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CONTENTS PAGE line cost 65 cents. Popular movies included Annie Hall, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Good-Bye Girl, Saturday Our Sponsors ...... 4 Night Fever, and Star Wars. Meryl Streep made her film debut Media Support ...... 6 in Julia. And the first Cleveland International Film Festival Community Outreach ...... 6 Plan Your Visit...... 9 (CIFF) took place from April 13th through June 2nd at the After the Credits Roll ...... 14 Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. FilmForums...... 14 More than three decades have since passed and at the CIFF FilmSlam ...... 15 we continue to believe that we are the most fortunate non- MISSION Storytellers at CSU ...... 17 profit arts organization around. Since 2003 we have experi- Someone to Watch...... 18 enced enormous growth. Our attendance has increased by Roxanne T. Mueller Award ...... 20 The Cleveland 103% (from 35,173 at the 27th CIFF to 71,554 at the Knight Night in Akron ...... 22 International Film Evening at Shaker Square ...... 22 34th CIFF), our call-for-entry film submissions have increased Festival promotes Evening at the Capitol Theatre . . . 23 by 101% (from 857 to 1,723), and our memberships have Rick Whitbeck Evening increased by 151% (from 400 to 1,004). Much of our suc- artistically and at the Cedar Lee...... 23 cess can be attributed to our Board of Directors, volunteers, culturally significant Women of the World ...... 25 seasonal staff, full-time staff, sponsors, funders, and partners. film arts through Sidebars ...... 26 But most of all, our success can be attributed to you. Central and Eastern European education and So it is with an overwhelming sense of gratitude that we Film Competition ...... 30 exhibition to enrich Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up present the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival. Once the life of the Film Competition ...... 31 again about 150 feature films and 130 short subjects from Nesnadny + Schwartz 60 countries will be shown in a variety of sidebars and community. Documentary Film Competition . 32 programs. And for the first time ever, we will have the oppor- Opening Night...... 34 tunity to use all of Tower City Cinemas for our screenings. Closing Night ...... 35 In between films, we look forward to your participation in our The Fine Print ...... 36 VISION Films A-Z...... 37 Challenge Match. The goal for our annual campaign is Schedule ...... 71 $35,000. We know that, once again, you will help us reach— Films A-Z, continued...... 82 and even exceed—this goal. After all, it is your support and The Cleveland Shorts Award Winners/Jurors . . . 124 generosity that enable us to present the CIFF each year. International Film Shorts Programs ...... 125 We can’t wait to see you at the 35th CIFF. Be sure to Festival is a leader Board, Committees ...... 136 arrive early and often. And please check our website Staff...... 137 in helping the (www.clevelandfilm.org) for updates and links to the Film Very Special Thanks...... 137 world discover the Festival on Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and YouTube. Also, take Country List ...... 140 power of film arts Film Index ...... 142 a look at the three Program Guide cover images below. Ticket Information ...... 144 Whether you are a HERO, a LOVER, or a REBEL... we’re just to educate, entertain, Ticket Order Form ...... 145 thrilled to know that you will BE PART OF THE STORY. and celebrate the
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Driving Directions For maps, visit our web site The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival takes place at www.clevelandfilm.org/park Tower City Center in the heart of downtown Cleveland (230 West Huron Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44113). Free parking is offered WHEN AVAILABLE The Huron Road access ramp to to CIFF patrons in the Tower City Center Tower City Center self-parking is closed. Self-Parking Garage and Tower City Amphitheater Parking at River (off Canal SELF-PARKING CAN BE ACCESSED FROM CANAL ROAD Road). Patrons must have their parking (ACROSS FROM SHERWIN WILLIAMS). ticket validated at Tower City Cinemas. Valet Parking is also available at Tower Please allow at least 30 minutes of extra travel time. City Center. Visit www.towercitycenter.com for more information. You can generate your own directions by using this address: 737 Canal Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44113.
I-71 NORTHBOUND I-90 EASTBOUND I-71 North to I-90 East. Exit at ONTARIO ST. (Exit 171B). Take Exit at ONTARIO ST (Exit 171B). Take ONTARIO ST. North and move ONTARIO ST. North and move into far left lane. Left onto into far left lane. Left onto CARNEGIE AVE. At first light, turn left CARNEGIE AVE. At first light, turn left onto COMMERCIAL AVE. onto COMMERCIAL AVE. Take COMMERCIAL AVE. down hill to the Take COMMERCIAL AVE. down hill to the stop sign. Right on CANAL stop sign. Right on CANAL RD. Follow Canal Rd. to Tower City Center RD. Follow Canal Rd. to Tower City Center Parking Lot on right Parking Lot on right (across from Sherwin Williams). (across from Sherwin Williams). I-90 WESTBOUND/OHIO 2 (SHOREWAY) WESTBOUND I-77 NORTHBOUND I-90 West to Ohio 2 (Shoreway) West. Exit at W. 3RD ST. Left on I-77 North to E. 9TH ST., Exit 163C. Take ONTARIO ST. North and W. 3RD ST. Right onto SUPERIOR AVE. Follow Superior Avenue west move into far left lane. Left onto CARNEGIE AVE. At first light, turn towards Detroit-Superior Bridge. Veer right before the bridge and take left onto COMMERCIAL AVE. Take COMMERCIAL AVE. down hill to W. SUPERIOR HILL down the hill to the stop sign. Left on CANAL the stop sign. Right on CANAL RD. Follow Canal Rd. to Tower City RD. Follow Canal Rd. to Tower City Center Parking Lot entrance on Center Parking Lot on right (across from Sherwin Williams). left (across from Sherwin Williams).
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HARD ROCK CAFE Official Restaurant of the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Tower City Center Level M3 216.830.7625 www.hardrock.com/cleveland www.facebook.com/hardrockcafecleveland Sun - Thurs 11 AM -11 PM, Fri & Sat 11 AM -12 Midnight SEE THE SHOW OPEN LATE for Dinner, Drinks, and Desserts!!! Free Valet Parking Complimentary Valet Parking when you show your CIFF ticket stub (minimum purchase Low-price Lunch Menu required; expires April 3, 2011). Enjoy our New Lunch Menu with items starting at only Half-price Happy Hour $7.99. Stop in for Happy Hour at the Hard Rock for half-priced premium well drinks, draft beers, and select wines every weekday from 4 PM - 7 PM.
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Shop. Dine. Play. Stay. With over 75 specialty shops, great fine dining and casual eateries, and free wireless access, you can do it all in the heart of Cleveland on Public Square. Be sure to pick up Tower City Center coupons, directories, and more at Tower City Center Guest Services. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM PLAN YOUR VISIT 11
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House of Blues Sans Souci and the Brasserie 308 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114 Renaissance Cleveland Hotel 216.523.BLUE (2583) Accessible from Tower City Center Level M2 www.houseofblues.com/cleveland Located on the main and lobby levels of the hotel Tue-Thurs 11:30 AM -10 PM 216.696.5600 Fri 11:30 AM -11 PM Breakfast served 6:30 AM -11:30 AM daily Sat 4 PM -11 PM Lunch served 11:30 AM -2 PM daily Sunday and Monday hours may vary (please call) Dinner served 5:30 PM-10 PM daily Gospel Brunch available on select holidays and for private events Sans Souci has been voted “Best Restaurant in Cleveland” by Zagat Present any CIFF pass or ticket stub and receive 10% off of food, Surveys. Sans Souci features fine Mediterranean cuisine in an intimate non-alcoholic beverages, and Company Store purchases. Offer valid setting with impressive views of Public Square. March 24-April 3, 2011. Not valid with any other offers. Not valid Discover a classic bistro with a twist. The Brasserie restaurant of the on CDs, DVDs, or artwork. Other restrictions apply. Renaissance Cleveland Hotel has been fully updated with a classic bistro style and a bold new menu. Enjoy dishes you’ve come to expect, and new ones you won’t know how you lived without.
MUSE Lobby Lounge on 6 Lobby Court Bar The Ritz-Carlton The Ritz-Carlton Renaissance Cleveland Hotel Accessible from Tower City Center Level M3 Accessible from Tower City Center Level M3 Accessible from Tower City Center Level M2 216.902.5255 216.902.5255 Located on lobby level of the hotel Mon-Sat 7 AM -10 PM & Sun 7 AM-2 PM Mon-Sat 3 PM-12 Midnight 216.696.5600 Find your inspiration at the casually chic Sun 3 PM -10 PM Open daily 3 PM -12 Midnight MUSE and select from a flavorful contempo- Discuss your favorite films over show stopping (serving food until 11 PM) rary American menu highlighting simple, drinks and appetizers! Stop by the Lobby Stretch your legs and take a short indoor walk seasonal ingredients cooked to perfection. Lounge on 6 to enjoy $6 drinks and $6 appe- from Tower City Cinemas to the newly updated Enjoy a complimentary appetizer when you tizers as the “6 on 6” happy hour specials take Lobby Court Bar. The classic bar expertly purchase either a cocktail or a dinner entrée center stage between 5 PM and 7 PM Monday blends modern flair with old world style and at MUSE. Just present your Film Festival through Friday. This is the perfect refreshing overlooks the magnificent lobby of the Program Guide to the server. Quick daily respite for film buffs and you never know who Renaissance Hotel. With plenty of room to lunch specials in MUSE include $5 burger you will see... relax, it’s a great place to enjoy something Mondays! Visit www.ritzcarlton.com. nice to eat and drink with friends.
Encore Restaurant Blue Bar Cadillac Ranch Wyndham Cleveland at PlayhouseSquare Wyndham Cleveland at Playhouse Square and Barroom 1260 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115 1260 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115 200 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114 216.615.3307 216.615.3307 www.cadillacranchgroup.com Breakfast served 6:30 AM -11 AM Sun-Thu 4:30 PM-12 Midnight Closed - Sundays and Mondays Lunch served 11:30 AM - 2 PM Fri-Say 4:30 PM -2 AM Tue-Wed 3 PM -12 Midnight Dinner served 5 PM -10 PM Happy Hour: Monday-Friday from 4:30 PM- Thu-Sat 3 PM -2 AM Dinner Offer: Present any CIFF pass or ticket 7 PM. Enjoy 1/2 off select appetizers and Happy Hour: Tue-Fri 3 PM -7 PM stub with the purchase of one dinner entrée drinks. Present any CIFF pass or ticket stub and and receive one complimentary dessert. Ranked 5 out of 5 in “Happy Factor” as seen receive 10% off your entire bill. Offer valid in The Plain Dealer’s FRIDAY Magazine. March 24-April 3, 2011. Not valid with any other offers. Some restrictions apply.
Family Friendly Shopping Hours begin at 2:30 PM daily. For HISTORIC GATEWAY NEIGHBORHOOD complete program information, visit AND HISTORIC WAREHOUSE DISTRICT www.towercitycenter.com Historic Warehouse District and Historic Gateway WiFi City Neighborhood are delighted to partner with the Tower City Center offers WiFi City, Cleveland International Film Festival. These two their free wireless internet access neighborhoods, located directly to the East and available to anyone with a laptop or West of Tower City Center, offer fabulous dining, PDA throughout Tower City Center. lively nightclubs, and boutique shopping. For Visit www.towercitycenter.com/info/stay_wifi.cfm details, visit www.warehousedistrict.org or for more information. www.historicgateway.org. 12 PLAN YOUR VISIT The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival S TAY H E R E PLAN YOUR VISIT Be sure to mention the Cleveland International Film Festival when you book your accommodations to take advantage of the special O F F I C I A L HOTEL rates and packages that are available at our sponsor hotels. The Ritz-Carlton, Package and room rates do not include tax and are subject to availability and restrictions, so book early! Cleveland Official Hotel of the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Located onsite at Tower City Center 216.623.1300, www.ritzcarlton.com Hospitality Partners Combine one of the country’s premier film festivals with Cleveland’s Wyndham Cleveland at premier hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, Cleveland, and it sounds like a plot PlayhouseSquare too good to be true! Conveniently adjoined to Tower City Center, home of the Cleveland International Film Festival, The Ritz-Carlton, 1260 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44115 Cleveland helps set the stage for a memorable experience as we (Located on the HealthLine to and from Public Square) once again roll out the Red Carpet for Film Fest Fans. 216.615.7500 or 800.996.3426 www.wyndhamcleveland.com For a truly VIP experience, indulge with the ultimate “Red Carpet Package.” Featuring a pair of day passes to the Cleveland At the Wyndham Cleveland at PlayhouseSquare Hotel, your time with us is International Film Festival, which allow you to view as many of the sure to be worthy of applause. Step through our doors and you’ll begin to see day’s films as you desire, this package is designed to give you how our multimillion dollar renovation was completed with guests like you access to the Festival that is not available to any other guests. in mind. Our boutique-style hotel with its intimate lobby, and a staff that’s Complement your day at the Festival with a night in The Ritz- always ready to help, make this a great place to come home to. It’s nice to Carlton’s elegant Club-level accommodations, including access to a know that we’re located in the vibrant theater district, right on glittering private lounge with panoramic views and a selection of light food PlayhouseSquare and near all that Cleveland has to offer. and beverage presentations throughout the day. Breakfast for two CIFF Film Enthusiast: Includes overnight guest room, valet parking, hotel the following morning is also included. The only thing missing is shuttle service to Tower City (based upon availability and scheduled in the paparazzi! advance), four vouchers to redeem for CIFF tickets, and breakfast for up to Those who appreciate great films and finding the time in their busy two people in the Encore Restaurant. $125/night (plus tax). Please request schedules to view them will love the “Film Fest Fan Package.” With the CIFF Film Enthusiast Block when calling to make reservations. this package guests will enjoy overnight deluxe accommodations, CIFF Room Only: $94/night (plus tax). Please request the CIFF Room Only two vouchers to redeem for two tickets at the CIFF box office, and Block when calling to make reservations. breakfast for two the following morning. A Deluxe Room Only rate is also available. Please use the appropriate Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites, code provided below when booking; then present your CIFF tickets Cleveland-Downtown at check-in to receive the promotional rate. Rate must be available at time of booking. Rate does not apply to stays already booked. 629 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, OH 44114 Red Carpet Package: $349 (Code: ECER) 216.443.1000 Red Carpet Package Club: $399 (Code: ECES) www.hiexpress.com/clevelanddtnoh Film Fest Fan Package: $209 (Code: EXEQ) Stay in the heart of downtown within walking distance Deluxe Room Only: $199 (Code: ECEP) of the Film Festival and countless great restaurants and entertainment. Film Enthusiast Package: Overnight accommodations, two vouchers to O F F I C I A L J U R Y H O T E L redeem for tickets at the CIFF box office, free overnight parking, and expanded continental breakfast for two: $99 per night (plus tax); Room Renaissance Only: $89 per night (plus tax). When booking, just mention the Cleveland Cleveland Hotel International Film Festival. Official Jury Hotel of the 35th Cleveland Cleveland Marriott Downtown International Film Festival at Key Center Located onsite at 24 Public Square 216.696.5600, www.renaissancecleveland.com 127 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44114 216.696.9200 or 800.228.9290 Forget Cannes and Sundance—enjoy the Cleveland International www.clevelandmarriottdowntown.com Film Festival. The Renaissance is connected to Tower City Center and Tower City Cinemas, so you never have to step outside to walk Located right on Public Square across from Tower City Center, the Marriott to the Festival. Key Center is rated the top hotel in Cleveland by TripAdvisor. Treat yourself to contemporary rooms with flat screen TVs, luxurious bedding, and breathtaking Film Fest Fan Package: Those who appreciate great films and views of the city and Lake Erie. And you can choose from three delicious finding the time in their busy schedules to view them will love dining experiences right on-site including David’s restaurant, the stunningly the “Film Fest Fan Package.” It includes deluxe overnight accom- updated Jake’s lounge, or room service relaxation. modations, four vouchers to redeem for tickets at the CIFF box office, free parking for one car, and buffet breakfast for two in the Film Fest Fan Package: Enjoy overnight accommodations, complimentary Brasserie Restaurant. valet parking, breakfast for two in David’s restaurant or through room service, and four vouchers to redeem for tickets at the CIFF box office Film Fest Fan: $179, Friday-Sunday (Code: P50) Film Fest Fan: $229, Monday-Thursday (Code: P50) Film Fest Fan: $179, Friday-Sunday (Code: P50) Film Fest Fan: $229, Monday-Thursday (Code: P50) To book your CIFF stay, visit www.renaissancecleveland.com and click on “Deals” for the Film Fest Fan package or enter P50 under To book your CIFF stay, visit www.clevelandmarriottdowntown.com and click Corporate/Promotional code for the Room Only rate. Rate must be on “Deals” for the Film Fest Fan package or enter P50 under Corporate/ available at time of booking. Rate does not apply to stays already Promotional code for the Room Only rate. Rate must be available at time of booked. booking. Rate does not apply to stays already booked. 1HVQDGQ\6FKZDUW]_&OHYHODQG1HZ ZZZ16LGHDVFRP &/,(176 6,7(0$3 14 COMMUNITY OUTREACH The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival After the Credits Roll The CIFF works diligently to be a relevant arts institution that has a significant and positive impact on the community. Recognizing that film has the power to transform its viewers, the CIFF continues our deep commitment to our Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition in 2011. This category includes “films with a conscience”—films that educate, challenge, and offer new perspectives on social justice and the struggle to make the world a better place. At the 35th CIFF, the Standing Up series includes 38 feature films in competition. Our After the Credits Roll educational program will further embed the 35th CIFF into our community by utilizing Standing Up films as a platform to engage our audiences. The program includes the follow- ing: (1) presenting a FilmForum after 12 films; (2) creating Lights! Camera! Action Steps! materials for those films as well as others; (3) arranging Cinema Synergy connections for those films that have An African Election filmmakers, community partners, and media partners; and (4) extending the CIFF’s reach through social networking. FilmForums Visit www.clevelandfilm.org for more information on the panelists The CIFF is committed to using film as a catalyst for thought-provoking Media Community Partner: Partner: conversations and ideas that address issues faced by our world today. These are issues that cannot and should not be ignored. FilmForums are moderated panel discussions that offer Film Festival audience members the opportunity to learn more about the issues brought up in the film—to ask questions and to share ideas. FilmForums take place immediately after the conclusion of selected screenings. Panels include filmmakers, educators, and people who have experienced issues addressed in the films. AN AFRICAN ELECTION MORE TO LIVE FOR Saturday, March 26 Saturday, March 26 11:00 AM I Code ANAF26 1:30 PM I Code MORE26 See film description on page 40 See film description on page 87 How do we make elections work in How can we help spread the word that emerging democracies? we carry the cure for leukemia? Trust: Second Acts In Young Lives DANNY GREENE: THE RISE AND THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND FALL OF THE IRISHMAN Friday, April 1 Friday, March 25 4:15 PM I Code THER01 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN 6:15 PM I Code DANN25 See film description on page 112 YOUNG LIVES See film description on page 53 What happens when the climate changes Friday, April 1 Everything you’ve always wanted to know but the culture doesn’t? 6:50 PM I Code TRUS01 See film description on page 115 about Cleveland mobsters but were afraid THESE AMAZING SHADOWS to ask. Saturday, April 2 What is the role of the arts in recovery from trauma? ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER 4:30 PM I Code THES02 Thursday, March 31 See film description on page 112 WE WERE HERE 7:30 PM I Code ELEA31 Why is art worth preserving? Sunday, March 27 See film description on page 55 5:50 PM I Code WEWE27 THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE See film description on page 119 How do we decide what is in the best Saturday, April 2 interests of adult children with cognitive They were there while we were here. 7:05 PM I Code THIS02 disabilities? What has happened in Cleveland’s HIV- See film description on page 113 impacted community since 1981? FACING FORWARD When it comes to comedy, censorship Wednesday, March 30 is serious business. What are the WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE 7:40 PM I Code FACE30 consequences when freedom of expres- Sunday, April 3 See film description on page 56 sion is restricted? 11:30 AM I Code WELC03 How can schools, parents, and the com- See film description on page 119 munity do a better job of working together What is the state of immigration in to help young people learn and grow? the City of Cleveland? PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMSLAM 15 Major Support Provided by: FilmSlam ® 2011 FILMS Jane’s Journey (Germany) page 68 My So-Called Enemy (USA) page 91 Lights! Camera! Action Steps! There Once Was An Island (New Zealand, USA, Papua New Guinea) page 112 Lights! Camera! Action Steps! is a program that Scenarios (USA) page 128 supplies audience members with materials on how to Short Subjects (International) get involved once a film ends. These materials are French Shorts (France, Belgium) developed in collaboration with the filmmaker so that German Shorts (Germany) they are certain to convey the filmmaker’s thoughts Spanish Shorts (Spain) on what the audience members can do to further the cause of the film. Cinema Synergy At the CIFF some films are connected with media partners and community partners for in-kind, cross- promotional purposes (films are also paired up with individual sponsors and corporate sponsors when My So-Called Enemy possible). Once the relationships are established, the media partners are introduced to the community FilmSlam for Students partners and then the guest filmmakers are linked Monday-Friday, March 28 – April 1, 2011 to all of the partners and sponsors. As a result, all 9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon entities benefit and the impact of film on the Students from Northeast Ohio high schools have the extraordinary opportu- Northeast Ohio community is stronger than ever. nity to see new films by some of the world’s most innovative filmmakers. This is what we call Cinema Synergy. This year’s films include three outstanding documentaries: JANE’S Social Networking JOURNEY, a film that shines a light on the work of Dr. Jane Goodall as she travels the globe giving lectures, writing books, and promoting her The CIFF’s social networking efforts integrate the youth organization, Roots & Shoots; MY SO-CALLED ENEMY, which follows organization’s own blog with the use of Facebook, a group of Palestinian and Israeli girls who travel to the U.S. to take part Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr. With their new ideas in Building Bridges for Peace, a women’s leadership program; and THERE and fresh perspectives, CIFF staff photographers, ONCE WAS AN ISLAND, where we learn about an island people off the videographers, bloggers, and vloggers create content coast of Papua New Guinea whose culture is being threatened (along with for YouTube and Flickr. Interviews with filmmakers their island) by the rising tide waters caused by climate change. and patrons are also posted on YouTube, while photos Participating teachers will receive study guides with background information are posted to Flickr. Volunteers and patrons are on each film, discussion topics, curriculum links, and an introduction to encouraged to participate by sharing content on media literacy. Also, filmmakers and other presenters will speak briefly and these sites as well. answer questions following each screening. Contact Beth Steele Radisek, FilmSlam Director, at 216.623.3456, ext.13 or [email protected] for registration information. There Once Was An Island Additional support for FilmSlam 2011 comes from the Eva L. and Joseph M. Bruening Foundation, the Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank Trust, the Kiwanis Foundation of Cleveland, and The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. FilmSlam Student Selection Committee Mary Beth Adams, Brook Benko, Alex Detchon, Sarah Doody, Annie Fussner, Phil Gigliotti, John Gisser, Ali Gole, Lauren Guido, Dustin Hall, Emily Herwerden, Rachael Himes, Johnna Hughes, Joseph Insana, Victoria Jones, Crystal Kytta, Ashley Larsen, Ian Limoli, Lauren Lumpkin, Ally Markovich, Romero Mora, Cassie Muller, Sam Nemeth, Gabriela Perry, Cal Steele Radisek, Corinne Richards, Eric Robinson, David Sadowski, Ella Schneiberg, Walker Smith, Emily Spooner, Alexander J. Stacey, Andy VanAuken, Catherine Jean Vegh, Corey Waldron, Mirica Walls CATCH16 SPONSORS The 35th Cleveland THE International Film Festival SCENE @ CSU Don’t miss the excitement at t Cleveland State University! Our $500 million makeover is transforming the campus witwith th new housing, a spectacular new w student center and much more in the heart of the citycity.. We’re a leader in health care, business, siness, the arts and city management. Our nationally y recognized School of Communication ation offers film and digital media programs in state-of-state-of-the-art -the-art studios taught by experts in the field. And, we’re listed among America’America’ss Best t Colleges by UU.S. S News & World ReReport eport t for 20112011. With more than 200 programs, we offer challenging courses of study that open up new worlds for you to explore. Our popular arts programs include: t'JMN%JHJUBM.FEJB t.'"JO$SFBUJWF8SJUJOH t.VTJD5IFSBQZ t.VTJD$PNQPTJUJPO t%BODF t"SU&EVDBUJPO t%SBNBUJD"SUTUSBDLTJO Directing and Playwriting %*4$07&3$46'03:0634&-' ENGAGE. engagecsu.comengage CSU is an AA/EO institution. ©2011 University Marketing 10-01222_pk PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 17 Sponsored by Cleveland State University’s School of Communication in association with the Cleveland International Film Festival Storytellers: A Series of Interactive Panel Discussions Featuring Visiting Filmmakers from The 35th CIFF Cleveland State University’s School of Communication, in conjunction with the Cleveland International Film Festival, is proud to host this free two-day event featuring visiting filmmakers and members of the local production community discussing the art, craft, and business of moving image production. The panels give Festival-goers, students, and all who are interested in the art of cinema an opportunity to meet CIFF filmmakers, hear them talk about their films, and ask questions about their work—as well as the movie making process in general. Saturday, April 2 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Briar March, Director of There Once Was An Island The Real Story– Documentary Filmmaking Sunday, April 3 This panel will explore how documentary production differs from fiction filmmaking in terms of scripting, financing, budgeting, editing, and par- ticularly in terms of finding a compelling story to tell. The panelists will 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM discuss how they work with reality as the raw material for their stories Women’s Stories and how they work to construct this material into a film that will engage Until very recently filmmaking has been a male dominated an audience’s attention. The distinctive arena of documentary funding, field and some might say that this continues to be true. This distribution, and exhibition will also be discussed with a focus on the panel will look at the work of women filmmakers, focusing challenges that arise when there is so much work competing for limited on questions of access to financing, authority during the resources and a growing but still specialized viewing public. production process and on set, and the variety of distinctive perspectives that female producers, directors, and writers 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM bring to the stories they tell. The challenges that remain for Shooting the Story– The Production Process women who want to make films will also be discussed. This panel is dedicated to the complicated process of production. The strategies, approaches, and problems of taking a film from conception 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM to completion will be the focus of this discussion, ranging from the The World’s Stories– International challenges of financing, budgeting, and story development (through the Filmmaking logistics of casting, crew, locations, and scheduling), to the variety of This panel, presented in conjunction with CSU’s Department techniques used to direct the actors, the camera, the set, and the pro- of Modern Languages, will feature visiting filmmakers from ject itself. The roles of the director, producer, director of photography, across the globe who will discuss the varied approaches to editor, and composer will be examined in addition to the all-important, filmmaking that can be found outside the United States. though sometimes overlooked, stage of post-production, which extends Alternative modes of financing and production will be beyond the cutting of the film to issues of music rights, sound editing, explored, as will the challenges international filmmakers and completion formats. face in attempting to get their work seen in the U.S. and around the world. Issues of cross-cultural communication 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM will be discussed as well as the opportunities afforded by Getting the Story Out– Distribution, new trends in international co-production. Exhibition, and Film Festivals All panels will be held at: This panel will cover perhaps the most important aspect of cinematic Cleveland State University’s School of Communication storytelling: getting the work seen. Beginning with the fundamentals of Music and Communication Building distribution, our panelists will explore the various ways films are brought 2001 Euclid Avenue, Auditorium: MU107 to the public’s attention—from traditional theatrical exhibition, to the All panels are free and open to the public. Early arrival is recom- rapidly changing cable, satellite, and DVD markets, to the new opportu- mended as several of last year’s panels were filled to capacity. There nities (and perhaps dangers) resulting from digital delivery of moving is parking on the street around the Music and Communication images over the Internet. Given the connection to the CIFF, particular Building and in the lot behind the building at E. 19th Street and attention will be devoted to the central role of film festivals in the film- Chester Avenue (Cleveland, OH 44115). For further information and makers’ quests to have their stories seen and heard. Strategies for updates, check www.clevelandfilm.org/filmmakerpanel or contact successful submission of a film to festivals will also be a primary focus Dr. Evan Lieberman at CSU: [email protected] or of this panel. 216.687.4637. 18 SOMEONE TO WATCH The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SOMEONE TO WATCH 2011 FILMMAKERS Presented with the Previous recipients of the generous support of CIFF’s Someone to Watch LAUREN RICH FINE Award are: and GARY GILLER. 2003 I Alexei Balabanov Susanne Bier Agust Gudmundsson Ed Gass-Donnelly was recently praised by Variety 2004 I Josef Fares In 2003 at the 27th CIFF we launched as one of its Ten Directors to Watch for 2011. Gaylene Preston With roots in the theater, he has often served as our Someone to Watch Award series. Pen-ek Ratanaruang The purpose of this program is to director, producer, writer, and editor. After numer- 2005 I Ronit Elkabetz highlight the works of mid-career film- ous short films and music videos, Gass-Donnelly’s Catherine Gund feature debut, “This Beautiful City,” premiered at makers who we believe are rising stars Khyentse Norbu the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 in international filmmaking. Over the Hans Weingartner years we have celebrated filmmakers and went on to be nominated for four Canadian 2006 I Ann Marie Fleming Academy Awards (Genie Awards). His second fea- who have had their talent embraced at Hiner Saleem movie theaters across the country and ture, “Small Town Murder Songs,” premiered at 2007 I Matt Bissonnette the world. This year is no different. the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and 2008 I Helen Hood Scheer recently won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best Film at Brillante Mendoza the Torino Film Festival and Best Actress (Martha 2009 I Ramin Bahrani Plimpton) at the Whistler Film Festival. Gerardo Naranjo Films Screening: 2010 I Emily Abt Jesper Ganslandt SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS (p. 105) THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY (p. 113) Dave Boyle was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. He made his feature film debut in 2006 with the bilin- gual comedy “Big Dreams Little Tokyo.” The film won accolades for its deft portrayal of clashing cultures in an increasingly global world and was hailed by Home Media Magazine as “brazenly original and intelligent.” In 2007 Boyle co-founded Tiger Industry Films with Michael Lerman. Boyle served as Executive Producer Lisa Gossels is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker and the on Lerman’s 2008 directorial debut “Natural Causes,” President of Good Egg Productions, Inc, a New York City-based which premiered at SXSW. Boyle’s second feature production company. Gossels’ first film, “The Children of “White on Rice” premiered as an Opening Night film Chabannes,” won an Emmy Award in 2001 and ten film festival for the 2009 San Francisco International Asian awards. It has been praised as “one of the most heartening American Festival and was described by San Francisco Holocaust films ever made—splendid, informative and emotionally Chronicle’s Jeff Yang as “a cinematic milestone.” His involving” (Los Angeles Times). Since premiering at Silverdocs, third film “Surrogate Valentine” is currently traveling Gossels’ second film, “My So-Called Enemy,” has garnered three the festival circuit. Boyle works as a film editor and is awards on the film festival circuit. It has received critical acclaim preparing to direct “Self Storage” and the Japanese as “a provocative, balanced film that offers unexpected hope for film “Komorebi.” resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict” (Washington City Paper). Gossels became a documentarian because she believes in Films Screening: the power of film to affect social change. She is a Phi Beta Kappa BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO (p. 45) graduate of Brown University. SURROGATE VALENTINE (p. 110) Films Screening: WHITE ON RICE (p. 120) THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES (p. 50) MY SO-CALLED ENEMY (p. 91) The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SPONSORS 19 RECEIVEßCOMPLIMENTARYßVALETßß PARKINGßWHENßYOUßPRESENTßß YOURßCIFFßTICKETßSTUB ß #OSTßOFß0ARKINGßDEDUCTEDßFROMßYOURßCHECKßßß MINIMUMßSPENDßREQUIREDß,IMITEDßONEßPERßPERSONßPERßß CHECKß/FFERßEXPIRESßß6ALIDßONLYßATß#LEVELANDßLOCATION CLEVELAND TOWERßCITYßCENTERßLEVELßMß ßßHARDROCKCOM ß(ARDß2OCKß)NTERNATIONALß53! ß)NCß!LLßRIGHTSßRESERVEDß3EE4HE3HOW 20 SPECIAL PROGRAMS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film Roxanne T. Mueller served as the film critic at The Plain Dealer from 1983 until 1988 when she lost a six-month battle with cancer at the age of 36. Mueller was a strong supporter of the Festival and, through her writing, helped to raise the general level of film appreciation in Cleveland. She was an exceptionally engaging writer who managed to weave personal insights into her film reviews, whether she was covering popular Hollywood fare or sophisticated foreign cinema. In its 12th year, the CIFF established the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film to help bring this important Festival friend back into focus a bit each year. Festival patrons rate each film they see and the most popular film is announced at our Closing Night Reception. Sponsored by: PAST WINNERS 2010 (34th CIFF) — LOUDER THAN A BOMB 2002 (26th CIFF) — AUTUMN SPRING Directed by Jon Siskel and Greg Jacobs, USA Directed by Vladimír Michálek, 2009 (33rd CIFF) — CHERRY BLOSSOMS– Czech Republic HANAMI 2001 (25th CIFF) — BIG EDEN Directed by Doris Dörrie, Germany, Japan Directed by Thomas Bezucha, USA 2008 (32nd CIFF) — ONE BAD CAT: THE 2000 (24th CIFF) — THE BUTTERFLY Louder Than A Bomb, 2010 REVEREND ALBERT WAGNER STORY (AKA “THE BUTTERFLY’S TONGUE”) Directed by Thomas G. Miller, USA Directed by José Luis Cuerda, Spain 1994 (18th CIFF) — BACKBEAT 2007 (31st CIFF) — DARIUS GOES WEST: 1999 (23rd CIFF) — RETURN WITH Directed by Iain Softly, Great Britain THE ROLL OF HIS LIFE HONOR Directed by Logan Smalley, USA Directed by Terry Sanders and 1993 (17th CIFF) — INTO THE WEST Directed by Mike Newell, Great Britain 2006 (30th CIFF) — LIVE AND BECOME Freida Lee Mock, USA Directed by Radu Mihaileanu, France, Israel 1998 (22nd CIFF) — CHARACTER 1992 (16th CIFF) — ENCHANTED APRIL Directed by Mike Newell, Great Britain 2005 (29th CIFF) — MAD HOT BALLROOM Directed by Mike van Diem, Directed by Marilyn Agrelo, USA The Netherlands 1991 (15th CIFF) — CROSS MY HEART Directed by Jacques Fansten, France 2004 (28th CIFF) — BORN INTO BROTHELS 1997 (21st CIFF) — SHALL WE DANCE Directed by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, Directed by Masayuki Suo, Japan 1990 (14th CIFF) — CINEMA PARADISO USA 1996 (20th CIFF) — FIDDLEFEST Directed by Guiseppe Tomatore, Italy 2003 (27th CIFF) — SPELLBOUND (AKA “SMALL WONDERS”) 1989 (13th CIFF) — THE BEAST Directed by Jeff Blitz, USA Directed by Allen Miller, USA Directed by Kevin Reynolds, USA 1995 (19th CIFF) — THE SUM OF US 1988 (12th CIFF) — GRAND HIGHWAY Directed by Kevin Dowling and Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, France Geoff Burton, Australia 2011 ARTIST AWARD Scott Goss Each year we invite a prominent local artist to design our awards for the Festival. This year we are honored and excited to work with Scott Goss. Scott is a 2006 graduate from the Cleveland Institute of Art. Currently he is a studio artist in Midtown Cleveland, Ohio. Scott’s work has been exhibited nationally, with galleries in Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, and Pittsburgh representing him. His innovative Glass Panel Series focuses on the urban core of America’s aging industrial cities. This series involves glass painting, engraving, fusing, and slumping; all to a piece of copper. When fired, the pieces reveal an unseen beauty in the skies and landscapes not originally apparent in these neighborhoods. Scott can be found online at www.scottgoss.com. Previous award artists include: Anna Arnold, Kate Budd, Hildur Jonsson, Shannon Okey, Alexander Pakis, Ben Parsons, Eric Rippert, Mark Smith, and Mark Yasenchack. 22 SPECIAL PROGRAMS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Knight Night in Akron presented with support from the The High Cost of Living Directed by Deborah Chow CANADA 2010 500 Howe Avenue 92 minutes Cuyahoga Falls, OH 44221 (see page 61 for film description) The Cleveland International Film Festival is delighted to earn support from the Monday, March 28 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to hold a screening at an Akron-area theater that is operated as part of the Cleveland Cinemas family. Please join us 5:30 PM on Monday, March 28 for a special screening of THE HIGH COST OF LIVING at Pre-Film Reception in the lobby of Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill for our first-ever Knight Night in Akron. Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill You must have a Film Festival pass or THE HIGH COST OF LIVING ticket for 7:15 PM admission to the pre-party and the film. (please find your seats by 7:00 PM) Film Screening at the Plaza Cinemas at Chapel Hill Code AKRN28 Evening at Hayfever Directed by Laura Luchetti ITALY 2010 100 minutes (see page 59 for film description) 13116 Shaker Square Cleveland, OH 44120 Tuesday, March 29 The Cleveland International Film Festival continues its tradition of holding an 5:30 PM evening in Cleveland’s Shaker Square neighborhood. Please join us on Tuesday, Pre-Film Reception at SASA Japanese March 29 for a special screening of HAYFEVER at Shaker Square Cinemas. Izakaya Asian Bistro, located on the You must have a Film Festival pass or HAYFEVER ticket for admission to the Square pre-party and the film. 7:15 PM (please find your seats by 7:00 PM) Sponsored by: Community Partner: Film Screening at Shaker Square Cinemas Code SHAK29 9:00 PM Dinner specials at SASA and around the Square at participating restaurants PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM 23 Evening at 1390 West 65th Street Dressed (at Detroit Avenue) Cleveland, OH 44102 Directed by David Swajeski USA 2009 The Cleveland International Film Festival returns to Cleveland’s Detroit Shoreway 79 minutes neighborhood for the second consecutive year. The historic Capitol Theatre is another (see page 54 for film description) Gordon Square Arts District star that shines in its splendor. Please join us on Wednesday, March 30 for a special screening of DRESSED at the Capitol Theatre. Wednesday, March 30 You must have a Film Festival pass or DRESSED ticket for admission to the 5:30 PM pre-party and the film. Pre-Film Reception at XYZ The Tavern (6419 Detroit Ave, Cleveland, OH 44102) Sponsored by: 7:15 PM (please find your seats by 7:00 PM) Community Partners: Film Screening at the Capitol Theatre Code CAPT30 9:00 PM Dinner specials at XYZ The Tavern Rick Whitbeck Evening at the With Love, from the Age of Reason Directed by Yann Samuell FRANCE, BELGIUM 2010 90 minutes 2163 Lee Road (see page 121 for film description) Cleveland Heights, OH 44118 Please join us on Thursday, March 31 for a special screening of WITH LOVE, FROM Thursday, March 31 THE AGE OF REASON at the Cedar Lee Theatre in Cleveland Heights. 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM You must have a Film Festival pass or WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON Pre-Film Reception at Nighttown ticket for admission to the pre-party and the film. (12383 Cedar Road, Cleveland Hts., OH 44106) 7:15 PM Sponsored (please find your seats by 7:00 PM) by: Film Screening at the Cedar Lee Theatre Code CLEE31 9:30 PM Dinner specials until 12 Midnight at Nighttown This event is presented in loving memory of Rick Whitbeck (1946-2008). One of the founders of the Film Festival, Rick filled many staff roles over the years and served as the organization’s first Board President. The Rick Whitbeck Evening at the Cedar Lee Theatre provides us with an annual opportunity to honor Rick’s devotion to his family, his friends, and the Film Festival. WE’RE PROUD TO PLAY A SUPPORTING ROLE. The Academy extends congratulations to the Cleveland International Film Festival on the occasion of its 35th annual celebration of motion pictures. www.oscars.org PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM WOMEN OF THE WORLD 25 Women of the World Special Support Provided By: Women of the World was first introduced to our audience three years ago as a FILM TITLE PAGE way to focus on films made by (mostly) women and (occasionally) men that are about empowered women. Following a successful three-year pilot project, we ANITA ...... 41 were intent on making “Women of the World” a permanent section of the CIFF, THE ARBOR...... 41 and thanks to The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, we are now CHASSIS ...... 49 able to do just that. THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES . . . 50 Debra Zimmerman, Executive Director of Women Make Movies, had this to say CONNECTED ...... 51 about our proposed plans: “I was thrilled to hear that you are planning to create COPACABANA ...... 52 a permanent Women of the World sidebar as part of the CIFF. What a great CRIME AFTER CRIME...... 52 idea! As a distributor devoted to bringing women’s visions from around the DESERT FLOWER...... 53 world to audiences in the U.S., we are only too aware of the limited opportuni- ties American audiences have to see these vibrant and critical films. Creating ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER . . . 55 such a spotlight is exactly the kind of strategy we applaud.” In addition, two- ELISA K...... 56 time “Women of the World” filmmaker Emily Abt also shared her thoughts on FOR 80 DAYS ...... 58 the sidebar: “I make films about women primarily because I am a woman. As THE HEDGEHOG ...... 59 a woman filmmaker, I tell stories from that perspective. In an industry where I AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL ...... 64 only 7% of working filmmakers are women, to support this all too rare voice is ILLEGAL ...... 65 a worthy and noble cause. And we need the encouragement.” IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY . . . . . 65 Over the past three years we have included IT’S YOUR FAULT...... 67 over 40 films in this sidebar, bringing in JANE’S JOURNEY ...... 68 15 of the filmmakers to experience the Cleveland International Film Festival for LIMBO...... 70 themselves. We look forward to inviting LITTLE SPARROWS ...... 82 many more for years to come. MADE IN INDIA ...... 83 MARCH OF THE LIVING ...... 84 A MARINE STORY ...... 85 THE MARKET ...... 85 MEEK’S CUTOFF ...... 87 MOTHERS ...... 88 The Hedgehog MY SO-CALLED ENEMY ...... 91 NE´NETTE ...... 91 THE ORION ...... 93 PEPPERMINTA...... 95 THE ROWAN WALTZ ...... 101 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES ...... 115 WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON ...... 121 THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS ...... 122 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION ...... 122 It’s Your Fault With Additional Support From: 26 SIDEBARS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Sidebars Sponsored by: Alan Glazen American 10% Cinema Independents Cinema en Español Family Films These gay, lesbian, bisexual, With big dreams and small bud- This eclectic array of Spanish- You can take a family trip and transgender films range in gets, these films represent the language films explores a around the world without subject, style, and tone, but finest in contemporary American multitude of subjects that range leaving the city. Be sure to they have one thing in common: cinema. This year’s competition from the culturally specific to bring the kids (we recommend they’ve been audience favorites in celebration of independent the universal. ages ten and older) to these for years! films made in the United States family-friendly films! will yield a $2,500 cash prize winner determined by audience vote. FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE 3...... 37 (818) ...... 38 ANITA...... 41 HERE COMES LOLA! ...... 60 FOR 80 DAYS ...... 58 AARDVARK ...... 39 BROTHER AND SISTER...... 47 KOOKY ...... 69 A MARINE STORY ...... 85 ALMOST KINGS ...... 40 CARANCHO...... 48 THE UGLY DUCKLING ...... 116 THE STRANGER IN US . . . . . 109 HAMILL ...... 34 THE COLORS OF UNDERTOW ...... 117 INSIDIOUS ...... 66 THE MOUNTAIN ...... 51 WE WERE HERE ...... 119 LONG WAY TO OBLIVION. . . . . 82 ELISA K...... 56 A MARINE STORY ...... 85 IT’S YOUR FAULT ...... 67 MEEK’S CUTOFF...... 87 UNDERTOW ...... 117 THE STRANGER IN US . . . . . 109 YOU THINK YOU’RE THE PRETTIEST... (BUT YOU’RE SOUL SURFER ...... 35 THE SLUTTIEST)...... 123 SURROGATE VALENTINE. . . . 110 TRUE NATURE ...... 115 TWELVE THIRTY ...... 116 Choosing the films you want to see among the immense array of 150 feature films at the 35th CIFF can be a daunting task. To prevent your brain fizzing out from information overload, every year we place films in the Festival within our Sidebar categories, which cover a variety of interests and topics. This year’s sidebar collection is bigger than ever before, featuring several new categories and giving you a wider selection to choose from. The films that will be screened in each of the sidebars are listed here, but you can also determine which categories a film falls into by looking at the bars at the top of each film description throughout the Program Guide. Browse and enjoy! Here Comes Lola! Mama Gógó The Green Wave PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM 27 Sponsored by: Toby Devan Lewis and TIM and NANCY CALLAHAN It’s Easy Jewish and Israeli Film Is Art Global Health Being Green Visions Art school isn’t only for the From individuals to communities These films bring awareness These films from—or about— naturally gifted. Learn about to countries—matters of health and support to the environmen- Israel and the Jewish diaspora artists and the artistic process are of global concern. tally friendly movement to save enlighten with their unique in this group of films. our planet. cultural perspective. FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE THE ARBOR ...... 41 ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN. . 39 INTO ETERNITY ...... 67 ANITA...... 41 BILL CUNNINGHAM ANITA...... 41 JANE’S JOURNEY ...... 68 THE CHILDREN OF NEW YORK ...... 45 AUTUMN GOLD...... 42 THE LIGHT THIEF...... 70 CHABANNES ...... 50 ELEANORE & THE ELEANORE & THE THE PIPE ...... 97 THE HUMAN RESOURCES TIMEKEEPER ...... 55 MANAGER ...... 63 TIMEKEEPER ...... 55 THERE ONCE WAS PEPPERMINTA ...... 95 LITTLE SPARROWS ...... 82 AN ISLAND...... 112 MARCH OF THE LIVING...... 84 PRESSPAUSEPLAY ...... 98 MADE IN INDIA ...... 83 THE MATCHMAKER...... 86 SELF MADE ...... 104 MAMA GO´ GO´ ...... 83 MY SO-CALLED ENEMY...... 91 THESE AMAZING SHADOWS . 112 THE MARKET ...... 85 NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR TODAY...... 92 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN MATCHING JACK...... 86 YOUNG LIVES...... 115 THE ROUND UP ...... 100 MORE TO LIVE FOR ...... 87 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION. . 122 SURVIVING HITLER: VINCENT WANTS TO SEA . . . 118 THE WOODMANS ...... 123 A LOVE STORY ...... 111 WE WERE HERE ...... 119 THE WOMAN WITH THE Sound of Noise 5 ELEPHANTS ...... 122 Continental Airlines World Tour Every year the CIFF brings the best films from around the globe to screen in the World Tour sidebar. Once again, thanks to Continental Airlines, we are able to present films from more than 60 countries in the 35th Cleveland International Film Festival. There are too many films to list in this sidebar, but be sure to look for the Continental Airlines World Tour bar at the top of many films. Matching Jack 28 SIDEBARS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Sidebars Your Logo Could Go Here! Local Heroes Pacific Pearls Pan-African Images This is our annual celebration Journey to the Far East. In These remarkable films hail For Sidebar and other highlighting films made about these films from Asia and the from both Africa and the United CIFF sponsorship opportunities, Cleveland, in Cleveland, or by Pacific Islands, we pay tribute States and feature stories made contact Patrick Shepherd, Ohioans. to some of the most innovative by and about Africans and Associate Director, films of today. African-Americans. at 216.623.3456, ext.23 or [email protected]. FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE AARDVARK ...... 39 CATERPILLAR ...... 48 AN AFRICAN ELECTION . . . . . 40 CLEVELAND VS. CHASSIS ...... 49 DESERT FLOWER ...... 53 WALL STREET...... 50 HOSPITALITE´ ...... 62 FACING FORWARD ...... 56 DANNY GREENE: THE THE MAN FROM NOWHERE . . 84 THE INTERRUPTERS ...... 66 RISE AND FALL OF THE MUNDANE HISTORY ...... 89 KINYARWANDA ...... 69 IRISHMAN ...... 53 THE PIANO IN A FACTORY . . . 96 THE REDEMPTION OF DRESSED ...... 54 PINOY SUNDAY...... 96 GENERAL BUTT NAKED . . . . . 99 DYING TO DO LETTERMAN . . . 54 RED LIGHT REVOLUTION . . . . 98 A SCREAMING MAN ...... 103 FACING FORWARD ...... 56 R U THERE...... 101 TOGETHERNESS HAMILL ...... 34 SUPREME ...... 114 SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL THE HIGH COST OF LIVING. . . 61 FLOWER ...... 102 WELCOME TO LONG WAY TO OBLIVION. . . . . 82 SHELBYVILLE ...... 119 SEVEN DAYS IN HEAVEN . . . 104 OUTSIDE THE WIRE: THE THERE ONCE WAS FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF AN ISLAND...... 112 AFGHANISTAN ...... 94 THE PRISON WHERE Jane’s Journey POLKA! THE MOVIE ...... 97 I LIVE...... 113 TRUE NATURE ...... 115 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION. . 122 RECALL HIS PAST LIVES. . . . 117 THE WOODMANS ...... 123 Togetherness Supreme Red Light Revolution CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL “Since engaging TWIST Creative to develop the design and strategy for the Cleveland International Film Festival, we have witnessed an increase in attendance of nearly 105%. Coincidence? We think not. In addition to contributing to this unprecedented growth of our organization, TWIST has provided us with expert counsel and creativity that have helped to elevate the overall value of the Cleveland International Film Festival brand locally, nationally, and internationally. This year, in celebration of our 35th anniversary, TWIST has inspired us to ask everyone to Be Part of the Story. TWIST is a huge part of our story, for we could not – and would not – be able to tell it without them.” + Marcie Goodman, Executive Director 30 2011 COMPETITIONS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION Presented with the generous support of George Gund III and Iara Lee Over two decades ago, the Cleveland International Film Festival launched a special focus on films from Central and Eastern Europe, the native lands of many Clevelanders. When we began our series, the world was a very different place: the Berlin Wall was still standing, the U.S.S.R. was still one country, and the Cold War was chilling out. Throughout these past two decades, the films from Central and Eastern Europe have changed dramatically due to filmmakers exerting their rights to make films without government involvement and censorship. We now see films from a plethora of genres, including colorful comedies, slice-of-life sketches, and unusual love stories. The results provide us with a rare and unique look inside the lives of the ordinary as well as the extraordinary. One thing that has remained the same for the past 22 years is our commitment to bringing some of the most soughtafter films from this area of the world to Cleveland. This year the CIFF is proud to present its ninth Central and Eastern European Film Competition. This competition not only gives recognition to the films coming to us from Central and Eastern Europe, but it also awards one filmmaker a $10,000 cash prize that will be announced at the Closing Night Reception. David D’Arcy is a writer and broadcaster. Past winners of this competition are: He reviews films for Screen International and talks about culture on the BBC. He 2003 I EDI programs the international documentary Poland; Piotr Trzaskalski (co-winner) section at the Haifa International film 2003 I HUKKLE Festival in Israel. He also writes about art Hungary; György Pálfi (co-winner) The Ugly Duckling and the art market for The Art Newspaper 2004 I THE STROLL (London) and Art + Auction (New York). Russia; Alexei Uchitel 2005 DAYS AND HOURS Michael Lerman is Artistic Director for I Included in this year’s Central and Eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina; Pjer Zˇalica European Film Competition are: the Philadelphia Film Society and an 2006 A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN Associate Programmer for Fantastic Fest. I FILM TITLE PAGE Czech Republic; Peter Nikolaiev Coming from a diverse background in film, 72 DAYS ...... 37 he’s written for many publications such 2007 I THE MELON ROUTE BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL ...... 44 as indieWIRE, Hammer To Nail, and Croatia; Branko Schmidt Spout. Two years ago he also became the 2008 I TRAVELLING WITH PETS THE BORDER...... 47 Director of Acquisitions for the Film Sales Russia; Vera Storozheva AN EARTHLY PARADISE FOR Company. In that time, he has been 2009 I THE INVESTIGATOR THE EYES ...... 55 involved in the sales of such projects as Hungary; Attila Gigor HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? ...... 60 “Marwencol,” “Convention,” and “The 2010 I HIPSTERS IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE . . . . 64 Overbrook Brothers.” He is also the co- Russia; Valery Todorovsky (co-winner) KAWASAKI’S ROSE...... 68 founder of Tiger Industry Films, where he 2010 I HONEYMOONS MOTHERS ...... 88 produced the features “White on Rice” and Serbia, Albania; Goran Paskaljevic THE ROWAN WALTZ ...... 101 “Surrogate Valentine” and co-directed the (co-winner) SXSW 2008 selection “Natural Causes.” TILVA ROSˇ ...... 114 THE UGLY DUCKLING...... 116 Ulla Rapp programmed the American Independent Films section of the Munich VENICE ...... 118 International Film Festival for 25 years. She was so good at it that American indie filmmakers dubbed Munich “the Independents’ Home Away from Home.” David D’Arcy Michael Lerman Ulla Rapp She currently works as a consultant to the Berlin Film Festival and as a translator and evaluator of film and TV scripts for numerous production companies and agencies in Germany. Her education includes special studies in literature and languages (English, French, and Spanish). She has studied and worked in England, France, Mexico, and the United States. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM 2011 COMPETITIONS 31 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION With generous support from: Armadillo Our Standing Up Film Competition is a tribute to Greg Gund. Greg’s friends and FILM TITLE PAGE family described him as “intensely creative and talented, and wholly without preten- ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN ...... 39 sion.” For five years Greg lived in Playa Negro near Tamarindo, Costa Rica where he immersed himself by becoming part of the local community. As much as he deeply AN AFRICAN ELECTION ...... 40 loved his home there, Greg was also an extensive world traveler with an adventurous ARMADILLO...... 42 spirit and an insatiable curiosity about different cultures and people. He lived by this AUTUMN GOLD ...... 42 Mahatma Gandhi quote inscribed in his passport: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. CONNECTED ...... 51 Learn as if you were to live forever.” Greg died at the age of 32 in a small plane crash CRIME AFTER CRIME...... 52 off the Pacific Coast on July 16, 2005. DANNY GREENE: THE RISE AND FALL Our Standing Up program includes “films with a conscience.” These films especially OF THE IRISHMAN ...... 53 celebrate social justice and activism. Through the films, Standing Up honors Greg DYING TO DO LETTERMAN ...... 54 Gund—as well as others with a different view of the world in which we live—and the FACING FORWARD ...... 56 continual fight to make it a better world. Based on audience vote, the winner of this FEATHERED COCAINE ...... 57 competition’s $5,000 cash prize will be announced at the Closing Night Reception. THE GREEN WAVE ...... 58 HOLY WARS ...... 61 Past winners of the competition are: I AM ...... 63 2006 I AMERICAN BLACKOUT IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY ...... 65 USA; Ian Inaba THE INTERRUPTERS ...... 66 2007 I DARIUS GOES WEST: THE INTO ETERNITY ...... 67 ROLE OF HIS LIFE JANE’S JOURNEY...... 68 USA; Logan Smalley KINYARWANDA ...... 69 2008 I IRON LADIES OF LIBERIA MADE IN INDIA ...... 83 USA, Liberia; Daniel Junge & Siatta Scott Johnson MARCH OF THE LIVING ...... 84 2009 I THE WAY WE GET BY THE MARKET...... 85 USA; Aron Gaudet MORE TO LIVE FOR ...... 87 2010 I LOUDER THAN A BOMB MY KIDNAPPER ...... 90 USA; Jon Siskel & Greg Jacobs MY SO-CALLED ENEMY ...... 91 ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT ...... 93 OUTSIDE THE WIRE: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF AFGHANISTAN...... 94 PARADISE HOTEL ...... 95 THE PIPE...... 97 THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED...... 99 SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE STORY . . . . . 111 THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND ...... 112 THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE ...... 113 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES. . 115 WE WERE HERE ...... 119 In Memory of Greg Gund WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE ...... 119 May 26, 1973 - July 16, 2005 THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS. . . 122 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION ...... 122 32 2011 COMPETITIONS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Nesnadny + Schwartz Documentary Film Competition The CIFF is excited to present our seventh Nesnadny + Schwartz Documentary Film Competition. In 2005, after CIFF atten- dees voted documentaries as the winners of its audience choice award three years in a row, we decided to highlight these films since they hold such enormous interest for our audience. Nesnadny + Schwartz (www.BigFatIdeas.com) is a preeminent David Wilson is a graduate of Hampshire international visual communications con- College in Massachusetts. Together with sultancy committed to providing clients Paul Sturtz, he founded the Ragtag what they least expect. Nesnadny + Film Society, the Ragtag Cinema, and Self Made Schwartz is very proud to continue their the True/False Film Fest, all in Columbia, Included in this year’s Documentary support of the Cleveland International Film Missouri. Along with running True/False, Film Competition are: Festival and to sponsor a program that has Wilson serves as a programming associate such social, artistic, and popular appeal. for the Sundance Film Festival. As director FILM TITLE PAGE Documentaries in competition that are of True/False, Wilson has been invited to BEYOND THIS PLACE ...... 44 screening in the Festival will be viewed be a panelist at Sundance and the IFP BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST by our panel of jurors throughout the Markets in New York and Chicago to dis- THE WORLD...... 46 week, and the winner of a $5,000 cash cuss film festival strategy. In addition, he ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER...... 55 prize will be announced at the Closing has served as a consultant for the Creative A MOUTHFUL ...... 89 Capital Foundation and the LEF Moving Night Reception. MY AVATAR AND ME...... 90 Image Fund. He’s also done hard time on festival juries around the U.S. NORMAN MAILER: THE AMERICAN . . . . 92 These are our esteemed jurors this year: THE OTHER F WORD: A COMING OF Bryce J. Renninger has recently been MIDDLE AGE STORY...... 94 Jeff Malmberg is a documentary director designated the Director of Programming PRESSPAUSEPLAY ...... 98 and editor whose debut film “Marwencol” for NewFest: New York’s LGBT Film has won over a dozen awards, including Festival, where he has worked since SECRETS OF THE TRIBE ...... 103 two Film Independent Spirit Awards, Best 2008. Before taking on the role of Director SELF MADE ...... 104 Documentary of the Year from the Boston of Programming, Renninger served as SPACE TOURISTS...... 107 Society of Film Critics, and the Nesnadny Shorts Programmer for the festival. He STEAM OF LIFE ...... 109 + Schwartz Award for Best Documentary works in the editorial department of THESE AMAZING SHADOWS ...... 112 at the 2010 Cleveland International Film indieWIRE as a staff contributing writer Festival. Malmberg has worked as a film and teaches at Rutgers University in the and television editor for over a decade on Digital Communication, Information & critically acclaimed films and series for Media program. Previously, he served as Past winners of the competition are: PBS, A&E, the History Channel, TV One, the Managing Director of the South Asian 2005 I THE TAKE and BET. International Film Festival. Canada, Argentina; Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein 2006 I IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS USA; James Longley 2007 I MR. PILIPENKO AND HIS SUBMARINE Jeff Malmberg David Wilson Bryce J. Renninger Germany, Ukraine; Jan Hinrik Drevs and René Harder 2008 I OUT OF TIME Austria; Harald Friedl 2009 I TRINIDAD USA; PJ Raval and Jay Hodges 2010 I MARWENCOL USA; Jeff Malmberg The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SPONSORS 33 34 OPENING NIGHT The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS, LOCAL HEROES THURSDAY, MARCH 24 OPENING NIGHT GALA Presented by: Hamill Directed by Oren Kaplan Opening Night Gala Chair USA 2010 Rob Ganley 108 minutes Vice President/Manager of Private Banking, Dollar Bank Thursday, March 24 Special Guests Will Include: 7:00 PM Code HAML24 I Matt Hamill ONE SCREENING ONLY Oren Kaplan (Director) Matt “The Hammer” Hamill is a champion athlete who happens to be deaf; Eben Kostbar (Producer) this is his story. Born in Loveland, Ohio, Matt starts off as a wrestler who Russell Harvard (Actor in the Role of Matt Hamill) suffers more than the usual taunts from neighborhood kids. Because his Rich Franklin (Actor in the Role of Coach Pruitt) grandfather refuses to allow him any special school accommodations, he grows up to be self-reliant and an expert lip-reader—but unable to sign very well. When he’s admitted to Purdue University with its excellent wrestling program, he and his grandfather are over the moon. But Matt isn’t ready to TICKET perform in a pressure-cooker environment where everyone else can hear. He INFORMATION makes a transition to the Rochester Institute of Technology, whose National Technical Institute for the Deaf provides him with not only speech-language pages 144-145 and ASL support, but with a whole new group of friends who are also hard of hearing. When Matt falls in love, it’s the first time he’s distracted from his CIFF members at the Movie Mogul, Executive wrestling. But with the National Collegiate Championships coming up, “The Producer, and Director levels are invited to Hammer” has to focus like never before. HAMILL makes innovative use of join us for a Gala Reception at MK Ferguson subtitles and American Sign Language, so Matt’s story can inspire deaf and Plaza immediately following the film. hearing viewers alike. —B.B. Producers~Eben Kostbar, Joseph McKelheer Screenplay~Eben Kostbar, Joseph McKelheer For others who would like to join us, Opening Cinematography~David Rom Editing~Jacquelyn Dean Principal Cast~Russell Harvard, Raymond J. Night Star tickets gain admission to the film, Barry, Shoshannah Stern, Susan Gibney, Michael Anthony Spady the Gala Reception, and complimentary self- Print Source~Film Harvest / [email protected] / filmharvest.com parking at Tower City Center. Other Screenings~AFI Fest Los Angeles–Audience Award Winner Opening Night Star tickets About the Director~Oren Kaplan was raised in Israel and California and holds a Bachelor’s degree $100 CIFF Members in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA. He has made YouTube videos that have amassed $125 Non-Members over 30 million views and has directed series on the web. Filmography~HAMILL (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 35 AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS SUNDAY, APRIL 3 CLOSING NIGHT FILM AND RECEPTION Soul Surfer Directed by Sean McNamara USA 2011 96 minutes TICKET Sunday, April 3 INFORMATION 7:00 PM I Code SOUL03 ONE SCREENING ONLY pages 144-145 SOUL SURFER is the inspiring true story of teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack and courageously overcame all odds to become a champion CIFF members at the Movie Mogul, surfer again, through her sheer determination and unwavering faith. The film features Executive Producer, and Director levels an all-star cast, including Anna Sophia Robb, Helen Hunt, and Dennis Quaid, with are invited to join us for the Closing Night Carrie Underwood in her film debut. In the wake of this life-changing event, Film, followed by a reception around the Bethany’s feisty determination and steadfast beliefs spur her toward an adventurous fountain at Tower City Center. comeback that gives her the grit to turn her loss into a gift for others. Bethany was Additional tickets (for this film—or born to surf. A natural talent who took to the waves at a young age, she was leading any film showing in the last round— an idyllic, sun-drenched, surfer girl’s life on the Kauai Coast, competing in national and reception) are on sale for: competitions, when everything changed in a heartbeat. SOUL SURFER reveals the $10 CIFF Members moving aftermath of this headline-making story as Bethany fights to recover from $12 Non-Members the shark attack and grapples with the future. The devastating 2004 tsunami in the Pacific Ocean unexpectedly gives Bethany a new perspective. Traveling to Phuket, The Closing Night Reception will include Thailand with her youth-group leader Sara Hill, she witnesses life beyond her own a brief program announcing the winners shoreline and discovers her greater purpose. Filled with a new sense of hope and of the Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up direction, she returns home with a resolve to conquer her own limitations and set Film Competition, Nesnadny + Schwartz an encouraging example for people facing adversity. —M.M. Documentary Film Competition, Central Producers~David Brookwell, Dutch Hofstetter, Sean McNamara, Douglas Schwartz, Screenplay~Sean and Eastern European Film Competition, McNamara, Deborah Schwartz, Douglas Schwartz, Michael Berk Cinematography~John R. Leonetti Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Editing~Jeff Canavan Principal Cast~Anna Sophia Robb, Dennis Quaid, Helen Hunt, Carrie Underwood Award, and the Legacy Award. Print Source~Film District / [email protected] / www.filmdistrict.com About the Director~Sean McNamara was born in Burbank, CA. He got out of homework assignments in grade (photo: Tim Safranek) school by making movies with a super 8 camera. He went on to film school at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he continued making films because it was easier than real school work. He has been directing film and TV ever since. Filmography~“P.U.N.K.S.” (1999), SOUL SURFER (2011) THE CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LEGACY AWARD In celebration of it 35th anniversary, the Cleveland International Film Festival is proud to present its Legacy Award to our founder, Jonathan R. Forman. Jon and his co-founders (all close friends who volunteered their time) optimistically referred David Wittkowsky, Marcie Goodman, to the first CIFF in 1977 as the First Annual Cleveland International Film Festival. One day they went and Jon Forman—the three Executive out to the mailbox and found an order form from someone who actually wanted to buy tickets. Until that Directors over the course of the CIFF’s point, Jon and his friends felt it was unimaginable that they could pull it off. 35 years Flash forward to the 35th CIFF, to more than 71,500 film lovers wanting tickets, and to our tagline Sponsored by: for this year, which is “Be Part of the Story.” Without our author, Jon Forman, there would be no story to tell. Our gratitude for his vision, talent, leadership, and devotion knows no bounds Please join us at our Closing Night Reception when it will be our honor to present Jon Forman with our Legacy Award. 36 THE FINE PRINT The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Program Synopsis FILMS Writers: Brenda Benthien Mallory Martin TO PAGES 37-123 A The Fine Print: General admission seating is available at all performances on a first-come, first-served basis. 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The use of cellular phones (including messaging) is not permitted inside the theaters [ ADULTS ONLY! ] at any time. warning throughout these pages, Sponsored by: please note that we are not kidding. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 37 10% CINEMA CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR 3 72 Days (Drei) (Sedamdeset i dva dana) Directed by Tom Tykwer Directed by Danilo S˘ erbedz˘ija GERMANY 2010 CROATIA, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO 2010 120 minutes 93 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 6:45 PM I Code THRE01 4:15 PM I Code THRE02 11:50 AM I Code DAYS31 7:00 PM I Code DAYS01 Sunday, April 3 The latest film by the director of “Run Lola Run” is a stylish look at contemporary relationships among Berlin’s intelli- 2:10 PM I Code DAYS03 gentsia. Dr. Hanna Blum is the outspoken host of an intellec- Dysfunctional doesn’t begin to describe the family Paripovic. tual talk show; her partner Simon is an engineer who creates Mane and Joja are brothers living in a Croatian backwater large-scale art installations. In their 40s, they have a stable, where men have rock-throwing contests for fun. Mane’s a prim- though infertile, relationship. At a meeting of an ethics coun- itive guy who fights with his neighbor and bullies his family. cil, Hanna has a vocal run-in over the problem of categorizing His addled son Todor is an amateur taxidermist. Joja is a pretty “life” with the geneticist giving the presentation, Dr. Adam good artist when he’s occasionally sober. Joja’s son is Branko, Born. When they meet again at an avant-garde performance a Croatian John Cusack who’s comparatively sane. He’s bored of Shakespeare’s sonnets, a spark is kindled and soon Hanna and depressed, but he can’t seem to get out of town, even and Adam are engaged in an intense sexual relationship. when tough guy creditors start breathing down his neck. Meanwhile, Simon learns he has an operable tumor that must Branko vents his frustration by playing in a pathetic punk band be removed immediately. He coincidentally meets Adam while and promising his girlfriend they’ll move to Belgrade. The recuperating and they too begin a passionate affair. With Paripovic family members all live off the small pension their inspired split-screen scenes and plot twists hinging on missed ailing Granny receives from America. When Granny croaks, cell phone calls, 3 captures the distractibility of modern lives. Mane determines not to let this stop him from getting her pay- As they move through their sophisticated urban dream world ments. He orders Todor and Branko to steal another Granny of exhibits, performances, and galleries, Hanna and Simon from the old folks’ home. This second Granny is in many ways gradually see it’s possible to live outside of preconceived more satisfying than the first. But with Branko’s creditors hom- categories. Say goodbye to your deterministic understanding ing in, Mane’s going to defend his cash by any means possi- of biology. (In German with subtitles) —B.B. ble. (In Croatian with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Stefan Arndt Screenplay~Tom Tykwer Cinematography~Frank Griebe Producer~Ivan Maloca Screenplay~Danilo Šerbedžija Cinematography~Sasha Editing~Mathilde Bonnefoy Principal Cast~Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, Rendulic Editing~Ivana Fumic Principal Cast~Rade Šerbedžija, Kresimir Mikic, Devid Striesow Bogdan Diklic Print Source~Strand Releasing / [email protected] / Print Source~Inter Film / [email protected] / www.sedamdesetidvadana.com www.strandreleasing.com Other Screenings~Gothenburg Film Festival, Pula Film Festival Other Screenings~Toronto Int'l Film Festival, Venice Film Festival About the Director~Danilo Šerbedžija has directed many television programs. About the Director~Tom Tykwer also composes music for his films’ soundtracks. 72 DAYS is a family affair since Danilo’s father, veteran Yugoslav actor Rade He is co-founder and partner of the Berlin-based film production company X Filme Šerbedžija, plays Mane, and his sister Lucija plays Branko’s girlfriend. We hope Creative Pool. Filmography~“Deadly Maria” (1993), “Winter Sleepers” (1997), they get along better than the Paripovic family. Filmography~72 DAYS (2010) “Run Lola Run” (1998), “The Princess and the Warrior” (2000), “Heaven” (2002), “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” (2006), “The International” (2009), 3 (2010) Community Partner: 38 FILMS A – Z [A] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR (818) 2030 – Revolt of the Young Directed by Robert Lee King (2030 - Aufstand der Jungen) USA 2010 Directed by Jörg Lühdorff 86 minutes GERMANY 2010 89 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 11:30 AM I Code EIGH01 5:50 PM I Code EIGH02 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, April 3 2:40 PM I Code YOUN25 8:25 PM I Code YOUN26 2:30 PM I Code EIGH03 Monday, March 28 4:50 PM I Code YOUN28 Once the star of hit prime-time television series, “HMO Nurse,” Alyssa Rampart-Pillage is now the has-been wife of 2030 – REVOLT OF THE YOUNG taps into the younger genera- Bernie, the “Kool King” of air conditioning in Southern tion’s fear for its future. It’s a world where the gulf between California. Although the only role Alyssa can nab these days the employed and unemployed, the insured and uninsured, is the “Kool Queen” of air conditioning, she’s determined could force have-nots into unimaginably bleak circumstances. to prove she’s no ordinary has-been, as she tells her agent, Thirty-year-old Tim Burdenski is shot on a public square and “You have no idea what I’m capable of.” Truly, we don’t. When dies in a Berlin hospital. Journalist Lena Bach’s interest is Alyssa’s tree-hugging daughter Topanga dies an accidental piqued—Tim has been in the news before. He’s one of the death, Bernie starts seeing her ghost and undergoes a spiritual “Millennium Children” born in 2000 whose lives have been change, altering everything in his life—including his will. publicly documented on a reality TV show. But since the birth Alyssa proves to be not so sacrificial and will do what she of these children, at a time when so many were full of hope must in order to hang on to the life she has, not to mention for the future, health care costs have skyrocketed while the Jag she drives. After successfully conspiring a plan to get salaries have decreased. People are making do with permanent rid of Bernie, Alyssa continues down a path of deceit, betrayal, part-time jobs that lack benefits or security. More and more and kitchen knives, dragging the rest of her family with her. young people live below the poverty level. Now, in 2030, Lena (818) is a guilty pleasure of a film that gleefully mocks the tracks down Tim’s old friend Sophie, who has received a mes- world of Hollywood and fame. With Beth Broderick leading sage leading her to believe he’s still alive. As the two women a great cast, this L.A. comedy is full of kitschy dialogue and dig deeper, they unearth a labyrinth of deceit. It leads them teaches us that justice has nothing on celebrity. —M.M. to an underground parallel society where victims of the two-tier health system care for their own. A stylish docu-thriller. Producer~Lisa Schahet Screenplay~David Michael Barrett Cinematography~ Andrew Huebscher Editing~Matthew Cassel Principal Cast~Beth Broderick, (In German with subtitles) —B.B. Chris Mulkey, Whitney Able, Ryan Hansen, Vincent Ventresca, Keri Lynn Pratt, Producers~Regina Ziegler, Nanni Erben Screenplay~Jörg Lühdorff Andrew Lentas, Natha Lee Graham, Corbin Bernsen Cinematography~Konstantin Kröning Editing~Jens Klüber Principal Cast~ Print Source~HMO Nurse Pictures LLC / [email protected] / Bettina Zimmermann, Lavinia Wilson, Barnaby Metschurat www.818movie.com Print Source~ZDF / [email protected] / www.zdf.de About the Director~Robert Lee King is known for his campy and wacky parodies Other Screenings~Munich Film Festival and comedies, particularly “Psycho Beach Party” (2000) starring Lauren Ambrose, for which he won multiple festival awards. Filmography “Psycho Beach Party” ~ About the Director~Jörg Lühdorff is a television director who attended the Film (2000), (818) (2010) Academy of Baden-Württemberg. He directed commercials before making feature- length films for television starting in the 90s. Filmography~2030 – REVOLT OF THE YOUNG (2010) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 39 GREG GUND MEMORIAL AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION LOCAL HEROES GLOBAL HEALTH Aardvark Addicted In Afghanistan Directed by Kitao Sakurai Directed by Jawed Taiman USA, ARGENTINA 2010 AFGHANISTAN, UNITED KINGDOM 2009 80 minutes 75 minutes Friday, March 25 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 8:30 PM I Passholders and Stand-By Only 4:30 PM I Code ADDC28 9:05 PM I Code ADDC29 ONE SCREENING ONLY Over the past decade Afghanistan has become known as the A brilliant film that transcends genre and blurs the line heroin capital of the world, with heroin currently the country’s between documentary and fiction, AARDVARK begins as the number one export. The true victims of this epidemic are the real-life story of the friendship between a blind recovering children of Afghanistan, hooked at an early age with little to alcoholic and his martial arts teacher. In a role inspired by his no hope for their futures. ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN is the own true life, Larry plays himself—a man blind since birth story of teenage boys Zahir and Jabar, two best friends who are who begins a journey of self-discovery when he meets Darren, severely addicted to the “white powder.” Jabar has been abus- the kind and magnetic teacher of his Jiu-Jitsu class. Through ing heroin for eight years and steals cash from his family to fuel Larry’s dedication to the sport and his growing relationship his addiction. Zahir smokes three sachets a day, destroying his with Darren, Larry is able to rebuild his life into one of stability already emaciated body. Both boys come from devastatingly and discipline. But as the film progresses, it transforms into impoverished families, most of whom suffer from addiction a shocking narrative when Darren’s hard-partying ways are themselves. Director Jawed Taiman provides an inside look at revealed and a horrible incident occurs. Consequently, Larry Afghanistan’s government and private drug treatment centers, goes on a search for answers, fueled by vengeance and his showcasing the detox both boys must face in order to be freed loyalty to his close friend. As director Kitao Sakurai explains, from this “bad habit” that will certainly destroy any chance the film’s twist is a reflection on the “push and pull of cine- they may have at a normal life. This documentary examines ma’s engagement with physical reality.” In a sense, Sakurai is the intense shame and desperation of the dangerous amount questioning our perspective of reality in general and does so of drug-addicted Afghanis. The fact is, these addicts are mere beautifully by flowing two parts—one real, one not—into a sin- children, lost and afraid. (In Arabic with subtitles) —M.M. gle seamless story. Based and shot in Cleveland, AARDVARK Producers~Sharron Ward, Jawed Taiman Cinematography~Jawed Taiman is a simple, yet dramatic thriller starring two men who Editing~Jason Brooks, Nigel Taylor, Jawed Taiman, Sharron Ward essentially reenact their lives together in order to tell a larger Print Source~Katalyst Productions Ltd. / [email protected] / story about relationships and how they can reveal a man’s www.addictedinafghanistan.com true nature. —M.M. Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Mexico Int’l Film Festival–Golden Palm Award, Sheffield Int’l Documentary Festival, Asian First Producer~Andrew Barchilon Screenplay~Kitao Sakurai Cinematography~Aaron Film Festival–Best Director of Documentary, Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Kovalchik Editing~Luke Lynch Principal Cast~Larry Lewis Jr., Darren Branch, Film Festival Jessica Cole Print Source~Naked Faces / [email protected] / www.nakedfacesfilm.com About the Director~Jawed Taiman was born in Kandahar, Afghanistan and Other Screenings~Locarno Film Festival, Int'l Film Festival Rotterdam, now lives in London. He is formerly a short subject filmmaker. Filmography~ Thessaloniki Int'l Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN (2009) About the Director~Kitao Sakurai was born in Japan and moved to Cleveland, Sponsored by: Community Ohio where he began his cinematic career as a childhood actor. He developed his Partner: love for performance into a notable career as a cinematographer and director. Filmography~AARDVARK (2010) Community Partner: This film is presented with the generous support of SCOTT AND PATTI FINE. 40 FILMS A – Z [A] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS An African Election Almost Kings Directed by Jarreth Merz Directed by Philip G. Flores USA, GHANA, SWITZERLAND 2010 USA 2010 89 minutes 91 minutes Saturday, March 26 Monday, March 28 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 11:00 AM I Code ANAF26 2:25 PM I Code ANAF28 4:40 PM I Code ALMS25 7:55 PM I Code ALMS27 (w/FilmForum) Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 9:40 PM I Code ALMS28 6:35 PM I Code ANAF29 A grimly authentic tale about wasted teenage lives, ALMOST The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa serve KINGS features frank performances by its cast of young actors. as a backdrop for this documentary, which goes behind the All across small-town America, teenagers are fueled by bore- scenes of the complex political machinery of an emerging dom, alcohol, and hormones. This is the story of just one kid democracy. Nana Akufo-Addo is running for the New Patriotic —a smart high school freshman named Ted who lives with his Party, with its slightly conservative platform, while John Atta abusive, paralyzed father and his older brother Truck. Truck is Mills of the National Democratic Congress skews a bit more a star of the football team and leader of the “Kings”—high progressive. The first sub-Saharan African nation to achieve school royalty and hellions in reality. Ted starts hanging out independence from Britain in 1957, Ghana is a middle income with the Kings and soon hears they have a contest going to see economy well-endowed with natural resources, and now a who can have sex with the most freshman girls. Hoping to stable democracy. Modern Ghana’s adherence to principles impress them, Ted reluctantly signs on and invites his female of freedom and justice make it a proud exception to the sad classmates to drinking parties. While Ted’s real friends want cliché of African nations still beset by political violence and him to concentrate on their quiz bowl team, he digs himself electoral fraud. AN AFRICAN ELECTION follows the key play- in deeper with the gang, lying to them that he’s deflowered ers for almost three months, taking us on unpredictable twists a girl. When he discovers Truck is cheating on his pregnant and turns down the back roads of the nation. When neither fiancée, Ted tells her about the contest. Furious, Truck sets candidate receives a majority, the Electoral Commission a trap for his little brother. When Ted realizes the goal he’s announces a runoff to be held three weeks later. Tempers, set for himself is rotten, he starts to become a man by his which have been held admirably in check until now, are begin- own actions. —B.B. ning to flare. Hopefully, Ghana’s citizens will remain more Producer~Chase B. Kenney Screenplay~Philip G. Flores, Max Doty level-headed than their larger-than-life politicians. —B.B. Cinematography~Bradley Stonesifer Editing~Amy Duddleston Principal Cast~Lorenzo James Henrie, Billy Campbell, Alex Frost, Hayley Ramm, Producers~Jarreth Merz, Tiziana Soudani, Silvana Bezzolla Rigolini, Luisella Portia Doubleday, Alex Russell Realini Cinematography~Topher Osborn Editing~Samir Samperisi Print Source~Philip G. Flores / [email protected] Print Source~Urban Republic / [email protected] / www.anafricanelection.com www.almostkingsmovie.com Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Sundance Film Festival Other Screenings~Starz Denver Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Jarreth Merz is a Swiss-born actor, director, and producer. About the Director~Philip G. Flores was the winner of the 2009 “Netflix FIND He is known for his portrayal of Simon of Cyrene in Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of Your Voice” filmmaking competition, out of a field of 2,000 competitors. He is the Christ” and for his recurring role as Charles Baruani in “ER.” Filmography~ a USC film school graduate. Filmography~ALMOST KINGS (2010) AN AFRICAN ELECTION (2010) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 41 CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL, GLOBAL HEALTH FILM IS ART, WOMEN OF THE WORLD JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS, WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Anita The Arbor (Anita: La vida puede cambiar en un instante) Directed by Clio Barnard Directed by Marcos Carnevale UNITED KINGDOM 2009 ARGENTINA 2009 90 minutes 104 minutes Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 7:10 PM I Code ARBR28 11:45 AM I Code ARBR29 6:55 PM I Code ANIT30 1:45 PM I Code ANIT31 There are few existences more drab than those lived out in the Buenos Aires, 1994. The Argentine Israelite Mutual Buttershaw Estate in Bradford, England. “Estate” is a British Association is bombed and 85 people are killed. Pandemonium misnomer for the post-war council housing blocks that are ensues as the lives of the local Jewish population are turned hotbeds of family violence and drug addiction. Inconceivably, upside down. This is doubly true for Anita, a sweet-tempered a playwriting genius emerged from this bleak world in 1982 woman with Down Syndrome, who’s caught up in forces she when Andrea Dunbar’s “Rita, Sue and Bob Too” took London’s can’t understand. Until now, Anita’s darling Mami has been theater world by storm. Andrea was 18 and a single mother at her entire world. Mami owns a shop near the Mutual the time, and her work spoke of rampant drug use, crime, and Association. One day she leaves Anita there alone while she casual sex among England’s lower classes. THE ARBOR is an does a quick errand. There’s a big bang and Mami doesn’t unusual meditation on Andrea’s life and that of her unhappy come back. Not knowing what to do, or even Mami’s name or daughter Lorraine, who grew up similarly unable to shake her address, Anita drifts through the chaotic streets. She meets addictions to drugs and violent men. The film makes fascinat- several people, including an alcoholic and a family of Asian ing use of the conventions of verbatim theater, as actors lip- immigrants who take her in briefly. But it’s easier for them to synch to audio recordings of statements by Andrea’s real fami- close their eyes than to contact the authorities, and they send ly. These segments, with their alienating theatrical effect, are Anita out to wander on, to the next place of refuge. ANITA is intertwined with documentary footage of Andrea’s life and a heartbreaking film filled with love and sorrow. (In Spanish reconstructions of her plays. As actors perform outdoors on with subtitles) —B.B. Buttershaw’s green space, the estate’s current residents watch Producer~Marcos Carnevale Screenplay~Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guety, Lily the show. Andrea Dunbar’s dark visions couldn’t hit any closer Ann Martin Cinematography~Guillermo Zappino Editing~Pablo Barbieri Carrera to home. (In Bradford-accented English with subtitles) —B.B. Principal Cast~Norma Aleandro, Luis Luque, Leonor Manso, Alejandra Manzo Print Source~Menemsha Films / [email protected] / Producer~Tracy O’Riordan Cinematography~Ole Birkeland Editing~Nick Fenton, www.menemshafilms.com Daniel Goddard Principal Cast~Christine Bottomley, Manjinder Virk, Neil Dudgeon Print Source~Strand Releasing / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Los Angeles Latino Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Film Festival www.strandreleasing.com Other Screenings~Hamburg Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, BFI About the Director~Marcos Carnevale began his career in advertising in 1983. In London Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival 1991 he started his own production company, Millecento Cinema. He has created and directed more than 300 commercials that have earned him various interna- tional awards, and he writes TV series. Filmography~“Night Serenaders” (1996), About the Director~Clio Barnard is an artist-filmmaker whose work has shown “Clams and Mussels” (2000), “Elsa & Fred” (2003), ANITA (2009) in cinemas, international film festivals, and galleries including Tate Modern and MoMA, New York. Filmography~THE ARBOR (2009) This film is presented with the generous support of DR. LORETTA SAMANIEGO. Community Partner: Media Partner: Community Partner: 42 FILMS A – Z [A–B] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION GLOBAL HEALTH Armadillo Autumn Gold Directed by Janus Metz Pedersen (Herbstgold) DENMARK 2010 Directed by Jan Tenhaven 100 minutes GERMANY 2010 90 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 2:10 PM I Code ARMA30 9:10 PM I Code ARMA31 Friday, April 1 Sunday, April 3 2:00 PM I Code AUTU01 11:40 AM I Code AUTU03 ARMADILLO is a sort of Scandinavian “Restrepo,” a clear-eyed documentary that accompanies a band of new Danish recruits AUTUMN GOLD is an absolutely charming film that soars tri- to the war in Afghanistan. We first meet them at home, days umphantly above all the hackneyed sports movies you’ve ever before they deploy on their six-month tour to the Armadillo seen. Five European athletes are training for the 2009 World military base in Helmand province. The boys hold a raucous Masters track and field championships in Finland. They striptease party, then exchange farewells with their tearful stretch, lift weights, and jog around parks. They explain their loved ones at the Copenhagen airport the next morning. But dietary plans and reminisce about former wins and losses. soon they’re in Afghanistan, and the reality of war, with its Sound pretty ho-hum so far? It’s not. These athletes are all alternating tedium and terror, sets in. The Danes go out on between 83 and 100 years old, and a more astonishing group patrol, hand out candy to kids, and question uncooperative you’ve never met. Jiri runs up five stories in a minute and then locals about the Taliban presence. To combat boredom during pauses to dole out some wisdom on life. Gabre, an Italian their free time, they call home, play shooter games, and watch beauty in full make-up and jewelry, throws her discus with her porn. Then, one morning at dawn, civilians start fleeing the sunglasses perched on her head scarf. Herbert is 90 and runs area. The patrol comes under fire and a soldier is hit. In the the 100m sprint. Shot-putter Ilse dances around her living ensuing chaos, the Danes encounter Taliban fighters squatting room like she was 45 and not 85. Alfred, a Viennese discus in a ditch, three meters away from them. Someone tosses thrower and a designer for 80 years, sketches a nude model in a hand grenade and the enemy is “neutralized.” When the at 100. Though they’ve been athletes all their lives—Gabre shooting stops, the congratulations begin—but so does the and Alfred even competed in the 1936 Olympics—their posi- soul-searching. ARMADILLO caused a furor in peace-loving tive attitudes and refusal to slow down are keys to their vitality. Denmark where viewers were outraged over the soldiers’ per- Come on, shake a leg and get inspired. (In Czech, German, ceived callousness. (In Danish with subtitles) —B.B. Italian, and English with subtitles) —B.B. Producers~Ronnie Fridthjof, Sara Stockmann Cinematography~Lars Skree Producer~Christian Beetz Cinematography~Marcus Winterbauer Editing~Jürgen Editing~Per K. Kerkegaard Winkelblech Featuring~Alfred Proksch, Gabre Gabric, Herbert Liedke, Ilse Pleuger, Print Source~Kino Lorber, Inc. / [email protected] / www.kinolorber.com Jirí Soukup Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / www.filmstransit.com Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival–Best Documentary, Toronto Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Berlin & Beyond Film Festival, Munich Int’l Documentary Film Festival, Hot Docs Int’l Film About the Director~Janus Metz Pedersen has a Master’s degree in Communication Festival–Top Ten Audience Favorite/Filmmaker Award and International Development Studies from Roskilde University. He worked as a researcher on documentary film projects and lived in South Africa for a year, where About the Director~Jan Tenhaven is a writer and director of documentaries and he worked on a drama series. Filmography~“Love on Delivery” (2008), “Ticket to television programs. Currently he works in the Arts & Science Department at MDR Paradise” (2008), ARMADILLO (2010) television in Leipzig as well as for Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion in Berlin. Filmography~AUTUMN GOLD (2010) Sponsored by: Community This film is presented by BETH STEELE RADISEK Partner: in honor of CAL RADISEK, CHLOE RADISEK (USAF), and LINDSAY RADISEK (USMC). PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 43 CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Bad Family Basilicata Coast to Coast (Paha perhe) Directed by Rocco Papaleo Directed by Aleksei Salmenperä ITALY 2010 FINLAND 2010 105 minutes 95 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 6:55 PM I Code BASL01 1:55 PM I Code BASL02 9:25 AM I Code BADF29 9:45 PM I Code BADF30 Friday, April 1 Who wouldn’t love a band that raps about their Mammas’ omelet sandwiches? These guys dig all things real, including 9:30 PM Code BADF01 I family, friends, and homeland. They’re lucky—their homeland Mikael, a cold-eyed Finn who likes to have things just so, is the stunningly beautiful region of Basilicata in the instep of is a respected judge with strong ideas about child-rearing. But Italy’s boot, which stretches from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian something’s rotten in the state of Finland. Mikael’s first wife Sea. These native sons are a ragtag bunch of charmers— left long ago for Denmark with their daughter Tilda, leaving Nicola, a frustrated math teacher whose wife runs a boutique Mikael behind with their son Dani. Mikael’s second wife, their hotel; Rocco, a TV actor whose career has seen better days; young son, and Mikael’s mute father round out the happy Salvatore, who ditched his medical studies in their final hour; household in BAD FAMILY. When the ex-wife dies, Tilda shows and Franco the bass player, mute since the death of his lover. up on their doorstep. She and Dani are teenagers close in age, Outfitted with a horse and cart topped with solar cells, the and though they barely know each other, they find an emotion- band undertakes a journey across Basilicata—on foot as a al kinship. This is more than Mikael can bear; he’s convinced publicity stunt leading up to their performance in a local the siblings are having sex. His clear mind devises increasingly music competition. Accompanying them is Tropea, a reluctant devious methods of spying on them. He sets up cameras. journalist assigned to document their journey. As the little He loudly reads the penal code regarding incest outside their band trudges eastward, they camp out, evade authorities, deal locked door. He sends Grandpa to a home, and his wife to a with crazy agents and over-protective brothers, and fall in love hotel, until he can regain control of this matter. With his para- again. Spoken word and jazz performances on hillsides and in noia at a fever pitch, Mikael hires a garden gnome of a man local villages make BASILICATA COAST TO COAST a funky to bundle Dani off. It’s really time for Mikael to learn to let go. delight of a road movie. (In Italian with subtitles) —B.B. (In Finnish with subtitles) —B.B. Producers~Isabella Cocuzza, Mark Lombardo, Arturo Paglia, Elisabetta Olmi Producer~Aki Kaurismäki Screenplay~Aleksei Salmenperä Cinematography~ Screenplay~Walter Lupo, Rocco Papaleo Cinematography~Fabio Olmi Tuomo Hutri Editing~Samu Heikkilä Principal Cast~Ville Virtanen, Lauri Tilkanen, Editing~Christian Lombardi Principal Cast~Alessandro Gassman, Paolo Briguglia, Pihla Viitala, Vera Kiiskinen Max Gazzè Print Source~The Finnish Film Foundation / [email protected] / www.ses.fi/en Print Source~Paco Cinematografica / [email protected] / www.pacocinematografica.it Other Screenings~Athens Film Festival, Berlin Int’l Film Festival, Durban Int’l Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Rocco Papaleo is an actor, singer, and songwriter from Basilicata. He plays Nicola in the film. Filmography~BASILICATA COAST TO About the Director~Aleksei Salmenperä came to film after initially studying COAST (2010) architecture. Filmography~“Producing Adults” (2004), “A Man’s Job” (2007), BAD FAMILY (2010) Sponsored SAMANTHA and YOPLAIT, the Felines of Film, by: are presenting this film for PENNY CAMPBELL in appreciation for her superb care. [ ADULTS ONLY! ] 44 FILMS A – Z [B] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ CENTRAL AND EASTERN DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION Beyond This Place Bibliotheque Pascal Directed by Kaleo La Belle Directed by Szabolcs Hajdu SWITZERLAND, USA 2010 HUNGARY, GERMANY 2010 95 minutes 111 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 11:35 AM I Code BEYN01 5:45 PM I Code BEYN02 1:45 PM I Code BIBL30 1:55 PM I Code BIBL01 Saturday, April 2 Kaleo La Belle, director and narrator of BEYOND THIS PLACE, finally heard from his dad the day he turned 34. Born on a 9:30 PM I Code BIBL02 hippie commune in Maui to Cloud Rock La Belle and mother BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL is unlike any film you have ever seen. Marj, little Kaleo’s given name was “Ganja.” Cloud Rock, a Mona is a sad-eyed mother called in for questioning by child spectacularly unrepentant deadbeat father who claims he’s protection services after leaving her young daughter with a for- been “stoned for 40 years,” suddenly invites his son to pedal tune-telling aunt. As she sits in the drab social worker’s office, with him on a 500-mile journey through the Pacific Northwest. she begins to spin the tale of her life, which turns into the Frustrated with his old man’s total lack of responsibility, and increasingly colorful and astonishing film we’re watching. wounded by his abandonment, Kaleo asks Cloud Rock pointed After a series of surreal mishaps, Mona is sold in slavery to questions about his motivation. But the old guy refuses to be a trendy and frighteningly debauched Liverpool brothel. At the drawn in. The only things he’s interested in are pursuing his Bibliotheque Pascal, well-read patrons act out their violent own happiness, LSD, and cycling. “My life is not about disap- sexual fantasies with Joan of Arc, Pinocchio, Lolita, and— pointing a child. It’s about becoming a man. I love my free- inescapably—Desdemona. Pascal, the bordello owner, is an dom,” he grinningly tells his son. In an effort to comprehend alarmingly jovial fellow who gives Mona feel-good drugs this maddening person, Kaleo goes on a quest, interviewing and suits her up for her final destination. Escape from this commune members still living off the grid in Maui, his mental- hell seems impossible. But, fortunately, it seems that both ly ill brother Starbuck, and his mom in suburban Detroit. Mona and her daughter are able to project their dreams onto Simultaneously funny and devastating, BEYOND THIS PLACE other people’s reality. Though whose reality is this, anyway? is a heartfelt journey of body and soul. —B.B. (In Romanian, Hungarian, and English with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Patrick M. Mueller Cinematography~Kaleo La Belle, Simon Weber Producers~Iván Angelusz, Gábor Kovács, András Hámori Screenplay~Szabolcs Editing~Tania Stöcklin Featuring~Cloud Rock La Belle, Kaleo La Belle Hajdu Cinematography~András Nagy Editing~Peter Politzer Principal Cast~ Print Source~DOCMINE Productions AG / [email protected] / Orsolya Török-Illyes, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu www.beyondthisplace.ch Print Source~Magyar Filmunio / [email protected] / www.bpascalfilm.com Other Screenings~Hot Docs Canadian Int’l Film Festival, AFI/Discovery Channel 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–HUNGARY Silverdocs Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival About the Director~Kaleo La Belle was born on Maui, Hawaii. He studied Digital About the Director~Szabolcs Hajdu was born in Debrecen, Hungary in 1972. Media at NYSCC in Alfred, New York and Visual Communications at the Lucerne His films have won prizes at the Hungarian Film Week and in Kiev. Filmography~ University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Based in Switzerland, Kaleo works inter- “Sticky Business” (2000), “Tamara” (2003), “White Palms” (2006), nationally as an independent director and cinematographer of documentary films. BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL (2010) Filmography~“Crooked River” (2005), BEYOND THIS PLACE (2010) Sponsored by: This film is presented Community Partners: with the generous support of CARL F. RAK. [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 45 SOMEONE TO WATCH DOCUMENTARIES FILM IS ART Big Dreams Little Tokyo Bill Cunningham New York Directed by Dave Boyle Directed by Richard Press USA 2006 USA 2010 86 minutes 84 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 1:45 PM I Code BIGD02 2:15 PM I Code BIGD03 7:05 PM I Code BILL02 7:15 PM I Code BILL03 Meet Boyd Wilson, card-carrying businessman. Boyd has Who’s that peculiar fellow in a bright blue jacket, pedaling his almost completely assimilated to Japanese culture: he speaks bike through the streets of New York with cameras dangling fluent Japanese; he has mastered the use of chopsticks; and around his neck? Make way for Bill Cunningham, the 82-year- he doesn’t squirm at the sight of a raw fish carcass at dinner. old photographer who’s been capturing the fashion pulse of But Boyd doesn’t live in Japan; he lives in California. An the streets since 1978 for The New York Times. A fixture at overeager entrepreneur, he cycles around Japantown trying to high society charity soirées, Bill is spectacularly unassuming sell his book “The Power of Words” to anyone who looks even despite his access to crowned heads of style, including Tom remotely Asian. With few takers, Boyd supplements his meager Wolfe, Annette de la Renta, and the Astors. Until recently he income by teaching Japanese to his live-in student Jerome, lived in a tiny apartment above Carnegie Hall crammed with a Japanese-American aspiring to be a sumo wrestler. Just shy file cabinets. Bill eats in modest cafés, even when he’s in of making the weight limit for sumo school, Jerome constantly Paris covering the fashion shows or receiving his Chevalier eats and rarely moves, much to the dismay of Boyd. When award from the government of France. He refuses to accept Jerome overeats himself into the hospital, Boyd meets Mai, any food or drink from party-givers, for fear of compromising a cute Japanese nurse in need of some extra (English) lessons. his impartiality. He’s a cultural anthropologist, not a fashion- As Boyd’s dreams get bigger, cross-cultural follies ensue. ista, and he doesn’t give a hoot if you’re wealthy or famous, Writer/director/actor Dave Boyle delivers effortless comedy in or sporting something you dug out of the trash bin. If it’s the entirely unique BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO. (In English interesting, he’ll take a picture of you. If not, he’s pedaling and Japanese with subtitles) —E.J.B. off again. “We all get dressed for Bill,” says Anna Wintour, Producers~Duane Andersen, Megan Boyle Screenplay~Dave Boyle editor of Vogue. Because of BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK Cinematography~Bill Otto Editing~Duane Andersen, Scott Hurst Principal we can understand why. —B.B. Cast~Dave Boyle, Jayson Watabe, Rachael Morihiro, Pepe Serna Producer~Philip Gefter Cinematography~Tony Cenicola, Richard Press Print Source~Tiger Industry Films / [email protected] / Editing~Ryan Denmark, Barry Alexander Brown Featuring~Bill Cunningham, www.bigdreamslittletokyo.com Tom Wolfe, Anna Wintour Other Screenings~AFI Los Angeles Film Festival, Philadelphia Int’l Film Festival, Print Source~Zeitgeist Films / [email protected] / www.zeitgeistfilms.com St. Louis Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Abu Dahbi Film Festival–Best First Documentary, Melbourne Int’l Film Festival–Audience Award Best Documentary, Nantucket Film Festival– About the Director~Dave Boyle was raised in Tuscon. He studied Japanese Best Storytelling in a Documentary, Sydney Film Festival–Audience Award Best Language and Literature at Brigham Young University, then served a two-year mis- Documentary sion in Sydney, Australia where he learned to speak Japanese. Things have never been the same since. Filmography~BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO (2006), “White About the Director~Richard Press has written and directed award-winning short on Rice” (2009), “Surrogate Valentine” (2011) films. His film project “Virtual Love,” developed at the Sundance Filmmakers’ Lab, received an award at the Sundance Film Festival. Filmography~BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of STEWART and DONNA KOHL. 46 FILMS A – Z [B] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Black Death Bobby Fischer Against the World Directed by Christopher Smith Directed by Liz Garbus UNITED KINGDOM 2010 USA 2011 97 minutes 93 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 11:50 PM I Code BLAC02 11:50 AM I Code BLAC03 11:45 AM I Code BOBB28 6:50 PM I Code BOBB29 Wednesday, March 30 Set in 14th century England at the onset of the Bubonic Plague, BLACK DEATH gruesomely depicts not only the unmer- 9:20 AM I Code BOBB30 ciful destruction by the disease, but also the disturbing effects What made Bobby Fischer a mad genius? Was it his mother it had on religious beliefs and practices. Osmund is a young Regina, a Communist agitator who left him alone at 16 so she monk who is torn between his duty to God and his overwhelm- could pursue medical training? The media attention, starting ing desire to flee the infected city. He prays to God for guid- from the time he became the U.S. chess champion at 14? ance and is answered when he is chosen to lead a group of The pressure of the legendary 1972 world championship renegade bounty hunters into the same forest where his love match against Boris Spassky, staged as a battle for ideological Averill awaits him. Yet the journey proves more dangerous than supremacy between the U.S. and the Soviets, which his the- he originally thought. He learns that they are headed towards a atrical behavior nearly derailed? When he became world chess village of savages who are rumored to have cast God aside and champion, Fischer was an obsessive 29-year-old with no sup- have avoided the Plague through use of witchcraft. After hear- port system, ill-equipped to handle fame. The film features ing of their demonic sacrifices and necromancy, Ulric, the gal- rare archival footage and interviews with those who knew him, lant head of the group, and his men are determined to destroy exposing the high price he paid for success. After his meteoric this village and bring their leaders to justice. But when they rise, Bobby Fischer fell hard, becoming a recluse for two arrive to the notorious marsh these derelicts call home, nothing decades. He resurfaced as a delusional paranoiac, ranting is as it seems. The people here are eerily calm and welcoming, against Jews and America. Following struggles with the govern- led by the beautiful, ethereal Langiva. Although Ulric and his ments of the U.S. and Japan, Fischer died nearly friendless in men are ready for battle, unwilling to let their guard down, Iceland. BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD is the sad Osmund struggles to decide whether their mission is truly a tale of a chess mastermind who became unable to master his holy one whose purpose is to destroy evil or an unjust vendetta own mind. —B.B. against an innocent people. BLACK DEATH is a mysterious, Producers~Liz Garbus, Stanley Buchthal, Rory Kennedy, Matthew Justus dark story of brutal torture, death, and religious persecution Cinematography~Robert Chappell Editing~Michael Levine, Karen Schmeer with a haunting insight into the history of this period. —M.M. Print Source~Moxie Firecracker Films / [email protected] / www.moxiefirecracker.com Producers~Robert Bernstein, Jens Meurer, Douglas Rae, Phil Robertson Screenplay~Dario Poloni Cinematography~Sebastian Edschmid Editing~ Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival Stuart Gazzard Principal Cast~Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, David Warner, Carice Van Houten, Kimbereley Nixon About the Director~Liz Garbus graduated from Brown University. She runs Moxie Print Source~Magnet Releasing / [email protected] / Firecracker Films, her own documentary production company. Filmography~“The www.blackdeathfilm.com Farm: Angola, USA” (1998), “The Execution of Wanda Jean” (2002), “The Nazi Officer’s Wife” (2003), “Girlhood” (2003), “Yo soy Boricua, pa’que tu lo sepas!” Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, Fantasia Film Festival (2006), “Coma” (2007), “Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech” (2009), BOBBY FISCHER AGAINST THE WORLD (2011) About the Director~Christopher Smith is an English director and screenwriter who is known for his British horror films. Filmography~“Creep” (2004), “Severance” (2006), “Triangle” (2009), BLACK DEATH (2010) Community Partner: [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 47 CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL The Border Brother and Sister (Hranica) (Dos hermanos) Directed by Jaroslav Vojtek Directed by Daniel Burman SLOVAKIA 2009 ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, SPAIN 2010 72 minutes 105 minutes Thursday, March 31 Saturday, April 2 Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 5:00 PM I Code BORD31 11:55 AM I Code BORD02 9:00 PM I Code BROT30 4:35 PM I Code BROT01 Sunday, April 3 Marcos and Susana’s relationship in BROTHER AND SISTER 11:25 AM I Code BORD03 isn’t as co-dependent as the one in “Oedipus Rex,” but it’s A documentary about the devastating long-term effects of the nasty just the same. They’re a brother and sister in their 60s, border created between Slovakia and Ukraine in 1946, THE as different as chalk and cheese. She’s brassy and bewigged, BORDER demonstrates the lingering oppression that remains a manipulative creature in thick make-up and sunglasses, who even after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Slemence was parades around Buenos Aires like she owns it. She steals her once a small village of native Hungarian speakers who awoke neighbor’s mail, then attends the parties he’s been invited to. one morning to discover that they were divided into two coun- She shows up late everywhere, then makes a splashy entrance. tries. With heavy border control immediately put into effect— Susana models herself on the personality Mirtha Legrand, an first by Soviets, then by Ukrainians—families were separated aging beauty who lunches with stars on her TV show. and some even lost their homes. All the villagers yearned for Meanwhile, Susana’s brother Marcos serves as her doormat. was to be reunited with their lost family members. For decades He’s a patient man who has denied himself pleasure his entire they gathered at this border, shouting across news of loved ones, life in order to care for their aged Mama. When Mama dies, desperate to hold on to what family they still had left. Then, in Susana sells the family apartment and puts Marcos on the 2005 when Slovakia joined the European Union, boundaries boat to the backwaters of Uruguay, across the river. Quietly were redefined and the border opened for the first time in 60 irritated at first, Marcos grows to enjoy the freedom of his new years. Initially, many were thrilled to reunite with their families. environment. He even starts acting in an avant-garde theater However, corruption threatened to encroach on the border, production of “Oedipus Rex.” Now that they’re no longer making it a gateway for smuggling cigarettes and alcohol. And joined at the hip, it looks like a new day is dawning for both though one border was removed, others remain. (In Slovak and Marcos and Susana. (In Spanish with subtitles) —B.B. Hungarian with subtitles) —M.M. Producer~ Diego Dubcovsky Screenplay~Daniel Burman, Diego Dubcovsky Cinematography~Hugo Colace Editing~Pablo Barbieri Carrera Principal Producers~Mario Homolka, David C˘ orba Cinematography~Tomas Stanek, Cast~Antonio Gasalla, Graciela Borges, Elena Lucena Juroslav Vojtek Editing~Maros˘ S˘lapeta, Zuzana Cséplö Print Source~Outsider Pictures / [email protected] / Print Source~LEON Productions / [email protected] / www.border.sk www.outsiderpictures.us Other Screenings~Jihlava Int’l Festival of Documentary Films–Best East European Other Screenings~Chicago Int’l Film Festival, Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival, Documentary Film; Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival, Warsaw Film Festival About the Director~Jaroslav Vojtek graduated in Documentary Direction from Bratislava’s Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Filmography~“Here We Are” About the Director~Daniel Burman is also a writer and producer. Considered a (2005), “Following a Dream – Slovak Dream 2004-2006” (2006), THE BORDER member of the “New Argentine Cinema,” the comedic touches he employs have (2009), “Out of Round: What is Behind?” (2010) led him to be compared to Woody Allen. He is a founding member of the Academy Community of Argentine Cinema. Filmography~“A Chrysanthemum Bursts in Cincoesquinas” This film is presented Partner: (1998), “Waiting for the Messiah” (2000), “Every Stewardess Goes to Heaven” in the memory of (2002), “Lost Embrace” (2004), “18-J” (2004), “Family Law” (2006), “Empty DR. EDWARD G. KESHOCK Nest” (2008), BROTHER AND SISTER (2010) (1935-2010), who served as the Honorary Consul for Slovakia. 48 FILMS A – Z [C] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL PACIFIC PEARLS Carancho Caterpillar Directed by Pablo Trapero (Kyatapirâ) ARGENTINA, FRANCE, SOUTH KOREA 2010 Directed by Koji Wakamatsu 107 minutes JAPAN 2010 85 minutes Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 10:30 PM I Code CARA25 11:45 AM I Code CARA27 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 9:10 PM I Code CATE28 4:35 PM I Code CATE29 Every year in Argentina 8,000 people are killed by traffic acci- dents. Another 120,000 are injured. The millions of pesos that Director Koji Wakamatsu is known for tackling taboo subjects amount from endless insurance settlements create another head-on. His new film, a rabid indictment of militarist nation- opportunity for corruption to take over. To many, Sosa is just alism, deploys Japanese propaganda as wicked satire in a dis- another “carancho”—a vulture, or traffic accident lawyer, who course on war crimes, disabled veterans, spousal abuse—and preys on these victims in order to profit off of their medical sexual perversion. It is the late 1930s and Japan is embroiled settlements. But there is something good about Sosa, a man in the second Sino-Japanese War. Lieutenant Kurokawa has who is trapped in a dangerous world of deception and violence committed atrocious crimes against Chinese women. Now he’s that he is struggling to escape. Lujan becomes his answer. An back in his village, horrifically mutilated, yet designated a emergency services doctor who continually meets Sosa at the living War God. Limbless, scarred, mute, and nearly deaf, the scene of his latest clients’ accidents, Lujan is a woman who only thing left to him is sex with his long-suffering wife. suffers from her own issues of exhaustion and desolation. An Repulsed by this new duty, yet clinging to the prevailing idea unlikely pair, the two fall deeply in love, and even deeper into that the home front is the last line of defense, she does her trouble. A tragic love story disguised as a gritty and disturbing best for her husband and the Empire. CATERPILLAR is a film action-filled drama, CARANCHO is a narrative that takes irony of quiet desperation that puts a domestic face on the inde- to a whole new level. The film is a stripped-down masterpiece scribable miseries caused by war. The gentle buzzing of insects that takes a stark look at a very real issue alive in Argentina. is broken by occasional bursts of radio fanfare or exhortations With its brutal cinematography and flawless ending, CARAN- from newsreels. Finally plagued by recurring nightmares that CHO will leave you feeling as if you’ve just been the victim eat away at his soul, the War God can do nothing more than of a car accident yourself. (In Spanish with subtitles) —M.M. writhe on the ground. His agony is not only his; it’s all of Japan’s. (In Japanese with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Pablo Trapero Screenplay~Pablo Trapero, Alejandro Fadel, Martín Mauregui, Santiago Mitre Cinematography~Julián Apezteguia Editing~Ezequiel Producer~Koji Wakamatsu Screenplay~Hisako Kurosawa, Masao Adachi Borovinsky, Pablo Trapero Principal Cast~Ricardo Darin, Martina Gusman Cinematography~Yoshihisa Toda, Tomohiko Tsuji Editing~Shuichi Kakesu Print Source~Strand Releasing / [email protected] / Principal Cast~Shinobu Terajima, Keigo Kasuya, Emi Masuda www.strandreleasing.com Print Source~Kino Lorber, Inc. / [email protected] / www.kinolorber.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–ARGENTINA Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, Montréal World Film Festival International Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Koji Wakamatsu directed exploitation movies known as “pink About the Director~Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo Trapero has been films” beginning in the early 60s. Concerned with sex and violence and mixed with making films about his country for over a decade. Filmography~“Crane World” political messages, they often got him into trouble with government censors. (1999), “El Bonaerense” (2002), “Rolling Family” (2004), “Born and Bred” Filmography~“Skeleton in the Closet” (1965), “The Embryo Hunts in Secret” (2006), “Lion’s Den” (2008), CARANCHO (2010) (1966), “Vagabond of Sex” (1967), “Violated Angels” (1967), “Go, Go Second Time Virgin” (1969), “Ecstasy of the Angels” (1972), “Sacred Mother Kannon” (1977), “United Red Army” (2008), CATERPILLAR (2010) Media Community Partner: Partner: [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 49 PACIFIC PEARLS WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Chassis Cherkess Directed by Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr. (Al Sharakissa) PHILIPPINES 2010 Directed by Mohy Quandour 73 minutes JORDAN 2010 117 minutes Tuesday, March 29 Thursday, March 31 11:20 AM I Code CHAS29 10:00 PM I Code CHAS31 Friday, March 25 Monday, March 28 2:10 PM I Code CHER25 9:05 PM I Code CHER28 A bleak and dismal portrait of a woman with nowhere to go Tuesday, March 29 and little to hold onto, CHASSIS is the story of Nora, a desper- 4:20 PM Code CHER29 ately poor and emotionally calloused mother who turns to pros- I titution in order to provide for her young daughter Sarah. Nora An impossible love story set in the late 19th century in the and Sarah’s home consists of a cardboard sheet and ragged area now known as Jordan, CHERKESS historically represents hammock tied to the undercarriage of a semi-trailer in a cargo the period during which many Circassians immigrated to the terminal parking lot in the Filipino capital of Manila. As part Arab world. The Cherkess are from the North Caucasus and of a severely impoverished and nomadic community, Nora is have escaped the rule of the Russian Tsar in search of freedom. at the mercy of the truckers’ schedules and must lug what few They find this freedom in the Ottoman desert of Transjordan belongings she has from one truck chassis to another. Her and are ordered to establish their farms near the springs of only reason for living is her daughter, and she subjects herself Ras Al Ain. Unfortunately, the springs are also a religious site to a life of indignity and degradation so that Sarah can go of the nearby Bedouins and tensions escalate quickly between to school. Nora’s helpless story is one of self-sacrifice, a state- the two cultures. Their struggle to maintain peace is augment- ment on the oppressive patriarchal milieu of this region. ed when they become aware of the forbidden love between Appalling and scandalous, CHASSIS is a truly unforgiving Nart, a Cherkess from Istanbul, and Hind, the beautiful daugh- film shot in gloomy black and white tones, offering viewers an ter of the Sheikh of the nearby Bedouin tribe. When Aziz, intimate observation of a hopeless woman through powerful Hind’s brother, finds out about the secret affair he vows to kill close-ups of Nora’s serene, lifeless face. With a compelling Hind and Nart, possibly igniting the beginning of a war performance by Jodi Sta. Maria as Nora, CHASSIS is a daring between the two civilizations. A dramatic film rich with music, social-realist drama that criticizes society for allowing women dance, and culture, CHERKESS is a proverbial tale about two and children to live this way, simultaneously evoking empathy young people from different worlds and the miraculous power and outrage. (In Tagalog with subtitles) —M.M. of true love. (In Arabic and Circassian with subtitles) —M.M. Producer~Avelino Relucio Screenplay~Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr. Cinematography~ Producer~Mohy Quandour Screenplay~Mohy Quandour Cinematography~Nikolay Gabriel Bagnas Editing~Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr. Principal Cast~Jodi Sta. Trokhin Editing~Anas Shapsough Principal Cast~Sahar Bishara, Azamat Bekov, Maria, Evelyn Vargas, Angeli Bayani, Lemuel Pelayo, Paolo Rivero, Rustica Carpio, Mohammad Al Abadi, Muhieddin Kumakhov, Ruslan Firov Kimberly Fulgar Print Source~Sindika Productions / [email protected] / Print Source~Bicycle Pictures / [email protected] www.sindikaproductions.com Other Screenings~Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Film Festival, Other Screenings~Monaco Int’l Film Festival–Best Film, Best Director, Best Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Screenplay, Best Producer, Moscow Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Adolfo Borinaga Alix, Jr. is an award-winning Filipino director About the Director~Mohy Quandour is a writer, director, dramatist, and composer. and screenwriter who was recently named one of the top 20 young entertainment Having lived in the United States for 30 years, he has acquired Master’s and personalities in Asia by The Hollywood Reporter. Filmography~“Donsol” (2006), Doctorate degrees in Economics and Philosophy. Filmography~“The Spectre of “Kadin” (2007), “Manila” (2009), CHASSIS (2010) Edgar Allen Poe” (1994), CHERKESS (2010) Media Partner: 50 FILMS A – Z [C] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SOMEONE TO WATCH JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS, WOMEN OF THE WORLD LOCAL HEROES The Children of Chabannes Cleveland vs. Wall Street Directed by Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherell Directed by Jean-Stéphane Bron USA 1999 SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, USA 2010 93 minutes 98 minutes Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Saturday, April 2 11:30 AM I Code CHIL25 2:05 PM I Code CHIL27 4:10 PM I Passholders and Stand-By Only ONE SCREENING ONLY The 1999 Emmy Award-winning documentary THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES tells the story of the over 400 Jewish chil- In January 2008 Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson took aim at dren who fled to France from 1939-1943 to avoid Nazi con- Wall Street with a lawsuit against 21 major investment banks, centration camps. As World War II began, many parents made which he said have created a public nuisance by enabling the the excruciatingly difficult decision to separate from their subprime lending and foreclosure crisis in the city. The suit children in order to save them. Some of those children lucky contends that the companies’ irresponsible home loans result- enough to escape Germany were shipped off to the Château de ed in widespread defaults, depleting the city’s tax base and Chabannes, a public school and dormitory located in an insu- leaving neighborhoods in ruins. When Wall Street lawyers lated region of rural France and created to house and educate blocked attempts to go to court, Swiss director Jean-Stéphane orphaned and displaced Jewish children. The school was Bron staged an elaborate mock trial, which he filmed with established by a man named Félix Chevrier. He was joined many of the players involved. The result, CLEVELAND VS. by a handful of remarkably brave and selfless educators who WALL STREET, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Joshua gave these abandoned children, most of whom never saw Cohen leads a team of lawyers assisting the city, with their parents again, a chance to grow up. But as the Nazis Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Thomas J. Pokorny advanced, World War II inevitably reached the doorsteps of the and defense lawyer Keith Fisher playing themselves. Barbara Château in 1942, causing the teachers to risk their own lives Anderson, former treasurer of Empowering and Strengthening in order to keep the children from being deported to death Ohio’s People, makes an impassioned appearance. Witnesses camps. Told through interviews with surviving teachers and tell heart-wrenching stories of evictions and foreclosures, students of Chabannes, including Gossels’ father who attended demonstrating that the case (and the American legal system) the school, THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES is a celebration is very complicated. As Cleveland Scene put it, even though of humanity and courage during one of the most tragic periods no grandma from Brookpark will probably ever get the chance of our history. (In French and English with subtitles) —M.M. to kick a Goldman Sachs employee in the shins, at least in Producers~Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherell Cinematography~Mustapha Barat this movie Cleveland gets a shot at retribution. —B.B. Editing~Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherell Producers~Robert Boner, Phillipe Martin Screenplay~Jean-Stéphane Bron Print Source~Good Egg Productions, Inc. / [email protected] Cinematography~Julien Hirsch Editing~Simon Jacquet Principal Cast~Barbara Anderson, Joshua Cohen, Thomas J. Pokorny, Tony Brancatelli About the Director~Lisa Gossels produces and directs educational and promotional Print Source~NeoClassics Films Ltd. / [email protected] / films. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. Filmography~THE www.neoclassicsfilms.com CHILDREN OF CHABANNES (1999), “My So-Called Enemy” (2010) Dean wetherell is an award-winning producer and director. Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Munich Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Jean-Stéphane Bron graduated from the School of Fine and Sponsored by: Community Partners: Applied Arts of Lausanne. Filmography~“Known to Our Departments” (1997), “The Way I Look at You” (1999), “Corn in Parliament” (2003), “My Brother is Getting Married” (2006), CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET (2010) Media Community Partner: Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 51 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL WOMEN OF THE WORLD The Colors of the Mountain Connected (Los colores de la montaña) Directed by Tiffany Shlain Directed by Carlos César Arbelaez USA 2011 COLOMBIA 2010 82 minutes 88 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 4:25 PM I Code CONN26 8:20 PM I Code CONN27 2:30 PM I Code COLR25 7:10 PM I Code COLR26 Monday, March 28 In CONNECTED, award-winning filmmaker Tiffany Shlain narrates both an historical and an autobiographical timeline. 8:15 PM Code COLR28 I Her commentary on the cause and effect of humanity itself How’s a kid supposed to play soccer in peace, with guerrillas includes the suggestion that the rapid advancement of tech- encroaching upon the beautiful Colombian hills where he lives? nology can in fact increase our connection to one another (as Manuel has just turned nine, and his main concerns are his long as we don’t abuse it). A powerfully fascinating documen- new soccer ball and tending his father’s cows. He’s a polite tary, CONNECTED provides extraordinary explanations of our little fellow with two buddies named Julian and Poca Luz, and world, supported by intelligent and credible theories. But as he has a tiny crush on a blonde girl who lends him a colored Tiffany’s ideas flow through her film, the true heart of her story pencil in school. A kind-hearted new teacher comes to the vil- is found within her father, Dr. Leonard Shlain, an acclaimed lage and gets the children to paint a mural over some partisan author and brain surgeon. He is known for his focus on the graffiti. But scattered gunfire can be heard more frequently, connection between art and physics, and has stood as both and strange men keep showing up, asking Manuel’s beloved an intellectual role model and a superhero for his daughter papa why he doesn’t come to the guerrilla meetings. FARC throughout her life. When a group of sudden, significant fighters are closing in, recruiting men to their anti-government events take place during the making of her documentary, cause by force, if necessary. One by one, as their families Tiffany decides to highlight her film with personal reflections, leave the village, the teacher crosses the names of Manuel’s accentuating how human connection drives everything we friends off her attendance list. Now Manuel’s family must do. Through inventive animation, amusing archival footage, finally make the decision for themselves: should they stay on and emotional home video, CONNECTED makes us see the their mountain of many colors or flee to an unknown future? importance of interdependence in a world that puts such an (In Spanish with subtitles) —B.B. emphasis on independence. —M.M. Producer~Juan Pablo Tamayo Screenplay~Carlos César Arbelaez Cinematography~ Producers~Tiffany Shlain, Sasha Lewis, Carlton Evans Editing~Tiffany Shlain, Oscar Jiménez Editing~Felipe Aljure, Andrés Durán Principal Cast~Genaro Dalan McNabola Aristizábal, Nolberto Sanchez, Hernán Ocampo Print Source~Connected / [email protected] / www.connectedthefilm.com Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival–Women in Film Award www.filmmovement.com Other Screenings~Rome Int’l Film Festival, San Sebastian Int’l Film Festival– About the Director~Tiffany Shlain is a director, writer, and editor who is known New Directors Award, Stockholm Int’l Film Festival for her whimsical, yet complicated, documentaries. She is the founder of The Webby Awards, co-founder of the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, About the Director~Carlos César Arbelaez is a director from Antioquia, Colombia and has won over 20 awards at various festivals. Filmography~“Life, Liberty, & and holds a degree from the Communications Faculty of the University of the Pursuit of Happiness” (2003), “The Tribe” (2005), CONNECTED (2011) Antioquia. Filmography~THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN (2010) Community Partners: Sponsored by: 52 FILMS A – Z [C –D] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL WOMEN OF THE WORLD STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR WOMEN OF THE WORLD Copacabana Crime After Crime Directed by Marc Fitoussi Directed by Yoav Potash FRANCE 2010 USA 2010 107 minutes 95 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 7:20 PM I Code COPA25 11:25 AM I Code COPA26 9:10 PM I Code CRIM29 4:35 PM I Code CRIM30 Sunday, March 27 Of the more than 120,000 women behind bars in the U.S., 5:30 PM I Code COPA27 over 80% are survivors of domestic violence, rape, or other Babou is a woman impossible to forget. Vibrant and eccentric, forms of abuse. CRIME AFTER CRIME tells just one of their she refuses to apologize for the way she is. To be sheltered stories. Debbie Peagler has been imprisoned for over a quarter and settled is what she fears most, having traveled the majority century for her connection to the murder of the man who of her life, spontaneously moving from place to place. So when whipped and prostituted her. She finds her only hope for free- her serious and rational daughter Esmerelda announces that dom when two idealistic young attorneys with no background she is getting married and that Babou is not invited to the in criminal law take her case. Joshua Safran is an orthodox wedding, Babou must decide whether or not it is time to grow Jew whose faith obliges him to free those who are bound. up. In her efforts to change, she finds a job as a solicitor for Nadia Costa is a marathon runner with experience in social timeshares in Ostende, Belgium. Resourceful and gregarious, work (this serves her well in Debbie’s case, which will drag Babou excels at her job and is ultimately promoted. The con- on for many years). There’s a new ray of hope when California nections she makes with those she meets along her way are becomes the first and only state to allow domestic violence impulsive, yet genuine. Her generosity is evident when she cases like hers to be reopened. Joshua and Nadia uncover secretly offers a vacant apartment to the homeless couple a trail of prosecutorial misconduct that makes Debbie’s case across the street. However, Babou is essentially alone and real- headline news. Together, the three of them launch a movement izes the only way to repair her relationship with her daughter that not only advocates for her freedom, but also raises aware- is for both women to accept one another as they are. With ness for battered women in prison. —B.B. Isabelle Huppert as Babou, COPACABANA is an inspiring story Producer~Yoav Potash Cinematography~Ben Ferrer Editing~Yoav Potash not only about the complicated relationship between a mother Print Source~Life Sentence Films LLC / [email protected] / and daughter, but also about one woman’s refusal to give up www.crimeaftercrime.com on life. (In French with subtitles) —M.M. Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival Producer~Caroline Bonmarchand Screenplay~Marc Fitoussi Cinematography~ About the Director~Yoav Potash’s work has often addressed issues of race and Hélène Louvart Editing~Martine Giordano Principal Cast~Isabelle Huppert, ustice. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley, where he received the university’s top Aure Atika, Lolita Chammah prize in creative writing. He has taught film courses at the Bay Area Video Print Source~Pascale Ramonda / [email protected] Coalition and Academy of Art University and has produced short documentaries Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Dubai Int’l Film Festival, Durban Int’l for many companies. Filmography~CRIME AFTER CRIME (2010) Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Marc Fitoussi was born in France and studied screenwriting at the Academy of European Audiovisual Writing. He began his filmmaking career with a number of shorts and is now an award-winning director of fictional features. Community Partner: Filmography~“L’éducation anglaise” (2006), “La vie d’artiste” (2007), COPACABANA (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 53 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES LOCAL HEROES WOMEN OF THE WORLD Danny Greene: The Rise and Fall Desert Flower of the Irishman Directed by Sherry Horman Directed by Tommy Reid UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY, AUSTRIA 2009 USA 2010 120 minutes 60 minutes Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 6:30 PM I Code DESE29 11:30 AM I Code DESE30 6:15 PM I Code DANN25 9:45 PM I Code DANN26 Waris Dirie was born into a nomadic clan in Somalia in 1965. (w/FilmForum) At 13, she escaped an arranged marriage by fleeing on foot Sunday, March 27 across the desert. She landed in London where she worked 7:05 PM I Code DANN27 first for wealthy relatives, then at a McDonald’s. She was DANNY GREENE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE IRISHMAN is discovered by photographer Terence Donovan while wiping a documentary on the life and death of Cleveland’s legendary tables. Improbably, Waris became a top model, appearing in gangster and his battle with the Italian mob. Clint O’Connor of ads for firms including Chanel and L’Oreal. In 1997 she spoke The Plain Dealer wrote: “Feeding America’s appetite for mob for the first time with a magazine about the female genital stories with a grisly slice of Cleveland’s criminal past, (this mutilation (FGM) she had undergone at age three. Abandoning documentary) spotlights the gangster whose life was famously her modeling career, she became a United Nations ambassador extinguished by a car bomb in a Lyndhurst parking lot. A fear- for the abolition of FGM. Waris’s autobiography became an less hood who grabbed headlines for years in the 1970s, Greene international bestseller, and DESERT FLOWER is the gorgeous- was a colorful character. He dressed in green, drove green cars, ly photographed adaptation of her story. It follows Waris and embraced Irish history and Celtic lore. Alternately a union (played by Ethiopian supermodel Liya Kebede) from her begin- troubleshooter, embezzler, and enforcer, Greene dabbled in rack- nings as a goat herder, to London and the world of top model- eteering, gambling, and loan-sharking. He excelled at beating ing, to the international spotlight of the United Nations. The the rap, which may have been attributed to his other occupa- film manages to incorporate surprisingly light-hearted moments tion: FBI informant. Police have long assumed that Greene con- into its portrayal of a difficult subject. DESERT FLOWER spired to take out Shondor Birns, a rival in Cleveland’s numbers is the story of one woman’s victory over unimaginably harsh racket, and later mafia underboss Leo “Lips” Moceri, whose beginnings and her work to insure that other girls avoid the body was never found.” Tommy Reid interviews Danny’s nearest same horrific experience. (In English, Somali, and French and dearest, including a nun, an ex-wife, and the cops who with subtitles) —B.B. tried to bring him down. —B.B. Producer~Peter Herrmann Screenplay~Sherry Horman Cinematography~ Ken Kelsch Editing~Clara Fabry Principal Cast~Liya Kebede, Sally Hawkins, Producers Tommy Reid, Kyle Jackson Cinematography Sven Tusak, Peter Dang ~ ~ Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Craig Parkinson, Anthony Mackie, Meera Syal Editing~Brandon Sonnier Print Source~National Geographic / [email protected] Print Source~Dundee Entertainment, LLC / [email protected] www.dundeeentertainment.com Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, Venice Film Festival About the Director~Tommy Reid attended OSU and UCLA. He is the producer of “Kill the Irishman.” Filmography~“7-10 Split” (2007), DANNY GREENE: THE About the Director~Sherry Horman is a German-American director who graduated RISE AND FALL OF THE IRISHMAN (2010), “Screwball: The Ted Whitfield Story” from Munich’s Film and Television Academy. She works in Germany. (2010) Filmography~“Stupid Marriage” (1981), “Leise Schatten” (1992), “Frauen sind was Wunderbares” (1994), “Father’s Day” (1996), “Widows” (1998), “Against All Sponsored by: Media Partner: Evidence” (2002), “Guys and Balls” (2004), DESERT FLOWER (2009) Community Partners: 54 FILMS A – Z [D–E] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL DOCUMENTARIES STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION LOCAL HEROES LOCAL HEROES Dressed Dying to Do Letterman Directed by David Swajeski Directed by Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina USA 2009 USA 2010 79 minutes 75 minutes Wednesday, March 30 At the Capitol Theatre Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 7:15 PM I Code CAPT30 (see page 23) 2:20 PM I Code DYIN01 9:10 PM I Code DYIN02 Thursday, March 31 Sunday, April 3 9:00 PM I Code DRES31 9:30 AM I Code DYIN03 New York’s glamorous fashion industry is a far cry from the Steve Mazan is one wacky guy. After learning he had inopera- gritty streets of Columbus, Ohio. Yet designer Nary Manivong ble liver cancer, the standup comedian incorporated his knows both places well. Nary was just a homeless teenager illness into his routine, announcing his Top Ten Benefits of with a dream before he fled Columbus to pursue his goal— Catching Cancer. This riff on David Letterman’s Top Ten list is to stage a show at New York Fashion Week. Nary and his three no coincidence—Steve’s life goal is to appear on Letterman’s siblings, Laotian-Americans, were abandoned by their parents Late Show. Since doctors give him only a few years to live, his when he was 14. Through sheer determination, and the kind- diagnosis just makes him work harder and faster. DYING TO ness of 24-hour donut shop owners who let him crash DO LETTERMAN directors Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina, overnight, he managed to work several jobs, graduate from a Parma native, become part of Steve’s team. He works to high school, and keep clean. Self-taught, Nary was persistent convince Dave he deserves to be on the show by virtue of his enough in the face of incredible odds to get sponsorship for comedic talent, not by virtue of his illness. He cajoles friends his project. He also managed to scrape together a collection, of friends to hook him up with the elusive Eddie Brill, the and a space for a show during Fashion Week in 2005. His col- all-powerful booker for Dave’s show. He deals with mounting lection and his story captured media attention and he was medical bills, bankruptcy, bouts of depression, and self-doubt. named one of 12 designers to watch by Women’s Wear Daily. But he never gives up. With influences ranging from Richard Woven into DRESSED is commentary from leading fashion Pryor to Fozzie Bear, Steve is an inspiration to funny and industry experts including Mickey Boardman, Simon Collins, not-so-funny people everywhere. His motto? “Live your dream, Simon Doonan, and Lynn Yaeger. Nary has recently partnered or die trying. Can you think of a better way to spend the rest with stylist Ally Hilfiger on a new brand called NAHM. It’s a of your life?” —B.B. rags-to-riches tale come true. —B.B. Producers~Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina Cinematography~Adam Sampson Producer~Maryanne Grisz Editing~David Swajeski Featuring~Nary Manivong, Editing~Joke Fincioen, Biagio Messina Mickey Boardman, Simon Collins, Nanette Lepore, Fern Mallis, Lynn Yaeger, Print Source~Joke Productions, Inc. / [email protected] / Ally Hilfiger www.dyingtodoletterman.com Print Source~OneRock Moving Pictures / [email protected] / About the Directors~Joke Fincioen is from Belgium. She learned the ropes of film- www.dressed-themovie.com making while assisting producer Gale Ann Hurd. Parma, Ohio native Biagio About the Director~David Swajeski is an award winning director and designer of Messina claims that he married way out of his league when he bamboozled Joke film, commercials, television, interactive, and multi-media projects. He co-founded into saying “I do.” Together they produce television, film, webisodes, and anything Location 8, a creative communications firm, in 2002. Filmography~DRESSED else that requires no sleep and a touch of crazy. They are best known for creating (2009) “Scream Queens” on VH1. Filmography~DYING TO DO LETTERMAN (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partner: Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 55 CENTRAL AND EASTERN NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION FILM IS ART, GLOBAL HEALTH WOMEN OF THE WORLD An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes Eleanore & The Timekeeper (Zemský ráj to na pohled) Directed by Danièle Wilmouth Directed by Irena Pavlásková USA 2010 CZECH REPUBLIC 2009 76 minutes 114 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 Friday, April 1 Sunday, April 3 7:30 PM I Code ELEA31 2:15 PM I Code ELEA01 11:20 AM I Code EART01 6:45 PM I Code EART03 (w/FilmForum) Sunday, April 3 Marta is a beautiful and intrepid production coordinator at the Prague film studios. She has two charming teenage daughters 5:00 PM I Code ELEA03 and an ex-husband who is a self-important actor. Her experi- Every morning before dawn, Ronnie flips on the light in his ence with him and all sorts of other excitable personalities— mother’s bedroom. “Hiya! Gonna work awhile!” Her thin voice film directors, her current jealous boyfriend—has prepared her responds: “Morning, Ronnie. Gonna work awhile?” So begins to tackle almost anything. When Marta and her family return the day for 90-year-old Eleanore and her 64-year-old disabled from a camping trip, they run smack into Soviet tanks taking son. Chronicling the slow, sweet passage of time in their lives over Prague. Her flexibility is admirable. Though she and her is experimental filmmaker Danièle Wilmouth, who happens to intellectual friends don’t quite go about business as usual, be Eleanore’s granddaughter. Eleanore is faced with a wrench- they do find ways to cope. In AN EARTHLY PARADISE FOR ing decision that will upset the measured pace of their exis- THE EYES, the year 1968 marks the start of two revolutions— tence—whether or not to place Ronnie in a group home, so he the Soviet-inspired and the sexual. An endearing series of men can become independent before she’s gone. Ronnie works at moves into and out of Marta’s life. As the nation sinks into a cutting up magazines, dropping kernels of corn into containers, state of repressed status quo, petty squabbles and jealousy and assembling drinking cups at the local factory. Seasons gradually fade. Marta’s partners—and Czechs in general— pass; Ronnie and Eleanore travel in their car along old back learn to mutually tolerate each other. When the authorities roads to see how things are changing. As the camera examines begin persecuting the signers of Charter 77, Marta and her life’s details—textures, vibrant colors, the landscape of their daughters are caught up in the turmoil. An ebullient Vilma home in Pennsylvania logging country—we become keenly Cibulková as Marta won the Best Actress award at the Moscow aware of time’s passage. The movie’s sound doesn’t always jibe Film Festival. (In Czech with subtitles) —B.B. with the images we see—the world isn’t as straightforward as Producers~Jaroslav Kucera, Viktor Schwarcz, Jordi Niubo, Veronika Schwarczová all that in ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER. One morning Screenplay~Tereza Boucková Cinematography~Divisˇ Marek Editing~Alois Fisárek Eleanore’s light stays off. Ronnie has moved out. The rhythms Principal Cast~Vilma Cibulková, Miroslav Etzler, Tereza Vorˇisˇková, Dana Marková of life assume a new graceful pattern. —B.B. Print Source~Czech Television / [email protected] / www.zemskyraj.com Producer~Danièle Wilmouth Cinematography~Danièle Wilmouth Editing~Frédéric Moffet Print Source~Hairless Films / [email protected] / Other Screenings Hamburg Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Moscow ~ www.hairlessfilms.org Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Hot Springs Film Festival About the Director~Irena Pavlásková is an internationally acclaimed, award-win- ning director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated from the prestigious Film About the Director~Danièle Wilmouth is an artist working primarily in experimental Academy in Prague. Filmography~“Time of the Servants” (1989), “Corpus delic- and documentary film. She is a faculty member in the film and video departments ti” (1991), “Cas dluhu” (1998), “Bestiar” (2007), AN EARTHLY PARADISE FOR of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College. Filmography~ THE EYES (2009) ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER (2010) Community Partner: This film is presented with the generous support of JUDY SHEPHERD. 56 FILMS A – Z [E–F] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION WOMEN OF THE WORLD LOCAL HEROES PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES Elisa K. Facing Forward Directed by Judith Colell, Jordi Cadena Directed by Laura Paglin SPAIN 2010 USA 2011 72 minutes 66 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Monday, March 28 Wednesday, March 30 11:50 AM I Code ELIS25 3:55 PM I Code ELIS26 12:15 PM I Code FACE28 7:40 PM I Code FACE30 Monday, March 28 (w/FilmForum) 9:30 PM I Code ELIS28 Set right here in the urban streets of Cleveland, FACING FOR- It is autumn 1994 and Elisa K. will be 11-years-old in four WARD is an enlightening documentary about E-Prep, a new months. On the same day Elisa visits the amusement park charter school determined to offer better education to inner- with her father and her father’s friend, she experiences a city students. Following the story of Tyree, an African-American horrific trauma that will scar her for the rest of her life. A seventh grader who didn’t learn to read until the fifth grade, dark, sobering drama about the prolonged consequences of this film will challenge your thoughts on America’s present childhood sexual abuse, ELISA K. tells the poignant story of education system. At a time when the typical inner-city public a broken girl’s internal struggle with her past. An eerily calm school teacher can spend over 25% of the day disciplining voice overtly narrates each specific detail of the plot, verbally rather than teaching the children, E-Prep strives to establish painting an apprehensive background to an otherwise black a rigorous curriculum in a disciplined setting that prevents the and white film. Elisa suppresses the memory of her damaging students from becoming distracted and acting out. Single-file, experience, not telling her mother or father what happened no talking, face forward, and above all, no excuses. For many out of fear and shock. It is not until 14 years later that some- of these kids, chaos is the norm outside of E-Prep and without thing triggers Elisa’s memory of that day, evoking an intense a proper education there’s an extreme likelihood that they’ll physical and emotional reaction portrayed flawlessly by the wind up another statistic—joining gangs, selling drugs, and film’s star, Aina Clotet. Elisa must now learn how to deal with becoming teenage parents before they have a chance to gradu- the torture of remembering, of constantly seeing his face. ate. As E-Prep Principal Marshall Emerson III explains, the A haunting depiction of stolen innocence, ELISA K. is a beau- lack of successful education of African-Americans and other tifully made film that examines a fiercely unsettling issue. minorities is the new Civil Rights issue of our time. But are (In Catalan with subtitles) —M.M. the expectations of a school like this unrealistic? Can a child with obstacles as great as Tyree’s really succeed in an environ- Producer~Antonio Chavarrías Screenplay~Jordi Cadena Cinematography~Sergi Gallardo Editing~David Gallart Principal Cast~Aina Clotet, Nausicaa Bonnín, ment in which the parents are more likely to give up than the Maria de la Pau Pigem students themselves? —M.M. Print Source~Imagina International Sales / [email protected] / Producer~Laura Paglin Cinematography~Laura Paglin Editing~Katharine Asals www.imaginasales.com Print Source~Creative Filmmakers Association / [email protected] / Other Screenings~BFI London Int’l Film Festival, San Sebastian Film Festival, www.creativefilmmakers.org Stockholm Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Laura Paglin is a Cleveland Heights-based independent filmmaker who has directed documentaries about the city of Cleveland, two of About the Directors~Jordi Cadena and Judith Colell, both from Barcelona, which were screened at Sundance. Filmography “The Nightowls of Coventry” Spain, teach at Barcelona’s Pompeu Fabra University and are well-established ~ (2004), “Shadow of the Swan: A Composer’s Story” (2005), “No Umbrella– filmmakers. Collaborative Filmography~ELISA K. (2010) Election Day in the City” (2006), FACING FORWARD (2011) Sponsored by: Media Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 57 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES Farewell Feathered Cocaine Directed by Ditteke Mensink Directed by Thorkell Hardarson, Örn Marino Arnarson NETHERLANDS 2009 ICELAND 2010 90 minutes 80 minutes Saturday, March 26 Monday, March 28 Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 4:20 PM I Code FARE26 11:20 AM I Code FARE28 8:50 PM I Code FEAT30 4:40 PM I Code FEAT01 A giant shadow glides across wheat fields, cities, open plains. The sport of falconry has been practiced for 4,000 years. As it passes silently overhead, the faces of thousands of But in the last two decades, a huge increase in demand for the people turn skyward. The Graf Zeppelin, the granddaddy of birds as hunting companions in the Middle East has resulted all airships and a behemoth of 776 feet, is on its first round- in regional extinctions. The aptly-named Alan H. Parrot runs the-world flight. Sponsored by American newspaper tycoon a nature conservation group that fights international falcon William Randolph Hearst, the Graf took off from New Jersey smuggling cartels. Parrot’s obsession with falcons led him at in August 1929 with English reporter Grace Drummond-Hay age 18 to sneak away from home to Iran, where he was hired on board. An actress reading for Lady Hay, the first woman to train falcons for the Shah. Though he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe by air, narrates FAREWELL. Told to legally sell the birds in centuries, Parrot now realizes his in the form of an invented diary set to breathtaking documen- actions opened a Pandora’s Box of problems. Magnificent tary images of the zeppelin’s majestic flight, the film brings Arctic gyrfalcons, stuffed into mailing tubes and sent to the to life Lady Hay’s vivacious personality and the buoyancy of Persian Gulf, can bring unprincipled traders over a million the 20s, when technology seemed to be ushering in a new dollars. A fearless crusader for the falcons’ well-being, Parrot world of tomorrow. Though dedicated to her writing, Lady Hay was once left for dead in the Mongolian desert after exposing is distracted by her feelings about travelling with respected smuggling by the Mongolian authorities. His new mission, as fellow journalist Karl von Wiegand, a married man with whom described in FEATHERED COCAINE, is to go after terrorists in she has had an affair. But Lady Hay’s simple longings and their capacity as falcon smugglers. Parrot and others are con- optimism will soon be things of the past. The era of the great vinced it’s possible to track down Osama bin-Laden by moni- airships will slip away, and faith in the future will be overshad- toring the frequencies of the telemetry transmitters carried by owed by depression and war. —B.B. his falcons. Why isn’t our government paying attention? —B.B. Producer~Pieter van Huystee Editing~Jessica de Koning Producers~Thorkell Hardarson, Örn Marino Arnarson Cinematography~Halldor Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / www.filmstransit.com Gunnarsson Editing~Jeremy Stulberg, Thorkell Hardarson, Örn Marino Arnarson, Diana Heltzberg Other Screenings Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Athens Film Festival, ~ Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / www.filmstransit.com Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Tribeca Film Festival, About the Director~Ditteke Mensink is a respected Dutch writer and director. This Big Sky Documentary Film Festival is her first film in English; it took nine years of research. Filmography~“Vreemd Land” (1995), “Wonen in een tekening” (1995), “Is dit nu liefde?” (1999), About the Directors~Thorkell Hardarson and Örn Marino Arnarson were born in “Per saldo: Bouwwoede” (2000), FAREWELL (2009) Reykjavik, Iceland. They have produced and directed together for nine years since they established their production company, Markell Productions, in 2001. This is their first English language film. Collaborative Filmography~“Punk in Iceland” This film is presented in the memory of (2004), FEATHERED COCAINE (2010) ALLENE E. SHEPHERD, M.S., R.D. (1919-2010). Community Partner: Community Partners: 58 FILMS A – Z [F–H] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL 10% CINEMA STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR For 80 Days The Green Wave (80 Egunean) Directed by Ali Samadi Ahadi Directed by Jon Garaño, José Marí Goenaga GERMANY, IRAN 2010 SPAIN 2010 80 minutes 105 minutes Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 6:50 PM I Code GREE28 2:40 PM I Code GREE29 7:15 PM I Code FORE25 1:45 PM I Code FORE26 Comprised of animation and actual footage, THE GREEN FOR 80 DAYS is a warm film, imbued with quiet dignity, in WAVE is a shocking documentary about the civilian uprising which older adults must make hard decisions about duty and during the 2009 Iranian presidential election. Based solely on friendship. Axun and her husband Juan Mari are 70-years-old first-person accounts that director Ali Samadi Ahadi collected and live in a farmhouse in a small Basque village. Axun lives from tweets, Facebook entries, and blogs, the film stands as a traditional life; she goes to Mass, works on her cross-stitch- a potent testimony to a revolution against the cruelty and ing, and dons her apron to cook meals for her unexpressive oppression of a regime intolerant of change. Ahadi ties togeth- husband. Their irritable daughter Josune lives in L.A. When er raw footage of protests and public gatherings—shot primari- Josune’s hated ex-husband lands in a coma following an ly by witnesses on cell phones—with poignant animation to accident, Axun sees it as her duty to visit him in the hospital. illustrate the narratives of online bloggers. The film avoids Sharing the hospital room is another comatose patient whose explaining the differences in ideologies of the running politi- sister Maite visits him daily. To their astonishment, Axun and cians Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir-Hossein Mousavi. Maite discover they know each other; in fact, they had almost Instead it exists to show the horrid and devastating human become lovers 50 years earlier. Axun is drawn out of her con- rights violations committed against young, educated voters servative shell by Maite, a sophisticated woman who teaches who demand change. When protests broke out in the streets of music at the conservatory. Telling Juan Mari she’s spending Iran after the exposure of the fraudulent election, the state time at the hospital, Axun begins slipping out with Maite. The militia responded with brutal violence and hauled many of the women’s relationship might be resuming where it left off all protestors to jail—all fully sanctioned by Iran’s government those years ago. But Axun’s lies start tripping her up, and Juan and religious leaders. Now Ahadi tells these victims’ influential Mari is lost without her. (In Basque with subtitles) —B.B. and significant stories of THE GREEN WAVE to convey the out- Producer~Xabier Berzosa Screenplay~Jon Garaño, José Marí Goenaga rageous injustice perpetrated by the Iranian government and to Cinematography~Javier Aguirre Erauso Editing~Raúl López Principal Cast~ remind us of the many political prisoners still locked away and Itziar Aizpuru, José Ramón Argoitia, Zorion Eguileor, Mariasun Pagoaga silenced. (In German and Persian with subtitles) —M.M. Print Source~Irusoin / [email protected] / www.80egunean.com Producers~Jan Krüger, Oliver Stoltz Cinematography~Peter Jeschke, Ali Samadi Other Screenings~Jakarta Int’l Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Ahadi Editing~Andreas Menn, Barbara Toennieshen Paris Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, San Sebastian Human Rights Film Festival Print Source~Visit Films / [email protected] / www.visitfilms.com About the Directors~The short films made by Jon Garaño have won over 90 prizes Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Hamburg Film and his TV documentaries have been broadcast in over 15 countries. José Marí Festival, Sundance Film Festival Goenaga has co-written and co-directed animated features and documentaries. Both directors studied cinema at the Basque Sarobe Academy, and in 2001 About the Director~Ali Samadi Ahadi was born in Iran but fled to Germany alone co-founded the Moriarti production company. Filmography~Jon Garaño – “Sahara when he was 12-years-old. He graduated with a degree in Visual Communications Marathon” (2004), FOR 80 DAYS (2010). Filmography~José Marí Goenaga – and is now a writer, director, and editor of documentaries. Filmography~“Africa “Supertramps” (2004), “Lucio” (2007), FOR 80 DAYS (2010) Mayibuye” (2003), “Lost Children” (2005), “Salami Aleikum” (2009), THE GREEN WAVE (2010) Community Partner: This film is presented with the generous support of CONNIE SARVAY. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 59 WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Hayfever The Hedgehog (Febbre Da Fieno) (Le hérisson) Directed by Laura Luchetti Directed by Mona Achache ITALY 2010 FRANCE 2009 100 minutes 99 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 9:25 PM I Code HAYF26 2:20 PM I Code HAYF27 7:00 PM I Code HEDG26 2:10 PM I Code HEDG27 Tuesday, March 29 At Shaker Square Cinemas (see page 22) In THE HEDGEHOG, Paloma is a precocious 11-year-old 7:15 PM I Code SHKR29 French girl who lives in a luxurious apartment with her neurotic There’s a westerly breeze blowing through the picturesque rich family. Bored to death, alienated, and aloof to her family’s streets of Rome. Legend has it that this “ponentino” gives petty concerns, she hides from them whenever possible. She courage to timid lovers. Matteo, a handsome young man with emerges only to capture their curious behavior with her video vivid blue eyes, works in a vintage shop. Sporting charmingly camera while she provides an existentialist stream-of-con- retro t-shirts, he rummages through people’s estate sales for sciousness narrative. Paloma has decided that life, as she is the bric-a-brac of bygone lives. Matteo has a hard time letting destined to live it, is not worth living; she therefore plans to go of the past, including his feelings for his old flame kill herself on her 12th birthday. Meanwhile, downstairs lives Giovanna. Meanwhile, skater girl Franki (short for Francesca), Renée, the apartment building’s unhappy middle-aged caretak- Matteo’s co-worker, writes improbably passionate love letters er. Grateful to be ignored by the building’s self-absorbed to Jude Law. Matteo and Franki are employed by Stefano, a inhabitants, she uses her time to pursue an eccentric passion family man who loves his shop but has no head for business. for Tolstoy. When gentle Mr. Kakuro, a sophisticated Japanese Tinkerers and dreamers, they’re unable to organize their store, man, moves into the building, Paloma and Renée are drawn to or their lives, to make them more productive. One day a young his quiet intelligence, and a three-way friendship begins. woman named Camilla, with a smile that lights up her whole Based on Muriel Barbery’s best-selling French novel, “The face, arrives and starts arranging things. She falls hard for Elegance of the Hedgehog.” (In French with subtitles) —B.B. Matteo, who can’t stop thinking about Giovanna. Everyone in Producers~Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Romain Le Grand, Tarek Ben Ammar this little shop of dreams harbors passions that are close by, Screenplay~Mona Achache Cinematography~Patrick Blossier Editing~Julia yet seemingly out of reach. HAYFEVER soars with a fittingly Gregory Principal Cast~Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillermic, Togo Igawa Print Source~NeoClassics Films Ltd. / [email protected] / indie soundtrack featuring music by Laura Marling, Devendra www.neoclassicsfilms.com Banhart, and Imelda May. (In Italian with subtitles) —B.B. Other Screenings~Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Seattle Int’l Film Festival Producers~Guido de Angelis, Nicola de Angelis, Marco de Angelis, Paul Zonderland Screenplay~Laura Luchetti Cinematography~Ferran Paredes Rubio Editing~ About the Director~Mona Achache is a writer and actress as well as the director Claudio Di Mauro Principal Cast~Diane Fleri, Andrea Bosca, Giulia Michelini, of two previous short films. Filmography~THE HEDGEHOG (2009) Giuseppe Gandini, Camilla Filippi Print Source~DAP Italy SRL / [email protected] / www.deangelisgroup.com This film is presented in the memory of Other Screenings~St. Louis Int’l Film Festival DAVE “THE BIG M” MARSHALL (1942-2010). About the Director~Laura Luchetti is also a screenwriter. She has worked as a video documentarian and TV field producer. Filmography~HAYFEVER (2010) Sponsored Media Partner: Media Partner: Community Partner: by: 60 FILMS A – Z [H] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN FAMILY FILMS EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Hello! How Are You? Here Comes Lola! (Buna! Ce Faci?) (Hier kommt Lola!) Directed by Alexandru Maftei Directed by Franziska Buch ROMANIA, SPAIN, ITALY 2010 GERMANY 2010 105 minutes 96 minutes Thursday, March 31 Saturday, April 2 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 9:20 AM I Code HELL31 6:40 PM I Code HELL02 5:00 PM I Code HERE25 1:25 PM I Code HERE26 A cheerful film with winning performances, HELLO! HOW Lola is a cool nine-year-old with corkscrew curls who dreams ARE YOU? is the story of a long-married couple more in love of being a famous singer. She has a homemade stage in her with their fantasies than with each other. Gabriel is a former bedroom and a rocket ship she sometimes sits in when she concert pianist who injured his finger in a mousetrap and is wants to fly to the stars. Some people in Lola’s village are relegated to turning pages for mortals lesser than himself. saying terrible things about her daddy Papai who’s from Brazil Gabriela, who runs a dry cleaning establishment, gave up her and has dark skin, so Lola’s family moves to the big city of psychology studies to raise their son Vladimir. Now a stud of Hamburg. In Hamburg kids come in all colors and Lola soon 18, her ungrateful offspring can think of little else than his gets used to her new class. Papai is planning to open his own next sexual conquest. Frustrated with the tedium of lives not Brazilian restaurant, complete with music and a stage. Lola’s fully lived, Gabby and Gaby stumble through a series of cir- grandma and grandpa have both a bookstore and a toddler, cumstances into the murky world of internet chat rooms. As Lola’s Aunt Lisbeth, who’s only two. Lola’s biggest wish is to they each sneak around spending untold hours chatting, their find a new best friend at school. But Flo, who sits next to her, friends and associates—not to mention Vladimir—become smells bad and teases her about frogs. Papai tells Lola to send convinced they’re both having affairs. Liberated from the her wish into the sky, tied to the end of a balloon. When she banality of the everyday, Gabby and Gaby finally discover their does, she gets back a mysterious message in a bottle. HERE soul mates online. Can their virtual relationships revive their COMES LOLA! is a colorful musical movie about a real girl physical one? Rebooting it will take more than a simple with an oversize imagination. (In German with subtitles) —B.B. Control-Alt-Delete. (In Romanian with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Uschi Reich Screenplay~Vanessa Walder, Uschi Reich Cinematography~ Producers~Tudor Reu, Maurizio Santarelli, Antoni Solé Screenplay~Lia Bugnar Bella Halben Editing~Barbara von Weitershausen Principal Cast~Meira Durand, Cinematography~Radu Aldea Editing~Mihai Codleanu Principal Cast~Dana Felina Czycykowski, Julia Jentsch, Nora Tschirner, Fernando Spengler, Axel Prahl Voicu, Ionel Mihailescu, Paul Diaconescu, Jordi Garcia Print Source~Bavaria Film International / [email protected] / Print Source~M-Appeal World Sales / [email protected] / www.m-appeal.com www.bavaria-film-international.com Other Screenings~Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, Transilvania Cluj Int’l Film About the Director~Franziska Buch has directed a number of children’s movies Festival for TV. Since 2002 she has co-directed the script department of the Baden- Württemberg Film Academy. Filmography~“In Search of Paradise” (1992), “Emil About the Director~Alexandru Maftei has worked mostly in advertising. He made and the Detectives” (2001), “Bibi Blocksberg and the Secret of the Blue Owls” this romantic comedy because he says he wants people to feel good for a change (2004), HERE COMES LOLA! (2010) when they watch a Romanian movie. Filmography~“Fii cu ochii pe pericire” (1999), HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? (2010) Sponsored by: Media Partner: Community Partner: Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 61 GREG GUND MEMORIAL LOCAL HEROES STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The High Cost of Living Holy Wars Directed by Deborah Chow Directed by Stephen Marshall CANADA 2010 USA 2010 92 minutes 84 minutes Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 7:00 PM I Code HIGH25 9:15 PM I Code HOLY27 4:40 PM I Code HOLY28 Monday, March 28 At the Plaza Cinemas (see page 22) Filmmaker Stephen Marshall’s thoughts as he began working 7:15 PM I Code AKRN28 on a film about religious fundamentalism included: war; natur- THE HIGH COST OF LIVING is about the complicated relation- al disasters; the destruction of entire cities; the deaths of ship that evolves between a pregnant woman and the man who millions of people. These are the signs of imminent salvation hit her with his car. When Nathalie loses her baby as a result for Christians and Muslims around the world. Forty-four per- of the hit and run, her world begins to unravel and she sinks cent of American Christians claim to be confident that Jesus is into a deep depression. Constantly reminded of the life she was going to return to Earth for his Judgment in the next 50 years. supposed to live as a mother, she is unable to let go. She But when Marshall decided to focus not on global movements searches for someone to blame, lashing out at her emotionally but on two zealous men, Khalid Kelly and Aaron Taylor, his numb, controlling husband who wants to move on with their film changed. There was still plenty of damnation and para- lives. Meanwhile, Henry (the pill-dealing driver of the car, noia, but reconciliation began to seem possible. Marshall inter- played by Zach Braff) suffers from the incredible guilt he feels views Kelly and Taylor about their beliefs, then persuades them over leaving a pregnant woman injured and alone on the street. to sit down and talk things over. Did we mention that Kelly is He follows Nathalie, curious to find out how she’s doing, and a Muslim and Taylor is a Christian? HOLY WARS will surprise ultimately winds up having a candid conversation with her when you, and maybe even inspire you. —B.B. he realizes she doesn’t recognize him. Sharing an immediate Producers~Brian Beletic, Brian Carmody, Patrick Milling Smith, Lisa Kawamoto human connection, the two grow even closer when Nathalie Hsu, Allison Kunzman Cinematography~Nathan Crooker, Stephen Marshall leaves her husband and ends up staying at Henry’s. The deeper Editing~Jay Nelson, Tina Nguyen, Dan Swietlik Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / www.filmstransit.com the relationship becomes, the more Henry struggles over whether or not he should confess. A dark drama featuring pow- Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, True/False Film Festival, Silver Docs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Film Festival erful scenes and remarkable acting (and produced by Akronite Susan Schneir), this is a piercing film about the consequences About the Director~Stephen Marshall is a writer, director, and internet entrepre- of telling the truth and the importance of forgiveness. —M.M. neur. He has worked in music videos, shorts, feature documentaries, and political criticism. Marshall founded Channel Zero, the world’s first global VHS news- Producers~Deborah Chow, Kim Berlin, Susan Schneir Screenplay~Deborah Chow magazine, in 1995. He is the author of two books, “True Lies” and “Wolves in Cinematography~Claudine Sauve Editing~Benjamin Duffield, Jonathan Alberts Sheep’s Clothing.” Filmography~“This Revolution” (2005), HOLY WARS (2010) Principal Cast~Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labee, Zach Braff Print Source~Suki Films / [email protected] / www.sukifilmsinc.com Other Screenings~Toronto Int'l Film Festival Community Partner: About the Director~Deborah Chow is a Canadian-born filmmaker who received a Master’s degree in Film from Columbia University. Her short films have screened at multiple festivals. Filmography~THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (2010) 62 FILMS A – Z [H –I] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR PACIFIC PEARLS Home By Christmas Hospitalité Directed by Gaylene Preston Directed by Koji Fukada NEW ZEALAND 2010 JAPAN 2010 92 minutes 95 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 7:45 PM I Code HOME30 4:35 PM I Code HOME31 7:35 PM I Code HOSP30 1:50 PM I Code HOSP31 Saturday, April 2 In HOME BY CHRISTMAS, the enchanting true story of a love that transcended war and separation, filmmaker Gaylene 9:10 AM I Code HOSP02 Preston reimagines her parents’ experiences of World War II. A dark comedy set in a small Tokyo neighborhood, HOSPITALITÉ Eddie and Tui were young newlyweds with a baby on the way is a satirical film about Japanese xenophobia and the fear of when Eddie signed up for duty. Soon he was off to North Africa outsiders. Kobayashi Mikio lives with his young wife, daughter with his fellow Kiwis, assuring Tui he’d be home by Christmas. from a previous marriage, and newly returned sister in their After surviving desert treks and Mediterranean torpedoes, inherited house that doubles as a small printing shop. Their Eddie was finally interned in Italy until the war ended and existence is mundane and trivial, with the only recent excite- then came the arduous task of making his way back to New ment being the disappearance of their parakeet Pi-chan. When Zealand. Meanwhile, Tui kept the home fires burning and Kagawa Hanataro, a stranger who claims he has distant ties to watched Eddie, Jr. grow, waiting endlessly for news of her hus- Kobayashi’s father, winds up on their doorstep, he invites him- band’s whereabouts. Narrated by an actor playing Eddie who self not only into their home, but also into their business and reminisces about his younger days, the film is a pastiche of personal lives. His presence threatens to disrupt the peace and archival footage, sun-dappled fiction, and an old timer’s yarns. order of the Kobayashi household when he moves in with his The vibrantly re-enacted soundtrack brings still photos—of mysterious, foreign wife Annabelle from Brazil, or Bosnia, or Australian brothels, Cairo streets, the Swiss Alps—to life. Tui maybe someplace else. As a web of lies, secrets, and blackmail chronicled her life in photographs and letters, hoping they’d unfold, Kobayashi’s loveless marriage to the beautiful, delicate reach Eddie wherever he was. This is their daughter Gaylene’s Natsuki is tested and the couple’s existence unravels as own document, a love letter to her parents in film form. —B.B. Kagawa brings guest after guest into their home. Meanwhile, Producer~Sue Rogers Screenplay~Gaylene Preston Cinematography~Alun the neighborhood watch and its ever-present paranoia looms Bollinger Editing~Paul Sutorius Principal Cast~Tony Barry, Martin Henderson, over the activities at the Kobayashi residence. Through deadpan Chelsie Preston-Crayford dialogue and awkward confrontations, Koji Fukada’s film Print Source~NZ Film Commission / [email protected] / www.nzfilm.co.nz redefines the meaning of HOSPITALITÉ. (In Japanese with Other Screenings~BFI London Film Festival, Shanghai Int’l Film Festival subtitles) —M.M. About the Director~Gaylene Preston is a long-time advocate of the importance of Producers~Kiki Sugino, Koji Fukada Screenplay~Koji Fukada Cinematography~ telling New Zealand stories. In 2001 she became New Zealand’s first Filmmaker Kenichi Negishi Editing~Koji Fukada Principal Cast~Kenji Yamauchi, Kiki Sugino, Laureate; in 2002 she was appointed an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit for ser- Kanji Furutachi, Bryerly Long, Eriko Ono vices to filmmaking. Preston was also a recipient of the CIFF’s 2004 Someone to Print Source~Pascale Ramonda / [email protected] Watch Award. Filmography~“Mr. Wrong” (1985), “Ruby & Rata” (1990), “War Other Screenings~Tokyo Film Festival Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us” (1995), “Perfect Strangers” (2003), “Lovely Rita” (2007), HOME BY CHRISTMAS (2010) About the Director~Koji Fukada is a filmmaker from Tokyo who joined the Theatre Company Seinendan in 2005 and has won multiple festival awards for his films. Filmography~“The Chair” (2004), “La Grenadière” (2006), “Human Comedy in Tokyo” (2009), HOSPITALITÉ (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 63 GREG GUND MEMORIAL JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The Human Resources Manager I Am (Shlichuto Shel HaMemune Al Mashabei Enosh) Directed by Tom Shadyac Directed by Eran Riklis USA 2010 ISRAEL, GERMANY, FRANCE 2010 80 minutes 103 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 9:50 PM I Code IAMX01 2:00 PM I Code IAMX02 9:30 AM I Code HUMA25 6:50 PM I Code HUMA27 Monday, March 28 Filmmaker Tom Shadyac once had it all. The director of block- buster hits like “Ace Ventura,” “The Nutty Professor,” and 5:40 PM Code HUMA28 I “Bruce Almighty” had an art-filled compound in Pasadena and A human resources manager considers all aspects of his powerful friends. He even had his health—until he suddenly employees’ well-being, even in unforeseen circumstances. THE didn’t. Tom suffered a near-death experience as a result of a HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER is the sadly amusing tale of cycling accident. This led him to rethink the way his life was one such person in Jerusalem’s biggest bakery who goes way going and to consider what might really be important. He sold beyond the call of duty. About to leave for the day, he is sum- his stuff, moved into a trailer park, and went on a quest for moned to the owner’s office. One of the bakery workers—a 21st century enlightenment. Now Tom interviews remarkable Russian immigrant—has just been found, killed by a suicide people from the worlds of philosophy, science, and faith, bomber, with a corporate pay stub in her pocket. However, she including Noam Chomsky, Lynne McTaggart, Howard Zinn, and no longer seems to be on the payroll. How can the corporation Archbishop Desmond Tutu. In response to his simple ques- have lost track of her? The HR Manager investigates. Soon he’s tions, “What’s wrong with the world?” and “What can we do off on an unwelcome emotional and professional journey. Since about it?” he learns surprising things: that, contrary to conven- her belligerent teenage son is too young to sign for her burial, tional thinking, cooperation may be nature’s fundamental oper- the resourceful HR Manager straps her coffin to the roof of a ating principle; and that human consciousness can affect the beat-up van. Together with the boy, a consular representative, physical world. He’s amused to discover that in some cultures, and a really irritating investigative reporter, he travels 1,000 materialism is equated with insanity. Let I AM enlighten you, kilometers across Russia to the woman’s village. Guilt-ridden as it did Tom Shadyac, and you might find there’s more right over time unspent with his own family, he’s determined to at with the world than you had imagined. —B.B. least manage this scenario effectively. (In Hebrew, Russian, Producer~Dagan Handy Cinematography~Roko Belic Editing~Jennifer Abbott and English with subtitles) —B.B. Featuring~Tom Shadyac, Noam Chomsky, Desmond Tutu, Howard Zinn, Lynne McTaggart Producers~Haim Mecklberg, Estee Yacov-Mecklberg, Elie Meirovitz, Thanassis Print Source~Paladin / [email protected] / www.paladinfilm.com Karathanos, Tudor Giurgiu, Talia Kleinhendler, Karl Baumgarten Screenplay~ Noah Stollman Cinematography~Rainer Klausmann Editing~Tova Asher About the Director~Tom Shadyac was 24 when he became the youngest staff Principal Cast~Mark Ivanir, Gila Almagor, Reymond Amsalem joke writer for Bob Hope. He received his Master’s degree in Film from UCLA and Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / made movies of the week before embarking on a career as a director of Hollywood www.filmmovement.com comedies. He has also worked as a stand-up comic. Filmography~“Ace Ventura: Pet Detective” (1994), “The Nutty Professor” (1996), “Liar Liar” (1997), “Patch 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–ISRAEL Adams” (1998), “Dragonfly” (2002), “Bruce Almighty” (2003), “Evan Almighty” Other Screenings~Locarno Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival (2007), I AM (2010) About the Director~After graduating from Beaconsfield National Film School in England, Eran Riklis made his first film in 1984. Filmography~“Zohar” (1993), “Volcano Junction” (1999), “Pituy” (2002), “The Syrian Bride” (2004), “Lemon This film is presented Tree” (2008), THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (2010) with the generous support of LYNN GOTTLOB. Media Partner: 64 FILMS A – Z [I] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival WOMEN OF THE WORLD CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR I Am Sindhutai Sapkal If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Mee Sindhutai Sapkal) (Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier) Directed by Ananth Mahadevan Directed by Florin Serban INDIA 2010 ROMANIA, SWEDEN 2010 110 minutes 94 minutes Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 11:20 AM I Code IAMS25 2:00 PM I Code IAMS27 8:20 PM I Code IFIW25 11:20 AM I Code IFIW26 Tuesday, March 29 Sunday, March 27 5:30 PM I Code IAMS29 9:30 AM I Code IFIW27 They say God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. The whistler in question is a deeply unhappy teenager named Sindhutai Sapkal is the mother of all mothers, a woman of Silviu, in Romanian juvenile detention for theft. He gets by as astonishing fortitude who survived unimaginable hardship to best he can, trading cigarettes for favors and trying to avoid found several Indian orphanages that have sheltered thousands being manhandled by other boys. When a pretty young psychol- of children. The film begins with her girlhood in 1950s rural ogy student arrives to do research at the prison, he’s smitten. Maharastra. Little Chindi scurries from her duties as keeper of A few days before his four-year sentence is up, Silviu learns that the family’s water buffalo to arrive late to school every day. Her his mother intends to take his little brother to Italy. Desperate mother forces her into a marriage at age 12, and her much to keep his brother from suffering the same fate as he did, at older husband beats her for reading in secret. Pregnant for the the hands of a self-centered mother with indifferent parenting third time at 23, she is accused by her husband of infidelity skills, Silviu begs her not to take the boy. When she refuses, and cast out of the house. Chindi begins a journey to provide he threatens her and nearly gets his sentence extended. Left for herself and her infant daughter, scavenging graveyard offer- to his own limited resources, Silviu does everything in his ings and singing outside temples for coins. By pure determina- power to get the authorities’ attention. IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, tion, she gains the confidence to speak out for the rights of the I WHISTLE depicts the dire consequences of leaving young downtrodden, eventually becoming the saintly woman known to people’s voices unheard. (In Romanian with subtitles) —B.B. millions as “Mai,” or mother. I AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL is an Producers~Caˇtaˇlin Mitulescu, Daniel Mitulescu Screenplay~ Caˇtaˇlin Mitulescu, uplifting true story. (In Marathi with subtitles) —B.B. Florin Serban, Andreea Valean Cinematography~Marius Panduru Editing~Sorin Baican, Caˇtaˇlin Cristutiu Principal Cast~George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Producers~Sachin Khanolkar, Bindiya Khanolkar Screenplay~Ananth Mahadevan, Mihai Constantin, Clara Vodaˇ Sanjay Pawar Cinematography~K. Rajkumar Editing~Ananth Mahadevan Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Principal Cast~Tejaswini Pandit, Upendra Limaye, Jyoti Chandekar, Neena Kulkarni www.filmmovement.com Print Source~Siddhivinyak Cinevision / [email protected] / www.meesindhutaisapkalthefilm.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–ROMANIA Other Screenings~Berlin International Film Festival–Jury Grand Prix, Edinburgh Other Screenings~International Film Festival of India, BFI London Film Festival, Film Festival, Moscow Int’l Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Florin Serban enjoyed working with non-professional About the Director~Ananth Mahadevan is an actor and director of Hindi films and actors on this film. Filmography~“Emigrant” (2009), IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, television serials. Filmography~“Anamika: The Untold Story” (2008), “Red Alert: I WHISTLE (2010) The War Within” (2009), I AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL (2010) Community This film is presented in the memory of Sponsored by: Media Partner: Partner: GEORGE DOBREA (1926-2010), who served as the Honorary Consul for Romania. Media Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 65 GREG GUND MEMORIAL WOMEN OF THE WORLD STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR WOMEN OF THE WORLD Illegal In the Name of the Family Directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse Directed by Shelley Saywell BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, FRANCE 2010 CANADA 2010 90 minutes 90 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 11:10 AM I Code ILLE26 9:00 PM I Code ILLE27 9:20 PM I Code INTH28 4:50 PM I Code INTH29 Tuesday, March 29 Documentary filmmaker Shelley Saywell specializes in uncom- 6:45 PM I Code ILLE29 promising films that deal with human rights issues. The death Tania is an intelligent Russian woman who has been living with of 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez at the hands of her father in her 13-year-old son Ivan in Belgium for eight years. They’re Toronto compelled Saywell to return to familiar territory: the both fluent in French and integrated in the community. But murder of teenage girls by their families. Originally filming at they’re in the country illegally and live in constant fear of Aqsa’s vigil, where her school friends came to mourn, Saywell being accosted by the immigration authorities. One day, the learned of the deaths three weeks later of teenage sisters unimaginable happens: Tania is stopped by officials who ques- Amina and Sarah Said, who were shot to death by their father tion her fake ID. They grab her as she tries to flee and she in Dallas. Horrifyingly, only five months passed before 19-year- screams at Ivan to run. What follows is every parent’s night- old Fauzia Mohammed, of Rochester, NY, was stabbed multiple mare: unclear about where her son has landed, Tania is times by her brother. She survived to tell her story. IN THE brought to a holding center for illegal women and children. NAME OF THE FAMILY examines the tensions between girls She staunchly refuses to give the authorities her name, or even living in North America and their conservative families who the country she comes from, in the hopes of avoiding deporta- were brought up in South Asia or the Middle East. The threat tion. While in detention she befriends a bitter African woman of violence known as honor killing is still frighteningly real for who schools Tania in the ways of the system. Nervous camera many girls today. As we meet the friends and family of the vic- work and a tightly-controlled performance by actress Anne tims—and those afraid they might become victims—we enter Coesens contribute to the emotional impact of this harrowing a closed world where girls sometimes fall prey to the men they drama. ILLEGAL is a provocative film about the rights afforded love most. —B.B. illegal aliens. (In French and Russian with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Shelley Saywell Cinematography~Mike Grippo Editing~Deborah Palloway Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / Producers~Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Olivier Bronckart Screenplay~Olivier www.inthenameofthefamily.com Masset-Depasse Cinematography~Tommaso Fiorilli Editing~Damien Keyeux Principal Cast~Anne Coesens, Alexandre Gontcharov, Milo Masset-Depasse Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Hot Docs Int’l Film Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Festival www.filmmovement.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–BELGIUM About the Director~Shelley Saywell’s films focus on social and political issues. Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival She has won numerous awards, including an Emmy for outstanding investigative journalism, and has been honored with UNESCO’s Gandhi Silver Medal for promot- ing the culture of peace. Filmography~“The Greenpeace Years” (1991), “Rape: About the Director~Olivier Masset-Depasse was born in 1971 in Charleroi, A Crime of War” (1996), “Crimes of Honour” (1999), “Out of the Fire” (2000), Belgium. He graduated in scriptwriting/novel and musical composition from the IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY (2010) European Writing University in 1993, and in film direction from the Belgian I.A.D. arts school in 1997. Filmography~“Cages” (2006), ILLEGAL (2010) 66 FILMS A – Z [I] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES Insidious The Interrupters Directed by James Wan Directed by Steve James USA 2010 USA 2011 97 minutes 162 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 11:40 PM I Code INSD25 4:10 PM I Code INSD26 3:50 PM I Code INTE01 8:00 PM I Code INTE02 From the creators of "Paranormal Activity" and "Saw," INSIDI- With a violent crime rate nearly double that of both New York OUS stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey. and Los Angeles, Chicago proves to be one of the most The terrifying story of family members who discover that dark dangerous cities in the United States in terms of youth and spirits may possess their new home, INSIDIOUS could prove gang-related violence. Here to instill hope and fight the indeli- to be this generation’s “Poltergeist.” Josh and Renai have just ble disease of perpetual violence are the CeaseFire Interrupters, moved into their beautiful new home with their three young a conflict mediation group comprised of former gang members children. As they are still unpacking, the family begins to and ex-convicts turned straight. Among these Interrupters are witness odd things occurring in the house—strange noises Ameena Matthews, Cobe Williams, and Eddie Bocanegra— coming from the children’s bedrooms and items mysteriously three mediators who have come from exceptionally difficult moving from room to room. Things get even worse when the backgrounds to now profoundly meaningful lives in which couple’s oldest son Dalton falls in the attic, bumps his head, they are able to help those who stand where they once were. and plunges deep into an inexplicable coma. Meanwhile, the Because of their credibility and because they speak the lan- hauntings escalate and Renai begins seeing the ghost they guage, these three are able to connect with the kids in a way believe is terrorizing their house. Eventually, the family decides others cannot, finding the soft spots so deeply hidden by the to move, only to discover it wasn’t their house that was haunt- severity of life on the streets. An inspiring documentary, ed; it was their son. When Josh and Renai hire a psychiatrist THE INTERRUPTERS examines how to view “hustling” and and a group of paranormal scientists to help get their son “thumping” as learned behaviors that must be unlearned so back, they learn about Dalton’s ability to astral project himself that the cycle no longer continues. —M.M. and realize that he is trapped in a paranormal hell known as Producer~Alex Kotlowitz Cinematography~Steve James Editing~Steve James, “The Further,” where he is tormented by the wicked spirit that Aaron Wickenden captured him. A spine-tingling thriller of a film, INSIDIOUS Print Source~Kartemquin Films / [email protected] / www.kartemquin.com also carries with it just the right amount of horror-class humor, Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival greatly enhancing its entertainment value and securing its place among the recent wave of cult horror films. —M.M. About the Director~Steve James has received considerable recognition for his films, including multiple awards, an Oscar® nomination, and continual premieres Producers~Jason Blum, Oren Peli, Steven Schneider Screenplay~Leigh Whannell at Sundance. Filmography~“Hoop Dreams” (1994), “Prefontaine” (1997), Cinematography~David M. Brewer, John R. Leonetti Editing~James Wan “Stevie” (2002), “Reel Paradise” (2005), “At the Death House Door” (2008), Principal Cast~Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey, Ty Simpkins “No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson” (2010), THE INTERRUPTERS (2011) Print Source~Film District / [email protected] / www.filmdistrict.com Other Screenings~Toronto Int’l Film Festival This film is presented with the generous support of About the Director~James Wan is a Malaysian-born Australian producer, screen- CHUCK and CHAR FOWLER. writer, and director who has collaborated with fellow writer and business partner Leigh Whannell on a number of horror films, including the entire “Saw” series. Filmography “Stygian” (2000), “Saw” (2004), “Death Sentence” (2007), “Dead ~ Media Partner: Community Partner: Silence” (2007), INSIDIOUS (2010) [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 67 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL IT’S EASY BEING GREEN WOMEN OF THE WORLD Into Eternity It’s Your Fault Directed by Michael Madsen (Por tu culpa) DENMARK, FINLAND, SWEDEN, ITALY 2010 Directed by Anahi Berneri 75 minutes ARGENTINA, FRANCE 2010 90 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 8:00 PM I Code ETER01 4:45 PM I Code ETER02 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Sunday, April 3 9:15 PM I Code ITSY29 5:35 PM I Code ITSY30 9:50 AM I Code ETER03 Do we become what we are perceived to be? Are we merely the You might say Michael Madsen, the Danish director of this result of others’ judgments? These are the questions asked in film, is an underground artist. One of his conceptual projects Anahi Berneri’s IT’S YOUR FAULT, a drama depicting the story involved installing a sound diffusion system underneath of young, working mother Julieta who is charged with physically Copenhagen’s Town Hall Square. But INTO ETERNITY goes abusing her children. With a somewhat absent husband, Julieta much deeper. It’s a stunning visual and aural work that is left alone to balance working at home and taking care of her documents the construction of the world’s first permanent two small boys. Between the constant horseplay and typical repository for high-level radioactive waste, currently being childhood disobedience, her exhaustion and frustration are per- hewn out of solid rock in remote Finland. The site consists of sistently tested. When her toddler Teno falls off the bed and a huge system of underground storage tunnels that must last hurts himself, Julieta rushes her family to the hospital so that through natural and man-made disasters for 100,000 years, Teno can be examined. Once there, the doctors question her until the waste is no longer toxic. As Madsen narrates, his about both of her sons’ multiple bruises, quickly turning a somber tone evoking suppressed hysteria, Finnish and Swedish suspicious eye on the overwhelmed mother. Erica Rivas’ perfor- authorities cheerfully explain their nuclear business. One of mance as Julieta is particularly remarkable as she successfully the most intriguing issues scientists are considering is: How captures not only the embarrassment and alienation, but also do we communicate with beings in an unimaginable future? the self-doubt of the accused. IT’S YOUR FAULT is an unnerv- Clearly, signs reading “Keep Out” won’t do. And, if they’re ing film that will bring you painfully close to a woman who anything at all like us, by warning future humanoids away from is defending, yet simultaneously struggling with, her identity the death zone, we guarantee they’ll want to poke into it. INTO as a mother. (In Spanish with subtitles) —M.M. ETERNITY is a bizarre real-life horror film, a chilling tale that Producer~Diego Dubcovsky Screenplay~Anahi Berneri, Sergio Wolf will have you pondering the madness wrought by mankind. Cinematography~Willi Behnisch Editing~Eliane Katz Principal Cast~Erica Rivas, (In English, Swedish, and Finnish with subtitles) —B.B. Nicasio Galán, Zenón Galán Print Source~Outsider Pictures / [email protected] / Producer~Lise Lense-Møller Cinematography~Heikki Färm Editing~Daniel www.outsiderpictures.us Dencik, Stefan Sundlöf Other Screenings~Berlin Int’l Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, San Print Source~International Film Circuit, Inc / [email protected] / Sebastian Int’l Film Festival www.internationalfilmcircuit.com Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Fantasia Int’l Film About the Director~Anahi Berneri is a writer, director, producer, and editor from Festival, Munich Int’l Film Festival, Hot Docs Int’l Film Festival Buenos Aires, Argentina who has won multiple awards for her Argentinean films, including the Toronto International Film Festival’s Innovation Award for her 2007 About the Director~Michael Madsen is a Danish conceptual artist and filmmaker film “Encarnacion.” Filmography~“A Year Without Love” (2005), “Encarnacion” whose works have screened around the world. Filmography~“Celestial Night: (2007), IT’S YOUR FAULT (2010) A Film on Visibility” (2003), INTO ETERNITY (2010) Media Partner: 68 FILMS A – Z [J –K] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL CENTRAL AND EASTERN STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION IT’S EASY BEING GREEN WOMEN OF THE WORLD Jane’s Journey Kawasaki’s Rose Directed by Lorenz Knauer (Kawasakiho ruze) GERMANY 2010 Directed by Jan Hrˇebejk 107 minutes CZECH REPUBLIC 2009 100 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 6:35 PM I Code JANE30 4:20 PM I Code JANE31 Thursday, March 31 Sunday, April 3 2:00 PM I Code KAWA31 4:35 PM I Code KAWA03 More than 20 years ago, Dr. Jane Goodall gave up her career as a primatologist—and any semblance of a private life—to The Kawasaki Rose is an intricate origami flower, based on devote her astonishing energy to saving our endangered planet. a twisting maneuver that allows the petals to seem to curl out Now 75, she travels the globe 300 days a year, spreading hope from the center. KAWASAKI’S ROSE is a multilayered tale by by giving lectures, writing books, and promoting Roots & Jan Hrˇebejk, winner of last year’s CIFF Director’s Spotlight Shoots, her youth organization that is active in more than 100 Award. Renowned psychiatrist Pavel Josek is about to receive countries. Come along on JANE’S JOURNEY as we crisscross a Memory of the Nation award from the government for his the world with the peace-seeking woman who has been com- service in fighting the Communists. He’s a hero to his country pared to Mahatma Gandhi. From her childhood home in and to his devoted wife Jana. Pavel’s son-in-law Ludek, Bournemouth, England, we travel with her to Gombe Stream though, has loathed him from the start; he suspects there’s National Park in Tanzania, where she began her groundbreak- something lurking beneath his benevolent, patriarchal ing chimpanzee research nearly half a century ago. Jane’s demeanor. Meanwhile, Ludek is having an affair with a woman quiet dignity touches all creatures great and small, from the who is working with him on making a television documentary flatlands of Nebraska to the melting glaciers of Greenland. about Pavel’s life. Soon the film crew learns that Pavel was She speaks gently with traumatized children in African refugee actually an informant for the secret police. He even arranged camps as deftly as she tames wild Hollywood celebrities. “Here to get one man expelled from the country—Borek, an anarchic we are,” she says, “the most clever species ever to have lived. sculptor, who was Jana’s lover at the time. When this news So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?” If any- comes out, will Pavel lose his family and professional dignity? one can bring us to our senses, it’s Dr. Jane. —B.B. Is the truth even relevant anymore? KAWASAKI’S ROSE asks whether exposing the truth is an essential or malicious act— Producers~Michael Halberstadt, Philipp Schall, Philipp Wundt Cinematography~ Richard Ladkani Editing~Patricia Rommel Featuring~Jane Goodall, Angelina or maybe both? (In Czech with subtitles) —B.B. Jolie, Pierce Brosnan Producers~Rudolf Biermann, Tomás Hoffman Screenplay~Petr Jarchovský Print Source~Bavaria Film International / [email protected] / Cinematography~Martin Sácha Editing~Vladimír Barák Principal Cast~Lenka www.bavaria-film-international.com Vlasáková, Milan Mikulcík, Martin Huba Other Screenings~Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Hamptons Int’l Film Festival, Munich Print Source~Menemsha Films / [email protected] / Film Festival www.menemshafilms.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–CZECH REPUBLIC About the Director~Lorenz Knauer concentrates on making documentary films Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Int’l for television on a wide range of subjects, from travelogues to social issues. Film Festival, Vancouver International Film Festival Filmography~“Guns: A Day in the Death of America” (1990), JANE’S JOURNEY (2010) About the Director~Jan Hrˇebejk was born in Prague in 1967. He studied at the Film and Television School of the Academy of Performing Arts and worked in tele- Sponsored by: Community Partners: vision for several years. Filmography~“Big Beat” (1993), “Cosy Dens” (1999), “Divided We Fall” (2000), “Pupendo” (2003), “Up and Down” (2004), “Beauty in Trouble” (2006), “Teddybear” (2007), “I’m All Good” (2008), “Shameless” (2008), KAWASAKI’S ROSE (2009) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 69 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION FAMILY FILMS PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Kinyarwanda Kooky Directed by Alrick Brown (Kuky se vrací) USA, RWANDA 2011 Directed by Jan Sverák 100 minutes CZECH REPUBLIC 2010 95 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 6:50 PM I Code KINY31 1:50 PM I Code KINY01 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 2:40 PM I Code KOOK27 6:40 PM I Code KOOK28 Love and hate, vengeance and forgiveness, life and death. A window into the soul of war-torn Rwanda, KINYARWANDA is Sometimes we are forced to give up that which we hold dear- a stirring film inspired by true stories of the mass genocide that est. Sometimes we’ll do anything to get it back. A delightful took place there for nearly 100 days during 1994. A fabric of child fantasy film, KOOKY follows a determined stuffed teddy- interconnected stories is woven together to share the chilling bear on his journey back to his owner. When young Ondra experiences of Rwandan civilians, refugees, soldiers, and mur- regrettably develops a bad case of asthma, his mother decides derers. The film opens with the story of Jeanne, a “half cock- to throw away his favorite toy—a musty old red teddy-bear roach,” or daughter of a Tutsi woman and Hutu man, who is stuffed with wood shavings. But when Ondra dreams that orphaned when she finds her parents brutally murdered in their Kooky escapes the dump and finds himself in the middle of an own home. Next, we literally stare into the face of death as we enchanted forest full of magical creatures, Kooky begins his witness testimonies of former militia and murderers who are spectacular adventure back to Ondra’s shelf where he belongs. attempting to repent their sins and gain forgiveness from their Along the way he meets character after character, facing obsta- victims. The film also follows the story of various Christian and cles he must conquer in order to become the heroic bear he’s Muslim religious leaders who open their churches and mosques destined to be. He finds an unlikely friend in Captain Hergot, to Tutsi and Hutu refugees who are unwilling to fight and des- the forest elder who is trying to protect this land and who perate to survive. In a civil war where nearly one million men, eventually becomes Kooky’s mentor and defender. But where women, and children were sacrificed, faith was lost and beliefs there is good, there is evil, and the two must fight the wicked were frequently questioned. Yet KINYARWANDA proves that Auška, who wants to take over the forest, as well as the junk- Rwanda is a nation not without humanity. (In Kinyarwanda and yard bullies who are trying to bring Kooky back to the dump. English with subtitles) —M.M. Set in a real-life misty forest, KOOKY features a group of entertaining, charismatic puppets in a miniature world full of Producers~Tommy Oliver, Darren Dean Screenplay~Alrick Brown Cinematography~ Danny Veccione Editing~Tovah Leibowitz Principal Cast~Cassandra Freeman, car chases, flame-throwing, and tenacious dreams of getting Edouard Bamporiki, Cleophas Kabasita back home. (Dubbed in English) —M.M. Print Source~Tommy Oliver / [email protected] / www.kinyarwandamovie.com Producer~Eric Abraham, Jan Sverák Screenplay~Jan Sverák Cinematography~ Mark Bliss, Vladimír Smutný Editing~Alois Fisárek Principal Cast: Zdenek Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival Sverák, Jirí Machácek, Petr Ctvrtnícek Print Source~Portobello Pictures / [email protected] / About the Director~Alrick Brown is a filmmaker and teacher with a Master’s www.portobellopictures.com degree from NYU. His experiences serving in the Peace Corps in Cote d’Ivoire have Other Screenings~Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival led him to a successful career as a director, producer, and writer of narratives and documentaries that focus on global social issues. Filmography~KINYARWANDA ® (2011) About the Director~Jan Sverák is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning Czech filmmaker who studied documentary filmmaking at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Filmography~“The Ride” (1994), “Kolya” (1996), “Dark Blue World” (2001), “Empties” (2007), KOOKY (2010) Media Partners: This film is presented in the memory of MARILYN HARRIS. 70 FILMS A – Z [L] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival IT’S EASY BEING GREEN WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The Light Thief Limbo (Svet-Ake) Directed by Maria Sødahl Directed by Aktan Arym Kubat NORWAY 2010 FRANCE, KYRGYZSTAN, GERMANY, NETHERLANDS 2010 105 minutes 80 minutes Thursday, March 31 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 9:45 PM I Code LIMB31 1:40 PM I Code LIMB02 4:50 PM I Code LIGH27 2:00 PM I Code LIGH28 Tuesday, March 29 A Norwegian melodrama set in 1970s Trinidad, LIMBO por- trays the emotional breakdown of Sonia, a woman out of 9:45 PM I Code LIGH29 place in a colonialist lifestyle of superficial relationships and Mr. Light is a cheerful electrician and a friend to all. He’s infidelity. Sonia’s husband Jo moved from Norway to Trinidad the go-to guy when it comes to jury-rigging generators for the nearly one year ago to work as a contracted oil engineer. Now poor, stringing wires to illuminate yurts, rescuing kids from that Sonia’s mother has been put in a hospital, she is free to trees, or coming up with ways to generate affordable electricity. follow him to the sunny Caribbean along with her two children. Mr. Light rides a battered bike through his tiny village in After her initial elation of being reunited with Jo, Sonia quickly Kyrgyzstan, plying his trade. But as horsemen and donkeys realizes how uncomfortable she is in this unfamiliar world of clatter through the streets, newly-arrived developers stir up big empty houses, insistent servants, and endless cocktails dust with their SUVs. The global economy is affecting even and gossip. The strict Catholic schools her children must this remote place. The price of electricity, and even bread, is attend and the long endless days of nothing to do prove too too high for many. Some residents have left the village for foreign for liberal, free-thinking Sonia. When she eventually Russia; others are working with Chinese investors who want to learns of her husband’s transgression with a co-worker during invest in Mr. Light’s idea of harnessing the wind with windmills. her absence, Sonia comes undone—lashing out at Jo, drinking THE LIGHT THIEF features traditional Kyrgyz folk ways, such heavily, and neglecting her children. Tension continues to as a goat-snatching game played on horseback and the erection unfold as she decides whether or not she should stay or return of a yurt. And yet the wider world beckons as a child climbs to Norway. Meanwhile, Sonia discusses her troubles with the highest tree to see what lies beyond the mountains. When Charlotte, the jaded wife of Daniel, who is facing similar decent Mr. Light resists the blunt methods of the developers, problems and whose fate ultimately ends up being a learning they resort to strong-arm tactics. How can a culture modernize lesson for Sonia. Superbly acted and effectually shot primarily and still preserve its integrity? It’ll take some jury-rigging. (In from the perspective of Sonia, LIMBO is a character-driven Kyrgyz with subtitles) —B.B. story of love, betrayal, and self-delusion. (In Norwegian with Producers~Altynai Koichumanova, Cedomir Kolar, Marc Majchet, Karl Baumgartner, subtitles) —M.M. Denis Vaslin Screenplay~Aktan Arym Kubat, Talip Ibrahimov Cinematography~ Producer~Petter J. Borgli, Gudny Hummelvoll Screenplay~Maria Sødahl Hussan Kydyraliyev Editing~Petar Markovic Principal Cast~Aktan Arym Kubat, Cinematography~Manuel Alberto Claro Editing~Jens Christian Fodstad Taalaikan Abazova, Askat Sulaimanov Principal Cast~Lena Endre, Bryan Brown, Cecilie A. Mosli Print Source~Global Film Initiative / [email protected] / www.globalfilm.org Print Source~Norwegian Film Institute / [email protected] / www.nfi.no 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–KYRGYZSTAN Other Screenings~Göteborg Int’l Film Festival, Thessaloniki Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Maria Sødahl is an award-winning Norwegian director of short films and television dramas and documentaries. She spent a year living in Trinidad About the Director~Aktan Arym Kubat was born in Kyrgyzstan and graduated from as a child and has thus made it the setting for her feature directorial debut. the Kyrgyzstan Art Institute in Bishkek (formerly Frunze). He wrote, stars in, and Filmography~LIMBO (2010) directed this film. Filmography~“Where’s Your Home, Snail?” (1992), “Swing” (1993), “The Adopted Son” (1998), “The Chimp” (2001), THE LIGHT THIEF (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of PAM CERIO. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 71 THURSDAY, MARCH 24 OPENING NIGHT GALA 7:00 PM Opening Night sponsored by: SCHEDULE HAMILL 108 minutes PAGES 71-81 p 34 4 WAYS TO BUY YOUR TICKETS 1 FILL YOUR SHOPPING CART AT FILMS www.clevelandfilm.org TO Schedule sponsored by: 2 A CALL US AT 877.304.FILM CONTINUED ON 3 PAGE 82Z VISIT US AT THE General admission seating is available at all performances on a first-come, first-served basis. Passholders and ticket bearers must arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled FILM FESTIVAL When you see the start of any screening for admission. Theater STORE personnel may refuse to permit late seating. located in the lobby of [ ADULTS ONLY! ] Tower City Cinemas warning throughout these pages, 4 please note that we MAIL US are not kidding. by using the order form on page 145 72 SCHEDULE The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival FRIDAY, MARCH 25 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:30 AM 9:25 AM THE HUMAN ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT 10:00 am RESOURCES MANAGER 82 min 103 min p 93 p 63 Code ONEL25 Code HUMA25 11:00 am 11:20 AM 11:30 AM I AM THE CHILDREN 11:40 AM 11:50 AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL 12 Noon 12:00 Noon OF CHABANNES PARADISE HOTEL ELISA K. 110 min INDEPENDENT 93 min 69 min 72 min p 95 p 64 SHORTS p 50 p 56 Code PARA25 Code IAMS25 PROGRAM 4 Code CHIL25 Code ELIS25 99 min 1:00 pm p 126 Code SHRT25 2:00 pm 2:15 PM 2:10 PM 2:20 PM INDEPENDENT CHERKESS MORE TO 2:35 PM 2:30 PM 2:25 PM SHORTS 117 min 2:40 PM LIVE FOR MY KIDNAPPER THE COLORS PEPPERMINTA PROGRAM 1 p 49 83 min OF THE 3:00 pm 2030 – REVOLT 83 min MOUNTAIN 82 min 100 min Code CHER25 OF THE YOUNG p 87 p 90 p 95 p 125 Code MORE25 88 min 89 min Code KIDN25 Code PEPP25 Code INDY25 p 51 p 38 Code COLR25 Code YOUN25 4:00 pm 4:45 PM 4:40 PM 4:50 PM 5:00 pm ANIMATED ALMOST KINGS YOU THINK 5:00 PM SHORTS YOU’RE THE PROGRAM 91 min PRETTIEST… HERE COMES p 40 LOLA! 86 min 83 min p 129 Code ALMS25 p 123 96 min Code YOUT25 Code ANIM25 p 60 6:00 pm 6:00 PM 6:05 PM Code HERE25 6:15 PM THE TENANTS THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 DANNY GREENE 103 min ELEPHANTS (w/FilmForum) p 111 6:50 PM 93 min 6:45 PM 7:00 pm 105 min 7:00 PM A SOMEWHAT Code TENA25 p 122 THE PIANO IN p 53 GENTLE MAN THE HIGH COST 7:15 PM 7:20 PM Code WOMA25 A FACTORY Code DANN25 OF LIVING 107 min FOR 80 DAYS COPACABANA 119 min p 106 p 96 92 min 105 min 107 min p 61 Code SOME25 Code PIAN25 8:00 pm p 58 p 52 Code HIGH25 Code FORE25 Code COPA25 8:20 PM 8:25 PM 8:30 PM IF I WANT THE PIPE AARDVARK TO WHISTLE, 80 min I WHISTLE 9:00 pm 80 min p 39 94 min p 97 9:15 PM 9:20 PM Passholders & p 64 Code PIPE25 WHIRLIGIG RED LIGHT Stand-by Only 9:30 PM Code IFIW25 90 min REVOLUTION 9:40 PM UNDERTOW 10:00 pm p 120 91 min THE 100 min Code WHIR25 p 98 REDEMPTION p 117 Code REDL25 83 min Code UNDE25 10:30 PM p 99 10:25 PM CARANCHO 10:40 PM Code REDE25 A SCREAMING 11:00 pm 107 min WIN/WIN MAN p 48 83 min 91 min p 121 p 103 Code CARA25 11:30 PM Code WINW25 Code SCRE25 11:40 PM MIDNIGHT Midnight INSIDIOUS SHORTS Schedule sponsored by: PROGRAM 1 97 min p 66 114 min p 130 Code INSD25 Code MIDS25 1:00 am PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 73 SATURDAY, MARCH 26 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:15 AM 9:20 AM WIN/WIN TOGETHERNESS 83 min SUPREME p 121 94 min 10:00 am Code WINW26 p 114 Code TOGE26 11:00 AM 11:00 am AN AFRICAN 11:15 AM 11:10 AM 11:20 AM ELECTION FAMILY SHORTS ILLEGAL 11:35 AM 11:25 AM IF I WANT (w/FilmForum) PROGRAM 1 TO WHISTLE, 11:50 AM 90 min THE COPACABANA 134 min 101 min WOODMANS I WHISTLE THE PIPE p 65 107 min 12 Noon p 40 p 129 94 min 82 min p 52 Code ANAF26 80 min Code ILLE26 p 64 Code FAMS26 p 97 p 123 Code COPA26 Code WOOD26 Code IFIW26 Code PIPE26 1:00 pm 1:20 PM 1:30 PM 1:25 PM VINCENT MORE TO 1:45 PM 1:40 PM 1:50 PM HERE COMES WANTS TO SEA LIVE FOR FOR 80 DAYS INDEPENDENT ONE LUCKY 2:00 PM 1:55 PM LOLA! 96 min 2:00 pm (w/FilmForum) p 118 105 min SHORTS ELEPHANT THE WOMAN SPECIAL 96 min 128 min PROGRAM 2 WITH THE 5 p 60 Code VINC26 p 87 p 58 82 min TREATMENT 100 min p 93 ELEPHANTS Code HERE26 Code MORE26 Code FORE26 95 min p 125 Code ONEL26 93 min p 108 p 122 3:00 pm Code SHRT26 Code SPEC26 Code WOMA26 3:45 PM 4:05 PM 4:00 PM 3:55 PM THE PIANO IN 4:00 pm A FACTORY INDEPENDENT A SOMEWHAT 4:20 PM 4:10 PM ELISA K. 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60 min 101 min BEAUTIFUL CITY p 59 92 min p 53 p 131 Code HAYF26 p 104 Code DANN26 10:30 PM 85 min Code TENS26 p 113 Code SEVE26 10:45 PM SNAP 10:50 PM Code CITY26 YOU THINK 85 min PEPPERMINTA 11:00 pm YOU’RE THE p 106 PRETTIEST… 82 min p 95 83 min 11:25 PM Code SNAP26 11:35 PM p 123 Code PEPP26 MIDNIGHT RUBBER Code YOUT26 SHORTS PROGRAM 2 85 min Midnight p 102 108 min p 130 Code RUBB26 Code MIDS26 1:00 am 74 SCHEDULE The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SUNDAY, MARCH 27 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:20 AM 9:30 AM THE PIANO IN 9:50 AM IF I WANT A FACTORY 10:00 am WHIRLIGIG TO WHISTLE, 119 min I WHISTLE p 96 90 min p 120 94 min Code PIAN27 p 64 Code WHIR27 Code IFIW27 11:00 am 11:35 AM 11:50 AM 11:45 AM 11:40 AM TWELVE THIRTY 12 Noon 12:00 Noon MY KIDNAPPER CARANCHO THIS 121 min p 116 INDEPENDENT 83 min 107 min BEAUTIFUL CITY 12:10 PM 12:20 PM Code TWEL27 SHORTS p 90 p 48 85 min RED LIGHT A SCREAMING PROGRAM 4 Code KIDN27 Code CARA27 p 113 REVOLUTION MAN 99 min Code CITY27 1:00 pm 91 min 91 min p 126 p 98 p 103 Code SHRT27 Code REDL27 Code SCRE27 2:00 pm 2:05 PM 2:00 PM THE CHILDREN 2:20 PM 2:10 PM I AM 2:35 PM OF CHABANNES HAYFEVER THE HEDGEHOG SINDHUTAI 2:30 PM SAPKAL INDEPENDENT 2:40 PM 93 min 2:50 PM 100 min 99 min p 50 NUREMBERG 110 min SHORTS SMALL TOWN p 59 p 59 3:00 pm KOOKY 80 min p 64 PROGRAM 5 Code CHIL27 MURDER SONGS Code HAYF27 Code HEDG27 95 min p 92 Code IAMS27 101 min p 69 75 min p 126 p 105 Code NURE27 Code KOOK27 Code INDY27 Code SMAL27 4:00 pm 4:35 PM 4:30 PM 4:45 PM RUBBER 4:50 PM VINCENT 4:40 PM 5:00 pm MY SO-CALLED 85 min THE LIGHT WANTS TO SEA SEVEN DAYS ENEMY p 102 THIEF 96 min IN HEAVEN 80 min p 118 89 min Code RUBB27 5:30 PM 92 min p 91 p 70 Code VINC27 p 104 5:50 PM 5:45 PM Code LIGH27 COPACABANA Code MYSC27 Code SEVE27 6:00 pm WE WERE HERE ONE LUCKY 107 min (w/FilmForum) ELEPHANT p 52 135 min 82 min Code COPA27 p 119 p 93 Code WEWE27 Code ONEL27 6:50 PM 7:00 pm 7:00 PM 7:05 PM THE HUMAN 7:10 PM !WOMEN ART DANNY GREENE RESOURCES 7:15 PM 60 min MANAGER MORE TO REVOLUTION SPECIAL LIVE FOR p 53 103 min 83 min Code DANN27 TREATMENT 83 min p 122 p 63 8:00 pm 7:55 PM 8:00 PM 95 min p 87 Code WOME27 Code HUMA27 p 108 8:20 PM ALMOST KINGS THE SILENCE Code MORE27 Code SPEC27 CONNECTED 91 min 118 min 82 min p 40 p 105 9:00 pm p 51 9:05 PM Code ALMS27 Code SILE27 9:00 PM Code CONN27 TOGETHERNESS 9:15 PM 9:10 PM 9:20 PM ILLEGAL SUPREME HOLY WARS THE TENANTS MUNDANE 90 min 94 min 9:45 PM 84 min 103 min HISTORY p 65 p 114 10:00 pm THE p 61 p 111 82 min Code ILLE27 WOODMANS Code TOGE27 Code HOLY27 Code TENA27 p 89 Code MUND27 82 min p 123 Code WOOD27 11:00 pm Midnight Schedule sponsored by: 1:00 am PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 75 MONDAY, MARCH 28 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:20 AM 9:15 AM THE WOMAN MUNDANE WITH THE 5 HISTORY ELEPHANTS 82 min 93 min p 89 10:00 am p 122 Code MUND28 Code WOMA28 11:00 am 11:20 AM 11:10 AM 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KOOKY 7:05 PM Code HUMA28 7:00 PM THE 7:00 pm WAVE 95 min SPACE 7:10 PM A SCREAMING MATCHMAKER p 69 TOURISTS 80 min MAN 112 min p 58 THE ARBOR Code KOOK28 p 86 98 min Code GREE28 90 min 91 min p 107 p 103 Code MATC28 8:00 PM p 41 8:00 pm Code SPAC28 Code SCRE28 WHIRLIGIG Code ARBR28 8:15 PM 90 min THE COLORS p 120 OF THE MOUNTAIN Code WHIR28 9:05 PM 88 min 9:00 pm 9:10 PM 9:20 PM CHERKESS p 51 9:15 PM Code COLR28 CATERPILLAR IN THE NAME 117 min 9:30 PM VINCENT OF THE FAMILY WANTS TO SEA 85 min 9:40 PM p 49 ELISA K. p 48 90 min Code CHER28 72 min 96 min ALMOST KINGS p 65 p 118 10:00 pm Code CATE28 p 56 91 min Code INTH28 Code ELIS28 Code VINC28 p 40 Code ALMS28 11:00 pm AT PLAZA CINEMAS 7:15 PM Midnight THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 92 min p 61 Code AKRN28 1:00 am 76 SCHEDULE The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival TUESDAY, MARCH 29 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:15 AM 9:25 AM VENICE BAD FAMILY 110 min 10:00 am 95 min p 118 p 43 Code VENC29 Code BADF29 11:00 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THE MOVIE 82 min 85 min THE MARKET 2:40 PM 2:45 PM p 89 p 106 90 min 3:00 pm 70 min THE GREEN SURVIVING Code MUND29 Code SNAP29 p 85 p 97 WAVE HITLER Code MARK29 Code POLK29 80 min 66 min p 58 p 111 Code SURV29 Code GREE29 4:00 pm 4:20 PM 4:10 PM 4:35 PM CHERKESS THE CATERPILLAR 4:50 PM 117 min 4:45 PM MATCHMAKER 5:00 pm 85 min IN THE NAME p 49 !WOMEN ART 112 min p 48 OF THE FAMILY Code CHER29 REVOLUTION p 86 Code MATC29 Code CATE29 90 min 83 min 5:30 PM p 65 p 122 5:40 PM I AM Code INTH29 Code WOME29 SINDHUTAI 6:00 pm INDEPENDENT SAPKAL SHORTS PROGRAM 7 110 min 6:35 PM p 64 6:30 PM 98 min p 127 AN AFRICAN 6:50 PM Code IAMS29 6:45 PM DESERT ELECTION FLOWER 7:00 pm Code INDY29 7:00 PM BOBBY FISCHER ILLEGAL 89 min AGAINST THE OUTSIDE 7:10 PM 90 min 120 min p 40 WORLD p 53 THE WIRE NÉNETTE p 65 Code ANAF29 93 min Code DESE29 96 min p 46 67 min Code ILLE29 7:40 PM p 91 p 94 Code BOBB29 8:00 pm SCENARIOS Code NENE29 8:05 PM USA Code OUTS29 PINOY SUNDAY Approx 80 min p 128 85 min p 96 Code SCEN29 8:50 PM Code PINY29 9:00 pm UNCLE 9:05 PM 9:00 PM BOONMEE ADDICTED IN 9:10 PM 9:15 PM MOUNTAIN 113 min AFGHANISTAN CRIME AFTER 9:25 PM IT’S YOUR BLOOD p 117 75 min CRIME FAULT 9:45 PM p 39 THE ORION 122 min Code UNCL29 95 min p 88 10:00 pm THE LIGHT Code ADDC29 78 min 90 min p 52 THIEF p 93 p 67 Code MOUN29 Code CRIM29 80 min Code ORIN29 Code ITSY29 p 70 Code LIGH29 11:00 pm AT SHAKER SQUARE CINEMAS Midnight 7:15 PM HAYFEVER 100 min p 59 Code SHKR29 1:00 am PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 77 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:20 AM 9:15 AM BOBBY FISCHER THE MAN FROM AGAINST THE NOWHERE WORLD 119 min 93 min 10:00 am p 84 p 46 Code MANF30 Code BOBB30 11:00 am 11:20 AM 11:30 AM MOTHERS 11:40 AM DESERT 11:45 AM 123 min FLOWER 12:00 Noon OUTSIDE PINOY SUNDAY p 88 12 Noon INDEPENDENT THE WIRE 12:10 PM 120 min 85 min Code MOTH30 p 53 SHORTS 96 min SURVIVING p 96 PROGRAM 2 p 94 HITLER Code DESE30 Code PINY30 100 min Code OUTS30 66 min p 125 p 111 1:00 pm Code SURV30 Code SHRT30 1:45 PM 1:50 PM 2:00 PM BIBLIOTHEQUE MAMMA GÓGÓ 2:00 pm PASCAL 2:20 PM RED LIGHT 2:10 PM 2:15 PM 88 min REVOLUTION 111 min THE ORION 2:30 PM ARMADILLO THE STRANGER p 83 91 min IN US p 44 Code MAMM30 78 min p 98 MADE IN INDIA 100 min p 42 108 min Code BIBL30 p 93 Code REDL30 97 min 3:00 pm p 109 Code ORIN30 p 83 Code ARMA30 Code STRA30 Code MADE30 4:00 pm 4:20 PM 4:10 PM 4:35 PM VENICE MOUNTAIN 4:45 PM 4:50 PM CRIME AFTER 110 min BLOOD STEAM OF LIFE POLKA! CRIME p 118 122 min 5:00 pm p 88 81 min THE MOVIE 95 min Code VENC30 p 52 Code MOUN30 5:30 PM p 109 90 min 5:35 PM p 97 Code CRIM30 INDEPENDENT Code STEA30 IT’S YOUR Code POLK30 SHORTS 6:00 PM FAULT 6:00 pm PROGRAM 8 NÉNETTE 90 min 100 min p 67 67 min 6:35 PM p 127 p 91 Code ITSY30 Code INDY30 6:40 PM 6:45 PM 6:50 PM Code NENE30 JANE’S MARCH OF LITTLE SECRETS OF JOURNEY 6:55 PM 7:00 pm THE LIVING SPARROWS THE TRIBE 107 min ANITA 74 min p 68 p 84 88 min 94 min 7:35 PM 104 min p 82 p 103 Code JANE30 7:40 PM Code MARC30 HOSPITALITÉ 7:45 PM p 41 Code LITT30 Code SECR30 FACING 95 min HOME BY Code ANIT30 8:00 pm FORWARD p 62 CHRISTMAS (w/FilmForum) Code HOSP30 92 min 111 min p 62 p 56 8:50 PM Code HOME30 Code FACE30 9:05 PM FEATHERED 9:00 PM 9:00 pm COCAINE 9:10 PM STREET DAYS BROTHER 9:15 PM 80 min AND SISTER MY AVATAR 86 min p 57 R U THERE AND ME 9:50 PM p 110 Code FEAT30 9:40 PM 9:45 PM 105 min 83 min p 47 SAMPAGUITA, 91 min Code STRE30 PRESS- BAD FAMILY p 101 10:00 pm NATIONAL p 90 PAUSEPLAY Code BROT30 95 min Code RUTH30 FLOWER Code MYAV30 80 min p 43 77 min p 98 p 102 Code PRES30 Code BADF30 Code SAMP30 11:00 pm AT THE CAPITOL THEATRE Schedule sponsored by: 7:15 PM Midnight DRESSED 79 min p 54 Code CAPT30 1:00 am 78 SCHEDULE The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival THURSDAY, MARCH 31 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:20 AM 9:15 AM HELLO! HOW MOUNTAIN ARE YOU? BLOOD 10:00 am 105 min 122 min p 60 p 88 Code HELL31 Code MOUN31 11:00 am 11:30 AM 11:40 AM 11:45 AM THE STRANGER 11:50 AM 12 Noon 12:00 Noon ROBERT TILVA ROŠ IN US 72 DAYS MITCHUM INDEPENDENT 12:10 PM 103 min 108 min 93 min IS DEAD p 109 SHORTS MY AVATAR p 114 p 37 PROGRAM 10 91 min Code STRA31 p 99 AND ME Code TILV31 Code DAYS31 98 min 1:00 pm Code ROBE31 91 min p 128 p 90 Code SHRT31 Code MYAV31 1:50 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 pm 1:55 PM HOSPITALITÉ 2:00 PM ANITA 2:10 PM OUTSIDE 2:15 PM 95 min KAWASAKI’S 104 min ROSE SECRETS OF THE WIRE A MARINE 2:30 PM p 62 p 41 THE TRIBE 96 min STORY MARCH OF Code HOSP31 100 min Code ANIT31 p 94 THE LIVING p 68 3:00 pm 94 min 96 min p 103 Code OUTS31 p 85 74 min Code KAWA31 p 84 Code SECR31 Code MARN31 Code MARC31 4:00 pm 4:00 PM 4:10 PM 4:15 PM 4:20 PM ROUTE IRISH UNCLE SQUARE 4:35 PM JANE’S 109 min BOONMEE GROUPER HOME BY JOURNEY p 100 5:00 pm 113 min 101 min CHRISTMAS 107 min 5:00 PM Code ROUT31 p 117 p 108 p 68 5:10 PM 5:15 PM 92 min THE BORDER Code UNCL31 Code SQUA31 p 62 Code JANE31 INDEPENDENT STREET DAYS 72 min Code HOME31 p 47 SHORTS 9 86 min Code BORD31 6:00 pm 103 min p 110 p 127 Code STRE31 Code INDY31 6:35 PM 6:30 PM 6:40 PM 6:50 PM VENICE MAMMA GÓGÓ 7:00 pm MADE IN INDIA 7:00 PM KINYARWANDA 110 min 88 min p 118 p 83 97 min A MOUTHFUL 100 min 68 min 7:30 PM p 83 p 69 Code VENC31 7:35 PM Code MAMM31 p 89 Code MADE31 Code KINY31 ELEANORE Code MOUT31 MATCHING 8:00 pm & THE 8:05 PM JACK TIMEKEEPER 103 min (w/FilmForum) SURVIVING HITLER p 86 121 min 66 min Code JACK31 p 55 8:50 PM p 111 Code SURV31 9:00 pm Code ELEA31 STEAM OF LIFE 9:00 PM 8:55 PM 81 min 9:10 PM DRESSED THE ROWAN p 109 ARMADILLO 79 min WALTZ Code STEA31 9:50 PM 100 min p 54 98 min 9:45 PM p 101 10:00 pm THE MARKET p 42 10:00 PM Code DRES31 LIMBO Code ROWA31 70 min Code ARMA31 CHASSIS 105 min p 85 10:30 PM 73 min p 70 Code MARK31 LONG WAY p 49 Code LIMB31 58 min Code CHAS31 11:00 pm p 82 Code LONG31 AT THE CEDAR LEE THEATRE Midnight 7:15 PM WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE 90 min p 121 1:00 am Code CLEE31 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 79 FRIDAY, APRIL 1 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:15 AM 9:20 AM MATCHING THE ROWAN JACK WALTZ 103 min 98 min 10:00 am p 86 p 101 Code JACK01 Code ROWA01 11:00 am 11:20 AM 11:30 AM AN EARTHLY 11:35 AM 11:50 AM (818) 11:45 AM PARADISE FOR BEYOND THIS THE EYES 12:00 Noon LITTLE 86 min STREET DAYS PLACE 12 Noon p 38 114 min INDEPENDENT 12:15 PM SPARROWS 86 min 95 min p 55 p 44 SHORTS A MOUTHFUL 88 min Code EIGH01 p 110 Code EART01 PROGRAM 11 68 min p 82 Code STRE01 Code BEYN01 101 min p 89 Code LITT01 p 128 Code MOUT01 1:00 pm Code SHRT01 1:50 PM 1:55 PM 1:45 PM 2:00 PM KINYARWANDA BIBLIOTHEQUE THE ROUND UP 2:00 pm PASCAL 2:15 PM 2:20 PM AUTUMN GOLD 100 min 124 min 111 min 2:30 PM ELEANORE DYING TO DO 90 min p 69 p 100 p 44 WELCOME TO & THE LETTERMAN p 42 Code KINY01 Code ROUN01 TIMEKEEPER 75 min Code BIBL01 SHELBYVILLE Code AUTU01 70 min 76 min p 54 3:00 pm p 119 p 55 Code DYIN01 Code WELC01 Code ELEA01 3:50 PM THE 4:00 pm 4:15 PM INTERRUPTERS 4:20 PM THERE ONCE 4:30 PM 162 min MOTHERS 4:35 PM p 66 WAS AN ISLAND SELF MADE 4:45 PM 4:40 PM 123 min BROTHER (w/FilmForum) Code INTE01 84 min INDEPENDENT FEATHERED p 88 AND SISTER 5:00 pm 125 min p 104 SHORTS COCAINE Code MOTH01 105 min p 112 Code SELF01 PROGRAM 10 80 min p 47 Code THER01 98 min p 57 Code BROT01 p 128 Code FEAT01 Code INDY01 6:00 pm 6:50 PM 6:45 PM TRUST 7:05 PM 3 7:00 PM 6:55 PM 7:00 pm (w/FilmForum) THE UGLY 120 min 72 DAYS BASILICATA 123 min DUCKLING p 37 75 min 93 min 105 min p 115 Code THRE01 7:45 PM p 116 7:40 PM p 37 p 43 Code TRUS01 8:00 PM NORMAN Code UGLY01 ROUTE IRISH Code DAYS01 Code BASL01 8:00 pm INTO ETERNITY MAILER: THE 109 min AMERICAN 75 min p 100 p 67 96 min Code ROUT01 p 92 Code ETER01 Code NORM01 9:00 PM 9:00 pm 9:10 PM TILVA ROŠ 9:20 PM MEEKS CUTOFF 103 min 10% SHORTS 9:30 PM p 114 104 min 9:50 PM PROGRAM 2 BAD FAMILY p 87 Code TILV01 I AM 93 min 10:00 PM 95 min 10:00 pm Passholders & p 131 p 43 10:10 PM 80 min THE MAN FROM Stand-by Only Code TENS01 ROBERT p 63 NOWHERE Code BADF01 MITCHUM Code IAMX01 119 min IS DEAD p 84 11:00 pm 91 min Code MANF01 p 99 11:20 PM 11:15 PM Code ROBE01 TRUE NATURE MIDNIGHT 92 min SHORTS PROGRAM 3 p 115 Schedule sponsored by: Midnight Code TRUE01 114 min p 130 Code MIDS01 1:00 am 80 SCHEDULE The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SATURDAY, APRIL 2 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:15 AM 9:20 AM 9:10 AM PRESS- POLKA! HOSPITALITÉ PAUSEPLAY THE MOVIE 80 min 95 min 10:00 am p 98 90 min p 62 p 97 Code PRES02 Code HOSP02 Code POLK02 11:00 am 11:00 AM 11:05 AM LONG WAY 11:20 AM 11:10 AM ROUTE IRISH 11:15 AM 58 min p 82 SELF MADE INDEPENDENT 11:35 AM 109 min MOTHERS p 100 Code LONG02 84 min SHORTS 11 11:45 AM TRUE NATURE 123 min Code ROUT02 12 Noon p 104 101 min THE UGLY 92 min 11:55 AM p 88 p 128 Code SELF02 DUCKLING p 115 THE BORDER Code MOTH02 75 min Code SHRT02 Code TRUE02 72 min p 116 p 47 Code UGLY02 Code BORD02 1:00 pm 1:30 PM FAMILY SHORTS 1:45 PM 1:50 PM 1:40 PM 2:00 pm PROGRAM 2 BIG DREAMS 2:05 PM 2:00 PM THE MAN FROM LIMBO 1:55 PM NOWHERE 99 min LITTLE TOKYO 2:10 PM THERE ONCE I AM 105 min BASILICATA p 129 WAS AN ISLAND 119 min 86 min TRUST 80 min p 70 105 min Code FAMS02 p 45 80 min p 63 p 84 Code LIMB02 p 43 78 min p 112 Code BIGD02 Code IAMX02 Code MANF02 Code BASL02 3:00 pm p 115 Code THER02 Code TRUS02 4:00 pm 4:15 PM 4:10 PM 4:30 PM 3 CLEVELAND VS. 4:25 PM THESE 120 min 4:45 PM WALL STREET MATCHING 5:00 pm AMAZING p 37 INTO ETERNITY 98 min JACK SHADOWS Code THRE02 p 50 103 min (w/FilmForum) 75 min p 67 Passholders & p 86 133 min Stand-by Only Code ETER02 Code JACK02 p 112 5:50 PM 5:45 PM 6:00 pm Code THES02 6:00 PM (818) BEYOND WELCOME TO 86 min THIS PLACE SHELBYVILLE p 38 95 min 70 min Code EIGH02 p 44 p 119 6:50 PM 6:40 PM Code BEYN02 7:00 pm 7:05 PM Code WELC02 THE STRANGER 7:05 PM HELLO! HOW 7:00 PM THIS PRISON IN US BILL ARE YOU? WITH LOVE, WHERE I LIVE 108 min CUNNINGHAM 105 min FROM THE AGE (w/FilmForum) p 109 NEW YORK p 60 OF REASON 84 min 90 min Code STRA02 Code HELL02 136 min p 45 p 121 8:00 pm p 113 8:00 PM Code BILL02 Code WITH02 Code THIS02 THE 8:20 PM INTERRUPTERS SURROGATE 162 min VALENTINE p 66 76 min 9:00 pm p 110 9:00 PM Code INTE02 9:20 PM Code SURR02 9:10 PM SOUND OF A MARINE DYING TO DO 9:30 PM NOISE LETTERMAN 9:50 PM STORY BIBLIOTHEQUE 98 min 75 min PASCAL p 107 10:00 pm WHITE ON RICE 96 min p 54 p 85 111 min Code SOUN02 83 min 10:10 PM Code DYIN02 Code MARN02 p 44 p 120 THE OTHER F Code WHIT02 WORD Code BIBL02 11:00 pm 98 min p 94 Code OTHE02 11:30 PM 11:50 PM MIDNIGHT Midnight BLACK DEATH SHORTS PROGRAM 4 97 min p 46 106 min p 131 Code BLAC02 Code MIDS02 1:00 am PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM SCHEDULE 81 SUNDAY, APRIL 3 RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE PURPLE GREY BROWN 9:00 am 9:30 AM DYING TO DO 9:45 AM 9:50 AM LETTERMAN SELF MADE INTO ETERNITY 10:00 am 75 min p 54 84 min 75 min Code DYIN03 p 104 p 67 Code SELF03 Code ETER03 11:00 am 11:20 AM 11:30 AM 11:35 AM THE ROWAN 11:25 AM WELCOME TO 11:45 AM THIS PRISON 11:40 AM 11:50 AM WALTZ THE BORDER SHELBYVILLE 72 min 12:00 Noon SURROGATE WHERE I LIVE AUTUMN GOLD BLACK DEATH 98 min 12 Noon (w/FilmForum) VALENTINE p 101 p 47 THE UGLY 91 min 90 min 97 min 115 min 76 min Code BORD03 DUCKLING p 113 p 42 p 46 Code ROWA03 p 119 75 min p 110 Code THIS03 Code AUTU03 Code BLAC03 Code WELC03 p 116 Code SURR03 Code UGLY03 1:00 pm 1:45 PM INDEPENDENT 2:05 PM 2:00 PM 1:55 PM 2:00 pm SHORTS JURY 2:15 PM A MARINE THE OTHER F WITH LOVE, 2:10 PM AWARDS STORY WORD FROM THE AGE 2:30 PM BIG DREAMS OF REASON 72 DAYS Approx 100 min LITTLE TOKYO 96 min 98 min p 124 (818) 90 min 93 min 86 min p 85 p 94 p 121 p 37 Code JURY03 86 min 3:00 pm p 38 p 45 Code MARN03 Code OTHE03 Code WITH03 Code DAYS03 Code EIGH03 Code BIGD03 4:00 pm 4:15 PM 4:10 PM 4:20 PM 4:30 PM 4:25 PM PRESS- SOUND OF 4:35 PM THE ROUND UP PAUSEPLAY INDEPENDENT 4:45 PM WHITE ON RICE NOISE KAWASAKI’S 124 min SHORTS 80 min NORMAN 83 min p 98 5:00 PM 98 min ROSE p 100 5:00 pm AUDIENCE p 107 AWARDS MAILER: THE p 120 Code PRES03 ELEANORE 100 min Code ROUN03 Approx 100 min AMERICAN Code WHIT03 & THE Code SOUN03 p 68 p 124 96 min TIMEKEEPER Code KAWA03 p 92 76 min Code AUDS03 p 55 Code NORM03 Code ELEA03 6:00 pm 6:45 PM 7:05 PM 7:00 PM AN EARTHLY 7:00 pm SQUARE 7:15 PM 7:10 PM SOUL SURFER PARADISE FOR THE EYES GROUPER BILL THESE 96 min 101 min CUNNINGHAM AMAZING p 35 114 min NEW YORK SHADOWS p 55 p 108 Code SOUL03 84 min 88 min Code EART03 8:00 pm Code SQUA03 p 45 p 112 Code BILL03 Code THES03 CLOSING NIGHT 9:00 pm 10:00 pm 11:00 pm Schedule sponsored by: Midnight 1:00 am 82 FILMS A – Z [L–M] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GLOBAL HEALTH, WOMEN OF THE WORLD AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR LOCAL HEROES Little Sparrows Long Way to Oblivion Directed by Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen Directed by Shawn C. Mishak AUSTRALIA 2010 USA 2011 88 minutes 58 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 Thursday, March 31 Saturday, April 2 6:45 PM I Code LITT30 11:50 AM I Code LITT01 10:30 PM I Code LONG31 11:00 AM I Code LONG02 It’s Christmastime in Australia and the heat is bearing down. Along the streets of Cleveland roams a group of desperate musi- A family celebrates the holiday as best they can, knowing cians on a quest for booze, drugs, love, and rock n’ roll. Keith they’re together for the last time. Susan, the loving matriarch and his bandmates are tattooed, jagged cynics who spend their and only in her 50s, has just discovered that her cancer has days drinking cheap beer, getting high, and debating the tor- returned. Present at dinner are Susan, her husband (a theater ment of being a musician in Cleveland. Joining them is a wan- actor with a dramatic personality), and their three daughters: dering outsider, a silent man who first arrives on the scene Nina, a young widow with two children; Anna, an actress oblivious and stark naked. His unexplained presence remains a unhappily married to a filmmaker; and Christine, a med stu- constant through the film as he follows Keith around in a dazed dent who’s just coming out as a lesbian. LITTLE SPARROWS stupor, taking whatever drugs or sex are offered to him. When is an emotional journey into the realms of passion, responsibil- Keith’s girlfriend Michelle leaves him a dramatic goodbye letter, ity, and love. A chapter of the film is devoted to each of the he spirals into a profound depression, expressing his heartache daughters, whose life stories dovetail with their mother’s. through rage-filled outbursts and the recurrent writing of his Before Susan dies, she imparts wisdom and encouragement to own obituary. Jaded and strung-out, he drifts from bars to gigs sustain her girls along their way. While helping them to define to house parties, discussing with his Bukowski-quoting friends themselves so their lives can take flight, she searches for a the banality of playing to the same 20 people in the same bars way to hold them close forever. Despite its sad subject matter, every night, and the excruciating pain of being alone. Raw and LITTLE SPARROWS lets a spark of optimism glimmer through provocative, LONG WAY TO OBLIVION is an honest film with an the messiness and unfinished business inherent to all lives amazing soundtrack that tells the gritty story of love and loss in and all families. —B.B. Cleveland through a poetic lens. —M.M. Producers~Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen, Eva Di Blasio Screenplay~Yu-Hsiu Camille Producers~Shawn C. Mishak, Noel Maitland Screenplay~Shawn C. Mishak Chen Cinematography~Jason Thomas Editing~Fil Baker Principal Cast~Nicola Cinematography~Noel Maitland Editing~Noel Maitland Principal Cast~Tim Bartlett, James Hagan, Nina Deasley Schmitz, Brandon Zano, Mike Ditzel, Carmen Navis, Allisun Rose, Liz Copic Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Print Source~Shawn C. Mishak / [email protected] www.filmmovement.com About the Director~Shawn C. Mishak is a Cleveland State University graduate Other Screenings~Melbourne Int’l Film Festival, Rome Int’l Film Festival with a background in journalism. He is in a Cleveland-based rock band called Kid Tested. Filmography~LONG WAY TO OBLIVION (2011) About the Director~Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen grew up in Taiwan and went to the University of Utah where she majored in film studies. She worked on commercials, music videos, and features in Taiwan and China before moving to Western Australia. Filmography~LITTLE SPARROWS (2010) Community Partner: [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 83 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION GLOBAL HEALTH GLOBAL HEALTH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR WOMEN OF THE WORLD Made in India Mamma Gógó Directed by Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha Directed by Fridrik Thor Fridriksson USA, INDIA 2010 ICELAND, NORWAY, SWEDEN, 97 minutes GERMANY, UNITED KINGDOM 2010 88 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 2:30 PM I Code MADE30 6:40 PM I Code MADE31 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 1:50 PM I Code MAMM30 6:30 PM I Code MAMM31 You might say this documentary describes a kind of extreme outsourcing. MADE IN INDIA shows the physical, moral, and A semi-autobiographical tale, MAMMA GÓGÓ is a poignant emotional risks that middle-class Westerners and poor Indian and often funny character study of a self-absorbed film direc- women take when they sign a surrogacy contract. Lisa and tor’s relationship with his aging mother. The director has just Brian Switzer of San Antonio are an infertile American couple made “Children of Nature,” a film about old people in Iceland. who have exhausted all other expensive and painful options of He pompously expects it to speak to the hearts of his country- getting pregnant. Still, Lisa is determined not to give up on her men while it pulls in an Oscar® nomination. When nobody dream of having children. After considerable soul-searching, comes out in droves to see it, the Icelandic Film Commission the Switzers contact a California-based reproductive outsourc- begins reminding him that he owes them a lot of money. He ing business. Meanwhile in Mumbai we meet Aalia, the starts grasping at straws, like making unsound financial invest- cheerful young mother of three who is contracted to carry the ments and accepting the directing job for an ill-advised Viking Switzers’ baby for a price. MADE IN INDIA’s two directors, movie starring Paris Hilton. Meanwhile his fiercely independent American Rebecca Haimowitz and Indian Vaishali Sinha, go mother shows signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Distracted by his beyond sensationalist headlines to explore global issues of own financial, professional, and marital woes, he fails to take reproductive rights and social justice. Weaving together the her problems seriously—until she endangers herself and the Switzers’ and Aalia’s stories with interviews involving fertility family must look into institutionalizing her. MAMMA GÓGÓ is experts and hospital administrators, they depict decisions a tour de force by veteran actress Kristbjörg Kjeld whose 1962 made by families in crisis who look toward reproductive tech- breakout performance in “The Girl Gogo” also features here. nology as a panacea. As might be expected when such diver- (In Icelandic with subtitles) —B.B. gent cultures converge, there are unforeseen complications. Producers~Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, Gudrun Edda Thorhanesdottir Screenplay~ (In English and Hindi with subtitles) —B.B. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson Cinematography~Ari Kristinsson Editing~ Sigvaldi J. Kárason, Tomas Potocny, Anders Refn Principal Cast~Kristbjörg Kjeld, Hilmir Producers~Rebecca Haimowitz, Vaishali Sinha Cinematography~Adri Thakur, Snær Guðnason, Gunnar Eyjólfsson Basia Windograd Editing~Myles Kane Print Source~Bavaria Film International / [email protected] / Print Source~Made In India / [email protected] / www.bavaria-film-international.com www.madeinindiamovie.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–ICELAND Other Screenings~St. Louis Int’l Film Festival, Hot Docs Int’l Film Festival, Other Screenings~Toronto Int’l Film Festival Woodstock Film Festival About the Director~Fridrik Thor Fridriksson is also a producer and actor who About the Directors~Rebecca Haimowitz received her Master’s degree in founded the Icelandic Film Corporation. Filmography~“White Whales” (1987), Filmmaking from Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts, where she “Movie Days” (1994), “Cold Fever” (1995), “Devin’s Island” (1996), “Angels of also worked as a screenwriting instructor. Vaishali Sinha worked for non-profit the Universe” (2000), “Falcons” (2002), “Niceland” (2004), MAMMA GÓGÓ organizations in India that promote women’s voices and studied film at the New (2010) School University in New York. Originally from Mumbai, she now lives in Brooklyn. Collaborative Filmography~MADE IN INDIA (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of Media Partner: Community THOMAS A. DUKE. Partner: Community Partner: 84 FILMS A – Z [M] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION PACIFIC PEARLS JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS WOMEN OF THE WORLD The Man From Nowhere March of the Living (A-jeo-ssi) (Marcha da Vida) Directed by Jeong-Beom Lee Directed by Jessica Sanders SOUTH KOREA 2010 USA, BRAZIL 2010 119 minutes 74 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 9:15 AM I Code MANF30 10:00 PM I Code MANF01 6:40 PM I Code MARC30 2:30 PM I Code MARC31 Saturday, April 2 The March of the Living is an international educational 1:50 PM I Code MANF02 program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to An action-packed film, THE MAN FROM NOWHERE is about Poland on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Memorial Day. There, Cha Tae-shik, an ex-special agent whose vendetta against the they march the three kilometers from Auschwitz to Birkenau, Chinese mafia presence in South Korea is fueled by the kid- the largest concentration camp complex built during World napping of his young, innocent neighbor So-mi. Tae-shik is lit- War II. After visiting these somber sites of remembrance, the erally a man from nowhere, hiding away as a small pawnshop group moves on to Jerusalem to celebrate the anniversary of owner after the tragic death of his wife and unborn child. The Yom HaAtzmaut, Israel Independence Day. MARCH OF THE only person he has any connection with anymore is So-mi, the LIVING tells the story of the last generation of Holocaust sur- sweet and curious neglected daughter of a woman who winds vivors as they travel to Poland with teenagers from California, up stealing drugs from the wrong people. When the drug deal- Brazil, and Germany. The survivors serve as guides on their ers come looking for their goods, they kidnap So-mi, causing emotional journey and as the generations confront the enormity Tae-shik to begin a vengeful, violent struggle to rescue her. of the past together, the elders pass down their memories of When an agreement he makes with the drug dealers (in order the Holocaust to the next generation. The film features striking to get So-mi back) goes terribly wrong, Tae-shik winds up cinematography of the concentration camps today and exam- caught in the middle of a drug war between dueling cartels. ines images and artifacts never before seen. MARCH OF THE But these criminals don’t know who they’re dealing with, and LIVING raises questions about Holocaust memory as it relates Tae-shik leaves a bloody trail behind him as he searches for to genocide today and tomorrow. This shocking experience the little girl. The hunt only becomes more desperate when changes the teens’ relationship with their religion and they Tae-shik learns that the Chinese mafia are not only dealing resolve to lead the Jewish people into the future. (In English, drugs, but also harvesting the organs of their victims, including Portuguese, and Polish with subtitles) —B.B. small children. This film is a suspenseful thriller full of innova- Producer~LG Tubaldini Cinematography~Gustavo Hadba, Shana Hagan tive camera-work and beautifully choreographed martial arts. Editing~Brian Johnson (In Korean with subtitles) —M.M. Print Source~Jessica Sanders Film / [email protected] / www.jessicasandersfilm.com Producer~Tae-Heon Lee Screenplay~Jeong-Beom Lee Cinematography~Tae-Yoon Lee Editing~Sang-Bum Kim Principal Cast~Bin Won, Sae-ron Kim, Hyo-seo Kim About the Director~Jessica Sanders majored in Film Studies and English at Print Source~CJ Entertainment / [email protected] / www.cjent.co.kr/eng Wesleyan University. She also directs commercials. Filmography~“After Innocence” (2005), MARCH OF THE LIVING (2010) Other Screenings~Hawaii Int’l Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Jeong-Beom Lee is a Korean director and screenwriter whose THE MAN FROM NOWHERE was the highest-grossing film in South Korea in Sponsored by: 2010. Filmography~“Cruel Winter Blues” (2006), THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (2010) Sponsored This film is presented by: in loving memory of Community Partner: BERNARD OLSHANSKY (1927-2010). PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 85 GREG GUND MEMORIAL 10% CINEMA, AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION WOMEN OF THE WORLD GLOBAL HEALTH WOMEN OF THE WORLD A Marine Story The Market Directed by Ned Farr Directed by Rama Rau USA 2010 INDIA, CANADA 2010 96 minutes 70 minutes Thursday, March 31 Saturday, April 2 Tuesday, March 29 Thursday, March 31 2:15 PM I Code MARN31 9:20 PM I Code MARN02 2:30 PM I Code MARK29 9:50 PM I Code MARK31 Sunday, April 3 “We are naked down to our souls, and the whole world can see 2:05 PM I Code MARN03 our nakedness.” These words are spoken by Prabha, an impov- A solitary Marine crosses the dry California terrain on foot, her erished Indian woman who is a broker on the international pack on her back. She’s heading home after leaving the service kidney market. In a place where people sell fish, vegetables, involuntarily. In A MARINE STORY Alex is a lean fighting and flowers, many now sell parts of themselves. Desperately machine and a top-notch career officer from a military family. poor and in debt, they offer their kidneys to Westerners who But when her commanding officer heard that she harbored les- are equally desperate for life-saving transplants. THE MARKET bian tendencies, she was let go. Alex is a victim of the nation’s is a gripping story that follows women on both sides of this “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy—repealed last December after medical-cultural divide. Prabha is a tough businesswoman who 17 years and 13,500 discharges. Separated now from the has sold her own kidney and reluctantly takes on the case of institution that represents her whole world, Alex settles uneasi- her sister Hema. She barters on cell phones and in darkened ly back into civilian life. She goes drinking in one of her old hospital corridors for the best price. Meanwhile in Canada, haunts, is taunted by some rednecks, and holds her own in a Sandra performs dialysis at home four times a day. Her condi- brawl. When Alex accosts some punks robbing a store, her tion will deteriorate soon without a transplant. Long waits for training kicks in and she subdues them. One is a sullen young transplants in the West often prove deadly. Despite the urging woman named Saffron who has been in trouble before. Now a of her mother and daughter to seek a donor in India, Sandra judge gives her an ultimatum: jail or the military. When Saffron has serious moral qualms. Together with filmmaker Rama Rau, submits to being trained by Alex for boot camp, she gains a the three women travel to Chennai to meet face-to-face with new identity—as one of the few and the proud. —B.B. those whose lives they have the power to change. (In English and Tamil with subtitles) —B.B. Producers~J.D. Disalvatore, Ned Farr, Dreya Weber Screenplay~Ned Farr Cinematography~Alex Naufel Editing~Ned Farr Principal Cast~Dreya Weber, Producer~Ed Barreveld Cinematography~Paul Kell, Iris Ng Paris P. Pickard, Christine Mourad Editing~Ricardo Acosta Print Source~Red Road Studio / [email protected] / www.nedfarr.com Print Source~Storyline Entertainment Inc. / [email protected] / www.storylineentertainment.com Other Screenings~Outfest–Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Frameline– San Francisco Int’l LGBT Film Festival Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam About the Director~A graduate of the Film School at SUNY Purchase in New York, About the Director~Rama Rau is a writer-director who trained in films on one of Ned Farr has been involved in many aspects of production. Filmography~“The the largest film sets in Mumbai, India. Now based in Toronto, her passion is to Gymnast” (2006), A MARINE STORY (2010) make cross-cultural films. She is a writer for the Indian Express Arts and Culture Section for North America. Filmography~“Fingers of Fire” (2006), “Losing My Religion” (2008), THE MARKET (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partner: Community Partners: 86 FILMS A – Z [M] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GLOBAL HEALTH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS Matching Jack The Matchmaker Directed by Nadia Tass Directed by Avi Nesher AUSTRALIA 2010 ISRAEL 2010 103 minutes 112 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 7:35 PM I Code JACK31 9:15 AM I Code JACK01 6:45 PM I Code MATC28 4:10 PM I Code MATC29 Saturday, April 2 There’s a strange figure limping around Haifa in the summer 4:25 PM I Code JACK02 of 1968. Yankele Bride, scarred of face but benign of manner, The fierce love of parents for their gravely ill children can lead approaches strangers to ask if they’re looking for love. Teenage them to desperate measures. Marissa and David lead picture- Arik plays an adolescent joke on this newly-arrived matchmaker perfect lives. He’s a star architect and they have a soccer-loving the first time they meet. But Arik doesn’t yet foresee how son named Jack. One day Marissa takes Jack for a check-up. intertwined his life will become with Yankele’s. Harnessing the Their lives are altered forever as Jack is diagnosed with boy’s love of detective stories, Yankele hires Arik to spy on leukemia and placed in a children’s ward. Sharing his room is potential mates for his clients. On the job down in Haifa’s lower a very sick boy named Finn, whose dad Connor is a boat-builder city, Arik meets a Felliniesque cast of characters. Chief among by trade. In an effort to keep the boys’ spirits up, Connor spins them is Sylvia, a big-hearted dwarf and the proprietress of a Irish tales and turns Finn’s bed into a sea-faring vessel. But popular cinema. There’s also an oddball librarian who fans the both boys will soon get worse if bone marrow donors can’t be flames of Arik’s new preference for “Stalag fiction,” trashy found. Marissa, at her wits’ end, discovers David has been stuff about Jewish girls in Nazi prisons. Also on Arik’s mind cheating on her for years. In a seemingly hysterical, yet under- is a sexy American girl who arrives in town for the summer, standable, bid to find bone marrow for Jack, she begins looking distracting him from his surveillance work. Meanwhile, the up David’s old mistresses. If David has fathered a child with neighbors are suspicious of Holocaust survivors like Yankele— any of them, it might provide the sibling match they’re looking it’s whispered he must have done bad things if he managed to for. With David shamed and largely absent, Marissa and Connor survive. THE MATCHMAKER is a bittersweet coming-of-age form a bond. Can love transcend all in MATCHING JACK? Kodi story, a meditation on Israel’s past and its future. (In Hebrew Smit-McPhee is particularly affecting as Finn. —B.B. with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~David Parker Screenplay~Lynne Renew, David Parker Producers~Moshe Edery, Leon Edery, Avraham Pirchi, David Silber, Cinematography~David Parker Editing~Mark Warner Principal Cast~James Chilik Michaeli, Avi Nesher, Tami Leon, Natan Caspi Screenplay~Avi Nesher Nesbitt, Jacinda Barrett, Richard Roxburgh, Yvonne Strhovski, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Cinematography~Michele Abramowicz Editing~Isaac Sehayek Principal Tom Russell Cast~Adir Miller, Maya Dagan, Dov Novan Print Source~Cascade Films / [email protected] / Print Source~Menemsha Films / [email protected] / www.cascadefilms.com.au www.menemshafilms.com Other Screenings~Melbourne Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Toronto Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Nadia Tass, originally from Greece, has worked for many years About the Director~Avi Nesher was born in Israel and studied at Ramaz Yeshiva in Australia as a producer and a director of plays. Filmography~“Malcolm” and Columbia University. He worked as a director and screenwriter in Hollywood (1986), “Rikky and Pete” (1988), “The Big Steal” (1990), “Pure Luck” (1991), before returning to Israel. Filmography~“The Troupe” (1978), “Dizengoff 99” “Mr. Reliable” (1996), “Amy” (1998), “Samantha: An American Girl Holiday” (1979), “Rage and Glory” (1985), “Raw Nerve” (2000), “Ritual” (2001), “Turn (2004), “Felicity: An American Girl Adventure” (2005), “MATCHING JACK (2010) Left at the End of the World” (2004), “Oriental” (2004), “The Secrets” (2007), THE MATCHMAKER (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 87 GREG GUND MEMORIAL AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION WOMEN OF THE WORLD GLOBAL HEALTH Meek's Cutoff More to Live For This film is our 2011 Greg Gund Memorial Film Directed by Kelly Reichardt Directed by Noah Hutton Screening, sponsored by The George Gund USA 2010 USA 2010 Foundation. 104 minutes 83 minutes Friday, April 1 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 9:10 PM I Passholders and Stand-By Only 2:20 PM I Code MORE25 1:30 PM I Code MORE26 ONE SCREENING ONLY Sunday, March 27 (w/FilmForum) From director Kelly Reichardt comes MEEK’S CUTOFF, a new 7:10 PM I Code MORE27 kind of Western that replaces the gun-slinging cowboy duels There are three men, all talented and ambitious, but with no with the bleak reality and incredible solitude found along the obvious connection. James Chippendale owns a company that Oregon Trail. Set in 1845, the story begins as a group of three insures musical performances and large-scale events. Seun families commence their journey to the West, a land boasting Adebiyi was born in Nigeria but moved to Alabama with his promises of gold, prosperity, and opportunity. To lead their mother when he was six. He graduated from Yale Law School wagon team, they optimistically hire Stephen Meek, a legendary in 2009 and hopes to become the first Nigerian to compete in adventurer with wild graying locks, a bushy beard, and tall tales the winter Olympics. Michael Brecker, one of the most influen- of bear run-ins and Western heathens. When Meek suggests a tial tenor saxophonists of all time, won 15 Grammy awards short cut and guides them across unmarked paths through the while performing with everyone from Aerosmith to Zappa. The Cascade Mountains, they inevitably become stranded in tie that binds these three energetic men is their struggle with despondently harsh conditions with a severely depleting water leukemia. All became desperate to find their vital bone marrow supply. As the emigrants try to survive, the once silent threats match in order to survive. Director Noah Hutton chronicles of hunger, thirst, and loss of faith grow increasingly louder. their battle with illness and their inspiring resilience as they The suspicions toward Meek by the vigilant, outspoken Emily describe their new mission—bringing awareness about bone (played brilliantly by a fearless Michelle Williams) are com- marrow donation to the millions of people capable of saving pounded by the trust she finds in a wandering Native American lives. MORE TO LIVE FOR provides personal accounts of who offers to help. As a whole, the group must choose between people who muster all their strength and corral all their abandoning the guidance of a man who has led them so close resources to make a difference. You’ll feel empowered to be to death, or placing their lives in the hands of the supposed part of the cure. —B.B. enemy, a man they can’t even understand. A beautiful portrait Producers~Susan Brecker, James Chippendale Cinematography~Noah Hutton of the barren earth, fateful hills, and infinite skies of the Editing~Noah Hutton American landscape in the 19th century, MEEK’S CUTOFF is Print Source~Couple 3 Inc. / [email protected] / www.couple3.com a stark frontier film about the fear and danger of trusting the About the Director~Noah Hutton graduated from Wesleyan University in 2009 unknown. —M.M. where he studied Art History and Neuroscience. He resides in New York City. Producers~Neil Kopp, Anish Savjani, Elizabeth Cuthrell, David Urrutia Filmography~“Crude Independence” (2009), MORE TO LIVE FOR (2010) Screenplay~Kelly Reichardt Cinematography~Christopher Blauvelt Editing~ Kelly Reichardt Principal Cast~Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood, Will Patton, This film is presented with the generous support of Zoe Kazan, Paul Dano, Shirley Henderson Print Source~Oscilloscope Laboratories / [email protected] / CHRIS S.W. BLAKE and LAURA WATILO BLAKE. www.oscilloscope.net Other Screenings~Toronto Int'l Film Fesitval, Sundance Film Festival Sponsored by: Community Partners: About the Director~Kelly Reichardt is an award-winning writer, director, and editor from Dade County, Florida. American landscapes and road narratives are recurring themes that run throughout her work. Filmography~“River of Grass” (1994), “Old Joy” (2006), “Wendy and Lucy” (2008), MEEK’S CUTOFF (2010) 88 FILMS A – Z [M] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR WOMEN OF THE WORLD Mothers Mountain Blood (Majki) (Bergblut) Directed by Milcho Manchevski Directed by Philipp J. Pamer MACEDONIA, FRANCE, BULGARIA 2010 GERMANY, ITALY 2010 123 minutes 122 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Friday, April 1 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 11:20 AM I Code MOTH30 4:20 PM I Code MOTH01 9:00 PM I Code MOUN29 4:10 PM I Code MOUN30 Saturday, April 2 Thursday, March 31 11:15 AM I Code MOTH02 9:15 AM I Code MOUN31 From Academy Award® nominated director Milcho Manchevski, The scene is Tyrol during the Napoleonic Wars, 1806-1810. MOTHERS is a provocative and innovative film from Macedonia Following its defeat by Napoleon in 1805, Austria is forced to that blurs the line between reality and fiction. A trilogy of cede Tyrol to the Kingdom of Bavaria. Tyrol’s economic decline three seemingly unrelated stories within one multi-layered film, and its religious reforms under Bavarian rule lead to a growing Manchevski requires viewers to build their own bridges. The conflict between the proud Tyrolean population and the first part of the film concerns two little girls who fabricate a Bavarian authorities. It’s the spring of 1809 and Katharina, story about a flasher loose in their town. When the police get a young wealthy Bavarian from Augsburg, is newly wed to involved, they ultimately create a lie bigger than they anticipat- Tyrolean woodworker Franz. When Franz accidentally kills a ed. The second part of the film tells the account of a young French soldier, the couple must retreat to Franz’s homeland. documentary crew who enter a deserted village to record the She’s afforded no welcome there from his rough mountain- story of the only two remaining residents—an elderly brother dwelling family. And soon Franz and his brothers are caught and sister who haven’t spoken in 16 years. Comprised of two up in the spirit of revolution led by insurgent Andreas Hofer, men and a woman, a love triangle ensues within the crew. who calls young Tyroleans to war against their oppressors. Now Lastly, the third part of the film is where Manchevski shatters Katharina is left to fend for herself in a harsh community with conventional standards as his fictional film turns into a docu- unrelenting standards. Against all odds, the Tyroleans are vic- mentary about the rape and murder of a series of retired clean- torious. But Katharina and the village priest know their revolu- ing ladies, all mothers. The suspect is a journalist who commits tionary euphoria can’t last…MOUNTAIN BLOOD is a turbulent the crimes, then writes about them the next day. An intensely historical drama of passion and resistance, featuring the stark engaging film, MOTHERS is not only a study on how reality is beauty of the wild Tyrolean Alps. (In Tyrolean and Bavarian perceived and recorded, but also an examination of how women German dialects with subtitles) —B.B. survive in a contemporary post-war culture. (In Macedonian Producer~Florian Reimann Screenplay~Philipp J. Pamer Cinematography~ with subtitles) —M.M. Namche Okon Editing~Katrin Reichwald Principal Cast~Inga Birkenfeld, Wolfgang Menardi, Verena Plangger, Anton Algrang Producers~Christina Kallas, Thierry Lenouvel, Methodius Petrikov Screenplay~ Print Source~FR-Entertainment / [email protected] / Milcho Manchevski Cinematography~Vladimir Samoilovski Editing~Z˘aklina www.fr-entertainment.com Stojcevska Principal Cast~Ana Stojanovska, Vladimir Jacev, Dimitar Gjorgjievski, Ratka Radmanovic, Salaetin Bilal Other Screenings~Munich Film Festival, Shanghai Film Festival Print Source~Pascale Ramonda / [email protected] About the Director~Philipp J. Pamer was born in 1985 in Meran, Italy and grew Other Screenings~Toronto Int’l Film Festival up in a mountain village in Southern Tyrol. He was one of the youngest directing students admitted to Munich’s Television and Film Academy in 2005. MOUNTAIN About the Director~Milcho Manchevski is a filmmaker, writer, performance artist, BLOOD began as a production of the Academy before attracting international part- and journalist from Macedonia. Filmography~“Before the Rain” (1994), “Dust” ners and winning the prize for most popular film at the Munich Film Festival in (2001), “Shadows” (2007), MOTHERS (2010) 2010. Filmography~MOUNTAIN BLOOD (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 89 NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION PACIFIC PEARLS A Mouthful Mundane History Directed by Sally Rowe (Jao nok krajok) USA 2010 Directed by Anocha Suwichakompong 68 minutes THAILAND 2009 82 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 7:00 PM I Code MOUT31 12:15 PM I Code MOUT01 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 9:20 PM I Code MUND27 9:15 AM I Code MUND28 Star chef Paul Liebrandt’s website features a quote from Tuesday, March 29 Paradise Lost: “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell 2:00 PM Code MUND29 leads up to light.” This encapsulates Paul’s intellectual I approach to cooking as well as his culinary management style. Is it possible to live in an eternal present, without a past or A former enfant terrible—at 24 he was the youngest chef to future? This is one of the questions posed by MUNDANE receive three stars from The New York Times—Paul first HISTORY. A deceptively simple narrative that tells the story of worked in a London kitchen at 14. Soon after he was training a paralyzed invalid and his nurse, the film ultimately becomes with three-star chefs in London and Paris. When he started in a meditation on our insignificant, yet sublime, place in the New York, people either loved his fusion of colors, tastes, and universe. Through the filmmaker’s lens we learn about Ake, textures, or they hated his “Willy Wonka-esque” creations. This a bitter paraplegic who lost the use of his legs after an acci- film follows Paul as he whips kitchens into two-star shape, dent. Pun is his newly appointed male nurse, a recognizably then chafes at the bit when they stifle his creativity. A genial human character who seems to be content with life. Ake’s presence who philosophizes about food and life, Paul chews depression is aggravated by his elusive, authoritarian father out his hard-working young line cooks in times of stress. When whose cold demeanor is in part responsible for Ake’s inability he’s finally given a chance to spread his wings at Corton in to connect with other people. But as Ake and Pun initiate dis- TriBeCa, Paul and his staff work day and night toward getting cussions of their perspectives on life, Ake begins to open up three stars from formidable restaurant critic Frank Bruni. Paul and soften his outlook on his own existence. Eventually, Ake’s strives to tell stories with food, “stimulating emotions of won- cynicism fades and his relationship with Pun intensifies. A derment and discovery.” That’s saying A MOUTHFUL. —B.B. simple, yet abstract psychological drama, MUNDANE HISTORY Producers~Rachel Mills, Alan Oxman, Sally Rowe Editing~Amy Foote will carry you on its gradual existential journey to a conclusion Print Source~Sally Rowe / [email protected] / that will leave you shaken and deeply affected. (In Thai with www.amouthfulthefilm.com subtitles) —M.M. About the Director~Sally Rowe really knows her way around film production, Producers~Soros Sukhum, Anocha Suwichakompong Screenplay~Anocha having worked as a sound apprentice, a grip, a production supervisor, a script Suwichakompong Cinematography~Ming Kai Leung Editing~Lee Chatametikool supervisor, and an assistant editor. Filmography~A MOUTHFUL (2010) Principal Cast~Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Arkanae Cherkam, Paramej Noiam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij Print Source~Pascale Ramonde / [email protected] Sponsored by: Other Screenings~Milan Int’l Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Film Festival, Seattle Int’l Community Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Partner: About the Director~Anocha Suwichakompong is a Thai independent director, screenwriter, and producer. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Film from Media Partner: Columbia University, where she was a recipient of a Hollywood Foreign Press Association Fellowship. Filmography~MUNDANE HISTORY (2009) 90 FILMS A – Z [M –N] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ GREG GUND MEMORIAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION My Avatar and Me My Kidnapper (Min Avatar og mig) Directed by Mark Henderson, Kate Horne Directed by Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBIA, GERMANY 2010 DENMARK 2010 83 minutes 91 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 2:35 PM I Code KIDN25 8:40 PM I Code KIDN26 9:10 PM I Code MYAV30 12:10 PM I Code MYAV31 Sunday, March 27 A scripted documentary turned bizarre satire, MY AVATAR AND 11:50 AM I Code KIDN27 ME is the reconstructed account of Mikkel Stolt’s fantastical On September 12, 2003 eight tourists from around the globe immersion into the cyberspace world of Second Life. Initially were taken from their huts by guerilla forces in Sierra Nevada, a failed documentary filmmaker, Mikkel lives an ordinary life Colombia. For 101 days they were held hostage by their kid- with his ordinary girlfriend Helle. One day he comes across an nappers, members of the ELN—the National Liberation Army article about Second Life in a newspaper, attends a confer- fighting the Colombian government and right-wing paramili- ence, and decides to make it the subject of his next film. taries. As prisoners they were forced to endure horrific condi- Mikkel introduces himself into this new virtual world as Mike tions hidden deep in the mountains of Colombia, including Proud, the Avatar or graphic alter ego he creates and has total starvation, exhaustion, and intense psychological damage. One control over. Discouraged by continual rejection from other of these tourists was Mark Henderson, a British filmmaker who Avatars at first, Mike finally meets Helena, a beautiful and takes us with him on his return to the jungle six years later, voluptuous blonde who owns the nightclub Mike frequents in along with three of his fellow hostages. Erez and Ido are two Second Life. Consequently, Mike becomes infatuated with Israelis who are still struggling with their feelings of extreme Helena, ultimately transcending into Mikkel’s addiction with anger and resentment toward their captors. Reini, from his new fantasy world. The more time Mikkel spends in his Germany and the only woman of the group, seems to have second life, the more he is removed from reality, eventually suffered the most emotionally. Eleven months after their final being thrown out of his apartment by his real-life girlfriend. rescue, Mark and Reini started receiving e-mails from Antonio Mikkel’s journey through Second Life proves to be an ultimate and Camila, the only guerilla members who showed them any learning experience for him. MY AVATAR AND ME is an humanity during their captivity, inviting them to return and enlightening examination of today’s relationship between meet with them so that both sides can attempt to gain some human and technology that is truly unlike any film you’ve form of closure. MY KIDNAPPER is a harrowing self-explo- ever seen. (In Danish with subtitles) —M.M. ration that examines the relationship between kidnappers and Producers~Peter Bech, Bente Milton, Mikkel Stolt Cinematography~Henrik their hostages. (In English and Spanish with subtitles) —M.M. Bohn Ipsen, Morten Bruus, Robert Gould, Sophia Olsson, Niels Thastum Editing~ Producers~Mark Henderson, Kate Horne Cinematography~Guillermo Galdos, Rasmus Gitz-Johansen, Camilla Ebling Tom Swindell Editing~Tom Herington, Rupert Houseman Print Source~Danish Film Institute / [email protected] / www.dfi.dk Print Source~Renegade Pictures / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Krakow Documentary & www.mykidnapper.com Short Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, San Francisco Int’l Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, Warsaw Film Festival About the Directors~Bente Milton founded Milton Media in 1992 and has dedicat- ed herself to writing, directing, and producing documentaries and educational pro- About the Directors~Mark Henderson has been producing and directing TV docu- gramming since. Mikkel Stolt has directed and produced multiple documentaries mentaries for BBC, ITV, and Channel 4 in the UK for the past 15 years. Kate since 1993 and started his own company, Fenris Film & Multimedia ApS. Horne is a journalist, producer, and director specializing in documentaries based Collaborative Filmography~MY AVATAR AND ME (2010) in Colombia and Ecuador. Collaborative Filmography~MY KIDNAPPER (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 91 GREG GUND MEMORIAL SOMEONE STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES TO WATCH JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS WOMEN OF THE WORLD WOMEN OF THE WORLD My So-Called Enemy Nénette Directed by Lisa Gossels Directed by Nicolas Philibert USA 2010 FRANCE 2010 89 minutes 67 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 7:20 PM I Code MYSC26 4:45 PM I Code MYSC27 7:10 PM I Code NENE29 6:00 PM I Code NENE30 Many have lost teachers, friends, and even family members. Day in, day out, Nénette maintains an aura of shaggy calm. All bear the emotional scars of growing up in a war zone where Her wise eyes gaze unperturbed through the glass of her cage preconceptions of the “enemy” poison multi-cultural under- at viewers sage and silly, each of whom has a different pro- standing. In July 2002, 22 teenage Palestinian and Israeli nouncement about her state of mind. Nénette is an orangutan girls traveled to New Jersey to participate in a women’s leader- who has lived at a zoo in Paris for 37 of her 40 years. She ship program called Building Bridges for Peace. These young doesn’t seem to long for the wild Borneo of her youth. Or does women in MY SO-CALLED ENEMY are articulate way beyond she? She has borne several children and outlived several their years, and politics dictate their daily lives in a way no mates. She watches impassively as youngsters hang upside American teenager can possibly imagine. Documentary film- down and push each other over. She could be said to enjoy her maker Lisa Gossels follows six of the girls over the course of daily yogurt and tea. Her keepers offer opinions regarding her seven years from this initial meeting, discovering how they emotions, but Nénette will neither confirm nor deny. NÉNETTE manage, or do not manage, to incorporate negotiation tech- provides an observation, at a leisurely pace, of how we project niques into their home situations. You’ll be amazed at the our human impressions onto animals in captivity. (In French ferocity of the girls’ opinions and inspired by the places they with subtitles) —B.B. end up as young adults. If such caring young people are work- Producer~Nicolas Philibert Cinematography~Katell Dijan, Nicolas Philibert ing toward conflict resolution, there’s hope for a less violent Editing~Nicolas Philibert, Léa Masson Principal Cast~Nénette future. (In English, Hebrew, and Arabic with subtitles) —B.B. Print Source~Kino Lorber, Inc. / [email protected] / www.kinolorber.com Producers~Lisa Gossels, Eden Wurmfeld Cinematography~Justin Schein Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival, Montréal Editing~Lisa Gossels, David Mehlman, Toby Shimin Festival of New Cinema, Sydney Film Festival Print Source~Good Egg Productions, Inc. / [email protected] / www.mysocalledenemy.com About the Director~French documentarian Nicolas Philibert is renowned for his cinema verité style, eschewing artificial light, scripts, or actor-like subjects. Other Screenings~Boston Jewish Film Festival, Starz Denver Film Festival, “The less I know about a subject, the better I feel,” he says. Filmography~“His Hamptons Int’l Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival Master’s Voice” (1978), “Louvre City” (1990), “In the Land of the Deaf” (1994), “Animals” (1995), “Every Little Thing” (1998), “Who Knows?” (1998), “To Be About the Director~Beyond her documentary work, Lisa Gossels produces and and to Have” (2002), NÉNETTE (2010) directs educational and promotional films for corporate and non-profit clients through her New York City-based company, Good Egg Productions, Inc. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. Filmography~“The Children of Chabannes” (1999), MY SO-CALLED ENEMY (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partners: Media Partner: 92 FILMS A – Z [N–O] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS Norman Mailer: The American Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today Directed by Joseph Mantegna (Nürnberg und seine Lehre) USA 2010 Directed by Stuart Schulberg 96 minutes GERMANY, USA 1948, 2010 80 minutes Friday, April 1 Sunday, April 3 7:45 PM I Code NORM01 4:45 PM I Code NORM03 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 7:25 PM I Code NURE26 2:30 PM I Code NURE27 Nobody embodies this year’s CIFF image campaign—“Be a Rebel / Be a Hero / Be a Lover”—like Norman Mailer. This The first Nuremberg trial (formally known as the International documentary goes beyond Mailer the best-selling author and Military Tribunal) was convened in 1945 in Nuremberg, provocative performer, to capture him as a social critic, film- Germany to try the top Nazi leaders. It had a dual purpose: maker (he directed the ill-fated “Maidstone” in 1970), and to show the German public that the Nazi leadership had been family man. Mailer grew up in Brooklyn and began his long given a fair trial and to create a film that would offer an endur- career as a writer at Harvard. His stint in the army in World ing lesson for all mankind. NUREMBERG: ITS LESSON FOR War II became the basis for his breakout novel “The Naked TODAY was originally made in 1948 by writer-director Stuart and the Dead.” He wrote over 60 books and covered every Schulberg, chief of the documentary film unit of the U.S. mili- major event in U.S. history, including the Apollo 11 launch, tary government. Shown to Germans in 1948-49, it has now the death of John F Kennedy, the 1968 Democratic National been reconstructed and restored for the first time. Since the Convention, and Muhammad Ali and George Forman’s Rumble trial, the “Nuremberg principles” have been applied around in the Jungle in Zaire. During this period he was marrying six the world when it has been necessary to prosecute war crimes women and fathering nine children. In NORMAN MAILER: or crimes against humanity. The film follows the structure of THE AMERICAN, the filmmaker interviews many of them and the trial, using the four counts of the indictment as its organiz- includes a startling testimony by Adele Morales Mailer about ing principle. While much of it is set in the courtroom, the night her husband stabbed her. A complex intellectual, an NUREMBERG reconstructs the prosecution’s case, and rebuts abrasive working-class hero, and an American who simultane- the defendants’ assertions, by relying on the Nazis’ own films. ously loved and loathed his country, Norman Mailer always It derives power from its stark black and white cinematography gave people something to talk about. —B.B. and extremely graphic images of human suffering. —B.B. Producers~Steph Ching, Joseph Mantegna, Tim McCarthy Editing~Justin Chan Restorers~Sandra Schulberg, Josh Waletzky Producers~(1948) Pare Lorentz, Featuring~Norman Mailer, Muhammad Ali, Beverly Bentley, William F. Buckley, Stuart Schulberg Editing~(1948) Joseph Zigman Narrator~Liev Schreiber Adele Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Dick Cavett Print Source~Schulberg Productions / [email protected] / Print Source~Joseph Mantegna / [email protected] / www.nurembergfilm.org www.normanmailertheamerican.com Other Screenings~Berlin Int’l Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, New York Other Screenings~Boston Film Festival, Starz Denver Int’l Film Festival, Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Jewish Film Festival–Legacy Award Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale Int’l Film Festival About the Director~The son of producer and studio executive B.P. Schulberg, About the Director~Joseph Mantegna was born in Connecticut and began his Stuart Schulberg was born in Los Angeles and studied at the University of film career as an executive producer of the thriller “Dead Calling” (2006). Chicago. About the Restorer~Sandra Schulberg founded the Independent Feature Filmography~“Ptown Diaries” (2009), NORMAN MAILER: THE AMERICAN Project and IFP Market, co-founded First Run Features, and served as one of the (2010) first nominators to the Sundance Filmmakers Lab. Media Partner: Sponsored by: Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 93 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR One Lucky Elephant The Orion Directed by Lisa Leeman Directed by Zamani Esmati USA 2010 IRAN 2010 82 minutes 78 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 9:25 AM I Code ONEL25 1:50 PM I Code ONEL26 9:25 PM I Code ORIN29 2:20 PM I Code ORIN30 Sunday, March 27 A gripping psychological drama fully financed by director 5:45 PM I Code ONEL27 Zamani Esmati and daringly shot on the streets of modern-day Some people have children, some have dogs. David Balding Iran with no permits, THE ORION is the desperate story of a has an elephant and her name is Flora. ONE LUCKY ELE- young woman and her helpless situation in a traditional PHANT follows the nine-year-long emotional journey of circus Muslim society. Elham is an intelligent, educated student who owner David Balding and the star of his show, the 18-year-old inadvertently becomes pregnant after having an affair with African elephant he has raised as a “daughter” since she was Amir, the professor she has fallen in love with. But when Amir two. David’s love for Flora is genuinely unconditional, but he reveals that he has no intention of marrying her, Elham is now realizes, after 16 years, that he’s made a mistake—he forced to take precarious steps in order to maintain her viabili- should not have raised Flora as a solo-elephant; she needs to ty as a potential mate. With the help of two old friends, Amir be with her own kind. The older Flora gets, the more aggres- sets up a surreptitious meeting with a backstreet doctor who sive she becomes, and David knows it is time for her to retire. offers to solve their problem; but will they be able to go But where does an elephant go after the circus? Knowing she through with it? A reflection on the repressive treatment of will outlive him, David wants to set up the best life he can for women in Iran, Esmati’s film questions how a society can Flora, and he believes he’s found it at the Tennessee Elephant neglect the inherent injustice of a tragic story such as Elham’s. Sanctuary, run by fellow former circus performer Carol. But Intense and suspenseful, THE ORION is shot in real-time, suc- when Carol informs David that his attachment to Flora is prov- cessfully creating a lingering feeling of dread and trepidation ing harmful to her psychological development, can David get throughout. (In Farsi with subtitles) —M.M. over the guilt he feels from abandoning her? A heartfelt docu- Producer~Zamani Esmati Screenplay~Zamani Esmati Cinematography~Mansoor mentary, ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT not only tells the story of Heydari Editing~Zamani Esmati, Jafar Panahi Principal Cast~Nasim Kiani, a father’s love for his 10,000 pound daughter, but also raises Mehrdad Sheykhi, Hamed Baraghani, Mohamad Reza Farzad Print Source~Zamani Esmati / [email protected] ethical issues about the dangers of keeping wild animals in captivity and their uncertain futures. —M.M. Other Screenings~Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival Producers~Cristina Colissimo, Jordana Glick-Franzheim Cinematography~Sandra About the Director~Zamani Esmati is an Iranian born filmmaker who began direct- Chandler, Neil Brown, Cristina Colissimo, Shan Hagen Editing~Kate Amend, ing shorts in 1996. His debut feature film “Narrow Alleys” was initially unreleased Tchavdar Georgiev due to Iranian censorship. Filmography~“Narrow Alleys” (2005), THE ORION Print Source~One Lucky Elephant, LLC / [email protected] / (2010) www.oneluckyelephant.com Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Los Angeles Film Festival, St. Louis Int’l Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival–Best Editing About the Director~Lisa Leeman is a documentary producer, director, writer, and editor who has also served as president of the International Documentary Association and teaches documentary filmmaking at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Filmography~“Metamorphosis: Man Into Woman” (1990), “Out of Faith” (2006), ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT (2010), “Documentary of a Yogi” (2011) Sponsored by: 94 FILMS A – Z [O –P] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ GREG GUND MEMORIAL DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION LOCAL HEROES The Other F Word: A Coming Outside The Wire: The Forgotten of Middle Age Story Children of Afghanistan Directed by Andrea Blaugrund Nevins Directed by Anthony Hornus USA 2010 USA 2010 98 minutes 96 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 10:10 PM I Code OTHE02 2:00 PM I Code OTHE03 7:00 PM I Code OUTS29 11:40 AM I Code OUTS30 Thursday, March 31 In the late 70s and early 80s a musical bomb dropped on the cultural landscape of America, sparking a new generation of 1:55 PM I Code OUTS31 nihilistic adolescents full of rage and resentment for authority. In OUTSIDE THE WIRE, filmmaker Anthony Hornus accompa- This was the birth of punk-rock. Punkers were known as live nies the fearless American Provincial Reconstruction Teams as hard, die young rebels who didn’t expect to be around for very they distribute humanitarian aid to villagers in northeastern long. So what happens when these anarchists grow up and find Afghanistan. Colonel Victor Kuchar is the highest ranking Air themselves middle-aged? What happens when these punks Force intelligence officer to regularly travel into the tribal become fathers? A comical documentary about the present regions . He runs a grassroots effort called Operation Care, lives of legendary punk-rock icons like Jim Lindberg from which distributes food, water, clothing, blankets, and medical Pennywise and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers, THE OTHER supplies to widows and orphans in refugee camps and desper- F WORD is an unlikely study of how raising children softens ately poor villages. Now Hornus travels with Kuchar “outside even the toughest of men. The irony of the situation is that the wire”—outside the protective walls lined with razor wire this anti-authority generation has now become a part of the that surround army bases. Only U.S. and International Security system they were always so willing to fight. Booze, drugs, Assistance Forces (with members of the Ohio Army National and guitars are now being replaced with diapers, Barbie dolls, Guard’s Military Police) can get aid into these isolated places, and American Idol. Having kids changes everything and these which are so dangerous that relief agencies don’t dare go. men must face the challenge of becoming role models to their Hornus’s goal is to publicize the Forces’ efforts to make a children, of being the fathers they never had. THE OTHER F positive difference in the country and to draw attention to the WORD proves to be a soulful look at how a group of former plight of the millions of wide-eyed children living under the pierced and angry teenagers grows up to find something they radar—and outside the wire. —B.B. care about more than punk, and realize that they’re actually Producers~Anthony Hornus, Dennis Therrian, DJ Perry Cinematography~ pretty good at this whole parenting thing. —M.M. Gregg B. McNeill Editing~Dennis Therrian Producer~Cristan Reilly Cinematography~Geoffrey Franklin Editing~Geoffrey Print Source~Scar Tissue Filmworks, Inc. / [email protected] / Franklin Featuring~Jim Lindberg, Ron Reyes, Mark Hoppus, Flea www.cdiproductions.com Print Source~Andrea Blaugrund Nevins / [email protected] About the Director~Anthony Hornus is based near Lansing, Michigan. He was pre- About the Director~Andrea Blaugrund Nevins is a Harvard graduate who writes, viously a journalist who won honors from the Associated Press. He is also an actor, directs, and produces documentaries in Los Angeles. She has produced a number author, and screenwriter. Filmography~“An Ordinary Killer” (2003), OUTSIDE of documentaries for ABC News. Filmography~“Still Kicking” (1997), THE THE WIRE: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF AFGHANISTAN (2010) OTHER F WORD: A COMING OF MIDDLE AGE STORY (2010) Community Partner: Sponsored by: Media Partner: This film is presented by Lance Cpl. LINDSAY S. RADISEK, U.S.M.C. in memory of Cpl. LUCAS PYEATT, Community Partner: U.S.M.C. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 95 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION FILM IS ART, WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Paradise Hotel Pepperminta (Hotel Rai) Directed by Pipilotti Rist Directed by Sophia Tzavella SWITZERLAND, AUSTRIA 2010 BULGARIA 2010 82 minutes 55 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Friday, March 25 Monday, March 28 2:25 PM I Code PEPP25 10:50 PM I Code PEPP26 11:40 AM I Code PARA25 5:00 PM I Code PARA28 Pippi Longstocking’s real first name was Pipilotta. The director A giant prefab building in Yambol, Bulgaria was built by the of this hallucinogenic extravaganza is Pipilotti Rist, a well-known Communist Party in 1978 as a daring social experiment. Swiss experimental video artist. PEPPERMINTA is a grown-up Intended to get the local Roma, or Gypsies, out of their ghet- anarcha-feminist Pippi who dresses like a member of Sgt. toes and integrated with other Bulgarians, Block 20 featured Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. She lives in a kaleidoscope; such luxuries as parquet floors and tiled bathrooms. Thirty you might say she’s obsessed with color. Her world is part Pee- years later, this Socialist paradise has transformed into what Wee’s Playhouse, part Monty Python’s Flying Circus. An outcast the Roma refer to fondly as their “Paradise Hotel.” Decrepit, from the world of dreary conformists, she learned as a child to open to the elements, and uninhabitable by pretty much any- follow her own strawberry-strewn path through life. Since she’s body’s standards, the block is home to hundreds of people a bit lonely with only her grandmother—a talking eyeball in a who need very little to be happy. Astonishingly cheerful and mirror-encrusted jewelry box—as company, Pepperminta seeks matter-of-fact about their lives, the Gypsies of Paradise Hotel out companions whom she can convince to see the world take everything and everyone in stride. There are recyclers of through rose-colored glasses. Convinced of the healing power of plastic, pickers of okra, newlyweds, an albino, and a transves- untamed nature, she’s ready to tackle big things in the world. tite prostitute. Even those who mostly smoke and drink coffee Like Dorothy, Pepperminta acquires odd followers as she cavorts are accepted for who they are. Is anybody to blame for their through candy-colored landscapes, wreaking havoc on business situation? PARADISE HOTEL is an affectionate yet sober meetings and diners in elegant restaurants. Pepperminta’s view of European lives on the margins of society. (In Bulgarian merry band of bloodthirsty bohemians wraps things up with a with subtitles) —B.B. psychedelic love-fest. It looks like they may be on to something. (In German with subtitles) —B.B. Preceded by Hungry for Health: A Journey Through Cleveland’s Food Desert Producers~Christian Davi, Christof Neracher, Antonin Svoboda Screenplay~Chris Directed by Theresa Desautels, USA, 14 minutes Niemeyer, Pipilotti Rist Cinematography~Pierre Mennel Editing~Gion-Reto Killias The story of what one woman goes through to feed her family Principal Cast~Ewelina Guzik, Sven Pippig, Sabine Timoteo, Elisabeth Orth Print Source~Match Factory / [email protected] / www.matchfactory.de healthy food. Other Screenings~Miami Int’l Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Producer~Martichka Bozhilova Screenplay~Sophia Tzavella Cinematography~ Int’l Film Festival, Venice Film Festival Georgi Bogdanov, Boris Missirkov Editing~Nina Altaparmakova Print Source~Agitprop / [email protected] / www.agitprop.bg About the Director~Pipilotti Rist lives in Zurich and Los Angeles. She studied at Other Screenings~Sarajevo Film Festival the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the School of Design in Basel. Her video and audio installations have been featured at museums and galleries worldwide. About the Director~Sophia Tzavella has worked as an investigative reporter for Filmography~PEPPERMINTA (2010) Bulgarian National Television. She is a graduate of the National High School for Ancient Languages and Cultures in Bulgaria and holds a Master’s degree in TV Journalism, Greek Philology, Balkan History, and Social Sciences from the Ionian University in Greece. Filmography~PARADISE HOTEL (2010) [ ADULTS ONLY! ] 96 FILMS A – Z [P] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival PACIFIC PEARLS PACIFIC PEARLS The Piano in a Factory Pinoy Sunday Directed by Zhang Meng Directed by Wi Ding Ho CHINA 2010 TAIWAN, PHILIPPINES, JAPAN, FRANCE 2009 119 minutes 85 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 6:45 PM I Code PIAN25 3:45 PM I Code PIAN26 8:05 PM I Code PINY29 11:45 AM I Code PINY30 Sunday, March 27 PINOY SUNDAY is a sunny comedy with a somber undercur- 9:20 AM I Code PIAN27 rent, a Filipino-Taiwanese mash-up with a little English on the Northeast China, the early 1990s. Facing the end of their side. Manuel and Dado are “Pinoys,” young Filipinos living in planned economy, laid-off workers are looking for ways to Taipei in a migrant community of non-Chinese speakers. They repurpose their crumbling former work places—and their lives. chafe under the strict rules of the bicycle manufacturing com- THE PIANO IN A FACTORY is the enormously entertaining tale pany that employs them, living in fear of not making it back to of a quirky band of brothers who unites one last time to pursue their dormitory by the time the inscrutable gatekeeper closes a common goal. Chen is an ex-steel factory worker with twin the gates every evening. Manuel and Dado both live for passions for his young daughter and music. He makes great Sundays when the overseas Filipino workers seek community sacrifices and goes to hilarious lengths to keep the girl taking around a Catholic church. One Sunday Dado discovers a brand- piano lessons. Chen’s absent wife suddenly appears, demand- new red couch standing on a street corner, which he takes as ing custody of the child. A product of the new mercenary a gift from heaven. All he has to do is persuade Manuel to help China, the girl says she’ll go with whichever parent can provide him carry this bulky new object of his desire clear across the her with a piano. Now the hustle is on! In an effort to keep his city and back to their dorm. Inspired by Roman Polanski’s beloved daughter, Chen rustles up a motley crew to help him 1958 short film “Two Men and a Wardrobe,” PINOY SUNDAY construct a piano from scratch in the old factory building. This is a slightly surreal exploration of the multicultural landscape upbeat film provides many surprises, including toe-tapping and rhythm of modern Taipei. (In Tagalog and Mandarin with Russian folk tunes and eye-catching camerawork. (In Mandarin subtitles) —B.B. with subtitles) —B.B. Producers~Wi Ding Ho, Natacha Devillers Screenplay~Ajay Balakrishnan, Wi Ding Ho Cinematography~Jake Pollock Editing~Wei Yao Hsu Producers~Choi Gwang-suk, Jessica Kam Screenplay~Zhang Meng Principal Cast~Epy Quizon, Bayani Agbayani Cinematography~Shu Chou Editing~Gao Bo Principal Cast~Wang Qian-Yuan, Print Source~Change Films / [email protected] / www.pinoysunday.com Qin Hai-lu, Jang Shin-yeong Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Dubai Int’l Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Film Festival, Toronto Int’l www.filmmovement.com Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Cinemanila Int’l Film Festival, Dubai Int’l Film Festival, Tokyo Int’l Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Wi Ding Ho was born in Malaysia and is based in Taipei. He graduated with a degree in film from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Filmography~PINOY SUNDAY (2009) About the Director~Born in northeast China, Zhang Meng graduated from the China Central Academy of Drama. Filmography~“Lucky Dog” (2007), “Mr. Zhang and His Dog” (2008), THE PIANO IN A FACTORY (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of MICHELE OWEN. Media Partner: Community Partners: Community Partners: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 97 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES IT’S EASY BEING GREEN LOCAL HEROES The Pipe Polka! The Movie Directed by Risteard Ó Domhnaill Directed by Dušan Moravec IRELAND 2010 USA, SLOVENIA 2010 80 minutes 90 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 8:25 PM I Code PIPE25 11:50 AM I Code PIPE26 2:10 PM I Code POLK29 4:50 PM I Code POLK30 Saturday, April 2 A familiar tale of David versus Goliath, THE PIPE is a com- pelling documentary about the crusade of the tiny remote fish- 9:20 AM I Code POLK02 ing village of Rossport, Ireland against the multi-national oil This movie about music, sausages, and Slovenians in Cleveland conglomerate Shell. When Shell discovered an undersea natur- was made for Slovenian TV. It’s a valentine to polka, “the happi- al gas field off the west coast of Ireland, representatives came est sound around.” Slovenians started coming to the U.S. as to Rossport to propose the Corrib Natural Gas Project, a plan farmers in the 1860s, then helped build the new American consisting of nine kilometers of offshore pipe-laying and the industry here. About 80,000 people of Slovenian descent now construction of a huge processing plant. To the quiet, isolated live in the Cleveland area. Cleveland-style polka, which contains farmers and fisherman of the village, this was an undeniably elements of jazz and ragtime, was featured on Slovenian radio massive threat on the simple way of life they have shared for programs starting in the 1920s. Tony Petkovsek’s radio broad- generations. Tragically, the community becomes divided as casts continued the tradition, bringing the music to later genera- some feel this prospect could hold potential economic prosper- tions. Community treasures in the film include the Slovenian ity for not only Rossport, but also County Mayo as a whole. Workmen’s Home, the Slovenian Museum and Archives, Mitzi Most, however, resist the strong-arm tactics of a corporation Jerman’s pub, and the Polka Hall of Fame. There’s footage of like Shell and believe it is up to them to take action to protect many polka greats including Eddie Simms, the Vadnal brothers, their land and their livelihoods. As demonstrations turn violent Johnny Pecon, and Frankie Yankovic, who at the height of his between police and protestors, tensions escalate and result in fame competed against Duke Ellington in a popularity contest— the ultimate involvement of Catholic priests and even the Irish and won. Sausage festivals and Father Frank Perkovich’s Polka political leader, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern. Beautifully shot and Mass round out the festivities. Don’t miss a beat; POLKA!’s a featuring the breathtaking landscapes of coastal Ireland, THE treat. (In English and Slovenian with subtitles) —B.B. PIPE suggests the importance of preserving this land and Producer~Jake Hemler Cinematography~Jurij Nemec Editing~Matjazˇ Jankovic´ reflects the relevant global concern for how energy companies Featuring~Joe Valencic, Frank Yankovic, Eddie Rodick, Cecilia Dolgan, affect not only the environment, but also the communities Robert Dolgan, Jan Jones they infiltrate. —M.M. Print Source~Valencic and Associates / [email protected] Producers~Rachel Lysaght, Risteard Ó Domhnaill Cinematography~Risteard Ó Other Screenings~Ljubljana Int’l Film Festival, Slovenian Film Festival Domhnaill Editing~Nigel O’Regan, Stephen O’Connell Print Source~Underground Films / [email protected] / About the Director~Born in 1964 and raised in Idrija, Slovenia, Dušan Moravec www.undergroundfilms.ie is a former member of the prominent Slovenian punk band Kuzle. He has worked as a journalist and has directed 16 documentaries. Filmography~”Accordionists” Other Screenings~BFI London Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival (2005), “Ladies of the Skyscraper” (2006), “Meana Is in the Air” (2007), “Talking Heads” (2009), POLKA! THE MOVIE (2010) About the Director~Risteard Ó Domhnaill is a filmmaker from Tipperary, Ireland who has also worked as a news cameraman for Irish national broadcasters. Filmography~“Shtax: A Homecoming” (2009), THE PIPE (2010) Media Partner: Community Partners: Community Partner: 98 FILMS A – Z [P–R] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION FILM IS ART PACIFIC PEARLS PressPausePlay Red Light Revolution Directed by David Dworsky, Victor Köhler Directed by Sam Voutas SWEDEN 2010 CHINA, AUSTRALIA 2010 80 minutes 91 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Saturday, April 2 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 9:40 PM I Code PRES30 9:15 AM I Code PRES02 9:20 PM I Code REDL25 12:10 PM I Code REDL27 Sunday, April 3 Wednesday, March 30 4:15 PM I Code PRES03 2:00 PM I Code REDL30 PRESSPAUSEPLAY examines the digital revolution currently RED LIGHT REVOLUTION is the titillating tale of an entrepre- transforming our concept of art and culture. With the knowl- neur in the new Beijing. The Chinese marketplace has changed. edgeable input of several well-known artists and authors of It used to be that shopkeepers sold necessities; now they peddle today, this documentary opens a discourse about the positive desires. Shunzi is a pudgy, down-on-his luck cab driver who and negative effects technology has had on the industries of can’t keep his mouth shut long enough to keep a job. His wife music, film, photography, and writing. As the tools to create kicks him out of the house, so he’s left with only his dog. A stint become more affordable and easier to use, a democratization selling diet products doesn’t pan out, but at least he meets a of art has evolved—essentially enabling anyone to be an artist, nice girl named Lili. Then Shunzi runs into Jiang, a flush-look- a musician, a filmmaker. Some believe that the digital age has ing former schoolmate who gives him a tip: sex toys are a hot revolutionized art for the better and that this is the most fertile commodity, and he can set him up with his own shop. The skep- time for artists. With the invention of the Internet and the tical Shunzi tags along to meet Jiang’s “investor” Iggy, a crazy explosion of social media, we are now witnessing more art than Japanese artist with a thing for orange. Soon Shunzi and Lili are ever before. But with the democratization of a culture comes running their very own mom-and-pop sex shop, “Dream of the the danger of mediocrity and the threat of confusing the artist Red Light.” Like bats, bizarre customers come out at night with the audience. It’s becoming increasingly harder for true when their needs are greatest. With sales flat and Iggy threaten- artists to break through all the noise and there’s a chance that ing, Lili and Shunzi are about to quit. But Shunzi discovers an real talent will be lost along the way. Featuring a powerful astonishingly potent herbal medicine that makes everyone sit up myriad of images, sounds, and icons, PRESSPAUSEPLAY is and take notice. (In Mandarin with subtitles) —B.B. an awesomely relevant film you won’t want to miss. —M.M. Producer~Melanie Ansley Screenplay~Sam Voutas Cinematography~Yifan Wang Producers~Einar Bodström, Philip Marthinsen, Adam Svanell Cinematography~ Editing~Sam Voutas Principal Cast~Jun Zhao, Vivid Wang, Masanobu Otsuka, Hannes Isaksson Editing~David Dworsky, Victor Köhler Featuring~Lena Dunham, Tess Liu Moby, Robyn, Hot Chip, Lykke Li Print Source~Scopofile / [email protected] / www.scopofile.com Print Source~House of Radon / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Santa Barbara Film Festival, São Paulo Int’l Film Festival www.presspauseplay.com Other Screenings~South By Southwest Film Festival About the Director~Australian director Sam Voutas is based in China. A graduate of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, Sam was raised in Manila, Taipei, About the Directors~David Dworsky and Victor Köhler are Swedish filmmakers Beijing, and Australia. He also acts for Chinese films and TV. Filmography~“The and web-producers with their own production company, House of Radon. Last Breadbox” (2002), “Crash Test” (2004), “Shanghai Bride” (2006), “Dragon Collaborative Filmography~PRESSPAUSEPLAY (2010) Sons, Phoenix Daughters” (2007), RED LIGHT REVOLUTION (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partners: [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 99 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The Redemption of General Butt Naked Robert Mitchum Is Dead Directed by Eric Strauss, Daniele Anastasion Directed by Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn USA, LIBERIA 2010 FRANCE, POLAND, BELGIUM, NORWAY 2010 83 minutes 91 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 9:40 PM I Code REDE25 4:45 PM I Code REDE26 11:40 AM I Code ROBE31 10:10 PM I Code ROBE01 During the Liberian civil war that lasted from 1989-2003, an Franky Pastor is a down-and-out French actor with a estimated 250,000 people were killed. General Butt Naked Frankenstein forehead and a dependency on sleeping pills. claims responsibility for nearly 20,000 of those deaths. Now a His greatest talent is his ability to lip-synch to Robert reformed evangelist preacher, THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL Mitchum’s voice in old movies. Franky’s manager is a huckster BUTT NAKED follows Joshua Milton Blahyi on his personal named Arsène who’s into old-school cars and music on tape. journey of repentance and forgiveness. As the leader of the Butt Arsène hatches a plan to introduce Franky to Mr. Sarrineff, the Naked Battallion, the most feared militia that emerged during elderly director of a Robert Mitchum movie who is scheduled the brutal civil war, Joshua recruited child soldiers and vagrant to attend a film festival in the Arctic Circle. Arsène steals a car men to build a ruthless army known for wildly terrorizing vil- to match his three-piece suit and they leave France for points lages while stark naked. A man hungry for power, he viciously north with a mysterious rockabilly musician stowed away in attacked anyone in his way, killing men, women, children, and their trunk. They stop at the Lodz television school in Poland even disabling for life his personal friend and body guard. But where Arsène gets the students to make a film starring Franky. in 1996 General Butt Naked vanished. Then after nearly ten A supportive pharmaceutical saleswoman smuggles them years of exile, he returned to Monrovia claiming to be a man across the Baltic Sea to Sweden in her Mercedes. When Franky of God. As he travels from family to family of his victims, he and Arsène, plus Douglas the hulking musician, finally get to pleads for their forgiveness and prays with them for guidance. the Polaris film festival, they find it taking place in a big black He establishes a group home for ex-fighters and drug addicts, tent. Will Sarrineff help them realize the dream they’ve taking them in and once again becoming a prophet-like figure brought north? ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD is a long, strange to these lost boys. But will a new life of servitude redeem trip featuring the terrifically bizarre Bakary Sangaré of the him of his past, or should this former murderer be brought to Comedie Française. (In French with subtitles) —B.B. justice? An enthralling documentary, THE REDEMPTION OF Producer~Igor Wojtowicz Screenplay~Olivier Babinet, Fred Kihn GENERAL BUTT NAKED will leave you considering not only Cinematography~Timo Salminen Editing~Yann Dedet, Thomas Marchand the authenticity of Joshua himself, but also the limits of mercy Principal Cast~Danuta Stenka, André Wilms, Nils Utsi, Ewelina Walendziak, and how much a person can truly be forgiven for. —M.M. Maria Bock Print Source~M-Appeal / [email protected] / www.m-appeal.com Producers~Daniele Anastasion, Eric Strauss Cinematography~Eric Strauss, Peter Hutchens, Ryan Hill Editing~Jeremy Siefer About the Directors~Olivier Babinet is a TV/feature/short film/documentary writer Print Source~Part2Pictures / [email protected] / and a director of Dadaist music videos and darkly surreal commercials. Fred Kihn www.generalbuttnakedmovie.com is a photographer whose works have appeared in “Liberation” and “Le Monde Diplomatique,” as well as Paris galleries. Collaborative Filmography~ROBERT Other Screenings~Miami Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival–Cinematography MITCHUM IS DEAD (2010) Award Winner, True/False Film Festival About the Directors~Daniele Anastasion is a documentary filmmaker whose career, including her work for National Geographic Television and Frontline/World, has led her to Madagascar, Zambia, Uganda, and Liberia. Eric Strauss is a seasoned documentary writer, director, and producer who has worked for over a decade for national broadcasters like National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and A&E. Collaborative Filmography~THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL BUTT NAKED (2010) 100 FILMS A – Z [R] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The Roundup Route Irish (La Rafle) Directed by Ken Loach Directed by Rose Bosch UNITED KINGDOM 2010 FRANCE, GERMANY, HUNGARY 2010 109 minutes 124 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 Friday, April 1 Sunday, April 3 4:00 PM I Code ROUT31 7:40 PM I Code ROUT01 1:45 PM I Code ROUN01 4:20 PM I Code ROUN03 Saturday, April 2 An emotionally wrenching film, THE ROUNDUP boldly con- 11:05 AM I Code ROUT02 fronts a wartime stain on French history. The eyes of a boy are ROUTE IRISH is the latest hard-hitting film by British film- opened to unspeakable terror when his family is caught up in maker Ken Loach. It’s a tense thriller that explores the wartime the “Rafle du Vel d’Hiv.” On a beautiful summer’s day in 1942, thuggery that begets more violence. Route Irish is the most 13,000 Parisian Jews are rounded up by the Nazi collabora- dangerous highway in the world. It connects the Green Zone— tionist government and locked in an indoor cycle track. With no the fortress-like government, military, and diplomatic quarter at water to drink or lavatory facilities, chaos ensues and volunteer the heart of Baghdad—with the Baghdad International Airport doctors and nurses in the arena are soon overwhelmed. The and the U.S. military headquarters. This highway, the only way families are sent from this “velodrome” to a French-run transit in and out, is a shooting gallery for terrorists. Frankie and camp, and from there in cattle cars to their deaths. Mélanie Fergus are life-long friends from the Liverpool harbor. Fergus Laurent, star of “Inglourious Basterds,” plays a Protestant has convinced Frankie to go to Iraq and to make big money nurse who risks her life to stay with the children. THE working for a security contractor. (Fergus’s tour there is up and ROUNDUP is based on the life of Joseph Weismann, now 80, he’s back in Liverpool.) Then the unthinkable happens— who was one of more than 4,000 children taken during the Frankie is killed along Route Irish. An Iraqi mobile phone turns raids. France has only recently acknowledged its role in the up with Frankie’s last moments recorded on it, and the author- tragedy, and only recently has Mr. Weismann spoken of his ities’ accounts of his death don’t add up. Beside himself with suffering at the hands of his countrymen: “It’s important to grief and rage, Fergus resolves to find out who really killed his tell this story to the youth of today. It is they who will write the mate. He goes through hell while uprooting the evil that grows story of tomorrow.” (In French, German, and Hebrew with like cancer in times of war. —B.B. subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Rebecca O’Brien Screenplay~Paul Laverty Cinematography~Chris Producer~Alain Goldman Screenplay~Rose Bosch Cinematography~David Ungaro Menges Editing~Jonathan Morris Principal Cast~Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, Editing~Yann Malcor Principal Cast~Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, John Bishop, Trevor Williams, Stephen Lord Raphaëlle Agogué Print Source~Wild Bunch / [email protected] / www.wildbunch.biz Print Source~Menemsha Films / [email protected] / www.menemshafilms.com Other Screenings~Cannes Int’l Film Festival, BFI London Int’l Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Jerusalem Film Festival, Washington Jewish Film Festival– Audience Award About the Director~Ken Loach studied law at Oxford University and made his first feature film in 1967. In 1994 he was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime About the Director~Rose Bosch is also a writer and producer. She was the writer Achievement from the Venice International Film Festival. In 2004 his body of work and co-producer of Ridley Scott’s “1492: Conquest of Paradise.” Filmography~ was awarded the special prize of the 20th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Jury at “Animal” (2005), THE ROUNDUP (2010) the Cannes Film Festival. Filmography~“Poor Cow” (1967), “Kes” (1969), “Black Jack” (1979), “Riff-Raff” (1991), “My Name Is Joe” (1998), “Bread and Roses” (2000), “Sweet Sixteen” (2002), “The Wind that Shakes the Barley” (2006), “Looking for Eric” (2009), ROUTE IRISH (2010) Media Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 101 CENTRAL AND EASTERN PACIFIC PEARLS EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR WOMEN OF THE WORLD The Rowan Waltz R U There (Ryabinoviy vals) Directed by David Verbeek Directed by Alyona Semenova, Alexander Smirnov NETHERLANDS, TAIWAN, FRANCE 2010 RUSSIA 2010 83 minutes 98 minutes Monday, March 28 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 Sunday, April 3 4:20 PM I Code RUTH28 9:15 PM I Code RUTH30 8:55 PM I Code ROWA31 11:20 AM I Code ROWA03 Friday, April 1 Twenty-year-old Jitze is a cocky Dutch professional video gamer in Taipei for a tournament. During his downtime he works out 9:20 AM Code ROWA01 I in the hotel gym, monitors his nutrition, develops game plans As World War II wanes, the Soviet government sends envoys to with his teammates, and practices for hours on end. When his villages in northern Russia. Their mission is to teach teenage shoulder starts hurting, he’s unable to compete. Frustrated, girls to defuse German bombs still embedded in the earth. he goes walking through the alien, garish streets. He needs to Meanwhile, the rowan trees are in bloom; they blossom only be on the move, much like the characters in the games he briefly, yet their wood is resilient. And though so different in understands better than real people. When he witnesses a temperament, the two young girls in one village are also ripe fatal accident, Jitze’s tunnel vision starts opening up and he for love. Marusya is a beauty who can sing and play the guitar, realizes his life is missing something. He meets an aloof local but is hopeless at chores. Polina is a young mother whose hus- named Min Min, whom he follows to her job as a “betel nut band hasn’t returned from battle. Her addled sister sits in her girl.” It’s a bizarre profession, unique to Taiwan: scantily-clad own twilight world, making rag dolls. Polina’s great fear is that beauties wait in elevated, neon-lit glass kiosks for men to her son might wander onto the minefield and be killed. Until drive by and purchase nuts. Min Min rejects Jitze’s tentative recently, this field was prime land on which the village grew its advances, suggesting they hook up instead in the online game wheat for bread. Now loaded with explosives, it has taken on Second Life. No longer lost in translation, their avatars are an alien character. The high-spirited girl recruits are typically able to meet briefly as friends. R U THERE asks, “Will the silly at first; they vie for the attention of the handsome soldiers increasingly virtual nature of your life contribute to your grad- charged with teaching them and refuse to take their role as ual alienation from humanity?” (In Dutch and English with bomb detectors seriously. Inevitably, though, accidents begin subtitles) —B.B. to happen and they realize that their future looks grimly Producers~Frans van Gestel, Natacha Devilliers Screenplay~Rogier de Blok earnest. (In Russian with subtitles) —B.B. Cinematography~Lennert Hillege Editing~Sander Vos Principal Cast~Stijn Koomen, Ke Huan-Ru Producer~Vladimir Esinov Screenplay~Tatiana Miroshnik, Mariya Mozhar, Print Source~Films Boutique / [email protected] / www.filmsboutique.com Alyona Semenova Cinematography~Alexander Smirnov Editing~Maxim Smirnov Principal Cast~Karina Andolenko, Leonid Bichevin, Valeriya Lanskaya Other Screenings~Athens Film Festival, Cannes Film Festival, Warsaw Film Print Source~Film Programme XXI Century / [email protected] Festival Other Screenings~Shanghai Int’l Film Festival About the Director~David Verbeek studied at the Dutch Film Academy and has lived in New York and Shanghai. His work deals with subjects that affect younger About the Directors~Alyona Semenova graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre generations across nationalities. Filmography~“Beat” (2005), “Shanghai Trance” studio school. She acts in TV films and is a director at the Moscow Academic (2008), R U THERE (2010) Theatre. Alexander Smirnov entered the State Institute for Cinematography after a successful career in photography. He has also made commercials. Collaborative Filmography~THE ROWAN WALTZ (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of MIKE FLUELLEN. Community Partner: 102 FILMS A – Z [R–S] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR PACIFIC PEARLS Rubber Sampaguita, National Flower Directed by Quentin Dupieux Directed by Francis X. Pasion FRANCE 2010 PHILIPPINES 2010 85 minutes 77 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 Wednesday, March 30 11:35 PM I Code RUBB26 4:35 PM I Code RUBB27 2:10 PM I Code SAMP28 9:50 PM I Code SAMP30 A truly one-of-a-kind horror flick, RUBBER tells the peculiar The sampaguita is the beautiful and fragrant white flower that story of a killer named Robert who makes his victims’ heads stands as a national symbol for the Philippines. Ironically, it explode through telepathic powers. Taking personification to is also a symbol of the exploitation and poverty of numerous a new level, this film offers the typical gore and bizarre humor Filipino children on the streets of the capital Manila. If you’ve that could instantly make it a cult classic. Using conventional been to the Philippines, you more than likely have witnessed horror elements in overtly unconventional ways, creator the onslaught of children peddling sampaguita garlands, scat- Quentin Dupieux is able to create an unnerving sense of tered among the passing pedestrians and motorists. Director suspense, while simultaneously exposing the film as a social Francis X. Pasion sympathetically documents the stories of experiment. Set in a desert town, the film calls attention to these children, following them through the streets and record- its fabricated existence by featuring an audience of spectators ing their own reenactments of their day-to-day experiences, who watch and comment on Robert’s every move from afar such as harvesting flowers by night, escaping police, and deal- through binoculars. As Robert rolls along destroying anything ing with ailing and abusive parents. Selling necklaces and beg- and anyone who crosses his path, he becomes obsessed with ging for leftover food by day, they go to sleep exhausted and the one that got away, a mysterious and beautiful young drained on concrete pavements with blankets of cardboard. At woman who Robert follows to a motel and stalks. The existen- times the pressures of street-life prove too much, forcing the tialist sheriff of the town is determined to track Robert down children, particularly the boys, into child prostitution. The film and continue the story, at least until there are no spectators comments not only on the state of these impoverished chil- left. Trouble is, Robert’s a tire. So he is difficult to differenti- dren, but also on how society accepts this inequity as a part ate from other tires. Plus, is it really possible to stop a killer of life. An alarming docu-drama, SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL who is such an unlikely suspect? The absurdity of RUBBER FLOWER effectively links the once pure image of the sampa- will leave you questioning why, only to be answered with a guita with symbols of danger and destitution. (In Filipino and simple “no reason.” —M.M. Tagalog with subtitles) —M.M. Producers~Julien Berlan, Gregory Bernard Screenplay~Quentin Dupieux Producers~Josabeth Alonso, John Victor Tence Cinematography~Neil Daza Cinematography~Quentin Dupieux Editing~Quentin Dupieux Principal Cast~ Editing~Chuck Gutierrez Principal Cast~Ronalyn Ramos, Reynalyn Bunag, Stephen Spinella, Jack Plotnick, Wings Hauser, Roxane Mesquida Marlon Abalos, Josdan Isip, Jeffrey Abalos Print Source~Magnet Releasing / [email protected] / Print Source~Ignatius Films / [email protected] / www.rubberthemovie.com/ Other Screenings~Cinemalaya: Philippine Independent Film Festival, Pusan Int’l Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Film Festival About the Director~Francis X. Pasion is an award-winning filmmaker from Manila, About the Director~Quentin Dupieux is a French filmmaker, music producer, and Philippines who directs films about his home country. Filmography~“Jay” (2008), electro house musician who also goes by the name of Mr. Oizo. Filmography~ SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL FLOWER (2010) “Nonfilm” (2001), “Steak” (2007), RUBBER (2010) Sponsored Sponsored by: by: [ ADULTS ONLY! ] PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 103 NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES A Screaming Man Secrets of the Tribe (Un homme qui crie) Directed by José Padilha Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun BRAZIL, UNITED KINGDOM 2009 FRANCE, BELGIUM, CHAD 2010 94 minutes 91 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 6:50 PM I Code SECR30 2:10 PM I Code SECR31 10:25 PM I Code SCRE25 12:20 PM I Code SCRE27 Monday, March 28 The members of this poorly understood tribe are warlike, territorial, and highly sexualized. We refer, of course, not to 7:00 PM Code SCRE28 I the Yanomami Amerindians of the Amazon basin, subjects Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, writer-director of A SCREAMING of much heated anthropological debate, but to the clan of MAN, is one of Francophone Africa’s leading directorial tal- anthropologists themselves. SECRETS OF THE TRIBE intro- ents. His quietly devastating story surrounds Adam, a dignified duces us to a motley cast of characters in the drama that man in his mid-50s who is a former swimming champion. has been swirling for decades around outspoken American Adam has worked for 30 years as the pool attendant at an anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon, who first lived among the expensive hotel in Chad’s capital city of N’Djamena. His 20- Yanomami in the 60s. Chagnon detailed their drug use, war- year-old son Abdel, the light of his life, works alongside him. fare, and woman-stealing raids on other villages, arguing that But the hotel is taken over by Chinese management and Adam fierce Yanomami men had more female partners and offspring, finds himself a victim of downsizing, with Abdel installed in thus dominating their communities. Many resent his portrayal his position. Adam is distressed and humiliated; the pool is his of Yanomami violence, suggesting it gives governments an life. He’s embarrassed to discover that he’s jealous of his son. excuse for not protecting them against encroaching gold Meanwhile, with rebels battling the government of Chad, civil miners. With accusations flying at Chagnon thick as arrows, war seems imminent. A shadowy acquaintance pushes him to one reporter even accuses him of purposefully exposing the donate funds to the anti-rebel cause. When Adam is unable to Yanomami to measles. The film presents titillating stories of do so, government troops come and “forcibly enlist” Abdel. scientists pursuing sexual relations with tribal boys and bring- With his beloved son gone, rebel forces closing in, and Abdel’s ing Amazonian girls back to New Jersey. Have these self-serving pregnant girlfriend to take care of, Adam’s comfortable world academics really abused this ancient people, pushing it to the is turned upside down. A SCREAMING MAN was awarded the brink of extinction? Disregard your preconceptions and judge Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival. (In French and Arabic for yourself. (In Yanomaman, Spanish, Italian, and English with subtitles) —B.B. with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Florence Stern Screenplay~Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Cinematography~ Producers~Mike Chamberlain, Carol Nahra, Marcos Prado Cinematography~ Laurent Brunet Editing~Marie-Hélène Dozo Principal Cast~Youssouf Djaoro, Lula Carvalho Editing~Felipe Lacerda Dioucounda Koma, Emile Abossolo M’bo Print Source~Stampede Limited / [email protected] / www.stampede.co.uk Print Source~Film Movement / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Starz Denver Int’l Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, www.filmmovement.com Seattle Int’l Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival–Jury Prize, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival About the Director~José Padilha studied business, politics, and economics in Rio de Janeiro, followed by English literature and international politics at Oxford. About the Director~Born in Chad in 1961, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun left the country Filmography~“Bus 174” (2002), “Elite Squad” (2007), SECRETS OF THE TRIBE during the civil war of the 1980s and relocated to France, by way of Cameroon. (2009), “Garapa” (2009), “Elite Squad 2” (2010) There he worked as a journalist before studying at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma in Paris. Filmography~“Bye-Bye Africa” (1999), “Abouna” (2002), “Daratt” (2006), A SCREAMING MAN (2010) 104 FILMS A – Z [S] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION FILM IS ART PACIFIC PEARLS Self Made Seven Days in Heaven Directed by Gillian Wearing (Fu hou qi ri) UNITED KINGDOM 2010 Directed by Yulin Wang, Eassy Liu 84 minutes TAIWAN 2010 92 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 4:30 PM I Code SELF01 11:20 AM I Code SELF02 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Sunday, April 3 9:35 PM I Code SEVE26 4:40 PM I Code SEVE27 9:45 AM I Code SELF03 Tuesday, March 29 12:10 PM I Code SEVE29 “Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character.” So went the ad placed by artist Gillian When this film, about a Taiwanese family’s elaborate funeral Wearing. Out of hundreds of responses, seven people were preparations, opens with Harry Belafonte singing “Hava chosen, initially unaware of the intensely intimate experience Nagila,” you know you’re in for an interesting ride. SEVEN they were about to undergo. A venture into the blurred world DAYS IN HEAVEN is a crazy quilt of a movie about the strange of imagination versus reality, SELF MADE is about a group of procedures families undergo in the name of escorting loved strangers and how, through their introduction to method act- ones properly into the afterlife. The film follows the experi- ing, they are able to reach unknown, deeper realizations about ences of an urban intellectual who returns home to rural their own inner selves. Through a series of workshops led by Taiwan for her father’s funeral. As family members gather to method acting teacher Sam Rumbelow, each person gradually participate in the seven-day mourning vigil, their sorrow is reveals their internal demons, desires, fears, and regrets. fused with black humor. A professional mourner wails and It truly is amazing to watch as these ordinary people strip away grovels in the dust behind the funeral cortege. After a minute their everyday masks, experiencing severely emotional break- or two, she pops up for a soda break, asking “Who am I crying downs in search of deeper truths about themselves. At times for again?” When the deceased’s children are instructed to overwhelmingly poignant, this film examines how, through arrange some of his favorite things around his body, they rush various techniques, Rumbelow is able to evoke significant, forward with cigarettes and girlie magazines. The Taoist priest suppressed memories in order to produce each person’s most checks everyone’s horoscopes to find the best time for crema- genuine performance. A documentary, piece of art, and social tion. Livening up the ceremonies are a marching band and a experiment wrapped into one, SELF MADE is a film that ques- decorative stack of canned goods, which unfortunately begins tions not only how we see ourselves, but also how we present exploding in the hot sun. No doubt the old guy would have ourselves to the rest of the world in our daily performance approved. (In Mandarin and Taiwanese with subtitles) —B.B. of life. —M.M. Producer~Yulin Wang Screenplay~Eassy Liu Cinematography~Fu Shih-ying Principal Cast Wang Yu-Lin, Po Tai, Chen Cha-shiang Producer~Lisa Marie Russo Cinematography~Roger Chapman Editing~Luke ~ Print Source Power Workshop / [email protected] Dunkley, Daniel Goddard ~ Print Source~Fly Film / [email protected] / www.selfmade.org.uk Other Screenings~Hong Kong Int’l Film Festival, Taipei Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Bath Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival About the Directors Yulin Wang was born in Taipei in 1964. He graduated from About the Director~Gillian Wearing is a conceptual artist from Birmingham, England ~ the School of Forestry at National Taiwan University and studied Film and Video who focuses on the redefinition of identity. Filmography~SELF MADE (2010) at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Eassy Liu was born in 1980. She graduat- ed from the Department of Adult and Continuing Education, National Taiwan Media Partner: Community Partner: Normal University. Collaborative Filmography~SEVEN DAYS IN HEAVEN (2010) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 105 SOMEONE TO WATCH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR The Silence Small Town Murder Songs (Das letzte Schweigen) Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly Directed by Baran bo Odar CANADA 2010 GERMANY 2010 75 minutes 118 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 6:30 PM I Code SMAL26 2:50 PM I Code SMAL27 8:00 PM I Code SILE27 1:50 PM I Code SILE28 Small Town? Very. Murder? Shocking. Songs? Rousing. Put July 8, 1986. Bright sunshine and sweltering heat shimmer it all together and you have a fiendishly good film about over wheat fields somewhere in Germany. A young girl pedals death and redemption in a pacifist farming community. Peter a bicycle along a lonely path, a red car following behind. Soon Stormare plays a seemingly placid cop named Walter, the the authorities find the girl’s body in a nearby lake. Despite black sheep of an Ontario Mennonite family who’s trying to an extensive manhunt, the perpetrator is never found. Flash atone for his violent past. A brutal act he committed has forward to July 8, 2009. Another young girl goes missing at caused his father and brother to reject him. Walter’s relation- the very same spot. Is it a sign? The police feverishly track the ship with the desirable Rita is over and she currently lives with killer, convinced the cases are related. Chief among them is the a thug named Steve, who hates cops in general and Walter tormented retired detective who was unable to find the criminal even more. Meanwhile, Walter lives with Sam, a god-fearing the first time around. He enlists the help of an obsessed young waitress and good influence played by Martha Plimpton. When colleague who, having just lost his wife to cancer, is grief- Steve finds the body of a young woman dumped near a lake, stricken to near madness. Despite its difficult themes of it’s Rita who phones in the emergency call. Do they know unfathomable loss and despair, THE SILENCE delves into the something about the murder? All Walter’s leads are dead ends. emotions of the determined cops, the distraught families, and It seems that no matter how hard he tries to be good, the the killers themselves, without resorting to simplistic carica- devil won’t let him go. SMALL TOWN MUDER SONGS features tures or histrionics. With its restrained direction and stylish amusing chapter titles based on Biblical admonitions (“The camera work, THE SILENCE is a tense psychodrama that packs Lord will fight for you; you have only to be still”) and hand- an emotional wallop while providing a showcase for the extraor- clapping gospel music by Canadian indie-rock band Bruce dinary ensemble cast. (In German with subtitles) —B.B. Peninsula. —B.B. Producers~Frank Evers, Maren Lüthje, Florian Schneider, Jörg Schulze Producers~Ed Gass-Donnelly, Lee Kim Screenplay~Ed Gass-Donnelly Screenplay~Baran bo Odar Cinematography~Nikolaus Summerer Editing~Robert Cinematography~Brendan Steacy Editing~Ed Gass-Donnelly Principal Cast~ Rzesacz Principal Cast~Ulrich Thomsen, Wotan Wilke Möhring, Katrin Saß, Martha Plimpton, Peter Stormare, Jill Hennessy, Aaron Poole Sebastian Blomberg Print Source~Visit Films / [email protected] / www.visitfilms.com Print Source~Bavaria Film International / [email protected] / www.bavaria-film-international.com Other Screenings~Toronto Int’l Film Festival, Turin Film Festival, Whistler Film Festival Other Screenings~Berlin & Beyond Festival, Locarno Film Festival, Munich Film Festival About the Director~Ed Gass-Donnelly was born in Toronto. He began directing for the theater before moving into filmmaking. He has directed short films and numer- About the Director~Baran bo Odar was born in Switzerland and studied at the ous music videos. Filmography~“This Beautiful City” (2007), SMALL TOWN Munich University of Film and Television. Filmography~“Under the Sun” (2006), MURDER SONGS (2010) THE SILENCE (2010) This film is presented with the generous support of DENISE HUCK and MIKE BARUSCHKE. 106 FILMS A – Z [S] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Snap A Somewhat Gentle Man Directed by Carmel Winters (En ganske snill mann) IRELAND 2010 Directed by Hans Petter Moland 85 minutes NORWAY 2010 107 minutes Saturday, March 26 Tuesday, March 29 10:30 PM I Code SNAP26 2:20 PM I Code SNAP29 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 6:50 PM I Code SOME25 4:00 PM I Code SOME26 It’s a parent’s worst nightmare: your toddler is snatched in a public park. It’s another parent’s worst nightmare: your teenag- Ulrik is a somewhat gentle man, as ex-convicts go. Having just er is the one who abducts the toddler. SNAP is both an intense served 12 years for a killing, he runs right from the prison drama about a family in denial and a visual tour de force. gates into the arms of his old crime boss Jensen, who wants Following the media circus around the revelation that her payback for getting monthly checks to Ulrik’s ex-wife and son 15-year-old son Stephen has taken a child to his Granddad’s while he was away. In fact, Jensen insists that Ulrik bump off house for several days, caustic Sandra launches a bitter tirade the guy who sent him to jail. But Ulrik’s had enough of killing against the media and the furious public. Her rant is captured for now. He takes a job as a mechanic with a loquacious by a hand-held camera. Meanwhile, the film relates the garage owner and finds a crummy apartment with a troll of shocking events that may have led Stephen to take the child. a landlady. He tries to reconcile with his grown son and his Director Carmel Winters and director of photography Kate son’s girlfriend, who are about to have a baby. He serves as McCullough look at this horrendously dysfunctional mother-son protector and bedmate to a young woman who works in the pair from different distances, using various recording technolo- garage. He takes flowers and candy to his boss in the hospital. gies—CCTV, mobile phone, webcam, documentary cameras, But meanwhile, Jensen is closing in and it doesn’t look like mini DV, Cine 8—to see how they reveal themselves. As they’re he’ll cut Ulrik any slack. Brilliant international actor Stellan being examined, the characters start looking back: while Sandra Skarsgård (“The Hunt for Red October,” “Good Will Hunting,” courts the camera’s attention, Stephen gets behind it. SNAP “Dogville,” “Pirates of the Caribbean”) embodies the taciturn asks whether it’s possible to differentiate between “mediated” Ulrik, whose glum disposition brightens perceptibly as new reality and supposedly “objective” reality. This isn’t easy, since opportunities present themselves in A SOMEWHAT GENTLE nothing in life—or this film—is black and white. —B.B. MAN. (In Norwegian with subtitles) —B.B. Producer~Martina Niland Screenplay~Carmel Winters Cinematography~ Producers~Finn Gjerdrum, Stein B. Kvae Screenplay~Kim Fupz Aakeson Kate McCullough Editing~Mary Finlay Principal Cast~Aisling O’Sullivan, Cinematography~Philip Øgaard Editing~Jens Christian Fodstad Principal Cast~ Stephen Moran Stellan Skarsgård, Bjørn Floberg, Gard B. Eidsvold Print Source~Samson Films / [email protected] / www.samsonfilms.com Print Source~Strand Releasing / [email protected] / www.strandreleasing.com Other Screenings~Karlovy Vary Int’l Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Other Screenings~Berlin Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival About the Director~Carmel Winters graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, in Drama and English. She is a film and theater director. Her play “The A to Zee of About the Director~Hans Petter Moland has been described as the “Ridley Scott P and Dee” was shown at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. She has also lectured in drama of Norway” for being a prolific director of commercials, winning all the major at the University of East England. Filmography~SNAP (2010) advertising awards. He is a graduate of the film program at Emerson College in Boston. Filmography~“The Last Lieutenant” (1993), “Zero Kelvin” (1995), “Aberdeen” (2000), “The Beautiful Country” (2004), A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN (2010) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 107 NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Sound of Noise Space Tourists Directed by Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Directed by Christian Frei SWEDEN, FRANCE 2010 SWITZERLAND 2009 98 minutes 98 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Monday, March 28 Tuesday, March 29 9:00 PM I Code SOUN02 4:10 PM I Code SOUN03 7:05 PM I Code SPAC28 11:30 AM I Code SPAC29 SOUND OF NOISE is a wildly inventive and hilarious film about Who wants to be thought of as a tourist? The adventurers who a band on a mission to cause random acts of musical mayhem. prefer to be called “private space explorers” are literally miles The tone deaf and unfortunately named Amadeus Warnebring is away from fat guys in flowered shirts with cameras. Whatever a cop. One day Amadeus stumbles onto an opus in the making. you call them, these thrill-seekers pay upwards of $20 million A runaway van has smashed into the German embassy and to fly to the International Space Station (and back) on cramped there’s a ticking sound coming from it. As onlookers draw back Soyuz spacecrafts. Though opposed by NASA, the U.S. based in fear of a terrorist bomb, Amadeus knows better. He strides company Space Adventures organizes these journeys in con- up to the vehicle and extracts a ticking metronome. This is but junction with the Russian Federation’s space agency. SPACE the prelude to a symphony of anarchic public performances TOURISTS charts the physical and mental odyssey taken by staged by a group of six guerrilla percussionists. As they target travelers such as Iranian-American businesswoman Anousheh important civic institutions, the musical terrorists’ pieces corre- Ansari as she prepares to fulfill her life’s dream. By capturing spond to an avant-garde score with four pricelessly titled move- the faded glory of the site of the Soviet space program in ments. The cops vow to “rid this city of musical scum!” But as remote Kazakhstan, SPACE TOURISTS makes it clear that eco- Amadeus gets closer to tracking down the perpetrators, he nomic considerations go into allowing wealthy untrained astro- embraces the chaos and ends up composing the most beautiful nauts to take flight. As Kazakh scrap metal collectors wait on piece of all. (In Swedish with subtitles) —B.B. the steppes for space junk to fall from the sky, Anousheh takes Producers~Christophe Audeguis, Jim Birmant, Olivier Guerpillon, Guy Pechard majestic space photos aboard the ISS. Unfortunately, Pan Am Screenplay~Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson Cinematography~Charlotta has had to abandon the waiting list for future moon flights that Tengroth Editing~Stefan Sundlöf Principal Cast~Bengt Nilsson, Sanna Persson, it established in the 60s. However, we understand Space Magnus Börjeson Adventures is still taking names. Next! —B.B. Print Source~Wild Bunch / [email protected] / www.wildbunch.biz Producer~Christian Frei Cinematography~Peter Indergand Editing~Christian Frei Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival Print Source~Films Transit / info@filmstransit / www.filmstransit.com About the Directors~Johannes Stjärne Nilsson attended the University of the Arts Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Locarno Film Festival, in Stockholm and Ola Simonsson attended the Musical Academy. The cult success Sundance Film Festival, Hot Docs Int’l Film Festival of their short “Music for One Apartment and Six Drummers” led them to expand the concept into SOUND OF NOISE. Collaborative Filmography~SOUND OF About the Director~Christian Frei studied visual media at the University of NOISE (2010) Fribourg. He works as an independent filmmaker and with Swiss national German- speaking television. Filmography~“Ricardo, Miriam y Fidel” (1997), “War Photographer” (2001), “The Giant Buddhas” (2005), SPACE TOURISTS (2009) This film is presented with the generous support of DAVID W. WITTKOWSKY and JAMES S. ANDERSON. Community Partner: Sponsored by: Media Partner: Community Partner: 108 FILMS A – Z [S] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR DOCUMENTARIES Special Treatment Square Grouper: (Sans queue ni tête) The Godfathers of Ganja Directed by Jeanne Labrune Directed by Billy Corben FRANCE 2010 USA 2011 95 minutes 101 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Thursday, March 31 Sunday, April 3 1:55 PM I Code SPEC26 7:15 PM I Code SPEC27 4:15 PM I Code SQUA31 7:05 PM I Code SQUA03 What’s the difference between a psychoanalyst and a prosti- From the distinguished director behind “Cocaine Cowboys,” the tute? They’re both coolly detached professionals, ready to informative documentary about the overwhelming cocaine activity listen to desperate clients who rely on them to help them in Southern Florida in the 1980s, comes SQUARE GROUPER. manage the vicissitudes of daily life. Isabelle Huppert is out- An equally enlightening film, this documentary reveals the standing as Alice, an intelligent, high-class call girl who rents plethora of marijuana smuggling in and around Miami, Florida a luxury suite to provide her wealthy clients the special treat- prior to the explosion of cocaine dealing. Through the stories of ments they desire. Bouli Lanners is Xavier, a contemptuous a ganja-smoking church congregation, a small town of pirate and obsessive-compulsive psychoanalyst. When his wife kicks rednecks, and a group of men who served the longest marijuana- him out, he moves into the hotel where Alice plies her trade. related prison sentences in history, we learn about the insane Both Xavier and Alice are fine art cognoscenti who cynically amounts of weed smuggled into the country from places like collect clients as well as exquisite statuary. One day they meet Jamaica and Colombia throughout the 70s and 80s. Targeted in the drugstore, where he is stocking up on hand sanitizer, heavily by the FBI and DEA, these smugglers were all incarcerat- and soon Xavier awkwardly attempts to engage Alice’s services. ed after making millions of dollars, through non-violent means, Very gradually, over the course of the ten sessions he’s booked off a drug many presumed would be legalized by now. SQUARE and paid for in advance, their mutual neediness becomes GROUPER, a name for bales of marijuana thrown overboard or apparent. Beautifully acted, witty, and moving, SPECIAL out of planes in Southern Florida during drug raids, is a laid- TREATMENT is a reflection on the sadness behind the back, easygoing documentary whose tone appropriately matches callousness of modern super-sophisticates. (In French with its subject matter. Strewn with laughter, sarcasm, and folk subtitles) —B.B. music, the testimonies of these former criminals feel less like Producer~Jani Thiltges Screenplay~Richard Debuisne, Jeanne Labrune observing an ex-convict committing a crime and more like shar- Cinematography~Virginie Saint-Martin Editing~Anja Lüdcke Principal Cast~ ing a drink with the old guy at the end of the bar, listening to Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners, Sabila Moussadek his colorful pot stories from back in the day. —M.M. Print Source~Films Boutique / [email protected] / www.filmsboutique.com Producers~Billy Corben, Lindsey Snell, Alfred Spellman Cinematography~ Other Screenings~BFI London Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival Alexa Harris, Jordan Klein Jr., Matt Staker, Randy Valdes Editing~David Cypkin, Jorge Diaz About the Director~Jeanne Labrune is also a screenwriter. She has directed 13 Print Source~Magnolia Pictures / [email protected] / films since 1978. Filmography~“De sable et de sang” (1988), “Sans un cri” www.magpictures.com (1992), “Beware of My Love” (1998), “Tomorrow’s Another Day” (2000), “Special Delivery” (2002), “Cause toujours!” (2004), SPECIAL TREATMENT (2010) Other Screenings~South By Southwest Film Festival About the Director~Billy Corben is a Florida native who studied political science, screenwriting, and theater at the University of Miami. He continues to make docu- mentaries about Southern Florida after his debut feature successfully premiered at Sundance in 2001. Filmography~“Raw Deal: A Question of Consent” (2001), “Cocaine Cowboys” (2006), “Cocaine Cowboys II” (2008), “The U” (2009), “Limelight” (2011), “Dawg Fight” (2011), SQUARE GROUPER: THE GODFA- THERS OF GANJA (2011) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 109 NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION 10% CINEMA AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS Steam of Life The Stranger in Us (Miesten vuoro) Directed by Scott Boswell Directed by Joonas Berghäll, Mika Hotakainen USA 2010 FINLAND 2010 108 minutes 81 minutes Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 2:15 PM I Code STRA30 11:30 AM I Code STRA31 4:45 PM I Code STEA30 8:50 PM I Code STEA31 Saturday, April 2 Saunas are ubiquitous in Finland. But unlike here, they don’t 6:50 PM I Code STRA02 just relax weekend athletes after brisk workouts at the gym. The pleasures and pitfalls of the nocturnal urban landscape They’re part of the fabric of life, as integral to the Finnish land- serve as the backdrop for THE STRANGER IN US. Anthony scape as crystal-clear lakes and snowy pine forests. Saunas pop (Raphael Barker, “Shortbus”) is an eager small-town newcomer up everywhere in this film, from retrofitted campers to phone who has just moved to San Francisco to be with his lover booths. The sauna is a clean, ascetic place, akin to a monk’s Steven. A gentle soul and a poet with no other friends in the cell. As scores of stereotypically taciturn Finnish men bare their city, Anthony is horrified when Steven’s behavior turns from bodies and their souls, STEAM OF LIFE examines the cathartic loving to violent. Stunned, he tries to find words to describe his nature of the cleansing process. Filmmaker Mika Hotakainen longing for stability, and his alienation. Meanwhile, he makes posted notices all over Finland that he was looking for men will- an unlikely acquaintance in Gavin, a young runaway and home- ing to release their emotions on-camera, and the response was less street hustler. As their friendship blossoms, street-smart overwhelming. Sitting sweating and naked beside one another, Gavin begins to take on a protective role toward vulnerable friends and strangers reveal their hopes, fears, and moments Anthony. The vérité-style drama jumps back and forth in time, of anguish, often aided and abetted by copious amounts of cold exploring the disjointedness of city life. Shot under the flores- beer. The men tell painful stories of children and marriages, cent lights of Polk Street and in San Francisco’s light-filled custody battles, haunting accidents, dreams for their grandchil- interiors, THE STRANGER IN US exudes an erotic beauty. The dren, prison, and drink. Alternately funny and emotionally raw, city is a place where abuse occurs, both on the streets and STEAM OF LIFE was the first documentary to be entered by inside beautifully-appointed apartments. As Anthony finds kin- ® Finland for the Oscars . (In Finnish with subtitles). —B.B. dred spirits in other wandering souls, he gathers the strength Producer~Joonas Berghäll Cinematography~Heikki Färm, Jani Kumpulainen to take charge of his own happiness. —B.B. Editing~Timo Peltola Producer~Cheryl Simas Valenzuela Screenplay~Scott Boswell Cinematography~ Print Source~Films Transit / [email protected] / www.filmstransit.com Spenser Nottage, Laura Valladao Editing~Matt Hale Principal Cast~Adam Perez, 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–FINLAND Raphael Barker, Scott Cox Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Edmonton Int’l Film Print Source~Paperback Films / [email protected] / www.scottboswell.com Festival, Silverdocs Film Festival, Hot Docs Int’l Film Festival About the Director~From 2004 to 2008, Scott Boswell ran The Factory, an Oakland, CA-based short film production collective for teenagers. Currently he About the Directors~Joonas Berghäll graduated from the Tampere School teaches filmmaking and does production support at San Francisco State of Art and Media. He has worked as a producer at the Oktober production University. In his spare time, Scott runs a feature screenwriting group in San company for several years. Mika Hotakainen graduated from the Helsinki Francisco. Filmography~THE STRANGER IN US (2010) Polytechnic University, Stadia. He has worked in film and TV since 1998. Collaborative Filmography~STEAM OF LIFE (2010) Media Partner: Community Partners: Community Partner: 110 FILMS A – Z [S–T] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SOMEONE TO WATCH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS Street Days Surrogate Valentine (Quchis dgeebi) Directed by Dave Boyle Directed by Levan Koguashvili USA 2011 GEORGIA 2010 76 minutes 86 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 8:20 PM I Code SURR02 11:45 AM I Code SURR03 9:05 PM I Code STRE30 5:15 PM I Code STRE31 Friday, April 1 This is the story of Goh Nakamura, a real-life indie musician from San Francisco whose honey-like voice narrates his search 11:45 AM Code STRE01 I for love through haunting folk songs. A refreshing take on Checkie is a very desperate man. A middle-aged heroin junkie, romantic comedy, this unpretentious black-and-white film he spends most of his time trying to score with other addicts begins with the introduction of cool and mellow Goh to Danny on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. An accurate depiction of the Turner, the loud and animated TV star Goh must teach how “lost generation,” those who were young adults at the time to play guitar. Danny, the definition of cheeseball, is set to the Soviet Union fell, STREET DAYS tells Checkie’s story. No play a musician in his next film (directed by Goh’s friend longer able to provide for his son Oto, Checkie is kicked out Amy), only Goh doesn’t yet know that the film is based loosely by his exhausted and despondent wife Nino, who’s doing her on his own personal past with his former high-school love best to keep the bank from seizing everything they own. When Rachel. Talked into taking Danny with him on tour to Seattle Checkie is cornered by the corrupt police officers following and L.A., Goh and Danny embark on a comical journey that him, he must make the difficult decision between going to will ultimately land them both in the middle of an unlikely jail himself or destroying the life of a dear friend. Ika, who is friendship. Along the way, Goh meets up with Rachel and curious about trying heroin, is the 16-year-old son of Checkie’s sparks reignite as the two share charming memories over cof- former classmate Zaza, now a rich politician. If Checkie can fee and board games. Though Goh may have found what he’s turn Ika over to the police for drug-possession, he’ll get a piece been searching for, does he have the courage to go after it, or of the blackmail money; if not he faces prison or, more likely, will he wind up alone, singing his love songs about the one death. Truly a good person at heart, Checkie wants to help his that got away? SURROGATE VALENTINE is a story about both family, but can he bring himself to introduce Ika to a drug that the fear and beauty of falling in love that is as sweet and will most certainly ruin his life? Although he seems to come up bemusing as Goh’s humble melodies, which compose the with a plan that may just fix everything, the odds are against soundtrack of this film. —M.M. Checkie and things go from bad to worse quickly. Told primari- Producer~Duane Andersen Screenplay~Dave Boyle, Joel Clark, Goh Nakamura ly within the confines of the bleak streets of urban Georgia, Cinematography~Bill Otto Editing~Duane Andersen, Dave Boyle, Michael Lerman STREET DAYS is a nerve-racking drama about the intense Principal Cast~Goh Nakamura, Lynn Chen, Chadd Stoops Print Source~Tiger Industry Films / [email protected] / shame and desperation of one man who struggles to get his www.tigerindustryfilms.com life back. (In Georgian with subtitles) —M.M. About the Director~Dave Boyle was raised in Tuscon. He studied Japanese Producers Screenplay ~Gia Bazgadze, Archil Gelovani, Levan Korinteli ~Boris Language and Literature at Brigham Young University, then served a two-year Cinematography Frumin, Levan Koguashvili, Nikoloz Marri ~Archil Akhvlediani mission in Sydney, Australia where he learned to speak Japanese. Things have Editing Principal Cast ~Nodar Nozadze ~Zura Begalishvili, Guga Kotetishvili, never been the same since. Filmography~“Big Dreams Little Tokyo” (2006), George Kipshidze, Irakli Ramishvili “White on Rice” (2009), SURROGATE VALENTINE (2011) Print Source~Global Film Initiative / [email protected] / www.globalfilm.org Other Screenings~Edinburgh Film Festival; Los Angeles Film Festival; Montréal Sponsored by: World Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival About the Director~Levan Koguashvili is a Georgian filmmaker who has written, directed, and produced short films and documentaries. Filmography~“The Debt” (2006), “Women from Georgia” (2009), STREET DAYS (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 111 GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Surviving Hitler: A Love Story The Tenants Directed by John-Keith Wasson (Os Inquilinos) USA, GERMANY 2010 Directed by Sérgio Bianchi 66 minutes BRAZIL 2009 103 minutes Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 2:45 PM I Code SURV29 12:10 PM I Code SURV30 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Thursday, March 31 6:00 PM I Code TENA25 9:10 PM I Code TENA27 8:05 PM I Code SURV31 Monday, March 28 11:10 AM I Code TENA28 A hopeful story of true love and its accompanying blind opti- mism, SURVIVING HITLER is not your typical Holocaust docu- Night after night we watch as the news reports stories of horrify- mentary. The film tells the story of Jutta and Helmuth, two ing crimes. We are safe and unthreatened from the confines of teenagers who fall in love in Berlin at the beginning of WWII our living rooms. But what happens when that danger moves and wind up joining a plot to kill Hitler. Jutta, who is half- closer to home? What happens when that danger moves in next Jewish, and Helmuth, who is a soldier in the German military, door? THE TENANTS is the story of Valter, an average, over- were not only heavily affiliated with influential German-resis- worked man with a wife and two kids who still lives in the house tance groups, but also surreptitiously involved in Operation his father built in Brazil. When three young, loud, and lawless Valkyrie, the failed assassination attempt of Adolf Hitler in men move in next door, Valter’s exhaustion and patience are 1944. Narrated by both present-day Jutta and past voice- pushed to the limit. Each night the new tenants cause trouble, recordings from Helmuth, this documentary examines one of keeping his family up all hours, racing down the streets, and the darkest periods in history through an intimate and emo- harassing Valter’s other elderly and helpless neighbor Dimas. tional lens. Using the couple’s own personal film footage, as But Valter is a peaceful man who believes it’s safer to avoid well as other archival materials, John-Keith Wasson succeeds confrontation—that is until the confrontation creeps closer in portraying how a love affair enabled these two young people and closer to his doorstep. His paranoia takes over as he starts to persevere through Hitler’s reign. It will be difficult to not to obsess about the threat these men present—not only to his fall in love with Jutta, a fascinating and courageous woman family, but also to his community. He dreams that his wife who takes you with her through her rebellious past, to which becomes involved with them as he is away at work, resists let- she refers to as “powerful…powerful, and stupid.” Although ting his children play outdoors, and begins to suspect them no one will ever forget the overwhelming number of victims of of the crimes he hears about on television. When Dimas comes the Holocaust, this film reminds us that each of these victims to Valter for help, Valter must ultimately decide whether to has a story of his or her own and in some cases, that story is intervene or to safely remain on his side of the fence. (In able to survive even Hitler. —M.M. Portuguese with subtitles) —M.M. Producer~John-Keith Wasson Cinematography~Charlie Wuppermann Producer~Sérgio Bianchi Screenplay~Beatriz Bracher, Sérgio Bianchi Editing~Carla Gutierrez Cinematography~Gilberto Otero, Marcelo Corpanni Editing~André Finotti Print Source~John-Keith Wasson / [email protected] / Principal Cast~Marat Descartes, Ana Carbatti, Umberto Magnani www.survivinghitleralovestory.com Print Source~Global Film Initiative / [email protected] / www.globalfilm.org Other Screenings~Starz Denver Film Festival, Ojai Film Festival, Full Frame Other Screenings~Festival do Rio–Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, Documentary Film Festival Taormina Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival About the Director~John-Keith Wasson is a graduate of the London Film School About the Director~Sérgio Bianchi is a Brazilian writer, director, producer, and and has worked primarily as a cinematographer on such films as the award-win- editor. Filmography~“Romance” (1988), “A Causa Secreta” (1994), “Chronically ning “The Devil Came on Horseback.” Filmography~SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE Unfeasible” (2000), “Quanto Vale Ou É Por Quilo?” (2005), THE TENANTS (2009) STORY (2010) 112 FILMS A – Z [T] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL NESNADNY + SCHWARTZ STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION DOCUMENTARY FILM COMPETITION IT’S EASY BEING GREEN FILM IS ART PACIFIC PEARLS There Once Was an Island These Amazing Shadows (Te Henua e Noho) Directed by Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton Directed by Briar March USA 2010 NEW ZEALAND, USA, 88 minutes PAPUA NEW GUINEA 2010 80 minutes Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 4:30 PM I Code THES02 7:10 PM I Code THES03 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 (w/FilmForum) 4:15 PM I Code THER01 2:05 PM I Code THER02 (w/FilmForum) Half the films made before 1950 no longer exist in any form. Eighty percent of all silent films are lost. These shocking sta- Once upon a time, there was a beautiful tropical island in tistics led concerned film scholars to create the National Film the Pacific. The Polynesian clans of the Takuu atoll in Papua Registry in 1989. The Registry is a list of films of enduring New Guinea lived the same way for a thousand years, weaving cultural, historical or aesthetic importance, recommended by fibers for huts, harvesting taro roots, and fishing for subsis- a distinguished board to the Librarian of Congress as being tence. With no shops and no electricity, the islanders relied on worthy of preservation. The 25 films selected per year must an unreliable boat from the mainland to provide them with be at least ten years old. As preservation experts, cultural his- supplies. But now trouble has come to Takuu. As a result of torians, movie stars, directors, and board members discuss the industrialized world’s carbon dioxide emissions, the sea is what leads particular works to be nominated, THESE AMAZING rising and the islanders’ gardens and homes are threatened by SHADOWS unspools both “sprocket-worn classics” and rarely- salt water. Three clansmen allow us into their lives as they seen gems. The Registry represents a stunning range of explain what the creeping tides mean for their way of life. The American filmmaking: Hollywood features; documentaries; community invites scientists from Australia to evaluate the experimental and home movies; regional, instructional, animat- situation, hoping they might help hold off the water. Already ed and short films; and music videos. Since 1997 even we the the government is recommending they relocate to Bougainville, people can nominate films for consideration. Do your part to 250 km away. But what will remain of the Takuus’ traditional help preserve audiovisual history. —B.B. culture, not to mention their elders, many of whom refuse to Producers~Christine O’Malley, Paul Mariano, Kurt Norton Cinematography~Frazer leave? THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND shows the devastating Bradshaw Editing~Doug Blush, Alex Calleros Featuring~Christopher Nolan, Rob results of climate change on one idyllic community. —B.B. Reiner, John Waters, John Lasseter, Tim Roth, Barbara Kopple, Leonard Maltin Print Source~Gravitas Docufilms / [email protected] / Producers~Lyn Collie, Briar March, Kelly Anderson, Mark Foster Screenplay~ www.theseamazingshadows.com Briar March Cinematography~Briar March Editing~Prisca Bouchet, Briar March Print Source~On the Level Productions / [email protected] / Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival www.thereoncewasanisland.com About the Directors~Paul Mariano was a criminal defense attorney for 27 years Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Hamburg Film Festival before co-founding Gravitas Docufilms. Kurt Norton is a licensed private investiga- tor who has produced and directed numerous shorts. Collaborative Filmography~ About the Director~Briar March has directed music videos, magazine shows, and THESE AMAZING SHADOWS (2010) commercials, and is c urrently completing a Master’s degree at Stanford University. Filmography~“Allie Eagle and Me” (2004), THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partners: This film is presented with the generous support of CRIS MOTTO @ FILM LORE STUDIOS Sponsored by: Community Partner: Media Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 113 GREG GUND MEMORIAL SOMEONE TO WATCH STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR PACIFIC PEARLS This Beautiful City This Prison Where I Live Directed by Ed Gass-Donnelly Directed by Rex Bloomstein CANADA 2007 UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY 2010 85 minutes 91 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 9:40 PM I Code CITY26 11:40 AM I Code CITY27 7:05 PM I Code THIS02 11:35 AM I Code THIS03 (w/FilmForum) A gritty urban drama about two couples whose lives are spiral- ing out of control, THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY is a black valentine Opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi is not the last popular to Toronto. It explores what people find when they hit emotion- figure to languish in a Burmese prison. Zarganar, a beloved al and physical rock bottom. Carol and Harry are beautiful stand-up comedian known for his wicked anti-government people and condo owners in the rapidly gentrifying West Queen satire, is currently serving 35 years for “public order offenses.” West district. He’s a passive-aggressive architect; her nerves Prior to his incarceration, he had been banned from performing are fragile. In the midst of a wine party, Carol goes outside and publicly. Still Zarganar, whose stage name means “tweezers,” falls—or jumps—off the balcony to the street, several floors continued for years to fight Burmese dictatorial suppression below. She lands right in the trash bins next to Johnny and with humor. In THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE, British filmmaker Pretty, a pair of drug-addled hustlers working the street, who Rex Bloomstein and German comedian Michael Mittermeier scuttle off in horror. A possibly deranged cop named Peter, travel to Myanmar to investigate humor under dictatorship who seems to be shadowing Pretty, leaps to Carol’s aid. Thus and to somehow let Zarganar know he hasn’t been forgotten. director Ed Gass-Donnelly—who also wrote, produced, and Mittermeier enjoys huge success on German television for the edited—begins weaving a complex web that will connect the same kind of political satire that got Zarganar jailed. He lives of these five lonely people in surprising ways. As it explains his admiration for his colleague: “He not only tirelessly explores the psyches of people who get pushed to extremes, the exposes the cruelty of the military with his humor, but inspires film’s unrelenting realism results in a kind of sordid beauty. the people to speak for themselves...Being from Germany, Toronto musicians composed the film’s edgy score. —B.B. I think that we have a special responsibility to draw attention Producers~Ed Gass-Donnelly, Lee Kim, Aaron Poole Screenplay~Ed Gass- to people like Zarganar. As a German comedian I ask myself, Donnelly Cinematography~Micha Dahan Editing~Ed Gass-Donnelly Principal what would I have done during the Nazi period? Would I have Cast~Kristin Booth, Aaron Poole, Noam Jenkins, Caroline Cave, Stuart Hughes had the courage to offer mental resistance with my humor?” Print Source~3 Legged Dog Films / [email protected] / www.3ldfilms.com (In English, German, and Burmese with subtitles) —B.B. Other Screenings Copenhagen Int’l Film Festival, Houston Film Festival–Special ~ Producer~Michael Mittermeier Cinematography~Alexander Boboschweski Jury Prize, Phoenix Film Festival–Best Picture, Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival – Editing~Paul Binns Best Drama Print Source~Rex Entertainment LTD / [email protected] / www.thisprisonwhereilive.co.uk About the Director~Ed Gass-Donnelly is one of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch in 2011. Originally a Toronto theater director, Ed worked on movies of the week and Other Screenings~Int’l Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Cologne Int’l Film shorts before adapting one of his plays, “Descent,” into THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY. Festival, Munich Int’l Film Festival He recently began directing music videos for some of his favorite Toronto artists, including FemBots, A Northern Chorus, and Andre Ethier. Filmography~THIS About the Director~Rex Bloomstein’s productions document British prisons, BEAUTIFUL CITY (2007), “Small Town Murder Songs” (2010) human rights, and the Holocaust. Filmography~“Kids Behind Bars” (2005), “KZ” (2006), “An Independent Mind” (2008), THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE (2010) Community Partners: 114 FILMS A – Z [T] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES Tilva Rosˇ Togetherness Supreme Directed by Nikola Lez˘aic´ Directed by Nathan Collett SERBIA 2010 KENYA 2010 103 minutes 94 minutes Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 11:45 AM I Code TILV31 9:00 PM I Code TILV01 9:20 AM I Code TOGE26 9:05 PM I Code TOGE27 Monday, March 28 You might call Marko and Stefan Serbian “Jackasses.” Round and round the skate park they go, trying to come up with 2:30 PM I Code TOGE28 new stupid stunts. But their antics impress neither each other Filmed on location in the vast Nairobi slum of Kibera with nor their girlfriend Dunja. Sometimes they skate off cliffs, a mostly local cast and crew, TOGETHERNESS SUPREME sometimes they aim golf balls at each other’s crotches, and describes the political tensions between ethnic tribes that led sometimes they scrape their knees with cheese graters. In the to the disputed Kenyan presidential election of December depressed mining town of Bor, there’s nothing to do and no 2007. American director Nathan Collett first worked with ambition to do it with. Marko, nicknamed “Toda,” is the son Kibera street kids on a short film in 2006. But upon returning of a smelter. He quit school and doesn’t feel like working, in 2008, he discovered that many of his young friends had but he has to attend lame government counseling sessions to moved (in post-election violence, more than 1,300 Kenyans get health insurance. Stefan’s dad drives a Mercedes and is were killed, and more than 350,000 displaced). Collett and active in union politics. This is their last summer together a few remaining youths started work on this stylish film that before Stefan goes off to university in Belgrade. For now, the was screened for small groups around Kenya and won several teenagers imitate hip hop culture, make digital films, partici- Africa Movie Academy Awards. It centers on the lives of three pate in a karaoke contest, beat each other up, and drink lots young slum-dwellers—Otieno the hustler, Kamau the peace- of beer. A rivalry forms as they try to gain Dunja’s favor. But loving artist, and Alice the preacher’s daughter. As the men the miners’ protests are attracting increasing media attention. begin working for the ODM party, their relationship is tested by Soon the boys’ adolescent hijinks will come to an end as politics, tribal differences, and their mutual love of Alice. Shot adulthood looms on the horizon in TILVA ROS˘ . (In Serbian on a revolutionary digital camera, TOGETHERNESS SUPREME with subtitles) —B.B. looks stunning and its lead actors are extraordinarily charis- Producers~Mina Djukic´, Nikola Lez˘aic´, Uros Tomic´ Screenplay~Nikola Lez˘aic´ matic amateurs. (In Kiswahili, Sheng, Kikuyu, Luo, and Cinematography~Milos˘ Jacimovic´ Editing~Nikola Lez˘aic´ Principal Cast~Marko English with subtitles) —B.B. Todorovic´, Stefan Djordjevic´ Dunja Kovac˘evic Print Source~Visit Films / [email protected] / www.visitfilms.com Producer~Mercy Murugi Screenplay~Evans Kamau, Nathan Collett Cinematography~Andrew Mungai Editing~Chris King, Jesse Ellis Principal Other Screenings~Locarno Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, Festival Int’l de Cast~Wilson Maina, Geoffrey Jefferson, Martha Kisaka, Chrisphine Onyango, Cine de Valdivia, Zagreb Film Festival Teddy Onyango, Bill Oloo Print Source~Hot Sun Films LTD / [email protected] / About the Director~Nikola Ležaic´ was born in 1981 in Bor, Serbia. He studied www.hotsunfilms.com film directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Before that he Other Screenings Vancouver Int’l Film Festival co-founded both a comic group named SMOG and a literary movement named ~ METASYNCHRISM. Filmography~TILVA ROSˇ (2010) About the Director~Nathan Collett is based in Nairobi. He studied African History at Stanford University, earned a Master’s degree at the USC Film School, and was awarded a Fulbright Grant in 2006 to research storytelling in Nairobi slums. He is the founder of Hot Sun Films, which seeks to transform society through art and media and develops new talent among Africa’s urban youth. Filmography~ TOGETHERNESS SUPREME (2010) Community Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 115 GREG GUND MEMORIAL AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION LOCAL HEROES FILM IS ART WOMEN OF THE WORLD True Nature Trust: Second Acts Directed by Patrick Steele in Young Lives USA 2010 Directed by Nancy Kelly 92 minutes USA 2010 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 78 minutes 11:20 PM I Code TRUE01 11:35 AM I Code TRUE02 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Do we ever really know what those around us are truly capable 6:50 PM I Code TRUS01 2:10 PM Code TRUS02 of enduring? A psychological thriller about the return of a pre- (w/FilmForum) viously abducted young woman and the torment she and her This is a story that should not have to be told. At age 12, family suffer, TRUE NATURE is a shocking film shot in Dayton, Marlin was raped by two men in the bathroom of her grand- Ohio that reels you in and leaves you feeling as on edge as its mother’s church in Honduras. She told no one. Two years later, troubled characters. When Marianne shows up covered in mud she immigrated with her older brother Carlos to join their on the doorstep of her parents’ house after missing for nearly mother in Chicago where Carlos repeatedly raped her. Keeping a year, her trauma appears so severe that at first she can’t these secrets nearly destroyed Marlin as she drank, took drugs, remember anything about her abduction. The only memories cut herself, ran away from home, and attempted suicide. She she does have of the horrific experience come to her in night- finally confided in a counselor who recommended the Albany mares that ultimately begin haunting her every thought. The Park Theater Project (APTP), a Chicago teen theater company crazier Marianne seems to become, the more she begins to that creates original plays from members’ real life stories. reveal the dark secrets of her family. Marianne’s father Reg is TRUST follows Marlin, now 18, and her fellow teens in the a high-powered businessman who is secretly involved in seedy APTP ensemble as they take her personal story and make it transactions that wind up getting him into serious trouble with public. These astonishingly forthright kids create a transforma- the wrong kind of people. Becky, Marianne’s mother, is a con- tive work of theater. APTP co-founder and artistic director trolling, neurotic woman whose sole concern is dressing up and David Feiner, a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, is a showing off her newly returned daughter. As Marianne’s hallu- warm and encouraging presence. The teens, all from difficult cinations worsen, she becomes obsessed with dirt, evoking backgrounds, learn to trust him—and each other—in ways memories about what may have happened to her. The closer you might never think possible. —B.B. she gets to the truth, the more eerie the story becomes, result- Producers~Nancy Kelly, Kenji Yamamoto Cinematography~Dan Gold, Dana Kupper, ing in an unsettling twist you won’t see coming. —M.M. Emiko Omori, Ines Sommer Editing~Kenji Yamamoto Producers~Ann Rotolante, Patrick Steele Screenplay~Patrick Steele Print Source~Kelly + Yamamoto Productions / [email protected] / Cinematography~Marco Fargnoli, Evan A. Nesbitt Editing~Ann Rotolante www.trustdocumentary.org Principal Cast~Carolyn McCormick, David Darlow, John Woodruff, Marc Pitman, Other Screenings~Starz Denver Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival Marianne Porter, Michael Accardo, Reg Land Print Source~FatCat Filmworks Ltd. / [email protected] About the Director~This is Nancy Kelly’s third film about the transformational Other Screenings~Atlanta Horror Film Festival–Best Thriller Feature, Buffalo power of art. Filmography~“Downside Up” (2003), “Smitten” (2006), TRUST: Horror Film Festival–Best Cinematography, Best Actress, Thriller Chiller Film SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES (2010) Festival–Best Feature, Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival–Best Feature This film is presented with the generous support of About the Director~A graduate of Wright State University’s Motion Picture Production program, Patrick Steele is a director and screenwriter from Indiana. CHUCK and CHAR FOWLER. Filmography~TRUE NATURE (2010) Community Partner: Community Partners: 116 FILMS A – Z [T–U] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS FAMILY FILMS Twelve Thirty The Ugly Duckling Directed by Jeff Lipsky (Gadkiy utyonok) USA 2010 Directed by Garri Bardin 121 minutes RUSSIA, FRANCE 2010 75 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 8:15 PM I Code TWEL26 11:35 AM I Code TWEL27 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 7:05 PM I Code UGLY01 11:45 AM I Code UGLY02 TWELVE THIRTY is an intimate narrative that examines not only Sunday, April 3 how we communicate, but also what we hide about ourselves 12:00 Noon Code UGLY03 when doing so. It tells the story of Jeff, a 22-year-old virgin I who becomes precariously involved with a family of complicated THE UGLY DUCKLING has two webbed feet firmly planted and emotionally broken women. It begins with the candid and in the grand tradition of Russian puppet animation. Prolific inquisitive Mel, the 19-year-old subject of Jeff’s infatuation animator Garri Bardin is the genius behind this reinterpretation who deflowers him, then moves on to the next thing that will of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen. A feast for the make her happy. Next is Maura, Mel’s 22-year-old introverted eyes and ears, it features music adapted from Tchaikovsky’s virginal sister who questions whether or not the night she spent Nutcracker Suite and Swan Lake (what else?). Performers with Jeff was rape. Lastly, there’s Vivien, the intense, pragmatic include the Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra and a mother of both girls whose sexual encounter with Jeff encom- farmyard cast of cluckers and quackers. Our hero is mud-pud- passes the convoluted nature of this film. The most disturbing dle grey and has a long snaky neck, but beneath his unseemly scene, however, involves the girls’ bisexual father, Martin, exterior beats a wee little heart of gold. At first the U.D. who has left home but still ensues an erotic relationship with embraces the totalitarian structure of the coop, singing uplift- their mother. Martin sits his family down, along with Jeff, in ing songs with all the others in celebration of the glories of the order to discuss the physical punishment Maura must receive barnyard. But even though he repeatedly outfoxes a fox to save as a result of her night with him. Whether the punishment is his brother and sister fowl, he continues to be treated as an truly Maura’s or Jeff’s proves to demonstrate the psychological outcast—these superficial barnyard bullies are really mean. state of this family. With a screenplay full of honest and sharp When the nonconformist Duckling observes a wild father goose dialogue, TWELVE THIRTY reveals the disarray of human nature patiently teaching his son to fly, he realizes it’s finally time to as it explores the connections we share with the people in our take off. (In Russian with subtitles) —B.B. lives. —M.M. Producer~Garri Bardin Screenplay~Garri Bardin Cinematography~Ivan Remizov Producer~Dan Satorius Screenplay~Jeff Lipsky Cinematography~Ruben O’Malley Editing~Irina Sobinova-Kassil Editing~Sara Corrigan Principal Cast~Barbara Barrie, Mamie Gummer, Jonathan Print Source~Monique Gailhard / [email protected] Groff, Portia Reiners, Karen Young, Reed Birney, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Schull Other Screenings~Locarno Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Print Source~Twelve Thirty Productions, LLC / [email protected] / www.twelvethirtymovie.com About the Director~Born in Orenburg, Russia in 1941, Garri Bardin’s work as an Other Screenings~Montréal World Film Festival animator has won him numerous international awards. Filmography~“Grey Wolf and Little Red Riding Hood” (1990), About the Director~Jeff Lipsky, writer and director, is known for focusing on char- “Puss in Boots” (1995), “Adagio” acter-driven plots and exploring visceral human relationships. This is his fourth (2000), THE UGLY DUCKLING (2010) Community Partners: feature film, three of which he has both written and directed. Filmography~ “Childhood’s End” (1997), “Flannel Pajamas” (2006), “Once More with Feeling” (2009), TWELVE THIRTY (2010) Sponsored by: Media Partner: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 117 10% CINEMA PACIFIC PEARLS CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Undertow His Past Lives (Contracorriente) Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul Directed by Javier Fuentes-León THAILAND 2010 PERU 2009 113 minutes 100 minutes Tuesday, March 29 Thursday, March 31 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 8:50 PM I Code UNCL29 4:10 PM I Code UNCL31 9:30 PM I Code UNDE25 6:05 PM I Code UNDE26 UNCLE BOONMEE is a haunting, dreamlike tale of a dying Does love survive after death? Anchored in the Latin American man’s last internal and external voyages. Uncle Boonmee’s kid- tradition of magic realism, UNDERTOW dives into this ques- neys are failing and he retires to the countryside in northeast tion in an unusually moving way. Miguel and Mariela live Thailand to see out his days in the company of his loved ones. in a candy-colored fishing village in northern Peru and happily He tends to his bees and gazes at the lush nature surrounding anticipate the birth of a son. One day an outsider appears on him. One evening as he’s dining with his family, his wife Huay, the margins of the village. It’s Santiago, a handsome painter who died 14 years earlier, appears at the table. So does an who lives in a house by the sea. The villagers are suspicious; apparition of Boonmee’s long-lost son. Thus begins a conversa- he doesn’t attend church. Under the pretense of mending his tion that drifts into the night, and in and out of consciousness, fishing nets, Miguel sneaks off repeatedly to make passionate as Boonmee questions Huay on what awaits him in the after- love with Santiago. But there’s a curse on their happiness: world, and whether she’ll be there when he arrives. UNCLE Santiago is caught in a current and swept out to sea. He BOONMEE defies normal narrative conventions and resists returns to appear before Miguel, who initially tries to shoo him interpretation. The delicate Thai language and the film’s medi- away. But nobody except Miguel can see the ghost of Santiago. tative cinematography underscore the grace with which its Finally they can love freely, visible only to each other. Yet protagonists accept life and death—past, present and future Miguel knows if he doesn’t surrender Santiago’s body to the —and memory and clairvoyance as part and parcel of one sea, he’s doomed to wander forever. UNDERTOW is a beautiful floating world. (In Thai with subtitles) —B.B. film about sacrifice—and having the courage to face who we are. (In Spanish with subtitles) —B.B. Producers~Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Weerasethakul Screenplay~ Apichatpong Weerasethakul Cinematography~Yukontorn Mingmongkon, Sayombhu Producers~Javier Fuentes-León, Rodrigo Guerrero Screenplay~Javier Fuentes-León Mukdeeprom Editing~Lee Chatametikool Principal Cast~Sakda Kaewbuadee, Cinematography~Mauricio Vidal Editing~Roberto Benavides, Javier Fuentes-León Matthieu Ly, Vien Pimdee Principal Cast~Tatiana Astengo, Manolo Cardona, Cristian Mercado Print Source~Strand Releasing / [email protected] / Print Source~The Film Colllaborative / [email protected] / www.strandreleasing.com www.undertowfilm.com 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–THAILAND 2011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE OSCAR® SUBMISSION–PERU Other Screenings~Cannes Film Festival–Palm d’Or, BFI London Film Festival, Other Screenings~Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival Seattle Int’l Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival–World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award About the Director~Apichatpong Weerasethakul (sometimes known as “Joe”) was born in Bangkok and received a Master’s degree in Filmmaking from the School of About the Director~Javier Fuentes-León was born in Lima. He moved to Los the Art Institute of Chicago. Filmography~“Mysterious Object at Noon” (2000), Angeles after graduating as a doctor in Peru to earn a Master’s degree in Film “Blissfully Yours” (2002), “The Adventure of Iron Pussy” (2003), “Tropical Directing at the California Institute of the Arts. He currently works as a director Malady” (2004), “Syndromes and a Century” (2006), UNCLE BOONMEE WHO in the U.S. Filmography~UNDERTOW (2009) CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partner: Community Partners: 118 FILMS A – Z [V–W] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival CENTRAL AND EASTERN GLOBAL HEALTH EUROPEAN FILM COMPETITION CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Venice Vincent Wants to Sea (Wenecja) (Vincent will meer) Directed by Jan Jakub Kolski Directed by Ralf Huettner POLAND 2010 GERMANY 2010 110 minutes 96 minutes Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 9:15 AM I Code VENC29 4:20 PM I Code VENC30 1:20 PM I Code VINC26 4:30 PM I Code VINC27 Thursday, March 31 Monday, March 28 6:35 PM I Code VENC31 9:15 PM I Code VINC28 A visual jewel in the vein of Ingmar Bergman’s “Fanny and A charming comedy about the search for happiness and the Alexander,” VENICE sees the world through the eyes of an veritable discovery of one’s self along the way, VINCENT imaginative boy named Marek who is coming-of-age in Poland WANTS TO SEA tells the story of Vincent, a 27-year-old man in 1939. As war seems imminent Marek is taken by his flighty suffering from Tourette’s Syndrome. When Vincent experiences mother from his military school to live in the crumbling manor the trauma of his mother’s death, his estranged politician that is his genteel family’s home. Also in residence are his two father drops him off at a rehabilitation clinic. There he meets creative aunts, his grandmother, a sexually curious servant girl, Alex, his new obsessive compulsive roommate, and Marie, and his devout cousin Susie. As war begins to seep in through a frail yet bold woman suffering from anorexia who instantly the magical woodlands surrounding the manor, Marek’s mother connects with Vincent. After Marie steals the car keys of the leaves with a lover, men and boys go off to war, and those left clinic’s leading therapist Dr. Rose, she offers Vincent a chance behind face emotional and physical depravation. Marek, whose to escape his present life in which he is viewed as an embar- fondest dream is to one day visit Venice, persuades the family rassment and a disappointment. When Alex threatens to to take advantage of the flooded basement and turn it into a expose their plan, they are compelled to take him along on watery Venetian wonderland, complete with makeshift gondolas a journey to the Italian sea Vincent has always longed to visit. and musical performances softly lit by lanterns. As the seasons With little money they are forced to steal gas along the way, change and life at war goes on, Marek is confronted with the ultimately leading Vincent’s father and Dr. Rose on their own consequences of adult passions, which are almost more than voyage to bring the patients back. As they travel through gor- he can bear. (In Polish with subtitles) —B.B. geous landscapes, the three come to discover how much they Producer~Michal Kwiecinski Screenplay~Jan Jakub Kolski Cinematography~ actually need one another. They also realize that to obtain true Artur Reinhart Editing~Witold Chominski Principal Cast~Magdalena Cielecka, happiness, they must learn to overcome their own self-hatred. Marcin Walewski, Agnieszka Grochowska A quirky, endearing coming-of-age story, VINCENT WANTS TO Print Source~Telewizja Polska S.A / [email protected] / www.tvp.pl SEA is full of powerful and impressive characters who are sure Other Screenings~Denver Int’l Film Festival, Gdynia Polish Film Festival, Hamburg to keep you smiling. (In German with subtitles) —M.M. Film Festival, Montréal World Film Festival–Special Jury Prize Producers~Viola Jäger, Harald Kügler Screenplay~Florian David Fitz Cinematography~Andreas Berger Editing~Kai Schröter Principal Cast~Florian About the Director~Jan Jakub Kolski comes from a family of filmmakers. He David Fitz, Karoline Herfurth, Heino Ferch studied cinematography at the film school in Lodz, where he runs a screenplay Print Source Corinth Films / [email protected] / www.corinthfilms.com workshop. He also lectures at the Andrzej Wajda Master School of Film Directing. ~ Filmography~“Johnnie Waterman” (1993), “The Commander’s Sword” (1996), Other Screenings~Berlin & Beyond Festival, Paris German Film Festival “Pornography” (2003), “Jasminum” (2006), “Afonia and Honeybees” (2009), VENICE (2010) About the Director~Ralf Huettner is a German filmmaker who attended the University of Television and Film Munich. Filmography~“The Girl with the Sponsored by: Community Partner: Lighters” (1987), “A Mere Formality” (2006), “The Hunt for the Treasure of the Nibelungs” (2007), VINCENT WANTS TO SEA (2010) PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 119 GREG GUND MEMORIAL GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION 10% CINEMA PAN-AFRICAN IMAGES GLOBAL HEALTH We Were Here Welcome to Shelbyville Directed by David Weissman Directed by Kim Snyder USA 2010 USA 2010 90 minutes 70 minutes Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 7:35 PM I Code WEWE26 5:50 PM I Code WEWE27 2:30 PM I Code WELC01 6:00 PM I Code WELC02 (w/FilmForum) Sunday, April 3 They were there when all their friends were dying. They were 11:30 AM I Code WELC03 the lovers, friends, co-workers, and counselors of the stricken, (w/FilmForum) or even the stricken themselves. They survived the HIV/AIDS Shelbyville, Tennessee: population 16,000. A hub of the scourge of the 1980s, and they lived to tell about it. WE WERE Tennessee Walking Horse industry, the town also boasts a Tyson HERE is a hugely affecting piece of filmmaking. Five individu- Foods facility and a Wal-Mart distribution center. Shelbyville als, all of whom lived in San Francisco prior to the epidemic, has been pretty quiet since it was incorporated in 1819. But relate their harrowing experiences on the front lines. In the now change has come to America and Shelbyville is coming to late 70s the city was a hotbed of sexual freedom and social grips with newcomers of its own. WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE experimentation. Soon, of course, mass tragedy struck. With examines the challenges of residents old and new as they expe- thousands dying of the mysterious “gay plague,” the queer rience rapid demographic change. Initially, white and African community huddled together to shelter and comfort their own. American Shelbyvillians were suspicious of an influx of Latinos; The interviewees’ stories are not only intensely personal, but now the town is 15% African American and 15% Latino. More also illuminate the much larger themes of that era: the political recently, Somalis arrived, seeking refuge from their violent and sexual complexities, the terrible emotional toll, the role of homeland and jobs with Tyson. Clergymen discuss the virtues women—particularly lesbians—in caring for and fighting for of broad-mindedness, even as their own skepticism shows. ESL their gay brothers. Archival imagery conveys a sense of San instructor Miss Luci continues to beat the drum of tolerance. Francisco in the pre-AIDS years and a very visceral sense of A local reporter, initially hostile to the Somalis, is invited to a the horrors of the disease itself. —B.B. multicultural gathering and turns out to be a decent guy. Maybe Producer~David Weissman Cinematography~Marsha Kahm Editing~Bill Weber what doesn’t kill Shelbyville really will make it stronger. —B.B. Print Source~The Film Collaborative / [email protected] / Producer~Kim Snyder Cinematography~Greg Poschman Editing~Benjamin Gray, www.wewereherefilm.com Jeremy Stulberg, Jeremiah Zagar Other Screenings~Berlin Int’l Film Festival, Frameline Film Festival, Sundance Print Source~K.A. Snyder Productions / [email protected] / Film Festival www.welcometoshelbyvilleonline.org Other Screenings~Hamptons Int’l Film Festival About the Director~David Weissman is a filmmaker and political activist who arrived in San Francisco in 1976 and was deeply impacted by the epidemic. About the Director~Kim Snyder graduated with a Master’s degree from the Johns Filmography~“The Cockettes” (2002), WE WERE HERE (2010) Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1986 . Filmography~“I Remember Me” (2000), WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE (2010) Sponsored by: Community Partner: Community Partners: 120 FILMS A – Z [W] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SOMEONE TO WATCH CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Whirligig White on Rice Directed by Chaz Thorne Directed by Dave Boyle CANADA 2010 USA 2009 90 minutes 83 minutes Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 9:15 PM I Code WHIR25 9:50 AM I Code WHIR27 9:50 PM I Code WHIT02 4:25 PM I Code WHIT03 Monday, March 28 Jimmy is 40-years-old but he has the personality of a young 8:00 PM I Code WHIR28 child. He shares a bunk bed with his ten-year-old nephew and Nicholas is pretty much a loser. After unsuccessful gigs as a his favorite thing is dinosaurs. He lacks any sense of charisma bonsai tree salesman and a Mormon missionary in Japan, he’s and he speaks his mind a little too often. Ever since his hit an all-time low. With nowhere else to go, he tracks down divorce he has been living with his sister and her family. His his reluctant parents at their home by the sea. Even when they brother-in-law Tak thinks he is an idiot. Jimmy believes that if make him sleep in the barn and try to bribe him with a one-way he can get remarried, he can move out and all of his problems ticket back to Japan, he doggedly refuses to leave, swilling will disappear. As he decides to start dating again, he falls for red wine by the liter. Dad spends his days making colorful the beautiful and out of his league Ramona. And it doesn’t whirligigs, those folk-art novelties that turn in the wind. help him that Ramona is in love with Jimmy’s best friend Tim. Nicholas himself is a big kid going in circles, all bluster and Surprisingly, his luck continues to get worse when he leaves no substance. His attempt to learn to drive is thwarted when his nephew home alone one night to pursue Ramona. He ends he mows down the mailbox of his neighbors, a theater director up getting kicked out and losing his free room and board. named André and his unhappy wife Nina. Far from being angry, Jimmy just cannot catch a break. WHITE ON RICE is an they embrace him—so much so that he and Nina start a torrid hilarious comedy about a grown man looking for love in all affair. Soon Nina’s young son Qwang helps Nicholas get pointed the wrong places. (In English and Japanese with English in the right direction. Based on screenwriter Michael Amo’s subtitles) —L.W. own experience with life at rock bottom, WHIRLIGIG features Producers~Duane Andersen, Dominic Fratto Screenplay~Dave Boyle, Joel Clark the beautiful wind-swept Nova Scotia coast and a star turn by Cinematography~Bill Otto Editing~Duane Andersen Principal Cast~Hiroshi Gregory Smith of TV’s “Everwood.” —B.B. Watanabe, Nae, Mio Takada, Lynn Chen, James Kyson-Lee, Justin Kwong Print Source~Tiger Industry Films / [email protected] / Producers~Michael Amo, Chaz Thorne, David Macleod Screenplay~Michael Amo www.tigerindustryfilms.com Cinematography~Christopher Porter Editing~Chris Cooper Principal Cast~ Gregory Smith, Fiona Highet, Siam Uyu, RH Thomson Other Screenings~San Francisco Int’l Asian American Film Festival, Sao Paulo Print Source~Standing 8 Productions / [email protected] / Int’l Film Festival, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival www.standing8.ca About the Director~Dave Boyle was raised in Tuscon. He studied Japanese Other Screenings~Atlantic Film Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Language and Literature at Brigham Young University, then served a two-year mission in Sydney, Australia where he learned to speak Japanese. Things have About the Director~Chaz Thorne is the founder of Standing 8 Productions, a never been the same since. Filmography~“Big Dreams Little Tokyo” (2006), Nova Scotia-based feature film company. Chaz received his formal training at WHITE ON RICE (2009), “Surrogate Valentine” (2011) the National Theatre School of Canada’s Professional Acting Programme. Since graduation in 1996, he has appeared as an actor on Canadian stage, film, and television. Filmography~“Just Buried” (2007), WHIRLIGIG (2010) Sponsored by: PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 121 WOMEN OF THE WORLD CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR CONTINENTAL AIRLINES WORLD TOUR Win/Win With Love, From the Age of Reason Directed by Jaap Van Heusden (L’âge de raison) NETHERLANDS 2010 Directed by Yann Samuell 83 minutes FRANCE, BELGIUM 2010 90 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 10:40 PM I Code WINW25 9:15 AM I Code WINW26 Thursday, March 31 At the Cedar Lee Theatre Monday, March 28 7:15 PM I Code CLEE31 (see page 23) 2:45 PM I Code WINW28 Saturday, April 2 Sunday, April 3 7:00 PM I Code WITH02 1:55 PM I Code WITH03 Ivan is a gawky junior stock broker on his way to work at an Amsterdam company. Wide-eyed and enthusiastic, he jogs “Dear Me, today I am seven years old and I’m writing you this along with all the other worker bees streaming into soulless letter to help you remember the promises I made, and also to skyscrapers of glass and steel. He’s a jittery fellow, always remind you of what I want to become...” Fast forward 30+ tapping his keyboard or flipping his pen as he watches stocks years to Margaret, a hard-charging businesswoman who sells rise and fall on his computer screen. Ivan’s playfulness and global-warming power plants to the Chinese. Margaret has looks tactile feeling for numbers give him a sixth sense for when to to kill and an adoring English lover. In fact, she has everything buy and sell. He leaves post-it notes with winning stock tips going for her but freedom. On her 40th birthday, Margaret in conspicuous places around the office, until the higher-ups receives the first bundle of letters she wrote to herself when figure out who the genius trader is. Ivan is then hastily promot- she was seven. A jumble of colorful collages, photographs, and ed and given an ultra-luxury apartment with pool access. He’s wildly creative puzzles, they seem to come from a different girl suddenly a Master of the Universe in a win-win situation. But entirely. As her letters to herself keep coming, Margaret finds the cutthroat pressure saps all the joy out of playing with herself disenchanted. She visits her childhood village and, by numbers. He’s appalled at the crass behavior of his fellow star reconnecting with people who see in her the girl they once traders. Ivan befriends a depressed young Korean colleague knew, she starts finding her way to the woman she vowed to and a receptionist who recognizes the gentle man inside his become. WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON is an agitated exterior. Soon he’s wandering the streets at night, lost absolutely charming film starring the ravishing Sophie Marceau. and unable to function. Can he possibly win himself back? (In French with subtitles) —B.B. WIN/WIN is a stylish film with an appealing lead performance. Producer~Christophe Rossignon Screenplay~Yann Samuell Cinematography~ (In Dutch with subtitles) —B.B. Antoine Roch Editing~Andrea Sedlácková Principal Cast~Sophie Marceau, Marton Csokas, Michel Duchaussoy Producer~Marc Bary Screenplay~Jaap Van Heusden Cinematography~ Print Source~Film Distribution / [email protected] / Jan Moeskops Editing~Jasper Quispel Principal Cast~Oscar Van Rompay, www.filmsdistribution.com Halina Reijn, Leon Voorberg, Hans Kesting, Phi Nguyen, Pepijn Schoneveld Print Source~Ijswater Films / [email protected] / www.ijswater.nl Other Screenings~Montréal World Film Festival Other Screenings~Brooklyn Int’l Film Festival, Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam, About the Director~Yann Samuell went to film school and was a storyboard artist Vancouver Int’l Film Festival, Warsaw Int’l Film Festival before becoming a director. Filmography~“Love Me if You Dare” (2003), “My Sassy Girl” (2008), WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON (2010) About the Director~Jaap Van Heusden graduated from the Netherlands Film & Television Academy in Amsterdam in 2005. Filmography~WIN/WIN (2010) Sponsored This film is presented with by: the generous support of ALISTAIR and JOYCE FYFE. Community Partner: 122 FILMS A – Z [W–Y] The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival GREG GUND MEMORIAL GREG GUND MEMORIAL STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION STANDING UP FILM COMPETITION JEWISH AND ISRAELI VISIONS FILM IS ART, LOCAL HEROES WOMEN OF THE WORLD WOMEN OF THE WORLD The Woman With the 5 Elephants !Women Art Revolution (Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten) Directed by Lynn Hershman Leeson Directed by Vadim Jendreyko USA 2010 SWITZERLAND, GERMANY 2009 83 minutes 93 minutes Sunday, March 27 Tuesday, March 29 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 7:00 PM I Code WOME27 4:45 PM I Code WOME29 6:05 PM I Code WOMA25 2:00 PM I Code WOMA26 Monday, March 28 Lynn Hershman Leeson was raised in Cleveland to be a proper lady. But after she experienced Berkeley in the 60s, there was 9:20 AM Code WOMA28 I no turning back to complacency. !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION Meet the indomitable 85-year-old Svetlana Geier, perhaps the is her beautifully-crafted exploration of the political forces that world’s greatest translator of Russian literature into German. have shaped women’s art over the past several decades. It’s the She has just completed new translations of Dostoyevsky’s five story of women who initially had to juggle their domestic identi- great novels (her five elephants)—“Crime and Punishment,” ties with their work as artists. But liberation was in the air and “The Idiot,” “The Devils,” “A Raw Youth,” and “The Brothers women began to demand that their voices be heard—and their Karamasov.” Razor sharp and possessed of piercing blue eyes, art be displayed. Hershman Leeson weaves archival footage into Geier continues her meticulous work in her home office where interviews with many of her feminist friends and colleagues— she is assisted by exacting collaborators, including a musician including activist Judy Chicago who talks about her infamous who reads her translations out loud. They are in constant pur- installation “The Dinner Party,” which caused outrage among suit of the exact word that will give the language its rhythm. art’s elite, and Miriam Schapiro who describes Womanhouse, Born in Ukraine, Geier’s teenage facility with languages the Hollywood home that was transformed into an installation brought her to the attention of the country’s Nazi occupiers piece in 1972. Hershman Leeson began shooting this film during World War II. Now she takes her granddaughter along 40 years ago and she’s been waiting all this time for the right on a rail journey to her homeland where she hasn’t been since ending. The optimism on display among contemporary young 1943. Geier is an extraordinary screen presence who reminds women artists seems to indicate she’s found it. —B.B. us there’s beauty in the world if we look for it. “I believe that Producers~Lynn Hershman Leeson, Kyle Stephan, Alexandra Chowaniec each spiritual experience leads us to treat one another better, Cinematography~Hiro Narita, Antonio Rossi, Fawn Yacker, Lise Swenson, Lynn to not strike others dead. Quite elementary. And I believe that Hershman Leeson Editing~Jesse Spencer Featuring~Lynn Hershman Leeson, language is a very effective remedy.” THE WOMAN WITH THE Miranda July, Yvonne Rainer, Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman Print Source~Zeitgeist / [email protected] / www.zeitgeistfilms.com 5 ELEPHANTS is gorgeously photographed, at once cerebral and joyous. (In German and Russian with subtitles) —B.B. Other Screenings~Sundance Film Festival, Toronto Int’l Film Festival Producers~Vadim Jendreyko, Thomas Tielsch, Hercli Bundi Cinematography~ About the Director~Over the last three decades, artist-filmmaker Lynn Hershman Niels Bolbrinker, Stéphane Kuthy Editing~Gisela Castronari Leeson has been internationally acclaimed for her pioneering use of new technolo- Print Source~Mira Film GmbH / [email protected] / www.mirafilm.ch gies and her investigations of issues now recognized as key to the workings of our society. Filmography~“Conceiving Ada” (1997), “Teknolust” (2002), “Strange Other Screenings~Jerusalem Int’l Film Festival, Moscow Int’l Film Festival, Int’l Culture” (2007), !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION (2010) Film Festival Rotterdam, AFI Silverdocs, Hot Docs Film Festival About the Director~Vadim Jendreyko was born in Germany and currently lives in Community Partner: Basel, Switzerland. He studied at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf and has worked as a camera and editing assistant, mostly on documentary films. He founded Mira This film is presented Films in 2002. Filmography~THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS (2009) with the generous support of Sponsored by: TOBY DEVAN LEWIS. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM FILMS A –Z 123 DOCUMENTARIES FILM IS ART, LOCAL HEROES CINEMA EN ESPAN˜ OL The Woodmans You Think You’re the Prettiest... Directed by C. Scott Willis (But You’re the Sluttiest) USA 2010 (Te creís la más linda) 82 minutes Directed by Che Sandoval Saturday, March 26 Sunday, March 27 CHILE 2009 83 minutes 11:35 AM I Code WOOD26 9:45 PM I Code WOOD27 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 THE WOODMANS is a delicate and haunting piece of art, a fit- 4:50 PM Code YOUT25 10:45 PM Code YOUT26 ting showcase for the ethereal work of photographer Francesca I I Woodman. Francesca was a precocious talent who grew up in a Nineteen-year-old Javier’s gotta have it. A victim of various family of driven artists and killed herself in 1981 when she was post-modern ailments like ennui and premature ejaculation, 22. Though she was unable to find fulfilling work after graduat- he roams the streets of Santiago looking to get laid. Javier ing from the Rhode Island School of Design, her photographs tries first to sweet-talk his neighbor Valentina into sleeping have attained a cult-like following since her death. The film with him. His ceaseless chatter convinces her he’s cute, in a explores Francesca’s life and work through the prism of her pathetic puppy-dog sort of way, but their amorous interlude talented family: her mother Betty, a renowned ceramicist; her is foiled when he fails in bed as usual. He persuades her to father George, a painter; and her brother Charles, a professor exchange CDs to make sure he’ll see her again. But Valentina of Electronic Arts at the University of Cincinnati. Is growing up sleeps with Javier’s best friend Nicolas, a grungy and magnetic in a hot-house artistic environment a boon, or can it create graffiti painter who already has a steady girlfriend. As Javier oppressive competition? Her father notes that the personality wanders around the city wallowing in self-pity, he meets up characteristics that make Francesca intriguing are the same with other losers: a gay cruiser who Javier pays to go away; ones that tormented her. “There’s a psychic risk in being an a couple of punks who steal Valentina’s CD; a guy in a bar artist,” he points out. “It may well have made life more difficult whose girlfriend has left him to study in Spain; and an old for her.” Francesca’s black-and-white photographs, and her hooker who’s the wisest presence on-screen. Young filmmaker early videos, shot with a 1970s Sony camera, are incorporated Che Sandoval captures the aimlessness of the young South into this multi-layered story. Fanciful excerpts from her diaries American generation in his funny first film, YOU THINK make her unique voice omnipresent. —B.B. YOU’RE THE PRETTIEST...(BUT YOU’RE THE SLUTTIEST), Producers~Neil Barrett, Jeff Werner, C. Scott Willis Cinematography~Neil Barrett reminiscent of the works of CIFF favorite Gerardo Naranjo. Editing~Jeff Werner (In Spanish with subtitles) —B.B. Print Source~Kino Lorber, Inc. / [email protected] / www.kinolorber.com Producer~Karla Kri Screenplay~Che Sandoval Cinematography~Felipe Bello Other Screenings~Palm Springs Int’l Film Festival, AFI SilverDocs, Tribeca Film Editing~Manuel Piña Principal Cast~Francisco Braithwaite, Paula Bravo, Festival, Vancouver Int’l Film Festival Martín Castillo Print Source~Che Sandoval / [email protected] / www.tecreislamaslinda.cl About the Director~C. Scott Willis is a television news producer who has worked Other Screenings~Buenos Aires Int’l Festival of Independent Cinema, Munich Film internationally. Scott grew up in Germany and England, attended the Cranbrook Festival, San Francisco Int’l Film Festival School outside Detroit, and captained boats in the Caribbean. Best known for working on “Nightline,” he has also produced documentaries for PBS Nova and the Discovery Channel. Filmography~THE WOODMANS (2010) About the Director~Born in Santiago de Chile in 1985, Che Sandoval attended the Escuela de Cine de Chile. This was his thesis film. He is currently writing his second film, “You Think You’re the Most Talented.” Filmography~YOU THINK Sponsored by: Community YOU’RE THE PRETTIEST...(BUT YOU’RE THE SLUTTIEST) (2009) Partner: Community Partner: 124 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Award Winners Independent Shorts Jurors Jury Awards Program Sunday, April 3 1:45 PM I Code JURY03 Approximately 100 minutes ONE SCREENING ONLY Three jurors select winners of the awards listed Jack Boyle, Vice President for Business Affairs and below. The shorts are screened and the filmmakers Finance at Cleveland State University, is a native are recognized during this special program. Each of Cleveland. He graduated from St. Ignatius High award is accompanied by a $1,000 cash prize. School in 1958 and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Boston College in 1962. He received Best Animated Short Film Award* sponsored by Reminger Co., L.P.A. his Master’s degree in Urban Planning, Design & Development from Cleveland State University Best Documentary Short Film Award in 2002. Jack owned and operated a major sponsored by Jules and Fran Belkin Cleveland-area insurance agency from 1962 until Best International Short Film Award his retirement in 2000. He has served in a variety sponsored by Mike and Nicki Cancelliere of elected and appointed positions in Cleveland Best LGBT Short Film Award: Given in Celebration Heights including Mayor, City Council member, and of the Life of Nikki Babbit Planning Commission member. And he is a former sponsored by Jan and Harold Babbit member of the CIFF Board of Directors. Currently he is a member of the Shaker Heights Planning & Best Live Action Short Film Award* sponsored by Anne Bloomberg and Zoning Appeals Board. He and his wife, Mary, have Alan Gordon Lipson & Judy Harris four grown children and 12 grandchildren. Best Ohio Short Film Award Judi Feniger is Executive Director of The Maltz sponsored by University Hospitals Museum of Jewish Heritage. This regional cultural Best Student Short Film Award center builds understanding among people of all sponsored by Mike and Nicki Cancelliere backgrounds with programs and exhibitions that showcase fine arts, share lessons of history, and Best Women’s Short Film Award promote diversity and social justice. She spent sponsored by Jinny and John Johnson two decades in business leadership as Chief The Rice Hershey Memorial Award for Originality Public Support Officer at The American Red Cross, sponsored by Bill Markstrom General Manager of Bozell Worldwide Cleveland, The Clover and Maggie Award: In Celebration of Life and President of Proconsul Public Relations. An sponsored by Barbara Hawley and David Goodman active civic booster and arts advocate, she current- The Spalding and Jackson Award: ly serves on the Board of Directors of Cleveland In Celebration of Joy Council on World Affairs and the Notre Dame sponsored by Marcie Goodman and John C. Williams College Abrahamic Leadership Council. She also chairs the Greater Cleveland Partnership Public *These award winners will qualify for consideration in the Short Films category of the annual Academy Awards.® Affairs Committee. A member of Leadership Cleveland Class of 2003, she has received SBN Visionary, YWCA Women of Achievement and Public Relations Society Lighthouse Awards. Independent Shorts Audience Choice Program Tracy Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland and has Sunday, April 3 worked with the agency since 1999. Previously, 4:30 PM I Code AUDS03 she worked as an HIV/AIDS Prevention Coordinator Approximlately 100 minutes for the City of Cleveland Department of Health. ONE SCREENING ONLY Her 15 years of HIV/AIDS experience includes CIFF patrons determine this program by casting two-and-a-half years of teaching HIV prevention ballots throughout the 35th CIFF. to high-risk heterosexual women and teens. Tracy holds a Master’s degree in Non-Profit The winner receives the Cleveland State University Organizational Management from Case Western Audience Choice Award for Best Short Subject, Reserve University and a Bachelor’s degree in which is accompanied by a $1,000 cash prize. Human Resources Management from Kent State Sponsored by: University. PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM INDEPENDENT SHORTS 125 All Shorts Programs are sponsored by: P R O G R A M 1 P R O G R A M 2 P R O G R A M 3 Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Saturday, March 26 2:15 PM I Code INDY25 1:40 PM I Code SHRT26 4:05 PM I Code INDY26 100 minutes 100 minutes 101 minutes Monday, March 28 Wednesday, March 30 Tuesday, March 29 12:00 Noon I Code SHRT28 12:00 Noon I Code SHRT30 12:00 Noon I Code SHRT29 100 minutes 100 minutes 101 minutes Where We Live So Mary Girlfriends Club Fady Hadid, USA, 22 min. Julianne Hill, USA, 8 min. Dale Omori & Larry Kasperek, USA, 27 min. The Cow Who Wanted Battle For Britain A Lost and Found Box to Be a Hamburger Alex Helfrecht, United Kingdom, 13 min. of Human Sensation Bill Plympton, USA, 6 min. The Gruffalo Martin Wallner & Stephan Leughtenberg, The Secret Friend Jakob Schuh & Max Lang, United Kingdom, Germany, 17 min. Flavio Alves, Brazil/USA, 15 min. 27 min. Bob Not Interested Holdup Jacob Frey & Harry Fast, Germany, 3 min. D.W. Young, USA, 9 min. Aprile Ruha, USA, 8 min. 3 x 3 Kavi The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock Nuno Rocha, Portugal, 6 min. Gregg Helvey, USA/India, 19 min. Lucy Gaffy, Australia, 16 min. Momentos The Roar of the Sea Habibi Nuno Rocha, Portugal, 7 min. Torsten Truscheit & Ana R. Fernandes, Davide Del Degan, Italy/Lebanon, 22 min. CarJack Cape Verde/Germany, 27 min. Eulogy Maker Jeremiah Jones, USA, 16 min. Delmer Builds a Machine Leslie Langee, USA, 6 min. Picnic Landon Zakheim, USA, 2 min. Ryan Moore, USA, 15 min. SO MARY is the story of a woman who Drop Dead! An Iraqi family tries to adjust to their would like to interview Mary Magdalene Arne Toonen, Netherlands, 10 min. new lives in the U.S. in WHERE WE LIVE • an elderly man educates a younger • THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A man in BATTLE FOR BRITAIN • THE GIRLFRIENDS CLUB documents a local HAMBURGER is the animated tale of a GRUFFALO is one of this year’s Oscar® teacher's efforts to impact her students’ cow with an odd wish • a woman’s daily nominated films for best animated short, lives • a young man tries to cope with crank caller is the theme of THE SECRET based on the classic picture book of the his father’s death in the animated A LOST FRIEND • NOT INTERESTED is the story same name • a late night robbery goes AND FOUND BOX OF HUMAN SENSA- of a knife salesman and a very strange all wrong in HOLDUP • THE LOVE SONG TION • BOB is the animated story of house call • a young boy works as a OF ISKRA PRUFROCK is a tragic tale one hamster’s search for love • a night slave to repay his father’s debt in KAVI of love and loss • two young boys try to watchman and a janitor try their hands • THE ROAR OF THE SEA is the tale of a help a man cross a protected border in at basketball in 3 X 3 • MOMENTOS father who goes to great lengths to see his HABIBI • EULOGY MAKER is the story finds a homeless man catching a glimpse son • a young boy works on a big project of a young boy working on his craft. of a very meaningful video • a car theft in DELMER BUILDS A MACHINE. with surprising results is featured in CARJACK • PICNIC is the tale of a family outing gone terribly wrong • a man makes his first skydiving jump in the comic DROP DEAD! The Secret Friend Battle for Britain CarJack 126 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival P R O G R A M 4 P R O G R A M 5 P R O G R A M 6 Friday, March 25 Sunday, March 27 Monday, March 28 12:00 Noon I Code SHRT25 2:35 PM I Code INDY27 5:30 PM I Code INDY28 99 minutes 101 minutes, ONE SCREENING ONLY 100 minutes, ONE SCREENING ONLY Sunday, March 27 Same Difference Bathing Micky 12:00 PM I Code SHRT27 Lisa Udelson & Catherine Opie, USA, 29 min. Frida Kempff, Denmark/Sweden, 14 min. 99 minutes Amazonia Red-End and the Seemingly Save the Farm Sam Chen, USA, 5 min. Symbiotic Society Michael Kuehnert, USA, 24 min. Moving Day Robin Noorda & Bethan de Forest, Danny and Annie Jason Wingrove, Australia, 9 min. Netherlands, 15 min. The Rauch Brothers, USA, 6 min. A Birthday Party How It Ended Canary Suicides Wilfried Meance, France, 8 min. Gabriel Nussbaum, USA, 23 min. Valerian Zamel & Natalia Provatas, USA, 5 min. Hollow Man and Boy Cecilia's Plan Rob Sorrenti, United Kingdom, 20 min. Marcus McSweeney & David Leon, Belen Gomez Sanz, Spain, 12 min. 11 Weeks United Kingdom, 20 min. Encounter Sudden Death! Dipesh Jain, India/USA, 30 min. Adam Hall, USA, 20 min. Nick Igea, Spain, 21 min. Nisa SAME DIFFERENCE is a documentary Break a Leg about the lives of children with gay Jesse Shamata, Canada, 7 min. Doug Archibald, USA, 12 min. parents • a frog’s surprising adventure Yogurt Cups is featured in the animated AMAZONIA BATHING MICKY is the tale of a 100-year- Kamila Ticha, Czech Republic/USA, 12 min. • MOVING DAY finds a young girl explor- old woman and her bathing club • the life Cliches ing the grounds of her family’s new home story of an ant and its colony is told in Nadine Naous, France, 8 min. • a father is in for some surprising news the animated RED-END AND THE SEEM- when his family gathers for A BIRTHDAY INGLY SYMBIOTIC SOCIETY • HOW IT SAVE THE FARM documents the struggle PARTY • HOLLOW is the gritty tale of ENDED features Debra Winger as a woman to save a downtown community farm a couple trying to detox from their heroin who needs to meet her end • when a boy in the heart of L.A. • a lifelong love affair addiction when they learn they are accuses a man upstairs of assaulting him, is shared in the animated DANNY AND pregnant • a young Muslim boy is paired the consequences are tragic in MAN AND ANNIE • CANARY SUICIDES is an artistic with an elderly Hindu professor in the BOY • ENCOUNTER features a chance look at some birds who had it in for touching 11 WEEKS. meeting between two people with a themselves • with her 30th birthday only different view of their past • a hitman a day away, a young woman realizes chats with his next victim over breakfast she has much to do in CECILIA’S PLAN in BREAK A LEG. • SUDDEN DEATH! is a musical detailing the outbreak of a strange new disease • a Thai sex slave will risk it all to save the life of her unborn child in NISA • YOGURT CUPS is the story of an unlikely relationship • our common misconceptions about one another are artfully examined in CLICHES. Yogurt Cups Hollow Bathing Micky PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM INDEPENDENT SHORTS 127 P R O G R A M 7 P R O G R A M 8 P R O G R A M 9 Tuesday, March 29 Wednesday, March 30 Thursday, March 31 5:40 PM I Code INDY29 5:30 PM I Code INDY30 5:10 PM I Code INDY31 98 minutes, ONE SCREENING ONLY 100 minutes, ONE SCREENING ONLY 103 minutes, ONE SCREENING ONLY Burning the Midnight Oil Bye Bye Now Second Nature: Hanjin Park, USA, 5 min. Aideen O’Sullivan & Ross Whitaker, The Biomimicry Evolution Summer Snapshot Ireland, 15 min. Guy Lieberman, South Africa, 25 min. Ian McCluskey, USA, 11 min. Flawed Specky Four-Eyes Pivot Andrea Dorman, Canada, 13 min. Jean-Claude Rozec, France, 9 min. Andre Bergs, Netherlands, 5 min. Penny Time and Love Formic Benj Thall, USA, 19 min. Bo Price, USA, 7 min. Roman Kalin & Florian Wittmann, Cold Turkey Bad Language Germany, 4 min. Gavin Keane, Ireland, 11 min. Viron Papadopoulos, Australia, 14 min. Thought of You North Atlantic If Trees Carry Dolls Ryan Woodward, USA, 4 min. Bernardo Nascimento, Portugal, 15 min. Ismail Sahin, Germany, 15 min. Carrier of Men Hair 3 Hours Antarès Bassis, France, 30 min. Julien Hallard, France, 17 min. Regan Hall, United Kingdom, 14 min. The Long Lonely Walk Same Old Story Na Wewe Leon Chambers, United Kingdom, 13 min. Jose Luis Montesinos, Spain, 10 min. Ivan Goldschmidt, Belgium, 19 min. Still BYE BYE NOW is a documentary about SECOND NATURE: THE BIOMIMICRY Felicia Heykoop, USA, 15 min. the fate of some beloved phone booths EVOLUTION is a documentary about how Futility in remote Irish villages • a woman waxes man is trying to emulate nature to solve Wayne Bradford, Australia, 11 min. philosophical about body image after human problems • a young boy tries to falling for a plastic surgeon in the animat- adapt to his new perspective when he gets BURNING THE MIDNIGHT OIL takes a ed FLAWED • PENNY is the tale a glasses in the animated SPECKY FOUR- look at one community college's foray into plumber and his efforts to save a beloved EYES • TIME AND LOVE is the story of a midnight classes • a group of friends recall fountain • trying to get the perfect sound boy who sends a letter to his secret love a carefree summer they shared during the effect leads to some unexpected results but with a strange twist • a group of old 70s in SUMMER SNAPSHOT • PIVOT is in COLD TURKEY • NORTH ATLANTIC is men attempt to take advantage of the the animated tale of a man who acciden- the true story of an air traffic controller young man who’s left in charge in BAD tally photographs a murder • a skateboard- and the pilot he befriends one fateful LANGUAGE • IF TREES CARRY DOLLS er and an ant share a few seconds of life- night • a young man who may be losing is the powerful story of one little girl and altering activity in FORMIC • THOUGHT his hair decides he must visit his father her return to her family’s former home OF YOU is a wonderfully animated pencil for important information in HAIR • SAME • a group of militants incite a neighbor- art piece where dance and romance collide OLD STORY finds the passengers of a bus hood war by gunning down a group of chil- • CARRIER OF MEN is the tale of a man eavesdropping on a man who is begging dren while they are playing in 3 HOURS who leaves the family business to start a his ex for a second chance. • NA WEWE is the Oscar® nominated film new creative business of his own • three about a group of travelers pulled over in moments of a man’s life collide in THE Burundi and grilled over their heritage as LONG LONELY WALK • STILL finds a either Hutus or Tutsis. couple trying to cope with the stillborn death of their daughter • a picture leads to a moment of connection between two enemy soldiers in FUTILITY. Thought of You Bye Bye Now 3 Hours 128 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SHORTS PROGRAM 10 SHORTS PROGRAM 11 SHORTS PROGRAMS Thursday, March 31 Friday, April 1 Scenarios USA 12:00 Noon I CodeSHRT31 12:00 Noon I Code SHRT01 Approximately 80 minutes 98 minutes 101 minutes Friday, April 1 Saturday, April 2 Tuesday, March 29 4:45 PM I Code INDY01 11:10 AM I Code SHRT02 7:40 PM I Code SCEN29 98 minutes 101 minutes Scenarios USA is a national non-profit Just About Famous Heirlooms organization that uses writing and film Jason Kovacev & Matt Mamula, USA, 15 min. Wendy Chandler & Susan Danta, to foster youth leadership, advocacy, and Zero Australia, 10 min. self-expression in students across the Christopher Kezelos, Australia, 13 min. The Fantastic Flying Books country. Scenarios USA asks teens to write Sketchi of Mr. Morris Lessmore about the issues that shape their lives William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, for the annual “What’s the REAL DEAL?” Lily Sun, Canada, 3 min. writing contest. The winning writers are God of Love USA, 17 min. The Spaceship partnered with some of Hollywood's finest Luke Matheny, USA, 18 min. filmmakers to transform their stories into The Screamers Emil Mkrttchian, Sweden, 25 min. award-winning short films. The 35th CIFF Interview Roberto Perez Toledo, Spain, 2 min. is proud to be showing three of them. David and Goliath Sebastian Marka, Germany, 20 min. Last Rain A Man Made Early George Zaverdas, USA, 12 min. Cruz Angeles, USA, 15 min. Diversion Tony Lopez & David Sanz, Spain, 20 min. As The Rain Was Falling High school senior Tony Rodriguez Chris Folkens, USA, 14 min. struggles with the decision of attending Charlotte Joulia, France, 9 min. The Faucet a college close to home or accepting a Millán Vázquez, Spain, 16 min. HEIRLOOMS is an animated film about scholarship from a university in another Us people and some of their most cherished state. Written by Angelica Hernandez (17), Mazi Khalighi, Canada, 5 min. items • books take on a life of their a senior at Weslaco East High School in own in the animated THE FANTASTIC Weslaco, Texas. JUST ABOUT FAMOUS is a documentary FLYING BOOKS OF MR. MORRIS Life’s Poison about the lives of celebrity impersonators LESSMORE • THE SPACESHIP is a Malcolm Lee, USA, 19 min. • two zeroes break one of society’s charming film about one woman’s desire highest laws with surprising results in to go to the moon (and make pizza, At 18, Eliyah Howard thinks he knows ZERO • SKETCHI is the animated tale of course) • the tables just might get what it means to be a real man. He of a young girl's creative attempt to deal turned in the thrilling INTERVIEW learned nearly everything he knows from with the loss of her dog • GOD OF LOVE • LAST RAIN is a tale of love and time his abusive father. But family, love, and is the Oscar® nominated film about a travel • a couple spend an intense tragedy test the lessons he inherited. dart-throwing singer who will go to any moment together in AS THE RAIN WAS Written by Angileece Williams (16), length to woo the woman of his dreams FALLING. a sophomore at Saint Martin De Porres • two people share a strange moment on High School in Cleveland, Ohio. a bridge in THE SCREAMERS • DAVID Man in the Mirror AND GOLIATH is the true tale of one Joel Schumacher, USA, 17 min. man’s miraculous escape from the Nazis and the man who helped him • a would-be Jason Gutierrez is a Puerto Rican from informant takes an important call in New York City and the quintessential all- DIVERSION • the story of one man’s life- American guy. Status comes at a price as treatening struggle is featured in THE rumors spread that Jason is gay. With his FAUCET • US is a gripping look at what it identity questioned, Jason is pushed to can be like to live in a world torn by war. understand who he is. Written by Treviny Colon (17), a senior at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York City. Us Interview Scenarios USA PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM INDEPENDENT SHORTS 129 Family Shorts Program 1: Recommended for children of all ages. Family Shorts Programs are sponsored by: Family Shorts Program 2: Recommended for children who are at least ten years old. SHORTS PROGRAMS Family Shorts Program #1 Family Shorts Program #2 Animated Shorts 101 minutes 99 minutes 86 minutes Saturday, March 26 Saturday, April 2 Friday, March 25 11:15 AM I Code FAMS26 1:30 PM I Code FAMS02 4:45 PM I Code ANIM25 ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY Cankered and Cursed Formic The Cow Who Wanted Todd DeJong, USA, 4 min. Roman Kalin & Florian Wittmann, to Be a Hamburger Teleportation Germany, 4 min. Bill Plympton, USA, 6 min. Markus Dietrich, Germany, 13 min. Disco The Gruffalo Snowflakes & Carrots Luke Snellin, United Kingdom, 15 min. Jakob Schuh & Max Lang, Samantha Leriche-Gionet, Canada, 5 min. El Salon Mexico United Kingdom, 27 min. The Fantastic Flying Books Paul Glickman, USA, 13 min. Zero of Mr. Morris Lessmore Kidnap Christopher Kezelos, Australia, 13 min. William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, Sijia Luo, USA, 4 min. Bob USA, 17 min. Specky Four-Eyes Jacob Frey & Harry Fast, Germany, 3 min. Mobile Jean-Claude Rozec, France, 9 min. Danny and Annie Verena Fels, Germany, 7 min. Higglety Pigglety Pop! The Rauch Brothers, USA, 6 min. Play By Play Or There Must Be More to Life The Fantastic Flying Books Carlos Baena & Sureena Mann, USA, 23 min. Chris Lavis & Marciek Szczerbowski, of Mr. Morris Lessmore Amazonia Canada/USA, 24 min. William Joyce & Brandon Oldenburg, Sam Chen, USA, 5 min. Bob USA, 17 min. The Gruffalo Jacob Frey & Harry Fast, Germany, 3 min. Amazonia Jakob Schuh & Max Lang, United Kingdom, When I Stand on the Moon Sam Chen, USA, 5 min. 27 min. Mark Fisher, United Kingdom, 27 min. Specky Four-Eyes Jean-Claude Rozec, France, 9 min. CANKERED AND CURSED is the animated A skateboarder and ant share a few critical tale of a witch struggling to get her moments together in FORMIC • DISCO THE COW WHO WANTED TO BE A potion just right • a group of kids gets finds a young boy hoping to gain the HAMBURGER is the tale of a cow with excited when they believe they’ve moved attention of a fellow classmate • a young an odd wish • THE GRUFFALO is one of the Berlin wall in TELEPORTATION boy and his donkey travel to the big city this year’s Oscar® nominated films for • SNOWFLAKES & CARROTS is the for their first fiesta in EL SALON MEXICO best animated short, based on the classic animated tale of a young girl who steals • KIDNAP is the animated tale of one picture book of the same name • two from snowmen in order to feed her friends child’s creative explanation for being zeroes break one of society's highest • books take on a life of their own in the late to school • a young boy tries to adapt laws with surprising results in ZERO • animated THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS to the different world he sees when BOB is the story of one hamster’s search OF MR. MORRIS LESSMORE • MOBILE getting glasses in SPECKY FOUR-EYES for love • a lifelong love affair is shared is the animated tale of a cow’s desire to • HIGGLETY PIGGLETY POP! OR THERE in the animated DANNY AND ANNIE make a friend or two • a young boy’s MUST BE MORE TO LIFE is the story of • books take on a life of their own in fantasy life and the bully who’s threaten- one dog who believes there must be some- THE FANTASTIC FLYING BOOKS OF ing to out him are featured in PLAY BY thing more • a hamster’s search for love MR. MORRIS LESSMORE • AMAZONIA PLAY • AMAZONIA is the animated tale is the theme of the animated BOB is the tale of a frog’s surprising adventure of a frog’s surprising adventure • THE • WHEN I STAND ON THE MOON is • a young boy tries to adapt to his new GRUFFALO is one of this year’s Oscar® the heartwarming story of a deceased older perspective when he gets glasses in nominated films for best animated short, brother who pays a special visit to his SPECKY FOUR-EYES based on the classic picture book of the younger brother. same name. Snowflakes & Carrots When I Stand on the Moon Amazonia 130 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SHORTS PROGRAMS Midnight Shorts #1 Midnight Shorts #2 Midnight Shorts #3 114 minutes 108 minutes 114 minutes Friday, March 25 Saturday, March 26 Friday, April 1 11:30 PM I Code MIDS25 11:25 PM I Code MIDS26 11:15 PM I Code MIDS01 ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY Time Freak Kill Brass Chum Andrew Bowler, USA, 11 min. Michel Kandinsky, USA, 18 min. Gavin Carlton, USA, 11 min. Swerve Enrique Wrecks The World Pivot Brendan Gabriel Murphy, USA, 15 min. David Chai, USA, 5 min. Andre Bergs, Netherlands, 5 min. The Dungeon Master Interview Mama Always Told Him Rider Strong & Shiloh Strong, USA, 14 min. Sebastian Marka, Germany, 20 min. Annabel Osborne, Australia, 9 min. Shuffle I Want Him Dead Cold Sore Garrett Bennett & Aron Michael Thompson, Daniel J. Pico, USA, 18 min. Matt Bird, Australia, 18 min. USA, 18 min. Picnic Love & Volts 12 Years Gerardo Herrero, Spain, 13 min. Normand Daneau, Canada, 20 min. Daniel Nocke, Germany, 4 min. Gilles Corporation Deadbeat Tempus Fugit Vianney Meurville, France, 7 min. Brenda Lee Lau, USA, 17 min. Fred Grivois, France, 12 min. CarJack Dead Load To Kill A Bumblebee Jeremiah Jones, USA, 16 min. Greg Corcoran, Ireland, 14 min. Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit, Israel, 7 min. Cold Turkey Zombie St. Christophorus: Road Kill Gavin Keane, Ireland, 11 min. Thomas Caruso, USA, 20 min. Gregor Erler, Germany, 26 min. Family First KILL BRASS is the tale of a hitman and CHUM is the dark tale of a husband about his biggest job ever • a young boy and his to get even • a man accidentally captures Chris Hanratty, USA, 7 min. slingshot start an avalanche of catastroph- a murder while taking pictures in PIVOT TIME FREAK is the tale of a young ic events in ENRIQUE WRECKS THE • MAMA ALWAYS TOLD HIM is the tale of inventor’s time machine breakthrough WORLD • INTERVIEW is the tale of tables a man who suffers the consequences of • a young man gets the chance to set being turned • a young woman has been love at first sight • a young woman tries to things right in SWERVE • THE DUNGEON pushed too far in the comic I WANT HIM cover up her COLD SORE • LOVE & VOLTS MASTER finds a group of men trying to DEAD • PICNIC is the tale of a family is the tale of a man who goes to great rekindle their love for Dungeons and and their trip into the woods • GILLES lengths to please the woman he loves Dragons with surprising results • an CORPORATION is the story of a chicken • a woman desperately searches for her assassin has decided it’s time to get out farmer with an interesting new product missing daughter in DEADBEAT • DEAD in the slick SHUFFLE • 12 YEARS is the • a young man steals a car with some very LOAD is the tale of accidental revenge animated tale of two dogs whose relation- surprising results in CARJACK • COLD gone terribly wrong • a very disturbed man ship is about to end • a group of bank TURKEY is the story of a man in search seeks a solution to his terrible problem in robbers find a surprise at their next of the perfect sound effect. the chilling ZOMBIE. heist in TEMPUS FUGIT • TO KILL A BUMBLEBEE is the tale of two hunters who find themselves in a tricky situation • one young man has the worst night ever in the gruesome ST. CHRISTOPHORUS: ROAD KILL • FAMILY FIRST finds a brother and sister returning home with some surprising news. Shuffle Enrique Wrecks the World Zombie PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM INDEPENDENT SHORTS 131 SHORTS PROGRAMS Midnight Shorts #4 10% Shorts Program #1 10% Shorts Program #2 106 minutes 101 minutes 93 minutes Saturday, April 2 Saturday, March 26 Friday, April 1 11:30 PM I Code MIDS02 9:30 PM I Code TENS26 9:20 PM I Code TENS01 ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY ONE SCREENING ONLY Misdirection Curious Thing Candy Apple Red Doron Kipper, USA, 18 min. Alain Hain, USA, 9 min. Todd Norris, USA, 15 min. Paths of Hate The In-Between When Sally Met Rascal… Damian Nenow, Poland, 10 min. Alain Hain, USA, 10 min. Ray Arthur Wang, USA, 12 min. Vampires A Lack of Gravity Same Difference Sam Meister, USA, 10 min. Alain Hain, USA, 13 min. Lisa Udelson & Catherine Opie, USA, 29 min. Yuri Lennon's Landing Yes Man f my c on Alpha 46 Grant Reed, USA, 11 min. Kailyne Waters, USA, 29 min. Anthony Vouardoux, Germany/Switzerland, The Queen A Birthday Party 15 min. Christina Choe, USA, 8 min. Wilfried Meance, France, 8 min. Little Odessa Animal Drill CANDY APPLE RED is the tale of two Natan Moss, USA, 13 min. Patrick Murphy, USA, 24 min. The Violinist women who share a surprising afternoon Change together • a homeless woman is befriend- Carlo Besasie, USA, 20 min. Melissa Osborne & Jeff McCutcheon, ed by a scraggly dog in WHEN SALLY Sudden Death! USA, 26 min. MET RASCAL… • SAME DIFFERENCE is Adam Hall, USA, 20 min. a documentary about the lives of children CURIOUS THING, THE IN-BETWEEN, of gay parents • a couple struggles to deal MISDIRECTION is the story of a young and A LACK OF GRAVITY represent with the aftermath of childhood sexual would-be magician and his incredible dis- a trilogy of films from a group of gay men abuse in F MY C • a father is in for some covery • two enemy fighter pilots face off in NYC discussing issues that affect them surprising news when his family gathers in a battle to the death in the animated • a young gay man faces an incredible for A BIRTHDAY PARTY. PATHS OF HATE • VAMPIRES is the dilemma in YES MAN • THE QUEEN is campy bloody tale of a TV show gone the tale of a young man and his evening terribly wrong • one astronaut’s journey with a lovely prom gown • a young man leads to unimaginable results in YURI battles for a spot on the basketball team LENNON’S LANDING ON ALPHA 46 • while dealing with his brutal father in LITTLE ODESSA is the story of a cabdriver ANIMAL DRILL • CHANGE is a film who makes a surprising discovery • a that seems to remind us that often the man’s efforts to impersonate a world more things change, the more they stay famous musician are revealed in THE VIO- the same. LINIST • SUDDEN DEATH! is the musical tale of a strange disease that has hit L.A. Sudden Death! Change f my c 132 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival SHORTS PROGRAMS Ohio Shorts 106 minutes Popcorn for Lunch Saturday, March 26 6:20 PM I Code OHSH26 The Death of Toys Lisa Gold, USA, 12 min. The Facebook Faux Pas Marcy Ronen, USA, 12 min. Girlfriends Club Be a Dale Omori & Larry Kasperek, USA, 27 min. The Goose Craig Knowles, USA, 12 min. John Ewing: The Canton Years Kim Ann Pfau, USA, 9 min. Rebel The Real Bold Badman Joe Siebert, USA, 14 min. Stained Spend your lunch hour at the Jess Collver, USA, 20 min. THE DEATH OF TOYS is the story of a 35th Cleveland International Film Festival! mother struggling to deal with her young son growing up • a mother’s erroneous call leads to hilarious results in THE Join us to watch any (or all!) FACEBOOK FAUX PAS • GIRLFRIENDS CLUB documents a local teacher's efforts of a program of collected to impact her students’ lives • a heated short subject films. basketball game may have unforeseen consequences in THE GOOSE • JOHN EWING: THE CANTON YEARS documents the history of one of this area’s leading film experts • the filmmaking history of These screenings typically last between 90 and 100 minutes, but Canton area natives the Zaleski brothers individual films can have a running time between one minute and is documented in THE REAL BOLD BADMAN • STAINED is the heartwarming 30 minutes. So you will be able to join us at the beginning, join us story of how one pastor is able to lend in progress, leave early, or leave at the end. fate a hand. Tower City Cinemas will offer a $4.50 small popcorn and small drink special at the concession stand between 11:30 A.M. and 1:00 P.M. each day. 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Schnur Tim Smith Mark Schwartz Carolynne Strand Jason Stone Roy Turnell Mike Strauss TJ Summers Anna Vedouras Jane Temple Joe Tegreene Ivan Schwarz, ex-officio Stephen Vinciguerra David Thomas Barbara Walker Justin Vaughn, Ph.D. Joseph Yanick Mike Wendt Kim Yanoshik Mark Yasenchack Our volunteer program is sponsored by: Volunteers A very special thanks to our HEROES — more than 450 volunteers who tirelessly offer their services, skills, and smiles to The Cleveland International Film Festival Executive Staff (left to right): Marcie Goodman, Patrick Shepherd, Beth Steele Radisek, Bill Guentzler, make the CIFF the enjoyable experience Debby Samples, Debbie Marshall that it is. We couldn’t do it without you. 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The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock KAWASAKI’S ROSE If Trees Carry Dolls INTO ETERNITY Mama Always Told Him KOOKY Interview MOUNTAIN BLOOD MATCHING JACK Yogurt Cups JANE’S JOURNEY Japan Moving Day Denmark THE LIGHT THIEF CATERPILLAR RED LIGHT REVOLUTION ARMADILLO A Lost and Found Box of HOSPITALITÉ Zero Bathing Micky Human Sensation PINOY SUNDAY Austria INTO ETERNITY MAMMA GÓGÓ Jordan DESERT FLOWER MY AVATAR AND ME Mobile CHERKESS PEPPERMINTA MOUNTAIN BLOOD F Belgium MY KIDNAPPER K, L, M, N, O ILLEGAL Finland NUREMBURG: ITS LESSONS Kenya Na Wewe BAD FAMILY FOR TODAY TOGETHERNESS SUPREME ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD INTO ETERNITY The Roar of the Sea A SCREAMING MAN STEAM OF LIFE THE ROUNDUP Kyrgyzstan WITH LOVE, FROM THE France THE SILENCE THE LIGHT THIEF St. Christophorus: Road Kill AGE OF REASON A Birthday Party Lebanon SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE Brazil As The Rain Was Falling Lebanon Habibi STORY MARCH OF THE LIVING CARANCHO Teleportation Liberia The Secret Friend Carrier of Men THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL SECRETS OF THE TRIBE CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET VINCENT WANTS TO SEA BUTT NAKED THE TENANTS Cliches COPACABANA THE WOMAN WITH THE Luxembourg Bulgaria 5 ELEPHANTS Gilles Corporation ILLEGAL MOTHERS Yuri Lennon’s Landing on Alpha 46 Hair Macedonia PARADISE HOTEL THE HEDGEHOG Ghana MOTHERS AN AFRICAN ELECTION C, D, E THE HUMAN RESOURCES Montenegro MANAGER Hungary 72 DAYS Canada ILLEGAL BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL Netherlands Break a Leg IT’S YOUR FAULT THE ROUNDUP Flawed THE LIGHT THIEF Drop Dead! Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There MOTHERS I, J FAREWELL Must Be More to Life THE LIGHT THIEF NÉNETTE Iceland THE HIGH COST OF LIVING Pivot PINOY SUNDAY FEATHERED COCAINE IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD Red-End and the Seemingly MAMMA GÓGÓ Symbiotic Society Love & Volts THE ROUNDUP R U THERE THE MARKET R U THERE India WIN/WIN Sketchi RUBBER 11 Weeks SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS A SCREAMING MAN I AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL New Zealand Kavi Snowflakes & Carrots SOUND OF NOISE HOME BY CHRISTMAS MADE IN INDIA THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY SPECIAL TREATMENT THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND THE MARKET Us Specky Four-Eyes Norway WHIRLIGIG Tempus Fugit Iran LIMBO Cape Verde THE UGLY DUCKLING THE GREEN WAVE MAMMA GÓGÓ The Roar of the Sea WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE THE ORION ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD OF REASON Chad A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN A SCREAMING MAN PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM 141 NOTE: Feature Films are in ALL CAPS P, Q, R PRESSPAUSEPLAY Change Misdirection SOUND OF NOISE THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES MORE TO LIVE FOR Papua New Guinea The Spaceship Chum A MOUTHFUL THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND Switzerland CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET MY SO-CALLED ENEMY Peru AN AFRICAN ELECTION CONNECTED Nisa UNDERTOW BEYOND THIS PLACE The Cow Who Wanted to Be NORMAN MAILER: THE Philippines CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET a Hamburger AMERICAN CHASSIS PEPPERMINTA CRIME AFTER CRIME Not Interested PINOY SUNDAY SPACE TOURISTS Curious Thing NUREMBERG: ITS LESSONS SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL FLOWER THE WOMAN WITH THE Danny and Annie FOR TODAY DANNY GREENE: THE RISE AND ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT Poland 5 ELEPHANTS FALL OF THE IRISHMAN THE OTHER F WORD: A COMING Paths of Hate Yuri Lennon’s Landing on Alpha 46 David and Goliath OF MIDDLE AGE STORY ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD Taiwan Deadbeat OUTSIDE THE WIRE: THE VENICE PINOY SUNDAY The Death of Toys FORGOTTEN CHILDREN OF R U THERE Portugal Delmer Builds a Machine AFGHANISTAN SEVEN DAYS IN HEAVEN 3 x 3 Diversion Penny Momentos Thailand DRESSED Picnic North Atlantic MUNDANE HISTORY The Dungeon Master Play By Play POLKA! THE MOVIE Romania UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN DYING TO DO LETTERMAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES The Queen HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? El Salon Mexico The Real Bold Badman IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER U THE REDEMPTION OF GENERAL I WHISTLE Enrique Wrecks The World BUTT NAKED United Kingdom Eulogy Maker Russia Same Difference 3 Hours f my c THE ROWAN WALTZ Save the Farm ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN The Facebook Faux Pas THE UGLY DUCKLING The Secret Friend THE ARBOR FACING FORWARD Shuffle Rwanda Battle For Britain Family First So Mary KINYARWANDA BLACK DEATH The Fantastic Flying Books of DESERT FLOWER Mr. Morris Lessmore SOUL SURFER S, T Disco Girlfriends Club SQUARE GROUPER: THE GODFATHERS OF GANJA Serbia The Gruffalo God of Love Stained 72 DAYS Hollow The Goose Still TILVA ROŠ The Long Lonely Walk HAMILL THE STRANGER IN US MAMMA GÓGÓ Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Slovakia Sudden Death! THE BORDER Man and Boy Must Be More to Life MY KIDNAPPER Holdup Summer Snapshot Slovenia ROUTE IRISH HOLY WARS SURROGATE VALENTINE POLKA! THE MOVIE SECRETS OF THE TRIBE How It Ended SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE STORY South Africa SELF MADE Hungry For Health: A Journey Swerve Second Nature: The Biomimicry THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE Through Cleveland’s Food Desert THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND Evolution When I Stand on the Moon I AM THESE AMAZING SHADOWS South Korea I Want Him Dead Uruguay Thought of You CARANCHO The In-Between BROTHER AND SISTER Time and Love THE MAN FROM NOWHERE INSIDIOUS USA THE INTERRUPTERS Time Freak Spain (818) John Ewing: The Canton Years TRUE NATURE BROTHER AND SISTER 11 Weeks Just About Famous TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN Cecilia’s Plan YOUNG LIVES AARDVARK Kavi ELISA K. TWELVE THIRTY AN AFRICAN ELECTION Kidnap Encounter Vampires ALMOST KINGS Kill Brass The Faucet The Violinist Amazonia KINYARWANDA FOR 80 DAYS Animal Drill A Lack of Gravity WE WERE HERE HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? BEYOND THIS PLACE Life’s Poison WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE Last Rain BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO Little Odessa When Sally Met Rascal... Same Old Story BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK LONG WAY TO OBLIVION Where We Live BOBBY FISHER AGAINST The Screamers MADE IN INDIA WHITE ON RICE THE WORLD Sweden Man in the Mirror !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION Burning the Midnight Oil Bathing Micky A Man Made Early THE WOODMANS Canary Suicides IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, MARCH OF THE LIVING Yes Man Candy Apple Red I WHISTLE A MARINE STORY Yogurt Cups Cankered and Cursed INTO ETERNITY MEEK’S CUTOFF Zombie MAMMA GÓGÓ CarJack 142 FILM INDEX The 35th Cleveland International Film Festival Film Index FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE 3 ...... 37 Chum ...... 130 Hair ...... 127 3 Hours ...... 127 CLEVELAND VS. WALL STREET ...... 50 HAMILL ...... 34 3 x 3 ...... 125 Cliches ...... 126 HAYFEVER ...... 59 11 Weeks ...... 126 Cold Sore ...... 130 THE HEDGEHOG ...... 59 12 Years ...... 130 Cold Turkey ...... 127, 130 Heirlooms ...... 128 72 DAYS...... 37 THE COLORS OF THE MOUNTAIN ...... 51 HELLO! HOW ARE YOU? ...... 60 (818) ...... 38 CONNECTED...... 51 HERE COMES LOLA! ...... 60 2030 – REVOLT OF THE YOUNG ...... 38 COPACABANA ...... 52 Higglety Pigglety Pop! Or There Must The Cow Who Wanted to Be Be More to Life ...... 129 A, B a Hamburger ...... 125, 129 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING...... 61 AARDVARK ...... 39 CRIME AFTER CRIME ...... 52 Holdup ...... 125 ADDICTED IN AFGHANISTAN...... 39 Curious Thing ...... 131 Hollow ...... 126 AN AFRICAN ELECTION ...... 40 Danny and Annie ...... 126, 129 HOLY WARS ...... 61 ALMOST KINGS ...... 40 DANNY GREENE: THE RISE & HOME BY CHRISTMAS ...... 62 FALL OF THE IRISHMAN ...... 53 Amazonia ...... 126, 129 HOSPITALITÉ ...... 62 David and Goliath ...... 128 Animal Drill...... 131 How It Ended ...... 126 Dead Load...... 130 ANITA...... 41 THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER . . . . . 63 Deadbeat ...... 130 THE ARBOR ...... 41 Hungry For Health: A Journey Through The Death of Toys ...... 132 Cleveland’s Food Desert ...... 95 ARMADILLO ...... 42 Delmer Builds a Machine ...... 125 As The Rain Was Falling...... 128 I, J, K DESERT FLOWER ...... 53 AUTUMN GOLD...... 42 Disco ...... 129 I AM ...... 63 BAD FAMILY ...... 43 Diversion...... 128 I AM SINDHUTAI SAPKAL ...... 64 Bad Language ...... 127 DRESSED ...... 54 I Want Him Dead ...... 130 BASILICATA COAST TO COAST...... 43 Drop Dead! ...... 125 IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE...... 64 Bathing Micky ...... 126 The Dungeon Master ...... 130 If Trees Carry Dolls...... 127 Battle For Britain...... 125 DYING TO DO LETTERMAN ...... 54 ILLEGAL ...... 65 BEYOND THIS PLACE ...... 44 IN THE NAME OF THE FAMILY...... 65 BIBLIOTHEQUE PASCAL ...... 44 E, F, G, H The In-Between ...... 131 BIG DREAMS LITTLE TOKYO ...... 45 AN EARTHLY PARADISE FOR THE EYES. . . . 55 INSIDIOUS ...... 66 BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK ...... 45 El Salon Mexico...... 129 THE INTERRUPTERS ...... 66 A Birthday Party ...... 126, 131 ELEANORE & THE TIMEKEEPER ...... 55 Interview...... 128, 130 BLACK DEATH ...... 46 ELISA K...... 56 INTO ETERNITY ...... 67 Bob ...... 125, 129 Encounter ...... 126 IT’S YOUR FAULT ...... 67 BOBBY FISHER AGAINST THE WORLD. . . . . 46 Enrique Wrecks the World...... 130 JANE’S JOURNEY ...... 68 THE BORDER ...... 47 Eulogy Maker...... 125 John Ewing: The Canton Years ...... 132 Break a Leg...... 126 f my c...... 131 Just About Famous ...... 128 BROTHER AND SISTER ...... 47 The Facebook Faux Pas ...... 132 Kavi ...... 125 Burning the Midnight Oil ...... 127 FACING FORWARD ...... 56 KAWASAKI’S ROSE ...... 68 Bye Bye Now...... 127 Family First...... 130 Kidnap ...... 129 C, D The Fantastic Flying Books of Kill Brass ...... 130 Mr. Morris Lessmore ...... 128, 129 KINYARWANDA ...... 69 Canary Suicides...... 126 FAREWELL ...... 57 KOOKY ...... 69 Candy Apple Red ...... 131 The Faucet ...... 128 Cankered and Cursed ...... 129 FEATHERED COCAINE ...... 57 L, M CARANCHO...... 48 Flawed ...... 127 A Lack of Gravity ...... 131 CarJack...... 125, 130 FOR 80 DAYS ...... 58 Last Rain ...... 128 Carrier of Men ...... 127 Formic ...... 127, 129 Life’s Poison ...... 128 CATERPILLAR ...... 48 Futility ...... 127 THE LIGHT THIEF ...... 70 Cecilia’s Plan ...... 126 Gilles Corporation ...... 130 LIMBO ...... 70 Change ...... 131 Girlfriends Club ...... 125, 132 Little Odessa ...... 131 CHASSIS ...... 49 God of Love...... 128 LITTLE SPARROWS ...... 82 CHERKESS ...... 49 The Goose...... 132 The Long Lonely Walk ...... 127 THE CHILDREN OF CHABANNES...... 50 THE GREEN WAVE ...... 58 LONG WAY TO OBLIVION...... 82 The Gruffalo ...... 125, 129 Habibi ...... 125 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM 143 INDEX NOTES: Feature Films are in ALL CAPS The complete 35th CIFF Festival Schedule is on pages 71-81 FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE A Lost and Found Box of Q, R, S T, U Human Sensation ...... 125 The Queen ...... 131 Teleportation ...... 129 Love & Volts ...... 130 The Real Bold Badman ...... 132 Tempus Fugit ...... 130 The Love Song of Iskra Prufrock ...... 125 RED LIGHT REVOLUTION ...... 98 THE TENANTS ...... 111 MADE IN INDIA...... 83 THE REDEMPTION OF THERE ONCE WAS AN ISLAND ...... 112 Mama Always Told Him ...... 130 GENERAL BUTT NAKED ...... 99 THESE AMAZING SHADOWS ...... 112 MAMMA GÓGÓ ...... 83 Red-End and the Seemingly THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY ...... 113 Man and Boy...... 126 Symbiotic Society ...... 126 THIS PRISON WHERE I LIVE ...... 113 THE MAN FROM NOWHERE ...... 84 The Roar of the Sea ...... 125 Thought of You ...... 127 Man in the Mirror ...... 128 ROBERT MITCHUM IS DEAD ...... 99 TILVA ROŠ ...... 114 A Man Made Early ...... 128 THE ROUND UP ...... 100 Time and Love ...... 127 MARCH OF THE LIVING...... 84 ROUTE IRISH ...... 100 Time Freak ...... 130 A MARINE STORY ...... 85 THE ROWAN WALTZ ...... 101 To Kill A Bumblebee ...... 130 THE MARKET ...... 85 R U THERE...... 101 TOGETHERNESS SUPREME ...... 114 MATCHING JACK...... 86 RUBBER...... 102 TRUE NATURE ...... 115 THE MATCHMAKER...... 86 Same Difference ...... 126, 131 TRUST: SECOND ACTS IN YOUNG LIVES . . 115 MEEK’S CUTOFF...... 87 Same Old Story ...... 127 TWELVE THIRTY ...... 116 Misdirection ...... 131 SAMPAGUITA, NATIONAL FLOWER...... 102 THE UGLY DUCKLING ...... 116 Mobile ...... 129 Save the Farm ...... 126 UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN Momentos ...... 125 Scenarios USA...... 128 RECALL HIS PAST LIVES...... 117 MORE TO LIVE FOR ...... 87 The Screamers...... 128 UNDERTOW ...... 117 MOTHERS...... 88 A SCREAMING MAN ...... 103 Us ...... 128 MOUNTAIN BLOOD ...... 88 Second Nature: The Biomimicry Evolution . . 127 A MOUTHFUL ...... 89 The Secret Friend ...... 125 V, W, X, Y, Z Moving Day ...... 126 SECRETS OF THE TRIBE ...... 103 Vampires...... 131 MUNDANE HISTORY ...... 89 SELF MADE ...... 104 VENICE...... 118 MY AVATAR AND ME ...... 90 SEVEN DAYS IN HEAVEN...... 104 VINCENT WANTS TO SEA ...... 118 MY KIDNAPPER ...... 90 Shuffle ...... 130 The Violinist ...... 131 MY SO-CALLED ENEMY ...... 91 THE SILENCE ...... 105 WE WERE HERE ...... 119 Sketchi ...... 128 N, O, P WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE ...... 119 SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS...... 105 When I Stand on the Moon ...... 129 Na Wewe...... 127 SNAP ...... 106 When Sally Met Rascal… ...... 131 NE´NETTE ...... 91 Snowflakes & Carrots ...... 129 Where We Live...... 125 Nisa ...... 126 So Mary ...... 125 WHIRLIGIG ...... 120 NORMAN MAILER: THE AMERICAN ...... 92 A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN ...... 106 WHITE ON RICE ...... 120 North Atlantic ...... 127 SOUL SURFER ...... 35 WIN/WIN...... 121 Not Interested ...... 125 SOUND OF NOISE...... 107 WITH LOVE, FROM THE AGE OF REASON. . 121 NUREMBERG: ITS LESSONS FOR TODAY. . . 92 SPACE TOURISTS ...... 107 THE WOMAN WITH THE 5 ELEPHANTS . . . 122 ONE LUCKY ELEPHANT ...... 93 The Spaceship...... 128 !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION...... 122 THE ORION...... 93 SPECIAL TREATMENT ...... 108 THE WOODMANS ...... 123 THE OTHER F WORD: A COMING Specky Four-Eyes ...... 127, 129 Yes Man ...... 131 OF MIDDLE AGE STORY ...... 94 SQUARE GROUPER...... 108 Yogurt Cups...... 126 OUTSIDE THE WIRE ...... 94 St. Christophorus: Road Kill ...... 130 YOU THINK YOU’RE THE PRETTIEST… PARADISE HOTEL ...... 95 Stained...... 132 (BUT YOU’RE THE SLUTTIEST) ...... 123 Paths of Hate ...... 131 STEAM OF LIFE ...... 109 Yuri Lennon’s Landing on Alpha 46...... 131 Penny ...... 127 Still ...... 127 Zero ...... 128, 129 PEPPERMINTA ...... 95 THE STRANGER IN US ...... 109 Zombie ...... 130 THE PIANO IN A FACTORY...... 96 STREET DAYS ...... 110 Picnic...... 125, 130 Sudden Death ...... 126, 131 PINOY SUNDAY...... 96 Summer Snapshot ...... 127 THE PIPE ...... 97 SURROGATE VALENTINE...... 110 Pivot...... 127, 130 The 35th CIFF Program Guide SURVIVING HITLER: A LOVE STORY . . . . . 111 is published by the Play By Play ...... 129 Cleveland International Film Festival Swerve ...... 130 Design: Pam Cerio Design POLKA! THE MOVIE ...... 97 Cover Concept: Twist Creative PRESSPAUSEPLAY ...... 98 Cover Design: Twist Creative Printing: Hess Print Solutions 144 TICKET INFORMATION PROGRAM UPDATES > www.clevelandfilm.org < TICKETS > Call 877.304.FILM Questions? Contact Ticket Sales Call 877.304.3456 E-mail [email protected] How To Buy Tickets For Members only: Tickets go on sale Friday, March 4, 2011 at 11:00 AM via Internet, phone, or mail. For the general public: Tickets go on sale Friday, March 11, Ticket Prices 2011 at 11:00 AM via all four options below. Members $10.00 NOTE: Orders received on or before March 16, 2011 Non-Members $12.00 will be mailed; otherwise, tickets will be held at the Students/Seniors, day of show only $10.00 Film Festival “Duke Desk” (Will Call) at the entrance to Tower City Cinemas. Please bring your credit card or other Voucher Orders identification when picking up your order. Save when you buy vouchers or tickets in multiples of six. 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