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Sponsors...... 5 Welcome Letter...... 8 Festival Policies...... 8 Membership Information...... 10 Membership Form...... 10 Membership Benefits Grid...... 11 Ticket Information & Prices...... 12 Programming Highlights...... 14 Biographies...... 14 Featured Guest...... 15 Acknowledgments...... 16 Donations and Free Screenings Info...... 18 Film Schedule...... 20-21 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest (Opening Night Film)...... 22 Conviction (Closing Night Film)...... 24 A Year Ago In Winter...... 25 Alamar...... 26 Anita...... 27 Backyard...... 28 Bride Flight...... 28 Burning In The Sun...... 29 Chameleon...... 29 The Chef of South Polar...... 29 Come Undone...... 30 Father & Guns...... 30 Hidden Diary...... 30 Kick Off...... 31 Largo Winch...... 31 Letters To Father Jacob...... 31 Mesrine: Killer Instinct - Pt. 1. (Centerpiece Film)...... 32 Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 - Pt. 2. (Centerpiece Film)...... 32 Nora’s Will...... 33 The Over The Hill Band...... 34 Protektor...... 34 Quick Gun Murugun...... 35 Road, Movie...... 35 The Taqwacores...... 35 Time Of The Comet...... 36 Vengeance...... 36 The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around The Corner...... 36

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When the revelatory moment At the same time, her comments and your vote of confidence 10 came to me to create this years ago allowed me to comprehend the sacred trust that it is to Festival 10 years ago, I was program a film festival. I never lose sight of the responsibility I bear actually thinking about you. when choosing the films that comprise your viewing experience. During that instantaneous jolt of inspiration, within that As this Festival rounds out its first decade, there continue to be flurry of synapses, I vividly many galvanizing as well as polarizing reasons to seek out the healing recall, thinking, “There must properties of great art, great film and great conversation. My wish be a zillion people like me who is that you laugh, cry, get schooled, and do some schooling of your want to see more foreign own. When you go home, I want you to mull the films over in your film brought to the Valley!” In head and wake up the next morning with a lasting impression about the initial months of planning, it was absolutely inconceivable to me the movies you have experienced and the Festival itself. We may not that I might be wrong about you. Yet, in those final, pivotal 17 days be two weeks long, we may not sport a red carpet, and we may not leading up to the fledgling opening night, I really wasn’t sure if anyone, brag about record-breaking attendance figures of 50,000. But, we let alone a ‘zillion people,’ would show up at the Harkins Camelview will see films from here and abroad that resonate and challenge us on Friday, Sept. 28, 2001. To my everlasting joy and amazement, to think and act in innovative and new ways. many of you came to support foreign film, and by association, foreign lands, foreign ways of life and foreign peoples. I admired the pluck I will close by acknowledging the hundreds of people who have helped and determination of the 2,500 attendees to reunite our community me over these past 10 years to keep the Scottsdale International with the world in such a humanistic gesture of goodwill. Festival a going concern. I could not and would not have done this without the unwavering support of legions of volunteers, family At the time, one attendee told me that she regarded the Scottsdale members, friends, donors, sponsors, foundations, and allies. Film Festival as a way to begin the healing process. She said, “I don’t want to be afraid of other people and other cultures because of what See YOU at the Festival! happened to us as a nation. I want to expose myself to other people and cultures and not fear our differences. And, I want to be around other people right now to share a good conversation after the films. I no longer want to sit at home in isolation, and this Festival came along at the right time. I saw the article in the paper and thought ‘this is the perfect way to make my way back into the world.’” Did I set out Amy Ettinger - Executive Director & Founder to create a Festival that made such an impact on our community? I would be lying if I told you my original aspirations were that grandiose.

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Many of the films in the Film Festival are Please turn off your cell phone, pager, Audio and video recording devices are unrated by the M.P.A.A.; therefore, viewer and other communication devices upon prohibited inside the Film Festival theatres. discretion is advised. Further, we suggest entering the auditorium. Admission will be denied to any ticket or that you consider that the great majority The staff will require cell phone users to pass bearer who attempts to enter with of the films in this Festival are for adults leave the theatre until they have finished a recording device. If a recording device only. To be safe, please use your discretion their calls. The staff will also require anyone is utilized, it will be forfeited and the in determining whether your teenager is operating a hand held device with an operator will be removed from the theatre. mature enough to attend. illuminated screen to leave until they have Unauthorized recording will be reported to finished viewing the screen. Therefore, the appropriate authority. please do not send or review text messages during the films.

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As a member of the Scottsdale Film Forum, you achieve far more than a shared cultural experience with fellow film and art lovers - you can count yourself among an elite but vital group that actively contributes to the ongoing sustainability of the Festival in the Valley. Through membership, film aficionados nurture and cultivate the Festival’s development while receiving rewards for their contributions. Join the Forum and become an integral part of one of Arizona’s most distinguished film festivals and cultural events.

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 Friend  Supporting Member  Complimentary tickets to screenings  Associate Member  Director’s Circle  Complimentary tickets to Opening Night Party and VIP Passes  Contributing Member  Academy Member  Opportunity to purchase tickets in advance of the general public  Opportunity to purchase tickets to screenings at reduced membership prices  “Sneak Preview” screenings throughout the year  Amy Ettinger Access to film-related events  [email protected] Enhanced benefits for Director’s Circle and Academy Members  602.410.1074 Tax deduction as allowed under Section 170 of the Internal Revenue Code

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Ticket Info & Pricing Pass Prices: VIP Full-Fest Pass...... $165 Only available before the Festival starts. Build-A-Ten Pass...... $90 How to Purchase Passes & Tickets... Only available before the Festival starts.

BEFORE THE FESTIVAL (Sept. 7 - Sept. 30 by 5:00 PM) Build-A-Five Pass...... $45 Only available before the Festival starts. Online: www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com Opening Night Film with Party Pass...... $35

Single Ticket Prices: DURING THE FESTIVAL Opening Night Film with Party Ticket.(Cash Bar)...... $25 *NEW OPENING NIGHT VENUE FOR 2010! Weekend Shows Starting 9:00 AM to 11:55 AM…2-for-$10 Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts - Only available before the Festival starts. (On Friday, Oct. 1st, opening night tickets and passes will only be sold at Shows Starting After 11:55 AM...... $10 this Box Office, and not at the Harkins Camelview) Student Discount at-the-door...... $8 Virginia G. Piper Theater (Excludes opening night. Valid student ID is required) 7380 E. Second Street Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Handling Fee: Box Office Hours on Oct. 1: 10:00 AM to 7:30 PM There is a $5 handling fee added to all pre-fest orders including Will Call. This is a flat per order fee, not per ticket. and Pass & Ticket Information... Pre-Orders: Tickets and passes ordered by midnight Thursday, Sept 23, 2010 will Harkins Camelview 5 Theatre (Oct. 2 - Oct. 5 only. No opening night tick- be mailed. ets sold at Camelview) 7001 East Highland Avenue • Scottsdale Will Call Tickets: Box Office Hours: 8:30 AM to 10:00 PM Orders placed after Thursday, Sept 23, and before 5:00 PM Thursday, September 30 will be waiting for you at Will Call once the Festival begins. If your order includes opening night tickets or passes, your order will be waiting for you at the Scottsdale Ticket and Pass Descriptions... Center for the Performing Arts Box Office. All other orders will be waiting at the Harkins Camelview 5 Theatre when you attend your first screening. To claim your VIP Full-Festival Pass - *NEW FOR 2010: RESERVED SEATING ON order, please present a photo ID or the card you used to make the purchase. OPENING NIGHT! One VIP Festival Pass allows bearer into all Festival films and the Opening Night Tickets At-The-Door During Festival: Party. The Opening Night Party starts after the film, from 9:30 PM to midnight, in Subject to availability, admission may be purchased for the opening night film & the Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing party all day on Friday, October 1, only at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by Coca Cola; two Arts Box Office. Also subject to availability, single tickets may be purchased at the complimentary signature martinis will be provided by Ultimat Vodka during the Harkins Camelview 5 Box Office starting Saturday, October 2, 2010 before the party. Two drink coupons will be included with your pass for redemption at the bar. first show time. Student discounts are available at-the-door. Students purchasing VIP pass holders also receive priority position in lines and are admitted into the tickets must show a current student ID. The Harkins Theatre Box Office opens Harkins Theatre first. However, in the event of a sellout, no one is guaranteed a 30 minutes before the first screening of the day and remains open through the seat after the film has started. The VIP Pass is only available for purchase before start time of the last Festival film of the day. PLEASE NOTE WE DO NOT ACCEPT HARKINS MOVIE MONEY. the Festival and is not available after September 30. Limited number available on a first-come, first-served basis. Suggested: To avoid sellouts, plan your Festival schedule ahead of time, and purchase tickets Opening Night Party Pass - *NEW FOR 2010: RESERVED SEATING! as early as possible. The Opening Night Party starts after the film, from 9:30 PM to midnight, in the Sold Out? We try to hold back some tickets for sale a few minutes before the show Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium of the Scottsdale Center for the Performing time when a screening is sold out, but remember, your best opportunity is to buy Arts. Appetizers and non-alcoholic beverages will be provided by Coca Cola; two tickets or passes before the Festival starts. complimentary signature martinis will be provided by Ultimat Vodka. Two drink coupons will be included with your pass for redemption at the bar. Accessibility Seating: The party is exclusively for VIP Pass, Opening Night Party Ticket, and Opening Reserved locations and companion seats are available for the opening night Night Party Pass holders. Must be 21 years of age or older to be served alcoholic film. Please call the customer center at 1-866-811-4111 to request wheelchair beverages. seating. All Harkins Theatres are ADA compliant.

Opening Night Party Ticket - *NEW FOR 2010: RESERVED SEATING! Refunds and Schedule Changes: Appetizers and one complimentary non-alcoholic beverage will be provided by ALL SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES. In the unlikely event Coca Cola. One drink coupon will be included with the pass for redemption at the that a film becomes unavailable, the Scottsdale International Film Festival reserves bar. HOWEVER, there will be a no-host, cash bar for all additional beverages. the right to make a substitution. If a performance must be canceled after tickets The party is exclusively for VIP Pass, Opening Night Party Ticket, and Opening have been sold, you will be able to exchange your ticket for one of equivalent value Night Party Pass holders. Must be 21 years of age or older to be served alcoholic through the Festival box office. There are no exceptions to this policy. If there are changes, they will be announced at the Festival. beverages.

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ACTION FILMS FESTIVAL MODERATORS Big on action, big on budget, big on special effects, and just plain big on bigness! These films will make Darrell Copp received his BS in Communication and Performance you breathless, leave you dazzled, and most likely Arts from Eastern Michigan University and his MA in Communication inspire you to join a Karate Dojo: THE GIRL WHO from ASU. He coordinates the Film Humanities program in the KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, LARGO WINCH, Department of Communication and Performance Arts at Scottsdale MESRINE Parts 1 & 2, and VENGEANCE. Community College, where he has taught since 1988. Darrell teaches Contemporary Cinema and Foreign Films, and counts Zhang Yimou, Louis Malle, Mira Nair and Peter Weir among his favorite JEWISH FILMS & JEWISH THEMES international filmmakers. Although we are not a Jewish film festival, the high caliber of Jewish films and Jewish themes from which to choose each year is nothing short Fred Linch believes that all humans should have a passion, or two, or three. Since the age of 6, Fred has had a passion for the world of of bountiful. We are particularly delighted by the great cinema. At 70 he still has that passion. He has recently traded variety of themes available in our line-up: ANITA, his work on film festival juries and film festival production to teach at BRIDE FLIGHT, NORA’S WILL, and PROTEKTOR. the ASU Sun City Grand’s Osher Program, Minderful Center/www. SPONSORED BY: minderful.com, and the Heard Museum. Fred says, “...the best part of a movie is the discussion afterward.” He has enjoyed doing just that by moderating post-film discussions at the Scottsdale International Film Festival for nine years. Talk to him about films at [email protected].

OSCAR CONTENDERS ARE HERE - AGAIN! Last year you told us we hit a home run by Janet Robinson has been teaching film studies at Scottsdale Community College since 2000. With years of experience in the film programming the Oscar contenders that didn’t business in Los Angeles, and her Master’s degree in Education, she win the coveted Foreign Oscar’s “Best” award. is the perfect fit for teaching film humanities at SCC. Janet is an This year we again put together a special enthusiastic traveler, and has taught foreign film abroad, ranging section of five official film submissions to the from teaching silent film in China to Czech film in Prague, through the Education Abroad Program at SCC (which is open to members 2010 Foreign Film Academy Awards, which of the community as well as students). Traveling is an opportunity include: BACKYARD, CHAMELEON, LETTERS to experience various cultures first hand and Janet always returns to her life and TO FATHER JACOB, PROTEKTOR, and THE WORLD IS BIG & SALVATION LURKS classroom with new perspectives and contributions to an ever increasing global AROUND THE CORNER. film library.

SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENINGS / ARIZONA Roni Zee is the Artistic Director of the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film PREMIERES Festival and is responsible for bringing films with Jewish content to We are privileged to offer some highly anticipated the Valley of the Sun. She has developed an outreach program called releases. These films will be released theatrically FILMS IN THE SCHOOLS, which presents films to middle schools and high schools, both public and private, that help teach brotherhood later this year (or next year), but you can be the and tolerance. Roni comes to the Valley from San Francisco, with a first to see: BRIDE FLIGHT, CONVICTION, THE background in marketing, business development, and in the non-profit GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, and arena. MESRINE Parts 1 & 2. PROGRAMMERS SPOTLIGHT ON FRANCE France has figured prominently in this Festival Durrie Parks through the years. When we tally up the overall Headquartered in Arizona since 1981, Durrie Parks is an award- attendance at our previous French film offerings, winning film and music producer. Parks is also founder of the Arizona Film Society which produced 9 Saguaro Film Festivals. She is currently it’s obvious that there are many thousands of involved in the development of several arts and community oriented Francophile/cinéastes in the Valley who support projects located in both Arizona and California, including a project for this endeavor. As a Merci Beaucoup to our loyal Tempe Leadership Class XXV. patrons of French film we decided to go all in with not one, not two, not even three -- but FOUR (!) French films: HIDDEN Ernie Quiroz is a both a producer and filmmaker. He has produced DIARY, LARGO WINCH, and MESRINE Parts 1 & 2. several film projects that screened at festivals throughout the world, including Sundance, Tribeca and Sante Fe. In addition to programming SPOTLIGHT ON MEXICO The Scottsdale International Film Festival, he has helped program The Arizona and Mexico are in the news every day Phoenix Film Festival and The International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival. He studied filmmaking at Scottsdale Community College and on everyone’s lips at every water cooler and received his BA in Film and Media Studies from Arizona State across the country. We thought it timely to University. He is currently pursuing his MFA at The University of provide a ‘Spotlight on Mexico,’ offering various A r i z o n a . We welcome Ernie to his first season with the Scottsdale International perspectives of our neighbors to the South, with: Film Festival, programming for the special section of Spotlight On Mexico. ALAMAR, BACKYARD, and NORA’S WILL. Mike Simonyi Mike has served as long time Print Traffic coordinator for the Scottsdale International Film Festival. He is a foreign film buff, and a former Reggae and World Music Album Critic, writing for Down Home Music Monthly newsletter for 3½ years.

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Featured Guest Eyad Zahra THE TAQWACORES b d e Eyad Zahra (Producer, Director, Co-Writer) s is a director/producer, working under the c_~ e banner of his self-start production company i Rumanni Filmworks. Since 2005, Mr. ~--.,.~.· w Zahra has produced various Short Films / "'L•' g and Television Segments. Eyad Zahra’s / most acclaimed short film, “Distance from I the Sun” (2004), garnered over twenty n (20) film festival invitations worldwide. In November 2004, “Distance from the Sun” won Dubai Media City’s Ibda’a Best Film Award. The film also toured with the University Film Producers Association’s 2005-2006 NextFrame International Touring Film Festival. Working briefly in Dubai, U.A.E., Mr. Zahra produced TV dunya Promotion Segments for the largest television network in the Middle East, Showtime Arabia. Returning to the United States, Eyad continued producing for Showtime Arabia, and worked on Salaam MTV, the Middle-East’s first ever MTV brand show. Alongside his Production work, Mr. Zahra also worked on the 2007 Warner Brothers Release, “The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.” Mr. Zahra was the Director’s Assistant to Andrew Dominik. In November 2007, Mr. Zahra’s feature screenplay, “Sammy Paradise,” was accepted into the 3rd Annual RAWI Screenwriters lab, hosted by the Royal Film Commission of Jordan and the Sundance Institute. Eyad Zahra graduated 1 in 2004 from the Florida State University School of Motion Picture, Television, & the Recording Arts. Eyad Zahra graduated Magna Cum Lade with Honors 0 in the Major accreditation. In school, Mr. Zahra received the following awards: 0% The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Mass Communications Scholarship Award and the Florida State University Humanitarian of the Year Award.

A Conversation with WEB GRAPHIC DESIGN Edith Head Thurs & Fri, Nov 4 & 5 @ 7:30 p.m. & 8 p.m. A theatrical feast of behind- & the-scenes stories about WEB DESIGN Hollywood’s greatest stars W E B S I T E D E S I G N and the design diva who W E B S I T E R E D E S I G N dressed them. F L A S H B A N N E R D E S I G N E CO M M E R C E An Evening with S E A R C H E N G I N E O P T I M I Z AT I O N Leo Kottke Fri & Sat, Nov 12 & 13 @ 8 p.m. GRAPHIC DESIGN LO G O D E S I G N Kottke’s original quick wit is B U S I N E S S C A R D S & S TAT I O N E RY matched by his astounding virtuosity and innovative A D V E R T I S I N G fingerpicking on six and 12 F LY E R S & B R O C H U R E S string guitars. S I G N S , B A N N E R S & P O S T E R S

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Festival Thanks... Scottsdale Film Forum Members and Donors We thank our Members and Donors for making a difference! The Scottsdale International Film Festival depends upon memberships and contributions to remain viable and to grow. A certain percentage of our costs are covered by ticket sales, but the rest comes from sponsors, foundations, corporations, and individuals like you. Members: Donors: Diane Frank Lori Nordstrom Kathryn Schwarz Caralee Allsworth Ann Arbitman DeeDee Friedlander Ellen Nusbaum - Springboard Steve Serlin Lucyna Boyle Linda Artac Debilyn Gardner Content & Publishing Teresa Sinatra Bonnie Cameron-Wells Teresa Becker Vera Gerendasy Marion Nusbaum Pamela Taylor Julie Doherty Sonia Bendt Howard Hirsch Jacqueline Olson Vanguard Charitable Endowment Taki Ernst Mary & Terry Bohnsack - Corn Beth Hoffman Suzanne Parelman Mary Walker Sandy Fromm Products International Jo Johnson Robert Ramsey Lois & Martin Wienshienk Kathy Hotchner - AZ Presents Marialaura Boldini Carol Kearn Bud Rich Mary Lee Winer Mary Marshall Guiomar Borras Raymond Lee Giovanna Rick Maria Wolfinger Cheryl Naumoff Karen Danner Nancy Macey Daniel Riggs Gerald Silver Drew de Weerd George Master Lori Roper Mike Simonyi John Elliott Melissa Myers - Camelback Hugh Ruddock Naomi Wagner Joe Ettinger - Squawk Box Retirement Planners Bruce Scharbach

Thanks to the Festival’s incredible Event Volunteers for their spirit of giving. Some names were not available at deadline (8/20) but we thank you ALL just the same. Carol Alabaster Howard Gholston Eileen Kane Alyssa Lombari Joyce Ramacciato Lorraine Toner Stephanie Beard Bernie Goldstein Priscilla Ketay Margaret Martin Barbara Regan Tatyana Voytov Carol Bedner Yvette Goldstein Maureen King Ayn Mattei Hank Rigler Jo Whittle Saskia Blanco Sandra Goodman Donna Koehler Roni Nassberg Warren Rosebraugh Josephine Work Lucyna Boyle John Gordon Raymond Lee David Nassberg Barb Ruffini Eileen Yellin Tim Cullison Lynn Grossman Elaine Lessell Belinda Ng Bruce Scharbach Kay Zabransky Karen Danner Cynthia Haan Herb Lessell Cindy O’Dell Karen A. Smith Mary Zedick Joe English Heather Jameson Jake Lewis Jackie Persky Lori Stiles Joyce Zvirbulis Jenna Faville Miriam Iverson Judy Lewis-Thome Sherri Porter Pat Tobler

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Camelview 9:00 Come Undone 11:40 Anita 2:00 Kick Off Theatre 1 Camelview 9:30 The World Is Big 11:50 Time of the Comet 2:05 Backyard Sunday Theatre 3 October 3 Camelview 9:10 Road, Movie 11:15 A Year Ago in Winter 2:10 Letters To Theatre 4 Father Jacob Camelview 11:00 Burning in the Sun 1:00 Burning in the Sun 3:00 Burning in the Sun Theatre 5

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Festival Director’s Recommendations - Don’t Miss These Films! Every year the audience asks me which films they should see. ALAMAR, THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, MESRINE and VENGEANCE have been heavily praised by film fest audiences and with critics around the world. Off the beaten path, the following five picks are certainly buzz worthy and films which I’m glad to have seen:

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest THE OPENING NIGHT PARTY IS ON FRIDAY, (LUFTSLOTTET SOM SPRÄNGDES) OCTOBER 1 - NEW FOR 2010! Shows: Friday, Oct 1 @ 7pm Theatre: Scottsdale Center for the Perfoming Arts Help us celebrate our 10th anniversary in PREMIERE fashion with a fabulous party after the opening night film. We will roll out the RED CARPET for all those who attend Director: Daniel Alfredson the opening night premiere of THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST! The Countries: Sweden / Denmark party takes place in the Dayton Fowler Grafman Atrium of the Scottsdale Center for Year: 2009 the Performing Arts. Please refer to the Ticket Information page to find out more Runtime: 148 minutes about the three admission options. Format: High-Definition Digital Video The party is exclusively for VIP Pass, Opening Night Party Ticket, and Opening Language: Swedish: with Subtitles Night Party Pass holders. Must be 21 years of age or older to be served alcoholic beverages. In THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNETS’ NEST – the final installment of Stieg Larsson’s “Millenium-trilogy” – Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have Sponsored By: to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the very same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life. Once upon a time, she was a victim. Now Salander is fighting back.

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CONVICTION is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ (two-time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank) older brother Kenny (Sam Rockwell) is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is innocent, Betty Anne puts herself through high school, college and, finally, law school in an 18 year quest to free Kenny. With the help of best friend Abra Rice (Academy Award® nominee Minnie Driver), Betty Anne pours through suspicious evidence mounted by small town cop Nancy Taylor (Academy Award® nominee Melissa Leo), meticulously retracing the steps that led to Kenny’s arrest. Belief in her brother – and her quest for the truth – pushes Betty Anne and her team to uncover the facts and utilize DNA evidence with the hope of exonerating Kenny.

Principal Cast: Hilary Swank, Sam Rockwell, Minnie Driver, Melissa Leo, Peter Gallagher, Juliette Lewis Screenwriter: Pamela Gray Producers: Tony Goldwyn, Andrew S. Karsch, Andrew Sugerman Closing Night Film - Tuesday, OctoberH 5th Cinematographer: Adriano Goldman H ARIZONA PREMIERE / SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING Editor: Jay Cassidy Music: Paul Cantelon CONVICTION Presented By: Shows: Tuesday, Oct. 5th @ 8:25pm

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A YEAR AGO IN WINTER Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 11:10am / Sunday Oct. 3rd @ 11:15am Director: Caroline Link Country: Germany Year: 2008 Runtime: 129 minutes Language: German: with Subtitles

A YEAR AGO IN WINTER is a subtle, powerful drama about loss and reckoning. A Bavarian family struggles to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a favored son’s death but, emotionally numb to the impact it has had, they proceed by keeping up appearances. The mother’s commission of a portrait of her two children, however, acts as a catalyst for delving into the psychic drama beneath their frozen surfaces. Her daughter Lilli, a dancer, (in a subtle and deeply resonant performance by the striking Karoline Herfurth) is haunted by questions raised in the wake of her beloved younger brother’s demise. She careens along impervious to the interventions staged by her parents, until she and the painter, Max, (Josef Bierbichler) strike up a surprisingly rich friendship that speaks eloquently to the deepest ties between art and life. ~ Mill Valley Film Festival

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Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come Directed by from opposite worlds: he prefers an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she Silvio Soldini likes a more urban existence. He is Mexican – she is Italian, and she has decided to return to Rome with their five-year-old son, Natan. But before they leave, Jorge SAT, October 2 - 6:20PM wishes to take young Natan on a trip, hoping to teach him about his Mayan roots SUN, October 3 - 9:00AM in Mexico. At first the boy is physically and emotionally uncomfortable with the whole affair, and gets seasick on the boat taking them to their destination. But as father and son spend more time together, Natan begins a learning experience that will remain with him forever. To Experience the Principal Cast: Jorge Machado, Roberta Palombini, Natan Machado Palombini, Néstor Marín “Matraca” Festival All Year Round, Screenwriter: Pedro González-Rubio Producers: Jaime Romandía, Pedro González-Rubio Join Film Movement’s Underwater Cinematography: Alexis Zabé Cinematography: Pedro González-Rubio DVD-of-the-Month Club! Editor: Pedro González-Rubio Music: Diego Bellinure, Uriel Esquenazi AWARDS: Become a Film Movement subscriber Miami Film Festival – Grand Jury Prize today, and receive a new film from the Morelia International Film Festival – Audience Award world’s top film festivals to own each Rotterdam International Film Festival – Tiger Award month, right in your mailbox! Toulouse Latin America Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize

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26 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com Original (origi•nal) adj creative, ANITA fresh writing Shows: Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 11:40am / Monday, Oct 4th @ 4:05pm Director: Marcos Carnevale Country: Argentina Year: 2006 Runtime: 104 minutes Language: Spanish: with Subtitles

ANITA is a film by the award winning Marcos Carnevale, director of the 2006 Scottsdale International Film Festival Audience Award Winner, Elsa and Fred, Just $48 gets and stars Norma Aleandro, the “Meryl Streep” of Argentina. you The morning of July 18, 1994, begins like any other day, but things change a year's worth suddenly when the nearby Argentine Israeli Mutual Association is bombed, sending Anita Feldman’s life into a tailspin. Her mother has gone to collect a of news and check for government support of Anita, who suffers from Down syndrome. Not understanding what has happened, Anita goes in search of her mother commentary and becomes swept up with people who are disoriented like herself. As Anita, Alejandra Manzo, an actress living with Down syndrome, delivers a stunning written with performance in this lovely and gentle film. ~ Toronto Jewish Film Festival you in mind. Principal Cast: Norma Aleandro, Luis Luque, Leonor Manso, Peto Menahem, Alejandra Manzo Screenwriters: Marcos Carnevale, Marcela Guerty, Lily Ann Martin Subscribe Producers: Marcos Carnevale now. Cinematographer: Guillermo Zappino Editor: Pablo Barbieri Carrera Call 602-870-9470 Music: Lito Vitale or visit AWARDS: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina – Best Supporting jewishaz.com .... ---.--·I: ■---•­ Actress; Pittsburgh Jewish Israeli Film Festival – Best Narrative Film

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BACKYARD BRIDE FLIGHT (EL TRASPATIO) Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 3:40pm / Tuesday, Oct 5th @ 8:15pm Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 8:50pm / Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 2:05pm Director: Ben Sombogaart Country: The Netherlands Director: Carlos Carrera Year: 2008 Country: Mexico Runtime: 130 minutes Year: 2009 Language: Dutch: with Subtitles Runtime: 122 minutes Language: Spanish: with Subtitles Eager to escape the damp and suffocating atmosphere of post-war Holland, three young Dutch women, Ada, Esther and Marjorie, look forward to a better BACKYARD, by Carlos Carrera, is a fictional account of the atrocities that life in New Zealand. They meet on the immigration flight – the “Bride Flight” continue to occur in Ciudad Juárez. We follow police officer Blanca Bravo (an – to their new country, where they are to join fiancés and marry. During the astonishing performance by Ana de la Reguera) who is sent to Ciudad Juárez flight, the three women form a bond of friendship among themselves, and with from Mexico City to investigate a series of murders of young women. Most Frank, an attractive young man who wants to set up a winery. Upon arrival, all of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to Ciudad Juárez four part ways to start their new lives in New Zealand. Yet their paths continue by the possibility of work at American-owned factories, or maquiladoras, that to cross – Ada will one day leave her children and her puritanical husband for sprang up on the Mexican side of the border after the NAFTA agreement went Frank, an escape to freedom that is ultimately doomed. And the single career into effect. Blanca discovers an incompetent and complicit police force and an woman, Esther, will give her unwanted child to Marjorie and her husband after indifferent local population, embodied by entrepreneur, Mickey Santos (a chilling Marjorie suffers a miscarriage and will probably never bear a child again. As the performance by Jimmy Smits). ~ Toronto International Film Festival boy grows up, Marjorie fears that Esther might break the pact of silence they had made. An outing that reunites all four friends and the boy turns into a near Principal Cast: Ana de la Reguera, Asur Zágada, Marco Pérez, Iván Cortes, Jimmy Smits, Joaquin Cosío tragedy that destroys one friendship, shatters a loving relationship, and nearly costs the boy’s life. Only 50 years later do they all come together again, perhaps Screenwriter: Sabina Berman closer now than ever before. Producers: Isabelle Tardan, Sabina Berman Cinematographer: Martin Boege Principal Cast: Karina Smulders, Elise Schaap, Anna Drijver, Waldemar Editor: Oscar Figueroa Torenstra, Rutger Hauer Music: Fernando Corona Screenwriter: Marieke van der Pol AWARDS: Producer: Hanneke Niens, Anton Smit Havana Film Festival – Best Editing / Best Screenplay Cinematographer: Piotr Kukla Editor: Herman P. Koerts Contains Graphic Violence and Music: Jeannot Sanavia Sexual Situations. Official Website: www.brideflight.nl/bride

AWARDS: Golden and Platin Film – Golden Film Award Nederlands Film Festival – Best Supporting Actress

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28 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com CHAMELEON Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 9am / Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 6:45pm Director: Krisztina Goda Country: Hungary Year: 2009 Runtime: 105 minutes Language: Hungarian: with Subtitles

Orphaned as a child, Gábor (Ervin Nagy) has established no real identity in his adult life. However, he has become a master of fooling women into believing the false identities he has created. His rules BURNING IN THE SUN are simple, make them feel how they want to feel and THE CHEF OF SOUTH Shows: Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 11am, 1,3,5,7,9pm he will take everything. Gábor is a textbook sociopath Free Screenings of this film run all day on 10/3, but until the latest object of his desire, and the chance POLAR tickets are only available during the Festival at the at his most lucrative con ever, affect him like never Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 9:05pm / before. Hanna (Gabriella Hámori) is a professional box office on a first - come, first - serve basis. Limit 2 Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 8:40pm tickets per person. ballerina. After a car accident, her injuries make the prospect that she will dance again all but a prayer. Director: Shuichi Okita Directors: Cambria Matlow, Morgan Robinson Hope comes in the form of a possible contract for an Country: Japan Country: USA / Mali American ballet tour, if she can rehabilitate. There’s Year: 2010 Year: 2009 an operation, it’s new, and very expensive. Enter Runtime: 125 minutes Runtime: 82 minutes Gábor who works his magic, thinking he can score Language: Japanese: with Subtitles Languages: English / French / Bambara (West big by stealing the fortune meant for her operation. Hungarian filmmaker Krisztina Goda takes what could Africa): with Subtitles An Antarctic research station is possibly the last be a cliché, predictable story and through her highly place anyone would expect to encounter seriously 26–year–old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts stylized lens creates a thrilling world that draws you fine dining, however, this is what’s on the menu in West African and European, and looking to make in, keeps you guessing, and holds you in suspense until Shuichi Okita’s delicious adaptation of Jun Nishimura’s his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a the very end. crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his autobiographical novel. Lobster, foie gras, you name - Heather Jameson homeland in Mali and start a local business building it—nothing is too luxurious for Chef Nishimura to dish solar panels – the first of its kind in the sun-drenched up to the eight man crew of the Dome Fuji Station Principal Cast: Ervin Nagy, Janos Kulka, Gabriella research base in the frozen no-man’s land where not nation. Daniel’s goal is to electrify the households of Hámori, Sándor Csányi, Zsolt Trill rural communities, 99% of which live without power. even a virus can survive, let alone a human. As the men carry out the mundane tasks of their communal Daniel’s work shatters preconceptions of the need Screenwriters: Krisztina Goda, for African dependence on outside aid; it embraces isolation interrupted by occasional playful forays Réka Divinyi the view that ultimately it is Africans who will develop into the stunning exterior wilderness, they begin to Producers: Gábor Kálomista, Mónika Mécs, Ernô Africa in their own way. BURNING IN THE SUN tells develop bizarre cravings, or dress eccentrically, and the story of Daniel’s journey growing the shaky startup Mesterházy start to pine for home. Okita wisely concentrates the into a viable company and of the business’ impact on Cinematographer: Buda Gulyás action around their much-anticipated meal times, Daniel’s first customers in the tiny village of Banko. Editor: Zoltán Kovács with Nishimura as a kind of surrogate mother to the Taking controversial stances on climate change, Official Website: www.kameleonfilm.hu disparate team members, seeking to constantly divert poverty, and African self-sufficiency, the film explores them from going stir crazy. Taking a low key, elliptical what it means to grow up as a man, and what it takes approach to the story, and told from Nishimura’s to prosper as a nation. point of view with flashbacks to his much-missed wife and young daughter, THE CHEF OF SOUTH POLAR Producers: Cambria Matlow, is a delightful, quirky blend of daily observation and Morgan Robinson, Claire Weingarten elegantly simple aesthetics, as well as a mouth- Cinematographers: Cambria Matlow, Morgan OSCAR watering addition to the food movie genre. Don’t, on Robinson CONTENDER any account, come hungry. ~ Seattle International Film Editors: Emily Paine, Daniel Praid Festival Music: Ronen Landa Principal Cast: Masato Sakai, Kengo Kora, Takashi AWARDS: Ukaji, Kosuke Toyohara Indie Spirit Film Festival – Audience Award for Best Environmental Film Screenwriters: Shuichi Okita, Santa Cruz International Film Festival – Grand Jury Jun Nishimura Prize for Best EarthVision Environmental Film Producer: Toshikazu Nishigaya Cinematographer: Akiko Ashizawa Official Website: www.nankyoku-ryori.com

29 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com FATHER & GUNS (DE PÈRE EN FLIC) Shows: Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 8:50pm / Monday, Oct. 4th @ 4pm Director: Emile Gaudreault Country: Canada Year: 2009 Runtime: 107 minutes Language: French: with Subtitles

FATHER AND GUNS is laugh-out-loud funny and the highest-grossing French-language film ever released COME UNDONE in Canada. Jacques and Marc are father and son HIDDEN DIARY (COSA VOGLIO DI PIÙ) undercover cops in Montreal. They’re both wise- (MÈRES ET FILLES) Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 6:20pm / cracking hotshots, the best at what they do. Only Sunday, Oct 3rd @ 9am problem is, they can’t stand each other. When one Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 10:45am / of their sting operations goes awry, a fellow officer Tuesday, Oct. 5th @ 6:15pm Director: Silvio Soldini is kidnapped by a murderous biker gang. The goons Country: Italy threaten to hold onto him until their boss is released Director: Julie Lopes–Curval Year: 2010 from prison. To get their buddy back, the cops need to Country: France Runtime: 126 minutes get close to the bikers’ lawyer Bérubé, who has issues Year: 2009 Language: Italian: with Subtitles with both his conscience and an alienated son. When Runtime: 103 minutes Jacques and Marc find out the Bérubés are going Language: French: with Subtitles Silvio Soldini has directed 25 films, including the first back to nature with an adventure therapy group for film ever shown at the 2001 Scottsdale International estranged fathers and sons, they infiltrate. There, in When Audrey, a kitchen appliance designer living Film Festival, Bread and Tulips! the muddy Canadian wilderness, souls are bared and in Canada, discovers she is pregnant, she heads primal screams screamed, with mixed but hilarious An adulterous affair between two office workers home to her native France. Upon arrival, she results. Will the fathers and sons be reconciled? Will threatens to implode their boring, stationary lives in receives a chilly reception from her mother, Martine Bérubé squeal on the murderous bikers? Veteran director Silvio Soldini’s latest insightful relationship (Catherine Deneuve), prompting her to move into her actor Michel Côté, and stand–up comic Louis-José film. Anna, a mild-mannered employee at an insurance grandparents’ old house. There, she discovers an Houde are a riot every second they’re on-screen. See firm, has a stable, uncomplicated marriage to Alessio, old diary that belonged to her grandmother Louise, FATHER AND GUNS now; a Hollywood remake is in the her boorish and clueless husband. Her sister has who left her husband and young children and never works. ~ Cleveland International Film Festival recently given birth, and the constant hints from her returned. As Audrey reads from the diary, scenes husband have put pressure on her to have a baby. from Louise’s life as a housewife in the 1950s start Principal Cast: Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Rémy Meanwhile, she has begun flirting with Domenico, a to unfold before the younger woman’s mind’s-eye, Girard, Caroline Dhavernas sexy, mysterious co–worker. Their mutual attraction providing insight into her own life, her relationship with soon escalates into a secret liaison, as they begin her mother, and the similarities among these three Screenwriters: Émile Gaudreault, Ian Lauzon meeting in a seedy motel every week. It is not too long generations of women. The film’s powerhouse cast Producer: Denise Robert, Daniel Louis before their clandestine relationship is discovered is led by Deneuve, who gives a layered performance Cinematographer: Bruce Chun and they must make a choice between their families as both mother and daughter. The third film from Editor: Jean–François Bergeron or each other. Using a true-to-life documentary style, director Julie Lopes-Curval, HIDDEN DIARY combines Music: FM Le Sieur Soldini has crafted a poignant film that tempers the the setting of Lopes-Curval’s Camera d’Or-winning first Official Website: www.depereenflic.com unbridled passion of an illicit affair with the anxiety and film, Seaside, with the familial focus of her second, You dread of leading a double life. and Me. ~ Seattle International Film Festival AWARDS: Genie Awards – Golden Reel Award Principal Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Principal Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Marina Hands, Rohrwacher, Giuseppe Battiston, Teresa Marie–Josee Croze, Michel Duchaussoy, Jean– Saponangelo, Fabio Troiano Philippe Ecoffey, Carole Franck, Eleonore Hirt, Gerard Watkins, Romano Orzari Screenwriters: Doriana Leondeff, Angelo Carbone, Silvio Soldini Producer: Lionello Cerri Screenwriters: Julie Lopes-Curval, Sophie Hiet Cinematographer: Ramiro Civit Producers: Alain Benguigui, Thomas Verhaeghe Editor: Carlotta Cristiani Cinematographer: Philippe Guilbert Music: Giovanni Venosta Editor: Anne Weil Music: Patrick Watson

30 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com ---l. LARGO WINCH Shows: Monday, Oct. 4th @ 8:50pm / Tuesday, Oct. 5th @ 4pm Director: Jérôme Salle Country: France / Belgium Year: 2008 Runtime: 108 minutes Languages: French / English / Croatian: with Subtitles

Nerio Winch has created an empire of wealth. In modern-day Hong Kong, that wealth has attracted the kind of greed that makes people do bad things. When KICK OFF Nerio Winch is slain, the world is stunned to discover LETTERS TO FATHER that he has secured an heir in his adopted son Largo. Shows: Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 2pm / The legitimacy of this succession is immediately JACOB Tuesday, Oct. 5th @ 4:05pm called into question, but the thing Largo seems to (POSTIA PAPPI JAAKOBILLE) Director: Shawkat Amin Korki care about most is uncovering the truth behind his Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 1:50pm / Country: Iraq / Kurdistan /Japan father’s murder. LARGO WINCH was adapted from Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 2:10pm Year: 2009 the Belgian comic book series of the same name, Director: Klaus Härö Runtime: 81 minutes which originated in the 1970s as a series of novels. Country: Finland OSCAR Languages: Kurdish Arabic, Turkish, and English: with Jérôme Salle’s adaptation puts an age-old tale in a Year: 2009 CONTENDER Subtitles post-modern world, creating a story that transcends Runtime: 75 minutes time. ~ Heather Jameson The setting is a half–destroyed Iraqi football stadium, Language: Finnish: with Subtitles where about 300 refugee families are living in a Principal Cast: Tomer Sisley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Darrell Copp from Scottsdale Community College will hastily assembled shanty town. The elder son of one Miki Manojlovic, Mélanie Thierry, Karel Roden, Gilbert moderate a post-film discussion. of the families is Asu, an idealistic young man who Melki LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB is the warm-hearted and arranges a football match between the Kurdish, Arab, touching story of Leila, a life sentence prisoner who has Turk men and Assyrian boys of the camp, in the hope Screenwriters: Julien Rappeneau, Jérôme Salle just been pardoned. When she is released from prison, of cheering up his younger brother and impressing Producers: Nathalie Gastaldo, Philippe Godeau she is offered a job at a secluded parsonage, but she his beautiful neighbor, Hilin. But when the big day rolls Cinematographer: Denis Rouden moves there against her will. Leila is used to taking care around, the lives of all involved are thrown into chaos. Editor: Richard Marizy only of herself, so she experiences conflicting emotions when she begins work as a personal assistant to Music: Alexandre Desplat Jacob, the blind pastor living in the parsonage. Every Principal Cast: Govar Anwar, Rojan Hamajaza, Shwan Official Website: www.depereenflic.com day, the mail man brings letters from people, asking Attoof for help from pastor Jacob. Answering those letters is AWARDS: Jacob´s life mission; whereas Leila thinks it´s useless. Screenwriter: Shawkat Amin Korki World Soundtrack Awards – Composer of the Year Leila has already decided to leave the parsonage when Étoiles d’Or – Best Male Newcomer the letters suddenly stop coming. Jacob´s life is shaken Producer: Shawkat Amin Korki to its foundation. Two completely different lives have Cinematographer: Salem Salawati become unexpectedly intertwined, and the roles of the Editor: Mastaneh Mohajer helper and the one being helped are turned upside Music: Mohammed Reza Darvishi down.

Principal Cast: Kaarina Hazard, Heikki Nousiainen, AWARDS: Jukka Keinonen, Esko Roine Dubai International Film Festival – Best Feature Film Pusan International Film Festival – FIPRESCI Prize Screenwriters: Klaus Härö, Jaana Makkonen Producers: Risto Salomaa, Lasse Saarinen Cinematographer: Tuomo Hutri Editor: Samu Heikkilä Official Website: www.ses.fi/en/film.asp?id=923

AWARDS: Cairo International Film Festival – Best Screenplay Jussi Awards – Best Actor / Best Director / Best Film / Best Music Lübeck Nordic Film Days – Best Film / Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Mannheim–Heidelberg International Film Festival – Main Award of Mannheim–Heidelberg Palm Springs International Film Festival – Bridging the Borders Award Rouen Nordic Film Festival – Audience Award / Best Actor / Best Actress; Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Best Director 31 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com

Part 1 begins during Mesrine’s military stint in Algeria, where the rush of power sends him home, looking for more of the same. Falling in with the local crime boss (Gérard Depardieu), Mesrine takes to the role of gangster like he was born to it. Handsome, bold and quick-witted, he is soon kidnapping millionaires and robbing banks, two at a time. His larkish exploits become brutally serious, however, once he flees to Canada and lands in the savage, “escape-proof” St. Vincent de Paul prison. Mesrine, of course, escapes in spectacular fashion, hungrier and more radical than ever. ~ San Francisco International Film Festival

Principal Cast: Vincent Cassel, Cécile De France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis, Gilles Lellouche Screenwriters: Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet Producer: Thomas Langmann H Cinematographer: Robert Gantz H ARIZONA PREMIERE / SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING Editor: Hervé Schneid Music: Dana Niu MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT part 1 Official Website: http://www.mesrinemovie.com (L’INSTINCT DE MORT) AWARDS: César Awards – Best Actor / Best Director / Best Sound; Lumiere Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 1:05pm Awards – Best Actor Tokyo International Film Festival – Best Actor; Étoiles d’Or – Best Actor Director: Jean-François Richet Country: France / Canada / Italy Year: 2008 *Contains Graphic Violence Runtime: 113 minutes Language: French: with Subtitles

H Centerpiece Films H MESRINE: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 PART 2 (MESRINE: L’ENNEMI PUBLIC N°1) Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 6:30pm Director: Jean-François Richet Country: France / Canada Year: 2008 Runtime: 134 minutes Language: French: with Subtitles

As Mesrine continues to evade and frustrate the law, he becomes increasingly burdened by his own bloated celebrity, and begins to question his thrilling but lonely existence. In a continuation of his Raging Bull-style metamorphosis, Cassel, as Mesrine, concludes the world class performance that propels Richet’s ultra-stylish films into the same league as such benchmark gangster classics as Once Upon a Time in America and The Godfather 1 and 2. ~ Edinburgh International Film Festival

Principal Cast: Vincent Cassel, Ludivine Sagnier, Mathieu Amalric, Gérard Lanvin, Samuel Le Bihan, Olivier Gourmet Screenwriters: Abdel Raouf Dafri, Jean-François Richet Producers: Thomas Langmann, Maxime Rémillard, André Rouleau Cinematographer: Robert Gantz Editors: Bill Pankow, Hervé Schneid Music: Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp Official Website: http://www.mesrinemovie.com

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José learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years before divorcing, has committed suicide, a few days before Passover. Forced to wait five days for the funeral, so that his son can arrive and the rabbi’s schedule can free up, José discovers that Nora left all of the food for the Passover dinner ready in her refrigerator. But Nora also left something else, a curious photograph that may unlock the mystery of her life and death for the family she left behind. ~ AFI Latin American Film Festival

Principal Cast: Luján, Cecilia Suarez, Ari Brickman, Enrique Arreola Screenwriter: Mariana Chenillo Producer: Laura Imperiale Cinematographer: Alberto Anaya Adalid Editors: Mariana Chenillo, Óscar Figueroa Music: Dario González Valderrama Official Website: www.menemshafilms.com/noras-will.html nora’s will AWARDS: Biarritz International Festival of Latin American Cinema – Award Best Film (CINCO DÍAS SIN NORA) Expresion en Corto International Film Festival – Best Mexican Film Shows: Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 3:55pm / Tuesday, Oct. 5th @ 5:50pm Havana Film Festival – Grand Coral Huelva Latin American Film Festival – Best Actor Director: Mariana Chenillo Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival – Best Director / Best First Film Country: Mexico Mar del Plata Film Festival – Best Film Year: 2008 Miami Film Festival – Audience Award Runtime: 92 minutes Morelia International Film Festival – Audience Award Language: Spanish: with Subtitles Moscow International Film Festival – Best Director Skip City International D–Cinema Festival – Best Screenplay Roni Zee from the Greater Phoenix Jewish Film Festival will moderate a post– Sponsored By: film discussion. scottsdale IFF ad 1B:Layout 1 7/26/10 11:19 AM Page 1 - Festival 2011

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THE OVER THE HILL BAND PROTEKTOR (MEISJES) Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 11:15am / Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 4:40pm Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 1:25pm / Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 6:40pm Director: Marek Najbrt Country: Czech Republic Director: Geoffrey Enthoven Year: 2009 Country: Belgium Runtime: 100 minutes Year: 2009 Languages: Czech and German: with Subtitles Runtime: 98 minutes Languages: Dutch and French: with Subtitles PROTECTOR is a smart, stylish psycho-thriller about a Prague journalist and Recently widowed 70-year-old Claire is at a loss about what to do with her life. his part-Jewish wife whose lives are ravaged by the outbreak of WWII. Radio More than 50 years ago, she sang in the rock ’n’ roll band Sisters of Love with reporter Emil (Marek Daniel) is married to actress Hana (Jana Plodková), a her classmates Magda and Lutgard. She talks to her gal pals and suggests famous film star who is initially oblivious to the Nazi threat. Hana’s Jewish heritage a musical reunion. She even tries to convince her down-on-his-luck musician precipitates her fall from the height of her career to the bottom of the social son, Sid, to manage them. Sid ultimately agrees to direct the “girls” but on the ladder. In order to protect her, Emil compromises himself, collaborating with condition that they bring their repertoire up to date with his music, and that they the new Nazi-controlled state radio station. Conditions worsen as restrictions enter an upcoming talent contest. Watching the oldsters get back in touch with on Jews are systematically increased. The assassination of the Third Reich their inner vixens during a series of rehearsals is pure pleasure. Playing like a Deputy Protector, and a chance encounter on a bicycle, bring their malingering combination of Calendar Girls and Young @ Heart, this charming comic drama marriage to a crisis. The retro noir style, evocative of 1930s cinema, is enhanced is a coming-of-old-age story about a classy woman who rediscovers life and love by gorgeous period design and an avant-garde score. when it’s almost too late. In the tradition of sassy social comedies from Belgium, ~ Atlanta Jewish Film Festival THE OVER THE HILL BAND is destined to be an audience favorite. Principal Cast: Marek Daniel, Jana Plodková, Jiri Ornest, Simon Schwarz Principal Cast: Marilou Mermans, Lea Couzin, Lut Tomsin, Lucas van den Eynden, Jan van Looveren Screenwriters: Robert Geisler, Benjamin Tucek, Marek Najbrt Producers: Milan Kuchynka, Pavel Strnad Screenwriters: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Chris Craps Cinematographer: Miloslav Holman Producers: Jean-Claude Van Rijckeghem, Dries Phylpo Editor: Pavel Hrdlicka Cinematographer: Gerd Schelfhout Editor: Philippe Ravoet Music: Petr Marek Music: Stef Caers, Pascal Garnier Official Website: www.theoverthehillband.com AWARDS: Denver International Film Festival – Best Feature Film

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34 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com ROAD, MOVIE Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2nd @ 9:05am / Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 9:10am Director: Dev Benegal Country: India / USA Year: 2009 Runtime: 95 minutes Languages: Hindi and English: with Subtitles

Vishnu, a young man driven by wanderlust, escapes his father’s faltering hair oil business. An old truck beckons, which Vishnu sees as his ticket to freedom. He offers QUICK GUN MURUGAN to drive the antique Chevy across the desert to the sea, where it has been sold to a local museum. As he Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 8:30pm / THE TAQWACORES sets off across the harsh terrain, he discovers he’s Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 8:45pm Shows: Saturday, Oct 2nd @ 6:05pm / not merely transporting a battered vehicle, but an old Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 6:20pm Director: Shashanka Ghosh touring cinema. Along the way, Vishnu reluctantly picks Country: India up a young runaway, a garrulous old entertainer, and a Director: Eyad Zahra Year: 2009 striking gypsy woman. Together they roam the barren Country: USA Runtime: 97 minutes land, searching for water and an elusive fair. The journey Year: 2010 Languages: Tamil, Hindi and English: with Subtitles turns dire when they are waylaid by corrupt cops and Runtime: 84 minutes a notorious waterlord. The key to their freedom is the QUICK GUN MURUGUN could very well signal the eccentric collection of films and the two forty-year-old birth of a new hybrid film genre: The Time-Travelling film projectors in the back of the truck. As in 1001 Director Eyad Zahra is scheduled to appear to present Bollywood Comedy-Western. It draws from a wide range Nights, if the films are good, they live and move on. If the his film and Janet Robinson from Scottsdale Community of cinematic sources, including the spaghetti westerns films are boring, they face death in the Indian outback. College will moderate the post-film discussion. of Sergio Leone, the stylized action sequences of the The journey proves transformative for each of the Matrix trilogy, and the comic sensibilities of Kung Fu travelers, but especially for Vishnu, who discovers life, Oh, to be young, beautiful, Muslim—and punk rockers! Hustle. With a few Bollywood musical numbers thrown love and laughter on the Indian highway. ~ Tribeca Film Here’s one story of disaffected American youth we in for good measure, plus a few nods to traditional Festival haven’t seen before. Yusef, a straitlaced Pakistani Indian mythology, the result is one very memorable American college student, moves into a house with an film going experience. Set in the outrageous and Principal Cast: Abhay Deol, Satish Kaushik, Tannishtha unlikely group of Muslim misfits—skaters, skinheads, often unpredictable world of Bollywood cinema (but Chatterjee, Mohammad Faizal queers, and a riot grrrl in a burqa—all of whom embrace limiting itself to a U.S.-friendly running time) the film Taqwacore, the hardcore Muslim punk-rock scene. They follows the title character, vegetarian gunslinger Screenwriter: Dev Benegal may read the Koran and attend the mosque, but they also Quick Gun Murugun, through time and space, as he Producers: Susan B. Landau, Ross Katz welcome an anarchic blend of sex, booze, and partying. As battles the diabolical Rice Plate Reddy. Rice Plate and Cinematographer: Michel Amathieu A.F.C Yusef becomes more involved in Taqwacore, he finds his his mob terrorize the countryside forcing all eating Editor: Yaniv Dabach faith and ideology challenged by both this new subculture establishments to follow his strict non-vegetarian Music: Michael Brook and his charismatic new friends, who represent different guidelines, scheming to abolish vegetarianism all ideas of the Islamic tradition. Adapted from the influential Official Website: www.roadmoviethefilm.com together. He intends to spread his non-vegetarian novel by Michael Muhammad Knight (cowriter of the restaurant chain, “McDosa,” all over India, reaping in film), THE TAQWACORES marks the energetic directorial massive amounts of wealth. To achieve his ultimate debut of Eyad Zahra, who creates a wholly original spin master-plan, Rice Plate uses all the standard on the identity narrative, and invests the filth and fury of villainous tactics: fear, violence, and bullying. It is up Islamic punk with humor and humanity. ~ Sundance Film to the flamboyantly dressed sharp-shooter, Quick Gun Festival Murugun, to right these wrongs and keep the streets of Mumbai vegetarian-friendly. In his quest, Quick Gun Principal Cast: Bobby Naderi, Noureen DeWulf, is aided by the lovely Mango Dolly, the sensible yet stern Dominic Rains Locket Love, and his chilling catch phrase, “Mind it!” Quick Gun Murugun represents a truly original blend Screenwriters: Michael Muhammad Knight, Eyad Zahra of Eastern and Western cultures, offering an exciting Producers: David Perse, MD, Eyad Zahra, Michael glimpse into the vibrant cinema of contemporary India. Muhammad Knight ~ Maryland Film Festival Cinematographer: JP Perry Principal Cast: Rajendra Prasad, Nasser, Rambha, Editor: Josh Rosenfield Anu Menon Music: Omar Fadel Screenwriter: Rajesh Devraj Producer: Phat Phish Motion Pictures Cinematographer: R. A. Krishna Editor: Rabiranjan Maitra Music: Sagar Desai, Raghu Dixit

35 Tickets available online at www.ScottsdaleFilmFestival.com VENGEANCE (FUK SAU) Shows: Saturday, Oct. 2th @ 3:30pm / Monday, Oct. 4th @ 6:10pm Director: Johnnie To Country: Hong Kong Year: 2009 Runtime: 108 minutes Languages: English, Cantonese and French: with Subtitles Fred Linch from the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute TIME OF COMET at ASU will moderate a post-film discussion. THE WORLD IS BIG AND (KOHA E KOMETËS) In a Hong Kong hospital, a French woman lies in critical condition after a gangland hit that killed her SALVATION LURKS Shows: Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 11:50am / Chinese husband and two small children. Her father, AROUND THE CORNER Monday, Oct. 4th @ 8:20pm Costello, (Johnny Hallyday) arrives from France and (SVETAT E GOLJAM I SPASENIE DEBNE Director: Fatmir Koçi is immediately warned by police not to get involved, even as his daughter wordlessly pleads for his help. OTVSJAKADE) Country: Albania A stranger in a strange land and plagued by a failing Shows: Sunday, Oct. 3rd @ 9:30am / Year: 2009 memory, Costello sits stunned in his hotel room, Runtime: 104 minutes scrawling the word “vengeance” over the bloody Monday, Oct. 4th @ 6:10pm Language: Albanian: with Subtitles crime scene photos of his daughter’s family. He soon Director: Stephan Komandarev crosses paths with three professional killers (director Country: Bulgaria Albania, 1914, freshly liberated from the Ottoman To’s regulars: Anthony Wong, Lam Suet and Lam Ka Year: 2009 OSCAR CONTENDER Empire. A German, Prince Wied, is installed as the Tung) who work for the crass and flamboyant mob Runtime: 110 minutes boss Fung (Simon Yam), and asks them to help avenge King of Albania. He receives a letter from Muslim Language: Bulgarian: with Subtitles his family. Arresting action sequences on spectacular fanatics insisting that he undergo circumcision, as sets – a shootout that plays out against a nighttime Alexander’s parents decide to emigrate and they leave required by their religion. He refuses. Meanwhile, family picnic, a battle in a dump site filled with square Bulgaria. After a distressing passage though Yugoslavia and Italy, the family finally settles in Germany. When Shestan, a Muslim and his four buddies set off to fight bales of compressed paper – punctuate this revenge the political climate changes, they decide to visit their for their country equipped with an old Turkish map of epic with To’s signature choreographed gunplay. With home country once more, but they are involved in a car the Balkans that is thoroughly out of date. Instead of his debonair yet rugged good looks and piercing, pale accident and only Alex survives. His grandfather, Vasil, the enemy, Shestan meets and falls in love with Agnes, eyes, Hallyday, a pop icon who has sold over 100 goes to see the young man, now suffering from memory million records during his decades-long career, and a Catholic who had been sent to a convent against loss, but when he sees that the pills prescribed for him is considered by some to be the French Elvis Presley, her wishes. Shestan and his friends keep looking for by the German doctors aren’t working, he opts for his adds pathos and depth to the enigmatic Costello. To own course of therapy. He takes the self-assured young war in all the wrong places. This romantic, tragic and and his long-time collaborators, writer Wai Ka Fai and man home, to a picturesque Bulgarian town, where Alex profoundly hilarious period epic is set shortly before cinematographer, Cheng Siu Keung, have created a starts remembering snippets of his childhood. However, WWI and is based on the novel by Nobel Prize winner moody, noirish tour de force. ~ Toronto International grandpa realizes that he has no right to take control of Ismail Kadare. Film Festival his grandson’s life. The adventures in this peculiar story (based on the autobiographical novel by Iliya Troyanov) Principal Cast: Johnny Hallyday, Anthony Wong, Lam are told with ironic hyperbole and its Balkan charm is Principal Cast: Blerim Destani, Masiela Lusha, Çun Ka Tung, Lam Suet, Simon Yam, Sylvie Testud masterfully conveyed via the actors, guided by stage Lajçi, Luan Jaha, Blerim Gjoci, Ralph Moeller, Xhevdet director Stefan Komandarev. ~ Karlovy International Ferri, Thomas Heinze, Vlado Jovanovski Screenwriter: Wai Ka Fai Film Festival Producers: Michèle Petin, Laurent Petin, Peter Lam, Screenwriter: Fatmir Koçi John Chong, Wai Ka Fai, Principal Cast: Miki Manojlovic, Carlo Ljubek, Hristo Mutafchiev, Anna Papadopulu, Stefan Valdobrev Producers: Blerim Destani, Alain Midzic Johnnie To Cinematographer: Cheng Siu Keung Cinematographer: Donal Gilligan Screenwriters: Stephan Komandarev, Yuri Datchev, Editor: David Richardson Editor: Charles Ladmiral, Steffen Wimmers Music: Lo Tayu Dusan Milic, Ilija Trojanow Music: Nexhat Mujovi “Wirus” *Contains Graphic Violence. Producers: Stefan Kitanov, Karl Baumgartner, Thanassis Karathanos, Danijel Hocevar, Andras Muhi Cinematographer: Emil Christov Editor: Nina Altaparmakova Music: Stefan Valdobrev Official Website: www.theworldisbig.com/en

AWARDS: Bergen International Film Festival – Jury Award Sofia International Film Festival – Audience Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival – Don Quixote Award Warsaw International Film Festival – Jury Award Zurich Film Festival – Audience Award

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