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Color-ReviseBleedsMapCover.indd 3 4/10/11 3:47 PM For the past six years, the Tom Grady Fund has provided major funding for The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. We would like to extend our thanks to Tim Grady and to the Tom Grady Fund for their generous support. January 23, 1949 - October 25, 2004 COVERS-2011.indd 4 4/9/11 4:27 AM © 2011 Summit Brewing Co., St. Paul, MN. All rights reserved. Co., St. Paul, MN. All Brewing Summit 2011 Shouldn’t indie films be discussed over an indie beer? Get to the bottom of it. Celebrating 25 years of independent thinkers. And drinkers. Summit. A more meaningful brew. Proud sponsor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. Visit us at summitbrewing.com. FRONT-2011-color.indd 3 4/9/11 4:21 AM 4 Color-ReviseBleedsMapCover.indd 4 4/10/11 3:46 PM 5 Color-ReviseBleedsMapCover.indd 5 4/10/11 3:47 PM FILM SCHEDULE KEY Special Competition: Competition: Competition: Competition: Minnesota World American Late Childish Documentary Presentation Narrative Documentary Emerging Short Made Cinema Independents Night Films THURSDAY 4/14 -- OPENING NIGHT Page One: Inside The New York Times Trollhunter w/ Score: A Hockey Musical Dir Andrew Rossi & David Carr Present The Last Norwegian Troll Actor Noah Reid Present 7:30 88 min 8:00 103 min 7:45 92 min St. Anthony 1 St. Anthony 2 St. Anthony 3 St. Anthony 4 St. Anthony 5 FRONT-2011-color.indd 6 4/9/11 4:22 AM KEY Special Competition: Competition: Competition: Competition: Minnesota World American Late Childish Documentary Presentation Narrative Documentary Emerging Short Made Cinema Independents Night Films St. Anthony 1 St. Anthony 2 St. Anthony 3 St. Anthony 4 St. Anthony 5 Windfall Dir Laura Israel 7:00 AT BELL Present AUDITORIUM 83 min FRIDAY 4/22 Facebook's Adorno Changed My Life, Madly in Love La Petite Chambre Truck Farm 3:15 Night Fishing 2:45 90 min 3:15 87 min 3:00 50 min 60 min The First Beautiful Europe's Backyard Bardsongs October Honeymoons Thing Kings of Oslo 4:45 94 min 5:45 93 min 4:45 5:30 95 min 4:15 122 min 52/62 min Norman Mailer: The Bringing King to China Amigo Exporting Raymond American A Screaming Man Dir Kevin McKiernan 6:45 128 min 7:45 86 min 7:15 Guests Invited 7:30 92 min 6:45 Present 106 min 85 min Just Like Us On The Ice The Myth of the Dir Ahmed Ahmed 13 Assassins No Return Dir Andrew Okpeaha American Sleepover 9:15 Present 9:45 140 min 9:30 9:30 104 min 9:15 MacLean Present 97 min 72 min 96 min FRONT-2011-color.indd 7 4/9/11 4:22 AM KEY Special Competition: Competition: Competition: Competition: Minnesota World American Late Childish Documentary Presentation Narrative Documentary Emerging Short Made Cinema Independents Night Films St. Anthony 1 St. Anthony 2 St. Anthony 3 St. Anthony 4 St. Anthony 5 WEDNESDAY 4/27 Dumas A Screaming Man The Tenants Lila Lila The Mill and The Cross 4:30 105 min 4:45 92 min 4:15 103 min 4:45 104 min 4:45 97 min FRONT-2011-color.indd 8 4/9/11 4:22 AM KEY Special Competition: Competition: Competition: Competition: Minnesota World American Late Childish Documentary Presentation Narrative Documentary Emerging Short Made Cinema Independents Night Films St. Anthony 1 St. Anthony 2 St. Anthony 3 St. Anthony 4 St. Anthony 5 9 FRONT-2011-color.indd 9 4/9/11 4:23 AM KEY Special Competition: Competition: Competition: Competition: Minnesota World American Late Childish Documentary Presentation Narrative Documentary Emerging Short Made Cinema Independents Night Films St. Anthony 1 St. Anthony 2 St. Anthony 3 St. Anthony 4 St. Anthony 5 SUNDAY 5/1 Master Class Opera The Hedgehog Love During Wartime Crocodiles Eleanor's Secret 95 min 1:45 98 min 92 min 1:00 98 min 75 min 12:00 12:00 11:00 The Pruitt-Igoe Myth Dir Chad Freidrichs Young Goethe in Love My Perestroika The Actresses Laboratory 2:00 Present 4:15 100 min 2:00 88 min 3:00 104 min 1:00 122 min 83 min The Bengali Detective Bobby Fischer Against Filmmaker Annie Twisted Roots How to Live Forever the World 4:30 4:00 Sundberg Present 5:15 99 min 3:30 92 min 90 min 100 min Plato's Academy In the Garden of 6:30 102 min The Lutefisk Wars Sounds Tehran,Tehran The Sleeping Beauty Filmmakers Present Filmmaker Frank 6:30 6:45 7:15 101 min 5:30 82 min 86 min Matter Present 86 min This Prison Where I El Infierno Live Int'l Narrative Shorts Men in Rut Queen to Play 7:30 US Premiere 90 min 9:00 80 min 8:45 120 min 9:15 101 min 9:30 145 min 12 Angry Lebanese 9:30 78 min MONDAY 5/2 Europe's Backyard Wagner & Me 52 min Paradise Recovered 4:15 89 min 4:30 Kings of Oslo 5:00 95 min 62 min Somewhere to Microphone Disappear The Tree Colors in the Dark My Joy (Scastje Moto) Filmmakers Invited Photographer Alec 6:15 6:45 100 min 7:00 6:30 85 min 7:00 127 min 120 min Soth Present 90 min Just Between Us How to Start Your Own Merry-Go-Round David Wants to Fly Bibliotheque Pascal Dir Rajko Grlic Present Country 9:15 126 min 9:00 9:30 96 min 8:30 105 min 9:30 89 min 72 min TUESDAY 5/3 The Lutefisk Wars The Colors of the Vespa Au Revoir Taipei Illegal Filmmakers Present Mountain 5:00 85 min 5:15 85 min 5:00 5:30 95 min 4:45 86 min 90 min The Blood of Yingzhou District, Beginners Truck Farm Tongzhi In Love, Honeymoons In Another Lifetime Dir Mike Mills Present Dir Ian Cheney Present Warriors of Quigang: A 7:00 7:15 95 min 7:00 7:30 90 min 6:45 104 min 50 min Chinese Village Fights Back 108 min The Imperialists are Tyrannosaur Kowasaki's Rose Feathered Cocaine Orgasm Inc Still Alive! 9:45 91 min 9:15 100 min 9:00 80 min 9:30 9:15 73 min 90 min WEDNESDAY 5/4 Tomorrow Will Be This Prison Where I Gunnar Goes God Garbo the Spy The Fourth Portrait Better Live 4:45 85 min 4:30 5:15 88 min 5:00 102 min 4:30 118 min 90 min Trimpin the Sound of Invention w/5 Microphone Just Between Us Variations on a Long Sei Venezia Love During Wartime Filmmakers Invited Dir Rajko Grlic Present String 6:45 7:00 7:15 7:15 95 min 6:30 92 min 120 min 89 min Dir Peter Esmonde Present 99 min MN SHORTS: NARRATIVE The Tree Stake Land Strictly Confidential Marimbas From Hell 9:45 Filmmakers Present 9:30 100 min 9:45 98 min 9:15 105 min 8:30 72 min 120 min THURSDAY 5/5 -- CLOSING NIGHT 7:00 & Stuck Between Stations -- MN Sneak Preview -- Cast & Crew Present -- 85 min 7:15 FRONT-2011-color.indd 10 4/9/11 4:23 AM Festival Information DIRECTORY CONTENTS: THANKS TO OUR VENUE PARTNER Sponsor Map .................................. 4-5 Film Schedule ...............................6-10 ST. ANTHONY MAIN THEATRE Fest Info .............................................11 115 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414 VALIDATED PARKING is available at St. Director’s Letters ...............................13 Anthony Falls Ramp (210 2nd Avenue SE) Mayor’s Letters .................................15 Sponsors .....................................16-17 For venue information and maps, Festival Events ..................................22 please visit www.mspfi lmfest.org Special Presentations ......................23 Panels ................................................25 Films In Competition .........................27 Best Narrative ............................................ 28-30 Best Documentary .....................................32-34 Best Emerging ........................................... 36-38 Minnesota Made Feature.......................... 40-41 SCHEDULE CHANGES Best Short ...................................................44-48 Schedule is subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control, Experimental .....................................51 such as shipping or customs issues. Last minute schedule changes will be World Cinema .............................52-70 announced through “Fest-o-grams” available at the box offi ce, or online at: www.mspfi lmfest.org American Independents .............74-75 Documentaries ...........................80-94 TICKETING INFORMATION • HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS Childish Films ..............................98-99 All tickets and passes, except discounted, are available at mspfi lmfest.org, or Acknowledgements ....................... 102 at the St. Anthony Main Theatre. Discounted tickets & passes for members, find more information online at www.mspfilmfest.org Staff & Board ..................................103 students and seniors are ONLY available at the box offi ce, and ticket purchasers Index by Country & Title .........104-106 must be able to show proper identifi cation to receive discount. TICKETING INFORMATION FESTIVAL PASSES GOLD PASS: The Gold Pass is your ticket to every festival screening (including Opening and Closing Night), all panel discussions and guaranteed priority seating up to 15 min- utes before each Screening. Access ex- cludes Opening and Closing Night Galas (see details on events page). Available online or at the St. Anthony Main Theatre Box Offi ce. Gold Pass purchasers must present pass at box offi ce to claim ticket before each screening. The Gold Pass is non-transferable. A photo will be taken to personalize Gold Pass. Please allow 15 minutes for Gold Pass processing at time of purchase. 6 -PACK Good for 6 Festival Screenings, exclud- ing Opening Night and Closing Night fi lms. Use one punch for 6 screenings, 6 punches for one screening, or anything in between! 6-Packs may be split between AUDIENCE POLL DRIVEN BY WALSER multiple people.