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Welcome to the stirring 25th anniversary represent Cinequest’s 25th Film Festival. edition of the Cinequest Film Festival. You will experience a few look-backs at the extraordi- We invite you to both enjoy and applaud the nary people, artists, films, and innovations that fun, the impactful, the innovative, and the have marked the first era of Cinequest. Mainly, inspirational creations unveiled from February you will discover an exhilarating look at today’s 24th through March 8th. We welcome you to finest along with Cinequest’s trademark bent to join us in celebrating the creative process and envision the future. urge you to use this Cinequest to inspire and to activate your creative powers. At Cinequest we believe in having vision, and more importantly, in creating it. We also believe in passing to others especially global youth and the disenfranchised the power, tools, confidence, and inspiration to create their visions Halfdan Hussey Kathleen Powell and desired future. Thus, we picked The Power Director & Co-Founder President & Co-Founder Of Creating as the theme best suited to

THE POWER OF CREATING. CREATE. INNOVATE. EMPOWER. Cinequest Film Festival 25 celebrates the power of creating. Every day we all create. Whether a film, a CINEQUEST is a vanguard technology, a dinner, a conversation with a friend– in so organization that fuses creativity with technological many ways, we all have the ability to create something innovation to empower, that strengthens our spirit and inspires others. improve, and transform the lives of people and communities.

CINEQUEST Film Festival showcases premiere films, renowned and emerging artists, and breakthrough technology— empowering global connectivity between creators, innovators, and audiences.

Picture the Possibilities by CINEQUEST empowers global youth with the tools, confidence, and inspiration to form and create their dreams from art to science—regardless of their situation and challenges.

CINEQUEST Mavericks Studio creates innovative and transformative motion pictures, television, and distribution paradigms.

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BOX OFFICE INFORMATION The Cinequest Box Office at the Camera 12 Cinemas will open on February 22, 2015. Operating hours will be 11 am – 6 pm daily. During FESTIVAL the festival, our box offices at the Camera 12 Cinemas and the California Theatre will open 45 minutes prior to the first daily screening at each location. Tickets and passes are sold at all box offices.

REGULAR SCREENINGS* ONLINE TICKET PURCHASES Bypass the box office! Use our new print-at-home FESTIVAL GENERAL ADMISSION $11 tickets feature to skip that extra stop at Will Call and go directly to your event. SILENT CINEMA SCREENING $11 While seats are available, tickets may be MATINEE** $8 purchased online up to an hour prior STUDENTS*** $6 to the event. FILM LOVER $155 Online orders for festival passes placed after February 12 can be mailed only by ALL REGULAR FILM SCREENINGS SPECIAL EVENT TICKETS selecting the FedEx delivery option. ALL MEDIA LEGACY EVENTS NO P.O. BOX DELIVERY. OPENING NIGHT / FEBRUARY 24 SILENT CINEMA SCREENING $50 SCREENING & PARTY WILL CALL Will Call is located in the Camera ALL ENCORE DAY SCREENINGS CLOSING NIGHT / MARCH 8 12 Cinemas lobby. Please bring your picture MAVERICKS $250 SCREENING & PARTY $50 ID and the credit card used for the ticket MAVERICK SPIRIT EVENTS $15 - 50 purchase to pick up your festival pass and/or OPENING NIGHT SCREENING & PARTY tickets. Take advantage of our new print-at- WRITERS CELEBRATION CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING & PARTY home ticket feature to skip that extra stop ALL DAY $25 at Will Call and go directly to your event. ALL MAVERICK SPIRIT EVENTS AWARDS AND MAVERICK EVENT $15 ALL MEDIA LEGACY EVENTS SOLD OUT SCREENINGS/EVENTS RUSH ALL REGULAR FILM SCREENINGS Tickets for selected screenings or events SILENT CINEMA SCREENING EXPRESS LINE ACCESS may be available 20 minutes prior to start ALL ENCORE DAY SCREENINGS time. Tickets will be sold for cash only on DONATION $100 a “first-come, first-serve” basis. If a RUSH Holders form a special line that has ticket holder is not admitted, purchase VIP ALL ACCESS $500 price will be refunded. first access to theatre seating. Must be VIP LOUNGE ACCESS held in addition to valid ticket or pass. ACCESS TO ALL VIP SOIREES EXCHANGES/REFUNDS All ticket sales are final. If a screening/event is canceled MEET THE LUMINARIES FORUMS * Regular Screenings are films unassociated or rescheduled or we cannot seat you, OPENING NIGHT SCREENING & PARTY with special events. Opening & Closing Cinequest will exchange the ticket for Night films are special events. CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING & PARTY another screening/event (of equal or ALL MAVERICK SPIRIT EVENTS ** greater value) at the Cinequest Box Office ALL MEDIA LEGACY EVENTS All weekday (Monday-Friday) screenings located at the Camera 12 Cinemas. before 5:00 pm. ALL REGULAR FILM SCREENINGS FILMS ARE NOT RATED: Screenings/Events SILENT CINEMA SCREENING *** Valid Student ID required at Box Office. should be attended at your own discretion. ALL ENCORE DAY SCREENINGS

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CINEQUESTERS - Connect with the feeling you wish to have through emotional categories of films and events. Spectacular TABLE OF premieres, forums, events, and parties occur at the Cinequest Film Festival, in stunning venues equipped with supreme technologies–– all within a four block walk in lovely downtown San Jose, capital of the extraordinary Silicon Valley.

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DINER CIRCLE 10 Special events and parties. Celebrate Thrillers, horror, and action films and connect around a love of film, electrify and shock. FESTIVAL MAP 11 food, drink, and each other. MAVERICK SPIRIT AWARD: 12 JOHN BOORMAN

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INNOVATION: FUTURE OF FILM 16 - 17 LAUGHS PAGES 34 - 39 VIP LOUNGE 17 Comedies of many types sure to

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MEDIA LEGACY AWARD: 24 Forums, films, and events show---- RICHARD VON BUSACK case the visions, technologies, and

MEDIA LEGACY AWARD: 25 creativity that improve today and ANNE THOMPSON reshape our future. PAGES 39 - 50 KAISER PERMANENTE THRIVE: 26 LIFE CRESENDO! THE MUSICAL Dramatic films reveal life as people

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INSPIRATION PAGES 24 - 31 LOVE PAGES 50 - 51 Events and films bring you people Films showing romance, love, and and stories that uplift and inspire. falling in love in all its glories.

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TUE. FEBRUARY 24 7:15 PM BATKID BEGINS OPENING THE WISH HEARD AROUND THE WORLD

For 25 years, Cinequest has Francisco into Gotham City. But, chosen visions that spark fire it wasn’t just one city. Around SCREENING + PARTY $50 and greatly inspire. Cinequest 25 the world, 1.84 billion people Join us for a spectacular Opening Night screening of opens with spectacular energy, (including President Obama) Batkid Begins at the California Theatre along with spotlighting a story that not only took to Twitter, Instagram, and special presentations and a conversation with the touched the entire Bay Area, but Facebook to cheer on Bat Kid film’s artists. The post-screening celebrations at also one that inspired millions. and to join him in his mission… The Farmers Union includes cocktails, world-class his wish…and, we were all food, and an opportunity to connect with film Who would have thought a inspired. lovers, artists, and many wonderful people. 5-year-old boy who fought SCREENING PARTY leukemia would transform a city Dana Nachman, director of Witch and a nation for a day? No one. Hunt (Sean Penn narrator) and California Theatre The Farmers Union Not his family. Not his friends. the eye-opening The Human 345 S. First Street 151 W. Santa Clara Street Not the thousands of volunteers Experiment, brings her latest Director: Dana Nachman who came from near and far to dynamo to Cinequest. With Producers: Liza Meak, Dana Nachman help make his wish come true. Batkid Begins, Nachman Ian Reinhard Executive Producers: But it did. captures something that and John Crane resonates with all of us. And, it’s Cinematographer: Don Hardy and Naomi Ture Brilliantly capturing the entire not about telling a story about Editor: Kurt Kuenne experience—from the initial a sick boy. It’s about having Music: Dave Tweedie spark, to the intricate planning, a dream, about community, Cast: Miles Scott, Nick Scott, Natalie Scott, to the actual day itself—Batkid and about how, no matter Patricia Wilson, EJ Johnston, Mike Jutan, Begins depicts how Miles Scott’s the circumstances, we can Sue Graham Johnston one simple wish to be Batman all share in a vision of hope. Country Length Language Genre for a day, set in motion events – Michael Rabehl USA 85 min. English Documentary that would transform San

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A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY THE 20TH CENTURY THROUGH A MEXICAN-AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER’S LENS. MON 3/2 8:00PM (C12) | WED 3/4 7:30PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 2:15PM (C12) Though his story is largely unknown, Pedro E. Guerrero led a remarkable life photographing the work of some of the greatest artists in the world and as an integral part of the 1950s “Mad Men” advertising world. Guerrero grew up poor and the victim of segregation as a Mexican-American. But, when Guerrero was just 22, Frank Lloyd Wright took a look at his portfolio and made the spur-of-the-moment decision to hire him to photograph Taliesin West, Wright’s desert home. Guerrero rapidly became one of the most sought-after architectural photographers and, consequently, the era’s major interpreter of modernist architecture and sculpture. A Photographer’s Journey is as much a portrait of Guerrero as it is a panorama of the culture and art of his time. – Sandy Wolf Directors: Raymond Telles, Yvan Iturriaga; Producers: Raymond Telles, Yvan Iturriaga; Cinematographer: Mecky Creus; Editor: Angela Reginato; Music: Mark Adler; Cast: Pedro E. Guerrero, Martin Filler, Bernard Michael Boyle, Kathryn Smith; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 59 min.; Genre: Documentary Preceded by the short film: Death Becomes Him; dir. Joshua Seftel; USA; 37 min. FILMS Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce

ASPIE SEEKS LOVE CHAMPS A FEARLESS OUTSIDER’S QUEST FOR LOVE IN THE DIGITAL AGE. A POWERFUL LOOK AT THE LIVES AND DREAMS OF BOXING’S HEAVIEST HITTERS, INCLUDING MIKE FRI 2/27 7:45PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 4:45PM (C12) | WED 3/4 2:45PM (C12) TYSON, EVANDER HOLYFIELD, AND BERNARD HOPKINS. Quirky and inspiring, David Matthews sticks out like a sore thumb in suburban SAT 3/7 7:00PM (CAL) America. Having searched for love longer than many of us have been alive, David’s Director Bert Marcus brilliantly examines what it means to pursue the American Dream spent the past twenty years posting personal ads on telephone poles. But, these through boxing. Long considered “the poor man’s sport,” boxing has a long-standing aren’t typical fliers. Included are David’s own humorous poems and personal tradition of giving kids in the roughest neighborhoods opportunities to re-channel information that may be just a little too much sharing. David’s always known he was their aggression and give them a place to go, other than the streets. But in the ring different, but he wasn’t diagnosed with Asperger’s until he was forty-one. And while come new struggles, for which many are ill-equipped to handle, and many succumb he may be “on the spectrum,” David’s charm, creativity, and sincerity go a long way to the pressure. Sharing intimate details of their careers and lives, the legends featured to advance his dream of becoming a published poet, while also helping expand the in Champs give honest and uncensored interviews that blend superbly with classic very definition of what love really means. – Sandy Wolf fight footage, reenactments, and candid interviews with the likes of Mark Wahlberg, Director: Julie Sokolow; Producers: Julie Sokolow, Danny Yourd; Writer: Julie Sokolow; Cinematographers: Denzel Washington, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Mary J. Blige, and 50 Cent. Insightful and Julie Sokolow, Tim Murray, and John Pope; Editor: Julie Sokolow; Music: Anita Fix, Julie Sokolow, The provocative, Champs is not simply a boxing movie, but an impactful allegory about the Working Poor; Cast: David Matthews, Erika Mikkalo, Chuck Kinder; Country: USA; Language: English; struggle to overcome the odds in the face of inequality. – Michael Rabehl Length: 72 min.; Genre: Documentary Director: Bert Marcus; Producers: Bert Marcus, Mike Tyson, Grant Jolly, Mario Lopez, Kiki Tyson; Writer: Preceded by the short film: The Assistant, dir. Julie Cohen; USA; 13 min. Bert Marcus; Cinematographer: John Tipton; Editor: Derek Boonstra; Music: Tom Caffey; Cast: Mike Tyson, Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins, Mark Wahlberg, Denzel Washington, Ron Howard, Spike Lee, Mary J. Blige, 50 Cent; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 91 min.; Genre: Documentary 28 Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce INSPIRATION

CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC HEALING A SOLDIERS HEART GROWING UP IN ALASKA…BEAUTY, YET RESTLESSNESS IN ISOLATION. THE PATH TO RECOVERY CAN BE AS BRAVE AND DAUNTING AS WAR ITSELF. WED 2/25 5:15PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 2:00PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 2:30PM (C12) SAT 2/28 6:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 5:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 6:15PM (C12) Enter the secluded and hidden wonder of Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in Healing a Soldier’s Heart transports us into the troubled hearts and minds of four the USA. Largely inhabited by descendants of its original Native Alaskan tribe, the Vietnam veterans as they begin the courageous healing process to alleviate their Barrow community holds tight to the traditions and pastimes of their ancestors. severe PTSD. Still traumatized 40 years later, the veterans bravely journey back to However, ever-increasing globalization threatens the livelihood of its endangered the sites where they witnessed and committed atrocities of war. In the process, they native culture – most pressingly, among the younger generation. Children of the come face to face with victims and experience Vietnamese culture through a new Arctic follows five Iñupiat teens on the brink of adulthood as they grapple with the lens that fosters the compassion and the mutual forgiveness necessary for healing. obligation to preserve their vanishing heritage and the tempting prospect of greater While their journey certainly uncovers how deep the cuts are in the psychologically opportunity elsewhere. Director Nick Brandestini takes us inside the isolated world of wounded, it also reveals the level of courage and resilience that must be taken to the Alaskan frontier whose unique indigenous hunting and whaling traditions reveal a truly heal. – Sandy Wolf place desperately worth preserving. – Vivian Yuen Director: Stephen Olsson; Producers: Stephen Olsson, Steve Michelson; Writer: Stephen Olsson; Director: Nick Brandestini; Producer: Vesna Eckert; Writer: Taylor Segrest; Cinematographer: Nick Cinematographer: Stephen Olsson; Editors: Rhonda Collins, Kristin Tieche; Music: Richard Horowitz, Brandestini; Editor: Nick Brandestini; Music: Michael Brook; Country: Switzerland; Language: Iñupiaq (w/ Dwight Loop; Cast: Ed Tick, Terry Bell, Michael Broas, Bob Reiter, Larry Turner; Country: USA; Language: English subtitles); Length: 93 min.; Genre: Documentary English; Length: 73 min.; Genre: Documentary Preceded by the short film: Unexpected Wonderfulness; PTP Film Preceded by the short film: Half Sour; dir. Mary Ann Rothberg; 15 min. Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce

ONE DAY IN APRIL MADE IN JAPAN IT’S THE INDY 500… BUT ON BIKES. SHE IS JAPAN’S FIRST LADY OF COUNTRY MUSIC. SAT 2/28 5:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 3:00PM (C12) | WED 3/4 7:00PM (C12) SAT 2/28 8:15PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 11:00AM (C12) | THUR 3/5 4:30PM (C12) Touted as “The World’s Greatest College Weekend,” the Little 500 is beyond just In 1964, Tomi Fujiyama was the first Japanese country music superstar. Her fame a big deal on the Indiana University campus. More than 40,000 fans flock to the grew touring the USO circuit, headlining in Vegas, recording seven albums for campus each spring to experience the competition, the pageantry, and the storied Columbia Records, and taking the stage to perform at The Grand Ole Opry – where tradition of the largest collegiate bicycle race in the USA – a grueling 200-lap, 50- she followed Johnny Cash and received the only standing ovation of the night. Now mile, four-person relay race, modeled after the Indy 500. This documentary follows 73, Tomi, has one last dream – perform again at The Opry. Vivacious, effervescent, the journeys of four top teams, Cutters, Delta Tau Delta, Delta Gamma, and Teter, and altogether charming, Tomi, along with her husband, travels across the US, as they train for months – or even years – for their one shot at victory. One Day in reliving her glory days and ardently pursuing her dream. Her journey is funny, April spectacularly captures the all-or-nothing spirit of sports where the difference poignant, and inspiring and reveals a woman who, despite overwhelming odds, between pride and glory or devastating heartbreak is decided in a moment. refuses to allow the word “no” into her vocabulary. – Sandy Wolf – Nina Zheng Director: Josh Bishop; Producers: Josh Diamond, Jason Diamond, Josh Bishop, Juan Reinoso, Julie Director: Thomas Miller; Producers: Ryan Black, Kirsten Powell, Peter Stevenson, Aaron Bernstein; Writers: Lombardi; Writer: Josh Bishop; Cinematographer: Gregg deDomenico; Editors: Julie Lombardi, Victoria Thomas Miller, Peter Stevenson; Editor: Thomas Miller; Music: Thomas Miller; Country: USA; Language: Lesiw; Music: Kaki King; Cast: Tomi Fujiyama, Shioichi Bamba, John Walker, Eddie Stubbs, Charlie Louvin, English; Length: 90 min; Genre: Documentary Oscar Sullivan; Countries: USA, Japan; Languages: English, Japanese (w/ English subtitles); Length: 89 min.; Genre: Documentary Preceded by the short film: Star Stuff; PTP Film Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce

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SHORTS 6: DOCUNATION SHORTS 9: HIGH SCHOOL FILM COMPETITION FRI 2/27 4:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 5:15PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 6:30PM (C12) SAT 2/28 1:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 11:00AM (C12) Nothing is more compelling than the human experience. Get a glimpse into the Discover what today’s young visionaries have to say in this collection of wonderfully unusual, surprising, and sometimes troubling worlds of real people: see women who imaginative and strikingly poignant high school student films. Emerging from that elusive are breaking down barriers in unexpected ways, discover characters whose sense spirit and energy of the youth, these shorts offer their own unique, but sharp, points of self is tied to their fascinating hobbies, hear stories of race and the preservation of of view. Taking on such themes as relationships, morality, and duty, these young culture, and take a heartbreaking late night bus trip. It all comes together in this eye- voices give a new spin to storytelling as the expression of oneself. opening collection of documentary shorts. Animals dir. Stefanos Tai Elgin Park dir. Danny Yourd USA Eco-Man dir. Jack Brook Hotel_22 dir. Elizabeth Lo USA Everyday dir. Cal Etcheverry Beyond Recognition dir. Michelle Grace Steinberg USA Gumball (RC) dir. Kris Theorin, Kurtis Theorin Luchadora dir. River Finlay USA Kiss of Death dir. Jason Bobbitt Looking at the Stars dir. Alexandra Peralta USA Minimum Max dir. Joshua Ovalle Rare Tea Cellar dir. Brett Schwartz USA Two and a Quarter Minutes dir. Joshua Ovalle Sugar Coated dir. Chris Parson USA What If You Slept dir. Alec Cohen-Schisler, Ian Woodfill Seven Ways From Sunday dir. Robert Sickels USA Where the Sidewalk Ends dir. Alex Merkle-Raymond, Maeve Lavelle Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce RUN TIME: 114 MIN. Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce RUN TIME: 79 MIN.

STILL DREAMING THE YEAR WE THOUGHT ABOUT LOVE SHAKESPEARE’S ENCHANTED FOREST COMES ALIVE IN STRANGE AND NEW WAYS IN A NURSING HOME. A THEATER TROUPE OF LGBTQ YOUTH CREATE AND SHARE THEIR POWERFUL STORY OF LOVE. SAT 2/28 10:45AM (C12) | WED 3/4 9:15PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 12:15PM (C12) FRI 2/27 5:30PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 7:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 11:15AM (C12) Once a star on Broadway, always a star – at least that is what a group of feisty, With passion, wit, intelligence and attitude, an LGBTQ youth theater group creates a humorous, and inspirational actors think as they embark on a journey to perform play about love in all its forms, while bonding together to make change in their own Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at their retirement home. With the help lives. With candor, they tell their stories through intimate interviews, entertaining of two enthusiastic New York City theater directors who are not quite sure what and powerful clips of their self-written plays, and glimpse into their everyday lives. awaits them, the troupe is formed among thespians whose skills and minds are Members range from a transgender woman being kicked out of her home, to a not what they once were. As performance day nears, the tension mounts, with the runway model who likes men’s clothing, to an out gay man accepted unconditionally actors battling to overcome crises, as well as themselves. But the show must go on by his mother. The plays they write and perform are close to their experiences and go on it does, with the troupe clinging to the hope of experiencing the magic and and not only provide catharsis but insight into what it means to be gay, lesbian, exuberance of performing on stage just one last time. – Sandy Wolf transgender, or just queer. It’s an inspirational work of art about the hardships one Directors: Hank Rogerson, Jilann Spitzmiller; Producers: Hank Rogerson, Jilann Spitzmiller; Writers: Hank faces in realizing that they are different and the courage it takes to find the pride Rogerson, Jilann Spitzmiller; Cinematographer: Shana Hagan, Jilann Spitzmiller; Editors: Hank Rogerson, within that. – Nina Zheng Jilann Spitzmiller; Cast: Charlotte Fairchild, Ben Steinfeld, Noah Brody, Dimo Condos, Aideen O’Kelly, Joan Director: Ellen Brodsky; Producer: Ellen Brodsky; Writer: Ellen Brodsky; Cinematographer: Austin de Stein, Robert A. Evans; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 93 min.; Genre: Documentary Besche; Editor: Peter Rhodes; Music: Claudio Ragazzi; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 68 min; Preceded by the short film: What’s the Age?; PTP Film Genre: Documentary Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce Preceded by the short film: Love in the Time of March Madness; dir. Melissa Johnson, Robertino Zambrano; Australia, United Kingdom; 9 min. 30 Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce THRILLS

ZEMENE A JOURNEY OF HOPE, LOVE, AND UNIMAGINABLE POSSIBILITIES. FRI 2/27 2:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 2:15PM (C12) When the spirit holds fast to hope and courage, the impossible becomes possible. Zemene is a shy 10-year-old living in rural Ethiopia with a rare, life-threatening, curvature of the spine that limits her world, when a chance encounter with an American doctor enables her to secure medical attention. With her physical limitations lifted, and the confirmation that her life matters, she blossoms into a confident young woman, using her newly found capabilities to bring hope back to her village. Gorgeously filmed in the Ethiopian countryside,Zemene is a poignant testament to the strength of the human spirit – and a powerful depiction of how much impact one person can have on another’s life. – Pia Chamberlain Director: Melissa Donovan; Producer: Melissa Donovan; Cinematographer: Melissa Donovan; Editors: Melissa Donovan, Dina Guttmann, Christo Tsiaras; Music: Jay Flood; Cast: Zemene Tiget Adababay, Dr. Oheneba Boachie-Adjei, Menormelkam Endeshaw, Dr. Rick Hodes; Countries: Ethiopia, USA; Languages: English, Amharic (w/ English subtitles); Length: 68 min.; Genre: Documentary Preceded by the short film: Seven Boats; dir. Hlynur Pálmason; Iceland; 10 min. FILMS Presented In Honor Of Jim Boyce

‘71 ALLY WAS SCREAMING JACK O’CONNELL (UNBROKEN) STARS AS A ROOKIE BRITISH SOLDIER SEPARATED FROM HIS UNIT IN A WHAT IF “RIGHT” WASN’T WHAT YOU THOUGHT IT WAS? GRIPPING, POLITICALLY CHARGED THRILLER SAT 2/28 7:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 9:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 2:30PM (C12) WED 2/25 9:15PM (C12) Ally is dead. Her two best friends, Seth and Nole, are horrified to discover that she 1971, at the height of The Troubles: Gary (O’Connell) and Thommo (Jack Lowden) never updated her will after divorcing her abusive, incarcerated husband. He gets are teenage British army recruits, still in training. The situation gets real, however, every single thing she owned – even small mementos – thanks to her sister and when their unit is thrust into the line of fire and dispatched to Belfast in Northern executrix, a stickler for the rules. When the value of the estate takes an unexpected Ireland. Needless to say, things get out of hand, and when Gary is separated from the turn into the stratosphere, Seth and Nole begin to ponder what they are willing rest of his squad, he finds himself alone in the midst of a highly unpredictable war to do for a few million dollars – including justifying a murder as a charitable act. zone. Vulnerable and isolated, he must rely on instincts while facing imminent danger. By turns hilariously funny and darkly suspenseful, this sly, intelligent drama from ’71 marks a startling debut from Yann Demange, who directs with extraordinary Jeremy Thomas (The End, Cinequest 2008) sneaks up on you and won’t let you go. confidence to create a thrilling combination of political drama and suspenseful action. – Pia Chamberlain – Michael Rabehl Director: Jeremy Thomas; Producers: Robert Cuffley, Colin Sheldon; Writer: Jeremy Thomas; Director: Yann Demange; Producers: Angus Lamont, Robin Gutch; Writer: Gregory Burke; Cinematographer: Cinematographer: Dan Dumouchel; Editors: Jeremy Thomas, Neshe Delici; Cast: Charlie Carrick, Giacomo Tat Radcliffe; Editor: Chris Wyatt; Music: David Holmes; Cast: Jack O’Connell, Paul Anderson, Richard Baessato, Camille Sullivan, Niall Matter; Country: Canada; Language: English; Length: 88 min.; Genre: Dormer, Sean Harris, Barry Keoghan, Martin McCann; Country: United Kingdom; Language: English; Thriller, Drama Length: 99 min.; Genre: Thriller Sponsored By Steve & Linda Glanville

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AMNESIA CLEW HER FATE HANGS IN THE BALANCE OF HIS MEMORY. HE THOUGHT SHE WAS CREATED FOR HIS PLEASURE… HE WAS WRONG. WED 2/25 9:15PM (C12) | FRI 2/27 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 4:00PM (C12) FRI 2/27 9:15PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 11:45AM (C12) | WED 3/4 4:15PM (C12) Kathrine and Thomas arrive for a romantic weekend together on a remote island. In the late 21st century, Jack is a painter recovering from the mysterious loss of his Away from civilization, long-simmering tensions between them begin to erupt, and fiancée – he is depressed, creatively blocked, and reclusive. In hopes to reignite Thomas’ sheen of gentility crumbles, revealing a psychopathic core that shocks his life, Jack arranges to purchase a Muse: a genetically engineered human form Kathrine. When she accidentally pushes Thomas down a flight of stairs, he awakens designed to be his perfect partner and fulfill his every whim. But soon after the with amnesia, revealing once again the man with whom she fell in love. Hopeful that beautiful and alluring Evelyn arrives, things become more and more unhinged and his confusion will last until the ferry arrives, she pretends that they are strangers Jack realizes nothing is as he had hoped it would be…A suspenseful and imaginative to one another. Will her deceit carry her to safety or collapse in upon her? – Pia sci-fi chamber drama, Clew explores the darker aspects of potential technological Chamberlain advancement and presents the moral dilemmas that could be part of an uncanny, Director: Nini Bull Robsahm; Producers: Anne Bergseng, Kjetil Omberg, Terje Stroemstad; Writer: Nini Bull but certainly not unlikely, future. – Liva Petersone Robsahm; Cinematographers: Axel Mustad, Håvard Byrkjeland; Editor: Erlend Mjømen Knudsen; Music: Director: Eric Badros; Producers: Eric Badros, Taylor Graham, Heather Weeks, Ted Prior, Connie M. Florez; Henrik Skram; Cast: Pia Tjelta, Christian Rubeck; Country: Norway; Language: Norwegian (w/ English Writers: Eric Badros, Heather Weeks, Taylor Graham; Cinematographers: Ernesto Lomeli, Paul Atkins; subtitles); Length: 80 min.; Genre: Thriller, Drama Editor: Eric Badros; Music: Holly Church; Cast: Heather Weeks, Taylor Graham, Lavinia Postolache, Stevie Preceded by the short film: One Night; dir. Marta Bayarri; Spain; 17 min. Mack, Debra Lynn Hull; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 108 min.; Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller Sponsored By James Emerson, Mediator, ADR Services

DERMAPHORIA FEVER A BRILLIANT ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING NOVEL, STARRING JOSEPH MORGAN (THE ORIGINALS), “FOR IT TO BE A CRIME, THERE HAS TO BE A PERSONAL MOTIVE.” WALTON GOGGINS (JUSTIFIED), KATE WALSH (GREY’S ANATOMY) AND RON PERLMAN (HELLBOY). THUR 2/26 8:45PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 2:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 5:00PM (CAL) SAT 2/28 9:15PM (C12) | MON 3/2 9:30PM (CAL) | FRI 3/6 4:30PM (C12) Two Parisian high school students have murdered a woman they chose as a victim Suffering from amnesia, chemist Eric Ashworth (Morgan) finds himself being pulled from a chance encounter. They had no motive, other than to prove they could do it. in different directions. There is the drug dealer who wants the formula to a drug that Pierre wrestles with his conscience and is haunted by the crime, while Damien, a only Eric knows, a cop who wants to know how he got involved, and a lawyer with golden boy with a psychopathic bent, constructs his justifications and gleefully flirts ulterior motives. As he struggles to deliver everything being asked of him, the only with discovery. Zoe, a young woman who saw them leave the scene of the crime, thing on Eric’s mind is finding a woman he remembers: Desiree. The closer he gets is strangely attracted to the erotic power of the event and drawn into their web of to answering his and everyone else’s questions, the more dangerous it gets: What danger and deceit. But while the boys struggle under the weight of their secret, Zoe happened that caused Eric to lose his memory? And where exactly is Desiree? Set discovers a new feeling of freedom. – Pia Chamberlain against the backdrop of steamy New Orleans, Ross Clarke’s debut feature is a sultry Director: Raphaël Neal; Producers: Jean-Philippe Rouxel, Raphael Neal; Writer: Raphael Neal; film noir that beautifully captures the anguish and desperation of being betrayed by Cinematographer: Nicolaos Zafiriou; Editor: Anna Brunstein; Cast: Martin Loizillon, Pierre Moure, one’s own mind. – Alexandra Avila Julie-Marie Parmentier, Philippe Laudenbach, Pascal Cervo, Julie Judd, Marie Bunel, Sabrina Seyvecou, Francoise Lebrun, Judith Henry; Country: France; Language: French (w/ English subtitles); Length: 80 Director: Ross Clarke; Producers: Ross Clarke, Teryn Fogel, Nick Thurlow; Writers: Ross Clarke, Craig min.; Genre: Drama, Thriller Clevenger; Cinematographer: Pedro Luque; Editor: Darrin Navarro; Cast: Joseph Morgan, Nicole Badaan, Walton Goggins, Lucius Falick, Ron Perlman, Anwan Glover, Kate Walsh; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 93 minutes; Genre: Drama

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GONZÁLEZ GUARD DOG (PERRO GUARDIAN) ARE YOU WILLING TO SUCCEED AT ALL COSTS? “IF I MUST PAY FOR MY SINS...” SUN 3/1 NOON (CAL) | MON 3/2 NOON (C12) | SAT 3/7 4:15PM (CAL) FRI 2/27 9:45PM (CAL) | WED 3/4 9:30PM (CAL) | FRI 3/6 10:00PM (C12) Winner of the Golden Zenith Award at the Montreal World Film Festival, director Welcome to Lima, Peru, land of the doomed and the damned. Meet Perro (Dog), Christian Diáz Pardo’s debut film features the prolific Harold Torres (Sin Nombre) and ex-military executioner turned hit man, a killing machine who’s forgotten he once was the charismatic Carlos Bardem (Javier’s older brother, Cell 211). González (Torres), a a man. Until, researching a hit, he meets a teenage girl who is innocence personified, young man living an anonymous, solitary life in the bustling Mexico City, is desperate and something inside him comes trembling, flickering to life. A caring, a conscience, to pay off his looming debts and make a name for himself. He manages to get a job a soul. If he can save just one person, maybe there’s a chance of redemption, even at a church – led by the slick televangelist Pastor Elias (Bardem) – that makes its for someone like him. This riveting, politically charged thriller, like a Peruvian Taxi money by conning the devout and the desperate and selling false spirituality. As he Driver, is both a profound portrait of a complex, lost man, and by extension, of a gets deeper into the operation, González discovers a new way to survive, and he will society gone completely off the tracks. Darker than noir.. this is filmmaking – and do anything in his power to get ahead. – Vivian Yuen acting – with a vengeance. – Charlie Cockey Director: Christian Diáz Pardo; Producers: Laura Pino, Harold Torres; Writers: Fernando del Razo, Christian Directors: Bacha Caravedo, Chinón Higashionna; Producers: Lorena Ugarteche, Gabriela Del Prado, Bacha Diáz Pardo; Cinematographer: Juan Pablo Ramírez Ibañez; Editor: León Felipe González; Music: Galo Caravedo, Chinón Higashionna; Writer: Bacha Caravedo; Cinematographer: Fergan Chávez Ferrer; Editor: Durán; Cast: Harold Torres, Carlos Bardem, Olga Segura; Country: Mexico; Language: Spanish (w/ English Eduardo Pinto; Music: Pauchi Sasaki; Cast: Carlos Alcántara, Reynaldo Arenas, Mayra Goñi, Ramón subtitles); Length: 110 min.; Genre: Thriller García, Miguel Iza, Oswaldo Bravo, Juan Manuel Ochoa; Country: Perú; Language: Spanish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 90 min.; Genre: Drama

HOUSE ON PINE STREET KILL ME THREE TIMES A CHILLING AND UNNERVING PSYCHOLOGICAL TWIST ON THE “HAUNTED HOUSE.” MURDER, BLACKMAIL, AND REVENGE IN A GRUESOME AND HILARIOUS NEO-NOIR FEATURING SIMON SAT 2/28 10:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 10:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 MIDNIGHT (C12) PEGG (STAR TREK), ALICE BRAGA (ELYSIUM), AND LUKE HEMSWORTH (NEIGHBOURS). Seven months pregnant and recovering from a mental breakdown, Jennifer WED 3/4 7:30PM (CAL) Branagan reluctantly moves back to her humdrum hometown to begin parenthood A dentist, a corrupt cop, an overbearing husband, a hunky gas jockey, and a with her husband. Her new home turns out to be a fixer upper with an eerie aura conniving spouse all have their own schemes to further their needs. Yet, each – later confirmed when furniture starts moving and apparitions begin appearing. scheme somehow involves killing the same woman. But, does this woman have Jennifer becomes convinced that her house is haunted; however, no one else her own scheme? Throw in one seasoned professional — a Mister Wolfe — whose believes her because no one else seems to be experiencing it. As her ambivalence profession, for the right price, is murder, and you have a cleverly wicked web of about imminent motherhood starts looming over her head and her relationship to her malfeasance. Suspenseful, twisted, and drenched in a sweaty tension found only in husband grows increasingly strained, Jennifer becomes panicked by the terrifying a small, Australian, surf town, Kriv Stenders’ Kill Me Three Times “wittily explores the possibility of her own delusion: her perceived reality might only exist in her head. consequences of following our baser instincts”…while also causing extreme laughter. – Vivian Yuen – Michael Rabehl Directors: Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling; Producers: Natalie Jones, Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling; Writers: Director: Kriv Stenders; Producers: Laurence Malkin, Share Stallings, Tania Chambers; Writer: James Natalie Jones, Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling; Cinematographer: Juan Sebastian Baron; Editor: Austin McFarland; Cinematographer: Geoffrey Simpson; Editor: Jill Bilcock; Music: Johnny Klimek; Cast: Simon Keeling; Music: Nathan Matthew David, Jeremy Lamb; Cast: Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles, Cathy Barnett, Jim Pegg, Sullivan Stapleton, Alice Braga, Teresa Palmer, Callan Mulvey, Luke Hemsworth, Bryan Brown, Korinke, Natalie Pellegrini, Tisha Swart-Entwistle; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 113 min.; Steve Le Marquand, Anna Philp, Tony Spencer; Country: Australia; Language: English; Length: 90 min.; Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama Genre: Thriller Sponsored By Raul & Elisa Martinez

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SHORTS 5: MINDBENDERS THE SILENT MON 3/2 2:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 9:30PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 MIDNIGHT (C12) A SAMURAI SEEKS REVENGE IN A SURREAL, ANIMATED SYMPHONY. Cinequest is proud to present a collection of the darkest, strangest, most messed- SUN 3/1 8:45PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:15PM (C12) up short films ever put upon the screen! These nine films incorporate themes of A fugitive samurai. A stripper with a heart of gold. A little boy hidden in a box. A loss, murder, revenge, fear, and extreme experimentation. From puppets that walk scary, evil clown in a business suit. Swords, fighting, monsters, superpowers, and the seedy side of town, to children’s characters who exact their vengeance on their a kickass soundtrack. Frightening and humorous masks hide dark secrets and creator, to the twists and turns of outrageous fortune, Mindbenders never fail to damaged people. In the end, do they really wake up from their nightmarish reality? puzzle and completely absorb the audience. Films from around the world take us to An unconventional narrative told entirely without dialogue, designed to stir your new places and leave us no map to get back home. imagination and rouse your emotions. With visuals inspired by samurai movies, Noh Burnt Grass dir. Ray Wong Canada drama, and Japanese animation, The Silent will tug at your heart and tear at your Danny and the Wild Bunch dir. Robert Rugan USA very soul. – Nina Zheng The Detectives of Noir Town dir. Andrew Chambers Australia Ecdysis dir. Faidra Tsolina Greece, United Kingdom Director: Endika Currier; Producer: Arya Ghavamian; Writers: M DOT Strange, Endika Currier; Editor: Arya In Extremis dir. Gregory Crosbie United Kingdom Ghavamian; Music: Endika Currier; Country: USA; Length: 120 min; Genre: Animation, Fantasy Love at Last Sight dir. Oscar Hernandez-Topete USA Solo Finale dir. Ingo Putze Germany Germany Turn of the Screw dir. Chris Bogle United Kingdom Wien for Life dir. Alidor Dolfing Belgium RUN TIME: 112 MIN.

SLOW WEST KODI SMIT-MCPHEE (LET ME IN, PARANORMAN) AND MICHAEL FASSBENDER (X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, SHAME) STAR IN A MODERN VISION OF THE OLD WEST. MON 3/2 7:30PM (CAL) Sixteen-year-old Jay (Smit-McPhee) finds out just how harsh the American West can be, when he arrives from Scotland to search for his former lover. However, Jay doesn’t know she has a price on her head. Partnering with the mysterious Silas (Fassbender), Jay must face the realities of the frontier while trying to stay ahead of a bloodthirsty posse and a bounty hunter. Scottish director John Maclean’s vision offers a fresh, poetic take on the Old West. Anchored by Smit-McPhee and Fassbender’s subtle, and sometimes humorous, performances, Slow West is as arresting as it is elegant. – Michael Rabehl Director: John Maclean; Producers: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Conor McCaughan, Rachel Gardner; Writer: John Maclean; Cinematographer: Robbie Ryan; Editors: Roland Gallois, Jon Gregory; Music: Jed Kurzel; Cast: Michael Fassbender, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Rory McCann, Ben Mendelsohn, Brooke Williams; Countries: United Kingdom, New Zealand; Language: English; Length: 84 min.; Genre: Western, Thriller Sponsored by Jennifer Krach FILMS

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AFTERLIFE (UTÓÉLET) THE ANNIVERSARY WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN DAD DIES - AND THEN JUST WON’T GO AWAY? THE WEIRDEST WEDDING ANNIVERSARY PARTY YOU’VE EVER SEEN. WED 2/25 5:00PM (CAL) | TUES 3/3 9:45PM (CAL) | FRI 3/6 7:30PM (C12) THUR 2/26 9:15PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 12:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 5:15PM (C12) Mozes is a stonefaced Hungarian Buster Keaton look-alike with confidence issues. Sam, married for 20 years and a father of a teenage son, goes for a run and His father János is a self-centered authoritarian tyrant. But János dies, becomes keeps on running. A year later, his wife Teresa goes ahead with their wedding a ghost – and goes through a complete personality change. Melancholic and anniversary party and is certain that Sam will show up. Is she nostalgic, a bit confused, he just hangs around, can’t seem to leave. Can a car mechanic-cum- delusional, or plain crazy? As the evening unfolds, events give way to embarrassed psychic help? Can Mozes? And what about the rest of Mozes’ loopy family, from his guests, a hallucinogenic dessert, shameful confessions, and unexpected whims. overbearing class-conscious aunt to his shotgun-toting adopted sister? In the best The Anniversary gives a master class in ensemble cast performance, boasting tradition of eastern European comedy, this not quite realist slice of life can flip on a popular stage and screen names: Deborah Hay, Colin Mochrie, Tedde Moore, dime from deadpan comedy to darkly serious, from surreal satire to outright farce, Ben Carlson, and Richard Clarkin; and charms with sparkling dialogue, priceless and still end with a series of just desserts and satisfying conclusions. Dying has never comedic moments, and a very clever, if a tad sarcastic, look at the struggles and been this much fun. – Charlie Cockey pitfalls of a long-term relationship. – Liva Petersone Director: Virág Zomborácz; Producer: Ferenc Pusztai; Writer: Virág Zomborácz; Cinematographer: Gergely Director: Valerie Buhagiar; Producers: Valerie Buhagiar, Maurizio Trezzi; Writer: Valerie Buhagiar; Pohárnok; Editor: Károly Szalai; Music: Ádám Balázs; Cast: Márton Kristóf, Zsolt Anger, Eszter Csákányi, Cinematographer: Alex Dacev; Editor: Michael Pike; Music: Richard Feren; Cast: Deborah Hay, Colin József Gyabronka, László Gálffi, Gergely Kocsis, Zsolt Kovács, Andrea Petrik; Country: Hungary; Language: Mochrie, Stephen Joffe, Tedde Moore, Lyne Tremblay, Cara Ricketts; Country: Canada; Language: English; Hungarian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 93 min.; Genre: Comedy, Drama Length: 85 min.; Genre: Drama, Comedy

BAD CITY BAD EXORCISTS BAD CITY IS ON THE EDGE OF FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF A MADMAN, YOU DIG? DEMONS, MEET THE SOCIALLY AWKWARD. FRI 2/27 MIDNIGHT (C12) | SUN 3/1 9:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 3:30PM (C12) SAT 2/28 MIDNIGHT (C12) | SUN 3/1 4:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 2:45PM (C12) Billed as “Canucksploitation,” Bad City oozes hilarity, unbridled chauvinism, and lots With the awkward teen sensibility of Superbad, three high school friends, hoping to and lots of body hair. The city has a new mayor, Dominic Kincaid, who happens also rid themselves of their uncool social status, set out to make a horror film starring the to be the drug lord who killed the old mayor and is transforming the city his way: the dreamy, popular girl at school. Things go wrong when the process leaves their lead bad way. Fortunately, superfly detectives Franky New Guinea and Reverend Grizzly actress possessed by a demon instead. Once they realize the fiasco on their hands, Night-Bear are on the case and are here to make sure Bad City is run their way – the trio hilariously fumble their way through a poorly conceived solution—all the while which is also the bad way (but, not bad meaning “bad”; bad meaning “good”). And, continuing to struggle for peer acceptance. Bad Exorcists shows that the age-old they’re ready to take down a jive turkey like Kincaid. No one threatens their city when affliction of teenage boys haunts every high school: how to talk to girls. – Vivian Yuen they’re on the case. This is the Grindhouse movie we’ve always wanted, but just Director: Kyle Steinbach; Producers: Kyle Steinbach, Louie Sloss, Zach Shivers; Writer: Kyle Steinbach; didn’t know it until now. – Michael Rabehl Cinematographer: Doug Potts; Editor: Collin Davis; Music: Zach Robinson; Cast: Sean Roney, Alex Knapp, Julian Master, Claire Berger, Suzanna Akins, Suzanne Owens-Duval; Country: USA; Language: English; Director: Carl Bessai; Producers: James Brown, Carl Bessai, Dustin Milligan, Aaron Brooks; Writers: Dustin Length: 85 min.; Genre: Comedy, Horror Milligan, Aaron Brooks; Cinematographer: Carl Bessai; Editor: Sabrina Pitre; Music: Heather Gardner, Gord Hillier; Cast: Dustin Milligan, Aaron Brooks, Amanda Crew, David Cubitt, Reece Thompson, Tom Scholte; Country: Canada; Language: English; Length: 96 min.; Genre: Comedy, Action, Crime

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BOOZE BOYS AND BROWNIES CHASING BERLUSCONI (JAKTEN PÅ BERLUSCONI) SONGS, DANCE NUMBERS AND A ROAD TO STARDOM. BERLUSCONI THUNDERS DOWN THE HOME STRETCH. WED 2/25 7:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 1:45PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 9:30PM (C12) WED 2/25 5:00PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 9:45PM (CAL) | TUES 3/3 10:00PM (C12) A quirky musical where no one thinks twice before breaking out in a song, Booze Boys A down-on-his-luck harness racer, Bjarte Lem, gets entangled with the wrong crowd & Brownies is an exuberant and endearingly frank portrait of a heroine with whom in this madcap Norwegian comedy. Previously, a star in his field, but now a little you can’t help but fall in love. Ambitious, sassy, and a die-hard sentimental creature, young older, he turns to fixing race odds in order to pay back his wife’s enormous debt to a actress Vivian (writer-director Veronica Mannion) has no qualms admitting she would prefer pair of shady Finnish loan sharks. Hilarity ensues when he hires a pair of blockheads a musical comedy to life. Recently arrived in Los Angeles, she is busy working on her one-woman stage show, running to auditions to catch her big break, navigating past and to do his dirty work. Their plan goes awry when the prizewinning horse is kidnapped. present romantic relationships, and keeping up her overall kooky lifestyle with the help of This unconventional and riotously entertaining film from the director ofKing Curling friend Amber and an assortment of Tinseltown personalities. Based on true events, Booze (2012 Cinequest Audience Award Winner for Best Feature) will make you root for Boys & Brownies is bursting with zany characters, self-irony, bizarre musical numbers, this unlikely hero. With its cast of bizarre characters, Chasing Berlusconi succeeds catchy songs, and a heady mix of phantasmagoria and all-too-real life. – Liva Petersone brilliantly in making the audience laugh in unison. – Nina Zheng Director: Veronica Mannion; Producer: Veronica Mannion; Writer: Veronica Mannion; Cinematographer: Raul Director: Ole Endresen; Producer: Håkon Øverås; Writer: Ole Endresen; Cinematographer: Gaute Gunnari; Gonzo; Editor: Dillon Novak; Music: Evan Hodick, Josh Bednarsky, Veronica Mannion; Cast: Veronica Mannion, Editor: Thomas G. Trælnes; Music: Pål Jackman; Cast: Edward Schultheiss, Morten Ramm, Henriette Ariel Hart, Alan Kaiser, Matt Monaco, Heather Gordon, Deborah Geffner, Christopher Meehan; Country: USA; Steenstrup; Country: Norway; Language: Norwegian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 82 min; Genre: Action, Language: English; Length: 98 min.; Genre: Comedy, Musical Comedy

CRUSHED LIVES - SEX OR KIDS? DIRTY BEAUTIFUL THE TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF A SEX LIFE AFTER CHILDREN. IT TAKES TWO TO MAKE A RELATIONSHIP CRAZY. SAT 2/28 9:30PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 11:15AM (C12) | TUES 3/3 5:00PM (CAL) FRI 2/27 7:15PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 9:00PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 12:15PM (C12) A lonely, obsessive and unsuccessful filmmaker meets an aimless drifter and before With humor and wit, Crushed Lives – Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo he knows it, she’s living in his tiny LA apartment. He’s an eco-freak with a love of question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a post-it notes, keeping his recyclables separate from his trash, and unconventional documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with romances on Netflix. She’s an unscrupulous young woman who would rather have his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths an IV of tequila straight into her liver than deal with adult responsibilities. Unable to the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively stand each other and yet not able to leave, both of them vow to make the other’s experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom. Honing in on this seldom fully life a living hell. In between their petty feuds, binge drinking nights and drugged out explored theme of adulthood, director Alessandro Colizzi brings us on a sincere and days, something unpredictable happens. Director Tim Bartell’s debut feature depicts funny journey into life encumbered by children and the fainting sexual imagination an unusual modern relationship with the universal truth that, sometimes, we are most that seems to go with it. – Vivian Yuen drawn to the imperfections we see in others. – Nina Zheng Director: Alessandro Colizzi; Producer: Silvia Cossu; Writers: Alessandro Colizzi, Silvia Cossu; Cinematographer: Francesco Crivaro; Editor: Alessio Doglione; Music: Pier Francesco Colizzi; Cast: Walter Director: Tim Bartell; Producers: Justin Hogan, Cameron McIntyre, Tim Bartell; Writer: Tim Bartell; Leonardi, Nicoletta Romanoff, Bob Messini, Euridice Axen, Jacopo Cullin, Melissa Anna Bartolini, Chiara Cinematographer: Adam Lee; Editors: Blake Barrie, Daniel Raim; Music: Mike Sawitzke, Roy Shakked; Martegiani, Carmen Giardina, Cesare Apolito, Paola Migneco; Country: Italy; Language: Italian (w/ English Cast: Ricky Mabe, Jordan Monaghan, Conor Leslie, Darin Heames, Zoe Chao, Stu James; Country: USA; subtitles); Length: 94 min.; Genre: Comedy Language: English; Length: 95 min; Genre: Comedy, Romance Preceded by the short film: Vermiglio; dir. Giordano; Italy; 11 min.

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FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON FOREVER INTO SPACE “SHE TOOK HER HAIR FROM THE DRAIN AND LEFT ME.” NOW WHAT? THE (YOU HAVE TO) DO IT YOURSELF GENERATION. WED 2/25 9:45PM (C12) | FRI 2/27 NOON (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:30PM (CAL) FRI 2/27 9:30PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 2:15PM (C12) | WED 3/4 4:15PM (C12) ”She said I was immature. I don’t know what mature is.” Poor Aron. With no job, no Four recession-era hopefuls spend their days waiting for something to give while prospects, and now no girlfriend, he’s completely at loose ends. From the wonderful resisting giving out anymore of themselves. Promised a life after higher education opening montage (that gives new meaning to “falling down laughing”), he’s a hapless with a job and a nice apartment, a writer/blogger finds herself rooming with an hero with an impervious sad-sack insouciance, stumbling through a dizzying skein amateur porn actress and no future prospects. Through her roommate, she meets of misadventures and near catastrophes to a truly satisfying, emotionally honest two other millennial dreamers; one who hopes to become an artist and another conclusion. Director-writer-cinematographer and co-composer Gábor Reisz’s joyful who is more or less content with being a “lab rat.” With stark black-and-white debut film already has European audiences standing and applauding Aron’s vain cinematography contrasting the equally true-to-life, yet optimistic tone, this coming- attempts to make sense of the inexplicable. A love letter to youth, Budapest, being of-age story shows what life is like for those searching for a place and a purpose in confused, and taking things as they come, the film is, quite simply, a sheer delight. today’s world. – Nina Zheng – Charlie Cockey Director: Greg W. Locke; Producers: Andrew Litton, Greg W. Locke, Kelly Sebastian; Writer: Greg W. Locke; Director: Gábor Reisz; Producers: Júlia Berkes, Miklós Bosnyák; Writer: Gábor Reisz; Cinematographer: Cinematographer: Greg W. Locke; Editors: Greg W. Lock, Kelly Sebastian; Music: Jon Keller; Cast: Kelly Gábor Reisz; Editor: Zsófia Tálas; Music: Lóci Csorba,Gábor Reisz; Cast: Áron Ferenczik, Katalin Takács, Sebastian, Julianna Pitt, Tyler Evan Rowe, Oliver Fetter, Julia Kelly; Country: USA; Language: English; Zsolt Kovács, Zalán Makranczi, Erika Kapronczai; Country: Hungary; Language: Hungarian (w/ English Length: 110 min; Genre: Drama subtitles); Length: 89 min.; Genre: Comedy

HALFWAY (HALFWEG) THE HAMSTERS (LOS HÁMSTERS) PROBLEM ONE: THE OLD TENANT WON’T MOVE OUT. PROBLEM TWO: HE CAN’T. HE’S A GHOST. TOGETHER THEY FORM THE PERFECT DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY. WED 3/4 9:15PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 4:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 6:30PM (C12) FRI 2/27 5:00PM (CAL) | THUR 3/5 9:15PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 11:45AM (C12) Sef is having a rough patch. He’s just been divorced, his wife kicked him out, he’s Secrets – every family has them. The Hamsters takes on the territory of the lost his old job and his new account, and the lovely new house he’s just moved into dysfunctional family drama but in a wisely structured and smartly written way. Teenagers Juan and Jessica take pride in being able to get away with anything – is haunted. Theo, the ghost of the previous owner, considers the house still his, with little do they know, their parents aren’t saints either. Despite their father’s (Angel Sef the interloper. What follows is a battle of wills between Theo and Sef. But with the Norzagaray, Only God Knows) façade as the reliable family man, he’s secretly driven arrival of the lovely and innocent young Julie, things take an unexpected turn. This the family into deep financial trouble. Meanwhile, unsuspecting mother Beatriz (Gisela genre-bending film, starting out as a light-hearted ghost-comedy only to become Madrigal, 7 Mujeres, Un Homosexual y Carlos) contends with her own mid-life crisis something much more, is a prime example of quirky and hugely entertaining Belgian – anxieties about her fading beauty coupled with disturbing, saucy thoughts more cinema. – Charlie Cockey appropriate for a single lady. As their secrets threaten to come to light, this family Director: Geoffrey Enthoven; Producers: Nicola Bove, Mariano Vanhoof; Writer: Pierre De Clercq; must brace themselves for more than a rude awakening. – Alexandra Avila Cinematographer: Gerd Schelfhout; Editor: Dieter Diependaele; Cast: Tom Audenaert, Veerle Baetens, Tiny Director: Gilberto Gonzàlez Penilla; Producers: Juan Carlos Ayvar, Gabriela Pineda, Janeth Mora; Writers: Bertels, Evelien Bosmans, Koen De Graeve, Jurgen Delnaet, GIlled Deschryver, Herqig Ilegems, Guther Gilberto Gonzàlez Penilla, Carlos Rodrìguez Rodrìguez, Cynthia Rodriquez Aguirre; Cinematographer: Juan Lesage; Country: Belgium; Language: Dutch (w/ English subtitles); Length: 115 min.; Genre: Comedy, Drama Pablo, Ramirez Ibanez; Editor: Gilberto Gonzàlez Penilla, Pablo Fulgueria; Cast: Angel Norzagaray, Gisela Madrigal, Hoze Melèndez, Montserrat Minor, Rodolfo Mares, Yamel Anaid Kuri Guridi; Country: Mexico; Language: Spanish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 70 min.; Genre: Drama, Comedy Preceded by the short film: Carry On; dir. Yatao Li; China; 17 min.

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HOW TO LOSE JOBS & ALIENATE GIRLFRIENDS MILWAUKEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR DOCUMENTARY ISN’T WHAT YOU THINK IT IS? TESTING THE LIMITS OF MONOGAMY, FRIENDSHIP, BETRAYAL, AND FREEDOM…AND NOTHING IS WHAT SAT 2/28 5:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 1:00PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 9:15PM (C12) THEY EXPECT. Thomas Meadmore, an Australian film editor, has a great idea: make a film documenting FRI 2/27 7:00PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 1:45PM (C12) | WED 3/4 5:00PM (CAL) his boss and his girlfriend as each pursues dreams of becoming a professional musician. A vacation to clear her head is just what Chris needs after being cheated on by But, as he immerses himself in his project, Thomas starts doubting both his boss’ talent her boyfriend, and a friend’s cabin proves to be the perfect weekend isolation. Yet, and his girlfriend’s motivation. And, Thomas proceeds to reveal this to them in blunt private retreat quickly becomes group excursion when Chris’ friends decide to honesty. A little too blunt, actually. As Thomas’ vision for his film falls out of sight, he support her—crashing her solitude and turning her peaceful getaway into a radical struggles to find a new story in his footage while continuing to further jeopardize his exploration of societal constraints on sex and relationships. Soon, they find they already crumbling relationships. A remarkably candid film, this whirlwind of a journey must either adhere to those limitations, or test how far they are willing to travel captures the uncomfortable vulnerability and intense introspection demanded of us outside of their comfort zones. With spot-on performances from a vibrant cast and when we embark on the creative process. – Sandy Wolf an observant, humorous script, director Torre Catalano’s debut feature brilliantly Director: Thomas Meadmore; Producers: Thomas Meadmore, Shaun Miller, Rob Peile; Writer: Thomas captures views on monogamy and its sustainability in modern relationships and how Meadmore; Cinematographer: Thomas Meadmore; Editor: Thomas Meadmore; Music: Mark Buys, Mat Credon; Cast: Thomas Meadmore, Amanda Medica, Tony Jackson, Kelly Meadmore, Aaron D’Arcy, Ben they change as we grow into who we become. – Michael Rabehl Roberts, Annabel Mazzotti; Country: Australia; Language: English; Length: 73 min.; Genre: Documentary Director: Torre Catalano; Producers: Allen Kelley, Christina Karakasidis; Writer: Torre Catalano; Preceded by the short film: El Sol Como un Gran Animal Oscuro; dir. Chris Felisgrau, Cinematographer: Kit Pennebaker; Editor: Jeffrey Steinkamp; Music: Faces on Film; Cast: Alex Ashbaugh, Ronnie Rivera; USA; 6 min. Jodi Balfour, Jordan Hayes, Martha MacIsaac, Brandon Jay McLaren, Dillon Porter, Max Topplin; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 101 min.; Genre: Comedy, Drama

MISS INDIA AMERICA SHORTS 7: COMEDY SHORTS INDIAN-AMERICAN BEAUTY PAGEANTS MEET ELECTION AND LEGALLY BLONDE. WED 3/4 4:45PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 6:30PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 1:15PM (C12) FRI 2/27 7:30PM (CAL) | SUN 3/1 6:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 5:00PM (C12) Comedy? Yeah, we got that! This year’s batch of humorous shorts takes in the Lily (Tiya Sricar, The Internship) is a winner, but when her boyfriend leaves her for deadly serious and expels laughs in great quantity. Grand comedic happenings a vapid beauty pageant queen, she gets the notion that winning the “Miss India from the US, Europe, and South America play with your expectations and leave America” title would bring him back. Since Lily is perfect in everything else she does, ya laughing all the way home! This program examines secret inner thoughts, the it should be a cinch...or so she thinks. The pageant world isn’t just pretty smiles and maddening pace of the world, the dangers of infatuation, and the great beyond, with high heels, and her main competition, Sonia (Hannah Simone, New Girl), gives her a the kind of timing and wordplay that won’t let you down! run for her money. Actor Ravi Kapoor’s (Crossing Jordan, Heroes) feature directorial De Smet dir. Wim Geudens, Thomas Baerten The Netherlands debut is a story of beauty, grace, and elegance, which also looks to destroy our ideas Donation dir. Paul Emerson USA firstworldproblems dir. Marielle Woods USA of perfection and single-perspective thinking. Engrossing, thought-provoking, and The Fly dir. Olly Williams United Kingdom simply entertaining, Miss India America is a truly delightful gem. – Kyle Burt Grand Zero dir. Kevin Oeser USA How Guys’ Thoughts Ruin Perfect dir. Marvin Bryan Lemus USA Director: Ravi Kapoor; Producers: Megha Kadakia, Saurabh Kikani; Writer: Meera Simhan, Ravi Kapoor; Relationships Cinematographer: Alan Caudillo; Editor: Varun Viswanath; Music: Amritha Vaz; Cast: Tiya Sircar, Hannah Late Shifters dir. Aurelio Ocampo, Jr. USA Simone, Kosha Patel, Meera Simhan, Bernard White; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 93 min.; Leonard in Slow Motion dir. Peter Livolsi USA Genre: Comedy The Lord of Catan dir. Stuart C. Paul USA New Soul dir. Michael Fry USA Óscar Desafinado dir. Mikel Alvariño Mexico RUN TIME: 114 MIN. 38 LIFE

SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT PEOPLE SHE KNOWS THE STRONGEST MAN INSULTS ARE BEST SERVED WITH A TUNE. I WOULD TELL MY GRANDCHILDREN, “I’M THE STRONGEST MAN IN THE WORLD,” AND THEY’D BELIEVE SAT 2/28 3:15PM (C12) | MON 3/2 7:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 5:00PM (C12) ME, BECAUSE THEY LOVE ME. When Carol (Arabella Bushnell), a quirky but emotionally restrained woman in her late WED 2/25 6:45PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 11:00AM (CAL) | SUN 3/1 9:30PM (C12) thirties, prompted by an art therapy class, starts sending her friends and co-workers Beef is an anxiety-ridden Cuban man who fancies himself The Strongest Man in her very frank opinions of them in the form of moody songs, all hell breaks loose. Some the World — a belief he wants to share with his grandchildren (yet, he doesn’t want take out a restraining order, her boss is incited to resuscitate his former dream of kids of his own). His best friend Conan helps center Beef, while a young girl, Illy, rock stardom, and Carol leaves the mundane behind to pursue her newfound artistic reveals Beef’s restless side. When Beef’s most prized possession — his gold BMX expression. Extremely amusing and with a very dry, humorous streak in it, Songs She bike — is stolen, his ensuing quest to recover it leads him to both find and lose more Wrote About People She Knows is a visually striking and, at times, truly hypnotic first than he ever expected. Director Kenny Riches returns to the festival (previously with feature from Canadian director and screenwriter Kris Elgstrand. – Liva Petersone the premiere of his debut feature Must Come Down in 2012) with a truly enchanting Director: Kris Elgstrand; Producers: Kris Elgstrand, Amy Belling, Thea Grivakes; Writer: Kris Elgstrand; comedy, and one that is as insightful as it is funny and unpredictable. – Michael Cinematographer: Amy Belling; Editor: Alex Leigh Baker; Music: Kris Elgstrand, Chris Gestrin; Cast: Rabehl. Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough, Ross Smith, Jennifer McLean, Justine Warrington, Matty Finochio; Director: Kenny Riches; Producers: Jesse R. Brown, Anthony Pedone, Kenny Riches; Writer: Kenny Riches; Country: Canada; Language: English; Length: 80 min.; Genre: Comedy Cinematographer: Tom Garner; Editor: Tj Nelson; Music: Andrew Shaw; Cast: Patrick Fugit, Lisa Banes, Freddie Preceded by the short film: The Crumb of It; dir.T.J. Misny; USA; 11 min. Wong, Ashly Burch, Paul Chamberlain; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 99 min.; Genre: Comedy

40 DAYS OF SILENCE (CHILLA) IN THE SILENCE OF THE HEART LIE ALL THE SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE. THUR 2/26 1:00PM (C12) | WED 3/4 9:45PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 2:30PM (C12) Drops of water fizz on a hot stove. A sharpening knife hisses on crockery. A ghost hovers over a young woman, smoothing her hair. Somewhere someone sobs. In an Uzbek mountain village, four women from the four stages of life live together in a house. Silence, like a breath too long held, magnifies the sounds around them. And in their midst is Bibicha, whose unexplained vow of silence binds them all together. This is a film of stillness, of miniscule movement and moments; of hypnotic whispers; of music more felt than heard. Resonant with marrow-deep emotions, profoundly beautiful, this deeply impressive film radiates a dark warmth that will not be easily forgotten. – Charlie Cockey Director: Saodat Ismailova; Producers: Denis Vaslin, Jean des Forêts, Benny Dreschsel, Saodat Ismailova; Writers: Saodat Ismailova, Ulughbek Sadikov; Cinematographer: Benito Strangio; Editors: Benjamin Mirguet, Nathalie Alonso-Casale; Music: Jacob Kierkegaard; Cast: Rukhshona Sattarova, Barohat Shukurova, Saodat Rahimova, Farida Olimova; Country: USA; Language: Tadjik (w/ English subtitles); FILMS Length: 88 min.; Genre: Drama

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ANTOINE ET MARIE APPLES FROM THE DESERT ONE NIGHT, BEYOND MEMORY, STOLE AWAY THE LIFE SHE KNEW. A DAUGHTER REFUSES TO GIVE IN. SAT 2/28 7:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 7:00PM (C12) | WED 3/4 4:45PM (C12) WED 2/25 2:45PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 7:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 7:00PM (C12) Marie works in the office of an auto repair shop. She enjoys the camaraderie of Based on the award-winning play and popular Israeli short story, this poignant her (male) coworkers, and enjoys stepping out with them after work now and then. family drama follows Rivka, 19-years-old and strong-willed, who struggles to follow Although she fancies the occasional flirtation, she is faithful to her boyfriend Richard, the conservative lifestyle of her ultra-orthodox parents in Jerusalem. Determined with whom she lives comfortably on the outskirts of town. Antoine, the boss’ son, to break free from her parents’ rigid worldview, she runs away to a secular farming an angry, gloomy man who keeps to himself, also works at the shop. One day, Marie community in the desert. The decision pushes the two generations to confront and Antoine’s paths cross unexpectedly, and the encounter irrevocably and tragically the chasm between their stringent views of tradition and modernity. Grounded by alters the course of Marie’s life. Writer/director Jimmy Larouche (The Scar, Cinequest exceptional performances from its lead cast, Apples from the Desert deftly explores 2013) masterfully builds a story packed with tension and emotional resonance, the complexities that come with questioning one’s own upbringing and forging a path including a brilliant ending that will leave the viewer speechless. – Pia Chamberlain that makes sense to oneself. – Vivian Yuen Director: Jimmy Larouche; Producers: Patricia Diaz, David-Olivier St-Denis, Jimmy Larouche; Writer: Jimmy Directors: Arik Lubetzky, Matti Harari; Producers: Michael Sharfshtein, Moshe Edery, Leon Edery; Writers: Larouche; Cinematographer: Glauco Bermúdez; Editor: Mathieu Demers; Cast: Martine Francke, Sébastien Savyon Liebrecht, Arik Lubetzky, Matti Harari; Cinematographer: Amnon Zalait; Editor: Etty Li-on Zingman; Ricard, Guy Jodoin, Isabelle Blais, Veronique Perron; Country: Canada; Language: French (w/ English Music: Tom Sharfshtein; Cast: Moran Rosenblatt, Shlomi Koriat, Remonde Amsellem, Elisha Banai, Irit subtitles); Length: 85 min.; Genre: Drama Kaplan; Country: Israel; Language: Hebrew (w/ English subtitles); Length: 96 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Hollygrove (The True Life Preceded by the short film: Out of the Closet; PTP Film Story of Monserrat); dir. Carlos Hurtado; USA; 8 min.

ASTRAEA BEASTS OF CARDO (BESTIA DE CARDO) AFTER THE PLAGUE, AN EMPTY WORLD WHERE YOU MAKE YOUR OWN RULES. ALL THE WEALTH SHE COULD DESIRE, NO LIFE SHE WANTS TO LIVE. FRI 2/27 6:45PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 11:30AM (C12) | TUES 3/3 2:00PM (C12) THUR 2/26 4:00PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 6:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 4:30PM (C12) Astraea, a quickly maturing teenager with clairvoyant visions, and her adult brother Foibles and eccentricities of a closely knit, stifling upper class community get a Matthew are traversing a lifeless continent after a plague has wiped out humanity. sensual and witty treatment in this wildly imaginative and extravagant gem of a Car-by-abandoned- car, house-by-empty-house, they inch towards Nova Scotia story. Moira, a young and wealthy Dominican woman, is forced to halt her studies in in search of their family, who Astraea believes have survived. Their progress is America and return home to her family and the elite and suffocating society of their interrupted by the discovery of fellow survivors James and Callie. Should the siblings small town. It seems everyone is a hater and a gossiper here; Moira’s conservative push on, trusting Astraea’s visions, or stay to make a new life with the flesh and blood family controls her every step. She befriends the local dressmaker and soon the two before their eyes? A haunting ode to the small, quiet things easily eclipsed by our set out to flee the doomed place together. The debut feature from director, writer, noisy, crowded world. – Pia Chamberlain producer, and lead actress Virginia Sanchez Navarro is a thing of beauty: imbued with a dreamlike atmosphere, blending with supernatural elements with a hyper- Director: Kristjan Thor; Producers: Scotty Crowe, Jessica Cummings, Ashlin Halfnight, Kristjan Thor; Writer: Ashlin Halfnight; Cinematographer: Matthew Mendelson; Editor: Jackeline Tejada; Music: Phil sensitive and subjective perspective of the heroine, and strongly reminiscent of the Carluzzo; Cast: Nerea Duhart, Scotty Crowe, Jessica Cummings, Dan O’Brien; Country: USA; Language: literary world of Gabriel García Márquez and his fictional town of Macondo. English; Length: 93 min.; Genre: Drama – Liva Petersone Director: Virginia Sánchez Navarro; Producer: Virginia Sánchez Navarro, Starsha Gill; Writer: Virginia Sánchez Navarro; Cinematographer: Diego Garcia; Editors: Daniel Castro Zimbrón, Virginia Sánchez Navarro; Music: Nico Casal; Cast: Virginia Sánchez Navarro, Angélica Aragón, Jorge Luis Moreno, Karina Noble, Cheddy Garcia, Héctor Then; Country: Dominican Republic; Language: Spanish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 108 min.; Genre: Drama, Fantasy 40 LIFE

BEATLES THE CENTER NORWEGIAN WOOD — ISN’T IT GOOD? HE HAS A NEW CHANCE AT A NEW LIFE, BUT IS IT WORTH THE COST? FRI 2/27 4:15PM (C12) | WED 3/4 9:30PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 11:30AM (CAL) FRI 2/27 9:30PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 1:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 4:30PM (C12) It’s the sixties in Oslo, and four friends are teetering between adolescence and Ryan is not unlike millions of people – fresh out of college, a dead-end job, and an adulthood as only teenage boys can. They fancy themselves to be the Fab Four, endless search for meaning in his life. Offered a new start via a self-help group, though their band, the Snafus, has yet to master a single song. For these boys, simply known as The Center, and their highly charismatic leader Vincent, Ryan soon listening to the new Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album is like finds himself enmeshed in a world that seemingly offers him hope. But, there is a “listening to God say ‘let there be light’ on day one.” They navigate the treacherous dark side to everything, and The Center has many secrets. Executive produced by shoals of young love and early adulthood to the innocent beat of early Rock ‘n Roll, Jonathan Demme (Silence of the Lambs), director/writer Charlie Griak’s debut feature against the backdrop of the nascent global anti-war movement. In the end, growing paints a fascinating and tense portrait of desperation and those that prey upon it. up is all about learning to hear – and listening to your own voice. – Pia Chamberlain Haunting and stunningly beautiful, it’s sure to be one of the most talked about films Director: Peter Flinth; Producer: Jørgen Storm Rosenberg; Writer: Axel Hellstenius; Cinematographer: this year. – Michael Rabehl Philippe Kress; Editor: Vidar Flataukan; Music: Magne Furuholmen; Cast: Louis Williams, Håvard Jackwitz, Director: Charlie Griak; Producers: Jonathan Demme (Executive), Charlie Griak, Wendy Griak, Annie Einan, Ole Nicolai Myrvold Jørgensen, Halvor Tangen Schultz; Country: Norway; Language: Norwegian (w/ English Judd Einan, Jacob Burns Film Center; Writer: Charlie Griak; Cinematographers: Brandon Boulay, Charlie subtitles); Length: 114 min.; Genre: Drama Griak; Editors: Charlie Griak, Thom O’Connor; Music: Alex Berglund, Echo Boys; Cast: Matt Cici, Judd Einan, Preceded by the short film: Ahari; PTP Film Annie Einan, Shawn Boyd, Megan Hensley, Ramon Pabon; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 72 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Aden; dir. Gary Lee; Taiwan, USA; 11 min.

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA CORN ISLAND (SIMINDIS KUNDZULI) JULIETTE BINOCHE (THE ENGLISH PATIENT, CHOCOLAT), CHLOË GRACE MORETZ (KICKASS), AND KRISTEN A TINY SEASONAL RIVER ISLAND, AN OLD MAN AND HIS GRANDDAUGHTER, THE CYCLE OF LIFE – A STEWART (TWILIGHT) MESMERIZE IN THIS COMPLEX DRAMA ABOUT THE PRIVATE LIVES OF STARLETS. MIRACLE OF CINEMA. SUN 3/1 7:15PM (CAL) THUR 2/26 5:00PM (CAL) | SUN 3/1 7:00PM (C12) | WED 3/4 6:45PM (C12) Prolific director Olivier Assayas’(Irma Vep, Paris, je t’aime) latest richly explores the female In the Inguri river on the Georgia-Abkhazia border, tiny islands form in the spring, psyche through an impressively multi-layered tale of the interwoven lives of three women only to vanish later with the onset of winter storms. On one of these spots of arable at various stages of life. Veteran actress Maria (Binoche) is offered a role in the revival of land an old man and his granddaughter struggle to raise a crop to see them through the play that launched her career twenty years ago. Only this time around, Maria is given another winter. Though there is almost no dialog, this timeless Everyman’s rough the less glamorous part of the older woman while her previous role, the sultry, scheming hands, his calm weathered face, and piercing gaze speak with an elegance of young girl, is reprised by provocative, rising starlet Jo-Anne (Moretz). Maria reluctantly dignity that transcends language and culture. Variety called this mesmerizing film accepts and retreats to the Swiss Alps with her loyal assistant, Valentine (Stewart) to “an astonishing feat of cinema...an unparalleled big screen experience.” Simple in prepare. However, as the power dynamics between these women grow increasingly concept, astounding in execution, this multiple prize-winning film reveals an unrushed tense, life, seemingly, begins to imitate art. – Vivian Yuen profundity. There are few films like it, and none more beautiful. – Charlie Cockey Director: Olivier Assayas; Producer: Charles Gillibert; Writer: Olivier Assayas; Cinematographer: Yorick Le Director: George Ovashvili; Producers: Nino Devdariani, Eike Goreczka, Guillaume de Seille, Karla Saux; Editor: Marion Monnier; Cast: Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lars Eidinger, Stojakova, Sain Gabdullin; Writers: Nugzar Shataidze, Ovashvili, Roel of Jan Minneboo; Cinematographer: Johnny Flynn, Angela Winkler, Hanns Zischler, Brady Corbet, Nora Von Waldstätten; Country: France, Elemer Ragalyi; Editor: Sun-Min Kim; Music: Josef Bardanashvili; Cast: Ilyas Salman, Mariam Buturishvili, Germany, Switzerland; Language: English; Length: 123 min.; Genre: Drama Irakli Samushia, Tamer Levent; Countries: Georgia, Germany, France, Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Hungary; Sponsored by Steve & Alice Lopes, Western States Oil Co. Languages: Georgian, Abkhazian, Russian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 101 min.; Genre: Drama Sponsored by Jan and Sofia Laskowski

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DESIRE IN NY DRIFT (DRIFTEN) PLEASURE IS HER GREATEST OBSESSION. THE DIFFICULTY OF KEEPING THE PAST IN THE PAST. SAT 2/28 9:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 9:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 4:15PM (C12) SAT 2/28 4:30PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 7:15PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 2:45PM (C12) Sex and alienation play out marvelously in this intense, hypnotizing, and offbeat drama Robert, a troubled former driver in illegal street racing, returns to his hometown set in New York. Karen, a strong-willed businesswoman, lives alone and rarely gets in harboring a dark and painful past. Determined to turn his life around, he takes a job touch with her college-age son. She harbors very peculiar tastes in sex, which involve at a car repair shop but becomes distracted by Alice, a local English teacher who strangers only: Karen picks up men in the street, pretends to be a prostitute, and catches his eye on the bus. An intense intrigue takes over, and Robert finds himself seeks out masochistic experiences through online dating sites. At one point, she pushes going to great lengths to spend time with her under a false identity. However, as her obsession too far… Desire in New York is as much a film about an uncontrollable the two forge a bond, their closeness reveals its danger, and the past threatens to addiction as it is an unabashed exploration of sensuality. It defies easy classifications unravel. A brooding and tense drama, Drift toes the line of a quiet thriller as it steadily and challenges mainstream notions associated with female sexuality. Its bold imagery, pulsates through the buried past of its characters. – Vivian Yuen riveting black-and-white cinematography, and spellbinding soundtrack will make it Director: Karim Patwa; Producers: Anne-Catherine Lang, Olivier Zobrist; Writers: Karim Patwa, Michael linger in your memory long after you’ve left the cinema. – Liva Peterson Proehl; Cinematographer: Phillip Sichler Editor: Stefan Kälin; Music: Jonas Cslovjecsek; Cast: Max Director: Ahmed Ziari; Producers: Ahmed Ziari, Luke Carron; Writer: Ahmed Ziari; Cinematographer: Robert Hubacher, Sabine Timoteo, Scherwin Amini; Country: Switzerland; Language: German (w/ English Christman; Editor: Nicolas Sicurella; Music: Nate Festinger; Cast: Jennifer Gegan, Martin Cohn, Kalon subtitles); Length: 91 min.; Genre: Drama Jackson, Amanda Greer, Michael James Shaw, LoDeon, Kevin J. Medlin; Country: USA; Language: English; Supported by the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. Length: 65 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: 10 Speed; dir. Jordan Hayes; Canada; 25 min.

EADWEARD EIGHTYSEVEN (OCHENTAISIETE) HIS LENS CAPTURED THE WORLD OF MOTION – BUT COULDN’T HELP HIM CONTROL HIS LIFE. ONE NIGHT CAN CHANGE IT ALL. SAT 2/28 1:45PM (C12) | MON 3/2 7:30PM (C12) | WED 3/4 2:15PM (C12) THUR 2/26 3:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 9:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:30PM (C12) In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion Set in Ecuador during a time of unrest, three young boys are at a crossroads as pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film “the motion of life” in they face adulthood. Pablo, Andres, and Juan are always there for each other even all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his jealousy when their own families disappoint them. Along comes Carolina, a free and daring over his beautiful, young wife Flora. As the project progresses, his paranoia over girl who pits Juan and Pablo against each other testing the depth of their friendship. her fidelity consumes him, until questions arise about his son’s paternity, causing As they struggle to repair the holes in their bond, their youthful sense for adventure him to erupt. Writer/director Kyle Rideout and co-writer Josh Epstein (Hop the takes over. A night of joyriding turns turns into one of tragedy forcing Pablo to flee the Twig, Cinequest 2010) captivate with an intimate, poignant portrait of a man whose country. Now, 15 years later, Pablo is back to make amends, forcing the question: maniacal insecurities and blazing genius sprang from the same searing source. have they been able to let go of the past? Or have they each been haunted by the – Pia Chamberlain decisions they made that night? – Alexandra Avila Director: Kyle Rideout; Producer: Josh Epstein; Writers: Josh Epstein, Kyle Rideout; Cinematographer: Tony Directors: Anahi Hoeneisen, Daniel Andrade; Producers: Arturo Yepez, Jose Salvia, Dirk Manthey; Writers: Mirza; Editor: Elisabeth Olga Tremblay; Music: Andrew Penner, Anna Atkinson; Cast: Michael Eklund, Sara Daniel Andrade, Anahí Hoeneisen; Cinematographer: Daniel Andrade; Editors: Javier Andrade, Andres Canning, Christopher Heyerdahl, Jodi Balfour, Torrance Coombs, Jonathon Young Kett Turton, William C. Tambornino; Cast: Michael Noher, Nicolas Andrade, Stefano Bajak, Francisco Perez, Daniela Roepke, Vaughan, Charlie Carrick; Country: Canada; Language: English; Length: 104 min.; Genre: Drama Jessica Barahona, Andres Alvarez, Fernanda Ponce; Countries: Ecuador, Argentina, Germany; Language: Spanish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 89 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Menos Ruidos Mas Sonidos; PTP film

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ELSEWHERE, NY FACTORY BOSS (DA GONG LAO BAN) SEX, LOVE, AND DRAMA IN THE HEADY WORLD OF ELSEWHERE, NY. “MADE IN CHINA” IS NOT JUST A LABEL. THUR 2/26 9:30PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 6:45PM (C12) | WED 3/4 1:45PM (C12) THUR 2/26 6:45PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 7:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 5:00PM (C12) A single encounter that was thought of as best left behind takes an unexpected To survive in a receding business, Lin Dalin, director of a toy factory in Shenzen, turn in the present in this fresh, authentic, and intimate story about a love triangle desperately accepts an order from an American conglomerate with almost no profit in New York. On her first night in the city, Jen meets Todd; she spends the night margin. Cutting corners on worker safety, far behind with employees’ wages, and exposed by an undercover journalist, Lin’s actions bring the enterprise closer and with him, only to discover he has already departed the morning after. Two years closer to the brink of ruin. Both shocking and inspiring, Zhang Wei’s Factory Boss on, Todd reappears and disrupts the life Jen has created with her new boyfriend, is a searing and realistic depiction of sweatshop mass production work in China, Ethan. Tensions build and feelings resurface with a newfound fervor as Jen presenting all facets of a system where everyone – the bosses, the workers, and the and Todd are inescapably drawn to each other, almost as if against their better consumers – is equally responsible. Garnering the Best Actor Award at the Montreal judgment, struggling to find themselves and each other in the eternally changing city. World Film Festival for Yao Anlian, it’s a must see for anyone who has ever purchased Elsewhere, NY is the story about what happens when you’ve fallen in love with the or used anything marked “Made in China”. – Liva Petersone wrong person, only for the right one to reappear. – Liva Petersone Director: Zhang Wei; Producers: Jianqin Shen; Writers: Yang Chen, Dan Li, Songzhang Li, Siwei Luo, Haifan Director: Jeffrey P. Nesker; Producers: Jeffrey P. Nesker, Tom Wilton; Writers: Jeffrey P. Nesker, Tom Wilton; Sun, Bing Wang, Peng Zhang; Cinematographer: Lutz Reitemeier; Editors: Karl Riedl, Yixiang Wu; Cast: Cinematographer: Jeffrey P. Nesker; Editor: Jeffrey P. Nesker; Music: Jason Thomson; Music: Simon Poole; Yan Tang, Yao Anlian, Tang Yan, Zhao Ju, Huang Jingyi, Gao Xueqin, Yun Mengjie; Chen Liang; Country: Cast: Fiona Graham, Andrew Ruth, Andrew Leland Rogers, Gillian Leigh Visco; Countries: Canada, USA; China ; Language: Mandarin (w/ English subtitles); Length: 102 min.; Genre: Drama Language: English; Length: 88 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: The Present; dir. Jacob Frey; Germany; 5 min. Sponsored By Nathan Louie

FOR HERE OR TO GO? THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH PUTTING A FUNNY FACE ON IMMIGRATION WOES. HOW FAR IS TOO FAR FOR THE ULTIMATE DREAM? SAT 2/28 9:15PM (CAL) | FRI 3/6 7:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:15PM (C12) FRI 2/27 7:15PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 4:30PM (C12) | WED 3/4 2:00PM (C12) What does it take to come to a new country for work? Vivek, a hard-working high- When Jonah, recently fired from his newspaper job, goes mysteriously missing, his tech worker, has been offered a promising job. The only problem – his work visa is young wife Maggie has to weigh the hopes of his return against impending financial expiring. Exhausted from battling the US immigration bureaucracy, he is facing an breakdown. The anxiety of the following days threatens to tip her over the edge, yet agonizing choice – turning his back on his roots and staying put or returning to India she hopes any moment could provide the answer to the puzzle of what happened to to start over. Then he meets someone who changes everything for him. American her husband. The Happiest Place on Earth is a brilliant tale told with subtle simplicity, in mind and Indian at heart, this charmer offers a warmhearted, insightful look at cleverly built suspense, and elaborately crafted ambience – a true master class in starting a new life and finding the reason to fight for it. – Alexandra Avila cinematic art from a first-time feature film director, bound to keep you on the edge of the seat until the very last frame of the film. – Liva Petersone Director: Director: Rucha Humnabadkar; Producers: Vineet Sinha, CC Chainey, Rucha Humnabadkar, Rishi S. Bhilawadikar ; Writer: Rishi S. Bhilawadikar; Cinematographer: Tristan Nyby; Editor: Abhijit Deshpande; Director: John Goshorn; Producers: John Goshorn, Kate Jacobs, Julie Opala; Writer: John Goshorn; Cast: Ali Fazal, Melanie Kannokada, Omi Vaidya, Amitosh Nagpal, Rajit Kapur; Country: USA; Language: Cinematographer: Jeffrey Gross; Editors: Austin Boggs, Alan Parker, Kate Shults; Music: Gavin Salkeld; English, Hindi (w/ English subtitles); Length: 105 min.; Genre: Comedy, Drama Cast: Jennifer Faith Ward, Tom Kemnitz Jr, Marco DiGeorge, Peg O’Keef, Chris Lindsay, Daniel Wach; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 81 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Chum; dir. Jörundur Ragnarsson; Iceland; 15 min.

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HAPPY ENDINGS IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN A DESPERATE SLIDE FROM BUSINESSWOMAN TO BANK ROBBER. BATTLE OF THE SEXES!? IT’S A WAR! WED 2/25 7:15PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 7:15PM (C12) | MON 3/2 2:30PM (C12) THUR 2/26 7:15PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 4:30PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 1:15PM (C12) Ankica is the proud owner of a legitimate massage salon, which she runs with her A night of endless possibilities with but one aim: to find a woman for lonely, elderly best friend Ljilja. She dreams of keeping her out-of-work husband and adult daughter Peter. For a hefty fee of $20,000, he books the services of a young, suave escort to in comfort while helping Ljilja pay for her son’s recurring rehab programs. But in help him resolve his views of love, monogamy, and the meaning of life. They embark reality, Ankica’s debts are mounting, and she refuses to add “happy endings” (sexual on a night full of adventures, scouring restaurants, bars, and nightclubs. Both may favors) at the salon to increase revenues. When a loan shark threatens to take her find what they least expected…“I’m sorry, I didn’t realize we were here for IQ’s, I apartment if she does not repay her debt, in desperation, she turns to crime. But thought we were here for women.” Full of similar provocative statements and a battle even with stacks of cash in hand, Ankica realizes that her problems are far from over. Cinematographer Darko Suvak (The Conscientious Objector, Cinequest 2004) makes of two opposing moral systems, as embodied by its protagonists, In the Company of his directorial debut with this complex tale about people who are too young to give Women is a subtle and insightful study of the core wants and needs of both men and up on life, but too old to start all over. – Pia Chamberlain women. – Liva Petersone Director: Darko Šuvak Producers: Aco Crcek, Jozo Patljak, Darko Šuvak; Darko Šuvak Writer: Darko Šuvak; Director: Kahlil Silver; Producers: Kahlil Silver, Shogi Silver, J.B. Silver; Writer: Shogi Silver; Cinematographer: Branko Linta; Editor: Miran Miošic; Music: Nuno Malo; Cast: Areta Curkovic, Daria Cinematographer: Nacime Khemis; Editor: Kahlil Silver; Music: Kahlil Silver; Cast: Paul Eenhoorn, Shogi Lorenci, Mate Gulin, Anita Matic, Zlatan Zuhric-Zuhra, Olga Pakalovic; Country: Croatia; Language: Silver, Clare O’Connor, Brianne Wigeland, Eva Jane; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 98 min.; Croatian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 78 min.; Genre: Drama, Crime Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Load; dir. Robert Niv Shpigel; Israel; 10 min.

KILLSWITCH THE LIFE AFTER (LA VIDA DESPUÉS) EDWARD SNOWDEN AND AARON SWARTZ, ARE THEY HEROES OR TRAITORS? A ROAD TRIP REVIVES THE PAST FOR TWO BROTHERS. SUN 3/1 6:30PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 9:30PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 2:45PM (C12) THUR 2/26 5:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 9:45PM (CAL) | SAT 3/7 NOON (C12) The government is entrusted to protect and serve the citizens of the United States, A note reads: “I had to leave – Mom.” Teenage brothers Rodrigo and Samuel but at what cost? Sacrificing our privacy and/or giving up our freedom of speech? embark on a cross-country road trip in search of their manic-depressive mother The controversial issues of net neutrality, copyright, and national security are among after she disappears, leaving behind only a note. The two brothers share a love-hate those director Ali Akbarzadeh touches on in his informative and passionate film. By relationship, having reacted in opposite ways to an upbringing by a mother with highlighting the cases of Aaron Swartz and his fight against the Stop Online Piracy an enduring mental illness. Younger brother Samuel remains hopeful, constantly Act (SOPA) and Edward Snowden’s decision to leak classified information from worrying about his mother while older brother Rodrigo goes through life obstinately, the National Security Administration (NSA) Killswitch presents a different side not given to an attitude of self-preservation in light of his mother’s neglect. Mexican found in the textbooks. This documentary will open a conversation across different director David Pablos’ debut film takes a hard look at the nature of familial bonds and generations about something much bigger than the Internet – your civil rights. – the obligations they may create as a road trip pushes two brothers to confront each Alexandra Avila other and face the past. – Vivian Yuen Director: Ali Akbarzadeh; Producer: Jeffrey Horn; Writer: Ali Akbarzadeh, Christopher Dollar; Editor: Director: David Pablos; Producers: Karla Bukantz, Henner Hofmann, Veronica Novelo; Writers: David Prichard Smith; Music: Co.fee & Free the Robots; Cast: Lawrence Lessig, Tim Wu, Peter Ludlow; Country: Pablos, Gabriela Vidal; Cinematographer: José de la Torre; Editor: Miguel Salgado; Music: Carlo Ayhllon; USA; Language: English; Length: 72 min.; Genre: Documentary, Drama Cast: Rodrigo Azuela, Américo Hollander, María Renée Prudencio; Country: Mexico; Language: Spanish Preceded by the short film: Fortune Telling; dir. Vijay Rajan; USA; 22 min. (w/ English subtitles); Length: 90 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Familia; PTP Film

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LIFE IN A FISHBOWL (VONARSTRÆTI) MALADY ICELAND’S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM FOR THE OSCARS IS A TOUCHING AND DIVING INTO THE DARK UNDERBELLY OF FORBIDDEN LOVE. COMPLEX DRAMA OF LIFE IN ICELAND. THUR 2/26 9:30PM (C12) | FRI 2/27 10:00PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 NOON (C12) WED 2/25 9:30PM (C12) | THUR 2/26 1:15PM (C12) | MON 3/2 4:15PM (C12) Nothing can quite prepare for such an unorthodox film as Malady, a bold and During Iceland’s 2008 economic meltdown, three people lead a double life in Baldvin dreamlike tale of unconventional romance, long-buried secrets, and the possessive Zophoníasson’s powerhouse drama set in Reykjavik, Iceland. Eik is a single mother intensity of familial bonds. To fulfill the last wish of her deceased mother, grieving and school teacher, who masquerades as a high-end prostitute. Former athlete Holly seeks out love and finds it in Matthew; their relationship swiftly becomes very Sölvi now works in the corporate field and struggles with ethical dilemmas. Mori close and all-encompassing. After receiving the news of Matthew’s ailing mother, is a once-well-respected writer who is now a full-fledged alcoholic. Through very both arrive to provide care in her final days, only to be faced with a nightmarish reality decisive changes, their three lives will intersect in very unexpected ways so that each spiraling out of control. Giving a whole new meaning to the proverbial “keeping it finds redemption. And, although you might think you know what happens with each in the family,” Jack James’ debut feature is as haunting as it is brilliant – a piece of character as you watch, there are many curveballs that reveal a more complicated cinematic art exhibiting sheer audacity and singularity of vision, bound to move and and complex narrative wherein not everything is as it seems. – Michael Rabehl provoke. – Liva Petersone Director: Baldvin Zophoníasson; Producers: Julius Kemp, Ingvar Thordarson; Writers: Baldvin Director: Jack James; Producers: Jack James, Kemal Yildirim; Writer: Jack James; Cinematographer: Jack Zophoníasson, Birgir Steinarsson; Cinematographer: Jóhann Máni Jóhannsson; Editor: Sigurbjörg James; Editor: Jack James; Music: Bradley Oliver-White; Cast: Roxy Bugler, Kemal Yildirim, Jill Connick, Jónsdóttir; Music: Ólafur Arnalds; Cast: Thorsteinn Bachmann, Hera Hilmarsdóttir, Thor Kristjánsson, Gary Cross, Ellen Carter, Nicola Wright; Country: United Kingdom; Language: English; Length: 101 min.; Valur Freyr Gunnarsson, Kristín Lea Sigrídardóttir, Sveinn Olafur Gunnarsson; Country: Genre: Drama Iceland; Language: Icelandic (w/ English subtitles); Length: 130 min.; Genre: Drama

THE MASK YOU LIVE IN MEET THE HITLERS BOYS WILL BE BOYS….REALLY? DOES YOUR NAME MAKE YOU WHO YOU ARE? SAT 2/28 3:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 4:30PM (C12) SUN 3/1 9:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 1:30PM (C12) Much has been written and filmed about society and media’s stereotypes, What would it be like if your last name was Hitler? Director Matt Ogens seeks expectations, and limitations of girls and women – from body image to career that answer by intimately portraying a diverse group of individuals with that same opportunity. Less has been said, studied and filmed about the male in contemporary unfortunate name in this wry, moving, and unforgettable exploration on the issue of society. Jennifer Siebel Newsom (Miss Representation, Sundance 2011) gives boys identity. We meet a popular teen girl who takes her name in stride; an elderly gent their due. Compared to girls, research shows that boys in the U.S. are more likely to born before Hitler came to power; a frightening neo-Nazi who proudly names his son be diagnosed with a behavior disorder, prescribed stimulant medications, fail out of Adolph; and a reporter doggedly tracking down the only living relatives of Adolph. school, binge drink, commit a violent crime, and/or take their own lives. The Mask From comedy to heartbreak to hope, Ogens unveils the spectrum of human emotions You Live In asks: As a society, how are we failing our boys? – Halfdan Hussey as we discover how different individuals cope with the simple, yet complex fate of “Being expected to “man up” from a very young age exacts a heavy price on boys, sharing a name nobody wants. – Sandy Wolf and this project reveals how our current course of male identity needs to be altered.” Director: Matt Ogens; Producer: Matt Ogens; Cinematographers: Charlie Gruet, Jon Michael Ryan; Editors: – L.V. Sundance 2015 Film Festival Guide Bill Chessman, Steve Prestemon; Music: Greg Kuehn; Countries: USA, Germany, Ecuador; Languages: English, German, Spanish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 84 min.; Genre: Documentary Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom; Producers: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jessica Congdon, Jessica Anthony; Writers: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Jessica Congdon; Cinematographer: John Behrens; Editor: Jessica Congdon; Music: Eric Holland; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 75 min.; Genre: Documentary

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OPERATION ARCTIC (OPERASJON ARKTIS) QUEEN AND COUNTRY A MODERN-DAY ROBINSON CRUSOE ADVENTURE SET IN THE ARCTIC FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY! HUMOR, ROMANCE AND EVOCATIVE DRAMA MAKE FOR SNAPSHOT OF FAMILY LIFE AND UNREQUITED THUR 3/5 5:00PM (CAL) | SAT 3/7 2:15PM (C12) LOVE IN POST-WAR ENGLAND. After moving away to a small town with their mother, 13-year-old Julia and her THUR 2/26 7:30PM (CAL) 8-year-old twin siblings, Ida and Sindre, are desperate to see their father in Southern Master director John Boorman (Excalibur, Deliverance, Hope and Glory) beautifully portrays the early 1950s with the warm glow of personal memories from his youth, Norway. The threesome secretly hop aboard a helicopter flying in his direction in as he did with WWII in Hope and Glory. His latest follows 18-year-old Bill Rohan hopes of reaching him. But when the helicopter unexpectedly changes its route, the (Callum Turner), as he is called up for National Service in the British Army. But, stowaways find themselves stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the wild instead of being shipped off to Korea, Bill finds himself in a desk job. This could Arctic Ocean. No one knows where they are, and surrounding them are only hungry be considered “cushy,” but not while working under a regulation-fixated Sergeant polar bears and increasingly intense blizzards. As an Arctic winter approaches full Major (the captivating David Thewlis) whose love for rules seems more masochistic force, the kids must conquer their fears to take on these epic forces of nature and than efficient. Outside of the office, Bill pursues romance with a young blonde who find a way home. – Vivian Yuen is definitely out of his league, yet indulges his pursuit — even if she won’t divulge much about herself. Imbued with nostalgia and sincerity, Boorman creates the same Director: Grethe Bøe-Waal; Producers: Sveinung Golimo, John M. Jacobsen; Writer: Grethe Bøe-Waal; deeply felt emotions and genuine love for characters he has for decades. Very few Cinematographer: Gaute Gunnari; Editor: Anders Refn; Music: Trond Bjerknes; Cast: Line Verndal, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Kristofer Hivju, Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Ida Leonora Valestrand Eike, Leonard Valestrand Eike; filmmakers can be called a legend, and he is one of them. – Michael Rabehl Country: Norway; Language: Norwegian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 89 min.; Genre: Family, Adventure Director: John Boorman; Producers: John Boorman, Kieran Corrigan; Writer: John Boorman; Cinematographer: Seamus Deasy; Editor: Ron Davis; Music: Stephen McKeon; Cast: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, David Thewlis, Richard E. Grant, Tamsin Kirby, Vanessa Kirby, Sinéad Cusack; Country: United Kingdom; Language: English; Length: 105 min.; Genre: Drama

SEA HORSE SHORTS 1: LIFE CONSTANTLY CHANGES US WHO CAN SAY WHERE YOU ARE GOING, AS LONG AS YOU GET THERE. WED 2/25 10:00PM (C12) | FRI 2/27 1:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 10:15PM (C12) THUR 3/5 7:00PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:30PM (C12) Travel the world with this sprawling blend of international films that swing from gentle Stunningly shot against an otherworldly Alaskan backdrop, director Kamell Allaway to tense, comedic to dark, fantastical to all-too-real. A father reconnects with his immerses us in a surreal journey through a strangely beautiful reality. Three women daughter in an all-night diner; two soldiers clash on the battlefield; story time in a – Pearl, Kayla, and Natalie – lead a vagabond lifestyle in the Alaskan wilderness after classroom goes a little bit awry; a crime goes even more off course; a dystopian a mysterious event has left them homeless. While they wander about and struggle future and a dystopian present - get ready for a little bit of everything. to survive, they are haunted by the presence of an inexplicable and menacing Aussi Loin dir. Franziska M. Hoenisch France, Germany supernatural entity. As they come across other survivors and explore the abandoned Camelot dir. Robin Mason United Kingdom Happy Fun Room dir. Greg Pak USA ruins of a past time, they discover that not everybody is driven by the same motives La Princesse de Lamour Damour dir. Arnaud Lalanne France – leaving both their commitment to one another and their wills to survive tested. Life Ending Specialist dir. James Barclay Canada – Vivian Yuen Little Coffins dir. Conner Jessup Canada Newborns dir. Megha Ramaswamy India Director: Kamell Allaway; Producers: Kamell Allaway, Rachel Friedland, Chao Thao, Delmar Washington; Saerto Ena dir. Nikoloz Kevkhishvili USA Writers: Kamell Allaway, Victoria Rose; Cinematographer: Adam Cohen; Editor: Morgan Gross; Music: Tyler RUN TIME: 117 MIN. Westen; Cast: Nicola Carreon, Dana Salah, Kristen Penza, Katie Wallack, Maxie Solters, Hannah Spool, Valerie Brody; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: 94 min.; Genre: Drama

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SHORTS 2: (DIS) CONNECTIONS SHORTS 3: LESSONS LEARNED WED 2/25 7:15PM (C12) | THUR 2/26 7:15PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 4:30PM (C12) FRI 2/27 9:45PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 11:45AM (C12) | TUES 3/3 1:45PM (C12) Friends, family members, lovers; people we’ve just met and those we’ve known our It is in our youth that connections are made that last the rest of our life. This program whole lives: our relationships with each other define who we are, give us insights and focuses on the difficulties, and joys, of being new to the world. From star-crossed perspective on life, and help us grow. This series brings you stories of characters in lovers on a collision course with their pre-destined futures to a young girls taking out pivotal moments as they connect and disconnect with one another—or often do both her quiet rage, these films tell the story of what it means to start down the path of life, at the same time. even when it means facing a sudden end. Certainly not for kids, but these films will The Baddest Part dir. Adam Azimov USA enlighten even the most cynical viewer as to what it means to be young. Barrio Boy dir. Dennis Shinners USA Bernard The Great dir. Marie-Hélène Viens, Philippe Lupien Canada Coney Island Dreams dir. Andrew Serban USA Cold Snap dir. Leo Woodhead New Zealand Cupcake dir. Jane Magnusson Sweden Dead Hearts dir. Stephen W. Martin Canada Home dir. Han Yu China Itsy Bitsy Spiders dir. Bertrand Pare USA Strange Men dir. Andrew Fitzgerald USA My Light in Darkness dir. Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken Norway Through the Breaking Glass dir. Iván Mena-Tinoco Spain Navidad dir. Florencia Davidzon Mexico RUN TIME: 115 MIN. Piss & Vinegar dir. Tatyana Beloy, Dirk Domen Belgium Slap dir. Nick Rowland United Kingdom RUN TIME: 110 MIN.

SHORTS 4: ANIMATED WORLDS SHORTS 8: COLLEGE FILM COMPETITION THUR 2/26 10:00PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 7:15PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 1:30PM (C12) THUR 3/5 10:00PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 9:15PM (C12) Cinequest’s annual animation showcase features more than a dozen incredible films from Student filmmakers represent the auteurs of the future, pushing boundaries and around the world. Animators tell stories of love, life, death, re-birth, and realization in a variety challenging the conventions of style and storytelling. This collection examines of media. From beautiful, hand-painted vistas to stop-motion animation, heartwarming relationships, loneliness and isolation, self-discovery, environmentalism, and romantic tales, adventure, and horror stories; documentaries and experimental gentrification, family, and death in truly deep and thought-provoking ways. animations, these films take the viewer into wholly realized worlds of wonder and awe. Attack of the Killer Trees dir. Valerie Giuili UCLA Bear Story dir. Gabriel Osorio Vargas Chile Bell Jar dir. Joshua Pausanos San Jose State University Behind My Behind dir. David Chai USA Blame dir. Kellee Terrell Columbia College of Chicago Chiaroscuro dir. Daniel Drummond Brazil, USA The Columbarium dir. Tyler Trumbo Stanford University Crow dir. Yoav Segal United Kingdom He Took His Skin Off for Me dir. Ben Aston The London Film School The Dam Keeper dir. Robert Kondo Dice Tsutsumi USA Inch Allah dir. Angelica Romanini Centro de Capacitacion Deadly dir. Aidan McAteer Ireland Cinematografica Dinner for Few dir. Nassos Vakalis Greece, USA Last Stop in Santa Rosa dir. Elizabeth Lo Stanford University Footprints dir. Bill Plympton USA Marvelous Fishman dir. Nisan Dag Columbia University German Shepherd dir. Nils Bergendal Sweden New Mission dir. Christopher Giamo Stanford University Heavenly Peace dir. Andreas Wessel-Therhorn USA No Refuge dir. Jeremy Deneau DeAnza College Jinxy Jenkins, Lucky Lou dir. Michael Bidinger, Michelle Kwon USA Rattlefly dir. Min Ding Columbia University The Last Resort dir. Stephanie Blakey United Kingdom Timmy II dir. Imran J. Khan NYU Tisch School Asia Luna & Lars dir. Anna Zlokovic USA RUN TIME: 113 MIN. Nine dir. Wanichaya Phraejunya, Chawalit Kaewmanee Thailand Teeth dir. Tom Brown, Daniel Gray Hungary, United Kingdom, USA CINEQUEST.ORG 408.295.FEST RUN TIME: 118 MIN. 47 LIFE

SNOW (BARF) SWEDENS COOLEST NATIONAL TEAM KEEPING UP THE APPEARANCES JUST FOR A DAY MORE. BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS…IN MEMORY SPORTS? WED 2/25 5:00PM (C12) | MON 3/2 9:15PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 9:45PM (C12) WED 2/25 7:45PM (C12) | FRI 2/27 5:00PM (C12) | SUN 3/1 1:45PM (C12) Shakespearean scope of conflict and passion abound in this bold, gripping, and Sweden may be the host of the Nobel prize, but it is also home to another variety mesmerizing chamber drama from Iran, attesting that Iranian film is one of the world’s of the mentally-gifted: Grand Masters of Memory. Mattias became a countrywide foremost national cinemas. It is a crucial day in the home of the once – affluent and sensation as a three-time Swedish national champion in the oddly fascinating respected, but now penniless, Vaziri family: they have to ward off debt collectors, mind sport of memory. However, his dominance is threatened when two confident delay foreclosure on their stately house, keep the lid tight on scandalous secrets, and hold on to the reputable image for long enough to honorably receive the long-awaited, newcomers emerge onto the scene armed with their own idiosyncratic methods moneyed suitor of their only daughter. Set over the course of a single day, the film is a of training. This quirky and humorous documentary follows these competitors as remarkable account of crumbling veneers and building tensions. Emotions run high; they face off against one another and prepare for the World Memory Championship rarely in cinema do we see such finely attuned performances from an all-around stellar where the excitement, intensity, and impressive displays of skill rival that of any of the cast and a story that holds a tight grip until the very last moment. – Liva Petersone greatest sporting events. – Vivian Yuen Director: Mehdi Rahmani; Producer: Mehdi Rahmani; Writers: Hosein Mahkam, Mehdi Rahmani, Babak Director: Per-Eric Malm; Producer: Per-Eric Malm; Cinematographers: Steven Bush, Sebastian Malm, Mats Mirzakhani; Cinematographer: Amin Ja’fari; Editor: Hassan Hassandoost; Music: Babak Mirzakhani; Cast: Strömqvist ; Editor: Sebastian Malm; Music: Oskar Schönning; Cast: Mattias Ribbing, Idriz Zogaj, Jonas Roya Teimooriyan, Afshin Hashemi, Mohammad Reza Ghaffari, Anahita Afshar, Rabe’eh Madani, Mina Sadati, von Essen, Marwin Wallonius, Tony Buzan, Ben Pridmore; Country: Sweden; Languages: English, Swedish Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, Milad Keimaram; Country: Iran; Language: Farsi (w/ English subtitles); Length: 90 min.; (w/ English subtitles); Length: 58 min.; Genre: Documentary Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: The Breatharians; Preceded by the short film Sormeh (Iran, 10 min.), dir. Marc Turtletaub; 27 min. dir. by Azadeh Ghochagh

THERE WILL BE NO STAY THREE HEARTS (3 COEURS) A JOURNEY OF COMPASSION AND CONSEQUENCE THROUGH A PROCESS SHROUDED IN SECRECY. CHARLOTTE GAINSBOURG (NYMPHOMANIAC) AND CHIARA MASTROIANNI (AUGUSTINE) STAR AS TWO SUN 3/1 11:30AM (C12) | TUES 3/3 7:30PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 4:15PM (C12) SISTERS ENTANGLED BY A TWIST OF FATE INTO LOVING THE SAME MAN. Capital punishment is a subject that evokes passion from friends and foes alike. THUR 3/5 7:30PM (CAL) But, few consider the effect it has on those whose actual job is to terminate a life— Marc, a tax inspector, misses his train back to Paris and meets a beautiful stranger, the executioners themselves. Delving deeply into the spiritual, psychological, and Sylvie (Gainsbourg). After just a few hours together, they know they are meant to philosophical dichotomies within and surrounding capital punishment, director Patty be together forever. But fate intervenes, and their connection is cut short. Later, Dillon portrays an emotional journey inside execution through firsthand accounts. Marc has met and fallen in love with Sophie (Mastroianni) – without realizing that From a man of God to men trained to protect lives suddenly required to take them, she is Sylvie’s sister. The sisters’ mother (Catherine Deneuve, Mastroianni’s real-life paths intersect as they discover freedom from their own personal prisons. And, mother) presides over the enfolding drama when Marc comes home with Sophie although we tend not to humanize executioners, these men reveal to us emotional and the situation is revealed. Director Benoit Jacquot (Farewell, My Queen; The conflicts and scars related to a job they never sought, but now accept. We not only Counterfeiters) has created an emotionally charged parable of love lost and glimpse inside prison walls, but also inside the heads of complex men who can’t help found again – perhaps too late. – Pia Chamberlain but question the meaning of life in a way that few of us can even fathom. – Sandy Wolf Director: Benoît Jacquot; Producers: Alice Girard, Edouard Weil; Writers: Julien Boivent, Benoît Jacquot; Director: Patty Ann Dillon ; Producer: Patty Ann Dillon, Paul Gandersman, Peter S. Hall; Writer: Patty Ann Cinematographer: Julien Hirsch; Editor: Julia Gregory; Music: Bruno Coulais; Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Dillon ; Cinematographer: Jeremy Osbern; Editor: Nicholas Fackler; Music: Sam Martin; Cast: Allen Ault, Chiara Mastroianni, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve; Countries: France, Germany, Belgium; Craig Baxley, Terry Bracey, Bill Pelke, Carroll Pickett, Jim Willet; Country: USA; Language: English; Length: Language: French (w/ English subtitles); Length: 106 min.; Genre: Drama 71 min.; Genre: Documentary Presented by Steve Schleimer & Cyndi Sherman Preceded by the short film Waking Up; PTP Film 48 LIFE

THREE WINDOWS AND A HANGING THE TRACE OF THE BUTTERFLY (ATHAR AL FARASHA) WHEN TRUTH IS AT ODDS WITH TRADITION AND “HONOR,” MUST THE VICTIMS OF THE PAST SUFFER ANEW? DISCOVERY AND TRANSFORMATION DURING THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION… FRI 2/27 2:30PM (C12) | MON 3/2 4:45PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 4:15PM (C12) THUR 2/26 6:30PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 11:30AM (C12) | FRI 3/6 2:30PM (C12) “So, tell me what happened that day.” A woman from the village speaks to a Mary lives in Egypt and has ridden the wave of the revolution, from triumphantly journalist. When her story is published, the men of the village at first deny even its overthrowing a despot to the realization that under new leadership nothing has really possibility. Four women, raped by enemy soldiers? Here? No. That is too shameful. changed. Director Amal Ramsis takes us inside this volatile political maelstrom, The ensuing revelations change everyone’s lives irrevocably, some for the better, beginning with the Maspero massacre that left 27 demonstrators killed at the hands of Egypt’s military. Among the dead is Mary’s brother, Mina Daniel, known as the some catastrophically. Balancing this struggle to accept the truth against the often “Guevara of the Egyptian Revolution.” Resolute that her brother’s death was not in humorous day-to-day village life, Isa Qosja, director of the wonderfully quirky Kukumi vain, Mary follows in his footsteps, invoking his name and image to incite the cause (Cinequest 2006), has created a serious yet sensitive, compassionate, beautiful film. of freedom. A portrait of discovery and transformation, not only for Mary but for a Already winner of several prizes, and Kosovo’s first ever submission for an Oscar, it is nation’s people, The Trace of the Butterfly reminds us that no matter how hard liberty is arguably the finest Kosovan film ever made. – Charlie Cockey crushed, ideals never die. – Sandy Wolf Director: Isa Qosja; Producers: Mentor Shala, Shkumbin Istrefi; Writer: Zymber Kelmendi; Cinematographer: Director: Amal Ramsis; Producer: Necati Sonmez; Cinematographers: Necati Sonbez, Amal Ramsis; Gökhan Tiryaki; Editor: Agrom Vula; Cast: Irena Cahani, Luan Jaha, Donat Qosja, Xhevat Qorraj, Mirjana Editors: Amal Ramsis, Octavio Iturbe; Music: Anouar Brahem, Mohamed Mohsen; Countries: Egypt, Turkey, Karanovic, Leonora Mehmetaj, Doresa Rexha,; Countries: Kosovo, Serbia; Language: Albanian (w/ English France; Language: Arabic (w/ English subtitles); Length: 68 min.; Genre: Documentary subtitles); Length: 94 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Leidi; dir. Simón Mesa Soto; Colombia, United Kingdom; 8 min.

TRACES OF SANDALWOOD (RASTRES DE SANDAL) UNPLUGGED NANDITA DAS (EARTH, FIRE) AND AINA CLOTET (THE WILD ONES) DELIGHT WHEN EAST MEETS WEST IN A YOU KNOW PAGANINI ON THE VIOLIN, JIMI HENDRIX ON THE GUITAR. NOW MEET THE VIRTUOSI OF ... THE CAPTIVATING SIBLING SAGA. LEAF! TUES 3/3 7:30PM (CAL) | SAT 3/7 2:00PM (CAL) WED 2/25 4:45PM (C12) | WED 3/4 5:00PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 NOON (C12) Director Maria Ripoll (Tortilla Soup) elegantly contrasts the worlds of India and Spain In the heart of the Balkans, where making music is an integral part of life, meet Pera, through the story of two sisters separated when they were very young; Paula (Clotet) a wonderful old farmer who seems to know everything about everything; Josip, has forgotten where she came from, while Mina (Das) has searched for 30 years to inventor of numerous “new” instruments; and the amazing Vera, greatest leaf virtuoso find her family. But, the reunion couldn’t be more difficult — as Paula (born Sita) never of them all. Three musicians – a glimpse into the unknown, all–but–lost art of leaf knew she was adopted, doesn’t know her sister, and must now decide whether or playing. Filled with stunning music as vital yet as fragile as the perishable instrument not she can accept her past. Adapted from her own bestselling novel (co-authored on which it’s played, this lovely film is as much about joy, living in the moment, being by Asha Miro), producer and writer Anna Soler-Pont’s screenplay is pure poetry, alive, as it is about making music. Seeing it, you may just want to go find some leaves while Ripoll’s direction and the lead performances exude the right amount of grace – and make some music yourself. – Charlie Cockey and texture. – Michael Rabehl Director: Mladen Kovacevic; Producer: Mladen Kovacevic, Tahir Aliyev; Writer: Mladen Kovacevic; Director: Maria Ripoll; Producers: Marc De Gouvenain, Josep Amorós; Writer: Anna Soler-Pont; Cinematographer: Pablo Ferro; Editor: Natasa Damjanovic; Music: Nemanja Mosurovic; Countries: Serbia, Cinematographer: Raquel Fernández Nuñez; Editor: Irene Blecua; Music: Zeltia Montez, Simon Smith; Cast: Finland; Language: Serbian (w/ English, French, Spanish subtitles); Length: 52 min.; Genre: Documentary Aina Clotet, Nandita Das, Naby Dakhli, Rosa Novell, Subodh Maskara, Godeliv Van den Brandt; Countries: Preceded by the short film: Not For Sale; dir. Amir Saeidiani; France, Spain, India; Languages: English, Catalan (w/ English subtitles); Length: 95 min.; Genre: Drama France, USA; 22 min.

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WAX: WE ARE THE X WHEN I’M WITH YOU INTRODUCING THE FIRST “SELFIE” FILM – BUT NOT IN THE WAY YOU THINK IT IS. CHOOSING YOUR FRIENDS IS HARD, CHOOSING YOUR FAMILY IS HARDER. SUN 3/1 3:45PM (C12) | TUES 3/3 8:30PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 12:15PM (C12) THUR 2/26 7:00PM (C12) | SAT 2/28 11:15AM (C12) | THUR 3/5 2:00PM (C12) A mysterious video falls into the hands of a troupe of reporters following an accident The only family Lea has is her gay best friend and her angrily defensive teenage involving three thirty-something year olds – two men and a woman. The video brother, and she’s in danger of losing them both. Her brother never answers her chronicles the lives of the trio one week prior, during their road-trip through the calls or texts and seems to be falling in with the wrong crowd at school. She worries French Riviera to shoot a commercial. Shot in the style of found footage – sometimes about the safety of her friend after a string of homophobic attacks and murders with an iPhone – this innovative film touts itself as the first “selfie” movie. But, this isn’t plague their neighborhood. On top of that, she’s in love with him, but he’s quickly a cheeky jab at today’s culture of obsessive self-documentation. Director Lorenzo falling in love with another man. Starkly realistic, tense, and emotional, these three Corvino’s debut film was born out of a desire to capture the spirit and frustrations characters’ stories come to a head when they clash on the dark streets of of Generation X, the post baby boomers who inherited the economic crisis of the New York City. – Nina Zheng prior generation and who now struggle to compete with the increasingly tech-savvy Director: Daniel Armando; Producer: Adrienne Lovette; Writer: Adrienne Lovette; Cinematographer: Ryan younger generations. – Vivian Yuen Balas; Editor: Adrienne Lovette; Music: Michelle Armstrong, Sean Balas; Cast: Adrienne Lovette, Evan Director: Lorenzo Corvino; Producers: Antonio Corvino, Lorenzo Corvino, Giuseppe Manzi; Writer: Lorenzo Price, Anthony Pyatt Jr., John Rice, Reynaldo Piniella, William Perry; Country: USA; Language: English; Corvino; Cinematographers: Caterina Colombo, Corrado Serri; Editor: Mario Marrone; Music: Valeria Length: 98 min; Genre: Drama Vaglio; Cast: Jacopo Maria Bicocchi, Gwendolyn Gourvenec, Davide Paganini; Country: Italy; Language: Italian (w/ English subtitles); Length: 103 min.; Genre: Thriller Preceded by the short film: Snack Moms; PTP Film

GEMMA BOVERY GEMMA ARTERTON (QUANTUM OF SOLACE) STARS IN DIRECTOR ANNE FONTAINE’S (COCO BEFORE CHANEL) CHARMING REIMAGINING OF GUSTAVE FLAUBERT’S CLASSIC MADAME BOVARY. SAT 2/28 7:00PM (CAL) Martin Joubert flees Paris for the idyllic Normandy countryside to take over the family bakery. Village life isn’t quite the expected peaceful living when young British couple, Gemma (Arterton) and Charles Bovery, move in across the street. Martin, a devotee of Flaubert’s work, notes the couple’s curious, uncanny resemblance, both in name and behavior, to the characters of his much-beloved novel. Particularly smitten with the exquisite Gemma, Martin strikes up a closer friendship – hoping for something more – and further confirms the parallels to the novel. As Gemma’s passionate nature drives her into an increasingly precarious love life, will her heart get the best of her? – Vivian Yuen Director: Anne Fontaine; Producers: Matthieu Tarot, Philippe Carcassonne; Writers: Anne Fontaine, Pascal Bonitzer; Cinematographer: Christophe Beaucarne; Editor: Annette Dutertre; Music: Bruno Coulais; Cast: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider; Country: France; Language: French (w/ English subtitles), English; Length: 99 min.; Genre: Drama, Comedy FILMS Sponsored By The Pool On The Hill Gang

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IN THE HEART (ONDER HET HART) MARRY ME (TROUW MET MIJ) THE POWER AND FRAGILITY OF LOVE. WILL THEY SURVIVE THEIR OWN WEDDING DAY? TUES 3/3 6:45PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 9:30PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 9:15PM (C12) SUN 3/1 2:30PM (CAL) | WED 3/4 7:00PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 7:30PM (C12) Masha, a biologist with an attitude, isn’t looking for love. But it finds her anyway, in A magnificent Belgian comedy, Marry Me is a brilliant and exuberant story of vastly the form of Luuk, a caring doctor. Drawn to her fiery tongue and vivacious nature, contrasting people in love. She is a quick-tempered and feisty Turkish woman; he, a Luuk sheds his shyness to approach her. They catapult into a shattering romance, shy and reticent, young Flemish man. Their respective families hold strong – perhaps with Luuk trying to balance the nascent relationship with the needs and resistance of too strong – opinions on the imminent marriage, and, on the big day, chaos ensues, his daughters and ex-wife Suzanne. But before their budding connection has time to making the young couple question their own readiness to commit to a union for bloom into lasting love, fate intervenes, and Masha and Luuk find themselves grappling life. With stellar performances from a strong ensemble cast exuding emotional with questions usually encountered only after decades of marriage. Passion, humor, powerhouse moments, this film is a genuine life – affirming experience touching upon and heart-wrenching drama fill director Nicole van Kilsdonk’s emotionally haunting and universal themes of prejudice, hatred, acceptance, trust, and forgiveness in a truly poignant tale of love – stirring and seducing the heart. –Pia Chamberlain captivating and ardent way. – Liva Petersone Director: Nicole van Kilsdonk; Producers: Ineke Kanters, Jan van der Zanden; Writer: Peer Wittenbols; Director: Kadir Balci; Producer: Dries Phlypo, Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem; Writer: Kadir Balci , Jean- Cinematographer: Richard Van Oosterhout; Editor: Dieter Diependaele; Music: Tino Biddeloo, Nicola Claude van Rijckeghem; Cinematographer: Ruben Impens; Editor: Alain Dessauvage; Music: Moritz Lancerotti, Karen Williems, Nik Phelps; Cast: Kim van Kooten, Koen De Graeve, Lies Visschedijk, Hanna Schmittat; Cast: Sirin Zahed, Dries de Sutter, Burak Balci, Anouk David, Rudi Delhem; Country: Belgium; Obbeek, Lizzy Van Vieuten, Frank Lammers; Country: The Netherlands; Language: Dutch (w/ English Languages: Dutch, Turkish (w/ English subtitles); Length: 90 min.; Genre: Comedy, Drama subtitles); Length: 104 min.; Genre: Drama Preceded by the short film: Palindromes; dir. Nicholas Colla; Australia; 8 min. Sponsored By Virginia & Jim Lyons

PLAN BART RELATIVE HAPPINESS IT WAS NO STRINGS ATTACHED…OR SO THEY THOUGHT. SHE’S LOOKING FOR LOVE WITH A BLINDFOLD ON. TUES 3/3 7:15PM (C12) | THUR 3/5 7:15PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 6:45PM (C12) THUR 3/5 8:30PM (C12) | FRI 3/6 9:30PM (C12) | SAT 3/7 7:00PM (C12) Sarah has it all – almost. She’s beautiful and successful, with a handsome, rich Lexi, a plus-size gal with a heart to match, can bake an irresistible blueberry cream boyfriend Alex who loves her. The only thing missing? A baby - and Alex is not on cake and run an inviting B&B in Nova Scotia, but she can’t find the man of her board. Enter Bart, a grungy, professional medical guinea pig, whose biggest ambition dreams – or a date to her sister’s wedding. When an attractive lodger appears on in life is to win an international air guitar contest. He’s also an ex-flame of Sarah’s-- Lexi’s doorstep, she pulls out all the stops to enfold him into her romantic fantasy, and he needs cash. Problem solved! But along the way, Sarah’s perfect, strings-free but divulged secrets and a family tragedy unravel her careful construction and leave plan (complete with 16-page contract) begins to spin out of control. Will she follow her reeling. Will Lexi drop her romantic script and see that true happiness comes her heart? Where will it lead? A funny, tender, and a little bit naughty look at the from being who you really are? You’ll be rooting for this funny, irreverent, and lovable intersection of sex, procreation, and love. – Pia Chamberlain woman all the way. – Pia Chamberlain Director: Roel Mondelaers; Producers: Bert Hamelinck, Ivy Vanhaecke; Writers: Roel Mondelaers, Hans Director: Deanne Foley; Producers: Alan Collins, Jill Knox-Gosse, Lynne Wilson; Writers: Lesley Crewe, Van Nuffel; Cinematographer: Philip van Volsem; Editor: Philippe Ravoet; Music: Raf Keunen; Cast: Wine Deanne Foley, Iain Macleod, Sherry White; Cinematographer: Christopher Porter; Editor: Chris Darlington; Dierickx, Wouter Hendrickx, Jeroen Perceval; Country: Belgium; Languages: Dutch, French (w/ English Cast: Melissa Bergland, Aaron Poole, Johnathan Sousa, Susan Kent, Joel Thomas Hynes, Molly Dunsworth; subtitles); Length: 86 min.; Genre: Romance, Comedy Music: Duane Andrews; Country: Canada; Language: English; Length: 97 min.; Genre: Romantic Comedy Preceded by the short film: For Ofelia; dir. Christopher Loanzon; Philippine; 15 min.

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SWEDEN'S COOLEST THE HAPPIEST PLACE THE CENTER BAD CITY CAMERA 12 PAGE 41 PAGE 35 SCREEN 10 NATIONAL TEAM ON EARTH PAGE 48 PAGE 43 9:30 - 10:53 PM MIDNIGHT - 1:40 AM 5:00 - 6:25 PM 7:15 - 8:51 PM

FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON THREE WINDOWS AMNESIA MILWAUKEE FOREVER INTO SPACE CAMERA 12 PAGE 37 SCREEN 12 PAGE 37 AND A HANGING PAGE 32 PAGE 38 NOON - 1:36 PM PAGE 49 4:45 - 6:16 PM 7:00 - 8:41 PM 9:30 - 11:20 PM 2:30 - 4:04 PM 54 SCHEDULE

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

THE STRONGEST MAN PICTURE THE POSSIBILITIES SUMMIT GEMMA BOVERY FOR HERE OR TO GO? CALIFORNIA PAGE 39 PAGE 21 PAGE 50 THEATRE PAGE 43 11:00 AM - 12:39 PM 3:00 - 5:00 PM 7:00 - 8:39 PM 9:15 - 11:00 PM

STILL DREAMING SHORTS PROGRAM 9 SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT HEALING A SOLDIER’S HEART MADE IN JAPAN CAMERA 12 PAGE 30 PAGE 30 PEOPLE SHE KNOWS PAGE 29 PAGE 29 SCREEN 7 10:45 AM - 12:20 PM 1:00 - 2:19 PM PAGE 39 6:00 - 7:29 PM 8:15 - 9:45 PM 3:15 - 4:50 PM

THE TRACE OF THE BUTTERFLY CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC DRIFT ALLY WAS SCREAMING DESIRE IN NEW YORK CAMERA 12 PAGE 29 PAGE 42 SCREEN 8 PAGE 49 PAGE 31 PAGE 42 11:30 AM - 12:54 PM 2:00 - 3:34 PM 4:30 - 6:01 PM 7:00 - 8:28 PM 9:30 - 10:48 PM

THE ANNIVERSARY THE MASK YOU LIVE IN HOW TO LOSE JOBS AND FACTORY BOSS THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET CAMERA 12 PAGE 35 PAGE 45 ALIENATE GIRLFRIENDS PAGE 43 PAGE 33 SCREEN 9 12:30 - 2:00 PM 3:00 - 4:28 PM PAGE 38 7:30 - 9:15 PM 10:00 - 11:49 PM 5:30 - 6:49 PM

CLEW FEVER ONE DAY IN APRIL HAPPY ENDINGS DIRTY BEAUTIFUL BAD EXORCISTS CAMERA 12 PAGE 36 PAGE 35 SCREEN 10 PAGE 32 PAGE 32 PAGE 29 PAGE 44 11:45 AM - 1:34 PM 2:30 - 4:15 PM 5:00 - 6:30 PM 7:15 - 8:44 PM 9:30 - 11:05 PM MIDNIGHT - 1:29 AM

CAMERA 12 WHEN I’M WITH YOU EADWEARD IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN ANTOINE ET MARIE DERMAPHORIA SCREEN 12 PAGE 50 PAGE 42 PAGE 44 PAGE 40 PAGE 32 11:15 AM - 12:55 PM 1:45 - 3:29 PM 4:30 - 6:05 PM 7:00 - 8:25 PM 9:15 - 10:44 PM

SUNDAY MARCH 1 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

GONZALEZ MARRY ME CRESCENDO! CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA CHASING BERLUSCONI CALIFORNIA PAGE 33 PAGE 26 PAGE 41 THEATRE PAGE 51 PAGE 36 NOON - 1:50 PM 2:30 - 4:14 PM 5:00 - 6:30 PM 7:15 - 9:15 PM 9:45 - 11:10 PM

CAMERA 12 SHORTS PROGRAM 3 FOREVER INTO SPACE ASPIE SEEKS LOVE DRIFT BAD CITY SCREEN 7 PAGE 47 PAGE 37 PAGE 28 PAGE 42 PAGE 35 11:45 AM - 1:35 PM 2:15 - 4:05 PM 4:45 - 6:10 PM 7:15 - 8:46 PM 9:30 - 11:10 PM

THERE WILL BE NO STAY SWEDEN’S COOLEST WAX: WE ARE THE X KILLSWITCH MEET THE HITLERS CAMERA 12 PAGE 48 NATIONAL TEAM PAGE 50 PAGE 44 PAGE 45 SCREEN 8 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM PAGE 48 3:45 - 5:28 PM 6:30 - 8:04 PM 9:00 - 10:24 PM 1:45 - 3:10 PM

MADE IN JAPAN THE CENTER BAD EXORCISTS MISS INDIA AMERICA THE SILENT CAMERA 12 PAGE 41 SCREEN 9 PAGE 29 PAGE 35 PAGE 38 PAGE 34 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM 1:30 - 2:55 PM 4:00 - 5:33 PM 6:15 - 7:48 PM 8:45 - 10:45 PM

ASTRAEA BARCO ESCAPE: THE MAZE RUNNER BARCO ESCAPE: SHORTS ELSEWHERE, NY CRUSHED LIVES SEX OR KIDS?! CAMERA 12 PAGE 43 PAGE 36 SCREEN 10 PAGE 40 PAGE 19 PAGE 18 11:30 AM - 1:05 PM 2:00 - 4:10 PM 4:45 - 6:15 PM 6:45 - 8:10 PM 9:00 - 10:42 PM

DIRTY BEAUTIFUL MILWAUKEE THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH CORN ISLAND THE STRONGEST MAN CAMERA 12 PAGE 39 SCREEN 12 PAGE 36 PAGE 38 PAGE 43 PAGE 41 11:15 AM - 12:50 PM 1:45 - 3:26 PM 4:30 - 6:06 PM 7:00 - 8:40 PM 9:30 - 11:09 PM

MONDAY MARCH 2 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

FEVER SLOW WEST DERMAPHORIA CALIFORNIA PAGE 32 PAGE 34 THEATRE PAGE 32 5:00 - 6:20 PM 7:30 - 9:00 PM 9:30 - 10:59 PM

CAMERA 12 SHORTS PROGRAM 5 SHORTS PROGRAM 6 A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY SHORTS PROGRAM 1 SCREEN 7 PAGE 34 PAGE 30 PAGE 28 PAGE 46 2:30 - 4:22 PM 5:15 - 7:09 PM 8:00 - 9:28 PM 10:15 PM - 12:12 AM

THREE WINDOWS AND CRESENDO! DESIRE IN NEW YORK CAMERA 12 PAGE 26 SCREEN 8 A HANGING PAGE 42 PAGE 49 7:00 - 8:30 PM 9:15 - 10:33 PM 4:45 - 6:19 PM

CAMERA 12 HOW TO LOSE JOBS AND ONE DAY IN APRIL HEALING A SOLDIER’S HEART EADWEARD THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET SCREEN 9 ALIENATE GIRLFRIENDS PAGE 29 PAGE 29 PAGE 42 PAGE 33 PAGE 38 3:00 - 4:30 PM 5:15 - 6:44 PM 7:30 - 9:14 PM 10:00 - 11:49 PM 1:00 - 2:19 PM

GONZALEZ HAPPY ENDINGS MEET THE HITLERS ANTOINE ET MARIE ALLY WAS SCREAMING CAMERA 12 PAGE 40 PAGE 31 SCREEN 10 PAGE 33 PAGE 44 PAGE 45 NOON - 1:50 PM 2:30 - 3:59 PM 4:45 - 6:09 PM 7:00 - 8:25 PM 9:15 - 10:43 PM

LIFE IN A FISHBOWL SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT SNOW CAMERA 12 PAGE 48 SCREEN 12 PAGE 45 PEOPLE SHE KNOWS 4:15 - 6:23 PM PAGE 39 9:15 - 10:45 PM 7:00 - 8:35 PM

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TUESDAY MARCH 3 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

DIRTY BEAUTIFUL TRACES OF SANDALWOOD AFTERLIFE CALIFORNIA PAGE 36 PAGE 49 THEATRE PAGE 35 5:00 - 6:35 PM 7:30 - 9:05 PM 9:45 - 11:15 PM

CAMERA 12 SHORTS PROGRAM 3 SHORTS PROGRAM 2 PLAN BART SHORTS PROGRAM 5 SCREEN 7 PAGE 47 PAGE 47 PAGE 51 PAGE 34 1:45 - 3:35 PM 4:30 - 6:25 PM 7:15 - 8:48 PM 9:30 - 11:22 PM

CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC FACTORY BOSS THERE WILL BE NO STAY KILLSWITCH CAMERA 12 PAGE 43 PAGE 48 SCREEN 8 PAGE 29 PAGE 44 2:30 - 4:04 PM 5:00 - 6:45 PM 7:30 - 8:49 PM 9:30 - 11:04 PM

ASTRAEA THE CENTER IN THE HEART HOW TO LOSE JOBS AND CAMERA 12 PAGE 40 PAGE 41 PAGE 51 ALIENATE GIRLFRIENDS SCREEN 9 2:00 - 3:35 PM 4:30 - 5:53 PM 6:45 - 8:29 PM PAGE 38 9:15 - 10:34 PM

CRUSHED LIVES SEX OR KIDS?! DRIFT THE ANNIVERSARY L’ANTALANTE CHASING BERLUSCONI CAMERA 12 PAGE 24 PAGE 36 SCREEN 10 PAGE 36 PAGE 42 PAGE 35 12:15 - 1:57 PM 2:45 - 4:16 PM 5:15 - 6:45 PM 7:30 - 9:00 PM 10:00 - 11:22 PM

BAD CITY BEAST OF CARDO WAX: WE ARE THE X CAMERA 12 PAGE 50 SCREEN 12 PAGE 35 PAGE 40 3:30 - 5:10 PM 6:00 - 7:39 PM 8:30 - 10:13 PM

WEDNESDAY MARCH 4 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

MILWAUKEE KILL ME THREE TIMES GUARD DOG CALIFORNIA PAGE 38 THEATRE PAGE 33 PAGE 33 5:00 - 6:41 PM 7:30 - 9:00 PM 9:30 - 11:00 PM

CAMERA 12 SHORTS PROGRAM 7 A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY 40 DAYS OF SILENCE SCREEN 7 PAGE 38 PAGE 28 PAGE 39 4:45 - 6:39 PM 7:30 - 8:58 PM 9:45 - 11:13 PM

CRESCENDO! ASPIE SEEKS LOVE UNPLUGGED ONE DAY IN APRIL STILL DREAMING CAMERA 12 PAGE 49 PAGE 29 SCREEN 8 PAGE 26 PAGE 28 PAGE 30 NOON - 1:30 PM 2:45 - 4:10 PM 5:00 - 6:14 PM 7:00 - 8:30 PM 9:15 -10:50 PM

CAMERA 12 ELSEWHERE, NY CLEW CORN ISLAND HALFWAY SCREEN 9 PAGE 43 PAGE 32 PAGE 41 PAGE 37 1:45 - 3:10 PM 4:15 - 6:04 PM 6:45 - 8:25 PM 9:15 - 11:10 PM

CAMERA 12 EADWEARD ANTOINE ET MARIE SCREEN 10 PAGE 42 PAGE 40 2:15 - 3:59 PM 4:45 - 6:10 PM

THE HAPPIEST PLACE FOREVER INTO SPACE MARRY ME BEATLES CAMERA 12 PAGE 41 SCREEN 12 ON EARTH PAGE 37 PAGE 51 PAGE 43 4:15 - 6:05 PM 7:00 - 8:44 PM 9:30 - 11:20 PM 2:00 - 3:36 PM

THURSDAY MARCH 5 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

OPERATION ARCTIC THREE HEARTS THE LIFE AFTER CALIFORNIA PAGE 48 THEATRE PAGE 46 PAGE 44 5:00 - 6:36 PM 7:30 - 9:16 PM 9:45 - 11:15 PM

CAMERA 12 WAX: WE ARE THE X KILLSWITCH SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT SHORTS PROGRAM 4 SHORTS PROGRAM 8 SCREEN 7 PAGE 50 PAGE 44 PEOPLE SHE KNOWS PAGE 47 PAGE 47 12:15 - 1:58 PM 2:45 - 4:19 PM PAGE 39 7:15 - 9:13 PM 10:00 - 11:53 PM 5:00 - 6:35 PM

CAMERA 12 BOOZE BOYS AND BROWNIES DESIRE IN NEW YORK HEALING A SOLDIER’S HEART RELATIVE HAPPINESS SCREEN 8 PAGE 36 PAGE 42 PAGE 29 PAGE 51 1:45 - 3:23 PM 4:15 - 5:33 PM 6:15 - 7:44 PM 8:30 - 10:04 PM

CAMERA 12 ALLY WAS SCREAMING ZEMENE THE YEAR WE THOUGHT EIGHTYSEVEN SCREEN 9 PAGE 31 PAGE 31 ABOUT LOVE PAGE 42 2:30 - 3:58 PM 4:45 - 6:03 PM PAGE 30 9:00 - 10:28 PM 7:00 - 8:17 PM

BAD EXORCISTS MISS INDIA AMERICA PLAN BART IN THE HEART CAMERA 12 PAGE 51 PAGE 51 SCREEN 10 PAGE 35 PAGE 38 2:45 - 4:10 PM 5:00 - 6:33 PM 7:15 - 8:48 PM 9:30 - 11:14 PM

WHEN I’M WITH YOU MADE IN JAPAN SEA HORSE THE HAMSTERS CAMERA 12 PAGE 37 SCREEN 12 PAGE 50 PAGE 29 PAGE 46 2:00 - 3:40 PM 4:30 - 6:00 PM 7:00 - 8:34 PM 9:15 - 10:42 PM 56 SCHEDULE

FRIDAY MARCH 6 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

CALIFORNIA SILENT CINEMA: THE CROWD THEATRE PAGE 15 7:30 - 9:08 PM

CAMERA 12 SHORTS PROGRAM 4 THERE WILL BE NO STAY SHORTS PROGRAM 7 SHORTS PROGRAM 8 SHORTS SCREEN 7 PAGE 47 PAGE 48 PAGE 38 PAGE 47 PROGRAM 5 1:30 - 3:28 PM 4:15 - 5:34 PM 6:30 - 8:24 PM 9:15 - 11:09 PM PAGE 34 MIDNIGHT - 1:51 AM

MALADY A PHOTOGRAPHER’S JOURNEY DERMAPHORIA APPLES FROM THE DESERT RELATIVE HAPPINESS CAMERA 12 PAGE 32 PAGE 40 SCREEN 8 PAGE 45 PAGE 28 PAGE 51 NOON - 1:41 PM 2:15 - 3:43 PM 4:30 - 5:59 PM 7:00 - 8:36PM 9:30 - 11:04 PM

CAMERA 12 IN THE COMPANY OF WOMEN HALFWAY AFTERLIFE SNOW SCREEN 9 PAGE 44 PAGE 37 PAGE 35 PAGE 48 1:15 - 2:50 PM 4:00 - 5:55 PM 7:30 - 9:00 PM 9:45 - 11:15 PM

THE TRACE OF THE BUTTERFLY SEA HORSE FOR HERE OR TO GO? BOOZE BOYS AND BROWNIES CAMERA 12 PAGE 43 PAGE 36 SCREEN 10 PAGE 49 PAGE 46 2:30 - 3:54 PM 4:45 - 6:19 PM 7:00 - 8:45 PM 9:30 - 11:08 PM

STILL DREAMING 40 DAYS OF SILENCE THE SILENT MARRY ME GUARD DOG CAMERA 12 PAGE 33 SCREEN 12 PAGE 30 PAGE 39 PAGE 34 PAGE 51 12:15 - 1:50 PM 2:30 - 3:58 PM 4:45 -6:45 PM 7:30 - 9:14 PM 10:00 - 11:30 PM

SATURDAY MARCH 7 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

BEATLES TRACES OF SANDALWOOD GONZALEZ CHAMPS FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON CALIFORNIA PAGE 49 PAGE 33 PAGE 28 THEATRE PAGE 41 PAGE 37 11:30 AM - 1:20 PM 2:00 - 3:35 PM 4:15 - 6:05 PM 7:00 - 8:25 PM 9:30 - 11:06 PM

SHORTS PROGRAM 9 SHORTS PROGRAM 7 THREE WINDOWS SHORTS PROGRAM 6 IN THE HEART CAMERA 12 PAGE 30 PAGE 38 AND A HANGING PAGE 30 PAGE 51 SCREEN 7 11:00 AM - 12:19 PM 1:15 - 3:09 PM PAGE 49 6:30 - 8:24 PM 9:15 - 10:59PM 4:15 - 5:49 PM

UNPLUGGED ZEMENE BEAST OF CARDO RELATIVE HAPPINESS EIGHTYSEVEN CAMERA 12 PAGE 40 PAGE 51 SCREEN 8 PAGE 49 PAGE 31 PAGE 42 NOON - 1:14 PM 2:15 - 3:33 PM 4:30 - 6:09 PM 7:00 - 8:34 PM 9:30 - 10:58 PM

THE YEAR WE THOUGHT MEET THE HITLERS AMNESIA HALFWAY THE SILENT CAMERA 12 ABOUT LOVE PAGE 45 PAGE 32 PAGE 37 PAGE 34 SCREEN 9 PAGE 30 1:30 - 2:54 PM 4:00 - 5:31 PM 6:30 - 8:25 PM 9:15 - 11:15 PM 11:15 AM - 12:32 PM

BARCO ESCAPE: SHORTS BARCO ESCAPE: THE MAZE RUNNER THE HAMSTERS APPLES FROM THE DESERT SEA HORSE THE HOUSE ON CAMERA 12 PAGE 18 PAGE 19 PAGE 37 PAGE 40 PAGE 46 PINE STREET SCREEN 10 11:30 AM -1:00 PM 2:00 - 4:10 PM 5:00 - 6:27 PM 7:15 - 8:51 PM 9:30 - 11:04 PM PAGE 33 MIDNIGHT - 1:48 AM

THE LIFE AFTER OPERATION ARCTIC THE MASK YOU LIVE IN PLAN BART FOR HERE OR TO GO? CAMERA 12 PAGE 43 SCREEN 12 PAGE 44 PAGE 46 PAGE 45 PAGE 51 NOON - 1:30 PM 2:15 - 3:50 PM 4:30 - 5:59 PM 6:45 - 8:18 PM 9:15 - 11:00 PM

SUNDAY MARCH 8 11 AM NOON 1 PM 2 PM 3 PM 4 PM 5 PM 6 PM 7 PM 8 PM 9 PM 10 PM 11 PM MIDNIGHT

ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS CLOSING NIGHT: 5 TO 7 CALIFORNIA THEATRE PAGE 7 6:00 - 8:00 PM

CAMERA 12 ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS SCREEN 7

ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS CAMERA 12 ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS SCREEN 8

ENCORE SCREENINGS CAMERA 12 ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS SCREEN 9

BARCO ESCAPE: SHORTS BARCO ESCAPE: THE MAZE RUNNER ENCORE SCREENINGS CAMERA 12 PAGE 19 SCREEN 10 PAGE 18 1:00 - 2:30 PM 3:30 - 5:40 PM

CAMERA 12 ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS ENCORE SCREENINGS SCREEN 12

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