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ashlandfilm.org FESTIVAL GUESTS Special Guest: Matías Piñeiro Born in Argentina in 1982, Matías Piñeiro has already directed seven films that play with characters and Indie Innovators concepts from Shakespeare and explore the slippery Lifetime Achievement Award: James Ivory boundaries between text and image, narrative and AIFF2017 welcomes home acclaimed director and reality. AIFF2017 will screen his latest feature—and first English- Klamath Falls native James Ivory, co-founder of language film—and two shorter recent films. Merchant Ivory Productions. With the late Ismail Fri 4/7, 12:40p | Sat 4/8, 9:40pm | Sun 4/9, 3:40pm |Mon 4/10 3:40pm | Varsity Merchant, he made 24 feature films over their 44‐year Hermia & Helena partnership—the longest in filmmaking history. Thurs 4/6, 9:30pm | Fri 4/7, 10am | Sun 4/9, 6:30pm | Varsity Rosalinda and Viola Friday 4/7 | 6:40pm | Historic Ashland Armory Maurice (30th anniversary) Indie Institutions Saturday 4/8 | 3pm | Varsity Howards End (25th anniversary) Skylight Creative Director Pamela Yates and Executive Rogue Award: Alex Cox Director Paco de Onis will join us to celebrate Filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man and Sid & Nancy) 30 years of Skylight’s commitment to artistic, makes his home in Southern Oregon. His latest crowd- challenging, and socially relevant media. funded film Tombstone Rashomon, an homage to AIFF2017 presents Skylight’s Resistance Saga Akira Kurosawa, is steeped in the mythology of the which follows Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population and its fight Old West. Join Alex and fellow southern Oregonian for self-determination over three decades. Phil Thomas, art director ofMcCabe & Mrs. Miller, for a conversation The Resistance Saga about westerns. Thurs 4/6, 3:30pm | Fri 4/7, 12:30pm | Sun 4/9, 9:40am | Varsity Friday 4/7 | 6:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema When the Mountains Tremble (1983) McCabe & Mrs. Miller Fri 4/7, 6:30pm | Sat 4/8, 12:30pm | Sun 4/9, 12:10pm | Varsity Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011) Saturday 4/8 | 6:40pm | Ashland Street Cinema Tombstone Rashomon Saturday 4/8 | 3:30pm | Historic Ashland Armory 500 Years (2017) Faerie Godmother Award: Rachel Lambert Zeitgeist Films AIFF in partnership with POWFest in Portland presents its Founded in 1988 by Nancy Gerstman and Emily Russo, annual award to a rising female director. Rachel Lambert Zeitgeist Films was the first distributor to release early work will screen In the Radiant City, her feature debut, at by Atom Egoyan, Guy Maddin, and Todd Haynes and now AIFF2017. Generously supported by the Faerie Godmother focuses primarily on documentary and world cinema. Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. AIFF2017 will screen Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Thurs 4/6, 6pm | Fri 4/7, 9pm | Sun 4/9, 12pm | Varsity Story with Nancy Gerstman and director Daniel Raim in attendance. In the Radiant City Sunday 4/9 | 9:30am | Historic Ashland Armory Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Pride Award: Jenni Olson Jenni Olson is an archivist, writer, and one of the world’s leading experts on LGBT film history. AIFF Merchandise 2017 Her cinematic memoir The Royal Road premiered Travel Essentials, 252 E. Main St. at Sundance as did her short doc 575 Castro St. March 15–April 15 Jenni is also the producer of The Freedom to Marry. Pride Award funded by the Equity Foundation. T-shirt: $20 (Women’s & Men’s) Friday 4/7 | 12pm | Historic Ashland Armory Messenger Bag: $30 The Freedom to Marry Baseball Cap: $20 Poster: $5 Sunday 4/9 | 12:40pm | Varsity Stickers: $3ea. or 2 for $5 The Royal Road and 575 Castro St. 100% of sales benefit AIFF

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org FESTIVAL EVENTS Slanty Eyed Mama LIVE Saturday 4/8 | 9:30pm | Historic Ashland Armory Parties Don’t miss a LIVE performance after the documentaryHappy Lucky Opening Night Bash Golden Tofu Good Time Fun Fun Show with the group featured in the film. Savor the Rogue® presented by founding sponsor Rogue Creamery Slanty Eyed Mama is a music and spoken word duo featuring electric Thursday 4/6 | 7-10pm | Ashland Springs Hotel | $30 violin, samples, and beats by virtuoso slash rocker Lyris Hung and the An evening of artisan food and drink with the filmmakers and festival comedic, political, lyrical words of actor-comedian Kate Rigg. guests of AIFF2017. Filmmaker TalkBack Panels Awards Celebration 10-11:30am | Ashland Springs Hotel | FREE (ticket required) Sunday 4/9 | 7:30-11pm | Historic Ashland Armory | $75 Friday 4/7: Filming Activists – AIFF2017 filmmakers Peter Bratt(Dolores) , Toast the Juried and Audience Award winners with delicious fare Pamela Yates (Resistance Saga), and others will discuss the responsibilities from the Rogue Valley’s finest establishments. of documentary filmmakers to the political activists they portray. AfterLounge 5pm-1am nightly Saturday 4/8: Indie Documentary Journalism in the Age of Thursday 4/6: Liquid Assets Fake News – The practice of investigative cinematic journalism and Friday 4/7: Thai Pepper Restaurant its urgency today will be discussed by a panel of AIFF2017 filmmakers. Saturday 4/8: Brickroom | Karaoke starts at 9pm Sunday 4/9: The Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant Sunday 4/9: Cinematic Literature – Join AIFF2017 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient James Ivory and innovative Argentine Expanded Cinema filmmaker Matías Piñeiro in a conversation moderated by Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Bill Rauch. Convergence: Digital Media and Technology 4/5–5/27 | Schneider Museum of Art Community Conversations with Co-curated by Richard Herskowitz and Scott Malbaurn, this exhibition Marla Estes & Kay Sandberg features work by Nina Katchadourian, Ken Matsubara, Peter Sarkisian, Fri 4/7, Sat 4/8 & Sun 4/9 | 5:15-6:45pm | Elks Club, 255 E. Vanessa Renwick, and other artists. Immerse yourself in playful and Main St. (2nd Street & Lithia Way) | FREE (no ticket required) surprising media art that includes Vanessa’s interactive installation Medusa Join Marla Estes and Kay Sandberg for in-depth conversations about Smack—a “jellyfish tent” of meditative music and images. how three provocative AIFF2017 films affected you and other attendees. Virtual Reality Gallery and Docs Viewers’ personal responses and possible social action points will be Saturday 4/8 | 2-5pm | FREE | ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum the focus of discussion. Experience a gallery of innovative animations created expressly for virtual reality. Available for viewing on HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Samsung Gear VENUES headsets and suitable for ages 12 and older. Then join AIFF filmmakers Drea Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main Street Cooper and Zack Canepari as they guide viewers through some of their Ashland Street Cinema, 1644 Ashland Street favorite online VR documentaries, including their own—Policing Flint. Historic Ashland Armory, 208 Oak Street Don’t forget to bring your IOS or Android smartphones or tablets and earbuds/ Ashland Springs Hotel, 212 E. Main Street headphones so we can provide you with VR headsets and help you set up VR apps. ScienceWorks Hands-On Museum, 1500 E. Main Street Schneider Museum of Art, 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Live Performances Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles Saturday 4/8 | 3:40pm | Varsity During the screening of this silent documentary, director Rick Prelinger will lead the audience in spontaneous commentary as absorbing archival images of Los Angeles history unfold. You are the live soundtrack. Hope and Prey and the Medusa Smack Saturday 4/8 | 7pm | Schneider Museum of Art Renowned Portland artist and experimental filmmaker Vanessa Renwick and musician Tara Jane O’Neil will perform the score of Medusa Smack live followed by Vanessa’s three-screen projection piece, Hope and Prey, which features stunning cinematography of wolves in the wild.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org SHORT FILM PROGRAMS At the Varsity Theater unless otherwise noted. For film titles, order of play, and descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org 2017 FESTIVAL FILMS After Hours Shorts: Always an audience favorite, our late-night For full descriptions of all films, visit ashlandfilm.org mix of edgy and boundary-expanding short films. Subtitles Animators of LAIKA with Mark Shapiro: A selection of animated shorts from the immensely talented employees of LAIKA, the Documentary Features Portland-based stop-motion animation studio. Presented by LAIKA 500 Years Armory head of marketing and longtime AIFF supporter Mark Shapiro. The third film in Pamela Yates’ Resistance Saga, 500 Years tells the epic Finding Refuge: Three short films that show us what it means to story of Guatemala’s majority indigenous Mayan population as they be in search of a country, a safe place, a home. Subtitles. (Ashland Street rise from the ashes of 30 years of injustice and oppression to convict a Cinema and Varsity) genocidal general and topple a corrupt president. Subtitles NLFU: Films by Vanessa Renwick: An eclectic sampling of Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Varsity 1 the artist’s very best work, spanning more than 20 years. It will be fast and From acclaimed documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life aggressive, slow and contemplative, hard to pin down — and harder to forget. Itself), comes the saga of Thomas Sung and his family-run bank in Short Docs: Inspiring, challenging, eye-opening nonfiction short NY’s Chinatown. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Abacus was films.Subtitles the only US bank to face criminal charges for mortgage fraud. Over the course of a mind-boggling five-year legal battle, the Sungs fight to Short Stories 1: Live-action shorts from around the world, which clear themselves and restore their bank’s reputation. Subtitles explore the full range of human experience and emotion. Subtitles Acts and Intermissions Varsity 2 & 4 Short Stories 2: More live-action shorts from around the world. Abigail Child’s hybrid documentary explores the resurgence of protest in Subtitles the 21st Century through a refracted observation of the life and works of anarchist revolutionary Emma Goldman. Re-enacted moments from FAMILY PROGRAMS her life and excerpts from her writings are intercut with contemporary CineSpace: A special selection of shorts curated from the second movements that show us the continuing conflicts between labor and annual CineSpace competition. The films incorporate real NASA footage property, revolution and personal freedom. collected over 50 years. (Historic Ashland Armory) Buzz One Four Varsity 3 & 4 Kid Flix: Delightful animated and live action shorts sure to please Did you know that at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber loaded kids 5 and up. Curated from the New York International Children’s Film with two thermonuclear bombs crashed 90 miles away from Washington Festival. Includes Elementary and Middle School LAUNCH winners. DC? More than a chronicle of an ill-fated flight, this is the story of film- (Ashland Street Cinema) maker Matt McCormick’s grandfather—the pilot of the plane. FREE SHORTS PROGRAMS City of Joy AIFF2017 Screeners’ Choice | Varsity 1 All at Ashland Street Cinema. Admission is FREE, but a ticket is required. In Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, a Tony Award®-winning playwright, and a charismatic Congolese human Locals Only 1 – Family Friendly (8 & older): Filmmakers rights activist establish The City of Joy center, a safe haven where women from around the Siskiyou region bring you wonderful short films every- who have suffered horrific rape and abuse create a revolutionary com- one can enjoy. Featuring films from theLAUNCH Student Competition munity of leaders despite an endless war driven by greed, economics, and (high school and college) including the winner of AIFF’s PridePrize. colonialism. Subtitles Locals Only 2 – Local Matters: Documentary and narrative Cocksucker Blues Armory short films from local filmmakers that highlight the passionate involve- ment of Rogue Valley folk. When Robert Frank followed the Rolling Stones on their 1972 American tour, he recorded it all—the drugs, sex, and violent rows; the wild Locals Only 3 – Potpourri: Serious and sardonic, wistful and partying and backstage drama. The documentary was so controversial laugh-out-loud funny, these short films by local filmmakers have some- that Mick Jagger didn’t want it screened at all and now it may only be thing for everyone. shown four times a year—one of those at AIFF2017. Unless specifically noted as family fare, the short films in these programs Presented by Marian Luntz, curator of the Robert Frank film archive at the may have strong language and/or adult themes. Viewer discretion advised. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org AIFF2017 FILMS AIFF2017 FILMS Dolores Opening Night Film |Armory Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story Armory Everyone knows that Cesar Chavez formed the first US farm workers’ A moving account of the romantic and creative partnership of storyboard union, but have you ever heard of the union’s co-founder, Dolores artist Harold Michelson and film researcher Lillian Michelson. Through Huerta? Her tireless efforts for racial and labor justice have been side- an engaging mix of love letters, film clips, and candid conversations with lined and diminished. This provocative and energizing documentary Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks, Francis Ford Coppola and others, this fasci- sets the record straight on one of our most effective and undervalued nating documentary chronicles Harold and Lillian’s remarkable marriage leaders. Subtitles and extraordinary careers through six decades of movie-making. Ashland filmmaker Peter Bratt will be present. I Am Another You Armory Earth Seasoned...#GapYear Ashland Street Cinema When Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang Hooligan( Sparrow, AIFF2016 Diagnosed with learning disabilities in high school, Tori Davis finds her Best Documentary) first comes to America, she meets Dylan, a char- greatest teacher in nature, spending a “gap year” living semi-primitively ismatic young drifter who abandoned his comfortable home and with four other young women in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. The family for a life on the streets. She follows him on a journey across directorial debut of Rogue Valley filmmaker Molly Kreuzman. America that explores the meaning of freedom and its limits. Following Seas Varsity 2 Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles Varsity 3 How to be free—free from bosses, rent, and red tape: In 1960, Bob and A truly experimental documentary that visually but silently traces the Nancy Griffith set out on their 53-foot sailboat to chase that freedom, changing city of Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 1960s. Home literally to the ends of the earth. Combining recent interviews with movies and studio-produced “process plates” show how the landscape exquisite 16-millimeter film shot by Nancy,Following Seas reveals a expresses an almost infinite collection of mythologies. family driven by self-determination and a dream. Filmmaker Rick Prelinger will create the live soundtrack to this silent film, narrating and asking for comments from the audience. The Freedom to Marry Armory An inspirational look at the culminating court battle that took same- Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press Armory sex marriage from a “preposterous notion” a few decades ago to the A headline-grabbing trial about a Hulk Hogan sex tape and the website law of the land today. The film tells the untold story of “The Freedom Gawker’s posting of it pitted privacy rights against the First Amend- to Marry” movement from the intimate perspective of its mastermind, ment. But the sensational case revealed something even scarier—how Evan Wolfson, and passionate litigator, Mary Bonauto. billionaire Peter Thiel financed the plaintiff, effectively silencing speech with which he disagreed. Brian Knappenberger’s latest film examines Varsity 4 & 5 Granito: How to Nail a Dictator the threat to a free press in insecure times. The second film in Skylight Pictures’ Resistance Saga, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how Quest Varsity 5 & Ashland Street Cinema a documentary film, intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history, emerges In this intimate, vérité portrait, shot over nearly a decade, “Quest” Rainey as an active player in the present. Subtitles and his wife Christine’a welcome us into the creative sanctuary that is their home and neighborhood recording studio in North Philadelphia. Varsity 2 & 3 The Groove is Not Trivial Set against the backdrop of a country in turmoil, the film depicts a family From Scotland to Northern California, irrepressible master fiddler whose journey is a profound testament to love, healing, and hope. Alasdair Fraser is on a journey of self-expression that takes him deep into his Scottish musical roots. There he finds a universal pulse—a groove—which acts as a connection from the past and sparks O O hopeful possibilities for the future. Subtitles “Here’s lookin’ at you, kid.” Happy Lucky Golden Tofu Panda Dragon Armory Good Time Fun Fun Show East meets West in this stand-up comedy, sketch, rock ‘n’ roll, spoken word concert film focused on Asian American themes including bowl cuts, math nerds—and Hello Kitty everything! The film is anchored in a live show by Slanty Eyed Mama: two good Asian girls gone badass. Directed by Carrie Preston (True Blood, The Good Wife). Slanty Eyed Mama will perform LIVE after the film. BRICKROOM mON THE PLAZA: Breakfast - Brunch - Dinner - Late Night - Live Music Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org AIFF2017 FILMS AIFF2017 FILMS The Royal Road Varsity 3 Unrest Varsity 2 & 4 A cinematic essay in defense of remembering, The Royal Road offers up Jennifer Brea is a Harvard PhD student about to marry the love of her life a primer on the Mexican American War and the Spanish colonization of when she’s struck down by ME or chronic fatigue syndrome and can barely California, alongside intimate reflections on nostalgia, butch identity, and move. Grabbing a camera to film her darkest moments, she connects from Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo—all set against a contemplative backdrop of her bed by Skype and Facebook to others in the same situation, all of them 16mm urban California landscapes. striving to make life meaningful in the face of life-altering illness. Presented by AIFF2017 Pride Award recipient Jenni Olson and preceded The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin Armory by her short documentary 575 Castro St. This nimble, playful, poignant documentary examines the life and work Sacred Varsity 1 of Armistead Maupin, following his evolution from a conservative son Shot by more than 40 filmmaking teams around the world, Sacred of the Old South into a gay rights pioneer whose novels, including Tales immerses the viewer in an exploration of spirituality across cultures of the City, have inspired millions to claim their own truth. Featuring and religions. At a time when religious hatreds dominate the world’s Neil Gaiman, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Sir Ian McKellen. headlines, this film, sweeping in global reach and yet intensely What Lies Upstream Varsity 1 Subtitles intimate, presents faith as primary human experience. In this documentary “whodunit,” filmmaker Cullen Hoback investigates Score: A Film Music Documentary Armory the massive 2014 chemical spill into West Virginia’s Elk River that What makes a film score unforgettable? This documentary offers an contaminated the drinking water of 300,000 people. Trying to get inside look at the work of Hollywood’s most accomplished composers answers about what happened, he descends into a rabbit hole of including John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Bill Conti, and Trent Reznor, government failure, chemical corporation collusion, and the eerily and how they design and assemble the music that elicits powerful similar water crisis in Flint, Michigan. emotions from movie audiences. When the Mountains Tremble Varsity 4 & 5 Featuring a post-film discussion with Ashland composer Joby Bryant (Sing). This updated version of the 1983 classic documentary on war and Seasons Ashland Street Cinema social revolution in Guatemala depicts the struggle of the indigenous From the directors of Winged Migration and Oceans comes the awe- population against a legacy of state and foreign oppression. Centering inspiring and thought-provoking tale of the long and tumultuous shared on Nobel Peace Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, the film, which launched history that inextricably unites humanity with the natural world. With Pamela Yates’ Resistance Saga, unmistakeably conveys the birth of breathtaking footage of animals in the wild, we follow the seasons as they national and political awareness. Subtitles cycle and evolve over millennia. Whose Streets? Varsity 3 Spettacolo Varsity 1 In the days that follow the police shooting of Michael Brown, residents Once upon a time, villagers in a tiny hill town in Tuscany, Italy found of Ferguson, Missouri come together to demand justice. Out of their a remarkable way to confront their issues, personal and political. They grief and anger, a group of young community members become the turned their lives into a play. Every summer for the past 50 years, their torchbearers of a new resistance, fighting not just for civil rights, but piazza becomes a stage, but could this year be the last? Subtitles for the right to believe, to dream, to live. This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous Varsity 4 Are there limits to your love for your family? One family’s acceptance is tested when a champion diver, destined for the Olympics, announces he’s transitioning into a woman—and invites his YouTube followers along for every moment. A story about unconditional love and finding the courage to be yourself from Academy Award®-winner Barbara Kopple (AIFF2014 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient). Una Nueva Tierra Varsity 5 BARAlways SATAY open late! BAR The Pajarito Mesa is a breathtakingly beautiful but perpetually trash- Happy Hour before 6:00 and after 9:00 ridden swath of desert overlooking Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is also 541-482-8058 home to over 250 families living without access to basic services. Una Nueva 84 North Main Street, upstairs Tierra traces the struggles of three families as they recycle what others have Downtown Ashland cast off while they themselves are cast to society’s margins.Subtitles

Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org AIFF2017 FILMS AIFF2017 FILMS fates and misfortunes of three families connect two sisters (Academy Narrative Features Award®-winner Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter) to a Cortez Varsity 2 wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife A talented but self-involved musician with a failing album and canceled (Vanessa Redgrave) and their beloved country home—Howards End. tour goes in search of an old girlfriend in the beautifully atmospheric In the Radiant City Varsity 1 town of Cortez, New Mexico. Underestimating the lingering effects of Andrew is haunted by the eyewitness memory of his older brother their stormy history, Jesse makes an arrogant attempt at reinserting him- Michael’s unthinkable crime and his own testimony against him. Return- self into Anne’s life, unaware that she has a secret that will change his. ing to his Kentucky home and fractured family for Michael’s possible For Now Varsity 4 & 5 re-sentencing after 20 years in prison, he’s confronted by his mother, In this charming micro-budget film, a twenty-something actress takes a his sister, and a teenage niece with troubles of her own. road trip up the coast of California with her boyfriend, her best friend, Maurice Armory and her younger brother. She’s arranged an audition for her brother Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, with the San Francisco Ballet Company, but more is at stake as the four E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality friends grapple with the serious and superficial interconnections that in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. At a time when homo- define their relationships—and perhaps their generation. sexuality was a crime, two young men at Cambridge must keep their Hermia & Helena Varsity 3 relationship completely secret. James Ivory will introduce this 30th The latest Shakespeare-inspired film from Matías Piñeiro finds Camila, an anniversary screening. Argentine theater director, beginning an artistic residency in New McCabe & Mrs. Miller Ashland Street Cinema York City. Amidst changeable romances, far-flung friendships, and In Robert Altman’s 1971 masterpiece, a gambler (Warren Beatty) and long-lost connections, this playful narrative accompanies her on an a prostitute (Julie Christie) open a successful brothel in a remote Western imaginative, wistful journey that shifts back and forth in time and town at the turn of the 20th Century. Soon though, shady representatives Subtitles geography from Buenos Aries to NYC and beyond. of a powerful mining company threaten to be their undoing. Featuring The Hero Armory a haunting score by the late Leonard Cohen and luminous cinemato- Sam Elliott gives a tour-de-force, tragicomic performance as a Western graphy by the great Vilmos Zsigmond. star whose best work is long behind him. When a cancer diagnosis brings After the screening, join us for a special conversation with Art Director Phil his life into focus, he tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, finds Thomas and AIFF2017 Rogue Award recipient Alex Cox. himself in a new relationship, and seeks one last great role. With Nick The Missing Sun Varsity 4 Offerman, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, and Katharine Ross. After a solar flare powers down her isolated community, Alma discovers Howards End Varsity 1 her husband comatose. Suspecting he is having an out-of-body affair James Ivory will introduce one of Merchant Ivory’s undisputed with an ex-lover, Alma attempts to bring him back to reality with help masterpieces. This adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel is a saga of class from his estranged, drug-addled son and the leader of a new-age religion relations and changing times in Edwardian England. The interwoven that specializes in astral travel.

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Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat @ashlandfilm For more details & in-depth descriptions, visit ashlandfilm.org SCHEDULE THURSDAY 4/6/17 AIFF2017 FILMS My First Kiss and the People Involved Varsity 2 Sam’s wordless world is in sharp contrast to the other residents of her group

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charismatic young woman, who suddenly goes missing. Told through the SPECIAL EVENTS distorted prism of Sam’s consciousness, this coming-of-age tale unfolds in Party 7-10pm | Opening Night Bash Ashland Springs Hotel a heightened and surreal atmosphere. Pushing Dead Varsity 3 When Dan (James Roday)—HIV-positive for over 20 years—accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his “sort-of” universal 3:40pm | Shorts & Docs | 80 min Only 3: Locals Potpourri 6:40pm | Doc 75 min Earth Seasoned... #GapYear ASHLAND ST. ASHLAND ST. CINEMA health plan, leaving him to find the $3,000 a month he needs to pay for his 10:10am | Shorts | 67 min Shorts: Family Kid Flix 12:40pm | Shorts | 67 min Shorts: Family Kid Flix meds himself. This comedy offers an insider’s view of life with HIV. Also starring Danny Glover, Robin Weigert, and Khandi Alexander. Rosalinda Varsity 5 Set in pastoral environs along a delta north of Buenos Aires, Rosalinda follows a group of young actors rehearsing As You Like It and engaging ARMORY 6pm | Doc 95 min Dolores in a series of games and romantic interludes. One of three AIFF2017 films 9:15pm | Doc 93 min Cocksucker Blues by Matías Piñero that playfully take on Shakespeare. Subtitles Strange Weather Armory Director Katherine Dieckmann’s latest film is about what to give up and what to keep close as you recover from grief. Academy Award®-winner Holly Hunter stars as a woman traveling with her best friend though the deep VARSITY 5 VARSITY South as she tries to come to terms with the inconceivable suicide of her son. 12:30pm | Doc 86 min Una Nueva Tierra 3:30pm | Doc 83 min When the Mountains Tremble 6:30pm | Doc 105 min Quest | 9:30pm | Features 108 min Rosalinda Viola

Tombstone Rashomon Ashland Street Cinema In this new film from AIFF2017 Rogue Award recipient Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy), the truth is viewed from six conflicting perspectives in a prismatic retelling of the mythic gunfight at the OK Corral. Shot on location near the actual OK Corral by a local crew that included recent 12:10pm | Doc 60 min Buzz One Four | 3:10pm | Feature 78 min Now For | 6:10pm | Feature 79 min The Missing Sun 9:10pm | Doc 92 min This Is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous University of Arizona film school graduates. 4 VARSITY Viola Varsity 5 Viola is Matías Piñero’s mystery of romantic entanglements and intrigues among a troupe of young actors performing Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night in a small theater in Buenos Aires. Viola maps the interweaving lives and VARSITY 3 VARSITY loves of its characters across a single day, offering a fascinating riff on 9:40pm | Shorts | 80 min Short Stories 1 6:40pm | Doc 62 min The Groove Is Not Trivial 12:40pm | Feature| 12:40pm | Feature| 111 min Pushing Dead 3:40pm | Doc 104 min Whose Streets? Subtitles

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9pm 9pm | Doc 9:20pm | Feature | 9:40pm | Doc | 9:10pm | Feature | 9:30pm | Shorts & Audience Award: 99 min 62 min 79 min Docs | 89 min Documentary FeatureCortez The Groove Is The Missing Sun After Hours: Shorts Not Trivial Noble Coffee: 281 4th+ Street, Ashland BOX OFFICE Brought to you by Ashland Home Net Memberships are available at ashlandfilm.org/membership or at the box office. TICKETS GO ON SALE: March 20 for Members, March 26 for the General Public Order online: ashlandfilm.org | No service fee, thanks to Project A! TICKET PRE-SALE/WILL CALL Information Kiosk, Downtown Ashland Plaza Member Pre-sale Dates Online ticket ordering begins at 10am PST, Box Office open 4-6pm Producer & above Monday, March 20 Director Tuesday, March 21 Fan Wednesday, March 22 Cine Thursday, March 23 Indie Friday, March 24 Friend Saturday, March 25

General Public Online ticket ordering begins at 10am PST Box Office opens March 26, 4-6pm. Box Office & Will Call will be open every day from 4-6 pm at the Kiosk March 26-April 5. TICKETS DURING FESTIVAL/WILL CALL Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., Ashland Box Office open April 6-10, 9am-10pm Tickets may also be ordered online up to 3 hours before showtime TICKET PRICES • Films: $13 ($1 disc. for add’l. Member tickets) Seniors (62+) $12 Students (w/valid ID) $6 Oregon Trail Card Holders $5 (Box Office only) • Parties: Opening Night Bash $30; Awards Celebration $75 • FREE Events: Locals Only, TalkBack Panels, and Community Conversations

No ticket? Join the Rush Line! Rush tickets will be sold at the door shortly before showtime, as soon as all ticket holders are seated. Rush tickets are available on a first come, first served basis for cash or paper film vouchers only (no credit cards accepted).

THE FINE PRINT: TICKET POLICY & FESTIVAL RULES No Refunds or exchanges. Membership passes are non-transferable. All pass holders must select tickets in advance to guarantee seating, and all ticket holders must be at the theater 15 min. before the show to guarantee seating. Members are granted entrance to theaters about 30-40 min. before showtime. Accessibility Services: Please contact us at access@ashlandfilm. org to request assistance and accommodations or call our office at (541) 488-3823. For more details: ashlandfilm.org/access.