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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Experimental Cinema: Welcome to the Festival 3 Celluloid 166 The Film Society 14 Pixels 167 Meet the Programmers 44 Beyond the Frame 167 Membership 19 Annual Fund 21 Letters 23 Short Films Ticket and Box Offce Info 26 Childish Shorts 165 Sponsors 29 Shorts Programs 168 Community Partners 32 Music Videos 175 Consulate and Community Support 32 Shorts Before Features 177

MSPFilm Education Credits About 34 Staff 179 Youth Events 35 Advisory Groups and Volunteers 180 Youth Juries 36 Acknowledgements 181 Panel Discussions 38 Film Society Members 182

Off-Screen Indexes Galas, Parties & Events 40 Schedule Grid 5 Ticket Stub Deals 43 Title Index 186 Origin Index 188 Special Programs Voices Index 190 Spotlight on the World: inFLUX 47 Shorts Index 193 Women and Film 49 Venue Maps 194 LGBTQ Currents 51 Tribute 53 Emerging Filmmaker Competition 55 Documentary Competition 57 Minnesota Made Competition 61 Shorts Competition 59 facebook.com/mspflmsociety Film Programs Special Presentations 63 @mspflmsociety Asian Frontiers 72 #MSPIFF Cine Latino 80 Images of Africa 88 Midnight Sun 92 youtube.com/mspflmfestival Documentaries 98 World Cinema 126 New American Visions 152 Dark Out 156 Childish Films 160

2 welcome FILM SOCIETY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S WELCOME

Dear Festival-goers…

This year, the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival celebrates its 35th anniversary, making it one of the longest-running festivals in the country. On this occasion, we are particularly proud to be able to say that because of your growing interest and support, our Festival, one of this community’s most anticipated annual events and outstanding treasures, continues to gain momentum, develop, expand and thrive…

Over 35 years, while retaining a unique flavor and core mission to bring you the best in international independent cinema, our Festival has evolved from a Eurocentric to a global perspective, presenting an ever-broadening spectrum of new and notable film that would not otherwise be seen in the region. In this spirit, our now annual Women in Film spotlights women directors from around the globe, while our annual Spotlight on the World highlights issues of timely global concern. This year’s Spotlight, inFlux, includes 30 films, from as many countries, exploring the movement of people and peoples around the world.

Our Festival has also become a venue for distinctive and original voices to share their stories, and a platform for artists and audiences to engage together in the creative process, showcasing filmmakers from here and from around the world who are driven to create, to tell stories, to inform, to dare, to seek answers, and to share their experiences with us all. In this spirit, we have introduced several new programs this year including nextwave, building youth media literacy, and a Tribute Program which, each year, will recognize the work of a groundbreaking filmmaker. This year, our honoree is the extraordinary Deepa Mehta (see more on page 53).

And our Festival now welcomes increasingly diverse audiences reflective of the changing demographics and many new international populations in the region, creating a rare opportunity for all of us to better understand our neighbors and to experience, together, more of what the world has to offer through the power of great film. In this spirit, we are excited to announce that, while our hub remains at the historic St. Anthony Main Theatre, we are branching out to several new venues this year including the Uptown Theatre in Minneapolis, the newly refurbished auditorium at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul and the A-Mill Artists Lofts, a block from our hub, where we will host all of our panels and a number of other events.

In short, we’ve got a great year in store for you! And we look forward to seeing you often in April. For now, a warm welcome to those of you who have just recently discovered our 18-day magic carpet ride around the world, and many thanks to our fast-growing base of film-enthusiasts, sponsors, advisors, members – and to all of you who have been with us over some or all of these 35 years. Your support, interest and presence are key. We’re so glad you’re here to celebrate with us.

After all, you may be 39 forever, but you only turn 35 once!

Susan Smoluchowski Executive Director Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul

FILM SOCIETY BOARD OF DIRECTORS Mary Reyelts Community Leader, Board Chair Max Musicant Principal, The Musicant Group Maria Antonia Calvo Cultural and Community Leader Paola Nuñez-Obetz Cultural and Educational Leader Melodie Bahan V.P. Communications, Artspace Projects, Inc. Craig Laurence Rice Filmmaker, Professor, MCAD/McNally Smith Anne Carayon Professor, Macalester College Rob Silberman Professor of Art History, UMN Richard Cohen Minnesota State Senator Susan Smoluchowski Executive Director, Film Society of MSP Tom DeBiaso Dean of Graduate Studies, MCAD Mark Tierney Executive Chairman, mPay Gateway Karla Ekdahl Community Leader Frances Wilkinson Owner/President, Mount Curve Co. Jacob Frey City Council Member, 3rd Ward Minneapolis Jim Gerlich Principal, Cedarwoods Foundation Emeritus Karen Heithoff Community Leader Al Milgrom Founder, Film Society, 1962 Charlie Montreuil SVP, Enterprise Rewards, Best Buy Tim Grady Founder, Minneapolis Film Festival, 1981

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4 ZIPCAR.COM/MOBILE THURSDAY, APRIL 7 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 A Man Called Ove E SAM 1 7:00pm | 116m | p63 TR

EA A Man Called Ove H SAM 3 T 7:15pm | 116m | p63 IN

A Party: Opening Night Party ST. ANTHONY ANTHONY ST.

M Other 9:00pm | Aster Café & River Room | p40

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E 1944 Mr. Pig The Invitaton SAM 1 Enclave 1:50pm | 92m | p132 TR 4:30pm | 100m | p126 7:00pm | 92m | p67 9:45pm | 100m | p158

EA Here Come the District Zero Norman Lear: Just H SAM 2 I Promise You Anarchy T Videofreex 5:15pm Another Version... 9:15pm | 100m | p83 3:15pm | 85m | p105 68m | p102 7:15pm | 91m | p115 IN

A The Legend of SAM 3 A Simple Goodbye Shorts 1 Kaili Blues Swee’ Pea 9:35pm | 110m | p75 2:00pm | 100m | p77 4:15pm | 96m | p168 7:10pm | 75m | p110

SAM 4 Muzafarnagar Eventually... Sparrows Rosita Summertme 1:30pm | 135m | p114 5:00pm | 99m | p96 7:20pm | 95m | p95 9:30pm | 105m | p146

The Lovers and The High Sun SAM 5 the Despot Wednesday, May 9 Alone ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 9:45pm | 123m | p135 2:45pm | 84m | p111 4:50pm | 102m | p149 7:05pm | 90m | p72 Uptown A Decent Man They Will Have Serial Killer 1 to Kill Us First 9:50pm | 119m | p144 Theater 4:45pm | 92m | p131 7:00pm | 99m | p91 Chino Party: Uptown Opening Night Party Latino 9:00pm | p40 SATURDAY, APRIL 9 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Documentary Shorts 1 Atomic Falafel The Last King The Idol Chevalier 11:15am | 99m | p174 2:10pm | 93m | p128 4:15pm | 98m | p94 7:00pm | 95m | p66 9:50pm | 99m | p130 TR

EA Walls The Summer H SAM 2 O Samba Tharlo Wonderous Bocaccio T 11:10am Help | 6:30pm 80m | p123 1:30pm| 82m | p116 4:00pm| 123m | p78 74m | p119 9:00pm | 120m | p150 IN

A Walnut Tree SAM 3 11:05am Ghostland My Internship in Canada Dheepan Robert Klein HomeSick 81m | p79 12:55pm | 88m | p90 2:55pm | 108m | p139 5:20pm | 110m | p131 7:40pm | 94m | p117 10:30pm | 98m | p136

SAM 4 One Floor Below The Homecoming Francofonia The Innocents Right Now, Wrong Then 11:30am | 93m | p140 1:40pm | 100m | p94 4:30pm | 88m | p134 7:05pm | 115m | p136 9:30pm | 121m | p77

SAM 5 Operaton Arctc Celestal Camel Birds of Passage Chronic Alias Maria Aferim! ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 11:00am | 91m | p163 1:00pm | 90m | p161 3:00pm | 84m | p161 5:00pm | 93m | p82 7:15pm | 92m | p81 9:20pm | 106m | p127 Uptown Alena The New Classmate Unlocking the Cage Kill Me Please Valley of Love My Big Night 9:45pm | 83m | Theater 11:00am | 96m | p76 1:10pm | 91m | p21 3:15pm | 105m | p84 5:30pm | 91m | p147 7:30pm | 101m | p85 p157 McNally MN Music Videos | 4:30pm The Big Wu Way Smith 25m | p175 7:00pm | 118m | p100 Amsterdam Concert: The Big Wu Live! Bar & Hall 10pm | Amsterdam Bar & Hall | p40 A-Mill Panel: Keys for Talent Castng Artist Lofts and Actng for the Screen 4:00pm | A-Mill Artst Lofs | p38 Aster Party: Saturday Night Special Café 9:00pm | Aster Café River Room | p40 SUNDAY, APRIL 10

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Heavenly Nomadic Sunset Song Mr. Pig Dragonfy The Ardennes 11:15am | 81m | p74 1:15pm | 135m | p146 4:00pm | 92m | p67 7:10pm | 82m | p152 9:40pm | 92m | p127 TR

EA The Summer Women Outward H SAM 2 O Samba Fever at Dawn The Chinese Mayor T Help | 11:30am Bound | 2:00pm 74m | p119 64m | p125 4:15pm | 82m | p116 6:50pm | 105m | p133 9:10pm | 86m | p101 IN

A Talent Has Hunger Hill of Freedom District Zero Mountain SAM 3 11:20am 1:30pm 3:15pm From Afar Above and Below 10:00pm 82m | p119 66m | p74 68m | p102 5:00pm | 93m | p83 7:00pm | 110m | p99 | 83m | p138 Vanity SAM 4 Youth Jury Shorts 1 Nina’s Children Bota Last Cab to Darwin 9:15pm 11:05am | 90m | p36 1:45pm | 80m | p115 4:10pm | 104m | p130 6:30pm | 123m | p137 75m | p148 Childish Shorts Schneider vs. Bax SAM 5 (free!) | 11am My Friend Raf Adama The Homecoming Alone ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 9:35pm | 96m | p143 45m | p164 12:15pm | 97m | p162 2:30pm | 82m | p160 4:30pm | 90m | p94 6:55pm | 90m | p72 Uptown Speed Sisters 600 Miles Endorphine 11:30am 1:30pm The Fencer Vore King Theater 80m | p118 85m | p80 3:30pm | 99m | p92 6:00pm | 118m | p122 9:15pm | 84m | p133 A-Mill Panel: Cinematc Panel: The Making Panel: Between Documen- Voices 1 of Holographic tary, Journalism and Reality Artist Lofts 1:00pm | p80 2:30pm | p80 4:15pm | p80 St. Anthony Free Animaton Staton! Main 12:00pm | p35 MONDAY, APRIL 11 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Madonna The Violin Teacher Summer Solstce 4:30pm | 120m | p76 7:05pm | 100m | p87 9:15pm | 95m | p145 TR EA

H SAM 2 Walking Distance Above and Below I Promise You Anarchy T 4:45pm | 100m | p87 6:50pm | 110m | p99 9:50pm | 100m | p83 IN

A Presentng SAM 3 Walnut Tree Princess Shaw My King 5:15pm | 81m | p87 7:10pm | 80m | p68 9:40pm | 125m | p139

SAM 4 In Transit Happy Hour 4:15pm | 76m | p109 6:00pm | 317m | p73 The Sand SAM 5 Messi Box | 7:15pm Taklub ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 5:00pm | 93m | p112 57m | p154 9:25pm | 97m | p78 Uptown Belgian Rhapsody Here is Harold The Invitaton Theater 4:30pm | 100m | p129 7:00pm | 87m | p93 9:15pm | 100m | p158 Lake & Irving Monday Night Mingle - Meet Restaurant MN Filmmakers! + Bar 4:30pm | p40

TUESDAY, APRIL 12

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Argentna How Love Won Chevalier

TR 4:45pm | 85m | p100 7:00pm | 84m | p107 9:45pm | 99m | p130

EA Lo and Behold: Reveries H SAM 2 Nothing in Return The Big Wu Way T of the Connected World 9:35pm | 118m | p100 5:15pm | 98m | p111 7:30pm | 93m | p86 IN A SAM 3 Francofonia Holy Hell Dheepan 5:00pm | 88m | p134 6:55pm | 100m | p106 9:30pm | 110m | p131

SAM 4 Our Everday Life Enclave The Endless River 5:10pm | 89m | p140 7:10pm | 92m | p132 9:40pm | 110m | p89

SAM 5 Neon Bull L’atesa My Big Night ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 4:50pm | 101m | p85 7:20pm | 100m | p137 9:50pm | 101m | p85

Uptown Blush Presentng Tale of Tales Princess Shaw 9:30pm | 125m | p70 Theater 4:45pm | 83m | p129 7:00pm | 80m | p68 Gyst Fermentation Party: GYST! Bar 5:00pm | p40 Café Party: Presentng Princess Shaw Aferparty Barbette 9:00pm | p40 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 The Innocents 600 Miles Kaili Blues 4:40pm | 115m | p136 7:15pm | 85m | p80 9:15pm | 110m | p75 TR

EA Here Come the H SAM 2 Speed Sisters The Chinese Mayor T Videofreex 4:50pm | 80m | p118 7:10pm | 85m | p105 9:10pm | 86m | p101 IN

A A Light Beneath Happy Closer Than SAM 3 Their Feet Collaborator... You Think... 4:30pm | 90m | p153 6:30pm|66m|p153 8:45pm|70m|p101

SAM 4 Alias Maria My King HomeSick 5:00pm | 92m | p126 7:05pm | 125m | p139 9:40pm | 98m | p136

SAM 5 I Am Dublin Dog Lady Alena ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 5:10pm | 80m | p90 7:00pm | 98m | p82 9:50pm | 83m | p157 Uptown Eisenstein in The Seeker Guanajuato Women He’s Undressed 9:15pm Theater 4:30pm | 105m | p132 7:00pm | 99m | p122 63m | p154 Salon #thegreenroomparty Concepts 5:30pm | p41

THURSDAY, APRIL 14

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 From Afar Ghostland The Last King Schneider vs. Bax 2:40pm | 93m | p83 4:45pm | 88m | p90 7:15pm | 98m | p94 9:40pm | 96m | p143 TR

EA The Legend of Robert Bly Minimalism: H SAM 2 Fever at Dawn T Swee’ Pea 4:30pm 7:05pm | 81m | A Documentary... 2:10pm | 105m | p133 75m | p110 p118 9:30pm | 79m | p113 IN A SAM 3 My Internship in Canada Belgian Rhapsody A Good Wife Kill Me Please 2:30pm | 108m | p139 4:50pm | 100m | p129 7:20pm | 94m | p134 9:45pm | 105m | p84 They Will Have to Aficton SAM 4 Right Now, Wrong Then Under Electric Clouds Kill Us First 6:45pm 9:15pm | 137m | p147 2:00pm | 121m | p77 4:35pm | 99m | p91 70m | p88 The Alchemist’s SAM 5 Bota Our Loved Ones Dog Lady Cookbook ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 2:20pm | 104m | p130 4:40pm | 102m | p141 7:00pm | 98m | p82 9:50pm | 82m | p156 Uptown One Floor Below Beeba Boys Mad Tiger Theater 4:45pm | 93m | p140 7:00pm | 104m | p64 10:00pm | 82m | p112

Chino Party: Uptown Closing Night Party Latino 9:00pm | p41 FRIDAY, APRIL 15 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 The Seeker E SAM 1 The Wednesday Child Last Cab to Darwin Lamb 9:30pm 2:00pm | 94m | p149 4:10pm | 123m | p137 6:45pm | 94m | p91 TR 63m | p154

EA Walls Happy Don’t Blink - H SAM 2 Holy Hell T 3:00pm Collaborator... Robert Frank 9:50pm | 100m | p106 80m | p123 5:00pm|66m|p123 7:15pm | 82m | p102 IN

A Sabali SAM 3 2:30pm | 78m | Bollywood/Hollywood A Stray What We Become p142 4:30pm | 105m | p53 7:20pm | 82m | p155 10:00pm | 85m | p159 In Transit SAM 4 3:15pm Nina’s Children Magallanes Sparrows 76m | p109 5:15pm | 80m | p115 7:10pm | 109m | p84 9:40pm | 99m | p96

SAM 5 The High Sun Shorts 2 Shorts: Pixels Shorts: Celluloid ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 2:10pm | 123m | p135 4:45pm | 88m | p169 7:00pm | 84m | p167 9:45pm | 74m | p166

Metropolitan How to Let Go of the World... State 7:00pm | 125m | p107 Wehrenberg Mustang Here is Harold 9:15pm Rochester 7:00pm | 87m | p93 97m | Online Only Cathedral Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc of St. Paul 8:00pm | 90m | p71 Filmmakers’ Panel: Lounge @ Film Rave #1 St. Anthony 6:00pm | p38

SATURDAY, APRIL 16

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Rosita Lamb Sunset Song Beeba Boys Demon 11:05am | 95m | p95 1:10pm | 94m | p91 4:10pm | 135m | p146 7:00pm | 104m | p64 10:00pm | 94 | p157 TR

EA Don’t Blink - Yoko and the H SAM 2 When Two Worlds Collide Our Loved Ones Virgin Mountain T Robert Frank Cherry Blossom 9:50pm | 94m | p96 11:15am | 82m | p102 1:50pm | 100m | p124 4:00pm | 115m | p79 7:10pm | 102m | p141 IN

A Minnesota 13: SAM 3 Chronic Shorts 3 The Hard Stop Tickled From Grain to Glass 9:55pm | 92m | p120 11:30am | 93m | p82 1:45pm | 96m | p170 4:45pm | 85m | p105 7:30pm | 80m | p113

SAM 4 Women He’s Undressed Kick It! Adama Home Care Summer Solstce 11:20am | 99m | p124 1:30pm | 103m | p162 3:45pm | 82m | p160 6:30pm | 92m | p135 9:15pm | 95m | p145

The Man Who Raging Rose SAM 5 Water Babai Hockney Saw Too Much ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 9:45pm | 91m | p142 11:00am | 117m | p53 2:10pm | 104m | p128 4:30pm | 113m | p106 7:05pm | 89m | p39 Metropolitan How Love Won... Shorts 4 Mr. Pig State 1:00pm | 84m | p107 3:10pm | 98m | p171 5:45pm | 92m | p67

Wehrenberg Operaton Arctc Aficton Dragonfy A Good Wife Son of Saul Rochester 12:30pm | 91m | p163 2:30pm | 70m | p88 4:40pm | 82m | p152 7:00pm | 94m | p134 9:00pm | 107m | Online Only St. Anthony Panel: Experimental Cinema Installaton: Experimental Cinema Main 1:00pm | p39 3:00pm-10:00pm | p167 A-Mill Panel: Panel: Behind the Journey Women & Film: An Eye Opener Party: Mid-Festval Party Artist Lofts 2:00pm | p39 4:00pm | p39 9:00pm | p41 SUNDAY, APRIL 17 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 My Skinny Sister The Fencer A Stray Radiator When a Tree Falls 11:30am | 95m | p95 1:40pm | 99m | p92 3:50pm | 82m | p155 6:30pm | 93m | p141 9:20pm | 103m | p150 TR

EA Youth Jury H SAM 2 The Happy Film... The Hard Stop Robert Bly... Sleeping Giant T Shorts 2 11:00am|65m|p36 1:15pm | 97m | p104 3:30pm | 85m | p105 6:15pm | 81m | p118 8:50pm | 90m | p144 IN

A Minnesota 13: Eisenstein in A Light Beneath SAM 3 Journey to the Shore From Grain to Glass Ice and the Sky Guanajuato Their Feet 11:10am | 128m | p75 1:45pm | 83m | p113 4:45pm | 89m | p108 7:10pm | 195m | p132 9:40pm | 90m | p153

SAM 4 Zero Point A Simple Goodbye Home Care Tale of Tales The Endless River 11:20am | 114m | p151 1:50pm | 100m | p77 4:15pm | 92m | p135 7:00pm | 125m | p70 9:30pm | 110m | p89

SAM 5 Voices from Chernobyl Birds of Passage Operaton Arctc In the Game Sabina K. Serial Killer 1 ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 11:05am | 86m | p122 1:00pm | 84m | p161 3:00pm | 91m | p163 5:00pm | 79m | p108 6:50pm | 125m | p143 10:00pm | 119m | p144 Metro The Boda Boda Messi Our Loved Ones Thieves State 1:00pm | 93m | p112 3:00pm | 102m | p141 5:30pm | 85m | p89 Wehrenberg How to Let Go of the Celestal Camel My Internship in Canada World... Standing Tall Embrace of the Serpent Rochester 12:30pm | 90m | p161 2:30pm | 108m | p139 4:45pm | 125m | p107 7:20pm | 118m | p145 9:45pm | 118m | p145 A-Mill Youth Cinema: Toward the Next Generaton Artist Lofts 1:00pm | p35

MONDAY, APRIL 18

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Heavenly Nomadic Radiator Here is Harold 5:15pm | 81m | p105 7:10pm | 93m | p141 9:40pm | 87m | p93 TR

EA 10 Billion - The World Has H SAM 2 Mad Tiger T What’s on Your Plate? No Eyedea 9:50pm | 82m | p112 4:50pm | 102m | p98 7:00pm | 98m | p125 IN A SAM 3 The New Classmate Weiner Endorphine 5:10pm | 96m | p76 7:20pm | 100m | p123 9:30pm | 84m | p133 The Lovers SAM 4 Tharlo Raging Rose and the Despot 4:40pm | 123m | p78 7:15pm | 91m | p142 9:25pm | 94m | p111 Vanity Nothing In Return SAM 5 4:45pm Iraqi Odyssey ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 10:00pm | 93m | p86 75m | p148 6:45pm | 163m | p109 Metropolitan Road to La Paz Summertme State 6:30pm | 94m | p86 8:30pm | 105m | p146

Wehrenberg Operaton Arctc Hockney Sabina K. Walnut Tree Rochester 2:00pm | 91m | p163 4:00pm | 113m | p106 6:30pm | 125m | p143 9:30pm | 81m | p79 TUESDAY, APRIL 19 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 1944 Liza the Fox-Fairy A Decent Man 4:50pm | 100m | p126 7:20pm | 98m | p138 9:40pm | 92m | p131 TR

EA Sabali H SAM 2 Uncle Howard The Happy Film... T 9:50pm 4:40pm | 96m | p120 7:15pm | 97m | p104 78m | p142 IN

A Exotca, Erotca, etc. Gypsy: SAM 3 Neon Bull 5:00pm Rock and Roll Nomads 9:45pm | 101m | p85 73m | p103 7:00pm | 93m | p103

SAM 4 Magallanes Blush Vore King 4:45pm | 109m | p84 7:10pm | 83m | p129 9:00pm | 118m | p122

SAM 5 Wednesday, May 9 The Apostate A Copy of My Mind ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 4:30pm | 102m | p149 7:15pm | 80m | p81 9:20pm | 116m | p73

Metropolitan In the Game My Skinny Sister State 6:30pm | 79m | p108 8:15pm | 95m | p95

Wehrenberg Aficton Heavenly Nomadic Mustang Here is Harold 2:30pm 4:45pm | 81m | p74 7:00pm 9:15pm | 87m | p93 Rochester 70m | p88 97m | Online Only

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Zero Point Atomic Falafel The Wednesday Child 4:45pm | 114m | p151 7:20pm | 93m | p128 9:35pm | 94m | p149 TR

EA 10 Billion - Resilience H SAM 2 Tickled T What’s On Your Plate? 7:15pm 9:40pm | 92m | p120 4:30pm | 102m | p98 60m | p117 IN A SAM 3 Our Last Tango The Idol The Fitz 5:00pm | 85m | p116 7:10pm | 95m | p66 9:25pm | 72m | p153 The Boda Boda SAM 4 Our Everyday Life Ville-Marie Thieves 4:55pm | 89m | p140 7:05pm | 101m | p148 9:20pm | 85m | p89 Shorts 5 Dark Out Shorts SAM 5 L’atesa 7:00pm 9:30pm ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 4:40pm | 100m | p137 80m | p171 69m | p173 Women Outward Wehrenberg Son of Saul The Anthropologist Embrace of the Serpent 2:30pm Bound | 7:00pm 9:00pm | 118m | p145 Rochester 107m | Online Only 4:45pm | 80m | p99 64m | p125 THURSDAY, APRIL 21 Guest Attending/Special Event

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 Under Electric Clouds Aferim! The Music of Strangers... Madonna 2:10pm | 137m | p147 4:55pm | 106m | p127 7:15pm | 96m | p114 9:55pm | 120m | p76 TR

EA Lo and Behold: Reveries of H SAM 2 When Two Worlds Collide Walking Distance Uncle Howard T the Connected World 2:30pm | 100m | p124 4:45pm | 100m | p87 7:20pm | 98m | p111 9:30pm | 96m | p120 IN A SAM 3 Journey to the Shore Weiner Shorts 6 The Garbage Helicopter 2:00pm | 128m | p75 4:40pm | 100m | p123 7:00pm | 83m | p172 9:40pm | 100m | p93 The World SAM 4 Iraqi Odyssey Mountain When a Tree Falls 1:45pm | 163m | p109 5:00pm | 83m | p138 7:05pm | 103m | p150 Has No Eyedea 9:20pm | 98m | p125 The Alchemist’s SAM 5 A Copy of My Mind Taklub Trophy Husband Cookbook ST. ANTHONY M ANTHONY ST. 2:20pm | 116m | p73 4:50pm | 97m | p78 7:10pm | 91m | p155 10:00pm | 82m | p156 Wehrenberg Resilience Sabina K. Argentna 7:00pm Last Cab to Darwin Rochester 2:30pm | 125m | p143 5:00pm | 85m | p100 60m | p117 9:20pm | 123m | p137 Red Stag Party: Minnesota Made Party! Supperclub 9:00pm | p41

FRIDAY, APRIL 22

NOON MIDNIGHT 11:00 12:00 1:00 2:00 3:00 4:00 5:00 6:00 7:00 8:00 9:00 10:00 11:00 12:00

E SAM 1 I Am Dublin Voices From Chernobyl Sing Street Therapy for a Vampire 2:45pm | 80m | p90 4:45pm | 86m | p122 7:10pm | 105m | p69 10:00pm | 88m | p158 TR

EA Minimalism... Gypsy: H SAM 2 The Anthropologist Babai T 2:50pm Rock and Roll Nomads 79m | p113 4:40pm | 80m | p99 7:05pm | 104m | p128 9:20pm | 93m | p103 IN

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Dear Film Lovers and Festival Organizers, I want to thank all of the artists, organizers, and audience members who Welcome to the 35th Annual will make this year’s film festival an Minneapolis St. Paul International Film March 25extraordinary, 2015 cultural event. Festival! Once again, welcome to Minnesota. Since its inception in 1981, this film Dear Festival Attendees,I send you all my best wishes for festival has grown to become the largest an exciting and enjoyable festival in the Upper Midwest,MINNEAPOLIS showcasing the As Minneapolis Council Member representing Ward 3, home of the Film Society experience. of Minneapolis St. Paul, I am pleased to welcome you to the Film Society's 2015 talents and inspirationCITY OF LAKES of filmmakers Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.

from all over the world. This year, films from over 60 countriesJACOB FREY will be shown. The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival is the largest film festival in this Council Member – Third Ward region and one of the region's mostMark Dayton extraordinary annual cultural events, showcasing

350 South 5th Street –Room 307 remarkable work by talented filmmakers from around the world. The FestivalGovernor of Minnesota is a Minneapolis, MN 55415-1383 significant contributor to the growing vibrancy of the Minneapolis Riverfront and Downtown Minneapolis, creating a destination attracting increasing numbers of Office 612-673-2203 MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCILFax 612MEMBER-673-3940 - THIRDvisitors and residents alike. WARD TTY 612-673-2157 My thanks to the artists, organizers, and audience members who will make this Dear Festival www.minneapolismn.govAttendees, /ward3 lis St. Paul’s presence at the St. Anthony [email protected] year’s film festival another not-to-be-missed cultural event. Welcome to Minneapolis. While you are here, I hopMain Theatre year-round continuese you are able to take advantage of the to add As Minneapolis City Council Member Mississippi Riverfront, our walking and bike trails, and our great restaurants, worldto the liveliness of the region 365 days of -

representing the Third Ward, home of class theater, live music, and much more.the year. the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul, I I look forward to meeting you while you are here. am pleased to welcome you to the 35th Enjoy the festival and our wonderful city. Minneapolis St. Paul International Film I look forward to meeting you while you

Festival. are here. Sincerely, Sincerely, The Festival is a significant contributor to the growing vibrancy of Downtown Min-

neapolis and the Minneapolis Riverfront, creating a destination that attracts in-

creasing numbers of visitors and residents Jacob Frey alike. And the Film Society of Minneapo- Jacob FreyMinneapolis City Councilmember, Ward 3

Minneapolis City Councilmember, Ward 3 350 S. 5th St., Room 307 Minneapolis, MN 55415

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR — MINNESOTA FILM612 AND-673-2203 TV BOARD [email protected]

Greetings! wide diversity of international settings and stories that make up contemporary

The Minneapolis St. Paul International world cinema—including those of the Film Festival is one of our country’s Minnesota filmmakers screening their

most comprehensive showcases of work this year. Thank you for supporting international independent cinema. independent cinema by attending

Congratulations for being part of this MSPIFF. I hope your festival experience celebration of world-class films from the is unforgettable. far corners of the world and our own Sincerely, backyard.

Affirmative Action Employer The impassioned Minnesota community of indie film lovers has continued to Lucinda Winter grow since the festival’s founding in Executive Director 1981. This year’s festival reflects the Minnesota Film and TV Board 23 24 letters MAYOR OF MINNEAPOLIS

Welcome to the 2016 Minneapolis St. Congratulations to the hundreds Paul International Film Festival! of local, national and international filmmakers whose films – more than By joining us for this year’s festival, one 200 from 65+ countires – serve as the CITY OF SAINT PAUL of the great international film festivals artistic foundationMayor of Christopher this remarkable B. Coleman 390 City Hall Telephone: 651-266-8510 in the country, you play a key role in three-week event. And thanks to the 15 West Kellogg Boulevard Facsimile: 651-228-8521 assuring that Minneapolis retains and festival board, staff and volunteers Saint Paul, Minnesota 55102 grows its reputation as the premiere whose dedication ensures that this cultural and economic hub in the region. festival continues to grow both in The festival plays a key role in the quality of programming and in national development of a dynamic Minneapolis and international standing. downtown and riverfront, something I am very proud of. Your attendance at I April offer you3, 2014 my warmest welcome and and support of the festival contributes have no doubt that you will experience greatly to the vitality of our city. moments both on and off-screen that will inspire and impassion you to return, I hope you take the opportunity to andDear inform Film and Enthusiasts, illuminate your day. explore all that Minneapolis has to offer. Stroll down the Mississippi Riverfront, EnjoyIt is mythe show!great pleasure to welcome you to the 2014 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival. grab a bite to eat at one of the many The Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival will showcase great talent in artistic expression. restaurants that represent some of the Over the course of several weeks, you will have the opportunity to view more than 250 films, all works best in the Midwest, visit our museums, of art that will challenge, provoke and inspire your imagination. catch a concert, or take a bike ride through one of our 197 city parks Mayor Betsy Hodges to see for yourself why Minneapolis CityI admire of Minneapolis The Film Society of Minneapolis/Saint Paul, whose efforts have made this popular cultural consistently ranks as one of the cities event possible. The Film Society of Minneapolis/Saint Paul is is one of the largest and most diversified with the best quality of life in the US. film/arts organizations on the country, and the largest exhibitor of artistic films in the upper Midwest. We want festival-goers to feel welcome not just at the festival, but everywhere Thanks to all of the contributors and filmmakers who are sharing their artistic vision and in the city. accomplishments with us. I commend the hard work and dedication of all the volunteers and staff, MAYOR OF ST. PAUL whose help is essential in order for us to have the best film-going experience.

Welcome! culturalI am very event excited possible. to see They this exist festival as take place in Minneapolis/Saint Paul. I strongly encourage all our onevisitors of the to largest use this and time most to diversified relish in this vibrant and exciting festival that offers us the very best of It is my great pleasure to welcome you filminternational organizations independent in the country films. and the Moreover, I strongly encourage you to take the advantage of everything to the Minneapolis St. Paul International largestMinnesota’s exhibitor capital of independent city has filmto offer- in including sports, outdoor recreation, shopping, theater, music and Film Festival. Over the course of the next themuseums. Upper Midwest. Thank you to the few weeks, the festival will provide us all filmmakers and contributors for sharing with an opportunity to experience films their artistic vision and extraordinary that challenge, provoke, and inspire our accomplishmentsOnce again, welcome with all of to us. Twin Cities. I hope everyone will have a great time and enjoy this wonderful imaginations, and a chance to connect film festival. with hundreds of filmmakers visiting Once again, welcome to the festival – I from around the globe. hopeSincerely, you have a great time and enjoy everything this fest has to offer. Thank you to the Film Society, whose efforts have once again made this Christopher B. Coleman MayorMayor Christopher B. Coleman City of St. Paul

An Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer ticket anD box office information TICKET & BOX OFFICE INFORMATION FILM TICKET OPTIONS Children General Members Students 12 & Under Regular Ticket $13 $10 $7 $7 Rush Tickets: Rush Tickets to Regular 6-Pack $68 $52 - - Screenings are $13. Platinum Pass $750 $625 - - Premium Screenings: Gold Pass $435 $360 - - Select screenings have special Silver Pass $385 $310 - - Admission and Rush prices. This will be noted on the flm’s page. 6-PACKS FESTIVAL PASSES 6-Packs are redeemable for up to six regular screen- Passes are the ultimate way to experience the Festi- ings, can be shared between multiple people, and are val. Pass benefits include entry to films and events, redeemable online and in person at the Box Office. priority seating, entry to the Passholder Lounge, and 6-Packs are not redeemable for Rush Tickets. more. Passes are also partially tax-deductible. Visit mspfilm.org or in person at the Festival Information Office for more details and to purchase Passes. GETTING TICKETS BOX OFFICE LOCATIONS Individual Tickets Go On Sale Main Festival Box Office - St. Anthony Main Theatre March 17 - Film Society Members (all films) 115 SE Main St, First Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55414 March 24 - General Public (all films) Now-April 6: Opens 15 minutes before the first film is scheduled to begin and closes 10 minutes after the Get Tickets Online final film begins. April 7-23: Mon-Fri, Box Office opens Ordering online is easy. Browse our website, find a 45 minutes before the first film is scheduled to begin film you want to see, and on the film’s page click the and closes 10 minutes after the final film begins. Sat- showtime of the screening you wish to attend. Sun, 10:00am – 10 minutes after the final film begins. Members! Be sure to log in using your member number or username and password to receive your discount! Festival Information Office 125 SE Main St, First Floor, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Get Tickets in Person Now through April 5: Mon-Fri, 10:00am-10:00pm Tickets for all screenings may be purchased at the April 6-April 25: Daily, 10:00am-close venues during regular business hours. 6-Packs and Uptown Theatre Festival Passes may be purchased at the Festival In- 2906 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408 formation Office during business hours. Box Office and Will Call will open 30 minutes before the first film is scheduled to begin at Uptown and close Ticket Pickup and Will Call 10 minutes after the final film begins. Patrons who select “Will Call” as their ticket delivery method can pick their tickets up at the designated Metropolitan State University “Will Call” desks at each venue. 700 7th St E, St. Paul, MN 55106 Box Office and Will Call will open 30 minutes before the first film is scheduled to begin at Metropolitan State, and close 10 minutes after the final film begins.

Wehrenberg Galaxy 14 Cine – Rochester International Film Festival 4340 Maine Ave SE, Rochester, MN 55403 Opens 15 minutes before the first film is scheduled to 26 begin and closes 10 minutes after the final film begins. ticket anD box office information FESTIVAL LINGO Ticket Holder Lines Prior to admittance to any theatre, you will be directed to a Ticket Holder Line. These lines form approximately one hour before showtime and are seated first-come first-served. Passholders receive Priority Status in Ticket Holder Lines and will be admitted into the theatre first.

Rush Tickets Didn’t get the tickets you wanted to that sold out film? Go Rush! A Rush Line forms when advance tickets are no longer available for a film screening. Each venue will have its own Rush Line. Patrons waiting in the Rush Line may have the opportunity to purchase unclaimed tickets on a first-come first-served basis for $13 per ticket. Rush Tickets to Premium Screenings will be priced those screenings’ General Admission price. 6-Packs cannot be redeemed for Rush tickets.

Regular vs. Premium Screenings Regular: Any screening priced $13 or less per ticket General Admission. Premium: Any screening priced more than $13 per ticket General Admission.

Schedule Changes On rare occasions, programs must be changed. Updates will be posted online and noted at festival venues.

Ticket Voucher Redemption Vouchers can be redeemed at any Festival Box Office or the Festival Information Office. Please note – vouchers do not guarantee you a seat until they are redeemed for a ticket.

Festival Policies MSPIFF reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason. Recording devices are not permitted in the theatres. All bags are subject to inspections. Auditoriums must be cleared between screenings. No saving of seats. HELPFUL TIPS! Check the Venue! Films are shown at multiple venues throughout the Twin Cities. Venue information will be noted on the film’s page on mspfilm.org, as well as near the showtimes within this guide.

Print Your Tickets at Home! Print your ticket at home and skip the Box Office lines. If you choose to do so, be sure to bring the ticket with you and hop into the correct Ticket Holder Line.

Arrive Early! Ticketholders must arrive at least 15 minutes before the scheduled screening time or the reservation may be released and the seat may be sold.

Ticket Stub Deals! Hold on to that ticket stub! Many businesses in the area offer deals if you present your MSPIFF ticket stub. See page 43 for a partial list of participating restaurants, or go online to mspfilm.org to see them all!

Parking! St. Anthony Main Theatre: St. Anthony Falls Ramp – 2nd St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414 Uptown Theatre: Mozaic Parking Ramp – W 29th St, Minneapolis, MN 55408 Metropolitan State University: St. Paul Campus Parking Ramp – 700 East Seventh Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106

Subtitles? All films will be shown in their original language with English subtitles.

Lost Something? All items are kept in the venue or the theatre where they were found for the duration of the Festival. 27 J A ZZ WITH CL A S S 28 KBEM 88.5 FM 6 1 2 -529- 5 2 3 6 sponsors The Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul is proud to acknowledge and thank the Ofcial Sponsors of the 35th Minneapolis St. Paul Internatonal Film Festval. Sponsor support refects a commitment to ensuring the future of internatonal independent flm in the region, and celebraton of the creatvity and ingenuity of independent flmmakers around the world. PRESENTING SPONSOR

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MSPFILM EXPANDING THE POWER OF FILM EDUCATION THROUGH EDUCATION

Film is a powerful medium like no other, highlighting the bonds we share, inspiring conversation, altering perceptions, prompting critical thought and bringing people together through experience.

MSPFilm Education is the umbrella of the Film Society’s four core pillars of education.

nextwave Post-Secondary • K-12 School Screenings • College classroom engagement and screenings • Youth juries • Internships and Work-Study opportunities • MSPIFF Youth Events • Volunteerism • Childish Films programming

Public Forums Artist Services • Panel discussions • Minnesota Made Programming • Conversations and Q&As with filmmakers • Industry networking events • MSPIFF Talks, our online panel video archive • Masterclasses and workshops

For more information on MSPFilm Education, visit mspfilm.org

34 mspfilm eDUcation: yoUth eVents YOUTH EVENTS

Animation Station Sunday, April 10, 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM. St. Anthony Main Theatre, Minneapolis. Katie Maren, independent animator and MCAD animation instructor, invites all ages to participate in a hands-on ‘Animation Station’ during the festival. See stop-motion animation in action and join in the fun!

Youth Cinema Panel: Toward the Next Generation Sunday, April 17, 1:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis. For some young filmmakers, filmmaking is just another form of expression, not a viable career path. In this conversation, youth and young filmmakers, along with a few adult professional filmmakers, discuss the range and diversity of stories and styles that young filmmakers find intriguing when both watching films and setting out to make films of their own. Topics will also include how youth cinema fits into the larger context of filmmaking, and what young filmmakers hope and want to learn from professionals and educators currently in the field.

Childish Films Ongoing throughout the festival. This program of feature length and short flms expands the festval’s reach to the next generaton by presentng award-winning children’s cinema from around the world. These movies will delight all ages, expand horizons, and resonate with a child’s point of view.

See page 160 for details, or visit mspflm.org to browse the Childish Films lineup.

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Youth Jury (Ages 15-18) This Jury empowers high school students to view, critique, and award short films from around the world.

Youth Jury Shorts 1 Youth Jury Shorts 2 SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/10 11:05 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 11:00 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre

Total Run Time: 73 min Total Run Time: 60 min

Bleach by Housewives by Dominick, Kai, Mira, Grace, Muslim Youth Voices Project Films Emma, Taylor, Lola, and Julie USA | 2015 | 15 min Alien Brain by Katrina Frazey The Muslim Youth Voices Project (MYVP) is a national The Star Planet by Ahmed, Jaqman, Alexandra, initiative of the Center for Asian American Media Brandon, Mariah, and Erin to help amplify young people’s expression and Untitled by Carl Forsline celebration of Muslim cultures. In the summer of The Blue Girl by Madeleine Melloy 2015, the workshop came to Minneapolis to work The Phoenix by Moira and Bruse English as a Second Language by Marisol Castillo with a talented group of young filmmakers, and was Swamp Troll by Behren Taylor overseen by Musa Syeed, whose film A Stray screens REM by Theng Pao Thao and Max Landy in MSPIFF 2016 (see page 155). Checkmate by Ben Saunders, Teddy Cruz, Jarue Teppen, and Sylvia Scott Featuring: The Struggle by Isaiah Gatica Coming to America, Sisco from Cedar, BFF?, Anatomy of a Peach by Tatum Vanyo Screened, Tell a Vision Greatest Me by Dominique Hart Devil Lamp by Osa and Martin My Dream, My Right Deadringer by Misha Ardichvili Jordan | 2015 | 45 min Black Box by Thomas Soloweij “My Dream, My Right” is the result of a 3-week What’s in a Name by Skylah Wilson, Alex Bruce, and filmmaking experience for Syrian refugee teens in Marrisa Mills Jordan as a part of the Za’atari Film Workshop. These I Refuse by Emma Olson nine shorts, filmed entirely by the teens, were scored by The Adventures of Debs Fitzgerald by James Lee students at McNally Smith College of Music in St. Paul. In Studio: Fox and Coyote by Jeron Lau, Julia Nentwig, Claire Nentwig, Katie Nentwig, Jonathan Pierce, Directors: Mohammad, Mohammad, Bashar, Mousa, Cooper Noot, Razeqa Aliyi, Kat St. Martin-Norburg, Younis, Qais, Khaldia, Marah, Bayan, Ala’a, Yara, and TJ Anthony. Hadil, Fatima, Roa, Roquia, Rahaf, Nariman, Anuar, Snap Clap TAPPP by Shannon, Sam, Mai Lia, and Lucy Isra’a, Rihab Producers: Faisal Attrache, Moe Najati, Films in this program are provided by Twin Cities Aaron Wagner Youth Media Network, who promote, advocate for, Composers: Andrew Brassard, Carter Lange, Ethan and share resources with the community of youth Elseth, Jeffery Kornfeld, Jemma Heigis, Mariah media makers and arts educators. Timm, Marko Maksimovic, Rahul Shah, Tyler Straka 36 mspfilm eDUcation: yoUth JUries

Youth Jury (Ages 11-14) Young Minnesota

This fun, media literacy experience offers a chance Filmmakers Anthology for our youngest film fans to cast an inquisitive eye SHOWING: on the feature films in the Childish Program. SAT 4/23 11:00 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre Total Run Time: 64 min A jury of young people ages 11 to 14 will watch and review all feature films in the Childish Films program. Revival Director: Benjamin Kohler Childish Feature Films: USA | 2015 | 13 min | English | Narrative Adama 160 After the lethal storms on earth, Tyler Cross is left with Birds of Passage 161 only his camera and will to survive. Celestal Camel 161 Kick It! 162 My Friend Raf 162 Paper Route Director: Joe McNairy, Sebastian Swanson Operaton Arctc 163 USA | 2015 | 8 min | English | Narrative While running the daily paper route by bike, Danny becomes fixated on an inexplicably strange house. His dreams turn to nightmares and he realizes to uncover the mystery he must go inside.

Freedom and Isolation Director: Tristan James Jensen USA | 2016 | 43 min | English | Narrative Jordan is afraid to go outside of her comfort zone and Lily is seemingly fearless. As they develop a relationship boundaries are pushed and contradicting out- looks lead to their personal catharses.

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PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND CONVERSATIONS

Engaging panel discussions and conversations that illuminate important topics in international, national and local independent cinema. Don’t miss these great opportunities to deepen your connection with the art of cinema. Panels free unless otherwise noted. Panel participants and bios can be found at mspfilm.org Keys for Talent Casting and Acting for the Screen Saturday, April 9, 4:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis This panel will ask casting directors, casting agents, directors and actors, to give specific insight into their methods and approaches for securing a cast, or securing a role. Cinematic Voices #1 Sunday, April 10, 1:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis Filmmakers discuss their work from a global perspective, talk about the filmmaking process, and share their thoughts on the future of the film industry. The Making of Holographic Sunday, April 10, 2:30 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis In early February, the Film Society and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music joined forces with pioneering organizations MASS MoCA, Baryshnikov Arts Center and Indianapolis Museum of Art to commission and present Holographic, a live performance and visual experience from musician Daniel Wohl and filmmaker Daniel Schwarz. This panel will include the premiere of two behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of Holographic and a short excerpt from Holographic itself followed by a conversation with creators Daniel Wohl and Daniel Schwarz. Between Documentary, Journalism & Reality Sunday, April 10, 4:15 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis Our panelists will be asked to give insight into what “documentary“ means in an age of citizen journalism, how the genre has transformed in recent years, and what the future looks like for documentary filmmakers. Film Rave #1 Friday, April 15, 6:00 PM. Filmmaker Lounge, St. Anthony Main Theatre, Minneapolis Head to the MSPIFF Filmmaker Lounge for cocktails and conversation! Share your thoughts on what you’ve seen at MSPIFF in this conversation on the themes, stories and cinematic styles of films in this year’s festival. Complimentary wine provided by Surdyk’s Liquor & Cheese Shop.

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Behind the Journey Saturday, April 16, 2:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis The extraordinary thing about being a director is that “IT” could happen. There is no right or wrong way to get a film made. This conversation with two directors whose work appears in the festival will focus on their stories, career paths, and how they got to where they are today.

With Special Sneak Preview Screening of The Man Who Saw Too Much The Man Who Saw Too Much SHOWING: SAT 4/16 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Sneak Preview Screening. Directed by Trisha Ziff. An homage to dauntless Mexican photojournalist Enrique Metinides, whose photographs turned tragedy into art.

Women & Film: An Eye Opener Saturday, April 16, 4:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis Rather than speculate on why women are still where they are or contemplate the Sisyphean nature of insti- tutional change–or worse, stop talking all together–this panel will beg us to look directly into the eyes of the beast: ourselves and what we can do better with gender equality in the film industry. Experimental Cinema: Is the Medium the Message? Saturday, April 16, 1:00 PM. Part of the Beyond the Frame experimental film installation (pg 167) St. Anthony Main Theatre, Minneapolis The domination of the narrative and traditional filmmaking within the film industry can limit our exposure to non-narrative and alternative methods of artistic impression. Featuring experimental filmmakers from around the world, this panel, presented as part of MSPIFF’s Experimental Program and in partnership with Cellular Cinema, will explore non-narrative and alternative methods of filmmaking as its own artistic medium.

Film Rave #2 Friday, April 22, 6:00 PM. Filmmaker Lounge, St. Anthony Main Theatre, Minneapolis Head to the MSPIFF Filmmaker Lounge for cocktails and conversation! Share your thoughts on what you’ve seen at MSPIFF in this conversation on the themes, stories and cinematic styles of films in this year’s festival. Complimentary wine provided by Surdyk’s Liquor & Cheese Shop. Cinematic Voices #2 Saturday, April 23, 4:00 PM. A-Mill Artist Lofts Performance Hall, Minneapolis Filmmakers discuss their work from a global perspective, talk about the filmmaking process, and share their thoughts on the future of the film industry.

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PARTIES AND EVENTS Monday Night Mingle: Movie Trivia! Monday, April 4, 4:30 PM. Trivia starts at 6:00pm. Free. William’s Pub and Peanut Bar, Minneapolis. A few days before Opening Night, join MSPIFF and the Uptown Association for a night of movie trivia hosted by Trivia Mafia. Show the world how much you know about the world of film and win great prizes including ticket packages to the 35th Annual Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. MSPIFF Opening Night Party Thursday, April 7, 9:00 PM. Admission as part of Opening Night Presentation Ticket. Aster Café & Aster Café River Room, Minneapolis Following the Opening Night Presentation, head over to the Aster Café to kick off the festival in style. Mingle with fellow festivalgoers and filmmakers over drinks, appetizers and entertainment as we usher in another great fest. Sponsored by US Bank Wealth Management. XYZ and Uptown Launch Party Friday, April 8, 9:00 PM. $15 or free with same day ticket stub. Chino Latino, Minneapolis Kick off the weekend on the right foot and celebrate the festival’s expansion into Uptown with music, complimentary appetizers, drinks from Sileni Wine and Revel Avila, and more. The Big Wu In Concert with Special Guest Dean Magraw Saturday, April 9, 10:00 PM. $13-$40 admission. Free admission with MSPIFF or MN Music Summit Pass. Amsterdam Bar & Hall, St. Paul Following the premiere of The Big Wu Way at McNally Smith College of Music, The Big Wu will perform live, with special guest Dean Magraw, at Amsterdam Bar & Hall in downtown St. Paul. The concert is presented as part of the 2016 MN Music Summit and the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival. Saturday Night Special Saturday, April 9, 9:00 PM. Free. Aster Café River Room, Minneapolis Following the 7pm set of films, head to the Aster Café River Room for complimentary appetizers and conversation. Monday Night Mingle: Meet MN Filmmakers! Monday, April 11, 4:30 PM-6:30 PM. Free. Lake & Irving Restaurant + Bar, Minneapolis Join MSPIFF and the Uptown Association for happy hour with Minnesota filmmakers! Mix and mingle with our local film talent, and see their films in this year’s festival. GYST! Tuesday, April 12, 5:00 PM-7:00 PM. Free. GYST Fermentation Bar, Minneapolis Don’t miss this intimate reception for filmgoers, local filmmakers and visiting international guests at one of hippest new restaurants in the Twin Cities. Featuring complimentary appetizers, unique wines, and a great atmosphere. Presenting Princess Shaw Afterparty Tuesday, April 12, 9:00 PM. Free. Barbette, Minneapolis After the screening Presenting Princess Shaw (see page 68) at the Uptown Theatre, head over to Barbette for complimentary appetizers, drink specials, and more.

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#thegreenroomparty Wednesday, April 13, 5:30 PM-7:00 PM. Free. Salon Concepts, Minneapolis. 2801 Hennepin Ave S., 2nd floor. Love wild hair and fantasy fashion? We do too! Join MSPIFF and Salon Concepts for #thegreenroomparty, the official pre-screening event for the film Women He’s Undressed, showing at the Uptown Theatre (page 124). Don’t miss this night of fantasy hair-dos, delicious refreshments, live entertainment from jazz singer Thomas Bruce, locally designed clothing from Local Motion, and some crazy surprises. Sponsored by M. Le Coiffeur and Salon Concepts. Uptown Closing Party Thursday, April 14, 9:00 PM. $20, or built into Beeba Boys 4/14 screening ticket. Chino Latino, Minneapolis Following the premiere of Deepa Mehta’s Beeba Boys at the Uptown Theatre, head over to Chino Latino to meet the director and close out MSPIFF’s week-long stay in Uptown this year.

Mid-Fest Centerpiece Party Saturday, April 16, 9:00 PM. $10, or free with same day ticket stub. A-Mill Artist Lofts, 1st Floor, Minneapolis Following the screenings of Beeba Boys (page 64) at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, head down the block to the A-Mill Artist Lofts for the Mid-Fest Party. Special performance by Bollywood Dance Scene. Complimentary appetizers provided by Pinstripes, and specialty cocktails provided by 11 Wells, the distillery featured in Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass (page 113), also showing that evening. Minnesota Made Party Thursday, April 21, 9:00 PM. Free. Red Stag Supper Club, Minneapolis For filmmakers and flimgoers alike, this annual party celebrates Minnesota’s home-grown film industry. Meet and network with filmmakers and special guests while enjoying drink specials, complimentary appetizers, and live entertainment. Friday Night Special Friday, April 22, 9:00 PM. Free. Aster Café River Room, Minneapolis Following the 7pm set of films, head to the Aster Café River Room for complimentary appetizers and conversation. Closing Night Party Saturday, April 23, 9:00 PM. $10, or free with same day ticket stub. A-Mill Artist Lofts, Rooftop Terrace, Minneapolis Close out the 35th MSPIFF with a bang, and take in one of the Cities’ best views of the Minneapolis downtown skyline on the A-Mill’s rooftop terrace. Complimentary appetizers provided by Pinstripes.

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43 meet the proGrammers MEET THE PROGRAMMERS! It takes a dedicated team of film lovers to select the 200+ films shown each year at MSPIFF. Here’s a chance to meet the people behind the scenes who work tirelessly to find the best films from around the world—and from your own backyard —to bring them to the fest each year.

ERIC WILSON Festival Director, MSPIFF Film I’ve watched the most: Without a doubt, The Empire Strikes Back. Favorite film moment: Watching Mike Flanagan’s Oculus at Midnight Madness at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival and trying unsuccessfully to play down how utterly terrified I was.

JESSE BISHOP Programming Director, Film Society and MSPIFF Film I’ve watched the most: I can’t say with certainty, but...if we’re talking about my whole life then The Brave Little Toaster. If just adult life, then Magnolia. Or Jurassic Park. Favorite film memory: Making changeovers between reels while peering through the small porthole of the dimly lit projection booth at the Oak Street Cinema.

KATHIE SMITH Festival Programmer Focus: Asian Cinema, International Cinema Film I’ve watched the most: Probably Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love. I happened to be in Hong Kong when it opened and saw it twice in one day...in addition to multiple subsequent viewings. Favorite film memory: My formative cinephile days working as ticket seller, popcorn popper, and projectionist at the Fine Arts Theater in Kansas City in the late 1980’s. ALISSA SIMON Programmer Focus: International Cinema Film I’ve watched the most: Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil...because of a grad school project. Favorite film memory: People crying and giving a standing ovation for the film I chose for the Palm Springs International Film Festival closing night. CRAIG LAURENCE RICE Programmer Focus: Minnesota-Made, Panel Discussions, Youth Programs Film I’ve watched the most: Day For Night by François Truffaut. It reminds me of why I wanted to start making films. Favorite film memory: My most memorable film moment—the strongest moment for me as a filmmaker—was when my first feature film was screened for the public.

44 meet the proGrammers DEB GIRDWOOD Programmer Focus: Childish Films, Youth Programs Film I’ve watched the most: I spent a couple years watching Kirikou and The Sorceress or My Neighbor Totoro every day to quiet the children. Favorite film memory: The surprising act of a black cat in Edmond Séchan’s The Golden Fish.

ISABELLE HARDER Programmer Focus: Childish Films, Youth Programs Film I’ve watched the most: Paris Texas by Wim Wenders. I saw it six times and it inspired me, at age 17, to travel to the States. Favorite film memory: The year both Ingmar Bergman and Antonio died. 2007. My husband and I showed Persona and La Notte in our backyard with friends overlooking the Mississippi. It was sweet and sad at the same time. ALEX WOLF Programming Coordinator/Shorts Programmer Focus: Short Films Film I’ve watched the most: My love for Cleo from 5 to 7 grows more and more every time I watch the film. Favorite film memory: My most recent non-stop marathon of all eight Harry Potter films with my closest friends.

KEVIN OBSATZ Guest Programmer Focus: Experimental Cinema Film I’ve watched the most: Probably the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles— the animatronic one from 1990—I believe that in middle school I had all of the dialogue memorized, start to finish. Next after that would probably be Wayne’s World.

RICHARD WIEBE Guest Programmer Focus: Experimental Cinema Film I’ve watched the most: City Lights Favorite film memory: Watching 2001: A Space Odyssey with my grandmother and her complaining about “all those crazy bears killing the elephants.”

DAN HUITING Guest Programmer Focus: Music Videos Music video I’ve watched the most: Bat For Lashes “What’s A Girl To Do”. It’s so mesmerizing – I’ve watched it so many times trying to figure out how they did it. Favorite film memory: Working with Andre Durand on the Bon Iver music video “Calgary.” Watching him set up the shot where the girl comes out of the bed into the water and the camera follows her into the cave. That’s one of most exciting shots I’ve ever been a part of. 45 Walker Art Center walkerart.org/cinema

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inFLUX FLUX As the festival’s 2016 Spotlight on the World, inFLUX presents stories of the movement of people and peoples around the world: migrants, refugees, those who have been driven from or chosen to leave their homes, families, and livelihoods to embark on a journey seeking safety, opportunity, and dignity.

inFLUX TITLES: 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? 98 I Am Dublin 90 600 Miles 80 Ice and the Sky 108 Affliction 88 The Idol 66 Alias Maria 81 In the Game 108 The Anthropologist 99 Iraqi Odyssey 109 Beeba Boys 64 A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers 110 Dheepan 131 Muzaffarnagar Eventually... 114 District Zero 102 Nina’s Children 115 Enclave 132 Rosita 95 Fever at Dawn 133 Speed Sisters 118 Ghostland: The View of the Ju-Hoansi 90 A Stray 155 Heavenly Nomadic 74 The Summer Help 119 The High Sun 135 Tharlo 78 How to Let Go of the World (and Love They Will Have to Kill Us First 91 All the Things Climate Can’t Change) 107 Under the Skin 121 Walls 123

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WOMEN AND FILM W&F The Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival supports women filmmakers throughout the industry. This program showcases outstanding narrative and documentary films by women directors from around the globe. WOMEN AND FILM FEATURES: Invitation, The 158 Our Loved Ones 141 Beeba Boys 64 Journey of a Thousand Miles, A: Raging Rose 142 Blush 129 Peacekeepers 110 Rosita 95 Bollywood/Hollywood 53 Kick It! 162 Sand Box, The 154 Bota 130 Kill Me Please 84 Simple Goodbye, A 77 Chevalier 130 Light Beneath Their Feet, A 153 Speed Sisters 118 Dog Lady 82 Madonna 76 Standing Tall 145 Don’t Blink - Robert Frank 102 Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass 113 Summer Help, The 119 Dragonfly 152 Mountain 138 Summertime 146 Exotica Erotica, etc. 103 My King 139 They Will Have to Kill Us First 91 Fits, The 153 My Skinny Sister 95 Unlocking the Cage 121 Good Wife, A 134 New Classmate, The 76 Under The Skin 121 Here Come The Videofreex 105 Nina’s Children 115 Water 53 I Am Dublin 90 Norman Lear: Just Another Wednesday Child, The 149 In the Game 108 Version of You 115 Weiner 123 In Transit 109 Operation Arctic 163 When Two Worlds Collide 124 Innocents, The 136 Our Everyday Life 140 Women He’s Undressed 124 Women Outward Bound 125

WOMEN AND FILM SHORTS: Golden Hour, The 167 Q.U.E.E.N. 168 Almost Not Beautiful 177 I’m in Pittsburgh and It’s Raining 167 Rita and Crocodile - Hedgehog 165 Ann Prim 177 Immortality, home and elsewhere 167 River of Iron 177 Behold 171 It Had Wings 172 Roubado 173 Big_Sleep™ 167 Melisande Charles 177 Shaping the Public 177 Body Contours 167 Mimo 165 Spintronic 177 Bury Your Heart - Rogue Valley 175 Neighbors in Time 174 Stargazing 168 Catalina and the Sun 173 Out of Green Stuff Woven 166 Still Feeling Blue About Chapri 167 Over Fractured Water 167 Colour Separation 166 Cleo from 5:41 to 5:43 167 Palms 166 T is for Turnip 166 Colorblind 169 Papa Cloudy’s Orchestra 165 Take Care 171 Effigy in Emulsion 166 Peace & Plastic 172 VIKTOR 173 Fata Morgana 169 Poet Guitar 177 Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei 168 49 we are the pure expression of agave!

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EMERGING FILMMAKER COMPETITION This juried Competition recognizes new and up-and-coming filmmakers from around the world for their achievements in narrative filmmaking. A $2500 cash prize is awarded to the film that demonstrates standout excellence in creativity, storytelling, technique, and innovation in the narrative form.

EMG Emerging Filmmaker Competition Films: Page COM

Magallanes 84 Our Loved Ones 141 Radiator 141 Raging Rose 142 A Simple Goodbye 77 Sparrows 96 Zero Point 151

Emerging Filmmaker Jurors: PoChu AuYeung, Program Manager & Senior Programmer, Vancouver International Film Festival Hebe Tabachnik, Director & Producer, Guadalajara International Film Festival in Los Angeles Charles Coleman, Film Program Director, Facets Cinémathèque

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Documentary Competition Films: Page DOC COM

Don’t Blink - Robert Frank 102 The Happy Film: a GRAPHIC design experiment 104 The Hard Stop 105 Holy Hell 106 Voices from Chernobyl 122 When Two Worlds Collide 124

Documentary Competition Jurors: Gustav Hofer, Film Director, Screenwriter, Journalist and TV Host Viviana Garcia Besne, Filmmaker & Founder Permanencia Voluntaria Film Archive Ken Jacobson, Director of Educational Programs & Strategic Partnerships, International Documentary Association

Previous Winners Include: 2011 The Interrupters, Steve James

2012 The Flat, Arnon Goldfinger Bert Stern: Original Madman, Shannah Laumeister

2013 These Birds Walk, Omar Mullick, Bassam Tariq

2014 Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus, Madeleine Sackler

2015 The Songs of Rice, Uruphong Raksasad

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This juried Competition recognizes national, international, and local narrative and documentary short form filmmaking. With few exceptions, all short films are in competition.

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Shorts Competition Jurors:

Narrative Shorts Alan Blomquist, Producer Paul Aaron, Producer Eric Howell, Director

Documentary Shorts Kim Rogers, Producer Selina Lewis Davidson, Producer Simon Edrey, Producer

Previous Narrative Short Winners Include: 2015 Muted, Rachel Goldberg Day One, Henry Hughes

Previous Documentary Short Winners Include: 2015 The Gnomist, Sharon Liese

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MN Minnesota Made Documentary Features: COM The Big Wu Way 100 Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass 113 Closer Than You Think 101 Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy 118 Gypsy: Rock & Roll Nomads 103 Vore King 122 Happy Collaborator: George Stoney 104 Women Outward Bound 125 How Love Won: The World Has No Eyedea 125 The Fight for Marriage Equality in Minnesota 107 The Legend of Swee’ Pea 110

MN Minnesota Made Narrative Features: COM Dragonfly 152 Sabina K. 143 The Sand Box 154 A Stray 155

Documentary Jurors: Narrative Jurors: D.A. Bullock, Director/Producer Christina Ham, Screenwriter Jesse Roesler, Director, Credo Nonfiction Rob Nilsson, Director Dan Rybicky, Associate Professor in Nicole Brending, Director/Screenwriter Cinema Art + Science, Columbia College Chicago Previous Winners Include: 2011 Thicker Than Water, Bradley Rappa 2014 The System, Juan Antonio del Rosario Rough Tender, Joe Dressel The Starfish Throwers, Jesse Roesler

2012 Journey to the Fallen Skies, Mong Vang, Bryan Vue 2015 Knucklehead, Ben Bowman Miss Tibet: Beauty in Exile, Norah Shapiro 2013 Too Cold Out There Without You, Amy Gattie 61 NOT A DEPOSIT NOT FDIC INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NOT BANK GUARANTEED NOT INSURED BY ANY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY special presentations

Opening Presentation A Man Called Ove En Man Som Heter Ove Hannes Holm Sweden | 2015 Swedish with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 116 min | Narratve Feature

A touching crowd pleaser that will make you laugh but may Producer: require a tssue or two by the end, A Man Called Ove is Swedish Annica Bellander director Hannes Holm’s irresistble adaptaton of Fredrik Backman’s Screenplay: eponymous best-seller. It’s a heartwarming tale about a stubborn, Hannes Holm Cinematographer: short-tempered man with steadfast beliefs, strict routnes, and Göran Hallberg the feeling that everyone around him is an idiot—and no retcence Editor: about telling them so. Afer new neighbors accidentally run over Fredrik Morheden his mailbox, the cantankerous old git’s solitary, regimented world Composer: is shaken in ways he never would have imagined. Gaute Storaas The screening will be followed by the Opening Night Party at Principal Cast: Aster Café. Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll Selected Filmography: The Anderssons Hit the Road (‘13) SPONSORED BY: Behind Blue Skies (‘10) The Reunion (‘02) Adam & Eva (‘97) Print Source: Music Box Films

SHOWING: Thu 4/7 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Thu 4/7 7:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

PREMIUM SCREENING: Ticket Prices: $40 General Admission | $35 Film Society Members Tickets include entry to the Opening Night Party. See page 40.

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Centerpiece Presentation Beeba Boys

Deepa Mehta Canada | 2015 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 103 min | Narratve Feature

Deepa Mehta and David Hamilton atending. Producer: Deepa Mehta’s excursion into genre flmmaking is a bold social David Hamilton commentary with charisma and style to burn. Loosely based Screenplay: on notorious west coast crime lord “Bindy” Singh Johal, this Deepa Mehta Cinematographer: unapologetc gangster flm takes us into the glamorous but lethal Karim Hussain world of the Beeba Boys, a well-tailored Sikh gang led by Jeet Editor: Johar. The fght to the top among the Asian gangs in Vancouver Colin Monie is one Jeet and his Beeba Boys plan on winning no mater what. Composer: Working in comedy, acton, and violence with fnesse, Mehta Biggi Hilmars navigates a vivid tale of marginalizaton, power, and family loyalty. Principal Cast: Screenings will be followed by the Uptown Closing Party and Randeep Hooda, Ali Momen, Sarah Allen Mid-Fest Party. Selected Filmography: Midnight’s Children (‘12) SPONSORED BY: Water (‘05) Earth (‘98) Fire (‘96) Print Source: Hamilton-Mehta Productons Inc.

SHOWING: Thu 4/14 7:00 PM Uptown Theatre SAT 4/16 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

PREMIUM SCREENING: Ticket Prices: $20 General Admission | $15 Film Society Members 4/14 tickets include entry to the Uptown Closing Party. See page 41. TRIB W&F FLUX 4/16 screening followed by the Mid-Fest Party. See page 41.

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Closing Presentation Te Seventh Fire

Jack Petbone Riccobono USA | 2015 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 76 min | Documentary Feature

Jack Petbone Riccobono and special guests atending. Executve Producer: When Rob Brown, a Natve American gang leader on a remote Terrence Malick, Natalie Portman, Minnesota reservaton, is sentenced to prison for a ffh tme, Chris Eyre he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into Producer: Joey Carey, Jack Petbone his beloved Ojibwe community. As Rob reckons with his past, Riccobono, Jihan Robinson, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: Shane Slatery-Quintanilla becoming the most powerful and feared Natve gangster on the Screenplay: reservaton. Jack Petbone Riccobono, Executve Producers Terrence Malick, Natalie Portman, and Shane Omar Slatery-Quintanilla, Chris Eyre present this hauntng and visually arrestng nonfcton Andrew Ford flm about the Natve American gang crisis. Cinematographer: Jack Petbone Riccobono, The screening will be followed by the Closing Night Party. Shane Omar Slatery-Quintanilla Editor: SPONSORED BY: Andrew Ford, Michael J. Palmer, Adelaide Papazoglou Music: Nicholas Britell Selected Filmography: Debut feature Print Source: SHOWING: Film Movement SAT 4/23 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/23 7:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

PREMIUM SCREENING: Ticket Prices: $15 General Admission | $13 Film Society Members Screenings followed by the Closing Night Party. See page 41. MN

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Te Idol

Hany Abu-Assad Palestne | 2015 Arabic with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 95 min | Narratve Feature

Hany Abu-Assad atending. Producer: This inspiratonal, upbeat, crowd-pleasing change-of-pace Ali Jaafar, Amira Diab is based on the true story of the young man who escaped from Screenplay: Gaza into Egypt (and fnally Lebanon) to compete on Arab Idol Hany Abu-Assad, Sameh Zoabi Cinematographer: champion; this local hero was named an internatonal spokesman Ehab Assal for the United Natons, is presently engaged on a world tour, and Editor: now has over eight million Twiter followers. Eyas Salman The Idol’s writer/director Hany Abu-Assad is a two-tme Composer: Academy Award® nominated flmmaker (Paradise Now, Omar). Habib Shehadeh Hanna Hany Abu-Assad is only one of three foreign language flmmakers Principal Cast: nominated for two Oscars® in this century. Qais Atallah, Hiba Atallah, Ahmad Qassim, Abdalkarim Abu Baraka, Tawfeek Barhom, Saber Shreim, Ahmed Al Rokh, Nadine Labaki SPONSORED BY: Selected Filmography: Omar (‘13) The Courier (‘12) Do Not Forget Me Istanbul (‘11) Paradise Now (‘05) Rana’s Wedding (‘02) SHOWING: Awards: SAT 4/9 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre UNESCO Award - WED 4/20 7:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Asia Pacifc Screen Awards Print Source: Adopt Films

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Mr. Pig

Diego Luna Mexico | 2015 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 78 min | Narratve Feature

Ambrose Eubanks is a down-on-his-luck hog farmer who has Producer: nearly lost everything, by some fault of his own and his resignaton Pablo Cruz to alcohol. His only friend and last possession is Howard, a giant Diego Luna pig with a pedigree that might procure Ambrose some money Screenplay: Diego Luna from someone across the boarder. His road trip into Mexico, Augusto Mendoza with Howard in the back of his van, represents something of an Cinematographer: endgame for Ambrose untl his daughter Eunice, actng on her Damian Garcia sixth sense, comes to save her deadbeat dad. Editor: Diego Luna’s second English-language flm is a bitersweet Douglas Crise drama with ace performances by both Danny Glover and Maya Principal Cast: Rudolph. Maya Rudolph Danny Glover Joel Murray Selected Filmography: SPONSORED BY: Cesar Chavez (‘14) Print Source: Canana

SHOWING: FRI 4/8 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 4:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 5:45 PM Metropolitan State University

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Presenting Princess Shaw

Ido Haar Israel, USA | 2015 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 80 min | Documentary Feature

Samantha Montgomery atending. Producer: On one side of the globe, musician and video artst Ophir Kuiel, Liran Atzmor aka Kutman, creates video mash-ups of amateur Youtube per- Screenplay: formers. On the other side of the globe, Samantha Montgomery, Ido Haar Cinematographer: aka Princess Shaw, works as a caretaker for the elderly and in her Ido Haar free tme writes and sings her own songs on her confessional You- Editor: Tube channel. Ido Haar Israel and New Orleans magically come together in this power- Selected Filmography: ful and inspiring documentary as Kutman, unbeknownst to Prin- 9 Star Hotel (‘07) cess Shaw, starts working on one of her raw a cappella videos. The Enlistment Days (‘12) result, via a viral video, reveals a bonafde star and her fght to Meltng Siberia (‘04) Print Source: never give up on her dreams. Magnolia Pictures 4/11 screening followed by the Presentng Princess Shaw Af- terparty at Barbete. See page 40. LG BT SHOWING: MON 4/11 7:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre TUE 4/12 7:00 PM Uptown Theatre

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Sing Street

John Carney Ireland | 2016 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 105 min | Narratve Feature

1980s Dublin. A 14-year-old boy named Conor (Ferdia Producer: Walsh-Peelo) is looking for a break from a home strained by his Anthony Bregman parents’ relatonship and money troubles, while trying to adjust Martna Niland to his new inner-city public school where the kids are rough and John Carney Screenplay: the teachers are rougher. John Carney When he meets the mysterious, über-cool and beautful Raph- Simon Carmody (story) ina (Lucy Boynton), he aims to win her heart and invites her to Cinematographer: star in his band’s music video. She agrees, but there’s only one Yaron Orbach problem: he’s not part of a band...yet. Editor: Now Conor must deliver what he’s promised. Calling himself Andrew Marcus “Cosmo” and immersing himself in the vibrant rock music trends Julian Ulrichs Principal Cast: of the decade, he forms a band with a few lads, and the group Lucy Boynton pours their heart into writng lyrics and shootng videos. Maria Doyle Kennedy Aiden Gillen Jack Reynor Kelly Thornton Ferdia Walsh-Peelo Selected Filmography: Begin Again (‘13) SHOWING: Once (‘07) FRI 4/22 7:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Print Source: SAT 4/23 7:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre The Weinstein Company

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Tale of Tales Il racconto del racconti Mateo Garrone Italy, France | 2015 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 125 min | Narratve Feature

Mateo Garrone’s surreal, star-studded fairy tale is a unique Producer: and rapturous cinematc ride. Mateo Garrone Loosely interpreted from the celebrated tales of 16th century Jeremy Thomas Neapolitan poet and scholar Giambatsta Basile, Garrone Jean & Anne-Laure Labadie Screenplay: overlaps the bizarre stories of three neighboring kingdoms—the Edoardo Albinat frst of a king and queen (John C. Reilly and Salma Hayek) who Ugo Chit must slay and steal the heart of a lake monster in order to have a Mateo Garrone child; the second ruled by a fornicatng libertne (Vincent Cassel) Massimo Gaudioso who becomes obsessed with the singing voice; and lastly, King of Cinematographer: Altomonte who nurtures a fea into a giant monstrous pet. Peter Suschitzky Principal Cast: Salma Hayek Vincent Cassel Toby Jones Editor: Marco Spoletni Music: Alexandre Desplat Selected Filmography: SHOWING: Reality (‘12) TUE 4/12 9:30 PM Uptown Theatre Gomorrah (‘08) SUN 4/17 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Print Source: IFC Films

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Voices of Light: Te Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Dreyer with live score by Richard Einhorn France| 1928 Silent flm with English subttles and live choral and orchestral accompaniment PERFORMANCE REGIONAL PREMIERE 90 min | Narratve Feature and live performance

“Voices of Light” merges the legendary silent flm masterpiece Film Producer: The Passion of Joan of Arc with a live performance of an incredibly Société générale des flmes moving compositon for solo voices, chorus and orchestra by Screenplay: American composer Richard Einhorn. Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 Joseph Delteil Carl Theodor Dreyer flm is considered by critcs to be simply one of the 10 greatest Cinematographer: flms ever made. With its raw emotonal power, its naturalistc Rudolph Maté actng and an uterly contemporary visual style, The Passion of Editor: Joan of Arc is a hauntng, unforgetable flm. Marguerite Beaugé The accompanying concert will be performed by the Oratorio Carl Theodor Dreyer Society of Minnesota and the Oratorio Society Orchestra and Principal Cast: Soloists, and will be directed by Mathew W. Mehafey. Maria Falconet Eugene Silvain André Berley SPONSORED BY: Selected Filmography: Gertrud (‘64) Ordet (‘55) “Voices of Light” Composer: Richard Einhorn Performance Director: SHOWING: Mathew W. Mehafey Fri 4/15 8:00pm Cathedral of St. Paul Performing Choir: Fri 4/22 8:00pm Basilica of Saint Mary Oratorio Society of Minnesota Performing Musicians: PREMIUM SCREENING: Oratorio Society Orchestra and Ticket prices: $45-$25. Tickets available exclusively at oratorio.org. Soloists No Rush Ticketing for these screenings. Passes may not be redeemed day-of. Gold and Platinum Pass Holders please note: Pass admissions to this event are limited. To reserve tickets using your Pass, call 612.331.7563 or visit the Festival Information Office. 71 asian frontiers ASIAN FRONTIERS

Alone Hon-ja

Park Hong-min South Korea | 2015 Korean with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 90 min | Narratve Feature Park Hong-min atending. Standing on his balcony, Su-min witnesses a murder on a distant roofop in broad daylight. Camera in hand, he instnctually snaps a couple photos when he suddenly realizes that the murderers have spoted him and are coming to fnd him. Following Su-min’s resultng fate is a grity, mind-bending afair that dives head frst into a psychological rabbit hole, shot with long takes through the back streets of a maze- like neighborhood in Seoul. Director Park Hong-min, Championing diverse voices, in his second feature flm, takes the audience on a wild ride as the flm fashes forwards, backwards, and Asian Fronters embraces must- perhaps into another dimension. see blockbusters to challenging Producer: Principal Cast: Cha Hye-jin Lee Ju-won hidden gems from an expansive Screenplay: Selected Filmography: region, including South Korea, Park Hong-min, Cha A Fish (‘11) Hye-jin Print Source: Japan, China, India, Taiwan, Cinematographer: M-Line Distributon Kim Byeong-jung Indonesia, the Philippines, Editor: Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Park Hong-min Composer: Oh Su-jin

SHOWING: FRI 4/8 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 6:55 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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A Copy of My Mind Happy Hour Happi awa

Joko Anwar Ryusuke Hamaguchi Indonesia, South Korea | 2015 Japan | 2015 Indonesian with English subttles Japanese with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 116 min | Narratve Feature 317 min | Narratve Feature A couple who serendipitously meet over a poorly Epic doesn’t always have to be grandiose, and Ry- subttled illegal DVD and fall in love, face an unfair usuke Hamaguchi’s subtle fve-hour drama is proof. fate on the grity streets of Jakarta. Sari spends her Following the lives of four female friends, Happy days working in a run-of-the-mill beauty salon giving Hour investgates the women at mid-life and their facials and her nights watching pirated movies in her friendship as they each work through personal strug- small room. When she meets Alek and lands a job at gles and events that will send them slowly spiraling. a spa catering to wealthy clients, her life seems to Hamaguchi builds his character not only from conver- have taken a turn for the beter. But one bad decision satons but also the four women’s more understated sends both of their lives into a tailspin. Director Joko reactons, gestures and refectons while they fnd Anwar captures a city ruled by corrupton where the comfort and confict in each other’s company. The average person must do what they can to stay afoat. four lead actresses, all frst-tme actors, shared the Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festval.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Hiromi Demura, Shoko Tia Hasibuan, Uwie Balfas Tara Basro, Chicco Jerikho Tadashi Nohara, Hideyuki Fukunaga, Yuichiro Ito Screenplay: Awards: Okamoto, Satoshi Takata Awards: Joko Anwar Geber Award - Jogja-NETPAC Screenplay: Best Actress - Locarno Cinematographer: Asian Film Festval Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Internatonal Film Festval Ical Tanjung, SI Selected Filmography: Tadashi Nohara, Selected Filmography: Editor: Ritual (‘12) Tomoyuki Takashi Touching the Skin of Arifn Cuunk The Forbidden Door (‘09) Cinematographer: Eerieness (‘14), Intmacies Composer: Joni’s Promise (‘05) Yoshio Kitagawa (‘13), The Depths (‘11), Roofopsound Print Source: Composer: Passion (‘08) CJ Entertainment Umitaro Abe Print Source: Principal Cast: Neopa Inc.

SHOWING: SHOWING: TUE 4/19 9:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/11 6:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/21 2:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Heavenly Nomadic Hill Of Freedom Sutak Jayuui Eondeok

Mirlan Abdykalykov FLUX Hong Sang-soo Kyrgyzstan | 2015 South Korea | 2014 Kyrgyz with English subttles English, Korean with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 81 min | Narratve Feature 66 min | Narratve Feature

Traditon and modernity gently clash as the cy- Hong Sang-soo is back with another efervescent cle of life plays out for a horse-herding family living romance , and one that uses its grand ttle, the name amid remote mountains in this sweet-natured drama of an unassuming cofee shop, in jest. Mori (played boastng majestc landscapes and fascinatng ethno- by Japanese actor Kase Ryo) has returned to Seoul graphic detail. Three generatons of a nomadic family afer being away for two years to track down Kwon, share a cozy yurt pitched on a grassy plain surround- a woman he is making a second atempt to win ed by high peaks. A poetc portrait of the nomadic over. Told in fashback and in a jumbled chronology, traditons that are slowly disappearing from the high the story rambles alongside Mori as he makes new mountains of Kyrgyzstan. friends, drinks his evenings away, and contemplates why he is there in the frst place. MSPIFF is also showing Hong Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then. See page 77.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Seo Young-hwa, Kim Eui-sung, Sadyk Sher-Niyaz, Tabyldy Aktanov, Jibek Kim Kyoung-hee Youn Yuh-jung Altynai Koichumanova Baktybekova, Taalaikan Screenplay: Awards: (co-producer) Abazova, Anar Nazarkulova, Hong Sang-soo Best Undistributed Film - Screenplay: Jenish Kangeldiev Cinematographer: Indiewire Critcs’ Poll Mirlan Abdykalykov Awards: Park Hong-yoel Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Winner, Grand Prix - Editor: Right Now, Wrong Then (‘15) Talant Akynbekov Kinoshock Festval Hahm Sung-won Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (‘13) Editor: Selected Filmography: Composer: In Another Country (‘12) Murat Ajiev, Eldiar Debut Feature Jeong Yong-jin The Day He Arrives (‘11) Madakim Print Source: Principal Cast: Print Source: Pluto Film Kase Ryo, Moon Sori, Finecut SHOWING: SUN 4/10 11:15 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre SHOWING: MON 4/18 5:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 1:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre TUE 4/19 4:45 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester FRI 4/22 3:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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Journey to the Shore Kaili Blues Kishibe no Tabi Lubian yecai

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Bi Gan Japan, France | 2015 China | 2015 Japanese with English subttles Chinese (Mandarin), Kaili with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 128 min | Narratve Feature 110 min | Narratve Feature

Three years afer disappearing, Yusuke (Tadanobu Chen Sheng is an ex-con who was recently released Asano) returns home to his wife Mizuki (Eri Fukatsu) from jail and has set up a low-key medical practce in only to announce that he has died and his body lies the town of Kaili, in southwestern China. Chen spends unidentfed at the botom of the ocean. He invites his tme lamentng the loss of his wife, who died while Mizuki on a trip to visit the people who helped him he was in jail, and lending a litle paternal care to his on the long journey back home. Director Kiyoshi nephew Weiwei. When Weiwei disappears, Chen sets Kurosawa is known for his ghost stories, but this one of to fnd him, which quietly erases the line between takes a far more tender approach toward the restless the past, present and future. Poet-turned-director Bi souls living amongst us, exploring Buddhist and Shin- Gan transforms his lyricism from page to screen in a to beliefs and reinterpretng the Japanese custom of debut feature that won Best Emerging Director at the mitoru—caring for and saying farewell to the termi- Locarno Film Festval. nally ill.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Hitoshi Endo, Hiroko Eri Fukatsu, Tadanobu Wang Zijian, Shan Chen Yongzhong, Matsuda, Masa Sawada Asano, Masao Komatsu, Zoulong, Li Zhaoyu Zhao Daqing, Luo Feiyang, Screenplay: Yu Aoi, Akira Emoto Screenplay: Xie Lixun, Zeng Shuai Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Awards: Bi Gan Awards: Takashi Ujita Un Certain Regard Directng Cinematographer: Best Emerging Director - Cinematographer: Prize at Cannes 2015 Wang Tianxing Locarno Internatonal Film Akiko Ashizawa Selected Filmography: Editor: Festval Editor: Real (‘13), Penance (‘12), Qin Yanan Selected Filmography: Tsuyoshi Imai Tokyo Sonata (‘08) Composer: Debut Feature Composer: Print Source: Lim Giong Print Source: Yoshihide Otomo, Naoko Eto MK2 China Film Internatonal

SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/17 11:10 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/8 9:35 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/21 2:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 9:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Madonna Te New Classmate

Shin Su-won W&F Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari W&F South Korea | 2015 India | 2015 Korean with English subttles Hindi with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 120 min | Narratve Feature 96 min | Narratve Feature

Part noir thriller, part feminist social critque, Chanda, a single mother who works as a maid, has Madonna tracks a nurse, Hye-rim, as she investgates one dream: that her teenage daughter Apeksha gets the truth behind a comatose young girl to be used the educaton she never got. But Apeksha has litle for a heart transplant. When Hye-rim is transferred interest in studying and is resigned to a destny to be to the VIP ward of her hospital, she is put in charge a maid just like her mother. So Chanda comes up with of the hospital’s aging and ill benefactor who is be- a plan to enroll in school herself and prove that even ing kept alive at all costs, including using the heart she can learn if she puts her mind to it. Ashwiny Iyer of a lef-for-dead pregnant prosttute named Mi-na. Tiwari’s tender debut ofers an inspiring message of Harboring her own troubled past, Hye-rim slowly un- self-determinaton—despite class or gender—with covers Mi-na’s ill-fated story in hopes of saving either nuanced performances from the two female leads. Mi-na or her child and fnding her own personal re- dempton.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Francis Lim Seo Young-hee, Kim Young- Ajay G. Rai, Alan McAlex, Swara Bhaskar, Ratna Screenplay: min, Byun Yo-han, Kwon Sanjay Shety and Nitesh Pathak Shah, Pankaj Shin Su-won So-hyun Tiwari Tripathi, Riya Shukla Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Yun Ji-woon Pluto (‘12) Gavemic Ary Debut Feature Editor: Print Source: Editor: Print Source: Lee Do-hyun Fine Cut Shekhar Prajapat Films Boutque Composer: Composer: Ryu Jae-ah Naren Chandavarkar, Benedict Taylor

SHOWING: SHOWING: MON 4/11 4:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 11:00 AM Uptown Theatre THU 4/21 9:55 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 5:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Right Now, Wrong Ten A Simple Goodbye Jigeumeun matgo geuttaeneun teullida Gaobie

EMG Hong Sang-soo Degena Yun COM South Korea | 2015 China | 2015 Korean with English subttles Chinese (Mandarin), Mongolian with English subttles W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 121 min | Narratve Feature 100 min | Narratve Feature

Finding a very sweet balance between humor, self-re- Degena Yun’s assured debut feature is a subtle and fecton, serendipity, and soju (all trademarks of Hong moving story about the emotonal drif between two Sang-soo’s work), Right Now, Wrong Then firts with the generatons. Shanshan, sent to the UK for school, re- idea that one small gesture or one simple phrase can turns home to Beijing with an air of Western teen- change everything. Chun-su (Jung Jae-young) is a flm age ennui. Her father, an aging Mongolian actor long director who travels to a small flm festval to do a Q&A. past his heyday, has been diagnosed with a terminal Arriving a day early, he meets Hee-jung (Kim Min-hee), illness and does not have long to live. With one at the and they spend the afernoon and evening together beginning of her life and the other at the end of his, only to have things go very wrong. Rewind. Try again. these two characters slowly fnd a connecton in their Take two. Hong gives Chun-su another chance in the similar struggles—to accept what lies ahead of them same scenario with hilarious results. with honesty, bravery and hope. MSPIFF is also showing Hong Sang-soo’s Hill of Freedom, see page 74. Producer: Min-hee, Youn Yuh-jung, Kee Screenplay: Awards: Kim Kyoung-hee Joo-bong, Choi Hwa-jung, Yu Degena Yun Winner of Spirit of Screenplay: Jun-sang, Seo Young-hwa Cinematographer: Asia Award at Tokyo Hong Sang-soo Awards: Ma Sai, Mu Zhenglun Internatonal Film Festval Cinematographer: Golden Leopard - Locarno Editor: Selected Filmography: Park Hong-yeol Internatonal Film Festval Zhang Jianhua Debut Feature Editor: Selected Filmography: Composer: Print Source: Hahm Sung-won Hill of Freedom (‘14) He Bin Youth Film Studio Composer: Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (‘13) Principal Cast: Jeong Yong-jin In Another Country (‘12) Tu Men, Ai Liya, Principal Cast: The Day He Arrives (‘11) Degena Yun, Ba Yingerile Jung Jae-young, Kim Print Source: Grasshopper Films SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 9:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/8 2:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 2:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 1:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Taklub Tarlo

Brillante Mendoza Pema Tseden FLUX Philippines | 2015 China | 2015 Tagalog with English subttles Tibetan with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 97 min | Narratve Feature 123 min | Narratve Feature

The stories of hardship and hope in the wake of Tharlo is a 40 year-old Tibetan man who quietly Super Typhoon Yolanda are brought to life in Brillante lives his life among the mountains with his herd of Mendoza’s vivid dramatzaton. Set in a post-typhoon sheep. But his simple life is thrown into disarray when shantytown, Taklub takes an intmate look at the local authorites force him to get an ID card, necessi- psychological reverberatons of the disaster, slowly tatng a fateful trip into town to have his photo tak- revealed in its characters—Bebeth, who searches en. Shot in beautful black and white, Tharlo opens trelessly for any informaton or clues to her missing with a philosophical discussion on individuality and children; Larry, who dedicates his life to religion afer then slowly dismantles identty with Tharlo’s literal losing his wife; Erwin and his brother and sister, who and symbolic assimilaton into society. Director Pema lost their parents; and Renato, who lost his entre Tseden delivers another powerful parable with the family to a fre in the unsafe living conditons afer help of a spirited lead performance by Tibetan come- the typhoon. dian and poet Shide Nyima.

Producer: Mallari, Shine Santos, Producer: Awards: Loreto F. Castllo Lou Veloso, Ruby Ruiz Wu Leilei, Sean Wang Tokyo Filmex Grand Screenplay: Awards: Screenplay: Prize, Achievement in Mary Honeylyn, Joy Un Certain Regard - Cannes Pema Tseden Cinematography - Asian Alipio Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Pacifc Screen Awards Cinematographer: Sapi (‘13) Lu Songye Selected Filmography: Odyssey Flores Thy Womb (‘12) Editor: Sacred Arrow (‘13), Editor: Captve (‘12) Gregorius Arya, Song Bing Old Dog (‘11) Kats Serraon Kinatay (‘09) Composer: The Search (‘09), Principal Cast: Slingshot (‘07) Wang Jue The Silent Holy Stones (‘05) Nora Aunor, Julio Diaz, Print Source: Principal Cast: Print Source: Aaron Rivera, Rome Films Distributon Shide Nyima, Yangshik Tso Kim Stm

SHOWING: SHOWING: MON 4/11 9:25 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 4:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/21 4:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 4:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Walnut Tree Yoko the Cherry Blossom Zhangak tal

Yerlan Nurmukhambetov Gen Takahashi Kazakhstan | 2015 Japan | 2015 Kazakh with English subttles Japanese with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 81 min | Narratve Feature 115 min | Narratve Feature With large doses of humor and social realism, Yer- Filmmaker atending. lan Nurmukhambetov’s debut feature—winner of In 1940, Masaaki Takaoka worked as a teacher in the New Current Award at the Busan Internatonal the agricultural division at a youth training insttute. Film Festval—is a one-of-a-kind portrait of ordinary Although Japan’s defeat seems imminent, all of Ma- life in southern Kazakhstan. Walnut Tree tells the sto- saaki’s students were drafed in a futle last-ditch ef- ry of Gabit and Aisulu, two people in love who must fort. In an atempt to give the young men some hope, defne their own journey of courtship, marriage and he made everyone promise that they will all meet family against a rich background of traditon and cul- again under the cherry blossoms upon their safe re- ture. Nurmukhambetov draws from his own experi- turn. ences of growing up in a small village, blending satre Consumed by sadness over the fate of his stu- with an open-hearted attude toward human imper- dents, Masaaki devotes the next 30 years of his life to fecton and the simple pleasures of life. develop a new species of cherry blossoms that could thrive in any climate in remembrance of his students. Producer: Principal Cast: Yerzhan Akhmetov Rustem Zhaniamanov, Balnur Producer: Principal Cast: Screenplay: Asyl, Nurzhan Zhumanov, Yayoi Machida Takashi Sasano Yerlan Nurmukhambetov Asylbek Musabekov Masanori Aikawa Koji Matoba Cinematographer: Awards: Screenplay: Maki Miyamoto Murat Nugmanov New Currents Award - Busan Gen Takahashi Yuki Kazamatsurid Editor: Internatonal Film Festval Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Aibol Kasymzhanov Selected Filmography: Philip Harder Court of Zeus (‘13) Composer: Debut Feature Editor: Goth (‘08) Sultan Abet Print Source: Yoshinori Ota Confessions of a Dog (‘06) Kazakhflm Composer: Benjamin Be’doussac

SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 11:05 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 4:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/11 5:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/22 2:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 9:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester

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600 Miles 600 millas

Gabriel Ripstein FLUX Mexico, USA | 2015 Spanish, English with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 85 min | Narratve Feature

Arnulfo is a teenager transportng guns from the U.S. across the Mexican boarder for the drug cartel. Seduced by the power and glamour of the cartel, Ar- nulfo is eager to prove himself but clearly lacks the unmerciful attude of his idols. Afer a bust gone bad, Arnulfo panics and kidnaps an ATF agent (played by Tim Roth) back across the boarder, setng into moton a tense and fateful lesson for Arnulfo. First tme director Gabriel Ripstein delivers an ob- servatonal approach to the material that carefully Travel the world through the examines the characters in a dangerous and desper- captvatng and colorful ate no-win situaton. lens of Portuguese and Producer: Composer: Michel Franco Alejandro de Icaza Spanish-language cinema. Gabriel Ripstein Principal Cast: Moisés Zonana Kwon Tim Roth, Kristyan Ferrer, Screenplay: Monica Del Carmen The program also returns as Gabriel Ripstein, Issa Awards: a stand alone flm festval Lopez Best First Feature - Berlinale Cinematographer: MEZCAL Award - Guadalajara each Fall. Alain Marcoen Film Festval Editor: Selected Filmography: Gabriel Ripstein Debut Feature Santago Perez Rocha Print Source: Pantelion Films SHOWING: SUN 4/10 1:30 PM Uptown Theatre WED 4/13 7:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Alias Maria Te Apostate El apóstata

José Luis Rugeles Gracia FLUX Federico Veiroj Colombia, Argentna, France | 2015 Spain, France, Uruguay | 2015 Spanish with English subttles Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 92 min | Narratve Feature 80 min | Narratve Feature

Maria is a young teenage girl working as a cog in Gonzalo, a philosophy student with a lilt to rebel, the machine of a tghtly controlled community of decides to apostatze and renounce the Catholic faith guerilla fghters. When a child is born to a top com- that was involuntarily thrust upon him as a child. But mander, Maria and three other young soldiers are erasing his name from the Church’s baptsmal re- put in charge of transportng the baby through the cords, both literally and socially, is much more of a volatle jungle to safety. The journey strs Maria’s challenge than he expected. Director Frederico Veiroj desire for freedom and a life outside the confnes of (A Useful Life) uses quirky charm, absurd humor and being a rebel warrior. a touch of Buñuelian surrealism to navigate his pro- In a movie he dedicates to his mother and “to all tagonist on a dubious path of self-determinaton. courageous women,” director José Luis Rugeles Gra- First-tme actor and co-writer Alvaro Ogalla gives cia investgates the rigorous personal trials of a fe- a nuanced performance in this wonderfully low-key male child soldier. comedy.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Editor: Federico Durán Amorocho Karen Torres, Carlos Clavijo, Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles Fernando Franco Screenplay: Erick Ruiz: Yuldor, Anderson Fernando Franco Principal Cast: Diego Vivanco Gómez, Lola Lagos, Fabio Maria Martn Stanley Alvaro Ogalla, Marta Cinematographer: Velásco Federico Veiroj Larralde, Bárbara Lennie, Sergio Iván Castaño Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Vicky Peña, Kaiet Rodríguez Editor: García (‘10) Federico Veiroj Awards: Delfna Castagnino Print Source: Gonzalo Delgado FIPRESCI Prize - San Composer: UDI - Urban Distributon Nicolas Saad Sebastán Film Festval Camilo Sanabria Internatonal Alvaro Ogalla Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: A Useful Life (‘10) Arauco Hernández Print Source: Figa Films

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Chronic Dog Lady La mujer de los perros

Michel Franco Laura Citarella, Verónica Llinás W&F Mexico, France | 2015 Argentna | 2015 English Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 93 min | Narratve Feature 98 min | Narratve Feature

Sentmentality is boldly restrained in this end-of- Laura Citarella atending. life drama that focuses unfinchingly on death and a Summer, autumn, winter and spring are poetcal- professional caregiver that carries the psychological ly delivered through the observaton of a nameless weight in unpredictable ways. David (played with woman living on the fringes of society just outside stunning commitment by Tim Roth) is a nurse who Buenos Aires with her companions—a scrufy pack of works with terminally ill patents. Efcient and dedi- loyal muts. Her deliberate way of living becomes the cated to his profession, he develops strong and even heartbeat of the flm as she silently and methodically intmate relatonships with his patents, ofen cutng goes through the paces of survival and wiles away the of the family. tme with her dogs. Much like his feature Afer Lucia, Michel Franco’s Director Laura Citarella and actress Verónica Llinás frst English language flm is an unwavering and hon- collaborated as co-writers and co-directors, resultng est depicton of human tenderness, pain, and cruelty. in an incredibly nuanced work that allows the pacing and the performance to speak for itself.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Germán de Silva Michel Franco Tim Roth Mariano Llinás Juana Zalazar Gina Kwon Sarah Sutherland Screenplay: Awards: Gabriel Ripstein Robin Bartlet Laura Citarella Best Actress - Athens Film Moises Zonana Rachel Pickup Verónica Llinás Festval, Best Actress - Screenplay: Awards: Cinematographer: Buenos Aires Internatonal Michel Franco Best Screenplay - Cannes Soledad Rodríguez Festval of Independent Cinematographer: Film Festval Editor: CInema Yves Cape Selected Filmography: Ignacio Masllorens Selected Filmography: Editor: A Los Ojos (‘13), Afer Lucia Composer: Citarella: Ostende (‘11) Michel Franco (‘12), Daniel and Ana (‘09) Juana Molina Llinás: Debut Feature Julio Perez IV Print Source: Principal Cast: Print Source: Monument Releasing Verónica Llinás Kino Bureau Juliana Muras SHOWING: SAT 4/9 5:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SHOWING: SAT 4/16 11:30 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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From Afar I Promise You Anarchy Desde allá Te prometo anarquía

LG Lorenzo Vigas Julio Hernández Cordón BT Venezuela, Mexico | 2015 Mexico, Germany | 2015 Spanish with English subttles Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 93 min | Narratve Feature 100 min | Narratve Feature

Lorenzo Vigas’ frst feature—and winner of the Miguel and Johnny are friends from opposite sides Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festval—tells of a of the tracks, but that doesn’t inhibit their romance powerful and psychologically charged romance be- with one another that revolves around sex, drugs tween two men from diferent worlds. and skateboarding. To support their devil-may-care 50-year-old Armando solicits young men on the lifestyle, the boys sell their own blood—and occa- streets of Caracas. When he brings young Elder back sionally the blood of their friends and whomever to his apartment for his usual exchange, it seems he they can fnd—to an underground network run by may have chosen the wrong person—Elder not only the drug cartel. When one such arrangement goes beats him up but robs him. But Armando is drawn to wrong, Miguel and Johnny fnd themselves way over him and Elder seems equally curious. Their develop- their heads. Director Julio Hernández Cordón stylishly ing push-pull relatonship explores the lines between blends a breezy romance of wayward youth with a loneliness, manipulaton, and unspoken personal grity noir thriller on the streets of Mexico City. boundaries.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Guillermo Arriaga Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva, Maximiliano Cruz Diego Calva Hernández Rodolfo Cova Jericó Montlla Sandra Gómez Eduardo Eliseo Martnez Michel Franco Awards: Julio Hernández Cordón Awards: Screenplay: Golden Lion - Venice Film Screenplay: Special Jury Prize - San Guillermo Arriaga (based Festval, Julio Hernández Cordón Sebastán Film Festval on a story by) Best Actor, Screenplay - Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Lorenzo Vigas Thessaloniki Film Festval María Secco Polvo (‘12) Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Editor: Marimbas from Hell (‘10) Sergio Armstrong Debut Feature Mauricio Lenz Claure Gasolina (‘08) Editor: Print Source: Composer: Print Source: Isabela Monteiro de Strand Releasing Erick Bongcam The Film Collaboratve Castro SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/10 5:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/8 9:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 2:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/11 9:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Kill Me Please Magallanes Mata-me por favor

W&F EMG Anita Rocha da Silveira Salvador del Solar COM Brazil, Argentna | 2015 Peru, Argentna, Colombia, Spain | 2015 Portuguese with English subttles Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 105 min | Narratve Feature 109 min | Narratve Feature

Anita Rocha da Silveira’s stunning debut drops us Actor Salvador del Solar debuts a politcal thriller directly into the psyche of a middle-class teenage girl, that digs deep into Peru’s recent military abuses and piqued by raging hormones and fueled with fearless its populaton’s scarred collectve unconscious. curiosity. Harvey Magallanes hasn’t made much of his life A string of grisly neighborhood murders of wom- since being a soldier. He drives around his former Col- en captures the imaginaton of a clique of girls, but onel, now aged and senile, and makes extra money as especially Bia who feels more connected to the dead a taxi driver. When he picks up a woman he recogniz- women than to her high school friends. The incident es from his tme as a soldier during the repression of ignites something in Bia, causing her to embrace the Shining Path, Magallanes is overcome with guilt fantasy and openly explore her sexuality. Built in a and the need for justce. unique atmosphere devoid of adults, Kill Me Please is Del Solar assembles an all-star cast—Damián Al- a dark yet pop-infused coming-of-age story. cázar, Federico Luppi, Magaly Solier—for powerful results. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Vania Catani Valentna Herszage Amador del Solar Damián Alcázar Screenplay: Dora Freind Salvador del Solar Magaly Solier Anita Rocha da Silveira Mariana Oliveira Screenplay: Federico Luppi Cinematographer: Júlia Roliz Salvador del Solar Selected Filmography: João Atala Awards: Cinematographer: Debut Feature Editor: Best Film, Best Actress - Rio Diego Jiménez Print Source: Marilia Moraes Film Festval Editor: Meikincine Entertainment Composer: Selected Filmography: Eric Williams Bernardo Uzeda Debut Feature Composer: Print Source: Federico Jusid MPM Film

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My Big Night Neon Bull Mi gran noche Boi neon

Álex de la Iglesia Gabriel Mascaro Spain | 2015 Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands | 2016 Spanish with English subttles Portugese with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 101 min | Narratve Feature 101 min | Narratve Feature

Cult flmmaker Álex de la Iglesia is no stranger to From the heart of Brazil’s vaquejada rodeo culture comedy, but he outdoes himself with this wickedly comes a unique study of character and dissecton of funny screwball comedy for the 21st century. gender. Iremar is a cowhand who travels from event Unemployed Jose seems to get a break when he’s to event with a group of bulls, his helper Zé, driver called in as an extra for a pre-recorded New Year’s TV Galega, and her pre-teen daughter Cacá. Crisscross- special. But the set is nothing short of well-orches- ing the northeast countryside, they represent a dis- trated chaos with the entre crew on lockdown untl tnctve microcosm of individuals who are multdi- the show is fnished while picketers and fans riot. mensional to the point of idiosyncrasy—Galega sup- With a brisk, take-no-prisoners script, My Big Night plements her income as an exotc dancer and Iremar throws its characters of big egos and hapless nobod- has a passion for designing women’s clothing. ies into a routne of beautful comedic mayhem. Gabriel Mascaro’s follow-up to August Winds is a Alex de la Iglesia also directs Messi, see page 112. beautfully shot exhibiton that goes against the grain.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Enrique Cerezo Raphael, Mario Casas, Rachel Ellis Juliano Cazarré, Aline Screenplay: Blanca Suarez Screenplay: Santana, Carlos Pessoa, Álex de la Iglesia, Jorge Selected Filmography: Gabriel Mascaro Maeve Jinkings, Vinicius de Guerricaechevarria Messi (‘14) Cinematographer: Oliveira, Josinaldo Alves Cinematographer: Witching and Bitching (‘13) Diego Garcia Awards: Angel M. Amoros The Last Circus (‘10), Editor: Horizons Special Jury Prize - Editor: The Oxford Murders (‘08) Fernando Epstein, Venice Film Festval Domingo Gonzalez The Perfect Crime (‘04) Eduardo Serrano Selected Filmography: Composer: Print Source: Composer: August Winds (‘14) Joan Valent Breaking Glass Pictures Otávio Santos, Cláudio N, Print Source: Carlos Montenegro Kino Lorber

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Nothing in Return Road to La Paz A cambio de nada Camino a la Paz

Daniel Guzman Francisco Varone Spain | 2015 Argentna, Netherlands, Qatar | 2015 Spanish with English subttles Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 93 min | Narratve Feature 94 min | Narratve Feature

For teenage Dario, parental guidance is getng Sebastan is 35 years old and unemployed, with him nowhere. With his parents mired in their own only his father’s old Peugeot 505 to his name. When conficts and his school all but given up on him, Dario fate brings him a man in search of a ride, Sebastan turns to his friend Luismi for camaraderie, support sees no other choice but to take the opportunity. The and a partner in his misadventures. On the streets of man is Jalil, an elderly devout Muslim, and his des- Madrid, the two fnd an alternatve life and an alter- tnaton is La Paz, the capitol of Bolivia some 2,000 natve family—a cheerful mechanic named Justo and miles from Buenos Aires. Both men are at a cross- an elderly frecracker named Antonia. roads, and the journey to La Paz not only takes them In his debut feature, actor Daniel Guzman comes to the north but also places them on a touching and up with an award-winning story that captures mater- ofen funny road of self-discovery. of-fact life lessons with charismatc buoyancy and a very big heart.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Daniel Guzman Miguel Herrán Gema Juarez Allen Rodrigo De la Serna Screenplay: Antonio Bachiller Delores Llosas Ernesto Suarez Daniel Guzman Antonia Guzmán Juan Taratuto Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Awards: Screenplay: Debut feature Jos Inchaustegui Best New Actor, Best New Francisco Varone Print Source: Editor: Director - Goya Awards, Cinematographer: Figa Films Nacho Ruiz Capillas Selected Filmography: Cristan Cotet Debut Feature Editor: Print Source: Javier Peret Outsider Pictures Andres Tambornino

SHOWING: SHOWING: TUE 4/12 7:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 6:30 PM Metropolitan State University MON 4/18 10:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/23 4:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Te Violin Teacher Walking Distance Heliopolis Distancias Cortas

Sérgio Machado Alejandro Guzmán Alvarez Brazil | 2015 Mexico | 2015 Portuguese with English subttles Spanish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature 100 min | Narratve Feature

Afer failing to be admited into the renowned São In this tender frst feature, photography provides Paulo Symphonic Orchestra, Laerte, a talented vio- a gateway to freedom. Morbidly obese Frederico linist, is reduced to giving music classes to teenagers leads a lonely life. His only human connecton comes in a public school in Heliópolis, the biggest favela of through visits from his overbearing sister and her Brazil. Among his struggles to adapt, Laerte has to re- long-sufering husband. Inspired afer seeing their learn the transformatve power of music through his vacaton photos, he ventures out to a photography students who need it most. studio where he befriends spiky-haired punk rock Inspired by the true story of the Baccarelli Inst- and comic book enthusiast Paulo. Thanks to Paulo, he tute, a music school founded in 1996 in Heliópolis, discovers a newfound love for photography, which in The Violin Teacher charts the harsh class distncton turn brings him closer to his brother-in-law Ramón. between Laerte’s world of concert halls and privilege A lyrical gem with touches of magic realism. and the world of his students, rife with poverty and crime. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Composer: Henner Hofmann Luis “Luca” Ortega Caio Gullane, Fabiano Alexandre Guerra Karla Bukantz Mauricio IsaacJoel Figueroa Gullane, Débora Ivanov, Felipe de Souza Screenplay: Martha Claudia Moreno Gabriel Lacerda Principal Cast: Itzel Lara Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Lázaro Ramos, Kaique Jesus, Cinematographer: Debut Feature Maria Adelaide Amaral, Elzio Vieira Diana Garay Viñas Print Source: Marcelo Gomes, Sérgio Selected Filmography: Editor: Pluto Film Machado, Marta Nehring, The Two Deaths of Quincas Juan Manuel Figueroa Antonio Ermirio de Moraes Wateryell (‘10) (Play) O Príncipe Encantado (‘09) Cinematographer: Print Source: SHOWING: Marcelo Durst Films Boutque MON 4/11 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Editor: THU 4/21 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Márcio Hashimoto SPONSORED BY: SHOWING: MON 4/11 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/23 6:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Afiction

Peter Casaer FLUX Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea | 2015 English, French, Kissi, Malinké, Krio, Bassa with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE 70 min | Documentary Feature As the Ebola outbreak unfolded, the world watched and Doctors Without Boarders responded. Filmed in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the story starts in the remote village of Meliandou where the frst victm was identfed. Aficton explores many diferent aspects of the outbreak: village chiefs, patents, survivors and aid workers talk about the fear and rejecton, stgma, impact of quarantne, mortali- ty, the failure of the internatonal response, the lack of adequate medical treatment and the complex real- Experience the vivid, innovatve ity facing those who have survived Ebola. Given unlimited access to Doctors Without Bor- and inspiring approaches to ders, Aficton captures the story behind the head- narratve and documentary lines. flmmaking that are emerging Producer: Composer: Peter Casaer Sound Recordists: Stjn De from countries all across the Screenplay: Meyer (Liberia), Thomas contnent of Africa. Peter Casaer Wouters (Guinea - Sierra Leone) Cinematographer: Sound Edit: Patrick Hubart Renaat Lambeets Selected Filmography: Editor: Access to the Danger Zone (‘12) Maarten Janssens

SHOWING: THU 4/14 6:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 2:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester TUE 4/19 2:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester

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Te Boda Boda Tieves Te Endless River Abaabi ba Boda Boda

Donald Mugisha Oliver Hermanus Uganda, Kenya, South Africa | 2015 South Africa, France | 2015 Luganda with English subttles English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 85 min | Narratve Feature 110 min | Narratve Feature Abel lives two lives—that of an obedient 15-year- In the small South African town of Riviersonderend old son and that of a street-wise tough guy more (Endless River), a young waitress named Tiny wel- interested in gambling than fnding a job. When his comes her husband home afer his four-year jail sen- father is injured in an accident, Abel must take over tence, but he refuses to try and put his life on track. his father’s boda boda, motorcycle taxi, to support When a family of a French expatriate living on a near- the family. But one bad decision leads to another, and by farm is brutally murdered, Tiny and the grieving Abel wakes along the side of the road with his boda widower, Gilles, form an unlikely bond of sympathetc boda, and his family’s livelihood, gone. anger and loneliness. Director Donald Mugisha brings neorealism to Director Oliver Hermanus’ third feature is a beau- Uganda in this poignant rif on the De Sica classic Bi- tfully produced mystery of human pain and sufer- cycle Thieves. ing—and the desire for transcendence—with South Africa’s violent history of apartheid lurking in the background.

Producer: Composer: Producer: Principal Cast: James Tayler Peter Miles Didier Costet Nicolas Duvauchelle, Screenplay: Graeme Lees Screenplay: Crystal-Donna Roberts, Donald Mugisha Principal Cast: Oliver Hermanus Clayton Evertson, Denise James Tayler Hassan ‘Spike’ Insingoma Cinematographer: Newman, Darren Kelfens Wanjiku S. Muhoho Prossy Rukund Chris Lotz Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Saul Mwesigwa Editor: Beauty (‘11) Carol Burandt von Michael Wawuyo George Hanmer Shirley Adams (‘09) Kameke Peace Birungi Composer: Print Source: Editor: Selected Filmography: Braam du Toit UDI - Urban Distributon James Tayler The Kampala Story (‘11) Internatonal Print Source: Rushlake Media SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/17 5:30 PM Metropolitan State University TUE 4/12 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 9:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 9:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Ghostland: I Am Dublin Te View of the Ju’Hoansi Jag är Dublin David Aronowitsch, Anna Persson, Simon Stadler FLUX FLUX Germany, Namibia | 2015 Ahmed Abdullahi, Sharmarke Binyusuf Sweden | 2015 Ju/’Hoan, English, German with English subttles Engelska, Finska, Somali, Svenska with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 88 min | Documentary Feature 80 min | Documentary Feature Remember the culture clash in The Gods Must Be Ahmed, a Somali refugee, is trapped in a bureau- Crazy? This tme it´s real. cratc conundrum that plagues many individuals One of the most ancient cultures on our planet is seeking asylum in Europe. Having arrived by boat to undergoing a major change. The Ju/’Hoansi Bushmen Italy, Ahmed was entered into the EU database under in Namibia are not allowed to hunt anymore and are the so-called Dublin agreement. Although obliged to forced to converge with our so called “civilized” life- seek asylum in Italy, the country of entrance, Ahmed style. For the frst tme the Ju/’Hoansi Bushmen travel lef the harsh life in Italy only to fnd himself in lim- through the Kalahari and then right into the heart of bo in Sweden—denied rights because he is a Dublin Europe. What starts as a look at their fascinatng cul- case—and working as an actor in a flm that mirrors ture becomes an even more fascinatng look on our his own life. Ahmed’s story is both a symbol of the Western lifestyle. refugee quagmire and a moving personal anecdote.

Producer: Composer: Producer: Composer: Simon Stadler Mathias Raue David Aronowitsch Michel Wenzer Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Awards: Catenia Lermer, Simon Debut Feature David Aronowitsch Nominated, Best Stadler Print Source: Anna Persson Internatonal Documentary Cinematographer: Autlook Film Sales Ahmed Abdullahi Film at Zurich Film Festval Simon Stadler Cinematographer: Print Source: Editor: Anna Persson Swedish Film Insttute Andre Broecher Editor: David Aronowitsch

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Lamb Tey Will Have to Kill Us First

Yared Zeleke Johanna Schwartz UK | 2015 FLUX Ethiopia, France, Germany, Norway, Qatar | 2015 French, Songhay, English, Bambara, Amharic with English subttles Tamashek with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE 94 min | Narratve Feature 99 min | Documentary Feature Yared Zeleke atending. Musicians Songhoy Blues atending. Young Ephraim’s life is thrown into upheaval when Music, one of the most important forms of com- he is lef in the care of relatves as his father seeks municaton in Mali, disappeared overnight in 2012 work in Addis Ababa. Ephraim fnds solace in his pet when Islamic extremists groups rose up to capture lamb Chuni and the three generatons of women in an area the size of the UK and France combined. But the family who nurture his interest in the ‘womanly’ rather than lay down their instruments, Mali’s musi- skill of cooking. When his cousin insists that Chuni cians fought back. They Will Have To Kill Us First is will be sacrifced, Ephraim decides to come up with a a feature-length documentary following musicians plan to save his lamb and get back home. in Mali in the wake of a jihadist takeover and subse- Yared Zeleke’s emotonally complex debut, the frst quent banning of music. Ethiopian flm invited to Cannes, paints a vivid por- The Cedar Cultural Center presents: trait of rural Ethiopian life. Songhoy Blues live at Icehouse on 4/8 at 10pm. Concert tckets: $18 advance/$20 door. Producer: Principal Cast: Tickets available at thecedar.org. Laurent Lavole Rediat Amare Ama Ampadu Kidist Siyum Producer: Editor: Johannes Rexin Welela Assefa Johanna Schwartz Guy Creasey Screenplay: Surafel Teka Sarah Mosses Andrea Carnevali Yared Zeleke Rahel Teshome John Schwartz Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Indris Mohamed Kat Amara Korba Aliou Touré Josée Deshaies Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Oumar Touré Editor: Debut Feature Johanna Schwartz Garba Touré Véronique Bruque Print Source: Andy Morgan Print Source: Composer: Kimstm Cinematographer: BBC Worldwide America Christophe Chassol Karelle Walker SHOWING: SHOWING: FRI 4/8 7:00 PM Uptown Theatre FRI 4/15 6:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 4:35 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 1:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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Te Fencer Miekkailija

Klaus Härö Finland, Estonia, Germany | 2015 Estonian, Russian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 99 min | Narratve Feature

This thrilling love story is inspired by a true Cold War episode, about an Estonian fencing champ on the run from the Soviet secret police. Working under a pseudonym as a phys ed teacher in a tny Estonian village, legendary fencer Endel Nelis starts teaching his pupils the art and sport of fencing. When the kids push for their team to partcipate in the naton- al competton in Leningrad, Endel must choose between his safety and his true vocaton. Take in the sights and sounds from a part of the world where, at least for a few days each year, Producer: Principal Cast: Kai Nordberg Mart Avandi the sun never sets. Kaarle Aho Ursula Ratasepp Screenplay: Hendrik Toompere Anna Heinämaa Awards: This selecton of exceptonal Cinematographer: Nominated, Best Foreign Tuomo Hutri Language Moton Picture - features ofers a snapshot of Editor: Golden Globes new Nordic cinema, and a nod to Tambert Tasuja Selected Filmography: Ueli Christen Leters to Father Jacob (‘09) Minnesota’s Nordic heritage. Composer: The New Man (‘07) Gert Wilden Jr Mother of Mine (‘05) Print Source: The Litle Film Company

SHOWING: SUN 4/10 3:30 PM Uptown Theatre SUN 4/17 1:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Te Garbage Helicopter Here is Harold Sophelikoptern Her er Harold

Jonas Selberg Augustsén Gunnar Vikene Sweden | 2016 Norway | 2014 Romany, Swedish with English subttles Norwegian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature 87 min | Narratve Feature

An old Roma woman is seized by a sudden urge to Entertaining, absurd and full of dark, compassion- reclaim her antque clock, sending her three grand- ate humor, this is the story of someone who loses ev- children on an odyssey across the lonesome, big-sky erything apart from a grim determinaton to render highways of northern Sweden (captured in beautful- his own life meaningful. ly bleak black-and-white). For over 40 years, Harold and his wife Marny ran The acton takes place in the deadpan absurdist a successful furniture business together near snowy territory pioneered by Jarmusch, Kaurismäki, and An- Bergen. But when IKEA opens a new superstore right dersson. Here, crosswords are completed (including next door to their small shop, it’s the beginning of a the mysterious entry, “garbage helicopter”), a speed- downward spiral. In mountng anger and desperaton, trap camera is demolished, a Holocaust museum is Harold decides to kidnap his nemesis, the founder of visited, the world’s second-biggest chair is solemnly IKEA, Ingvar Kamprad. viewed, and a gang of art thieves is encountered.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Andreas Emanuelsson Mikael Andren Maria Ekerhovd Bjørn Sundquist Screenplay: Josef Balok Screenplay: Bjørn Granath Jonas Selberg Augustsén Christopher Burjanski Gunnar Vikene Fanny Keter Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Grethe Selius Anders Bohman Debut Feature Simon Pramsten Awards: Editor: Print Source: Editor: Best Actor, Best Cinematography Nils Moström Swedish Film Insttute Frida Eggum Michaelsen - Amanda Awards Norway Composer: Composer: Selected Filmography: Jan Sandström Janove Otesen Vegas (‘09), Trigger (‘06) Falling Sky (‘02) Print Source: Norwegian Film Insttute SHOWING: SHOWING: THU 4/21 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/11 7:00 PM Uptown Theatre SAT 4/23 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/15 7:00 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester MON 4/18 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: TUE 4/19 9:15 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester

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Te Homecoming Te Last King Blóðberg Birkebeinerne

Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Nils Gaup Iceland | 2015 Norway | 2015 Icelandic with English subttles Nowegian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 90 min | Narratve Feature 98 min | Narratve Feature

Gunnar, a sociologist in his 50s, has writen count- The year is 1204, and Norway is torn apart in a civil less self-help books, which have earned him the war between the Birkebeiners and the Baglers. beautful house he shares with Dísa, his wife of 30 Supported by the Birkebeiners’ forces, the aging years. Despite his expertse, their relatonship has Norwegian King is fghtng for survival and keeping defnitely seen beter days. Meanwhile, their son his only remaining heir guarded in secret. It’s up to returns from a holiday with a new girlfriend, Sunna. two Birkebeiner warriors to take the two-year-old She’s prety, smart, polite and on the face of it, the on a perilous journey through the harsh Norwegian perfect daughter-in-law. However, Sunna’s appear- winter and save the future king from the army that ance forces Gunnar to face a dark secret. wants him killed. A deliciously dark comedy about the skeletons in Nil Gaup turns this legendary story into a perfect our closets. medieval acton adventure for the Game of Thrones era.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Rakel Gararsdótr Hilmar Jónsson Stein B. Kvae Jakob Ofrebro Ágústa M. Ólafsdótr Harpa Arnardótr Finn Gjerdrum Kristofer Hivju Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Pal Sverre Hagen Björn Hlynur Haraldsson Debut Feature Ravn Lanesskog Thorbjorn Harr Cinematographer: Print Source: Cinematographer: Nikolaj Lie Kaas Elli Cassata Vesturport Peter Mokrosinski Selected Filmography: Editor: Editor: The Kautokeino Rebellion (‘08) Frost Jón Runólfsson Christofer Heie Pathfnder (‘87) Composer: Print Source: Atli Örvarsson Magnolia Pictures

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My Skinny Sister Rosita Min lilla syster

Sanna Lenken W&F Frederikke Aspöck FLUX Sweden, Germany | 2015 Denmark | 2015 Swedish with English subttles Danish with English subttles W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 95 min | Narratve Feature 95 min | Narratve Feature

Sanna Lenken’s insightul debut feature not only The Filipino mail-order bride phenomenon is ex- shines a light on the psychological entanglement of plored with humanity and authentcity in a story full eatng disorders, but also casts a wide and tender of powerful emotons and repressed men. net over sisterly love (and hate) and the painful judg- Johannes lives with his father, the middle-aged ments pushed on girls. Stella is an awkward twelve- widower Ulrik in a small fshing village. Johannes has year-old who idolizes her svelte, popular, fgure skat- a girlfriend, but he doesn’t take their relatonship ing older sister Katja. But underneath Katja’s perfec- seriously. Meanwhile, shy Ulrik misses the love and ton is a dark secret, and Stella must fnd a way to tenderness of a woman. So, just as many other older help her sister without betraying her. men in this small village have done before him, he My Skinny Sister confronts the very dangerous arranges for a young Filipino to come to Denmark as landscape of girlhood, body image and growing un- his fancée. der the guise of society’s distorted expectatons.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Annika Rogell Rebecka Josephson, Amy Thomas Heinesen Mikkel Foe Følsgaard Screenplay: Deasismont, Annika Hallin, Screenplay: Jens Albinus Sanna Lenken Henrik Norlén, Maxim Kim Fupz Aakeson Mercedes Cabral Cinematographer: Mehmet Cinematographer: Julie Agnete Vange Moritz Shultheiß Awards: Adam Wallensten Awards: Editor: Crystal Bear: Best Film & Editor: Winner, Best Director - Hanna Lejonqvist Special Menton from the Martn Schade Moscow Film Festval Composer: Internatonal Jury - Berlinale Composer: Selected Filmography: Per Störby Jutbring Selected Filmography: Rasmus Bille Bähncke, Labrador (‘11) Debut Feature Johannes Elling Dam Print Source: Print Source: Trust Nordisk Wide

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Sparrows Virgin Mountain Prestir Fúsi

EMG Rúnar Rúnarsson COM Dagur Kári Iceland, Denmark, Croata | 2015 Iceland, Denmark | 2015 Icelandic with English subttles Icelandic with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 99 min | Narratve Feature 94 min | Narratve Feature

Forced to return to the remote village of his child- Painfully shy, 43-year-old Fusi is a gentle giant of hood to live with his estranged father, teenager Ari a man who works at the Reykjavik airport, but has has never felt more isolated. While his hard-partying never been on an airplane. This WWII-batle buf stll dad and loving but frail grandmother do their best to lives at home with his mother and is the but of his mend the broken past, local bullies and rough living co-workers’ malicious teasing. He gets on best with leave Ari struggling to fnd his place. the young daughter of a neighbor, but that makes the Unfolding with pathos and understated emoton, other residents of the building suspect that he’s a pe- Sparrows is a bitersweet coming-of-age story about dophile. When his mother’s boyfriend gives him the learning to stand up for yourself. Solid directng and unwanted gif of dancing lessons, it marks the begin- spectacular surroundings lif it well above the teen ning of a new life. drama genre.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Jónsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdótr, Rúnar Rúnarsson, Mikkel Atli Óskar Fjalarðson, Ingvar Baltasar Kormakur Sigurjón Kjartansson, Franziska Jersin, Birgite Hald, Igor E. Sigursson, Rakel Björk Agnes Johansen Una Dagsdótr, Margrét Helga A. Nola, Lilja Snorrisdótr Björnsdótr, Kristbjörg Screenplay: Jóhannsdótr, Arnar Jónsson Screenplay: Kjeld, Radeerbedija Dagur Kári Awards: Rúnar Rúnarsson Awards: Cinematographer: Best Narratve Feature Cinematographer: Golden Shell - San Sebastan Rasmus Videbæk - Tribeca Film Festval Sophia Olsson Film Festval Editor: Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Andri Steinn Guðjónsson, The Good Heart (‘09), Dark Jacob Schulsinger Volcano (‘11) Oliver Bugge Couté and Horse (‘05), Noi the Albino (‘03) Composer: Print Source: Dagur Kári Pétursson Print Source: Kjartan Sveinsson Versatle Principal Cast: Bac Films

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10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? 10 Milliarden - Wie werden wir alle satt? Valentn Thurn FLUX Germany | 2015 English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Nyanja, Hindi with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 102 min | Documentary Feature By 2050, the world populaton will grow to ten billion people. In the middle of the heated debate about food security, comes this broad and analytc look into the enormous spectrum of global food producton and distributon—from artfcial meat, insects, industrial farming to trendy self-cultvaton. Director and author Valentn Thurn seeks worldwide solutons and gives place for innovaton and visions for our future. This tmely documentary confronts the important choices we make every day This program delivers on the about the food we eat—where it comes from, how promise of cinema’s power to it’s made, and how it afects the global populaton. educate and inform, showcasing Producer: Awards: Jürgen Kleinig Social Justce Award - Santa feature length documentaries Tina Leeb Barbara Internatonal Film on a broad array of topics Screenplay: Festval Sebastan Stobbe Selected Filmography: from talented flmmakers from Valentn Thurn Taste the Waste (‘10) Cinematographer: Print Source: around the globe. Hajo Schomerus Autlook Film Sales Editor: Henk Drees Composer: Dürbeck&Dohmen SHOWING: MON 4/18 4:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 4:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Above and Below Te Anthropologist

Nicolas Steiner Daniel Miller, Seth Kramer, Jeremy Newberger USA, Russian Federaton, Kiribat, Peru | 2015 USA, Switzerland, Germany | 2015 English, Russian, Sakha, Kiribat, Spanish, Quechua with English English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 110 min | Documentary Feature FLUX 80 min | Documentary Feature In a world where popular culture is obsessed with Climate change remains one of the most hotly post-apocalyptc possibilites, Swiss director Nicolas debated and largely misunderstood topics we face Steiner’s outsider portrait of fve Americans living de- today. A team of flmmakers contextualizes the topic cidedly of the grid strikes a fascinatng surreal tone. by exploring the parallel stories of Margaret Mead, a Far away and out of sight, Above and Below chroni- cultural anthropologist famous for her studies in the cles life on the fringes: Rick, Cindy and Lalo “the God- 1960s, and Susie Crate, a contemporary environmen- father” who live in the tunnels below Las Vegas, April tal anthropologist. This insightul documentary not who role-plays life on Mars in the deserts of Utah, only takes us into the feld, highlightng diferent geo- and Dave who lives in an abandoned military bunker. graphical locatons struggling with the unavoidable Steiner’s unique documentary is reverent celebra- efects of global warming, but also humanizes these ton of society’s unorthodox outliers. issues by seeing them distlled through the perspectve of a scientst as a mother and the eyes of a teenage daughter. Producer: Composer: Producer: Composer: Helge Albers John Gürtler Seth Kramer Peter Rundquist Brigite Hofer Jan Miserre Daniel A. Miller Dar Williams Cornelia Seitler Lars Voges Jeremy Newberger Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Debut feature Nicolas Steiner Batle of the Queens (‘11) Daniel A. Miller Print Source: Cinematographer: Print Source: Cinematographer: Ironbound Films Markus Nestroy Oscilloscope Pictures Roger Grange Editor: Editor: Kaya Inan Seth Kramer

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Argentina Te Big Wu Way Zonda: Folclore Argentino

Carlos Saura Marcos Juarez-Gosselin, Theo Christofore MN Argentna, France, Spain | 2015 USA | 2016 Spanish with English subttles English MN REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE COM 85 min | Documentary Feature 118 min | Documentary Feature Award-winning Spanish flmmaker Carlos Saura Filmmakers and band atending. contnues his evocatve exploraton of popular song In the burgeoning jam band era of the early ’90s, and dance through various traditons in Argentnean a group of Minnesota musicians set out to take the music: zamba, baguala, chamamé, chacarera, cueca, world by storm. Known as The Big Wu, the band’s malambo, and many more. hook-oriented songwritng, love for their fans, and Shot as a live performance in a warehouse in true dedicaton to their music soon garnered them Buenos Aires, Saura uses minimal but stylish sets to a devoted fan base. Twenty years later, they remain bring the music and accompanying dance to vivid life. one of Minnesota’s most actve and well known Although the premise of this documentary is sim- bands of the genre. ple—music and dance unencumbered by narratve Culled from hundreds of hours of live performanc- or narraton—its executon though complex visual es, interviews with band members and fans, and choreography and captvatng performances is as rich more, this documentary, long in coming, is a nod to and engaging as anything else in the festval. the band members, tour crews, roadies, fans, friends, Producer: Selected Filmography: and family that made it all possible. Marcelo Schapces Flamenco, Flamenco (‘10) Producer: Editor: Mariana Erijimovich Tango (‘98) Mark Grundehoefer Marcos Juarez-Gosselin Alejandro Israel Ay Carmela (‘90) Emily Baugus Composer: Screenplay: Cria Cuervos (‘76) Screenplay: Roman Pinter Carlos Saura Deprisa, Deprisa (‘81) Emily Baugus Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Print Source: Mark Grundehoefer Debut feature Felix “Chango” Mont First Run Features Cinematographer: Editor: Theo Christofore César Custodi SHOWING: Lara Rodríguez Vilardebó SAT 4/9 7:00 PM McNally Smith College of Music TUE 4/12 9:35 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SHOWING: 4/9 IS A PREMIUM SCREENING: TUE 4/12 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Ticket prices: $25 Film+Concert. VIP Packages available. THU 4/21 5:00 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester Tickets include entry to the Big Wu Concert. See page 40. SPONSORED BY: Concert-only tickets sold separately. Visit mspfilm.org. SPONSORED BY:

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Closer Tan You Tink - Te Chinese Mayor Te Cuban Artist Project Datong

Zhou Hao Paul Irmiter MN China | 2014 Cuba, USA | 2016 Chinese (Mandarin) with English subttles Spanish, English with English subttles MN REGIONAL PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE COM 86 min | Documentary Feature 50 min | Documentary Feature Granted surprising access, documentarian Zhou Plays with: Shaping the Public, Spintronic, and Hao gives us an intmate portrait of Geng Yanbo, the River of Iron. See page 177. charismatc mayor of Datong on a mission to turn his Paul Irmiter atending. polluted coal mining city into a shiny tourist destna- Closer Than You Think is an inspiring, frst hand ton. His plan, however, involves a massive transfor- look inside the lives of fve Cuban artsts: painter maton and the relocaton of half a million people, Adrian Rumbaut, rapper Yrak Saenz, musician Nelson and Geng’s good intentons and can-do attude walk Valdés Viera, photographer Valent, and visual artst a line of compulsory politcal corrupton that trans- Camilo Diaz de Villalvilla. You’re brought along on a lates to getng a job done by any means necessary. journey of discovery into the heart of Cuban culture This complex and fascinatng documentary gives an rarely seen by the outside world. Minnesota flmmak- unprecedented look at Chinese politcs, the electon er Paul Irmiter takes us behind the scenes as artsts process, governmental power, and how the tde of work in their studios and on the streets, creatng popular opinion can change almost overnight. paintngs, murals and music that creates the rich pas- tche of Cuban cultural life. Producer: Awards: Zhao Qi Special Jury Award for Producer: Editor: Screenplay: Unparalleled Access - Sabrina Osman Dane Whitehead Zhou Hao Sundance Film Festval Mariesa Sun-Saenz Selected Filmography: Zhao Qi Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Debut feature Cinematographer: Coton (‘14) Paul Irmiter Print Source: Zhou Hao Print Source: Cinematographer: 612im Zhang Tianhui Zhao Qi Films Dane Whitehead Editor: Paul Irmiter Yu Xiaochuan Tom Lin

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District Zero Don’t Blink - Robert Frank

Pablo Iraburu, Jorge Fernandez Mayoral, DOC FLUX Laura Israel COM Pablo Tosco USA, Canada | 2015 Spain, Jordan | 2015 English W&F Arabic with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 82 min | Documentary Feature 65 min | Documentary Feature Maamun’s mobile phone repair shop is a tny Laura Israel atending. white container. Next to it is an identcal container, Robert Frank established himself as one of the and then another, and another. Thousands of con- most infuental photographers working today with tainers stretch as far as the eye can see—we are in his 1958 book The Americans and also demonstrated Zaatari, Jordan, one of the biggest refugee camps in his iconoclastc panache as a flmmaker with flms like the world where, at its peak in 2013, over 200,000 the pulsing Beat short Pull My Daisy (1959) and Roll- people were living in limbo. ing Stones exposé Cocksucker Blues (1972). Frank’s Through Maamun eyes, we see the populaton of longtme flm editor Laura Israel makes the most of the camp as he rebuilds photos and sound, recovers her close relatonship with Frank and his work to cre- lost content, and recharges bateries. Their memory ate an appropriately unconventonal portrait of the cards contain their only link to their past in Syria: hap- artst. piness, routne, and a family life. Made over three years, Israel stylistcally incorpo- Pablo Irabu’s Walls also screens in MSPIFF. See rates stlls and clips from his work as well as original page 123. interviews that uniquely capture this one-of-a-kind man. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Composer: Melinda Shopsin Robert Frank Marga Guterrez Alia Vox Label Laura Israel June Leaf Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Pablo Tosco Walls (‘15) Lisa Rinzler, Ed Lachman Windfall (‘10) Editor: Print Source: Editor: Print Source: Jorge Fernandez Mayoral Arena Comunicación Alex Bingham Assemblage Films Miguel Garcia

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Exotica Erotica, etc. Gypsy: Rock & Roll Nomads

Evangelia Kraniot W&F Aaron Goodyear MN France | 2015 USA | 2016 Greek, Spanish, Portuguese with English subttles English MN REGIONAL PREMIERE WORLD PREMIERE COM 73 min | Documentary Feature 93 min | Documentary Feature

Evangelia Kraniot pushes both creatve and real Aaron Goodyear atending. life boundaries in this extraordinarily daring and in- In the 1960s, The Underbeats became one of the novatve documentary portrait essay about sailors most popular bands in the Twin Cites. When the who traverse the seas on giant container ships and band relocated to Los Angeles and changed their the prosttutes that they come to know in their vari- name to Gypsy in the late 60s, they had the good for- ous ports of call. She decided, rather than simply in- tune of landing a house gig at the Whisky-A-Go Go on terview her subjects, she would become a sailor her- The Sunset Strip—one of the most important music self. In the course of making the flm, she traveled, clubs of the tme. as the only woman on board, to 20 countries over a Filmmaker Aaron Goodyear takes us on a trip of nine-year period. discovery of this underrated band and their adventures from the LA club scene to full on arena rock.

Producer: Awards: Producer: Principal Cast: Charlote Vincent Emerging Internatonal Aaron Goodyear Todd Stodolka Screenplay: Filmmaker Award - Hot Docs Sean A. Skinner David Mueller Evangelia Kraniot Selected Filmography: Jared Christe Domenic Priore Cinematographer: Debut feature Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Evangelia Kraniot Print Source: Jared Christe Debut feature Editor: Aurora Films Cinematographer: Yorgos Lamprinos Sean A. Skinner Composer: Editor: Eric Neveux Aaron Goodyear

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Norman Lear: Nina’s Children Just Another Version of You Ninas barn

Nina Grünfeld FLUX Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady W&F Norway | 2015 USA | 2016 Norwegian, Swedish, Danish with English subttles W&F English INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 80 min | Documentary Feature 91 min | Documentary Feature

Afer Anschluss—the Nazi invasion and incorpora- Television icon Norman Lear is proof positve that ton of Austria in 1938—a group of Jewish children wit and intelligence can live side-by-side in popular travel from Vienna to Oslo for summer camp. But culture. Writer, producer, comedian, actvist Norman when the tme comes for them to return home, the Lear is best known for his 70s sitcoms that injected politcal conditons on the contnent have worsened humanism into debates on race, class, creed and and they can no longer return to their families. In feminism—All in the Family, Maude, Good Times and Norway, an orphanage is established to look afer The Jefersons, just to name a few—but Lear’s legend these efectvely homeless children, one of whom is reaches far beyond the small screen. director Nina Grünfeld’s father. Along with clips from the shows he created, directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady pull in testmonials from the likes of Amy Poehler, George Clooney, and Jon Stewart. But the real star is Lear himself and the eclectc life he leads. Producer: Editor: Producer: Principal Cast: Nina Grünfeld Svein Olav Sandem Suzanne Hillinger John Amos Screenplay: Inge-Lise Langfeldt Brent Miller Adrienne Barbeau Nina Grünfeld Composer: Cinematographer: Valerie Bertnelli Cinematographer: Gaute Storaas Ronan Killeen Awards: Torstein Nodland Selected Filmography: Jenna Rosher Selected Filmography: Hilde Malme The Dying Doctor (‘08) Editor: Detropia (‘12) Bridgit Palardy Origin Unknown (‘05) J.D. Marlow Jesus Camp (‘06) Frank Alvegg Print Source: Enat Sidi Print Source: Nina F. Grünfeld Norwegian Film Insttute Music Box Films

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O Samba Our Last Tango Un tango màs

Georges Gachot German Kral Brazil, Switzerland, Germany | 2014 Argentna, Germany | 2015 Portuguese, French with English subttles Spanish with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 82 min | Documentary Feature 85 min | Documentary Feature

Georges Gachot atending. María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes met Samba is more than just the grand chaotc staging when they were 14 and 17, and they danced togeth- of Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval and frenetc rhythms and er for nearly ffy years. Their partnership in romance dancing. Through the work of the popular samba was full of emotonal strife, but their partnership on school Unidos de Vila Isabel and musician Martnho the foor was a synchronized perfecton that no one da Vila, O Samba explores the heart and soul of this could ignore, even themselves. Now, at the end of Brazilian artstc traditon. their lives, Juan and María open up about their love, Director Georges Gachot asserts the deeply lyrical their hatred, and their passion. way of life of samba with da Vila as our guide. Aug- Director German Kral enlists the expertse of Juan mented with vivid live performances and other musi- and María and translates their past into incredibly cal icons—including Leci Brandão, Ney Matogrosso, choreographed dramatzaton, capturing the allure of Paula Lima, and Martnho’s daughter Mart’nalia— the tango and the spark of this incredible duo. this documentary captures the spirit of samba. Producer: Composer: Nils Dünker Luis Borda Producer: Selected Filmography: Dieter Horres Sexteto Mayor Georges Gachot Beatocello’s Umbrella (‘12) Screenplay: Gerd Baumann Screenplay: Rio Sonata: Nana Caymmi (‘10) German Kral Selected Filmography: Georges Gachot Print Source: Cinematographer: The Last Applause (‘09) Cinematographer: Georges Gachot Films Jo Heim Música cubana (‘04) Pio Corradi, Peter Guyer Félix Mont Print Source: Editor: Editor: Strand Releasing Ruth Schläpfer Ulrike Tortora

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Resilience Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg

James Redford Marshall Fine MN USA | 2016 USA | 2016 English English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 60 min | Documentary Feature 94 min | Documentary Feature

James Redford atending. A hilarious and heartelt look at the career and in- “The child may not remember, but the body re- fuence of comedy legend Robert Klein. members.” Researchers have recently discovered a Marshall Fine’s is the author of three biographies, dangerous biological syndrome caused by abuse and most recently Accidental Genius: How John Cassave- neglect during childhood. tes Invented the American Independent Film (2006). As Resilience reveals, toxic stress can trigger hor- He is a member and four-tme chairman of the New mones that wreak havoc on the brains and bodies of York Film Critcs Circle and is critc-in-residence at The children, putng them at a greater risk for disease, Picture House in Pelham, NY. homelessness, prison tme, and early death. While the broader impacts of poverty worsen the risk, no segment of society is immune. Resilience, however, also chronicles the dawn of a movement that is determined to fght back.

Producer: Brian Gurnet Producer: Principal Cast: James Redford Peter Hutchens Marshall Fine Robert Klein Karen Pritzker Rich Joy Brennan Vance Print Source: Screenplay: Chris Kelly Cinematographer: The Weinstein Company Jen Bradwell Mike Martn Brennan Vance Cinematographer: Editor: Editor: John Behrens Jen Bradwell Josh Williams Jason Blalock Composer: Chuck Greenwood Luke Buck Garth Stevenson John Chater Jonathan Furmanski

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Robert Bly: A Tousand Years of Joy Speed Sisters

Haydn Reiss MN Amber Fares FLUX USA | 2015 USA, Palestne | 2015 English MN Arabic, English with English subttles W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE COM REGIONAL PREMIERE 81 min | Documentary Feature 80 min | Documentary Feature

Haydn Reiss atending. Despite restrictons on movement, a very dynamic Poet Robert Bly stands out even among the cele- motor racing scene has emerged in the West Bank. brated, revolutonary generaton of American artsts From this arena comes the Speed Sisters—fve deter- who burst forth in the 1950s. mined women who have joined the ranks of dozens This richly drawn biography charts Bly’s singular of male drivers. Proving that women can compete path from farmer’s son on a wintry Minnesota farm head-on with the guys, the Speed Sisters are the frst to radical ant-Vietnam War actvist to wild man of all-women racecar driving team in the Middle East. the 1990’s men’s movement. Filmed over four years They’re bold. They’re fearless. And they’re tearing up in fve states and two countries, the flm features a tracks all over Palestne. host of his contemporaries, friends and admirers. Both intmate and acton-flled, Speed Sisters cap- Come see the story behind Minnesota’s most fa- tures the drive to defy all odds, leaving in its trail shat- mous poet in Haydn Reiss’ lively and entertaining tered stereotypes about gender and the Arab world. documentary.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Dominic Howes Coleman Barks Amber Fares Mara Zahalka Screenplay: Robert Bly Avi Goldstein Bety Saadeh Thomas Lemmer Peter Coyote Jessica Devaney Maysoon Jayyusi Editor: John Densmore Cinematographer: Noor Daoud Steve Fischer Martn Sheen Amber Fares Mona Ennab James Gowdey Selected Filmography: Lucy Martens Selected Filmography: Haydn Reiss Rumi: Poet of the Heart (‘98) Editor: Debut feature Print Source: Rabab Haj Yahya Print Source: Zinc Films SocDoc Studios LLC

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Te Summer Help Talent Has Hunger

Melody Gilbert FLUX Josh Aronson USA | 2015 USA, Bulgaria | 2016 English English, Bulgarian with English subttles W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE 67 min | Documentary Feature 82 min | Documentary Feature

Plays with: Life Through the Lens. See page 177. Josh Aronson atending. Melody Gilbert and Igor Myakotn atending. An inspiring documentary about the power of From Martha’s Vineyard to Myrtle Beach, thou- music to consume, enhance, and propel lives. Shot sands of internatonal students descend upon sum- over 7 years, the flm is a window into the mysterious mer resorts and tourist towns in the U.S. to clean ho- world of the artst, the passion that can grip and sus- tel rooms, wash dishes and make pizza for Americans tain a young player from childhood onward, and the on vacaton. Who are these students and what do years of sacrifce and dedicaton to fulfll one’s talent. they fnd when they arrive? Why do they work at two, Under the guidance of master cello teacher Paul three and sometmes four jobs for minimum wage? Is Katz, their deep study not only prepares wonderful the U.S. what they thought it would be? musicians, but also builds self-esteem and a cultural Director Melody Gilbert looks beyond the and aesthetc character that will be profoundly im- nametags to the young and impressionable individu- portant throughout their lives. als who come to the U.S. to chase a dream.

Producer: Editor: Producer: Selected Filmography: Melody Gilbert Nina Altaparmakova Nancy Lubin Orchestra of Exiles (‘12) Martchka Bozhilova Print Source: Richard Lubin Sound and Fury (‘00) (Agitprop, Bulgaria) Frozen Feet Films Nina Kristc Print Source: Cinematographer: Margaret Metzger First Run Features Melody Gilbert Cinematographer: Igor Myakotn Josh Aronson Hristana Kirova Brian Dowley Dima Vitanova Editor: Mark Juergens

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Tickled Uncle Howard

LG LG David Farrier, Dylan Reeve BT Aaron Brookner BT New Zealand | 2016 UK, USA | 2016 English English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 92 min | Documentary Feature 96 min | Documentary Feature

Special in-theater wine tastngs by Sileni Estates. Howard Brookner was a pioneering documenta- Afer stumbling upon a bizarre “compettve endur- ry flmmaker who vividly captured a bygone era of ance tckling” video online, wherein young men are 1980s New York City. paid to be ted up and tckled, reporter David Farrier Director Aaron Brookner digs through the archives reaches out to the company for a story. But the reply of his uncle’s footage to present a personal homage he receives is shocking—the sender mocks Farrier’s of a man he idolize but the world at large knows sexual orientaton and threatens extreme legal acton nothing about. The documentary is thematcally should he dig any deeper. So, like any good journalist positoned between home movies (illuminatng the confronted by a bully, he does just the opposite: he nephew-uncle relatonship), the Chelsea Hotel that travels to the hidden tckling facilites in Los Angeles became a haven for outsider artsts, and St. Vincent’s and uncovers a strange, vast empire. Hospital where Howard and thousands of others were treated for AIDS-related illnesses. Uncle Howard is a moving tribute to an artst—and an uncle—who died far too young.

Producer: Composer: Producer: Selected Filmography: Carthew Neal Rodi Kirkcaldy Paula Vaccaro The Silver Goat (‘11) Cinematographer: Florian Zwietnig Cinematographer: Print Source: Dominic Fryer Print Source: André Döbert The Film Collaboratve Editor: Magnolia Pictures Gregg de Domenico Simon Coldrick Editor: Masahiro Hirakubo

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Under Te Skin Unlocking the Cage Voyage en barbarie

Cécile Allegra, Delphine Deloget FLUX Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker W&F Sweden, Egypt, France | 2015 USA | 2016 English, Tigrinya, Arabic with English subttles W&F English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 72 min | Documentary Feature 91 min | Documentary Feature

Cécile Allegra atending. Unlocking the Cage follows animal rights lawyer Since 2008, thousands of young Africans have Steven Wise in his unprecedented challenge to break been kidnapped and sold to trafckers in the Si- down the legal wall that separates animals from hu- nai. Confned to detenton camps, the hostages are mans. chained together, where they are tortured and raped. Afer thirty years of struggling with inefectve To be released, their families must pay an exorbitant animal welfare laws, Wise and his legal team, the ransom of $30,000, an amount almost impossible to Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), are making history raise. It’s pay or die. It is estmated that more than by fling the frst lawsuits that seek to transform an 12,000 hostages have perished in the Sinai desert, animal from a thing with no rights to a person with their bodies buried in mass graves. For two years the legal protectons. flmmakers met with survivors who had never spoken This vital documentary captures a monumental about their experience, untl now. shif in our culture, as the public and judicial system show increasing receptveness to Wise’s impassioned arguments.

Producer: Cinematographer: Producer: Composer: PUBLIC SENAT et Delphine Deloget Chris Hegedus James Lavino MEMENTO Cecile Allegra Julia McInnis Selected Filmography: Screenplay: Editor: Frazer Pennebaker Kings of Pastry (‘09) Cécile Allegra Delphine Deloget Rosadel Varela Only the Strong Survive (‘02) Delphine Deloget Composer: Cinematographer: The War Room (‘93) Christophe Rodomisto Chris Hegedus Print Source: Editor: First Run Features Pax Wassermann

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Voices from Chernobyl Vore King La supplication

DOC MN Pol Cruchten COM Dan S Luxembourg, Austria | 2015 USA | 2016 French with English subttles English MN NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE COM 86 min | Documentary Feature 118 min | Documentary Feature

Based on the book by Svetlana Alexievich, winner Dan S atending. of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature, the hauntng Vore King is a detailed portrait of R.P. Whalen, and beautful Voices From Chernobyl gives scientsts, world famous horror host, trash movie guru, carni- teachers, journalists, couples and children a chance val sideshow barker, and America’s premier purveyor to speak about their daily lives, which were devastat- of vorarephilia—more commonly known as “vore,” ed by the most unlikely of disasters. the erotc desire to be consumed by, or sometmes Drawing inspiraton from flmmaker Andrei Tar- to personally consume, another person or creature. kovsky, Cruchten takes the audience on a spiritual This flm follows Whalen’s process of conceiving and and poetc journey through this horror, juxtaposing constructng an array of vore creatures while he re- their sofly spoken, angerless words—which refect kindles a bond with his elderly father. This unique on the atrocites sufered by the victms of this acci- documentary features interactons with R.P. Whalen’s dent—with images of mesmerizing aesthetcism. actresses and family, as well as a rare glimpse into the producton of vore flm. Producer: Selected Filmography: Producer: Principal Cast: Jeanne Geiben The Robbers (‘15) Dan S, Brianna Deihl Raymond P Whalen,Ivar Screenplay: Never Die Young (‘14) Screenplay: Thoth, Rock And Roll Ray, Pol Cruchten, adapted Perl Oder Pica (‘06) Dan S Patrick Whalen, Lilly Von from the book by Boys in the run (‘01) Cinematographer: Monster, Heidi Sweet, James Svetlana Alexievich Black Dju (‘96) Dan S Pershing, Lacey Wilde, Tomiko, Cinematographer: Wedding Night (‘92) Editor: John ‘Red’ Stuart Jerzy Palacz Print Source: Dan S Selected Filmography: Editor: Red Lion Composer: Old Man (‘14) Dominique Gallieni Grant Richardson Ned Abdul Needs More Retail Composer: DJ Muggs Space or: How to Say Goodbye Andre Mergenthaler To An Old Friend (‘12)

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Walls Weiner Muros

Pablo Iraburu, Migueltxo Molina FLUX Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg W&F Spain | 2015 USA | 2016 Arabic, English, French, Spanish with English subttles English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 80 min | Documentary Feature 100 min | Documentary Feature

The world is increasingly more divided, and ofen In 2011, Anthony Weiner resigned from Congress these psychological and politcal barriers have physi- afer admitng to sending sexually explicit photos to cally manifested into walls—a damaging and danger- an sundry of women who were not his wife. A mere ous symbol with humans on either side. two years later, Weiner returned to politcs by en- Directors Pablo Iraburu and Migueltxo Molina ex- tering the New York City mayoral electon and, in a plore four such walls—between the U.S. and Mexico, mind-boggling example of having not learned his les- Spain and Morocco on the island of Melilla, Israel and son, found himself embroiled in yet another sextng Palastne, and South Africa and Zimbabwe—and their scandal. monumental impact. Given unprecedented access, frst-tme directors Beautfully shot and emotonally strring, Walls Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman give an incredibly shows that the fall of the Berlin Wall proved to be an engaging frst-hand account of ‘Carlos Danger’ and anomaly in our brave new world of barricades and Weinergate that puts a very tmely spotlight on the fences. public maneuvers of the politcal spin. Pablo Iraburu’s District Zero also screens in Producer: Editor: MSPIFF. See page 102. Christopher Clements Eli B. Despres Elizabeth Delaune Composer: Producer: Selected Filmography: Warren Jef Beal Itziar García Zubiri Iraburu: District Zero (‘15) Julie Goldman Awards: Cinematographer: Print Source: Carolyn Hepburn Grand Jury Prize Pablo Iraburu Autlook Film Sales Screenplay: Documentary – Sundance Editor: Eli B. Despres Selected Filmography: Pablo Iraburu Josh Kriegman Debut feature Migueltxo Molina Elyse Steinberg Print Source: Composer: Cinematographer: Sundance Selects Mikel Salas John Kriegman

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When Two Worlds Collide Women He’s Undressed

DOC LG Heidi Brandenburg, Mathew Orzel COM Gillian Armstrong BT Peru | 2016 Australia | 2015 Spanish with English subttles W&F English W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Documentary Feature 99 min | Documentary Feature Tense and wholly immersive, flmmakers Heidi Theatrical and absorbing, Women He’s Undressed Brandenburg and Mathew Orzel take you directly is tour of Hollywood’s golden age led by the late, into the line of fre between two powerful Peruvian great Australian costume designer Orry-Kelly. Serving leaders over the future of the country. on an astonishing 282 moton pictures, Orry-Kelly de- In 2008, when president Alan Garcia atempts to signed for the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Bete Davis, extract oil and minerals from untouched Amazonian Humphrey Bogart, Rosalind Russell, and Errol Flynn land with the hopes of elevatng his country’s eco- on flms such as Some Like It Hot, Casablanca, An nomic prosperity, he is met with ferce, violent oppo- American in Paris and Now, Voyager. Orry-Kelly was siton led by indigenous leader Alberto Pizango. an infuental behind-the-scene legend but an illusive This nuanced, even-handed flm captures all an- personality with very litle documentaton on his life, gles of a confict that quickly escalates from a heated including an early afair with Cary Grant. war of words to one of deadly violence. Fellow Aussie Gillian Armstrong chronicles Or- ry-Kelly’s life with a star-studded pizzazz ftng this Producer: Awards: incredible artst. Taira Akbar Special Jury Prize for Best 4/13 screening preceeded by Editor: Debut Feature - Sundance #thegreenroomparty, see page 41. Carla Guterrez Film Festval Producer: Composer: Composer: Print Source: Damien Parer Cezary Skubiszewski H. Scot Salinas The Film Sales Company Gillian Armstrong Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Katherine Thompson Love, Lust, & Lies (‘10), Cinematographer: Death Defying Acts (‘07) Anna Howard My Brilliant Career (‘79) Editor: Print Source: Nicholas Beauman The Film Collaboratve SHOWING: SAT 4/16 1:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SHOWING: THU 4/21 2:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 7:00 PM Uptown Theatre SAT 4/16 11:20 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Women Outward Bound Te World Has No Eyedea

Maxine Davis W&F MN Brandon Crowson MN USA | 2015 USA | 2016 English MN English MN WORLD PREMIERE COM WORLD PREMIERE COM 64 min | Documentary Feature 98 min | Documentary Feature Maxine Davis atending. Brandon Crowson atending. Fify years ago girls were not allowed to partcipate Micheal ‘Eyedea’ Larsen was a 21st century prod- in the Outward Bound Wilderness School. But that all igy—a freestyle batle rapping champion, a guitar changed in 1965 when a Minnesota Outward Bound player, a break dancer, lead singer of a punk band, a class was opened to young women. At a tme when poet, a philosopher, and a supportve friend to many. girls should have been honing their housekeeping On October 16, 2010, Larsen died in his sleep from skills, 24 courageous young women took the chal- what was called an accidental overdose. With ample lenge of a month of outdoor survival. This moment footage of Eyedea in his prime, The World Has No changed them and the Outward Bound program for- Eyedea tells the real story behind this unique under- ever. ground artst as a positve force for his friends, family Through interviews, footage of the Boundary Wa- and his fans. ters both then and now, and a heartwarming reunion, this documentary tells the story of these pioneering women. Producer: Editor: Producer: Principal Cast: Maxine Davis Nick Clausen Kathy Averill Slug Melody Gilbert Selected Filmography: Brandon Crowson DJ Abilites Screenplay: Debut Feature Cinematographer: Carnage The Executoner Maxine Davis Brandon Crowson Eyedea Melody Gilbert Editor: Kathy Averill Cinematographer: Brandon Crowson Selected Filmography: Nick Clausen Composer: Debut feature Brandon Crowson

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125 world cinema WORLD CINEMA

1944

Elmo Nüganen Estonia, Finland | 2015 Estonian, Russian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature

Director Elmo Nuganen, who wore his actng hat in last year’s Oscar-nominated MSPIFF Ofcial Selecton Tangerines as farmer Margus, fexes his flm directng skills in this grity war epic, which ranks as Estonia’s biggest-ever domestc box ofce success. As the flm illustrates, the ttular year was a dangerous and painful one for Estonian soldiers who found themselves on home turf, fghtng compatriots. 1944 focuses on two courageous Estonian staf sergeants: farm boy Karl, who wears the uniform of From Oscar® submissions to the SS, and Juri, who fghts with the Red Army. internatonal box-ofce breakers

to sleeper hits, rediscover the Producer: Principal Cast: world from a multtude of Kristan Taska Maiken Schmidt Screenplay: Kaspar Velberg new perspectves in Leo Kunnas Kristjan Üksküla this showcase of new Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Rein Kotov Names in Marble (‘02) internatonal narratve flms. Editor: Mindless (‘06) Tambet Tasuja Print Source: Composer: Eyewell Jaak Jürisson

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Aferim! Te Ardennes D’ardennen

Radu Jude Robin Pront Romania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic | 2015 Belgium | 2015 Romanian with English subttles Dutch, French with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 106 min | Narratve Feature 92 min | Narratve Feature

Eastern Europe, circa 1835. Constable Constandin Robin Pront’s feature-flm debut opens with a and his son cross a barren landscape in the middle powerful punch and contnues with a slow burn of Wallachia. Together they are searching for Carfn, downward spiral of brotherly betrayal and brutal ret- a gypsy slave who has run away from his nobleman ributon. master and is suspected of having an afair with the Afer a robbery goes hopelessly wrong, Dave es- noble’s wife. capes the scene leaving his brother Kenny behind to A harsh history lesson leavened by bawdy humor take the rap. Flash forward four years and Dave has and classic western elements, Aferim! dramatzes the been able to turn his life around while tme has stood formerly taboo subject of gypsy slavery that four- stll for Kenny, now out on parole, who was lef sim- ished in Romania for centuries, and was only fnally mering in jail. The palpable tension between Dave abolished in 1856. and Kenny builds to brutal and thrilling crescendo in the shadows of Belgium’s Ardennes forest.

Producer: Cuzin Toma Producer: Principal Cast: Ada Solomon Alexandru Dabija Bart Van Langendonck Jeroen Perceval Screenplay: Alexandru Bindea Screenplay: Veerle Baetens Radu Jude Awards: Robin Pront Kevin Janssens Florin Lăzărescu Silver Bear-Best Director - Jeroen Perceval Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Berlinale Cinematographer: Debut feature Marius Panduru Selected Filmography: Robrecht Heyvaert Print Source: Editor: Everybody in Our Family (‘12), Editor: Film Movement Catalin Cristutu The Happiest Girl in the World Alain Dessauvage Principal Cast: (‘09) Teodor Corban Print Source: Mihai Comănoiu Big World Pictures

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Atomic Falafel Babai

Dror Shaul Visar Morina Israel, New Zealand, Germany | 2015 Kosovo, Germany, Macedonia, France | 2015 Hebrew, English, Farsi with English subttles Albanian, Serbian, German with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 93 min | Narratve Feature 104 min | Narratve Feature The Israeli military meets its match in a deter- It’s a hard-knock life for a young Kosavar lad in this mined 15-year-old girl, in Dror Shaul’s hilarious satre highly topical, unsentmental drama about unwanted on volatle Iran-Israel relatons. economic migrants. Nofar works in a falafel truck with her widowed Beginning in 1990s Kosovo, the flm focuses on mother near the site of a secret Israeli nuclear pro- small but determined 10-year-old Nori, who, with gram gearing up for war. However, the proverbial his father, Gesim, ekes out a meager living selling monkey wrench gets tossed into the gears of the mil- cigaretes on the street. Perhaps due to the unstable itary’s plans when the Internatonal Atomic Energy foundatons of his life, Nori cannot bear to be part- Agency shows up for an inspecton with a handsome ed from his father, but Gesim wants to try his luck in German inspector that Nofar thinks is just right for Germany… alone. her mother. With clear nods to Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strange- love, this fast-paced pro-peace comedy is just the right recipe for these troubled tmes. Producer: Enver Petrovci Nicole Gerhards Xhevdet Jashari Screenplay: Principal Cast: Screenplay: Alban Ukaj Dror Shaul Michelle Treves Visar Morina Awards: Cinematographer: Shai Avivi Cinematographer: Best Director - Karlovy Vary Sebastan Edschmid Mali Levi Mateo Cocco Internatonal Film Festval Editor: Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Tom Eagles Sweet Mud (‘06) Stefan Stabenow Debut feature Nili Feller Sima Vaknin Machshefa (‘03) Composer: Print Source: Tal Keller Print Source: Benedikt Schiefer Heretc Outreach 6 Sales Principal Cast: Val Maloku Astrit Kabashi Adriana Matoshi SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 2:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 2:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 7:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/22 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Belgian Rhapsody Blush Brabançonne Barash

LG Vincent Bal Michal Vinik BT Belgium, Luxembourg | 2014 Israel | 2015 French, Dutch with English subttles Hebrew, Arabic with English subttles W&F REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature 83 min | Narratve Feature

This exuberant and entertaining musical comedy Apathetc 17-year-old Naama does litle to feign uses the ferce rivalry between two Belgian brass interest in school or family, even when her older sis- bands—the Flemish St. Cecilia and the Walloon ter goes missing from the military. But things change (French-speaking) En Avant—as they vie for a Euro- when a rebellious blond named Hershko shows up at pean championship to send up the intractable com- school, and the two girls explore their mutual atrac- petton between Belgium’s two language groups in ton to drugs and each other. almost every walk of life. As her family frets over the rumor that her old- Director Bal and screenwriter Pierre De Clercq er sister has run of with a Palestnian, Naama has (who penned Hasta la vista!) successfully channel the plunged headfrst into the intoxicatng aura of new beatng heart of classic Hollywood musical romances, love. This rebel girl romance throws a unique light on even as the narratve remains 100% Belgian. They contemporary Israel, fltering its politcs through the don’t make ‘em like this anymore. eyes and actons of Israel’s defant youth.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Peter Bouckaert Amaryllis Uiterlinden Amir Harel Sivan Noam Shimon (Eyeworks) Arthur Dupont Ayelet Kait Dvir Benedek Screenplay: Jos Verbist Screenplay: Reut Akkerman Pierre De Clercq Tom Audenairt Michal Vinik Koral Bosidon Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Danny Elsen The Zigzag Kid (‘12) Shai Peleg Debut feature Editor: Miss Minoes (‘01) Editor: Print Source: Philippe Ravoet Print Source: Joelle Alexis Film Movement Composer: Be For Films Composer: Steve Willaert Daphna Keenan

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Bota Chevalier

Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci W&F Athina Rachel Tsangari W&F Albania, Italy, Kosovo | 2014 Greece | 2015 Albanian with English subttles Greek with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 104 min | Narratve Feature 99 min | Narratve Feature

In a remote Albanian town where the residents Athina Rachel Tsangari gently ratles the cage of claim nothing ever happens, down-to-earth Juli, en- machismo in this cleverly funny chess game of egos. trepreneurial Ben, and free spirit Nora run a quirky With no austerity in sight, Tsangari places her male cafe/bar called Bota. But progress is coming in the microcosm on a yacht with six friends doing what form of a highway constructon project, which also men do—scuba diving, drinking, fexing, and atempt- brings a secret from the village’s traumatc past. ing to prove oneself. Rather than be covert about Compelling, surprising and tenderly performed, their compettveness, the men decide to spend the this melancholy dramedy illustrates the complicated remainder of their vacaton deciding which among relatonship Albanians have with their dark past. them is “the best in general” (or the chevalier), where all actons and appearances will be scrutnized for points—a gentlemanly contest that hilariously pushes privilege and pride to their breaking point.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Sabina Kodra Flonja Kodheli Maria Hatzakou Yorgos Kendros, Panos Andrea Stockovitz Artur Goisht Athina Rachel Tsangari Koronis, Vangelis Mourikis, Screenplay: Fioralba Kryemadhi Screenplay: Makis Papadimitriou, Yorgos Iris Elezi Awards: Efhimis Filippou Pirpassopoulos, Sakis Rouvas Thomas Logoreci FEDEORA Award - Karlovy Athina Rachel Tsangari Awards: Cinematographer: Internatonal Film Festval Cinematographer: Best Film - London Film Festval Ramiro Civita Selected Filmography: Christos Karamanis Selected Filmography: Editor: Debut feature Editor: The Capsule (‘12) Walter Fasano Mathew Johnson Atenberg (‘10) Yorgos Mavropsaridis Print Source: Strand Releasing

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A Decent Man Dheepan Nichts passiert

Micha Lewinsky Jacques Audiard FLUX Switzerland | 2015 France | 2015 German with English subttles Tamil, French, English with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 92 min | Narratve Feature 110 min | Narratve Feature

This provocatve drama chronicles a family vaca- Three strangers are thrown together in a desper- ton that turns into every parent’s nightmare. Thom- ate atempt to fee their war torn homeland. as, an amiable man in his mid-fortes, resolves that The Sri Lankan civil war has ended and a former his family will take their annual skiing holiday in the Tamil Tiger soldier (who now assumes the name Swiss Alps even though neither his wife or daughter Dheepan), a young single woman, and an orphaned are interested. But things soon become more compli- girl masquerade as a family to beter their chances of cated when his manipulatve boss pressures him to immigratng to safety. But other unfamiliar dangers include his difcult daughter, Sarah. lay ahead in the volatle atmosphere of a shabby Pa- A convincing portrait of an insecure man whose risian suburb. As the three struggle to maintain the failure to be a beloved father, brilliant journalist and intmate façade of a family, Dheepan fnds it hard to understanding husband is sending him over the edge. avoid the violence of the streets. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Fest- val, Jacques Audiard’s latest is a gripping, human, and Producer: Principal Cast: tmely tale of survival. HC Vogel Devid Striesow Producer: Principal Cast: Screenplay: Maren Eggert Pascal Caucheteux Jesuthasan Antonythasan Micha Lewinksy Annina Walt Jacques Audiard Kalieaswari Srinivasan Cinematographer: Lote Becker Screenplay: Claudine Vinasithamby Pierre Mennel Selected Filmography: Noe Debre Awards: Editor: Will You Marry Us? (‘09), Thomas Bidegain Palme D’Or - Cannes Film Festval Gion-Reto Killias The Friend (‘08) Jacques Audiard Selected Filmography: Composer: Print Source: Cinematographer: A Prophet (‘09) Marcel Blat Plan B Film Eponine Momenceau Rust and Bone (‘12) Editor: Print Source: Juliete Welfing Sundance Selects Composer: SHOWING: Nicolas Jaar FRI 4/8 4:45 PM Uptown Theatre SHOWING: TUE 4/19 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 5:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: TUE 4/12 9:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Eisenstein in Guanajuato Enclave Enklava

LG FLUX Peter Greenaway BT Goran Radovanovic Netherlands, Mexico, Finland, Belgium | 2015 Germany, Serbia | 2015 English, Spanish with English subttles Serbian, Albanian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 105 min | Narratve Feature 92 min | Narratve Feature

Metculously working from Sergei Eisenstein’s di- Set in 2004 and unfolding through the eyes of a aries, director Peter Greenaway uses his honed aes- lonely lad who lives in an isolated Serbian Orthodox thetc to dramatcally imagine “ten days that shook quarter of a majority Albanian Muslim village in Koso- Eisenstein” in the form of his sexual awakening and vo, this poignant and intense coming-of-age story artstc frustraton. questons whether co-existence is possible between In 1931, Eisenstein traveled to Guanajuato, Mexi- the two communites. Wistul 10-year-old Nenad is co to shoot a flm where he succumbs to his desires the only child lef in his neighborhood and school, and indulges in an afair with his male guide Palomino and he longs to have someone his own age to play Cañedo. with. One day, Nenad has a fateful encounter with Greenaway’s flm is notable for brazenly bringing some Albanian boys. Eisenstein out of the closet (something that Vladimir Putn rejected afer the flm’s premiere in Berlin), but it is perhaps more importantly a vivid document of the social, politcal, and artstc pulse of the moment Producer: Principal Cast: that surrounded Eisenstein at the height of his career. Nico Hain Filip Subaric, Denis Muric, Screenplay: Nebojsa Glogovac, Anica Producer: Principal Cast: Goran Radovanovic Dobra Bruno Felix Elmer Bäck Cinematographer: Awards: San Fu Maltha Luis Albert Axel Schneppat Audience Award - Moscow Cristna Velasco Maya Zapata Editor: Internatonal Film Festval Femke Woltng Selected Filmography: Andrija Zafranovic Selected Filmography: Screenplay: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife Composer: With Fidel Whatever Peter Greenaway & Her Lover (‘89) Eleni Karaindrou Happens (‘11) Cinematographer: The Pillow Book (‘96) Irena Popovic The Ambulance (‘09) Reinier van Brummelen Print Source: Print Source: Editor: Strand Releasing Seth & Hain Film Elmer Leupen

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Endorphine Fever at Dawn Hajnali láz

André Turpin Péter Gárdos FLUX Canada | 2015 Israel, Sweden, Hungary | 2015 French with English subttles Hungarian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 84 min | Narratve Feature 105 min | Narratve Feature

What’s the connecton between trauma, memory Miklós, a Hungarian survivor of Bergen Belsen, and the relatvity of space and tme? arrives in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is skin and Endorphine sends you down a rabbit hole where bone, and has no teeth. The doctor says he has only tme and existence are scrambled into a Lynchian fe- months to live. But Miklós has other plans. He ac- ver dream. Afer 12-year-old Simone helplessly wit- quires a list of 117 young Hungarian women who nesses the murder of her mother, she is thrust into are also in refugee camps in Sweden, and he writes an endless loop that explores alternate realites and a leter to each of them—obsessively, in his beaut- parallel lives, including what may or may not be adult ful hand, sitng in the shade of a tree in the hospital versions of herself. Expertly crafed by André Turpin garden. One of those young women, he is sure, will (cinematographer on Xavier Dolan’s Mommy and become his wife. Tom at the Farm and Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies), Endorphine is a dark and visually arrestng head trip.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Luc Déry Sophie Nélisse, Mylène Dénes Szekeres Milan Schruf, Emőke Pit, Kim McCraw MacKay, Lise Roy, Guy Screenplay: Gila Almagor, Andrea Screenplay: Thauvete, Monia Chokri, Péter Gárdos Petrik, Gábor Máté, József André Turpin Stéphane Crête, Anne-Marie Cinematographer: Gyabronka, Péter Scherer, Cinematographer: Cadieux, Théodore Pellerin, László Seregi Eszter Földes, Lehel Kovács Josée Deshaies Fanny Migneault-Lecavalier Editor: Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Ádám Fiers Prank (‘09) Sophie Leblond Sof Shell Man (‘01) Composer: The Porcelain Doll (‘05) Composer: Print Source: Atla Pacsay The Last Blues (‘02) François Lafontaine Seville Internatonal Print Source: Filmunio SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/10 9:15 PM Uptown Theatre SUN 4/10 6:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 9:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 2:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Francofonia A Good Wife Dobra žena

Alexander Sokurov Mirjana Karanovic France, Germany, Netherlands | 2015 Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croata | 2016 French, German, Russian with English subttles Serbian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 88 min | Narratve Feature 94 min | Narratve Feature

The tagline for Alexander Sokurov’s mesmerizing Milena, a 50-year-old wife and mother, is about to Francofonia—an elegy for Europe—is apt. Evoking a have the rug pulled out from underneath her com- history of the Louvre Museum from the Renaissance fortable life in suburban Belgrade. Delivered a dou- to the present, Sokurov masterfully weaves a moving ble blow, Milena frst learns she has a lump in her tableau of newsreels, voiceovers and staged re-enact- breast and then, during a bout of cathartc cleaning, ments, as he meditates on the essental relatonship uncovers a videotape from her husband’s past in the between art, culture, and history. Key in this freeform Serbian military. Milena is now forced to queston ev- historical narratve is 1940, the Nazi invasion of Par- erything she has taken for granted in her life. Veteran is, and the resultng push-pull relatonship between actress Mirjana Karanovic stars in her brave directo- Jacques Jaujard, the steadfast director of the Louve, rial debut that is a powerful and emotonal vortex of and Count Franziskus Wolf- Meternich, the Nazi of- the personal and the politcal. cer put in charge of the Louve.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Pierre Olivier Bardet Louis-Do de Lencquensaing Snezana Penev Mirjana Karanovic Olivier Pere Benjamin Utzerath Screenplay: Boris Isakovi Screenplay: Vincent Nemeth Mirjana Karanovic Jasna Djuricic Alexander Sokurov Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Bojan Navojec Cinematographer: Faust (‘11) Erol Zubcevic Hristna Popovic Bruno Delbonnel The Sun (‘05} Editor: Ksenija Marinkovic Editor: Russian Ark (‘02) Lazar Predojev Selected Filmography: Hansjörg Weißbrich Print Source: Composer: Debut feature Composer: Music Box Films Dejan Pejovic Print Source: Murat Kabardokov Films Boutque

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Te High Sun Home Care Zvizdan Domácí péče

Dalibor Matanić W&F Slávek Horák Croata, Slovenia, Serbia | 2015 Czech Republic, Slovakia | 2015 Croatan with English subttles Slovak, Czech with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 123 min | Narratve Feature 92 min | Narratve Feature Across three decades, Dalibor Matanić artstcally Slávek Horák atending chronicles the personal tragedies caused by the eth- Wryly humorous and bitersweet, this appealing nic conficts of the Yugoslavian wars. humanist tale puts a poignant spin on that perennial Told through three disparate love stories—set staple of the Czech cinema: the village dramedy. in 1991, 2001, and 2011—and employing the same The acton centers on a dedicated home-care actors to play diferent star-crossed lovers, Matanic nurse in the South Moravian countryside, who puts charts the emotonal tenor of the former Yugoslavia everyone else’s needs before her own. When there by focusing on intmate and unique stories marked by comes a tme that the carer herself needs care, the innocence, biterness, and anger. protagonist, her family and patents must all leave Expertly edited, beautfully shot, and their comfort zones. heart-wrenchingly told, The High Sun was the win- Featuring three of the Czech cinema’s fnest ac- ner of Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize and was tors: Tatana Vilhelmova, Boleslav Polivka and the Croata’s Oscar Entry. incomparable Alena Mihulova. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Zuzana Krónerová Ankica Jurić Tilić Tihana Lazović, Goran Marković, Slávek Horák Sara Venclovská Screenplay: Nives Ivanković , Dado Cosić, Stpe Screenplay: Awards: Dalibor Matanić Radoja, Trpimir Jurkić, Mira Banjac Slávek Horák Crystal Globe Award Cinematographer: Awards: Cinematographer: for Best Actress (Alena Marko Brdar Un Certain Regard Jury Prize - Jan Stastný Mihulová) - Karlovy Vary Editor: Cannes Film Festval Editor: Selected Filmography: Tomislav Pavlic Selected Filmography: Vladimír Barák Debut feature Composer: Majstori (‘13), Kino Lika (‘09), Principal Cast: Print Source: Alen Sinkauz Fine Dead Girls (‘02) Alena Mihulová M-Appeal Nenad Sinkauz Print Source: Boleslav Polívka Cercamon Tatana Vilhelmová SHOWING: SHOWING: FRI 4/8 9:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 6:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/15 2:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 4:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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HomeSick Te Innocents Agnus Dei

Jakob M. Erwa Anne Fontaine W&F Germany, Austria | 2014 France, Poland | 2016 German with English subttles French, Polish, Russian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 98 min | Narratve Feature 115 min | Narratve Feature This psychological thriller builds an unsetling do- Hope and horror are commingled to quietly mov- mestc cocoon of paranoia that expertly ratchets up ing efect in this restrained but cumulatvely powerful the tension with careful nuance. French-Polish drama about the various crises of faith Jessica, a highly motvated young cello player, and that emerge when a house of God is ravaged by war. her boyfriend Lorenz, move into a new apartment Based on the litle-known case of the French Red with bohemian charm and a quirky elderly caretak- Cross doctor Madeleine Pauliac and the convent to er named Hilde. As Lorenz spends his days at work, which she ministered following the end of WWII, di- Jessica is homebound preparing for a prestgious rector Anne Fontaine’s fnest flm in years is notable competton. But she keeps facing interruptons—the for the tact, intelligence and fne-grained character doorbell with no one there, an unwelcome surprise detail with which it examines every moral crevice of on their doorstep, and their kiten goes missing—all an unthinkable scenario. while Hilde always seems to be peering out her window watching Jessica.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Annete Dutertre Jakob M. Erwa Esther Maria Pietsch Eric Altmayer Composer: Screenplay: Tatja Seibt Nicolas Altmayer Grégoire Hetzel Jakob M. Erwa Mathias Lier Hermann Philippe Carcassone Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Beyer Screenplay: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Christan Trielof Selected Filmography: Pascal Bonitzer, Anne Agata Kulesza, Vincent Editor: All the Invisible Things (‘07), Fontaine, Sabrina B. Macaigne Wiebke Henrich Neun (‘05) Karine, Philippe Maynial, Selected Filmography: Composer: Print Source: Alice Vial Gemma Bovery (‘14) Christofer Frank Wide Cinematographer: Adore (‘13) Caroline Champeter Coco Before Chanel (‘09) Editor: Print Source: Music Box Films SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 10:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 4:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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L’attesa Last Cab to Darwin

Piero Messina Jeremy Sims Italy, France | 2015 Australia | 2016 Italian, French with English subttles English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature 123 min | Narratve Feature

Stunningly shot and deeply resonant, L’atesa her- Laconic cabbie Rex has lived his entre life in the alds the arrival of a talented new voice. small town of Broken Hill. He’s a stubborn old git, With Sicily as his backdrop, Piero Messina (assis- determined to do things his own way. Afer work, he tant director on Paolo Sorrentno’s The Great Beauty) hoists a few beers at the pub with his mates before navigates a range of emotons in telling the strange, returning home to his dog and a surrepttous rela- irresistble story of the relatonship between two tonship with his aboriginal neighbor Polly. When he women from diferent generatons. Academy Award learns that he has terminal cancer, he sets out for winner Juliete Binoche stars as Anna, who is meetng a doctor in Darwin, some 1,865 miles away, who is her son Giuseppe’s French girlfriend, Jeanne (Lou de campaigning for die-with-dignity legislaton and has a Laâge), in the lead up to Easter festvites. euthanasia machine. Young and enchantng, Jeanne arrived with excite- ment before Giuseppe, whose contnued delays and lack of presence, cast a dark, mysterious shadow.

Screenplay: Principal Cast: Producer: Composer: Piero Messina Juliete Binoche Greg Dufy Ed Kuepper Giacomo Bendot Lou De Laâge Lisa Dufy Principal Cast: Ilaria Macchia Giorgio Colangeli Jeremy Sims Michael Caton Andrea Paolo Massara Awards: Screenplay: Jacki Weaver Cinematographer: Mult-prize winner at the Reg Cribb Ningali Lawford-Wolf Francesco Di Giacomo Venice Film Festval Jeremy Sims Emma Hamilton Editor: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Mark Coles Smith Paola Freddi Debut feature Steve Arnold Selected Filmography: Print Source: Editor: Beneath Hill 60 (‘10) Oscilloscope Pictures Marcus D’Arcy Last Train to Freo (‘06) Print Source: First Run Features SHOWING: SHOWING: TUE 4/12 7:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 6:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 4:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/15 4:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/21 9:20 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester

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Liza the Fox-Fairy Mountain Liza, a rókatündér

Károly Ujj-Mészáros Yaelle Kayam W&F Hungary | 2015 Denmark, Israel | 2015 Hungarian with English subttles Hebrew with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 98 min | Narratve Feature 83 min | Narratve Feature

Peculiar, captvatng and 100% unique, this may be An Orthodox Jewish woman living in the cemetery the strangest flm you see this year—and the most on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives struggles with her delightul. husband’s lack of interest in her. Walking through Drenched in bright colors and blessed with a lively the cemetery one night, she is disturbed and excited visual wit, the blackly comic story centers on lonely to discover that it is a nocturnal marketplace for sex nurse Liza, who has spent the past 12 years taking and drugs. She starts exploring this new aspect of the care of Marta, the widow of Hungary’s former Jap- mountain, while trying to keep a normal face during anese ambassador. Liza’s only friend is the ghost of her daytme routne. a Japanese pop singer, Tomy Tani, whom only she This subtle, handsome flm impressively balances can see. But the dapper Tomy has a malicious plan to the predictable with the unexpected, weaving a com- keep Liza all to himself. plex portrait of a constrained life.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Editor: István Major Mónika Balsai, Szabolcs Eilon Ratzkovsky Or Ben David Screenplay: Bede-Fazekas, David Yochanan Kredo Composer: Bálint Hegedűs, Károly Sakurai, Piroska Molnár, Yossi Uzrad Ophir Leibovitch Ujj-Mészáros Zoltán Schmied Lisa Uzrad Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Awards: Guy Jacoel Shani Klein Péter Szatmári Grand Jury Prize - Seatle Screenplay: Avshalom Pollak Editor: Internatonal Film Festval Yaelle Kayam Haitham Ibrahem Omari Judit Czakó Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Composer: Debut feature Itay Marom Debut feature Dániel Csengery,Ambrus Print Source: Print Source: Tövisházi Filmunio Films Distributon SHOWING: SHOWING: TUE 4/19 7:20 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 10:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/22 9:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/21 5:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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My Internship in Canada My King Guibord s’en va-t-en guerre Mon roi

Philippe Falardeau Maïwenn W&F Canada | 2015 France | 2015 French, English, Creole with English subttles French with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 108 min | Narratve Feature 125 min | Narratve Feature Guibord is an independent Member of Parliament The most recent flm from actress-director who represents a vast county in Northern Quebec. As Maïwenn (Polisse) is a dramatc journey through the the entre country watches, Guibord unwillingly fnds years of one couple’s turbulent marriage. Afer a se- himself in the awkward positon of holding the de- rious ski accident, Tony (Emmanuelle Bercot) is sent cisive vote to determine whether Canada will go to to rehab where she refects on her relatonship with war. Accompanied by his wife, his daughter and an Georgio (Vincent Cassel). idealistc intern from Hait named Sovereign, Guibord Flashing back to when they frst met and their all- travels across his district in order to consult his con- too-perfect beginnings, My King chronicles the frst sttuents. threads that unravel between the two of them and Philippe Falardeau, director of the Oscar-nomi- the subsequent emotonal roller-coaster ride. Shown nated Monsieur Lazhar, constructs a a bitng politcal from Tony’s perspectve, this story of reckless love satre in which politcians, citzens and lobbyists go vividly comes to life through Bercot and Cassel’s raw head-to-head tearing democracy to shreds. and charismatc performances. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Luc Déry Patrick Huard, Irdens Alain Atal Vincent Cassel Kim McCraw Exantus, Suzanne Clément, Screenplay: Emmanuelle Bercot Screenplay: Clémence Dufresne- Maïwenn Louis Garrel Philippe Falardeau Deslières, Sonia Cordeau, Etenne Comar Awards: Cinematographer: Paul Doucet Cinematographer: Best Actress - Cannes Film Ronald Plante Selected Filmography: Claire Mathon Festval Editor: The Good Lie (‘14), Editor: Selected Filmography: Richard Comeau Monsieur Lazhar (‘11), Simon Jacquet Polisse (‘11) Composer: It’s Not Me, I Swear! (‘08) Composer: Print Source: Martn Léon Print Source: Stehen Warbeck Film Movement Films Distributon SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 2:55 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/11 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre THU 4/14 2:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/13 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 2:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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One Floor Below Our Everyday Life Un etaj mai jos Nasa svakodnevna prica

Radu Muntean Ines Tanovic W&F Romania, France, Germany, Sweden | 2015 Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croata, Slovenia | 2015 Romanian with English subttles Bosnian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 93 min | Narratve Feature 89 min | Narratve Feature

The Romanian New Wave serves up its version of A middle-class Sarajevo family weathers some the cat-and-mouse psychological thriller. Afer the tough tmes by ultmately pulling together in this murder of his downstairs neighbor, middle-aged Pa- compelling, character-driven drama, notable for its trascu realizes he’s witnessed events that implicate warmth and intmacy. A father cannot give up his the victm’s boyfriend, Vali, also a neighbor, in the faith in what’s become an increasingly corrupt soci- crime. Patrascu decides to mind his own business and ety, while his son, a traumatzed war veteran, tries to not tell the police. Vali, however, is soon insinuatng cope with the shifing politcal situaton and econom- himself into Patrascu’s life, befriending his wife and ic hardships of postwar Bosnia. son. Aided by a sterling cast hailing from across ex-Yu- Muntean’s smart, suspenseful flm ponders ques- goslavia, director-writer Tanovic, a former documen- tons of responsibility, privacy, guilt, and community tary maker, brings authentcity of feeling as well as as we—and Vali—seek to understand Patrascu’s mo- vibrant local color to the story. tvatons and moral calculatons. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Dragos Vilcu Teodor Corban, Iulian Alem Babic Uliks Fehmiu, Emir Screenplay: Postelnicu, Oxana Moravec Zendenka Gold Hadzihafzbegovic, Jasna Alexandru Baciu Awards: Dunja Klemenc Ornela Bery, Vedrana Radu Muntean, Razvan Nominated for Un Certain Screenplay: Seksan, Maja Izetbegovic, Radulescu Regard – Cannes Film Ines Tanovic Nina Violic, Marko Mandic, Cinematographer: Festval Cinematographer: Boro Stjepanovic Tudor Lucaciu Selected Filmography: Erol Zubcevic Selected Filmography: Editor: Summer Holiday (‘08) Editor: Debut feature Alexandru Radu The Paper Will Be Blue (‘06) Redzinald Simek Print Source: Print Source: Composer: New Morning Films Films Boutque Halka

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Our Loved Ones Radiator Les Êtres Chers Radiator

EMG EMG Anne Émond COM Tom Browne COM Canada | 2015 UK | 2014 French with English subttles W&F English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 102 min | Narratve Feature 93 min | Narratve Feature

A rich family saga, Our Loved Ones chronicles emo- A middle-aged son is summoned to a fabulously tonal minuta generatons in the making. When an disheveled stone cotage in the Lake District where unexpected death occurs in the family, the truth be- his cantankerous, declining father refuses to leave hind this tragedy is kept hidden from certain mem- his couch, and his docile, long-sufering mother turns bers of the family. Flash forward twenty years and to her son for help. What happens when children the eldest son, David, now has a family of his own become their parents’ parent, and parents become and is stll struggling to cope with the sudden loss, their child’s child? burdening his tenuous relatonship with his teenage Tom Browne’s moving, poetc and darkly funny daughter. frst flm is set in the ramshackle home that belonged Director Anne Émond masterfully spans the de- to his own parents, and its roots in autobiography can cades and defnes its weight through the subtle intro- be felt in every wonderfully honest, eccentric detail. specton of the flm’s characters.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Editor: Sylvain Corbeil Maxim Gaudete Genevieve Stevens, Joe Randall-Cutler Nancy Grant Karelle Tremblay Mel Agace (Executve Composer: Screenplay: Valerie Cadieux Producer), Barbara Simon Allen Anne Émond Mikael Gouin Broccoli (Executve Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Producer), Rachel Weisz Richard Johnson, Gemma Mathieu Laverdière Nuit #1 (‘11) (Executve Producer) Jones, Daniel Cerqueira Editor: Print Source: Screenplay: Awards: Mathieu Bouchard-Malo Wide Daniel Cerqueira Selected Filmography: Composer: Tom Browne Debut Feature Martn Léon Cinematographer: Print Source: David Johnson Starline Entertainment

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Raging Rose Sabali Crache coeur Le coeur de Madame Sabali

EMG Julia Kowalski COM Ryan McKenna France, Poland | 2015 Canada | 2015 French, Polish with English subttles W&F French with English subttles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 80 min | Narratve Feature 78 min | Narratve Feature

Plays with VIKTOR. See page 177. Expertly laced with visual humor, Sabali is a gor- Polish laborer Jozef (Andrzej Chyra, one of Poland’s geously stylized, wryly comic drama about a train-tck- top actors) comes to France to fnd work in construc- et seller with heart and relatonship problems. ton, but also to fnd his son Roman, whom he aban- From the very frst moments, director McKenna doned 15 years earlier. His boss’s daughter, Rose, a and his partner, art director/costume designer Bec- teenager in the tumult of sexual awakening, ofers to ca Blackwood, establish a dreamy parallel world, help him in his search, but she ends up falling des- featuring costumes in eye-popping primary colors, perately in love with Roman. How does a high-strung tmeless-looking locatons, and peculiar people and 15-year-old deal with sexual desire? conversatons that wouldn’t be out of place in David Raging Rose is a dense, psychological coming-of- Lynch’s Twin Peaks. age flm, marked by excellent performances from the The flm’s appealingly quirky vibe also includes a three leading actors. cameo (and music) by the blind musical duo Amadou & Mariam. Producer: Producer: Composer: Mina Driouche Composer: Ménaïc Raoul Amadou & Mariam, Tyler Valérie Donzelli Daniel Kowalski Gabrielle Tougas-Fréchete Fitzmaurice, Andres Vial, Jérémie Elkaïm Principal Cast: Becca Blackwood Mathew Oto Maria Blicharska Liv Henneguier, Yoann Screenplay: Principal Cast: Monika Sajko Gradowska Zimmer, Andrzej Chyra Ryan McKenna Marie Brassard, Youssef Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Camara, Francis La Haye, Julia Kowalski Debut feature Ian Lagarde Hugo Giroux Cinematographer: Print Source: Editor: Selected Filmography: Simon Beaufls Alpha Violet Ryan McKenna Controversies (‘14) Editor: The First Winter (‘12) Martal Salomon Print Source: K Films Amérique SHOWING: SAT 4/16 9:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SHOWING: MON 4/18 7:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/15 2:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre TUE 4/19 9:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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Sabina K. Schneider vs. Bax

Cristóbal Krusen MN Alex van Warmerdam Bosnia and Herzegovina, USA | 2015 Netherlands, Belgium | 2015 Bosnian with English subttles MN Dutch with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE COM REGIONAL PREMIERE 125 min | Narratve Feature 96 min | Narratve Feature

Cristóbal Krusen atending. This black comedy makes a point of turning the Sabina is a divorced mother of two small children hitman genre on its head with unconventonal setups when she reconnects with Saša, a man she met when that spiral into absurdism. serving in the Bosnian army during the war. Although Schneider wakes to his adoring wife and two she is Muslim and he is Catholic, the two fall in love young daughters planning his birthday party only to and intend to marry despite the disapproval of their have it interrupted by a call from his boss with a job families. But their plans dissolve and Sabina’s life is that must be done right away: an easy hit on an iso- thrown into chaos when Saša suddenly goes missing. lated novelist named Bax that he can fnish by noon. Based on a true story, Sabina K. dramatcally de- Needless to say, things do not go as planned. picts one woman’s story of losing everything and her Schneider vs. Bax is as much about the contrast personal batle for hope and salvaton. and comparison of these two men and their families, as it is the nascent yet inefectve real-world cage match. Producer: Editor: Producer: Principal Cast: Fedja Stukan Sarah Krusen Marc van Warmerdam Alex van Warmerdam, Cristóbal Krusen Patricio Corona Screenplay: Tom Dewispelaere, Maria Laurence Jackson (co- Composer: Alex van Warmerdam Kraakman, Annet Malherbe, producer) John Sponsler Cinematographer: Pierre Bokma, Henri Garçin, Screenplay: Principal Cast: Tom Erisman Eugene Bervoets Cristóbal Krusen Alena Džebo Editor: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Alban Ukaj Job ter Burg Borgman (‘13) Almir Djikoli Senad Bašić Composer: Print Source: Enis Bešlagić Alex van Warmerdam Film Movement

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Serial Killer 1 Sleeping Giant L’afaire SK1

Frédéric Tellier Andrew Cividino France | 2015 Canada | 2015 French with English subttles English REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 119 min | Narratve Feature 90 min | Narratve Feature

When a woman is found with her throat cut, Andrew Cividino’s painfully honest coming-of-age Franck, an eager rookie homicide inspector, shrewd- story takes place on the sunny Canadian shores of ly unearths parallels between previously unrelated Lake Superior. cases. Before he knows it, Franck is caught up in an Nate and Riley, two young rufan cousins, befriend obsessive hunt for Serial Killer 1. shy Adam into their summer vacaton clique as they Loosely based on the investgaton into real-life wile away their carefree tme, ofen “doing as boys murderer Guy Georges, aka the Beast Of The Bastlle, do.” An edge of playful bullying and tough camara- the story milks suspense from the procedural aspects derie seals the boys’ friendship with an ambience of of the manhunt: the false leads, dead ends, and the anxious tension and unpredictable danger. stfing bureaucracy of a police force hindered by Cividino’s frst feature is a sparkling debut that rips dwindling budgets and a knee-jerk insistence on out- open the raw emotons of adolescence with the help dated, traditonal methods. of his young actors and a pitch perfect script.

Producer: Composer: Screenplay: Mofet, Nick Serino, David Julien Leclercq Christophe La Pinta Andrew Cividino, Aaron Disher, Erika Brodzky, Julien Madon Frédéric Tellier Yeger, Blain Waters Katelyn McKerracher, Rita Screenplay: Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Serino, Lorraine Philp Frédéric Tellier, David Adama Niane, Christa James Klopko Awards: Oelhofen, Patricia Theret, Michel Vuillermoz, Editor: Best Canadian First Feature Tourancheau Nathalie Baye, Olivier James Vandewater - Toronto Internatonal Film Cinematographer: Gourmet, Raphael Composer: Festval Mathias Boucard Personnaz Chris Thornborrow Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Bruce Peninsula Debut feature Mickael Dumonter Debut feature Principal Cast: Print Source: Print Source: Jackson Martn, Reece Seville Internatonal Kino Lorber

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Standing Tall Summer Solstice La tête haute Letnie przesilenie

Emmanuelle Bercot W&F Michal Rogalski France | 2015 Poland, Germany | 2015 French Polish, German with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 118 min | Narratve Feature 95 min | Narratve Feature

Young Malory seems destned to become a sta- A nuanced and compelling historical drama/com- tstc. In and out of trouble since a very young age ing-of-age story, Summer Solstce provides a searing and inefectually parented by his drug addicted single portrait of the summer of 1943 in provincial Poland mother, Malory is no stranger to juvenile detenton. under German occupaton. Assigned to a resilient child court judge (Catherine The story unfolds through the eyes of two 17-year- Deneuve) and a tough youth counselor (Benoît Mag- old boys, the Polish railway worker Romek and the mel), Malory is sent to bucolic rehabilitaton center German military policeman Guido, who both experi- that may have just the right combinaton to fnd the ence a shocking loss of innocence. boy behind the tme bomb. Actress turned director Emmanuelle Bercot delivers a slice of social realism—with electric newcomer Rod Paradot as Malory—that compassionately confronts both intense volatlity and irrepressible hope. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Awards: Maciej Strzembosz Filip Piotrowicz, Jonas François Kraus Winner of two César Awards Ewa Borgunska Nay, Urszula Bogucka, Denis Pineau-Valencienne for Best Supportng Actor Screenplay: Maria Semotuk, Stefen Screenplay: and Most Promising Actor Michał Rogalski Scheuman, Gerdy Zint, Emmanuelle Bercot Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Bartłomiej Topa, Agnieszka Marcia Romano On My Way (‘13) Jerzy Zieliński Krukówna Cinematographer: Backstage (‘05) Editor: Selected Filmography: Guillaume Schifman Print Source: Joanna Brühl The Last Acton (‘09) Cohen Media Group Milenia Fiedler Print Source: Composer: Wide Alexander Hacke

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Summertime Sunset Song La belle saison

Catherine Corsini W&F Terence Davies France, Belgium | 2015 UK, Luxembourg | 2015 French with English subttles LG English REGIONAL PREMIERE BT REGIONAL PREMIERE 105 min | Narratve Feature 135 min | Narratve Feature

France 1971. Delphine toils away on her parents’ Terence Davies’s Sunset Song brings Lewis Grassic farm while being fully aware that her atracton to Gibbon’s 1932 novel of the same name to vivid life women will bar her from fulflling their expectatons with breathtaking beauty, delivering one woman’s of marrying a local boy. She decides to move to Paris epic tale. where, none too soon, she meets a group of radical Chris, the daughter of a Scotsh farmer, thinks out- feminists and falls in love with Carole. The bliss of side the box of her limitatons, including the tyranny their excitng new relatonship is interrupted, howev- of her father and the social constraints of her rural er, when Delphine’s father has a stroke and she must community. But the passing of the seasons and years return home to help with the farm. brings unsuspected winds of change that Chris faces Director Catherine Corsini’s sun-dappled romance with necessary resilience. takes a look at emotonal and social complexites with The movie’s mantra is stated best in Chris’ own a refreshingly grounded eye. voice: “Nothing endured but land, sea and sky; and the folk who lived there were but a breath.” Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Composer: Elisabeth Perez Cécile De France, Izïa Bob Last, Alice de Gast Waltzing Patrick Quinet Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky Sousa, Roy Boulter, Sol Principal Cast: Screenplay: Awards: Papadopoulos, Agyness Deyn, Peter Mullan, Catherine Corsini, Variety Piazza Grande Nicolas Steil Kevin Guthrie Laurete Polmanss Award - Locarno Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Internatonal Film Festval Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Deep Blue Sea (‘11) Jeanne Lapoire Selected Filmography: Terence Davies Of Time and the City (‘08) Editor: Three Worlds (‘12), Cinematographer: The House of Mirth (‘00) Frédéric Baillehaiche Leaving (‘09), Replay (‘01), Michael McDonough The Long Day Closes (‘92) Composer: The New Eve (‘99) A.S.C. Distant Voices, Stll Lives Grégoire Hetzel Print Source: Editor: (‘88) Strand Releasing David Charap Print Source: Magnolia Pictures SHOWING: SHOWING: FRI 4/8 9:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/10 1:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 8:30 PM Metropolitan State University SAT 4/16 4:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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Under Electric Clouds Valley of Love Pod elektricheskimi oblakami

Aleksey German Jr. Guillaume Nicloux Russia, Ukraine, Poland | 2015 France, Belgium | 2015 Russian with English subttles French with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 137 min | Narratve Feature 91 min | Narratve Feature Alexey German Jr., son of the late Russian auteur Gerard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert play an es- Alexey German, explores a near future where Russian tranged couple (appropriately, their last flm together society is slowly unraveling in strange and disparate was Loulou in 1981) who come together for a week in ways. Death Valley per a request in their son’s suicide note. Electronic messages projected on the dirty clouds Within the note, the two are given specifc instruc- cast an eerie glow on the populaton’s ambiguous tons to visit various tourist sites at various tmes with future. Weaving together seven interconnected sto- the promise that he will meet them one last tme. ries—ranging from a dejected Kyrgyz constructon The stark landscape serves as an appropriate back- worker to a pair of oblivious siblings to a museum drop to this somewhat metaphysical and at tmes sur- guide giving tours in period dress—German uses a real exploraton of parents coming to terms with their steady hand to balance mysterious chimeric stories adult son’s untmely death. with bold social allegories amidst a beautfully shot dystopian environment. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Charles Ives Sergey Antonov, Egor Louis Franck, Merab Ninidze, Sylvie Pialat, Benoît Principal Cast: Olesov, Dariusz Jablonski Viktoriya Korotkova, Chulpan Quainon, Cyril Colbeau- Isabelle Huppert Screenplay: Khamatova Justn, Jean-Baptste Gérard Depardieu Aleksey German Jr. Awards: Dupont Awards: Cinematographer: Silver Bear - Berlinale Screenplay: Best Cinematography - Evgeniy Privin, Sergey Selected Filmography: Guillaume Nicloux César Awards Mikhalchuk Venice 70: Future Reloaded (‘13) Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Editor: Bumazhnyy soldat (‘08), Christophe Ofenstein The Kidnapping of Michel Sergey Ivanov Garpastum (‘05) Editor: Houellebecq (‘14), The Nun Composer: Print Source: Guy Lecorne (‘13), Holiday (‘10) Andrew Surotdinov Films Boutque Composer: Print Source: Strand Releasing SHOWING: SHOWING: THU 4/14 9:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 5:30 PM Uptown Theatre THU 4/21 2:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/22 7:30 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY:

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Vanity Ville-Marie La Vanité

Lionel Baier Guy Édoin Switzerland, France | 2015 Canada | 2015 French with English subttles French with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 75 min | Narratve Feature 101 min | Narratve Feature

David Miller is ill and has decided to end it all. De- Named for a downtown district in Montreal, spite his best eforts to choose the perfect place, date Ville-Marie explores parallel lives and relatonships and method, nothing works out as planned. All those burdened with the secrets of personal struggles. who said they would be at his side, back out. David Sophie (Monica Bellucci) is a celebrated actress in has no choice but to rely on the help of total strang- Montreal to shoot a movie but also to visit her col- ers—Esperenza, from the euthanasia and assisted lege age son (Aliocha Schneider, a 2015 TIFF Rising suicide associaton, and Tréplev, the young male Star), who expects to fnally learn who his father is. prosttute next door—to embark on this fnal journey. Meanwhile Marie, an overworked nurse, and Pierre, Director Lionel Baier’s wry comedy stars Patrick an ambulance driver sufering from PTSD, ofer each Lapp (Longwave) and Carmen Maura (Volver). other as much support as possible in their stressful and isolated lives. Guy Edoin’s elegant second feature is a moving drama with superb performances. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Estelle Fialon Patrick Lapp Félize Frappier Monica Bellucci, Pascale Frédéric Mermoud Carmen Maura Screenplay: Bussières, Aliocha Agnieszka Ramu Ivan Georgiev Guy Édoi Schneider, Patrick Hivon Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Jean-Simon DesRochers Awards: Lionel Baier Longwave (‘14) Cinematographer: Best Internatonal Film - Julien Bouissoux Print Source: Serge Desrosiers Santa Barbara Internatonal Cinematographer: Wide Editor: Film Festval Patrick Lindenmaier Yvann Thibaudeau Selected Filmography: Editor: Composer: Wetlands (‘11) Jean-Christophe Hym Olivier Alary Print Source: FIlms Boutque SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/10 9:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 7:05 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/23 9:40 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SPONSORED BY: SPONSORED BY:

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Te Wednesday Child Wednesday, May 9 Szerdai gyerek Chaharshanbeh, 19 Ordibehesht

Lili Horváth W&F Vahid Jalilvand Hungary | 2015 Iran | 2015 Hungarian with English subttles Persian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 94 min | Narratve Feature 102 min | Narratve Feature

Director-writer Lili Horvath registers as a talent to Leila works in a chicken packing factory to support watch with this strongly acted tale of a rebellious teen her family, but stll has no money lef over to save for mother determined to regain custody of her young a much-needed operaton for her disabled husband. son. At its heart, the flm is a coming-of-age story, and Setareh secretly married against her family’s wishes, the protagonist’s struggle to discard bad habits and and when her tyrannical cousin fnds out, an alter- bad relatonships is not an easy one. Prety, tough- caton lands her young husband in jail, requiring 30 talking Maja lives with her pety-criminal boyfriend million tomans in “blood money” for his release. in a rundown housing project on the outskirts of Bu- The two tragic stories of these women are connect- dapest. One day, a micro-credit scheme for entrepre- ed to a potental benefactor who could help them in neurs ofers her a chance to change her life. Vahid Jalilvand’s incredible debut feature of carefully drawn characters and bold statements of humanism.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Composer: Károly Fehér Szabolcs Thuróczy Ali Jalilvand Karen Homayounfar Screenplay: Zsolt Antal Mohammad Hossein Latf Principal Cast: Lili Horváth Enikő Börcsök Screenplay: Niki Karimi, Amir Aghaei, Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Ali Zarnegar Shahrokh Forootanian, Róbert Maly Debut feature Vahid Jalilvand Vahid Jalilvand, Borzou Editor: Print Source: Hossein Mahkam Arjmand, Afarin Obeisi Dániel Szabó Filmunio Cinematographer: Awards: Composer: Morteza Poursamadi Best Film - Reykjavik Gábor Presser Editor: Internatonal Film Festval Vahid Jalilvand Selected Filmography: Sepehr Vakili Debut feature Print Source: Noori Pictures

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149 world cinema

When a Tree Falls Wondrous Boccacio Amama Maraviglioso boccaccio

Asier Altuna Paolo Taviani, Vitorio Taviani Spain | 2015 Italy | 2015 Basque with English subttles Italian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 103 min | Narratve Feature 120 min | Narratve Feature

A slow-burning and beautful family drama set in Set against the backdrop of 14th century Florence, northern Spain’s Basque Country turns up the in- ten young men and women escape the black plague tensity in a hopelessly unresolvable generaton gap. to a country estate where they spend their days tell- As defned by traditon, the family farm of must be ing stories of love, fate, and resurrecton. inhabited by the eldest son, but as patriarch Tomas From legendary Italian flmmaking brothers Paolo ages, his eldest son leaves with litle interest in the and Vitorio Taviani (Caesar Must Die), Wondrous family traditon or farm. Although daughter Amaia Boccaccio is a visual and poetc tribute to the stories has found her own life as an artst, she is less reluc- that emerged from one of the darkest periods in Ital- tant to turn her back on her back on her ancestry. ian history, and the imaginatons that quietly fueled When a Tree Fall’s lush rural setng makes for an them. Loosely based on fve of Giovanni Boccaccio’s ideal backdrop to this lyrical elegy. one hundred novellas in The Decameron, this beautful shot interpretaton is a celebraton of life over death. Producer: Principal Cast: Marian Fernández Pascal Kandido Uranga Producer: Principal Cast: Screenplay: Iraia Elias Donatella Palermo Lello Arena Asier Altuna Amparo Badiola Luigi Musini Paola Cortellesi Cinematographer: Klara Badiola Screenplay: Carolina Crescentni Javier Agirre Erauso Manu Uranga Paolo Taviani Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Vitorio Taviani Caesar Must Die (‘12) Laurent Dufreche Aupa Etxebeste! (‘05) Cinematographer: The Lark Farm (‘07) Composer: Print Source: Simone Zampagni Print Source: JAVI P3Z & MURSEGO Txintxua Films Editor: Film Movement Roberto Perpignani Composer: Giuliano Taviani Carmelo Travia

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Zero Point Nullpunkt

EMG Mihkel Ulk COM Estonia | 2015 Estonian with English subttles US PREMIERE 114 min | Narratve Feature

When sensitve Johannes is accepted to an elite Tallinn school, he expects his life to get beter. In- stead, he becomes the victm of bullying by his new classmates. Meanwhile, at home, he must deal with his schizophrenic mother’s deterioratng mental health. And to make things worse, a local musician steals the lyrics of a poem he wrote. Thanks to his hard-won maturity and the support of a dedicated teacher and the school principal, Jo- hannes fnds the strength to reset his life and stand up for himself.

Producer: Principal Cast: Evelin Soosaar - Pentlä Märt Pius Screenplay: Epp Eespäev Margit Keerdo-Dawson Saara Kadak Cinematographer: Linda Kolde Mihkel Soe Henrik Kalmet Editor: Selected Filmography: Margo Siimon Debut feature Hendrik Mägar Print Source: Composer: Allflm Janek Murd

SHOWING: SUN 4/17 11:20 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre WED 4/20 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Dragonfy

Maribeth Romslo, Cara Greene Epstein MN USA | 2015 English W&F MN REGIONAL PREMIERE COM 76 min | Narratve Feature

Maribeth Romslo and Cara Greene Epstein atending. Plays with Poet Guitar. See page 177. Told with heart, humor, and a litle bit of magic, Dragonfy is a flm about homecoming and healing for a Midwestern family divided by divorce and illness. When Anna’s mom is diagnosed with early on- set Alzheimer’s, Anna returns home to help but not without some reluctance ted to her emotonal family baggage. As she unpacks her past, Anna rediscovers a mysterious mailbox from her childhood and embarks New American Visions highlights on a search to solve its mystery. What she learns feature-length narratve flms along the way may be the key to her own healing. from flmmakers whose work Producer: Composer: is redefning the future of Mim Epstein John Hermanson Maribeth Romslo Principal Cast: American flmmaking. Cara Greene Epstein Jennifer Blagen Screenplay: Abby Fry Cara Greene Epstein Cara Greene Epstein Cinematographer: David Greene Marcus Taplin Terry Hempleman Editor: Mat Biedel, Lindy Wilson Selected Filmography: Maribeth Romslo Debut Feature

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Te Fits A Light Beneath Teir Feet

Anna Rose Holmer W&F Valerie Weiss USA | 2015 USA | 2015 English English REGIONAL PREMIERE 90 min | Narratve Feature 72 min | Narratve Feature

Anna Rose Holmer’s The Fits fnds a girl’s coming- Mother-daughter roles are reversed when Beth, a of-age story in a very unlikely place: a boxing gym in high-school senior, is faced with shouldering the re- Cincinnat’s West End. sponsibility of her single mother struggling with bipo- Toni is an 11-year-old girl who trains at the gym lar disorder and fuctuatng meds. with her older brother, but she fnds herself drawn to On the brink of adulthood and making plans for the girls drill team in the adjacent gym. Enamored by her own future, Beth faces the difcult decision be- the power and confdence of this strong community tween compromising her own expectatons or aban- of girls, Toni eagerly absorbs routnes, masters drills, doning mother for college. and even pierces her own ears to ft in. When a mys- Director Valerie Weiss takes a conscientous and terious outbreak of faintng spells plagues the team, compassionate look at mental illness and its efects Toni’s desire for acceptance takes a new turn. on family and friends, bolstered by Taryn Manning Both Holmer and young lead Royalty Hightower and Madison Davenport incredibly empathetc per- are talents to watch. formances in the two lead roles.

Producer: Composer: Producer: Principal Cast: Lisa Kjerulf Danny Bensi Jefrey Loeb Taryn Manning Anna Rose Holmer Saunder Jurriaans Robert Johnson Madison Davenport Screenplay: Principal Cast: Screenplay: Maddie Hasson Anna Rose Holmer Royalty Hightower, Alexis Moira McMahon Leeper Kurt Fuller Saela Davis Neblet, Da’Sean Minor, Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Lisa Kjerulf Lauren Gibson, Makyla Jefrey Waldron Losing Control (‘11) Cinematographer: Burnam, Inayah Rodgers Editor: Print Source: Paul Yee Selected Filmography: Amanda Grifn PhD Productons Editor: Debut feature Composer: Saela Davis Print Source: John Swihart Oscilloscope Pictures

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Te Sand Box Te Seeker

Jennifer Kramer W&F MN Jef D. Johnson MN USA | 2016 USA | 2016 English MN Nonverbal REGIONAL PREMIERE COM REGIONAL PREMIERE 45 min | Narratve Feature 63 min | Narratve Feature Plays with: Almost Not Beautful. See page 177. Jef Johnson and members of Cloud Cult atending. Jennifer Kramer atending. The Seeker, an enigmatc collision of music and vi- Told through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, The suals, is the collaboraton between local experimen- Sand Box follows a boy’s struggle when his dad re- tal indie rockers Cloud Cult and Moton 117 Produc- turns from Iraq a changed man. As he faces the ton’s Jef D. Johnson. A narratve without dialogue challenge to make things as they once were, his dad set to Cloud Cult’s 2016 ttular album, The Seeker tells can’t overcome the memory of a tragic event that ul- the story of a young girl whose idyllic life is turned tmately leads to a casualty of war on the home front. upside-down by immense tragedy. As she grows old- Jennifer Kramer dissects the efects of PTSD in vet- er, cynicism and apathy overwhelm her new reality— erans by looking at it from a child’s perspectve and challenged by a reminder from the past but propelled shines a light on the ignored impact it has on over by a self-defning pilgrimage. two million military-connected children in the US. Johnson and the members of Cloud Cult have created a compelling work that ebbs and fows between the music informing the visuals to the visuals inform- Producer: Principal Cast: ing the music. Jennifer Kramer Sayeed Shahidi Producer: Principal Cast: Jon Maichel Thomas Hope Cervantes Pat Kratzer Alex McKenna Screenplay: Mark Collier Cinematographer: Josh Radnor Jennifer Kramer Selected Filmography: Corey Gafer Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Looking Past You (‘12) Editor: Debut feature Steve Speers Jef Johnson Print Source: Editor: Kristn Engdahl Moton 117 Productons James Stanger Composer: Composer: Cloud Cult Billy White

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A Stray Trophy Husband

Musa Syeed FLUX MN Nat Bennet, Sam Rosen MN USA | 2016 USA | 2015 English, Somali with English subttles MN English REGIONAL PREMIERE COM WORLD PREMIERE 82 min | Narratve Feature 91 min | Narratve Feature Musa Syeed atending. Nat Bennet and Sam Rosen atending. In the microcosm of Minneapolis’ large Somali Trophy Husband is a comedic portrait of failed ac- community, Adan has run out of optons. Looking to tor and stay-at-home dad Sam, who struggles with his turn his life around, he fnds solace, friendship and a identty and directon in life as he and his wife pre- job as a janitor at the mosque. Afer getng an even pare for the birth of their second child. beter job driving a taxi, Adan unexpectedly fnds a Sam’s day-in-day-out of drudgery is shaken up on new friend in a stray dog. But the mosque sees the one wild night with his brother Tim in hipster Brook- dog as impure, and Adan fnds himself on the streets lyn. Shot on locaton in their homes and haunts in again. Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, co-directors Sam Rosen and Nat Director Musa Syeed brings the streets of Riverside Bennet play versions of themselves and enlist their and the struggles of young Somalis to the big screen friends and family to craf an unusually lifelike por- in this vivid and moving drama. trayal of a modern urban family’s daily struggles.

Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Jamila Wignot Barkhad Abdirahman, Faysal Nick Rymer Sam Rosen Screenplay: Ahmed, Christna Baldwin, Sam Rosen Tim Bennet Musa Syeed Ayla, Fathia Absie, Jamaal Nat Bennet Kate Rosen Cinematographer: “Happy Khalif” Farah, Screenplay: Casey Greig Yoni Brook Abdullahi Haji-Mohamed, Nat Bennet Luke Rosen Editor: Ifrah Mansour, Rhiana and Sam Rosen Nat Bennet Kamau Bilal Yazzie, George McCauley Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Composer: Selected Filmography: TJ Schwingle Debut feature Rayzak Hassan Valley of Saints (‘12) Editor: Brandon Scot Print Source: Nick Rymer A Stray Productons LLC

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Te Alchemist Cookbook

Joel Potrykus USA | 2016 English REGIONAL PREMIERE 82 min | Narratve Feature

Sean is a young hermit, living in near total isolaton and obsessed with a mysterious alchemic and somewhat manic pursuit that challenges the laws of nature. Of the grid and turning his back on civilizaton, his days play out inside an old trailer in the swamps, conductng experiments. When a demonic entty appears in the shadows, Sean’s self-induced seclusion is shatered by a true force of evil. Joel Potrykus delivers another meditaton on the idiosyncratc side of the male psyche that feels like a Genre, grit, guts ‘n’ guns, dark and demented modern-day folk tale. and the absolutely bizarre.

Dark Out returns with a Producer: Jamie Grefe lineup proving that Bryan Reisberg Brian Harding Andrew D Corkin Andrew Miller sometmes it’s good to be Ashley Young Principal Cast: Joel Potrykus Ty Hickson afraid of the dark. Screenplay: Amari Cheatom Joel Potrykus Fiji Cinematographer: Selected Filmography: Be sure to bring a friend Adam J. Minnick Buzzard (‘14) and hold on tght... Editor: Ape (‘12) Joel Potrykus Print Source: because it’s going to be a wild ride. Composer: Oscilloscope Pictures Tim DeWit

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Alena Demon Przylgniecie

Daniel di Grado Marcin Wrona Sweden | 2015 Poland, Israel | 2015 Swedish with English subttles Polish, English, Yiddish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 83 min | Narratve Feature 94 min | Narratve Feature

With a traumatc event in her recent past, Alena A newly married couple are about to embark on a transfers to a private all-girls school and quickly be- new chapter in their lives in their new house, but at comes the outsider. A gang of mean rich girls seem their wedding recepton, the groom starts to come to make Alena’s misery their priority, but Alena has unhinged. Is he crazy, or is something more sinister a shadowy violent and jealous guardian angel who’s at work? suspicious of Alena’s new friends and ruthless to- A contemporary take on the dybbuk of Jewish wards her enemies. folklore, this distnct ghost story is told with both hu- Based on a graphic novel of the same name by mor and atmosphere. Sadly, director Marcin Wrona Kim W. Andersson, Alena is a psychological thriller passed away just one week afer Demon’s debut at that combines the revenge themes of Carrie with the the 2015 Toronto Internatonal Film Festval, leaving tough love of Let the Right One In. this flm as a reminder of his vibrant creatve energy.

Producer: Editor: Max Hallén Linda Jildmalm Producer: Principal Cast: Alexander Rönnberg Composer: Olga Szymanska Itay Tiran Screenplay: Karl Frid, Pär Frid Marcin Wrona Agnieszka Zulewska Kerstn Gezelius Principal Cast: Screenplay: Tomasz Schuchardt Alexander Onofri Amalia Holm Pawel Marslona Andrzej Grabowski Daniel di Grado Selected Filmography: Marcin Wrona Awards: Based on graphic novel Debut feature Cinematographer: Best Horror Picture - 2015 by Kim W. Andersson Print Source: Pawel Flis Austn Fantastc Fest Cinematographer: The Match Factory Editor: Selected Filmography: Simon Olsson Piotr Kmiecik The Christening (‘10) Composer: My Flesh My Blood (‘09) Marcin Macuk Print Source: Krzysztof Penderecki The Orchard SHOWING: SAT 4/9 9:45 PM Uptown Theatre SHOWING: WED 4/13 9:50 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 10:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Te Invitation Terapy for a Vampire

Karyn Kusama W&F David Rühm USA | 2015 Austria, Switzerland | 2014 English German with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 100 min | Narratve Feature 88 min | Narratve Feature

Malicious intentons seem to be on the menu when The thrill has been gone for centuries between Will shows up to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife Count Geza and Countess Elsa. Burdened with eter- Eden and her new husband David. The estranged di- nal life, the vampire couple seeks the help of a note- vorcees’ tragic past haunts an equally eerie present; worthy psychoanalyst of the moment named Sig- amid Eden’s suspicious behavior and her mysterious mund Freud. Hearing that the Countess incessantly house guests, Will becomes convinced that his invita- complains about not being able to look at herself in ton was extended with a hidden agenda. a mirror, Freud introduces them to a young painter, Unfolding over one dark evening in the Hollywood Viktor, who paints portraits that express more than Hills, The Invitaton blurs layers of mountng paranoia, a mirror ever could. The Count, however, takes an in- mystery, and horror untl both Will—and the audi- stant shine to Viktor’s girlfriend Lucy. ence—are unsure what threats are real or imagined. Director David Rühm puts some pep in the step of the vampire genre in this hilarious blood-sucking comedy.

Producer: Composer: Screenplay: Selected Filmography: Martha Grifn Theodore Shapiro David Rühm El Chicko’ - der Verdacht (‘97) Phil Hay Principal Cast: Cinematographer: Print Source: Mat Manfredi Michiel Huisman Martn Gschlact Music Box Films Nick Spicer Logan Marshall-Green Editor: Screenplay: John Carroll Lynch Claudio Cea Phil Hay Selected Filmography: Awards: Mat Manfredi Jennifer’s Body (‘09) Winner of Prix Publique Cinematographer: Aeon Flux (‘05) Audience Award at Bobby Shore Girlfght (‘00) Fantasia Film Festval Editor: Print Source: Plummy Tucker Drafhouse Films

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158 dark out Save Your Stub

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Bo Mikkelsen crab ★ of show. Denmark | 2015 Danish with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE

85 min | Narratve Feature sushi ★ The walking dead come to Denmark when the sudden escalaton of a mysterious virus turns into an out- in-out zombie apocalypse. +,$ ,* ,0#'' )(%#+ The Johanssons—father, mother, teenage son,

oysters "(' 0...+, %%+1+"! (& and young daughter—fnd themselves quarantned to their home and sealed in by black plastc by government demands. As the situaton outside grows in- tNOVEMBER 10 - 13, 2016 t creasingly threatening, the family decides they have to take maters into their own hands to survive. Bo Mikkelsen, in his directorial feature debut, skillfully balances his thrills with a family drama that maintains its individual humanity—even in the most unhuman tmes! overdrive design ©

Producer: Principal Cast: Sara Namer Mille Dinesen Screenplay: Mikael Birkkjær Bo Mikkelsen Ole Dupont Cinematographer: Marie Hammer Boda Adam Philp Selected Filmography: Editor: Tabu (‘12) Bo Mikkelsen Terapi (‘06) Niels Ostenfeld Vakuum (‘05) Composer: Print Source: Martn Pedersen IFC Midnight

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Adama

Simon Rouby France | 2015 French with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 82 min | Narratve | Ages 9+

12 year-old Adama, voiced by French-Malian child actor Azize Abdoulaye Diabaté, lives in an idyllic village sheltered by clifs. When his brother Samba defes their elders and fees to join the ‘Nassara’ (colonialist French army), Adama follows in an atempt to bring Samba home. Experimental animaton combining laser-scanned sculptures of clay and sand with painterly animated scenes bring magical realism to Adama’s journey north from West Africa to Europe’s Western Front in 1914. Extending the festval’s A heroic odyssey mixes elements of mystcism and allegory with acton, adventure, and a litle known reach to the next generaton historical African narratve. by presentng award-winning Producer: Principal Cast: children’s cinema from around Philippe Aigle Azize Diabaté Abdoulaye, the world--movies that will Screenplay: Pascal N’Zonzi, Oxmo Bénédicte Galup, Julien Puccino delight all ages, expand horizons, Lilt, Simon Rouby Awards: and resonate with Editor: Best of Fest, Best Animated Jean-Babtste Alazard Feature, Liv Ullman Peace a child’s point of view. Composer: Prize, Chicago Internatonal Pablo Pico Children’s Film Festval Selected Filmography: Debut feature

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Birds of Passage Celestial Camel Les oiseaux de passage Nebesnyj Verbljud

On her 10th birthday, Cathy’s quirky dad gives her an A mesmerizing journey of love, loyalty, and magic unusual gif: a fertlized egg. When the egg hatches, the begins with the auspicious arrival of a white camel, duckling bonds with the frst person it sees—Cathy’s good born under the camel-shaped cloud bringing good luck. friend Margaux. Realizing they can’t alter the power of Preparing for a new baby themselves, the nomadic atachment instnct, Cathy accepts that the duckling should Mongolian family must sell the young ‘celestal camel’ live with her friend. Margaux is eager to play mother duck, to pay a debt. When 12-year-old Bayir is lef in charge, but her parents are unwilling. Margaux has a disability and the unstoppable mother camel escapes to chase uses a wheelchair, and her parents believe she’s incapable. afer her calf. Bayir follows her across the Kalmykian Together, Margaux and Cathy struggle to raise the steppe on an oversized motorcycle, encountering duckling to thrive independently. When the girls take of Buddhist monks summoning the rain, a young girl, and on a desperate but thrilling adventure for their duckling’s a wayward teen circus performer. The ofen surprising freedom, everyone’s impressions of life’s limitatons are adventures of an endearing Mongolian boy and his challenged. camels weave an enthralling, classic and tmeless tale. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Irina Plisko, Mikhail Mikhail Gasanov, Viktor Yves Ringer, Antoine Clarisse Djuroski, Léa Warny, Plisko Sukhorukov, Petr Novikov Simkine Alain Eloy Screenplay: Awards: Screenplay: Awards: Yuriy Fetng, Golden Elephant for Best Olivier Ringer, Yves Ringer Grand Prix de Montréal, Elzyata Mandzhieva Feature Film and Best Cinematographer: Montréal Internatonal Cinematographer: Director - 19th Internatonal Mihnea Popescu Children’s Film Festval Anton Zhabin Children’s Film Festval India Editor: Selected Filmography: Editor: Selected Filmography: Alanté Alfandari On the Sly (‘11) Leda Semyonova Bibinur (‘09), Myths of My Composer: Pom, le poulain (‘06) Composer: Childhood (‘05) Bruno Alexiu Maksim Koshevarov SHOWING: SHOWING: SUN 4/9 1:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/9 3:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SUN 4/17 12:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester SUN 4/17 1:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/23 1:10 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Kick It! My Friend Raf Kule kidz gråter ikke Rettet Raf!

Katarina Launing W&F Arend Agthe Sweden/Norway | 2014 Germany | 2014 Swedish with English subttles German with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE REGIONAL PREMIERE 102 min | Narratve | Ages 8+ 93 min | Narratve | Ages 7+ Anja is a spirited young girl who loves soccer and 8-year-old Sammy received his beloved golden doesn’t understand her best friend Lisa’s obsession with hamster, Raf, when his dad lef for Afghanistan. A boys. Her middle school classmate, Jonas, plays rough rodent with extraordinary talents, Raf plays soccer and mean on the soccer feld (secretly intmidated by each morning in an elaborate miniature hamster set. her skills). Anja brushes of Jonas with humor and it soon One day, Raf disappears! Neither his hard-working becomes clear that their tensions disguise a frst crush. mom nor his older sister can cope with Sammy’s When Anja visits the hospital with an injury, she commitment to a city-wide search. Sammy, however, confronts a surprising diagnosis of leukemia. Anja follows all clues and soon discovers foul play: Raf is contnues to play soccer, preparing for the big tournament, found in the hands of a smuggler. even while stll in the hospital. Her classmates, teacher, In hot pursuit on his bicycle throughout the city doctors, parents, and most importantly, Jonas, come up of Hamburg, Sammy must rescue his remarkable with a special plan to allow Anja to triumph in spite of her hamster from a life of crime. Can he do it? cancer in this touching, youthful drama. Based on the novel by Arend Agthe & Betna Kupfer. Producer: Principal Cast: Producer: Principal Cast: Tanya Badendyck, Mia Helene Solberg Brekke, Arend Agthe, Nicolaus van der Reke, Silje Hopland Eik Victor Papadopoulos Betna Kupfer Sophie Lindenberg, Screenplay: Jacobsen, Sigrid Welde Screenplay: Henriete Heinze Linda May Kallestein Awards: Arend Agthe, Selected Filmography: Cinematographer: Young People’s Jury Award Betna Kupfer Über das Meer (‘11), Vidar Flataukan Honorable Menton, Best Cinematographer: Karakum (‘94), The Summer Editor: Feature Film (Ages 11-13), Thomas Benesch of the Hawk (‘88) Alanté Alfandari TIFF Kids Internatonal Film Composer: Festval Magnus Beite, Selected Filmography: Mathias Nille Nilsson Magic Silver (‘09)

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Operation Arctic Operasjon Arktis

Grethe Bøe-Waal W&F Norway | 2014 Norwegian with English subttles REGIONAL PREMIERE 87 min | Narratve | Ages 8+ A modern-day Robinson Crusoe tale set on a remote island in the North Pole. 13-year-old Julia follows her twin younger siblings on a misguided impulse to visit their father in Svalbard, stowing away on a helicopter. When the helicopter lands, the kids sneak of but soon realize something is wrong. Stranded on ‘Moon Island’ on the North Pole, the kids are challenged to survive in a deserted shelter, guided only by a past survivor’s hastly lef diary. Beautful cinematography of the remote Arctc environment’s ice, blizzards, Northern Lights, and polar bears make this an unforgetable acton adventure for the whole family. Producer: Composer: Marchs B. Brodersen, Trond Bjerknes Sveinung Golimo, Principal Cast: John M. Jacobsen Kaisa Gurine Antonsen, Screenplay: Lars Arentz-Hansen, Grethe Bøe-Waal, Nicolai Cleve Broch Leif Hamre Awards: Cinematographer: Amanda Award for Best Gaute Gunnari Children’s or Youth Film Editor: Selected Filmography: Anders Refn Ten Lives of Titanic the Cat (‘09) SHOWING: SAT 4/9 11:00 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre SAT 4/16 12:30 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester SUN 4/17 3:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre MON 4/18 2:00 PM Wehrenberg, Rochester

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Mimo Papa Cloudy’s Orchestra Director: Chang Pei Yee, Oon Qian Yi Shannon Director: Akiko McQuerrey Singapore | 2015 | 2 min | Nonverbal USA |2015 | 11 min | Nonverbal Ink and color pastels inspired by painter Joan Miró After getting a distressed phone call from polar bears, playfully transform into colorful characters and shapes. Papa Cloudy forms an orchestra of wild animals to perform in a concert to save the planet. Featuring Tigers Tied Up in One Rope Boléro by Maurice Ravel. Director: Benoît Chieux France | 2014 | 8 min | French with English subtitles Storm A clever tale about a lazy young boy whose mother Director: Lim Guo Jun can’t stand to see him sleeping all day. Based on the Singapore | 2013 | 3 min | Nonverbal Korean folk-tale picture book by Moon-Hee Kwoon. A vibrant stop-motion animation, driven by music, features paper cutouts and found objects dancing as Electric Soul an emotional storm brews. Director: Joni Männistö Finland | 2013 | 5 min | Nonverbal A Platypus Named Amethyst An elaborate electronics kit is reassembled to make (Animal Kingdom) a city populated by bugs, cars, people—a buzzing Director: Ryan Paul Piewacki micropolis of circuitry. USA | 2015 | 3 min | English A playful collage of found footage with vintage Sounds of Nature cartoons, National Geographic clips, experimental Director: Simon Weber nature shots and sunsets accompanies a groovy Switzerland | 2013 | 8 min | Nonverbal song about the animal kingdom by Minneapolis’ own With a little imagination the forest becomes a Bunny Clogs. mysterious and adventurous place more exciting than any computer game could ever be.

Rita and Crocodile – Hedgehog Rita og Krokodille - Pindsvinet Director: Siri Melchior Denmark | 2013 | 5 min | Danish with English Subtitles Rita and her imaginary friend, Crocodile, want their own pet, and there lives a hedgehog in Grandma’s garden. They decide they must stay awake very late in order to catch it.

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EXPERIMENTAL Celluloid (short flm program) SHOWING: CINEMA: FRI 4/15 9:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre theoria CELLULOID, Director: Josh Weissbach Greece | 2014 | 6 min | English PIXELS, A Greek man discusses the meaning of the word “theory”. Etude Director: Robert Todd AND BEYOND USA | 2015 | 8 min | Nonverbal THE FRAME Following through and within the light. MN Out of Green Stuff Woven Director: Elizabeth Henry USA | 2015 | 4 min | English This brief film explores the the wide prairies—our myths, memories, and lyrics woven of grass. Fictious Force Scheinkraft Director: Philip Widmann Germany/India | 2015 | 15 min | Bengali, English An exchange on the impossibility to share experiences, in black and white and grey. Under the Atmosphere Director: Mike Stoltz USA | 2014 | 15 min | English Dormant spacecraft, arcane text, an out-of-tune rock band, activated landscape, and the surface of the image work towards a future-past shot reverse shot. Traces/Legacy Director: Scott Stark USA | 2015 | 9 min | Nonverbal Presented in partnership with Traces/Legacy uses a device called a film recorder to Cellular Cinema, this series print a series of digital still images onto 35mm film. of three programs champions T is for Turnip MN experimental flms, videos Director: Kiera Faber USA | 2015 | 3 min | English and CGI work made with A hand painted 16mm film that metaphorically unconventonal tools and explores childhood trauma. techniques. Live performances, Still Feeling Blue Colour Separation Director: Christine Lucy Latimer multchannel installatons, and Canada | 2015 | 2 min interactve projects will redefne Tracing the history of the color calibration card through cinema as most know it. many lenses, I effectively remove all colors, save one. Effigy in Emulsion Director: Karissa Hahn USA | 2014 | 3 min | English A study in exposure change to un-develop a memory. Palms Director: Mary Helena Clark USA/Canada | 2015 |9 min | English A musical, modular and mysterious film in four parts. 166 experimental cinema

Pixels (short flm program) Beyond the Frame SHOWING: SHOWING: FRI 4/15 7:00pm St. Anthony Main Theatre Sat 4/16 1:00pm - 10:00pm I’m in Pittsburg and It’s Raining Locaton: St. Anthony Main Theatre Director: Jesse McLean Special Full Day Admission Price: USA | 2014 | 15 min | USA $10 General Admission | $8 Members | $7 Students An experimental portrait of a lighting stand-in and body double for a famous Hollywood actress, Free Panel Discussion and a glimpse at the behind-the-scenes of cinema 1:00-2:30 production. Panel Discussion: Body Contours Experimental Cinema: Is the Medium the Message? Director: Kristin Reeves See page 39 for details. (free event) USA | 2015 | 6 min | English Make movies in your mind, feel the soundtrack, and drift away from your body for the win. Produced Ticketed Experimental Installations & Solo Exhibitions through a media art residency at Signal Culture. One ticket grants admission to hours of cutting edge work, installations, and solo shows from internation- Over Fractured Water Director: Olivia Ciummo ally acclaimed visiting filmmakers and local expanded USA | 2014 | 5 min | English cinema artists. A retelling of an industrial narrative. Legend swells in a hard to identify location as the land extraction leaves a Filmmakers present. workforce numb and petrified. 3:00pm Cleo from 5:41 to 5:43 MN Artists: Sam Hoolihan, John Marks, Crystal Myslajek Director: Kate Raney, Christy LeMaster (co-director) Medium: Multi-projector installation and live score. USA | 2015 | 15 min | English Using a scene from Agnes Varda’s film Cleo from 5 to 7 4:00pm as a prompt, multiple women assume the role of Cleo. Artist: Robert Schaller This film captures the actresses as they deal with the Medium: Hand-processed, single 16mm projections complex negotiation between performing femininity with live acoustic score. and embodying the self. Chapri 5:00pm Director: Katarzyna Plazinska Artist: Robert Todd (Boston-based) USA | 2014 | 6 min | English Medium: 16mm and digital projection Light, shadow, and sound imprint themselves onto ephemeral making. 7:00pm Artist: Lori Felker (Milwaukee-based artist) MN The Golden Hour Director: Priscilla Briggs Medium: Digital Projection. USA | 2015 | 4 min | Experimental 8:00pm A painterly vignette of mountains and prairie MN meadows as the light shifts toward darkness. Artists: Trevor Adams & Mike Hallenbeck Medium: 16mm projection and live score. Immorality, home and elsewhere Director: Sasha Litvintseva 9:00pm UK | 2014 | 12 min | English Artist: Roger Beebe If you could experience everything that ever was, Medium: Multi-projector installation. would you still be afraid? Big_Sleep™ Director: Evan Meaney, Amy Szczepanski USA | 2015 | 26 min | English Part software demo, part documentary - Big_Sleep™ concerns itself with archival impulses, molecular instability, and numbers counting down to zero. 167 short films Shorts 1 SHORT SHOWING: FRI 4/8 4:15 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre FILMS Total Run Time: 96 min Filmmakers present.

MN Stargazing Director: Cadence Nelson USA | 2015 | 5 min | English | Documentary Innovative choreographer Emily Johnson’s far-reaching public art performance brings people together across time and space to imagine a better future, expanding the definition of dance to include hand-sewn quilts and community stargazing.

Q.U.E.E.N. Director: Brittany “B.Monét” Fennell USA | 2015 | 12 min | English | Narrative A teenage sexual abuse victim uses her gift of rapping to find healing.

Mothers for Justice Director: Erik Ljung USA | 2015 | 16 min | English | Documentary After her black, unarmed, schizophrenic son, Dontre, is shot and killed by Milwaukee Police, Maria Hamilton attempts to rally a Million Moms March on Washington.

A lot can be said MN Turning Negative Positive / 4200 Cedar Mural in just a litle tme. Director: Mike Gray USA | 2015 | 6 min | English | Documentary From comedies to tear-jerkers The story of a mural project and the ideas and concerns of an engaged group of artists and their community. and everything in between, the festval shorts programs Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei weave together the best Director: Martha Gorzycki short flms from an USA | 2015 | 11 min | Documentary Karen people speak about surviving genocide internatonal cast inflicted by the Burmese military government. of flmmakers.

168 short films Shorts 1 continued Shorts 2 MN Colorblind Director: Diana Fraser SHOWING: USA | 2015 | 8 min | English | Documentary FRI 4/15 4:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre An examination of six Asian & Asian-American young adults’ experience with racial politicking in America. Total Run Time: 88 min 198 In Between Takes Director: Josh Lunden Director: Petter S. Holmsen USA | 2015 | 21 min | English | Narrative USA/Norway | 2015 | 7 min | Narrative Under the pressure of a hanging marriage proposal, a In a seven minute continuous take we meet a film young woman attempts to avoid reality during an ill- director struggling with his female lead. conceived night of drinking, smoking...and bowling.

Forager Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon Emilie Director: Mathew Kim USA | 2015 | 7 min | Documentary USA | 2016 | 17 min | English | Narrative Searching for more than just food. A man obsessed with his ex-girlfriend has a catch-up dinner with an engaged couple, but the night ends MN A Self Chosen State with him doing something he may regret. Director: Leo Fleming USA | 2015 | 24 min | English | Documentary Tom Fleming was one of hundreds of children taken Daewit Däwit under the care of world renowned child psychologist Director: David Jansen Bruno Bettelheim to be cured of autism. What follows Germany | 2015 | 15 min is a treatment that would nearly end Tom’s life, while German with English Subtitles | Animated also inspiring an act of love to save it. Having grown up among wolves, Däwit embarks on a mysterious journey to find his own identity, and ultimately, peace in forgiveness.

Cowboy’s Girl Director: Andrew Piccone USA | 2015 | 15 min | English | Narrative A successful woman travels to the seedy fringes of Las Vegas to confront her estranged, eccentric father, SERVE THE ARTIST, known simply as ‘Cowboy’. SERVE THE SONG Fata Morgana Your home for songwriting Director: Amelie Wen and music production. USA/China | 2015 | 20 min English/Chinese with English Subtitles | Narrative SONGWRITING | DEMO DEVELOPMENT A middle-aged couple from China arrives in the United AUDIO ENGINEERING | PROFESSIONAL MUSIC PRODUCTION States for the first time to organize the funeral rites of their only child. Website www.f5soundhouse.com Phone 612-454-MYF5 (612-454-6935)

169 short films Milky Way is Our Galaxy Director: Olli Ilpo Salonen Shorts 3 Finland | 2015 | 5 min | English | Narrative SHOWING: Sometimes a trip to the mall is more than a trip to the SAT 4/16 1:45 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre mall.

Total Run Time: 96 min A.D. 1363, The End of Chivalry Director: Jake Mahaffy Filmmakers present. USA/New Zealand | 2015 |3 min | English | Narrative NUTS This short film depicts the historical catastrophe that Director: Theo Sena led to the end of the heroic era of chivalry. USA | 2016 | 4 min | English | Narrative A man wakes up and fixes a world that isn’t broken. The Purrtraitist Director: Mark Zemel USA | 2015 | 10 min | English | Documentary MN The Lesson Director: Alberto Justiniano My weekend at a cat show in Parsippany NJ, with USA | 2015 | 14 min | English | Narrative a renowned photographer specializing in feline The silent power of Immigrants. portraiture.

The House is Innocent MN The Mountain Director: Nicholas Coles Director: Pablo Jones USA | 2015 | 13 min | English | Documentary USA | 2015 | 16 min | English | Narrative Meet Tom and Barbara, the proud new owners of An impressionist take on the arc of a relationship. a serial killer’s house. It’s going to take more than a fresh coat of paint to whitewash their home’s macabre history.

MN The Goodbye Director: Mike P. Nelson USA | 2015 |17 min | English | Narrative www.joylesscreatures.com A Screenwriter struggling to complete a ninja script must confront the death of the love of his life in order movie reviews • features • interviews to move on with his own.

Killing Baldacci Director: Dean Peterson USA | 2015 | 14 min | English | Narrative A disillusioned loner from Queens believes that it’s his destiny to kill the crime fiction writer David Baldacci.

The critic is a joyless creature. Where one should see life in their eyes there is only emptiness. 170 – Werner Herzog* short films Shorts 4 Shorts 5 SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/16 3:10 PM Metropolitan State University WED 4/20 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

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Under the Sun MN The Curator Ri Guang Zhi Xia Director: Andrew Putschoegl Director: QIU Yang USA | 2015 | 11 min | English | Documentary China/Australia| 2015 A profile of Clyde Doepner, the only official full-time Chinese with English Subtitles | 19 min curator in Major League Baseball. There’s nothing new under the sun. STARMAN Take Care Director: Josema Roig Director: Brynn Thayer, Shahaub Roudbari USA | 2014 | 19 min | English | Narrative USA | 2015 | 15 min | English | Narrative Wyatt Star is a down and out motorcycle rider trying How would you deal with hearing the worst news of to do his big comeback. A death defying jump over a your life? For Lisa, a witty foul mouthed long term football field. hospital patient, she only knows one way: sarcasm. Tracks MN Stuck in Mute Director: Logan Sandler Director: Shane Meuwissen USA | 2016 | 18 min | English | Narrative USA | 2016 | 12 min | English | Narrative An amateur skateboarder is left to care for his A young woman living with Selective Mutism disorder girlfriend’s young daughter on the day of a struggles to find her way in a society until a young championship tournament. boy helps her realize that every word counts. Husker Sand MN Mist on the River Director: Tommy Haines, Andrew Sherburne Director: James Byrne USA | 2015 | 8 min | English | Documentary USA | 2016 | 13 min | English | Narrative Leroy Sand, an 85-year-old lifelong farmer, is A young couple battles raw and paradoxical emotions competing in the “Golden Agers” division of the that threaten to tear them apart in this dream-like 2014 National Cornhusking Championship, a nearly drama that combines the real and the metaphor. century old Heartland tradition.

Behold MN Tough As Nails OPISTE Director: Matthew Adams Director: Mark Sargent, Haris Tsambas, Maya USA | 2015 | 23 min | English | Documentary Tsambrou | Greece | 2014 | 9 min | Greek with Follow the women of the International Watercross English Subtitles | Narrative Association as they train, race and overcome personal Tomatoes. Garlic. Okra. A truck. A dog. A man with a odds to pursue this unique extreme sport. bullhorn. Two women on a bench. ‘Who the hell are you?’

YOUTH Director: Brett Marty USA | 2016 | 30 min | English | Narrative Wasted on the young? A sci-fi film about growing old in a world of perpetual youth.

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MN 3:14:15 Shorts 6 Director: Sebastian Schnabel SHOWING: USA | 2015 | 10 min | English | Narrative THU 4/21 7:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre Each night, a man is haunted by the fears and desires of reality. With every tick of the clock, the boundaries Total Run Time: 83 min between dream and reality become more blurred. Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston? Director: Gabriel Sunday We Interrupt This Broadcast USA | 2015 | 17 min | English | Documentary Director: Kurt Raether Daniel Johnston stars in this short film about an musician USA | 2015 | 6 min | English | Narrative coming to terms with the dreams of yesteryear. A security guard at a museum spends his late night shifts reenacting old radio dramas. Tonight: Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds. Are we truly alone? Is he? MN Peace and Plastic Director: Marie Ketring MN USA | 2016 | 6 min | English | Documentary This is Who I Am Now This film follows artist Christopher Lutter and his Director: Francesca Perticarini newest project, exploring ideas of consumption USA | 2016 | 1 min | English | Narrative and how we as consumers see ourselves as active A woman breaks up with her fiance because she participants in this processes. realizes that she doesn’t need anyone next to her.

Limbo MN Two Worlds Director: Will Blank Director: Andy Lefton USA | 2015 | 8 min | English | Narrative USA | 2015 | 8 min | English | Animated A man finds a dying dog who grants him one wish. Marooned on a desolate planet, Snibb struggles to utilize his weak satellite link to call for rescue. It Had Wings Through fate, he may have a way out. Director: Ellen Hemphill, Jim Haverkamp USA | 2016 | 10 min | English | Narrative In this redemptive tale, written and narrated by Allan Gurganus, the ordinary becomes briefly mythic.

MN eye palindrome eye Director: Colin Stanhill USA | 2015 | 3 min | English | Animated A hand-drawn series of geometric loops and ocular + )ſ *)Ħ/ abstractions, organized around a palindrome ÿĦüû+( structure.

MN Oracle ./ſ 2ſ Director: Christopher Lange ./0-)/ſýûüĀ USA | 2016 | 14 min | English | Narrative A young woman is haunted by dreams of a lover’s death and starts to believe that her visions are brought by owls to reveal the future.

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Total Run Time: 78 min Total Run Time: 69 min Madam Black Tarantula Director: Ivan Barge Tarântula New Zealand | 2015 | 11 min | English | Narrative Director: Aly Muritiba, Marja Calafange When a glamour photographer runs over a child’s Brazil | 2015 | 20 min pet, he’s forced to fabricate a story about its Portuguese with English Subtitles | Narrative disappearance. In a distant mansion lives a religious and apparently incomplete family: a mother and her two daughters. Schmoolie The Deathwatcher Until the day which an appearance disturbing comes Director: Michael Ray Escomilla to put things in their place. USA | 2015 | 15 min | English | Narrative An Orthodox Jewish teen spends his first night alone Cat Killer guarding a body awaiting burial, and ends up fighting Director: Jeff Dorer for his own life. USA | 2015 | 10 min | English | Animated An exterminator clearing an abandoned building of Picnic feral cats takes his job personally in this nightmarish Piknik animated fable. Director: Jure Pavlovic Bosnia and Herzegovina/Croatia | 2015 | 13 min Dog Bowl Bosnian with English subtitles | Narrative Director: Gordy Hoffman Some picnics are harder then others. USA | 2015 | 19 min | English | Narrative A heartbroken girl spiraling through her life stumbles MN VIKTOR upon the true nature of her existence after stealing Director: Ann Prim the vest off of a service dog. USA | 2016 | 11 min English and Russian with English subtitles | Narrative The Cobbler and the Diamond An American-Russian family is torn apart by a secret. Director: Jacob Hoyson USA | 2015 | 20 min | English | Narrative Roubado A down-on-his-luck private eye is torn between his Director: Erica Watson client’s search for her missing diamond and his own USA/France | 2014 | 18 min search for peach cobbler. French and English with English subtitles | Narrative Roubado tells the story of Alain Castelo, an introverted Afro-Portuguese teen growing up in the south of France.

Catalina and the Sun Catalina y el Sol Director: Anna Paula Hönig Argentina | 2015 | 15 min Spanish with English subtitles | Narrative In this old Argentinian legend, every day Catalina offers a tale to the Sun Tata Inti, for he would always shine in the sky.

173 short films Documentary Shorts 1 Documentary Shorts 2 SHOWING: SHOWING: SAT 4/9 11:15 AM St. Anthony Main Theatre FRI 4/22 5:00 PM St. Anthony Main Theatre

Total Run Time: 99 min Total Run Time: 91 min

Once Upon a Kingdom Neighbors in Time Un royaume déménage Director: Lauren Knapp Director: Terence Chotard, Raphael J. Dostie USA | 2015 | 10 min | English | Documentary Canada | 2014 | 19 min An observational documentary on four women, all French with English Subtitles | Documentary in their 80s and all living in the same senior citizen Settled on the edge of the St. Lawrence river in apartment complex. Quebec City, a century old building protects the fragile existence of 82 Catholic nuns who have decided The Ladies that moving would be in the best interest of their Director: Tyler Zoanni congregation. USA | 2015 | 15 min | English | Documentary For 50 years, a group of Ukrainian women has gathered MN Today I Am Going To Kill Myself But in New York’s East Village to make dumplings for their church. This observational short offers an evocative First I Am Going To Dance portrait of ‘the ladies’ and the work, faith, gossip, and Director: Nik Nerburn humor that brings them together. USA | 2015 | 25 min | English | Documentary A film about the legacy of the Fergus Falls State Hospital, alternately known as the Third Minnesota The Interior State Hospital for the Insane. This film was completed Director: Jonathan Rattner as part of the Hinge Arts residency for Springboard For USA | 2015 | 24 min | English | Documentary The Arts. January, the Alaskan Interior, 56 mushing dogs, 4 humans, 5 hours of sunlight. This observational work - shot on both 16mm and digital video - examines the MN Riding the Highline interior worlds of its subjects and explores how to Director: Kai Carlson-Wee, Anders Carlson-Wee write with limited light. USA | 2015 | 16 min | English | Documentary A short documentary film about poet brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee hopping trains across the country. Lamerica Director: Stefano Galli USA | 2015 | 43 min | English | Documentary MN Cherry Tree House Mushroom Farm This visual narrative takes the viewer on a lyrical Director: Russell Anway journey across the United States, through 16mm USA | 2016 | 7 min | English | Documentary frames evocative of postcards from the road. A look into the dedication required to grow the simple shittake mushroom and why it’s worth the effort.

The Closing of ALCO Store 208 Director: Christian Jensen USA | 2015 | 32 min | English | Documentary A portrait of a man managing his store.

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Total Run Time: 25 min The River Music: Sarah K Snider Director: Daniel Huiting USA | 2015 | 5 min

Big Bang feat. Lizzo & P.O.S. Music: Sean Anonymous Director: Arlo Myren USA | 2015 | 4 min

Bury Your Heart Music: Rogue Valley Director: Stephanie Johnson USA | 2015 | 4 min

All Out OH MY COD! feat. Addam, Taron, Pigeon John It’s already Friday! Music: Anakronic Director: Tomas Aksamit, Shawn Dunbar, Addam, Michael Vanasek, Adam Jacobs the fish are fryin’ USA | 2015 | 4 min & the chips are on. Shooting The Moon Music: Brian Casey the Destroyer Director: Chris Jopp USA | 2015 | 4 min

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KFAI proudly supports Lunafest Film Festval to support The Minnesota Peacebuilding Leadership Insttute. April 27th at the Riverview Theater Tickets available at www.mnpeace.org 176 short films Shorts Before Features Almost Not Beautiful Poet Guitar Screens Before: The Sand Box (p154) Screens Before: Dragonfly (p152) Director: Sarah Jean Kruchowski Director: Lisa Erickson USA | 2015 | 13 min | English | Narrative USA | 2015 | 6 min | English | Experimental Two estranged sisters are reunited back at their An experimental short of poetic interpretations of childhood home after going their own separate Hagstrom Guitars drawn on an iPad and set to music ways, only to discover that some bonds can never be inspired by the real-time playback of the drawing repaired. process.

MN Ann Prim MN River of Iron Screens Before: Happy Collaborator (p104) Screens Before: Closer Than You Think (p101) Director: Selina Xiong Director: Nicole Brending USA | 2015 | 4 min | English | USA | 2015 | 5 min | English | Documentary In this film, Ann Prim discusses her evolution into a Sculptor Tamsie Ringler discusses her work as a filmmaker since her arrival in the Twin Cities in 2000 “quietly political artist” while staging an iron pour of and the importance of light in all her work. the Mississippi River watershed.

Life Through the Lens Screens Before: The Summer Help (p119) MN Shaping the Public Director: Igor Myakotin Screens Before: Closer Than You Think (p101) Bulgaria | 2013 | 7 min | English Director: Dawn Mikkelson A self-portrait documentary that explores the way I see USA/Venezuela | 2015 | 10 min the world through my dad’s film camera. Spanish/English with English subtitles | Documentary A story of how a determined diverse group of artists (from graffiti artists to acrobats) occupied a vacant lot MN Jesse Roesler Screens Before: Happy Collaborator (p104) in urban Caracas, Venezuela resulting in the Tiuna el Director: Evan Peterson Fuerte Cultural Park. USA | 2015 | 4 min | English | Documentary This film explores Jesse Roesler’s (The Starfish Spintronic Throwers, 2014) work and the capacity of films to Screens Before: Closer Than You Think (p101) change the world as well as the realities of making a Director: Lori Bohner living through independent film. USA | 2015 | 5 min | English | Documentary Spintronic explores the mind of it’s creator, public MN Melisandre Charles sculpter Nicole Beck. Discover a new world through Screens Before: Here Come the Videofreex (p105) Spintronic’s conception to installation. Director: Emily Goldberg USA | 2015 | 6 min | English | Documentary MN Tom Schroeder Through her public art project, “Post Offices: An Screens Before: Happy Collaborator (p104) Endangered Species”, Melisande Charles engages Director: Ethan Xiong her fellow artists to create work that celebrates this USA | 2015 | 3 min | English | Documentary threatened institution that has served Americans for This film explores Tom Schroeder’s commitment over 200 years. to hand drawn animation in the digital age and the struggle’s of staying true to one’s artistic vision.

MN VIKTOR Screens Before: Raging Rose (p142) Director: Ann Prim USA | 2016 | 11 min | English English and Russian with English subtitles | Narrative An American-Russian family is torn apart by a secret. 177 Generous Support for the Generous support provided by the Canadian flms provided by Quebec Government Ofce the Consulate of Canada in Chicago in Minneapolis staff

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CINE GLOBAL ADVISORY GROUP Maria Antonia Calvo (Chair), Alberto Fierro (Chair), Abdi Roble, Alondra Cano, Anne Carayon, Beth Pacunas, Bharat Parekh, Carol Byrne, Bruce Karstadt, Charlie Sugnet, Chris Fisher, Christa Tiefenbacher, Christina Bouzouina, Csilla Grauser, Elena Polukhin, Franklin Curbello, Jamshed Merchant, Jeremy Bandow, Joelle Vitiello, Jojo Ndege, Maria Gonzalez-O’Brien, Marlina Gonzalez, Max Musicant, Mustafa Jumale, Paola Nunez- Obetz, Roma Calatayud Stocks, Rudi Gutmann, Scott Pollock, Sylvia Ontaneda, Uri Camarena, John Wright, Rudi Gutmann, Lana Barkawi, Craig Rice, Susan Smoluchowski MINNESOtA-MADE SELECtION COMMIttEE Craig Rice, Dan Geiger, Greg Winter, Henry Schneider, Jason Wallace, Jesse Roesler, Lindy Wilson, Louie LaFleur, Neha Belvalkar, Will Wright, Zoey Melf SUBMISSIONS SCREENING COMMIttEE Adam Arling, Adam Lueck, Adrienne Kleinman, Aleksander Sedzielarz, Alex Guillemette, Alex Wolf, Amanda Bialon, Anna Gardner, Ashley Randall, Becca Erickson, Ben Mulhern, Bennett Berning, Bryan Sorensen, Colin Stanhill, Courtney Reistad, Dumitrita Pacicovschi, Eleanor Cole, Eric Wilson, Eva Hudecova, Feven Gerezgiher, Gabrielle Helmin-Clazmer, Heather Fisch, Jan Willms, Jeannette Raymond, Jesse Bishop, Kat Albrecht, Kat Kluegel, Kathryn Hyams, Krista Wax, Laura Cervin, Lauren Kingsbeck, Luke Peterson, Maison Garay, Mary Buchta, Mary Kate Burnes, Matthew Jaradeh, Matthew Treon, Mickayla Bakke, Rebecca Jurisz, Roxanne Denysiuk, Sharon Collins, Steven Vogel, Susan Roberts, Tatseng Wong, Theodore Maple, Thorn Chen, Thomas Frank COMPEtItION JURORS Found on the competition pages within this guide. Juror bios and more information available at mspfilm.org. tHANK YOU tO OUR 2015 VOLUNtEERS! Abdi Mohamed, Adam Arling, Adrienne Kleinman, Albie Sher, Alex Arnott, Alex Bildsoe, Amy Jones, Angela Andrist, Angela Andrist, Anita von Geldern, Anne Munson, Anne Richards, Barb Rose, Becca Hanson, Bill Lamb, Brett Rolstad, Brianna Jonna, Brigid McBride, Bryan Sorensen, Burton Cooley, Caitlin Newman, Carolynne Strand, Charles Dorsey, Claire Barczak, Colin Stanhill, Danika Zabertini, Dave O’Brien, David Borgula, David Kaiser, Duff Miller, Dustin Bird, Ellie Rush, Emily Mechtel, Erin Betlock, Evan Hatcher, Fred Kreider, Gabrielle Helmin-Clazmer, Greg Klave, Heidi Erickson, Jack Rossbach, Jacob Devine, Jacob Mathias, Jacopo Mocellin, Jan Willms, Jane Bolla, Jane Eyestone, Jason Kroeker, Jeff Millikan, Jennifer Wilson, Jenny Kedward, Jessica Belt, Joanna Lees, Judith Thompson, Julia Carlson, Julia Carlson & Rachel Dunleavy, Julia Carlson/Rachel, Kat Kluegel, Kathryn Campbell, Kathy Burow, Katy Struntz, Kiah Eide, Kim Rogers, Kimber Carter, Kou Vang, Krista Wax, Latha Parameswaran, Lauren Ernt, Lauren Kingsbeck, Liban Dahir, Luci Prosapio, Mada Morgan, Mariah Wagner, Martha McMurry, Mary Olberding, Mary Reynolds, Melissa Semrad, Meredith Steck, Mia Genereux, Michael Bohman, Michealyn Kvasnik, Miranda Taylor, Mohamoud Mohamed, Nadia Honary, Nafiso Mahad, Nancie Litin, Nathan Breuer, Nick Christenson, Nicole Wayne, Pam Burrows, Pasha Hosseinbor, Qaiser Bakhtiari, Rachel Dyer, Ramon Pabon, Rima Greene, Rob and Heather, Robert Guo, Rod Metzger, Ronda Brooks, Ronna Hammer, Roxanne Denysiuk, Ruby Hocker, Ryan Gilmer, Sammi Manning, Shannon Riley, Sharee Marcus, Sharon Allexhsaht, Sharon Allexsaht, Sharon Collins, Shelly Breitenfeldt, Steve Kantner, Susan Roberts, Tanya Van Sloun, Taryn Mortimer, Taylor Bartelt, Tim Brandl, Tim Nomeland, Vanessa Vagher-Twomey, Virginia Tisdale, Wanxue Meng, Will Wright, Zach Alt, Zach Swenson

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Al Milgrom Tim Grady Founder/Artistic Director Emeritus Founder/Board Member Emeritus Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul Minneapolis Film Festival In 1962, Mr. Milgrom founded the groundbreaking In 1981, Mr. Grady founded the Minneapolis Film Fes- University Film Society, introducing international film tival, launching an international film festival tradition and filmmakers to Twin Cities’ audiences. Milgrom’s in the region and inspiring the MSP International Film contributions to cinema in Minnesota are legendary. Festival. Grady has made many important contributions over the years to MSPIFF’s vision and programs. tHANK YOU tO: Abdi Roble, Adriana Cargill, Al Milgrom, Alan Hoffman, Alberto Fi- Nor Hall, Nora Paul, Norah Shapiro, Norm Munk, Owen Metz, Paige erro Garza, Ali Selim, Alissa Simon, Amy Brendmoen, Ana Forcinito, Ware, Pål Håberg, Palmar Alvarez-Blanco, Paola Obetz, Patrick Cross, Andrea Graham, Andrew and James Wilson, Andrew Duff, Andrew Paul Aaron, Paul Hudson, Paul Marchant, Paul Reyelts, Pete Tedrow, Peterson, Andrew Wallmeyer, Ange Hwang, Ann Prim, Anna Christo- Peter Moore, Peter Schilling, Phil Harder, PoChu AuYeung, R.T. Rybak, forides, Anne Saxton, Antoine Versabeau, Arnaud Bélangeon-Bouaziz, Rachel Goldberg, Rebecca Bachman, Reilly Tillman, Renate Zylla, Rick Barbara Weiner, Ben Garvin, Ben Mena, Beth Dooley, Beth Pacunas, Vaicius, Rob Nilsson, Robert Byrd, Robin Hickman, Robyne Robinson, Beth Peloff, Bill McGuire, Bill Pohlad, Bill Thompson, Billy Eigen, Binky Rochester International Film Group Staff & Volunteers, Roger Hale, Wood, Brandon Jernigan, Brianna Morel, Bruce Karstadt, Carol Byrne, Ron Thill, Ross Fefercorn, Rudi Gutmann, Ryan Johnson, Ryan McKen- Carolina Maranon, Catherine Wang, Cesar Chico Chavez, Chad Olson, na, Ryan Oestreich, Salar Pashtoonyar, Sara Rüster, Sally Waterman, Charles Coleman, Charlie Hartwell, Charlie Sugnet, Chris Cardozo, Scott Mayer, Scott Pollock, Selina Lewis Davidson, Sharon DeMark, Chris Fream, Chris Frischen, Chris Osgood, Christa Tiefenbacher-Hud- Sheila Livingston, Sheila Smith, Shelli Ainsworth, Simon Edery, Stefano son, Christie Healey, Christina Bouzouina, Christine Esckilsen, Christi- and Zelda Curti, Stephanie Dillon, Stephanie March, Stephen Zucker- na Ham, Christof Wehmeier, Chuck and Mary Leer, Cindy Froid, Cindy man, Steve@AMill!, Steve Dietz, Steve Rosenstone, Stuart Ackman, Walker, Colin Covert, Connie Everson, Connie Remele, Craig Fields, Sue Gens, Sylvia Ontaneda, Terry Egge, Theo Sena, Thomas Schneider, Cristina Baldwin, Csilla Grauser, D.A. 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Diane Savage & C. Wade Joelle Stangler Tom Trow Rachel Wittkopp Ginny Redgrave Savage Colin Stanhill Christine Tschida & Richard Amy-Patrick Wojahn Alicia Reece Joe Schaak Ellen Stanley Mosher Caleb Wood Marybeth Reed Debbie Schaefer Adam Stanzak Michael Tuckman Joseph Woodside George Reese Jane Schallert & Tom Bolstad Jodi Stee Steve Tuckner Janet Woolman & Lee Catharine Reid Margaret Schally Amy Steege K. 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Our Loved Ones 141 Presenting Princess Shaw 68 Radiator 141 Raging Rose 142 Resilience 117 Right Now, Wrong Then 77 A Unique Dining and Entertainment Destination Road to La Paz 86 We offer a fresh perspective on Italian American cuisine featuring Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy 118 locally sourced ingredients in every dish. Unique private dining Robert Klein 117 spaces accommodate groups of 20 to 600, while upscale bowling and Rosita 95 bocce are the perfect after-dinner activities for groups of all ages. Sabali 142 Sabina K. 143 Sand Box, The 154 Schneider vs. Bax 143 Seeker, The 154 Serial Killer 1 144 Seventh Fire, The 65 Simple Goodbye, A 77 Sing Street 69 Sleeping Giant 144 Sparrows 96 Speed Sisters 118 Standing Tall 145 Stray, A 155 Summer Help, The 119 Summer Solstice 145 Summertime 146 Sunset Song 146 Taklub 78 Tale of Tales 70 Talent Has Hunger 119 Tharlo 78 Therapy for a Vampire 158 They Will Have to Kill Us First 91 Tickled 120 Trophy Husband 155 Uncle Howard 120 Under Electric Clouds 147 Under The Skin 121 Unlocking the Cage 121 Valley of Love 147 Vanity 148 Ville-Marie 148 Violin Teacher, The 87 Virgin Mountain 96 Voices From Chernobyl 122 Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc 71 Vore King 122 Walking Distance 87 Walls 123 Walnut Tree 79 Water 53 Wednesday Child, The 149 Wednesday, May 9 149 Weiner 123 What We Become 159 When a Tree Falls 150 When Two Worlds Collide 124 Women He’s Undressed 124 EDINA, MN Women Outward Bound 125 3849 Gallagher Drive Wondrous Boccacio 150 952-835-6440 World Has No Eyedea, The 125 PINSTRIPES.COM Yoko the Cherry Blossom 79 187 Zero Point 151 inDex - featUres by oriGin

FEATURE INDEX BY ORIGIN ALBANIA CUBA Bota 130 Closer Than You Think - INDONESIA The Cuban Artist Project 101 Copy of My Mind, A 73 ARGENTINA Argentina 100 CZECH REPUBLIC IRAN Dog Lady 82 Home Care 135 Wednesday, May 9 149 Our Last Tango 116 Road to La Paz 86 DENMARK IRAQ Mountain 138 Iraqi Odyssey 109 AUSTRALIA Rosita 95 Last Cab to Darwin 137 What We Become 159 IRELAND Women He’s Undressed 124 Sing Street 69 ESTONIA AUSTRIA 1944 126 ISRAEL Therapy for a Vampire 158 Zero Point 151 Atomic Falafel 128 Blush 129 BANGLADESH ETHIOPIA Fever at Dawn 133 Journey of a Thousand Lamb 91 Presenting Princess Shaw 68 Miles, A: Peacekeepers 110 FINLAND ITALY BELGIUM Fencer, The 92 L’attesa 137 Ardennes, The 127 Tale of Tales 70 Belgian Rhapsody 129 FRANCE Wondrous Boccacio 150 Birds of Passage 161 Adama 160 Dheepan 131 JAPAN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA Exotica Erotica, etc. 103 Happy Hour 73 Our Everyday Life 140 Francofonia 134 Journey to the Shore 75 Sabina K. 143 Ice and the Sky 108 Yoko the Cherry Blossom 79 Innocents, The 136 BRAZIL My King 139 KAZAKHSTAN Kill Me Please 84 Raging Rose 142 Walnut Tree 79 Neon Bull 85 Serial Killer 1 144 Violin Teacher, The 87 Standing Tall 145 KOSOVO Summertime 146 Babai 128 CANADA Valley of Love 147 Beeba Boys 64 Voices of Light: The Passion KYRGYZSTAN Bollywood/Hollywood 53 of Joan of Arc 71 Heavenly Nomadic 74 Endorphine 133 My Internship in Canada 139 GERMANY LIBERIA Our Loved Ones 141 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? 98 Affliction 88 Sabali 142 Enclave 132 Sleeping Giant 144 Ghostland 90 LUXEMBOURG Ville-Marie 148 HomeSick 136 Voices From Chernobyl 122 Water 53 My Friend Raffi 162 MEXICO CHINA GREECE 600 Miles 80 Chinese Mayor, The 101 Chevalier 130 Chronic 82 Kaili Blues 75 I Promise You Anarchy 83 Simple Goodbye, A 77 HUNGARY Mr. Pig 67 Tharlo 78 Liza the Fox-Fairy 138 Walking Distance 87 Wednesday Child, The 149 COLOMBIA NETHERLANDS Alias María 81 ICELAND ` in Guanajuato 132 Homecoming, The 94 Schneider vs. Bax 143 CROATIA Sparrows 96 High Sun, The 135 Virgin Mountain 96 NEW ZEALAND Tickled 120 INDIA Muzaffarnagar Eventually... 114 New Classmate, The 76 188 inDex - featUres by oriGin

NORWAY UGANDA Invitation, The 158 Here is Harold 93 Boda Boda Thieves, The 89 Legend of Swee’ Pea, The 110 Kick It! 162 Light Beneath Their Feet, A 153 Last King, The 94 UNITED KINGDOM Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Nina’s Children 115 Hard Stop, The 105 Connected World 111 Operation Arctic 163 Hockney 106 Mad Tiger 112 Lovers And The Despot, The 111 Minimalism: A Documentary About PALESTINE Radiator 141 the Important Things 113 Idol, The 66 Sunset Song 146 Minnesota 13: From They Will Have to Kill Us First 91 Grain to Glass 113 PERU Uncle Howard 120 Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma Magallanes 84 and the Silk Road Ensemble, The 114 When Two Worlds Collide 124 USA (INCLUDING MINNESOTA) Norman Lear: Just Another Above and Below 99 Version of You 115 PHILIPPINES Alchemist Cookbook, The 156 Resilience 117 Taklub 78 Anthropologist, The 99 Robert Bly: A Thousand Big Wu Way, The 100 Years of Joy 118 POLAND Don’t Blink - Robert Frank 102 Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg 117 Demon 157 Dragonfly 152 Sand Box, The 154 Summer Solstice 145 Fits, The 153 Seeker, The 154 Gypsy: Rock & Roll Nomads 103 Seventh Fire, The 65 ROMANIA Happy Collaborator: Speed Sisters 118 Aferim! 127 George Stoney 104 Stray, A 155 One Floor Below 140 Happy Film, The: a GRAPHIC Summer Help, The 119 design experiment 104 Talent Has Hunger 119 RUSSIA Here Come The Videofreex 105 Trophy Husband 155 Celestial Camel 161 Holy Hell 106 Unlocking the Cage 121 Under Electric Clouds 147 How Love Won: The Fight for Vore King 122 Good Wife, A 134 Marriage Equality in Minnesota 107 Weiner 123 How to Let Go of the World Women Outward Bound 125 SOUTH AFRICA (and Love All the Things World Has No Eyedea, The 125 Endless River, The 89 Climate Can’t Change) 107 In the Game 108 VENEZUELA SOUTH KOREA In Transit 109 From Afar 83 Alone 72 Hill Of Freedom 74 Madonna 76 Right Now, Wrong Then 77

SPAIN Apostate, The 81 District Zero 102 Messi 112 My Big Night 85 Nothing in Return 86 Walls 123 When a Tree Falls 150

SWEDEN Alena 157 Garbage Helicopter, The 93 I Am Dublin 90 Man Called Ove, A 63 Countries marked in RED are among My Skinny Sister 95 the 141 countries served by the US Under The Skin 121 Peace Corps since 1961. www.peacecorps.gov SWITZERLAND Decent Man, A 131 O Samba 116 Vanity 148 189 inDex - featUres by Voice QUICK GUIDE TO FESTIVAL VOICES WHAT SPEAKS TO YOU IN CINEMA? Is it a goofy short from one of cinema’s up-and-comers? Or a provocative documentary from one of the world’s best storytellers? Whatever you’re feeling, we’ve made it easier to find a film in the fest that matches your tastes. In addition to the Festival’s traditional categories and programs, we’ve organized all the films into nine groups we’ve called Voices. It’s a quick and easy way to connect you with all the best the fest has to offer.

– Art in Pictures – – Cinematic Science(?) – – Drama-rama! –

The intersection of music, art and Science, technology, sci-fi, the Compelling stories that ask film. Biopics, profiles, music docs, environment, and films that blur meaningful questions and ex- films on literature and writing, those lines… plore astounding realities. performances, concerts, musicals and everything in between.

– Expanded Horizons – – Film on the Fringe – – Laugh Out Loud –

Enlightening narratives and doc- Films, characters and stories that Movies on the lighter side that umentaries on history, politics, push the boundaries of your ex- will have you chuckling in your social change and global current pectations and challenge your seat... events. notions of what film can be.

– Show Me the Love – – Take Me Away – – Thrill Me, Chill Me –

From the classic romance to the Travel the world with these ex- Action, suspense and unexpect- peculiar parable of passion, this ceptional stories – whether it’s a ed surprises... Here you’ll find is where you can go to find love trip to a far off and exotic land, or films that will keep you clinging in all its manifestations. somewhere new and unexpected to the edge of your seat. in your own backyard. 190 inDex - featUres by Voice

ART IN PICTURES EXPANDED HORIZONS I Promise You Anarchy 83 Argentina 100 Alias María 81 Journey to the Shore 75 Big Wu Way, The 100 Babai 128 Lovers And The Despot, The 111 Closer Than You Think - The Cuban Chinese Mayor, The 101 My King 139 Artist Project 101 Dheepan 131 Our Loved Ones 141 Don’t Blink - Robert Frank 102 District Zero 102 Raging Rose 142 Eisenstein in Guanajuato 132 Exotica Erotica, etc. 103 Rosita 95 Gypsy: Rock & Roll Nomads 103 Hard Stop, The 105 Sabali 142 Happy Collaborator: George Stoney 104 Here Come The Videofreex 105 Sing Street 68 Hockney 106 High Sun, The 135 Summertime 146 Mad Tiger 112 Holy Hell 106 Above and Below 99 Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and I Am Dublin 90 the Silk Road Ensemble, The 114 In the Game 108 TAKE ME AWAY Norman Lear: Just Another Iraqi Odyssey 109 Adama 160 Version of You 115 Journey of a Thousand Miles, A: Birds of Passage 161 O Samba 116 Peacekeepers 110 Bollywood/Hollywood 53 Our Last Tango 116 Legend of Swee’ Pea, The 110 Bota 130 Presenting Princess Shaw 117 Magallanes 84 Celestial Camel 161 Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy 118 Minimalism: A Documentary About Ghostland: The View of the Ju’Hoansi 90 Seeker, The 154 the Important Things 113 Heavenly Nomadic 74 Talent Has Hunger 119 Muzaffarnagar Eventually... 114 Idol, The 66 They Will Have to Kill Us First 91 Nina’s Children 115 In Transit 109 Uncle Howard 120 Seventh Fire, The 65 Lamb 91 Voices of Light: The Passion of Joan of Arc 71 Speed Sisters 118 Last Cab to Darwin 137 Women He’s Undressed 124 Summer Help, The 119 Messi 112 World Has No Eyedea, The 125 Taklub 78 Minnesota 13: From Grain to Glass 113 Under The Skin 121 Mr. Pig 67 CINEMATIC SCIENCE(?) Walls 123 My Friend Raffi 162 10 Billion - What’s On Your Plate? 98 Water 53 New Classmate, The 76 Affliction 88 Weiner 123 Operation Arctic 163 Anthropologist, The 99 When Two Worlds Collide 124 Road to La Paz 86 Fits, The 153 Women Outward Bound 125 Tale of Tales 69 Happy Film, The: a GRAPHIC Violin Teacher, The 87 design experiment 104 FILM ON THE FRINGE Walnut Tree 79 How to Let Go of the World (and Love Aferim! 127 Wednesday, May 9 149 All the Things Climate Can’t Change) 107 Dog Lady 82 Wondrous Boccacio 150 Ice and the Sky 108 Endorphine 133 Yoko the Cherry Blossom 79 Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Francofonia 134 Connected World 111 Garbage Helicopter, The 93 THRILL ME CHILL ME Resilience 117 Happy Hour 73 1944 126 Unlocking the Cage 121 Kaili Blues 75 600 Miles 80 Neon Bull 85 Alchemist Cookbook, The 156 DRAMA-RAMA! Under Electric Clouds 147 Alena 157 Boda Boda Thieves, The 89 Voices From Chernobyl 122 Alone 72 Chronic 82 Vore King 122 Ardennes, The 127 Decent Man, A 131 Beeba Boys 64 Dragonfly 152 LAUGH OUT LOUD Demon 157 Enclave 132 Apostate, The 81 Endless River, The 89 Good Wife, A 134 Atomic Falafel 128 HomeSick 136 Home Care 135 Chevalier 130 Invitation, The 158 Innocents, The 136 Here is Harold 93 Kill Me Please 84 Kick It! 162 Hill Of Freedom 74 Last King, The 94 L’attesa 137 Homecoming, The 94 One Floor Below 140 Light Beneath Their Feet, A 153 Liza the Fox-Fairy 138 Schneider vs. Bax 143 Madonna 76 My Big Night 85 Serial Killer 1 144 Man Called Ove, A 63 My Internship in Canada 139 Summer Solstice 145 Mountain 138 Radiator 141 Therapy for a Vampire 158 My Skinny Sister 95 Right Now, Wrong Then 77 What We Become 159 Nothing in Return 86 Robert Klein Still Can’t Stop His Leg 117 Our Everyday Life 140 Tickled 120 Sabina K. 143 Trophy Husband 155 Sand Box, The 154 Vanity 148 Simple Goodbye, A 77 Virgin Mountain 96 Sleeping Giant 144 Walking Distance 87 Sparrows 96 Standing Tall 145 SHOW ME THE LOVE Stray, A 155 Belgian Rhapsody 129 Sunset Song 146 Blush 129 Tharlo 78 Copy of My Mind, A 73 Valley of Love 147 Fencer, The 92 Ville-Marie 148 Fever at Dawn 133 Wednesday Child, The 149 From Afar 83 When a Tree Falls 150 How Love Won: The Fight for Marriage 191 Zero Point 151 Equality in Minnesota 107 Major support for the flms and visitng flmmakers from Mexico provided by the Consulate of Mexico in St. Paul inDex - shorts by title

SHORTS INDEX BY TITLE 3:14:15 172 My Dream, My Right 36 198 169 Neighbors in 174 A.D. 1363, The End of Chivalry 170 NUTS 170 All Out (ft. Addam, Taron, Pigeon John) - Anakronic 175 Once Upon a Kingdom 174 Almost Not Beautiful 177 Oracle 172 Ann Prim 177 Out of Green Stuff Woven 166 Behold 171 Over Fractured 167 Beyond the Frame 167 Palms 166 Big Bang feat. Lizzo & P.O.S. - Sean Anonymous 175 Papa Cloudy’s Orchestra 165 Big_Sleep™ 167 Paper Route 37 Body Contours 167 Peace & Plastic 172 Bury Your Heart - Rogue Valley 175 Picnic 173 Cat Killer 173 Platypus Named Amethyst (Animal Kingdom) 165 Catalina and the Sun 173 Poet Guitar 177 Chapri 167 Purrtraitist, The 170 Cherry Tree House Mushroom Farm 174 Q.U.E.E.N. 168 Cleo from 5:41 to 5:43 167 Revival 37 Closing of ALCO Store 208, The 174 Riding the Highline 174 Cobbler and the Diamond, The 173 Rita and Crocodile - Hedgehog 165 Colorblind 168 River of Iron 177 Cowboy’s Girl 169 River, The - Sarah K Snider 175 Curator, The 171 Roubado 173 Daewit 169 Schmoolie The Deathwatcher 173 Death Cap - Reina del Cid 175 Self Chosen State, A 168 Dog Bowl 173 Shaping the Public 177 Effigy in Emulsion 166 Shooting The Moon - Brian Casey the Destroyer 175 Electric Soul 165 Sounds of Nature 165 Emilie 169 Spintronic 177 Etude 166 Stargazing 168 eye palindrome eye 172 STARMAN 171 Fata Morgana 169 Still Feeling Blue About Colour Separation 166 Fictitious Force 166 Storm 165 Forager 168 Stuck In Mute 171 Freedom and Isolation 37 T is for Turnip 166 Golden Hour, The 167 Take Care 171 Goodbye, The 170 Tarantula 173 Hi How Are You Daniel Johnston? 172 theoria 166 House is Innocent, The 170 This is Who I Am Now 172 Husker Sand 171 Tigers Tied Up in One Rope 165 I’m in Pittsburgh and Its Raining 167 Today I Am Going To Kill Myself But First Immortality, home and elsewhere 167 I Am Going To Dance 174 In Between Takes 168 Tom Schroeder 177 Interior, The 174 Tough as Nails 171 It Had Wings 172 Traces/Legacy 166 Jesse Roesler 177 Tracks 171 Killing Baldacci 170 Turning Negative Positive / 4200 Cedar Mural 168 Ladies, The 174 Twin Cities Youth Media Network 36 Lamerica 174 Two Worlds 172 Lesson, The 170 Under the Atmosphere 166 Life Through The Lens 177 Under the Sun 171 Limbo 172 VIKTOR 173 Madam Black 173 Voices From Kaw Thoo Lei 168 Melisande Charles 177 We Interrupt This Broadcast 172 Milky Way is Our Galaxy 170 Your Name - Liam Gerard 175 Mimo 165 YOUTH 171 Mist on the River 171 Mothers For Justice 168 Mountain, The 170 Muslim Youth Voices Project 36 193 VenUe maps MSPIFF AROUND TOWN Three major venues across the Twin Cities.

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