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NON-PROFIT ORG U.S.POSTAGE PAID PORTLAND, OR PERMIT NO.664 The Festival Program

Welcome to the Northwest Film Center’s 39th Portland International Film Festival. This Festival program is arranged alphabetically by film title followed by the shorts programs, with showtimes and locations listed at the end of each film description. Our short films programs follow the feature listings.

Festival Venues Advance Ticket Outlet Regal Fox Tower 10 World Trade Center Roseway Theatre

1119 SW Park Avenue at Main 846 SW Park Avenue at Taylor Theater 7229 NE Sandy Blvd near Fremont (inside the Portland Art Museum’s 121 SW Salmon Street at 1st Avenue Mark Building) Empirical Theater (Building 2, upstairs) Northwest Film Center Cinema 21 at OMSI Moreland Theatre Whitsell Auditorium 1219 SW Park Avenue at Madison 616 NW 21st Avenue at Hoyt 1945 SE Water Ave 6712 SE Milwaukie Ave near Bybee (inside the Portland Art Museum)

Tickets

General: $12, PAM Members Student/Senior (65+): $11, Silver Screen Club Friend: $9, Ticket Package: 10 films for $100.

Tickets on sale February 1-27. Online: nwfilm.org. Walk-up: daily noon-6pm at the Advance Ticket Outlet. Phone: daily noon-6pm at 503-276-4310. Day-of-show: If tickets are still available, tickets can be purchased at the Advance Ticket Outlet until three hours prior to showtime, then at the theater’s box office beginning 30 minutes prior to the screening. Even if advance tickets are sold out, rush tickets are offered a few minutes prior to showtime.

To purchase tickets or learn more about the Festival details visit the Advance Ticket Outlet or at: nwfilm.org

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PIFF After Dark Animated Worlds Documentary Views Films for Families

For the cinematically adventurous, and In addition to the 20 animated shorts, our This year’s festival boasts 17 fresh Film lovers of all ages will be charmed by for the nocturnally inclined, PIFF After Festival presents four animated features perspectives on the world we live in and these films suitable for younger viewers. that have charmed audiences and critics the fascinating people and stories that Dark offers special treats for devotees of Sponsored by the Lamb Baldwin Foundation. genre films that push boundaries. worldwide. surround us.

Sponsored by LAIKA. Sponsored by Delta Airlines.

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New Directors Opening Night Film + Party Oscar Submissions Short Cuts

PIFF 39 features 22 feature films from The Northwest Film Center and Umpqua PIFF 39 brings the Portland premier of PIFF 39 boasts 8 shorts programs new makers whose first films hold Bank invite you to join us Thursday, 22 films submitted for Best Foreign featuring 54 memorable snapshots from promise for great films to come. February 11 after the screenings of The Language Film Oscar. around the world and here in Oregon. Fencer at Fox Tower and the Whitsell Sponsored by the Henry Lea Hillman, Jr. Foundation. Auditorium to celebrate the opening of Sponsored by the James F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation. this year’s Festival. Tickets: $25.

Co-hosts: Voodoo Doughnuts, Scandinavian Heritage Foundation, Elk Cove Vineyards, Montinore Estate and Sierra Nevada Brewing.

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7 Letters 100 Yen Love 600 Miles Above and Below

VARIOUS DIRECTORS | MASAHARU TAKE | JAPAN GABRIEL RIPSTEIN | MEXICO NICOLAS STEINER | SINGAPORE SWITZERLAND “Play video games with your nephew, pick Winner of the Best First Feature Award at Seven of Singapore’s most illustrious up junk food, and pass out reading the Berlin Film Festival, 600 Miles is a Nicolas Steiner’s sublime exploration of filmmakers, including Boo Junfeng, Eric manga. Such is the life of Ichiko Saito, a riveting thriller about gun trafficking lives lived on the fringe is set in a Khoo, K Rajagopal, Jack Neo, Tan Pin Pin, 32-year-old living with her parents and between the United States and Mexico seemingly apocalyptic world that happens Royston Tan, and Kelvin Tong, have recently divorced sister. When their how the war against drugs has ruined to be our own. Living above ground, April gathered their creative storytelling and working class home gets too small for lives on both sides of the border. Arnulfo dons a spacesuit to simulate life on Mars filmmaking talents to create a one-of-a- both sisters, her mother pushes Ichiko is a low-level Sinaloa cartel operative who as part of a remote science program in kind anthology that pays tribute to into the world and she gets a job at the moves weapons illegally to Mexico. All Utah, while Dave has left modern society Singapore’s 50 years of independence. nearby konbini. She befriends a gruff appears to be going well but, for an abandoned military bunker in the The resulting film, 7 Letters, offers amateur boxer but cruel reality soon unbeknownst to him, he is being tracked California desert. Meanwhile, finding thought-provoking pieces that revolve pushes her to don the gloves herself. As by American ATF agent Hank Harris. shelter below in Las Vegas storm drains, around tales of lost love, identity, familial Derek Elley of Film Business Asia writes, When an attempted arrest goes wrong, are Lalo, Rick, and Cindy, who contend bonds, traditional folklore, community, ‘Ando triumphs in [this] quirky tale of a Harris is kidnapped and spirited across with frequent, dangerous flooding to and more. The seven “letters” to social misfit’s transformation, exceeding the border to Mexico. When things get survive on their own terms. “…[Above and Singapore are fascinating vignettes all expectations in a physical performance desperate for both of them, the two will Below] treats its subjects with a dignity reflecting the personal and poignant of absurd comedy and deep pathos.” need to trust one another to get out alive. that transcends judgment and a poetic relationship the directors—all award- —Japan Cuts. (113 mins.) (85 mins.) sensibility that ranks it among the year’s winning filmmakers—have with the most remarkable cinematic discoveries. 2/12 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/20 8:45 | Cinema 21 country they call home. (116 mins.) —Variety. In English. (110 mins.) 2/18 5:45 | Cinema 21 2/22 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/25 8:30 | OMSI 2/14 1:00 | Cinema 21 2/27 12:30 | Fox Tower Sponsored by Consular Office of Japan in Portland. 2/24 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium

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Adama Aferim! April and the Arabian Nights: Volume 1,

SIMON ROUBY | FRANCE RADU JUDE | ROMANIA/CZECH Extraordinary World The Restless One REPUBLIC/FRANCE The year is 1916. Adama is 12-years-old CHRISTIAN DESMARES, MIGUEL GOMES | PORTUGAL/FRANCE/ and lives in a remote West African village. Jude won Best Director at the Berlin Film FRANCK EKINCI | FRANCE GERMANY/SWITZERLAND When his elder brother Samba suddenly Festival for this visionary historical epic vanishes from the village, Adama decides — a European “Eastern” to an American 1941. Napoléon V is the ruler of an to set off in search of him. He is Western. In the principality of Wallachia, alternative France, and without modern “An up-to-the minute rethinking of what it accompanied by a griot (a mysterious life is more Dark Ages than Age of technology, the world runs on coal and means to make a political film today, bard) called Abdou. They travel by car, Enlightenment, even in 1835. Constable steam. Scholars keep mysteriously Gomes’s shape-shifting paean to the art of ship, and train, finally reaching war-torn Costandin and his son have been disappearing, and a young girl named storytelling strives for ‘a fictional form from Europe where they learn Samba is a dispatched by a nobleman to track down a April goes off in search of her scientist facts.’ Gomes turns actual events into the rifleman with the French army and has runaway slave accused of seducing the parents who vanished. Accompanied by stuff of fable, and channels it all through been sent to the front line. Adama follows landowner’s wife. Foul-mouthed and her talking cat Darwin and a young rogue the mellifluous voice of Scheherazade, the him to a small town in north-eastern quick-tempered, Costandin rides named Julius, she braves mysteries and mythic queen of the classic folktale. Volume France: Verdun. A vibrantly animated roughshod on the local peasantry in his danger in order to discover the truth. 1 alone tries on more narrative devices than journey of initiation for a boy guided by search, explaining to his teenaged son Winner of the Crystal for Best Feature most filmmakers attempt in a lifetime, love for his elder brother. (82 mins.) 10+ that he’s upholding the social order. But Film at the 2015 Annecy Animation mingling material about unemployment and Festival, April and the Extraordinary 2/14 1:00 | Fox Tower Costandin’s righteous indignation, fuelled local elections with visions of exploding by racism, gives way to a moral crisis, as World is a visually striking, original, and whales and talking cockerels. It is hard to 2/20 3:30 | Cinema 21 his son’s inquisitiveness leads him to dynamic animated sci-fi adventure based imagine a more generous or radical question whether justice is truly being on a graphic novel by Jacques Tardi. approach to these troubled times, one that Sponsored by LAIKA and TV5MONDE. served. (108 mins.) (105 mins.) honors its fantasy life as fully as its hard realities.”—New York Film Festival. In 2/13 6:15 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/13 1:15 | Fox Tower Portugese, French and German with English 2/17 6:00 | Fox Tower 2/22 8:30 | Roseway Theater subtitles. (125 mins.) Sponsored by LAIKA and the French American International Sponsored by the Romanian American Society. 2/15 8:30 | Cinema 21 School.

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Arabian Nights: Volume 2, Arabian Nights: Volume 3, Baskin Body

The Desolate One The Enchanted One CAN EVRENOL | TURKEY MALGORZATA SZUMOWSKA | POLAND

MIGUEL GOMES | PORTUGAL/FRANCE/ MIGUEL GOMES | PORTUGAL/FRANCE/ While en route to answer distress calls GERMANY/SWITZERLAND GERMANY/SWITZERLAND from a rural village, a small group of “Balancing bleakness and mirth in equal policemen find themselves diverted to measure, Body chronicles three haunted investigate a mysterious figure that souls in Warsaw: an icy coroner who “The middle section of Gomes’s “Gomes’s sui generis epic concludes with skitters out into the road in front of their suspects his dead wife may be trying to monumental yet light-footed magnum arguably its most eccentric—and most van. Evrenol takes viewers on a ride to contact him; his anorexic, suicidal opus shifts into a more subdued and enthralling—installment. Scheherazade hell as his characters stumble upon a daughter; and her hospital therapist, who melancholic register. But within each of escapes the king for an interlude of ceremony with dire consequences for all moonlights as a medium. Playing these three tales, framed as the wild freedom in Old Baghdad, envisioned here involved. “Baskin has cult midnight unexplained phenomena for dry laughs, imaginings of the Arabian queen as a sunny Mediterranean archipelago written all over it. It’s the kind of art like a hanged man who miraculously Scheherazade and adapted from recent complete with hippies and break-dancers. house horror that becomes a household regains consciousness, the film is a real-life events in Portugal, there are After her eventual return to her palatial name among genre fans.”–Bloody morbidly funny guide to the Great surprises and digressions aplenty. In the confines comes the most lovingly Disgusting.com. (97 mins.) Beyond. Not afraid to find humor in the first, a deadpan neo-Western of sorts, an protracted of all the stories in Arabian darkest of places, Szumowska illustrates escaped murderer becomes a local hero Nights, a documentary chronicle of Lisbon- PRECEEDED BY: The Chickening, Nick her character’s spiritual crises with the for dodging the authorities. The second area bird trappers preparing their prized DenBoer, Davy Force | Canada. macabre insight of a contemporary deals with the theft of 13 cows, as told finches for birdsong competitions. Right to What if Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining Grimm’s fairy tale. Frank and enigmatic, through a Brechtian open-air courtroom the end, Gomes’s film balances the took place in a gigantic chicken Body is a film that challenges and drama in which the testimonies become leisurely art of the tall tale with a sense of processing plant instead of the Overlook rewards in equal measure.”—Chicago increasingly absurd. Finally, a Maltese deadline urgency—a reminder that for Hotel? (5 mins.) Film Festival. Silver Bear, Best Director, poodle shuttles between various owners Scheherazade, and perhaps for us all, Berlin Film Festival. (90 mins.) 2/12 10:30 | Cinema 21 in a tear-jerking collective portrait of a stories can be a matter of life and death.” 2/13 3:45 | Cinema 21 tower block’s morose residents.”—New —New York Film Festival. (125 mins.) York Film Festival. (131 mins.) 2/16 6:15 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/22 5:45 | Cinema 21 Sponsored by the Polish Library Building Association. 2/20 6:00 | Cinema 21

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Cemetery of Splendour Chevalier The Clan The Club

APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL | ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI | GREECE PABLO TRAPERO | ARGENTINA PABLO LARRAÍN | CHILE THAILAND The Clan tells the true story of a middle- A meditation on justice and the Catholic A hypnotic cinematic dreamscape unfolds “While on a fishing trip in the Aegean Sea, class family pulled into a world of Church, Larraín’s darkly comic, but no in Thai master Weerasethakul’s new film, six men decide to play Chevalier, a game kidnapping, ransom, and murder by its less angry, film presents the moral in which soldiers with a mysterious that measures every aspect of who they charismatic patriarch. As a member of the dramas of four exiled priests who live sleeping sickness are sent to a temporary are. Things will be compared. Blood will secret police of the Videla military regime together in a secluded house in a seaside clinic in a former school. Perhaps a be spilled. At the end of the game, one of the late 70s and early 80s, it was town. A cozy monastery home for priests connection exists between the soldiers’ man will emerge as the best and receive a Arquímedes Puccio’s job to kidnap with “problems,” the men have been sent enigmatic syndrome and the mythic signet ring. Tsangari further solidifies her dissidents during the reign of terror when there to purge sins from the past and ancient site that lies beneath the place as a master of the Greek cinema more than 30,000 citizens simply spare the church from embarrassment. makeshift hospital? The memory-filled new wave with a cleverly written script “disappeared.” But after the fall of the Living under strict rules and the watchful space becomes a revelatory world for with co–writer Efthymis Filippou (The regime, the upper middle class Puccio kept eye of a female caretaker, the fragile housewife and volunteer Jenjira as she Lobster, PIFF39) that is an acute and right on going, kidnapping his rich stability of their routine is disrupted by watches over Itt, a handsome soldier. humorous study of male egotism. neighbors and demanding huge ransoms – the arrival of a fifth man, a newly- Magic, healing, romance, and dreams are Chevalier is an absurdist farce that and then killing the victims even after the disgraced companion, who brings with all part of her path to a deeper awareness explores the competitiveness of male ransoms were paid. Trapero tackles the him the past they thought they had left of herself and the world around her. “. . . relationships as could only be observed notorious tale of violence and family bond behind. Golden Globe nominee. (98 mins.) so serene, so perfectly meditative, that it by a female auteur.”—AFI Fest. (99 mins.) with keen attention to the details of a tale 2/13 8:45 | Whitsell Auditorium puts the viewer in precisely the same at once alluring and repelling. (110 mins.) 2/15 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/14 4:00 | Moreland Theater hushed reverie to which its characters 2/23 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium eventually submit.”—Slant. (122 mins.) 2/23 8:30 | Roseway Theater 2/27 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/17 8:30 | Cinema 21 2/22 7:00 | OMSI

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Counting Court Coz Ov Moni 2: Demon

JEM COHEN | US CHAITANYA TAMHANE | INDIA FOKN Revenge MARCIN WRONA | POLAND

Cohen (Museum Hours) evokes the fabric Winner of top prizes at the Venice and KING LUU | GHANA/ROMANIA Things quickly get out of hand at a Polish of urban life with this richly textured Mumbai film festivals, Tamhane’s film is a wedding when the groom appears to have combination of sound and image. A quietly devastating, absurdist portrait of been possessed by a spirit from the past. essayistic documentary in 15 chapters, injustice, caste prejudice, and venal Ghana’s most popular rap group, the Adapted from Piotr Rowicki’s 2008 stage Counting weaves 15 “snapshots” of New politics in contemporary India. An elderly FOKN Bois, star in what’s been called “the play “Adherence,” Marcin Wrona’s final York, Moscow, Istanbul, and more into a folksinger and grassroots organizer is world’s 2nd 1st Pidgin musical.” One needs film is a ghost story that takes the Jewish tapestry that captures a range of arrested on a trumped-up charge and his no knowledge of the first film to myth of the dybbuk and commingles it ephemeral moments with an elegiac trial is a ridiculous and harrowing display thoroughly enjoy the Bois’ screwball with strong nods to Kubrick’s The Shining, tenderness—from street protests to of institutional incompetence, with search for much food, love, and finally, including the use of a Penderecki score. flickering lights and the movement of endless procedural delays, coached revenge. The plot may be thin, but the “The thematics give Demon meat, make it clouds across the sky. Cohen, who has witnesses for the prosecution, and humor-infused, incredibly catchy a great film, but it’s the filmmaking that noted that the film initially began in obsessive privileging of arcane colonial melodies keep this hip hop opera makes Demon a great movie to watch.” – response to the death of cine-essay law over reason and mercy. With a cast swimming along. “It looks great, it sounds Devin Faraci, Birth. Movies. Death. (94 mins.) pioneer Chris Marker, emerges as both made up mostly of non-actors, Court fantastic, and it utterly defies its rigorous documentarian and consummate weaves a stirring story of class politics, audience to not leave the room with a big PRECEEDED BY: Teeth, Jennifer Cox | flaneur. “Counting is like taking a Sunday bureaucracy, and justice that winningly ol’ smile plastered on after the final Spain, US, 2014. A teenage girl has to deal walk through spatial and temporal captures the societal complexity and credits roll.” –Todd Brown, Twitch Film. with social awkwardness and an unusual interstices, as touching as it is magical.”— contradiction. (116 mins.) (63 mins.) dental condition. (13 mins.) Berlin Film Festival. (111 mins.) 2/12 5:45 | Fox Tower 2/13 11:00 | Cinema 21 PRECEEDED BY: World of Tomorrow, Don 2/25 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/16 8:30 | Moreland Theater Hertzfeldt | US. A small child gets a 2/26 8:30 | Fox Tower glimpse of the future, courtesy of her Sponsored by the Oregon State Bar International Law Section. 2/27 3:00 | Whitsell Auditorium time-traveling clone. (17 mins.)

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Dheepan Disorder Don’t Be Bad Don’t Blink: Robert Frank

JACQUES AUDIARD | FRANCE ALICE WINOCOUR | FRANCE CLAUDIO CALIGARI | ITALY LAURA ISRAEL | US

Jacques Audiard won the Palme d’Or at Afghanistan war vet Vincent is suffering Set in the mid-1990’s in Ostia on the “The life and work of Robert Frank—as a Cannes for this gripping tale of three Sri from PTSD. He’s hired as a temp security outskirts of Rome, Vittorio and Cesare, photographer and a filmmaker—are so Lankan refugees and their immigrant guard at Maryland, the estate of Lebanese two men in their early twenties, share intertwined that they’re one in the same, struggle. Escaping the Civil War, a couple businessman Whalid. Soon, he overhears a their lives in a world of excess: night and the vast amount of territory he’s and a girl—all complete strangers—pose as conversation that seems to indicate Whalid clubs, fast cars, and dealing drugs. But as covered, from The Americans in 1958 up to a family and seek refuge in France. is involved in illegal arms dealing. Vincent’s close as they are, their ideas about the the present, is intimately registered in his Supporting each other like a real family, paranoid episodes only increase when he’s path to success start to diverge. Vittorio now formidable body of artistic gestures. Dheepan, the father, finds work as a hired as a bodyguard for Whalid’s icy sees a way out of the hedonism that From the early ’90s, Frank has made his custodian; Yalini, the mother, gets a job as German wife Jessie and her son. But is the engulfs them, meets Linda, and, to protect films and videos with the brilliant editor a caregiver; and the daughter, Illayaal, threat is outside the gates of Maryland or himself, starts to drift away from his soul Laura Israel, who has helped him keep adjusts to school life. Unfortunately, the already within them? Told largely through mate, for which the street remains all. The things homemade and preserve the place they’ve chosen as a home is in the Vincent’s anxious point of view, this bonds of friendship are strong, but are illuminating spark of first contact between middle of a gangland, and the family must claustrophobic thriller makes the most of they strong enough to maintain a camera and people/places. Don’t Blink is cope with the threat. In Tamil, English, and rhythm, sound, and silence to create an brotherhood? Caligari’s crime drama won Israel’s like-minded portrait of her friend French with English subtitles. (115 mins.) atmosphere of building unease. (101 mins.) eight awards at the Venice International and collaborator, a lively rummage sale of Film Festival, including Best Film. images and sounds and recollected 2/25 5:45 | OMSI 2/15 6:00 | Cinema 21 (100 mins.) passages and unfathomable losses and 2/26 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/18 8:30 | Fox Tower friendships that leaves us a fast and fleeting 2/13 6:15 | Moreland Theater Sponsored by TV5MONDE. Sponsored by TV5MONDE. imprint of the life of the Swiss-born man 2/19 8:30 | Fox Tower who reinvented himself the American way, and is still standing on ground of his own making at the age of 90.”—Film Society of Lincoln Center. (82 mins.)

2/21 7:00 | Whitsell Auditorium

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Dukhtar Eisenstein in Guanajuato Embrace of the Serpent Evolution

AFIA NATHANIEL | PAKISTAN PETER GREENAWAY | NETHERLANDS CIRO GUERRA | COLOMBIA LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ | FRANCE

In the mountains of northern Pakistan, Crosscutting stories set decades apart, After diving below the waves surrounding ten-year-old Zainab has been promised to Greenaway’s lively, provocative film Guerra weaves two parallel journeys his coastal village, a young boy claims to Tor Gul a cruel, aging tribal leader six follows the great Soviet filmmaker Sergei between a lone Amazonian shaman and have seen the body of another child times her age, in order to broker peace Eisenstein (Finnish actor Elmer Bäck) in western scientists in search of ancestral trapped in the coral reef. Bizarrely, there between two warring camps. On the eve his travels to the Mexican city of knowledge deep into the Amazon. appears to be a starfish blooming from the of the nuptials, Zainab’s mother refuses Guanajuato in 1931. Following the Karamakate is the last survivor of his tribe belly button of the corpse. Eleven years to have her daughter meet her same fate, international success of Battleship and, despite incursions by missionaries after her last feature (Innocence), and the two make a harried escape, Potemkin, Eisenstein goes to Mexico to and plunderers, becomes a guide for two Hadžihalilović (who co-authored Enter the beginning an epic journey fraught with shoot a new film, Que viva México!, having scientists in search of the rare and sacred Void with Gaspar Noé) returns with a dark, danger and both tribes hot on their trail. recently been spurned by Hollywood. He yakruna plant, first in 1909 then feminist fairytale peppered with stylistic Finding shelter, solace, and perhaps soon falls under Mexico’s spell and that of 1940. With stunning black and white nods to David Lynch and the body horror of romance in the form of Punjabi trucker, his guide Palomino Cañedo, and opens up cinematography capturing spectacular David Cronenberg. (81 mins.) they set off for Lahore, hoping to create a to his suppressed fears as he embraces a rainforest landscapes, Embrace of the new life away from their oppressive new world of sensual pleasures and Serpent serves both as a hallucinatory PRECEEDED BY: O Negative, Stephen upbringing. (93 mins.) possibilities that will shape the future of adventure film and a damning McCarthy | Canada. A man and a woman his art. “An outrageously unconventional indictment of colonial destruction of grapple with her severe addiction while on 2/15 3:30 | Cinema 21 and deliriously profane biopic.” –Variety. indigenous cultures. Best Film, Mar del a road trip. (15 mins.) 2/27 3:15 | Fox Tower In Spanish and English with English Plata Film Festival. (125 mins.) 2/19 11:00 | Cinema 21 subtitles. (105 mins.) 2/12 5:45 | Cinema 21 Sponsored by TV5MONDE. 2/18 8:30 | Cinema 21 2/14 7:00 | Moreland Theater

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Eye in the Sky Fatima The Fencer For Grace

GAVIN HOOD | UK PHILIPPE FAUCON | FRANCE KLAUS HÄRÖ | FINLAND KEVIN PANG & MARK HELENOWSKI | US The goal of British-led Operation Cobra is A Moroccan immigrant now living in Lyon, Fleeing from Russian secret police in the capture of Aisha Al Hady, a radicalized Fatima works long hours as a cleaning early 1950’s, a young Baltic dissident An in-depth look at what it takes to create British citizen who has joined the Somali lady to support her two daughters, leaves Leningrad to settle in the small and manage one of the world’s greatest terrorist group Al Shabab. But their Nesrine, 18 and a promising pre-med coastal village of Haapsalua, Estonia. restaurants—from concrete box to its “capture” objective is changed to “kill” student, and Souad, 15 and rebellious. Her There, he finds work as a school gym opening night—For Grace also tells the when the indomitable Colonel Katherine relationship with her younger daughter is teacher and becomes a father figure to complex story of a man in a quest to Powell (Helen Mirren), who has been especially tense, with the two often his students by teaching them his great overcome his past and create his own tracking Al Hady for years, learns that Al bickering as Souad seems too easy to passion—fencing. As a fencing future. Curtis Duffy, one of the country’s Shabab is planning suicide attacks. abandon her ethnic heritage for tournament in Leningrad approaches, he’s most renowned chefs, is building his Nevada-based drone operator Steve Watts assimilation while Fatima’s poor grasp of forced to make a difficult choice. Will he dream restaurant. Already the recipient of targets Al Shabab’s Nairobi safehouse but French is a constant source of take the children to compete or will he two coveted stars from the Michelin reports back to London that a nine-year- embarrassment. Faucon finds gentle abandon them in order to save himself? Guide, Duffy has ambitions for his old girl has entered the kill zone. Given the humor in the confusions of assimilation Based on a true story, Härö’s rousing Chicago restaurant Grace to become the value of the target, could a civilian child be that Fatima experiences, while also historical drama opens a window into best in the country, but his laser focus on chalked up to collateral damage? A revealing the harsh realities of life as an Soviet and sports history alike. In his cooking career cost Duffy his family. A fascinating look at how our leaders wage immigrant in France. (79 mins.) Estonian and Russian with English story about food, family, balance, and modern war. (102 mins.) subtitles. (93 mins.) sacrifice. (92 mins.) 2/16 6:15 | Moreland Theater 2/12 8:30 | Cinema 21 2/25 6:15 | Fox Tower 2/11 7:30 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/13 4:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/17 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/11 7:15 | Fox Tower 2/17 6:00 | World Trade Center Sponsored by TV5Monde. 2/14 7:00 | Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Higgins. Sponsored by the Finlandia Foundation and the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation.

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The Forbidden Room Francofonia From Afar A Good American

GUY MADDIN, ALEXANDER SOKUROV | FRANCE LORENZO VIGAS | VENEZUELA FRIEDRICH MOSER | US EVAN JOHNSON | CANADA Celebrated for his daring and landmark Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice The explosion of information in the A film that “has more ideas in ten minutes films—such as Russian Ark (2002,) which International Film Festival, From Afar digital age left government agencies like than most filmmakers have in their entire was filmed in one sequence in the Russian uncovers common ground between two the NSA struggling with bureaucracy oeuvres” (Sight and Sound), The State Hermitage Museum—Francofonia men divided by socioeconomic realities and technology to keep up with the Forbidden Room has been favorably transforms Paris’ Louvre Museum into a but connected by troubled pasts. changing times. Responding to the compared to taking LSD in a film archive. magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection Armando, middle–aged and wealthy, challenge, NSA technical director Bill Reshaping cinematic images into surreal on the relationship between art, culture, chooses to live in a poor neighborhood in Binney and a small team of code juxtapositions and ingeniously impossible and power. Sokurov examines the story of Caracas. He wanders the streets looking breakers developed ThinThread, an narratives, we are led through delirious Jacques Jaujard, Director of the French for young men to bring home. In exchange astonishingly effective data collecting visions with an equally eclectic cast that National Museums and Count Franziskus for money, they follow his precise and sorting program that also protects includes Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Wolff-Metternich, who conspired to instructions: no touching—he will only privacy. ThinThread’s built-in Mathieu Amalric and Charlotte Rampling. protect and preserve the art treasures of watch them. Armando’s routine is broken, safeguards would have prevented the “A wild, demented cinephiliac feast from the Louvre Museum from the cataclysm however, when his latest conquest, the massive surveillance methods later the mind of Guy Maddin.”—Hollywood about to visit Europe in 1940, and asks street–tough Elder, assaults him and runs exposed by Edward Snowden. Despite Reporter. Best Canadian Film, Toronto what art tells us about ourselves in the off with the money. From that volatile first its success, ThinThread was Film Critics Association. (133 mins.) face of one of the most devastating encounter, the unlikeliest of relationships discontinued just weeks before conflicts the world has ever known. develops. “As probing, subtle, and September 11, 2001. How did this 2/16 8:30 | Cinema 21 (87 mins.) affecting as any psychological drama program work? Who was behind it? Why 2/19 8:30 | Roseway Theater could wish to be.” —The Hollywood was it killed off? After Binney and fellow 2/15 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Reporter. (93 mins.) intelligence officials challenge this 2/17 6:00 | Moreland Theater decision, they find their world upended. 2/17 6:00 | Cinema 21 (100 mins.) Sponsored by TV5MONDE. 2/19 6:00 | Fox Tower 2/13 1:15 | World Trade Center 2/15 8:30 | World Trade Center 2/17 8:30 | World Trade Center

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Heavenly Nomadic Home Care I Saw the Light The Idol

MIRLAN ABDYKALYKOV | SLÁVEK HORÁK | CZECH REPUBLIC/ MARC ABRAHAM | US HANY ABU-ASSAD | PALESTINE KYRGYZSTAN SLOVAKIA British actor Tom Hiddleston inhabits the The Idol maps the true story of Palestine’s A family of horse-herding nomads lives in Writer-director Slávek Horák’s mother, a role of legendary singer/songwriter Hank first pop celebrity, Mohammed Assaf, and the remote high mountains of Kyrgyzstan. home care nurse, inspired the central Williams, an artist who revolutionized his stellar rise to fame following his Tabyldy is the head of the household; his character of this insightful feature debut. country music with his raw charisma, victory in the 2013 season of Arab Idol. wife Karachach does the cooking and Working in the Czech wine country, nurse haunting voice, and original songs. While Abu-Assad (Omar) follows the remarkable looks after their granddaughter, while Vlasta (Alena Mihulová, awarded Best I Saw the Light showcases Williams’ story of Assaf’s journey from a refugee their daughter-in-law Shaiyr takes their Actress at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival) meteoric rise to fame and fortune, it also camp in Gaza, through to his audition in herd to graze. Shaiyr’s husband died some puts the needs of her patients, husband reveals the dark and troubled life that Egypt with a fake passport, to his years ago and the absence of men is Láďa, and daughter above her own – until existed away from the spotlight. From the crowning victory in Beirut which stirred keenly felt. But another male (Ermek, a an accident puts her on the receiving end drug and alcohol addictions to troubled the dreams, hearts, and aspirations of middle-aged meteorologist) does come of the healthcare system. “Wryly relationships to the string of broken Palestinians at home and abroad. The into the picture and, his sudden liking for humorous and bittersweet, Home Care is hearts he left in his wake, it was Hank first feature to be (partially) filmed on horse milk and friendship with Tabyldy an appealing humanist tale that puts a Williams’ tumultuous existence that not location in Gaza in decades and The Idol arouses Karachach’s suspicion. Mirlan poignant spin on that perennial staple of only fueled his powerful lyrics and is sure to inspire and delight. (100 mins.) Abdykalykov’s feature debut uses simple the Czech cinema, the village dramedy.”— heartfelt songs, but also brought his life 2/20 6:00 | Fox Tower narrative and majestic visuals to tell a Alissa Simon, Variety. (92 mins.) to its tragically short end. Elizabeth Olsen 2/25 6:00 | Whitsell Auditorium gentle story about the inevitable clash of shines as William’s wife Audrey and tradition and modernity. In Kirghiz and 2/16 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Hiddleston performs William’s classic hits Hebrew with English subtitles. (81 mins.) 2/21 1:30 | Roseway Theater with conviction. (123 mins.)

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Land and Shade Landfill Harmonic Last Cab to Darwin L’attesa PIERO MESSINA | ITALY CÉSAR AUGUSTO ACEVEDO | BRAD ALLGOOD, GRAHAM TOWNSLEY | JEREMY SIMS | AUSTRALIA COLOMBIA US/PARAGUAY/NORWAY/BRAZIL Anna (Juliet Binoche) sits alone in an old Rex, a stubborn cab driver, has lived his country house in Sicily. Her son Giuseppe “A poetic and devastating statement on entire life in the small, outback town of has just died and there is nothing to do Broken Hill. When he learns he doesn’t how environmental issues impact every but mourn. When Jeanne (Lou de Laâge), have long to live, he sets out for a doctor aspect of life, César Augusto Acevedo’s A testament to the transformative power her son’s girlfriend arrives—unaware of in Darwin, nearly 2,000 miles away, who Camera d’Or–winning (Best First Feature) of music and the resilience of the human his passing—Anna chooses to withhold is fighting for die-with-dignity legislation directorial debut is not to be missed. The spirit, Landfill Harmonic follows the the truth, knowing that the secret must and can help him control his fate. But elderly Alfonso (Haimer Leal) returns to Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, a come out. As they wait and the days pass, along his epic road trip Rex learns that the small house in Valle del Cauca he left Paraguayan musical group that plays they grow closer as the drama builds. A before you can end your life, you have to 17 years earlier in order to care for his instruments made entirely out of garbage. moving debut from Paolo Sorrentino’s live it. Full of charm, humor, and drama, bedridden son Geraldo (Edison Raigosa), When their story goes viral, the orchestra (The Great Beauty) former assistant Sim’s film is “As much about an expiring who suffers from a mysterious ailment is suddenly catapulted into the global director. (100 mins.) way of life as the controversial decision of related to the harsh farming techniques of spotlight. Under the guidance of idealistic a terminally ill man . . . raises thoughtfully 2/23 6:00 | Cinema 21 the sugar-cane plantations around them. music director Favio Chavez, the band contemporary questions about the nature 2/25 8:30 | Fox Tower Tensions quietly simmer between Alfonso must learn to navigate a strange new of mateship, community, and and his ex-wife (the wonderful Hilda world of arenas and sold-out concerts. friendship.”—Variety. (123 mins.) Ruiz), but familial ties and pride keep However, when a natural disaster strikes them tied to the land in Acevedo’s their country, Favio must find a way to 2/13 1:15 | Cinema 21 meditative and painterly allegory.”—Film keep the orchestra intact and provide a 2/20 5:45 | Roseway Theater Society of Lincoln Center. (94 mins.) source of hope for their town. In Spanish 2/20 3:15 | Roseway Theater with English Subtitles. (84 mins.) 2/26 8:30 | OMSI 2/13 6:30 | World Trade Center 2/27 6:00 | Fox Tower 2/20 3:30 | World Trade Center 2/21 1:30 | World Trade Center

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Let Them Come Little Big Master Liza the Fox-Fairy The Lobster

SALEM BRAHIMI | ALGERIA ADRIAN KWAN | HONG KONG KÁROLY UJJ MÉSZÁROS | HUNGARY YORGOS LANTHIMOS | IRELAND/UK/ FRANCE/GREECE/NETHERLANDS Up to 200,000 Algerians are thought to Faced with a broken education system have perished in clashes between the and misguided parents and school board, Liza’s a lonely nurse whose search for a government and fundamentalist Islamist headmistress Lui Wai-hung resigns her companion always ends in the same way— The Lobster is a love story set in the near rebels in the 90s during the turbulent post at a prestigious private school and with the death of her suitor. Now the future where single people, according to “dark decade.” Salem Brahimi’s pared- takes on the job running a failing rural bodies are piling up and Liza, whose only the rules of “The City,” are arrested and down drama traces one non-religious kindergarten. With only five children friend is the ghost of a 1950s Japanese transferred to “The Hotel.” There they are young couple—civil servant Nouredine enrolled, it’s slated for shutdown if one of pop singer, is coming under the suspicion obliged to find a mate in 45 days. If they and proud proto-feminist Yasmina—and them drops out, and because the kids of a bumbling detective. Reminiscent of fail, they are transformed into an animal of their increasingly difficult lives as have poor parents and tough lives, she both Amélie and Takashi Miike’s The their choosing and released into “The sectarian strife initially breaks them apart figures her job will be to ease their Happiness of the Katakuris, Mészáros Woods.” A desperate man escapes from before bringing them back together under transition. But after meeting the kids she blends whimsy, death, Japanese lore, and The Hotel to The Woods where The Loners dangerous circumstances. Spanning a vows to keep the doors open by any catchy pop songs into a delightfully dark live and falls in love there, although it is decade, the suspenseful narrative means necessary. Based on a true story, cocktail. “Rarely has grisly death been against their rules. Winner of the Jury provides profound insight into the day-to- Director Adrian Kwan fashions an packaged in such adorable wrapping.” Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, day lives of citizens caught up in a hell not enlightening, moving and culturally —Film School Rejects. (98 mins.) Lanthimos’ surreal romantic drama, with of their making and of which they want no complex chronicle of one woman’s from- its absurdist science fiction premise, part. (95 mins.) the-heart fight for social equity. PRECEEDED BY: Knife the Party, Brian offers a provocation on almost any subject (112 mins.) 2/13 4:00 | Moreland Theater Henderson, Joe Von Appen | US. Two down you choose. In English. (119 mins.) 2/16 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/15 12:45 PM | Whitsell Auditorium on their luck party DJs book one killer gig. (8 mins.) 2/13 6:00 | Cinema 21 2/23 5:45 PM | OMSI

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Magallanes Man vs. Snake Marguerite Marshland

SALVADOR DEL SOLAR | PERU/ ANDREW SEKLIR, TIM KINZY | US/ XAVIER GIANNOLI | FRANCE ALBERTO RODRÍGUEZ | SPAIN ARGENTINA CANADA/ITALY/JAPAN “Imagine a collaboration between Vladimir Winner of ten Goya Awards, including best In this engrossing thriller, Magallanes Nabokov and Billy Wilder and you will film, director, actor, and screenplay, have some idea of the riches provided by works as a psychologically scarred taxi In 1983, Tim McVey claimed the highest Marshland is a taut neo-noir set in 1980 this tragicomedy from writer-director driver in the streets of Lima. But he has score ever achieved on a classic video against the civil unrest in the wake of Xavier Giannoli and co-writer Marcia also has a side job chauffeuring a brutal game. The game in question was Nibbler, Francisco Franco’s death. Two teenage Romano. A 1920’s French would-be opera retired colonel whom he once served in the an obscure title that allows for marathon sisters have mysteriously disappeared and diva (Catherine Frot), of great wealth and army many years ago. One day, Celina sessions of 40+ hours. Now in his forties, detectives Pedro and Juan reluctantly zero singing talent, finds her intricate steps into Magallanes’ cab, and he and with his title bested by another head to repressed southern marshland fantasy of artistic accomplishment recognizes her as a former wartime captive player, Tim undertakes the challenge of town in Andalusia to investigate. Met with enabled by Madelbos (Denis Mpunga), a the Colonel viciously abused. Haunted and reconquering the mountain that is Nibbler. hostility by the community, the missing butler with his own aesthetic strivings. conflicted by his failure to act to help her “While MAN VS. SNAKE owes a certain girls are just the beginning of a dark Meanwhile, her long-suffering husband in the past, Magallanes vows redemption. thematic debt to THE KING OF KONG, it is labyrinth of discoveries which yield more (André Marcon) remains terrified of He digs up an old photo that could be its own film, one whose universal appeal dead bodies. Mirroring the political telling his wife the truth, and perhaps presented as evidence of the Colonel’s should go beyond the ranks of video-game tensions within Spanish society, the two most memorably, her financially needy crimes and begins to concoct a plot to lovers to anyone who understands that detectives find themselves increasingly at singing-coach, spouts his self-serving blackmail the old man’s son. (105 mins.) primal need for greatness.” –Matt Singer, odds but must work together in a race euphemism, ‘sublimity and the ridiculous Screen Crush. (92 mins.) against time to stop a serial killer from 2/13 6:15 | Fox Tower are never far apart,’ a phrase that distills striking again. (105 mins.) 2/15 9:00 | Moreland Theater Marguerite’s ironic, anguished wisdom.” PRECEEDED BY: Slow Creep, Jim Hickcox —Telluride Film Festival. (129 mins.) 2/19 8:30 | Cinema 21 | US. It’s movie night for a group of 2/22 6:00 | Whitsell Auditorium teenaged friends who, despite warnings 2/13 8:45 | Moreland Theater from a video store clerk, have rented a 2/18 5:45 | Fox Tower cursed VHS tape. (13 mins.) Sponsored by Alliance Française and TV5MONDE. 2/27 10:30 | Cinema 21

The Meddler Men & Chicken Mia Madre Miss Hokusai

LORENE SCAFARIA | US ANDERS THOMAS JENSEN | DENMARK NANNI MORETTI | ITALY KEIICHI HARA | JAPAN

“Striking a winning balance of insight, Moretti revisits themes of life, cinema, In 1814 Edo, an accomplished artist works heart, and laugh-out-loud hilarity, “The title might hint at where this brilliant family ties, and guilt through the eyes of tirelessly in his studio. His name is Scafaria’s film stars the magnificent Susan new black comedy from the outrageous Marghertita, a besieged middle-aged Katsushika Hokusai and decades later his Sarandon in one of her most richly mind of Anders Thomas Jensen is going to director. She (Margherita Buy) is shooting work will come to mesmerize prominent satisfying roles. The Meddler is about that head, but you won’t have seen anything a political film with a famous American Western artists. But few were aware of the force of nature known as the doting like it before. Starring Mads Mikkelsen actor (John Turturro) who is a pain on set woman who often painted for him while mother. For Marnie Minervini (Sarandon), (Hannibal) and breaking box office records and whose Italian is dismal. Wracked with remaining un-credited. Based on the manga motherhood is not a familial duty. It’s a on its release in Denmark, Men & Chicken artistic insecurities, her personal life is Sarusuberi by Hinako Sugiura, Miss vocation. A compulsive advice-giver, is about two hapless man-fail brothers who equally challenged by her mother’s Hokusai is the untold and beautifully ceaselessly cheerful Marnie cannot stop head to a dilapidated mansion on a remote worsening illness and her daughter’s animated story of O-Ei, aka Katsushika Oi, a texting, calling, and showing up island to meet their biological father —and continuing adolescence. A witty semi- free-spirited woman overshadowed by her unannounced at the home of her daughter, their three seriously eccentric siblings. . .A biographical blend of comedy and pathos, larger-than-life father—her own art is so Lori (Rose Byrne). Desperate to gain some riotously transgressive satire on family and Mia Madre revels equally in the comic, powerful that it leads to trouble. (93 mins.) control over her life following a messy eugenics that doubles as a surprisingly absurd, and tragic turns of art and life. 2/21 7:00 | Roseway Theater breakup, Lori attempts to draw boundaries, thoughtful meditation on what makes us Frequent collaborators Philip Glass and 2/24 8:30 | Cinema 21 but that only serves to unleash Marnie’s human.”—Toronto International Film Arvo Part provide the music. (106 mins.) mom-to-everyone meddling.”—Toronto Film Festival. (104 mins.) 2/14 7:00 | Cinema 21 Sponsored by LAIKA and the Consular Office of Japan in Festival. (100 mins.) Portland. 2/13 8:45 | Fox Tower Sponsored by Istituto Italiano di Cultura San Francisco. 2/19 6:00 | Cinema 21 2/20 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/24 6:00 | OMSI Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. Sponsored by Hotel Eastlund.

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My Golden Days Nahid Nawara No Home Movie

ARNAUD DESPLECHIN | FRANCE IDA PANAHANDEH | IRAN HALA KHALIL | EGYPT CHANTAL AKERMAN | BELGIUM/FRANCE An intoxicating ode to romance and Panahandeh depicts the near Nawara works as a housemaid for a family youthful coming-of-age, My Golden Days impossibility of finding security and closely linked to the Mubarak regime. On “At the center of Akerman’s enormous body is a prequel to Desplechin’s debut, My Sex happiness within Iran’s strictures of the eve of the 2011 revolution the family of work is her mother, a Holocaust survivor Life… Or How I Got into an Argument socially enforced respectability. Nahid, an decides, for safety, to leave the country who married and raised a family in Brussels. (1996). When Paul Dédalus returns to impoverished young divorcée, is allowed temporarily and ask her to look after the In recent years, the filmmaker has explicitly France after living in Tajikistan for several to live with her teenage son, but only on villa. Flush with cash for expenses, Nawara depicted, in videos, books, and installation years, he is detained at the airport and the condition that she does not remarry. calls her fiancé Mustafa and the two are works, her mother’s life and their own questioned by the police. It transpires Hoping to move in with the man she loves, soon enjoying a taste of life at the top. But intense connection to each other. No Home that a Russian with the same name died in Nahid considers an option called a travel ban and property seizure order are Movie is a portrait [of Akerman’s mother] in Australia. This news provokes a “temporary marriage,” a legality that soon issued against the owner and when the last years of her life. It is an extremely recollection of three memories from Paul’s allows short-term domiciles and perhaps the police arrive they confiscate Nawara’s intimate film but also one of great formal youth—his childhood with his eccentric won’t jeopardize her custody. But is this money because she can’t prove it belongs precision and beauty, one of the rare works mother who died young and his apathetic legal loophole a salvation or a curse? to her. She and Mustafa are left with of art that is both personal and universal, father; an eventful school trip to Russia Starring A Separation’s Sareh Bayat, nothing. “Brims over with uncomfortable and as much a masterpiece as her career- with a secret; and, most passionately, his Nahid weighs the rewards of domestic truths and irony, boldly questioning the defining Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du first love, Esther—all of which resonate security against the sacrifices of personal outcome of the revolution.”—The Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.”—New York Film with the present. (123 mins.) freedoms. Winner, Un Certain Regard Prix Hollywood Reporter. (122 mins.) Festival. (115 mins.) de l’Avenir (debut film) at the Cannes Film 2/25 5:45 | Cinema 21 Festival. (105 mins.) 2/14 1:00 | Moreland Theater 2/14 4:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/27 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/24 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/16 5:45 | World Trade Center 2/18 6:00 | Moreland Theater Sponsored by TV5MONDE. 2/24 6:00 | Roseway Theater

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Office One Floor Below Open Your Eyes The Other Side

JOHNNIE TO | RADU MUNTEAN | ROMANIA IRENE TAYLOR BRODSKY | PORTLAND ROBERTO MINERVINI | HONG KONG/CHINA ITALY/FRANCE/US Muntean’s understated fable about A nimble takedown of corporate morality in the modern world centers on Living under the Himalayan sun, their “By turns tender and disturbing, corruption and greed, Office tells its story Sandu, a middle-aged businessman, eyes have slowly gone milky white. Minervini’s powerful docu-fiction hybrid as a witty musical extravaganza. father, and upright citizen who leads a Manisara and Durga have cataracts, and profiles people living on the fringes of Featuring superstars Chow Yun-Fat and normal life. Overhearing a neighbor their mountain home in Nepal has become society. While they essentially play Sylvia Chang, the story is set amidst the couple in an angry fight, he soon after a warren of darkness. Shot over three themselves, he clearly intervenes to initial public offering of a billion dollar encounters the man on the apartment days, Open Your Eyes follows their create situations rather than observe company in the wake of the global stairs. Then the woman is found dead. extraordinary journey down the mountain them. Following his superb Texas-based financial collapse of 2008. Poised to Sandu suspects the man must be for a chance to see again. (34 mins.) Stop the Pounding Heart [PIFF 38], make millions, the company’s executives involved, but unsure, says nothing to the Minervini moves to Louisiana, where we scramble to cover their scheming tracks police as he wrestles with the right course WITH come face-to-face with a group of people during an audit. Johnnie To, past master of action—if there is one. Meanwhile, the who seem to have stepped out of of breathtakingly inventive action man, wondering what Sandu is thinking Deliverance. Faces carry the lines and choreography, turns to dance and an and if he might implicate him, starts to 50 Feet from Syria scars of hard living, clothes are tattered, inventive set to create his lavish casually insinuate himself into Sandu’s living conditions are chaotic. Some are spectacle, “At once sharp and exceedingly family’s life, his constant presence SKYE FITZGERALD | PORTLAND addicts; others are libertarian fanatics. playful … a nimble political soft shoe with escalating a crisis of conscience and a Yet Minervini finds a compassion and filmmaking dazzle.”—Manohla Dargis, The tense game of speculation and For Dr. Hisham Bismar, a successful tenderness behind their gruff exteriors as New York Times. (120 mins.) checkmate. (93 mins.) hand surgeon in the United States, he peers into corners that many images of wounded Syrian refugees Americans choose to ignore.”—Toronto 2/20 8:30 | Roseway Theater 2/18 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium flowing across international borders Film Festival. In English. Adult. (92 mins.) 2/20 12:45 | Cinema 21 2/23 8:30 | OMSI compels action. Hisham’s journey serves as a portal into a tragic conflict and 2/12 8:30 | Moreland Theater Sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San remarkable people working to save lives 2/15 6:00 | Fox Tower Francisco. at great personal risk. (39 min.)

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The Pearl Button The Project of the Century Rams Right Now, Wrong Then

PATRICIO GUZMÁN | CHILE, FRANCE, CARLOS MACHADO QUINTELA | GRÍMUR HÁKONARSON | ICELAND HONG SANG-SOO | SOUTH KOREA SPAIN CUBA Funny, moving and stunningly shot, Rams Film director Ham arrives in Suwon a day A poetic meditation on the history of The Electro-Nuclear City was once part was awarded the top prize of Un Certain early for a screening and speaking brutal colonization and devastation of an ambitious Soviet/Cuban venture to Regard at this year’s Cannes Film engagement. Roaming about, he meets a throughout Chile’s history, Guzmán build the first nuclear power station the Festival. In a secluded valley, brothers much younger artist named Yoon and they elegantly builds an argument for the Caribbean. But the fall of the Soviet Gummi and Kiddi live side by side, tending spend the day together in conversation, importance of preserving memory when Union brought the project to a halt, to their sheep. Their ancestral stock is winding up at a café where things turn all culture is lost. Devastated by foreign leaving dismal blocks of worker’s considered one of the country’s best. But awkward. Hong then rewinds the story, conquest, indigenous culture has little apartments in the shadow of reminding although they share the land and a way of telling it again with subtle differences and left than cherished memory. That enormous dome towers. Drifting life, the two have not spoken to each a different outcome, playfully playing with genocide is contrasted by the more effortlessly between raw psychological other in over 40 years. Their world is the alluring possibility of love going down recent tragedy of Pinochet dictatorship, realism and dreamy surrealism and upended, however, when the valley comes two different paths, one bitter, one sweet. when thousands of political prisoners loaded with unique Cuban archive under threat from infection. While others Winner of the Golden Leopard at the were murdered or disappeared, many of footage, Quintela portrays three abandon their land, Gummi and Kiddi Locarno Film Festival, Hong’s meditation whose bodies were dumped into the sea. generations of Cubans left to carry don’t give up so easily, and each brother on male behavior, social graces, and the Using water and Chile’s 2,670 miles of on waiting for “the project of the tries to stave off disaster in his own complexity of communication provides coastline as the entry point to pull century.” (100 mins.) fashion. As the authorities close in, the compelling viewing. (121 mins.) brothers will need to come together to diverse experience and ideas together, 2/18 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Guzmán finds the memory and voice that 2/17 8:30 | Moreland Theater save the special breed passed down for 2/21 4:15 | Cinema 21 bind a culture. (82 mins.) Age 15+ 2/21 4:15 | Fox Tower generations—and themselves—from extinction. (93 min.) 2/13 8:45 | World Trade Center 2/20 6:00 | World Trade Center 2/13 4:00 | Fox Tower 2/17 6:00 | Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Nathan Cogan, and The Holocaust and Genocide Studies Project at Portland State University. Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation.

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Road to La Paz Robert Bly: A Thousand Schneider vs. Bax Sivas

FRANCISCO VARONE | ARGENTINA Years of Joy ALEX VAN WARMERDAM | KAAN MÜJDECI | TURKEY NETHERLANDS Varone’s warm and funny South American HAYDN REISS | US Sivas is set in remote, eastern Anatolia, road trip opens up a world of The twists and turns surprise in this where Aslan, a troubled 11-year-old boy, understanding between two strangers. Poet Robert Bly stands out even among the unsparing, deadpan, black comedy. rescues and adopts a shepherd dog who Unemployed and adrift, Sebas decides to celebrated, revolutionary generation of Schneider, a contract killer, gets a phone has been injured and left to die after a become a private driver almost on a whim. American artists who burst forth in the call from Mertens who has a rush job for vicious, illegal dog fight. Sivas is at first When an elderly client, Jalil, offers him a 1950s, and Haydn Reiss charts his singular Schneider. The killer refuses to take it; it’s just an impressive weapon in Aslan’s fight large sum to drive him to La Paz, Sebas path from second son to taciturn father on his birthday and he has promised his wife for the affection of his classmate Ayşe, can’t refuse and the two set off on an epic a wintry Minnesota farm to radical anti- to help with the celebratory dinner. but the potential for the animal to return 2,000 mile, life-changing journey. Jalil is Vietnam War activist to wild man of the Mertens stresses that it is important and to a more brutal and cruelly competitive a devout Muslim, something that initially 1990s men’s movement. The bespectacled, needs to be done that day. “It’s Ramon world is always simmering below the makes Sebas very uncomfortable, but white-haired Bly is every inch the Bax, a writer over sixty. He lives on his surface. Müjdeci doesn’t try to make a little by little life on the road brings the politically and spiritually engaged mystic, own on a lake. He’s got no neighbors. It’s comment about the macho culture of two men closer together. (92 mins.) seeking each moment’s fervid heart as well an easy job, you’ll be back before fighting dogs, but instead paints a portrait as the eternal, intuitive bedrock beneath lunchtime.” Reluctantly, Schneider of a boy trying to make his way into 2/14 7:00 | Fox Tower our cultivated ideologies and “personas.” A agrees, but the easy job turns out to have manhood despite societal constraints and 2/21 1:30 | Cinema 21 confounding whirling dervish, Bly’s life its complications...(96 mins.) the harsh Anatolian landscape. (97 mins.) embodies the quest for personal honesty and shared truth. (81 mins.) 2/19 8:30 | World Trade Center 2/24 8:30 | OMSI 2/22 8:30 | Cinema 21 2/26 6:00 | Fox Tower 2/13 4:00 | World Trade Center 2/14 4:00 | World Trade Center

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The Sky Trembles and the Sleeping Giant Songs from the North Sonita

Earth is Afraid and the ANDREW CIVIDINO | CANADA SOON-MI YOO | ROKHSAREH GHAEM MAGHAMI | IRAN/ Two Eyes are not Brothers SOUTH KOREA/US GERMANY/SWITZERLAND Teenager Adam is spending his summer vacation with his parents on rugged Lake An intimate essay, Songs from the North BEN RIVERS | If 18-year old Sonita had a say in things, Superior. His dull routine is shattered provides a deep look at the enigma of Michael Jackson would be her father and UK/MOROCCO when he befriends Riley and Nate, smart North Korea. Bypassing and decoding the Rihanna her mother, and she captures aleck cousins who pass their ample free country’s jingoistic propaganda, as well her dream of being a famous rapper in “A labyrinthine and epic film that moves time with wit, debauchery, and as derisive satire from the West, Soon-Mi her scrapbook. For the time being, her between documentary, fantasy, and fable, recklessness. The revelation of a hurtful Yoo interweaves footage from three visits only fans are the other teenage girls in a shot against the staggering beauty of the secret triggers Adam to set in motion a to North Korea with songs, spectacle, Tehran shelter. There, Sonita, a refugee Moroccan landscape, from the rugged series of irreversible events that will popular cinema, and archival footage to from Afghanistan, gets counseling for the terrain of the Atlas Mountains to the stark change the boys forever. Cividino understand, on their own terms, the traumas she has suffered and receives and surreal emptiness of the Moroccan conjures a vivid and emotionally rich psychology and popular imagery of the guidance in shaping her future. Despite Sahara, with its encroaching sands and universe filled with equal measures of North Korean people and the political Sonita’s dreams of fame, her family has a abandoned film sets. Rivers’ work euphoria and pain as his young ideology of absolute love. “Rare and very different future planned for her: as a contains multiple narratives, the major protagonists grapple with friendship, extraordinary… profoundly strange, bride she’s worth $9,000. What’s more, strand being an adaptation of ‘A Distant betrayal, masculinity, perceptions of love immediate, and real.”–The Village Voice. women aren’t allowed to sing in Iran. How Episode,’ the savage short story by Paul and sexuality, and death. Best Canadian Best First Feature at both the Locarno can Sonita still succeed in making her Bowles. The film also features the First Feature Film, Toronto International International Film Festival and Bueos dreams come true? (90 mins.) enigmatic young film director Oliver Laxe, Film Festival. (89 mins.) Aires International Film Festival. (75 whose on-screen presence becomes mins.) 2/12 6:15 | Moreland Theater 2/14 1:00 | World Trade Center interwoven with the multiple narratives 2/15 3:30 | World Trade Center that co-exist amid the various settings of 2/16 6:15 | Cinema 21 2/15 6:15 | World Trade Center Rivers’ cinematic exploration.”—New York 2/19 6:30 | World Trade Center Film Festival. (100 mins.)

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Sunset Song Sworn Virgin The Thin Yellow Line The Throne

TERENCE DAVIES | UK LAURA BISPURI | ALBANIA/GERMANY CELSO GARCÍA | MEXICO LEE JOON-IK | SOUTH KOREA ITALY/KOSOVO/SWITZERLAND “Davies exquisite treatment of Lewis Winner of the Audience Award at the “There are kings who have killed their Grassic Gibbon’s 1932 novel gives him a Guadalajara International Film Festival, own brothers and nephews to preserve broad canvas of rain-lashed farmland on A memorable telling of a fascinating and The Thin Yellow Line is the buddy-comedy the dynasty.” These words are spoken by which to apply his knack for literary little-known Albanian custom, Sworn story of five financially strapped men the 16th-century Korean monarch adaptation. It’s the early 20th-century in Virgin features a remarkable performance hired to paint the center stripe of a lonely Yeongjo, unaware of the grave irony that rural Scotland and Chris Guthrie is a by Alba Rohrwacher as a woman who lives rural road that connects two villages. he will one day have his own son put to young woman with plans. Excelling at her her life as a man. While still a girl, Hana While the crew makes their own fun in the death in The Throne, an outstandingly schooling and in possession of a decides to escape fate as a wife and middle of nowhere, their foreman (Damián crafted period drama that recounts a burgeoning independent streak, she servant in the mountains. She takes an Alcázar) promises to impart the reward of famous historical outrage with a sense of seems destined for a job in teaching. But oath of eternal virginity, which gives a hard day’s work. “As in the best road empathy as potent and measured as its as the constellation of her family shifts women the chance to pick up a rifle and movies, the journey of the workers anger. Led by a towering performance around her and romance comes calling, live free as a man. For everybody in the changes their way of seeing and from Song Kang-ho, but well cast down to Chris grows into womanhood just as the village Hana becomes Mark, a ‘sworn understanding life. For them and us, the the last courtier and concubine, this is a First World War begins to devastate a virgin’. But as years of solitude pass, Mark line they paint comes to symbolize the gripping return to Joseon-dynasty generation. A true Scottish epic, Sunset begins to question his choice and sets out thin line between right and wrong, intrigue . . .stranding two men on opposite Song laments the devastation of war and on a journey of discovery, exchanging laughter and tears, and life and death.” sides of an emotional and ideological pays fine tribute to the endurance of the Albania for Italy, past for present, —Variety. (95 mins.) divide that will ultimately exact land.”—London Film Festival. (135 mins.) payment in blood.”—Variety. (125 mins.) masculine for feminine. New Director Prize, 2/20 8:30 | World Trade Center 2/13 8:45 | Cinema 21 San Francisco International Film Festival. 2/21 7:00 | Fox Tower 2/14 4:00 | Fox Tower In Albanian and Italian with English 2/15 6:00 | Moreland Theater 2/23 8:30 | Cinema 21 2/19 5:45 | Whitsell Auditorium subtitles. (90 mins.)

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Thru You Princess Viva A War The Wave

Presenting Princess Shaw PADDY BREATHNACH | IRELAND TOBIAS LINDHOLM | DENMARK ROAR UTHAUG | NORWAY

IDO HAAR | ISRAEL Jesus does hair and make up for the drag Examining the moral complexities of split– Kristian, an experienced geologist, has queens at a bar in Havana. Wanting to be a second decision-making, Lindholm’s film accepted a job offer that will require The Israeli musician and artist Kutiman performer himself, he finally gets his follows Danish commander Claus moving from the town of Geiranger. While rose to fame with his “Thru You” project, chance on stage, but only to be greeted by Pedersen as he does his best to keep his getting his family ready to go, he and his which mashes up samples from You Tube a punch in the face from a stranger. It’s his troops safe and morale high on their colleagues record small movements in the clips featuring amateur musicians. father, Angel, a former boxer, who has been deployment in Afghanistan. During a earth that indicate that disaster is Samantha, a nurse in New Orleans, absent from his life for 15 years. Furious routine mission, the soldiers come under imminent. With less than ten minutes to uploads her songs and candid video about his son’s sexuality, Angel forbids heavy fire, and Pederson must make an react, it becomes a race against time in diaries, hoping for an audience. Director Jesus from performing. Unwillingly giving impossible decision to save his men, one order to save as many people as possible, Ido Haar documents her attempt to make up his dream to reconnect with his father, that will bring grave consequences. including his own family. Uthaug’s it in the music scene in her hometown and the two clash over their opposing “Retaining the structural simplicity and gripping tsunami-peril thriller will mixes these scenes with footage of expectations of one other as they struggle procedural meticulousness of Lindholm’s resonate with anyone who has Kutiman at home on a kibbutz, watching to become family again. “Confidently superb thriller A Hijacking [PIFF 36], A contemplated the inevitability of shifting Samantha online, singing her a cappella mixing melodrama, fairy tale, and gritty War doesn’t seek to break new ground in plates beneath us. (104 mins.) vocals and sampling them in a video. realism. . .[an] ingenious and hugely the ongoing cinematic investigation of the 2/12 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Samantha couldn’t possibly imagine that entertaining crowd-pleaser.”—Telluride Afghanistan conflict; rather, it scrutinizes halfway around the world, there’s Film Festival. In Spanish with English the ground on which it stands with 2/16 8:30 | World Trade Center someone who is about to expand her subtitles. (100 mins.) consummate sensitivity and detail.” Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. audience to numbers beyond her wildest –Variety. (115 mins.) dreams. (80 mins.) 2/15 6:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/20 8:30 | OMSI 2/25 5:45 | Roseway Theater 2/20 3:30 | Fox Tower 2/27 8:30 | Fox Tower 2/21 4:30 | Roseway Theater

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We Are Strong NITZAN GILADY | ISRAEL BO MIKKELSEN | DENMARK ASIER ALTUNA IZA | SPAIN

BURHAN QURBANI | GERMANY Winner of the Best Israeli Debut Feature Idyllic suburban life is shattered when A film about the passing of Basque rural and Best Actress (Assi Levi) at the news spreads of a viral infection at a culture, When A Tree Falls lyrically The gripping true story of one night in Jerusalem Film Festival, Wedding Doll is neighboring rest home. Soon enough, the explores spirit of place, ancestry and the August 1992 in the East German town of set in a small town in southern Israel’s military rolls in, placing the entire town inevitability of change. Gaizka is the Rostock, when a racist mob, watched by Negev desert. Hagit, a young woman with a under quarantine. As the virus spreads, eldest son in the family, but refuses to around 3,000 onlookers, attacked an mild mental disability, works in a toilet the strictures of quiet family life begin to take over the caserio—the farm that has apartment building containing over 100 paper factory and lives with her mother, break down under the pressures of been with the family for generations. His Vietnamese men, women, and children. Sarah, a divorcée who has given up her life impending danger. Mikkelsen’s debut is a sister Amaia is the one who must deal This so-called “Night of the Fire” became for her daughter. Hagit is obsessed with tense and clever take on the zombie genre with the protest from their stubborn, old- synonymous with German xenophobia in romantic fantasies and spends her and far more compelling than any season fashioned father. He insists that the farm the newly united country and highlighted evenings making bridal gowns from paper of The Walking Dead. “It’s the kind of represents a way of life and values that the inherent political failings of local she gets at the factory. Hungering for a life noirish horror that is rapidly becoming must be upheld. Amaia finds herself torn government. Told from the point of view of on her own, when Hagit embarks on her extinct.”—Peter Martin, Twitch Film. between tradition and her life in the three very different characters—a first romantic relationship she tries to keep (85 mins.) modern world, but she cannot leave her Vietnamese woman, a young rioting it a secret from her mother. (82 mins.) old parents and grandmother to take care German, and the boy’s father, a politican PRECEEDED BY: Invaders, Jason Kupfer | the farm by themselves. (103 mins.) 2/20 6:00 | OMSI trapped in a dilemma—We Are Young is a US. A home invasion attempt goes 2/15 3:30 | Moreland Theater compelling and astute study of disaffected 2/22 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium horribly and hilariously awry. (7 mins.) youth and civic disgrace. (127 mins.) 2/23 6:00 | Roseway Theater 2/21 10:00 | Cinema 21 2/24 5:45 | Cinema 21 Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, Accíon Cultura 2/25 8:30 | Roseway Theater Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. Española (AC/E), and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

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2/13 1:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/16 6:15 | Fox Tower Total running time: 80 mins.

My Home August Ave Maria Two Dosas

PHUONG MAI NGUYEN | FRANCE TOMEK ŚLESICKI | POLAND BASIL KHALIL | PALESTINE SARMAD MASUD | UK

A poignant animated film about a boy who A film about first love and the things we The silent routine of five nuns living in the A date in an Indian restaurant goes struggles to come to terms with someone— do for it. (13 mins.) West Bank wilderness is disturbed when off menu. (16 mins.) or something—new living in his house. an Israeli settler family breaks down right (12 mins.) outside the convent just as the Sabbath comes into effect. (15 mins.) Contrapelo Carface GARETH DUNNET-ALCOCER | CLAUDE CLOUTIER | CANADA US/MEXICO

Is this the future? (4 mins., animation) A proud Mexican barber is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. By the end of the shave, he will find out that he and the Capo are not so different. (19 mins.) Car Face Two Dosas

SC Short Cuts II: Animated Worlds

2/14 1:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/15 3:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Total running time: 105 mins.

LAIKA’s Mark Shapiro attends animation events from Annecy to Zagreb. Here is a hand-picked collection of beautiful works—witty to heartbreaking— evoking sparkling creativity and the soul and personality of their makers.

My Dad My Dad The Ballad of Holland

MARCUS ARMITAGE | UK Island House

Inherited opinions. Inherited isolation. LYNN TOMLINSON | US A father’s influence on his young son’s life tears away at a world of opportunity and Made with an innovative clay-painting Cyclopèdes experience. (6 mins.) technique, Tomlinson tells the true story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay. (5 mins.) Cyclopèdes Road Trip Butter Ya’Self MATHIEU EPINEY | SWITZERLAND XAVER XYLOPHON | GERMANY JULIAN PETSCHEK | US Two Friends

With its subtitles and pianola music, A hand-drawn film about failure, insomnia, A banana and a hot dog bun are famous. NATALIA CHERNYSHEVA | FRANCE Cyclopèdes references the aesthetic of a red motorbike, pretty bargirls, the (3 mins) early films and shows how a bicycle race desolateness of Berlin (even in summer), Even the best of friends can have trouble might have looked at the time. (5 mins.) and waterproof socks. (20 mins.) understanding each other when they are from two different worlds. (4 mins.) World of Tomorrow The Five Minute Museum Guida DON HERTZFELDT | US Luminaris PAUL BUSH | UK/SWITZERLAND ROSANA URBES | BRAZIL A little girl is taken on a mind-bending tour of her distant future. (16 mins.) JUAN PABLO ZARAMELLA | ARGENTINA A romp through museums in which the Guida sees a newspaper ad about life objects on display come to life and reveal drawing classes and finds inspiration and The fantastical story of a man who works the stories of their creation. (7 mins.) transformation (13 mins.) in a factory making light bulbs but yearns Never Steady, Never Still for something more. (6 mins.)

KATHLEEN HEPBURN | CANADA

Overwhelmed by his past mistakes, a young man retreats to his isolated hometown and finds he is not alone in his struggle. (19 mins.)

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2/18 8:30 | Moreland Theater 2/21 7:00 | OMSI Total running time: 86 mins. Sanjay’s Super Team Overpass Day One Never Steady, Never Still

SANJAY PATEL | US PATRICE LALIBERTÉ | CANADA HENRY HUGHES | US KATHLEEN HEPBURN | CANADA

Will Sanjay leave his comics and cartoons Police chase Mathieu after he scrawls On her first day in Afghanistan, an Overwhelmed by his past mistakes, a behind and take the world a little more graffiti on an overpass, but the teenager’s interpreter for the US Army is forced young man retreats to his isolated seriously? (7 mins., animated) midnight marauding has a purpose that to deliver the child of an enemy bomb- hometown and finds he is not alone in his only he understands. (19 mins.) maker. (25 mins.) struggle. (19 mins.) Balmoral Hotel Prologue Day One WAYNE WAPEEMUKWA | CANADA RICHARD WILLIAMS | UK The life story of a First Nations sex worker is conveyed via a ragged daytime In the Spartan-Athenian wars 2,400 years dance through Vancouver’s Downtown ago, a small girl bears witness as warriors Eastside. (10 mins.) battle to death. (6 mins.) Balmoral Hotel

SC Short Cuts IV: International Ties

2/19 6:00 | Roseway Theater 2/26 6:00 | OMSI Total running time: 85 mins.

We Can’t Live Without The Atom Station Maman(s) Over

Cosmos NICK JORDAN | UK MAÏMOUNA DOUCOURÉ | FRANCE JÖRN THRELFALL | UK

KONSTANTIN BRONZIT | RUSSIA Iceland’s dramatic and volatile The family of eight-year-old Aida is A dead body has appeared in a suburban landscape—natural and manmade— thrown into chaos when her father street, and in reverse order, we learn how Two cosmonauts, two friends, try to do through the eyes of poet W. H. Auden and returns from Senegal with young Rama, it got there. (14 mins.) their best in their everyday training life to environmental activist Ómar Ragnarsson. whom he introduces as his second wife. make their common dream a reality, but (13 mins.) (21 mins.) this animated story is not only about the dream. (15 mins., animated) Dissonance The Loneliest Stoplight TILL NOWAK | GERMANY

BILL PLYMPTON | US A psychotic street musician has to leave his mental world to deal with the real one. The life and times of a neglected (15 mins.) Dissonance The Atom Station stoplight. (6 mins., animated)

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2/20 1:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/22 6:00 | Roseway Theater Total running time: 88 mins. One Week

ROLLYN STAFFORD | PORTLAND

A young woman devises a plan to free herself from her deceptively pleasant living situation. (5 mins.) Dude in the Headlights Le Tram Num Nums

Peace in the Valley Sista in the Brotherhood Num Nums Waking the Green Sound:

DONAL MOSHER, MICHAEL PALMIERI | DAWN JONES REDSTONE | PORTLAND SEAN AND MICHAEL FARRIS | A Dance Film for Trees PORTLAND SILVERTON Laneice’s first day at a male-dominated YULIA ARAKELYAN, ERIK FERGUSON | In Eureka Springs, Arkansas the vote on job site is met with harassment and Ralpete has trouble waking up from a PORTLAND LGBT civil rights meets the town’s contempt as she fights to prove herself. nightmare world filled with “handmade” religious tourism boosters. (15 mins.) (20 mins.) stop-motion creatures and tasty candies. The performance art troupe Wobbly (5 mins.) transforms their bodies and spirits as they move through fantastical and dreamlike landscapes. (15 mins.)

Hers Is Where Yours Le Tram Presented by Oregon Cultural Trust. Dude in the Headlights Begins HOWARD MITCHELL | PORTLAND TIM WADE | SALEM JANET MCINTYRE | PORTLAND Jazz-like rhythms and foggy notions as a salesman contemplates his surroundings Animals are humans too, so be careful out Memory and emotion swell as the director and existence. (19 mins.) on the road. (2 mins.) revisits the death of her mother when she was a teenager. (5 mins.)

SC Short Cuts VI: International Ties 2/21 1:00 | Whitsell Auditorium 2/25 8:30 | Cinema 21 Total running time: 85 mins. Interview with a Free Man How I Didn’t Become a

NICOLAS LÉVESQUE | CANADA Piano Player

Three men are interviewed for a job that TOMMASO PITTA | UK might offer them a new start in life, and as the questions grow more pointed, their Nine-year-old Ted can’t find anything Interview with a Free Man Bear Story answers become increasingly revealing. he’s really good at until his father comes (9 mins.) home with an old piano. Suddenly it’s clear: he’ll become the next Mozart. Bear Story Love in the Time of March (18 mins.) GABRIEL OSORIO | CHILE Madness Discipline MELISSA JOHNSON, ROBERTINO An old, melancholy bear tells his life CHRISTOPHE M. SABER | SWITZERLAND Ramona story through a mechanical diorama. ZAMBRANO | AUSTRALIA (11 mins., animated) In a moment of anger in a grocery store, ANDREI CRETULESCU | ROMANIA The awkward misadventures of a 6’4’’ tall a father loses patience and disciplines his woman who is a star on the basketball court disobedient child. As shocked customers One girl. One car. One night. but struggles to find true love. (9 mins.) intervene, the discussion gradually gets No coincidence. (25 mins.) out of hand. (11 mins.)

17 SC Short Cuts VII: Space Time Being 2/23 8:30 | Whitsell Auditorium Total running time: 94 mins.

Parallel universes, bi-location, autohypnosis, alternate dimensions, and past lives: this program of new experimental films, programmed and introduced by Cinema Project, follows the idea that mental movement between imagined, physical, or psychological spaces is also at the core of the cinematic experience.

Cinema Concret Bunte Kuh

MAKINO TAKASHI | JAPAN RYAN FERKO, PARASTOO ANOUSHAHPOUR, FARAZ Inspired by the techniques of musique ANOUSHAHPOUR | CANADA/GERMANY concrète, Takashi forms abstract images made from concrete ones visualized as a Through a flood of images and Cinema Concret Deep Sleep shimmering portal of gradually changing impressions, and weaving together the colors. (25 mins.) temporal realities of two separate vacations, a narrator attempts to recall a Towards the Possible Film Deep Sleep family holiday. (6 mins.)

SHEZAD DAWOOD | MOROCCO/UK BASMA ALSHARIF | GREECE/MALTA/ Mad Ladders PALESTINIAN TERRITORY A study in parallel universes set as a hazy MICHAEL ROBINSON | US A Distant Episode golden dream in which blue-skinned A hypnosis-inducing, pan-geographic astronauts emerge from the ocean waves shuttle built on brainwave-generating Heavily processed video footage from BEN RIVERS | UK on the beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. binaural beats that take us on a journey 1980s and early 1990s awards (20 mins.) through the sound waves of Gaza to ceremonies are blended beneath the A meditation on the illusion of filmmaking, travel between different sights of prophetic ramblings of an unseen shot behind-the-scenes on a film being modern ruin. (13 mins.) narrator. (10 mins.) made on the otherworldly beaches of Sidi Ifni, Morocco. (18 mins.)

SC Short Cuts VIII: International Ties 2/24 8:30 | Roseway Theater 2/27 12:45 | Whitsell Auditorium Total running time: 82 mins. Pa I Thought I Told You to

KAPITOLINA TSEVETKOVA-PLOTNIKOVA Shut Up!! | RUSSIA/UK CHARLIE TYRELL | US Everyone is unique and has their natural talent. Sometimes it really has to be In 1977, David Boswell created the comic discovered, because it needs you... book anti-hero Reid Fleming, the World’s Nina Shok Or she. (6 mins., animated) Toughest Milkman. More than 30 years later, the planned big screen Hollywood adaptation remains in contractual limbo. Shok (13 mins.) Nina JAMIE DONOUGHUE | US Loop Ring Chop Drink HALIMA ELKHATABI | CANADA The friendship of two boys is tested to its NICOLAS MÉNARD | UK Sixteen-year-old Nina, lacking the ability Waves ‘98 limits as they battle for survival during to grasp the implications of her actions, the Kosovo war. (21 mins.) The mundane story of a heartbroken man, ELY DAGHER | LEBANON tries to escape the demands of teen an online gambling addict, an alcoholic motherhood. (15 mins.) kleptomaniac, and an anxious loner living Disillusioned with his life in the suburbs in the same apartment building. of segregated Beirut, Omar’s discovery (10 mins., animated) lures him into the depth of the city and a world so close yet so isolated from his reality. (15 mins.)

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ALBANIA ETHIOPIA ITALY MARSHLAND Alberto Rodríguez...... 10 LAMB Yared Zeleke...... 8 DON’T BE BAD Claudio Caligari...... 5 SWORN VIRGIN Laura Bispuri...... 13 WHEN A TREE FALLS Asier Altuna Iza...... 14 L’ATTESA Piero Messina...... 9 FINLAND ALGERIA MIA MADRE Nanni Moretti...... 10 SOUTH KOREA THE FENCER Klaus Härö...... 6 LET THEM COME Salem Brahimi...... 9 THE OTHER SIDE Roberto Minervini...... 11 RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN Hong Sang-Soo....12 SONGS FROM THE NORTH Soon-Mi Yoo...... 13 FRANCE JAPAN ARGENTINA THE THRONE Lee Joon-Ik...... 13 ADAMA Simon Rouby...... 3 100 YEN LOVE Masaharu Take...... 3 THE CLAN Pablo Trapero...... 4 APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD MAGALLANES Salvador del Solar...... 10 MISS HOKUSAI Keiichi Hara...... 10 SWITZERLAND Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci...... 3 ABOVE AND BELOW Nicolas Steiner...... 3 ROAD TO PAZ Francisco Varone...... 12 DHEEPAN Jacques Audiard...... 5 KYRGYZSTAN IRAQI ODYSSEY Samir...... 8 DISORDER Alice Winocour...... 5 AUSTRALIA HEAVENLY NOMADIC Mirlan Abdykalykov...... 7 EVOLUTION Lucile Hadžihalilović...... 6 THAILAND LAST CAB TO DARWIN Jeremy Sims...... 9 FATIMA Philippe Faucon...... 6 MEXICO CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR FRANCOFONIA Alexander Sokurov...... 7 600 MILES Gabriel Ripstein...... 3 Apichatpong Weerasethakul...... 4 BELGIUM IN THE SHADOW OF WOMEN Philippe Garrel....8 THE THIN YELLOW LINE Celso García...... 13 IRAQI ODYSSEY Samir...... 8 NO HOME MOVIE Chantal Akerman...... 11 MARGUERITE Xavier Giannoli...... 10 MY GOLDEN DAYS Arnaud Desplechin...... 11 NETHERLANDS TURKEY

BULGARIA EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO BASKIN Can Evrenol...... 4 THE JUDGMENT Stephan Komandorev...... 8 GERMANY Peter Greenaway...... 6 SIVAS Kaan Müjdeci...... 12 CANADA WE ARE YOUNG, WE ARE STRONG SCHNEIDER VS. BAX Alex van Warmerdam....12 UNITED KINGDOM THE FORBIDDEN ROOM Burhan Qurbani...... 14 EYE IN THE SKY Gavin Hood...... 6 Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson...... 7 NORWAY THE WAVE Roar Uthaug...... 14 THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID SLEEPING GIANT Andrew Cividino...... 13 GHANA Ben Rivers...... 13 COZ OV MONI 2: FOKN REVENGE King Luu...... 5 PALESTINE SUNSET SONG Terence Davies...... 13 CHILE GREECE THE IDOL Hany Abu-Assad...... 7 THE CLUB Pablo Larraín...... 4 UNITED STATES CHEVALIER Athina Rachel Tsangari...... 4 THE PEARL BUTTON Patricio Guzmán...... 12 PAKISTAN 50 FEET FROM SYRIA Skye Fitzgerald...... 11 HONG KONG DUKHTAR Afia Nathaniel...... 6 A GOOD AMERICAN Friedrich Moser...... 7 CHINA LITTLE BIG MASTER Adrian Kwan...... 9 COUNTING Jem Cohen...... 5 OFFICE Johnnie To...... 11 OFFICE Johnnie To...... 11 PERU DON’T BLINK: ROBERT FRANK Laura Israel...... 5

MAGALLANES Salvador Del Solar...... 9 DUKHTAR Afia Nathaniel...... 6

COLOMBIA HUNGARY FOR GRACE Kevin Pang, Mark Helenowski...6 EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT Ciro Guerra...... 6 LIZA THE FOX-FAIRY Károly Ujj Mészáros.....9 POLAND I SAW THE LIGHT Marc Abraham...... 7 LAND AND SHADE César Augusto Acevedo...9 BODY Malgorzata Szumowska...... 4 IN TRANSIT ICELAND DEMON Marcin Wrona...... 5 Albert Maysles, Lynn True, Nelson CUBA RAMS Grímur Hákonarson...... 12 THE PROJECT OF THE CENTURY Walker III, David Usui, Benjamin Wu.....8 PORTUGAL THE INVITATION Karen Kusama...... 8 Carlos Machado Quintela...... 12 INDIA COURT Chaitanya Tamhane...... 5 ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 1, THE RESTLESS ONE KING GEORGES Erika Frankel...... 8 CZECH REPUBLIC Miguel Gomes...... 3 LANDFILL HARMONIC Brad Allgood, Graham HOME CARE Slávek Horák...... 7 IRAN ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 2, THE DESOLATE ONE Townsley...... 9 NAHID Ida Panahandeh...... 11 Miguel Gomes...... 4 MAN VS. SNAKE Andrew Seklir, Tim Kinzy....10 DENMARK SONITA ARABIAN NIGHTS: VOLUME 3, THE ENCHANTED ONE THE MEDDLER Lorene Scafaria...... 10 A WAR Tobias Lindholm...... 14 Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami...... 13 Miguel Gomes...... 4 OPEN YOUR EYES Irene Taylor Brodsky...... 11 KLOWN FOREVER Mikkel Nørgaard...... 8 ROBERT BLY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY

MEN & CHICKEN Anders Thomas Jensen....10 IRELAND ROMANIA Haydn Reiss...... 12 Yorgos Lanthimos...... 9 WHAT WE BECOME Bo Mikkelsen...... 14 THE LOBSTER AFERIM! Radu Jude...... 3 VIVA Paddy Breathnach...... 14 ONE FLOOR BELOW Radu Muntean...... 11 VENEZUELA EGYPT SINGAPORE ISRAEL FROM AFAR Lorenzo Vigas...... 7 NAWARA Hala Khalil...... 11 7 LETTERS Various Directors...... 3 THRU YOU PRINCESS Ido Haar...... 14 WEDDING DOLL Nitzan Gilady...... 14 Film Index: Shorts

ARGENTINA FRANCE RUSSIA HERS IS WHERE YOURS BEGINS LUMINARIS Juan Pablo Zaramella...... 15 MAMAN(S) Maïmouna Doucouré...... 16 PA Kapitolina Tsevetkova-Plotnikova...... 18 Janet Mcintyre...... 17 MY HOME Phuong Mai Nguyen ...... 15 WE CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT COSMOS I THOUGHT I TOLD YOU TO SHUT UP!! AUSTRALIA TWO FRIENDS Natalia Chernysheva...... 15 Konstantin Bronzit...... 16 Charlie Tyrell...... 18 LOVE IN THE TIME OF MARCH MADNESS INVADERS Jason Kupfer...... 14 Melissa Johnson, Robertino GERMANY SWITZERLAND LE TRAM Howard Mitchell...... 17 Zambrano...... 17 DISSONANCE Till Nowak...... 16 DISCIPLINE Christophe M. Saber...... 17 THE LONELIEST STOPLIGHT Bill Plympton...... 16 ROAD TRIP Xaver Xylophon...... 15 CYCLOPÈDES Mathieu Epiney...... 15 MAD LADDERS Michael Robinson...... 18 BRAZIL KNIFE THE PARTY Brian Henderson, Joe Von GUIDA Rosana Urbes...... 15 GREECE UNITED KINGDOM Appen...... 9 DEEP SLEEP Basma Alsharif...... 18 THE ATOM STATION Nick Jordan...... 16 NUM NUMS Sean And Michael Farris...... 17 CANADA A DISTANT EPISODE Ben Rivers...... 18 BALMORAL HOTEL Wayne Wapeemukwa...... 16 ONE WEEK Rollyn Stafford...... 17 JAPAN THE FIVE MINUTE MUSEUM Paul Bush...... 15 PEACE IN THE VALLEY BUNTE KUH CINEMA CONCRET Makino Takashi...... 18 HOW I DIDN’T BECOME A PIANO PLAYER Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, Donal Mosher, Michael Palmieri...... 17 Tommaso Pitta...... 17 SANJAY’S SUPER TEAM Sanjay Patel...... 16 Faraz Anoushahpour...... 18 LEBANON LOOP RING CHOP DRINK Nicolas Ménard...... 18 CARFACE Claude Cloutier...... 15 WAVES ‘98 Ely Dagher...... 18 SHOK Jamie Donoughue...... 18 MY DAD Marcus Armitage...... 15 SISTA IN THE BROTHERHOOD THE CHICKENING OVER Jörn Threlfall...... 16 MOROCCO Dawn Jones Redstone...... 17 Nick DenBoer, Davy Force...... 4 PROLOGUE Richard Williams...... 16 INTERVIEW WITH A FREE MAN TOWARDS THE POSSIBLE FILM SLOW CREEP Jim Hickcox...... 10 Shezad Dawood...... 18 TWO DOSAS Sarmad Masud...... 15 WAKING THE GREEN SOUND: A DANCE FILM FOR Nicolas Lévesque...... 17 NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL TREES Yulia Arakelyan, Erik Ferguson..17 PALESTINE UNITED STATES Kathleen Hepburn...... 16 WORLD OF TOMORROW Don Hertzfeldt.....15, 5 AVE MARIA Basil Khalil...... 15 THE BALLAD OF HOLLAND ISLAND HOUSE NINA Halima Elkhatabi...... 18 Lynn Tomlinson...... 15 O Negative Stephen McCarthy...... 6 POLAND BUTTER YA’SELF Julian Petschek...... 15 OVERPASS Patrice Laliberté...... 16 AUGUST Tomek Ślesicki...... 15 CONTRAPELO Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer...... 15 DAY ONE Henry Hughes...... 16 CHILE ROMANIA DUDE IN THE HEADLIGHTS Tim Wade...... 17 BEAR STORY Gabriel Osorio...... 17 RAMONA Andrei Cretulescu...... 17

23 Schedule Monday 2/15 Saturday 2/20 Wednesday 2/24 Theater Key 12:00 C21 Iraqi Odyssey (Switzerland) 12:45 C21 Office (Hong Kong/China) 5:45 C21 We Are Young (Germany) WH - Whitsell Auditorium 12:45 FOX The Judgment (Bulgaria) 1:00 WH Shorts V (Oregon) 6:00 OMSI The Meddler (US) FOX - Regal Fox Tower 10 12:45 WH Little Big Master (Hong Kong) 1:15 FOX Heavenly Nomadic (Kyrgyzstan) 6:00 RW Nahid (Iran) C21 - Cinema 21 1:00 WTC In Transit (US) 3:15 RW Land and Shade (Colombia) 6:15 FOX Sworn Virgin (Albania/Italy) OMSI - Empirical Theater at OMSI 1:00 ML Liza the Fox-Fairy (Hungary) 3:30 WH The Sky Trembles (UK/Morocco) 8:30 WH Above and Below (Switzerland) RW - Roseway Theater 3:30 WH Shorts II (Various) 3:30 C21 Adama (France) 8:30 C21 Miss Hokusai (Japan) ML - Moreland Theater 3:30 C21 Dukhtar (Pakistan) 3:30 FOX Thru You Princess (Israel) 8:30 FOX Nawara (Egypt) WTC - World Trade Center Theater 3:30 FOX King Georges (US) 3:30 WTC Landfill Harmonic (US/Paraguay) 8:30 OMSI Sivas (Turkey) 3:30 WTC Sonita (Iran) 5:45 RW Last Cab to Darwin (Australia) 8:30 RW Shorts VIII (Various) 3:30 ML When a Tree Falls (Spain) 6:00 WH In the Shadow of Women (France) Thursday 2/11 6:00 WH Viva (Ireland) 6:00 C21 Arabian Nights, Volume 2 (Portugal) Thursday 2/25 6:00 C21 Disorder (France) 6:00 FOX The Idol (Palestine) 7:15 FOX The Fencer (Finland) 5:45 C21 My Golden Days (France) 6:00 FOX The Other Side (Italy/France/US) 6:00 OMSI The Wedding Doll (Israel) 7:30 WH The Fencer (Finland) 5:45 OMSI Dheepan (France) 6:00 ML Sunset Song (UK) 6:00 WTC The Pearl Button (Chile) 5:45 RW (Denmark) 6:15 WTC Songs from the North (S. Korea/US) 8:30 WH I Saw the Light (US) A War Friday 2/12 6:00 WH (Palestine) 8:30 WH Francofonia (France) 8:30 FOX Men & Chicken (Denmark) The Idol 6:15 FOX (France) 5:45 WH 100 Yen Love (Japan) 8:30 C21 Arabian Nights, Volume 1 (Portugal) 8:30 OMSI Viva (Ireland) Fatima 8:30 WH (US) 5:45 C21 Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) 8:30 FOX Chevalier (Greece) 8:30 WTC The Thin Yellow Line (Mexico) Counting 8:30 C21 (Various) 5:45 FOX Court (India) 8:30 WTC A Good American (US) 8:30 RW One Floor Below (Romania) Shorts VI 8:30 FOX (Italy) 6:15 ML Sleeping Giant (Canada) 9:00 ML Magallanes (Peru/Argentina) 8:45 C21 600 Miles (Mexico) L’Attesta 7:00 WTC Iraqi Odyssey (Switzerland) 11:00 C21 Coz of Moni 2 (Ghana) 8:30 OMSI 7 Letters (Singapore) 8:30 WH The Wave (Norway) Tuesday 2/16 8:30 RW We Are Young (Germany) 8:30 C21 Eye in the Sky (UK) Sunday 2/21 5:45 WTC No Home Movie (Belgium) 8:30 FOX The Judgment (Bulgaria) Friday 2/26 6:15 WH Body (Poland) 1:00 WH Shorts VI (Various) 8:30 ML The Other Side (Italy/France/US) 6:15 C21 Sleeping Giant (Canada) 1:30 C21 Road to La Paz (Argentina) 5:45 WH Dheepan (France) 10:30 C21 Baskin (Turkey) 6:15 FOX Shorts I (Various) 1:30 FOX Lamb (Ethiopia) 6:00 FOX Sivas (Turkey) 6:15 ML Fatima (France) 1:30 WTC Landfill Harmonic (US/Paraguay) 6:00 OMSI Shorts IV (Various) Saturday 2/13 8:30 WH Home Care (Czech Republic) 1:30 RW Home Care (Czech Republic/Slovakia) 8:30 WH Sworn Virgin (Albania/Italy) 1:00 WH Shorts I (Various) 8:30 C21 The Forbidden Room (Canada) 3:30 WH Open Your Eyes/50 Feet from Syria (US) 8:30 FOX Counting (US) 1:15 C21 Last Cab to Darwin (Australia) 8:30 FOX Let Them Come (Algeria) 4:15 C21 Right Now, Wrong Then (South Korea) 8:30 OMSI Land and Shade (Colombia) 1:15 FOX April and the Extraordinary World (Fr) 8:30 WTC The Wave (Norway) 4:15 FOX Project of the Century (Cuba) 10:30 C21 The Invitation (US) 1:15 WTC A Good American (US) 8:30 ML Court (India) 4:30 WTC King Georges (US) 1:30 ML Lamb (Ethiopia) 4:30 RW Thru You Princess (Israel) Saturday 2/27 3:45 C21 Body (Poland) 7:00 WH Robert Frank (US) Wednesday 2/17 12:30 FOX 7 Letters (Singapore) 4:00 WH For Grace (US) 7:00 C21 I Saw the Light (US) 12:45 WH Shorts VIII (Various) 4:00 FOX Rams (Iceland) 6:00 WH Rams (Iceland) 7:00 FOX The Thin Yellow Line (Mexico) 3:00 WH Counting (US) 4:00 WTC Robert Bly (US) 6:00 C21 From Afar (Venezuela) 7:00 OMSI Shorts III (Various) 3:15 FOX Dukhtar (Pakistan) 4:00 ML Let Them Come (Algeria) 6:00 FOX April and the Extraordinary World(Fr) 7:00 WTC In Transit (US) 5:45 WH My Golden Days (France) 6:00 C21 The Lobster (Ireland/Greece) 6:00 WTC For Grace (US) 7:00 RW Miss Hokusai (Japan) 6:00 FOX Land and Shade (Colombia) 6:15 WH Aferim! (Romania) 6:00 ML Francofonia (France) 10:00 C21 What We Become (Denmark) 8:30 WH The Clan (Argentina) 6:15 FOX Magallanes (Peru/Argentina) 8:30 WH The Sky Trembles (UK/Morocco) 8:30 FOX A War (Denmark) 6:15 ML Don’t Be Bad (Italy) 8:30 C21 Cemetery of Splendour (Thailand) Monday 2/22 10:30 C21 Man vs. Snake (US) 6:30 WTC Landfill Harmonic (US/Paraguay) 8:30 FOX Eye in the Sky (UK) 5:45 C21 Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (Portugal) 8:45 WH The Club (Chile) 8:30 WTC A Good American (US) Encore screenings and schedule changes at 6:00 WH Marshland (Spain) 8:30 ML The Project of the Century (Cuba) nwfilm.org. 8:45 C21 Sunset Song (UK) 6:00 RW Shorts V (Oregon) 8:45 FOX Men & Chicken (Denmark) 6:15 FOX In the Shadow of Women (France) *Ticket, pass and voucher information on p. 19. Thursday 2/18 8:45 WTC The Pearl Button (Chile) 7:00 OMSI Cemetery of Splendor (Thailand) 8:45 ML Marguerite (France) 5:45 WH Office (Hong Kong/China) 8:30 WH The Wedding Doll (Israel) 11:00 C21 Demon (Poland) 5:45 C21 100 Yen Love (Japan) 8:30 C21 Schneider vs. Bax (Netherlands) 5:45 FOX Marguerite (France) 8:30 FOX 600 Miles (Mexico) Sunday 2/14 6:00 ML Nahid (Iran) 8:30 RW Aferim! (Romania) 8:30 WH Right Now, Wrong Then (S. Korea) 1:00 WH Shorts II (Various) Tuesday 2/23 1:00 C21 Above and Below (Switzerland) 8:30 C21 Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Neth.) 1:00 FOX Adama (France) 8:30 FOX Disorder (France) 5:45 WH The Clan (Argentina) 1:00 WTC Sonita (Iran) 8:30 ML Shorts III (Various) 5:45 OMSI Little Big Master (Hong Kong) 1:00 ML Nawara (Egypt) 6:00 FOX The Judgement (Bulgaria) 6:00 C21 L’Attesta (Italy) 4:00 WH No Home Movie (Belgium) Friday 2/19 4:00 C21 Heavenly Nomadic (Kyrgyzstan) 6:00 RW When a Tree Falls (Spain) 4:00 FOX The Throne (South Korea) 5:45 WH The Throne (South Korea) 8:30 WH Shorts VII (Various) 4:00 WTC Robert Bly (US) 6:00 C21 The Meddler (US) 8:30 C21 The Thin Yellow Line (Mexico) 4:00 ML The Club (Chile) 6:00 FOX From Afar (Venezuela) 8:30 FOX Klown Forever (Denmark) 7:00 WH The Fencer (Finland) 6:00 RW Shorts IV (Various) 8:30 RW Chevalier (Greece) 7:00 C21 Mia Madre (Italy) 6:30 WTC Songs from the North (S. Korea/US) 8:30 OMSI One Floor Below (Romania) 7:00 FOX Road to La Paz (Argentina) 8:30 WH Klown Forever (Denmark) 7:00 WTC In Transit (US) 8:30 C21 Marshland (Spain) 7:00 ML Embrace of the Serpent (Colombia) 8:30 FOX Don’t Be Bad (Italy) 10:00 C21 Liza the Fox-Fairy (Hungary) 8:30 WTC Schneider vs. Bax (Netherlands) 8:30 RW The Forbidden Room (Canada) 11:00 C21 Evolution (France)