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THE NORTHWEST FILM CENTER / PORTLAND ART MUSEUM PRESENTS
36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SPONSORED BY: THE OREGONIAN / REGAL CINEMAS
FEBRUARY 7–23, 2013
WELCOME
Welcome to the Northwest Film Center’s 36th annual showcase of new world cinema. Like each November’s
Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, which celebrates the creativity and vision of artists in the region’s community, the
Portland International Film Festival seeks to explore the diversity of not only the art of film, but of the world around us.
On a larger level the Festival also connects community, bringing together culturally diverse audiences, a remarkable
cross-section of cinematic voices, public and private arts funders, corporate sponsors, global film industry members,
hundreds of individual volunteers, and thousands of audience members. This fabulous ecology not only brings the Festival
to life, but also plays a sustaining role in the year-round exhibition, education, and artist service programs that manifest
the Film Center’s mission. All of us at the Film Center wish that the recognitions in the program and onscreen could better
convey our deep appreciation for the generous investment. On that note also go my thanks for the incredible work and
creativity of the Film Center’s staff.
This year, we welcome a host of new partners including Mercedes-Benz of Beaverton, Red Giant, King Estate Winery,
Stella Artois, and Chipotle, who join dozens of sponsors that have been with the Festival for many years, if not for decades.
We hope you will let all of our sponsors—old and new—know about your Festival experience and the collective appreciation
for their involvement.
Finally, we hope that, no matter the reasons you are initially drawn to them, this year’s 136 films—93 features and 43 shorts—
reward with fresh surprise and discovery and that you’ll share your comments about the films and the Festival as you vote
in the Alaska Airlines Audience Awards. Enjoy. Steep.
BILL FOSTER, Director
Northwest Film Center
FESTIVAL SPONSORS
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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS
NEW DIRECTORS
Among the surprises in PIFF every year
is finding exciting new cinematic voices.
While this year’s Festival has its share of
new works by established masters—Ann Hui,
Alain Resnais, Ken Loach, Jan Troell,
Margarethe von Trotta, Fatih Akin, Sally
Potter, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Jan
Hrebejk, Pablo Trapero, Thomas Vinterberg,
Kim Ki-duk, Olivier Assayas, and Werner
Herzog, to name but a few—and new films
by bright talents like Carlos Reygadas,
Cate Shortland, Ulrich Seidl, Xavier Dolan,
Cristian Mungiu, Pablo Larraín, Sophie
Fiennes, Ben Wheatley, and Marco Tullio
Giordana, discovering new directors is part
of the Festival’s delight too. Looking toward
the next generation, the intriguing new works
by 21 first-time directors reveal a wealth of
new international talent.
Among the 21 filmmakers and films eligible
for this year’s New Director Audience Award
are: Benjami Ávila, Clandestine Childhood
(Argentina); Wayne Blair, The Sapphires
(Australia); Song Fang, Memories Look At Me
(China); William Vega, La Sirga (Colombia);
Tomáš Lunák, Alois Nebel (Czech Republic);
Rusudan Chkonia, Keep Smiling (Georgia);
Marten Persiel, This Ain’t California (Germany);
Gauri Shinde, English Vinglish (India); Andrea
Segre, Shun Li and the Poet (Italy); Marco
Bonfanti, The Last Shepherd (Italy); David
Tosh Gitonga, Nairobi Half Life (Kenya);
Michel Franco, After Lucia (Mexico); Antonio
Méndez Esparza, Here and There (Mexico);
Bouewijn Koole, Kauwboy (Netherlands);
Patrik Eklund, Flicker (Sweden); Hsu Chao-Jen,
Together (Taiwan); Ben Rivers, Two Years At Sea
(Great Britain); Rowan Athale, Wasteland
(Great Britain); Matthew Cook, How To Make
Money Selling Drugs (US); Mark Kendall, La
Camioneta (US); Jaime Roos and Yamandu
Roos, 3 Million (Uruguay). Our thanks to
Wieden+Kennedy for their support of this
New Directors showcase.
P O R T L A N D
I N T E R N A T I ON A L
OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
This year’s Festival features the Portland
premieres of 19 films submitted for the Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar, including:
Lore (Australia), Our Children (Belgium),
War Witch (Canada), No (Chile), In the Shadow
(Czech Republic), Purge (Finland), Keep
Smiling (Georgia), Unfair World (Greece),
A Simple Life (Hong Kong), Just the Wind
(Hungary), Barfi! (India), Caesar Must Die
(Italy), Our Homeland ( Japan), 80 Million
(Poland), Blood of My Blood (Portugal),
Beyond the Hills (Romania), White Tiger
(Russia), Blancanieves (Spain), and Pieta
(South Korea). Our thanks go to The James
F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation for
their support of these films.
SHORT CUTS
This year’s Festival features five programs
featuring 40 memorable snapshots—animated,
live-action, documentary, experimental, and
narrative—from across the world, including
one program highlighting the outstanding
short work of Oregon filmmakers. Thanks
to Red Giant for supporting these programs.
VISITING ARTISTS
Thanks to Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines
for helping to bring our guests and to our
hotel partners—Hotel deLuxe, Hotel Modera,
and Heathman Hotel—for their hospitality
in providing guest accommodations.
DOCUMENTARY VIEWS
This year’s Festival boasts 18 perspectives
on the world we live in and the fascinating
people and stories that surround us. This
year’s nonfiction selections include: The
End of Time (Canada); Happy People: A Year
in the Taiga (Germany); Polluting Paradise
(Germany); This Ain’t California (Germany);
Men At Lunch (Ireland); The Gatekeepers (Israel);
Caesar Must Die (Italy); The Last Shepherd
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F E STIVAL
(Italy); More Than Honey (Switzerland);
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (Great Britain);
Two Years At Sea (Great Britain); Alien Boy
(US); American Winter (US); A Fierce Green
Fire (US); How to Make Money Selling Drugs
(US); La Camioneta (US/Mexico); Love,
Marilyn (US); and Leviathan (US/France).
Our thanks go to The Paul G. Allen Family
Foundation for their support of these films.
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FILM FOR FAMILIES
Film lovers from nine to 90 will be charmed
by these award-winning films suitable for
younger viewers depending on subject
interest and subtitle reading ability. Familyfriendly Festival films include: Old Dog
(China), The Painting (France), Barfi! (India),
English Vinglish (India), A Letter to Momo
( Japan), The Last Shepherd (Italy), Kauwboy
(Netherlands), La Pirogue (Senegal), and
3 Million (Uruguay). Thanks to The Safeway
Foundation for supporting this programing.
ANIMATED WORLDS
In addition to the many award-winning
animated films in the Short Cuts programs,
this year’s Festival includes four animated
features that have charmed audiences worldwide. The selections include Tomáš Lunák’s
Alois Nebel (Czech Republic), Jean-François
Laguionie’s The Painting (France), Hiroyuki
Okiura’s A Letter to Momo ( Japan), and Ignacio
Ferreras’s Wrinkles (Spain). Our thanks to
LAIKA for their support of these films.
GLOBAL CLASSROOM
The Festival’s Global Classroom program
is a point of introduction for the next
generation of cinema lovers. With support
from The James F. and Marion L. Miller
Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission,
Chipotle, and others, the Festival will
screen a number of this year’s selections for
high school students and teachers at special
weekday times in the Film Center’s Whitsell
Auditorium. For information on the films
or to make reservations for these free
screenings, please call Global Classroom
coordinator Karen Wennstrom at 503-2211156 or email [email protected]. Student
groups of 10 or more may also purchase
discounted tickets to regular Festival screenings (Sunday–Thursday only) by calling the
Advance Ticket Outlet at 503-276-4310,
beginning January 30. Our thanks go to
Chipotle for their support of these films.
HISPANIC FILM SHOWCASE
The Festival and Portland audiences have
long had an abiding interest in Hispanic
films and filmmakers. This year’s program
has 18 diverse new films from Argentina,
Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Spain,
Uruguay, and the United States that include
works by both emerging and established
talents. Our thanks to the many cultural
partners who have helped bring these films
to Portland.
ALASKA AIRLINES
AUDIENCE AWARDS
As always, you get to be the judge. Let us
know your opinions about the films in this
year’s Festival. Ballots will be available at
the screenings for you to rate and comment
on the films. At the conclusion of the
Festival, the results of the balloting will be
announced, with Audience Awards for Best
Film, Best Director, Best Documentary,
Best Short, Best New Director, and other
special recognitions. We also welcome your
feedback on your PIFF experience and
how we can make next year’s Festival better.
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P O R T L A N D
F I L M
F E STIVAL
PAYMENT OPTIONS
THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM
The Festival program is arranged by country,
with showtimes and locations listed at the
end of each film description. Our programs
of short films follow the country listings.
To find a film by title, please see the film
index on page 33. The master schedule on
page 43 lists each day’s films, showtimes,
and locations. Please note that a few films
have only one showing. Sometimes, for
reasons beyond our control, screenings
may be changed, rescheduled, or canceled.
For the most up-to-date information, call
the Advance Ticket Outlet at 503-276-4310,
check the Festival schedule board at
Nel Centro or the Whitsell Auditorium,
or log on to the Festival’s website at
festivals.nwfilm.org/piff36.
THE FESTIVAL SCENE
TICKETS
Nel Centro once again plays host to the
PIFF Lounge (a.k.a. Nel Centro’s bar), our
designated hang-out space, where you can
grab a quick bite before or after a screening, enjoy featured drink specials from
our Festival partners, and chat up fellow
Festivalgoers who you’ll find poring over
their schedules. With a number of PIFF
functions taking place at Nel Centro
throughout the Festival, there’s likely to be
a PIFF crowd spilling into the bar on any
given night. Check out the Festival’s schedule board for daily updates, located at the
restaurant’s entrance. The PIFF Lounge is
open February 9–23, Sunday–Thursday
4–11pm, and Friday–Saturday 4pm–12am.
Consider trying the PIFFtini this year!
GENERAL: $1 1
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM MEMBER: $10
STUDENT/SENIOR (65+): $10
CHILDREN (12 and under): $8
GROUP (10 or more, Sunday–Thursday
In between movies, beers, and great food,
stay connected through PIFF’s social media
outlets. Schedule updates, visiting artist
information, party details, and discussion
threads can all be found on the Northwest
Film Center website and Newsroom Blog,
Facebook, and Twitter. Visit the PIFF
microsite: festivals.nwfilm.org/piff36/updates.
Tune in to our Tweets: search #PIFF36
and follow @nwfilmcenter. Follow us on
Facebook: search Northwest Film Center.
Get filled in at our Newsroom Blog:
newsroom.nwfilm.org. Maybe you’re less
of a liker/tweeter/commenter/talker and
more of a looker? Visit our Flickr page
and browse Festival photos by searching
nwfilmcenter.
OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY: $30
screenings only): $8
Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and
Discovery cards are accepted at the Advance
Ticket Outlet and online. For day-of-show
sales, theater box offices accept cash or
check only. Online and phone orders have
a $1-per-ticket handling fee. Opening Night
Film & Party tickets have a $3-per-ticket
handling fee.
RUSH TICKETS
SILVER SCREEN CLUB
FRIEND ($75 annually): $8 (one discount per
film, per screening)
DIRECTOR ($300 annually), PRODUCER
($450 annually), BENEFACTOR ($1,300
annually), and SUSTAINER ($2,500 annually)
members receive free admission with their
valid Silver Screen Club cards
General; $25 Silver Screen Club Friend
and Portland Art Museum members
PURCHASE METHODS
Advance tickets go on sale beginning
Wednesday, January 30.
ONLINE: Daily, 24 hours at nwfilm.org.
WALK-UP: Daily, 12–6pm, January 30–
February 23 in person at the Advance
Ticket Outlet in the lobby of the
Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building,
1119 SW Park Avenue.
PHONE: Daily, 12–6pm, January 30–
February 23 at 503-276-4310.
DAY-OF-SHOW: On the day of a screening,
tickets (if still available) can be purchased
at the Advance Ticket Outlet until three
hours prior to showtime, then at the
specific theater’s box office beginning
as early as 30 minutes prior to showtime.
Even if advance tickets are no longer
available, rush tickets are offered at each
theater’s box office as soon as the number
of unoccupied passholder seats has been
determined—typically a few minutes before
showtime. The rush line may start anywhere from 15 minutes to two hours prior
to the screening.
FESTIVAL PASSES
An allotment of seats is reserved at every
screening for passholders. Passholders
are guaranteed admission until 10 minutes
prior to showtime or until the passholder
allotment has been reached. Early arrival is
recommended; although exceedingly rare
in occurrence, passholders may not always
be able to attend a film at their first choice
of screening times.
Passes are available exclusively as a benefit
of Silver Screen Club membership with the
Northwest Film Center at the Director level
and above. Get more from your PIFF experience as a member with year-round access
to Northwest Film Center screenings. No
more waiting in box office lines or keeping
track of individual tickets!
FESTIVAL VOUCHERS
Please be aware that a voucher may not be
used at a theater for admission. It must be
redeemed—in person at the Advance Ticket
Outlet—for a specific film screening at least
one day in advance of the screening date,
and tickets are subject to availability.
You’ll know it’s a voucher because it says
VOUCHER at the top, as well as THIS IS
NOT A TICKET. We recommend exchanging
vouchers at your earliest convenience.
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FESTIVAL VENUES
This year you’ll find PIFF screenings in
all four quadrants of the city! Some of the
venues are familiar places, and some are
new to us. Enjoy the Festival in the
Northeast at Regal’s Lloyd Center Cinema,
in the Southeast at Cinemagic, in the
Northwest at Cinema 21, and in the
Southwest at Regal’s Fox Tower, the
World Trade Center Theater, and of course
our own Whitsell Auditorium inside the
Portland Art Museum. Opening Night will
take place at the Newmark Theatre.
Find us at the addresses below and check
out page 42 for a map including public
transit options. For parking information,
please visit the Festival website:
C21
Cinema 21
616 NW 21st Ave at Hoyt
CM
Cinemagic
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd at 20th
FT
Regal Fox Tower
846 SW Park Ave at Taylor
LC
NT
Regal Lloyd Center
OTHER LOCATIONS
Nel Centro Restaurant/PIFF Lounge
1408 SW Sixth Ave at Columbia
Advance Ticket Outlet
1119 SW Park Ave at Main
(inside Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building)
Please note: As a security policy, the
Portland Art Museum and Regal Cinemas
require a bag check. Food and drink are
not allowed in the Whitsell Auditorium or
the World Trade Center Theater. We appreciate your observance of these policies and
your assistance in keeping the theaters as
clean as possible. Concession items are
available for purchase at Regal Cinemas,
Cinema 21, and Cinemagic. No outside
food or beverages allowed in any of the
theaters. Thank you.
PATRON COURTESIES
We appreciate your assistance in helping
to keep the Festival pleasant and fun for all.
Our staff and volunteers are on site to
assist, and we ask that all audience members
observe Festival etiquette.
s!LLSEATSAREGENERALADMISSIONANDSEAT
saving is not permitted.
Newmark Theatre
s0LEASETURNOFFCELLPHONESANDOTHER
devices during film presentations.
Whitsell Auditorium
1219 SW Park Ave at Madison
(inside the Portland Art Museum)
WTC
1510 NE Multnomah St at 15th
(outside Lloyd Center Mall)
1111 SW Broadway at Main
(inside the Portland Center for
the Performing Arts)
WH
P O R T L A N D
World Trade Center Theater
121 SW Salmon St at 1st St
(Building 2, upstairs)
s0LEASECOMPLETEANDRETURNYOUR!UDIENCE
Awards ballot immediately following
each screening in the designated boxes.
s7HILEWAITINGINLINEPLEASEBECONSIDERATE
of our neighbors and local businesses.
s0LEASEREFRAINFROMSMOKINGNEAR&ESTIVAL
doorways.
s4OEXPEDITETHEATERCLEANINGANDSEATING
please discard your waste in the appropriate
containers when exiting the theater.
s"EAWARETHATMANYLINESAREOUTSIDEOF
the theaters and dress appropriately.
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F E STIVAL
OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS
We’re glad you’re here! We recommend
staying with one of the Festival’s hotel
sponsors for great access to Festival venues.
The Hotel Modera, adjoining the Festival’s
social hub Nel Centro, is a convenient and
comfortable choice for those who want to
be in the middle of everything PIFF. The
Hotel deLuxe and the Heathman Hotel are
also conveniently located downtown and
near all the action.
For those looking for other things to do
besides PIFF, Travel Portland is an excellent resource for everything happening in
Portland. travelportland.com/visitors.
Need help getting around? Portland has
great public transportation, and you can
find your way by visiting Trimet at
trimet.org.
And for getting here and back, we highly
recommend patronizing our Festival airline
sponsors, Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines.
DISABILITY SERVICES
The Festival is committed to accommodating
audience members with disabilities. We allow
early seating for persons with disabilities
when logistically possible. Please make
yourself known to the theater house manager
for assistance. All venues are wheelchair
accessible and have wheelchair-accessible
restrooms. The Whitsell Auditorium, Regal
Cinemas, and Newmark Theatre offer
hearing assistance devices.
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FESTIVAL POLICIES
THE 10-MINUTE RULE
Seats for advance ticket and passholders
are held until 10 minutes before showtime, when any unfilled seats are
released to the public. Thus, advance
tickets or passes ensure that you will not
have to wait in the ticket purchase line but
do not guarantee a seat in the case of arrival
after the 10-minute window has begun. Your
early arrival also helps get screenings started
promptly. We appreciate your understanding.
Advance ticket holders who arrive within
the 10-minute window but are not seated
may exchange their tickets for another
screening at the Advance Ticket Outlet or
obtain a cash refund at the theater. There
are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals
after showtime or for missed screenings.
SEPARATE ADMISSION
Each screening is a separate admission.
Theaters are cleared between screenings in
most cases. Advance ticket holders for a film
immediately following the one they are
attending will be guaranteed admission to
the second film but cannot save a particular
seat. You must take your belongings with
you. We appreciate your understanding.
NON-FESTIVAL TICKETS
AND PASSES
Film Center scrip and comps, Portland Art
Museum passes, Regal, student, and other
regular passes or discount admission tickets
are not valid during the Festival.
THE FINE PRINT
All orders are final. There are no refunds
or exchanges except as noted. If a screening
is canceled, tickets must be returned to the
Advance Ticket Outlet within a week of
the canceled screening date for refund or
exchange. Processing fees are non-refundable.
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P O R T L A N D
F I L M
F E STIVAL
OPENING NIGHT
BLANCANIEVES
(Spain)
Pablo Berger
This year’s Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a 1920s, silentset reworking of the Brothers Grimm fairytale “Snow White,” offset by punchy Flamenco
rhythms and full of imagination. Rejected at birth by her father, Carmencita (Macarena
Garciá) is raised by her grandmother. But when her grandmother dies, the poor darkhaired maiden is sent to the lower depths of her evil stepmother’s villa. Maribel Verdú
(Y Tu Mamá También) gives an ingeniously smart, campy performance as the villainess,
hell-bent on keeping Carmencita from Prince Charming—here a bullfighting dwarf!—and
thwarting her dreams of becoming a matador. “While Michel Hazanavicius’s Oscar winner,
The Artist, was a playful valentine to pre-talkies Hollywood, Spanish writer-director
Berger’s inventive Andalusian tale is a love letter to 1920s European silent film, effortlessly
mixing humor and melodrama in delightful fashion.”—Hollywood Reporter. (90 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Torremolinos 73 (03).
2/7
7:30pm
Newmark Theatre
OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY
The Northwest Film Center, with support from The Paul G. Allen Family
Foundation and Mercedes-Benz of Beaverton, invites you to join us after the
screening at the Newmark Theatre for our Opening Night Party, hosted by Stella
Artois and King Estate Winery. Opening Night Film & Party tickets: $30 general,
$25 Silver Screen Club Friend and Portland Art Museum members. The evening,
and all other PIFF and regular year-round Film Center screenings—more than
400 annually—are free for Silver Screen Director, Producer, Benefactor, and
Sustainer members. Sign up for the Silver Screen Club or purchase advance
Opening Night tickets at nwfilm.org.
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P O R T L A N D
F I L M
ARGENTINA
CHINESE TAKE-OUT
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F E STIVAL
AUSTRALIA
CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD
WHITE ELEPHANT
LORE
Sebastián Borensztein
Benjamín Ávila
Pablo Trapero
Cate Shortland
Staunch loner Roberto, owner of a small
hardware store in Buenos Aires, is shaken
out of his solitary daily routine of collecting
absurd newspaper clippings and visiting
his parents’ grave when Chinese immigrant
Jun literally falls into his life out of the
back of a cab. Through a series of events
that go against Roberto’s better judgment,
the out-of-work Jun moves in with him,
which proves a nightmare for Roberto as
he makes increasingly desperate (and also
touching and hilarious) attempts to get rid
of his new roommate. Borensztein’s warm,
endearing film offers a heartfelt reminder
that friendship can crop up between the
strangest, most mismatched, and plain old
grumpiest of odd couples. Winner of the
Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and
Best Film Awards at the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina.
(98 mins.) In Spanish and Mandarin.
Ávila’s partly autobiographical account of
his upbringing is a moving portrait of adolescent life in politically tumultuous 1970s
Argentina. After years of exile, 12-year-old
Juan and his family cautiously return to
Buenos Aires with fake identities. Juan’s
parents are members of the Montoneros
organization, fighting against the ruling
military junta. His friends at school know
him as Ernesto, and as he tries to make
friends and lead a normal life, he knows
his life depends on him not forgetting who
he really is. Ávila’s powerful portrait of
childhood innocence at odds with life-ordeath political ideals won the Casa de
America Award at the San Sebastian
International Film Festival and is this
year’s Argentine submission for the Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar. (112 mins.)
In the dangerous, poverty-stricken slums
of Buenos Aires, two Catholic priests tirelessly fighting for the dispossessed take
very different paths in their struggle
against violence, corruption, and injustice.
The older Julian uses his political connections to see to the construction of a critical
hospital, while the younger Nicholas,
troubled by his lack of faith in the Church’s
ability to help the poor, questions his calling. Between them is Luciana, an atheistic
social worker who works with one as she
becomes romantically involved with the
other. Enduring constant struggle, torn
apart by the conflicting interests of rival
drug cartels, venal politics, rampant police
corruption, and the basic needs of the
people, a moment of reckoning tests
friendship, faith, and the worth of their
commitment. (110 mins.)
Lore explores the tribulations faced by the
young in the aftermath of World War II.
When their Nazi SS parents are arrested
by the Allies, five siblings are suddenly left
to fend for themselves. Teenaged Lore, the
oldest, takes charge, and the children set
out on foot to join their grandmother in
Hamburg, 500 miles away. Along the
arduous journey, they encounter a populace
suffering from postwar denial and deprivation and for the first time are exposed
to the reality and consequences of their
parents’ actions. The children meet Thomas,
a young Jewish survivor who helps them
negotiate their way but who by their teaching is the enemy, despite his help and allure.
A moving film about guilt, forgiveness,
and survival, Lore is this year’s Australian
submission for the Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar. (109 mins.) In German with
English subtitles.
Filmography: Sin Memoria (10).
2/10 2:30pm
2/16 3:00pm
Sponsored by Hotel Modera.
First Feature.
2/10 7:30pm
2/11 9:15pm
2/14 6:30pm
Cinemagic
Regal Lloyd Center 4
Sponsored by OPB.
Selected Filmography: Crane World (99), Rolling
Family (04), Carancho (10).
2/21 8:45pm
2/23 6:00pm
Cinemagic
Cinema 21
Sponsored by OregonLive.com.
Selected Filmography: Somersault (04).
2/10 7:30pm
2/11 5:45pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by Lamar Transit Advertising.
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AUSTRALIA
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
F E STIVAL
AUSTRIA
(cont.)
THE SAPPHIRES
COMING OF AGE
PARADISE: LOVE
PARADISE: FAITH
Wayne Blair
Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Seidl
In 1968, in a remote Australian town
where white racism rules, an Aboriginal
country-western singing group struggles to
make it in the music business. Their fortunes
change when they meet garrulous Irish
pianist/drinker Dave (Chris O’Dowd,
Bridesmaids), who recognizes their talent
and adds soul music to their repertoire.
Soon, the precocious singer Julie (Australian
music star Jessica Mauboy), boy-crazy
Cynthia, tough and tart-tongued leader
Gail, and cousin Kay who wishes she were
white, score an unexpected gig: entertaining American troops in Vietnam. A rousing,
heartfelt tale based on screenwriter Tony
Briggs’s true-life family, the mix of charming romance, fine performances, and
Motown classics sprinkled with Aboriginal
folk songs adds up to a sparkling musical
adventure set against the chaos of war and
the civil rights politics of the era. (99 mins.)
Rosa meets Bruno. Two people who consider themselves to be over the hill and
irrelevant in today’s world suddenly learn
what it means to pursue once-in-a-lifetime
happiness, to find one’s soulmate. The only
problem: Rosa has only six months to live.
The two decide to go for it anyway. Bruno
breaks out of his marriage and a family life
where everything’s been routine for some
time, and Rosa runs away from the retirement home where her niece hoped she
would quietly disappear. They set up house
together and are then forced to face the
question of whether happiness has an
expiration date or if memories of special
moments with the kind of a person you
meet only once are much more important.
Winner of the Audience Prize at the
Montreal Film Festival. (90 mins.)
The first installment in Seidl’s Paradise
trilogy, Paradise: Love explores the collision
of Christian virtues with worldly realities.
Leaving her wearying job and troublesome
teenage daughter in the care of her sister
for a brief vacation, Teresa heads for a
“full-service” beach resort in Kenya—a
popular sex tourism destination for middleaged women. The buff young men on the
beach in front of the hotel are there to sell
trinkets or themselves as need be, but for
Teresa, the boundaries of sex, love, and
oppression are not so clear. As Seidl explores
the perspectives of a woman who, while in
power, is not at all sure of what she wants
or even if it is for sale, his provocative mix
of wincing candor, keen social observation,
striking visual storytelling, and dark humor
paints a portrait of paradise so near and
yet so far. (120 mins.) In German, English,
and Swahili with English subtitles.
The second installment of Seidl’s controversial and unflinching Paradise trilogy
follows the fanatically devout Anna Maria,
who in her desperate search for “paradise”
spends her summer vacation away from
her job by doing missionary work: in this
case, going door-to-door with a large statue
of the Virgin Mary hoping to win converts.
At home, she prays with a startling fervor,
tinged with a taste for masochism. After
a long separation, her husband Nabil—a
tradition-minded Egyptian Muslim
confined to a wheelchair—returns, and his
pushy demands for his wife’s attention put
her faith to the test. Winner of the Special
Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
(113 mins.) In German and Arabic with
English subtitles.
First Feature.
2/8 6:00pm
2/10 5:00pm
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Selected Filmography: Dog Days (01), Jesus,
You Know (03), Import Export (07).
2/8
2/15
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Selected Filmography: Dog Days (01), Jesus,
You Know (03), Import Export (07).
2/22 6:00pm
2/23 3:15pm
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
BELGIUM
BRAZIL
OUR CHILDREN
NEIGHBORING SOUNDS
F I L M
9
F E STIVAL
CANADA
THE END OF TIME
LAURENCE ANYWAYS
Joachim Lafosse
Kleber Mendonça Filho
Peter Mettler
Xavier Dolan
Based on the true, headline-news story of
Genevieve Lhermitte, Our Children unfolds
the riveting story of Murielle (Émilie
Dequenne, winner of the Best Actress
Award in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s
Un Certain Regard section), a Belgian
schoolteacher caught in a claustrophobic
domestic nightmare. Struggling financially,
she and her Moroccan immigrant husband
Mounir are forced to move in with his
adoptive father, Dr. Pinget. When the
couple begin to have children, the house
starts to feel small and suffocating, and the
pressure to please both men—each domineering in their own ways—gradually overwhelms Murielle, leading to a shocking act
of liberation. This year’s Belgian submission
for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar,
Lafosse’s direction of this perverse narrative of patriarchal power and female
oppression is like steel wrapped in silk.
(111 mins.)
With an acute eye for the push and pull of
modern life, Neighboring Sounds delves into
the lives of a group of prosperous middleclass families residing on a quiet street in
Recife, close to a low-income neighborhood.
The private security firm hired to police
the street becomes the catalyst for an
exploration of the neighbors’ discontents
and anxieties, their feelings exacerbated
by the palpable unease of a society that
remains unreconciled to its troubled past
and present inequities. Meticulously constructed, with unexpected compositions and
arresting editing, you’re never quite sure
where things are headed as it builds imperceptibly toward its stunning payoff. Winner
of the FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize at the
Rotterdam International Film Festival.
“Sensational.”—Artforum. “Thrilling.”
—Film Comment. (131 mins.)
“Time is nature’s way of preventing everything from happening at once,” Einstein
once said. But how do we really get our
heads wrapped around it? Swiss/Canadian
filmmaker Peter Mettler takes the challenge
with a probing, playful meditation on the
elusive nature of time. From the 27-milelong particle accelerator in Switzerland
where scientists seek to probe regions of
time we cannot see to frozen-in-time lava
flows in Hawaii, from the time-stands-still
disintegration of downtown Detroit to a
Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s
enlightenment, Mettler explores our perceptions, dreams the future, and celebrates
the wonder of the everyday in visually
spectacular fashion. (109 mins.)
Filmography: Critico (08).
2/9
2/16
Set in 1990s Montreal, Laurence Anyways
narrates the story of Laurence, a handsome high school teacher and writer who is
madly in love with his girlfriend, Fred, a
film producer. Their joyful life is turned
upside down when Laurence announces
his transsexuality and his choice to live as
a woman. Fred vows to support Laurence
during his transition, but the couple’s new
lifestyle clashes with friends, family, and
society in general. Told with a visual flair
and signature style that bespeaks 23-yearold Dolan’s astonishing talent, Laurence is,
above all, an epic, ten-year love story
that examines a couple’s inability to exist
without each other. “This big, dreamy,
audacious picture has large questions about
relationships and identity. Can anyone be
true to his or her inner self in the context
of romantic love?”—Tara Brady, Irish
Times. (168 mins.)
Filmography: Private Madness (04), Private
Property (06), Private Lessons (08).
2/9
2/13
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2/15
2/17
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Selected Filmography: Picture of Light (94),
Gambling, Gods, and LSD (02), Petropolis: Aerial
Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (09).
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Filmography: I Killed My Mother (09), Heartbeats (10).
2/16 8:00pm
2/20 7:00pm
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10
3 6TH
CANADA
P O R T L A N D
CHILE
(cont.)
WAR WITCH
F I L M
F E STIVAL
CHINA
NO
MEMORIES LOOK AT ME
OLD DOG
Kim Nguyen
Pablo Larraín
Song Fang
Pema Tseden
War Witch unfolds as a harrowing fairytale, told by a 14-year-old African child
soldier to her unborn son. Taken from her
village, Komona is given a hallucinogenic
milk that gifts her with a sorceress’s ability
to see the ghosts of the fallen. Fighting
alongside an albino boy named Magician,
she soon comes to understand that her
career as “witch” to the rebel leader will
only last as long as their victories. The two
set off together, putting their violent past
behind them as they bond while searching
for the white rooster she has demanded as
proof of his love. Nguyen has interwoven
true stories of child soldiers in Burma
with footage captured in the Democratic
Republic of Congo to fashion a story of
touching beauty about the search for love
and finding inner peace. This year’s
Canadian submission for the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar. (90 mins.)
Song Fang’s remarkable directorial debut,
in which she travels from Beijing to Nanjing
for a visit with her family (many of whom
play themselves), gracefully expounds on
several poignant topics: how an adult child’s
relationship with her parents changes as
they grow older and how to negotiate
one’s place as a single woman in a world
of married couples. Song, who many will
remember for her wonderful performance
as Juliette Binoche’s nanny and aspiring
filmmaker in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Flight
of the Red Balloon (PIFF 2008), perfectly
captures the rhythms of brief sojourns home,
trips filled with reunions (both joyful and
heart-wrenching), reminiscences, and
moments of feeling painfully out of place.
Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at
this year’s Locarno Film Festival. (91 mins.)
Filled with breathtaking shots of the
Himalayan countryside, Tibetan filmmaker Tseden offers an emotional allegory
about urbanization and generational conflict. On a visit to a frontier town, middleaged Gonpo decides to sell his faithful
Tibetan mastiff to a Chinese trader who
specializes in procuring dogs for wealthy
landowners as status symbols. Gonpo’s
father, Akhu, disturbed by his son’s lack of
regard for their dog, purchases the animal
back, initiating the simple storyline revolving around the dog’s destiny and the ensuing
familial dynamics. Rich with commentary
on the evolving conflict within Tibetan
culture and a way of life that is quickly
giving way to outside forces, Old Dog
poetically surfaces the conflicted views
of a culture’s future. (88 mins.)
First Feature.
Filmography: The Silent Holy Stones (05),
The Search (09).
Filmography: The Marsh (02), Truffe (08), City of
Shadows (10).
Exploring the moral and spiritual costs
of the rule of Chilean military dictator
Augusto Pinochet, No follows the exploits
of René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), a
clever advertising executive appointed by
the opposing coalition to spearhead the
“no” campaign in the 1988 referendum.
Intent on revealing Pinochet’s human rights
atrocities, Saavedra insists that the way to
overcome voter fear is with glitzy, jinglefilled spots that promise that “no” is simply
a vote for “happiness.” Liberally peppered
with black comedy, the film reveals not only
the hypocrisy of the regime but that of the
left-leaning opposition and the cynical
advertising world manipulations as well.
Shooting on video cameras used during the
era allows Larraín to seamlessly blend
archival footage and to visually riff on the
aesthetics of the microwave and soft drink
commercials appropriated for the campaign.
This year’s Chilean submission for the Best
2/8
2/18
Filmography: Fuga (06), Tony Manero (08), Post
Mortem (10).
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2/17
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2/16
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2/17
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3 6TH
COLOMBIA
P O R T L A N D
CUBA
LA SIRGA
F I L M
11
F E STIVAL
CZECH REPUBLIC
ONE NIGHT
4SOME
ALOIS NEBEL
William Vega
Lucy Mulloy
Jan Hrebejk
Tomáš Lunák
With moving intimacy, Vega depicts the
challenges and obstacles that face Colombia’s
indigenous population—not just the struggle
to sustain cultural traditions and values but
simply to stay alive in the strife that has
long beset the country. Fleeing the fighting
in her hometown that has taken her family,
19-year-old Alicia arrives at her aunt and
uncle’s ramshackle inn, La Sirga, on the
isolated shores of a lake high in the Andes.
By day, Alicia assists the couple in fixing
up the inn, hoping the area’s tourists will
return next season, but at night, perhaps
due to the trauma she has witnessed, Alicia
sleepwalks. Against this setting of evocative
natural beauty, a quiet drama of identity
and healing plays out in enthralling fashion.
(88 mins.)
Despite the stark choices around them,
three Havana teens defiantly maintain their
self-worth and dreams for a better future.
After a run-in with a tourist puts the police
on his tail, hotheaded Raul impulsively
decides it’s time to escape to Florida and
begins planning with his friend Elio. When
Elio’s twin sister Lila discovers what the
two are up to, her dismay gives way to a
decision to join them on the perilous sea
journey. Brimming with the nervous energy
of Havana’s restless youth and the evocative
cinematography of the sun-bleached capital,
One Night follows one sweltering day, full of
hope and fraught with tensions, that burns
to a shocking climax. Winner of the Best
New Narrative Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Actor Awards at the
Tribeca Film Festival. (90 mins.)
Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged couples, Marie and Vitek and Dita and Ondra,
are linked by more than just a lifelong
friendship, a shared house in a small town,
and same-aged adolescent children: they
are linked by love. Both men, Ondra and
Vitek, who are work colleagues, sincerely
love their wives, but they each harbor a
secret yearning for the other’s wife. When
the two of them are offered a job together—
restoring the electrical grid on a sparsely
inhabited Caribbean island—they leap at
the chance to enjoy a little tropical sunshine while launching the kind of cunning
plan people in Czech sex comedies tend to
launch. What ensues is a sunny romp with
a couple of (not too) serious questions in
the back of its mind. (80 mins.)
Based on the graphic novel trilogy by
Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír Svejdík, this
superbly atmospheric rotoscope animation
employs noirish black-and-white images
and an evocative soundtrack to portray the
fractured psychology of a man and his
country. In summer 1989, Alois Nebel
works as a stationmaster in a small village
in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the
Polish border. Preferring old timetables to
people, Nebel lives through his memories,
haunted by the violent postwar expulsion
of the Germans and getting lost in the
mists of time. Encounters with a mysterious
mute man and the kind Kv ta help him
to connect the past with the present and
to find middle-aged love. Winner of the
European Film Award for Best Animated
Film, Lunák’s auspicious debut is “destined
to become a classic of the form.”—Piers
Handling, Toronto International Film
Festival. (84 mins.)
First Feature.
2/8 8:45pm
2/10 7:30pm
2/18 2:30pm
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2/20 6:00pm
2/21 9:15pm
Whitsell Auditorium
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Selected Filmography: Cosy Dens (99), Divided We
Fall (00), Up and Down (04), Beauty in Trouble (06),
Kawasaki’s Rose (09).
2/19 8:45pm
2/20 6:00pm
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2/9
2/12
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3 6TH
CZECH REP.
(cont.)
IN THE SHADOW
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
F E STIVAL
DENMARK
FINLAND
A HIJACKING
THE HUNT
PURGE
David Ondrícek
Tobias Lindholm
Thomas Vinterberg
Antti Jokinen
In 1950s Prague, police detective Hakl
is investigating a jewelry store heist, until
East German State police specialist Zenke
arrives and takes over. Zenke believes that
members of the Jewish community are
responsible and that an underground ring
may be smuggling funds to Zionist terrorists
in Israel. Unconvinced, Hakl continues his
own investigation. But which version of the
truth do the Communist authorities prefer
to find? Ond í ek spins a suspenseful noir
tale of standing up to the mistrust and fear
in Stalinist, postwar Czechoslovakia. This
year’s Czech submission for the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar. (106 mins.) In
Czech and German with English subtitles.
A gripping suspense drama focusing on
negotiation tactics and complex human
psychology, A Hijacking chronicles the
nightmare endured by the small crew of
a Danish cargo ship when Somali pirates
suddenly take them hostage in the Indian
Ocean. Back in the shipping company’s
office in Copenhagen, the demand for a
$15 million ransom sets in motion tense
negotiations, which, against the advice of
professional hostage negotiators, the macho
(and frugal) president decides he will
handle himself. Plunging the company,
the crew and their families, and the pirates
into an extended battle of wills, we watch
as the fear and tension aboard the ship is on
course for disaster. At once a procedural
thriller, an almost documentary-like look
at modern, high-tech piracy, and a telling
reminder of economic disparity, Lindholm’s
(also the screenwriter of The Hunt ) gripping
saga rings true. (110 mins.)
Vinterberg’s devastating drama follows an
upstanding member of a small, close-knit
Danish community charged with an
unthinkable crime. Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen)
is a kindergarten aide beloved by students
and parents alike, until a girl in his class
accuses him of inappropriately touching
her. No sooner is the charge leveled than
Lucas is deemed guilty in the public eye
and then ostracized—indeed, hunted—by
his former friends and neighbors. Knowing
that Lucas is indeed innocent adds a chilling layer of horror to an already breathless
tale. A provocative, all-too-believable study
in mob mentality and the unfailing belief
of adults in the innocence of children,
The Hunt is a gripping psychological drama
with a stellar performance by Mikkelsen,
who won the Best Actor Prize at this year’s
Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the
Audience Award at the Vancouver
International Film Festival. (115 mins.)
Estonia, 1994. Soviet occupation has
ended, but not the grip of Stalinist memories
or the new hold of the Russian Mafia.
Aliide, who has lived through a generation
where a sentence to Siberian prison camps
was all too regular, encounters Zara, a
young girl who has exhaustedly escaped
the clutches of sex slavery. Though from
different eras, both women are haunted by
their own tragic pasts and a dark history
that binds them. Based on the awardwinning novel of the same title by Sofi
Oksanen, this unflinching family drama,
a story of sex trafficking, violent abuse,
betrayal, and loss, is this year’s Finnish
Film Oscar. (125 mins.)
Selected Filmography: R (10).
Filmography: The Celebration (98), It’s All About
Love (03), Dear Wendy (04), Submarino (10).
Selected Filmography: Loners (00), One Hand Can’t
Clap (03), Grandhotel (06).
2/9
2/13
2/16
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2/20 8:45pm
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2/18 7:30pm
2/21 8:30pm
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Selected Filmography: The Resident (11).
2/9
2/12
2/16
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8:30pm
5:30pm
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3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
.
FRANCE
THE PAINTING
13
F E STIVAL
RENOIR
SOMETHING IN THE AIR
YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET
Jean-François Laguionie
Gilles Bourdos
Olivier Assayas
Alain Resnais
Inside the magical world of a painting,
figures divide themselves into three castes:
the realistically rendered, highly polished
Alldunns, who hold court in a castle; the
Halfies, who for want of a brushstroke are
denied the privileges of the Alldunns; and
the Sketchies, rough and ragged outlines
treated as untouchables by the others.
A forbidden romance between the Halfie
Claire and the Alldunn Ramo leads the
two, along with Claire’s friend Lola, to
run away—all the way to the edge of their
painting, where they hop out of the frame
and into the studio of the man who created
them. An inventive, animated fable about
art and life, appearance and perception.
“Enchanting!... This consistently enjoyable,
inventive, and beautifully crafted tale is a
color riot suitable for all ages... A constant
feast for the eyes.”—Variety. (76 mins.)
The South of France, 1915: 74-year-old
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet)
still paints every day, despite the pains of
old age and the loss of his dear wife. The
arrival of a new 15-year-old model, Andrée
(Christa Theret), brings an incandescent
energy into the household, inspiring not only
Renoir le père’s painting but also stirring the
passions of les filses Jean (Vincent Rottiers)
and Claude (Thomas Doret). Against the
backdrop of World War I , the film locates
a fascinating moment of change, one
century’s way of thinking giving way to
the next, and the passing of the torch from
a great painter to the great filmmaker of
such classics as Grand Illusion and Rules
of the Game. Featured as the Closing Night
Film of the Un Certain Regard section at
the Cannes Film Festival. (111 mins.)
Selected Filmography: A Sight For Sore Eyes (03),
Afterwards (08).
Assayas’s evocative portrait of the
upheaval in France in the early 1970s is
seen through the eyes of a group of youth
living in suburban Paris amidst a whirlwind
of new politics, art, and sex. Gilles is a
high school student torn between left-wing
activism and his aspiration to become a
painter or filmmaker. He and his friends
take to the streets in running battles with
the police, continuing the struggle that in
May 1968 took France to the brink of revolution. When someone is badly injured,
Gilles and his friends must flee to Italy,
where they live a bohemian life drifting
between parties, rallies, and agitprop film
screenings. But while politics are central,
the group discovers that at their age,
everything is mutable, every day holds new
possibilities, and life awaits the curious…
Winner of the Best Screenplay Prize at the
Venice Film Festival. (122 mins.)
“Based on two works by the playwright
Jean Anouilh, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
opens with a who’s-who of French acting
royalty being summoned to the reading of
a late playwright’s last will and testament.
There, the playwright appears on a TV
screen from beyond the grave and asks
his erstwhile collaborators to evaluate a
recording of an experimental theater company performing his Eurydice—a play they
themselves all appeared in over the years.
But as the video unspools, instead of
watching passively, these seasoned thespians
begin acting out the text alongside their
youthful avatars, looking back into the past
rather like mythic Orpheus himself. An
alternately wry and wistful valentine to
actors from a director long fascinated by
the intersection of life, theater, and cinema.”
—New York Film Festival. (115 mins.)
2/10 4:45pm
2/13 8:45pm
Selected Filmography: Irma Vep (96), Les Destinées
(00), Boarding Gate (07), Summer Hours (08).
Selected Filmography: Gwen, The Book of Sand
(85), A Monkey’s Tale (99), Black Mor’s Island (04).
2/9
2/17
8:45pm
5:30pm
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2/16 6:00pm
2/21 5:45pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by TV5Monde and King Estate Winery.
Selected Filmography: Hiroshima, Mon Amour (59),
Last Year at Marienbad (61), Stavisky (74), My
American Uncle (80), Same Old Song (97), Wild
Grass (09).
2/20 6:00pm
2/23 9:00pm
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Whitsell Auditorium
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14
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
GEORGIA
KEEP SMILING
F I L M
F E STIVAL
GERMANY
HANNAH ARENDT
Rusudan Chkonia
Margarethe von Trotta
HAPPY PEOPLE:
A YEAR IN THE TAIGA
POLLUTING PARADISE
Fatih Akin
Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog
Writer/director Chkonia brings a woman’s
eye to this satiric tragicomedy, set in the
Georgian capital of Tbilisi, that tells the
story of ten desperate housewives and their
fierce rivalry to win a beauty contest—one
open only to mothers with three or more
children. Competing in five categories
pigeonholing women, including “Best Cook”
and “Super Mom,” the grand prize is a
coveted apartment and $25,000. But
dreams soon vanish as realization dawns
that the competition is a scam and all they
are getting are media hounds, chauvinist
pigs, and their own domestic nightmares.
This heartfelt story, filled with equal
measures of humor and humanism, is this
year’s Georgian submission for the Best
Foreign Language Film Oscar and offers
a multi-faceted look at contemporary
Georgia. (94 mins.)
First Feature.
2/18
2/19
7:45pm
8:45pm
Von Trotta’s film is an intelligent and powerful dramatization of the life of the philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt, whose
The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) made
her famous in philosophical circles before
her controversial chronicle in The New
Yorker of Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial
for war crimes shot her to broader international celebrity. Focusing on the Eichmann
era, Barbara Sukowa perfectly embodies
the academic Arendt, who observes that it
is the ordinariness of Eichmann (“He looks
like a nobody”) that leads her to fashion
her most startling concept—the “banality of
evil”—while her reporting on collaborating
German Jews causes a firestorm of protest.
“What could have been a dry, intellectually
ponderous film is given flesh and blood,
resulting in a drama that is both stirring
and emotionally rewarding.”—London
Film Festival. (113 mins.)
Selected Filmography: The Second Awakening of
Christa Klages (78), Sister, or The Balance of
Happiness (79), Rosa Luxemburg (86), The Promise
(95), Rosenstrasse (03).
2/16
2/18
8:45pm
5:15pm
Whitsell Auditorium
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“Paradise on earth? Through writer and
narrator Werner Herzog’s lens, that is what
Bakhtia, a village on the river Yenisei in
Russia’s far north might seem like in this
breathtaking, rich, and frequently funny
documentary. He and first-time director
Vasyukov capture the local people—nearly
always in companionship with their dogs—
making their own tools, trapping sable,
felling trees to build boats, fishing, harvesting food, and holding ceremonies for the
turning of the seasons. Sharing their perspectives on greed, war and mortality, as
Herzog notes: They live off the land and are
self-reliant, truly free… No rules, no taxes,
no government, no laws, no bureaucracy,
no phones, no radio, equipped only with
their individual values and standard of
conduct.”—Telluride Film Festival. (90 mins.)
Selected Documentary Filmography: Land of
Silence and Darkness (71), La Soufrière (77),
Lessons of Darkness (92), Grizzly Man (05), Cave
of Forgotten Dreams (10).
2/16
2/19
5:30pm
8:45pm
Cinema 21
Whitsell Auditorium
Çamburnu is a small village in northeastern Turkey where people have lived for
generations off tea cultivation and fishing.
But the idyllic landscape has been compromised by the decision ten years ago to
build a garbage landfill directly above the
village. Despite protests by the mayor and
the villagers, the site has continued to pollute the air and ground water, while rains
flush the waste down the slopes, and flocks
of birds and stray dogs besiege the village.
In 2006, Akin went to Çamburnu, his
grandparents’ home village, and over five
years returned many times to chronicle the
village’s struggle against the government
and document the disasters that threaten this
former paradise. Polluting Paradise provides
a remarkable portrait of a small community fighting for its life and an inspirational
story of activist courage. (85 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Head-On (04), Crossing the
Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (05), The Edge of
Heaven (07), Soul Kitchen (09).
2/17 3:00pm World Trade Center Theater
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
15
F E STIVAL
GREAT BRITAIN
THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA
THE ANGELS’ SHARE
GINGER & ROSA
Marten Persiel
Ken Loach
Sally Potter
Skateboarding becomes a metaphor for
freedom in this love letter to the subversive
power of youth. In East Germany in the
1980s, for three teens—Nico, Dirk, and
Dennis—life in the GDR was dominated by
skateboarding. But in a nation where “the
streets were not for playing around,” skating
was as much a revolutionary act of defiance
as it was a spectacular sport. Using a clutch
of priceless Super-8 films, animations,
reenactments, and archival footage, all set
against a delirious punk soundtrack, This
Ain’t California follows the three through
adolescence and into adulthood on the eve
of reunification. Through the lenses of the
skater kids amongst the Stasi comes a rare,
stylishly witty glimpse into East Berlin
counterculture. (90 mins.)
In his bittersweet caper-comedy, which
won the Jury Prize at Cannes, Loach turns
his gaze on Robbie, a new father in trouble
with the law. When he holds his newborn
son for the first time, Robbie is determined
that the boy will have a better life, one
with opportunities. But Robbie must first
sort out his life as a prison sentence looms.
Given one more chance and sentenced to
community service, he meets Rhino,
Albert, and Mo, former criminals who also
can’t find work. But, ironically, turning to
drink changes their lives. Robbie, it turns
out, has a rare gift—a great palate and a
delicate nose for fine malt whisky. This
newly discovered talent leads to an inspiration that might turn things around for
him—but first, he faces a true test on a trip
with the gang to the Scottish Highlands.
(101 mins.)
London, 1962. While tied to the hip—
“forever”—of her best friend Rosa (Alice
Englert), Ginger (Elle Fanning) is beset by
two crises: the collapse of her parents’
marriage and the growing worldwide
anxiety concerning nuclear Armageddon.
If that’s not enough, the joys and terrors of
dawning sexual identity and creative ambition are equally consuming. As her family
implodes and the Cold War meets the
sexual revolution, lifelong friendship will
be shattered by ideology and personal
betrayals. Looking back on the idealism
and roots of a feminist generation, Potter’s
exploration of the price of coming of age
features a striking performance by Elle
Fanning and a supporting cast that includes
Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Annette Bening,
Christina Hendricks, and Alessandro
Nivola. (90 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Black Jack (79), Riff-Raff
(91), Sweet Sixteen (02), The Wind That Shakes the
Barley (06), It’s a Free World… (07), Looking for Eric
(09).
Selected Filmography: The Gold Diggers (83),
Orlando (92), The Tango Lesson (97), Yes (04),
Rage (09).
THE PERVERT’S GUIDE
TO IDEOLOGY
Sophie Fiennes
First Feature.
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Following up on his provocative The Pervert’s
Guide to Cinema, confrontational Slovenian
philosopher and film theoretician Slavoj
Žižek continues his riveting search for the
hidden languages of cinema, exploring the
idea of films as collective fantasies that
shape our beliefs, practices, and society.
Žižek’s high-concept take on what psychoanalysis reveals about ideology is a treat
for cineastes seeking profound yet accessible
analysis of the classics and is guaranteed to
provide fresh perspective. Fiennes captures
Žižek (amusingly inserted into scenes from
the films he talks about) as he examines a
wide range of works (also music, history,
and current events) including Robert
Wise’s classic epic The Sound of Music, John
Carpenter’s alien invasion B -movie They
Live, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket,
Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and dozens
more. Little did you know! (134 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Hoover Street Revival (02),
The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema (06), Over Your
Cities Grass Will Grow (10).
2/17 12:00pm Cinema 21
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3 6TH
GREAT BRITAIN
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
F E STIVAL
GREECE
(cont.)
SIGHTSEERS
TWO YEARS AT SEA
WASTELAND
UNFAIR WORLD
Ben Wheatley
Ben Rivers
Rowan Athale
Filippos Tsitos
Lovey-dovey Tina and Chris set out on
an erotic holiday in their camper through
the North of England, aiming to take in
Yorkshire, the Lakes, and hit such must-sees
as the Ribblehead Viaduct and the Keswick
Pencil Museum. But things get off to a
bloody start when Chris casually rolls over
a litterbug at the Crich Tramway Village,
revealing a certain antisocial behavior.
As more people meet his disapproval, Tina,
initially confused, quickly opts to stand by
her man, joining him on a rolling murder
spree that whacks anyone who happens to
intrude on their bliss. As this Midlands
Bonnie and Clyde motor through the
countryside, the laughs and mayhem unfold
in equal, deranged measure. “Darkly funny,
quasi-sweet, and incredibly bloody.”—Ain’t
It Cool News. “Hugely entertaining...
Hilarious.”—Indiewire. (88 mins.)
Two Years At Sea is a nearly wordless portrait
of Jake, who lives a solitary existence in a
Scottish forest in Aberdeenshire. Surviving
frugally, he passes his time with strange
projects and living the radical dream he
had as a younger man, which he spent two
years working at sea to realize. Rivers has
made 20 shorts over the past decade, free
of narrative, drama, and character development, inspired by literature and fine art,
and exploring worlds at the far fringe of
civilization—places of ragged, strange
beauty where inventors, seers, and eccentric philosophers live in zealous communion
with nature. “Too much exposition is the
kind of thing that makes me bored with
Hollywood movies,” Rivers says. “I like
films that leave a lot to the audience.”
Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize
at the Venice Film Festival. (88 mins.)
“Cross Ocean’s Eleven with The Usual
Suspects, move the setting to a northern
English city, and you have the basis of this
remarkable debut. Harvey had dreams of
becoming a lawyer before being convicted
of drug possession. We meet him in a
police interview room. Bloodied, bruised,
and recently paroled from prison, he’s
about to be interrogated about the violent
robbery of a workingmen’s club. What
follows is a series of flashbacks as Harvey
reveals his version of how he ended up
back in the hands of the law. Wasteland has
all the elements of a classic heist thriller:
a likeable group of guys, a beautiful and
reluctantly involved ex-girlfriend, revenge,
and the sense that all can be forgiven if
justice—even of the street variety—is served.
A gritty, exhilarating ride.—Toronto
International Film Festival.” (106 mins.)
“I don’t want to be unfair,” says hangdog
Athens police interrogation specialist
Sotiris (Antonis Kafetzopoulos). But in his
line of work, and in debt-crisis-gripped
Greece, there is little incentive for fairness.
After a payment to an informant backfires
into a blackmail threat, Sotiris experiences
a “disobedient” trigger finger, settling that
score...but the money goes missing. Surely
cleaning lady Dora (Theodora Tzimou)
must have seen it? Tsitos’s deadpan,
absurdly comic crime story won the Best
Director and Best Actor Prizes at the San
Sebastian Film Festival and is this year’s
Greek submission for the Best Foreign
Language Film Oscar. (118 mins.)
2/17 4:00pm
2/22 8:45pm
Selected Filmography: Down Terrace (09),
Kill List (11).
First Feature.
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2/10 4:00pm
2/12 5:45pm
Filmography: My Sweet Home (01), Plato’s Academy
(09).
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3 6TH
HONG KONG
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
HUNGARY
A SIMPLE LIFE
17
F E STIVAL
INDIA
THE EXAM
JUST THE WIND
BARFI!
Ann Hui
Péter Bergendy
Benedek Fliegauf
Anurag Basu
With perfectly judged performances from
Andy Lau and Deanie Ip (winner of the
Best Actress Award at the Venice Film
Festival), Ann Hui’s moving film looks at
the decades-long relationship between a
man and his devoted family servant.
Ip plays Ah Tao, who has worked for the
Leung family for 60 years. For the past
decade, the only member of the family left
in Hong Kong is Roger (Lau), who works
in the film industry. Having cared for
Roger from childhood, Ah Tao suffers a
stroke and asks to be admitted to a nursing
home. There, she becomes part of a new
family made up of colorful characters.
All the while, as roles are reversed, Roger
tenderly cares for her as she enters the final
phase of her life. Based on a true story, A
Simple Life delicately traces a decades-long
bond with pathos and humor. This year’s
Hong Kong submission for the Best
Following the failed 1956 Hungarian
Revolution, the Soviet-appointed prime
minister—a very paranoid János Kádár—
orders that each and every national security
office’s loyalty be tested according to new
and rigorous directives. András supervises
a network of civilians spying on their
neighbors and coworkers. But little does he
know that the government is now monitoring him as well. His superiors have chosen
Christmas Eve to implement “the exam,” a
procedure designed to challenge an agent’s
loyalty without his or her knowledge. The
problem with finding surprises is that you
may find surprises. Bergendy’s sardonic
thriller twists and turns through a world
where nothing can be taken for granted
and personal loyalty is subservient to survival. Winner of the New Directors Prize
at the Chicago International Film Festival.
(89 mins.)
This year’s Hungarian submission for the
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar chronicles the final days of a Romany family
living in a provincial Hungarian backwater.
Hoping to reunite with their father in
Canada before the ethnic violence that has
recently claimed many neighbors’ lives
finds them too, time is growing short as
the authorities turn a blind eye to the
persecution. Fliegauf blends neo-realistic
elements—the actors are non-professionals,
recruited from local villages—with atmospheric sound design and expressionistic
use of music. “The film’s three leads are
tracked by a roving camera in a naturalistic style reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s
Elephant; as in that film, the mundane is
contrasted with the horrific, here highlighting the ingrained nature of racism and
the isolating effects of poverty.”—Sydney
Film Festival. Winner of the Jury Grand
Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. (86 mins.)
In this timeless, enchanting fable, rising
Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor gives a
winning performance as a deaf-mute man
whose life is a series of comic and tragic
misadventures. Dedicated to Charlie
Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the nearly
wordless Barfi! follows the resourceful title
character as he falls in and out of love with
the beautiful Shruti, whose parents pressure
her into a respectable arranged marriage.
Later, he finds love again with the autistic
Jhilmil, whose father plots to defraud her
of a sizable trust fund, only for Shruti to
unexpectedly reenter his life. In between,
Barfi finds himself caught up in a bank
robbery, two botched kidnappings, and all
other manner of slapstick mayhem. This
broadly entertaining treat for film lovers of
all ages is this year’s Indian submission for
the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
(151 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Boat People (82), Song of the
Exile (90), Ordinary Heroes (99), All About Love (10).
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Filmography: Stop Mom Theresa! (04).
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Selected Filmography: Forest (03), Milky Way (07),
Womb (10).
2/16 6:15pm
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Selected Filmography: Saaya (03), Gangster (06),
Life in a Metro (07), Kites (10).
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3 6TH
INDIA
P O R T L A N D
IRAN
(cont.)
ENGLISH VINGLISH
F I L M
F E STIVAL
IRELAND
MODEST RECEPTION
ISRAEL
MEN AT LUNCH
THE GATEKEEPERS
Gauri Shinde
Mani Haghighi
Seán Ó Cualáín
Dror Moreh
Shashi (Sridevi) is a beautiful, dedicated
Pune homemaker, devoted wife, and
mother. Yet because of her poor English,
she is made to feel insecure by her husband
and teenage daughter and by society at
large. When she is called to New York to
help prepare her niece’s wedding, Shashi
overcomes her fears of traveling alone but
is nevertheless overwhelmed. Humiliated
for not been able to order a cup of coffee
properly, she secretly enrolls in an accelerated English class and quickly becomes a
dedicated student. With the other multiethnic students acting as a support system
and boosted by the admiration of French
classmate Laurent in particular, she rediscovers her own worth. “Breezy and charming but with much to say about the delicate
balance between tradition and modernity,
English Vinglish marks the return to the big
screen—after a 15-year hiatus—of beloved
Indian mega-star Sridevi.”—Toronto
Leyla and Kaveh are a mysterious pair
from Tehran, traveling the mountainous
countryside in their Lexus coupe to push
big bags of money on the locals. This turns
out to be not so easy but fascinating to
watch as the cagey couple invent increasingly brazen stratagems to place cash in
the hands of the wary, proud, or indifferent.
Will they push things too far? Are they losing
sight of their mission? What exactly is their
mission? This bold, perversely fascinating
comedy-drama unfurls with unexpected
force amid subtle themes of power, privilege,
and corruption. “Setting the scene is a
brilliantly shot comic opener that starts
the game over-the-top, in a tone which
only gets shriller and wilder as the story
goes on. By far the director’s most daring
work.”—Hollywood Reporter. (100 mins.)
This remarkable documentary explores
the untold story behind “Lunch Atop a
Skyscraper,” one of the most iconic images
of the twentieth century. Anonymously
published in 1932 in the New York Herald
Tribune, the photograph of immigrant
workmen taking their lunch perched on a
girder high above New York City on the
69th floor of Rockefeller Center symbolized
an era. After exhaustive research, including
interviews with archivists, photographers,
and historians, Cualáín eventually
uncovers compelling evidence that a few
of the photo’s subjects may have roots in
the small village of... Part homage, part
investigation, this is the beautiful tale of an
American icon, an unprecedented race to
the sky, and the immigrant workers who
built New York City. (80 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Abadan (04), Men at Work
(06), Canaan (08).
Selected Filmography: Maírtín Ó Cadhain: King of
Words (06).
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“How exactly do six million people maintain control over several million stateless
neighbors for 45 years? That’s how long the
Israeli occupation of the West Bank has
lasted. Some of the occupation’s instruments are obvious—border crossings, military checkpoints, soldiers on patrol. But
the most vital and lethal lurk beneath the
surface: the vast and ubiquitous intelligence
network of the Shin Bet, Israel’s feared
internal security organization. Using intelligence operatives and informants, interrogators and assassins, the directors of the
Shin Bet enable Israel to fight any who
take up arms—or suicide bombs—against
it. Dror Moreh’s path-breaking documentary interviews six former directors, who
describe in chilling detail how they did
this and how their bosses, Israel’s elected
leaders, led the Jewish state into a deadly
quagmire of unending occupation and
perpetual conflict.”—Telluride Film Festival.
(95 mins.)
First Feature.
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Filmography: Sharon (08).
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3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
19
F E STIVAL
ITALY
OFF-WHITE LIES
CAESAR MUST DIE
Maya Kenig
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
PIAZZA FONTANA:
THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY
REALITY
Matteo Garrone
Marco Tullio Giordana
A deadbeat Israeli inventor and his
estranged teenage daughter try to reconcile
their differences in this delicate blend of
poignant coming-of-age drama and offbeat
comedy. After years living in California
with her mother and stepfather, sharpwitted but introverted 13-year-old Libi
returns to Israel to spend time with her
unemployed and homeless father Shaul.
With the outbreak of the Second Lebanon
War, Shaul devises a scheme to put a roof
over their heads by posing as war refugees
until they are taken in by a well-off family
in Jerusalem. As the masquerade wears
thin, the bemusing circumstances give way
to a bourgeoning father-daughter bond
forged by a shared talent for telling
“off-white lies.” Winner of the Best Actor
Award and nominated for six other Israeli
Ophirs including Best Film, Director,
and Screenplay. (86 mins.)
First Feature.
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San Francisco.
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin
Film Festival and this year’s Italian submission for the Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar, Caesar Must Die deftly melds
narrative and documentary in a powerful
drama-within-a-drama. In Rome’s Rebibbia
prison, the prisoners prepare to stage
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and in exploring
the text find a tale of fraternity, power, and
betrayal that parallels their own lives and
stories. Seamlessly moving in and out of
the text as they wrestle with notions of
necessity and the boundaries of order, drama
comes alive on multiple, and timeless, levels.
“This latest masterpiece from Italy’s famed
Taviani brothers not only serves as a deeply
human document but a caustic portrait of
our own imprisoned societies, reminding
us that a life without art truly is a prison.”
—AFI Fest. (76 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Allonsanfan (74), Padre
Padrone (77), The Night of Shooting Stars (82),
Fiorile (93).
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San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission,
Los Angeles.
Giordana’s engrossing tale of terrorism,
conspiracy, and deceit is based on a devastating true story set within decades of
Italian political violence and resistance.
A bomb goes off at a Milan bank in
December 1969, killing 17 and wounding
dozens of others. Detective Luigi Calabresi
heads up the investigation of the crime,
which many in the government want to
pin on the anarchist left. Unconvinced,
Calabresi wants to investigate the shadowy
organizations on the neo-fascist right,
including possible CIA connections. But
after a key suspect meets an untimely
death, the clock starts ticking for Calabresi
as a malevolent, Machiavellian labyrinth
of deceit by extremists, police, informants,
and spies envelopes the investigation.
(129 mins.)
Garrone takes a critical swipe at contemporary Italian society and the powerful
role of television and the media in instilling obsessive envy and lust for fame. After
seeing a former reality star make an electrifying surprise appearance at his cousin’s
wedding (one of several paid appearances
for the enterprising self-promoter), common
man Luciano decides to try out for the
Italian version of “Big Brother.” Sure he
will soon get the call, Luciano begins to
conduct his life as if he’s already being
watched. Playing Luciano’s delusions not
only for laughs but for thoughtful, ethical
examination, Garrone blends a Fellini-esque
love for grotesquerie and fairy-tale surrealism with gritty Neapolitan social realism.
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes
Film Festival. (116 mins.)
Selected Filmography: One Hundred Steps (00),
The Best of Youth (03), Sanguepazzo (08).
Selected Filmography: Land in the Middle (96),
Roman Summer (00), The Embalmer (02), First
Love (04), Gomorrah (08).
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ITALY
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
SHUN LI AND THE POET
Marco Bonfanti
Renato Zucchelli lives in the beautiful
mountain farmlands just outside Milan.
He is the last traveling shepherd in the
region, the last man tending sheep in
Lombardy, an area ever consumed by
urbanization. Renato has a dream: to lead
his flock into the heart of Milan to meet
children who have never seen someone
like him, showing them that dreams and
freedom will always exist as long as there
is still room to believe in a last shepherd.
At once funny, touching, and serious,
The Last Shepherd is ultimately a warm
and endearing portrait of a man, his dog,
his family, and his sheep, who conquer
a city with nothing more than the power
of imagination. (76 mins.)
First Feature.
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F I L M
F E STIVAL
JAPAN
(cont.)
THE LAST SHEPHERD
2/13
2/16
2/17
KEY OF LIFE
A LETTER TO MOMO
Andrea Segre
Kenji Uchida
Hiroyuki Okiura
Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at
the London Film Festival, this tender story
begins with Shun Li working in a textile
factory near Rome. She’s slowly paying off
the broker who brought her from China to
Italy, while trying to save money to bring
her young son over. Transferred to work
as a bartender in Chioggia, a small island
town in the Venetian lagoon, she meets
Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant
nicknamed “The Poet.” A soulful friendship grows between them, but soon prejudice threatens their innocent relationship.
Both a tender portrait of survival in an
immigrant world and an exploration of
Venetian life far from the Grand Canal,
Segre’s delicate, bittersweet film showcases
a memorable performance by Tao Zhao,
who earned the David di Donatello (Italian
Academy) Best Actress Award. (100 mins.)
“Kenji Uchida’s brilliantly entertaining
comedy-drama is essentially a riff on
Trading Places, but it takes the notion that
we all play roles every day much further
than John Landis ever dreamed. A failed
actor, unlucky in love, steals the identity of
an accident victim and finds himself prey
to the attentions of the mob—he discovers
that he’s now a famously ruthless fixer
for the underworld. Meanwhile the actual
fixer wakes in the hospital with amnesia
and has to learn to live anew as a failed
actor. Perhaps fortunately, a needy woman
executive (having set herself a two-month
deadline to get married) is on hand to help
him and/or get in his way. Much of this is
deliciously funny, not to mention brilliantly
timed and acted with relish by the all-star
cast.”—London Film Festival. (128 mins.)
From anime master Hiroyuki Okiura
comes this touching, fantastical tale of a
young girl’s grief and the three mischievous
spirits sent to look after her. After the
death of her father, 13-year-old Momo and
her mother move from Tokyo to the remote
island of Shio. Here, Momo is haunted by
the discovery of an unfinished letter her
father was writing to her—and plagued by
the presence of three heaven-sent goblins
whose bumbling efforts to protect her tend
to cause more chaos than good. “As gorgeous as Momo is to behold, the film’s sensitive portrayal of a teenager dealing with
grief proves its most compelling element...
With its complex characterizations and
multiple storylines, [Momo] rivals mature
live-action drama.”—Variety. Winner of the
Grand Prize at the New York International
Children’s Film Festival. (120 mins.)
First Feature.
2/9 8:45pm
2/10 5:00pm
Los Angeles.
Filmography: A Stranger of Mine (05), After School
(08).
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2/20 8:45pm
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Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan
in Portland.
Selected Filmography: key animator on Roujin Z
(91), Ghost in the Shell (95), Jin-Roh, The Wolf
Brigade (99), Paprika (06).
2/12 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4
Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan
in Portland and Chipotle.
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
KENYA
OUR HOMELAND
F I L M
21
F E STIVAL
MEXICO
NAIROBI HALF LIFE
AFTER LUCIA
HERE AND THERE
Yong-hi Yang
David Tosh Gitonga
Michel Franco
Antonio Méndez Esparza
This year’s Japanese submission for the
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar tells
the moving story of a family divided by the
historic political conflicts between Korea
and Japan. During Japan’s colonial rule of
Korea before World War II , thousands of
Koreans were brought to Japan where they
suffered painful discrimination. After the
war, thousands chose to be repatriated to
North Korea in hope of a better life. Few
managed to escape their fateful choice.
Japanese-Korean director Yong-hi Yang,
born in Japan but from a North Korean
family, tells the story of her brother Son-ho,
who after living in North Korea for 25 years
after leaving Japan at age 16, is given rare
permission to visit his Japanese family and
receive specialized medical care. Under
the tense surveillance of a North Korean
agent, Son-ho must come to grips with
whether he has a place in either culture.
(100 mins.)
Despite his family’s pleas, 19-year-old Mwas
leaves his small village for the promise of
life in the capital and the dream of becoming an actor. Naïve and filled with hope, he
quickly learns why the city is nicknamed
“Nairobbery.” A few rookie mistakes land
him in jail, which eventually leads him to
fall in with a gang and survival on the
streets via theft and violence. But underneath it all beats the heart of a dream.
Working under the mentorship of German
director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run),
first-time director Gitonga has fashioned
Kenya’s second-ever Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar submission. “Fundamentally
honest and vividly realistic.”—Hollywood
Reporter. (97 mins.) In Swahili and Kikuyu
with English subtitles.
Following a car accident, Roberto is left
grieving the death of his wife and raising
his emotionally distant yet self-sacrificing
daughter Alejandra alone. The broken
family uproots their lives in Puerto Vallarta
and moves to Mexico City in hopes of
starting anew. After Lucia focuses on
Alejandra as she simultaneously attempts
to deal with both her mother’s death and a
drunken, teenage mistake that makes her
the target of cruel harassment and abuse
from her classmates. Ashamed and unable
to tell her distressed father or anyone else
about the escalating bullying at school,
Alejandra’s silence ultimately takes a
dreadful toll. This exquisitely told tale of
the heartbreaking pain of insensitive bullying won the main prize in the Un Certain
Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival
and is this year’s Mexican submission for
the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
(93 mins.)
Winner of the Grand Prize at the Critics’
Week at the Cannes Film Festival and a
New York Film Festival selection, Esparza’s
lyrical film captures the reality of the life
of a migrant worker who struggles on both
sides of the border. Pedro returns home to
a small mountain village in Guerrero after
years of working in the US. His daughters
feel more distant than he imagined, and
his wife Teresa is delighted that he’s back
but troubled by their circumstances. With
the money he has earned, he can create a
better life for his family and maybe even
start the band with his cousins he has
dreamed about for years. But work back
home remains scarce, and the temptation
of heading back north of the border
remains as strong as ever. (110 mins.)
First Feature.
Sponsored by the Consulate of Mexico in Portland.
Filmography: Dear Pyongyang (05), Sona, the Other
Myself (09).
2/21 6:30pm
2/23 9:00pm
Cinema 21
First Feature.
2/11
2/17
6:00pm
7:30pm
Regal Fox Tower 6
2/17 2:15pm
2/21 8:45pm
Regal Fox Tower 6
Whitsell Auditorium
First Feature.
2/16
2/18
2/19
3:00pm
5:00pm
6:00pm
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3 6TH
MEXICO
P O R T L A N D
NETHERLANDS
(cont.)
POST TENEBRAS LUX
KAUWBOY
F I L M
F E STIVAL
NORTH KOREA
COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING
NORWAY
KON-TIKI
Carlos Reygadas
Boudewijn Koole
A. Daelemans, N. Bonner, K. Gwang Hun
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Reygadas’s enigmatic, visually ravishing
film presents the occurrences around Juan
and Natalia, a wealthy couple living in a
stunning house in the lush countryside
with their two little children and their pack
of dogs. Mundane domestic events are
punctuated by a series of disparate, occasionally fantastical subplots within a tableau
of overwhelming beauty haunted by mysterious sinister forces. “In this expressionistic Mexican film, magnificent dreamlike
exteriors together with memories and
dream sequences tell the story of one
man’s ability to resist temptation and stop
himself from sinning. The story is at times
told from the perspective of Satan, showing
us the world through the Devil’s ambivalent eyes. The use of a nonlinear storyline
gives way for emotions, hopes, and dreams
of a family looking for redemption and the
meaning of life.”—Stockholm Film Festival.
Winner of the Best Director Prize at the
Cannes Film Festival. (115 mins.)
The European Film Academy’s Best
European Youth Film and the Dutch submission for the Best Foreign Language
Film Oscar, Kauwboy tells the story of
10-year-old Jojo, who lives alone with his
security guard father, a sometimes volatile
man of few words. Missing his absent
mother, a country singer said to be away
touring, worried Jojo finds solace in an
unexpected friendship with a baby jackdaw that has fallen from its nest. A tender
portrait of a young boy trying to come to
terms with a family that’s not what it once
was and struggling to find a balance
between reality and desire, this cinematic,
emotionally astute film sensitively explores
issues of loss and sorrow while painting a
joyfully upbeat picture of acceptance and
love. (81 mins.) In Dutch with English
subtitles. Appropriate for ages 10+.
“A winning, life-affirming fable about a
young coal miner’s pursuit of her dream to
become an acrobat, this is the first Westernfinanced fiction feature made entirely in
North Korea. But this charming film wears
its heavy historical mantle with grace,
weaving a lovely, light-hearted tale whose
themes—overcoming adversity and realizing the dream of a lifetime—upend our
assumptions of a largely cloistered culture.
Kim Yong-mi works as a coal miner in a
small village. She dreams of one day joining the national circus and performing on
the trapeze—despite the fact that she is
deathly afraid of heights. When she is promoted and sent to the capital, Pyongyang,
she seizes the opportunity. This gorgeously
filmed romantic comedy transports us to a
fantastic world seemingly out of time, with
astonishing, candy-colored images of the
seldom-seen North Korea.”—Toronto
Thor Heyerdahl’s intrepid 1947 journey
across the Pacific on a primitive raft, made
famous by his own book and documentary,
comes alive in this spirited, visually
dazzling epic. Ethnographer Heyerdahl
(who couldn’t swim and had never sailed!),
along with a motley crew, constructs a
hemp and balsa wood raft inspired by the
pre-Columbian Incas as a means of proving
his theory that the Polynesian Islands were
settled by South Americans crossing the
4,000-mile Pacific. What follows is the Peruto-Polynesia excursion, which co-directors
Rønning and Sandberg—employing a crew
of hundreds and technological magic—fill
with high-seas adventure and nail-biting
suspense, set against majestic cinematography and the vastness of the ocean. This
year’s Norwegian submission for the Best
Selected Filmography: Kim Gwang Hun—My Wish
(01), Unforgettable Man (02), Watch Us (08), Great
Bear (09).
2/17
2/19
Selected Filmography: Japón (02), Battle in Heaven
(05), Silent Light (07).
2/20 6:00pm
2/22 6:00pm
Cinema 21
Cinema 21
First Feature.
2/9
2/16
1:00pm
1:00pm
Cinemagic
Cinemagic
2/10 5:15pm
2/15 6:30pm
Regal Fox Tower 6
Selected Filmography: Bandidas (06), Max Manus:
Man of War (08).
7:30pm
6:00pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Norwegian Consulate General,
San Francisco.
3 6TH
POLAND
80 MILLION
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
23
F E STIVAL
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
BLOOD OF MY BLOOD
TABU
BEYOND THE HILLS
Waldemar Krzystek
João Canijo
Miguel Gomes
Cristian Mungiu
80 Million is set in the autumn of 1981,
10 days before the proclamation of martial
law in Poland. Three members of the antiCommunist union movement in Wroclaw
miraculously manage to withdraw
80 million zlotys (circa $2 million US then)
from the organization’s bank account,
just before it is blocked by the authorities.
With Security Service agents on their trail,
a tense cat-and-mouse game that involves
wily clergy, black market money changes,
and committed Solidarity activists unfolds
with inspirational drama and surprising
twists and turns. Less a political film than
a heist-thriller and dark comedy, this entertaining film is this year’s Polish submission
for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
(102 mins.)
This year’s Portuguese submission for the
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and a
critical and popular hit in Portugal, Canijo’s
film balances nuanced social realism and
intense melodrama to fashion a sprawling,
humane portrait of a troubled working class
family. Márcia is a weary matriarch who
lives with her lonely sister Ivete and grown
children—delinquent Joca and nursing
student Cláudia—in suburban Lisbon.
Cláudia’s affair with a married professor
and Joca’s involvement with drug dealers
threaten Márcia’s attempts to keep her
family afloat. Employing tracking shots
and overlapping dialogue, Canijo follows
the family through the cramped spaces of
the household, mapping the physical and
emotional distances between the characters
in a way that lends a sense of vivid vérité.
(131 mins.)
“The ghosts of F.W. Murnau, Luis Buñuel,
Joseph Cornell, and Jack Smith hover above
this exquisite, absurdist entry in the canon
of surrealist cinema. Shot in ephemeral
black-and-white celluloid, Tabu is movie-asdream—an evocation of irrational desires,
extravagant coincidences, and cheesy
nostalgia that nevertheless is grounded in
serious feeling and beliefs, even anticolonialist politics. There is a story, which
is delightful to follow and in which the cart
comes before the horse: the first half is
set in contemporary Lisbon, the second,
involving two of the same characters, in
colonial Mozambique in the early 1960s.
Phil Spector’s ‘Be My Baby’ belted in
Portuguese, a wandering crocodile, and
a passionate, ill-advised coupling seen
through gently moving mosquito netting
make for addled movie magic.”—New York
Film Festival. Winner of the FIPRESCI
(International Film Critics) Award at the
Berlin Film Festival. (118 mins.)
Based on a real-life case of supposed
demonic possession, Mungiu’s gripping
existential drama takes place at a remote
Orthodox monastery in Moldavia where
devout young women give up all. Alina
(Cristina Flutur) arrives to visit her meek
friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan), a nun
in training, and desperately tries to convince her to return to Germany with her.
But Voichita is unsure, and so the tougher
but untethered Alina hangs around in
hopes of prevailing. But as the days pass,
the oppressive environment takes a further
toll on Alina and her sense of identity.
Soon, the conflict between personal
empowerment and religious dogma leads
to a harrowing prescription. For their
remarkable lead performances, Flutur and
Stratan shared the Best Actress Prize at the
Cannes Film Festival. This year’s Romanian
Film Oscar. (150 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Suspended (87), Dismissed
From Life (92), The Little Moscow (08).
2/11
2/16
2/19
6:00pm
3:00pm
6:00pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Regal Fox Tower 6
Sponsored by the Polish Library Association
and the Polish Festival Nonprofit Organization,
Portland.
Selected Filmography: Get A Life (01), In the
Darkness of the Night (04), Misbegotten (07).
2/18 7:00pm Cinema 21
2/20 8:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6
2/21 8:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6
Selected Filmography: The Face You Deserve (04),
Our Beloved Month of August (08).
2/8 5:45pm
2/10 7:30pm
Sponsored by Nel Centro.
Selected Filmography: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and
2 Days (07), Tales from the Golden Age (09).
2/9
2/13
8:30pm
7:30pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Romanian American Society.
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3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
RUSSIA
WHITE TIGER
SENEGAL
F I L M
F E STIVAL
SOUTH KOREA
LA PIROGUE
MASQUERADE
PIETA
Karen Shakhnazarov
Moussa Touré
Choo Chang-min
Kim Ki-duk
World War II is drawing to a close. Furious
fighting is exhausting both the Soviet and
Nazi forces. The more the Soviet army
advances, the more often “White Tiger,” a
huge, indestructible Nazi tank, appears on
the battlefield. Emerging from the smoke
of combat, it ruthlessly destroys the adversary and then swiftly vanishes. The Soviets
decide they must build an extraordinary
tank—with a team headed by a commander
who was nearly burnt alive. Although he
no longer remembers his own name, he
has gained the ability to understand the
mystical language of tanks... The pursuit of
the monster begins. Who will win in this
duel? “This strange, potent war movie
plays like Moby Dick on the Eastern front,
with a score by Richard Wagner. The
strong aesthetic and suspenseful action
sequences should wow audiences worldwide.”—Variety. (104 mins.)
It is estimated that between 2005 and 2010
more than 30,000 Africans set off for
Europe in small boats, with more than
5,000 dying on the journey. La Pirogue is
the moving story of a group of Senegalese
taking the chance in hopes of a better life.
Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing
pirogue—an open-top, wooden boat—who
dreams of earning a better living for his
family. When he is offered to lead one of the
many pirogues that head from Dakar to
Spain via the Canary Islands, he reluctantly
accepts the job, knowing the dangers that
lie ahead. Adroitly capturing the dilemmas
and dangers facing these desperate men,
La Pirogue is a powerful depiction of a
story that is universally human. (87 mins.)
In French with English subtitles.
During King Gwang-hae’s reign in
17th century Korea, conspiracies abound.
Driven by paranoia, Gwang-hae (Lee
Byung-hun) orders his councilor to find
him a body double. Soon after finding the
perfect lookalike in the form of Ha-sun, a
simple jester and mimic, the king is poisoned,
and Ha-sun is forced to take the stage.
The ensuing events form the dramatic, and
often comedic, heart of Masquerade, a riff
on the classic Prince and the Pauper story.
Instead of Gwang-hae’s rigid policies and
demeanor, the new king has charisma and
rules on far more personal and humanitarian
grounds, thus risking discovery—not to
mention social and military upheaval. It’s
clear that goodness does not automatically
serve the country’s stability. Though spiced
with humor, Masquerade provides a thoughtful meditation on the compromises faced
by those who, willingly or not, take the fate
of a nation into their hands. (131 mins.)
Lee Kang-do works as a brutal, merciless
loan shark who threatens and cripples those
who can’t make their payments. One day,
a woman appears on his doorstep claiming
to be the mother who abandoned him as a
baby. At first he rejects her but eventually
quits his job to spend his days recapturing
the time lost with her. When she is kidnapped, he must track down the culprit,
revisiting all those whom he has hurt in
the past, only to discover that his mother is
harboring a dark secret of her own. Taking
his inspiration from Michelangelo’s Pietà,
Kim’s searing, violent meditation probes
the depths of human suffering as it explores
the themes of guilt and revenge with gripping beauty. This year’s South Korean
Film Oscar and winner of the Best Film
Prize at the Venice Film Festival. (104 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Jazzman (84), American
Daughter (95), The Rider Named Death (04), Ward
No. 6 (09).
2/14
2/16
2/18
9:00pm
9:00pm
7:30pm
Regal Fox Tower 6
Regal Fox Tower 6
Selected Filmography: Toubab Bi (92), TGV (98).
2/16
2/18
6:00pm
7:00pm
Cinemagic
Selected Filmography: Mapado: Island of Fortunes
(05), Late Blossom (11).
2/11
2/19
8:30pm
7:00pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Oregon Korea Foundation.
Selected Filmography: The Isle (00), Address
Unknown (01), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and
Spring (03), 3-Iron (04), Arirang (11).
2/9
2/11
6:00pm
6:30pm
Cinemagic
Sponsored by the Oregon Korea Foundation.
3 6TH
P O R T L A N D
THE DOUBLE STEPS
MADRID, 1987
F I L M
25
F E STIVAL
SPAIN
CARMINA OR BLOW UP
Paco León
Welcome to the surreal and wild world of
Carmina, a crass 58-year-old bar owner in
Seville. When the insurance company
refuses to pay up following a series of robberies, Carmina (director León’s real-life
mother) has to find an alternative way of
getting the money back to support her
family. While she waits in her kitchen for
her plan to develop, the chain-smoking
Carmina reflects on her life, deeds, and
miracles and feeds the goat that lives with
her. A box office phenomenon in Spain,
León’s charming and wild film won the
Special Jury Prize, Audience Award, and
Best Actress Award at the Málaga Film
First Feature.
2/14
2/16
6:00pm
8:15pm
Cinemagic
Co-sponsored and organized by PRAGDA, with
support from the Embassy of Spain, Washington;
American Airlines; and the Secretary of State for
Culture-Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport.
SLEEP TIGHT
Isaki Lacuesta
David Trueba
Jaume Balagueró
The best way to escape from your pursuers
without leaving any traces behind you is to
walk backwards over your own footprints.
This is what French artist and author
François Augiéras (1925–1971) believed
as he painted every inch of the walls of a
military bunker in the desert and let it sink
into the sand so that no one would find it
until the 21st century. But who is Augiéras?
A legionary, painter, writer, gunman, saint,
thief, devil, or a mix of all this? Catalan
filmmaker Lacuesta and one of Spain’s
foremost living artists, Miquel Barceló,
guide us through the Mali desert in search
of a fresco painted by Augiéras in this
gorgeous film that won the Golden Shell
at the San Sebastian International Film
Festival. (86 mins.) In French and Bombarian
with English subtitles.
On a hot summer day in a vacant Madrid
during a period of social and political
transition in Spain, Miguel, a feared and
respected journalist, sets up a meeting in
a café with Ángela, a young journalism
student. He takes her to a friend’s studio.
His intentions are clearly sexual; hers
are less clear. Chance events force them
together for more time than they would
have chosen, and the pair, who represent
polarized generations, are pitted in a
witty, sensual, but unevenly matched duel
involving age, intellect, ambition, and
experience. The political and social context of the period provides the background
to the power shifts that continually take
place between them over 24 hours.
(104 mins.)
Toiling silently amongst the residents of an
everyday Barcelona apartment building,
doorman César harbors a dark secret: his
sole desire in life is to make others unhappy.
When he sets his sights on Clara, one of
his building’s cheeriest residents, his need
blossoms into a full-fledged obsession.
Embarking on a series of harassments,
César becomes determined to ruin her life
by any means necessary. Soon his thirst
for others’ sadness becomes manically
unquenchable. Balagueró delves into the
perverse fantasies of a man on the brink
and delivers an unnerving tale of obsession
and torment that delivers nonstop thrills
right up to its shocking conclusion. Winner
of the Gaudi Awards for Best Director and
Best Screenplay. (102 mins.)
Selected Filmography: The Good Life (96), Soldiers
of Salamina (03), Welcome Home (06).
Selected Filmography: The Nameless (99), Fragile
(05), [Rec] (07), [Rec 2] (09).
2/11 8:45pm
2/14 8:45pm
2/22 8:45pm
2/15 8:45pm
2/17 7:30pm
2/23 6:00pm
Selected Filmography: The Legend of Time (06),
The Condemned (09).
2/17 3:00pm
2/19 9:00pm
2/23 9:00pm
Cinema 21
Cinema 21
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3 6TH
SPAIN
P O R T L A N D
F E STIVAL
SWEDEN
(cont.)
THE WILD ONES
F I L M
WRINKLES
FLICKER
THE LAST SENTENCE
Patricia Ferreira
Ignacio Ferreras
Patrik Eklund
Jan Troell
Ferreira’s elegant triptych of coming-of-age
tales follows three teenage friends and
their individual struggles to define themselves amidst hard family conditions and a
seemingly indifferent society: Graffiti artist
Alex, ignored by his parents and faced
with the mounting living expenses for an
art grant he wins; kickboxer Gabi, who
lives in fear of his domineering gym-owner
father; and wealthy Oky, who lives comfortably but without affection from her parents. “The sins of parents and teachers are
visited on their progeny and students in
this largely subtle, compassionate, and perceptive take on bad education affecting a
trio of Catalan teens... An engrossing
drama as well as an urgent cry for social
change.”—Variety. Winner of the Best Film
and Best Screenplay Prizes at the Malaga
Spanish Film Festival and of the Grand
Prize at the Montreal Film Festival.
(100 mins.)
Adapted from Paco Roca’s comic book,
winner of the Spanish National Comic
Prize, this beautifully crafted animated
feature focuses on the friendship of Emilio
and Miguel, two senior citizens living in a
care facility. Suffering from the early stages
of Alzheimer’s, Emilio is apprehensive
about moving into a nursing home. Helping
him make the transition is his roommate
Miguel, a rascally Argentinean. Both
sensitively told and refreshingly acerbic,
Wrinkles smoothes its challenging subject
into an inspiring story full of charm, wit,
and universal appeal. Winner of the
Best Animated Film and Best Adapted
Screenplay Awards at the 2012 Goya
Awards. (89 mins.)
Eklund’s surreal, acid-drenched film
has been described as being like a Coen
Brothers version of “The Office.” A deadpan
comedy about phone towers, online dating,
the odd tarantula, and a militant group of
people allergic to electricity, Flicker is set
in the small town of Backberga, where
a local telecom company is planning to
freshen up its profile under a clueless CEO.
Meanwhile, the accounts person is trying
to find love online, the cleaning lady
fancies herself an inventor, and, out in
the field, the linesman toys with death.
Weaving in and out of these individual
stories, Eklund offers a bittersweet satire
while building a warm, if often absurd,
picture of ordinary people trying to find
their place in a rapidly changing world.
Winner of the Best Swedish Feature Award
at the Gothenburg International Film
The Last Sentence is a biographical drama
chronicling the career of celebrated
Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who
conducted his own crusading campaign
against the Nazis while navigating a fraught
personal life. Officially neutral, Sweden’s
leaders did their best to silence Segerstedt,
fearing German reprisal, especially as
the journalist began inciting the ire of top
Nazi officials. Troell adds an element of
the supernatural as Segerstedt is visited by
the ghosts of his lovers, something that,
rather than haunting him, gives him bleak
pleasure in a chaotic world. Reminiscent
of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries,
The Last Sentence tells a melancholic tale
about aging, told through the story of a man
of great importance to Swedish journalism
and politics. Winner of the New Director
Award at the Montreal Film Festival.
(126 mins.)
First Feature.
Selected Filmography: The Emigrants (71), Flight of
the Eagle (82), Hamsun (96), As White as in Snow
(01), Everlasting Moments (08).
Selected Filmography: I Know Who You Are (00),
The Impatient Alchemist (02), Broken Hearts (05).
2/11
2/15
2/17
8:45pm
6:00pm
4:45pm
Cinemagic
Cinemagic
Selected Filmography: Tokyo Onlypic 2008 (08).
2/8
2/17
6:30pm
1:45pm
Sponsored by LAIKA.
2/14
2/18
9:15pm
4:30pm
2/13
2/17
8:45pm
4:45pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Regal Fox Tower 6
Sponsored by New Sweden and the Scandinavian
Heritage Foundation.
3 6TH
SWITZERLAND
MORE THAN HONEY
P O R T L A N D
F I L M
27
F E STIVAL
TAIWAN
UKRAINE
STARRY STARRY NIGHT
TOGETHER
IN THE FOG
Markus Imhoof
Tom Lin
Hsu Chao-Jen
Sergei Loznitsa
Einstein supposedly said, “If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man
would have no more than four years left to
live.” All over the world, bees have been
dying, and although the causes are still a
mystery, one thing is already clear: more is
at stake than honey. Seeking answers—and
employing incredible cinematography—
Imhoof embarks on a journey to meet
with people whose lives depend on bees:
a Swiss beekeeper living in the Alps, a
gigantic almond plantation in California,
a bee brain researcher in Berlin, and a
pollen trader in China. All report on how
the bees are vanishing. The film tells much
about bees’ lives—and much about our
own. (90 mins.) In German with English
subtitles.
Based on the children’s book by Taiwanese
illustrator Jimmy Liao, the gentle Starry
Starry Night follows the intersecting lives of
inward 13-year-old Mei, who’s coping with
the death of her grandfather and her parents’
crumbling marriage, and shy Jay, who
endures a rootless existence caused by his
abusive father. When Mei falls in love with
Jay, a recent transfer student at her school,
she finds solace from her troubles and
begins a journey to find the missing parts
of her troubled life. Venturing into the
starry night, Mei and Jay set off on a
romantic, perilous trip into the mountainous
wilderness to find her grandparents’ cottage,
a place of comforting memories, and destinations further. “A charming bit of whimsy
that speaks to anyone who experienced a
sense of emotional injustice during their
formative years.”—Slant. (99 mins.)
“A neighborhood’s lives and loves intertwine in this almost novelistic film, seen
mostly through the eyes of 17-year-old
Xiao Yang. Together’s various storylines
cycle through several families who live on
the same street in contemporary Taipei.
Xiao Yang is a patient observer but not a
neutral one: most of the love letters that
charmingly still circulate in this workingclass Taipei community pass through his
hands, and he’s the catalyst of several of
the story’s love affairs. The community
includes a costume vendor, a JapaneseTaiwanese newlywed couple, and Xiao
Yang’s sometimes violent, sometimes
romantically inclined classmates. Everyone
seems to be in the process of breaking up
or finding a new lover. We are gently
induced to interpret, to be active participants in framing the story. The result is a
fully achieved first film of tangible power
and abundant humanity.”—Vancouver
Adapted from the novel by Vasili Bykov,
Loznitsa’s film is a sobering meditation on
the complicated moral decisions faced by
both soldiers and citizens during wartime.
Set in Nazi-occupied Belarus, the story
begins with the hanging of three villagers
for conspiring against their German
oppressors. Later, Sushenya—a man spared
by the Germans—is visited by two resistance fighters, who intend to execute him
for presumed collaboration with the Nazis.
But their plan is interrupted by enemy fire,
and all three men become unwilling companions on an evasive trek through the
forest. Through flashbacks, Loznitsa closely
examines how each of the men reached
this point in the chaos of war and their
different responses. “An intense, slowburning, and haunting drama [...] shrouded
in the fog of war, the fog of fear, and the
fathomless fog of European history.”—The
Guardian. (127 mins.)
First Feature.
2/19 6:00pm
2/23 6:00pm
Selected Filmography: The Boat Is Full (81),
The Mountain (92), Fire in Paradise (97).
2/14
2/18
8:45pm
2:15pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by the Consulate General of
Switzerland in San Francisco and Chipotle.
Selected Filmography: Winds of September (08).
2/10 5:15pm
2/15 6:00pm
Sponsored by Steven Smith Teamaker.
2/10 2:30pm
2/15 9:15pm
Regal Fox Tower 6
Cinema 21
Selected Filmography: My Joy (10).
Cinema 21
Whitsell Auditorium
36T H
28
PO RT L A N D
I N T ERN A T I O N A L
FILM
FESTIVAL
U N I T ED S T AT E S
ALIEN BOY: THE DEATH
AND LIFE OF J AMES CHASSE
Brian Lindstrom
On September 17, 2006, James Chasse, a
shy and gentle man with schizophrenia,
was tackled by three police officers in front
of dozens of eyewitnesses on a downtown
street corner in Northwest Portland. He
was not suspected of a crime, nor had he
committed one, but nonetheless he suffered 17 broken ribs, a separated shoulder,
a punctured lung, and numerous bruises
and contusions—before dying. Chasse’s
death and treatment shocked the city, ask ing profound questions about how we treat
those with mental illness and what kind of
a police force we want. Lindstrom’s moving
film, six years in the making, provides
both a detailed chronicle of Chasse’s tragic
final hours and a deep look at the arc of
his life from suburban childhood to trying
to live as an independent adult with mental
illness in a society ill-equipped to recognize
his needs. (91 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Finding Normal (07).
2/15 7:00pm
Cinema 21
AMERICAN WINTER
A FIERCE GREEN FIRE
Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz
Five years into the worst economic crisis
since the 1930s, AmericanWinter presents a
telling snapshot of the state of our society
as it exists for millions of Americans across
the country. Shot over the course of the
winter months of 2011–2012, the film follows
eight Portland families —
found through
their calls to 211info, a referral service that
steers thousands of families in crisis to
available social services —battling to keep
their heads above water while facing over whelming financial challenges and a
shrinking social safety net. The devastating
effects of the mortgage lending crisis, soar ing unemployment, a broken healthcare
system, and the budget cuts to the social
services are presented through the eyes of
these families, all falling into poverty for
the first time and struggling to keep their
kids fed, clothed, and with a roof over their
heads. (90 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Sex with Strangers (02).
2/17 3:00pm Whitsell Auditorium
2/18 7:30pm Cinemagic
Sponsored by OPB.
Mark Kitchell
One of the great social movements of the
20th century, environmentalism continues
as an urgent force in the 21st. Kitchell’s
passionate film charts the advent of the
modern environmental movement, from
the early conservation causes of John Muir
to the formation of landmark organizations
like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, to
the creation of events like Earth Day and
the continuing evolution of public conver sation about the growing threats of pollution,
climate change, overharvesting, and their
effects on both our ecology and society.
An essential primer for anyone interested
in a broad overview of a remarkable era of
global activism or anyone who might agree
with one advocate’s observation: “There’s
no Hispanic air. There’s no AfricanAmerican air. There’s air! And if you
breathe air —and most people I know do
breathe air —then I would consider you an
environmentalist.” (114 mins.)
Selected Filmography: Berkeley in the Sixties (90).
2/22 8:45pm Cinema 21
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F E STIVAL
URUGUAY
LA CAMIONETA: THE JOURNEY
OF ONE AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS
LEVIATHAN
LOVE, MARILYN
3 MILLION
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel
Liz Garbus
Jaime Roos, Yamandu Roos
Set in the North Atlantic, Leviathan is an
amazing film about men at sea and fish on
boats. Creatively (to use an understatement)
deploying numerous small digital cameras,
the filmmakers capture the sensory experience of the labor, ecology, sound, light, and
motion of one of man’s oldest activities.
“The filmmakers have made the ne plus
ultra of immersive documentaries. In this
stunning and unparalleled masterpiece,
they have discovered new forms of cinema...
See, hear, and feel it for yourself. It’s a
monster.”—Vancouver International Film
Festival. “The result is a hallucinatory
sensory experience quite unlike any other.
To paraphrase Francis Ford Coppola
describing his Apocalypse Now, Leviathan
isn’t a movie about commercial fishing;
it is commercial fishing.”—New York Film
Marilyn Monroe may live as Hollywood’s
most iconic sex symbol, but beneath the
character she created and perfected was
also one of the most self-possessed and
ambitious artists in the industry. Drawing
on Monroe’s never-before-revealed diaries
and letters and never-before-seen footage
and photographs, including materials from
the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote
estates, Garbus presents a fresh, vivid portrait of a savvy, disciplined, intellectually
curious woman who, for all her tragic personal complexities (recounted in poignant
detail as well), was much more than her
glamorous stereotype. Expanding the
conventions of traditional documentary,
Garbus weaves in readings of Monroe’s
writings by a surprising range of actresses
and actors, emerging with an overall
appreciation that will surprise even the
most informed Monroe students.
(105 mins.)
3 Million is a documentary for soccer
lovers, but also for anyone who likes to root
for the underdog. Like many countries,
Uruguay’s heart stops and starts with the
fate of its beloved soccer team. In this joyous
documentary about the passion of soccer,
the iconic Uruguayan musician Jaime Roos
and his (Dutch) photographer son Yamandu
follow the national team’s 2010 World Cup
run to the electric semi-finals in South
Africa. From Kimberley to Johannesburg
to Cape Town to Pretoria, Jaime and
Yamandu uncover truths about the players
and the excitement of memorable games
with the world’s top teams, as well as reveal
their own relationship, which has its own
suspense and surprise. A music-infused,
father-son road trip in celebration of the
powerful uniting force of sport. (135 mins.)
Mark Kendall
Every day, dozens of decommissioned
school buses leave the United States and
migrate through Mexico to Guatemala,
where they are repaired, repainted, and
reborn as the brightly colored camionetas
that bring most Guatemalans to work.
Kendall’s lyrical film follows the migration
of one Pennsylvania bus as well as the personal stories of five individuals whose lives
become intertwined with its transformation.
Like the bus that unites their stories, the
choice between obsolescence and innovation defines their decisions, propelling
them toward an increasingly uncertain
future in a country where civil institutions
and authorities are powerless to protect
citizens from organized crime. What slowly
emerges is a vivid and rich meditation
on the universal quest for mobility—and
survival. (71 mins.) In Spanish with
English subtitles.
First Feature.
2/9
2/17
6:00pm
7:30pm
Sponsored by KBOO.
Selected Filmography: Taylor—Sweetgrass (09);
Paravel—Foreign Parts (10).
2/9
2/13
3:15pm
6:00pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Cinemagic
Selected Filmography: The Farm: Angola, USA
(98), The Execution of Wanda Jean (02), Bobby
Fisher Against the World (11).
2/16 3:30pm
2/18 4:30pm
2/23 3:00pm
Cinema 21
Whitsell Auditorium
First Feature.
2/10 2:00pm
2/16 9:00pm
Cinemagic
Sponsored by OPB and SP Newsprint.
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F E STIVAL
THE DEVIL’S BALLROOM
SHORT CUTS I:
INTERNATIONAL TIES
2/9
2/17
Sponsored by Red Giant.
THE FACTORY
Aly Muritiba, Brazil
A mother and her imprisoned son carefully
prepare for her crucial visit to the penitentiary in honor of a very special occasion.
(15 mins.)
THE OTHER SIDE
Khen Shalem, Israel
A young Israeli boy, the last to be picked
for soccer teams but the one who owns
the ball, finds an unusual friendship with
someone on the Palestinian side of the
West Bank separation wall. But can a
wordless, gaze-free relationship survive
with only a ball between them? (22 mins.)
TUMULT
Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken,
Norway/Greenland
After burying his last remaining companion,
a fearless explorer has to find his way to
the North Pole alone, fighting snow blindness and physical strain. An unexpected
encounter forces him to decide between
honor and fame or keeping the moral high
ground. (15 mins.)
WILD
Edward Bishop, Great Britain
The unsettling effects of rumor on a
teenage girl. (13 mins.)
Total program running time: 86 mins.
EDMOND WAS A DONKEY
Franck Dion, Canada/France
Edmond is diligent, hard working, and
effective at his lowly job—loved by his boss
but maligned by his colleagues. But when
co-workers play a juvenile prank,
Edmond’s life begins to change. (15 mins.)
FISHING WITHOUT NETS
Johnny Barrington, Great Britain
A tribe of Norse warriors retreats after a
bloody battle. With their chief near death,
they come upon an army they could never
have expected. The comedic be-all and
end-all of culture clashes! (13 mins.)
PREMATURE
Rashaad Ernesto Green, United States
After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the
Bronx, discovers she’s pregnant, she must
face a difficult decision. With nowhere to
turn, she confronts the grim realities of her
situation alone. (15 mins.)
Cutter Hodierne, United States/Kenya
A story of pirates in Somalia told from the
perspective of the Somalis. (17 mins.)
THE MAKER
Christopher Kezelos, Australia
A strange creature races against time to
make the most important and beautiful
creation of his life. (6 mins.)
CHICKEN AND ZOE
Yael Bridge, United States
Eating chicken takes on new meaning for
four-year-old Zoe as she observes her first
slaughter. (4 mins.)
GRANDMOTHERS
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Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan
The Japanese tsunami and earthquake
from the perspective of a 66-year-old
cicada. (8 mins.)
SHORT CUTS II:
INTERNATIONAL TIES
THE OTHER SIDE
(Israel)
Afarin Eghbal, Great Britain
Take a wonderfully inventive tour inside a
grandmother’s apartment in Buenos Aires.
A seamless blend of animation and real-life
testimonials creates an unforgettable tale
of history, memory loss, and new beginnings. (9 mins.)
FISHING WTHOUT NETS
(United States/Kenya)
CATERWAUL
A CURIOUS CONJUNCTION
OF COINCIDENCES
Ian Samuels, United States
An aging fisherman develops an intimate
relationship with a lobster as he struggles
to find closure with his lost wife. (14 mins.)
Joost Reijmers, Netherlands
An absurdist journey through time in
which the worlds of three hapless heroes
living in different centuries collide
unexpectedly in present-day Amsterdam.
(9 mins.)
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GRANDMOTHERS
(Japan)
(Great Britain)
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F I L M
ASAD
SHORT CUTS III:
INTERNATIONAL TIES
2/14
2/19
6:00pm
6:30pm
Whitsell Auditorium
Whitsell Auditorium
Sponsored by Red Giant and Lamar Transit Advertising.
HATCH
Bryan Buckley, South Africa/United States
In a war-torn fishing village in Somalia, a
boy is faced with falling into the pirate life
or rising above to choose the path of an
honest fishing man. (18 mins.)
SHORT CUTS IV:
INTERNATIONAL TIES
THE GREAT RABBIT
Timothy Reckart, United States
After many years of marriage, Walter and
Madge have grown apart: he lives on the
floor and she lives on the ceiling. (10 mins.)
Atsushi Wada, France/Japan
Once we called the noble, profound, and
mysterious existence “The Great.” We have
moved with time; our thoughts and consciousness have changed. And yet, what
makes us still call it “The Great”? (7 mins.)
THE CURSE
THE PALACE
HEAD OVER HEELS
Fyzal Boulifa, Great Britain/Morocco
Fatine has ventured far from the village
to meet her older lover. When a small boy
catches her, all she wants to do is return
home. (16 mins.)
THE CENTRIFUGE BRAIN PROJECT
Till Nowak, Germany
Since the 1970s, scientists have been
conducting experiments with bizarre
amusement park rides to study their effects
on the human brain. (7 mins.)
Anthony Maras, Cyprus/Australia
Cyprus, 1974. When a young Turkish-Cypriot
conscript soldier comes face-to-face with a
Greek-Cypriot family in hiding, he confronts
the brutal reality of war and his role in it.
(17 mins.)
(6 mins.)
Christoph Kuschnig, Austria/United States
A newborn’s destiny hangs in the balance
as grownups come to terms with what they
cannot have. (19 mins.)
PITCH BLACK HEIST
John Maclean, Great Britain
Michael Fassbender stars in this dark, suspenseful tale of a professional safe cracker
who encounters a hitch while on the job.
(13 mins.)
THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE
Kealan O’Rourke, Ireland
After experiencing heartbreak, Rupert
uses a book of magic to invoke a spell to
shield him from emotion forever. (8 mins.)
Nick Palmer, United States
Bruce Mertz is the kind of guy who lights
up the lives of those around him—quite
literally—when every holiday season he
transforms his house into a beacon with
50,000 colorful lights and himself into
Mr. Christmas. (15 mins.)
THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE
(United States)
WRITTEN IN INK
A BRIEF HISTORY OF JOHN BALDESSARI
(United States)
ABIOGENESIS
Martin Rath, Poland
This compelling story of a man trying to
get back in touch with his sister after
14 years asks the question, “Can one change
what has already been written in ink?”
MR. CHRISTMAS
(United States)
(11 mins.)
Richard Mans, New Zealand
A strange mechanical device lands on a
desolate world and uses the planet to undergo a startling transformation. (5 mins.)
DEATH OF A SHADOW
Tom Van Avermaet, Belgium/France
Nathan died during World War I , but a
strange collector imprisoned his shadow
and gave him a second life. (20 mins.)
ONE WRONG WORD
Nicole Volavka, Great Britain/United States
Novelist Tony faces the most difficult
obstacle yet to publishing his magnum
opus: his publishers. (11 mins.)
MR. CHRISTMAS
A BRIEF HISTORY
OF JOHN BALDESSARI
Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, United States
No more boring films! Everything you
need to know about the godfather of
conceptual art. Narrated by Tom Waits.
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ABIOGENESIS
WRITTEN IN INK
(New Zealand)
(Poland)
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6:00pm
Ian Berry
The filmmaker examines the artifacts of
an ended love affair. (3 mins.)
Whitsell Auditorium
JANUARY DRIFT
DEAR PLUTO
Joanna Priestley
An open letter to the celestial body formerly
known as a planet, written and performed
by slam poet Taylor Mali and wryly
animated by Priestley. (4 mins.)
DEAR PLUTO
BIRD OF FLAMES
Chel White
With music by David Lynch and Chrysta
Bell, a spider-like Vietnamese sorcerer
coaxes a beautiful chanteuse to perform
like a living doll. (6 mins.)
James Lowry
An accidental meeting recording the possible
(last) thoughts of a bumblebee. (3 mins.)
THE BUS
DOING VERY WELL
CPR
H.L. Mitchell
A young man finds a microcosm and
possibilities in transit. (8 mins.)
LOST AND FOUND
LOST AND FOUND
Joan Gratz
Metamorphosed images with the appearance of sculpted wood and shifting sand
summon memories of a life. (4 mins.)
WHILE YOU WERE OUT
Noah Lambie
Flip books made of memo pads and other
found folios come to life. (7 mins.)
DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS I
Orland Nutt
Orland’s open letter to Peter concerns a
steaming pile of woodchips, Mt. Fuji, and
the concept of context. (4 mins.)
CPR
Kimberly Warner
While watching lifeguards perform rescue
drills at a neighborhood pool, a woman
faces her own need to be saved. (7 min.)
Enie Vaisburd
In the cold of January, a mind drifts. (4 mins.)
BIRD OF FLAMES
TO BEE OR NOT TO BE
Zach Schultz
A stream-of-consciousness tribute to our
own often ridiculous, rambling inner
monologues. (4 mins.)
F E STIVAL
CONTENTS OF C___’S BOX,
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
SHORT CUTS V:
MADE IN OREGON
2/12
F I L M
THE TITANIC OF SOUTHAMPTON
LATER THAN USUAL
DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS
David Hovan
An elderly couple marks time toward a
not-so-inevitable end. (7 mins.)
THE TITANIC OF SOUTHAMPTON
Justin Zimmerman
The city of Southampton feels the lasting
and haunting effects of the Titanic disaster
a century later. (13 mins.)
DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS II
Orland Nutt
A continuation of the correspondence
in which Orland’s relationship to the
woodchips evolves. (4 mins.)
CONTENTS OF C___’S BOX,
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
LATER THAN USUAL
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How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Matthew Cooke, US ..................................... 28
The Hunt Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark ........ 12
In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine .............. 27
FILM INDEX
FEATURES
In the Shadow
David Ondrícek, Czech Republic ................... 12
3 Million Jaime Roos, Yamandu Roos,
Uruguay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................... 29
4some Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic ............... 11
80 Million Waldemar Krzystek, Poland ......... 23
After Lucia Michel Franco, Mexico................. 21
Alien Boy: The Death and Life of
James Chasse Brian Lindstrom, US.......... 28
Alois Nebel Tomáš Lunák, Czech Republic .... 11
American Winter
Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz, US ........................ 28
The Angels’ Share Ken Loach, Great Britain ... 15
Barfi! Anurag Basu, India . . . ............................ 17
Beyond the Hills
Cristian Mungiu, Romania. ........................... 23
Blancanieves Pablo Berger, Spain .................. 6
Blood of My Blood João Canijo, Portugal ... 23
Caesar Must Die
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Italy .............. 19
Carmina Or Blow Up Paco León, Spain ..... 25
Chinese Take-Out
Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina
.................
7
Clandestine Childhood
Benjamín Ávila, Argentina ............................. 7
Coming of Age
Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, Austria............. 8
Comrade Kim Goes Flying A. Daelemans,
N. Bonner, K. Gwang Hun, North Korea ........ 22
The Double Steps Isaki Lacuesta, Spain ...... 25
The End of Time Peter Mettler, Canada ........ 9
English Vinglish Gauri Shinde, India ............ 18
The Exam Péter Bergendy, Hungary ............. 17
A Fierce Green Fire Mark Kitchell, US ........ 28
Flicker Patrik Eklund, Sweden....................... 26
The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh, Israel ............ 18
Ginger & Rosa Sally Potter, Great Britain..... 15
Hannah Arendt
Margarethe Von Trotta, Germany ................. 14
Happy People: A Year in the Taiga
Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog, Germany . 14
Here and There
Antonio Méndez Esparza, Mexico ................. 21
A Hijacking Tobias Lindholm, Denmark ........ 12
Just the Wind Benedek Fliegauf, Hungary ..... 17
Kauwboy Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands ....... 22
Keep Smiling Rusudan Chkonia, Georgia ...... 14
Key of Life Kenji Uchida, Japan ................... 20
Kon-Tiki
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, Norway .. 22
La Camioneta: The Journey of One
American School Bus Mark Kendall, US .. 29
La Pirogue Moussa Touré, Senegal ............... 24
La Sirga William Vega, Colombia .................... 11
The Last Sentence Jan Troell, Sweden........ 26
The Last Shepherd Marco Bonfanti, Italy .... 20
Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan, Canada..... 9
A Letter to Momo Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan ... 20
Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor,
Véréna Paravel, US ..................................... 29
Lore Cate Shortland, Australia......................... 7
Love, Marilyn Liz Garbus, US ..................... 29
Madrid, 1987 David Trueba, Spain............... 25
Masquerade Choo Chang-Min, South Korea ... 24
Memories Look at Me Song Fang, China .... 10
Men at Lunch Seán Ó Cualáín, Ireland.......... 18
Modest Reception Mani Haghighi, Iran ........ 18
More Than Honey
Markus Imhoof, Switzerland ........................ 27
Nairobi Half Life
David Tosh Gitonga, Kenya ........................... 21
Neighboring Sounds
Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil ....................... 9
No Pablo Larraín, Chile ................................... 10
Off-White Lies Maya Kenig, Israel ................ 19
Old Dog Pema Tseden, China ........................ 10
One Night Lucy Mulloy, Cuba ........................ 11
Our Children Joachim Lafosse, Belgium ....... 9
Our Homeland Yong-Hi Yang, Japan ........... 21
The Painting
Jean-François Laguionie, France .................. 13
Paradise: Faith Ulrich Seidl, Austria .............. 8
Paradise: Love Ulrich Seidl, Austria .............. 8
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The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
Sophie Fiennes, Great Britain ............... . . . . . . . . 15
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy .................. . . . . . . . . 19
Pieta Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea ............... . . . . . . . 24
Polluting Paradise Fatih Akin, Germany . . . . . . . 14
Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas, Mexico . . 22
Purge Antti Jokinen, Finland .................. . . . . . . . . 12
Reality Matteo Garrone, Italy ................. . . . . . . . . 19
Renoir Gilles Bourdos, France ................ . . . . . . . . 13
The Sapphires Wayne Blair, Australia ... . . . . . . . . . 8
Shun Li and the Poet Andrea Segre, Italy . . . 20
Sightseers Ben Wheatley, Great Britain .. . . . . . . . . 16
A Simple Life Ann Hui, Hong Kong ....... . . . . . . . . 17
Sleep Tight Jaume Balagueró, Spain ..... . . . . . . . 25
Something in the Air
Olivier Assayas, France ........................ . . . . . . . . 13
Starry Starry Night Tom Lin, Taiwan ... . . . . . . . 27
Tabu Miguel Gomes, Portugal ................. . . . . . . . 23
This Ain’t California
Marten Persiel, Germany ...................... . . . . . . . . 15
Together Hsu Chao-Jen, Taiwan ............ . . . . . . . 27
Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers, Great Britain . . . 16
Unfair World Filippos Tsitos, Greece ..... . . . . . . . . 16
War Witch Kim Nguyen, Canada............ . . . . . . . . 10
Wasteland Rowan Athale, Great Britain . . . . . . . . . 16
White Elephant Pablo Trapero, Argentina . . . . . 7
White Tiger Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia . . . . 24
The Wild Ones Patricia Ferreira, Spain . . . . . . 26
Wrinkles Ignacio Ferreras, Spain ........... . . . . . . . 26
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
Alain Resnais, France ........................... . . . . . . . . 13
SHORT CUTS
663114 Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan........... . . . . . . . 30
Abiogenesis Richard Mans, New Zealand . . . . . . 31
A Brief History of John Baldessari
Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, US ......... . . . . . . . . 31
Asad Bryan Buckley, South Africa/US .... . . . . . . . . 31
Bird of Flames Chel White, US .............. . . . . . . . 32
The Boy in the Bubble
Kealan O’Rourke, Ireland ...................... . . . . . . . . 31
The Bus H.L. Mitchell, US....................... . . . . . . . 32
Caterwaul Ian Samuels, US ................... . . . . . . . 30
The Centrifuge Brain Project
Till Nowak, Germany............................ . . . . . . . . 31
Chicken and Zoe Yael Bridge, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Contents of C___’s Box, in
No Particular Order Ian Berry, US . . . . . . . . 32
CPR Kimberly Warner, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences
Joost Reijmers, Netherlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Curse
Fyzal Boulifa, Great Britain/Morocco. . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Dear Peter, Woodchips I Orland Nutt, US. . 32
Dear Peter, Woodchips II Orland Nutt, US. . 32
Dear Pluto Joanna Priestley, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Death of a Shadow Tom Van Avermaet,
Belgium/France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Devil’s Ballroom Henrik Martin
Dahlsbakken, Norway/Greenland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Doing Very Well Zach Schultz, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Edmond Was a Donkey
Franck Dion, Canada/France
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Factory Aly Muritiba, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Fishing Without Nets
Cutter Hodierne, US/Kenya . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Grandmothers Afarin Eghbal, Great Britain . . 30
The Great Rabbit
Atsushi Wada, France/Japan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Hatch Christoph Kuschnig, Austria/US . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Head Over Heels Timothy Reckart, US . . . . . . . . 31
January Drift Enie Vaisburd, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Later Than Usual David Hovan, US . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Lost And Found Joan Gratz, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
The Maker Christopher Kezelos, Australia. . . . 30
Mr. Christmas Nick Palmer, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
One Wrong Word
Nicole Volavka, Great Britain/US. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
The Other Side Khen Shalem, Israel. . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Palace Anthony Maras, Cyprus/Australia . . 31
Pitch Black Heist
John Maclean, Great Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Premature Rashaad Ernesto Green, US . . . . . . . . 30
The Titanic of Southampton
Justin Zimmerman, US . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
To Bee Or Not To Be James Lowry, US . . . . . 32
Tumult Johnny Barrington, Great Britain . . . . . . 30
While You Were Out Noah Lambie, US . . . . . 32
Wild Edward Bishop, Great Britain. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Written in Ink Martin Rath, Poland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
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Center is funded in part by grants from The
National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts
Commission, Regional Arts and Culture Council,
The Ted R. Gamble Film Endowment, The Paul
G. Allen Family Foundation, The James F. and
Marion L. Miller Foundation, The Rose E.
Tucker Charitable Trust, Henry Lea Hillman Jr.
Foundation, and the support of numerous
corporate program sponsors, Silver Screen Club
members, and friends.
FILM CENTER STAFF
Director—Bill Foster; Education Director—Ellen
Thomas; Public Relations & Marketing Manager—
Jessica Lyness; Filmmaker Services Manager—
Thomas Phillipson; Education Program
Manager—Pamela Minty; Membership &
Sponsorship Manager—Kristy Conrad; Exhibition
Program Assistant—Morgen Ruff; Theatre
Manager & Projectionist—Melinda Kowalska;
Operations Manager—Russ Gage; Program
Marketing Officer—Aaron Schwartzbord; Public
Relations & Marketing Assistant—Nick Bruno;
Membership Assistant—Sophia Mackenzie;
P O R T L A N D
Administrative Coordinator—Anna Crandall;
Graphic Designers—Michael Smith, Tricia Chin;
Online Communications Specialist—Erica Moe;
Festival Volunteer Coordinator—Felisha Ledesma;
Print Traffic Coordinator—Erik McClanahan;
Print Traffic Assistant—Vincent Caputo; Theatre
Staff—Jane Ballou, Katie Burkart, Joaquin de la
Puente, Corser du Pont, Khai East, Wilhelmina
Hayward, Balazs Hertlik, Stephanie Hough,
Lily Hudson, Jesse Iiams-Hauser, Jennifer Knauss,
Jason Longwell, Eric Macey, Helmy Membreno,
Arika Oglesbee, Tony Olsen-Cardello, Christina
Owen, Robert Porte, Eric Ranz, Trillium
Shannon, Shelley Short, Ilana Sol, Michael
Steen, Lisa Tran, Veronica Vichit-Vadakan, Alex
Vincent, Joe Von Appen, Larisa Zimmerman;
Advance Ticketing Staff—Heidi Ambler, Mo
McFeeley, Sean McGrath, Claire Pappas, Susha
Pratt, Sean Whiteman; Education Services
Coordinators—Jonathan Dick, Liz Lewis, Andrew
Price, Miles Sprietsma; Education Program
Assistants—Hazel Malone, Karen Wennstrom;
Office Interns & Volunteers—Carter Ause,
Chelsea Bowen, Nick Caiazza, Andrew Haskell,
David Jimenez, Joan Lovell, Chelsea Mohr,
Aaron Richards, Matthew Smith, Lisa Waldo;
Festival Volunteers—Yasue Arai, Jean Bellinger,
Lis Cooper, Jeanne Devon, Gabrielle Foulkes,
Connie Guist, Douglas Hanes, Pat Holmes, Kay
Olsen, Nandini Ranganathan, Hannah Van
Loon, Ryan Tobias, Lynda Knight, John Acerbi,
Pirkko Haavisto, Verone Flood, Jean Lew,
and many more…
Faculty: Dan Ackerman, Sue Arbuthnot,
Bushra Azzouz, Kelley Baker, Jon Beanlands,
Jackie Blain, Richard Blakeslee, Andrew
Blubaugh, Bill Bowling, Holly Brix, Carl Diehl,
Laura DiTrapani, Mark Eifert, Brenda Grell,
Daniel Johnson, Lee Krist, Brian Lindstrom,
Zack Linkow, Ted Mahar, Roger Margolis,
Chris Matheson, Matt McCormick, Louanne
Moldovan, Amy O'Brien, Colin O'Neill, Liz
Randall, Buck Skelton, Michelle Swineheart,
Chris Tenzis, Will Vinton, Cam Williams,
and Wayne Woods.
Portland Art Museum: Chairman, Board
of Trustees—Jim Winkler; Vice Chairs—Richard
Brown, Janet Geary; Executive Director—
Brian Ferriso.
Northwest Film Center Committee:
Don Van Wart, Linda Andrews, Mary
Hinckley, David Margulis, Dick Rubenstein,
Alice Wiewel, Bill Whitsell
F I L M
F E STIVAL
SPECIAL THANKS TO
Aaron Cooper, Mike Heiser, Sean Sterling,
Chuck Spittal—The Oregonian; Jon Douglas—
Regal Cinemas; Jim McDonald, Sue Colitin—
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation;
Mark Shapiro, Travis Knight—LAIKA; Martha
Richards, Gretchen Schackel—The James F.
and Marion L. Miller Foundation; Steve
Sandstrom, Kay Zerr, Lauren French—
Sandstrom Partners; David Machado, Daren
Hamilton, Michelle Glass—Nel Centro; Joanne
Bosworth, Susan Siebl, Desmond Mollendor—
Hotel Modera; Vince Porter—Governor’s
Office of Film and Television; Robert
Kramer—SP Newsprint; Sara Osborne—
Safeway Foundation; Clint Ostler—Alaska
Airlines; Haroon Ishrak—Delta Airlines;
Paul Loofburrow, Jennifer McCormick—OPB;
Karen Devencenzi—Southpark Seafood Grill;
Marsha Smith—Higgins; Kate Buska, Dani
Boss, Zie Zie Senzaki—Provenance Hotels;
Sarah Bohlin—Hotel deLuxe; Chris Erickson,
Krissy Sonniksen—Heathman Hotel; Daniel
Sheniak, Dan Wieden—Wieden+Kennedy;
Kelly Barten—Oregon Live; Diane Bullas—
Journal Graphics; Robin Hawley—Maletis
Beverage; Edward Holmes, Jennifer Erickson,
Lauren Trent—King Estate Winery; Steve
Smith, Kim DeMent—Steven Smith Teamaker;
Tom Mittelstaedt—KINK.fm; Jonathan Combs,
Lori Carruthers—Pro Photo Supply; Joseph
Saraceno—Chipotle Mexican Grill;
Mercedes-Benz of Beaverton; Jennifer Aust—
Red Giant; Mark Whitlow, Stephanie Vogel—
Perkins Coie; Julian Chadwick—PDX Pipeline;
Ryan Gallagher—Criterion Cast; Melissa York,
York Haines—Lamar; Patrick Angus, Steven
Fort—Mario’s; Tom Ranieri—Cinema 21;
Charlie Snyder—Regal Fox Cinemas; Poy
Wong—Regal Lloyd Center Cinemas; Chuck
Nakvisil Sr., Chuck Nakvisil Jr., Dave Saunders,
Hugh Christie, Ryan Oliver—Cinemagic;
Martin Schwartz—Consulate General of
Switzerland, San Francisco; Mike O’Bryant—
Scandinavian Heritage Foundation; Andreas
Lins—Austrian Consulate General, Los
Angeles; Christopher Hermann—Honorary
Consul of Austria for Oregon; Michael Oros,
Michou Jardini—Romanian American Society;
James Rudd—Honorary Consul of Romania
for Oregon; Jane Mauk, Dave Kim, Vivina
Boster—Oregon Korea Foundation; John
Bates—Honorary Consul of Korea for
Oregon; Bill Failing—Honorary Consul of
Luxembourg for Oregon; Paolo Barlera—
Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco;
Mara Radi—Italian Film Commission, Los
Angeles; Andrea Bartoloni—Honorary Consul
of Italy for Oregon; Magnus Aasbrenn—
Norwegian Consulate General, San
Francisco; Matt Lounsbury—Stumptown
Coffee; Linda Witt—Alliance Française de
Portland; Michele Bowler-Failing—Your Own
French Home; Laura Gratta—TV5Monde;
Liat Dahan—Consulate General of Israel,
San Francisco; Merril Keane, Dina Anani,
Ellen Theodorson—Oregon State Bar,
International Law Section; Tim DuRoche—
World Affairs Council of Oregon; Maria
Garcia, Dulce María Zamora Lezama—
Consulate of Mexico in Portland; Arezu
Movahed—French American International
School; Agnieszka Laska, Marek Stepien,
Donata Tiley—Polish Library Association,
Portland; Consul-General Hirofumi
Murabayashi, Vice Consul Kazuki Tanabe,
Natsuko Alipio—Consular Office of Japan
in Portland; Françoise Aylmer—Honorary
Consul of France in Oregon; Robert
Manicke—Honorary Consul of Germany in
Oregon; Petra Brambrink, Yvonne Behrens—
Zeitgeist Northwest; Amy Kohnstamm—
MercyCorps; Carol Tripp—New Sweden;
Seppo Saarinen—Finlandia Foundation; Mark
Schleck, Mary DeLorme—ScanDesign
Foundation; Lynn Fitch—KBOO; A.J. McClary,
Sari Loveridge—Picture This Production
Services; Jana Kopp—Sammy’s Flowers; Hal
Nevis—Institute for Judiac Studies; Terry
Kirk, Mike Quinn—Mission Control; Sarah
Ashton—New Deal Distillery; Erika Degens—
Stone Barn Brandyworks.
Festival Program and Poster Design—Sandstrom
Partners; Print Production—Denise Brem.
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Issue Date: February 2013
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1219 SW Park Ave
(inside Portland Art Museum)
nwfilm.org
Bus: 1,6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 17, 19, 38, 43, 45, 55, 58,
66, 68, 92, 94, 96
Streetcar: Exit Art Museum
MAX: red, blue lines (exit SW 10th/Galleria)
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1119 SW Park Ave
Daily, 12-6 p.m., Jan 30-Feb 24, 503-276-4310
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Bus: 1, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19,
31, 32, 33, 38, 43, 44, 45, 51, 54, 56, 58,
66, 68, 92, 94, 96
Streetcar: Exit Art Museum
MAX: red, blue lines (exit Pioneer Courthouse
Square); green, yellow lines (exit SW 6th
and Madison)
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Regal Fox Tower (FT6)
846 SW Park Ave
regmovies.com
Bus: 1, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 19, 31,
32, 33, 35, 36, 44, 51, 54, 56, 94, 99
Streetcar: Exit Central Library
MAX: red, blue lines (exit Pioneer Square
or SW 10th /Galleria); green, yellow lines
(exit Pioneer Place/Pioneer Courthouse)
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121 SW Salmon St
(1st Street, Building 2, upstairs)
wtcpd.com
Bus: 4, 6, 10, 14, 15, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 38,
44, 45, 51, 54, 55, 56, 92, 96, 99
MAX: red, blue lines (exit Yamhill District)
6
Cinema 21 (C21)
616 NW 21st Ave
cinema21.com
Bus: 15, 18, 20, 77
Streetcar: Exit NW 21st & Lovejoy
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Regal Lloyd Center (LC4, LC10)
1510 NE Multnomah St
(outside Lloyd Mall)
regmovies.com
Bus: 8, 70, 77
MAX: red, blue lines (exit Lloyd Center)
8
SE
Cinemagic (CM)
2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Bus: 10, 14, 15
For parking suggestions, visit the Festival website at
7 - 23
Thursday the 7
7:30
NT
th
Blancanieves (Spain)
Friday the 8 th
5:45
LC10
Tabu (Portugal)
6:00
WH
The Sapphires (Australia)
6:00
CM
Paradise: Love (Austria)
6:00
WTC
A Fierce Green Fire (US)
2:30
WTC
Chinese Take-Out (Argentina)
8:45
WH
The Last Sentence (Sweden)
6:00
WTC
The End of Time (Canada)
4:30
C21
Love, Marilyn (US)
8:30
C21
The Pervert’s Guide (Great Britain)
2:30
FT6
Together (Taiwan)
8:45
FT6
The Exam (Hungary)
6:15
LC4
Just the Wind (Hungary)
5:00
CM
Here and There (Mexico)
8:45
WH
After Lucia (Mexico)
4:00
LC10
Wasteland (Great Britain)
8:45
LC10
Renoir (France)
8:00
C21
Laurence Anyways (Canada)
5:15
FT6
The Exam (Hungary)
8:45
CM
White Elephant (Argentina)
4:45
WH
Renoir (France)
8:15
CM
The Last Shepherd (Italy)
5:15
LC10
Hannah Arendt (Germany)
8:45
FT6
Blood of My Blood (Portugal)
5:00
CM
The Sapphires (Australia)
8:15
LC10
Carmina Or Blow Up (Spain)
7:00
LC10
La Pirogue (Senegal)
9:15
LC4
One Night (Cuba)
5:00
WTC
Shun Li & The Poet (Italy)
8:45
WH
Hannah Arendt (Germany)
7:00
C21
5:15
LC4
Starry Starry Night (Taiwan)
9:00
WTC
3 Million (Uruguay)
7:30
WH
The Hunt (Denmark)
5:15
FT6
Comrade Kim (North Korea)
9:00
LC4
White Tiger (Russia)
7:30
CM
American Winter (US)
6:45
LC10
Barfi! (India)
7:30
FT6
7:30
WH
Lore (Australia)
7:45
LC4
Keep Smiling (Georgia)
7:30
FT6
Reality (Italy)
7:30
LC4
Tabu (Portugal)
7:30
CM
Clandestine Childhood (Argentina)
7:30
WTC
La Sirga (Colombia)
Thursday the 14
*
th
*
5:45
LC4
Reality (Italy)
6:00
WH
Short Cuts III: International Ties
6:00
CM
Carmina or Blow Up (Spain)
6:00
FT6
Key of Life (Japan)
6:30
LC10
8:30
LC4
English Vinglish (India)
12:00
C21
The Pervert’s Guide (Great Britain)
8:45
WH
More Than Honey (Switzerland)
12:30
WH
Short Cuts I: International Ties
8:45
CM
Madrid, 1987 (Spain)
12:30
CM
The Last Sheperd (Italy)
6:00
CM
*
Sunday the 17
th
Friday the 22 nd
6:00
WH
Piazza Fontana (Italy)
6:00
C21
Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico)
6:00
WTC
Paradise: Faith (Austria)
8:45
WH
Unfair World (Greece)
8:45
C21
8:45
WTC
6:30
LC4
Wrinkles (Spain)
8:30
LC10
War Witch (Canada)
8:45
WTC
La Sirga (Colombia)
9:00
WH
Modest Reception (Iran)
9:00
CM
Caesar Must Die (Italy)
9:00
FT6
1:45
LC4
Wrinkles (Spain)
6:00
FT6
80 Million (Poland)
9:15
LC4
A Simple Life (Hong Kong)
9:15
LC10
Flicker (Sweden)
2:15
FT6
After Lucia (Mexico)
6:00
LC4
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
2:15
LC10
Off-White Lies (Israel)
6:00
C21
In the Fog (Ukraine)
2:30
CM
Old Dog (China)
6:30
WH
Short Cuts III: International Ties
12:30
WH
Short Cuts IV: International Ties
3:00
WH
American Winter (US)
7:00
LC10
Masquerade (South Korea)
12:45
WTC
Polluting Paradise (Germany)
3:00
WTC
Polluting Paradise (Germany)
8:45
WH
Happy People (Germany)
3:00
WH
Love, Marilyn (US)
3:00
C21
The Double Steps (Spain)
8:45
CM
4some (Czech Republic)
3:15
C21
Sightseers (Great Britain)
4:00
LC4
Unfair World (Greece)
8:45
LC4
Keep Smiling (Georgia)
3:15
WTC
Paradise: Faith (Austria)
4:45
CM
The Wild Ones (Spain)
9:00
FT6
Memories Look at Me (China)
6:00
WH
In the Fog (Ukraine)
4:45
FT6
The Last Sentence (Sweden)
9:00
C21
6:00
C21
White Elephant (Argentina)
4:45
LC10
No (Chile)
6:00
WTC
Sleep Tight (Spain)
5:15
WTC
Men at Lunch (Ireland)
9:00
WH
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (France)
5:15
C21
The Gatekeepers (Israel)
9:00
C21
Our Homeland (Japan)
5:30
WH
The Painting (France)
9:00
WTC
7:00
LC4
7:30
WH
Kon-Tiki (Norway)
7:30
CM
Two Years at Sea (Great Britain)
7:30
FT6
Our Children (Belgium)
7:30
WTC
La Camioneta (US)
In the Shadow (Czech Republic)
7:30
LC10
Nairobi Half-Life (Kenya)
7:30
C21
Sleep Tight (Spain)
Monday the 11
Saturday the 9 th
5:45
LC10
Lore (Australia)
6:00
WH
80 Million (Poland)
Friday the 15
1:00
WH
Short Cuts I: International Ties
6:00
FT6
Nairobi Half-Life (Kenya)
1:00
CM
Kauwboy (Netherlands)
6:00
CM
Caesar Must Die (Italy)
1:00
WTC
This Ain’t California (Germany)
6:30
LC4
Pieta (South Korea)
2:00
LC4
Barfi! (India)
8:30
FT6
Leviathan (US)
8:45
CM
The End of Time (Canada)
8:45
WH
Masquerade (South Korea)
LC10
LC4
3:15
3:15
WH
WTC
*
*
3:30
CM
Alois Nebel (Czech Republic)
8:45
3:30
LC10
Coming of Age (Austria)
9:15
5:15
LC4
Purge (Finland)
Tuesday the 12 th
6:00
WH
Ginger & Rosa (Great Britain)
6:00
CM
Pieta (South Korea)
5:45
LC10
Wasteland (Great Britain)
6:00
WTC
La Camioneta (US)
6:00
WH
Short Cuts V: Made in Oregon
6:00
LC10
The Angels’ Share (Great Britain)
6:00
CM
This Ain’t California (Germany)
8:00
LC4
6:00
LC4
A Letter to Momo (Japan)
7:00
FT6
Barfi! (India)
*
8:15
LC10
Ginger & Rosa (Great Britain)
WH
Purge (Finland)
CM
Alois Nebel (Czech Republic)
8:30
WH
Beyond the Hills (Romania)
8:45
CM
The Painting (France)
8:45
WTC
Shun Li & The Poet (Italy)
8:30
8:45
LC10
Neighboring Sounds (Brazil)
8:30
Sunday the 10
12:00
12:00
1:45
2:00
2:15
2:30
WH
WTC
LC10
CM
WH
LC4
th
WH
No (Chile)
6:00
CM
6:00
WTC
6:00
LC10
Starry Starry Night (Taiwan)
6:30
LC4
Comrade Kim (North Korea)
7:00
C21
Alien Boy (US)
8:45
WH
The Angels’ Share (Great Britain)
8:45
CM
Paradise: Love (Austria)
8:45
WTC
Sleep Tight (Spain)
8:45
LC4
Our Children (Belgium)
9:15
LC10
9:15
C21
Together (Taiwan)
Saturday the 16
*
12:00
*
Wednesday the 13
th
6:00
th
C21
WH
Short Cuts IV: International Ties
1:00
CM
Kauwboy (Netherlands)
2:30
C21
Memories Look at Me (China)
3:00
CM
3:00
WTC
Chinese Take-Out (Argentina)
3:00
LC10
80 Million (Poland)
Short Cuts II: International Ties
3:30
WH
A Letter to Momo (Japan)
6:00
CM
Leviathan (US)
3:30
LC4
Love, Marilyn (US)
6:00
FT6
5:30
LC10
Purge (Finland)
3 Million (Uruguay)
6:30
LC10
Coming of Age (Austria)
5:30
C21
Happy People (Germany)
7:30
LC4
Beyond the Hills (Romania)
6:00
WH
Something in the Air (France)
A Simple Life (Hong Kong)
8:30
CM
The Last Shepherd (Italy)
6:00
CM
La Pirogue (Senegal)
*
*
Wednesday the 20
*
*
*
WH
*
th
12:15
6:00
*
th
*
Tuesday the 19 th
Monday the 18 th
12:00
WH
Short Cuts II: International Ties
12:00
C21
Men at Lunch (Ireland)
1:30
LC10
Piazza Fontana (Italy)
2:00
C21
Old Dog (China)
2:15
WH
More Than Honey (Switzerland)
2:15
LC4
2:30
CM
La Sirga (Colombia)
4:30
WH
War Witch (Canada)
4:30
LC4
Flicker (Sweden)
*
*
Saturday the 23 rd
th
6:00
WH
One Night (Cuba)
6:00
CM
4some (Czech Republic)
6:00
FT6
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (France)
6:00
LC4
Just the Wind (Hungary)
6:00
C21
Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico)
7:00
LC10
Laurence Anyways (Canada)
8:45
WH
A Hijacking (Denmark)
8:45
CM
Two Years at Sea (Great Britain)
8:45
FT6
8:45
LC4
Key of Life (Japan)
Thursday the 21 st
5:45
LC10
Something in the Air (France)
6:00
WH
The Exam (Hungary)
6:00
CM
The Gatekeepers (Israel)
6:00
FT6
A Hijacking (Denmark)
6:00
C21
Sightseers (Great Britain)
6:30
LC4
Our Homeland (Japan)
8:30
LC10
The Hunt (Denmark)
Advance tickets no longer available/
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Changes posted at
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FT
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Regal Lloyd Center
NT
Newmark Theatre
WH
Whitsell Auditorium
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