2009 - Tiburon International Film Festival

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TIBURON, CALIFORNIA
TIBURON
International
FILM FESTIVAL
MARCH 19-27, 2009
8
th Annual
INSIDE
WELCOME...
...to the 8th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF).
A committment to the true spirit of independent film and independent
filmmaking has always been at the core of what fuels this festival, and
that undoubtedly continues in 2009. This year’s line-up of films is once
again a celebration of global cinema, a transcendence of life into art that
brings the world to its community in the greater Bay Area and beyond.
Since last year, historic change has swept through America,
in spite of the turmoil facing the country on many fronts. The message
of hope and thoughtful understanding of all issues our new President embodies is precisely that
which the TIFF has been a champion of since its inception.
Film remains an incredible medium of expression; one that allows us all to gain a
greater understanding of one another and our shared humanity. The films in this program are
both serious and light-hearted, but all provide a window to the world, allowing us to explore those
distant places of struggle, strife, and laughter with our global neighbors.
Please join us, as nations unite during this nine-day event.
– Saeed Shafa, Founder & Executive Director
Program Overview............................4
Events.................................................5
Special Programs..................7, 10-13
Tributes...............................................8
Feature Films...................................14
Short Films.......................................33
Shorts Program Schedule..............42
Around the World...........................43
TICKETS
Tiburon
Film
Society
In our continuing efforts to bring the world to our community through
film, the TIFF has formed the Tiburon Film Society to bring you films
from all over the world.
For more information please contact us by e-mail or phone at:
[email protected] • 415.381.4123
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Tiburon/Belvedere Residents $7
Seniors (60 & over) $7
Children (12 & under) $7
Students (with I.D.) $7
Ticket Information..........................47
Index..................................................54
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Schedule...........................................44
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Program Overview
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THE WORLD COMES TO TIBURON
“Understanding the World Through Film”
®
NEW FILM VENUE!
The TIFF has added a third film venue to its
repertoire this year as we’ll be screening films at
the theater in the Bay
Model Visitor Center
in Sausalito. Films will
be shown at the visitor
center on Saturday,
Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday during the festival. Check the schedule on pages 44 and 45 for films and times
ALL ABOUT SPORTS
Motorcycle racing, synchronized swimming,
skateboarding, skydiving and cycling are all on the
docket for this year’s
sports films at the TIFF.
The highlight is sure to
be Jeff Jensen’s The
First, Last Race which
he will attend along with
30 of his racing pals after their trek from Malibu to
Tiburon on their bikes.
MARIN’S OWN
STAFF
The TIFF’s signature Marin Filmmakers Program
features an eclectic grouping of topics and film
styles. Documentaries,
music videos, and
narratives are all on the
menu. The featurelength offering stars
Tiburon native Shoshana Bush in director John Stewart Muller’s Fling.
Details of all the films can be found on on page 12.
MUSIC FILMS
This year’s program features a great selection of
fims with musical themes. The most notable of
which being All Together Now, a documentary
telling the story of how
the living members of
the Beatles and others
came together with
Cirque du Soleil to form the spectular show, Love.
Other music and dance films can be seen on p 7.
MEXICAN CINEMA
The TIFF’s country spotlight falls on Mexico this
year as we present a wonderful selection of films
by Mexican filmmakers, and about Mexican
culture. A collection of
12 feature-length and
short films show off the
range of quality films
coming out of Mexico. Check page 13 for a full look
at all the films in this year’s Spotlight.
THE JAZZ SINGER
Each year the TIFF offers a nod to the history of
filmmaking through tributes to films and filmmakers
that have laid the foundation for innovation
that continues to display
itself in our new films
each year. This year we
present the first ‘talkie’
film, The Jazz Singer, released by Warner Bros. in
1927 to great success.
Saeed Shafa
Founder & Executive Director
Sara Hadipour
Hospitality Director
Siamak Shafa
Associate Director
Joseph McBride
Collen Newlan
Matt Hader
Moderators
David Desimini
Program Designer
ANIMATION
The TIFF tradition of great animated films continues
this year with a wide array of ground breaking efforts from filmmakers the
world over. This year’s
selections include a
feature-length film from
filmmaker Nina Paley,
Sita Sings the Blues to
go with 16 innovative animated shorts, which can
be seen together on page 7.
FAMILY FILMS
This year’s Cinema for the Ages selections once
again live up to the motto of being for the “young,
young at heart, and
everyone in between.”
Feature films All Roads
Lead Home and Finn
on the Fly headline the
group, which once again
includes our Senior’s Shorts Program. See page
11 for additional details on all the films.
TRIBUTES
Cass Warner’s documentary about her grandfather
(Harry Warner) and his brothers, who together
formed Warner Bros. is
just part of the tribute
excitement this year.
A tribute to legendary
director and cinematographer Haskell Wexler
will feature his 1969 film, Medium Cool, and to be
presented by none other than George Lucas.
Bernadette Ferrer
Nima Mirzazadeh
Advertising
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Official Photographer
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Grants & Sponsorship
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Festival Trailer
Marcus McWaters
Technical Director
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Event Coordinator
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Poster
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European Rep
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Latin America Rep
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Master of Ceremonies
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Events
THURSDAY, MARCH 19
FILM
CELEBRATION
& AWARDS CEREMONY
FRIDAY, MARCH 27 • 7:30 PM
7 PM • PLAYHOUSE THEATER
GUARD NO. 47
US Premier
2008 • Czech Republic • 107 min
Director Filip Renc
Cast Karel Roden, Lucia
Siposova, Václav Jiráček, Vladimír Dlouhý
Dlouhý
Exclusive presentation of the
Tiburon International Film Festival’s
Filip Renc & Karel Roden in person
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SUNDAY, MARCH 22 • 1 PM • FREE ADMISSION • WATERS EDGE HOTEL
TIFF is delighted to present a panel discussion on screenwriting and film distribution featuring
Matt Hader (Screenwriter and Independent Producer), Cass Warner (Director, The Brothers Warner),
Marla Lewin Halperin (Producer) & Marc Halperin (President, Magic Lamp Distribution and Releasing)
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Special Programs
MUSIC & DANCE FILMS
Row 1: La Paloma (p 23) • Hair: Let the Sunshine In (p 21) • All Together Now (p 15) • Hey (p 36) • Furnace Room Lullaby (p 36)
The 8th Annual
Row 2: Faire Diversion (p 35) • Portal (p 39) • Roastbeef (p 40) • Nora (p 39) • A Bronx Dream (p 33)
ANIMATED WORLD
Row 3: Night Practice (p 38) • Crowded With Voices (p 34) • Transfert (p 41) • Cut Chemist (p 34) • License to Love (p 37)
Row 1: Bamiyan (p 33) • No Quarter (p 39) • Not Forgotten (p 39) • The Switch (p 41) • Papercut (p 39)
Row 2: Divers (p 35) • Sebastian’s Voodoo (p 40) • Symphony (p 41) • Candy (p 34) • Mister Cok (p 38)
Row 3: The Bear’s Hand (p 33) • Hey (p 36) • Disbelief (p 35) • Voodoo Bayou (p 41) • Laura - in Action (p 37)
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Tributes
HASKELL WEXLER WARNER BROS.
A Tribute & Lifetime Achievement Award
OSCAR WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR
Medium Cool (p 24)
Sat • March 21 • 7 pm • Playhouse 2
A Chicago-born filmmaker, Haskell Wexler broke into feature films in
1959 as a cinematographer on the documentary The Savage Eye (1960).
Wexler photographed the dramas The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Angel
Baby (1961), The Best
Man (1964), and later
distinguished himself as cinematographer on the Mike
Nichols drama Who’s Afraid
of Virginia Woolf? (1965).
He worked on such
high profile feature films
as In The Heat of the Night
(1967) and The Thomas
Crown Affair (1968), but
also produced and directed
the documentaries The Bus
and Medium Cool (1969),
the latter a very successful and controversial look at the violence and strife
surrounding the anti-war movement and the 1968 Democratic National
Convention in Chicago showing during this year’s TIFF.
During the 1980s, he also produced and directed the feature film Latino
(1985), which was highly critical of American policy in Central America.
Wexler has won Academy Awards® for his work in Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf? and Bound For Glory (1976), and also worked on such documentaries as Gimme Shelter and The Stones At the MAX.
Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance and McCabe), another great cinematographer, called Wexler “the greatest director of all cinematographers.”
MR. WEXLER’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
PRESENTED BY
GEORGE LUCAS
George Lucas’s devotion to timeless storytelling and cutting-edge innovation has resulted in some of the most successful and beloved films of all time.
His films celebrate the boundless potential of the individual to overcome any limitations -- something he
firmly believes. This theme is strong in
the early movies that marked the start
of his professional career. In 1971,
using San Francisco production studio
American Zoetrope and long-time
friend Francis Ford Coppola as executive producer, Lucas transformed an
award-winning student film into his
first feature, THX-1138.
The success of Star Wars allowed
Lucas to remain independent and
continue operating in Marin County,
California.
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The Brothers Warner (p 16) • Cass Warner in person
Sat • March 21 • 3:45 pm • Playhouse 1
Warner Brothers, one of Hollywood’s most famous studios, was founded
in 1923 by four actual brothers: Jack, Sam, Harry & Albert Warner. The
siblings never seemed to get along with each other, but Warner Bros Studios
managed to produce some of the most memorable movies in the history of
Hollywood, including the world’s first “talkie” with Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer
(1927), The Adventures Robin Hood (1938), Casablanca (1942), Yankee
Doodle Dandy (1942), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Deliverance (1972), The
Exorcist (1973), Chariots of Fire (1981), Body Heat (1981), and the current
string of Batman films.
The four founding Warner
brothers, Harry Warner
(1881-1958), Albert Warner
(1883-1967), Sam Warner
(1887-1927) and Jack L.
Warner (1892-1978). The
three elder brothers began
in the exhibition business in
1903, having acquired a projector with which they showed films in the mining
towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Within a few years this led to the distribution of pictures across a four-state area. By the time of World War I they had
begun producing films, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Brothers
studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced
the pictures, while Harry and Albert handled finance and distribution in New
York.
The first Warner Bros studio (where they made The Jazz Singer) was
located in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard, in what is now KTLA Television
studios. In 1928, with the success of that famousAl Jolson talkie, Warners
moved to a 110-acre Burbank lot, in the east San Fernando Valley, and it has
been their home now for 70 years.
THE JAZZ SINGER
Sun • March 22 • 3:30 pm • Playhouse 1
Warner Bros.’ and director Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927) is an
historic film and cinematic landmark. The wildly successful “photo-dramatic
production” was based upon Samson Raphaelson’s 1921 short story The
Day of Atonement (also the basis
for Raphaelson’s popular 1926
Broadway play of the same name),
and adapted for the screen by Alfred
A. Cohn.
In 1926, Warners’ risky investment
of a half million dollars with Western
Electric in the Vitaphone sound
system brought profits of $3.5
million at the box-office with this
landmark talkie. It was a huge success, responsible for transforming Warners
into Hollywood’s hottest film factory. The commercialization of sound-on-film,
and the transformation of the industry from silent films to talkies became a
reality with the success of this film.
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Special Programs
WORLD PREMIER
ALL ABOUT SPORTS
THE
FIRST,
LAST
RACE
Hollywood stuntman
Jeff Jensen & 30 World
Class Racers will be
riding their bikes from
Malibu to Tiburon to
celebrate the premier of
the film
Director
Jeff Jensen
2009 • US • 88 min
Documentary
See page 19 for more info
SYNCH OR SWIM (US • 90 min • p 30) & DIVERS (US • 4 min • p 35)
SHOWING TOGETHER: THURSDAY • MARCH 26 • 2 PM
SHOT FROM DARK
SAT • MARCH 21 • 12:15 PM • US • 58 min • p 29
STANDING START
SUN • MARCH 22 • 11:05 AM • UK • 13 min • p 41
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Saturday, March 21
2:35 pm
BEAUTY & THE BEAST
SAT • MARCH 21 • 12:15 PM • US • 40 min • p 33
LIFT
SAT • 3/21 • 12:15 PM • France/US/Italy/Spain • 20 min • p37
Special Programs
ALL ROADS
LEAD HOME
Saturday, March 21 • 7:35 pm
Film for the young, young at heart and everyone in between
CINEMA FOR THE AGES
Director
Dennis Fallon
Cast
Peter Coyote, Jason London,
Vivien Cardone, Vanessa
Branch, Patton Oswalt
2008 • US • 112 min
See page 14 for more info
THE MAP READER
2008 • US • 112 min • p 24
Fri, March 20 • 5:40 pm
TRIPLE CONCERTO
AUSTRALIA • 8 min • p 41
FINN ON THE FLY
THE TOURNAMENT
ITALY • 14 min • p 41
2008 • Canada • 95 min • p 19
Saturday, March 21 • 11:20 am
FOUR MINUTES TIL NOON
US • 4 min • p 36
SENIOR’S SHORTS PROGRAM
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:
Jackson (US • 8 min); Even in My Dreams (US • 8 min); Old Grace (US • 10 min); Last Chance Romance
(UK • 9 min); Gilles’ Lily (Canada • 16 min); How to Save a Fish from Drowning (UK • 13 min);
A Green Mountain in the Drawer (Korea/US • 29 min); The Cable Car (Switzerland • 7 min);
Mazal (Israel • 18 min); Roots (Turkey • 18 min); The Waiting (Turkey • 14 min); Shred of Hope (Israel • 26 min)
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Special Programs
THE
MARIN FILMMAKERS
PROGRAM
Tuesday, March 24 • 7:20 pm
2008 • US • 98 min
Northern California Premier
Join director & co-writer John Stewart
Muller, actress and Tiburon native
Shoshana Bush, producer & co-writer
Laura Boersma, director of photography Frederick Schroeder, and costume
designer Keylee Sanders as they present
Fling for the first time in The Bay Area
Fling
SHORTS
SHOWING TOGETHER:
12
ARCH’S IGUANAS
Director: Shaun Donahue (in person)
US • 28 min • p 38
COLUMBARIUN
see more on page 20
MON • MARCH 23 • 7:10 PM
MY PEN PAL: AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE
Director: Linda Richard (in person)
US • 26 min • p 34
Director John Stewart Muller
Cast Brandon Routh, Steve
Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshana
Bush, Nick Wechsler, Ellen Hollman
LICENSE TO LOVE
Director: Steve Gatlin (in person)
Honduras/US • 24 min • p 33
Director: Steve Gatlin (in person)
Finland/US • 5 min • p 37
OUR BAY
Director: Noah Schlager (in person)
US • 15 min • p 39
Special Programs
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7 SOULS
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HOW COULD I NOT
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FRI • MARCH 20 • 9:40 PM
2008 • 90 min
TUES • MARCH 24 • 9:40 PM
2008 • 86 min
Director Pedro Ultreras
Director Roberto Rochin Naya
Cast Gustavo Sánchez Parra,
Evangelina Sosa
Cast Pedro Armendariz jr, Ana Claudia
Talancón, Miguel Rodarte, Alex Hank,
Eduardo Von, Dolores Heredia, Justo
Martínez, Fidel Zerda
Director Victor Jesús Avelar Martinez
see more on page 14
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see more on page 22
THURS • MARCH 26 • 7:35 PM
2007 • 80 min
Cast Alejandro Belmonte,
Siouzana Melikian
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT:
The Bull (11 min • p 34); A Little Girl Waiting (6 min • p 38); A Small Death (6 min • p 40);
Watching it Rain (13 min • p 42); Voodoo Bayou (12 min • p 41);
Distinguishing Features (12 min • p 35); Mexican Standoff (4 min • p 38);
A Day’s Work (17 min p 35); A Better Life (12 min • p 33)
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Feature Films
The 27 Club
7 Souls
Above the Clouds
US Premier
2008 • UK/US • 97 min
director Erica Dunton :: starring Joe Anderson,
Dave Emrich, James Forgey, Alexie Gilmore, David
Sherrill
2008 • Mexico • 90 min
director Pedro Ultreras :: starring Gustavo Sánchez
Parra, Evangelina Sosa
2008 • Italy • 89 min
directors Sabrina Guigli & Riccardo Stefani :: starring Maximiliano Czertok, Battista Ghitalla, Sabrina
Guigli, Secchi Roberto, Omar Stefani
After his best friend dies at age 27, a grieving rock star
hires a grocery store clerk to drive him across America to
the funeral. A beautiful road movie about friendship and
healing, their cross-country journey and the relationship
that develops between the three characters plays an
integral role in Elliot’s recovery. The film captures not
only the madness of grief but the resilience of the human
spirit, and how even when one feels there is no hope, life
will remain and she will replace that loss with a humanity
that can touch even the most unreachable soul.
“Negro” is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented
migrants into the US. He wants out of the smuggling
business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors,
now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to
keep an eye on him. During the difficult crossing, the
smugglers fight and eventually lose part of their human
“cargo”. Negro escapes from his former associates
but also from justice. The story comes full circle when
Gavilan manages to escape and return to the smuggling
business with complete impunity.
In 1943, Adriano returns to his birthplace, after having
escaped death in Genoa during bombing raids, a village
nestled among the Appennine mountains. The long
journey ends in the reunion with his family and friends left
behind many years ago. The cruel war arrives in March
1944 as Hermann Goering divides the community and
its tranquillity. Half the community is violently crushed
as a bloody civil war commences across all of Italy. The
war has officially arrived in the valley and leaves a scar
never to be forgotten.
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm
Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm
screening with Four Minutes Til Noon
screening with A Better Life
screening with On of the Last
Airplay:
All Roads Lead Home
Afghan Chronicles
The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio
US Premier
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2007 • Afghanistan/Canada • 52 min
director Dominic Morissette
2008 • US • 90 min
directors Carolyn Travis & Chris Fox Gilson
starring Graham Nash, David Crosby, Stephen Stills,
Casey Kasem, Fabian, Lesley Gore, Grace Slick
2008 • US • 112 min
director Dennis Fallon :: starring Peter Coyote, Jason
London, Vivien Cardone, Vanessa Branch, Patton
Oswalt
Since the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan has
been remaking itself. Kabul, the capital, is today a hive
of activity, and the press has attained some freedom.
The film delves into the effort to rebuild a country that
dreams of a better future, and presents the vital issues
with which this reborn society must contend. Yet the
achievements are still fragile. Blatant inequality and
corruption hold the threat of a return by the Taliban: what
will become of the dreams cherished by this land trying
to rebuild itself?
If you want to see how America works, look at what
happened to rock radio. The film documents its rise and
fall from the AM jocks who blasted Black music to White
America and named it ‘Rock ‘n Roll’, to the FM pioneers
who fanned the flames of the 60s, to the silencing of rock
radio as we knew it by government meddling and big
business mediocrity, to its promise of rebirth on satellite
radio. A story of love and war – a 50-year struggle for the
soul of music radio, told by the deejays and the artists
they made rock stars.
In this inspirational film based on a true story, a young
girl (Everwood’s Vivien Cardone) has difficulty adjusting
after the death of her mother. When her father (Jason
London) is unable to help her, he sends her to live with
her grandfather (Peter Coyote) on a farm. Amidst the
horses and dogs, she learns invaluable lessons in this
drama.
Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:25 pm
Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:40 pm
screening with 4 Kilometers
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Feature Films
All Together Now
American Outrage
Amina
2008 • UK/Canada/US • 85 min
directors Adrian Wills :: starring John Lennon, Paul
McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Guy Laliberté, Yoko Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison
2008 • US • 56 min
directors Beth & George Gage
narrator Mary Steenburgen
2006 • Yemen • 53 min
director Khadija Al-salami
Formula One car racing seems an unlikely backdrop for
the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil® to first make contact.
But George Harrison and Cirque founder Guy Laliberté
met at Grand Prix events and discovered a mutual
passion for motor sports. Out of those encounters
grew friendship and the idea of bringing together the
most popular music of the 20th century with the world’s
greatest circus performers. Cirque du Soleil would meet
the Beatles, in a noble experiment – one in which both
partners would agree to share creative control.
Why would the US government spend millions of dollars
prosecuting two elderly ladies for trespassing? Carrie
and Mary Dann have always grazed their livestock in the
desolate Nevada desert outside their ranch. That land is
recognized as Native American property but was seized
by the government after lucrative gold deposits were
discovered. The Dann sisters refused to stop grazing
their animals, and the government responded by suing
them. The sisters’ fight went all the way to the Supreme
Court and eventually to the United Nations.
Everybody wants Amina to die, without mercy, because
she killed her husband. Amina has waited nine years in
prison for her death sentence to be carried out. She was
to have been executed long ago, but her two escapes
from prison allowed her to stay alive. Both times she
broke out of prison, she believed she had finally escaped
the injustice, but both times she found herself in danger
and chose a return to prison. On her return after the
second escape, the judicial authorities decide to execute
her immediately.
Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 1:30 pm
Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 6:10 pm
Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 6:20 pm
screening with Colour Test.6 (both screenings)
screening with Before the Sea, Colour Talks, Gimme a Hug
screening with Gaza Souvenirs
Ashes From The Sky
Barcelona
Behind the Glass
West Coast Premier
Sponsored by Spanish Consulate
West Coast Premier
2008 • Spain • 96 min
director Jose Antonio Quiros :: starring Celso Bugallo, Gary Piquer, Clara Segura, Beatríz Rico, Fran
Sariego
A comedy about love of nature and the inability of man
to conquer the forces of development. When Ferguson,
a Scot writing a travel guide, gets stuck in a village
within sight of the plant threatening local environment,
he finds himself getting involved in the divisive struggle.
A story of contradictions with no unique truth, both small
victories and small failures are the norm. The film is
an engaging comedy examining the compromises and
consequences made over environmental concerns as
they affect people’s everyday lives.
2007 • Spain • 90 min
director Ventura Pons :: starring Núria Espert, Josep
Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardá, Jordi Bosch, María
Botto, Pablo Derqui
2008 • Croatia • 80 min
director Zrinko Ogresta :: starring Leon Lucev, Jadranka Djokic, Daria Lorenci
If a city is its people, then Barcelona is a kaleidoscope
of human pathos. Acclaimed director Ventura Pons
has created an urban symphony that artfully captures
the emotional dissonance of six Barcelonians living
together in a faded apartment building. Six characters
– contemporary archetypes of urban solitude – meet in
an old apartment located in the city center of Barcelona.
In this non-descript Barcelona flat, incest, homosexuality
and adultery intertwine the lives of these characters
while we witness life in this Medeterranian City.
Croatian director Zrinko Ogresta, who’s film Here was
shown at TIFF 2005, returns to Tiburon with Behind the
Glass, another quasi-existential parable of postmodernity
whose less-than-heroic protagonist tempts fate with his
inertia. Successful thirty-something architect Nikola can
feel the walls closing in as his life loses its precarious
balance and spins out of control when his wife reveals
his affair at a family gathering. Nikola quickly learns the
meaning of the old axiom “he who hesitates is lost” in the
midst of unexpectedly tragic consequences.
Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 6 pm
screening with Closer
screening with Mazal
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Feature Films
Beket
Berber Atlas
West Coast Premier
US Premier
2008 • Italy • 80 min
director Davide Manuli :: starring Luciano Curreli,
Jerome Duranteau
2008 • Spain/Morocco • 82 min
director Moises Salama
2008 • Spain • 98 min
director Albert Serra :: starring Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat Masanellas, Montse Triola,
Mark Peranson
A free adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for
Godot”. Freak and Jajà live in a no-man’s land. Only a few
strange characters, survivors, make rare appearances.
They meet at a bus stop in the middle of no-where, they
have never met before. The bus doesn’t stop. It’s the
bus, which brings them to Godot, the God who makes
his presence felt beyond the mountain in the shape of
a musical sound. Having missed the bus, they start a
journey during which they will meet a series of bizarre
characters. Are they going to reach their God?
A documentary filmed over several years in the
impressive scenery of the Eastern and Central High
Atlas mountains in Morocco, the struggle of the Berber
people (Imazighen) is examined. This mountainous
terrain is the core location of Imamazigh cultural survival.
The struggle to modernize to the standards of nearby
Southern Europe as a way to escape the desperate
poverty in which these people live is juxtaposed against
the struggle to maintain the traditions of a proud, ancient
culture.
A version of the most widely referenced narratives in
the Western world, the film traces the Three Wise Men
as they journey to pay their respects and bring gifts to
Jesus Christ. We follow the three kings through the
desert as they make their way to Christ’s birthplace. The
journey is hilarious, there is constant banter between
the three men. Risky and adventurous, both visually
and in narrative terms, breathtaking landscapes and a
memorable underwater scene invigorate the story with
new life and meaning.
Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 3:30 pm
Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 4:20 pm
Birdsong
screening with Because There Are Things You Never Forget
The Brothers Warner
The Butterfly Tatoo
Bye Bye Shanghai
2008 • US • 90 min
director Cass Warner :: starring Dennis Hopper, Debbie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.,
Haskell Wexler, Norman Lear, Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
2008 • Netherlands/UK • 98 min
director Phil Hawkins :: starring Duncan Stuart, Jessica Blake, Aidan Magrath, Christopher Dane, Dan
Morgan
2008 • Czech Republic/Argentina • 114 min
director Jana Bokova
An intimate portrait of the four film pioneers who founded
and ran Warner Bros. for over 50 years. This is the
inside story of Harry, Abe, Sam, and Jack Warner – the
original Hollywood independent filmmakers. This closeknit band of brothers was the first to use motion pictures
to “educate, entertain, and enlighten”. With stories
often ripped from news headlines, it was Harry’s belief
that, “Those who make a nation’s entertainment have
obligations above and beyond their primary commercial
objective, which is the box office.”
Love’s young dream collides with violent revenge in
this adaptation of the novel by Philip Pullman (author
of The Golden Compass). Teenage lovers from the
gritty side of Oxford, are caught in the crossfire when a
gangster-with-a-grudge comes calling. Heady romance
gives way to growing suspense and a final devastating
eruption of violence. A fresh young cast, a soundtrack of
unsigned bands from Oxford’s vibrant music scene, and
a score by veteran composer Enaudi help construct this
heartbreaking story of love and death.
Distinguished Czech documentarist Jana Boková’s
exploration into exactly what the word “exile” means. Now
a resident of Argentina hersef, her journey for the answer
takes her from Prague to Paris as she intertwines her
own memories of leaving Prague with the experiences
of others from her generation. This highly personal film
considers the various aspects of emigration, ultimately
reaching the conclusion that once a person has been
uprooted, he or she can never cultivate his or her native
roots again.
Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 4 pm
Cass Warner in person
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Feature Films
Cactus
Captive
Caution, Love Ahead!
West Coast Premier
2008 • Australia • 89 min
director Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan :: starring Travis
McMahon, David Lyons, Bryan Brown, Shane Jacobson, Daniel Krige, Celia Ireland, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith
2008 • Russia/Bulgaria • 80 min
director Alexey Uchitel :: starring Vyatcheslav Krikunov, Pyotr Logachyov, Irakli Mskhalaia, Yulia
Peresild, Sergey Umanov, Andrey Feskov
2008 • India • 148 min
director Siddharth Raj Anand :: starring Ranbir
Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Deepika
Padukone
In order to get some much needed cash, John Kelly
accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler
Eli Jones to his keepers in the Australian outback:
No questions asked. While the kidnapping has been
meticulously planned, John finds that the road he’s
chosen is not so easily traveled. He has embarked
on a dark journey where every choice has tragic
consequences.
Based on Vladimir Makanin’s The Prisoner from the
Caucasus, the film focuses on the folly of war in an
intimate, startling way. Set in the present, Russian
soldiers find themselves trapped in the vast Chechen
landscape, stifling in the heat, and lost in hostile, alien
surroundings. In need of a guide to lead their convoy, the
handsome, laconic commander and the playful sniper
seize a local boy who becomes their passport to safety,
but ultimately pays a terrible price. His captors will not
escape the incident unscathed either.
Why do girls always fall for the wrong guy? Their mothers
warn; their friends shake their heads disapprovingly; their
minds tell them to escape while the going is good. But
their hearts are another story. Meet Raj: it’s not his fault
that he’s a heartbreaker, it’s in his DNA. Come discover
his three love stories. Different ladyloves at different
times in his life. And each of them, teach him a little bit
about love and a little bit about life, in their own sweet,
sexy or sassy way. Come fall in love...three times.
Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 2:30 pm
Colorado Avenue
Courting Condi
screening with The Fenceline
The Collective
West Coast Premier
Claes Olsson & Nicke Lignell in person
2008 • US • 82 min
directors Judson Pearce Morgan & Kelly Overton
starring Kelly Overton, Laura Allen, Shane Mcrae,
Wynn Everett, Donnie Keshawarz
In New York City knowing what to believe is never
easy. When Tyler Clarke gets a cryptic voicemail from
her sister, she is left with no choice but to fly across
the country to find out what has happened. But when
she arrives, Jessica is nowhere to be found. Alone in
an unfamiliar city, surrounded by strangers, Tyler has
no choice but to trust the people who call themselves
Jessica’s new friends. She eventually discovers that her
sister has given up the life she was living to join a group
that call themselves “The Collective”.
2007 • Finland • 120 min
director Cole Claassen :: starring Birthe Wingren,
Nicke Lignell, Andre Wikstrom, Ylva Ekblad, Peter
Kanerva
After her father’s death, Hanna and her mother are
forced to start a new life as impoverished servants in
a new village in 1880s Finland. At 18, Hanna fulfills her
dream of going to America for a better life. Returning to
the village she left 10 years earlier, she is determined
to gain the respect she never got. Her much desired
respect is had when the store she opened with her
money earned in America becomes the village center,
but her son’s turn to liquor-running during prohibition
threatens her new standing in the community.
Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world’s
most powerful woman? This musical docu-tragi-comedy
– part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Chicago – follows
a love-struck soul’s hilarious, emotionally engaging, and
ultimately shocking quest to woo Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice. A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale,
this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows
Devin Ratray, a portly musician, former child actor
(famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer
of Condi, as he prepares to meet her and win her heart
by traveling the country learning more about her.
Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:25 pm
Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7 pm
Tues, March 24 :: Corinthian :: 2:20 pm
2008 • US • 107 min
director Sebastian Doggart :: starring Devin Ratray
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Feature Films
A Deal is a Deal
Donkey in Lahore
Dream Havana
Gary Marks in person
2008 • UK • 95 min
director Jonathan Gershfield :: starring Mackenzie
Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton, Gemma
Arterton
2008 • Australia/Pakistan • 117 min
director Faramarz K-Rahber
2007 • Cuba/Mexico/US • 82 min
director Gary Marks :: starring Ernesto Santana,
Jorge Mota
Paul Callow has a dream. Fed up with city life and
driving trains, he longs to commune with Nature and
write novels. But that’s easier dreamt than done. The
trauma of having two people fall under his train in as
many weeks does little to improve his mood, until he
hears that three fatal accidents in a month, qualifies you
for early retirement with 10 years’ salary, paid as a lump
sum! Paul suddenly sees a way of clearing his debts
and escaping to a better life. All he has to do is find a
willing victim.
A unique cross-cultural love story that follows Brian, an
Australian ex-Goth and a puppeteer, as he converts
to Islam and attempts to overcome cultural as well as
personal obstacles in order to marry Amber, a young
Muslim woman in Pakistan. Despite Amber’s wish to
marry Brian, her family is unimpressed by the idea of her
marrying an unknown foreigner. What unfolds is a long
and difficult process that leads to frustration, disbelief,
and despair. Brian’s remarkable love and determination
are on full display throughout this journey.
In August 1994, more than 33,000 Cubans attempted
to escape the island by sea. Two writers, friends
since adolescence, are faced with a choice – continue
struggling with the hardships of the island or brave the
sea on a homemade raft. Ernesto Santana chooses
Cuba, Jorge Mota chooses the Sea. This is the story of
their struggles, their successes and the friendship that
binds them. This emotional story was filmed on location
in Cuba, the U.S., and Mexico.
Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 3:50 pm
screening with Fall
screening with Tommy
Faces
Fake Blonde
Familiar Voices
2007 • France/Palestine/Israel • 75 min
director Gerard Maximin :: starring JR, Marc Berrebi
2008 • Brazil • 105 min
director Carlos Reichenbach :: starring Rosanne
Mulholland, Cauã Reymond, Maurício Mattar, Djin
Sganzerla
2008 • Canada/US • 77 min
director Danny Mendoza :: starring Mia Farrow, Eric
Cohen, Simon Deng, Rebecca Hamilton, Motasim
Adam
A project called “Face 2 Face” envisaged covering the
public spaces of the conflict zones in the cities of Hebron,
Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah Jerichom and Jerusalem
with posters featuring smiling faces, as an attempt to
reduce the abyss between people divided by walls,
politics and stereotypes. This brave and unpretentious
project is the work of a French street artist and his friend.
They took photos of local Israelis and Palestinians, who
agreed to make goofy smiles, in order to demonstrate
our similarities, in spite of differences.
Silmara, a young industrial worker of exuberant beauty
is a sexy icon for her friends, neighbors and co-workers.
She supports her ex-convict arsonist father, whom she
lives with, and has an ambiguous relationship with a
dance teacher named Regina. Silmara gets involved
with two good looking and tacky pop-stars, and faces
a paradox: her beauty draws the ugly side of human
nature. In her search for pleasure, Silmara, like all of us,
is also subject to finding pain and learns some traumatic
life lessons.
A documentary profiling reactions to the ongoing crisis
in Darfur that proposes to empower, not overwhelm; to
engage the audience in a respectful dialogue, rather
than wagging its finger at them; and to help the audience
clearly understand their relationship to this crisis.
Through voices and visuals connected with Nobel Peace
Prize winners, soldiers, Darfuri refugees, celebrities,
humanitarian aid workers, politicians, university level
activists, and others, old messages are delivered in new
ways – ones that are direct, concrete, and accessible.
Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 11:15 am
Daniel Roberto Mendoza in person
screening with Colour Test.6 (Sunday Only)
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Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 3 pm
screening with Coming of Age, Children Who Never Existed
Feature Films
Fidel Castro:
Man & Myth
Final Image
US Premier
The Final Word
World Premier
Moslem Mansouri in person
Cuba/Germany • 50 min
director Stephan Lamby :: starring Mikhail Gorbachev,
George Bush, James Baker, Aleida Guevara, Hubor
Matos, Natalia Revuelta, Philipp Agee
2008 • Argentina/Chile/Denmark/Sweden • 91 min
director Andres Habegger :: featuring Ernesto Carmona, Carlos Coccio, Juan “Mono” Flores, Leticia
Henrichsen, Luís Kovach, and others
2009 • Iran • 55 min
director Moslem Mansouri
An intimate portrayal of one of history’s most
controversial leaders. The man who freed Cuba from a
crushing regime and lived a Communist dream, stood
up to American and international condemnation, yet
survives to this day. Undoubtedly a legendary figure,
Castro is also full of contradictions – some see him as
a hero, others as a ruthless dictator. The film follows
Castro on some of his daily routines and combines
remarkable archive footage with unique interviews from
close friends, family, allies and enemies.
June of 1973 in Santiago de Chile. Leonardo Henrichsen,
an Argentine cameraman films his own death. Thirtythree years later, Ernesto Carmona, a Chilean journalist,
discovers the identity of the man who shot him. A film
about one of the most famous images in history, It is
about a group of journalists filming a continent sinking in
violence, and offers an opportunity to see very rare and
revealing archival material from the last 40 years. It is
a journey across the recent history of Latin America as
seen through the life and images of a single man.
Prominent and influential contemporary Iranian poet,
Ahmad Shamlou, has tremendously on current folklore
language and literature in Iran. Shamlou, in his poetry,
spoke consciously of human suffering, injustice, love and
romance. Through his distinctive possession of language
and words, he skillfully sided with the oppressed and
opposed cruel regimes and their inhumane institutions.
His poems echoed the hardships and visions of his
people, making his pen was the most effective weapon
he had against oppression.
Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 5:15 pm
screening with Maria & Osmey
screening with Mail Call
screening with Tehran Backyard
Finn on the Fly
The First Day of Winter
The First, Last Race
US Premier
World Premier
Jeff Jensen in person
2008 • Canada • 95 min
director Mark Jean :: starring Matthew Knight, Ryan
Belleville, Brandon Firla, Ana Gasteyer
2008 • Italy • 88 min
director Mirko Locatelli :: starring Mattia de Gasperis,
Michela Cova, Andrea Semeghini, Alberto Gerundo,
Teresa Patrignani
2009 • US • 88 min
director Jeff Jensen :: narrator Dean Cain
What if your dog became a human? The story of Ben
and his best friend, Finn, a kooky border collie who has a
flair for fitting in and quickly finds other dogs in their new
town to hang out with. Ben isn’t so lucky. An outsider at
his new school he is desperate to make friends but lacks
the confidence to do it until one day the outgoing Finn
gets his nose into a mad science experiment and the
crazy, out-of-control events that start happening change
their lives forever.
Valerio is a teenager who keeps to himself and, unlike
most youngsters his age, finds it difficult to fully partake
of the carefree joys of youth. So he stands apart and
watches the others enjoying themselves, measuring
himself against them and trying to become more like
them. He furtively seeks and then shies from their
company, and soon finds himself surreptitiously spying
on them. His spying leads him to commit a serious
mistake, and Valerio accepts his punishment with stoic
courage. Valerio will no longer be the same.
Hollywood Stuntman, Jeff Jensen, rides the new Ducati
Terra Mostro from his home in Malibu, California, to the
Pikes Peak Intn’l Hill Climb, races it and then rides it
home afterwards. This would be a huge undertaking
from any man in his mid-twenties, but, at twice that age,
Jeff hasn’t figured that out yet. Explore the mindset of a
man that thinks he can still ride a motorcycle 1,400 miles
one way, then race it in the Premier Class, on a road
with thousand foot cliffs and no guard rails against World
Class racers and then turn around and ride it home.
screening with Smiling Dog
screening with Even in My Dreams, Diva
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Feature Films
Fling
Flowers of the Sky
Four Chapters
West Coast Premier
US Premier
2008 • US • 98 min
director John Stewart Muller :: starring Brandon
Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshana
Bush, Nick Wechsler, Ellen Hollman
2008 • Sri Lanka • 90 min
director Prasanna Vithanage
starring Malini Fonseka
2008 • India • 125 min
director Suman Mukhopadhyay :: starring Dhritiman
Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Subrata Dutta, Joy
Sengupta, Kabir Suman
By all appearances, Samantha and Mason are the
picture perfect couple. At her sister Allison’s wedding,
Samantha, finds herself irresistibly drawn back into the
arms of her ex-boyfriend, James, a surprise wedding
guest. Meanwhile, Mason, spends a flirtatious evening
culminating in a steamy hot tub encounter with 18-yearold, Olivia. Carefully sneaking out of James’s room, Sam
is startled by Mason and confesses her affair, after which
he responds by relating his evening’s adventures, as
they exhaustedly climb into bed together.
Sandhya Rani, an ageing film star, was once the darling of
the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune, she now
lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting
out a room in her home to the young film and television
stars of today to satisfy their illicit sexual desires. The
popular young film star, Shalika, uses this room to carry
on an affair with a young actor. When Shalika’s husband
discovers this, the scandal and its publicity forces Rani
into the limelight again, but she will have to deal with the
dark side of her earlier rise to fame.
Based on the novel by the Nobel Prize winning author
Rabindranath Tagore, the story is one of love struggling
to find a place between conflicting ideologies. Sachish,
in search of life’s meaning, flees from radical positivism
to religious mysticism. But his search ultimately yields
nothing but crushing disillusionment as he cannot align
his abstract ideals with the powerful presences of two
women in his life – a young Hindu widow, and the
abandoned mistress of Sachish’s own brother.
Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:20 pm
John Stewart Muller & Shoshana Bush in person
screening with Because There Are Things You Never Forget
Frankie is a Womanizer
Gallero
Goodbye Solo
West Coast Premier
director Jan Prusinovsky :: starring Josef Polášek,
Ela Lehotská, Martin Pechlát, Zdena Hadrbolcová,
Petra Nesvačilová, Leoš Noha, Marika Procházková
2009 • Argentina • 90 min
director Paula Mastellone :: starring Gustavo
Almada, Silvia Zerbini
2008 • US • 91 min
director Rahmin Bahrani :: starring Souléymane Sy
Savané, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Carmen
Leyva, Lane “Roc” Williams
As a psychiatrist, Frankie would be expected to have his
personal life under control, but he’s too fond of women.
In addition to his wife Eliška, he’s in several other
relationships, a problem he suddenly finds is spiralling
out of control. At 40, with a lucrative practice and a new
dream house, he doesn’t know where to turn and what
to save first. His secret life as a womanizer has come
out in the open and he sees only too well how fast his
“perfect” life, envied by everyone around him, is coming
to a tragic end.
Mario is a “gallero” (a person who breeds fighting cocks)
accustomed to solitude, who spends his days training
his cocks. He earns a living by finding occasional jobs in
rural areas. During one of these jobs, in a remote village,
he meets Julia, an older woman who lost her entire
family in car accident. She is all alone in the world and
clings to her memories and her religion. Their inevitable
encounter will transport them to an uncomfortable place
full of uncertainties. Mario will discover new feelings;
Julia will break her sorrowful silence.
Amidst the crumbling, Old South veneer of WinstonSalem, North Carolina, two men forge an unlikely
friendship which will change both of their lives forever.
Solo is an African taxi driver soon expecting his first child.
William is a tough Southern good ol‘ boy with a lifetime
of regrets. One man‘s American dream is just beginning,
while the other‘s is quickly winding down. But despite
their differences, both men soon realize they need each
other more than either is willing to admit as their hearwarming friendship explores a changing America.
Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 6:15 pm
screening with Homicide: Division B
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screening with In the Dark
Feature Films
The Grapes
Guard No. 47
US Premier
US Premier
Tomas Barina in person
Filip Renc & Karel Roden in person
Hair:
Let the Sun Shine In
director Tomas Barina :: starring Krystof Hadek, Lukas Langmajer, Tereza Voriskova
director Filip Renc :: starring Karel Roden, Lucia
Siposova, Václav Jiráček, Vladimír Dlouhý
2007 • US • 54 min
director Pola Rapaport :: starring Keith Carradine,
Tim Curry, Milos Forman, Melba Moore, Martin Luther King, Jane Fonda, Ben Vereen, Johnny Carson
Honza, a petty thief, desperately needs a holiday.
Helping to fulfil his sick grandfather’s dream of a long
vacation, he offers to look after his vineyard while he’s
away on his trip. Honza anticipates a relaxing stay in
sunny, idyllic Moravia, complete with wine, women and
his friend, the womanizer Jirka. After all, what can go
wrong in ten days? Of course things turn out differently
than anticipated and our two heroes become ensnared
by a number of alcoholic, erotic and interpersonal
entanglements. Cheers!
Josef Dousa, is a railway guard who returns from the
First World War hoping to forget all the horrors of his
recent experiences as he settles into his secluded
guard house at the side of his beautiful young wife. One
day, he saves the life of a young man who is about to
jump under a train. However, the man falls in love with
Dousa’s wife and arouses her passion. Dousa is hit by a
bout of deafness and when his hearing returns he does
not admit it to anyone – not even his wife. That is the
only way he can find out about his wife’s infidelity.
Since its overwhelming success on Broadway forty
years ago, the musical Hair has inspired generations
with its messages of love, non-violence and liberation.
This new, definitive, and entertaining documentary,
which highlights the continuing relevance of the show
and its still radical, transformative power. In preparation
for the musical’s fortieth anniversary, the show’s author
and co-creator Jim Rado rehearses a troupe of young
performers for a new production whose vibrant energy
brings Hair’s fantastic score to life once again.
March 19 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:30 pm
screening with Gravity, Cantata in C Major, A Time and a Time
Hand of the Headless Man
Henry Kissinger
Secrets of a Superpower
The Homecoming
US Premier
US Premier
2007 • Belgium • 104 min
director Guillaume Malandrin :: starring Cécile De
France, Emmanuelle Devos, Jean-Pierre Darroussin,
Eric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu, Ulrich Tukur
2008 • Germany/US • 90 min
director Stephan Lamby :: starring George W. Bush,
Alexander Haig, James Schlesinger, Richard Perle,
Brent Scowcroft, Norman Mailer, Carl Bernstein
2007 • Greece • 98 min
director Vassilis Douvlis :: starring Arto Apartian,
Maria Skoula, Artur Luzi
Eva is a 25-year-old Olympic diver. Her father is her
trainer and mentor. During a competition, she injures
both hands, but decides to continue. Her next dive
results in disaster as she bumps her head on the diving
board. She wakes up in the hospital, her father by her
side, but immediately talking about going back to work.
Nothing is the same anymore as she struggles to bring
her memory back and to break down the wall of silence
between her and her father.
Though Henry Kissinger often gives short statements to
the media, he generally refuses detailed interviews about
his life. However, he agreed to answer questions about
his life in this exclusive and extensive documentary. A
rare chance. The life of Henry Kissinger provides a lot
of material for a fascinating and historically relevant film.
Through the veil of his life, important stages of the 20th
Century are revealed. As only a few living personalities
can lay claim to, Kissinger was both a historical witness
and a political decision-maker in the past century.
After 35 years working in a factory in Germany, Ilias
returns to his almost deserted village and buys a service
station on the main street to Yannena. He soon finds
himself feeling like a foreigner again, this time in his
own country. His relationship with his younger, beautiful
wife, is in deep crisis, as she yearns to experience
life, something she wasn’t able to do after marrying at
a young age. Their life changes drastically when Ilias
saves a young Albanian illegal immigrant from border
guards and gives him a job in his shop.
Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 6:15 pm
Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5 pm
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Feature Films
How Could I Not Love You?
I Want to See
In the Name of God
director Victor Jesús Avelar Martinez
starring Alejandro Belmonte, Siouzana Melikian
2008 • France/Lebanon • 75 min
director DirectorName#1 :: starring Catherine Deneuve, Manuel Carmona, Joana Hadjithomas, Julien
Hirsch, Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroue
2007 • Pakistan • 167 min
director Shoaib Mansoor :: starring Shaan, Iman Ali,
Austin Marie Sayre, Naseeruddin Shah, Fawad Afzal
Khan
Hugo and Julia are two high school students that have
different dreams and goals. In the end, their lives take
different paths learning that, “In this life, everything has
a price,” and everyone has to pay his own.
July 2006. A war breaks out in Lebanon. A new war, but
not just one more war. A war that crushes the hopes of
peace for a generation. What can cinema do? This film
aims to answer that question. Together with Catherine
Deneuve and Lebanese actor Rabih Mroué, the
filmmakers will drive through the regions devastated by
the conflict. Through the presence of these iconic figures
in the region, and their meeting, the filmmakers hope to
find the beauty that their eyes no longer perceive. It is the
beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure.
The controversial new film from writer-director Shoaib
Mansoor that has garnered international tension for
tackling delicate issues of religious intolerance and
cultural frictions. In contemporary Lahore, Pakistan, a rift
develops between two musician brothers: Sarmad aligns
with a fundamentalist sheikh, while Mansoor moves to
Chicago to continue his studies. Meanwhile, their uncle
in London tricks his westernized daughter, Mary into an
arranged marriage to Sarmad. In the wake of 9/11, their
lives are thrown into upheaval.
Infinite Space:
Iraqi Short Films
Jackson
2008 • US • 90 min
director Murray Grigor :: narrator Sean Connery
2008 • Argentina • 94 min
director Mauro Andrizzi
2008 • US • 97 min
director Jonathan Lawton :: starring Barry Primus,
Charles Robinson, Steve Guttenberg, Debra Jo
Rupp
The film traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John
Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and
no end.” It is the story of brilliance, a complicated life –
and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
The camera soars through iconic spaces, with comments
from Lautner, his colleagues, clients and family.
The first installment in Kino21’s series that explores
soldiering and war from the point of view of those on the
ground. A compilation of short videos shot in the midst
of war by American and British soldiers, Iraqi militia
members, and corporate workers. These are a mix of
slices of life recorded on video (many shot while firing
on the enemy or being fired upon), pithy propaganda
pieces, and soldiers’ visions of war as just another music
video. They are crudely shot fragments, some rife with
raw fear, some gloating over momentary victory.
Two homeless men have a quixotic day of comedy,
adventure, and romance on the streets of Los Angeles,
thanks to a skillfully-bummed $20 bill (a Jackson), and
the beautiful musical backdrop of opera’s greatest arias.
In the most unusual aspect of the film other down-andout characters express themselves by singing famous
opera arias. From an old drunk singing a Donizetti duet
with a crack addict, to a bag-lady singing Carmen, what
begins as a tale of friendship becomes a story about the
beauty and resilience of the human spirit.
Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11:15 am
Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm
Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 2:40 pm
The Architecture of John Launter
Sarah Sackner & Anna Thomas (Producers) in person
screening with Wash n’ Fold (Friday Only)
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Feature Films
The Jazz Singer
Jolene
La France
Sponsored by French Consulate
1927 • US • 89 min
director Alan Crosland :: starring Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer,
Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff
2008 • US • 109 min
director Dan Ireland :: starring Jessica Chastain,
Dermot Mulroney, Chazz Palminteri, Rupert Friend,
Michael Vartan, Denise Richards
2007 • France • 102 min
director Serge Bozon :: starring Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory, Benjamin Esdraffo, Mehdi Zannad,
Guillaume Depardieu
Warner Bros.’ and director Alan Crosland’s The Jazz
Singer is an historic milestone film and cinematic
landmark. The wildly successful “photo-dramatic
production” was based upon Samson Raphaelson’s
1921 short story “The Day of Atonement”. Warners’ risky
investment in the Vitaphone sound system enabled this
landmark talkie. It was a huge success that transformed
Warners into Hollywood’s hottest film factory and
enabled the transformation of the industry from silent
films to talkies.
Based on E.L. Doctorow’s engrossing tale of a gifted
young woman’s odyssey across America in pursuit of
love and independence, the film follows the fortunes
of a singular heroine as she navigates her fate through
opportunity and adversity over the course of an
extraordinary ten-year period in her life.
It’s the fall of 1917 and war is raging across Europe.
Far from the conflict, Camille spends her time awaiting
news of her husband, who is at the front. She receives a
note from him ending their relationship. Distraught, she
disguises herself as a man and goes to the front to find
him. She finds herself with a group of soldiers who add
to the surreal quality of their trek by breaking into song
and playing homemade folk instruments. Only as the
men discover Camille’s true identity does Camille realize
the soldiers have secrets of their own.
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm
La Paloma
The Little Heart
Loose Rope
2008 • 86 min
Germany/Cuba/Mexico/Romania/Zanzibar
director Sigrid Faltin
2007 • Vietnam • 98 min
director Thanh Van Nguyen :: starring Do Nguyen
Lan Ha, Mai Hong Kin Hanh, Minh Hong Anh
2008 • Iran • 82 min
director Mehrshad Karkhani :: starring Pejman Bazeghi, Babak Hamidian, Keramat Roudsaz, Narges
Mohammadi
A journey on the wings of La Paloma, the most frequently
played song in the world (La Paloma is Spanish for
dove). Some 2000 versions are known, though many
say, there are infinitely more. In Zanzibar it is played
at the end of a wedding, in Romania it is performed at
the end of a funeral. Legend has it that as a last wish
Mexican Emperor Maximilian requested La Paloma to
be played, before he was executed. In Auschwitz, Coco
Schumann, the German master of swing, was forced to
perform the song at the ramp to the gas chambers.
Mai, a girl of 17 (played by Do Nguyen Lan Ha, winner
of the Vietnamese Film Award for this role) lives with her
parents, two younger sisters and her brother in a poor
village in central Vietnam. While her mother tries hard
to feed the family, her father pursues his own pleasure,
denying the family any happiness. Mai yearns to help
her family and is referred to a so-called tailoring course
in Saigon. Admired by her peers, especially her younger
sister, as she leaves to seek a better life in the city, no
one would believe that she could be sold to a brothel.
Two young rural men who work at the animal market
in Tehran have only 24 hours to take a large cow from
downtown to the northern part of the city. Their jobs
and futures are at stake. The spectators follow their
obligatory journey with the rope which is tied around the
cow. The film explores, and attempts to describe through
the journey of these young men, the contrasts which
exists between the south and the north of a metropolis.
Cass Warner in person
Longing Worldwide
screening with Final Fitting
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Feature Films
The Lost Beauty
Lost Song
West Coast Premier
US Premier
2007 • Morocco • 90 min
director Lahcen Zinoun :: starring Sanaa Alaoui,
Mohamed Miftah, Hanane Zouhdi, Chams-Eddine Zinoun, Touria Jabrane, Mohamed Afifi, Hassan Sqalli
2008 • Canada • 105 min
director Rodrigue Jean :: starring Patrick Goyette,
Suzie LeBlanc, Marilou Longpré Pilon, Ginette
Morin
2007 • Hong Kong • 90 min
director Nicolas Chin :: starring Jessey Meng, Qu
Ying, Richard Ng, Elvis Tsui
The film is a reconstruction of the time during the 20th
century in Morocco when slavery still existed. Oud
Al’Ward is a young slave with a great passion: playing
the lute. Sold to a wealthy musician, she becomes his
favourite and begins to perform in public. The privileges
and the attention of her master will trigger off the jealousy
of his wives and his other slaves. Oud Al’Ward will pay a
very dear price for her art and talent.
Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with
their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The
setting is idyllic, and their happiness seems within reach.
Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth
rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the
benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in
the neighboring house, the young woman feels isolated
and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. No one
fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted
violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip.
High above the commerce and crowds of Hong Kong
winds Magazine Gap Road, a secluded enclave of
wealth and privilege. Samantha is firmly entrenched in
this world where her past as a prostitute is her most
well-kept secret – until it catches up with her in a single
phone call from Kate, another escort. For Samantha,
helping Kate means risking everything – her budding
romance with a wealthy man, the deadly men who run
Hong Kong’s high-class prostitution ring, and her own
fear that beneath the veneer, she’ll always be for sale.
Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm
Mao Ce Dun
The Map Reader
Medium Cool
US Premier
2007 • Albania • 90 min
director Besnik Bisha :: starring Fadil Hasa, Miola
Sitaj, Driola Dega
2008 • New Zealand • 90 min
director Harold Brodie :: starring Bonnie Soper, Jordan Selwyn, Mikaila Hutchison, Rebecca Gibney
Lifetime Achievement Award
for Mr. Wexler presented by George Lucas
Haskell Wexler in person
The film unfolds the reality in a communist country in the
1970s through the eyes of an ordinary gypsy. The events
take place in a small town in Albania. Besides the wellorganized, civilized life, a strange Gypsy community is
settled in the town. The calm flow of their life is troubled
by the birth of a child. The son, who is the ninth child
in this Gypsy family, will bring joy not only to his family,
but to the entire gypsy community. What could possibly
trouble the communist establishment of the time? A child
is born and his name is Mao Ce Dun.
Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his
small-town New Zealand life by immersing himself within
a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is
broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women
into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the
verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is
Michael’s peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets.
Suspended beside it all is Michael’s single mother
Amelia, who cherishes her son, while simultaneously
pushing him away.
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Magazine Gap Road
1969 • US • 110 min
director Haskell Wexler :: starring Robert Forster,
Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold
Blankenship
The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago
is a hotbed of political unrest and social change. Yet
amid all the violence, a sensationalist television news
cameraman (Robert Forster) meets a warmhearted
woman (Verna Bloom) raising her son in a Chicago
ghetto. As they fight to avoid the fear that’s gripping the
city and the nation, their fledgling friendship grows -- but
so does the threat of danger.
Feature Films
Megalopolis
Midsummer Madness
Mommy is Crazy
US Premier
US Premier
2008 • 112 min
Italy/Brazil/China/Egypt/Japan/Pakistan/US
directors Francesco Conversano & Nene Grignaffin
2008 • Austria/UK/Latvia • 90 min
director Alexander Hahn :: starring Maria de Madeiros, Dominique Pinon, Orlando Wells, Tobias
Moretti
2007 • France • 95 min
director Jean-Pierre Ameris :: starring Isabelle Carré,
Marc Citti, Nazmi Kirik, Christine Murillo, Zacharie
Chasseriaud, Elisa Heusch, Christian Bouillette
A look at the global cities of the 21st century – the visible
and invisible elements that illuminate human nature.
Stories and images of six megacities: madrasah students,
two Afghan refugees and a group of bloggers in Karachi;
an escort and a priest in Sao Paulo; a homeless person,
a couple youths and a group of girls of Shibuya in Tokyo;
a garbage picker and a young secretary in Cairo; Mr
and Mrs Shenzhen, an old unemployed couple and two
young girls looking for a job in Shenzhen; policemen and
a street gang in Los Angeles.
Janu Nakts (St. John’s Night) is a traditional Latvian
celebration during which family and friends gather to
build bonfires, barbecue, drink and generally have a
good time. According to legend, lovers and those who
would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the
“magic fern” on this night. This magic fern serves as
the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in the film,
and also serves as a metaphor for the film’s underlying
theme – finding love.
“Doesn’t this bore you to death?” In the middle of a meal,
between two mouthfuls, Sylvie ruins her husband’s
appetite. Marc has invited his boss and his wife to dinner.
But that’s Sylvie’s style: she just says anything that
crosses her mind, without thinking. And when she meets
Jallal, she discovers the misery of illegal immigrants.
So she just gives herself, body and soul, whithout the
slightest hint of fear. And yet...
The Noise in My Head
Nomad’s Land
Nothing Else Matters
2008 • Switzerland • 90 min
director Vincent Pluss :: starring Céline Bolomey,
Gabriel Bonnefoy, Frédéric Landenberg, François
Nadin, Lucie Zelger, Pierre Mifsud
director Gael Metroz :: starring Nicolas Bouvier
2007 • Germany • 100 min
director DirectorName#1 :: starring Paula Kalenberg,
Marie Luise Schramm, Benjamin Kramme, Vinzenz
Kiefer, Toni Osmani, Clara Charlotte König
Laura, a journalist in her mid-30s, has a chance
encounter in downtown Geneva with Simon, an 18-yearold runaway, and brings him home with her. As Laura
struggles with her waning professional life, rendezvous
with her ex-lover, and a desperate desire to be the
nurturer young Simon needs, the film exposes the inner
workings of his characters’ minds, revealing the need
people have for intimacy – both sexual and platonic – in
their lives.
Fifty years after Nicolas Bouvier’s journey from Geneva
to Sri Lanka, film director Gaël Métroz follows the author’s
footsteps with his camera. Although he wanted to revive
Bouvier’s account, he ultimately tells his own story. It is
by leaving Bouvier’s road that the director experiences
the philosophy advocated by the travel writer, letting him
be bewitched by the Middle East. The camera’s point
of view being the director’s own, while discovering the
East, the exoticism unfolds slowly with the depth of an
eye which finds its marks as the journey goes ahead.
Caria runs away from home with great plans. She wants
to go to Lyon to study fashion. At the train station all her
luggage is stolen and she is forced to take a job on a
construction site to earn enough money to continue the
journey. On the job, Caria meets Lucie, who lives on a
boat with her brother Michael. The boat is her home, and
she wants to spend the rest of her life there. Lucie and
Caria, with their completely different concepts of life,
begin to realize and appreciate the parts of life that the
other so eagerly seek.
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Feature Films
The Novelist
Nuran
Of All the Things
US Premier
World Premier
director Hannu Kahakorpi :: starring Kai Lehtinen, Susanna Anteroinen
2008 • Israel • 67 min
director Amikam Shossberger
2008 • US • 83 min
director Jody Lambert :: starring Dennis Lambert
Too much hard work, too little love in the marriage and
even less self confidence prevent Päätalo from fulfilling
his lifetime dream to become a writer. Until he finds a
new love.
The IDF is in pursuit of a wanted man and the entire
West Bank city of Tul-Karem is under closure. And then,
as if the rules of the closure do not apply, an old Subaru
pulls over, two women grab little Nuran by her hands and
mouth, slam her against the backseat and vanish. Nuran
was eight years-old when she was kidnapped from her
doorstep inside the Palestinian Authority and taken into
the State of Israel. Her parents have staged a desperate
search, forced to deal with the hurdles thrown at them by
the IDF and the Israeli Police.
Today, Dennis Lambert is a 60-year-old family man
selling real estate in Florida, but he was was one of
the most successful and diverse songwriter/producers
of the 1970s and 1980s. It turns out his obscure 1972
solo album is huge in the Philippines. A Filipino concert
promoter has been begging him to come tour for
decades, and he finally agreed. This film is a hilarious
and touching pop/rock/country/R&B documentary that
follows Dennis on his whirlwind tour as he rediscovers
his passion for music.
screening with Roads
Pachamama
Paloma Delight
US Premier
Paraíba My Love
US Premier
Bernard Robert-Charrue in person
2008 • Bolivia/Japan/US • 104 min
director Toshifumi Matsushita :: starring Christian
Huaygua, Fanny Mosques, Francisco Gutierrez, Luis
Mamani
2007 • France/Algeria • 134 min
director Nadir Mokneche :: starring Biyouna, Nadia
Kaci, Aylin Prandi, Daniel Lundh, Fadila Ouabdesselam, Lyes Salem, Nawel Zwit, Abbes Zahmani
2008 • Brazil/Switzerland • 77 min
director Bernard Robert-Charrue :: starring Chico
César, Dominguinhos, Richard Galliano, Aleijadinho
de Pombal, Pinto do Acordeon, Os 3 do Nordeste
On Bolivia’s inland salt sea, 13-year-old Kunturi and his
family cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to barter
for goods. The Quecha people have lived and worked
close to the land for centuries (the term Pachamama
means Mother Earth). It’s not an easy life, but still rich
with friends and family. When Kunturi’s grandmother falls
ill, his father decides to take his son on the almost fourmonth journey along the salt trail. As tragedy and joy
intertwine, Kunturi is forced to confront death, suffering
and, most sweetly and powerfully of all, first love.
Need a building permit? Feeling lonely tonight? Call the
national benefactress, Madame Aldjeria. When it comes
to surviving in today’s Algeria, no scam is too daunting
for the woman who has adopted her country’s name.
If they’re pretty and lacking in principles, her recruits
can make a career for themselves. The latest of these,
Paloma, is quite a hit, especially with Riyad, Madame
Aldjeria’s son. But the purchase of Caracalla Springs,
the dream that should allow Aldjeria’s clan to start a new
life, proves to be one scam too many.
A documentary about the “forró”, the music and culture
of Northeast Brazil, and the meeting of great Brazilian
musicians with the French jazzman Richard Galliano.
The film shows how forró is an integral part of the life and
culture of Northeast Brazil. Through forró, we discover
the spirit of the Northeast and the Sertão – the region
known as the ‘drought polygon’. This dry and arid land
has affected the people and their culture. We discover
the history of this music (with archive photographs and
black and white film).
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Feature Films
Passing the Rainbow
Peacefire
Pindorama:
The True Story Of Seven Dwarves
Sandra Schäfer in person
2008 • Germany/Afghanistan • 71 min
directors Sandra Schafer & Elfe Brandenburger
starring Aiqela Rezaie, Roya Fahim, Anonyme Figur,
Hamida Refah, Nursia Anjomodin, Zobaida Sahar
2008 • Ireland • 87 min
director Macdara Vallely :: starring John Travers,
Gerry Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Gerard Jordan
2008 • Brazil • 80 min
directors Roberto Berliner & Leo Crivellare
A study of the rigid gender norms in Afghan society
through snapshots of everyday life. The film’s characters
include a teacher who is also an actress, a policewoman
whose second job is working as an action film director,
an activist for RAWA, an organization which advocates
the radical separation of state and religion, a girls’
theatre group in Kabul, and Malek_a who lives as a boy
to earn a living for her family. Passing the Rainbow is
a film reflecting on gender relations and opening new
areas of action in fiction.
Although an inconspicuous residential area of a Northern
Irish town is a seemingly dull place to live, the conflict
between the Irish Republican Army and British loyalists
make it unique, formed by its own rules and the constant
presence of danger. Colin, knocks around with a gang
that gets its kicks stealing cars for reckless joyrides.
When he’s arrested and given an offer of collaborating or
going to jail, he must is tormented by a sense of betraying
his dead father, and worry about being discovered by the
local IRA as an informer.
Circus of seven dwarves in Northern Brazil shows us a
new and astonishing reality. Sons of the mythic clown
Pindoba, the seven brothers and sisters live in perfect
harmony with their kids, husbands and wives, bringing
fun and hapiness to everyone who goes to their daily
shows. From the poor and arid regions in Northern
Brazil, Pindorama reveals dreams, love and hope in a
different and small world apart from everything around
them. These seven unique individuals have created a
lifestyle that rises above small-minded people.
Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 2:15 pm
A President to Remember:
Prince of Broadway
Princess of Africa
West Coast Premier
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 85 min
director Robert Drew :: narrator Alec Baldwin
2008 • US • 102 min
director Sean Baker :: starring Prince Adu, Karren
Karagulian, Aiden Noesi, Keyali Mayaga, Kat Sanchez, Victoria Tate
2008 • Senegal/Spain • 76 min
director Juan Laguna
As Americans look to replace tarnished national ideals
with new Presidential wisdom and honor, this film brings
to life an American President who was widely respected
by his countrymen and celebrated around the world.
This new film is composed from four break through films
by Robert Drew. Each is an unprecedented record in
candid photography of a phase of John F. Kennedy’s
political life. This new film is an intimate history of how
one American President struggled to bring wisdom and
honor to the office of the Presidency.
The story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives
converge in New York’s wholesale fashion district. Lucky,
an illegal immigrant from Ghana, solicits shoppers with
knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an ArmenianLebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront with
a concealed back room where counterfeit goods are
showcased to interested shoppers. Lucky’s world is
turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by
a woman who insists the toddler is his son, while Levon
struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart.
The story of two dreams. Marem’s dream, a 14-year-old
dancer from Senegal, to migrate to Europe, and Sonia’s,
a Spanish dancer, attracted by the magic of Africa.
Both are linked by Pap Ndiaye, Marem’s father and at
the same time Sonia’s husband. Africa does not meet
Sonia’s expectations (Pap Ndiaye had two additional
wives), nor was Europe what Marem expected (no
children in the street and a lot of poverty). A love story,
full of music and dance, where nothing is what it seems
and women are the main characters.
Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 2:35 pm
screening with Bamiyan
In the Company of John F. Kennedy
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Feature Films
Purgatory
director Roberto Rochin Naya :: starring Pedro Armendariz jr, Ana Claudia Talancón, Miguel Rodarte,
Alex Hank, Eduardo Von, Dolores Heredia
In the 1950s, as Mexico suffers modernization, Bonfilio
asks his father to care for his family and heads north
to make his fortune. Their conflicts are resolved when
Bonfilio returns to say his last goodbye. Lucía, a
prostitute, and Demetrio, a gravedigger, meet one night
and their love will only be complete when Demetrio
buries her. Don Julio, the old hacienda owner, is
delirious with remorse when Cleotilde, whom he married
for convenience, leaves him.
Rez Bomb
Ripley Under Ground
Steven Lewis Simpson in person
Stephen Ujlaki (Producer) in person
2008 • UK/US • 95 min
director Steven Lewis Simpson :: starring Tamara
Feldman, Trent Ford, Russell Means, Chris Robinson, Arlette Loud Hawk
A Lakota girl, Harmony, and her white boyfriend, Scott,
get into trouble with a brutal loan shark, Jaws. Jaws
threatens Scott as he’s being released from jail. If their
hefty debt isn’t paid by midnight, it’s curtains. Scott
thinks he can pay using pills stashed inside his guitar
so heads to their home, but discovers Harmony and the
guitar missing. It turns out Harmony has been running
from Jaws for weeks after taking a beating. Scott must
confront his past and opposition to their relationship by
both families as he searches for her.
2005 • US/Germany • 101 min
director Roger Spottiswoode :: starring Barry Pepper,
Willem Dafoe, Tom Wilkinson, Jacinda Barrett, Alan
Cumming, Claire Forlani, Ian Hart
Seventeen
Shadow of the Holy Book
After his friend is killed, Tom Ripley covers up the crime
to keep the friend’s name alive in order to exploit his
legacy and reap millions in the process. Set in the
contemporary art world in London, Ripley is at the
forefront of a forgery ring that produces art attributed
to a dead painter who the world believes is still alive.
When an aficionado threatens to expose the ring, Ripley
invites him to his estate where he murders him. Things
get complicated for Ripley when a wily detective starts
looking for the missing man.
screening with Mexican Standoff
Royal Road of Cachaca
US Premier
Joe Chow in person
director Pedro Urano
2008 • China • 80 min
director Joe Chow :: starring Joan Chen, Sam Chow,
Anlian Yao, Songzi Xu, Vision Wei
director Arto Halonen
Royal Road of Cachaça is a path, a journey. Somewhat
of a spatial-temporal road movie, the film presents an
encounter with national reality through the most Brazilian
of its drinks, cachaça. A poetic, socio-economic,
anthropologic and historical investigation that articulates
significant fragments of the nation’s trajectory along the
notorious Estrada Real (Royal Road). The film recovers
an ancestral route with the objective of detecting the
presence of cachaça in Brazilian culture.
The film tells the story of a 17-year-old, abandoned by
his father when he was two and returned to his mother
at the age of ten. He always thought it was his mother
who abandoned him and held a deep hatred for her.
He decides to leave the town to escape his desires
for revenge on her. A visit from his mother in his new
home gives him a chance to see his mother’s love for
him. The two of them find that where the son lives isn’t
as important as the newly discovered relationship and
mutual love they have learned to share with each other.
Why are some of the world’s biggest international
companies translating the Ruhnama, an absurd
government propaganda book from Turkmenistan, into
their own languages? This documentary exposes the
immorality of international companies doing business
with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan,
thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech
abuses – all in the name of profit and corporate greed.
screening with Shikashika
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Feature Films
The Shaft
West Coast Premier
Shot from Dark
Sponsored by Rockstar
World Premier
Sita Sings the blues
Dustin Thompson & Ryan Kofman in person
2008 • China • 98 min
director Zhang Chi :: starring Luo Deyuan, Huang
Xuan, Li Chen, Fang Yining, Zheng Luoqian, Zhou
Xiang, Guan Siting
2008 • US • 58 min
directors Dustin Thompson & Ryan Kofman
starring Jeremy Soderburg, Byron Snatchywaters,
Zach Gutweiler, Iain McLeod, Russell Day
2008 • US/India • 82 min
director Nina Paley
In three interrelated parts, the film progressively focuses
on individual members of a family living in a mining town
in western China. The episodes follow on from one
another chronologically, although they do not simply
trace the continual development of a single family.
The film does not seek to severely criticise the given
situation, nor are the environment and heroes portrayed
for effect; they seem natural, and are consistent with the
perception of ordinary Chinese people, who, by their
own admission, are not ones to complain.
This documentary stands in support of rollerblading – the
bastard-child action sport and culture. Endorsing both
the underground rollerblading scene from East to West
coast, the underground music scene from Los Angeles is
also highlighted. The film is a non-profit effort – the first
of its kind. Focusing on helping to develop the culture of
the skating lifestyle, this film hopes to support, inspire,
and respect all types of innovation in rolling, while also
giving some exposure to the artists that provide the
soundtrack in motion for the skaters profiled.
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord
and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose
husband moves to India, then dumps her by email.
Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient
tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated
interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the
1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the film earns its
tagline as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”
screening with Lift, Beauty & the Beast
The Smell of Apples
Song Sung Blue
US Premier
South of the Moon
US Premier
Antonio DiVerdis in person
2008 • Kurdistan/Germany • 87 min
director Ravin Asaf :: starring Shalau Jamal, Safya
Akdad, Shwan Atof, Hama Ali Khan
2008 • US • 87 min
director Greg Kohs :: starring Lightning & Thunder
2008 • Canada • 102 min
director Antonio DiVerdis :: starring John Ralston,
Jake McLeod, Moya O’Connell, Daniel Richard Giverin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Larry Day
Normally, it would be apple blossom time in occupied
Iraq. But nothing flowers in the Kurdish town of Halabja
since the poison gas attack 20 years ago. Yusuf, an
apothecary, works for a German relief organization
and is in love with Sara, a teacher, chronically ill and
dependent on medicine. As her jealous 15-year-old
pupil Rizgar kidnaps Yusuf, Sara’s supply of medicine
dwindles. Rizgar wants to put Yusuf to trial: didn’t the
Germans supply the gas for the attack? But today they
supply medicine.
A documentary that tells the alternately inspiring and
tragic love story of Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown
Milwaukee husband and wife singing duo who pay
tribute to the music of Neil Diamond. Filmmaker Greg
Kohs goes backstage into the personal lives with this
brave couple – from their humble beginnings over 20
years ago to the threshold of fame; from disaster to
rebirth through to the most dramatic chapters in the lives
of these authentic American dreamers.
The story of a young boy and his uncle, one dealing
with the complexity and confusion of adolescence, the
other with the pain and torment of regret. It is the story
of well-intentioned people, flawed and imperfect by
nature, in their personal quest for love, acceptance and
redemption.
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Feature Films
Split Ends
Summer Trip
The Sweetest Embrace:
Return to Afghanistan
US Premier
Dorothy Lyman & Kate Russo in person
2009 • US • 83 min
director Dorothy Lyman :: starring Corinna May,
Lawton Paseka, Beau Baxter, Richard Bekins, Kate
Russo
2008 • Japan • 73 min
director Hiroshi Toda :: starring Shinichi Okayama,
Shyoji Yamada, Yayoi Yamamoto, Kozue Yamada,
Shigeaki Horiuchi
2008 • Afghanistan/Canada • 75 min
director Najeeb Mirza
A feisty hairdresser faces off with an unscrupulous
developer, and is forced to come face-to-face with the
uncertainties of her own life in a small, New Jersey
town.
Hirata and Kageyama are old friends. Now in their old
age they have retired, and made their mind up to hit the
road for a change, leaving all cares behind. On the road,
they take their time and relax. They reminisce, just joking
around and laughing. The one big problem: the food is
terrible because they’re camping out along the way.
Things appear to get dramatically better when they find
a Soba restaurant, but little do they know that this is just
the beginning of their strange, dream-like experience to
follow.
Soorgul was only 10 years old when he said goodbye to
his family in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan.
Crossing into Soviet Tajikistan over the turbulent Amu
Darya River, he clutched the sides of a wooden gondola
as it slowly it made its way to the other side. He was
supposed to spend a year studying in Tajikistan, but it
would take 16 years and a journey to Canada before he
could return to his village.
screening with In Doubt
Synch or Swim
Taizo
This Beautiful City
Cheryl Furjanic in person
2008 • US • 90 min
director Cheryl Furjanic :: starring Anna Kozlova,
Becky Jasontek, Tammy Crow, Andrea Nott, Esther
Williams
2008 • Japan • 96 min
director Takako Nakajima :: starring Patrick Harlan,
Nadia McKechnie, Ron Rhodes
director Ed Gass-Donnelly :: starring Kristin Booth,
Caroline Cave, Stuart Hughes, Noam Jenkins, Aaron
Poole
Dive into the world of elite synchronized swimming as
dedicated young women compete for spots on the U.S.
Synchronized Swimming team and train relentlessly
in pursuit of an Olympic medal. Sync or Swim profiles
hard-working athletes on a moving journey to fulfill their
Olympic dreams. Day after day, these swimmers hone
their skills and perfect the split-second timing of their
precisely choreographed routines in preparation to face
their Olympic competitors, all the while supporting a
teammate attempting to recover from a terrible tragedy.
One step on a mine, its all over! This is a last message
of Taizo Ichinose, who risked his life to take photos of
Angkor Wat in Cambodia during the war, in the early
1970s. He was a war photographer and also a Japanese
man loved by the local people. A documentary about a
young and aspiring photojournalist whose dream was
to become the first journalist to photograph Angkor Wat
under the regime of the Khmer Rouge. The film features
extensive interviews with people including Taizo’s family,
fellow journalists and brings his persona to life.
Husband and wife Harry and Carol are having a dinner
party with some friends. Afterwards, Carol goes to have
a smoke on the sly on the balcony and teeters over the
railing. A moment later she is found injured below by
a policeman named Peter, a drug-addicted prostitute
named Pretty and her boyfriend Johnny. Carol’s fall
opens the film and the rest plays out three months later
with her fall having intersected the fates of the five five
main characters from modern Toronto and caused their
lives to intertwine.
Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2 pm
screening with Divers
screening with Interception
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Feature Films
Three in Love
Trapped
Triomf
US Premier
US Premier
director Peter Lindholm :: starring Kari-Pekka
Toivonen, Liisa Kuoppamäki, Matleena Kuusniemi,
Rea Mauranen, Taneli Mäkelä, Marjaana Maijala
2008 • Denmark • 52 min
director Anja Dalhoff
2008 • South Africa • 118 min
director Michael Raeburn :: starring Lionel Newton,
Oed Baloyi, Vanessa Cooke
Tomi Laakso, a happily married man, falls in love with
another woman. Instead of going behind his wife´s back,
Tomi shares his feelings with her and finds himself in
love with two women at the same time. Tomi´s wife Maria
has to face the facts and realise that Tomi is still the love
of her life. A love story between three adults.
Many European countries, including Denmark, have
seen a sharp increase in the number of African women
involved in prostitution. The overwhelming majority are
victims of human trafficking. Many arrive in Europe
following a horrifying journey across the African continent.
Once arrived at their destination, the traffickers present
each of the women with a fictitious bill payable at once.
Prostitution is the only possible way out of the debt. The
film is the first time a Danish documentary shows the
increasing problem of trafficking of women to Denmark.
On March 1994 in South Africa, on the day of the first
free election, Lambert Benade will turn 21, and Uncle
Treppie promises him the girl of his dreams. But, in this
hilariously horrendous tragi-comedy, as a new world is
born, two members of the white trash family are destined
to die.
screening with Foreign Bodies, Anthem
Under The Skin
Under the Snow
The Unwinking Gaze
2008 • US/Japan • 60 min
director Billy Burke :: starring Mario Barth
2007 • Spain/Argentina • 99 min
directors Candela Figueira & Maitena Muruzabal
starring Asun Aguinaco, Gabriel Latorre, Laura De
Pedro, Xabi Yarnoz
2007 • UK/Canada/India/Tibet • 70 min
director Joshua Dugdale :: starring The Dalai Lama
World-renowned tattoo artist and founder of Starlight
Tattoo, Mario Barth is about to take viewers on an
amazing journey where no cameras have gone before –
the secret, underground world of tattoo rituals. Barth and
producer/director Billy Burke team up to grant viewers
an all access pass to Japanese festivals and rituals
never-before-seen on screen in a ground-breaking new
documentary.
The winter season is almost here. In the snow chain
packing section of a factory, the orders are piling
up. Javier, the supervisor, asks upper management
for additional personnel. Jairo is sent from another
section while Karmentxu and Angela are hired through
a temporary work agency, for two weeks. From 6am to
2pm, the four of them pack snow chains in silence, each
of them at their own workstation. As the snow, and work,
continues, the workplace evolves from a cold, gray place
to one of fun that only they know about.
An observational portrait of the Dalai Lama as he tries
to engage the Chinese government into accepting the
need for a negotiated settlement on the future of Tibet.
Filmmaker Joshua Dugdale was given extraordinary
access from the Dalai Lama’s Private Office for over 3
years to make this film, and witness from day-to-day the
agonies of a God King as he tries to strike a balance
between his own personal vows as a Buddhist and the
realpolitik required to bring China to the negotiating
table.
Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 2 pm
screening with Splitting Hairs
Sponsored by Pacific Sun
West Coast Premier
screening with School of Thought (Sunday Onl
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Feature Films
Vaclav
Vanechka
Whispering Embers
US Premier
US Premier
Nadezhda Kopytina (Producer) in person
director Jiri Vejdelek :: starring Ivan Trojan, Emília
Vášáryová, Jan Budař, Jiří Lábus
2007 • Russia • 106 min
director Nadezdha Kopytina :: starring Maxim Galkin,
Elena Velikanova, Andrey Panin, Nina Ruslanova,
Eudoxia Germanova, Olga Drozdova
director Ali Nassar :: starring Ali Suliman, Hisham
Suliman, Amal Kaiss, Osama Masri, Adib Jahshan,
Wardi Dakwar, Nidal Badarne, Ali Nassar
Václav Vingl, the village loser, in his 40’s and possibly
partially mentally disabled, lives with his widowed mother
on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as
the local fool; nothing but a constant pain, but there is a
skeleton in the village closet about how his father died.
He gets no mercy from his brother either, who thinks
he should be put into an institution. Ever since their
childhood, he competes with Vaclav for the attention of
their mother, and now it seems even his mistress finds
attraction in the wild, but charmingly innocent Vaclav.
An unsophisticated beauty, Nadya comes to Moscow to
enter film school. Her dreams of a brilliant future almost
become reality, but then her only friends in Moscow
perish in a car accident, and Nadya finds herself in a
strange city taking care of the orphaned Vanechka. The
child becomes her closest companion. Having lived in
a world of cruelty and indifference, Nadya searches
for justice and mercy, and in the span of several days
will transform from a naive child to an adult capable of
making courageous decisions.
Jamal, a 30-something man, faces the deterioration of
everything he has ever believed in. The political party,
Islam, and most importantly, traditional family life. He
leaves his home to look for answers. His wife learns his
secrets, his confusion, disappointments and his secret
love of Layla, an out going, rules breaking woman. In
his head Jamal sees himself as the legendary Arab hero
of the middle ages, savior of the Islamic nation, Salah A
Din, as he challenges Laila’s lover, to a bizarre duel. Is it
a duel over a woman, or maybe over the holy land?
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White Angel
With One Voice
West Coast Premier
West Coast Premier
2007 • Turkey • 120 min
director Mahsun Kırmızıgül :: starring Yavuz Bingol,
Sarp Atak, Yildiz Kenter, Gazanfer Ozcan, Erol Gunaydin, Emel Sayin, Nejat Uygur, Mahsun Kirmizigul
director Laussanne Xavier
The old leader of a Kurdish tribe, is suffering from cancer.
While running away from the compulsory chemotherapy
sessions, he suddenly finds himself in a nursing home.
The elderly are left alone waiting for death, unlike his
own village in the Southeast where elders are treated
with the utmost care and tenderness by their relatives.
He and his two sons invite this group of abandoned
people to his village to receive special care until the end
their lives. Their journey becomes a trek into the heart of
the country and the people.
Long-time music vagabond Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi
invited musicians from Israel and Palestine to join
together on an extraordinary tour that would unite them
in France for three weeks. On stage it was a triumph, but
tempers flared backstage. The inescapable proximity
forced them to communicate. The stresses from the
exhausting tour and political rivalries slowly developed
into close ties, sustained and driven by the music.
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11 am
screening with On the Road to Tel-Aviv
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US Premier
directors Valerie Lienardy & Antoine Duquesne
US Premier
2008 • Israel/UK • 23 min
director Miri Shapiro
US Premier
2008 • Hong Kong • 4 min
director Martin Fournier
screening with Expiremental Shorts
screening with Afghan Chronicles
Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm
screening with Magazine Gap Road
American Honey
World Premier
2008 • US • 8 min
director Jamie Jensen
Anthem
Arch’s Iguanas
director Elad Keidan
2008 • Honduras/US • 24 min
director Steve Gatlin
screening with Street Life Shorts
screening with Trapped, Foreign Bodies
screening with Marin Filmmakers
Asamara
Bamiyan
The Bear’s Hand
2008 • Spain • 9 min
directors Jon Garaño & Raúl López
US Premier
2008 • France/Afghanistan • 15 min
director Patrick Pleutin
screening with Belief Shorts
screening with Passing the Rainbow
screening with Animation Shorts
Beauty & the Beast
Because There Are Things You Never Forget
Before the Sea
2008 • US • 40 min
Steve Gatlin in person
2008 • Spain • 13 min
director Lucas Figueroa
US Premier
director Marina Rosset
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 9 min
director Charlene Music
Charlene Music, Mario Ingargiola & Nicola Ingargiola in person
screening with Shot From Dark, Lift
screening with Flowers in the Sky (3/22), Berber Atlas (3/26)
screening with American Outrage, Colour Talks, Gimme a Hug
A Better Life
Blood Red Earth
A Bronx Dream
2008 • US • 18 min
director JT Perry
2008 • Ireland • 40 min
director Joanne McGrath
Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm
screening with Music & Dance Shorts
West Coast Premier
2008 • Spain/Mexico • 12 min
director Luis Fernandez Reneo
screening with 7 Souls
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Short Films
The Bull
The Cable Car
Candy
director Patricio Serna Salazar
West Coast Premier
director Claudius Gentinetta
2008 • US • 6 min
director Sung Eun Kim
Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm
screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts
Cantata in C Major
Children Who Never Existed
Closer
2008 • US • 8 min
director Ronnie Cramer
2007 • Spain • 19 min
director David Valero
2007 • Spain • 7 min
director Aitor Echeverria
screening with Hair, Gravity, A Time and a Time
screening with Familiar Voices, Coming of Age
screening with Barcelona
Colour Talks
Colour Test.6
Columbariun
US Premier
2008 • Fiji/UK/France • 8 min
director Anita Chaumette
US Premier
director Gerd Conradt
2008 • US • 26 min
director Linda Richard
Gerd Conradt in person
Linda Richard in person
screening with American Outrage, Before the Sea, Gimme a Hug
3/20 :: Playhouse2 :: 3:45 pm // 3/22 :: Playhouse2 :: 1:30 pm
screening with All Together Now (3/20 & 3/22)
screening with Marin Filmmakers Program
Coming of Age
Crackle and Space
Crowded with Voices
US Premier
2008 • South Africa • 9 min
director Judy Kibinge
World Premier
2008 • US • 14 min
director Christopher J. Ewing
2007 • US • 5 min
director Anya Belkina
Christopher J. Ewing, Gabriel Raffaelli & Ilana Turner in person
screening with Familiar Voices, Children Who Never Existed
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am
screening with Love Story Shorts
Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break
Cyanosis
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Danzak
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 6 min
director Kyle Ruddick
US Premier
2008 • Iran • 32 min
director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami
West Coast Premier
2008 • Peru/US • 19 min
director Gabriela Yepes
Short Films
A Day’s Work
Directions
Disbelief Will Save Your Soul
2008 • US • 17 min
director Rajeev Dasani
director Kasimir Burgess
director Samuel Weikopf
screening with Immigration Shorts
Distraxion
Diva
Distinguishing Features
director Kenya Marquez
2008 • US • 2 min
director Michael Stern
screening with The First Day of Winter, Even in My Dreams
Divers
director Josephine Mackerras
Michael Stern in person
World Premier
2008 • US • 3 min
director Paris Mavroidis
drake
Dust Off and Cowboy Up!
2006 • Austria • 5 min
director Christoph Rainer
2007 • US • 4 min
director Laurence Arcadias
Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2 pm
screening with Synch or Swim
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 apm
Easter Sunday
Endsieg – Everything Changes In One Shot
Even in My Dreams
Laurence Arcadias in person
director Pedro Amorim
US Premier
directors Niccolo Castelli & Daniel Casparis
screening with Swiss Shorts
screening with The First Day of Winter, Diva
Fall
The Fenceline
Faire Diversion
2008 • US • 8 min
director Flavio Alves
US Premier
director Philippe Saire
2008 • Thailand/US • 5 min
director Visra Vichit-Vadakan
Visra Vichit-Vadakan in person
Brian Rasmussen in person
screening with A Deal is a Deal
screening with Cactus
2008 • US • 20 min
director Brian Rasmussen
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Short Films
Final Fitting
US Premier
2008 • Iran • 30 min
director Reza Haeri
Foreign Bodies
Four Minutes til Noon
director Naël Marandin
2008 • US • 4 min
director Jonathan Taylor
screening with Loose Rope
screening with Trapped, Anthem
screening with The 27 Club
Furnace Room Lullaby
Gaining Ground
Gaza Souvenirs
2008 • US • 3 min
director Anne Peterson
director Marc Brummond
2007 • France/Palestine • 46 min
director Samuel Albaric
screening with Amina
Gilles’ Lily
Gimme a Hug
director David Uloth
2008 • Netherlands/Bahamas • 14 min
director Geert Droppers
screening with Slice of Life Shorts
screening with American Outrage, Before the Sea, Colour Talks
Gone Fishing
Gravity
A Green Mountain in the Drawer
2008 • UK • 13 min
director Chris Jones
director Nicolas Provost
2008 • Korea/US • 29 min
director Hwa Jun Lee
screening with Hair, Cantata in C Major, A Time and a Time
screening with Senior’s Shorts
Jonathan Taylor in person
Geert Droppers in person
Chris Jones in person
Hakim
Gio
World Premier
2008 • Italy • 30 min
director Cristian Di Mattia
Hwa-Jun Lee in person
2008 • Germany/Tanzania • 15 min
director Ismail Sahin
World Premier
director Guy Ben Shetrit
Hey
Homicide: Division B
screening with Princess of Africa, No Art on $2 a Day
screening with Frankie Is a Womanizer
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US Premier
2008 • UK • 9 min
director Abner Pastoll
Short Films
How To Save A Fish From Drowning
Hungry God
2007 • UK • 13 min
director Kelly Neal
2008 • India/US • 9 min
director Sukhada Gokhale-Bhonde
West Coast Premier
2008 • Switzerland/Bosnia-Herzagovina • 15 min
director Ivana Lalovic
In the Dark
Interception
In Doubt
US Premier
director Christoph Baumann
director Alex Fazeli
I Don’t Dream in German
2007 • US • 6 min
director Steven Wasserman
Alex Fazeli, Maz Jobrani & Sarah Fazeli in person
screening with Summer Trip
screening with Goodbye Solo
screening with Taizo
Jackson
The Job
The Kiddush Man
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 8 min
director Mark Jwayad
2007 • US • 4 min
director Jonathan Browning
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 11 min
director Yitz Brilliant
Last Day
Last Thoughts
Mark Jwayad in person
Last Chance Romance
West Coast Premier
2008 • UK • 9 min
director Stacy Harrison
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 6 min
director Ross Cohen
2008 • US • 4 min
director Paul Burke
Stacy Harrison in person
Ross Cohen in person
Paul Burke in person
Laura - in Action
License to Love
Lift
2008 • Denmark • 16 min
director Laerke Drews
2008 • Finland/US • 5 min
director Steve Gatlin
2008 • France/US/Italy/Spain • 20 min
director Anthony Green
Steve Gatlin in person
Philip Green (Cinematographer) in person
screening with Shot From Dark, Beauty & the Beast
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Short Films
The Lutheran
A Little Girl Waiting
Looking Back
director Esteban Reyes
2008 • US • 6 min
director Emile Bokaer
The Maid
Mail Call
Maria & Osmey
2008 • US/Egypt • 19 min
director Heidi Saman
2008 • US • 8 min
director Jacob J. Halverson
US Premier
2008 • Cuba • 8 min
director Diego Arredondo
screening with Final Image
screening with Fidel Castro: Man & Myth
Mazal
Mexican Standoff
Missio Canonica
2008 • US • 4 min
director Bill Plympton
director Sarah Horst
screening with Behind the Glass
screening with Purgatory
Mister Cok
Mr. Brooklyn
My Father is Sleeping
director Franck Dion
2008 • US • 14 min
director Jason Sokoloff
director Grzegorz Muskala
screening Street Life Shorts
My Mother’s Daughter
My Pen Pal: An African Adventure
Night Practice
2007 • UK • 12 min
director Saleyha Ahsan
2008 • US • 28 min
director Shaun Donahue
2006 • UK • 3 min
director Susanna Wallin
Emile Bokaer & Albert Lewis in person
West Coast Premier
director Roy Sher
2007 • US • 25 min
director Brad Bosely
Shaun Donahue in person
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Short Films
No Art on $2 a Day
No Quarter
No Tomorrow
director Michael Trent
US Premier
directors Valerie Lienardy & Antoine Duquesne
screening with Princess of Africa, Hakim
Nora
Not Forgotten
2008 • Cameroon/France/US • 8 min
director Laurent Malaquais
Laurent Malaquais & Patrick McCarthy in person
2008 • Mozambique/US/UK • 35 min
directors Alla Kovgan & David Hinton
Old Grace
director Dewi Permata Sari
2008 • US • 10 min
director Nathan Chitayat
On the Line
On the Line
On The Road to Tel-Aviv
2008 • Spain/US • 12 min
director Jon Garaño
director Reto Caffi
director Khen Shalem
Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11 am
screening with With One Voice
One of the Last
Ottica Zero
Our Bay
2007 • Italy • 12 min
director Paul Zinder
2007 • UK • 13 min
director Maja Borg
2008 • US • 15 min
director Noah Schlager
screening with Above the Clouds
Papercut
Noah Schlager in person
Portal
Roads
director Pedro Eboli
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 9 min
director John Bush
director Lior Geller
screening with Nuran
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Short Films
Roastbeef
Roots
directors Francois Begin & Miryam Bouchard
US Premier
2008 • Turkey • 18 min
director Eileen Hofer
School of Thought
Sebastian’s Voodoo
2008 • US • 40 min
director Tony Perri
Rubens Dreams
director Renata Borowczak
Security
2008 • US • 4 min
director Joaquin Baldwin
director Lars Henning
screening with The Unwinking Gaze
Shikashika
Shred of Hope
Significant Other
2007 • Peru/US • 11 min
director Stephen Hyde
director Tom Shoval
2008 • US • 7 min
director Zac Petrillo
screening with Royal Road of Cachaca
Small Change
A Small Death
Smiling Dog
director Anna McGrath
director Ana Paulina Castellanos
US Premier
director Shohreh Jandaghian
screening with Finn on the Fly
Sometimes We Hum
Splitting Hairs
Spread Through the Air
Zac Petrillo in person
2008 • US • 7 min
director Cliff Traiman
Cliff Traiman, Dorian Brockington and Joseph Mendoza in person
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West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 28 min
director F. Stone Roberts
US Premier
director Esmir Filho
F Stone Roberts in person
screening with Under the Skin
Short Films
Standing Start
The Switch
2007 • UK • 13 min
director Finlay Pretsell
director Deepak Mathew
2008 • US • 5 min
director Erick Oh
Symphony
Tehran Backyard
A Time and A Time
Tommy
2007 • UK • 29 min
director Roxanna Pope
2008 • UK • 4 min
director Sarah Cox
2008 • Sweden/Cuba • 18 min
director Tora Martens
screening with The Final Word
screening with Hair, Cantata in C Major, Gravity
screening with Dream Havana
The Tournament
Transfert
Triple Concerto in D Minor
Erick Oh in person
2008 • Italy • 14 min
director Michele Alhaique
US Premier
director Guillaume Paquin-Boutin
Victor Gazon
Voodoo Bayou
The Waiting
director Daniel Mitchell
director Patrick Gaze
director Javier Gutierrez
US Premier
2008 • Turkey • 14 min
director Emine Emel Balci
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2008 • US • 10 min
director Christy Chan
Christy Chan in person
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Watching It Rain
We All Bleed Red
director Elisa Miller
World Premier
director Dave McGrath
What Lies Ahead
West Coast Premier
2008 • US • 8 min
director Nicholas Economides
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ANIMATION
MARCH 21 • 9:50 PM
No Quarter (p 39)
Not Forgotten (p 39)
The Switch (p 41)
Papercut (p 39)
The Bear’s Hand (p 33)
Sebastian’s Voodoo (p 40)
Symphony (p 41)
Candy (p 34)
Laura - in Action (p 37)
Mister Cok (p 38)
Hey (p 36)
Disbelief Will Save Your Soul (p 35)
The Cable Car (p 34)
MARIN FILMMAKERS
MARCH 23 • 7:10 PM
Arch’s Iguanas (p 33)
Columbariun (p 34)
License To Love (p 37)
Our Bay (p 39)
My Pen Pal: An African Adventure (p 38)
SENIOR’S
MARCH 20 • 3:35 PM
Old Grace (p 39)
Last Chance Romance (p 37)
How to Save a Fish from Drawing (p 37)
A Green Mountain in the Drawer (p 36)
The Waiting (p 41)
Shred of Hope (p 40)
EXPIREMENTAL
MARCH 22 • 11:05 AM
26.4 (p 33)
Cyanosis (p 34)
Distraxion (p 35)
Dust Off and Cowboy Up! (p 35)
Furnace Room Lullaby (p 36)
Last Thoughts (p 37)
Ottica Zero (p 39)
Standing Start (p 41)
IMMIGRATION
MARCH 26 • 3:05 PM
A Day’s Work (p 35)
Gaining Ground (p 36)
On The Line (p 39)
The Job (p 37)
What Lies Ahead (p 42)
We All Bleed Red (p 42)
Gio (p 36)
SLICE OF LIFE
MARCH 25 • 3:10 PM
Triple Concerto in D Major (p 41)
The Tournament (p 41)
Small Change (p 40)
My Father is Sleeping (p 38)
Jackson (p 37)
Gone Fishing (p 36)
Gille’s Lily (p 36)
LOVE STORY
MARCH 21 • 11:20 AM
Rubens Dream (p 40)
Security (p 40)
Spread Through the Air (p 40)
The Maid (p 38)
Significant Other (p 40)
Drake (p 35)
Crackle and Space (p 34)
MEXICAN SPOTLIGHT
MARCH 20 • 4 PM
A Little Girl Waiting (p 38)
A Small Death (p 40)
Distinguishing Features (p 35)
The Bull (p 34)
Watching it Rain (p 42)
Voodoo Bayou (p 41)
MUSIC & DANCE
MARCH 25 • 4 PM
Crowded With Voices (p 34)
Cut Chemist - My 1st Big Break (p 34)
Night Practice (p 38)
Nora (p 39)
Portal (p 39)
Roastbeef (p 40)
Transfert (p 41)
A Bronx Dream (p 33)
BELIEF
MARCH 24 • 3:25 PM
The Lutheran (p 38)
The Kiddish Man (p 37)
Hungry God (p 37)
My Daughter’s Mother (p 38)
Asamara (p 33)
Blood Red Earth (p 33)
Danzak (p 34)
STREET LIFE
MARCH 23 • 3:15 PM
American Honey (p 33)
Directions (p 35)
Easter Sunday (p 35)
Mr. Brooklyn (p 38)
No Tomorrow (p 39)
Sometime’s We Hum (p 40)
Victor Gazon (p 41)
Looking Back (p 38)
Last Day (p 37)
SWISS
MARCH 24 • 3:15 PM
On the Line (p 39)
Missio Canonica (p 38)
Endsieg - Everything Changes in One
Shot (p 35)
Roots (p 40)
I Don’t Dream in German (p 37)
Faire Diversion (p 35)
Around the World in Nine Days
AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Chronicles
Bamiyan
Passing the Rainbow
Sweetest Embrace: Return To
Afghanistan, The
ALBANIA
Mao Ce Dun
ALGERIA
Paloma Delight
ARGENTINA
Bye Bye Shanghai
Final Image
Gallero
Iraqi Short Films
Under the Snow
AUSTRALIA
Cactus
Directions
Donkey in Lahore
Small Change
AUSTRALIA
Cactus
Directions
Donkey in Lahore
Small Change
AUSTRIA
Drake
Midsummer Madness
BAHAMAS
Gimme a Hug
BELGIUM
26.4
Gravity
Hand of the Headless Man
In the Dark
No Tomorrow
Afghanistan, The
Switch, The
This Beautiful City
Transfert
Unwinking Gaze, The
Victor Gazon
We All Bleed Red
CHILE
Final Image
CHINA
Megalopolis
Seventeen
Shaft, The
CROATIA
Behind the Glass
CUBA
Dream Havana
Fidel Castro: Man & Myth
La Paloma - Longing Worldwide
Maria & Osmey
Tommy
CZECH REPUBLIC
Bye Bye Shanghai
Frankie is a Womanizer
Grapes, The
Guard No. 47
Vaclav
DENMARK
Final Image
Laura - in Action
Trapped
Fiji
Colour Talks
EGYPT
Maid, The
Megalopolis
FINLAND
Pachamama
Colorado Avenue
License to Love
Novelist, The
Shadow of the Holy Book
Three in Love
BOSNIA
FRANCE
BOLIVIA
BRAZIL
Easter Sunday
Fake Blonde
Megalopolis
Paraíba My Love
Pindorama: The True Story Of
Seven Dwarves
Royal Road of Cachaca
Spread Through the Air
BULGARIA
Captive
CAMEROON
No Art on $2 a Day
CANADA
Afghan Chronicles
All Together Now
Familiar Voices
Finn on the Fly
Gilles’ Lily
Lost Song
No Quarter
Not Forgotten
Papercut
Roastbeef
South of the Moon
Sweetest Embrace: Return To
Bamiyan
Colour Talks
Diva
Faces
Foreign Bodies
Gaza Souvenirs
I Want to See
La France
Lift
Mister Cok
Mommy is Crazy
No Art on $2 a Day
Paloma Delight
With One Voice
GERMANY
Colour Test.6
Disbelief Will Save Your Soul
Endsieg - Everything Changes
In One Shot
Fidel Castro: Man & Myth
Gaining Ground
Hakim
Henry Kissinger - Secrests of a
Superpower
In Doubt
My Father is Sleeping
Nothing Else Matters
Passing the Rainbow
Ripley Under Ground
Rubens Dreams
Security
Smell of Apples, The
Smiling Dog
GREECE
Homecoming, The
HONDURAS
Small Death, A
Voodoo Bayou
Watching It Rain
TIBET
MOROCCO
Berber Atlas
Lost Beauty, The
Roots
Waiting, The
White Angel
MOZAMBIQUE
UNITED KINGDOM
Nora
Unwinking Gaze, The
TURKEY
27 Club, The
4 Kilometers
All Together Now
Butterfly Tattoo, The
Colour Talks
Deal is a Deal, A
Gone Fishing
Homicide: Division B
How To Save A Fish From
Drowning
Last Chance Romance
Midsummer Madness
My Mother’s Daughter
Night Practice
Nora
Ottica Zero
Rez Bomb
Standing Start
Tehran Backyard
Time and A Time, A
Unwinking Gaze, The
4 Kilometers
Anthem
Faces
Hey
Mazal
Nuran
On The Road to Tel-Aviv
Roads
Shred of Hope
Whispering Embers
RUSSIA
UNITED STATES
ITALY
SPAIN
Arch’s Iguanas
HONG KONG
4x4
Magazine Gap Road
INDIA
Four Chapters
Hungry God
Sita Sings the Blues
Unwinking Gaze, The
IRAN
Cyanosis
Final Fitting
Loose Rope
IRELAND
Bronx Dream, A
ISRAEL
Above the Clouds
Beket
First Day of Winter, The
Gio
Lift
Megalopolis
One of the Last
Tournament, The
JAPAN
Megalopolis
Pachamama
Summer Trip
Taizo
Under The Skin
KOREA
Green Mountain in the Drawer,
A
KURDISTAN
Smell of Apples, The
LATVIA
Midsummer Madness
LEBANON
I Want to See
MEXICO
7 Soles
Better Life, A
Bull, The
Distinguishing Features
Dream Havana
How Could I Not Love You?
Little Girl Waiting, A
Purgatory
NETHERLANDS
Butterfly Tattoo, The
Gimme a Hug
NEW ZEALAND
Map Reader, The
PAKISTAN
Donkey in Lahore
In the Name of God
PALESTINE
Faces
Gaza Souvenirs
PERU
Danzak
Shikashika
ROMANIA
Captive
Vanechka
SENEGAL
Princes of Africa
SOUTH AFRICA
Coming of Age
Triomf
Asamara
Ashes From The Sky
Barcelona
Because There Are Things You
Never Forget
Berber Atlas
Better Life, A
Birdsong
Children Who Never Existed
Closer
Lift
On the Line
Princes of Africa
Under the Snow
SRI LANKA
Flowers of the Sky
SWEDEN
Final Image
Tommy
SWITZERLAND
Bear’s Hand, The
Cable Car, The
Faire Diversion
Missio Canonica
Noise in My Head, The
Nomad’s Land
On the Line
Paraíba My Love
TANZANIA
Hakim
THAILAND
Fall
27 Club, The
Airplay: The Rise and Fall of
Rock Radio
All Roads Lead Home
All Together Now
American Honey
American Outrage
Arch’s Iguanas
Beauty & Beast
Before the Sea
Blood Red Earth
Brothers Warner, The
Candy
Cantata in C Major
Collective, The
Columbariun
Courting Condi
Crackle and Space
Crowded with Voices
Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break
Danzak
Day’s Work, A
Distraxion
Divers
Dream Havana
Dust Off and Cowboy Up!
Even in My Dreams
Fall
Familiar Voices
Fenceline, The
First, Last Race, The
Fling
Four Minutes til Noon
Furnace Room Lullaby
Goodbye Solo
Green Mountain in the Drawer,
A
Hair: Let the Sun Shine In
Henry Kissinger - Secrests of a
Superpower
Hungry God
Infinite Space: The Architecture
of John Launter
Interception
Jackson
Jackson
Jazz Singer, The
Job, The
Jolene
Kiddush Man, The
Last Day
Last Thoughts
License to Love
Lift
Looking Back
Lutheran, The
Maid, The
Mail Call
Medium Cool
Megalopolis
Mexican Standoff
Mr. Brooklyn
My Pen Pal: An African
Adventure
No Art on $2 a Day
Nora
Of All the Things
Old Grace
On the Line
Our Bay
Pachamama
Portal
President to Remember: In the
Company of John F. Kennedy, A
Prince of Broadway
Rez Bomb
Ripley Under Ground
School of Thought
Sebastian’s Voodoo
Shikashika
Shot from Dark
Significant Other
Sita Sings the blues
Sometimes We Hum
Song Sung Blue
Split Ends
Splitting Hairs
Symphony
Synch or Swim
Under The Skin
Wash n’ Fold
What Lies Ahead
VIETNAM
Little Heart, The
YEMEN
Amina
ZANZIBAR
43
44
•
4p
5p
6p
7p
Sweetest Embrace // 1:25 p
Finn on the Fly
11:20 a
CORINTHIAN
BAY MODEL
CORINTHIAN
Faces
11:15 a
Experimental Shorts
11:05 a
Passing the Rainbow
11:20 a
PLAYHOUSE #2
Hair
4:30 p
Paraiba My Love
3:40 p
The Jazz Singer
3:30 p
Final Image
3:10 p
In the Name of God 1:15 p
Seventeen
1:10 p
All Together Now
1:30 p
Peacefire
1:30 p
Gallero
6:15 p
The Unwinking Gaze
5:40 p
Ashes from the Sky
6p
Birdsong
5:15 p
Cactus
7:40 p
Medium Cool
7p
The Grapes
7:20 p
Of All the Things
8p
Whispering Embers
7:50 p
Flowers in the Sky
9:35 p
The First Day of
Winter // 9:45 p
Vaclav
10 p
Jolene
10 p
The 27 Club
9:50 p
Animation Shorts
9:50 p
Above the Clouds
9:30 p
7 Souls // 9:50 p
A Deal is a Deal
9:40 p
10p
12a
SATURDAY
PLAYHOUSE #3
Infinite Space
11:15 a
PLAYHOUSE #1
Sita Sings
7:40 p
Courting Condi
7:40 p
Frankie is a
Womanizer // 6:40 p
Princess of Africa
6p
Fidel Castro
5:15 p
Paloma Delight
5:05 p
9p
Butterfly Tattoo
7:40 p
8p
All Raods Lead Home
// 7:35 p
Jackson (Feature)
6p
I Want to See
6p
Sing Song Blue
4:50 p
Bye Bye Shanghai
4p
Familiar Voices
3p
This Beautiful City
3:15 p
Pindorama
2:15 p
Under the Skin
1:10 p
Beket
4:20 p
The Brothers Warner
3:45 p
The First, Last Race
2:35 p
Love Story Shorts
11:20 a
BAY MODEL
A President...
2:35 p
Ripley Under Ground
1:25 p
Shot from Dark
12:15 p
With One Voice
11 a
PLAYHOUSE #3
PLAYHOUSE #2
PLAYHOUSE #1
BAY MODEL
CORINTHIAN
Lost Song
5:35 p
3p
Senior’s Shorts
3:35 p
2p
PLAYHOUSE #3
1p
The Map Reader
5:40 p
12p
All Together Now
3:45 p
11a
PLAYHOUSE #2
10a
Split Ends // 5:30 p
9a
Mexican Spotlight // 4 p
8a
11p
BAY MODEL VISITOR CENTER
2100 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO
PLAYHOUSE #1
LOCATION
CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB
43 MAIN ST, TIBURON
•
*** Showtimes subject to change • Please check www.TiburonFilmFestival.com for the latest updates ***
TIBURON PLAYHOUSE THEATER
40 MAIN ST, TIBURON
2009 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
FRIDAY
SUNDAY
BAY MODEL
CORINTHIAN
Unwinking
2p
Synch or Swim
2p
Berber Atlas
3:30 p
Four Chapters
7:20 p
Colorado Avenue
7p
How Could I
Not // 7:35 p
5:30 p
Dream Havana
6:10 p
The Homecoming
5p
Donkey in Lahore
3:50 p
Nuran
3:05 p
Triomf // 5:15 p
Rez Bomb
5:25 p
American Outrage
6:10 p
The Lost Beauty
9:40 p
White Angel
9:20 p
La Paloma
9:50 p
Vanechka
9:20 p
Barcelona
9:40 p
La France
9:45 p
WEDNESDAY
PLAYHOUSE #3
Nothing Else Matters // 3:10 p
PLAYHOUSE #2
Nomad’s Land
4:20 p
Henry Kissinger
6:15 p
The Shaft
5:15 p
Airplay
7:40 p
The Final Word
7:30 p
The Smell of Apples
7:20 p
Amina
6:20 p
Midsummer
Madness // 5:50 p
Iraqi Short Films
5:25 p
Music & Dance Shorts
4p
Immigration Shorts
3:05 p
Faces
2:45 p
Captive
2:30 p
Guard No. 47
3:05 p
PLAYHOUSE #1
BAY MODEL
CORINTHIAN
PLAYHOUSE #3
Pachamama
3:45 p
Life Shorts
3:10 p
Taizo
4:40 p
Magazine Gap Rd
10 p
Purgatory
9:40 p
Fake Blonde
9:30 p
Behnd the Glass
9:30 p
Three in Love
9:45 p
South of the Moon
9:50 p
TUESDAY
PLAYHOUSE #2
PLAYHOUSE #1
Megalopolis
2:25 p
BAY MODEL
Under the Snow
7:50 p
Fling
7:20 p
Goodbye Solo
7:05 p
A President...
6:30 p
The Novelist
5:25 p
Royal Road
5:10 p
The Little Heart
5:15 p
Mommy Is Crazy
4:30 p
Religion Shorts
3:25 p
PLAYHOUSE #3
Courting Condi
2:20 p
The Collective
3:25 p
PLAYHOUSE #2
CORINTHIAN
Swiss Shorts
3:15 p
PLAYHOUSE #1
BAY MODEL
Shadow of the
Holy // 7:35 p
Marin Filmmakers
7:10 p
Loose Rope
7:30 p
Prince of Broadway
6:20 p
Hand of the Headless
5:25 p
Afghan Chron
5:25 p
Noise in My Head
5:30 p
Summer Trip
4:40 p
The First, Last
Race // 3:30 p
PLAYHOUSE #3
Trapped
2:30 p
Street Life Shorts
3:15 p
PLAYHOUSE #2
CORINTHIAN
Mao Ce Dun
3:30 p
PLAYHOUSE #1
MONDAY
THURSDAY
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Index
OTHER
26.4, 33
The 27 Club, 14
4 Kilometers, 33
4x4, 33
7 Souls, 14
A
Above the Clouds, 14
Afghan Chronicles, 14
Airplay: The Rise and
Fall of Rock
Radio, 14
All Roads Lead
Home, 14
All Together Now, 15
American Honey, 33
American Outrage, 15
Amina, 15
Anthem, 33
Arch’s Iguanas, 33
Asamara, 33
Ashes From The
Sky, 15
B
Bamiyan, 33
Barcelona, 15
The Bear’s Hand, 33
Beauty & the Beast, 33
Because There Are
Things You Never
Forget, 33
Before the Sea, 33
Behind the Glass, 15
Beket, 16
Berber Atlas, 16
A Better Life, 33
Birdsong, 16
Blood Red Earth, 33
A Bronx Dream, 33
The Brothers
Warner, 16
The Bull, 34
The Butterfly Tattoo, 16
Bye Bye Shanghai, 16
C
The Cable Car, 34
Cactus, 17
Candy, 34
Cantata in C Major, 34
Captive, 17
Caution, Love
Ahead!, 17
Children Who Never
Existed, 34
46
Closer, 34
The Collective, 17
Colorado Avenue, 17
Colour Talks, 34
Colour Test.6, 34
Columbariun, 34
Coming of Age, 34
Courting Condi, 17
Crackle and Space, 34
Crowded with
Voices, 34
Cut Chemist - 1st Big
Break, 34
Cyanosis, 34
Flowers of the Sky, 20
Foreign Bodies, 36
Four Chapters, 20
Four Minutes til
Noon, 36
Frankie is a
Womanizer, 20
Furnace Room
Lullaby, 36
Jackson, 22
Jackson, 37
The Jazz Singer, 23
The Job, 37
Jolene, 23
K
The Kiddush Man, 37
L
La France, 23
La Paloma - Longing
Gaining Ground, 36
Worldwide, 23
Gallero, 20
Last Chance
Gaza Souvenirs, 36
Romance, 37
Gilles’ Lily, 36
Last Day, 37
D
Gimme a Hug, 36
Last Thoughts, 37
Danzak, 34
Gio, 36
Laura - in Action, 37
A Day’s Work, 35
Gone Fishing, 36
License to Love, 37
A Deal is a Deal, 18
Goodbye Solo, 20
Lift, 37
Directions, 35
The Grapes, 21
A Little Girl Waiting, 38
Disbelief Will Save
Gravity, 36
The Little Heart, 23
Your Soul, 35
A Green Mountain in
Looking Back, 38
Distinguishing
the Drawer, 36
Loose Rope, 23
Features, 35
Guard No. 47, 21
The Lost Beauty, 24
Distraxion, 35
H
Lost Song, 24
Diva, 35
Hair: Let the Sun Shine The Lutheran, 38
Divers, 35
In, 21
M
Donkey in Lahore, 18 Hakim, 36
Magazine Gap Road, 24
Drake, 35
Hand of the Headless The Maid, 38
Dream Havana, 18
Man, 21
Mail Call, 38
Dust Off and Cowboy Henry Kissinger Mao Ce Dun, 34
Up!, 35
Secrests of a
The Map Reader, 24
E
Superpower, 21
Maria & Osmey, 38
Easter Sunday, 35
Hey, 36
Mazal, 38
Endsieg - Everything
The Homecoming, 21 Medium Cool, 24
Changes In One
Homicide:
Megalopolis, 25
Shot, 35
Division B, 36
Mexican Standoff, 38
Even in My Dreams, 35 How Could I Not Love Midsummer
You?, 22
Madness, 25
F
How
To Save A Fish
Missio Canonica, 38
Faces, 18
From Drowning, 37 Mister Cok, 38
Faire Diversion, 35
Hungry
God, 37
Mommy is Crazy, 25
Fake Blonde, 18
Mr. Brooklyn, 38
Fall, 35
I
My Father is
Familiar Voices, 18
I Don’t Dream in
Sleeping, 38
The Fenceline, 35
German, 37
My Mother’s
Fidel Castro: Man &
I Want to See, 22
Daughter, 38
Myth, 19
In Doubt, 37
My Pen Pal: An African
Final Fitting, 36
In the Dark, 37
Adventure, 38
Final Image, 19
In the Name of God, 22
The Final Word, 19
Infinite Space: The
N
Finn on the Fly, 19
Architecture of John Night Practice, 38
The First Day of
Launter, 22
No Art on $2 a Day, 39
Winter, 19
Interception, 37
No Quarter, 39
The First, Last Race, 19 Iraqi Short Films, 22
No Tomorrow, 39
Fling, 20
The Noise in My
J
G
Head, 25
Nomad’s Land, 25
Nora, 39
Not Forgotten, 39
Nothing Else
Matters, 25
The Novelist, 26
Nuran, 26
O
Of All the Things, 26
Old Grace, 39
On the Line, 39
On the Line, 39
On The Road to
Tel-Aviv, 39
One of the Last, 39
Ottica Zero, 39
Our Bay, 39
P
Pachamama, 26
Paloma Delight, 26
Papercut, 39
Paraíba My Love, 26
Passing the Rainbow, 27
Peacefire, 27
Pindorama: The
True Story Of Seven
Dwarves, 27
Portal, 39
A President to Remem
ber: In the
Company of John
F. Kennedy, 27
Prince of Broadway, 27
Princess of Africa, 27
Purgatory, 28
R
Rez Bomb, 28
Ripley Under
Ground, 28
Roads, 39
Roastbeef, 40
Roots, 40
Royal Road of
Cachaca, 28
Rubens Dreams, 40
S
School of Thought, 40
Sebastian’s Voodoo, 40
Security, 40
Seventeen, 28
Shadow of the Holy
Book, 28
The Shaft, 29
Shikashika, 40
Shot from Dark, 29
Shred of Hope, 40
Significant Other, 40
Sita Sings the Blues, 29
Small Change, 40
A Small Death, 40
The Smell of
Apples, 29
Smiling Dog, 40
Sometimes We Hum, 40
Song Sung Blue, 29
South of the Moon, 29
Split Ends, 30
Splitting Hairs, 40
Spread Through the Air, 40
Standing Start, 41
Summer Trip, 30
The Sweetest Em
brace: Return To
Afghanistan, 30
The Switch, 41
Symphony, 41
Synch or Swim, 30
T
Taizo, 30
Tehran Backyard, 41
This Beautiful City, 30
Three in Love, 31
A Time and A Time, 41
Tommy, 41
The Tournament, 41
Transfert, 41
Trapped, 31
Triomf, 31
Triple Concerto in D
Minor, 41
U
Under The Skin, 31
Under the Snow, 31
The Unwinking Gaze, 31
V
Vaclav, 32
Vanechka, 32
Victor Gazon, 41
Voodoo Bayou, 41
W
The Waiting, 41
Wash n’ Fold, 41
Watching It Rain, 42
We All Bleed Red, 42
What Lies Ahead, 42
Whispering Embers, 32
White Angel, 32
With One Voice, 32
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