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TIBURON, CALIFORNIA FILMInternational FESTIVAL WELCOME... INSIDE ...to the 8th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival (TIFF). Program Overview...... 4 A committment to the true spirit of independent fi lm and independent fi lmmaking has always been at the core of what fuels this festival, and Events...... 5 that undoubtedly continues in 2009. This year’s line-up of fi lms is once again a celebration of global cinema, a transcendence of life into art that brings the world to its community in the greater Bay Area and beyond. Special Programs...... 7, 10-13 Since last year, historic change has swept through America, in spite of the turmoil facing the country on many fronts. The message Tributes...... 8 of hope and thoughtful understanding of all issues our new President embodies is precisely that which the TIFF has been a champion of since its inception. Film remains an incredible medium of expression; one that allows us all to gain a Feature Films...... 14 greater understanding of one another and our shared humanity. The fi lms in this program are both serious and light-hearted, but all provide a window to the world, allowing us to explore those Short Films...... 33 distant places of struggle, strife, and laughter with our global neighbors. Please join us, as nations unite during this nine-day event. Shorts Program Schedule...... 42 – Saeed Shafa, Founder & Executive Director Around the World...... 43

In our continuing efforts to bring the world to our community through Schedule...... 44 Tiburon ﬁ lm, the TIFF has formed the Tiburon Film Society to bring you ﬁ lms from all over the world. Film Ticket Information...... 47 For more information please contact us by e-mail or phone at: Society [email protected] • 415.381.4123 Index...... 54

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“Understanding the World Through Film”® NEW FILM VENUE! MUSIC FILMS ANIMATION The TIFF has added a third fi lm venue to its This year’s program features a great selection of The TIFF tradition of great animated fi lms continues repertoire this year as we’ll be screening fi lms at fi ms with musical themes. The most notable of this year with a wide array of ground breaking ef- the theater in the Bay which being All Togeth- forts from fi lmmakers the Model Visitor Center er Now, a documentary world over. This year’s in Sausalito. Films will telling the story of how selections include a be shown at the visitor the living members of feature-length fi lm from center on Saturday, the Beatles and others fi lmmaker Nina Paley, Tuesday, Wednesday, came together with Sita Sings the Blues to and Thursday during the festival. Check the sched- Cirque du Soleil to form the spectular show, Love. go with 16 innovative animated shorts, which can ule on pages 44 and 45 for fi lms and times Other music and dance fi lms can be seen on p 7. be seen together on page 7.

ALL ABOUT SPORTS MEXICAN CINEMA FAMILY FILMS Motorcycle racing, synchronized swimming, The TIFF’s country spotlight falls on Mexico this This year’s Cinema for the Ages selections once skateboarding, skydiving and cycling are all on the year as we present a wonderful selection of fi lms again live up to the motto of being for the “young, docket for this year’s by Mexican fi lmmak- young at heart, and sports fi lms at the TIFF. ers, and about Mexican everyone in between.” The highlight is sure to culture. A collection of Feature fi lms All Roads be Jeff Jensen’s The 12 feature-length and Lead Home and Finn First, Last Race which short fi lms show off the on the Fly headline the he will attend along with range of quality fi lms group, which once again 30 of his racing pals after their trek from Malibu to coming out of Mexico. Check page 13 for a full look includes our Senior’s Shorts Program. See page Tiburon on their bikes. at all the fi lms in this year’s Spotlight. 11 for additional details on all the fi lms.

MARIN’S OWN THE JAZZ SINGER TRIBUTES The TIFF’s signature Marin Filmmakers Program Each year the TIFF offers a nod to the history of Cass Warner’s documentary about her grandfather features an eclectic grouping of topics and fi lm fi lmmaking through tributes to fi lms and fi lmmakers (Harry Warner) and his brothers, who together styles. Documentaries, that have laid the foun- formed Warner Bros. is music videos, and dation for innovation just part of the tribute narratives are all on the that continues to display excitement this year. menu. The feature- itself in our new fi lms A tribute to legendary length offering stars each year. This year we director and cinematog- Tiburon native Sho- present the fi rst ‘talkie’ rapher Haskell Wexler shana Bush in director John Stewart Muller’s Fling. fi lm, The Jazz Singer, released by Warner Bros. in will feature his 1969 fi lm, Medium Cool, and to be Details of all the fi lms can be found on on page 12. 1927 to great success. presented by none other than George Lucas.

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MUSIC & DANCE FILMS Row 1: La Paloma (p 23) • Hair: Let the Sunshine In (p 21) • All Together Now (p 15) • Hey (p 36) • Furnace Room Lullaby (p 36) The 8th Annual Row 2: Faire Diversion (p 35) • Portal (p 39) • Roastbeef (p 40) • Nora (p 39) • A Bronx Dream (p 33)

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A Tribute & Lifetime Achievement Award WARNER BROS. HASKELL WEXLER The Brothers Warner (p 16) • Cass Warner in person OSCAR WINNING CINEMATOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR Sat • March 21 • 3:45 pm • Playhouse 1 Medium Cool (p 24) Sat • March 21 • 7 pm • Playhouse 2 Warner Brothers, one of Hollywood’s most famous studios, was founded in 1923 by four actual brothers: Jack, Sam, Harry & Albert Warner. The A Chicago-born fi lmmaker, Haskell Wexler broke into feature fi lms in siblings never seemed to get along with each other, but Warner Bros Studios 1959 as a cinematographer on the documentary The Savage Eye (1960). managed to produce some of the most memorable movies in the history of Wexler photographed the dramas The Hoodlum Priest (1961), Angel Hollywood, including the world’s fi rst “talkie” with Al Jolson, The Jazz Singer Baby (1961), The Best (1927), The Adventures Robin Hood (1938), Casablanca (1942), Yankee Man (1964), and later Doodle Dandy (1942), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Deliverance (1972), The distinguished himself as cin- Exorcist (1973), Chariots of Fire (1981), Body Heat (1981), and the current ematographer on the Mike string of Batman fi lms. Nichols drama Who’s Afraid The four founding Warner of Virginia Woolf? (1965). brothers, Harry Warner He worked on such (1881-1958), Albert Warner high profi le feature fi lms (1883-1967), Sam Warner as In The Heat of the Night (1887-1927) and Jack L. (1967) and The Thomas Warner (1892-1978). The Crown Affair (1968), but three elder brothers began also produced and directed in the exhibition business in the documentaries The Bus 1903, having acquired a projector with which they showed fi lms in the mining and Medium Cool (1969), towns of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Within a few years this led to the distribu- the latter a very successful and controversial look at the violence and strife tion of pictures across a four-state area. By the time of World War I they had surrounding the anti-war movement and the 1968 Democratic National begun producing fi lms, and in 1918 the brothers opened the Warner Brothers Convention in Chicago showing during this year’s TIFF. studio on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. Sam and Jack Warner produced During the 1980s, he also produced and directed the feature fi lm Latino the pictures, while Harry and Albert handled fi nance and distribution in New (1985), which was highly critical of American policy in Central America. York. Wexler has won Academy Awards® for his work in Who’s Afraid of The fi rst Warner Bros studio (where they made The Jazz Singer) was Virginia Woolf? and Bound For Glory (1976), and also worked on such docu- located in Hollywood, on Sunset Boulevard, in what is now KTLA Television mentaries as Gimme Shelter and The Stones At the MAX. studios. In 1928, with the success of that famousAl Jolson talkie, Warners Vilmos Zsigmond (Deliverance and McCabe), another great cinematog- moved to a 110-acre Burbank lot, in the east San Fernando Valley, and it has rapher, called Wexler “the greatest director of all cinematographers.” been their home now for 70 years.

MR. WEXLER’S LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD PRESENTED BY THE JAZZ SINGER GEORGE LUCAS Sun • March 22 • 3:30 pm • Playhouse 1 George Lucas’s devotion to timeless storytelling and cutting-edge innova- Warner Bros.’ and director Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Singer (1927) is an tion has resulted in some of the most successful and beloved fi lms of all time. historic fi lm and cinematic landmark. The wildly successful “photo-dramatic His fi lms celebrate the boundless potential of the individual to over- production” was based upon Samson Raphaelson’s 1921 short story The come any limitations -- something he Day of Atonement (also the basis fi rmly believes. This theme is strong in for Raphaelson’s popular 1926 the early movies that marked the start Broadway play of the same name), of his professional career. In 1971, and adapted for the screen by Alfred using San Francisco production studio A. Cohn. American Zoetrope and long-time In 1926, Warners’ risky investment friend Francis Ford Coppola as execu- of a half million dollars with Western tive producer, Lucas transformed an Electric in the Vitaphone sound award-winning student fi lm into his system brought profi ts of $3.5 fi rst feature, THX-1138. million at the box-offi ce with this The success of Star Wars allowed landmark talkie. It was a huge success, responsible for transforming Warners Lucas to remain independent and into Hollywood’s hottest fi lm factory. The commercialization of sound-on-fi lm, continue operating in Marin County, and the transformation of the industry from silent fi lms to talkies became a California. reality with the success of this fi lm.

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Saturday, March 21 WORLD PREMIER THE 2:35 pm Hollywood stuntman FIRST, Jeff Jensen & 30 World Class Racers will be LAST riding their bikes from Malibu to Tiburon to RACE celebrate the premier of the ﬁ lm

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SYNCH OR SWIM (US • 90 min • p 30) & DIVERS (US • 4 min • p 35) SHOWING TOGETHER: THURSDAY • MARCH 26 • 2 PM

ALL ABOUT SPORTS SHOT FROM DARK BEAUTY & THE BEAST SAT • MARCH 21 • 12:15 PM • US • 58 min • p 29 SAT • MARCH 21 • 12:15 PM • US • 40 min • p 33

STANDING START LIFT SUN • MARCH 22 • 11:05 AM • UK • 13 min • p 41 SAT • 3/21 • 12:15 PM • France/US/Italy/Spain • 20 min • p37

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Jackson (US • 8 min); Even in My Dreams (US • 8 min); Old Grace (US • 10 min); Last Chance Romance (UK • 9 min); Gilles’ Lily (Canada • 16 min); How to Save a Fish from Drowning (UK • 13 min); A Green Mountain in the Drawer (Korea/US • 29 min); The Cable Car (Switzerland • 7 min); Mazal (Israel • 18 min); Roots (Turkey • 18 min); The Waiting (Turkey • 14 min); Shred of Hope (Israel • 26 min)

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MARIN FILMMAKERSPROGRAM Tuesday, March 24 • 7:20 pm 2008 • US • 98 min Northern California Premier Join director & co-writer John Stewart Muller, actress and Tiburon native Shoshana Bush, producer & co-writer Laura Boersma, director of photography Frederick Schroeder, and costume designer Keylee Sanders as they present Fling for the ﬁ rst time in The Bay Area Director John Stewart Muller Cast Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshana Fling Bush, Nick Wechsler, Ellen Hollman see more on page 20

SHOWING TOGETHER: MON • MARCH 23 • 7:10 PM

MY PEN PAL: AN AFRICAN ADVENTURE ARCH’S IGUANAS Director: Shaun Donahue (in person) Director: Steve Gatlin (in person) US • 28 min • p 38 Honduras/US • 24 min • p 33 SHORTS

COLUMBARIUN LICENSE TO LOVE OUR BAY Director: Linda Richard (in person) Director: Steve Gatlin (in person) Director: Noah Schlager (in person) US • 26 min • p 34 Finland/US • 5 min • p 37 US • 15 min • p 39

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7 SOULS PURGATORY HOW COULD I NOT FRI • MARCH 20 • 9:40 PM TUES • MARCH 24 • 9:40 PM 2008 • 90 min 2008 • 86 min LOVE YOU? THURS • MARCH 26 • 7:35 PM Director Pedro Ultreras Director Roberto Rochin Naya 2007 • 80 min

Cast Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cast Pedro Armendariz jr, Ana Claudia Director Victor Jesús Avelar Martinez Evangelina Sosa Talancón, Miguel Rodarte, Alex Hank, Eduardo Von, Dolores Heredia, Justo Cast Alejandro Belmonte, Martínez, Fidel Zerda Siouzana Melikian

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Bull (11 min • p 34); A Little Girl Waiting (6 min • p 38); A Small Death (6 min • p 40); SHORTS Watching it Rain (13 min • p 42); Voodoo Bayou (12 min • p 41); Distinguishing Features (12 min • p 35); Mexican Standoff (4 min • p 38); A Day’s Work (17 min p 35); A Better Life (12 min • p 33)

The 27 Club 7 Souls Above the Clouds

US Premier

2008 • UK/US • 97 min 2008 • Mexico • 90 min 2008 • Italy • 89 min director Erica Dunton :: starring Joe Anderson, director Pedro Ultreras :: starring Gustavo Sánchez directors Sabrina Guigli & Riccardo Stefani :: star- Dave Emrich, James Forgey, Alexie Gilmore, David Parra, Evangelina Sosa ring Maximiliano Czertok, Battista Ghitalla, Sabrina Sherrill Guigli, Secchi Roberto, Omar Stefani After his best friend dies at age 27, a grieving rock star “Negro” is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented In 1943, Adriano returns to his birthplace, after having hires a grocery store clerk to drive him across America to migrants into the US. He wants out of the smuggling escaped death in Genoa during bombing raids, a village the funeral. A beautiful road movie about friendship and business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, nestled among the Appennine mountains. The long healing, their cross-country journey and the relationship now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger smuggler, to journey ends in the reunion with his family and friends left that develops between the three characters plays an keep an eye on him. During the diffi cult crossing, the behind many years ago. The cruel war arrives in March integral role in Elliot’s recovery. The fi lm captures not smugglers fi ght and eventually lose part of their human 1944 as Hermann Goering divides the community and only the madness of grief but the resilience of the human “cargo”. Negro escapes from his former associates its tranquillity. Half the community is violently crushed spirit, and how even when one feels there is no hope, life but also from justice. The story comes full circle when as a bloody civil war commences across all of Italy. The will remain and she will replace that loss with a humanity Gavilan manages to escape and return to the smuggling war has offi cially arrived in the valley and leaves a scar that can touch even the most unreachable soul. business with complete impunity. never to be forgotten.

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:30 pm screening with Four Minutes Til Noon screening with A Better Life screening with On of the Last

Afghan Chronicles Airplay: All Roads Lead Home The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio US Premier Sponsored by Pint Size Lounge

2007 • Afghanistan/Canada • 52 min 2008 • US • 90 min 2008 • US • 112 min director Dominic Morissette directors Carolyn Travis & Chris Fox Gilson director Dennis Fallon :: starring Peter Coyote, Jason starring Graham Nash, David Crosby, Stephen Stills, London, Vivien Cardone, Vanessa Branch, Patton Casey Kasem, Fabian, Lesley Gore, Grace Slick Oswalt Since the fall of the Taliban regime, Afghanistan has If you want to see how America works, look at what In this inspirational fi lm based on a true story, a young been remaking itself. Kabul, the capital, is today a hive happened to rock radio. The fi lm documents its rise and girl (Everwood’s Vivien Cardone) has diffi culty adjusting of activity, and the press has attained some freedom. fall from the AM jocks who blasted Black music to White after the death of her mother. When her father (Jason The fi lm delves into the effort to rebuild a country that America and named it ‘Rock ‘n Roll’, to the FM pioneers London) is unable to help her, he sends her to live with dreams of a better future, and presents the vital issues who fanned the fl ames of the 60s, to the silencing of rock her grandfather (Peter Coyote) on a farm. Amidst the with which this reborn society must contend. Yet the radio as we knew it by government meddling and big horses and dogs, she learns invaluable lessons in this achievements are still fragile. Blatant inequality and business mediocrity, to its promise of rebirth on satellite drama. corruption hold the threat of a return by the Taliban: what radio. A story of love and war – a 50-year struggle for the will become of the dreams cherished by this land trying soul of music radio, told by the deejays and the artists to rebuild itself? they made rock stars.

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:25 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:35 pm screening with 4 Kilometers 14 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

All Together Now American Outrage Amina

2008 • UK/Canada/US • 85 min 2008 • US • 56 min 2006 • Yemen • 53 min directors Adrian Wills :: starring John Lennon, Paul directors Beth & George Gage director Khadija Al-salami McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Guy Lalib- narrator Mary Steenburgen erté, Yoko Ono Lennon, Olivia Harrison Formula One car racing seems an unlikely backdrop for Why would the US government spend millions of dollars Everybody wants Amina to die, without mercy, because the Beatles and Cirque du Soleil® to fi rst make contact. prosecuting two elderly ladies for trespassing? Carrie she killed her husband. Amina has waited nine years in But George Harrison and Cirque founder Guy Laliberté and Mary Dann have always grazed their livestock in the prison for her death sentence to be carried out. She was met at Grand Prix events and discovered a mutual desolate Nevada desert outside their ranch. That land is to have been executed long ago, but her two escapes passion for motor sports. Out of those encounters recognized as Native American property but was seized from prison allowed her to stay alive. Both times she grew friendship and the idea of bringing together the by the government after lucrative gold deposits were broke out of prison, she believed she had fi nally escaped most popular music of the 20th century with the world’s discovered. The Dann sisters refused to stop grazing the injustice, but both times she found herself in danger greatest circus performers. Cirque du Soleil would meet their animals, and the government responded by suing and chose a return to prison. On her return after the the Beatles, in a noble experiment – one in which both them. The sisters’ fi ght went all the way to the Supreme second escape, the judicial authorities decide to execute partners would agree to share creative control. Court and eventually to the United Nations. her immediately. Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:45 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 1:30 pm Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 6:10 pm Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 6:20 pm screening with Colour Test.6 (both screenings) screening with Before the Sea, Colour Talks, Gimme a Hug screening with Gaza Souvenirs

Ashes From The Sky Barcelona Behind the Glass

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2008 • Spain • 96 min 2007 • Spain • 90 min 2008 • Croatia • 80 min director Jose Antonio Quiros :: starring Celso Bu- director Ventura Pons :: starring Núria Espert, Josep director Zrinko Ogresta :: starring Leon Lucev, Jad- gallo, Gary Piquer, Clara Segura, Beatríz Rico, Fran Maria Pou, Rosa Maria Sardá, Jordi Bosch, María ranka Djokic, Daria Lorenci Sariego Botto, Pablo Derqui A comedy about love of nature and the inability of man If a city is its people, then Barcelona is a kaleidoscope Croatian director Zrinko Ogresta, who’s fi lm Here was to conquer the forces of development. When Ferguson, of human pathos. Acclaimed director Ventura Pons shown at TIFF 2005, returns to Tiburon with Behind the a Scot writing a travel guide, gets stuck in a village has created an urban symphony that artfully captures Glass, another quasi-existential parable of postmodernity within sight of the plant threatening local environment, the emotional dissonance of six Barcelonians living whose less-than-heroic protagonist tempts fate with his he fi nds himself getting involved in the divisive struggle. together in a faded apartment building. Six characters inertia. Successful thirty-something architect Nikola can A story of contradictions with no unique truth, both small – contemporary archetypes of urban solitude – meet in feel the walls closing in as his life loses its precarious victories and small failures are the norm. The fi lm is an old apartment located in the city center of Barcelona. balance and spins out of control when his wife reveals an engaging comedy examining the compromises and In this non-descript Barcelona fl at, incest, homosexuality his affair at a family gathering. Nikola quickly learns the consequences made over environmental concerns as and adultery intertwine the lives of these characters meaning of the old axiom “he who hesitates is lost” in the they affect people’s everyday lives. while we witness life in this Medeterranian City. midst of unexpectedly tragic consequences.

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 6 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:40 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:30 pm screening with Closer screening with Mazal © 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival 15 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Beket Berber Atlas Birdsong

West Coast Premier US Premier

2008 • Italy • 80 min 2008 • Spain/Morocco • 82 min 2008 • Spain • 98 min director Davide Manuli :: starring Luciano Curreli, director Moises Salama director Albert Serra :: starring Lluís Carbó, Lluís Ser- Jerome Duranteau rat Batlle, Lluís Serrat Masanellas, Montse Triola, Mark Peranson A free adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for A documentary ﬁ lmed over several years in the A version of the most widely referenced narratives in Godot”. Freak and Jajà live in a no-man’s land. Only a few impressive scenery of the Eastern and Central High the Western world, the ﬁ lm traces the Three Wise Men strange characters, survivors, make rare appearances. Atlas mountains in Morocco, the struggle of the Berber as they journey to pay their respects and bring gifts to They meet at a bus stop in the middle of no-where, they people (Imazighen) is examined. This mountainous Jesus Christ. We follow the three kings through the have never met before. The bus doesn’t stop. It’s the terrain is the core location of Imamazigh cultural survival. desert as they make their way to Christ’s birthplace. The bus, which brings them to Godot, the God who makes The struggle to modernize to the standards of nearby journey is hilarious, there is constant banter between his presence felt beyond the mountain in the shape of Southern Europe as a way to escape the desperate the three men. Risky and adventurous, both visually a musical sound. Having missed the bus, they start a poverty in which these people live is juxtaposed against and in narrative terms, breathtaking landscapes and a journey during which they will meet a series of bizarre the struggle to maintain the traditions of a proud, ancient memorable underwater scene invigorate the story with characters. Are they going to reach their God? culture. new life and meaning.

Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 4:20 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 3:30 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:15 pm screening with Because There Are Things You Never Forget

The Brothers Warner The Butterﬂ y Tatoo Bye Bye Shanghai

Cass Warner in person 2008 • US • 90 min 2008 • Netherlands/UK • 98 min 2008 • Czech Republic/Argentina • 114 min director Cass Warner :: starring Dennis Hopper, Deb- director Phil Hawkins :: starring Duncan Stuart, Jes- director Jana Bokova bie Reynolds, Angie Dickinson, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., sica Blake, Aidan Magrath, Christopher Dane, Dan Haskell Wexler, Norman Lear, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. Morgan An intimate portrait of the four fi lm pioneers who founded Love’s young dream collides with violent revenge in Distinguished Czech documentarist Jana Boková’s and ran Warner Bros. for over 50 years. This is the this adaptation of the novel by Philip Pullman (author exploration into exactly what the word “exile” means. Now inside story of Harry, Abe, Sam, and Jack Warner – the of The Golden Compass). Teenage lovers from the a resident of Argentina hersef, her journey for the answer original Hollywood independent fi lmmakers. This close- gritty side of Oxford, are caught in the crossfi re when a takes her from Prague to Paris as she intertwines her knit band of brothers was the fi rst to use motion pictures gangster-with-a-grudge comes calling. Heady romance own memories of leaving Prague with the experiences to “educate, entertain, and enlighten”. With stories gives way to growing suspense and a fi nal devastating of others from her generation. This highly personal fi lm often ripped from news headlines, it was Harry’s belief eruption of violence. A fresh young cast, a soundtrack of considers the various aspects of emigration, ultimately that, “Those who make a nation’s entertainment have unsigned bands from Oxford’s vibrant music scene, and reaching the conclusion that once a person has been obligations above and beyond their primary commercial a score by veteran composer Enaudi help construct this uprooted, he or she can never cultivate his or her native objective, which is the box offi ce.” heartbreaking story of love and death. roots again.

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:45 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 4 pm

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Cactus Captive Caution, Love Ahead!

Northern California Premier West Coast Premier

2008 • Australia • 89 min 2008 • Russia/Bulgaria • 80 min 2008 • India • 148 min director Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan :: starring Travis director Alexey Uchitel :: starring Vyatcheslav Kri- director Siddharth Raj Anand :: starring Ranbir McMahon, David Lyons, Bryan Brown, Shane Jacob- kunov, Pyotr Logachyov, Irakli Mskhalaia, Yulia Kapoor, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Deepika son, Daniel Krige, Celia Ireland, Zoe Tuckwell-Smith Peresild, Sergey Umanov, Andrey Feskov Padukone In order to get some much needed cash, John Kelly Based on Vladimir Makanin’s The Prisoner from the accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Caucasus, the fi lm focuses on the folly of war in an Why do girls always fall for the wrong guy? Their mothers Eli Jones to his keepers in the Australian outback: intimate, startling way. Set in the present, Russian warn; their friends shake their heads disapprovingly; their No questions asked. While the kidnapping has been soldiers fi nd themselves trapped in the vast Chechen minds tell them to escape while the going is good. But meticulously planned, John fi nds that the road he’s landscape, stifl ing in the heat, and lost in hostile, alien their hearts are another story. Meet Raj: it’s not his fault chosen is not so easily traveled. He has embarked surroundings. In need of a guide to lead their convoy, the that he’s a heartbreaker, it’s in his DNA. Come discover on a dark journey where every choice has tragic handsome, laconic commander and the playful sniper his three love stories. Different ladyloves at different consequences. seize a local boy who becomes their passport to safety, times in his life. And each of them, teach him a little bit but ultimately pays a terrible price. His captors will not about love and a little bit about life, in their own sweet, escape the incident unscathed either. sexy or sassy way. Come fall in love...three times.

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:40 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 2:30 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 5:30 pm screening with The Fenceline

The Collective Colorado Avenue Courting Condi

West Coast Premier Claes Olsson & Nicke Lignell in person 2008 • US • 82 min 2007 • Finland • 120 min 2008 • US • 107 min directors Judson Pearce Morgan & Kelly Overton director Cole Claassen :: starring Birthe Wingren, director Sebastian Doggart :: starring Devin Ratray starring Kelly Overton, Laura Allen, Shane Mcrae, Nicke Lignell, Andre Wikstrom, Ylva Ekblad, Peter Wynn Everett, Donnie Keshawarz Kanerva Can one man with a dream win the heart of the world’s In New York City knowing what to believe is never After her father’s death, Hanna and her mother are most powerful woman? This musical docu-tragi-comedy easy. When Tyler Clarke gets a cryptic voicemail from forced to start a new life as impoverished servants in – part Borat, part Fahrenheit 9/11, part Chicago – follows her sister, she is left with no choice but to fl y across a new village in 1880s Finland. At 18, Hanna fulfi lls her a love-struck soul’s hilarious, emotionally engaging, and the country to fi nd out what has happened. But when dream of going to America for a better life. Returning to ultimately shocking quest to woo Secretary of State she arrives, Jessica is nowhere to be found. Alone in the village she left 10 years earlier, she is determined Condoleezza Rice. A spin on the Rapunzel fairy-tale, an unfamiliar city, surrounded by strangers, Tyler has to gain the respect she never got. Her much desired this unique romantic/political/biographic feature follows no choice but to trust the people who call themselves respect is had when the store she opened with her Devin Ratray, a portly musician, former child actor Jessica’s new friends. She eventually discovers that her money earned in America becomes the village center, (famed as Buzz in Home Alone), and besotted admirer sister has given up the life she was living to join a group but her son’s turn to liquor-running during prohibition of Condi, as he prepares to meet her and win her heart that call themselves “The Collective”. threatens her new standing in the community. by traveling the country learning more about her. Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:40 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:25 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7 pm Tues, March 24 :: Corinthian :: 2:20 pm

A Deal is a Deal Donkey in Lahore Dream Havana

Northern California Premier Northern California Premier Northern California Premier Gary Marks in person 2008 • UK • 95 min 2008 • Australia/Pakistan • 117 min 2007 • Cuba/Mexico/US • 82 min director Jonathan Gershfi eld :: starring Mackenzie director Faramarz K-Rahber director Gary Marks :: starring Ernesto Santana, Crook, Colm Meaney, Imelda Staunton, Gemma Jorge Mota Arterton Paul Callow has a dream. Fed up with city life and A unique cross-cultural love story that follows Brian, an In August 1994, more than 33,000 Cubans attempted driving trains, he longs to commune with Nature and Australian ex-Goth and a puppeteer, as he converts to escape the island by sea. Two writers, friends write novels. But that’s easier dreamt than done. The to Islam and attempts to overcome cultural as well as since adolescence, are faced with a choice – continue trauma of having two people fall under his train in as personal obstacles in order to marry Amber, a young struggling with the hardships of the island or brave the many weeks does little to improve his mood, until he Muslim woman in Pakistan. Despite Amber’s wish to sea on a homemade raft. Ernesto Santana chooses hears that three fatal accidents in a month, qualifi es you marry Brian, her family is unimpressed by the idea of her Cuba, Jorge Mota chooses the Sea. This is the story of for early retirement with 10 years’ salary, paid as a lump marrying an unknown foreigner. What unfolds is a long their struggles, their successes and the friendship that sum! Paul suddenly sees a way of clearing his debts and diffi cult process that leads to frustration, disbelief, binds them. This emotional story was fi lmed on location and escaping to a better life. All he has to do is fi nd a and despair. Brian’s remarkable love and determination in Cuba, the U.S., and Mexico. willing victim. are on full display throughout this journey.

Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:40 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 3:50 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 6:10 pm screening with Fall screening with Tommy

Faces Fake Blonde Familiar Voices

Daniel Roberto Mendoza in person 2007 • France/Palestine/Israel • 75 min 2008 • Brazil • 105 min 2008 • Canada/US • 77 min director Gerard Maximin :: starring JR, Marc Berrebi director Carlos Reichenbach :: starring Rosanne director Danny Mendoza :: starring Mia Farrow, Eric Mulholland, Cauã Reymond, Maurício Mattar, Djin Cohen, Simon Deng, Rebecca Hamilton, Motasim Sganzerla Adam A project called “Face 2 Face” envisaged covering the Silmara, a young industrial worker of exuberant beauty A documentary profi ling reactions to the ongoing crisis public spaces of the confl ict zones in the cities of Hebron, is a sexy icon for her friends, neighbors and co-workers. in Darfur that proposes to empower, not overwhelm; to Bethlehem, Tel Aviv, Ramallah Jerichom and Jerusalem She supports her ex-convict arsonist father, whom she engage the audience in a respectful dialogue, rather with posters featuring smiling faces, as an attempt to lives with, and has an ambiguous relationship with a than wagging its fi nger at them; and to help the audience reduce the abyss between people divided by walls, dance teacher named Regina. Silmara gets involved clearly understand their relationship to this crisis. politics and stereotypes. This brave and unpretentious with two good looking and tacky pop-stars, and faces Through voices and visuals connected with Nobel Peace project is the work of a French street artist and his friend. a paradox: her beauty draws the ugly side of human Prize winners, soldiers, Darfuri refugees, celebrities, They took photos of local Israelis and Palestinians, who nature. In her search for pleasure, Silmara, like all of us, humanitarian aid workers, politicians, university level agreed to make goofy smiles, in order to demonstrate is also subject to fi nding pain and learns some traumatic activists, and others, old messages are delivered in new our similarities, in spite of differences. life lessons. ways – ones that are direct, concrete, and accessible. Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 11:15 am Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 2:45 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:30 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 3 pm screening with Colour Test.6 (Sunday Only) screening with Coming of Age, Children Who Never Existed 18 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Fidel Castro: Final Image The Final Word Man & Myth US Premier World Premier Moslem Mansouri in person Cuba/Germany • 50 min 2008 • Argentina/Chile/Denmark/Sweden • 91 min 2009 • Iran • 55 min director Stephan Lamby :: starring Mikhail Gorbachev, director Andres Habegger :: featuring Ernesto Car- director Moslem Mansouri George Bush, James Baker, Aleida Guevara, Hubor mona, Carlos Coccio, Juan “Mono” Flores, Leticia Matos, Natalia Revuelta, Philipp Agee Henrichsen, Luís Kovach, and others An intimate portrayal of one of history’s most June of 1973 in Santiago de Chile. Leonardo Henrichsen, Prominent and infl uential contemporary Iranian poet, controversial leaders. The man who freed Cuba from a an Argentine cameraman fi lms his own death. Thirty- Ahmad Shamlou, has tremendously on current folklore crushing regime and lived a Communist dream, stood three years later, Ernesto Carmona, a Chilean journalist, language and literature in Iran. Shamlou, in his poetry, up to American and international condemnation, yet discovers the identity of the man who shot him. A fi lm spoke consciously of human suffering, injustice, love and survives to this day. Undoubtedly a legendary fi gure, about one of the most famous images in history, It is romance. Through his distinctive possession of language Castro is also full of contradictions – some see him as about a group of journalists fi lming a continent sinking in and words, he skillfully sided with the oppressed and a hero, others as a ruthless dictator. The fi lm follows violence, and offers an opportunity to see very rare and opposed cruel regimes and their inhumane institutions. Castro on some of his daily routines and combines revealing archival material from the last 40 years. It is His poems echoed the hardships and visions of his remarkable archive footage with unique interviews from a journey across the recent history of Latin America as people, making his pen was the most effective weapon close friends, family, allies and enemies. seen through the life and images of a single man. he had against oppression.

Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 5:15 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:30 pm screening with Maria & Osmey screening with Mail Call screening with Tehran Backyard

Finn on the Fly The First Day of Winter The First, Last Race

US Premier World Premier Jeff Jensen in person 2008 • Canada • 95 min 2008 • Italy • 88 min 2009 • US • 88 min director Mark Jean :: starring Matthew Knight, Ryan director Mirko Locatelli :: starring Mattia de Gasperis, director Jeff Jensen :: narrator Dean Cain Belleville, Brandon Firla, Ana Gasteyer Michela Cova, Andrea Semeghini, Alberto Gerundo, Teresa Patrignani What if your dog became a human? The story of Ben Valerio is a teenager who keeps to himself and, unlike Hollywood Stuntman, Jeff Jensen, rides the new Ducati and his best friend, Finn, a kooky border collie who has a most youngsters his age, fi nds it diffi cult to fully partake Terra Mostro from his home in Malibu, California, to the fl air for fi tting in and quickly fi nds other dogs in their new of the carefree joys of youth. So he stands apart and Pikes Peak Intn’l Hill Climb, races it and then rides it town to hang out with. Ben isn’t so lucky. An outsider at watches the others enjoying themselves, measuring home afterwards. This would be a huge undertaking his new school he is desperate to make friends but lacks himself against them and trying to become more like from any man in his mid-twenties, but, at twice that age, the confi dence to do it until one day the outgoing Finn them. He furtively seeks and then shies from their Jeff hasn’t fi gured that out yet. Explore the mindset of a gets his nose into a mad science experiment and the company, and soon fi nds himself surreptitiously spying man that thinks he can still ride a motorcycle 1,400 miles crazy, out-of-control events that start happening change on them. His spying leads him to commit a serious one way, then race it in the Premier Class, on a road their lives forever. mistake, and Valerio accepts his punishment with stoic with thousand foot cliffs and no guard rails against World courage. Valerio will no longer be the same. Class racers and then turn around and ride it home. Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 2:35 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 11:20 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:45 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:30 pm screening with Smiling Dog screening with Even in My Dreams, Diva © 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival 19 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Fling Flowers of the Sky Four Chapters

Northern California Premier West Coast Premier US Premier John Stewart Muller & Shoshana Bush in person 2008 • US • 98 min 2008 • Sri Lanka • 90 min 2008 • India • 125 min director John Stewart Muller :: starring Brandon director Prasanna Vithanage director Suman Mukhopadhyay :: starring Dhritiman Routh, Steve Sandvoss, Courtney Ford, Shoshana starring Malini Fonseka Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Subrata Dutta, Joy Bush, Nick Wechsler, Ellen Hollman Sengupta, Kabir Suman By all appearances, Samantha and Mason are the Sandhya Rani, an ageing fi lm star, was once the darling of Based on the novel by the Nobel Prize winning author picture perfect couple. At her sister Allison’s wedding, the silver screen. Having lost fame and fortune, she now Rabindranath Tagore, the story is one of love struggling Samantha, fi nds herself irresistibly drawn back into the lives quietly in obscurity. She ekes out a living by renting to fi nd a place between confl icting ideologies. Sachish, arms of her ex-boyfriend, James, a surprise wedding out a room in her home to the young fi lm and television in search of life’s meaning, fl ees from radical positivism guest. Meanwhile, Mason, spends a fl irtatious evening stars of today to satisfy their illicit sexual desires. The to religious mysticism. But his search ultimately yields culminating in a steamy hot tub encounter with 18-year- popular young fi lm star, Shalika, uses this room to carry nothing but crushing disillusionment as he cannot align old, Olivia. Carefully sneaking out of James’s room, Sam on an affair with a young actor. When Shalika’s husband his abstract ideals with the powerful presences of two is startled by Mason and confesses her affair, after which discovers this, the scandal and its publicity forces Rani women in his life – a young Hindu widow, and the he responds by relating his evening’s adventures, as into the limelight again, but she will have to deal with the abandoned mistress of Sachish’s own brother. they exhaustedly climb into bed together. dark side of her earlier rise to fame.

Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:20 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:35 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:20 pm screening with Because There Are Things You Never Forget

Frankie is a Womanizer Gallero Goodbye Solo

West Coast Premier

2008 • Czech Republic • 83 min 2009 • Argentina • 90 min 2008 • US • 91 min director Jan Prusinovsky :: starring Josef Polášek, director Paula Mastellone :: starring Gustavo director Rahmin Bahrani :: starring Souléymane Sy Ela Lehotská, Martin Pechlát, Zdena Hadrbolcová, Almada, Silvia Zerbini Savané, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Carmen Petra Nesvačilová, Leoš Noha, Marika Procházková Leyva, Lane “Roc” Williams As a psychiatrist, Frankie would be expected to have his Mario is a “gallero” (a person who breeds fi ghting cocks) Amidst the crumbling, Old South veneer of Winston- personal life under control, but he’s too fond of women. accustomed to solitude, who spends his days training Salem, North Carolina, two men forge an unlikely In addition to his wife Eliška, he’s in several other his cocks. He earns a living by fi nding occasional jobs in friendship which will change both of their lives forever. relationships, a problem he suddenly fi nds is spiralling rural areas. During one of these jobs, in a remote village, Solo is an African taxi driver soon expecting his fi rst child. out of control. At 40, with a lucrative practice and a new he meets Julia, an older woman who lost her entire William is a tough Southern good ol‘ boy with a lifetime dream house, he doesn’t know where to turn and what family in car accident. She is all alone in the world and of regrets. One man‘s American dream is just beginning, to save fi rst. His secret life as a womanizer has come clings to her memories and her religion. Their inevitable while the other‘s is quickly winding down. But despite out in the open and he sees only too well how fast his encounter will transport them to an uncomfortable place their differences, both men soon realize they need each “perfect” life, envied by everyone around him, is coming full of uncertainties. Mario will discover new feelings; other more than either is willing to admit as their hear- to a tragic end. Julia will break her sorrowful silence. warming friendship explores a changing America.

Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 6:40 pm Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 6:15 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:05 pm screening with Homicide: Division B screening with In the Dark 20 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

The Grapes Guard No. 47 Hair: Let the Sun Shine In US Premier US Premier Tomas Barina in person Filip Renc & Karel Roden in person 2007 • Czech Republic • 90 min 2008 • Czech Republic • 107 min 2007 • US • 54 min director Tomas Barina :: starring Krystof Hadek, Lu- director Filip Renc :: starring Karel Roden, Lucia director Pola Rapaport :: starring Keith Carradine, kas Langmajer, Tereza Voriskova Siposova, Václav Jiráček, Vladimír Dlouhý Tim Curry, Milos Forman, Melba Moore, Martin Lu- ther King, Jane Fonda, Ben Vereen, Johnny Carson Honza, a petty thief, desperately needs a holiday. Josef Dousa, is a railway guard who returns from the Since its overwhelming success on Broadway forty Helping to fulfi l his sick grandfather’s dream of a long First World War hoping to forget all the horrors of his years ago, the musical Hair has inspired generations vacation, he offers to look after his vineyard while he’s recent experiences as he settles into his secluded with its messages of love, non-violence and liberation. away on his trip. Honza anticipates a relaxing stay in guard house at the side of his beautiful young wife. One This new, defi nitive, and entertaining documentary, sunny, idyllic Moravia, complete with wine, women and day, he saves the life of a young man who is about to which highlights the continuing relevance of the show his friend, the womanizer Jirka. After all, what can go jump under a train. However, the man falls in love with and its still radical, transformative power. In preparation wrong in ten days? Of course things turn out differently Dousa’s wife and arouses her passion. Dousa is hit by a for the musical’s fortieth anniversary, the show’s author than anticipated and our two heroes become ensnared bout of deafness and when his hearing returns he does and co-creator Jim Rado rehearses a troupe of young by a number of alcoholic, erotic and interpersonal not admit it to anyone – not even his wife. That is the performers for a new production whose vibrant energy entanglements. Cheers! only way he can fi nd out about his wife’s infi delity. brings Hair’s fantastic score to life once again. March 19 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:30 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:20 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:05 pm Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 4:30 pm screening with Gravity, Cantata in C Major, A Time and a Time

Hand of the Headless Man Henry Kissinger The Homecoming Secrets of a Superpower US Premier US Premier

2007 • Belgium • 104 min 2008 • Germany/US • 90 min 2007 • Greece • 98 min director Guillaume Malandrin :: starring Cécile De director Stephan Lamby :: starring George W. Bush, director Vassilis Douvlis :: starring Arto Apartian, France, Emmanuelle Devos, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Alexander Haig, James Schlesinger, Richard Perle, Maria Skoula, Artur Luzi Eric Caravaca, Nathalie Boutefeu, Ulrich Tukur Brent Scowcroft, Norman Mailer, Carl Bernstein Eva is a 25-year-old Olympic diver. Her father is her Though Henry Kissinger often gives short statements to After 35 years working in a factory in Germany, Ilias trainer and mentor. During a competition, she injures the media, he generally refuses detailed interviews about returns to his almost deserted village and buys a service both hands, but decides to continue. Her next dive his life. However, he agreed to answer questions about station on the main street to Yannena. He soon ﬁ nds results in disaster as she bumps her head on the diving his life in this exclusive and extensive documentary. A himself feeling like a foreigner again, this time in his board. She wakes up in the hospital, her father by her rare chance. The life of Henry Kissinger provides a lot own country. His relationship with his younger, beautiful side, but immediately talking about going back to work. of material for a fascinating and historically relevant ﬁ lm. wife, is in deep crisis, as she yearns to experience Nothing is the same anymore as she struggles to bring Through the veil of his life, important stages of the 20th life, something she wasn’t able to do after marrying at her memory back and to break down the wall of silence Century are revealed. As only a few living personalities a young age. Their life changes drastically when Ilias between her and her father. can lay claim to, Kissinger was both a historical witness saves a young Albanian illegal immigrant from border and a political decision-maker in the past century. guards and gives him a job in his shop.

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:25 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 6:15 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5 pm

How Could I Not Love You? I Want to See In the Name of God

2007 • Mexico • 80 min 2008 • France/Lebanon • 75 min 2007 • Pakistan • 167 min director Victor Jesús Avelar Martinez director DirectorName#1 :: starring Catherine De- director Shoaib Mansoor :: starring Shaan, Iman Ali, starring Alejandro Belmonte, Siouzana Melikian neuve, Manuel Carmona, Joana Hadjithomas, Julien Austin Marie Sayre, Naseeruddin Shah, Fawad Afzal Hirsch, Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroue Khan Hugo and Julia are two high school students that have July 2006. A war breaks out in Lebanon. A new war, but The controversial new fi lm from writer-director Shoaib different dreams and goals. In the end, their lives take not just one more war. A war that crushes the hopes of Mansoor that has garnered international tension for different paths learning that, “In this life, everything has peace for a generation. What can cinema do? This fi lm tackling delicate issues of religious intolerance and a price,” and everyone has to pay his own. aims to answer that question. Together with Catherine cultural frictions. In contemporary Lahore, Pakistan, a rift Deneuve and Lebanese actor Rabih Mroué, the develops between two musician brothers: Sarmad aligns fi lmmakers will drive through the regions devastated by with a fundamentalist sheikh, while Mansoor moves to the confl ict. Through the presence of these iconic fi gures Chicago to continue his studies. Meanwhile, their uncle in the region, and their meeting, the fi lmmakers hope to in London tricks his westernized daughter, Mary into an fi nd the beauty that their eyes no longer perceive. It is the arranged marriage to Sarmad. In the wake of 9/11, their beginning of an unpredictable, unexpected adventure. lives are thrown into upheaval.

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:35 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 1:15 pm

Infi nite Space: Iraqi Short Films Jackson The Architecture of John Launter Northern California Premier Northern California Premier Northern California Premier Sarah Sackner & Anna Thomas (Producers) in person 2008 • US • 90 min 2008 • Argentina • 94 min 2008 • US • 97 min director Murray Grigor :: narrator Sean Connery director Mauro Andrizzi director Jonathan Lawton :: starring Barry Primus, Charles Robinson, Steve Guttenberg, Debra Jo Rupp The fi lm traces the lifelong quest of visionary genius John The fi rst installment in Kino21’s series that explores Two homeless men have a quixotic day of comedy, Lautner to create “architecture that has no beginning and soldiering and war from the point of view of those on the adventure, and romance on the streets of Los Angeles, no end.” It is the story of brilliance, a complicated life – ground. A compilation of short videos shot in the midst thanks to a skillfully-bummed $20 bill (a Jackson), and and the most sensual architecture of the 20th century. of war by American and British soldiers, Iraqi militia the beautiful musical backdrop of opera’s greatest arias. The camera soars through iconic spaces, with comments members, and corporate workers. These are a mix of In the most unusual aspect of the fi lm other down-and- from Lautner, his colleagues, clients and family. slices of life recorded on video (many shot while fi ring out characters express themselves by singing famous on the enemy or being fi red upon), pithy propaganda opera arias. From an old drunk singing a Donizetti duet pieces, and soldiers’ visions of war as just another music with a crack addict, to a bag-lady singing Carmen, what video. They are crudely shot fragments, some rife with begins as a tale of friendship becomes a story about the raw fear, some gloating over momentary victory. beauty and resilience of the human spirit. Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11:15 am Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 5:25 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 2:40 pm screening with Wash n’ Fold (Friday Only) 22 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

The Jazz Singer Jolene La France

Northern California Premier Sponsored by French Consulate Cass Warner in person 1927 • US • 89 min 2008 • US • 109 min 2007 • France • 102 min director Alan Crosland :: starring Al Jolson, May McA- director Dan Ireland :: starring Jessica Chastain, director Serge Bozon :: starring Sylvie Testud, Pas- voy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer, Dermot Mulroney, Chazz Palminteri, Rupert Friend, cal Greggory, Benjamin Esdraffo, Mehdi Zannad, Robert Gordon, Richard Tucker, Cantor Joseff Michael Vartan, Denise Richards Guillaume Depardieu Warner Bros.’ and director Alan Crosland’s The Jazz Based on E.L. Doctorow’s engrossing tale of a gifted It’s the fall of 1917 and war is raging across Europe. Singer is an historic milestone fi lm and cinematic young woman’s odyssey across America in pursuit of Far from the confl ict, Camille spends her time awaiting landmark. The wildly successful “photo-dramatic love and independence, the fi lm follows the fortunes news of her husband, who is at the front. She receives a production” was based upon Samson Raphaelson’s of a singular heroine as she navigates her fate through note from him ending their relationship. Distraught, she 1921 short story “The Day of Atonement”. Warners’ risky opportunity and adversity over the course of an disguises herself as a man and goes to the front to fi nd investment in the Vitaphone sound system enabled this extraordinary ten-year period in her life. him. She fi nds herself with a group of soldiers who add landmark talkie. It was a huge success that transformed to the surreal quality of their trek by breaking into song Warners into Hollywood’s hottest fi lm factory and and playing homemade folk instruments. Only as the enabled the transformation of the industry from silent men discover Camille’s true identity does Camille realize fi lms to talkies. the soldiers have secrets of their own.

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:30 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:45 pm

La Paloma The Little Heart Loose Rope Longing Worldwide Northern California Premier Northern California Premier

2008 • 86 min 2007 • Vietnam • 98 min 2008 • Iran • 82 min Germany/Cuba/Mexico/Romania/Zanzibar director Thanh Van Nguyen :: starring Do Nguyen director Mehrshad Karkhani :: starring Pejman Ba- director Sigrid Faltin Lan Ha, Mai Hong Kin Hanh, Minh Hong Anh zeghi, Babak Hamidian, Keramat Roudsaz, Narges Mohammadi A journey on the wings of La Paloma, the most frequently Mai, a girl of 17 (played by Do Nguyen Lan Ha, winner Two young rural men who work at the animal market played song in the world (La Paloma is Spanish for of the Vietnamese Film Award for this role) lives with her in Tehran have only 24 hours to take a large cow from dove). Some 2000 versions are known, though many parents, two younger sisters and her brother in a poor downtown to the northern part of the city. Their jobs say, there are inﬁ nitely more. In Zanzibar it is played village in central Vietnam. While her mother tries hard and futures are at stake. The spectators follow their at the end of a wedding, in Romania it is performed at to feed the family, her father pursues his own pleasure, obligatory journey with the rope which is tied around the the end of a funeral. Legend has it that as a last wish denying the family any happiness. Mai yearns to help cow. The ﬁ lm explores, and attempts to describe through Mexican Emperor Maximilian requested La Paloma to her family and is referred to a so-called tailoring course the journey of these young men, the contrasts which be played, before he was executed. In Auschwitz, Coco in Saigon. Admired by her peers, especially her younger exists between the south and the north of a metropolis. Schumann, the German master of swing, was forced to sister, as she leaves to seek a better life in the city, no perform the song at the ramp to the gas chambers. one would believe that she could be sold to a brothel.

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 5:15 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:30 pm screening with Final Fitting © 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival 23 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

The Lost Beauty Lost Song Magazine Gap Road

West Coast Premier US Premier

2007 • Morocco • 90 min 2008 • Canada • 105 min 2007 • Hong Kong • 90 min director Lahcen Zinoun :: starring Sanaa Alaoui, director Rodrigue Jean :: starring Patrick Goyette, director Nicolas Chin :: starring Jessey Meng, Qu Mohamed Miftah, Hanane Zouhdi, Chams-Eddine Zi- Suzie LeBlanc, Marilou Longpré Pilon, Ginette Ying, Richard Ng, Elvis Tsui noun, Touria Jabrane, Mohamed Afi fi , Hassan Sqalli Morin The fi lm is a reconstruction of the time during the 20th Pierre and Elisabeth, a couple in their thirties, move with High above the commerce and crowds of Hong Kong century in Morocco when slavery still existed. Oud their baby into a cottage on a lake for the summer. The winds Magazine Gap Road, a secluded enclave of Al’Ward is a young slave with a great passion: playing setting is idyllic, and their happiness seems within reach. wealth and privilege. Samantha is fi rmly entrenched in the lute. Sold to a wealthy musician, she becomes his Every day, Pierre goes to work in the city while Elisabeth this world where her past as a prostitute is her most favourite and begins to perform in public. The privileges rehearses for an upcoming voice recital. Despite the well-kept secret – until it catches up with her in a single and the attention of her master will trigger off the jealousy benevolent presence of her mother-in-law who lives in phone call from Kate, another escort. For Samantha, of his wives and his other slaves. Oud Al’Ward will pay a the neighboring house, the young woman feels isolated helping Kate means risking everything – her budding very dear price for her art and talent. and overwhelmed in her new role as a mother. No one romance with a wealthy man, the deadly men who run fully grasps the extent of Elisabeth’s distress. Muted Hong Kong’s high-class prostitution ring, and her own violence soon takes hold and tightens its grip. fear that beneath the veneer, she’ll always be for sale.

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:40 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:35 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm

Mao Ce Dun The Map Reader Medium Cool

US Premier Northern California Premier Lifetime Achievement Award for Mr. Wexler presented by George Lucas 2007 • Albania • 90 min 2008 • New Zealand • 90 min Haskell Wexler in person director Besnik Bisha :: starring Fadil Hasa, Miola director Harold Brodie :: starring Bonnie Soper, Jor- 1969 • US • 110 min Sitaj, Driola Dega dan Selwyn, Mikaila Hutchison, Rebecca Gibney director Haskell Wexler :: starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold The fi lm unfolds the reality in a communist country in the Sixteen-year-old Michael escapes the realities of his Blankenship 1970s through the eyes of an ordinary gypsy. The events small-town New Zealand life by immersing himself within The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago take place in a small town in Albania. Besides the well- a world of maps. Yet his seemingly-happy isolation is is a hotbed of political unrest and social change. Yet organized, civilized life, a strange Gypsy community is broken by the serendipitous arrival of two young women amid all the violence, a sensationalist television news settled in the town. The calm fl ow of their life is troubled into his life. Mary is twenty and blind from birth, on the cameraman (Robert Forster) meets a warmhearted by the birth of a child. The son, who is the ninth child verge of voyaging into the world on her own. Alison is woman (Verna Bloom) raising her son in a Chicago in this Gypsy family, will bring joy not only to his family, Michael’s peer, whose grace betrays darker secrets. ghetto. As they fi ght to avoid the fear that’s gripping the but to the entire gypsy community. What could possibly Suspended beside it all is Michael’s single mother city and the nation, their fl edgling friendship grows -- but trouble the communist establishment of the time? A child Amelia, who cherishes her son, while simultaneously so does the threat of danger. is born and his name is Mao Ce Dun. pushing him away.

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:30 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7 pm

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Megalopolis Midsummer Madness Mommy is Crazy

US Premier US Premier

2008 • 112 min 2008 • Austria/UK/Latvia • 90 min 2007 • France • 95 min Italy/Brazil/China/Egypt/Japan/Pakistan/US director Alexander Hahn :: starring Maria de Ma- director Jean-Pierre Ameris :: starring Isabelle Carré, directors Francesco Conversano & Nene Grignaffi n deiros, Dominique Pinon, Orlando Wells, Tobias Marc Citti, Nazmi Kirik, Christine Murillo, Zacharie Moretti Chasseriaud, Elisa Heusch, Christian Bouillette A look at the global cities of the 21st century – the visible Janu Nakts (St. John’s Night) is a traditional Latvian “Doesn’t this bore you to death?” In the middle of a meal, and invisible elements that illuminate human nature. celebration during which family and friends gather to between two mouthfuls, Sylvie ruins her husband’s Stories and images of six megacities: madrasah students, build bonfi res, barbecue, drink and generally have a appetite. Marc has invited his boss and his wife to dinner. two Afghan refugees and a group of bloggers in Karachi; good time. According to legend, lovers and those who But that’s Sylvie’s style: she just says anything that an escort and a priest in Sao Paulo; a homeless person, would like to fall in love, can search the woods for the crosses her mind, without thinking. And when she meets a couple youths and a group of girls of Shibuya in Tokyo; “magic fern” on this night. This magic fern serves as Jallal, she discovers the misery of illegal immigrants. a garbage picker and a young secretary in Cairo; Mr the focus and pivotal point of the six stories in the fi lm, So she just gives herself, body and soul, whithout the and Mrs Shenzhen, an old unemployed couple and two and also serves as a metaphor for the fi lm’s underlying slightest hint of fear. And yet... young girls looking for a job in Shenzhen; policemen and theme – fi nding love. a street gang in Los Angeles.

Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 2:25 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:50 pm Tues, March 24 :: Corinthian :: 4:30 pm

The Noise in My Head Nomad’s Land Nothing Else Matters

2008 • Switzerland • 90 min 2008 • Switzerland • 90 min 2007 • Germany • 100 min director Vincent Pluss :: starring Céline Bolomey, director Gael Metroz :: starring Nicolas Bouvier director DirectorName#1 :: starring Paula Kalenberg, Gabriel Bonnefoy, Frédéric Landenberg, François Marie Luise Schramm, Benjamin Kramme, Vinzenz Nadin, Lucie Zelger, Pierre Mifsud Kiefer, Toni Osmani, Clara Charlotte König Laura, a journalist in her mid-30s, has a chance Fifty years after Nicolas Bouvier’s journey from Geneva Caria runs away from home with great plans. She wants encounter in downtown Geneva with Simon, an 18-year- to Sri Lanka, fi lm director Gaël Métroz follows the author’s to go to Lyon to study fashion. At the train station all her old runaway, and brings him home with her. As Laura footsteps with his camera. Although he wanted to revive luggage is stolen and she is forced to take a job on a struggles with her waning professional life, rendezvous Bouvier’s account, he ultimately tells his own story. It is construction site to earn enough money to continue the with her ex-lover, and a desperate desire to be the by leaving Bouvier’s road that the director experiences journey. On the job, Caria meets Lucie, who lives on a nurturer young Simon needs, the fi lm exposes the inner the philosophy advocated by the travel writer, letting him boat with her brother Michael. The boat is her home, and workings of his characters’ minds, revealing the need be bewitched by the Middle East. The camera’s point she wants to spend the rest of her life there. Lucie and people have for intimacy – both sexual and platonic – in of view being the director’s own, while discovering the Caria, with their completely different concepts of life, their lives. East, the exoticism unfolds slowly with the depth of an begin to realize and appreciate the parts of life that the eye which fi nds its marks as the journey goes ahead. other so eagerly seek.

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 1 :: 5:30 pm Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 4:20 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:10 pm

The Novelist Nuran Of All the Things

US Premier World Premier

2008 • Finland • 107 min 2008 • Israel • 67 min 2008 • US • 83 min director Hannu Kahakorpi :: starring Kai Lehtinen, Su- director Amikam Shossberger director Jody Lambert :: starring Dennis Lambert sanna Anteroinen

Too much hard work, too little love in the marriage and The IDF is in pursuit of a wanted man and the entire Today, Dennis Lambert is a 60-year-old family man even less self confi dence prevent Päätalo from fulfi lling West Bank city of Tul-Karem is under closure. And then, selling real estate in Florida, but he was was one of his lifetime dream to become a writer. Until he fi nds a as if the rules of the closure do not apply, an old Subaru the most successful and diverse songwriter/producers new love. pulls over, two women grab little Nuran by her hands and of the 1970s and 1980s. It turns out his obscure 1972 mouth, slam her against the backseat and vanish. Nuran solo album is huge in the Philippines. A Filipino concert was eight years-old when she was kidnapped from her promoter has been begging him to come tour for doorstep inside the Palestinian Authority and taken into decades, and he fi nally agreed. This fi lm is a hilarious the State of Israel. Her parents have staged a desperate and touching pop/rock/country/R&B documentary that search, forced to deal with the hurdles thrown at them by follows Dennis on his whirlwind tour as he rediscovers the IDF and the Israeli Police. his passion for music.

Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:25 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:05 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 8 pm screening with Roads

Pachamama Paloma Delight Paraíba My Love

US Premier US Premier Bernard Robert-Charrue in person 2008 • Bolivia/Japan/US • 104 min 2007 • France/Algeria • 134 min 2008 • Brazil/Switzerland • 77 min director Toshifumi Matsushita :: starring Christian director Nadir Mokneche :: starring Biyouna, Nadia director Bernard Robert-Charrue :: starring Chico Huaygua, Fanny Mosques, Francisco Gutierrez, Luis Kaci, Aylin Prandi, Daniel Lundh, Fadila Ouabdesse- César, Dominguinhos, Richard Galliano, Aleijadinho Mamani lam, Lyes Salem, Nawel Zwit, Abbes Zahmani de Pombal, Pinto do Acordeon, Os 3 do Nordeste On Bolivia’s inland salt sea, 13-year-old Kunturi and his Need a building permit? Feeling lonely tonight? Call the A documentary about the “forró”, the music and culture family cut bricks of salt by hand, which they use to barter national benefactress, Madame Aldjeria. When it comes of Northeast Brazil, and the meeting of great Brazilian for goods. The Quecha people have lived and worked to surviving in today’s Algeria, no scam is too daunting musicians with the French jazzman Richard Galliano. close to the land for centuries (the term Pachamama for the woman who has adopted her country’s name. The fi lm shows how forró is an integral part of the life and means Mother Earth). It’s not an easy life, but still rich If they’re pretty and lacking in principles, her recruits culture of Northeast Brazil. Through forró, we discover with friends and family. When Kunturi’s grandmother falls can make a career for themselves. The latest of these, the spirit of the Northeast and the Sertão – the region ill, his father decides to take his son on the almost four- Paloma, is quite a hit, especially with Riyad, Madame known as the ‘drought polygon’. This dry and arid land month journey along the salt trail. As tragedy and joy Aldjeria’s son. But the purchase of Caracalla Springs, has affected the people and their culture. We discover intertwine, Kunturi is forced to confront death, suffering the dream that should allow Aldjeria’s clan to start a new the history of this music (with archive photographs and and, most sweetly and powerfully of all, fi rst love. life, proves to be one scam too many. black and white fi lm).

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:45 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:05 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:40 pm

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Passing the Rainbow Peacefi re Pindorama: The True Story Of Seven Dwarves Northern California Premier Sandra Schäfer in person 2008 • Germany/Afghanistan • 71 min 2008 • Ireland • 87 min 2008 • Brazil • 80 min directors Sandra Schafer & Elfe Brandenburger director Macdara Vallely :: starring John Travers, directors Roberto Berliner & Leo Crivellare starring Aiqela Rezaie, Roya Fahim, Anonyme Figur, Gerry Doherty, Pauline Goldsmith, Gerard Jordan Hamida Refah, Nursia Anjomodin, Zobaida Sahar A study of the rigid gender norms in Afghan society Although an inconspicuous residential area of a Northern Circus of seven dwarves in Northern Brazil shows us a through snapshots of everyday life. The fi lm’s characters Irish town is a seemingly dull place to live, the confl ict new and astonishing reality. Sons of the mythic clown include a teacher who is also an actress, a policewoman between the Irish Republican Army and British loyalists Pindoba, the seven brothers and sisters live in perfect whose second job is working as an action fi lm director, make it unique, formed by its own rules and the constant harmony with their kids, husbands and wives, bringing an activist for RAWA, an organization which advocates presence of danger. Colin, knocks around with a gang fun and hapiness to everyone who goes to their daily the radical separation of state and religion, a girls’ that gets its kicks stealing cars for reckless joyrides. shows. From the poor and arid regions in Northern theatre group in Kabul, and Malek_a who lives as a boy When he’s arrested and given an offer of collaborating or Brazil, Pindorama reveals dreams, love and hope in a to earn a living for her family. Passing the Rainbow is going to jail, he must is tormented by a sense of betraying different and small world apart from everything around a fi lm refl ecting on gender relations and opening new his dead father, and worry about being discovered by the them. These seven unique individuals have created a areas of action in fi ction. local IRA as an informer. lifestyle that rises above small-minded people.

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 11:20 am Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 1:30 pm Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 2:15 pm screening with Bamiyan

A President to Remember: Prince of Broadway Princess of Africa In the Company of John F. Kennedy West Coast Premier Northern California Premier West Coast Premier

2008 • US • 85 min 2008 • US • 102 min 2008 • Senegal/Spain • 76 min director Robert Drew :: narrator Alec Baldwin director Sean Baker :: starring Prince Adu, Karren director Juan Laguna Karagulian, Aiden Noesi, Keyali Mayaga, Kat San- chez, Victoria Tate As Americans look to replace tarnished national ideals The story of Lucky and Levon, two men whose lives The story of two dreams. Marem’s dream, a 14-year-old with new Presidential wisdom and honor, this fi lm brings converge in New York’s wholesale fashion district. Lucky, dancer from Senegal, to migrate to Europe, and Sonia’s, to life an American President who was widely respected an illegal immigrant from Ghana, solicits shoppers with a Spanish dancer, attracted by the magic of Africa. by his countrymen and celebrated around the world. knock-off brand merchandise. Levon, an Armenian- Both are linked by Pap Ndiaye, Marem’s father and at This new fi lm is composed from four break through fi lms Lebanese immigrant, operates an illegal storefront with the same time Sonia’s husband. Africa does not meet by Robert Drew. Each is an unprecedented record in a concealed back room where counterfeit goods are Sonia’s expectations (Pap Ndiaye had two additional candid photography of a phase of John F. Kennedy’s showcased to interested shoppers. Lucky’s world is wives), nor was Europe what Marem expected (no political life. This new fi lm is an intimate history of how turned upside down when a child is thrust into his life by children in the street and a lot of poverty). A love story, one American President struggled to bring wisdom and a woman who insists the toddler is his son, while Levon full of music and dance, where nothing is what it seems honor to the offi ce of the Presidency. struggles to save a marriage that is falling apart. and women are the main characters. Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 2:35 pm Tues, March 24 :: Corinthian :: 6:30 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 6:20 pm Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 6 pm

Purgatory Rez Bomb Ripley Under Ground

Steven Lewis Simpson in person Stephen Ujlaki (Producer) in person 2008 • Mexico • 86 min 2008 • UK/US • 95 min 2005 • US/Germany • 101 min director Roberto Rochin Naya :: starring Pedro Arm- director Steven Lewis Simpson :: starring Tamara director Roger Spottiswoode :: starring Barry Pepper, endariz jr, Ana Claudia Talancón, Miguel Rodarte, Feldman, Trent Ford, Russell Means, Chris Robin- Willem Dafoe, Tom Wilkinson, Jacinda Barrett, Alan Alex Hank, Eduardo Von, Dolores Heredia son, Arlette Loud Hawk Cumming, Claire Forlani, Ian Hart In the 1950s, as Mexico suffers modernization, Bonfi lio A Lakota girl, Harmony, and her white boyfriend, Scott, After his friend is killed, Tom Ripley covers up the crime asks his father to care for his family and heads north get into trouble with a brutal loan shark, Jaws. Jaws to keep the friend’s name alive in order to exploit his to make his fortune. Their confl icts are resolved when threatens Scott as he’s being released from jail. If their legacy and reap millions in the process. Set in the Bonfi lio returns to say his last goodbye. Lucía, a hefty debt isn’t paid by midnight, it’s curtains. Scott contemporary art world in London, Ripley is at the prostitute, and Demetrio, a gravedigger, meet one night thinks he can pay using pills stashed inside his guitar forefront of a forgery ring that produces art attributed and their love will only be complete when Demetrio so heads to their home, but discovers Harmony and the to a dead painter who the world believes is still alive. buries her. Don Julio, the old hacienda owner, is guitar missing. It turns out Harmony has been running When an afi cionado threatens to expose the ring, Ripley delirious with remorse when Cleotilde, whom he married from Jaws for weeks after taking a beating. Scott must invites him to his estate where he murders him. Things for convenience, leaves him. confront his past and opposition to their relationship by get complicated for Ripley when a wily detective starts both families as he searches for her. looking for the missing man.

Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:40 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 5:25 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 1:25 pm screening with Mexican Standoff

Royal Road of Cachaca Seventeen Shadow of the Holy Book

US Premier Northern California Premier Joe Chow in person 2008 • Brazil • 98 min 2008 • China • 80 min 2007 • Finland • 90 min director Pedro Urano director Joe Chow :: starring Joan Chen, Sam Chow, director Arto Halonen Anlian Yao, Songzi Xu, Vision Wei

Royal Road of Cachaça is a path, a journey. Somewhat The fi lm tells the story of a 17-year-old, abandoned by Why are some of the world’s biggest international of a spatial-temporal road movie, the fi lm presents an his father when he was two and returned to his mother companies translating the Ruhnama, an absurd encounter with national reality through the most Brazilian at the age of ten. He always thought it was his mother government propaganda book from Turkmenistan, into of its drinks, cachaça. A poetic, socio-economic, who abandoned him and held a deep hatred for her. their own languages? This documentary exposes the anthropologic and historical investigation that articulates He decides to leave the town to escape his desires immorality of international companies doing business signifi cant fragments of the nation’s trajectory along the for revenge on her. A visit from his mother in his new with the dictatorship of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan, notorious Estrada Real (Royal Road). The fi lm recovers home gives him a chance to see his mother’s love for thus helping to hide its human rights and free speech an ancestral route with the objective of detecting the him. The two of them fi nd that where the son lives isn’t abuses – all in the name of profi t and corporate greed. presence of cachaça in Brazilian culture. as important as the newly discovered relationship and mutual love they have learned to share with each other.

Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:10 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 1:10 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:35 pm screening with Shikashika 28 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

The Shaft Shot from Dark Sita Sings the blues Sponsored by Rockstar West Coast Premier World Premier Dustin Thompson & Ryan Kofman in person 2008 • China • 98 min 2008 • US • 58 min 2008 • US/India • 82 min director Zhang Chi :: starring Luo Deyuan, Huang directors Dustin Thompson & Ryan Kofman director Nina Paley Xuan, Li Chen, Fang Yining, Zheng Luoqian, Zhou starring Jeremy Soderburg, Byron Snatchywaters, Xiang, Guan Siting Zach Gutweiler, Iain McLeod, Russell Day In three interrelated parts, the fi lm progressively focuses This documentary stands in support of rollerblading – the Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord on individual members of a family living in a mining town bastard-child action sport and culture. Endorsing both and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose in western China. The episodes follow on from one the underground rollerblading scene from East to West husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. another chronologically, although they do not simply coast, the underground music scene from Los Angeles is Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient trace the continual development of a single family. also highlighted. The fi lm is a non-profi t effort – the fi rst tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated The fi lm does not seek to severely criticise the given of its kind. Focusing on helping to develop the culture of interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the situation, nor are the environment and heroes portrayed the skating lifestyle, this fi lm hopes to support, inspire, 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, the fi lm earns its for effect; they seem natural, and are consistent with the and respect all types of innovation in rolling, while also tagline as “The Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.” perception of ordinary Chinese people, who, by their giving some exposure to the artists that provide the own admission, are not ones to complain. soundtrack in motion for the skaters profi led.

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 3 :: 5:15 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 12:15 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:40 pm screening with Lift, Beauty & the Beast

The Smell of Apples Song Sung Blue South of the Moon

US Premier US Premier Antonio DiVerdis in person 2008 • Kurdistan/Germany • 87 min 2008 • US • 87 min 2008 • Canada • 102 min director Ravin Asaf :: starring Shalau Jamal, Safya director Greg Kohs :: starring Lightning & Thunder director Antonio DiVerdis :: starring John Ralston, Akdad, Shwan Atof, Hama Ali Khan Jake McLeod, Moya O’Connell, Daniel Richard Giv- erin, Jayne Heitmeyer, Larry Day Normally, it would be apple blossom time in occupied A documentary that tells the alternately inspiring and The story of a young boy and his uncle, one dealing Iraq. But nothing ﬂ owers in the Kurdish town of Halabja tragic love story of Lightning & Thunder, a homegrown with the complexity and confusion of adolescence, the since the poison gas attack 20 years ago. Yusuf, an Milwaukee husband and wife singing duo who pay other with the pain and torment of regret. It is the story apothecary, works for a German relief organization tribute to the music of Neil Diamond. Filmmaker Greg of well-intentioned people, ﬂ awed and imperfect by and is in love with Sara, a teacher, chronically ill and Kohs goes backstage into the personal lives with this nature, in their personal quest for love, acceptance and dependent on medicine. As her jealous 15-year-old brave couple – from their humble beginnings over 20 redemption. pupil Rizgar kidnaps Yusuf, Sara’s supply of medicine years ago to the threshold of fame; from disaster to dwindles. Rizgar wants to put Yusuf to trial: didn’t the rebirth through to the most dramatic chapters in the lives Germans supply the gas for the attack? But today they of these authentic American dreamers. supply medicine.

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:20 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 4:50 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm

Split Ends Summer Trip The Sweetest Embrace: Return to Afghanistan US Premier Dorothy Lyman & Kate Russo in person 2009 • US • 83 min 2008 • Japan • 73 min 2008 • Afghanistan/Canada • 75 min director Dorothy Lyman :: starring Corinna May, director Hiroshi Toda :: starring Shinichi Okayama, director Najeeb Mirza Lawton Paseka, Beau Baxter, Richard Bekins, Kate Shyoji Yamada, Yayoi Yamamoto, Kozue Yamada, Russo Shigeaki Horiuchi A feisty hairdresser faces off with an unscrupulous Hirata and Kageyama are old friends. Now in their old Soorgul was only 10 years old when he said goodbye to developer, and is forced to come face-to-face with the age they have retired, and made their mind up to hit the his family in the mountains of northeastern Afghanistan. uncertainties of her own life in a small, New Jersey road for a change, leaving all cares behind. On the road, Crossing into Soviet Tajikistan over the turbulent Amu town. they take their time and relax. They reminisce, just joking Darya River, he clutched the sides of a wooden gondola around and laughing. The one big problem: the food is as it slowly it made its way to the other side. He was terrible because they’re camping out along the way. supposed to spend a year studying in Tajikistan, but it Things appear to get dramatically better when they ﬁ nd would take 16 years and a journey to Canada before he a Soba restaurant, but little do they know that this is just could return to his village. the beginning of their strange, dream-like experience to follow.

Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 5:30 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 4:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 1:25 pm screening with In Doubt

Synch or Swim Taizo This Beautiful City

Northern California Premier Cheryl Furjanic in person 2008 • US • 90 min 2008 • Japan • 96 min 2007 • Canada • 85 min director Cheryl Furjanic :: starring Anna Kozlova, director Takako Nakajima :: starring Patrick Harlan, director Ed Gass-Donnelly :: starring Kristin Booth, Becky Jasontek, Tammy Crow, Andrea Nott, Esther Nadia McKechnie, Ron Rhodes Caroline Cave, Stuart Hughes, Noam Jenkins, Aaron Williams Poole Dive into the world of elite synchronized swimming as One step on a mine, its all over! This is a last message Husband and wife Harry and Carol are having a dinner dedicated young women compete for spots on the U.S. of Taizo Ichinose, who risked his life to take photos of party with some friends. Afterwards, Carol goes to have Synchronized Swimming team and train relentlessly Angkor Wat in Cambodia during the war, in the early a smoke on the sly on the balcony and teeters over the in pursuit of an Olympic medal. Sync or Swim profi les 1970s. He was a war photographer and also a Japanese railing. A moment later she is found injured below by hard-working athletes on a moving journey to fulfi ll their man loved by the local people. A documentary about a a policeman named Peter, a drug-addicted prostitute Olympic dreams. Day after day, these swimmers hone young and aspiring photojournalist whose dream was named Pretty and her boyfriend Johnny. Carol’s fall their skills and perfect the split-second timing of their to become the fi rst journalist to photograph Angkor Wat opens the fi lm and the rest plays out three months later precisely choreographed routines in preparation to face under the regime of the Khmer Rouge. The fi lm features with her fall having intersected the fates of the fi ve fi ve their Olympic competitors, all the while supporting a extensive interviews with people including Taizo’s family, main characters from modern Toronto and caused their teammate attempting to recover from a terrible tragedy. fellow journalists and brings his persona to life. lives to intertwine.

Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2 pm Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 4:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:15 pm screening with Divers screening with Interception 30 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Three in Love Trapped Triomf

US Premier US Premier

2008 • Finland • 94 min 2008 • Denmark • 52 min 2008 • South Africa • 118 min director Peter Lindholm :: starring Kari-Pekka director Anja Dalhoff director Michael Raeburn :: starring Lionel Newton, Toivonen, Liisa Kuoppamäki, Matleena Kuusniemi, Oed Baloyi, Vanessa Cooke Rea Mauranen, Taneli Mäkelä, Marjaana Maijala Tomi Laakso, a happily married man, falls in love with Many European countries, including Denmark, have On March 1994 in South Africa, on the day of the fi rst another woman. Instead of going behind his wife´s back, seen a sharp increase in the number of African women free election, Lambert Benade will turn 21, and Uncle Tomi shares his feelings with her and fi nds himself in involved in prostitution. The overwhelming majority are Treppie promises him the girl of his dreams. But, in this love with two women at the same time. Tomi´s wife Maria victims of human traffi cking. Many arrive in Europe hilariously horrendous tragi-comedy, as a new world is has to face the facts and realise that Tomi is still the love following a horrifying journey across the African continent. born, two members of the white trash family are destined of her life. A love story between three adults. Once arrived at their destination, the traffi ckers present to die. each of the women with a fi ctitious bill payable at once. Prostitution is the only possible way out of the debt. The fi lm is the fi rst time a Danish documentary shows the increasing problem of traffi cking of women to Denmark.

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:45 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 2:30 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:15 pm screening with Foreign Bodies, Anthem

Under The Skin Under the Snow The Unwinking Gaze Sponsored by Paciﬁ c Sun West Coast Premier

2008 • US/Japan • 60 min 2007 • Spain/Argentina • 99 min 2007 • UK/Canada/India/Tibet • 70 min director Billy Burke :: starring Mario Barth directors Candela Figueira & Maitena Muruzabal director Joshua Dugdale :: starring The Dalai Lama starring Asun Aguinaco, Gabriel Latorre, Laura De Pedro, Xabi Yarnoz World-renowned tattoo artist and founder of Starlight The winter season is almost here. In the snow chain An observational portrait of the Dalai Lama as he tries Tattoo, Mario Barth is about to take viewers on an packing section of a factory, the orders are piling to engage the Chinese government into accepting the amazing journey where no cameras have gone before – up. Javier, the supervisor, asks upper management need for a negotiated settlement on the future of Tibet. the secret, underground world of tattoo rituals. Barth and for additional personnel. Jairo is sent from another Filmmaker Joshua Dugdale was given extraordinary producer/director Billy Burke team up to grant viewers section while Karmentxu and Angela are hired through access from the Dalai Lama’s Private Ofﬁ ce for over 3 an all access pass to Japanese festivals and rituals a temporary work agency, for two weeks. From 6am to years to make this ﬁ lm, and witness from day-to-day the never-before-seen on screen in a ground-breaking new 2pm, the four of them pack snow chains in silence, each agonies of a God King as he tries to strike a balance documentary. of them at their own workstation. As the snow, and work, between his own personal vows as a Buddhist and the continues, the workplace evolves from a cold, gray place realpolitik required to bring China to the negotiating to one of fun that only they know about. table. Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 1:10 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:50 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 2 pm screening with Splitting Hairs screening with School of Thought (Sunday Onl © 2009 Tiburon International Film Festival 31 Feature Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Vaclav Vanechka Whispering Embers

Northern California Premier US Premier US Premier Nadezhda Kopytina (Producer) in person 2008 • Czech Republic • 100 min 2007 • Russia • 106 min 2008 • Israel • 90 min director Jiri Vejdelek :: starring Ivan Trojan, Emília director Nadezdha Kopytina :: starring Maxim Galkin, director Ali Nassar :: starring Ali Suliman, Hisham Vášáryová, Jan Budař, Jiří Lábus Elena Velikanova, Andrey Panin, Nina Ruslanova, Suliman, Amal Kaiss, Osama Masri, Adib Jahshan, Eudoxia Germanova, Olga Drozdova Wardi Dakwar, Nidal Badarne, Ali Nassar Václav Vingl, the village loser, in his 40’s and possibly An unsophisticated beauty, Nadya comes to Moscow to Jamal, a 30-something man, faces the deterioration of partially mentally disabled, lives with his widowed mother enter fi lm school. Her dreams of a brilliant future almost everything he has ever believed in. The political party, on the outskirts of the village. He is seen by villagers as become reality, but then her only friends in Moscow Islam, and most importantly, traditional family life. He the local fool; nothing but a constant pain, but there is a perish in a car accident, and Nadya fi nds herself in a leaves his home to look for answers. His wife learns his skeleton in the village closet about how his father died. strange city taking care of the orphaned Vanechka. The secrets, his confusion, disappointments and his secret He gets no mercy from his brother either, who thinks child becomes her closest companion. Having lived in love of Layla, an out going, rules breaking woman. In he should be put into an institution. Ever since their a world of cruelty and indifference, Nadya searches his head Jamal sees himself as the legendary Arab hero childhood, he competes with Vaclav for the attention of for justice and mercy, and in the span of several days of the middle ages, savior of the Islamic nation, Salah A their mother, and now it seems even his mistress fi nds will transform from a naive child to an adult capable of Din, as he challenges Laila’s lover, to a bizarre duel. Is it attraction in the wild, but charmingly innocent Vaclav. making courageous decisions. a duel over a woman, or maybe over the holy land?

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:20 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:50 pm

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2007 • Turkey • 120 min 2008 • France • 95 min director Mahsun Kırmızıgül :: starring Yavuz Bingol, director Laussanne Xavier Sarp Atak, Yildiz Kenter, Gazanfer Ozcan, Erol Gu- naydin, Emel Sayin, Nejat Uygur, Mahsun Kirmizigul NOW! The old leader of a Kurdish tribe, is suffering from cancer. Long-time music vagabond Jean-Yves Labat de Rossi While running away from the compulsory chemotherapy invited musicians from Israel and Palestine to join sessions, he suddenly ﬁ nds himself in a nursing home. together on an extraordinary tour that would unite them The elderly are left alone waiting for death, unlike his in France for three weeks. On stage it was a triumph, but own village in the Southeast where elders are treated tempers ﬂ ared backstage. The inescapable proximity 415.789.8854 with the utmost care and tenderness by their relatives. forced them to communicate. The stresses from the He and his two sons invite this group of abandoned exhausting tour and political rivalries slowly developed • people to his village to receive special care until the end into close ties, sustained and driven by the music. TIBURONFILMFESTIVAL.COM their lives. Their journey becomes a trek into the heart of the country and the people.

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:20 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11 am screening with On the Road to Tel-Aviv 32 Short Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

26.4 4 Kilometers 4x4 US Premier US Premier US Premier 2008 • Belgium • 15 min 2008 • Israel/UK • 23 min 2008 • Hong Kong • 4 min directors Valerie Lienardy & Antoine Duquesne director Miri Shapiro director Martin Fournier

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:25 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 10 pm screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with Afghan Chronicles screening with Magazine Gap Road

American Honey Anthem Arch’s Iguanas World Premier 2008 • US • 8 min 2008 • Israel • 36 min 2008 • Honduras/US • 24 min director Jamie Jensen director Elad Keidan director Steve Gatlin Steve Gatlin in person Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 2:30 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:10 pm screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Trapped, Foreign Bodies screening with Marin Filmmakers

Asamara Bamiyan The Bear’s Hand US Premier US Premier 2008 • Spain • 9 min 2008 • France/Afghanistan • 15 min 2008 • Switzerland • 4 min directors Jon Garaño & Raúl López director Patrick Pleutin director Marina Rosset

Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 11:20 am Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm screening with Belief Shorts screening with Passing the Rainbow screening with Animation Shorts

Beauty & the Beast Because There Are Things You Never Forget Before the Sea Northern California Premier West Coast Premier 2008 • US • 40 min 2008 • Spain • 13 min 2008 • US • 9 min director Lucas Figueroa director Charlene Music Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:35 pm Charlene Music, Mario Ingargiola & Nicola Ingargiola in person Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 12:15 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Bay Model :: 3:30 pm Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 6:10 pm screening with Shot From Dark, Lift screening with Flowers in the Sky (3/22), Berber Atlas (3/26) screening with American Outrage, Colour Talks, Gimme a Hug

A Better Life Blood Red Earth A Bronx Dream West Coast Premier 2008 • Spain/Mexico • 12 min 2008 • US • 18 min 2008 • Ireland • 40 min director Luis Fernandez Reneo director JT Perry director Joanne McGrath

Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm screening with 7 Souls screening with Belief Shorts screening with Music & Dance Shorts

The Bull The Cable Car Candy West Coast Premier Northern California Premier 2007 • Mexico • 11 min 2008 • Switzerland • 7 min 2008 • US • 6 min director Patricio Serna Salazar director Claudius Gentinetta director Sung Eun Kim

Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Animation Shorts screening with Animation Shorts

Cantata in C Major Children Who Never Existed Closer

2008 • US • 8 min 2007 • Spain • 19 min 2007 • Spain • 7 min director Ronnie Cramer director David Valero director Aitor Echeverria

Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 4:30 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 3 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:40 pm screening with Hair, Gravity, A Time and a Time screening with Familiar Voices, Coming of Age screening with Barcelona

Colour Talks Colour Test.6 Columbariun US Premier US Premier 2008 • Fiji/UK/France • 8 min 2008 • Germany • 21 min 2008 • US • 26 min director Anita Chaumette director Gerd Conradt director Linda Richard Gerd Conradt in person Linda Richard in person Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 6:10 pm 3/20 :: Playhouse2 :: 3:45 pm // 3/22 :: Playhouse2 :: 1:30 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:10 pm screening with American Outrage, Before the Sea, Gimme a Hug screening with All Together Now (3/20 & 3/22) screening with Marin Filmmakers Program

Coming of Age Crackle and Space Crowded with Voices US Premier World Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • South Africa • 9 min 2008 • US • 14 min 2007 • US • 5 min director Judy Kibinge director Christopher J. Ewing director Anya Belkina Christopher J. Ewing, Gabriel Raffaelli & Ilana Turner in person Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 3 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm screening with Familiar Voices, Children Who Never Existed screening with Love Story Shorts screening with Music & Dance Shorts

Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break Cyanosis Danzak West Coast Premier US Premier West Coast Premier 2008 • US • 6 min 2008 • Iran • 32 min 2008 • Peru/US • 19 min director Kyle Ruddick director Rokhsareh Ghaemmaghami director Gabriela Yepes

Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm screening with Music & Dance Shorts screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with Belief Shorts

34 Short Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

A Day’s Work Directions Disbelief Will Save Your Soul

2008 • US • 17 min 2008 • Australia • 14 min 2008 • Germany • 12 min director Rajeev Dasani director Kasimir Burgess director Samuel Weikopf

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm screening with Immigration Shorts screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Animation Shorts

Distinguishing Features Distraxion Diva Northern California Premier 2007 • Mexico • 12 min 2008 • US • 2 min 2007 • France • 8 min director Kenya Marquez director Michael Stern director Josephine Mackerras Michael Stern in person Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:45 pm screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with The First Day of Winter, Even in My Dreams

Divers drake Dust Off and Cowboy Up! World Premier 2008 • US • 3 min 2006 • Austria • 5 min 2007 • US • 4 min director Paris Mavroidis director Christoph Rainer director Laurence Arcadias Laurence Arcadias in person Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 apm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am screening with Synch or Swim screening with Love Story Shorts screening with Expiremental Shorts

Easter Sunday Endsieg – Everything Changes In One Shot Even in My Dreams US Premier 2008 • Brazil • 15 min 2008 • Germany • 12 min 2008 • US • 8 min director Pedro Amorim directors Niccolo Castelli & Daniel Casparis director Flavio Alves

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:45 pm screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Swiss Shorts screening with The First Day of Winter, Diva

Faire Diversion Fall The Fenceline US Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • Switzerland • 13 min 2008 • Thailand/US • 5 min 2008 • US • 20 min director Philippe Saire director Visra Vichit-Vadakan director Brian Rasmussen Visra Vichit-Vadakan in person Brian Rasmussen in person Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 7:40 pm screening with Swiss Shorts screening with A Deal is a Deal screening with Cactus

Final Fitting Foreign Bodies Four Minutes til Noon US Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • Iran • 30 min 2007 • France • 21 min 2008 • US • 4 min director Reza Haeri director Naël Marandin director Jonathan Taylor Jonathan Taylor in person Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:30 pm Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 2:30 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:50 pm screening with Loose Rope screening with Trapped, Anthem screening with The 27 Club

Furnace Room Lullaby Gaining Ground Gaza Souvenirs

2008 • US • 3 min 2007 • Germany • 20 min 2007 • France/Palestine • 46 min director Anne Peterson director Marc Brummond director Samuel Albaric

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 6:20 pm screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with Immigration Shorts screening with Amina

Gilles’ Lily Gimme a Hug Gio World Premier 2007 • Canada • 16 min 2008 • Netherlands/Bahamas • 14 min 2008 • Italy • 30 min director David Uloth director Geert Droppers director Cristian Di Mattia Geert Droppers in person Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Bay Model :: 6:10 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm screening with Slice of Life Shorts screening with American Outrage, Before the Sea, Colour Talks screening with Immigration Shorts

Gone Fishing Gravity A Green Mountain in the Drawer

2008 • UK • 13 min 2007 • Belgium • 6 min 2008 • Korea/US • 29 min director Chris Jones director Nicolas Provost director Hwa Jun Lee Chris Jones in person Hwa-Jun Lee in person Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 4:30 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm screening with Slice of Life Shorts screening with Hair, Cantata in C Major, A Time and a Time screening with Senior’s Shorts

Hakim Hey Homicide: Division B Northern California Premier World Premier US Premier 2008 • Germany/Tanzania • 15 min 2008 • Israel • 4 min 2008 • UK • 9 min director Ismail Sahin director Guy Ben Shetrit director Abner Pastoll

Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 6 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 6:40 pm screening with Princess of Africa, No Art on $2 a Day screening with Animation Shorts screening with Frankie Is a Womanizer

36 Short Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

How To Save A Fish From Drowning Hungry God I Don’t Dream in German West Coast Premier 2007 • UK • 13 min 2008 • India/US • 9 min 2008 • Switzerland/Bosnia-Herzagovina • 15 min director Kelly Neal director Sukhada Gokhale-Bhonde director Ivana Lalovic

Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm screening with Senior’s Shorts screening with Belief Shorts screening with Swiss Shorts

In Doubt In the Dark Interception US Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • Germany • 8 min 2004 • Belgium • 29 min 2007 • US • 6 min director Christoph Baumann director Alex Fazeli director Steven Wasserman Alex Fazeli, Maz Jobrani & Sarah Fazeli in person Mon, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 4:40 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:05 pm Tues, March 24 :: Bay Model :: 4:40 pm screening with Summer Trip screening with Goodbye Solo screening with Taizo

Jackson The Job The Kiddush Man West Coast Premier West Coast Premier 2008 • US • 8 min 2007 • US • 4 min 2008 • US • 11 min director Mark Jwayad director Jonathan Browning director Yitz Brilliant Mark Jwayad in person Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm screening with Slice of Life Shorts screening with Immigration Shorts screening with Belief Shorts

Last Chance Romance Last Day Last Thoughts West Coast Premier West Coast Premier 2008 • UK • 9 min 2008 • US • 6 min 2008 • US • 4 min director Stacy Harrison director Ross Cohen director Paul Burke Stacy Harrison in person Ross Cohen in person Paul Burke in person Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am screening with Senior’s Shorts screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Expiremental Shorts

Laura - in Action License to Love Lift

2008 • Denmark • 16 min 2008 • Finland/US • 5 min 2008 • France/US/Italy/Spain • 20 min director Laerke Drews director Steve Gatlin director Anthony Green Steve Gatlin in person Philip Green (Cinematographer) in person Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:10 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 2 :: 12:15 pm screening with Animation Shorts screening with Marin Filmmakers Program screening with Shot From Dark, Beauty & the Beast

A Little Girl Waiting Looking Back The Lutheran Northern California Premier 2008 • Mexico • 6 min 2008 • US • 6 min 2007 • US • 25 min director Esteban Reyes director Emile Bokaer director Brad Bosely Emile Bokaer & Albert Lewis in person Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Belief Shorts

The Maid Mail Call Maria & Osmey US Premier 2008 • US/Egypt • 19 min 2008 • US • 8 min 2008 • Cuba • 8 min director Heidi Saman director Jacob J. Halverson director Diego Arredondo

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:10 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 5:15 pm screening with Love Story Shorts screening with Final Image screening with Fidel Castro: Man & Myth

Mazal Mexican Standoff Missio Canonica West Coast Premier 2008 • Israel • 18 min 2008 • US • 4 min 2008 • Switzerland • 11 min director Roy Sher director Bill Plympton director Sarah Horst

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:30 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 9:40 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm screening with Behind the Glass screening with Purgatory screening with Swiss Shorts

Mister Cok Mr. Brooklyn My Father is Sleeping

2008 • France • 10 min 2008 • US • 14 min 2007 • Germany • 14 min director Franck Dion director Jason Sokoloff director Grzegorz Muskala

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm screening with Animation Shorts screening Street Life Shorts screening with Slice of Life Shorts

My Mother’s Daughter My Pen Pal: An African Adventure Night Practice

2007 • UK • 12 min 2008 • US • 28 min 2006 • UK • 3 min director Saleyha Ahsan director Shaun Donahue director Susanna Wallin Shaun Donahue in person Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:25 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm screening with Belief Shorts screening with Marin Filmmakers Program screening with Music & Dance Shorts

38 Short Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

No Art on $2 a Day No Quarter No Tomorrow Northern California Premier US Premier 2008 • Cameroon/France/US • 8 min 2007 • Canada • 2 min 2008 • Belgium • 14 min director Laurent Malaquais director Michael Trent directors Valerie Lienardy & Antoine Duquesne Laurent Malaquais & Patrick McCarthy in person Sat, March 21 :: Bay Model :: 6 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm screening with Princess of Africa, Hakim screening with Animation Shorts screening with Street Life Shorts

Nora Not Forgotten Old Grace Northern California Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • Mozambique/US/UK • 35 min 2007 • Canada • 2 min 2008 • US • 10 min directors Alla Kovgan & David Hinton director Dewi Permata Sari director Nathan Chitayat

Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm screening with Music & Dance Shorts screening with Animation Shorts screening with Senior’s Shorts

On the Line On the Line On The Road to Tel-Aviv

2008 • Spain/US • 12 min 2007 • Switzerland • 30 min 2008 • Israel • 18 min director Jon Garaño director Reto Cafﬁ director Khen Shalem

Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 11 am screening with Immigration Shorts screening with Swiss Shorts screening with With One Voice

One of the Last Ottica Zero Our Bay

2007 • Italy • 12 min 2007 • UK • 13 min 2008 • US • 15 min director Paul Zinder director Maja Borg director Noah Schlager Noah Schlager in person Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 9:30 pm Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 7:10 pm screening with Above the Clouds screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with Marin Filmmakers Program

Papercut Portal Roads West Coast Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • Canada • 5 min 2008 • US • 9 min 2007 • Israel • 22 min director Pedro Eboli director John Bush director Lior Geller

Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:05 pm screening with Animation Shorts screening with Music & Dance Shorts screening with Nuran

Roastbeef Roots Rubens Dreams US Premier 2007 • Canada • 6 min 2008 • Turkey • 18 min 2008 • Germany • 10 min directors Francois Begin & Miryam Bouchard director Eileen Hofer director Renata Borowczak

Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:15 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am screening with Music & Dance Shorts screening with Swiss Shorts screening with Love Story Shorts

School of Thought Sebastian’s Voodoo Security Northern California Premier Northern California Premier 2008 • US • 40 min 2008 • US • 4 min 2006 • Germany • 13 min director Tony Perri director Joaquin Baldwin director Lars Henning

Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:40 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am screening with The Unwinking Gaze screening with Animation Shorts screening with Love Story Shorts

Shikashika Shred of Hope Signiﬁ cant Other Northern California Premier 2007 • Peru/US • 11 min 2007 • Israel • 26 min 2008 • US • 7 min director Stephen Hyde director Tom Shoval director Zac Petrillo Zac Petrillo in person Tues, March 24 :: Playhouse 2 :: 5:10 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am screening with Royal Road of Cachaca screening with Senior’s Shorts screening with Love Story Shorts

Small Change A Small Death Smiling Dog US Premier 2007 • Australia • 8 min 2007 • Mexico • 6 min 2007 • Germany • 9 min director Anna McGrath director Ana Paulina Castellanos director Shohreh Jandaghian

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Sat, March 21 :: Corinthian :: 11:20 pm screening with Slice of Life Shorts screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Finn on the Fly

Sometimes We Hum Splitting Hairs Spread Through the Air West Coast Premier US Premier 2008 • US • 7 min 2008 • US • 28 min 2007 • Brazil • 15 min director Cliff Traiman director F. Stone Roberts director Esmir Filho Cliff Traiman, Dorian Brockington and Joseph Mendoza in person F Stone Roberts in person Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 1:10 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:20 am screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Under the Skin screening with Love Story Shorts

40 Short Films see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

Standing Start The Switch Symphony Northern California Premier 2007 • UK • 13 min 2007 • Canada • 2 min 2008 • US • 5 min director Finlay Pretsell director Deepak Mathew director Erick Oh Erick Oh in person Sun, March 22 :: Playhouse 3 :: 11:05 am Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm Sat, March 21 :: Playhouse 1 :: 9:50 pm screening with Expiremental Shorts screening with Animation Shorts screening with Animation Shorts

Tehran Backyard A Time and A Time Tommy

2007 • UK • 29 min 2008 • UK • 4 min 2008 • Sweden/Cuba • 18 min director Roxanna Pope director Sarah Cox director Tora Martens

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 7:30 pm Sun, March 22 :: Corinthian :: 4:30 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 6:10 pm screening with The Final Word screening with Hair, Cantata in C Major, Gravity screening with Dream Havana

The Tournament Transfert Triple Concerto in D Minor US Premier 2008 • Italy • 14 min 2008 • Canada • 6 min 2008 • Australia • 8 min director Michele Alhaique director Guillaume Paquin-Boutin director Daniel Mitchell

Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm Wed, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm Wed, March 25 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:10 pm screening with Slice of Life Shorts screening with Music & Dance Shorts screening with Slice of Life Shorts

Victor Gazon Voodoo Bayou The Waiting Northern California Premier US Premier 2008 • Canada • 11 min 2007 • Mexico • 12 min 2008 • Turkey • 14 min director Patrick Gaze director Javier Gutierrez director Emine Emel Balci

Mon, March 23 :: Playhouse 2 :: 3:15 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 3 :: 3:35 pm screening with Street Life Shorts screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Senior’s Shorts TIFF TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Wash n’ Fold Northern California Premier 415.789.8854 2008 • US • 10 min director Christy Chan or Christy Chan in person Fri, March 20 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm www.TiburonFilmFestival.com screening with Film#1, ShortProgram#1

Watching It Rain We All Bleed Red What Lies Ahead World Premier West Coast Premier 2007 • Mexico • 13 min 2008 • Canada • 5 min 2008 • US • 8 min director Elisa Miller director Dave McGrath director Nicholas Economides Dave McGrath in person Fri, March 20 :: Playhouse 1 :: 4 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm Thurs, March 26 :: Playhouse 1 :: 3:05 pm screening with Mexican Spotlight Shorts screening with Immigration Shorts screening with Immigration Shorts

ANIMATION Shred of Hope (p 40) LOVE STORY MARCH 24 • 3:25 PM MARCH 21 • 9:50 PM MARCH 21 • 11:20 AM The Lutheran (p 38) No Quarter (p 39) EXPIREMENTAL Rubens Dream (p 40) The Kiddish Man (p 37) Not Forgotten (p 39) MARCH 22 • 11:05 AM Security (p 40) Hungry God (p 37) The Switch (p 41) 26.4 (p 33) Spread Through the Air (p 40) My Daughter’s Mother (p 38) Papercut (p 39) Cyanosis (p 34) The Maid (p 38) Asamara (p 33) The Bear’s Hand (p 33) Distraxion (p 35) Signiﬁ cant Other (p 40) Blood Red Earth (p 33) Sebastian’s Voodoo (p 40) Dust Off and Cowboy Up! (p 35) Drake (p 35) Danzak (p 34) Symphony (p 41) Furnace Room Lullaby (p 36) Crackle and Space (p 34) Candy (p 34) Last Thoughts (p 37) STREET LIFE Laura - in Action (p 37) Ottica Zero (p 39) MEXICAN SPOTLIGHT MARCH 23 • 3:15 PM Mister Cok (p 38) Standing Start (p 41) MARCH 20 • 4 PM American Honey (p 33) Hey (p 36) A Little Girl Waiting (p 38) Directions (p 35) Disbelief Will Save Your Soul (p 35) IMMIGRATION A Small Death (p 40) Easter Sunday (p 35) The Cable Car (p 34) MARCH 26 • 3:05 PM Distinguishing Features (p 35) Mr. Brooklyn (p 38) A Day’s Work (p 35) The Bull (p 34) No Tomorrow (p 39) MARIN FILMMAKERS Gaining Ground (p 36) Watching it Rain (p 42) Sometime’s We Hum (p 40) MARCH 23 • 7:10 PM On The Line (p 39) Voodoo Bayou (p 41) Victor Gazon (p 41) Arch’s Iguanas (p 33) The Job (p 37) Looking Back (p 38) Columbariun (p 34) What Lies Ahead (p 42) MUSIC & DANCE Last Day (p 37) License To Love (p 37) We All Bleed Red (p 42) MARCH 25 • 4 PM Our Bay (p 39) Gio (p 36) Crowded With Voices (p 34) SWISS My Pen Pal: An African Adventure (p 38) Cut Chemist - My 1st Big Break (p 34) MARCH 24 • 3:15 PM SLICE OF LIFE Night Practice (p 38) On the Line (p 39) SENIOR’S MARCH 25 • 3:10 PM Nora (p 39) Missio Canonica (p 38) MARCH 20 • 3:35 PM Triple Concerto in D Major (p 41) Portal (p 39) Endsieg - Everything Changes in One Old Grace (p 39) The Tournament (p 41) Roastbeef (p 40) Shot (p 35) Last Chance Romance (p 37) Small Change (p 40) Transfert (p 41) Roots (p 40) How to Save a Fish from Drawing (p 37) My Father is Sleeping (p 38) A Bronx Dream (p 33) I Don’t Dream in German (p 37) A Green Mountain in the Drawer (p 36) Jackson (p 37) Faire Diversion (p 35) The Waiting (p 41) Gone Fishing (p 36) SHORT PROGRAMS SCHEDULE BELIEF Gille’s Lily (p 36)

42 Around the World in Nine Days see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

AFGHANISTAN Afghanistan, The Ripley Under Ground Small Death, A TIBET Job, The Afghan Chronicles Switch, The Rubens Dreams Voodoo Bayou Unwinking Gaze, The Jolene Bamiyan This Beautiful City Security Watching It Rain Kiddush Man, The Transfert Smell of Apples, The TURKEY Last Day Passing the Rainbow MOROCCO Sweetest Embrace: Return To Unwinking Gaze, The Smiling Dog Roots Last Thoughts Berber Atlas Afghanistan, The Victor Gazon Waiting, The License to Love We All Bleed Red GREECE Lost Beauty, The White Angel Lift ALBANIA Homecoming, The MOZAMBIQUE UNITED KINGDOM Looking Back Mao Ce Dun CHILE Lutheran, The HONDURAS Nora 27 Club, The Final Image Maid, The ALGERIA Arch’s Iguanas 4 Kilometers NETHERLANDS Mail Call Paloma Delight CHINA All Together Now HONG KONG Butterfl y Tattoo, The Medium Cool Megalopolis Butterfl y Tattoo, The 4x4 Gimme a Hug Megalopolis ARGENTINA Seventeen Colour Talks Magazine Gap Road Mexican Standoff Bye Bye Shanghai Shaft, The Deal is a Deal, A NEW ZEALAND Mr. Brooklyn Final Image Gone Fishing CROATIA INDIA Map Reader, The My Pen Pal: An African Gallero Homicide: Division B Behind the Glass Caution, Love Ahead! Adventure Iraqi Short Films PAKISTAN How To Save A Fish From Four Chapters No Art on $2 a Day Under the Snow Donkey in Lahore Drowning CUBA Hungry God Nora In the Name of God Last Chance Romance AUSTRALIA Dream Havana Sita Sings the Blues Of All the Things Midsummer Madness Cactus Fidel Castro: Man & Myth Unwinking Gaze, The PALESTINE Old Grace My Mother’s Daughter Directions La Paloma - Longing Worldwide Faces On the Line IRAN Night Practice Donkey in Lahore Maria & Osmey Gaza Souvenirs Our Bay Cyanosis Nora Small Change Tommy Pachamama Final Fitting Ottica Zero Triple Concerto in D Minor PERU Portal CZECH REPUBLIC Loose Rope Rez Bomb Danzak President to Remember: In the AUSTRALIA Bye Bye Shanghai Standing Start IRELAND Shikashika Company of John F. Kennedy, A Cactus Frankie is a Womanizer Tehran Backyard Bronx Dream, A Prince of Broadway Directions Grapes, The ROMANIA Time and A Time, A Rez Bomb Donkey in Lahore Guard No. 47 La Paloma - Longing Worldwide Unwinking Gaze, The ISRAEL Ripley Under Ground Small Change Vaclav 4 Kilometers RUSSIA UNITED STATES School of Thought Triple Concerto in D Minor Anthem DENMARK Captive 27 Club, The Sebastian’s Voodoo Faces AUSTRIA Final Image Vanechka Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Shikashika Hey Drake Laura - in Action Rock Radio Shot from Dark Mazal SENEGAL Midsummer Madness Trapped All Roads Lead Home Signifi cant Other Nuran Princes of Africa Fiji All Together Now Sita Sings the blues On The Road to Tel-Aviv BAHAMAS Colour Talks American Honey Sometimes We Hum Roads SOUTH AFRICA Gimme a Hug American Outrage Song Sung Blue EGYPT Shred of Hope Coming of Age BELGIUM Triomf Arch’s Iguanas Split Ends Maid, The Whispering Embers Splitting Hairs 26.4 Beauty & Beast Megalopolis SPAIN Symphony Gravity ITALY Before the Sea Asamara Synch or Swim Hand of the Headless Man FINLAND Above the Clouds Blood Red Earth Ashes From The Sky Under The Skin In the Dark Colorado Avenue Beket Brothers Warner, The Barcelona Wash n’ Fold No Tomorrow License to Love First Day of Winter, The Candy Novelist, The Gio Because There Are Things You Cantata in C Major What Lies Ahead Never Forget BOLIVIA Shadow of the Holy Book Lift Collective, The VIETNAM Pachamama Berber Atlas Columbariun Three in Love Megalopolis Little Heart, The Better Life, A Courting Condi BOSNIA One of the Last FRANCE Tournament, The Birdsong Crackle and Space YEMEN I Don’t Dream in German Bamiyan Children Who Never Existed Crowded with Voices Amina BRAZIL Colour Talks JAPAN Closer Cut Chemist - 1st Big Break Diva Megalopolis Lift ZANZIBAR Easter Sunday Danzak Faces Pachamama On the Line La Paloma - Longing Worldwide Fake Blonde Day’s Work, A Foreign Bodies Summer Trip Princes of Africa Megalopolis Distraxion Gaza Souvenirs Taizo Under the Snow Paraíba My Love Divers I Want to See Under The Skin Pindorama: The True Story Of SRI LANKA Dream Havana La France Dust Off and Cowboy Up! Seven Dwarves KOREA Flowers of the Sky Lift Even in My Dreams Royal Road of Cachaca Green Mountain in the Drawer, Mister Cok Fall Spread Through the Air A SWEDEN Mommy is Crazy Final Image Familiar Voices BULGARIA No Art on $2 a Day KURDISTAN Tommy Fenceline, The Captive Paloma Delight Smell of Apples, The First, Last Race, The With One Voice SWITZERLAND Fling CAMEROON LATVIA Bear’s Hand, The GERMANY Four Minutes til Noon No Art on $2 a Day Midsummer Madness Cable Car, The Furnace Room Lullaby Colour Test.6 Faire Diversion Goodbye Solo CANADA Disbelief Will Save Your Soul LEBANON I Don’t Dream in German Green Mountain in the Drawer, Afghan Chronicles Endsieg - Everything Changes I Want to See Missio Canonica A All Together Now In One Shot Noise in My Head, The Hair: Let the Sun Shine In Familiar Voices Fidel Castro: Man & Myth MEXICO Nomad’s Land Henry Kissinger - Secrests of a Finn on the Fly Gaining Ground 7 Soles On the Line Superpower Gilles’ Lily Hakim Better Life, A Paraíba My Love Hungry God Lost Song Henry Kissinger - Secrests of a Bull, The Infi nite Space: The Architecture No Quarter Superpower Distinguishing Features TANZANIA of John Launter Not Forgotten In Doubt Dream Havana Hakim Interception Papercut La Paloma - Longing Worldwide How Could I Not Love You? Jackson Roastbeef My Father is Sleeping La Paloma - Longing Worldwide THAILAND Jackson South of the Moon Nothing Else Matters Little Girl Waiting, A Fall Jazz Singer, The Sweetest Embrace: Return To Passing the Rainbow Purgatory

TIBURON PLAYHOUSE THEATER • CORINTHIAN YACHT CLUB • BAY MODEL VISITOR CENTER 40 MAIN ST, TIBURON 43 MAIN ST, TIBURON 2100 BRIDGEWAY, SAUSALITO

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Senior’s Shorts Lost Song Sita Sings Above the Clouds PLAYHOUSE #3 3:35 p 5:35 p 7:40 p 9:30 p

A President... Beket Jackson (Feature) CORINTHIAN 2:35 p 4:20 p 6 p

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PLAYHOUSE #1 With One Voice Ripley Under Ground The Brothers Warner I Want to See All Raods Lead Home Animation Shorts 11 a 1:25 p 3:45 p 6 p // 7:35 p 9:50 p PLAYHOUSE #2 Shot from Dark The First, Last Race Sing Song Blue Medium Cool The 27 Club 12:15 p 2:35 p 4:50 p 7 p 9:50 p PLAYHOUSE #3 Love Story Shorts Under the Skin This Beautiful City Paloma Delight Cactus Jolene 11:20 a 1:10 p 3:15 p 5:05 p 7:40 p 10 p CORINTHIAN Finn on the Fly Sweetest Em- Familiar Voices Fidel Castro Frankie is a 11:20 a brace // 1:25 p 3 p 5:15 p Womanizer // 6:40 p BAY MODEL Pindorama Bye Bye Shanghai Princess of Africa 2:15 p 4 p 6 p PLAYHOUSE #1 Inﬁ nite Space Peaceﬁ re The Jazz Singer Ashes from the Sky Whispering Embers Vaclav 11:15 a 1:30 p 3:30 p 6 p 7:50 p 10 p PLAYHOUSE #2 Passing the Rainbow All Together Now Paraiba My Love The Unwinking Gaze Of All the Things The First Day of 11:20 a 1:30 p 3:40 p 5:40 p 8 p Winter // 9:45 p PLAYHOUSE #3 Experimental Shorts Seventeen Final Image Birdsong The Grapes Flowers in the Sky 11:05 a 1:10 p 3:10 p 5:15 p 7:20 p 9:35 p

Faces Hair Gallero CORINTHIAN In the Name of God 1:15 p 11:15 a 4:30 p 6:15 p BAY MODEL PLAYHOUSE #1 Mao Ce Dun Noise in My Head Loose Rope South of the Moon 3:30 p 5:30 p 7:30 p 9:50 p

Street Life Shorts Afghan Chron Marin Filmmakers Three in Love PLAYHOUSE #2 THURSDAY WEDNESDAY TUESDAY MONDAY 3:15 p 5:25 p 7:10 p 9:45 p PLAYHOUSE #3 The First, Last Hand of the Headless Shadow of the Behnd the Glass Race // 3:30 p 5:25 p Holy // 7:35 p 9:30 p CORINTHIAN Trapped Summer Trip Prince of Broadway 2:30 p 4:40 p 6:20 p BAY MODEL

PLAYHOUSE #1 Swiss Shorts The Little Heart Goodbye Solo Fake Blonde 3:15 p 5:15 p 7:05 p 9:30 p PLAYHOUSE #2 The Collective Royal Road Fling Purgatory 3:25 p 5:10 p 7:20 p 9:40 p PLAYHOUSE #3 Religion Shorts The Novelist Under the Snow Magazine Gap Rd 3:25 p 5:25 p 7:50 p 10 p CORINTHIAN Courting Condi Mommy Is Crazy A President... 2:20 p 4:30 p 6:30 p BAY MODEL Megalopolis Taizo Amina 2:25 p 4:40 p 6:20 p

PLAYHOUSE #1 Life Shorts Iraqi Short Films The Final Word La France 3:10 p 5:25 p 7:30 p 9:45 p PLAYHOUSE #2 Pachamama Midsummer Airplay Barcelona 3:45 p Madness // 5:50 p 7:40 p 9:40 p PLAYHOUSE #3 Guard No. 47 The Shaft The Smell of Apples Vanechka 3:05 p 5:15 p 7:20 p 9:20 p CORINTHIAN Captive Music & Dance Shorts Henry Kissinger 2:30 p 4 p 6:15 p BAY MODEL Faces Nomad’s Land American Outrage 2:45 p 4:20 p 6:10 p PLAYHOUSE #1 Immigration Shorts Rez Bomb Four Chapters La Paloma 3:05 p 5:25 p 7:20 p 9:50 p

Nothing Else Mat- How Could I White Angel PLAYHOUSE #2 Triomf // 5:15 p ters // 3:10 p Not // 7:35 p 9:20 p PLAYHOUSE #3 Nuran The Homecoming Colorado Avenue The Lost Beauty 3:05 p 5 p 7 p 9:40 p CORINTHIAN Synch or Swim Donkey in Lahore Dream Havana 2 p 3:50 p 6:10 p BAY MODEL Unwinking Berber Atlas Caution, Love Ahead! 45 2 p 3:30 p 5:30 p Index see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

OTHER Closer, 34 Flowers of the Sky, 20 Jackson, 22 Head, 25 Shikashika, 40 26.4, 33 The Collective, 17 Foreign Bodies, 36 Jackson, 37 Nomad’s Land, 25 Shot from Dark, 29 The 27 Club, 14 Colorado Avenue, 17 Four Chapters, 20 The Jazz Singer, 23 Nora, 39 Shred of Hope, 40 4 Kilometers, 33 Colour Talks, 34 Four Minutes til The Job, 37 Not Forgotten, 39 Signifi cant Other, 40 4x4, 33 Colour Test.6, 34 Noon, 36 Jolene, 23 Nothing Else Sita Sings the Blues, 29 7 Souls, 14 Columbariun, 34 Frankie is a K Matters, 25 Small Change, 40 Coming of Age, 34 Womanizer, 20 The Kiddush Man, 37 The Novelist, 26 A Small Death, 40 A Courting Condi, 17 Furnace Room Nuran, 26 The Smell of Above the Clouds, 14 Crackle and Space, 34 Lullaby, 36 L Apples, 29 Afghan Chronicles, 14 O Crowded with La France, 23 Smiling Dog, 40 Airplay: The Rise and G Of All the Things, 26 Voices, 34 La Paloma - Longing Sometimes We Hum, 40 Fall of Rock Gaining Ground, 36 Old Grace, 39 Cut Chemist - 1st Big Worldwide, 23 Song Sung Blue, 29 Radio, 14 Gallero, 20 On the Line, 39 Break, 34 Last Chance South of the Moon, 29 All Roads Lead Gaza Souvenirs, 36 On the Line, 39 Cyanosis, 34 Romance, 37 Split Ends, 30 Home, 14 Gilles’ Lily, 36 On The Road to Last Day, 37 Splitting Hairs, 40 All Together Now, 15 D Gimme a Hug, 36 Tel-Aviv, 39 Last Thoughts, 37 Spread Through the Air, 40 American Honey, 33 Danzak, 34 Gio, 36 One of the Last, 39 Laura - in Action, 37 Standing Start, 41 American Outrage, 15 A Day’s Work, 35 Gone Fishing, 36 Ottica Zero, 39 License to Love, 37 Summer Trip, 30 Amina, 15 A Deal is a Deal, 18 Goodbye Solo, 20 Our Bay, 39 Lift, 37 The Sweetest Em Anthem, 33 Directions, 35 The Grapes, 21 A Little Girl Waiting, 38 P brace: Return To Arch’s Iguanas, 33 Disbelief Will Save Gravity, 36 The Little Heart, 23 Pachamama, 26 Afghanistan, 30 Asamara, 33 Your Soul, 35 A Green Mountain in Looking Back, 38 Paloma Delight, 26 The Switch, 41 Ashes From The Distinguishing the Drawer, 36 Loose Rope, 23 Papercut, 39 Symphony, 41 Sky, 15 Features, 35 Guard No. 47, 21 The Lost Beauty, 24 Paraíba My Love, 26 Synch or Swim, 30 B Distraxion, 35 H Lost Song, 24 Passing the Rainbow, 27 Diva, 35 T Bamiyan, 33 Hair: Let the Sun Shine The Lutheran, 38 Peacefi re, 27 Divers, 35 Taizo, 30 Barcelona, 15 In, 21 Pindorama: The Donkey in Lahore, 18 M Tehran Backyard, 41 The Bear’s Hand, 33 Hakim, 36 True Story Of Seven Drake, 35 Magazine Gap Road, 24 This Beautiful City, 30 Beauty & the Beast, 33 Hand of the Headless Dwarves, 27 Dream Havana, 18 The Maid, 38 Three in Love, 31 Because There Are Man, 21 Portal, 39 Dust Off and Cowboy Mail Call, 38 A Time and A Time, 41 Things You Never Henry Kissinger - A President to Remem Up!, 35 Mao Ce Dun, 34 Tommy, 41 Forget, 33 Secrests of a ber: In the The Map Reader, 24 The Tournament, 41 Before the Sea, 33 E Superpower, 21 Company of John Maria & Osmey, 38 Transfert, 41 Behind the Glass, 15 Easter Sunday, 35 Hey, 36 F. Kennedy, 27 Mazal, 38 Trapped, 31 Beket, 16 Endsieg - Everything The Homecoming, 21 Prince of Broadway, 27 Medium Cool, 24 Triomf, 31 Berber Atlas, 16 Changes In One Homicide: Princess of Africa, 27 Megalopolis, 25 Triple Concerto in D A Better Life, 33 Shot, 35 Division B, 36 Mexican Standoff, 38 Purgatory, 28 Even in My Dreams, 35 How Could I Not Love Minor, 41 Birdsong, 16 Midsummer R U Blood Red Earth, 33 F You?, 22 Madness, 25 Rez Bomb, 28 A Bronx Dream, 33 How To Save A Fish Under The Skin, 31 Faces, 18 Missio Canonica, 38 Ripley Under Under the Snow, 31 The Brothers Faire Diversion, 35 From Drowning, 37 Mister Cok, 38 Ground, 28 Warner, 16 Hungry God, 37 The Unwinking Gaze, 31 Fake Blonde, 18 Mommy is Crazy, 25 Roads, 39 V The Bull, 34 Fall, 35 I Mr. Brooklyn, 38 Roastbeef, 40 Vaclav, 32 The Butterfl y Tattoo, 16 Familiar Voices, 18 I Don’t Dream in My Father is Roots, 40 Vanechka, 32 Bye Bye Shanghai, 16 The Fenceline, 35 German, 37 Sleeping, 38 Royal Road of Victor Gazon, 41 Fidel Castro: Man & I Want to See, 22 My Mother’s Cachaca, 28 C Voodoo Bayou, 41 Myth, 19 In Doubt, 37 Daughter, 38 Rubens Dreams, 40 The Cable Car, 34 W Cactus, 17 Final Fitting, 36 In the Dark, 37 My Pen Pal: An African S Candy, 34 Final Image, 19 In the Name of God, 22 Adventure, 38 The Waiting, 41 School of Thought, 40 Wash n’ Fold, 41 Cantata in C Major, 34 The Final Word, 19 Infi nite Space: The N Sebastian’s Voodoo, 40 Captive, 17 Finn on the Fly, 19 Architecture of John Watching It Rain, 42 Night Practice, 38 Security, 40 We All Bleed Red, 42 Caution, Love The First Day of Launter, 22 No Art on $2 a Day, 39 Seventeen, 28 Ahead!, 17 Winter, 19 Interception, 37 What Lies Ahead, 42 No Quarter, 39 Shadow of the Holy Whispering Embers, 32 Children Who Never The First, Last Race, 19 Iraqi Short Films, 22 No Tomorrow, 39 Book, 28 Existed, 34 Fling, 20 White Angel, 32 J The Noise in My The Shaft, 29 With One Voice, 32 46 Order Form see more at www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

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