Little Girls, which recounts the tragedy of the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four young churchgoers, earned an Academy Award® nomination for Documentary Feature. Recently, Lee brought his down-to-earth eye for truth to the lingering physical and emotional destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in his documentary 32

When the Levees Broke. Lee and his team captured views of a community that’s been through hell and back, but still finds hope and strength as the city fights for its life.

Famously working around the New York Knicks’ home basketball schedule, Lee’s spirited public persona complements his inexorable work ethic. Philip Dusenberry of advertising agency BBDO once said of Lee, “You get the impression that Spike is a devil-may-care kind of guy, but he’s also a shrewd self-promoter.” Lee’s business philosophy comes from Malcolm X’s opinion that African-Americans need to create and advance their own economic interests.

Releasing a “joint” nearly every year since 1986, Lee’s renowned direction continues to exemplify the spirit of American film.

In his commercial triumphs, Lee never apologizes, and why should he? In defense of his pioneering work, Lee says, “All I want to do is tell a story. When writing a script I’m not saying, ‘Uh-oh, I’d better leave that out because I might get into trouble.’ I don’t operate like that.”

Lee’s honesty through filmmaking, his ever-present desire to showcase sociopolitical issues, and his unfailing ability to challenge cultural assumptions set him apart as a director, producer, and writer, as he continues to re-create the “norm” and push fellow (and aspiring) filmmakers to new heights.

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Passing Strange SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

WEDNESDAY MAY 27 FOLLOWING THE SPIKE LEE TRIBUTE

EGYPTIAN THEATRE

Passing Strange (2009) Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Inside Man (2006) When the Levees Broke (2006)

She Hate Me (2004) 25th Hour (2002) Bamboozled (2000) Summer of Sam (1999) He Got Game (1998) 4 Little Girls (1997) Get on the Bus (1996) Girl 6 (1996) Clockers (1995) Crooklyn (1994) Malcolm X (1992) Jungle Fever (1991) Mo’ Better Blues (1990) Do the Right Thing (1989) School Daze (1988) She’s Gotta Have It (1986) Joe Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)

ENCORE SCREENING TUESDAY JUNE 2 6:30 PM KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER

Part rock concert, part memoir, part Broadway musical, Spike Lee’s new documentary Passing Strange breaks conventions to tell its story of a young L.A. songwriter’s international journey to selfdiscovery. A profound autobiographical treatise on black identity, told in both past and present time, it places itself more in line with the works of James Baldwin and Ralph Ellison than with traditional film. An amazing cinematic translation of “Passing Strange,” the Tony-award winning musical by singer-songwriter Stew (leader of L.A. band The Negro Problem), the film tells the story of the adult Stew and his younger self, the teenaged “Youth.” An aspiring musician, Youth strains against the complacency and bourgeois aspirations of his mother’s middle-class life, eventually leaving Los Angeles for Europe in his quest for something he calls “the real.”

Alternately melancholy and amazed, Stew watches and narrates as Youth fumbles his way to maturity on a European voyage that takes him to the liberations of Amsterdam and the post-punk cabarets of Berlin. One-upping the Broadway show, Lee doesn’t just break down the “fourth wall,” he uses 14 cameras to place you into the onstage performance and immerse you in the backstage creative energy of the live show. Passing Strange is an amazing testimonial to two iconoclastic artists working at the top of their game.

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Strand was created by partners Jon Gerrans, Mike Thomas, and Marcus Hu. The idea began when they came upon the racy Filipino film Macho Dancer and instantly knew that this small foreign film deserved to be seen in the US. They soon discovered how underserved the foreign film market niche was, so in 1989 the trio founded Strand Releasing and instantly a home was born for quality independent and arthouse films from around the world.

Over the past 20 years, their company has flourished, and to this date Strand has released more than 200 films from some of the best up-and-coming filmmakers such as Gregg Araki (The Living End, Mysterious Skin, Totally F***ed Up), Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven, Head-On), Hal Hartley (Ambition, Theory of Achievement), and Tsai Ming-liang (The Wayward Cloud). With the release of such films as Party Monster, Late Bloomers, Edge of Seventeen, Burnt Money, and The Bubble, Strand has also established itself as a pioneer for LGBT film and helped propel the New Queer Cinema movement in theaters around the country.

Throughout Strand’s long history, they have been responsible for bringing more than 70 titles to the Seattle International Film Festival. SIFF is proud to honor 20 years of Strand Releasing and their uncompromising commitment to distribute films that not only deserve to be seen by audiences throughout the country but also, in many cases, films that otherwise may never have been seen outside the film festival circuit.

Marcus Hu and Jon Gerrans will appear in person to receive the Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema on May 29 at the 7:00pm screening of Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman at the Harvard Exit.

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The Headless Woman

The Wedding Song

(USA, 2008) Directed by Johan Renck. See page 195.

(Argentina, 2008) Directed by Lucrecia Martel, See page 53.

(France, 2008) Directed by Karin Albou. See page 248.

Egon & Dönci

Kabei – Our Mother

(Hungary, 2008) Directed by Ádám Magyar. See page 83.

(Japan, 2008) Directed by Yoji Yamada. See page 211.

A Woman in Berlin

Give Me Your Hand

Sügisball

(France, 2009) Directed by Pascal-Alex Vincent. See page 204.

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(Germany, 2008) Directed by Max Färberböck. See page 251.

(Estonia, 2007) Directed by Veiko Öunpuu. See page 241.

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STRAND RELEASING AT SIFF OVER THE YEARS 1992

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The Living End Directed by Gregg Araki USA

Dry Cleaning Directed by Anne Fontaine France

1993 Crush Directed by Alison Maclean New Zealand

1994 Grief Directed by Richard Glatzer USA Totally F***ed Up Directed by Gregg Araki USA

1995 Postcards from America Directed by Steve McLean USA World and Time Enough Directed by Eric Mueller USA Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Directed by Russ Meyer USA

1996 A Single Girl Directed by Benoit Jacquot France Stonewall Directed by Nigel Finch United Kingdom Vive l’amour Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang Taiwan Under the Domim Tree Directed by Eli Cohen Israel Who Killed Teddy Bear?

Directed by Joseph Cates USA

First Love, Last Rites Directed by Jessee Peretz USA Genealogies of a Crime Directed by Raoul Ruiz France Jeanne and the Perfect Guy Directed by Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau France Lawn Dogs Directed by John Duigan UK Voyage to the Beginning of the World Directed by Manoel de Olivera Portugal

1999 Beefcake Directed by Thom Fitzgerald Canada Head On Directed by Ana Kokkinos Australia

Monkey’s Mask Directed by Samantha Lang Australia Princesa Directed by Henrique Goldman Italy/Germany

2002 The Cockettes Directed by Bill Weber USA Hush!

Directed by Ryosuke Hasiguchi Japan

Smokers Only Directed by Verónica Chen Argentina

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Yossi & Jagger Directed by Eytan Fox Israel

Suzhou River Directed by Lou Ye China/Germany

A Self Made Hero Directed by Jacques Audiard France

The Weekend Directed by Brian Skeet USA

Timothy Leary’s Dead Directed by Paul Davids USA

2001 Borstal Boy Directed by Peter Sheridan Ireland/UK Burnt Money Directed by Marcelo Pineyro Thailand

Grimm Love Directed by Martin Weisz Germany

2005 Cote d’Azur Directed by Olivier Ducastel & Jacques Martineau France The Last Day Directed by Rodolphe Marconi France Tony Takitani Directed by Jun Ichikawa Japan

A Year Without Love Directed by Anahi Berneri Argentina

The Good Old Naughty Days Directed by Michel Reilhac France

The Delta Directed by Ira Sachs USA

Who Killed Bambi?

Directed by Gilles Marchand France

A Self Made Hero Directed by Jacques Audiard France

Show Me Love Directed by Lukas Moodysson Sweden

1997

DarkBlueAlmostBlack Directed by Daniel Arévalo Spain

Tropical Malady Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand

Gasoline Directed by Monica Lisa Stambrini Italy

Criminal Lovers Directed by François Ozon France

Twist Directed by Jacob Tierney Canada

Lan Yu Directed by Stanley Kwan China/Hong Kong

I Stand Alone Directed by Gaspar Noé France

Psycho Beach Party Directed by Robert Lee King USA

The Tint and the Moon Directed by Bigas Luna Spain

Fleeing by Night Directed by Li-kung Hsu & Chi Yin Taiwan

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2006 A Soap Directed by Pernille Fischer Christiansen Denmark Backstage Directed by Emmanuelle Bercot France Broken Sky Directed by Julián Hernández Mexico Conversations with Other Women Directed by Hans Canosa USA

Bonjour Monsieur Shlomi Directed by Shemi Zarhin Israel

Crossing the Bridge – The Sound of Istanbul Directed by Fatih Akin Germany

Proteus Directed by John Greyson Canada

Time to Leave Directed by François Ozon France

Raspberry Reich Directed by Bruce LaBruce Canada

Two Drifters Directed by João Pedro Rodrigues Portugal

Steam: The Turkish Bath Directed by Ferzan Ozpetek Italy A Thousand Clouds of Peace Directed by Julián Hernández Mexico

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I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone Directed by Tsai Ming-Liang Taiwan Love For Sale: Suely in the Sky Directed by Karim Ainouz Brazil The Man of My Life Directed by Zabou Breitman France One to Another Directed by Jean-Marc Barr & Pascal Arnold France Slipstream Directed by Anthony Hopkins USA Syndromes and a Century Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Thailand White Palms Directed by Szabolcs Hadju Hungary The Yacoubian Building Directed by Marwan Hamed Egypt

2008 Before I Forget Directed by Jacques Nolot France Cherry Blossoms – Hanami Directed by Doris Dörrie Germany The Edge of Heaven Directed by Fatih Akin Germany Otto: or, Up With Dead People Directed by Bruce LaBruce Germany Saturn in Opposition Directed by Ferzn Ozpetek Italy A Secret Directed by Claude Miller France

Black Irish Directed by Brad Gann USA The Bubble Directed by Eytan Fox Israel

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Tetro WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 7:00 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE USA/Argentina 2009 Director: Francis Ford Coppola Producer: Francis Ford Coppola Screenwriter: Francis Ford Coppola Cinematographer: Mihai Malaimare Jr. Editor: Walter Murch Music: Osvaldo Golijov Cast: Vincent Gallo Maribel Verdú Klaus Maria Brandauer Carmen Maura Alden Ehrenreich Running Time: 127 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in English and Spanish, with English subtitles Print Source: American Zoetrope Film Website: tetro.com Selected Filmography: Youth Without Youth (2007) The Rainmaker (1997) Jack (1996) Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) The Godfather Part III (1990) Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) Gardens of Stone (1987) Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) The Cotton Club (1984) Rumble Fish (1983) One from the Heart (1982) Apocalypse Now (1979) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Conversation (1974) The Godfather (1972) The Rain People (1969) Finian’s Rainbow (1968) You’re a Big Boy Now (1967) Dementia 13 (1963)

Argentina proves an inviting canvas for Francis Ford Coppola’s first original screenplay since 1974. Tetro focuses on an artistically gifted family fractured by an overbearingly successful father and several relocations. Recalling fond memories of his exiled older brother “Tetro,” the ingenuous 17-year-old Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) leaves New York in search of his sibling, but Tetro (Vincent Gallo) has dissociated himself and refuses to work. After being turned away by his brother, Bennie seeks refuge with Tetro’s girlfriend Miranda (Maribel Verdú) in Buenos Aires’ eclectic La Boca neighborhood and discovers unfinished writing projects in her house that explain the reasons for Tetro’s ostracism. Bennie decides to pen the conclusion to one of the unfinished plays despite warnings from Miranda. Facing violent resistance from his brother, he submits the play to the famed critic “Alone” (Carmen Maura), who selects it as a finalist for the most important literary prize in the country. Striking thematic parallels and Coppola’s intimate direction seamlessly frame this semiautobiographical drama.

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Every Little Step SATURDAY JUNE 13 7:00 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE USA 2008 Directors: James D. Stern Adam Del Deo Producers: James D. Stern Adam Del Deo Editors: Fernando Villena Brad Fuller Music: Jane Antonia Cornish Marvin Hamlisch Featuring: Charlotte d’Amboise Jessica Lee Goldyn Yuka Takara Jason Tam Chryssie Whitehead Running Time: 95 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm International Sales: Fortissimo Films Print Source: Sony Pictures Classics Film Website: sonyclassics.com/everylittlestep Selected Filmography: ....So Goes the Nation (2006) The Year of the Yao (2004)

Eerily echoing the story of the musical it is about, Every Little Step follows the casting of Bob Avian’s 2006 revival of one of the most widely produced Broadway shows ever, “A Chorus Line.” But this hugely entertaining documentary adds another layer, examining the genesis of the show through the recorded workshop interviews with Broadway dancers that creator-choreographer Michael Bennett used as the basis of that startlingly original work. A treat for anyone who loves musical theater, the film is cause for hip-swaying, highkicking celebration. The filmmakers are granted extraordinary behind-the-scenes access, and the performers give everything they’ve got. Featuring some of the original cast as well as the aspiring dancers who hope to revive those roles—as aspiring dancers—the film mesmerizes with the various interpretations of each character from different generational perspectives. Directors James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo deftly follow the process from the heartbreak of rejection to the exhilaration of being chosen. Cutting gracefully between Avian’s high-pressure auditions and the archive material, Stern and Del Deo have created a film of nail-biting intensity that matches its subject step for step. “Life imitating art imitating life,” as Variety so aptly put it.

Over the past decade, Barendrecht and Werner greatly expanded Fortissimo’s reach to productions around the globe, serving as producers, executive producers, or co-producers on films by directors such as John Cameron Mitchell (Short Bus), Patrick Stettner (The Night Listener), Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin), Dylan Kidd (P.S.), and Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato (Party Monster). Other international filmmakers who have made Fortissimo a significant presence at major film festivals include Tsai Ming-liang, Peter Greenaway, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Alex van Warmerdam, Sergei Bodrov, Clara Law, Tony Ayres, Béla Tarr, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Zhang Yang, Wang Xiaoshuai, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

“ Wouter … one light is gone, but not missing. It is traveling somewhere beautiful. You have created and inspired so many lights in cinema. These magic lanterns will accompany you across borders. So I know you will not be lonely. I hope to see you in the future.

Don’t forget to say hi.”

Wouter was a good friend of the Seattle International Film Festival, and we will miss him. Our condolences go out to his family and colleagues around the world.

— Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Dedicated to the Memory of Wouter Barendrecht (1965 – 2009) The sudden death of producer and sales agent Wouter Barendrecht shocked and saddened the international film biz. He was only 43. Barendrecht co-founded Fortissimo Films in 1991 with Helen Loveridge and most recently ran the company with co-president Michael Werner. Barendrecht worked closely with cult director Wong Kar-wai and was instrumental in bringing Wong’s films to international attention.

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The Great Race MONDAY JUNE 1 6:30 PM SIFF CINEMA USA 1965 Director: Blake Edwards Producers: Martin Jurow Richard Crockett Screenwriter: Arthur Ross Cinematographer: Russell Harlan Editor: Ralph E. Winters Music: Henry Mancini Cast: Jack Lemmon Tony Curtis Natalie Wood Peter Falk Running Time: 160 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm Print Source: Warner Brothers Selected Filmography: Switch (1991) The Man Who Loved Women (1983) Victor Victoria (1982) S.O.B. (1981) 10 (1979) The Pink Panther (1963) Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)

SIFF, in cooperation with the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Centennial Celebration, proudly presents a screening of The Great Race. Blake Edwards’ classic tribute to silent-era slapstick chronicles a coast-tocoast road race based partly on a real New York-to-Seattle race that ended at the 1909 A-Y-P Exposition.

The Great Race was a product of a time when the movie business was in a race of its own against the nascent monster of television. Hollywood’s plan of attack was to churn out film after film of such size and spectacle that audiences would be compelled to flock to the cinemas. Blake Edwards’ avowed intention, reflected in the film’s tag line, was to create “the laugh fest of all time,” and many contend that he achieved his aim. In a warm tribute to the charms of the cinema of yesteryear, the film was dedicated to Laurel and Hardy, and even included silent movie title cards to identify the cast. Professional daredevil The Great Leslie convinces turn-of-the-century automakers that a round-the-world motor race will help to promote car sales.

Leslie’s nemesis, the dastardly yet incompetent Professor Fate, vows to beat Leslie to the finish line at the Eiffel Tower. Meanwhile, Maggie DuBois, a young suffragette activist, cajoles her editor into entering a car with her as the driver. All this is, of course, just a framework for Edwards’ broad farce about good and evil (clue: the hero wears white, the villain is swathed in black) which employs slapstick, double entendres, parody, and abundant absurdity in a lavish cinematic spectacle. An undeservingly half-forgotten treasure from a bygone era, The Great Race is further embellished by contributions from top-drawer Hollywood talent behind the scenes, not least of which is Henry Mancini’s hugely enjoyable score and the ever-inventive costumes of Edith Head.

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We do this by writing about cinema. And we do it by awarding the best of them the “Prize of the International Critics” (FIPRESCI Prize).

This prize is established at international film festivals, and its aim is to promote film-art and particularly to encourage new and young cinema.

FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, has been in existence for more than 65 years. The basic purpose of the organization, which now has members in over 60 countries around the world, is to support cinema as an art and as an outstanding and autonomous means of expression. We are cooperating with the European Film Academy and are deciding a “Felix of the Critics,” and have our own “Best Film of the Year” being presented at the opening gala of the San Sebastián Film Festival. Recently, we’re involved in initiatives such as the “Berlinale Talent Campus” to train young critics.

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SPECIAL OUTDOOR SCREENING Each year, faithful SIFF patrons flock indoors to theaters across the Puget Sound region just as the days get warmer and longer.

This year, as a reward to those who miss the great outdoors, we’re breaking down not only the “fourth wall” but all the theater walls—and the roof, too—with a special outdoor screening of SIFF 2006 Golden Space Needle Award winner OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies. The film is the first of the hilarious “OSS 117” spy-spoof series by Michel Hazanavicius.

Before seeing his latest film, OSS 117: Lost in Rio for the Closing Night of SIFF 2009, be sure to see how it all began for France’s answer to 1960s-era James Bond. Admission is free. Donations to benefit SIFF will be accepted.

SATURDAY JUNE 6 SHOW BEGINS AT DUSK JUANITA BEACH PARK, KIRKLAND France 2006 Director: Michel Hazanavicius Producers: Eric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer Screenwriter: Jean-Francois Halin Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman Editor: Raynald Bertrand Music: Ludovic Bource Kamel Ech-Cheikh Cast: Jean Dujardin Berenice Bejo Aure Atika Philippe Lefebvre Constantin Alexandrov Said Amadis Running Time: 99 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Gaumont Print Source: Gaumont Selected Filmography: OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009) Mes amis (1999)

Egypt, 1955. French comic favorite Jean Dujardin stars as secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, aka “OSS 117”—James Bond crossed with Maxwell Smart, Austin Powers, and a bit of the The Naked Gun. After a fellow agent is killed, Hubert goes undercover as the head of a Cairo poultry firm while he investigates the murder, monitors the Suez Canal, checks up on the Brits and Soviets, burnishes France’s reputation, quells a fundamentalist rebellion, and brokers peace in the Middle East. “No problem,” replies Hubert, whose suave self-importance is topped only by his phenomenal ignorance and dumb luck. He is met at the Cairo airport by the fetching and brainy secretary Larmina El Akmar Betouche, and during a drive into town filmed entirely with old-fashioned rear projection, Hubert marvels at the amount of sand in Egypt and pooh-poohs Larmina’s assertion that “millions of people” speak Arabic. If Hubert hasn’t heard of something—like Islam—he dismisses it as a silly notion that’ll never catch on. From its re-visiting of 1960s-style hand-to-hand combat to the double cross-festooned finale, the screenplay pays off in the manner of all self-respecting thrillers in which the bad guys only appear to triumph. This film contains adult content and may not be appropriate for children.

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“SECRECY IS THE ELEMENT OF ALL GOODNESS; EVEN VIRTUE, EVEN BEAUTY IS MYSTERIOUS.” —Thomas Carlyle Psst! Hey buddy. Yeah, you. Can you keep a secret? I mean, can you really keep a secret? Even from your wife, husband, mother, significant other, or innocent, doe-eyed children? Then maybe you’re ready for the next level of “insider information” at SIFF. I see you looking at this page (yes, we have spies everywhere), so you’re probably intrigued about the idea of a “Secret Festival.” You like knowing something that very few other people know. You even feel a little smug about knowing this privileged information and relish the thought of keeping it from your friends and family. Good. You’re our kind of people.

“THIS AIN’T NO PARTY. THIS AIN’T NO DISCO. THIS AIN’T NO FOOLIN’ AROUND.” —David Byrne So what will you expect to see at this Secret Festival? Ha! Nice try, buddy, but we’re not telling—and neither will you. Not only will you have to shell out $53 ($43 for SIFF Supporters), you’ll have to sign an irrevocable Oath of Silence. Every Sunday morning during SIFF, your Secret Festival pass will entitle you to private screenings at the Egyptian Theatre. Maybe you’ll see an early release of a new film. Perhaps we’ll come up with some incredibly rare print that may never again see the light of the silver screen. Maybe we’ll give you a look at some work in progress by a cinematic genius. You never know what you’ll find—and we’d like to keep it that way.

“…CONCEAL THAT WHICH IS ENTRUSTED TO YOU, THOUGH PRESSED BOTH BE WINE AND ANGER TO REVEAL IT.” —Horace Let’s face it. This is a long festival, with plenty of public events that will be overflowing with high-octane gossip and even stronger cocktails.

Your mission as a Secret Festival Society member—should you choose to accept it—will be to forego all such chatty activities and remain steadfast, unalterable, and unyielding in your commitment to the Oath of Silence. Be forewarned: We’ll be sending attractive, persuasive decoys after you to test your mettle. And we don’t just mean keep quiet until SIFF 2009 is over. The Secret Festival Society is forever, pal, capice? As in lifetime. All the way. From your first cigarette to your last dyin’ day.

You may ask us why all this fuss over secrecy? After all, Barack Obama is in the White House, “change” has come to America, and anything seems possible. But to the President’s stirring message of “Yes, We Can,” the Secret Festival responds with an absolute “No, You Really Can’t.” Some things will never change.

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Women in Film

Every year, the Seattle International Film Festival selects a handful of up-and-coming directors whose unique and original styles stand out among the sea of new filmmakers as powerful voices in cinema.

Before long, these filmmakers’ names are sure to be widespread in the consciousness of audiences around the world. Some past selections in this category have gone on to wide recognition, such as Susanne Bier (After the Wedding), Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), Hans-Christian Schmid (Requiem), Andrucha Waddington (House of Sand), Eytan Fox (Walk on Water), Fatih Akin (The Edge of Heaven), and Erick Zonca (Julia).

This year, the three honorees come from three different continents and represent distinct styles of filmmaking. Lee Yoon-ki tells gentle tales of love and loss in a nuanced, emotional, and often awkwardly funny way (My Dear Enemy, This Charming Girl). Lucrecia Martel explores the depths of family and relationships with a quiet and trancelike tone (The Headless Woman, La Ciénaga). Bohdan Sláma’s stories of life in the Czech countryside bring new light to the human condition (The Country Teacher, The Wild Bees).

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Lee Yoon-ki was born in Daejeon, South Korea, in 1965. He acquired his master’s degree in Business My Dear Enemy (2008) Administration at the University This Charming Girl (2004) of Southern California. Upon returning to Korea, he began his film career working as a producer and director of several short films. His first feature film, This Charming Girl (2004), won the New Currents Award at the Pusan International Film Festival, attracting attention from major festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. His second feature, Love Talk (2005), was invited to the Korea Panorama at the Pusan International Film Festival and was well received by critics. In 2006, Lee returned to his cinematic roots with the critically acclaimed Ad Lib Night.

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Born in 1966, Lucrecia Martel studied animation at Avellaneda Experimental and attended the National The Headless Woman (2008) Experimentation Filmmaking La Ciénaga (2001) School for several years where she studied Communication Science. She directed a number of short films between 1988 and 1994, including Rey Muerto (Dead King) (1995), which was part of Historias Breves I (Brief Tales I). In 2001, Martel directed the film La Ciénaga (The Swamp), which won awards at Berlin, Havana, Toulouse, and Sundance, among other festivals. In 2004, Martel wrote and directed La Niña Santa (The Holy Girl), which was nominated for the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or. She was also a member of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival feature films jury.

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CZECH REPUBLIC

Born in 1967 in Opava, Czech Republic, Bohdan Sláma studied feature film directing at the Film and Television The Country Teacher (2008) School of the Academy of The Wild Bees (2001) Performing Arts in Prague.

His student film, Garden of Paradise, won a number of prizes at student film festivals, and his graduate film, White Acacias, even though only one hour in length, was presented theatrically within the country. His next feature, Wild Bees (2001), won a Golden Tiger at its international premiere in Rotterdam in 2002. His follow-up feature, Something Like Happiness, premiered internationally in 2005 at the San Sebastián Film Festival, winning both the Main Prize and Best Actress Award, and it has been sold in more than 20 territories worldwide.

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My Dear Enemy

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Unemployed and single, 30-something Kim South Korea Hee-soo is miserable with life. Cash strapped, 2008 she tracks down her ex-boyfriend Cho Byoung- Director: woon to collect on the $3,500 he borrowed from Lee Yoon-ki Producers: her when they were still dating. Unfortunately, he Cho David doesn’t have any cash at the moment either, but Cho Kwang-hee Oh Jeong-wan the charming Byoung-woon knows any number Screenwriters: of friends from whom he can borrow the money Lee Yoon-ki to repay her, or so he thinks. Knowing Byoung- Park Eun-young Cinematographer: woon well enough not to leave him to his own Choi Sang-ho devices, Hee-soo insists on accompanying him Editor: as he makes the rounds trying to raise the money Kim Hyung-joo Music: she needs. In a series of humorous, sometimes Kim Jung-beom awkward encounters, they wander the streets of Cast: Jeon Do-yeon Seoul on a lazy Saturday, growing reacquainted Ha Jeong-woo with each other’s virtues and foibles. Fans of Oh Ji-eun Lee Yoon-ki’s previous This Charming Girl (SIFF Running Time: 123 minutes 2005) will find much to admire here: a strong Presentation Format: female character, subtle comedy, and a leisure- 35mm, in Korean, with English subtitles ly charm. But the film truly belongs to the two International Sales: leads, Jeon Do-yeon and Ha Jung-woo, whose FineCut Co. easy onscreen chemistry makes for a delightful Print Source: FineCut Co. day trip.

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Reeling from a failed romantic entanglement South Korea and the recent death of her much-loved artist 2004 mother, 20-something postal worker Jeong-hae Director: is drifting through life. Through a soft, white haze, Lee Yoon-ki Producers: she goes about her daily routine of commuting, Yun Il-joong work, commuting, home, take-out dinners, TV Lee Seung-jae shopping, and caring for a stray kitten—the only Screenwriter: Lee Yoon-ki source of warmth in her life. Knowing that efforts Cinematographer: to heal her psychic and spiritual wounds by Choi Jin-woong herself are futile, she struggles painfully to recon- Editors: Harn Sung-won nect with the world while battling an innate fear Kim Hyeong-ju of it—a fear that has its roots in past tragedies Music: Lee Young-ho and botched sexual connections. As the heart- Lee So-yun breakingly fragile yet quietly simmering Jeong- Cast: Kim Ji-soo hae, actress Kim Ji-soo is a revelation, and a Hwang Jung-min good foil for the graceful, restrained directorial Kim Hye-ok Lee Dae-yeon style of Lee Yoon-ki (with its echoes of Tsai MingRunning Time: liang and Antonioni). This elegant, multilayered 99 minutes drama from 2004 (which screened at SIFF in Presentation Format: 35mm, in Korean, with 2005) accomplishes the nearly impossible feat English subtitles of drawing the audience into the emotional life of International Sales: a solitary character—a remarkable achievement, CJ Entertainment Print Source: especially for a debut feature.

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Selected Filmography: My Dear Enemy (2008) Ad-Lib Night (2006) Love Talk (2005)

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The Headless Woman

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Mirroring the current class struggle in Argentina, The Headless Woman is an elliptical psychological drama about guilt, personal responsibility, and self-deception. Searching for her ringing cell phone, affluent dentist Vero hits something in the road. Is it a dog? A person? She cannot bring herself to look at or report the incident. Part of writer-director Lucrecia Martel’s unique formal style is to follow character relationships that are established with fleeting lines of dialogue, to infer off-screen space through sound, and to question the limits of their own perception. Martel’s style proves particularly well-suited to a film built around a protagonist who’s suffering from something resembling amnesia. Like Vero, we are never quite certain who people are or how the images we see relate to everything we have seen before. As in her previous oblique but mesmerizing studies of family life in fetid, hothouse atmospheres, the aural frequently takes the place of the visual in dramatizing plot or creating a fully realized sense of place. Although none of Vero’s friends are particularly interested in her dilemma, when evidence emerges that she really may have killed something or someone, the men in her life move to protect her secret.

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A group of inebriated middle-aged people lies Argentina/ beside a fetid, stagnant swimming pool. As France/Spain a storm approaches, the people slowly rise to 2001 shuffle inside, carrying their drinks and drag- Director: ging their lounge chairs noisily behind them. Lucrecia Martel Producer: One woman falls, cutting herself deeply, but no Lita Stantic one rushes to her aid. This unnerving opening Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel scene of Lucrecia Martel’s 2001 debut sets the Cinematographer: languid tone for a story about two branches of Hugo Colace an alcohol-ravaged, bourgeois Argentine family Editor: Santiago Ricci that has gone to seed along with their decayCast: ing estate. The victim of the fall is Mecha, the Mercedes Morán Borges family matriarch, who calls for her son, José, and Graciela Martín Adjemían his family to return from Buenos Aires while she Leonora Balcarce recuperates. Joining them are Mecha’s cousin, Running Time: 103 minutes Tati, and her brood of kids who run unsuper- Presentation Format: vised around the estate. The humid, sticky air 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles of the setting (the word ciénaga is Spanish for Print Source: “swamp”) seeps into every scene of the film and Cinema Tropical adds to the overall feeling of malaise. Rather than Selected Filmography: The Headless Woman concoct a plot, Martel stitches together a series (2008) of disconnected vignettes to illustrate the fami- The Holy Girl (2004) ly’s dissolution. First seen in Seattle at the 2002 Women in Cinema Film Festival, La Ciénaga is a powerful document of a wealthy family—and, indirectly, Argentina’s middle class—being swallowed up by neglect and dysfunction.

Awards: Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Prize)

Director: Lucrecia Martel Producers: Pedro Almodóvar Augustin Almodóvar Esther García Veronica Cura Enrique Pineyro Lucrecia Martel Marianne Slot Vieri Razzini Cesare Petrillo Tilde Corsi Screenwriter: Lucrecia Martel Cinematographer: Bárbara Álvarez Editor: Miguel Schverdfinger Cast: María Onetto Inés Efron César Bordón Claudia Cantero Daniel Genoud Running Time: 87 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles International Sales: Focus Features Print Source: Strand Releasing Film Website: aquafilms.com.ar/films_ lamujersincabeza Selected Filmography: The Holy Girl (2004) La Ciénaga (2001)

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Petr, the title character of The Country Teacher, Czech Republic/ turns down a job at a prestigious school in Prague Germany/France to move to an isolated, rural village to teach 2008 natural science. Early on it’s revealed that Petr is Director: gay, but out of fear of persecution in the village Bohdan Sláma Producers: and ambivalence about his sexuality, Petr keeps Pavel Strnad it quiet. After all, he’s left the wild parties and Petr Oukropec Screenwriter: casual hookups of city life behind. When friend Bohdan Sláma and landlady Marie signals her romantic interest, Cinematographer: Petr gently demurs, letting her believe that she’s Divi Marek Editor: too old for him. Meanwhile Petr tries to repress Jan Danhel his secret desire for Marie’s insolent 17-year-old Music: son, Lada, who spends his days making out Vladimír Godár Cast: with his girlfriend in the hayloft. Director Bohdan Pavel Liška Sláma’s seemingly simple tale of nature, sexual- Zuzana Bydžovská Ladislav Šedivý ity, and love slowly reveals layers of complexity Marek Daniel within each character. Heading a superb cast, Tereza Voríšková Running Time: lead actors Pavel Liška and Zuzana Bydžovská 113 minutes portray particularly fine, limning characters that Presentation Format: are tender and kind, yet also driven by animal 35mm, in Czech, with English subtitles lust—in other words, recognizably human.

International Sales: Awards: FilmFestival Cottbus 2008 (Audience Award) Czech Lion Awards 2009 (Best Screenplay)

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In only his second feature, Emerging Master Czech Republic Bohdan Sláma displayed his talent to blend bitter- 2001 sweet drama with ironic, almost surreal comedy. Director: Set in a northern, rural corner of the Czech Bohdan Sláma Producers: Republic, The Wild Bees explores a small village Viktor Schwarcz struggling between Communism’s false assur- Alice Nemanska Helena Slaviková ances and capitalism’s promised riches, where Screenwriter: the atmosphere of perpetual ennui is broken Bohdan Sláma only by regular doses of peppermint schnapps. Cinematographer: Divis Marek Even in such a place, shy and quiet Kaya is an Editor: outsider. His father berates him for not thinking Jan Danhel “philosophically,” like his brother Petr. Kaya might Music: Miroslav Simácek consider leaving if his thoughts didn’t revolve Cast: around the pretty yet unattainable Bozhka. Not Tatiana Vilhelmová Zdenek Rauser only is there a feud between their families, but Pavel Liška she is also dating Ladya, the motorcycle-riding, Vanda Hybernová Marek Daniel Michael Jackson-loving village celebrity. Hope Running Time: arises for Kaya when Petr unexpectedly returns 94 minutes just days before the Fireman’s Ball, but Petr is in Presentation Format: 35mm, in Czech, with for a few surprises himself. Together the brothers English subtitles attempt to fulfill their dreams, blissfully unaware of International Sales: Television, the eventual repercussions. Deliberately evoking Czech Telexport the creative heritage of the Czech New Wave Print Source: (Forman, Passer, et al.), Sláma crafts a touching, Czech Television, Telexport personal film that illustrates how community fuels Selected Filmography: the wildest hopes and dreams of the individual— The Country Teacher (2008) sometimes even fulfilling them—if only to keep Something Like Happiness (2005) them safely at home.

White Acacias (1999)

Awards: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002 (Tiger Award)

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Classic big-screen films presented the way they were meant to be seen.

Each year, as SIFF festival-goers drink in the best new cinema the world has to offer, some of the most anticipated screenings involve movies that have been around for decades—and rightly so.

When are you going to have a better chance to see Sergio Leone’s sweeping Western epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1969) in all its restored, wide-screen glory to celebrate its 40th anniversary?

Also on the schedule is Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid thriller The Conversation (1974), which still feels fresh and relevant after 35 years. For a little Hitchcockian suspense, SIFF is also showing So Long at the Fair (1950), a mystery that sends Jean Simmons searching for her missing brother in 1889 Paris. Reaching far back into the vault, we are pleased to present a rare screening of Wild Rose (1932), a silent film by Chinese director Sun Yu about a peasant girl’s entry into Shanghai society, with the score performed live by Donald Sosin.

SIFF will also present a screening of John Cassavetes’ harrowing family drama A Woman Under the Influence (1974) as well as Michelangelo Antonioni’s often-overlooked early masterwork Le Amiche (1955). The screenings are part of the Cinema Visionaries program, a traveling series created to celebrate motion picture classics that have been preserved or restored with funding from Gucci and The Film Foundation.

As an added bonus this year, SIFF welcomes Robert Osborne, longtime host of Turner Classic Movies, who will accept a special Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema on behalf of TCM for the network’s commitment to showcasing classic films for a large audience. Osborne will introduce four of his favorites: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodsworth, Sunset Boulevard, and The Third Man. Don’t miss this chance to see these magical prints the way nature intended.

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Celebrating a rich history influenced by film, Gucci has made a long-term commitment to supporting The Film Foundation’s efforts to save cinematic treasures. Funded by Gucci, the design of this multi-year partnership is to add one film every year to a growing collection of restored titles. In addition to presenting two recently restored classic films, A Woman Under the Influence (1974, d. John Cassavetes) and Le Amiche (1955, d. Michelangelo Antonioni), at the 35th Seattle International Film Festival, Gucci is also currently funding the restorations of Wanda (1955, d. Barbara Loden) and Senso (1950, d. Luchino Visconti).

Cinema Visionaries To ensure that these great films from the past survive to entertain and inspire future audiences, Gucci and The Film Foundation (TFF) have created Cinema Visionaries, a traveling exhibition screening series of classic films restored by Gucci and TFF. The series honors the work of innovative filmmakers who have made a significant contribution to the history of motion pictures.

The Film Foundation The Film Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1990 by Martin Scorsese and several of his fellow filmmakers. The foundation is dedicated to protecting and preserving motion picture history, and provides substantial annual support for preservation and restoration projects at the leading film archives. Since its inception, The Film Foundation has helped to save more than 525 motion pictures. Joining Scorsese on the board are Woody Allen, Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, Curtis Hanson, Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, George Lucas, Alexander Payne, Robert Redford, and Steven Spielberg. The Film Foundation is also aligned with the Directors Guild of America.

We would like to thank Gucci and The Film Foundation for their generous involvement in the 35th Seattle International Film Festival, and for bringing us newly restored prints of Michelangelo Antonioni’s masterwork, Le Amiche, and John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence. Through their Cinema Visionaries series, Gucci and The Film Foundation have made a lasting and significant contribution to cinema by saving historically important works from being lost forever. We are grateful for their shared mission to recover lost works from cinema history and to inspire audiences around the world.

Cinema Visionaries archival presentations:

Le Amiche (Italy, 1955)

A Woman Under the Influence (USA, 1974)

Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

Directed by John Cassavetes

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A Woman Under the Influence

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Academy Award–winning director Michelangelo Italy Antonioni (Blow-Up, Beyond the Clouds) explores 1955 women’s evolving role in Italian society, and the Director: conflict between love and career, in this engross- Michelangelo Antonioni Producer: ing drama set in the 1950s. Clelia, a beautiful Giovanni Addessi young woman who lands a dream job in a glam- Screenwriters: orous Italian fashion house in Turin, finds herself Michelangelo Antonioni Suso Cecchi d’Amico plunged into a cruel world of phony, shallow Alba de Céspedes people. The only honesty in her life is the pure Cinematographer: Gianni Di Venanzo love offered by Carlo, a young, socially impov- Editor: erished assistant architect. But is it enough? Eraldo Da Roma Juggling ten characters with great aplomb, Music: Giovanni Fusco Antonioni and co-screenwriters Suso Cecchi Cast: d’Amico and Alba de Céspedes create a rich, Eleonora Rossi Drago Gabriele Ferzetti interlocking narrative that manages to rise above Franco Fabrizi mere melodrama through careful attention to the Valentina Cortese Yvonne Furneaux ebb and flow of interpersonal relationships and Running Time: a keen sense of balance. With its fascinating, 104 minutes multilayered story, rich characterizations, and Presentation Format: 35mm, in Italian, with superb performances, Le Amiche remains one English subtitles of Antonioni’s most beloved works and his only Print Source: literary adaptation (of a short novel by Cesare The Film Foundation Selected Filmography: Pavese). Restored by Cineteca di Bologna at Beyond the Clouds (1995) L’Immagine Ritrovata with funding provided by Identification of a Woman (1982) Gucci and The Film Foundation.

The Oberwald Mystery (1980) The Passenger (1975) Zabriskie Point (1970) Blow-Up (1966) Red Dessert (1964) The Eclipse (1962) La notte (1961) L’avventura (1960) The Lady without Camelias (1953) Story of a Love Affair (1950)

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Arguably the supreme masterpiece in the extraor- USA dinary canon of maverick writer-director John 1974 Cassavetes, A Woman Under the Influence was Director: a landmark film in many ways, not least because John Cassavetes Producer: it was the first true independent film, booked into Sam Shaw college campuses and art houses without recourse Screenwriter: to the nationwide web of distributors that normally John Cassavetes Cinematographer: controlled such activity. It focuses on a house- Caleb Deschanel wife on the verge of a nervous breakdown whose Editors: Armstrong psychotic behavior leads her confused husband David Sheila Viseltear to commit her for psychiatric treatment, leaving Music: the family even more dysfunctional than before. Bo Harwood As Mabel and Nick Longhetti, Gena Rowlands Cast: Peter Falk and Peter Falk deliver one of the most devastating Gena Rowlands Fred Draper portraits of a relationship ever committed to film. The Lady Rowlands story unspools not through melodrama but in long, Running Time: painful takes that escalate in intensity as Mabel’s 155 minutes Presentation Format: mental instability increases. The project came from 35mm an idea by Rowlands, who was interested in being Print Source: in a play about the problems faced by contempo- The Film Foundation Selected Filmography: rary women. However, when Cassavetes present- Big Trouble (1986) ed her with the script, Rowlands knew she would Love Streams (1984) Gloria (1980) never be able to maintain the intensity on stage Opening Night (1977) night after night so it became a film. Cassavetes The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) had to fund the project through loans from family Minnie and Moskowitz and friends, as the film production establishment (1971) Husbands (1970) feared no one would want to see a film about “a Faces (1968) crazy, middle-aged dame.” When it was done this A Child Is Waiting (1963) Too Late Blues (1961) well, they most certainly did. Restored by UCLA Shadows (1959) Film & Television Archive with funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation.

Awards: Golden Globes 1975 (Best Actress)

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Turner Classic Movies archival special presentations The Adventures of Robin Hood (USA, 1938) Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Dodsworth (USA, 1936) Directed by William Wyler

Sunset Boulevard (USA, 1950) Directed by Billy Wilder

The Third Man (United Kingdom, 1949) Directed by Carol Reed

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) is a Peabody Award-winning network celebrating 15 years of presenting great films, uncut and commercialfree, from the largest film libraries in the world. Currently seen in more than 80 million homes, TCM features the insights of veteran primetime host Robert Osborne and weekend daytime host Ben Mankiewicz, plus interviews with a wide range of special guests. As the foremost authority in classic films, TCM offers critically acclaimed original documentaries and specials along with regular programming events that include “The Essentials,” “31 Days of Oscar,” and “Summer Under the Stars.” TCM also produces a wide range of media about classic film, including books and DVDs, along with hosting a wealth of materials at its website, www.tcm.com.

As primetime host and anchor of TCM, Robert Osborne brings viewers out of their living rooms and into the world of classic Hollywood, providing insider information, facts, and trivia for TCM movie presentations. Osborne is also a columnist-critic for The Hollywood Reporter and is known as the official biographer of Oscar®.

Osborne was born in Colfax, Washington, and graduated from the University of Washington’s School of Journalism, appearing in local plays in his non-study hours. He eventually went to Hollywood as an actor under contract to Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. It was Lucy who encouraged him to pursue writing, which he considers “the best advice at the best time” he’s ever been given. His impressive career also includes time as an on-air entertainment reporter and as president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association. In 1984, he received the Press Award from the Publicists Guild of America, and on February 1, 2006, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In addition to his hosting duties for TCM, Osborne has also done several specials for the network, including Private Screenings, an hour-long interview series with Hollywood luminaries, and TCM’s Guest Programmer series.

SIFF welcomes TCM and Robert Osborne to the 35th Seattle International Film Festival. TCM has generously contributed four groundbreaking classic films to our program: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Dodsworth, Sunset Boulevard, and The Third Man. More importantly, host Robert Osborne will be on hand to introduce each of the films, share his extensive knowledge before each screening, and receive the Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema. TCM’s commitment to preserving and promoting classic films is unparalleled, and we thank them for their kind involvement in bringing four exceptional films to SIFF.

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Dodsworth

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Of the 12 films Errol Flynn made with director Michael Curtiz, The Adventures of Robin Hood is easily their most beloved, and one of the great swashbucklers from Hollywood’s Golden Age. Under the guidance of producer Hal B. Wallis, the film was Warner Brothers’ first Technicolor feature. With a star-studded supporting cast, the film proved to be a huge box office hit, grossing more than $4 million at a time when movie tickets cost less than a quarter. But the film’s true legacy is Errol Flynn’s performance, which has become so iconic that all other actors who play the green-clad archer are judged against him.

During the 1930s, the Hays Code governed the production of Hollywood films and dictated the standards of morally acceptable content for American movies. Yet in Dodsworth, director William Wyler depicted taboo subjects with such subtlety that he circumvented the code’s strictures. The titular Dodsworth sells his automobile company at his wife Fran’s request so they can move to Europe. Once there, Fran grows intoxicated and ever more flirtatious as they enjoy their new aristocratic lifestyle. Recreating his stage role, Walter Huston’s performance instills a boyish vulnerability into the middle-aged Dodsworth’s struggle with the perplexities of love.

USA 1938 Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley Producer: Hal B. Wallis Screenwriters: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Patric Knowles, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale, Sr. Running Time: 102 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm

USA 1936 Director: William Wyler Producer: Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriter: Sidney Howard from the novel

by Sinclair Lewis Cast: Walter Huston, Ruth Chatterton, David Niven, Paul Lukas, Mary Astor Running Time: 101 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm

Sunset Boulevard

The Third Man

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Released in 1950, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece challenged a number of the accepted conventions of contemporary American cinema. Gloria Swanson and German director Erich von Stroheim both gave richly nuanced performances that drew greatly upon their past experiences in the industry. However, it is the film’s haunting story in which Joe Gillis unwisely helps the narcissistic Norma Desmond write her big comeback vehicle that still captivates film lovers of all generations. Filmed at the moment when the powerful Hollywood studio system was starting to crumble, Sunset Boulevard’s gothic depiction of Golden-Era Hollywood remains unrivaled.

The war-ravaged streets of late-1940s Vienna embody post-World War II Europe in all its existential weariness. Into this devastated landscape rides American innocent Holly Martins, who has been invited to Vienna by his old college friend, Harry Lime, but by the time he arrives, Lime is dead—or is he? Holly sets out to find what happened to Harry and in the process descends into circles of deceit and corruption. The Third Man’s evocative zither score and expressionistic camera angles present American naiveté as it collides with modern cynicism. Rialto rescued 11 minutes of footage cut by the film’s American producer, bringing this classic closer to Graham Greene’s original dark vision.

USA 1950 Director: Billy Wilder Producer: Charles Brackett Screenwriters: D.M. Marshman Jr., Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson Running Time: 110 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm

United Kingdom 1949 Director: Carol Reed Producer: Carol Reed Screenwriter: Graham Greene Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, Trevor Howard Running Time: 104 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm

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Dale & Leslie Chihuly applaud SIFF and offer their congratulations and appreciation for 35 years of excellence in film

Dale Chihuly Scorpion Tails and Bamboo, 2008 Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona Photo by Terry Rishel

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“Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai” tells the remarkable story of the “Emperor of Film,” who dominated the golden age of Chinese silent movies. Jin Yan achieved his greatest stardom in the 1930s, when women literally threw themselves at his feet.

Jin’s life spanned the most turbulent period in modern Chinese history. He survived a childhood escape from Japanese-occupied Korea, a long civil war, the bitter Cultural Revolution, and Deng Xiaoping’s reformation. Married first to the Shanghai actress Wang Renmei, Jin co-starred in several films with “the Goddess” Ruan Ling-yu spurring public demand for more of them together in films made by the leading studio, Lianhua. It was Jin who made Ruan aware of film’s awesome power to portray social problems while evading the censors with melodramatic soap opera formats. For years, Jin embodied China’s New Culture Movement’s ideals, but as politics changed, the Communists cast Jin aside in their campaign to “learn from comrade Lei Feng,” a humble young soldier. As Jin’s second wife Qin Yi rose to new heights in the politically charged film world, the sick and aging star languished in obscurity.

Richard J. Meyer is the Edmund F. and Virginia B. Ball Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications at Ball State University and teaches film at Seattle University.

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A central pillar of politically progressive Chinese cinema, director Sun Yu addresses the urban-rural divide, inner-city squalor, and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in Wild Rose. A love story that bridges social class, the film explores the strictures that bind its central couple, Xiao Feng and Jiang Bo. Xiao, a strong-willed, disobedient village girl, captivates Jiang, a wealthy painter from Shanghai. After Jiang attempts to introduce Xiao to his family with mixed results, the couple is cut off, forced to eke out a meager living in a Shanghai slum, and later compelled to separate.

Amidst the couple’s love story, the specter of Japan’s invasion of Manchuria looms large, and ultimately determines the couple’s destiny. Wild Rose foreshadows much of Sun Yu’s later career, with its themes of classism and commitment to a national cause. Acclaimed for bringing a previously unknown level of artistry and dramatic cohesion to the filmmaking community of the time, Wild Rose is technically first-rate and an important example of Chinese silent cinema.

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China 1932 Director: Sun Yu Screenwriter: Sun Yu Cinematographer: Yu Xingsan Editor: Lu Hanzhang Cast: Jin Yan Wang Renmei Ye Juanjuan Zheng Junli Wei Langen Running Time: 82 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm Print Source: China Film Archive Selected Filmography: The Legend of Lu Ban (1958) The Life of Wu Xun (1950) The Big Road (1935) Daybreak (1933)

Accompanied by a live piano score performed by Donald Sosin.

Following the film, join local author Richard J. Meyer for a signing of his book “Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai.” Proceeds benefit SIFF.

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The Conversation

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Once Upon a Time in the West

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This low-budget conspiracy thriller was USA written, produced, and released by director 1974 Francis Ford Coppola before and during the Director: Watergate era—a time of heightened concern Francis Ford Coppola Producer: over the violation of civil liberties. Its claus- Francis Ford Coppola trophobic themes of the invasion of privacy, Screenwriter: alienation, guilt, voyeurism, justified paranoia, Francis Ford Coppola Cinematographer: unprincipled corporate power, and personal Bill Butler responsibility effectively responded to growing, Editor: ominous 20th century threats to personal Richard Chew Music: freedom. Harry Caul (superbly played by Gene David Shire Hackman) is an odd fish in his personal life, Cast: Hackman but reigns supreme at his chosen occupation Gene John Cazale as a surveillance expert. Haunted by the death Teri Garr Harrison Ford of three people as a result of his work, he Alan Garfield discovers while covering a seemingly routine Running Time: case of marital infidelity that he has become 113 minutes Presentation Format: the victim of his own technological profession 35mm and intrigue. Naturally big business is behind Print Source: it all, developing eavesdropping equipment Paramount Selected Filmography: of staggering complexity and efficiency in an Tetro (2009) elaborate attempt to record anything ever said Youth Without Youth (2007) The Rainmaker (1997) by anybody at any time, all in the name of Jack (1996) financial gain. The film, which subtly posits that Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) The Godfather Part III (1990) technology has gotten out of control, failed at Tucker: The Man and His the box office on release, but the continuing Dream (1988) Gardens of Stone (1987) relevance of its central issues has kept it alive Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) with cinema lovers everywhere and made it an The Cotton Club (1984) Rumble Fish (1983) acknowledged masterpiece of the genre.

One From the Heart (1982)

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When Henry Fonda reported to the set of Sergio USA/Italy Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West, the 1968 director was furious with him. Fonda had grown Director: a goatee and wore brown contact lenses to give Sergio Leone Producer: himself a more sinister appearance, all the better, Fulvio Morsella Fonda thought, to play a sadistic gunfighter. Screenwriters: Leone, however, had specifically cast Fonda Sergio Leone Sergio Donati for his good-guy image, feeling his actor’s blue Cinematographer: eyes best reflected the icy, cold nature of the Tonino Delli Colli gunfighter Frank. Originally reluctant to follow his Editor: Nino Baragli masterpiece The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Music: with another western, Paramount offered Leone Ennio Morricone a generous budget and the services of Henry Cast: Henry Fonda Fonda to create another horse opera. Leone Jason Robards Charles Bronson accepted, primarily for the chance to work with Claudia Cardinale Fonda, and commissioned two Italian film crit- Running Time: ics—Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento—to 165 minutes Presentation Format: conceive a screen story in which two drifters 35mm come to protect a beautiful widow from the Print Source: encroaching railroad company and the gang of Paramount Pictures Selected Filmography: hired gunmen instructed to take her land by any Once Upon a Time in means necessary. Presented in its full panoram- America (1984) A Genius, Two Friends, ic glory, Once Upon a Time in the West is every and an Idiot (1975) Lonesome Gun (1973) bit the equal of Leone’s previous film.

Apocalypse Now (1979) The Godfather Part II (1974) The Conversation (1974) The Godfather (1972) The Rain People (1969) Finian’s Rainbow (1968) You’re a Big Boy Now (1967) Dementia 13 (1963)

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Duck You Sucker (1971) The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1966) For a Few Dollars More (1965) A Fistful of Dollars (1964) The Colossus of Rhodes (1961) The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)

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So Long at the Fair

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Most film aficionados remember Terence Fisher United Kingdom as the top director at England’s house of horror, 1950 Hammer Films, where he crafted most of the Director: studio’s most iconic pictures (The Revenge of Terence Fisher Producers: Frankenstein, Horror of Dracula). Yet fans of Betty E. Box Fisher’s latter fright flicks will also find his earlier Sydney Box work, So Long at the Fair, an interesting precur- Screenwriters: Hugh Mills sor. Siblings Vicky and Johnny Barton travel to Anthony Thorne Paris for the 1889 Exhibition and upon arrival Cinematographer: Reginald Wyer check into separate rooms at their hotel. But Editor: when Vicky awakens the next morning, she Gordon Hales discovers her brother and the room in which Music: Benjamin Frankel he was staying have both mysteriously disap- Cast: peared. When she inquires into his whereabouts Jean Simmons Dirk Bogarde at the front desk, everyone at the hotel claims David Tomlinson she arrived alone, and neither the British Consul Marcel Poncin Honor Blackman nor the gendarme believe her story. Only a Running Time: young artist, George Hathaway, remembers 86 minutes her brother. With his aid, Vicky sets out to solve Presentation Format: 35mm Johnny’s disappearance. Like much of Fisher’s Print Source: latter work, So Long at the Fair uses period MGM elegance to lull and comfort the audience only Selected Filmography: The Phantom of the to transmute it, as the suspense builds, into Opera (1962) an uneasy, unsettling atmosphere. Unavailable The Mummy (1959) The Hound of the domestically on DVD. Baskervilles (1959) The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) Horror of Dracula (1958) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

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Films Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle (USA, 2009) Directed by Kevin Tomlinson, see page 115

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The Cove (USA, 2008) Directed by Louie Psihoyos, see page 155

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The End of the Line

(United Kingdom, 2008) Directed by Rupert Murray, see page 157

Fig Trees (Canada, 2009) Directed by John Greyson, see page 159

Helping to heal the environment, one film at a time.

Cinema has the power to move us to tears, anger us, and make us laugh. But it can also educate us about the world’s problems and—more importantly—inspire us to do something about it. That’s why SIFF is continuing with its third annual Planet Cinema series, showcasing international films with stories about global climate change, alternative fuels, land conservation, and sustainable farm practices. The documentaries, dramas, and essays selected in this year’s program cover a broad spectrum of environmentally conscious filmmaking, from sobering treatises about what megaagricultural corporations are adding to our food supply to charming tales about neighborhoods working to turn urban blight into productive farmland. We also get a glimpse behind the scenes of eco-activists who are trying to save the biodiversity of the planet’s oceans. With each film, we gain a little more understanding and insight into the complex and evolving relationship between humans and nature.

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Food, Inc. (USA, 2008) Directed by Robert Kenner, see page 159 The Garden (USA, 2008)

Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy, see page 161

Know Your Mushrooms (Canada, 2009) Directed by Ron Mann, see page 163

Modern Life (France, 2008)

Directed by Raymond Depardon, see page 165

Pirate for the Sea (USA, 2008) Directed by Ronald Colby, see page 119

School Days With a Pig (Japan, 2008) Directed by Tetsu Maeda, see page 233

A Sea Change (Norway/USA, 2008) Directed by Barbara Ettinger, see page 168

The Shaft (China, 2008) Directed by Zhang Chi, see page 235 What’s on Your Plate? (USA, 2009) Directed by Catherine Gund, see page 87 3 5 T H S E AT T L E I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 9

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FUTUREWAVE

Films *At West of Pluto

(Canada, 2008) Directed by Myriam Verreault and Henry Bernadet

e v a W e r s u t m l u i F F e r u t a e F FutureWave: Expanding Cinema Through Education offers youth and educators a direct link both to the Festival and to the local filmmaking community.

Celebrating two complementary activities, film viewing and filmmaking, FutureWave includes compelling, relevant, and enjoyable films, and meaningful workshops for youth. Together, these components advance SIFF’s leadership role in creating an audience that is more informed, aware, and alive.

FutureWave workshops include filmmaker visits to school classrooms, special student screenings (both in schools and at SIFF venues), film study and discussion guides, post-film discussions, digital technology classes, SuperFly filmmaking, a professional development workshop for teachers, and our FutureWave Shorts program featuring creative filmmaking from youth under 19 years of age.

The FutureWave feature film program invites teens to the cinema for ten great international films that will excite and challenge youth, engaging them in the joy of discovery at the Festival. This year’s selections come from around the world and feature confused parents, blossoming romances, youth music competitions, and another great French spy spoof. * New this year, SIFF has selected a jury of five high-school-aged

students to view eight of the ten FutureWave films and award their favorite film with the Youth Jury Award for Best FutureWave Feature. The eight features in competition are marked at the right with an “*”.

Appropriate for teens 15 and up. Contains strong language and underage drinking. See page 145.

*Ball Don’t Lie

(USA, 2008) Directed by Brin Hill Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 182.

*Daddy Cool

(France, 2008) Directed by Francois Desagnat Appropriate for teens 15 and up. Contains strong language and underage drinking. See page 192.

*I’m Gonna Explode

(Mexico, 2008) Directed by Gerardo Naranjo Appropriate for teens 17 and up. Contains nudity, underage drinking, and school violence. See page 209.

*Miao Miao

(Hong Kong, 2008) Directed by Cheng Hsiao Tse Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 221.

*My Suicide

(USA, 2009) Directed by David Lee Miller Appropriate for teens 17 and up. Contains brief nudity, language, and disturbing images. See page 149.

OSS 117: Lost in Rio

(France, 2009) Directed by Michel Hazanavicius Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 27.

Paper Heart

(USA, 2009) Directed by Nicholas Jasenovec Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 230.

*Princess of Africa

(Spain, 2008) Directed by Juan Laguna Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 166.

*Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary (United Kingdom, 2008) Directed by Jamie J. Johnson

Appropriate for teens 13 and up. See page 97.

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FutureWave Competition Jury Fly Filmmakers: Tran Quoc Bao, Laura Jean Cronin, Shannon Hart-Reed, and Shawn Telford

Films The Dreamer

USA, 2009, 11 minutes, director: Mitch Collier Since Earl’s heart attack, he can’t stop dreaming about driving a 1974 Pontiac Catalina.

SIFF is proud to present FutureWave Shorts, a program of new films created by filmmakers younger than 19 years old whose talents celebrate the creative possibilities of the art form.

A Generation of Consolidation

These inspiring original short films represent some of the best short filmmaking from around the world. Also included in the program will be the J. Michael Award winner from The Seattle Times ThreeMinute Masterpiece digital film contest.

A celebration of a Brooklyn family with two moms.

The WaveMaker Award for Excellence in Youth Filmmaking will be presented to a film chosen in recognition of its artistic and technical achievement. The directors of the 2009 Fly Filmmaking Challenge will determine the award.

USA, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Samantha Muilenberg A portrait of youth opinions concerning the effects of media consolidation.

The Hysteria

China, 2009, 12 minutes, director: Shuishui Ai A girl with autism explores her unbelievable world.

If U Want 2 Get Technical

USA, 2009, 9 minutes, director: Riaebia Robinson

Leila’s Eyebrow!

United Kingdom, 2008, 4 minutes, directors: Leila

and students of South Camden Community School A young Iranian woman in London confronts her cultural identity by rediscovering and embracing it.

Messin’ Around

USA, 2009, 1 minute,

director: Reid Furubayashi Hand-drawn animation takes a journey through the stream of consciousness.

SIFF FutureWave continues its exciting partnership with Longhouse Media to present the SuperFly Filmmaking Workshop for Youth (page 79). The SuperFly short films will open the FutureWave Shorts program.

Cinema lovers of all ages will enjoy this very special film event that gives voice to the future of filmmaking. (95 minutes)

My World

SATURDAY JUNE 6 4:00 PM EGYPTIAN THEATRE

A tome to the magic and beauty of snow.

USA, 2008, 2 minutes, directors: Native Lens Puyallup Youth A moving statement about the interpersonal effects of alcohol abuse.

Recipe for Beauty

USA, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Alex M. and students at West Seattle Elementary School

Youth make a statement about what really makes a person beautiful.

Tiny Pillows

Canada, 2008, 5 minutes, director: Joseph Procopio

The “Twilight” Zone

USA, 2009, 8 minutes, director: Haley Lewis A group of girls learn the hard reality of literary obsession.

A Work of Fiction

USA, 2009, 6 minutes, director: Nate Lessler Stories within stories. Each has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Don’t they?

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SIFF FutureWave: Expanding Cinema Through Education empowers youth to work collaboratively, communicate their ideas, exercise their potential, and take action in their communities. This goal is embodied in the SuperFly Filmmaking Experience, where young filmmakers are asked to comment on their world by using multimedia and digital tools.

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Starting June 4, youth from around the country will converge on Seattle to participate in SuperFly 2009, SIFF’s 36-hour filmmaking workshop in partnership with Longhouse Media. These 50 young filmmakers will be placed in five teams and given an original script crafted by Princess Lucaj, a Sundance Fellow and Hollywood actress who has appeared in lead roles in such productions as Jericho and the recent film Ghost Town. The script will be a reflective piece that explores the theme of “discovery.” Each team will have less than two days to storyboard, shoot, and edit their films, which will then premiere four hours after completion, at the FutureWave Shorts Program screening on June 6.

Join us on June 6 at 4:00 PM at the Egyptian Theatre for this year’s premiere.

Last year’s SuperFly films, based on a script by SuperFly alumni Derek and Aaron Jones, have played at festivals around the country, inspiring other communities to use digital media for education and social activism. The program has caught the attention of youth media organizations and national media centers, including the Smithsonian Institute’s media initiatives, the Sundance Film Festival, and National Geographic’s All Roads Film Festival.

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F F I S e h t in s l o o Sch Students from elementary to high school attend award-winning films from around the world.

Student Screenings Films are carefully selected by the SIFF programming team to reach a broad range of learning levels and interests for students and teachers from elementary through high school. Content areas include foreign films produced in countries whose languages are taught in schools, as well as motion pictures that enhance classroom learning about world cultures, civics, science, nature, and the arts.

Student screenings are offered free of charge and transportation is provided when possible for schools in need.

Filmmaker Visits SIFF sees the arrival of more than 100 international filmmakers to the Festival each year. Whenever possible, SIFF FutureWave invites these artists into classrooms and community organizations around the Puget Sound to share their real-world experience. These visits are integrated into a multitude of school subjects and provide professional role models for every age group. In all cases, students get a first-hand opportunity to talk directly with filmmakers, who meet with students, offer constructive suggestions on student projects, use their expertise as a catalyst for discussion, or bring clips from their film to the school for a candid Q&A.

SIFF Classroom: Digital Media Lab — May 30 and 31

Filmmakers visit classrooms across artistic and academic disciplines to share their knowledge of filmmaking and cross-cultural understanding with students around the Puget Sound.

Expanded content and weekend dates give technically minded film enthusiasts more hands-on training at our Digital Media Lab. Teachers can get their hands dirty with animation, exploring how easy it can be to incorporate the art form into classroom projects with our professional development workshop.

Students of all ages may attend free workshops through SIFF’s Digital Media Lab. These classes give students hands-on experience with computers and filmmaking, as well as skill-building in story construction, cinematography, and editing. There is plenty of time to work with instructors, ask questions, and get immersed in the world of filmmaking. See page 261 for class times and course descriptions.

Hands-On Animation Workshop — June 13 10:00 AM–1:00 PM TRAINING FOR TEACHERS OF GRADES K THROUGH 12 SIFF and Reel Grrls are delighted to offer a new professional development workshop for teachers of all disciplines.

Animation is an easy, creative, and engaging way for students to display their comprehension in any subject. Registration is free and will be limited to 40 educators. A professional animator will instruct teachers in the basics of animating, then participants will put the art form into practice working on real class assignments. Clock hours will be available for all participants.

For more information or to participate in these programs, please contact Educational Programs Coordinator Dustin Kaspar at 206.464.5830 or via e-mail at dustin.kaspar@siff.net.

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The Adventures of Robin Hood

(USA, 1938) Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley Recommended for all ages. This screening will be introduced by Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne.

See page 65.

Alisa’s Birthday

(Russia, 2009) Directed by Sergei Seregin

Join SIFF each Saturday and Sunday throughout the Festival for extraordinary matinee experiences in imaginative programming for children and the young at heart.

Recommended for ages 5 and above. A virus scene may be challenging for very sensitive youth. Subtitles will be performed live at the June 7 and June 14 screenings.

Films4Families is a celebration of the whole family enjoying the movies together. Following our successful year-round repertory program at SIFF Cinema, we present an outstanding curated lineup of some of the best children’s films from around the world, showcasing both features and short films in live action and animation. For many of these features, Seattle families will be the first North American audiences to enjoy these creative treasures.

Don’t miss them.

The Family Picture Show

Several of the films are presented in their original language. Certain screenings will have the subtitles performed live at the screening, ensuring that all ages can come and enjoy these wonderful films regardless of reading ability.

(Germany, 2008) Directed by Michael Maurus and Thomas Bodenstein

New this year, the SIFF Films4Families Youth Jury is comprised of five elementary and middle school youth who will watch all of the features to determine their favorite, crowning the winner with the Youth Jury Award for Best Films4Families Feature.

Egon & Dönci

(Hungary, 2008) Directed by Ádám Magyar Recommended for all ages.

All ages short film program featuring the new Wallace & Gromit Short. See page 137.

Mamma Moo and Crow

(Sweden/Germany/Hungary, 2009) Directed by Igor Veyshtagin Recommended for all ages. Subtitles with be performed live at the May 24 and June 6 screenings.

Moonbeam Bear and His Friends

In English, recommended for ages 3 to 9.

Nak

(Thailand, 2009) Directed by Natthaphong Ratanachoksirikul Recommended for ages 7 and above for ghostly content and some spooky images.

What’s on Your Plate?

(USA, 2009) Directed by Catherine Gund Recommended for all ages.

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School is out for summer, but young Alisa is Russia alternately happy and sad about it. She loves 2009 summertime in futuristic Moscow, but she has Director: just failed her history test and will have to do Sergei Seregin Producers: the class over again during summer break. Her Vyacheslav Mayasov space zoologist dad is not going to be happy Alexander Gerasimov with her. Upon returning home she is delighted Screenwriters: Andrew Zhitkov to discover her Uncle Gromozeka, a boisterous Andrew Salomatov blue creature with four arms, has an early birth- Sergei Seregin based on the original day present for her—a trip to the planet Koleida. story by Kir Belchev He vows to teach her all about history at the Editor: Natalya Abramova planet. Upon arrival at Koleida, they discover Music: that a virus has devastated the planet’s previous Dimitry Ryibnikov society. Luckily, Gromozeka has a time machine Featuring the Voices of: Yasya Nikilaeva to take Alisa on an adventure back to the 1950s Evgeniy Stychkin to stop the virus at its source. Based on a series Alexey Kolgan Running Time: of hugely popular children’s science fiction books 94 minutes

by Kir Belchev, Alisa’s Birthday overwhelms with Presentation Format: surprising creative characters and incredible BetaSP, in Russian, with English subtitles energy, while the quality of its central story will Print Source: captivate all audiences. The outstanding cast is Master Film Studio Website: a who’s who of Russian voice actors, grounding Film alisaselezneva.ru the serious side of the tale with regular laughs Selected Filmography: and affecting musical numbers. English subti- Debut Feature Film tles will be read aloud at the June 7 and June 14 screenings. Recommended for ages 5 and above. A virus scene may be challenging for very sensitive youth.

This delightful animated feature from direc- Hungary tor Ádám Magyar uses sounds and universal 2008 gestures, rather than dialogue, to communicate Director: its characters’ thoughts and ideas. The film Ádám Magyar Producer: introduces us to Egon, a would-be scientist and Andrea Gálicza explorer, and his meddling cat Dönci, who are Screenwriter: the sole inhabitants of a distant planet. When an Elemér Magyar Cinematographer: unidentified flying object bearing a message from Dániel Magyar Earth crashes into their planet, Egon concocts an Editors: Felföldi idea about making contact with our strange blue Gábor Gergely Gál planet. He starts to work immediately on build- Ádám Magyar ing a spaceship for intergalactic exploration but Music: Gábor Balázs is continually thwarted by the inquisitive Dönci. Zsolt Macsinka Once they set off across the universe, the ship Péter Sohajda Running Time: braves an enormous space storm, during which 75 minutes Dönci takes control of the cockpit and makes Presentation Format: an unfortunate detour to icy Pluto. Eventually, DigiBeta International Sales: the duo manages to reach Earth and they get Hungaricom a lesson in life from the first Earthling they meet. Print Source: This visually striking tale is the first fully comput- Strand Releasing Film Website: er-generated animated feature to come out egonanddonci.com of Hungary. Superbly designed, Egon & Dönci Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film will delight children with its antics and provide adults with some thought-provoking themes of communication and understanding from across the heavens. Recommended for all ages.

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Moonbeam Bear and His Friends

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Mamma Moo is an extraordinary cow who enjoys doing many un-cow-like things. She wants to learn to ride a bike, climb a tree, and play on a swing. Then she stumbles upon Crow, who is waiting for his birthday party, but unfortunately no one is coming because he doesn’t have any friends. Crow doesn’t understand the value of friendship and doesn’t really want to be friends with such a peculiar cow, but after several seasons with Mamma Moo and her fun adventures he realizes the personal connection that is missing from his solitary life. Igor Veyshtagin’s first animated feature film has been a family hit in Sweden with lots of laughs and absurd situations providing the foundation for life lessons in friendship that will warm a family’s heart. English subtitles will be read aloud for young children at both screenings. Recommended for all ages.

Sweden/ Germany/ Hungary 2008 Director: Igor Veyshtagin Producers: Johanna Bergenstråhle Mattis Johansson Screenwriter: Jujja Wieslander Music: Niklas Fransson Ulf Turesson Featuring the Voices of: Rachel Mohlin Johan Ulveson Running Time: 78 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Swedish, with English subtitles International Sales: Svensk Filmindustri Print Source: Swedish Film Institute Film Website: sfinternational.se/mammamoothemovie Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Moonbeam Bear loves watching the moon in the Germany night sky more than anything else. One night, Mr. 2008 Moon is knocked from the sky into the forest. Directors: Moonbeam Bear finds him and, delighted to Michael Maurus Thomas Bodenstein meet Mr. Moon, brings him home for refresh- Producers: ments and games. Not everyone is excited Frank Piscator Tania Reichert-Facilides about Moonbeam Bear’s new friend. Badger, Eric Welbers Woodpecker, Ladybug, and Frog can’t see in Screenwriters: the dark and would like Mr. Moon back up in Mark Slater Gabriele M. Walther the sky. While they work to come up with a plan, based on the book by Rolf Mr. Moon falls asleep and stops glowing. Unable Fänger Editors: to wake him up, the animals band together on Sascha Wolff-Täger a great episodic adventure to places they never Michael Krotsky Marcus Schmidt imagined in search of a sweet song that will Music: return Mr. Moon to his post in the sky. Based Danny Chang on the “Moonbeam Bear” stories enjoyed by Featuring the Voices of: Maximilian Belle children around the world, Moonbeam Bear Angelika Bender-Wilschrei and His Friends endorses the importance of Eric Brodka Uli Frank helping others through cooperation. Animated Julia Haacke with a warm storybook quality, the film moves Running Time: 72 minutes at a pace that is ideal for younger viewers. With Presentation Format: splendid woodland characters and a fascinat- 35mm ing narrative, Moonbeam Bear and His Friends International Sales: Beta Cinema will enchant young and old as it earns a coveted Print Source: spot on the family film shelf for years to come. In Beta Cinema Film Website: English, recommended for youth ages 3 to 9. mondbaer-derfilm.de Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Nak

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Drawing inspiration from films like The Nightmare Thailand Before Christmas, Nak is a ghoulishly fun, 2009 animated musical romp. Set in the present day, Director: Nak features a collection of Thai ghost legends Natthaphong Ratanachoksirikul that have grown tired of haunting and moved to Producers: the country intent on helping all humanity. One Prachya Pinkaew Boyd Kosiyabong night, at a temple fair, an audience is enjoying Screenwriter: an outdoor movie when a ghost comes out of Saenee Jitsuwanwattana the screen and takes away Tee, a seven-year- Cinematographer: Natthaphong old boy. The king of all ghosts plans to use Tee Ratanachoksirikul to fulfill his dark plan of world domination. Nak, Editor: the most popular ghost legend in Thailand, Natthaphong Ratanachoksirikul and her very colorful friends Keaw (a headless Music: ghost), Thong (a doggy ghost), and Eud (a tall Jirapong Srisukwondwatana demon) come together to help Gam, Tee’s sister, Boyd Kosiyapong get Tee back. Nak is especially moved by Gam’s Running Time: 95 minutes plight as her painful past comes to the fore and Presentation Format: she fights for someone who was once taken 35mm, in Thai, with from her. Chock-full of exuberant characters, English subtitles Print Source: lively action, and a variety of emotional and toe- Sahamongkolfilm Internatapping songs, Nak is a film based around ghost tional Co. Ltd. Website: legends that is perfect for late-elementary youth Film nakmovie.com and older. The film is also a treasure trove of Selected Filmography: discovery for adults well-versed in Asian horror, Debut Feature Film as many famous specters from recent films make cameo appearances throughout the story.

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What’s on Your Plate? is a provocative and enter- USA taining documentary capturing two 11-year-old 2009 African-American girls as they explore the poli- Director: tics of food in America. Director Catherine Gund Catherine Gund Producer: (whose daughter Sadie is one of the exploratory Tanya Selvaratnam duo) knows how important it is to inform the Cinematographers: younger generation and understand the way Miklos Buk Jill Cowburn food gets to the family table. With the audience John Foster as their companion, the girls talk with each other, George Motz Editor: farmers, food activists, and their families to learn Nancy C. Kennedy what ends up on our plates and how it gets there, Music: from cultivation to market. There are revelatory Adam Crystal Featuring: visits to grocery stores, fast food restaurants, Sadie Hope-Gund and especially the school lunchroom, where they Safiyah Kai Russell Riddle Bryant Terry become involved in encouraging their school Maritza Owens district to improve their mystery meat in favor of Running Time: 73 minutes healthier alternatives. In addition to these tradiPresentation Format: tional venues, the girls examine sustainable food DigiBeta systems through farms and community-support- International Sales: Cinetic Media Inc. ed agriculture programs. They quickly discover Print Source: social awareness has a multitude of positive Cinetic Media Inc. effects: the environment, jobs for farmers, and Film Website: aubinpictures.com/woyp affordable local food. With tremendous sophis- Selected Filmography: tication and compassion, these culinary enthu- Making Grace (2004) siasts inspire hope and active engagement from all members of the family, laying the groundwork for a future of healthy habits and tasty flavors.

Recommended for all ages.

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From inspiration and songwriting to performance, SIFF brings you the stories of music and musicians from around the world.

While cinema is an inherently visual medium, it can also be used to bring a new dimension to the aural world of music and performance. This series of films celebrates music in all its forms and genres. For those looking for raw concert power, Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona pretty much says it all—The Boss, rockin’ out in Spain for two and a half hours in high definition and Dolby Digital surround. For a completely different take on music in its far more esoteric forms, there’s Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, about Seattle’s own unclassifiable musical genius, engineer, and sculptor. SIFF also gets a behind-the-headlines look at enormously popular Senegalese tenor Youssou N’dour as he faces political pressure regarding his spiritual beliefs in Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love. Fans of music history will also want to catch Nick Moran’s Telstar, an entertaining biopic about British pop producer Joe Meek, as well as Icons Among Us, the theatrical version of John W. Comerford’s four-part series about the history of jazz, featuring interviews with more than 75 jazz legends. As a decidedly offbeat musical treat, SIFF will also hold a special screening of the classic 1989 film The Bear, with a newly commissioned score from the art-punk duo No Age.

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France/USA 1989 Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud Producer: Claude Berri Screenwriter: Gérard Brach based on the novel by James Oliver Curwood Cinematographer: Philippe Rousselot Editor: Noëlle Boisson Music: Philippe Sarde Cast: Tchéky Karyo Jack Wallace André Lacombe Running Time: 94 minutes Presentation Format: DVD, in French, with English subtitles Print Source: TriStar Pictures Selected Filmography: His Majesty Minor (2007) Two Brothers (2004) Enemy at the Gates (2001) Seven Years in Tibet (1997)

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When a rockslide kills a mother bear, her cub Douce becomes an orphan in the threatening Canadian Rockies. Luckily, she encounters Bart, a full-grown male bear on the run from hunters after mauling their pack animals. Though the ill-tempered Bart initially rejects Douce’s companionship, the cub wins his affection by licking Bart’s gunshot wounds.

Psychedelic mushroom trips and a rendezvous with Doc (the effeminate male bear who plays Bart’s love interest) are woodland fun at its finest, but the invasive fear of being hunted drives The Bear forward. Staged with trained bears and filmed in the Italian Dolomites, Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film seems like realism in drag as documentary. Yet it’s this feeling that makes The Bear a magical discovery and a welcome departure from the ordinary wildlife exposé. Los Angeles duo No Age will add their musical interpretation to the film by performing original music during the screening.

No Age

No Age is a Los Angeles-based art-punk duo consisting of guitarist Randy Randall and drummer Dean Allen Spunt. Formed in 2005 after the breakup of the punk band, Wives, of which Randall and Spunt were band members, No Age regularly performs at The Smell, an experimental punk/noise venue at the center of the L.A. underground community. Currently signed with the Seattle-based Sub Pop label, the critically-acclaimed band has released two full-length albums—“Weirdo Rippers” (FatCat, 2007) and “Nouns” (Sub Pop, 2008)—and has toured extensively in support of these releases. Known for playing at unconventional venues (such as the banks of the Los Angeles River, an Ethiopian restaurant in Philadelphia, and the Los Angeles Central Library), Randall and Spunt are strong advocates of the All-ages Movement Project, an organization that connects youth to each other and the arts through independent music. Randall and Spunt, both committed vegans, have participated in several vegan-oriented fundraisers, including a performance at Food Fight, a vegan grocery store in Portland, Oregon. The band’s most recent album, “Nouns,” was recently was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Recording Package. For more information about No Age and upcoming appearances, visit their official blog at noagela.blogspot.com.

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Icons Among Us

USA 2009 Directors: Michael Rivoira Lars Larson Peter J. Vogt Producers: John W. Comerford Theo N. Ianuly Screenwriters: Peter J. Vogt Kristian R. Hill Michael Rivoira Cinematographer: Lars Larson Editors: Kristian R. Hill Peter J. Vogt David Ilama Featuring: Ravi Coltrane Medeski, Martin & Wood Bill Frisell Robin Kelly Living Daylights Running Time: 93 minutes Print Source: Paradigm Studio Film Website: iconsamongus.com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

SATURDAY MAY 30 6:30 PM

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Jazz is a living thing, a conversation between musicians, their instruments, and the audience.

For Icons Among Us, the filmmakers interviewed 75 jazz artists with high-definition cameras, shot 25 hours of concerts on Super-16mm film, and has thrown in a good portion of archival footage on top of that. The result is a dynamic and engaging document of many of the greatest jazz musicians of today. Subtitled “Jazz in the Present Tense,” it contains interviews and performances from the likes of Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, the Bad Plus, and many others. Capturing the spontaneity of performers who have an intimate knowledge of their instruments and a full knowledge of jazz history, the movie—created from four episodes of a cable TV series—shows how the same simple riff can become completely different in the hands of different musicians. The dialogue between older and younger generations takes place with words, of course, but also with music. Anyone from diehard fans to interested novices will find something to take home with them. Like the music itself, Icons Among Us is fresh and constantly surprising, with a spirit and energy that innovates even as it recycles.

Following the film, join filmmakers and musicians at Neumos for a live performance from daKAH Hip Hop Chamber Orchestra and special guests.

The daKAH Chamber Hip Hop Orchestra is a powerful riff on the 60-piece arrangement that has made its mark on music cities around the country. This touring configuration of 22 members includes strings, horns, a banging rhythm section, guitar, DJ, and MCs. Its appearance in Seattle is a direct result of its presence in the SIFF World Premiere of Icons Among Us. The feature-length version of this four hour television film series features unseen footage and connects directly to spirit and vision of the music created by daKAH.

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In 2002, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street USA Band launched an initial, “barnstorming” leg of 2003 their world tour, in which the band played 46 Director: one-night stands in 46 different cities through- Chris Hilson Producer: out North America and Europe. Any further George Travis touring would be based on the turnout at those Cinematographers: shows. The response was overwhelming, ulti- Scott Lutton Greg Thorn mately prompting the band to perform 120 Phil Summers concerts in 82 cities across the globe. Recorded Editor: Thom Zimny midway through this barnstorming phase, Live Music: in Barcelona creates the kind of soul-stirring Bruce Springsteen & the concert experience that transforms Springsteen E Street Band Running Time: neophytes and fans alike. On tour to support 180 minutes “The Rising,” Springsteen’s first album with the Presentation Format: HD E Street Band in 18 years, the shows reunite Print Source: Springsteen with both of his previous lead Emerging Pictures guitar players, Nils Lofgren and “Miami” Steve Film Website: brucespringsteen.net Van Zandt, allowing The Boss to expand and Selected Filmography: toughen the new album’s sound with hard, Debut Feature Film crisp guitars and pounding drums—presented in high definition with Dolby Digital Sound. Live in Barcelona marks the first time an individual Springsteen concert has been released in its entirety. Containing more than two hours of music, the film captures a brilliant singer-songwriter and a crack band at the top of its game, performing a dream set-list of critically acclaimed new songs, classic hits, audience favorites, and seldom-heard rarities.

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On the eve of its tenth anniversary, the All United Kingdom Tomorrow’s Parties music festival is an ingenious 2009 testament to alternative music, communal living, Directors: and iconoclastic creativity. Founded by Belle & All Tomorrow’s People Jonathan Caouette Sebastian’s Barry Hogan in 1999 as an alterna- Producers: tive to larger, more corporate festivals, ATP is a Luke Morris Caroline Cooper Charles sponsorship-free festival where the organizers, Cinematographers: artists, and fans all stay in the same chalet- Jason Banker style housing complex. Every year the event is Vincent Moon Jonathan Caouette curated by a specific artist or band, essentially Editors: making each festival a “concert as ultimate mix Nick Fenton Daniel Goddard tape.” This unique concept is mirrored in All Running Time: Tomorrow’s Parties’ visual approach. The film 85 minutes is created from found or contributed footage Presentation Format: HDCAM from more than 200 filmmakers, fans, and musi- Print Source: cians who’ve attended the British All Tomorrow’s Warp Films Parties festival throughout its history. With Film Website: ourtrueintent.com interviews and footage of more than 30 bands Selected Filmography: (ranging from Nick Cave to Animal Collective and Jonathan Caouette: Tarnation (2004) from Portishead to Grizzly Bear), this post-punk DIY bricolage uses material filmed in a multitude of formats, including Super8, camcorder, and mobile-phone. The final product, which captures the experience from the perspective of fan, artist, and curator alike, celebrates the uncompromising vitality of this unique festival experience.

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Over 20 years, a subculture in Brazil has Brazil emerged below society’s radar. Fast, heavy, 2009 and hypersexual, baile funk (locally known “Funk Directors: Carioca” or simply “The Funk”) reflects the area it LeandroHBL Wesley Pentz comes from. One of the most interesting musical Producers: movements in the world, it comes from one of LeandroHBL Wesley Pentz the poorest and most violent places—the slums Screenwriters: of Rio de Janeiro. Favela on Blast shows the Ricardo Mededff culture surrounding baile funk, a musical rhythm LeandroHBL Wesley Pentz that mixes the Miami bass electronic funk of Cinematographer: the 1980s with the most diverse influences LeandroHBL of Brazilian music. With their own language, Editor: Ricardo Mededff style, and heroes, these artists translate their Running Time: day-to-day culture into this new nightlife music. 80 minutes Presentation Format: Its bombastic rhythms mix with loops and HDCAM, in Portuguese, samples to pulse through the tropical nights of with English subtitles Rio. Directors Wesley Pentz (aka internationally Print Source: Mosquito Project famous musician Diplo) and LeandroHBL visited Film Website: 60 favelas and conducted more than 100 inter- leandrohbl.com/funkfilm Filmography: views with the MC’s, DJ’s, dancers, and cultural Selected Debut Feature Film producers who have spent their lives creating this vibrant scene. In doing so, they have created both a portrait of a subculture that defines the youth of Rio’s dismissed population and a snapshot of an art form that’s about to take the world by storm.

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Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary

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Telstar

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Having penned their own songs, bright-eyed United Kingdom European kids ages ten to 15 compete for top 2008 prize at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Director: this warmly comic “popumentary.” There’s ten- Jamie J. Johnson Producers: year-old Giorgos from Cyprus, who admires Elizabeth Karlsen George Michael and is bullied at school for his Stephen Woolley dreams of stardom. Mariam from Georgia has Screenwriter: Jamie J. Johnson an abundance of national pride and multiple Cinematographer: pigtails. Bulgarian Marina, lead singer of girl Jamie J. Johnson group Bon-Bon, only wants to know that her Editor: Lucien Clayton estranged father will watch her performance Music: on TV. And then there’s Belgian group Trust, Mat Davidson Time: whose 15-year-old members are almost too old Running 93 minutes for the contest. In his first feature documentary, Presentation Format: British director Jamie Jay Johnson follows these DigiBeta, in English, Flemish, Bulgarian, Georgian, kids from their national finals to the big night: and Cypriot Greek, with a live televised production with extravagant English subtitles International Sales: and garishly colorful sets. “I’m wetting myself Intandem Films with excitement!” screams one of the contest’s Print Source: over-the-top hosts. At times nerve-wracking to Intandem Films Film Website: watch as these innocent, earnest children bear soundsliketeenspiritthethe anxiety of competition, the film is a tender movie.co.uk Selected Filmography: message of hope and perseverance that is Debut Feature Film sure to leave a smile on your face and catchy Europop songs in your head. Recommended for ages 13 and above.

It’s London in the late 1950s and gay, tone United Kingdom deaf songwriter-producer Joe Meek has set 2008 up a recording studio of sorts in his two-story Director: apartment over a luggage shop: vocals in the Nick Moran Producers: bathroom and instruments in the bedroom. He’s Simon Jordan obsessed with Buddy Holly and has a strong David Reid Adam Bohling interest in spiritualism and the occult. His eccenScreenwriters: tric, workaholic ways are a trial to his band, his James Hicks principal backer Major Wilfred Banks (Kevin Nick Moran Cinematographer: Spacey), and his landlady Mrs. Violet Shenton, Peter Wignall who bangs on the ceiling when the noise gets to Editor: be too much. Joe experiments with studio tech- Alex Marsh Music: niques like distortion and sampling, but he can’t Ilan Eshkeri play an instrument or write musical notation. Cast: Con O’Neill When songwriter Geoff Goddard arrives, the Kevin Spacey two join forces and the hits start to roll. Based Pam Ferris J.J. Feild on writer Nick Moran’s West End sensation and James Corden starring Con O’Neill in a tour-de-force perfor- Running Time: mance as Meek, Telstar is the story of the music 114 minutes Presentation Format: as much as it is of the man. The soundtrack for 35mm this tribute to the premier pop producer features International Sales: original recordings of Meek’s biggest hits, Fortissimo Films Print Source: including “Telstar,” “Be-Bop-A-Lula,” “Johnny Fortissimo Films Film Website: Remember Me,” and “Have I the Right?”

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Trimpin: The Sound of Invention

Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love

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Eccentric artist/inventor/engineer/composer USA Trimpin (he only uses his surname) shuns the 2008 hype and hyperbole of the commercial art world, Director: doesn’t have a cell phone or a website, and has Peter Esmonde Producer: never been represented by a gallery, dealer, or Peter Esmonde manager—yet his freewheeling sculptures and Cinematographer: outrageous musical experiments are cherished Peter Esmonde Editor: by museums all over the planet. A Seattle resi- Rick Tejada-Flores dent since 1980—he moved here from Europe Music: for the area’s greater access to used tech- Philip Perkins Running Time: nological components—his work integrates 79 minutes sculpture and music in ingenious ways, often Presentation Format: in German and using computers to create compositions that HDCAM, English, with English are unrestricted by any human physical limita- subtitles tions. Filmed over the course of two years, this Print Source: Participant Observer, lLLC documentary follows the artist-inventor as he Film Website: devises a perpetual-motion machine, builds a trimpinmovie.com 20-meter tower of automatic, self-tuning electric Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film guitars for the EMP Guitar Gallery, and collaborates with the Kronos Quartet on an outrageous world premiere. An amazing investigation of an extraordinary creative genius whose selfmade world resembles both Santa’s workshop and Frankenstein’s lab, Trimpin: The Sound of Invention will delight anyone interested in the mysteries, pitfalls, and sheer joys of creative experiment.

Senegalese pop sensation Youssou N’dour Senegal/France spent the last 20 years in the spotlight as a 2008 world-renowned musician and iconic “Voice Director: of Africa.” At the height of his career, Youssou Chai Vasarhelyi Producers: became frustrated by the negative perception Chai Vasarhelyi of his Muslim faith and composed “Egypt,” a Sarah Price Scott Duncan deeply spiritual album dedicated to a more Hugo Berkeley tolerant view of Islam. It was a critical, career- Cinematographers: defining move that courted controversy. Some Nick Doob Jojo Pennebaker Americans disapproved because of their post- Scott Duncan 9/11 tendencies to attribute Islam with violent Hugo Berkeley Editors: extremism. Senegalese deejays and radio station Jonathan Oppenheim proprietors objected, given the odd discomfiture Fernando Villena Music: associated with playing religious music about Martin Davich Allah alongside often-racy selections by other James Newton Howard acts. Even more significantly, Youssou inadver- Featuring: Youssou N’dour tently carried this controversy one step further Fathy Salama by performing during the Muslim holy month of Kabou Gueye Peter Gabriel Ramadan, thus infuriating Senegalese religious Running Time: conservatives. The film witnesses Youssou as 102 minutes Format: he confronts these challenges head-on and, Presentation 35mm, in English, French, incredibly, surmounts them with ease and Wolof, and Arabic, with finesse. Combining unprecedented images of English subtitles International Sales: Senegal’s most sacred Muslim rituals, vibrant Celluloid Dreams concert performances filmed around the world, Print Source: Gwyn Welles and intimate access to Youssou and his family, I Film Website: Bring What I Love chronicles the difficult journey ibringwhatilove.com Youssou must undertake to assume his true Selected Filmography A Normal Life (2003) calling.

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Black Dynamite

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Deadgirl

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Who’s the cat that won’t cop out when there’s USA danger all about? No, not him. I’m talkin’ about 2009 Black Dynamite. When “The Man” murders his Director: brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages, and Scott Sanders Producers: floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised Jon Steingart as Anaconda malt liquor, Black Dynamite is the Jenny Wiener Steingart only hero willing to fight all the way from the Screenwriters: Michael Jai White blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of Byron Minns the Honky House. He’s a master of kung fu, has a Scott Sanders Cinematographer: lot of guns, and beds the most beautiful women Shawn Maurer in the hood. In short, Black Dynamite is every Editor: hero you wish you could be. One of the biggest Adrian Younge Music: hits to emerge out of this year’s Sundance Film Adrian Younge Festival, Black Dynamite is a pitch-perfect ode Cast: Michael Jai White to 1970s Blaxploitation movies and television. Tommy Davidson Director Scott Sanders, along with his co-writer Salli Richardson-Whitfield Byron Minns and star Michael Jai White, crafts a scalpel- James McManus sharp satire of the entire genre, right down to the Running Time: Naugahyde jackets, casual sexual harassment, 90 minutes Presentation Format: and outrageously large Afros. So settle your- HDCAM self down at the midnight grindhouse, light up Print Source: Pictures Worldwide a Fred Williamson cigar, and enjoy some Black Sony Acquisitions Group Dynamite-style ass-kicking set to the most funk- Film Website: blackdynamite.com tastic bouncing beats you’ll ever hear.

Rickie and JT are high school outsiders, bullied USA by jocks and despised by the in-crowd. Though 2008 both would rather drop out than bear this never- Directors: ending misery, Rickie chooses to stay, if only to Marcel Sarmiento Gadi Harel catch fleeting glimpses of JoAnn, his childhood Producers: crush and the current girlfriend to the captain Marcel Sarmiento Gadi Harel of the football team. Then one afternoon, while Screenwriter: cutting class, the pair makes a bizarre discovery Trent Haaga in the darkest depths of an abandoned hospi- Cinematographer: Harris Charalambous tal—a beautiful young woman, neither living nor Editor: dead, strapped to an operating table. Horrified Phillip Blackford by their find, Rickie flees, while JT stays behind Music: Joseph Bauer to satiate his darker appetites. Soon, however, Cast: the pair’s secret slips out to the worst person Shiloh Fernandez Noah Segan imaginable, and what follows is a series of gory Candice Accola confrontations that test Rickie’s loyalty to both Running Time: JT and JoAnn. Since its premiere at last year’s 101 minutes Presentation Format: Toronto International Film Festival, no horror film HDCAM has generated more buzz than Deadgirl, and International Sales: deservedly so. Co-directors Marcel Sarmiento The Collective/XYZ Films Print Source: and Gadi Harel took a script many in Hollywood Hollywoodmade felt was “too shocking to produce,” yet the Film Website: deadgirlmovie.com finished product is a chillingly complex and Selected Filmography: accomplished fright flick that skillfully pushes the Heavy Petting (2007) limits of explicit violence and sexuality without It’s Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be ever slipping into the exploitative.

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Preceded by Danse Macabre, Canada, 2008, 8 minutes, director: Pedro Pires In the morgue, a young woman’s corpse performs a ghastly ballet.

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Dead Snow

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Grace

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It’s time for fans of international horror films to Norway shift their attention from East Asia to Northern 2009 Europe. Over the past few years, Scandinavia Director: has quietly produced some of the most accom- Tommy Wirkola Producers: plished scare pictures, including such SIFF Tomas Evjen favorites as Norway’s Cold Prey and Sweden’s Terje Strømstad Let the Right One In. However, with Dead Snow, Screenwriters: Stig Frode Henriksen Norwegian director Tommy Wirkola replaces the Tommy Wirkola quiet and subtle with Nazi zombies and kami- Cinematographer: Matt Weston kaze snowmobilers. Eight Norwegian medical Editor: students travel to an isolated lodge to enjoy their Martin Stoltz Easter vacation on the slopes. But on their first Cast: Vegard Hoel night in the lodge, a strange hiker visits them Stig Frode Henriksen and relates a tale from recent history when the Charlotte Frogner Jenny Skavlan Nazis occupied the local township under the Jeppe Beck Laursen ironfisted Colonel Herzog. After three years Running Time: 90 minutes of brutal rule, the townsfolk chased Herzog Presentation Format: and his men into the mountains where they 35mm, in Norwegian, were believed to have frozen to death. Uh, not with English subtitles International Sales: exactly. When the friends find a small cache Norwegian Film Institute of gold in their lodge … well, is there anything Print Source: Nazi zombies love more than gold? Now the IFC Films Film Website: medical students must flee the slopes while deadsnow.com fending off Herzog’s zombie onslaught. By equal Selected Filmography: Kill Buljo: The Movie measures raucous and terrifying, Dead Snow (2007) always provides good bloody (and gory) fun.

Preceded by Full Employment, Germany, 2008, 12 minutes, directors: Breshna Hamid and Matthias Vogel In these troubling economic times, Miroslav will take any job he can get … even as part-time, entry-level Zombie Hunter.

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A placid surface obscures chilling depths in writer- USA director Paul Solet’s squirm-inducing feature film 2009 debut, Grace. Living in a quiet suburb, Michael Director: and Madeline Matheson have hopes of starting Paul Solet Producers: a family despite a previous miscarriage. When Ingo Vollkammer the couple does conceive, Madeline opts for a Cory Neal Adam Green holistic, pure-body lifestyle under the guidance Kevin DeWalt of her close friend and midwife Patricia Lang. Screenwriter: Meanwhile, Madeline’s mother-in-law Vivian, Paul Solet Cinematographer: desperate for a grandchild, pushes Madeline Zoran Popovic to use Dr. Sohn, a highly regarded obstetrician. Editors: Coniglio In the wake of an auto accident, which kills John Darrin Navarro both Michael and her baby in utero, Madeline Music: decides to carry her child to full term, disregard- Austin Wintory Cast: ing all professional advice. But mere moments Jordan Ladd after the birth, a seeming miracle occurs—her Samantha Ferris Gabrielle Rose newborn daughter cries out. Madeline’s mater- Malcom Stewart nal joy is short-lived, however, as she struggles Stephen Park to fulfill baby Grace’s unique and growing appe- Running Time: 85 minutes tite. Much like Mia Farrow in Rosemary’s Baby, Presentation Format: Jordan Ladd’s performance as the overwhelmed HDCAM Source: and isolated Madeline gives the film its sympa- Print Anchor Bay Entertainment thetic core, whose innocent, nearly hapless Film Website: actions sharpen the film’s unsettling atmosphere gracehorror.com Selected Filmography: of impending dread. Ladd’s performance, Debut Feature Film coupled with Solet’s elegant, almost simplistic imagery makes Grace a consummate chiller that will long crawl under your skin.

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The Hills Run Red

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World Premiere

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Tyler is a film student obsessed with the infamous USA slasher film The Hills Run Red. No known print of 2009 the film exists, only a grainy trailer on the inter- Director: net, and the director Wilson Wyler Concannon Dave Parker Producer: disappeared shortly after the only public screen- Rob Burnett ing of his lost masterpiece. Having spent the Screenwriters: previous few years of his life searching for any David J. Schow John Carchietta bits of footage or persons connected to the film, John Dombrow he finally discovers the whereabouts of the direc- Cinematographer: Ilan Rosenberg tor’s daughter, Alexa, the only surviving person Editor: with any connection to the original production. Harold Parker Traumatized from being on-set, she is reluc- Music: Frederik Wiedmann tant to revisit her experiences. Eventually Tyler Cast: compels her to guide him and his documentary Sophie Monk Tad Hilgenbrinck film crew into the backwoods where the film William Sadler was shot. However, once there, they realize too Running Time: late that the film’s principal photography never 81 minutes Presentation Format: ended. While the concept of a horror film within a HDCAM horror film might sound played out, director Dave Print Source: Premiere/ Parker eschews the postmodern, self-reflexive Warner Dark Castle winks inherent in his set-up—knowing you’re in Film Website: a horror film won’t help you, it just makes every- thehillsrunred.com Selected Filmography: thing much more terrifying.

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I Sell the Dead

FRIDAY MAY 22 MIDNIGHT MONDAY MAY 25 9:30 PM

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After the execution of his partner Willie Grimes, USA grave robber Arthur Blake awaits his own shave 2009 with the guillotine come morning. But his final Director: night is interrupted by the arrival of Father Duffy, Glenn McQuaid Producers: a “gallows chronicler,” who presses Blake to Larry Fessenden recount his life and times in the resurrection Peter Phok trade. With the encouragement of the good Screenwriter: Glenn McQuaid Father’s whiskey bottle, Blake is only too happy Cinematographer: to comply. What follows is a series of deliriously Richard Lopez ribald vignettes that chart the 15-year course of Editor: Glenn McQuaid Blake & Grimes’ ghoulish partnership. Beginning Music: with his apprenticeship under the eccentric yet Jeff Grace insidious Grimes—imagine The Shining’s Jack Cast: Ron Perlman Nicholson crossed with Long John Silver—Blake Dominic Monaghan Larry Fessenden recounts how the pair’s illicit activities grew Angus Scrimm increasingly more daring: from stealing jewelry John Speredakos (and later the bodies themselves) from wakes, Running Time: 84 minutes to dangerous moonlit excavations to satisfy the Presentation Format: sardonic Dr. Quint’s appetite for anatomy speci- HDCAM Sales: mens. During one such dig, the partners discover International Submarine they have far more to fear from beasties that go Print Source: bump in the night than from the local constabu- Glass Eye Pix Film Website: lary or the rival Murphy gang. Drawing inspira- isellthedead.com tion from Val Lewton’s classic chiller The Body Selected Filmography: Snatcher, writer-director Glenn Quaid embel- Debut Feature Film lishes his wickedly macabre horror-comedy with the perfect blend of vintage Hammer films, 1960s-era Roger Corman and, most notably, Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead trilogy.

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Sexykiller

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US Premiere

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As a little girl, all Bárbara ever wanted was to Spain grow up to be like her favorite childhood toy, 2008 the fashion doll Cindy Superstar—beautiful and Director: successful, with a large fashionable wardrobe, Miguel Martí Producers: and most importantly a hunky boyfriend. Today, Jaume Roures she’ll kill anyone for the perfect Cindy Superstar Tedy Villalba life. As a student at a prestigious medical school, Screenwriter: Paco Cabezas Bárbara spends her days in class or, preferably, Cinematographer: shopping, and her nights slashing lecherous Carles Gusi professors and peeping toms to shreds with Editor: David Pinillos an effervescent bloodthirst. But her search for Music: the perfect boy is about as successful as the Fernando Velázquez authorities’ search for the Campus Killer. That Cast: Macarena Gómez is, until she meets Tomás, a fellow med student César Camino Alejo Sauras assigned to morgue duty. However, Tómas’ real Ángel de Andrés passion lies in developing a secret device to Fernando Ramallo decode brainwaves in hopes of curing migraines. Running Time: 85 minutes Instead, under the right conditions (just add Presentation Format: Ecstasy), his machine visualizes any cadaver’s 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles final image before death. And while his inven- International Sales: tion could bring the Campus Killer to justice, it Imagina International might just put a nasty damper on his steamy love Sales Print Source: life with Bárbara. Director Miguel Martí’s candy- Imagina International colored cinematic confection bleeds charm and Sales Film Website: camp wit in every scene as it follows a murder- sexykiller.es ous Cosmo cover girl’s quest for true love and Selected Filmography: Fin de curso (2005) homicidal contentment.

Yes, I Can See Dead People

North American Premiere

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Fans of the Asian Horror zeitgeist who’ve grown Hong Kong weary with the genre—weakened by too many 2008 unimaginative knock-offs and sequels—will find Director: their interest revitalized by Hong Kong’s fresh David Lee Producer: and funny Yes, I Can See Dead People. Nam is Albert Lee not your typical teenager. Sure, he spends a little Screenwriters: too much time on his computer, and tries a little Frankie Tam Chun-yu Kom too hard to meet the gorgeous stewardess who Philip Lui lives in his building. But recently three of Nam’s Cinematographer: Chiu-lam Ko friends have committed suicide, which isn’t all Editor: bad since, as the title implies, he sees ghosts. Azrael Chung However, these suicides only foreshadow Music: Lincoln Lo weirder things to come. Soon his brother Tung, Cast: along with Chee, his stewardess crush, begin to Steven Cheung Mandy Chiang act strangely, while his visions of ghostly children Kathy Yuen and other phantoms grow more frequent. With Kris Gu aid from his brother’s girlfriend Charlie, Nam sets Running Time: 92 minutes out to investigate his haunted building’s past Presentation Format: and help these malevolent spirits cross over. 35mm, in Cantonese and Mandarin, with English With a pinch of Wes Craven and a dash of Hideo subtitles Nakata, director David Lee shows an assured International Sales: hand at mixing extreme terror with moments of Emperor Motion Pictures Print Source: sweet, gentle humor in his feature film debut. Emperor Motion Pictures Selected Filmography: Oh, and careful with the eyeball.

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Anyone who’s waited in line at SIFF over the last 35 years knows that the Pacific Northwest is a haven for cinephiles. These days, the region is becoming just as well known for its filmmakers as it is for film lovers. This year, the fertile ground of our thriving film community offers a particularly vibrant crop of features, shorts, and documentaries that have been earning raves on the festival circuit. Seattle’s Lynn Shelton (We Go Way Back, My Effortless Brillance) continues her meteoric arc across the indie universe with her third feature, Humpday, a “bromance” about two dudes who test the limits of straight male bonding via gay porn. Awardwinning short film director and animator David Russo will screen his imaginative debut feature, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, about biochemical engineering gone strangely awry. The Northwest is also becoming an increasingly popular location for Hollywood vehicles.

Shot in Wallingford last summer, World’s Greatest Dad is a jet-black comedy from Bobcat Goldthwait, starring Robin Williams as a grieving father who profits from a personal tragedy. To keep up such local creative spirit, SIFF waives submission fees for films that are shot in Washington State and offers a number of programs in support of local filmmakers. Our annual Fly Filmmaking program (see page 255), for example, commissions the creation of ten-minute films from conception to premiere in less than 20 days. SIFF also supports the Seattle Filmmakers Initiative, which gives Northwest filmmakers discounted access to industry events, press screenings, and Festival Forums (see page 254). So, while you’re sampling the vast international offerings at SIFF, be sure to check out these gems from our own backyard.

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Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle

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Twenty years ago, director Kevin Tomlinson USA traveled to Tonasket, a small town in Eastern 2009 Washington, where he interviewed a “healing Director: gathering” of back-to-the-land movement Kevin Tomlinson Producers: “hippies” practicing peace and love. Forty years Kevin Tomlinson after Woodstock, he tracked down the same Judy Kaplan folks and their children to find out what became Cinematographer: Kevin Tomlinson of them and their search for environmental Editor: utopias. His documentary captures a time-lapse Tim Cash Time: view of their movement through their personal Running 70 minutes stories. “The world is coming to a start, not to Presentation Format: an end,” claimed Jeffery Stonehill in 1988. He DigiBeta Source: left his job as manager of the Beverly Hills Hotel Print Heaven Scent Films and moved to Lopez Island where he gardens, Film Website: lives in a school bus, and teaches languages. backtothegardenfilm.com Selected Filmography: OnePine grew up in a middle class family and Debut Feature Film now lives in the house that she built. Skeeter runs a permaculture organic farming business. “I’m still a hippie. I keep changing but my core values of love, being against war, making peace with the earth, are the same.” Not so long ago, these “hippie” communities were on the radical fringe. Today, with the green movement looking to protect the earth for future generations in the midst of global warming, the voices of these flower children are prophetic.

Dancing Across Borders

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Sokvannara “Sy” Sar was a dancer on the streets USA/Cambodia of Cambodia until he caught the eye of filmmaker 2009 Anne Bass. Overcome by Sy’s natural talent and Director: raw charisma onstage, Bass felt compelled to Anne H. Bass Producers: nurture his gift by helping him come to America to Catherine Tatge train in classical ballet. Dancing Across Borders Anne H. Bass follows Sy’s transformation as he faces the Cinematographers: Robert Elfstrom challenges of a Cambodian folk dancer adjust- Anthony Forma ing to the strict laws of Western ballet culture. Tom Hurwitz Editors: The film features footage of Sy’s performances, Mark Sutton including his performance with legendary musi- Girish Bhargava Time: cian Phillip Glass at the Vail International Dance Running 88 minutes Festival. Sy’s journey eventually leads him to our Presentation Format: own backyard, where he dances with Peter Boal HDCAM, in English and Khmer, with English and the Pacific Northwest Ballet. In her debut subtitles feature film, philanthropist and art enthusiast Print Source: 123 Productions, Inc. Bass sympathetically chronicles Sy’s ascent to Selected Filmography: become ballet’s newest, and least likely, rising Debut Feature Film star. Bass’s film grants audiences a glimpse into the harshly competitive world of classical ballet and how much a young man is willing to endure to make his dream of becoming a professional dancer a reality.

Preceded by Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential, USA, 2008, 11 minutes, director: Alexander Mendeluk We all know the world is warming up, but how we choose to change our lifestyles because of it is the key.

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The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

Finding Bliss

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A year out of film school, aspiring filmmaker USA Jody Balaban still can’t manage to find work 2009 in Hollywood beyond a parking lot attendant Director: position on a movie lot. Desperate for work, Julie Davis Producers: she notices an opening for an editor at Grind Jeff Rice Productions—a pornography studio. Swallowing Daniel Toll Rich Cowan her pride, she reluctantly agrees to take the Dave Ornston position in the hope that it might quickly lead to Screenwriter: something else. But while she’s editing films she Julie Davis Cinematographer: abhors, she realizes that the studio has all the Peter N. Green equipment she needs to surreptitiously film her Editor: own low-budget projects. Soon, however, her David Beatty Music: plans are discovered and she is forced to collab- John Swihart orate with the studio’s top director, Jeff Drake. Cast: Leelee Sobieski Initially, Jody and Jeff are like oil and water, but Matt Davis they soon warm to each other as they discover Denise Richards Kristen Johnston that they each have something in common: a Jamie Kennedy desire to make “real” movies outside the grind- Running Time: house. Can a budding romance be far behind? 98 minutes Presentation Format: Director Julie Davis, who used to edit films for HDCAM the Playboy Channel when she first started in the International Sales:

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Selected Filmography: All Over the Guy (2001) Amy’s Orgasm (2001) I Love You Don’t Touch Me! (1997)

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Local filmmaker David Russo’s debut feature USA is truly a one-of-a-kind film experience. 2009 Simultaneously cynical and life-affirming, Russo’s Director: comedy manages to incorporate biochemical David Russo Producer: engineering, corporate chicanery, drug addic- Peggy Case tion, and high-art pretension—all while maintain- Screenwriter: ing an amiable, insouciant charm. After Dory is David Russo Cinematographers: fired from his corporate job, he’s forced to take Neil Holcomb a “brown-collar” position cleaning office toilets Benjamin F. Kasulke David Russo with a pack of janitorial misfits. Accepting of Editor: his search for spiritual and human connection, Billy McMillin the group quickly becomes his adoptive family. Music: Awesome They make the most of their nights by helping Cast: themselves to whatever goodies are left behind Marshall Allman Vince Vieluf by the daytime office staff. But when they unwit- Natasha Lyonne tingly become the subject of a product-testing Tania Raymonde Tygh Runyan experiment by one of the companies in the buildRunning Time: ing, they begin to experience some very unusual 100 minutes hallucinations and other side effects. These Presentation Format: HDCAM visuals provide a great platform for Russo’s inno- Print Source: vative visual design and animation skills, as well Visit Films as those of Dutch animator Rosto. Little Dizzle is Film Website: littledizzlefilm.com a spiritual quest in sheep’s clothing; a complex Selected Filmography: film of ideas disguised as a shaggy-dog comedy. Debut Feature Film Beneath its constant visual invention, the film creates a quirky, playful world which questions the lines between trash and treasure, and asks what one should try to hold on to in our increasingly disposable society, and what one should let go.

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Independent America: Rising from Ruins

It Takes a Cult

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Chain stores often spell doom and gloom for the Canada/USA American mom-and-pop business. Independent 2008 America: Rising from Ruins explores the effects Director: of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and how Hanson Hosein Producer: the moms-and-pops provided hope where Tom Powers corporate America disappointed. Filmmakers Screenwriter: Hanson Hosein and Heather Hughes traveled Hanson Hosein Cinematographer: 13,000 miles through 32 states in their first film, Hanson Hosein Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Editor: Mom and Pop. In a country populated more and Hanson Hosein Music: more by “big box” and fast food, this time Hosein Lead Belly and Hughes chose to meet the small business Traglcally Hip Wolfma Washington owners behind an independent revival. When Featuring: Hosein heard that small business owners were Naomi Klein Dana Eness the first to start rebuilding in New Orleans, he Edward Blakely felt another Independent America story needed John Besh a voice. Hosein delicately presents the emotion- Running Time: 70 minutes al stories of residents in their ongoing struggle Presentation Format: to find America amidst the debris. Rising from HDCAM Source: Ruins avoids over-dramatization, instead choos- Print Open Door Co ing to educate audiences about the empowered Film Website: risingfromruins.com and hopeful in the New Orleans community.

Selected Filmography: Independent America: The Two Lane Search for Mom & Pop (2005)

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Dressed in robes, long dresses, and flowing hair, USA members of The Israel Family (aka, The Love 2008 Family, Church of Armageddon) were a common Director: sight in Seattle. They started in 1968 as a small Eric Johannsen Producer: communal, religious household on Queen Anne Eric Johannsen Hill. In ten years, they expanded to a network Cinematographer: of communal homes and businesses, and grew Eric Johannsen Editor: to a tribe of nearly 300, led by Paul Erdman, Kamila Kowalska who renamed himself Love Israel. There were Calabrese Time: no marriages or birthdays (because people are Running 79 minutes eternal and have no need for those constructs), Presentation Format: but there were drugs, sex, and folk music. New DigiBeta Filmography: members donated all their possessions and their Selected Debut Feature Film power of attorney. Director Johannsen, who was born in Wisconsin but grew up as part of the Love Family, opens his film at a reunion of young people brought up in the commune. They, along with the older members, talk openly about Love Israel and his special abilities, about chauvinism, multiple relationships, money, poverty, spiritual visions, social shunning, brainwashing, hierarchy, selfishness, drug problems, and bankruptcy.

Johannsen brings an insider’s view of what drew the clan together, about the love they shared, and how acceptance into a community is what they all craved, and in most cases, found.

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The Spy and the Sparrow

Pirate for the Sea

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Hero to conservationists and villain to hunters, USA marine environmentalist Paul Watson commits 2008 himself 100 percent to his cause. In this stirring Director: profile, director and narrator Ron Colby explores Ronald Colby Producer: Watson’s beliefs, blunders, and triumphs. Though Ronald Colby Watson helped to found Greenpeace Canada, Screenwriter: the organization asked him to leave due to his Ronald Colby Cinematographer: extremist tendencies, so he started the Sea Ronald Colby Shepherd Conservation Society. He travels from Editor: Norway to Costa Rica, standing trial, doing time, Brian Kowtowski Music: and costing various nations millions of dollars by Aldo Shllaku breaking up drift-netting, illegal poaching, and Featuring: Watson shark-finning operations (the latter campaign Paul Farley Mowat was also featured in Sharkwater, SIFF 2007). Robert Hunter Martin Sheen Actor, activist, and board member Martin Sheen Patrick Moore praises him as “truth speaking to power,” while Sharyn Van der Gulik Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore dubs Running Time: 102 minutes him “the self-styled Rambo of the environmen- Presentation Format: tal movement.” The media prefers “pirate,” a HDCAM Source: term Watson doesn’t dispute, even flying a Jolly Print Artists Confederacy Roger-style flag from his ship, but matters turn Film Website: more serious when he goes after Canadian seal artistsconfederacy.com/ pirateforthesea hunters and Japanese whalers. Say what you Selected Filmography: will about the man, but Colby makes a convinc- Jones Beach Boys (2007) ing case that the world’s endangered oceans are better off for the dedicated and controversial efforts of this Friday Harbor-based subject.

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Shot in Seattle and produced by local shingle Eke USA Pictures, director Garrett Bennett merges spy 2009 thriller with domestic drama to intriguing effect. Director: After an assignment in East Berlin goes awry, Garrett Bennett Producers: secret agent Thomas Sparrow splits the scene. Steve Edmiston Twenty-six years later, the retired agent returns Victor Kepler Lenville O’Donnell to the Pacific Northwest, burdened with guilt and Screenwriter: claiming he doesn’t remember what happened Steve Edmiston that day, but CIA operatives Clay and Kruch find Cinematographer: Julio Ribeyro that hard to believe, since a Russian mobster Editors: has him in his sights. Friend and ex-spook Bryan Gunnar Cole Robert “Bob” Byrne recommends that he recon- Liza McDonald Cast: nect with his now-divorced artist daughter, Elisabeth Röhm Josephine. So while the operatives keep tabs on Eric Roberts David Rasche Tommy, he keeps tabs on Josephine. With her Running Time: penchant for alcohol and strange men, she may 86 minutes not be the world’s best mother, but she loves Presentation Format: HDCAM her daughter and starts seeing a psychiatrist to Print Source: get her life back on track. He just happens to be Hat Factory Studios Filmography: Bob, who helps her out in ways her emotionally Selected A Relative Thing (2003) constricted father can’t. Eccentric—but effective Farewell to Harry (2002) —attorney Kidd also lends a hand in this sly and surprising film.

Awards: Boulder International Film Festival 2008 (Best Documentary)

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Sweet Crude

True Adolescents

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Seattle filmmaker Sandy Cioffi and her Seattle- USA based crew made headlines while shooting 2008 this documentary about the Nigerian oil indus- Director: try when they were taken into custody by the Sandy Cioffi Producers: Nigerian military. Ten percent of the U.S. oil Leslye Wood supply comes from Nigeria. Oil is big business Kate Wolf in the Niger Delta in particular, and hundreds of Screenwriters: Leslye Wood billions of dollars have been generated from that Jill Friedberg resource. Of course, big money leads to massive Cinematographer: Sean Porter corruption, and 80 percent of the revenues go Editor: to just 1 percent of the population. Even worse Jill Friedberg is the environmental devastation that’s happen- Music: Julie Wolf ing to the land. Areas that used to be fishing Running Time: grounds have been fouled by oil spills, oil has 90 minutes contaminated much of the water supply for the Presentation Format: HDCAM 20 million people who live in the Niger Delta Print Source: and a large number of residents suffer from oil Sweet Crude LLC poisoning. The list goes on. Peaceful protests Film Website: sweetcrudemovie.com have been shown to be ineffective in the face of Selected Filmography: such widespread corruption and militant groups Debut Feature FIlm are starting to form to take action against the powerful oil companies, if only to get attention from the rest of the world. Sweet Crude is an attempt to tell the world what’s really happening in the Niger Delta, because it will affect all of us eventually.

Washington native Craig Johnson’s insightful USA debut explodes with the sights and sounds of 2009 the Pacific Northwest, starting with a Seattle Director: archetype: the down-on-his-luck rocker (Mark Craig Johnson Producer: Duplass, The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Humpday). Thomas Woodrow After his girlfriend kicks him out, Sam goes Screenwriter: to stay in Woodinville with his aunt, Sharon Craig Johnson Cinematographer: (Academy Award-nominated Melissa Leo, Kat Westergaard Frozen River, SIFF 2008). To remain in her good Editor: graces, he takes his 14-year-old cousin (Bret Jennifer Lee Music: Loehr) and a friend (Carr Thompson) camping Peter Golub in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Cast: Duplass but they can’t agree on anything. Sam finds the Mark Melissa Leo suburban kids judgmental while they disdain Bret Loehr Carr Thompson his urban slacker lifestyle. After hours of insults, Running Time: misunderstandings, and hurt feelings, one of the 88 minutes three goes missing, and the remaining two try Presentation Format: HDCAM to put their preconceptions aside to track him Print Source: down, but confusing trails and spacey hippies Furnace Films (including filmmaker Linas Phillips) make the Film Website: trueadolescents.com task more difficult. Johnson incorporates recog- Selected Filmography: nizable locations like the Funhouse with music Debut Feature Film from the Sonics, the Blakes, and other local and indie outfits into an exploration of manliness, maturity, and their various discontents. For all the geographical specificity, he uncovers doubts and fears that reach far beyond the shores of Puget Sound.

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The Whole Truth

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Angela Masters is an acting coach with an unusual USA client list. Instead of catering to Hollywood 2009 celebrities, she gives what could be described Director: as personality transplants—“character transfor- Colleen Patrick Producers: mations,” if you will—to accused criminals. By Larry Estes making her clients appear slightly more sympa- Jennifer Roth Colleen Patrick thetic to juries, Angela has become a specialist Screenwriter: in securing acquittals for some decidedly shady Colleen Patrick characters. This lucrative enterprise is inter- Cinematographer: Paul Mailman rupted when Angela overhears that a client she Editor: helped set free is planning a heinous crime— Stephen R. Myers and that she is a target for murder. Portrayed by Music: Ragnar Rosinkranz Elisabeth Röhm, of “Law & Order” fame, Angela Cast: discovers that escaping death and finding out Elisabeth Röhm Sean Patrick Flanery who she really is becomes the most expen- Eric Roberts sive—and rewarding—experience of her life. The Rick Overton John Fugelsang plot points resemble those of a pure courtroom Running Time: thriller, but Seattle director Colleen Patrick, in her 104 minutes feature debut, has turned the genre on its ear Presentation Format: HDCAM to create a fast-paced and hilarious satire about Print Source: the current state of the legal system. Billing itself Heart Break Productionz as “a screwball comedy—with a twist,” the film Film Website: thewholetruththemovie. contains sharp dialog and strong comic perfor- com mances. Filmed at various locations around Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film Seattle and Tacoma, The Whole Truth packs in rapid-fire laughs, but also neatly skewers the sorry state of the American “justice” system.

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This wickedly funny dark comedy stars Robin USA Williams as a sad-sack poetry teacher who inad- 2009 vertently finds his greatest opportunity from a Director: freak accident. This latest offering from come- Bobcat Goldthwait Producers: dian-turned-director Bobcat Goldthwait couldn’t Howard Gertler diverge any further from audience expecta- Tim Perell Richard Kelly tions. A restrained Williams stars as Lance, a Sean McKittrick divorced high school poetry teacher and failed Screenwriter: novelist who dreams of one day being a famous Bobcat Goldthwait Cinematographer: writer. To make matters worse, he must suffer Horacio Marquinez the indignities of living with his thoroughly vile, Editor: porn-obsessed teenage son, Kyle. After a horri- Jason Stewart Cast: fying and embarrassing freak accident, Lance Robin Williams finds that his life takes a bizarre turn—for the Daryl Sabara Alexie Gilmore better. By making the best of what life’s given Tom Kenny him, he sets a series of events in motion that Geoffrey Pierson Running Time: could make all his dreams come true. Shot in 98 minutes Seattle (Wallingford residents will no doubt recall Presentation Format: the film crews shooting in the neighborhood for 35mm Print Source: a few weeks last summer), World’s Greatest Magnolia Pictures Dad is sure to provoke audiences by wringing Selected Filmography: Dogs Lie (2006) laughs from personal calamity. But Goldthwait’s Sleeping Shakes the Clown (1991) jet-black comedy rises above mere shock value with some sharp satirical insights about ambition, deception, and the dangers of wish fulfillment.

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ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction

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It’s September 2003, and for the residents of USA the small, idyllic island town of Port Gamble, 2009 Washington, the times they are a-changin’. The Director: fishing boats and tourists have all but gone. The Kevin Hamedani Producer: town’s mayoral race is heating up as Mayor John Sinno Burton faces a challenge from Cheryl Banks. Screenwriters: Reverend Haggis continues to preach his Ramon Isao Kevin Hamedani Sunday morning fire-and-brimstone sermons, Cinematographer: but only to a half-filled church. Former resident John Guleserian Tom returns home, with his new boyfriend Lance Editor: Andrew McAllister in tow, for a dinner at his mother’s place, where Music: he has plans to come out. Meanwhile Frida, a C. Andrew Rohrmann Princeton student of Middle Eastern descent, Cast: Doug Fahl has also returned home to help in her father’s Bill Johns James Mesher restaurant. And then, of course, there’s the Cornelia Moore small matter of a zombie virus outbreak. Now Ali Hamedani the residents of Port Gamble—well, those who Running Time: 88 minutes don’t desire human flesh—must set aside their Presentation Format: differences and start smashing the undead HDCAM Source: if they hope to make it through the night. Set Print Typecast Pictures during the most ultra-patriotic, ultra-paranoid Film Website: era in recent memory, ZMD: Zombies of Mass ZMDthemovie.com Selected Filmography: Destruction uses its setting’s isolated time and Debut Feature Film place to generate as much political and social satire as bloodshed.

Beket (Italy, 2008) Directed by Davide Manuli

California Company Town (USA, 2008) Directed by Lee Anne Schmitt

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a FILM IST. a girl & a gun m e Cin (Austria, 2009) Directed by Gustav Deutsch

It Came from Kuchar (USA, 2009) Directed by Jennifer Kroot

Light Year (Sweden, 2008) Directed by Mikael Kristersson

Our Beloved Month of August (Portugal, 2008) Directed by Miguel Gomes

Alternate histories that push at the boundaries of reality. Experiments performed in the laboratories of cinema. Film as life and life as film. This is Alternate Cinema—a look into the vastness of cinematic possibility.

These features and short films push the envelope of traditional film culture, exploring unconventional modes of visual, aural, and emotional landscapes. Yet when we examine these works, they seem to be more and more in tune with ourselves, our thoughts, and with the very medium itself. This year’s selections explore essays comprised of archival film clips, take us on a backyard safari, and mix fact with fiction. Documentaries include a look at underground film pioneers George and Mike Kuchar and give us a 16mm look at what’s left behind when planned communities pack up and leave. Then there’s the playful imagining of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.”

“Short In the Dark” is our combo platter of new and old, national and local, and always thought-provoking short films. When you look beyond what traditional cinema presents, you begin to experience what Alternate Cinema can truly offer. Open your mind and let the new ideas flow.

Short in the Dark Adulte (Mexico, 1998) 7 minutes, director: Carlos Reygadas

Bedtime Story (USA, 2009) 1 minute, director: Sarah Jane Lapp

The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack (USA, 2009) 15 minutes, director: Karn Junkinsmith

Dig (USA, 2007) 2 minutes, director: Robert Todd

Garden/ing (Japan, 2007) 6 minutes, director: Eriko Sonoda

Horizontal Boundaries (USA, 2008) 23 minutes, director: Pat O’Neill Puccini Conservato (Canada/Italy, 2008) 10 minutes, director: Michael Snow

Shu (Blue Hour Lullaby) (Germany/USA, 2007) 12 minutes, director: Philipp Lachenmann

Slow Boat to Thassos (USA, 2009) 7 minutes, director: Jon Behrens

Somewhere (USA, 2009) 4 minutes, director: Salise Hughes 3 5 T H S E AT T L E I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 9

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Beket

With poetic visions of worlds that cease to exist or worlds that spontaneously come about, all imbued with breathtaking beauty, we invite viewers to sharpen their gaze, often in silence. “Short in the Dark” explores anticipated new films from local (Jon Behrens, Salise Hughes, Karn Junkinsmith, Sarah Jane Lapp), national (Pat O’Neill, Robert Todd), and international artists (Michael Snow, Philipp Lachenmann, Eriko Sonoda). Plus, we’re honored to present the Seattle premiere of Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas’ first short film. Inside or outside the norms, these films represent the eternal struggle for new frontiers in the cinematic language. (85 minutes) WEDNESDAY MAY 27 7:00 PM THURSDAY MAY 28 7:00 PM

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Adulte Mexico, 1998, 7 minutes, director: Carlos Reygadas Shot in black-and-white 8mm film, this first short from Mexican enfant terrible Carlos Reygadas (Silent Light) is a Bergmanesque, surrealist story of a man, a coffin, and a cliff.

Bedtime Story USA, 2009, 2 minutes, director: Sarah Jane Lapp A wonderfully wistful hand-drawn animation involving bats and dreams.

The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack

World Premiere USA, 2009, 15 minutes, director: Karn Junkinsmith Two skateboarders, Jack and Cleo, are harassed and thwarted by a pack of card-playing, dancing freaks while on their mission to deliver a package.

Dig USA, 2007, 2 minutes, director: Robert Todd Over the staccato beats of a jackhammer, the filmmaker locks his camera’s gaze on the street in front of his home as it was dug out, paved over, then ripped apart again, revealing a restless array of mysterious geometries.

Garden/ing Japan, 2007, 6 minutes, director: Eriko Sonoda An examination of the cinematographic space from within and without. A continuously repeating camera movement, like a mantra, leading to new observations and insights.

Horizontal Boundaries USA, 2008, 23 minutes, director: Pat O’Neill First screened in 2003, this shape-shifting portrait of L.A. examines the “divisions between individual frames arranged one above the other on motionpicture film.” With a fresh soundtrack by Carl Stone and a new 35mm print.

Puccini Conservato Canada/Italy, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Michael Snow A sound recording of Puccini’s “La Boheme” is paired with a continuous handheld pan, guided by the music, and intercut with shots of flowers and wood fires, exemplifying the lyricism in Puccini’s music.

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In the abandoned mines of Sardinia we discover Italy Freak and Jajà, a quixotic pair who inhabit a 2008 no-man’s-land outside of time, when mankind no Director: longer inhabits the planet. When the two arrive at Davide Manuli Producers: a bus stop for a bus that never stops, they start Bruno Tribbioli on a journey where they meet a host of bizarre Davide Manuli Alessandro Bonifazi characters, including a mariachi storyteller, two Screenwriter: actors reciting the story of Adam and Eve in the Davide Manuli middle of a salty lake, a child who appears to be Cinematographer: Tarek Ben Abdallah the “magic” voice of Godot, an oracle who lives Editor: on the extractor well of an abandoned mine, Rosella Mocci and finally a solitary girl who lives on a beach, Music: Miss Kittin & The Hacker who may or may not be the only person who “Freak” Antoni can help the travelers find their destination. Shot Alessandra Mostacci Stefano Ianne in evocative black and white and loosely based Massimiliano Cigala on Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece “Waiting for Marco Saveriano Cast: Godot,” Beket is a surreal journey where apoca- Luciano Currell lyptic images, absurd, repetitive dialogues, and Jerome Duranteau Fabrizio Gifuni techno beats narrate an unpredictably inven- Paolo Rossi tive story of the search for the meaning of Simona Caramelli Running Time: existence.

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Shu (Blue Hour Lullaby) Germany/USA, 2007, 12 minutes, director: Philipp Lachenmann An isolated high-security prison in the Mojave Desert, the Secondary Housing Unit, or SHU, is shown at dusk as searchlights are gradually lit.

Slow Boat to Thassos USA, 2009, 7 minutes, director: Jon Behrens North American Premiere A powerful, pulsating “direct animation” in which slide film is processed with ink, instant lettering, and symbols. With music provided by Cabaret Voltaire.

Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Italian, with English subtitles Print Source: Blue Film Film Website: beket-film.com Selected Filmography: Girotondo giro intorno al mondo (1998)

Somewhere USA, 2009, 4 minutes, director: Salise Hughes

World Premiere Somewhere between a 1950s sock hop and the Wild West, two Technicolor lovers meet to belt out a tune from “West Side Story.”

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California Company Town

FILM IST. a girl & a gun

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Director Lee Anne Schmitt, who studied under USA pioneering structuralist James Benning, offers 2008 an unblinking examination of the life cycle of Director: California’s company towns. Over the past Lee Anne Schmitt Producer: 125 years, dozens of corporations such as Lee Anne Schmitt Occidental Petroleum, Sierra Pacific, and Screenwriter: Borax Energy have bought huge parcels of Lee Anne Schmitt Cinematographer: land to establish their private operations, which Lee Anne Schmitt included stores, schools, and homes for their Editor: workers. In doing so, the companies supersed- Lee Anne Schmitt Running Time: ed their role of employer to become the town’s 77 minutes landlord, merchant, and educator as a way to Presentation Format: control and placate their employees. When the 16mm Print Source: profits stopped rolling in, the companies sold Lee Anne Schmitt out or abandoned the properties, leaving detri- Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film tus: industrial warehouses, dilapidated homes and businesses, clear-cut sterile land, and the occasional tourist trap. The bleached tone of the footage, meditative shots of wrecked landscapes, and the deadpan narration add to the film’s solemnity. As America tiptoes gingerly but optimistically into a new era, the lessons of California Company Town can only gain in relevance as the wheels of progress grind onward and, hopefully, upward.

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Taking as a starting point a D.W. Griffith maxim Austria (famously revived by Godard), “all you need to 2009 make a film is a girl and a gun,” Gustav Deutsch’s Director: FILM IST. a girl & a gun puts the axiom through Gustav Deutsch Producer: the wringer with an ecstatic found-footage Manfred Neuwirth odyssey divided into five acts: Genesis, Screenwriter: Paradeisos, Eros, Thanatos, and Symposion. Gustav Deutsch Editor: Sifted from 11 archives across the world, FILM Gustav Deutsch IST deals with one of the oldest themes of Music: Fennesz cinematography and humankind: the confron- Christian Martin Siewart tation of the sexes. Reaching back to the birth Burkhard Stangl of the universe, the film explores the collabora- Running Time: 93 minutes tion of—and confrontation between—gods and Presentation Format: goddesses of creation, as well as the innocent 35mm coexistence of men and women in Paradise. International Sales: Sixpack Films Contrasting the desire, seduction, love, jealousy, Print Source: and hate of the sexes in the light of Eros with Sixpack Films Americas & Filmbank New World their violent subjugation and exploitation in war Selected Filmography: and pornography in the mirror of Thanatos, the FILM IST. 7-12 (2002) IST. 1-6 (1998) film moves on to the solutions offered by knowl- FILM Pocketcinema (1995) edge, religion, and politics in Plato’s Symposium. Wossea Mtotom (1984) Filmic images from the first four-and-a-half Asuma (1982) decades of cinematography have been sifted through painstaking research and assembled into sequences and visual histories that form a feature-length opus.

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It Came From Kuchar

Light Year

North American Premiere

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Filmmakers and twin brothers Mike and George USA Kuchar began making low-budget, experimen- 2009 tal, and hilariously melodramatic films in the Director: 1960s. With an extensive body of work to their Jennifer Kroot Producers: credit, the brothers are recognized as legends Jennifer M. Kroot in today’s film industry. It all started with an Holly Million 8mm camera and their friends and family, as the Cinematographer: Christopher Million twins took to no-budget filmmaking as kids in Editor: their 1950s Bronx neighborhood. In the 1960s, Tom Bullock they joined Warhol’s New York underground Music: Ralph Spight film scene, cementing their skills with those “in Featuring: the know.” Their bold, uninhibited films inspired George Kuchar Mike Kuchar some of today’s well-known filmmakers includ- John Waters ing John Waters, Buck Henry, Guy Maddin, Buck Henry B. Ruby Rich Todd Haynes, and Wayne Wang (all of whom are Atom Egoyan interviewed in the film). Director Jennifer Kroot Cory McAbee Wayne Wang entwines humor and sentiment as she explores Guy Maddin the brothers’ lives, their fans and their influence Running Time: 86 minutes on the American underground film scene and on Presentation Format: contemporary filmmakers.

DigiBeta Print Source: Tigerlily Pictures Film Website: kucharfilm.com Selected Filmography: Sirens of the 23rd Century (2003)

There’s no better tribute to both the beauty and Sweden banality of life than Mikael Kristersson’s visually 2008 stunning new documentary. Set in and around Director: his garden in the village of Falsterbo, in the south Mikael Kristersson Producer: of Sweden, Light Year captures people and Lisbet Gabrielsson creatures in their everyday situations over the Cinematographer: course of four seasons. Human activity is but a Mikael Kristersson Editor: small part of this community of wasps, spiders, Mikael Kristersson and butterflies. Towards the street on the west Running Time: are dense lilac bushes; on the northern side a 101 minutes Presentation Format: half-timbered house. A raspberry thicket serves 35mm, in Swedish, with as a border to the southern neighbor and a lush English subtitles Sales: honeysuckle grows on the fence to the parkland International Post Scriptum & Media in the east. There are outhouses, a chicken run, Print Source: a bricked-in corner for compost and an herb Swedish Film Institute Film Website: garden. The giant hawthorn lives side by side with sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film the gnarled old apple tree. There are throngs of Selected Filmography: birds at all times of the year—the residents, the Kestrels Eye (1997) Pica Pica (1987) casuals, and the migrants. Kristersson’s knack for stunning images and natural sound makes this dazzling documentary meditation an experience that is at once familiar and extraordinary.

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Our Beloved Month of August

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Despite a complete lack of financing and cast, Portugal/France driven young director Miguel Gomes is hell-bent 2008 on making a film and dives headlong into a cine- Director: matic kaleidoscope. With a camera and a small Miguel Gomes Producers: crew, Gomes travels to a remote Portuguese Sandro Aguilar mountainside, where the Pardieiros music festi- Luís Urbano val is under way, and begins filming the towns- Screenwriters: Miguel Gomes folk. While the festival sets one’s eyes ablaze Mariana Ricardo and toes tapping, Gomes finds a narrative slowly Telmo Churro Cinematographer: and sneakily emerging. Locations, songs, and Rui Poças characters from the documentary are recast as Editors: Churro echoes of their former selves. Townspeople are Telmo Miguel Gomes reincarnated as members of a family band and Music: incestuous subplots unfold. These colliding reali- Mariana Ricardo Cast: ties beg the question: Is the beginning of the film Sónia Bandeira merely research for following fiction? Is truth a Fábio Oliveira Joaquim Carvalho rehearsal for fiction here, or is it the other way Manuel Soares around? This one-of-a-kind diptych probes the Running Time: intersection of documentary and fiction filmmak- 150 minutes Presentation Format: ing, suggesting that story and reality are echoes 35mm, in Portuguese of one another. Ravishingly photographed and and French, with English subtitles brilliantly assembled, Our Beloved Month of Print Source: August is a travelogue to get lost in, an indig- o som e a furia enous film created by tourists. It’s also a window Selected Filmography: The Face You Deserve into a fascinating filmmaking process that contin- (2004) ues to unravel long after the credits roll.

Awards: Official Academy Award® Submission 2008 (Best Foreign Language Film) Vienna International Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Prize) Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema 2009 (Best Film) Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival 2009 (Special Jury Prize)

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The Space Needle salutes the Seattle International Film Festival.

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Each year, thousands of films vie for a spot in the Seattle International Film Festival. We select our favorite few hundred and share them with you, but after the lights go up and the celluloid has run its course, we want to know what your favorites are. Was it the film that made you fall on the floor laughing, the one that left you confounded, or the film that helped you see something from an entirely new perspective?

Best Film Cherry Blossoms–Hanami director Doris Dörrie

Best Documentary

Exercise your right to vote in the race for the prestigious audiencechoice Golden Space Needle awards in the categories of Best Film, Documentary Feature, Director, Actor, Actress, and Short Film. Although we can’t take all the credit, past winners have gone on to add Academy Awards® and Golden Globe Awards to their shelves. You may be the first to see the film, so let the world know what films and filmmakers they should have on their radar.

The Wrecking Crew director Denny Tedesco

Best Director Amin Matalqa Captain Abu Raed

Voting is easy. For Best Film or Documentary Feature, simply take a ballot from an usher as you enter the theater. Once the film’s presentation is over, tear your ballot at the appropriate grade listed (from 1 to 5), and give your completed ballot to an usher as you leave. Ballots for each film are tallied throughout the Festival. To vote for Best Director, Actor, Actress, and Short Film, use one of the blank ballots available next to the ballot boxes at each Festival venue. Simply write in your choice for the winner in each of these categories and place your completed ballots in the box.

The winners of the Golden Space Needle awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Short Film, and the Lena Sharp Award will receive FrameForge 3D Studio software. Winners will be announced on June 14th. The Best Short Film winner will also receive a brand-new Mac computer fully loaded with the latest in filmmaking software from IrisInk and The Mac Store and $1,000 of motion picture film from Kodak.

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Best Actress Jessica Chastain Jolene

Best Short Film Felix director Andreas Utta

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This past fall, SIFF achieved a goal five years in the making when it became a qualifying festival in the category of short films by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, providing all the other requirements are met. With our new qualifying festival status and the return engagement of ShortsFest Weekend, SIFF’s commitment to films in the short form is stronger than ever. Filmmakers throughout the world—including Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, Jason Reitman, and Martin Scorsese, to name a few—celebrate short films, often their favored form during their apprenticeships. Short films teach filmmakers the lessons of concision, story economy, and how to assemble their footage into a taut, compelling montage of images that, when completed, run 30 minutes or less. It’s more difficult than it looks on paper, but those who accomplish it learn the most important lesson short films can teach— true, unadulterated cinematic passion.

Every short film at the Seattle International Film Festival is eligible for both the Golden Space Needle Audience Award and Jury Awards. The Golden Space Needle prize winner will be determined by audience balloting and will receive the latest Mac loaded with filmmaking software from IrisInk and The Mac Store and $1,000 of motion picture film from Kodak.

Our Shorts Competition jurors will choose winners in the Narrative, Animation, and Documentary categories. Each jury winner will receive $1,000—and perhaps even a shot at an Academy Award®.

Brangien Davis

Brangien Davis has been the Arts & Culture Editor at Seattle magazine since 2007. Previously, she was a freelance arts writer, contributing articles about movies, dance, visual art, design, and pop culture to The Seattle Times, Seattle magazine, Northwest Home & Garden, ReadyMade magazine, and elsewhere. In 2005 she founded a literary magazine, Swivel, in which she showcased humorous writing by women. At Richard Hugo House, she taught classes in humor writing; at Seattle Central Community College, she taught classes in new media and film writing.

She has been a freelance editor for Sasquatch Books and Mountaineers Books, and a senior editor at Amazon.com, where she reviewed films and books. She has served on advisory boards for Bumbershoot and 33 Fainting Spells, and as emcee for many public arts events. The first films she remembers seeing were the Super 8s her dad made as a film student at Columbia University.

John Jeffcoat

John Jeffcoat is the founder of the Seattle-based Strangelife Productions. Since graduating from Denison University in 1994, John Jeffcoat has worked in the film industry as a writer, director, producer, cinematographer, and editor. After years of working on commercials and industrial productions, Jeffcoat co-wrote Outsourced with George Wing, loosely based on Jeffcoat’s travels in Nepal and India.

Jeffcoat went on to direct Outsourced, which won numerous awards, including SIFF’s 2007 Golden Space Needle Award for Best Film and the John Schlesinger Award for Outstanding First Feature at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Alessandro Marcionni

Born in Lugano, Switzerland, Alessandro Marcionni first decided to study law but radically changed his collegiate direction and decided to study cinema instead. Meanwhile, he began to work with the Locarno International Film Festival. After several years as coordinator of the festival, he has become head of the “Leopards of Tomorrow” program section, which Locarno dedicates to short and medium-length films. In 2004, he and a group of Swiss filmmakers founded the Swiss-Italian cell of Kino, a movement started in Canada in 1999 that has produced more than 300 short films on a no-budget basis over the last five years.

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ShortsFest Opening Night

Disclosures

FRIDAY MAY 29 7:00 PM

FRIDAY MAY 29 9:30 PM

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SIFF’s annual celebration of the short subject kicks off with a dynamically varied program examining the breezy joy and tremendous complexity of the best short films. (87 minutes)

Mischief, discoveries, and divulgences mark this collection of short films. (88 minutes)

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USA, 2009, 3 minutes, director: Michael Langan A moving portrait of the bustle and permanence of a city, Dahlia mixes the stable forms and patterns of life with the frenetic behavior of humanity, set to a driving score of vocal percussion.

USA, 2008, 28 minutes, director: Chandler Tuttle, World Premiere In this adaptation of a Kurt Vonnegut story, Harrison Bergeron invades a TV station and throws off his handicaps in challenge to the Handicapper General and the 212th Amendment.

The Bake Shop Ghost USA, 2009, 17 minutes, director: Lorette Bayle, World Premiere A deceased baker haunts the inhabitants of her bakery until they can prove their worth.

The Herd Ireland, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Ken Wardrop In Ken Wardrop’s newest short film, he chronicles the new addition to the cow herd on his family’s farm.

Love United Kingdom, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Cristian Solimeno, North American Premiere Before a moment of extreme compassion and heartbreak, bittersweet memories of Ernest and Angela’s past chart the very depths of their love.

Next Floor Canada, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Denis Villeuneuve A dinner party poses challenges to the service when it keeps moving to the next floor.

Photograph of Jesus United Kingdom, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Laurie Hill An archivist recounts some of the strange and often downright bizarre inquiries made for photographic images from his agency.

Post-It Love United Kingdom, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Simon Atkinson Love and romance as played out with the eponymous office supply.

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Dahlia

It’s in the P-I USA, 2009, 7 minutes, director: Bradley Hutchinson A heartfelt elegy to the last days of The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

James Northern Ireland/United Kingdom, 2008, 17 minutes, diretor: Connor Clements With his parents’ marriage breaking apart, James reveals his most personal secret to his teacher and only friend.

Kudan Japan, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Taskashi Fukumoto, US Premiere A mysterious bucket transports a father and son into an alternate sci-fi reality.

Love You More United Kingdom, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Sam Taylor-Wood Two teens discover love to the soundtrack of the Buzzcocks.

The Spam Job USA, 2008, 13 minutes, director: Padraic Culham, World Premiere Four friends. Three suspects. One can of meat. The unbelievably true story of a prank that started at Montana State University, traveled the world, and ended almost a decade later.

Sparks USA, 2008, 24 minutes, director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt In Golden Space Needle Award winner Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s directorial debut, a former rock and roll queen clashes wits with an arson investigator, based on an Elmore Leonard story.

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The Family Picture Show

The World of Possibilities

SATURDAY MAY 30 11:00 AM

SATURDAY MAY 30 1:30 PM

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The exuberance of youth is given full display with this energetic set of shorts highlighting Shakespearean construction vehicles, knit animation, and Wallace and Gromit in their new short adventure. (79 minutes)

The challenges of life around the globe are illuminated with fascinating portraits of people and places in pursuit of personal goals. (85 minutes)

Babau

Philippines, 2008, 20 minutes, director: Rommel Tolentino, North American Premiere A pair of boys struggle to earn 20 pesos.

Italy, 2008, 4 minutes, directors: Valerio Terranova, Giulio Poretti, Silvia Zappala, and Omar Bianco A pastoral scene on an alien world blossoms with the creation of a new life.

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Atlantic

Crane and Digger

Ireland, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Conor Ferguson New hope arrives upon the Atlantic breeze for a remote farmer.

Germany, 2008, 5 minutes, director: Leonore Poth Romeo and Juliet … between construction vehicles.

Horn Dog

Dear Fatty USA, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Hsin-I Tseng A tender letter from a girl to her traveling hamster.

Elephants

USA, 2009, 5 minutes, director: Bill Plympton In Bill Plympton’s newest canine-themed animation, a lonely pooch falls victim to a bad case of puppy love.

Love on the Tundra

United Kingdom, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Sally Pearce Mom and Dad won’t believe there are elephants in the house.

USA, 2008, 11 minutes, director: Dana Turken William travels north by hot air balloon to find his missing ex-lover Alexia. Together they must come to terms with the memory of their friend and lover Anna.

The Herd

Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is

Ireland, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Ken Wardrop In Ken Wardrop’s newest short film, he chronicles the new addition to the cow herd on his family’s farm.

Switzerland, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Peter Volkart, US Premiere Monsieur Selavy’s unique film diary charts his journey through the tangled threads of time and space in the newest short film from Peter Volkart (Terra Incognita, SIFF 2006).

Ideation

One Night

USA, 2008, 2 minutes, director: Jeremiah Dickey A simple idea takes flight.

USA, 2008, 13 minutes, director: Laura Jean Cronin, World Premiere A misguided girl’s questionable attempt to connect with someone leads to a surprising turnabout.

Madam President USA, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Pete List A young girl dreams of her future.

Maggie and Mildred USA, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Holly Klein When Mom is away, two girls explore all the different ways they play together.

Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death United Kingdom, 2008, 29 minutes, director: Nick Park Wallace & Gromit return—this time as purveyors of the Top Bun Bakery, despite the fact that 12 other local bakers have disappeared in the previous year. Now it’s up to Gromit to solve the mystery while Wallace woos new love interest Piella Bakewell.

Ten for Grandpa Canada, 2008, 8 minutes, director: Doug Kerr Director Doug Karr directs ten questions to his late grandpa, David Karr—husband, father, White House press reporter, and Soviet agent?

Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall USA, 2009, 14 minutes, directors: Sam Green and Carrie Lozano A fascinating and disquieting tour of the world’s largest shopping mall in China, built for Vegas-like spectacles.

Western Spaghetti USA, 2008, 2 minutes, director: PES Only the finest vintage materials for this Italian feast.

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Response Abilities

SATURDAY MAY 30 4:00 PM

The Cock Collage

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This package examines the myriad responsibilities that we face, and how we do and do not accept them. (87 minutes)

Alice’s Attic USA, 2008, 4 minutes, director: Robyn Yannoukos Alice faces her fear of the darkness upstairs.

The Archivist United Kingdom, 2008, 8 minutes, director: James Lees One man’s attempt to preserve love forever.

Baghdad Express United Kingdom, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Nimer Rashed Maya dreams about going to fashion school while working at her father’s Arabic restaurant in London. But when forced to decide, which will come first, her father or her dream?

BOTNIK! USA, 2008, 11 minutes, director: Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan A frustrated artist has only hours until his gallery opening where he hopes to impress a sexy beatnik chick. His solution? Go robotic.

Endless Tunnel USA, 2008, 5 minutes, director: Tommy Thompson An exploration of a stress-saturated world, created with the use of more than 1,300 handcut stencils and an assortment of in-camera effects.

Let’s Dance Sweden, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Erick Love Lundqvist, World Premiere For Håkan, the best gift he can share with someone is a Waltz. That is until he meets Isabel and her brother Emil—Is there something greater he might give?

Push Button House USA, 2008, 13 minutes, directors: Ryan Silbert and Robert Profusek An architectural pioneer attempts to create a containerized home that strikes a delicate balance between art and architecture.

Short Term 12

SATURDAY MAY 30 7:00 PM

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From coming out to your Grandma to a one-night stand between two straight men, with an aging dancer’s wallpapering of handmade cock collages for good measure, these films are for the boys. (85 minutes)

575 Castro Street USA, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Jenni Olson Harvey Milk’s “Read this in the event of my death” recording played against footage of the Milk set. A dual meditation on the power of history.

Atlantico Brazil, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Fabio Meira From an artist’s studio to a distant island, two stranded lovers remember their lives in-between.

The Back Room USA, 2008, 16 minutes, director: Greg Ivan Smith Errol’s humdrum life changes when a stranger bursts into his bookstore in search of an intriguing request.

Second Guessing Grandma USA, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Bob Giraldi Your boyfriend and mother are pushing you to come out to your Grandma, but her reaction may actually surprise you.

Thirteen or so Minutes USA, 2008, 14 minutes, director: Brandon Blinn For Hugh and Lawrence, it’s 13 or so minutes later, and now everything has changed.

Twoyoungmen, UT. USA, 2008, 17 minutes, director: Sam McConnell When Will meets Eli in a Salt Lake City gay bar, they take the long road home together.

Yuri Netherlands, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Willem Baptist, North American Premiere A 60-something German dancer with a secret desire to sire a child chooses a unique wallpapering style.

USA, 2008, 22 minutes, director: Destin Daniel Cretton A caregiver begins to wonder if he’s no better off than the kids he’s trying to help.

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Sensory Overload

The Nightmare Factory

SATURDAY MAY 30 9:30 PM

SIFF CINEMA

Unsettling dreams prepackaged for your dire convenience. (84 minutes)

The Blindness of the Woods Argentina, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Martin Jalfen Erotic tale of a blind woman, a lumberjack, and a bear whose yarns entangle in the cold Swedish night.

Excision

SUNDAY MAY 31 11:00 AM

SIFF CINEMA

In the dark, on the screen, through the ear, and in a name, these shorts explore the five senses and more. (85 minutes)

All My Dreams on VHS United Kingdom, 2008, 14 minutes, director: Timothy X Atack, North American Premiere If you hoard your dreams, someone is going to want to watch them.

USA, 2008, 19 minutes, director: Richard Bates Obsessed by all things surgical, Pauline orchestrates a twisted plan to win her parents’ approval.

Dark Material

Horsefingers 3: Starfucker

Everyday People

USA, 2008, 13 minutes, director: Kirsten Kearse Appearances can be deceiving in this disquieting account of animal attraction.

United Kingdom, 2008, 5 minutes, director: Enda Hughes Ever wonder what it’s really like to be Julia Roberts, Tom Jones, or George Lucas?

Incubus Drone

Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis

USA, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Ryan Wetherall After receiving a mysterious message, a man must use a bizarre device to confront the forces of his long suppressed guilt.

USA, 2008, 5 minutes, director: Carson Mell Captain Fred T. Rogard’s muses in the isolated planet Oasis.

Kanizsa Hill USA, 2008, 8 minutes, director: Evelyn Lee A dismembered head and its body travel divergent paths in search of reunification.

France, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Fabrice O. Joubert In a fancy Parisian Café, an uptight businessman discovers he forgot to bring his wallet and bides his time by ordering more coffee.

Mite

Her Meds

Germany, 2008, 6 minutes, director: Karl Tebbe Gigantic dust mites threaten Oma Grete’s home and the world, in that order.

USA, 2008, 17 minutes, director: Matt Cibelli, World Premiere The best friend and the fiance of a recently deceased woman fight over her memory and her medications.

Treevenge Canada, 2008, 16 minutes, director: Jason Eisener It’s Christmas time and Peace on Earth reigns, until the world’s Christmas trees revolt.

USA, 2009, 7 minutes, directors: Maile Martinez and Lane Stroud An exploration of shadows and light in art.

French Roast

Lost Paradise France, 2008, 10 minutes, directors: Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, North American Premiere In this modern parable of Adam and Eve, a couple spends a passionate night in a cheap hotel, only to find afterwards that clothes make all the difference.

Through the Ear Brazil, 2008, 18 minutes, director: Joaquim Haickel After Keyt’s husband is badly hurt, she struggles to maintain the passion that they shared.

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EMP|SFM, SIFF and Cinerama Theatre present

SCIENCE FICTION + FANTASY S H O R T F I L M F E S T I VA L

2010 Call for Entries 6.30.2009 early submission deadline 8.15.2009 final submission deadline Visit empsfm.org for information.

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Experience Music Project Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame

SHORT FILMS

The Inexperienced Generation

Serenity Prayers

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Nine films about change: the serenity to accept the things you can’t… (86 minutes)

No matter your age, sometimes you just don’t know what to do. (105 minutes)

3 Minute Masterpieces

The Babysitter

The winning 1 and 3 minute films from The Seattle Times 3 Minute Masterpieces contest.

Boutonniere USA, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Coley Sohn Worst. Mom. Ever.

Control Master United Kingdom, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Run Wrake Danger comes to Halftone City in the guise of Doctor Moire and his powerful control device.

Now Dorothy Gayne and her brave ally must stop him from terrorizing the urban populace.

The Day My Parents Became Cool USA, 2008, 17 minutes, director: Steve Edmiston Every teenager’s worst nightmare comes to pass when a strange astronomical phenomenon turns all the parents into wannabe hipsters.

Immersion USA, 2008, 14 minutes, director: Richard Levien Ten-year-old Mexican émigré Moises is plunged into an English-only classroom, even though he doesn’t understand the language.

November USA, 2008, 14 minutes, directors: Benjamin Dobyns and Eric Esau In a walled city that knows only the month of November, a girl and her grandfather venture into winter.

Pockets United Kingdom, 2008, 3 minutes, director: James Lees The director of The Apology Line asks, “What do the contents of your pockets say about you?”

Welgunzer USA, 2008, 14 minutes, director: Bradford Schmidt Donald is building a time machine to travel into the future... and murder himself.

What’s Virgin Mean?

United Kingdom, 2008, 3 minutes, director: Michael Davies How to explain to your young daughter the answer to the eponymous question.

USA, 2008, 6 minutes, director: Kristen Gray-Rockmaker, World Premiere An unhappily married couple arrives home only to stumble upon a terrifying scene.

Lowland Fell Ireland, 2008, 21 minutes, director: Michael Kinirons While trying to escape the boredom of the Irish countryside, Lowland Fell comes across two brothers cutting peat. However, a surprise excavation of a bog body leads to a night of further discoveries.

Northern Highway Mexico, 2008, 10 minutes, director: Rubén Rojo Aura A member of a poverty-stricken Mexican family makes a decision that will change their lives forever.

Páidí’s Tale Ireland, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Colm Bairéad Spurred on by his grandfather and a mysterious hooded figure, Páidí sets out to protect his family from his soon-to-be stepfather—the most evil creature in Irish mythology.

Ralph United Kingdom, 2008, 14 minutes, director: Alex Winckler Sixteen-year-old Ralph travels to Marseille on a quixotic quest to declare his love for best friend Clare.

Sigh!

Canada, 2008, 5 minutes, directors: Ben Steiger-Levine and Joe Cobden, US Premiere Love in the grocery store aisle lasts only as long as a step and a sigh.

Sweet Virginia USA, 2009, 10 minutes, director: Zach Carver, World Premiere At a small boutique in Brooklyn, the men line up to profess their love to sweet Virginia.

Thicker than Water USA, 2008, 11 minutes, directors: Sami Kubo and Camille Kolodziejski After a night of partying, Abby wakes up to face her new, life changing, reality.

Turn to Black Spain, 2008, 13 minutes, director: Gerardo Herrero, North American Premiere When two childhood friends meet in a luxurious house in Madrid, a strange and surprising offer is made.

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Aussie vs. Kiwi

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Survival Kit

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The two short filmmaking powerhouses of the Southern stars go head to head, proving you don’t need population, just creativity. (82 minutes)

From being bullied to breaking down to braving strange lands, these shorts show our will to survive against all odds. (86 minutes)

Careful with that Powertool

Ahmad’s Garden

New Zealand, 2008, 2 minutes, director: Jason Stutter, World Premiere Ingredients: a boy, a ladder, a buzz saw, and a nail gun.

Australia, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Aaron Wilson, US Premiere Sent to a detention camp for Middle Eastern refugees, Afghani Ahmad uses his green thumb to plant new roots.

fOUR Australia, 2008, 18 minutes, director: Erin White Two couples with troubled marriages come up with a plan to put the spark back in their relationships, but find that love doesn’t always work out the way it should.

Asämara

The Funk

Blessed Virgin

Australia, 2008, 6 minutes, director: Cris Jones Ever have that feeling you can’t seem to shake?

Mexico, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Carlos Muñoz, North American Premiere Don Julian makes a sucessful living carving religious figures, but when another facet of his art is revealed, his life dramatically changes.

The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia New Zealand, 2008, 15 minutes, director: Christopher Dudman A school janitor answers an enigmatic graffiti message on the girls’ lavatory wall, making a vital connection with the mysterious author.

The Ground Beneath

Spain, 2008, 9 minutes, directors: Jon Garaño, Raúl López “Sent to work” — A poetic ode to the reality children face in Africa.

Butterfly Ireland, 2008, 13 minutes, director: Cecilia McAlister A community bake sale proves to be the unlikely site for Helena’s reconciliation with her delicate mother.

Australia, 2008, 20 minutes, director: Rene Hernandez Kaden’s troubled world gives way to self-discovery through a young girl and a boy who loiters on his street.

CC 2010

Lessons from the Night

Make My Day

Australia, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Adrian Francis Maia reflects on life, work and cleaning silent, empty buildings as we follow her nightly cleaning round.

Denmark, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Pelle Møller While awaiting treatment at a hospital after receiving an injury from a school bully, Peter waits with his Clint Eastwood-obsessed father only to discover his doctor and father share a similar past.

This is Her New Zealand, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Katie Wolfe As she gives birth to her daughter, Evie reveals her family’s future and the six-year-old bitch who ruined it all.

USA, 2009, 12 minutes, director: Travis Senger, World Premiere A young woman travels time and space to reunite with her parents at Seattle’s World’s Fair.

Orgesticulanismus Belgium, 2008, 9 minutes, director: Mathieu Labaye Celebrate the ability to move.

Sophia + Anna USA, 2009, 5 minutes, directors: Joy Andrews and Matt Daniels, World Premiere Two friends discover something unexpected in the sun-drenched woods.

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575 Castro Street USA, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Jenni Olson Harvey Milk’s “Read this in the event of my death” recording played against footage of the Milk set. A dual meditation on the power of history.

Plays before City of Borders, Page 155

Danse Macabre Canada, 2008, 8 minutes, director: Pedro Pires In the morgue, a young woman’s corpse performs a ghastly ballet.

Plays before Deadgirl, Page 103

Full Employment Germany, 2008, 12 minutes, directors: Thomas Oberlies and Matthias Vogel In these troubling economic times, Miroslav will take any job he can get … even as a part-time, entry-level Zombie Hunter.

Plays before Dead Snow, Page 105

La Dolorosa Brazil, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Odilon Rocha A lyrical story about a bride, groom, and best man involved in a destructive passion.

Plays before Bluebeard, Page 185

Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential USA, 2008, 11 minutes, director: Alexander Mendeluk, World Premiere We all know the world is warming up, but how we choose to change our lifestyles because of it is the key.

Plays before Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle, Page 115

3-MINUTE MASTERPIECES

How hard could it be to make a three-minute film? We challenged you to find out.

For three years the Seattle International Film Festival has partnered with The Seattle Times to offer this amazing creative experiment to anyone who can wield a camera. Filmmakers young, old, and in between had the seemingly insurmountable task of creating a family-friendly (i.e. no sex, violence, or profanity) short film with a running time of under three minutes. We are very excited to showcase some of the best in extreme short filmmaking created by people who live here in our own backyard. This competition truly stretches the limits of what it is to create film, and you don’t have to be a professional to do it.

This year we brought back the J. Michael Rima Award for filmmakers under 18 years old and we have a new category, the 1-Minute Masterpiece, for films one minute or less.

Winning masterpieces are shown on The Seattle Times’ website and at SIFF. The grand-prize winner receives two full-series passes to this year’s Festival. The J. Michael Award is a special prize presented by the Rima family, and the 1-Minute Masterpiece winner gets one weeklong pass to the Festival. The Seattle Film Institute also provides free film classes for the top winners.

Last year we received more than 100 entries and were once again blown away by what people can do with three minutes and a little imagination.

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A selection of some of the world’s most promising filmmaking talent.

One of the sublime pleasures to be found at SIFF is to be among the first of any audience to discover and reward emerging directing talent from around the world. This year, SIFF programmers have made the difficult choice of selecting 12 new film auteurs from different countries for their outstanding cinematic achievements, based on original script, striking style, and overall excellence. To be chosen, the films must be the director’s debut or second feature, and must be without U.S. distribution at the time of their selection. From this list of gifted finalists, SIFF’s New Directors Showcase jury, composed of film industry professionals and journalists, will choose the award-winning director. On the Festival’s final weekend, the winning filmmaker will be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards Brunch and will receive a cash prize of $2,500 and FrameForge 3D Studio software.

New this year, SIFF is partnering with FIPRESCI to jury the New Directors Showcase competition. SIFF is one of three festivals in the United States to host a FIPRESCI jury and award a FIPRESCI prize as part of our New Directors Showcase. FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics, has been in existence for more than 65 years, with members in over 60 countries. The purpose of FIPRESCI is to support cinema as an art and as an outstanding and autonomous means of expression.

Jury

New ors t c e r i D e s a c w o Sh At West of Pluto (Canada, 2008) Directed by Myriam Verreault and Henry Bernadet

Be Calm and Count to Seven (Iran, 2008) Directed by Ramtin Lavafipour

Everyone Else (Germany, 2009) Directed by Maren Ade The Exploding Girl (USA, 2009) Directed by Bradley Rust Gray

Andre Roy

Andre Roy has a PhD in French Studies and lives in Montreal, Canada. He is a writer of poetry and short novels, and a film critic. He is an editorial staff member of the magazine 24 images and writes regularly for La Revue de la Cinémathèque Québécoise. He is the author of five books: “Marguerite Duras à Montréal” (1984), “Cent films à voir en video” (1997), “Voyage au pays du cinema” (1999), “Notre-Dames-des-autres. L’œuvre vidéo de Charles Guilbert et Serge Murphy” (2006), and “Dictionnaire général du cinema” (2007). He has been a FIPRESCI member of the jury at international film festivals in Berlin, Bruxelles, Figueira da Foz, Locarno, Montreal, and Valladolid.

Four Chapters (India, 2008) Directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay Home (Switzerland/France/Belgium, 2008) Directed by Ursula Meier

Inland (Algeria, 2008) Directed by Tariq Teguia

Involuntary (Sweden, 2008) Directed by Ruben Östlund

Jonathan Rosenbaum

From 1987 through early 2008, Jonathan Rosenbaum was a film critic for the Chicago Reader. His more recent books (since 2000) are “Dead Man,” “Movie Wars,” “Abbas Kiarostami” (with Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa), “Movie Mutations” (co-edited with Adrian Martin), “Essential Cinema,” and “Discovering Orson Welles.”

Sheila Johnston

After completing her PhD about the German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder at the Slade School of Fine Arts, University College London, Sheila Johnston was a founderjournalist for The Independent, for which she covered film for ten years. She now contributes interviews, reviews, and features to the Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Sight and Sound, and other publications.

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My Suicide (USA, 2009) Directed by David Lee Miller North (Norway, 2009) Directed by Rune Denstad Langlo

The Other Bank (Georgia/Kazakhstan, 2009) Directed by George Ovashvili

Rain (Bahamas, 2008) Directed by Maria Govan

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ARAM BASH VA TA HAFT BESHMAR

Be Calm and Count to Seven

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At West of Pluto

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Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s high school Canada movies (Elephant, Paranoid Park), this French- 2009 Canadian film follows a handful of teenagers Directors: over the course of 24 hours. It starts out innocu- Myriam Verreault Henry Bernadet ously enough, with a class presentation by one Producers: student on how Pluto lost its status as a planet Myriam Verreault Henry Bernadet and a conversation between two cheerleaders Screenwriters: about whether or not Quebec should secede. Myriam Verreault Like a lot of high school movies, it builds to the Henry Bernadet Cinematographer: big house party hosted by the shy kid who wants Patrick Faucher to impress the cool kids. But the party goes horri- Editor: bly wrong, and the older brother ends up in the Myriam Verreault Cast: car looking for the kids who trashed their house. David Bouchard What elevates this film above similar movies is Alexis Drolet Anne-Sophie Tremblay the editing, which cuts into some scenes later Lamontagne than you’d expect and cuts out earlier in others, Yoann Linteau Sandra Jacques allowing the audience to participate in the story- Running Time: telling. All of the high school archetypes are here, 95 minutes but they don’t all act the way that you’d expect, Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with and the nonprofessional actors give surprisingly English subtitles polished performances. More than just a movie International Sales: E1 Entertainment about high school kids, this is a film for anyone International who’s ever gone to high school. Appropriate for Print Source: E1 Entertainment teens 15 and up. Contains strong language and International underage drinking.

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This lyrical debut feature from Iran was a deserv- Iran ing recipient of one of the Tiger Awards at this 2008 year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam. Set Director: in little-known but spectacularly beautiful islands Ramtin Lavafipour Producer: in the Persian Gulf, the story revolves around Ramtin Lavafipour Motu, who belongs to a gang of reckless youth. Screenwriter: After receiving contraband goods brought in by Ramtin Lavafipour Cinematographer: smugglers in boats, the gang has to forward the Reza Teymouri shipments to distant inland destinations. Motu’s Editor: father has gone missing while transporting illegal Ramtin Lavafipour Music: human cargo, leaving his pregnant wife and Daroush Namdar daughter in the boy’s care. Motu is fearless, and Zangeneh dreams of becoming as rich and famous as his Cast: Hedayat Hashemi football hero, the Brazilian player Ronaldinho. He Omid Abdollahi Mahnaz Talandeh befriends the leader of the smugglers, eventuRunning Time: ally proposing a serious business arrangement, 89 minutes when it finally dawns on Motu that his father Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Farsi, with is not coming back. Naturally the police are English subtitles always one step behind and a constant menace. Print Source: Director Ramtin Lavafipour shot the film in a Aftab e honar afarin Selected Filmography: pure, ultra-realistic style redolent of earlier Iranian Debut Feature Film films, such as Amir Naderi’s The Runner, and has skillfully fashioned a portrait of a society that is edging toward today’s fast-moving consumer society, leaving behind the ancient traditions of an isolated fishing village.

alouestdepluton.com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Awards: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 (Golden Tiger)

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ALLE ANDEREN

Everyone Else

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On the surface, architect Chris and his girlfriend Germany Gitti seem to enjoy perfect, amorous bliss during 2009 a getaway at their Sardinia vacation home. But Director: their playful romps, secret rituals, and silly habits Maren Ade Producers: hide an underlying tension. The two are actually Janine Jackowski polar opposites. Full of verve, the idiosyncratic Dirk Engelhardt Maren Ade Gitti is fearless in expressing her love and devoScreenwriter: tion for Chris, while he is more reserved in his Maren Ade outlook on life and crippled by varying degrees of Cinematographer: Bernhard Keller personal and professional insecurity. When this Editor: odd couple casually meets a happier and more Heike Parplies successful couple, everything starts to fall apart. Cast: Birgit Minichmayr Taking a leaf out of the other couple’s book, Chris Lars Eidinger tries to show his willful girlfriend who’s boss (he Hans-Jochen Wagner Nicole Marischka thinks it’s him). Gitti attempts to conform to his Running Time: new ideal, but what begins as a playful experi- 119 minutes ment soon turns into a quiet struggle with her Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with own personality. Thanks to their newly devel- English subtitles oped personas, Chris and Gitti take their second International Sales: Bavaria Film International chance to discover themselves—and each other. Print Source: This intimate love story plunges into the depths Bavaria Film International Film Website: people go to save a relationship.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Silver Bear–Grand Jury Prize, Silver Bear–Best Actress, Femina Film Prize)

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The Exploding Girl

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Like many 20-somethings, Ivy’s life is a mixture USA of inner turmoil and romantic confusion. Ivy is 2009 a good and decent young woman who tries Director: desperately to control her epilepsy by contain- Bradley Rust Gray Producers: ing her emotions. She returns home to Brooklyn So-yong Kim for summer break and ends up spending most Karin Chien Ben Howe of her time with her best friend Al. In the meanScreenwriter: time, she works to keep the connection with Bradley Rust Gray her long-distance boyfriend even as it becomes Cinematographer: Eric Lin clear that the two are growing apart. As the Editors: summer continues, Ivy’s relationship with her So-yong Kim buddy Al begins to deepen, confusing her even Bradley Rust Gray Music: further. Writer-director Bradley Rust Gray skillfully múm portrays a young girl on the edge, using integ- Cast: Zoe Kazan rity and grace. The film exhibits a quiet strength Mark Rendall built around the rich and refined performances Maryann Urbano given by the two young leads as they bring to life Running Time: 79 minutes a young girl’s struggle to keep it all together as Presentation Format: she negotiates maturity, romance, and her own HDCAM International Sales: sanity.

Memento Films Awards: Tribeca Film Festival 2009 (Best Actress)

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International Print Source: Memento Films International Film Website: soandbrad.com Selected Filmography: Salt (2003)

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CHATURANGA

Four Chapters

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Based on Nobel Prize-winning Rabindranath India Tagore’s novella, Four Chapters is set in colo- 2008 nial Bengal at the turn of the 20th century. The Director: young man Sachish (Subrata Dutta) comes from Suman Mukhopadhyay Producers: a divided upper-caste household: his Marxist- Avik Saha reformist uncle lives on the top floor of the house Vishal Jhajharia and the rest of his strict Hindu family lives on the Screenwriter: Suman Mukhopadhyay lower floor. In his quest for life’s meaning, Sachish Cinematographer: flees from radical politics to religious mysticism, a Indranil Mukherjee search that leads from ecstasy to disillusionment. Editor: Arghyakamal Mitra He can’t come to terms with abstract ideals and Music: the powerful presences of two women in his Debojyoti Mishra life. One of them is the abandoned mistress of Cast: Dhitriman Chaterji his brother and the other is Damini, (Rituparna Rituparna Sengupta Subrata Dutta Sengupta) a young, highly educated Hindu Running Time: widow who lives in Sachish’s guru’s house. The 125 minutes story touches on male-female relationships and Presentation Format: 35mm, in Bengali, with women’s social and political position in society. It English subtitles deals with the war between religion and reason, Print Source: caste struggles, and the frailty of the human Campfire Films Film Website: being. Four Chapters weaves a rich and timeless chaturangathefilm.in tapestry of crisscrossing desires, moralities, and Selected Filmography: Herbert (2006) classical Sufi music into a lean but passionate epic about the eternal struggle between earthly and spiritual love.

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Director Ursula Meier has called this a road Switzerland/ movie in reverse. Her characters don’t set out on France/Belgium a highway to see what adventures the road can 2008 bring. Instead, Marthe and Michel live in a house Director: with their kids, far away from civilized society on Ursula Meier Producers: the edge of a freeway that was never complet- Elena Tatti ed. And then the road comes to them. Without Thierry Spicher Screenwriters: warning, construction workers unexpectedly put Ursula Meier the final touches on the long-empty expressway Antoine Jaccoud Raphaëlle Valbrune and then open it up to traffic. Their once peaceCinematographer: ful home becomes noisy and polluted, and the Agnès Godard relationships that were so strong during peace- Editor: Susana Rossberg ful times start to fray. With cinematography by Cast: Agnès Godard that is alert to widescreen visual Isabelle Huppert Gourmet gags, Meier’s quirky comedy keeps finding new Olivier Adélaïde Leroux ways to surprise. Marthe can’t sleep. Daughter Madeline Budd Kacey Mottet Klein Marion becomes obsessed with pollution and Running Time: creates her own haz-mat suits. The eldest 97 minutes daughter Judith runs away. Michel buys insu- Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with lation and concrete bricks and imprisons them English subtitles in their own home during the summer, amplify- International Sales: FIlms ing the heat, boredom and the smallest sound. Memento International Ultimately, the family needs to redefine what Print Source: “home” means. For audiences, however, Home Memento FIlms International means an absurd and satisfying comedy.

Film Website: home-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: Strong Shoulders (2002)

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DE OFRIVILLIGA

Inland

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Involuntary

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Malek is a reclusive topographer who accepts a Algeria commission to survey a remote part of western 2008 Algeria in order to extend the electrical grid. He Director: arrives to find the area has been decimated by Tariq Teguia Producers: religious fundamentalists who have only recently Yacine Teguia cleared out. Malek meets the local police, the Philippe Carcassonne shepherds who are beginning to return, and Screenwriters: Tariq Teguia villagers who invite him to a makeshift party. In Yacine Teguia the middle of the night, he is awakened by the Cinematographers: Nasser Medjkane sound of explosions. “Not to worry,” explains a Hacéne Aït Kaci local man. “When the cicadas land in the sand, Editors: Molla it’s enough to trigger off the buried booby-traps.” Rodolphe Andreé Davanture But as Malek soon realizes, it isn’t cicadas Music: setting off the mines, but refugees trying to reach Ina Djakou Terry Riley the coast and a boat for Spain. The next day he Cast: finds a young woman, exhausted and terrified, Abdelkader Affak Ines Rose Djakou hiding in a corner of his shack. Malek decides Ahmed Benaïssa to drive her to the border, and together they set Fethi Ghares out toward some indeterminate vanishing point Running Time: 138 minutes on the horizon. These present-day realities are Presentation Format: interspersed with flashbacks to the idealistic 35mm, in Algerian, Arabic, and French, with political debates of his youth, and set against a English subtitles soundtrack that mixes alternative rock, Nigerian International Sales: Neffa Films Afrobeat, and Algerian Rai. With his minimalist Print Source: approach to plot and dialogue, and mesmerizing Neffa Films cinematography, director Tariq Teguia has been Selected Filmography: Rome Rather Than You compared to Antonioni.

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With an offbeat sense of humor and an uncanny Sweden talent for observing the curiosities of interper- 2008 sonal communication, Involuntary interweaves Director: several parallel plotlines linked by the theme of Ruben Östlund Producer: group dynamics and the urge to overstep taboo. Erik Hemmendorff Two teenage girls chat, take pictures, and get Screenwriters: drunk; a group of young men experiment with Erik Hemmendorff Ruben Östlund sex; a righteous grade school teacher tries Cinematographer: to resolve the problem of a student bullied by Marius Dybwad Brandrud another teacher; and a bus driver holds a group Editor: Ruben Östlund of passengers prisoner. In instances where Music: characters face moral dilemmas about speak- Benny Andersson ing up or staying silent, the protagonists often Cast: Leif Edlund behave illogically to keep from losing face and Maria Lundqvist Cecilia Milocco find themselves in even more complicated situ- Villmar Bjorkman ations. Their unpredictable behavior is reflected Lola Ewerland in the unconventional camerawork and points Running Time: 98 minutes of view. Writer-director Ruben Östlund’s knack Presentation Format: for perverse comedy leaves the audience with 35mm, in Swedish, with English subtitles questions about lessons to learn, lectures to International Sales: The Coproduction Office give, and lines not to cross.

Print Source: Swedish Film Institute Selected Filmography: The Guitar Mongoloid (2004)

Awards: Venice International Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Prize)

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My Suicide

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“My name is Archibald Williams and I’m going to USA kill myself.” Archie, a 17-year-old media student 2009 announces that his final school video project will Director: be filming his own suicide. As teachers sound David Lee Miller Producers: the alarm, calling in shrinks and threatening David Lee Miller expulsion, students around the school are alter- Larry Janss Todd Traina nately repelled by and attracted to Archie as he Eric J. Adams captures his own postmodern “Catcher in the Screenwriters: Rye.” Archie’s video diary of the circus surround- David Lee Miller Eric J. Adams ing his announcement exposes the truths of Gabriel Sunday J. Miller life, which include death, sex, violence, drugs, Jordan Larry Janss and the hypocrisy of the modern media, which Cinematographers: assaults all teens. Director David Lee Miller Lisa Wiegand Angie Hill spent four years working with his son Jordan Editors: and lead actor Gabriel Sunday to create this Gabriel Sunday Jordan Miller affecting portrait, which authentically addresses Music: the epidemic of teen suicide. The performanc- Tim Kasher es from the young cast are flawless, setting Cast: Gabriel Sunday the foundation for My Suicide to celebrate and Brooke Nevin question Generation YouTube with its calibrated David Carradine Mariel Hemingway commentary of manipulated footage, animation, Joe Mantegna and 1950s-styled PSAs. Miller’s film is a lightning Running Time: bolt into a hot topic that struggles to be under- 105 minutes Presentation Format: stood. Through his command of the variety of HDCAM media used by teens, he has crafted a film that International Sales: Generate/Archie Films will be a part of the discussion for years to come.

Print Source: Recommended for ages 17+ (contains brief Generate/Archie Films Film Website: nudity, language, and disturbing images).

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Generation 14+ Award)

mysuicide.net Selected Filmography: Breakfast of Aliens (1993)

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Aptly billed as “an antidepressive off-road Norway movie,” the wry comic drama North follows 2009 anxious, dejected 30-year-old Jomar as he Director: reluctantly journeys through frigid, arctic land- Rune Denstad Langlo Producers: scapes and reconnects with life. With deadpan Sigve Endresen acting and a quirky economy of style, this fiction Brede Hovland feature debut of Norwegian documentary maker Screenwriter: Erlend Loe Rune Denstad Langlo has the makings of a cult Cinematographer: hit. Downhearted ex-skiing ace Jomar works at Philip Øgaard an isolated ski park near Trondheim and wishes Editor: Zaklina Stojcevska he could return to live at the cozy psychiatric Music: hospital nearby. After belatedly learning that he Bent Holm Ola Kvernberg fathered a son with a former girlfriend who now Cast: lives in the Far North, Jomar decides to pay a Anders Baasmo Christiansen visit. Setting off on his snowmobile, provisioned Kyrre Hellum only with moonshine and drugs, he meets Marte Aunemo Lars Olsen some unconventional characters along the way. Mads Sjøgård Pettersen Ultimately, he comes to understand that life is Astrid Solhaug about not giving up. Filmed during the tough- Running Time: 78 minutes est winter months in sparsely populated polar Presentation Format: climates, where depression and loneliness are 35mm, in Norwegian, with English subtitles real problems, the ambitious widescreen cine- International Sales: matography allows audiences to experience Memento Films the contrast between everyday gray twilight Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute and blinding snowy, while the sound designer Film Website: captures the howling sound of blizzards and nordthemovie.no Selected Filmography: sharp cracks of freshly breaking ice.

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Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (FIPRESCI Prize, Europa Cinema Prize) Tribeca Film Festival 2009 (Best New Feature)

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Torn from his father at the beginning of the Georgia/ Georgian-Abkhazia war, slightly cross-eyed Kazakhstan 12-year-old Tedo is tired of living the life of a 2009 refugee. He works hard at an auto repair shop, Director: and his young mother, Keto, works as a clerk, George Ovashvili Producer: but it’s not enough to help them get by, so Sain Gabdullin Keto prostitutes herself to help them survive. Screenwriter: Nugzar Shataidze It’s all too much for Tedo to handle, and he Cinematographer: decides to search for his father in war-torn Amir Assadi Abkhazia. Warned not to go into this tinderbox, Editor: Sun-min Kim he decides to go anyway. Unable to speak the Music: local language and afraid for his safety, Tedo Josef Bardanashvili pretends to be deaf as his odyssey takes him Cast: Tedo Bekhauri across physical and emotional landscapes and Galoba Gambaria borders where nationalism rules and where Nika Alajajev Tamara Meskhi the “eye for an eye” mentality dominates. The Archil Tabukashvili war-ravaged world he encounters reflects the Running Time: 90 minutes complex state of affairs wrestling within the Presentation Format: boy’s psyche. Director Ovashvili brings together 35mm, in Georgian, a diverse production team from Russia, Iran, Abkhazian, and Russian, with English subtitles Kyrgyzstan, Czech Republic, Israel, and South Film Website: Korea to create a gripping, unsentimental story theotherbank.info Filmography: of a boy with grown-up cares who finds his own Selected Debut Feature Film path to living bravely.

Director Maria Govan’s powerful debut, one of the Bahamas first films produced indigenously in the Bahamas, 2008 shows a darker side of the country that tourists Director: rarely see. A teenager named Rain has lived her Maria Govan Producers: entire life with her grandmother on a tiny rural Maria Govan island in the Bahamas. When her grandmother Molly Mayeux Francis Kuzler dies, Rain goes to Nassau to find her mother, Nathaniel Kohn Glory, whom she has never met. When she Pamela Kohn arrives, Rain is devastated to discover that Glory Screenwriter: Maria Govan lives in a desperately poor, AIDS-ravaged neigh- Cinematographer: borhood called “The Graveyard,” and that she Martina Radwan turns tricks to support her drug habit. With no Editor: Maria Cataldo strong maternal role model in her life, Rain must Music: look within for strength and discovers she has Gerald Brunskill Cast: a gift for running. Rain receives guidance from Renel Naomi Brown her school’s track coach, Ms. Adams, but Rain’s Nicki Micheaux Irma P. Hall living situation threatens to spoil her dream. Calvin Lockhart Rain displays a striking visual sense that reflects CCH Pounder the contrast between the idyllic setting and the Running Time: 93 minutes harsh realities of Bahamian life. Luxury resorts Presentation Format: hover over the blighted neighborhood, tanta- DigiBeta Sales: lizing the residents with a lifestyle they cannot International The Works International hope to achieve. The film illuminates the beauty Print Source: in the everyday, and speaks to the experiences Rain Films Ltd. Film Website: of marginalized Bahamians. rainafilm.com Awards: Pan African Film Festival 2009 (Best First Director, First Film) Palm Springs International Film Festival 2009 (New Voices/New Visions– Special Jury Mention) Bahamas International Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award)

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Celebrating a new golden age of nonfiction storytelling.

Looking back years from now, film historians may well consider the first decade of the 21st century as a golden age of documentary filmmaking.

In the last few Festivals, as low-cost, high-definition video equipment has democratized the filmmaking process, audiences have enjoyed an explosion of nonfiction portraits that celebrate everyday life, telling vivid stories from unusual points of view. When brought to the big screen, quirky family histories become epics. Biographies about the inner lives of famous personalities add context and character to their public personas. In the hands of a gifted documentarian, news stories are given new depth and fresh perspectives that the audience might not have considered. This year is no exception as SIFF offers an engaging lineup of docs covering a wide spectrum of topics—from the triumph of grassroots community activism to inspiring stories of families struggling to overcome illness and financial hardship; from bizarre internet love triangles gone awry to thrilling competition searches for the next pop idol in Afghanistan (watch out, Slumdog Millionaire). Be sure to catch some of these real-life stories filtered through the imaginations of these talented filmmakers.

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The very first films ever made were essentially documentaries. Some of the first films coming from directors like August and Louis Lumière captured everyday life and gave audiences the first chance to see their lives permanently imprinted on film and shown to audiences far and wide.

Many of these films were simple in nature, depicting shift workers at factories and families at the dinner table. To this day, documentaries continue to reflect their early beginnings, but with advances in technology and travel, documentaries now have the opportunity to tell bigger stories from far-flung corners of the earth. The eight documentaries in this year’s competition come from all over the world and tell a range of stories from intimate human portraits to stories with global impact. SIFF is proud to offer up these fine documentaries that exemplify the proud tradition that is documentary filmmaking.

Defamation (Israel/Austria, 2009) Directed by Yoav Shamir El General (Mexico, 2008) Directed by Natalia Almada

The Fortress (Switzerland, 2008) Directed by Fernand Melgar

Garbage Dreams (USA, 2008) Directed by Mai Iskander

Kimjongilia (France/USA/South Korea, 2009) Directed by N.C. Heikin Manhole Children (Japan, 2008) Directed by Taro Takahashi The Red Race (China, 2008) Directed by Gan Chao talhotblond (USA, 2009) Directed by Barbara Schroeder 152

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Born in 1975, Alesksandra Biernacka is a graduate of the Polish Philology Department and American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. Since 2000, she has been responsible for Polish Public TV’s productions reaching the international film festival circuit, including feature films like The Big Animal by Jerzy Stuhr, Hi Tereska by Robert Glinski, Katyń by Andrzej Wajda (nominated for a 2008 Academy Award®), children’s programs like The Magic Tree by Andrzej Maleszka (which won an Emmy in 2007), and numerous award-winning documentaries, such as A Life To Live by Maciej Adamek (Golden Gate Prize 2004, 2004 SilverDocs Audience Prize, Best Documentary at the 2004 Palm Springs International Film Festival, and the Flicker Fest National Geographic Prize in 2005), Corpus Christi by Adam Sikora (Best Director at the 2006 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival), and Hercules Ventures into the World by Lidia Duda (2007 WorldFest Houston Platinum Prize, 2007 Banff World TV Fest Special Jury Prize).

Anne Thompson

Anne Thompson launched the daily “ThompsononHollywood” blog in March 2007 when she joined Variety as a columnist and deputy editor of Variety.com. Previously, she was deputy film editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where she wrote the weekly syndicated column Risky Business and the Riskybizblog. She has contributed Hollywood columns for The New York Times, New York Magazine, The London Observer, and Filmmaker Magazine.

She has also served as West Coast editor of Premiere, Empire, and Film Comment, and has been a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly.

Paul Federbush

Paul Federbush is an independent film production, development, and acquisition executive with more than 13 years of experience in both the independent film and studio communities. While Mr. Federbush has spent the majority of his career working within the studio system, he has also served as a conduit between the studios and the worlds of independent and international film. Not only has he built strong relationships with producers and filmmakers, he has also gained a wealth of experience (and has forged numerous strategic partnerships) in the areas of independent financing, international co-production, domestic marketing and distribution, and international distribution. He most recently served as Senior Vice President of Production and Acquisitions at Warner Independent Pictures, but has also served in similar capacities at Pandora and New Line Cinema/Fine Line Features.

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Afghan Star

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Afghan Star tells the story of an Afghan version Afghanistan/ of the “Pop Idol” TV series in which people from United Kingdom across the country compete for a cash prize and 2008 record deal. After 30 years of war and Taliban Director: rule, “Afghan Star” takes the nation by storm. Havana Marking Producer: More than 2,000 people audition, including three Havana Marking brave women. Viewers vote for their favorite Cinematographer: Phil Stebbing singers by mobile phone. For many, this is their Editor: first encounter with democracy. The organizers, Ash Jenkins Tolo TV, believe the program will move people Music: Simon Russell from guns to music. But in a troubled country Running Time: like Afghanistan, even music is controversial. 87 minutes Considered sacrilegious by the Mujahideen Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in English, Dari, and banned by the Taliban, music has come to and Pashto, with English symbolize freedom for the youth. The film follows subtitles International Sales: four young contestants looking for a new life, but Channel Four International things take a terrifying turn when one young Print Source: woman dances on stage, threatening her own Zeitgeist Films Film Website: safety and the future of the show. afghanstardocumentary.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (World Cinema Audience Award, World Cinema Directing Award)

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The 1960s witnessed a creative revolution in USA advertising, in which idea, image, music, and 2009 theater were combined in ways never seen Director: before. Products were described through excit- Doug Pray Producers: ing and often abstract concepts, changing how Jimmy Greenway consumers thought and bought. Art & Copy Michael Nadeau looks at the impact this revolution had on modern Screenwriter: Timothy J. Sexton culture, and how images and taglines have Cinematographer: become part of our everyday language. Director Peter Nelson Doug Pray speaks with the advertising innovators Editor: Philip Owens who created “Think Small” (Volkswagen Beetle), Music: “Got Milk?” “Where’s the Beef?” “Just Do It,” “I Jeff Martin Love NY,” “The Me Generation” (Clairol), the bril- Featuring: Lee Clow liant Braniff airline makeover, and even numer- Dan Wieden David Kennedy ous powerful political campaigns (think Reagan’s Phyllis K. Robinson re-election). Throughout the discussions with Hal Riney these trailblazing men and women, including Lee Running Time: 86 minutes Clow, Dan Wieden, Hal Riney, George Lois, and Presentation Format: Phyllis K. Robinson, Pray integrates footage of HDCAM Source: communications satellites and billboards as he Print Arthouse Films looks at how advertising is constantly changing. Film Website:

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artandcopyfilm.com Selected Filmography: Surfwise (2007) Big Rig (2007) Infamy (2005) Scratch (2001) Hype! (1996)

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One of the leading lights of the nouvelle vague, France director Agnès Varda once famously mused, “If 2008 you open people, you’ll find landscapes. If you Director: open me, you’ll find beaches.” In this inventive, Agnès Varda Producer: autobiographical, and eloquent memoir that Agnès Varda coincides with her 80th birthday, Varda uses this Cinematographer: framing device to explore her life as a child, an Hélène Louvart Editors: artist, a lover, and a mother. She remembers her Jean-Baptiste Morain childhood holiday trips to the seaside, and the Baptiste Filloux family’s wartime exile to the fishing village of Sète, Music: Joanna Bruzdowicz as carefree and sunny. Varda set her remarkable Stéphane Vilar first feature La Pointe Courte (1954) in Sète, and Paule Lornet Running Time: in one of Beaches’ loveliest moments, Varda 109 minutes stages a scene from her debut film involving two Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with young boys. She tracks down the boys—now old English subtitles men—who re-enact the scene while the original International Sales: film is projected onto a makeshift screen. And Roissy Films Print Source: Varda knew tout le monde—from her compa- Cinema Guild triots in the French New Wave (including her Selected Filmography: de Nantes (1991) husband Jacques Demy) to the Black Panthers Jacquot Vagabond (1985) in California. Weaving together photographs, Les Creatures (1966) vintage footage, and present-day sequences, Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) Varda proves that her creative powers are undimmed with this fascinating portrait of a life lived to the fullest.

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Raw footage of Burma’s 2007 political upris- Denmark/ ing flew in the face of the government-imposed Norway media blackout. Nevertheless, a small group of 2008 independent video journalists, equipped only Director: Høgsbro with mobile phones and digital cameras, risked Anders Østergaard torture and imprisonment to report the military Producer: junta’s atrocities. Photos, video footage, and Lise Lense-Møller Screenwriters: other news coverage was smuggled out of the Anders Høgsbro country, where it was then broadcast back Østergaard Jan Krogsgaard into Burma via satellite and offered free to the Cinematographer: international media. The documentary follows Simon Plum “Joshua,” an undercover journalist and leader of Editors: Janus Billeskov Jansen the Democratic Voice of Burma, who provides Thomas Papapetros insight into high-risk journalism and the inner Music: workings of a police state. Though the world Conny Malmgrist Running Time: may have seen individual images and clips gath- 84 minutes ered by the video journalists, director Anders Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Burmese Østergaard pieces these harrowing moments and English, with English together for the first time, outlining a larger narra- subtitles tive of oppression and censorship. In risking International Sales: First Hand Films World their lives, these brave young men and women Sales of Burma are an extraordinary reminder of the Print Source: Oscilloscope Laboratories power of journalism.

Film Website: Awards: Danish Film Critics’ Association 2009 (Best Documentary Film) Sundance Film Festival 2009 (World Cinema Documentary Editing Award)

Awards: Toronto International Film Festival 2008 (Best Documentary) César Awards 2009 (Best Documentary)

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City of Borders

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Shushan, a gay bar in Jerusalem, is the unlikely USA meeting place for the diverse cast of char- 2009 acters featured in Yun Suh’s award-winning Director: documentary City of Borders. Sa’ar Netanel, a Yun Suh Producers: secular Israeli, owns the bar and also serves as Yun Suh the first openly gay member of the city council. Simone Nelson Palestinian Samira Saraya and her Jewish- Screenwriter: Yun Suh Israeli lover Ravit Geva navigate what the Israeli Cinematographers: occupation means for their relationship, and Robin McKenna Karin Thayer what their relationship means for their families. Editor: Boody, a devout Muslim, risks his life by sneak- Jean Kawahara ing through razor wire from the West Bank and Music: Shranny wonders whether it’s possible for him to remain Musa Hanhan in Ramallah. Settler and former Israeli soldier Johnathan Zalben Ronen Landa Adam Russo is stabbed by an Orthodox Jew Featuring: while marching in Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. Sa’ar Netanel Boody Set during the construction of the separation Samira Saraya wall between Israel and the Palestinian territo- Ravit Geva Adam Russo ries, Jerusalem’s gay community struggles to Running Time: hold a gay pride celebration in the Holy City while 67 minutes the characters, and the country, contend with Presentation Format: HDCAM, in English, internal conflicts. The documentary explores the Hebrew, and Arabic, with effort to find and share a sense of community in English subtitles Print Source: spite of differences of religion and nationality.

Yun Suh Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Teddy Award) Preceded by 575 Castro Street, USA, 2008, 7 minutes, director: Jenni Olson Harvey Milk’s “Read this in the event of my death” recording played against footage of the Milk set. A dual meditation on the power of history.

Film Website: cityofborders.com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Dolphins are damned smart. Our fellow mammals USA are capable of much more than somersault- 2009 ing in unison and fetching fish, and The Cove Director: intends to blow the lid off that tank once and Louie Psihoyos Producers: for all. The man who trained Flipper, activist Fisher Steves Richard O’Barry, propels this exposé of Japan’s Paula DuPré Pesman Olivia Ahnemann dolphin trade. He has spent time on both sides Screenwriter: of the dolphin street—the first ten years in the Mark Monroe dolphin captivity industry and the past 38 years Cinematographer: Brook Aitken against it. Since Earth Day 1970, O’Barry has Editor: sought to free captive dolphins that were “viable Geoffrey Richman candidates.” The Cove follows O’Barry to its Music: J. Ralph Japanese namesake, where images of friendly Running Time: dolphins color the urban landscape. Still, the 90 minutes public is mostly unaware of the extent of the Presentation Format: HDCAM animals’ mistreatment. The crew on this Oceans International Sales: Eleven-style mission includes filmmaker Louie Submarine Entertainment Psihoyos (a longtime National Geographic Print Source: Roadside Attractions photographer and diver) and a team of activ- Film Website: ists and producers, including one whose credit thecovemovie.com Filmography: reads “Clandestine Operations.” O’Barry’s band Selected Debut Feature Film of outsiders proceeds with anarchic vigor. They thwart and enrage the local authorities in order to get their message on the radar. Part environmental documentary, part horror film, part spy thriller, The Cove is as suspenseful as it is enlightening as it shows exactly what film can do in the hands of those who aren’t afraid to risk it all for their cause.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award)

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Defamation

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Two generations after the Holocaust, what does Israel/Austria anti-Semitism look like? In his continuing explo- 2009 ration of modern Israeli life, director Yoav Shamir Director: (Checkpoint, Flipping Out) travels the world in Yoav Shamir Producers: search of the most modern manifestations of Karoline Leth the “oldest hatred” and comes up with some Philippa Kowarsky Sandra Itkoff surprising revelations. Shamir was inspired to Knut Ogris investigate the meanings behind the phrase after Screenwriter: being called anti-Semitic in a film review. His Yoav Shamir Cinematographer: exploration includes interviews with Abraham Yoav Shamir Foxman, the president of the Anti-Defamation Editor: League, and with controversial historian Norman Morten Hojbjerg Music: Finkelstein. Shamir joins scholars giving a lecture Mischa Krausz on their book “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Running Time: 93 minutes Policy.” He tags along on a field trip with Israeli Presentation Format: teenagers to the Polish concentration camp 35mm, in English, Auschwitz. He talks to New York Orthodox Hebrew, and German, with English subtitles Jews and their African American neighbors, International Sales: rabbis, professors, and even his grandmother Cinephil Source: in Israel. Defamation is a thorny, provocative, Print First Run Features surprising, and humorous film that questions Film Website: our perceptions and terminology, and explores defamation-thefilm.com Selected Filmography: the boundaries between legitimate criticism and Flipping Out (2008) 5 Days (2005) anti-Semitism.

Checkpoint (2003)

Awards: Tribeca Film Festival 2009 (Special Jury Mention)

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Documentarian Natalia Almada’s award-winning Mexico/USA film, El General, investigates two competing 2008 narratives arising from personal memoir and Director: political history. Six hours of audio recordings Natalia Almada Producers: made by Almada’s grandmother, recalling her Daniela Alatorre father, Plutarco Elías Calles, provide the impetus Natalia Almada for the film. Calles, a heroic revolutionary general Screenwriter: Natalia Almada and president of Mexico from 1924 to 1928, was Cinematographer: known then as “El Bolshevique” and is remem- Chuy Chavez bered today as “El Quema-Curas,” or “priest– Editor: Natalia Almada burner.” The fond memories of his daughter Music: and the historical record of his brutal dictator- Shahzad Ismaily John Zorn ship epitomize the failed idealism of the Mexican Marc Ribot Revolution and the contradictions that persist Running Time: 83 minutes throughout Mexico’s turbulent history. Almada’s Presentation Format: film combines her grandmother’s recollections HDCAM, in Spanish, with with a stunning array of archival and original film English subtitles International Sales: footage, historical and original audio recordings, Louise Rosen Ltd. and an extensive library of still photographs Print Source: that shed light on 100 years of recent Mexican Altamura Films Film Website: history. A beautifully detailed production, El altamurafilms.com/ General is captivating for its director’s unencum- elgeneral Selected Filmography: bered appraisal of her family’s formative role in To the Other Side (2005) her country’s violent past and for its compassionate portrait of Mexico both then and now.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (Best Director–U.S. Documentary)

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The End of the Line

Facing Ali

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In the 1990s, uncontrolled fishing caused the United Kingdom seemingly endless stock of cod in Nova Scotia 2009 to run dry. Now nearly two decades later, over- Director: fishing threatens to become a global ecologi- Rupert Murray Producers: cal disaster. Director Rupert Murray (Unknown Claire Lewis White Male) travels the world to discover who George Duffield is responsible for the overfishing and what can Screenwriter: Charles Clover be done to correct the problem before it’s too Editor: late. Enlisting the help of Charles Clover, author Claire Ferguson Time: of the book of the same name, The End of the Running 90 minutes Line tackles the complexities of overfishing Presentation Format: head on and from all angels. From rural fishing HDCAM Source: villages where fisherman must now migrate Print New American Vision with the fish to survive, to the large corporate Film Website: fleets fishing beyond accepted quotas, Murray endoftheline.com Selected Filmography: expertly captures the chaotic battle for the future Unknown White Male of the world’s oceans. A vibrant travelogue with (2005) a powerful message, The End of the Line will forever change the way you think about your next seafood dinner.

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Muhammad Ali predicted his championship Canada standing long before the world accepted him 2009 as arguably the most talented boxer of all time. Director: Beyond his politics and polarizing charisma, Pete McCormack Producer: Ali demonstrated the speed and grace that Derik Murray have come to define the sport of boxing. Pete Cinematographer: McCormack directs this insightful documen- Ian Kerr Editor: tary from the perspectives of ten boxers who Jesse James Miller highlighted Ali’s career through their momen- Music: tous encounters in the ring. Legendary oppo- Schaun Tozer Featuring: nents including Ken Norton, Joe Frazier, Earnie George Foreman Shavers, Leon Spinks, and George Foreman Joe Frazier Larry Holmes recount how they challenged Ali physically, Ken Norton mentally, and emotionally. At times tragic, the Leon Spinks Running Time: moving chronicle of Ali’s success follows the 98 minutes fighting spirit that some say took him too far. Presentation Format: Historical footage and press conferences woven HDCAM International Sales: between sincere interviews effortlessly demon- Lionsgate strate the magnitude of Ali’s rise to fame and the Print Source: enormous respect he earned from his rivals. The Lionsgate Film Website: standout original music of Schaun Tozer under- facingalimovie.com scores an already compelling film. McCormack Selected Filmography: Uganda Rising (2006) dares audiences to witness the Ali that at times See Grace Fly (2003) divided—but always captivated—the American public.

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Director John Greyson’s operatic tour-de-force Canada smashes conventional barriers of form and 2009 genre to reinvent the documentary. The protago- Director: nists of Fig Trees are two of the patron saints of John Greyson Producer: AIDS activism: Tim McCaskell, a founder of the John Greyson Canadian AIDS Action Now, who has been living Screenwriter: with AIDS for 25 years, and Zackie Achmat, who John Greyson Cinematographers: went on a treatment strike in 1989, refusing to Ali Kazimi take anti-retroviral drugs until they were made Jesse Rosensweet generally available in South Africa. The story Editor: Jared Raab is a grand-scale narrative of personal heroism Music: in the face of evil as personified by politicians David Wall and pharmaceutical company executives, with Featuring: Van Abrahams millions of lives hanging in the balance. The David Wall Deb Overes result is a postmodern pastiche of palindromes, Ezra Perlman queer history, music history, and Catholic theol- Alexander Chapman ogy (with an albino squirrel thrown in for good Running Time: 104 minutes measure). Riffing off another famously queer Presentation Format: opera, Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s HDCAM Source: “Four Saints in Three Acts,” the film features a Print Vtape first-rate score by collaborator David Wall.

Film Website: yorku.ca/greyzone/ figtrees Selected Filmography: The Law of Enclosures (2000) Uncut (1997) Lilies (1996) Zero Patience (1993)

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You are what you eat, the saying goes. But do USA you really know what you eat? Filmmaker Robert 2008 Kenner lifts the curtain on the unsavory practices Director: of our nation’s food industry. The film illustrates Robert Kenner Producers: how the corporate purveyors of food products Robert Kenner have literally gotten away with murder—and all Elise Pearlstein with the complicity of our government’s regula- Cinematographer: Richard Pearce tory agencies. As Kenner shows in detail, the Editor: food supply in the United States is controlled Kim Roberts by a handful of corporations that often put profit Music: Mark Adler before health—not only of the consumers of their Running Time: processed foodstuffs, but the economic health of 94 minutes Format: farmers and food workers, and the health of the Presentation 35mm environment. Drawing on the works of authors International Sales: Eric Schlosser (“Fast Food Nation”) and Michael Fortissimo Films Print Source: Pollan (“The Omnivore’s Dilemma”), Kenner’s Magnolia Pictures film details the cozy relationship between agri- Film Website: business and government—a relationship that takepart.com/foodinc Selected Filmography: allows the corporate behemoth Monsanto to Debut Feature Film monopolize soybean production and litigate aggressively against small farmers who harvest their own seeds rather than buy Monsanto’s genetically engineered seeds. Food, Inc. paints a vivid picture of the wages of unsustainable food production—obesity, diabetes, and E. coli poisoning. But for all its outrage, Food, Inc. posits a hopeful (and delicious) future, highlighting a burgeoning organic farming movement that has made it all the way to the White House lawn.

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The Fortress

WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 7:00 PM FRIDAY JUNE 12 4:00 PM

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In 2007, 10,387 people filed requests for asylum Switzerland in Switzerland, but only 1,561 were granted 2008 refugee status. Recently the process for seeking Director: asylum in the country has become even stricter. Fernand Melgar Producer: Director Fernand Melgar wanted to understand Fernand Melgar “What was driving us to lock the gates and Screenwriter: transform this land of asylum into an impregnable Alice Sala Cinematographer: fortress?” The Fortress is a penetrating and Camille Cottagnoud visually rich look at a Swiss registration and Editor: processing center for asylum seekers. Located Karine Sudan Running Time: in the western town of Vallorbe, the building, 104 minutes surrounded by barbed wire and surveillance Presentation Format: in French, with cameras, is as much a hotel as a prison, and 35mm, English subtitles has a life of its own, divided into two factions: International Sales: employees and inhabitants. Through the course Accent Films International Print Source: of a few weeks (a maximum of two months), Climage asylum seekers are provided with necessities Film Website: as their interviews with government employees laforteresse.ch Selected Filmography: are processed. Each individual tells a harrowing Exit-The Right to Die story. Can the staff tell the difference between (2005) Storm in a C-Cup (2002) lies and authenticity to select who wins a second Induction Class (1998) chance at life in Switzerland? Director Melgar’s Family Album (1993) fly-on-the-wall documentary takes a close look into the lives of the residents in the quasipenal atmosphere. With emotion, humor, and compassion, The Fortress peers into the heart of the daily process of sorting human beings.

Garbage Dreams

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As jobs go, sanitation worker isn’t high on most USA teenage boys’ lists. In director-cinematogra- 2008 pher Mai Iskander’s feature-length documen- Director: tary debut, three teenagers spend endless days Mai Iskander Producers: collecting and sorting trash—and nights sleeping Mai Iskander among it. Adham, Osama, and Nabil are three of Kate Hirson the 60,000 residents of Mokattam, a “garbage Cinematographer: Mai Iskander village” on the outskirts of Cairo. For generations, Editors: the larger city has depended on the villagers, the Kate Hirson Jessica Reynolds zaballeen, to keep order for a community that Music: lacks a formal sanitation system. They don’t just Raz Mesinai keep order. A staggering 80 percent of the waste Running Time: 83 minutes they gather is recycled. American-born, half- Presentation Format: Egyptian Iskander views the chaotic closeness HDCAM , in Egyptian, with English subtitles of her homeland and the creative efficiency of Print Source: the zaballeen through the eyes of these unique Mai Iskander young men. When Cairo’s decision to partially Film Website: garbagedreams.com privatize the garbage trade threatens their day Selected Filmography: jobs, Iskander finds their goofy passions and Debut Feature Film earnest dreams undiminished. Effervescent and luminous, Garbage Dreams uncovers the boys’ realities as they are forced to make choices that will influence their future and the survival of their community.

Awards: Locarno International Film Festival 2009 (Golden Leopard) Montreal International Film Festival 2008 (Grand Prize) Florence Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award)

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The Garden

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Gotta Dance

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Constructed just after the devastating 1992 USA riots in South Central Los Angeles, a 14-acre 2008 community garden was built on a former Director: dumping ground at 41st and Alameda Streets. Scott Hamilton Kennedy Producer: What started as a step in the post-riot healing Scott Hamilton Kennedy process soon became the largest urban farm Screenwriter: in the United States. This community miracle Scott Hamilton Kennedy Cinematographer: brought together families and neighbors as they Scott Hamilton Kennedy grew their own food and nourished their families, Editors: Blatt creating a shining light in one of the country’s Alex Tyson Fitzgerald most blighted neighborhoods. However, only a Scott Hamilton Kennedy few years after achieving success and sustain- Music: Gabriel Tenorio ability, the garden’s existence was threatened Doug DeAngelis by a developer’s plans to construct warehouses Featuring: Danny Glover on the site. In a follow-up to his well-regarded Daryl Hannah debut documentary, OT: Our Town, director and Antonio Villaraigosa Dennis Kucinich producer Scott Hamilton Kennedy follows the Joan Baez garden’s mostly Latino farmers over a period Running Time: of four years as they organize and fight back 80 minutes Presentation Format: to save their hallowed patch of ground. The DigiBeta Garden is an emotional and demanding docu- Print Source: mentary that takes viewers through urban poli- Oscilloscope Laboratories Film Website: tics, racial grievances, and the lives of ordinary thegardenmovie.com people willing to put up a long fight in order to Selected Filmography: OT: Our Town (2002) keep their oasis alive.

Director and Broadway producer Dori Berinstein’s USA exuberant and warm-hearted documentary 2008 opens with a quote from Florenz Zeigfeld (by Director: way of wife Billie Burke): “Age is of no impor- Dori Berinstein Producer: tance unless you are a cheese.” While her previ- Dori Berinstein ous effort, Some Assembly Required, revolved Cinematographer: around kids, Gotta Dance focuses on folks 60 Leo Lawrence Editor: and above. Not the kind who putter around Adam Zucker the house in slippers all day, but the kind who Music: like to hoof it. In this case, as members of the Craig Sharmat Running Time: NETSationals Senior Dance Team, part of the 91 minutes New Jersey Nets entertainment package. The Presentation Format: Nets Dancers hold the auditions, which attract HDCAM Print Source: hopefuls from all walks of life (including a few Dramatic Forces dancer grandparents), select 13, and begin Film Website: gottadancethemovie.com rehearsals. As Joe Bianco explains, “The only Selected Filmography: way that a chubby guy like me would be able Some Assembly Required to pick up girls is not because of my looks, it’s (2008) Show Business: The Road because of my feet.” The other participants, like to Broadway (2007) 80-year-old grandmother Fanny Militar, have equally compelling stories, and Berinstein delves into their diverse backgrounds while capturing their crowd-pleasing hip-hop performances and the media stardom that follows their first season.

As Berinstein says in her director’s statement, “I’ve witnessed ageism and it stinks.” Her inspiring film offers a welcome corrective.

Awards: Official Academy Award® Nomination 2009 (Best Documentary) SilverDocs 2008 (Sterling US Feature Award)

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I’m No Dummy

World Premiere

An Island Calling

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Informative, engaging, and funny, this whimsi- USA cal documentary explores the world of ventrilo- 2009 quism, allowing a rare glimpse into the humorous Director: delights and complex creative invention involved Bryan W. Simon Producer: in how ventriloquists (or “vents”) do what they do. Marjorie Engesser Featuring performances from established current Screenwriter: ventriloquists—such as 2007 Tony Award winner Bryan W. Simon Cinematographer: Jay Johnson (of sitcom “Soap” fame), two-time Lloyd Freidus Comedian of the Year Jeff Dunham, and Lynn Editors: W. Simon Trefzger—the film demonstrates how the current Bryan Larry Stewart vent world is not only creating new, topical, and Music: insightful humor, but may well be in the midst of Elliot Anders a rebirth of mainstream popularity. Additionally, Featuring: Jeff Dunham director Bryan W. Simon has unearthed a trove Jay Johnson Lynn Trefzger of rare performance footage of legendary ventril- Kelly Asbury oquists Edgar Bergen, Jimmy Nelson, Señor Jimmy Nelson Wences, and Paul Winchell—much of which Running Time: 86 minutes hasn’t been seen in 40 to 50 years. Mixing this Presentation Format: performance footage with photos and interviews HDCAM Source: of legendary vents past and present, the film Print Montivagus Productions examines the artistic complexity of venting, the Film Website: art form’s evolution since it came into national montivagus.com Selected Filmography: prominence in the 1930s, and the influence of Along for the Ride (2000) the innovations of those earlier artists on the current generation of performers—all while making you laugh.

They called him The White Angel. John Scott, New Zealand/Fiji director of the Fiji Red Cross, received inter- 2008 national acclaim in May 2000 by courageously Director: assisting a group of hostages being held in the Annie Goldson Producer: Fijian Parliament for 56 days during a political Annie Goldson coup. A year later, Scott, a Fiji-born descendent Screenwriters: of a European colonial family, and his partner, Annie Goldson Owen Scott Greg Scrivener, were found murdered. Scott and Cinematographer: Scrivener were a popular, openly gay couple on Wayne Vinten Fiji, which was unusual for the island. Though a Editors: Eric de Beus murderer was found (22-year-old Fijian Apete Bill Toepfer Kaisau), a clear motive was never determined. Music: David Long Was the murder a political assassination or a Calvin Rore bad love affair? Was it an act of revenge, guilt, Running Time: 76 minutes or insanity? Director Annie Goldson and Owen Presentation Format: Scott—John’s brother—trace the last four DigiBeta, in English generations of the Scott family on Fiji, and in and Fijian, with English subtitles turn, explore the island’s history of colonialism, International Sales: revolution, and rising religious evangelicalism. First Run/Icarus Films Source: John Scott’s great-grandfather was one of the Print First Run/Icarus Films missionaries who brought the Bible to Fiji in the Selected Filmography: 19th century; ironically, in 2001 that same book Georgie Girl (2001) Punitive Damage (1999) was used by many to justify Scott’s murder. An Island Calling is an unusual and intricate murder mystery, which seeks not to find the killer, but to discover the killer’s motives through a society’s politics and history.

Awards: Pacific Documentary Film Festival 2009 (Best Film) Qantas Film and Television Awards 2008 (Best Documentary, Cinematography)

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Kimjongilia

Know Your Mushrooms

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Artfully melding dignity with indignation, France/USA/ Kimjongilia opens with the triumphant sounds South Korea and images that North Korea presents to the 2009 world. Life behind the Kim dynasty’s 60-year Director: façade, however, involves censorship, food N.C. Heikin Producers: shortages, prison camps, and public execu- N.C. Heikin tions, leading to the deaths of millions. Thirteen Robert Pépin Young-sun Cho defectors who escaped between 1992 and David Novack 2006 relate their harrowing experiences, as Cinematographer: Kyle Saylors director N.C. Heikin illustrates their words using Editors: state-sanctioned propaganda and the expres- Peterson Almeida sive moves of modern dancers. Several speak- Mary Lampson Music: ers grew up thinking of Kim Il-sung, the father of Michael Gordon General Kim Jong-il, as an exalted member of Running Time: their own family, like an all-powerful grandfather. 75 minutes Presentation Format: Sent to a camp at nine years of age, Kang Chol- HDCAM, in Korean, with hwan took solace in a smuggled copy of “The English subtitles International Sales: Count of Monte Cristo,” inspiring him to make Visit Films his own getaway ten years later. Representing Print Source: love, peace, wisdom, and justice, the Kimjongilia Visit Films Film Website: flower, a red begonia, commemorates the Great kimjongiliathemovie.com Leader’s 46th birthday, but it’s his legacy of injus- Selected Filmography: tice that inflames Heikin’s film. As Mrs. Kim (no Debut Feature Film relation) pleads, “The world has to save North Korea. We have to speak of it.” With generosity and compassion, Heikin gives these brave refugees that chance.

Veteran documentarian Ron Mann joins the Canada throng of mycophiles (mushroom aficionados) at 2009 the Telluride Mushroom Festival for a fascinating Director: look at fungi. Long celebrated as a sliced salad Ron Mann Producer: topping or spongy addition to spaghetti sauce, Ron Mann one day the mushroom may just be the savior of Screenwriter: the world. Know Your Mushrooms is a playfully Ron Mann Cinematographers: informative exploration of these spores’ ability Brian T. Moore to nourish us, clean up our oil spills, cure illness Andy Keen (possibly cancer), and move our minds closer to Editors: Nick Taylor seeing God. Mann introduces Larry Evans (the Simo “Indiana Jones of mushrooms”) and former festi- Music: The Flaming Lips val president Gary Lincoff, two of the more expert Running Time: and unforgettable characters of the mycological 74 minutes community. Larry travels from Alaska to Mexico Presentation Format: 35mm throughout the year searching for the best Print Source: mushrooms. He isn’t afraid to prove that poison- Abramorama ous mushrooms won’t kill you as long as you Film Website: sphinxproductions.com don’t swallow and cheerfully leaves fungus as Selected Filmography: a tip at restaurants. Peppered throughout with Tales of the Rat Fink (2006) fun animated “Fungi Facts,” a neo-psychedelic Go Further (2003) soundtrack by The Flaming Lips, and clips from Grass (1999) Comic Book Confidential absurd entertainment like the 1963 Japanese (1988) horror film Attack of the Mushroom People, Imagine the Sound (1981) Mann keeps the tone light while he savors every fascinating facet of the mushroom kingdom. By the end, you might just believe this little fungus could save the world.

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Little Joe

SATURDAY JUNE 6 7:15 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 4:00 PM

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Joe Dallesandro became famous in the 1960s USA as Andy Warhol’s naked muse in several Paul 2009 Morrissey movies, and was immortalized in a Director: song by Lou Reed, but, as the documentary Nicole Haeusser Producers: Little Joe shows, his life was more than a walk Vedra Mehagian on the wild side. Dallesandro speaks directly to Dallesandro Joe Dallesandro the camera, smoking constantly, telling of his Christos Moisides films, marriages, drugs, and drinking. His remi- Nicole Haeusser niscences as a misunderstood icon are backed Cinematographer: Christos Moisides up with abundant archival footage. Despite Editors: being almost short enough to be a racing jockey, Karen Smalley Nicole Haeusser Dallesandro’s youthfully chiseled features and Music: muscular body—along with his comfort with John Frusciante Gabriel Rowland on-screen nudity—made him an object of lust Lou Reed for men and women alike. His portrayal of a Featuring: street hustler in the 1968 Morrisey film Flesh Joe Dallesandro Running Time: established the image cemented in Reed’s lyrics, 87 minutes “Little Joe never once gave it away. Everybody Presentation Format: had to pay and pay.” The actor claims that the HDCAM International Sales: character in the film is not a true representation Little Joe Productions of who he really is, despite doing several more Print Source: Morrissey films for Andy Warhol. It only took Little Joe Productions Film Website: about three years for Dallesandro to go from littlejoeproductions.com an orphaned troublemaker trolling the streets of Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film Queens to an international star, and he was just getting started.

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Manhole Children North American Premiere

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The Soviet Union’s fall in the early 1990s forced Japan Mongolia to make a sudden transition to a 2008 capitalist economy. This rapid introduction of a Director: free market produced overwhelming economic Yoshio Harada Producer: confusion, causing unprecedented levels of Hideya Yamaguchi unemployment and plunging nearly half the Cinematographers: population into poverty. By the winter of 1998, Satoru Yoneya Hiroshi Sunayama thousands of abandoned children were living Editor: under the streets of the capitol, Ulan Bator. Yasuo Sato Time: With winter temperatures as low as 40 degrees Running 117 minutes below zero, the manholes provide access to a Presentation Format: vast network of steam pipes that heat the city’s HDCAM, in Japanese, with English subtitles homes, allowing the children to survive. Living Print Source: literally underground in a lawless no man’s land Efubun-no-ichi, Inc. of theft and violence, the children form packs in Film Website: manhole-children.com order to stay alive. Shot over ten years, the film Selected Filmography: traces the lives of Boldoo, Dashaa, and Oyun, Debut Feature Film three of these “manhole children,” who reach adulthood while living on the street. Often the best documentaries unwrap themselves, simply observing as layer upon layer of complexity is revealed. With a complexity that can only be achieved through diligence and patience, the film shows how the lives of these three children intertwine in surprising ways, laying bare the intricate webs of dreams, friendships, betrayals, violence, and love that shape their lives.

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Maradona by Kusturica US Premiere

Modern Life

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Serbian director Emir Kusturica’s documentary Spain/France reveals the many facets of controversial world 2008 soccer legend Diego Maradona. Believed by Director: many to be the greatest soccer player of modern Emir Kusturica Producers: times, Maradona is as big a character off the Paula Alvarez Vaccaro field as on it. Famous for his “hand of God” shot Jose Ibañez that led to Argentina’s victory over England in Screenwriter: Emir Kusturica the 1986 World Cup, he is just as well known Cinematographer: for his fast-lived life, obscured with cocaine and Rodrigo Pulpeiro liquor, and for his outspoken dislike of George Editor: Svetolik MIica Zajc W. Bush. We learn of his life as a poor child, Music: footballer, addict, teacher, activist, husband, and Stribor Kusturica Manu Chao father. Kusturica’s awe of the man is apparent Running Time: but his vision is not skewed from the average 93 minutes person’s perspective or from that of the much Presentation Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with more powerful. Witnessing conversations with English subtitles Fidel Castro proves he is just as captivated by International Sales: Wild Bunch the soccer legend as Kusturica. Appropriately Print Source: scored with the Sex Pistols and the alternative Wild Bunch music of Manu Chao, Maradona reveals the man Selected Filmography: Promise Me This (2007) in all his complexity, warts and all.

Life is a Miracle (2004) Super 8 Stories (2001) Black Cat White Cat (1998) Underground (1995) Arizona Dream (1993) Time of the Gypsies (1988) When Father was Away on Business (1985) Do You Remember Dolly Bell? (1981)

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As small family farming disappears from the France French countryside, the people who have 2008 worked the land for generations refuse to give Director: up and let their livelihoods crumble around them. Raymond Depardon Producer: Director Raymond Depardon travels between Claudine Nougaret families and farms, feeling the pressure of the Cinematographer: changing times as families attempt to cope Raymond Depardon Editor: with the devastating loss of their lifestyles. Over Simon Jaquet the course of ten years, Depardon returns to Music: each family to catch up on their stories, allow- Gabriel Fauré Running Time: ing the passage of time to play a major role in 88 minutes the film. We meet octogenarian brothers who Presentation Format: in French, with struggle with the daily task of maintaining their 35mm, English subtitles farm despite their age and the evolution of their International Sales: trade. Depardon takes on the role of filmmaker, Films Distribution Print Source: interviewer, and narrator, coaxing the tradition- Films Distribution ally reserved farmers to open up about their lives Film Website: and feelings of despair over the decline of their modernlifethefilm.com Selected Filmography: industry. Visually astute, Depardon imparts his The 10th Judicial Court: sincere affection and respect for his subjects Moments of Trials (2004) Untouched by the West through sprawling shots of the countryside’s (2002) natural beauty as well as striking images that Muriel Leferle (1999) Lumière de Paris (1998) divulge the naked truth of the situation.

Malraux (1996)

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Pop Star On Ice

SUNDAY MAY 24 6:45 PM FRIDAY JUNE 5 11:00 AM

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Johnny Weir is the most compelling athlete USA/Canada/ you’ve never heard of. In figure skating circles, Russia/Japan Weir is as known for his artistry and skill as he 2009 is for his controversial and sometimes baffling Directors: Barba behavior. Notorious for his joyfully inappropriate David James Pellerito conduct at press conferences and his uncom- Producers: promising personality and sense of style, Weir’s David Barba James Pellerito antics both on and off the ice are hard to ignore. Screenwriters: Pop Star On Ice follows a season of Weir’s David Barba James Pellerito uneven trajectory toward top skating honors as Cinematographers: he ricochets between flawless performances David Barba and absolute failures. The filmmakers effortlessly James Pellerito Editors: provide an immediate and comic portrait of the David Barba self-assured, chronically inconsistent skater as James Pellerito he struggles to overcome the hangups that keep Music: Giovanni Spinelli him from finishing in first place. From his rocky Featuring: relationship with the trainer who knows him too Johnny Weir Priscilla Hill well, to his inability to fully commit to his talent, Paris Childers this tightly constructed documentary showcases Patti Weir Running Time: Weir as a fierce competitor who could one day 85 minutes take the gold.

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Princess of Africa

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Princess of Africa introduces the audience Spain/Senegal to two different princesses and their dreams. 2008 Marem is a 14-year-old girl from Senegal who Director: studies dance and dreams of performing in Juan Laguna Producer: Europe when she is older. Sonia is a professional Juan Laguna dancer from Spain who is fascinated by African Screenwriter: culture and creativity, and desires to experi- Juan Laguna Cinematographers: ence an African lifestyle. The two women are by Raúl Bartolomé connected in Pap Ndiaye, a master griot (musi- Hugo Herrera Gabriel Molera cian) who splits his time between Senegal and Borja Pozueco Europe. Marem is his daughter, and Sonia has Editor: just married Pap in Spain. Both women will find Juan Laguna Music: their dreams in the course of the film, but each Manu Sanz at a price. When Sonia arrives in Africa, she finds Juan Laguna Featuring: the vibrant colors and rhythms that have inspired Marem Ndiaye her performances are intact, but she is faced Pap Ndiaye Fama Diout with the realization that she is not the only wife Sunia Sampayo of Pap Ndiaye. In fact, she is his third wife and Kine Seck she must come to terms with her expectations Running Time: 77 minutes of marriage in an African society. Marem sees Presentation Format: the other side of the coin. Her vision of Europe is DigiBeta, in Wolof, Spanish, and French, with utopian and the actual visit is a surprising revela- English subtitles tion for her. A celebrated portrait of African life, Print Source: Producciones Bereberia Princess of Africa is a beautiful documentary that Film Website: is full of love between people and ideas while princesadeafrica.com sharing an intoxicating vision of the way music Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Films and dance are woven into the cultural aesthetic.

Recommended for ages 13 and above.

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Prodigal Sons

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Early on in this very personal film, the audience USA learns that the director, Kimberly Reed, was 2008 once known as Paul, a star quarterback in high Director: school before her sex-change operation. Reed’s Kimberly Reed Producers: gender reassignment, however, turns out to be John Keitel a mere side note—and hardly the most surpris- Kimberly Reed ing one—in this exploration of her family’s bizarre Screenwriter: Kimberly Reed past. While visiting her hometown of Helena, Cinematographer: Montana, to attend a high-school reunion, she John Keitel reconnects with her adopted brother, Marc, Editors: Shannon Kennedy whom she hasn’t seen in more than a decade. Kimberly Reed Growing up, Marc lived in the shadow of his Music: T. Griffin overachieving then-brother Paul (now Kimberly). Running Time: Since suffering a traumatic brain injury at age 86 minutes 21, Marc is prone to mercurial mood swings and Presentation Format: HDCAM violent behavior. But Marc takes center stage International Sales: after it is revealed that he is the biological grand- Louise Rosen Ltd. son of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. The jaw- Print Source: Big Sky Film dropping revelations continue as Kimberly and Film Website: Marc travel to Croatia to visit Welles’ longtime prodigalsonsfilm.com Filmography: partner Oja Kodar to learn more about Marc’s Selected Debut Feature Film mysterious origins. The raw emotions and sibling resentments uncovered in Prodigal Sons make it one of the strangest first-person documentaries in recent years and one that is sure to ignite many “nature versus nurture” arguments among viewers.

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This observational documentary offers a China/Germany controversial look into the lives of a group of 2008 young Chinese children enrolled in an inten- Director: sive gymnastics training program. The adults in Gan Chao Producers: their lives, whether the parents, foster parents, Barbara Biemann coach, or the art teacher, all continuously rein- Qiming Ying force one ultimate goal: winning a gold medal at Cinematographers: Gong Wei the Olympics. The children represent the work- Qian Zhu ing-class parents’ aspirations for better lives, a Editor: Bas Roeterink chance for the coaches to prove their worth, and Music: a country’s hope for remaining in the top ranks Battleship Grey: Klingspor at the big game. Their path is not an easy one. Oscar Pontus Brock The pressure on these young boys and girls to Oskar Andersson grow up to be winning athletes is great as the Running Time: 70 minutes competitive sport is lauded over learning to read Presentation Format: and write for the kindergarten-aged students. DigiBeta, in Mandarin, with English subtitles Will their rigorous training from a young age Print Source: make them better athletes? This detailed insight Documentary Channel captures the contradictions of modern China Shanghai Media Group Film Website: and the cost paid for the country’s dreams. ganchao.net Awards: Silverdocs 2008 (Special Jury Prize) Hamptons International Film Festival 2008 (Special Jury Prize) Shanghai TV Festival 2008 (Best Social Documentary)

Selected Filmography: Nobody’s Child (2007) Last House Standing (2005) Come and Dance Burka (2004) More or One (2003) Time Difference (2002)

Awards: Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival 2009 (FIPRESCI Prize)

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Rembrandt’s J’Accuse

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Rembrandt’s J’Accuse occupies an unsteady patch of ground, jostled about by the competing labels of documentary, historical re-enactment, art film, conspiracy theory, and police procedural. As writer, director, and presenter, Peter Greenaway leads a forensic investigation of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch,” uncovering clues in the painting that suggest the murderous impulses of the men it depicts. At the same time, the film explores the motivations of the painter himself, whose life and career began to unravel soon after “Night Watch” was completed. A broader indictment emerges from Greenaway’s analysis concerning the present culture’s visual and artistic illiteracy. He pulls meaning and symbolism out of Rembrandt’s masterpiece to emphasize just how much the conventions of film and television have dulled our understanding of art. This is a distinctly atypical yet funny and assured film as much an analysis of cinema as it is an exercise in art history. Viewers should prepare themselves for some self-reflexive mental yoga but can be reassured that they will emerge from the theater more limber for the experience.

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Netherlands/ United Kingdom/ Poland/Canada 2008 Director: Peter Greenaway Producers: Femke Wolting Bruno Felix Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway Cinematographer: Reiner Van Brummelen Editors: Elmer Leupen Irma de Vries Music: Giovanni Sollima Marco Robino Featuring: Martin Freeman Eva Birthistle Jodhi May Emily Holmes Jonathan Holmes Running Time: 86 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm International Sales: ContentFilm International Print Source: ContentFilm International Film Website: rembrandt.submarine.nl Selected Filmography: 8 1/2 Women (1999) The Pillow Book (1996) Prospero’s Books (1991) The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989) Drowning By Numbers (1988) The Belly of an Architect (1987) A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

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Can you imagine a world without fish? It’s a Norway/USA frightening, cataclysmic premise, and worst 2008 of all, it’s happening right now. A Sea Change Director: follows the journey of retired history teacher Barbara Ettinger Producers: Sven Huseby on his quest to discover what is Sven Huseby happening to the world’s oceans. After reading Barbara Ettinger Susan Cohn Rockefeller Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Darkening Sea,” Sven Cinematographer: becomes obsessed with the rising acidity of Claudia Raschkethe oceans and what this “sea change” bodes Robinson Editor: for mankind. His quest takes him to Alaska, Toby Shimin California, Australia, and Norway as he uncovers Running Time: a worldwide crisis that most people are unaware 85 minutes Presentation Format: of. Speaking with oceanographers, marine biol- DigiBeta ogists, climatologists, and artists, Sven eventu- Print Source: Niijii Films ally discovers that global warming is only half Film Website: the story of the environmental catastrophe that aseachange.net awaits us. A Sea Change is also a touching Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film portrait of Sven’s relationship with his grandchild Elias. As Sven keeps a correspondence with the little boy, he mulls over the world that he is leaving for future generations. A disturbing and essential companion piece to An Inconvenient Truth, A Sea Change brings home the indisputable fact that our lifestyle is changing the earth, despite our rhetoric or wishful thinking.

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“Love—even pathological love—is incredibly USA powerful. We talk about people who are addict- 2009 ed to alcohol, people who are addicted to sex… Director: but the biggest human addiction is love. It’s Barbara Schroeder Producer: the master addiction that nothing can replace.” Barbara Schroeder This observation early into talhotblond sets the Screenwriter: stage for a surprising true-crime tale of identity, Barbara Schroeder Cinematographer: obsession, and deceit. Thomas Montgomery, Per Larrson an unassuming machinist in upstate New York Running Time: with a troubled marriage, meets teenage Jessie 83 minutes Presentation Format: (aka “talhotblond”) online. Montgomery tells her HDCAM that he is Tommy, an 18-year-old boy on his way Print Source: to Marine boot camp. Their relationship quickly Barbara Schroeder Selected Filmography: evolves into cybersex and an engagement. Debut Feature Film Eventually Jessie discovers that Tommy is really 47-year-old Thomas and confirms it through one of his co-workers. When she embarks on another online relationship with Thomas’ co-worker, all three of their real and online lives begin to collide. With sharp psychological insight and an ingenious approach to narration, director Barbara Schroeder weaves interviews together with transcripts of the three lovers’ online conversations to tell the story of a love triangle in which the lovers never meet in face-to-face, but one person ends up dead, another goes to prison, and the families of all three are changed forever.

Unmistaken Child

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Ever wonder how reincarnations of deceased Israel Buddhist masters are found and recognized? 2008 Unmistaken Child chronicles Nepalese monk Director: Tenzin Zopa’s lengthy search for the new Nati Baratz Producers: embodiment of Geshe Lama Konchog, a revered Ilil Alexander rinpoche who died in 2001. Observing rather Arik Bernstein Nati Baratz than explaining ancient traditions, Israeli direcScreenwriter: tor Nati Baratz’s fascinating insider’s perspective Nati Baratz inspires as many questions as it answers. After Cinematographer: Yaron Orbach signs at “Geshe-La’s” cremation pyre indicate Editor: an imminent reincarnation, senior lamas in India Ron Goldman consult Taiwanese astrologers and learn there’s Music: Cyril Morin a high probability that the baby’s father’s name Running Time: starts with an “A” and that he will come from 102 minutes a place beginning with “ts.” Those clues take Presentation Format: 35mm, in Tibetan, Nepali, 28-year-old Zopa on a long stay in Nepal’s spec- Hindi, and English, with tacular Tsum Valley, where he inspects an array English subtitles International Sales: of runny-nosed tots to see if they recognize his Fortissimo Films master’s rosary. While the film is ostensibly about Print Source: the identification and education of a remarkable Oscilloscope Laboratories Selected Filmography: child, it also portrays hardworking Zopa’s evolu- Debut Feature Film tion from shy disciple to resourceful teacher, capturing the beauty in wild nature and timeless, elaborate Buddhist rites and rituals.

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William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

We Live in Public

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Josh Harris predicted this would happen: We’re USA all slaves to the internet. We Facebook, Flickr, 2008 Tweet, and blazon our lives all over the internet. Director: Director Ondi Timoner documents the tumultuous Ondi Timoner Producers: life of internet pioneer Josh Harris, the Warholian Ondi Timoner poster child of the dot-com days who made his Keirda Bahruth millions from founding Jupiter Communications Cinematographers: Ondi Timoner and Psuedo.com, the first internet television Vasco Nunes network. Throwing his money around like “sands Editors: Josh Altman in the fingers of time,” he launched a 30-day Ondi Timoner social experiment in the heart of New York City Music: Dector called “Quiet” in the final days of the last millen- Ben Marco D’Ambrosio nium. More than a hundred people participated, Featuring: agreeing to live under 24-hour surveillance in an Joshua Harris Jason Calacanis underground bunker. They ate, drank, show- Running Time: ered, shot guns, had sex, underwent interroga- 90 minutes tions, and went a little crazy. Harris then turned Presentation Format: HDCAM the cameras on his personal life, installing over International Sales: 30 cameras throughout the loft he shared with Submarine Entertainment Source: his girlfriend Tanya, webcasting their every move Print Interloper FIlms on Weliveinpublic.com. Like Timoner’s previous Film Website: DIG!, We Live in Public has got guts, fast-paced weliveinpublicthemovie. com editing and a well-chosen rock soundtrack Selected Filmography: (including David Bowie and The Jesus and Join Us (2007) DIG! (2004) Mary Chain). Fascinating and relevant, the film, through Harris’ story, displays the effects of our increasingly public lifestyle via the web.

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Hailed as a hero and condemned as an oppor- USA tunist, attorney William Kunstler became a media 2009 star in the 1960s, defending the Chicago Seven Directors: in one of the most controversial trials in U.S. Sarah Kunstler Emily Kunstler history. This incisive documentary by Emily and Producers: Sarah Kunstler is an affectionate, sometimes Jesse Moss Susan Korda ambivalent tribute to their father, a man who both Screenwriter: defined his times and helped to create them. Sarah Kunstler Getting a taste of political activism while fighting Cinematographer: Brett Wiley for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., Kunstler Editor: subsequently took on cases that were splashed Emily Kunstler across the front pages of the world, including the Music: Shahzad Ismaily Attica prison riots and the standoff at Wounded Running Time: Knee. He confounded his family and supporters 90 minutes when he shifted to criminal cases in the 1970s, Presentation Format: HDCAM defending admitted murderers, rapists, and Print Source: Mafia kingpins. His transition from saint to pariah Arthouse Films was cemented when he worked for the defen- Film Website: disturbingtheuniverse. dants in the infamous Central Park jogger trial. com Interviews with his contemporaries and electri- Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film fying footage of the historic events in which he participated make William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe an absorbing history lesson and an intensely personal portrait of a husband and father, providing no easy answers in its deconstruction of a political and cultural icon.

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The Yes Men Fix the World TheFilmSchool and Seattle International Film Festival announce:

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Gonzo political activists The Yes Men return to USA the silver screen with their most recent slew of 2009 corporate hoaxes and political stunts that target Directors: our cynical political and financial overlords. Andy Bichlbaum Mike Bonanno Impersonating corporate luminaries around Kurt Engfehr the globe, Yes Men Mike Bonanno and Andy Producers: Doro Bachrach Bichlbaum skewer the greed and corruption Ruth Charny behind global free trade. 2003’s The Yes Men Laura Nix showcased outrageously innovative concepts like Screenwriters: Andy Bichlbaum a scheme to alleviate world hunger by repeatedly Mike Bonanno “recycling” hamburgers, and the skintight golden Cinematographer: Raul Barcelona leotard—equipped with a three-foot-long inflat- Editor: able phallus—that allows sweatshop owners April Merl to control their workers from afar. This year’s Music: Neel Murgai & Noisola The Yes Men Fix the World takes things a step Featuring: further, with the team unveiling “SurvivaBall,” Andy Bichlbaum Mike Bonanno an inflatable prophylactic suit (think a blown-up Running Time: Violet in Wonka’s chocolate factory) that insulates 85 minutes wearers against man-made ecological disasters, Presentation Format: DigiBeta and introducing a groundbreaking new biofuel International Sales: synthesized from the bodies of climate-change Cinetic Media victims. A carnivalesque comedy in the face of Print Source: The Yes Men corporate and political greed, The Yes Men Fix Film Website: the World is serious in its criticism of capitalism, theyesmen.org/theyesmenfixtheworld free trade, and the destruction of our planet. It’s Selected Filmography: wild entertainment with a pointed purpose.

The Yes Men (2003) Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award)

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HEAVEN’S HEART

“An extravagant, heartfelt blend of tenderness, pain and longing.”

— Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Raw emotion, fearless performances and stylized cinematography make for compelling viewing!” — Alissa Simon, Variety

Director: Philippe Garrel Runtime: 1hr, 46min Festivals: Cannes Nationality: France When Carole, a movie star neglected by her husband, falls for Francois, a young photographer, their intense bond soon devolves into madness and mystery.

Director: Simon Staho Runtime: 1hr, 35min Festivals: Berlin/San Francisco Nationality: Sweden

HOW TO BE

THE 27 CLUB

“A brilliant symbiosis of intellect and humor, nurtured along with a healthy dose of British charm.” — Slamdance FF

“Remarkably convincing! ACROSS THE UNIVERSE’s Joe Anderson turns in an intense, anguished performance.”

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Director: Oliver Irving Runtime: 1hr, 25min Festivals: Slamdance Nationality: UK Starring TWILIGHT star Robert Pattinson, HOW TO BE is a wry comedy about a young man’s painfully funny journey to figure out where he belongs in a complicated world.

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In this Bergman-esque drama, a twenty year marriage is put to the test when a woman finds out that her husband is having an affair with her closest friend.

Director: Erica Dunton Runtime: 1hrs, 25min Festivals: Tribeca/Seattle Nationality: USA The last surviving member of a rock band travels in a drugged-out stupor from LA to his Missouri hometown to carry out his late friend’s final request.

A L’AVENTURE

DARK MIRROR

“Once again Brisseau looks at the sexual voyage of discovery of young women… It is the start of a boundless and increasingly dangerous experiment.” — Edinburgh FF

“DARK MIRROR sustains suspense throughout, thanks in part to the tour-deforce performance of Lisa Vidal!”

— Ronnie Scheib, Variety

Director: Jean-Claude Brisseau Runtime: 1hr, 42min Festivals: Montreal/Rotterdam Nationality: France

Director: Pablo Proenza Runtime: 1hr, 29min Festivals: New York Latino Nationality: USA

In this intense erotic drama, a woman undergoes hypnosis to reach her ultimate sexual fantasy.

In this eerie horror film, a photographer moves into a haunted house and finds that everyone she takes pictures of dies.

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y r a r o p m e t n a o m C e n i C d l r o W See the world from your theater seat at SIFF’s largest program.

SIFF offers many tasty treats over the course of 25 days, but the Contemporary World Cinema section is truly the main course. These films represent the vast breadth of world cinema, from the latest offerings by cinematic masters to at least three-dozen first features from young up-and-coming filmmakers. France leads the pack, with more than 20 films chosen for this section, but there are other gems to discover from such historically underrepresented countries as Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Cyprus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. This year’s selections serve up light-as-a-feather farces, gripping dramas about racial tensions, tender stories about first love, sweeping war epics, and even a philosophical sci-fi film about clones. Each entry demonstrates how cinematic storytelling differs across the globe, offering fresh perspectives of human interactions from some of the top award-winning films from festivals worldwide to some obscure treasures found right here in the United States.

Don’t miss this chance to be the first to check out some of the best international fare of the year.

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33 SCENY Z ZYCIA

33 Scenes from Life

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(500) Days of Summer

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Julie comes from a close-knit family of artists, Poland/Germany the pampered and spoiled one in her quick- 2008 witted family. The film opens on a happy night Director: as the family sits dining outside. Julie (played Małgośka Szumowska Producers:

by German actress Julia Jentsch who does Raimond Goebel not speak Polish but learned the role phoneti- Teresa Dvorzecka Karl Baumgartner cally) is a talented, internationally acclaimed Screenwriter: photographer who is married to Piotr, a famous Małgośka Szumowska composer. Director Malgośka Szumowska, a Cinematographer: Michal Englert rising star of Polish cinema, creates a poetic Editor: string of 33 scenes from life. When her parents Jacek Drosio die, Julia slips into emotional extremes, crying Music: Pawel Mykietyn and laughing at the same time. With a light hand, Cast: Szumowska captures how life goes on no matter Julia Jentsch Peter Gantzler what happens, especially in the most challenging Maciej Stuhr times. Julia’s professional career goes through a Malgorzata Hajewska Andrzej Hudziak period of crisis and she is forced to reappraise Running Time: her life, her husband, her estranged sister, and 95 minutes her artistic collaborator Adrian. 33 Scenes from Presentation Format: 35mm, in Polish, with Life is an adeptly produced film with smooth, English subtitles sophisticated camerawork, impeccable editing, International Sales: TrustNordisk and a strong ensemble cast.

Awards: Locarno Film Festival (Silver Leopard)

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Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love. Girl doesn’t. USA Surprising in its outcome, Marc Webb’s debut 2009 feature film is a charming postmodern reflection Director: on crushing, unrequited love and relationships, Marc Webb Producers: dispensed in a nonlinear structure. Starting at Jessica Tuchinsky day 488, the narration jumps back and forth to Mark Waters Steven Wolfe different days in the 500-day love affair. From day Mason Novick one Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is completely Screenwriters: smitten by new co-worker Summer (Zooey Scott Neustadter Michael Weber Deschanel). He believes in the possibility of soul Cinematographer: mates destined to meet, while she believes that Eric Steelberg true love is only a fairy tale never to be experi- Editor: Alan Bell enced, and so her interest in Tom is purely light- Music: hearted fun. Gordon-Levitt’s and Deschanel’s Mychael Danna Rob Simonsen nuanced portrayals of roller coaster love and the Cast: mercurial, ungraspable object of one’s affection Zooey Deschanel Joseph Gordon-Levitt almost move this story out of romantic comedy Clark Gregg and into tragedy. The comedic tone, vigorous Minka Kelly Matthew Gray Gubler shots, and effervescent music keep it light in the Running Time: most satisfying way.

95 minutes

Print Source: Pandora Film Film Website: 33-szenen.realfictionfilme.de Selected Filmography: Happy Man (2000)

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DARBAREYE ELLY

$9.99

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About Elly

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The answer to the meaning of life and why we Israel/Australia exist is within your reach, and it’ll only cost you 2008 a mere $9.99. Unemployed 28-year-old Dave Director: Peck chips in his money for the answers. The Tatia Rosenthal Producers: little booklet he receives changes his life, and he Emile Sherman sets out on a quest to share his find with the rest Amir Harel of the world—starting with his apartment block Screenwriters: Tatia Rosenthal neighbors in Tel Aviv. This stop-motion animated Etgar Keret feature walks through the daily lives of a quirky based on short stories by Etgar Keret cast of characters, including a magician at the Cinematographers: mercy of repossessors, a supermodel with a Susan Stitt James Lewis very particular taste in men, a little boy hoping Richard Bradshaw for the latest, greatest toy, and more. Each Music: Christopher Bowen struggles with the daily twists and turns of life in Featuring the Voices of: pursuit of happiness. On the surface the mood Geoffrey Rush is pensive, even gloomy, but lurking just under- Anthony LaPaglia Samuel Johnson neath is humor in waiting. This urban fairy tale Claudia Karvan doesn’t ask or answer a lot of questions, so we Joel Edgerton Ben Mendelson can formulate our own conclusion about what Barry Otto Running Time: makes us happy.

Awards: Mexico City International Film Festival 2008 (Cinemex Audience Award)

78 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm International Sales: Fortissimo Films Print Source: Regent Releasing Film Website: 9dollars99movie.com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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In his fourth feature, talented writer-director Iran Asghar Farhadi casts a revealing light on the 2009 elaborate culture of deceit that’s part and parcel Director: of modern Iranian society with a gripping drama Asghar Farhadi Producer: about upper-middle class Tehranis on a cata- Asghar Farhadi strophic seaside holiday. Pretty, warm nursery Screenwriter: school teacher Elly is an uncomfortable outsider Asghar Farhadi Cinematographer: among a group of old university friends. Overly Hossein Jafarian insistent Sepideh, the mother of one of her Editor: students, drags her along to the Caspian Sea. Hayedeh Safiyari Cast: Sepideh’s hidden agenda, which soon becomes Golshifteh Farahani obvious to the others, is to make a match Taraneh Alidousti Mani Haghighi between Elly and Ahmad, who is newly divorced Running Time: from a German woman and desirous of an Iranian 119 minutes wife. As the outing progresses, casually told lies Presentation Format: 35mm, in Persian, with accumulate at an alarming rate and ultimately English subtitles come back to haunt the tellers. Some have to International Sales: DreamLab Films do with tarouf, a sort of faux-politeness embedPrint Source: ded in Persian culture; others have to do with DreamLab Films the gender roles and class differences. Although Selected Filmography: Fireworks Wednesday the film starts as a comedy of manners, after an (2006) alarming incident at the 45-minute mark, Farhadi Beautiful City (2004) Dancing in the Dust ratchets up the tension, and the film becomes (2003) a mystery thriller that epitomizes the Sir Walter Scott quote, “Oh what a tangled web weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Best Director) Tribeca Film Festival 2009 (Best Feature)

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Adam

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Can a 20-something man with Asperger’s USA syndrome, unable to respond to nonverbal 2009 signals and unaware of social conventions, Director: offer a woman a satisfying, adult relationship? Max Mayer Producers: Writer-director Max Mayer tenderly and credibly Leslie Urdang explores this question in Adam, as a couple of Miranda De Pencier Dean Vanech unusual characters cautiously navigate a compliScreenwriter: cated romance. Beth, a smart, attractive writer, Max Mayer who is still emotionally damaged from a past Cinematographer: Seamus Tierney relationship, moves into a New York City apart- Editor: ment building where she meets Adam, the hand- Grant Myers some but perplexingly odd electronic engineer in Music: Christopher Lennertz the apartment downstairs. Friendly and engag- Cast: ing by nature, Beth doesn’t quite know what Hugh Dancy Rose Byrne to make of Adam’s initially avoidant nature and Peter Gallagher awkward communication style. When she learns Amy Irving Frankie Faison of Adam’s condition and notices how he’s drawn Mark Linn-Baker to her, she decides to give him a chance. But Running Time: their relationship is endangered in more ways 95 minutes Presentation Format: than one when Adam meets Beth’s parents, who 35mm harbor understandable reservations. Their rare Print Source: story takes on obstacles of human intimacy with Fox Searchlight Film Website: psychological prowess. The couple’s compli- foxsearchlight.com/adam cated romance exemplifies something universal: Selected Filmography: Better Living (2000) truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory, and the resulting shake-up can be liberating.

The Admiral

US Premiere

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A sweeping historical epic in the tradition of Russia Doctor Zhivago, The Admiral tells the story of 2008 Alexander Kolchak (Konstantin Khabensky), Director: one of the White Army’s most controver- Andrei Kravchuck Producer: sial commanders. Married to Sofia and with a Anatoly Maximoc young son, Kolchak nevertheless falls heavily Screenwriters: for Anna, the wife of a friend and fellow officer. Vladimir Valutsky Zoya Coudrie Although Kolchak and Anna initially try to resist Cinematographers: their passion and are separated in the chaos of Igor Grinyakin Alexei Rodionov the Revolution, they eventually unite in Siberia, Editor: where Kolchak is fighting the Bolsheviks on the Tom Rolf banks of the Ushakovka River. One of the most Music: Gleb Matvejchuk expensive Russian films ever made (the budget Ruslan Muratov is reported to have been around $20 million), Cast: Elizaveta Boyarskaya no expense has been spared on the lavish set Konstantin Khabensky pieces, costumes, and full-scale orchestral Sergey Bezrukov Vladislav Vetrov score. In his portrait of Kolchak as a man clingRunning Time: ing to 19th-century values while his country 123 minutes transforms around him, director Andrei Kravchuk Presentation Format: 35mm, in Russian and (The Italian) has conjured a lost world of grace French, with English subtitles and beauty.

Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (Alfred P. Sloan Prize)

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International Sales: Rezo Print Source: Rezo Film Website: admiralfilm.ru Selected Filmography: The Italian (2005) The Christmas Miracle (2000)

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Against the Current

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With the five-year anniversary of his wife and USA child’s death rapidly approaching, Paul (Joseph 2009 Fiennes) recruits his friends Jeff and Liz to help Director: him realize his all-consuming goal of swimming Peter Callahan Producers: the length of the Hudson River. Sensing that Joshua Zeman Paul is hiding something, Jeff discovers that the Mary Jane Skalski trip is Paul’s way of saying goodbye to a life that Screenwriter: Peter Callahan has dealt him too much tragedy. Despite his Cinematographer: friends’ efforts to convince him otherwise, Paul Sean Kirby is firm in his belief that there is nothing left for Editor: Michael Taylor him now that his wife and child are gone. As Music: Paul swims closer to Manhattan, Liz and Jeff Anton Sanko scramble to change his mind before it’s too late. Cast: Joseph Fiennes Justin Kirk turns in a particularly strong perfor- Justin Kirk Elizabeth Reaser mance as Paul’s sarcastic, unsentimental best Mary Tyler Moore friend. Appearances from Michelle Trachtenberg Michelle Trachtenberg and Mary Tyler Moore round out an excellent Running Time: 94 minutes ensemble cast. Set against the backdrop of the Presentation Format: Hudson River Valley in summertime, Against the 35mm Sales: Current explores the dark landscape of life after International Fortissimo Films loss, and delivers a strong finale sure to stay with Print Source: Fortissimo Films you long after the film’s conclusion.

Film Website: againstthecurrent.net Selected Filmography: Last Ball (2001)

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Teenager Madeline Goodhart hoped for an idyllic USA coastal life when she and her younger sister, 2009 Daisy, moved to a beach town to live with her Director: father, a recent widower looking for a fresh start Gwen Wynne Producers: with a home-based furniture business. But as James Egan the two girls begin to make new friends in an Adam Rosen Mary Beth Fielder unfamiliar high school, they discover a secret Suzan Crowley that threatens to tear their family apart: an inti- Screenwriters: mate relationship between their father and his Gwen Wynne Mary Beth Fielder male business partner. Set in 1973 and shot Cinematographer: on Cape Cod, American Primitive examines Christopher Chomyn the meaning of family and love during a time of Editor: Joanne D’Antonio social and political upheaval, when homosexual- Music: ity was an emerging yet still taboo social issue Alice Nicholas Wood Cast: in the national consciousness. This story of a Tate Donovan struggle for normality in a generation steeped in Danielle Savre Skye McCole Bartusiak change is viewed from Madeline’s perspective Adam Pascal and is colored by the personal experiences of Anne Ramsey Josh Peck director Gwen Wynne, who grew up on Cape Running Time: Cod. With powerful performances that are alter- 93 minutes nately comic and moving, American Primitive Presentation Format: DigiBeta underscores the complex emotions surrounding Print Source: an issue that was once shrouded in silence and Cape Cod Films Film Website: shame.

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LA MUJER DEL ANARQUISTA

Amreeka

SATURDAY JUNE 13 6:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 14 4:00 PM

The Anarchist’s Wife

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A regular routine of West Bank checkpoints, a USA/Canada/ dead-end bank job, and reminders of a failed Kuwait marriage make Muna Farah’s life an uphill battle. 2009 Winning a U.S. green card lottery, Muna capital- Director: izes on the opportunity she’s been waiting for—a Cherien Dabis Producers: chance for her and her son Fadi to start anew. Christina Piovesan However, their move to America corresponds Paul Barkin Screenwriter: with the invasion of Iraq and the pair find them- Cherien Dabis selves in a political environment brewing with Cinematographer: tension. As they settle in with Muna’s sister and Tobias Datum Editor: husband, their attempts to acclimate to cookie- Keith Reamer cutter Chicago suburb go amiss. Fadi suffers Music: the two-fold alienation of being a teenager and Kareem Roustom Cast: an Arab, while Muna’s relentless job searching Nisreen Faour proves futile. Forced to the brink of financial Melkar Muallem Hiam Abbass crisis, the highly experienced and capable Muna Yussuf Abu-Warda secretly takes a job as a fast food employee. Alia Shawkat Running Time: Offering an authentic glimpse into the Palestinian 97 minutes situation, director Cherien Dabis filmed the first Presentation Format: part of the story in the West Bank. Effortless in 35mm, in English and Arabic, with English its depiction of displacement and the struggles subtitles of cultural identity, Amreeka also captures the International Sales: Maximum Films confusion of first-generation teenagers caught Print Source: between their parents’ ethnic heritage and the National Geographic Entertainment Western world in which they live.

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Separated by the Spanish Civil War, concen- Spain/Germany/ tration camps and years of unrest, Justo and France Manuela struggle to keep themselves and their 2009 marriage alive. A vocal Spanish loyalist and activ- Directors: Noëlle ist, Justo is forced into hiding and later a concen- Marie Peter Sehr tration camp, where communication with the Producers: outside world proves impossible. Despite these Marie Noëlle Peter Sehr lonely years of poverty, the resilient Manuela Screenwriters: raises her children, defies the Nationalist Party, Peter Sehr Marie Noëlle and assembles the broken pieces of her former Cinematographer: life—motivated by the hope her family will once Jean-François Robin again be whole someday. When word from Justo Editor: Luis de la Madrid comes after the war, Manuela drops everything Music: to be by his side, only to find his political ideal- Zacarías Martinez de ism is stronger than ever before. As she comes la Riva Cast: to terms with her husband’s cause, Manuela María Valverde works to rebuild their damaged relationship, as Juan Diego Botto Nina Hoss well as Justo’s relationship with his daughter. Ivana Baquero Co-directors Marie Noëlle and Peter Sehr splice Jean-Marc Barr Laura Morante archival footage with their harrowing depic- Running Time: tion of war-torn Madrid, creating a convincing 115 minutes Format: backdrop of devastation that dominates Justo Presentation 35mm, in French and and Manuela’s enduring love story. Told from Spanish, with English their daughter Paloma’s point of view, the story subtitles International Sales: unravels over decades of family drama, tracing Bavaria Film International the young girl’s understanding of love, politics, Print Source: Bavaria Film International and passion.

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Selected Filmography: Love the Hard Way (2001) Obsession (1997) Kaspar Hauser (1993) The Serbian Girl (1991)

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The Answer Man

MONDAY MAY 25 11:00 AM TUESDAY MAY 26 7:00 PM

Apron Strings

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Who is Arlen Faber? He’s the reclusive author USA of Me and God, a best-selling spirituality guide 2009 that changed the lives of an entire generation. Director: Still the question remains: Who is Arlen Faber? John Hindman Producers: Despite selling millions of books, it’s been years Jana Edelbaum since anyone except for his one-time editor has Kevin J. Messick seen the reclusive, cantankerous author. All that Screenwriter: John Hindman changes when two very different persons come Cinematographer: into his life. First, Arlen throws his back out, Oliver Bokelberg and must, quite literally, crawl into Elizabeth’s Editor: Gerald B. Greenberg chiropractic clinic to get help, stumbling upon Cast: the one person in New York City who hasn’t Kat Dennings Lauren Graham heard of him or his book. He becomes instantly Olivia Thirlby smitten with her but is unsure of how to prog- Jeff Daniels Tony Hale ress their budding relationship. Then there’s Kris, Running Time: a recovering alcoholic in search of someone to 95 minutes provide him with answers from a higher power. Presentation Format: 35mm Unfortunately, God isn’t taking Arlen’s calls Print Source: anymore. Writer-director John Hindman’s feature Magnolia Pictures Filmography: film debut genially grapples with all the large Selected Debut Feature Film questions of existence—Why am I here? What should I be doing?—but, like Arlen himself, its charm and levity comes from the very real suspicion that the best possible answer to such questions might just be a carefree shrug.

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Samoan-born, New Zealand-raised director New Zealand Sima Urale stirs the cultural melting pot and 2008 dishes up a visually appealing, character-driven Director: drama about food, love, traditions, and things Sima Urale Producers: that cause heartburn in the lives of two sepa- Rachel Gardner rate but parallel Kiwi families from racially diverse Angela Littlejohn cultures. At the heart of this often-humorous tale Screenwriters: Shuchi Kothari are three outwardly strong but inwardly vulner- Dianne Taylor able women whose lives and livelihoods revolve Cinematographer: Rewa Harre around their love of food and family. Beautiful Editor: widow Anita hosts a popular TV cooking show Eric De Beus but is frustrated by her producer’s repeated Music: Mark Petrie attempts to exploit her East Indian ethnicity, Cast: a culture with which she no longer identifies. Laila Rouass Scott Wills Meanwhile, Anita’s estranged sister, Tara, single- Jennifer Ludlam handedly runs their parents’ no-frills neighbor- Nathan Whitaker Leela Patel hood curry shop and has unknowingly hired Running Time: Anita’s 20-year-old son Michael. In another part 90 minutes of Auckland, bakery owner Lorna struggles Presentation Format: 35mm, in English and to come to terms with the racial and cultural Punjabi, with English changes occurring all around her. At home, her subtitles Sales: unemployed, deadbeat 35-year-old son, Barry, International New Zealand Film gambles away every cent she gives him, and her Commission daughter, Virginia, returns home from college— Print Source: New Zealand Film pregnant, unmarried, and a vegan. There are Commission many connections between the individuals, but Film Website: apronstringsmovie.com they will not be realized until all of their secrets Selected Filmography: are exposed.

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The Baby Formula

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The Baby Formula mixes cutting edge science, Canada sexual politics, and a healthy dose of humor 2008 to concoct what may be the sleeper hit of the Director: Festival. Lesbian couple Athena and Lilith want Alison Reid Producers: a biological child of their own so badly that James Mou they convince a scientist in a fertility lab to use Stephen Adams Alison Reid an experimental scientific process to impregScreenwriter: nate Athena with “female sperm” created from Richard Beattie Lilith’s stem cells, but on one condition: the Cinematographer: Brian Harper experiment must be kept secret. But when Lilith Editor: uses the same method to get pregnant behind Mark Arcieri Athena’s back, and the parentage of Lilith’s Music: Robert Carli baby is then called into question, the couple is Cast: forced to divulge the truth of their experimental Megan Fahlenbock Rosemary Dunsmore conceptions to their families. Full of humor and Angela Vint unexpected twists, the resulting family meeting Running Time: erupts in a collision of differing views. Shot in 81 minutes Presentation Format: an improvisational mockumentary style from the DigiBeta beginning through the final credits, Alison Reid’s Print Source: film benefits from serendipitous casting (both Free Spirit Films, Inc. Film Website: lead actresses were actually pregnant during thebabyformulamovie. shooting) and hilarious improvisational acting. com Selected Filmography: Reid, a veteran stunt coordinator and performer, Debut Feature Film demonstrates her directing chops with a great ear for family interaction in this film that celebrates love, acceptance, and the gift of life in all its forms.

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Baby Love

FRIDAY MAY 22 9:30 PM MONDAY MAY 25 1:45 PM

Ball Don’t Lie

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Lambert Wilson gives an evocative perfor- France mance as Manu, a 40-something pediatrician 2008 who discovers an underlying need to become Director: a father. There is one catch however—Manu is Vincent Garenq Producer: gay. Under French law, same-sex unions are Christophe Rossingnon legal while gay adoption remains illegal. When Screenwriter: Manu approaches his partner Philippe with his Vincent Garenq Cinematographer: newfound plan, it quickly becomes apparent that Jean-Claude Larrieu they are not on the same page. Manu is forced Editor: to choose between his partner and his desire Dorian Rigal-Ansous Music: to have a child. Fate intervenes when he runs Loïc Dury into Fina, a beautiful South American immigrant Laurent Levesque who is looking to become a French citizen. The Cast: Lambert Wilson two embark on a plan to make Fina a permanent Pilar López de Ayala Pascal Elbé French resident while helping to fulfill Manu’s Anne Brochet wish to have a child. But as in life, nothing is as Running Time: easy as it seems. This charming French comic 90 minutes Presentation Format: drama takes a modern look at love and what it 35mm, in French, with English subtitles truly means to be a family.

Based on Matt de la Peña’s popular novel, Ball USA Don’t Lie follows Sticky, a skinny high school 2008 junior with enormous basketball talent, but Director: also an equally daunting number of challenges. Brin Hill Producers: Abandoned to the foster care system, and suffer- Michael Roiff ing from an obsessive-compulsive disorder that Jeffrey Smith only vanishes when he’s on the court, he finds Screenwriters: Brin Hill his home at a community gym and becomes Matt de la Peña a star on the basketball court. Incorporating Cinematographer: Matthew Jensen multiple timelines, the film covers a single day in Editor: Sticky’s life, as he plays ball at the volatile Lincoln Steven Pilgrim Rec, the legendary Venice Beach court where Music: Dilated Peoples he is the only white player. Though committed Kanye West to his schedule of daily games, he’s trying to Danger Mouse Pete Rock save up to buy his girlfriend a birthday present. Cast: With little money to get a gift that will impress Grayson “The Professor” Boucher her, he makes a choice that will have a lasting Nick Cannon impact on the rest of their lives. In his debut Chris “Ludacris” Bridges Rosanna Arquette feature, director Brin Hill uses flashbacks and his Running Time: all-star ensemble—including ESPN’s Grayson 102 minutes “The Professor” Boucher as Sticky—to create Presentation Format: DigiBeta a genuine basketball film that mixes rough-and- Print Source: tumble human drama with the humor, energy, Night & Day Pictures and ego of the streetball scene to tell the story of Film Website: 3stonesback.com a young man learning to make the right moves. Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film Recommended for ages 13 and above.

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LA GUERRE DES MISS

The Beast Stalker

FRIDAY MAY 22 4:00 PM WEDNESDAY MAY 27 7:00 PM SATURDAY MAY 30 11:00 AM

Beauties at War

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Dante Lam made the Hong Kong action hit of the Hong Kong year, elegantly fusing a solid action picture with the 2008 depth of an emotional psychodrama. The Beast Director: Stalker grips like a vice from the opening frames: Dante Lam Producers: a thrilling car chase that ends with a $200,000 Albert Lee multicar stunt you have to see to believe. The film Cheung Hong-tat Candy Leung quickly introduces Tong Fei (a maturing Nicolas Dante Lam Tse) as the young leader of the cops who are Screenwriters: Ng chasing a triad boss. Tong mistakenly kills one of Jack Dante Lam the twin daughters of a prosecuting attorney who Wai-Lun Ng is trying the boss’ case. Before he can wallow too Cinematographers: Man-Po Cheung deeply in pain and guilt, the attorney’s other twin Chung-To Tse daughter is kidnapped. Tong takes the gamble Editor: Ki-Hop Chan to get her back at the risk of causing the second Music: daughter’s death. The dark and gritty roots woven Henry Lai by scenarist Jack Ng refuse to release their tense Cast: Nicholas Tse stranglehold on the audience while Nick Cheung Nick Cheung embodies the hired kidnapper as a repellent, one- Zhang Jingchu Running Time: eyed killer-for-hire and turns it into a symphony of 111 minutes sympathy. The story builds its suspense through Presentation Format: 35mm, in Cantonese, with a variety of wonderfully staged action set pieces English subtitles and a rhythmic, atmospheric score. Lam gets the International Sales: adrenaline pumping with his energetic directing, Emperor Motion Pictures Print Source: which plays the humanity of the lead performances Emperor Motion Pictures Film Website: to full effect.

Awards: Hong Kong Film Critics’ Society Awards (Best Actor, Supporting Actor)

THURSDAY MAY 28 7:00 PM SUNDAY MAY 31 9:00 PM SATURDAY JUNE 6 9:30 PM

North American Premiere

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The provincial valley town of Charmoussey has France always been in the shadow of its neighbor—liter- 2008 ally. Upper Charmoussey, a profitable ski resort, Director: sits above it in the snowy mountains. But now Patrice Leconte Producer: the very existence of Charmoussey is in danger Franck Chorot as local authorities consider annexing the two. Screenwriters: The mayor decides that their only hope of Fred Cavaye Guillaume Lemans defeating the measure lies in winning the annual Franck Chorot local beauty pageant (in which they’ve suffered Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou 22 consecutive losses). But this year they’ve Editor: got a secret weapon in the form of prodigal son Frederic Jupin Franck Chevrel. When local residents spy his Music: Étienne Perruchon picture in the TV guide (albeit as an extra), they Cast: decide he’s just the showbiz type they need to Benoît Poelvoorde Olivia Bonamy coach their amateurs to success. And there’s an Jacques Mathou added attraction for Chevrel—the girl(s?) he left Christian Charmetant behind. Benoît Poelvoorde and Olivia Bonamy Running Time: 89 minutes star in this farcical fable of top dog versus under- Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with dog from SIFF favorite Patrice Leconte.

thebeaststalker.emp.hk Selected Filmography: The Sniper (2009) Storm Rider: Clash of Evils (2008) Undercover Hidden Dragon (2006) Heat Team (2004) Love on the Rocks (2004) Naked Ambition (2003) The Twins Effect (2003) Beast Cops (1998)

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English subtitles International Sales: Gaumont Print Source: Gaumont Film Website: laguerredesmiss-lefilm. com Selected Filmography: My Best Friend (2006) Intimate Strangers (2004) The Man on the Train (2002) The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000) Ridicule (1996) Monsieur Hire (1989)

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Black Dogs Barking

LA TERRA DEGI UOMINI ROSSI

Birdwatchers

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In Mato Grosso do Sul, in the midwest of Italy/Brazil Brazil, the farmers lead a wealthy and leisurely 2008 existence. They have huge fields and hordes Director: of tourists who come for bird watching. The Marco Bechis Producers: Guarani-Kaiowá, the indigenous people who Amedeo Pagani really own the land, are now confined to a nearby Marco Bechis Fabiano Gullane reservation and are paid to stand naked along Caio Gullane the shores of the river in face paint to provide Screenwriters: thrills for the visitors. Fed up with their officially Marco Bechis Luiz Bolognesi imposed financial and spiritual impoverishment, Lara Fremder which has led to a wave of suicides, tribal leader Cinematographer: Hélcio Alemão Nagamine Nadio and a local shaman organize a protest on Editor: former Guarani property that is now occupied by Jacopo Quadri the deeply unsympathetic farmer Moreira and Music: Domenico Zipoli his cruel wife. As the two opposing worlds meet Andrea Guerra in an uneasy confrontation, a deep bond devel- Cast: Claudio Santamaria ops between the shaman’s young apprentice, Alicelia Batista Cabreira Osvaldo, and the farmer’s bikini-clad daughter. Chiara Caselli Abrisio da Silva Verga Casting local nonprofessionals, director Marco Ambrosio Vilhalva Bechis draws out performances that effectively Running Time: highlight the sharp clash between tyranny and a 108 minutes Presentation Format: profoundly spiritual and ancient culture connect- 35mm, in Portuguese and Guarani, with English ed to nature. subtitles Print Source: IFC Films Film Website: birdwatchersfilm.com Selected Filmography: Hijos/Figli (2001) Garage Olimpo (1999) Alambrado (1991)

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Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Turkey Çaça struggle to get by while living on the 2009 outskirts of Istanbul. By day they raise pigeons Directors: on their roof. By night they roam the city streets Mehmet Bahadir Er Maryna Gorbach with their entourage. Selim dreams of marry- Producer: ing his girlfriend and owning his own business Mehmet Bahadir Er with Çaça—if only he can keep the unpredict- Screenwriter: Mehmet Bahadir Er able Çaça under control. They’re looking for their Cinematographer: big break, and figure that their relationship with Sviatoslav Bulakovskyi the local mafia boss will help them open up their Editors: Maryna Gorbach own parking-lot business near a high-end shop- Mehmet Bahadir Er ping mall. But tensions mount when the mall’s Music: Alp Erkin security contractor discovers their plans, and the Çakmak-Baris Diri cops start focusing on them in order to gather Cast: Cemal Toktas evidence against the mafia. This dynamic direc- Volga Sorgu Tekinglu torial debut does for Istanbul what Scorsese did Erkan Can Ayfer Dönmez for Little Italy: It takes an intimate and inventive Taylan Ertugrul shooting style and combines it with an authentic Running Time: ear for that city’s slang to tell the story of two 88 minutes Presentation Format: friends who get into deep trouble in a chaotic 35mm, in Turkish, with underground scene. For 15 years, director English subtitles Sales: Mehmet Bahadır Er lived in the neighborhood International Kara Kirmizi Film where Black Dogs Barking is set, and he uses Print Source: that experience to bring a tremendous realism Kara Kirmizi Film Selected Filmography: to the film.

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BABI BUTA YANF INGIN TERBANG

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly

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BARBE BLEUE

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Indonesian filmmaker Edwin takes a bunch of Indonesia seemingly disparate characters and slowly ties 2008 them together over the course of his debut Director: feature. Everyone is initially introduced with Edwin Producer: their own title cards, like “Vera, the Fragile Meiske Taurisia Badminton Player” and “Linda, the Girl Who Eats Screenwriter: Firecrackers.” These segments work like short Edwin Cinematographer: films, or maybe a tribute to Jean-Luc Godard. Sidi Saleh Edwin takes his time with the setting, doesn’t tell Editor: the audience what to think, and always finds an Herman Kumala Panca Cast: interesting frame for the action. As more char- Ladya Cheryl acters are introduced, connections between Pong Harjatmo Carlo Genta them become more apparent. The blind dentist Elizabeth Maria is married to the former badminton player. The Joko Anwar Running Time: girl who eats firecrackers so she can get on TV 77 minutes turns out to be his daughter. There’s a subtext Presentation Format: about being part of the Chinese minority in DigiBeta, in Indonesian, with English subtitles Indonesia, but the other element that connects International Sales: everybody in the film is the Stevie Wonder song Global Film Initiative Source: “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” The blind Print Babibutafilm dentist loves singing along to a tape of it while Film Website: waiting for patients, his mistress wants to sing babibuta.com/the_film Selected Filmography: it on “Indonesian Idol,” and the TV editors cut Debut Feature Film some protest footage to it. It’s the perfect choice for a movie that’s about overcoming a sense of alienation and connecting with others.

Bluebeard

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In Catherine Breillat’s retelling of this classic tale, France two young sisters play together in the attic of 2009 their home in 1950s France. Catherine (a stand- Director: in for Breillat, according to her autobiographical Catherine Breillat Producers: statement) torments her timid sibling Marie-Anne Jean-François Lepetit with repeated dramatic readings of “Bluebeard.” Sylvette Frydman As she does, the 17th-century story plays out Screenwriter: Catherine Breillat on screen: Anne and Marie-Catherine, another Cinematographer: pair of sisters, are thrown out of school when Vilko Filac their father dies and leaves the family destitute. Editor: Pascale Chavance Lacking the money for a dowry, the girls consid- Cast: er marrying local noble Bluebeard, despite the Dominique Thomas Lola Creton mysterious disappearance of his several previous Daphné Baiwir wives. For his part, Bluebeard is charmed by the Running Time: 80 minutes plucky Marie-Catherine, who seems completely Presentation Format: undaunted by him. Upon their marriage, he asks DigiBeta, in French, with just one thing of her—that she stay out of the English subtitles International Sales: cellar while he’s away. In this stylized and highly Pyramide International literary adaptation, Breillat perfectly captures the Print Source: pleasures to be had both in being frightened and Pyramide International Selected Filmography: in facing one’s fears head-on.

The Last Mistress (2007) Preceded by La Dolorosa, Brazil, 2008, 12 minutes, director: Odilon Rocha A lyrical story about a bride, groom and best man involved in a destructive passion.

Anatomy of Hell (2004) Sex Is Comedy (2002) Fat Girl (2001) Romance (1999) Junior Size 36 (1988)

Awards: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 (FIPRESCI Prize)

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Boy

North American Premiere

Breathless

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Acclaimed Filipino director Aureaus Solito Philippines adds to a string of critically successful features 2009 that began with his debut, The Blossoming of Director: Maximo Oliveros (SIFF 2006). Boy is the funny, Aureaus Solito Producers: touching story of an up-and-coming poet who Aureaus Solito becomes smitten by a dancing rent-boy named Endi “Hai” Balbuena Aries. Selling his prized collection of comic Screenwriters: Jimmy Flores books and action figures, the poet, who goes Arturo Calo unnamed, gathers enough money together that Cinematographer: Louie Quinto he can bring Aries home on New Year’s Eve. The Editors: connection between the two central characters Lawrence Fajardo is sweet and fragile in a way that brings a fresh- Keith Keith Music: ness to the film. Boy explores the relationship Isha as a life-changing moment as the sensitive poet Cast: Aeious Asin learns to grow more confident and assured in his Aries Pena sexuality. Recently banned prior to its intended Madelaine Nicolas world premiere in Singapore, Boy demonstrates Running Time: 80 minutes its director’s growing poise and talent. Anyone Presentation Format: who caught Maximo Oliveros (in which a 12-year- DigiBeta, in Filipino, with English subtitles old boy from a family of criminals falls in love with Print Source: a policeman) will know that Boy brings an inven- Wolfe Releasing tive and delicate sensibility to this authentic gay Selected Filmography: Tuli (2007) story.

The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (2005)

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Breathless marks the impressive directorial debut South Korea of Yang Ik-june, who also served as the film’s 2008 screenwriter, producer, and star. Song-hoon is a Director: foul-mouthed extortionist and enforcer for local Yang Ik-june Producers: gangster Man-shik. Having grown up with a Yang Ik-june violent father who was responsible for the deaths Jang Sun-jin of his mother and sister, Song-hoon now directs Screenwriter: Yang Ik-june his own seemingly limitless store of violence Cinematographer: toward enemies and subordinates alike. Things Yun Jeong-ho begin to change when he meets a similarly foul- Editors: Lee Yuen Jung mouthed schoolgirl, Han Yeon-heui. Regularly Yang Ik-june victimized by her mentally ill father and thug- Music: The Invisible Fish gish brother, she’s not scared by Song-hoon’s Cast: hard exterior. Slowly but surely, an unlikely bond Yang Ik-june Kim Kkobbi develops between the two. But when Yeon- Jeong Man-shik heui’s brother joins Man-shik’s gang without his Running Time: sister’s knowledge, it becomes clear that the 130 minutes Presentation Format: crushing brutality of their environment may not 35mm, in Korean, with allow the fragile emotional connection between English subtitles Sales: them to survive. This often-brutal look at cyclical International Showbox Inc. violence and how love might just redeem a lost Print Source: soul is a semi-autobiographical story inspired by Showbox Inc. Selected Filmography: the director’s family and friends.

Debut Feature Film Awards: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2009 (Tiger Award)

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Bronson

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Buddenbrooks

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Nicolas Winding Refn, the man behind the United Kingdom Pusher trilogy (and SIFF 2006 Emerging Master), 2008 returns with this imaginative biography of one Director: of the most enthusiastically violent prisoners in Nicolas Winding Refn Producers: Britain’s penal system. By the time he was 56, Rupert Preston Michael Peterson had spent 34 years in prison Daniel Hansford with 30 of those in solitary confinement. He’s Screenwriters: Brock Norman Brock also won awards for his art and poetry, but Nicolas Winding Refn that’s not what this movie is about. Bronson is Cinematographer: Larry Smith about a man who admits in his opening bit of Editor: narration, “All my life I’ve wanted to be famous.” Matthew Newman Peterson goes by the name Charles Bronson, Music: Lol Hammond styling himself after the ’70s tough-guy action Cast: star. Portrayed with humor, energy, and impul- Tom Hardy Amanda Burton sive rage by actor Tom Hardy, “Bronson” is Matt King the exaggerated persona that the real prisoner James Lance Kelly Adams wants the outside world to see. Looking like a Running Time: 19th-century circus strongman, but with the 92 minutes personality of a vaudevillian performer, he gives Presentation Format: 35mm monologues onstage to an appreciative—and International Sales: totally imaginary—audience. These fantasies Vertigo Films are often cut together with scenes in which he Print Source: Magnet Releasing is attacking guards and being violently subdued. Film Website: With an obvious nod to Kubrick’s A Clockwork bronsonthemovie.com Orange, Refn does an amazing job combining Selected Filmography: Pusher III: I’m the Angel of disturbing violence, disarming humor, and clas- Death (2005) sical music, yet somehow never endorses the Pusher II: With Blood on my Hands (2004) violent behavior.

Fear X (2003)

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Tragically hindered by personal and public fail- Germany ures, the trials of powerful families are often 2008 dutifully chronicled for the critical public eye. Director: In Buddenbrooks, art imitates life. Heinrich Heinrich Breloer Producers: Breloer focuses on the fourth generation of the Michael Hild Buddenbrook mercantile family in his adaptation Jan S. Kaiser Uschi Reich of Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann’s famed novel. Winka Wulff The mid-19th-century drama set in the Baltic Screenwriters: Sea port city of Lübeck, Germany, follows the Heinrich Breloer Horst Königstein family as Tony (Jessica Schwarz) and Thomas Based on the novel by (Mark Waschke) reach the age of marriage. Thomas Mann Fatefully impeded every step of the way, the Cinematographer: Gernot Roll Buddenbrooks struggle as economic hardship Editor: and personal defeats weigh down family rela- Barbara von Weitershausen tions. This period film succeeds in exhibiting the Music: distress of living in a crumbling dynasty at the Hans Peter Ströer end of an era through its award-winning produc- Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl tion and costume design. Exceptional acting Jessica Schwarz elevates Buddenbrooks beyond cliché and high- August Diehl Mark Waschke lights the gripping personalities that breathed life Léa Bosco Running Time: into Mann’s work.

Awards: Bavarian Film Festival 2009 (Best Production, Costume Design)

Bleeder (1999) Pusher (1996)

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140 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles International Sales: Bavaria Film International Print Source: Bavaria Film International Film Website: wwws.warnerbros.de/ buddenbrooks Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Buick Riviera

TUESDAY MAY 26 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 4:30 PM

The Burning Plain

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Hasan fled Bosnia 17 years ago in search of a new beginning in America. Still haunted by his past, Hasan grapples with his new life–married to policewoman Angela in North Dakota. His only solace is his 1963 Buick Riviera, in which he is master of his domain. One day his beloved Buick slides off the icy road into a ditch. Hasan flags down a passing car to ask for help and soon discovers that he and the driver, Vuko, a Serbian, speak the same language and are both from the Balkans. As they drive back to town, Vuko tells Hasan the story of his life. Both men long for a “home” and feel displaced in their own way, finding it hard to start life fresh when they can’t get over the old one. Despite their best efforts, old war resentments flare up, bringing the Balkan crisis to the snow-covered Midwest.

Goran Rušinović contrasts the men and their cultures through their personal battles with their shared troubled past. Buick Riviera lays bare the exile, loss, and ancient feuds that confirm the old saying that you can run but you cannot hide from yourself.

Awards: Sarajevo Film Festival 2008 (Best Film, Actor, FIPRESCI Award) Pula Film Festival 2008 (Best Screenplay)

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Croatia/ Bosnia and Herzegovina/ Germany/USA 2008 Director: Goran Rušinović Producer: Boris T. Matic Screenwriter: Goran Rušinović Miljenko Jergovi based on the book by Miljenko Jergovi Cinematographer: Igor Martinovic Editor: Vlado Gojun Miran Miosic Music: Brane Živković Cast: Leon Lučev Slavko Štimac Aime Klein Running Time: 86 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in English and Bosnian, with English subtitles International Sales: Bavaria Film International Print Source: Bavaria Film International Selected Filmography: The World’s Greatest Monster (2003) Mondo Bobo (1997)

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In his debut feature as director, Guillermo Arriaga USA builds on the multithreaded approach to story- 2008 telling he brought to his previous scripts (Amores Director: Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, and The Three Burials Guillermo Arriaga Producers: of Melquiades Estrada) to create an engrossing, Walter Parkes interconnected study of guilt and consequences Laurie MacDonald across three generations. Shuttling back and Screenwriter: Guillermo Arriaga forth through time and space, from oppres- Cinematographers: sive, steel-gray Oregon skies to sweeping New Robert Elswit John Toll Mexico terrain, the film allows its audience to Editor: judge each narrative strand as it emerges and Craig Wood develops, before quietly weaving the stories Music: Hans Zimmer together. Three compelling performances carry Omar Rodríguez-López The Burning Plain forward, backward, and Cast: Charlize Theron sideways (as is the norm for an Arriaga script). Kim Basinger Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, and teenager Jennifer Lawrence Joaquim de Almeida Jennifer Lawrence each command the emotion- Tessa Ia al center of their respective worlds. All three are Running Time: subtle and sophisticated in their characterization, 111 minutes Presentation Format: but gradually their emotional ties become appar- 35mm, in English and ent. Far from being a formal exercise designed Spanish, with English subtitles to elicit widespread head-scratching from the International Sales: audience, The Burning Plain is an affecting and 2929 International subtle examination of love, guilt, and family. Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Lush cinematography from veterans Robert Film Website: Elswit and John Toll, along with standout perfor- burningplain.co.uk mances, contribute to an already-accomplished Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film writer’s powerful first feature.

Awards: Venice Film Festival 2008 (Marcello Mastroianni Award–Best Young Actor or Actress)

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KANDOOR HUID HEEN

PLENNIY

Can Go Through Skin

Captive

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Marieke was a cheerful and socially minded Netherlands woman with a fancy IT job until a brutal assault 2009 completely altered her outlook on life. Ill at ease Director: in her once-beloved Amsterdam, she escapes Esther Rots Producer: to the Zeeland countryside for a new start in the Esther Rots solitude of a dilapidated farmhouse, which she Screenwriter: renovates by herself. She hopes her new life and Esther Rots Cinematographer: new surroundings will wipe out her depression, Lennert Hillege but the cold and lonely days merely accentu- Editor: ate her paralyzing feelings of fear and helpless- Esther Rots Music: ness. Spring brings a thaw to the landscape Dan Geesin and to Marieke as she cautiously opens up to Cast: Lodeizen her neighbor John, who wants to help. Still, Rifka Wim Opbrouck Marieke’s sanity teeters dangerously on the Running Time: edge. She thinks that she has left everything 97 minutes Presentation Format: behind, but burying herself in the country is not 35mm, in Dutch, with the only answer. The film’s greatest strength lies English subtitles in debut director Esther Rots’ gutsy willingness International Sales: Films Boutique to allow actress Rifka Lodeizen to explore the Print Source: fear, mistrust, mania, hurt, and loneliness that vie Films Boutique Website: for her character’s attention. Cinematographer Film cangothroughskin.com Lennert Hillege’s handheld camera intensifies the Selected Filmography: emotional turmoil of the young woman’s journey Debut Feature Film to piece her soul back together.

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When a convoy of Russian troops gets lost in Russia/Bulgaria the mountains during the Chechen War, two 2008 soldiers, the experienced Rubakha and the Director: rookie Vovka, capture a handsome young local, Alexei Uchitel Producer: Djamal, hoping that he might lead them to Kira Saksaganskaya safety. As the three men set out together, trek- Screenwriters: king across the rugged landscape, complex rela- Vladimir Makanin Timofei Deki tionships that transcend the dynamics of captor Cinematographer: and captive develop between them. The soldiers Yury Klimenko demonstrate patience and compassion, sharing Editors: Gleb Nikulskiy cigarettes and warm socks, and gradually the Yelena Andreyeva prisoner stops trying to escape. But when they Music: Leonid Desiatnikov find themselves surrounded by a company of Cast: Chechen fighters, the fragile bonds among them Vyacheslav Krikunov Pyotr Logachev are tested. Co-written by Vladimir Makanin and Irakli Mskhalaia based on his own short 1994 story, “A Prisoner Running Time: of the Caucasus,” the film’s intimate focus on the 80 minutes Presentation Format: men makes for a humane and powerful look at 35mm, in Russian and Chechen, with English the realities of warfare.

Awards: Cottbus Film Festival 2009 (Best Film) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 (Best Director)

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subtitles International Sales: New Cinema Distribution Print Source: Rock Films12, Krukov kanal Selected Filmography: Dreaming of Space (2005) The Stroll (2004) His Wife’s Diary (2000)

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FUERA DE CARTA

Carmo, Hit the Road

THURSDAY MAY 28 9:30 PM SATURDAY MAY 30 1:30 PM

Chef’s Special

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Carmo is a firecracker of a woman struggling Spain/Poland/ to find her place in the world. While her moods Brazil range from playful and sexy to self destruc- 2008 tive, she always shows underlying heart and a Director: determined soul. Barely dodging the minefield of Murilo Pasta Producers: sleazy thugs who are after her, she is rescued by Elisa Alvares Marco, an unlikely and unwilling knight in shining Alberto Aranda Xavier Granada armor. She tries to thank him and is immediately Grzegorz Hajdarowicz intrigued by his disinterest in her. Unaccustomed Murray Lipnik Roberto d’Aliva to men shunning her advances, she does her Screenwriter: best to charm him, but Marco is not easily Murilo Pasta distracted from his mission. Despite his stub- Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan bornness and attempts to leave her behind, the Editor: two are drawn to one another as they begin an Nacho Ruiz Capillas ill-fated road trip. Marco acts as if he can’t wait Music: Zacarías M. de la Riva to get rid of Carmo, but he can’t let her go. Full Cast: of gangsters, chases, adventure, and a little love, Fele Martínez Mariana Loureiro the story pulls you in and holds on until the end. Seu Jorge Comical and scandalous motley crews of char- Márcio Garcia Paca Gabaldón acters mix with an array of live-wire cinematic Running Time: gestures as Murilo Pasta’s dazzling filmmaking 100 minutes Format: refuels the classic road-trip genre. His fly-by- Presentation 35mm, in Portuguese the-seat-of-your-pants thrill ride through jagged and Spanish, with English paradise pairs two strangers who find their match subtitles International Sales: and continue to fight destiny tooth and nail.

Imagina International Sales Print Source: Imagina International Sales Film Website: acontraluzfilms.eu Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Maxi is a master chef who wants a Michelin star Spain so badly he can taste it. After years of toiling in 2008 his chic Madrid restaurant, he feels he’s on the Director: brink of culinary superstardom—that is, until Nacho G. Velilla Producer: Maxi’s two estranged children show up on his Nacho G. Velilla doorstep. Not only are the children grieving over Screenwriters: the recent death of their mother, they must now Nacho G. Velilla Oriol Capel come to terms with their father’s openly gay life- Antonio Sánchez style. To complicate matters further, Horacio, a David Sánchez Cinematographer: sexy Argentine ex-soccer star, moves in next David Omedes door, diverting the attentions of both Maxi and Editor: Alex, the restaurant’s unstable maître d’. First- Ángel Hernández Zoido Music: time director Nacho G. Velilla’s frothy mix of Juanjo Javierre anarchic comedy and melodrama has earned Cast: Javier Cámara him favorable comparisons to fellow Spaniard Lola Dueñas Pedro Almodóvar. Velilla explores dramatic Fernando Tejero Benjamin Vicuña themes of jealousy and fatherhood but leavens Running Time: most scenes with the farcical antics of Maxi’s 111 minutes stressed-out kitchen staff. Actor Javier Cámara, Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Spanish, with familiar to American audiences as the nurse in English subtitles Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, demonstrates extraor- Print Source: dinary range with his portrayal of Maxi as a TLA Releasing Film Website: comfortably out-of-the-closet character who fueradecarta.com tackles complex family issues that transcend Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film mere sexual orientation. After earning raves at its premiere at last year’s Málaga Film Festival, Chef’s Special has become a huge box-office hit in Spain.

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KURON WA KOKYO

WOLKE 9

The Clone Returns Home

Cloud 9

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When astronaut Kohei Takehara dies in an accident in space, a clone is generated from his DNA as part of a government program designed to restore people killed in the line of duty. But the program is in its infancy, and in addition to the ethical questions that arise (does a clone have a soul?), there are some serious technical glitches. When the clone is brought to life, there is a malfunction with its memory—it has only the memories of Kohei’s childhood, and in particular of the drowning death of Kohei’s twin brother Noburu in a river, which sends the clone in search of its “home.” Part science fiction, part philosophical inquiry, and set against the backdrop of a futuristic dreamscape, The Clone Returns Home engages the defining issues of human experience: our relationships with people we love and those who die, and also with our former selves.

Japan 2008 Director: Kanji Nakajima Producers: Kiyoshi Inoue Rie Yamamoto Yoshiaki Tago Screenwriter: Kanji Nakajima Cinematographer: Hideho Urata Editor: Ken Memita Music: Yuta Yamashita Cast: Mitsuhiro Oikawa Eri Ishida Hiromi Nagasaku Running Time: 110 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles International Sales: Gold View Co., Ltd. Print Source: Agung Inc. Film Website: clone-homeland.com Selected Filmography: The Box (2002) Fe (1994)

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Cloud 9 stares unblinkingly at lust found later in Germany life. A 60-something and happily married seam- 2008 stress, Inge, suddenly finds herself randy and in Director: bed with Karl, after delivering his pants. As unex- Andreas Dresen Producer: pected as sex scenes involving the elderly may Peter Rommel be, director Andreas Dresen treats them matter- Screenwriters: of-factly, admirably focusing on the emotionally Andreas Dresen Cooky Ziesche complex repercussions of Inge’s actions. Elder Laila Stieler sex is not used as a gimmick or object of curios- Jörg Hauschild Cinematographer: ity, but as an act that reveals Inge’s late devel- Michael Hammon opment of self-determination. With a light touch, Editor: Cloud 9 exposes the complexity and knot of feel- Jörg Hauschild Cast: ings that arise for Inge, Karl, and Inge’s husband, Ursula Werner Werner, after he learns the truth of her affair. With Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal no written dialogue for the actors to work from Steffi Kühnert (only a story outline), the aging cast’s perfor- Running Time: 98 minutes mances flesh out the material and emotional Presentation Format: landscape with great subtlety and realism.

35mm, in German, with Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2008 (Heart Throb Jury Prize)

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English subtitles International Sales: The Match Factory Print Source: Music Box Films Film Website: wolke9.de Selected Filmography: Summer in Berlin (2005) Grill Point (2002) Night Shapes (1999)

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15 ANS ET DEMI

Cold Souls

MONDAY JUNE 8 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 4:30 PM

Daddy Cool

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An entertaining slice of existential whimsy with USA an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits 2009 a world in which humans can have their souls Director: extracted and implanted into each other’s Sophie Barthes Producers: bodies. Just as Being John Malkovich allowed Dan Carey Malkovich to spoof himself, so Cold Souls hands Elizabeth Giamatti Paul Mezey its leading actor a similar opportunity. Paul Andrij Parekh Giamatti plays Paul Giamatti, a New York actor Jeremy Kipp Walker who’s preparing for the title role in Chekhov’s Screenwriter: Sophie Barthes “Uncle Vanya” and finding it increasingly difficult Cinematographer: to separate himself from the character. After Andrij Parekh discovering a New Yorker magazine piece about Editor: Andrew Mondshein soul storage, the science of temporarily remov- Music: ing up to 95 percent of a person’s soul and all Dickon Hinchliffe Cast: the emotional burdens that accompany it, the Paul Giamatti emotionally exhausted performer winds up in the Dina Korzun David Strathairn offices of Dr. Flintstein. Wary but desperate, Paul Emily Watson agrees to the operation and is pushed into a Katheryn Winnick Lauren Ambrose giant contraption that resembles a radiotherapy Running Time: machine. With his soul bottled for safekeeping, 97 minutes he leaves a brand new man. Trouble is, the new Presentation Format: 35mm man can’t act. Debuting writer-director Sophie Print Source: Barthes playfully blends science fiction, deadpan Samuel Goldwyn Films Film Website: absurdism, and sharp social satire.

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Philippe Tallec is a successful molecular biologist France who has lived in America for 15 years—the entire 2008 life of his estranged teenage daughter. When his Directors: ex-wife is called out of France for three months, Francois Desagnat Thomass Sorriaux he decides to return to stay with Eglantine in the Producers: hope of making up for lost time. But Eglantine Luc Bossi Patrice Ledoux has other things on her mind, like girlfriends, Screenwriter: parties, and hot boys at school. Philippe, for his Thomas Sorriaux part, is out of his depth. Far from bringing them Cinematographer: Vincent Mathias closer together, his heavy-handed approach Editor: threatens to drive them further apart. Ever the Christine Lucas Navarro man of science, he decides to take a course Music: Alexandre Azaria on parenting, which he hopes will enlighten him Cast: as to the mysteries of modern adolescence, Daniel Auteuil François Berléand including texting, heavy metal, belly button rings, Juliette Lamboley and blogs. Daniel Auteuil stars in this hilarious François Damiens Gaumont comedy about a father and daughter learning to Running Time: love and live with each other. Recommended for 94 minutes Presentation Format: teens 15 and older.

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35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Gaumont Print Source: Gaumont Film Website: 15ansetdemi-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: The 11 Commandments (2004) The Dope (2003)

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FUTOKO

NOT SOOL

The Dark Harbor North American Premiere

Daytime Drinking

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TUESDAY MAY 26 4:00 PM MONDAY JUNE 1 9:45 PM

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Manzo is a fisherman in a small seaside commu- Japan nity who lives and works alone, but longs for a 2008 relationship and maybe a wife. When a sign is Director: posted advertising a “matchmaking party with Naito Takasugu Producer: city women,” all the men gussy themselves up Mayumi Amano and videotape themselves for the dating service. Screenwriter: Manzo borrows a camcorder and tries his luck, Naito Kakasugu Cinematographer: but his rehearsed speech doesn’t go as planned. Kiyoaki Hashimoto When showing the videotape to the prospective Editor: dates, he discovers something unusual: There is Shinichi Fushima Music: a woman and her son living in one of his closets. Akira Matsumoto Instead of kicking them out, he encourages Cast: Kote them to stay and develops a relationship with Shinya Yuko Miyamoto them that makes the other fishermen jealous. Kazuki Hirooka Akaji Maro Takatsugu Norito’s feature is full of deadpan, Running Time: silent film comedy that is inspired in equal parts 101 minutes

by Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. It makes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Japanese, with you remember how much can be said with only English subtitles facial expressions, small actions and music. Of International Sales: course, the more we learn about the mother and PIA Film Festival Print Source: child, the more fragile the relationship becomes. PIA Film Festival Like a fairy tale with a bittersweet edge, The Dark Selected Filmography: Midnight Pigskin Wolf Harbor brings you into the world of Manzo and (2005) shows you just how charming one lonely fisherman can be.

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In this untamed debut feature, writer-director- South Korea producer-editor-composer Noh Young-seok 2008 tells the story of Hyuk-jin, a young college Director: graduate and all around nice guy who has just Noh Young-seok Producer: been dumped by his girlfriend. Over rounds of Noh Young-seok drinks, a group of friends talk him into joining Screenwriter: them for a trip to the countryside to console his Noh Young-seok Cinematographer: broken heart. Unfortunately, he’s the only one Noh Young-seok who shows up on the trip. Alone and unsure, Editor: he sets out on an odd road trip, and a series Noh Young-seok Music: of strange but hilarious encounters follows. One Noh Young-seok thing remains constant, there’s always time for Cast: Sam-dong another round of drinks. Nursing a great hang- Song Yuk Sang-yeop over and left without his wallet, phone, or pants, Kim Kang-hee Hyuk-jin must find a way to get back home to Running Time: 116 minutes Seoul. Fresh and passionate, Daytime Drinking Presentation Format: skips past the despondency of a broken heart HDCAM, in Korean, with English subtitles and moves directly to the enchanting, eccentric International Sales: humor of lost love. With a clean and modest FineCut Co. style, Young-seok creates a special work and is Print Source: Eleven Arts Inc. a talent to watch.

Film Website: Awards: Jeonju International Film Festival 2008 (Audience Critic’s Choice Award)

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Departures

FRIDAY MAY 22 9:30 PM SUNDAY MAY 24 2:00 PM

The Desert Within

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The surprise winner of this year’s Academy Japan Award® for Best Foreign Film, Departures tells 2008 the story of a concert cellist named Daigo who Director: undergoes a transformation following the death Yojiro Takita Producer: of his father and the dissolution of his Tokyo Toshiaki Nakasawa orchestra. Because he spent a fortune on a Screenwriter: new cello for his now-defunct ensemble, Daigo Kundo Koyama Cinematographer: retreats, guilt-ridden, to his picturesque home- Takeshi Hamada town in northern Japan to look for work, with Editor: his obedient wife Mika in tow. He responds to Akimasa Kawashima Music: an ad for a company called “Departures,” think- Joe Hisaishi ing it’s a travel agency, but discovers that the Cast: Motoki company caters to morticians who perform Masahiro Tsutomu Yamazaki “encoffinments”—highly stylized and meticu- Ryoko Hirosue Kimiko Yo lous ceremonies to prepare bodies for burial Takashi Sasano or cremation. Daigo has mixed feelings about Running Time: working in an industry that carries such taboo 131 minutes Presentation Format: in Japan, but he can’t refuse the salary. Soon, 35mm, in Japanese, with he finds pride in helping grieving family members English subtitles Sales: cope with the loss of their loved ones, but he still International Shochiku Co., Ltd. can’t find the courage to admit to Mika what he Print Source: does for a living. Inspired by Japanese author Regent Releasing Film Website: Shinmon Aoki’s mortician memoir, “Coffinman,” okuribito.jp Departures is a tonally eccentric, lushly scored, Selected Filmography: moving, and funny drama that uses the rituals of The Battery (2007) Ashura (2005) death to foster a greater appreciation of life.

When the Last Sword is Awards: Academy Award ® 2009 (Best Foreign Language Film) Montreal World Film Festival 2008 (Grand Prix des Amériques) Awards of the Japanese Academy 2009 (Best Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Cinematography, Editing, Screenplay, Sound, Lighting) Palm Springs International Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award)

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Drawn (2003) The Secret (1999)

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Religious fanaticism and protective love collide Mexico in this riveting odyssey of a family that seeks 2008 God’s forgiveness in order to survive. Following Director: the Mexican Revolution in 1928, the govern- Rodrigo Plá Producers: ment attempted to ban the Catholic Church Germán Méndez and ruled the performance of any of its rituals Rodrigo Plá illegal. Defying the law, Elías, a devout peasant, Screenwriters: Laura Santullo convinces an unwilling priest to baptize his Rodrigo Plá newborn chiild, unleashing a brutal response Cinematographer: Serguei Saldívar Tanaka from the army upon his hometown. Consumed Editors: by guilt, Elías has a haunting vision that his Ana García seven remaining children will die prematurely as Rodrigo Plá Music: punishment for his actions. To avoid the wrath of Jacobo Lieberman God, he forces the family to live in the isolation Leonardo Heiblum Cast: of the desert and devote the rest of their lives to Mario Zaragoza the never-ending construction of a church. The Diego Cataño Memo Dorantes Desert Within, which nearly swept the awards at Eileen Yañez the Guadalajara Film Festival, is director Rodrigo Luis Fernando Peña Plá’s first film after his fascinating debut feature, Running Time: 112 minutes La zona, a dystopian vision of class divisions in Presentation Format: Mexico City. The cinematography in The Desert 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles Within transforms the sun-bleached Mexican International Sales: landscape into a full-blown character—posses- Filmsharks International sive, irrational, and ultimately devastating. Plá’s Print Source: Mexican Film Institute intriguing use of art and animation to punctuate Selected Filmography: La zona (2007) the drama makes this film a rare jewel.

Awards: Amiens International Film Festival 2008 (Special Jury Prize) Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival 2008 (Best Film, Audience Award, Screenplay, Cinematography, Actor, Actress) Havana Film Festival 2008 (Best Cinematography)

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Don’t Let Me Drown

Downloading Nancy

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In his directorial debut, Cruz Angeles navigates USA the rapids of young love. Set one month after 2009 9/11, Don’t Let Me Drown focuses on two Director: Latino families picking up the pieces in the after- Cruz Angeles Producers: math. Sweet-faced Mexican-American Lalo (E.J. Maria Topete Bonilla, in a refreshingly vulnerable performance) Jay Van Hoy Lars Knudsen lives in Brooklyn with his uncle, mother, and James Lawler father, Ramón, who helps clear the debris from Ben Howe Ground Zero. Lalo’s immigrant parents embar- Screenwriters: Maria Topete rass him, and he’s tired of living hand to mouth. Cruz Angeles Then he meets Stefanie, a smart-mouthed Cinematographer: Chad Davidson Dominican-American who lost her sister in the Editor: attacks. Stefanie’s mother, Diana, handles the Andrew Hafitz loss as best she can, but her father, Dionisio Music: Daniel Belardinelli (Ricardo Chavira, Desperate Housewives), roils Cast: with anger—and takes it out on his wife and E.J. Bonilla Gleendilys Inoa daughter. Both teens could use a reprieve from Damián Alcázar the tensions at home, but the closer they get to Ricardo Antonio Chavira Gina Torres a relationship, the more circumstances and their Yareli Arizmendi own stubborn pride, keep them apart. Angeles Running Time: never trivializes 9/11, but concentrates his atten- 105 minutes Presentation Format: tions on affairs of the heart, making it hard not 35mm to root for these tough kids to let their defenses Print Source: Population 2 down and find the love they deserve.

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When Albert Stockwell comes home from work, USA he finds a note from his wife of 15 years, Nancy, 2008 saying she has gone to visit some friends. It’s a Director: lie. After waiting several days, Albert realizes that Johan Renck Producers: his wife is missing. Depressed, self-destructive David Moore Nancy has met her salvation on the Internet in Igor Kovacevich Cole Payne the form of Louis Farley. Louis’s life, like Nancy’s, Jason Essex has become a twisted quest for redemption via Screenwriters: smutty chat rooms and alternative websites. Pamela Cuming Lee Ross Both wounded and alone, Nancy and Louis take Cinematographer: comfort in one another through email, pictures, Christopher Doyle and promises. With Louis, who has a penchant Editors: Johan Soderberg for violent sex, Nancy goes to a different place, Henrik Hanson one of liberation and fulfillment. It’s a place where Cast: Maria Bello pain is pleasure, and where the end is the begin- Jason Patric ning. While she pursues the freedom she feels Rufus Sewell Amy Brenneman only comes with ultimate liberation, Albert is left Running Time: to put the pieces together and try to salvage 102 minutes what is left of his life. Built around a fearless Presentation Format: 35mm performance by Maria Bello, Downloading Nancy International Sales: portrays a sadomasochistic world of psychologi- Wild Bunch Print Source: cal and emotional extremes.

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Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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FLUGTEN

Eldorado

FRIDAY MAY 22 4:30 PM MONDAY MAY 25 9:00 PM

The Escape

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Landing halfway between the American road-film Belgium/France and Belgian absurdism, the French-language 2008 Eldorado strikes both comedic and dramatic Director: chords with its eccentric characters and fast- Bouli Lanners Producers: paced narrative. Yvan catches Elie burglarizing Jacques-Henri Bronckart his house and decides, in good faith, to let the Jerome Vidal young man go free. Trying to believe that Elie, a Screenwriter: Bouli Lanners former junkie, has reformed his life, Yvan offers Cinematographer: the bankrupt young man a ride home to the Jean-Paul de Zaeytijd French border. The two encounter a series of Editor: Ewin Ryckaert unusual personalities across the mostly desert- Music: ed landscape. The motive behind the usually Renaud Mayeur An Pierle standoffish Yvan’s kindness unfolds without Koen Gisen false pretense, as do plentiful elements of dark Cast: Bouli Lanners comedy. Bouli Lanners’ firm direction skillfully Fabrice Adde juxtaposes the unpredictable plot, which treads Philippe Nahon Didier Toupy the line of tragedy without miring the film in Franise Chichy pointless drama. As the film grows darker, its Running Time: surrealism and reality don’t promise redemption 80 minutes Presentation Format: but maintain a satisfyingly consistent tone that 35mm, in French, with English subtitles delivers a resolute conclusion.

Awards: Official Academy Award® Submission 2008 (Best Foreign Language Film) Cannes Film Festival 2008 (Director’s Fortnight–Best European Film)

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Drawing from Olav Hergel’s novel “The Refugee,” Denmark filmmaker Kathrine Windfeld contrasts the plight 2009 of a Danish journalist with that of an Afghan Director: terrorist in this carefully observed sociopolitical Kathrine Windfeld Producer: thriller. Rikke (Iben Hjejle, The Boss of It All, SIFF Morten Kaufmann 2007) hasn’t been in Afghanistan long when Screenwriter: the Taliban kidnaps, tortures, and threatens to Rasmus Heisterberg based on the novel “The execute her if Denmark doesn’t withdraw its Refugee” by Olav Hergel troops. Rikke suspects that Nazir, who speaks Cinematographer: Jonas Alarik English, sympathizes with her plight, even though Editor: Westerners caused the death of his father—and Sofia Lindgren even though his superiors have ordered him to Music: Jean-Paul Wall kill her. Because of the film’s title, it’s no spoiler Cast: to reveal that Rikke gets away, but the road Iben Hjejle Faigh Zamani ahead presents new sacrifices and deceptions. Lars Mikkelsen In Denmark, Rikke returns to reporting and rekin- Rafi Mohammed Bayan Henrik Prip dles a romance with Thomas, a former flame, Running Time: while Nazir makes a daring escape of his own, 114 minutes traveling from the Middle East to Scandinavia. Presentation Format: 35mm, in Danish, Dari, What happened in Afghanistan bonds Rikke and and English, with English her one-time captor, but it could just as easily subtitles Sales: destroy them both. Often cast in supporting International Nimbus Film parts, it’s a pleasure to see Hjejle, an actress of Print Source: subtle strength and conviction, take on a leading Danish Film Institute Film Website: role, and she does not disappoint. dfi.dk

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DEN DU FRYGTER

Everything Strange and New

Fear Me Not

THURSDAY JUNE 4 7:00 PM SATURDAY JUNE 6 1:00 PM

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With a job, a wife, two kids, and a house, Wayne USA is living what some might call the American 2009 dream, but to him, it’s more of a nightmare. Not Director: happy with what he has but not motivated to Frazer Bradshaw Producers: make any real changes, he sleepwalks through Laura Techera Francia his life, wondering what could have been. Writer- A.D. Liano director Frazer Bradshaw, already an established Screenwriter: Frazer Bradshaw cinematographer, emphasizes Wayne’s trapped Cinematographer: existence and addresses the universal concerns Frazer Bradshaw and questions of life through still shots of every- Editors: Frazer Bradshaw day life, friendship, family, and love, combined Jesse Spencer with thoughtful camera pans, and colors ranging Music: Dan Plonsey from bleak to the harsh light of day. The film’s Kent Sparling recurrent, edgy soundscape reflects Wayne’s Cast: Jerry McDaniels emotional state (or lack thereof) with a muted, Beth Lisick experimental electro-acoustic score. Bradshaw’s Luis Saguar Rigo Chacon Jr. feature debut chronicles a life that is in actuality Running Time: neither strange nor new, and ponders a bewil- 83 minutes dered existence in which holding onto what one Presentation Format: HDCAM has is a losing proposition. All coalesce to create Print Source: a piercing, meditative film that raises uncomfort- Lucky Hat Entertainment able questions about the broken promises of the Film Website: everythingstrangeandAmerican dream. new.com Awards: San Francisco International Film Festival 2009 (FIPRESCI Award)

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Is evil inherent in all of us, suppressed by our egos, Denmark surfacing when induced, or is it an acquired trait? 2008 Written by Anders Thomas Jensen, the director Director: of Adam’s Apples and The Green Butchers, this Kristian Levring Producer: psychological thriller chronicles the transforma- Sisse Graum Jørgensen tion of Michael, a workaholic, middle-aged family Screenwriters: man who takes a sabbatical from his job and Kristian Levring Anders Thomas Jensen signs up for the clinical trials of a new antide- Cinematographer: pressant. When the pills turn out to have serious Jens Schlosser side effects, the trials are abandoned. But Editor: Pernille Bech Christensen Michael refuses to give up the newfound sense Cast: of calm, self control, and life perspective the pills Ulrich Thomsen Paprika Steen provide. So he continues the experiment on his Emma Sehested Høeg own. Much like James Mason in Nicholas Ray’s Lars Brygmann Stine Stengade Bigger Than Life, Michael finds himself playing Running Time: disturbing mind games with his wife, Sigrid, and 95 minutes teen daughter, Selma. Further ratcheting up the Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Danish, with tension, director Kristian Levring locates the English subtitles action in orderly, sterile settings and underplays International Sales: TrustNordisk its moments of violence.

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IFC Films Film Website: fearmenot.dk Selected Filmography: The Intended (2002) The King is Alive (2000)

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BOUQUET FINAL

Fifty Dead Men Walking

Final Arrangements

SATURDAY JUNE 13 6:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 14 1:30 PM

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In 1988 Belfast, the Brits occupied the streets, United Kingdom/ the IRA waged an insurgent war, and the inno- Canada cent were caught in the crossfire. The Irish civil 2008 conflict was at its most treacherous, and the Director: British police were recruiting. They brought Kari Skogland Producers: on 22-year-old Martin McGartland to infiltrate Peter La Terriere and spy on the IRA. Martin lived his life under Kari Skogland Stephen Hegyes constant threat of exposure, torture, and death, Shawn Williamson yet he continued because the information he Screenwriter: Kari Skogland collected saved lives. He pegs the intelligence inspired by the book by agent tracking IRA activities in Belfast, Fergus Martin McGartland and Nicholas Davies (Sir Ben Kingsley), as an ideal informant and Cinematographer: knows exactly how to wheedle Fergus’ coopera- Jonathan Freeman tion. Martin enjoyed the buzz from his job until Editor: Jim Munro he was discovered and had to escape against all Music: odds. Fifty Dead Men Walking captures the char- Ben Mink acter of Northern Ireland’s “troubles” with great Cast: Sir Ben Kingsley sensitivity while creating a film that is almost Jim Sturgess unbearably suspenseful. To watch Martin battle Kevin Zegers Nathalie Press over life-and-death matters with his handler is Rose McGowan to understand, on a profound level, how this is Running Time: 118 minutes the most personal of wars. The real McGartland Presentation Format: claims the information he passed on saved at 35mm International Sales: least 50 lives. Today, he still lives in hiding.

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Sick of life as a struggling musician, composer France Gabriel decides to get a real job—a decision 2008 that is frowned upon by his bohemian sculp- Director: tor father, played by Gérard Depardieu. With a Michel Delgado Producer: checkered employment history and no business Sylvie Pialat experience, he runs into a former classmate who Screenwriter: offers him a job in the funeral business. Although Michel Delgado Cinematographer: his new position is in marketing, he’s first sent Pascal Gennesseaux to train with the bitter Gervais, who had also Editor: applied (and been rejected) for Gabriel’s job. The Joelle Hache Music: jealous Gervais decides to teach the newcomer Frederic Porte a thing or two about the funeral biz, with hilarious Cast: Bourdon results. But even after Gabriel starts to adapt to Didier Marc-André Grondin his new boss and his new job, he still can’t bring Berenice Bejo Gerard Depardieu himself to tell his new girlfriend, Claire (Berenice Marthe Keller Bejo, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies), exactly Running Time: what it is he does for a living. Michel Delgado’s 100 minutes Presentation Format: darkly funny feature debut wrings wry laughs out 35mm, in French, with of the potentially macabre material by showing, English subtitles Sales: in quasi-documentary style, the many behind- International Gaumont the-scenes details needed to sustain the fragile Print Source: Gaumont rituals of bereavement.

Handmade Films International Print Source: Brightlight Pictures Inc. Film Website: fiftydeadmenwalkingmovie.com Selected Filmography: The Stone Angel (2007) Chicks with Sticks (2004) Liberty Stands Still (2002) Men with Guns (1997) The Size of Watermelons (1996)

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FLAMMEN & CITRON

The Firm Land

SATURDAY MAY 30 6:30 PM SUNDAY MAY 31 11:00 AM

Flame & Citron

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Combining impish humor with visual poetry, Iran/France/ Iran’s Chapour Haghighat introduces a clutch of India intriguing characters before revealing how they 2008 fit into his story-within-a-story. A middle-aged Director: man looks at the ocean, a young woman gazes Chapour Haghighat Producers: into a mirror, and an old woman peers out her Chapour Haghighat window. A traveling salesman arrives on “the Anne Ferron Screenwriter: firm land” of an unnamed Indian village where Chapour Haghighat his conversation with a potential customer puts Cinematographer: the characters into context. He tells of an incur- Mrinal Desai Editors: able illness that the holy man blames on lust, so Catherine Quesemand the spiritualist sends six good-hearted men to Chapour Haghighat the city to seek a cure, a task that proves as Music: Chandrakan Liamye absurd as it is insurmountable. Like the films of Cast: master Senegalese director and fellow novelist Mansoor Seth Prem Datta Ousmane Sembène, the France-based filmmak- Ravi Rekh Rai er Haghighat never tells the audience when he Jindar Walia Change Ji can show them with lucid visuals. He lambastes Abu Lala bureaucratic indifference (think the International Running Time: 95 minutes Monetary Fund) at the same time he exalts Presentation Format: the ability of these simple peasants, portrayed 35mm, in Hindi, with primarily by untrained professionals, to outsmart, English subtitles Print Source: or at least outlast, the worldly incompetents who Perspectives Nomades stand in their way. Drunk on the art of storytell- Selected Filmography: Nightly Song of the ing, Haghighat imbues his parable with empathy, The Travellers (2006) enchantment, and precious moments of grace.

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At $9 million, Flame & Citron is the most expensive Danish production to date, but it has justified its relatively large cost with huge audiences at home and strong sales worldwide. Painting on a much bigger canvas than he has in his previous efforts, director Ole Christian Madsen offers a revisionist examination of the role of the resistance in Nazi-occupied Denmark during World War II, and he does so in many shades of gray, metaphorically speaking. Flame and Citron are based on two real-life “heroes” of the resistance: the former a borderline sociopath who revels in killing, the latter a morose, alcoholic screw-up.

Both men are far from the conventional image of the resistance hero, carrying out covert assassinations with increasing audacity as the Nazis step up their retaliatory executions until their game is played out. In this compelling drama, partially inspired by Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic Army of Shadows, Madsen keeps his focus, holding the cast at a high level of nervous intensity, while displaying a fine-tuned awareness of uncomfortable truths, deceit, and betrayal in a story that has unwelcome relevance with parallels to the situation in today’s Iraq.

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Denmark/ Czech Republic/ Germany 2008 Director: Ole Christian Madsen Producer: Lars Bredo Rahbek Screenwriters: Lars K. Andersen Ole Christian Madsen Cinematographer: Jørgen Johansson Editor: Søren B. Ebbe Music: Karsten Fundal Cast: Mads Mikkelsen Thure Lindhardt Stine Stengade Running Time: 130 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Danish and German, with English subtitles International Sales: The Match Factory Print Source: IFC Films Film Website: flammenogcitronen.dk Selected Filmography: Prague (2006) Angels in Fast Motion (2005) Kira’s Reason: A Love Story (2001) Pizza King (1999)

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MEI LANFANG

Forasters

SUNDAY MAY 31 9:00 PM THURSDAY JUNE 4 9:30 PM

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Catalan master Ventura Pons (Life on the Edge, Spain SIFF 2007) expertly weaves together past and 2009 present in Forasters. As Josep prepares to Director: purchase his family’s Barcelona flat, sepia-toned Ventura Pons Producer: memories of his sickly mother Emma (stage Ventura Pons veteran Anna Lizaran), strict father Francesc, Screenwriter: rebellious sister Anna, and their boisterous Ventura Pons based on the play by Andalusian neighbors come rushing forth. Sergi Belbel Starting in the late 1960s, the fates of the two Cinematographer: Joan Minguell families join together. By monstrous and sympa- Editor: thetic turns of events, Emma has a soft spot Pere Abadal for sad-eyed Manuel but refuses to let her son Music: Carles Cases and daughter run off with these foreigners. Like Cast: cancer, xenophobia and homophobia stalk her Anna Lizaran Joan Pera clan from one century to the next. In the end, Joan Borrás Emma represents a relic of a bygone era, but Dafins Balduz Aida Oset Lizaran brings this relic into vibrant life. Pons Presentation Format: upsets the “sensible” mentality of these tradi- 35mm, in Catalan, with tional individuals and lays bare our reluctance to English subtitles International Sales: trust the unknown. Lizaran, who also plays Anna Latido Films as an adult, won a Gaudí, the Spanish Academy Print Source: Latido Films Award, for her indelible performance.

Awards: Gaudí Awards 2008 (Best Actress)

Film Website: forasters.cat Selected Filmography: Barcelona (2007) Life on the Edge (2007) Wounded Animals (2006) Idiot Love (2003) Food of Love (2002) Ocana, an Intermittent Portrait (1978)

Forever Enthralled

North American Premiere

SUNDAY JUNE 7 9:15 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 9:15 PM SATURDAY JUNE 13 3:00 PM

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Chen Kaige returns to the theatrical biopic, the China cinematic genre that brought him the biggest 2009 acclaim of his career in Farewell My Concubine. Director: This opulent period drama is the story of Mei Chen Kaige Producers: Lanfang (1894-1961), a Peking opera singer Han Sanping of such virtuosity that his fame spread world- Du Jiayi wide and his admirers included Charlie Chaplin Screenwriters: Yan Geling and Sergei Eisenstein, who even filmed him. Chen Guofu Descended from an acting family, Mei’s popu- Zhang Jialu Cinematographer: larity soon made him a rival to veteran actor Zhao Xiaoshi Swallow 13, and the two face off in a musical Editor: “duel” from which Mei emerges the victor. As Zhou Ying Music: his fame spreads, the late 1920s see him even Zhao Jipling performing on Broadway, but disaster sets in Cast: Leon Lai with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, and Zhang Ziyi Mei’s refusal to sing in public under the occu- Sun Honglei Chen Hong pation proves career-threatening. The film neatly Running Time: conveys the fragile social position of opera 147 minutes performers of the early party of last century, Presentation Format: 35mm, in Mandarin, with who were regarded as little better than prosti- English subtitles tutes, and is blessed by a handful of outstand- International Sales: ing performances amongst the supporting cast CMC Entertainment Print Source: representing the singers. But above all it is an CMC Entertainment engaging portrait of Mei’s amazing talent, which Film Website: meilanfang.sina.com.cn bewitched audiences of the time and made him Selected Filmography: one of China’s true national treasures.

Wu ji (The Promise)

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(2005) The First Emperor (1998) Temptress Moon (1996) Farewell My Concubine (1993) King of the Children (1987)

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CLIENTE

Four Boxes

FRIDAY JUNE 5 9:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 1:30 PM

A French Gigolo

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In this snarky social thriller, three cynical 20-some- USA thing friends—Trevor, Amber, and Rob—run Go 2009 Time Liquidators, a web-based auction busi- Director: ness. Trevor is a brooding, cynical, and supersti- Wyatt McDill Producer: tious dude who also works as a privacy-fence Megan Huber salesman. Amber is a talent-challenged singer- Screenwriter: songwriter who used to date Trevor and is now Wyatt McDill Cinematographer: with the Red Hot Chili Peppers–loving, pizza- Brian Lundy eating Rob. When the trio moves into a dead Editor: man’s destroyed suburban house to sell his stuff Brett Astor Music: on eBay, they discover a bookmarked surveil- Ken Brahmstedt lance-cam website called fourboxes.tv. On the Cast: Kirk site, they discover a creepy on-camera pres- Justin Terryn Westbrook ence called “Havoc” and start freaking out about Sam Rosen Bain Boehlke its apparent plot to kill. In their debut feature, David Tufford director Wyatt McDill and his wife, producer Running Time: Megan Huber, take their original conceit of “Rear 84 minutes Presentation Format: Window on the internet” and turn it into a wry HDCAM commentary on the Twitter generation. With its Print Source: muted colors, claustrophobic setting, and MIDI- Lake Street Productions Film Website: style electronic music, the film conveys themes fourboxesthemovie.com of paranoia and isolation that are the products Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film of an increasingly internet-based lifestyle. Four Boxes is a thriller with plenty of unexpected twists and delightful creepiness, but it’s also a smart, sharp satire of web-style entertainment for those who consider text messaging a first language.

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A French Gigolo stars Nathalie Baye as Judith, a France chic, single woman in her 50s who regularly hires 2008 male escorts. A busy entrepreneur who’s not Director: looking for love, she appreciates the no-muss, Josiane Balasko Producer: no-fuss quality of the arrangement. Marco is an Cyril Colbeau-Justin escort whose earnings enable him to take care Screenwriter: of his grandmother and support his wife, Fanny, Josiane Balasko Cinematographer: with her dream of owning a hairdressing salon. Robert Alazraki But when Judith meets the charming, good- Editors: De La Selle natured Marco, the easy efficiency of her past Marie Claudine Merlin connections is replaced by something more Music: complicated—especially when Fanny finds out Kore the source of her husband’s income. The three Cast: Nathalie Baye of them are drawn into a romantic triangle and Josiane Balasko Eric Caravaca into uncharted territory in which sentiment must Isabelle Carré be reconciled with economics. Writer-director Running Time: Josiane Balasko navigates this complex terrain 102 minutes Presentation Format: with sensitivity and humor in a candid explora- 35mm, in French, with tion of the relationship between love and desire, English subtitles International Sales: and between independence and connection.

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Print Source: Gaumont Film Website: cliente-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: Un grand cri d’amour (1998) French Twist (1995) My Life is Hell (1991)

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LA FILLE DE MONACO

Fruit Fly

SUNDAY JUNE 7 9:30 PM TUESDAY JUNE 9 4:30 PM

The Girl from Monaco

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Film characters breaking into song feel comfort- USA ably at home in the confines of San Francisco’s 2008 Castro district. Bethesda, a Filipina-American Director: performance artist, moves into the neighbor- H.P. Mendoza Producers: hood in search of her birth mother. Her resi- Donald Young dence in a communal artists’ loft introduces H.P Mendoza an ensemble cast that welcomes her to the Screenwriter: H.P. Mendoza neighborhood through the first of several quirky Cinematographer: musical numbers, entitled “Fag Hag.” Despite Richard Wong her readiness to shake the moniker, Bethesda Editor: H.P. Mendoza accompanies her flatmates to local gay bars, all Music: while pulling together clues to her mother’s iden- H.P. Mendoza tity. Convinced that a successful autobiographi- Cast: L.A. Rengen cal show in the lively San Francisco art scene will Mike Curtis Theresa Navarro catapult her to success, Bethesda covers familiar E.S. Park social territory with her new friends, plotting out Aaron Zaragoza a film that cleverly plays on the perceived reali- Running Time: 92 minutes ties of gay life and the theater world. Fruit Fly’s Presentation Format: gifts truly shine in its vivid cinematography and HDCAM , in English and Tagalog, with English unique point of view that highlights the exuber- subtitles ance of its colorful setting. Absorbing animated Print Source: sequences bookend an earnest musical comedy CAAM Film Website: about searching for one thing and finding more fruitflyfilm.com Selected Filmography: than was expected.

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Initially a breezy screwball comedy in the classic France French vein, Anne Fontaine’s latest film veers off 2008 into more dramatic territory in its second half. At Director: first, The Girl from Monaco dazzles the audience Anne Fontaine Producers: with a star-studded French cast and, of course, Bruno Pésery a gorgeous setting. Bertrand is a successful Philippe Carcassonne Parisian lawyer who has come to the princi- Screenwriters: Anne Fontaine pality to defend a wealthy woman accused of Benoît Graffin murdering a man with alleged ties to the Russian Cinematographer: Patrick Blossier mob. To ensure his safety, Bertrand is assigned Editor: a bodyguard, Christophe, to shadow him Maryline Monthieux during the case. At first, Bertrand is annoyed by Music: Philippe Rombi Christophe’s constant intrusion, but the two men Cast: eventually develop a kind of friendship. Things Fabrice Luchini Roschdy Zem quickly change when Bertrand starts receiving Louise Bourgoin overt carnal attention from a local TV-star hottie Stéphane Audran Gilles Cohen named Audrey—a free-spirited woman who once Running Time: had a relationship with Christophe. Bertrand and 95 minutes Christophe’s relationship grows into something Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with more than businesslike when Bertrand makes a English subtitles sacrifice to aid his bodyguard. Director Fontaine International Sales: takes the frothy romantic concerns of the movie’s Pyramide Print Source: setup and shifts them into darker territory as the Magnolia Pictures main characters’ motivations and loyalties are Film Website: lafilledemonaco-lefilm. called into question. com Selected Filmography: Nouvelle Chance (2006) Entre ses mains (2005) Nathalie (2003) How I Killed My Father (2001) Dry Cleaning (1997)

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DONNE-MOI LA MAIN

LES BUREAUX DE DIEU

Give Me Your Hand

God’s Offices

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Upon hearing of their mother’s death, twin France brothers Antoine and Quentin decide to walk 2009 and hitchhike from their rural French village to Director: the funeral in Spain—even though they have Pascal-Alex Vincent Producer: never met the woman before. But Pascal-Alex Nicolas Brevière Vincent’s debut feature is no typical road movie. Screenwriters: Starting with a brief Japanese animé-style Pascal-Alex Vincent Martin Drouot sequence, the 18-year-olds begin their journey Cinematographer: and bicker along the way but don’t say much to Alexis Kavyrchine each other as they meet a series of increasingly Editor: Dominique Petrot odd and erotic characters. When Antoine sleeps Music: with a girl the brothers meet along the way, the Tarwater jealous Quentin retaliates with a fistfight. Later, Cast: Alexandre Carril however, Quentin has a homosexual tryst with Victor Carril Anais Demoustier a hay-baler named Hakim, which infuriates the Running Time: disapproving Antoine. The film takes a darker 80 minutes turn after Quentin inexplicably vanishes, causing Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with Antoine to search the countryside in a panic. As English subtitles the characters move forward on their journey, International Sales: the surrounding landscape changes to fit the Wide Management Print Source: mood, with images of sunny rolling farmland Strand Releasing contrasting with dark, brooding forests. While Film Website: bodegafilms.com technically a road movie, this atmospheric film Selected Filmography: is more of an analysis about the symbiotic love, Debut Feature Film rivalry, and jealousy between siblings.

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Women of all ages, ethnicities, religions, and France backgrounds meet in the waiting room of a busy 2008 family planning clinic in Paris. They’ve come in Director: search of information, advice, birth control, abor- Claire Simon Producers: tion, or just someone to talk to as they figure Richard Copans out what their sexual activity means for them- Philippe Carcassonne Philippe Kauffmann selves, their partners, and their families. There Screenwriters: are the teenagers who can’t talk to their parents Claire Simon about sex, the girl whose boyfriend wants proof Natalia Rodríguez Nadège Trebal that she’s a virgin, the woman who’s afraid her Cinematographers: husband will find out about her affair, and the sex Philippe Van Leeuw Claire Simon worker who always uses contraception with her Editor: clients but never with the man she loves. And Julien Lacheray then there are the counselors who listen to them Music: Arthur Simon and consult with one another in between ciga- Cast: rettes on the balcony. Featuring a stellar cast of Nathalie Baye Béatrice Dalle veteran French actresses (Nathalie Baye, Nicole Isabelle Carré Garcia, Isabelle Carré, and Béatrice Dalle), God’s Rachida Brakni Nicole Garcia Offices is about the very business of life itself.

Emmanuel Mouret

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Running Time: 115 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Films Boutique Print Source: Films Boutique Selected Filmography: On Fire (2005) Mimi (2003) 800 km de différenceRomance (2002) A Foreign Body (1997)

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Hachiko: A Dog’s Story

North American Premiere

SATURDAY JUNE 13 6:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 14 NOON

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Hachiko, the legendary Japanese akita, proves USA that there is nothing more loyal than man’s best 2009 friend in this modern retelling of a cherished Director: true story. It all begins when a college profes- Lasse Hallström Producers: sor adopts an abandoned dog named Hachiko. Richard Gere The two form such a strong bond that Hachiko Bill Johnson Vicki Shigekuni Wong walks with the professor to the train station each Screenwriters: morning and returns to the station each evening Stephen P. Lindsey to walk the professor home again. The routine Kaneto Shindo Cinematographer: continues until one day the professor does not Ron Fortunato return to the train station. Hachiko, however, Editor: does not give up. He returns to the same train Kristina Boden Music: station at the same time, faithfully waiting for Jan A.P. Kaczmarek his owner to return. Hachiko does this for more Cast: Richard Gere than nine years, until his own death. This heart- Joan Allen warming tale that is already the stuff of legend Sarah Roemer in Japan is finally making its way to America Running Time: 104 minutes by way of prominent director Lasse Hallström. Presentation Format: With an equally capable cast, the experience of 35mm Sales: Hachiko’s unending loyalty is certain to stay with International Shochiku you. Hachiko’s story is one of love, unwavering Print Source: devotion, and the resounding impact one dog’s Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group affection can make.

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Hansel and Gretel

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People who love houses made of candy will South Korea be disappointed by this version of Hansel and 2008 Gretel. All others prepare for an outré, Tim Director: Burton-esque fever dream. On a business trip, Yim Phil-sung Producers: Lee Eun-soo drives down a wooded road, talking Choi Jae-won on his cell phone to his girlfriend. He swerves to Seo Woo-sik avoid a piece of roadkill and ends up crashing Screenwriters: Kim Min-sook his car. Dazed by the accident, he wanders the Yim Phil-sung woods until nightfall, when he meets a myste- Cinematographer: Kim Jee-yong rious young girl who leads him to her home, Editor: the “House of Happy Children,” secluded in Kim Sun-min the middle of the forest. Once there, the girl’s Music: Lee Byeong-woo too-perfect family welcomes him as if he were Cast: one of their own. Following breakfast the next Chun Jeong-myoung Eun Won-jae morning, Eun-soo tries to get back to his car Shim Eun-kyoung only to find all the forest’s paths lead back to the Running Time: House of Happy Children. Taking the tropes from 116 minutes Presentation Format: the famous Brothers Grimms’ fairytale, director 35mm, in Korean, with Yim Phil-sung spins them into his own unique, English subtitles Sales: surreal interpretation of the original, where the International FineCut Co. kitsch and the creepy mingle together in every Print Source: FineCut Co. scene.

Selected Filmography: Antarctic Journal (2005)

hachi-movie.jp Selected Filmography: The Hoax (2007) The Shipping News (2001) Chocolat (2000) The Cider House Rules (1999) What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) My Life As A Dog (1987)

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The Higher Force

FRIDAY MAY 22 4:30 PM WEDNESDAY MAY 27 7:00 PM

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Deadpan humor works to wondrous Iceland effect in this ultra-cool riff on the mob 2008 genre from Olaf de Fleur Johannesson. Director: Slacker David is not quite cutting it in his Olaf de Fleur Johannesson Producers: chosen career as composer of “mind flow” Stefan Schaefer poetry, so he undertakes collections for a Olaf de Fleur Johannesson Helgi Sverrisson bunch of loan sharks. He’s not much use Screenwriters: at this either, and is rapidly sliding down Olaf de Fleur Johannesson the slippery slope of their pecking order. Stefan Schaefer Thorvaldur Thorsteinsson Quite by chance, he hits upon a scheme Cinematographer: to earn back respect, diverting attention Rune Kippervik to his landlord, Harald, claiming he is a Editors: Gudni Páll Sæmundsson dangerous crook thought to have disap- Benedikt Johannesson Olaf de Fleur Johannesson peared in Mexico. As the hapless hoods Music: turn their attention to this new target, “Mr. Pavel E. Smid Big” flies in from New York to commend Karl Henry Hamilton Cleverdon David for his efforts. But as the house of Cast: cards of David’s tale begins to fall, he is Petur Johann Sigfusson Eggert Thorleifsson forced to beat it…but fast. To its credit, Stefan Schaefer The Higher Force never takes itself seri- Ingvar E. Sigurdsson Ilmur Kristjansdottir ously; the pleasure of the filmmaking is at Michael Imperioli all times paramount over any notions of Running Time: plausibility. Johannesson’s motley crew 80 minutes Presentation Format: of characters—with special mention to HDCAM, in Icelandic and English, producer Stefan Schaefer as a pedantic with English subtitles International Sales: German enforcer with a taste for trivia— Visit Films drolly lay on the fakery and miscommuni- Print Source: Visit Films cation, with laugh-out-loud results.

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Film Website: poppolipictures.com/ higherforce Selected Filmography: The Amazing Truth About Queen Racquela (2008) Act Normal (2006) Africa United (2005) Blindsker: Saga Bubba Morthens (2004)

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PESCUIT SPORTIV

Hooked

FRIDAY MAY 22 1:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 9:15 PM TUESDAY JUNE 9 4:30 PM

The Hurt Locker

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Adrian Sitaru’s debut feature film is a close-up Romania/France look at a cracked love relationship being wedged 2008 apart by a prostitute. Mihai and his lover, Sweetie, Director: embark on a picnic in the countryside to unwind Adrian Sitaru Producers: from stress and aid their suffering relationship. Adrian Sitaru Along the way, Sweetie accidentally hits a pros- Marie-Pierre Macia Juliette Lepoutre titute, Ana, who was lying in the middle of the Screenwriter: road. Complications arise when Sweetie reveals Adrian Sitaru she is married and therefore can’t report the Cinematographer: Adrian Silisteanu accident because her affair would be discovered. Editor: Instead, they decide to dump Ana’s body in the Adrian Sitaru nearby woods. Much to the couple’s surprise, Music: Cornel Ilie they are shocked to witness dead Ana wake up, Cast: claiming she has no memory of the events. Ana Adrian Titieni Ioana Flora masterfully infiltrates their relationship, learns its Maria Dinulescu weaknesses, and exploits them to her heart’s Running Time: content. Sitaru uses point-of-view, handheld 84 minutes Presentation Format: camera shots to change the viewer’s perspec- 35mm, in Romanian, with tive from character to character. We gain insight English subtitles Sales: into each of them, to Sitaru’s credit, though, he International Rezo refuses to reveal Ana’s motivation for her behav- Print Source: ior. It’s unclear if she manipulates out of revenge Rezo Selected Filmography: or pleasure, but it’s clear she intends to harm the Debut Feature Film lovers’ relationship.

Awards: Thessaloniki International Film Festival 2008 (Special Jury Prize) Palm Springs International Film Festival 2009 (New Directors Prize)

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Prefaced by a shocking opening sequence and USA the quote “war is a drug,” The Hurt Locker is 2008 possibly the most successful attempt yet to Director: convey the hell of war. Amazingly, director Kathryn Bigelow Producers: Kathryn Bigelow trumps her male competitors Nicolas Chartier with the sheer physicality in this stirring chronicle Greg Shapiro Kathryn Bigelow of guts under fire. The tight-knit, U.S. anti-bomb Mark Boal squad Bravo Company, led by the experienced Screenwriter: Sanborn in one of the more hellish corners of Mark Boal Cinematographer: war-torn Baghdad, is joined by James, a swag- Barry Ackroyd gering cowboy who has nevertheless success- Editors: Murawski fully disabled 873 devices. But as the unit Bob Chris Innis faces tougher challenges with each new bomb, Music: James’ recklessness instills fear in the men that Marco Beltrami Buck Sanders they will not survive the one remaining month Cast: until their tour of duty is complete, and they start Jeremy Renner Anthony Mackie to rebel against his bullish methods. Bigelow’s Evangeline Lilly choice of a bomb squad as the focus for the Guy Pearce Ralph Fiennes action was inspired, as improvised explosive Brian Geraghty devices define the Iraq conflict in the way that Running Time: helicopters defined the Vietnam War. Ratcheting 130 minutes Presentation Format: up the tension from the very first scene, the film 35mm works effectively as pure thriller, pointedly avoid- International Sales: Voltage Pictures ing political analysis. Timeless in its craft and Print Source: insight, The Hurt Locker joins the pantheon of Summit Entertainment Selected Filmography: great American films about war.

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K-19: The Widowmaker (2002) The Weight of Water (2000) Strange Days (1995) Point Break (1991) Blue Steel (1989) Near Dark (1987) The Loveless (1982)

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I Know You Know North American Premiere

Il Divo

SATURDAY MAY 23 1:00 PM MONDAY MAY 25 7:00 PM

SATURDAY JUNE 6 11:00 AM SATURDAY JUNE 13 9:15 PM

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Based on writer-director Justin Kerrigan’s child- United Kingdom hood, this tale manages to be both a semi- 2008 autobiographical homage and an espionage Director: thriller. Set in the 1980s in Bridgend, Wales, the Justin Kerrigan Producer: story focuses on 11-year-old Jamie who adores Sally Hibbin his single dad, Charlie, a smooth operator with Screenwriter: cool shades and a flashy car. After an extended Justin Kerrigan Cinematographer: summer stay in Amsterdam, the pair moves Ed Wild into Charlie’s old pad on a run-down housing Editor: estate, and Jamie starts adjusting to the ups Stuart Gazzard Music: and downs of life at the local comprehensive Guy Farley school. When Jamie discovers that his father is Cast: Carlyle leading a double life as an undercover agent for Robert Arron Fuller the British government, it brings the pair even David Bradley closer together. Soon Jamie is joining Charlie Running Time: 81 minutes for meetings with his handler, Mr. Fisher. Jamie Presentation Format: learns how to spot and shake off a tail, and he 35mm helps his father with the occasional package International Sales: The Little Film Company drop. It is all very exciting until Charlie’s final Print Source: mission doesn’t quite go according to plan, and The Little Film Company Filmography: Jamie is confronted with the reality of his father’s Selected Human Traffic (1999) existence and realizes that at least one of them needs to grow up really fast.

Known by the Caesarian moniker “Divo Giulio” Italy/France for his three-decade reign at the top of Italian 2008 politics, former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti is Director: one of the more fascinating figures in a country Paolo Sorrentino Producers: known for its colorful parade of politicians. Nicola Giuliano Andreotti has been part of the Italian political Francesca Cima Andrea Occhipinti machine for more than half a century, serving Screenwriter: seven terms as prime minister. Despite rumored Paolo Sorrentino close ties to the Mafia, he never let a potentially Cinematographer: Luca Bigazzi career-ending brouhaha get in the way of yet Editor: another comeback. Part Huey Long and part Cristiano Travaglioli Vito Corleone, Andreotti currently serves as a Music: Teho Teardo “senator for life” in Italy’s parliament. Director Cast: Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo tackles this politi- Toni Servillo Anna Bonaiuto cal saga with a riveting and fast-paced biopic Giulio Bosetti that recognizes the former prime minister’s Flavio Bucci Carlo Buccirosso immense intelligence as well as his underlying Running Time: ferocity. The film is anchored by Sorrentino’s 110 minutes rapier-like script, Luca Bigazzi’s camerawork, Presentation Format: 35mm, in Italian, with Christiano Tavaglioli’s staccato editing rhythms, English subtitles and Toni Servillo’s portrayal of the chameleon- International Sales: like Andreotti. Following its screening at Cannes Beta Cinema Print Source: last year, Il Divo was described as a “master- MPI Media Group piece.” Sorrentino’s stylized portrait of Andreotti Film Website: luckyred.it manages to be seriously political but wraps its Selected Filmography: message in an entertaining package featuring The Family Friend (2006) The Consequences of wicked wit and brilliant cinematography.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2008 (Jury Prize) European Film Awards 2008 (Best Actor)

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Love (2004) One Man Up (2001)

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VOY A EXPLOTAR

INJU, LA BÊTE DANS L’OMBRE

I’m Gonna Explode

Inju, the Beast in the Shadow

MONDAY MAY 25 1:30 PM THURSDAY MAY 28 9:30 PM

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Gerardo Naranjo’s exhilarating thriller about two Mexico rebels without a cause bristles with the energy 2008 of youth. Fifteen-year-old Román is privileged, Director: growing up the only child of a corrupt Mexican Gerardo Naranjo Producers: politician. Román blames his father for his moth- Pablo Cruz er’s untimely death and does everything in his Gerardo Naranjo Hunter Gray power to make his father’s life miserable. Expelled Alain de la Mata from all of the best private schools, Román ends Screenwriter: up at a public school, where his contribution to Gerardo Naranjo Cinematographer: the school talent show is a sketch called “See You Tobias Datum in Hell,” in which he fakes his own hanging. That Editor: bit of nihilism captures the attention of school- Yibran Asuad Music: mate Maru, who falls hard for Román and goes Lynn Fainchtein along with his plan to run away. They don’t get Cast: Daniel Giménez Cacho far. Pitching a tent on the roof of the congress- Maria Deschamps man’s hilltop villa, the two camp out in luxury. Juan Pablo de Santiago Rebecca Jones Meanwhile, the parents are frantic, fearing the Martha Claudia Moreno kids have been kidnapped. Although most of the Running Time: grown-up scenes are played for comedy, there’s 106 minutes Presentation Format: always a hint of danger lurking—the sense 35mm, in Spanish, with that this youthful prank might end badly. Like English subtitles Sales: an adolescent revision of Godard’s Breathless, International Elle Driver Naranjo’s film explores the tenderness of a first Print Source: love that belies the bravado and posturing of the IFC Films Film Website: young lovers. Recommended for ages 17 and voyaexplotar.com above. Contains nudity, underage drinking, and Selected Filmography: Drama/Mex (2006) school violence.

THURSDAY JUNE 4 6:30 PM SATURDAY JUNE 6 1:15 PM FRIDAY JUNE 12 4:15 PM

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Barbet Schroeder’s elegant suspense thriller France is based on a novel by the great Japanese 2008 crime writer Edogawa Rampo (a pen name Director: that pays homage to his American forebear, Barbet Schroeder Producers: Edgar Allan Poe). It is a tale of obsession— Saïd Ben Saïd intellectual and erotic—pitting callow French Vérane Frédiani Franck Ribière novelist Alex Fayard against a diabolical Screenwriters: Japanese mastermind. Fayard has become Jean-Armand Bougrelle Henri famous for writing in the style of the elusive Frédérique Barbet Schroeder Japanese writer Shundei Oe. When he’s invited Cinematographer: to Kyoto on a book tour for his latest bestsell- Luciano Tovoli Editor: er, he decides to provoke the secretive writer Luc Barnier into coming out of seclusion. As the leading Music: Western authority on Oe, Fayard is familiar Jorge Arriagada Cast: with the violent and disturbing imagery in the Benoît Magimel master’s work, in which evil often triumphs. Lika Minamoto Gen Shimaoka When Fayard becomes involved with Tamao, Ryo Ishibashi an enigmatic geisha whose traditional dance Shun Sugata Running Time: mesmerizes, he starts having strange dreams 105 minutes and encounters. While he tries to save Tamao Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with English from her former fiancé, Fayard finds himself subtitles drawn deeper and deeper into a deranged International Sales: underworld. Gorgeously photographed, this UGC International Print Source: stylized nightmare reveals the danger of inter- UGC International Film Website: weaving fiction and reality.

Malachance (2004)

Awards: Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival 2009 (MEZCAL Award) Thessaloniki Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Prize)

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inju-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: Terror’s Advocate (2007) Murders by Numbers (2002) Our Lady of the Assassins (2000) Desperate Measures (1997) Before and After (1995) Kiss of Death (1994) Single White Female (1992) Reversal of Fortune (1990) Barfly (1987) Koko, A Talking Gorilla (1977) Mistress (1975) General Idi Amin Dada (1974)

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EN TU AUSENCIA

In Your Absence

FRIDAY JUNE 12 7:00 PM SATURDAY JUNE 13 4:00 PM

Kabei - Our Mother

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Pablo is a young boy struggling to grow into Spain maturity while dealing with the loss of his father. 2008 As his mother battles to keep the family going, Director: Pablo is tortured by his father’s accidental death. Iván Noel Producers: Pablo spends most of his time wandering the lush Iván Noel countryside, accompanied by his best friend, Brian R. Way a rambunctious, more sexually experienced Screenwriter: Iván Noel tomboy named Julia. One day, Pablo meets a Cinematographers: strange man named Paco on the road beside Luis Fernández Caula Ildefonso Corrochano his broken down car and strikes up a conversa- Editor: tion with him. Despite warnings about the man’s Guy Ducker character, Pablo continues to converse with Music: Iván Noel the man. The discussion soon takes a turn that Cast: leads Pablo to discover truths about himself and Francisco Alfonsin Gonzalo Sánchez Salas his family that deeply rattle him, changing him Ana Tutor forever. From first-time director Iván Noel comes Anabel Azuar Juanjo Galiardo a fantastic film about coming to terms with one’s Running Time: self. Set in the gorgeous sun-drenched fields and 99 minutes hills of Southern Spain, Noel uses his exceptional Presentation Format: HDCAM, in Spanish, with young cast to perfection, playing with audiences’ English subtitles expectations at every turn. Using the luminous Print Source: settings and twisting plot, Noel weaves a story Yves Noel Productions Film Website: about seeking truth that will rock audiences to entuausencia.com Selected Filmography: the core.

Debut Feature Film

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A father’s sudden absence occupies the center Japan of Yoji Yamada’s intricate family drama, adapted 2008 from Teruyo Nogami’s bestselling memoir. In Director: prewar Tokyo, after Shigeru “Tobei” Nogami is Yoji Yamada Producers: imprisoned for espousing progressive politi- Hiroshi Fukazawa cal views, his wife, known by his daughters Takashi Yajima as “Kabei,” is left alone to support their family. Screenwriters: Yoji Yamada Helped by the sweet, bumbling student Yamazaki Emiko Hiramatsu and some of her more anti-authoritarian neigh- based on the book by Teruyo Nogami bors, Kabei ekes out a living for her family Cinematographer: and struggles through the consequences of Mutsuo Naganuma Tobei’s anti-Imperialist “thought crime.” Director Editor: Iwao Ishii Yamada, a beloved veteran of Japanese cinema, Music: builds upon the quiet artistry of his recent trilogy Isao Tomita Cast: of samurai films (The Twilight Samurai, The Sayuri Yoshinaga Hidden Blade, and Love and Honor) and the Mitsugoro Bando Tadanobu Asano touching comedy of his epic 48-part Tora San Rei Dan series. Unashamedly emotional without lapsing Running Time: into sentimentality, Kabei—Our Mother is light- 132 minutes Presentation Format: ened by a subtle undercurrent of humor and DigiBeta, in Japanese, with exceptional performances. The film’s meditative English subtitles Sales: approach and impeccable formal construction International Shochiku Co., Ltd. make it a rewarding exploration of a family’s resil- Print Source: Strand Releasing ience in the face of distress.

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Film Website: shochikufilms.com Selected Filmography: Love and Honor (2006) The Hidden Blade (2004) The Twilight Samurai (2002) A Class to Remember (1993) My Sons (1991) Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies (1986) The Village (1975) Home from the Sea (1972) Tora San Our Lovable Tramp (1969)

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Kaifeck Murder

SATURDAY JUNE 13 10:00 PM SUNDAY JUNE 14 4:30 PM

North American Premiere

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Drawing inspiration from historical events, Germany Kaifeck Murder weaves thriller and fantasy 2008 together into a terrifying amalgam. On assign- Director: ment in the Bavarian countryside, photographer Esther Gronenborn Producer: Marc Barenberg and his son Tyll chance upon Monika Raebel the small town of Kaifeck, the site of an infa- Screenwriters: mous, unsolved mass murder. Marc becomes Christian Limmer Sönke Lars Neuwöhner infatuated with the mystery but finds no one in Cinematographer: the township willing to talk with him about it, Chris Valentien not even the pretty, talkative innkeeper Juliana. Editors: Moune Barius Locals believe the derelict farmhouse where the Dirk Grau killings took place to be cursed, but Marc finds Music: Alexander Hacke himself drawn there regardless. Soon after visit- Cast: ing the place, he begins to have bizarre dreams Benno Fürmann Alexandra Maria Lara filled with visions and details about the murders Henry Strange that no one could know. When his body starts Michael Gwisdek Erni Mangold to spontaneously manifest wounds that mimic Running Time: those of the legendary slain victims, Marc’s 86 minutes curiosity turns to obsession. Benno Fürmann’s Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with excellent performance as Marc adds a stolid English subtitles reality to this gothic tale even as director Esther International Sales: Gronenborn steeps each scene in a dark fairytale Bavaria Film International Print Source: atmosphere—the very stuff from which night- Bavaria Film International Film Website: mares are made.

Kanchivaram

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Every Indian bride dreams of wearing a deli- India cate Kanchivaram sari on her wedding day, no 2008 matter her caste. On the day of his daughter’s Director: “first feeding,” Vengadam (Prakash Raj) prom- Priyadarshan Producer: ises her one of the same expensive saris that Shailendra Singh he weaves daily for the highest caste in India. Screenwriter: Despite resistance from the village community Priyadarshan Cinematographer: and fears that an unfulfilled promise will lead to Thiru a curse, Vengadam risks his livelihood to steal Editor: individual vivid silk threads from his workplace. Arun Kumar Music: Every night, he secretly and patiently weaves his M.G. Sreekumar daughter’s sari. As his daughter’s wedding day Cast: Raj approaches, a Communist activist initiates strikes Prakash Shreya Reddy against the mill owners, preventing Vengadam Shammu from completing the sari and from keeping his Running Time: 117 minutes promise. Stunning colors punctuate this strong Presentation Format: Tamil-language narrative, where the setting acts 35mm, in Tamil, with English subtitles as another character in the well-woven script.

International Sales: Though history contextualizes Kanchivaram, it’s Spier Films Vengadam’s strong desire that drives the film’s Print Source: Spier Films mystical tone and sensitive approach to the Film Website: kanchivaramthefilm.com social realities of India’s caste structure.

kasky.fi Selected Filmography: Berlin Stories (2005) Adil geht (2005) alaska.de (2000) The Road to Happiness (1995)

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Selected Filmography: Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007) Malamaal Weekly (2006) Garam Masala (2005) Kilukkam (1991) Poochakkoru Mookkuthi (1984)

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KARAMAZOVI

HET ZUSJE VAN KATIA

The Karamazovs

Katia’s Sister

WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 9:15 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 11:00 AM

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The Karamazovs layers Dostoyevsky’s themes Czech Republic/ of morality, atheism, and their consequences Poland through the interplay of novel, play, film, and 2008 “real life.” Based on the novel of similar name, Director: the film shows a theater troupe from Prague in Petr Zelenka Producer: a production of “The Brothers Karamazov” at Čestmír Kopecký a Polish steel mill. The stage production brings Screenwriter: Petr Zelenka the father, Fyodor Karamazov, back from the Cinematographer: grave to confront his sons about his murder. Alexander Šurkala The play slowly reveals each son’s role in his Editor: Vladimír Barák father’s death, while offstage the characters’ Music: stories interlace and begin to reflect the themes Jan A.P. Kaczmarek portrayed on stage. Writer-director Petr Zelenka Cast: Ivan Trojan adds depth and accessibility to this complex Igor Chmela weave by giving us a view that others in the film Martin Myšička David Novotný do not see. Issues of faith, immortality, and the Rodek Holub redemption of man combine both on and off the Running Time: 100 minutes stage and make us wonder, if there is no God, is Presentation Format: everything permitted?

35mm, in Czech and PolAwards: Czech Lion Awards 2009 (Best Film, Director) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Prize) Official Academy Award® Submission 2008 (Best Foreign Language Film)

ish, with English subtitles International Sales: Prvni Verejnopravni Print Source: Negativ Film Website: karamazovi.cz Selected Filmography: Wrong Side Up (2005) Year of the Devil (2002) Buttoners (1997)

THURSDAY JUNE 4 4:30 PM TUESDAY JUNE 9 9:30 PM

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Mijke de Jong’s bold new film is a powerful Netherlands indictment of the inequalities and hardships 2008 facing people who migrate to the West from Director: Eastern Europe. Katia’s Sister follows the strug- Mijke de Jong Producer: gles of 13-year-old Lucia, who tries to retain her Hans de Wolf childlike optimism in the face of the harsh reali- Screenwriters: ties of the adult world. Her story begins when Jan Eilander Jolein Laarman she leaves Russia with her mother and older based on the novel by sister, Katia, hoping to find a better life. But Andrés Barba Cinematographer: after arriving in Amsterdam, their aspirations are Ton Peters soon deflated. To make ends meet, the girls’ Editor: desperately poor mother finds herself soliciting Dorith Vinken Music: on Amsterdam’s seediest streets and the effer- Leo Anemaet vescent but misguided Katia starts stripping. Cast: Betty Qizmolli As bespectacled plain-Jane Lucia watches the Julia Seijkens women’s lives spiral hopelessly downward, she Olga Louzgina retreats into emotional isolation. She becomes Running Time: 85 minutes just “Katia’s little sister”—a girl without a name Presentation Format: of her own. In a world defined by drugs, pros- 35mm, in Dutch and Russian, with English subtitles titution and pornography, the things she values International Sales: most—optimism and love—have become virtu- Media Luna Entertainment ally worthless. Making use of handheld, close-up Print Source: Media Luna Entertainment camera work to capture the nuances of Lucia’s Selected Filmography: suffering as she tries to keep her family together, Tussenstand (2007) All Souls (2005) de Jong skillfully delineates a portrait of a society Bluebird (2004) where desperation forces decent people into Lopen (1999) Broos (1997) committing otherwise unthinkable acts.

Love Hurts (1993)

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Khamsa

FRIDAY MAY 22 9:30 PM MONDAY MAY 25 4:30 PM

Kisses

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Franco-Tunisian writer-director Karim Dridi’s France/Tunisia latest is a poignant tale reminiscent of François 2008 Truffaut’s The 400 Blows. After fleeing from his Director: foster family, 13-year-old Khamsa returns to the Karim Dridi Producers: Gypsy camp outside Marseilles where he was Karina Grandjean born. Not much seems to have changed since Karim Dridi he was forced to leave. There are still late night Screenwriter: Karim Dridi card games, diving in the Mediterranean Sea, Cinematographer: and high-stakes rooster fights. Now, however, Antoine Monod his beloved grandmother is near death; his father, Editors: Lise Beaulieu who sired numerous offspring with countless Marie Liotard girlfriends, shows little interest in his welfare; and Cast: Marc Cortes his dad’s ex-wife hates him enough to denounce Raymond Adam him to the police. Only his dwarf cousin Tony and Tony Fourmann Mehdi Laribi best friend Coyote wholeheartedly welcome him Simon Abkarian back. Coyote has teamed with an Arab friend, Running Time: 110 minutes Rachtique, who initiates the Gypsy kids into Presentation Format: the endorphin rush of scooter-mounted purse 35mm, in French, with snatching. Khamsa’s innocence begins to vanish English subtitles International Sales: when they involve him in a series of increasingly Rezo Print Source: serious crimes.

Rezo Selected Filmography: Pigalle (2004) Fureur (2002) Cuba feliz (2000) Hors jeu (1998) Bye-Bye (1995)

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A violent and drunken father makes 11-year-old Ireland/ son Dylan (Shane Curry) hit the road—or, in this Sweden case, the river—with his neighbor and best friend, 2008 ten-year-old Kylie (Kelly O’Neill). What follows is a Director: classic picaresque that morphs from traditional Irish Lance Daly Producers: working-class realism into a more fantastical realm as Lance Daly the children search for Dylan’s older brother, Barry. Macdara Kelleher Screenwriter: Director Lance Daly’s transition from the washed-out Lance Daly drabness of the children’s home lives to the bright, Editor: saturated colors of Dublin bears an unmistakable J. Patrick Duffne Music: resemblance to The Wizard of Oz. But that is where GoBlimpsGo the similarity ends as the fantastical image of the city Cast: O’Neill takes a more sinister turn and the protagonists meet Kelly Shane Curry up with a host of unsavory characters on Dublin’s Stephen Rea Conroy gritty streets. Throughout this urban odyssey, Neilí Paul Roe however, there are many light moments, such as Running Time: when young Dylan is introduced to the music of his 72 minutes Presentation namesake Robert Zimmerman (aka Bob Dylan) by Format: a harmonica-playing boat captain. Despite never 35mm having acted before, Curry and O’Neill prove to be Print Source: Oscilloscope natural performers who adeptly handle Daly’s crisp, Laboratories fast-paced dialogue. Daly takes what could have Film Website: kisses.ie been a maudlin story of children in peril and elevates Selected Filmogit to an unsentimental examination of the difficult raphy: The Halo Effect journey from adolescence to adulthood.

(2004) Awards: Irish Film and Television Awards 2009 (Best Director, Editing) Foyle Film Festival 2008 (Best Feature Film) Galway Film Fleadh 2008 (Best Irish Feature Film)

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EID MILAD LAILA

Krabat

TUESDAY JUNE 9 9:30 PM THURSDAY JUNE 11 9:15 PM FRIDAY JUNE 12 4:00 PM

US Premiere

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Harry Potter should steer clear of the chal- Germany lenges facing the 14-year-old orphan in this 2008 expertly crafted dark fantasy. The effects of Director: the 17th-century Thirty Years’ War have spread Marco Kreuzpaintner Producers: disease over a desolate landscape. An unfamiliar Uli Putz voice comes to the homeless Krabat in a dream, Thomas Wöbke Jakob Claussen luring him to an old mill where he exchanges Bernd Wintersperger labor for shelter and food. After he suspects that Screenwriters: the other 11 boys working at the mill are hiding Michael Gutmann Marco Kreuzpaintner a secret, Krabat discovers that the owner of the based on the novel by mill, The Master, practices sorcery in the dark Otfried Preußler Cinematographer: arts. As an initiate of the secret society, Krabat Daniel Gottschalk finally feels that he belongs, but when the sorcer- Editor: Hansjörg Weissbrich er’s plan will inflict harm on his best friend Tordo, Music: Krabat must choose between power and loyalty. Annette Focks Smart use of color and shadow bring the film’s Cast: David Kross environment alive, heightening the sinister and Daniel Brühl mysterious atmosphere. Marco Kreuzpainter Christian Redl Robert Stadlober waves a sure-handed director’s wand over the Paula Kalenberg alluring characters of Otfried Preussler’s classic Running Time: novel, guaranteed to electrify fans of the genre 120 minutes Presentation Format: and draw new members to the “dark side.”

35mm, in German, with English subtitles International Sales: Bavaria Film International Print Source: Bavaria Film International Film Website: krabat-derfilm.de Selected Filmography: Trade (2007) Summer Storm (2004) Breaking Loose (2003)

Laila’s Birthday

MONDAY MAY 25 1:15 PM TUESDAY JUNE 2 7:30 PM

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Showing the confusion, frustration, absurdity, and coping mechanisms of life in contemporary Ramallah through the eyes of a taxi driver, wry, comic drama Laila’s Birthday is strong political entertainment leavened with finely tooled irony.

The protagonist is former judge Abu Laila who is forced by financial considerations to drive his brother-in-law’s cab. A proud intellectual with a by-the-book sense of law and order, Abu is constantly aggrieved by the chaos and lack of courtesy that surrounds him. From passengers not fastening their seatbelts to disputes over smoking in the cab, Abu survives the course of one long day, as a series of passengers and their destinations highlight internal Palestinian political divisions and persistent problems caused by Israeli occupation. Although symbolizing something more serious, these encounters feature sardonic dialogue and excellent comic timing.

By the film’s pitch-perfect ending, Abu isn’t exactly ready to accept Allah’s justice over situations that are created by man, but he’s become more skilled in the art of accommodation.

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Palestine/ Tunisia/ Netherlands 2008 Director: Rashid Masharawi Producers: Mohamed Habib Attia Peter van Vogelpoel Rashid Masharawi Screenwriter: Rashid Masharawi Cinematographers: Tarek Ben Abdallah Néstor Sanz Editor: Pascale Chavance Music: Kaies Sellami Cast: Mohammed Bakri Areen Omari Nour Zoubi Running Time: 72 minutes Presentation Format: HDCAM, in Arabic, with English subtitles International Sales: Fortissimo Films Print Source: Kino International Selected Filmography: Attente (2005) Ticket to Jerusalem (2002) Haifa (1996) Hatta Ishaar Akhar (1994)

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LILLE SOLDAT

Like Dandelion Dust

Little Soldier

North American Premiere

SUNDAY MAY 31 6:30 PM MONDAY JUNE 1 7:00 PM

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What if you could disappear from a difficult situ- USA ation as quickly as if you’ve blown the seeds 2008 from a dandelion puff? That’s one couple’s Director: predicament in this moving adaptation of Karen Jon Gunn Producers: Kingsbury’s 2008 novel, “Like Dandelion Dust.” Kerry David Floridians Jack and Molly Campbell live peace- Kevin Downes Bobby Downes fully with their adopted son, Joey, but their world Screenwriters: is upended when Joey’s biological father is Stephen J. Rivele released from prison. Rip Porter decides to get Michael Lachance based on a novel by his life with estranged, long-suffering wife Wendy Karen Kingsbury back on track. First, Rip seeks a visit with Joey, Cinematographer: Reynaldo Villalobos and then he seeks much more. The ensuing Editor: battle between disadvantaged birth parents and Jon Gunn wealthier adoptive parents is an examination of Music: Nathan Larson the socioeconomic factors that shape families. Cast: Kingsbury’s best-selling novel makes for equally Mira Sorvino Barry Pepper volatile cinema. Like Dandelion Dust has been Kate Levering an emotional experience for audiences at this Maxwell Perry Cotton Cole Hauser year’s Vail, Sedona, and Sonoma Film Festivals.

Running Time: It simply and effectively taps into parents’ most 100 minutes Presentation Format: primal feelings of love and fear for their young.

Awards: Sedona Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award) Vail Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award) Sonoma Film Festival 2008 (Jury Award, Audience Award, Best Actress) San Luis Obispo Film Festival 2008 (Jury Award)

HDCAM Print Source: Lucky Crow Films Film Website: likedandeliondust.com Selected Filmography: My Date with Drew (2004) Mercy Streets (2000)

Bristling with repressed rage, a female war Denmark veteran drinks to excess to numb her fury. After 2009 returning to her provincial Danish hometown, Director: she becomes involved with her sleazy father’s Annette K. Olesen Producer: brothel business. For their fourth feature togeth- Ib Tardini er, director Annette K. Olesen and screenwriter Screenwriters: Kim Fupz Aakeson combine two timely social Kim Fupz Aakeson Annette K. Olesen issues—disturbed former soldiers and prostitu- Cinematographer: tion—with a troubled father-daughter relation- Camilla Hjelm Knudsen ship drama. Raised by her grandparents after her Editor: Jacob Thueson mother died, tough, mannish-looking Lotte (Trine Music: Dyrholm, Denmark’s biggest female star) clearly Kåre Bjerkø has unresolved issues with her unreliable father Cast: Trine Dyrholm Kurt, and still longs for his approval and affec- Finn Nielsen Lorna Brown tion. Needing money after abruptly leaving the Rasmus Botoft Danish armed forces in Afghanistan, Lotte asks Jens Jørn Spottag her dad for a loan. Instead, he offers her work Running Time: 100 minutes as a driver, and she winds up as chauffeur and Presentation Format: protector for Kurt’s gorgeous mistress Lily, one 35mm, in Danish, English, and Swedish, with English of the Nigerian prostitutes he pimps as a side to subtitles his legitimate trucking business. Although Lotte International Sales: initially displays jealousy over the attention Kurt TrustNordisk Print Source: showers on ultra-feminine Lily, she soon discov- Danish Film Institute ers that Lily’s looks and attitude serve as a defen- Selected Filmography: 1:1 (2006) sive cover not so different from the façade Lotte In Your Hands (2004) had to assume while in the army. Ultimately, the Minor Mishaps (2002) two “little soldiers” form an uneasy bond.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)

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ZHIVI I POMNI

Live and Remember

North American Premiere

Lovely Loneliness

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AMOROSA SOLEDAD

During the final frigid months of World War II, Russia Andrei returns from the battlefront, not as a 2008 conquering hero, but as a deserter. He is forced Director: to hide near his small, Siberian logging village, Alexander Proshkin Producers: concealing his presence from all but his wife, Ruben Dishdishian Nastya, who he swears to secrecy, even threat- Youri Moroz Aram Movsesian ening to kill her if she tells anyone where he is. Sergei Danielian Forced to carry on a sort of illicit affair with her Screenwriters: husband, how will Nastya explain her sudden Alexander Rodionov Alexander Proshkin pregnancy to the village? She must carry on her based on a short story by daily activities and help the hardworking local Valentin Rasputin Cinematographers: women keep their village alive and supply wood Gennadii Kariuk for the war effort. When V-Day arrives and the Alexander Kariuk Editor: men return home from war as heroes, Nastya Natalia Kucherenko must find ways to deter the army from finding Music: Andrei. Based on a short story by contempo- Roman Dormidoshin Cast: rary Siberian writer Valentin Rasputin, Live and Daria Moroz Remember tackles traditional village values and Mikhail Evlanov Sergei Makovetski the hard life peasants lead. Striking cinematog- Anna Mikhalkova raphy in frozen landscapes and powerful perfor- Yevgenia Glushenko Time: mances by some of Russia’s ace actors bring Running 100 minutes Nastya and Andrei’s small but profound world to Presentation Format: 35mm, in Russian, with life.

Awards: Kinotavr Film Festival 2008 (Best Director) Russian Nika Award 2008 (Best Actress)

English subtitles International Sales: Central Partnership Print Source: Central Partnership Selected Filmography: Trio (2003) The Captain’s Daughter (2000) To See Paris And Die (1992) Cold Summer of 1953 (1988)

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Inés Efron, who starred in the SIFF 2008 hit, Argentina XXY, is bewitching as a neurotic 20-some- 2008 thing stuck between romances in the charm- Directors: ingly funny Lovely Loneliness. Soledad, recently Victoria Galardi Martín Carranza ditched by her fiancé, Nico, swears that she will Producers: remain single for three years to avoid another Natacha Cervi Hernán Musaluppi disappointment. However, it seems unlikely that Screenwriter: she will stick to her vow as things immediately Victoria Galardi and unexpectedly take off with a man she has Cinematographer: Julián Ledesma just met—also named Nico. Before she dives Editor: into this new relationship, Nico #1 calls and Pablo Barbieri begs to get back together. Beset by her own Music: Nico Cota hypochondriacal tendencies and a profoundly Cast: odd pair of parents with their own dysfunctional Inés Efron Nicolás Pauls hangups, Soledad must gather up her courage Fabian Vena and make her decision. Directors Victoria Galardi Ricardo Darín and Martín Carranza draw an engaging perfor- Running Time: 100 minutes mance from Efron, who appears in almost every Presentation Format: scene and dazzles at every opportunity. The film 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles rolls along at a rapid pace, while the bright and Print Source: airy Buenos Aires location contributes a breezy Rizoma Films look and feel that perfectly complements the Film Website: amorosasoledad.com offbeat comedy. Ricardo Darín, who memorably Selected Filmography: appeared as Efron’s character’s father in XXY, Debut Feature Film returns as her father here and summarily steals every scene he is in.

Awards: San Sebastián International Film Festival 2008 (Youth Jury Award)

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LA NANA

Machan

FRIDAY JUNE 5 4:30 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 7:00 PM

The Maid

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In Colombo, Sri Lanka, lifelong friends Manoj and Sri Lanka/Italy/ Stanley console each other after their latest visa Germany applications are rejected. For barman Manoj, 2008 the recurrent denial of his dream to live in the Director: West is taking a serious emotional toll. Stanley, Uberto Pasolini Producers: who works on the street selling fruit, is losing his Prasanna Vithanage fight against overwhelming debt. When the two Conchita Airoldi Uberto Pasolini friends discover an invitation to a handball tour- Screenwriters: nament in Bavaria, they see it as a chance to Ruwanthie de Chickera Uberto Pasolini pull themselves out of the slums—permanentCinematographer: ly. Despite the fact that neither of them knows Stefano Falivene what handball is, their tournament application is Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo accepted and they round up a ragtag collection Music: of friends to form the Sri Lanka National Handball Stephen Warbeck Joseph De Team. However, playing actual games is the last Lakshman Saram thing on their minds. After reading about the Cast: exploits of the real 2004 Sri Lankan team, which Dharmapriya Dias Gihan de Chickera blended into European society upon arrival in Dharshan Dharmaraj Germany, Italian producer Uberto Pasolini (The Mahendra Perera Running Time: Full Monty) decided to get behind the camera 109 minutes for the first time to tell their story. With a script Presentation Format: in Sinhala, with that Pasolini co-wrote with Sri Lankan playwright 35mm, English subtitles Ruwanthie de Chickera, Machan uses mostly International Sales: nonprofessional actors from Colombo to provide Beta Cinema Source: an authentic feel to this tale of immigration, Print Redwave Films friendship, and liberation.

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After 23 years, frumpy maid Raquel occupies Chile a curious position somewhere between a mere 2008 domestic and a member of the Valdes family she Director: has so faithfully served. But she’s also perpetual- Sebastian Silva Producer: ly sullen, borderline antisocial and intensely terri- Gregorio González torial. Constant clashes with the eldest Valdes Screenwriters: daughter, Camila, raise fears that Raquel is Sebastian Silva Pedro Peirano overworked, so more help is hired to assist her. Cinematographer: Naturally this does not sit well with Raquel, who, Sergio Armstrong feeling usurped, cooks up childish pranks and Editor: Danielle Fillios devious schemes to get rid of the interlopers. Music: Eventually, she meets the spirited young assis- Pedro Soubercaseaux tant Lucy, who becomes the catalyst for Raquel’s Cast: Catalina Saavedra rediscovery of herself. Astonishing in its intimacy, Claudia Celedón Mariana Loyola The Maid wrings awkward humor from the alien- Alejandro Goic ated Raquel’s mind games, but her evolution is Andrea García-Huidobro touching. This remarkably astute film is not only a Running Time: 95 minutes study of class division in the commonplace Latin Presentation Format: American practice of domestic servitude, but HDCAM, in Spanish, with English subtitles also an engrossing character study of a singu- Print Source: lar individual. Unfolding almost entirely within the Elephant Eye Films house’s walls, Sebastian Silva’s second feature Selected Filmography: La Vida me mata (2007) achieves and sustains an impressive degree of claustrophobic momentum in scenes churning with passive-aggressive comedy, impeccably observed detail and emotional violence.

Debut Feature Film Awards: Venice International Film Festival 2008 (Label Europa Cinemas Award, FEDIC Award)

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Awards: Sundance Film Festival 2009 (World Cinema Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Acting)

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PAZAR – BIR TICARET MASALI

Marcello Marcello

MONDAY JUNE 1 7:00 PM FRIDAY JUNE 5 4:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 1:30 PM

The Market - A Tale of Trade

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In 1950s Italy, on the small, fictional island of Switzerland/ Amatrello, the locals celebrate a curious tradi- Germany tion: when a girl turns 18, the young men of the 2008 island all spring into action and compete against Director: each other to find the most elaborate, outra- Denis Rabaglia Producer: geous gift in order to win a rendezvous with the Anne Walser sought-after maiden. The catch is that the gift Screenwriter: Mark David Hatwood must impress not the girl, but her father, as it Cinematographer: is he who ultimately decides on his daughter’s Filip Zumbrunn sweetheart. When Elena, the mayor’s radiant Editor: Claudio Di Mauro daughter, returns to the island shortly before her Music: eighteenth birthday, young Marcello sets out Henning Lohner to woo both mayor and daughter. In pursuit of Cast: Francesco Mistichelli the perfect offering, Marcello throws the entire Elena Cucci island into turmoil, upsetting the quiet seaside Renato Scarpa Luca Sepe atmosphere and spurring his sleepy neighbors Luigi Petrazzuolo into action on his behalf. Swiss Director Denis Running Time: 95 minutes Rabaglia accomplishes no small feat with Presentation Format: Marcello Marcello, crafting a delightful confec- 35mm, in Italian, with tion that is equal parts slapstick comedy and English subtitles International Sales: romantic quest. Irresistible production design, Telepool married with Filip Zumbrunn’s inventive cinema- Print Source: tography, makes for a fast-paced caper through C-Films AG Film Website: a picture-perfect Mediterranean idyll. marcello-movie.com Selected Filmography: Pas de Panique (2006) Azzurro (2000) Grossesse Nerveuse (1993)

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Charismatic, fast-talking Mihram is an idea man. United Kingdom It’s the mid-1990s, and this shady, itinerant entre- 2008 preneur in eastern Turkey dreams of going legit Director: with a business deal involving the region’s fast- Ben Hopkins Producer: spreading cellular phone system. The catch? He Roshanak Behehst Nedjad doesn’t have the money to bring it to fruition—he Screenwriter: never does. A golden opportunity arrives when Ben Hopkins Cinematographer: the hospital supply truck is robbed and the local Konstantin Kröning doctor gives Mihram money to buy some criti- Editor: cally needed medicine on the black market. With Alan Levy Music: plenty of cash in hand, Mihram can’t resist the Cihan Sezer temptation to use the funds on his own plans Cast: Ayadin first. If all goes well on the cell-phone business, Tayanç Genco Erkal he figures he’ll have money leftover to deliver Senay Aydin Sahin Rojin the urgently needed drugs. Of course, if things Running Time: don’t pan out, he’ll be an outcast, losing his 93 minutes family and his honor. But Mihram, the indefati- Presentation Format: 35mm, in Turkish, with gable gambler, forges ahead with his plan, which English subtitles involves smuggling goods across the Azerbaijani International Sales: border. The local mafia boss, however, has other The Works International Print Source: plans for him. This award-winning film is both a The Works International rollicking road movie and a sobering reminder of Film Website: market-thefilm.com how rampant free-market capitalism can easily Selected Filmography: blur ethical lines and corrupt the soul.

37 Uses for a Dead Sheep Awards: Flanders International Film Festival 2008 (Best Film) Locarno International Film Festival 2008 (Best Actor) Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2008 (Best Film, Actor, Screenplay, Costume Design) Ghent International Film Festival 2008 (Grand Prize of the Flemish Community for Best Film, Special Mention–Actor)

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(2006) The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000) Simon Magus (1999)

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UNE CHANSON DANS LA TÊTE

Melodrama Habibi

MONDAY MAY 25 4:15 PM WEDNESDAY MAY 27 4:00 PM

The Merry Gentleman

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French crooner Bruno Caprice was a one-hit France wonder in the 1970s, but he never found 2008 musical success again. Thinking his show-biz Director: days were behind him, he grudgingly takes a job Hany Tamba Producers: as a hotel receptionist. His unhappy retirement Emmanuel Agneray is shattered one day when Lebanese coffee Jérome Bleitrach magnate Jamil offers him a gig at a birthday Screenwriters: Hany Tamba party in Beirut. Jamil’s wife, Randa, says she is Emmanuelle Mougne Bruno’s biggest—and possibly only—fan, and Michel Kammoun Cinematographer: cherishes the memory of one of his concerts Emmanuel Soyer during the 1970s. Bruno has no recollection of Editor: ever performing in Lebanon, but he’s not about Marie Jo Audiard Music: to pass up his first offer to sing in years. The K. Mouzanar city of Beirut invigorates Bruno, who feels he’s Cast: Julia Kassar been given a second chance at life. As its title Patrick Chesnais declares, Melodrama Habibi has its share of Pierrette Katrib Gabriel Yammine exaggerated emotion. It’s unclear, for example, Lara Matar whether Randa’s recollection of Bruno’s concert Running Time: is only a false memory created to erase the 98 minutes Presentation Format: trauma she sustained during the Lebanese civil 35mm, in French, with war. But it’s also an affectionate comedy with English subtitles Sales: a polished look and a fun, kitschy soundtrack. International Films Distribution This crowd pleaser shows how music has the Selected Filmography: power to shape our memories, both real and Debut Feature Film imagined.

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There’s an old adage in Hollywood that every USA actor wants to direct. Many try, but few succeed 2008 as well as Michael Keaton in his feature film Director: debut, The Merry Gentlemen—a heady mix of Michael Keaton Producers: suspense, gentle romance, and sly humor. Kate Tom Bastounes Frazier (Kelly Macdonald) flees from her broken Ron Lazzeretti Steven A. Jones marriage to resettle in Chicago. Staying in relaScreenwriter: tive anonymity, she puts forward a reserved Ron Lazzeretti demeanor and avoids talking about her recent Cinematographer: Chris Seager life. Maintaining her privacy becomes more diffi- Editors: cult, however, after she witnesses a shooting, Howard E. Smith and an alcoholic detective takes a more-than- Grant Myers Music: professional interest in her. But then she meets Jon Sadoff Frank Logan (Keaton), a kindred spirit who Ed Shearmur Cast: shares both her laconic nature and aversion to Michael Keaton the past. Soon their friendship grows into one of Kelly Macdonald Tom Bastounes necessity and survival for the two lonely souls, Bobby Canavale but their quiet compact cannot protect them Running Time: from the lives they’ve left behind. Keaton and 110 minutes Presentation Format: Macdonald craft a rich, complex drama from 35mm Kate and Frank’s reticent friendship, in which Print Source: Goldwyn the unspoken promise to redeem and remake IDP/Samuel Films one another becomes an unexpected fount of Film Website: themerrygentlemanmovie. strength for each. com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Awards: Brussels European Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award, RTBF TV Prize for Best Picture)

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Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts

Miao Miao

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Opening with a torrent of gunfire and careening France/Canada/ through a series of heists and police pursuits Italy across France, Canada, and the United States, 2008 this two-part biopic immerses us in the unhinged Director: 20-year career of French super-criminal Jacques Jean-François Richet Producer: Mesrine (Vincent Cassel). Based in part on the Thomas Langmann autobiography Mesrine wrote from prison, the Screenwriter: Abdel Raouf Dafri two films resist glorifying or forgiving their antihe- based on the autobiograro’s crimes. Instead, they tell his story with brutal phy “L’instinct de mort” by Jacques Mesrine honesty and gripping, unsentimental realism.

Cinematographer: Cassel harnesses his impressive chamele- Robert Gantz onic abilities to portray the capricious Mesrine, Editor: Hervé Schneid stepping into the skin of France’s “Man with a Cast: Thousand Faces” and cementing the character’s Vincent Cassel de France position in French criminal mythology. Cassel Cécile Gérard Depardieu has been honored at the Tokyo International Film Mathieu Amalric Ludivine Sagnier Festival and the French Césars for his role, while Roy Dupuis director Jean-François Richet (best known for Gilles Lellouche 2005’s Assault on Precinct 13) collected a César Running Time: Part 1 (110 minutes) for Best Director. Sharp supporting performanc- Part 2 (132 minutes) es from Ludivine Sagnier, Gérard Depardieu, Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with and Mathieu Amalric add sensitivity to a kinetic English subtitles production that works its 1960s and 1970s International Sales: setting, plus a host of superb international loca- Kinology Print Source: tions, for a hugely satisfying payoff.

Senator Entertainment US Awards: César Awards 2009 (Best Actor, Director, Sound) Tokyo International Film Festival 2008 (Best Actor)

Film Website: mesrine-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) All About Love (2001) Ma 6-T va crack-er (1997) Inner City (1995)

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First-time feature director Hsiao-Tse Cheng hits Hong Kong/ the jackpot with this bright high school romance Taiwan that is a refreshing antidote to Hollywood’s navel- 2008 gazing dramas of friendship and sexual identity. Director: Teenaged Miao-Miao arrives in Taiwan as a trans- Hsiao-Tse Cheng Producers: fer student from Japan and finds herself a quiet Stanley Kwan presence in class until Xiao-Ai befriends her and Yee-Wah Pang Screenwriters: unleashes a fast friendship around the school Yi-Fen Tsai grounds. It is not long before Miao-Miao is struck Hsiao-Tse Cheng with her first love for a sullen CD store owner, Cinematographer: Pun-Leung Kwan Chen Fei, who keeps the world at arm’s length Editor: with his headphones. While aiding Miao-Miao in Suk-Ping Chang getting the boy’s attention, Xiao-Ai finds herself Music: Cin-Cin Lee pulling closer to the realization that she is falling Cast: romantically for her best friend. As the tension Chia-Yen Ko Sandrine Pinna between the trio mounts, Chen Fei slowly unrav- Chih-Wei Fan els his past and his own romantic feelings, which Running Time: 83 minutes have shut out people of his world since a horrible Presentation Format: tragedy. Miao Miao explores an emotional terrain 35mm, in Mandarin, with seldom explored in pop art, bringing to the table English subtitles International Sales: tremendous lead performances from the young Fortissimo Films stars and stylish visions of urban Taipei, courtesy Print Source: of key personnel from Wong Kar-wai’s Jet Tone Fortissimo Films Selected Filmography: Films. Blessed with a youthful spirit and sensi- Debut Feature Film tivity to the maturing of its central characters, Miao Miao is a sure-fire crowd pleaser for the teen within us all. Recommended for ages 13 and above.

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PRANZO DI FERRAGOSTO

Mid-August Lunch

MONDAY JUNE 1 4:30 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 7:00 PM

The Missing Person

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This low-key charmer follows Gianni, a 60-some- Italy thing Roman who lives with his tyrannical 2008 93-year-old mother, Valeria, and suddenly finds Director: himself forced to look after three other elderly Gianni di Gregorio Producer: ladies. As the late summer holiday of Ferragosto Matteo Garrone approaches, Gianni (director di Gregorio) is black- Screenwriter: mailed by his building manager Luigi into looking Gianni di Gregorio Cinematographer: after Luigi’s mother for two nights in exchange Gian Enrico Bianchi for forgiving certain tenant debts. But when Luigi Editor: comes to the apartment, he’s brought not only Marco Spoletini Music: his mother Marina, but his aunt Maria as well. Ratchev & Carratello Soon after, Gianni’s doctor-friend Marcello pays Cast: di Gregorio a call, asking if he can leave his mother, Grazia Gianni Valeria de Franciscis for “just one night.” The aging women, each with Marina Cacciotti Maria Cali her own strong personality, prove a handful while Running Time: grudging host Gianni attempts to monitor their 75 minutes pill intake and pacify them with food. Debuting Presentation Format: 35mm, in Italian, with director di Gregorio’s combination of artistry and English subtitles humanity avoids platitudes and exaggeration as International Sales: Fandango Portobello he spins this warm-hearted, humorous tale.

Awards: London Film Festival 2008 (Satyajit Ray Award) Venice Film Festival 2008 (Isvema Award, Luigi De Laurentiis Award, Pasinetti Award)

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Boasting a top-flight cast and dipped in dusky USA shades of gold and brown, The Missing Person 2009 delivers a stylish new take on the private-eye Director: genre. Miss Charley (Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Noah Buschel Producers: Gone) sets the shaggy-dog story in motion Jesse Scolaro when she hires gin-soaked private investigator Allen Bain John Rosow (Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Screenwriter: Noah Buschel Road) to trail a man traveling with a small boy. Cinematographer: Rosow tracks his prey by train from Chicago to Ryan Samul Los Angeles. Both cities exist in a sort of time- Editor: Mollie Goldstein less space, neither in the past nor in the present Music: (Rosow digs old-school jazz, but lives in a world Jim Black filled with cell phones and Segways). On his Cast: Michael Shannon journey to the West and back, Rosow uncov- Amy Ryan Frank Wood ers surprising secrets, but turns out to have a Running Time: few of his own as well. Like Robert Aldrich’s 95 minutes post-war classic Kiss Me Deadly, Noah Buschel Presentation Format: HDCAM conjures up a tone so off-kilter, it sometimes International Sales: slides into surrealism, like when the dyspeptic Visit Films detective dreams about a woman who may not Print Source: Visit Films actually exist. But Rosow is no Mike Hammer Film Website: tough guy—he’s smarter and more sensitive missingpersonmovie.com than that. Margaret Colin as a sly seductress and Selected Filmography: Neal Cassady (2007) John Ventimiglia (The Sopranos) as a Serpico- Bringing Rain (2003) obsessed cabbie help make this one a must-see for fans of noir films and character pieces alike.

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MAMAN EST CHEZ LE COIFFEUR

Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s

La Mission

SATURDAY MAY 30 9:00 PM SUNDAY MAY 31 1:45 PM

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Peter Bratt’s powerful and moving film is an ardent USA love letter to the vibrancy of San Francisco’s 2009 Mission District, and an urgent corrective to the Director: violence that plays out in its streets. Full of affection Peter Bratt Producers: for its characters and despair for their situations, Alpita Patel La Mission is a story of community and family Benjamin Bratt Peter Bratt and one man’s struggle to unlearn a lifetime of Screenwriter: destructive habits. Che, in a commanding perfor- Peter Bratt mance by Benjamin Bratt, is an ex-con who has Cinematographer: Hiro Narita turned his life around and now devotes himself to Editor: his lifelong Mission Boyz friends, his passion for Stan Webb building classic lowrider cruisers, and his honor Music: Mark Kilian student son Jess (Jeremy Ray Valdez). On the Cast: eve of Jess’s graduation, as Che’s new romance Benjamin Bratt Erika Alexander with an attractive neighbor (Erika Alexander) starts Jeremy Ray Valdez to bud, a sudden revelation shatters the peace, Talisa Soto Bratt Jesse Borrego drawing a brutal reaction from Che. Lashing out Running Time: at those around him, he finds himself emotion- 118 minutes ally broken and isolated, before beginning a hard Presentation Format: HDCAM climb toward understanding and acceptance. Print Source: And it is a hard climb. Handsome, charismatic 5 Stick Films bad-ass though he may be, Che gets no slack Selected Filmography: Follow Me Home (1996) from best friend Rene (Jesse Borrego) or his pals, all of whom are trying to live decent lives in difficult circumstances, and doing a better job of it. The film’s greatest virtue, and the crux of Che’s redemptive journey, is its refusal to accept violence as a necessary outcome of, far less a solution to, troubling conditions. Full of compassion and love, La Mission is not only tough but also hopeful, beautiful, and true.

SATURDAY JUNE 6 4:30 PM SUNDAY JUNE 7 6:30 PM THURSDAY JUNE 11 4:30 PM

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Canadian filmmaker Léa Pool brings an exacting Canada sensibility to this vivid family drama set in 1960s 2008 Quebec. As two parents’ increasingly hostile Director: relationship disintegrates and the mother leaves Léa Pool Producers: her family for a job in London, three children are Lyse Lafontaine left to make sense of the changes imposed upon Michael Mosca them. The film tells its story through teenager Screenwriter: Isabelle Hébert Élise who is forced to occupy her mother’s role Cinematographer: in the insufferable world of adults and to care for Daniel Jobin her overwhelmed father and distressed younger Editor: Dominique Fortin brothers Coco and Benoit. Pool draws assured Music: performances from her talented team of child Laurent Eyquem and adult actors to expose the cracks below Cast: Céline Bonnier the surface of the traditional nuclear family and Laurent Lucas Marianne Fortier the unbridgeable distance between the worlds Gabriel Arcand of men and women in the pre-feminist setting. Running Time: Rather than miring itself in domestic melodrama, 90 minutes Presentation Format: Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s investigates 35mm, in French, with the inner stories of its characters with a playful English subtitles Sales: and acute sense of humor. Cinematography, International E1 Entertainment art direction, and costume design combine to International produce beautifully detailed kitsch interiors, Print Source: E1 Entertainment vibrant outdoors, and eye-popping wardrobes International that perfectly capture the story’s time and Film Website: equinoxefilms.com place.

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Selected Filmography: The Blue Butterfly (2004) Lost and Delirious (2001) Set Me Free (1999) Desire in Motion (1994) The Savage Woman (1991)

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Moon

TUESDAY MAY 26 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY MAY 27 4:15 PM

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After spending nearly three years alone on the United Kingdom moon overseeing the Lunar Industries mining 2009 operations, Sam Bell is ready to leave behind Director: the monotonous isolation of Selene station. With Duncan Jones Producers: only the base’s computer GERTY for a compan- Stuart Fenegan ion and the occasional taped messages sent to Trudie Styler him by his wife and daughter, Sam does every- Screenwriter: Nathan Parke thing possible to ensure the continuous flow of Cinematographer: Helium-3 (vital for Earth’s clean energy produc- Gary Shaw tion), while not succumbing to the daily ennui of Editor: Nicolas Gastor lunar life. However, with only two weeks to go Music: before his contract expires, the tedium begins to Clint Mansell take its toll. Sam begins to experience migraines Cast: Sam Rockwell and hallucinations, which interfere with his work. Kevin Spacey Dominique McElligott After one such attack causes him to crash his Benedict Wong rover, he awakes in sickbay only to discover his Matt Berry circumstances within the station have radically Running Time: 97 minutes altered. Buoyed by Sam Rockwell’s emphatic Presentation Format: performance, director Duncan Jones’ Moon 35mm Source: harkens back to such science-fiction films as Print Sony Pictures Classics Silent Running and Solaris, wherein the futuristic Film Website: façade falls away to reveal a potent exploration moonthemovie.com Selected Filmography: of the humanity trapped within.

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Morris: A Life With Bells On

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SATURDAY MAY 23 11:00 AM SUNDAY MAY 24 7:00 PM

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For those who think the English folk dance Morris United Kingdom is just an innocent pub pastime involving hanky- 2008 waving and bearded men with staffs, you’ve Director: never seen its politics-laden, ultra-competitive Lucy Akhurst Producers: side. Under the auspices of the governing Lucy Akhurst Morris Circle, dance troops throughout England Charles Thomas Oldham compete against each other in cutthroat tour- Screenwriter: Charles Thomas Oldham naments. Follow the fortunes of one such side, Cinematographer: Millsham Morris, and its avant-garde leader Roger Chapman Derecq Twist, in their pursuit for Morris perfection. Editor: Nick Carew In his Morris prime, Derecq is both a traditional- Music: ist and an innovator. One the one hand, he is Richard Lumsden preparing to perform the ultimate move in Morris Cast: Aidan McArdle Dance, the mystical and legendary Threeple Naomie Harris Sir Derek Jacobi Hammer Damson. And yet, on the other hand, Harriet Walter he is pioneering an innovative, daringly freeform Greg Wise Jasper Britton brand of the dance dubbed “Extreme Morris,” Running Time: drawing the ire of the more orthodox elements 101 minutes within the Morris dance community. But when Presentation Format: HDCAM Millsham Morris unveils their creation in compe- Print Source: tition, the Morris Circle bans Derecq from future Twist Films Morris Ltd competition. Devastated by the decision, Derecq Film Website: morrismovie.com embarks on a global odyssey through tragedy Selected Filmography: and triumph, which gravely tests his passion to Debut Feature Film Morris.

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CE QU’IL FAUT POUR VIVRE

Mothers & Daughters

The Necessities of Life

THURSDAY MAY 28 7:00 PM FRIDAY MAY 29 4:15 PM

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A documentary-style comedic drama about Canada mothers and daughters that is sometimes too 2008 close for comfort, Mothers & Daughters asks Director: “What do three moms think about mother- Carl Bessai Producers: hood?” and “What do three daughters think Carl Bessai about daughterhood?” Micki (Babz Chulais, Rod Ruel Dirty) is a high-strung self-involved pulp romance Screenwriter: Carl Bessai writer to whom wounded daughter Rebecca Cinematographer: remains mysteriously loyal. Psychiatrist Kate Carl Bessai is a beautiful and fiercely competitive woman Editor: Mark Shearer whose mother, Brenda, is so deep in denial Music: that she barely functions in daily life. Celine is Lullaby Baxter with Bertram Havisham a Métis woman and paints houses for a living. Cast: She paints Cynthia’s house when Cynthia goes Tantoo Cardinal Gabrielle Rose through a crisis. Director Bessai has assembled Babz Chula a cast of respected Canadian actors who spent Camille Sullivan Tiffany Lyndall-Knight four months shaping an improvisational narrative Running Time: based on one simple premise: exploring rela- 83 minutes tionships between mothers and daughters. Shot Presentation Format: 35mm entirely on location and with a crew so small and Print Source: unobtrusive that they were often able to inter- Raven West Films act in real-life situations as they moved through Selected Filmography: Normal (2007) streets, stores, and buildings. The emotional Unnatural & Accidental trajectory of mother and daughter relationships (2006) Severed (2005) is rarely bland or simple. Happy endings may Emile (2003) be irrelevant, but nothing takes the place of Lola (2001) Johnny (1999) that maternal touch regardless of how timid or acrimonious.

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Tivii, of the Baffin Island Inuit, quietly supports Canada his family by hunting on the frozen lands of 2008 Canada’s Far North until modern society Director: intrudes on his corner of the world. Diagnosed Benoît Pilon Producers: with tuberculosis by Canadian authorities, Tivii Bernadette Payeur is forcibly removed from his family and quaran- René Chénier tined in a Quebec City tuberculosis sanitarium. Screenwriters: Bernard Émond For Tivii (Natar Ungalaaq, Atanarjuat: The Fast Benoît Pilon Runner), everything seems alien—and of course, Cinematographer: Michel La Veaux no one speaks Inuktitut. He manages to estab- Editor: lish a connection with Carole, a compassionate Richard Comeau nurse, but he eventually slides into depression Music: Robert Marcel Lepage as he realizes his treatment might last up to two Cast: years. Seeing his despair, Carole orchestrates Natar Ungalaaq Paul-André Brasseur the hospital transfer of Kaki, a similarly afflicted Eveline Gélinas Inuk orphan boy who’s been separated from his Vincent Guillaume Otis Antoine Bertrand native culture for many months. With his feet in Running Time: both the French-Canadian and Inuit worlds, Kaki 102 minutes acts as Tivii’s translator. Tivii also takes a fatherly Presentation Format: 35mm, in French and interest in Kaki and tries to refresh the child’s Inuktitut, with English lapsed knowledge of traditional Inuit customs subtitles Sales: and myths. Inspired by a real tuberculosis International Seville Pictures epidemic that broke out in the Inuit population Print Source: in the 1940s and 1950s, The Necessities of Life IFC Films Film Website: is a profound story of culture shock and barrier- thenecessitiesoflifethemovie.com transcending human connections.

Awards: Jutra Awards 2009 (Best Film, Actor, Screenplay) Montreal World Film Festival 2008 (Special Jury Prize, Audience Award)

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Selected Filmography: Nestor and the Forgotten (2006) 3 soeurs en 2 temps (2003) Rosaire and the PetiteNation (1997)

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No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti

THURSDAY JUNE 4 4:30 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 10 10:00 PM

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A father’s love for his child is unconditional, Taiwan a bond that can’t be broken. But sometimes 2008 government bureaucracy can interfere. Li Director: Wu-hisung lives in a harbor zone in Taiwan with Leon Dai Producer: his small daughter. He doesn’t have a job, so he Chen Wen-Pin takes on risky tasks on boats to earn money. Screenwriters: When he tries to do the right thing and enroll his Leon Dai Chen Wen-Pin daughter in a school, the government decides Cinematographers: it’s in the child’s best interest to remove her from Chang Hsiang-Yen Chou Yi-Wen his care. The title of the film, which translates to Editor: “I can’t live without you,” becomes evident once Leon Dai the man’s daughter is taken from him. He does Cast: Chen Wen-Pin everything he can to get her back, leading to a Chao Yo-Hsuan desperate standoff in front of the media and the Liu Chin-Ju Running Time: world. Shot with an amazingly controlled sense 92 minutes of composition, actor-turned-director Leon Dai Presentation Format: delivers a thoughtful and well-rounded film. With 35mm, in Mandarin and Taiwanese, with English strong visuals filmed in beautiful black and white, subtitles this is an emotional and satisfying film. Based Print Source: Fames Universal Enteron a true story, it conveys a quest of love that tainment Ltd. knows no bounds. Though it would be easy to Film Website: judge the father based on his economic stand- luminosofilm.com Selected Filmography: ing, the purity of his emotion carries the film and Taipei Twenty Something makes him sympathetic to even the most jaded (2002) audience member.

North Face

North American Premiere

THURSDAY JUNE 11 9:30 PM SATURDAY JUNE 13 NOON

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Based on a 1936 attempt by two Germans and Austria two Austrians to be the first to scale the near- 2008 vertical Eiger North Face, the most dangerous, Director: unconquered rock face in the Alps, this grip- Philipp Stölzl Producers: pingly staged mountain movie boasts plenty Benjamin Herrmann of white-knuckle thrills. Pals and passionate Danny Krausz Rudolf Santschi climbers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser Boris Schönfelder have always dreamed of conquering the chal- Screenwriters: lenging climb. Being the first to scale the North Christoph Silber Philipp Stölzl Face would mean not only a longed-for boost Rupert Henning in their social standing, but also Olympic gold. Johannes Naber Cinematographer: As they prepare for the climb, they meet Luise, Kolja Brandt Toni’s former girlfriend, who plans to use their Editor: Sven Budelmann dangerous adventure to seize her chance to Music: be a journalist. When the pair finally goes for it Mischa Krausz in mid-July, they are closely pursued and later Cast: Benno Fürmann joined by grizzled Austrians Willy Angerer and Florian Lukas Edi Rainer. Meanwhile, at the hotel in the valley Johanna Wokalek Ulrich Tukur below, Luise and her boss Arau, a loyal Nazi Running Time: Party member, observe the thrilling feat along 126 minutes with other celebrities, bringing a broader social Presentation Format: 35mm, in German and and political context to the climbers’ purely Swiss German, with English subtitles personal obsession.

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International Sales: Beta Film Print Source: Music Box Films Selected Filmography: Baby (2002)

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EL TRUCO DEL MANCO

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

FRIDAY MAY 22 7:00 PM SATURDAY MAY 23 4:30 PM SATURDAY JUNE 6 1:30 PM

The One-Handed Trick

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Jude is a single mother and caregiver living with Canada sickle-cell anemia. Silence is an illegal boxer, 2008 struggling to figure out what he’s fighting for, now Director: that he’s past his prime. Ciel is Jude’s 12-year- Charles Officer Producer: old son, who dreams of happiness and comfort Ingrid Veninger for his mom. His prayers for her are fanciful Screenwriters: and might be magical. Jude is descended from Charles Officer Ingrid Veninger a long line of caregivers who dreams of going Cinematographer: back to Zion: St. Elizabeth, Jamaica. During the Steve Cosens last week of summer, a late-night brawl finds Editor: James Blokland the fighter in the nurse’s care, intertwining their Music: fates. The urban love story of Nurse.Fighter. John Welsman Boy explores archetypal characters of nurturer, Cast: Clark Johnson warrior, and child with a humanizing respect. The Karen LeBlanc Daniel J. Gordon performances of Karen LeBlanc (nurse), Clark Walter Borden Johnson (fighter), and Daniel J. Gordon (boy) are Running Time: understated and deeply felt. Gordon’s Ciel is a 93 minutes Presentation Format: complex creature whose eyes show impressive 35mm emotion. Shot in high definition, the colors are International Sales: bold and saturated. Making the film even more Rezo Print Source: vibrant is its excellent soundtrack of classic and Rezo Film Website: contemporary reggae, gospel, and soul.

nursefighterboy.ca Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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The One-Handed Trick tells the tale of two Spain friends, Enrique “El Cuajo” Heredia and Adolfo, 2008 who make music together in a barrio outside of Director: Barcelona. Cuajo has cerebral palsy but chooses Santiago Zannou Producers: not to resign himself to sitting on the street selling Aitana de Val lottery tickets. Adolfo has a heroin problem that Luis de Val he’s been trying to kick and lives with his ill, alco- Screenwriters: Ivan Morales holic father. After getting kicked out of a record- Santiago Zannou ing studio when they run out of money, Cuajo Cinematographer: Albert Pascual decides they should set up a studio of their own. Editor: Adolfo is skeptical, but Cuajo is determined. To Jaume Martí finance their plans, Cuajo gets them a gig fencing Music: Woulfrank Zannou stolen goods from local gangster Marquito. Cast: But when things go wrong with Marquito, their Juan Manuel Montilla “Langui” friendship, their dreams, and their lives are all in Ovono Candela danger. The film’s crudely makeshift feel brings Javier Iglesias “Gordo” Mala Rodríguez the coarse realities of multiculturalism to life. Juan Navarro Hip-hop singer Juan Manuel Montilla (“Langui”) Running Time: delivers an explosive performance in this edgy, 91 minutes Presentation Format: urban drama.

35mm, in Spanish, with Awards: Goya Awards 2008 (Best Director, Breakthrough Actor, Original Music)

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Opium War

FRIDAY MAY 22 4:30 PM MONDAY MAY 25 9:15 PM

The Overbrook Brothers

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In Siddiq Barmak’s ambitious follow-up to Osama, two American soldiers are stranded after their helicopter crashes in enemy territory in Afghanistan. The soldiers are constantly at odds but must rely on each other to survive. As they cross poppy fields, they lick the poppy essence to bury the pain and anguish of battle. Along the way, they encounter a local family that lives in the shell of a Soviet tank and grows opium to survive. The family, full of wacky characters, is also constantly at each other’s throats. Opium War combines realism with tangents of absurdism and a cast of nonprofessional actors. The dialogue broaches the presence of the U.S. in Afghanistan and the need for large numbers of Afghan families to produce opium in order to earn a living. Adding significantly to the film are the memorable compositions created by cinematographer Georgi Dzulaiev and the score

by Daler Nazarov, which consists of traditional Afghan themes.

Awards: Rome International Film Festival 2008 (Golden Marc’Aurelio Critics’ Award for Best Film)

Afghanistan/ Japan/South Korea/France 2008 Director: Siddiq Barmak Producers: Siddiq Barmak Shohreh Golpareian Screenwriter: Siddiq Barmak Cinematographer: Georgi Dzulaiev Editor: Michele Hickson Music: Daler Nazarov Cast: Joe Suba Peter Bussian Fawad Samani Marina Golbahari Running Time: 90 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Dari, with English subtitles International Sales: Cineclick Asia Print Source: Cineclick Asia Selected Filmography: Osama (2003)

FRIDAY MAY 29 9:30 PM SUNDAY MAY 31 3:45 PM

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A comedy of errors about two arch-rival broth- USA ers at a ridiculously awkward family Christmas 2009 reunion. When Jason brings his girlfriend home Director: for Christmas, his antagonizing brother, Todd, John Bryant Producers: gives him a life-altering surprise. The revela- John Bryant tion sends the 30-something ultra-competitive Chris Ohlson siblings on a sometimes-bizarre road trip that Screenwriters: John Bryant includes everything from flatulence to a venom- Jason Foxworth ous snake with a liking for people’s private parts. Cinematographer: Mike Washlesky Writer-director John Bryant spins a hilarious tale Editor: of sibling rivalry, family secrets, and a quest for David Fabelo the truth as the brothers kick and scream their Music: Adam Blau way toward adulthood. Shot in Texas, Colorado, Cast: and New Mexico, and made by a group of Nathan Harlan Mark Reeb Austin-based filmmakers and actors, Bryant Laurel Whitsett has successfully crafted a film that marries an Steve Zissis John Jones outrageous comedic improvisatory sensibility Running Time: with broad commercial appeal, while cleverly 92 minutes mixing caustic, yet believable characters, full of Presentation Format: 35mm compassion and humor.

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L’EMMERDUR

A Pain in the Ass

FRIDAY JUNE 12 7:00 PM SUNDAY JUNE 14 4:30 PM

Paper Heart

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France’s master of comedy, Francis Veber, France has created another riotous farce that only the 2008 French seem to pull off with panache. Based Director: on Veber’s highly successful play, A Pain in the Francis Veber Producer: Ass is about a seemingly impossible friendship Patrice Ledoux between Ralf Milan, a professional hit man, and Screenwriter: François Pignon, the titular “pain in the ass” Francis Veber Cinematographer: who constantly gets in the way of Milan’s cold- Robert Fraisse blooded assignment. Both men have checked Editor: into adjoining rooms at a hotel, but for very George Klotz Music: different reasons. Milan is stalking a key witness Jean-Michel Bernard in a corruption case, while Pignon wants to kill Cast: Berry himself after learning that his wife has left him. Richard Patrick Timsit When Pignon’s botched suicide attempt partially Michel Aumont Virgine Ledoyen destroys a hotel bathroom, the alerted hotel Pascal Elbé authorities force Milan to change his plans. But Running Time: the harder Milan tries to get rid of Pignon, the 84 minutes Presentation Format: stronger Pignon’s attachment to his murderous 35mm, in French, with neighbor becomes. The film is a remake, of sorts, English subtitles Sales: for Veber. He wrote the script for A Pain in the Ass International TF1 International in 1973 for director Edouard Molinaro. (The film Film Website: was also adapted in 1981 as Billy Wilder’s final tfmdistribution.com Selected Filmography: film, Buddy Buddy.) Now, after 36 years, Veber The Valet (2008) has returned to direct his own classic screwball The Closet (2001) The Dinner Game (1998) script, proving that farce is indeed timeless.

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Los Angeles-based comedian and actress USA Charlyne Yi decides to travel the country in 2008 search of an answer to the age-old question: Director: does love exist? Remaining the only true skeptic Nicholas Jasenovec Producers: among the various people she interviews (from Elise Salomon children on the playground and a psychic to Sandra Murillo long-married couples and scientists), Charlyne Screenwriters: Nicholas Jasenovec and her friend, director Nicholas Jasenovec Charlyne Yi (Jake Johnson) search for answers and advice. Cinematographer: Jay Hunter The pseudo-documentary leads Charlyne into Editor: uncharted romantic territory when she crosses Ryan Brown paths with fellow actor Michael Cera. The roman- Music: Michael Cera tic tension between both real-life actors appears Charlyne Yi genuine, but just how much of the film is script- Cast: Charlyne Yi ed and how much is real? This self-aware film Michael Cera walks a quirky line as the characters explore the Jake Johnson affection, anticipation, and agitation that often Running Time: 88 minutes accompany love in modern society. By choosing Presentation Format: to make love appear awkward, spontaneous, 35mm Source: and enchanting, Paper Heart avoids Hollywood Print Overture Films tricks and tries to portray something authentic, Selected Filmography: whatever that may be. Recommended for ages Debut Feature Film 13 and above.

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LOS PARANOICOS

The Paranoids

FRIDAY JUNE 5 4:00 PM MONDAY JUNE 8 9:30 PM

Poppy Shakespeare

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An aimless, narcoleptic loner who works chil- Argentina dren’s birthday parties for a living, aspiring 2008 screenwriter Luciano, lives in fear—fear of Director: success, STDs, and his doorman, for starters. Gabriel Medina Producers: We meet Luciano on a typical day: He passes Sebastian Aloi out at work, obsessively calls an HIV helpline Nicolas Tacconi after a random sexual encounter, and uninten- Screenwriters: Gabriel Medina tionally sends his best friend to the hospital. Nicolas Gueilburt Things get even more uncomfortable for Luciano Cinematographer: Lucio Bonelli when his childhood friend Manuel, a successful Editor: producer, returns from Madrid with his beautiful Nicholas Goldbart girlfriend, Sofiá. In town to make an Argentine Music: Guillermo Guareschi version of his hit TV show, “The Paranoids,” Cast: Manuel wants Luciano to write for it. Especially Daniel Hendler Jazmín Stuart unnerving is Luciano’s discovery that he’s the Walter Jakob inspiration for the show’s main character, who Martín Feldman Miguel Dedovich even shares his name. When Manuel suddenly Running Time: leaves town on business, Sofía stays behind in 105 minutes the apartment—a decision that changes them Presentation Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with both. With an understated yet stylized approach, English subtitles director Gabriel Medina maintains a constant Print Source: sense of insularity and unease throughout the Oscilloscope Laboratories Film Website: film, using black humor as occasional relief. This aeroplanocine.com/ is done so well that when Luciano finally cuts losparanoicos Selected Filmography: loose at the end—in a brilliant, character-driven Debut Feature Film dance scene—it feels like a one-man revolution.

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N is a 13-year veteran of a North London psychi- United Kingdom atric hospital, and she doesn’t want to change a 2008 thing about it. However, a turning point in her life Director: arrives in a new patient, an elegant and tempera- Benjamin Ross Producers: mental black woman named Poppy Shakespeare Charles Steel who insists she’s not insane. This outstanding Alasdair Flind drama is an adaptation of Clare Allan’s best-sell- Screenwriter: Sarah Williams ing novel, which Britain’s Guardian newspaper based on the novel by described as “Catch-22” meets “One Flew Over Clare Allan Cinematographer: the Cuckoo’s Nest.” At once comic and tragic, Danny Cohen lyrical and absurd, the story takes an inside Editor: look at a claustrophobic, upside-down world David Charap Music: in which reality intermingles with fantasy and Molly Nyman reason with insanity. Poppy Shakespeare takes Harry Escott Cast: on great modern themes: madness and sanity, Anna Maxwell Martin the institution and the individual, and psychotro- Naomie Harris Adrian Scarborough pic medicine and human consciousness. It also Tessa Peake Jones addresses the responsibility we relinquish when Jonathan Cullen Joseph Altin we allow a body of any kind to dictate the terms Running Time: of our lives, and the responsibility we undertake 89 minutes Presentation Format: when we love someone or are loved by them.

Awards: Santa Barbara Film Festival 2009 (Best Film)

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35mm International Sales: Contentfilm International Print Source: Cowboy Films Ltd. Selected Filmography: Guilty Hearts (2005) The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (1995)

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CAOS CALMO

RABIOSO SOL, RABIOSO CIELO

Quiet Chaos

Raging Sun, Raging Sky

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What does a Roman husband do when his wife Italy dies suddenly, leaving him to care for their ten- 2008 year-old daughter on his own? TV executive Director: Pietro tries to come to grips with his loss while Antonello Grimaldi Producer: sitting on a park bench, observing the quiet Domenico Procacci chaos unfold around him. On his daughter’s first Screenwriters: school day after his wife’s funeral, Pietro promis- Nanni Moretti Laura Paolucci es to wait at the gate until school is out. He soon Francesco Piccolo finds that it suits his detached frame of mind to based on the book by Sandro Veronesi linger all day in the lovely tree-lined park opposite Cinematographer: her school. As time passes, Pietro gets to know Alessandro Pesci all the regular passers-by, and they get to know Editor: Angelo Nicolini him. Even his colleagues start to meet him at his Music: designated park bench instead of having meet- Paolo Buonvino Cast: ings at the office. Although the film is a serious Nanni Moretti drama, it is not without some gentle comedy Isabella Ferrari Valeria Golino (Alessandro Gassman steals the show as Pietro’s Alessandro Gassman cool, younger brother Carlo, an opium-smoking, Blu Yoshimi fashionable jeans designer). The film also boasts Running Time: 112 minutes a finely balanced soundtrack, including songs Presentation Format:

by Radiohead, Rufus Wainwright, Stars, and a 35mm, in Italian, with English subtitles subtle original score by Paolo Buonvino.

International Sales: Awards: Chicago International Film Festival 2008 (Silver Plaque Award) David di Donatello Awards 2008 (Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Music, Best Music–Original Song)

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Avante-garde filmmaker Julián Hernández’s new Mexico film (the final installment in a trilogy that includes 2008 A Thousand Clouds of Peace Encircle the Sky Director: and Broken Sky), is a paean to love, desire, and Julián Hernández Producer: sexuality. This new work tells the story of two Roberto Fiesco men, Kieri and Ryo, and their selfless devotion Screenwriter: to one other. When a jealous admirer abducts Julián Hernández Cinematographer: Ryo, Kieri embarks upon a quest to find him, Alejandro Cantú guided by El Corazón del Cielo, heaven’s heart Editor: herself. The lovers’ efforts to reunite are fraught Emiliano Arenales Osorio Music: with difficulty. Although Ryo manages to escape, Arturo Villela Vega he dies before Kieri can find him. When Kieri Cast: Becerra learns of Ryo’s fate, he agrees to sacrifice his Jorge Javier Oliván body to bring about Ryo’s resurrection. So great Guillermo Villegas Giovanna Zacarías is their passion for one another that even the Running Time: gods take notice, and their story lives on in myth. 191 minutes Hernández’s masterful cinematography and his Presentation Format: DigiBeta, in Spanish, with visionary use of color and sound combine to English subtitles create a powerful, mystical journey.

International Sales: Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Teddy Award)

Fandango Print Source: IFC Films Film Website: armosia.com Selected Filmography: An Impossible Crime (2001) Asini (1999) Nulla ci può fermare (1998) Bits and Pieces (1995) Juke Box (1985)

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Mexican Film Institute IMCINE Print Source: TLA Releasing Film Website: rabiososolrabiosocielo. com Selected Filmography: Broken Sky (2006) A Thousand Clouds of Peace Encircle the Sky (2003)

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Rumba

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Husband-and-wife team Dominique Abel and Belgium/France Fiona Gordon repeat the formula that made their 2008 2005 film The Iceberg a wide success, stringing Directors: together a series of surreal, G-rated—yet unfail- Dominique Abel Fiona Gordon ingly hilarious—gags with little music or dialogue Bruno Romy to deflect from the clever slapstick. This time Producers: Dominique Abel they play a couple of mild-mannered provincial Fiona Gordon teachers by day and fun-loving dance freaks Marin Karmitz Nathaniel Karmitz at night until the latter activity is curtailed by a Charles Gilibert nasty car crash, ushering in a train of abjectly Screenwriters: Abel miserable events as the couple lose touch. It Dominique Fiona Gordon takes some kind of audacity to elicit laughs Bruno Romy from such bathetic subject matter as attempted Cinematographer: Claire Childéric suicide, severe memory loss, amputations, and Editor: burned-down houses. Yet the film, enhanced by Sandrine Deegen delightful pop-art visuals and benefiting from the Cast: Dominique Abel filmmakers’ years of dance training, is in every Fiona Gordon respect a celebration of life. Leaning heavily Philippe Martz Bruno Romy on the comedic styles of Jacques Tati and Aki Clément Morel Kaurismäki, Rumba pursues the eternal ques- Running Time: 77 minutes tion of whether two people can be eternally Presentation Format: happy through deliberate and staunch cheerful- 35mm, in French, with ness. Abel and Gordon are to be commended English subtitles International Sales: for the way they maintain the mood in the face MK2 International of events that would cast most others into the Print Source: Koch Lorber Entertainslough of despondency. ment

School Days With a Pig

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A new elementary school teacher who wants his Japan students to learn “the real connection between 2008 life and food” has a proposal for his sixth-grade Director: class: They’ll adopt a piglet and care for it over Tetsu Maeda Producer: the course of a year, but at the end of the year, the Toshihiro Isomi pig will be eaten. The students eagerly accept the Screenwriter: challenge. After all, the end of the year is a long Hirotoshi Kobayashi based on the novel by way away and the wriggling piglet is right there Yasushi Kuroda in the classroom. They name it “P-Chan,” build Cinematographer: Yasuhito Kasai a special enclosure on the playground, and take Editor: turns with the chores of brushing and feeding Koichi Takahashi it. But the more attached they grow to P-Chan, Music: Shoji Yoshioka the more difficult the question of the pig’s fate Cast: becomes. Based on a true story that became a Satoshi Tsumabuki Mieko Harada subject of national controversy in Japan, School Ren Osugi Days With a Pig is a thoughtful and warmhearted Running Time: engagement with the adult issues of consump- 106 minutes Presentation Format: tion, quality of life, and personal responsibility as 35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles seen through the eyes of children.

Awards: Tokyo International Film Festival 2008 (Audience Award, Toyota Earth Grand Prix Jury Award)

Film Website: rumba-film.mk2.com Selected Filmography: The Iceberg (2005) Walking on the Wild Side (2000) Rosita (1997) Merci Cupidon (1994)

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International Sales: Nikkatsu Print Source: Nikkatsu Selected Filmography: Dolphin Blue: Fuji mou ichido sora e (2007) A Cheerful Gang Turns the Earth (2006) Gakincho rock (2004) Pole Toppling (2003) Swing Man (2000)

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Scratch

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Séraphine

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Joanna and Jan, an older academic couple Poland in Krakow, have enjoyed a long and satisfying 2008 marriage. But following a party to celebrate their Director: 40-something anniversary, they find a mysterious Michal Rosa Producers: videotape among their gifts. The tape contains Henryk Romanowski a documentary alleging that Jan was an agent Dariusz Sidor of the Polish People’s Republic secret service Screenwriter: Michal Rosa in the 1950s and 1960s and that their marriage Cinematographer: was initially a sham engineered by Communist Marcin Koszalka surveillance apparatus. Worse still, the purpose Editor: Krzysztof Szpetmanski of this plot was the gathering of informing about Music: Joanna’s father, a famous prewar politician. Stanislaw Radwan Unable to accept that her husband is guilty, Cast: Jadwiga JankowskaJoanna embarks on a quest to uncover the truth. Cieslak Zrzysztof Stroinski Jan proclaims his innocence, but as a journalist Ewa Telega friend reminds her, “Everybody keeps something Miroslawa Marcheluk Teresa Marczewska under wraps,” and the seeds of doubt begin to Running Time: erode the trust at the heart of the marriage. An 89 minutes intimate drama, Michal Rosa’s Scratch explores Presentation Format: 35mm, in Polish, with the ongoing effects of state intervention in private English subtitles International Sales: life from the darkest days of Communist rule.

Filmcontract Ltd. Print Source: The Society for Arts Selected Filmography: What the Sun Has Seen (2005) Silence (2001) Paint (1997)

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The modern primitivist painter Séraphine de France/Belgium Senlis was discovered when the German art 2008 collector, dealer, and gay expatriate Wilhelm Uhde Director: visited her rural French village prior to World War Martin Provost Producers: I. This transcendent biopic charts the artist’s rise Miléna Poylo and fall from her lowly station as Uhde’s psycho- Gilles Sacuto logically unstable, devoutly Catholic maid to her Screenwriters: Martin Provost acclaim and fortunes during the Depression and Marc Abdelnour World War II. Writer-director Martin Provost and Cinematographer: Laurent Brunet cowriter Marc Abdelnour explore the mutable Editor: boundaries between spirituality, naïveté, genius, Ludo Troch and madness, showing how the two outsiders Music: Michael Galasso and polar opposites cultivated a mutual under- Cast: standing. Yolande Moreau gives a vivid perfor- Yolande Moreau Ulrich Tukur mance as the obdurate but impressionable title Anne Bennent character, while Ulrich Tukur (The Lives of Others) Geneviève Mnich Nico Rogner adds grace notes as an intellectual patron who Running Time: is torn between bourgeois rectitude and his own 121 minutes sensuality. Sparse and frankly realized, Provost’s Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with fictionalized portrait of this forgotten painter is a English subtitles celebration of art and nature, and an acknowl- International Sales: edgment of the costs involved in reaching the Roissy Films Print Source: top.

Music Box Films Awards: César Awards 2009 (Best Film, Actress, Screenplay, Cinematography, Production Design Original Score, Costume Design)

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Film Website: seraphine-lefilm.com Selected Filmography: Le ventre de juliette (2003) Tortilla y cinema (1997)

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DIXIA DE TIANKONG

The Shaft

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Shrink

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Unable to find destiny in the coal mines of China a post-Communist economy, a tightly knit 2008 family reveals the frustration and resolve of Director: western Chinese mining communities. Zhang Zhang Chi Producers: Chi’s feature film debut follows three family Hu Guipu members’ stories through a hypnotic, episodic Kang Jianmin tale. Linked by the quiet, collective desire to rise Screenwriter: Zhang Chi above impossible conditions, the characters live Cinematographer: trapped between their dreams and the oppres- Liu Shumin sive mines. The first episode follows the relation- Editor: Zhang Chi ship between mine safety monitor Jingshui and Music: Daming. When community gossip jeopardizes Guo Sida their relationship, Jinshui must choose between Cast: Huang Xuan Daming and a new chance at upward mobil- Luo Deyuan Zheng Luoqian ity. In the second episode, Jingshui’s younger Gong Qiyi brother Jingsheng likewise battles against his Li Chen mining future. Dreaming about a singing career Running Time: 98 minutes that sits painfully out of reach, Jingsheng’s finan- Presentation Format: cial and academic disappointments torpedo his 35mm, in Mandarin, with English subtitles hopes for good. The film’s concluding episode International Sales: revolves around the dread of time running out China Film Association and the need to settle unfinished business as the Print Source: China Film Association siblings’ elderly father moves toward retirement Selected Filmography: in the wake of illness. The Shaft doesn’t resign Debut Feature Film itself to criticism or unnecessary heroics. Its frank presentation and comfort with the everyday allows the film to shine against the uninviting futures that face the men and women from Chinese mining towns.

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Henry Carter (Kevin Spacey) is a Hollywood USA psychiatrist with an A-list clientele, including a 2009 once-famous actress convinced she’s aging Director: into oblivion (Saffron Burrows), an alcoholic film Jonas Pate Producers: star who prefers to see himself as a sex addict Michael Burns (Robin Williams), a germ-phobic, anal-retentive, Braxton Pope Dana Brunetti obsessive-compulsive agent (Dallas Roberts), Screenwriter: and an insecure screenwriter-gardener-valet Thomas Moffett (Mark Webber) who can’t get anyone other than Cinematographer: Lukas Ettlin the agent’s long-suffering assistant (Pell James) Editor: to read his script. But the fact is that Henry’s not Luis Carballar in such great shape himself. His wife recently Music: Brian Reitzell committed suicide, and now he’s smoking too Ken Andrews much pot, forgetting to change his clothes, and Cast: Kevin Spacey stumbling through his sessions as best he can. Keke Palmer Then one day he’s asked to take on a different Mark Webber Dallas Roberts kind of patient: an inner-city teenager (Keke Saffron Burrows Palmer) whose mother has recently killed herself Running Time: and whose only solace comes from the world of 110 minutes Presentation Format: movies. Writer Thomas Moffett conjures classic HDCAM Hollywood types and an all-star cast brings them Print Source: to hapless, hilarious life in this smash hit of the Roadside Attractions Selected Filmography: 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Deceiver (1997) The Grave (1996)

Awards: Marrakech FIlm Festival 2008 (Jury Prize)

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Skin

Small Crime

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This strange and disquieting real-life story follows South Africa/ the troubled life of Sandra Laing, who was born United Kingdom with black skin in 1950s apartheid-era South 2008 Africa. While her skin color alone is enough to Director: give young Sandra second-class status in such Anthony Fabian Producers: a divided society, her lineage complicates the Anthony Fabian issue: her biological parents, Abraham and Genevieve Hofmeyr Margaret Matheson Sannie, are whiter-than-white Afrikaners. While Screenwriters: her class-conscious parents desperately try Helen Crawley Jessie Keyt to explain that her skin pigmentation is a rare Helena Kriel genetic quirk—even taking her case to the Cinematographers: Supreme Court to declare her officially “white”— Dewald Aukema Jonathan Partridge Sandra is caught between two worlds, neither of Editor: which she can claim as her own. Young Sophie St. John O’Rorke Okonedo delivers an excellent performance as Music: Hélène Muddiman Sandra in Anthony Fabian’s debut feature, which Cast: begins with Sandra at age ten, when she has yet Sophie Okonedo Sam Neill to perceive that she is “different” from the rest of Alice Krige her family. Over the next three decades, we follow Tony Kgoroge Ella Ramangwane the evolution of her identity crisis, from everyday Running Time: humiliations to gradual acceptance, culminating 107 minutes Format: in 1994, the first time all races in South Africa Presentation 35mm, in English and were allowed an equal vote in national elections. Zulu, with English Along the way, Skin recreates and illuminates subtitles International Sales: Sandra’s struggles, thereby reflecting the those The Little Film Company Film Website: of a nation.

Awards: AFI Dallas International Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award) Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award) Pan African Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award, Jury Favorite)

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Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is Cyprus assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. 2008 He dreams of solving important, big-city crimes, Director: but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach Christos Georgiou Producers: community where he is reduced to such menial Thanassis Karathanos chores as putting up “No Nudism” signs on the Konstantinos Moriatis Christos Georgiou beach. Each day at the town café, Leonidas and Screenwriter: the other locals watch the beautiful Angeliki, the Christos Georgiou small island’s most famous daughter, as she Cinematographer: Yorgos Giannelis hosts a popular talk show on national TV. These Editor: dull rituals are shattered when the island experi- Isabel Meier ences what appears to be an actual crime: the Music: Thanassis Papakonisland drunk, Zacharias, is found dead at the stantinou base of a cliff. Jumping at the chance to do Constantis Papakonstantinou some sleuthing, Leonidas soon finds clues that Cast: tie the victim to Angeliki, who returns to the island Aris Servetalis Viki Papadopoulou and joins the investigation. As romance blooms Rania Ikonomidou between Leonidas and Angeliki, they learn that Erricos Litsis Vangelio Andreadaki everyone on the island has their own version of Running Time: Zacharias’ death, most of which play out hilari- 84 minutes ously in Leonidas’ imagination. Cypriot director Presentation Format: 35mm, in Greek, with Christos Georgiou has created a narrative that English subtitles fits firmly in the romantic-comedy genre but also International Sales: Twenty Twenty Vision has fun playing with its characters’ differing interPrint Source: pretations of reality.

Hellas Film Greek Film

skinthemovie.net Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Center Selected Filmography: Under the Stars (2001)

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SNIJEG

The Sniper

MONDAY JUNE 1 9:30 PM WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 9:30 PM

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Films don’t open much better than The Sniper.

On a dark, rainy night, two snipers sit perched in a tree, their sights trained on the men inside a hut. The scene shifts and two uniformed cops come upon a suspicious vehicle, turning their attention to the very same hut. In the ensuing stand-off, uniformed cop O.J. displays his superior marksmanship by killing the thug holding his partner hostage with a clean shot through the eye. Impressed by O.J.’s skills, SDU Sniper Team leader Hartman offers him a spot in his unit. Meanwhile, Hartman’s former colleague Lincoln earns his release from prison after serving four years for manslaughter. Believing his conviction to be the result of evidence withheld by Hartman, Lincoln sets out to take revenge on his rival: first, by taking Hartman’s daughter hostage, and then by luring Hartman and new partner O.J. into a re-enactment of his downfall. A deadly triangle soon emerges between the three men as O.J. becomes fascinated with Lincoln’s skills while still bound by Hartman’s rules. Featuring a series of frenetic set pieces choreographed with nail-biting intensity, director Dante Lam continues his mastery over the action flick.

Hong Kong 2009 Director: Dante Lam Producers: Candy Leung Cheung Hong Tat Screenwriter: Jack Ng Cinematographer: Cheung Man Po Editor: Angie Lam Music: Henry Lai Cast: Richie Jen Huang Xiaoming Edison Chen Running Time: 90 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Cantonese, with English subtitles International Sales: Media Asia Distribution Print Source: Media Asia Distribution Film Website: mediaasia.com/thesniper Selected Filmography: The Beast Stalker (2008) Storm Rider: Clash of Evils (2008) Undercover Hidden Dragon (2006) Heat Team (2004) Love on the Rocks (2004) Naked Ambition (2003) The Twins Effect (2003)

Snow

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The daily hardships of a war-scarred Bosnian village, where all that remains are widows and orphans, are painstakingly documented in this first feature from director Aida Begic. Snow offers insight about the psychological aftereffects of the 1992-95 civil war from a distinctively female point of view without showing any of the brutality or carnage. In the isolated village of Slavno, the surviving women manage to scratch out an existence by farming with rudimentary tools and by shunning the modern world that has taken away so many of their loved ones. The bodies of most of the men and children who were lost in the conflict were never recovered, so the mourning process for the villagers has never reached a point of closure. Young Alma, however, wants to break the village’s self-imposed silence and begin selling her homemade jams throughout the country to raise funds for the town. When two conniving real estate developers show up to buy out the entire village just before the season’s first major snowstorm threatens to deepen their isolation, all of the women are forced to confront their past and their future.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2008 (Critics Week Grand Prize) Fajr Film Festival 2008 (Best Film–International Competition, Best Director–International Competition) Hamptons Film Festival 2008 (Award for Films of Conflict and Resolution) Thessaloniki Film Festival 2008 (Women & Equality Award)

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Bosnia and Herzegovina/ Germany/France/ Iran 2008 Director: Aida Begic Producers: Benny Dreschel Karsten Stöter François D’Artemare Elma Tataragic Screenwriters: Aida Begic Elma Tataragic Cinematographer: Erol Zubcevic Editor: Miralem S. Zubcevic Music: Igor Camo Cast: Zana Marjanovic Jasna Ornela Bery Sadzida Setic Vesna Masic Emir Hadzihafizbegovic Running Time: 99 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm, in Bosnian, with English subtitles International Sales: Pyramide International Print Source: Pyramide International Film Website: mamafilm.ba Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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AVIV 1941

Spring 1941

US Premiere

SUNDAY JUNE 7 6:30 PM MONDAY JUNE 8 4:00 PM

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Some lies can save people even if they wound them forever. Clara Planck, a brilliant and famous cellist, returns to Poland 30 years after World War II to visit the places that still haunt her. Clara and her husband, Doctor Artur Planck (Joseph Fiennes), once had a family, home, and a medical practice in Warsaw.

When Nazis invaded Poland and herded the Jewish population into the ghetto, their family, including their two young daughters, barely had enough time to flee. They literally ran for their lives. The first “safe” place they sought refuge was in Emilia’s remote farm, where she conceals the Planck family in her attic. Emilia is a Polish woman who sold them vegetables and whose husband is missing in action. But she has ulterior motives hiding underneath her generosity. Spring 1941 is a character-driven story about individuals shocked out of their everyday circumstance and into a world where any wrong movement could be their last. The family faces terror, love, dependency, and betrayal on unimaginable levels. Spring 1941 is the first film about the Holocaust co-produced

by Poles and Israelis. Viscerally adapted by director Uri Barbash, the historical drama was shot on location in Lublin and is based on Polish Holocaust survivor Ida Fink’s stories.

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Israel/Poland 2008 Director: Uri Barbash Producers: Eviatar Dotan Rami Damri Piotr Dzieciol Screenwriter: Motti Lerner Cinematographer: Ryszard Lenczewski Editor: Tova Asher Music: Misha Segal Cast: Joseph Fiennes Clare Higgins Kelly Harrison Neve McIntosh Maria Pakulnis Running Time: 122 minutes Presentation Format: 35mm Print Source: Shoreline Entertainment Film Website: praxisfilms.co.il Selected Filmography: Salt of the Earth (2006) Licking the Raspberry (1992) Beyond the Walls II (1992) The War After (1991) Where Eagles Fly (1990) Unsettled Land (1987) Beyond the Walls (1984)

Spring Breakdown

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For decades, male geeks have stumbled USA through comedies from Revenge of the Nerds 2009 to Napoleon Dynamite, but Spring Breakdown Director: gives it up for the girls. In the 1992 prologue, Ryan Shiraki Producers: Becky (Parker Posey), Gail (Amy Poehler), and Rick Berg Judy (co-writer Rachel Dratch) perform Cyndi Larry Kennar Lauper’s “True Colors” at the school talent show, Screenwriters: Ryan Shiraki only to elicit a chorus of boos. The intrepid trio Rachel Dratch resolves to show those haters they have what Cinematographer: Frank G. DeMarco it takes to seize life. Flash forward 15 years Editor: and they’re still tragically unhip bosom buddies Tom Lewis now pushing 40, but these girls still just wanna Music: Deborah Lurie have fun. They get their chance when Becky’s Cast: employer, the Sarah Palin–like Senator Hartman, Amy Poehler Parker Posey assigns Becky to keep an eye on her daughter Rachel Dratch during spring break in South Padre. The three- Amber Tamblyn Jane Lynch some heads to Texas for some sisterly bonding, Missi Pyle where Judy discovers alcohol and Gail falls in Running Time: with a band of brainless blondes. Through their 84 minutes Presentation Format: flirtation with extreme merrymaking they experi- HDCAM ence everything they missed the first time around, Print Source: giving them the courage to finally move forward Code Entertainment Film Website: with their lives. An outlandish, quick-witted romp myspace.com/spring_ that leaves no one immune to ridicule, Spring breakdown Selected Filmography: Breakdown chews up our geeky gals and spits Home of Phobia (2004) them out as triumphant powerhouses—confident that being who they truly are is way cooler than fitting in.

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The Square

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Stella

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In this thrilling neo-noir, a nightmare of unfore- Australia seen events takes place after a few fatal 2008 missteps are made by adulterous lovers in a Director: bleak Australian town. Construction supervisor Nash Edgerton Producer: Raymond Yale, wishing to flee his monotonous Louise Smith marriage, becomes entangled in a romantic Screenwriters: affair with the lovely yet troubled Carla. She Joel Edgerton Matthew Dabner presents him with a large chunk of money that Cinematographer: her husband Smithy had stolen, suggesting that Brad Shield they keep it for themselves. Like so many other Editors: Nash Edgerton best laid plans, however, things don’t always go Luke Doolan as planned. Marking the beginning of a series Music: Franc Tetaz of deadly errors, the couple hires professional Cast: arsonist Billy. Soon enough, a series of blackmail David Roberts Claire Van Der Boom letters begin to appear from a mystery author, Joel Edgerton setting off a cascade of misunderstandings and Anthony Hayes Peter Phelps tragic consequences. Ray’s morality is pushed to Bill Hunter the limit as he tries to hold onto meaningful love Running Time: but is only dragged deeper into a pit of decep- 105 minutes Presentation Format: tion. Written by brother Joel, Nash Edgerton’s 35mm directorial debut is an edgy, character-driven International Sales: thriller that unravels with burning twists and Pathé International Print Source: turns, leaving no one unharmed.

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Thanks to the luck of the draw, 11-year-old Stella France gets assigned to an upper-class Parisian school. 2008 She despises her new classmates whom she Director: perceives to be “sheltered types” who are prob- Sylvie Verheyde Producer: ably “in bed by 8:30 without watching TV.” At Bruno Berthemy the same time, she longs to fit in. Coming from Screenwriter: a working-class neighborhood, Stella’s own life Sylvie Verheyde Cinematographer: is highly unusual for a kid her age. She lives in Nicolas Gaurin a seedy hotel-pub run by her parents, where Editor: her feisty, attractive mother is the boss. Stella’s Christel Dewynter Music: evenings are spent surrounded by her parents’ NousDeux friends and customers, who happen to be the Cast: Barbara local tramps and drunks. The parents spend Léora Mélissa Rodrigues most of their time absorbed with running the Karole Rocher Benjamin Biolay pub, and Stella is left to take care of herself. She Guillaume Depardieu may know a lot about cocktails, pinball, and the Running Time: rules of pool, but none of it has prepared her to 102 minutes Presentation Format: survive the kids in her new school. She remains 35mm, in French, with a misfit and alone, both at school and at home English subtitles Sales: until she befriends Gladys, the smartest girl in International Films Distribution her class. Her new friend provides a relief from Selected Filmography: the loneliness and introduces her to a new world Princesses (2000) A Brother... (1997) of possibilities.

Film Website: squarethemovie.com Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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ARUITEMO, ARUITEMO

Still Walking

SATURDAY MAY 23 7:00 PM FRIDAY MAY 29 11:00 AM

Story of Jen

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A Yokohama family struggles with intergenera- Japan tional tensions as they gather for their annual 2008 remembrance of the death of a son, Junpei, who Director: died 15 years before while attempting to save a Hirokazu Kore-eda Producers: drowning child. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest medi- Kato Yoshihiro tation on family drama is a quiet masterpiece that Screenwriter: seems to originate from a deeply personal yet Hirokazu Kore-eda Cinematographer: universal experience of regret. The film’s treat- Yataka Yamasaki ment of modest joys and gentle resentments Editor: is actually full of humor, with energetic mother Hirokazu Kore-eda Cast: Toshiko ruling the roost from the bustling kitchen Hiroshi Abe as her retired doctor husband flees to the sanctu- Yoshio Harada Yui Natsukawa ary of his examining-room for a bit of peace from Running Time: his rambunctious grandchildren. Son Ryota and 114 minutes daughter Chinami suspect they can never live up Presentation Format: 35mm, in Japanese, with to the departed Junpei in their parents’ esteem, English subtitles and take a dim view of the annual visit by the International Sales: Celluloid Dreams boy who Junpei was attempting to rescue, now Print Source: an aimless, unprepossessing young man. Good IFC Films cheer is the order of the day, but for some of Film Website: aruitemo.com them the festive gathering is an endurance test. Selected Filmography: Kore-eda handles the family dynamics deftly and Hana (2006) Nobody Knows (2004) infuses the film with much warmth between the Distance (2001) After Life (1998) discordant notes, creating a bittersweet gem.

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Jen (Laurence Leboeuf), a quiet, solitary 16-year- Canada/France old, lives with her mother Sarah (Marina Hands, 2009 Lady Chatterley) in a small town in rural Quebec. Director: She feels alienated from her classmates at François Rotger Producer: school because she doesn’t drink or wear Tom Dercourt make-up, and also from her mother, Sarah, who Screenwriter: projects her regrets about her own life onto Jen. François Rotger Cinematographer: After her father’s suicide, Jen’s taciturn uncle George Lechaptois (her father’s half-brother, Ian) comes to stay with Editor: them. Estranged from the rest of her father’s Yannick Kergoat Music: family, Jen is drawn to Ian, first as a father figure François Rotger and gradually as an object of desire. When the Cast: Leboeuf local gossip reaches Sarah and she realizes the Laurence Marina Hands nature of Ian and Jen’s relationship, her worst Daniel Pilon Tony Ward fears for her daughter seem to be coming true. Annie Murphy She tells Ian to leave, but not before events have Running Time: been set in motion that will change their lives 110 minutes Presentation Format: forever.

35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Roissy Films Print Source: Roissy Films Selected Filmography: The Passenger (2005)

Maborosi (1995)

Awards: Toronto International Film Festival 2008 (Best Film)

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The Strength of Water

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Childhood, sudden death, Maori culture, and New Zealand/ rugged New Zealand scenery make a potent Germany mix in The Strength of Water. This largely natu- 2009 ralistic melodrama taps a restrained undertow Director: of magic realism to tell the story of ten-year-old Armagan Ballantyne Producers: twin brother and sister, Kimi and Melody, who Fiona Copland live on a chicken farm with several other siblings Karl Baumgartner Raimond Goebel and their hard-working parents in a secluded Screenwriter: Maori community. The twins befriend Tai, a soli- Briar Grace-Smith tary young man who moves into the neighboring Cinematographer: Bogumil Godfrejow dilapidated house of his dead grandfather. But Editor: when Tai and Melody take refuge from a barking Elizabeth Kling dog, tragedy strikes unexpectedly, sending the Music: Peter Golub film on a surprising course. With its picture of Warren Maxwell a blue-collar Maori community eking out a hard Cast: Hato Paparoa living, director Armagan Ballantyne’s Sundance- Melanie Mayall-Nahi developed feature has some things in common Nancy Brunning Isaac Barber with Niki Caro’s Whale Rider, although with more Pare Paseka muted tones and less child-friendly fare. The use Jim Moriarty Running Time: of local inhabitants instead of professional actors 86 minutes lends the film an authenticity that befits the beau- Presentation Format: 35mm tiful and raw nature among which it unfolds.

International Sales: New Zealand Film Commission Print Source: New Zealand Film Commission Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Sügisball

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Set among a complex of Soviet-era tower blocks Estonia in Estonia, the people in Sügisball are eager for 2007 their lives to change. Jaana is leaving her alco- Director: holic, writer husband, Mati. Architect Maurer is Veiko Öunpuu Producer: more impressed with modernist Scandinavian Katrin Kissa design than with his wife, Ulvi, who then takes Screenwriter: an eye to a nightclub coat-checker named Veiko Õunpuu Cinematographer: Theo. Lots of women take an interest in Theo Mart Taniel but his social status keeps them from pursu- Editors: Õunpuu ing a deeper relationship. Then there’s Laura, Veiko Tambet Tasuja a single mother and factory worker. She loves Music: her daughter and is afraid that the local barber’s Ulo Krigul interest in her young one has little to do with hair. Cast: Rain Tolk The interactions in this microcosm are a study Taavi Eelmaa Tiina Tauraite in loneliness and yearning. Narcissism adds to Running Time: the malaise and the slow awakening of a new 123 minutes society. Admissions of love are misconstrued or Presentation Format: 35mm, in Estonian, with altogether ignored as confusion permeates the English subtitles concrete walls. Looming large and stark over the Print Source: landscape, the tower blocks represent the crum- Strand Releasing Film Website: bling past and the daunting challenge of creat- sygisball.ee ing a satisfying present. Previously a painter and Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film heavy-metal guitarist, Veiko Öunpuu directs with color and style, and his results are as sophisticated as they are tentatively dark.

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HEURE D’ETÉ

Summer

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Robert Carlyle gives one of his most finely cali- United Kingdom brated performances in the second feature from 2008 Kenny Glenaan (Yasmin, SIFF 2005). Glenaan’s Director: slow-burn examination of friendship, guilt, and Kenny Glenaan Producer: commitment centers on Shaun, a gas station Camilla Bray attendant who shares a council flat with his Screenwriter: best mate, Daz, a single father confined to a Hugh Ellis Cinematographer: wheelchair, and Daz’s son, Dan, a chip off the Tony Slater-Ling hard-drinking block. Shaun acts as a sort of Editor: surrogate mother figure, as he looks after both Kristina Hetherington Music: men, but in his sun-dappled daydreams, he Stephen McKeon relives the summer he and Daz shared with Katy Cast: Carlyle (Australian actress Rachael Blake), who left the Robert Steve Evets East Midlands for work in the city. As kids, the Rachael Blake three shared bike rides and dips in the lake, Running Time: 95 minutes but Shaun’s learning disabilities and untreated Presentation Format: behavioral problems brought an end to their 35mm idyll when Daz took a spill and Katy’s parents International Sales: The Works International sent her away. With Daz’s health now in serious Print Source: decline, Shaun decides to reconnect with their The Works International Website: long-lost friend to put the past behind him once Film summerthemovie.co.uk and for all.

Selected Filmography: Yasmin (2004) Awards: BAFTA Awards Scotland 2008 (Best Film, Director) Rome International Film Festival 2008 (Best Film–Ages 13-17)

Summer Hours

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In the rambling garden of a country house north France of Paris, lecturer Frédéric, designer Adrienne, and 2008 sportswear company representative Jérémie, Director: are gathered with partners and kids for a lunch Olivier Assayas Producers: to celebrate the 75th birthday of their widowed Marin Karmitz mother Hélène. She’s the proudly independent Nathanaël Karmitz Charles Gilibert and protective keeper of the flame—and the Screenwriter: valuable belongings—of her late uncle, a well- Clémentine Schaeffer known artist. Months later, when Hélène herself Cinematographer: Eric Gautier dies, the three siblings come together once Editor: more to decide what to do with the house, its Luc Barnier coveted contents, and Hélène’s faithful house- Cast: Juliette Binoche keeper Eloise. Summer Hours is an effortlessly Charles Berling classy and intellectually stimulating piece of work Jérémie Rénier Edith Scob from a director whose work has ranged from the Running Time: stylish filmmaking satire (Irma Vep) to solemn 102 minutes space-age eroticism (Demonlover) to the tender, Presentation Format: 35mm, in French, with talky simplicity (Late August, Early September). English subtitles Admirably unsentimental in its treatment of grief, International Sales: MK2 International the film has echoes of Eric Rohmer in its extend- Print Source: ed conversational scenes, and a cast of actors IFC Films who embody their characters with absolute Film Website: summerhours.com.au assurance. This is Olivier Assayas’s most fully Selected Filmography: satisfying film for some time; a warm, wise drama Boarding Gate (2007) Clean (2004) about the tensions and mysteries of family life Demonlover (2002) that is beautifully performed, intelligently written Les destinées (2000) Late August, Early and fluently directed.

September (1998) Irma Vep (1996) Cold Water (1994) A New Life (1993) Paris Awakens (1991) Winter’s Child (1989) Disorder (1986)

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TAHAAN

Tahaan A Boy With a Grenade

ALLT FLYTER

Swimsuit Issue

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SIFF audiences have always shared a special Sweden affinity for Swedish comedy, particularly one filled 2009 with as many oddballs as Swimsuit Issue—a tale Director: of courage and triumph in the world of men’s Måns Herngren Producer: synchronized swimming. Fredrik is ultracom- Rebecka Hamberger petitive to a fault, having cost him jobs, his wife, Screenwriters: and very nearly the relationship with his teenage Jane Magnusson Mans Herngren daughter Sara (he blatantly cheats just to win Brian Cordray at foosball). Unfortunately, his only sanctioned Cinematographer: Henrik Stenberg competitive outlet is the floorball team he plays Editor: on—who are rubbish, losing their practice time Fredrik Morheden when they fail to beat the local high school girl’s Music: The Soundtrack of our team. But one night at a teammate’s bachelor Lives party, the friends perform a drunken synchro- Cast: Jonas Inde nized swimming routine. Caught on camera and Amanda Davin shown at the wedding, the friends accept a chal- Running Time: lenge to perform the routine again, this time at a 100 minutes Presentation Format: swanky dinner party. That’s it! Fredrik is hooked 35mm, in Swedish, with on synchronized swimming. When he discovers English subtitles Sales: the sport wasn’t always a female-only competi- International Coproduction Office tion, he convinces his floorball teammates to give Print Source: up their sticks, join him in the pool, and set their Swedish Film Institute Film Website: sights on becoming Sweden’s only male team to sfi.se/en-gb/Swedish-film win the world championship in Berlin.

Selected Filmography:

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Eight-year-old Tahaan will do anything to get his India best friend Birbal back. When Tahaan’s grand- 2008 father dies, much of the family’s assets are Director: seized, including their pet donkey Birbal. Tahaan Santosh Sivan Producers: embarks on a treacherous journey to regain his Shripal Morakhia beloved friend, one that takes him over the same Mubina Rattonsey mountains where his father disappeared three Screenwriters: Santosh Sivan years earlier. Tahaan’s courage is tested as he Ritesh Menon interacts with eccentric local personalities and Paul Hardart Cinematographer: is naively pulled into a terrorist plot to sneak a Santosh Sivan grenade across a military checkpoint. Against Editor: the backdrop of the soulful Kashmir Valley, direc- Shakti Hasija Music: tor Santosh Sivan explores the topic of terrorism Taufique Qureshi with an open mind. Sivan focuses on Tahaan’s Cast: Puray Bhandare unfaltering love for his pet donkey and portrays Anupam Kher the bravery and innate goodness of a young, Rahul Bose Rahul Khanna innocent boy. Through Tahaan, Sivan captures Victor Banerjee loyalty and strength, demonstrating that even Running Time: when in the company of terrorists, the goodness 105 minutes Presentation Format: of a young boy can endure.

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Every Other Week (2006) The Reunion (2002) Shit Happens (2000) Adam & Eva (1997)

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KÄSKY

Tears of April

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It’s 1918 and the end of Finland’s bloody civil Finland/ war. Victorious government-supported Whites Germany/Greece are rounding up and killing the remaining Social 2009 Democratic Reds, including the more than Director: 2,000 women who fought among their ranks. Aku Louhimies Producer: Private Aaro Harjula is shocked to witness Aleksi Bardy one such execution, so when he finds a survi- Screenwriter: Jari Olavi Rantala vor, a young Red platoon leader named Miina Cinematographer: Malin, he decides to personally escort her to a Rane Ronkainen nearby military tribunal where he believes she Editor: Ben Mercer will receive a fair trial. As they journey together, Music: feelings develop between the two that will cause Pessi Levanto Harjula to question his loyalty, especially when Cast: Pihla Viitala the tribunal’s judge turns out to be a dissipated Samuli Vauramo libertine in search of amusement for himself and Eero Aho Running Time: his lascivious wife. As Miina’s fate is taken out of 115 minutes his hands, Harjula realizes he’ll do whatever is Presentation Format: necessary to save her. Epic in scope, Tears of 35mm, in Finnish, with English subtitles April brings a stirring testament to the possibility International Sales: of human connection under the most inhuman Wide Management Print Source: circumstances.

Wide Management Film Website: kasky.fi Selected Filmography: Man Exposed (2006) Frozen City (2006) Frozen Land (2005) Lovers & Leavers (2002) Restless (2000)

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Director Marie-Jaoul de Poncheville‘s intimate Kyrgyzstan/ knowledge of central Asia provides an authen- France/Germany tic view of the locals and the land that surround 2008 Tengri: Blue Heavens. Set in a modern-day Director: de Kyrgyz village where yurts and traditional roles Marie-Jaoul Poncheville for men and women are still the standard, we Producers: are swept up in a visually arresting landscape Talaibek Baponov Emmanuel Schlumberger that seems suspended in time. Temur, who has Frank Müller been working abroad, returns to his ancestral Screenwriters: Azmat Kadyraliev village in search of his roots. Though his family Marie-Jaoul de is no longer there, the villagers accept him as Poncheville Jean-François Goyet one of their own. He soon finds himself attracted Cinematographers: to a local woman, Amira, who is married to a Assan Imanaliev man fighting with the Mujahideen in Afghanistan. Sylvie Carcédo-Dreujou Editor: Despite trying to resist their attraction, the two Catherine Quesemand are soon lovers. They attempt to hide their Music: Nikolai Marousitch affair with failed results. Amira’s husband hears Birgit Løkke of the betrayal and stops waging jihad to track Cast: the lovers through the mountains and steppes. Albina Imacheva Ilimbek Kalmouratov Through folklore, costume, a variety of languag- Hélène Patarot es, and rugged scenery, de Poncheville paints Taalaikan Abazova Nikolai Marousitch the local culture and environment with a rich Running Time: palette, giving us a drama of forbidden love 104 minutes Presentation Format: enriched by its depth and authenticity.

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FRYGTELIG LYKKELIG

Terribly Happy

FRIDAY MAY 22 4:00 PM MONDAY MAY 25 7:00 PM

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A southern Danish village hides as many Denmark secrets as the nearby bog in Terribly Happy, a 2008 blackly comic thriller about the universal nature Director: of compromise and corruption. Entertaining Henrik Ruben Genz Producers: and full of surprising twists, this vivid tale of Thomas Gammeltoft a Copenhagen policeman working punish- Tina Dalhoff ment duty in the provinces plays with genres Screenwriters: Henrik Ruben Genz as expertly as do the Coen brothers or David Gry Dunja Jensen Lynch. When tightly wound cop Robert is trans- Cinematographer: Jørgen Johansson ferred to a small border town where outsid- Editor: ers either adapt or disappear, he finds a place Kasper Leick where the clannish locals scorn by-the-book law Music: Kåre Bjerkø enforcement, relying instead on their own unique Cast: brand of frontier justice. When another outsider, Jakob Cedergren Kim Bodnia the alluring Ingelise, tries to enlist Robert’s help in Lene Maria Christensen escaping from her abusive husband, Jorgen, in Lars Brygmann scenes that cunningly mirror film noir, the stage Running Time: 95 minutes seems to be set for a predictable love triangle. Presentation Format: However, the smart, tightly constructed script 35mm, in Danish, with English subtitles cleverly defies expectations as it knowingly toys International Sales: with genre conventions. In what represents his TrustNordisk best work by far, director Henrik Ruben Genz Print Source: Danish Film Institute sustains a unique tone that smoothly incorpo- Selected Filmography: rates Western, noir, horror, and psychological- Chinaman (2005) Someone Like Hodder thriller elements without feeling like pastiche.

(2003) Awards: Bodil Award 2009 (Best Danish Film, Actress, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Music) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2008 (Crystal Globe, Don Quijote Award–Special Mention) Valladolid International Film Festival 2008 (Best Screenplay, Music)

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Eighty-year-old Abner Meecham returns to his USA Tennessee farm after escaping a nursing home 2009 to find that his lawyer son has leased it to a long- Director: time enemy and his white trash family. Fueled Scott Teems Producers: by stubbornness and a steadfast loyalty to his Laura Smith land, he moves into an old shack on the prop- Terence Berry Raymond McKinnon erty and declares that he won’t leave until the Walton Goggins land is rightly his again. New tenant Lonzo Choat Screenwriter: refuses to give in and animosities flare, but the Scott Teems based on the short story abusive Choat’s booze-ridden threats don’t by William Gay frighten the old man. Guns are fired, beer cans Cinematographer: Rodney Taylor thrown and tensions rise as they come head- Editor: to-head on the isolated farmland. Meecham’s Travis Sittard yapping dog and the sound of crickets add to Music: Michael Penn the simmering tension, and the musical score Cast:

by Michael Penn accentuates every emotion. Hal Holbrook Raymond McKinnon That Evening Sun, the directorial debut by Scott Walton Goggins Teems, based on a short story by William Gay, Mia Wasikowska Carrie Preston “I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down,” is a Running Time: gem of Southern American cinema with strong 109 minutes performances by Oscar-nominee Hal Holbrook Presentation Format: 35mm (Into the Wild) and an acclaimed ensemble cast. Print Source: Amidst the gorgeous, rural Tennessee land- Tarwater Pictures, LLC scape, this moving film is a timeless meditation Film Website: thateveningsun.com on the themes of family betrayal, dignity and Selected Filmography: A Death in the Woods loss.

Awards: Sarasota Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award Best Narrative Feature) South by Southwest Film Festival 2009 (Audience Award)

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(2007) Le Chase (2006) Root (2004)

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Three Blind Mice

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Three young Australian sailors have a 24-hour Australia shore leave before shipping out to Iraq. Harry 2008 (played by director Matthew Newton) is up for Director: poker and prostitutes, Dean has to see his Matthew Newton Producer: fiancée, and Sam would just like to avoid trouble. Ben Davis The story appears to be a modern-day, more Screenwriter: realistic retelling of On the Town, the granddaddy Matthew Newton Cinematographer: of the sailors-on-leave-in-the-big-city genre, but Hugh Miller this is no musical romp. In the time it takes for the Editor: bright lights of the Sydney evening to meld into Gracie Otto Music: the dull morning sun, things take an ugly turn as John Foreman tensions erupt and booze-fueled attitudes arise. Cast: Leslie The narrative weaves along with the characters Ewen Toby Schmitz as they stumble through the streets of Sydney. Matthew Newton Tina Bursill At times brutal and gritty, Three Blind Mice also Running Time: contains comedic touches and moments of 94 minutes tenderness to balance the weight of intense and Presentation Format: 35mm uncomfortable situations. With its quick dialogue International Sales: and strong leading performances, Three Blind Odin’s Eye Entertainment Mice tells a story from many different perspec- Print Source: IFC Films tives and offers no answers or easy conclu- Film Website: ifcfilms.com sions—just a new day with changed people.

Awards: London Film Festival (Critics’ Award)

Selected Filmography: Right Here Right Now (2004)

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Treeless Mountain is a delicate, measured, and USA/South Korea visually rich story of two little girls, six-year-old Jin 2008 and four-year-old Bin, who are forced to navigate Director: life on their own. Their loving but weak mother So-yong Kim Producers: goes off to search for their father and thrusts the Lars Knudsen girls on their aunt. “Big Auntie” drinks too much Jay Van Hoy Ben Howe and sometimes forgets to care for the girls. Little Bradley Rust Gray sister Bin is unaware of their plight and flutters So-yong Kim around in her princess gown. Older sister Jin is Screenwriter: So-yong Kim not so oblivious. As her anxiety mounts and she Cinematographer: fully comprehends their situation, she discovers Anne Misawa the resources needed to survive. Together, the Editors: So-yong Kim sisters explore their aunt’s town, play with the Bradley Rust Gray neighbor’s child, who receives regular parental Music: Asobi Seksu attention, and spend time devising ways to add Cast: money to the piggybank left by their mother. Hee-yeon Kim Mi-hyang Kim When things can’t get worse for the sisters, Song-hee Kim fate hands them a gift—their sympathetic Soo-ah Lee grandmother who helps change everything for Running Time: 89 minutes the better. A Korean-American co-production, Presentation Format: Treeless Mountain is a simple but penetrating DigiBeta, in Korean, with English subtitles story charged with emotional complexity. It is a International Sales: testimony to the fragile dignity of children and Memento Films International a look at abandonment from the eyes of a sixPrint Source: year-old girl.

Oscilloscope Laboratories Awards: Pusan Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Award) Adelaide Film Festival 2009 (NATUZZI International Award) Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Ecumenical Jury Prize) Dubai International Film Festival 2009 (Muhr AsiaAfrica Award - Best Film)

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Film Website: soandbrad.com Selected Filmography: In Between Days (2006)

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Troubled Water

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Tulpan

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After serving his jail sentence for his part in a Norway/Sweden kidnapping gone wrong, Jan Thomas wants to 2008 put his troubled past behind him. He takes a Director: job as an organist at a small church under an Erik Poppe Producers: assumed name, and soon starts a rewarding, Finn Gjerdrum albeit somewhat awkward, relationship with the Stein B. Kvae church’s pastor, Anna. Any hopes of redemp- Screenwriter: Harald Rosenlow Eeg tion quickly dissolve when Agnes appears at Cinematographer: the church and recognizes Jan as the man who John Christina Rosenlund killed her son years ago. Troubled Water skillfully Editor: Einar Egeland unfolds a dual narrative, showing the aftermath Music: of the boy’s death from the perspectives of both Johan Soderquist the killer and the boy’s mother. Offering little in the Cast: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen way of easy conclusions, Troubled Water finds Trine Dyrholm Ellen Dorrit Petersen strength in its ability to empathize with a host Trond Espen Seim of characters struggling in the wake of disaster. Running Time: Stylish and substantial, this film is considered to 116 minutes Presentation Format: be acclaimed Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s 35mm, in Norwegian, with English subtitles best to date.

Awards: Hamptons Film Festival 2008 (Grand Jury Prize, Audience Award) Norwegian Film Critics’ Award 2009

International Sales: Norwegian Film Institute Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute Film Website: deusynlige.no Selected Filmography: Hawaii Oslo (2004) Bunch of Fives (1998)

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Fans of camels, weeping or otherwise, cannot fail to be moved by the priceless image of a bandaged-up camel in a motorcycle sidecar—just one of the arresting sights in Sergey Dvortsevoy’s much-lauded narrative feature debut, Tulpan. Young nomad Asa returns from his military service to join his sister, Samal, and her family in their yurt in the vast Kazakh steppe, his twin aims being to settle down as a herdsman and to get married. Neither endeavor gets off to an auspicious start. His brother-in-law has grave doubts about his ability to herd sheep, and his overtures to his beautiful neighbor, Tulpan, are rebuffed on account of his big ears, despite photographic evidence that they are smaller than those of England’s Prince Charles. His exuberant, tractor-driving buddy, Boni, tries to persuade him to split for the city, but Asa perseveres, earning his brother-in-law’s respect and pressing on with the courtship of Tulpan. As a director, Dvortsevoy certainly knows when to hang back, as with Samal’s three unruly infants and the huge supporting cast of livestock. But he also demonstrates a sure hand, combining a compelling fiction and sly humor with ethnographic observation to immensely charming effect.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival 2008 (Un Certain Regard Award)

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Warlords

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The Wedding Song

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Set during the Taiping Rebellion, Warlords opens Hong Kong/China with the massacre of General Pang Qing-yun’s 2008 (Jet Li, in his best role since Hero) battalion, Directors: leaving only Pang as the sole survivor. That Peter Chan Wai Man Yip night, after wandering the desert wounded Producers: and exhausted, Pang falls under the care (and Andre Morgan Peter Ho-sun Chan into the bed) of Lian, a kindly peasant woman Huang Jianxi who disappears by morning. He soon encoun- Screenwriters: ters Zhao Er-hu (Andy Lau) and Jiang Wu-yang Xu Lan Chun Tin-nam (Takeshi Kaneshiro), as the pair leads their Audrey Lam Jianxin bandit horde in a raid on Taiping forces. Pang Huang Jojo Hui saves Jiang’s life, but complications arise when He Jiping Junli the men return to the bandit’s village, and Pang Guo James Yuen discovers Lian is Zhao’s wife. Swearing a blood Cinematographer: oath to each other, the three friends conscript Arthur Wong Editor: their outlaw band into the Imperial army, leading Wenders Li to successful raids on Shu City and other rebel Music: outposts. With each victory, the warlords’ pres- Chan Kwong Wing Peter Kam tige and power increases, until the siege upon Chatchai Pongprapahan Suzhou turns into a stalemate. In his follow-up to Cast: Jet Li Perhaps Love (SIFF 2006), director Peter Chan Andy Lau and three of Asian cinema’s biggest stars collab- Takeshi Kaneshiro Xu Jinglei orate to create one of the most impassioned Running Time: Hong Kong epics to emerge in recent years, 126 minutes filled with panoramic battle sequences, courtly Presentation Format: 35mm, in Mandarin, with intrigue, and a tragic love-triangle.

English subtitles International Sales: Media Asia Distribution Print Source: Magnolia Pictures Film Website: warlordsthemovie.com Selected Filmography: Perhaps Love (2005) The Love Letter (1999) Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)

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Unfolding against the dramatic backdrop of the France/Tunisia Third Reich’s occupation of Tunis in 1942, the 2008 sensual and sexually frank The Wedding Song Director: centers around two teen friends and neighbors, Karin Albou Producers: Jewish Myriam and Muslim Nour, who have long Laurent Lavolé desired the other’s life. Although far more inter- Isabelle Pragier ested in love than war, the girls find historical Screenwriter: Karin Albou circumstances affecting each of their wedding Cinematographer: plans. The occupying Nazis demand “repara- Laurent Brunet tion payments” from the Tunisian Jews, which Editor: Camille Cotte Myriam’s impoverished seamstress mother Music: (played by director Karin Albou) cannot pay. François-Eudes Chanfrault Out of options, she promises Myriam’s hand to Cast: wealthy, older doctor Raoul. Meanwhile, Nour Lizzie Brocheré Olympe Borval is happily betrothed to her handsome cousin Najib Oudghiri Khaled, but her father postpones the wedding Simon Abkarian Karin Albou until Khaled gets a job. Unfortunately for the Running Time: girls’ relationship, the Islamist Khaled finds work 84 minutes with the Germans, helping to round up Tunisian Presentation Format: 35mm, in French and Jews. Like Albou’s prizewinning feature debut Arabic, with English Little Jerusalem, The Wedding Song highlights subtitles Sales: her preoccupation with feminine sexuality, as the International Pyramide International major and minor elements of Jewish and Arab Print Source: culture and religion clash. From the inside of Strand Releasing Selected Filmography: the women’s hammam to the preparation for an Little Jerusalem (2005) “Oriental-style” wedding, this gorgeously crafted film takes viewers places they’ve never been before.

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BRÚÐGUMINN

Welcome

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White Night Wedding

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A smoothly crafted, emotionally affecting drama France driven by powerful performances, Welcome 2008 focuses on illegal immigrants trying to reach Director: England from Calais, and the risk taken by the Philippe Lioret Producer: French people who help them. Bilal, age 17, left Christophe Rossignon his native Iraq shortly after his girlfriend emigrat- Screenwriters: ed to England, and he is now in the midst of Philippe Lioret Emmanuel Courcol an adventurous journey across Europe in order Olivier Adam to see her again. However, his trek comes to Cinematographer: Laurent Dailland an abrupt end on the northern coast of France Editor: when he reaches the busiest waterway in the Andrea Sedlácková world, the wintry English Channel. Could Bilal Music: Nicola Piovani join the number of bold swimmers who attempt Wojciech Kilar the frosty crossing? The boy decides to head for Armand Amar Cast: the local swimming pool to begin training. There Vincent Lindon he meets lifeguard Simon, to whom he eventu- Firat Ayverdi Audrey Dana ally confides his grand plan. Simon takes Bilal Derya Ayverdi under his wing and secretly teaches the young Thierry Godard Selim Akgül Kurdish refugee how to do the crawl despite Running Time: ongoing threats from the police who imprison 116 minutes Presentation Format: those who aid illegal immigrants.

Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2009 (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Label Europa Cinemas)

35mm, in French, with English subtitles International Sales: Films Distribution Print Source: Films Distribution Film Website: marsdistribution.com/film/ welcome Selected Filmography: Don’t Worry, I’m Fine (2006) The Light (2003) Mademoiselle (2000) Tenue correcte exigée (1997) Lost in Transit (1993)

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An irreverent, uprooting, and updated inter- Iceland pretation of Anton Chekhov’s play “Ivanov” 2008 (which director Baltasar Kormákur concurrently Director: produced for the stage as a period piece), White Baltasar Kormákur Producers: Night Wedding tells the story of Jon, a university Agnes Johansen literature lecturer who tries to figure out his life Baltasar Kormákur and himself during one bright summer night on Screenwriters: Baltasar Kormákur the island of Flatey, off the coast of west Iceland. Ólafur Egill Egilsson The plot unfolds on two parallel lines, both Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Bjorgúlfsson concerning Jon. Once married to a mentally ill Editor: artist, Anna, he’s about to become the uneasy Elisabet Ronaldsdóttir bridegroom of a former student, Thora, his junior Music: Sigurður Bjóla Garðarsson by at least 18 years. To complicate matters, Jón Ólafsson he owes the bride’s parents a small fortune for Cast: Hilmir Snær Guðnason renting a piece of land he never used, and his Margrét Vilhjálmsdóttir future mother-in-law threatens to call off the Laufey Elíasdóttir Ólafur Darri Ólafsson wedding if he doesn’t settle the debt. Throw in Jóhann Sigurðarson the bride’s father, who once dreamed of becom- Running Time: ing an opera star, a bald priest who is allergic to 96 minutes Presentation Format: himself, an insatiable overweight musician who DigiBeta, in Icelandic, with is the groom’s closest friend, and a self-styled English subtitles Sales: local entrepreneur full of loopy ideas, and you International Celluloid Dreams see why this bittersweet dramatic comedy set Print Source: IFC Films box office records in Iceland last year.

Awards: Official Academy Award® Submission 2008 (Best Foreign Language Film) Icelandic Film & TV Awards 2008 (Best Film, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Cinematography)

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Film Website: blueeyes.is/Films/WhiteNight-Wedding Selected Filmography: Jar City (2006) A Little Trip to Heaven (2005) The Sea (2002) 101 Reykjavík (2000)

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Wind Blows in the Meadow

Wild Field

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Forsaken people and strange goings-on Russia populate the barren Kazakh steppe in Mikhail 2008 Kalatozishvili’s acclaimed new film. Mitya, a Director: thoughtful and handsome young doctor, works Mikhail Kalatozishvili Producers: from a remote outpost amid beautiful desolation, Mikhail Kalatozishvili tending to the locals by improvising with rocks, Sergei Snezhkin Andrei Bondarenko herbs, and whatever else handily augments Screenwriters: his meager medical supplies. Through Mitya’s Pyotr Lutsik detached perspective, we come to know a Alexei Samoryadov Cinematographer: crude, hardscrabble community beset by Pyotr Dukhovskoy simmering feuds, hobbled dreams, and spiri- Music: tual despondence. Kalatozishvili—grandson of Alexi Aigi Cast: master filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov, the only Oleg Dolin Russian director to ever win at the Cannes Film Alexandr Ilyin Sr. Alexandr Ilyin Jr. Festival—succeeds in depicting a barely habit- Roman Madyanov able and brutally isolated world, pockmarked by Irina Butanayeva Running Time: absurdity and ameliorated only by companion- 104 minutes ship. For Mitya, the wilderness of the steppe Presentation Format: holds a lurking sense of existential dread that 35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles gradually emerges as a palpable force that he International Sales: must face. Brilliant cinematography captures Intercinema Source: the harsh beauty of the landscape, while a host Print Intercinema of outstanding performances build a complex Film Website: picture of the post-Soviet psyche. Wild Field is dikoepole.ru Selected Filmography: one of the most important and absorbing releas- I Dream of Hunchbacked es from contemporary Russian cinema and Tiflis (2001) Mysteries (2000) should not be missed.

The Beloved (1992) Awards: Russian Golden Eagle Awards 2009 (Best Film, Script, Music) Venice International Film Festival 2008 (Art Cinema Award) Cottbus International Film Festival 2008 (FIPRESCI Award, Ecumenical Prize, Special Jury Mention)

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Mechanic (1981)

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North American Premiere

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A simple, colorful, and lively story about Shooka, Iran a spirited, hardworking girl from an Iranian 2008 mountain village, and her arranged marriage. Director: Shokrollah, her neighbor with Down syndrome, Khosro Masoumi Producer: has been head-over-heels in love with Shooka Jozan Film Co. since they were children, and so Shokrollah’s Screenwriter: father buys his son’s way into a marriage deal Khosro Masoumi Cinematographer: with Shooka’s father. Enter Rafie the Tailor and Nader Masoumi his daydreaming assistant Jalil, who falls for Editor: Shooka after overhearing her pour her heart out Hassan Hassandoust Music: to her family. Determined to be with the bride- Nasser Shokraie to-be despite her impending wedding, Jalil Cast: Shaker Doust follows her over the mountain trails and invents Elnaz Hossein Abedini ingenious ways to delay the wedding. His fight Reza Naji Jamal Ejlali to re-arrange Shooka’s arranged marriage is Maedah Tahmasbi worthy of the Hatfields and the McCoys. And Running Time: since women don’t usually have a say in their 91 minutes Presentation Format: prospective marriage partners, Shooka intro- 35mm, in Farsi, with duces us to an unusual type of Iranian woman in English subtitles Sales: a mountain melodrama that is all heart, showing International Farabi Cinema Foundation that real love can amend a harsh life. Marking Print Source: the end of a trilogy (Tradition of Killing Lovers and Farabi Cinema Foundation Selected Filmography: Somewhere Too Far), Wind Blows in the Meadow Somewhere Too Far is Masoumi’s third film dealing with tragic desti- (2006) Tradition of Killing Lovers nies and environmental disasters in the forests of (2004) the northern province of Mazandaran in Iran.

Awards: Fajr Film Festival 2008 (Best Film)

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ANONYMA - EINE FRAU IN BERLIN

With a Little Help from Myself

A Woman in Berlin

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Director François Dupeyron (Monsieur Ibrahim) France keeps the suds and sentiment at bay in his deeply 2008 sympathetic, darkly comic passion play about a Director: harried working mother. Laundromat manager François Dupeyron Producers: and home care aid Sonia (Félicité Wouassi in Michele Petin a tour-de-force performance), an African immi- Laurent Petin grant living in the projects outside Paris, just Screenwriter: François Dupeyron wants to watch her daughter get married. But Cinematographer: the cops arrest her drug-dealing son Victor Yves Angelo (Ralph Amoussou) and her husband Georges Editor: Dominique Faysse (Mamadou Dioumé) informs her he’s gambled Cast: away their life savings. Just when things can’t get Félicité Wouassi Claude Rich much worse, the unthinkable happens. Instead Elisabeth Oppons of telling her family, Sonia decides to keep it a Running Time: 92 minutes secret, so everyone can enjoy her daughter’s Presentation Format: big day. Though challenges continue to come 35mm, in French, with her way in the weeks to come—including a heat English subtitles International Sales: wave, a handsome suitor, and some less-than- Kinology enlightened senior clients—the lonely pensioner Print Source: across the hall (Claude Rich) helps out with her Kinology Film Website: most pressing predicament, for a price. With arpselection.com expert assistance from the radiant Wouassi (La Selected Filmography: Inguélézi (2004) Haine), a vibrant hip-hop and afro-beat sound- Monsieur Ibrahim (2003) track, and inventive cinematography from Yves Officer’s Ward (2001) C’est quoi la vie? (1999) Angelo (Un coeur en hiver), who favors golden Strange Place for an hues and tilted angles, Dupeyron elicits laughter, Encounter (1988) tears, and suspense with consummate skill.

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An incendiary, anonymous diary describing Germany/Poland Russian soldiers raping and pillaging during the 2008 final days of World War II provided the source Director: for the handsome historical drama A Woman in Max Färberböck Producer: Berlin, the latest work from the director of Aimee Günter Rohrbach & Jaguar. A German journalist-photographer Screenwriter: known only as “Anonyma,” spends the fall of Max Färberböck Cinematographer: Berlin hiding in the basement of her partially Benedict Neuenfels damaged apartment with a diverse group of Editor: female neighbors. The women develop their own Ewa J. Lind Music: ways of coping with the cruel liberties taken forc- Zbigniew Preisner ibly by the liberators. After being raped repeat- Cast: Hoss edly by a number of coarse Russian soldiers, Nina Evgeny Sidikhin Anonyma begins complaining to officers and Irm Hermann Ruediger Vogler finally finds one, Andrei, who seems willing to Ulrike Krumbiegel not only listen but to help. Against all odds, the Running Time: two become close. When Anonyma’s soldier 127 minutes Presentation Format: boyfriend, Gerd, returns from the Eastern Front, 35mm, in German, with he’s aghast at what has happened and the deci- English subtitles International Sales: sions taken in the name of survival.

Beta Cinema Awards: Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2009 (Best International Feature)

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Print Source: Strand Releasing Film Website: anonyma.film.de Selected Filmography: September (2003) Jenseits (2001) Aimee & Jaguar (1999)

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When an ex-con meets a young transvestite Greece hooker, they soon discover they share more 2009 than a talent for rewiring lamps. After 15 years in Director: the pen, the trim and muscled Yiorgos settles in Panos H. Koutras Producer: Athens to look for his estranged son and winds Panos H. Koutras up in bed with Strella (whose getup looks like Screenwriters: a cross between Maria Callas and Cher). The Panos H. Koutras Panayiotis Evangelidis good-hearted Strella sings in a low-rent cabaret, Cinematographer: cares for a cancer-ridden queen, and generally Olympia Mitilinaiou looks out for waifs and strays. The plot involves a Editor: Yiannis Chalkiadakis surprising twist that may shock some. Riffing on Music: Greek mythology, writer-director Panos Koutras Mikael Delta improbably defies the taboos of the ancients Cast: Mina Orfanou (and the “curse of every tranny”) to create a Yiannis Kokkiasmenos Minos Theoharis happy alternative family. Along the way, this Betty Vakalidou independently made production combines dingy Running Time: realism, the divine Maria Callas, plenty of nudity, 113 minutes Presentation Format: gay sex, and campy dialogue.

35mm, in Greek, with English subtitles International Sales: Films Distribution Print Source: Films Distribution Selected Filmography: Real Life (2004)

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Wonderful World

Zift

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Joshua Goldin’s directorial debut stars Matthew USA Broderick as Ben Singer, a pot-smoking 2009 proofreader, failed children’s singer, lackluster Director: weekend dad, and card-carrying pessimist. His Joshua Goldin Producers: only pleasures in life are regular chess matches Miranda Bailey and friendly debates about game theory with Matthew Leutwyler Glenn Williamson his Senegalese roommate, Ibou (Michael K. Screenwriter: Williams). When Ibou suddenly falls ill and an Joshua Goldin unfeeling municipal employee exacerbates the Cinematographer: Daniel Shulman situation, Ben’s cynicism seems validated. He Editor: channels his frustrations into a lawsuit against Jeff Canavan the city for depraved indifference. But things Music: Craig Richey change when Ibou’s sister Khadi (Sanaa Lathan) Cast: comes to stay. What begins as an awkward Matthew Broderick Sanaa Lathan living arrangement soon turns into something Philip Baker Hall else entirely. Ben’s usual misanthropy gives Jodelle Ferland Ally Walker way as he realizes that sometimes cynicism Running Time: is a matter of self-indulgence and that inspira- 89 minutes tion can be found in the most unlikely places. Presentation Format: 35mm Goldin’s balance of levity and gravity give texture Print Source: and depth to this offbeat study of midlife melan- Ambush Entertainment Selected Filmography: choly and its cures.

Moth has been locked up in the Sofia Penitentiary Bulgaria for a murder he didn’t commit and is about to be 2008 released on parole. When he’s freed, he plans Director: to set out for the tropics, but before he goes, Javor Gardev Producers: he wants to visit the grave of his son who was Ilian Djevelekov born and died while Moth was in prison. But Matey Konstantinov Georgi Dimitrov everything changes at the prison gates: a former Screenwriter: associate, Slug (one of his partners in the crime Vladislav Todorov that sent Moth to prison), has some unfinished based on his novel Cinematographer: business to discuss. Their heist, a break-in at Emil Christov the home of Ada’s wealthy employer, seemed Editor: like it couldn’t go wrong. But when the employer Kevork Aslanyan Music: showed up unexpectedly, he got shot and the Kalin Nikolov diamond disappeared in the chaos. Moth took Cast: Zachary Baharov the rap to protect Ada and their baby-to-be, but Tanya Ilieva now Slug is back in search of the loot. Set in Vladimir Penev Mihail Mutafov 1960s totalitarian Bulgaria, with a stylized noir Djoko Rossich aesthetic and a witty script by Vladislav Todorov Running Time: 92 minutes (based on his own novel).

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Awards: Official Academy Award® Submission 2008 (Best Foreign Language Film)

Debut Feature Film

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The place where the public finds its voice.

Created as a venue for audiences to become more interactive with SIFF, the Forums are

where filmmakers are challenged to create, audiences are encouraged to speak out in lively discussion, young filmmakers and film enthusiasts get hands-on training.

The opportunity to dig deeper into the world of film with exceptional filmmakers and other artists who are passionate about the cinematic arts provides an avenue that will guide the medium into its future.

With something on the table for everyone, we look forward to seeing you at these special events and hope they offer insight and inspiration to those who make movies as well as the film fan inside us all.

Talking Pictures SIFF audiences know that their experience with a film doesn’t end when the screen fades to black. Talking Pictures offers an engaging, provocative, and entertaining post-screening forum for opinions, ideas, and understanding through lively debate. Join our Talking Pictures speakers—experts, cultural players, advocates, and critics—as they lead a stimulating discussion of some of the most thought-provoking and challenging films in the Festival.

SATURDAY MAY 23 11:00 AM

NEPTUNE THEATRE

MONDAY JUNE 8 7:00 PM

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The Yes Men Fix the World (USA, 2009)

The Red Race (China, 2008)

Directed by Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, and Kurt Engfehr See page 171.

Directed by Gan Chao See page 167.

MONDAY JUNE 1 7:00 PM

SATURDAY JUNE 13 11:00 AM

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A Sea Change (Norway/USA, 2008)

What’s on Your Plate? (USA, 2009)

Directed by Barbara Ettinger See page 168.

Directed by Catherine Gund See page 87.

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This year’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge takes SIFF audiences back to the basics. Three narrative filmmakers will make Serling, Chandler, and Cocteau proud as they expand and hone their expertise, working with classic B&W 16mm film. Adding an extra dimension to the Fly Film experience, this year’s documentarian will capture a stylish, behind-the-scenes perspective about the productions that is uniquely her own.

Don’t miss the results of this annual celebration of Seattle filmmaking.

CHALLENGE TIMELINE: 7 DAYS TO PREP • 7 ROLLS OF FILM • 4 DAYS TO SHOOT • 5 DAYS TO EDIT • 2 DAYS TO POST

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Arthur

Black Coffee

Fearing that his mother’s accomplices plan to double-cross her following a recent heist, young Arthur Matthews must ensure her safety by any means necessary.

Someone has found out about David’s affair and is blackmailing him.

David plans to make the payment to spare his political career, but he’s about to find out he’s been double-crossed.

Laura Jean Cronin, director

Tran Quoc Bao, director

Laura Jean Cronin is an award-winning filmmaker, accomplished artist, and educator.

Cronin recently wrapped her sixth short film, One Night, while her previous short, Free Parking, played at SIFF 2006. Cronin has served on the Board of Directors for Women in Film Seattle in the capacity of Membership Chair since 2006.

Tran Quoc Bao started making movies in Hi8 at an early age and developed his visual sense from kung fu movies, silent films, musicals, and Hitchcock. His most recent film, Bookie (SIFF 2008) has been both nominated and awarded Best Short at several film festivals. He is currently developing featurelength projects, including an action fantasy to be shot in Asia.

Joshua Bourland, writer Born in San Jose, California, to film enthusiast parents, Josh has been writing for as long as he can remember. His entry into the Great American Screenplay Competition during SIFF 2008 and scholarship with TheFilmSchool has created new opportunities in the world of writing to which Josh is extremely grateful.

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Timothy Watkins and Charles Forsgren, writers Seattle filmmakers Timothy Watkins and Charlie Forsgren partnered on the feature Keep Your Day Job, Superstar, with Charlie as producer and Tim as writer-director. Tim also wrote DisHonesty, which was a 2008 IFP Spotlight Award finalist. Black Coffee is their first writing collaboration, but both have feature and short scriptwriting experience.

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Safe Passage

Anatomy of a Fly

Two arguing friends catch a late-night ride on the Seattle monorail, but the ride isn’t quite what they expected, nor is the destination.

Musca Domestica, the common housefly. Who would have thought such a pesky creature could possess the promise of filmmaking glory? The documentary film cast and crew create a behind-thescenes sneak peek of SIFF’s 2009 Fly Filmmaking Challenge.

Shawn Telford, director

Shannon Hart-Reed, director

Shawn has written and produced his own solo work for audiences in Seattle and New York while also appearing in the Seattle Fringe Festival and as a member of the Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Shawn’s film directing credits include A Night in the Sunlight and Gimme Music, Gimme Shelter.

After a background in feature film art departments, Shannon made the move to Seattle three years ago. She has turned her attention to creating stylized documentaries on a variety of short and feature length subject matter, including Ladies Who Lunch and My My Hey Hey: A Let’s Talk-U-Mentary (SIFF 2008).

Michael Raymond, writer Michael Raymond is a Nicholl Fellowship Finalist screenwriter who has pursued his screenwriting career around the world.

Michael has a diverse body of screenwriting work that has earned him considerable recognition. When not screenwriting, Michael writes for the Seattle-based Disney Interactive Media Group.

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t s t i e m w h m t r u o S N n o i t c u d P ro WashingtonFilmWorks and the Mayor’s Office of Film + Music, in partnership with the Seattle International Film Festival, are pleased to present the second annual Northwest Production Summit.

Seattle has always been a place for moviegoers, but WashingtonFilmWorks and the Mayor’s Office of Film + Music strive to make it a home for moviemakers.

Dedicated to building our local infrastructure to ensure a long-term, sustainable industry, the Northwest Production Summit gives us the opportunity to position Washington State as an industry destination where creativity flourishes and valuable business is conducted.

The centerpiece of the summit is an intimate, invitationonly, three-day symposium designed to introduce highprofile industry leaders to our creative communities.

This exclusive gathering will include work sessions designed to explore the intersection of film, music, and technology as well as profile the depth of our production resources. In partnership with IFP/Seattle, there will be a mentorship program in which two local filmmakers, selected through a competitive process, will be included in symposium events as well as have one-on-one time with our guests.

The local filmmaking community will also be able to witness our industry guests in action when they participate in two panels about the business of film, which will be open to the public.

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Pitch Slam FRIDAY JUNE 12 3:30PM NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Join IFP/Seattle and the Northwest Screenwriters Guild for an exciting live competition where filmmakers pitch their projects to visiting film industry professionals. The event is a culmination of prior workshops and competitions. This final live round gives the finalists and the audience an insider’s look at the world of the fabled pitch meeting.

Trials and Tribulations: The Reality of Independent Production FRIDAY JUNE 12 5:00PM NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Tri• al [trahy-uhl, trahyl] The act of trying or testing.

Trib • u• la• tion [trib-yuh-ley-shuhn] A state of pain or anguish that tests patience, endurance, or belief.

Listen as producers, directors, and film financiers discuss real-life drama they’ve witnessed on set. Learn what to do and what not to do when faced with the trials and tribulations of independent production.

Moderated by Warren Etheredge.

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g n i r o l p x y E r o t s i H Film NASTY CINEMA

The not-so-classy side of Classic Hollywood TUESDAY MAY 26 7:00 PM SIFF CINEMA

Films have both entertained and upset audiences for decades. When enough people were insulted, censorship reared its head. Nasty Cinema features a number of nasty films that span five decades of racist and prejudicial portrayals of minority groups, religious groups, and the women’s rights movement. We will screen brief excerpts from the nasty film, accompanied by a brief history, describing what the producer meant to accomplish and what group or groups demanded the film be withdrawn. The films go back as far as the late 1890s and continue through 1933, when the motion picture industry tried to reign in the call for censorship by self-censoring films. Warning! Nasty Cinema is guaranteed to insult your sensibilities at least once.

ANIMATED ENEMIES

Propaganda with a chuckle TUESDAY JUNE 2 7:00 PM SIFF CINEMA

The U.S. government learned how powerful motion pictures can be as a tool for persuasion as far back as the Spanish American War. Over the past century, films were enlisted to help sway audiences, especially during wartime.

This is all chronicled in Animated Enemies, which focuses on a select group of cartoons that were created to de-humanize Japanese, Italians, Germans, and other enemies while never losing the wild antics American cartoons are famous for. This presentation features a wide range of famous and infamous animated moments that were guaranteed to make one laugh while beating up, blowing up, and blasting away our various combatants.

ABOUT JAMES FORSHER

Dr. Forsher is an Associate Professor of Communication at Seattle University.

Dr. Forsher’s career includes the production of more than 100 nationallyaired documentaries focusing on film history, including the 26-part Hollywood Chronicles for the Discovery Channel, Hollywood Censorship Wars for the A&E Time Machine series, and feature length specials Hollywood Uncensored and Hollywood Ghost Stories that both aired on Cinemax. He is also a collector of all types of motion pictures and over the past 30 years has amassed approximately 3,000 titles.

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Digital Media Lab MAY 30 AND 31, ALKI ROOM AT SEATTLE CENTER Welcome to the new and improved Digital Media Lab. It is a place for filmmaking enthusiasts, both young and old, to come together for courses ranging from screenwriting to digital workflow, taught by industry professionals from around the country. IrisInk and The Seattle Mac Store are stocking the Alki Room (and future SIFF Film Center) with computer workstations. Twelve unique classes will grace our new weekend time, giving everyone the opportunity to learn. Come for one or stay for them all. The classes are free but ticketed reservations are available through the SIFF Box Office. Computer seating is limited but extra seating will be available.

Course offerings run the gamut from beginning to intermediate use of computer applications but all are encouraged to come and be a part of these exciting classes.

Plot: More Than Just Beginning, Middle, & End

Editing 101: More Than Just Learning How To Cut

SATURDAY MAY 30 10:00AM (50 minutes) Discover how plot really works. Explore three and four act structures and show what goes on in the “second act.” Examine “static” plot points such as story goal, consequence, costs, dividends, and forewarnings.

Instructor: Chris Huntley, co-creator of Write Brothers, Inc. and Movie Magic series software productions. He co-developed the Dramatica theory of story over a 14-year period.

SATURDAY MAY 30 1:00PM (110 minutes) It has been said that a film is made three times: when it’s written, when it’s filmed, and when it’s edited. In fact, Quentin Tarantino calls the editing process the “final rewrite.” In this session, we survey the historical development, artistry, and techniques of editing while getting our hands dirty with Final Cut Pro, the new leader in non-linear editing technology.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt, filmmaker and Creative Director of First Sight Productions.

Heroes, Villains, and Dramatica Archetypes

From DJ to VJ: Exploring The Art Of Mixing Visuals To Music

SATURDAY MAY 30 11:00AM (50 minutes) Stories are populated with heroes, villains, sidekicks, and more. Find out what makes them tick and how to use them in your stories. Explore the basics and go beyond the simple character archetypes to create far more interesting, complex characters.

Instructor: Chris Huntley

TheFilmSchool Presents Exploring FrameForge 3D SATURDAY MAY 30 NOON (50 minutes) See FrameForge Pre-viz Studio 3, the program that’s redefining storyboarding and previsualization. Hailed by filmmakers of all kinds, including Dean Devlin (Independence Day), this demo will show how every filmmaker can benefit from easy and affordable optically accurate previsualization.

Instructor: Ken Schafer, lead developer and creator of FrameForge 3D

SATURDAY MAY 30 3:00PM (50 minutes) VJs are multimedia performance artists who compose and present their video work live and in real-time. Their visual imagery comprises aspects of filmmaking, video art, graphic design, and visual music. In this workshop, Punch Drunk VJ Peter Rand takes attendees on a quick tour of VJing with a hands-on tutorial of Modul8, a powerful VJ mixing application.

Instructor: Peter Rand

The Art of Getting the Shot SATURDAY MAY 30 4:00PM (90 minutes) Join our panel of outstanding cinematographers and colorists for a candid discussion that explores how to achieve the look you want for your film.

Moderator: Lorette Bayle, Filmmaker and Kodak Representative Panelists to include: Peter Green, Benjamin Kasulke, Tim Maffia , Paul Mailman

Introduction to Final Cut Pro SUNDAY MAY 31 10:00AM (50 minutes) Final Cut Pro created a paradigm shift in the worlds of video and film post-production. This session provides an overview of video formats and standards, a primer of post-production basics, and a walk-through of Final Cut Pro, from importing and editing to transitions, audio mixing, and titling. No video experience is necessary.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro SUNDAY MAY 31 11:00AM (50 minutes) This session focuses on topics such as color keying, color correction, and audio finishing.

Learn how to utilize Photoshop files in your video projects as well as export for DVD and web distribution.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

Introduction to Final Cut Studio SUNDAY MAY 31 NOON (50 minutes) Final Cut Studio is a post-production factory in a box. Edit your films with Final Cut Pro, create professional DVDs in DVD Studio Pro, compose music and fix audio problems with Soundtrack Pro, color-correct your project with Color, utilize the enterprise-level encoding technology in Compressor, and create 2D and 3D effects in Motion. In this session, you’ll get a taste for how these programs work together and how you can maximize your skill-set.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

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DVD Authoring with DVD Studio Pro SUNDAY MAY 31 1:00PM (50 minutes) DVD Studio Pro integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro for a complete DVD delivery workflow. This session introduces the foundations of DVD technology like disc structure and MPEG encoding, then shows you how to create content with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop. Finally, we delve into DVD Studio Pro to learn about compression, menu design, interactive programming, Dolby Digital audio tracks, and DVD-ROM material.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

Encoding SUNDAY MAY 31 2:00PM (50 minutes) With hundreds (if not thousands) of combinations of codecs (“compressor/decompressor”), finding the best option for your film can be painful. In this lecture, we cover the different encoding methods for web and DVD. Learn how to make your film look its best. If you need to export your films digitally, this session is for you.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

Make Workflow: What Every Filmmaker Needs To Know SUNDAY MAY 31 3:00PM (90 minutes) A valuable technical discussion covering the specifics of using Digital Intermediate Workflow within your production and postproduction to give you the best final product while saving you time and money.

Instructor: Lorette Bayle, filmmaker and Kodak Representative

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SUPPORTING SPONSORS

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS

BUSINESS SPONSORS

HOSPITALITY PARTNERS 94 Stewart ABC Special Event Rentals Bambuza Billy O Wines Café Juanita The Capital Grille Chez Shea Choice Organic Teas Crush Dunham Cellars Ezell’s Famous Chicken

Gordon Biersch The Great Northwest Soup Company Greenroom Decor Hollywood Lighting Icelandic Glacial Water La Medusa Les Boulangers Associes McCormick & Schmick’s Mission Piecora’s NY Pizza Ponti Seafood Grill

Pravda Studios Qdoba Rosebud Restaurant and Bar Rover’s Restaurant Salumi Serafina Oesteria and Enoteca Sonrisa Modern Mex Suess Chocolates Taberna del Alabardero Urbane

BUSINESS SPONSORS FrameForge 3D Studio Partners/ Innoventive Software, LLC

Golden Globe Transport Michael Wiese Productions

Shred-It of Western WA

F LY F I L M P A R T N E R S Modern Digital Alpha Cine Bad Animals Bexel NW Complete Casting IrisInk

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The MAC Store Northwest Locations Professionals Oppenheimer Cine Rental, LLC Pacific Grip & Lighting Pagliacci Pizza Rocket Pictures

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STAFF

2 0 0 9 a l S t a ff v i t s Fe Artistic Director Carl Spence

Managing Director Deborah Person

Festival Founders Darryl Macdonald Dan Ireland

PROGRAMMING

Programming Manager Beth Barrett

Feature Programmers Maryna Ajaja Justine Barda Beth Barrett Josselyn Bossennec Clare Canzoneri Dan Doody Ruth Hayler Julie LaPorte Helen Loveridge Dustin Kaspar Anita Monga Dale Nash Adam Sekuler Stan Shields Carl Spence Andy Spletzer

Programming Advisors Caroline Libresco Darryl Macdonald

Short Film Programmers Beth Barrett Clare Canzoneri Dan Doody Erica Erfman Dustin Kaspar Julie LaPorte Anita Monga Stan Shields

Programming Interns Josselyn Bossennec Clare Canzoneri Julie LaPorte

EDUCATION AND FORUMS

Educational Programs Coordinator Dustin Kaspar

Education Intern Katherine Brown

Curriculum Interns

Semih Tareen Brad Wilke

Youth Advisory Panel

Dana Baumgartner Montana Dunnell Nick Farmasonis Justin Flores Sean Hendricks Camille Kolodziejski Sami Kubo Curtis Lock Esther Magasis Sarah Maloney Sonny Nguyen Myka Petines Kevin Tain Justin Taylor Meisean Teurn Domonique Wilson Center School Film Students

Education Grants

Carey Christie

Virginia Bogert

FutureWave Selection Committee Sean Axmaker

Director of Development Nancy Kennedy

Corporate Sponsorship Manager Sue Guthrie

Individual Giving Officer Renee C. O’Donnell

Events Manager Virginia McFadin

Events Coordinator Cyrielle Willa

Guest Relations Manager Rhonda Sable

Fly Films Producer

DEVELOPMENT AND INDIVIDUAL GIVING

GUEST RELATIONS

Jenny Platz Kyle Reardon

Lucas Draper

Shanika Davis Wendy Durant Danielle Henderson Matthew Merry Nathania tenWolde Sara Wiseman

Events Assistant Katie Parker

Guest Relations Coordinator Travel Coordinator Cathy Johnson

Guest Suite Coordinator Davie-Blue Bacich

Guest Relations Interns Kelly Clifford

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Development Coordinator Christine Exline

Platinum Plus Concierge Serena Evers

Development Interns Jessica Baxter Aurora Gilbert Lena Saba Phoebe Hopkins

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MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS

Director of Marketing and Communications Jessica Toon

Communications Manager Ted Fry

Senior Publicist Britt Curtis

Publicist

Cal Ledbetter

National Publicity Liasons Andrea Courtney Rebecca Fisher

Press Screenings Coordinator Melanie Christian

Publicity Interns

Charlie Ainslie Erika Monroe Benjamin Thomas-Kennedy

Marketing Coordinator Aubrey Scheffel

Marketing and Outreach Assistants Brittany D. Friesner Naomi Salinas-Burton

Marketing and Communications Assistant Kara Baskett

Marketing and Promotions Interns Heather Brown Nate Lessler

Publications Design Manager Steve Meyer

Publications Editor Lisa Terry McKeown

Publications Assistant Editor Randy Woods

Publications Coordinator Cassidy Dimon

Publications Interns Patrick Dominguez Chelsea Phipps Renee Shurtz Lachlan Yeoman

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SIFFtv

Sunbreak Studios Smith Harrison, The Vox Office

Photographers

Matt Daniels Dan Hawkins Hank Roberto Ethan Sobotta Les Sterling Mark Tomas Kimberley Ward Mark Zimmerman

Videographers

Lainy Bagwell Spencer Crossland Lisa Epstein Les Sterling GALA EVENTS

Facility, Inc. Event Design Management Kate Harrison

Richard Isaac

Maryna Ajaja Ron Anders Roberto Azula

Festival Media Producer

Producer

Editorial Staff

Writers

Justine Barda Beth Barrett Rhoda Belleza Nik Blahunka Clare Canzoneri Cassidy Dimon Dan Doody Patrick Dominguez Kathy Fennessy Lindsey Johnson Dustin Kaspar Laila Kazmi Helen Loveridge Lisa Terry McKeown Anita Monga Chelsea Phipps Adam Sekular Stan Shields Rachel Shimp Renee Shurtz Carl Spence Andy Spletzer Randy Woods Lachlan Yeoman

OPERATIONS

Director of Operations Holden Payne

Festival Operations Coordinator Katherine Jardine

Information Systems Manager Kristine Towne

SIFF Cinema Manager Randy Allmon

Financial Administrator Catherine Muth

Bookkeeping Assistant Roy Seliber

Production Manager Amy Poisson

Production Assistant/ Operations Driver Greg Palmer

Film Transportation Coordinator Langford Griffing

Print Traffic Coordinator Charlotte Franklin

Print Traffic Assistant Coordinator Lainy Bagwell

Print Traffic Drivers Sandi Phinney Laurie Dawson Tim Lightell

Theater Operations Coordinator Dana Feder

Volunteer and HR Coordinator Monica Hinckley

Assistant Volunteer Coordinator Rebecca Sikes

Front Office Volunteers Melissa Westbrook Jennifer Conn Lisa Knight Amanda Erven Kim Bridwell Kathy Saelee Suzanne Tedesko Sabina Tomkins Anna Tonkonogui Zaira Arredondo Mysie Cairns

Venue Managers

Cody Fenton-Robertson Frances Hall Alex Hudson Joel Kvernmo Wathana Lim Joseph Steininger Lily Singer

Ginger Daub Brian Formo Laura Godshall Heather Hughes Sara Kopczynski Helene Lustane Kim Madalinski Tabitha McKinney Latesha Miller Helen Palumbarit

Box Office Manager Holly House

Box Office Coordinating Manager Joseph Cole

Box Office Staff

Zaira Arredondo Erin Axt Jennifer Conn Caitlin Dundon Katrina Goeke Wynne Greenwood Aaron Gunderson Chris Hernandez Amanda Hubbard Bradley Hutchinson Aiden Karamanyan Nichelle Mize Robert Novotny Mimi Noyes Aaron Park Anthony Radovich Dawn Roscoe Michael Zeigler ADVERTISING AGENCY

WongDoody PUBLISHING SERVICES

Encore Media Group Paul Heppner Ana Alvira Kristi Atwood Deborah Choat Victoria Culver Robin Kessler Susan Peterson Jonathan Shipley

Encore Media Group Advertising Sales Gillian Grant-Martin Sherry Jarvey Rose Monahan Brenda Senderoff Lenore Waldron Denise Wong

House Coordinators Taylor Blanchard Rick Bodlaendar Howard Carson

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VOLUNTEERS

THANK YOU TO OUR MANY VOLUNTEERS – WE COULDN’T DO IT WITHOUT YOU! Roldy Ablao II Jeffrey Abplanalp Shirley Abreu Thomas Scott Adams Joyce Agee Marie Agnese Ben Ahrens Marc Ahrens Andy Akada Lisa Alishio Hillary Allen Martin Allen Hilda Allum Ashley Almon Rachel Alquist Yariv Amiad Carli Anderson David Anderson Holly Anderson Regina Anderson Rik Anderson Elle Anneman Tosin Arasi Tessa Archer Steve Arenesen Keith Auer Emily Ausema Michelle Avery Ashley Bach Ruth Bagge Mary Baker Trina Ballard Tyler Banks Mary Barkley Laila Barr Camille Barrera Scot Bastian Nicole Beaudoin Kristen Beccia Rhoda Belleza Halimah Bellows-Rochfort Carina Beneventi Leslie Berry Victoria Beschenbossel Julie Beschta Jean Betzina Lisa Beutler Ajay Bhat Sarah Bickford Brennen Birch Andrew Birchall Seth Birnbaum Sabine Bischofberger Kristina Blackman Larry Blades Bill Blanchard Taylor Blanchard Hillary Blecker Cathy Bleecker Stephanie Blum Rick Bodlaender Annette Boe

Katherine Boehm Sarah Bond Maxwell Bourasaw Shrie Bradford Matthew Brady Kim Bridwell Jill Briggs Jasen Britcher Anna Brokhaug Brian Brown Jon Brown Cyrielle Buffard Amy Burgess Michael Burlin Alexandra Bush Jeff Butler Brian Byrd Brian Bystrom Mysie Cairns Tatiana Campbell Charles Cange Lilli Cantwell Richard Carey Dawn Carl Howard Carson Antoin Carter Shannon Carter Martin Catudio Samad Chakour Amanda Chan Amanda Chase Isabelle Che Parm Cheema Anatoliy Chermoshmyuk Tien Cheung Jim Chin Kiran Chitluri Max Cho Kim Chrapliwy Carey Christie Andy Clausen Topher Click Linda Clifton Garrett Cline Laurie Cogan Rebecca Cohen Joseph Cole Claire Collins Jennifer Conn Daron Cook David Cook K. Louise Cook Mod Cook Pat Cooke Tim Coons Sharon Cooper Elise Cope Sasha Cornellier Kevin Cox Dawn Cozzolino Martha Craig Shelby Cramer

Dan Crawford Erika Custer Sarah Dabagh Kirsten Dahlberg Shane Daley Al Damon Matt Daniels Elora Das Mark Davidek Hilary Davidson Sally Davidson Lorna Davis Tucker Dawes Laurie Dawson Laurie Dawson Jonathan Dean Heidi DeAndrade Tiffany Defarbus Yann Defarbus john Dickson Rose Dienhart Cheryl Dillis Michael Dobbie Tracy Doherty Dan Doody Amy Draves Janine Drebin Ksenia Du Van Heidi Dugan Pam (Eddy) Dughi Rebecca Dugopolski Wendy Durant Anna Duriez Joanne Dyer Lindsay Dygert Tony Eans Denise Edwards Jenny Eish Tracy Elledge Danielle Elliott Ian Elliott Rebekah Ellis Lon Elmer Del Engen Caroline Ernst Anita Ertel Amanda Erven Marcus Eshtiaghy Penny Espinoza Mindi Estus Susan Evani Marilyn Evans Veronica Fadok Heather Fallon Kevin Fansler Pam Farrel Matilda Fease Carey Fegel Amaryllis Ferchl Johanns Fernandez Annaliese Fidgeon India Fitting

Jarrad Fjelstad Mary Fjelstad Anna Fleagle Alex Flenniken Elise Fogel Jan Foucault Anna Franklin Jonathan Freedman Alene Freidenrich Jay French Heather Fuentes Bob Fukano Zoe Furlong Barbara Gagnat Catiya Gainor Monica Gallagher John Gallup Clara Ganey Jessica Gartner Melora Garza Julie Gauntt Antonio Gebran Jeff Gerson Aurora Gilbert Laurie Gogic Sandi Gold Alleson Goldfinger Laure Gonnet Cory Gooch Diane Gordon Beth Goza Susie Graeb Sagesse Graham Mayuli Grajales Alan Grenon Cathy Greutert Asha Gunabalan Sandy Gutting Danielle Guyer Manal Hamad Beth Hamby Cathie Hamilton Chris Hammersley Brian Hammond Stephanie Hampshire Sangeun Han Paige Hardman Cheryl Harlick Sarah Haskell Kate Haskins Dan Hawkins Keisha Heard Bryan Hendrickson Karene Hill Catherine Hinchliff Miriam Hinden Carolyn Hitter Jim Hitter Wendy Holmes Roberta Hom Dylan Hooper Dave Hovenden

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April 1, 2008–April 1, 2009

Colin Howells Carissa Howrey Chien-Chung Huang Alex Hudson Heather Hughes Natalie Hughes Elizabeth Hulphers Hannah Hultine Kathie Hummel-Berry Nycole Hyatt Yuka Iida David Ikeda Robert Iwanik Kazuya Iwasa Judith Jagsich Kara Jakobs Natasha Jaksich Yesun Jang Johnny Jeans Sanghoon Jeon Eun Young Jeong Amy Jessberger Harry Jester Angie Johnson Heather Johnson Holly Johnson Sarah Johnson Todd Johnson Dennis Jones Dorothy Jones Lisa Jones Marissa Jones Jieun Jung Rachel Kang Aiden Karamanyan Laura Belle Kearns Jonathan Kellenberg Oona Kelly Harriet Kemp Denise Kester Noe Khalfa Dexter Kim Inmi Kim Jenny Kim Mari Kim Vanessa Kirk Jeanne Kliewer David Knight Carolyn Knopf Sara Kopczynski David Krafchick Paul Kragt Marian Krewson Tobias Kuhn Alexa Kunitsugu Brenda Ladin Felice Lam Lindsay Lamfers Anna Landa Dana Landry Rachel Lanera Tony Lanera

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VOLUNTEERS SharonLee Langsford Collette Lastant Marcia Lawrence Alva Lee David Lee Eunhye Lee Genise Lee Hwijin Lee Laurice Lee Mike Lee Mike Lee Robert Lee Shalom Lee Danielle Legault Therese Leggiere Carrie Lehenbauer Sadiq Lew Agnes Li Ellen Liang Andy Lin Pam Lindberg Selina Lo Jeffrey Lommel Debbie Louie Tara Loyko Jenny Luke Kelly Lyles Erin Macdonald Annie Mackay Cynthia Mackle Amanda Mae Jaden Maher Jason Malone Hidee Mangahas Michelle Mansfield Teresa Marks Katie Martel Scott Mathews Angad Mathur Ruth Matson Michelle Mauro Eileen Mccann Ruth McCormick Kittrina Mccourt Caitlyn Mcgehee Columba Mcglynn Ryan Mcgowan Carla McLean Annmarie Mcmahon Bill McQuaid Ann McRill Rita Meher Rachel Menth Gennifer Merrihew Krista Meyer Lindsey Meyer Alicia Milar Brandon Millard Alexis Ross Miller Liz Miller Ray Misra Aisha Mitchell Todd Mitchell Mong Kon Mo Elizabeth Moffitt

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Bill Mohn Val Mohney Jessica Mollick Michelle Moore Douglas Mora Jennifer Moser Valerie Heide Mudra Sami Muilenburg Elena Mullin Bill Murray Mallory Musser Masato Nakamura Yukiyasu Nakashima John Ned Claire Nelson Monica Nelson Rene Neri Zachary Nesgoda Lida Nesterenko Robert Newell Shannon Newsum Meera Nilekani Luther Norman Theresa Nuqui Cynthia Nuzzi Carrie O’brien Patricia O’Brien Emily O’Neil Hannah O’rear Rosie O’Shea Somarge Obien Judith Ochs Yvonne Ogden-Eldress Tina Oh Victor Oleinikov Ilsa Olsen Eric Olson Sandi Olson Chisato Osanai Merri Ann Osborne Janusz Ostrycharz Hannah Overman Kari Oversvee Eric Owen Patricia Owen Pinar Ozhal Fedra Pacheco Marcia Paddock Phil Palios Helen Palumbarit Hui-Ling Pan John Pang Helen Park Robin Park Soyoung Park Kate Parker David Pastro Ruta Patil Greg Pearce Greyson Peck Esta Pekow Urania Perez Tarah Perini Amelia Pernell Misha Perry

Betta Peterson Jennifer Petitt Dalisha Phillips Thomas Phillips Beno Picciano Temma Pistrang Riche Poland Josephine Pompey Carmel Pope Natasa Popovic Castillo Matthew Porosky Matthew Porosky Colin Powers Justin Price Rebecca Price John Prucich Taite Pryor Ileana Ramirez Jessica Ramirez Michael Rasbury Maureen Rase Krishanu Ray Charity Reed Renny (Irene) Reep Miriam Reiss Sara Reiss Elena Reitman James Reynolds Kyunghwa Rha Don Richardson Bobby Righi Leah Rindner Alexander Rios Carol Roberge Kathy Robertson Marilyn Robinson Galia Rodriguez Hornedo Vicki Roe Andrea Rohr Jorge Romero Dawn Roscoe Mavis Rosell Amber Rowland Tomilyn Rupert Bonnie Russell Deborah Rustin Dick Ryno Leslie Saber Tomas Sadilek Jimmy Samael Mojdeh Sami Adam Sanders Noah Sanders Cazandra Santos Amara Sar Brendan Schlagel Andrea Schuler Deborah Schumacher Shayna Schuster Fred Schwab Hallie Scott Nicole Scott Victoria Scroggins Phil Scroggs Melanie Seaton

Mara Sedlins Wayne Severson Pat Shaffer Mehal Shah Matt Shannon Benjamin Sharp Andrew Sher Brahn Shinkle Yeeun Sim Jessica Sinegal Max Skelton Katie Skibinski Alan Smith Kay Smith Anne Snook Summer Sokoloski Sunmi Song Andy Sontag Eric Sorlien Becc Spath Joseph Steininger Les Sterling Sherry Sternhagen Karly Stevens Nicholas Stevens Daniel Stiefel Hanna Stiens Gretta Stimson Kim Stockbridge Meagan Stokes Kristin Stolowski Ginny Struchen Byron Stuart Christine Stuart Catherine Sullivan Amanda Sumner Cindy Sutton Irene Svete Leah Swearinger Terri Swier Kymberlee Taylor Sabrina Taylor Susan Taylor Diane Tchakirides Elizabeth Teeple Abish Thomas Bonnie Thomas Mike Thompson Bill Thorness Susie Thorness Mary Thurtle Rani Thykkuttathil Caitlin Tierney Matthew Titelbaum Kenneth Tom Mark Tomas Debora Totton Jo Jo Tran Andy Tribolini Amy Troutman Kanako Tsuchiya Mari Tsukamoto Daniela Tudor Michael Tune Nicole Umayam

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Leigh Valentine Beth Varner Christina Vasilev Susan Vaughn Carol Veatch Gerry Vitello Jeffrey Waddingham Andrew Wang Chunping Wang Jay Wardle Lisa Wardle Traci Wasden Risako Watanabe Lauren Waude Michel Weaver Randy Webb Mark Weber Ryan Wellman Connie Wellnitz Elana Wendel Jill Weseman Melissa Westbrook Bruce Weyer Kiyoko Weyer Will Whaley Leah Wheeler Carrie Williams La-Tonia Willis Avalon Willows Bree Wilson Mandy Wilson Vera Etta Wind Yeab Wondimu Jimmy Wong Victor Wong Ann Woodmansee Randy Woods Michele Worthy Wei Xu Margie Ye Cynthia Yee Angela Yeung Vicky Yin-Randall Polly Yorioka Miranda York Angela Young Elisa Young Kwok Hang Lillian Young Patrick Young Lulu Yu Fumiko Yuyama Bexave Zamora Javier Zamora Chester Zeller David Zimmermann Mark Zimmermann

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LIFETIME SUPPORTERS

ANNUAL SUPPORT

PLATINUM LIFETIME ($25,000)

LIFETIME ($5,000)

PREMIERE ($10,000)

Anonymous 3 William Affleck-Asch Nicole Beaudoin Lisa Brummel & Celeste Keaton Cartmell Holdings, LLC Christopher Conrad Erika Cowan Kenneth Dale Anita & Jack Dingrani Dwight Gaut Elva Gonzalez Bruce Hawley Bryan Hendrickson Paula & Mike Hlastala Doug Ing Brian LaMacchia xo larimer Darlene Lewis Michael Lockman Jon Luker III Kim McIver & John Davis Brian & Bridget O’Neill Deborah & Jeff Parsons Deborah Person Mina Person Mary Rainwater Steve Schonberger Nancy Shriver Michael Steiner MD Heidi Stephens Lea Sund Liza & Mark Taylor Dennis & Peggy Willingham

Anonymous 3 Russell Bennett Mrs Robert R Braun, Jr BeBe Burns Virginia Callison Dolan Paul Canniff Ricardo Ceja Deb Clark John W. Comerford Alice Cunningham Mark & Andrea Frabotta Carrie Gorringe Steve Kelley Diana Knauf June Krumpotick Jerry Luiten Stephen McCandless Stephen Mellander & Daniel Herda Judith Mercer Mary Metastasio Elizabeth Mitchell Walter Moore David Nyberg Tom O’Brien & Marion Cloutier June Peters Kevin Phaup Dan Poliak Meredith Potochnic Jessica Prince & David Wilborn Robin Reynolds Wilt Daniel Roben Leela Sasaki Rosie Saunders Tom Skerritt & Julie Tokashiki Jane Suzick Sylvester Thomas III Richard Wasserman Joe Welinske Annie Wilson Bagley & Virginia Wright

Richie Meyer & Susan Harmon PRODUCER ($4,999 - $2,000)

Kraig L. & Laura Marini Baker DIRECTOR ($1,999 - $1,000)

Susan & Eric Benson Casey Cady Mark Crowell John Daise Anthony Ercolano Gary & Annie Grina Mic Hampton Laura & Ian Macneill Christopher Newell Frederick & Claudia Schwab Brian & Laurel Smith ADVOCATE ($999 - $500)

Lynn Dissinger Mary Lonien & Sandy Smith PATRON ($499 - $275)

Jerome Arbes & Anne Knight Eric Bailey Tom Bayley William Brody Amanda Brooks Ilya Bukshteyn Corinne Campbell Martin Cassidy Sharon & Darryl Conner Mary Corrales-Diaz John Davis Harvey & Nancy Dean Shawn Farley Mary Fjelstad Miguel Garcia Vicente Heidi Gates Neige Gil & Christian Huitema Nancy Guppy

Jeffrey & Rosario Hanna Andi Hendricks Donna & Michael James James Lin Ian & Margaret Marks Allison Milliman Jean & Rich Patton Owen Richards & Tania Westby Jeffrey Sakuma & Ron Pederson Dave Sharkey Heather Smith Bob & Kathryn Spence Nan & Neil Sullins Margaret Taylor & Bob Elliott Catherine Walker Michael Weidemann Christian & Joyce Zobel BENEFACTOR ($274 - $125)

Anonymous 5 Glenn Abe Gary Ackerman & Robin Dearling Ginger Ahn Gabriel Aldea & Susan Arnold - Aldea Maggie Alhadeff Doug & Layna Andersen Rik & Holly Anderson Benjamin Arnette Betty Jean Arnold Rosalyn Arntzen Julia Bahner Mary Baldwin & Jeanine Hammond Craig Bartholomew Chebon Bass Steve Bateman & Virginia Lee Allison & John Bauman Jason Beaumont Heidi Beegle Avi Belinsky & Heidi Kappes Thomas Belleque Barbara Benson Karen Birchfield Dean Biron Nicholas Bischoff Jennifer Blank Hecht

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Teresa & Andrew Bliss Dina Blum Katherine Boehm Barbara Boster-Phillips Rosemary & Mike Boyle Amy Bradburd Aaron Bregel Joshua Briskey James Broadus & Lori Stutz Sara Broetje David & Kim Brotherton Seanna Browder Chris Brucia Elizabeth Bruning Lynda Bui Steven Burdick & Carol Ann Davis Timothy Burke Kit Burns Dale Callison Stacy Campbell Stephen Cancler Albert Candelaria Linda & Peter Capell Pamela Cardone Caron Carlyon & W G Robinson, Jr. Carrie Carson & Lori Robb Darren Caulley Nick Chou & Audrey Hendrickson Todd Clay Alessandro Contenti Alyce Conti & Clay Laidig Wendy Cooley Linda & David Cornfield

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Brad Abrahams Richard Abromowitz Judy Ahn Valeri Ajaja Lucy Akhurst Daniela Alatorre David Allen Kathleen Allen Marilyn Allen Paul Allen Jody Allen Patton Mark Allender Cristina Almeida Gunnar Almér Patel Alpita Arif Amaani Angela Anable Eli Anderson Anna Anderson Scilla Andreen Nina Anosheh Panu Aree Ed Arentz Jennifer Arndt-Johns Sandra at Top Pot Jonathon Aubry Debbie Augustavo PoChu AuYeung Brianna Babb Valerie Baheux Meghan Baker Heather Bales Luke Baranouskas Carole Baraton Wouter Barendrecht Michael Barker Nathan Barr Beth Barrett Dave Barrett Nat Baruch Nathanial Baruch Mark Bashore Anne Bass Gina Batali Henry David Baxter Bethany Beaman Keith Bean William (Bill) Beattie Shannon Beaty Lynn Beck John Beemer Bobby Bellar Rob Bender Denise Bennett Garrett Bennett Dan Berger Dori Berinstein Ingrid Berkhout Tom Bernard Bob Berney Jeanne Berney Rebecca Berry Shane Berry Terence Berry Cheree Best Paul Buerk Charlie Blanchard Kim Blanchette Leah Bledsoe Virginia Bogert Tabetha Bolen Mike Bonanno Karen Boschker Travis Bouker

Lindy and Kris Boustedt Tony Bove Deb Bowen Eamonn Bowles Kyle Bradshaw Nate Brend Matt Brodlie Fernando Brom Jane Broom Brad and Amy Brotherton Charles Brown Dan Brown Heather Brown Paul Buerke Ariane Buhl Lia Buman Rob Burnett John Buroker Gay and Billy Burton Karin Butler Stuart Butler Betsy Callis Alfredo Calviño Carri Campbell Greg Campbell Jill Campbell Phyllis Campbell Alexandra Cannon Martin Caraux Carole Carmichael James A. Carne Linda S. Carne Nate Carson David Castro Raymond Cha Ginger Chan Catherine Chau Chantal Chauzy Sophie Cherry Zhang Chi Dale and Leslie Chihuly SJ Chiro Margaret Chodos-Irvine Ramy Choi Yeonghan Choi Melanie Christian Wilder Christie Elizabeth Churchill Ann Ciecko Sandy Cioffi Mark Clark Anne Clausse Tougo Coffee Howard Cohen Ron Colby Celeste Cole Taylor Coleman Susan Coliton John Comerford Liza Comtois Rebeca Conget Sharon Conner Linda Coomas Elizabeth Coppinger Andrea Courtney Matt Cowal Jack Cowan Rita Cressman Geert Criel Victoria Culver Carol Cummins Alice Cunningham Matt Cunningham Eric d’Arbeloff

Regina Daigneault William J. Darkow Bruce Davis Jeff Davis Julie Davis Denis de la Roca Cinzia De Luca Jonathan Dean Lindsay Dedo Amy Dee Aurora Dennis Esther Devos Eric Di Bernardo Rob Diamond Alejandro Diaz Ken and Marita Dimon Eva Doak Judy Doherty Karen Donahue Robinson Brian Douglass Jesse Douma Libby Dover Tamara Dover Bobby Downes Shawn Drew Don Driftmeier Kathleen Drumm Fort Dudak Eric Dunham Morgan Dusatko Allison Dvaladze Abby Dylan Leigh Eckert Klaus Eder Ingrid Eggers Ken Eisen Ken Eliott Dianne Elliott Stephanie Ellis-Smith Ramsey El-Moslimany Marjorie Engesser Delphine Eon Udy Epstein Ceil Erickson Janelle Erickson Kristen Erickson Kati Erwert Peter Esmonde Luis Fernando Esteban Larry Estes Barbara Ettinger Nadine Fabbi Marek Falk Ron Farris Rich Fassio Eric Faulkner Veronique Fayard Suzanne Fedak David Fenkel Jason Ferguson Alejandra Fernandez Anne Ferron Bret Fetzer Phil Finger Rebecca Fisher Rob Fletcher Carmen Flores Lauren Fogerty Julie Fontaine John Foreman Mathieu Fort Alan Franey Eroyn Franklin Félize Frappier

Karen Fried Lori Fried Neil Friedman Francis Josephine Friesner Brigitte Fuare Christine Gagliardo Ryan Gagnier Christian Gaines Chao Gan Joe Garber Seneca Garber Dwight Gaut Anthony Geist Jon Gerrans Nancy Gerstman Scott Giampino Gary Gibson Mary Giordano Darrien Michele Gipson Rob Glaser Yanick Godbout Aurelie Godet Raimond Goebel John & Feral Gokcen Dan Goldberg Jesse Goldman Irene Gomez Maryna Gorbach Maria Govan Malory Graham Lizette Gram Mygind Lynette C. Grandy Andy Gray Katie Gregg Langford Griffing Mike Grigone Katie Grimes James Grindle Sarah Grinnell Mai Groff Dorotheé Grosjean David Grosskopf Candy Gruber Lissa Gruman Marie-Therese Guirgis Shawn Guthrie Jody Hall Rachel Hall Charise Hallberg Gordon Hamilton Megan Hammitt Jeff Hannibal Greg Hara Gadi Harel Shauna Hargrove Jesse Harris Angie Harrison Lotta Hashizume Margaret Hayes Ruth Hayler Julie Healey Michael Hebb Sandra Hebron Matt Henderson Bryan Hendrickson Elodie Henneton Morgan Henry Paul Heppner Michael Herbst Deanna Hernandez Deborah Hersch Dan Hiatt Cheryll Hidalgo Aaron Hilst

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Melissa Hines Isabella Ho Mark Hoffman Lara Holman-Garritano Emily Honigsfeld Michelle Hooper Bert Hopkins Piper Hopkins Douglas Horn Emily Horn Kim Houston Tim Howe John Howie Marcus Hu Megan Huber Ceri Hughes Sam Hunt Kate Huntz Steph Huske Bradley Jo Hutchinson Matt Hutchinson Vicki Infinito Kiyoshi Inoue Mai Iskander Sandra Jackson-Dumont Ariel Jacobs John Jacobsen Rachel Jacobsen Kate Jaffe Donna James Mike James Eun Jang Marni Jenkins Eric Johannsen Eric Johnson Lars Johnson Susan Johnson Uli Johnson Gwyneth Johnstone Marilyn Joslyn Alicia Jourdan William Kaspar Erin Katz Heidi Kauffman James Keblas Bevin Keeley Suzy Kellett Jim Kelly Janel Kempf Larry Kennar Pete Kerchinsky Antoine Khalife Don Kiele Michael Killoren Doe Kim Heejeon Kim Laura Kim Sonya Kim Yunjeong Kim George Kindle Ken King Justina Kitburi Steve Klein Barbara Klepper Fred Klepper Marion Klotz Kevin Knight Natasha Knudsen John Kochman Dianne Koehnen Slavka Kolbel Jen Koogler Tyler Kornelis Jake Kosseff

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Steve Krause Andrea Krauss Donald Krim Jennifer Kroot Shannon and Peter Kryzzell Markus Kunz Ted Kuoppamaki Olaf Kvamme Winnie Kwan Josh LaBelle Josh Lackey Eric Lagesse Francisco Laguna Brian LaMacchia Claudia Landsberger Sara Lash Anne Laurent Ramtin Lavafipour Matt Lawrence Cleo Ledbetter David Lee John Lee Sandra Leeming Nate Lessler Heather Levine Amy Lewin Anna Li Tony Liano Caroline Libresco Marit Ligthart Jiyoon Lim Liza Linardou Ross Lincoff Erik Lindstrom Aida Lipera Bryan Livingston Mark Livingston Nancy Locke Bob Lofland Vanessa Lotoux Helen Loveridge Angelo Luchi Michael Lumpkin Tyler Macavoy Bonnie Main Kevin Mallon Davide Manuli Della Maricich Dominic Maricich Sarah Marshall Jessie Martin Marina Martin Krista Martinez Wiens Ida Martins Ronald Masnik Randy Matheson Patty Mathieu Vivian Mayer Mike McAuliffe Linda McBlaine Tay McCutchan Colleen J. McElroy Brian McFadin Genevieve McGillicuddy Ralph McKay Chris McMullen Miles McRae Nasrine Médard de Chardon Vedra Mehagian Dallesandro Fernand Melgar Stephen Mellander Cindy Messey Mary Metastasio Betty and Bill Meyer Richie Meyer Virginia Meyer Charlotte Mickie

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Marta Mikkelsen Nicole Mikuzis David Miles Mike Miles Christopher Miller Rob Miller Vince and Lisa Miller Heather Milllard Bradley Mills James Mongrain Stacey Mooradian Nate Mooter Patricia Garduño Morales Andrew Morgan Don Morgan Tara Morgan Eric Morgret Luke Morris John Morrison Betsy Muguro Matt Mulder Christophe Musitelli David Namura Tom Nance Dale Nash Paula Nechak Camille Neel Peder Andreas Nelson Russell Nelson Sherrie Newman Daniel Nguyen Dr. Anthony Nguyen Hally Niehaus Arleigh Nish Courtney Noble Ivan Noel Sarah Nuttal Jef Nuyts Dennis O’Connor Brian and Mary O’Donnell Shun Ohara Miki Ohi Chris Ohlson Billy O’Neill Takumi Ono Stine Oppegaard Tom Ortenberg Emily Osborne Courtney Ott Shan Ottey Ksenia Oustiougova Erin Owens Ryoko Oyama Gary Palmucci Hengameh Panahi Katie Parker Jessica Partnow Kim Pasion Marijana Pavlich MJ Peckos James Pellerito Paco Pena Debbie Pennie Mina Person Brandon Peters Susan Peterson Marie Petit Kurt Pfeifer Larry Phillips Peter Phok Dan Piecora Peggy Platt Jason Plourde Daniel Poliak Donna Poppe Tom Powers Tom Prassis

Bill Predmore Larry Price Celeste Primeau Jessica Prince Chris Principio Jitka Procházková Ron Purple Stephen Radcliffe Pascale Ramonda Lindsay Randall Stephen Raphael Charlie Rathbun Chris Ratliff Christal Ratliff Orly Ravid Tracy Rector Kimberly Reed Isabelle Rega-Hervouët Alison Reid Mark Reinhart Charlotte Renaut Annie Richards Morris Richards Owen Richards Paul Richer Scott Rickard Aaron Ridinour John Riley Kyle Risan Chris Roche Stan Rodman Jeanette Rodriquez Philip Roewe Stephanie Rondeau Frederique de Rooij Leaza Rooney Steve Rosen Arndt Röskens Adam Roston Jennifer Roth Ryan Rothermel Emily Rothschild Ron Rothstein Camille Rousselet Joëlle Rubli Lewis Rudd Pete Rush Rick Russell Emily Russo Lindsay Ryan Avik Saha Kira Saksaganskaya Miguel Salinas Paul Samson Ilda Santiago Simon De Santiago Areizaga Ken Saunderson Lydia Schmidt Lee Anne Schmitt Sarah Schmitz Barbara Schroeder Jana Scopis Weiman Seid Massimo Seidel Beatriz Setuain Neta Shacham Payal Shah Justin Shank Jeff Shannon James Shapiro Catherine Sharp Dave Shaw Phil Shekleton Scott Shooman Sandy Shropshire Shep Siegel Arnfridur Sigurdardottir

Ron Simms Shelley Sink John Sinno Joy Skaardal David Skinner Elena Smirnova Mary Smith Steven Smith Luciane Sommer Lynn Souikni Claudia Souza Deanne Sowter Patra Spanou Kevin Spitzer Charles Steel Mayumi Steiner Michael Steiner Amber Stevens Robert Stevens Richard Stevenson Chris Stewart Darcy Stone Jacob Stone Alex Stonehill Norma Jean Straw Gary Strom Lane Stroud Sarah Stuteville Yun Suh Johnathan Sundstrom Aurelia Tahar Akira Takeda Meiske Taurisia Gareth Tennant Pat Tennant Nadja Tennstedt Kristin Terry Medwin Textor Kyle Thorpe Karsten Tietz Ondi Timoner Rebecca Timson Kevin Tomlinson Wing Yan Tong Geir Tønnessen Hoa Tran Thai Tran Marina Trushina Fred Tsui Mayumi Tsutakawa Gary Tucker Kris Tucker James Tune Jim Tuohey Denis Turcotte Debra Twersky Minour Uchida Helen Underwood Jon Urlie Mark Urman Katalin Vajda Todd Van Cise Alicia Van Der Veen Lamar Van Dyke Jay Van Hoy Wanda Vanderstoop James VanNess Megan VanWechsel Beth Varner Kanika Vasudeva Juliette Veber Jayne Vidheecharoen Gisela Viehoever Natalie Vorobieva Huong Vu Janet Wainwright Sara Wainwright

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Tom Waldman Katie Ward Monkey Watson Elke Wauters Kristin Waymire Michael Weber Gwyn Welles Ruby Wells Michael Werner Ryan Werner Vince Werner Beatrix Wesle Erin West Danielle Westley Teri White Sam Whiting Brian Whitish Brad Wilke Hugh Willa Lorna Williams Gene Willis Rusty Willoughby Gisela Wiltschek Jeffrey Winter Seymour Wishman Jack Wolfe JoAnn Wolfe Krista Woltersdorf Marilee Womack Jamie Wong Joy Wong Tracy Wong Victor “White Rabbit” Wong Thomas Woodrow Meghan Wurtz Lisa Wylie Gwendolyn Wynne Hideya Yamaguchi Nick Yanity Donald Young Christian Zabriskie Nancy Zamierowski Karin Zaugg Black Stephanie Zeitler Dennis Zook Keith Zwolfer Digital Kitchen Encore Media Group Flight to Mars LeandroHBL Oh, Hello POP The Benjamin Exworthy Extremely Well-Endowed Foundation The Sacks WongDoody

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ADVERTISING INDEX

1-800-Rid-Of-It ............................................206 1150 AM KKNW........................................... 270 98.1 Classical KING FM ............................... 210 98.9 KWJZ...................................................260 ABC Special Event Rentals ...........................93 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences............................................... 6 Adobe Systems ............................................. 76 Advantage Graphics .................................... 270 Alaska Airlines ............................................... 35 Alpha Cine ....................................................... 1 AM1090 ......................................................... 92 AMC Pacific Place II....................................... 50 American Airlines ........................................... 56 Antioch University Seattle............................280 Babeland ....................................................... 72 Bad Animals ................................................ 123 Ballet Restaurant ......................................... 252 Bank of New York Mellon .............................. 22 BCSR Computer Rentals ............................ 198 BIGink, LLC .................................................306 Billy O Wines................................................ 314 The Boeing company .................................... 20 Bombay Grill ................................................ 252 Book-It Repertory Theatre........................... 121 Boom Noodle / Madison Holdings .............. 312 The Broadway Grill ........................................30 Brotherton Cadillac Buick Pontiac GMC ...........

Inside Front Cover Bumbershoot / One Reel ..............................38 Caffe Vita .....................................................308 Capitol Hill Flower and Garden ....................289 Cinerama .......................................................68 Chapman Universtiy ......................................84 Chihuly Studio ...............................................66 Chinoise.......................................................289 City Arts Magazine ........................................ 46 Clatter & Din ................................................ 181 Comcast ........................................................ 42 Crossroads Shopping Center........................44 Cupcake Royale / Verite Coffee................... 312 Davis Wright Tremaine ..................................112 Day Wireless Systems .................................289 Desert Wind Winery ...................................... 22 Digital Forest.................................................. 52 Digital Kitchen..............................................302 Dilettante Chocolates ....................................80 Disc Makers .................................................288 Don Q Rums .................................................... 2 The Drooling Dog ..........................................94 Dunham Cellars ........................................... 108 Eastman Kodak ............................................. 70 EMP|SFP Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival ................................... 140 EMP|SFP Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame ............................................ 134 ENSO........................................................... 318 Ferrari & Maserati of Seattle .Inside Back Cover FileMaker ..................................................... 270

Film Finders, IMDB / Without-A-Box ........... 226 Film Movement ..............................................64 TheFilmSchool ............................................. 171 First Sight Productions ................................260 Forest Ridge School ......................................44 FrameForge 3D Studio / Innoventive Software, LLC ...................... 104 Freixenet USA ................................. Back Cover GMA Research Corp. ....................................80 The Grand Cinema ...................................... 276 Greater Seattle Business Association .........288 Gucci ........................................................... 106 HBO............................................................. 130 HD Video Pro Magazine / Werner Publishing Corp. ......................... 130 Hollywood Lighting ........................................54 Hong Kong Economic & Trade Office, San Francisco .........................................292 IFC ............................................................... 172 Il Bistro ......................................................... 276 Il Fornaio ........................................................ 24 International Examiner .................................284 IrisInk ............................................................. 14 Jake Kosseff Wine Consultant..................... 121 KEXP 90.3 FM Seattle ...................................88 King Cat Theater...........................................112 KNHC 89.5 FM ............................................ 140 KPLU ...........................................................286 KUOW 94.9 FM / KPTK ............................... 198 La Spiga ......................................................289 Landmark Theatres ....................................... 40 Lark ............................................................... 71 Longhouse Media........................................ 180 The Mac Store ................................................. 4 Magnolia Audio-Video-TV............................294 Mario’s ........................................................... 16 Marqueen Hotel and Inn at Queen Anne .....304 McRae Theatre Equipment, Inc ...................284 Michael Wiese Productions ......................... 210 Minuteman Press......................................... 128 Modern Digital ............................................... 10 Moving Pictures Magazine ............................ 78 News Talk 97.3 KIRO FM ..............................114 Northwest Film Forum ................................. 226 Oh, Hello, LLC ............................................. 310 Oppenheimer Cine Rental, LLC.....................96 Pacific Place ..................................................34 Pacific Publishing Company (Capitol Hill Times & Queen Anne News). 124 Pan Pacific Hotel ........................................... 26 Paramount and Moore Theatres ...................48 Peterson Sullivan ......................................... 158 Piecora’s New York Pizza ............................ 104 Polyclinic ......................................................298 POP Multimedia............................................. 12 Poppy .......................................................... 158 Port Townsend Film Festival ........................ 316 Racha Noodles & Thai ..................................111 Reel Grrls ....................................................... 74

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Renton and the Renton FilmFrenzy II........... 282 Rocket Pictures ............................................118 Scarecrow Video ......................................... 100 Seastar Restaurant and Raw Bar .................. 28 Seattle Art Museum.....................................296 Seattle Center.............................................. 282 Seattle Central Community College ............ 276 Seattle Chocolates ........................................96 Seattle Composers Alliance ........................284 Seattle Weekly ...............................................94 Shiftboard ...................................................... 58 Shining Technologies .................................. 124 Shred-It of Western Washington .................206 Silver Platters ................................. 52, 106, 123 Sony Electronics, Inc ...................................300 The Space Needle ....................................... 132 Stella Artois.................................................... 71 The Stranger..................................................86 Tilikum Place Cafe ....................................... 276 The Tin Table ...............................................280 TLA Releasing ...............................................86 Top Pot Doughnuts .....................................280 Travelers ...................................................... 210 Triamp Group, Inc ........................................ 276 Tup Tim Thai ................................................ 121 Turner Classic Movies ................................... 62 TV5 Monde .................................................. 121 Uwajimaya ....................................................111 Vasectomy Clinic ......................................... 252 Venice Magazine ...........................................98 Via Tribunali ...................................................54 Victorinox/Swiss Army................................. 102 Volterra Restaurant ........................................ 58 W Seattle Hotel .............................................. 18 WHERE Seattle..............................................93 Women In Film/Seattle .................................. 92 Wong Doody ................................................... 8 The Woolly Mammoth ................................. 252 Write Bros ...................................................... 78 Zone Perfect ................................................ 102

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PRINT SOURCES 123 Productions, Inc. Jill Campbell Tel: 212-243-3868 123productionsllc@gmail.com 5 Stick Films Alpita Patel Tel: 323-931-4366 alpita@apm-la.com

China Film Archive China Film Association Zhang Chi Tel: 86-139-0135-8138 zhangchi0912@163.com

Abramorama Richard Abromowitz Tel: 914-273-9545 richard@abramorama.com

Cinamour Entertainment Julie Davis Tel: 818-400-1433 juliex@pacbell.net www.juliedavisonline.com

Accent Films International Carol Spycher Tel: 41-21-963-9300 info@accent-films.com www.accent-films.com

Cineclick Asia Doe Kim Tel: 82-10-4722-5120 opm@cineclickasia.com www.cineclickasia.com

Aftab e honar afarin Ramtin Lavafipour ramtinl@yahoo.com Agung Inc. Kiyoshi Inoue Tel: 81-3-5117-2161 inoue@agunginc.com

Cinema Guild Lindsay Dedo Tel: 212-685-6242 ldedo@cinemaguild.com www.cinemaguild.com

Altamura Films Daniela Alatorre Tel: 52-1-55-5412-9624 danielaalatorre@gmail.com

Cinema Tropical Natalia@cinematropical.com www.cinematropical.com

Ambush Entertainment Nina Anosheh Tel: 323-951-9197 Nina@ambushentertainment.com www.ambushentertainment.com

Cinephil Ori Bader Tel: 972-3-566-4129 ori@cinephil.co.il www.cinephil.co.il Cinetic Media Inc. Sarah Lash Tel: 212-204-7979 sarah@cineticmedia.com www.cineticmedia.com

American Zoetrope www.zoetrope.com Anchor Bay Entertainment James Shapiro Tel: 248-205-1649 James.Shapiro@Starz.com www.anchorbayent.com Arthouse Films Erin Owens Tel: 212-966-1760 erin@arthousefilmsonline.com www.arthousefilmsonline.com Artists Confederacy Ron Colby Tel: 310 578-1317 rc@artistsconfederacy.com

CJ Entertainment Heejeon Kim Tel: 82-27-268-484 heejeon@cj.net www.cj.net Climage Fernand Melgar Tel: 41-21-648-3561 fernand@climage.ch CMC Entertainment Isabella Ho Tel: 86-62-269-097 isabellaho@cmcentertainment.com www.cmcentertainment.com

AtrixFilms GmbH Beatrix Wesle Tel: 49-89-6428-2611 info@atrix-films.com www.atrix-films.com

Code Entertainment Larry Kennar Tel: 310-772-0008 codekennar@yahoo.com

Babibutafilm Meiske Taurisia babibutafilm@gmail.com Bavaria Film International Gisela Wiltschek Tel: 49-89-6499-2687 gisela.wiltschek@Bavaria-Film.de www.bavaria-film-international.de Beta Cinema Delphine Eon Tel: 49-89-9956-2719 delphine.eon@betafilm.com www.betacinema.com

The Collective Shaun Redick Tel: 310-288-8181 redick@thecollective-la.com ContentFilm International Rebecca Berry Tel: 44-20-7851-6500 rebecca.berry@contentfilm.com www.contentfilm.com The Coproduction Office Philippe Bober Tel: 33-1-5602-6000 info@coproductionoffice.eu www.coproductionoffice.eu

Big Sky Film Kimberly Reed Tel: 212-925-2220 kim@bigskyfilm.com Blue Film Cinzia De Luca Tel: 39-06-321-5488 info@bluefilm.it Brightlight Pictures Inc. Stephen Hegyes Tel: 604-628-2970 info@brightlightpictures.com www.brightlightpictures.com C-Films AG Mayumi Steiner Tel: 41-44-253-6555 c-films@c-films.ch CAAM Donald Young Tel: 415-863-0814 don@asianamericanmedia.org Campfire Films Avik Saha avik.1964@gmail.com Cape Cod Films Gwendolyn Wynne Tel: 323-460-4581 gwynne@capecodfilms.com Celluloid Dreams Pascale Ramonda Tel: 33-1-4970-0370 pascale@celluloid-dreams.com www.celluloid-dreams.com

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Central Partnership Marina Trushina Tel: 7-95-777-1786 Trushina.Marina@centpart.ru www.centpart.ru

Efubun-no-ichi, Inc. Hideya Yamaguchi Tel: 81-3-5570-1081 boss@ef-1.co.jp Elephant Eye Films Kim Jose Tel: 212-488-8877 kim@elephanteyefilms.com www.elephanteyefilms.com Eleven Arts Inc. Shun Ohara Tel: 310-264-0818 kks@elevenarts.net www.elevenarts.net Elle Driver Eva Dierderix Tel: 33-1-5643-6720 Eva@elledriver.eu www.elledriver.eu Emerging Pictures Don Torrance Tel: 212-245-6767 don@emergingpictures.com www.emergingpictures.com Emperor Motion Pictures Catherine Chau Tel: 85-2-2835-6688 catchau@emp.hk www.emp.hk Eric Johannsen Tel: 971-459-5205 ericonsantiago@hotmail.com Fames Universal Entertainment Ltd. Ramy Choi Tel: 85-2-9257-3619 ramychoi@gmail.com Fandango Portobello Sarah Nuttal Tel: 44-20-7605-6590 sarah@fandangoportobello.com www.fandangoportobello.com Fandango Portobello Sales Valeria Ilcurgo Tel: 39-06-9774-5011 valeria.ilcurgo@fandango.it Farabi Cinema Foundation Amir Esfandiari Tel: 98-2-1273-4939 fcf1@dpi.net.ir www.fcf.ir The Film Foundation Jennifer Ahn Tel: 323-436-5060 jahn@film-foundation.org www.film-foundation.org Film Movement Rebeca Conget Tel: 212-941-7744 rebeca@filmmovement.com www.filmmovement.com The Film Sales Company Andrew Herwitz Tel: 212-481-5020 andrew.herwitz@filmsalescorp.com www.filmsalescorp.com Filmsharks International GuidoReed Tel: 54-11-4180-6363 guido_rud@filmsharks.com

Cowboy Films Ltd Charles Steel Tel: 44-20-7612-1260 charles@cowboyfilms.co.uk www.cowboyfilms.co.uk

Films Boutique Charlotte Renaut Tel: 49-30-6953-7850 charlotte@filmsboutique.com www.filmsboutique.com

Czech Television, Telexport Jitka Procházková Tel: 420-2-6113-7047 jitka.prochazkova@czech-tv.cz www.czech-tv.cz

Films Distribution Martin Caraux Tel: 33-1-5310-3399 caraux@filmsdistribution.com www.filmsdistribution.com

Danish Film Institute Lizette Gram Mygind Tel: 45-33-74-3506 lizetteg@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk

FineCut Co. Jiyoon Lim Tel: 82-2-569-6266 jiyoon@finecut.co.kr www.finecut.co.kr

Documentary Channel Shanghai Media Group Chao Gan Tel: 86-21-6287-0154 ganchao@ganchao.net

First Hand Films World Sales Esther van Messel info@firsthandfilms.com www.firsthandfilms.com

Dramatic Forces Dori Berinstein Tel: 914-384-2221 dori@dramaticforces.com

First Run/Icarus Films Lori Fried Tel: 718-488-8900 lfried@IcarusFilms.com www.frif.com

DreamLab Films Nasrine Médard de Chardon Tel: 33-4-9338-7561 nasrine@dreamlabfilms.com www.dreamlabfilms.com

First Run Features Paul Marchant Tel: 212-243-0600 paul@firstrunfeatures.com www.firstrunfeatures.com

E1 Entertainment International Deanne Sowter Tel: 416-646-2400 dsowter@e1ent.com www@e1ent.com

Fortissimo Films Frederique de Rooij Tel: 31-20-627-3215 frederique@fortissimo.nl www.fortissimofilms.com

Fox Searchlight Russell Nelson Tel: 310-369-1148 Russell.Nelson@fox.com www.fox.com

Intercinema Elena Smirnova Tel: 74-95-255-9052 post@intercin.ru www.intercinema.ru

Free Spirit Films, Inc. Alison Reid Tel: 416-690-8900 stunts@rogers.com

Interloper FIlms Ondi Timoner Tel: 626-296-0068 info@weliveinpublicthemovie.com

Furnace Films Thomas Woodrow Tel: 917-575-1494 info@furnacefilms.com

Mai Iskander Tel: 646-515-5995 garbagevillage@yahoo.com

Gaumont Ariane Buhl Tel: 33-1-4643-2180 abuhl@gaumont.fr www.gaumont.fr Generate/Archie Films David Lee Miller Tel: 805-495-9709 davidleemiller@gmail.com George Ovashvili Stan Rodman stanrodman@mac.com Glass Eye Pix Peter Phok Tel: 718-643-6911 PeterPhok@hotmail.com Global Film Initiative Tel: 415-934-9500 mercedes@globalfilm.org www.globalfilm.org Gold View Co., Ltd. Kiyo Joo Tel: 81-0-3-5347-2501 kiyo@goldview.co.jp Grindstone Entertainment Group Heidi Nel Tel: 310-255-5763 heidi@thegrindstone.net Gwyn Welles gwynwelles@yahoo.com Handmade Films International Tel: 20-7009-6600 info@futurefilmgroup.com www.futurefilmgroup.com Hat Factory Studios Garrett Bennett garrettdirector@gmail.com Heart Break Productionz Larry Estes welb@earthlink.net Heaven Scent Films Kevin Tomlinson Tel: 206-448-6302 ktvc2001@aol.com Hellas Film Greek Film Center Liza Linardou Tel: 30-210-364-8007 hellasfilm@gfc.gr www.gfc.gr Hollywoodmade Gadi Harel Tel: 310-962-2847 gadiharel@gmail.com Hungaricom Zsuzsanna Kalomista Tel: 36-209-733-233 info@hungaricom.hu Icelandic Film Centre Tel: 354-562-3580 laufey@icelandicfilmcentre.is www.iff.is IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films Winnie Kwan Tel: 212-367-9435 winnie@idpfilm.com www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com

Kara Kirmizi Film Maryna Gorbach Tel: 90-533-523-0663 karakirmizifilm@gmail.com Kino International Gary Palmucci Tel: 212-629-6880 gpalmucci@kino.com www.kino.com Kinology Aurelia Tahar Tel: 33-9-5147-4344 inter@kinology.eu Koch Lorber Entertainment Suzanne Fedak Tel: 212-741-0562 Suzanne.Fedak@kochent.com www.kochlorberfilms.com Lake Street Productions Megan Huber Tel: 612-250-2012 meganh@visi.com Latido Films Oscar Alonso Tel: 34-91-548-8877 oalonso@latidofilms.com www.latidofilms.com Lee Anne Schmitt Tel: 323-304-4588 lee_anne_schmitt@hotmail.com Lionsgate Stacey Mooradian Tel: 310-255-3700 smooradian@lionsgate.com www.networkentertainment.ca The Little Film Company Robbie Little Tel: 818-762-6999 robbie@thelittlefilmcompany.com www.thelittlefilmcompany.com Little Joe Productions Vedra Mehagian Dallesandro Tel: 213-448-8195 vedra@littlejoeproductions.com Louise Rosen Ltd. Louise Rosen Tel: 208-725-8215 lrosenltd@aol.com www.LouiseRosenLtd.com Lucky Crow Films Bobby Downes Tel: 818-783-7529 bobby@downesbrothers.com Lucky Hat Entertainment Tony Liano Tel: 323-993-7000 tony@everythingstrangeandnew. com Magnet Releasing Magnolia Pictures Matt Cowal Tel: 212-924-6701 mcowal@magpictures.com www.magpictures.com Master Film Studio Natalie Vorobieva Tel: 7-499-255-9684 mail@masterfilm.ru

Idream Independent Pictures Kanika Vasudeva Tel: 91-22-6740 0900 Kanika@idreamproduction.com www.idreamindependent.com

The Match Factory ThaniaDimitrakopoulou Tel: 49-221-539-7090 info@matchfactory.de www.thematchfactory.de

IFC Films Nathanial Baruch Dan Goldberg Tel: 212-324-4635 nabaruch@ifcintheaters.com dgoldberg@ifcfilms.com www.ifcfilms.com

Maximum Films Charlotte Mickie Tel: 416-364-5039 charlotte@maximumfilms.com www.maximumfilms.com

Imagina International Sales Beatriz Setuain Tel: 34-91-728-5738 bsetuain@imagina.tv Intandem Films Andy Gray Tel: 44-20-7851-3800 andy@intandemfilms.com www.intandemfilms.com

Media Asia Distribution Fred Tsui Tel: 852-2314-4288 frederick_tsui@mediaasia.com www.mediaasia.com Media Films, S.L. Marina Martin Tel: 34-93-240-0244 marinamartin@mediafilms.es

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Media Luna Entertainment Patra Spanou Tel: 49-22-1801-4980 festival@medialuna-entertainment. de www.medialuna-entertainment.de Memento Films International Marion Klotz Tel: 33-1-5334-9027 marion@memento-films.com www.memento-films.com Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE) Alejandro Diaz Tel: 52-55-5448-5339 difuinte@imcine.gob.mx www.imcine.gob.mx MGM Amy Lewin Tel: 310-586-8291 ALewin@mgm.com MK2 International Birgit Kemner Tel: 33-1-4467-3018 birgit.kemner@mk2.com www.mk2.com Montivagus Productions Marjorie Engesser Tel: 818-782-1212 montivagus@sbcglobal.net www.montivagus.com Mosquito Project LeandroHBL Tel: 55-21-3253-1022 mosquitoproject@mac.com MPI Media Group Nicole Mikuzis Tel: 708-873-3111 nmikuzis@mpimedia.com www.mpimedia.com Music Box Films Ed Arentz Tel: 312-492-9364 earentz@musicboxfilms.com www.musicboxfilms.com National Geographic Entertainment Antionetta Montelo Tel: 203-661-5678 amontele@ngs.org Neffa Films Brigitte Faure bfaure@noos.fr Negativ John Riley riley@upcmail.cz New American Vision Jeffrey Winter Tel: 323-466-3536 jeffrey@newamericanvision.com New Cinema Distribution Tel: 7-495-363-2010 info@newcinemad.com www.newcinemad.com New Zealand Film Commission Kathleen Drumm Tel: 64-4-382-7680 kathleen@nzfilm.co.nz www.nzfilm.co.nz Night & Day Pictures Michael Roiff Tel: 323-930-2212 michael@nightanddaypictures.com www.nightanddaypictures.com Niijii Films Barbara Ettinger Tel: 518-537-5830 betting@valstar.net www.twosquaremiles.com Nikkatsu Ryoko Oyama Tel: 81-3-5689-1018 ryoko-o@nikkatsu.co.jp www.nikkatsu.co.jp Nimbus Film Tel: 45-3634-0910 signe@nimbusfilm.dk www.nimbusfilm.dk North by Northwest Entertainment Tay Voye Tel: 509-324-2949 tvoye@nxnw.net www.nxnwmoviesales.net Norwegian Film Institute Stine Oppegaard Tel: 47-2247-4575/00 stine.oppegaard@nfi.no www.nfi.no Odin’s Eye Entertainment Michael Favelle Tel: 61-4-0391-4317 michael@odinseyeent.com

o som e a furia Cristina Almeida cristina.furia@netcabo.pt Open Door Co Tom Powers Tel: 416-855-7388 tpowers@opendoorco.com Oscilloscope Laboratories Dan Berger dan@oscilloscope.net www.oscilloscope.net Overture Films Tel: 424-204-4144 www.overturefilms.com Pandora Film Raimond Goebel Tel: 49-22-197-3320 raimond.goebel@pandorafilm.com Paradigm Studio John Comerford Tel: 206-282-2162 info@paradigmstudio.com www.paradigmstudio.com Paramount Emily Horn Tel: 323-956-7833 Emily_horn@paramount.com Participant Observer, lLLC Peter Esmonde Tel: 415-626-1963 peter.esmonde@gmail.com Pathé International Tel: 44-20-7462-4427 Perspectives Nomades Anne Ferron Tel: 33-1-4543-2323 persnomades@wanadoo.fr PIA Film Festival Miki Ohi Tel: 81-3-3265-1425 international@pff.jp Population 2 Jay Van Hoy Tel: 917-747-0747 jay@population2.com Post Scriptum & Media Ullta Aspgren Tel: 46-70-775-57-63 ulla.aspgren@comhem.se www.postscriptummedia.com Privni Verejnoprávni Tel: 420-6-0266-6676 kopecky@cestmir.cz Producciones Bereberia Francisco Laguna Tel: 34-9-1741-0387 paco@bereberia.com Pyramide International Paul Richer Tel: 33-1-4296-0220 pricher@pyramidefilms.com www.pyramidefilms.com Rain Films Ltd Maria Govan Tel: 718-874-2889 mariagovan@yahoo.com Raven West Films David Lee Tel: 604-681-7121 dave@ravenwestfilms.com Redwave Films Ceri Hughes Tel: 44-207-753-7200 ceri.hughes@fox.com Regent Releasing Andrea Krause Tel: 310-806-4298 andreak@heretv.com www.regentreleasing.com Retribution Media James Pellerito Tel: 212-496-9017 james@retributionmedia.com Rezo Alicia Jourdan Tel: 33-1-4246-4630 festival@rezofilms.com www.rezofilms.com Rialto Pictures Eric Di Bernardo Tel: 212-472-1911 rialto.sales@verizon.net Rizoma Films Fernando Brom Tel: 54-11-4556-1519 fernando@rizomafilms.com.ar Roadside Attractions Meghann Burns Tel: 323-882-8490 meghannb@roadsideattractions. com www.roadsideattractions.com

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PRINT SOURCES Rock Films Kira Saksaganskaya Tel: 7-916-691-7601 info@rockfilms.ru

Telepool GmbH Wolfram Skowronnek Tel: 49-86-5587-6226 skowronnek@telepool.de www.telepool.de

Roissy Films Elodie Henneton Tel: 33-15-353-5073 ehenneton@roissyfilms.com www.roissyfilms.com Sahamongkolfilm International Co. Ltd Panu Aree Tel: 66-2-273-0930 panu_aree@yahoo.com Barbara Schroeder Tel: 310-560-4420 answersproductions@me.com Senator Entertainment US Crawford Appleby Tel: 212-627-1662 c.appleby@senatorent.com Seville Pictures Tel: 514-841-1910 info@sevillepictures.com www.sevillepictures.com

Shoreline Entertainment Jeanette Rodriquez Tel: 310-551-2060 jeanette@shorelineentertainment. com Showbox Inc. Sonya Kim Judy Ahn Tel: 82-2-3218-5649 sonyakim@showbox.co.kr kjudy@showbox.co.kr www.showbox.co.kr

Sony Pictures Classics Michael Piaker Tel: 212-833-8846 Michael_Piaker@spe.sony.com Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group Staci Griesbach Tel: 310-244-6903 Staci_Griesbach@spe.sony.com Lia Buman Tel: 310-244-4153 lia_buman@spe.sony.com Spier Films Heather Milllard Tel: 44-20-7326-8483 Heather@spierfilms.com www.spierfilms.com Strand Releasing Brandon Peters Tel: 310-836-7500 Brandon@strandreleasing.com www.strandreleasing.com

Summit Entertainment Sabryna Phillips sphillips@summit-ent.com Svensk Filmindustri Tel: 46-8-6803500 international@sf.se Swedish Film Institute Gunnar Almér Tel: 46-8-665-1208 gunnar.almer@sfi.se www.swedishfilm.org Sweet Crude LLC Sandy Cioffi Tel: 206-612-0684 fastfwd@speakeasy.org Tarwater Pictures, LLC Terence Berry Tel: 310-709-3244 terenceberry@hotmail.com

Butterfly Lunah Production Cecilia McAlister Tel: 44-75-9036-2409 ceciliamcallister@hotmail.com

Ahmad’s Garden Meantime Films Kim Fairbrother Tel: 61-41-561-6568 kfairbrother@ozemail.com.au

TrustNordisk Tel: 45-3686-8788 info@trustnordisk.com www.trustnordisk.com

Alice’s Attic darkRAY Productions RobynYannoukos 323-939-4599 ryannou@gmail.com All My Dreams on VHS Tanuja Amarasuriya Tel: 447-9-4050-3530 tamarasuriya@hotmail.com

Twist Films Morris Ltd Lucy Akhurst Tel: 44-20-7370-2464 lucy@twistfilms.co.uk

Anatomy of a Fly SIFF Fly Films Dustin Kaspar Dustin.kaspar@siff.net

Typecast Pictures John Sinno Tel: 206-322-0882 John@Typecastfilms.com www.typecastfilms.com

Andong Rommel Tolentino Tel: 63-2-493-1642 studioindio@yahoo.com

Vtape Wanda Vanderstoop Tel: 416-351-1317 wandav@vtape.org

The Society for Arts Christopher Kamyszew Tel: 773-486-9612 christopherkamyszew@msn.com

575 Castro Street New American Vision Orly Ravid orlyravid@mac.com

TLA Releasing Jennifer Arndt-Johns Tel: 612-338-2800 jennifera@tlareleasing.com www.tlareleasing.com

Visit Films Aida Lipera Tel: 718-312-8210 al@visitfilms.com www.visitfilms.com

Sixth Street Films Chris Ohlson Tel: 512-560-7944 info@sixthstreetfilms.com www.sixthstreetfilms.com

Boutonniere Coley Sohn Tel: 323-662-7560 coley@urbaniteinc.com

Adulte Jaime Romandia Tel: 52-55-5273-0230 jr@mantarraya.com

UGC International Valerie Baheux Tel: 33-1-4029-8900 VBaheux@ugc.fr www.ugc.fr

Sixpack Films Americas & Filmbank New World Ralph McKay Tel: 432-729-4554 amovie@sbcglobal.net www.sixpackfilm.com

ibotnik@yahoo.com

2081 Chandler Tuttle Tel: 212-679-3222 chandlertuttle@gmail.com

Tigerlily Pictures Jennifer Kroot Tel: 415-571-8517 lavinia@kucharfilm.com

Twenty Twenty Vision Tel: 49-30-6128-1750 tkarathanos@twentytwentyvision. eu www.twentytwentyvision.eu

Shochiku Co., Ltd. Takeya Ito Tel: 81-3-5550-1623 takeya_ito@shochiku.co.jp www.shochiku.co.jp

Submarine Entertainment Josh Braun Tel: 212-625-1410 josh@submarine.com www.submarine.com

TF1 International Mathieu Fort Tel: 33-1-4141-1758 festival@tf1.fr www.tf1.fr

Shorts

Voltage Pictures Tel: 310-890-4199 sales@voltagepictures.com Warner Brothers Marilee Womack Tel: 818-379-1823 marilee.womack@warnerbros.com www.warnerbros.com Warner Premiere Tel: 818-954-6000 Warp Films Luke Morris Tel: 44-20-7436-9126 luke@warpfilms.com www.warpfilms.com Wide Management Camille Rousselet Tel: 33-1-5395-0464 cr@widemanagement.com www.widemanagement.com Wild Bunch Esther Devos Tel: 33-1-5301-5022 edevos@exception-wb.com Wolfe Releasing Jeffrey Winter Tel: 323-466-3536 jeffrey@newamericanvision.com The Works International Gareth Tennant Tel: 44-20-7612-1080 gareth.tennant@ theworksmediagroup.com www.theworkslimited.com The Yes Men Tel: 917-209-3282 admin@theyesmen.org Yun Suh Tel: 510-295-7588 playbigger@gmail.com Yves Noel Productions Ivan Noel Tel: 34-64-653-5793 ynoel@hotmail.com www.entuausencia.com Zeitgeist Films Nadja Tennstedt Tel: 212-274-1989 nadja@zeitgeistfilms.com www.zeitgeistfilms.com

The Archivist The Hobo Film Company James Lees Tel: 44-77-9911-5959 lees.james@gmail.com Arthur SIFF Fly Films Dustin Kaspar Dustin.kaspar@siff.net Asamara KIMUAK Txema Munoz Tel: 34-9-4311-5511 kimuak@filmotecavasca.com Atlantic Parkfilms Orla Tobin Tel: 353-87-934-0173 orla@parkfilms.ie Atlantico Fabio Meira Tel: 55-21-2286-6410 fbmeira@yahoo.com.br Babau Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Carla Manfredonie Tel: 3990-2739-1003 snc.animazione@tin.it The Babysitter Kristen Gray Tel: 917-921-1533 kgrayrock@gmail.com The Back Room OneTakeFilms Greg Ivan Smith Tel: 917-670-8381 gregivan@earthlink.net Baghdad Express Nimer Rashed Tel: 44-79-8902-5836 nrashed@mac.com The Bake Shop Ghost Bake Shop Company Lorette Bayle Tel: 310-745-7725 lbayle@ca.rr.com Bedtime Story Sarah Jane Lapp cinemagoat@yahoo.com Black Coffee SIFF Fly Films Dustin Kaspar Dustin.kaspar@siff.net Blessed Virgin IMCINE Alejandro Díaz Tel: 52-55-5448-5345 difuinte@imcine.gob.mx The Blindness of the Woods Amautalab Florencia Higgins Tel: 54-11-4553-5535 flor@amautalab.com BOTNIK! Calabash Animation Jackie Brennan Tel: 312-243-3433

Careful With That Powertool New Zealand Film Commission Juliette Veber Tel: 64-4-382-7686 juliette@nzfilm.co.nz CC 2010 Lincoln Leopard Films Michael Mouncer Tel: 206-499-5085 michaelj@lincolnleopard.com The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack POPJUNK productions Karn Junkinsmith Tel: 206-579-5629 kjunkinsmith@yahoo.com Control Master Run Wrake info@runwrake.com Crane and Digger Igerfilm Leonore Poth Tel: 49-69-2424-9233 leonorepoth@igerfilm.de Dahlia Langan Films Michael Langan Tel: 334-220-5805 info@langanfilms.com Danse Macabre PHI/ Prends ca court!

Catherine Chagnon Tel: 514-844-7474 catherine@dansemacabre-film.com Dark Material Reel Grrls Lila Kitaeff lila@reelgrrls.org The Day My Parents Became Cool EKE Pictures Steve Edmiston Tel: 206-372-6647 sedmiston@invictalaw.com Dear Fatty Hsin-I Tseng Tel: 213-273-5163 hsinitse@gmail.com Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential Activist Entertainment Alexander Mendeluk Tel: 541-515-0459 activist.ent@gmail.com Dig Robert Todd Robert_Todd@emerson.edu La Dolorosa Cinematográfica Superfilmes Patrick Leblanc super@superfilmes.com.br Elephants Bella Productions Sally Pearce Tel: 44-16-9076-0100 sallyppearce@yahoo.co.uk Endless Tunnel Tommy Thompson Tel: 253-820-6957 tommy23t@gmail.com Everyday People GBH Enda Hughes Tel: 44-28-3753-9178 film.address@googlemail.com Excision Richard Bates Tel: 703-851-4676 RichardBatesJr@excisionfilm.com Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis Carson Mell Tel: 310-902-3473 carson@carsonmell.com fOUR AFTRS Ruth Saunders Tel: 61-2-9805-6455 ruths@aftrs.edu.au French Roast Fabrice O. Joubert Tel: 33-6-2340-0314 fabriceojoubert@yahoo.fr

Full Employment Jumping Horse Film Kaminski & Stiehm GbR Breshna Hamid Tel: 49-51-1300-5237 produktion@jumpinghorsefilm.de The Funk Melodrama Pictures Melanie Coombs Tel: 61-3-9416-3566 melanie@melodramapictures.com Garden/ing Eriko Sonada eriko_sonoda@yahoo.co.jp The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia New Zealand Film Commission Juliette Veber Tel: 64-4-382-7686 juliette@nzfilm.co.nz The Ground Beneath Passion Pictures Kristina Ceyton Tel: 61-2-9699-7645 kceyton@optusnet.com.au The Herd Venom LTD Andrew Freedman Tel: 353-1-497-5980 freedman@venom.ie Her Meds Cinemabelli Matt Cibelli Tel: 206-351-8647 matt@cinemabelli.com Horizontal Boundaries Pat O’Neill

Tel: 626-345-9656 lookoutfilm@earthlink.net Horn Dog Plymptoons John Holderried Tel: 212-741-0322 plymptoons@aol.com Horsefingers 3: Starfucker Kirsten Kearse Tel: 917-690-8195 kirkearse@gmail.com Ideation Jeremiah Dickey Tel: 917-992-2603 tinsimian@gmail.com Immersion Richard Levien Tel: 510-610-2900 richard.levien@gmail.com Incubus Drone Ryan Wetherall Tel: 763-412-5854 axien9@gmail.com It’s In The P-I The Last Quest Bradley Hutchinson Tel: 509-760-3411 bradleyjohutchinson@gmail.com James Connor Clements Tel: 44-78-1409-7070 shortfilmni@gmail.com Kanizsa Hill Evelyn Lee Tel: 201-248-2516 evelyncorea@gmail.com Kudan Links DigiWorks Inc. Takashi Fukumoto Tel: 81-3-5420-6138 kudan@linksdw.imagica.co.jp Lessons From The Night Feather Films Pty Ltd Melanie Brunt Tel: 61-4-3868-0068 melanie@featherfilms.com.au Let’s Dance Andantefilm Erick Love Lundqvist Tel: 46-7-3383-4928 erick.lundqvist@gmail.com Lost Paradise Oded Binnun Tel: 97-25-4471-6107 odedbinnun@gmail.com Love Bruce Melhuish Tel: 44-75-2577-6947 bmelhuish@gmail.com Love on the Tundra Dana Turken Tel: 917-776-3935 danaturken@hotmail.com Love You More Picture Farm Limited Adrian Sturges Tel: 44-20-7193-8735 adrian@picture-farm.com

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Lowland Fell Ailish Bracken Tel: 353-1-667-8066 ailish@blinder.ie Madam President Weston Woods Christine Flaherty Tel: 203-845-0197 CFlaherty@scholastic.com Maggie and Mildred Holly Klein Tel: 503-327-1591 maggieandmildred@hotmail.com Make My Day M&M Productions Kimie Schubert Tel: 45-7020-3080 mail@mmproductions.dk Mite Karl Tebbe Tel: 49-30-6120-9001 karltebbe@gmx.de Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is Reck Filmproduktion Sabine Girsberger Tel: 41-44-241-3763 sabine.girsberger@reckfilm.ch Next Floor PHI/ Prends ca court!

Danny Lennon Tel: 514-844-5454 dboylennon@gmail.com Northern Highway IMCINE Alejandro Díaz Tel: 52-55-5448-5345 difuinte@imcine.gob.mx November Constance Best Tel: 425-836-5677 lfcproductions@comcast.net One Night Laura Jean Cronin pgallery1001@qwestoffice.net Orgesticulanismus Camera ETC Sarah Martin Tel: 32-4253-5997 sarah.martin@camera-etc.be

Slow Boat to Thassos Jon Behrens bolexman@msn.com Somewhere Salise Hughes Tel: 206-860-2158 shughes305@earthlink.net Sophia + Anna Thinklab, Inc. Matt Daniels Tel: 206-390-2269 matt@thinklab.com The Spam Job Padraic Culham Tel: 818-634-5766 padraic.culham@gmail.com Sparks 5100 Films, LLC

Beau J. Genot Tel: 310-721-7698 bgenot@earthlink.net Sweet Virginia Zach Carver Tel: 425-260-6866 zachcarver@gmail.com Ten For Grandpa Chop Wood Carry Water Doug Karr Tel: 212-260-0685 doug@chopwood.com Thicker Than Water Reel Grrls Lila Kitaeff Lila@reelgrrls.org Thirteen or so Minutes The Branden Blinn Media Group,LLC Branden Blinn Tel: 310-883-8564 thebbmediagroup@gmail.com This Is Her New Zealand Film Commission Juliette Veber Tel: 64-4-382-7686 juliette@nzfilm.co.nz Through The Ear Joaquim Haickel Tel: 55-98-8121- 9868 jnhaickel@hotmail.com

Páidi’s Tale Fingers Crossed Films Colm Bairéad Tel: 353-1-847-9122 cbairead@hotmail.com

Treevenge Yer Dead Rob Cotterill Tel: 902-452-8161 rob@yerdead.com

Photograph of Jesus Laurie Hill Tel: 44-20-8211-9943 lauriehi2@yahoo.co.uk

Turn to Black ECAM Ismael Martín Tel: 34-9-1512-1060 ismael@ecam.es

Pockets The Hobo Film Company James Lees Tel: 44-77-9911-5959 lees.james@gmail.com

Twoyoungmen, UT. Sam McConnell Tel: 917-770-9679 s.mcconnell@mac.com

Post-It Love Medb Riordan Tel: 44-20-7395-4155 medb@academyfilms.com

Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall Sam Green samgreenfilm@gmail.com

Puccini Conservato Michael Snow Tel: 416-922-1477 snowmic@gmail.com

Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death Aardman Animation Natalie Martin natalie.martin@aardman.com

Push Button House PS Pictures Ryan Silbert Tel: 212-683-5351 rsilbert@pspictures.com Ralph Parkville Pictures Olivier Kaempfer Tel: 44-78-3655-1683 olivier@parkvillepictures.com Safe Passage SIFF Fly Films Dustin Kaspar Dustin.kaspar@siff.net Second Guessing Grandma Wil LaFayette Tel: 310-274-6102 wil@giraldi.com Short Term 12 Destin Daniel Cretton Tel: 619-501-8697 destindaniel@gmail.com

Welgunzer Bradford Schmidt Tel: 247-214-3609 artistsunknown@gmail.com Western Spaghetti PES Sarah Phelps sarah@eatpes.com What’s Virgin Mean?

Spellbound Films Sandra Gorel Tel: 44-79-7714-6322 sandragorel@hotmail.com Yuri Kaliber Film Willem Baptist Tel: 31-6-4306-1200 info@kaliberfilm.nl

SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) Philipp Lachenmann Tel: 49-17-9535-8013 lachenmann@gmx.net Sigh!

Nùfilms Catherine Simard Tel: 514-925-6000 go@nufilms.ca

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SPECIAL TICKETS AND PACKAGES Cinematic Six-Pack: $57 (SIFF Supporters $51) Includes admission to any six films priced $11 or less, depending on availability. There is a two-ticket limit per film.

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Platinum Pass: $1760 (SIFF Supporters $1485) Includes guaranteed seating to all Festival screenings (with the exception of Secret Festival), all Gala screenings and receptions, the Festival Forums, press screenings, reserved seating area at the Opening and Closing Night Galas, and an invitation for the passholder and guest to a private Festival reception. Quantities are limited.

Platinum Plus Pass: $2750 (SIFF Supporters $2200) Includes all the benefits of the Platinum Pass, plus reserved seating for all screenings and concierge service during the Festival.

Full Series Pass: $850 (SIFF Supporters $750) Includes admissions to all public screenings and press screenings (except Gala screenings, Secret Festival, and special events). Seating is not guaranteed. This pass requires a photo.

Weekly Pass: $325 (SIFF Supporters $275) Includes admission to all public screenings for the specified week.

(Excludes Gala screenings, special events, and the Secret Festival).

Secret Festival Memberships: $53 (SIFF Supporters $43) Includes admission to the four Secret Festival Sunday morning screenings. All are required to sign an Oath of Silence promising not to disclose any information about the films shown in the series. Film titles are not announced. Admission to Secret Festival screenings is by membership only. No individual tickets sold.

SIFF Gala Pass: $175 (SIFF Supporters $150) Includes admission to Opening Night, Closing Night, and Centerpiece Gala films and receptions.

ShortsFest Weekend Pass: $100 (SIFF Supporters $75) Includes admission to all ShortsFest weekend screenings. May 29-31, SIFF Cinema.

BECOME A SIFF SUPPORTER

Student and Senior Reel Deals: $35 Includes admission to any five films priced $11 or less, depending on availability, and limited to one ticket per film. Available to all students and seniors (62 and older) with valid ID.

SIFF Supporters enable us to be a premier international film organization supporting initiatives such as hosting filmmakers from around the globe, expanding cinema through education, and producing the largest film festival in the United States. SIFF Supporters receive invitations to free screenings, discounted tickets, and more. Visit www.siff.net and become a SIFF Supporter today!

Gift Certificates: Available in $25 denominations. Gift certificates are good for merchandise and tickets, and may be redeemed at the SIFF office, the Festival Box Office, or at any SIFF venue.

SIFF BOX OFFICE

SPECIAL EVENTS

Purchase tickets online: www.siff.net Central Pass & Main Ticketing Box Office: Pacific Place, 600 Pine Street, second level Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11:00am – 7:00pm, Sundays and Memorial Day, Noon – 6:00pm. The Main Box Office can process passes, ticket packages, and single ticket orders. Passes may be picked up at the Pacific Place Box Office and the SIFF Main Office.

Opening Night Gala: In the Loop, $50 (SIFF Supporters $45) for both the film and Gala, and includes hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and two complimentary cocktails. Premium tickets are $100 (SIFF Supporters $90) with benefits including preferred entry into the film and complimentary cocktails all night.

VIP tickets are $200. 7:00pm, May 21, Paramount Theatre

Purchase tickets by phone: 206-324-9996

Closing Night Gala OSS 117: Lost in Rio, $40 (SIFF Supporters $35) for the film and Gala, includes hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and two complimentary cocktails.

Premium tickets are $80 (SIFF Supporters $70) with benefits including preferred entry into the film and complimentary cocktails all night. 6:30pm, June 14, Cinerama

Rush Tickets

Centerpiece Gala: Humpday $25 film & reception (SIFF Supporters $23, advance) $13 film only (SIFF Supporters $11, advance) 7:00pm, June 5, Egyptian Theatre

All programs are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges are given, except in the case of program cancellations.

Gay-la: Patrik Age 1.5, $25 film & reception (SIFF Supporters $23, advanced) $11 film only (SIFF Supporters $9, advance) 7:30pm, May 28, Egyptian Theatre Tribute to Spike Lee/Passing Strange: $200 Tribute event & dinner. $35 Tribute event only (SIFF Supporters $25, advance) Dinner 7:00pm, May 26. Tribute event 7:00pm, May 27, Egyptian Theatre An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola/Tetro: $125 reception & film, $25 film only (SIFF Supporters $20) 7:00pm, June 10, Egyptian Theatre Face the Music: No Age performs The Bear $20 Advance/$22 Door. 7:00pm (all ages) and 9:30pm (21+), June 12, The Triple Door

How to Buy Tickets Tickets to any screening or theater may be purchased online, by phone, or at any Festival box office up to 30 minutes before showtime, subject to availability. Thirty minutes prior to showtime, tickets must be purchased at the specific venue for that film or event. Venue box offices open 30 minutes before the first screening of the day and close 15 minutes after the last screening of the day begins. Seating is only guaranteed until 10 minutes prior to screening. No late seating.

When advance tickets are no longer available, a limited number of rush tickets may become available at the door five to ten minutes prior to the screening. Rush tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis, depending on how many seats are available. Cash only, full price.

THE NOT-SO-FINE PRINT Each film is shown in its original language with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted.

No babes in arms and, with the exception of the Films4Families series, no children under 6 years old. Films are unrated and may not be suitable for ages 16 and under, unless otherwise noted. Parental discretion is advised.

Film length does not include introductions or Q&A sessions following the screening.

All audience members must leave the theater following each screening. Leaving belongings and saving seats between shows is not allowed.

Cameras, camera phones, and recording devices are not permitted in the theater. Please silence all cellular phones, pagers, and watches when in the theater.

Due to piracy prevention efforts by our film suppliers, you and your personal property may be subject to a physical search upon entrance to Festival venues. The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement, including infringement without monetary gain, is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to five years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

SIFF reserves the right to refuse service.

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HOW TO FESTIVAL HOW TO GET TO SIFF 2009 Parking, Bus, and Other Transportation Ideas Admiral Theater 2343 California Avenue SW BUS: Routes 51, 55, 65, 57, 85, 128.

CAR: Parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets.

Alki Room 305 Harrison Street, Seattle Center BUS: Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 30, 45, 81, 82, 994.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in nearby pay parking garages.

Cinerama 2100 Fourth Avenue at Lenora BUS: Routes 19, 24, 27, 33, 56, 57, 82, 121, 152, 162, 170, 174, 202, 210, 216, 550, 554, and many others.

CAR: Metered and paid surface lot parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets.

Egyptian Theatre 805 East Pine Street BUS: Routes 2, 9, 10, 11, 43, 49, 60, 84.

CAR: Within walking distance of the Northwest Film Forum. Parking is available on the street (metered and zone permit parking) or at the Seattle Central Community College garage, located at Harvard and Pine.

Harvard Exit Theatre 807 East Roy Street at Harvard BUS: Routes 9, 14, 49, 60.

CAR: Parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets, including on 10th Avenue or Broadway, or in nearby pay lots.

Juanita Beach Park 9703 NE Juanita Drive, Kirkland BUS: Routes 234, 236, 255, 260, 277, 935.

CAR: Free parking is available in a lot within the park.

Kirkland Performance Center 350 Kirkland Avenue BUS: One block from the Kirkland Transit Center, serving routes 230, 234, 236, 238, 245, 248, 255, 540.

CAR: Free four-hour parking is available in the Municipal Garage underneath the Kirkland Library, just west of the Performance Center.

Neptune Theatre 1303 NE 45th Street at Brooklyn BUS: Routes 30, 43, 44, 48, 49, 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 79, 83, 133, 167, 197, 271, 373, 556.

CAR: Parking is available on surrounding neighborhood streets and in nearby pay lots.

Northwest Film Forum 1515 12th Avenue, between Pike and Pine BUS: Routes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 43, 49, 60, 84.

CAR: Within walking distance of the Egyptian. Street parking is available after 6:00pm, Mon.-Sat.; pay lots also available nearby. Limited free parking for NWFF patrons is available after 9:00pm, at the Richmark Printers lot on 11th and Pine.

Pacific Place Cinemas (plus SIFF Main Ticketing and Pass Box Office) 600 Pine Street BUS: Routes 7, 10, 11, 14, 41, 43, 49, 64, 71, 72, 73, 74, 84, 101, 106, 125, 150, 174, 194, 301, 545, 550, and many others within a three-block radius.

CAR: The underground parking garage offers a special rate of $4 for four hours of parking after 5:00pm. Enter from either Sixth or Seventh avenues.

Pan Pacific Seattle Hotel 2125 Terry Avenue BUS: Routes 5, 8, 17, 26, 28, 70, 71, 72, 73, 98, 191, 358, and others with a three-block radius. Located on South Lake Union Streetcar line.

CAR: Underground pay parking is available, as well as metered street parking on surrounding streets.

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Paramount Theatre 911 Pine Street BUS: Routes 10, 11, 14, 43, 41, 49, 71, 72, 73, 74, 84, 150, 177, 194, 212, 225, 229, 255, and many others within a three-block radius.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in nearby pay parking garages, including the Grand Hyatt and the Washington State Convention & Trade Center.

SIFF Cinema 321 Mercer Street, McCaw Hall, Seattle Center BUS: Routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 30, 45, 81, 82, 994.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in adjacent pay parking garages, including one on Mercer, across from the cinema.

Uptown Cinemas 511 Queen Anne Avenue N BUS: 1, 2, 8, 13, 15, 18, 30, 81, 994.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in nearby pay lots.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Seattle Department of Transportation, general parking info: seattle.gov/transportation/parking Metro bus schedules, FAQs, trip planner: tripplanner.metrokc.gov

SIFF Lounge at Boom Noodle 1121 East Pike Street BUS: 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 43, 49, 60, 84.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in nearby pay lots.

Triple Door 216 Union Street BUS: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 18, 19, 21, 24, 33, 41, 54, 71, 131, 143, 152, 174, 190, 522, 577, 600, and many, many others.

CAR: Metered and zone parking is available on the street or in nearby pay lots.

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FILM TOPIC INDEX Action / Adventure The Admiral.................................... 176 The Adventures of Robin Hood ....... 65 The Beast Stalker .......................... 183 Careful With That Powertool .......... 142 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 Fifty Dead Men Walking ................. 199 Full Employment ............................ 105 The Hurt Locker ............................. 207 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) ........................................ 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) ........................................ 221 Once Upon a Time in the West ........ 69 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 The Sniper ..................................... 237 Tears of April .................................. 244 Turn to Black ...................................141 Warlords ........................................ 248 Africa Asamara ........................................ 142 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 Khamsa ......................................... 214 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Skin................................................ 236 Sweet Crude .................................. 120 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love ....................... 99 African-American Black Dynamite.............................. 103 Facing Ali ....................................... 157 Independent America: Rising from Ruins ........................117 Nurse.Fighter.Boy .......................... 228 Passing Strange ............................. 33 What’s on Your Plate ....................... 87 Animals Babau ............................................ 137 The Bear .......................................... 90 Dear Fatty ...................................... 137 Elephants ....................................... 137 The End of the Line ........................ 157 Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .................. 205 The Herd ........................................ 136 Horn Dog ....................................... 137 Mamma Moo and Crow ................... 85 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .... 85 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Animation $9.99 ............................................ 175 Alice’s Attic .................................... 138 Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Babau ............................................ 137 BOTNIK!......................................... 138 Control Master ................................141 Crane and Digger .......................... 137 Dahlia ............................................. 136 Dear Fatty ...................................... 137 Dig ................................................. 126 Egon & Dönci ................................... 83 Elephants ....................................... 137 Endless Tunnel............................... 138 Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis .......................................... 139 French Roast ................................. 139 The Funk ........................................ 142 Horn Dog ....................................... 137 Ideation .......................................... 137 Kanizsa Hill .................................... 139 Kudan ............................................ 136 Madam President .......................... 137 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 Mamma Moo and Crow ................... 85 Mite ................................................ 139 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .... 85

Nak .................................................. 87 Photograph of Jesus ..................... 136 Shu (Blue Hour Lullaby) ................. 126 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ........ 137 Western Spaghetti ......................... 137

Archival The Adventures of Robin Hood ....... 65 The Conversation............................. 69 Dodsworth ....................................... 65 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .................. 127 The Great Race................................ 43 Le Amiche ........................................ 61 Once Upon a Time in the West ........ 69 So Long at the Fair .......................... 71 Sunset Boulevard ............................ 65 The Third Man.................................. 65 Wild Rose ........................................ 67 A Woman Under the Influence ......... 61 Art/Design Art & Copy ..................................... 153 BOTNIK!......................................... 138 Control Master ................................141 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 Photograph of Jesus ..................... 136 Push Button House ....................... 138 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse .................. 168 Séraphine ...................................... 234 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention ...... 99 Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall ............... 137 We Live in Public ............................ 170 Yuri................................................. 138 Asian Andong .......................................... 137 The Beast Stalker .......................... 183 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly ............ 185 Boy ................................................ 186 Breathless ...................................... 186 Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ....................... 154 The Clone Returns Home .............. 191 Dancing Across Borders.................115 The Dark Harbor ............................ 193 Daytime Drinking ........................... 193 Departures ..................................... 194 Forever Enthralled .......................... 201 Fruit Fly .......................................... 203 Hansel and Gretel ......................... 205 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 Kudan ............................................ 136 Machan .......................................... 218 Manhole Children........................... 164 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 My Dear Enemy ............................... 51 Nak .................................................. 87 No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti ..................... 227 Opium War..................................... 229 The Red Race ................................ 167 The Sniper ..................................... 237 Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade .... 243 This Charming Girl ........................... 51 Treeless Mountain.......................... 246 Tulpan ............................................ 247 Unmistaken Child........................... 169 Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall ............... 137 Warlords ........................................ 248 Wild Rose ........................................ 67 Yes, I Can See Dead People ...........110 Biopic The Admiral.................................... 176 Forever Enthralled .......................... 201 Il Divo ............................................. 208 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) ........................................ 221

Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) ........................................ 221 Pop Star On Ice ............................. 166 Telstar .............................................. 97

Black Comedy All My Dreams on VHS................... 139 Black Dynamite.............................. 103 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly ............ 185 Boutonniere ................................... 139 Bronson ......................................... 187 Careful With That Powertool .......... 142 Daytime Drinking ........................... 193 Dead Snow .................................... 105 Deadgirl ......................................... 103 Everything Strange and New ........ 197 Excision ......................................... 139 Final Arrangements........................ 199 French Roast ..................................141 Full Employment ............................ 105 The Funk ........................................ 142 The Higher Force ........................... 206 Horn Dog ....................................... 137 The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ..............................116 I Sell the Dead................................ 107 Kanizsa Hill .................................... 139 Kisses ............................................ 214 My Dear Enemy ............................... 51 My Suicide ..................................... 149 The Paranoids................................ 231 Poppy Shakespeare ...................... 231 Rumba ........................................... 233 Sexykiller ........................................110 Small Crime ................................... 236 Telstar .............................................. 97 Ten For Grandpa ............................ 137 Thirteen or so Minutes ................... 138 This Is Her ...................................... 142 Treevenge ...................................... 139 Welgunzer .......................................141 White Night Wedding ..................... 249 With a Little Help from Myself ........ 251 World’s Greatest Dad ................... 122 Yes, I Can See Dead People ...........110 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction ................................. 123 Buddy Picture Captive........................................... 189 Humpday ......................................... 29 I Sell the Dead................................ 107 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) ........................................ 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) ........................................ 221 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 The One-Handed Trick .................. 228 Poppy Shakespeare ...................... 231 Spring Breakdown ......................... 238 Chinese Language The Beast Stalker .......................... 183 Forever Enthralled .......................... 201 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti ..................... 227 The Red Race ................................ 167 The Shaft ....................................... 235 The Sniper ..................................... 237 Warlords ........................................ 248 Yes, I Can See Dead People ...........110 Comedy All My Dreams on VHS................... 139 Andong .......................................... 137 The Answer Man ............................ 179 The Baby Formula ......................... 181 Baby Love ...................................... 182 The Back Room ............................. 138 The Bake Shop Ghost ................... 136

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Beauties at War ............................. 183 Black Dynamite.............................. 103 BOTNIK!......................................... 138 Boutonniere ....................................141 Chef’s Special................................ 190 Cold Souls ..................................... 192 Daddy Cool .................................... 192 The Dark Harbor ............................ 193 The Day My Parents Became Cool .141 Eldorado ........................................ 196 Everyday People .............................141 Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis .......................................... 139 Finding Bliss ...................................116 fOUR .............................................. 142 Four Boxes .................................... 202 A French Gigolo ............................. 202 French Roast ..................................141 Fruit Fly .......................................... 203 Full Employment ............................ 105 The Girl from Monaco .................... 203 The Great Race................................ 43 Horn Dog ....................................... 137 Humpday ......................................... 29 The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ..............................116 I’m No Dummy ............................... 162 In the Loop....................................... 25 Machan .......................................... 218 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Melodrama Habibi ......................... 220 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 Mid-August Lunch ......................... 222 Morris: A Life With Bells On ........... 224 Mothers & Daughters ..................... 226 North.............................................. 149 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ......... 45 OSS 117: Lost in Rio ........................ 27 The Overbrook Brothers ................ 229 A Pain in the Ass ............................ 230 Post-It Love.................................... 136 Ralph ..............................................141 Rumba ........................................... 233 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 The Spam Job ............................... 136 Sparks ........................................... 136 Spring Breakdown ......................... 238 Swimsuit Issue ............................... 243 This Is Her ...................................... 142 Treevenge ...................................... 139 True Adolescents ........................... 120 Tulpan ............................................ 247 Turn to Black ...................................141 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ........ 137 Welgunzer .......................................141 What’s Virgin Mean? .......................141 The Wild Bees.................................. 55 Wonderful World ............................ 253 The Yes Men Fix the World ............ 171

Coming of Age American Primitive ......................... 177 Andong .......................................... 137 At West of Pluto ............................. 145 Baghdad Express .......................... 138 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 Boy ................................................ 186 Butterfly ......................................... 142 Daddy Cool .................................... 192 Don’t Let Me Drown....................... 195 The Ground Beneath ..................... 142 I’m Gonna Explode ........................ 209 I Know You Know .......................... 208 Immersion .......................................141 James ............................................ 136

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FILM TOPIC INDEX Khamsa ......................................... 214 Kisses ............................................ 214 Love You More ............................... 136 Lowland Fell ....................................141 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s ...... 223 My Suicide ..................................... 149 Paper Heart ................................... 230 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Second Guessing Grandma .......... 138 Short Term 12 ................................ 138 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 Stella .............................................. 239 Story of Jen ................................... 240 Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade .... 243 Ten For Grandpa ............................ 137 Thirteen or so Minutes ................... 138 Treeless Mountain.......................... 246 True Adolescents ........................... 120 Twoyoungmen, UT. ........................ 138 The Wild Bees.................................. 55

Cult Beket ............................................. 126 Black Dynamite.............................. 103 The Blindness of the Woods .......... 139 Dead Snow .................................... 105 Deadgirl ......................................... 103 Full Employment ............................ 105 Grace ............................................. 105 Hansel and Gretel ......................... 205 The Hills Run Red .......................... 107 Horn Dog ....................................... 137 Horsefingers 3: Starfucker............. 139 Incubus Drone ............................... 139 I Sell the Dead................................ 107 It Came From Kuchar..................... 129 Kaifeck Murder .............................. 212 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 My Suicide ..................................... 149 Next Floor ...................................... 136 OSS 117: Lost in Rio ........................ 27 Páidi’s Tale ......................................141 Sexykiller ........................................110 Thicker Than Water.........................141 Treevenge ...................................... 139 Zift.................................................. 253 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction ....................... 123 Dance 2081............................................... 136 Boy ................................................ 186 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 Dancing Across Borders.................115 Danse Macabre ............................. 103 Every Little Step ............................... 41 Favela on Blast ................................ 95 Fruit Fly .......................................... 203 Gotta Dance .................................. 161 Morris: A Life With Bells On ........... 224 Orgesticulanismus ......................... 142 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Rumba ........................................... 233 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 Detective/Mystery The Beast Stalker .......................... 183 Sparks ........................................... 136 talhotblond..................................... 169 Ten For Grandpa ............................ 137 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ........ 137 Yes, I Can See Dead People ...........110 Zift.................................................. 253

Documentary 575 Castro Street........................... 138 Afghan Star .................................... 153 All Tomorrow’s Parties ..................... 95 Art & Copy ..................................... 153 Asamara ........................................ 142 Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle ........................115 The Beaches of Agnès................... 154 Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona .......................... 93 Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ....................... 154 California Company Town .............. 127 City of Borders............................... 155 The Cove ....................................... 155 Dahlia ............................................. 136 Dancing Across Borders.................115 Dark Material ..................................141 Defamation .................................... 156 Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential .........115 El General ...................................... 156 The End of the Line ........................ 157 Every Little Step ............................... 41 Everyday People .............................141 Facing Ali ....................................... 157 Favela on Blast ................................ 95 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 Food, Inc........................................ 159 The Fortress .................................. 160 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 The Garden .................................... 161 The Herd ........................................ 136 Icons Among Us .............................. 91 I’m No Dummy ............................... 162 Independent America: Rising from Ruins ........................117 An Island Calling ............................ 162 It Came From Kuchar..................... 129 It’s In The P-I .................................. 136 It Takes a Cult .................................117 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 Know Your Mushrooms ................. 163 Lessons From The Night................ 142 Little Joe ........................................ 164 Manhole Children........................... 164 Maradona by Kusturica.................. 165 Modern Life.................................... 165 Passing Strange ............................. 33 Photograph of Jesus ..................... 136 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 Pockets .......................................... 139 Pop Star on Ice .............................. 166 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Prodigal Sons ................................ 167 Push Button House ....................... 138 The Red Race ................................ 167 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse .................. 168 A Sea Change................................ 168 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 The Spam Job ............................... 136 Sweet Crude .................................. 120 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention ...... 99 Unmistaken Child........................... 169 Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall ............... 137 We Live in Public ............................ 170 What’s on Your Plate ....................... 87 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe .............. 170 The Yes Men Fix the World ............ 171 Youssou Ndour: I Bring What I Love 99 Yuri................................................. 138 Drama $9.99 ............................................ 175 33 Scenes from Life ........................174

About Elly....................................... 175 Adam ............................................. 176 The Admiral.................................... 176 Against the Current ........................ 177 Ahmad’s Garden............................ 142 All My Dreams on VHS....................141 American Primitive ......................... 177 Amreeka ........................................ 178 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Apron Strings ................................. 179 The Archivist .................................. 138 Atlantic ........................................... 137 Atlantico ......................................... 138 The Back Room ............................. 138 Baghdad Express .......................... 138 The Bake Shop Ghost ................... 136 Ball Don’t Lie.................................. 182 Be Calm and Count to Seven ........ 145 Birdwatchers.................................. 184 Black Dogs Barking ....................... 184 Blessed Virgin ................................ 142 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 Boy ................................................ 186 Breathless ...................................... 186 Bronson ......................................... 187 Buddenbrooks ............................... 187 Buick Riviera .................................. 188 The Burning Plain .......................... 188 Butterfly ......................................... 142 Can Go Through Skin .................... 189 The Clone Returns Home .............. 191 Cloud 9 .......................................... 191 The Country Teacher ....................... 55 Departures ..................................... 194 The Desert Within .......................... 194 Dodsworth ....................................... 65 Don’t Let Me Drown....................... 195 Downloading Nancy ...................... 195 The Escape .................................... 196 Everyone Else ................................ 146 Excision ......................................... 139 The Exploding Girl ......................... 146 Fear Me Not ................................... 197 The Firm Land................................ 200 Flame & Citron ............................... 200 Forasters........................................ 201 fOUR .............................................. 142 Four Chapters ................................ 147 The Funk ........................................ 142 God’s Offices ................................. 204 The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia ................ 142 The Ground Beneath ..................... 142 Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .................. 205 The Headless Woman ..................... 53 Her Meds ........................................141 Home ............................................. 147 Hooked .......................................... 207 The Hurt Locker ............................. 207 I Know You Know .......................... 208 I’m Gonna Explode ........................ 209 Immersion ...................................... 139 Incubus Drone ............................... 139 Inland ............................................. 148 Involuntary ..................................... 148 In Your Absence............................. 211 James ............................................ 136 Kabei - Our Mother ........................ 211 Kanchivaram .................................. 212 The Karamazovs ............................ 213 Katia’s Sister .................................. 213 Kisses ............................................ 214 La Ciénaga ...................................... 53 Laila’s Birthday .............................. 215 La Mission ..................................... 223 Le Amiche ........................................ 61 Let’s Dance.................................... 138 Like Dandelion Dust ....................... 216 Little Soldier ................................... 216 Live and Remember ...................... 217

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Eastern Europe 33 Scenes from Life ........................174 The Admiral.................................... 176 Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Buick Riviera .................................. 188 Captive........................................... 189

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Renton FilmFrenzy II An Epic 50-hour Ahead of the Curve Film Making Competition

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FILM TOPIC INDEX The Country Teacher ....................... 55 Egon & Dönci ................................... 83 Hooked .......................................... 207 The Karamazovs ............................ 213 Live and Remember ...................... 217 The Other Bank ............................. 150 Scratch .......................................... 234 Snow.............................................. 237 Sügisball ........................................ 241 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..................... 244 The Wild Bees.................................. 55 Wild Field ....................................... 250 Zift.................................................. 253

Environmental Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle ........................115 California Company Town .............. 127 The Cove ....................................... 155 Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential .........115 The End of the Line ........................ 157 Food, Inc........................................ 159 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 The Garden .................................... 161 Know Your Mushrooms ................. 163 November .......................................141 A Sea Change................................ 168 Epic Buddenbrooks ............................... 187 Forever Enthralled .......................... 201 The Great Race................................ 43 Once Upon a Time in the West ........ 69 Erotic/Sex All My Dreams on VHS................... 139 Blessed Virgin ................................ 142 The Blindness of the Woods .......... 139 The Burning Plain .......................... 188 Cloud 9 .......................................... 191 Deadgirl ......................................... 103 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .................. 127 Finding Bliss ...................................116 fOUR .............................................. 142 Give Me Your Hand ........................ 204 Horsefingers 3: Starfucker............. 139 Humpday ......................................... 29 Inju, the Beast in the Shadow ........ 209 Little Joe ........................................ 164 Lost Paradise ................................. 139 Love You More ............................... 136 Lowland Fell ....................................141 Sparks ........................................... 136 talhotblond..................................... 169 Tears of April .................................. 244 Through The Ear .............................141 Yuri................................................. 138 Zift.................................................. 253 Experimental/Avant-Garde Adulte ............................................ 126 All Tomorrow’s Parties ..................... 95 Babau ............................................ 137 Bedtime Story ................................ 126 Beket ............................................. 126 Dig ................................................. 126 The Blindness of the Woods .......... 139 California Company Town .............. 127 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 Dahlia ............................................. 136 Danse Macabre ............................. 103 Endless Tunnel............................... 138 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .................. 127 The Funk ........................................ 142 Garden/ing..................................... 126 Kanizsa Hill .................................... 139 Light Year....................................... 129 Mite ................................................ 139 Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is ...... 137

Orgesticulanismus ......................... 142 Our Beloved Month of August ....... 131 Puccini Conservato........................ 126 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ................ 232 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) ................ 126 Slow Boat to Thassos .................... 126 Somewhere ................................... 126

Family Friendly The Adventures of Robin Hood ....... 65 Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Andong .......................................... 137 Atlantic ........................................... 137 Babau ............................................ 137 Baghdad Express .......................... 138 The Bake Shop Ghost ................... 136 The Bear .......................................... 90 Crane and Digger .......................... 137 Dear Fatty ...................................... 137 Egon & Dönci ................................... 83 Elephants ....................................... 137 Everyday People .............................141 Gotta Dance .................................. 161 Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .................. 205 The Herd ........................................ 136 Ideation .......................................... 137 Immersion .......................................141 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .... 85 Nak .................................................. 87 Post-It Love.................................... 136 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 Western Spaghetti ......................... 137 What’s on Your Plate ....................... 87 What’s Virgin Mean? .......................141 Fantasy Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 The Blindness of the Woods .......... 139 Dear Fatty ...................................... 137 Hansel and Gretel ......................... 205 Kanizsa Hill .................................... 139 Krabat ............................................ 215 Kudan ............................................ 136 Mite ................................................ 139 Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is ...... 137 Nak .................................................. 87 Next Floor ...................................... 136 November .......................................141 Páidi’s Tale ..................................... 139 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) ................ 126 Thicker Than Water.........................141 Welgunzer ...................................... 139 Film Noir The Missing Person ...................... 222 The Square .................................... 239 Sunset Boulevard ............................ 65 The Third Man.................................. 65 Zift.................................................. 253 Film Related 575 Castro Street........................... 138 Apron Strings ................................. 179 The Beaches of Agnès................... 154 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .................. 127 The Hills Run Red .......................... 107 It Came From Kuchar..................... 129 Make my Day ................................. 142 Sunset Boulevard ............................ 65 Food Apron Strings ................................. 179 The Bake Shop Ghost ................... 136 Chef’s Special................................ 190 Food, Inc........................................ 159 Know Your Mushrooms ................. 163 Mid-August Lunch ......................... 222

Modern Life.................................... 165 My Suicide ..................................... 149 Next Floor ...................................... 136 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ........ 137 Western Spaghetti ......................... 137 What’s on Your Plate ....................... 87

French Language At West of Pluto ............................. 145 Baby Love ...................................... 182 The Beaches of Agnès................... 154 Beauties at War ............................. 183 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 Daddy Cool .................................... 192 Final Arrangements........................ 199 The Fortress .................................. 160 A French Gigolo ............................. 202 The Girl from Monaco .................... 203 Give Me Your Hand ........................ 204 God’s Offices ................................. 204 Home ............................................. 147 Inju, the Beast in the Shadow ........ 209 Khamsa ......................................... 214 Melodrama Habibi ......................... 220 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) ........................................ 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) ........................................ 221 The Missing Person ...................... 222 Modern Life.................................... 165 Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s ...... 223 Necessities of Life.......................... 226 Orgesticulanismus ......................... 142 OSS 117: Lost in Rio ........................ 27 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ......... 45 A Pain in the Ass ............................ 230 Ralph ..............................................141 Séraphine ...................................... 234 Stella .............................................. 239 Story of Jen ................................... 240 Summer Hours .............................. 242 The Wedding Song ........................ 248 Welcome........................................ 249 With a Little Help from Myself ........ 251 Gay/Lesbian 575 Castro Street........................... 138 American Primitive ......................... 177 Atlantico ......................................... 138 The Baby Formula ......................... 181 Baby Love ...................................... 182 The Back Room ............................. 138 Boy ................................................ 186 Captive........................................... 189 Chef’s Special................................ 190 City of Borders............................... 155 The Country Teacher ....................... 55 Every Little Step ............................... 41 Everything Strange and New ........ 197 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 Fruit Fly .......................................... 203 Give Me Your Hand ........................ 204 James ............................................ 136 La Mission ..................................... 223 Little Joe ........................................ 164 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 One Night ...................................... 137 Patrik Age 1.5 .................................. 31 Pop Star On Ice ............................. 166 Prodigal Sons ................................ 167 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ................ 232 Second Guessing Grandma .......... 138 Tears of April .................................. 244 Telstar .............................................. 97 Thirteen or so Minutes ................... 138 Twoyoungmen, UT. ........................ 138 A Woman’s Way ............................. 252

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Yuri................................................. 138 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction ....................... 123

German Language Buddenbrooks ............................... 187 Everyone Else ................................ 146 Kaifeck Murder .............................. 212 Krabat ............................................ 215 Mite ................................................ 139 North Face ..................................... 227 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention ...... 99 A Woman in Berlin ......................... 251 History 575 Castro Street........................... 138 The Admiral.................................... 176 The Adventures of Robin Hood ....... 65 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 California Company Town .............. 127 Defamation .................................... 156 Facing Ali ....................................... 157 Flame & Citron ............................... 200 Il Divo ............................................. 208 I’m No Dummy ............................... 162 An Island Calling ............................ 162 It Takes a Cult .................................117 Kaifeck Murder .............................. 212 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse .................. 168 Warlords ........................................ 248 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe .............. 170 Horror The Babysitter ................................141 Danse Macabre ............................. 103 Dead Snow .................................... 105 Deadgirl ......................................... 103 Excision ......................................... 139 Full Employment ............................ 105 Grace ............................................. 105 Hansel and Gretel ......................... 205 The Hills Run Red .......................... 107 Incubus Drone ............................... 139 I Sell the Dead................................ 107 Next Floor ...................................... 136 Sexykiller ........................................110 Treevenge ...................................... 139 Yes, I Can See Dead People ...........110 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction ....................... 123 Human Rights Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ....................... 154 Defamation .................................... 156 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 The Firm Land................................ 200 The Fortress .................................. 160 Four Chapters ................................ 147 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 Inland ............................................. 148 Kanchivaram .................................. 212 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 Machan .......................................... 218 Manhole Children........................... 164 The Other Bank ............................. 150 Poppy Shakespeare ...................... 231 Skin................................................ 236 Sweet Crude .................................. 120 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..................... 244 Unmistaken Child........................... 169 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe .............. 170 Wind Blows in the Meadow ........... 250 Immigration Amreeka ........................................ 178 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly ............ 185

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FILM TOPIC INDEX Don’t Let Me Drown....................... 195 The Escape .................................... 196 The Fortress .................................. 160 Inland ............................................. 148 Katia’s Sister .................................. 213 Machan .......................................... 218 Northern Highway ...........................141 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..................... 244 Welcome........................................ 249

Indian The Firm Land................................ 200 Four Chapters ................................ 147 Kanchivaram .................................. 212 Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade .... 243 Indigenous Peoples Birdwatchers.................................. 184 An Island Calling ............................ 162 Necessities of Life.......................... 226 The Strength of Water.................... 241 Tulpan ............................................ 247 Italian Language Il Divo ............................................. 208 Le Amiche ........................................ 61 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Mid-August Lunch ......................... 222 Quiet Chaos ................................... 232 Japanese The Clone Returns Home .............. 191 The Dark Harbor ............................ 193 Departures ..................................... 194 It Came From Kuchar..................... 129 Kabei - Our Mother ........................ 211 Kudan ............................................ 136 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Still Walking ................................... 240 Japanese Language The Clone Returns Home .............. 191 The Dark Harbor ............................ 193 Departures ..................................... 194 Kabei - Our Mother ........................ 211 Manhole Children........................... 164 School Days With a Pig.................. 233 Still Walking ................................... 240 Jewish City of Borders............................... 155 Defamation .................................... 156 Lost Paradise ................................. 139 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 The Wedding Song ........................ 248 Latin America Birdwatchers.................................. 184 The Blindness of the Woods .......... 139 Carmo, Hit the Road ...................... 190 The Desert Within .......................... 194 El General ...................................... 156 Favela on Blast ................................ 95 The Headless Woman ..................... 53 I’m Gonna Explode ........................ 209 La Ciénaga ...................................... 53 Lovely Loneliness........................... 217 The Maid ........................................ 218 The Paranoids................................ 231 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ................ 232 Tetro................................................. 39 Through The Ear ............................ 139 Literature 2081............................................... 136 Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Buddenbrooks ............................... 187 Dodsworth ....................................... 65 Hansel and Gretel ......................... 205 The Karamazovs ............................ 213 Live and Remember ...................... 217

Madam President .......................... 137 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .... 85 Poppy Shakespeare ...................... 231 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 That Evening Sun........................... 245 The Third Man.................................. 65

Middle East About Elly....................................... 175 Ahmad’s Garden............................ 142 Amreeka ........................................ 178 Be Calm and Count to Seven ........ 145 Black Dogs Barking ....................... 184 City of Borders............................... 155 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 Laila’s Birthday .............................. 215 Lost Paradise ................................. 139 The Market - A Tale of Trade .......... 219 Melodrama Habibi ......................... 220 Music (500) Days of Summer ...................174 Afghan Star .................................... 153 All Tomorrow’s Parties ..................... 95 Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona .......................... 93 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 Everyday People .............................141 Favela on Blast ................................ 95 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 Forever Enthralled .......................... 201 Gotta Dance .................................. 161 Icons Among Us .............................. 91 Love You More ............................... 136 Melodrama Habibi ......................... 220 The One-Handed Trick .................. 228 Orgesticulanismus ......................... 142 Passing Strange ............................. 33 Somewhere ................................... 126 Sophia + Anna ............................... 142 Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary ............................ 97 Sweet Virginia .................................141 Telstar .............................................. 97 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention ...... 99 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love 99 Musical Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Every Little Step ............................... 41 Fruit Fly .......................................... 203 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .... 85 Nak .................................................. 87 Passing Strange ............................. 33 Somewhere ................................... 126 Sounds Like Teen Spirit : A Popumentary ............................ 97 Nature Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle .............115 The Bear .......................................... 90 Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential .........115 The End of the Line ........................ 157 Know Your Mushrooms ................. 163 Light Year....................................... 129 Modern Life.................................... 165 November .......................................141 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 A Sea Change................................ 168 Period Piece The Admiral.................................... 176 American Primitive ......................... 177 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle .............115 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 Buddenbrooks ............................... 187

The Desert Within .......................... 194 Flame & Citron ............................... 200 Four Chapters ................................ 147 The Great Race................................ 43 I Know You Know .......................... 208 Il Divo ............................................. 208 I Sell the Dead................................ 107 Kabei - Our Mother ........................ 211 Krabat ............................................ 215 Little Joe ........................................ 164 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s ...... 223 North Face ..................................... 227 Séraphine ...................................... 234 So Long at the Fair .......................... 71 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 Stella .............................................. 239 Tears of April .................................. 244 Telstar .............................................. 97 Warlords ........................................ 248 The Wedding Song ........................ 248

Police/Law/Crime 2081............................................... 136 Black Dogs Barking ....................... 184 Black Dynamite.............................. 103 Breathless ...................................... 186 Bronson ......................................... 187 The Conversation............................. 69 French Roast ..................................141 The Higher Force ........................... 206 Il Divo ............................................. 208 Khamsa ......................................... 214 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) ........................................ 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) ........................................ 221 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 Small Crime ................................... 236 The Sniper ..................................... 237 Sparks ........................................... 136 talhotblond..................................... 169 Terribly Happy................................ 245 Troubled Water ............................. 247 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe ............................... 170 Zift.................................................. 253 Political Afghan Star .................................... 153 Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ....................... 154 The Conversation............................. 69 Defamation .................................... 156 El General ...................................... 156 The Escape .................................... 196 Fifty Dead Men Walking ................. 199 Fig Trees ........................................ 159 The Firm Land................................ 200 The Fortress .................................. 160 Four Chapters ................................ 147 The Garden .................................... 161 Il Divo ............................................. 208 In the Loop....................................... 25 Independent America: Rising from Ruins ........................117 Inland ............................................. 148 In Your Absence............................. 211 An Island Calling ............................ 162 Kimjongilia ..................................... 163 Madam President .......................... 137 Opium War..................................... 229 The Other Bank ............................. 150 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 Scratch .......................................... 234 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade .... 243 The Third Man.................................. 67 The Yes Men Fix the World ............ 171

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Religion Afghan Star .................................... 153 Blessed Virgin ................................ 142 The Desert Within .......................... 194 Four Chapters ................................ 147 It Takes a Cult .................................117 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 Unmistaken Child........................... 169 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love 99 Road Movie Beket ............................................. 126 Buick Riviera .................................. 188 Carmo, Hit the Road ...................... 190 Give Me Your Hand ........................ 204 The Other Bank ............................. 150 Romance Adam ............................................. 176 All My Dreams on VHS....................141 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Atlantic ........................................... 137 Atlantico ......................................... 138 The Back Room ............................. 138 The Dark Harbor ............................ 193 fOUR .............................................. 142 Lost Paradise ................................. 139 Love ............................................... 136 Love on the Tundra ........................ 137 Love You More ............................... 136 Lowland Fell ....................................141 The Merry Gentleman .................... 220 Paper Heart ................................... 230 Post-It Love.................................... 136 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ................ 232 Ralph ............................................. 230 The Shaft ....................................... 235 Somewhere ................................... 126 Sweet Virginia .................................141 talhotblond..................................... 169 Tears of April .................................. 244 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..................... 244 Thirteen or so Minutes ................... 138 Tulpan ............................................ 247 White Night Wedding ..................... 249 Romantic comedy (500) Days of Summer ...................174 The Answer Man ............................ 179 Lovely Loneliness........................... 217 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 Post-It Love.................................... 136 Ralph ..............................................141 Sweet Virginia .................................141 Russian Language The Admiral.................................... 176 Alisa’s Birthday ................................ 83 Captive........................................... 189 Live and Remember ...................... 217 Wild Field ....................................... 250 Scandinavian Dead Snow .................................... 105 The Escape .................................... 196 Fear Me Not ................................... 197 Flame & Citron ............................... 200 The Higher Force ........................... 206 Involuntary ..................................... 148 Let’s Dance.................................... 138 Light Year....................................... 129 Little Soldier ................................... 216 Make my Day ................................. 142 Mamma Moo and Crow ................... 85 North.............................................. 149 Patrik Age 1.5 .................................. 31

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FILM TOPIC INDEX Swimsuit Issue ............................... 243 Tears of April .................................. 244 Terribly Happy................................ 245 Troubled Water ............................. 247 White Night Wedding ..................... 249

The Paranoids................................ 231 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ................ 232 Sexykiller ........................................110 Turn to Black ...................................141

Science Fiction 2081............................................... 136 CC 2010......................................... 142 The Clone Returns Home .............. 191 Control Master ................................141 Egon & Dönci ................................... 83 Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis .......................................... 139 Incubus Drone ............................... 139 Moon ............................................. 224 November .......................................141 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) ................ 126 Sophia + Anna ............................... 142 Treevenge ...................................... 139 Welgunzer .......................................141

Sports/Athletics Against the Current ........................ 177 Ball Don’t Lie.................................. 182 Facing Ali ....................................... 157 Gotta Dance .................................. 161 Machan .......................................... 218 Maradona by Kusturica.................. 165 North Face ..................................... 227 Pop Star On Ice ............................. 166 The Red Race ................................ 167 Swimsuit Issue ............................... 243 Welcome........................................ 249

Seattle Arthur............................................. 256 Anatomy of a Fly ............................ 257 Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle .............115 Bedtime Story ................................ 126 Black Coffee .................................. 256 CC 2010......................................... 142 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 Dancing Across Borders.................115 Dark Material ................................. 139 The Day My Parents Became Cool .141 Endless Tunnel............................... 138 Finding Bliss ...................................116 Her Meds ....................................... 139 Humpday ......................................... 29 Icons Among Us .............................. 91 The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ..............................116 Independent America: Rising from Ruins ...........................................117 It’s In The P-I .................................. 136 It Takes a Cult .................................117 November .......................................141 One Night ...................................... 137 Pirate for the Sea ............................119 Safe Passage ................................. 257 Slow Boat to Thassos .................... 126 Somewhere ................................... 126 The Spy and the Sparrow ...............119 Sweet Crude .................................. 120 Thicker Than Water.........................141 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention ...... 99 True Adolescents ........................... 120 The Whole Truth ............................ 122 World’s Greatest Dad ................... 122 Seniors Cloud 9 .......................................... 191 Gotta Dance .................................. 161 Mid-August Lunch ......................... 222 Second Guessing Grandma .......... 138 That Evening Sun........................... 245 With a Little Help from Myself ........ 251 Spanish Language Adulte ............................................ 126 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Blessed Virgin ................................ 142 The Desert Within .......................... 194 El General ...................................... 156 The Headless Woman ..................... 53 I’m Gonna Explode ........................ 209 In Your Absence............................. 211 La Ciénaga ...................................... 53 Maradona by Kusturica.................. 165 Northern Highway ...........................141 The One-Handed Trick .................. 228

Teen Friendly At West of Pluto ............................. 145 Baghdad Express .......................... 138 Ball Don’t Lie.................................. 182 The Bear .......................................... 90 BOTNIK!......................................... 138 Boutonniere ....................................141 Butterfly ......................................... 142 Careful With That Powertool .......... 142 Daddy Cool .................................... 192 Dark Material ................................. 139 The Day My Parents Became Cool 139 The Dreamer .................................... 77 The Funk ........................................ 142 A Generation of Consolidation ......... 77 God’s Offices ................................. 204 The Ground Beneath ..................... 142 Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .................. 205 The Hysteria..................................... 77 If U Want 2 Get Technical ................ 77 I’m No Dummy ............................... 162 It’s In The P-I .................................. 136 Krabat ............................................ 215 Leila’s Eyebrow ................................ 77 Marcello Marcello .......................... 219 Messing Around .............................. 77 Miao Miao ...................................... 221 Morris: A Life With Bells On ........... 224 My World ......................................... 77 No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti ..................... 227 Orgesticulanismus ......................... 142 OSS 117: Lost in Rio ........................ 27 Paper Heart ................................... 230 Post-It Love.................................... 136 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Ralph ..............................................141 Recipe for Beauty ............................ 77 The Red Race ................................ 167 Rumba ........................................... 233 A Sea Change................................ 168 Second Guessing Grandma .......... 138 So Long at the Fair .......................... 71 The Strength of Water.................... 241 Sweet Virginia .................................141 The Adventures of Robin Hood ....... 65 Thicker Than Water.........................141 Tiny Pillows ...................................... 77 The “Twilight” Zone .......................... 77 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ........ 137 Western Spaghetti ......................... 137 What’s Virgin Mean? .......................141 A Work of Fiction ............................. 77 Theatre 2081............................................... 136 Beket ............................................. 126 Cold Souls ..................................... 192 Every Little Step ............................... 41 The Karamazovs ............................ 213

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Thriller The Babysitter ................................141 The Conversation............................. 69 Deadgirl ......................................... 103 Fifty Dead Men Walking ................. 199 Four Boxes .................................... 202 I Know You Know .......................... 208 Incubus Drone ............................... 139 Inju, the Beast in the Shadow ........ 209 Kaifeck Murder .............................. 212 The Merry Gentleman .................... 220 Moon ............................................. 224 The Sniper ..................................... 237 So Long at the Fair .......................... 71 The Square .................................... 239 Ten For Grandpa ............................ 137 Terribly Happy................................ 245 The Third Man.................................. 65 Treevenge ...................................... 139 Zift.................................................. 253 War The Admiral.................................... 176 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ....................... 154 Captive........................................... 189 Flame & Citron ............................... 200 The Hurt Locker ............................. 207 Live and Remember ...................... 217 Opium War..................................... 229 The Other Bank ............................. 150 Snow.............................................. 237 Spring 1941 ................................... 238 Tears of April .................................. 244 Warlords ........................................ 248 A Woman in Berlin ......................... 251 Western Once Upon a Time in the West ........ 69 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) ................ 126 Woman Director $9.99 ............................................ 175 33 Scenes from Life ........................174 575 Castro Street........................... 138 American Primitive ......................... 177 Amreeka ........................................ 178 The Anarchist’s Wife ..................... 178 Apron Strings ................................. 179 At West of Pluto ............................. 145 The Baby Formula ......................... 181 The Babysitter ................................141 The Bake Shop Ghost ................... 136 The Beaches of Agnès................... 154 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 BOTNIK!......................................... 138 Boutonniere ....................................141 Butterfly ......................................... 142 California Company Town .............. 127 Can Go Through Skin .................... 189 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ... 126 City of Borders............................... 155 Cold Souls ..................................... 192 Crane and Digger .......................... 137 Dancing Across Borders.................115 Dark Material ................................. 139 Elephants ....................................... 137 El General ...................................... 156 The Escape .................................... 196 Everyone Else ................................ 146 Fifty Dead Men Walking ................. 199 Finding Bliss ...................................116 fOUR .............................................. 142 A French Gigolo ............................. 202 Garbage Dreams ........................... 160 The Girl from Monaco .................... 203 God’s Offices ................................. 204

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The Headless Woman ..................... 53 Home ............................................. 147 Horsefingers 3: Starfucker............. 139 Humpday ......................................... 29 The Hurt Locker ............................. 207 An Island Calling ............................ 162 It Came From Kuchar..................... 129 Kaifeck Murder .............................. 212 Kanizsa Hill .................................... 139 Katia’s Sister .................................. 213 La Ciénaga ...................................... 53 Little Joe ........................................ 164 Little Soldier ................................... 216 Lost Paradise ................................. 139 Lovely Loneliness........................... 217 Love on the Tundra ........................ 137 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s ...... 223 Morris: A Life With Bells On ........... 224 One Night ...................................... 137 Patrik Age 1.5 .................................. 31 Photograph of Jesus ..................... 136 Prodigal Sons ................................ 167 Rain ............................................... 150 Rumba ........................................... 233 A Sea Change................................ 168 Snow.............................................. 237 Somewhere ................................... 126 Stella .............................................. 239 Sweet Crude .................................. 120 talhotblond..................................... 169 Thicker Than Water.........................141 This Is Her ...................................... 142 Treeless Mountain.......................... 246 The Wedding Song ........................ 248 We Live in Public ............................ 170 The Whole Truth ............................ 122 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe .............. 170

Women 33 Scenes from Life ........................174 About Elly....................................... 175 The Baby Formula ......................... 181 Bluebeard ...................................... 185 The Burning Plain .......................... 188 Can Go Through Skin .................... 189 The Day My Parents Became Cool...............................141 Elephants ....................................... 137 Four Chapters ................................ 147 A French Gigolo ............................. 202 God’s Offices ................................. 204 Grace ............................................. 105 The Headless Woman ..................... 53 Hooked .......................................... 207 Katia’s Sister .................................. 213 La Ciénaga ...................................... 53 Madam President .......................... 137 Maggie and Mildred ....................... 137 The Maid ........................................ 218 Mid-August Lunch ......................... 222 Mothers & Daughters ..................... 226 Poppy Shakespeare ...................... 231 Princess of Africa ........................... 166 Séraphine ...................................... 234 Sexykiller ........................................110 Snow.............................................. 237 Spring Breakdown ......................... 238 Stella .............................................. 239 Story of Jen ................................... 240 Tears of April .................................. 244 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..................... 244 This Is Her ...................................... 142 Wind Blows in the Meadow ........... 250

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COUNTRY INDEX Afghanistan Afghan Star ................................ 153 Opium War................................. 229

Ten For Grandpa ........................ 137 Tiny Pillows .................................. 77 Treevenge .................................. 139

Algeria Inland ......................................... 148

Chile The Maid .................................... 218

Argentina The Blindness of the Woods ...... 139 The Headless Woman ................. 53 La Ciénaga .................................. 53 Lovely Loneliness....................... 217 The Paranoids............................ 231 Tetro* ........................................... 39

China Forever Enthralled ...................... 201 The Hysteria ................................. 77 The Red Race ............................ 167 The Shaft ................................... 235 Warlords* ................................... 248 Wild Rose..................................... 67

Australia $9.99* ........................................ 175 Ahmad’s Garden........................ 142 fOUR .......................................... 142 The Funk .................................... 142 The Ground Beneath ................. 142 Lessons From The Night ............ 142 The Square ................................ 239 Three Blind Mice ........................ 246

Croatia Buick Riviera .............................. 188

Austria Defamation* ............................... 156 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .............. 127 North Face ................................. 227 Bahamas Rain ........................................... 150 Belgium Eldorado .................................... 196 Home* ........................................ 147 Orgesticulanismus ..................... 142 Rumba ....................................... 233 Séraphine* ................................. 234 Bosnia-Herzegovina Buick Riviera* ............................. 188 Snow.......................................... 237 Brazil Atlantico ..................................... 138 Birdwatchers* ............................ 184 Carmo, Hit the Road .................. 190 Favela on Blast ............................ 95 La Dolorosa ............................... 185 Through The Ear ........................ 139 Bulgaria Captive* ..................................... 189 Zift.............................................. 253 Cambodia Dancing Across Borders* ...........115 Canada Amreeka .................................... 178 At West of Pluto ......................... 145 The Baby Formula...................... 181 Danse Macabre ......................... 103 Facing Ali ................................... 157 Fifty Dead Men Walking*............ 199 Fig Trees .................................... 159 Independent America: Rising from Ruins.....................117 Know Your Mushrooms ............. 163 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1)* ................................... 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2)* ................................... 221 Mommy is at the Hairdresser’s .. 223 Mothers & Daughters ................. 226 Necessities of Life ...................... 226 Next Floor .................................. 136 Nurse.Fighter.Boy ...................... 228 Pop Star On Ice* ........................ 166 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse* ............. 168 Story of Jen ............................... 240

Cuba Atlantico*.................................... 138 Cyprus Small Crime ............................... 236 Czech Republic The Country Teacher ................... 55 Flame & Citron* .......................... 200 The Karamazovs ........................ 213 The Wild Bees.............................. 55 Denmark Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country....................... 154 The Escape ................................ 196 Fear Me Not ............................... 197 Flame & Citron ........................... 200 Little Soldier ............................... 216 Make my Day ............................. 142 Terribly Happy ............................ 245 Estonia Sügisball .................................... 241 Fiji An Island Calling* ....................... 162 Finland Tears of April .............................. 244 France The Anarchist’s Wife* ................. 178 Baby Love .................................. 182 The Beaches of Agnès............... 154 The Bear ...................................... 90 Beauties at War ......................... 183 Bluebeard .................................. 185 The Country Teacher* .................. 55 Daddy Cool ................................ 192 Eldorado* ................................... 196 Final Arrangements.................... 199 The Firm Land* .......................... 200 A French Gigolo ......................... 202 French Roast ............................. 139 The Girl from Monaco ................ 203 Give Me Your Hand .................... 204 God’s Offices ............................. 204 The Headless Woman* ................ 53 Home* ........................................ 147 Hooked* ..................................... 207 Il Divo* ........................................ 208 Inju, the Beast in the Shadow .... 209 Khamsa ..................................... 214 Kimjongilia ................................. 163 La Ciénaga* ................................. 53 Lost Paradise ............................. 139 Maradona by Kusturica* ............ 165 Melodrama Habibi ..................... 220 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1) .................................... 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2) .................................... 221 Modern Life................................ 165

Opium War* ............................... 229 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies ..... 45 OSS 117: Lost in Rio .................... 27 Our Beloved Month of August* .. 131 A Pain in the Ass ........................ 230 Rumba* ...................................... 233 Séraphine .................................. 234 Snow* ........................................ 237 Stella .......................................... 239 Story of Jen* .............................. 240 Summer Hours .......................... 242 Tengri: Blue Heavens* ................ 244 The Wedding Song .................... 248 Welcome .................................... 249 With a Little Help from Myself .... 251 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love* .................. 99 Georgia The Other Bank ......................... 150 Germany 33 Scenes from Life*...................174 The Anarchist’s Wife * ................ 178 Buddenbrooks ........................... 187 Buick Riviera* ............................. 188 Cloud 9 ...................................... 191 The Country Teacher* .................. 55 Crane and Digger ...................... 137 Everyone Else ............................ 146 Flame & Citron* .......................... 200 Full Employment ........................ 105 Kaifeck Murder .......................... 212 Krabat ........................................ 215 Machan*..................................... 218 Mamma Moo and Crow*.............. 85 Marcello Marcello* ..................... 219 Mite ............................................ 139 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends 85 The Red Race* ........................... 167 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) ............ 126 Snow* ........................................ 237 The Strength of Water* .............. 241 Tears of April*............................. 244 Tengri: Blue Heavens* ................ 244 Tulpan* ....................................... 247 A Woman in Berlin ..................... 251 Greece Tears of April*............................. 244 A Woman’s Way ......................... 252 Hong Kong The Beast Stalker ...................... 183 Miao Miao .................................. 221 The Sniper ................................. 237 Warlords .................................... 248 Yes, I Can See Dead People .......110 Hungary Egon & Dönci ............................... 83 Mamma Moo and Crow*.............. 85 Iceland The Higher Force ....................... 206 White Night Wedding ................. 249 India The Firm Land* .......................... 200 Four Chapters ............................ 147 Kanchivaram .............................. 212 Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade 243 Indonesia Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly ........ 185 Iran About Elly................................... 175 Be Calm and Count to Seven .... 145 The Firm Land............................ 200 Snow* ........................................ 237

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Wind Blows in the Meadow ....... 250 Ireland Atlantic ....................................... 137 Butterfly ..................................... 142 The Herd .................................... 136 James ........................................ 136 Kisses ........................................ 214 Lowland Fell ................................141 Paídí’s Tale ..................................141 Israel $9.99 ......................................... 175 Defamation ................................ 156 Lost Paradise*.............................141 Spring 1941 ............................... 238 Unmistaken Child....................... 169 Italy Babau ........................................ 137 Beket ......................................... 126 Birdwatchers.............................. 184 The Headless Woman* ................ 53 Il Divo ......................................... 208 Le Amiche .................................... 61 Machan*..................................... 218 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 1)* ................................... 221 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Part 2)* ................................... 221 Mid-August Lunch ..................... 222 Once Upon a Time in the West* ... 69 Quiet Chaos ............................... 232 Japan The Clone Returns Home .......... 191 The Dark Harbor ........................ 193 Departures ................................. 194 Garden/ing................................. 126 Kabei - Our Mother .....................211 Kudan ........................................ 136 Manhole Children....................... 164 Opium War* ............................... 229 Pop Star On Ice* ........................ 166 School Days With a Pig.............. 233 Still Walking ............................... 240 Kazakhstan The Other Bank* ........................ 150 Tulpan ........................................ 247 Kuwait Amreeka* ................................... 178 Kyrgyzstan Tengri: Blue Heavens ................. 244 Mexico Adulte ........................................ 126 Blessed Virgin ............................ 142 The Desert Within ...................... 194 El General .................................. 156 I’m Gonna Explode .................... 209 Northern Highway .......................141 Raging Sun, Raging Sky ............ 232 Netherlands Can Go Through Skin ................ 189 Katia’s Sister .............................. 213 Laila’s Birthday* ......................... 215 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse............... 168 Yuri............................................. 138 New Zealand Apron Strings ............................. 179 Careful With That Powertool ...... 142 The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia ............ 142 An Island Calling ........................ 162 The Strength of Water ................ 241 This Is Her .................................. 142

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COUNTRY INDEX Norway Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country* ................................. 154 Dead Snow ................................ 105 North.......................................... 149 A Sea Change............................ 168 Troubled Water ......................... 247 Palestine Laila’s Birthday .......................... 215 Philippines Andong ...................................... 137 Boy ............................................ 186 Poland 33 Scenes from Life ....................174 Carmo, Hit the Road .................. 190 The Karamazovs*....................... 213 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse* ............. 168 Scratch ...................................... 234 Spring 1941* .............................. 238 Tulpan* ....................................... 247 A Woman in Berlin* .................... 251 Portugal Our Beloved Month of August ... 131 Romania Hooked ...................................... 207 Russia The Admiral................................ 176 Alisa’s Birthday ............................ 83 Captive....................................... 189 Live and Remember .................. 217 Pop Star On Ice* ........................ 166 Tulpan* ....................................... 247 Wild Field ................................... 250 Senegal Princess of Africa*...................... 166 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love................... 99 South Africa Skin ............................................ 236 Breathless .................................. 186 Daytime Drinking ....................... 193 Hansel and Gretel ..................... 205 Kimjongilia* ................................ 163 My Dear Enemy ........................... 51 Opium War* ............................... 229 This Charming Girl ....................... 51 Treeless Mountain* .................... 246 Spain The Anarchist’s Wife ................. 178 Asamara .................................... 142 Carmo, Hit the Road .................. 190 Chef’s Special ............................ 190 Forasters .................................... 201 The Headless Woman* ................ 53 In Your Absence..........................211 La Ciénaga* ................................. 53 Maradona by Kusturica.............. 165 The One-Handed Trick .............. 228 Princess of Africa ....................... 166 Sexykiller.....................................110 Turn to Black ...............................141 Sri Lanka Machan ...................................... 218 Sweden Involuntary ................................. 148 Kisses* ....................................... 214 Let’s Dance ................................ 138 Light Year ................................... 129 Mamma Moo and Crow ............... 85 Patrik Age 1.5 .............................. 31

Swimsuit Issue ........................... 243 Troubled Water * ........................ 247 Switzerland The Fortress .............................. 160 Home ......................................... 147 Marcello Marcello ...................... 219 Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is .. 137 Tulpan* ....................................... 247 Taiwan Miao Miao* ................................. 221 No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti ................. 227 Thailand Nak .............................................. 87 Tunisia Khamsa* .................................... 214 Laila’s Birthday* ......................... 215 The Wedding Song* ................... 248 Turkey Black Dogs Barking ................... 184 United Kingdom Afghan Star* .............................. 153 All My Dreams on VHS............... 139 All Tomorrow’s Parties ................. 95 The Archivist .............................. 138 Baghdad Express ...................... 138 Bronson ..................................... 187 Control Master ............................141 Elephants ................................... 137 The End of the Line .................... 157 Everyday People ........................ 139 Fifty Dead Men Walking ............. 199 I Know You Know....................... 208 In the Loop................................... 25 James* ....................................... 136 Leila’s Eyebrow ............................ 77 Love ........................................... 136 Love You More ........................... 136 The Market - A Tale of Trade ...... 219 Moon ......................................... 224 Morris: A Life With Bells On ....... 224 Photograph of Jesus.................. 136 Pockets .......................................141 Poppy Shakespeare .................. 231 Post-It Love................................ 136 Ralph ..........................................141 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse* ............. 168 Skin* .......................................... 236 So Long at the Fair....................... 71 Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary ......................... 97 Summer ..................................... 242 Telstar .......................................... 97 The Third Man.............................. 65 Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ....................... 137 What’s Virgin Mean? ...................141 USA 2081........................................... 136 3 Minute Masterpieces Winners .141 (500) Days of Summer ................174 575 Castro Street....................... 138 Adam ......................................... 176 The Adventures of Robin Hood ... 65 Against the Current .................... 177 Alice’s Attic ................................ 138 American Primitive ..................... 177 Amreeka .................................... 178 Anatomy of a Fly ........................ 255 The Answer Man ........................ 179 Art & Copy ................................. 153 Arthur......................................... 255 The Babysitter.............................141 The Back Room ......................... 138

Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle .....................115 The Bake Shop Ghost ............... 136 Ball Don’t Lie.............................. 182 The Bear* ..................................... 90 Bedtime Story ............................ 126 Black Coffee .............................. 255 Black Dynamite .......................... 103 The Blindness of the Woods*..... 139 BOTNIK! ..................................... 138 Boutonniere ................................141 Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona ...................... 93 Buick Riviera* ............................. 188 The Burning Plain....................... 188 California Company Town .......... 127 CC 2010..................................... 142 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack......................... 126 City of Borders ........................... 155 Cold Souls ................................. 192 The Conversation......................... 69 The Cove ................................... 155 Dahlia ......................................... 136 Dancing Across Borders .............115 Dark Material.............................. 139 The Day My Parents Became Cool ...........................141 Deadgirl ..................................... 103 Dear Fatty .................................. 137 Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential......115 Dig ............................................. 126 Dodsworth ................................... 65 Don’t Let Me Drown ................... 195 Downloading Nancy................... 195 The Dreamer ................................ 77 Endless Tunnel........................... 138 Every Little Step ........................... 41 Everything Strange and New .... 197 Excision ..................................... 139 The Exploding Girl ..................... 146 Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis....................................... 139 Finding Bliss................................116 Food, Inc. ................................... 159 Four Boxes................................. 202 Fruit Fly ...................................... 203 Garbage Dreams ....................... 160 The Garden ................................ 161 El General* ................................. 156 A Generation of Consolidation ..... 77 Gotta Dance .............................. 161 Grace ......................................... 105 The Great Race............................ 43 Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .............. 205 Her Meds ................................... 139 The Hills Run Red ...................... 107 Horn Dog ................................... 137 Horsefingers 3: Starfucker ......... 139 Humpday ..................................... 29 The Hurt Locker ......................... 207 Icons Among Us .......................... 91 Ideation ...................................... 137 If U Want 2 Get Technical ............ 77 The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ..........................116 Immersion ...................................141 I’m No Dummy ........................... 162 Incubus Drone ........................... 139 Independent America: Rising from Ruins* ...................117 I Sell the Dead............................ 107 It Came From Kuchar................. 129 It’s In The P-I .............................. 136

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It Takes a Cult .............................117 Kanizsa Hill ................................ 139 Kimjongilia* ................................ 163 La Mission.................................. 223 Like Dandelion Dust ................... 216 Little Joe .................................... 164 Love on the Tundra .................... 137 Madam President ...................... 137 Maggie and Mildred ................... 137 The Merry Gentleman ................ 220 Messin’ Around............................ 77 The Missing Person .................. 222 My Suicide ................................. 149 My World...................................... 77 November ...................................141 Once Upon a Time in the West .... 69 One Night .................................. 137 The Overbrook Brothers ............ 229 Paper Heart ............................... 230 Passing Strange ......................... 33 Pirate for the Sea ........................119 Pop Star On Ice ......................... 166 Prodigal Sons ............................ 167 Puccini Conservato.................... 126 Push Button House ................... 138 Recipe for Beauty ........................ 77 Safe Passage ............................. 255 A Sea Change* .......................... 168 Second Guessing Grandma ...... 138 Short Term 12 ............................ 138 Shrink ........................................ 235 Slow Boat to Thassos ................ 126 Somewhere ............................... 126 Sophia + Anna ........................... 142 The Spam Job ........................... 136 Sparks ....................................... 136 Spring Breakdown ..................... 238 The Spy and the Sparrow ...........119 Sunset Boulevard ........................ 65 Sweet Crude .............................. 120 Sweet Virginia .............................141 talhotblond................................. 169 Ten For Grandpa*....................... 137 Tetro............................................. 39 That Evening Sun ....................... 245 Thicker Than Water.....................141 Thirteen or so Minutes ............... 138 Treeless Mountain...................... 246 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention .. 99 True Adolescents ....................... 120 The ”Twilight” Zone ...................... 77 Twoyoungmen, UT. .................... 138 Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall............ 137 Welgunzer ...................................141 We Live in Public ........................ 170 Western Spaghetti ..................... 137 What’s on Your Plate? .................. 87 The Whole Truth......................... 122 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe ............................ 170 A Woman Under the Influence ..... 61 Wonderful World ........................ 253 A Work of Fiction.......................... 77 World’s Greatest Dad ............... 122 The Yes Men Fix the World .........171 Youth Winner - 3 Minute Masterpieces ............................ 77 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction ............................. 123 * denotes co-production

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YEARS OF PUTTING CUSTOMERS FIRST

DIRECTOR INDEX Dominique Abel ................... 233 Maren Ade .......................... 146 Shuishui Ai ............................ 77 Lucy Akhurst ....................... 224 Karin Albou ......................... 248 Natalia Almada.................... 156 Joy Andrews ........................142 Cruz Angeles....................... 195 Jean-Jacques Annaud .......... 90 Michaelangelo Antonioni ....... 61 Guillermo Arriaga ................ 188 Olivier Assayas.................... 242 Timothy X Atack .................. 139 Simon Atkinson ................... 136 Mehmet Bahadir Er ............. 184 Colm Bairéad .......................141 Josiane Balasko .................. 202 Armagan Ballantyne .............241 Willem Baptist ..................... 138 Nati Baratz .......................... 169 David Barba ........................ 166 Uri Barbash ......................... 238 Siddiq Barmak .................... 229 Sophie Barthes ................... 192 Anne H. Bass .......................115 Richard Bates, Jr................. 139 Lorette Bayle....................... 136 Marco Bechis ...................... 184 Aida Begic .......................... 237 Jon Behrens........................ 126 Garrett Bennett ....................119 Dori Berinstein .................... 161 Henry Bernadet ................... 145 Carl Bessai ......................... 226 Omar Bianco ........................137 Andy Bichlbaum ...................171 Kathryn Bigelow .................. 207 Oded Binnun ....................... 139 Branden Blinn ..................... 138 Thomas Bodenstein............... 85 Mike Bonanno ......................171 Frazer Bradshaw ..................197 Peter Bratt .......................... 223 Catherine Breillat................. 185 Heinrich Breloer ...................187 Mihal Brezis ........................ 139 John Bryant ........................ 229 Noah Buschel...................... 222 Peter Callahan..................... 177 Jonathan Caouette ................ 95 Martín Carranza ...................217 Zach Carver .........................141 John Cassavetes ................... 61 Peter Chan .......................... 248 Gan Chao ............................ 167 Hsiao-Tse Cheng ................. 221 Zhang Chi ........................... 235 Matt Cibelli ......................... 139 Sandy Cioffi ........................ 120 Connor Clements ................ 136 Joe Cobden .........................141 Ronald Colby ........................119 Mitch Collier.......................... 77 Destin Daniel Cretton .......... 138 Laura Jean Cronin ........137, 255 Padraic Culham ................... 136 Michael Curtiz ....................... 65 Cherien Dabis ......................178 Leon Dai ............................. 227 Lance Daly ...........................214 Matt Daniels.........................142 Michael Davies .....................141 Julie Davis ...........................116 Olaf de Fleur Johannesson .. 206 Mijke de Jong .....................213 Adam Del Deo ........................41 Michel Delgado ................... 199 Rune Denstad Langlo .......... 149 Raymond Depardon ............. 165 Francois Desagnat .............. 192 Gustav Deutsch ....................127 Gianni di Gregorio ............... 222 Jeremiah Dickey...................137

Benjamin Dobyns .................141 Andreas Dresen .................. 191 Karim Dridi...........................214 Christopher Dudman ............142 François Dupeyron .............. 251 Sergey Dvortsevoy ...............247 Nash Edgerton .................... 239 Steve Edmiston ....................141 Blake Edwards ...................... 43 Edwin.................................. 185 Jason Eisner ....................... 139 Kurt Engfehr.........................171 Eric Esau..............................141 Peter Esmonde...................... 99 Barbara Ettinger .................. 168 Anthony Fabian ................... 236 Max Färberböck .................. 251 Asghar Farhadi.....................175 Conor Ferguson ...................137 Terence Fisher ...................... 71 Anne Fontaine ..................... 203 Francis Ford Coppola ...... 39, 69 Adrian Francis ......................142 Takashi Fukumoto ............... 136 Reid Furubayashi................... 77 Victoria Galardi.....................217 Jon Garaño ..........................142 Javor Gardev ....................... 253 Vincent Garenq ................... 182 Henrik Ruben Genz.............. 245 Christos Georgiou................ 236 Bob Giraldi .......................... 138 Kenny Glenaan .................... 242 Joshua Goldin ..................... 253 Annie Goldson..................... 162 Bobcat Goldthwait ............... 122 Miguel Gomes ......................131 Maryna Gorbach ................. 184 Fiona Gordon ...................... 233 Joseph Gordon-Levitt .......... 136 Maria Govan........................ 150 Bradley Rust Gray................ 146 Kristen Gray Rockmaker .......141 Sam Green ...........................137 Peter Greenaway ................. 168 John Greyson ...................... 159 Antonello Grimaldi ............... 232 Esther Gronenborn ...............212 Catherine Gund ..................... 87 Jon Gunn ............................ 216 Nicole Haeusser .................. 164 Chapour Haghighat ............. 200 Joaquim Haickel.................. 139 Lasse Hallström .................. 205 Kevin Hamedani .................. 123 Yoshio Harada ..................... 164 Gadi Harel ........................... 103 Shannon Hart-Reed............. 255 Michel Hazanavicius .........27, 45 Leandro HBL ......................... 95 N.C. Heikin.......................... 163 Rene Hernandez ...................142 Julián Hernández ................ 232 Måns Herngren ................... 243 Gerardo Herrero ...................141 Brin Hill ............................... 182 Laurie Hill............................ 136 Chris Hilson........................... 93 John Hindman ......................179 Kore-eda Hirokazu .............. 240 Anders Høgsbro Østergaard 154 Ben Hopkins........................ 219 Hanson Hosein .....................117 Enda Hughes....................... 139 Salise Hughes ..................... 126 Bradley Hutchinson ............. 136 Armando Iannucci ................. 25 Yang Ik-june ........................ 186 Mai Iskander ....................... 160 Martin Jalfen....................... 139 Marie Jaoul de Poncheville .. 244 Nicholas Jasenovec............. 230 Eric Johannsen ....................117

Craig Johnson ..................... 120 Jamie J. Johnson .................. 97 Cris Jones............................142 Duncan Jones ..................... 224 Fabrice O. Joubert .............. 139 Karn Junkinsmith ................ 126 Chen Kaige ......................... 201 Mikhail Kalatozishvili .......... 250 Doug Karr ............................137 Kirsten Kearse..................... 139 Michael Keaton ................... 220 William Keighley .................... 65 Scott Hamilton Kennedy ...... 161 Robert Kenner ..................... 159 Justin Kerrigan .................... 208 So-yong Kim ....................... 246 Michael Kinirons...................141 Holly Klein ............................137 Camille Kolodziejski ..............141 Baltasar Kormákur ............. 249 Panos H. Koutras ................ 252 Andrei Kravchuk ...................176 Marco Kreuzpaintner ............215 Mikael Kristersson............... 129 Jennifer Kroot ..................... 129 Sami Kubo ...........................141 Emily Kunstler ......................170 Sarah Kunstler .....................170 Emir Kusturica..................... 165 Mathieu Labaye....................142 Philipp Lachenmann ............ 126 Juan Laguna ....................... 166 Dante Lam .................. 183, 237 Michael Langan................... 136 Bouli Lanners ...................... 196 Sarah Jane Lapp ................. 126 Lars Larson........................... 91 Ramtin Lavafipour ............... 145 Patrice Leconte ................... 183 David Lee .............................110 Evelyn Lee .......................... 139 Spike Lee .............................. 33 Lee Yoon-ki........................... 51 James Lees .................138, 141 Ella Lemhagen ...................... 31 Sergio Leone ......................... 69 Nate Lessler .......................... 77 Richard Levien .....................141 Kristian Levring ....................197 Haley Lewis........................... 77 Philippe Lioret ..................... 249 Pete List ..............................137 Raúl López ...........................142 Aku Louhimies .................... 244 Carrie Lozano.......................137 Erick Love Lundqvist ........... 138 Alex M .................................. 77 Ole Christian Madsen .......... 200 Tetsu Maeda ....................... 233 Ádám Magyar ....................... 83 Ron Mann ........................... 163 Davide Manuli ..................... 126 Havana Marking .................. 153 Lucrecia Martel ..................... 53 Miguel Martí ........................110 Maile Martinez .................... 139 Rashid Masharawi ...............215 Khosro Masoumi ................. 250 Michael Maurus .................... 85 Max Mayer ...........................176 Cecilia McAlister ..................142 Sam McConnell................... 138 Pete McCormack..................157 Wyatt McDill ....................... 202 Glenn McQuaid ....................107 Gabriel Medina.................... 231 Ursula Meier ........................147 Fabio Meira ......................... 138 Fernand Melgar................... 160 Carson Mell ........................ 139 Alexander Mendeluk.............115 H. P. Mendoza ..................... 203 David Lee Miller .................. 149

Pelle Moller ..........................142 Nick Moran ........................... 97 Samantha Muilenburg ........... 77 Suman Mukhopadhyay .........147 Carlos Muñoz .......................142 Rupert Murray ......................157 Kanji Nakajima .................... 191 Gerardo Naranjo .................. 209 Native Lens Youth, Puyallup ... 77 Matthew Newton ................. 246 Iván Noel..............................211 Marie Noëlle.........................178 Noh Young-seok.................. 193 Pat O’Neil............................ 126 Thomas Oberlies ................. 105 Charles Officer .................... 228 Annette K. Olesen ............... 216 Jenni Olson ......................... 138 Ruben Östlund .................... 148 Veiko Öunpuu.......................241 George Ovashvili ................. 150 Nick Park .............................137 Dave Parker .........................107 Uberto Pasolini .....................218 Murilo Pasta........................ 190 Jonas Pate .......................... 235 Colleen Patrick .................... 122 Sally Pearce .........................137 Wesley Pentz ........................ 95 All Tomorrow’s People ........... 95 PES .....................................137 Yim Phil-sung...................... 205 Benoît Pilon......................... 226 Pedro Pires ......................... 103 Rodrigo Plá ......................... 194 Bill Plympton ........................137 Ventura Pons....................... 201 Léa Pool.............................. 223 Erik Poppe ...........................247 Giulio Poretti ........................137 Leonore Poth .......................137 Doug Pray ........................... 153 Priyadarshan ........................212 Joseph Procopio ................... 77 Rober + Profusek ................ 138 Alexander Proshkin ..............217 Martin Provost .................... 234 Louie Psihoyos .................... 155 Denis Rabaglia .................... 219 Nimer Rashed ..................... 138 Natthaphong Ratanachoksirikul .............. 87 Carol Reed ............................ 65 Kimberly Reed..................... 167 Nicolas Winding Refn ..........187 Alison Reid ...........................181 Johan Renck ....................... 195 Carlos Reygadas ................. 126 Jean-François Richet .......... 221 Michael Rivoira...................... 91 Riaebia Robinson .................. 77 Odilon Rocha....................... 185 Rubén Rojo Aura ..................141 Bruno Romy ........................ 233 Michal Rosa ........................ 234 Tatia Rosenthal ....................175 Benjamin Ross .................... 231 François Rotger ................... 240 Esther Rots ......................... 189 Goran Rusinovic .................. 188 David Russo .........................116 Scott Sanders ..................... 103 Marcel Sarmiento ................ 103 Bradford Schmidt .................141 Lee Anne Schmitt.................127 Barbara Schroeder .............. 169 Barbet Schroeder ................ 209 Peter Sehr............................178 Travis Senger .......................142 Sergei Seregin ...................... 83 Yoav Shamir ........................ 156 Lynn Shelton ......................... 29 Ryan Shiraki........................ 238

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Ryan Silbert ........................ 138 Sebastian Silva.....................218 Bryan W. Simon .................. 162 Claire Simon ....................... 204 Adrian Sitaru ....................... 207 Santosh Sivan ..................... 243 Kari Skogland...................... 199 Bohdan Sláma....................... 55 Jacqueline Smessaert Brennan .......................... 138 Greg Ivan Smith .................. 138 Michael Snow ..................... 126 Coley Sohn...........................141 Paul Solet ........................... 105 Cristian Solimeno ................ 136 Aureaus Solito ..................... 186 Eriko Sonada ....................... 126 Paolo Sorrentino.................. 208 Thomas Sorriaux ................. 192 Ben Steiger-Levine ...............141 James D. Stern ......................41 Philipp Stölzl ....................... 227 Lane Stroud ........................ 139 Students of South Camden Community School ............ 77 Jason Stutter .......................142 Yun Suh .............................. 155 Malgoska Szumowska ..........174 Naito Takasugu ................... 193 Yojiro Takita ........................ 194 Hany Tamba ........................ 220 Sam Taylor-Wood ................ 136 Karl Tebbe .......................... 139 Scott Teems ........................ 245 Tariq Teguia ........................ 148 Shawn Telford ..................... 255 Valerio Terranova .................137 Tommy Thompson ............... 138 Ondi Timoner .......................170 Robert Todd ........................ 126 Rommel Tolentino.................137 Kevin Tomlinson ...................115 Bao Tran ............................. 255 Hsin-I Tseng.........................137 Dana Turken ........................137 Chandler Tuttle.................... 136 Alexei Uchitel ...................... 189 Sima Urale ...........................179 Agnès Varda ....................... 154 Chai Vasarhelyi ..................... 99 Francis Veber ...................... 230 Nacho G. Velilla ................... 190 Sylvie Verheyde ................... 239 Myriam Verreault................. 145 Igor Veyshtagin ..................... 85 Denis Villeuneuve ................ 136 Pascal-Alex Vincent ............ 204 Matthias Vogel .................... 105 Peter J. Vogt ......................... 91 Peter Volkart ........................137 Ken Wardrop ....................... 136 Marc Webb ..........................174 Ryan Wetherall .................... 139 Erin White ............................142 Billy Wilder ............................ 65 Aaron Wilson .......................142 Alex Winckler .......................141 Kathrine Windfeld................ 196 Tommy Wirkola ................... 105 Katie Wolfe ..........................142 Run Wrake ...........................141 William Wyler ........................ 65 Gwen Wynne....................... 177 Yoji Yamada .........................211 Robyn Yannoukos ................ 138 Wai Man Yip........................ 248 Sun Yu .................................. 67 Santiago Zannou ................. 228 Silvia Zappalà.......................137 Petr Zelenka.........................213

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F R I D A Y, M A Y 2 2

SIFF CINEMA 10 am 10:301111:3012 pm 12:3011:302 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:305- Summer Hours 102 min.

5:30- Page 242 HOUR2209M 6 pm 4:30 PM 6:3077:30- Trimpin: The Sound of 8 pm Invention Page 99 79 min.

8:30- 7:00 PM TRIM2209A 99:3010 pm Departures 131 min.

10:30- Page 194 9:30 PM DEPA2209A 1111:3012 am

PACIFIC PLACE

Stella

Page 239 11:00 AM

Hooked

Page 207 1:30 PM

EGYPTIAN

S A T U R D A Y, M A Y 2 3

NW FILM FORUM

84 min.

HOOK2209M

Terribly Happy Page 245 4:00 PM

95 min.

TERR2209M

Snow

Page 237 7:00 PM

99 min.

SNOW2209A

Quiet Chaos Page 232 9:30 PM

112 min.

QUIE2209A

NEPTUNE

102 min.

STEL2209M

The Beast Stalker Opium War Page 229 4:30 PM

90 min.

OPIU2209M

The Exploding Girl Page 146 7:00 PM

79 min.

EXPL2209A

Can Go Through Skin Page 189 9:30 PM

97 min.

CANG2209A

The Higher Force

Eldorado

Shrink

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

Page 206 4:30 PM

Page 235 7:00 PM

Baby Love Page 182 9:30 PM

80 min.

HIGH2209M

110 min.

SHRI2209A

90 min.

BABY2209A

Page 196 4:30 PM

Page 228 7:00 PM

Khamsa Page 214 9:30 PM

Page 183 4:00 PM

80 min.

ELDO2209M

93 min.

NURS2209A

FILM IST. a girl & a gun Page 127 7:00 PM

Beket 110 min.

KHAM2209A

Page 126 9:00 PM

93 min.

FILM2209A

80 min.

BEKE2209A

111 min.

BEAS2209M

The Yes Men Fix the World Page 171 7:00 PM

85 min.

YESM2209A

Spring Breakdown Page 238 9:30 PM

84 min.

SPRI2209A

I Sell the Dead Page 107 Midnight

10 am 10:301111:30- Morris: A Life With 12 pm Bells On Page 224 101 min.

12:30- 11:00 AM MORR2309M 11:302 pm Trimpin: The Sound of 2:30- Invention Page 99 79 min.

3- 1:30 PM TRIM2309A 3:304 pm 4:30- The Immaculate 5- Conception of Little Dizzle 5:30Page 116 100 min.

6 pm 4:00 PM IMMA2309A 6:307- I’m No Dummy 7:30- Page 162 86 min.

IMNO2309A 8 pm 6:45 PM 8:3099:3010 pm Bruce Springsteen: 10:30- Live in Barcelona Page 93 180 min.

11- 9:30 PM BRUC2309A 11:3012 am

HARVARD EXIT

Modern Life Page 165 11:00 AM

88 min.

MODE2309M

Wild Field Page 250 1:30 PM

104 min.

FIEL2309A

The Desert Within Page 194 4:00 PM

Paper Heart Page 230 7:00 PM

Bronson Page 187 9:30 PM

112 min.

DESE2309A

Fig Trees Page 159 11:00 AM

104 min.

TREE2309M

The Exploding Girl Page 146 1:30 PM

Tulpan

Page 247 4:00 PM

79 min.

EXPL2309A

88 min.

PAPE2309A

100 min.

TULP2309A

89 min.

MOUN2309A

Burma VJ - Reporting 92 min. from a Closed Country

BRON2309A

Page 154 9:30 PM

Page 189 11:00 AM

80 min.

CAPT2309M

I Know You Know Page 208 1:00 PM

81 min.

IKNO2309A

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Yes Men Fix the World

Sunset Boulevard

The Anarchist’s Wife

Page 65 11:00 AM

Page 65 1:30 PM

102 min.

ADVE2309M

Page 171 11:00 AM

110 min.

SUNS2309A

Page 178 1:30 PM

85 min.

YESM2309M

115 min.

ANAR2309A

The Strength of Water

Treeless Mountain Page 246 6:30 PM

Captive

84 min.

ISEL2209A

Page 241 3:30 PM

85 min.

STRE2309A

Page 228 4:30 PM

A French Gigolo Page 202 6:30 PM

102 min.

FREN2309A

Chef’s Special Page 190 9:00 PM

111 min.

CHEF2309A

84 min.

BURM2309A

Dead Snow Page 105 Midnight

Spring Breakdown

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

Still Walking Page 240 7:00 PM

114 min.

STIL2309A

God’s Offices Page 204 9:30 PM

Page 238 4:15 PM

93 min.

NURS2309A

Beket

Page 126 7:00 PM

80 min.

BEKE2309A

California Company Town

115 min.

GODS2309A

Page 127 9:00 PM

77 min.

CALI2309A

84 min.

SPRI2309A

We Live in Public Page 170 7:00 PM

Warlords Page 248 9:45 PM

90 min.

WELI2309A

126 min.

WARL2309A

90 min.

DEAD2309A

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UPTOWN

S U N D A Y, M A Y 2 4

SIFF CINEMA 10 am 10:301111:30- The Beaches of Agnès Page 154 109 min.

12 pm 11:00 AM BEAC2409M 12:3011:302 pm Departures 2:30- Page 194 131 min.

DEPA2409A 3- 2:00 PM 3:304 pm 4:3055:30- Favela on Blast 80 min.

6 pm Page 95 FAVE2409A 6:30- 5:00 PM 77:30- Morris: A Life With 8 pm Bells On Page 224 101 min.

8:30- 7:00 PM MORR2409A 99:3010 pm Bruce Springsteen:

Live in Barcelona

M O N D A Y, M A Y 2 5

Page 93 9:30 PM

Page 189 11:00 AM

Rumba

Page 233 1:30 PM

Paper Heart Page 230 4:00 PM

97 min.

CANG2409M

80 min.

FAVE2509A

4 pm 4:30- Dancing Across 5- Borders 5:30- Page 115 88 min.

DANC2609M 6 pm 4:15 PM 6:3077:30- James Forsher “Nasty 8 pm Cinema” Page 258 70 min.

8:30- 7:00 PM JAMN2609A 99:3010 pm It Takes a Cult Page 117 9:30 PM

79 min.

CULT2609A

Mamma Moo and Crow Page 85 11:00 AM

78 min.

MAMM2409M

Treeless Mountain 77 min.

RUMB2409A

88 min.

PAPE2409A

Page 246 1:15 PM

89 min.

MOUN2409A

I’m No Dummy Page 162 4:00 PM

86 min.

IMNO2409A

HARVARD EXIT

EGYPTIAN

Secret #1 Page 47 11:00 AM

Bluebeard Page 185 1:30 PM

The Cove Page 155 3:45 PM

120 min.

SEC12409X

80 min.

BLUE2409M

90 min.

COVE2409A

NW FILM FORUM

The Third Man Page 65 11:00 AM

Dodsworth Page 65 1:30 PM

Welcome Page 249 4:00 PM

NEPTUNE

About Elly

104 min.

THIR2409M

Page 175 11:00 AM

Shrink

101 min.

DODS2409A

Page 235 1:45 PM

116 min.

WELC2409A

Summer Hours Page 242 6:30 PM

Stella

Page 239 9:15 PM

102 min.

HOUR2409A

102 min.

STEL2409A

9:15 PM

OPIU2509A

Tulpan

Page 247 6:45 PM

100 min.

TULP2409A

Raging Sun, Raging Sky

88 min.

DOGS2609M

Page 233 7:00 PM

77 min.

RUMB2609A

The Desert Within Page 194 9:15 PM

112 min.

DESE2609A

85 min.

POPS2409A

My Dear Enemy Page 51 6:30 PM

123 min.

MYDE2409A

Our Beloved Month of August Page 131 6:30 PM

150 min.

OURB2409A

FILM IST. a girl & a gun

Skin

Page 236 7:00 PM

93 min.

MARA2409A

107 min.

SKIN2409A

$9.99

An Island Calling

We Live in Public

This Charming Girl

The Answer Man

Laila’s Birthday

Wild Rose

My Dear Enemy

I’m Gonna Explode

191 min.

RAGI2409A

Page 162 11:00 AM

76 min.

ISLA2509M

Page 215 1:15 PM

72 min.

LAIL2509A

Chef’s Special Page 190 3:30 PM

111 min.

CHEF2509A

Page 116 9:30 PM

Page 170 11:00 AM

Page 67 1:30 PM

Independent America: Rising from Ruins Page 117 6:30 PM

70 min.

INDE2509A

Eldorado Page 196 9:00 PM

80 min.

ELDO2509A

90 min.

WELI2509M

82 min.

ROSE2509A

45 min.

FLYF2509A

Page 51 1:30 PM

Khamsa Page 214 4:30 PM

Wild Field

Warlords

Sügisball

Page 245 7:00 PM

78 min.

999X2409A

95 min.

TERR2509A

Page 127 9:30 PM

99 min.

THIS2509M

126 min.

WARL2509A

123 min.

MYDE2509A

Page 209 1:30 PM

Page 193 4:00 PM

116 min.

DAYT2609M

Stella

Page 239 4:30 PM

115 min.

ANAR2409A

95 min.

ANSW2509M

106 min.

IMGO2509A

Tengri: Blue Heavens Page 244 4:00 PM

110 min.

KHAM2509A

Page 250 7:00 PM

Page 241 9:30 PM

Page 178 9:30 PM

Page 179 11:00 AM

104 min.

FIEL2509A

It Came From Kuchar Page 129 7:00 PM

Light Year Page 248 9:30 PM

93 min.

FILM2409A

The Anarchist’s Wife

123 min.

SUGI2509A

Page 129 9:00 PM

86 min.

KUCH2509A

101 min.

LIGH2509A

The Cove Page 155 6:30 PM

90 min.

COVE2509A

I Sell the Dead Page 107 9:30 PM

Skin

Page 236 4:15 PM

102 min.

STEL2609M

104 min.

TENG2509A

84 min.

ISEL2509A

107 min.

SKIN2609M

84 min.

BURM2609M

Fig Trees Page 159 7:15 PM

Fear Me Not Page 197 9:30 PM

Page 51 11:00 AM

Terribly Happy

Daytime Drinking Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country

Page 175 9:30 PM

100 min.

IMMA2409A

Fly Filmmaking Challenge 2009 Page 255 4:00 PM

Page 154 5:00 PM

Rumba

Page 166 6:45 PM

110 min.

SHRI2409A

The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle

Page 232 9:15 PM

Black Dogs Barking Page 4:30 PM

Pop Star On Ice

119 min.

ABOU2409M

Maradona by Kusturica Page 165 4:30 PM

10 am 10:301111:30- 3 Minute Masterpieces Quiet Chaos Page 232 112 min.

12 pm Page 143 40 min.

11:00 AM 3MIN2509Z 11:00 AM QUIE2509M 12:3011:30- The Beaches of Agnès Baby Love 2 pm Page 154 109 min.

1:00 PM BEAC2509M Page 182 90 min.

2:301:45 PM BABY2509A 33:304 pm 4:30- Gotta Dance Page 161 91 min. Melodrama Habibi 5- 4:00 PM 98 min.

GOTT2509A Page 220 5:304:15 PM MELO2509A 6 pm 6:307I Know You Know 7:30- Dancing Across Page 208 81 min.

8 pm Borders IKNO2509A Page 115 88 min. 7:00 PM 8:30- 7:00 PM DANC2509A 99:30Opium War 10 pm Favela on Blast Page 229 90 min.

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79 min.

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100 min.

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NEPTUNE God’s Offices

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111 min.

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115 min.

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Page 237 1:30 PM

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Short in the Dark

Beauties at War

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Light Year

Deadgirl

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IMGO2809A

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STIL2909M

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83 min. City of Borders

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With a Little Help from Myself

Facing Ali

Daddy Cool

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Page 251 7:00 PM

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92 min.

WITH2909A

94 min.

DADD2909A

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116 min.

HANS2909M

Pirate for the Sea 98 min.

FACI2909A

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A Woman’s Way 74 min.

KNOW2909A

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Page 214 4:30 PM

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Deadgirl Page 103 Midnight

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Page 190 1:30 PM

100 min.

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The Hurt Locker Page 207 4:00 PM

130 min.

HURT3009A

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The End of the Line Page 157 4:00 PM

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Apron Strings

Ball Don’t Lie

Telstar

The Maid

Page 179 7:00 PM

90 min.

APRO3009A

Page 182 7:00 PM

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Pirate for the Sea Page 119 11:00 AM

Facing Ali Page 157 1:45 PM

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102 min.

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The Firm Land Page 200 6:30 PM

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Downloading Nancy Page 195 9:30 PM

102 min.

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Icons Among Us

La Mission Page 97 9:30 PM

102 min.

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Page 71 1:30 PM

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SIFF CINEMA 2 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:30- Zift Page 253 92 min.

5- 4:00 PM ZIFT0109M 5:306 pm 6:307- The Great Race Page 43 160 min.

7:30- 6:30 PM GREA0109A 8 pm 8:3099:3010 pm Daytime Drinking

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8:30- 7:00 PM JAMA0209A 99:30- ZMD: Zombies of Mass 10 pm Destruction Page 123 9:15 PM

ZMDZ0209A

Page 243 9:30 PM

105 min.

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121 min.

SERA0109A

Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle

A Sea Change

Marcello Marcello

Like Dandelion Dust

Boy

The Sniper

The Strength of Water

Ball Don’t Lie

Séraphine Page 234 7:00 PM

Page 179 5:00 PM

Page 115 7:15 PM

A French Gigolo Page 202 9:45 PM

Daddy Cool Page 192 4:30 PM

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FREN0109A

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Page 191 7:00 PM

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Page 99 4:30 PM

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Page 236 7:00 PM

191 min.

RAGI0109M

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STRE0109A

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81 min.

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102 min.

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SEAC0209M

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83 min.

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88 min.

MODE0209A

116 min.

WELC0209A

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Fear Me Not Page 197 9:30 PM

135 min.

PASS0209A

95 min.

FEAR0209A

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Patrik Age 1.5

Gotta Dance

Sweet Crude

Mid-August Lunch

I’m No Dummy

Page 193 4:30 PM

Page 120 7:00 PM

The Sniper Page 237 9:30 PM

101 min.

DARK0309M

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PATR0309M

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MIDA0309A

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F R I D A Y, J U N E 5

T H U R S D A Y, J U N E 4

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5:304:30 PM KATI 0409M 6 pm 6:3077:30- William Kunstler: 8 pm Disturbing the 8:30- Universe Page 170 90 min.

9- 7:00 PM WILL0409A 9:3010 pm Forasters Page 201 9:30 PM

105 min.

FORA0409A

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5:304:30 PM BOYY0509M 6 pm 6:3077:30- The Missing Person Page 222 95 min.

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10:309:30 PM BOXE0509A 1111:3012 am

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CLON0409A

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INJU0409A

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NOPU0409M

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109 min.

MACH0509M

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94 min.

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110 min.

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132 min.

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113 min.

COUN0409A

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Page 105 Midnight

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114 min.

ESCA0509M

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108 min.

BIRD0509A

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LEAM0609A 3- 1:30 PM 3:304 pm 4:30- A Woman Under the 5- Influence Page 61 155 min.

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FORM0609A 11- 9:45 PM 11:3012 am

UPTOWN

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100 min.

FINA0609M

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105 min.

INJU0609A

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Prodigal Sons Page 167 11:00 AM

86 min.

PROD0609M

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83 min.

STRA0609A

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BERL0609A

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INLA0609A

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Page 208 11:00 AM

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ILDI0609M

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TRUE0609A

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THAT0609A

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98 min.

WORL0609A

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MESA0609A

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Il Divo

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MESB0609A

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GRAC0609A

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111 min.

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BEES0609M

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113 min.

COUN0609A

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78 min.

MAMM0609M

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93 min.

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117 min.

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MOMM0609A

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ATWE0609A

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KIRKLAND PERFORMANCE CENTER

105 min.

SQUA0609A

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100 min.

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BEAU0609A

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NEST0609Z

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2:30- Page 202 1:30 PM BOXE0709A 33:304 pm 4:30- Little Joe Page 164 87 min.

5- 4:00 PM LJOE0709A 5:306 pm 6:3077:30- Wind Blows in the 8 pm Meadow Page 250 91 min.

8:30- 7:00 PM WIND0709A 99:30- Hooked 10 pm Page 207 84 min.

HARVARD EXIT

Page 223 4:30 PM

Mesrine: A Film in Two 6:30 PM Parts (Part 1) Page 221 7:15 PM

EGYPTIAN

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94 min.

AGAI0709M

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93 min.

MARK0709A

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98 min.

FIND0709M

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77 min.

PRIN0709A

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132 min.

MESB0709A

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125 min.

CHAP0709A

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147 min.

ENTH0709A

Page 222 4:00 PM

95 min.

MISS0709A

Manhole Children Page 164 6:30 PM

117 min.

MANH0709A

Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly Page 185 9:15 PM

77 min.

BLIN0709A

90 min.

BLAC0609A

Secret #3 Page 47 11:00 AM

Humpday Page 29 1:30 PM

120 min.

SEC30709X

92 min.

HUMP0709M

World’s Greatest Dad Page 122 4:00 PM

Spring 1941 Page 238 6:30 PM

Fruit Fly Page 203 9:30 PM

98 min.

WORL0709A

122 min.

19410709A

Moonbeam Bear and His Friends

Alisa’s Birthday

At West of Pluto

Marcello Marcello

Sweet Crude

The Necessities of Life

Daddy Cool

Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary

The Karamazovs Page 213 11:00 AM

Page 145 1:30 PM

Page 226 4:00 PM

100 min.

KARA0709M

95 min.

ATWE0709A

102 min.

NECE0709A

Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s Page 223 6:30 PM

92 min.

FRUI0709A

Page 216 9:00 PM

100 min.

LITT0709A

3 5 T H S E AT T L E I N T E R N AT I O N A L F I L M F E S T I VA L 2 0 0 9

Page 219 1:30 PM

Page 192 4:00 PM

72 min.

BEAM0709M

95 min.

MARC0709A

94 min.

DADD0709A

Tears of April

90 min.

MOMM0709A

Little Soldier

Page 85 11:00 AM

Page 244 6:30 PM

115 min.

TEAR0709A

Hansel and Gretel Page 205 9:30 PM

116 min.

HANS0709A

W W W . S I F F. N E T

Page 83 11:00 AM

Page 120 1:30 PM

Page 97 4:00 PM

94 min.

ALIS0709M

90 min.

SWEE0709A

93 min.

SOUN0709A

Be Calm and Count to Seven Page 145 6:30 PM

Rain

Page 150 9:00 PM

89 min.

BECA0709A

93 min.

RAIN0709A

309

TIMETABLE

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T U E S D A Y, J U N E 9

M O N D A Y, J U N E 8

SIFF CINEMA 4 pm 4:305- Nak Page 87 95 min.

5:30- 4:30 PM NAKK0809M 6 pm 6:3077:30- The Red Race 70 min.

8 pm Page 167 7:00 PM REDR0809A 8:3099:3010 pm Three Blind Mice Page 246 9:30 PM

94 min.

THRE0809A

4 pm 4:305- Fruit Fly 92 min.

5:30- Page 203 4:30 PM FRUI0909M 6 pm 6:3077:30- The Market - A Tale 8 pm of Trade Page 219 93 min.

8:30- 7:00 PM MARK0909A 99:3010 pm Blind Pig Who Wants

to Fly

Page 185 9:30 PM

77 min.

BLIN0909A

4 pm 4:305- Manhole Children Page 164 117 min.

5:30- 4:30 PM MANH1009M 6 pm 6:3077:30- Garbage Dreams 83 min.

8 pm Page 160 7:00 PM GARB1009A 8:3099:30- The Spy and the 10 pm Sparrow Page 119 9:00 PM

86 min.

SPYA1009A

UPTOWN

The Square Page 239 4:30 PM

PACIFIC PLACE

EGYPTIAN Spring 1941

105 min.

SQUA0809M

Kanchivaram Page 212 7:00 PM

117 min.

KANC0809A

Flame & Citron Page 200 9:30 PM

130 min.

FLAM0809A

ADMIRAL

The Necessities of Life

The End of the Line

Page 238 4:00 PM

Scratch

(500) Days of Summer

Cold Souls

The Paranoids

Troubled Water

The One-Handed Trick

A French Gigolo

Garbage Dreams

(500) Days of Summer

Poppy Shakespeare

Hooked

Alisa’s Birthday

The Girl from Monaco

Story of Jen

Don’t Let Me Drown

El General

Katia’s Sister

The Dark Harbor

Krabat

Fly Filmmaking Challenge 2009

Cold Souls

The Clone Returns Home

Page 157 5:00 PM

122 min.

19410809M

HARVARD EXIT

90 min.

ENDO0809M

Page 226 4:15 PM

102 min.

NECE0809M

The Strength of Water Page 241 4:30 PM

86 min.

STRE0809M

That Evening Sun Page 234 7:15 PM

Page 231 9:30 PM

89 min.

SCRA0809A

105 min.

PARA0809A

Page 174 7:00 PM

Page 247 9:30 PM

95 min.

500D0809A

116 min.

TROU0809A

Page 192 7:00 PM

Page 228 9:30 PM

97 min.

COLD0809A

91 min.

ONEH0809A

Page 245 6:45 PM

109 min.

THAT0809A

Page 202 9:30 PM

102 min.

FREN0809A

The Admiral Page 176 4:15 PM

Defamation Page 156 7:00 PM

Summer Page 242 9:30 PM

123 min.

ADMI0909M

93 min.

DEFA0909A

95 min.

SUMM0909A

Buick Riviera Page 188 4:30 PM

Machan Page 218 7:00 PM

86 min.

BUIC1009M

109 min.

MACH1009A

Three Blind Mice Page 246 9:30 PM

94 min.

THRE1009A

Page 160 5:00 PM

83 min.

GARB0909M

Page 83 7:00 PM

Page 156 9:30 PM

94 min.

ALIS0909A

83 min.

GENE0909A

Little Soldier Page 216 5:00 PM

100 min.

LITT1009M

Be Calm and Count to Seven Page 145 7:15 PM

My Suicide Page 149 9:30 PM

89 min.

BECA1009A

105 min.

MYSU1009A

Page 174 4:30 PM

Page 203 7:00 PM

Page 213 9:30 PM

Page 255 4:00 PM

Tetro

Page 39 7:00 PM

95 min.

500D0909M

95 min.

GIRL0909A

85 min.

KATI0909A

45 min.

FLYF1009M

127 min.

TETR1009E

No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti Page 227 10:00 PM

92 min.

NOPU1009A

Page 231 4:30 PM

89 min.

POPP0909M

Page 240 7:00 PM

Page 193 9:30 PM

Page 192 4:30 PM

110 min.

STOR0909A

101 min.

DARK0909A

97 min.

COLD1009M

The Fortress Page 160 7:00 PM

104 min.

FORT1009A

A Woman in Berlin Page 251 9:30 PM

84 min.

HOOK0909M

Page 195 7:00 PM

105 min.

DONT0909A

Page 215 9:30 PM

Page 191 4:00 PM

120 min.

KRAB0909A

110 min.

CLON1009M

Small Crime Page 236 7:00 PM

84 min.

SMAL1009A

Forever Enthralled

127 min.

BERL1009A

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Page 201 9:15 PM

147 min.

ENTH1009A

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T H U R S D A Y, J U N E 1 1

SIFF CINEMA 4 pm 4:305- The Red Race Page 167 70 min.

5:304:30 PM REDR1109M 6 pm 6:307- Afghan Star Page 153 87 min.

7:30- 6:30 PM AFGH1109A 8 pm 8:3099:30- Breathless 10 pm Page 186 130 min.

9:15 PM

BREA1109A

10 am 10:301111:3012 pm 12:3011:302 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:305- Rain Page 150 93 min.

5:304:30 PM RAIN1209M 6 pm 6:3077:30- In Your Absence Page 211 99 min.

8 pm 7:00 PM ABSE1209A 8:3099:3010 pm Involuntary 98 min.

10:30- Page 148 9:30 PM INVO1209A 1111:3012 am

Four Chapters Page 147 4:00 PM

Home

Page 147 7:00 PM

Krabat

Page 215 9:15 PM

125 min.

CHAP1109M

97 min.

HOME1109A

120 min.

KRAB1109A

PACIFIC PLACE

My Suicide Page 149 4:30 PM

105 min.

MYSU1109M

EGYPTIAN

The Conversation Page 69 4:30 PM

113 min.

CONV1109M

HARVARD EXIT

Story of Jen Page 240 4:30 PM

110 min.

STOR1109M

Don’t Let Me Drown

Wonderful World

Defamation

Lovely Loneliness

Give Me Your Hand

The Other Bank

Page 195 7:00 PM

Page 217 9:30 PM

Scratch

Page 234 11:00 AM

105 min.

DONT1109A

100 min.

LOVE1109A

Page 253 7:00 PM

Page 204 9:30 PM

89 min.

WOND1109A

80 min.

GIVE1109A

ADMIRAL

Page 156 7:00 PM

93 min.

DEFA1109A

Page 150 9:30 PM

90 min.

OTHE1109A

Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s Page 223 4:30 PM

90 min.

MOMM1109M

Final Arrangements Page 199 7:00 PM

North Face Page 227 9:30 PM

100 min.

FINA1109A

126 min.

FACE1109A

89 min.

SCRA1209M

Kanchivaram

The Girl from Monaco Page 203 1:30 PM

Krabat

Page 215 4:00 PM

120 min.

KRAB1209M

Page 212 1:15 PM

95 min.

GIRL1209M

What’s on Your Plate?

Page 87 4:00 PM

73 min.

WHAT1209M

Wonderful World Page 253 4:15 PM

89 min.

WOND1209M

The Fortress Page 160 4:00 PM

Page 176 7:00 PM

North

Page 149 9:30 PM

Kimjongilia 95 min.

ADAM1209A

Page 163 6:30 PM

talhotblond 78 min.

NORT1209A

Page 169 9:15 PM

75 min.

KIMJ1209A

83 min.

TALH1209A

American Primitive Page 177 7:00 PM

93 min.

AMER1209A

Swimsuit Issue Page 243 9:30 PM

100 min.

SWIM1209A

Everyone Else Page 146 6:30 PM

119 min.

ELSE1209A

No Age performs The Bear Page 90 7:00 PM

Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love Page 99 9:30 PM

102 min.

YOUS1209A

117 min.

KANC1209M

Inju, the Beast in the Shadow

104 min.

FORT1209M

TRIPLE DOOR Adam

CINERAMA

94 min.

BEAA1209E

No Age performs The Bear Page 90 9:30 PM

94 min.

BEAB1209E

Page 209 4:15 PM

105 min.

INJU1209A

A Pain in the Ass Page 230 7:00 PM

84 min.

PAIN1209A

Buddenbrooks Page 187 9:15 PM

140 min.

BUDD1209A

The Hills Run Red Page 107 Midnight

81 min.

HILL1209A

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TIMETABLE

UPTOWN

S A T U R D A Y, J U N E 1 3

SIFF CINEMA 10 am 10:301111:30- Afghan Star Page 153 87 min.

12 pm 11:00 AM AFGH1309M 12:3011:302 pm The One-Handed Trick Page 228 91 min.

2:30- 1:30 PM ONEH1309A 33:304 pm 4:30- In Your Absence Page 211 99 min.

5- 4:00 PM ABSE1309A 5:306 pm 6:3077:30- Rain Page 150 93 min.

8 pm 7:00 PM RAIN1309A 8:3099:3010 pm Breathless Page 186 130 min.

10:30- 9:30 PM BREA1309A 1111:3012 am

North

Page 149 11:00 AM

Adam

Page 176 1:15 PM

78 min.

NORT1309M

95 min.

ADAM1309A

Lovely Loneliness Page 217 3:45 PM

100 min.

LOVE1309A

Fifty Dead Men Walking Page 199 6:30 PM

118 min.

FIFT1309A

Flame & Citron Page 200 9:30 PM

130 min.

FLAM1309A

PACIFIC PLACE

What’s on Your Plate?

Page 87 11:00 AM

73 min.

WHAT1309M

Kimjongilia Page 163 1:30 PM

talhotblond Page 169 4:00 PM

Amreeka Page 178 6:30 PM

75 min.

KIMJ1309A

The Spy and the Sparrow Page 119 11:00 AM

Sweet Crude Page 120 1:30 PM

83 min.

TALH1309A

97 min.

REEK1309A

100 min.

LIVE1309A

Page 177 4:30 PM

9:00 PM

TBAC1409A

S U N D A Y, J U N E 1 4

Page 244 11:00 AM

115 min.

TEAR1409M

Fifty Dead Men Walking Page 199 1:30 PM

118 min.

FIFT1409A

Alisa’s Birthday Page 83 11:00 AM

Amreeka A Pain in the Ass Page 230 4:30 PM

84 min.

PAIN1409A

Troubled Water Page 247 7:00 PM

Summer Page 242 9:30 PM

116 min.

TROU1409A

94 min.

ALIS1409M

Live and Remember Page 217 1:30 PM

Page 178 4:00 PM

The Shaft Page 235 6:30 PM

100 min.

LIVE1409A

9:15 PM

93 min.

AMER1309A

Page 41 7:00 PM

95 min.

STEP1309A

The Clone Returns Home Page 191 9:30 PM

Secret #4 Page 47 11:00 AM

110 min.

CLON1309A

The Other Bank Page 150 11:00 AM

90 min.

OTHE1309M

North Face Page 227 NOON

120 min.

SEC41409X

Buddenbrooks Page 187 1:30 PM

Once Upon a Time in the West Page 69 1:30 PM

165 min.

ONCE1309A

Forever Enthralled

BUDD1409M

98 min.

SHAF1409A

Telstar

Page 97 7:00 PM

Sexykiller TBAB1409A

Page 110 9:30 PM

147 min.

ENTH1309A

Everyone Else Page 146 5:00 PM

119 min.

ELSE1309A

Hachiko: A Dog’s Story Unmistaken Child Page 169 7:45 PM

102 min.

UNMI1309A

Page 205 6:30 PM

Il Divo Kaifeck Murder Page 212 10:00 PM

86 min.

KAIF1309A

Page 208 9:15 PM

104 min.

HACH1309A

110 min.

ILDI1309A

Unmistaken Child Page 169 11:00 AM

102 min.

UNMI1409M

80 min.

GIVE1409A

Page 99 1:30 PM

102 min.

YOUS1409A

85 min.

SEXY1409A

104 min.

HACH1409M

The Burning Plain Page 188 2:30 PM

111 min.

BURN1409A

Kaifeck Murder Page 212 4:30 PM

86 min.

KAIF1409A

OSS 117: Lost in Rio Page 27 6:30 PM

Wind Blows in the 114 min. Meadow

TELS1409A

Hachiko: A Dog’s Story Page 205 NOON

Youssou N’dour: I 140 min. Bring What I Love

Give Me Your Hand Page 204 4:45 PM

126 min.

FACE1309M

85 min.

SEXY1309A

97 min.

REEK1409A

TBA 95 min.

SUMM1409A

CINERAMA

Every Little Step

Sexykiller

Tears of April

90 min.

SWEE1309A

American Primitive

Page 110 Midnight

10 am 10:301111:30- El General 83 min.

12 pm Page 156 11:00 AM GENE1409M 12:3011:30- Home Page 147 97 min.

2 pm 1:00 PM HOME1409A 2:3033:304 pm Involuntary Page 148 98 min.

4:303:30 PM INVO1409A 55:306 pm 6:307- The Hills Run Red Page 107 81 min.

7:30- 6:30 PM HILL1409A 8 pm 8:3099:30- TBA 10 pm

86 min.

SPYA1309M

HARVARD EXIT

Page 201 3:00 PM

Live and Remember Page 217 9:30 PM

EGYPTIAN

Page 250 7:00 PM

91 min.

WIND1409A

Poppy Shakespeare Page 231 9:30 PM

100 min.

CLOS1409G

89 min.

POPP1409A

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315

SHORT FILM INDEX

Short Films

# 2081...................................................136 3 Minute Masterpieces Winners ..........139 575 Castro Street ...............................138

A Adulte .................................................126 Ahmad’s Garden.................................142 Alice’s Attic .........................................138 All My Dreams on VHS .......................139 Anatomy of a Fly .................................255 Andong ..............................................137 The Archivist .......................................138 Arthur .................................................255 Asamara .............................................142 Atlantic ...............................................137 Atlantico .............................................138

B Babau ................................................137 The Babysitter ....................................141 The Back Room .................................138 Baghdad Express ...............................138 The Bake Shop Ghost ........................136 Bedtime Story ....................................126 Black Coffee .......................................255 Blessed Virgin .....................................142 The Blindness of the Woods ...............139 BOTNIK! .............................................138 Boutonniere ........................................141 Butterfly ..............................................142

C Careful With That Powertool ...............142 CC 2010 ............................................142 The Chronicles of Cleo and Jack ........126 Control Master....................................141 Crane and Digger ...............................137

D Dahlia .................................................136 Danse Macabre ..................................103 Dark Material ......................................141 The Day My Parents Became Cool .....139 Dear Fatty...........................................137 Designing the New World: Turning Crisis into Potential ..............115 Dig .....................................................126 La Dolorosa ........................................185 The Dreamer ........................................77

E Elephants ...........................................137 Endless Tunnel ...................................138 Everyday People .................................139 Excision ..............................................139

F

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Field Notes from Dimension X: Oasis ..139 fOUR ..................................................142 French Roast ......................................139 Full Employment .................................105 The Funk ............................................142

One Night ...........................................137 Orgesticulanismus ..............................142

G Garden/ing .........................................126 A Generation of Consolidation ..............77 The Graffiti of Mr. Tupaia .....................142 The Ground Beneath ..........................142

H The Herd ....................................136, 137 Her Meds ...........................................139 Horizontal Boundaries ........................126 Horn Dog ...........................................137 Horsefingers 3: Starfucker ..................139 The Hysteria .........................................77

P Páidi’s Tale ..........................................141 Photograph of Jesus ..........................136 Pockets ..............................................141 Post-It Love ........................................136 Puccini Conservato.............................126 Push Button House ............................138

R Ralph..................................................141 Recipe for Beauty .................................77

S

Ideation ..............................................137 If U Want 2 Get Technical .....................77 Immersion ..........................................141 Incubus Drone ....................................139 It’s In The P-I ......................................136

Safe Passage .....................................255 Second Guessing Grandma................138 Short Term 12.....................................138 SHU (Blue Hour Lullaby) .....................126 Slow Boat to Thassos.........................126 Somewhere ........................................126 Sophia + Anna....................................142 The Spam Job ....................................136 Sparks ................................................136 Sweet Virginia .....................................141

J

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James ................................................136

Ten For Grandpa ................................137 Thicker Than Water ............................141 Thirteen or so Minutes ........................138 This Is Her ..........................................142 Through The Ear .................................139 Tiny Pillows...........................................77 Treevenge ...........................................139 Turn to Black ......................................141 The “Twilight” Zone ...............................77 Twoyoungmen, UT. .............................138

I

K Kanizsa Hill .........................................139 Kudan ................................................136

L Leila’s Eyebrow! ....................................77 Lessons From The Night.....................142 Let’s Dance ........................................138 Lost Paradise .....................................139 Love ...................................................136 Love on the Tundra .............................137 Love You More ...................................136 Lowland Fell .......................................214

M Madam President ...............................137 Maggie and Mildred ............................137 Make My Day .....................................142 Messin’ Around ....................................77 Mite ....................................................139 Monsieur Selavy: The Way It Is ...........137 My World ..............................................77

N Next Floor...........................................136 Northern Highway...............................141 November ..........................................141

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U Utopia, Part 3: The World’s Largest Shopping Mall ..................................137

W Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death ...............................................137 Welgunzer ..........................................141 Western Spaghetti ..............................137 What’s Virgin Mean? ...........................141 A Work of Fiction ..................................77

Y Youth Winner 3-Minute Masterpieces ......................77 Yuri .....................................................138

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F E AT U R E F I L M I N D E X

Feature Films

# 33 Scenes from Life............................174 (500) Days of Summer .......................174 $9.99..................................................175

A About Elly ...........................................175 Adam .................................................176 The Admiral ........................................176 The Adventures of Robin Hood .............65 Afghan Star ........................................153 Against the Current.............................177 Alisa’s Birthday .....................................83 All Tomorrow’s Parties...........................95 American Primitive ..............................177 Amreeka .............................................178 The Anarchist’s Wife ..........................178 The Answer Man ................................179 Apron Strings .....................................179 Art & Copy..........................................153 At West of Pluto .................................145

City of Borders ...................................155 The Clone Returns Home ...................191 Cloud 9 ..............................................191 Cold Souls ..........................................192 The Conversation .................................69 The Country Teacher ............................55 The Cove ............................................155

The Girl from Monaco .........................203 Give Me Your Hand ............................204 God’s Offices ......................................204 Gotta Dance .......................................161 Grace .................................................105 The Great Race ....................................43

D

Hachiko: A Dog’s Story .......................205 Hansel and Gretel ..............................205 The Headless Woman ..........................53 The Higher Force ................................206 The Hills Run Red ...............................107 Home .................................................147 Hooked ..............................................207 Humpday .............................................29 The Hurt Locker .................................207

Daddy Cool ........................................192 Dancing Across Borders .....................115 The Dark Harbor .................................193 Daytime Drinking ................................193 Deadgirl ..............................................103 Dead Snow ........................................105 Defamation .........................................156 Departures .........................................194 The Desert Within ...............................194 Dodsworth ...........................................65 Don’t Let Me Drown ...........................195 Downloading Nancy ...........................195

E

B The Baby Formula ..............................181 Baby Love ..........................................182 Back to the Garden, Flower Power Comes Full Circle .........................................115 Ball Don’t Lie ......................................182 The Beaches of Agnès .......................154 The Bear ..............................................90 The Beast Stalker ...............................183 Beauties at War ..................................183 Be Calm and Count to Seven .............145 Beket..................................................126 Birdwatchers ......................................184 Black Dogs Barking ............................184 Black Dynamite ..................................103 Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly.................185 Bluebeard ...........................................185 Boy ....................................................186 Breathless ..........................................186 Bronson .............................................187 Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona....93 Buddenbrooks....................................187 Buick Riviera.......................................188 Burma VJ - Reporting from a Closed Country ................................154 The Burning Plain ...............................188

C California Company Town ...................127 Can Go Through Skin .........................189 Captive ...............................................189 Carmo, Hit the Road...........................190 Chef’s Special.....................................190

Egon & Dönci .......................................83 Eldorado.............................................196 The End of the Line ............................157 The Escape ........................................196 Every Little Step....................................41 Everyone Else .....................................146 Everything Strange and New .............197 The Exploding Girl ..............................146

F Facing Ali ............................................157 Favela on Blast .....................................95 Fear Me Not .......................................197 Fifty Dead Men Walking ......................199 Fig Trees .............................................159 FILM IST. a girl & a gun .......................127 Final Arrangements .............................199 Finding Bliss .......................................116 The Firm Land ....................................200 Flame & Citron ....................................200 Food, Inc. ...........................................159 Forasters ............................................201 Forever Enthralled ...............................201 The Fortress .......................................160 Four Boxes .........................................202 Four Chapters ....................................147 A French Gigolo ..................................202 Fruit Fly...............................................203

G Garbage Dreams ................................160 The Garden ........................................161 El General ...........................................156

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I Icons Among Us ...................................91 I Know You Know ...............................208 Il Divo .................................................208 I’m Gonna Explode .............................209 The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle ...................................116 I’m No Dummy ...................................162 Independent America: Rising from Ruins .............................117 Inju, the Beast in the Shadow .............209 Inland .................................................148 In the Loop ...........................................25 Involuntary ..........................................148 In Your Absence .................................211 I Sell the Dead ....................................107 An Island Calling .................................162 It Came From Kuchar .........................129 It Takes a Cult .....................................117

K Kabei - Our Mother .............................211 Kaifeck Murder ...................................212 Kanchivaram ......................................212 The Karamazovs.................................213 Katia’s Sister .......................................213 Khamsa ..............................................214 Kimjongilia ..........................................163 Kisses ................................................214 Know Your Mushrooms ......................163 Krabat ................................................215

L La Ciénaga ...........................................53 Laila’s Birthday ...................................215 Le Amiche ............................................61 Light Year ...........................................129 Like Dandelion Dust............................216

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Little Joe.............................................164 Little Soldier........................................216 Live and Remember ...........................217 Lovely Loneliness ...............................217

Pop Star On Ice ..................................166 Princess of Africa ................................166 Prodigal Sons .....................................167

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Quiet Chaos .......................................232

Machan ..............................................218 The Maid ............................................218 Mamma Moo and Crow ........................85 Manhole Children................................164 Maradona by Kusturica.......................165 Marcello Marcello................................219 The Market - A Tale of Trade ...............219 Melodrama Habibi ..............................220 The Merry Gentleman .........................220 Mesrine: A Film in Two Parts (Parts 1 and 2) .................................221 Miao Miao ..........................................221 Mid-August Lunch ..............................222 The Missing Person ...........................222 La Mission ..........................................223 Modern Life ........................................165 Mommy Is at the Hairdresser’s............223 Moon..................................................224 Moonbeam Bear and His Friends .........85 Morris: A Life With Bells On ................224 Mothers & Daughters..........................226 My Dear Enemy ....................................51 My Suicide..........................................149

N Nak ......................................................87 Necessities of Life...............................226 No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti ..........................227 North ..................................................149 North Face .........................................227 Nurse.Fighter.Boy ...............................228

O Once Upon a Time in the West .............69 The One-Handed Trick .......................228 Opium War .........................................229 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies .............45 OSS 117: Lost in Rio ............................27 The Other Bank ..................................150 Our Beloved Month of August.............131 The Overbrook Brothers .....................229

P A Pain in the Ass ................................230 Paper Heart ........................................230 The Paranoids ....................................231 Passing Strange ..................................33 Patrik Age 1.5.......................................31 Pirate for the Sea ................................119 Poppy Shakespeare ...........................231 320

Q R Raging Sun, Raging Sky .....................232 Rain ....................................................150 The Red Race ....................................167 Rembrandt’s J’Accuse .......................168 Rumba ...............................................233

S School Days With a Pig ......................233 Scratch...............................................234 A Sea Change ....................................168 Séraphine ...........................................234 Sexykiller ............................................110 The Shaft ............................................235 Shrink .................................................235 Skin ....................................................236 Small Crime ........................................236 The Sniper ..........................................237 Snow ..................................................237 So Long at the Fair ...............................71 Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary ..................................97 Spring 1941 .......................................238 Spring Breakdown ..............................238 The Spy and the Sparrow ...................119 The Square .........................................239 Stella ..................................................239 Still Walking ........................................240 Story of Jen ........................................240 The Strength of Water.........................241 Sügisball .............................................241 Summer .............................................242 Summer Hours ...................................242 Sunset Boulevard .................................65 Sweet Crude ......................................120 Swimsuit Issue....................................243

Treeless Mountain ...............................246 Trimpin: The Sound of Invention............99 Troubled Water ..................................247 True Adolescents ................................120 Tulpan ................................................247

U Unmistaken Child ...............................169

W Warlords .............................................248 The Wedding Song .............................248 Welcome ............................................249 We Live in Public ................................170 What’s on Your Plate?...........................87 White Night Wedding ..........................249 The Whole Truth .................................122 The Wild Bees ......................................55 Wild Field............................................250 Wild Rose .............................................67 William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe ....................170 Wind Blows in the Meadow ................250 With a Little Help from Myself .............251 A Woman in Berlin ..............................251 A Woman’s Way .................................252 A Woman Under the Influence ..............61 Wonderful World .................................253 World’s Greatest Dad .........................122

Y Yes, I Can See Dead People ...............110 The Yes Men Fix the World .................171 Youssou N’dour: I Bring What I Love ....99

Z Zift ......................................................253 ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction....123

T Tahaan - A Boy With a Grenade..........243 talhotblond .........................................169 Tears of April.......................................244 Telstar...................................................97 Tengri: Blue Heavens ..........................244 Terribly Happy.....................................245 Tetro .....................................................39 That Evening Sun ...............................245 The Third Man ......................................65 This Charming Girl ................................51 Three Blind Mice .................................246

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