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Columbia University Film Festival May 2 — 6 | New York African Film Festival May 7 — 13 | Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 1) May 16 — June 1 | Open Roads: New Italian Cinema June 5 — 12 | Human Rights Watch Film Festival June 13 — 22 | Film Comment Double Feature June 25 | New York Asian Film Festival June 27 ­— July 10 MAY 2014

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4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2:00 Frozen 6:30 From Screen to Stage: 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 2:00 Mugabe: Villain or Hero? 2:00 New African Shorts 2:00 Ninah’s Dowry 12:55 Met Opera: 5:00 CUFF Program G Bullets Over Broadway Così fan tutte 4:30 Winter of Discontent + 4:30 Aya of Yop City 4:00 Bastards + Beleh La Cenerentola 7:00 CUFF Program H 4:00 Creative Producing Pitch Wooden Hands 6:30 It’s Us 7:00 Half of a Yellow Sun 6:30 Of Good Report Contest 7:00 Film Society Talks: 7:30 Convergence: APP 9:45 Half of a Yellow Sun 9:15 Confusion Na Wa 7:00 PANEL: Is it Television? James Gray (The Free event! Palo Alto OPENS The Rise of Episodic Immigrant) Free event! 8:45 Grigris + Columbite Storytelling 7:30 Confusion Na Wa Tantalite 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1:00 Winter of Discontent + 1:45 It’s Us 12:55 Met Opera Encore: Visit FilmLinc.com Visit FilmLinc.com 1:00 Gods of the Plague 2:30 The Merchant of Four Seasons Wooden Hands 3:45 Grigris + Columbite La Cenerentola for more information for more information 3:00 The Merchant of Four Seasons 4:30 Love Is Colder Than Death 3:30 New African Shorts Tantalite 6:30 Ninah’s Dowry 5:00 Gods of the Plague + The Bridegroom, the 6:15 Mugabe: Villain 6:00 Bastards + Beleh 9:00 Sarraounia 7:00 Love Is Colder Than Death + Comedienne and the Pimp or Hero? 9:00 Of Good Report The Bridegroom, the 7:00 Gods of the Plague 9:00 Aya of Yop City Comedienne and the Pimp 9:00 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? 9:20 The Merchant of Four Seasons 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 1:00 Why Does Herr R. Run 4:00 Love Is Colder Than Death 12:55 Met Opera Encore: 5:00 2:45 Bremen Freedom 2:00 Pioneers in Ingolstadt 2:00 The Niklashausen Amok? + The Bridegroom, the La Cenerentola 9:00 Katzelmacher 4:45 Nora Helmer 4:00 The Bitter Tears of Journey 3:00 Comedienne and the Pimp 6:30 Pioneers in Ingolstadt 7:00 Bremen Freedom Petra von Kant 4:30 Whity 4:45 The Merchant of Four 6:30 The Merchant of Four 8:30 The Merchant of Four 9:00 Nora Helmer 6:30 Martha 6:30 + Seasons Seasons Seasons 9:00 The Merchant of Four Cuba Libre 9:20 The American Soldier 8:30 The Niklashausen Journey Seasons 9:00 Whity

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The Columbia University School of the Arts Film Program presents the 27th Annual Columbia University Film Festival (CUFF), Program A 81m Program F 76m a weeklong program of screenings, dramatic readings, and special events. All films will be screened on DCP. Amateur Dictator Zach Carver, Produc- Rattlefly Min Ding, Producer: Layla Zhuqing ers: Robert Richert & Willem Lee, USA, Ji, USA, 2014, 20m Scheherazade Meh- 2014, 15m Bittersweet Sixteen Clara Leac, rnoush Aliaghaei, Producer: Jamar Banks, Producer: Julie Begey Seureau, USA, 2014, USA, 2014, 15m Old Bay Lane Rudnick, Pro- 15m Scumbag Luke Spears, Producer: ducer: Reka Posta, USA, 2014, 19m Devil’s Shana Keegan, USA, 2014, 16m Fault Work Miguel Silveira, Producer: Jamar Lines Marisa Christine Medina, Producer: Banks, USA, 2014, 22m May 3 Chandra Silver, USA, 2014, 15m Sina Forma Program G 79m Garette Henson, Producer: Nicole Delaney, Roughstock Jessica Baclesse, Producer: USA, 2014, 20m May 2 Laura Teodosio, USA, 2014, 13m The Unfa- miliar (O Forasteiro) Diogo Cronemberger, Program B 80m Brazil, 2014, 25m Oasis Carmen Jimenez, Moths Andy Fortenbacher, Producer: Mad- Producer: Chris Boyce, USA, 2014, 16m eleine Shapiro, USA, 2014, 18m Victoria, Holothurian Pei-Ju Hsieh, Producer: Jing Guanajuato Victor Hugo Duran, Producer: Wang, USA, 2014, 10m A Mighty Nice Man Alexandra Vivas, Mexico, 2014, 11m Reach- Jonathan Dee, Producer: Daniella Kahane, ing Home Kenneth Murphy, Producer: USA, 2014, DCP, 15m May 4 Rachel Brenna, USA, 2014, 17m Body of Crime Laurence Vannicelli, Producer: Jesse Program H 70m Gustafson, USA, 2014, 18m The Immacu- Tobacco Burn Justin Liberman, Producer: late Alvaro R. Valente, USA, 2014, 17m Solid Reception Charlotte Glynn, Producers: Ground Rob Richert, Producer: Daniel Berkley Brady & Luke Spears, USA, 2014, Grossman, USA, 2014, 15m Goodbye Casey 16m May 2 Trade Amanda Brennan, Producer: Hugo Kenzo, USA, 2014, 13m Subordinate Clara Program C 72m Leac, USA, 2014, 18m Party of Special Cain Zijian Yan, Producer: Miroslav Macala, Things to Do Matt Black, Producer: Lau- USA, 2014, 18m Concrete Chelvendra rence Vannicelli, USA, 2014, 7m May 4 Sathieaanandha, Producers: Andy Nguyen & Mike De Caro, Australia, 2014, 15m SPECIAL EVENT: FROZEN A Pinch of Salt Sebastian Nyman Agdur, Jennifer Lee, Producer: Chris Buck, USA, USA, 2014, 9m The King’s Pawn Jonah Ble- 2013, 102m Columbia alum Jennifer Lee will icher, Producer: Rob Cristiano, USA, 2014, participate in a Q&A following a screening of 20m Smut Tom Sveen, Producers: John her Academy Award– winning animated film Wakayama Carey & Sarah Dorman, USA, about a princess who can’t escape her icy 2014, 10m May 3 powers. May 4

Program D 71m FREE EVENTS IN THE ELINOR BUNIN American Gladiators Lara Gallagher, MUNROE FILM CENTER: Producer: Joanna Lagstein, USA, 2014, 11m FishTANK Diogo Cronemberger, Producer: CREATIVE PRODUCING PITCH CONTEST Joelle Joseph, USA, 2014, 18m Post Winter The art of pitching is a vital skill for any Jamal Joseph Jr., Producer: Tim Nesmith, filmmaker. Join eight Columbia MFA students USA, 2014, 12m Knives Aaron David De- in the Creative Producing Program, as they Fazio, Producer: Larissa Rhodes, USA, 2014, display their skills in action. May 6 16m Alex the MagnificentRobert Monk PANEL: IS IT TELEVISION? THE RISE OF Davis, USA, 2014, 14m May 3 EPISODIC STORYTELLING Panelists will Program E 71m include accomplished Columbia alumni with Quinny A.L. Lee, Producer: Alex Ma, USA, a diverse range of experience working in 2014, 18m All That Glitters Saro Varjabe- television as writers, directors, and produc- dian, Producer: Demond Robertson, USA, ers. Moderated by Frank Pugliese (House of 2012, 16m Idyllwild Aisha Porter-Christie, Cards). May 6 Producer: Zenas Cao, China, 2014, 20m Do the Damn Thing Adam Paschal, Producer: Mimi Jeffries, USA, 2012, 17mMay 3 MAY 7 — 13 NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL

The core of the 21st New York African Film Festival is the experience of revolution and OPENING NIGHT Confusion Na Wa Ken- Grigris Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Chad/ Ninah’s Dowry Victor Viyouh, Cameroon, liberation in and from Africa in the 21st century. The festival presents a unique selection neth Gyang, Nigeria, 2013, 105m The fates of France, 2013, DCP, 101m Screening with 2012, DCP, 95m A mother of three runs away of contemporary and classic African films, running the gamut from features, shorts, a group of strangers become intertwined over Columbite Tantalite Chiwetel Ejiofor, UK, from home when her abusive husband refuses and documentaries to animation and experimental films. In celebration of the centenary the course of 24 hours in a diverse Nigerian city, 2013, 12m A young dancer with a bum to let her visit her seriously ill father, setting off of Nigerian unification, look for a couple of films from Nollywood, Africa’s largest where a blackmail plot hatched by some oppor- leg sees his dreams dashed when his bad a whirlwind of suspense and adventure that movie industry. tunistic slackers inadvertently leads to their own decisions catch up with him in this elegant traverses the Cameroon landscape. New York downfall. New York Premiere May 7, 10 character study from Cannes and Venice Premiere May 9, 13 award-winning director Mahamat-Saleh CENTERPIECE Half of a Yellow Sun Haroun. New York Premiere May 8, 12 Biyi Bandele, Nigeria/UK, 2013, DCP, 111m Based on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s It’s Us (Ni Si Si) Nick Reding, Kenya, best-selling novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set 2013, DCP, 88m The 2008 Kenyan political during the Nigerian-Biafran war in the 1960s crisis is echoed in this story of a small com- and follows two middle-class Nigerian twins munity where what starts out as good-na- as their lives are torn apart by the conflict. tured banter between friends takes a more New York Premiere May 9 serious turn when rumors arise and a sudden mistrust takes hold. U.S. Premiere May 8, 12 CLOSING NIGHT Sarraounia Med Hondo, Burkina Faso/Mauritania/France, 1986, Mugabe: Villain or Hero? Roy Agyemang, 120m Based on historical accounts of Queen UK/Zimbabwe, 2012, 116m With unprec- Sarraounia, who led the Azans into battle edented access to Zimbabwe’s longtime against the French colonialists at the turn of leader, reviled by many in the West, Agy- the century, Hondo’s influential postcolonial emang’s film reveals a complicated man African epic rivals any that American cinema guiding a country still dealing with post- has produced. May 13 colonial fallout. May 7, 11 Of Good Report Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa, 2013, DCP, 109m This tribute to film Aya of Yop City Marguerite Abouet & noir explores how a man “of good report” Clément Oubrerie, Ivory Coast/France, can get away with anything, in this case a 2013, 35mm, 85m A popular comic-book NEW AFRICAN SHORTS 110m torrid affair with a 16-year-old student, in an series tracking the adventures of a young A short film program of fiction and nonfic- impoverished black community ignored by female aspiring doctor in a 1970s West tion portrayals of the African experience. South African society. New York Premiere African working-class suburb is brought to Baudouin Mouanda: Congolese Dreams May 10, 12 cinematic life through vivid drawings and a Philippe Cordey, Congo, 2012, 25m spectacular soundtrack. May 8, 11 Aissa’s Story Iquo B. Essien, Nigeria/USA, Winter of Discontent (El sheita elli fat) 2013, 15m Kwaku Ananse Akosua Adoma Ibrahim El Batout, Egypt, 2012, DCP, 96m Bastards Deborah Perkin, Morocco/ Owusu, Ghana/Mexico/USA, 2013, 26m Screening with Wooden Hands Kaouther UK, 2013, DCP, 93m Screening with Beleh Soko Sonko (The Market King) Ekwa Ben Hania, Tunisia, 2013, 23m This hard- Eka Christa Assam, Cameroon, 2013, 30m Msangi-Omari, Kenya/USA, 2014, 22m hitting political thriller set against the 2011 A single mother fights to legalize her forced Afronauts Frances Bodomo, Ghana/USA, protests at Tahrir Square takes us on a journey marriage and register her “illegitimate” daugh- 2014, 15m Kuhani Ntare Guma Mbaho into the lives of an activist, a journalist, and a ter in this galvanizing documentary that offers Mwine, Uganda, 2013, 7m May 8, 11 state security officer, laying bare the police an unprecedented look at the Moroccan state of Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt. justice system. U.S. Premiere May 9, 12 U.S. Premiere May 7, 11

SAVE WITH A 3 -FILM PACKAGE MAY 16 — JUNE 1 FASSBINDER: ROMANTIC ANARCHIST (PART 1)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder made nearly 40 features in just 14 years and left behind one of the most cohesive and provocative bodies of work in the Love Is Colder Than Death West Germa- Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? West Ger- history of cinema. Our extensive two-part retrospective includes all of his theatrical movies and many of his television films, along with several works ny, 1969, 35mm, 88m Screening with: The many, 1970, 35mm, 88m Harrowing and connected with his eternally relevant artistry. Part 2 will take place in November. Bridegroom, the Comedienne and the bleakly comic in equal measure, Fassbinder’s Pimp Jean-Marie Straub, West Germany, story of explosive rage focuses on a man 1968, 35mm, 23m For his feature debut, with a perfect middle-class existence…until

Fassbinder fashioned an acerbic, unortho- he beats his family to death with a candle- dox crime drama featuring a love triangle stick. May 17, 18 SEE THE between a Munich pimp, a mysterious WHOLE SERIES crook, and a prostitute. May 16, 17, 19 World on a Wire West Germany, 1973, WITH THE 35mm, 212m A film many years ahead of its ALL ACCESS Martha West Germany, 1974, 35mm, time, this recently rediscovered labyrinth is a PASS 116m A beautiful virgin loses her father on paranoid, boundlessly inventive take on the a trip to Rome and falls into the arms of an future with dashes of Stanley Kubrick, Kurt older stranger. His sadism and her masoch- Vonnegut, and Philip K. Dick. May 25, 26 ism set the stage for a claws-out satire of bourgeois marriage. May 23, June 1 FASSBINDER AND HIS FRIENDS The Merchant of Four Seasons West All That Heaven Allows Douglas Sirk, USA, Germany, 1971, DCP, 88m In one of 1955, 35mm, 89m Love blossoms between Fassbinder’s pivotal works, an ineffectual a suburban widow (Jane Wyman) and her ex-policeman newly home from the war handsome gardener (Rock Hudson) in Sirk’s continues to disappoint his bourgeois sharp indictment of hypocrisy in 1950s family by becoming a lowly fruit peddler. America that served as an inspiration for Exclusive one-week run of new restora- Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and tion! May 16 - 23 Todd Haynes’s Far from Heaven. May 31 The Niklashausen Journey West Ger- Far from Heaven Todd Haynes, USA, many, 1970, 35mm, 90m A shepherd 2002, DCP, 107m Haynes draws from Sirk turns to preaching when he is visited by and Fassbinder in this delicate melodrama the Mother of God, but while his support starring Julianne Moore as a housewife increases, he is filled with a dissatisfaction who discovers her husband (Dennis Quaid) that can be absolved only by embracing his is gay and forms an intimate bond with her own destruction. May 19, 24 black gardener (Dennis Haysbert). May 31 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul West Germany, 1974, may or may not be an accurate represen- of the rise and fall of a cosseted young Nora Helmer West Germany, 1974, 16mm, Tenderness of the Wolves Ulli Lom- 35mm, 93m This wry, tender romance/ tation of Fassbinder’s behind-the-scenes 19th-century Candide whose “prison” 101m Fassbinder’s idiosyncratic take on mel, West Germany, 1973, HDCam, social commentary about the unlikely love methods. May 24, 26 is a manor on the Baltic Sea is among Fass- Ibsen’s A Doll’s House plays out as a blister- 82m Lommel cast his friend and mentor between a Moroccan immigrant and an binder’s most visually ravishing. ing psychodrama visually refracted through Fassbinder as a sexually aggressive crook older German widow remains one of the The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant West May 26, June 1 latticework, curtains, prismatic glasses, and in this psycho-thriller about a government director’s most popular films.May 25, 31 Germany, 1972, 35mm, 124m High camp multi-paneled mirrors. May 22 inspector who moonlights as a cannibalistic and claustrophobia abound in this chamber Gods of the Plague West Germany, serial killer. May 30 The American Soldier West Germany, psychodrama about the cruel cat-and- 1970, 35mm, 91m Fassbinder’s interest Pioneers in Ingolstadt West Germany, 1970, 35mm, 80m An early example of mouse games between a fashion designer, in teasing out the subtexts of American 1971, 35mm, 83m Conflict arises between Water Drops on Burning Rocks François Fassbinder’s pessimistic vision and his her model, and a faithful, longtime love genre films is on display in this stylized a group of soldiers building a bridge in Ozon, France, 2000, 35mm, 82m Ozon’s fierce, ravishing visual style,The American slave. May 23, 25 noir exercise focused on the not-so-latent a provincial town whose motto, “Where confident third feature is an acerbic Soldier is a baroque homage to Hollywood homoerotic tensions at the very heart of there is no war, we’ll have to make one,” romantic farce, adapted from Fassbinder’s cinema—film noir and gangster movies in Bremen Freedom West Germany, 1972, the gangster movie. May 16, 17 plays out in ways both trivial and profound- 1966 stage play, about a smug, middle-aged particular. May 18 16mm, 87m This dark-as-pitch comedy ly dangerous. May 20, 23 insurance salesman who falls for a beautiful about a widow who over 15 years killed as Katzelmacher West Germany, 1969, teenage boy. May 30 Beware of a Holy Whore West Germany/ many people using butter laced with arsenic 16mm, 88m Fassbinder’s second Whity West Germany, 1971, 35mm, 95m Italy, 1970, 35mm, 104m Screening with is one of Fassbinder’s more ambitious stage- feature depicts the intolerance of a circle Never distributed theatrically but long an Shorts screening with Fassbinder films: Cuba Libre Albert Serra, Spain, 2013, to-television experiments. May 22 of financially and sexually frustrated influential cult classic, Fassbinder’s seventh Cuba Libre May 24, 26 + The Bridegroom, 35mm, 18m A film’s cast and crew undergo friends when an immigrant laborer moves feature is a hothouse gothic melodrama the Comedienne and the Pimp a series of skirmishes, psychosexual cha- Effi BriestWest Germany, 1974, 35mm, to their Munich neighborhood. shot in widescreen on Sergio Leone’s spa- May 16, 17, 19 rades, and nonplussed power trips in what 141m This take on Theodor Fontane’s tale May 21 ghetti Western sets in Spain. May 24 JUNE 5 — 12 OPEN ROADS: NEW ITALIAN CINEMA

One of our most popular annual programs, Open Roads has served as the leading North American showcase of contemporary murder of a high-profile member of the winning streak while conflict erupts Italian cinema for the past 13 years. This exceptionally strong and diverse edition includes the latest work from established city’s seedy nightlife. June 5, 6 over archaic sheep-breeding codes in the veterans alongside promising new talents from both the commercial and independent spheres, with in-person appearances lush black-and-white world of Zucca’s at many screenings. Visit FilmLinc.com for more details. I Can Quit Whenever I Want (Smetto utterly distinctive first feature. quando voglio) Sydney Sibilia, Italy, 2014, U.S. Premiere June 10, 11 100m A band of brilliant un(der)employed academics turn to a life of crime in order to Sacro GRA Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/ survive in this biting parody of the plight of France, 2013, DCP, 93m The first docu- the Italian middle class in the aftermath of mentary to win the Golden Lion at the the economic crisis. June 6, 8 Venice Film Festival, Rosi’s latest reveals the sheer diversity of life bubbling around A Lonely Hero (L’intrepido) Gianni Amelio, the margins of the 43.5-mile highway Italy, 2013, DCP, 104m Amelio’s deadpan that encircles the Rome. U.S. Premiere parable follows a small everyday hero from June 8, 9 Milan who throws himself at a wide array of “substitute” jobs with a deep moral consis- Small Homeland (Piccola Patria) tency as he reinvents himself from day to Alessandro Rossetto, Italy, 2013, DCP, day. U.S. Premiere June 5, 10 111m Best friends Luisa and Renata long to escape their stifling provincial town in Long Live Freedom (Viva la libertà) northeastern Italy, working as maids in a Roberto Andò, Italy, 2013, DCP, 93m His hotel and supplementing their income party in decline, a seasoned politician (Toni with sex work and a dubious blackmail Servillo) flees to Paris to hide out with his plot. U.S. Premiere June 8, 12 ex-girlfriend (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) in Andò’s scathing yet comic critique of Italian South Is Nothing (Il Sud e niente) Fabio political dynamics. U.S. Premiere June 6, 7 Mollo, Italy, 2013, DCP, 86m A teenage tomboy who hasn’t spoken a word since The Mafia Only Kills in Summer (La the death of her beloved brother runs away mafia uccide solo d’estate) Pierfrancesco from home and ends up on a quest to find Diliberto, Italy, 2013, DCP, 89m In Pier- the truth about her lost sibling and also francesco “Pif” Diliberto’s irreverent feature herself. U.S. Premiere June 8, 9 debut, a young boy’s obsession with the Mafia surpasses even his passion for the A Street in Palermo (Via Castellana Band- beautiful schoolmate who remains his main iera) Emma Dante, Italy, 2013, DCP, 92m love interest until adulthood. U.S. Premiere The first film by theater director Emma OPENING NIGHT Those Happy Years larger-than-life tenants provide a Happy to Be Different (Felice chi è June 7, 12 Dante takes place almost entirely in a nar- (Anni felici) Daniele Luchetti, Italy, 2013, tough-minded yet affectionate look at an diverso) Gianni Amelio, Italy, 2014, 93m row alleyway in a run-down neighborhood DCP, 100m Luchetti’s warm-hearted, bit- Italy mired in crisis. U.S. Premiere A moving and enlightening work of oral Quiet Bliss (In grazia di Dio) Edoardo of Palermo, where two carloads of stub- tersweet autobiographical account of his June 9, 10 history, Amelio’s new documentary is a Winspeare, Italy, 2014, 127m Three born characters face off over their refusal childhood as a budding filmmaker captures chronicle of gay life in Italy from the fall generations of women seek refuge in their to back up. U.S. Premiere June 11, 12 a family’s radical transformations through The Fifth Wheel (L’ultima ruota del of Fascism through the early 1980s. June family’s Salento olive grove after their small a son’s brand-new Super-8 camera. U.S. carro) Giovanni Veronesi, Italy, 2013, 10, 11 textile business collapses in this warm Tir Alberto Fasulo, Italy/Croatia, Premiere June 5 DCP, 113m Veronesi’s irresistible romantic and vibrant drama set against the radiant 2013, 83m A former teacher from Bosnia comedy journeys through four decades The Human Factor (La variabile umana) southern Italian landscape. June 7, 9 takes a job driving a tractor trailer (“tir”) The Administrator (L’amministratore) Vin- of recent Italian history on the back of a Bruno Oliviero, Italy, 2013, DCP, 82m through Europe, immersing the viewer in cenzo Marra, Italy, 2013, 83m In this lively good-hearted, honest middle-class guy who Rendered darkly beautiful as a noir setting, The Referee (L’arbitro) Paolo Zucca, the sounds, the landscape, and the longing and absorbing documentary set in Naples, always finds himself a step behind. Milan is the electric backdrop for this story Italy/Argentina, 2013, 96m A third-league for company that goes with life on the a building administrator’s dealings with his U.S. Premiere June 6, 11 of a troubled detective investigating the Sardinian soccer team goes on a sudden road. U.S. Premiere June 7, 12

SAVE WITH A 3 -FILM PACKAGE JUNE 13 — 22 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH FILM FESTIVAL

The 25th anniversary edition of the festival arrives with a selection of films that bring human rights abuses to life through OPENING NIGHT Private Violence First to Fall Rachel Beth Anderson & Tim storytelling—challenging each individual to empathize and demand justice for all. All films are New York premieres. Cynthia Hill, USA, 2013, DCP, 81m Private Grucza, UK/USA, 2013, DCP, 80m First to FOR FULL LINEUP, SCHEDULE, AND MORE INFORMATION, VISIT FILMLINC.COM OR FF.HRW.ORG. Violence explores a simple but deeply Fall is a story of sacrifice and the madness disturbing fact of American life: the most of war that follows two friends as they join dangerous place for a woman in America is the fight to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi. her own home. June 13 June 18

The Beekeeper Mano Khalil, Switzer- For Those Who Can Tell No Tales Jasmila land, 2013, DCP, 107m The Beekeeper Zbanic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2013, relates the touching story of Ibrahim Gezer, DCP, 72m For Those Who Can Tell No Tales a Kurdish beekeeper from southeast Turkey, follows an Australian tourist as she discov- and his unusual experience of integration ers the silent legacy of wartime atrocities into the seemingly conservative heart of in a seemingly idyllic town. June 16 today’s Switzerland. June 17 Sepideh – Reaching for the Stars Berit Dangerous Acts Starring the Un- Madsen, Denmark/Iran/Germany/Nor- stable Elements of Belarus Madeleine way/Sweden, 2013, DCP, 88m Sepideh is a Sackler, USA/UK/Belarus, 2013, DCP, young Iranian woman who dares to dream. 76m Comprised of smuggled footage and As we follow her, it becomes clear just how uncensored interviews, Dangerous Acts Star- at odds her dreams are with her current ring the Unstable Elements of Belarus gives reality. June 21 audiences a front-row seat to a resistance movement as it unfolds. June 18 Watchers of the Sky Edet Belzberg, US, 2014, HDCam, 114m In her character- Evaporating Borders Iva Radivojevic, USA/ istic cinéma vérité style, Edet Belzberg Cyprus, 2014, DCP, 73m A visual essay in five interweaves the stories of five humani- parts, Evaporating Borders is told through a se- tarians whose lives and work are linked ries of vignettes that explore the lives of asylum together by the ongoing crisis in Darfur. seekers and refugees in Cyprus. June 17 June 19

JUN — FEB TIME REGAINED: THE FILMS OF LAV DIAZ

The Film Society is proud to present the most complete American retrospective to date of this major, Melancholia Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2008, 450m What starts as the story of a nun, a pimp, and a prostitute and their criminally underseen Filipino master, timed to the release of his latest film, Norte, the End of History. role-playing games becomes an elegy for the power and imaginative vision of radical politics in an age of claustrophobia The series launches with a rare screening of his seven-and-a-half-hour Melancholia and continues with and reactionary cynicism. Diaz’s soulful meditation on the difficulties of daily life is enlivened by strains of black comedy one screening a month through February 2015. and noir-heavy fatalism. June 22

JUNE 27 — JULY 10 NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL

We’re back with our lucky 13th edition of North America’s leading festival of popular Asian cinema. High- to Macau, and screenings of Jimmy Wang-Yu vintage classics One-Armed Swordsman and The Chinese lights include the explosive female juvenile delinquent drama May We Chat, Benny Chan’s resurrection of Boxer! Plus: Takashi Miike’s gangster comedy The Mole Song! Korean cops vs. criminal mastermind thriller the genre The White Storm, porn-industry comedy 3D Naked Ambition, superstar Andy Cold Eyes! Japanese WWII fighter pilot drama The Eternal Zero! And Aim High in Creation!, a behind the Lau in police thriller Firestorm, Chow Yun-fat reteaming with Wong Jing on gambling comedy From Vegas scenes look at the North Korean film industry! MAY

OPENS MAY 9 OPENS MAY 30 PALO ALTO WE ARE THE BEST! Gia Coppola, USA, 2013, Lukas Moodysson, DCP, 98m Sweden, 2013, DCP, 102m Based on the short-story Best-friends Klara and collection by James Franco Bobo defy the stifling (who also co-stars), writer- conformity of their adolescence NEW RELEASES director Gia Coppola’s by joining forces with a mesmerizing debut chronicles Christian classmate to form the interconnected lives of a punk-rock band in early- several high-school students in 1980s Stockholm. the affluent title California city. James Franco in person

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OPENS JUNE 6 - OPENS JUNE 13 - OPENS JUNE 20 - ONE WEEK ONLY! ONE WEEK ONLY! ONE WEEK ONLY! 2 AUTUMNS, POLICEMAN NORTE, THE END OF 3 WINTERS Nadav Lapid, Israel, HISTORY Sébastien Betbeder, 2011, DCP, 100m Lav Diaz, Philippines, 2013, France, 2013, DCP, 90m A boldly conceived drama DCP, 250 minutes This endearing and inventive pivoting on the initially A careful rethinking of romantic comedy tells the unrelated activities of an Dostoevsky’s Crime and story of sad-sack Arman elite anti-terrorist police Punishment shot in blazing and his new love, Amélie. unit and some wealthy color, this tour de force offers Rendez-Vous with young anarchists. a masterful recapitulation of French Cinema Official NYFF51 and New York Diaz’s longstanding obsessions: Selection Jewish Film Festival cultural memory, national Official Selection guilt, and the origin of evil. Director in person! NYFF51 Official Selection Director in person!

OPENS JUNE 20 - TWO WEEKS ONLY! OPENS JUNE 27 EXHIBITION SNOWPIERCER Joanna Hogg, UK, 2013, DCP, 110m Joanna Hogg’s exactingly minimal and intimately character-driven Bong Joon-ho, South Korea/ portrait of a married middle-aged couple—both artists—living and working in their unusual London home, USA, 2013, DCP, 125m at once a labyrinth, a battleground, and a refuge. NYFF51 Director in person! Decades into a second Ice Age, a supertrain containing all OPENS JUNE 27 - ONE WEEK ONLY! that remains of humanity— UNRELATED divided into classes—circles Joanna Hogg, UK, 2007, 100m Middle-aged, discontented Anna (Kathryn Worth) decides to spend her summer the globe. The English- holiday apart from her husband in Tuscany with her friends. As the days go by, she finds herself more attuned to language debut of Korean their teenage children (Tom Hiddleston and his sister Emma). NYFF51 master Bong Joon-ho stars Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton. OPENS JUNE 27 - ONE WEEK ONLY! Director in person! ARCHIPELAGO Joanna Hogg, UK, 2010, 114m A group stays on the island of Tresco off of Sicily, animated by resentments, jealousies, upheavals, and revelations that will ring true to anyone who has ever spent a vacation with their family. NYFF51 MAY

MAY 5 MAY 8 FROM SCREEN TO CONVERGENCE: APP STAGE: BULLETS (SNEAK PREVIEW) OVER BROADWAY Bobby Boermans, Netherlands, , USA, 1994, 35mm, 2013, Blu-ray, 90m 98mTo celebrate the opening FREE EVENT! In what has been SPECIAL EVENTS of Bullets Over Broadway: billed as the first “second-screen The Musical, the Film Society of feature film” due to its creative Lincoln Center will screen an use of mobile devices to augment archival print of the 1994 Woody the otherwise linear storytelling, a Allen film on which the show Dutch college student wakes up is based, followed by a conversa- after a night of partying to discover tion with Letty Aronson and a mysterious and potentially dan- Julian Schlossberg and director/ gerous app installed on her phone. choreographer Susan Stroman, In association with Midsummer Night Swing. winner of five .

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JUNE 1 JUNE 21 JUNE 30 JELLYFISH EYES THE TEXAS CHAIN AKA DOC POMUS Takashi Murakami, Japan, 2013, 101m When a young boy moves with SAW MASSACRE Peter Miller & Will Hechter, his widowed mother to the Japanese countryside, he discovers that Tobe Hooper, USA, 1974, Canada/USA, 2012, Digital their apartment is inhabited by a strange creature—and that very little is DCP, 81m Projection, 99m what it appears to be in the sleepy town. Visual-artist Takashi Murakami’s Leatherface is back in this FREE EVENT! Doc Pomus, a feature-film debut is a loving homage to Japanese popular culture. 40th-anniversary restoration colorful New York character and of one of the most influ- unlikely rock ’n’ roll icon, responsible FILM SOCIETY TALKS: TAKASHI MURAKAMI ential horror movies of the for writing such smash hits as FREE EVENT! In conjunction with the New York premiere of his first 1970s. Death by meat hook, “Viva Las Vegas,” “Save the Last feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, renowned Japanese pop artist Takashi sledgehammer, and, of course, Dance for Me,” and “This Magic Murakami will present a collection of his animated works and discuss chainsaw await a group of Moment,” is the subject of this his signature artistic style. youngsters on a road trip. in-depth documentary. Followed by Q&A with director Peter Miller and Doc Pomus’s daughter, Sharyn Felder! In association with Midsummer Night Swing.

JUNE 25 FILM COMMENT DOUBLE FEATURE: TWO BY RICHARD BROOKS ART EXHIBITS IN THE WALTER READE THEATER'S FRIEDA & ROY FURMAN GALLERY $ (Dollars) USA, 1971, 35mm, 121m A dynamic, fast-moving heist thriller set in Hamburg, in which a Now - May 4 Chaplin Forever! In celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s character security consultant () and a call girl (Goldie “The Little Tramp,” don’t miss a rare opportunity to view a photo exhibit retracing some of the most Hawn) plot to rob the safe deposit boxes of three criminals. famous moments of his career! Presented by Jaeger-LeCoultre and curated by the Musée de l’Elysée. With Gert (Goldfinger) Fröbe as the bank’s manager The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the 41st Chaplin Award Gala. and a great Quincy Jones score. Followed by Bite the Bullet USA, 1975, 35mm, May 8 - 13 Digital Africa A series of works by Congolese and American photographers, including 132m Lining up a stellar cast—Gene Hackman, James “Congolese Dreams” featuring work by acclaimed photographer Baudouin Mouanda, to be paired Coburn, Ben Johnson, Jan-Michael Vincent, and Candice with Adama Delphine Fawundu’s stunning portraits that capture residents of Tivoli Towers in Crown Bergen—Brooks ponders human greed a second time Heights, Brooklyn. The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the New York African Film Festival. in a gritty Western about a real-life 700-mile horse race across New Mexico in 1906 that tests the physical June 13-22 The Unraveling: Journey Through the Central African Republic Crisis and moral limits of its contestants. The exhibit takes place in conjunction with the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. TWO FILMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE! LET US PLAN YOUR WEEKENDS!

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Bullets Over Broadway MoMA Film Archive, Roy Furman, Theatre Communications Group | New York African Film Festival Haden Guest and Mark Johnson, Harvard Film Archive; Cinema Tropical; Alwan for the ArtsHuman Rights Watch Film Festival Fassbinder: Romantic Anarchist (Part 1) Juliane Lorenz and Antonio Exacoustos, The Fassbinder Foundation; Goethe Institut - Vienna; Anne Morra, MoMA Film Archive; Susan Oxtoby, Pacific Film Archive |Jellyfish Eyes Cynthia Swartz, Liesl Copland Open Roads: New Italian Cinema Italian Cultural Institute of New York; Antonio Monda, the Alexander Bodini Foundation; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Human Rights Watch Film Festical Mahen Bonetti, New York African Film Festival CREDITS: Bullets Over Broadway: Magnolia/Sweetland/The Kobal Collection/Brian Hamill The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant: The Kobal Collection/Tango $ (Dollars): Columbia/The Kobal Collection The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Kobal Collection/Vortex-Henkel-Hooper/Bryanston World on a Wire: WDR/The Kobal Collection Charles Chaplin, Modern Times, 1934-1935 - © Roy Export S.A.S, scan Cineteca di Bologna, courtesy Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.jpg