33rd Seattle International Film Festival (2007)

Greetings from the Governor

May 24–June 17, 2007

I am delighted to welcome you to the 33rd Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF).

The longest running American film festival, SIFF offers 400 feature films and shorts from more than 60 countries. Last year’s audience reached an unprecedented 160,000 people, attracting many visitors from around the world.

The SIFF Group’s new state-of-the-art theater in McCaw Hall will provide a year-round screening facility at Seattle Center. This exciting partnership between the City of Seattle and SIFF is catalyzing Seattle Center into 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, as well as to our visitors. This celebration of the international language of film can only serve to enlighten us all 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

As Mayor of Seattle, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The city of Seattle is proud to sponsor this event as the many organizers, volunteers and sponsors bring the city together for an ambitious 25-day celebration of film from around the globe.

SIFF gives us all a chance to discover new independent films, to mingle with filmmakers and film-lovers, and to explore opportunities behind the scenes at panels and discussions hosted by special film industry guests.

In addition to film, we also love music in Seattle, so as you browse through the wide array of choices this festival has to offer, be sure to check out SIFF’s dedicated music series, covering a variety of artists and music styles.

One of the most important film festivals in the country, SIFF serves as a valuable enriching resource to our community. I encourage you to take advantage of the great opportunities to discover, view and discuss all the aspects of film creation.

Sincerely,

Greg Nickels Mayor of Seattle

Welcome to the Festival

Every year SIFF is committed to bringing the very best in filmmaking to our audiences, and every year my enthusiasm for film is renewed with an incredible new crop of outstanding films emerging. I love to watch movies, at home, in theaters, alone or with a few friends, but there is something about the film festival experience that transcends all other movie viewing. There is the hushed silence of a packed movie theater, the shared emotional landscape, the magic of a communal cinematic discovery made while sitting in the dark, and the extraordinary moment when the film ends and the lights come up and we sense that we are somehow changed by what we have just seen. The 2007 program reflects SIFF’s reputation as a wide-reaching and eclectic festival: there are big-studio movies, enigmatic and experimental films, foreign films from over sixty countries world-wide, and brave movies that break new ground in style and form. All share a unique vision and fierce dedication to their craft.

This year I am particularly enthusiastic about an important new initiative: Planet Cinema, a series of films—documentaries, features and short subject works—about the environment and our human relationship to the natural world. SIFF is proud to be honoring Academy Award winner Sir Anthony Hopkins with the Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Our closing night gala takes out this year’s festival with a great big bang as we present the North American premiere of Moliere, a bawdy and spirited re-imagination of the life and times of one of the greatest writers in French history. I am looking forward to your joining us to celebrate, discover and experience the world in moving pictures.

Carl Spence Artistic Director Seattle International Film Group

Ihave been head over heels in love with SIFF for nearly its entire history. Over these last three decades, I have looked forward to this time of year, knowing I would be entertained, informed and challenged by a wealth of stories and perspectives from around the world. As my love for SIFF grew, so did my level of participation, and I am proud to say that I’ve been involved with this organization in almost every way one can. Last year was my first as Managing Director, and of all the wonderful new experiences and challenges which came with my new role, far and away the most rewarding was witnessing first hand the number of people in our community who shared my passion for one of our region’s greatest cultural events.

Thanks to our community’s passion and commitment, this last year has been an extraordinary one in the history of SIFF Group. After years of dreaming and planning, SIFF Group finally has a year-round theater to call home. In March, we inaugurated year-round programming at our new SIFF Cinema at the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall at Marion Oliver McCaw Hall. None of this could have happened without very generous support from the City of Seattle, our members and sponsors, our board of directors and, most importantly, the tireless work of our staff who give new definition to the phrase, “above and beyond the call of duty!” We are all very proud of our new home, and look forward to you visiting it during SIFF, as it will serve as our flagship venue for the festival.

We are delighted that we can now present the best in world cinema throughout the entire year, but we also know that these three-plus weeks of the Festival will always provide an unparalleled cinematic experience. If you have not done so already, I invite you to fall in love with SIFF.

Deborah Person Managing Director Seattle International Film Festival Group

Message from the Board

Welcome to the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival.

There is something magical about a film festival. We sit in a dark room with rows of strangers all around us. Collectively, we as the audience are swept out of our individual realities and transported to real or imaginary places that become as tangible as any place or time out of our own experiences. Together we watch, listen, smile, cry, laugh and scream. This is the magic of film — the ability to bring people together to share stories.

The SIFF Group is proud to present our 33rd annual film festival showcasing spectacular filmmaking from over 60 countries. With more than 250 feature films there is something for everyone.

Thanks to the SIFF staff, Board of Directors, sponsors and the many volunteers for all of your hard work and dedication. A special thanks to the filmmakers, SIFF members and all the audiences. You are the exciting vibrant community we call SIFF.

Enjoy the magic!

Richard Fassio President, SIFF Group

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THE FUTURE OF CINEMA

AS THE OFFICIAL MARKETING SOLUTIONS PROVIDER TO THE SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, WONGDOODY KEEPS ITS EAR TO THE GROUND OF THE FILM INDUSTRY LIKE SO MUCH TRAMPLED LICORICE ON A THEATRE FLOOR. IN DOING SO, WE’VE DETECTED THE FOLLOWING ADVANCES IN CINEMA SET TO OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS.

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Film geeks and gourmands will soon kill two herbrubbed quail with one stone thanks to flavor-enriched showings of most major releases. Crowd-pleasing tastes will include “Mysterious French Lady” and “Pratfall”, while viewers will hit the mints en masse

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THE FUTURE OF CINEMA

AS THE OFFICIAL MARKETING SOLUTIONS PROVIDER TO THE SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, WONGDOODY KEEPS ITS EAR TO THE GROUND OF THE FILM INDUSTRY LIKE SO MUCH TRAMPLED LICORICE ON A THEATRE FLOOR. IN DOING SO, WE’VE DETECTED THE FOLLOWING ADVANCES IN CINEMA SET TO OCCUR WITHIN THE NEXT TWO TO ONE HUNDRED TWENTY YEARS.

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In a move to secure a larger share of the in utero audience, FetalFlix Inc., will launch its own wombbased entertainment system. FetalFlix OBGYNs will outfit moms-to-be with up to 12 high-def mini screens, along with optional popcorn-fl avored amniotic fluid.

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In a move to secure a larger share of the in utero audience, FetalFlix Inc., will launch its own wombbased entertainment system. FetalFlix OBGYNs will outfit moms-to-be with up to 12 high-def mini screens, along with optional popcorn-fl avored amniotic fluid.

The entertainment industry will “go green” by releasing films made up entirely of deleted scenes from past movies. Eco-hits will include “WEEKEND AT SCHINDLER’S WITCH PROJECT” and “MY LEFT SUPERSIZE AND THE BEAR.” Floor-salvaged refreshments will also be served.

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Riding the crimson tsunami of ultra-gory horror films, Tinsel Town will take the genre to new depths with frightfests for the pre-K set. Hits will include “ME GOT GROWN-UP SCISSORS” and “OUCHY SPANKING.”

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After reaching the saturation point for product placements in movies, renegade studios will begin writing actual human actors back into some screenplays on a trial basis. The actors, however, will likely wear logo-emblazoned jumpsuits like those worn by fast-food clowns and Indy car drivers.

Riding the crimson tsunami of ultra-gory horror films, Tinsel Town will take the genre to new depths with frightfests for the pre-K set. Hits will include “ME GOT GROWN-UP SCISSORS” and “OUCHY SPANKING.”

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FCC officials will finally green-light a chain of time-warping String Theoryters™. Screens will utilize man-made wormholes to reverse time as viewers watch the film. As an added benefit, viewers who dislike a film will still have time not to see it in the first place. The first String Theoryter is slated to break ground in early 1996.

The entertainment industry will “go green” by releasing films made up entirely of deleted scenes from past movies. Eco-hits will include “WEEKEND AT SCHINDLER’S WITCH PROJECT” and “MY LEFT SUPERSIZE AND THE BEAR.” Floor-salvaged refreshments will also be served.

Execs will further profitize the franchise model by eliminating the often-pricey original movie. Riding the coattails of wildly successful yet non-existent originals, future hits like “KITTY COPS IV: THE PRRRRRFECT CRIME” will smash box office records while just meeting audiences’ rock-bottom expectations for sequels.

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FCC officials will finally green-light a chain of time-warping String Theoryters™. Screens will utilize man-made wormholes to reverse time as viewers watch the film. As an added benefit, viewers who dislike a film will still have time not to see it in the first place. The first String Theoryter ™ is slated to break ground in early 1996.

Execs will further profitize the franchise model by eliminating the often-pricey original movie. Riding the coattails of wildly successful yet non-existent originals, future hits like “KITTY COPS IV: THE PRRRRRFECT CRIME” will smash box office records while just meeting audiences’ rock-bottom expectations for sequels.

With A-list stars demanding $15 million-plus per picture, Hollywood will turn to science for solutions. While preliminary cloning tests will be performed on highly expendable film extras, megastar duplicates will eventually be cranked for roughly three bucks a pop.

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FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

We are thrilled to welcome you to the new SIFF Cinema. This is our dream come true! A world-class state-of-the art cinema in the Nesholm Family Lecture Hall located within Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall. Featuring the most technologically advanced projection and sound systems, fantastic sightlines, excellent acoustics and comfy seats to bring you an unrivaled movie-going experience all year-round!

Highlights include:

• Two 35mm projectors

• A new Sony® SRXR110 digital projector

• LucasFilm THX Sound specifications

• JBL 3–way speakers

• Surround sound

• Dolby Digital Sound processing

• Crown’s DSI cinema amplifiers

The new SIFF Cinema opened to rave reviews in March of 2007 with Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films. This seven-week screening series showcased SIFF Cinema’s excellent sound and projection with new film prints of classics like The 400 Blows, The Seven Samurai, La Strada and Wild Strawberries, plus dozens of other world film legends.

Continue your SIFF experience with year-round programming at SIFF Cinema. World-renowned film curator Anita Monga will lead the SIFF Group programming team to bring events such as director retrospectives, educational programming, special receptions and events, members’ screenings, and many other possibilities. SIFF Group is proud to call Seattle Center a permanent home—we hope you’ll join us at the movies all year long!

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SIFF Cinema, our new state-of-the-art venue at Seattle Center, is brought to you by the generosity of many donors and corporate partners, whom we thank here

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Opening Night Son of Rambow

FRIDAY, MAY 23 8 7:00 PM 8 MCCAW HALL

United Kingdom 2007

Director:

Garth Jennings

Producers:

Nick Goldsmith

Hengameh Panahi

Ben Goldhirsch

Bristol Baughan

Screenwriter:

Garth Jennings

Cinematographer:

Jess Hall

Film Editor:

Domenic Leung

Music:

Joey Talbot

Cast:

Will Poulter

Bill Milner

Jules Siturk

Charlie Thrift

Jessica Stevenson

Neil Dudgeon

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales: Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Paramount Vantage

Selected Filmography: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005) S

et in the early 1980s, Son of Rambow is a charming and hysterically funny homage to childhood and the movies involving two boys who couldn’t be more opposite and a moviemaking project that couldn’t be more indie. Will (Bill Milner) is an imaginative yet subdued boy raised in a strict, religious household. Not allowed to watch TV or go to the movies, he expresses himself through his drawings. at is, until he finds himself caught up in the extraordinary world of wild child Lee (Will Poulter), the school terror and crafter of bizarre home movies. Lee shows Will a pirated copy of the first Rambo film, First Blood (which blows his movie-virgin mind), and recruits him to star in a homemade version of the film. e mild mannered Will goes through a series of wildly risky stunts as he emulates the classic action hero, and his creativity begins to flourish. But the boys’ friendship and precious film project are pushed to the breaking point when Will’s mother and chic Pied Piper-esque French exchange student Didier both catch wind of the project. Writer/director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, a.k.a. Hammer & Tongs, are the creative visionaries behind some of the best music videos of the last decade as well as the surreal sci-fi feature e Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. With Son of Rambow they’ve created a whimsical and visually striking film that is at once a poignant comingof-age tale and a wonderful satire of low budget filmmaking that captures the ’80s in all its absurd, big-haired glory.

Closing Night North American Premiere Molière

SUNDAY, JUNE 17 8 6:30 PM 8 CINERAMA

France 2007

Director:

Laurent Tirard

Producers:

Christine de Jekel

Olivier Delbosc

Marc Missonnier

Screenwriters:

Laurent Tirard

Grégoire Vigneron

Cinematographer:

Gilles Henry

Film Editor:

Valérie Deseine

Music:

Frédéric Talgorn

Cast: Romain Duris

Fabrice Luchini

Laura Morante

Éduoard Baer

Ludivine Sagnier

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales: Wild Bunch

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website: www.sonyclassics.com/moliere/

Selected Filmography: The Story of My Life (2004)

Romance, repartee and sumptuous costumes are among the pleasures to be had in Molière, a consistently diverting, sometimes bawdy and laugh-out-loud funny historical romp in the vein of Ridicule and Shakespeare in Love. Set in 1645, the witty script speculates what might have happened to the impoverished young playwright, Molière now regarded as a master of comic satire, when he went missing for several weeks at age 22. We see him thrown into jail for debt, then rescued by the uber-rich Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini, Intimate Strangers), whose motives are hardly altruistic: he wants Molière to coach him in a play he has written in an attempt to seduce the beauteous widow Celimène (Ludivine Sagnier, the siren from Swimming Pool). Dressed as a priest to deflect suspicion, Molière enters the Jourdain household and finds himself embroiled in a hotbed of subterfuge and seduction, with his quick wit the only tool to keep all around him satisfied. Starring as Molière, Romain Duris (so memorable in e Beat at My Heart Skipped) goes through his complicated paces with resourceful ease, and writer/director Laurent Tirard will delight Molière fans with his witty reassembling of characters and storylines from the master’s works. For those unfamiliar with the man considered to be the creator of modern French comedy, rest assured: no prior knowledge is actually required in order to enjoy this hugely intelligent and entertaining re-imagining of the life of one of the greatest dramatists ever born.

USA

2006

Director:

John Jeffcoat

Producers:

Tom Gorai

David Skinner

George Wing

Screenwriters:

George Wing

John Jeffcoat

Cinematographer: Teodoro Maniaci

Film Editor:

Brian Berdan

Music: B.C. Smith

Cast: Josh Hamilton

Ayesha Dharker

Larry Pine

Asif Basra

Matt Smith

Running Time: 102 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in English and Hindi, with English subtitles

International Sales: Cinemavault Releasing

Print Source:

ShadowCatcher Entertainment

Film Website: www.outsourcedthemovie.com

Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Eastside Opening Night Outsourced

THURSDAY, MAY 31 8 7:00 PM 8 LINCOLN SQUARE

Apitch-perfect comedy about a hot-button issue, John Jeffcoat’s feature debut signals a bright new talent in the ranks of American independent filmmakers. Todd (Josh Hamilton) heads up the sales department in a Seattlebased company that sells cheap novelty products. After his entire department is outsourced, he succeeds in hanging on to his job only by agreeing to go to India to train his own replacement. Completely at sea in the climate and culture, and rattled by the locals’ invariable mispronunciation of his name as “Mr. Toad,” his befuddlement is matched by the young Indian workers in the company’s Mumbai office, who fail to understand why anyone would want the worthless products they are being trained to purvey. Rescue is at hand in the shape of the beautiful and capable Asha (Ayesha Dharker), who shows him what he needs to learn about India to know how to motivate his workers. Inevitably, love rears its head as Todd and Asha begin to gaze past their cultural differences. Mercifully, and not nearly so inevitably, Jeffcoat and cowriter George Wing eschew the political didacticism and obvious stereotypes that you might fear from a modern work place or cross-cultural comedy. Instead, they craft Outsourced as a genuine crowd-pleaser, humming with real warmth and charm, winning performances and an agile plot that keeps the audience guessing.

Hong Kong /China/South Korea/Japan

2006 Director:

Jacob Cheung

Producer: Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung

Screenwriters: Chi Leung ‘Jacob’ Cheung

Ken’ichi Sakemi

Cinematographer: Yoshitaka Sakamoto

Film Editor:

Kwong Chi-leong

Music:

Kenji Kawai

Cast: Andy Lau

Ahn Sung-ki

Wang Zhiwen

Fan Bingbing

Choi Si-won

Nicky Wu

Wu Ma

Chin Siu-hou

Sany Hung

Running Time: 131 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Cantonese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

Fortissimo Films

Film Website: www.abattleofwits.com.hk

Selected Filmography: Never Say Goodbye (2001) Cageman (1992) Beyond the Sunset (1989)

China’s Last Eunuch (1986)

A Battle of Wits

SATURDAY, MAY 26 8 6:00 PM 8 NEPTUNE THEATRE

ENCORE SCREENING

AMONDAY, MAY 28 8 3:30 PM 8 NEPTUNE

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decade in the making, the lavish period epic A Battle of Wits takes place during China’s Warring States period (481-221 BC). e year is 370 BC and the Army of Zhao is preparing to capture the Yan Nation. Standing in their way is the humble nation-state of Liang. Without the help of the anti-war Mozi faction, the 4,000-strong populace won’t be able to withstand the forces of the mighty Zhao, led by wily general Xiang Yanzhang (Ahn Sung-ki). Fortunately, freelance military adviser Ge Li (Andy Lau, Infernal Affairs) arrives just in time, but he is alone. How can just one man help defeat 100,000? With his wits, naturally. In a daring plan, Ge Li intends to wear down the wouldbe invaders by anticipating and responding to their every move. In the process, Ge Li befriends both Prince Lian Shi (Choi Si-Won) and master archer Zi Yuan (Nicky Wu), as well as falling for feisty cavalry officer Yi Yue (rising star Fan Bingbing). Unfortunately, his unconventional methods also inspire the wrath of those Liang residents who disagree with them—most notably the jealous King (Wang Zhiwen). Based on Hideki Mori’s manga series Bokkou, this panAsian production features archery and pyrotechnics aplenty, but eschews wire work and fantasy sequences for a more realistic, earth-bound approach.

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France/Germany

2006

Director:

Julie Delpy

Producers: Christophe Mazodier

Julie Delpy

Thierry Potok

Screenwriter: Julie Delpy

Cinematographer: Lubomir Bakchev

Film Editor: Julie Delpy

Music: Julie Delpy

Cast: Julie Delpy

Adam Goldberg

Daniel Brühl

Marie Pillet

Albert Delpy

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in English and French, with English subtitles

International Sales: Rezo Films International

Print Source: Samuel Goldwyn Films / IDP Films

Selected Filmography: Looking for Jimmy (2002)

Weekend Gala

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Two Days in Paris

SATURDAY, JUNE 2 8 8:30 PM 8 EGYPTIAN THEATRE

ENCORE SCREENING TUESDAY, JUNE 5 8 7:00 PM 8 LINCOLN SQUARE

Capitalizing on the appeal of the Before Sunrise/Sunset diptych she starred in for Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy has turned in a delicious crowd-pleasing delight with 2 Days in Paris. Its humor redolent of early Woody Allen, this razor-sharp satire on Franco-American cultural differences is lighter than brioche and sparkles like a good Saumur. Marion, a French photographer, and Jack, an American interior designer, live in New York. Returning from a dream vacation in Venice, they stop off in Paris, where Jack has his first encounter with Marion’s volatile parents (Delpy’s real-life parents, a total hoot), who are former “revolutionary” left-wingers who remain strangers to convention. Jack finds their forthrightness a culture shock, but it doesn’t end there. e obsession with sex, the culinary challenges, the intolerable cab drivers: everything combines to unnerve Jack, who Marion later finds cowering in a fast food restaurant looking for a little piece of home. And why do Marion’s former lovers turn up with such annoying frequency? Jack starts to suspect that the amiably ditzy Marion is actually a branch of a deranged family tree, and despite the fact that her parents accept him, he starts to wonder if he shouldn’t just get the hell out. As Marion and Jack, Delpy and Adam Greenberg display great chemistry and handle the breezy, goofball humor with aplomb. With some classic comic scenes, and capturing the city in all its Gallic splendor, 2 Days in Paris will remain a beau souvenir long after the viewer has left the cinema.

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Weekend Gala

Direktoren for det Hele The Boss of it All

SATURDAY, JUNE 9 8 7:00 PM 8 EGYPTIAN THEATRE

Denmark 2006

Director:

Lars von Trier

Producers: Meta Louise Foldager

Vibeke Windeløv

Signe Jensen

Screenwriter: Lars von Trier

Cinematographer: Automavision

Film Editor: Molly Malene Stensgaard

Cast:

Jean-Marc Barr

Jens Albinus

Peter Gantzler

Benedikt Erlingsson

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Danish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Trust Film Sales

Print Source: IFC First Take

Film Website: www.direktorenfordethele.dk

Selected Filmography: Manderlay (2005) Dogville (2003) Dancer in the Dark (2000)

Breaking the Waves (1996) The Kingdom (1994) Zentropa (1991) Epidemic (1987) The Element of Crime (1984)

ENCORE SCREENING WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13 8 7:00 PM 8 LINCOLN SQUARE

Never let it be said that Lars von Trier doesn’t know how to throw a changeup: While such films as Dancer in the Dark and Dogville have cemented his reputation as one of our boldest and most controversial filmmakers, the director’s latest provocation disarms primarily with its surprisingly light touch. Even those who’ve come to expect the unexpected from the Danish auteur probably didn’t plan on him releasing a breezy office comedy anytime soon. When the director of an I.T. firm finally receives a long-sought buyout offer, the one tiny, barely significant hurdle he has to overcome is finding an office president. For years, he has perpetually blamed his office policies on an imaginary superior, hiding behind “Sven” whenever unpopular steps needed taking. A failed actor is hired to portray the phantom Sven, but will he play along after discovering he’s a pawn in a game that goes on to sorely test his (lack of) moral fiber? For all its uncharacteristic levity, the movie still retains recognizable elements of the director’s touch. As in von Trier’s e Five Obstructions, the film provides a commentary on the filmmaking process itself, with both directors (one in front of and one behind the camera) exposed as master illusionists and manipulators of truth. e actor, in a notable gender swap from von Trier’s traditionally female protagonists, is another of the filmmaker’s tragic idealists whose suffering is rooted in a genuine commitment to justice. e experimental visual gimmick this time out is a computerized system of random camera adjustments, which complements the film’s celebration of the unpredictable chaos of laughter and life.

Weekend Gala Evening

SATURDAY, JUNE 14 8 6:30 PM 8 NEPTUNE THEATRE

USA

200

Director:

Lajos Koltai

Producers:

John Hart

Jeff Sharp

Screenwriters:

Susan Minot

Michael Cunningham based on a novel by Minot

Cinematographer: Gyula Pados

Film Editor:

Allyson C. Johnson

Music:

Jan A.P. Kaczmarek

Cast:

Claire Danes

Toni Collette

Vanessa Redgrave

Patrick Wilson

Hugh Dancy

Natasha Richardson

Mamie Gummer

Eileen Atkins

Glenn Close

Meryl Streep

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Focus Features International

Print Source:

Focus Features

Selected Filmography: Fateless (2006)

Ann Grant Lord (Vanessa Redgrave) has lived a good life. Or was it just good enough? Lying on her deathbed attended by her two daughters and best friend Lila Wittenborn (Meryl Streep), Ann’s thoughts reel back five decades, to her first meeting with love of her life Harris Arden. As Ann’s health fades and her recollections become all-consuming, this encounter emerges as the defining moment in her past, causing Ann to consider not just what was, but what could have been. Her daughters, meanwhile, must confront their own anxieties over their impending loss. is profoundly emotional portrait of memory and regret enriches its exploration of family by ingeniously casting several real-life relatives in key roles: one of Lord’s daughters is played by Redgrave’s own progeny Natasha Richardson (the other nicely essayed by Toni Collette); and while Claire Danes turns in a fine approximation of Redgrave as the young Ann, her chum Lila is portrayed by Streep’s daughter Mamie Gummer. All are fine and persuasive, though it goes without saying that Redgrave’s deeply moving turn still manages to stand out. Susan Minot has adapted her novel in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham ( e Hours). Director Lajos Koltai (Fateless, Hungary’s submission to last year’s Academy Awards) makes his English-language debut with this affecting drama.

France 2006

Director:

Eric Lavaine

Producers: François Cornuau

Vincent Roget

Screenwriters: Eric Lavaine

Héctor Cabello Reyes

Cinematographer: Vincent Mathias

Film Editor: Vincent Zuffranieri

Music: Moto

The Superman Lovers

Cast:

Clovis Cornillac

Julie Dépardieu

Lionel Abelanski

Gilles Gaston Dreyfus

Running Time: 93 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

TF1 International

Print Source: TF1 International

Film Website: www.poltergay-lefilm.com

THURSDAY, JUNE 7 8 7:15 PM 8 EGYPTIAN THEATRE

ENCORE SCREENING SATURDAY, JUNE 9 8 2:00 PM 8 EGYPTIAN THEATRE

It is, no doubt, every young couple’s worst nightmare. You move into your new home, a magnificent old mansion, only to discover that—horror upon horrors—it is haunted. But this is not just any old haunting. No, this particular paranormal incident is perpetrated by the spirits of disco dancing, gay clubbers from the 1970s. Marc (Clovis Cornillac) and Emma (Julie Dépardieu) are a beautiful young couple in love. ey are looking forward to fixing up their new abode together, but their recent arrival has awakened the souls of five men that have been stuck within the walls for more than two decades after a tragic foam-machine explosion. Strangely, only construction worker Marc is able to see the gay disco ghosts that his wife Emma cannot fathom. e five Village People-esque characters playfully begin to taunt and flirt with Marc causing major problems in his relationship with Emma. Mistaken notions and continued antics by the ghosts cause him to question his once secure identity. When the ghosts realize that they have caused Marc to lose the love of his life, they concoct a plan to win Emma back and possibly free themselves from the house. Sporting a monster ’70s musical score including Boney M’s “Rasputin,” this breezy cross between Poltergeist and Saturday Night Fever is one and a half hours of guilty-pleasure fun.

Partial lineup includes:

THE SHINS • WU-TANG CLAN PANIC! AT THE DISCO CROWDED HOUSE

LUPE FIASCO • KINGS OF LEON

STEVE EARLE • DEVOTCHKA

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA

DEVENDRA BANHART

ANDREW BIRD • THE FRAMES

GOGOL BORDELLO • KILL HANNAH

NORMA JEAN • PLAIN WHITE T'S

THE GOURDS • LYRICS BORN

ROKY ERICKSON & THE EXPLOSIVES

THE HOLMES BROTHERS

THE AVETT BROTHERS

THE DAMNWELLS • YUNGCHEN LHAMO

MY BRIGHTEST DIAMOND

ALLISON MOORER

MAGNOLIA ELECTRIC COMPANY

THE AGGROLITES

Full lineup to be announced!

United Kingdom 2007

Director: David Sington

Producer: Duncan Copp

Cinematographer: Clive North

Film Editor: David Fairhead Music: Philip Sheppard

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation Format: HDCAM

Print Source: THINKFilm

Selected Filmography: Project Poltergeist (2004)

Special Presentation In the Shadow of the Moon

SUNDAY, MAY 27 8 1:45 PM 8 NEPTUNE THEATRE

ENCORE SCREENING WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 8 7:00 PM 8 SIFF CINEMA

One of the defining passages of American history, the Apollo space program literally brought the aspirations of a nation to another world. Between 1968 and 1972, nine American spacecraft voyaged to the Moon, and 12 men walked upon its surface. ey remain the only human beings to have stood on ground beyond our planet. All surviving crew from the Apollo missions tell their story in their own words; their on-camera interviews reveal the astronauts as fun-loving, emotional and very human. Original NASA film footage—much of it never seen before—is interwoven as visually stunning counterpoint to this riveting firsthand testimony. e result is a uniquely intimate portrait of an epic achievement, conveying vividly the daring and the danger, the pride and the passion of this remarkable era. Audio recordings from Mission Control return a strikingly fresh immediacy to moments thought too well-known to revisit, while astonishing space shots capture the Earth in all its glory. e Apollo Program is presented, not just anew, but with an unprecedented visual clarity and impact. Seamlessly melding the wonders of science with the drama of the human quest, filmmaker David Sington has crafted a nostalgic and inspiring cinematic experience that provides unparalleled perspective on the fragile state of our planet.

Awards: Sundance 2007 (Audience Prize)

Special Presentation Soldiers of Conscience

thursDAY, J u NE 7 8 7:00 pm 8 s IFF CINE

USA 2007

Directors:

Gary Weimberg

Catherine ryan

Producers:

Gary Weimberg

Catherine ryan

Cinematographer:

Kevin O’Brien

Film Editors:

Gary Weimberg

Josh peterson

Music:

todd Boekelheide

With: Kevin Benderman

Joshua Casteel

Aidan Delgado

major pete Kilner

Camilo mejia

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation Format:

Betasp

Print Source: Luna productions

encore screening sAturDAY, J u NE 9 8 1:30 pm 8 hAr VA

This thought-provoking documentary begins with images of various soldiers. However different they look—in race, class and disposition—all share something in common beyond just their patriotism and call to narrator Peter Coyote states, “This film is about killing in war, and about some U.S. soldiers who have chosen Conscientious objectors in the military represent a phenomenon that’s neither rare nor recent; Soldiers of Conscience examines how this fact can be harmonized with the notion of American military personnel as killing machines. Filmmakers Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan began their 15-month inquiry at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, recruits are taught to depend upon “reflexive fire training”: or, to put more bluntly, how to shoot now and ask later. Alternating between the U.S. and Iraq, speaking with officers and enlisted personnel, the film contrasts with practice, and reveals how the disturbing aftermath of violence can overwhelm any amount of training and logical preparation. It becomes clear that whatever preconceptions you may have, crises of conscience have do with left-or right-wing beliefs; some of these soldiers are as conservative as they come. As one Iraq War acknowledges, he couldn’t reconcile killing with his Christian beliefs, yet felt compelled to serve his country. of Conscience isn’t so much anti-war or anti-military as it is pro-morality.

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Spain 2007

Director:

milos Forman

Producer:

saul Zaentz

Screenwriters:

milos Forman

Jean-Claude Carriere

Cinematographer: Javier Aguirresarobe

Film Editor:

Adam Boome

Music:

Varhan Bauer

Cast:

Javier Bardem

Natalie portman

stellan skarsgård

Javier Bardem

randy Quaid

michael Lonsdale

Running Time: 114 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales: hanWay

Print Source: samuel Goldwyn Films / IDp Films

Selected Filmography: man on the moon (1999) the people vs. Larry Flynt (1996) Amadeus (1984)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) the Fireman’s Ball (1967)

Special Presentation US Premiere

Los fantasmas de Goya Goya’s

Ghosts

sAturDAY, JuNE 9 8 6:30 pm 8 NEptuNE thEAtrE

sQuArE

Director Milos Forman (Amadeus) has once again taken inspiration from a great artist. He has based his latest on the work of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, who had long courted favor with Spanish royalty and stood on the cusp between the old masters and the new moderns. He created portraits for Kings Carlos III and Carlos IV, and also chronicled daily life around him in an evolving style that didn’t shy away from bold, subjective and sometimes grotesque images. The resulting film, Goya’s Ghosts, takes its art direction and look from the master’s paintings. It opens with members of the Spanish Inquisition critiquing some of the artist’s more outré etchings. Brother Lorenzo (Javier Bardem) recognizes not only the artist’s talent but also his political connections. He also recognizes Inés (Natalie Portman) from her representations in Goya’s paintings, and finds himself drawn to her even after she is imprisoned by the Inquisition. At the center of it all is Goya himself (Stellan Skarsgård), who moves with ease between the worlds of King Carlos IV (Randy Quaid), the Inquisitors and the tavern life he also likes to paint. Working from a script cowritten by Jean-Claude Carriêre, the pair’s first collaboration since Valmont, Forman brings this all to life in the style of Goya in a movie chock full of rich tones and expressive angles.

Trio con Brio Copenhagen

Special Presentation

North American Premiere Madrigal

WEDNE s DAY, J u NE 13 8 6:30 pm 8 NE ptu NE th EAtr E

Cuba/Spain

2007

Director:

Fernando pérez

Producers: Camilo Vives

José maría morales

Screenwriters:

Fernando pérez

Eduardo del Llano

susana maria

Cinematographer: raúl pérez ureta

Film Editor: Julia Yip

Music:

Edesio Alejandro

Cast:

Carlos Enrique Almirante

Liety Chaviano pérez

Carla sánchez

Luis Arberto García

Yailene sierra

Ana Celia de Armas

Armando soler

Running Time: 112 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in spanish with English

subtitles

International Sales: Wanda Vision

Print Source: Wanda Vision

Film Website: www.cubacine.cu/madrigal

Selected Filmography: havana suite (2003)

Life is to Whistle (1998) madagascar (1994) hello hemingway (1990)

encore screening

Fernando Perez is a regular at international film festivals these days, largely due to his continual reinvention his theme and style. With Madrigal, he has gone all out on the latter, portraying a highly abstracted Havana as a suitable backdrop to this elliptical yet sure-handed tale of escape via imagination. Handsome yet insecure, Javier is an aspiring writer and actor who serves as a novice on the lowest rung of the theatrical ladder. One night, the one and only audience member, an overweight young woman, walks out on his group’s performance. Javier is intrigued and follows her. She turns out to be Luisita, a comparatively wealthy young woman who owns that rarest of rarities in Havana: a big apartment. Javier’s actress girlfriend, Eva, jokes that Javier should seduce Luisita, then poison her, so they can take it over. Life throws Javier a curveball as he becomes genuinely fond of the homely Luisita, but implausibility is a deliberate narrative device here. It all pays off in the last 20 minutes which depict a striking, erotic vision of Havana set in 2020 in which bodily pleasures are the only ones left. Dedicated to French master Rene Clair, the film features a powerful scene taken from the originally planned ending of The Grand Maneuver (1955) that Clair’s producers forbade him to use, fearing it was too dark. Mercifully, Perez faced no such constraints.

Seattle International Film Festival

Lifetime Achievement Award

Anthony Hopkins

WEDNEsDAY, mAY 30 8 7:30 pm 8 EGYptIAN thEAtrE

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

Fracture (2007)

slipstream (2007)

Bobby (2006)

The World’s Fastest indian (2005)

Proof (2005)

Alexander (2004)

The Human stain (2003)

Hannibal (2001)

Titus (1999)

Meet Joe Black (1998)

Amistad (1997)

surviving Picasso (1996)

nixon (1995)

Legends of the Fall (1994)

shadowlands (1993)

Anthony Hopkins is one of the most versatile, subtle and commanding actors of our time. Mastering the mediums of stage, film and television, in his four decades on screen, Hopkins has won countless awards (among them the Oscar, Golden Globe, BAFTA, NYFCC and Emmy), and deservedly been nominated for as many again. His illustrious career has provided a series of riveting, astonishingly vivid portrayals in the roles of such diverse characters as Adolf Hitler, Yitzhak Rabin, John Quincy Adams, Richard Nixon, Guy Burgess, St. Paul, Captain Bligh, Picasso, Quasimodo, C. S. Lewis and everybody’s favorite cannibal, Hannibal Lecter. He’s played servants and kings, a homosexual spy and a schizophrenic ventriloquist, a press tycoon and a modest bookseller, authors and artists, doctors and dreamers, psychos and psychiatrists and everything in between, and done it all with a chameleon like gift of mutability and a vastly understated strength—understated because Hopkins bears the casual grace of an artist that knows no fear. Not content to rest upon his laurels as perhaps the finest actor of his generation, Hopkins extends beyond his horizons by writing, directing and starring in Slipstream, a sly and surreal murder mystery featured in our tribute to this legendary talent at this year’s Festival. If further proof were needed that this is a singular talent with a bold and eccentric vision beyond compare, one need only measure his work in this film against the bravura performance he delivered as the tragically suppressed butler in James Ivory’s Remains of the Day (also featured in our SIFF tribute) to grasp the full and formidable breadth of Hopkins’ great gifts.

The remains of the Day (1993)

Dracula (1992)

Howards end (1992)

spotswood (1992)

The silence of the Lambs (1991)

great expectations (1989)

Heartland (1989)

The Tenth Man (1988)

84 charing cross road (1987)

Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of il Duce (1985)

The Hunchback of notre Dame (1982)

othello (1981)

The Bunker (1981)

The elephant Man (1980)

Magic (1978)

Audrey rose (1977)

The Lindbergh Kidnapping case (1976)

War & Peace (1972)

The Looking glass War (1969)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

DIRECTOR:

slipstream (2007)

August (1996)

Dylan Thomas: return Journey (1990)

Slipstream

tuEsDAY, mAY 29 8 7:00 pm 8 sIFF CINEmA

encore screening

WEDNEsDAY, mAY 30 8 4:00 pm 8 EGYptIAN thEAtrE

USA

2007

Director:

Anthony hopkins

Producers:

stella Arroyave robert Katz

Screenwriter: Anthony hopkins

Cinematographer:

Dante spinotti

Film Editor: michael r. miller

Music: Anthony hopkins

Cast: Anthony hopkins

stella Arroyave

michael Clarke Duncan

Fionnula Flanagan

Camryn manheim

s. Epatha merkerson

Christian slater

Jeffrey tambor

John turturro

Running Time: 110 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Arclight Films

Print Source:

strand releasing

Selected Filmography: August (1996)

Dylan thomas: return Journey (1990)

Drawing upon both his fascination with the peculiar structure of dreams and his years of experience working on film sets, Anthony Hopkins’ bold and surprisingly experimental film that plays with the nature of cinema and pokes a little fun at the movie business in the process. Slipstream is an inventive, multilayered journey into the scattered mind of Felix Bonhoeffer (Hopkins), an aging screenwriter who is summoned to save a miserably failing film production. The film shoot—complete with a director losing his grip, a star suffering a breakdown and an obnoxious third-rate producer—is an amusing, cartoonish, yet alltoo-true jab at Hollywood trainwrecks. But absurdity turns increasingly nightmarish as the characters from Bonhoeffer’s fictional universe begin to invade his real life and we find ourselves in the flux of time and space that the film’s title suggests. The distinctions between reality, the movie and the imagined are lifted through a carefully orchestrated madness of jarring twists, blends and shifts, engaging a deeper mystery. Featuring an ensemble cast including Christian Slater, John Turturro, Stella Arroyave and Jeffrey Tambor, Slipstream is a daring work of independent filmmaking and a bold announcement of artistic vision from the Academy Award-winning actor.

Remains of the Day

shown as part of the Anthony hopkins tribute Evening UK/USA 1993

BDirector:

James Ivory

Producers: John Calley Ismail merchant mike Nichols

Screenwriter: ruth prawar Jhabvala based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro Cinematographer: tony pierce-roberts

Film Editor: Andrew marcus

Music: richard robbins

Cast: Anthony hopkins Emma thompson James Fox Christopher reeve hugh Grant michael Lonsdale

Running Time: 134 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

Print Source: Columbia pictures

ased on Kazuo Ishiguro’s eponymous Booker Prize-winning novel, Remains of the Day reunited the key creative team who made Howards End–producer Ishmael Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala–with stars Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, to tell the deeply resonant story of a man whose devotion to propriety and duty comes at the expense of achieving true happiness in life. Hopkins gives one of his most restrained, affecting performances in the role of James Stevens, the head butler at Darlington Hall, the center of Britain’s social and political life in the years before WWII. Subjugating himself utterly to the daily duties of his position, Stevens puts aside his personal attraction to Darlington’s lead housekeeper, Miss Kenton (Thompson). In the course of the day-to-day activities at the house, the relationship between ‘Mister Stevens’ and ‘Miss Kenton’ undergoes a subtle transformation, but eventually Lord Darlington’s proclivities as a Nazi sympathizer begin to surface, leading Miss Kenton to quit the household and leave behind any chance for Stevens to break free of his selfimposed emotional exile. The story is told in the form of flashbacks, as a post-war Stevens takes a car trip to the sea in search of Miss Kenton and the chance for love he’d given up so many years before. Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and Actress, Remains of the Day remains one of the finest literary adaptations of our time, and a timeless tribute to the talent of each of its key creative collaborators.

Fons Rademakers In Memoriam

Sadly, one of the great Dutch directors that embraced SIFF from the very beginning passed away this past February. Fons Rademakers was one of the most gifted filmmakers to ever emerge from Holland, having started his career as an assistant director to Jean Renoir, and continuing his success making his own films, including Village on the River (1958), the breathtaking epic Max Havelaar (1976) and The Assault (1986). Over a period of fifty years, Fons Rademakers not only changed the face of Dutch Cinema, but he was highly regarded as one of the finest filmmakers to emerge from Europe. His films were always intelligent, masterfully crafted, politically charged (in an unobtrusive manner), and lingered in your mind long after you left the theatre. Fons was in his twenties in Holland during the Nazi occupation, and with that behind him, took on the emotional task of bringing Harry Mulisch’s best selling novel, “The Assault” to the screen. It is a staggering account of a man’s ordeal to rid himself of his haunting childhood memories of the extermination of his family by the Nazis. The film was so real it was if you were living every moment of the ordeal. That’s the kind of filmmaker Fons was - he strove for truth in entertainment, and succeeded. That’s the kind of power Fons Rademakers possessed as a filmmaker, and which drove him as an artist and humanitarian. The film earned Fons a well deserved Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. He was a storyteller extraordinaire, a masterful filmmaker, and one of the most divine human beings on the face of the planet. His generosity, his warmth and compassion are legendary. Both Darryl Macdonald and I were blessed to know him, and treasure every moment we shared with him. Without Fons, SIFF would not be the festival it is today.

Dan Ireland, Co Founder, SIFF

Max Havelaar

sAturDAY, JuNE 9 8 3:30 pm 8 sIFF CINEmA

The Netherlands 1976

Director: Fons rademakers

Producer: Fons rademakers

Screenwriter: Gerard soeteman based on the novel by multatuli

Cinematographer: Jan de Bont

Film Editor: pieter Bergema

Cast: peter Faber sacha Bulthuis E. m. Adenan soesilaningrat rima milati rutger hauer Krijn ter Braak

Running Time: 170 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Dutch and malay, with English subtitles

Selected Filmography: the rose Garden (1989) the Assault (1986) the Judge’s Friend (1979)

Based on the celebrated 19th century novel by Multatuli, Max Havelaar is the story of a young Dutch official who has been posted to the most troubled area in the Dutch Occupied East Indies, Lebak. Max is the type of vainglorious hero that will think nothing of diving off a boat in shark infested waters to save his young son’s dog; or of coming to the aid of a young Indonesian woman who is being taunted by other Dutch soldiers. When Max uncovers the inhumanities that the Indonesian Regent of Lebak is inflicting on his own people to compensate for the rape of wealth taken by the Dutch, he sets out to try to right things, discovering that the deep roots of corruption are far-reaching and unstoppable (think Chinatown on a grander scale). To try to describe Max Havelaar is to do it an injustice. Come discover why this film played 22 weeks at the World Famous (Moore) Egyptian Theatre, and paved the road for other Dutch films to gain American distribution. This is a rare opportunity to see one of the greatest epics ever filmed, so do yourself a favor: discover, or rediscover, this amazing film, and see the brilliance of its storyteller/ filmmaker, Fons Rademakers.

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Pike Place Market Centennial Event

MGM’s most profitable picture of 1933 wasn’t shot in Hollywood, but in Seattle where Pike Place Market features prominently. This grand comedic classic is set in the imaginary port of “Secoma.” Academy Award winning actress Marie Dressler turns in the performance of her career as the formidable Annie, a raffish, boisterous woman whose generous heart and soul belongs to the tugboat operation that she will not let flounder. Tugboat Annie, the ‘old sea cow,’ pilots her boat Narcissus around Puget Sound, constantly on the lookout for the shenanigans of her drunken husband, Terry (Wallace Beery). This comedically quarrelsome couple raises their son, Alec (Robert Young), to be a sea captain but instead of the valiant, brave captain material they had hoped for, he is snotty and rebellious of the drunken Terry. When Terry finally crashes the vessel ruining the tugboat business, the valiant Annie single-handedly keeps things afloat and her family together. Superbly directed by Mervyn LeRoy, Tugboat Annie was based on the popular series of stories that ran in the Saturday Evening Post during the late 1920’s. Tacoma’s Foss Maritime Company was founded in 1889 when Thea Christiansen Foss, the real “Tugboat Annie,” bought a rowboat on the Puget Sound with the intention of renting it to make money inspired these stories. The historic tugboat Arthur Foss, currently moored at the Moss Bay Marina in Kirkland, WA starred in the 1933 movie as the Narcissus

This maritime classic is presented by the SIFF in collaboration with the Pike Place Market Preservation and Development Authority to celebrate the 2007 Centennial of Pike Place Market—the heart and soul of Seattle.

As part of the Pike Place Market’s Centennial birthday celebration, the Market Foundation is reviving the successful Pigs on Parade event featuring 100 new artist-adorned, fiberglass porcine wonders! SIFF 2007 poster artist Jason Green is participating to create a cinema themed pig. The Pigs will be on display in mid-May at Western Bridge. On June 2nd, the pigs will parade through the Market to kick off the 2007 Pike Place Market Street Festival, and will then be on display in various locations throughout downtown Seattle through September. To learn more about Pigs on Parade 2007, visit pigsonparade.org

tugboat Annie

WEDNEsDAY, mAY 6 7:00 pm 8 sIFF CINEmA

USA

1933

Director: mervyn Leroy

Producer: harry rapf

Screenwriters:

Norman reilly raine

Zelda sears

Eve Greene based on the short stories by raine

Cinematographer:

Gregg toland

Film Editor: Blanche sewell

Music: paul marquardt

Cast: marie Dessler

Wallace Beery

robert Young

maureen O’sullivan

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

Print Source: mGm

Selected Filmography:

the Bad seed (1956)

Little Women (1949)

thirty seconds Over tokyo (1944)

madame Curie (1943)

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)

I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Little Caesar (1931)

seattle symphony presents Bridging the 48th Parallel Bánk Bán

suNDAY, JuNE 3 8 11:00 Am 8 pACIFIC pLACE CINEmAs

Hungary 2002

Director: Csaba Káel

Producer: András Wermer

Screenwriter:

Gábor mészöly

Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond

Film Editor: thomas Ernst

Music:

Ferenc Erkel

Cast: Attila Kiss B. Éva marton

Andrea rost sándor sólyom-Nagy

Running Time: 118 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm, in hungarian, with English subtitles

International Sales: magyar Filmunio

Print Source: Bunyik Entertainment

Film Website: www.filmunio.hu

The Seattle International Film Festival, in partnership with The Seattle Symphony, is pleased to present the cinematic adaptation of Ferenc Erkel’s famous historical opera about medieval court intrigues, Bánk Bán. This film was shot by ace Hungarian cameraman Vilmos Zsigmond, who employed only one studio set among the numerous spectacular locations. In the year 1213, Hungary’s King Endre II is waging war abroad while at home Queen Gertrud has seized power. She proceeds to heap privileges on her Meranian countrymen, outraging the native Magyar. Nobleman Petur Bán wants to lead a rebellion against the Meranians, but his brother Bánk, a high-ranking courtier, remains loyal to the king till personal conflicts push him to take action. A cast of world famous Hungarian opera stars does justice to this great patriotic epic, performed by the Hungarian Orchestra of the Millennium under the baton of Tamás Pál.

Bánk Bán is presented as part of the Seattle Symphony’s Bridging the 48th Parallel, a 10-day Music of Central Europe Festival that celebrates the legacy of soaring musical accomplishments from Seattle’s neighbors on the 48th line of latitude, Prague and Budapest. Featuring music, dance, film, poetry, opera, cabaret, theatre and two world premieres, the Festival will open with a concert-staging of Bartók’s mysterious, thrilling masterpiece Bluebeard’s Castle. The music festival will also present Composers Who Could Not Be Censored: Voices Unleashed, which will feature the deeply emotional work of persecuted composers who were compelled to leave their homelands to find free musical expression. Janáček’s dramatic and triumphant Glagolitic Mass closes the 10-day event.

We are honored to be included as a partner in this celebration and look forward to many more collaborations in the future as SIFF continues to explore the unique connections between film and music and the role of music in creating dynamic cinematic experiences.

SIFF would like to thank the following businesses and organizations for their support:

FIRST STUDENT

The festival forums are often referred to as the voice of SIFF. In fact, they contain many more voices than just our own, staging lively discussion, insight and conversation between diverse film artists. Intimate, informative and enlightening, these forums are a rare opportunity for audiences to participate in conversation with exceptional directors, actors, producers, composers, musicians, writers and other artists who are passionate about cinematic arts and helping to guide the medium into its future.

This year’s lineup has been chosen to inspire cinephiles of every kind. A focus on the relationship between music and film will feature world-renowned composers and musicians, including a strong contingent from here in the Pacific Northwest. We are also excited to present the second annual Talking Pictures Series, for which we have turned over the programming reins to Seattle personalities who will be joining us at the screenings. In addition, there will be opportunities to participate in the Northwest Production Forums, our complimentary programming to the Northwest Production Market co-presented by IFP/Seattle.

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 the movies as well as the film fan in us all.

Talking Pictures

Art Wolfe presents

the Year of living Dangerously (Australia, 1982)

directed by Peter Weir

p eter BoAl presents

Ballets russes (USA, 2005)

directed by Daniel Geller and Dana Goldfine

Forums

screenWriters sAlon

An Afternoon with Robert Benton

Screenwriting Master Class: Writing the Northwest Indie

VAriet Y pAnels

Digital Distribution: Fantasy or Reality?

The Impact of the Internet on Movie Coverage

Casting CRASH: A Case Study

northWest p roDuction MArket

An D foru M s

Reaching an Audience

Getting a film to the Industry

Attracting the Financier

Selling to the Producer

siff cl AssrooM s

Digital Media Lab

Attainable HD

Screenwriters Salon

An Afternoon with Robert Benton

SUNDAY, JUNE 3 8 2:00 PM 8 NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Equal parts insightful, poetic and idiosyncratic, Robert Benton is that rare TALENT: a

e pair followed that triumph by joining Buck Henry to write a vastly different script for director Peter Bogdanovich, the supremely silly screwball comedy What’s Up, Doc?

Benton then made his debut as a director (again collaborating on the script with Newman) with a revisionist Western about a group of young Civil War draft dodgers, Bad Company, which further established his reputation as a filmmaker with a penchant for elliptical narrative stylings and laconic dialogue. His next directorial outing, the well-received detective spoof e Late Show, led to a string of successes for Benton, first collaborating with Mario Puzo on the script for Superman, then writing and directing the heart-wrenching marital break-up hit, Kramer vs. Kramer, which won five Oscars (including Best Screenplay and Best Director for Benton), and was a box-office smash. Benton again won a slew of major awards and nominations for his moving depression-era drama Places in the Heart, including his third Oscar, for Best Screenplay. His most recent outing as a writer/ director, e Human Stain (featuring this year’s other SIFF honoree, Anthony Hopkins) was an intelligent and provocative rendering of Phillip Roth’s eponymous novel, which many had proclaimed unfilmable. We are proud to welcome one of the foremost writing and directorial talents in modern American cinema to SIFF.

true American original who writes and directs films with a masterful grasp of his characters’ personal foibles and a soulful understanding of the human condition.

In addition to his talents as a writer, he is equally highly regarded as an actor’s director, having guided his actors through eight Oscar nominated performances (including wins by Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep and Sally Field). His early writing collaborations with David Newman hit pay dirt with Bonnie and Clyde, which won the duo both Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

MoDerAtor: Sheila Benson

Kramer vs. Kramer

Likes the lms of Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Michel Gondry, Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almodóvar, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, and Wong Kar Wai

There’s something for everyone

Likes movies with happy endings

SIFF Film Forum May 26

SIFF Film Forum May 26

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

NW Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue

11 a.m. to 2 p.m. NW Film Forum, 1515 12th Avenue

TheFilmSchool Instructors:

TheFilmSchool Instructors:

Tom Skerritt (top), John Jacobsen (bottom right, with Sydney Pollack), Stewart Stern, Warren Etheredge & Rick Stevenson

Tom Skerritt (top), John Jacobsen (bottom right, with Sydney Pollack), Stewart Stern, Warren Etheredge & Rick Stevenson At TheFilmSchool students from all over

Guests (subject to availability):

Tom Skerritt

John Jacobsen

Rick Stevenson

Stewart Stern

Warren Etheredge

Screenwriters Salon Writing the Northwest Indie

SATURDAY MAY 26 8 11 AM 8 NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Everyone at eFilmSchool wants to see better films made here in the Northwest, a process that inevitably begins with the script. As one of the few organizations chosen to recommend film projects to the newly created Northwest Production Market, a program that facilitates the shooting of films budgeted for under $4M in the Pacific Northwest, eFilmSchool is uniquely positioned to give filmmakers the tools they need to write a successful screenplay for local production.

At this workshop, they will present the ideal qualities of a film for this market, and give you the tools needed to carve out the first step of your filmmaking dream, getting it right on the page. eFilmSchool’s experienced faculty, all working filmmakers themselves, will share their secrets to writing an engaging and well-executed story — the key to the success of the low budget independent film.

e school course itself is 12 hours a day, six days a week for three weeks. is three-hour workshop won’t set the impossible task of matching that level of intensity, but will give you an idea of what it takes to get a film made under this new program, how eFilmSchool teaches and why, in just a few short years of operation, it has become known as one of the great places in the world to study screenwriting and direction.

Talking Pictures

ART WOLFE PRESENTS

The Year Of Living Dangerously

Over the course of his 30-year career, photographer Art Wolfe has worked on every continent recording the world’s disappearing wildlife, landscapes and native cultures, and acting as inspiration to those who seek to preserve them all. Wolfe has taken an estimated one million images in his lifetime and released over sixty books, such as e Living Wild, Africa, Edge of the Earth/ Corner of the Sky, and his latest, On Puget Sound. His numerous honors include the first-ever Rachel Carson Award bestowed by the National Audubon Society. William Conway, former president of the Wildlife Conservation Society, has hailed Wolfe as “the most prolific and sensitive recorder of a rapidly vanishing natural world.”

TUESDAY MAY 29 8 6:45 PM 8 HARVARD EXIT

Directed by peter Weir (Australia, 1982, 115 minutes)

Peter Weir’s political drama, set in strife-ridden Indonesia just before the fall of Sukarno in 1965, stars Mel Gibson as Guy Hamilton, an ambitious young journalist sent to cover a routine story. Accompanied by photographer Billy Kwan (Linda Hunt, in an Oscar-winning, cross-dressing performance), Hamilton follows the trail doggedly as the situation begins to heat up, and soon becomes the hottest reporter on the beat. e humid, sultry atmosphere of Jakarta is masterfully captured by cinematographer Russell Boyd–the camera seems literally to drip with the glistening pigment of its surroundings, and when Hamilton meets British diplomat Jill Bryant (Sigourney Weaver), it sizzles even more. rough Billy’s eyes, we see reflected the enormity of the oncoming tragedy, and the result is nothing less than mesmerizing.

“I’m a huge Peter Weir fan and his movie captures the essence of Indonesia during this time of political upheaval. It’s beautifully filmed and filled with interesting characters, from the androgynous Linda Hunt to Mel Gibson at his finest and Sigourney Weaver at her most intriguing. I also loved the soundtrack.”

— Art Wolfe

Peter Boal is Artistic Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet and Director of Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Mr. Boal assumed directorship of Pacific Northwest Ballet in 2005 following a 22-year career as a dancer with New York City Ballet. While working with George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins, among others, Mr. Boal originated roles in more than 30 new works. From 1997 to 2005, he was a full-time faculty member at the School of American Ballet. In 2004, he founded Peter Boal and Company, an acclaimed chamber ensemble. Mr. Boal’s awards include a 19996 Dance Magazine Award and a New York Dance and Performance Award in 2000.

Talking Pictures

PETER BOAL PRESENTS

Ballets Russes

MONDAY JUNE 11 8 6:30 PM 8 HARVARD EXIT

Directed by Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (USA, 2005, 118 minutes)

Ballets Russes is a gorgeous and entrancing ode to the revolutionary dance troupes of early 20th century Paris. Part history, part love letter, the movie follows the exhilarating dance company of the Ballets Russes from its 1909 Moscow origins, its triumphant expatriate resurrection in the early 1930s, through the fantastic collaborative stages when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine and Stravinsky had audiences sitting in astonished wonder, until the 1960s when the combination of rising costs, clashing egos and mismanagement brought the revered company to its knees. Incorporating photos, news clippings, film footage of fantastical ballets and plenty of juicy anecdotal interviews from many of the companies’ glamorous stars, Ballets Russes treats audiences to a rare glimpse of the remarkable dancers, choreographers, composers and designers who transformed the face of dance for generations to come.

“I found these stories heartwarming and inspiring. We dancers all have a screw loose somewhere in our heads and this film recognizes that truth with honesty and humor.”

— Peter Boal

911 Media Arts Center is a beacon of independent critical thought in the media landscape of Seattle.

With more than twenty years of teaching, creating, and exhibiting cutting edge technologies and digital media, 911 Media Arts Center has trained, nurtured, networked and supported thousands of emerging and established Northwest artists and individuals.

Upcoming Events:

Greg Lundgren: 10 Years of Vital 5

Exhibition Dates: June 8 - July 20, 2007

Opening June 8

Upcoming Pro Application Certication Training at 911 Media Arts Center:

Final Cut Pro 101: August 17-19

October 26-28

DVDSP 101: An Introduction to DVD Studio Pro 4

July 28-30

All Courses are taught by Certi

For

FCP 300: Advanced Editing Techniques June 15-17

Final Cut Pro 200: September 26-30

Trainers, please

our website www.911media.org

Friday, August 3

Saturday, August 4

Friday, August 10

Saturday, August 11

Friday, August 17

Saturday, August 18

Friday, August 24

Saturday, August 25

Variety Panels

JUNE 16 8 NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

MODERATOR:

Anne Thompson, Deputy Editor, VARIETY

10:00 AM

DigiTAl DisTR ibuTiOn: FAnTAsy OR R EAliT y

Somewhere over the rainbow is a place where indie filmmakers use the Internet to sell their movies all over the world. They don’t have to spend a fortune on prints and theatrical distribution; they sell their movies online directly to their target audience, and pocket a hefty cut of the revenues. That magic moment may not be far off, with the advent of distribution via video download or a DVD sale or rental at the likes of CustomFlix, Amazon Unbox, IndieFlix, Google Video, NetFlix and even, perhaps, iTunes. Everyone wants a piece of this market, it seems, even though many experiments in finding the perfect new distribution paradigm have yet to find it.

This panel of distribution experts will explore the opportunities out there for indie filmmakers—as well as the grim realities. What resources are available? What are the pitfalls? Has anyone found a way to dodge onerous direct-to-DVD deals and make money? Is the Internet a viable marketing tool? We will try to find some answers.

guests:

Scilla Andreen, Indieflix

Michael McMurray, RealNetworks

Roy Price, Amazon Unbox

Ted Sarandos, Netflix

David Straws, WithoutaBox

11:30 AM

Th E iM pAc T OF Th E i nTER n ET On MOvi E cOvERAg E

As information about movies moves from the print media to the Internet, media coverage of Hollywood is changing. Our panel of top film critics and journalists will explore entertainment journalism’s migration from print to web. As Premiere Magazine morphs into Premiere.com, and many established media outlets, from Time and Newsweek to New York, post their entertainment coverage on the web, how movie coverage is changing as it, too, goes digital. Veteran critics find themselves assailed as irrelevant at best. Are they?

guests:

John Anderson, Critic at Large

David Ansen, Newsweek

Tim Appelo, Amazon Unbox

Jonathan Marlow, greencine

John Powers, Critic at Large

Kim Voynar, Cinematical

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Bakery Nouveau features delicious coffee and fine pastry such as croissants, Parisian Macaroons and Èclairs.

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Casting Panel

Crash: A Case Study

SATURDAY JUNE 2 8 2:00PM 8 NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

MODERATOR:

Abby Grenley, SAG Indie Seattle

Panelists: (subject to availability)

Sarah Finn, Casting Director and Co-Producer

Paul Haggis, Writer and Director

Mark Harris, Producer

Bobby Moresco, Writer and Producer

Film casting is an art requiring both an eye for talent and faith in those illogical intuitions about that one actor who is just perfect for the role— however much you’re alone in that belief. Join the Academy Award winning team who made all the right decisions casting Crash, and get an inside look at the process. Who fought for talent and convinced the doubters? Why did they have to cast the film more than once before getting the green light. Who almost made it? Who was signed and lost? Learn how the amazing ensemble of knowns and unknowns was assembled and what has it meant to be a part of this extraordinary film.

“How do I sell the movie?”

A successful commercial film project needs to be well packaged with a plan in place for selling it to a financier, getting it to the industry and reaching an audience. In this series of forums, successful film producers, financiers and distributors will share wisdom and insights on how to get a movie sold. Join us at the Northwest Film Forum for these exciting and informative events.

SATURDAY, JUNE 9

[1] Reaching an Audience – 10AM

[2] getting a film to the industry – 12:30pM

SUNDAY, JUNE 10

[3] selling to the Financier – 10AM

[4] selling to the producer – 12:30pM

Forum 1

Reaching an Audience

SATURDAY JUNE 9 8 10:00AM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

How do buyers decide what acquisitions to make and how do you position a film for sale? What do you need to know about your film’s audience? Are buyers looking for marketing plans from filmmakers? Learn the rules to make the film you want to make instead of just seeing what happens.

Forum 2

Getting a Film to the Industry

SATURDAY JUNE 9 8 12:30 PM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Moderator:

Geof Miller

A moderated discussion with producers who specialize in packaging films for distributors. Learn the right moves to make once your film has wrapped, including how to package a film, develop marketing plans and decide about festival submission.

Forum 3

Selling to the Financier

SUNDAY JUNE 10 8 10:00 AM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

The film financiers have specific qualities they are looking for in a project. Should you package your film to their particular interests? What are the incentives for investors you need to highlight? Learn from the experts who can provide insight into securing financing both locally and nationally and how to close the deal.

guests: (subject to availability)

Hal “Corky” Kessler

Lance Rosen

Forum 4

Selling to the Producer

SUNDAY JUNE 10 8 12:30 PM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Moderator:

Geof Miller

A moderated discussion with creative producers with a track record of developing successful film projects. What are the key elements in putting together a film project that is realistic, executable and compelling? This discussion will include tips on choosing a script, deciding on cast and crew, planning your budget and production and—at the end of your long day—how to sell your film.

guests: (subject to availability)

Michael Caldwell, Vulcan Productions

Holly Becker

SIFF Classroom: Digital Media Lab

Presented by The MAC Store, IrisInk and Mac University

The Mac Store, Mac University and IrisInk will present classes on various aspects of digital filmmaking and editing – not only for the experienced filmmaker, but also the novice, aspiring director or anyone looking for a way to realize their cinematic vision. We are proud to partner with these outstanding innovators in the world of digital technology for our hands-on, interactive filmmaker classrooms. ese classes are free but require a ticketed reservation through the SIFF Box Office. Seating is limited.

is comprehensive series of seminars includes the basics of digital film editing, title sequences, audio and how to turn your film into a DVD once you are finished. Classes run the gamut from beginning to advanced use of the applications.

Introduction to Final Cut Pro

THURSDAY JUNE 7 10:00 AM (1 HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

FRIDAY JUNE 8 10:00 AM (1 HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

SATURDAY JUNE 16 11:00 AM (1 HR)

AT THE MAC STORE

Final Cut Pro has created a paradigm shift in the worlds of video and film post-production. is session will provide 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

THURSDAY JUNE 7 11:15 AM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

FRIDAY JUNE 8 11:15 AM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

SATURDAY JUNE 16 12:30 PM (1 HR) – AT THE MAC STORE is session will focus on topics such as advanced effects, color keying, color correction and audio finishing. Also learn how to utilize Photoshop files in your video projects, as well as export for DVD and web distribution.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

DVD Authoring with DVD Studio Pro

THURSDAY JUNE 7 12:30 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

FRIDAY JUNE 8 12:30 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

SATURDAY JUNE 16 2:00 PM (1HR) – AT THE MAC STORE

DVD Studio Pro integrates seamlessly with Final Cut Pro for a complete DVD delivery workflow. is session will introduce the foundations of DVD technology like disc structure and MPEG encoding, then show you how to create content with Final Cut Pro and Photoshop. Finally, the session will delve into DVD Studio Pro, where you will learn about compression, menu design, interactive programming, Dolby Digital audio tracks and DVD-ROM material.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

JunE 7, 8 and 9

Encoding

THURSDAY JUNE 7 1:45 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

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 will cover the different encoding methods for web and DVD and you will 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

Title Sequences

THURSDAY JUNE 7 3:00 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

ere is undeniable appeal to a great title sequence and they are an art form unto themselves. Whether you tend toward the experimental fireworks of Stan Brakhage or the formality of Saul Bass, we will look at the tools necessary to create the perfect title sequence for your next film.

Instructor: Kris Boustedt

Introduction to Logic

THURSDAY JUNE 7 4:15 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

FRIDAY JUNE 8 1:45 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

SATURDAY JUNE 16 3:30 PM (1HR) – AT THE MAC STORE

With up to 255 stereo tracks and 12 input audio channels, Logic Express is a powerful and extensive recording, editing and scoring tool. In this session, you will learn how to get both live and digital audio into the application, the basics of audio editing and effects processing, how to add video into the workflow and how to export your project for web, CD and Final Cut Pro.

Instructors: Topher Farrell and Eric Corson

Audio

THURSDAY JUNE 7 5:30 PM (1 HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

Despite film and video being photographic mediums, audio plays a very important role in the success of a film; bad audio can destroy an audiences’ response to your movie as surely as any visual. In this introduction to sound editing for digital video, we will explore editing aesthetics, theory and techniques using non-linear editing systems. You will learn the basics of Apple’s Logic Express & Soundtrack Pro for editing audio and integrating it seamlessly and easily with Final Cut Pro.

Instructor: Topher Farrell

GarageBand for Youth

FRIDAY JUNE 8 4:00 PM (1HR)

AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

Record your first demo CD. Create a Podcast. Score a short film. GarageBand can do it all! In this session you will learn how to input both analog and digital instruments, control MIDI keyboards, add effects, synchronize a project with video and export to a CD.

Instructors: Topher Farrell and Eric Corson

Pre-Visualization with Maya

presented by irisink

SATURDAY JUNE 9 8 2:00 PM (2HRS) 8 AT THE BROADWAY PERFORMANCE HALL, ROOM 306

This presentation will show you how you can quickly visualize your indie film before you even touch a camera. Pre-Viz will allow you to go beyond any conventional means to set up your shots or establish the mood, timing, lighting, and even soundtracks. This method of knowing how your film will turn out before you make your film has enourmous advantages that will help out like time and budget restraints. Studios large and small have embraced Pre-Viz, especially as the special effects requirements of film keeps growing. Even if you’ve never touched 3D software like Maya before, this presentation will show you what’s possible by pre-visualizing your film project.

Make your movie before you make your film with Maya.

Instructor: David Choi

ATTAINABLE HD

presented by: irisink, Mac university and The Mac store

JUNE 6 8 12:00 PM (2 HRS) 8 SIFF CINEMA

When planning your next film, are you going to choose DV, HDV or HD? What are the real, pragmatic differences between the three? How much do they cost? How much hair will be lost during the post-production process? Did Apple really just release a new HD compression scheme with Final Cut Pro 6? In this demonstration you will get to see, on the big screen, examples of every major video standard in use today. By sampling the equipment necessary for each standard you’ll have firsthand understanding of how budgets change for each format. This session will prove illuminating whether you’re an independent filmmaker, a home-theater enthusiast, a commercial director or even the principal of a post-production house.

Instructor: Chris Barker, Inslink David Cunningham, Apple

KEXP proudly supports the Seattle International Film Festival

In its third year, SIFF’s Face

the Music

program celebrates the many intersections of music and film.

face the music

Bringing great music to the screen, 11 new films explore subjects ranging from rock icons (Joe Strummer and Kurt Cobain), to great unclassifiable talents (including Scott Walker and Lisa Gerrard), youth empowerment through music (from a Portland camp for girls to a refugee camp in Uganda) and global discoveries (in Cuba, Brazil, Spain and beyond.) In addition, we’re pleased to host some very special guests this year. Australian singer Lisa

Films

El Benny (Cuba/United Kingdom/Spain, 2006)

Directed by Jorge Luis Sánchez

Girls Rock! (USA, 2006)

Directed by Arne Johnson

Gypsy Caravan (USA/Romania, India, Spain, Macedonia, 2006)

Directed by Jasmine Dellal

Joe strummer: The Future is Unwritten (United Kingdom/Ireland, 2007)

Directed by Julien Temple

Kurt Cobain About A son (USA, 2006)

Directed by AJ Schnack

The life and Times of Yva las Vegass (USA, 2007)

Directed by Wiley Underdown

Gerrard will discuss her music and career and documentary filmmaker Julien Temple will talk about chronicling the London punk scene in the 1970s. And, of course, the program features great Seattle artists, from a live film score by psych rock band Kinski to an electronic audio-visual competition and our annual Face The Music Rock Party. Face it: you’re going to have to clear your schedule.

Nömadak Tx (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Raúl de la Fuente, Pablo Iraburu, Harkaitz Martínez de San Vicente and Igor Otxoa

sanctuary: lisa Gerrard (United Kingdom, 2006)

Directed by Clive Collier

scott Walker: 30 Century man (United Kingdom/USA, 2006)

Directed by Stephen Kijak

Vinícius (Brazil/Spain, 2006)

Directed by Miguel Faria Jr.

War/Dance (USA, 2007)

Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

Like travel, the arts broaden minds, uplift hearts and enrich our lives. Holland America Line is proud to support the arts in our hometown of Seattle and beyond.

With over 130 years of cruising experience and itineraries encompassing all seven continents, we’ve seen the best the world has to offer.

We are pleased to sponsor the 2007 Seattle International Film Festival, bringing the best in the world of film to you.

Spacious, Elegant Ships

• Gracious, Unobtrusive Service

Extensive Activities and Enrichment Programs

• Worldwide Itineraries

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Face the Music Live

Kinski Performs

Berlin: Symphony of a City

Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grobstadt

Friday June 15 8 7:00 PM

Friday June 15 8 9:30 PM

Tri P le door

Tri P le door

Directed by German film pioneer Walther Ruttmann, this featurelength mélange of documentary and avant-garde filmmaking is a landmark of the silent era, and, along with Dziga Vertov’s The Man with a Movie Camera (which this film inspired), is one of the greatest of the city films. Entirely visual, Berlin: Symphony of a City depicts a single day in the life of the great metropolis –from the quiet of dawn through the bustle of the workday and the vibrant spectacle of the city’s nightlife. Said to have been mostly shot using cameras concealed in suitcases, the film moves quickly between images of rich and poor, work and play, man and machine. It is both an historical document capturing life inside the city as well as a kinetic cine-poem reflecting the dynamic shapes, motion and energy of the city itself. This year marks the 80th anniversary of Ruttmann’s cinematic masterpiece. Its distance from us in time only emphasizes its beauty, and this unique presentation accentuates its dreamlike qualities. Having just completed the recording of their upcoming Sub Pop release, Seattle psych rock band Kinski will perform a new, original score with the film, their mixture of improvised sound exploration and raw rhythms adding an exciting new layer to the experience. Everything old is new again, and vice versa.

Germany

1927

Director:

Walther ruttman

Screenwriters:

Karl Freund

Walther ruttman

from an idea by Carl Mayer

Cinematographers:

relmar Kuntze

robert Baberske

lászló Shäffer

Karl Freund

Walter ruttman

Running Time: 65 minutes

Presentation Format:

Beta SP

Selected Filmography:

Steel (1933)

Melody of the World (1929) dream Play (1925) opus ii (1921) opus i (1921)

Every Friday during the Festival

join filmmakers, guests and your friends pre- or post-film at Chapel, the official SIFF Lounge.

Chapel is more than a bar, more than a restaurant. Fine food and exceptional spirits are served in an atmosphere where people, music, art, architecture, design and ideas intersect and mix. Present your Festival ticket, stub or pass to enjoy one of Chapel’s specialty martinis at Happy Hour prices!

Chapel is located on Capitol Hill at 1600 Melrose Avenue, just down the street from the Egyptian and Broadway Performance Hall, and up the street from AMC Pacific Place.

(Cross street is East Pine Street.)

Please note : Chapel does not have an outside sign, look for the two story marble building.

Thursday June 14

Neumo’s 925 E Pike St

doors at 8:00 pm 21+

Face the Music rock party

The centerpiece for SIFF’s Face the Music program…

This special concert celebrates both Seattle’s diverse community and a range of renowned artists. Much like the brilliance and originality of our Face the Music films, the participating bands span a number of genres and are sure to entertain. Continuing the success of last years Rock Party, join SIFF as we celebrate the sounds that are at the heart of Seattle’s thriving music community. Many of the festival’s visiting musicians, filmmakers and industry will be in attendance for this uniquely Seattle experience.

siff panel: The Evolution of Music in Film

The Seattle International Film Festival proudly hosts a panel discussion about the contemporary uses of music in film. Musicians as well as music and film industry executives discuss a range of topics, including the trend of using popular music more than traditional scoring and the ways films are used to showcase new musical talents.

WEdNESday JuNE 13 8 6:00–10:00PM 8 CHaC SHoWrooM

The art of video mixing has reached new heights as VJs are becoming involved in an increasing number of events around the world and ideas and techniques from this arena of visual music are being integrated into every aspect of our evolving audio-visual culture.

Host

Kid Hops

KEXP

VJs

epiphanous

VJ Scobot

James drage

Porchlight Star

Peter rand

Killingfrenzy

Xiayu

Pixelflip

Celebrating the vibrance of this growing art form, SIFF co-presents Seattle’s 2nd annual Opticlash VJ Battle as part of the Face The Music program. KEXP DJ Kid Hops hosts this unique competition in which some of Seattle’s most innovative VJs will face off in a headto-head, elimination-style battle of real-time video mixing on two big screens. Similar to a DJ battle, this event pushes the art of VJing to the edge, inspiring new levels of creativity, skill, and innovation. Their rounds will be accompanied by live DJ sets by Seattle favorites J-Justice, Aaron Simpson and Swank, and the winner will walk away with a $1000 Edirol V-4 video mixer, and of course Opticlash bragging rights.

Don’t miss this exciting fusion of image and sound showcasing the talents of our city’s best visualists. This is an all ages event, and a portion of proceeds from will support Seattle-based non-profit ReelGrrls, empowering girls through media production.

Judges

Gregg Grinnell

Senior Broadcast Editor, KIRO

Cheryll Hidalgo Video Program Director, Seattle Academy of Arts and Sciences

Kris Moon Co-founder, Laptop Battle

Educational Director, Decibel Festival

donte Parks Writer, The Stranger, Seattlest.com

Gary Tucker

SIFF Director of Communications

oPTICLaSH VJ SEMINar

SaTurday JuNE 9

1:00–5:00PM 911 MEdIa arTS CENTEr

Part of Opticlash 2, this four-hour seminar will feature interviews, presentations and audience Q&A covering the history, technology, aesthetics, business, and legal issues surrounding the dynamic art form of live video mixing. Media arts historian Robin Oppenheimer will shed light on the history of early psychedelic “light show” projections of the ‘60s and ‘70s, including Seattle’s own scene. Contemporary artists and organizers, including VJ Killingfrenzy and Opticlash founder Jacob Stone will discuss the changing landscape of our increasingly video-driven society, the effects of rapid technological development and plummeting consumer costs, and the legal side of video sampling. We invite you to explore with us this exciting, evolving intersection of music and moving image.

All sessions are free and open to all ages.

Host VJ Scobot

Session 1: History

Guest: robin oppenheimer

Media Arts Historian, Curator, and Educator

Session 2: Technology

Guest: leo Mayberry

VJ Killingfrenzy, Reigning Champion of Opticlash 1

Session 3: Business & Culture

Guest: Jacob Stone, Creator, Opticlash Battle; Head, Punch Drunk Productions

Session 4: Legal Issues

Guest: Kraig Marini Baker Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

an evening with Lisa Gerrard

FrIday May 25 8 7:00PM 8 SIFF CINEMa

ModEraTEd By IaN HIEroNS

Since forming the legendary Dead Can Dance with Brendan Perry in the early 1980s, Lisa Gerrard has dazzled the music scene with her powerful vocal presence. Born in Melbourne, Australia, Gerrard grew up in the multi-ethnic suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents, where she was exposed to Greek, Turkish, Italian, Irish and Arab cultures. Her upbringing in this diverse suburb had a large influence on her music, particularly in the eight Dead Can Dance albums and later in her solo and collaborative work. Singing in a language all her own, her voice is an otherworldly experience, yet strangely universal. She released her first solo album, The Mirror Pool in 1995. In 2006, she released her second solo album, The Silver Tree, to great international acclaim. In recent years, Lisa has become a much sought after soundtrack composer. The many films she has worked on include: Ali, Whale Rider, Heat, Baraka, Gladiator, The Insider, Black Hawk Down and Layer Cake. She received Golden Globe nominations for The Insider and Ali, Grammy and Oscar nominations for Gladiator and four international awards for Whale Rider Join Ian Hierons in conversation with Lisa Gerrard about her career, her influences and how they have affected her wide range of film scores and her solo work. An Evening with Lisa Gerrard includes a screening of the film Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard.

Sanctuary: lisa Gerrard

Although Australian musician Lisa Gerrard has gained worldwide success through her work on film scores (Gladiator, The Insider, Whale Rider), her name is still not well known to a broad mainstream audience. One half of the multi-talented duo Dead Can Dance, which she formed in 1981 with Brendan Perry, Gerrard has an astoundingly distinctive singing voice. A significant characteristic of her work is her use of her own invented wordless language. Filled with abstract and symbolic images created with visual effects that give the whole documentary the touch of a complex piece of art, we hear and see various excerpts of her music with some previously unreleased material and scenes from films she collaborated with. Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard is an intimate portrait of an artist who shares some of her deepest and most creative and emotional insights on all aspects of her life and career. Told in interviews with Gerrard, Michael Mann, Russell Crowe, Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Niki Caro, Graeme Revell, Pietro Scalia, Mark Magidson, Brendan Perry, and her parents Nannette and John, the film illustrates the artist’s connection with nature but also the essence of her music and singing as strong spiritual expression. This film succeeds in showing the different perceptions of Lisa Gerrard: the angel/siren entity she portrays on stage, the warm-hearted woman that moves people with her unique music, the thoughtful and life experienced person and the familyoriented mother.

United Kingdom

2006

Director:

Clive Collier

Producers:

Clive Collier

isabelle Fauchet

Screenwriter: Clive Collier

Cinematographer: Clive Collier

Film Editor: Clive Collier

Music: lisa Gerrard

dead Can dance

With: russel Crowe

Michael Mann

Hans Zimmer

Brendan Perry

niki Caro

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format: digiBeta

International Sales:

Storm Creation

Print Source: Milan entertainment

Film Website: www.sanctuarylisagerrard.com

Selected

Filmography: debut Feature Film

FRIDAy MAy 25 7:00 PM (CONVERSATION & FILM) SIFF CINEMA

TUESDAy MAy 29 5:00 PM (FILM ONLy) SIFF CINEMA

North American Premiere

Verve

Thursdays at 8:00 pm

The Local Music Show with John Richards

Thursdays at 8:30 pm

A Guide to Visitors

Thursdays at 9:00 pm

American Avant Garde

Thursdays at 9:30 pm

REEL Short Movies

Thursdays at 10:30 pm

BIG NIGHT OUT with Kevin Joyce

Fridays at 8:00 pm

Book Lust with Nancy Pearl

Saturdays at 8:00 pm

CINEMA 21

Saturdays at 10 pm

a CoNVErSaTIoN WITH JuLIEN TEMPLE

TuESday JuNE 5 8 7:00PM 8 SIFF CINEMa

ModEraTEd By MuSICIaN/CrITIC SEaN NELSoN

Filmmaker Julien Temple was the first to document The Sex Pistols and The Clash during the dawn of London’s punk scene in the mid-’70s. His 1980 film The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, an unusual DIy production mixing raw documentary footage of The Sex Pistols, animation and staged interviews with their manager Malcolm McLaren, gained him the attention of forward thinking critics and musicians at the time, and has since become a cult classic. In the early ’80s, Temple pioneered the music video form, creating … well, most of the videos you remember from MTV’s first decade, including work for David Bowie, the Rolling Stones and the Kinks, to name just a few. In 1986, he directed the ambitious musical feature Absolute Beginners, and went on to direct such feature films as Vigo and Pandaemonium. This decade has seen three extraordinary music documentaries from the director: The Filth and the Fury, Glastonbury, and his latest film, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, which is a highlight of this year’s Face the Music program. We’re pleased to host Julien Temple in a conversation about his intimate documentary portrait of Strummer, as well as his extraordinary 30-year career documenting and collaborating with some of the greatest musicians of our times.

Joe Strummer: The Future is unwritten

Filmmaker Julien Temple began documenting Joe Strummer as early as 1976, when Strummer’s seminal punk band The Clash was just beginning to learn how to play chords. Temple’s early documents and long friendship with the late musician and singer are at the core of this engrossing and all-encompassing portrait. The Future Is Unwritten chronicles Strummer’s life and career through previously unearthed interviews, an astonishing assemblage of performance footage spanning his career and the recollections of those who knew him best. We follow him from early childhood rebellion, to his sudden burst onto the punk rock scene of the mid-’70s with the Clash and the enormous fame that followed, to his post-Clash burnout and finally to his gradual re-emergence. In tribute to Strummer’s late-life love for creating spontaneous communities around outdoor bonfires, the recollections and organic conversations of his friends, collaborators and fans are filmed at campfire gatherings in London, Los Angeles and New York. The film includes commentary from Clash co-writer-singer-guitarist Mick Jones, drummers Nicky Headon and Terry Chimes, director Jim Jarmusch and actor Steve Buscemi (both of whom worked with Strummer on the film Mystery Train) and fans including Johnny Depp and Martin Scorsese. Temple has created a thoughtful and poignant portrait that celebrates his subject’s musical achievements, and reveals the human being beneath the punk rock legend and antiestablishment icon.

Slovenia 2005

Director: Jan Cvitkovic

Producers: Jan Cvitkovic

Janez Burger screenwriter: Jan Cvitkovic

cinematographer: Simon Tansek

film editor: Milos Kalusek music: also ivancic cast: Gregor Bakovic drago Milinovic

Sonja Savic

Mojca Fatur

natasa Matjasec

Running time: 103 minutes

Presentation format: 35mm, in Slovenian, with english subtitles international sales: Taskovski Films

Print source: Slovenian Film Fund film Website: www.odgrobadgroba.com selected filmography: Bread and Milk (2001)

el Benny

Girls rock!

US Premiere

Bypassing straightforward, straightjacketed hagiography for a fictionalized riff on the life and times of famous Cuban musician Benny Moré, El Benny shivers with the revelatory exaltation of such musical biographies as Ray and Walk the Line while managing to avoid their occasional dramatic lapses. Moré’s Afro-Cuban jazz big band sound, commercial and catchy while still proudly native, swept his nation in the pre-Castro ’50s, and even acted as soundtrack in the early days of the revolution. Director Jorge Luis Sánchez’s debut feature offers a fascinating look at those tumultuous years from the point of view of this charismatic musical genius who could charm an audience as easily as he charms a taxi driver out of a new pair of shoes. Renny Arozarena’s standout performance as the country boy who becomes a hard-partying, culturally significant musical celebrity has won awards, and certainly factored into the Cuban government selecting this as their official Oscar submission. New versions of Moré’s classic songs performed by contemporary musicians such as Chucho Valdes, Juan Formell, Haila and Orishas help capture all the excess and the genius of one of the 20th century’s towering musical figures, and the often tragic, often exultant times before which his sprightly rhythms danced.

Awards:

official oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign language Film

Cuba/United Kingdom/ Spain

2006

Director: Jorge luis Sánchez

Producer: iohamil navarro

Screenwriters: abrahán rodríguez

Jorge luis Sánchez

Cinematographer: José Manuel riera

Film Editor: Manuel iglesias

Music:

Juan Manuel Ceruto

Cast: renny arozarena enrique Molina isabel Santos

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with english subtitles

International Sales: rive Gauche entertainment

Print Source: rive Gauche entertainment

Selected

Filmography: debut Feature Film

Every summer, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp For Girls welcomes 8 to 18 year olds from around the country to a warehouse just outside of Portland for a week of workshops, no boys, and loud rock music. A community of dedicated volunteers, including such cool camp counselors as Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and Beth Ditto of The Gossip, use music as a medium to teach girls that it is OK to sweat, scream, wail and, most important, to be exactly who they are. The girls have a week to select a band, choose an instrument and write a song. In between music workshops and band practices, they are taught various lessons of empowerment, from self-defense to anger management. The film follows a variety of campers – from an 8 year old who writes experimental songs about her dog to a 17 year old who is emerging from a life of homelessness and gang activity. At the end of the week, all the bands perform their original songs in a Portland club for an audience of over 700 people. The girls’ music is original, raw and genuine, and their moments in the spotlight are stirring. But ultimately, the experience is about their overcoming social conditioning and the pressure to conform. In the midst of a growing number of shallow, soulless role models and an epidemic of low self-esteem in girls, Girls Rock! shows the power of not only encouraging individual voices, but amplifying them! (ages 14 and up)

USA

2006

Directors:

arne Johnson

Shane King

Producer: arne Johnson

Cinematographer: Shane King

Film Editor: arne Johnson

Shane King

Running Time: 91 minutes

Presentation

Format: H dC aM

International Sales: Shadow distribution

Print Source: Shadow distribution

Film Website: girlsrockmovie.com

FRIDAy MAy 25 7:00 PM

HARVARD EXIT

SUNDAy MAy 27 1:00 PM SIFF CINEMA

SUNDAy MAy 27 8:45 PM

SIFF CINEMA

TUESDAy MAy 29 4:30 PM

NEPTUNE THEATRE

Gypsy Caravan

Shot in part by legendary cinematographer Albert Maysles, Gypsy Caravan documents five Gypsy bands from four countries that unite for a tour across North America, astounding every audience they meet. The far-flung origins of the participants ensure a diversity of musical styles, ranging from flamenco to brass band, Romanian violin to Indian folk. Full of throaty humor and heartfelt soul, Macedonian diva Esma Redzepova, traditional Indian troupe Maharaja, Romanian groups Fanfare Ciocarlia and Taraf de Haïdouks and the Antonio El Pipa Flamenco Ensemble celebrate the best of Gypsy culture and the diversity of the Romani people: in a dazzling, whirligig explosion of song and dance. As the film follows the amazing performances and behind-the-scenes action from the tour, we discover the real lives of these musicians, visiting Macedonia, Romania, India and Spain, meeting their families to see what music has brought to their lives. (Which isn’t limited wholly to transcendent matters, as we learn that many of the groups support entire villages from their CD sales alone.) Interviews with the musicians are woven between their musical sets, allowing us to understand and celebrate Romani culture and the prejudices against their shared ancestry, making this unique document as much a moving sociological study as a concert film. Enjoying unprecedented access to a world known by few outsiders, director Jasmine Dellal has created a work to rival Latcho Drom

Awards:

Pusan 2005 (Grand Prix)

Cannes 2005 (aCid award)

USA/Romania/ India/Spain/ Macedonia 2006

Director:

Jasmine dellal

Producers:

Jasmine dellal

Sara nolan

Screenwriter:

Jasmine dellal

Cinematographers: albert Maysles alain de Halleux

Film Editors: Mary Myers

Jasmine dellal roko Belic angelo Corrao

Music: antonio el Pipa Flamenco ensembl

esma redzepova

Fanfare Ciocarlia

Maharaja

Taraf de Haïdouks

Running Time: 111 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in english, romani, Spanish, romanian, Macedonian, Hindi, Marwari, with english subtitles

International Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales

Print Source:

Shadow distribution

Film Website: www.fortissimofilms.com

Selected Filmography: american Gypsy: a Stranger in everybody’s land (2000)

FRIDAy MAy 25 4:00 PM

SIFF CINEMA

SATURDAy MAy 26 6:30 PM

SIFF CINEMA

Kurt Cobain about a Son

The life and Times of yva las Vegass

Director AJ Schnack (Gigantic) has masterfully woven interviews, music, photographs and evocative new footage into a moving meditation on the life, music and times of late Seattle rocker Kurt Cobain. The heart of this resonant portrait is Cobain’s own voice. Previously unheard audiotaped conversations, recorded by music writer Michael Azerrad in the years between the indie rocker’s sudden skyrocketing to world fame and his tragic suicide, reveal the real man behind the myth. In contrast to the media’s onedimensional caricature of him and the iconic status imposed upon him by adoring fans, the Cobain captured on these tapes is casual, funny, angry and candid as he recounts his life from childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later struggles with celebrity, depression and drugs. Cobain’s words are merged with imagery shot in Aberdeen, Olympia and Seattle, an eclectic mix of music that influenced or touched Cobain during his life (including Queen, the Melvins, David Bowie and Scratch Acid) and an ethereal original score by Nirvana producer Steve Fisk and Death Cab for Cutie’s Ben Gibbard. Not a documentary in the traditional sense, About a Son is a profound, dream-like account of the successes, failures, thoughts and experiences of the beloved Seattle musician who, however reluctantly, became the voice of a generation.

USA

2006

Director:

a J Schnack

Producers: Shirley Moyers

noah Khoshbin

Chris Green

Cinematographer:

Wyatt Troll

Film Editor: a J Schnack

Music: Steve Fisk

Benjamin Gibbard

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format: H dC aM

International Sales: Submarine entertainment

Print Source: Sidetrack Films

Film Website: www.kurtcobain aboutason.com

Selected

Filmography: Gigantic (a Tale of Two Johns) (2002)

You may not know her name, but chances are good that you’ve heard her wailing from Seattle street corners. This new documentary introduces us to Venezuelan-born singer Yva Las Vegass’s mesmerizing voice, striking punk rock attitude and overflowing, often misdirected, passion. The lesbian, mohawk-donning street performer was born in Caracas, Venezuela, came to the United States in her teens, and took her native South American folk songs to the streets. Her life took an unusual turn in 1994 when, shortly after the death of Kurt Cobain, she was invited to sing at a party for Nirvana bass player Krist Novoselic. The impromptu gig turned into an unlikely collaboration of the two musicians. They formed the band Sweet 75, and she suddenly found herself with a record deal and an international tour. Mixed reactions to their eclectic and decidedly un-Nirvana music quickly ended the ride. Yva was soon back on the streets busking for change and struggling to survive, while occasionally performing for adoring fans with the band Children of the Revolution. Filmmaker Wiley Underdown delves into Yva’s world, showing a complex and volatile person who works to find creative outlets while battling prejudice and violence on the streets. Her friends and collaborators acknowledge her explosive and self-destructive personality, but all testify to her singular talent and passion. This unique Seattle story illuminates a life of extraordinary ups and downs, and the hardship beneath that powerful voice.

Awards:

San Sebastian 2005 (new directors award)

Cottbus 2005 (Grand Prize)

USA

2007

Director:

Wiley underdown

Screenwriter:

Wiley underdown

Cinematographer:

Wiley underdown

Film Editor:

Casey Chinn

Music:

yva las Vegass

Running Time: 80 minutes

Print Source:

Wiley Films

Selected

Filmography: debut Feature Film

MONDAy MAy 28 9:15 PM

EGyPTIAN THEATRE

SATURDAy JUNE 2 9:30 PM

NEPTUNE THEATER

World

BUSINESS WITH A TWIST

nömadak Tx

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

The txalaparta is a unique traditional Basque musical instrument that is played by two people. Its sound is both percussive and tonal, and its music a product not of one player’s skill, but of the balanced partnership and dialogue between both players. Musicians Igor Otxoa and Harkaitz Martínez of the group Oreka TX take their instrument’s principle of musical dialogue to a new level as they embark on a journey around the globe, using the txalaparta not only as a meeting point for two musicians but as a medium for cross-cultural exchange. Director Raúl de la Fuente travels with the duo on their quest for unique collaborations, capturing the musical explorers’ unforgettable trip across a diversity of stunning landscapes both physical and cultural. New ideas and new sounds arise from meetings on this centuries-old instrument as they collaborate with locals in the north of India, the Mongolian Steppes, the Sahara desert and in Lapland, where they carve a txalaparta out of ice and perform with the Sami musicians in the vast frozen landscape. Each encounter is a surprising and exhilarating experience. A tribute to nomadic peoples of the world and a celebration of unity through open exchange, Nömadak Tx captures an exciting, organic musical conversation between cultures.

Spain 2006

Directors:

raúl de la Fuente

Pablo iraburu

Harkaitz Martínez de San Vicente

igor otxoa

Producer:

igor otxoa

Screenwriters:

raúl de la Fuente

Pablo iraburu

Harkaitz Martínez de San Vicente

igor otxoa

Cinematographer: raúl de la Fuente

Film Editor:

raúl de la Fuente

Music: oreka tx

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with english subtitles

International Sales: arena Comunicacion audiovisual, S l

Print Source: Txalap.art

Film Website: www.nomadaktx.com

American-born Scott Walker is barely known in the United States, but in the UK he was once as big as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, first as lead singer of mid-’60s sensation The Walker Brothers and then as a chart-topping solo artist. But his work began to take bold new directions that were increasingly harder to market to mass audiences. His repertoire included Burt Bacharach and Hal David standards alongside haunting originals and perverse translations of Jaques Brel songs about prostitutes, gonorrhea and death. As a result, Walker went from mega-stardom to one of the most enigmatic and reclusive figures in music. He hasn’t performed publicly in three decades, rarely grants interviews and only releases a new album every decade or so. Despite his sparse output, Walker’s startlingly evocative songwriting, imaginative instrumentation and distinct baritone voice have earned him a cadre of disparate yet influential fans with almost religious devotion. Director Stephen Kijak (Cinemania) delivers a long-overdue look at this living legend’s career, tracing his undeniable impact on popular music through interviews with such high profile fans as David Bowie, Brian Eno, Radiohead, Johnny Marr, Damon Albarn, Alison Goldfrapp, Sting and others. But the film’s triumph is its access to Walker himself. The reclusive artist steps out from the shadows, not only giving a surprisingly candid interview but also allowing Kijak’s cameras into the studio as he records his first album in over 10 years. 30 Century Man is a real treat for Walker fans and an amazing musical discovery for the uninitiated.

United Kingdom/USA

2006

Director: Stephen Kijak

Producers:

Mia Bays

Stephen Kijak liz rose

Screenwriter:

Stephen Kijak

Cinematographer: Grant Gee

Film Editor: Grant Gee

Mat Whitecross

Music:

Scott Walker

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales: Moviehouse entertainment

Print Source:

Missing in action

Films ltd.

Film Website: scottwalkerfilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

Cinemania (2002) never Met Picasso (1996)

SUNDAy JUNE 10 6:30 PM

PACIFIC PLACE CINEMAS

TUESDAy JUNE 12 4:15 PM

PACIFIC PLACE CINEMAS

THURSDAy JUNE 14 7:00 PM

SIFF CINEMA

FRIDAy JUNE 15 4:30 PM

SIFF CINEMA

Vinícius

War/dance

Chances are, if asked to name a Brazilian song, 99 out of 100 people would name “The Girl From Ipanema”. When asked who wrote it, those same people would most likely nominate Latin legends Antonio Carlos Jobim or Astrud Gilberto, its most famous interpreters. Bzzt. Consider Vinícius de Moraes (1913-1980), poet, playwright, critic, diplomat, composer, singer and the father of the bossa nova. Packing more into one lifetime than most mortals could accomplish in ten (including nine wives!), the charismatic, reckless de Moraes was the author of 12 volumes of poetry, a slew of pop hits and the play on which Marcel Camus’ international smash Black Orpheus was based. Combining archival images with interviews with members of his family, friends, partners and enduring Brazilian superstars (Chico Buarque, Gaetano Veloso, Maria Bethânia), Vinícius is firmly rooted in the tradition of music bios, yet its unique subject helps it transcends the genre as we are regaled with stories of its subject as musician, poet, diplomat (at least until he fell foul of the Brazilian dictatorship in 1969) and lover. Veteran Miguel Faria Jr.’s salute to this titan of Latin culture is much more than a mere listing of artistic triumphs, as it unspools its tale of a life well lived against a background of the sassy, innovative tunes that have made Vinicius’ lyrics evergreens.

Brazil/Spain

2006

Director:

Miguel Faria Jr.

Producers:

Miguel Faria Jr.

Susana Moraes

Screenwriters:

Miguel Faria Jr

diana Vasconcellos

eucanaã Ferraz

eric nepomuceno

Cinematographer:

lauro escorel

Film Editor:

diana Vasconcellos

Music:

luiz Claudio ramos

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Portuguese, with english subtitles

International Sales: 1001 Filmes

Print Source: 1001 Filmes

Selected

Filmography: The Xango from Baker Street (2001) republic of assassins (1979)

Mortal Sin (1970)

For two decades, a rebel force known as the Lord’s Resistance Army (L.R.A.) has brutally victimized the Acholi tribe of northern Uganda, and has continually strengthened its numbers by abducting innocent children to fill its ranks. This Sundance award-winning documentary finds hope in the horror, bringing us to the remote Patongo refugee camp where, despite the shattered lives of its displaced residents, the children dance and sing. Their primary school is the first from the war-torn northern region to compete in Uganda’s nationwide music competition in Kampala. War/Dance shows the hearts and talents of the camp’s children as they practice songs and dances in anticipation of the big event. The film follows the journeys of three children in particular: xylophone player Dominic, singer Rose and dancer Nancy, who use the music to overcome the traumas of the L.R.A.’s brutality. They relate stories of losing their parents, hiding from rebels and desperately missing homes that no longer exist. But when the music starts, expressions shift. We see the power found in music and the pride in participating in the cultural traditions that nothing—not even war—can take away from them. No one expects the children of a poor refugee camp to perform competitively, but the Patongo kids arrive in the capital city ready to show an excited crowd their talents and exuberance. Husband-and-wife team Sean and Andrea Nix Fine direct this moving film, showing that even amidst violence and grief there remain beauty and hope. (ages 14 and up)

USA 2007

Directors:

Sean Fine andrea nix Fine

Producer: albie Hecht

Screenwriter: Sean Fine andrea nix Fine

Cinematographer: Sean Fine

Film Editor: Jeff Consiglio

Music: asche & Spencer

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format: H dC aM, in nilotic and english, with english subtitles

International Sales: TH in KFilm

Print Source:

TH in KFilm

Film Website: fine-films.com/main/ films/war-dance

Awards:

Sundance 2007 (Best director)

FRIDAy MAy 25 9:45 PM

SIFF CINEMA

MONDAy MAy 28 4:00 PM

SIFF CINEMA

MONDAy JUNE 4 2:00 PM

PACIFIC PLACE CINEMAS

TUESDAy JUNE 5 9:15 PM

PACIFIC PLACE CINEMAS

Storytelling is a form of history — of immortality too.

— Studs Terkel

To the filmmakers, organizers, theaters and audiences of the Seattle International Film Festival: thank you for making our city a leading forum for film appreciation.

Pledge cards, roving cameras, Policy Dialogues, line games. clearly, this is no ordinary SIFF. This year, we’re a festival in dialogue with itself. And the topic is the climate.

Like most people, we SIFF organizers care about our planet, but wonder what we can or should do. In the 2007 festival, we begin to answer that question.

For starters, we pledge to get our own house in order. That means using energy more efficiently, conserving resources, and integrating green solutions into our actions. We’re a small non-profit on a tight budget, but we pledge to be creative and relentless about finding ways to go green.

But we can do more than that. We pledge to be a catalyst in the community. This year, we have a unique partnership with the greater Seattle climate Dialogues. This innovative effort aims to bring the whole community together to learn about and deliberate solutions to global warming. We think it’s past time for that to happen, and we’re willing to work towards solutions.

That’s why we’re inviting you to sign up for the Dia-

logues (on your SIFF climate pledge form available at all our venues). The other pledges are important, too, but the Dialogues are something new, an opportunity for you to help convene a community-wide discussion on the most important issue facing the planet.

here’s how the process works: It starts with a discussion group in your neighborhood, workplace, church or wherever you feel comfortable gathering. These small groups will use the study guide that’s been created with the help of local scientists from the uW. There’s no one viewpoint being pushed; this is an effort to depoliticize the issue and ground the conversation in facts. From this cleared ground, you can opt for further action by signing up for the citizen’s climate Summit, where 1,500 of us, a cross-section of the whole community, will gather to engage the issue along with our political leaders.

It’s time to get past the politics and really tackle this issue. SIFF’s on board with that, and we hope you’ll be, too.

In a bracing assessment of the future of the planet, the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPcc), the leading international network of climate scientists, recently declared that climate change is unequivocal reality. human activity is the main driver, and we face centuries of climbing temperatures, rising seas and shifting weather patterns—unavoidable results of the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere. They also stated that this warming and its consequences could be substantially blunted by immediate action.

In this context, what more urgent or important story can we tell than that of our endangered planet and the human response to it? The film community boasts a bold commitment to using storytelling to confront the most pressing issues of our times. Building on this tradition, SIFF inaugurates Planet cinema, a landmark series of excellent new films—documentaries, dramas, horror movies, experi-

FILMS

Arctic Tale (USA, 2007)

Directed by Sarah Robertson

The Cloud (Germany, 2006)

Directed by Gregor Schnitzler

Everything’s Cool (USA, 2006)

Directed by Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold

The Last Winter (USA/Iceland, 2006)

Directed by Larry Fessenden

In the Shadow of the Moon (UK, 2007), page 37

Directed by David Sington

A Life Among Whales (USA, 2006)

Directed by Bill Haney

Manufactured Landscapes (Canada, 2006)

Directed by Jennifer Baichwal

The Planet (Sweden, 2006)

mental and short subject works—allowing us to reflect on our human relationship to the natural world. These films hail from around the globe—plunging under the sea, up to the Arctic and into the contradictions and struggles precipitated by our changing ecosystem—employing diverse styles and genres to tackle a range of subjects and ideas. The surge in films produced internationally on environmental topics attests to the rising consciousness about the need to shift how we live and to reduce our carbon footprint. Last year, An Inconvenient Truth helped awaken millions. This year, Planet cinema carries the mantle of informing and inspiring action among citizens of The Emerald city and beyond.

caroline Libresco co-Founder, Planet cinema

Directed by Johan Söderberg, Michael Stenberg and Linus Torell

Sharkwater (Canada, 2006)

Directed by Rob Stewart

Sounds of Sand (Belgium/France, 2006)

Directed by Marion Hänsel

Sweet Crude (USA, 2007)

Directed by Sandy Cioffi

SHORT FILMS

Chocolate Country (Dominican Republic/USA. 2006)

Directed by Robin Blotnick

The Fence (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Ricardo Iscar and Nacho Martin

Global Solo (USA, 2007)

Directed by Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

God Provides (USA 2007)

Directed by Brian Cassidy and Melanie Shatzkey

Greetings From Death Valley (UK, 2007)

Directed by Joanna Wright

Portrait #2: Trojan (USA, 2007)

Directed by Vanessa Renwick

Arctic Tale

World Premiere

The Cloud

Die Wolke

From National Geographic Films (March of the Penguins) and Paramount Vantage (An Inconvenient Truth), Arctic Tale is an epic adventure that explores the vast permafrost world of the Great North. This film follows two parallel stories: one of the endearingly burly walrus, Seela, and the other of a massively sleek polar bear, Nanu, from their birth to adolescence to maturity and parenthood in the frozen Arctic wilderness. While for many thousands of years the freezing snowy landscape of their Arctic home has always been expansive and big enough for both of them to thrive, these two giants of the North Pole are losing their beautiful icebound world as it melts from underneath threatening their continued existence. Arctic zoologist and cinematographer Adam Ravetch (On Thin Ice) and his wife filmmaker Sarah Robertson spent six years in the frozen Arctic filming with Super 16 cameras. Their stunningly beautiful film provides front row seats to pending environmental catastrophe as we witness the struggle for survival on a disappearing continent. Narrated by Queen Latifah, this awe-inspiring adventure is appropriate for the entire family and features music from Cat Stevens, Ben Harper, Aimee Mann, and The Shins. (all ages)

USA 2007

Directors:

Sarah Robertson

Adam Ravetch

Producers:

Adam Leipzig

Keenan Smart Screenwriter

Cinematographer:

Adam Ravetch

Music:

Alex Wurman

Narrated by Queen Latifah

Running Time:

96 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Paramount Vantage

Print Source:

Paramount Vantage

Film Website: www.paramount vantage.com/arctic

US Premiere

This beautiful yet tragic film opens on the radiant image of Hannah, skinny-dipping with best friend Meike. Hannah grows intrigued by Elmar, the mysteriously brooding new kid at her high school. After Elmar rescues Hannah from total humiliation they develop a perfectly textbook high school crush, full of awkward dialogue and longing glances over books in the library. Finally sneaking their first kiss in the prop closet, the young couple is shaken back to reality by the blaring alarm from a nearby nuclear plant; there’s been a leak from the core. Hannah knows she must evacuate or face deadly radiation, yet finds herself stalling in hope that Elmar will come to her rescue again. She waits and waits for him, until her neighbors have all left, the town stands deserted and the poisonous rain and radioactive cloud are coming uncomfortably close. Finally, she and her younger brother Uli set off on an ill-fated bike ride hoping to catch one of the last trains out of town to safety. Not just a story of true love, this enchanting and moving tale makes you think how your own life can change in an instant; how one day you can’t wait to speed time forward till you’re out of your small town, and the next you’re wishing that every second lasted an eternity. How, ultimately, you can never go back, but only keep moving forward. (ages 15 and up)

Germany 2006

Director:

Gregor Schnitzler

Producer:

Markus Zimmer

Screenwriter:

Marco Kreuzpaintner based on the novel by Gudrun Pausewang

Cinematographer: Michael Mieke

Film Editor: Alexander Dittner

Music:

Stefan Hansen

Dirk Reichardt

Max Berghaus

Cast:

Paula Kalenberg

Franz Dinda

Hans-Laurin Beyerling

Carina Wiese

Richy Müller

Running Time:

108 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Bavaria Film

International

Print Source:

Bavaria Film

International

Film Website: www.die-wolke.com

Selected

Filmography:

Soloalbum (2003)

What to Do in case of Fire (2001) Finnlandia (2001)

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A Life Among Whales

Manufactured Landscapes

Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales is the fascinating exploration into the unique relationship between humans and whales as told by renowned biologist and activist Dr. Roger Payne. The film opens with Dr. Payne recounting how the sight of a beached dolphin spurred his interest in the study of these magnificent sea mammals. Combining with a youthful interest in music, Payne’s postdoctoral work on how sound affects animals in nature gradually segued into studies into whale song. His theories on these songs, and the distance at which they could travel, were originally dismissed by the marine biology establishment until they came to the attention of some unlikely allies. Viewers will find Payne a dedicated observer and champion for his cause: in the early seventies, Payne moved with his family to Patagonia for long stretches of time in order to conduct his studies. He also serves to be a knowledgeable historian of the whaling industry and its impact on whale populations: from the ropes-and-harpoons beginnings to the current day’s highly efficient, mechanized slaughter. An eloquent defender for these remarkable animals, Dr. Payne’s narrative is paired with stunning footage of whales and dolphins in the open ocean and makes for a wonderfully affecting nature film.

Preceded by Sharks: Stewards of the Reef USA, 2006, 30 minutes, director Holiday Johnson

USA 2005

Director:

Bill Haney

Producer: Bill Haney

Cinematographers: Chris Fadale

Rick Rosenthal

Ken Willinge

Film Editor: Peter Rhodes

Music: Flynn Berman Branco Music

Cast:

Featuring: Dr. Roger Payne

Running Time: 57 minutes

Presentation

Format: DigiBeta

International Sales: www.uncommon productions.com/ lifeamongwhales

Print Source: Uncommon Productions

From its stunning eight-minute opening shot to the remarkable documentation of China’s Three Gorges Dam, Manufactured Landscapes is an impressive experience. Following celebrated still photographer Edward Burtynsky on a tour of Asia, this story of one man’s voyage becomes a portrait of a planet in upheaval. Burtynsky takes large-format stills of industrial landscapes: factory workers lined up to infinity, giant ships eviscerated, massive recycling dumps, expansive strip mines. His goal is to portray humanity’s relationship to nature as we pursue progress, but he insists on creating photographs that are striking and picturesque, trusting viewers on their own to comprehend the negative global ramifications. The size and space of Burtynsky’s landscapes induce awe, but it is the beauty of his images, their composition and color, that provokes the sharp, breathtaking contrast to their content: this is a luscious world of destruction. Director Jennifer Baichwal makes insightful choices, perfectly balancing the art of Burtynsky with that of her talented cinematographer/ creative consultant Peter Mettler. Burtynsky provides the vision and philosophy, and the filmmakers examine the specific details. And when Burtynsky speaks, he neither celebrates nor condemns but simply explores who we are in relation to our planet. We extract things from the environment to survive, and that is damaging the world.

Canada

2006

Director:

Jennifer Baichwal

Producers:

Nick de Pencier

Daniel Iron

Jennifer Baichwal

Cinematographer:

Peter Mettler

Film Editor: Roland Schlimme

Music: Dan Driscoll

Featuring: Edward Burtynsky

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: Rhombus International

Inc

Print Source:

Zeitgeist Films Ltd.

Film Website: www.mercuryfilms.ca

Selected

Filmography:

The True Meaning of

Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams’ Appalachia (2002)

The Holier It Gets (1999)

Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998)

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This exciting short documentary examines the brutal threats causing the world’s shark populations to plummet, and how removing these vital links within the oceanic ecosystems may cause even further damage.

The Planet Planeten

Sharkwater

A visually stunning and sonically lush documentary essay-montage, The Planet pulls way back to give us a pulsing, big-picture view of the natural world and our shifting human relationship to it as we stand on the threshold of global environmental catastrophe. Traversing the globe—from Kenya to Brazil, from Shanghai to Greenland— scientists, entrepreneurs, journalists, psychiatrists and a wildlife photographer with a pet gorilla weigh in on the transformations of the planet due to human prowess, globalization and hyper-consumption. Employing indelible interviews, exquisite cinematography and telling juxtapositions, the film addresses big philosophical and political questions, while zooming in on fascinating, metaphorical mini-stories of African water economics, the self-generated extinction of Easter Island inhabitants and the new phenomenon of environmental refugees, to name just a few. Along the way, a stream of alarming revelations and fresh paradigms awaken new ways of thinking about our obsessive aspiration for economic growth and the resulting impact on our ecosystem. Perhaps the most memorable of these is this: we would need five planets if every human on earth were to enjoy an American standard of living. Far more than a simple cautionary tale, The Planet presents truths that, if frankly confronted, will move viewers, viscerally and pragmatically, to new levels of understanding and action.

Sweden 2006

Directors:

Johan Söderberg

Michael Stenberg

Linus Torell

Producers:

Michael Stenberg

Jonas Kellagher

Screenwriters:

Michael Stenberg

Jan Röed

Cinematographers:

Nic Hughes

Håvard Jensen

Jan Röed

Film Editor: Johan Söderberg

Music: David Österberg

Johan Söderberg

Running Time:

84 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Swedish Film Institute

Print Source: Swedish Film Institute

Despite their historical stereotypes and media depictions as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters, sharks have no interest in eating humans, and in fact kill fewer each year than soda pop machines. Driven by a lifelong fascination with sharks, underwater photographer Rob Stewart has spent years making this remarkable documentary about the legendarily demonized sea creatures and the mass slaughter that threatens the world’s ecological balance. Due to longline fishing, the high demand for shark fins as a delicacy and even hunters with the misguided mission of protecting man, several species of shark may soon be wiped out. Stewart’s film captures the beauty and grace of the 400 million year old species with stunning underwater photography of sharks at rest, at play and on the hunt, while it chronicles his harrowing adventures above water with renegade conservationist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as they attempt to slow the illegal killing of sharks by any means necessary. Traveling to the Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, their unbelievably bold confrontations with renegade fishing boats and the illegal shark fin trade involve boat rammings, gunboat chases, mafia espionage and government corruption. Sharkwater opens our eyes to both the beauty and importance of these magnificent creatures that, despite surviving the earth’s history of mass extinctions, could easily be wiped out in a short time due to human ignorance and greed.

Canada

2006

Director:

Rob Stewart

Producers:

Rob Stewart

Brian Stewart

Screenwriter:

Rob Stewart

Cinematographers:

Rob Stewart

David Hannan

Film Editors:

Rob Stewart

Michael Clarke

Jeremy Stuart

Rik Morden

Music:

Jeff Rona

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

Alliance Atlantis

Motion Picture Dist. Group

Print Source:

Sharkwater

Productions

Film Website:

www.sharkwater.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Sounds of Sand

Si le vent soulève les sables

Sweet Crude

Work In Progress Screening

Set against the beautiful and expansive East African desert, this touching tale of survival and hope follows Rahne and his family, who must leave their dying village and face many unknown dangers in order to find new sources of food and water. Leaving with a neighbor who agrees that action must be taken in order to survive, the families pack up their few possessions (including a small heard of goats and two camels), and start their journey across the desert in search of a better life – but the journey becomes much more difficult then they were prepared for. The challenges are numerous: in addition to providing themselves and their livestock with enough nourishment and protecting themselves from the harsh desert sun, they must also keep their possessions from scavengers, while engaging in escalating struggles with both corrupt military officials and dangerous rebel fighters—all this while navigating a treacherous landscape filled with hidden landmines. As difficulties arise and tragedy after tragedy befalls their small family, Rahne’s spirit breaks down, and he must look to his optimistic daughter Shasha for direction and inspiration to keep going at all costs. Director/ writer/producer Marion Hänsel maintains a fine balance between pulp and realism in this absorbing, socially conscious adventure.

Belgium/ France

2006

Director:

Marion Hänsel

Producer:

Marion Hänsel

Screenwriter:

Marion Hänsel

Cinematographer:

Walther van den Ende

Film Editor:

Michèle Hubinon

Music:

René-Marc Bini

Cast:

Issaka Sawadogo

Carole Karemera

Asma Nouman Aden

Saïd Abdallah

Mohamed Ahmed

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source: Man’s Films

Productions

Film Website: www.soundsofsand.be

Selected

Filmography:

Clouds: Letters to My Son (2001)

The Quarry (1998)

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1995)

Between Heaven and Earth (1992)

Il Maestro (1989)

For 50 years, crude oil has been flowing from under the feet of the people of the Niger Delta, and for 50 years they have been promised that this would mean a better life. Impoverished villagers in the region have become increasingly frustrated. Despite the riches coming from their land, they have no running water or electricity, and struggle to survive the industry’s vast pollution of the environment. Their water and seafood are becoming increasingly contaminated, and their homes, tools and boats erode at an alarming rate. Forests once thriving with mangrove trees and alive with the sounds of animals are now virtually silent. Frustrated by the lack of results from peaceful protests, rebels have been rising from delta villages demanding more autonomy and a greater share of oil wealth, going so far as to attack oil pipelines and kidnap workers. As a result, the Nigerian federal government has increased military presence in the area, and with that has come increased crime and tension. Sweet Crude, directed by Seattle filmmaker Sandy Cioffi, journeys to the heart of the Niger Delta to meet the people, explore the impact of oil on the region and examine this complex powder keg situation that nearly no one outside the region knows about, yet could have far-reaching political, environmental and economic effects. The film shows the humanity behind this current problem, inviting truthful conversation and hoping for a peaceful and just resolution.

USA 2007

Director:

Sandy Cioffi

Producer:

Kate Wolf

Screenwriter:

Laslye Wood

Cinematographer:

Cliff Worsham

Film Editor: Eric Frith

Music: Julie Wolf

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Film Website: sweetcrudemovie.com

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Planet Cinema Short Films

Satellites of Planet Cinema

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Films about global climate change and our relationship to the natural world. (79 minutes)

Chocolate Country

Dominican Republic/USA, 2006, 31 minutes, director: Robin Blotnik

The fascinating, triumphant and music-filled story of a chocolate collective formed by struggling farmers in the Dominican Republic.

The Fence

Spain, 2006, 11 minutes, directors: Ricardo Iscar, Nacho Martin

For countless centuries, the fishermen of the Gibraltar Strait have gone out to sea to practice the ancient art of catching tuna.

Global Solo 1

USA, 2007, 2 minutes, director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

A spinning globe receives the touch of an artist’s hands in a profound healing ritual for our times.

God Provides

USA/Canada, 2007, 9 minutes, directors: Brian Cassidy, Melanie Shatzkey

A fresh look at the varied and unexpected responses to natural disaster in New Orleans.

Greetings From Death Valley

United Kingdom, 2007, 21 minutes, director: Joanna Wright

After unprecedented rainfall, the deserts of Death Valley burst into flower, seducing tourists from around the world.

Portrait #2: Trojan

USA, 2007, 5 minutes, director: Vanessa Renwick

Trojan Nuclear Facility, Oregon’s powerful iconic landmark, goes adios in this stunning meditative landscape study.

GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARDS

Each year SIFF attendees have cast their votes for our prestigious golden Space Needle awards in the categories of Best Film, Documentary Feature, Director, Actor, Actress and Short Film. Past winners of this audience award have included films and talents who went on to win Academy Awards and golden globe Awards, as well as a large number of critical and theatrical hits first seen in the uSA at SIFF.

Voting is easy: For Best Film or Documentary Feature, simply take a ballot from our ushers as you enter the auditorium; once the film’s presentation is over, tear your ballot by the appropriate grade listed (from 1 to 5), and give your completed ballot to an usher as you leave the auditorium. Ballots for each film will be tallied throughout the Festival. To vote for Best Director, Actor, Actress and Short Film, blank ballots are 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.

2006 juried award winners

New Directors Showcase Competition

Grand Jury Prize

Host & Guest, director Shin Dong-il

Special Jury Prize

Grain In Ear, director Zhang Lu

New American Cinema

Grand Jury Prize

Live Free or Die, director Andy Robin and Gregg Kavet

Special Jury Prize

Ahmad Razvi’s performance in Man Push Cart

Documentary Competition

Grand Jury Prize

Gitmo: the New Rules of War, directors Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh

Special Jury Prize

Walking to Werner, director Linas Phillips

Short Film Competition

Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film, Narrative

Before Dawn, director Balint Kenyeres

Special Jury Prize, Best Short Film, Narrative Mother, director Sian Heder

Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film, Documentary lot 63, grave c, director Sam Green

Special Jury Prize, Best Short Film, Documentary

Undressing My Mother, director Ken Wardrop

Grand Jury Prize, Best Animation Short Film

Ringo, director Dave Monahan

Special Jury Prizes, Best Animation Short Film

Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot, director David Chai and Marvelous, Keen Loony Bin, director Lizzi Akana

Women in Cinema

Lena Sharpe Award

Freida Lee Mock for Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (USA)

FutureWave Awards

Grand Jury Prize, WaveMaker Award

Slip of the Tongue, director Karen Lum

Special Jury Prize

Rez Life, directors Nick Clark, Martin Edwards, David Aleck

FutureWave Audience Award

The Drive Thru, directed by Stacey Rozich, Matt Lewis, Jesse Lomax, Ashley Russell

2006 Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Picture

OSS 117: Nest of Spies, director Michel Hazanavicius (France)

Best Documentary

The Trials of Darryl Hunt, directors Rickie Stern and Annie Sundberg (USA)

Best Director

Goran Dukic for Wristcutters: A Love Story (USA)

Best Actress

Fiona Gordon for The Iceberg (Belgium)

Best Actor

Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson (USA)

Best Short Film

Full Disclosure, director Douglas Horn (USA)

The sense of discovery that fuels film festivals becomes particularly acute when the focal point centers on the search for unknown talents who demonstrate a natural gift for storytelling. the new directors showcase features a selection of international directors who are clearly emerging as major talents. siff programmers choose about a dozen films from around the world to be spotlighted for special attention and competition. each of the films must be a debut or second feature by the selected director, and each is chosen on the basis of its original conception, striking style and overall excellence. the films must also be without u.s. distribution at the time of selection. the jury for the new directors showcase, composed of film industry professionals and journalists, chooses the award-winning director on the final weekend of the festival. the winner will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize, to be announced at the golden space needle awards Brunch on the final day of the festival.

New Directors showcase

NEW DIRECTORS JURY

Cameron Bailey

cameron Bailey is a writer, broadcaster and film programmer in toronto. he has 11 years programming experience with the toronto international film festival, where he founded the festival’s Planet Africa section, and headed its Perspective Canada series. Bailey also reviews film for toronto’s NOW magazine and cBc radio one, and has hosted the sundance channel’s Festival Dailies.

Angelo Acerbi

always passionate about cinema, angelo acerbi started collaborating as a writer/critic for an italian monthly film magazine in 1988. angelo worked for many film festivals in italy and then became head of production for italy’s leading film commission, torino piemonte. in 2004 he started his own television and movie production company. he’s now ceo of the alba international film festival in italy.

Jeremy Kay

Jeremy Kay is the chief u.s. reporter for the film trade magazine Screen International he also writes about film for a number of uK outlets including The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph. though now based in los angeles he previously worked as a londonbased news reporter for Time Out and The Independent

On Sunday

FILMS

7 Years (France, 2006)

Directed by Jean-Pascal Hattu

Doghead (Spain, 2006)

Directed by Santi Amodeo

Fish Dreams (Brazil, 2006)

Directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky

Emma’s Bliss (Germany, 2006)

Directed by Sven Taddicken

Falkenberg Farewell (Sweden, 2006)

Directed by Jesper Ganslandt

Free Floating (Russia, 2006)

Directed by Boris Khlebnikov

Fresh Air (Hungary, 2006)

Directed by Ágnes Kocsis and Andrea Roberti

How Is Your Fish Today? (China, 2006)

Directed by Xiaolu Guo

La León (Argentina, 2006)

Directed by Santiago Otheguy

The Paper Will Be Blue (Romania, 2006)

Directed by Radu Muntean

Sons (Norway, 2006)

Directed by Erik Richter Strand

Stealth (Switzerland, 2006)

Directed by Lionel Baier

7 Years

7 Ans

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saturday June 16 6:30 pm pacific place cinemas

In this sexually charged but controlled study of an unusual love triangle, Maïté is crazy about her macho husband Vincent, but the closest she gets to him is drinking in his smell from the laundry she brings home from the jail where he is serving time for an unspecified crime. On one visit, she falls into conversation with an unprepossessing prison guard, Jean. She repels his advances initially, but eventually they become lovers, trysting in his parked Renault on shady side streets. As the affair deepens, Maïté discovers the truth about Jean’s true role in the scheme of things, and that it is in fact Vincent who has set the affair in motion. Moreover, husband and guard have an emotionally raw, co-dependent relationship, creating a new angle on the hellish business of amour fou, and as the film progresses it becomes increasingly unclear who is controlling whom, and what motives drive each. Director Jean-Pascal Hattu is a committed social realist, yet deftly avoids the soap-opera potential of his material through individual, quietly wrought moments which reveal the characters’ emotional depths, sublimated desires and hidden intentions. The director, a former assistant to André Techiné (The Wild Reeds), also coaxes good work from his actors, notably Valérie Donzelli, who, as the outwardly stoic, inwardly vulnerable Maïté, handles scenes of an intense sexual nature with conviction while not upsetting the balance of this tense yet cooltoned study of the emotionally complex threesome. A well-crafted and auspicious debut.

France 2006

Director:

Jean-Pascal Hattu

Producer:

Justin Tauand

Screenwriters:

Jean-Pascal Hattu

Gilles Taurand

Guillome Daporta

Cinematographer:

Pascal Poucet

Film Editor:

Anna Klotz

Music:

Franck Delabre

Cast:

Valérie Donzelli

Cyril Troley

Bruno Todeschini

Pablo de la Torre

Nadia Kaci

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Pyramide International

Print Source:

Pyramide International

Film Website: pyramidefilms.com/ pyramideinternational

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Doghead

Cabeza de Perro

North American Premiere

wednesday may 30 7:00 pm pacific place cinemas

thursday may 31 2:00 pm pacific place cinemas

Santi Amodeo’s previous pictures garnered comparisons to such visually inventive directors as Darren Aronofsky and Michel Gondry. He also shares their interest in leads who look normal, but feel out of step with their surroundings. In Doghead, that person is 18-year old Samuel, who suffers from a rare neurological condition which leads him to become easily disoriented. As a consequence, Samuel tries not to get too involved in life. At his grandfather’s funeral, he reconnects with his irresponsible cousin Eduardo, and finds himself stranded in Madrid. Tired of his life in coastal Marbella, he decides to stay in the city. He finds an apartment and falls for pretty roommate Consuelo, but his lack of impulse control scares her off. Fortunately, co-worker Moobi decides to look after him. Samuel, in turn, forms a bond with senior citizen Angelito, for whom he becomes caretaker. And Consuelo is never far from his thoughts. If he can just get her to see him for who he really is, Samuel is convinced she’ll fall for him, too. Amodeo uses jump cuts, subtle special effects and Y Tu Mamá Tambiénstyle narration to convey his protagonist’s offkilter thoughts. Like countryman Alejandro Amenábar, Amodeo is also a composer, and his whimsical soundtrack contributes to the sense that Samuel perceives the world through his own personal kaleidoscope.

Spain 2006

Director:

Santi Amodeo

Producer:

Santi Amodeo

Screenwriter:

Santi Amodeo

Cinematographer:

Alex Catalán

Film Editor: José G. Moyano

Music:

Santi Amodeo

Enrique De Justo

Cast:

Juan José Ballesta

Adraina Ugarte

Julain Villagran

Ana Wagener

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Sogepaq International

Print Source:

Sogepaq International

Film Website: www.cabezadeperro.es

Selected

Filmography: Astronauts (2004)

Emma’s Bliss

Emmas Glück

friday June 1 7:00 pm egyptian theatre

sunday June 3 4:15 pm egyptian theatre

Max has stalled, ebbing out his dull days working for a crooked used-car salesman. Until, that is, a brutal bolt from the blue—a death-sentence diagnosis of untreatable pancreatic cancer— finally ignites his desire to flee. Pilfering getaway funds from his boss, Max starts running towards an imagined Mexican paradise, to drift away his final days on white sands under whispering palms. But he can’t even get out of Germany before a roadside accident spins him instead to Emma, a surly, lonely and hopelessly indebted pig breeder. Despite his smashing of her chicken coop, she’s delighted at Max’s arrival: he’s the kind of man she’s always dreamt of … and he’s brought cash with him to boot! She agrees to help protect him – easy enough when the village policeman spends more time mooning over Emma than hunting down leads. Max, in turn, falls under the spell of Emma’s ways, even forgetting the illness inexorably advancing upon him. Well, not forgotten entirely; part of Emma’s appeal is certainly her uniquely tender method of slaughter, holding the pigs gently until they cease bleeding. This second feature by filmmaker Sven Taddicken is a very sensual and heart-warming film, its rare, unpredictable story enlivened by fine actors and a wry, unforced humanity. Stage and television actress Jördis Triebel deservedly swept up a small litter of European acting awards for her remarkable feature film debut.

Germany 2006

Director:

Sven Taddicken

Producers:

Ralph Schwingel

Stefan Schubert

Hejo Emons

Screenwriters:

Ruth Thoma

Claudia Schreiber based on the novel by Claudia Schreiber

Cinematographer: Daniela Knapp

Film Editor: Andreas Wodraschke

Music:

Christoph Blaser

Steffen Kahles

Cast:

Jördis Triebel

Jürgen Vogel

Hinnerk Schönemann

Nina Petri

Martin Feifel

Running Time: 99 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales: The Match Factory GmbH

Print Source: The Match Factory GmbH

Film Website: emmas-glueck. pandorafilmverleih.de

Selected Filmography: Getting My Brother Laid (2001)

Falkenberg Farewell

Farväl Falkenberg

tuesday June 12 7:00 pm egyptian theatre

thursday June 14 4:00 pm neptune theatre

A cinematic requiem, Falkenberg Farewell is an elegant mood piece about five 20-somethings in a Swedish seaside town whose life has come to a sort of pause. While Holger never wants to move away, Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his catering company by burglarizing houses, but even such quixotic compromises with the responsibilities of adulthood are alien to David, who yearns to be a child again. And John, always in a bad mood, believes that bacon makes him happy. Oppressed by the end of their carefree days, preferring to relive the past rather than plan for the future, the five friends can feel the future looming at the horizon; but not all of them will be there to see it. Writer-director Jesper Ganslandt, who also plays one of the characters, considers the film an attempt to combine two of his greatest influences: Terrence Malick and Lars von Trier. And if the former inspires the poetic shots of the human body and natural landscapes, the latter emerges most forcefully as the model for the film’s refreshingly episodic, non-linear structure. A film of great primal beauty about friendship and memories and a final farewell to the little town by the sea.

Awards: Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Sweden/ Denmark 2006

Director:

Jesper Ganslandt

Producer:

Anna Anthony

Screenwriters: Jesper Ganslandt

Fredrik Wenzel

Cinematographer: Fredrik Wenzel

Film Editors: Jesper Ganslandt Michal Leszczylowski

Music:

Erik Enocksson

Cast: Holger Eriksson

David Johnson

John Axel Eriksson

Jesper Ganslandt

Jörgen Svensson

Running Time: 88 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Swedish, with English subtitles

International Sales: Trust Film Sales

Print Source: Swedish Film Institute

Film Website: falkenbergfarewell.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Fish Dreams

Sonhos de peixe

saturday may 26 7:15 pm pacific

monday may 28 11:00 am pacific place cinemas

Here’s one of the year’s greatest improbabilities: a note-perfect look at life in a Bahian fishing village on the coast of northern Brazil, shot by a Russian director who is a long-time resident of Minneapolis. Fish Dreams is the story of Jusce, who enjoys a simple life, fishing stingray and illegally diving for lobsters, making just enough to keep the family boat in decent repair. The trouble is, he is infatuated with the sexy Ana, who dreams of traveling to see the world, dreams that are fuelled by a TV soap opera that brings life in the village to a full stop when it is broadcast. When a rival for Ana’s materialistic affections shows up, Jusce risks financial ruin in a bid to win her heart with a giant TV set. Debut director Kirill Mikhanovsky displays great affection for his characters, filmed with wonderful immediacy, while simultaneously poking gentle fun at them for buying into the artificial dreams supplied by the lurid TV telenovelas. He does, however, give the audience plenty to enjoy as the film brings its paradisal setting to life. The ravishing cinematography makes the most of the sundrenched scenery and tautly muscled bodies of the fisherman, and bestows a pellucid, dreamlike quality on the film’s underwater scenes. The film’s neo-realist aura has drawn inevitable comparisons to the work of Rossellini, but the daring, stately pacing also invokes the everyday pleasures of Hou Hsiao-hsien’s masterpiece The Time to Live and the Time to Die, which is very high praise indeed.

Brazil/Russia/ USA 2006

Director:

Kirill Mikhanovsky

Producer: Jacob MichelsonShamelashvili

Screenwriter:

Kirill Mikhanovsky

Cinematographer: Andrij Parekh

Film Editors: Adam Walsh

K. D. Klippning

Music:

Artur Andres Ribiero

Cast:

José Maria Alves

Rubia Rafaelle

Phellipe Haagensen

Running Time: 111 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Portuguese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Bavaria Film

International

Print Source: Bavaria Film

International

Film Website: sonhosdepeixe.com

Free Floating

Svobodnoye plavaniye

saturday June 2 9:15 pm pacific

tuesday June 5 9:30 pm lincoln

In a small town on the Volga, Leonid (Alexander Yatsenko), freshly graduated from high school, is about to start his first job. But he’s barely over the hangover brought on by celebrating his first day of employment before the plant is bought by Americans and shut down. Which begins a round of odd jobs, dismal failure brought about by his slacker fecklessness and subsequent visits to the local employment office, where the social worker never fails to offer him a dressing down. Some variety to this routine finally arrives when it’s pointed out that Ksenia, a former schoolmate of his, is kind of hot; Leonid agrees, and the two pursue a funny, shy and practically wordless romance. Which aptly describes this quirky movie as well, told in a succession of brief, precise episodes in the gently absurd style of Aki Kaurismäki. Finding its comedy in how some people try hard and get nowhere, some live in beauty and never see it, while others stop drifting and finally float free, this vision of the morals and mentalities of provincial life in present-day Russia never lacks affection for it characters. Fulfilling the promise he displayed as the codirector of Koktebel, Boris Khlebnikov has delivered a gentle little wonder of a film.

Russia 2006

Director:

Boris Khlebnikov

Producer:

Roman Borisevich

Screenwriters:

Alexander Rodionov

Boris Khlebnikov

Cinematographer:

Shandor Berkeshi

Film Editor: Ivan Lebedev

Music: Toro Gutugwo

Cast:

Alexander Yatsenko

Daria Ekamasova

Yevgeni Sytyi

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Koktebel Film Co.

Print Source:

Central Partnership

Selected

Filmography: Koktebel (2004)

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wednesday June 13 4:00 pm

neptune theatre

saturday June 16 9:30 pm pacific place cinemas

If beauty has its privileges, they have flown past Viola. Though remarkably beautiful, she works as a lavatory attendant in the subways. It is not the most befitting of stations, but it’s a job, and Viola won’t think of it as shameful. Not so her daughter Angela. Repulsed by her mother’s position, she wishes for a better life as a fashion designer: delicate patterns, luxurious fabrics, crisp, clinging cuts, with nary a toilet stall or gruff patron in sight. The two live quietly in a tiny little flat where communication between them has almost ceased. Their sole bond is a mutually beloved television program whose handsome star offers each of them something to revere. This contemplative and assured debut feature film reveals a strikingly mature grasp of composition and atmosphere. The timeless exploration of the domestic rites of mother and daughter, and the wide emotional gap between them, gives the film a poignant, touching air. The absence of close-ups and showy visual effects, combined with the long shots patiently observing the characters in their environment, convey the undeniable echo of Antonioni’s eloquent and elliptical loneliness. A standard of beauty the film drifts upon, considers and records.

Hungary 2006

Directors:

Ágnes Kocsis

Andrea Roberti

Producer:

Ferenc Pusztai

Screenwriters:

Ágnes Kocsis

Andrea Roberti

Cinematographer: Ádám Fillenz

Film Editor:

Tamás Kollányi

Music:

Bálint Kovács

Cast:

Izabella Hegyi

Júlia Nyakó

Anita Turóczi

Zoltán Kiss

Henriette Ámon

Running Time: 109 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Hungarian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Magyar Filmunio

Print Source:

Magyar Filmunio

Film Website: www.frisslevego.hu

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

How is Your Fish Today?

Jin tian de yu zen me yang?

wednesday June 13 9:30 pm harvard exit

thursday June 14 4:30 pm siff cinema

Hui Rao plays a fictionalized version of himself as a frustrated screenwriter living in Beijing writing soap operas, in Chinese novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo’s debut narrative feature. When not taking care of Belle du Jour (his fish) and Fellini (his bamboo plant), he is working on a screenplay about Lin Hao, a man who killed his lover in a southern Chinese village and is now heading to Mohe, the northernmost city in the country. Guo shows us scenes from the screenplay, and pretty soon fact and fiction blur as Rao decides to take a research trip up to Mohe. Guo herself found herself writing soap operas in Beijing for years while writing scripts that kept getting banned by the censors. She turned to making documentaries and writing novels before teaming up with Rao on this film that combines her literate sensibilities with documentary instincts. The contrasts between the two protagonists mirror the differences between Rao’s prosperous circle of artists and intellectual elite in Beijing and the workers that Hao comes across, but both of them have a longing that drives them forward. Guo’s film is a thoughtprovoking inquiry into the uses and possibilities of narrative, as well as a work of uncommon beauty and delicacy in its own right.

China/UK 2006

Director:

Xiaolu Guo

Producers:

Xiaolu Guo

Iris Major

Screenwriters: Rao Hui

Xiaolu Guo

Cinematographer:

Lu Sheng

Film Editor:

Emiliano Battista

Music:

Matt Scott

Cast: Rao Hui

Lin Hao

Hao Ning

Xiaolu Guo

Running Time:

83 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Mandarin, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Xiaolu Guo Productions

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

La León

US Premiere

thursday June 14 5:00 pm

saturday June 16 9:30 pm

Early morning on a remote Northern Argentina delta, the mist sticking to the water like silver film. The boat knifing through the waters, ferrying passengers here and there, is the only point of contact these isolated villagers have with the mainland, or the world. For Alvaro (Jorge Román), it’s not only how he gets the books he loves, but also the men; the solitude of his homosexuality is only relieved by the occasional visitor. But it’s precisely strange visitors that ferry captain Turu (Daniel Valenzuela) seeks to protect the locals from. A bit of a blowhard, and more than a bit of a bully, Turu feels his position has earned him a level of authority over the locals’ lives—and a responsibility for their well-being, which he intends to take seriously. When illegal loggers make a small dent in the villagers’ lifestyle, his outrage rises and his ire focuses on the young man so notoriously friendly to the strangers that come round. However, Turu’s escalating adversity toward Alvaro has more tangled motives than he is prepared to admit. Shot in beautiful black-and-white that emphasizes these people’s relationship to the natural world that surrounds them, La León is a remarkably assured feature debut marking Santiago Otheguy as a talent to watch. This patient study of isolation and loneliness isn’t forced into a clichéd thriller structure by writer/director Otheguy, who allows the film, and its characters, to unfold in their due pace; making their ultimate destination all the more striking.

Awards:

Berlin 2007 (Teddy Award- Special Mention)

Argentina/ France

2006

Director:

Santiago Otheguy

Producers:

Pablo Salomón

Juan Solanas

Alexis Vonarb

Aton Soumache

Pierre Rambaldi

Catherine Barra

Screenwriter:

Santiago Otheguy

Cinematographer:

Paula Grandío

Film Editors:

Sebastián Sepúlveda

Valeria Otheguy

Music:

Vincent Artaud

Cast:

Jorge Román

Daniel Valenzuela

José Muñoz

Daniel Sosa

Running Time:

85 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales: MK2

Print Source:

MK2

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

The Paper Will Be Blue

Hirtia va fi Albastra

sunday June 10 1:30 pm

monday June 11 7:00 pm

Another example of the re-energized Romanian cinema, this adept blend of docudrama and wry humor serves as an effective companion piece to 12:08 East of Bucharest, focusing as it does not merely on the heady confusion of revolution but the madness and chaos that can follow. In the week between Nicolae Ceausescu’s abdication on December 17th, 1989, and his execution on Christmas Day, over 1,000 people died due to horrendous mistakes and personal vendettas, as the void left by the departing dictator was filled not just with solidarity but also selfishness and meanness accumulated over decades of frustration. The Paper Will Be Blue was inspired by one such tragedy, in which two squads of Interior Ministry troops sent to protect a military unit were accidentally butchered. From the surreal sight of an armored squadron patrolling the sedate suburbs to the impetuous soldier who, determined to get his against the Ceausescu supporters, needn’t search too hard for the firefight he craves, the film unfolds during nights of madness, in which the military receives orders via television from poets and actors, radios transmit garbled signals, arms are distributed to civilians and gypsies are arrested as Arab terrorists. This is not a sedate History Channel recounting, but a recreation of the emotions that boiled over in those days from the point of view of ordinary people who participated in the events.

Romania 2006

Director:

Radu Muntean

Producer:

Dragos Vilcu

Screenwriters:

Razvan Radulescu

Alexandru Baciu

Radu Muntean

Cinematographer: Tudor Lucaciu

Film Editor: Alexandru Radu

Music:

Verdi

Electric Brother

Cast:

Paul Ipate

Andi Vasluianu

Adi Carauleanu

Dragos Bucur

Tudor Istodor

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

BetaSP, in Romanian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Multimedia Est

Print Source: Romanian Film Centre

Film Website: thepaperwillbeblue.com

Selected

Filmography: The Fury (2002)

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siff cinema

Sons Sønner

tuesday June 12 9:30 pm pacific place cinemas

saturday June 16 11:00 am pacific place cinemas

At 25, Lars has pretty much winnowed down his loner lifestyle to working at the local community pool and hanging out with Norunn, a prostitute who is his only close friend. Suspecting that a former convicted pedophile, Hans, is fooling around with the teenage boys in his neighborhood triggers a terrible rage in him and he embarks on a crusade to stop the hypothetical pervert. He manages to videotape Hans having sex with a young boy but, unpersuaded that that is damning enough, he steals Hans’ computer, and is surprised to find shots of Hans with one of Lars’ old school chums. Lars tries to persuade his friend, now a television broadcaster, to air his video. When it eventually does appear, serious repercussions tumble down for all concerned. Already fired from his job for his lawless pursuit of his cause célèbre—for which a deeply felt personal motivation is gradually revealed—Lars finds things spinning rapidly out of control, endangering those he set out to protect in the first place. This gritty, impressive first film by young Norwegian writer-director Erik Richter Strand is a beautifully constructed thriller about the unexpected consequences of personal crusades to expose the truth at all costs. Its honest and sympathetic portrayals of all the characters involved, not least the fiery Lars, stand out starkly from the simplistically unambiguous moral lines typically drawn in stories such as this.

Norway 2006

Director:

Erik Richter Strand

Producer:

Eric Vogel

Screenwriters:

Thomas Seeberg

Torjussen

Erik Richter Strand

Cinematographer:

Astrid Maria Saetren

Film Editor: Simen Gengenbach

Music:

Marius Christiansen

Magnet

Cast:

Nils Jørgen Kaalstad

Mikkel Bratt Silset

Edward Schultheiss

Henrik Mestad

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Marika Enstad

Running Time: 99 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Norwegian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Bavaria Film

International

Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute

Film Website: www.sonner.no

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Stealth Comme des voleurs (A l’est)

tuesday June 12 6:30 pm pacific place cinemas

wednesday June 13 4:15 pm pacific place cinemas

Lionel lives the good life: a steady job with Swiss Radio, a handsome boyfriend and a totally supportive family. But still, something is missing. Tales of the American western frontier help him fill the void. Upon learning his paternal grandfather was from Poland, Lionel immediately plunges into all things Polish—devouring books, studying the language, cheering Polish soccer teams (though understanding nothing of the game), even leaving his longtime gay partner Serge to marry a Polish au pair girl who is living in Switzerland illegally. Lionel’s ancestral obsession and bizarre sexual turnaround are cheerfully accepted by his mother and pastor father, but drive his controlling older sister Lucie absolutely nuts. She commandeers his car, with Lionel in it, and takes off for Warsaw to settle the question of their ancestry once and for all. Their journey of misadventures becomes seemingly like a reverse Borat trip with noirish detours as they get involved in a car chase in Slovakia, stranded in Auschwitz and take refuge with a gay film student in a secluded cabin. Along the way they discover their true selves as they travel deep inside and out into the wide, wonderful world. A graduate of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, Director Lionel Baier, born in Switzerland of Polish descent, has clearly used his own background as the basis for this warm, witty and authentic voyage of discovery.

Switzerland/ France

2006

Director:

Lionel Baier

Producer:

Robert Boner

Screenwriter:

Lionel Baier

Cinematographer: Séverine Barda

Film Editor: Christine Hoffet

Cast:

Lionel Baier

Natacha Koutchoumov

Alicja Bachleda-Curu

Stéphane Rentznik

Anne-Lise Tobagi

Barbara Dembi ska

Running Time:

112 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French and Polish, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Rendez-Vous Pictures

Int’l

Print Source:

SAGA Production

Film Website: commedesvoleurs.com

Selected

Filmography: Stupid Boy (2004)

La Parade (notre histoire) (2001)

Each year the independent American filmmaking scene seems to reinvent itself—new voices emerge, leaving overworked formulas behind in favor of truly original storytelling and vividly drawn characters. From an extraordinary selection of films that have yet to receive American distribution, jurors

NEW AMERICAN CINEMA

Jury

Charles Pugliese is currently the head of development for Killer Films. While at Killer, Charles has worked in different capacities with a number of different directors. Recently, Charles co-produced I’m Not There. Charles is a graduate of Vassar College and began his career in the production and acquisitions departments of Miramax Films.

Carl Hampe was named Director, Acquisitions, Warner Independent Pictures in July 2006. Prior to that, Hampe worked with National Geographic Feature Films, where he participated in the acquisition of God Grew Tired of Us. He has also worked as a theatrical marketing consultant for projects at ThinkFilm, Lionsgate and Sony. Hampe started his career with the acquisitions team at Miramax Films.

Nancy Bishop is the editor and publisher of Venice magazine. She has made a name for herself in the world of film, music, art, and theater in L.A. as a champion of up-and-coming artists. Her other accomplishments include serving on the board of directors of the International Photography Awards (the Lucie Awards), and working with such diverse talents as John Cassavetes and Jon Voight.

will select the film that they feel best represents both filmmaking excellence and a creative, original vision. The winner of the New American Cinema Award presented by POP will receive a $5,000 cash prize, to be announced at the Golden Space Needle Awards Brunch on the final day of the Festival.

FILMS

Cthulhu (2007)

Directed by Daniel Gildark

Expired (2007)

Directed by Cecilia Miniucchi

Lovely By Surprise (2007)

Directed by Kirt Gunn

The Memory Thief (2007)

Directed by Gil Kofman

One Day Like Rain (2007)

Directed by Paul Todisco

One of Our Own (2007)

Directed by Abe Levy

Out At the Wedding (2007)

Directed by Lee Friedlander

Shotgun Stories (2007)

Directed by Jeff Nichols

Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit (2007)

Directed by Tod Harrison Williams

Walk the Talk (2007)

Directed by Matthew Allen

Cthulhu

World Premiere

Expired

Russ is a college history professor who has long since given up on his family and his hometown. They couldn’t handle the fact that he’s gay, and he couldn’t handle their intolerance. When his mother dies, his sister convinces him to come home for the funeral and the execution of the will, but he immediately clashes with his father, who has become the leader of a strange sea-worshipping cult. That’s when secrets are revealed and the trouble begins. Based on the H. P. Lovecraft story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” Cthulhu evokes a moody sense of dread with the stunning cinematography of Sean Kirby (Police Beat, SIFF ‘05). Jason Cottle gives a magnetically energetic performance as Russ, and is balanced beautifully by Scott Green as his former best friend and high school crush. Meanwhile, Tori Spelling is cheerfully evil as a married cult member who wants Russ to father her child in order to fulfill the prophecy that will bring the ancient fish people back from the sea.

Written by Seattle activist-turned-filmmaker Grant Cogswell, Cthulhu makes subtle fun of our consumerist society and the Bush administration, while Daniel Gildark’s assured direction drives everything toward its apocalyptic conclusion, mixing family drama with romantic longing and the horrors of the deep.

USA 2007

Director:

Daniel Gildark

Producers:

Jeffrey Brown

Alexis Ferris

Screenwriters:

Grant Cogswell

Daniel Gildark

Cinematographer: Sean Kirby

Film Editor: World Famous

Music:

Willy Greer

Cast:

Tori Spelling

Jason Cottle

Scott Green

Cara Buono

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Arkham NW

Productions

Film Website: cthulhuthemovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

We love cinema that makes us laugh, cry or squirm with discomfort. And when a film accomplishes all three, as does Expired—on the pure strength of smart writing and excellent performances—it’s a small miracle. Expired is the story of Claire, an unimposing, sweettempered meter maid whose sheltered existence with her stroke-afflicted mother is jolted when she meets Jay, a troubled fellow parking officer. As Claire tentatively emerges from her shell and emotionally stunted Jay jumps in with gusto, their love affair becomes an awkward and sometimes-hilarious dance of antagonism and attraction, and she must decide whether to engage or pull away. Samantha Morton and Jason Patric bring naturalism and gentle irony to characters who, when confronted with the possibility of closeness and sex, attempt to overcome paralyzing fear in completely disparate ways. Cecilia Miniucchi and her actors never shrink from Claire and Jay’s raw or inelegant moments, nor do they stray from tracing the subtle evolution of a relationship variously shaded with perversity, generosity, misunderstanding and tenderness. Mining the comedy and pathos inherent in the foibles of damaged characters, as well as the excruciating qualities of love, Expired offers searing insight into the complex mechanisms that obstruct human intimacy.

USA

2007

Director:

Cecilia Miniucchi

Producers:

Jeffrey Coulter

Fred Roos

Antoni Stutz

Holley Heitz

Jason Rose

Screenwriter:

Cecilia Miniucchi

Cinematographer:

Zoran Popovic

Film Editor:

Fritz Feick

Music:

Jeffrey Coulter

Cast:

Samantha Morton

Jason Patric

Teri Garr

Illeana Douglas

Running Time:

110 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Expired LLC

Selected

Filmography:

Nitsch 1998 (1999)

Selena Remembered (1997)

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Lovely By Surprise

The Memory Thief

World Premiere

The fantastic, disarmingly fresh feature Lovely By Surprise started out as a series of short films that were broadcast online as “webisodes.” Interrelated to another webisode series, The Neverything, about two brothers living out their absurdist existence on a landlocked boat, their only sustenance supplied by inexplicable milk deliveries, Lovely By Surprise follows Marian, the author writing the story of the two brothers, who’s suddenly been stuck with a bout of writer’s block. Or is it just that the brothers she’s created are tired of having their destiny dictated for them? Marian, played by a terrific Carrie Preston, senses her creativity spinning out of control and turns to Jackson, her old teacher and former lover, for advice. (Take it as a sign of the film’s individual charm that this assured, intelligent and scrappily sexy role is marvelously essayed by the perennially geeky Austin Pendleton.) As Marian lays out the struggles with her novel for Jackson, he’s able to read past the page and diagnose the condition of the author. Propelled along by a breezily melancholy score, this quirky story about what happens when our creative expression takes over our lives is smart, sharp and all the more funny for its deadpan acceptance of life’s refusal to stick to the fictions you try to impose.

USA 2007

Director:

Kirt Gunn

Producers:

Kirt Gunn

Michael Hilliard

Marco Londoner

Screenwriter: Kirt Gunn

Cinematographer:

Steve Yedlin

Film Editor:

Jim Helton

Cast:

Carrie Preston

Austin Pendleton

Reg Rogers

Michael Chernus

Kate Burton

Lena Lamer

Dallas Roberts

Running Time:

93 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source:

Housegoat Productions

Film Website: lovelybysurprise.com

In Gil Kofman’s remarkable first feature, Lukas (Mark Webber) is a bit of a loner. He works his tollbooth job in a daze, connecting with people only through short, monetary transactions. When a neo-Nazi throws a copy of Mein Kampf at him, he starts to read it as though it’s a supermarket paperback. Later, a Holocaust survivor passes through his line and is offended that he would publicly read such a loaded book, and the next day hands him a videotape. On it is his personal testimony about surviving the concentration camps in World War II. Instead of just befriending the man, Lukas becomes obsessed with the Holocaust. He studies it religiously, absorbing the horror of it as though it’s his own history, to the point where he starts to wear a yellow star at his job, gives his gay coworker a pink triangle and bans Volkswagens from his lane. Meanwhile, he’s met a nice Jewish girl (Rachel Miner) while visiting his sick mom in the hospital, and pretty soon he’s grilling her and her family about Jewish history and the Holocaust. In this mesmerizing psychological thriller, Lukas tests the limits of empathy. Others have compared him to Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver and that’s not a far stretch, as they are both individuals looking for acceptance in a civilized world that they don’t quite understand. Kofman never provides an explanation for the behavior, which makes this disturbing, perceptive film that much more intriguing.

USA

2007

Director:

Gil Kofman

Producer:

Amy Ziering

Screenwriter:

Gil Kofman

Cinematographer:

Richard Rutkowski

Film Editor: Curtiss Clayton

Music: Ted Reichman

Cast:

Mark Webber

Rachel Miner

Jerry Adler

Allan Rich

Douglas Spain

Peter Jacobsen

Running Time:

95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Stark Raving Films

Film Website: memorythiefmovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

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One Day Like Rain

World Premiere

One of Our Own

World Premiere

Donnie Darko meets Ghost World, with a little bit of Twin Peaks thrown in for good measure. Suburban malaise is the jumping-off point for this tale of two teen girls and their plan to change the world. Gina and Jennifer hang out on summer days while Gina’s parents are out of town. Boredom leads them into odd conversations and spontaneous songs. When they’re not breaking into the pool or going to parties, Gina is experimenting with a chemistry set she impulsively bought at the local hobby store. As it turns out, these experiments are having a profound and mystical effect on the world at large. Soon enough, dreamlike tangents and surreal touches are mixing into the storyline. Is she hastening a change in the world for the better, or will there be negative repercussions to what she’s doing? And what’s up with the aliens walking through the desert? Director Paul Todisco (Freak Talks About Sex, SIFF ’99) has written a strange and metaphysical tale about a world that’s just a little bit different than the one we live in, which he directs with a mature confidence. Surreal touches are combined with beautiful shots and strong compositions. Everything comes together by the end but nothing is spelled out, leaving you pleasantly confused.

Preceded by:

The Job USA, 2007, 4 minutes, director: Jonathan Browning A pick-up truck blasting mariachi music causes a riot in a business parking lot.

USA

2007

Director:

Paul Todisco

Producers:

Jeff Beard

Paul Todisco

Chris Aronoff

Screenwriter:

Paul Todisco

Cinematographer:

Douglas W. Shannon

Film Editor:

Steven Sprung

Cast:

Samantha Figura

Marina Resa

Jesse Eisenberg

Trevor Zacharias

Dalton Leeb

Running Time: 87 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source: Life on Mars Productions, LLC

Selected

Filmography:

Freak Talks About Sex (1999)

Upon discovering that they are unable to conceive, a thirty something couple enlists the aid of a young woman willing to be a surrogate and bring their baby to term. This happy solution to infertility proves short-lived however, when the young woman meets up with the man’s boss and the two fall in love. A slow-burn battle of wills ensues between the couple desperate to become parents and a man eager himself to be a father to the child born to the woman he loves. One of Our Own’s intensely gifted cast—Josh Randall, Claire Rankin, Matthew Lillard and Kate Beahan—hit every note spot on in a seriocomic, ironic and twisting tale of family planning gone horribly wrong. Cowriter and director Abe Levy, whose previous feature The Aviary was famously filmed at various locations around the world despite its shoestring budget, proves equally adept at capturing the dynamics in an intimate domestic setting. A lifelong Sonoma County resident, Levy is one of the fabled ‘Wild Bunch,’ a group of current up and coming North Bay filmmakers in the independent film Mecca started by cinema legends Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. These young cinematic mavericks often work on each other’s films and have helped turn the North Bay area into a second Hollywood.

USA

2007

Director:

Abe Levy

Producers:

Silver Tree

Jack Robinson

Terry Chase Chenowith

Matthew Lillard

Screenwriters:

Abe Levy

Silver Tree

Cinematographer:

Brandon Trost

Editor:

Abe Levy

Music:

Eric Holland

Cast:

Josh Randall

Claire Rankin

Matthew Lillard

Kate Beahan

Running Time:

92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Wild Horses

Productions

Selected

Filmography:

The Aviary (2005)

It’s Alright Ma (I’m

Only Trying) (2000) Max, 13 (1999)

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Out at the Wedding

Shotgun Stories

World Premiere

This quirky comedy focuses on Alex Huston, who couldn’t be happier when her boyfriend Dana asks her to marry him. She adores him and his parents and they adore her. The only problem is they believe her entire family is dead, a little white lie Alex spread out of fear that her uptight Southern family wouldn’t accept her African-American boyfriend. When Alex’s gay friend Jonathan whisks her away to her sister Jeannie’s wedding, the groom’s high school pal mistakenly identifies Alex as a lesbian. Word travels through the wedding, and soon Alex’s entire family believes that the mysterious Dana to whom she’s engaged is a woman. An attempt at explaining the confusion misfires when Jeannie tearfully accuses Alex of sabotaging her happy day, so for little sister’s sake Alex backtracks and “comes out.” Adding to the chaos, Jonathan helps Alex come up with a scheme to fool her sister into thinking that being gay was “just a phase,” hiring a lesbian to stand in as “Dana” while her sister visits. When everyone—gay, straight, black, white, fake lesbians, curious gals, parents, newlyweds and our own happy couple—converge on Alex’s New York apartment, the doors slam and the mix-ups and mishaps fly as smartly as any great farce.

USA

2006

Director:

Lee Friedlander

Producers:

Gina G. Goff

Laura A. Kellam

Screenwriter:

Paula Goldberg

Cinematographer:

Alex Vendler

Film Editor:

Christian White

Music:

Laura Karpman

Cast:

Andrea Marcellus

Desi Lydic

Charlie Schlatter

Mike Farrell

Mink Stole

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source:

Goff-Kellam

Productions

Film Website: outatthewedding.com

Selected

Filmography:

Girl Play (2004)

Wasabi Tuna (2003)

A modern spin on Crime and Punishment, Little Rock native Jeff Nichols’ first film is a pointblank blast of American rage played out with the inevitability of a Greek tragedy. Precisely modulated yet cumulatively explosive, the film centers on a rural family feud turned deadly. Set in a sleepy southeast Arkansas town—the kind of place where people know who you are from the sound of your vehicle—the film relates the saga of the spawn of the recently deceased Cleaman Haynes. His three layabout elder sons, known only as ‘Son,’ ‘Kid,’ and ‘Boy,’ have had no contact with their father since he abandoned them in their childhood, after which he produced four somewhat more enterprising boys by a second marriage. When he dies, bottled-up conflicts break out between the tribe and creates a spiral of deadly violence. Shotgun Stories is simultaneously a family drama and a cautionary tale about the futility of revenge, which here attains biblical proportions and is imbued with the undertow of quiet deadliness found in the work of that other southern master of rural rhythms (and one of this film’s producers), David Gordon Green. The narrative operates in its own private, lawless sphere, with its finely delineated characters each working from their own inevitable logic to ratchet up the tension to almost unbearable levels, right up to the surprise ending. With uniformly excellent performances, handsome widescreen cinematography and a pungent score by Ben Nichols and his band, Lucero, Nichols has delivered one of the year’s most consummately impressive debuts in American independent cinema. (ages 16 and up)

USA

2007

Director:

Jeff Nichols

Producers:

David Gordon Green

Lisa Muskat

Jeff Nichols

Todd Williams

Screenwriter:

Jeff Nichols

Cinematographer: Adam Stone

Film Editor: Steven Gonzales

Music:

Ben Nichols

Lucero Pyramid

Cast: Michael Shannon

Douglas Ligon

Barlow Jacobs

Natalie Canerday

Michael Abbott Jr.

Running Time:

92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

CAA (US) Coach 14 (International)

Print Source:

Upload Films

Film Website:

shotgunstories.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit

Walk the Talk

World Premiere

Seann William Scott has long been a fixture in such raunchy comedies as Road Trip, Dude, Where’s My Car? and the American Pie films, showing a flair for playing the very entertaining but also very obnoxious jerk. Things haven’t changed much in Trainwreck: My Life As An Idoit, though this time his character is at least seeking to better himself. Despite being raised in privilege, Jeff has recently fallen on hard times; but now he’s ready to put his alcoholism, attention-deficit disorder, Tourette’s syndrome, balance impairment and learning disabilities behind him and stand on his own two feet without the benefit of a blank check from his mother. (Though it’s always there if he needs it.) As Jeff attends various Alcoholics Anonymous meetings around New York City, he recounts his most recent spectacular, hilarious failure. At one such meeting he comes to the attention of Lynn (Gretchen Mol), a gold-digging trophy wife who becomes smitten with Jeff despite his obvious ineptitude. Needless to say their courtship is not a smooth one, and must endure a scatological first date, repossessed jewelry, Jeff’s desire for a life at sea and, oh yes, Lynn’s husband. All prompting the eternal question, can such intelligence-challenged love ever really triumph?

In Jeff, writer/director Tod Harrison Williams and Scott have created a well-intentioned but disastrously destined character who manages to simultaneously endear himself to the audience while causing them to cringe at his every humiliating, funny blunder.

USA 2007

Director:

Tod Harrison Williams

Producers:

Anne Carey

Robert Delp

Screenwriter:

Tod Harrison Williams

Cinematographer:

Michael Simmonds

Film Editor:

Affonso Gonçalves

Music:

Marcelo Zarvos

Cast:

Seann William Scott

Gretchen Mol

Jeff Garlin

Paul Scheer

Running Time:

93 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HD Cam

Print Source:

This is That

After accidentally shooting his older brother, self-destructive teenager Roy (Evan Ellingson) is paroled into the care of his uncle Erik (Cary Elwes), a successful self-help guru with a seemingly picture-perfect life. Having grown up in a world of hardship, neglect and abuse, Roy is a fish out of water in the hyper-achieving household of overly optimistic Erik, his wife Jill (Illeana Douglas), daughter Jessie and son Cam. Their morning workouts and motivational exercises seem ridiculous to the rebellious teen, but Erik is certain his methods can rehabilitate the delinquent into a positive, functioning person. He persists in engaging Roy in “dialoguing” and “fear confrontations,” while the beautiful Jessie takes a softer approach to open him up. The arrival of this irreverent houseguest coincides with that of a reporter profiling the famed motivational speaker for a big story in the paper, and the simultaneous challenges strains the family’s façade of perfection, pushing Erik to the brink of implosion. As Roy’s past traumas are revealed, so are Erik’s hypocrisies, doubts and fears. Written and directed by Matthew Allen, Walk the Talk is a poignant and hilarious satire on pop psychology and traditional family values as well as a moving story of connection and finding personal integrity.

USA/Sweden 2007

Director:

Matthew Allen

Producers:

Joakim Hansson

Marco Henry

John Limotte

Screenwriter:

Matthew Allen

Cinematographer:

Terrence Hayes

Film Editor: Michael Palmerio

Music:

Eagle Eye Cherry

Cast:

Illeana Douglass

Cary Elwes

Evan Ellingson

Katie Cassidy

Chris Pratt

Running Time:

105 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

Sonet Films

Print Source:

Sonet Films

Film Website: www.sonetfilm.se

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Documentary filmmaking has really come into its own in recent years, and the breadth of stories and creative adventurousness of filmmaking continues to increase.

SIFF is proud to present 12 films from around the world in this year’s documentary competition. These dozen journeys illuminate a wide range of subjects and take varying stylistic approaches in shaping these experiences. From small stories to global issues, the films included represent a diverse cross-section of people and stories in our global neighborhood, as well as presenting a range of cinematic perspectives that is just as diverse. Personal, social, cultural and political investigations open our eyes to an expanded view of the world. They show us, challenge us, remind us, inspire us. SIFF champions the work of these lensers of life who continue to cross boundaries and reach new heights.

Documentary competition

JURY

Emily Woodburne is the director of theatrical sales for IFC First Take, a newly created label that acquires and distributes 24 films per year, releases them nationwide and simultaneously offers them on-demand. Before joining IFC, Emily worked as the head of theatrical sales and marketing for Zeitgeist Films. Woodburne attended University of Puget Sound and was a SIFF volunteer in 1997 and 1998.

Sarah Finklea currently handles theatrical booking and television sales for Janus Films. Prior to Janus Films, she worked as non-theatrical booker for Cowboy Pictures (overseeing the Janus and Pennebaker libraries). She started at Beacon Cinema Group, an independent programming agency in Boston, and has also worked for theaters and the Boston Women’s International and Provincetown International Film Festivals.

Ella Taylor is a film critic at the L.A. Weekly, member of the national Society of Film Critics and co-host of a weekly radio broadcast, Filmweek, for Southern California’s KPCC. She has served as a juror for numerous film festivals, and was a member of the foreign film Nominating Committee for the 2006 Independent Spirit Awards.

FILMS

Angels in the Dust (USA, 2006) page 241

Directed by Louise Hogarth

Bajo Juarez, the City Devouring its Daughters (Mexico, 2007) page 242

Directed by Alejandra Sánchez and José Antonio Cordero

The Champagne Spy (Israel/Germany, 2007) page 245

Directed by Nadav Schirman

Children of the War (USA/United Kingdom, 2007) page 245

Directed by Alexandre Fuchs, Jeremy Fourteau and Samantha Belmont

The Devil Came on Horseback (USA, 2007) page 247

Directed by Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern

The Fever of ‘57 (USA, 2007) page 248

Directed by David Hoffman

Journey Home: A Story from the

Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (Hungary, 2007) page 252

Directed by Réka Pigniczky

Miss Gulag (USA, 2007) page 255

Directed by Maria Yatskova

Nömadak Tx (Spain, 2007) page 99

Directed by Harkaitz Martinez and Igor Otxoa

Out of Time (Austria, 2006) page 257

Directed by Harald Friedl

The Price of Sugar (USA, 2007) page 258

Directed by Bill Haney

Protagonist (USA 2007) page 259

Directed by Jessica Yu

Abderrahmane Sissako

Born in mauritania in 1961, aberrahmane Sissako lived in exile with his family in mali until he earned scholarship to moscow’s Institute for Cinema in 1982. His early shorts and first feature, Okytabr, were well greeted, but it was his quixotic, patient 1998 documentary Rostov-Luanda that announced what a remarkable new talent he was. Life on Earth, his contribution to the 2000 Seen By project, received much praise for its unaffected naturalism, as did 2002’s Waiting for Happiness Both films received awards, the latter for “its exquisite poetic depiction of the emotional and humorous complications that can arise in the midst of a simple life”.

Eytan Fox

eytan Fox’s career has been a happy instance of outspoken filmmaking receiving enthusiastic audiences. Born in new York but raised in Israel from the age of two, Fox finished his military service to enter Tel aviv University’s School of Film and Television; his graduation film, 1990’s Time Off, won first prize in munich ‘s International Student Film Festival. Song of the Siren, his debut feature, proved Israel’s biggest hit of 1994, and his popular and critical acclaim continued with the gaythemed television drama Florentine Fox’s humane yet pointed examinations of Israel’s relationship to militarism, history and homosexuality continued with the multiple award winners Yossi & Jagger (2003) and Walk on Water (2004). The Bubble continues his winning streak.

Olivier Dahan

Born in 1967, olivier dahan graduated from the acclaimed esbam (marseille art school) in 1991 with a painting degree. Freres: La Roulette Rouge gained some notice upon its 1994 television broadcast, but it was the excesses—nasty, over-the-top but never out of control—of dahan’s 1998 noir Deja Mort that raised eyebrows and interest. Tom Thumb (2001) was a genuine oddity, a horror movie for kiddies, and dahan surprised again the following year with Ghost River, the story of a mentally ill prostitute. dahan’s critical acclaim is rising even higher with his radiant salute to edith Piaf, 2007’s La Vie en Rose.

Rafi Pitts

Born in Iran in 1967, rafi Pitts left for england at the breakout of the Iraq-Iran war. He presented his first short film, In Exile, at the 1991 london Film Festival, then spent some years in France before shooting his second in moscow. Pitts’s first features, Season Five (1997) and Sanam (1999), were Iranian, in locale and mood; both proved festival favorites and the deserved recipients of several awards. Then came new York, and 2003’s Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty, a much-praised portrait of the maverick filmmaker. Pitt’s lifetime of wandering keeps leading him back home, and It’s Winter magisterially restores him to the heights of Iranian cinema.

Each year the Seattle International Film Festival selects four directors from around the globe who have, in just a few short years, marked themselves as cinematic masters, visionaries whose films speak with an original voice and display a grasp of the craft that makes them stand out from their contemporaries.

These directors are just hitting their stride, fulfilling their early promise, artists of the highest order who will break into the mainstream of american filmgoers’ consciousness in the near future—if not tomorrow.

Past honorees have included Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), miike Takashi (Audition), michael Winterbottom (Welcome to Sarajevo), François ozon (8 Women),

Ferzan ozpetek (Facing Window), Wang Xiao-shuai (Shanghai Dreams), Susanne Bier (Brothers), Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole) and Pen-ek ratanaruang (Last Life in the Universe).

This year’s quartet spans cultures, styles, and filmic sensibility: the intimate portraits of women from French director olivier dahan (La vie promise, La vie en rose); the elegant dramas of Iranian rafi Pitts (Season Five, It’s Winter); the powerful storytelling of abderrahmane Sissako (Bamako, Waiting For Happiness), and the queer sensibility of Israeli director eytan Fox (The Bubble, Yossi & Jagger).

ISRAEL

Eytan Fox

The Bubble (2006)

Yossi & Jagger (1997)

MAURITANIA

Abderrahmane Sissko

Bamako (2006)

Waiting for Happiness (2002)

FRANCE

Olivier Dahan

La vie en rose (2007)

La vie promise (2003)

IRAN Rafi Pitts

It’s Winter (2006)

Season Five (1997)

La vie promise

La vie en rose

La Môme

Sylvia (Isabelle Huppert) is an aging prostitute working the streets of Nice, living a life based on anonymity, with one vital exception: her abandoned, teenage daughter Laurence (Maud Forget) persistently attempts to reconcile with her, only to be repulsed by harsh bouts of verbal abuse. Despite Sylvia’s indifference, Laurence seeks her out one fateful night, only to find her mother being roughed up by two johns. In the ensuing melee, one of them is killed. To avoid the police, Sylvia reluctantly flees Nice with Laurence in tow, but her consistently cold demeanor on the road soon causes Laurence to run off alone. Reunited though a fellow fugitive, Joshua (Pascal Greggory), they make a painful, poignant journey together into Sylvia’s past. The three characters soon discover that traveling La vie promise is an interlaced series of routes between hope, frustration and desire. Throughout her career, Isabelle Huppert has never shied from playing difficult, demanding roles; for proof, look no further than her portrayal of Madame Bovary, or Erika Kohut in The Piano Teacher (SIFF 2002). She seems naturally gifted with the ability to convey the most complex emotions with the simplest of means, and in La vie promise these gifts are on formidable display. As Sylvia, she adds another incredibly nuanced performance to her impressive filmography.

France 2003

Director:

Olivier Dahan

Producer:

Eric Névé

Screenwriters:

Olivier Dahan

Agnès Fustier-Dahan

Cinematographer:

Alex Lamarque

Film Editor:

Richard Marizy

Cast:

Isabelle Huppert

Pascal Greggory

Maud Forget

André Marcon

Fabienne Babe

Running Time: 94 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales: Wild Bunch

Print Source:

Empire Pictures

Film Website: www.bacfilms.com/ site/promise

Selected

Filmography:

La vie en rose (2007)

Crimson Rivers

2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

Tom Thumb (2001)

A musical biopic that can take its place with pride alongside such recent box office smashes as Ray and Walk the Line, La vie en rose is the story of Edith Piaf (1915–1963), who conveyed French identity to the rest of the world as no other singer before or after her. Known internationally as “the little sparrow,” her private life was marked by enough hard knocks to fell a titan. Yet, somehow, this mere wisp of a woman used her personal traumas to fuel her art. Raised in a brothel, Piaf went blind between the ages of three and seven. She later went to live with her alcoholic father, leaving him at just 14 to sing on the streets of Paris. Suspected of having murdered the impresario who gave her her first professional break, Louis Lepleé (Gérard Depardieu), her passionate affairs and friendships with famous contemporaries such as Yves Montand, Marlene Dietrich and world boxing champ Marcel Cerdan (the love of her life) kept her in the public eye. Director Olivier Dahan weaves known incidents from Piaf’s personal and professional trajectory into a rich, rounded celluloid mosaic, climaxing in a bravura performance of Piaf’s signature song, “Je ne regrette rien.” The period re-creations are beautifully mounted, but the film’s chief triumph is the blazing central performance of Marion Cotillard, who stunningly conveys Piaf from age 20 to her death as a ravaged 47-year old, with the songbird’s trademark hunched posture and raspy voice as well as her core of eternal hurt melded with fierce pride.

France/Czech Republic/UK

2006

Director:

Olivier Dahan

Producer:

Alain Goldman

Screenwriters:

Olivier Dahan

Isabelle Sobelman

Cinematographer:

Tetsuo Nagata

Film Editor:

Richard Marizy

Music:

Christopher Gunning

Cast:

Marion Cotillard

Gérard Depardieu

Clotilde Courau

Emmanuelle Seigner

Pascal Greggory

Running Time:

140 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

TF1 International

Print Source:

PictureHouse

Selected

Filmography:

Crimson Rivers

2: Angels of the Apocalypse (2004)

La vie promise (2002)

Tom Thumb (2001)

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Yossi & Jagger

The Bubble

Habuah

Two soldiers, posted to a remote Israeli military outpost on the Lebanese border, find themselves drawn to one another amid the life they live on a tedious tour of duty. Playful squad leader Jagger and his company commander Yossi couldn’t be more different from one another: the former’s extroverted, rock-star insouciance is attested to by his nickname, while Yossi’s tight-lipped, button-down caution dictates his every action. But opposites invariably attract, and the two men steal what time they can away from the troops passionately embracing in the woods. Jagger’s military service is about to come to an end, and he tries to convince Yossi that he, too, should leave the military, overlooking the clear marks Yossi carries of a born lifer. The two manage to keep their romance a secret from the other members of their motley unit, but while their relationship holds its own dangers amid the military setting, the backdrop of barely submerged tension in the dangerous border post is punctuated by nightly ambushes and sudden unexpected violence. Despite some official harrumphing and a contemptuous disavowal from the IDF, this moving, fact-based gay love story was a huge, unexpected hit in its native country where it attracted a large following beyond its presumed minority audience, and confirmed Eytan Fox as a preternaturally gifted and unapologetically challenging filmmaker.

Israel 2002

Director:

Eytan Fox

Producers:

Amir Harel

Gal Uchovsky

Screenwriter: Avner Bernheimer

Cinematographer:

Yaron Sharf

Film Editor:

Yosef Grunfeld

Music:

Ivri Lider

Cast:

Yehuda Levi

Ohad Knoller

Assi Cohen

Aia Steinovits-Koren

Running Time: 65 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: Fortissimo Film Sales

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website: yossiandjagger.com

Selected

Filmography: Song of the Siren (1994)

Eytan Fox is one of Israel’s most daring and interesting young filmmakers. His new movie, The Bubble, is a taboo-busting, hysterically funny and impossibly tragic love story. Three Israeli twentysomethings share an apartment on ultracool Sheinkin Street, smack in the heart of Tel Aviv’s hippest neighborhood. This cosmopolitan trio doesn’t have a political care in the world, in spite of the fact that occupied Palestine is only blocks away. Their days and nights are spent in typical slacker fashion: hanging out in cafes or alternative record shops, or just kicking back and getting laid. While they don’t care about the country’s problems or the conflicts of the Middle East, they do take care not to sit by any windows. The Bubble is a term used by Israelis to describe life in Tel Aviv, and these three are certainly living in one until Noam falls madly in love with Ashraf, a Palestinian guy that he meets while on his reserve duty at a West Bank checkpoint. Ashraf escapes from the harsh realities of his own life and shows up at the apartment. The naive trio decides to illegally hide him and make him a part of their energetic city life – inside their bubble. Soon, the violence of the outside world envelops this bubble and the happy young people are introduced to a bitter, tragic irony. Fox pulls no punches in his best film yet, arguing that true happiness is a luxury only for those Jews and Muslims able to get out of Israel.

Israel 2006

Director:

Eytan Fox

Producers:

Gal Uchovsky

Ronen Ben Tal

Amir Feingold

Screenwriters:

Gal Uchovsky

Eytan Fox

Cinematographer: Yaron Scharf

Film Editors: Yosef Grunfeld

Yaniv Raiz

Music:

Ivri Lider

Cast:

Ohad Knoller

Yousef ‘Joe’ Sweid

Daniela Wircer

Alon Friedmann

Running Time: 117 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hebrew and Arabic, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Scalpel Films

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website: thebubble.msn.co.il

Selected

Filmography:

Walk on Water (2004) Yossi & Jagger (2003)

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Season Five

It’s Winter Zemestan

Two families in an isolated Iranian village, the Jamalvandis and the Kamalvandis, have been enemies for so long they cannot even remember the original reason for the feud. Hope for reconciliation raises its head when a marriage is arranged between the Kamalvandi scion Karamat and Mehrbanou, daughter of the Jamalvandis. But this is no Farsi Romeo and Juliet: the bride-to-be has reasons far from romantic for agreeing to the union. However, things go awry at the wedding and all hell breaks loose as a fight breaks out, the groom disappears and the bride’s grandfather has a stroke and dies. Some days later, Karamat turns up in the village with a brand new minibus and starts a bus service into the nearest big town. But discord breaks out again when Mehrbanou decides to do the same, and the rivalry escalates as the two compete for trade along the perilous route. One day the buses do not return, and it is feared that all the passengers and Karamat have perished, which forces Mehrbanou to reassess her true feelings towards her ex-fiancé. The son of an English father and an Iranian mother, the Parisbased Pitts (who trained with Jacques Doillon and was Assistant Director on Les Amants du Pont Neuf) opts for a light tone, using humor to highlight the absurdity of the situation; this is a consummately entertaining film, displaying a talent for effective story telling while centering on the feeling and emotion of his characters. Pitts develops a strong, rare and beautiful characterization in the heroine, and very colorfully captures the details of the villagers’ daily lives, all the while marshalling his tale of ancient acrimony towards an upbeat yet surprising and unsentimental ending.

Iran/France 1997

Director:

Rafi Pitts

Producer:

Randy Cheveldave

Screenwriter: Rafi Pitts

Bahram Beizai

Cinematographer:

Nemat Haghighi

Cast:

Roya Nonahali

Ali Sarkhani

Parvis Pourhosseini

Ghorban Nadjafi

Golub Adineh

Running Time:

80 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Mongrel Media

Selected

Filmography:

It’s Winter (2006)

Sanam (1999)

In an impoverished, snow-covered town south of Tehran, an unemployed husband has had enough of waiting and announces to his wife Khatoun that he’s heading abroad to look for work. Left to care for their daughter, Khatoun toils along as a seamstress in a factory. Her beauty and solitude haven’t gone unnoticed; charismatic mechanic Marhab is soon delicately pursuing her, though his every advance is rebuffed with the expected modesty. After months have passed and her husband is presumed dead, Khatoun reweighs her options and finds reconsidering Marhab’s affections a sadly pragmatic option. He’s timidly ecstatic, but by the next winter will he, too, want to pack his bags and look for work outside Iran? Taking its plot from a novel but inspired in tone and structure by a seasonal poem, It’s Winter possesses the circularity and inevitability of a ballad, its beautifully shot, saturated hues of blue and gray adding melancholy overtones to the roundelay insurmountable conditions have forced these people to sing. Writer and director Rafi Pitts fashions a spare, elegant tribute to the current Iranian working-class generation, torn between wanting to leave its country for survival and honoring the blood bond they feel to home. In such a dilemma no option proves ideal.

Iran 2006

Director:

Rafi Pitts

Producer: Shahnam Shabazedah

Screenwriter: Rafi Pitts

Cinematographer: Mohammad Davoodi

Film Editor: Hassan Hassandoost

Music:

Hossein Alizadeh

Mohammad Reza

Shajarian

Cast:

Mitra Hadjar

Ali Nicksolat

Hashem Abdi

Saeed Orkani

Zahra Jafari

Naser Madahi

Running Time:

86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Farsi, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Celluloid Dreams

Selected

Filmography:

Abel Ferrara: Not

Guilty (2003)

Sanam (1999)

Season Five (1997)

Awards: Palm Springs 2007 (Jury Prize)

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Waiting for Happiness

Heremakono

Bamako

In his 2002 film Waiting for Happiness, Emerging Master Abderrahmane Sissako creates a film tapestry in which a wonderful array of personal stories intersect over the course of a young boy’s visit to a small seaside town. The film follows 17-year old Abdallah as he visits his mother to say good-bye before leaving for Europe, never intending to return. However, his stay is complicated by the local dialect, which he cannot comprehend. Over the course of his visit Abdallah wanders through the small town, often in the company of a younger boy who, when not acting as a guide, helps a local electrician in his attempt to illuminate the town with electricity one bulb at a time. Before Abdallah’s eyes a variety of scenes and anecdotes play out: a group of lost tourists puzzle over when they’ll arrive at their destination, a Chinese man serenades his girlfriend in a karaoke bar and a woman teaches traditional songs to a young girl. Abdallah, as silent observer, ponders it all, guiding the audience’s gaze with his every step. What emerges is a meditation on the most common elements of human nature: exile and belonging, tradition and modernity, waiting and leaving. Accompanied by a brilliant use of sound—sea, wind, song—Sissako’s exquisite film masterfully communicates a full-bodied, singular vision.

France/ Mauritania 2002

Director:

Abderrahmane Sissako

Producer: Guillame de Seille

Screenwriter: Abderrahmane Sissako

Cinematographer:

Jacques Besse

Film Editor:

Nadia Ben Rachid

Music:

Anouar Brahem

Oumou Sangaré

Cast:

Khatra Ould Abdel Kader

Maata Ould Abeid

Mohamed Mahmoud

Ould Mohamed

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French and Hassanya, with English subtitles

International Sales: Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

New Yorker Films

Selected

Filmography:

Bamako (2006)

Life on Earth (1998)

Rostov-Luanda (1997) Octobre (1993)

Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work, and the resultant strain has placed the couple on the verge of breaking up. They need only look out their front door to find their anxieties reflected and magnified, for in the courtyard of the house they share with other families a trial court has been set up to weigh the influence of Western powers—international financial institutions like the IMF and World Bank—over the lives of ordinary Africans. With only a few films to his name, writer-director Abderrahmane Sissako (Life on Earth, Waiting for Happiness) has become one of Africa’s leading voices. His latest is set not just in his hometown of Bamako (the capital of Mali) but the very house once owned by his late father. “For me,” Sissako has written, “this house is associated with the memory of passionate discussions with my father about Africa.” Sissako honors that memory by casting his film with real life lawyers and witnesses, encouraged to improvise their accusations and defenses; thus, every argument and counterargument bristles with conviction. By tending so carefully to the tradition handed down by his father, Sissako manages to create a film that is thick with public debate while still maintaining an intimate, highly personal tone. Which is just one of many beautiful and compelling juxtapositions—documentary and fiction, oral culture and silence, realism and surrealism—he interweaves to create a passionate and essential statement on Africa’s need to determine itself.

Mali/France/ Mauritania

2006

Director:

Abderrahmane Sissako

Producers: Denis Freyd

Abderrahmane Sissako

Screenwriter: Abderrahmane Sissako

Cinematographer: Jacques Besse

Film Editor: Nadia Ben Rachid

Cast:

Aïssa Maïga

Tiécoura Traoré

Hélène Diarra

Habib Dembélé

Djénéba Koné

Hamadoun Kassogué

Danny Glover

Elia Suleiman

Zeka Laplaine

Samba Diakité

Aminata Traoré

Running Time:

115 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in French and Bambara, with English

subtitles

International Sales: Les Films du Losange

Print Source: New Yorker Films

Film Website: www.bamako-film.com

Selected Filmography: Waiting for Happiness (2002)

La Vie sur terre (1998) Rostov-Luanda (1997) Sabriya (1996) Octobre (1993)

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The 2006 academy award for Best foreign film win for The Lives of Others only affirmed what many cinephiles already knew: the next big wave of german films has hit. Big. this year’s spotlight showcases fifteen new german films directed by both emerging talents and established masters of the last wave. they are all ones to watch. Bulent akinci’s funny, tragic and existential feature debut, Running On Empty, stars the brilliant Jens harzer as an insurance agent who desperately embarks on an obsessive year-long autobahn odyssey to close as many insurance deals as possible. two terrific performances in the compelling Four Minutes helped second time director chris Kraus win Best feature at the 9th shanghai international film festival. director ann-Kristin reyels won the fiPresci award at this

years Berlinale for Hounds, a hilariously funny tale of adolescent puppy love and family dysfunction in wintry rural germany.taking a different tack entirely, director martin Weisz has mounted an austere and chillingly matter-of-fact piece of storytelling with his award winning Grimm Love, the shockingly true— and strangely romantic—tale of a notorious german cannibal. established master volker schlöndorff finds renewed inspiration in the true stories of overlooked heroes in Strike, the creation of the Poland solidarity movement as told through the story of a poor woman who, despite being a simple welder, was able ignite an international movement through sheer determination. add local psych band Kinski performing a live film score to the 1927 german classic Berlin: Symphony of a City, and you have a broad look at a cinema in its strength.

FILMS

Director: Walter Ruttman

Berlin: Symphony of a City page 83 (Germany, 1927)

The Cloud (Germany, 2006)

Director: Gregor Schnitzler

Emma’s Bliss (Germany, 2006)

Director: Sven Taddicken

Four Minutes (Germany, 2006)

Director: Chris Kraus

French For Beginners (Germany/France, 2006)

Director: Christian Ditter

A Friend of Mine (Germany, 2006)

Director: Sebastian Schipper

Grave Decisions (Germany, 2006)

Director: Marcus H. Rosenmüller

german spotlight

Grimm Love (Germany/USA, 2006)

Director: Martin Weisz

Hounds (Germany, 2007)

Director: Ann-Kristin Reyels

How To Cook Your Life page 249 (Germany, 2006)

Director: Doris Dörrie

Running on Empty (Germany, 2006)

Director: Bülent Akinci

Strike (Germany/Poland, 2006)

Director: Volker Schlöndorff

Summer 04 (Germany, 2006)

Director: Stefan Krohmer

Vacation (Germany, 2007)

Director: Thomas Arslan

Yella (Germany, 2007)

Director: Christian Petzold

Four Minutes

Vier Minuten

saturday June 9 9:30 Pm siff cinema

monday June 11 4:30 Pm siff cinema

Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung, in a meteoric debut performance) is young but her life is already over. She murdered a man and she is serving time in jail. Brutalized by her past and her fellow inmates, she moves through her days shrouded in anger and silence. When Traude (Monica Bleibtreu), a Prussian woman who has been teaching piano to the inmates since World War II, brings in a new concert piano for her students, the precarious emotional balance of the prison shifts. Traude at first refuses to take on the fiercely rebellious girl as a pupil… until she hears her play. Traude enters this former child prodigy into a piano contest, thinking music can turn her life around. Her near-obsessive attachment to Jenny goes far beyond musical professionalism, however, becoming something much more fervid and intense as she tutors her to regain her considerable talents. A battle of wills develops between the self-destructive inmate and her strict, conservative teacher; a duel of life and love that rubs salt in the hidden wounds of the two women. Everything hangs in the balance when the dramatic details of both of their pasts threaten to be revealed. Featuring compositions by Mozart, Schumann, Beethoven, Schubert and a brilliant piece by contemporary composer Annette Focks, Four Minutes is packed with drama, thrills and explosive and lurid secrets. In the frenzied finale, Jenny has only the four minutes of her performance to achieve redemption no one, not even Traude, thought her capable of.

Germany 2006

Director:

Chris Kraus

Producers:

Meike Kordes

Alexandra Kordes

Screenwriter:

Chris Kraus

Cinematographer:

Judith Kaufmann

Film Editor:

Uta Schmidt

Music:

Annette Focks

Cast:

Monica Bleibtreu

Hannah Herzsprung

Sven Pippig

Richy Müller

Jasmin Tabatabai

Running Time: 112 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales: Beta Cinema

Print Source: Wolfe Video Releasing

Film Website: www.kordesfilm. de/en/film/6/

Selected

Filmography:

Shattered Glass (2002)

French For Beginners

Französisch für Anfänger

friday June 15 4:30 Pm lincoln square

sunday June 17 11:00 am Pacific Place cinemas

Henrik, who would absolutely die for a date with Valerie, finally gets his chance to at least talk to her. Affecting a style he has yet to master, Henrik coolly informs the object of his affections that he deplores all things French. It turns out that Valerie is half-French; in fact the whole reason for her visit to Henrik’s school is so that she can talk up a French-German student exchange program. Once Henrik get his foot out of his mouth he promptly signs on as an exchange student to prove himself a model of French/German relationships to the unimpressed Valerie. Suddenly Henrik finds himself in France, land that he loathes, tongue-tied and bumbling as he struggles over cultural barriers and his utter lack of French to win over one Gallic heart. What sets Christian Ditter’s laugh-out-loud hilarious French for Beginners apart from most teen romantic comedies is his refreshingly candid take on adolescent angst, which is affectionate without ever coming off as corny. Ditter allows his winning characters to be who they really are, even when they are trying to be someone that they are not. This is a bright new take on old-fashioned romanticism rather than a bunch of stupid kids plugged into potentially funny, sexy or gross-out situations that are randomly stitched together. With a pop-rock score to keep things hopping, French for Beginners scores with good taste, decency, and excellent manners–it’ll make you laugh and maybe steal your heart. (ages 15 and up)

Germany/ France

2006

Director:

Christian Ditter

Producer:

Christoph Menardi

Screenwriter:

Christian Ditter

Cinematographer:

Christian Rein

Film Editor: Patricia Rommel

Music: Philipp F. Kölmel

Cast:

François Göske

Paula Schramm

Lennard Bertzbach

Christian Tramitz

Running Time:

94 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, French, with English subtitles

International Sales: NEOS Film GmbH

Print Source: NEOS Film GmbH

Film Website: franzoesisch.film.de

A Friend of Mine

Ein Freund von mir North American Premiere

Wednesday may 30 4:15 Pm

thursday may 31 7:00 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

Pacific Place cinemas

Karl (Daniel Brühl) is a quiet man with a promising career at an insurance company, yet alienated in his life in general. In an effort to provoke a reaction, Karl’s boss assigns him to a project at a car rental firm, where he meets the proudly unambitious Hans (Jürgen Vogel), a man dedicated solely to extracting every thrill he can from life. When Hans senses Karl may be secretly unhappy, he decides Karl needs someone who can show him how to really have fun, practically invading Karl’s mundane life by starting up a bizarre friendship filled with adventure, unpredictability, recklessness and sensuality. The life Hans promotes involves flashy cars, driving naked on the autobahn in brand new Porsches, pretty girls and, more importantly, always having the right story for the right occasion. After one too many prank-filled nights Karl attempts to distance himself, only to discover that nothing’s that simple with Hans. When he says he’s your friend, he really, really means it. Really. Confirming the rise of an exciting younger generation of German filmmakers, A Friend of Mine is subtle, unpredictable and insightful. Best known as an actor, Sebastian Schipper’s sophomore directorial effort is both stylistically assured and player-centered. It is easy to like the people who populate the film’s universe, a slacker-sustained atmosphere that is full of little surprises.

Grave Decisions

Wer früher stirbt ist länger tot

sunday June 3 4:00 Pm

monday June 4 4:30 Pm

Germany 2006

Director:

Sebastian Schipper

Producers:

Maria Köpf

Tom Tykwer

Screenwriter:

Sebastian Schipper

Cinematographer:

Oliver Bokelberg

Film Editor:

Jeffery Marc Harkavy

Music:

Gravenhurst

Cast:

Daniel Brühl

Jürgen Vogel

Sabine Timoteo

Peter Kurth

Running Time:

84 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales: Telepool GmbH

Print Source: X Filme Creative Pool GmbH

Film Website: einfreundvonmir.de

Selected

Filmography:

Absolute Giganten (1999)

Pacific Place cinemas

Pacific Place cinemas

Grave Decisions is a lively look at a heavy subject. In Germany, the title translates as “The sooner you die, the longer you stay dead.” Imaginative 11-year old Sebastian became acquainted with death at an early age as his mother died shortly after his arrival. He always thought an accident claimed her, but when his older brother informs him that she died in childbirth, Sebastian is horrified. His father, who runs the tavern in their tiny Bavarian town, tries to convince him that it wasn’t his fault, but guilt sends him off on a journey of discovery. The tavern regulars give him conflicting information, so Sebastian tries to figure things out on his own. He soon learns that cats don’t really have nine lives and that dead rabbits can’t be brought back to life. Then, eccentric DJ Alfred, who works at the world’s coolest radio station, tells him that Jimi Hendrix is immortal, so Sebastian starts banging away on the guitar (hey, it’s easier than becoming a vampire). While he’s at it, he searches for a wife for his father. Next thing he knows, the entire village becomes ensnared in his quest for knowledge. And things will never be the same when all the plans he’s set into motion—concerning his father, his classmates and his teacher—collide one rainy night along the river. By the end of his inquiry into death, Sebastian will have learned just as much about life, love and destiny. (ages 15 and up)

Germany 2006

Director:

Marcus H. Rosenmüller

Producers:

Annie Brunner

Andreas Richter

Ursula Wörner

Screenwriters:

Christian Lerch

Marcus H. Rosenmüller

Cinematographer: Stefan Biebl

Film Editors:

Anja Pohl

Susanne Hartmann

Music:

Gerd Baumann

Cast: Markus Krojer

Jule Ronstedt

Fritz Karl

Jürgen Tonkel

Saskia Vester

Running Time: 102 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Beta Cinema

Print Source: Beta Cinema

Film Website: www.wer-frueherstirbt-ist-laenger-tot.de

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Grimm Love

Rohtenburg

sunday June 3 7:00 Pm

tuesday June 5 4:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Inspired by Germany’s infamous cannibal killing case, Grimm Love is a chilling parable that delves deep into the obsessions of three people whose destinies become intertwined. American Katie Armstrong (Keri Russell) is doing graduate work in Germany, researching the details of the case for her thesis. Through the course of her investigation, flashbacks illustrate the two men’s past. The victim, Simon Grombeck, is a self-loathing gay man who, despite a devoted lover, cannot escape the blame he feels for causing his mother’s suicide. His killer, Oliver Hartwin, comes from a similarly disturbed background, having been raised in a secluded home with a domineering, possessive mother who alienated her son from ordinary society. The two men make initial contact on a computer message board when Hartwin places an ad looking for a willing individual to be slaughtered; Gromback answers him, and the two agree to meet. Meanwhile, in the present, Katie learns that the long rumored videotape of their encounter exists, and makes plans to obtain it. Director Martin Weisz bases his story on found accounts of the murder, and then embellishes his story into a dark fairy-tale. Weisz does not shy away from the gruesome details, but his sharp psychological acuity coolly peels away levels of insight into all three characters’ seemingly incomprehensible motives. Like the young heroine from “Bluebeard,” Katie stares into the killing chamber, only to find villain and victim nearly indistinguishable.

Germany/USA

2006

Director:

Martin Weisz

Producers:

Marco Weber

Vanessa Coifman

Andreas Schmid

Screenwriter:

T.S Faull

Cinematographer:

Jonathan Sela

Film Editor: Sue Blainey

Music:

Steven Gutheinz

Cast:

Keri Russell

Thomas Kretschmann

Thomas Huber

Running Time: 87 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: Lightning

Entertainment

Print Source: Strand Releasing

Selected

Filmography: The Hills Have Eyes II (2007)

Hounds

Jagdhunde

US Premiere

tuesday may 29 2:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

monday June 4 7:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

A delicate story of teen romance sits alongside a dysfunctional family comedy in Hounds, the debut from director Ann-Kristin Reyels. At the center of the film’s pack of troubled characters sits 16-year old Lars, who lives together with his taciturn father on an old farmstead in a desolate corner of Germany. The pair, newcomers to the area, doesn’t connect with the locals, and when Lars’ dad commences an affair, the boy’s world of acquaintances contracts to utter solitude. One day, he meets Marie, a lovely mute girl he saves from being hassled by roughnecks, which wins her over completely, however much her gruff café proprietor father disapproves. Sparks really start to fly at a Christmas Eve dinner, at which awkwardness piles upon awkwardness into a Yuletide comedy of errors when Lars’ turbulent mother unexpectedly shows up with her boytoy lover. The holiday celebration turns into an emotional battlefield, forcing Lars (the charming Constantin von Jascheroff, outstanding in a cast of excellent naturalistic performers) and Marie to sneak off to their favorite lakeside haunt, unnoticed and unmissed. Hounds is a touching story of nearness and distance, of the fragile structure of families, its mood—skillfully evoked by this impressive new director—very much influenced by the wintry landscapes with their great expanses of emptiness. For all its humor and optimistic faith in young love, there’s the bite of loneliness in every image.

Awards: Berlin 2007 (FIPRESCI Prize)

Germany

2007

Director:

Ann-Kristin Reyels

Producers:

Susann Schimk

Jörg Trentmann

Screenwriters: Marek Helsner

Ann-Kristin Reyels

Cinematographer: Florian Foest

Film Editor: Halina Daugird

Music:

Henry Reyels

Cast: Constantin von Jascheroff

Josef Hader

Luise Berndt

Sven Lehmann

Judith Engel

Ulrike Krumbiegel

Marek Harloff

Running Time:

86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

MDC International

GmbH

Print Source:

MDC International GmbH

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

siff cinema

Running on Empty

Der Lebensversicherer

saturday June 2 9:30 Pm siff cinema

monday June 4 4:00 Pm siff cinema

An insurance salesman endlessly cruises the Autobahn, with a series of pay phones and the occasional unsuspecting customer as his only companions. A series of small reveals indicate that he has been on the road for over a year, searching for a deal lucrative enough to pull his family out of debt. While wringing the last few miles out of his battered Volvo, he stops at a roadside café, where he is transfixed by the sight of a sad-eyed motel owner who happens to be sitting in the exact same seat where he met his wife years earlier. As he follows her back to her home, the viewer is left with a number of questions: What is the nature of their relationship? Can she release him from his spell? How much of this is going on in his head, anyway? A loose retelling of The Flying Dutchman, writer/ director Bülent Akinci’s stunning take on the road film delivers an intriguing, uneasy mixture of Lynchian creepiness and hazy compassion. A bewitching triumph on many levels, chief among them the central characterization by Jens Harzer (Requiem) who brings a fascinating ambivalence to his character, undercutting his haunted features and searching eyes with an increasingly crazed giggle and compulsive singing of bubblegummy Euro-pop. The unsettling nature of his award-winning performance—hard to warm to, fascinating to ponder, impossible to forget—extends to the larger film as well. Prepare for conversation.

Germany 2006

Director:

Bülent Akinci

Producers:

Roman Paul

Gerhard Meixner

Screenwriter:

Bülent Akinci

Cinematographer:

Henner Besuch

Film Editors: Inge Schneider

Tina Baz

Music: Wim Mertens

Cast: Jens Harzer

Marina Galic

Anna Maria Mühe

Christian Blümel

Tom Jahn

Hussi Kutlucan

Running Time:

97 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Razor Film Produktion

GmbH

Print Source:

Razor Film Production

Film Website: www.razor-film.de

Strike

Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig

Wednesday may 30 9:45 Pm siff cinema

saturday June 2 4:15 Pm lincoln square

German master Volker Schlöndorff creates another of his vibrant political dramas in this remembrance of the founding of the Solidarity Movement in Poland, a group that many credit as leading to the demise of Eastern European communism. The heroine of the film is Agnieszka Kowalska (Katharina Thalbach), a welder of no special skill or marked intellect who nevertheless earns her greatness by believing in the rights of workers and insistently standing up for them. A thorn in management’s side since the 1960s, she takes on this role full time after her husband dies, believing his death is God’s way of revealing her destiny. Then, after 20 years of agitation, she is finally dismissed for complaining about workers’ safety. Her firing ignites nationwide strikes and the formation of the Solidarity Movement. On the home front Agnieszka must endure the scorn and opposition of both friends and family, but she perseveres in her determination to stand up for workers who are being oppressed in a supposed workers’ state. The film is based on the life of union organizer Anna Walentynowicz—cowriter Sylke Rene Meyer, in fact, has directed a documentary on Walentynowicz—and its unpolished veracity forcefully immerses us in the grind and glory of labor uniting for one another. Schlöndorff captures with sweeping majesty this crucial chapter of modern history.

Germany/ Poland 2006

Director:

Volker Schlöndorff

Producer:

Jürgen Haase

Screenwriter:

Andreas Pflüger

Cinematographer:

Andreas Höfer

Film Editor:

Peter Przygodda

Wanda Zeman

Music:

Jean-Michel Jarre

Cast:

Katharina Thalbach

Dominique Horwitz

Andrzej Chyra

Running Time:

104 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Telepool GmbH

Print Source:

Red Envelope

Entertainment

Film Website: www.strajk-derfilm.de

Selected

Filmography: The Ninth Day (2004)

The Legends of Rita (2000)

Summer 04

Sommer 04 an der Schlei

sunday may 27 9:30 Pm

tuesday may 29 4:30 Pm

The anxieties some associate with being 40 seem to have blissfully bypassed Miriam. Together she and her partner Andrei greet each new day as nothing less then another installment of the prime of their lives; and who wouldn’t with an existence sufficiently comfortable to include another summer vacationing at their rustic seaside home? This time out, however, Miriam and Andrei’s 15-year old son Nils brings along Livia, his smart, precocious 12-year old girlfriend, and Miriam’s formerly sure sense of her self and her world start to drift along with the hissing surf. At first, she’s just worried that her son, ironically, might not be mature enough for his very young yet very sexy friend. But when she discovers that Livia’s interests have turned to Bill, a recently transplanted American whom they met sailing, Miriam crosses the line from rationally attempting to forestall an inappropriate relationship to claiming Bill for herself. Is she obsessed? Unhinged? Or, most disturbing of all, merely somehow threatened by an adolescent girl? Soon all the men become props in a catand-mouse game played out by these women of very different generations. German director Stefan Krohmer’s terse, sophisticated drama cunningly examines and undermines the fragile assumptions we hold about adult responsibility and childish innocence.

Germany 2006

Director:

Stefan Krohmer

Producers: Frank Löprich

Katrin Schlosser

Screenwriter: Daniel Nocke

Cinematographer:

Patrick Orth

Film Editor: Gisela Zick

Cast: Martina Gedeck

Robert Seeliger

Peter Davor

Svea Lohde

Lucas Kotaranin

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales: Bavaria Film

International

Print Source: The Cinema Guild

Selected

Filmography: They’ve Got Knut (2003)

Vacation

Ferien

North American Premiere

thursday June 14 9:30 Pm

sunday June 17 11:00 am

It is the middle of a sweltering summer at a remote country house in the midst of the protective woods of Uckermark, north of Berlin. The inhabitants of this refuge from the rest of the world are Anna (veteran actress Angela Winkler), her husband Robert and their teenage son Max. During the course of the summer, more members of this sprawling family show up and trigger events that lead to the unveiling of secrets and the venting of pent-up resentments, disrupting what promised to be an idyllic sojourn. Things get off to a promising start with a pleasant round of long walks, swimming in the nearby lake and family meals in the garden. Then Anna’s mother falls seriously ill and has to be brought to the house and cared for. Before long, the cracks in the marriage of Anna’s daughter Laura and her husband Paul begin to become increasingly apparent, and even more confusion is caused by the appearance of Laura’s sister Sophie, unexpectedly arriving from her home abroad. As the summer progresses, the family members tread warily, at once so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home soon sees the resurgence of smoldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that threaten to wreck the family’s fragile unity forever. Vacation is a serene, quietly rewarding drama that writer-director Thomas Arslan imbues with painterly images and skillfully directs, delicately creating an underlying dramatic unease in direct conflict with placid shots of summer tableaux.

Germany 2007

Director:

Thomas Arslan

Producer:

Thomas Arslan

Screenwriter: Thomas Arslan

Cinematographer: Michael Wïesweg

Film Editor: Bettina Blickwede

Cast: Angela Winkler Karoline Eichhorn

Uwe Bohm

Gudrun Ritter

Anja Schneider

Running Time: 91 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Pickpocket

Filmproduktion

Selected

Filmography:

Aus der Ferne (2006) A Fine Day (2001) Dealer (1999)

Pacific Place cinemas

lincoln square

harvard exit

egyPtian theatre

Yella

Strajk - Die Heldin von Danzig North American Premiere

Wednesday June 13 7:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

saturday June 16 1:45 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Christian Petzold’s tightly wound metaphysical thriller was one of the highlights of the Berlin Film Festival. Yella has decided to leave her small East German town for a promising job in Hanover, leaving behind a failed marriage and broken dreams. In the city, she meets Philipp, a venture capitalist, who gives her a job as his assistant, although she has no knowledge of the world of high finance. Yella soon discovers she has a knack with ruthless businessmen, and negotiations become a thrilling game of quick wits in which her looks and icy demeanor are major assets. She starts to see a potential future with Philipp: he is serious and determined, and she feels she could get everything she has ever wanted. But strange voices and sounds are plaguing Yella–truths from her past coming back to haunt her, making her worry that her new life is too good to be true. Director Petzold plays up the dichotomy of the characters’ inner desires as opposed to what they actually achieve, and the film creates an unsettling emotional undercurrent beneath its clean, clinical direction: scenes of rural summertime are imbued with a threatening edge, and the emotional complexity of the characters provides a real challenge for the actors, which they rise to splendidly. Nina Hoss won Berlin’s Best Actress prize as Yella, and Devid Striesow as the volatile-under-the-steelyexterior Philipp is truly exceptional, his riveting performance marking him out as an exciting prospect for German cinema in years to come.

Awards:

Berlin 2007 (Best Actress)

Germany 2007

Director:

Christian Petzold

Producers:

Florian Koerner von Gustorf

Michael Weber

Screenwriter:

Christian Petzold

Cinematographer: Hans Fromm

Film Editor:

Bettina Böhler

Cast:

Nina Hoss

Devid Striesow

Hinnerk Schönemann

Burghardt Klaussner

Barbara Auer

Christian Redl

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

The Match Factory

Print Source:

The Match Factory

Film Website:

www.yella-der-film.de

Selected

Filmography:

Ghosts (2005)

Wolfsberg (2003)

Something to Remind Me (2002)

The State I Am In (2000)

For lovers of classic film it is, to paraphrase Dickens, the best of times and the worst of times. Thanks to the DVD revolution, there are more cinematic treasures easily available, cheaply priced and conveniently ready for to be viewed on televisions, lap tops, or even iPods, whenever and wherever the fancy strikes—date night with the girlfriend or wife, a long flight, the doctor’s waiting room. And yet the number of theatrical screenings for such films seems to wane year by year. To view a film on a 2.5 inch square screen is not, obviously, the same as viewing it on a large screen where, if it weren’t for your fellow audience members, you might easily find yourself swallowed into the action projected before your eyes. SIFF has always been committed to reviving our celluloid heritage with a full program of archival presentations, which, thanks to our new cinema, we will continue to bring to you through an on-going, year-round basis. This year’s festival presentations include a wonderfully memorable pair of film noirs, the nasty Big Combo (Joseph h. Lewis, 1955) and The Damned Don’t Cry (Vincent Sherman, 1950) starring Joan Crawford. We bring back the tradition of

archival films

the Saturday matinees with four swashbuckling classics: Errol Flynn plunders the high seas in Captain Blood (Michael Curtiz, 1935); Three British soldiers—played by Cary grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.— must stop a the uprising of a murderous cult in Gunga Din (george Stevens, 1939); Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (Arthur Lubin, 1944) liberate Baghdad from hulagu Khan and his Mongol hordes; and Scaramouche (george Sydney, 1952) seeks his revenge on the wicked Marquis de Maynes in pre-revolutionary France. The latter two titles filmed in glorious three-strip Technicolor. For fans of silent cinema, we have two rarely seen gems. From Australia, comes the sweetly charming The Sentimental Bloke (Raymond Longford, 1919), a love story in ballad form in a newly restored print courtesy of george Eastman house. however, our second silent presentation couldn’t be more different, A Cottage on Dartmoor (Anthony Asquith, 1929), the darkly suspenseful tale of an escaped prisoner and his former love.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (USA, 1944)

Directed by Arthur Lubin

The Big Combo (USA, 1955)

Directed by Joseph H. Lewis

Captain Blood (USA, 1935)

Directed by Michael Curtiz

A Cottage on Dartmoor (UK/Sweden, 1929)

Directed by Anthony Asquith

The Damned Don’t Cry (USA, 1950)

Directed by Vincent Sherman

Gunga Din (USA, 1939)

Directed by George Stevens

Scaramouche (USA, 1952)

Directed by George sidney

The Sentimental Bloke (Australia, 1919)

Directed by Raymond Longford

The Sentimental Bloke

A Cottage on Dartmoor

Following on the heels of his highly successful social-conscience melodrama The Woman Suffers, Australian filmmaker Raymond Langford next turned to a far lighter, less controversial subject matter—and the result was his masterpiece. Adapted from C.J. Dennis’s beloved poetry collection about a good-hearted working man and his love for a factory girl, The Sentimental Bloke struck the perfect note among post-Word War I Australians, who flocked to the screens in record numbers when it opened. Vaudevillian Arthur Tauchert stars as Bill, who considers his fondness for drink and gambling no more that a man snagging what happiness he can. But a deeper, more rewarding happiness beckons in the form of Doreen (Lottie Lyell, antipodean Gish to Langford’s Griffith), who insists Bill shed his sins if he wishes to be with her. Bill tries and bristles and backslides occasionally, but there is little that the love of a good woman can’t inspire. Its refreshingly naturalistic style only energizes the story’s genial comic mood, and explains why this is generally considered the finest Australian silent film. Even Dennis was enraptured, admitting he screened the film “expecting, at best, a burlesque; at worst a fiasco. I came away believing in miracles.” Taken to their heart by native Australians, who consider it a nation-defining classic much as Americans respond to Meet John Doe or She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Sentimental Bloke continues to charm audiences of any nationality with every screening.

Australia

1919

Director:

Raymond Longford

Producer:

Raymond Longford

Screenwriters:

Raymond Longford

Lottie Lyell

Cinematographer:

Arthur Higgins

Film Editor:

Lottie Lyell

Cast: Arthur Tauchert

Lottie Lyell

Gilbert Emery

Stanley Robinson

Harry Young

Running Time: 108 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

Print Source: National Film and Sound Archive

Selected

Filmography:

The Man They Could Not Hang (1934) Ginger Mick (1920)

The Woman Suffers (1918)

The Church and the Woman (1916)

The Silence of Dean Maitland (1914)

SIFF is delighted to present a very special preview from the upcoming San Francisco Silent Film Festival that will take place in San Francisco this July. The Silent Film Festival, now in its 12th year, is the preeminent presenter of silent cinema in the country, each year searching the globe for rare and wonderful treasures. We are thrilled to present one of this year’s discoveries—Anthony Asquith’s 1929 A Cottage on Dartmoor. The great British director has fashioned a psychological thriller fully the equal of any by Hitchcock. A lovelorn barber’s assistant attempts to court the shop manicurist, but he’s driven to a jealous rage when a rival suitor appears on the scene. Bursts of rapid-fire editing and off kilter cinematography fuel the suspense, as the story builds to a surprising climax. Asquith’s feel for character and his virtuosic mastery of effects and editing, plus extraordinary performances by all of the leads, make Cottage seem both modern and timeless. Pianist Donald Sosin will accompany the film. For many years Sosin was the resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he continues to perform there as a guest accompanist, as well as at the American Museum of the Moving Image, BAM Rose Cinema and the Lincoln Center Film Society. Film Noir expert Eddie Muller will introduce this unusual silent era proto-noir. The exquisite 35mm print is courtesy of the British Film Institute.

United Kingdom/ Sweden

1929

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Producer:

H. Bruce Woolfe

Screenwriter:

Anthony Asquith from the story by Herbert Price

Cinematographers: Stanley Rodwell

Axel Lindblom

Music:

William Hodgson

Cast:

Norah Baring

Uno Henning

Hans Schlettow

Jud Green

Running Time:

87 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

BFI

Selected

Filmography:

The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)

The Browning Version (1951)

The Winslow Boy (1948)

Pygmalion (1938)

I Stand Condemned (1935)

Underground (1928)

Shooting Stars (1927)

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The Big Combo

The Damned Don’t Cry

In The Big Combo, the traditional gangster picture is distilled into a sexual contest between saturnine mobster Mr. Brown (Richard Conte) and his nemesis, dogged flatfoot Leonard Diamond (Cornel Wilde). Both men slug it out for possession of the sensuous, suicidal Susan Lowell (Jean Wallace), who wants no part of either man. Sexual tension runs rampant. Diamond may want to genuinely stanch the spread of Brown’s corrupt “combination,” but in truth he’d rather castrate than incarcerate him. Susan is held in bondage by Brown’s bankroll. Brown’s enforcers, Fante and Mingo, are homosexual lovers who use beatings as foreplay. Rita, the cop’s stripper girlfriend, explains the lay of the land: “Women don’t care how a man makes a living, only how he makes love.” Philip Yordan’s original screenplay crackles with whipcrack hardboiled dialogue, and Joseph H. Lewis stages scenes with the same bravura B-movie brashness that characterizes his classic Gun Crazy, made six years earlier. But the real star of this show is legendary director of photography John Alton, whose astounding command of light and shadow reaches levels of contrast so stark some compositions seem like live-action woodcuts. Add into the mix a fantastically pulpy score by the usually refined David Raskin, and the result is perhaps the fiercest, most elemental film noir ever produced. Presented in a spectacular, pristine 35mm print restored by The Film Foundation and UCLA Film and Television Archive.

USA

1955

Director:

Joseph H. Lewis

Producer:

Sidney Harmon

Screenwriter:

Philip Yordan

Cinematographer:

John Alton

Film Editor:

Robert Eisen

Music:

David Raskin

Cast:

Cornel Wilde

Richard Conte

Brian Donlevy

Jean Wallace

Robert Middleton

Lee Van Cleef

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

Print Source:

UCLA Film & Television

Selected

Filmography:

Marshall of Medicine

Bend (1955)

We Came Out Fighting (1952)

Gun Crazy (1950)

Chicago Story (1949)

The Silver Bullet (1942)

The Last Stand (1938)

This fantastic film noir fable is perhaps an even truer depiction of the real Joan Crawford than Mommie Dearest. A thinly veiled version of the rags-to-riches story of gangsters’ moll Virginia Hill, The Damned Don’t Cry begins the way all movies should: with a corpse and a dame gone missing. Mob tough Nick Prenta (Steve Cochran) has turned up dead, and his unlikely girlfriend, wealthy socialite Lorna Hansen Forbes, has vanished. When police investigate they find no record that Forbes ever existed. Thus begins an extended flashback that traces Crawford’s trajectory from drudge housewife Ethel Whitehead, stifling in the grimy California oil fields, to the glamorous Lorna Forbes, climbing the social ladder one man at a time with tenacity, sexual prowess and most of all, brains. The film intriguingly goes along with Crawford every step of the way, neither condemning her character’s singleminded pursuit of success or much pitying the men left wounded in her wake, each of whom has their own sins to answer for. Steve Cochran’s supporting duty as a Bugsy Seigel clone smolders, but make no mistake about whose show this is. Crawford was born to play this role, in fact had played it many times—most famously in Mildred Pierce—but her embodiment of the trope is particularly superb here, perhaps fired up by the film’s clear-eyed endorsement of a woman doing what it takes to get ahead in this world.

USA

1950

Director:

Vincent Sherman

Producer:

Jerry Wald

Screenwriters:

Harold Medford

Jerome Weidman

Cinematographer:

Ted McCord

Film Editor:

Rudi Fehr

Music:

Daniele Amfitheatrof

Cast:

Joan Crawford

David Brian

Steve Cochran

Kent Smith

Hugh Sanders

Running Time:

103 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35 mm

Print Source:

Warner Bros. Classics

Selected

Filmography:

Goodbye, My Fancy (1951)

Harriet Craig (1950)

Nora Prentiss (1947)

Mr. Skeffington (1944)

Flight from Destiny (1941)

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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Gunga Din

Baghdad has fallen to Mongol hordes, and by order of the Khan 1,000 citizens will be tortured every day until the escaped Caliph’s capture. Betrayed by his former advisor Prince Cassim, the Caliph falls beneath the Mongol’s swords while his son Ali, aided by a faithful servant, manages to escape. Wandering into the desert, Ali discovers the hidden cavern of the Forty Thieves, whose leader, Old Baba, adopts the boy as his own. Ten years later, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves provide the only resistance to the Mongols, and have a 10,000 gold piece bounty placed on their destruction. When word that the Khan’s intended bride is traveling to Baghdad by caravan, Ali Baba plans a raid on their encampment only to discover a Mongol trap and worse—the Khan’s intended is Amara, Prince Cassim’s daughter and Ali’s childhood love. When Old Baba dies in the effort to free his captured son, Ali Baba settles on a grand plot to free Baghdad, and Amara, once and forever, from the tyrannical Khan. One of Universal’s first Technicolor features, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is also one of the famously frugal studio’s most lavish and energetic productions—a bejeweled sword-swinging romance for all ages, with camp goddess Maria Montez as the glittering centerpiece. (ages 8 and up)

USA 1944

Director:

Arthur Lubin

Producer:

Paul Malvern

Screenwriter:

Edmund L. Hartmann

Cinematographers:

W. Howard Greene

George Robinson

Film Editor:

Russell Schoengarth

Music:

Edward Ward

Cast:

Maria Montez

Jon Hall

Turhan Bey

Andy Devine

Kurt Katch

Frank Puglia

Running Time: 87 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Universal Pictures

Distribution

Selected

Filmography:

The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)

The Thief of Bagdad (1961)

Francis (1950)

Phantom of the Opera (1943)

Buck Privates (1941)

Inspired by the famous Rudyard Kipling poem, Gunga Din takes place in the rocky foothills of the Himalayas during the late Victorian era. When communications cease from the remote village of Tantrapur, the colonial army sends a troop to investigate, led by three sergeants: treasure hungry Cutter (Grant), bulldogish MacChesney (McLaglen) and dapper Ballantine (Fairbanks, Jr.). On their way there, they meet Gunga Din, the poor water bearer who wants nothing more than to serve in Her Majesty’s Regiments and prizes his recovered military bugle above all possessions. When the soldiers arrive at the village they discover it in the hands of the Thuggee cult, worshippers of Kali who murder the populace indiscriminately. After managing to escape, the three friends return to base only to have Cutter and MacChesney ordered back to Tantrapur to re-establish the post, while Ballantine is met with an even more daunting fate: honorable discharge to arrange wedding plans with his fiancée and prepare to settle down in the tea business. Not that this close call with matrimonial bliss can compete with the bonhomie of best friends under fire, of course, each genially attempting to prove himself the better man. And each, in this instance, famously failing to do so. Expertly crafted by old pros up and down the line—from director George Stevens and his clutch of A-list writers to the legendary stuntman David Sharpe—this thrilling, rambunctious adventure is as big as the Indian sub-continent. (ages 10 and up)

USA

1939

Director:

George Stevens

Producer:

George Stevens

Screenwriters:

Joel Sayre

Fred Guiol

Cinematographer:

Joseph H. August

Film Editors:

Henry Berman

John Lockert

Music:

Alfred Newman

Cast:

Cary Grant

Victor McLagen

Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

Sam Jaffe

Eduardo Cianelli

Joan Fontaine

Running Time:

117 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Warner Bros. Classics

Selected

Filmography:

Giant (1956)

Shane (1953)

A Place in the Sun (1951)

The Talk of the Town (1942)

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Captain Blood

Scaramouche

What would a Swashbuckler Series be without at least one appearance from the legendary Errol Flynn? Flynn plays Peter Blood, a country physician summoned one night to treat Lord Gildoy, a supporter of the Duke of Monmouth’s failed rebellion. Arrested for this deed and convicted of treason, Blood is saved from the gallows by a royal decree that sends convicted rebels to the West Indies as slave labor for the plantations. Upon arrival in Port Royal, he is sold to the lovely Arabella Bishop (Olivia de Havilland), the niece of Colonel Bishop. Despite their mutual attraction, Blood’s tart tongue earns her approbation, and he is sent to the plantation fields, where flogging and branding are common practice. But when the Spanish attack Port Royal, he manages to escape with a ship and a number of experienced, sea-worthy men. Thus begins Captain Blood’s career of piracy, plundering any and all ships that dare to sail the Spanish Main. His exploits, however, do not go unnoticed, by either the British Fleet or his fellow pirates and, when an ill-conceived partnership with the oily Captain Levasseur leads to Arabella’s capture, Blood must use all his cunning to outwit both sets of foes. Captain Blood marks the second of twelve collaborations between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz, and it’s one of their best. Despite a modest budget, the film contains masterly staged action sequences that, along with Flynn’s considerable charisma, continue to thrill audiences anew. (ages 10 and up)

USA

1935

Director:

Michael Curtiz

Producers: Harry Joe Brown

Gordon Hollingshead

Screenwriter: Casey Robinson from the novel by Rafael Sabatini

Cinematographer: Ernest Haller

Editor: Hal Mohr

Music:

George Amy

Cast:

Errol Flynn

Olivia de Havilland

Lionel Atwill

Basil Rathbone

Ross Alexander

Running Time: 119 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Warner Brothers

Selected

Filmography: Francis of Assisi (1961)

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)

King Creole (1958)

White Christmas (1954)

Mildred Pierce (1945)

Casablanca (1942)

Set in pre-revolutionary France, Scaramouche is the story of André-Louis Moreau, a reluctant hero who, as the opening titles tell us, “was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad.” Despite the growing fervor around him, Moreau is more interested in being a playboy and gallivanting with actress Lenore. When she threatens to marry an aristocrat, Moreau follows her to Paris in order to stop her foolishness, only to be summoned by Georges de Valmorin, his adopted father. He soon learns that his brother Philippe has penned a radical pamphlet and is now being pursued by royal agents. Moreau engineers Philippe’s escape from the city, but while they are fleeing to the countryside he meets, and falls in love with, the beautiful Aline (Janet Leigh). Their love is imperiled, however, not only by the discovery of Moreau’s true parentage, but also by the actions of her fiancé, the Marquis de Maynes. After Phillipe is killed in a duel with the Marquis, Moreau vows revenge, and is subsequently branded a traitor by the crown. Taking refuge with Lenore and her theatrical troop, Moreau adopts the role of Scaramouche, the clown, while spending his free moments developing his sword-skills in his zealous quest to defeat de Maynes—the greatest duelist among the aristocracy. Filmed in lush Technicolor, director George Sidney creates, in the words of critic Richard T. Jameson, “an MGM musical, only with swashbuckling instead of song-and-dance.” The climactic sword-fight, one of the best ever filmed, provides our series with the perfect finale. (ages 10 and up)

USA 1952

Director:

George Sidney

Producer:

Carey Wilson

Screenwriters: Ronald Millar

George Froeschel; novel by Rafael Sabatini

Cinematographer: Charles Rosher

Film Editor: James E. Newcom

Music: Victor Young

Cast:

Stewart Granger

Eleanor Parker

Janet Leigh

Mel Ferrer

Henry Wilcoxon

Nina Foch

Running Time:

115 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Warner Bros. Classics

Selected Filmography:

Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

A Ticklish Affair (1963)

Pepe (1960)

Who Was That Lady? (1960)

Pal Joey (1957)

The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)

Kiss Me Kate (1953)

Young Bess (1953)

Show Boat (1951)

Annie Get Your Gun (1950)

The Three Musketeers (1948)

The Harvey Girls (1946)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)

Anchors Aweigh (1945)

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The 2007 festival presentation of

Contemporary World Cinema

features the stunning cinematic achievements of over fifty countries.

This year’s international selection gives you the opportunity to experience the state of the art of filmmaking through a truly global perspective, with an impressive representation of essential new films that offers a huge range of masterful cinematic storytelling. in the following pages the world of contemporary cinema is literally at your fingertips. there are new discoveries waiting to be made among the first and second time directors, many recent award-winners from worldwide festivals. or come and check out

the next big thing from accomplished directors who continue to advance the direction of filmmaking with their vision. We hope that you’ll be able to see as many of these incredible films as possible, as each of them provide a unique point-of-view to the human experience, be it to understand or to be understood, to laugh or be laughed at or to fall down and then once again to rise up. they’re all here: take your pick and see the world.

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12:08 East of Bucharest

A fost sau n-a fost?

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At 12:08 pm, on December 22, 1989, Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu fled Bucharest by helicopter as angry crowds stormed government buildings. In his debut feature, writer-director Corneliu Porumboiu looks back at that historic day using a sly blend of humanist realism, humor and pointed satire to explore the paradoxes of post-revolutionary life. “‘Was there or was there not a revolution in our town,’ is a question that still haunts today’s Romania,” says Porumboiu. “I wanted to make a movie about some people who, 16 years after the event that changed their lives, still wonder if it really happened or not.” The first part of the film introduces the protagonists: Jderescu, the somewhat pompous owner of a local television station and producer/host of a current affairs call-in show; Manescu, an alcoholic high school teacher; and Piscoci, an elderly retiree. The second part, unfolding in real time, follows the call-in show where Manescu and Piscoci are last-minute guests. As the fidgeting men struggle to recall if people were protesting the regime in the town square before the Ceausescus fled, or if they only came out to celebrate afterwards, their recollections conflict with those of the callers. An eloquent exploration of the links and divisions between national and individual memories, 12:08 East of Bucharest is deserving Best First Feature winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

Awards: Cannes 2006 (Golden Camera)

After This Our Exile

Fu Zi

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Romania 2006

Director:

Corneliu Porumboiu

Producer: Corneliu Porumboiu

Screenwriter:

Corneliu Porumboiu

Cinematographer: Marius Panduru

Film Editor:

Roxana Szel

Music: Rotaria

Cast:

Mircea Andreescu

Teodor Corban

Ion Sapdaru

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Romanian, with English subtitles

International Sales: The Coproduction Office

Print Source: Tartan Films USA

Film Website: www.thecopro.de

Selected

Filmography: Liviu’s Dream (2005)

A patient, heartfelt domestic epic about a son’s loyalty to his wastrel father, After This Our Exile takes a grimly uncomfortable situation and fashions from it a marvelously human, relatable film. Lok-yun’s devotion to his father Cheung-sheng (Aaron Kwok) is so unconditional, he even rats out his own mother when she attempts to flee Cheung-sheng’s abusive grip. Mom finally does leave, and father and son make do for themselves. Without her influence, dad aimlessly drifts from one lowlife criminal endeavor to the next to keep the pair fed, eventually getting Lokyun in on the act. Though he’d hardly been in exile, working as an editor on diverse projects, Patrick Tam makes a triumphant return to the director’s chair after 17 years with this film. His previous work had consisted mostly of thrilling mainstream pictures, and their influence shows up in surprising fashion here, for as unflinchingly honest as the story is, the storytelling is a feast of beautiful images and precision editing, never letting a minute of the two and a half hours drag. The film practically swept both the Hong Kong film awards and Taipei’s Golden Horse Film Festival awards, with Ng King-to’s marvelous portrayal of Lok-yun making the 9-year old the youngest recipient so honored.

Hong Kong

2006

Director:

Patrick Tam

Producers:

Chiu Li Kang

Leong Lee Ping

Screenwriters:

Tian Koi-leong

Patrick Tam

Cinematographer: Lee Pin-bing

Film Editor: Patrick Tam

Music:

Robert Jay Ellis-Geiger

Cast:

Aaron Kwok

Charlie Young

Ng King-to Kelly Lin

Valen Hsu

Running Time: 150 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Cantonese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Focus Films

Print Source:

Focus Films

Film Website: www.focusfilms.cc/ teaser/atoe.htm

Selected

Filmography:

My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)

Burning Snow (1988)

Final Victory (1987)

Cherie (1984)

Nomad (1982)

Love Massacre (1981)

The Sword (1980)

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Agua Aguas Argentinas

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Goyo is clearly out of his element baking in the desert wilderness; his is a swimmer’s body, built to slice frictionless through open water, his lean frame drafting a smooth, glassy wake. But his championship career sank after wrongful accusations of doping led to his disqualification from the Santa Fe-Coronda Marathon, a grueling 57kilometer river swim that was his to lose. Now eight years have passed, and Goyo is 34, uncomfortably close to too old as any professional athlete will tell you. His self-imposed penance done, he returns to Santa Fe to regain his title and his honor. There are other old threads to be snatched up, former rivals, a past marriage and daughter, and also one new strand: Chino, an ambitious, disciplined swimmer striving to make the national team. Agua, a quiet little narrative about an outsized human achievement, manages with little dialogue to create a nocturnal and haunting atmosphere. Director Verónica Chen crafts her mise-en-scène around the body, its rhythms, its every muscle, expressing a very concrete sensation of gesture and breath, while her cinematographer Sabine Lancelin artfully interprets the physical sensation of endurance swimming. Adding to these effects a brilliant soundscape seems to submerge the spectator as if we were in the water ourselves. The filmmaker is one of the bright lights of the Argentinean New Wave.

Awards: Palm Springs 2007 (Special Jury Award)

Argentina/ France 2006

Director:

Verónica Chen

Producers:

Verónica Chen

Denis Freyd

Screenwriters:

Verónica Chen

Pablo Lago

Cinematographers:

Sabine Lancelin

Matías Mesa

Film Editors:

Jacopo Quadri

César D’Angiolillo

Cast:

Rafael Ferro

Nicolás Mateo

Jimena Anganuzzi

Gloria Carrá

Leonora Balcarce

Diego Alonso

Running Time:

89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Celluloid Dreams

Selected

Filmography: Overblinded (2003) Smokers Only (2001)

Alive Zhivoy

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After a war that you barely survived, are you really alive? Can your memories stay quiet during peacetime waking hours? Do you still talk to the guys that were left behind – or were they left behind at all? Kir (Andrey Chadov), returns from Chechnya missing a leg and burdened by unfinished business. He’s trying to reconnect with family and friends, but all the while he’s keeping up a daily patter with his fallen buddies. Even his plans for marriage seem ancient history after the horrors he’s seen. Lost in civilian life, Kir meets an unusual young priest (played by Chadov’s real life brother, Alexey) who helps him find what he needs the most: forgiveness. Part of a new wave in the long tradition of Russian war films, Alive joins the ranks of Valery Todorovsky’s My Step Brother Frankenstein and Balabanov’s War in focusing on the physical and psychological scars of recent conflict. Veledinskiy is a director concerned with big questions who has created a surreal reality that goes far beyond such concerns as patriotism, religion or anti-war bromides. War continues not just somewhere else faraway, but here, every minute, inside of you and is impossible to cover up. Sometimes being alive is not enough.

Russia

2007

Director:

Alexander Veledinskiy

Producer:

Sergey Chliyants

Screenwriters:

Igor Porublev

Alexander Veledinskiy

Cinematographer:

Pavel Ignatov

Film Editor:

Music:

Alexei Zubarev

Cast:

Andrey Chadov

Maxim Lagashkin

Vladamir Yepifantsev

Alexey Chadov

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Pygmailion Production

Film Studio

Film Website: www.alivefilm.ru

Selected

Filmography: It’s Russian (2004)

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Almost Adult

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The flood of films on illegal immigration is becoming something of a tsunami, but for all the cultural dislocation and hardship that the genre inevitably entails, Almost Adult stands out amongst them. It does so with its cool dissection of the social services that deal with the hapless victims of this burgeoning phenomenon, and with empathy for the two young girls at the heart of the story. 17-year old Mamie has somehow reached Britain from the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Put into the care of the immigration authorities, she meets the fragile Shiku and, while they don’t share a language, Mamie vows to look after the younger girl and treat her like a sister. However, the authorities separate the girls when it is discovered they are not genuine siblings, and new ordeals begin for them both. Mamie is forced into exploitative black market labor while Shiku attends a school where she is bullied for her outsider status and lives with foster parents who work her until she is fit to drop. The first feature from awardwinning short film director Yousaf Ali Khan is a justly subjective film about what life is like for unaccompanied child asylum seekers entering the UK, and is made all the more remarkable by the fact that its young stars, Victoire Milandu and Ann Warungu as Mamie and Shiku—both of whom give impressive, touchingly honest performances—were cast from within the refugee community.

United Kingdom/ Germany 2006

Director: Yousaf Ali Khan

Producer: Sally Hibbin

Screenwriter: Rona Munro

Cinematographer: David Katznelson

Film Editor: Kristina Hetherington

Music:

Nick Bicât

Cast: Victoire Milandu

Ann Warungu Agron Biba

Lisa Hogg

Dado Jehan

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Bankside Films

Print Source: Bankside Films

Film Website: www.almostadult.co.uk

Selected

Filmography: Talking With Angels (2003)

Skin Deep (2001)

Angel-A

thursday may 31 9:45 Pm

monday June 4 4:30 Pm

Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) is back. This time he follows a lost soul and a fallen angel through the sleazy, glitzy streets of central Paris. When it comes right down to it, odd couples don’t come much more peculiar than Jamel Debbouze and Rie Rasmussen. He’s a 5’ 5’’ one-armed Moroccan who can’t get anything right. She’s a 5’10” Danish supermodel who was mysteriously wronged. In this offbeat story, Debbouze is an incorrigible lowlife about to throw himself into the Seine but, in a Capraesque moment, he ends up saving the life of the heaven-sent Rasmussen when she beats him into it. When he pulls her to safety—no mean feat given the actor’s real-life disability—she offers to help him out of his current malaise. This improbable pair venture out into the streets of Paris determined to reverse their fortunes, but discover not all debts are financial and sometimes the solutions to life’s problems are found in the unlikeliest of places. This idiosyncratic love fable challenges the stereotypes of male and female strength, and is a surprisingly romantic turn from the violent action of Besson’s previous films. Director of Photography Thierry Arbogast struts his stuff filming the City of Lights in a gorgeous monochromatic palette reminiscent of Wings of Desire. Using vertiginous crane shots over the Eiffel Tower, and even a “how’d-he-do-that?” continuous glide around both sides of a mirror, this supernatural love story is miraculous to behold.

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

France

2006

Director:

Luc Besson

Producer:

Luc Besson

Screenwriter:

Luc Besson

Cinematographer: Thierry Arbogast

Film Editor: Frederic Thorval

Music: Anja Garbarek

Cast: Jamel Debbouze

Rie Rasmussen

Gilbert Melki

Serge Riaboukine

Running Time: 88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French and Spanish, with English

subtitles

International Sales: EuropaCorp

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website: www.angela-lefilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Nikita (1990)

Le Grand Bleu (1988)

Antônia

friday June 8 5:00 Pm

harvard exit

sunday June 10 9:00 Pm siff cinema

When we first see the four female members of the Brazilian hip-hop band Antônia, they’ve been relegated to the back of the stage, providing support for a middle of the road rap act. Nevertheless, their skyrocketing talent quickly wins over the beer-fueled resistance of the crowd, enough to secure the prospect of smaller headlining gigs and the attention of a likeably unscrupulous agent. The road to success proves rockier than anticipated, however, as personality clashes and old wounds begin to seep in at every rehearsal. As the streetwise band struggles to keep their heads together and their volatile egos in check, the constant threat from their Sao Paolo environment—including pregnancy, prison, street violence and unsympathetic family members—makes the prospect of musical escape seem infinitely more desirable, and increasingly elusive. Shot in a semi-improvised style and well-stocked with winning personality from its largely novice Afro-Brazilian cast, director Tata Amaral’s colorful, exhilarating film is that rare thing: a genuine crowd pleaser that doesn’t leave the viewer feeling ill-used afterwards. Realistic grit and storybook optimism mesh seamlessly with the help of some simply incredible musical performances (many written by the cast), including the best rendition of “Killing Me Softly” since, well, ever.

Brazil 2006

Director:

Tata Amaral

Producers:

Geórgia Costa Araújo

Tata Amaral

Screenwriters:

Roberto Moreira

Tata Amaral

Cinematographer:

Jacob Sarmento

Solitrenick

Film Editor:

Idê Lacreta

Music:

Beto Villares

Cast:

Negra Li

Leilah Moreno

Cindy Mendes

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Portuguese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Lumina Films

Print Source:

Red Envelope

Entertainment

Film Website:

antonia-ofilme.com.br

Selected

Filmography:

Através da Janela (2000)

A Starry Sky (1997)

Armin

sunday may 27 1:30 Pm

friday June 1 4:00 Pm

A rare, quiet and deeply touching film about self-respect and love. Armin (Armin OmerovicMuhedin) is an awkward teenager who travels with his stage door father to the Croatian capital of Zagreb in order to audition for a part in a movie about the war in Bosnia. They are put up at a five star hotel where Armin’s father Ibro (Emir Hadzihafisbegovic) does all that’s possible for a dad to do to get his son a part in the film. For all his typical teenaged angst and shyness, Armin displays a great deal of deadpan patience toward his father. Director Ognjen Sviličić (Sorry for Kung Fu) has sculptured a small and unexpectedly restrained gem out of the tangle of war’s aftermath. Svilicic was born in Split and studied directing at the Academy of Performing Arts in Zagreb. “This film is my way of telling a story about the war and how one can deal with it. Father and son are fighting for respect. Their only problem is that they are from Bosnia, and we all know what that means. They want to escape their poverty and the only thing they have to lose is their pride.” He adds, “To the rest of the world they are simply two poor people from a devastated country.” But in reality, father and son turn out to be more than just two wayward people and come to intrinsically understand that, poor or not, they already have what everyone else is looking for. (ages 10 and up)

Preceded by

The Tube with a Hat

Romania, 2006, 23 minutes, director: Radu Jude Missing the tube with the hat, young Marian gets his dad up early to help fix the TV before the afternoon movie in this charming film.

Croatia/ Germany/ Bosnia 2006

Director:

Ognjen Sviliˇci´c

Producers:

Damir Terésak

Marcelo Busse

Markus Halberschmidt

Ademir Kenovic

Screenwriter:

Ognjen Sviliˇci´c

Cinematographer: Stanko Herceg

Film Editor: Vjeran Pavlinic

Music:

Michael Bauer

Georg Karger

Peter Holzapfel

Cast:

Emir Hadzihafizbegovi

Armin Omerovic

Marie Bäumer

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Croatian, English, German, Bosnian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

MDC international GmbH

Print Source:

MDC international GmbH

Film Website: armin-the-movie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Sorry For Kung Fu (2004)

Pacific Place cinemas

lincoln square

The Art of Crying

Kunsten at græde i kor

Wednesday June 6 4:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

monday June 11 6:45 Pm egyPtian theatre

The Art of Crying chillingly dramatizes the gap between the innocent idealism of childhood beliefs and the starker reality of adulthood in a skillful blend of affecting tragedy and black comedy. Set in South Jutland in the early 1970s, the story follows precocious, 11-year old Allan as he tries desperately to keep his dysfunctional family together. His publicly unimposing, privately tyrannical father Henry, the local milkman, is prone to crying fits at night. When these occur, sister Sanne has to go downstairs and console him. On a rare visit home, older brother Asger discovers what this consolation actually entails, but their emotionally numb mother is not prepared to deal with the matter. When Sanne finds a boyfriend, Henry is insanely jealous, and his punishment of Sanne leads her to take a terrible revenge. Knowing that the only thing his father really enjoys is performing extravagant eulogies at funerals, Allan has a hand in trying to ensure that there are enough funerals to keep his father happy. The austere mood of this impressive debut film is informed by the vast, deadening expanses of landscape and the Protestant repressiveness of Jutland life, but the bleakness is leavened by observational, surreal humor—mostly generated through Allan’s accepting eyes—as he sees the most extreme behavior as quite normal. This refreshingly unconventional film takes a huge risk— and quite amazingly pulls it off—in treating its central theme of child abuse with compassion, grace and wit.

Awards: San Sebastian 2006 (Youth Award)

Denmark 2006

Director:

Peter Schønau Fog

Producer: Thomas Stenderup

Screenwriter: Bo hr. Hansen based on the novel by Erling Jepsen

Cinematographer: Harald Gunnar

Paalgard

Film Editor: Anne Østerud

Music:

Karsten Fundal

Cast: Jannik Lorenzen

Jesper Asholt

Julie Kolbeck

Hanne Hedelund

Thomas KnuthWinterfeldt

Running Time: 106 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Danish, with English subtitles

International Sales: Danish Film Institute

Print Source: Danish Film Institute

Film Website: www.artofcrying. blogspot.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Bad Faith

Mauvaise foi

tuesday June 5 4:00 Pm nePtune theatre

saturday June 9 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

Bad Faith, the shining directorial debut from popular French actor Roschdy Zem, is an endearing romantic comedy about an illicit inter-faith love. Ismaël (Zem) is Muslim and Clara (Cecile de France) is Jewish, but they’ve never thought of their ethnic and religious origins in the years they’ve been happily together. One morning, Clara discovers that she’s pregnant. Now they have to tell their parents and make their union official. That’s when they find themselves confronted with an ugly reality that will turn the best day of their lives into something else entirely. Ismaël quickly understands that his Muslim family will only accept this situation with great difficulty, while Clara, believing that her Ashkenazi Jewish parents are open and modern, soon realizes they are anything but. The film, with its crackling dialogue, sways between laughter and seriousness without ever seeing things in black and white. And Zem, who has worked with some of the best actors and directors in the business, proves he’s right at home on either side of the lens. Bad Faith was nominated for a César in the Best First Film category at Cannes. With a generous humor and undeniable charm, Bad Faith is a kind of Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? for the 21st century; an intelligent, tender and funny look at what happens when the outside world—politics, tradition, societal prejudices and family—hits love right between the eyes.

France/ Belgium 2006

Director:

Roschdy Zem

Producers:

Nathalie Gastaldo

Philippe Godeau

Screenwriters:

Roschdy Zem

Pascal Elbé

Agnès de Sacy

Cinematographer: Jérôme Alméras

Film Editor:

Monica Coleman

Music:

Souad Massi

Cast:

Roschdy Zem

Cécile de France

Pascal Elbé

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Martine Chevallier

Running Time:

88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

StudioCanal

Print Source:

7th Art Releasing

Film Website: mauvaisefoi-lefilm.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature

Wallingford

for

Scarves

The Banquet Yeyan

thursday June 7 9:15 Pm

nePtune theatre

monday June 11 9:30 Pm lincoln square

Hong Kong/ China 2006

Director:

Feng Xiaogang

Producers: Wang Zhongjun

John Chong

Ever since Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon proved the Hong Kong wuxia martial arts genre could be entertaining to the West, a series of lavishly mounted epics have followed in its wake, each production setting a new benchmark in spectacular stunt work, scale, and special effects. And while its early scenes of brutal, tenth century carnage might suggest Feng Xiaogang’s sweeping period spectacle is following suit, The Banquet slowly emerges as a stately and atmospheric chamber drama loosely based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet. After the collapse of China’s powerful Tang Dynasty, the land is plunged into chaos, and the brooding Prince Wu (rising star Daniel Wu) is facing a crisis: his scheming uncle has murdered the Emperor (Wu’s father) and hopes to steal the throne and marry Wu’s childhood sweetheart, Little Wan, (Zhang Ziyi) in the process. But Wan has plans of her own, deviously manipulating her surroundings in ambiguous ways that evoke comparisons to another Shakespearian creation, Lady Macbeth. Monumental and operatic in tone, the film strives for a conscious theatricality that pays tribute to its inspiration while expanding the dramatic potential of its genre.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Screenwriters: Sheng Heyu

Qiu Gangjian

Cinematographer: Zhang Li

Film Editor:

Liu Miaomiao

Music:

Tan Dun

Cast: Ziyi Zhang

Ge You

Daniel Wu

Running Time: 131 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Media Asia Distribution

Print Source:

Media Asia Distribution

Film Website: www.thebanquet themovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

World Without Thieves (2004)

Cell Phone (2003)

Big Shot’s Funeral (2001)

Sorry Baby (1999)

Be There or Be Square (1998)

The Dream Factory (1997)

Beauty in Trouble

Kraska V Nesnazich

saturday June 9 11:00 am

monday June 11 9:15 Pm

The latest film from the team responsible for Divided We Fall, this multi-character comic drama about sex, money and a good person features sharply funny dialogue, unexpected subplots and a tour-de-force performance by sexy redhead Ana Geislerová as Marcela, the beauty of the title. Marcela and her mechanic husband, Janda, lost everything in the flood that devastated Prague in 2002. Fed up with their moldy apartment and Janda’s involvement with a gang of car thieves, Marcela takes their two kids and leaves him. She moves into the cramped apartment her mother shares with Risa, her mother’s creepy second husband, who is forever complaining about his diabetes or whatever else is at hand. As tensions mount on the home front, Marcela’s good angel materializes in the person of Evzen Benes, an elegant Czech expat who is back in Prague to reclaim family property expropriated by the Communists. When Benes’ fancy car ends up in Janda’s chop shop, the two meet. With Janda behind bars, Benes offers some welcome protection. Geislerová has never appeared more seductive. With a glint in her eye and impeccable comic timing, she makes the most of her natural assets, even making plausible the somewhat cynical solution the filmmakers propose for Marcela’s problems.

Awards:

Karlovy Vary 2006 (Grand Jury Special Prize)

Denver 2006 (Jury Prize)

Czech Republic 2006

Director:

Jan Hˇrebejk

Producer: Ondrej Trojan

Screenwriters: Petr Jarchovský

Jan Hˇrebejk

Cinematographer: Jan Malíˇr

Film Editor:

Vladimír Barák

Music:

Aleš Bˇrezina

Cast: Ana Geislerová

Jana Brejchov

Emilia Vasaryová

Josef Abrhám

Running Time: 110 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Menemsha

Entertainment

Print Source:

Menemsha

Entertainment

Film Website: menemshafilms.com

Selected Filmography:

Up and Down (2004)

Pupendo (2003)

Divided We Fall (2000)

Cosy Dens (1999) Big Beat (1993)

Before We Fall In Love Again

Nian ni ru xi

North American Premiere

monday may 28 6:30 Pm

saturday June 2 3:45 Pm

Husbands and their wives’ lovers have never hit it off as well as they do in Before We Fall In Love Again, a strange and tightly controlled romantic drama. Chang (Chye Chee Keong) is trapped in a state of emotional paralysis after the sudden disappearance of his wife Ling Yue (Amy Len) a month ago. He decides to search for her in Prague, her dream city. The night before he is set to leave, he is visited by a stranger, Tong (Pete Teo), who reveals himself to be the lover of Ling Yue, and the two men discover they are each as worried and befuddled as the other. As they have coffee in an extremely civilized manner, their separate relationships with Ling Yue begin to unfold in vignette-styled flashback scenes. In a turn of events, they form an uneasy alliance in order to find Ling Yue or at least the reason she went missing. In their search for their common love, the film becomes a buddy road movie, where the two unlikely companions are thrown into a series of surrealistic and darkly funny incidents. Before We Fall In Love Again is the first film of Malaysian indie director James Lee’s planned “Love Trilogy,” a series of three standalone films that share the same central theme and recurring cast members.

Malaysia/ Hong Kong

2006

Director:

James Lee

Producers:

Tan Chui Mui

Lorna Tee

Screenwriter:

James Lee

Cinematographer:

Teoh Gay Hian

Film Editor: Jimmy Ishmael

Music:

Ronnie Khoo

Cast:

Amy Len

Pete Teo

Chye Chee Keong

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Mandarin and Cantonese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Da Huang Pictures

Print Source:

Da Huang Pictures

Selected

Filmography:

The Beautiful Washing Machine (2005)

Pacific Place cinemas

harvard exit

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

The Bet Collector

Kubrador

friday June 15 6:45

June 17 1:30

An absorbing naturalistic drama about a resilient woman in a Manila slum, The Bet Collector revolves around jueteng, the game of numbers dating back to the Philippines’ Spanish colonial period. It chronicles three days in the life of Amelita, the “jueteng kubrador” of the title. Despite the regular crackdown on this illegal game, Ami, the family breadwinner, continues to collect bets from her regular patrons every day. On the first day we see Ami apprehended by the police. She joins the other kubradors in the police station until their kabo (handler) bails them out. The following morning, Amy returns to the streets and continues her clandestine activity. She meets the parish priest who informs her of a young neighbor’s sudden death in an accident. He asks her to collect donations from neighbors and friends. On the third day, a holiday, she takes a break from work and visits the grave of her soldier son who perished in war... But then, a series of events turns Ami’s mundane existence into a perplexing game of life, luck and death.

Awards:

Moscow 2006 (FIPRESCI Award)

Philippines 2006

Director:

Jeffrey Jeturian

Producers:

Josabeth V. Alonso

Rogelio I. Rayala

Screenwriter:

Ralston Jover

Cinematographer:

Roberto Yniguez

Film Editor:

Jay Halili

Music:

Jerrold Tarog

Cast:

Gina Pareño

Fonz Deza

Soliman Cruz

Nanding Josef Johnny Manahan

Running Time: 98 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Tagalog, with English subtitles

International Sales: Wide Management

Print Source: MLR Films

Film Website: www.kubrador. mlrfilms.com

Selected

Filmography:

One Moment More (2004)

Bridal Shower (2004) Larger than Live (2000)

Enter Love (1998)

Black Irish

friday June 1 9:30 Pm

sunday June 3 6:45 Pm

This complex, rich and heartwarming story surrounds Cole McKay, a 16-year-old South Boston kid trying both to survive and to save his disintegrating Irish-Catholic family. Meet the McKays. Brendan Gleeson is Desmond, the father who doesn’t quite qualify as someone to guide his son due to years of heavy drinking and wallowing in self-pity–a legend in his own mind but not to his family. Tom Guiry is Terry, the older brother who’s headed down a path of violence and self-destruction not unlike his father. Sister Kathleen (Emily Van Camp), pregnant, wants little to do with the chaos around her. Amidst all this, Melissa Leo is Margaret, the mother who tries to hold it all together at the risk of losing her own sanityy. And our protagonist, Cole, stunningly portrayed by Michael Angarano, is the quintessential underdog whose one chance to escape is through his talent at playing baseball. Black Irish takes us along on young Cole’s search, and as we emotionally invest ourselves in his quest, we are at turns confused and occasionally amused, and even disappointed as he struggles to dig himself out from his surroundings. A brilliant script, ensemble cast and exceptional directing combines to create an engrossing drama unlike any other that will touch the hearts of everyone that is fortunate enough to experience it. (ages 16 and up)

USA

2006

Director:

Brad Gann

Producers:

Brad Gann

Kelly Crean

J. Todd Harris

Jeffrey Orenstein

Mark Donadio

Screenwriter:

Brad Gann

Cinematographer:

Michael Fimognari

Film Editor:

Andrea Bottigliero

Music:

John Frizzell

Cast:

Michael Angarano

Brendan Gleeson

Emily Van Camp

Melissa Leo

Tom Guiry

Running Time:

92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website:

blackirishmovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

lincoln square

Pacific Place cinemas

Pm

lincoln square

sunday

Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Born

and Bred

Nacido y criado

tuesday may 29 7:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

thursday may 31 4:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

With Born and Bred, director Pablo Trapero (SIFF Emerging Master ’05) displays the same knack for intimate storytelling that made his earlier films so moving. His latest film is a darker work, tapping into such elemental emotions as fear of death and losing those we hold most dear, told with a tremendous amount of style and soul. Santiago (Guillermo Pfening) is an upwardly mobile interior designer whose charmed but predictable life with his wife Milli and their daughter is shattered by a devastating accident. Upon recovery, Santiago reemerges in the frozen, windswept expanses of Patagonia, working at a tiny rural airport where random problems constantly delay flights. In true Trapero fashion, little is explained as Santiago sleepwalks through his days and spends his evenings drinking with new friends Robert and Cacique. But despite the isolation of this new environment, Santiago can’t fully exorcize the demons from his past. A film ultimately about confronting those aspects of our lives over which we have no control, Born and Bred attests to its creator’s adeptness in depicting the contrast of interior states of mind and exterior realities. Trapero is also no slouch technically: attention to every cinematic detail is exquisitely applied, from first-class cinematography that creates a widescreen world of remoteness, to a soundtrack filled with a vast but subtle range of emotive effects underpinning the finely drawn characters, in this wholly satisfying drama.

Argentina/ Italy/UK

2006

Director:

Pablo Trapero

Producers:

Pablo Trapero

Douglas Cummins

Screenwriters:

Pablo Trapero

Mario Rulloni

Cinematographer:

Guillermo Nieto

Film Editors:

Ezequiel Borovinsky

Pablo Trapero

Music:

Palo Pandolfo

Luis Chomicz

Las Voces Blancas

Cast:

Guillermo Pfening

Martina Gusman

Federico Esquerro

Tomás Lipán

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Films Distribution

Print Source:

Films Distribution

Selected

Filmography:

Rolling Family (2004)

El Bonaerense (2002)

Crane World (1999)

The Bothersome Man

Den Brysomme Mannen

monday June 11 7:00 Pm nePtune theatre

thursday June 14 4:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Opening with the noisiest kissing scene you’ll ever hear, The Bothersome Man is a modern fairy tale about a polite and mild-mannered utopia that is terrifying underneath its placidity. 40-year-old Andreas (Trond Fausa Aurvåg), in dusty coat and baseball cap, arrives on a bus to an outpost station in the middle of nowhere. He surveys the barren, open landscape—a veritable moonscape of gray austerity—until a jolly caretaker picks him up and transports him to a nearby town. There, Andreas is given a key to his new house and steps into his new life and new job as menial white-collar worker. Eventually he meets interior designer Anne (Petronella Barker) and the two move in together and focus on home decorating. An empty friendliness and cheerful superficiality infects everyone in this town, where food has no taste and pain has been (almost) eradicated. But Andreas is unable to get rid of his nagging propensity for rebellious activities: vague memories and sensations of long-forgotten smells and sounds lead him to follow strangers, and in a Being John Malkovich moment, he tracks down the waft of something spicy and forbidden. In a world of plenty, Andreas still longs for something different. Variety calls The Bothersome Man “an absurd Beckett universe with throw cushions,” which catches it just about perfectly. Director Jen Lien offers up a film that is weirdly weighty and pushes the envelope at just the right moments.

Awards:

Hamptons 2006 (Best Film)

Göteberg 2007 (FIPRESCI Prize)

Norway 2006

Director:

Jens Lien

Producer:

Jørgen Storm

Rosenberg

Screenwriter:

Per Schreiner

Cinematographer:

John Christian Rosenlund

Film Editor: Vidar Flataukan

Music:

Ginge Anvik

Edvard Grieg

Cast:

Trond Fausa Aurvåg

Petronella Barker

Per Schaanning

Birgitte Larsen

Johannes Joner

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Norwegian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Bavaria Film

International

Print Source:

Film Movement

Film Website: www.brysom.no

Selected

Filmography: Jonny Vang (2003)

The Corona Chair

Broken English

friday June 8 9:15 Pm egyPtian theatre

sunday June 10 6:30 Pm lincoln square

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The debut feature from writer/director Zoe Cassavetes, Broken English is a refreshing new take on the romantic comedy, with Parker Posey shining in the lead role as love-starved thirtysomething New Yorker, Nora Wilder. Working at a Manhattan boutique hotel, Nora finds herself dealing with the needs of V.I.P. guests more than her own. Neither her career nor personal life has worked out as expected, a fact that she is reminded of constantly by her wellmeaning yet tactless mother (Gena Rowlands) and happily married best friend Audrey (The Sopranos’ Drea de Matteo). Feeling pressure to get hitched, she vacillates between putting herself out there, and abstaining entirely from the ever-disappointing dating realm. She has nearly given up on romance when she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a handsome young Frenchman whose charm is matched by his persistence. Sparks fly, but when Julien impulsively asks her to come with him to Paris, Nora is torn. Is this romance exactly what she needs, or will this blind leap send her over the edge for good? Cassavetes (daughter of the late indie icon John and actress Rowlands) has crafted a film that nicely balances seriousness and wit, giving a smart new spin to an old genre and allowing for outstanding acting performances. The film’s nuanced script, the chemistry between Posey and Poupaud, and an ethereal electronica score by Scratch Massive help make Broken English a unique and enjoyable intercontinental love story.

USA

2007

Director:

Zoe Cassavetes

Producers: Andrew Fierberg

Jason Kliot

Joana Vicente

Screenwriter: Zoe Cassavetes

Cinematographer: John Pirozzi

Film Editor:

Andrew Weisblum

Music:

Scratch Massive

Cast: Parker Posey

Melvil Poupaud

Drea de Matteo

Gena Rowlands

Justin Theroux

Peter Bogdanovich

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Film Website:

brokenenglishfilm.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Designed by Paul M. Volther in 1963 and licensed for production by Erik Jorgensen, Denmark.

Cashback

saturday June 2 6:45 Pm

lincoln square

tuesday June 5 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

For devoted attendees of SIFF’s shorts programs, Cashback will ring a familiar bell; writer/director Sean Ellis has expanded his Academy Award nominated short film (screened here in 2005) into a strikingly beautiful first feature. In both versions, events are narrated by Ben Willis, a gifted and insightful art student. After his girlfriend Suzy dumps him, Ben develops a crippling case of insomnia, suddenly leaving him with eight extra hours to fill. In order to take his mind off the break-up, he starts working the late-night shift at a local supermarket. Ben and his co-workers all know rule #1—the clock is the enemy—and each has developed their own strategy for combating the long hours of boredom. Quiet, pretty Sharon literally hides from the clock, obscuring its face with conveniently placed cracker boxes, while less successfully avoiding the attentions of their smarmy, tyrannical boss Mr. Jenkins. Janitor Brian transforms his custodial chores into kung fu exercises; archslackers Barry and Matt find anything to do that isn’t actually work. But while all the others take their minds off the clock to make time pass more quickly, Ben takes the opposite approach: he freezes time, creating a world where he is able to walk around completely unnoticed amid The Tableaux Vivants of shoppers and storekeepers. Throughout Cashback, Ellis deftly mixes Clerks-style slacker comedy with hauntingly poetic interludes of sensual beauty rarely seen in modern cinema, all of which makes his film one of the most assured and unforgettable debuts in recent years.

Children Börn

Wednesday may 30 2:00 Pm

United Kingdom 2006

Director:

Sean Ellis

Producers:

Lene Bausager

Sean Ellis

Screenwriter:

Sean Ellis

Cinematographer:

Angus Hudson

Film Editors:

Scott Thomas

Carlos Domeque

Music:

Gus Farley

Cast:

Sean Biggerstaff

Emilia Fox

Shaun Evans

Michelle Ryan

Stuart Goodwin

Michael Dixon

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: Gaumont

Print Source: Magnolia Pictures

Film Website: www.axiomfilms.co.uk

Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 3 9:30 Pm siff cinema

Shot in luminous black and white, Ragnar Bragason’s Children is further evidence of a talent pool out of proportion with the size of the tiny island nation of Iceland. Karitas, a single mother of four, is desperately trying to make ends meet. Fighting a custody battle over her three young daughters, she is oblivious her 12-year-old son, Gudmund, being plagued by school bullies. Increasingly withdrawn, Gudmund’s only friend is the schizophrenic Marinó, a child trapped in a grown man’s body whose grip on reality is starting to slip. When Gudmund’s father Gardar, a hard-ass debt collector, turns up out of the blue after having burned his bridges with the criminal underworld, this return becomes a catalyst for a chain-reaction of unsettling events. Director Bragason, already an internationally recognized director of music videos and commercials, employs the crème de la crème of Iceland’s stage and screen acting talent (notably the charismatic central couple Nina Dogg Filippusdottir and Gisli Orn Gardarsson as Karitas and Gardar) to deliver a searing indictment of an ostensibly advanced social system that somehow fails the young and helpless who most need its support.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Iceland 2006

Director:

Ragnar Bragason

Producers: Gísli Örn Gardarsson

Hlynur Kristjánsson

Ingvar E. Sigurdsson

Nanna Kristín

Magnúsdottir

Nína Dögg

Filippusdóttir Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Ragnar Bragason

Víkingur Kristjánsson

Screenwriters:

Ragnar Bragason

Gísli Örn Gardarsson

Nína Dögg

Filippusdóttir Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

And the cast

Cinematographer: Bergsteinn Björgúlfsson

Film Editor: Sverrir Kristjánsson

Music:

Pétur pór Benediktsson

Cast: Gísli Örn Gardarsson

Nína Dögg

Filippusdóttir Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Andri Snær Helgason

Margrét Helga Jóhannesdóttir

Running Time:

93 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Icelandic, with English subtitles

International Sales:

The Works International

Print Source:

The Works International

Film Website: children-movie.com

Selected Filmography: Love Is in the Air (2004)

Fiasco (2000)

Christmas Tree Upside Down

Obarnata Elha US Premiere

monday may 28 9:00 Pm

saturday June 2 1:00 Pm harvard

Six disparate stories are connected only by a Christmas Tree that was cut down in the Bulgarian mountains and hauled through the drop-dead gorgeous landscapes of that country. In the first story, “The Calf,” we meet people who have lived abroad and have returned home feeling rootless and distanced. The neighborhood comes together and a calf is killed for a birthday celebration. “The Wooden Angel” is about a young pregnant girl who arrives from a village with no place to go. Simple and sympathetic, people want to help her but she follows her own path and we leave her on a hillside watching a trance-inducing mass dance. The third story is surprisingly about Socrates in Ancient Greece before he dies from drinking poison, and is made up of dialogues regarding ideas of freedom and imprisonment. The fourth story, “The Sailboat,” is centered on a gypsy family who arrives on the coast, makes camp and then departs. The fifth story is the “The Boar” about a 50-year-old who still listens to Deep Purple at night and cannot find family happiness. The sixth story, “The Drum” reminds people of the continuous dance that someday will call us to celebrate. The huge Christmas Tree, which links the stories together, finally finds a resting place in the center of Sofia, the capital city, and becomes a metaphor for the fragile equilibrium Bulgaria has attained after 10 years of post-socialist transition.

Awards:

Karlovy Vary 2006 (Grand Jury Special Prize)

Bulgaria/ Germany 2006

Directors:

Ivan Cherkelov

Vassil Jivkov

Producers:

Rossitsa Valkanova

Jens Körner

Screenwriters:

Ivan Cherkelov

Vassil Jivkov

Cinematographer:

Rali Ratschev

Film Editor:

Gergana Zlatanova

Cast:

Alexandra Vassileva

Slava Doycheva

Georgi Cherkelov

Krassimir Dokov

Running Time: 127 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Bulgarian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

MDC International GmbH

Print Source:

MDC International

GmbH

Film Website: www.mdc-int.de

Confession of Pain Seung sing

Wednesday June 13 4:00 Pm

friday June 15 10:00 Pm nePtune theatre

After last year’s highly enjoyable street-racing flick Initial D, directors Andrew Lau & Alan Mak return to the crime-story genre that established their reputations. Their new film begins at Christmas in Hong Kong with detectives Bong (Takeshi Kaneshiro) and Hei (Tony Leung) engaged in a sting operation. After they successfully accomplish their mission, Bong returns home to find his wife dead by suicide. Three years later, Bong, still haunted by his wife’s death, is an alcoholic private investigator. When Hei’s father-in-law, a wealthy industrialist, is murdered, Hei’s wife Susan enlists Bong’s aid with the case. According to the police report, the murderers were a pair of junkies later found dead in their slum apartment. But as Bong visits both crime scenes, he finds the victims shared a past connection in Macau, and the evidence points to a third perpetrator responsible for both sets of deaths. Meanwhile, someone else appears to be stalking and terrorizing Susan, now the sole heir to her father’s fortune. A perfect Cantonese blend of Raymond Carver and James M. Cain, directors Lau & Mak perfectly transpose a classic noir plot into their high energy, tongue-in-cheek style. Like their celebrated Infernal Affairs trilogy, Confessions of Pain goes beneath the violence to explore not only its causes and implications, but also the deeper morality from which it is bred.

Hong Kong 2007

Directors:

Andrew Lau

Alan Mak

Producers:

Andrew Lau

Cheung Hong-tat

Screenwriters:

Felix Chong

Alan Mak

Cinematographers:

Lai Yiu Fai

Andrew Lau

Film Editor:

Azrael Chung

Music:

Chan Kwong-wing

Cast:

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Takeshi Kaneshiro

Shu Qi

Xu Jinglei

Chapman To

Running Time:

110 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Mandarin and Cantonese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Media Asia Distribution

Print Source:

Media Asia Distribution

Film Website: confessionofpain.com

Selected

Filmography:

Initial D (2005)

Infernal Affairs II (2003)

Infernal Affairs (2002)

lincoln square

Pacific Place cinemas

exit

Congorama

monday June 4 6:45 Pm

Wednesday June 6 4:15 Pm

The surprise winner of five of the top prizes at this year’s Quebec Film Awards, Congorama announces the arrival of a bright new star from north of the border, director Philippe Falardeau, chief architect of this sly comedy. Michel is a Belgian inventor, living with his Congolese wife and young son, and misunderstood by his employer. His father (veteran French actor Jean-Pierre Cassel) informs Michel, at 42, that he was an adopted child and was actually born in Quebec. Inventing a professional excuse, he heads to Canada, but fails to find his biological family. Just as he is about to give up and return home, he encounters Louis, owner of an anachronistic electric car, and himself the son of a brilliant inventor, whose revolutionary research Louis is determined to bring to light.

On the road to Montreal, they have an accident that will change not only their lives, but also the future of the automobile industry. A satisfyingly clever comedy with an intricate narrative design, Congorama is graced by a wonderful central performance from Olivier Gourmet, best known for his work with Belgian brothers Jean-Luc and Pierre Dardenne (La Promesse), here displaying a previously unsuspected gift for light comedy. The film’s climactic leap into a near-mystical realm suggests that nothing, however unlikely, should be mistaken for coincidence, and that maybe an elaborate cosmic joke is being played out, as hidden bloodlines run deep and lost birthrights have a way of reasserting themselves.

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

Canada/ Belgium/ France

2006

Director:

Philippe Falardeau

Producers:

Luc Déry

Kim McCraw

Screenwriter:

Philippe Falardeau

Cinematographer: André Turpin

Film Editor: Frédérique Broos

Music:

Jarby McCoy

Cast:

Olivier Gourmet

Paul Ahmarani

Claudia Tagbo

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Gabriel Arcand

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

The Works

International

Print Source:

The Works International

Film Website: congorama-lefilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

The Left Hand Side of the Fridge (2000) Pâté chinois (1997)

Dans Paris

sunday June 3 9:00 Pm

lincoln square

thursday June 7 9:30 Pm siff cinema

Writer/director Christopher Honoré fashions an alluringly unpretentious small drama about two brothers and their father. Mirko is an aging pensioner living in a small Parisian flat with his younger son Jonathan – a lazy student who spends more time in women’s beds than in class. In the wake of his separation, eldest son Paul moves back in with his father, displacing Jonathan from his room, and refuses to get out of bed. His father worries that Paul might fall victim to the same despair that led to his sister’s suicide. Jonathan tries to rouse his brother’s spirits by continually calling Paul’s mobile phone throughout the day with status reports of his attempts to make it to the Bon Marché, and the women he meets along the way. But one night, Paul finds himself on the edge of a bridge over the River Seine. Though the subject matter may sound bleak, Honoré handles his material with a delightfully playful touch: Jonathan breaks the fourth wall at the film’s beginning to offer an introduction; a montage of Paul and Anna’s relationship presents scenes of the past, present, and future intermingling amongst each other. But Honoré keeps these flourishes from being mere whimsy by underpinning each scene with real emotional resonance – nowhere better displayed than in a beautifully set-up and executed duet that makes for a heartbreakingly effective dénouement.

France

2006

Director:

Christophe Honoré

Producer:

Paolo Branco

Screenwriter:

Christophe Honoré

Cinematographer:

Jean-Louis Vialard

Film Editor: Chantal Hymans

Music:

Alex Beaupain

Cast:

Romain Duris

Louis Garrel

Joana Preiss

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Gemini Films

Print Source:

IFC First Take

Film Website: dansparis-lefilm.com

Selected

Filmography: Me mare (2004)

17 Times Cécile Cassard (2002)

DarkBlueAlmostBlack

Azul Oscuro, Casi Negro

saturday June 2 1:30 Pm

lincoln square

tuesday June 5 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Nose to the grindstone at college, long hard hours at work as a janitor, caring for his strokeridden father and jailbird brother; Jorge has spent the last few years working hard, with offhours entertainment limited to rooftop sessions with his best friend Israel. Now planted firmly in his 20s, responsibilities building and the paths before him winnowing down, Jorge’s ready to strike out on his own. His head is full of dreams of becoming a businessman, his heart is being won over by Paula, a con-artist associate of his brother Antonio. But his soul knows there is only one true catalyst that can spur him on his new direction: a suit that hangs in a neighborhood shop window, its color shifting in the light from deep sea to midnight sky. Director Daniel Sánchez Arévalo weaves an absorbing and occasionally gritty drama—spiced with healthy dollops of comedy—that chronicles Jorge’s attempts to form his identity while posing questions about love and morality in these complex times. Sporting visual flair by the yard and a plot that never unfurls in the expected ways, DarkBlueAlmostBlack is one of the most assured first features of the year. Arévalo won Best Directorial Debut at the Stockholm Film Festival.

Spain 2006

Director:

Daniel Sanchez

Arévalo

Producer:

José Antonio Félez

Screenwriter:

Daniel Sánchez

Arévalo

Cinematographer:

Juan Carlos Gómez

Film Editor:

Nacho Ruiz Capillas

Music:

Pascal Gaigne

Cast:

Quim Gutiérrez

Marta Etura

Antonio de la Torre

Héctor Colomé

Raúl Arévalo

Eva Pallarés

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales: Sogepaq International

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website: www.azuloscuro casinegro.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Dasepo Naughty Girls

Dasepo Sonyo

US Premiere

monday June 4 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

Wednesday June 6 4:15 Pm egyPtian theatre

As Dasepo Naughty Girls opens, a substitute informs the class that their regular teacher is absent due to contracting an STD–syphilis, to be specific. One-by-one, nearly every member of the class excuses themselves to go seek medical attention. Only Cyclops, a hideous one-eyed boy and the school’s only virgin, is left behind. Cue musical number over the opening credits! Which is to say, it’s just another madcap day at No Use High School. Among the student body is Poor Girl, so named because she carries around the spirit of Poverty on her back, literally. The crush of Poor Girl’s life is Anthony, the son of rich foreign diplomats, whose shallowness and vanity comes crashing down when he meets Two Eyes, the gorgeous sister of Cyclops. But Two Eyes is not all that she seems, which leaves Anthony extremely confused but no less enthusiastic. In the meantime, Poor Girl becomes an internet celebrity after her transvestite friend Big Razor Sis uses his cellphone to capture her sexy dancing performed at a cult ceremony. All of which only scratches the surface—did I mention the demon principal, a sado-masochistic teacher, a pyramid-selling pyramid scheme, virgin chips and karaoke sing-a-longs? Based on a popular online comic strip, Dasepo Naughty Girls is a candy-colored, cinematic confection that skewers teeny-bopper youth culture, religion and sexual mores with a joyous irreverence not seen in Asian cinema since cult favorite Happiness of the Katakuris

South Korea 2006

Director:

E J-yong

Producer:

Ahn Dong-kyul

Screenwriter:

E J-Yong

Cinematographer:

Chung Jung-hong

Film Editors:

Choi Jae-keun

Uhm Jin-hwa

Music:

Jang Young-gyu

Cast:

Kim Ok-bin

Lee Kyun

Park Jin-woo

Running Time:

103 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Korean, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

Mirovision Inc.

Print Source:

Mirovision Inc.

Selected

Filmography:

Untold Scandal (2003)

Soon Ae Boh (2000)

Jungsa (1998)

Day Watch

Dnevnoi dozor

North American Premiere

friday June 8 9:30 Pm

sunday June 10 9:15 Pm

In this sequel to last year’s blockbuster Russian film Night Watch, the forces of the Light and the Dark continue their eternal struggle: each side consisting of paranormally gifted beings who are bound by a centuries old truce to protect the innocent Normals among whom the Others live hidden. As the film opens, its rough-edged hero Anton is busy on patrol, training a new member of the Night Watch—a powerful but headstrong Other named Svetlana—when they receive a call concerning the attack of a human by a Dark Other. The pair pursues the perpetrator, only for Anton to discover it is his own son Yegor, whose decision to join the Dark formed the climax of the previous film. Desperate not to see his son punished for this crime, Anton bends to pressure from the Dark to remove and destroy the evidence. However, when the Dark agent who manipulated Anton into this act is found dead, the evidence points to Anton, and the Day Watch begins its pursuit of him. Realizing Anton’s danger, his superiors send him “undercover” (through a plot twist too juicy to be revealed here), where he begins his search for an artifact that can literally rewrite history, and may even be able to give him a normal life again. For fans of its predecessor, Day Watch broadens the existing scope and themes, all the while managing to pack in even more thrills, chills and chases as it heads towards its Moscow-shattering climax.

Russia 2007

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Producers:

Konstantin Ernst

Anatoly Maximov

Screenwriters:

Sergei Lukyanenko

Timur Bekmambetov

Alexander Talal

Cinematographer:

Sergei Trofimov

Film Editor:

Dmitri Kiselev

Music:

Yuri Poteyenko

Cast:

Konstantin Khabensky

Mariya Poroshina

Aleksey Chadov

Gosha Kutsenko

Igor Lifanov

Zhanna Friske

Running Time:

132 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35 mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Fox Searchlight

Print Source: Fox Searchlight

Film Website: foxsearchlight.com/ daywatch

Selected

Filmography: Night Watch (2004) The Arena (2001)

Death at a Funeral

tuesday may 29 7:00 Pm

friday June 1 7:00 Pm

There’s nothing like a death to spoil a funeral. In this droll British comedy, Daniel and Robert are estranged brothers who pick up right where they left off bickering when they come together for their father’s funeral. As their eccentric family gathers, things start to go chaotically and hilariously awry, beginning with the wrong coffin being delivered. Old flings improperly show up, old rivalries are revived, a hallucinogenic concoction is mistaken for Valium, and whenever somebody tries to fix the situation, more problems are created. Then, as if it couldn’t get any worse, a man shows up threatening to reveal the deceased man’s shocking secret unless he gets some cash, and the two brothers are forced to figure out a way to deal with the blackmailer. As they pull out every stop to try and prevent any news from spreading to the guests, the ceremony turns into complete chaos. Frank Oz directs this fast-paced, irreverent comedy with a heart, spicing up the verbal wordplay with slapstick and physical humor. With tantalizing echoes of Arsenic and Old Lace and Gosford Park and a terrific international cast, Death at a Funeral joins the ranks of the great British comedies.

United Kingdom/ USA 2007

Director:

Frank Oz

Producers:

Sidney Kimmel

Laurence Malkin

Diana Phillips

Share Stallings

Screenwriter:

Dean Craig

Cinematographer: Oliver Curtis

Film Editors: Beverley Mills

Humphrey Dixon

Music:

Murray Gold

Cast:

Peter Dinklage

Matthew Macfadyen

Rupert Graves

Alan Tudyk

Ewan Bremner

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Sidney Kimmel

Entertainment

Print Source:

Sidney Kimmel

Entertainment

Selected Filmography:

The Stepford Wives (2004)

The Score (2001)

Bowfinger (1999)

In & Out (1997)

What About Bob? (1991)

Dirty Rotten

Scoundrels (1988)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

The Dark Crystal (1982)

nePtune theatre

lincoln square

nePtune theatre

lincoln square

Delirious

tuesday June 12 6:30 Pm

saturday June 16 4:00 Pm

nePtune theatre

egyPtian theatre

Long-time indie icon Steve Buscemi is not often upstaged, but Michael Pitt (Last Days) nigh on achieves it in this modern spin on All About Eve—transposed for the male gender—of a protégé who oversteps the mark. Les (Buscemi), a skuzzy, small-time celebrity photographer, burns to get that one great picture which will get him noticed. When he meets Toby, a homeless young man with no discernible direction except a vague desire to become an actor, Lee takes him on as his unpaid assistant to be trained in the noble arts of shutter-bugging, chasing hot tips and scoring party invites and goody bags. Luck intervenes for Toby when a photo op turns into a chance meeting with K’Harma Leeds, pop idol du jour. Instant chemistry sparks between them, causing friction with Toby’s newfound friend and benefactor. When Les betrays Toby’s trust, Toby turns his back on him. But although he finds fame for himself, the sweetly affable Toby ultimately cannot forget his humbler beginnings and those who helped him along the way. At a time when celebrity mania is at its zenith, Tom DiCillo delivers a high-energy, sharpwitted satire that pokes ironic fun at the absurd machine that perpetuates the game played out daily between publicists, paparazzi and stars.

Awards:

San Sebastian (Best Director, Screenplay)

USA

2006

Director:

Tom DiCillo

Producer:

Robert Salerno

Screenwriter:

Tom DiCillo

Cinematographer:

Frank G. DeMarco

Film Editor:

Paul Zucker

Music:

Anton Sanko

Cast:

Steve Buscemi

Michael Pitt

Alison Lohman

Anne Heche

Callie Thorne

Julia Garro

Gina Gershon

Running Time:

107 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Peace Arch Films

Print Source:

Peace Arch

Entertainment

Selected

Filmography:

Double Whammy (2001)

The Real Blonde (1997)

Box of Moonlight (1996)

Living in Oblivion (1995)

Johnny Suede (1991)

Dol

North American Premiere

sunday June 10 6:30 Pm siff cinema

tuesday June 12 4:00 Pm siff cinema

Dol opens on a sign that reads, “Happy are those who can call themselves Turks.” That the message stands in a Kurdish village under Turkish military control is the first warning of the ethnic and national hazards that abound in this autonomous region of Kurdistan bordered by Iraq, Iran and Turkey. The story begins with the wedding of Azad and Nazenin; when an armed skirmish breaks out Azad has to escape, leaving his fiancée behind. Fleeing through the mountainous regions, he embarks on an odyssey that takes him through three countries without ever leaving Kurdish territory. Azad roams through a landscape of rugged, even bizarre beauty looking for his way back home. Music of the region figures prominently—the title itself could be translated as drummer, though it also means valley—as the myriad people encountered on this surreal journey embrace what gaiety they can. With a rich palate of primary color and majestic windblown barrens (no coincidence that this movie’s director of photography is Theo Angelopolous’ longtime collaborator Andreas Sinanos), Dol explores its unusual setting with a gravely poetic eye. This richly shot, surreal road movie elegantly explores the shattering effect boundry disputes and war have on those drawn apart by border lines.

Autonomous Region of Kurdistan/ France/ Germany

2007

Director:

Hiner Saleem

Producer:

Sivan Salim

Screenwriter: Hiner Saleem

Cinematographer: Andreas Sinanos

Film Editors:

Dora Mantzoros

Bonita Papastathi

Music:

Vedat Yildirim

Özgür Akgül

Mehmet Erdem

Cast:

Nazmi Kirik

Belcim Bilgin

Omer Ciaw Sin

Rojin Ulker

Tarik Akreyî

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Mitosfilm

Print Source:

Mitosfilm

Selected

Filmography:

Kilometer Zero (2006)

Vodka Lemon (2003)

Beyond Our Dreams (2000)

Drama/Mex

saturday June 16 4:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 17 7:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Acapulco, the former jewel in the crown of Mexico’s Pacific coast, is now a decadent, fading tourist resort and a stiflingly small town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. It serves as the ideal backdrop to Gerardo Naranjo’s engrossing second feature, the nature and location of which provide the key to the title. Three stories set in one night interweave in a highly inventive narrative structure, as each tale moves on to the next by returning to an earlier moment in time, then jumping forward again, building momentum and tension throughout the film. In one, teenage Fernanda can’t resist the dubious charms of her ex-boyfriend, the thieving Chano. Next, we meet Jaime, a middle-aged loser holed up in a cabaña after stealing the company payroll and trying to find the guts to end it all. Here he meets 15-year old Tigrillo, a deceptively cunning waif who has just run away from her home and is looking for a mark to swindle. Their hilarious, seesaw relationship is one of the highlights of the film. Infused with an infectious, youthful energy and shot with a slightly grainy, breezy handheld camerawork that imparts a thoroughly modern feel, Drama/Mex chronicles such themes as love and betrayal, grace and humanity with a sincere, novel touch that keeps the film well within the viewer’s attention span, if not wanting to stay with its memorable characters just a little while longer.

Mexico 2006

Director:

Gerardo Naranjo

Producers:

Gabriel Garcia

Santiago Paredes

Miriana Moro

Screenwriter:

Gerardo Naranjo

Cinematographer:

Tobias Datum

Film Editor:

Yibrán Asuad

Music:

Julio Preciado

Chimo Bayo

Cast:

Miriana Moro

Fernando Becerril

Diana García

Emilio Valdés

Juan Pablo Castañeda

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales: Roissy Films

Print Source:

IFC First Take

Film Website: revolcadero.com/ dramamex

Selected

Filmography: Malachance (2003)

Dry Season

Daratt

tuesday June 12 9:30 Pm siff cinema

thursday June 14 4:00 Pm lincoln square

One of six New Crowned Hope films commissioned by Peter Sellars and the city of Vienna to celebrate Mozart’s 250th anniversary, Dry Season shares a theme, the need for forgiveness and reconciliation, with the composer’s “La clemenza di Tito.” Set in the aftermath of Chad’s 40-year civil war and the nationwide amnesty for all combatants, the film centers on 15-year old Atim, whose father was killed in the conflict even before Atim was born. Given a gun by his grandfather when deemed to be old enough, Atim heads for the capital, bent on revenge for his father’s death, amnesty or not. Perplexed to find that the purported killer, Nassara, is a gruffly regal man who now bakes baguettes for a living, Atim finds himself drawn into Nassara’s life, postpones his revenge and becomes apprenticed to the older man who treats him as the son he never had. Nassara is surprisingly patient with Atim’s strange behavior-including an attempt to seduce his pregnant young wife, Aicha-though eventually matters are forced to a head in a way that is sharp, fast and unexpected. Leavened with moments of quiet humor, director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s spare aesthetic is uniquely suited to the parched, war-ravaged landscape of Chad, and complemented by an evocative score by the acclaimed Senegalese musician Wasis Diop. Haroun’s Bye, Bye Africa and Abouna established him as one of Africa’s most important new directors. With Dry Season, his signature style of controlled emotion and distilled narrative reaches a new level of refinement.

Awards:

Venice 2006 (Special Jury Prize)

Chad/ Belgium/ France/ Austria

2006

Director:

Mahamat Saleh

Haroun

Producer:

Abderrahmane Sissako

Screenwriter: Mahamat-Saleh

Haroun

Cinematographer: Abraham Haile Biru

Film Editor:

Marie-Hélène Dozo

Music:

Wasis Diop

Cast:

Ali Bacha Barkaï

Youssouf Djaoro

Aziza Hisseine

Running Time:

96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French and Arabic, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Pyramide International

Print Source:

Artmattan

Selected

Filmography:

Abouna/Our Father (2002)

Bye, Bye Africa (1998)

Eagle vs. Shark

thursday may 31 7:00 Pm

friday June 1 4:00 Pm

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

The title of this hilarious deadpan romantic comedy refers to an animal-themed videogamers’ costume party, and the actual characters behind the façade of these dangerous predators are anything but cunning and vicious. Eagle vs. Shark tells the offbeat misfit love story of self-aggrandizing, mullet-sporting computer store geek Jarrod (Jemaine Clement) and sweet, socially-challenged fast food slinger Lily (Loren Horsley). When Lily follows her mad crush on Jarrod and crashes his party, it leads to the oddest courtship and post-videogame hookup ever. Love is born. But Jarrod has other items on his plate, becoming obsessed with his plan to take ultimate revenge on the bully who tortured him in high school a decade back. Soon Lily and her brother are driving Jarrod to his hometown to confront his childhood nemesis. As he prepares to exact his revenge, Jarrod’s selfabsorption grows out of control and Lily is left to quietly gather her own strength. A great soundtrack by Phoenix Foundation and vivid stop-motion animation accentuate the characters’ pixilated worldview. Director Taika Waititi, whose Oscar Nominated Two Cars One Night won SIFF’s 2003 Best Live Action Short award. (ages 13 and up)

New Zealand 2007

Director:

Taika Waititi

Producers:

Ainsley Gardiner

Cliff Curtis

Screenwriter: Taika Waititi

Cinematographer:

Adam Clark

Film Editor: Jonno WoodfordRobinson

Music:

The Phoenix Foundation

Cast: Loren Horsley

Jemaine Clement

Craig Hall

Rachel House

Brian Sergent

Joel Tobeck

Running Time: 93 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

New Zealand Film

Commission

Print Source: Miramax Films

Film Website: www.eaglevsshark.net

Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

The Elephant and the Sea

North American Premiere

thursday may 31 4:45 Pm

saturday June 2 9:30 Pm harvard exit

A desolate fishing village by the sea. Has there been a disaster? A deadly epidemic? Or was it always a benighted place where nothing thrives? What happened to the elephant? Was there an elephant? The Elephant and the Sea blithely leaves all such questions unanswered, embarking as it does on different narrative threads, drifting for a lovely while, then abandoning them in pursuit of other ideas. Together the resulting impressions and fragments of stories add up a to charming, intriguing film. Director Woo Ming Jin doffs his cinematic hat to the Malaysia-born Tsai Ming-liang with this detached, almost silent evocation of life in a tropical coastal village far off the lucrative tourist trade. The inhabitants try to drown their sorrows, often at the local whorehouse, or work on ingenious ways to earn a living. Take young Yun Ding, for instance, who strews planks with nails on the road so he can mend the punctured tires. Or dour fisherman Ah Ngau, marooned at sea for days, who returns to find his wife dead, after which he becomes even more taciturn. But in true Tsai fashion the characters are not as isolated as they think, and there is comedy in the way we see what they cannot in the greater scheme of things. Wrapping the entire enterprise with a tangible air of melancholy and saturated color, Woo displays an impressive mastery of atmospherics. And he does finally give us an elephant. Or is it a dream?

Malaysia 2007

Director:

Woo Ming Jin

Producers:

Woo Ming Jin

Ueda Tomoko

Screenwriter:

Woo Ming Jin

Cinematographer:

Chan Hai Liang

Film Editor:

Woo Ming Jin

Music: Ronnie Khoo

Cast:

Berg Lee

Chung Kok Keong

Ng Meng Hui

Cheong Wai Loon

Tan Chui Mui

Beatle Yap

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Greenlight Pictures

Print Source:

Greenlight Pictures

Selected

Filmography:

Monday Morning Glory (2005)

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Eternal Summer

Shengxia Guangnian

sunday June 3 9:15 Pm

thursday June 7 4:30 Pm lincoln square

Graced with sensitive performances from an attractive cast, Eternal Summer takes an affecting look at first love. Set in Taiwan, it begins in the verdant fields of Hualian before moving to bustling Taipei. The studious Jonathan and mischievous Shane are grade school classmates. After Shane harasses a fellow student, their teacher asks Jonathan to befriend him so that Shane can benefit from his influence. The two opposites hit it off. Years pass and the teenagers remain inseparable, yet the athletic Shane is still a poor student, while the increasingly withdrawn Jonathan is starting to fall behind. Then Carrie, a transfer from Hong Kong, enters the picture. She’s attracted to Jonathan, but his feelings for her are less ardent. Nonetheless, Shane is jealous of the time they’re spending together. He’s also interested in Carrie. She doesn’t want to come between the two, so she makes Shane a challenge she’s certain he can’t meet—she’ll go out with him if he gets into university, which forces Jonathan to face up to his true feelings about his friend. Only 26, Leste Chen (The Heirloom) has an eye for the striking image and an inventive accomplice in cinematographer Charlie Lam. Chen’s adaptation of Chi-yao Wang’s novel was a sensation in his native country, garnering four Golden Horse nominations, including a win for Bryant Chang’s fine turn as Jonathan. An affecting look at young love—both gay and straight— Chen’s second feature was an award-winning sensation in his native country.

Taiwan 2006

Directors:

Leste Chen

Patrick Mao Huang

Producers:

Leste Chen

Yang Hsu-fen

Patrick Huang

Screenwriter:

Cheng-ping Hsu

based on the novel by Chi-yao Wang

Cinematographer: Charlie Lam

Film Editor:

Hsiao-yun Gu

Music:

Jeffrey Cheng

Cast:

Bryant Chang

Kate Yeung

Hsiao-chuan Chang

Running Time:

95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Three Dots

Entertainment

Print Source:

Picture This!

Entertainment

Selected

Filmography: The Heirloom (2005)

Pacific Place cinemas

Euphoria

Ejfroija

tuesday June 12 4:00 Pm

saturday June 16 9:45 Pm

Euphoria opens with a wild-eyed motorcyclist driving off the road and into the Andrew Wyethlike landscape of the Russian steppes. We meet Pasha (Maksim Ushakov), who declares his love for Vera (Polina Agureyeva) after they share furtive drunken glances at a neighbor’s wedding. Is there such a thing as love at first sight? And if there is, what is Pasha going to do about it? You see, Vera is a prisoner of her brutal husband, trapped in the steppes’ endless landscape. Like a pioneer woman of the American West, she’s loosing her mind to empty spaces. Ivan Vyrypaev’s film is about destiny and unexpected love, a love full of primitive instincts and emotions. Pasha and Vera’s movements are accompanied by the background music of a tango. A tango? A tango that is just as much a dance of death as it is a dance of living. Called a “provincial tragedy,” it is also a road movie in the sense that we travel through long intersecting roads and meet odd mixtures of broken people who, in spite of everything, attempt to live life to the fullest. Is that soulful enough for you? What is euphoria anyway but the height of emotion, a no-holding-back leap into unrestrained feelings? Of course there are serious consequences to such abandon. With a Western-style finale, Vyrypaev gives us a stunning fable of timeless passion and revenge. Somewhere deep inside, euphoria lives in us all.

Preceded by At A Still Point

Croatia, 2006, 15 minutes directed by Luka Rukavina It’s been a year exactly since Daniel died. When a group of his friends meet for dinner, try as they might, they just can’t seem to avoid the empty place setting.

Russia 2006

Director:

Ivan Vyrypaev

Producers:

Giya Lordkipanidze

Aleksandr Shein

Screenwriter:

Ivan Vyrypaev

Cinematographer:

Andrey Naidyonov

Film Editor:

Igor Malakov

Music:

Aidar Gainullin

Cast:

Polina Agureyeva

Maksim Ushakov

Mikhail Okunev

Yaroslavna Serova

Running Time: 74 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

The Match Factory

Print Source:

The Match Factory

Film Website: eng.euphoria-film.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Exiled Fangshu

sunday may 27 9:15 Pm

thursday may 31 4:45 Pm

When the cast was announced for Johnnie To’s new film Exiled, many fans hoped it would be the long awaited sequel to his international hit The Mission (SIFF 2000). While that’s not the case, To does revisit a similar set of characters and themes, making it easy to imagine the events of the previous film as the backstory for this one. Set in Macau, just prior to the former Portuguese colony’s turnover to China, the film begins with Wo, a former hit man who hopes to build a new, quieter life with his wife and newborn. However, Wo’s relocation has not gone unnoticed: his former employer Boss Fay—whom Wo unwisely attempted to assassinate—sends two hit men, Blaze and Fat, to dispatch him. The pair arrives only to find another gangster duo, Tai and Cat, who have vowed to protect Wo. After a tense initial standoff the old friends manage to place their professional differences aside to enjoy an evening’s dinner and reminiscence. But there are loyalties and then there are loyalties, and, after all, each of these old friends still has a gun. Exiled is filled with the grand operatic shootouts and black humor that made To’s reputation, while also offering a piercing examination of loyalty, duty and mortality.

Hong Kong

2006

Director:

Johnny To

Producer:

Johnny To

Screenwriters:

Szeto Kam-yuen

Yip Tin-shing

Cinematographer: Cheng Siu-keung

Film Editor: David Richardson

Music: Dave Klotz

Guy Zerafa

Cast:

Anthony Wong

Francis Ng

Nick Cheung

Simon Yam

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Cantonese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Media Asia Distribution

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Film Website:

exiledthemovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Election 2 (2006)

Election (2005)

Yesterday Once More (2004)

Love on a Diet (2001)

Wu Yen (2001)

Needing You (2000)

The Mission (1999)

Loving You (1995)

Heroic Trio (1993)

All About Ah-Long (1989)

Pacific Place cinemas

egyPtian theatre

nePtune theatre

lincoln square

Fair Play

saturday may 26 1:15 Pm

thursday may 31 7:00 Pm

nePtune theatre

egyPtian theatre

The competitive nature of office politics is given an innovative approach through the extracurricular activities of sports in this brilliantly controlled and cynical dark comedy that takes place entirely outside the office. During a weekend of rowing on the river, Alexandre, a junior manager who has recently failed to land an important contract for his company, is lectured by Jean-Claude, a cocky, ambitious colleague, on the importance of ruthlessness in business affairs. He is then confronted on the squash court by his boss, Charles, who tells him that he is fired, but will be given a second chance if he can win the match. Next up is a crosscountry run during which Jean-Claude digs out the dirt on Charles from Nicole, a secretary with whom he has been flirting. Charles in turn, during a game of golf with the company chairman, Edouard—who happens also to be his father-in-law—is informed that he is a whisker away from being dismissed, not just because of his pursuit of his secretary but also because of the poisonous atmosphere he has created among his subordinates. The rivalry of sports is overtly used as a metaphor for the rituals of domination and humiliation that often occurs in the office. The film builds to a gripping climax and wittingly shows how working practices can easily warp personal standards and the struggle that is often endured in the competitive arena of corporate culture.

Awards:

San Sebastian 2006 (New Directors Award)

France 2006

Director:

Lionel Bailliu

Producer:

Manuel Munz

Screenwriter:

Lionel Bailliu

Cinematographer:

Christophe Paturange

Film Editors:

Sylvain Dupuy

Lionel Bailliu

Music:

Laurent Juillet

Denis Penot

Cast:

Benoît Magimel

Marion Cotillard

Jérémie Renier

Eric Savin

Mélanie Doutey

Running Time: 99 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

TF1 International

Print Source:

TF1 International

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Falling Fallen

sunday June 3 9:00 Pm

tuesday June 5 2:00 Pm

Acclaimed director Barbara Albert, who wowed audiences with Free Radicals, wrote this Altmanesque portrait of female friendship for five actresses who are among the most vital performers in contemporary Austrian cinema. It has been 14 years since five schoolgirl friends have seen each other, when the death of a beloved teacher reunites them in their small hometown. After the funeral, the women gather to reflect on all that has changed over the years while discovering what it is that has stayed the same. Nina is about to have a baby; Brigitte has become a teacher herself; Alex works at an unemployment office; Carmen is an actor; and Nicole is a mother on temporary leave from prison. They come to regretfully realize how much they’ve lost touch not only with one another but also with some of their youthful aspirations. Old tensions and wounds are reopened but in an inspired exploration of true friendship together the women confront the pain of innocence left behind and make peace with the hand that life has dealt them. Albert displays her powerful gift for showing the delicate interconnectedness, despite the passing of time, which gives meaning to our lives. With a graceful sense of humor Albert has created characters of dignity, even in the least dignified of circumstances. Falling, boosted by tremendous performances from the leading ladies, is another feather in Albert’s cap.

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Austria

2006

Director:

Barbara Albert

Producer:

Barbara Albert

Screenwriter:

Barbara Albert

Cinematographer:

Bernhard Keller

Film Editor:

Karina Ressler

Cast:

Nina Proll

Birgit Minichmayr

Ursula Strauss

Kathrin Resetarits

Gabriela Hegedüs

Ina Strnad

Running Time: 88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Films Distribution

Print Source:

Kino International

Film Website: falling-themovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Free Radicals (2003)

Northern Skirts (1999) Somewhere Else (1997)

Pacific Place cinemas

Fido

Wednesday may 30 9:30 Pm

saturday June 2 9:15 Pm lincoln square

In this new golden age of zombie films, the genre has solidified to the point where it has given rise to its own sub-genre, the zom-com, into which Fido is the newest and one of the funniest. Set in a near future that looks suspiciously like the Eisenhower ’50s, the story looks under the town of Willard’s placid façade to reveal a darker reality: space dust is bringing the recent dead back to life. Fortunately, with the help of megacorporation ZomCon, zombies have become productive members of society—milkmen, gardeners, household servants—through the aid of the “domestication collar.” Enter Timmy Robinson, a friendless oddball in a straightlaced, conformist neighborhood. His father Bill (Dylan Baker) ignores him while his mother Helen (Carrie-Anne Moss) gently shuffles him away, channeling her marital frustrations into keeping-up-with-the-neighbors. When mom decides she needs help around the house, she brings in a new zombie, Fido (Billy Connolly), who quickly becomes Timmy’s best friend. When Fido’s collar briefly goes on the fritz, Mom and Dad hit the roof and the neighborhood is plunged into a minor wave of flesh eating. If Fido is going to stay, Timmy is going to have to keep a closer watch on him. In this must-see for fans of Shaun of the Dead and Night of the Living Dorks (SIFF 2005), director Andrew Currie manages to offer not only laughs but also shrewd social commentary on low-income employment as well as familial roles and relationships.

Canada

2006

Director:

Andrew Currie

Producers:

Blake Corbet

Mary Anne

Waterhouse

Screenwriters:

Robert Chomiak

Andrew Currie

Dennis Heaton

Cinematographer:

Jan Kiesser

Film Editor:

Roger Mattiussi

Music:

Don Macdonald

Cast:

Carrie-Anne Moss

Billy Connolly

Dylan Baker

Henry Czerny

Tim Blake Nelson

K’Sun Ray

Running Time: 91 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Lionsgate

Print Source:

Lionsgate

Film Website: fidothemovie.com

Selected Filmography: Mile Zero (2001)

Frozen City

Valkoinen Kaupunki

thursday June 14 9:30 Pm lincoln square

sunday June 17 9:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

A welcome addition to the many cinematic portraits of troubled taxi hacks, Frozen City portrays the spiraling misfortune of its protagonist with an unflinching but utterly humane eye. When devoted family man Veli-Matti’s marriage to Hanna falls apart, the formerly loving couple now obsessed with the desire to harm one another as much as possible, he moves to an apartment complex in the suburbs. But fleeing Helsinkii doesn’t solve his problems. Barred from his three children not merely by his bitter ex but also by court order, fired from his job as a taxi driver for erratic behavior, he returns to his new apartment to sit and brood. And think on his troubles. And tally his accumulated despairs and resentments. And wait. Till a crazy neighbor starts pounding on his door, complaining that his tacky curtains are disfiguring the entire housing estate. His family, painfully distant, become truly lost to him when Veli-Matti is convicted of manslaughter for an act of violence which, blind drunk at the time, he cannot remember committing. Janne Virtanen as the hulking, benighted Veli-Matti gives a performance of raw emotion and heart-rending pathos in this finely calibrated, turn-of-the-screw drama that marks director Aku Louhimies as one to keep a close eye out for the next time around.

Awards:

Karlovy Vary 2006 (FIPRESCI Prize, Cinema Europa Prize)

Finland 2006

Director:

Aku Louhimies

Producer: Markus Selin

Screenwriter: Rauno Ronkainen

Cinematographer: Samu Heikkilä

Film Editor: Samu Heikkilä

Cast: Janne Virtanen

Susanna Anteroinen

Aada Hämes

Santtu Nuutinen

Viivi Hämes

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales: Finnish Film Foundation

Print Source: Finnish Film Foundation

Selected

Filmography:

Frozen Land (2005) Lovers & Leavers (2002)

Restless (2000)

nePtune theatre

Gagarin’s Grandson

Vnuk Gagarina North American Premiere

sunday June 3 1:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Wednesday June 6 4:00 Pm lincoln square

This is a story about brothers, friendship and the end of preconceived notions. It’s also the directorial debut of Russian actor Andrey Panin (The Wedding, Oligarch). Talented artist Fyodor (Gennady Nazarov) is shocked to learn that he has a long-lost younger brother, Gena, living in an orphanage. To his further surprise, the brother turns out to be black and, what’s more, claims to be the grandson of the legendary Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Is it true? Does it even matter? Fyodor decides to take Gena to live with him and a tender relationship starts. As Gena struggles to be loved and accepted in Fyodor’s world, he manages to make a mess of several art sales lovingly organized by Fyodor’s possessive ex-girlfriend (Natalya Rogozhkina), and his frustrations build as things keep going wrong. 13-year old actor Dane Lukombo, whose parents came to Moscow from Angola when he was eight, is a rare find, and his portrayal of Gena radiates wise charm and true Russian soul. “Russian soul has nothing to do with the color of your skin,” he says to the artist’s best friend Tolyan, played by the director. As Fyodor begins to see that the world around him might be unwilling to accept his brother, it’s Tolyan who comes to teach him the essential rule of love. As it turns out, you never know who will support you in your time of need. (ages 14 and up)

Russia

2007

Director:

Andrey Panin

Producer:

Reuben Dishdishyan

Screenwriter:

Natalia Nasareva

Cinematographer:

Artur Gimpel

Cast:

Gennady Nazarov

Natalia Rogozhkina

Andrey Panin

Dane Lukombo

Sergey Ugrumov

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Central Partnership

Print Source:

Central Partnership

Gandhi My Father

World Premiere

thursday June 14 6:30 Pm

lincoln square saturday June 16 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Mahatma Gandhi has always been compelling, complex and strangely contemporary. Sir Richard Attenborough introduced many of us to the great soul, but somewhere in the shadows of this great man lived his son, roaming the streets of India like a beggar, converting to Islam as a rebellion, reconverting to Hinduism as a penance and finally drinking himself to death. Based on the play Mahatma vs. Gandhi, veteran theatre actor/director Feroz Khan’s stunning debut film brings a new vision of one of history’s greatest men. Restoring humanity to a figure never comfortable being cast merely as a saint, this exploration of the great statesman’s troubled relationship with his eldest son Harilal is already one of the most anticipated and controversial films of the year in its home country. Harilal Gandhi (the great Akshaye Khanna) carried his Gandhi identity as a curse, and while Mahatma Gandhi (played by Darshan Zariwala) could transform the soul of a nation he could not save the soul of his own son. Based on accounts of events drawn from newspaper articles and letters exchanged between Harilal and his father, Gandhi My Father presents a moving account of the turbulent relationship between the men. Gandhi became a greater human being as he struggled personally, socially and politically, but always put his principles and quest for human dignity above everything else. Produced by Anil Kapoor, and with stunning pre-independence era period recreation and a star turn for Khanna, this is a boldly intimate portrait of a traditionally epic subject.

India

2007

Director:

Feroz Khan

Producer:

Anil Kapoor

Screenwriter:

Feroz Khan

Cinematographer:

David Macdonald

Film Editor: Sreekar Prasad

Music: Piyush Kanojia

Cast: Darshan Jariwala

Akshaye Khanna

Bhumika Chawla

Shefali Shah

Vinay Jain

Daniel Janks

Running Time:

120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hindi, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Mitropoulos Films

Print Source:

Mitropoulos Films

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Getting Home

Luo ye gui gen

US Premiere

sunday June 10 11:00 am

nePtune theatre

sunday June 17 6:45 Pm egyPtian theatre

The latest offering from Zhang Yang, the winner of SIFF 2000’s New Director and Golden Space Needle Best Film awards for Shower, features a finely calibrated, straight-faced central performance by Mainland stage comedian Zhao Benshan and is marbled with cameos from some of China’s best character actors, turning this balancing act of the deeply humane and the slightly absurd into a veritable feast of acting. Zhao is an aging worker, barely making a living in the city of Shenzen. When his friend and colleague Liu suddenly dies, Zhao decides to take him back to their hometown, but not having money for a coffin he purchases two bus tickets and pretends that Liu has passed out drunk. When the bus is attacked by bandits, Zhao asks them to kill him so that he can stay with his dead friend forever. Touched by this display of loyalty, the robbers decide to let the bus go. But instead of thanking Zhao, the other passengers throw him and his dead friend off the bus. A series of further misadventures then befalls Zhao and his inert friend as the odyssey across China continues in this touching road moviecum-gentle comedy of manners. The film packs an emotional punch in its final reel when Zhao, nearing his destination, meets an intriguing bag lady who opens up a potential new life for him in the future he had ceased to believe in.

Awards:

Berlin 2007 (Ecumenical Prize)

China/Hong Kong 2006

Director:

Zhang Yang

Producers:

Stanley Tong

Er Yang

Zhang Yang

Screenwriters:

Zhang Yang

Wang Yao

Cinematographers:

Yu Lik Wai

Lai Yiu Fau

Film Editor:

Yang Hongyu

Cast:

Zhao Benshan

Hong Qiwen

Song Dandan

Guo Degang

Hu Jun

Sun Haiying

Xia Yu

Wu Ma

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales: Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

Fortissimo Films

Selected

Filmography: Sunflower (2005) Quitting (2001) Shower (1999)

Spicy Love Soup (1997)

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Ghosts

thursday may 31 4:30 Pm

June 4 9:30 Pm

Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield’s second fiction feature, Ghosts, is the true story of Britain’s horrific Morecambe Bay disaster of 2004, in which at least 21 members of a gang of illegal immigrant Chinese shellfish gatherers were drowned by an unpredictable tide. The film lifts the lid on the invisible workforce toiling for a pittance in the factories, warehouses and mudflats of England, and explores the workings of a clandestine economy that is supposedly illicit but is tacitly condoned. Broomfield’s master stroke is that he does all this with an authentic sense of looking through the eyes of his heroine, an impoverished Chinese woman who borrowed $25,000 to pay a local gang to smuggle her into the UK. Once there, after a harrowing six month journey, she is delivered to a brutish enforcer who pushes her into a chain of menial, back-breaking jobs, culminating in a placement on northwest England’s bleak coast delving for shellfish and at the mercy of three sets of authority figures: the UK immigration officials, her slimy procurer and the gang back at home who will kill her family members if she fails to repay them in time. The claustrophobic intensity of this fact-based fiction helps paint a grimly compelling picture of this modern equivalent of the Dust Bowl migrants, and the sight of the doomed workers stranded atop their van as the dark water creeps in around them is as chilling as any horror film. Knowing it really happened is simply heartbreaking.

United Kingdom 2006

Director:

Nick Broomfield

Producers:

Nick Broomfield

Jez Lewis

Screenwriters:

Nick Broomfield

Jez Lewis

Cinematographer:

Mark Wolf

Film Editor:

Peter Christelis

Cast:

Ai Qin Lin

Zhan Yu

Zhe Wei

Man Qin Wei

Yong Aing Zhai

Running Time:

96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in English and Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Bankside Films

Print Source:

Lantern Lane

Film Website: ghoststhemovie.co.uk

Selected

Filmography:

His Big White Self (2006)

Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) Biggie and Tupac (2002)

Kurt & Courtney (1998) Monster in a Box (1992)

Glue

Glue, historia adolescene en medio de la nada

friday may 25 4:30 Pm

may 28 9:45 Pm

This acute portrayal of life in a Patagonian teenage wasteland marks British-trained Alexis Dos Santos as an exciting harbinger of a new generation of Argentinean directors. Life at home is tough for 15-year old Lucas (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart): his father’s infidelities threaten his parents’ marriage, and the younger kids are a pain. He spends most of his time with his best friend, Nacho, playing in a band, riding bikes and obsessing about sex. When they meet Andrea, the three soon become fast friends, exchanging the kind of banal observations that all teenagers take for profundity, playing prankish games and stressing out over their bodily developments, real or imagined. A weekend stay at Lucas’ dad’s empty apartment in the city provides the opportunity for a glue-sniffing binge and the stage is set for some exploratory fooling around in pursuit of newfound desires. Dos Santos’ examination of his themes—experimentation with drugs, familial alienation, homoeroticism, sexual frustration and self-discovery—makes it one of the most astutely observed debuts in recent cinema, while a liberal sprinkling of hormonally charged Violent Femmes tracks amps up the teenaged rebellion quotient. Overall, however, Glue is a tender, vibrant portrayal of teendom that will rocket you back to that time when, despite life’s many confusions, your greatest fear was zits and your greatest responsibility was taking care of your bike.

Argentina/UK 2006

Director:

Alexis Dos Santos

Producers:

Soledad Gatti-Pascual

Alexis Dos Santos

Screenwriter:

Alexis Dos Santos

Cinematographer:

Natasha Braier

Film Editors:

Alexis Dos Santos

Ida Bregninge

Leonardo Brzezicki

Cast:

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart

Nahuel Viale

Ines Efron

Véronica Llinás

Running Time:

115 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

Bureau Film Company

Print Source:

Picture This!

Entertainment

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

egyPtian theatre monday

harvard exit

nePtune theatre monday

egyPtian theatre

Golden Door

Nuovomondo

friday may 25 7:00 Pm

egyPtian theatre

sunday may 27 4:00 Pm egyPtian theatre

From a desolate patch of Sicily, the Mancuso family embarks on the difficult journey to the New World, and to the modern conveniences and alienations of the twentieth century. Alongside hundreds of their countrymen, they have left behind their land, possessions and ancient mountain lifestyle in the hopes of securing a better tomorrow in a country dreamed upon but never seen—an earthly paradise where fruits grow perfect and huge and money sags low on the vine for easy picking. Their sea voyage is a series of unending trials, but the poor weather and cramped quarters can’t diminish their faith in their destination; accomplishing that requires a cold-hearted bureaucracy greeting them harshly at the door, and a sudden understanding of the uncertainty of their future. Writer-director Emanuele Crialese effectively conveys the hopes that sustain his characters, incorporating richly imaginative fantasy sequences that underscore the dedication common to the thousands of individual stories from this transformative time. With the help of gifted cinematographer Agnès Godard, Crialese fashions a mythic tale of discovery that thrives to the warm pulse of the period’s aspirations toward the golden door of opportunity, all the while understanding what surprises, pleasant and unpleasant, lay waiting once the handle was turned.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Grandhotel

saturday June 9 9:45 Pm

Italy/France 2006

Director:

Emanuele Crialese

Producers:

Fabrizio Mosca

Alexandre Mallet-Guy

Screenwriter:

Emanuele Crialese

Cinematographer:

Agnès Godard

Film Editor:

Maryline Monthieux

Music:

Antonio Castrigano

Cast:

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Vincenzo Amato

Aurora Quattrocchi

Vincent Schiavelli

Francesco Caslsa

Filippo Pucillo

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Italian and English, with English

subtitles

International Sales: Wild Bunch

Print Source:

Miramax Films

Film Website: www.wildbunch.biz

Selected Filmography: Respiro (2002)

Once We Were Strangers (1998)

egyPtian theatre

monday June 11 4:30 Pm lincoln square

A sweet, offbeat romantic comedy, Grandhotel is not a grandiose hotel full of antiques but a modern hotel perched high on a mountain pass in the Czech Republic on the border of Germany and Poland, overlooking the Czech town of Liberec. The action takes place in a 300-foot rotating hyperboloid tower built in the ’70s that houses a communications tower and a hotel. Vlasta Fleischman is a 30-year-old late bloomer and amateur meteorologist. He was born in Leberec and has been dreaming of leaving ever since. Obsessed with the weather, every day he checks the temperature and barometric pressure and he knows everything about clouds. Only birds and fools can rise any higher, and Fleischman wishes to be a bird. He thinks about flying away but he’s stuck in a kind of “lost in Bohemia” lethargy. Ilja, a chambermaid at the hotel, draws Fleischman’s thoughts back to earth. But she’s not really available, as she has a long-suffering relationship with Patka, an arrogant waiter. All characters are effectively trapped, their lives turning in circles in the grand hotel. It is a place flowing with clouds and human desires, a place between earth and sky. Says director Ondříček, “The location is a very magical place.… For us it was a kind of psychotherapy at three thousand feet above sea level. After the film, I’d say we are all different than before!”

Czech Republic 2006

Director:

David Ondˇríˇcek,

Producers:

Kryˇstof Mucha

David Ondˇríˇcek,

Screenwriters: Jaroslav Rudiš

Pavel Jech

Cinematographer: Richard Reˇricha

Film Editor: Michal Lánsky

Music:

Jan P. Muchow

Cast:

Marek Taclík

Klára Issová Jaroslav Plesl

Jaromír Dulava

Dita Zábranská

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Czech, German, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Lucky Man Films

Film Website: grandhotel-film.cz

Selected

Filmography:

One Hand Can’t Clap (2003)

Loners (2000) Septej (1996)

comAdobe was Kristi, Beth, staff

Great World of Sound

saturday June 9 6:15 Pm

harvard exit

sunday June 10 1:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Director Craig Zobel sets his endearing debut feature Great World Of Sound in the shady world of “song sharking,” a real phenomenon in which sketchy entertainment businesses sucker desperate, eager and usually talentless fameseekers into forking over every last cent they have for the promise of an easy path to stardom. The story centers on itinerant Martin (Pat Healy), a shy and directionless young man who lands a job with an upstart Charlotte-based record label. After he is trained as a “producer” (i.e. salesman), he’s paired with gregarious Clarence (Kene Holiday) and sent out on the road to audition prospective acts. Martin and Clarence are an odd couple if there ever was one, having little in common except that both of their lives are stuck in neutral, both need a job and neither realizes the depths of their employer’s duplicity. The two travel to various towns where the company has placed newspaper ads, turn motel rooms into makeshift audition studios and, while hoping to find true talent, follow their corporate directive of signing anyone who is able to pony up money for the supposed demo recording fees. With a witty script, a talented ensemble of little-known character actors, a good feel for plain-folk America and seamlessly incorporated footage of actual people auditioning, Zobel has crafted a charming story about an unlikely pair of drifters that still manages to bitingly critique the dark side of the American Dream.

USA

2007

Director:

Craig Zobel

Producers:

Melissa Palmer

David Gordon Green

Richard Wright

Craig Zobel

Screenwriters:

George Smith

Craig Zobel

Cinematographer:

Adam Stone

Film Editors:

Tim Streeto

Jane Rizzo

Music:

David Wingo

Cast: Pat Healy

Kene Holliday

Rebecca Mader

Tricia Paoluccio

Robert Longstreet

John Baker

Running Time: 106 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

International Sales:

Magnolia Pictures

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Film Website: greatworldofsound.com

Selected

Filmography:

Surfacing (2002)

The Guardian’s Son

O Yios Tou Fylaka

saturday June 9 6:15 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

tuesday June 12 9:30 Pm lincoln square

This sly, incisive drama explores the difference between modern cities and traditional rural villages in the Pindos Mountains of Greece through the story of Markos, an ambitious journalist who works for a Candid Camera-type television show. While filming a prank involving a briefcase left on a bench with a gun inside, the gun is taken by a strange young man with a pet lamb. The problem? Instead of using a fake gun, Markos “borrowed” the gun from his father, a policeman. His frantic search for it leads him to Elias, the son of the guardian for his mother’s village on Mount Pindos. The village is mostly deserted, and about to be more so when the guardian, Yiorgos, and his new wife leave it. Markos’ intentions to confront Elias and go back home quickly with the gun are thwarted by a clash between the two men. It’s discovered that Elias took the gun intentionally in order to lure Markos to the village for help in scaring off some outsiders with a ghost-story prank. Whatever led him there, Markos becomes intrigued by a girl he stumbles into during his search and decides to stay to unearth some family secrets. Both young men are firmly rooted in their own ideas about what should and will happen, but their conflict will lead to unexpected results for themselves and the remaining villagers.

Greece 2006

Director:

Dimitris

Koutsiabassakos

Producers: Yorgos Kyriakos

Costas Lambropoulos

Screenwriter: Dimitris

Koutsiabassakos

Cinematographer: Odysseas Pavlopoulos

Film Editor: Spyros Kokkas

Music:

Vangelis Fampas

Cast:

Nikolas Aggelis

Apostolos Totsikas

Eleni Vergeti

Yorgos Spanias

Running Time: 98 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Greek, with English subtitles

International Sales: CL Productions/Greek Film Center

Print Source:

Greek Film Center

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Her Best Move

sunday June 3 11:00 am siff cinema

saturday June 9 11:00 am siff cinema

Sara, a 15-year old soccer phenom, doesn’t make the regional cut for the national soccer finals. While Sara is disappointed, her soccer-obsessed father is devastated. But the plucky Sara resolves to live her teenaged life to the fullest: take dance classes, spend time laughing with her friends and dive headlong into another new fascination: boys. However, just as she is discovering the joys to be had beyond soccer, a player injury gives Sara another crack at the regionals. Only this time Sara is torn between the push and pull of parental expectation and the desires of her newly awakened teen heart. Should she give up the relationships she’s been starting and hobbies she’s been enjoying to move away and concentrate on soccer, or give up her dream of being the youngest professional player on the U.S. team and concentrate on living her life? Her Best Move, a snappy, intelligent teen comedy by first time director Norm Hunter, takes an entertainingly realistic look at the world of a teenager, from the not-so-gentle urgings of well-meaning parents to overachieve to the emotional security to be found in a group of great friends. Such emotional grounding gives Sara the freedom to explore the choices between daring to live a great life or risking everything to become great. With a lively pop score and winsome performances from the excellent cast, this is a rare film that takes personal choice out to the playing field. (ages 10 and up)

USA

2007

Director:

Norm Hunter

Producer:

Norm Hunter

Screenwriters:

Norm Hunter

Tony Vidal

Cinematographer:

Paul Ryan

Film Editor:

Mitch Stanley

Music:

Didier L. Rachou

Cast:

Leah Pipes

Drew Tyler Bell

Scott Patterson

Lalaine

Daryl Sabara

Jhoanna Flores

Running Time:

102 minutes

Presentation Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source:

Summertime Films

Film Website: www.herbestmove.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Hula Girls

Hula Garu

thursday June 7 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

saturday June 9 4:00 Pm lincoln square

The charming Hula Girls pairs two contrasting worlds: a sunny Hawaiian paradise and a cold coalmining town in northern Japan. It is 1965 and miniskirts have not yet reached the remote town of Joban, but exciting changes are definitely blowin’ in the wind. With the end of the Korean War, the enormous demand for coal has dropped significantly and the golden years for the local coalmining company are drawing to a close. How will the town survive the massive layoff of its workers? An ambitious plan to transform the sooty township into a lavish spa resort flounders until Joban’s resourceful women hit on an unlikely solution to the town’s economic crisis: under the expert and strict training of the terribly out-of-place—and terribly fashionable—Madoka Hirayama, they learn to swing their hips and assemble an amazing hula show that proves the desired tourist magnet. Hula Girls offers a vivid, heartfelt portrait of a closeknit community and renders the special mood of the time with impeccable attention to detail. Based on a true story, the film engagingly tells the tale of a wonderful mission impossible, winking coyly in the direction of Hollywood’s fables of lovable underdogs while maintaining its own strong artistic identity. A genuinely moving experience destined to conquer the audience’s heart and hips.

Awards: Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Japan 2006

Director:

Lee Sang-il

Producer:

Hitomi Ishihara

Screenwriters:

Daisuke Habara

Lee Sang-il

Cinematographer:

Hideo Yamamoto

Film Editor:

Tsuyoshi Imai

Music:

Jake Shimabukuro

Cast:

Yasuko Matsuyuki

Etsushi Toyokawa

Yu Aoi

Shizuyo Yamazaki

Ittoku Kishibe

Sumiko Fuji

Running Time: 108 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

Viz Pictures

Selected

Filmography:

Scrap Heaven (2005)

69 (2004)

Border Line (2002)

Interview

saturday June 16 7:00 Pm egyPtian theatre

sunday June 17 1:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Based on Theo van Gogh’s film of the same name (one of three features the Dutch director was hoping to remake in English before he was murdered in 2004), Steve Buscemi returns to the director’s chair for this drama about media, truth and celebrity. Veteran political journalist Pierre Peders (Buscemi) has made a name for himself in war correspondence. To his dismay, just as a big White House scandal is breaking, he is assigned a puff piece that has him stuck in Manhattan interviewing starlet Katya (Sienna Miller), popular for her TV soap opera, trashy genre movies and highly publicized love life. While most men would give anything to spend time with the hot young actress, Pierre couldn’t care less, and she’s more than a little peeved at his condescension. But this collision of their two very different worlds takes surprising turns, and both interviewer and interviewee get more than they bargained for. The self-absorbed Katya and career-fatigued Pierre engage in a psychological dance that evolves into a battle of wits, desires and dark secrets. The film’s use of language and sharp editing create the rhythm of this anythinggoes moral chess match, and outstanding performances from both Buscemi and Miller give it life. The first part in a trilogy of van Gogh adaptations honoring the late-director’s dream of making his films with American actors, Buscemi’s Interview is a smart and entertaining dissection of ego, celebrity, journalism and the complex game of relationships.

USA/ Netherlands

2006

Director:

Steve Buscemi

Producers:

Bruce Weiss

Gijs van de Westelaken

Screenwriters:

David Schechter

Steve Buscemi

based on the film by Theo van Gogh

Cinematographer: Thomas Kist

Film Editor:

Kate Williams

Cast: Steve Buscemi

Sienna Miller

Michael Buscemi

Tara Elders

David Schechter

Running Time:

81 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Cinemavault

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website: www.studiovault.ca

Selected

Filmography:

Lonesome Jim (2005)

Animal Factory (2000)

Trees Lounge (1996)

Introducing the Dwights

saturday June 16 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

sunday June 17 1:30 Pm nePtune theatre

Hilarious, sexy and poignant, Introducing the Dwights stars the brilliant Brenda Blethyn in the powerhouse performance of her career. In fact director Cherie Nowlan coaxes superb performances out of her entire cast in this fast paced, full-of-surprise story about an ordinarily extraordinary family. Long gone are the glory days for Blethyn’s Jane, a bawdy, risqué comedienne who now works in a factory in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Jane and her husband John, a country-&-western singer whose last hit was in the seventies and now works as a supermarket security guard, are divorced. Their two sons, the intellectually disabled Mark and 21-year old virgin Tim (hot Aussie up-and-comer Khan Chittenden), live with their chaotic mother. When the beloved Tim, the only family member capable of keeping this disjointed family together, falls for the blunt and gorgeous Jill his mother freaks out, fearing that this new love interest will wrest away the affections of her darling son. Jane, used to being the undisputed center of attention, uses every trick in the book to undermine her rival, putting Tim in the awkward position of having to choose between these two passionate and powerful women both intent on the battle to win his heart. Expertly directed by Nowlan, who displays a rare talent for mixing the dramatic and the comic, Introducing the Dwights constantly defies expectations—only one of the many reasons that this film scored big at this year’s Sundance Festival.

Australia

2007

Director:

Cherie Nowlan

Producers:

Tristan Whalley

Rosemary Blight

Screenwriter:

Keith Thompson

Cinematographer:

Mark Wareham

Film Editor:

Scott Gray

Music:

Martin Armiger

Cast:

Brenda Blethyn

Khan Chittenden

Emma Booth

Richard Wilson

Frankie J. Holden

Rebecca Gibney

Philip Quast

Katie Wall

Running Time:

109 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales: Warner Independent Pictures

Print Source: Warner Independent Pictures

Film Website: clublandthefilm.com

Selected Filmography: The Wedding Party (1997)

I Really Hate My Job

North American Premiere

Wednesday June 13 7:00 Pm

friday June 15 9:30 Pm lincoln square

Britain’s Oliver Parker made his name with two excellent Oscar Wilde adaptations, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Ernest This time out, he plumbs the contemporary with a bittersweet comedy about the lives of five feisty women working together in a busy SoHo restaurant who have little in common apart from their jobs. During the course of one calamitous evening, the women discuss every detail of their existence, from fear of getting old to dreaming of doing anything other than working in a second rate restaurant with delusions of grandeur. The customers come and go, unaware of the real concerns of the women: the restaurant’s growing rat infestation, dying relationships, the nature of art and a communist rebellion in the kitchen. Things perk up one night when the ever-optimistic manager Madonna (”Jane” to her family) takes a booking in the name of a famous movie star. Will his visit bestow enough stardust to turn around the flagging fortunes of the restaurant and those who serve in it? Neve Campbell stars as Abi, an aspiring actress who can’t get out from under the 17.9% interest rate on her credit card bills, while Shirley Henderson shines as the failed novelist pressed into surly service as the chef. “Every day is another day closer to the day I’ll never have to do this again,” is her mantra. “I really hate my job.” Let’s face it, who hasn’t uttered those words at some time?

United Kingdom 2007

Director:

Oliver Parker

Producers:

Alan Greenspan

Andrew Higgie

Matthew Justice

Dominic Saville

Screenwriter:

Jennifer Higgie

Cinematographer:

Tony Miller

Film Editor:

Mary Finlay

Cast:

Neve Campbell

Shirley Henderson

Alexandra Maria Lara

Anna Maxwell Martin

Oana Pellea

Running Time:

89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

The Works

International

Print Source:

The Works

International

Selected

Filmography:

The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)

An Ideal Husband (1999)

Othello (1995)

egyPtian theatre

Iska’s Journey

Iszka Utazása

tuesday June 12 7:00 Pm harvard exit friday June 15 2:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Director Csaba Bollók’s debut feature is reminiscent of the work of Polish directors Robert Glinski (Hi Tereska) and Dorota Kedzierzawska (I Am), as it is an up-close and personal look at the lives of children growing up on the streets. In Iska’s case, it’s the streets of a mining town in the Carpathians. Iska is a young girl who scavenges metal scraps, or any junk of value, just to eat. Most of the time she doesn’t even get to do that before her parents snatch the money away to drink. With her family living on the edge, she and her sister are often on the street, and one day they are picked up and taken to an orphanage. Whether Iska’s journey is her everyday existence or the quietly harrowing final act of the film, we understand that she will always be a fighter. Her portrait is full of vitality, matterof-fact integrity and psychological depth, all with the rhythm and feel of reality. Incredibly, director Bollók met his leading actress, Maria Varga, doing exactly what she does in the movie, collecting junk in a junkyard and he shot the film after researching the lives of homeless kids living in a small mining city in the south of Hungary, close to the Romanian border. With its richly glazed and penetrated color look, Iska’s Journey won the 2007 Hungarian Film Week Best Artistic Film.

US Premiere

Hungary 2007

Director:

Csaba Bollók

Producer:

Ágnes Csere

Screenwriter:

Csaba Bollók

Cinematographer:

Franciso Gózon

Film Editor: Judit Czakó

Music:

Balázs Temesvári

Cast:

Mária Varga

Marian Rusache

Rózsika Varga

Marius Bodochi

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hungarian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Magyar Filmunio

Print Source:

Magyar Filmunio

Selected

Filmography:

Miraq (2005)

Észak, Észak (1998)

The Island

Ostrov

friday may 25 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

sunday may 27 1:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

It only takes an instant for horror to take over and change a life forever. This particular maxim is brutally impressed upon a young seaman in 1942, when a Nazi patrol boat comes alongside his coal barge and captures him. He is spared, but only by consenting to an act marking him forever as a scandalous coward. 35 years later, in an Orthodox monastery in the Far North, people come from far and wide to talk to Father Anatoly (Pyotr Mamonov, Taxi Blues). People say that he cures sinners and has magical powers; some also say that he’s an old sham cultivating superstition. Anatoly’s deep repentance and lack of hypocrisy make even his fellow monks somewhat uncomfortable, as does his love for childish pranks. Is he a fool or mad man; a Saint or the Devil himself; or does this recluse who resides in the monastery boiler room just show us exactly how close holy is to unholy? Carefully thought out and beautifully shot by cinematographer Andrey Zhegalov (The Cuckoo), The Island’s success in its homeland proves that, as one reviewer wrote, “There is nothing more touching in the Russian cultural menu than the role of a holy fool who delivers the Truth”.

Russia 2006

Director:

Pavel Lounguine

Producers:

Sergey Shumakov

Pavel Lounguine

Screenwriter: Dmitry Sobolev

Cinematographer: Andrey Zhegalov

Film Editor:

Albina Antipenko

Music: Vladimir Martynov

Cast:

Pyotr Mamonov

Viktor Sukhorukov

Dmitry Dyuzhev

Yury Kuznetsov

Running Time: 112 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Intercinema XXI

Century

Print Source:

Film Movement

Film Website: www.intercinema.ru

Selected

Filmography: Roots (2005)

The Wedding (2000)

Luna Park (1993)

Taxi Blues (1990)

It

Doesn’t Hurt

Mne ne bolno

tuesday June 12 2:00 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 17 9:30 Pm harvard exit

Three entrepreneurs start a firm to renovate old apartments in Saint Petersburg. With Alya as the architect and Oleg as the builder, that leaves designer Misha as the client liaison. He’s a new type of hero for director Alexey Balabanov, a character who tries to achieve his goals using his brain and skills rather than a gun. When Tata (Renata Litvinova) hires the trio to work on her apartment, Misha is beguiled. Understandably, given her fetching boldness and signature fluttering voice; who wouldn’t be smitten after witnessing her stuff a shopping bag full of expensive food and booze straight off a table at a party? Tata takes Misha on as a lover and his business under her wing, introducing the renovators to a host of rich clientele. Their small business takes off, but Misha’s employment anxieties have barely settled before personal ones are set off by Tata’s mobster sugar daddy, played to perfection by Nikita Mikhalkov. Balabanov, one of the post-Soviet filmmakers, likes to experiment with different genres and themes, from pornography in pre-revolutionary Russia to the war in Chechnya to Tarantinoesque stories about the everyday life of murderous gangsters. The former enfant terrible has made his most surprising turn yet with this charming romance, full of sympathy for its young heroes and the still unsure nation they are inheriting.

Russia 2006

Director:

Alexey Balabanov

Producer: Sergey Selyanov

Screenwriter: Valery Mnatsakanov

Cinematographer: Sergey Astakhov

Film Editor: Tatiana Kuzmichiova

Music: Vadim Samoylov

Cast: Renata Litvinova

Aleksander Yatsenko

Dmitry Dyuzhev

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Intercinema XXI

Century

Print Source:

Intercinema XXI

Century

Film Website: www.intercinema.ru

Selected

Filmography:

Blind Man’s Bluff (2005)

Brother 2 (2000) Of Freaks and Men (1998)

Brother (1997)

Great Music. All Day.

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Khadak

The highly anticipated follow-up to The Fast Runner is both a stirring drama and a powerful account of cultures colliding. Shot almost entirely in the Inuktitut language and switching violently between blinding, ice-reflected sunlight and close, lamp-lit darkness, the film shows the daily struggle of the Inuit as they face the double threat of climate-induced famine and the arrival of Western culture. A group of Danish scientists, led by the cultural anthropologist Knud Rasmussen (on whose journals the film is loosely based), arrives to study the Inuit way of life, and finds a culture already in crisis. At the centre of a large extended family they find the last great shaman, Avva, who is having trouble with his beautiful headstrong daughter, Apak (an astonishing first screen role for Leah Angutimarik). Married to a weakling after the murder of her beloved first husband, she spends too much time having dream-sex with the latter in the spirit world, unsettling all around her. In fact, Avva’s troubles are manifold as the harsh terrain and encroachment of Christian communities make it difficult for his people to find sufficient food and shelter. Sparing in their use of dialogue, directors Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn searingly depict many family scenes—from routine mealtimes to a wild party and an exorcism—to create a collage of images and sound that builds to a wholly satisfying narrative feature with a devastating final scene.

Canada/ Denmark 2006

Directors:

Zacharias Kunuk

Norman Cohn

Producers:

Norman Cohn

Zacharias Kunuk

Vibeke Vogel

Elise Lund Larsen

Screenwriters:

Zacharias Kunuk

Norman Cohn

Cinematographer:

Norman Cohn

Film Editors:

Norman Cohn

Cathrine Ambus

Félix Lajeunesse

Cast:

Leah Angutimarik

Pakak Innukshuk

Neeve Irngaut Uttak

Natar Ungalaaq

Samuelie Ammaq

Running Time:

112 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Inuktitut, Danish and English, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Isuma Distribution International

Print Source: Isuma Distribution

International

Selected

Filmography: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)

Bagi and his grandparents live a nomadic life herding sheep in the frozen hills of Mongolia. Their pristine world is disrupted when a military convoy arrives, letting Bagi’s family and others know that a plague has struck the animals in their region and they must relocate to a mining town, exchanging their rolling surroundings, for the dizzying vertical thrust of urban highrise apartments. In their first fiction film, filmmakers Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens apply a distinctly impressionistic style to an original story with haunting themes. As capitalism expands inexorably into the most remote of regions, Khadak artfully explores the ongoing tensions being created between the past and the future, creation and destruction, and accepting or denying one’s fate. Featuring remarkably meditative performances that underline the displacement of these strangers in a very strange land, Khadak starkly contrasts the richness of nomadic Mongolian life against the imposed modern city life to which Bagi and his family has no choice but to adjust. But in the midst of that stark transition, Bagi begins to accept his fate and starts traveling between the natural world and a larger spirit world, as he was meant to.

Belgium/ Germany/the Netherlands 2006

Directors:

Peter Brosens

Jessica Woodworth

Producer:

Heino Deckert

Screenwriters:

Peter Brosens

Jessica Woodworth

Cinematographer: Rimvydas Leipus

Film Editor: Nico Leunen

Music:

Altan Urag

Cast:

Batzul Khayankhyarvaa

Dugarsuren Dagvadorj

Tsetsegee Byamba

Damchaa Banzar

Tserendarizav

Dashnyam

Uuriintuya Enkhtaivan

Otgontogos Namsrai

Running Time:

110 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Mongolian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Telepool GmbH

Print Source:

Life Size Entertainment

Film Website: www.khadak.com

Selected Filmography:

Brosens:

Poets of Mongolia (1999)

State of Dogs (1998)

Woodworth: The Virgin Diaries (2001)

sunday June 10 9:45 Pm nePtune theatre saturday June 16 1:30 Pm lincoln square

Wednesday may 30 7:00 Pm

nePtune theatre saturday June 2 11:00 am Pacific Place cinemas

Knocked Up

saturday may 26 7:00 Pm

On the heels of 2005’s blockbuster The 40-YearOld Virgin, writer/director Judd Apatow again mines hilarity from the relatably human in a comedy about a one-night stand with unexpected consequences: Knocked Up. Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy, Roswell) joins Virgin alums Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann for a comic look about the best thing that will ever ruin your best-laid plans: parenthood. Allison Scott (Heigl) is an up-and-coming entertainment journalist whose 24-year-old life is on the fast track. But it gets seriously derailed when a drunken one-nighter with slacker Ben Stone (Rogen) results in an unwanted pregnancy. Faced with the prospect of going it alone or getting to know the baby’s father, Allison decides to give the lovable doof a chance. An overgrown kid who has no desire to settle down, Ben learns that he has a big decision to make with his kid’s mom-to-be: will he hit the road or stay in the picture? Courting a woman you’ve just Knocked Up, however, proves to be a little difficult when the two try their hands at dating. As they discover more about one another, it becomes painfully obvious that they’re not the soul mates they’d hoped they might be. With Allison’s harried sister Debbie (Mann) and hen-pecked brother-in-law Pete (Rudd) the only parenting role models the young lovers have, things get even more confusing. Should they raise the baby together? What makes a happy lifetime partnership after all? A couple of drinks and one wild night later, they’ve got nine confusing months to figure it out...

USA 2007

Director:

Judd Apatow

Producers:

Shauna Robertson

Clayton Townsend

Judd Apatow

Screenwriter:

Judd Apatow

Cinematographer:

Eric Edwards

Film Editors:

Craig Alpert

Brent White

Music:

Joe Henry

Loudon Wainwright III

Cast:

Seth Rogen

Katherine Heigl

Paul Rudd

Leslie Mann

Running Time: 132 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Universal Films

Film Website:

knockedupmovie.com

Selected

Filmography: The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Kyle

North American Premiere

saturday June 16 9:15 Pm

sunday June 17 4:00 Pm

Two characters strive to rebuild their lives in the wake of a shared tragedy. As the film begins, Kyle, a young black man new to Birmingham and living alone in a barren flat, manages to find work in a fruit stall at the local outdoor market. Through conversations with his boss, it becomes clear that Kyle has had a troubled past, which he desperately wishes to keep private. However, a burgeoning relationship with a new love may force him to reveal his terrible secret. In a parallel storyline, a working mother is desperately trying to make ends meet with her low-wage job, but her long hours are straining the relationship with her daughter. When she asks her supervisor for more hours, he’s sympathetic to her situation but due to corporate policies, he can do nothing for her. Her plight, however, does not go unnoticed, becoming leverage for an indelicate proposition from her supervisor which she is in no position to refuse. Their subsequent rendezvous has consequences neither expects. As the film progresses, we learn of the unsaid incident from which both stories spring, and to which both are destined to return. Firsttime feature filmmaker John Bradburn crafts a devastatingly intimate drama of near Dogmeesque minimalism: using hand-held cameras exclusively, he manages to capture wrenching emotional performances from his wholly nonprofessional cast. Filmed on a miniscule budget, Kyle is a singular achievement in independent filmmaking.

United Kingdom

2006

Director:

John Bradburn

Producer:

George Fleming

Screenwriter:

John Bradburn

Cinematographer:

John Bradburn

Film Editor:

Robert Chilcott

Cast:

Alise O’Neill

Aaron Grey

Hugh Blackwood

Sarah Moloney

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source: No Films

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

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harvard exit

egyPtian theatre

Lady Chatterley

The Life of Reilly

With this gorgeous French adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s infamous novel, director Pascale Ferran makes a marvelous return to directing after a decade’s hiatus. Constance, Lady Chatterley leads a comfortable yet uneventful life with her husband Sir Clifford on his estate. Their marriage, one born out of convenience rather than passion, is further strained after Clifford returns from WWI paralyzed from the waist down. But Constance’s sedentary life changes one afternoon when she encounters Parkin, the estate’s gamekeeper. Immediately drawn to his robust physique, Constance begins to seek him out during his duties on the estate. Slowly yet inexorably, the couple give into their mutual desire and embark on an amorous affair, ignoring propriety and other social constrictions. As the liaison grows more consuming, their discretion wanes and the couple’s relationship becomes the subject of public rumor and innuendo. Yet Sir Clifford turns a blind eye to his wife’s infidelity, knowing that it is quite possibly the only chance through which an heir to his name and fortune may be conceived. In a difficult leading role, Marina Hands imbues her Lady Chatterley with a shy grace that grows into a vibrant confidence as her sexual fulfillment gives away to maternal desires. Ferran, the first woman to helm a version of this oft-filmed tale, makes perfect use of the performance, framing it with beautiful cinematography and stylized narrative that perfectly capture the novel’s lyrical sensuality and naturalism.

France/UK 2006

Director:

Pascale Ferran

Producer:

Gilles Sandoz

Screenwriters:

Pascale Ferran

Roger Bohbot

Pierre Trividic from the novel by D. H. Lawrence

Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch

Film Editors:

Mathilde Muyard

Yann Dedet

Music:

Béatrice Thiriet

Cast:

Marina Hands

Jean-Louis Coulloc’h Hippolyte Girardot Hélène Alexandridis

Running Time: 168 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Films Distribution

Print Source:

Kino International

Selected

Filmography: L’Âge des possibles (1995)

Coming to Terms with the Dead (1994)

In February of 1999, Charles Nelson Reilly— actor, director and game show fixture—was asked to speak to a group of students about his life in the entertainment industry. His impromptu speech lasted over three hours and gave rise to an autobiographical monologue which he staged under the title Save It For the Stage. For the next five years Reilly toured the country, performing his show nearly 400 times. Fortunately, at the show’s final performance in 2004, director Barry Poltermann captured the show on film. Reilly’s early years, as he recounts, were spent in the depression-era Bronx: his father was a graphic artist for Paramount, creating their outdoor displays; his mother was … a difficult woman, to say the least. However, after the elder Nelson passed upon a life-changing opportunity, the depression hit hard and the family was forced to move to Hartford, Connecticut to share a small apartment with his maternal grandparents. But despite early setbacks, Reilly developed a passion for performing, and after high school moved back to New York City, where he enrolled in what would become one of the most illustrious drama classes of the era. His career then began to take off: from the Broadway stage of the ’50s, where he won two Tony awards, to his near ubiquity on ’70s television. Proving that the funniest individuals often come from tragic backgrounds, Reilly recounts several extraordinary stories from throughout his life—delivering lines that often begin with syrupy sentimentality only to end with a trademark Reilly bon mot—that provide new depth to a show business icon.

USA

2006

Directors:

Barry Poltermann

Frank Anderson

Producers:

Robert Fagan

Wrye Martin

Screenwriters:

Charles Nelson Reilly

Paul Linke

Cinematographer: Anthony Balderrama

Film Editor: Barry Poltermann

Music:

Donita Sparks

Cast: Charles Nelson Reilly

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Civilian Pictures

Film Website: charlesnelsonreilly.com

monday June 4 9:30 Pm harvard exit

sunday June 10 4:00 Pm harvard exit

sunday June 10 4:00 Pm

nePtune theatre

tuesday June 12 6:00 Pm lincoln square

Life on the Edge

La Vida Abismal North American Premiere

friday June 1 7:00 Pm harvard exit

sunday June 3 11:00 am harvard exit

In Life on the Edge, legendary Catalan director Ventura Pons conjures up a stylish, jazz-inflected character piece. Based on the novel by Ferran Torrent, his València-based anti-hero is a ditch digger by day, card player by night. One evening at a poker game, 18-year old Ferran meets the charismatic Chino. With his leather jacket and bushy moustache, Chino oozes early-1970s cool. He could be Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon or Robert De Niro in Mean Streets (and in his mind, he probably is). Along with his hip threads, Chino drives a sports car, struts about with a pretty girl and always comes prepared with a hefty wad of cash. Ferran still lives at home, but Chino is the real deal—a professional gambler. And he gladly shares his secrets with his awestruck “good luck charm.” Mostly, Chino claims, it’s about thinking like a winner. Ferran gives it a try and his life gradually starts to improve, though his parents are alarmed by his increasing arrogance. Ferran, in turn, is alarmed by Chino’s lack of self-control. He becomes convinced it’ll trip him up someday, but Chino won’t listen to reason. Narrated by Ferran in the present-day, Life on the Edge makes Chino seem so magnetic—if not a little crazy—that it’s easy to see why an aimless young man like Ferran would throw his fate in with the sort of larger-than-life character who makes most sane people nervous.

Spain 2007

Director:

Ventura Pons

Producer:

Ventura Pons

Screenwriter:

Ventura Pons based upon the novel by Ferran Torrent

Cinematographer:

Mario Montero

Film Editor:

Pere Abadal

Music:

Carles Cases

Cast:

Óscar Jaenada

José Sospreda

Antonio Valero

Juli Mira

Pepa López

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Catalan, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Latido Films

Print Source:

El Films de al Rambla

Selected

Filmography:

Animals ferits (2005)

Food of Love (2001)

Anita Takes a Chance (2000)

Morir (o no) (2000)

What’s It All About (1994)

Like Minds

US Premiere

friday June 8 7:00 Pm nePtune theatre

sunday June 10 1:15 Pm nePtune theatre

Schoolmates Alex and Nigel share a bizarre world of dark secrets, mind-games and an unhealthy obsession with the mysterious society of Knights Templar. When Alex is charged with Nigel’s shotgun death, the lack of any tangible evidence prompts Alex’s influential father to pressure the authorities to immediately drop the charges. Enter forensic psychologist Sally Rowe (Toni Collette) to dig around Alex’s mind and determine if he is the killer. As Sally delves deeper into Alex’s grim account of his relationship with Nigel she realizes that this is not your typical tale of schoolboy skullduggery but one that includes stories of animal dissection, incest and 13th century Cathars. As Alex slowly tries to control his sessions with Sally, she discovers that even from beyond the grave Nigel has a firm grip on Alex’s psyche. Like Minds, a sinister fictional drama originally conceived as a documentary to explore the twisted mind of serial killer, is the spellbinding debut feature from Gregory J. Read. Led by the smart and terrific Collette, the film boasts an all-round exemplary cast featuring two fascinating performances from Eddie Redmayne and Tom Sturridge as Alex and Nigel. Read’s taut and creepy screenplay is well served by the film’s dark gothic atmosphere, highly stylized cinematography and the terrifically menacing score by Carlo Giacco. This is a unique and unusual psychological thriller from Australia that will keep you squirming right up until the haunting final sequence—when you’ll find yourself on the edge of your seat.

Australia/UK 2006

Director:

Gregory J. Read

Producers:

Jonathan Shteinman

Piers Tempest

Carol Hughes

Screenwriter:

Gregory J. Read

Cinematographer: Nigel Bluck

Film Editor:

Mark Warner

Music:

Carlo Giacco

Cast:

Toni Collette

Eddie Redmayne

Tom Sturridge

Cathryn Bradshaw

Richard Roxburgh

Patrick Malahide

Running Time: 110 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Arclight Films

Print Source:

The Weinstein Company

Film Website: dendyfilms.com.au

Selected

Filmography: Spirits of the Carnival (1995)

Little Book of Revenge

Guide de la petite vengeance US Premiere

friday June 15 9:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 17 1:30 Pm lincoln square

This dark comedy from Quebec introduces us to Bernard, an accountant at a high-class jewelry store who’s lost his way in life due to the constant abuse he suffers from his monstrous boss, Vendôme. After losing his frustrated wife to another man, Bernard encounters Robert, a former employee of Vendôme’s still suffering from the cruelties he also had heaped upon him. Meeting a fellow traveler inspires Bernard to start writing “The Little Book of Revenge” – a series of steps designed to get back at Vendôme for wrecking Bernard and Robert’s lives, and give them the closure needed to move on. Robert and Bernard begin to enact the plan, renting the space next to the jewelry store, advertising a new competitor with cheaper prices, providing auditors with information that could land Vendôme in jail and ultimately robbing the store of some valuable merchandise. Their plan is well thought-out and finely honed, but even the best-laid plans are in jeopardy when your partner in crime is, for all practical purposes, a stranger. When Robert invites some buddies over to preview the robbery, Bernard feels things slipping; they skid entirely out of control when Robert decides to “help” Bernard win back the affections of his wife. Now Bernard has to outfox his boss, the police and his new best friend, hopefully finding a way to win back both his wife and his happiness along the way.

Canada 2007

Director:

Jean-François Pouliot

Producers:

Roger Frappier

Luc Vandal

Screenwriter:

Ken Scott

Cinematographer:

Allen Smith

Film Editor:

Dominique Fortin

Music:

Benoit Charest

Cast:

Marc Béland

Michel Muller

Gabriel Gascon

Pascale Bussières

Alice Morel Michaud

Running Time:

105 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales: Max Films Inc.

Print Source: Max Films Inc.

Film Website: www.guidedelapetite vengeance.com

Selected

Filmography: Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)

Love Conquers All

Mo Shi Mo Wang

North American Premiere

monday June 4 4:45 Pm harvard exit

Wednesday June 6 9:45 Pm harvard exit

With her debut film, Love Conquers All, former film journalist Tan Chui Mui crafts a fresh, touching and ironically titled contribution that won her a Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival. Essentially a cautionary tale about the dangers of falling for strangers, the film relates the story of Ah Peng, a simple girl from Penang who goes to Kuala Lumpur to work at her aunt’s lowly eatery. Determined to honor her family’s wishes, she doesn’t have time for the joys and dangers of the big city. While making her ritual weekly phone call home, she falls into conversation with John, a somewhat flashy young man who starts to pursue her. Clearly mixed up in some shady business, John’s conversation is littered with references to pimps and other lowlife affairs, and although loud warning bells should be going off in her head, the naïve Ah Peng’s token resistance finally gives way to his aggressive advances. One day John simply disappears, but by this time Ah Peng’s fate is sealed. Initially cloaking itself in the mantle of gentle romance, this film takes its time to build characters and relationships, until it opens up to reveal its inner heart of darkness. Guiding an attractive young cast in authentic performances (particularly by newcomer Coral Ong Li Whei as Ah Peng), Tan Chui Mui deftly surmounts the film’s budgetary deficiencies and announces herself as a real talent to watch.

Awards:

Pusan 2006 (Best New Asian Filmmaker, FIPRESCI Prize) Rotterdam 2007 (VPRO Tiger Award)

Preceded by Adults Only

Malaysia, 10 minutes, director Joon Han Yeo

What happens when we delay our dreams for the practical life?

Malaysia 2006

Director:

Tan Chui Mui

Producer:

Amir Muhammad

Screenwriter:

Tan Chui Mui

Cinematographer: James Lee

Film Editor:

Ho Yuhang

Cast: Coral Ong Li Whei

Stephen Chua

Leong Jiun Jiun

Ho Chi Lai

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Malay and Mandarin, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Da Huang Pictures

Film Website: dahuangpictures.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

914 E. Pike St.

Seattle WA 98122 (206) 328-7983

Love & Dance

Sipur Hatzi Russi

tuesday June 5 4:30 Pm

www.TacomaFilmFestival.com

lincoln square

saturday June 9 1:45 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Love & Dance is a precise and surprising social portrait of the relationship between Israelis and Russian immigrants. Like the smash hit Billy Elliott, this film makes the spirit of dance all the more exuberant by taking place in a region with intense political and social boundaries. Chen is a young boy battling a cultural conflict with his parents. His father Rami is a super-macho Israeli while his mother Lena is Russian. The culture clash between the Sabras (the native-born Israelis) and the looked-down-upon Russian immigrants is such that Rami doesn’t even want Lena speaking Russian to Chen. When Rami forgets he had promised to take Lena dancing, Chen accompanies his mother to a dance studio. It is there that he first sees the lovely Natalie; in order to get to know her he starts to attend her Ballroom dancing class. Chen, caught in the middle of his parents’ conflict, tries to use the Waltz and the Cha-Cha to bridge the painful gap of his fractured family. Our unlikely hero comes to realize, through his experiences in dance class, that while he cannot save them his own salvation is at hand. Director Eitan Anner has a keen sensitivity for the prejudices suffered on both sides of a cultural divide, but his real achievement here is to bring this story to a climax worthy of a happily-ever-after musical without being over cute. Chen’s triumph is earned and ought to inspire you to dance for joy yourself. (ages 13 and up)

Israel 2006

Director:

Eitan Anner

Producers:

Eilon Ratzkovsky

Ehud Bleiberg

Yossi Uzrad

Koby Gal-Raday

Screenwriter:

Eitan Anner

Cinematographer:

Itzik Portal

Film Editor:

Tali Halter-Shenkar

Music:

Jonathan Bar Giora

Cast:

Vladimir Volov

Valeria Voevodin

Talya Raz

Evgenya Dodina

Avi Kushnir

Oksana Korostyshevskaya

Kirill Safonov

Running Time: 93 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hebrew and Russian, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Bleiberg Entertainment

Print Source:

Bleiberg Entertainment

Selected

Filmography: Riki Riki (2005)

Love For Sale: Suely in the Sky

O Céu de Suely

thursday June 7 9:30 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

saturday June 9 4:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Beautiful 21-year-old Hermila returns to her hometown, young son Mateus in tow, to stay with family until her husband arrives. She’d fled abruptly after falling madly in love, and doesn’t anticipate a happy reunion with her clan. A week later Hermila waits at the bus station all night for Mateus Sr. until she realizes he’s not coming, and she’s been left with the family she can barely stand. Pawning off her incessantly fussy son on the relatives as much as she can, she drifts into the local nightlife scene. Confused and trying to find her place in the world, Hermila experiments with wild girls, fast men and even prostitution to levels that draw anger from the community, leading her grandmother to kick her out and keep her baby. Now doubly abandoned, Hermila reconnects with João, a man she knew from before she split town, who still loves her and yearns to save her from herself. The story follows Hermila’s struggles with her identity now that she is single and responsible for a child so young, yearning to feel as carefree as she acts. The film’s fresh and captivating use of light, darkness, and intimate camera angles mirror Hermila’s emotions and the spirit of the story exquisitely.

Brazil/ Germany/ France 2006

Director:

Karim Aïnouz

Producers:

Walter Salles

Mauricio Andreade Ramos

Hengameh Panahi

Thomas Häberle

Peter Rommel

Screenwriters:

Karim Aïnouz

Mauricio Zacharias

Felipe Bragança

Cinematographer: Walter Carvalho

Film Editors:

Isabela Monteiro de Castro

Tina Baz le Gal

Music:

Berna Ceppas

Kamal Kassin

João Nabuco

Cast:

Hermila Guedes

Maria Menezes

Zezita Matos

João Miguel

Georgina Castro

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Portuguese, with English subtitles

International Sales: Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Selected

Filmography: Madame Satä (2002)

Lovesickness

Maldeamores

Wednesday June 6 7:00 Pm egyPtian theatre

friday June 8 4:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Lovesickness sets its stage in the opening scene, when a minor difference of opinion between a couple out for a drive turns into all-out war. Three tales of maddening obsession set in Puerto Rico are seamlessly woven together in this playful, engaging film. In one storyline, 70year old Flora becomes the object of competing affections when she finds herself under the same roof as not one but two ex-husbands. Fueled by alcohol, the situation quickly becomes complicated by the past and fears for the future. Meanwhile, a family funeral becomes an emotional battleground when Lourdes discovers her husband has been having an affair with her cousin Tati. When Lourdes speeds off to confront her disloyal cousin, her husband is left to care for his balefully disapproving young son, who is himself experiencing his first case of amor. In the third tale, Miguel presents the woman of his dreams with a desperate proposal. “Your actions are guided by passion and not by reason,” counsels a priest when, desperate to get the woman’s attentions, he holds a bus hostage. Passion defeating reason: it’s a mantra that resonates through all three stories in Carlito Ruíz Ruíz’s charming debut, which is greatly enhanced by an appealing ensemble cast that helps blend the jalapeno-hot stories together as the characters fall victim to this epidemic of lovesickness and become blind to the ironies of love.

Puerto Rico 2007

Directors:

Carlitos Ruíz Ruíz

Mariem Pérez

Producer:

Luillo Ruiz

Screenwriters:

Jorge González

Carlitos Ruíz Ruíz

Cinematographer: P. J. López

Film Editor: Mariem Pérez

Cast:

Luis Guzmán

Fernando Terrazo

Teresa Hernández

José Luis “Chavito” Marrero

Luis Gonzaga

Dolores Pedro

Silvia Brito

Miguel Ángel Álvarez

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Lumina Films

Print Source:

Lumina Films

Film Website: lumina-films.com/ maldeamores

Man in the Chair

saturday June 2 4:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

monday June 4 4:30 Pm lincoln square

Cameron Kincaid (Michael Angarano) is a volatile L.A. teen from a broken home who is dead set on becoming a movie director, a “man in the chair.” A student film contest may provide the perfect opportunity to prove himself, but he lacks experience and the resources of his wealthy peers. Cameron is intrigued when he meets cantankerous old film buff Glen “Flash” Madden (Christopher Plummer) at a matinee screening of Touch of Evil and follows him home to The Motion Picture Residence for the Elderly, a retirement home for aging Hollywood film folks. After learning that Flash was a gaffer on many Hollywood’s classics, Cameron begs Flash to help him make his film. Flash is resistant, but Cameron persists and manages to break through the old man’s tough-guy façade. He agrees to help the aspiring director in exchange for cigars and Wild Turkey, ropes in a geriatric crew of craftsmen from the retirement home to work on the film and tracks down the once legendary but now forgotten and decrepit screenwriter Mickey Hopkins (M. Emmet Walsh) to help with the script. The state and living conditions of these ostracized and neglected old-timers inspires Cameron to turn the film project into a docu-drama about nursing home negligence. Director Michael Schroeder’s touching Man in the Chair chronicles an unlikely relationship that pays tribute to the behind-the-scenes filmmakers who bring movies to life and reminds us that no part of society should be treated as disposable. (ages 13 and up)

The Man of My Life

L’Homme de sa vie

sunday June 10 4:15 Pm egyPtian theatre

monday June 11 4:15 Pm egyPtian theatre

USA

2006

Director:

Michael Schroeder

Producers:

Michael Schroeder

Randy Turrow

Sarah Schroeder

Screenwriter:

Michael Schroeder

Cinematographer:

Dana Gonzales

Film Editor:

Terry Cafaro

Music:

Laura Karpman

Cast:

Christopher Plummer

Michael Angarano

M. Emmet Walsh

Robert Wagner

Mitch Pileggi

Running Time: 107 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Shoreline

Entertainment

Print Source:

Elbow Grease Pictures

Film Website: www.maninthechairthemovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

The Glass Cage (1996)

Cyborg 3: The Recycler (1994)

Mortuary Academy (1988)

Here’s a novelty: a film about a French middleclass family that is not only happy but downright functional! On a country vacation, the mutually adoring Frédéric and Frédérique (yes, even the names match!) spend sun-dappled days with friends and family, including a son who cannot be prised out of his Superman costume. When a new neighbor, Hugo, is invited to one of the nightly alfresco dinners, natural curiosity is piqued and it doesn’t take too long for them get Hugo to reveal that he is gay, causing some suspicion on the nature of his growing friendship with Frédéric. The film’s audacity is that two women, director Zabou Breitman and her co-scripter Agnès de Sacy, have attempted—and succeeded brilliantly—to portray, entirely from a male point of view, the ways in which men think about themselves and other men. Contrasting the monogamous, responsible Frédéric to the rootless Hugo, the film is an astute study of what draws men together as the two discuss relationships, sex, family responsibility and emotional commitment. While Frédéric’s attraction to Hugo seem mainly fueled by wistful desire for the kind of freedom his neighbor enjoys, Breitman skillfully plays up the psychosexual undercurrents and homoerotic charge, building on the film’s seductive look and intense performances to create an electrified atmosphere which, aided by a visual beauty that captures the dreamy pace of summer days in languorous tracking shots, makes this sophomore effort one to watch out for.

France/Italy 2006

Director:

Zabou Breitman

Producer:

Philippe Godeau

Screenwriters:

Zabou Breitman

Agnès de Sacy

Cinematographer:

Michel Amathieu

Film Editor: Richard Marizy

Music: Michel Kharat

Cast:

Bernard Campan

Charles Berling

Lea Drucker

Running Time: 114 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Wild Bunch

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Selected

Filmography:

Beautiful Memories (2001)

The Missing Star

La Stella Che Non C’e

saturday June 9 9:30 Pm lincoln square

thursday June 14 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Italian filmmaker Gianni Amelio (L’ america, The Keys to the House) makes road movies into an art form; it’s a genre he often uses to chart personal transformations through uncharted territories. In his latest film (based on a novel by Ermanno Rea), an Italian steel company has sold a blast furnace to China, but an idealistic machinist named Vincenzo (played with sensitivity by Sergio Castellitto) has discovered a flaw in the technology, and he must travel to China to fix it. But it’s not that easy; before long Vincenzo finds himself completely lost in the country’s chaotic industrial scene. Fortunately, a young Chinese woman named Liu agrees to be his guide, but both characters are forced to travel further than they had planned and ultimately must come to terms with their ideals and with each other. Amelio crafts their journey with an epic visual sense, capturing the picturesque landscapes and congested cityscapes without overwhelming the quiet conversations between the leads. In the hands of a masterful storyteller, Vincenzo and Liu’s story becomes a moving narrative regarding the evolving cultural conflicts between the West and the East.

Italy/China

2006

Director:

Gianni Amelio

Producers:

Riccardo Tozzi

Giovanni Stabilini

Marco Chimenz

Screenwriters:

Gianni Amelio

Umberto Contarello

Cinematographer: Lucas Bigazzi

Film Editor: Simona Paggi

Music:

Franco Piersanti

Cast: Sergio Castellitto

Tai Ling

Running Time:

104 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Italian and Mandarin, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Lakeshore

Entertainment

Print Source:

Lakeshore

Entertainment

Selected

Filmography:

The Keys to the House (2004)

The Way We Laughed (1998)

Lamerica (1994)

The Stolen Children (1992)

Monkey Warfare

saturday may 26 9:45 Pm egyPtian theatre

monday may 28 2:00 Pm

This politically-minded comedy lets us into the everyday lives of Dan and Linda, a Toronto couple that exists under the radar by scavenging through garage sales and street trash to find items to sell online. Don McKellar is Dan, and the acting chemistry between him and Tracy Wright (Me and You and Everyone We Know) as Linda plays well onscreen. Nominally lovers, Dan and Linda have settled into a quiet platonic existence, with no plans for change. When their drug dealer is arrested, Dan fortuitously runs into Susan, a young woman who becomes their new supplier. She fuels his passion, along with his memories of radical revolutionary acts. His past soon rubs off on Susan, who starts her own urban guerilla group that swarms SUVS on bicycles and then trashes them. When Susan gets power hungry and her activities grow out of control, her actions cause Dan and Linda to reveal their own secret past which shakes up their lives, inciting them to reexamine themselves and their relationship. With a title borrowed from a chapter in activist Abbie Hoffman’s 1971 autobiography Steal This Book, you’re expecting the director to capture the feeling of ’60s and ’70s counter-culture. Harkema does so by evoking emotion with on-screen words and radical images interspersed throughout the story, as well as spotlighting the film with an impressive soundtrack including music from Leonard Cohen, Pink Mountaintops, Weird War, The Refused, Sun Ra and Comets of Fire.

Preceded by Order Up USA, 2007, 5 minutes, director Neil Stelzner The lengths people will go to to pretend it never happened.

Open Doors (1990)

Blow to the Heart (1982)

Canada

2006

Director:

Reginald Harkema

Producers:

Jennifer Jonas

Leonard Farlinger

Kris King

Screenwriter: Reginald Harkema

Cinematographer: Jonathon Cliff

Film Editor: Kathy Weinkauf

Cast: Don McKellar

Tracy Wright

Nadia Litz

Running Time: 75 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source:

New Real Films

Film Website: monkeywarfare.com

Selected

Filmography: Better Off in Bed (2004)

A Girl is a Girl (1999)

harvard exit

Mushishi

friday June 8 9:30 Pm

lincoln square

sunday June 10 6:45 Pm egyPtian theatre

From director Katsuhiro Otomo, the visionary behind Akira and Steamboy, comes his second live-action film—a magical, epic foray into a landscape where the human and spiritual worlds still mingle together. Set at the turn of the 20th century, the film begins with a man named Ginko arriving at a snowbound village. Ginko is a Mushishi, or bugmaster, a shamanistic exterminator who travels the countryside ridding humans from malevolent Mushi: phantom souls of nature breathing inside all the living and the dead. At the village inn he discovers three such victims, all of whom have gone deaf in one ear. After he successfully treats them, the innkeeper asks for him to aid her granddaughter, who has not only gone deaf in both ears but has also sprouted horns. The cause of the girl’s plight, however, soon triggers memories from Ginko’s hitherto unremembered past. Troubled by these visions, Ginko visits the beautiful Tanyu, whose very blood is infected with the Mushi, giving her the ability to collect and to write down the annals of their history. Within these archives, Ginko hopes to find more information on the vengeful Mushi responsible for his becoming a Mushishi. Based on an acclaimed manga, Mushishi is a change of pace for Otomo: instead of hyper-kinetic action, the film unfolds in a more meditative fashion, building suspense through an accumulation of intimately eerie scenes and details, creating a lyrical panorama of a Japan on the cusp of modernization.

Japan 2006

Director:

Katsuhiro Ôtomo

Producer:

Satoru Oruga

Screenwriter:

Sadayuki Murai adapted from Yuki Urushibara’s manga

Cinematographer:

Takahide Shibanushi

Film Editor:

Soichi Ueno

Music:

Kuniaki Haishima

Cast:

Jô Odagiri

Nao Omori

Makiko Esumi

Yu Aoi

Running Time: 131 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

MaxMedia

Print Source:

MaxMedia

Selected

Filmography:

Steamboy (2004) Akira (1988)

My Best Friend

Mon meilleur ami

sunday may 27 7:15 Pm

Wednesday may 30 4:00 Pm

SIFF favorite Patrice Leconte returns with My Best Friend, an entertaining buddy film with a twist: there is no buddy. François (the magnificent Daniel Auteuil) is a middle-aged antique dealer with adequate means and a stylish apartment, but at a dinner with his closest acquaintances he is shocked to learn that none of them actually likes him or what’s more, believe that he even has a friend in the world. His business partner, Catherine, makes him a bet: he must produce his best buddy in ten days, or give her the pricey Greek vase he purchased just that afternoon. Accepting the wager, François frantically runs around Paris to find a candidate from his past that he can pass off as his mon meilleur ami, and keeps encountering a good-natured, trivia-obsessed cabbie named Bruno (the engaging Dany Boon). Bruno’s chatty, proletarian ways grate with François, but François covets the other man’s finesse with people and convinces Bruno to teach him the “three S’s”–sociability, sincerity and smiling. For a film ostensibly about a midlife crisis and a borderline personality dysfunction, My Best Friend is great fun. Auteuil, in a role that is a stretch for such a naturally ingratiating actor, plays François as a man outwardly assured but inwardly floundering, while Boon is a revelation as a bright man with a life unfulfilled who emerges as one of the most touching Everyman characters in recent French cinema.

France 2006

Director:

Patrice Leconte

Producers:

Olivier Delbosc

Marc Missonnier

Screenwriters:

Olivier Dazat

Jérôme Tonnerre

Patrice Leconte

Cinematographer: Jean-Marie Dreujou

Film Editor: Joëlle Hache

Music:

Xavier Demerliac

Cast:

Daniel Auteuil

Dany Boon

Julie Gayet

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Wild Bunch

Print Source:

IFC Films

Film Website:

www.monmeilleuramilefilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

Intimate Strangers (2005)

The Man on the Train (2002)

The Widow of SaintPierre (2000)

Ridicule (1996) Monsieur Hire (1989)

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

My Friend & His Wife

Naeui chingu, geueui anae North American Premiere

saturday June 16 6:30 Pm

sunday June 17 6:30 Pm

Though Shin Dong-il’s second feature begins with a parent’s worst nightmare, the detailoriented director remains rooted to the rhythms of everyday life. Instead of bold gestures and melodramatic music, Shin and a strong cast examine the bonds of friendship and marriage in resolutely down-to-earth fashion. Jae-Moon and Ji-Sook are newlyweds looking forward to a baby and dreaming of a move to America. He works as a cook, she serves as a hairstylist. As much as he adores his pregnant wife, the boyish Jae-Moon divides his time between her and his best friend and former military mate, Ye-Joon. This makes Ji-Sook jealous, while Ye-Joon is just as envious of Jae-Moon’s seemingly perfect marriage. The couple is constantly worried about money, but Ye-Joon, a foreign-exchange trader, is rolling in it, and he lends them some when times get tight. After their child is born, the couple’s relationship takes a turn for the worse as the new father continues to booze it up with his lonely buddy. Then one night while Ye-Joon is babysitting, the unthinkable happens. In an attempt to protect his friend, Jae-Moon takes the rap for the fatal error. His marriage may never recover, but the two men’s friendship appears to be indestructible. Though it rarely resembles a conventional horror movie, this unpredictable psychological thriller illustrates the dark truth that some friends are far more dangerous than enemies.

South Korea 2006

Director:

Shin Dong-il

Producer:

Lee Seung-jae

Screenwriter:

Shin Dong-il

Cinematographer:

Kim Seok-gu

Film Editor:

Mun In-dae

Music:

Ahn Hye-suk

Cast:

Jang Hyeon-seong

Park Heui-sun

Hong So-heui

Running Time: 114 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Korean, with English subtitles

International Sales: LJ Film

Print Source:

Prime Entertainment

Selected

Filmography:

Host & Guest (2005)

Never Again as Before

Mai + come prima

tuesday June 12 9:30 Pm

saturday June 16 11:00 am

Never Again as Before, from Italian director Giacomo Campiotti, proves that Italian cinema is very much alive and doing quite well. Campiotti fully exploits his mastery of cinematic storytelling here with heart-stopping cinematography, confident pacing and a beautifully structured, always unpredictable screenplay. Final exams are over and as the school year comes to a close six unlikely friends decide to take a climbing expedition together in the spectacular Dolomite Mountains of Northern Italy. The climbers ascend a mystical peak in the heart of the range and are blown away by the awesome and powerful forces of nature. As the physical climb becomes more difficult relationships are strained and personal limitations are put to the test. Then suddenly tragedy strikes, bringing even greater challenges with it as everyone’s life is unalterably changed forever. Campiotti employs a canny blend of European and American film styles, with the jaw-dropping background of Italian scenery set against a white-knuckled dramatic adventure. What really elevates this teen expedition picture from other movies in this genre is Campiotti’s ability to build meaningful emotional sequences while gently guiding our attention towards the profound connections that lie beneath. This enthralling film features a strong ensemble of fully realized characters, who through tragedy discover that the personal forces that separate them are also the forces that give them their collective strength.

Italy 2006

Director:

Giacomo Campiotti

Producer:

Giacomo Campiotti

Screenwriters:

Giacomo Campiotti

Aleksandr Adabashyan

Cinematographer:

Duccio Cimatti

Film Editor: Joe Walker

Fabio Nunziata

Music: Bottega Del Suono

Cast:

Laura Chiatti

Natalia Piatti

Federico Battilocchio

Nicola Cipolla

Marco Velluti

Marco Casu

Running Time: 106 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Italian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Intramovies

Print Source:

Intramovies

Film Website: www.medusa.it/ maipiucomeprima

Selected

Filmography:

A Time to Love (1999) Like Two Crocodiles (1994)

harvard exit

lincoln square

siff cinema

siff cinema

Never on a Sunday Morirse en domingo

sunday may 27 11:00 am nePtune theatre tuesday may 29 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

What Does a True Film Buff Do?

On a Sunday, the beginning of the week, Julio Salas finds his end. When he dies after a long illness, his cash-strapped family is forced to contract the services of only the most affordable funeral home. Of course, you get what you pay for and death proves no exception, the undertaker attempting to supplement his own modest fees by repurposing Julio’s corpse to the local university medical school morgue. When Julio’s nephew Carlos learns of the switch from a med school buddy, he rushes out to set things right, his livid contempt for the sleazy undertaker only matched by his burgeoning affection for the sleazy undertaker’s delightful daughter. As Carlos embarks on a quest to retrieve his uncle’s body and have it cremated, everything spins out of control, and the poor nephew finds himself immersed in a macabre world of depravity, corruption and even more death. This biting, surreal black comedy finds an appropriately caustic central metaphor to encapsulate its disgust with the grotesqueries of contemporary Mexico City society, while keeping the proceedings chock full of vivid characters and scabrous dialogue. Director Daniel Gruener keeps the mayhem rolling along, while remaining ever sympathetic to the plights faced by a young man whether he’s in love, dodging his disciplinarian father, or hiding a fresh corpse from onlookers.

Mexico 2006

Director:

Daniel Gruener

Producers:

Mónica Lozano

Daniel Gruener

Screenwriter:

Antonio Armonía

Cinematographer:

Guillermo Granillo

González

Film Editor: Gabriel Rodríguez “Choco”

Music:

Gabriel González Meléndez

Cast:

Silverio Palacios

Humberto Busto

Maya Zapata

Fernando Becerril

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales: Altavista Films

Print Source:

Altavista Films

Film Website: morirseendomingo.com

Selected Filmography: Sobrenatural (1996)

BANANABLOSSOM

PANSEAREDALASKACOD

MANGO &STICKY RICE

Nina’s Journey

Ninas resa

sunday June 3 6:15 Pm

tuesday June 5 7:00 Pm egyPtian

Nina’s Journey is as much a daughter’s tribute to her mother as a tribute to Poland’s Jewish community. Based on the true story of writerdirector Lena Einhorn’s mother, Nina Rajmic, the film begins with Nina and her family being incarcerated in the Warsaw ghetto. She comes of age under extreme circumstances and tries to live the life of a normal teenager, but people keep vanishing. Eventually she escapes to the Aryan side where she lives as a gentile. But her parents remain behind and, by the war’s end, it became clear that only she and her brother had survived. Putting the war behind her, she makes a life for herself in Sweden. Despite the unbearable losses along the way, Nina’s Journey is punctuated by moments of beauty and light. Einhorn interviewed her mother just before her death in 2002, and the gripping testimony is threaded through the film as a commentary to the unfolding events. Utilizing on-camera interviews with archival footage and re-creations to recount her mother’s life under Nazi rule, Einhorn bypasses documentary and docudrama in favor of a more flexible mix of the two. For her efforts, Einhorn won Best Picture and Best Screenplay at the Swedish Film Awards. Though Nina has passed away, her daughter has ensured she won’t be forgotten.

Sweden 2006

Director:

Lena Einhorn

Producer:

Kaska Krosny

Screenwriter: Lena Einhorn

Cinematographer:

Dan Myhrman

Film Editor:

Iréne Hatz

Music: Sasza Maksimov

Cast:

Agnieszka Grochowska

Maria Chwalibóg

Andrzej Brzeski

Pawel Iwanicki

Nina Einhorn

Running Time:

119 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Swedish and Polish, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

NonStop Sales

Print Source: Swedish Film Institute

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Noise

sunday June 10 9:00 Pm

sunday June 17 4:30 Pm

Graham McGahan (Brendan Cowell) is a selfcentered young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with chronic tinnitus. With a doctor’s note in hand, he is hoping to receive worker’s compensation. Instead, he is assigned to the night duty in a police van in a shopping strip after two violent murders rock a suburban community a few days before Christmas. Though the police quickly connect the heinous crimes, they are desperate for witnesses, as the locals close in on themselves, out of fear and a mistrust of the police. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the various people affected by the tragedies and uncovers an unraveling nightmare of guilt and suspicion. As he engages with traumatized members of the local community, and the aftereffects of these crimes, he learns to come to grips with his role as a cop and a man. Rather than follow the killer or the police, writer/director Matthew Saville instead chooses to examine the ramifications of brutality and fear on everyday people. Using exquisite sound and production design, Saville has shifted the police genre away from the expected and into a nuanced look at what it means to be a victim or a hero, and the response of an ordinary young man to the challenge posed when a community is affected by tragic events. Brendan Cowell is terrific as the young cop struggling to clear the screaming in his head, and realizing that we are sometimes at our best when the worst occurs.

Australia

2007

Director:

Matthew Saville

Producer: Trevor Blainey

Screenwriter:

Matthew Saville

Cinematographer: László Baranyai

Film Editor: Geoff Hitchins

Music: Bryony Marks

Cast: Brendan Cowell

Maia Thomas

Henry Nixon

Nicholas Bell

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales: Arclight Films

Print Source:

Film Movement

Film Website: www.arclightfilms.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Pacific Place cinemas

Pacific Place cinemas

lincoln square

theatre

No Regret

Huhwihaji anha

friday June 1 9:15 Pm

monday June 4 4:00 Pm egyPtian

Confident direction, a sharp script and intense performances mark out No Regret as one of the strongest, most audacious and authentic indie films to come out of Asia this year. Having reached adulthood, Su-min (Lee Yeong-Hoon) is forced to leave the orphanage that’s been his only home. Moving to Seoul he first finds hard, if legitimate, work in a factory; after a string of misfortunes, however, he ends up working as a prostitute in a gay bar. There he meets wealthy scion Jae-min, whose advances, initially rebuffed, ultimately win Su-min’s heart. But circumstances will soon threaten to pull their love apart. Director Leesong Hee-il pulled off a small coup in his native land with this gay-oriented romance, getting the public to question whether homosexuality is still taboo in Korea; but supposedly enlightened western audiences should find their own expectations pleasantly upended by the dearth of self-loathing and tragedy still demanded in films with sexual minority themes. These are characters of full human dimension, each allowed to be much more than simply the queen, the naive waif, the self-denier. By refusing to follow the path towards Queer liberation espoused by so much mainstream culture, No Regret is freed to instill all of its moments, from the rip-roaringly hilarious to the poignantly profound, with the refreshingly recognizable snap of something true.

Northern Light

Langer Licht

Wednesday June 6 9:00 Pm

saturday June 9 9:15 Pm

South Korea 2006

Director:

Leesong Hee-il

Producer:

Peter Kim

Screenwriter:

Leesong Hee-il

Cinematographer:

Yun Ji-un

Film Editors:

Leesong Hee-il

Lee Jeong-min

Music:

Lee Byung-hoon

Cast:

Lee Han

Lee Yeong-hoon

Jo Hyeon-chol

Kim Dong-wook

Running Time: 114 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in Korean, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

HERE! Films

Film Website: fortissimofilms.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Northern Light takes place in Northern Amsterdam, a district that is cut off from the Dutch capital by water and can be reached only by ferry. Lucien (Raymond Thiry) owns a boxing school where he coaches and counsels kids from poor and immigrant families. The coach is a good guy; a little petty at times, but always ready to give his students sincere pep talks about focus, working hard and looking people straight in the eye. He wants to help them but awkwardly can’t make the same offer to his own son, only watch taciturnly as young Mitchel (in a wonderfully nuanced performance from Dai Carter) slowly simmers and stuffs down his real feelings of grief. Actually, father and son share the same heartache, which manifests itself at an unforgettable birthday party barbeque attended by friends and neighbors. Father and son stop speaking to each other after that; Lucien lives at the gym and Mitchell stays home by himself until his girlfriend moves in. Northern Light is about the conflict between father and son as expressed through their silence, yet the film plunges to the bottom of both men’s emotional depths. A sometimes humorous and unassumingly perfectly pitched film, it doesn’t focus on how the conflict came about or how it will be resolved. We are led to conclude that sometimes our inability to express what we want takes us on a strange journey and leads us to exactly what we need.

Netherlands 2006

Director:

David Lammers

Producers:

Frans van Gestel

Jeroen Beker

Screenwriter:

David Lammers

Cinematographer:

Lennert Hillege

Film Editor:

Jaap Praamstra

Music: David Dramm

Cast:

Raymond Thiry

Dai Carter

Rian Gerritsen

Melody Klaver

Mike Meijer

Monique Sluyter

Running Time:

85 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Dutch, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Holland Film

Print Source:

Motel Films

Film Website:

www.motelfilms.nl

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

lincoln square

harvard exit

harvard exit

theatre

Nu.

Nu.

North American Premiere

friday June 15 9:30

sunday June 17 1:15

“They say your character is shaped by what you lose and by the people who leave you behind.” Words that painfully apply to Jaap (Matthijs Bourdrez) now that his beloved girlfriend Rose lies in a coma following a traffic collision. Since her mother took Rose back home to Paris for care, Jaap has not seen her since the accident but he imagines her voice all the time. The unanswerable issues in his life are piling on—not least the mysterious details of Rose’s accident— and Jaap finds it more and more difficult to cope until finally a nervous breakdown deposits him in a hospital of his own. One day his close friend JP (played by director Jan-Willem van Ewijk), a brash international business wiz kid who is both American and Dutch, swoops down and plucks him from the hospital. The two friends take a road trip to France that will challenge and ultimately change forever their relationship. Along the way they meet Lara, a young British cellist, who helps Jaap open up. The young men go through an ultimate test of being authentic, showing each other that when friends are in need, they can let go of dishonesty, denials and wounds and overcome silence. “Nu” in Dutch literally means “now,” and both Jaap and JP learn that now is as important as then. Van Ewijk quit his job to make Nu. and produced his debut film with the help of friends as well as seasoned professionals.

Preceded by Drake

Austria, 2006, 5 minutes, director Christoph Rainer A family drama plays itself out in the contrasting light and shadows.

Netherlands 2006

Director:

Jan-Willem van Ewijk

Producer:

Jan-Willem van Ewijk

Screenwriter:

Jan-Willem van Ewijk

Cinematographers:

Marco van Zelst

Gregg Telussa

Duko Stolwijk

Film Editor:

Jan-Willem van Ewijk

Music:

Steven Spanjersberg

Jord van der Zwaag

Cast:

Matthijs Bourdrez

Jan-Willem van Ewijk Veroniek Vermeulen

Lynsey Jane Rowe

Steve Novick

Ilona Minchom

Arisha de Waal

Running Time: 80 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in French, Russian, Dutch and English, with English

subtitles

Print Source:

Propellor Film

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Awards: ECU Film Festival (Grand Jury Prize)

Offscreen

tuesday June 12 3:30

sunday June 17 9:30

Fresh from his success with last year’s Allegro, Danish master Christoffer Boe returns with another unique vision. Offscreen begins with a director named Christoffer Boe attempting to create a film using the footage shot by his actor friend Nicholas Bro, who has recently gone missing. This film within the film begins with Boe lending his good friend Bro a DV camera so he can make a “love film” about his marriage. The only advice the director can give to the actor is to film everything – a suggestion Bro takes much too seriously. For his friends, and more importantly his wife Lene, the constant filming becomes unbearable, and ultimately Lene moves away to a hidden location in Berlin. Despite his devastation, Bro continues his obsession to complete the film, leading him to hire Danish actress Trine Dyrholm to play the part of his wife. Needless to say, events still don’t go as planned and, frustrated by his film’s stifled progress, Bro leaves for Berlin in hopes of reconciling with Lene. Nearly all the cast members are playing themselves, or versions thereof, but when does documentary give way to fiction?

Proving himself one of the world’s most challenging filmmakers, Boe once again subverts conventional narrative structure to expose the inadequacy of “filmed truth”. In his own words, “I love to explore who controls fiction, who is telling the story, and this is a first person narration from another person than me.”

Denmark

2006

Director:

Christoffer Boe

Producer:

Tine Grew Pfeiffer

Screenwriters:

Christoffer Boe

Knud Romer Jørgensen

Cinematographer:

Nicolas Bro

Film Editor:

Peter Brandt

Cast: Nicolas Bro

Lene Maria Christensen

Karen Margrethe

Bjerre

Trine Dyrholm

Jakob Cedergren

Christoffer Boe

Running Time:

96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Danish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Danish Film Institute

Print Source:

Danish Film Institute

Selected

Filmography:

Allegro (2005)

Reconstruction (2004)

Pm lincoln square

Pm siff cinema

Pm siff cinema

Pm siff cinema

Offset

friday June 1 9:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 3 3:30 Pm lincoln square North American Premiere

Is the young Romanian woman Brindusa really in love with Stefan, an engineer from Germany, or is she just playing with him? Sent to Bucharest to set up a new offset press in a printing factory, Stefan falls hard for the secretary acting as his interpreter, and the feeling seems mutual; enough so that they plan to marry and leave Bucharest together. But factory owner Nicu Iorga, a shrewd entrepreneur and the uncontested lord of his fiefdom, has thoughts of his own on the matter. A married man with a grown daughter, he has a blind, encompassing passion for Brindusa, and doesn’t plan to lose her to any upstart foreigner. Particularly one over whose livelihood he has such firm control. As familiar as the love between an older man and his secretary has been onscreen, there’s something unique in the passion between Iorga and Brindusa, in their characters and history. Director Didi Danquart is interested in the various modes of behavior one finds in “former Socialist society that metamorphoses into Western-style democracy… where the West comes off as self-important and superior.” Offset is a Continental melodrama, a kind of culture clash between Eastern and Western Europe, whose tales of misunderstandings— linguistic, cultural and emotional—reflect the prejudices of individuals from different nations. It uncovers the fragile dilemma of people faced with the prospect of leaving everything they’ve ever known or staying in a familiar world safe at home.

Romania/ Germany 2006

Director:

Didi Danquart

Producer:

Boris Michalski

Screenwriters:

Cristi Puiu

Razvan Radulescu

Cinematographer:

Johann Feindt

Film Editor:

Nico Hain

Music:

Klaus Buhlert

Cast:

Alexandra Maria Lara

Felix Klare

Razvan Vasilescu

Katharina Thalbach

Running Time: 108 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, Romanian, English and French, with English subtitles

International Sales: Bavaria Film

International

Print Source: Bavaria Film

International

Film Website: www.offset-derfilm.de

Selected

Filmography:

Jew-Boy Levi (1998) Gangrene (1994)

Oh La La!

Nouvelle chance

sunday June 10 1:30 Pm lincoln square

Wednesday June 13 9:30 Pm nePtune theatre

The phlegmatic daydreamer Augustin (JeanChrétien Sibertin-Blanc) meets a famous but forgotten old actress named Odette Saint-Gilles (Danielle Darrieux) after finishing his one-man show in her retirement home. Their meeting inspires Augustin to attempt to stage a play with Odette to be based on the correspondence of the Marquise du Deffand, an eighteenth-century hostess of artistic salons who was known for her intelligence and esprit. Augustin pulls together a crazy cast of characters, including TV star Bettina, handsome social worker Raphaël and the oddly out-of-place Franck into his frenetic orbit to round out the cast of players. Augustin’s strange dream world full of odds and ends brightens the colorless existence of a few characters and sweeps the film along. Moving away from the darkness of In His Hands and Dry Cleaning, Anne Fontaine adopts an eccentric approach to this, the third chapter of the Augustin series, following Augustin and Augustin, King of KungFu. Darrieux, celebrating her seventh decade in showbiz, is just one excellent reason to see Oh La La! Briskly paced and keenly realized, with a nicely modulated shift towards sadness, Fontaine shows her finesse as an actors’ director in this modest but perfectly dosed comedy.

France 2006

Director:

Anne Fontaine

Producers:

Philippe Carcassonne

Pascal Houzelot

Screenwriters:

Anne Fontaine

Julien Boivent

Cinematographer:

Caroline Champetier

Film Editor:

Isabelle Dedieu

Cast:

Danielle Darrieux

Arielle Dombasle

Jean-Chrétien SibertinBlanc

Andy Gillet

Christophe Vandevelde

Running Time:

92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Films Distribution

Print Source:

Films Distribution

Selected

Filmography:

Nathalie... (2003)

My Father and I (2001)

Augustin, King of Kung-Fu (1999)

Dry Cleaning (1997)

Augustin (1995)

Love Affairs Usually End Badly (1993)

Once

One to Another

Chacun sa nuit

Walk up Grafton Street in Dublin any day of the week and you will come across any number of street performers or, as they are known locally, buskers. From this world, first-time writer/ director John Carney has created a charming indie musical. As the film begins the unnamed protagonist, a talented singer-songwriter (Glen Hansard of Irish group The Frames), still lives above his father’s vacuum cleaner repair shop, busking during his off-hours for pocket change. One day he is approached by a pretty Czech immigrant selling roses to shoppers, who just also happens to have a broken vacuum cleaner. Despite her initially brusque approach, he soon discovers she too is a musician, and the two begin to collaborate together at a local music shop where the proprietor is kind enough to allow the girl to play on the pianos. Although still tormented by a recent break-up, he begins to grow attracted to her, but complications arise when he discovers the presence of the girl’s mother, child and, back in the Czech Republic, her estranged husband. Musically, however, the pair is inseparable and begin, with a group of street musicians he recruits, to record an album within a week. Having won audiences heart’s worldwide, Once is a different kind of musical: instead of having the principals bursting abruptly into song, the story’s focus on two musicians means the songs unobtrusively flow throughout its splendidly romantic narrative, redefining one of film’s oldest genres.

Awards:

Sundance 2007 (Audience Prize)

Ireland 2007

Director:

John Carney

Producers:

Martina Niland

David Collins

Screenwriter:

John Carney

Cinematographer:

Tim Fleming

Film Editor:

Paul Mullen

Music: Glen Hansard

Markéta Irglová

Cast: Glen Hansard

Markéta Irglová

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Summit Entertainment

Print Source:

Fox Searchlight

Film Website: foxsearchlight.com

Selected Filmography: On the Edge (2001)

November Afternoon (1997)

A quintet of young and attractive up-andcomers—Arthur Dupont, Lizzie Brocheré, Guillaume Baché, Nicolas Nollet and Pierre Perrier—star in Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold’s quintessentially French drama, based on a true story. The group in question is a close and sexually experimental lot focused around brother Pierre (Dupont), a hunky charming bisexual who will try anything (and anyone), and his equally good-looking sister Lucie (Brocheré), a veteran of numerous affairs at her young age, who has a perhaps unnaturally close relationship with her brother. Friends since forever, the quintet jams together in a rock and roll band, though the play that truly keeps them bonded is more carnal in nature. Directors Barr and Arnold use a time-shifting structure to first delineate the closeness of the group and then—when it becomes apparent in flashback that Pierre met an untimely end—to detail how their sexual salad days came to an unhappy end. In between, we are treated to a tale rich in sensuality (these kids like to be naked a lot) and sexual psychology that comes closer than most to defining the attitudes, anxieties and neurosis of contemporary French youth.

France

2006

Directors:

Jean-Marc Barr

Pascal Arnold

Producers:

Pascal Arnold

Jean-Marc Barr

Karina Grandjean

Screenwriter:

Pascal Arnold

Cinematographers:

Jean-Marc Barr

Christopher Keohane

Film Editor: Chantal Hymans

Music:

Irina Decermic

Cast:

Lizzie Brocheré

Arthur Dupont

Pierre Perrier

Nicolas Nollet

Guillaume Baché

Jean-Cristophe Bouvet

Valérie Mairesse

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Films Distribution

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website: chacunsanuit-lefilm.com

Selected

Filmography: Being Light (2001)

Too Much Flesh (2000) Lovers (1999)

Wednesday June 6 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre sunday June 10 11:00 am Pacific Place cinemas

sunday may 27 6:30 Pm

siff cinema

Opera Jawa

tuesday June 12 6:30 Pm siff cinema

Wednesday June 13 4:00 Pm siff cinema

One of six New Crowned Hope series commissioned by Peter Sellars and the city of Vienna to mark the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, veteran filmmaker Garin Nugroho took Mozart’s “Requiem” as his touchstone, attempting to create a Gesamstkunstwerk, a totally unified work of art. He has succeeded brilliantly with this innovative musical, which he refers to as a “cinema requiem” for the victims of Indonesia’s recent natural disasters and for all victims of oppression. Former dancers Siti and Setio, a married couple living in a small village, have given up their art to sell earthenware. Life starts to imitate the roles they once played in a classic drama when the thuggish Ludiro, a local moneybags to whom Setio is in debt, tries to seduce Siti. Aided by his unquestioning mother, Ludiro pursues his nefarious activities while Siti becomes a pawn between him and her husband in their escalating conflict. Encompassing Sanskrit epics, magnificent visual art installations, gamelan music and sacred court dance, the film never loses sight of its meditative core while skillfully fusing ancient and modern. The performers, drawn from the full range of Indonesia’s multicultural rainbow, are all first class representatives of their particular art forms. Especially striking are scenes in which mesmerizing choreography is set off by breathtaking visuals in a gorgeous seaside palace rising in a miasma above the flat landscape. There is probably no finer sensory experience at SIFF this year.

Indonesia/ Austria

2006

Director:

Garin Nugroho

Producer:

Garin Nugroho

Screenwriters: Garin Nugroho

Armantono

Cinematographer:

Teoh Gay Hian

Film Editor: Andhy Pulung

Music:

Rahayu Supanggah

Cast:

Artika Sari Devi

Martinus Miroto

Eko Supriyanto

Retno Maruti

Slamet Gundono

Nyoman Sura

Jecko Siompo

Running Time:

120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Javanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Pyramide International

Print Source:

Pyramide International

Selected

Filmography:

Serambi (2006)

Bird Man Tail (2003)

And the Moon Dances (1995)

Outing Riley

Wednesday may 30 5:00 Pm harvard exit

thursday may 31 9:30 Pm harvard exit

An easy-going charmer that abandons the traditional angst of the gay coming-out film, Outing Riley provides a delightful reminder it’s wrong to judge a book by its cover no matter what side of the culture wars you land on. Bobby Riley is pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a blue-collar Irish Catholic Chicago boy: sports hound, beer lover, packing a bit more of a gut than he should. He fits right in with his three brothers, from prankster Luke to notquite-happily married Connor to stern priest Jack; which is why when he tells them he’s gay they find it so incomprehensible. There are no Broadway soundtracks in his music collection or chardonnay chilling in his fridge, so how can he be gay? With the help of sister Maggie, the only family member who’d known Bobby’s orientation before his announcement, the three older brothers are encouraged out of their homophobic caves, and to maybe come forth with some secrets of their own. With his second feature, writer/director Pete Jones—who also plays Bobby in an affable, regular-guy turn— proves his selection as the first winner of Project Greenlight was no fluke. Indie films could always stand for a few more voices as full of intelligent, sympathetic humor as his.

USA

2006

Director:

Pete Jones

Producers:

Judd Nissen

Patrick Peach

Screenwriter:

Pete Jones

Cinematographer:

Peter Biagi

Film Editor:

Gregg Featherman

Music:

Rick Butler

Fred Rapaport

Cast:

Pete Jones

Nathan Fillion

Michael McDonald

Julie R. Pearl

Stoney Westmoreland

Steve Dahl

Jeff Garlin

Running Time:

86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

BetaSP

International Sales:

Wolfe Video

Print Source:

Wolfe Video Releasing

Selected

Filmography:

Stolen Summer (2002)

Paprika

Kon Satoshi

friday may 25 9:30 Pm

monday may 28 1:15 Pm

In recent years, SIFF audiences have seen two of the most spectacular anime films the genre has ever offered: Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost In Shell 2: Innocence and Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle. This year, we are proud to present a third masterpiece, Satoshi Kon’s Paprika, a sophisticated exploration of dreams, reality and identity. Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a shy psychiatrist who is testing one of four new prototype machines, the DC-Mini. Through this device, Atsuko can record and even enter into her patient’s dreams, resolving conflicts and treating anxieties in the guise of a brash teenage girl named Paprika. But Atsuko’s lab is thrown into disarray when one of the DC-Minis is stolen. Soon after the theft, the unknown culprit begins using the device to invade the minds of her colleagues, implanting dreams so powerful that each falls into a zombie-like state. Atsuko, enlisting the aid of police detective Konakawa and the DC-Mini’s inventor Tokita, uses the remaining prototypes to enter her colleague’s dreams in an attempt to discover the thief’s identity. But soon the dreamworld, fueled by the DC-Minis, begins to reach critical mass, pushing through reality’s boundaries into waking life. Meanwhile, Paprika begins to take on a separate existence from Atsuko, leaving the latter questioning not only reality but her very identity. Through exquisite visuals, Satoshi Kon manages to create a narrative that seamlessly slips between fantasy, reality and multiple personalities.

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Japan

2006

Director:

Satoshi Kon

Producers:

Maruta Jungo

Takiyama Masao

Screenwriters:

Minakimi Seishi

Satoshi Kon

Nobutawa Ike

Cinematographer: Kato Michiya

Film Editor: Seyama Takeshi

Music:

Hirasawa Susumu

Voices of:

Megumi Hayashibara

Tôru Furuya

Kôichi Yamadera

Katsunosuke Hori

Toru Emori

Akio Ôtsuka

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales: Sony Pictures

Distribution

International

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website: sonyclassics.com/ paprika

Selected

Filmography:

Tokyo Godfathers (2003)

Millennium Actress (2001)

Perfect Blue (1998)

Paris je t’aime - A Collective Feature Film

saturday may 26 6:30 Pm

exit monday may 28 11:00 am harvard exit

One of the most romantic cities in the world, Paris has inspired love and lovers for centuries. It’s also been one of the biggest film cities since motion pictures were invented. Both love and film come together for Paris je t’aime, which features 18 different stories about love, each set in a different neighborhood of Paris. A host of world-class, international directors have come together for this project, each of whom made a short film of five minutes or less. The Coen brothers direct a wonderfully comedic Steve Buscemi as he tries to navigate the Paris Metro; Christopher Doyle directs Barbet Schroeder, who plays a hair care products rep traveling around Chinatown; Elijah Wood stars in a vampire story with an uncredited role played by Wes Craven, which leads nicely into Craven’s film about a recently married couple visiting a cemetery, which itself has a cameo by another of the directors. That’s just scratching the surface. Alphonso Cuarón sets up a massive tracking shot and plays with sound, space and viewer assumptions, while other filmmakers take this opportunity to drop dialog altogether or set forward on a monologue or two. Gus Van Sant, Olivier Assayas, Tom Tykwer, Walter Salles and Alexander Payne are but a handful of the additional directors involved, and the actors brought in are no less special, including Nick Nolte, Marianne Faithful, Willem Dafoe, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands. So much talent in one gorgeous city. Really, what’s not to love?

France/ Liechtenstein/ Switzerland

2006

Directors:

Tom Tykwer

Bruno Podalydès Gurinder Chadha

Gus Van Sant

Joel and Ethan Coen

Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas

Christopher Doyle

Isabel Coixet

Nobuhiro Suwa

Sylvain Chomet

Alfonso Cuarón

Olivier Assayas

Oliver Schmitz

Richard LaGravenese

Vincenzo Natali

Wes Craven

Frédéric Auburtin and Gérard Depardieu

Alexander Payne

Producers: Claudie Ossard

Emmanuel Benbihy

Screenwriters: Various

Cinematographers: Various

Film Editors: Various

Music:

Various

Cast:

Fanny Ardant

Juliette Binoche

Melchior Belson

Gérard Depardieu

Bob Hoskins

Running Time:

120 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in French and English, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Celsius Entertainment

Print Source:

First Look Pictures

Film Website: firstlookstudios.com

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A Parting Shot

Pas douce

tuesday June 5 9:30 Pm

monday June 11 2:00 Pm

Broken up with her boyfriend, estranged from her father and with even her career as a hospital nurse offering no pleasure or satisfaction, Fred is fallen so far down the well of despair she sees no recourse but suicide. Wandering into the woods, rifle at her side, she’s intent on taking her own life; but at the last moment Fred is enraged by two passing, bickering teens, and impulsively shoots at them. This horrific shift of events jolts her back to life and, fleeing the scene, she carries on as if nothing had happened. Until, that is, the teenager that she wounded turns up on her ward and she is appointed to nurse him back to health. A finely calibrated feature from French-Swiss director Jeanne Waltz, A Parting Shot is interested in the effects of crime on human behaviors rather than the crimes per se. Waltz reveals the story from a discrete distance but gets close enough to capture the alienation, rage and loneliness at the heart of the film; her direction is careful, concise and cuts right to the quick. Is Fred more shaken by her attempt to take the life of another or by her inability to take her own? Confronted by the event of nursing her own victim, Fred is challenged by a relationship to someone else who is neither a friend nor a lover, but the unwitting other in this complex, twisting and surprisingly touching tale of anger, guilt and redemption.

France/ Switzerland 2007

Director:

Jeanne Waltz

Producer:

Didier Haudepin

Screenwriter:

Jeanne Waltz

Cinematographer:

Hélène Louvart

Film Editor:

Eric Renault

Music:

Cyril Ximenes

Cast:

Isild Le Besco

Lio

Steven de Almeida

Yves Verhoeven

Christophe Sermet

Running Time:

85 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Pyramide International

Print Source:

Pyramide International

Selected

Filmography:

From Here to Joy (2004)

The Incubator (1995)

Pleasant Moments

Hezké chvilky bez záruky

friday may 25 7:00 Pm Pacific

sunday may 27 11:00 am Pacific

In Věra Chytilová’s new film we meet Hanna, a modern Czech psychiatrist, purportedly independent and nominally emancipated, who’s able at least most of the time to maintain her poise in the midst of her busy life. An endless parade of lost people marches through her office and she deals with their marital indiscretions, incestuous loves, money, work problems and dramas real or imagined. On the surface Hana doesn’t seem to be affected. True, we first meet her on her way to work swearing and swerving through traffic, cursing a storm as she leans heavily on the horn and manages to lose a hubcap. But she arrives at her office smoothed down and ready for her first appointment. Hanna has problems of her own – her marriage is wavering, her son would rather spend time on his computer than talk to her and though she’s too smart to believe in Prince Charming, she’s on the lookout for him. Often scabrous in its portrayal of psychiatry, quite moving at times yet charmingly absurd enough to lift the “looks like Ralph Bellamy” joke from His Girl Friday, Chytilová’s Pleasant Moments is the latest roller coaster ride from the legendary figure of the Czech New Wave, at seventy-eight still as fresh, funny and daring as any filmmaker alive.

Czech Republic 2006

Director:

Vˇera Chytilová

Producers:

Kateˇrina ˇ Cerná

Jaroslav Kucera

Ivan Hubac

Screenwriters:

Kateˇrina Irmanovová

Vˇera Chytilová

Cinematographer: Martin Štrba

Film Editor:

Jirí Brozek

Music:

David Kraus

Cast:

Jana Janeková

Boleslav Polívka

Jana Krausová

David Kraus

Igor Bares

Martin Hoffman

Running Time: 110 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Czech, with English subtitles

International Sales: Czech Television, Telexport

Print Source:

Czech Television, Telexport

Selected

Filmography:

Expulsion from Paradise (2001)

Traps (1998)

Mi Prazane mi Rozumeji (1991)

Daisies (1966)

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Place cinemas

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The Point

US Premiere

friday June 8 4:30 Pm

lincoln square

monday June 11 4:30 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

When 40 teenagers in Point St. Charles, a multiethnic, inner-city Montreal neighborhood, were invited to collaborate on a film based on their lives, the results were astounding. Working with seasoned screenwriters and director Joshua Dorsey, who has been teaching and making art with teens in disadvantaged areas for many years, the film’s collaborative process has allowed youth to tell their stories in their own unfiltered voices. Creating a story based on their own experiences, the teens then played the roles they had written. The result is The Point, a gritty drama about how lives intersect over one fateful weekend. Jay, a smart 16-year old, is prepared to reject a scholarship to get street cred. Stephanie is a shy 15-year old trying to find the courage to fight back against the bullies of her daily life, while Julian is a 13-year old with dreams of living large as a drug runner until the reality of gang payback catches him. Over these and other distinct yet interconnected stories hangs the specter of Kyra, whose mysterious disappearance from the area a year before is far from forgotten. Touching on a variety of issues and events—from relationships, feelings of isolation and run-ins with cops and thugs, to house parties and trying to hang out with friends in peace—The Point mixes docu-drama with suspense, humor and tension to capture the vibrancy of a neighborhood and the teenagers who live there. (ages 14 and up)

Canada

2006

Director:

Joshua Dorsey

Producers:

Melissa Malkin

Joshua Dorsey

Germaine Ying Gee

Wong

Screenwriters:

Melissa Malkin

Joshua Dorsey

Owen Coughlan

Ahyssa Kuzmarov in collaboration the cast

Cinematographer:

Alain Julfayan

Film Editor:

Maxime Chalifoux

Music:

Jesse Dorsey

Cast:

Sabrina Law

Jonny Wagge

Julie Chauvin

Ruth Dolores

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Seville Pictures

Print Source:

Seville Pictures

Selected

Filmography: One Day (codirector) (2003) Here Am I (1999)

Prague Prag

friday June 8 4:30 Pm

sunday June 10 9:00 Pm

Prague is the latest film from Ole Christian Madsen, who is fast becoming Denmark’s chief chronicler of domestic strife. Christoffer (Mads Mikkelsen) doesn’t grieve when the father, who abandoned him and his mother, and whom he has not seen for 25 years, dies suddenly in Prague. He simply sets off with his wife, Maja, to bring the body home for burial and quickly return to his everyday life. If only it were so simple. Denmark and the Czech Republic have little in common, and the linguistic challenges are just the start of the problems as they encounter uncomprehending chambermaids, insensitive diplomats and vestigial reminders of the hidebound communist bureaucracy. Worse, getting to know the facts of his father’s life in this foreign land stirs an old yearning in Christoffer, which does nothing to soothe the waters of his already troubled marriage. Soon suppressed resentments and long-buried secrets emerge to pitch the couple into a brutally honest reappraisal of their relationship. When the corpse goes missing, Christoffer suddenly finds himself fighting to avoid being destroyed in the city to which he came on a purely practical errand. Utterly absorbing, the film delights in its somewhat surreal encounters, but its chief pleasure is yet another stand-out performance from the unfailingly compelling Mikkelsen (Pusher II) as a man refusing to acknowledge his own failings, no matter what the cost to himself and those around him.

Denmark 2006

Director:

Ole Christian Madsen

Producers:

Morten Kaufmann

Bo Ehrhardt

Birgitte Held

Screenwriters:

Kim Fupz Aakeson

Christian Madsen

Cinematographer: Jørgen Johansson

Film Editor: Søren B. Ebbe

Music:

Jonas Struck

Cast: Mads Mikkelsen

Stine Stengade

Borivoj Navratil

Jana Plodková

Josef Vajnar

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Danish, English, and Czech, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Trust Film Sales

Print Source:

Danish Film Institute

Film Website: www.pragfilmen.dk

Selected Filmography:

Angels in Fast Motion (2005)

Kira’s Reason: A Love Story (2001)

Pizza King (1999)

Red Road

friday may 25 9:30 Pm

saturday may 26 1:30 Pm

Director Andrea Arnold’s Dogme-inspired feature debut more than fulfills the promise of her Oscar-winning short film, Wasp. Jackie (the wonderfully expressive Kate Dickie) is employed monitoring closed-circuit TV in Red Road, a rough neighborhood in the north of Glasgow. A widow who lost her husband and child in circumstances that are only slowly revealed to us, she has a social life consisting of infrequent hook-ups for impersonal sex with a married coworker. On her monitor one day she is shocked to spot an unwelcome ghost from her past, an ex-con named Clyde (the feral Tony Curran). Jackie begins stalking Clyde, luring him into a hot sexual entanglement, which proves to be only her first step on the road to revenge after she confronts him with his past crimes. What mysterious history do they share, and why is Jackie so determined to punish this man? Arnold keeps the audience guessing and the tension building as Red Road crescendos to an explosive finale. Displaying the director’s well-tuned ear for working-class British speech patterns, and an unflinching regard for female sexuality that calls to mind the work of other British femme directors Lynne Ramsay (Morvern Caller) and Carine Adler (Under the Skin), this ravishing film was a deserved winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.

Awards:

London 2006 (Best First Feature)

United Kingdom/ Denmark

2006

Director:

Andrea Arnold

Producer:

Carrie Comerford

Screenwriter:

Andrea Arnold

Cinematographer:

Robbie Ryan

Film Editor:

Nicolas Chauderge

Cast:

Kate Dickie

Tony Curran

Martin Compston

Natalie Press

Running Time: 110 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Trust Film Sales

Print Source:

Tartan Films USA

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

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Reprise

monday may 28 9:30 Pm

thursday may 31 4:00 Pm

Erik and Phillip are aspiring writers and, as Reprise begins, both stand before a postbox ready to send their manuscripts to publishers. Cue the film’s narrator who speculates, in a brief prologue, upon the potential earth-shaking impact each novel will achieve. Reality soon intervenes, however: Phillip’s novel is accepted, while Erik faces rejection. The strain of overnight success, and his budding yet obsessive romance with his girlfriend Kari, causes Phillip to have a nervous breakdown. Six months later, Erik picks up Phillip from a sanitarium accompanied by their circle of friends—chauvinistic Lars, former punk rocker turned marketing consultant Morten and Morten’s younger, more insecure brother Geir. As the friends help Phillip settle back into normal life, an uneasy truce forms among them. Erik turns all his energies into his literary endeavors, neglecting his girlfriend, mother and nearly everyone else except for Phillip, who being unable to write incautiously attempts to rekindle his love affair with Kari. In his much lauded feature-film debut, director Joachim Trier constructs an elegant latticework of flashbacks, flash-forwards, voiceover narration and well placed pop music that shows an indebtedness to the French New Wave while simultaneously managing to revitalize all of its conventions. As the characters grow from innocence to experience, their ties to each other begin to fray, and Trier handles this unraveling with a light, effervescent humor, capturing each sudden bout of maturity with bittersweet poignancy.

Awards:

Karlovy Vary 2006 (Best Director)

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film Toronto 2006 (Discovery Award)

Rescue Dawn

saturday may 26 9:00 Pm

sunday may 27 4:30 Pm

Norway 2006

Director:

Joachim Trier

Producer:

Karin Julsrud

Screenwriters:

Joachim Trier

Eskil Vogt

Cinematographer:

Jakob Ihre

Film Editor:

Olivier Bugge Couttè

Music:

Ola Fløttum

Cast:

Espen Klouman Høiner

Anders Danielsen Lie Christian Pedersen

Viktoria Winge

Odd Magnus Williamson

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Norwegian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Norwegian Film Institute

Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

When Dieter Dengler was a boy growing up in post-World War II Germany, he made brief eye contact with the pilot of an Allied aircraft flying over the ruins of his neighborhood. From that point on, he needed to fly himself. Finally realizing his dream by joining the U.S. Navy, he was promptly shipped to Vietnam, where he was shot down during a secret mission over Laos and nearly died escaping a POW camp. In 1997 Werner Herzog made a documentary about the incident called Little Dieter Needs To Fly, in which he marched Dengler through the very forests that nearly killed him. Now Herzog returns to the story with a Hollywood adaptation. As is customary with this visionary filmmaker, nothing was easy about the film shoot in Thailand, but Herzog has once again emerged from the wilderness with an epic story of hope against impossible odds. Christian Bale turns in a stunning performance as Dengler, driven to escape in the face of starvation and torture. With him are fellow prisoners Steve Zahn and Jeremy Davies, who have conflicting thoughts about the escape. Meanwhile, the food supply is running thin for the guards, to say nothing about the food for the prisoners. Bale plays Dengler with an optimism that is inspiring, and the same thing can be said about Herzog’s bravura film.

USA

2006

Director:

Werner Herzog

Producers:

Steve Marlton

Elton Brand

Harry Knapp

Screenwriter:

Werner Herzog

Cinematographer:

Peter Zeitlinger

Film Editor: Joe Bini

Music:

Klaus Badelt

Cast: Christian Bale

Steve Zahn

Jeremy Davies

Abhijati ‘Meuk’ Jusakul

Galen Yuen

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in English and Vietnamese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Conquistador

Worldwide Media

Print Source:

MGM

Selected

Filmography:

Grizzly Man (2005)

The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)

Invincible (2001)

My Best Fiend (2001)

Fitzcarraldo (1982)

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Retribution

Sakebi

friday June 8 9:30 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 10 3:45 Pm lincoln square

Master of J-Horror Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns with one of his eeriest films yet. Detective Yoshioka (Kurosawa regular Koji Yakuso) is a weathered veteran of the police force trapped in a decaying relationship. Things don’t get much better after he is assigned to investigate the murder of a young woman wearing a red dress. From its start the investigation is a muddle of conflicting information: the woman was apparently drowned in a small, muddy pool but salt water is found in her lungs. However, Yoshioka finds another piece of evidence even more troubling—a button at the crime scene matches one lost from his own coat. When fingerprints found on the body match his own, he fears he might have killed the girl during a recent memory lapse. Soon afterward, he begins to see an apparition wearing the same red dress as the dead woman. All the while new victims begin to turn up, similarly drowned in salt water. Evidence begins to mount to the point where even Yoshioka’s partner Miyaji starts to suspect him. At first Retribution seem to unfold in a conventional manner—a simple mystery of identity with some supernatural elements—but then Kurosawa’s film springs such an ingenious plot twist that it corkscrews through the final third in devastating, yet still exhilarating, fashion. The result is an irresistible, stylish chiller, similar to Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, that re-imagines its genre while still delivering the expected thrills.

Japan 2006

Director:

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Producer:

Taka Ichise

Screenwriter:

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Cinematographer:

Ashizawa Akiko

Film Editor:

Takahashi Nobuyuki

Music:

Haishima Kuniaki

Cast:

Koji Yakusho

Manami Konishi

Tsuyoshi Ihara

Running Time:

103 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Lionsgate International

Print Source:

Lionsgate

Film Website:

sakebi.jp

Selected

Filmography:

Retrieval (2006)

Loft (2005)

Doppelgänger (2003)

Bright Future (2003)

Pulse (2001)

Charisma (1999)

Rocket Science

saturday June 2 6:30 Pm

nePtune theatre

monday June 4 7:00 Pm lincoln square

An endearingly awkward, tongue-tied teenager tackles the mysteries of life, love and public speaking in this hilarious new comedy from writer/director Jeffrey Blitz—his first narrative feature after directing the Oscar-nominated documentary Spellbound. With a persistent stutter, young Hal’s self-esteem has been gutted by near-constant humiliation from classmates at his Plainsboro, New Jersey high school. He falls for classmate Virginia Ryerson, a bossy, beautiful and freakishly competitive brainiac, whose world centers around her dream of becoming the star of the school debate team. She claims to see something in him that others don’t, and urges him to join the team under her tutelage. Despite his obvious public speaking problem, Hal agrees. Now he must overcome his fear of public embarrassment and prove himself a winner to the girl of his dreams. Segueing effortlessly from nonfiction to fiction, Blitz displays the same eye for behavior that was a pillar of Spellbound and adds to that an equally uncanny ability for screenwriting. Moving beyond the clichés of most coming-of-age films, this ingenious and disarmingly quirky Sundance winner not only perfectly nails the dilemmas and ironies of adolescence but also conjures a world where everyone, regardless of age, is befuddled by desire.

Awards:

Sundance 2007 (Best Director)

USA

2007

Director:

Jeffrey Blitz

Producers:

Effie Brown

Sean Welch

Screenwriter:

Jeffrey Blitz

Cinematographer:

Jo Willems

Film Editor:

Yana Gorskaya

Music:

Eef Barzelay

Cast:

Reece Daniel Thompson

Anna Kendrick

Nicholas D’Agosto

Vincent Piazza

Running Time:

98 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Picturehouse

Print Source:

Picturehouse

Film Website:

rocketsciencemovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Spellbound (2003)

Sakuran

North American Premiere

thursday June 7 6:30 Pm

friday June 8 4:15 Pm

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nePtune theatre

All those disappointed with the recent Hollywood adaptation of Memoirs of a Geisha should rush to see renowned photographer Mika Ninagawa’s manga-inspired directorial debut and discover what might have been. She delivers a cinematographer’s cherry blossom dream, offering up glorious images and breathtaking art direction, fashioning a sumptuous tableau with every light, scrap of fabric and make-up detail rendered with the utmost care. This story of passion, intrigue and ambition follows rebellious, powerhouse geisha Kiyoha in her ascent from street urchin to supreme courtesan before giving it all up for love in 18th century Edo’s Yoshiwara pleasure quarter with its wall-to-wall bordellos. The denizens of Yoshiwara bore little relationship to red light working girls today: trained in a wide range of disciplines from girlhood, they were there to be won over, not bought by their wealthy patrons. Particularly choosy about her customers and thus both boon and headache to her employers, Kiyoha works her wiles on men and constantly outsmarts her jealous colleagues, determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleases. Not afraid to take risks, Ninagawa employs thoroughly modern speech and behavior, laying down an anachronistic but lively pop music score to underline her point, and is well-served by the stunning Anna Tsuchiya as the staunchly independent Kiyoha who, blessed with the energy of the truly ambitious woman, refuses to allow herself to be subjugated by tradition or convention.

Japan 2006

Director:

Mika Ninagawa

Producers:

Masao Teshima

Mitsuru Uda

Yoshinori Fujita

Screenwriter:

Tanada Yuki

from the graphic novel by Moyoco Anno

Cinematographer:

Takuro Ishizaka

Film Editor:

Hiroaki Morishita

Music:

Ringo Shena

Cast:

Anna Tsuchiya

Kippei Shiina

Hiroki Narimiya

Running Time: 111 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Asmik Ace

Entertainment

Print Source:

Asmik Ace

Entertainment

Film Website: www.sakuranthemovie.com

Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Salty Air

L’aria salata

tuesday may 29 9:45 Pm

siff cinema

sunday June 10 11:00 am lincoln square

Fabio, a 30-year old social assistant at Rebibbia, Rome’s largest prison, is known as ‘the professor.’ Most of Fabio’s energy is focused on the prisoners’ lives, as he tries to make them believe in their future. One day a new prisoner arrives, Sparti, a man convicted for murder. Sparti is a liar, not above faking epilepsy to obtain favors. To his surprise, Fabio realizes that Sparti is his long-lost father, who abandoned him when he was a child. At first the old man doesn’t recognize Fabio, but when the drug-dealing father tries to blackmail Fabio into getting him a oneday release from prison, Fabio reveals his identity to Sparti and there is a dramatic confrontation between father and son. Ironically inverting the role of parent and child, here the young man is the teacher, hoping to set his wayward elder along the right path. Sparti tries to regain his son’s love, telling him that he has missed his family terribly, while Fabio recriminates the old man for the suffering that he and his sister had to bear for being different, abandoned and without a father. The newfound relationship between the two will join them again, at least for a while…

Italy

2006

Director:

Alessandro Angelini

Producer:

Donatella Botti

Screenwriters:

Alessandro Angelini

Angelo Carbone

Cinematographer:

Arnaldo Catinari

Film Editor:

Massimo Fiocchi

Music:

Luca Tozzi

Cast:

Giorgio Pasotti

Giorgio Colangeli

Michela Cescon

Katy Saunders

Running Time:

85 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Italian, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

Pyramide International

Print Source:

Pyramide International

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Salvador

thursday June 7 4:15 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

saturday June 9 9:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

This gripping profile of Catalan anarchist and political martyr Salvador Puig Antich boldly addresses the troubled politics of Spain’s recent past. Puig Antich, born to a comfortable middleclass Barcelona family, was persuaded by the events of May 1968 to join an anarchist group fighting against Franco. One of the horrors of a dictatorship is how it inverts moral order: thus Puig Antich’s honorable rebellion found him acting as getaway driver for bank robberies, the pilfered funds from which went to promote the group’s clandestine publications, and to support strikers and detained workers. In September 1973, Puig Antich was apprehended in a shootout in which a young Guardia Civil officer was killed. Accused of having fired the fatal bullet, he was jailed and condemned to die. Ironically, having given his life over to the proposition that each individual is irrevocably responsible for the machinations of the state, Puig Antich’s death sentence was founded on just such a brutal equivalence, his fate determined not by the facts of his case but because Franco sought retribution for the recent assassination of his designated successor Carrero Blanco. Astutely employing the charismatic young German star Daniel Brühl in the lead, director Manuel Huerga has fashioned a poignant and majestic account of a young man determined to live life on his own terms and without fear.

Spain 2006

Director:

Manuel Huerga

Producer:

Jaume Roures

Screenwriter:

Lluís Arcarazo

Cinematographer:

David Omedes

Film Editors: Alxalà

Santy Borricón

Music:

Lluís Llach

Cast:

Daniel Brühl

Tristán Ulloa

Leonor Watling

Joel Joan

Ingrid Rubio

Leonardo Sbaraglia

Running Time: 133 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, Catalan and French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Beta Cinema

Print Source:

Beta Cinema

Film Website: www.salvadorfilm.com

Selected Filmography: Antártida (1995)

Several People, Little Time

Parę osób, mały czas

sunday June 10 4:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Wednesday June 13 9:45 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

This character-driven story recounts a famous 1970s literary relationship and friendship between two Polish poets. Their small circle of writers, meeting on “Literary Tuesdays,” gives us a glimpse of bohemia under communist times. Miron is a famous and fussy middle-aged poet whose life revolves around himself and his art. Jadwiga lives with her father, is also middle-aged and happens to be blind. She acts as Miron’s secretary, collects and copies his poems, organizes his schedule and contacts his publishers. Their friends feel that he takes advantage of her, but she is fulfilled. Miron hates the daytime and takes Jadwiga on streetcar rides at two in the morning. He’s fascinated by her perceptions of the world she cannot see, and so he urges her to write, but starts to feel threatened by her natural talents. All said, though, they are a perfect pair, both obsessed with writing and the creative process. Actress Krystyna Janda plays Jadwiga (wearing the poet’s real glasses) and Andrzej Hudziak (Best Actor Karlovy Vary 2006) plays Miron, and the script is based on Jadwiga’s “Diary for Two” (Dziennik We Dwoje). Director Baranski says, “To me, making a film is always a kind of promotion of a character, or a lifestyle, of how to be a human being.”

Poland 2005

Director:

Andrzej Bara´nski

Producers:

Pawel Rakowski

Krzysztof Gierat

Screenwriter: Andrzej Bara´nski

Cinematographer: Dariusz Kuc

Film Editor: Wanda Zeman

Cast: Krystyna Janda

Andrzej Hudziak

Running Time: 103 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Polish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

TVP S.A. - Telewizja

Polska

Print Source:

TVP S.A. - Telewizja Polska

Selected

Filmography:

Niech gra muzyka (2002)

A Bachelor’s Life Abroad (1992)

Sex and Death 101

World Premiere

June 15 6:30 Pm

June 17 4:00 Pm

Daniel Waters writes and directs this dark comedy starring Simon Baker as a suave ladies’ man and Winona Ryder as a femme fatale taking poetic revenge on the male sex. A week before his wedding, successful executive Roderick Blank (Baker) is about to live happily ever after when his perfectly planned existence is upended by a mysterious e-mail. This unusual message contains a list of the names of everyone he’s ever had and, more disturbingly, will ever have sex with. The missive sends Roderick on a psychosexual odyssey including but not limited to centerfolds, private school girls and lesbian sexpots. The awe—if we are to be honest— initially inspired by these licentious pursuits soon turns into comic terror, as Roderick struggles over whether this list is a gift or a curse, and whether or not he has any control over his own destiny. These questions are further tested when he both falls in love with a lovely young veterinarian and crosses paths with the infamous “Death Nell” (Ryder), whose rampage of comainducing crimes against sexist men has made her a media sensation. With mordant humor and a supporting cast including Leslie Bibb, Julie Bowen, Mindy Cohn and Sophie Monk, Waters’s literal bedtime story follows a twisted journey that becomes an allegory on the search for morality and peace.

Shelter Me

Riparo

June 8 7:00 Pm

June 11 4:30 Pm

USA 2007

Director:

Daniel Waters

Producers:

Cary Brokaw

Lizzie Friedman

Greg Little

Screenwriter:

Daniel Waters

Cinematographer: Daryn Okada

Film Editor: Trudy Ship

Cast:

Simon Baker

Winona Ryder

Leslie Bibb

Tanc Sade

Patton Oswalt

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCam

International Sales: Arclight Films

Print Source:

Avenue Pictures

Selected

Filmography: Happy Campers (2001)

Lovers Anna and Mara are returning to Italy from their North African holiday when they discover that Anis, a young Moroccan, has hidden himself in their trunk in order to cross the border. Against Mara’s better instincts, they bring him home to live with them. Anna (Maria de Medeiros), an upper-class young woman whose mother and brother run a shoe factory, is eager to help the young man establish himself; Mara (Antonia Liskova), an assembly line worker in the factory, worries about the addition of the underage and illegal Anis to their lives. Anna gets Anis a job unloading crates, and an uneasy emotional ménage à trois develops. For a brief moment, the three manage to help and support each other in an unusually intricate manner. This balance is short-lived, however, as Anna swings from a mothering protectiveness toward Anis to rampant jealousy as she sees Mara’s developing relationship with the boy. Both women must constantly defend their love to Anna’s conservative and snooty mother (and Mara’s boss) and to the traditional Anis, who believes all women need husbands and kids to be happy. These are three people who, by chance, find themselves caught up for a short time in an unusual, undefined family scenario–a community that is not bound by traditional values. De Medeiros shines in her complex portrayal of a woman obliged to look on, helpless, as her idyllic domestic arrangement shatters around her.

Italy/France 2006

Director:

Marco Simon Puccioni

Producer:

Mario Mazzarotto

Screenwriters:

Marco Simon Puccioni

Monica Rametta

Heidrun Schleef

Cinematographer:

Tarek Ben Abdallah

Film Editor: Roberto Missiroli

Music:

Cristiano Fracaro

Cast:

Maria de Medeiros

Antonia Liskova

Mounir Ouadi

Vitaliano Trevisan

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Italian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Wolfe Video

Print Source:

Wolfe Video Releasing

Film Website: www.riparo.info

Selected

Filmography: What Are You Looking For (2002)

Partisans (1997)

friday

egyPtian theatre monday

nePtune theatre

friday

egyPtian theatre sunday

egyPtian theatre

The Silence

Wednesday June 6 9:30 Pm

nePtune theatre

friday June 8 4:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

Cate Shortland’s follow-up to her multi-award winning debut Somersault was made as a television drama, and it’s easy to see why it was greeted on its broadcast with unanimous critical acclaim. Shortland has this time applied her intelligent vision and edgy style to a thoroughly absorbing policier. Suffering post-traumatic stress after a being involved in a fatal shooting, cop Richard Treloar has been forced to undertake a desk job, and finds himself curating an upcoming exhibition at Sydney’s police museum. While sifting through old crime scene photos from the ‘60s, he becomes obsessed with the image of a glamorous woman, brutally murdered, who he later spots at the edge of several other photos. Treloar reopens her case, only to find it has some bearing on the murky circumstances of his own childhood. Meanwhile things grow rockier with Treloar’s squeeze Helen as he becomes attracted to his new shrink, and turn positively lethal with the death of a former cop turned boxing coach who appeared to hold the key to the entire mystery. The Silence, which features knockout performances from Richard Roxburgh as the tortured cop and hot new talent Emily Barclay as his reluctant sidekick Evelyn, is one of the few male-centered cop dramas written and directed by women, making for a much more rounded central character—especially when it comes to his relationships with the women in his life—than the genre usually yields. Forget its TV origins, the visual power and total command of its storytelling makes this cinema through and through.

Australia 2006

Director:

Cate Shortland

Producer:

Jan Chapman

Screenwriters:

Alice Addison

Mary Walsh

Cinematographer:

Robert Humphreys

Film Editor:

Scott Gray

Music:

Antony Partos

Cast:

Richard Roxburgh

Essie Davis

Emily Barclay

Alice McConnell

Running Time:

104 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

ABC Enterprises

Print Source:

Jan Chapman Films

Selected

Filmography: Somersault (2004)

The Singer

Quand j’etais chanteur

friday may 25 7:00 Pm

nePtune theatre

saturday may 26 3:30 Pm nePtune theatre

“One gets so used to Gérard Depardieu’s fine performances in film after film that one almost takes him for granted. Then along comes The Singer, in which he rattles your senses with a performance so simple and understated that we realize all over again what a profoundly brilliant and charismatic actor he is.” – Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter. Alain Moreau (Gérard Depardieu) is a popular dance hall singer working the circuit in the provinces. Years on the road have taken their toll, but get him in front of an audience and his tried-but-true charm shines through. One night he spots a pretty blonde in the audience and succeeds in taking her home. There have of course been many one-night stands over the years, but something about the woman, Marion (Cécile de France), makes Alain want to keep it going—much to the concern of Alain’s ex-wife and manager, Michèle (Christine Citti), who fears that romantic turmoil is the last thing the increasingly fragile Alain needs. Depardieu’s performance is a tour de force—he does his own singing in the role—but beyond the excellence of the players is director Xavier Giannoli (Eager Bodies). His film is a wonderful depiction of a little-seen part of France, a world of Saturday night dance halls and cheap drive-in motels in which a performance by even an overthe-hill crooner can spell a bit of glamour.

France 2006

Director:

Xavier Giannoli

Producers:

Pierre-Ange Le Pogam

Edouard Weil

Xavier Giannoli

Yorick Le Saux

Martine Giordano

Music:

Alexandre Desplat

Cast:

Gérard Depardieu

Cécile de France

Mathieu Amalric

Christine Citti

Patrick Pineau

Running Time:

112 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Europacorp

Print Source:

Europacorp

Selected

Filmography:

Une aventure (2005)

Eager Bodies (2003)

Small Engine Repair

sunday may 27 11:00 am

tuesday may 29 9:30 Pm

What do you get when you play a country song backward? You get your wife back, a new job and your dog, too. It’s a situation Doug, an aspiring country singer in a rural Irish town, knows all too well. His wife has just revealed she’s been cheating on him, forcing him to move out of their house and in with his friend Bill, who runs the local repair shop. To make matters worse, his old mate Burley comes back into town, fresh from prison, and takes the only good job for which Doug is qualified. And if he ever had a dog, well, it left before the opening credits rolled. With nothing left to him but his dream, Doug sets his mind on getting his demo tape played on the local radio station. But when he and Bill are turned away by the show’s host, things look even worse than before. However, thanks to a kind-hearted radio staffer, his demo does get heard and broadcast, validating his talent to the local doubters. Soon, Doug and his band start playing nights at his friend Big Eddy’s pub. But even these small breaks come at a price. Director Niall Heery, in his feature film debut, manages to forego over sentimentalizing the story; instead, he delivers a sober paean on small town dreams and rivalries, where sometimes even the smallest victories, or losses, can be just enough to begin life anew.

Ireland/ United Kingdom

2006

Director:

Niall Heery

Producers: Tristan Orpen Lynch

Dominic Wright

Screenwriter:

Niall Heery

Cinematographer:

Tim Fleming

Film Editor: Emer Reynolds

Music:

Niall Byrne

Cast:

Iain Glen

Steven Mackintosh

Tom Murphy

Laurence Kinlan

Running Time: 98 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Moviehouse

Entertainment

Print Source: Moviehouse

Entertainment

Film Website: www.subotica.ie

Selected Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Spider Lilies

Ci-Qing

thursday June 7 7:15 Pm

tuesday June 12 4:30 Pm

Behind every tattoo lies a secret. Spider Lilies, the Teddy Award winning film from Taiwan is about the power of memories: happy, traumatic, imagined and real. Takeko, a Tattoo artist, has a Spider Lily tattooed on her arm. The Spider Lily is a potent symbol as this flower is believed to line the pathway to hell and contains a poison that destroys memory. This symbol is meaningful to the shy, reclusive Takeko as she wishes to forget her painful past and the recent trauma of losing her father in a devastating earthquake. Jade is a webcam girl seeking isolation from the real world by selling peek-a-boo images of herself on the Internet. Jade lives in the past preferring to dwell in the happy memories of her long lost love of nine years ago for Takeko, and dreams of the tattooed Spider Lily, an image that she wants to one day have for herself. The women meet up again and their romance is rekindled, but as each woman is differently haunted by their memories they are prevented from experiencing the present. Chou’s careful direction creates a rich character background for these two lovers to try and reconnect with each other. Beautifully edited, the story flows seamlessly back and forth from present experience to past memory as one woman struggles to forget while the other tries desperately to regain that which once was.

Awards:

Berlin 2007 (Teddy Award)

Taiwan/China 2006

Director:

Zero Chou

Producers:

Liu Yun-hou

Jeff Wang

Screenwriter:

Zero Chou

Cinematographer:

Hoho Liu

Film Editor: Hsiao Ju-kuan

Music: Huang Chien-hsun

Chang Chien-yu

Cast: Rainie Yang

Isabella Leong

Shen Jian-hung

Kris Shie

Shih Yuen-chieh

Running Time: 94 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Three Dots

Entertainment

Print Source:

Wolfe Video Releasing

Film Website: encorefilms.com/ spiderlilies

Filmography: Vision of Darkness (2005)

Splendid Float (2004) Timewalker (2003)

Floating Islands-Before the Radiation (2000)

Pacific Place cinemas

harvard exit

harvard exit

harvard exit

Summer Rain

El Camino de los ingleses

tuesday June 5 6:30 Pm

saturday June 9 6:30 Pm

Unpacking a world from the actions of three young protagonists, this hauntingly beautiful film explores friendship, love, sex, betrayal, death and ultimately life. Set in southern Spain, Antonio Banderas’ second outing as a director follows the lives of best friends Miguelito, Babi and Paco through one life-altering summer. Initially appearing carefree, conversing by the pool about the primary topics of concern for young men, love and sex, the three friend’s individual harsh realities are gradually revealed to us in glimpses. Babi, always picking fights, hides his pain and weakness with intimidation, studying Bruce Lee for technique and inspiration. Paco witnesses his father entertain promiscuous women when his mother is away, urging his son all the while to dump his girlfriend. Focusing on Miguelito, we are taken between reality and his dream world, portrayed by dramatic flashes of color, light and poetic verse. An aspiring poet, Miguelito embraces a different appreciation than most for the beauty in life. Ballerina in training Luli, to name one beauty, to whom Miguelito finally introduces himself after admiring her from afar, sparking a tumultuous and passionate romance. Striving to live their passions leads them both to find inspiration and support in someone else, causing heartbreak and threatening their bond. The film is narrated by an aspiring radio personality whose prophetic verse captures the essence of the group. This poetically stunning film is nothing short of a masterpiece.

Spain/UK 2007

Director:

Antonio Banderas

Producers:

Antonio Banderas

Gustavo Ferrada

Carlos Taillefer

Antonio Meliveo

Stephen Margolis

Albert Martinez Martin

Screenwriter:

Antonio Soler

Cinematographer: Xavi Giménez

Film Editor:

Mercedes Alted

Music:

Antonio Meliveo

Cast: Alberto Amarilla

María Ruiz

Félix Gómez

Rául Arévalo

Victoria Abril

Running Time: 120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Sogepaq International

Print Source:

Sogepaq International

Film Website: www.elcamino delosingleses.com

Selected

Filmography: Crazy in Alabama (1999)

A Sunday in Kigali

Un dimanche à Kigali

friday June 8 7:00 Pm

saturday June 9 11:00 am

Spring 1994, racial tensions between the Tutsis and Hutus are about to reach a boiling point in Kilgari, the capital city of Rwanda. Bernard Valcourt is a disillusioned, lived too long, drunk too much, journalist making a documentary film on the African AIDS crisis, when he meets Gentile, a beautiful waitress at the Hotel Des Mille Collines. After a bumpy courtship these two star-crossed people fall in love and eventually marry. Then all hell breaks loose in Rwanda and in the ensuing chaos the lovers are brutally separated. Valcourt searches desperately for his wife but his status as a foreigner forces him to flee the country. Months after the Rwandan 100 day massacre leaves almost a million Tutsis dead, Valcourt returns to look for Gentile. What he finds are the blood soaked streets of Kigali and thousands upon thousands of people who have been displaced from their homes. In the confusion during the aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide, Valcourt continues to search for the woman he loves. Based on the slightly fictionalized novel by Gil Courtemanche, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, depicts the unspeakable savagery that human beings are capable of and it does so with clarity and compassion. Luc Picard delivers a fine performance as the jaded, and grizzled Valcourt, a man whose world is turned upside down by love. This chilling look at the ravages of the Rwandan genocide offers a rare look into the horror and hope that reside in the human heart.

Canada 2006

Director:

Robert Favreau

Producers:

Michael Mosca

Lyse Lafontaine

Screenwriter: Robert Favreau based on the novel by Gil Courtemanche

Cinematographer: Pierre Mignot

Film Editor: Hélène Girard

Music:

Jorane

Cast:

Luc Picard

Fatou N’Diaye

Céline Bonnier

Maka Kotto

Luck Mervil

Running Time: 118 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Seville Pictures

International

Print Source: Equinoxe Films

Film Website: www.equinoxefilms.com

Selected

Filmography:

The Orphan Muses (2000)

Nelligan (1991)

Portion d’éternité (1988)

Pacific Place cinemas

Pacific Place cinemas

nePtune theatre

lincoln square

Surf’s Up

saturday may 26 11:00 am Pacific Place cinemas

saturday June 2 11:00 am lincoln square

Surf’s Up, directed with pop by Chris Buck (Tarzan) and Ash Brannon (Toy Story 2), is a stylistically daring computer-animated film from Sony Pictures Animation. This comedic, high-spirited animated feature is shot in a ‘mockumentary’ style: up close and personal camera crews take you behind the scenes of the fast-paced world of competitive penguin surfing. The film profiles Cody Maverick, the penguinwonder surfer currently making big waves as he enters into his first pro-competition. Inspired by his hero, the legendary Big Z, Cody enters the competition believing that winning will bring him all the glory, admiration and respect that he dreams of. Camera crews follow Cody from his hometown, Shiverpool, Antartica to Pen Gu Island for the Big Z Memorial Surf Off. Cody is thrilled to be the center of attention when he meets fellow surf nut Chicken Joe, and the big time surf promoter Reggie Belafonte. Cody’s tongue gets tied in two different ways when he hooks up with surf talent scout Mikey Abromowitz and the spirited lifeguard Lani Aliikai. But it’s not until Cody encounters the washed-up, has-been surfer named The Geek that the young gun begins to understand that a true champion is not always the one who first crosses the finish line. A flock of top Hollywood talent provides the voices. Charming, funny and based on the ground-breaking revelation that surfing was first invented by penguins, Surf’s Up is fun-filled and delightful for the whole family. (all ages)

Surveillance

USA

2007

Directors:

Ash Brannon

Chris Buck

Producer:

Chris Jenkins

Screenwriters:

Lisa Addario

Christian Darren

Don Rhymer

Joe Syracuse

Cinematographer:

Andres Martinez

Film Editor:

Ivan Bilancio

Music:

Mychael Danna

Voices:

Shia LaBeouf

Jon Heder

Zooey Deschanel

James Woods

Jeff Bridges

Diedricy Baner

Mario Cntone

Running Time:

82 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Sony Pictures

Entertainment

Print Source:

Sony Pictures

Entertainment

Film Website: www.sonypictures.com

North American Premiere

monday June 11 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

tuesday June 12 4:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

A sly mix of gay-themed cinema and political thriller, Surveillance follows Adam, a content young IT trainer in London. After a casual meeting with a stranger in a bar, Adam finds his life turned upside down by unknown forces stalking his every move. After losing his job and his security it emerges that the casual meeting was anything but, and Adam was unwittingly planted with evidence of a member of the British Royals being in a homosexual relationship. With no one to trust but his father and Amy—a reporter friend whose heart was broken when Adam told her he was gay—Adam needs to unmask a conspiracy at the highest reaches of British government. Paul Oremland, directing his first film since 1998’s celebrated outof-the-closet drama Like It Is, expertly keeps the momentum racing and the twists coming as Adam strives to clear his name and get his old life back. Beyond the indictment of official homophobia, the film’s portrait of an England under the constant, baleful video-surveillance eye of the state strikes a special chord given the proliferation of police monitoring cameras in the past several years. In London today, is anyone ever not being watched?

United Kingdom 2007

Director:

Paul Oremland

Producer:

Tracey Gardiner

Screenwriter:

Kevin Sampson

Cinematographer:

Alistair Cameron

Film Editor:

Nick Carew

Music:

Helen Jane Long

Cast:

Dawn Steele

Tom Harper

Sean Brenden Brosnan

Nicholas Jones

Simon Callow

Running Time:

86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

Peccadillo Pictures

Print Source:

Blue Blood Films

Selected

Filmography: Like It Is (1999)

Sway Yureru

thursday June 7 9:30 Pm

lincoln square

saturday June 9 11:00 am harvard exit

Takeru, a successful photographer living the good life in Tokyo, reluctantly sheds a portion of his urban hipster detachment to return to his hometown and properly mourn his late mother. From the moment he arrives, everything and everyone he sees constantly remind him of how different he has become. Not least his brother Minoru, who stayed home to run his family’s garage and has become everything Takeru is not–unfashionable, unassuming, unhappy. Though they’ve drifted along separate paths, the brothers still share an uncomfortable bond in Chieko, a pretty young woman who is infatuated with Takeru, and with whom Minoru is in love. When the triangle set out for a day of sightseeing, Cheiko falls to her death from a rope bridge and Minoru is arrested for her murder. Now Takeru, unsure in his own mind if it was an accident or not, must testify at his brother’s trial. The only Japanese film selected for the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Sway is a terse psychological drama that exposes many of the tensions inherent in contemporary Japan. In particular, the bridge that swings unsteadily between the slow, tradition-bound world of the past and the sophisticated, fast-paced environment of today.

Japan 2006

Director:

Miwa Nishikawa

Producer:

Kiichi Kumagai

Screenwriter:

Miwa Nishikawa

Cinematographer:

Hiroshi Takase

Film Editor:

Ryuji Miyajima

Music:

Cauliflowers

Cast:

Jô Odagiri

Teruyuki Kagawa

Running Time: 119 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales: Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Celluloid Dreams

Selected

Filmography:

Female (2005)

Wild Berries (2003)

Sweet Mud

Adama Meshuga’at

Wednesday June 6 7:00 Pm nePtune theatre

thursday June 7 4:00 Pm nePtune theatre

A darkly tinged yet comedic coming-of-age story about a boy growing up on a kibbutz. Israeli Kibbutzim—the literal translation of which means “gathering”—have since 1948 been a mix of socialism, zionism, utopianism and labor. They represent the largest experimental communal movement in history; many seekers, both Jewish and non-Jewish, came to Israel to investigate or work in these model communities. In Sweet Mud, we come to understand that not every person fits into utopia. The story centers on 12-year old Dvir, who enters his bar mitzvah year in 1974. Like all children on the kibbutz, he’s raised collectively by the community, sleeping in the “children’s house” and doing his assigned chores. It makes his solitude all the more extreme, since his father has died and his mother Miri has only recently returned from a mental hospital. His older brother isn’t much help and most of the community is uncomfortable around his fragile mother who no longer fits the kibbutz ideal. Director Dror Shaul was raised on a kibbutz and you can almost smell the one he takes us to. “As a boy born and raised there, my film confronts the collective memory of kibbutzim as a habitat, as a picturesque landscape, as natures’ magical scents to my own private memories. My aim was to make a film about the longing for warmth and emotions, a longing for that illusion that we are in fact not alone.”

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film Sundance 2007 (Jury Prize) Berlin 2007 (Best Film)

Israel/ Germany/ France/Japan

2006

Director:

Dror Shaul

Producer:

Sirocco Productions

Screenwriter: Dror Shaul

Cinematographer: Sebastian Edschmid

Film Editor: Isaac Sehavek

Music:

Tsoof Philosof

Adi Renneit

Cast:

Ronit Yudkevitch

Tomer Steinhof

Henri Garcin

Shai Avivi

Gal Zaid

Joseph Carmon

Pini Tavger

Sharon Zuckerman

Idit Zur

Danielle Kitzis

Rivka Neumann

Hila Ofer

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Hebrew, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Bavaria Film

International

Print Source: Bavaria Film

International

Film Website: www.sweet-mud.com

Selected Filmography: Sima Vaknin Witch (2002)

Takva - A Man’s Fear of God

Takva

TEKKONKINKREET

Mild and serious Muharrem (superbly enacted by Erkan Can) lives in the oldest district of Istanbul in the very same house where he was born. Since he was eleven years old, he has worked at the same small sack factory in his neighborhood. This constancy stretches to Muharrem’s core, filled with his unwavering belief in and fear of God. Adhering strictly to severe Islamic doctrines, his humble devotion attracts the attention of the leaders of a rich and powerful mosque, and they give him the job of collecting rent for properties owned by the mosque. Beyond regrettable, unclean dreams, Muharrem has never strayed from his narrow, well-behaved path. But when this administrative position lays all the accoutrements of civilization at his feet—a new suit, watch, computer, cell phone and car with driver—he is thrown into the world he’s avoided all his life, and his identity and faith are sorely tested. Director Özer Kiziltan says, “I live in a part of the world where lots of stories are waiting to be heard and communicated.” Asked what his biggest creative influences are he answers “Unfortunately, war and violence.” Focusing on the war inside one man’s soul, Takva is a finely tuned story that makes a compelling feature debut for Kiziltan, winning a remarkable nine awards at Turkey’s Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

Awards: Berlin 2007 (FIPRESCI Prize)

Turkey/ Germany 2006

Director:

Özer Kiziltan

Producers:

Sevil Demirci

Önder Çakar

Fatih Akin

Klaus Maeck

Andreas Thiel

Screenwriter: Önder Çakar

Cinematographer: Soykut Turan

Film Editor:

Andrew Bird

Music: Gökçe Akçelik

Cast: Erkan Can Güven Kiraç Meray Ülgen Öznur Kula

Erman Saban

Murat Cemcir

Settar Tanriögen

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Turkish, with English subtitles

International Sales: The Match Factory GmbH

Print Source: The Match Factory GmbH

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

For years, anime films have consistently created vast, visionary cityscapes in which their stories have unfolded. Nowhere is this act of creation more evident, or more supremely accomplished, than in TEKKONKINKREET – an exquisitely realized, minutely detailed blockbuster that examines urban nature in all its glory and corruption. Within the confines of Treasure City, best friends Kuro and Shiro wander the streets, their lives unfettered by parents, school or schedules. The pair spends their days exploring every corner and crevice of the city, using their superpowered legs to help them fight or, at times, flee the other street kids. To this world comes the grizzled Nezumi and his henchman Kimura. Both love Treasure City as much as Kuro and Shiro, not least for how accommodating it proves to their various criminal enterprises. However, it’s not long before a more sinister gangster appears, acting on the behalf of a cadre of property developers who plan to raze the old city and replace it with a new, gargantuan amusement park. Directed by Michael Arias, formerly a producer on The Animatrix, and the first American to helm an anime film, this is a passionate discourse on gentrification and its effects upon the “soul” of a city. Through highimpact, visually stunning action sequences, the cityscape is shown to be the vital essence of its inhabitants’ esteem and identity. (ages 13 and up)

Japan 2006

Directors:

Michael Arias

Hiroaki Ando

Producers:

Eiko Tanaka

Eiichi Kamagata

Masao Teshima

Ayako Ueda

Screenwriter:

Anthony Weintraub from the story by Taiyo Matsumoto

Film Editor:

Mutsumi Takemiya

Music:

Plaid

Running Time:

111 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Japanese, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

sunday June 10 9:30 Pm egyPtian theatre

friday may 25 9:30 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas sunday may 27 4:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

Tell No One

Ne le dis à personne

friday June 1 9:45 Pm

theatre

sunday June 3 1:30 Pm nePtune theatre

Popular American mystery writer Harlan Coben finally makes it to the silver screen in this powerful French adaptation of his novel Tell No One, which has sold 6 million copies in 27 languages. Eight years ago, Dr. Alex Beck (François Cluzet) and his wife were vacationing at a secluded lake when she was abducted and murdered—a case that has remained a mystery. Since then, he has done what he could to rebuild his world, even though he has never stopped pining for his wife. On the anniversary of her death, evidence suddenly appears that may link Alex directly to the murder, while Alex receives an e-mail with a subject heading that only his wife could know... Meanwhile, the police are closing in, and some extremely bad guys and a sadistic gal are making Alex’s close friends sorry they know him. Alex has to stay out of jail—or the morgue—long enough to rendezvous with the woman he desperately hopes is Margot. When his lawyer tips Alex that he’ll soon be arrested, he jumps out a hospital window and straight into the nail-biting ride of a wronged-man-on-the-run. Actor Guillaume Canet, whose directorial debut My Idol was released in 2003, expertly orchestrates the various themes and subplots of this complex thriller.

France 2006

Director:

Guillaume Canet

Producer:

Alain Attal

Screenwriter:

Guillaume Canet

Philippe Lefebvre based on the novel by Harlan Coben

Cinematographer:

Christophe Offenstein

Editor:

Hervé de Luze

Music:

Mathieu Chedid

Cast:

François Cluzet

André Dussollier

Marie-Josée Croze

Jean Rochefort

Kristin Scott Thomas

François Berléand

Running Time: 126 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

EuropaCorp

Print Source:

EuropaCorp

Film Website: fr.movies.yahoo.com

Selected Filmography: My Idol (2003)

The Ten

thursday may 31 9:30 Pm

theatre

saturday June 2 11:00 am egyPtian theatre

Writer/Director David Wain (The State, Stella, Wet Hot American Summer) skewers the most sacred of topics in this hysterically irreverent modern decalogue. Using each of the Ten Commandments as vehicles for the outrageous and absurd, the film’s ten blasphemous “oh no they didn’t” vignettes include stories of a careless skydiver turned superstar, a doctor with a deadly sense of humor, out-of-control competitive neighbors, marital problems in an all-male prison, a newlywed’s obsession with a ventriloquist dummy, a sexual fling with a procrastinating Jesus Christ and of course a nude musical number. These scandalously funny stories feature an all-star cast, and are each told in a different style—including one animated sequence by Aaron Augenblick. Stringing it all together is our host (Paul Rudd), who does his best to introduce each segment while continually getting sidetracked by arguments with his wife (Famke Janssen) and eventual flings with Jessica Alba and Dianne Wiest. Jam-packed with huge stars who aren’t afraid to let it all hang out (Winona Ryder’s infatuation with an inanimate object is a thing of pure psychotic glee), The Ten is subversive, multilayered ensemble comedy at its best. If you’ve got a demented sense of humor, this raucous take on Moses’s tablets is not to be missed!

USA

2007

Director:

David Wain

Producers:

Jonathan Stern

Ken Marino

David Wain

Paul Rudd

Morris S. Levy

Screenwriters:

Ken Marino

David Wain

Cinematographer: Yaron Orbach

Film Editor:

Eric Kissack

Music: Craig Wedren

Cast: Paul Rudd

Famke Janssen

Winona Ryder

Jessica Alba

Justin Theroux

Adam Brody

Liev Schreiber

Justin Theroux

Running Time:

93 minutes

Presentation Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

THINKFilm

Print Source:

THINKFilm

Film Website:

www.thetenmovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Wet Hot American Summer (2001)

egyPtian

nePtune

Ten Canoes

friday may 25 4:45 Pm

monday may 28 6:45 Pm

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

Following his acclaimed drama The Tracker, filmmaker Rolf de Heer (along with codirector Peter Djigirr, a real-life member of the Arafura Swamp people profiled in the movie) revisits Australia’s history in this detailed and highly entertaining recreation of ancient Aboriginal life. Set 1,000 years ago in a culture that even then seems timeless as the surrounding forest, it’s the first movie recorded in the Ganalbingu language, although the warm, expository English narration (by Walkabout’s David Gulpilil) helps translate the behaviors, rituals, and beliefs depicted onscreen.

Oscillating between sensational black-andwhite and sumptuous color footage, the film tells the story of Dayindi, a young man who develops an attraction to the third and youngest wife of the elderly Minygulululu; in response the older man proffers not violence, but a fable: an ancestral tale that parallels the tribe’s activities of canoe-making and egg-harvesting while reflecting on its inner passions. Ten Canoes is a closely observed and often humorous account of the daily activities and indigenous beliefs of the people in this untamed land; its naturalism (and matter-of-fact nudity) commingles perfectly with its elements of sorcery and revenge, infusing the story’s mythic aura with a firm, material sense of the here and now.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

This Is England

friday may 25 4:30 Pm

Australia 2006

Directors:

Rolf de Heer

Peter Djigirr

Producers:

Rolf de Heer

Julie Ryan

Screenwriter:

Rolf de Heer

Cinematographer: Ian Jones

Film Editor:

Tania Nehme

Cast:

Crusoe Kurddal

Jamie Gulpilil

David Gulpilil

Richard Birrinbirrin

Peter Minygululu

Frances Djulibing

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in English and Ganalbingu, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Wild Bunch

Print Source: Palm Pictures

Film Website: www.tencanoes.com.au

Selected

Filmography:

Alexandra’s Project (2003)

The Tracker (2002)

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)

Dance Me to My Song (1998)

The Quiet Room (1996)

harvard exit

tuesday may 29 9:45 Pm egyPtian theatre

His first period piece, Shane Meadows’ This Is England nevertheless does not take him far from what—and who—he knows best, purportedly employing autobiographical elements from the director’s own youth in this depiction of racist violence in working-class Britain in the aftermath of the Falklands war in 1983. The film kicks off with the rousing skinhead anthem “5446 Was My Number,” by Toots and the Maytals, then cuts to a bleak north midlands town where 11-year old Shaun lives with his widowed mother. Grieving for his father who died in the war, Shaun is picked on by bullies, but his refusal to give in earns him the protection of an older gang of boys—and girls. Hanging around with them and getting his first skinhead haircut and boots—and first French kiss—it all seems harmless enough until the arrival of Combo, just out of jail. A member of the racist National Front, his radicalization of the gang leads to a violent split in the ranks and the evolving relationship between Combo and Shaun becomes the heart of the story as the latter seeks a surrogate father. A wry comedic touch permeates all of Meadows’ work, however gritty, and this duality has never been as evident as it is here. With its smoky, evocative cinematography and knockout lead performances (Meadows again coaxing great work from unseasoned youngsters through workshops and rehearsal), This Is England is undoubtedly the director’s most fluently made film so far.

Awards:

Rome 2006 (Special Jury Award)

United Kingdom

2006

Director:

Shane Meadows

Producer:

Mark Herbert

Screenwriter:

Shane Meadows

Cinematographer:

Danny Cohen

Film Editor:

Chris Wyatt

Music: Ludovico Einaudi

Cast: Thomas Turgoose

Stephen Graham

Jo Hartley

Andrew Shim

Joe Gilgun

Running Time:

102 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

The Works

Print Source:

IFC First Take

Film Website: www.thisisengland movie.co.uk

Selected

Filmography: Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)

Once Upon a Time In the Midlands (2002)

A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)

TwentyFour Seven (1997)

The Three Musketeers

De tre musketerer US Premiere

saturday June 2 11:00 am

siff cinema

saturday June 9 11:00 am lincoln square

In a year in which SIFF celebrates the swashbuckler, what better addition to the program than a brand new, stop-motion animated version of Alexandre Dumas’ classic novel set in 17th century France? Young d’Artagnan wants nothing more than to join the elite bodyguards of King Louis XIII, a group better known as the Musketeers. Under his father’s watchful eye, he strives to perfect his dueling and swordplay techniques. When he comes of age, d’Artagnan travels to Paris and enlists, hoping to prove himself at the Musketeers’ training ground. There he comes to the attention of Athos, Porthos and Aramis who, despite a few misunderstandings with the youth, eventually welcome the young spitfire into their ranks. But d’Artagnan’s happiness proves short-lived, as the evil Cardinal Richelieu hatches a secret conspiracy to overthrow the king by exposing an illicit affair between Queen Anne and the Duke of Buckingham. Together, d’Artagnan and the Three Musketeers must thwart the Cardinal’s scheme and preserve the French monarchy, but not before engaging in a series of chaotically comic adventures. Anyone who loves the sound of swords clashing, damsels in distress, a good old swing on a chandelier, or the classic Rankin/ Bass style of animation will be charmed by this Dutch update of the heroic tale: don’t miss out on your chance to shout, “One for all and all for one!” (ages 6 and up, in English)

Denmark/ Latvia/UK 2006

Director:

Janis Cimermanis

Producers:

Peter Garde

Mikael Olsen

Screenwriter:

Maris Putnins

Cinematographer:

Evalds Lacis

Film Editors:

Rasmus Stensgaard Madsen

Evalds Lacis

Janis Cimermanis

Music:

Martins Brauns

Running Time: 75 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

Danish Film Institute

Print Source:

Danish Film Institute

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die

Bihisht Faqat Baroi Murdagon

thursday June 7 2:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

sunday June 10 6:30 Pm harvard exit

This character-driven drama from Tajikistan is the story of Kamal, a recently married young man who is unable to consummate the marriage due to impotence. After visiting a doctor and determining that the problem is not physical, Kamal’s journey brings him to the city to visit his cousin, who recommends a different cure: an unsatisfying visit with a prostitute. Frustrated and still searching for an answer, Kamal encounters many women who pique his interest, but no one will respond to his tentative advances. He follows a beautiful girl named Vera that he meets on the trolley, and they soon end up in bed together. Complications arise when Kamal wakes up the next morning to find Vera’s noticeably unamused husband waiting for him. But instead of physically punishing Kamal, the mafia thug decides to take him on some errands that include robbery, assault and rape. Initially repulsed by the dangerous activities, Kamal’s reaction turns to fascination, inspiring an act that could solve all of his troubles. This beautifully constructed, surprisingly humorous film is guaranteed to inspire discussion and debate about carnality, violence, masculinity and the social constructs that bind them together.

Tajikistan/ France/ Germany/ Switzerland/ Russia 2006

Director:

Djamshed Usmonov

Producers:

Marie Masmonteil

Denis Carot

Screenwriter:

Djamshed Usmonov

Cinematographer: Pascal Lagriffoul

Film Editor:

Jacques Comets

Music:

Pierre Aviat

Cast:

Maruf Pulodzoda

Dinara Droukarova

Khurched Golibekov

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Tajik and Russian, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Celluloid Dreams

Selected

Filmography:

Angel on the Right (2002)

Flight of the Bee (1998)

Tomorrow Morning

Sutra Ujutru

friday June 15 4:30 Pm

sunday June 17 9:30 Pm

After living in Canada for 12 years, Nele (Uliks Fehmiu) returns to Belgrade to marry a nice girl. Once back, he’s able to indulge in everything from his favorite take-out food to reconnecting with old friends, only to discover how much he left unresolved. Raw passions, habits, friends and situations don’t heal unless you tend to them. Director Oleg Novkovic explores the émigrés dilemma of never feeling at home, repulsion for both the old and the new, and the most devastating feeling of all: nostalgia, the kind that detours you from all your good intentions. Novković was born in Belgrade and his first film, Why Have You Left Me, won recognition for its strong antiwar message and was among the first pacifist films made in the territory of former Yugoslavia. For Tomorrow Morning, the poet and playwright Milena Markovic is responsible for the flawless dialogue and observant script. Lithuanian critic Ingeborg Bratoeva describes the film perfectly as “a combination of local colour and Western references, a mix of romance and anecdote, a fusion of expressive acting and hand-held camera. Pour a lot of hard alcohol on this blend, animate it musically and mix the ingredients together to attain the unmistakable sense of post-Yugoslav cinema.”

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Serbia/ Montenegro 2006

Director:

Oleg Novkovi´c

Producer: Lazar Ristovski

Screenwriter: Milena Markovic

Cinematographer:

Miladin Colakovi´c

Film Editor: Lazar Predojev

Music:

Miroslav Mitrašinovi´c

Cast: Uliks Fehmiu

Nada Sargin

Nebojsa Glogovac Lazar Ristovski

Ljubomir Bandovic

Running Time: 82 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Serbian, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Zillion Film

Print Source: Zillion Film

Film Website: www.zillionfilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

Invisible People (2002)

Normal People (2001)

Why Have You Left Me (1993)

Trail of the Screaming Forehead

friday June 8 9:30 Pm

friday June 15 4:00 Pm

Ray Harryhausen presents another great homage to campy Sci-Fi B-Movies of the 50’s from the director of The Lost Skeleton Of Cadavra A meteor crashes down on the idyllic town of Longhead Bay, and inn keepers Amos and Sarah are quickly taken over by giant alien foreheads. At the same time, beautiful redhead Dr. Sheila Bexter is trying to prove that the source of all human knowledge is not the brain but rather–the forehead. Working with Dr. Phillip Latham, she begins to test her theory by injecting him with “Foreheadazine,” a secretion of the foreheadial gland. Complications arrive with a couple of sailors new to town (Big Dan Frater and Dutch “The Swede” Annacrombie) who begin to suspect things are amiss after they notice how townspeople with grotesquely enlarged, wriggling craniums are acting somewhat strangely. Such as the resident sexpot delivering a smoldering rendition of torch song classic “The Ballad of the Screaming Forehead” down at the local bar. Soon, everyone in Longhead Bay (including a great cast of character actors in bit parts: Dick Miller, James Karen, Betty Garret, and Kevin McCarthy) has been taken over by the growling foreheads, now bent on world domination. Can the sailors and foreheadily enhanced Dr. Lathan save the day? Maybe with help from their secret weapon: Millie the Librarian!

USA

2007

Director:

Larry Blamire

Producers:

Larry Blamire

Lauren Taylor

Ray Harryhausen

Screenwriter:

Larry Blamire

Cinematographer: Kevin F. Jones

Film Editor: Bill Bryn Russell

Music:

Chris Ainscough

Cast: Daniel Roebuck

Susan McConnell

Fay Masterson

Andrew Parks

H.M. Wynant

Running Time: 88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Chanceuse Productions

Film Website: screamingforehead.com

Selected

Filmography: Johnny Slade’s Greatest Hits (2005)

The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001)

siff cinema

egyPtian theatre

nePtune theatre

lincoln square

World

Usunday may 27 11:00 am

sunday June 3 11:00 am

U stands for unicorn in this comical and charming full-length animated feature from France based on the acclaimed book by co-director Grégoire Solotareff, who already has over 125 picture books to his credit. Solotareff’s distinctive visual style survives the translation to screen with vivid watercolors that literally fly. Peppered throughout with sly visual references to Rembrandt, Magritte and Jean-Luc Godard, U is strong evidence of the evergrowing artistic and technical potential of the European animation industry. This extraordinary fairytale is about Princess Mona, a vain and somewhat spacey teenage mouse who lives with a very mean grandmother. U, a talking unicorn, becomes friend and confidante to the melancholy Princess, promising to be by her side as long as is necessary. With her new firm friend in tow the Princess sets out to explore their mysterious world where cool and cranky animated beasties abound, including the whimsically wild Yeah-Yeahs. These freewheeling, musical creatures introduce Princess Mona to something that is absolutely alien to her: fun. When the Princess meets a delightfully tentative cat and experiences her first stirrings of love, her new affections conflict with the necessity of her unicorn companion. Will U have to say goodbye? This tripped-out tale is fanciful but nevertheless straightforward as it takes on the familiar themes of adolescent loneliness, loss of innocence and acceptance. The jazzy violin score, dreamy watercolor images and madcap characters make this a delight. (ages 8 and up, English subtitled)

France 2006

Directors:

Grégoire Solotareff

Serge Elissalde

Producers:

Valérie Schermann

Christophe Jankovic

Screenwriter:

Grégoire Solotareff

Film Editor:

Céline Kelepikis

Music:

Sanseverino

Voices:

Bernard Alane

Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat

Maud Forget

Guillaume Gallienne

Vahina Giocante

Bernadette Lafont

Isild Le Besco

Marie-Christine Orry

Running Time:

71 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Celluloid Dreams

Print Source:

Celluloid Dreams

Film Website:

www.primalinea.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Vanaja

saturday may 26 9:30 Pm

sunday may 27 1:45 Pm

Intrigued by a fortuneteller who sees her future as an accomplished dancer, Vanaja decides to take action. But her family has fallen farther into poverty, and her father asks her to quit school and go to work. Hoping to make the best of her situation, Vanaja asks legendary dancer Rama Devi to hire her on as a kitchen maid, and to train the young girl to dance. Rama Devi concedes, and her patience is soon pushed to its limits by her new servant’s rebellious and feisty nature. Still, Rama Devi is charmed by Vanaja’s impetuous assurance, and once the girl has finally proven her dedication, teaches her to dance. Vanaja practices while completing her daily chores— making a bright dazzling whirl out of cutting vegetables or feeding the livestock—and develops not only into an accomplished dancer, but a beautiful girl of 15. Suddenly to her surprise and amusement she begins to attract approving male attention. This attention gets her naive spirit into more trouble then she bargained for, and the tale turns tragic when she is raped and ends up with child, endangering her chance at a viable marriage offer in her traditional Indian caste society. Under direct order to abort the child, she decides to go through with the birth, strengthening her willpower and determination. This enchanting film is interspersed with extended clips of exquisite dancing, music and song.

Awards:

Berlin 2007 (Best First Film)

India/USA 2006

Director:

Rajnesh Domalpalli

Producer:

Latha R. Domalapalli

Screenwriter:

Rajnesh Domalpalli

Cinematographer:

Milton Kam

Film Editors:

Robert Q. Lovett

Rajnesh Domalpalli

Music:

Bhaskara S. Narayanan

Indira Amperiani

Cast:

Mamatha Bhukya

Urmila Dammannagari

Ramachandriah

Marikanti

Krishnamma

Gundimalla

Karan Singh

Bhavani Renukunta

Running Time:

111 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Telugu, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Emerging Pictures

Print Source:

Varija Films Pvt. Ltd

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

siff cinema

harvard exit

siff cinema

lincoln square

The Violin

El Violin

Wednesday June 6 7:30 Pm

saturday June 9 1:30 Pm nePtune theatre

Set during the hard-fought peasant revolts in Mexico in the 1970s, this finely crafted film is an expansion of director Francisco Vargas’ wellreceived short film, centered on the singular character Don Plutarco, who, along with his son Genaro and grandson Lucio makes his living as a traveling musician. Shot in stark black and white, the film starts with a mostly off-screen torture session, a jolt to the viewer to signal the brutality of the repressive government troops who arrive to occupy the hometown of Don Plutarco. The musicians have been clandestinely moving ammunition supplies for the rebels, supplies that are now blocked by the army’s presence. An outwardly harmless old man, Plutarco uses his wiles to convince the military Captain to allow him access to the cornfields in exchange for playing music, then commences to smuggle the ammunition back into the village in his violin case. Featuring first-rate storytelling and impeccable social-realist values shot with a sober eye, the film has an exquisitely suspenseful narrative rhythm as the cat-and-mouse interplay between Plutarco and the Captain takes center stage. The non-professional cast is uniformly strong, but 81-year old Don Angel Tavira, remarkably making his acting debut, gives one of the most indelible cinematic performances of recent years with his dignified, mildly irritable yet simultaneously mischievous characterization of the aging musician.

Awards:

San Sebastian 2006 (Horizontes Award, Special Mention)

Mexico 2006

Director:

Francisco Vargas

Quevedo

Producers:

Luz María Gil

Francisco Vargas

Quevedo

Screenwriter:

Francisco Vargas

Quevedo

Cinematographer: Martín Boege

Film Editors:

Francisco Vargas

Quevedo

Ricardo Garfias

Music:

Cuauhtémoc Tavira

Armando Rosas

Cast:

Don Angel Tavira

Dagoberto Gama

Gerardo Taracena

Mario Garibaldi

Fermin Martinez

Silverio Palacios

Running Time:

98 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Memento Films

International

Print Source: Film Movement

Selected

Filmography: Tierra caliente...Se mueren los que la mueven (2004) Conejo (1999) Hay momentos (1998)

Vitus

friday June 8 7:00 Pm

Wednesday June 13 9:30 Pm egyPtian

With abundant heart and humor, Vitus explores the trials and tribulations of being extraordinary. At six years of age, Vitus von Holzen (Fabrizio Borsani) is a talented pianist with an astronomical IQ. The Zürich-based lad also has an obsession with bats –possibly because his family is in the hearing aid business and bats have hypersensitive ears. His social-climbing parents Leo and Helen couldn’t be more proud of their little wunderkind. But Vitus suffers from a severe lack of social skills. Except for his funloving babysitter Isabel and his coffin-building Grandfather, he’s awkward around other people. Six years pass and Vitus (now played by piano prodigy Teo Gheorghiu) is more accomplished than ever, but just as much of an outcast. His classmates think he’s a nerd, while his teachers find him arrogant. And the more his parents push him to succeed, the more Vitus wishes he weren’t quite so special. So he decides to take matters into his own hands and find out what it’s like to live life as a normal kid, pretending to have lost his gifts as a result of a bad fall. It turns out being unremarkable is not so bad, but when his family’s fortunes take a turn for the worse, Vitus has to figure out if it’s possible to please himself and his loving, if overbearing, parents at the same time.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film AFI Festival 2006 (Audience Award) Rome 2006 (Audience Award)

Switzerland

2006

Director:

Fredi M. Murer

Producers: Christian Davi

Christof Neracher

Fredi M. Murer

Screenwriters:

Peter Luisi

Fredi M. Murer

Lukas B. Suter

Cinematographer: Pio Corradi

Film Editor: Myriam Flury

Music:

Mario Beretta

Cast:

Bruno Ganz

Fabrizio Borsani

Toe Gheorghiu

Julika Jekkins

Urs Jucker

Running Time:

120 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Swiss German, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Media Luna

Entertainment

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website: www.vitus-film.com

Selected

Filmography:

Downtown Switzerland (2004)

Full Moon (1998)

Alpine Fire (1985)

Zones (1972)

lincoln square

theatre

harvard exit

Waiter

Ober

saturday may 26 11:00 am

sunday June 3 9:45 Pm

nePtune theatre

nePtune theatre

Edgar is a waiter short on ambition but long on experience in the large, nearly empty restaurant where he works. With an air of resignation and a bedridden wife back home, his only joy in life comes from the short flings he has with his emotionally needy mistress, Victoria. Cut to: the screenwriter who is writing Edgar’s story heeds the advice of his girlfriend and rewrites Edgar and Victoria’s sex scene into a bout of sexual role-play. Rewind the story a little bit: Edgar is now entering Victoria’s apartment as a big game hunter in full safari gear, followed by four native Africans with spears. The next day, after some abusive customers push him around, Edgar has had enough and so he bursts in on the screenwriter to complain about the role that’s being written for him. With the deadpan humor of Aki Kaurismäki and the narrative twists and turns of a Charlie Kaufman script, the movie plays with how a fictional character can take on a life of his own. Waiter was written and directed by Alex van Warmerdam, who also does a fantastic job starring as the disgruntled Edgar. With a steeled gaze that accepts even the strangest plot points the screenwriter throws at him, van Warmerdam sets a great comic tone for the whole movie. Through it all Edgar soldiers on. All he wants is one moment of happiness or a flash of true love. Is that too much to ask? In this case, it may very well be.

Netherlands/ Belgium

2006

Director:

Alex van Warmerdam

Producer:

Marc van Warmerdam

Screenwriter:

Alex van Warmerdam

Cinematographer:

Tom Erisman

Film Editor: Ewin Ryckaert

Music:

Vincent van Warmerdam

Cast:

Alex van Warmerdam

Jaap Spijkers

Ariane Schluter

Pierre Bokma

Running Time: 96 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Dutch, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

Fortissimo Films

Selected

Filmography:

Grimm (2003)

Little Tony (1998)

The Dress (1996)

The Northerners (1992)

Voyeur (1986)

White Palms Fehér tenyér

Wednesday June 6 7:15 Pm

friday June 8 2:00 Pm

Pacific Place cinemas

Pacific Place cinemas

Miklós, a Hungarian Olympic gymnast whose career was cut short by injury, has come to Canada to begin a new life as a coach. But cultural differences assert themselves on the exercise mat as thoroughly as anywhere else, and Miklós’ authoritarian methods, which don’t shirk at corporal punishment, appall his liberal Western employers. One last chance comes in the form of a vain, temperamental, but undeniably gifted young hopeful placed in Miklós’s charge. To reach out he must first leap inward, remembering back to his own joyless hours of training under a fearsome coach who brutally punished any infraction, while at home his oblivious parents insisted that he come out and gambol for the guests. Writer-director Szabolcs Hajdu constructs the film in sprightly non-linear fashion, with nimble leaps from past to present, East to West, youthful drive to middle-aged regret. The story is based on the experiences of Hajdu’s younger brother, Zoltán, a professional gymnast (and current Cirque du Soleil performer) whose charismatic turn as Miklós is therefore infused with an emotional directness as clear and unassailable as his physical verisimilitude in the role. Heartfelt and highly personal, White Palms was the winner of five prizes at Hungarian Film Week, including Best Director and the International Critic’s Prize.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film

Hungary/ France

2006

Director:

Szabolcs Hadju

Producers:

Ivan Angelusz

Agi Pataki

Peter Reich

Screenwriter:

Szabolcs Hadju

Cinematographer: Andrzás Nagy

Film Editor: Péter Politzer

Music:

Ferenc Darvas

Cast: Gheorghe Dinica

Zoltán Miklós Hadju

Kyle Shewfelt

Running Time:

101 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hungarian, English, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

Onoma

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Film Website: www.fehertenyer.hu

Selected

Filmography: Tamara (2004) Sticky Matters (2000)

Woman on the Beach

Haebyuneui Yeoin

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SIFF 2003 Emerging Master Hong Sang-soo has made his most accessible film to date, one that requires neither specialist interest in Korean cinema nor prior knowledge of his work. Filmmaker Joong-rae heads to an offseason beach resort to find inspiration for his new script. He convinces his friend Changwook to accompany him; Chang-wook in turn brings along his girlfriend Moon-sook, a young female composer and a fan of the director’s work. Before long Joong-rae has stolen off with his friend’s lover, but while admiration makes a powerful aphrodisiac it offers no promises of undying love. The next morning Moon-sook receives nothing for her affections but a cold shoulder, and leaves for the city. Her return to the beach and Joong-rae’s subsequent hook-up with another woman creates a situation rife with farcical potential. Acted out against the pallid backdrop of a grey ocean, the film opens up ordinary tales of love and life to reveal the underlying complexity - and unpleasantness - of human relationships. With his customary skill Hong captures the natural flow of conversation, in all of its inevitable pauses, quicksilver changes of direction and alterations of tone. Pleasingly redolent of the work of Eric Rohmer, with its banal settings, attractive young characters and ever-present undercurrent of sex, Woman on the Beach is disarming in its simplicity yet sufficiently sophisticated in its narrative style to please even the most refined of palates.

South Korea

2006

Director:

Hong Sang-soo

Producer:

Jin-ah Cho

Screenwriter:

Hong Sang-soo

Cinematographer:

Kim Hyung-koo

Film Editor:

Hahm Sung-won

Music:

Jeong Yong-jin

Ko Hyun-jeong

Cast:

Kim Seung-woo

Kim Tae-woo

Ko Hyun-jeung

Song Sun-mi

Running Time: 128 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in Korean, with English subtitles

International Sales: Mirovision Inc.

Print Source: Mirovision Inc.

Film Website: www.filmbom.com/ womanonthebeach

Selected

Filmography:

Woman is the Future of Man (2004)

Turning Gate (2002)

Virgin Stripped Bare by her Bachelors (2000)

The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)

The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996)

The Yacoubian Building

Omaret Yacoubian

saturday may 26 1:00 Pm Pacific Place cinemas

monday may 28 6:30 Pm harvard exit

Adapted from the controversial best seller by Alaa’ Al-Aswany, The Yacoubian Building retains the book’s strong critique of Egyptian society and notoriously frank treatment of traditionally taboo subjects such as homosexuality, fundamentalism, corruption, prostitution and terrorism. As impressively, it keeps the novel’s juggling storylines in gripping focus, never sprawling ungainly as it leaps from story to story. Or floor to floor, for the myriad plot strands all emerge from residents of the titular downtown Cairo high-rise, built in 1934 by a leader of the Armenian community and once the standard for comfort and elegance. But the Yacoubian Building now shares in the state of genteel decay of its environs. Even the uppercrust tenants are slightly shabby and, in a brittle inversion of typical apartment house dynamics, huge families of poor workers command the best view (but still the worst surroundings) as they crowd into makeshift shacks on the roof. But every inhabitant, rich and poor alike, harbors secret needs: for money, security, love, sex, power, revenge. As an epic crosssection of a nation across the social spectrum, The Yacoubian Building is fittingly the most expensive Egyptian film ever made and proves well worth the price, enthralling throughout its extended running time. Winner, Best First Feature, Tribeca Film Festival.

Awards:

Official Oscar Submission 2006 - Foreign Language Film Tribecca 2006 (Best First Feature)

Egypt 2006

Director:

Marwan Hamed

Producers:

Sameh Gobran

Adel Adib

Screenwriters:

Waheed Hamed

Cinematographer:

Sameh Selim

Film Editor: Khaled Marei

Music:

Khaled Hammad

Cast:

Adel Imam

Nour El Sherif

Hend Sabry

Yousra

Hind Sabry

Somaya El Khashab

Ahmed Rateb

Running Time:

161 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Arabic, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

BAC Films

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

egyPtian theatre

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Since the camera was first invented, documentary filmmakers have used this magical invention to record real events, preserve the momentous or reveal the tragedies and glories of our world. As the popularity of film expanded, the purpose of documentary filmmaking progressed to not only recording the actual, but also to reflect the advancement of new ideals, social progress and changes in the global zeitgeist. The camera was being used to provoke audiences to question their personal experience of the world through the exploration, interrogation and revelation of occurrences far beyond or very close to their everyday lives. It is now over a century since the first pioneers of this form trained their cameras on the world, and today’s current explosion in non-fiction filmmaking has brought with it new practitioners of this complex craft, intent on telling compelling stories that are shaped with vision and stunning aesthetic. SIFF’s Documentary Features selection brings to the

screen a wide spectrum of experiences–detailed personal profiles, individual expressions, political scrutiny, historical revelations and examinations of cultural trends and divides. Whether examining the catalysts of the most minute creative spark or exposing the forces behind annihilation, contemporary documentary films serve as much more than front row seats to world cultures and events. They offer unique and compelling insight into the personalities that shape these evolving directions, bringing us closer than ever before to what was once remote and inaccessible. With curiosity, mastery of form and boundless compassion documentary films create new global communities allowing us to witness the lives of other’s different and similar to ourselves. We invite you to join us in celebration of the 2007 documentary program, which presents a changing world in moving pictures made by masterful storytellers of the genre.

Documentary Features

American Shopper

Angels in the Dust

World Premiere

Ever been in a grocery store and thought about popping a wheelie with your shopping cart? Maybe tossing in a box of cereal behind your back? Or dancing down the produce aisle? When Columbia, OH, insurance salesman Jonathan Sawyer realized how much time Americans spend shopping for groceries, he thought: why not make it fun? This absurd, funny and surprisingly heartwarming hybrid documentary follows the evolution of Sawyer’s dream to launch a new supermarket sport called “aisling” in which competitors create their own dances, costumes and cart decorations and perform while picking up specified products. Sawyer’s awkward but successful attempts to convince a store manager and the town’s mayor to get on board are amusing. But the film really takes off when he plasters the town with flyers announcing the first-ever National Aisling Championship, to be held the day after Thanksgiving and boasting a $10,000 first prize. Enter a diverse crosssection of small-town Americans open-minded enough to try the ridiculous concept. From the initial meeting, where Sawyer outlines the idea to a group of interested yet skeptical citizens, through the process of contestants practicing dances, customizing their carts and pondering strategy, a hilarious, ludicrous Christopher Guestian world emerges. But once we get to know more about the contestants’ reasons for competing and their personalized themes (from a little girl’s ode to her grandmother to a man’s expression of his own hard-luck life), we are won over. Suddenly this odd mixture of art, theater, dance and game show doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. The culminating contest rivals Spellbound in anticipation and Best in Show in joyous absurdity.

USA 2007

Directors:

Tamas Bojtor

Sybil Dessau

Producer:

Tamas Bojtor

Screenwriters:

Tamas Bojtor

Adam Keker

Cinematographer:

Tamas Bojtor

Film Editors:

Mallory Gottlieb

Suzanne Spangler

Tamas Bojtor

Music:

Barbara Cohen

Running Time: 87 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

Print Source: Cage Free LLC

Film Website: www.american shoppermovie.com

Selected

Filmography: Commune (2005)

Fixing Frank (2002)

This powerful documentary introduces us to the Cloete family of South Africa, who willingly left their life of luxury and comfort, sold everything they owned, and spent their entire life savings to establish an orphanage and school for local children in a village where 50% are HIV-positive. Most of the children are sent to the orphanage by their dying mothers, but the Cloetes also recruit children to their school to give them a better chance at life. The film weaves in heartbreaking interviews with young girls barely 10 years old who recount being raped, sold for sex by their parents and ending up HIV-positive. Villagers who are knowingly HIV-positive still have unprotected sex with countless others. The myth that having sex with a virgin will cure HIV leaves many children traumatized and facing a death sentence. Multiple funerals every weekend are filling the graveyards almost to capacity. Despite all the sadness, tragedy and tears surrounding these children and the Cloete family, your heart will be melted by their boundless smiles, laughter and careless abandon as they play, dance, sing, share and live.

Awards: Full Frame 2007 (Audience Award)

USA/South Africa

2007

Director:

Louise Hogarth

Producers:

James Egan

Louise Hogarth

Screenwriter:

Louise Hogarth

Cinematographer:

May Rigler

Film Editors:

Melinda Briana Epler

May Rigler

Johanna Demetrakos

Music:

Simphiwe Dana

Joseph Julián González

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Participant Productions

Film Website: dolfilms.org/angels

Selected

Filmography: The Gift (2003)

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Bajo Juarez, the City Devouring Its Daughters

Big Rig

Since 1993, hundreds of women who worked in Mexican factories along the American border (known as maquiladoras) have been murdered in the towns of Juárez, Chihuahua and Laredo. More than four hundred of these highly publicized crimes took place from 2003 to 2005 alone, but the murders remain frustratingly unsolved. Directors José Antonio Cordero and Alejandra Sánchez examine the horrors affecting this region plagued by “femicides” of epidemic proportions. Bajo Juárez integrates testimony from grieving family members, astonished journalists, inept police officials and the frightened women of the factories who still face enormous danger. Using innovative techniques and a narrative approach distinctive to a woman’s point of view, the filmmakers draw attention to aggrieved family members desperate for answers and to the disturbing corruption that infects the highest levels of the Mexican government. Official investigations into the murders have been completely bungled with contaminated or discarded evidence, making reasonable forensic analysis impossible. There has been no serious, sustained effort at any level to upgrade the sophistication of the investigations. An American sex-crime profiler suggested several years ago that someone from the U.S. could be responsible for at least some of these crimes, yet the United States has done nothing to support an effective investigation. Directors Cordero and Sánchez bravely paint the picture of a national crisis with no answers. As long as the perpetrator (or perpetrators) of these crimes remains at large, the people of the border region are hostage to the danger on their streets, the futility of corruption and a world that doesn’t seem to care.

Mexico 2007

Directors:

Alejandra Sánchez

José Antonio Cordero

Producer:

Alejandra Sanchez

Screenwriters:

Alejandra Sanchez

José Antonio Cordero

Cinematographer:

Erika Licea

Film Editors:

José Antonio Cordero

Alejandra Sánchez

Music:

Tareke Ortiz

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales: IMCINE

Print Source:

IMCINE

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature

Doug Pray (Scratch, Hype!) gives us the ultimate road-trip movie with Big Rig, a broad portrait of modern America as seen through the eyes of the working-class heroes who travel the highways, transporting everything we eat, drink, own and use. Probing beyond the chrome and coffee culture, Pray delves into the daily lives, personal struggles and perspectives of a variety of long-haul truck drivers as he hitches rides with them across 45 states. We learn about the lifestyle and the lingo, and of the mounting crisis they face: skyrocketing gas prices, government interference, and the corporate takeover of their industry. But more importantly, we get to know the real people behind the wheel: a former CEO who opted for a life on the road, a married couple who ride in tandem, a Native American who visits tribes throughout the country along his routes, and a Mississippi driver who battles Graves’ disease while his son fights in Iraq are just a few of the characters that populate this east-to-west journey. Underlying it all is the reality that if it wasn’t for America’s unsung truck drivers, the country simply could not function. Big Rig is a fun ride and a compelling introduction to a cross-section of fiercely independent souls who, as one young driver says, “represent the last of the spirit of the American cowboy…a dying breed.”

USA

2007

Director:

Doug Pray

Producers:

Brad Blondheim

Kirt Eftekhar

Randy Wooten

Cinematographer:

Doug Pray

Film Editor:

Doug Pray

Music: Buck 65

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format: HDCAM

Print Source: Big Rig LLC

Film Website: www.bigrigmovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Infamy (2005) Scratch (2001) Hype! (1996)

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Black White + Gray

Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls

World Premiere

Filmmaker James Crump explores the symbiotic relationship between legendary art collector/ curator Sam Wagstaff and famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, an unlikely yet influential couple whose deaths from AIDS in the late ’80s marked the end of an era. It was in the early ’70s when Wagstaff, a Yale-educated former advertising executive, met the young photographer Mapplethorpe through a mutual friend, aspiring poet and musician Patti Smith. Despite vast differences in age and backgrounds, the two became lovers and inspired each other to mine new territory in their artistic and personal endeavors. As Wagstaff amassed one of the most impressive collections of photographs in the world (over 2,500 masterworks which are now part of the J. Paul Getty Museum) and curated innovative museum exhibitions, Mapplethorpe rapidly ascended the art world ladder and made headlines with his bold and controversial photographs. Meanwhile, close friend Patti Smith gained notoriety as “punk rock’s poet laureate.” Chronicling Wagstaff and Mapplethorpe’s unusual relationship and the powerful troika formed by the two men and Smith, Black White + Gray reveals a fascinating story of influential figures whose lives and work were at the center of New York’s grand collision of art, fashion, music and clublife. The film features interviews with Smith and art world luminaries including Dominick Dunne, Richard Tuttle, Eugenia Parry and Ralph Gibson.

USA

2007

Director:

James Crump

Producers:

James Crump

Stanley Buchthal

David Koh

Maja Hoffmann

Screenwriter:

James Crump

Cinematographers: Christopher Felver

Harry Geller

Paul Lundahl

Eric Koziol

Film Editors: Dave Giles

William Davis

Music: J. Ralph

Running Time: 77 minutes

Print Source: James Crump

Productions LLC

Film Website: blackwhitegray.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

An in-depth profile on the “little league that could” whose grassroots inception in 2004 brought Seattle into the newly revived sport of women’s roller derby. This documentary follows the teams through its first two seasons and focuses on the women who comprise the league, their teams’ struggle to win the championship bout and their relationships with each other. Taking us through the early days of the fledgling league, Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls tells the story of the resurgence of roller derby in the U.S. and Seattle’s own “do-it-yourself” league, The Rat City Rollergirls. The league, now comprised of four regular season teams—Derby Liberation Front (DLF), Grave Danger, Sockit Wenches and the Throttle Rockets—are populated by 70+ players/owners who are known to the world almost exclusively by their clever sobriquets. Trackside action punctuates the interviews and discussion with many of the fan favorites. In addition to their regular season, the league has created an “All-Star” team to compete nationally against other leagues. Top athletes from the various teams start skating with, not against, each other with hopes of winning the national title. They discover that the team to beat is the Texas Rollergirls—the founders of the current roller derby incarnation and a “big sister” league to Rat City. Much more than miniskirts and fishnet stockings on wheels, the Rat City Rollergirls are a refreshing reminder of what it is to be proud of your hometown athletes.

USA 2007

Directors:

Lainy Bagwell

Lacey Leavitt

Cinematographer: Lainy Bagwell

Film Editor: Wes Johnson

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format: HDCAM

Print Source: Leaky-Sleazewell Productions

Film Website: www.ratcitymovie.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature

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The Champagne Spy

Meragel Hashampaniya North American Premiere

Children of the War

Hijos de la Guerra

World Premiere

This revealing documentary thoughtfully examines the dangers of the spy game. Not poisoned drinks, lurking snipers, ticking time bombs or other fantasies of literature and motion pictures, but the real hazards: families abandoned and ultimately shattered by cover stories so entangled that their maker comes to prefer them to his reality. Major Ze’ev Gur Arie was drafted by the Mossad into its espionage ranks in 1960. As a former citizen of Germany he was ideal for infiltrating the ranks of German scientists expatriated to Egypt, who were manufacturing weapons for their new state sponsors. Whatever qualms the Israeli felt over passing himself off as a wealthy ex-Nazi seem to have been mollified by the lavish lifestyle that came with his new identity: Major Arie might have gotten by on a soldier’s pay, but Wolfgang Lotz could only have the finest things in life. Going undercover also meant leaving some things behind, namely a wife and 12-year old son, Oded, who were shipped off to Paris while Dad made the society rounds. The now-grown Oded offers a remarkably frank and moving assessment of how greatly his father’s abandonment weighed upon him and his mother—who had to endure not only his frequent absence, but the news that he’d taken a second wife on his day job. But real life finally intrudes: Arie ended up an old man hungry for another taste of the good life. Even with his cover blown, the spy never returned to his clan.

Israel/ Germany 2007

Director:

Nadav Schirman

Producers:

Eilon Ratzowsky

Koby Gal-Raday

Carl Ludwig Rettinger

Yossi Uzrad

Cinematographer: Itai Neeman

Film Editor: Joelle Alexis

Music:

Ran Bagno

Running Time: 91 minutes

Presentation

Format: DigiBeta, in Hebrew, English, French, German, with English subtitles

International Sales: Bleiberg Entertainment

Print Source: July August

Productions

This alarming documentary looks at the Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13, the largest and most violent street gang in the world, stretching across the U.S. down to Central America. According to the FBI there are an estimated 100,000 members, and increasingly systematic U.S. deportation policies, along with forceful Salvadoran armed repression of the members, have only fueled their growth. In the late 1980s, peasants were fighting the civil war in El Salvador. Children were taught to use guns instead of learning how to read or write, and it wasn’t long before refugees of the war ended up in Los Angeles. Two 12-year olds came up with the idea of the MS-13 as a way to stand up for their rights, and it took off like wildfire. Weaving together stunning footage of ganginfested neighborhoods and jails in El Salvador, the film explores the social causes and personal reasons for gang membership, as well as examining the role of government policy in MS-13’s rise to power through a series of interviews with gang members (former and current), the gang’s founders Ernesto and Francisco, and several academic and government experts. Director Alexandre Fuchs is an independent filmmaker who has worked with Larry Clark, Aleksandr Sokurov and Wong Kar-wai.

USA/United Kingdom

2007

Director:

Alexandre Fuchs

Producers:

Alexandre Fuchs

Jonathan Bollier

Screenwriter:

Jeremy Fourteau

Cinematographer: Samantha Belmont

Film Editor: Taige Jensen

Music:

Nathan Matthew David

Running Time: 81 minutes

Presentation

Format:

BetaSP, in Spanish and English, with English subtitles

Print Source: Fly Films

Film Website: hijosdelaguerra.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature

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Crazy Love

Crossing the Line

Co-directors Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens chronicle the stranger-than-fiction, tragicomic tale of glamour, obsessive love, grotesque violence and general weirdness of the fivedecade relationship of Burt Pugach and Linda Riss. By the late 1950s, Bronx-raised lawyer Pugach had grown rich from winning negligence suits. Despite his geeky appearance, he managed a high-rolling lifestyle of Cadillac convertibles, a private plane, his own nightclub and a succession of beautiful women. When he spotted the gorgeous young Linda Riss on a park bench, he proclaimed, “I have to have her!” Riss was thrilled to be wooed with flattery, gifts and entrée to a fancy nightlife. But when it became clear that Pugach was not quite what he purported himself to be, she broke off contact. Pugach became obsessed with winning her back, but could not sway her. Finally, when he heard news that she had fallen for another man, he vowed the classic, “If I can’t have her no one will.” His next move, an unthinkable crime of passion, left her disfigured, gave the tabloids a field day, and sent him to Attica. But not even prison could temper Pugach’s obsession for his lovely Linda. Crazy Love’s head-scratching twists and turns are navigated with the help of unusually frank, matter-of-fact interviews with inimitable New Yorkers Pugach and Riss, as well as friends, family, cops and veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin.

USA

2007

Directors:

Dan Klores

Fisher Stevens

Producers:

Dan Klores

Fisher Stevens

David Zieff

Cinematographer:

Wolfgang Held

Film Editor:

David Zieff

Music:

Douglas J. Cuomo

Running Time: 92 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Film Website: crazylovefilm.com

Selected

Filmography:

Ring of Fire: The Emile

Griffith Story (2005)

Viva Baseball (2005)

The Boys of 2nd Street Park (2003)

Very few people manage to even enter the enigma that is North Korea, let alone film it. Yet Daniel Gordon, who brought us the astonishing The Game of Their Lives (SIFF 2004), has done both in Crossing the Line, an in-depth portrait of the last American defector still residing in North Korea—now for 45 years. In 1962, Private James Dresnok, a 19-year old border guard in the Korean DMZ, deserted the U.S. Army by crossing over into communist North Korea when he was faced with disciplinary action after an encounter with a bar girl. Paradoxically leaving a land he felt no connection to, he ended up in an alien country that he came to consider home. One of only four American defectors to North Korea during the height of the Cold War, he was employed by the communist government, becoming a film star playing the “evil American” in propaganda movies. The documentary relies largely on Dresnok’s own candid testimony about his experiences and his family (he has three children by two wives), though he becomes wistful when shown photographs of his Virginia birthplace, a place he will never see again. Gordon skillfully counterpoints Dresnok’s words with stark archival footage of the People’s Republic, and further historical context is provided through interviews with his former commander, fellow servicemen and even a North Korean soldier, who relates how he had to be restrained from bayoneting the deserter. Dresnok says he’s never regretted coming: “I really feel at home. I wouldn’t trade it for nothin’.”

United Kingdom

2006

Director:

Daniel Gordon

Producer:

Daniel Gordon

Cinematographer:

Nick Bennett

Film Editor:

Peter Haddon

Music:

Craig Armstrong

Sister Bliss

Heather Fenoughty

Narrator:

Christian Slater

Running Time: 94 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales: E Pictures

Print Source:

Kino International

Selected

Filmography:

A State of Mind (2004)

Game of Their Lives (2003)

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The Devil Came on Horseback

Doubletime

This powerful documentary exposes the violence and tragedy of the genocide in Darfur as seen through the eyes of a lone American witness. With years of infantry command under his belt, Marine Captain Brian Steidle was unwilling to accept a desk job and so quit the Corps and began looking for other opportunities. The one he stumbled across was a job as a neutral observer working for the African Union to track the cease-fire in Sudan. Soon after arriving, Steidle and his group realized that things were going terribly wrong in the huge, remote province bordering Chad. Armed only with his camera, Steidle became an unexpected recorder of horrific ethnic cleansing in the Darfur region, where the government-funded Janjaweed (or “devil on a horse”) militia was wiping out the largely black, non-Arab population. Directors Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (The Trials of Darryl Hunt) trace Steidle’s transformation from soldier to observer to witness and activist. His frustration at the inaction of the international community becomes our own, as his thousands of photographs, taken in parts of the country that no journalist could penetrate, document an undeniable humanitarian crisis. What makes The Devil Came on Horseback such an important film to see is that this conflict that has claimed more than 400,000 innocent lives and displaced 2.5 million people is ongoing to this day—now, as you read this.

USA

2007

Directors:

Annie Sundberg

Ricki Stern

Producers:

Annie Sundberg

Ricki Stern

Jane Wells

Gretchen Wallace

Cinematographers:

William Rexer II

Jerry Risius

Tim Hetherington

Phil Cox

Film Editor:

Joey Grossfield

Music:

Paul Brill

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Break Thru Films

Film Website: thedevilcame onhorseback.com

Selected Filmography: The Trials of Darryl Hunt (2005)

Jump rope is moving from the sidewalks to the spotlight. It has been competitive since the early 1970s when single and double rope jumping leagues were founded. But more recently, the pastime has been blossoming into an exciting new sport involving increasingly astounding acrobatic tricks and speed, spawning popular national and international competitions. Doubletime follows two award-winning jump rope teams of 11-18-year olds as they train to compete with each other for the very first time. The ‘Double Dutch Forces’ team is a support network for mostly black inner-city youth, while the ‘Bouncing Bulldogs’ is a school team of earnest suburban kids proving themselves in an urban sport. We’re introduced to the coaches and a diversity of kids, and watch as they practice, compete at the national championship in Orlando and train to contend for the world double-dutch championship at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The culminating Apollo competition focuses on “fusion freestyle” double-dutch performance with music, and is not only the biggest competition of their lives but also a real eye-opener. For the first time, the kids witness competitors from far and wide (jaws drop when the martial-arts-inspired Japanese kids hit the stage) and feel the electricity of a cheering and dancing crowd. Doubletime echoes documentaries such as Spellbound and Mad Hot Ballroom, but trumps them with the breathtaking visual spectacle of the kids’ rhythmic jumping, spinning and flipping through mazes of twirling ropes. (ages 13 and up)

USA

2007

Director:

Stephanie Johnes

Producers:

Andrea Meditch

Stephanie Johnes

Alexandra Johnes

Film Editors:

M Watanabe Milmore

Paul Frost

Michael Culyba

Running Time: 80 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source: Cactus Three

Selected

Filmography: Bouncing Bulldogs (2005)

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Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox

The Fever of ’57

World Premiere

You’ve seen the soap, usually peppermint, featuring a label jam-packed with text. More than just a list of ingredients, the 30,000 words constitutes the philosophy of Dr. Emanuel Bronner, his “Moral ABCs.” When director Sara Lamm performed it as part of a “found text” event, she called the company to ask for some free bottles of soap. She ended up with a whole lot more after talking with Dr. Bronner’s son Ralph, who inherited the business with his brother James. Ralph still preaches his father’s message of unity and kindness, and the movie shows him spreading the good word throughout New York and elsewhere. But it also goes into the history of Dr. Bronner, and what a history it is! Coming from a family of master soapmakers, Dr. Bronner left Germany in 1929 as the Nazis were coming to power. His parents ended up dying in the Holocaust, while he worked at various soap companies in America. A self-styled preacher who crafted his own religion from his Jewish heritage to promote “peace on Earth through one God,” Bronner ended up in an insane asylum in suburban Chicago, but escaped to California (with a pit stop in Las Vegas) to start his nowfamous organic soap company. Full of archival and home movie footage of Dr. Bronner, this is a loving and fascinating documentary about a man who was driven to make the world not just a better place but a cleaner one.

USA 2006

Director:

Sara Lamm

Producers:

Sara Lamm

Zachary Mortensen

Cheri Anderson

Cinematographers:

Andrew Nagata

Stewart Nelsen

Film Editor:

Katy Finch

Music:

Pierre DeGaillande

Running Time:

88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

BetaSP

Print Source:

Reckon So Productions

Film Website: magicsoapbox.com

In the fall of 1957, mankind first entered space with the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik. The whole world watched the skies to catch a glimpse of the orbiting satellite, and listened to the radio waves for its distinctive “beep beep beep.” Nothing manmade had ever been so universally awe inspiring, or so suddenly broadened the scope of humankind, as this great scientific achievement. But Americans’ surprise and admiration quickly turned to confusion, suspicion and fear. Russia’s bold step was also, as Life magazine put it, “a devastating blow to the prestige of the United States,” and many feared the Soviets’ military plans for this new vehicle.

On the 50th anniversary of Sputnik’s launch, The Fever of ’57 chronicles the dramatic events and developments that followed the appearance of the Soviet satellite: the frantic race to develop rockets and bombs, the escalating tensions and fears, the sudden growth in the sciences, and the wisdom of President Eisenhower’s efforts to slow the arms race and turn endeavors in space toward peaceful goals. Director David Hoffman mixes extensive archival footage with the contemporary insights of journalists, scientists, teachers and government officials. The film conveys the variety of political, cultural and technological reactions spurred by this significant paradigm shift, and emphasizes the importance of taking positive directions in confusing times of rapid technological advancement and escalating world tensions (not too unlike the situation we find ourselves in five decades later.)

USA

2007

Director:

David Hoffman

Producer:

Eric Reid

Screenwriters:

David Hoffman

Paul Dickson

Film Editor:

John Barrett

Running Time:

92 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in English, Russian, with English

subtitles

Print Source:

Varied Directions

International

Selected

Filmography:

Making Sense of the Sixties (1991)

The Nashville Sound (1970)

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For the Bible Tells Me So

How To Cook Your Life

For centuries, the Bible has been used to sanction discrimination, repression and injustice. This tradition continues today, as religious conservatives exploit a handful of passages to mislead the public about homosexuality and validate hatred and even violence against gay people. Filmmaker Daniel Karslake’s ambitious and provocative documentary rebukes the church’s condemnation of same-sex couplings with a detailed examination of Scripture, the reflections of major biblical scholars, and intimate conversations with Christian families with gay or lesbian members. Seeking not to discredit the Bible so much as offer a counterreading that stresses the importance of context, Karslake poses secondary interpretations of the few verses that specifically address the topic. Rev. Laurence C. Keene, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and others corroborate these reinterpretations, and voice disgust at the way the Bible has been used to foment hatred and prejudice against women, minorities and now homosexuals. They point to Jesus’ teachings of love and inclusion as the church’s standard, one which is certainly not upheld in the legacy of hate crimes, fire-and-brimstone sermons and condemnations perpetrated in the name of God. Ultimately it is the emotional force of the film’s moving personal stories—testaments to unconditional love and human courage—that make the most powerful argument for opening hearts and minds. Painstakingly researched and skillfully constructed, For the Bible Tells Me So thoughtfully examines the systematic campaign of misinterpretation that continues to stigmatize the gay community, feed America’s culture war and threaten our country’s rapidly diminishing separation of church and state.

USA

2007

Director:

Daniel Karslake

Producers:

Daniel Karslake

Bruce Bastian

Michael Huffington

Robin Voss

Bob Greenbaum

Keith Lewis

Nancy Kennedy

Helen Mendoza

Screenwriter: Daniel Karslake

Cinematographer: Various

Film Editor:

Nancy Kennedy

Music: Scott Anderson

Mark Suozzo

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Vision Quest

Productions

Film Website: www.forthebible tellsmeso.org

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

This cheerful and inspired documentary by director Doris Dörrie follows Zen priest, Edward Brown, author of the renowned Tassajara cookbooks, as he teaches people of all generations to recognize the divinity in the simple act of preparing a meal. Dörrie’s camera acts as a participant in Brown’s lectures and cooking classes, where he demonstrates that cooking is a festival of the senses and an opportunity to create a generous and loving community. According to the clever and surprisingly moody Brown, we are not only what we eat, we are also how we eat. The film reveals some startling observations including the fact that over 80% of Americans eat outside the home and rarely cook at all. This loss of culture and community is easily remedied in Brown’s view: simply cook with consciousness, as it is the most direct means towards connecting with one’s self, significant others and the world. Brown wittily philosophizes about the universe that is waiting to be discovered in such kitchen chores as kneading bread, washing rice or cutting vegetables. His classes at the at the Buddhist Center Scheibbs in Austria and the two California Buddhist centers, the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center in San Francisco, reveal that the sensuality of baking bread, the wisdom of a radish and the serenity of carrots can change our attitudes towards the world. Magical yet unsentimental, How To Cook Your Life captures Brown’s profound lesson on film—that cooking is not only a culinary delight, it is also a pathway to enlightenment.

Germany 2006

Director:

Doris Dörrie

Producers:

Franz X. Gernstl

Fidelis Mager

Cinematographers: Jörg Jeshel

Doris Dörrie

Film Editor: Suzi Giebler

Featuring: Edward Espe Brown

Running Time: 93 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German and English, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Atrix Films

Print Source:

Roadside Attractions

Film Website: www.how-to-cookyour-life.de

Selected

Filmography:

The Fisheman and His Wife (2006)

Naked (2002)

Am I Beautiful? (1998)

Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)

Men... (1985)

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I Have Never Forgotten You: The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal

Invisibles

How did a man who trained as an architect track down some of the world’s most notorious war criminals? I Have Never Forgotten You traces the history and legacy of legendary Nazi-hunter and humanist Simon Wiesenthal, who died in 2005. A secular Jew born in the Ukraine, Wiesenthal survived the Holocaust but lost many family members in the concentration camps. Though an accomplished architect (his work still stands in the Ukraine), Wiesenthal never practiced his profession after the war. Instead, he dedicated more than six decades of his life to tracking down Nazi war criminals, contributing to the prosecution of 1,100 and bringing public attention to the camps where gypsies, homosexuals and many others suffered under Nazi rule. Director Richard Trank outlines his extraordinary life, from his childhood in the one-horse town Buczacz, to his Holocaust experiences and through the years spent chasing Nazis. The film features previously unseen archival footage and interviews with longstanding comrades-inarms, world leaders, friends and family, including his only child Pauline, who talks for the first time about her parents and their nearly 70-year relationship. While we see Wiesenthal’s struggles and personal sacrifices, this stirring documentary also captures the inner optimism of the famed “conscience of the Holocaust,” which neither Nazis or the world’s post-war indifference could extinguish.

USA

2006

Director:

Richard Trank

Producers:

Richard Trank

Marvin Hier

Screenwriters:

Richard Trank

Marvin Hier

Cinematographer:

Jeffrey Victor

Film Editor:

Inbal B. Lessner

Music:

Lee Holdridge

Narrated by: Nicole Kidman

Running Time: 101 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German and English, with English

subtitles

International Sales: Cinema Management

Group

Print Source:

Luminous Velocity

Selected Filmography:

Ever Again (2006)

Unlikely Heroes (2004)

The Long Way Home (1997)

Documentary Films

Documentary Feature

Academy Award-nominated actor Javier Bardem commemorates the founding of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) twenty years ago, teaming up with the charitable organization to produce this powerful collection of short films by five acclaimed directors, each presenting an “invisible” story that sheds light on heroic, unsung humanitarian efforts to combat international crises. In her cinematic Letter to Nora Isabel Coixet chronicles the life of a Bolivian girl working in Barcelona who sends money home to a family devastated by “la chancha,” an illness which no big pharmaceutical laboratory is trying to cure and which currently affects 18 million impoverished Latin Americans. The second film, by the great Wim Wenders, gives voice to women in the Democratic Republic of Congo who have suffered the worst consequences of war. Fernando León de Aranoa contributes the unflinching and disarmingly beautiful drama of several thousand children from northern Uganda who avoid being kidnapped by soldiers by taking shelter at night. Mariano Barroso departs slightly from his usual documentary format to describe the way big pharmaceutical corporations work and the way many citizens of Africa suffer the consequences of their policies—or lack of them. The last film, by Javier Corcuera, examines the long-term effects of post-war trauma on a group of Colombian farmers who lost their lands to guerrilla and para-military forces. The storytelling genius of these five directors gives a powerful voice to those silenced by international indifference.

Spain

2007

Directors:

Wim Wenders

Isabel Coixet

Mariano Barroso

Javier Corcuera

Fernando León de Aranoa

Producer:

Javier Bardem

Screenwriters: Various

Cinematographers: Various

Film Editors: Various

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM, in Spanish, English, Lwo, Kiluba, Swahili, with English

subtitles

International Sales: Sogepaq International

Print Source: Sogepaq International

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Journey Home: A Story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956

North America Premiere

King of Kong

There were many interesting films made in 2006 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the studentled Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Journey Home, the debut film of an American-Hungarian journalist, is one of the more intimate, following two daughters on a personal investigative journey back to Budapest. László Pigniczky left Hungary for America in 1956 and never came back. His daughters Réka and Eszti return to Hungary with their father’s ashes to learn more about his story. In ’56, Hungary was a satellite of the Soviet Union, occupied since the end of WWII. In October a student demonstration in Budapest turned violent when secret police fired on the crowd, and within hours Hungarians took up arms. This revolution, the first such break in Communist Eastern Europe, was victorious for one week before it was crushed by Soviet troops. To his daughters growing up in Philadelphia, Pigniczky’s stories seemed straight out of Hollywood and they wondered how much was truth and how much embellishment. Was dad a freedom fighter, hooligan or thief? Réka and Eszti discover the search more arduous than they expected, but also more surprising. They learn how ’56 created a rift between those who stayed in Hungary and those who left, that revolution is never black or white, and that any revolution is better studied than glorified.

Awards:

Hungarian Film Week 2007 (Special Jury Prize)

Hungary/USA 2007

Director:

Réka Pigniczky

Producers:

Réka Pigniczky

Barnabas Gero

Cinematographer: Gerg Kiss

Film Editor:

László Hargittai

Music:

Gáspár Horváth

Running Time: 88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in English, Hungarian, with English subtitles

International Sales: 56 Films

Print Source: 56Films

Film Website: www.56films.com

Director Seth Gordon finds an improbably compelling true story among the bleeps and zaps of the classic arcade game universe. While the film does trace the history of competitive gaming and introduces us to some key figures of the original ’80s scene, King of Kong focuses more on the recent unlikely rivalry between a Redmond schoolteacher and a hot sauce mogul in Florida for the throne of Donkey Kong champion. Our hero, down-to-earth family man Steve Wiebe, became obsessed with challenging the record after being laid off. He repairs an old machine and, in his garage, begins barrel-jumping his way to the grumpy monkey. Meanwhile, reigning king Bill Mitchell’s record score has stood undisturbed for more than two decades, and he’ll do anything to maintain his status as an arcade master. The film follows an epic journey to the top of the screen, taking us to the Classic Arcade Tournament at Funspot in New Hampshire, and ultimately to a competition for the Guinness Book of World Records. Along the way we’re introduced to characters such as Walter Day, the first arcade game referee and still ultimate scorekeeper; Mitchell’s protégé and archetypal game nerd Brian Kuh; and Mitchell’s old rival Roy “Mr. Awesome” Shildt. A real-life Rocky story surrounded by characters straight from a Christopher Guest mockumentary, Kong is a compelling, colorful and entertaining experience.

USA

2007

Director:

Seth Gordon

Producer:

Ed Cunningham

Cinematographer:

Seth Gordon

Film Editor:

Seth Gordon

Music:

Craig Richey

Running Time: 79 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

International Sales:

New Line Cinema

Print Source: Picturehouse

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Lake of Fire

Made In China

World Premiere

Tony Kaye (American History X) has worked for over 15 years to create this measured and comprehensive chronicle of one of America’s most divisive issues: the battle over a woman’s right to choose an abortion. Kaye finds the many shades of gray in an issue that’s all too often addressed as a simple question of right or wrong. Shot in monochromatic black and white, Lake of Fire features various political and ethical positions, protests, court trials, personal stories and surgical procedures. A range of individuals lend their views, including cultural critic Noam Chomsky, lawyer Alan Dershowitz, fundamentalist and Operation Rescue founder Randall Terry, anti-abortion zealots Michael Griffin and Paul Hill (who murdered doctors who performed abortions) and even Norma McCorvey, a.k.a. Jane Roe, the key figure in the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made abortion legal in the US, who is now a passionate pro-lifer. We also hear from the lesser known, including young women going through the process of having a termination, and clinic workers who have found themselves the victims of terrorist acts by the religious right. Kaye refuses to flinch from the comprehensive presentation that this important subject requires. So be warned: This is not a film for the faint-hearted. Its graphic images of clinic bombings, murder, abortion procedures and their aftermath are disturbing regardless of your feelings about the issue. Taking its title from one person’s description of what awaits abortionists in hell, Lake of Fire is a brave and provocative film that will surely prompt serious debate and stand as the definitive work on the subject.

USA

2006

Director:

Tony Kaye

Producer:

Tony Kaye

Cinematographer:

Tony Kaye

Film Editor:

Peter Goddard

Music:

Anne Dudley

Running Time: 152 minutes

Presentation

Format: HDCAM

International Sales:

Anonymous Content

Print Source: THINKFilm

Selected Filmography: Snowblind (2002)

American History X (1998)

Documentary Films

Documentary Feature

Seattle filmmaker John Helde, whose previous short films Halibut Heads and Hello premiered at SIFF, directs this personal documentary uncovering his father’s unusual childhood as an American boy in pre-World War II China. The son of a YMCA worker, his father spent most of the first fifteen years of his life in Changsha, in Hunan province. It was not until Helde came across old family photographs that he began to wonder about this seldom-discussed aspect of his father’s history. Through archival footage, home movies, photographs and interviews, Made in China reveals the stories of his father as well as other Americans whose childhoods in China created an unusual cultural double-vision that shaped their lives: at once both American and Chinese, these “foreign devils” (as they were called) fondly remember their early experiences but have always struggled with defining “home.” Helde had hoped to convince his father to revisit the country that he left in 1935, but his father passed away during the project, so Helde journeys there himself. Traveling from Shanghai to Changsha to Sichuan, he searches for remnants of his father’s past in a foreign and muchchanged modern China. A story about identity, belonging, the meaning of home and the connection between China and America, Made in China is a personal film about an unusual and nearly forgotten American experience.

Preceded by: Seattle in Color USA, 2007, 5 minutes, directors: Amy Enser and Steve Barron 2007 I AM SEATTLE contest winner. An overview of the many colors and cultures that make Seattle our own.

USA

2007

Director:

John Helde

Producers:

John Helde

Adam Singer

Karen Helde

Screenwriter:

John Helde

Cinematographers:

Joseph Hudson

Tanya Hughes

Film Editor: John Helde

Music:

Erik Aho

Running Time: 70 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

Print Source:

Try This Films

Film Website: www.trythisfilms.com/ china.html

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

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Miss Gulag

Monster Camp

The women convicts of Siberian prison camp UF-91/9, located 20 miles from Novosibirsk, are getting ready for the annual fashion competition, “Miss Spring.” The inmates create and model three costumes: Greek goddesses, flowers and prison uniforms. All the women are encouraged to participate as it contributes to faster paroles. Our heroines, Tatiana, Yulia and Natasha are closely bonded after serving long prison sentences yet they are in different stages of their terms: Tatiana is waiting to apply for parole, Yulia has more time to serve and Natasha has been out for a year. We travel to all three women’s hometowns, meet their families, learn about their backgrounds and their crimes, and how little help there is for transitioning. They all grew up during the breakup of the Soviet Union when the world everyone knew came to an abrupt end. This character exploration is carried out with compassion, depth and respect. Producer Irina Vodar says that she and her partners avoided shooting in the big cities and instead traveled to deepest Russia, “where actual Russian people live.” She and fellow filmmakers, director Maria Yatskova and producer Raphaela Neihausen, all live in the U.S. but have deep abiding connections to Russia. Miss Gulag opens with a quote from twentieth-century Russian poet Anna Akhmatova about how she stayed in Russia and suffered with her people. Tender and positive, this is a tribute to those women who had no choice but to stay.

USA

2007

Director:

Maria Yatskova

Producers:

Raphaela Neihausen

Irina Vodar

Cinematographer: Grigori Rudakov

Film Editors:

Stephen Ovenden

Peter Kinoy

Music: Various

Running Time: 80 minutes

Presentation

Format: DigiBeta in Russian and English, with English subtitles

Print Source: Neihausen-Yatskova

Films

Film Website: www.missgulag.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

It’s like Dungeons & Dragons… but for real! In Seattle, a group of modern-day Don Quixotes strap on armor to battle demons and monsters of their own imagination. Actually, the monsters are fantasists as well and, truth be told, a little imagination is necessary to flesh out their costumes. Welcome to the world of NERO Seattle, a chapter in one of the largest franchises of live-action role-playing games in the nation. More than just impromptu gatherings of ragtag troupes of (self-described) pasty-faced white boys who leave their parents’ basements to swing their homemade foam swords about, the game has developed into an efficient hierarchy of three different classes: beginners are usually “non-player characters,” a variety of monsters and supporting characters; most people graduate to “player characters,” developing a singular character who travels from quest to quest; and a few move up to the ranks of writing and running the adventures. And it’s not just boys playing, either. There are mothers and fathers, daughters as well as sons, with some characters finding romance within the game that carries over to the real world. Though there are times when people’s obsessions with the game (and with similar online obsessions like World of Warcraft, which almost every NERO participant plays) negatively affect their “real life,” director Cullen Hoback obviously has great affection for the players and the subculture. What could have been a mocking doc instead becomes a tribute to people living a fantasy of their own choosing.

Awards: Cinequest 2007 (Audience Award)

USA

2007

Director:

Cullen Hoback

Producers:

Cullen Hoback

Aaron Douglas

Cinematographer: Cullen Hoback

Film Editor:

Cullen Hoback

Music:

Speechwriters LLC

Featuring: Shane Malomber

David Overman

Rebecca McNamee

Valerie Andersen

Brandon Connors

Running Time: 82 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source: Aaron Douglas Enterprises LLC

Film Website: monstercampmovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Freedom State (2006)

Documentary Films

Documentary Feature

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Murch

Nanking

American Graffiti, The Godfather, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now, The English Patient…. This list is just a few of the movies that owe no small measure of their greatness to the efforts of legendary film editor and sound designer Walter Murch. It’s as close as any one man’s filmography comes to a canon, collecting as it does several of the most interesting and artistically daring masterpieces made in the last 35 years. Now Murch himself is the focus of a film: Edie and David Ichioka’s entertaining and edifying documentary that manages to capture both the man and his artistic vision. An early love for the French New Wave during his college years led to Murch’s decision to quit his job as an oceanographer and throw in his lot with whiz kids Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas as a founding member of American Zoetrope Studios. From there the successes mounted, as did the plaudits: numerous awards, including three Oscars, testify to his legendary reputation within the industry. Capturing his idiosyncrasies (like Carol Reed—or Donald Rumsfeld— he prefers to work while standing up) and his thought-provoking ideas about his craft (he says that successful editing achieves “a form of dense clarity”), Murch is an overdue salute to a singular artist who may have had his name above the titles only once in his long career, but proves again and again an invaluable contributor in this most collaborative of the arts.

USA

2006

Directors:

Edie Ichioka

David Ichioka

Producers:

Edie Ichioka

David Ichioka

Cinematographers: Edie Ichioka

David Ichioka

Film Editors: Edie Ichioka

David Ichioka

Running Time: 78 minutes

Presentation

Format: DigiBeta

Print Source: Studio Ichioka

Film Website: studioichioka.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

Allied with Nazi Germany, the Japanese army invaded China’s thriving capital city Nanking, in the winter of 1937 and proceeded to obliterate the helpless population: 200,000 were killed and tens of thousands of women were raped. This gripping documentary chronicles these unspeakable tragedies, highlighting stories of survival and individual heroism as well as atrocity and loss. Nanking uses as its framework the writings of a handful of European and American expatriates—missionaries, businessmen, college professors and doctors—who chose to stay in Nanking to help those unable to flee the city. Their letters and diaries (read by actors including Mariel Hemingway, Jürgen Prochnow and Woody Harrelson) tell of the horrors they witnessed and detail how the vastly outnumbered Westerners attempted to keep the enemy at bay and establish a makeshift safety zone within the ravaged city. These accounts, interwoven with chilling archival footage of the Japanese aerial and ground assaults, and testimonies from both Nanking survivors and Japanese soldiers, conjure up the human lives in this historic tragedy. In exploring these events whose repercussions continue to be a source of pain and controversy today, filmmakers Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman have crafted a film that both exposes the horrors of war and affirms the extraordinary impact that individuals can make.

Awards: Sundance 2007 (Best Editing)

USA 2007

Directors:

Bill Guttentag

Dan Sturman

Producers:

Ted Leonsis

Bill Guttentag

Michael Jacobs

Screenwriters:

Bill Guttentag

Dan Sturman

Cinematographer:

Buddy Squires

Film Editors:

Hibah Frisina

Charlton McMillan

Michael Schweitzer

Music:

Philip Marshall

Featuring:

Woody Harrelson

Mariel Hemingway

Jürgen Prochnow

Hugo Armstrong

Rosalind Chao

Stephen Dorff

Running Time:

91 minutes

Presentation Format: HDCAM, in English, Japanese and Mandarin, with English subtitles

International Sales: Fortissimo Films

Print Source: THINKFilm

Film Website: nankingthefilm.com

Selected Filmography: (Guttentag)

Twin Towers (2003) Blues Highway (1994)

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Orange Revolution

Out of Time

Aus der Zeit

North American Premiere

In November 2004, the Ukrainian election was stolen and battle lines were drawn on the streets of the capital. Even though presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko held a commanding lead in opinion polls, Ukraine’s post-Soviet regime and their candidate Yanukovych had an iron grip on the police, military, media and the electoral machinery. Six weeks before the November vote, Yushchenko was poisoned and barely survived. Rather than be complacent, Ukrainians took to the streets and in a manner far beyond mere protest marches. Over one million people converged in the center of the capital, camped out in the ice and snow and paralyzed the government for seventeen days. At night, rock bands energized the crowds and ordinary citizens engaged in extraordinary examples of politics in action. Capturing the songs and spirit of this moment in history, Orange Revolution tells the story of a people united, not by one leader or one party, but by one idea: to defend their vote! Director Steve York has made many films about social issues—revolution, apartheid, Pearl Harbor and Vietnam. He said the Orange Revolution was about faces: Yushchenko’s ruined one, babushkas wrapped in scarves, students, truck drivers, teachers and volunteers with orange-dyed hair. What drew him to the story was their “heroic performance” and the fact that not one of them could have done it alone. Orange Revolution captures the spirit and the determination of the most successful nonviolent political protest of the decade.

USA

2007

Director:

Steve York

Producers: Steve York

Miriam Zimmerman

Cinematographers: Alex Kvatashidze

Peter Pearce

Film Editor: Joseph Wiedenmayer

Running Time: 106 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM, in Ukrainian, Russian and English, with English subtitles

Print Source: York Zimmerman Inc

Film Website: orangerevolution movie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Bringing Down a Dictator (2002)

A Force More Powerful (1999)

If you’re like most people, when traveling through any big city at home or abroad, your eyes and your feet tend to be drawn to the older, more traditional establishments rather than the big department stores and shiny megamarkets. The butcher shop, the pharmacy, even the button store and the leather repair shop become points of interest. Heading inside, you are rewarded with personalized service, a sense of community and an aura of history. Such are the rewards of the documentary Out of Time. Made in Vienna, the movie looks at four oldworld businesses that won’t survive much longer in the face of gentrification. The leather repair shop is an artifact of an era that pre-dates our disposable society. The button shop is for detailoriented tailors and seamstresses who aren’t satisfied with generic fabric clasps. The butcher shop is a place for people who like to combine their cuts of meat with a healthy dose of gossip. And the pharmacy profiled here is a remnant of a time when the pharmacist mixed the drugs himself. The proprietors have been working at these jobs for decades, often after apprenticing there in their youth. They are all hilarious and completely charming, whether bantering with customers or talking to themselves as they wait for customers to show up. Beautifully shot, with a patience that allows the quieter moments to shine through, Out of Time is a lovely documentary chock full of old-world charm.

Austria 2006

Director:

Harald Friedl

Producer:

Harald Friedl

Cinematographer: Bernhard Pötscher

Film Editor: Bernhard Pötscher

Music: Gerald Schuller

Running Time: 80 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in German, with English subtitles

International Sales: Austrian Film Commission

Print Source: Austrian Film Commission

Selected

Filmography: Africa Representa (2003)

Land ohne Eigenschaften (2000)

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The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema

The Price of Sugar

Is cinema one big Freudian slip? What can Groucho, Harpo and Zeppo tell us about the workings of the unconscious? (Ok, maybe not Zeppo.) And why exactly do the birds attack in Hitchcock’s masterpiece of horror? In his freewheeling and endlessly amusing signature style, world famous philosopher, culture theoretician and mad cinema buff Slavoj Zizek takes psychoanalysis on a ride through some of cinema’s seminal scenes and hurtles us into the hidden language of cinema, vividly uncovering what the movies can tell us about ourselves. As conceived and directed by Sophie Fiennes, the cinephilic feast The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema is a snappy, highly amusing joyride through moviedom’s many takes on perversion, from old psycho Alfred Hitchcock to his contemporary counterpart David Lynch, with stops at such Hollywood classic helmers as Cecil B. DeMille and Stanly Kubrick. The energetic and engaging Zizek is filmed riffing on location (or reconstructions thereof, such as Dennis Hopper’s Blue Velvet closet), literally placing the thinker into the films under discussion. Of the many insights, the strongest is a simple one: Rather than merely presenting objects of desire—like Hitchcock’s blondes—cinema tells us how to desire, even in films as dissimilar as those by the Marx Brothers or The Matrix. Movies are littered with metaphors, some conscious and others unconscious, and this passionate film is enough to convince the most uptight viewer that cinema can be a medium of thinking which helps us get in touch with our inner perverts.

United Kingdom/ Austria/ Netherlands

2006

Director:

Sophie Fiennes

Producers:

Martin Rosenbaum

Georg Misch

Ralph Ralph Wieser

Sophie Fiennes

Screenwriter:

Sophie Fiennes

Cinematographer:

Remko Schnorr

Film Editor:

Ethel Shepherd

Music:

Brian Eno

Featuring:

Slavoj Zizek

Running Time: 150 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

Lone Star Productions

Print Source:

Lone Star Productions

Film Website: thepervertsguide.com

Selected Filmography: Hoover Street Revival (2003)

Because I Sing (2001)

Lars From 1-10 (1999)

Most Americans know the Dominican Republic only as a tourist destination, while continuing to use its chief export every day. The Price of Sugar reveals the ugly truth behind the island country’s biggest industry. When charismatic priest Father Christopher Hartley breaks a centuriesold taboo and ventures into the sugar plantations where most of his parishioners live, he discovers that the rich sugar industry thrives on the backs of thousands of dispossessed Haitians who tirelessly work the cane fields under inhumane conditions. Eager to escape the squalor and desperation of their own country, these poor Haitians are lured across the border by the plantation owners, only to be stripped of their documentation (rendering them non-citizens in both countries) and forced into a life of virtual enslavement. Looked down upon by the public and invisible to the eyes of the law, they are frequently denied even the most basic human rights. Father Hartley, hailing originally from an aristocratic Spanish family and having worked for over twenty years with Mother Teresa, is determined to improve the living and working conditions of these undocumented Haitians— even if it means risking his own safety. The film exposes the long-standing prejudices in what was the first country in the Americas to use African slaves, and champions the efforts of Hartley and sugarcane workers to, against all odds, change this system, which counts the U.S. as its largest export market.

USA

2007

Director:

Bill Haney

Producers:

Bill Haney

Eric Grunebaum

Screenwriters:

Bill Haney

Peter Rhodes

Cinematographers:

Eric Cochran

Jerry Risius

Film Editor: Peter Rhodes

Music:

Claudio Ragazzi

Featuring: Father Christopher Hartley

Paul Newman

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation Format:

HDCAM, in Spanish and English, with English subtitles

Print Source:

Uncommon Productions

Film Website: thepriceofsugar.com

Selected

Filmography: A Life Among Whales (2005)

Racing Against the Clock (2004)

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Protagonist

Red Without Blue

Inspired by the works of the fifth-century BC playwright Euripides, Jessica Yu (In the Realm of the Unreal) uses the structure of classical drama to explore extremism and the limits of certainty. She also, intriguingly, uses puppets to act out some key scenes and key ideas of the Greek plays, which help tie together her portraits of her four misunderstood protagonists. Victimized as children, each of the men struggle with feelings of powerlessness and seek out extreme methods of gaining control in their lives. One man fought his homosexuality with religion, another was bullied as a child so he studied violent martial arts, another became a serial bank robber after suffering abuse by his religious father, and another rebelled against his Nazi ancestors by becoming a violent left-wing radical. They each join the group they long to be a part of, but when membership becomes obsession, the organizations become a cult which they need to break away from. Their stories are punctuated via themes and ideas from Euripides, as well as with reenactments that are acted out by surprisingly expressive wooden-rod puppets created by Janie Geiser. With Protagonist, Yu has made a profoundly moving and unconventional documentary that challenges us to examine the relationship of an individual’s life against the archetypal human experience.

USA

2007

Director:

Jessica Yu

Producers:

Susan West

Elise Pearlstein

Cinematographers: Karl Hahn

Russell Harper

Film Editor: Jessica Yu

Music: Jeff Beal

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: Submarine

Entertainment

Print Source: Diorama Films, LLC

Film Website: www.protagonist themovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

In the Realm of the Unreal (2003) The Living Museum (1998)

Mark and Alex, identical twins and best friends, are introduced to us through the use of interviews, snapshots and home movies of growing up in idyllic Big Sky country, Montana, USA. The lives recounted prove no less all-American for incorporating their parent’s divorce, a joint suicide attempt and growing up gay in the heartland. Already compelling, the history dives through a fascinating and heartbreaking struggle with gender and identity when Alex acknowledges the depth of his inner conflicts, and twin brothers Mark and Alex become twin brother and sister Mark and Clair. Which provokes some interesting questions for them and the viewer about the nature of human sexuality, but fortunately the film never loses sight of its human story however far-reaching the topics raised become. Mark and Clair frankly acknowledge how their tormented teen years led to falling out with not only their parents and community, but with each other. Their decisions and drama affect the delicate balance of their family and their community, but mercifully not beyond repair. The strongest lesson of this instructive documentary is how, even as the twins break away from their relationship, they can never really break their bond. As their mother says, “What God put together, no man can separate.”

Awards:

Slamdance 2007 (Audience Award)

USA

2006

Directors:

Brooke Sebold

Todd Sills

Benita Sills

Producers:

Brooke Sebold

Todd Sills

Benita Sills

Cinematographers:

Brooke Sebold

Todd Sills

Film Editors:

Brooke Sebold

Benita Sills

Music:

Peter Surla

Bexar Bexar

Running Time: 77 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source:

Red Without Blue

Film Website: redwithoutblue.com

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A Secret Genocide

Un génocide à huis clos

US Premiere

Souls Without Borders: The True Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Almas

Sin Fronteras

To bring this alarming documentary to life, director Alexandre Dereims traveled to parts of Thailand and Myanmar (formerly Burma) where few Westerners are allowed. His goal was to document the plight of the Karen people, reportedly numbering 350,000, who are spread along the coasts of both countries. Like Sudan’s Dinka and other displaced peoples throughout the world, this ethnic minority group has been fighting for self-determination for several decades; in conversation, they testify to 60 years of rape, forced labor, and the destruction of their villages at the hands of the Burmese. As do his subjects, Dereims puts himself in harm’s way to tell their story, since his association with the Karen and their protectors, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), exposes him to the same risks they face daily, such as land mines, enemy gunfire and illness. (He also smuggles his camera into camps where filming is forbidden.) Dereims follows the rag-tag band of freedom fighters as they defend themselves against the Myanmar military junta, which outnumbers them by ten to one. As one American-educated soldier plainly states, “It seems like we have been forgotten by the world.” A Secret Genocide represents one filmmaker’s brave attempt to redress that wrong.

Preceded by:

Massacre at Murambi USA, 2007, 5 minutes, director: Sam Kauffmann

North American Premiere

France 2006

Director:

Alexandre Dereims

Producer: Alexandre Dereims

Cinematographer: Alexandre Dereims

Film Editor: Alexandre Dereims

Running Time: 52 minutes

Presentation

Format: BetaSP in Karen, with English subtitles

Print Source: Premiere Nouvelle

Selected

Filmography: The Khmer Rouge: A Trial Against Oblivion (2005)

This inspiring oral history pays tribute to the International Brigades who traveled from over 50 countries to fight in the Spanish Civil War. While Ken Loach’s 1995 docu-drama Land and Freedom presented the perspective of a British Brigadista, Directors Alfonso Domingo and Ibon Olaskoaga here focus on the 2,800 Americans who volunteered their services. Veteran Bob Steck, for instance, explains that, “the task was to defeat fascism and defend the democratic spirit.” These left-wing activists— male and female, black and white—saw the way the American poor were neglected during the Great Depression and they vowed not to let the same thing happen in Spain. As Virginia Malbin adds, “When Germany and Italy got into the act...it became an international war, not a civil war.” The filmmakers return to the sites of key battles and document Spanish and American tributes to fallen comrades. Newsreel footage, clips from earlier documentaries (such as 1974’s Dreams and Nightmares) and folk songs recreate the spirit of 1936. Now in their 80s and 90s, the volunteers recount their three turbulent years as fighters for the Republican cause. As several readily acknowledge, greater military preparedness could have prevented many casualties (few had handled firearms before). All agree on one thing: given the opportunity, they would do it again.

USA/Spain 2006

Directors:

Anthony L. Geist

Alfonso Domingo

Producer: Miguel Ángel Nieto

Cinematographer: Manuel Nieto Zaldívar

Film Editor:

Ibon Olaskoaga

Music:

Anna Witte

Running Time: 52 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM in English, Spanish and French, with English subtitles

Print Source: Diagrama

Producciones

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Does the way we responded to the genocide in Rwanda tell us about who we are as members of the ‘Global Village’?

Still Alive. A Film About Krzysztof Kie´slowski

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A former student of the late Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz creates an engrossing retrospective portrait of the extraordinary filmmaker using his own words, fragments of his films (from rarely seen early documentaries to his late masterpieces) and the memories of friends, collaborators, scholars, fans and students. Educated at the famed Łódź Film School, Kieślowski was active as a documentary filmmaker for ten years, directing some twenty films exploring the social realities behind socialist Poland’s official party line of progress and unity. As he gravitated toward the possibilities of shaping stories to his favored themes of moral choice, chance and fate, he turned to fiction filmmaking in the mid-1970s. He made his first mark on international festival circuit with the 1979 film Camera Buff. But Kieślowski’s big breakthrough came a decade later when his ten-part magnum opus based on the Ten Commandments, The Decalogue, astonished international audiences and critics. Shortly after completing a moody, strangely metaphysical (and enormously successful) quartet of films, The Double Life of Véronique and the “Three Colors Trilogy”, the film world was shocked by Kieślowski’s announcement that he was finished with filmmaking, and soon shocked again by the untimely death of the beloved filmmaker in 1996, just shy of his 55th birthday. Kie´slowski left behind a dense, metaphysical body of work and an impact on generations of filmmakers who have admired his hypersensitivity to the human condition and ability to find deeper truths hidden beneath surface realities. Still Alive mines fascinating reflections of the man and his journey from interviews with Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Sławomir Idziak, Jacek Petrycki, Irène Jacob, Zbigniew Preisner and others.

Team Everest: A Himalayan Journey

World Premiere

Poland

2006

Director:

Maria ZmarzKoczanowicz

Producers:

Slamomie Salamon

Jerzy Jakotou

Cinematographer:

Andrzej Adamczak

Film Editor:

Gra˙zyna Grado´n

Featuring:

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Wim Wenders

Irène Jacob

Running Time: 81 minutes

Presentation

Format:

BetaSP, in Polish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

TVP S.A. - Telewizja

Polska

Print Source:

TVP S.A. - Telewizja

Polska

Selected

Filmography:

Generation 89 (2002)

The End of the World (1994)

This inspirational tale of will and determination illustrates the boundlessness of the human spirit. Team Everest, led by an experienced climber who lost his arm in a tragic accident on a previous ascent of Mount Everest, consists of 15 people with disabilities who attempt to make the trek to the base camp. They have varying disabilities, including some with no use of their legs and arms. These brave souls prove that they are able to do whatever they set their minds to, despite the physical and societal limitations placed on them. The plan to get the team up to base camp involves of a number of contraptions, including baskets, pulley devices and the help of willing native Sherpas. They traverse all kinds of treacherous terrain of varying vertical degrees, from slippery mud, ice, rocks and snow, to wood-paneled narrow bridges swinging high above rocky streams. Continuously breathtaking scenery fills the screen with high peaks, green hills, trees and streams; every frame could be an award-winning photograph. Along the way we learn of the life struggles and triumphs of the individuals on the trek, and what brought them to Everest. As Matt, one of the team members, explains, “Everyone is disabled in one way or another. Yes, I’m paralyzed, but not disabled from doing the things I want to do.”

USA

2007

Director:

Andrew Cockrum

Producer:

Andrew Cockrum

Cinematographer:

Andrew Cockrum

Film Editor:

Andrew Cockrum

Music:

George Oldziey

Featuring:

Gary Guller

Gene Rodgers

Running Time:

111 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta, in English and Nepalese, with English subtitles

Print Source: Danger Dog Films

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White Light/Black Rain

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Subtitled “The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki (Unfinished Business) posits that two Japans have emerged in the wake of World War II. One knows what happened in August 1945, the other does not. Those who survived the bombing will never forget, while many younger citizens have no knowledge of the events. Acting on the adage “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” Okazaki has made it his mission to spread the word. An expansion of his Oscar-nominated short, The Mushroom Club (2005), White Light/Black Rain consists of interviews with survivors combined with archival footage, photographs and drawings. Most survivors lost family members, a few were disfigured—all will never be the same. As one woman states, “The war dominates every single memory.” Okazaki ups the ante by speaking with the American scientists and servicemen who helped create and detonate the atomic weapons, including a pilot on the Enola Gay. He also includes clips from propaganda films; in one as U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Grew claims, “They are as different from ourselves as any people on this planet.” A powerful portrait of those who experienced the unthinkable, White Light/Black Rain is a necessary reminder that nothing could be further from the truth.

USA 2007

Director:

Steven Okazaki

Producer:

Steven Okazaki

Cinematographers:

Takafumi Kawasaki

Steve Condiotti

Masafumi Ichinose

Film Editor:

Steven Okazaki

Running Time: 86 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM, in Japanese and English, with English subtitles

Print Source: HBO Documentary Films

Film Website: www.farfilm.com/web/ title_wlbr.htm

Selected

Filmography:

Rehab (2005)

Black Tar Heroin (2000)

The Mushroom Club (2005)

The Lisa Theory (1993)

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FutureWave, SIFF’s education and outreach program, offers youth and educators a direct link to the Festival and the local filmmaking community, providing expanded opportunities to participate in the Festival experience and aspiring young cineasts access to some of the best filmmakers the world has to offer.

Encompassing two complimentary activities, movie watching and movie making, FutureWave includes compelling, relevant films and meaningful workshops for youth that celebrate the differences and the shared values of our diverse community. Together these components advance SIFF’s goal of taking a leadership role in providing an extensive forum for multifaceted and creative exchange for the youth in our region.

FutureWave includes a short film program that presents the best of youth filmmaking from across the country; SuperFly, a filmmaking workshop held in partnership with Longhouse Media; a youth filmmaker forum; roundtable dialogues with visiting filmmakers; digital technology workshops; a professional development workshop for educators; a section of films programmed especially for a youth audience; special student screenings of films with accompanying study guides and postfilm discussions; and classroom visits by filmmakers from around the world. All these programs are offered free of charge and transportation is provided as needed.

futurewave

SuperFly

FutureWave’s filmmaking programs harness the power technology brings to learning and enable youth to think creatively, communicate effectively and work collaboratively. Young filmmakers are empowered to comment on their world using multimedia and digital tools. Diverse youth sharing their ideas, demonstrating their potential and taking action in their communities: these are the happy goals FutureWave aims to help achieve.

Starting on June 7, youth from around the country will converge on Seattle to participate in SuperFly, SIFF’s 36-hour filmmaking workshop. In an exciting partnership with Longhouse Media, the young filmmakers will be placed in four teams and given a script written for them by Sterlin Harjo, a 25 year-old writer/director whose latest film Four Sheets to the Wind was an audience favorite at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The teams will have 36 hours to storyboard, shoot and edit their films, which will premiere four hours later at the FutureWave Shorts program screening.

FREE FutureWave Youth Forum

Talking Story with Sterlin Harjo

Last year’s SuperFly films, based on a script by author and filmmaker Sherman Alexie, have played at festivals around the country and the program has caught the attention of youth media organizations and national media centers including Native American Telecommunications, providers of Native content to PBS television.

Join us on June 9 at 4:30 PM at the Egyptian Theatre for this year’s premier.

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Four Sheets To The Wind

USA 2007

Director:

Sterlin Harjo

Cast:

Cody Lightning

Jeri Arredondo

Tamara Podemski

Running Time:

91 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

Selected Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Awards:

Sundance 2007 (Best Actress)

Smallhill finds his father dead. Fulfilling his final wish, he disposes of the body in the family pond and sets off to begin a new life in the big city of Tulsa. What follows is a sweetly bitter tale about family, forgiveness and something resembling love. Ages 14 and up.

Seattle International Film Festival is proud to present FutureWave Shorts, a program of new works by the filmmakers of tomorrow. All made by artists under 18, and running the gamut from experimental to narrative to documentary, from live action to animation, these original short films are never less than imaginative, evocative and inspiring. This program includes the best of young people’s filmmaking from across the US and as far away as Italy as well as the J. Michael Award winner from the Seattle Times Three-Minute Masterpiece digital film contest.

The WaveMaker Award for Excellence in Youth Filmmaking will be presented to one film chosen in recognition of its artistic and technical achievement. This award, selected by the directors of this year’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge, comes with a $500 cash prize.

Additionally, Longhouse Media has again partnered with SIFF to present the SuperFly Filmmaking Workshop for youth, and their SuperFly films will open the FutureWave program. We hope you will join us for this very special film event. What you will see form these talented young voices of tomorrow will amaze you.

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FutureWave Competition Jury

Matt Daniels | Dayna Hanson | Lisa Hardmeyer

FUTUREWAVE SHORTS

Ave Rats

USA, 2007, 6 minutes, filmmakers: Mixtli Zavaleta, Clinton Carucci, Ian McKagan (contains adult language)

Giving voice to one of Seattle’s most misunderstood and marginalized communities, homeless youth.

Chasing Game

USA, 2007, 2 minutes, filmmakers: Jordan Stead, Graham Milgate, Matt Hess ree young men are relentlessly chased by some kind of “beast” in the forest.

The Hamlin Park Project

USA, 2007, 6 minutes, filmmaker: Griffin Stoddard School project gone awry – a heartwarming horror film for all ages.

I Love to Kickflip

USA, 2007, 2 minutes, filmmaker: Harrison Rego A film that captures the essence of cool.

Jewmaican

USA, 2006, 8 minutes, filmmaker: Melinda Tenenzapf

A film of many themes—ethnicity, tragedy, biased storytellers – that tells the story of Melinda, a girl who had the world against her from about day one.

Laundry

USA, 2007, 2 minutes, filmmakers: Darrow Stettes, Allex Bullard and Hanna Overman

A boy on a quest for a lost sock.

Out of Control Room

USA, 2006, 4 minutes, filmmakers: Nicole Levy, Allison Bindard, Lena Takamori

An experimental piece exploring one girl’s psyche and the struggles she faces with the conflicts and pressures around consumption.

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

USA, 2007, 1 minute, filmmakers: Spencer Bailey, Katre Sugita, Matt Junich

Twisty-Tie makes a sandwich.

Project Erase

USA, 2006, 8 minutes, filmmakers; Amelie Rousseau, Max Davidson, Travis Drake and Adam McKinney

Tattoo removal with a purpose.

Remember When

USA, 2006, 7 minutes, filmmaker: Felicia Mason

Felicia reminds young people like herself of the importance of listening to our elders, learning our Ojibwe language and practicing our traditions.

The Seventeen-Year Itch

USA, 2007, 8 minutes, filmmakers: Luke Smith, Shaun Libman, Claire England

In a world where food is considered to be taboo, Logan, struggles to deal with his peer’s forays into a new world of food and food-eating.

Some Like it Heavy

USA, 2006, 6 minutes, filmmaker: Aidan Terry

A giddy old geezer goes ga-ga over a gargantuan goddess.

Walking the Red Road

USA, 2006, 6 minutes, filmmaker: Martin Edwards

One boy’s hopeful portrayal of his experience in a treatment center.

War Machine

USA, 2007, 4 minutes, filmmakers: Nathan Davis Floyd and Amy Garrucho

What does it mean to be a soldier in a time of war, terrorism and fear?

Youngsters

Italy, 2007, 6 minutes, filmmakers: Karini Maria Assunta Angels on a quest to exorcise evil and baptize the earth.

For the first time the Seattle International Film Festival has curated a film section for our youth audience. These films from around the globe focus on the struggles and triumphs, crazy adventures and coming-of-age journeys of teens and young adults. Intended to be empowering and inspiring while containing just enough edge to keep the mind engaged.

Armin (Croatia, 2006) page 166

Directed by Ognjen Sviličić

Ages 13 and up

Black Irish (USA, 2006) page 170

Directed by Brad Gann

Ages 16 and up

The Cloud (Germany, 2006) page 107

Directed by Gregor Schnitzler

Ages 15 and up

Doubletime (USA, 2007) page 247

Directed by Stephanie Johnes

Ages 13 and up

Eagle vs. Shark (New Zealand, 2007) page 181

Directed by Taika Waititi

Ages 14 and up

Four Sheets To The Wind (USA, 2007) page 267

Directed by Sterlin Harjo

Ages 14 and up

French for Beginners (Germany, 2006) page 146

Directed by Christian Ditter

Ages 15 and up

Gagarin’s Grandson (Russia, 2007) page 186

Directed by Andrey Panin

Ages 14 and up

Girls Rock! (USA, 2006) page 93

Directed by Arne Johnson and Shane King

Ages 14 and up

Grave Decisions (Germany, 2006) page 147

Directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller

Ages 15 and up

Love & Dance (Israel, 2006) page 202

Directed by Eitan Anner

Ages 13 and up

Man in the Chair (USA, 2006) page 204

Directed by Michael Schroeder

Ages 13 and up

FutureWave Features

The Point (Canada, 2006) page 217

Directed by Joshua Dorsey

Ages 14 and up

Shotgun Stories (USA, 2007) page 133

Directed by Jeff Nichols

Ages 16 and up

Tekkonkinkreet (Japan, 2006) page 229

Directed by Michael Arias and Hiroaki Ando

Ages 13 and up

War/Dance (USA, 2007) page 101

Directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine

Ages 14 and up

What happens when SIFF Goes to School in 2007?

• Students from Elementary to High School attend award-winning films from around the world!

• Filmmakers visit classrooms and share their knowledge of filmmaking and the cross-cultural understanding that is an integral part of the art of filmmaking.

• Technically minded young people can attend workshops in our Digital Classrooms.

• Teachers can get into the act by attending a professional development workshop.

Here’s how it works…

Special Student Screenings:

Films are carefully selected by the SIFF programming team to reach a broad range of learning levels and youth interests for students from elementary through high school and their teachers. Content areas include films from countries whose languages are taught in schools as well as films that reveal unique cultures and ideas that enhance learning in classrooms for world cultures, civics, science, nature and the environment.

We are also presenting a special schools event this year called Native Cinema dedicated to educating Seattle-area students about Native American history and culture through film.

Filmmaker Visits:

SIFF invites local schools and colleges to join us in bringing local and visiting filmmakers into their classrooms for a first hand look at the art of filmmaking. Filmmakers travel to schools to meet with students – sometimes viewing the works created by the students and offering critique and insitght and sometimes bringing clips of their own to view with the students and discuss the film or subject mater following the screening. In all cases students get a first hand opportunity to talk directly with filmmakers who will inspire, encourage and challenge.

Digital Media Lab:

Students can attend free workshops through our Digital Media Lab. These classes offer opportunities for students to get ‘hands-on’ experience with the computers and filmmaking tools. Students can interact with the instructors and there is plenty of time to ask questions or problem solve on their own projects.Professional Development for Teachers This year SIFF is excited to bring back this very successful workshop for teachers. Saturday, June 9 from 9:30 AM to noon at Northwest Film Forum.

Digital Storytelling and Media Literacy in the Classroom:

A training for teachers of grades 6-12

Three regional youth media organizations (Reel Grrls, BAVC, Spyhop) will offer a three-hour workshop for middle and high school teachers that explores how media literacy and digital storytelling can be integrated into the academic classroom. The training will include story generation and basic media production techniques - from scripting and storyboarding to camera & audio production and editing. Attention will be given to incorporating media projects across the curriculum. In this creative, idea-packed workshop, participating teachers will come away with concrete curriculum lesson plans and the technological know-how about incorporating digital storytelling in the classroom. For more information on these programs please contact SIFF Forums and Education Program Coordinator Liza Comtois at 206.315.0663 or via email at liza@seattlefilm.org.

Join us each Saturday and Sunday during the Festival for a matinee excursion into imaginative programming for young people of all ages. Films4Families is a way for the whole family to celebrate the culture and art of the moving image through filmmaking and film-going experiences. To further SIFF’s mission of creating a world that savors the finest of homegrown and foreign cinema, we offer this fabulous hand-picked series showcasing the best films from around the globe to wow, regale and flat-out occupy the rabid attention spans of modern family units. Plus, don’t miss the next generation of filmmakers with FutureWave, a collection of young people’s filmmaking from around the world, which will play with films from the SuperFly Youth Filmmaking Workshop.

Set a course for adventure with our Swashbuckler Saturdays! On high seas or in endless deserts, flashing scabbards or firing muskets, these dashing gents and ladies never say die. Cheer on their daring-do each Saturday.

FILMS

Arctic Tale (USA, 2007) page 107

Directed by Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch

All Ages

Her Best Move (USA, 2007) page 191

Directed by Norm Hunter

Ages 10 and up

Surf’s Up (USA, 2007)

Directed by Ash Brannon and Chris Buck

All Ages

SWASHBUCKLER SATURDAYS!

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (USA, 1944) page 158

Directed by Arthur Lubin

Ages 10 and up

Captain Blood (USA, 1935) page 159

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Ages 10 and up

Gunga Din (USA, 1939) page 158

Directed by George Stevens

Ages 10 and up

Scaramouche (USA, 1952) page 159

Directed by George Sidney

Ages 10 and up

page 227

The Three Musketeers (Denmark, 2006) page 232

Directed by Janis Cimermanis

Ages 6 and up

U (France, 2006) page 234

Directed by Grégoire Solotareff and Serge Elissalde

Ages 8 and up (English subtitles)

films 4 families

SHORTS

The Family Picture Show Page 299

SIFF’s annual selection of family-oriented shorts sparkles with a combination of emotional realism and indulgent imagination for children aged 4-99.

William Penn, who founded Pennsylvania, and looked like the guy on the Quaker Oats container once said, “

It is wise not to seek a secret; and honest, not to reveal one.” In our opinion he is half right (the second half part). As for not seeking secrets… well he clearly never went to SIFF, signed the Oath, and paid his dues to go to the Secret Festival. If he had—besides being shocked by all of the technological advances, like cars, skyscrapers, synthetic fibers (which breath nicely in the summer), let alone the technology of Film—he would have recanted his statement. Upon leaving the Egyptian Theatre that first Sunday, he would adorn a wry smile on his face, much like the other attendees.

“Why are they smiling like that?” you may ask. Well, because they have a secret. A totally great secret in fact. Should he wear his Secret Fest Pass and attend all the Sunday Secret Screenings he would have FOUR great secrets. Maybe he saw a film that everyone has been waiting to be released,

some world changing Adam Sandler film! Or maybe it was an incredible archival film (which to William Penn still would have been new anyway) that had been locked away in a secret vault for years! Maybe it was that never released Bollywood film, the one censored for its obscene puppetry! The possibilities are endless, they could be anything, really.

Our programmers work such long and hard hours to come up with a great festival, and by the time they can focus on finding the Secret Fest films, they are ready to let loose, and make insane and fascinating choices. Look, this is worth it and it is easy! All you do is drop fifty Washingtons (forty if you are a SIFF member), sign the infamous Oath of Silence, and become part of this secret Members Only guild. Go. Go, and make everyone else, including the ghost of William Penn, crazy wicked jealous. If you don’t have fun you probably belong in the late 1600’s…

secret festival

Seattle’s unique mixture of the natural and the urban is matched by a creative landscape that is just as eclectic and thriving.

Afrontier mentality and lack of cultural confines have long fueled creative expression in this neck of the woods. Each year, SIFF proudly spotlights independent films that reflect Seattle stories and celebrates some of the best new contributions of film artists from the area. This year’s offerings include Daniel Gildark’s outrageous mythic horror film Cthulhu and John Jeffcoat’s cross-cultural comedy Outsourced. Documentaries cover a wide range of subjects, exploring subcultures from fierce

FILMS

Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls (USA, 2007) page 243

Directed by Lainy Bagwell, Lacey Leavitt

Cthulhu (USA, 2007)

Directed by Daniel Gildark

page 129

King of Kong (USA, 2007) page 52

Directed by Seth Gordon

Kurt Cobain About A Son (USA, 2006) page 97

Directed by AJ Schnack

The Life and Times of Yva Las Vegass (USA, 2007) page 97

Directed by Wiley Underdown

Spawned in Seattle

rollerskating to battling monsters, creating portraits of musicians from icon Kurt Cobain to lesser known Yva Las Vegass, and investigating remote connections from the struggles of villagers in the Niger Delta to family roots in China. And a diversity of narrative, documentary and experimental short films show the varied interests and approaches of our film community. These films come from the heart of the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant arts and culture, and shine at the heart of the festival.

Made In China (USA, 2007) page 253

Directed by John Helde

Monster Camp (USA, 2007) page 255

Directed by Cullen Hoback

Outsourced (USA, 2006) page 25

Directed by John Jeffcoat

Souls Without Borders: the True Story of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (USA/Spain, 2006) page 261

Directed by Anthony L. Geist, Alfonso Domingo

Sweet Crude (USA, 2007) page 113

Directed by Sandy Cioffi

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The Dutch call it exploding cinema; the French the avant-garde; in Seattle we call it

Alternate Cinema.

Acollection of features and shorts which aim to push the boundaries of traditional film culture, this year’s selections explore unconventional modes of visual, aural and emotional landscapes. Yet when we examine these works, they seem more and more to be in tune with ourselves, with our thoughts, and with the very medium itself. Estaban Sapir’s The Aerial combines expressive elements of the silent era and graphic elements of comic books to comment on the state of our media culture. One11 and 103, the legendary John Cage’s sublime dance of camera, light and sound, makes its Seattle premiere. SIFF Tributee Anthony Hopkins makes his directorial debut with the daring Slipstream, and Jiska Rickels’ 4 Elements presents an evocative meditation on mankind’s timeless—and often precarious—connection to the natural world. Esther B. Robinson’s A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory documents a man who, while on the surface just another nameless member of the Warhol factory, was himself an editor, filmmaker, light designer, lover and son. The above is just a sampling of these invigorating and exciting selections from some of cinema’s most daring filmmakers.

Films

4 Elements (Netherlands, 2006)

Directed by Jiska Rickels

The Aerial (Argentina, 2007)

Directed by Estaban Sapir

Ghosts of Cité soleil (Denmark/USA, 2006)

Directed by Asger Leth

i Don’t Want to sleep Alone (Taiwan/France/Austria, 2006)

Directed by Tsai Ming-liang

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) (Austria, 2006)

Directed by Tino Novotny

One11 and 103 (USA, 1992)

Directed by Henning Lohner

On The Road With Judas (USA, 2007)

Directed by JJ Lask

slipstream (USA, 2007) page 47

Directed by Anthony Hopkins

strange Culture (USA, 2006)

Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson syndromes and a Century (Thailand/France/Austria, 2006)

Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

A Walk into the sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory (USA, 2007)

directed by Esther B. Robinson

Alternate Cinema

I Dot the Eye

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A celebration of memory, with works depicting messages of friendship, records of love and explorations of that all too elusive place called creativity. (80 minutes)

Dear Bill Gates

USA, 2006, 17 minutes, director: Sarah J. Christman

A simple correspondence evolves into a poetic visual essay that draws unexpected connections among mining, memory and Microsoft.

The Greeting from my mother

Germany, 2007, 13 minutes, director: Katja Straub

This film traces the sublime and almost invisible bonds of motherhood and daughterhood over “one hundred years and two world wars”.

i’m Keith Hernandez

USA, 2006, 19 minutes, director: Rob Perri

The satirical film traces the rise of baseball player Keith Hernandez from the Eddie Money concert where he first tried cocaine, through the 1982 World Series, through Herzog’s thanking Mex for his contributions by sending him to the cellar-dwelling Mets (just think a player being traded for doing drugs!), and heavy-drinker Davey Johnson’s embrace.

i Remember Now, We Never Danced, i miss You Goodbye

Canada, , 8 minutes, director: Diane Bonder

Sometimes the ordinary moments make for the most spectacular; such is the case in this dance of memory and loss.

The magician’s House

USA, 2006, 6 minutes, director: Deborah Stratman

Sometimes the supernatural lingers plainly in the most ordinary places, secret only in as much as its trace goes unnoticed. Both a letter to an alchemist-filmmaker friend and a quiet tribute to the vanishing art of celluloid, this film is full of ghosts.

The Ontological Cowboy

USA, 2006, 17 minutes, director: Marie Losier

“The theater is about sex”. At least according to Richard Foreman, the father of the Ontological Hysterical Theater. The Ontological Cowboy documents Foreman’s invocation of the “manifest destiny” of the avantgarde theater, King Cowboy Rufus strolling down off San Juan Hill with a sigh, waving his handkerchief. Foreman plays himself, and the cast pantomimes his preoccupations.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle

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This amusing and enlightening program features sequences and images lifted from the safety of their original contexts, only to be reborn in unexpected landscapes. (72 minutes)

Asmahan

Lebanon, 2006, 21 minutes, director: Hisham Bizri

Asmahan is a beautiful visual and cinematic meditation with an avant-garde motif. Based on Asmahan’s (the Syrian/Egyptian singer, 1912–1944) last film Gharam Wa Intigam (Passion and Revenge) 1944, the film’s cinematic meditations merge her songs with plot and actions to reveal an insight into the relationship between the star’s tragic life, colonial Egypt and the nature of cinema.

The Astrum Argentium

USA, 2007, 6 minutes, director: Jon Behrens

The third film in the director’s Anomalies cycle series of films. This film is made entirely from hand painted and hand manipulated images all created on film with an optical printer.

Double lives

USA, 2007, 5 minutes, director: Salise Hughes

Manipulated footage from classic black and white films is interspersed with images of dolphins in Double Lives to emphasize both the disconnect between the natural and artificial worlds and the restrictive nature of society in general.

For a Blonde... For a Brunette... For someone... For Her... For You... USA, 2007, 6 minutes, director: Mike Olenick

For a Blonde... is a karaoke style video that re-enacts a scene from Hitchcock’s film

Vertigo. The artist plays the role of John Ferguson at the moment where he re-discovers his Madeleine. “Karaoke” subtitles allow the viewer to perform Kim Novak’s part and complete the scene.

life and Times of Robert Kennedy starring Gary Cooper

USA, 2006, 8 minutes, director: Aaron Valdez

Overlayed newsreel footage of Robert Kennedy and images from the classic Hollywood western High Noon blur the line between truth and fiction.

A man’s Gotta Do What a man’s Gotta Do

Germany, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Harald Schleicher

Wondering what it takes to be a man? Feeling conflicted and confused? Don’t despair. Look no further than the silver screen. A tongue-in-cheek ode to masculinity as chronicled by a legion of classic and contemporary Hollywood icons.

The mendi

USA, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Steve Reinke

Over found footage from The Mendi—an ethnographic documentary made for the CBC’s Man Alive television show in the 1970s—the narrator tells of his summer as a teenage assistant to the filmmakers. In the tradition of Buñuel’s Land Without Bread Review

USA, 2006, 3 minutes, director: Jenny Perlin

A combination of refinement and simplicity that raises the receipt to an intriguing document of historic interest and reduces the newspaper headline to trivial statement. In the country at war, everything gets a different meaning.

sunbeam Hunter

USA, 2006, 3 minutes, director: Jonathan Schwartz

Poetic impression of a journey in pursuit of shadows using pages from a boy scout manual.

Waschdrang mama

USA, 2006, 2 minutes, director: Martha Colburn

Martha Colburn has amped up the political content of her stylistically raw and frenetic animations, this time concentrating on Male Pin-ups set to the dynamic music of Felix Kubin and Coolhaven. Sex and death are never far away, under the surface of the blushing bare chests and the celluloid.

4 Elements

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A poetic, virtuosic visual essay showing various struggles of humans with and against the elements, 4 Elements offers up a tabula rasa of man’s relationship with fire, water, earth and air. Seen through the experiences of firefighters in Siberia, king crab fisherman on the Bering Sea in Alaska, German mineworkers, and Russian cosmonauts preparing a launch to the international space station, the film alternates between spectacular images of nature and man. It begins with a coalmine journey into an unknown world: deep underground, a world where colors vanish, sounds distort and machines make music. It continues aboard an Alaskan-based trawler gathering king crab, battling the nighttime seas as the fishermen journey northward for their catch. Witness an immense curtain of smoke that rises out of the forest as if by magic, destroying twenty to thirty thousand hectares of wood and thousands of animals annually. A glimmering rocket blasts through the night as cosmonauts fight gravity by undergoing extremely heavy tests in attempt to become one of those people to actually behold the earth from outer space. 4 Elements becomes a uniquely visual and aural exploration of these worlds and those who brave these forces of nature in order to wage a living.

Netherlands 2006

Director:

Jiska Rickels

Producer: San Fu Maltha

Screenwriter: Jiska Rickels

Cinematographer: Martijn van Broekhuizen

Film Editor: Kristian Claas

Music: Horst Rickels

Running Time: 89 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm, in English, Kazakh, German, and Russian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Fu Works

Print Source: Fu Works

Film Website: www.fuworks.com/ 4elements

Selected Filmography: Debut Feature Film

The Aerial

La Antena

North American Premiere

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Part comic book set to screen and part science fiction, La Antena (The Aerial) is a stunning silent black-and-white media satire. Situated during “Year X” in the “City Without a Voice,” the populace has lost the ability to speak due to a fascist media regime (personified by Mr. TV). Beautifully typographic, characters communicate through silent word balloons that, in a brilliant bit of design by the filmmakers, become physical objects manipulated through space.

Then there’s The Voice, a faceless mystery woman who sings on one of Mr. TV’s programs. A plot hatches to kidnap The Voice in order to fulfill Mr TV’s plans of hypnotizing the entire city, which sets an inventor into motion to save her—and his fellow citizens—from total control.

La Antena is a modern allegory with nods to the silent cinema of Fritz Lang, Dziga Vertov and F.W. Murnau, as well as the works of Sergei Eisenstein and Georges Méliès. It is also a strong political stance against the power of massmedia and the cultural downfall emboldened by television, media conglomeration. Ultimately, it is a vote for freedom of speech and press. In short, this is a work of total relevance in a society dominated by images, a work that challenges every convention of film language with the same radicalism at heart as the filmmakers who inspired it.

Argentina 2007 Director:

Estaban Sapir

Producer: Jose Arnal

Screenwriter: Esteban Sapir

Cinematographer: Cristian Cottet

Film Editor: Pablo Barbieri Carrera

Music:

Leo Sujatovich

Cast: Valeria Bertuccelli

Alejandro Urdapilleta

Julieta Cardinali

Rafael Ferro

Florencia Raggi

Sol Moreno

Jonathan Sandor

Ricardo Merkin

Raul Hochman

Carlos Piñeyro

Running Time: 90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Spanish, with English subtitles

International Sales:

MDC International GmbH

Print Source:

MDC International GmbH

Film Website: laantenafilm.com.ar

Selected Filmography: Fine Powder (1996)

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Ghosts of Cité Soleil

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Picture the worst kind of gun-toting, doped up, nothing-to-lose thugs you can imagine: these are the chimères (ghosts) of Haiti’s ultra-violent slum, Cité Soleil, who are so named for the near-inevitability of their violent ends, effectively making them “living dead.” Asger Leth, son of acclaimed Danish documentary filmmaker Jorgen Leth (who collaborated with Lars von Trier on The Five Obstructions), delivers a tough, provocative documentary set in 2004, during the tumultuous run-up to the flight from office and exile of discredited former president Jean-Baptiste Aristide, who originally employed the hooligans as his foot soldiers. Leth gains astonishing access to the gangs, notably the charismatic brothers 2pac and Bily, probably motivated by the criminals’ desire for self-glorification. The two occasionally clash violently, not least over the affections of Lele, the blonde French relief worker who is eventually forced to choose between them. Both harbor vague dreams of getting off the streets: 2Pac through rap music and Bily through politics. Leth achieves a rare intimacy as he captures the sometimes-shocking action, aided by a haunting score by the Fugees’ Wyclef Jean, who also appears in the film. Commenting on the desperate drama that has dogged Haiti over the last decades, Jean remarks at one point, “That ain’t no Hollywood movie, that’s just the truth.” It’s a truth that bears witnessing.

Denmark/USA

2006

Director:

Asger Leth

Producers:

Michael Rieks

Tomas Radoor

Seth Kanegis

Screenwriter: Asger Leth

Cinematographers:

Milo Loncarevic

Frederik Jacobi

Film Editor:

Adam Nielsen

Music:

Wyclef Jean

Jerry Duplessis

Running Time:

88 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in English, Creole, and French, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Nordisk Film

Print Source:

THINKFilm

Film Website: ghostsofcitesoleil.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone

Hei Yanquan

Tsai Ming-liang regular Lee Kang-sheng plays Hsiao Kang, a homeless man on the streets of Kuala Lumpur who is robbed, beaten and left for dead until he is found by Rawang, an immigrant worker. Lee also plays a comatose man being cared for in a hospital who may very well be dreaming Hsiao Kang’s story. Both stories give a compassionate look at care-giving and how tenderness can survive in a world of environmental and emotional dislocation. Tsai made this, his first feature to be filmed in his native Malaysia, as part of Vienna’s New Crowned Hope Festival celebrating the work of Mozart. His entry is a contemplative film full of static shots and characters that struggle to connect and communicate. Once again, water is almost a character in the film, and Tsai found his most important location facing the Padu prison: the foundations of a never-completed skyscraper. After seeing the inky black pool of rotting water on the fourth floor of the ruin, he immediately knew he was going to shoot his film here. At one point in the film, the city is engulfed in a mysterious toxic haze as Hsiao-kang drifts between Rawang and the coffee shop waitress who is aimlessly searching for affection. While other Tsai films are more preoccupied with the harsh, animalistic nature of desire, this subtle and absurd film muses on the universal need for place and companionship in a disorienting world.

Taiwan/ France/ Austria

2006

Director:

Tsai Ming-liang

Producers:

Bruno Pesery

Vincent Wang

Screenwriter:

Tsai Ming-liang

Cinematographer:

Liao Pen Jung

Film Editor:

Chen Sheng-chang

Cast:

Lee Kang-sheng

Chen Siang-chyi

Norman Bin Atun

Running Time: 115 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Malay, Mandarin and Bengali, with English subtitles

International Sales:

Fortissimo Films

Print Source:

Strand Releasing

Selected

Filmography:

The Wayward Cloud (2005)

Goodbye, Dragon Inn (2003)

What Time Is It There? (2001)

The Hole (1998)

The River (1997)

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Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX)

US Premiere

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Michael Glawogger’s 1997 documentary Megacities was a refined film essay on the hidden faces of several world metropolises. Now, 10 years after it won acclaim and festival awards around the globe, Austrian multimedia artist Timo Novotny has created something completely new and unique with this imaginative expansion and reconstruction of the film. An electrifying reincarnation, it uses Glawogger’s stunning footage (some of it previously unseen outtakes), new footage (shot with the help of Megacities cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler), and a deft mix of environmental sound and excellent new music by Sofa Surfers. Life in Loops is a journey across the continents that gleans fragments of marginalized lives hidden “in the mega.” Innovative editing connects disparate elements of urban life found in the cracks and underbellies of New York, Tokyo, Moscow, Bombay and Mexico City. The seeds of this unique project were sown in 2003 when Novotny was asked to VJ at the opening of CineDays in Brussels and was encouraged to include films in his live set. He thought of Megacities, contacted Glawogger about using footage, and the two began to talk about a more involved project. The resulting remix is fascinating, both in its content and its process. Winning the Best Feature Documentary prize at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Life in Loops points to new directions in the documentary form and a new cinematic language for the 21st century.

Awards: Karlovy Vary 2006 (Best Documentary)

Austria 2006

Director:

Tino Novotny

Producer:

Ulrich Gehmacher

Screenwriters:

Michael Glawogger Timo Novotny

Cinematographer:

Wolfgang Thaler

Film Editor: Timo Novotny

Music: Sofa Surfers

Running Time: 80 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Hindi, Japanese, Spanish, Russian, English, with English subtitles

International Sales: Austrian Film Commission

Print Source: Austrian Film Commission

Film Website: www.lifeinloops.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

One11 and 103

In the year that he died John Cage presented his only full-length film. A sublime performance for a single cameraperson, One11 is entirely composed of images of the chance-determined play of electric light. Shot entirely in 35mm black and white, One11 consists of predominantly slow pans across the blank wall of the studio, illuminated by soft oval patches of light of varying intensity that drift across the screen like clouds. It’s a remarkably beautiful experience alone, and even more so in conjunction with the rich sustained chords and occasional spiky twangs of 103, its intended musical accompaniment. Like the film, 103 is 90 minutes long and divided into seventeen parts; its density varies from solos, duos, trios to full orchestral tuttis. Before production began with collaborator Henning Lohner, Cage suggested of the work, “Of course the film will be about the effect of light in an empty space. But no space is actually empty and the light will show what is in it.” John Cage remains one of the most widely influential artists of the 20th century. His acknowledgment of time as the fundamental element of composition, his commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and his incorporation of the aleatory into the process of making art has inspired composers, filmmakers, painters and poets alike. It is with great pleasure, on the film’s 15th anniversary and what would have been Cage’s 95th year, that we present One11 and 103 for the first time on any screen in Seattle!

USA/Germany 1992

Director:

Henning Lohner

Producer:

Henning Lohner

Screenwriter: John Cage

Cinematographer: Van Carlson

Film Editor: Bernadine Colish

Music: John Cage

Running Time: 94 minutes

Presentation

Format: DVD

Print Source: Lohnerranger Film and Music Productions, GmbH

Selected

Filmography:

Dennis Hopper: Create (or Die) (2004) In a Metal Mood (1996)

The Revenge of the Dead Indians (1993)

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On The Road With Judas

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Imagine Charlie Kaufman on crack and you might come up with On the Road With Judas, written and directed by JJ Lask, about a man named JJ Lask who has written a novel that has been made into a movie. The fictional characters from the book appear on a talk show, as do the actors hired to play them. As they discuss the film, they also retell the story, which we see in flashbacks, sometimes as scenes from the movie, and sometimes as actual flashbacks, featuring the “real” people, not the actors. Got it? Undoubtedly you’re confused, and that’s how Mr. Lask likes it. The story at the center is set in the early 1990s, and follows a seemingly conservative New York businessman (Napoleon Dynamite’s Aaron Ruell) who moonlights as a cutthroat computer thief. Lask employs an eclectic combination of formal elements in his creation of the film, including fictional narrative and mockumentary. And even though the whole enterprise is self-indulgent as hell, it’s also intermittently dazzling, wickedly funny and unexpectedly precise in its deconstruction of the narcissism inherent in creativity. Ultimately it’s a daring metaphysical film about the fine, ambivalent and complex line between creators and their creations and several additional storytelling modes.

USA

2007

Director:

JJ Lask

Producers:

Ronan P. Nagle

Amy Slotnick

Screenwriter:

JJ Lask

Cinematographer:

Ben Starkman

Film Editors:

JJ Lask

Jason Kileen

Music:

Human

Cast:

Aaron Ruell

Eddie Kaye Thomas

Kevin Corrigan

Eleanor Hutchins

Amanda Loncar

Alex Burns

Leo Fitzpatrick

JJ Lask

Running Time:

100 minutes

Presentation

Format:

HDCAM

International Sales:

Cinetic Media

Print Source:

All Day Buffet Films

Strange Culture

On the morning of May 11, 2004, conceptual artist Steve Kurtz woke up to find that his 45year-old wife Hope had died suddenly in her sleep of heart failure. Paramedics arrived on the scene and became immediately suspicious of the various Petri dishes, scientific equipment and books that Kurtz was using for an upcoming exhibition on the emergence of biotechnology in food at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Within hours, Kurtz had been detained as a suspected bio-terrorist and an FBI Hazmat team had seized his equipment, computers, his wife’s body and even his cat. Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture is a brilliantly conceived documentary that uses unconventional technique to tell this story of domestic tragedy turned Kafkaesque nightmare. Director Leeson (Teknolust) skillfully uses news footage, animation, testimonials and, in a master stroke, the actors Tilda Swinton, Josh Kornbluth and Peter Coyote to dramatically re-enact the parts of the story that Kurtz himself can still not legally talk about. (Three years later the terrorism charges have finally been dropped, yet Kurtz is still under indictment and faces up to 20 years in prison.) The resulting film is a stunningly sophisticated documentary of post 9/11 paranoia, the “strange culture” of art and dissent and a Justice Department willing to ignore civil liberties in its relentless pursuit of an unknown enemy.

USA 2006

Director:

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Producers:

Stephen Beer

Lise Swenson

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Screenwriter:

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Cinematographer:

Hiro Narita

Film Editor:

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Music:

The Residents

Cast:

Thomas Jay Ryan

Tilda Swinton

Peter Coyote

Running Time:

76 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

International Sales:

Cinemavault

Print Source:

L5 Productions

Film Website:

strangeculture.net

Selected

Filmography:

Teknolust (2003)

Conceiving Ada (1997)

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Syndromes and a Century Sang Sattawat

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

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One of six New Crowned Hope films commissioned by Peter Sellars and the city of Vienna to celebrate Mozart’s 250th anniversary. More than fulfilling the promise of Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a Century confirms Apichatpong Weerasethakul as one of most innovative talents in contemporary cinema. A film of two selfreflecting halves, the central characters in the first section are inspired by the filmmaker’s parents, set in the era in which he was born. In a small country hospital, shy and clumsy Toa is courting the charming but standoffish Dr. Tei, who is distracted by her feelings for an orchid expert she met at the flower market. The second part takes place in a modern Bangkok hospital and echoes a different set of mores reflecting the changed times, with a narrative again involving a Toa courting a Dr. Tei, while newly employed ex-army doctor Nohng explores the premises, running into various colleagues and patients, some with disturbing habits and afflictions. The film seems to originate from all corners of the screen and percolates through soft-spoken dialogue, Thai songs, sounds of nature and even silence, and transcends time and space with graceful levity, binding the viewer with the magic spell of a mantra. At the same time, pearls of wisdom, descriptions of syndromes and fragments of time crystallize on the film’s modern superstructure like a quiet incantation. With his latest work, this astonishing director’s openness to the future of his art, and his Buddhist influences from the past, allow him simultaneously to ponder time, memory, place and the attraction of opposites in this bewitching, funny and seductively mysterious film.

Thailand/ France/ Austria 2006

Director:

Apichatpong

Weerasethakul

Producers: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Pantham Thongsgang

Charles de Meaux

Screenwriter: Apichatpong

Weerasethakul

Cinematographer: Sayombhu

Mukdeeprom

Film Editor: Lee Chatametikool

Cast: Nantarat Sawaddikul

Jaruchai Iamaram

Sophon Pukanok

Jenjira Pongpas

Arkanae Cherkam

Running Time: 105 minutes

Presentation Format: 35mm, in Thai, with English subtitles

International Sales: Fortissimo Films

Print Source: Strand Releasing

Film Website: kickthemachine.com/ works/Syndromes.html

Selected Filmography:

Worldly Desires (2005)

Tropical Malady (2004)

The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003)

Blissfully Yours (2002)

Mysterious Objects at Noon (2000)

In 1965, Danny Williams dropped out of Harvard and moved to Manhattan to begin a film career. He edited two films for Albert and David Maysles before becoming a fixture at the Warhol Factory, where he made over 20 films and designed the groundbreaking Velvet Underground “Exploding Plastic Inevitable” light show. He also fell in love with Andy Warhol and moved in with him and his mother. But life took a turn when Warhol ended their affair. Factory members began to manuever against him and a growing dependence on amphetamines increased his anxiety. In July of 1966, while visiting his family in Massachusetts, he borrowed his mother’s car and was never seen again. More than 35 years later, Williams’ niece, director Esther Robinson, learned of her uncle’s association with Warhol and the recent recovery of his films. Baffled at how he had been written out of the histories of both the Factory and his own family, Robinson began her own personal inquiry into his brief life and mysterious disappearance. She pieces together Williams’ Factory films with intimate interviews with family members and his contemporaries, including Albert Maysles, John Cale, Paul Morrissey, Billy Name, Brigid Berlin, Gerard Malanga and others. Although Williams remains a shadowy figure shaped only by his films, a few photos and fuzzy memories, the film moves beyond the legends and icons to carve out a landscape of human fragility and the story of a talented young filmmaker found and then lost in the legendarily dysfunctional, bohemian Warhol world.

Awards: Berlin 2007 (Teddy Award- Documentary)

USA

2007

Director:

Esther B. Robinson

Producers:

Esther B. Robinson

Doug Block

Tamra Raven

Cinematographer:

Adam Cohen

Film Editors:

Shannon Kennedy

James K. Lyons

Music:

T. Griffin

With:

Brigid Berlin

Billy Name

Paul Morrissey

John Cale

Albert Maysles

Running Time:

78 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

International Sales:

Submarine

Entertainment

Print Source:

Thatgrl Media

Film Website:

awalkintothesea.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

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Whether you’re searching for thrillers or chillers, slasher flicks or cult classics, degenerate filth or an outrageous teen sex comedy, you’ll find them all in MIDNIGHT ADRENALINE!

Other sections of the festival may aim to touch the heart or broaden the mind; our midnighters would rather rip out your former while impaling your latter on a pike… quite possibly with the idea of devouring both a little later. herein you’ll find a world powered by human excrement, and another where cell phones, televisions and radios have turned the entire populace homicidal. from new Zealand, where the sheep to human ratio is 10 to 1, a national nightmare comes horribly alive when the wooly ones

FILMS

Aachi & Ssipak (South Korea, 2006)

Directed by Joe Bum-jin

Alien Autopsy (UK/Germany, 2006)

Directed by Johnny Campbell

Black Sheep (New Zealand, 2006)

Directed by Jonathan King

Cold Prey (Norway, 2006)

Directed by Roar Uthaug

The Ferryman (New Zealand, 2007)

Directed by Chris Graham

turn on their Kiwi masters. there’s the corporate retreat from hell, alien hoaxes, home invasions and the bloodiest, body-swappingest boat cruise ever. fridays at the egyptian and saturdays at the neptune, with a special bonus screening on the sunday of memorial day Weekend. come share a communal nightmare with your fellow festival attendees and then disperse into the night with shivers down your spine. a little insomnia never hurt anyone. yet.

Severance (UK/Germany, 2006)

Directed by Christopher Smith

The Signal (USA, 2007)

Directed by Dan Bush, David Bruckner and Jacob Gentry

Superbad (USA, 2007)

Directed by Greg Mottola

Them (France, 2006)

Directed by David Moreau and Xavier Palud

midnight adrenaline!

Aachi & Ssipak

saturday June 16 midnight neptune theatre

sunday June 17 9:30 pm neptune theatre

In the future the world has depleted its natural resources, both fossil and renewable, with one exception: human excrement. Society has built cities around efficiently obtaining and controlling this new resource by implementing two new laws: installing an ID chip in each citizen to monitor their “production” levels, and rewarding productive citizens with addictive “Juicybars.” But the familiar tragic side effects of any addictive substance naturally follow: first the rise of an illegal black market, next the creation of pintsized mutants who organize into a group known as the Diaper Gang in order to plunder the city’s supply of Juicybars. Enter Aachi, a perpetually scheming opportunist, and Ssipak, a hardcore thug who worships Chow Yun-Fat, neither of whom are much smarter than the Diaper Gang. But despite their failure to establish themselves as prominent Juicybar dealers, Aachi and Ssipak have the incredible stroke of luck of meeting Beautiful, a wannabe actress who, through freak chance, receives hundreds of Juicybars for every visit she makes to the ladies’ room. When government agents and the Diaper Gang learn of Beautiful’s bounty, the two partners find themselves in the midst of scatological pandemonium. By far, the most delightfully irreverent film to screen at SIFF this year, South Korea’s animated feature Aachi & Ssipak eschews the over-stylized veneer and densely plotted narrative of its Japanese counterparts for a joyfully chaotic irreverence—a mixture of high-energy action and taboo-breaking black humor that would tickle the likes of Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino.

South Korea 2006

Director:

Joe Bum-jin

Producer:

Kim Sun-Ku

Screenwriters:

Kang Sang-Kyun

Chung Hye-Won

Joe Bum-Jin

Cinematographer:

Kim Youn-Ki

Film Editor:

Lee Chung-Bok

Music:

Kang Ki-Young

Voices of:

Ryoo Seung-Bum

Yim Chang-Jeong

Hyun Young

Running Time:

90 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in Korean, with

English subtitles

International Sales:

Studio 2.0

Print Source:

Studio 2.0

Film Website:

www.aanss.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature

Alien Autopsy

friday June 15 midnight egyptian theatre sunday June 17 7:15 pm neptune theatre

In the summer of 1995, Fox Television aired a special entitled Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?), which purported to show found footage of the postmortem conducted on an alien corpse from the Roswell crash. Over the ensuing weeks a debate as to the footage’s authenticity erupted. Was it real? A hoax? A novel use of petroleum jelly? Inspired by these events, British comic duo Ant & Dec star in a hilariously inventive exposé of the con that shook the world. Street-wise Ray makes his living selling pirated videos at street markets. Hoping to make a big score on some rare Elvis footage, he talks his best friend Gary into financing a trip to Cleveland. Once there, the film’s owner Harvey also shows Ray his crown jewel—footage of an alien autopsy performed at Roswell airbase, asking price $30,000. Back in London, Ray gets Laszlo Voros, a Hungarian UFO aficionado and vicious drug dealer, to invest in the enterprise. But after getting the film back to England, Ray and Gary discover that the film has badly decomposed. Daunted by the prospect of Laszlo’s retribution, the pair decides to recreate the film with the help of their friends and family. Equal parts The X-Files and Ed Wood, Alien Autopsy is an exuberant romp through the world of two small-time hucksters who managed to fool the biggest media outlets in the world.

United Kingdom/ Germany

2006

Director:

Johnny Campbell

Producers:

William Davies

Barnaby Thompson

Screenwriter:

William Davies

Cinematographer:

Simon Chaudoir

Film Editor:

Oral Norrie Otey

Music:

Murray Gold

Cast:

Declan Donnelly

Ant McPartlin

Bill Pullman

Harry Dean Stanton

Omid Djalili

Jimmy Carr

Mike Blakeley

Matthew Blakely

John Shrapnel

David Threlfall

Running Time: 91 minutes

Presentation Format:

35mm

Print Source:

Qwerty Films

Film Website: alienautopsymovie.com

Selected

Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Black Sheep

thursday may 31 9:45 pm lincoln square

saturday June 2 midnight neptune theatre

Baa baa, black sheep, have you any…fangs?!!! The sylvan pastures of New Zealand, home to forty million sheep, are the setting for gory mayhem when a mutant strain of the normally placid fleecy ones runs amok in this endearingly funny horror romp. Henry Oldfield harbors a secret phobia of all things ovine, and wants to sell his share of the family farm to his older brother, Angus, whose unprincipled genetic engineering program has produced a “supersheep.” Things start to seriously unravel thanks to the ministrations of two bumbling environmental activists, who accidentally release a mutant lamb into the populace. Soon, the whole flock is infected, creating a bunch of woolly carnivores from which one bite causes a horrific mutation into a “weresheep.” Our hero stumbles upon the ensuing carnage, rapidly dodging ravenous rams with serious blood lust, while the unscrupulous Angus refuses to let family ties or the nambypamby PETA wannabes get in his way. Influenced by comic horror flicks from Evil Dead to Peter Jackson’s schlocky but inventive early work, and backed up with some cheerfully gruesome F/X, director Jonathan King’s writing and direction hits the perfect note of hilarity and horror, and while he wisely doesn’t try to dress up mutton as anything other than mutton, he might just give the viewer pause when confronted with his next lamb chop.

New Zealand

2006

Director:

Jonathan King

Producer:

Philippa Campbell

Screenwriter:

Jonathan King

Cinematographer:

Richard Bluck

Film Editor:

Chris Plummer

Music:

Victoria Kelly

Cast:

Nathan Meister

Danielle Mason

Peter Feeney

Tammy Davis

Running Time: 87 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales:

New Zealand Film Commission

Print Source:

IFC First Take

Film Website: www.blacksheepthemovie.com

Selected Filmography:

Debut Feature Film

Cold Prey

Fritt vilt

friday June 8 midnight egyptian theatre

Wednesday June 13 9:30 pm lincoln square

Fans of horror cinema should do themselves a favor and turn their eyes toward the frozen climes of Scandinavia. Last year, Sweden’s Frostbite was a SIFF favorite; this year, it’s Norway’s turn to chill with Cold Prey. Five friends head into the mountains for a day of snowboarding. Jannicke has her boyfriend Eirik, Mikael and Ingunn are a new couple and Tobias is riding solo. Avoiding the crowded resorts, the group heads for the wide-open, yet remote, backcountry. But when Tobias breaks his leg at the end of the day, the friends seek refuge in a nearby abandoned lodge. As the group explores the lodge’s confines, they find the phone doesn’t work but, on the plus side, the old basement generator does, and there is plenty of tinned food and, of course, booze. The friends settle in for the evening, making the most of the open bar, with the two couples eventually retiring together. But when morning comes, Ingunn, following a fight with Mikael, is missing. Eirik sets off to retrieve their SUV and enlist aid, while Jannicke and Mikael search for Ingunn. Instead, they find a filthy, hidden room in the basement where someone appears to be living with a rather large axe. From this simple set-up, director Roar Uthaug manages to wring terrific amounts of tension by carefully developing his characters—each comes across as a vibrant, intelligent person for whom the audience grows to care; consequently, we feel every slash of the blade.

Norway

2006

Director:

Roar Uthaug

Producers:

Magne Lyngner

Martin Sundland

Screenwriter: Thomas Moldestad

Cinematographer:

Daniel Voldheim

Film Editor: Jon Endre Mørk

Music: Magnus Beite

Cast:

Ingrid Bolsø Berdal

Viktoria Winge

Tomas Alf Larsen

Rolf Kristian Larsen

Endre Martin

Midtstigen

Running Time: 97 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta in Norwegian, with English subtitles

International Sales: Norwegian Film Institute

Print Source: Norwegian Film Institute

Film Website: www.frittvilt.com

Selected

Filmography: Debut Feature Film

The Ferryman

North American Premiere

friday June 1 midnight egyptian theatre

monday June 4 9:45 pm lincoln square

When two young couples charter the portentously named ship Last Man Standing for a summer pleasure cruise to Fiji, they can’t begin to imagine the horror that awaits them on the high seas. Spoiled Americans Chris and Tate want nothing more than to drink and sunbathe the journey away, while Zane tries to help his girlfriend Kathy move on from a recent tragedy. All goes well until their vessel encounters a mysterious fogbank. With little choice before him, the ship’s skipper Big Dave navigates into the mists, while his wife Suze (Kerry Fox) keeps the passengers in their proper place. But when they come upon a derelict vessel adrift in the fog, the six shipmates discover scenes of unimagined carnage and a sole survivor (John Rhys-Davies). Unbeknownst to them, the old man’s broken frame hides a subtle, shifting evil that, through the agency of an ancient knife, preys upon his unsuspecting rescuers by switching bodies at will. But even evil can know fear, and in the fog the ferryman awaits the old man’s soul. For a small island nation, New Zealand has a rich history of horror cinema: long-time SIFF attendees will remember Peter Jackson’s early ’90s splatterfests with their delirious confection of black humor and gore. Director Chris Graham deliberately follows Jackson’s example by taking the film’s premise to its gory denouement with unsparing and ghoulish glee.

New Zealand

2007

Director:

Chris Graham

Producers:

Matthew Metcalfe

Alan Harris

Screenwriter:

Nick Ward

Cinematographer:

Aaron Morton

Film Editor:

Nigel Galt

Music:

Haim Frank Ilfman

Cast: John Rhys-Davies

Kerry Fox

Sally Stockwell

Amber Sainsbury

Tamer Hassan

Running Time: 100 minutes

Presentation

Format: 35mm

International Sales: New Zealand Film Commission

Print Source: New Zealand Film Commission

Film Website: www.theferrymanmovie.com

Selected Filmography: Sione’s Wedding (2006)

Severance

sunday may 27 midnight neptune theatre monday may 28 11:00 am neptune theatre

What better way is there to promote team building and departmental cooperation than a good old fashion corporate retreat? However, for the employees of London-based Palisade Defence, a multinational arms dealer, teambuilding will soon be a matter of life and death. Things start to go wrong right from the beginning of their trip into the Hungarian backwoods. Their illtempered bus driver speaks no English and abandons them on a lonely stretch of road. The scheduled five-star palatial chalet turns out to be more of a decrepit summerhouse with electrical problems. And the meat pie they’ve found for dinner is definitely not one of the tasty creations promised in the brochure. Still, the situation is manageable until their paint-ball game turns horrifyingly real: unknown assailants have booby-trapped the surrounding forest and are now stalking the executives in increasingly gruesome fashion. Described as The Office meets Deliverance, Severance is a chaotic riot of black humor and automatic weapons. Cooperating on a script with James Moran, director Christopher Smith crafts the ultimate killer(s)-in-the-woods flick, replacing stupid, horny teenagers with corporate drones who are all too familiar with the weapons they’re facing, and all too ready to use them against their tormentors. The result is a shish kabob of darkly comic bon mots skewered between moments of shudder inducing carnage.

United Kingdom/ Germany

2006

Director: Christopher Smith

Producer: Jason Newmark

Screenwriters:

James Moran

Christopher Smith

Cinematographer: Ed Wild

Film Editor: Stuart Gazzard

Music:

Christian Henson

Cast:

Laura Harris

Danny Dyer

Toby Stephens

Running Time: 95 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Hanway

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Selected

Filmography:

Creep (2004)

The Signal

saturday June 9 midnight neptune theatre

tuesday June 12 9:30 pm egyptian theatre

This gore-riffic horror movie is told in three parts, each one focusing on a different character. It’s New Year’s Eve in a town called Terminus, and a mysterious transmission being broadcast over televisions, phones and radios is giving everyone “the crazy.” Said crazy is the urge to murder as many people as possible, in the most brutal way imagineable. The film is ingeniously structured as three interrelated shorts, each focusing on different characters. The first vignette, Crazy in Love, introduces us to Mya, her lover Ben and her husband Lewis. Ben is trying to convince Mya to leave her husband; she says she can’t and goes home to find her building in chaos and her husband murdering one of his friends. The Jealousy Monster tells us Lewis’s story, beginning at the set-up for a New Year’s party; the lightest and funniest of the three stories, this segment has a decided Shaun of the Dead vibe. Finally, Escape From Terminus is told from Ben’s point of view as he and Lewis battle it out to see who will find Mya first. All through the film, it’s almost impossible to tell who‘s seen the transmission and who has not—anybody could have the crazy at any time. This combined with some interesting weapon choices, and several shocking moments, adds to the suspense and terror of this original film.

USA

2007

Directors:

Dan Bush

David Bruckner

Jacob Gentry

Producers:

Alexander A. Motlagh

Jacob Gentry

Screenwriters:

David Bruckner

Jacob Gentry

Dan Bush

Cinematographers:

David Bruckner

Dan Bush

Jacob Gentry

Film Editors:

David Bruckner

Dan Bush

Jacob Gentry

Music:

Ben Lovett

Matthew Compton

Paloma Udovic

Cast:

A.J. Bowen

Anessa Ramsey

Justin Welborn

Scott Poythress

Sahr Ngaujah

Cheri Christian

Matt Stenton

Running Time:

99 minutes

Presentation

Format:

DigiBeta

Print Source:

Magnolia Pictures

Superbad

saturday may 26 midnight neptune theatre

Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera, just as whip-crack in his comic timing as he was on Arrested Development) are best friends in their last year of high school. In the dog-eat-dog hierarchy familiar to every former student, they’re pretty much near the bottom and, with few other friends, have become nearly codependent upon each other. But when Evan is accepted to Dartmouth and Seth is not, they must face their inevitable separation... after throwing the biggest, most incredibly booze-soaked party their schoolmates have ever seen, of course. If the situation develops that some girl proves willing enough to sleep with them, hey, the boys are willing to deal with that consequence. The crucial first step in their master plan, obtain a fake ID, is achieved by their friend Fogell, or as he’s now known to the officials of the state, McLovin (yeah, that’s it, just McLovin). When he tries to buy some alcohol at a convenience store, he gets embroiled in a stick-up and, later, with the two moronic cops sent to investigate the incident. However, the party does get under way and soon reaches a critical mass that neither Evan nor Seth can control. Rip-roaringly hilarious, Superbad sets a new high watermark for teen comedies, managing to be smart, lewd and poignant in equal measure. It stands to be the sleeper hit of late summer.

USA

2007

Director:

Greg Mottola

Producers:

Judd Apatow

Shauna Robertson

Screenwriters:

Evan Goldberg

Seth Rogen

Cinematographer:

Russ T. Alsobrook

Film Editor:

William Kerr

Cast:

Jonah Hill

Michael Cera

Christopher MintzPlasse

Seth Rogen

Bill Hader

Running Time:

114 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm

International Sales:

Sony Pictures Classics

Print Source:

Sony Pictures Classics

Film Website:

www.sonypictures.com

Selected

Filmography: The Daytrippers (1996)

Them Ils

friday may 25 midnight egyptian theatre

sunday may 27 9:30 pm neptune theatre

Although French cinema is considered to be one of the finest in the world, known for its depictions of youth culture and period romances, it wasn’t until the turn of the latest century that they’ve started on a mini-boom of horror films. Them is a brilliant entry into the genre. Far from a remake of the 1957 classic of the same name, it is an exceptionally tight, white-knuckled thriller that perfectly captures all the elements of midnight cinema. The film begins with a mother and daughter experiencing car trouble on the side of a remote road. What occurs here is only a prologue, however, for the events to come. The scene switches to Clementine, a French teacher at a Bucharest high school on the eve of a holiday break. She drives into the countryside, passing a police investigation of a derelict vehicle, to meet her novelist husband Lucas at their secluded home. The couple settles in for a romantic evening, but as they try to drift into sleep strange occurrences begin to happen: prank phone calls, their TV gets switched on, the power goes out and, finally, the theft of Clementine’s car. What follows next is a series of unbearably tense sequences that successively draw the tension tighter and tighter, till it snaps at the film’s haunting climax. For those tired of the horror film’s excesses, Them is a nasty antidote: co-directors Moreau and Palud craft their scares with relentless pacing, eerie sounds, frightening verité realism and nary a drop of blood.

Preceded by:

The Eyes of Edward James Canada, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Rodrigo Gudino Edward is regressed into the traumatic memory of the evening that his wife, Sarah was brutally murdered. As his story unveils it becomes apparent that what is seen through Edward’s eyes is different from what his doctor believes is happening.

France 2006

Directors:

David Moreau

Xavier Palud

Producer: Richard Grandpierre

Screenwriters: David Moreau

Xavier Palud

Cinematographer:

Axel Cosnefroy

Film Editor:

Nicolas Sarkissian

Cast:

Olivia Bonamy

Michael Cohen

Running Time: 75 minutes

Presentation

Format:

35mm, in French,

Romanian, with English

subtitles

International Sales:

StudioCanal

Print Source:

MPI/Dark Sky Films

Selected

Filmography: Back to Saint-Tropez (2003)

Agreat story, a clear vision, a talented cast and crew, very little time and even less money. That’s the essence of independent filmmaking. SIFF’s Fly Filmmaking Challenge was created to showcase the power and talent of our local independent filmmakers by condensing the filmmaking process into a challengingly tight production schedule, with little resources braced only by an incredible amount of passion. Continuing the tradition, this year’s films have been made “on the fly”–five days to shoot, five days to edit for a total of ten minutes of screen time.

This year’s filmmakers took the challenge to heart by creating the most ambitious Fly Films ever: three character driven stories, shot in iconic locations, stretching the boundaries of imagination and resources. SIFF is proud to present this year’s filmmakers: Matt Daniels (nominated by the IFP/Seattle), Dayna Hanson (nominated by Northwest Film Forum) and Lisa Hardmeyer (nominated by Women In Film). The Fly Films are executive produced by Managing Director Deborah Person, Artistic Director Carl Spence, and produced by Amy Lillard Dee and Jannat Gargi.

FLY FILMMAKING CHALLENGE

Monday, May 28 7:00 PM

Egyptian Theatre

Wednesday, June 13 4:30 PM

Egyptian Theatre

THE BRIDGE

Written and Directed by Lisa Hardmeyer

NUMB

Written and Directed by Matt Daniels

RAINBOW

Written and Directed by Dayna Hanson

fly film

THE BRIDGE

Written and Directed by Lisa Hardmeyer

NUMB

Written and Directed by Matt Daniels

RAINBOW

Written and Directed by Dayna Hanson

Jeremy and Julia are imperfect strangers. Facing her mortality, Julia, an aspiring artist, seeks spiritual answers wherever they may lurk. Dying on stage, Jeremy, a perspiring comic, seeks resolution on his own terms. When the two cross paths on a bridge, will either end up on the other side?

Lisa Hardmeyer, nominated by Women in Fi Lm

Lisa Hardmeyer is an award-winning documentary Producer/Director. She recently wrote, produced and directed for The Eyes of Nye. She also produced and directed SALT, which premiered at the Santa Fe Film Festival in the winter of 2001. Hardmeyer has produced and directed numerous award-winning corporate and educational videos and has also taught documentary classes at 911 Media Arts.

Set in an enchanted land, Numb is a dark tale of a young girl named Sophie. Following the loss of her parents, she must travel a great distance to begin a new life with her mysterious Uncle Algernon. In the quiet isolation of his mansion, Sophie soon discovers her uncle’s infatuation for bizarre puppetry and spectacle. Little does she know of the role she is about to play in his big show.

matt danieLs, nominated by tH e i FP/seattLe

Matt Daniels is a filmmaker, photographer and designer based in Seattle, WA. He has directed and shot numerous short films, music videos, commercials and documentaries. His work can be seen at thinklab.com and wearemilk.com

16-year-old Iris navigates life in her mother’s absence as best she can, playing music with her uncle and doing her part to soothe the raw nerves of her mom’s lingering, livein boyfriend. A single evening in the life of these three individuals sees them each reacting in their own way to the mysteries that disturb the air around them.

dayna Hanson, nominated by nortHWest Fi Lm Forum

Filmmaker and multi-artist Dayna Hanson was Co-Artistic Director of Seattle-based dance theater company 33 Fainting Spells from 1994-2006. A 2006 Guggenheim Fellow in Choreography, Dayna’s award-winning dance films have screened internationally. She produced Linas Phillips’ feature documentary Walking to Werner, and is in pre-production on her feature The Woman, The Kid and The Guy

Three-Minute Masterpieces

Funny, touching, mischievous and always surprising, these are the winning entries for the Seattle Times’ Three-Minute Masterpiece digital movie contest. Filmmakers picked up their cameras and made movies on any subject, as long as they’re family friendly and under three minutes. This screening will show this year’s best, chosen by the festival and the Seattle Times. One Grand Prize

winner gets V.I.P. passes to the Seattle International Film Festival and a filmmaking class at the Seattle Film Institute. The J. Michael Award winner also gets a class at the Seattle Film Institute, as well as a special prize sponsored by the family of Justine Michael Rima, a young previous winner who passed away in 2003.

And Holiday Gift Wrap Sale

e 2007 SIFF Catalogue was designed and laid out on Apple Macintosh computers using Adobe Creative Suite 2. Huge thanks to e Mac Store and Adobe for supplying our creative team with creative tools. is year’s catalogue was produced by a collaboration of Encore Media Group: Barb, Emmanuel, Kristi, Susan, and Victoria; and the SIFF PubPod: Andy, Andy, Bruce, Christine, Beth, Kat, Michaela and Steve–supported by the dedicated and hard-working staff and volunteers of the Seattle International Film Festival.

Against the Grain: Art and Life

SUNDAY MAY 27 2:00PM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

From the sublime to the bizarre, these short documentaries capture four stories of life lived at its most passionate. (83 minutes)

Conversing With Aotearoa/New Zealand

New Zealand, 2006, 14 minutes, director: Corrie Francis A captivating animated ode to our natural world.

Everett DuPen: Sculptor

USA, 2007, 30 minutes, director: B. J. Bullert A portrait of a sculptor and teacher who influenced generations of Northwest artists.

The Fighting Cholitas

Bolivia, 2006, 20 minutes, directors: Miriam Jobrani, Kenny Krauss Fully Costumed Bolivian Women + WWF = Yes please!

Fridays at the Farm

USA, 2006, 19 minutes, director: Richard Hoffmann A father paints an outstanding cinematic portrait of community farming and its enrichment of his family.

Behind the Headlines

SATURDAY MAY 26 2:00PM

NORTHWEST FILM FORUM

Strength and truth can be overlooked if not given the proper attention. In this package we highlight these hidden virtues, found in some unexpected places. (96 minutes)

Alex Scott: A Stand for Hope

USA, 2006, 24 minutes, director: Larry Mendte The inspirational story of a 4-year old girl who starts a powerful fundraising movement for Cancer research.

Freeheld

USA, 2007, 38 minutes, director: Cynthia Wade A gay New Jersey lieutenant fights cancer and elected officials to transfer her pension to her domestic partner.

Quiet Revolution

USA, 2006, 24 minutes, director: Virginia Williams A finely crafted expose chronicling the past 25 years of the Republican parties subversion of democracy.

The Truth about Tooth

Scotland, 2006, 10 minutes, director: Hazel Baillie Interviews with children about their experiences with the Tooth Fairy are contrasted against the workings of a denture factory.

Dames in Frames

THURSDAY MAY 31 9:30PM

SIFF CINEMA

From growing up, to our families, to the things we just don’t say, this package explore the varied experience of what it means to be a woman in the modern world. (95 minutes)

Airplanes

USA, 2006, 10 minutes, director: Jen Heck Two teenaged girls hook up at a carnival, but when evening falls, their tentative friendship threatens to dissolve.

Bitch

USA, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Lilah Vandenburgh Meet Bitch. She doesn’t take flack from anybody: not from hipsters, not from poseurs–nobody. Then one day she meets F*cker....

Family Reunion

Iceland, 2006, 21 minutes, director: Isold Uggadottir New York lesbian Katrin struggles to come out to her relatives back in Iceland, but revelations at a family reunion challenge all her assumptions.

The Lost One

New Zealand, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Yvette Thomas Attempting to forget her past, Emma cruises the city in search of love among strangers.

Portrait of a Woman 1947-2007

USA, 2007, 2 minutes, director: Margot Quan Knight Ages from birth to 60 in 2 minutes flat.

Room 10

USA, 2006, 18 minutes, director: Jennifer Aniston Frannie is a veteran nurse with a hardened heart and a crumbling marriage. It’s a typical night in the ER until an unexpected relationship with a patient challenges her to rethink her decisions and choices in life.

Unspoken

USA, 2006, 14 minutes, director: Fei-Fei Wang The intimate relationship between two teenaged girls threatens to collapse when boys are invited into their sanctuary.

Deutsch in Miniature

SUNDAY JUNE 3 1:45PM

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Our focus on German Cinema goes beyond features, as we are proud to present eight short films from Germany’s next generation of filmmakers. (96 minutes)

Close Your Eyes and Do Not Breathe

Germany, 2006, 7 minutes, director: Vuk Jevremovic The computer keyboard becomes a pillow, catapulting this dreamer into an astounding animated world.

The Date

Germany, 2006, 12 minutes, director: Andreas Hass Twenty years after a fateful affair, a German man returns to Central Park in hopes of meeting his lost love.

The East Wind

USA, 2006, 11 minutes, director: Kohl Glass In search of a worthy opponent, German WWI ace Wolfgang von Kellermann accepts the challenge of a mysterious and seemingly invincible American pilot. Kellerman’s obsession leads him into twin discoveries: the duel of his life and price of his honor.

High Maintenance

Germany, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Phillip Van Is conversation stale over dinner? Call for a replacement spouse.

In the Field

Germany, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Phillipp Wolf Three thirteenyear old boys think they know everything about girls, until one actually passes by.

See You at Home

Germany, 2006, 22 minutes, director: Stefan Kornatz When 15 year old Katarina makes a secret internet-chat sex date, her new trick holds a surprise of his own.

Wigald

Germany, 2006, 11 minutes, director: Timon Modersohn Wigald just wants to kill himself, why have his parents picked now to divorce?

Wolf’s Dream

Germany, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Maria-Anna Rimpfl Everything you have forgotten calls for help from your dream.

The Family Picture Show

SATURDAY JUNE 16 11:00AM

SIFF CINEMA

SIFF’s annual selection of family-oriented shorts sparkles with a combination of emotional realism and indulgent imagination for children aged 4-99. (86 minutes)

Little Brother

Singapore, 2006, 7 minutes, director: Leong-Huat Kam Sibling rivalry reaches new heights when mom leaves for her errands.

Peter and the Wolf

United Kingdom, 2006, 28 minutes, director: Suzie Templeton The classic Russian musical tale is retold in amazing stop-motion animation from award-wining filmmaker Suzie Templeton.

Pierre

USA, 2007, 9 minutes, director: Dan Brown The adventures of a suave mouse by the name of Pierre.

Rocketboy

USA, 2007, 13 minutes, director: Justin Guerrieri A depressed middleaged accountant is reminded of space-faring dreams when a child literally crash lands into his life.

Shipwrecked

Canada, 2006, 10 minutes, director: Devon Bolton While exploring a beach, a young boy discovers evidence of a miniature shipwreck and a dozen tiny footprints leading away.

Tommy the Kid

Australia, 2006, 12 minutes, director: Stuart Clegg When his bike is stolen by the local pawn shop proprietor, Tommy uses the code of the wild west to get it back.

When I Grow Up

USA, 2007, 7 minutes, director: Michelle R. Meeker An animated look at the exuberance of youth & the realities of adulthood.

Five Senses

WEDNESDAY JUNE 13 9:45PM

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Seven shorts that focus on how we experience certain senses, and how we’re so often led (and misled) by them. (86 minutes)

The Benzer Scale

Argentina, 2006, 21 minutes, director: Martin Deus In this funny and surprising piece, a young man and woman share a passionate connection during product-testing for a company. Both feel as if they have met each other before, though they know they haven’t.

hellO?

Singapore, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Gavin Lim Naomi searches for love while working as a telephone cleaning lady in 1970 Singapore.

Look Sharp

Australia, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Amy Gebhardt The still camera introduces a primal intensity into the relationship of a trio of friends.

Motodrom

Germany, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Jeorg Wagner Ladies and gentlemen! Step right up! Enter a world of speed and stunts; a world of gasoline and adrenaline! An homage to the world of the hellriders, brought to you at a thrilling 5000rpm!

Pick Up

France, 2006, 16 minutes, director: Manuel Schapira A woman hides in her apartment and calls the phone booth across the street to see who will answer.

Sniffer

Norway, 2006, 9 minutes, director: Bobbie Peers In a society where everyone has the ability to fly, the citizens anchor to the ground via gravitation boots, depriving themselves of sunlight and the open sky.

A Very Small Trilogy of Loneliness

Romania, 2006, 7 minutes, director: Bogdan Apetri A textless elegy to a common domestic issue.

La Vida Homo

SUNDAY MAY 27 9:15PM

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Buff farm boys, missed connections and a kiss with your exgirlfriend’s boyfriend–haven’t we all been there? This collection of international shorts highlights living la vida Homo... (91 minutes)

41 Seconds

Germany, 2006, 4 minutes, director: Rodney Sewell A friendly phone call becomes a debate over which boy is the better kisser. There’s only one way to decide.

Cowboy Forever

France, 2006, 26 minutes, director: Jean-Baptiste Erreca Emotions are stirred and fantasies assumed as two young, handsome Latino cowboys, Jones and Govinda, experience a true love story in the open air in this tribute to Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain

Heartland

USA, 2007, 12 minutes, director: Mark Christopher When a young gay man goes back to his family farm to help out, the hired hand, an old buddy from high school, shows him that not everything is exactly the way he remembered it.

I Just Wanted to Be Somebody

USA, 2006, 10 minutes, director: Jay Rosenblatt What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman–Anita Bryant.

Kali Ma

India, 2006, 14 minutes, director: Soman Chainani When an Indian mother finds out her son is the victim of a vicious bully, she delivers her own brand of vigilante justice.

Serene Hunter

USA, 2007, 13 minutes, director: Jason Bushman A randy gay Parisian moves in with his new boyfriend–just as an old flame from Los Angeles comes back into town.

signage

USA, 2007, 12 minutes, director: Rick Hammerly An encounter with a young deaf man forces a forty-one year old to face his ambiguous future in today’s youth-obsessed gay world.

Northwest Ties

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From the exquisite to the outrageous, the Pacific Northwest is fertile ground for art, music and film. This collection of shorts from around here offers just a taste of what’s going on. (78 minutes)

Alexandra

USA, 2007, 3 minutes, director: Matt Daniels A butterfly of a woman finds her own rebirth.

Collect all Four

USA, 2007, 17 minutes, director: Kristofer Boustedt A sweet fable of collectors, jealousy and the redemptive nature of letting someone else finish first.

Diggers

USA, 2006, 15 minutes, director: Cheryl Slean What do you talk about while digging a grave?

Elliot’s Wake

USA, 2007, 14 minutes, director: Mark Price A frustrated office worker must attempt to fake a positive, respectful attitude at his CEO’s funeral, mere moments after stumbling upon an affair between his wife and the CEO’s nephew.

Fortune Hunters

USA, 2006, 21 minutes, director: Thom Harp Arthur needs to get his girlfriend back before the fortunes he writes for his father’s cookie business get worse than “You will die alone.”

Portraits of Hope

USA, 2007, 8 minutes, director: Jon Ward Lynette Huffman Johnson’s calling is to capture the sweetest moments at the most difficult times, in very touching portraits of children who are dying and their families.

This Animated Life

WEDNESDAY JUNE 6 9:15PM

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Digital animation may have a corner on the Hollywood market, but SIFF is here to prove how exquisite all forms of animation continue to be. (84 minutes)

Coburn

USA, 2006, 6 minutes, director: Anton Bogaty When the batteries in his TV remote die, old man Coburn must venture into a strange night for replacements.

Deviation

USA, 2006, 6 minutes, director: Jon Griggs MacIntyre, an onlinegame character in a counter-terrorist squad, attempts to break the cycle of violence that has been his sole existence.

everything will be ok

USA, 2006, 17 minutes, director: Don Hertzfeldt Bill’s life is plagued by a series of bizarrely comic and disturbing events in which he searches for meaning and ultimately finds little.

The Girl Who Swallowed Bees

Australia, 2007, 9 minutes, director: Paul McDermott A young teenage girl feels so distraught that she even swallows bees in an attempt to end her life. But instead, from this moment on she sees her life in a lustrous, honey-golden light ...

Harrowdown Hill

USA, 2006, 5 minutes, director: Chel White Mixing claymation, live action, modeling, archival footage and a very modernist sensibility, Chel White has created this haunting and innovative music video for Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke.

Raymond

United Kingdom, 2006, 5 minutes, director: Bif Raymond, a lazy swimming-instructor, dreams of swimming with whales in the ocean. A team of scientists offer him a variety of solutions to help him in his quest.

Sensational City

USA, 2006, 3 minutes, director: Tarik Cherkaoui Visual and aural delights abound in this hyper-stylized view of city life.

Shut-eye Hotel

USA, 2007, 7 minutes, director Bill Plympton In Bill Plympton’s newest short film, two detectives try to solve the mysterious disappearances at a local hotel.

World Builder

USA, 2007, 9 minutes, director: Bruce Branit SIM CITY comes to life as a man creates the perfect environment to observe the woman he loves.

Yansan

Brazil, 2006, 17 minutes, director: Carlos Nogueira A gorgeous reimagining of the myth of Yansan, Shango and Ogum in a luminous, futuristic Japan.

Youth Run Amok

SATURDAY MAY 26 4:00PM

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During a time of seeming invulnerability and limitless possibility, the boundaries of adulthood slowly constrict. (92 minutes)

Aruba

Canada, 2006, 11 minutes, director: Hubert Davis An 11-year old boy engineers a complicated escape from his troubled life at home and school.

Civil War

USA, 2006, 15 minutes, director: C.C. Webster On a trip to Gettysburg, a young girl must choose between popularity and her best friend.

Joyride

Ireland, 2006, 6 minutes, director: Margaret Corkery On a rain soaked night, four teens in rural Ireland look for thrills.

Poolside

Germany, 2006, 19 minutes, director: Michael Koch An unusual discovery draws a lifeguard’s attention to a group of young kids at a bustling midsummer pool.

The Saddest Boy in the World

Canada, 2006, 13 minutes, director: Amy Belling Very sad little Timothy Higgins throws a party for his 9th birthday, and prepares a showstopper no one expects.

Sexy Thing

Australia, 2006, 14 minutes, director: Denie Pentecost On a dry suburban day, a 12-year-old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination.

Warlord

USA, 2007, 14 minutes, director David Garrett Charnok, enraged at the apathy and hypocrisy that surround him, decides to flee into the wilderness and start a tribe of his own.

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Adults Only

Malaysia, 10 minutes, director Joon Han Yeo

What happens when we delay our dreams for the practical life?

Plays with Love Conquers All (page 201)

Monday June 4, 4:45pm, Harvard Exit

Wednesday, June 6, 9:45pm, Harvard Exit

At a Still Point

Croatia, 2006, 15 minutes, director Luka Rukavina

It’s been a year exactly since Daniel died. When a group of his friends meet for dinner, try as they might, they just can’t seem to avoid the empty place setting.

Plays with Euphoria (page 183)

Tuesday June 12, 4:00pm, Neptune Theater

Drake

Austria, 2006, 5 minutes, director Christoph Rainer

A family drama plays itself out in the contrasting light and shadows.

Plays with Nu. (page 211)

Friday June 15, 9:30pm, SIFF Cinema

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The Eyes of Edward James

2006, 15 minutes, director Rodrigo Gudino

Edward is regressed into the traumatic memory of the evening that his wife, Sarah, was brutally murdered. As his story unveils, however, it becomes apparent that what is seen through Edward’s eyes is different from what his doctor believes is happening.

Plays with Them (page 291)

Friday May 25, Midnight, Egyptian Theater

Sunday May 27, 9:30pm, Neptune Theater

The Job

USA, 2007, 4 minutes, director Jonathan Browning

A pick-up truck blasting mariachi music causes a riot in a business parking lot.

Plays with One Day Like Rain (page 131)

Friday June 15, 9:30pm, Harvard Exit

Sunday June 17, 11:00am, Harvard Exit

Massacre at Murambi

2007, 5 minutes, director Sam Kauffmann

Does the way we responded to the genocide in Rwanda tell us about who we are as members of the ‘Global Village’?

Plays with A Secret Genocide (page 261)

Tuesday June 5, 5:00pm, Harvard Exit

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Order Up

USA, 2007, 5 minutes, director Neil Stelzner

The lengths people will go to to pretend it never happened.

Plays with Monkey Warfare (page 205)

Saturday May 26, 9:45pm, Egyptian Theatre

Monday May 28, 2:00pm, Harvard Exit

Seattle in Color

USA, 2007, 5 minutes, directors Amy Enser and Steve Barron

This short film explores the varying colors and culture that make Seattle our own.

Plays with Made in China (page 253)

Sunday, June 10, 7:30pm, Neptune Theater

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef

USA, 2006, 30 minutes, director Holiday Johnson

This exciting short documentary examines the brutal threats causing the world’s shark populations to plummet, and how removing these vital links within the oceanic ecosystems may cause even further damage.

Plays with A Life Among Whales (page 109)

Saturday May 26, 1:00pm, SIFF Cinema

Sunday May 27, 4:30pm, Harvard Exit

The Tube With a Hat

Romania, 2006, 23 minutes, director Radu Jude

Missing the tube with the hat, young Marian gets his dad up early to help fix the TV before the afternoon movie.

Plays with Armin (page 166)

Sunday May 27, 1:30pm, Pacific Place Cinemas

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Sergei Tschernisch & Kate Purwin-Tschernisch

Kris Tsujikawa

James Tupper

Paul Tytler & Barbara O’Rorke

Lauri Ury

Jeanette Van Belle

Carl Wagoner

Eva Wahl

Lenore Waldron

Cynthia Walker & Jim Walker

Janet Walker & John Walker

Walter Wallace

Brian Heath Ward & Mike

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Richard Wasserman

Carolyn Wedekind

Kathy Wehle & Theresa Haynie

Michael Weidemann

Joe Weresch

Dennis West & Joan West

Rachel White

Pat White

Rex Wick

Lisa Williams

Margaret Williamson

Sarah Willis

Annie Wilson

George Wing

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Scott Woelfel

Kitty Wong

Kyoko Wright

Bud Wright

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Sean Young

Alan Yu

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Robert Aldecoa

Rick Allen

Kimberly Allen

Raymond Allen

Bronwyn Allen & Monette Wise

Mimi Allender

Holly Alonzo

Marilyn Alterman

Joan Alworth

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Bob aaronson

tom abell

nancy abraham

angelo acerbi

nicolette aizenberg

valeri ajaja

david allen

Paul allen

Jody allen Patton

amy allsopp

Gunnar almer

oscar alonso

Josabeth alonsoantonio

angela anable

david anderson

stephanie anderson

scilla andreen

Gretchen apgar

Charlotte appelgren

ed arentz

thomas arslan

debbie augustavo

PoChu auYeung

stephanie azam

mary Bacarella

sara Bagdasarianz

frank Baird

Kraig Baker

tim Baker

luke Baranouskas

Carole Baraton

Wouter Barendrecht

Chris Barker

michael Barker

lucius Barre

anne Barrett

lew Barrett

Catherine Barrows

troy Bartee

Carol Batte

Jay Battistelli

marei Bauer

laurette Bayle

Keith Bean

Bill Beattie

lynn Beck

rob Bender

denise Bennett

tom Bennett

ingrid Berkhout

tom Bernard

Bob Berney

sara Bernstein

Paul Beurk

aleksandra Biernacka

Bart Bihary

linda Blasing

neal Block

Brad Blondheim

Gail Blumenthal

laura Bobovski

roy Bodner

tina Borders

Betsy Borrow

travis Bouker

Kris Boustedt

lindy Boustedt

deb Bowen

david Bowlds

eamonn Bowles

michael Bracy

John Bradburn

Kyle Bradshaw

liz Brambilla

matt Brodlie

irene taylor Brodsky

Brad Brotherton

Joan Broughten

J d Brown

Katie Brown

Kimberly Brown

molly Brown

mary Brunella

John Buller

Bela Bunyik

robert Burke

meghann Burns

John Busey

Karin Butler

stuart Butler

michael Caldwell

Phyllis Campbell

Bea mcKay Caraway

seth Carmichael

Zac Carr

nate Carson

david Castro

raymond Cha

naveen Challa

Ginger Chan

andrew Chang

Jan Chapman

Bruce Chatterly

Belle Chen

louise Chernin

Hyang Choi

Peter Choi

eric Christiansen

elizabeth Churchill

ann Ciecko

sandy Cioffi

Bob Clarke

mark Clark

Kaci Clot

robb Cloyd

andrew Cockrum

ron Cogan

Howard Cohen

Kim Colaprete

taylor Coleman

susan Coliton

thatcher Collins

rebeca Conget

Jason Cook

Kevin Cook

linda Coomas

erika Cowan

Jack Cowan

noah Cowan

steve Cstouras

Carol Cummins

alice Cunningham

matt Cunningham

rachel Curnutt

Jaume Cuspinera

eric d’arbeloff

Kimber dale

rebecca dare

dana davenport

Char davidson

damian davis

Jeff davis

Philippe de Chaisemartin

valerie de la Pena

dan dean

robin death

Janine deBoisblanc

Chris dee

alexandre dereims

sybil dessau

esther devos

rob diamond

lara dickson

Cassidy dimon

david dinerstein

Jolene disalvo

Caroline dodge

Judy doherty

arielle dolinajec

Craig donarum

nick donnermeyer

eddie dotson

aaron douglas

tamara dover

Cristina dowdell

dierdre doyle

Kathleen drumm

elena dubinets

richard duckman

ma’chell duma

sarah eaton

Klaus eder

Jessica edwards

ingrid eggers

michael eggers

Jennifer eggleston

vicky eguia

Ken eisen

Jason eng

Udy epstein

Ceil erickson

luis esteban

steve evans

Jerry everard

marek falk

melissa farnum

molly farrar

rich fassio

veronique fayard

emily feingold

Jason ferguson

Giulia filippelli

Phil finger

sarah finklea

Jon fitzgerald

Kari fletcher

raisa fomina

Julie fontaine

alan franey

erik franklin

félize frappier

ann-mari frendin

megan fricke

neil friedman

alexandre fuchs

michelle fuller

david Garcia

dwight Gaut

alyssa Geromini

Jon Gerrans

nancy Gerstman

laura Giacalone

frank Giambattista

scott Giampino

John Gibbons

Gary Gibson

Cindy Gilsdorf

Paul Ginsberg

darrien michele

Gipson

ariane Girouxdallaire

rob Glaser

dan Glennon

aurelie Godet

Gina Goff

John & feral Gokcen

dan Goldberg

Jesse Goldman

sue Gonzales

malory Graham

sagesse Graham

lizette Gram mykind

Pat Grant

Kevin Graves

sarah Greenberg

isabelle Griessbach

Gary Grina

dorotheé Grosjean

Candy Gruber

mimi Guethe

alejandra Guevara

nadezhda Gus

shawn Guthrie

Bill Hahn

ian Halcott

Jody Hall

mark Halpren

Gordon Hamilton

megan Hammitt

Greg Hara

alison Harris

angie Harrison

ruth Hayler

Julie Healey

Jim Healy

sandra Hebron

Kelli Henderson

matt Henderson

Paul Heppner

amy Herndon

lynn Hershmann

leeson

aude Hesbert

dan Hiatt

melissa Hines

doug Hixson

oliver Hodge

mark Hoffman

lara HolmanGarritano

diana Holtzberg

John Hooberman

michelle Hooper

samantha Horely

Karen Horlick

Katherine Houpt

Jonathon Howell

marcus Hu

marc Hughes

ali Hummels

Jason Hunke

Gale anne Hurd

Ginny Hutchinson

david ichioka

edie ichioka

lara iglitzin

manami ilboshi

dan ireland

Kevin iwashina

erica Jacobs

darrell Jameison

mike James

marni Jenkins

Jeff Jenness

Katie Johnson

mae Johnson

Uli Johnson

Jennifer Jonas

Kimberly Jones

saint Jude

Christian Juhl lemche

nicholas Kaiser

lucie Kalmar

sandy Kang

stefan Karrer

Beth Kasama

Krysanne Katsoolis

nicole Kaufman

James Keblas

suzy Kellet

Jim Kelly

Birgit Kemner

Pete Kerchinsky

antoine Khalife

don Kiele

nazli Kilerci

michael Killoren

Heejeon Kim

laura Kim

nahie J/Y. Kim

Yunjeong Kim

George Kindle

Peter Kindlon

Zoe King

martina Knabe

diana Knauf

John Kochman

Gil Kofman

david Koh

Jen Koogler

tyler Kornelis

andrea Krauss

donald Krim

marinos Kritikos

ryan Krivoshey

Conor Krystad

emma Krystad

michael Kuhn

ted Kuoppamaki

anne marie Kürstein

Josh laBelle

Josh lackey

sal ladestro

eric lagesse

taso lagos

the lagos family

sara lamm

Claudia landsberger

Jerri lane

lauren langhans

sarah lash

Greg latimer

Kellam laura

anne laurent

Géraldine le Picard

H.K. lee

Jay lee

laremy legel

rob lehman

rula lenska

anastasia leonova

Geraldine lepicard

Karen leslie

Pamela leu

abe levy

Barb levy

matt lewis

Bryan lhuillier

anna li

marieke liedorp

marit ligthart

rich lim

elise lindborg

Cody little

Katherine livick

Bryan livingston

Peter lloyd

Bob lofland

Henning lohner

dan long

debra longo

don losoff

michael lumpkin

r Jonathan lütticken

Jasmine mac

sophie mac mahon

forest machala

marie-Pierre macia

darryl macdonald

Charlotte maignan

richard malia

Kevin mallon

david mandapat

della maricich

dominic maricich

tom marino

lindsay marsak

Jessie martin

robert martin

tracy martinez

ida martins

Patty mathiew

nilah mazza

dawn mcarthur

linda mcBlaine

matt mcCarty

ruth mcCormick

Bill mcGraw

Carol mcGraw

Heywood mcGuffee

Jim mcJunkins

tyler mcleod

michael mcmurray

shelley mcnulty

miles mcrae

sheri meehan

Betsy meguro

federica mei

Pierre menahem

dave mercer

steve messerer

Betty and Bill meyer

stephanie meyer

virginia meyer

lucie meynial

Charlotte mickie

marta mikkelsen

debbie miles

mike miles

Christopher miller

Courtney miller

leigh miller

rob miller

vince miller

Bradley mills

anita mongo

dawn moore

dean moore

Peter moore

Peter morrison

shelley morrison

Jared moshe

martina muckova

eddie muller

Christophe musitelli

tom nance

michael nank

Bahman naraghi

Camille neel

raphaela neihausen

misha neininger

russell nelson

martonne C. neville

Greg newman

Julie ng

diarah ni daw-spech

miguel angel nieto

orna noy

Jef nuyts

Holden nye

Jim nystrom

dennis o’Connor

stephanie ogle

dana o’Keefe

mary okeke

takumi ono

stine oppegaard

tom ortenberg

Courtney ott

shan ottey

Ksenia oustiougova

erin owens

Gary Palmucci

Hengameh Panahi

michelle Panzer

J. ethan Park

Katie Parker

Kevin Patnik

Jody allen Patton

roman Paul

richard Pauli

marijana Pavlich

Josh Payne

Kellie Payne

mJ Peckos

Jeremy Pelley

William Penn

mina Person

susan Peterson

marie Petit

Heather Petrocelli

Gary Phillips

larry Phillips

reka Pigniczky

Beth Pinkerton

Catherine Piot

dmitry Pleshkov

Jason Plourde

daniel Poliak

Carlye Pollackmorgan

Barry Poltermann

John Portnoy

tom Prassis

dana Pratt

larry Price

Celeste Primeau

Chris Principio

Jitka Prochazkova

ron Purple

susie Purves

susan Putnam

andy rakestraw

Pascale ramonda

Kat ramsburg

randy the Postman

don ranvaud

stephen raphael

Charlie rathbun

Christal ratliff

orly ravid

Jeff reichert

Genni reilly

mark reinhart

Paul richer

louie richmond

aaron ridinour

lazar ristovski

dan roben

léila robert

Jack robinson

ludmilla rollin

stephanie rondeau

martin rosenbaum

adam roston

ron rothstein

lewis rudd

deborah rudolph

emily russo

massimo saidel

antonio salas

alina salcudeanu

miguel salinas

Cathy sander

simon de santiago

areizaga thorsten schaumann

michael schlesinger

michael schroeder

Jana scopis

the seattle t9 Gals

Brooke sebold

Weiman seid

massimo seidel

steve seirs

michael seiwerath

adam sekuler

Jim sepulveda

Beatriz setuain

Cherie seymore

Zhanna shakhshaeva

anusha sharma

Cyreeta sharp

Phil shekleton

sandra shropshire

david shultz

norman siderow

adda sigurdardottir

michael silberman

ron simms

shelley sink

Joy skaardal

david skinner

ian slattery

John sloss

luciana soares de souza

richard sondheim

robert sondheim

Claudia souza

Jack sowle

Presha sparling

Kate spitzer

Kevin spitzer

Paul sposare

Jean sprinkle

meg stevens

robert stevens

Brian stewart

Chris stewart

Cindy stewart

Jennifer stott

norma Jean straw

Greg sucherman

Jonathan sundstrom

lacey swain

erika swick

Beth tallman

Brendan tate

Cathy taylor

lorna tee

teegarden/nash

Collection

Gareth tennant

Gudrun edda

thorhannesdottir

Kyle thorpe

nicole tiesma

Karsten tietz

Helen du toit

WingYan tong

Carl tostevin

Jim touhey

mike toutonghi

don tremblay

Paula trent

surrey tribble

Karie trujillo

fred tsui

mayumi tsutakawa

James tune

denis turcotte

debra twersky

Jason tyler

minrou Uchida

Gal Uchovsky

ryan Ulhorn

Helen Underwood

mark Urman

nancy Utley

sean Uyehara

Katalin vajda

todd van Cise

lamar van dyke

Jan-Willem van ewijk

marnix van Wijk

nicole vandenberg

michael vollman

Huong vu

Greg vuono

Janet Wainwright

tom Waldman

Geoffrey Walker

sandra Wallace

Jenny Walsh

ted Warren

michael Weber

Cruz Webster

todd Weiner

dani Weinstein

rob Wells

ruby Wells

alexandra

Wermester

michael Werner

ryan Werner

dennis West

sean West

diane Weyermann

david Wheeler

teri White

sam Whiting

Brian Whitish

david Whitlock

elizabeth Williams

Kevin Williams

lorna Williams

eric Wills

Gisela Wiltschek

rashel Winn

Jeffrey Winter

seymour Wishman

stacy Wisnia

Joann Wolfe

sia Hui Won

Joy Wong

victor Wong

ming Jin Woo

emily Woodburne

margaret Woodfield

sandra Wright

meghan Wurtz

Curtis Wynn

nick Yanity

larry Yocom

Karin Zaugg Black

stephanie Zeitler

miriam Zimmerman

mark Zoellmer

dennis Zook

elena Zueva

Advertising Index

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1001 Filmes

Luciana Soares de Souza

Rua Visconde de Piraja 595, G.R. 807 Rio de Janeiro Brazil

Tel: 55-21-2249-6952 luciana.s.s@terra.com.br

56Films

Reka Pigniczky

Garas u. 5 I/2 Budapest, 1026 Hungary

Tel: 36-30-383-8108 reka@56films.com www.56films.com

7th Art Releasing

Matt Henderson 7551 Sunset Blvd, Suite 104 Los Angeles, CA 90046

Tel: 323-845-1455

Fax: 323-845-4717 matt@7thart.com www.7thart.com

Aaron Douglas Enterprises LLC

Aaron Douglas 17567 NW Sauvie Island Road Portland, OR 97231

Tel: 503-407-0810

Fax: 503-296-5810 akdouglas@msn.com www.aaronkdouglas.com

All Day Buffet Films

Ronan Nagle

260 Fifth Ave, PH New York, NY 10001

Tel: 212-739-0070 ronan@alldaybuffet.com

Altavista Films

Alejandra Guevara

Insurgentes Sur, n, 1898 Piso 7 México D.F., 03900

Mexico

Tel: 52-55-5201-9000

Fax: 52-55-5322-4686 aguevara@altavistafilms.com.mx

Arkham NW Productions

Daniel Gildark 1410 14th Ave. Seattle, WA 98122

Tel: 206-324-6400 arkhamnw@yahoo.com

Artmattan

Diarah ni Daw-Spech 535 Cathedral Pkwy Ste. 14B New York, NY 10025

Tel: 212-864-1760

Fax: 212-316-6020 ArtMattan@aol.com

Asmik Ace Entertainment

Kayo Yoshida

5-24-5 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8405

Japan

Tel: 81-3-3817-6717

Fax: 81-3-3817-6785 kayo@asmik-ace.co.jp www.asmik-ace.co.jp

Austrian Film Commission

Anne Laurent Stiftgasse 6

Vienna, 1070

Austria

Tel: 43.1.526.3323

Fax: 43.1.526.6801 festivals@afc.at www.afc.at

Avenue Pictures

Cary Brokaw

10202 W. Washington Blvd.

David Lean Bldg, Ste 119 Culver City, CA 90232

Tel: 310-244-6868

Fax: 310-244-6869 cbrokaw@avenuepictures.com

Bankside Films

Antonio Salas

3 Richmond Buildings, 4th floor London W1D 3HE

United Kingdom

Tel: 44-7711-782-278 antonio@bankside-films.com www.bankside-films.com

Bavaria Film International

Gisela Wiltschek

Bavariafilmplatz 8 Munchen, 82031 Germany

Tel: 49-89-6499-2687

Fax: 49-89-6499-3720 gisela.wiltschek@Bavaria-Film.de www.bavaria-film-international.de

Beta Cinema

Isabelle Griessbach Gruenwalder Weg 28d Oberhaching, 82041 Germany

Tel: 49-89-6734-6980

Fax: 49-89-6734-6988 beta@betacinema.com www.betacinema.com

BFI

21 Stephen St London W1T 1LN United Kingdom

Tel: 44-20-7957-8902

Fax: 44-20-7323-5113 Margaret.Deriaz@bfi.org.uk www.bfi.org.uk

Big Rig LLC

Brad Blondheim 13101 Montana Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tel: 310-4513045 bblondheim@earthlink.net bigrigmovie.com

Bleiberg Entertainment

Nick Donnermeyer 9454 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 200 Beverly Hills, CA 90048

Tel: 310-273-0003 nick@bleibergent.com www.bleibergent.com

Blue Blood Films

Tracy Gardiner 65-71 Bermondsey Street London SE1 3XF

England

Tel: 44-207-939-3160 tracey@fulcrumtv.com

Break Thru Films

Katie Brown

30 West 26th Street, 7th Floor

New York, NY 10010

Tel: 917-621-7212

Fax: 212-665-7086 katiebrown15@verizon.net

Bunyik Entertainment

Bela Bunyik 2219 W. Olive Ave Burbank, CA 91506

Tel: 818-848-5902

Fax: 818-848-1965 hatvusa@sbcglobal.net

Cactus Three

Krysanne Katsoolis

451 Greenwich St 7th Floor

New York, NY 10013

Tel: 212-905-2340 cactuskmk@yahoo.com www.cactusthree.com

Cage Free LLC

Sybil Dessau

117 Christopher St #9 New York, NY 10014

Tel: 917-443-4134 sdessau@hotmail.com

Celluloid Dreams

Pascale Ramonda

2 rue Turgot Paris 75009

France

Tel: 33-1-4970-0370

Fax: 33-1-4970-0371 pascale@celluloid-dreams.com www.celluloid-dreams.com

Central Partnership

Anastasia Leonova

13/1 Prechistenskaya Embankment

Moscow 119034

Russia

Tel: 7-095-981-8214

Fax: 7-95-749-5670 leonova@centpart.ru www.centpart.ru

Chanceuse Productions

Lauren Swift

1134 Finnegan Way #404 Bellingham, WA 98225

Tel: 360-434-3688

Fax: 360-756-0372 lauren@chanceuse.com

Civilian Pictures

Barry Poltermann

220 E. Bufallo St. Ste 403 Milwaukee, WI 53202

Tel: 310-993-0982

Fax: 414-271-1122

barry@civilian.com

Czech Television, Telexport

Jitka Procházková

Kavci Hory, 140 70

Prague 4

Czech Republic

Tel: 420-2-6113-7047

Fax: 420-2-6121-1354 jitka.prochazkova@czech-tv.cz www.czech-tv.cz

Da Huang Pictures

Sia Hui Won

118A, Jln Sultan Abdul Samad, Off Jln Tun Sambanthan, Kuala Lumpur 50470

Malaysia

Tel: 603-2273-9496

Fax: 603-2274-9496 info@dahuangpictures.com

Danger Dog Films

Andrew Cockrum

5902 Coventry Lane

Austin, TX 78723

Tel: 512-933-0154 firelightpictures@earthlink.net

Danish Film Institute

Lizette Gram Mygind

Gothersgade 55 Copenhagen DK 1123

Denmark

Tel: 45-3-374-3506

Fax: 45-3-374-3445 lizetteg@dfi.dk www.dfi.dk

Diagrama Producciones

Miguel Angel Nieto

Doce de Octubre, 14-50

Madrid 28009

Spain

Tel: 34-91-574-1701 manietos@telefonica.net www.diagrama.tv

Diorama Films, LLC

Susan West

616 N. Avenue 65 Los Angeles, CA 90042

Tel: 323-854-2823

Fax: 323-258-5686 slwest@aol.com

El Films de al Rambla

Jaume Cuspinera

Casp. 59, 3ER 2A Barcelona 08010

Spain

Tel: 34-93265-3026 rambla@venturapons.com www.venturapons.com

Elbow Grease Pictures

Michael Schroeder

364 S. Cloverdale Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036

Tel: 310-386-8653 filmdog@sbcglobal.net

Empire Pictures

595 Madison Avenue - 39th Floor New York, NY 10022

Tel: 212-629-3097

Fax: 212-629-3629 info@empirepicturesusa.com www.empirepicturesusa.com

Equinoxe Films

Léila Robert

505 Sherbrooke, bureau 2401 Montréal QC H2L4N3 Canada

Tel: 514-844-0680

Fax: 514-499-9899 lrobert@equinoxefilms.com www.equinoxefilms.com

Europacorp

137 rue du Faubourg Saint Honore Paris 75008

France

Tel: 33-1-5383-0303

Fax: 33-1-5383-0304 inter@europacorp.com www.europacorp.com

Expired LLC

Jeffery Coulter

3400 Airport Ave #22 Santa Monica, CA 90405

Tel: 310-391-5679 jeffrey@jeffreycoulter.com

Film Movement

Cassidy Dimon

109 W 27th St, Suite 9B New York, NY10001

Tel: 212-941-7744

Fax: 212-941-7812 cassidy@filmmovement.com www.filmmovement.com

Films Distribution

Paméla Leu 20, rue Saint Augustin Paris 75002

France

Tel: 33-1-5310-3399

Fax: 33-1-5310-3398 wisnia@filmsdistribution.com www.filmsdistribution.com

Finnish Film Foundation

Jaana Puskala

Kanavakatu 12

Helsinki SF-K13, 00160

Finland

Tel: 358-9-6220-3026

Fax: 358-9-6220-3060

Jaana.Puskala@ses.fi

First Look Pictures

Meghann Burns 8000 Sunset Blvd, Suite B310 Los Angeles, CA 90046

Tel: 323-337-1062

mburns@firstlookstudios.com www.firstlookmedia.com

Fly Films

Alexandre Fuchs

Tel: 646-797-3155 ajfuchs@libertysurf.fr

Focus Features

Beth Pinker 100 Universal City Plaza Bldg. 9128 Universal City, CA 91608

Tel: 818-777-7302

Fax: 818-866-4602 beth.pinker@focusfeatures.com www.focusfeatures.com

Focus Films

Belle Chen

18/F, Futura Plaza, 111-113 How Ming Street, Kwun Tong, Kowloon Hong Kong

Tel: 852-3120-3388

Fax: 852-2343-3243 suchun1025@yahoo.com.tw www.focusfilms.cc

Fortissimo Films

Marit Ligthart Veemarkt 77-79

Amsterdam 1019DA

The Nethlands

Tel: 31-20-627-3215

Fax: 31-20-626-1155

marit@fortissimo.nl www.fortissimo.nl

Fox Searchlight

Russell Nelson 10201 West Pico Blvd., Bldg. 796, Rm 1 Los Angeles, CA90035

Tel: 310-369-4432

Fax: 310-405-3529

Russell.Nelson@fox.com www.fox.com

Fu Works

Julie Ng Meeuwenlaan 98-100 Amsterdam, 1021 JL the Netherlands

Tel: 31-20-344-5182

Fax: 31-20-635-3060 julie@fuworks.nl www.fuworks.nl

Goff-Kellam Productions

Gina Goff 8491 Sunset Blvd #1000 West Hollywood, CA 90069 Tel: 323-656-2001 goffkellam@aol.com

Greek Film Center

Marinos Kritikos 134 Kafkassou St. Athens 11363

Greece

Tel: 30-210-884-8286

Fax: 30-210-821-1719 iliana.zakopoulou@gfc.gr www.gfc.gr

Greenlight Pictures

Ming Jin Woo PO Box 21696

Rotterdam 3001 AR the Netherlands

Tel: 31-10-890-9090

Fax: 31-10-890-9091

greenlightpic@gmail.com

HBO Documentary Films

Sara Bernstein 1100 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036

Tel: 212-512-1000

Fax: 212-512-5698 sara.bernstein@hbo.com www.hbo.com

HERE! Films

Lindsay Marsak 10990 Wilshire Blvd, Penthouse Los Angeles, CA 90024

Tel: 310-806-6386

Fax: 310-806-4268

lindsaym@heretv.com

Holland Film

Claudia Landsberger Jan Luykenstraat 2 Amsterdam 1071 CM Holland

Tel: 31-20-5707-575

Fax: 31-20-5707-570

c.landsberger@hollandfilm.nl www.hollandfilm.nl

Housegoat Productions

Adam Freelander

366 W. 12th St., 3rd Floor New York, NY 10014

Tel: 646-257-4849 lovelybysurprise@kirtgunn.com

IFC Films

PeterKindlon 11 Penn Plaza, 15th floor New York, NY 10001

Tel: 646-273-6385 pkindlon@ifcfilms.com www.ifcfilms.com

IFC First Take

Emily Woodburne 11 Penn Plaza, 15th floor New York, NY 10001

Tel: 646-273-7223

Fax: 646-273-7250 emwoodburne@ ifcintheatres.com www.ifcfilms.com

IMCINE

Juan Alberto Nieto Márquez Insurgentes Sur 674 Col. Del Valle CP 10300 Mexico

Tel: 52-55-5448-5309

Fax: 52-55-5448-5375 buzon@imcine.gob.mx www.imcine.gob.mx

Intercinema XXI Century

Nadia Gus 15, Druzhinnikovskaya, Office 305 Moscow 123242

Russia

Tel: 74-95-255-9052

Fax: 74-95-255-9082 post@intercin.ru

Intramovies

Federica Mei Via E. Manfredi 15 Rome 00197

Italy

Tel: 39-06-807-6157

Fax: 39-06-807-6156 f.mei@intramovies.com

Isuma Distribution

International

Lucius Barre

Tel: 212-595-1773 lucius@rcn.com

James Crump Productions LLC

James Crump 116 East 16th Street, Floor 12 New York, NY 10003 jamescrump@ blackwhitegray.com

Jan Chapman Films

Jan Chapman 250A Glenmore Rd Paddington 2025 NSW Australia

Tel: 61-2-9331-2666

Fax: 61-2-9331-2011 chapman@optusnet.com.au

July August Productions

Orna Noy

8 Geula St.

Tel Aviv 63304

Israel

Tel: 972-3-510-0223

Fax: 972-3-510-0184 noy.orna@gmail.com

Kino International

Gary Palmucci 333 West 39th Street Suite 503 New York, NY10018

Tel: 212.629.6880

Fax: 212.714.0871 gpalmucci@kino.com www.filmsdistribution.com

L5 Productions

Lynn Hershmann Leeson 1201 California St. San Francisco, CA 94109

Tel: 415-567-6180

Fax: 415-626-9945 lynn2@well.com

Lakeshore Entertainment

David Dinerstein 9268 West Third Street Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tel: 323-956-4222

Fax: 323-862-1456 ddinerstein@ lakeshoreentertainment.com www.lakeshoreentertainment.com

Lantern Lane

David Garber

P.O. Box 8187 Calabasas, CA 91372

Tel: 818-222-2309

Fax: 818-224-4028 dgarber@lanternlane.com

Leaky-Sleazewell Productions

Lainy Bagwell

624 S. Lander St., Suite 58 Seattle, WA 98134

Tel: 206-783-6484 info@ratcitymovie.com

Life on Mars Productions, LLC

Paul Todisco 465 S. Detroit St. #105 Los Angeles, CA 90036 iwascuredallright@ca.rr.com

Life Size Entertainment

Marc Hughes 194 Elmwood Drive, Suite 2 Parsippany, NJ 07054

Tel: 973-884-4884

Fax: 973-428-9550 mhughes@ lifesizeentertainment.com www.lifesizeentertainment.com

Lionsgate

Alyssa M. Geromini

2700 Colorado Ave. #200

Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tel: 310-255-3829

Fax: 310-496-0625 ageromini@lionsgate.com www.lionsgate.com

Lohnerranger Film and Music Productions, GmbH

Henning Lohner 1547 14th Street Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tel: 310-349-9975 mode@moderecords.com

Lone Star Productions

Martin Rosenbaum 19 Hopefield Avenue London NW6 6LJ United Kingdom

Tel: 44-20-8968-1863 martin@lonestarproductions.co.uk

Lucky Man Films

Martina Muckova Masarykovo nabr. 10 Prague 2, 12000

Czech Republic

Tel: 420-224-999-841

Fax: 420-224-999-840 martina@luckymanfilms.com

Lumina Films

Samantha Horely

1A Adpar St, 3rd Floor London W2 1DE United Kingdom

Tel: 44-20-7535-6722

Fax: 44-20-7653-7283 sales@lumina-films.com www.lumina-films.com

Luminous Velocity

Alex Nohe

P.O Box 931297

Los Angeles, CA 90093

Tel: 323-464-4503

Fax: 323-988-5707 info@luminous-velocity.com

Luna Productions

Ian Slattery

1210 Masonic Ave., #4 Berkeley, CA 94706

Tel: 510-526-4888

Fax: 510-526-4887 info@lunaproductions.com

Magnolia Pictures

Jeff Reichert

49 West 27th St. 7th Floor New York, NY 10001

Tel: 212-924-6701

Fax: 212-924-6742 jreichert@magpictures.com www.magpictures.com

Magyar Filmunio

Katalin Vajda

Varosligeti Fasor 38 Budapest 1068

Hungary

Tel: 4-92-19-3000

Fax: 4-92-19-3009 kati.vajda@filmunio.hu

Man’s Films Productions

Marion Hänsel

65 Avenue Mostinck Brussels B - 1150 Belgium

Tel: 32-2-771-7137

Fax: 32-2-771-9612 manfilms@skynet.be

Max Films Inc

Felize Frappier

1751 rue Richardson Suite 2/102

Montreal QC, H3K 1G6

Canada

Tel: 514-282-8444

Fax: 514-282-9222

felize.frappier@maxfilms.ca www.maxfilms.ca

MaxMedia

J. Ethan Park

1620 Broadway Suite C Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tel: 310-828-6313

Fax: 310-829-0599 jepark@maxmedia.org www.maxmedia.org

MDC International GmbH

Marei Bauer

Schillerstrasse 7a Berlin, D-10625

Germany

Tel: 49-30-2649-7900

Fax: 49-30-2649-7910 festivals@mdc-int.de www.mdc-int.de

Media Asia Distribution

Fred Tsui

24/F Causeway Bay Plaza 2, 463-483 Lockhart Rd.

Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

Tel: 8-52-2314-4288

Fax: 8-52-2314-4248 frederick_tsui@mediaasia.com www.mediaasia.com

Menemsha Entertainment

Neil Friedman

213 Rose Avenue - 2nd Floor Venice, CA 90291

Fax: Tel: 310-712-3720 310-277-6602 neilf@menemshafilms.com www.menemshafilms.com

MGM

2500 Broadway

Santa Monica, CA 90404

Tel: 310-449-3000 www.mgm.com

Milan Entertainment

Stefan Karrer

3500 W. Olive Ave. #750 Burbank, CA 91505

Tel: 818-953-7800

Fax: 818-953-7801 stefan.karrer@milanrecords.com

Miramax Films

Nicolette Aizenberg 99 Hudson Street - Fifth Floor New York, NY 10013

Tel: 212-325-5133

Fax: 212-941-3834 nicolette.aizenberg@ miramax.com www.Miramax.com

Mirovision Inc

Jay Lee

4F Shinyoung Bldg., 1-128 Sinmunno 2-ga, Jongno-gu

Seoul 110-062

South Korea

Tel: 82-2-3443-2553

Fax: 82-2-3443-4842 jay@mirovision.com www.mirovision.com

Missing in Action Films Ltd. Mia Bays info@miafilms.co.uk

Mitosfilm

Nazli Kilerci

Gabelsberger Straße 16 Berlin 10247

Germany

Tel: 49-30-5471-9462

Fax: 49-30-5471-9508 kilerci@mitosfilm.com

Mitropoulos Films

MJ Peckos

9660 Yoakum Drive

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tel: 310-273-1444

Fax: 310-273-1042 mjpeckos@sbcglobal.net

MK2

Charlotte Maignan

55 Rue Traversiere Paris 75012

France

Tel: 33-1-4467-3011

Fax: 33-1-4307-2963 florence.stern@mk2.com www.mk2.com

MLR Films

Josabeth Alonso-Antonio

7/F Kalaw-Ledesma Condo. 117 Gamboa St., Legaspi Village Makati City 1229

Philippines

Tel: 63-2-893-7765 aap23@yahoo.com

Motel Films

Meeuwenlaan 98-100 Amsterdam JL1021 the Netherlands

Tel: 31-20-638-6095

Fax: 31-20-620-0785 info@motelfilms.nl www.motelfilms.nl

Moviehouse Entertainment

Gary Phillips

9 Grafton Mews

London W1T 5HZ

United Kingdom

Tel: 44-20-7380-3999

Fax: 44-20-7380-3998 gary.phillips@ moviehouseent.com www.moviehouseent.com

MPI/Dark Sky Films

Greg Newman

16101 S. 108th Ave Orland Park, IL 60467

Tel: 708-873-3103

Fax: 708-873-3177 gnewman@mpimedia.com

National Film and Sound Archive

Robin Death

McCoy Circuit Acton ACT 2600

Australia

Tel: 61-2-6248-2067

Fax: 61-02-6248-2198 Robin.death@nfsa.afc.gov.au www.nfsa.afc.gov.au

Neihausen-Yatskova Films

Raphaela Neihausen 335 E. 90th St. 3F New York, NY 10128

Tel: 917-804-1375 raphaela.neihausen@ mercermc.com

NEOS Film GmbH

Juliane Husemann Bavariafilmplatz 7 Geiselgasteig 82031

Germany

Tel: 49-89-6498-1225

Fax: 49-89-6498-1999 juliane.husemann@neosfilm.de

New Real Films

Jennifer Jonas 669 Shaw St. Toronto, ON, M6G-3L8 Canada

Tel: 416-536-1696

Fax: 416-536-6090 jenniferjonas@newrealfilms.com

New Yorker Films

Jonathan Howell 85 5th Ave11th Floor New York, NY 10003

Tel: 212-645-4600

Fax: 212-645-5445 jonathan.howell@ newyorkerfilms.com

New Zealand Film Commission

Jason Cook

Level 2, 119 Jervois Quay

Wellington

New Zealand

Tel: 64-4-382-7781

Fax: 64-4-384-9719 jason@nzfilm.co.nz

No Films

John Bradburn 30 Chandlers Close, Crabbs Cross Reditch, B975HU United Kingdom

Tel: 44-78-7730-0052 j.p.bradburn@staffs.ac.uk

Norwegian Film Institute Stine Oppegaard Filmens Hus, Dronningens Gate 16

Oslo N-0105

Norway

Tel: 47-2247-4575

Fax: 47-2247-4597 stine.oppegaard@nfi.no www.nfi.no

Palm Pictures

Ed Arentz 76 Ninth Ave, Suite 1110 New York, NY 10011

Tel: 212-320-3653 ed.arentz@palmpictures.com www.palmpictures.com

Paramount Vantage Aurora Dennis 5555 Melrose Avenue Hollywood, CA 90038

Tel: 323-956-5222

Fax: 310-205-5636 aurora.dennis@paramount.com www.paramount.com

Participant Productions

Courtney Sexton 335 Maple Drive, Suite 245 Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tel: 310-246-7716

Fax: 310-550-5106 info@participantproductions.com www.participantproductions.com

Peace Arch Entertainment

Roy Bodner 4640 Admiralty Way, Suite 710 Marina del Rey, CA 90292

Tel: 310-776-7208

Fax: 310-728-1720 rbodner@peacearch.com www.peacearch.com

Pickpocket Filmproduktion

Thomas Arslan

Muskauerstrasse 10

Berlin D- 10997

Germany

Tel: 30-6-951-8601

Fax: 30-6-951-8602 pickpocket@gmx.de

Picture This! Entertainment Megan Hammitt megan@picturethisent.com www.picturethisent.com

PictureHouse

Jennifer Stott 597 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10017

Tel: 212-303-1735 Jennifer.Stott@picturehouse.com www.picturehouse.com

Premiere Nouvelle Alexandre Dereims 52, boulevard des batinnolles Paris 75017

France

Tel: 33-144-909829

Fax: 33-144-909829 premierenouvelle@yahoo.fr

Prime Entertainment

Hyang Choi

5F CGV Apgujeong, 603-2 SinsaDong, Gangnam-Gu Seoul 135-893

South Korea

Tel: 82-2-2017-6351 hchoi@primeenter.co.kr

Propellor Film

Jan-Willem Van Ewijk

Amsteldijk 64-2 Amsterdam NH, 1074 HZ the Netherlands

Tel: 31-6-1296-6423 jan-willem.van.ewijk@ propellorfilm.com

Pygmailion Production Film

Studio

Elena Zueva Protochnyi Lane, 14/1/1 Moscow 121099

Russia

Tel: 7-495-234-3041 pgmfilm@yandex.ru

Pyramide International

Paul Richer 5, rue du Chevalier de Saint George Paris 75008

France

Tel: 33-1-4296-0220

Fax: 33-1-4020-0551 pricher@pyramidefilms.com www.pyramidefilms.com

Razor Film Production

Roman Paul Wassergasse 4 Berlin 10179

Germany

Tel: 49-30-8471-2280 info@razor-film.de

Reckon So Productions

Sara Lamm 7777 Firenze Ave Los Angeles, CA 90046

Tel: 917-971-5089

Fax: 212-658-9235 sclamm@mac.com www.magicsoapbox.com

Print sources

Red Envelope Entertainment

Robert Aaronson

345 North Maple Drive, Suite 300

Beverly Hills, CA 90210

Tel: 310-734-2943

Fax: 310-734-2999

baaronson@netflix.com

Red Without Blue Benita Sills

533 Page St. San Francisco, CA 94117

Tel: 310-933-6223 redwithoutblue@gmail.com

Rive Gauche Entertainment

Jon Kramer

15442 Ventura Blvd, Suite 101

Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Tel: 818-386-1035

Fax: 818-784-9916

jkramer@jonkramerdist.com

Roadside Attractions

Eric d’Arbeloff

421 South Beverly Drive, 8th Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Tel: 310-789-4710

Fax: 310-789-4711

ericd@roadsideattractions.com www.roadsideattractions.com

Romanian Film Centre

Alina Salcudeanu

4-6 Dem Dobrescu Street Bucharest 010025

Romania

Tel: 40-21-310-0672 asalcudeanu@yahoo.com

SAGA Production Agnieszka Kowalski

6, rue Mauborget Lausanne CH-1003 Switzerland

Tel: 41-21-311-9571

Fax: 41-21-311-9572 akowalski@sagaproduction.ch www.sagaproduction.ch

Samuel Goldwyn Films / IDP Films

Mimi Guethe

1133 Broadway, Suite 926 New York, NY 10010

Tel: 212-367-9435 mimi@idpfilm.com www.idpfilm.com

Seville Pictures

Sara Bagdasarianz

147 St. Paul Street West, #200 Montreal, QC H2Y 1Z5 Canada

Tel: 514-841-1910

Fax: 514-841-8030 sarab@sevillepictures.com www.sevillepictures.com

Shadow Distribution

Ken Eisen

P.O. Box 1246 Waterville, ME 04903

Tel: 207-872-5111

Fax: 207-872-5502 shadow@prexar.com

ShadowCatcher Entertainment

Valerie Farabee 1019 39th Ave E Seattle, WA 98112

Tel: 206-328-6266

Fax: 206-328-6682

david@shadowcatcherent.com www.shadowcatcherent.com

Sharkwater Productions

Brian Stewart

71 Barber Greene Rd. Toronto, ON, M3C 2A2 Canada

Tel: 416-445-0544 bstewart@tribute.ca

Sidetrack Films

Jared Moshe

55 Washington Street, Suite 712 Brooklyn, NY 11201

Tel: 646-292-5380

Fax: 718-797-3392 jared@sidetrackfilms.com

Sidney Kimmel Entertainment

Beth Casama 9460 Wilshire Blvd, 5th Floor Beverly Hills, CA 90212

Tel: 310-777-8818

Fax: 310-777-8892 bethc@skefilms.com

Sogepaq International

Carmen Jimenez Leganitos 47, 7th Floor Madrid 28013

Spain

Tel: 34-91-758-3130

Fax: 34-91-758-3163 carmenjf@sogecable.com

Sonet Films

Ann-Mari Frendin ann-mari@sonetfilm.se www.sfi.se

Sony Pictures Classics

Tom Prassis

550 Madison Avenue, 8th Floor New York, NY 10022

Tel: 212-833-8840

Fax: 212-833-7911 tom_prassis@spe.sony.com www.spe.sony.com

Sony Pictures Entertainment

10202 W. Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232

Tel: 310-244-4000

Fax: 310-244-2626 jason_geffen@spe.sony.com

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Carlye Pollack-Morgan

Tel: 310-244-6960 carlye_pollack-morgan@ spe.sony.com

Stark Raving Films

Gil Kofman 11922 Saltair Terrace Los Angeles, CA 90049

Tel: 310-968-0277

Fax: 310-889-0082 starkravingfilms@yahoo.com

Strand Releasing

Gail Blumenthal 6140 W. Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90239

Tel: 310-395-5002

Fax: 310-395-2502 gail@strandreleasing.com www.strandreleasing.com

Studio 2.0

Nahie J/Y. Kim 6F, Mediacorp Building, 997-10 Daechi-dong Seoul 135-502

Korea

Tel: 822-2107-5495

Fax: 822-562-5943 nahie@studio2.co.kr www.studio2.co.kr

Studio Ichioka

Edie Ichioka

336 Bon Air Center #309 Greenbrae, CA 94904

Tel: 415-927-0527 edie@bunrab.com

Summertime Films

Norm Hunter

500 Tamal Plaza, Suite 524

Corte Madera, CA 94925

Tel: 415-945-0880

Fax: 415-945-0862 norm@summertimefilms.com

Swedish Film Institute

Gunnar Almer

Box 27126

Stockholm S-102 52 Sweden

Tel: 46-8-665-1100

Fax: 46-8-8661-1820 gunnar.almer@sfi.se www.sfi.se

Sweet Crude

Sandy Cioffi fastfwd@speakeasy.net www.sweetcrudemovie.com

Tartan Films USA

Eddie Dotson

8322 Beverly Blvd - Suite 300 Los Angeles, CA 90048

Tel: 323-655-9300

Fax: 323-655-9301

edotson@tartanfilmsusa.com www.tartanfilmsusa.com

Ted Kroeber

PO Box 91650

Los Angeles, CA 90009

Tel: 310-384-0966 tkroeber@hotmail.com

TF1 International

Lucie Meynial

Immeuble Central Park - 9 rue

Maurice Mallet Issy-les-Moulineaux 92130

France

Tel: 33-1-4141-2609

Fax: 33-1-4141-3160 festival@tf1.fr www.tf1international.com

Thatgrl Media

284 10th Street

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Tel: 718-788-6401 info@awalkintothesea.com www.awalkintothesea.com

The Cinema Guild

Ryan Krivoshey

115 West 30th Street. Suite 800 New York, NY 10001

Tel: 212-685-6242

Fax: 212-685-4717 rkrivoshey@cinemaguild.com www.cinemaguild.com

The Match Factory

Brigitte Suarez Sudermanplatz 2 Koln 50670

Germany

Tel: 49-89-2311-0127 brigitte.suarez@matchfactory.de

The Weinstein Company

375 Greenwich Street 4th Floor New York NY 10013

Tel: 212-965-4636

Fax: 212-941-3814 genna.terranova@ weinsteinco.com www.weinsteinco.com

The Works International

Gareth Tennant

Portland House

London W1W 8QJ

United Kingdom

Tel: 44-207-612-1080

Fax: 44-207-612-1081

Gareth.Tennant@ theworksmediagroup.com www.theworkslimited.com

THINKFilm

Erin Owens

23 East 22nd Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10010

Tel: 212-444-7900

Fax: 212-444-7901 eowens@thinkfilmcompany.com www.thinkfilmcompany.com

This is That

Anne Carey

435 W 19th street, 4th floor New York, NY 10011

Tel: 212-994-8455 x 219 ac@thisisthatmail.com

Toxic Comedy Pictures

Jennifer Eggleston

77 Bleecker St #C218 New York, NY 10012

Tel: 212-875-0456 jennifer@everythingscool.org www.everythingscool.org

Try This Films

John Helde

Tel: 206-931-9888 helde@trythisfilms.com www.trythisfilms.com

TVP S.A. - Telewizja Polska Aleksandra Biernacka

17 J.P. Woronicza str. Warsaw 00-999

Poland

Tel: 48-22-547-6774

Fax: 48-22-547-8070 aleksandra.biernacka@waw.tvp.pl

Txalap.art

Katrin Ginea

San Bas no.2 31014 Pamplona

Spain

Tel: 34-948-31-5336 igorotx1@yahoo.es

UCLA Film & Television

1015 N. Cahuenga Blvd. Hollywood CA 90038

Tel: 323-462-4921

Fax: 323-461-6317 twiener@ucla.edu

Uncommon Productions

Debra Longo

282 Moody Street, Suite 309 Waltham, MA02453

Tel: 781-647-4470

Fax: 781-647-4484 debra@ uncommonproductions.com www.uncommonproductions.com

Universal Films

100 Universal City

Universal City, CA 91608

Tel: 818-777-1000

Fax: 818-866-0261 info@nbcuni.com www.universal.com

Universal Pictures Distribution Paul Ginsberg

100 Universal City Plaza Bldg. 2160

Suite 8G

Universal City, CA 91608

Tel: 818-777-1689

Fax: 818-866-0261 paul.ginsberg@nbcuni.com www.universalclips.com

Upload Films

John Portnoy 8522 National Blvd., #107 Culver City, CA 90232

Tel: 310-841-5805

Fax: 310-841-5804 jportnoy@uploadfilms.com

Varied Directions International

Jennifer Kurtley 11530 Empire Grade Bonny Doon, CA 95060

Tel: 831-425-2507 jkurtley@gmail.com

Varija Films Pvt. Ltd

Naveen Challa 8-2-120/C/88/1, Road No.2, Banjara Hills Hyderabad 500033 India

Tel: 91-98-4911-7083 vanaja.print.shipping@gmail.com

Vision Quest Productions Robin Voss

Tel: 949-500-0294 info@forthebibletellsmeso.org

Viz Pictures

Manami Ilboshi 295 Bay Street San Francisco, CA 94107

Tel: 415-546-7073

Fax: 415-546-7086 manami.iiboshi@ viz-pictures.com www.viz-pictures.com

Wanda Vision

Avda. Europa, 16 - Chalet 1 Pozuelo Madrid 28224 Spain

Tel: 34-91-352-8376

Fax: 34-91-352-8371 wanda@wanda.es www.wanda.es

Warner Brothers Classics Marilee Womack marilee.womack@ warnerbros.com www.warnerbros.com

Warner Independent Pictures

Valerie de la Peña 4000 Warner Boulevard Burbank, CA 91522

Tel: 818-954-5765

Fax: 818-954-3596

Valerie.delaPena@ warnerbros.com www.warnerbros.com

Wild Horses Productions

Jack Robinson 4119 Burbank Blvd Burbank, CA 91505

Tel: 818-567-6190 jackjrobinson@ca.rr.com

Wiley Films

Wiley Underdown 5540 SE Ash Portland, OR 97215

Tel: 503-997-3303 wiley@wileyfilms.com

Wolfe Video Releasing

Jeffrey Winter

21640 Almaden Road

San Jose, CA 95120

Tel: 323-610-8128

Fax: 310-829-0599

jeffrey@wolfevideo.com

X Filme Creative Pool GmbH

R. Jonathan Lütticken Kurfürstenstrasse 57 Berlin 10785

Tel: 49-30-2308-3318

Fax: 49-30-230 8-3322 kontakt@x-filme.de www.x-filme.de

Xiaolu Guo Productions

Xiaolu Guo

35 Gillman House, Teale St London E29BL United Kingdom

Tel: 44-20-77394909 guoxiaolu@yahoo.com www.guoxiaolu.com

York Zimmerman Inc Miriam Zimmerman 2233 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Suite 502 Washington, DC 20007 Tel: 202-337-3291 mzimmerman@yorkzim.com

Zeitgeist Films Ltd

Stephanie Azam 247 centre St., 2nd fl New York, NY 10013 Tel: 212-274-1989

Fax: 212-274-1644 stephanie@zeitgeistfilms.com www.zeitgeistfilms.com

Zillion Film

Lazar Ristovski Gundulicev Venac 42 Belgrade 11000 Serbia

Tel: 381-1-1303-5545

Fax: 381-1-1303-5546 zillion@nadlanu.com www.zillionfilm.com

SHORT FILM PRINT SOURCES

41 Seconds

Rodney Sewell

Tel: 49-17-5511-9063 rodney@sewell.de

Adults Only

Amok Films

Tel: 60-12-38-0298 amokfilms@gmail.com

Airplanes

Jen Heck

Tel: 646-489-8698 jmh2114@columbia.edu

Alexandra Matt Daniels

Tel: 206-390-2269 matt.daniels@mac.com

Alex Scott: A Stand For Hope

Larry Mendte

Tel: 215-238-4552 mendte@kyw.com

Aruba

National Film Board of Canada

David Miller

Tel: 416-822-5054 david.miller@tvchannelzero.com

Asmahan

Murgamas Film Hisham Bizri hb@hishambizri.com

The Astrum Argentium Jon Behrens bolexman@msn.com

At a Still Point Luka Rukavina

Tel: 385-91-205-1928 luka.rukavina@gmail.com

The Benzer Scale Martin Deus martindeus@yahoo.com

Bitch

Lilah Vandenburgh

Tel: 212-712-1940 lvandenburgh@hotmail.com

The Bridge Lisa Hardiman Fly Films 2007 amyd@seattlefilm.org

Chocolate Country Namshub Films Robin Blotnick

Tel: 917-685-5349 robin@namshubfilms.com

Civil War C.C. Webster

Tel: 917-443-0559 twoseas23@hotmail.com

Close Your Eyes and Do Not Breathe

Vuk Jevremovic

Tel: 49-17-7401-1959 vukjevremovic@yahoo.de

Coburn

Anton Bogaty

Tel: 206-526-2777 a.bogaty@comcast.net

Collect All Four First Sight Productions Lindy Boustedt

Tel: 206-354-5032 lindy@firstsightproductions.com

Conversing With Aotearoa/ New Zealand

Allison Melanson

Tel: 213-740-4432 allisonm@cinema.usc.edu

The Date Deutsche Film und Television Academy

Jana Wolff

Tel: 49-30-2575-9152 wolff@dffb.de

Dear Bill Gates

Sarah J. Christman ted@moovlab.com

Deviation

Jon Griggs jong@rr.nyc.com

Diggers

Cheryl Slean

Tel: 206-526-1167 nikfin@comcast.net

Double Lives

Salise Hughes shughes305@earthlink.net

Drake Gruppe Umkehrfilm

Christoph Rainer

Tel: 43-66-0213-8299 christoph.rainer@ umkehrfilm.com

The East Wind Eventide Creative Kohl Glass

Tel: 480-612-7058 kohl@eventidecreative.com

Elliot’s Wake

Third Wind Films Mark Price

Tel: 425-221-2633 markprice12@comcast.net

Everett DuPen: Sculptor Seattle Films

BJ Bullert

Tel: 206-932-8973 b.bullert@comcast.net

Everything Will Be OK Bitter Films

Don Hertzfeldt

Tel: 805-968-7371 nightmonkey@prodigy.net

The Eyes of Edward James

Veni Vidi Vici Motion Pictures

Brenton Bentz

Tel: 416.651.9675 brentonbentz@yahoo.ca

Family Reunion No 9 Productions

Isold Uggadottir

Tel: 917-669-6240 isoldugga@gmail.com

The Fence Ricardo Iscar laia@cecc.es

The Fighting Cholitas

At Risk Films

Mariam Jobrani

Tel: 323-828-7641 mjobrani@hotmail.com

For a Blonde... For a Brunette... For Someone... For Her... For You... Mike Olenick info@mikeolenick.com

Fortune Hunters

Wheeeeeee! Films

Mike Standish

Tel: 206-399-1118 mikestandish@gmail.com

Freeheld

Lieutenant Films, Inc.

Cynthia Wade

Tel: 718-768-2310 cwade@cynthiawade.com

Fridays at the Farm Coyopa Productions

Richard Hoffmann

Tel: 610-566-6524 rhmedia@comcast.net

The Girl Who Swallowed Bees

Justine Kerrigan

Tel: 61-2-9365-6998

justinekerrigan@bigpond.com

Global Solo 1

Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Tel: 323-791-2901 charliehw@hotmail.com

God Provides

Brian Marigold

Tel: 914-475-9836 brian.marigold@gmail.com

The Greeting from my Mother Katja Straub katja-straub@web.de

Greetings From Death Valley

Joanna Wright

Tel: 44-14-9473-1344 hsharda@nftsfilm-tv.ac.uk

Harrowdown Hill BENT

Chel White

Tel: 503-228-6206 chelfilm@teleport.com

Heartland Mark Christopher

hellO?

Futura Films Gavin Lim gavin@voiddeckfilms.com

High Maintenance

Phil Van

Tel: 646-831-0680 proverb124@yahoo.com

I Just Wanted to Be Somebody Locomotion Films

Jay Rosenblatt

Tel: 415-641-8220 jay@jayrosenblattfilms.com

I’m Keith Hernandez Water and Power Rob Perri robot@robperri.com

In The Field

Jana Wolff

Tel: 49-30-2575-9152 wolff@dffb.de

I Remember Now, We Never Danced, I Miss You Goodbye bookings@cfmdc.org

The Job

Screaming Frog Productions

Jonathan Browning

Tel: 323-829-1251 info@jonathanbrowning.com

Joyride

Nay Cliche

David Doran

Tel: 35-38-6369-9824 david@ddoran.net

Life and Times of Robert Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper Aaron Valdez valdezatron@gmail.com

Little Brother Kampong Pictures

Leong-Huat Kam

Tel: 65-9763-0074 klh3@np.edu.sg

Look Sharp AFTRS

Amy Gebhardt

Tel: 61-419-834-853 wildyam@internode.on.net

The Lost One

Yvette Thomas

Tel: 64-9-360-5499 yrt@xtra.co.nz

The Magician’s House Deborah Stratman delta@pythagorasfilm.com

A Man’s Gotta Do What a Man’s Gotta Do Harald Schleicher

Tel: 49-611-925-9220 haraldschleicher@uni-mainz.de

Massacre at Murambi Shosholoza

Sam Kauffmann

Tel: 617-353-7740 samfilm@bu.edu

The Mendi

Steve Reinke info@argosarts.org

Motodrom

Kurz Filmagentur Hamburg Joerg Wagner zeguan@web.de

Numb

Matt Daniels Fly Films 2007 amyd@seattlefilm.org

The Ontological Cowboy Marie Losier marie@marielosier.net

Order Up

Neil Stelzner

Tel: 917-855-1396 dilibertod@aol.com

Peter and the Wolf Neil Mundy neil@breakthrufilms.co.uk

Pick Up

Epoque Films Manuel Schapira manuel.schapira@wanadoo.fr

Pierre

IFP Seattle

Dan Brown inaudibledan@gmail.com

Poolside

Michael Koch michaelkoch@khm.de

Portrait #2: Trojan

Vanessa Renwick

Tel: 503-288-4341 odoka@hotmail.com

Portrait of a Woman 1947-2007

Margot Quan Knight

Tel: 425-890-2101 mqk@alum.dartmouth.org

Portraits of Hope

Jon Ward

Tel: 206-650-6159 lbobovski@yahoo.com

Quiet Revolution

Parrhesia Pictures

Julie Bernstein

Tel: 240-601-5562 jbernstein@afj.org

Rainbow

Dayna Hanson

Fly Films 2007 amyd@seattlefilm.org

Raymond Bif

Tel: 44-79-2945-8264 blumbkaatt@hotmail.com

Review

Jenny Perlin j@nilrep.net

Rocketboy

USC

Justin Guerrieri

Tel: 323-252-9752 justing@stanfordalumni.org

Room 10

Moxie Pictures

Francesca Silvestri Tel: 212-807-6901 francesca@moxiepictures.com

The Saddest Boy in the World Modern Family Amy Belling amy@modernfamily.ca

Seattle in Color

Mary Baccarella Space Needle Corporation maryba@spaceneedle.com

See You At Home Silencio Film

Stefan Kornatz

Tel: 49-17-0313-8876 st.kornatz@silencio-film.de

Sensational City

Tarik Cherkaoui Tel: 917-751-9784 chertar@yahoo.com

Sexy Thing Karisma Pictures

Heather Oxenham

Tel: 61-4-1992-6456 hoxenham@bigpond.net.au

Sharks: Stewards of the Reef Trillium Films David McGuire Tel: 415.289.0366 david-mcguire@earthlink.net

Shipwrecked

Burning Bridge Entertainment

Kirsten Bolton Tel: 403-560-4373 kirsten@burningbridge.ca

Shut-eye Hotel Plympton Studios Bill Plympton

Tel: 212-741-0322 plymptoons@aol.com

signage

Rick Hammerly Tel: 202-302-4991 idlerichpro@aol.com

Sniffer

Maria Ekerhovd

Tel: 47-22-474-574 maria.ekerhovd@gmail.com

Sunbeam Hunter Jonathan Schwartz jonathan_schwartz@ emerson.edu

Tommy the Kid

SCPT Stuart Clegg Tel: 61-4-2269-6097 tommythekidmovie@yahoo.com

The Truth about Tooth Scottish Documentary Institute scottishdocumentaryinstitute@ eca.ac.uk

The Tube With a Hat Hi Film Productions

Ada Solomon

Tel: 40-21-252-4866 ada@hifilm.ro

Unspoken

Fei-Fei Wang Tel: 213-453-9927 feifeiwa@usc.edu

A Very Small Trilogy of Loneliness Columbia University Bogdan Apetri

Tel: 646-267-4823 bga18@columbia.edu

Warlord Kaer Vanice

Tel: 646-785-1065 kvanice@hotmail.com

Waschdrang Mama Martha Colburn martha@marthacolburn.com

When I Grow Up Michelle Meeker 415-282-2623 rosenmeeker@earthlink.net

Wigald

Deutsche Film und Television Academy Jana Wolff

Tel: 49-30-2575-9152 wolff@dffb.de

Wolf’s Dream

Deutsche Film und Television Academy Jana Wolff

Tel: 49-30-2575-9152 wolff@dffb.de

World Builder Trasit|vfx Bruce Branit

Tel: 913-636-9080 bbranit@hotmail.com

Yansan Carlos Nogueira edunogueira@gmail.com

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How To Festival

TICKETS AND PASSES

INDIVIDUAL TICKET PRICES

$10 regular screenings and festival forums events (except where noted)

$ 9 regular screenings for siff members (advance purchases only)

$ 7 matinee screenings (mon – fri before 5:30 pm, sat, sun and memorial day before 3 pm)

$ 5 Bargain matinee screenings (mon – fri 2 pm screenings)

$ 7 midnight screenings

$ 5 films4families matinees

SPECIAL TICKETS AND PACKAGES

cinematic six-Packs are $57 (siff members $51) and include admission to any six films priced $10 or less, limited to a maximum of one ticket per film.

student and senior reel deals are $35 for any five films priced $10 or less, and are available to all students and/or seniors (65 and older) with valid id. the reel deals are limited to a maximum of one ticket per film and may only be purchased in person at any siff Pass and ticketing Box offices.

film Buff 20 Packs are $170 and include admission to any twenty films priced $10 or less, depending on individual ticket availability. there is a two-ticket limit per film.

films4families Please check schedule for venues and times. films4families gives families and young people of all ages a chance to view the best movies by young-at-heart filmmakers from around the world.

Gift certificates are available in $25 denominations. Gift certificates are good for merchandise and tickets to any siff event and may be redeemed at any of the siff box offices and merchandise tables.

siff memberships: siff members get significant savings on tickets, passes and fabulous year-round benefits! Become a member today. more information is available at www.seattlefilm.org.

SPECIAL EVENTS

opening night Gala: $50 (siff members $45) opening night viP Upgrade: $150*

(*Note: You must also have a ticket or pass for Opening Night to purchase the VIP Upgrade, which is a benefit event for SIFF Group.) Closing night Gala: $40 (siff members $35)

festival Gala or Gay-la, film and reception: $25 (siff members $23, advance purchases only)

festival Gala or Gay-la, screening only: $12 (siff members $10, advance purchases only)

PASSES

a generous allotment of seats at every screening is reserved for passholders. While a pass (with the exception of “Platinum” and “Gala”) does not guarantee seating, passholders are allowed priority entry up to 20 minutes before showtime or until the passholder seat allotment has been reached. Passholders are strongly encouraged to arrive 30 minutes before showtime. all passes are strictly non-transferable and photo id must be shown at the theater.

neW tHis YeAr: Passes may be purchased during regular box office hours at both Pacific Place Central Box office and lincoln square Cinema Pass and ticketing outlet (see siff Box office section for dates and hours of operation). Please allow time for your photo to be taken and the pass to be processed.

Platinum Passes: $1,500 (siff members $1,250) sold out! includes admission to all festival screenings (with the exception of the 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 a guest to attend a private festival reception.

Platinum+Plus Passes: $2000 (siff members $1750) sold out! includes all the benefits of the Platinum Pass plus reserved seating for all screenings and concierge service during the festival. a portion of this package is tax deductible in accordance with current tax laws.

full series Passes: $800 (siff members $700) include admission to all public screenings and press screenings, excluding opening night, Gala screenings,

special events, the secret festival, the festival forums and Closing night.

Weekly Passes: $300 (siff members $250) Grant admission to all public screenings, excluding opening night, Gala screenings, special events, the secret festival, the festival forums and Closing night.

secret festival memberships: $50 (siff members $40) Grant admission to the four secret festival sunday morning screenings. all secret festival members are required to sign the oath of silence at the festival Central Box office or Pass and ticketing outlet, promising not to disclose any information about the films shown in the series. film titles are not announced until showtime. Please note: admission to secret festival screenings is by membership only. no individual tickets sold.

siff Gala Passes: $175 (siff members $150) Grant admission to all saturday night Gala films and their post-screening receptions, as well as opening and Closing night Galas. does not include admission to the friday night Gay-la.

SIFF BOX OFFICES

these box office locations can process passes*, ticket packages, and single ticket orders. “Will Call” can be picked up at any venue, but we recommend using the siff Central Pass and ticketing Box office for advanced orders or “Will Call” pick up.

central Pass and ticket Box office: Pacific Place, sixth and Pine, second level

(opens for siff members only, may 10 – 12. opens for the general public on may 13.)

mon – sat, 11 am – 7 pm. sundays and memorial day, 12 noon – 6 pm

Pass and ticketing outlet: lincoln square (in Bellevue), 700 Bellevue Way ne, upper level

(opens from may 30 – June 17 from 11 am - 7 pm)

neW tHis Year! for your convenience, siff introduces an eastside full-service box office.

charge by phone: 206.324.9996

all tickets and passes (excluding student/senior reel deals) may be purchased by phone with visa, masterCard, or american express during regular Box office hours. subject to a $3.50 handling charge per order.

charge on the web: www.seattlefilm.org

most tickets, ticket packages, and passes may be purchased on our website (excluding student/senior reel deals which must be purchased in person at one of our box offices with valid id.) subject to a $3.50 handling charge per order. more detailed information please is available online.

Day-of-Show Tickets

theatre and venue box offices can process advanced ticket purchases for any venue until 30 minutes before a showtime, subject to availability. Keep in mind the immediate screening at a venue has priority over advanced ticket sales; during the period of 45 minutes prior to a screening, up until 15 minutes after show time, this rule will be strictly enforced. this allows proper timing for smooth theatre traffic. the box office has the discretion to extend this time period as needed theater and 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.. if day-of-show tickets are no longer available, rush tickets may be purchased, subject to availability (see below). seating is only guaranteed until 10 minutes prior to screening. no late seating.

Rush Tickets

When advance tickets are sold out, a limited number of rush tickets may become available at the door. rush tickets are subject to availability, sold on a first-come, first-served basis, depending on how many seats are accessible after passholders and advance ticket-holders have been admitted. rush tickets are normally sold five to 10 minutes prior to the screening. Cash only.

On-Line Voucher Redemption

neW tHis YeAr! for six-Packs, 20 Packs, and other ticket packages (excluding student/senior reel deals): you may purchase ticket packages in person or online and choose to select all or some of your tickets at the point of sale or redeem them individually at a later date. single ticket vouchers may be redeemed at any box office, festival venue, and online. to redeem a voucher online you must login to your account (if you do not have an account yet, you must set one up for free) and follow the voucher redemption process. You will not be charged a service fee for redeeming vouchers online. see festival website for more instruction. each voucher is good for payment on regular screenings only.

Souvenirs

limited-edition t-shirts, posters, lunch boxes and other souvenir items are available for purchase at the siff Central Pass and ticketing Box office, the Box office Pass and ticketing outlet in lincoln square, siff Cinema, and other festival venues.

THE NOT-SO FINE PRINT

all programs are subject to change without notice. no refunds or exchanges are given, except in the case of program cancellations.

seating is available at all performances on a first-come, first-served basis. ticket-holder seating is guaranteed up to 10 minutes prior to screening. no late seating. no refunds or exchanges if you arrive late.

each film will be 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 six years old will be admitted. Please be aware that films may not be suitable for ages 16 and under unless otherwise noted. Parental discretion is advised.

film length, as listed in the program, represents the best available information at press time. length of film does not include introductions or Q&a sessions following the screening.

all audience members must leave the theater following each screening. leaving belongings and/or saving seats between shows is not allowed. Please do not leave empty seats in the middle of a row. rush seating is less disruptive to the rest of the audience if empty seats are available on the aisles.

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 may be subject to physical search of your person or personal property upon entrance to festival venues.

VENUE LOCATION AND TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION

Buses and Public transit

metro buses are available from all points in seattle and surrounding areas. for more information: call the metro information line at 206.553.3000 (toll free 800.542.7876) or go to http://transit.metrokc.gov. Bus routes listed below are all within walking distance of theater locations.

Theatre Locations

cinerAmA

2100 4th avenue • 206.441.3080

eGYPtiAn

801 e. Pine st. • 206.781.5755

metro routes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 43, 49, 60

HArVArd exit

807 e. roy st. • 206.781.5755

metro routes 9, 14, 49, 60

lincoln sQuAre (in Bellevue)

700 Bellevue Way ne. • 425.454.7400

metro routes 222, 230, 234, 240, 243, 253, 261, 271, 550

siff cinemA At nesHolm fAmilY lecture HAll, mccAW HAll (at seattle center)

321 mercer st 206.324.9996

metro routes 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 13, 15, 16, 18, 19, 24, 33, 45, 74, 81, 82

nePtune

1303 ne 45th st • 206.781.5755

metro routes 9, 43, 44, 48, 66, 67, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 79

nortHWest film forum

1515 12th ave • 206.267.5380

metro routes 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 43, 49, 60

PAcific PlAce

600 Pine st. • 206.652.2404

metro routes 5, 7, 10, 12, 14, 16, 25, 43, 49, 54, 64, 66, 82, 358

THE 2007/08 SEASON

The Flying Dutchman

Seattle Opera Revival by Richard Wagner

AUG 4—25, 2007

Iphigenia in Tauris

New Co-Production with The Metropolitan Opera Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck

OCT 13—27, 2007

Pagliacci

Seattle Opera Classic by Ruggero Leoncavallo

JAN 12—26, 2008

Tosca

Seattle Opera Revival by Giacomo Puccini

FEB 23—MAR 8, 2008

I Puritani

New Production –Seattle Opera Premiere by Vincenzo Bellini

MAY 3-17, 2008

SEASON SPONSORS:

Photo courtesy San Francisco Opera, Larry Merkle photo

Dancing in September, The Five Heartbeats

* denotes co-production

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Tel: (415) 835-9300

Email: hketosf@hketosf.gov.hk

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WELCOME TO THE BELLEVUE COLLECTION

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where you can park once and choose from over 19 full-service restaurants at Bellevue Square, Bellevue Place and Lincoln Square. Whether you’re seeking a leisurely breakfast, a quick lunch, fine dining or just an evening out on the town, The Bellevue Collection offers the best in Italian, Southwestern, seafood and award-winning steaks. It’s all in one place on Bellevue Way.

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U page 234 71 min. 11:00 AM UXXX0307A

Protagonist page 259 90 min.

1:00 PM PROT0307A

O set page 212 108 min. 3:30 PM OSET0307A

Nina’s Journey page 209 119 min. 6:15 PM NINA0307A

Dans Paris

page 175 90 min. 9:00 PM DANS0307A

Salty Air

page 221 85 min. 11:00 AM SALT1007A

Oh La La!

page 212 92 min.

1:30 PM OHLA1007A

Retribution

page 220 103 min.

3:45 PM RETR1007A

Broken English

page 172 96 min.

6:30 PM BROK1007A

Day Watch

page 177 132 min. 9:15 PM DAYW1007A

Vacation

page 151 91 min. 11:00 AM VACA1707A

page 201 105 min.

1:30 PM LITT1707A

It’s Winter page 142 86 min.

4:15 PM ITSW1707A

To Be Announced 7:00 PM

Tomorrow Morning page 233 82 min.

9:30 PM TOMO1707A

Crossing the Line page 246 94 min. 4:00 PM CROS3107A

Outsourced page 27 102 min. 7:00 PM OSOU3107A

Black Sheep page 287 87 min. 9:45 PM SHEE3107A

Armin page 166 113 min. 4:00 PM ARMI0107A

Death at a Funeral page 177 90 min. 7:00 PM DEAT0107A

Black Irish page 170 92 min. 9:30 PM IRIS0107A

Surf’s Up page 227 82 min. 11:00 AM SURF0207A

Manufactured Landscapes page 109 90 min. 1:30 PM MANU0207A

Little Book of Revenge

Man in the Chair page 204 107 min. 4:30 PM MANI0407A

Rocket Science page 220 98 min. 7:00 PM ROCK0407A

The Ferryman page 289 100 min. 9:45 PM FERR0407A

Grandhotel page 189 95 min. 4:30 PM GRAN1107A

Goya’s Ghosts page 43 114 min. 7:00 PM GOYA1107A

The Banquet page 168 131 min. 9:30 PM BANQ1107A

Strike page 150 104 min. 4:15 PM STRI0207A

Love & Dance page 202 93 min. 4:30 PM DANC0507A

2 Days in Paris page 31 96 min. 7:00 PM 2DAY0507A

Free Floating page 121 97 min. 9:30 PM FREE0507A

O screen page 211 96 min. 3:30 PM OSCR1207A

Lady Chatterly page 199 168 min. 6:00 PM LADY1207A

The Guardian’s Son page 191 98 min. 9:30 PM GUAR1207A

Gagarin’s Grandson page 186 100 min. 4:00 PM GAGA0607A

I Have Never

Forgotten You–

The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal page 251 101 min. 6:30 PM IHAV0607A

Northern Light page 210 85 min. 9:00 PM NORT0607A

Eternal Summer page 182 95 min. 4:30 PM ETER0707A

Alive page 164 92 min. 7:00 PM ALIV0707A

Sway page 228 119 min. 9:30 PM SWAY0707A

The Point page 217 97 min. 4:30 PM POIN0807A

Vitus page 235 120 min. 7:00 PM VITU0807A

Mushishi page 206 131 min. 9:30 PM MUSH0807A

Cashback page 173 90 min. 6:45 PM CASH0207A

Fido page 185 91 min. 9:15 PM FIDO0207A

The Three Musketeers page 232 75 min. 11:00 AM THRE0907A

The Planet page 111 84 min. 1:30 PM PLAN0907A

Hula Girls page 192 108 min. 4:00 PM HULA0907A

Summer Rain page 226 120 min. 6:30 PM SRAI0907A

The Missing Star page 205 104 min. 9:30 PM STAR0907A

Confession of Pain page 174 110 min. 4:00 PM CONF1307A

The Boss of it All page 33 100 min.

7:00 PM BOSS1307A

Cold Prey page 287 97 min. 9:30 PM COLD1307A

Dry Season page 180 96 min. 4:00 PM DRYS1407A

Gandhi My Father page 186 120 min. 6:30 PM GAND1407A

Frozen City page 185 90 min. 9:30 PM FROZ1407A

French For Beginners page 146 94 min. 4:30 PM FREN1507A

The Bet Collector page 170 98 min. 6:45 PM BETC1507A

I Really Hate My Job page 193 89 min. 9:30 PM IREA1507A

Never Again As Before page 207 106 min. 11:00 AM BEFO1607A

Khadak

page 197 110 min. 1:30 PM KHAD1607A

Expired page 129 110 min. 4:00 PM EXPI1607A

Madrigal

page 45 112 min. 6:45 PM MADR1607A

Euphoria page 183 97 min. 9:45 PM EUPH1607A

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit

Glue page 188 115 min. 4:30 PM GLUE2507A

This Is England page 231 102 min. 4:30 PM ENGL2507A

Siff Schedule

Golden Door page 189 120 min. 7:00 PM GOLD2507A

Girls Rock! page 93 91 min. 7:00 PM GIRL2507A

Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

Ten Canoes page 231 92 min. 4:45 PM CANO2507A

The Singer page 224 112 min. 7:00 PM SING2507A

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas

Gypsy Caravan page 95 111 min. 4:00 PM GYPS2507A

The Aerial page 279 90 min.

7:00 PM AERI2507A

12:08 East of Bucharest page 163 89 min.

5:00 PM 12082507A

Pleasant Moments page 216 110 min. 7:00 PM PLEA2507A

An Evening With Lisa Gerrard page 89 90 min. 7:00 PM EVEN2507E

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The Island page 195 112 min. 9:30 PM ISLA2507A

Red Road page 218 110 min. 9:30 PM ROAD2507A

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Them page 291 75 min. MIDNIGHT THEM2507A

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Team Everest: A

Himalayan Journey page 262 111 min. 11:00 AM TEAM2607A

Murch page 256 78 min. 11:00 AM MURC2607A

Gunga Din page 158 117 min. 2:00 PM GUNG2607A

Red Road page 218 110 min. 1:30 PM ROAD2607A

Monster Camp page 255 82 min. 4:30 PM MONS2607A

Youth Run Amok (Shorts) page 301 92 min. 4:00 PM YOUT2607A

Knocked Up page 198 132 min. 7:00 PM KNOC2607A

Paris je t’aimeA Collective Feature Film page 215 120 min. 6:30 PM PARI2607A

Monkey Warfare page 205 80 min. 9:45 PM MONK2607A

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SECRET#1 page 273 11:00 AM

The Island page 195 112 min. 1:30 PM ISLA2707A

Golden Door page 189 120 min. 4:00 PM GOLD2707A

King of Kong page 252 79 min. 6:30 PM KING2707A

La Vida Homo page 300 90 min. 9:15 PM HOMO2707A

The Price of Sugar page 258 90 min. 9:30 PM PRIC2607A Small Engine Repair page 225 98 min. 11:00 AM SMAL2707A

Vanaja page 234 111 min. 1:45 PM VANA2707A

A Life Among Whales page 109 87 min. 4:30 PM WHAL2707A

Manufactured Landscapes page 109 90 min. 7:00 PM MANU2707A

Summer 04 page 151 97 min. 9:30 PM SU042707A

Paprika page 215 90 min. 9:30 PM PAPR2507A

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) page 281 80 min.

9:15 PM LOOP2507A

Takva - A Man’s Fear of God page 229 97 min. 9:30 PM TAKV2507A

War/Dance page 101 105 min. 9:45 PM WARD2507A

Waiter page 236 96 min. 11:00 AM WTER2607A

Fair Play page 184 99 min. 1:15 PM FAIR2607A

The Singer page 224 112 min.

3:30 PM SING2607A

A Battle of Wits page 29 131 min.

6:00 PM BATT2607C

Rescue Dawn page 219 120 min.

9:00 PM RESC2607A

Superbad page 290 114 min.

MIDNIGHT SUPE2607A

Never on a Sunday page 208 120 min.

11:00 AM NSUN2707A

In the Shadow of the Moon page 39 100 min.

1:45 PM MOON2707A

Rescue Dawn page 219 120 min.

4:30 PM RESC2707A

My Best Friend page 206 90 min.

7:15 PM MYBE2707A

Them page 291 90 min. 9:30 PM THEM2707A

Screenwriters Salon: TheFilmSchool Master Class: Writing the NW Indie page 61 90 min.

11:00 AM SCRE2607D

Behind the Headlines (Shorts) page 297 96 min. 2:00 PM BEHI2607A

4 Elements page 279 89 min.

4:30 PM 4ELE2607A

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory page 283 78 min.

6:30 PM WSEA2607A

Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX) page 281 80 min. 9:00 PM LOOP2607A

Surf’s Up page 227 82 min. 11:00 AM SURF2607A

The Yacoubian Building page 237 161 min. 1:00 PM YACO2607A

3 Minute Masterpieces 2007 page 295 60 min. 11:00 AM 3MIN2607Z

A Life Among Whales page 109 87 min. 1:00 PM WHAL2607A

After This Our Exile page 163 150 min. 4:15 PM AFTE2607A

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox page 248 88 min. 4:00 PM DRBR2607A

Fish Dreams page 121 111 min. 7:15 PM FISH2607A

Gypsy Caravan page 95 111 min. 6:30 PM GYPS2607A

12:08 East of Bucharest page 163 89 min. 9:45 PM 12082607A

Pleasant Moments page 216 110 min. 11:00 AM PLEA2707A

Vanaja page 234 111 min. 9:30 PM VANA2607A U page 234 71 min. 11:00 AM UXXX2707A

Against the Grain: Art and Life (Shorts) page 297 83 min. 2:00 PM AGAI2707A

One11 and 103 page 281 94 min. 4:00 PM 103X2707A

On The Road With Judas page 282 100 min. 6:30 PM JUDA2707A

A Walk Into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory page 283 78 min. 9:15 PM WSEA2707A

Armin page 166 113 min. 1:30 PM ARMI2707A

Girls Rock! page 93 91 min. 1:00 PM GIRL2707A

Takva - A Man’s Fear of God page 229 97 min. 04:00 PM TAKV2707A

Bamako page 143 115 min. 6:30 PM BAMA2707A

Doubletime page 247 80 min. 4:00 PM DOUB2707A

Once page 213 86 min. 6:30 PM ONCE2707A

Exiled page 183 100 min. 9:15 PM EXIL2707A

El Benny page 93 120 min. 8:45 PM ELBE2707A

Monday, May 28

11 am

11:30noon12:301 pm

2007 Siff Schedule

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Monster Camp page 255 82 min. 11:00 AM MONS2807A

Paris je t’aime - A Collective Feature Film page 215 120 min. 11:00 AM PARI2807A

Tuesday, May 29

1:3022:303 pm 3:3044:305 pm 5:3066:307 pm 7:3088:309 pm 9:30102 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm

6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

King of Kong page 252 79 min. 1:30 PM KING2807A

Monkey Warfare page 205 80 min. 2:00 PM MONK2807A

Team Everest: A Himalayan Journey page 262 111 min. 4:00 PM TEAM2807A

Murch page 256 78 min. 4:15 PM MURC2807A

The Fly Filmmaking Challenge page 294 90 min. 7:00 PM FLYF2807A

The Life and Times of Yva Las Vegass page 97 80 min. 9:15 PM VEGA2807A

The Yacoubian Building page 237 161 min. 6:30 PM YACO2807A

Glue page 188 115 min. 9:45 PM GLUE2807A

Summer 04 page 151 97 min. 4:30 PM SU042907A

The Price of Sugar page 258 90 min. 4:15 PM PRIC2907A

Orange Revolution page 257 106 min. 7:00 PM ORAN2907A

The Year of Living Dangerously (Talking picture) page 63 115 min. 6:45 PM YEAR2907A

This Is England page 231 102 min. 9:45 PM ENGL2907A

Small Engine Repair page 225 98 min. 9:30 PM SMAL2907A

wednesday, May 30

2 pm

2:3033:304 pm

4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

Slipstream page 47 110 min. 4:00 PM SLIP3007A

Outing Riley page 214 86 min. 5:00 PM ORIL3007A

A Tribute to Anthony Hopkins page 46 134 min. 7:30 PM HOPK3007E

The Devil Came on Horseback page 247 89 min. 7:00 PM DEVI3007A

I Don’t

Severance page 289 95 min. 11:00 AM SRAN2807A

Paprika page 215 90 min. 1:15 PM PAPR2807A

A Battle of Wits page 29 131 min.

3:30 PM BATT2807A

On The Road With Judas page 282 100 min. 4:15 PM JUDA2807A

Fish Dreams page 121 111 min. 11:00 AM FISH2807A

Doubletime page 247 80 min. 11:00 AM DOUB2807A

Waiting for Happiness page 143 96 min. 1:30 PM WHAP2807A

The Devil Came on Horseback page 247 89 min. 1:30 PM DEVI2807A

Bamako page 143 115 min. 4:00 PM BAMA2807A

War/Dance page 101 105 min. 4:00 PM WARD2807A

Ten Canoes page 231 92 min. 6:45 PM CANO2807A

One11 and 103 page 281 94 min. 7:00 PM 103X2807A

Before We Fall In Love Again page 169 100 min. 6:30 PM BEFO2807A

Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox page 248 88 min. 7:00 PM DRBR2807A

Crossing the Line page 246 94 min. 9:15 PM CROS2807A

The Aerial page 279 90 min. 9:30 PM AERI2807A

Christmas Tree Upside Down page 174 127 min. 9:00 PM CHRI2807A

Reprise page 219 105 min. 9:30 PM REPR2807A

El Benny page 93 120 min. 4:30 PM ELBE2907A

Death at a Funeral page 177 90 min. 7:00 PM DEAT2907A

Ghosts of Cité Soleil page 280 88 min. 7:00 PM CITE2907A

Hounds page 149 86 min. 2:00 PM HOUN2907A

Manufactured Landscapes

page 109 90 min. 4:30 PM MANU2907A

Born and Bred page 171 100 min. 7:00 PM BORN2907A

Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard page 89 90 min. 5:00 PM SANC2907A

Slipstream page 47 110 min. 7:00 PM SLIP2907A

Never on a Sunday page 208 120 min. 9:30 PM NSUN2907A

I Dot the Eye (Shorts) page 278 80 min. 9:00 PM IDOT2907A

After This Our Exile page 163 150 min. 9:30 PM AFTE2907A

Salty Air page 221 85 min. 9:45 PM SALT2907A

Children page 173 93 min. 2:00 PM CREN3007A

My Best Friend page 206 90 min.

4:00 PM MYBE3007A

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen page 197 112 min.

7:00 PM KNUD3007A

Reduce, Reuse and Recyle (Shorts) page 278 72 min. 7:00 PM REDU3007A

4 Elements page 279 89 min. 9:30 PM 4ELE3007A

A Friend of Mine page 147 84 min. 4:15 PM FRIE3007A

Agua page 164 89 min. 5:00 PM AGUA3007A

Doghead page 118 90 min. 7:00 PM DOGH3007A

In the Shadow of the Moon page 39 100 min. 7:00 PM MOON3007A

Crazy Love page 246 92 min. 9:30 PM CRAZ3007A

Strike page 150 104 min. 9:45 PM STRI3007A

THURSDAY, May 31

2 pm

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

2:3033:304 pm

4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm

Exiled page 183 100 min. 4:45 PM EXIL3107A

Fair Play page 184 99 min. 7:00 PM FAIR3107A

The Ten page 230 93 min. 9:30 PM TENX3107A

The Elephant and the Sea page 181 100 min. 4:45 PM ELEP3107A

The Champagne Spy page 245 91 min. 7:00 PM CHAM3107A

Outing Riley page 214 86 min. 9:30 PM ORIL3107A

Crossing the Line page 246 94 min. 4:00 PM CROS3107A

Ghosts page 188 96 min. 4:30 PM GHST3107A

2007 Siff Schedule

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Doghead page 118 90 min. 2:00 PM DOGH3107A

Born and Bred page 171 100 min. 4:30 PM BORN3107A

Reprise page 219 105 min. 4:00 PM REPR3107A

Friday, June 1

2 pm 2:3033:304 pm

4:3055:306 pm

6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm

10:301111:3012 am

Still Alive. A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski page 262 81 min. 5:00 PM STIL0107A

Emma’s Bliss page 119 99 min. 7:00 PM EMMA0107A

Big Rig page 242 95 min. 9:30 PM BRIG0107A

The Ferryman page 289 100 min. MIDNIGHT FERR0107A

Orange Revolution page 257 106 min. 4:00 PM ORAN0107A

Life on the Edge page 200 90 min. 7:00 PM EDGE0107A

No Regret page 210 114 min. 9:15 PM NORE0107A

Outsourced page 27 102 min. 7:00 PM OSOU3107A

Eagle vs. Shark page 181 93 min. 7:00 PM EAGL3107A

Strange Culture page 282 76 min. 7:00 PM STRA3107A

A Friend of Mine page 147 84 min. 7:00 PM FRIE3107A

Everything’s Cool page 108 105 min. 6:30 PM EVER3107A

Saturday, June 2

11 am

11:30noon12:301 pm

1:3022:303 pm

3:3044:305 pm 5:3066:307 pm 7:3088:309 pm

9:301010:3011 pm

11:3012 am

The Ten page 230 93 min. 11:00 AM TENX0207A

Sounds of Sand page 112 96 min. 1:00 PM SOUN0207A

Big Rig page 242 95 min. 3:15 PM BRIG0207A

Satellites of Planet Cinema (Shorts) page 113 75 min. 11:00 AM SATE0207A

Christmas Tree Upside Down page 174 127 min. 1:00 PM CHRI0207A

Before We Fall In Love Again page 169 100 min. 3:45 PM BEFO0207A

Out At the Wedding page 133 96 min. 6:00 PM WEDD0207A

Lake of Fire page 253 152 min. 6:00 PM LAKE0207A

Black Sheep page 287 87 min. 9:45 PM SHEE3107A

Angel-A page 165 88 min. 9:45 PM AANG3107A

Ghosts of Cité Soleil page 280 88 min. 9:15 PM CITE3107A

Bajo Juarez, the City Devouring Its Daughters page 242 90 min. 9:30 PM BAJO3107A

Dames in Frames (Shorts) page 298 95 min. 9:30 PM DAME3107A

The Cloud page 107 108 min. 2:00 PM CLOU0107A

Armin page 166 113 min. 4:00 PM ARMI0107A

Eagle vs. Shark page 181 93 min.

4:00 PM EAGL0107A

Death at a Funeral page 177 90 min. 7:00 PM DEAT0107A

La vie en rose page 140 140 min. 6:30 PM ROSE0107A

Black Irish page 170 92 min. 9:30 PM IRIS0107A

Tell No One page 230 126 min. 9:45 PM TELL0107A

Crazy Love page 246 92 min. 4:30 PM CRAZ0107A

The Champagne Spy page 245 91 min. 4:30 PM CHAM0107A

Protagonist page 259 90 min. 7:00 PM PROT0107A

The Fever of ‘57 page 248 92 min. 7:00 PM FEVE0107A

Offset page 212 108 min. 9:30 PM OSET0107A

The Last Winter page 108 107 min. 9:30 PM LAST0107A

Surf’s Up page 227 82 min. 11:00 AM SURF0207A

Bajo Juarez, the City Devouring Its Daughters page 242 90 min. 11:00 AM BAJO0207A

DarkBlueAlmostBlack page 176 105 min. 1:30 PM DARK0207A

La vie promise page 140 94 min. 1:00 PM PROM0207A

La vie en rose page 140 140 min. 3:15 PM ROSE0207A

Casting Crash - A Case Study page 69 90 min. 2:00 PM CAST0207D

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen page 197 112 min. 11:00 AM KNUD0207A

I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone page 280 115 min. 1:30 PM IDON0207A

The Three Musketeers page 232 75 min. 11:00 AM THRE0207A

Captain Blood page 159 119 min. 1:00 PM CAPT0207A

Strike page 150 104 min. 4:15 PM STRI0207A

Cashback page 173 90 min. 6:45 PM CASH0207A

Rocket Science page 220 98 min. 6:30 PM ROCK0207A

Man in the Chair page 204 107 min. 4:00 PM MANI0207A

Strange Culture page 282 76 min. 3:30 PM STRA0207A

The Cloud page 107 108 min. 6:30 PM CLOU0207A

The Sentimental Bloke page 155 108 min. 7:00 PM SENT0207A

2 Days in Paris page 31 96 min. 8:30 PM 2DAY0207C

The Elephant and the Sea page 181 100 min. 9:30 PM ELEP0207A

Fido page 185 91 min. 9:15 PM FIDO0207A

Kurt Cobain About A Son page 97 96 min. 9:30 PM KURT0207A

Black Sheep page 287 87 min.

MIDNIGHT SHEE0207A

Free Floating page 121 97 min. 9:15 PM FREE0207A

Running On Empty page 150 97 min. 9:30 PM RUNN0207A

Sunday, June 3

11 am

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

11:30noon12:301 pm

SECRET#2 page 273 11:00 AM

Life on the Edge page 200 90 min. 11:00 AM EDGE0307A

U page 234 71 min.

11:00 AM UXXX0307A

The Fever of ‘57 page 248 92 min.

11:00 AM FEVE0307A

2007 Siff Schedule

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Bánk Bán page 53 118 min.

11:00 AM BANK0307A

Her Best Move page 191 102 min. 11:00 AM HERB0307A

MONDAY, JUNE 4

1:3022:303 pm 3:3044:305 pm 5:3066:307 pm 7:3088:309 pm 9:30102 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm

6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

For the Bible Tells Me So page 249 100 min. 1:30 PM FORT0307A

Emma’s Bliss page 119 99 min. 4:15 PM EMMA0307A

Everything’s Cool page 108 105 min. 1:15 PM EVER0307A

Protagonist page 259 90 min. 1:00 PM PROT0307A

Tell No One page 230 126 min. 1:30 PM TELL0307A

An Afternoon with Robert Benton page 57 90 min. 2:00 PM BENT0307E

Gagarin’s Grandson page 186 100 min. 1:30 PM GAGA0307A

Deutsch in Miniature (Shorts) page 298 96 min. 1:45 PM DEUT0307A

TUESDAY, JUNE 5

2 pm

2:3033:304 pm

4:3055:306 pm

6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

Nanking page 256 91 min. 7:00 PM NANK0307A

Woman on the Beach page 237 128 min. 9:30 PM WOMA0307A

Out At the Wedding page 133 96 min. 4:00 PM WEDD0307A

Offset page 212 108 min. 3:30 PM OSET0307A

I Have Never Forgotten You- The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal page 251 101 min.

Invisibles page 251 95 min. 6:45 PM INVI0307A

Falling page 184 88 min. 9:00 PM FALL0307A

Nina’s Journey page 209 119 min. 6:15 PM NINA0307A

4:45 PM IHAV0307A

Outsourced page 27 102 min.

7:00 PM OSOU0307A

Dans Paris page 175 90 min. 9:00 PM DANS0307A

Waiter page 236 96 min.

9:45 PM WTER0307A

Grave Decisions page 147 102 min.

4:00 PM GRAV0307A

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten page 91 123 min. 4:00 PM JOES0307A

Black Irish page 170 92 min. 6:45 PM IRIS0307A

Grimm Love page 149 87 min. 7:00 PM GRIM0307A

Eternal Summer page 182 95 min. 9:15 PM ETER0307A

Children page 173 93 min. 9:30 PM CREN0307A

Vinícius page 101 120 min. 2:00 PM VINI0407A

No Regret page 210 114 min. 4:00 PM NORE0407A

Love Conquers All page 201 100 min. 4:45 PM CONQ0407A

Man in the Chair page 204 107 min.

4:30 PM MANI0407A

Angel-A page 165 88 min.

4:30 PM AANGE0407A

Grave Decisions page 147 102 min. 4:30 PM GRAV0407A

Running On Empty page 150 97 min. 4:00 PM RUNN0407A

Northwest Ties page 300 79 min. 7:00 PM NORT0407A

Souls Without Borders page 261 52 min. 7:00 PM SOUL0407A

Rocket Science page 220 98 min. 7:00 PM ROCK0407A

Congorama page 175 105 min.

6:45 PM CONG0407A

Hounds page 149 86 min. 7:15 PM HOUN0407A

For the Bible Tells Me So page 249 100 min. 6:45 PM FORT0407A

Ghosts page 188 96 min. 9:30 PM GHST0407A

The Life of Reilly page 199 89 min. 9:30 PM REIL0407A

The Ferryman page 289 100 min.

9:45 PM FERR0407A

Dasepo Naughty Girls page 176 103 min. 9:30 PM DASE0407A

Almost Adult page 165 89 min. 9:45 PM ALMO0407A

Syndromes and a Century page 283 105 min. 9:30 PM SYND0407A

Falling page 184 88 min. 2:00 PM FALL0507A

Grimm Love page 149 87 min. 4:30 PM GRIM0507A

A Secret Genocide page 261 57 min. 5:00 PM SECR0507A

Love & Dance page 202 93 min. 4:30 PM DANC0507A

Bad Faith page 167 88 min.

4:00 PM BADF0507A

Woman on the Beach page 237 128 min.

4:00 PM WOMA0507A

Nanking page 256 91 min. 4:00 PM NANK0507A

Nina’s Journey page 209 119 min. 7:00 PM NINA0507A

Red Without Blue page 259 77 min. 7:00 PM BLUE0507A

2 Days in Paris page 31 96 min. 7:00 PM 2DAY0507A

Summer Rain page 226 120 min.

6:30 PM SRAI0507A

Sounds of Sand page 112 96 min.

7:00 PM SOUN0507A

A Conversation With Julien Temple page 91 95 min. 7:00 PM TEMP0507E

DarkBlueAlmostBlack page 176 105 min. 9:30 PM DARK0507A

A Parting Shot page 216 85 min. 9:30 PM PART0507A

Free Floating page 121 97 min. 9:30 PM FREE0507A

Cashback page 173 90 min.

9:30 PM CASH0507A

Vinícius page 101 120 min. 9:15 PM VINI0507A

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten page 91 123 min. 9:15 PM JOES0507A

Image by Michael Biskup

Wednesday, June 6

11 am

11:30noon12:301 pm

2:30

3:30

4:30

5:30

Dasepo Naughty Girls page 176 103 min. 4:15 PM DASE0607A

Lake of Fire page 253 152 min.

4:00 PM LAKE0607A

Gagarin’s Grandson page 186 100 min. 4:00 PM GAGA0607A

6:30 m

7:30

8:30

Lovesickness page 203 90 min. 7:00 PM SICK0607A

The Violin page 235 98 min. 7:30 PM VIOL0607A

I Have Never Forgotten

You- The Life and Legacy of Simon Wiesenthal page 251 101 min. 6:30 PM IHAV0607A

1:3022:303 pm 3:3044:305 pm 5:3066:307 pm 7:3088:309 pm 9:3010Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

9:30

One to Another page 213 105 min. 9:30 PM ANOT0607A

Love Conquers All page 201 100 min. 9:45 PM CONQ0607A

Northern Light page 210 85 min. 9:00 PM NORT0607A

Congorama page 175 105 min. 4:15 PM CONG0607A

Sweet Mud page 228 97 min. 7:00 PM SMUD0607A

The Silence page 224 104 min. 9:30 PM SILE0607A

2007 Siff Schedule

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Attainable HD page 77 110 min. 12:00 PM ATTA0607Z

Almost Adult page 165 89 min. 2:00 PM ALMO0607A

The Art of Crying page 167 106 min. 4:30 PM ARTO0607A

Invisibles page 251 95 min. 4:45 PM INVI0607A

White Palms page 236 101 min. 7:15 PM PALM0607A

Agua page 164 89 min. 9:30 PM AGUA0607A

Tugboat Annie page 51 86 min. 7:00 PM TUGB0607A

This Animated Life (Shorts) page 301 84 min. 9:15 PM ANIM0607A

Digital Media Lab

Thursday, June 7

Introduction to Final Cut Pro page 77 60 min.

10:00 AM FCP10707Z

Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro page 77 60 min.

11:15 AM FCP20707Z

Thursday, June 7

2 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm

Still Alive. A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski page 262 81 min.

Red Without Blue page 259 77 min. 4:45 PM BLUE0707A

Eternal Summer page 182 95 min. 4:30 PM ETER0707A

Sweet Mud page 228 97 min. 4:00 PM SMUD0707A

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die page 232 100 min. 2:00 PM TOGE0707A

Salvador page 222 133 min. 4:15 PM SALV0707A

Syndromes and a Century page 283 105 min. 4:30 PM SYND0707A

DVD Authoring with DVD Studio Pro page 77 60 min.

12:30 PM DVDA0707Z

Encoding page 77 60 min.

1:45 PM ENCO0707Z

Friday, June 8

6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm 2 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

10:301111:3012 am

5:00 PM STIL0707A

Poltergay page 37 93 min. 7:15 PM POLT0707F

White Light/Black Rain page 264 86 min. 7:00 PM LIGH0707A

Alive page 164 92 min. 7:00 PM ALIV0707A

Sakuran page 221 111 min. 6:30 PM SAKU0707A

FutureWave Youth Forum page 269 91 min. 7:00 PM FUTF0707D

Spider Lilies page 225 94 min. 7:15 PM SPID0707A

Soldiers of Conscience page 41 86 min. 7:00 PM SOLD0707A

Title Sequences page 77 60 min.

3:00 PM TITL0707Z

Introduction to Logic page 77 60 min. 4:15 PM LOGI0707Z

Hula Girls page 192 108 min. 9:30 PM HULA0707A

American Shopper page 241 87 min. 9:30 PM AMER0707A

Sway page 228 119 min. 9:30 PM SWAY0707A

The Banquet page 168 131 min. 9:15 PM BANQ0707A

Love For Sale: Suely in the Sky page 203 90 min. 9:30 PM SALE0707A

Dans Paris page 175 90 min. 9:30 PM DANS0707A

Audio page 77 60 min.

5:30 PM AUDI0707Z

Digital Media Lab

White Palms page 236 101 min. 2:00 PM PALM0807A

Friday, June 8 -10 am -10:30-11 am -11:30-noon-12:30-1 pm -1:30-2-2:30-3 pm -3:30-4-4:30-5 pm -5:30-

Introduction to Final Cut Pro page 77 60 min.

10:00 AM FCP10807Z

-10 am

The Silence page 224 104 min. 4:30 PM SILE0807A

Antônia page 166 90 min. 5:00 PM ANTO0807A

The Point page 217 97 min. 4:30 PM POIN0807A

Sakuran page 221 111 min. 4:15 PM SAKU0807A

Four Sheets to the Wind page 267 91 min. 5:00 PM WIND0807A

Lovesickness page 203 90 min. 4:30 PM SICK0807A

Prague page 218 92 min. 4:30 PM PRAG0807A

Advanced Techniques in Final Cut Pro page 77 60 min.

11:15 AM FCP20807Z

Shelter Me page 223 100 min. 7:00 PM SHEL0807A

Children of the War page 245 81 min. 7:00 PM CWAR0807A

Vitus page 235 120 min. 7:00 PM VITU0807A

Like Minds page 200 110 min. 7:00 PM LIKE0807A

A Sunday in Kigali page 226 118 min. 7:00 PM KIGA0807A

Sharkwater page 111 89 min. 7:00 PM SHAR0807A

DVD Authoring with DVD Studio Pro page 77 60 min.

12:30 PM DVDA0807Z

Introduction to Logic page 77 60 min.

Broken English page 172 96 min. 9:15 PM BROK0807A

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema page 258 150 min. 9:30 PM PERV0807A

Mushishi page 206 131 min. 9:30 PM MUSH0807A

Day Watch page 177 132 min. 9:30 PM DAYW0807A

Retribution page 220 103 min. 9:30 PM RETR0807A

Trail of the Screaming Forehead page 233 88 min. 9:30 PM FORE0807A

1:45 PM LOGI0807Z

Cold Prey page 287 97 min. MIDNIGHT COLD0807A

GarageBand for Youth page 77 60 min.

4:00 PM GARA0807Z

-10:30-11 am -11:30-noon-12:30-1 pm -1:30-2-2:30-3 pm -3:30-4-

10 am

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit

10:301112:3012 pm 12:3011:302 pm

2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm

The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema page 258 150 min. 11:00 AM PERV0907A

Sway page 228 119 min. 11:00 AM SWAY0907A

Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

The Three Musketeers page 232 75 min. 11:00 AM THRE0907A

Beauty in Trouble page 169 110 min. 11:00 AM BEAU0907A

2007 Siff Schedule

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Northwest Production Forum - Reaching an Audience page 73 90 min. 10:00 AM NPFR0907D

A Sunday in Kigali page 226 118 min. 11:00 AM KIGA0907A

Her Best Move page 191 102 min. 11:00 AM HERB0907A

Poltergay page 37 93 min. 2:00 PM POLT0907A

Soldiers of Conscience page 41 86 min. 1:30 PM SOLD0907A

The Planet page 111 84 min. 1:30 PM PLAN0907A

The Violin page 235 98 min. 1:30 PM VIOL0907A

Northwest Production Forum - Getting a Film to the Industry page 73 90 min. 12:30 PM NPFG0907D

Love & Dance page 202 93 min. 1:45 PM DANC0907A

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves page 158 87 min. 1:30 PM BABA0907A

FutureWave Shorts page 268 75 min. 4:30 PM FUTS0907A

Journey Home: A story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 page 252 88 min. 4:00 PM HOME0907A

Hula Girls page 192 108 min. 4:00 PM HULA0907A

Alive page 164 92 min. 3:45 PM ALIV0907A

The Boss of it All page 33 100 min. 7:00 PM BOSS0907C

Great World of Sound page 190 106 min. 6:15 PM GREA0907A

Summer Rain page 226 120 min. 6:30 PM SRAI0907A

Goya’s Ghosts page 43 114 min. 6:30 PM GOYA0907A

Love For Sale: Suely in the Sky page 203 90 min. 4:00 PM SALE0907A

The Guardian’s Son page 191 98 min. 6:15 PM GUAR0907A

Max Havelaar page 49 170 min. 3:30 PM MAXH0907A

The Memory Thief page 130 95 min. 7:00 PM MEMO0907A

10

10 am

10:301112:3012 pm

12:3011:302 pm

2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm

10:301111:3012 am 2 pm

2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm 8:3099:3010 pm

Grandhotel page 189 95 min. 9:45 PM GRAN0907A

Northern Light page 210 85 min. 9:15 PM NORT0907A

The Missing Star page 205 104 min. 9:30 PM STAR0907A

Bad Faith page 167 88 min. 9:30 PM BADF0907A

The Signal page 290 99 min.

SECRET#3 page 273 11:00 AM

Great World of Sound page 190 106 min. 1:30 PM GREA1007A

A Secret Genocide page 261 57 min. 11:00 AM SECR1007A

Salty Air page 221 85 min. 11:00 AM SALT1007A

Getting Home page 187 97 min. 11:00 AM GETT1007A

Northwest Production Forum - Attracting the Financier page 75 90 min. 10:00 AM NPFF1007D

Salvador page 222 133 min. 9:00 PM SALV0907A

Four Minutes page 146 112 min. 9:30 PM MINU0907A

The Man of My Life page 204 114 min. 4:15 PM MANO1007A

Mushishi page 206 131 min. 6:45 PM MUSH1007A

American Shopper page 241 87 min. 1:30 PM AMER1007A

Oh La La! page 212 92 min. 1:30 PM OHLA1007A

Like Minds page 200 110 min. 1:15 PM LIKE1007A

The Life of Reilly page 199 89 min. 4:00 PM REIL1007A

Retribution page 220 103 min. 3:45 PM RETR1007A

Lady Chatterley page 199 168 min. 4:00 PM LADY1007A

To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die page 232 100 min. 6:30 PM TOGE1007A

Broken English page 172 96 min. 6:30 PM BROK1007A

Made in China page 253 75 min. 7:30 PM MADE1007A

TEKKONKINKREET page 229 111 min. 9:30 PM TEKK1007A

Prague page 218 92 min. 9:00 PM PRAG1007A

Day Watch page 177 132 min. 9:15 PM DAYW1007A

Khadak page 197 110 min. 9:45 PM KHAD1007A

The Man of My Life page 204 114 min. 4:15 PM MANO1107A

Journey Home: A story from the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 page 252 88 min. 4:00 PM HOME1107A

Grandhotel page 189 95 min. 4:30 PM GRAN1107A

Shelter Me page 223 100 min. 4:30 PM SHEL1107A

The Art of Crying page 167 106 min. 6:45 PM ARTO1107A

Ballets Russes with Peter Boal (Talking picture) page 64 118 min. 6:30 PM BALL1107A

Goya’s Ghosts page 43 114 min. 7:00 PM GOYA1107A

The Bothersome Man page 171 90 min. 7:00 PM BOTH1107A

Surveillance page 227 86 min. 9:30 PM SURV1107A

Shotgun Stories page 133 92 min. 9:30 PM SHOT1107A

The Banquet page 168 131 min. 9:30 PM BANQ1107A

Beauty in Trouble page 169 110 min.

9:15 PM BEAU1107A

Opticlash VJ Seminar page 87 240 min. 1:00 PM OPTI0907

Digital Media Lab 911 Media Arts Center

Pre-Visualization with Maya page 79 120 min. 2:00 PM MAYA0907Z

Sharkwater page 111 89 min. 11:00 AM SHAR1007A

The Paper Will Be Blue page 123 95 min. 1:30 PM PAPE1007A

Northwest Production Forum - Selling to the Producer page 75 90 min. 12:30 PM NPFP1007D One to Another page 213 105 min. 11:00 AM ANOT1007A

The Memory Thief page 130 95 min. 1:30 PM MEMO1007A

Several People, Little Time page 222 103 min. 4:00 PM PEOP1007A

White Light/Black Rain page 264 86 min. 4:00 PM LIGH1007A

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man page 99 90 min. 6:30 PM SCOT1007A

Dol page 179 90 min. 6:30 PM DOLX1007A

Antônia page 166 90 min. 9:00 PM ANTO1007A

A Parting Shot page 216 85 min. 2:00 PM PART1107A

The Point page 217 97 min. 4:30 PM POIN1107A

Four Minutes page 146 112 min. 4:30 PM MINU1107A

The Paper Will Be Blue page 123 95 min. 7:00 PM PAPE1107A

SIGN0907A Noise page 209 105 min. 9:00 PM NOIS1007A Out of Time

257 80 min. 9:30 PM TIME1107A

The Big Combo page 157 89 min. 7:00 PM COMB1107A

The Damned Don’t Cry page 157 103 min. 9:15 PM DAMN1107A

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11 am

Egyptian Theatre Harvard Exit

11:30noon12:301 pm

1:3022:303 pm 3:3044:305 pm 5:3066:307 pm 7:3088:309 pm 9:30102 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm

6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

Surveillance page 227 86 min.

4:30 PM SURV1207A

Spider Lilies page 225 94 min. 4:30 PM SPID1207A

Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

2007 Siff Schedule

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Offscreen page 211 96 min. 3:30 PM OSCR1207A

Euphoria page 183 89 min. 4:00 PM EUPH1207A

Lady Chatterley page 199 168 min. 6:00 PM LADY1207A

Falkenberg Farewell page 119 88 min.

7:00 PM FALK1207A

Iska’s Journey page 194 92 min. 7:00 PM ISKA1207A

The Signal page 290 99 min. 9:30 PM SIGN1207A

Never Again as Before page 207 106 min. 9:30 PM BEFO1207A

The Guardian’s Son page 191 98 min. 9:30 PM GUAR1207A

Delirious page 179 107 min. 6:30 PM DELI1207A

The Planet page 111 84 min. 9:15 PM PLAN1207A

The Fly Filmmaking Challenge page 294 90 min. 4:30 PM FLYF1307A

I Really Hate My Job page 193 89 min. 7:00 PM IREA1307A

Black White + Gray page 243 77 min. 7:15 PM GRAY1307A

Confession of Pain page 174 110 min. 4:00 PM CONF1307A

Fresh Air page 122 109 min. 4:00 PM FRES1307A

The Boss of it All page 33 100 min. 7:00 PM BOSS1307A

Madrigal page 45 112 min. 6:30 PM MADR1307A

Vitus page 235 120 min. 9:30 PM VITU1307A

How Is Your Fish Today? page 122 83 min. 9:30 PM TODA1307A

Cold Prey page 287 97 min. 9:30 PM COLD1307A

Oh La La! page 212 92 min. 9:30 PM OHLA1307A

2 pm 2:3033:304 pm 4:3055:306 pm 6:3077:308 pm

8:3099:3010 pm

Black White + Gray page 243 77 min. 4:15 PM GRAY1407A

The Bubble page 141 117 min. 6:30 PM BUBB1407A

La León page 123 85 min. 5:00 PM LALE1407A

Angels in the Dust page 241 95 min. 7:00 PM DUST1407A

Dry Season page 180 96 min. 4:00 PM DRYS1407A

Falkenberg Farewell page 119 88 min. 4:00 PM FALK1407A

Gandhi My Father page 186 120 min. 6:30 PM GAND1407A

Cthulhu page 129 120 min. 6:30 PM CTHU1407A

It Doesn’t Hurt page 195 100 min. 2:00 PM ITDO1207A

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man page 99 90 min. 4:15 PM SCOT1207A

Dol page 179 90 min. 4:00 PM DOLX1207A

Stealth page 125 112 min. 6:30 PM STEA1207A

Opera Jawa page 214 120 min. 6:30 PM OPER1207A

Sons page 125 99 min. 9:30 PM SONS1207A

Dry Season page 180 96 min. 9:30 PM DRYS1207A

Out of Time page 257 80 min. 2:00 PM TIME1307A

Stealth page 125 112 min. 4:15 PM STEA1307A

Opera Jawa page 214 120 min. 4:00 PM OPER1307A

Yella page 152 89 min. 7:15 PM YELL1307A

A Cottage on Dartmoor page 155 87 min.

7:30 PM COTT1307A

Several People, Little Time page 222 103 min. 9:45 PM PEOP1307A

Five Senses (Shorts) page 299 86 min. 9:45 PM FIVE1307A

7 Years page 118 86 min. 2:00 PM 7YEA1407A

The Bothersome Man page 171 90 min. 4:15 PM BOTH1407A

How Is Your Fish Today? page 122 83 min. 4:30 PM TODA1407A

Expired page 129 102 min. 6:30 PM EXPI1407A

Nömadak TX page 99 86 min. 7:00 PM NOMA1407A

The Missing Star page 205 104 min. 9:30 PM STAR1407A

Lovely By Surprise page 130 93 min. 9:30 PM SURP1407A

Frozen City page 185 90 min.

9:30 PM FROZ1407A

Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Rollergirls page 243 95 min. 9:30 PM BLOO1407A

Vacation page 151 91 min. 9:30 PM VACA1407A

Trainwreck: My Life As An Idoit page 134 93 min. 9:30 PM WREC1407A

Opticlash 2: The 2nd Annual VJ Battle page 86 240 min. 6:00 PM OPTI1307F

Face the Music Rock Party 2007 page 85 210 min. 8:00 PM FACE1407F Shotgun Stories page 133 92 min. 4:30 PM SHOT1307A

Sunday, June 17

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pm

Trail of the Screaming Forehead page 233 88 min. 4:00 PM FORE1507A

Sex and Death 101 page 223 100 min. 6:30 PM SEXA1507A

Miss Gulag page 255 80 min. 4:30 PM GULA1507A

One Of Our Own page 131 92 min. 7:00 PM OWNX1507A

Lincoln Square Cinemas Neptune Theatre

Northwest Film Forum Pacific Place Cinemas SIFF CInemas Other Venues

Iska’s Journey page 194 92 min. 2:00 PM ISKA1507A

11 am

11:30noon12:301 pm 1:3022:303 pm

Walk the Talk page 134 105 min. 9:15 PM TALK1507A

One Day Like Rain page 131 87 min. 9:30 PM ORAI1507A

French For Beginners page 146 94 min. 4:30 PM FREN1507A

Tomorrow Morning page 233 82 min. 4:30 PM TOMO1507A

The Bet Collector page 170 98 min. 6:45 PM BETC1507A

Sweet Crude page 112 100 min. 7:00 PM SCRU1507A

I Really Hate My Job page 193 89 min. 9:30 PM IREA1507A

Confession of Pain page 174 110 min. 10:00 PM CONF1507A

Alien Autopsy page 286 91 min.

MIDNIGHT AUTO1507A

Yossi & Jagger page 141 65 min. 11:00 AM YOSS1607A

The Bubble page 141 117 min. 12:45 PM BUBB1607A

Lovely By Surprise page 130 93 min. 11:00 AM SURP1607A

Never Again as Before page 207 106 min. 11:00 AM BEFO1607A

Sweet Crude page 112 100 min. 11:00 AM SCRU1607A

Digital Distribution: Fantasy or Reality? page 67 50 min. 10:00 AM VDIG1607D

Season Five page 142 80 min. 4:30 PM SEAS1507A

Nömadak TX page 99 86 min. 4:30 PM NOMA1507A

KINSKI performs Berlin: Symphony of a City page 83 65 min.

7:00 PM BER11507F

It’s Winter page 142 86 min. 7:00 PM ITSW1507A

How To Cook Your Life page 249 93 min. 7:00 PM COOK1507A

KINSKI performs Berlin: Symphony of a City page 83 65 min.

9:30 PM BER21507F

Little Book of Revenge page 201 105 min. 9:30 PM LITT1507A

Nu. page 211 85 min. 9:30 PM NUXX1507A

Angels in the Dust page 241 95 min. 1:30 PM DUST1607A

Khadak page 197 110 min. 1:30 PM KHAD1607A

Blood on the Flat Track: The Rise of the Rat City Roller Girls page 243 95 min. 1:30 PM BLOO1607A

The Impact of the Internet on Movie Coverage page 67 50 min. 11:30 AM VFIL1607D

Sons page 125 99 min. 11:00 AM SONS1607A

The Family Picture Show (Shorts) page 272 66 min. 11:00 AM FAMI1607A

Yella page 152 89 min. 1:45 PM YELL1607A

Scaramouche page 159 115 min. 1:30 PM SCAR1607A

Delirious page 179 107 min. 4:00 PM DELI1607A

Children of the War page 245 81 min. 4:00 PM CWAR1607A

Expired page 129 102 min. 4:00 PM EXPI1607A

Arctic Tale page 107 96 min. 4:00 PM ARCT1607A

Drama/Mex page 180 92 min. 4:15 PM DRAM1607A

Trainwreck: My Life As An Idoit page 134 93 min. 4:00 PM WREC1607A

The Evolution of Music in Film page 85 120 min. 4:00 PM SONY1607F

Interview page 192 81 min. 7:00 PM INTE1607A

Miss Gulag page 255 80 min. 6:30 PM GULA1607A

Madrigal page 45 112 min. 6:45 PM MADR1607A

Evening page 35 113 min. 6:30 PM EVEN1607C

7 Years page 118 86 min. 6:30 PM 7YEA1607A

My Friend & His Wife page 207 114 min. 6:30 PM MYFR1607A

Gandhi My Father page 186 120 min. 9:30 PM GAND1607A

Kyle page 198 90 min. 9:15 PM KYLE1607A

Euphoria page 183 89 min. 9:45 PM EUPH1607A

Introducing the Dwights page 193 109 min. 9:30 PM INTR1607A

Aachi & Ssipak page 286 90 min.

MIDNIGHT AACH1607A

Fresh Air page 122 109 min. 9:30 PM FRES1607A

La León page 123 85 min. 9:30 PM LALE1607A

SECRET#4 page 273 11:00 AM

Interview page 192 81 min. 1:30 PM INTE1707A

Sex and Death 101 page 223 100 min. 4:00 PM SEXA1707A

One Day Like Rain page 131 87 min. 11:00 AM ORAI1707A

Vacation page 151 91 min. 11:00 AM VACA1707A

Arctic Tale page 107 96 min. 11:00 AM ARCT1707A

One Of Our Own page 131 92 min. 1:30 PM OWNX1707A

Little Book of Revenge page 201 105 min. 1:30 PM LITT1707A

Introducing the Dwights page 193 109 min. 1:30 PM INTR1707A

Kyle page 198 90 min. 4:00 PM KYLE1707A

It’s Winter page 142 86 min. 4:15 PM ITSW1707A

Cthulhu page 129 120 min. 4:00 PM CTHU1707A

French For Beginners page 146 94 min. 11:00 AM FREN1707A

How To Cook Your Life page 249 93 min. 11:00 AM COOK1707A

The Bet Collector page 170 98 min. 1:30 PM BETC1707A

Nu. page 211 85 min. 1:15 PM NUXX1707A

Walk the Talk page 134 105 min. 3:45 PM TALK1707A

Noise page 209 105 min. 4:30 PM NOIS1707A

Getting Home page 187 97 min. 6:45 PM GETT1707A

TBA#2 6:30 PM

TBA#1 9:30 PM

It Doesn’t Hurt page 195 100 min. 9:30 PM ITDO1707A

TBA#3 7:00 PM

Tomorrow Morning page 233 82 min. 9:30 PM TOMO1707A

Alien Autopsy page 286 91 min.

7:15 PM AUTO1707A

Aachi & Ssipak page 286 90 min.

9:30 PM AACH1707A

Drama/Mex page 180 92 min. 7:00 PM DRAM1707A

My Friend & His Wife page 207 114 min. 6:30 PM MYFR1707A

Moliere page 25 120 min. 6:30 PM MOLI1707B

Frozen City page 185 90 min. 9:15 PM FROZ1707A

Offscreen page 211 96 min. 9:30 PM OSCR1707A