THE NORT HWEST FILM CENTER / PORTLAND ART M USE UM PRESENTS 3 6 TH PORTLA N D INTERNA TIONA L FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY: THE OREGONIA N / R E G A L CINEMA S

F E BRU A RY 7–23, 2013

WELCOME

Welcome to the Northwest Film Center’s 36th annual showcase of new world cinema. Like each November’s Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival, which celebrates the creativity and vision of artists in the region’s community, the Portland International Film Festival seeks to explore the diversity of not only the art of film, but of the world around us. On a larger level the Festival also connects community, bringing together culturally diverse audiences, a remarkable cross-section of cinematic voices, public and private arts funders, corporate sponsors, global film industry members, hundreds of individual volunteers, and thousands of audience members. This fabulous ecology not only brings the Festival to life, but also plays a sustaining role in the year-round exhibition, education, and artist service programs that manifest the Film Center’s mission. All of us at the Film Center wish that the recognitions in the program and onscreen could better convey our deep appreciation for the generous investment. On that note also go my thanks for the incredible work and creativity of the Film Center’s staff. This year, we welcome a host of new partners including Mercedes-Benz of Beaverton, Red Giant, King Estate Winery, Stella Artois, and Chipotle, who join dozens of sponsors that have been with the Festival for many years, if not for decades. We hope you will let all of our sponsors—old and new—know about your Festival experience and the collective appreciation for their involvement. Finally, we hope that, no matter the reasons you are initially drawn to them, this year’s 136 films—93 features and 43 shorts— reward with fresh surprise and discovery and that you’ll share your comments about the films and the Festival as you vote in the Alaska Airlines Audience Awards. Enjoy. Steep.

BILL FOSTER, Director Northwest Film Center

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OSCAR SUBMISSIONS (Italy); More Than Honey (Switzerland); FILM FOR FAMILIES The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology (Great Britain); PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS This year’s Festival features the Portland Film lovers from nine to 90 will be charmed Two Years At Sea (Great Britain); Alien Boy premieres of 19 films submitted for the Best by these award-winning films suitable for (US); American Winter (US); A Fierce Green Foreign Language Film Oscar, including: younger viewers depending on subject NEW DIRECTORS Fire (US); How to Make Money Selling Drugs Lore (Australia), Our Children (Belgium), interest and subtitle reading ability. Family- (US); La Camioneta (US/Mexico); Love, Among the surprises in PIFF every year War Witch (Canada), No (Chile), In the Shadow friendly Festival films include: Old Dog Marilyn (US); and Leviathan (US/France). is finding exciting new cinematic voices. (Czech Republic), (Finland), (China), (France), (India), Purge Keep Our thanks go to The Paul G. Allen Family The Painting Barfi! While this year’s Festival has its share of (Georgia), (Greece), (India), Smiling Unfair World Foundation for their support of these films. English Vinglish A Letter to Momo new works by established masters—Ann Hui, A Simple Life (Hong Kong), Just the Wind ( Japan), The Last Shepherd (Italy), Kauwboy Alain Resnais, Ken Loach, Jan Troell, (Hungary), Barfi! (India), Caesar Must Die (Netherlands), La Pirogue (Senegal), and Margarethe von Trotta, Fatih Akin, Sally (Italy), Our Homeland (Japan), 80 Million 3 Million (Uruguay). Thanks to The Safeway Potter, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Jan (Poland), Blood of My Blood (Portugal), Foundation for supporting this programing. Hrebejk, Pablo Trapero, Thomas Vinterberg, Beyond the Hills (Romania), White Tiger ANIMATED WORLDS Kim Ki-duk, Olivier Assayas, and Werner (Russia), Blancanieves (Spain), and Pieta Herzog, to name but a few—and new films (South Korea). Our thanks go to The James In addition to the many award-winning by bright talents like Carlos Reygadas, F. and Marion L. Miller Foundation for animated films in the Short Cuts programs, Cate Shortland, Ulrich Seidl, Xavier Dolan, their support of these films. this year’s Festival includes four animated Cristian Mungiu, Pablo Larraín, Sophie features that have charmed audiences world- Fiennes, Ben Wheatley, and Marco Tullio wide. The selections include Tomáš Lunák’s HISPANIC FILM SHOWCASE Giordana, discovering new directors is part Alois Nebel (Czech Republic), Jean-François The Festival and Portland audiences have of the Festival’s delight too. Looking toward SHORT CUTS Laguionie’s The Painting (France), Hiroyuki long had an abiding interest in Hispanic the next generation, the intriguing new works Okiura’s A Letter to Momo ( Japan), and Ignacio films and filmmakers. This year’s program by 21 first-time directors reveal a wealth of This year’s Festival features five programs Ferreras’s Wrinkles (Spain). Our thanks to has 18 diverse new films from Argentina, new international talent. featuring 40 memorable snapshots—animated, LAIKA for their support of these films. Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Among the 21 filmmakers and films eligible live-action, documentary, experimental, and Uruguay, and the United States that include for this year’s New Director Audience Award narrative—from across the world, including works by both emerging and established are: Benjami Ávila, Clandestine Childhood one program highlighting the outstanding talents. Our thanks to the many cultural (Argentina); Wayne Blair, The Sapphires short work of Oregon filmmakers. Thanks partners who have helped bring these films (Australia); Song Fang, Memories Look At Me to Red Giant for supporting these programs. GLOBAL CLASSROOM to Portland. (China); William Vega, La Sirga (Colombia); The Festival’s Global Classroom program Tomáš Lunák, Alois Nebel (Czech Republic); is a point of introduction for the next Rusudan Chkonia, Keep Smiling (Georgia); VISITING ARTISTS generation of cinema lovers. With support Marten Persiel, This Ain’t California (Germany); from The James F. and Marion L. Miller Gauri Shinde, English Vinglish (India); Andrea Thanks to Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, ALASKA AIRLINES Segre, Shun Li and the Poet (Italy); Marco for helping to bring our guests and to our Chipotle, and others, the Festival will AUDIENCE AWARDS Bonfanti, The Last Shepherd (Italy); David hotel partners—Hotel deLuxe, Hotel Modera, screen a number of this year’s selections for Tosh Gitonga, Nairobi Half Life (Kenya); and Heathman Hotel—for their hospitality high school students and teachers at special As always, you get to be the judge. Let us Michel Franco, After Lucia (Mexico); Antonio in providing guest accommodations. weekday times in the Film Center’s Whitsell know your opinions about the films in this Méndez Esparza, Here and There (Mexico); Auditorium. For information on the films year’s Festival. Ballots will be available at Bouewijn Koole, Kauwboy (Netherlands); or to make reservations for these free the screenings for you to rate and comment Patrik Eklund, Flicker (Sweden); Hsu Chao-Jen, screenings, please call Global Classroom on the films. At the conclusion of the To g e t h e r (Taiwan); Ben Rivers, Two Years At Sea DOCUMENTARY VIEWS coordinator Karen Wennstrom at 503-221- Festival, the results of the balloting will be (Great Britain); Rowan Athale, Wasteland announced, with Audience Awards for Best This year’s Festival boasts 18 perspectives 1156 or email [email protected]. Student (Great Britain); Matthew Cook, How To Make groups of 10 or more may also purchase Film, Best Director, Best Documentary, Money Selling Drugs (US); Mark Kendall, La on the world we live in and the fascinating Best Short, Best New Director, and other people and stories that surround us. This discounted tickets to regular Festival screen- Camioneta (US); Jaime Roos and Yamandu ings (Sunday–Thursday only) by calling the special recognitions. We also welcome your Roos, 3 Million (Uruguay). Our thanks to year’s nonfiction selections include: The feedback on your PIFF experience and End of Time (Canada); Happy People: A Year Advance Ticket Outlet at 503-276-4310, Wieden+Kennedy for their support of this beginning January 30. Our thanks go to how we can make next year’s Festival better. New Directors showcase. in the Taiga (Germany); Polluting Paradise (Germany); This Ain’t California (Germany); Chipotle for their support of these films. Men At Lunch (Ireland); The Gatekeepers (Israel); Caesar Must Die (Italy); The Last Shepherd 4 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

PAYMENT OPTIONS THE FESTIVAL SCENE TICKETS Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discovery cards are accepted at the Advance Nel Centro once again plays host to the GENERAL: $11 Ticket Outlet and online. For day-of-show PIFF Lounge (a.k.a. Nel Centro’s bar), our PORTLAND ART MUSEUM MEMBER: $10 sales, theater box offices accept cash or designated hang-out space, where you can STUDENT/SENIOR (65+): $10 check only. Online and phone orders have a $1-per-ticket handling fee. Opening Night grab a quick bite before or after a screen- CHILDREN (12 and under): $8 ing, enjoy featured drink specials from Film & Party tickets have a $3-per-ticket THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM GROUP our Festival partners, and chat up fellow (10 or more, Sunday–Thursday handling fee. screenings only): $8 The Festival program is arranged by country, Festivalgoers who you’ll find poring over with showtimes and locations listed at the their schedules. With a number of PIFF RUSH TICKETS end of each film description. Our programs functions taking place at Nel Centro SILVER SCREEN CLUB Even if advance tickets are no longer of short films follow the country listings. throughout the Festival, there’s likely to be available, rush tickets are offered at each FRIEND ($75 annually): $8 (one discount per To find a film by title, please see the film a PIFF crowd spilling into the bar on any theater’s box office as soon as the number film, per screening) index on page 33. The master schedule on given night. Check out the Festival’s sched- of unoccupied passholder seats has been page 43 lists each day’s films, showtimes, ule board for daily updates, located at the DIRECTOR ($300 annually), PRODUCER determined—typically a few minutes before and locations. Please note that a few films restaurant’s entrance. The PIFF Lounge is ($450 annually), BENEFACTOR ($1,300 showtime. The rush line may start any- have only one showing. Sometimes, for open February 9–23, Sunday–Thursday annually), and SUSTAINER ($2,500 annually) where from 15 minutes to two hours prior reasons beyond our control, screenings 4–11pm, and Friday–Saturday 4pm–12am. members receive free admission with their to the screening. Consider trying the PIFFtini this year! valid Silver Screen Club cards may be changed, rescheduled, or canceled. FESTIVAL PASSES For the most up-to-date information, call In between movies, beers, and great food, OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY: $30 the Advance Ticket Outlet at 503-276-4310, An allotment of seats is reserved at every stay connected through PIFF’s social media General; $25 Silver Screen Club Friend screening for passholders. Passholders check the Festival schedule board at outlets. Schedule updates, visiting artist and Portland Art Museum members Nel Centro or the Whitsell Auditorium, are guaranteed admission until 10 minutes information, party details, and discussion prior to showtime or until the passholder or log on to the Festival’s website at threads can all be found on the Northwest PURCHASE METHODS f estivals.nwfilm.org/piff36. allotment has been reached. Early arrival is Film Center website and Newsroom Blog, Advance tickets go on sale beginning recommended; although exceedingly rare Facebook, and Twitter. Visit the PIFF Wednesday, January 30. in occurrence, passholders may not always microsite: festivals.nwfilm.org/piff36/updates. be able to attend a film at their first choice ONLINE: Tune in to our Tweets: search #PIFF36 Daily, 24 hours at nwfilm.org. of screening times. and follow @nwfilmcenter. Follow us on WALK-UP: Daily, 12–6pm, January 30– Passes are available exclusively as a benefit Facebook: search Northwest Film Center. 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It must be as early as 30 minutes prior to showtime. redeemed—in person at the Advance Ticket Outlet—for a specific film screening at least one day in advance of the screening date, and tickets are subject to availability. You’ll know it’s a voucher because it says VOUCHER at the top, as well as THIS IS NOT A TICKET. We recommend exchanging vouchers at your earliest convenience. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 5

OTHER LOCATIONS FESTIVAL VENUES Nel Centro Restaurant/PIFF Lounge OUT-OF-TOWN VISITORS FESTIVAL POLICIES 1408 SW Sixth Ave at Columbia This year you’ll find PIFF screenings in We’re glad you’re here! We recommend Advance Ticket Outlet all four quadrants of the city! Some of the staying with one of the Festival’s hotel THE 10-MINUTE RULE venues are familiar places, and some are 1119 SW Park Ave at Main sponsors for great access to Festival venues. new to us. Enjoy the Festival in the (inside Portland Art Museum’s Mark Building) The Hotel Modera, adjoining the Festival’s Seats for advance ticket and passholders Northeast at Regal’s Lloyd Center Cinema, social hub Nel Centro, is a convenient and are held until 10 minutes before show- Please note: As a security policy, the in the Southeast at Cinemagic, in the comfortable choice for those who want to time, when any unfilled seats are Portland Art Museum and Regal Cinemas Northwest at Cinema 21, and in the be in the middle of everything PIFF. The released to the public. Thus, advance require a bag check. Food and drink are Southwest at Regal’s Fox Tower, the Hotel deLuxe and the Heathman Hotel are tickets or passes ensure that you will not not allowed in the Whitsell Auditorium or World Trade Center Theater, and of course also conveniently located downtown and have to wait in the ticket purchase line but the World Trade Center Theater. We appre- our own Whitsell Auditorium inside the near all the action. do not guarantee a seat in the case of arrival ciate your observance of these policies and Portland Art Museum. Opening Night will after the 10-minute window has begun. Your your assistance in keeping the theaters as For those looking for other things to do take place at the Newmark Theatre. early arrival also helps get screenings started clean as possible. Concession items are besides PIFF, Travel Portland is an excel- promptly. We appreciate your understanding. Find us at the addresses below and check available for purchase at Regal Cinemas, lent resource for everything happening in Advance ticket holders who arrive within out page 42 for a map including public Cinema 21, and Cinemagic. No outside Portland. travelportland.com/visitors. the 10-minute window but are not seated transit options. For parking information, food or beverages allowed in any of the Need help getting around? Portland has may exchange their tickets for another please visit the Festival website: theaters. Thank you. great public transportation, and you can screening at the Advance Ticket Outlet or festivals.nwfilm.org/piff36. find your way by visiting Trimet at obtain a cash refund at the theater. There are no refunds or exchanges for arrivals C21 Cinema 21 trimet.org. PATRON COURTESIES after showtime or for missed screenings. 616 NW 21st Ave at Hoyt And for getting here and back, we highly recommend patronizing our Festival airline CM Cinemagic We appreciate your assistance in helping sponsors, Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines. SEPARATE ADMISSION 2021 SE Hawthorne Blvd at 20th to keep the Festival pleasant and fun for all. FT Regal Fox Tower Our staff and volunteers are on site to Each screening is a separate admission. Theaters are cleared between screenings in 846 SW Park Ave at Taylor assist, and we ask that all audience members observe Festival etiquette. 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If a screening s"EAWARETHATMANYLINESAREOUTSIDEOF is canceled, tickets must be returned to the the theaters and dress appropriately. Advance Ticket Outlet within a week of the canceled screening date for refund or exchange. Processing fees are non-refundable. 6 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

OPENING NIGHT

BLANCANIEVES (Spain) Pablo Berger OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY

This year’s Spanish submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar is a 1920s, silent- The Northwest Film Center, with support from The Paul G. Allen Family set reworking of the Brothers Grimm fairytale “Snow White,” offset by punchy Flamenco Foundation and Mercedes-Benz of Beaverton, invites you to join us after the rhythms and full of imagination. Rejected at birth by her father, Carmencita (Macarena screening at the Newmark Theatre for our Opening Night Party, hosted by Stella Garciá) is raised by her grandmother. But when her grandmother dies, the poor dark- Artois and King Estate Winery. Opening Night Film & Party tickets: $30 general, haired maiden is sent to the lower depths of her evil stepmother’s villa. Maribel Verdú $25 Silver Screen Club Friend and Portland Art Museum members. The evening, (Y Tu Mamá También) gives an ingeniously smart, campy performance as the villainess, hell-bent on keeping Carmencita from Prince Charming—here a bullfighting dwarf!—and and all other PIFF and regular year-round Film Center screenings—more than thwarting her dreams of becoming a matador. “While Michel Hazanavicius’s Oscar winner, 400 annually—are free for Silver Screen Director, Producer, Benefactor, and The Artist, was a playful valentine to pre-talkies Hollywood, Spanish writer-director Sustainer members. Sign up for the Silver Screen Club or purchase advance Berger’s inventive Andalusian tale is a love letter to 1920s European silent film, effortlessly Opening Night tickets at nwfilm.org. mixing humor and melodrama in delightful fashion.”—Hollywood Reporter. (90 mins.) Selected Filmography: Torremolinos 73 (03). 2/7 7:30pm Newmark Theatre 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 7

A RGENTINA A USTRA LIA

CHINESE TAKE-OUT CLANDESTINE CHILDHOOD WHITE ELEPHANT LORE Sebastián Borensztein Benjamín Ávila Pablo Trapero Cate Shortland

Staunch loner Roberto, owner of a small Ávila’s partly autobiographical account of In the dangerous, poverty-stricken slums Lore explores the tribulations faced by the hardware store in Buenos Aires, is shaken his upbringing is a moving portrait of ado- of Buenos Aires, two Catholic priests tire- young in the aftermath of World War II. out of his solitary daily routine of collecting lescent life in politically tumultuous 1970s lessly fighting for the dispossessed take When their Nazi SS parents are arrested absurd newspaper clippings and visiting Argentina. After years of exile, 12-year-old very different paths in their struggle by the Allies, five siblings are suddenly left his parents’ grave when Chinese immigrant Juan and his family cautiously return to against violence, corruption, and injustice. to fend for themselves. Teenaged Lore, the Jun literally falls into his life out of the Buenos Aires with fake identities. Juan’s The older Julian uses his political connec- oldest, takes charge, and the children set back of a cab. Through a series of events parents are members of the Montoneros tions to see to the construction of a critical out on foot to join their grandmother in that go against Roberto’s better judgment, organization, fighting against the ruling hospital, while the younger Nicholas, Hamburg, 500 miles away. Along the the out-of-work Jun moves in with him, military junta. His friends at school know troubled by his lack of faith in the Church’s arduous journey, they encounter a populace which proves a nightmare for Roberto as him as Ernesto, and as he tries to make ability to help the poor, questions his call- suffering from postwar denial and depriva- he makes increasingly desperate (and also friends and lead a normal life, he knows ing. Between them is Luciana, an atheistic tion and for the first time are exposed touching and hilarious) attempts to get rid his life depends on him not forgetting who social worker who works with one as she to the reality and consequences of their of his new roommate. Borensztein’s warm, he really is. Ávila’s powerful portrait of becomes romantically involved with the parents’ actions. The children meet Thomas, endearing film offers a heartfelt reminder childhood innocence at odds with life-or- other. Enduring constant struggle, torn a young Jewish survivor who helps them that friendship can crop up between the death political ideals won the Casa de apart by the conflicting interests of rival negotiate their way but who by their teach- strangest, most mismatched, and plain old America Award at the San Sebastian drug cartels, venal politics, rampant police ing is the enemy, despite his help and allure. grumpiest of odd couples. Winner of the International Film Festival and is this corruption, and the basic needs of the A moving film about guilt, forgiveness, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and year’s Argentine submission for the Best people, a moment of reckoning tests and survival, Lore is this year’s Australian Best Film Awards at the Academy of Motion Foreign Language Film Oscar. (112 mins.) friendship, faith, and the worth of their submission for the Best Foreign Language Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina. First Feature. commitment. (110 mins.) Film Oscar. (109 mins.) In German with (98 mins.) In Spanish and Mandarin. English subtitles. 2/10 7:30pm Cinemagic Selected Filmography: Crane World (99), Rolling Filmography: Sin Memoria (10). 2/11 9:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Family (04), Carancho (10). Selected Filmography: Somersault (04). 2/10 2:30pm World Trade Center Theater 2/14 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/21 8:45pm Cinemagic 2/10 7:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/16 3:00pm World Trade Center Theater Sponsored by OPB. 2/23 6:00pm Cinema 21 2/11 5:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by Hotel Modera. Sponsored by OregonLive.com. Sponsored by Lamar Transit Advertising. 8 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

A USTRA LIA (cont.) A USTRIA

THE SAPPHIRES COMING OF AGE PARADISE: LOVE PARADISE: FAITH Wayne Blair Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl Ulrich Seidl Ulrich Seidl

In 1968, in a remote Australian town Rosa meets Bruno. Two people who con- The first installment in Seidl’s Paradise The second installment of Seidl’s contro- where white racism rules, an Aboriginal sider themselves to be over the hill and trilogy, Paradise: Love explores the collision versial and unflinching Paradise trilogy country-western singing group struggles to irrelevant in today’s world suddenly learn of Christian virtues with worldly realities. follows the fanatically devout Anna Maria, make it in the music business. Their fortunes what it means to pursue once-in-a-lifetime Leaving her wearying job and troublesome who in her desperate search for “paradise” change when they meet garrulous Irish happiness, to find one’s soulmate. The only teenage daughter in the care of her sister spends her summer vacation away from pianist/drinker Dave (Chris O’Dowd, problem: Rosa has only six months to live. for a brief vacation, Teresa heads for a her job by doing missionary work: in this Bridesmaids), who recognizes their talent The two decide to go for it anyway. Bruno “full-service” beach resort in Kenya—a case, going door-to-door with a large statue and adds soul music to their repertoire. breaks out of his marriage and a family life popular sex tourism destination for middle- of the Virgin Mary hoping to win converts. Soon, the precocious singer Julie (Australian where everything’s been routine for some aged women. The buff young men on the At home, she prays with a startling fervor, music star Jessica Mauboy), boy-crazy time, and Rosa runs away from the retire- beach in front of the hotel are there to sell tinged with a taste for masochism. After Cynthia, tough and tart-tongued leader ment home where her niece hoped she trinkets or themselves as need be, but for a long separation, her husband Nabil—a Gail, and cousin Kay who wishes she were would quietly disappear. They set up house Teresa, the boundaries of sex, love, and tradition-minded Egyptian Muslim white, score an unexpected gig: entertain- together and are then forced to face the oppression are not so clear. As Seidl explores confined to a wheelchair—returns, and his ing American troops in Vietnam. A rousing, question of whether happiness has an the perspectives of a woman who, while in pushy demands for his wife’s attention put heartfelt tale based on screenwriter Tony expiration date or if memories of special power, is not at all sure of what she wants her faith to the test. Winner of the Special Briggs’s true-life family, the mix of charm- moments with the kind of a person you or even if it is for sale, his provocative mix Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. ing romance, fine performances, and meet only once are much more important. of wincing candor, keen social observation, (113 mins.) In German and Arabic with Motown classics sprinkled with Aboriginal Winner of the Audience Prize at the striking visual storytelling, and dark humor English subtitles. folk songs adds up to a sparkling musical Montreal Film Festival. (90 mins.) paints a portrait of paradise so near and Selected Filmography: Dog Days (01), Jesus, adventure set against the chaos of war and Filmography: Nogo (02). yet so far. (120 mins.) In German, English, You Know (03), Import Export (07). the civil rights politics of the era. (99 mins.) and Swahili with English subtitles. 2/9 3:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/22 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater First Feature. 2/13 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Selected Filmography: Dog Days (01), Jesus, 2/23 3:15pm World Trade Center Theater You Know (03), Import Export (07). 2/8 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium With the support of the Austrian Consulate With the support of the Austrian Consulate 2/10 5:00pm Cinemagic General in Los Angeles. 2/8 6:00pm Cinemagic General in Los Angeles. 2/15 8:45pm Cinemagic Sponsored by French American International School and KINK.fm. With the support of the Austrian Consulate General in Los Angeles. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 9

B E L G I U M B R A ZIL C A N ADA

OUR CHILDREN NEIGHBORING SOUNDS THE END OF TIME LAURENCE ANYWAYS Joachim Lafosse Kleber Mendonça Filho Peter Mettler Xavier Dolan

Based on the true, headline-news story of With an acute eye for the push and pull of “Time is nature’s way of preventing every- Set in 1990s Montreal, Laurence Anyways Genevieve Lhermitte, Our Children unfolds modern life, Neighboring Sounds delves into thing from happening at once,” Einstein narrates the story of Laurence, a hand- the riveting story of Murielle (Émilie the lives of a group of prosperous middle- once said. But how do we really get our some high school teacher and writer who is Dequenne, winner of the Best Actress class families residing on a quiet street in heads wrapped around it? Swiss/Canadian madly in love with his girlfriend, Fred, a Award in the 2012 Cannes Film Festival’s Recife, close to a low-income neighborhood. filmmaker Peter Mettler takes the challenge film producer. Their joyful life is turned Un Certain Regard section), a Belgian The private security firm hired to police with a probing, playful meditation on the upside down when Laurence announces schoolteacher caught in a claustrophobic the street becomes the catalyst for an elusive nature of time. From the 27-mile- his transsexuality and his choice to live as domestic nightmare. Struggling financially, exploration of the neighbors’ discontents long particle accelerator in Switzerland a woman. Fred vows to support Laurence she and her Moroccan immigrant husband and anxieties, their feelings exacerbated where scientists seek to probe regions of during his transition, but the couple’s new Mounir are forced to move in with his by the palpable unease of a society that time we cannot see to frozen-in-time lava lifestyle clashes with friends, family, and adoptive father, Dr. Pinget. When the remains unreconciled to its troubled past flows in Hawaii, from the time-stands-still society in general. Told with a visual flair couple begin to have children, the house and present inequities. Meticulously con- disintegration of downtown Detroit to a and signature style that bespeaks 23-year- starts to feel small and suffocating, and the structed, with unexpected compositions and Hindu funeral rite near the place of Buddha’s old Dolan’s astonishing talent, Laurence is, pressure to please both men—each domi- arresting editing, you’re never quite sure enlightenment, Mettler explores our per- above all, an epic, ten-year love story neering in their own ways—gradually over- where things are headed as it builds imper- ceptions, dreams the future, and celebrates that examines a couple’s inability to exist whelms Murielle, leading to a shocking act ceptibly toward its stunning payoff. Winner the wonder of the everyday in visually without each other. “This big, dreamy, of liberation. This year’s Belgian submission of the FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize at the spectacular fashion. (109 mins.) audacious picture has large questions about for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, Rotterdam International Film Festival. Selected Filmography: Picture of Light (94), relationships and identity. Can anyone be Lafosse’s direction of this perverse narra- “Sensational.”—Artforum. “Thrilling.” Gambling, Gods, and LSD (02), Petropolis: Aerial true to his or her inner self in the context tive of patriarchal power and female —Film Comment. (131 mins.) Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (09). of romantic love?”—Tara Brady, Irish oppression is like steel wrapped in silk. Filmography: Critico (08). 2/9 3:15pm World Trade Center Theater Times. (168 mins.) (111 mins.) 2/9 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/16 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater Filmography: I Killed My Mother (09), Heartbeats (10). Filmography: Private Madness (04), Private 2/13 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/16 8:00pm Cinema 21 Property (06), Private Lessons (08). 2/15 9:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/20 7:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/15 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Sponsored by Hotel deLuxe. Sponsored by QDoc: Portland Queer Documentary 2/17 7:30pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Film Festival. Sponsored by Stella Artois. 10 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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WAR WITCH NO MEMORIES LOOK AT ME OLD DOG Kim Nguyen Pablo Larraín Song Fang Pema Tseden

War Witch unfolds as a harrowing fairy- Exploring the moral and spiritual costs Song Fang’s remarkable directorial debut, Filled with breathtaking shots of the tale, told by a 14-year-old African child of the rule of Chilean military dictator in which she travels from Beijing to Nanjing Himalayan countryside, Tibetan film- soldier to her unborn son. Taken from her Augusto Pinochet, No follows the exploits for a visit with her family (many of whom maker Tseden offers an emotional allegory village, Komona is given a hallucinogenic of René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal), a play themselves), gracefully expounds on about urbanization and generational con- milk that gifts her with a sorceress’s ability clever advertising executive appointed by several poignant topics: how an adult child’s flict. On a visit to a frontier town, middle- to see the ghosts of the fallen. Fighting the opposing coalition to spearhead the relationship with her parents changes as aged Gonpo decides to sell his faithful alongside an albino boy named Magician, “no” campaign in the 1988 referendum. they grow older and how to negotiate Tibetan mastiff to a Chinese trader who she soon comes to understand that her Intent on revealing Pinochet’s human rights one’s place as a single woman in a world specializes in procuring dogs for wealthy career as “witch” to the rebel leader will atrocities, Saavedra insists that the way to of married couples. Song, who many will landowners as status symbols. Gonpo’s only last as long as their victories. The two overcome voter fear is with glitzy, jingle- remember for her wonderful performance father, Akhu, disturbed by his son’s lack of set off together, putting their violent past filled spots that promise that “no” is simply as Juliette Binoche’s nanny and aspiring regard for their dog, purchases the animal behind them as they bond while searching a vote for “happiness.” Liberally peppered filmmaker in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Flight back, initiating the simple storyline revolv- for the white rooster she has demanded as with black comedy, the film reveals not only of the Red Balloon (PIFF 2008), perfectly ing around the dog’s destiny and the ensuing proof of his love. Nguyen has interwoven the hypocrisy of the regime but that of the captures the rhythms of brief sojourns home, familial dynamics. Rich with commentary true stories of child soldiers in Burma left-leaning opposition and the cynical trips filled with reunions (both joyful and on the evolving conflict within Tibetan with footage captured in the Democratic advertising world manipulations as well. heart-wrenching), reminiscences, and culture and a way of life that is quickly Republic of Congo to fashion a story of Shooting on video cameras used during the moments of feeling painfully out of place. giving way to outside forces, Old Dog touching beauty about the search for love era allows Larraín to seamlessly blend Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at poetically surfaces the conflicted views and finding inner peace. This year’s archival footage and to visually riff on the this year’s Locarno Film Festival. (91 mins.) of a culture’s future. (88 mins.) Canadian submission for the Best Foreign aesthetics of the microwave and soft drink First Feature. Filmography: The Silent Holy Stones (05), Language Film Oscar. (90 mins.) commercials appropriated for the campaign. The Search (09). 2/16 2:30pm Cinema 21 This year’s Chilean submission for the Best Filmography: The Marsh (02), Truffe (08), City of 2/19 9:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/17 2:30pm Cinemagic Shadows (10). Foreign Language Film Oscar. (118 mins.) 2/18 2:00pm Cinema 21 Filmography: Fuga (06), Tony Manero (08), Post 2/8 8:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by Chipotle. 2/18 4:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Mortem (10). Sponsored by MercyCorps. 2/15 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/17 4:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by Alaska Airlines. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 11

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LA SIRGA ONE NIGHT 4SOME ALOIS NEBEL William Vega Lucy Mulloy Jan Hrebejk Tomáš Lunák

With moving intimacy, Vega depicts the Despite the stark choices around them, Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged cou- Based on the graphic novel trilogy by challenges and obstacles that face Colombia’s three Havana teens defiantly maintain their ples, Marie and Vitek and Dita and Ondra, Jaroslav Rudiš and Jaromír Svejdík, this indigenous population—not just the struggle self-worth and dreams for a better future. are linked by more than just a lifelong superbly atmospheric rotoscope animation to sustain cultural traditions and values but After a run-in with a tourist puts the police friendship, a shared house in a small town, employs noirish black-and-white images simply to stay alive in the strife that has on his tail, hotheaded Raul impulsively and same-aged adolescent children: they and an evocative soundtrack to portray the long beset the country. Fleeing the fighting decides it’s time to escape to Florida and are linked by love. Both men, Ondra and fractured psychology of a man and his in her hometown that has taken her family, begins planning with his friend Elio. When Vitek, who are work colleagues, sincerely country. In summer 1989, Alois Nebel 19-year-old Alicia arrives at her aunt and Elio’s twin sister Lila discovers what the love their wives, but they each harbor a works as a stationmaster in a small village uncle’s ramshackle inn, La Sirga, on the two are up to, her dismay gives way to a secret yearning for the other’s wife. When in the Jeseník Mountains, close to the isolated shores of a lake high in the Andes. decision to join them on the perilous sea the two of them are offered a job together— Polish border. Preferring old timetables to By day, Alicia assists the couple in fixing journey. Brimming with the nervous energy restoring the electrical grid on a sparsely people, Nebel lives through his memories, up the inn, hoping the area’s tourists will of Havana’s restless youth and the evocative inhabited Caribbean island—they leap at haunted by the violent postwar expulsion return next season, but at night, perhaps cinematography of the sun-bleached capital, the chance to enjoy a little tropical sun- of the Germans and getting lost in the due to the trauma she has witnessed, Alicia One Night follows one sweltering day, full of shine while launching the kind of cunning mists of time. Encounters with a mysterious sleepwalks. Against this setting of evocative hope and fraught with tensions, that burns plan people in Czech sex comedies tend to mute man and the kind Kvta help him natural beauty, a quiet drama of identity to a shocking climax. Winner of the Best launch. What ensues is a sunny romp with to connect the past with the present and and healing plays out in enthralling fashion. New Narrative Director, Best Cinema- a couple of (not too) serious questions in to find middle-aged love. Winner of the (88 mins.) tography, and Best Actor Awards at the the back of its mind. (80 mins.) European Film Award for Best Animated First Feature. Tribeca Film Festival. (90 mins.) Selected Filmography: Cosy Dens (99), Divided We Film, Lunák’s auspicious debut is “destined Fall (00), Up and Down (04), Beauty in Trouble (06), to become a classic of the form.”—Piers 2/8 8:45pm World Trade Center Theater First Feature. Kawasaki’s Rose (09). Handling, Toronto International Film 2/10 7:30pm World Trade Center Theater 2/20 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/18 2:30pm Cinemagic 2/21 9:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/19 8:45pm Cinemagic Festival. (84 mins.) 2/20 6:00pm Cinemagic First Feature. Sponsored by OPB. Sponsored by the Heathman Hotel. 2/9 3:30pm Cinemagic 2/12 8:30pm Cinemagic Sponsored by LAIKA. 12 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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IN THE SHADOW A HIJACKING THE HUNT PURGE David Ondrícek Tobias Lindholm Thomas Vinterberg Antti Jokinen

In 1950s Prague, police detective Hakl A gripping suspense drama focusing on Vinterberg’s devastating drama follows an Estonia, 1994. Soviet occupation has is investigating a jewelry store heist, until negotiation tactics and complex human upstanding member of a small, close-knit ended, but not the grip of Stalinist memories East German State police specialist Zenke psychology, A Hijacking chronicles the Danish community charged with an or the new hold of the Russian Mafia. arrives and takes over. Zenke believes that nightmare endured by the small crew of unthinkable crime. Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) Aliide, who has lived through a generation members of the Jewish community are a Danish cargo ship when Somali pirates is a kindergarten aide beloved by students where a sentence to Siberian prison camps responsible and that an underground ring suddenly take them hostage in the Indian and parents alike, until a girl in his class was all too regular, encounters Zara, a may be smuggling funds to Zionist terrorists Ocean. Back in the shipping company’s accuses him of inappropriately touching young girl who has exhaustedly escaped in Israel. Unconvinced, Hakl continues his office in Copenhagen, the demand for a her. No sooner is the charge leveled than the clutches of sex slavery. Though from own investigation. But which version of the $15 million ransom sets in motion tense Lucas is deemed guilty in the public eye different eras, both women are haunted by truth do the Communist authorities prefer negotiations, which, against the advice of and then ostracized—indeed, hunted—by their own tragic pasts and a dark history to find? Ondíek spins a suspenseful noir professional hostage negotiators, the macho his former friends and neighbors. Knowing that binds them. Based on the award- tale of standing up to the mistrust and fear (and frugal) president decides he will that Lucas is indeed innocent adds a chill- winning novel of the same title by Sofi in Stalinist, postwar Czechoslovakia. This handle himself. Plunging the company, ing layer of horror to an already breathless Oksanen, this unflinching family drama, year’s Czech submission for the Best Foreign the crew and their families, and the pirates tale. A provocative, all-too-believable study a story of sex trafficking, violent abuse, Language Film Oscar. (106 mins.) In into an extended battle of wills, we watch in mob mentality and the unfailing belief betrayal, and loss, is this year’s Finnish Czech and German with English subtitles. as the fear and tension aboard the ship is on of adults in the innocence of children, submission for the Best Foreign Language Selected Filmography: Loners (00), One Hand Can’t course for disaster. At once a procedural The Hunt is a gripping psychological drama Film Oscar. (125 mins.) Clap (03), Grandhotel (06). thriller, an almost documentary- like look with a stellar performance by Mikkelsen, Selected Filmography: The Resident (11). at modern, high-tech piracy, and a telling who won the Best Actor Prize at this year’s 2/9 8:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/9 5:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/13 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium reminder of economic disparity, Lindholm’s Cannes Film Festival. Winner of the 2/12 8:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/16 12:00pm Cinema 21 (also the screenwriter of The Hunt ) gripping Audience Award at the Vancouver 2/16 5:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 saga rings true. (110 mins.) International Film Festival. (115 mins.) Sponsored by the Finlandia Foundation Selected Filmography: R (10). Filmography: The Celebration (98), It’s All About and the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. Love (03), Dear Wendy (04), Submarino (10). 2/20 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/21 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/18 7:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/21 8:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by the ScanDesign Foundation and the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 13

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THE PAINTING RENOIR SOMETHING IN THE AIR YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET Jean-François Laguionie Gilles Bourdos Olivier Assayas Alain Resnais

Inside the magical world of a painting, The South of France, 1915: 74-year-old Assayas’s evocative portrait of the “Based on two works by the playwright figures divide themselves into three castes: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Michel Bouquet) upheaval in France in the early 1970s is Jean Anouilh, You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet the realistically rendered, highly polished still paints every day, despite the pains of seen through the eyes of a group of youth opens with a who’s-who of French acting Alldunns, who hold court in a castle; the old age and the loss of his dear wife. The living in suburban Paris amidst a whirlwind royalty being summoned to the reading of Halfies, who for want of a brushstroke are arrival of a new 15-year-old model, Andrée of new politics, art, and sex. Gilles is a a late playwright’s last will and testament. denied the privileges of the Alldunns; and (Christa Theret), brings an incandescent high school student torn between left-wing There, the playwright appears on a TV the Sketchies, rough and ragged outlines energy into the household, inspiring not only activism and his aspiration to become a screen from beyond the grave and asks treated as untouchables by the others. Renoir le père’s painting but also stirring the painter or filmmaker. He and his friends his erstwhile collaborators to evaluate a A forbidden romance between the Halfie passions of les filses Jean (Vincent Rottiers) take to the streets in running battles with recording of an experimental theater com- Claire and the Alldunn Ramo leads the and Claude (Thomas Doret). Against the the police, continuing the struggle that in pany performing his Eurydice—a play they two, along with Claire’s friend Lola, to backdrop of World War I, the film locates May 1968 took France to the brink of revo- themselves all appeared in over the years. run away—all the way to the edge of their a fascinating moment of change, one lution. When someone is badly injured, But as the video unspools, instead of painting, where they hop out of the frame century’s way of thinking giving way to Gilles and his friends must flee to Italy, watching passively, these seasoned thespians and into the studio of the man who created the next, and the passing of the torch from where they live a bohemian life drifting begin acting out the text alongside their them. An inventive, animated fable about a great painter to the great filmmaker of between parties, rallies, and agitprop film youthful avatars, looking back into the past art and life, appearance and perception. such classics as Grand Illusion and Rules screenings. But while politics are central, rather like mythic Orpheus himself. An “Enchanting!... This consistently enjoyable, of the Game. Featured as the Closing Night the group discovers that at their age, alternately wry and wistful valentine to inventive, and beautifully crafted tale is a Film of the Un Certain Regard section at everything is mutable, every day holds new actors from a director long fascinated by color riot suitable for all ages... A constant the Cannes Film Festival. (111 mins.) possibilities, and life awaits the curious… the intersection of life, theater, and cinema.” feast for the eyes.”—Variety. (76 mins.) Selected Filmography: A Sight For Sore Eyes (03), Winner of the Best Screenplay Prize at the —New York Film Festival. (115 mins.) Selected Filmography: Gwen, The Book of Sand Afterwards (08). Venice Film Festival. (122 mins.) Selected Filmography: Hiroshima, Mon Amour (59), (85), A Monkey’s Tale (99), Black Mor’s Island (04). 2/10 4:45pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Irma Vep (96), Les Destinées Last Year at Marienbad (61), Stavisky (74), My American Uncle (80), Same Old Song (97), Wild 2/9 8:45pm Cinemagic 2/13 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 (00), Boarding Gate (07), Summer Hours (08). Grass (09). 2/17 5:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Your Own French Home, the 2/16 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by French American International Alliance Française de Portland, and TV5Monde. 2/21 5:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/20 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/23 9:00pm Whitsell Auditorium School, TV5Monde, and LAIKA. Sponsored by TV5Monde and King Estate Winery. Sponsored by TV5Monde. 14 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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KEEP SMILING HANNAH ARENDT HAPPY PEOPLE: POLLUTING PARADISE Rusudan Chkonia Margarethe von Trotta A YEAR IN THE TAIGA Fatih Akin Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog Writer/director Chkonia brings a woman’s Von Trotta’s film is an intelligent and pow- Çamburnu is a small village in northeast- eye to this satiric tragicomedy, set in the erful dramatization of the life of the philos- “Paradise on earth? Through writer and ern Turkey where people have lived for Georgian capital of Tbilisi, that tells the opher and writer Hannah Arendt, whose narrator Werner Herzog’s lens, that is what generations off tea cultivation and fishing. story of ten desperate housewives and their The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951) made Bakhtia, a village on the river Yenisei in But the idyllic landscape has been compro- fierce rivalry to win a beauty contest—one her famous in philosophical circles before Russia’s far north might seem like in this mised by the decision ten years ago to open only to mothers with three or more her controversial chronicle in The New breathtaking, rich, and frequently funny build a garbage landfill directly above the children. Competing in five categories Yorker of Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s 1961 trial documentary. He and first-time director village. Despite protests by the mayor and pigeonholing women, including “Best Cook” for war crimes shot her to broader interna- Vasyukov capture the local people—nearly the villagers, the site has continued to pol- and “Super Mom,” the grand prize is a tional celebrity. Focusing on the Eichmann always in companionship with their dogs— lute the air and ground water, while rains coveted apartment and $25,000. But era, Barbara Sukowa perfectly embodies making their own tools, trapping sable, flush the waste down the slopes, and flocks dreams soon vanish as realization dawns the academic Arendt, who observes that it felling trees to build boats, fishing, harvest- of birds and stray dogs besiege the village. that the competition is a scam and all they is the ordinariness of Eichmann (“He looks ing food, and holding ceremonies for the In 2006, Akin went to Çamburnu, his are getting are media hounds, chauvinist like a nobody”) that leads her to fashion turning of the seasons. Sharing their per- grandparents’ home village, and over five pigs, and their own domestic nightmares. her most startling concept—the “banality of spectives on greed, war and mortality, as years returned many times to chronicle the This heartfelt story, filled with equal evil”—while her reporting on collaborating Herzog notes: They live off the land and are village’s struggle against the government measures of humor and humanism, is this German Jews causes a firestorm of protest. self-reliant, truly free… No rules, no taxes, and document the disasters that threaten this year’s Georgian submission for the Best “What could have been a dry, intellectually no government, no laws, no bureaucracy, former paradise. Polluting Paradise provides Foreign Language Film Oscar and offers ponderous film is given flesh and blood, no phones, no radio, equipped only with a remarkable portrait of a small commu- a multi-faceted look at contemporary resulting in a drama that is both stirring their individual values and standard of nity fighting for its life and an inspirational Georgia. (94 mins.) and emotionally rewarding.”—London conduct.”—Telluride Film Festival. (90 mins.) story of activist courage. (85 mins.) First Feature. Film Festival. (113 mins.) Selected Documentary Filmography: Land of Selected Filmography: Head-On (04), Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (05), The Edge of 2/18 7:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Selected Filmography: The Second Awakening of Silence and Darkness (71), La Soufrière (77), Heaven (07), Soul Kitchen (09). 2/19 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Christa Klages (78), Sister, or The Balance of Lessons of Darkness (92), Grizzly Man (05), Cave Happiness (79), Rosa Luxemburg (86), The Promise of Forgotten Dreams (10). 2/17 3:00pm World Trade Center Theater Sponsored by OregonLive.com. (95), Rosenstrasse (03). 2/16 5:30pm Cinema 21 2/23 12:45pm World Trade Center Theater 2/16 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/19 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Chipotle. 2/18 5:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest. Sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 15

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THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA THE ANGELS’ SHARE GINGER & ROSA THE PERVERT’S GUIDE Marten Persiel Ken Loach Sally Potter TO IDEOLOGY Sophie Fiennes Skateboarding becomes a metaphor for In his bittersweet caper-comedy, which London, 1962. While tied to the hip— freedom in this love letter to the subversive won the Jury Prize at Cannes, Loach turns “forever”—of her best friend Rosa (Alice Following up on his provocative The Pervert’s power of youth. In East Germany in the his gaze on Robbie, a new father in trouble Englert), Ginger (Elle Fanning) is beset by Guide to Cinema, confrontational Slovenian 1980s, for three teens—Nico, Dirk, and with the law. When he holds his newborn two crises: the collapse of her parents’ philosopher and film theoretician Slavoj Dennis—life in the GDR was dominated by son for the first time, Robbie is determined marriage and the growing worldwide Žižek continues his riveting search for the skateboarding. But in a nation where “the that the boy will have a better life, one anxiety concerning nuclear Armageddon. hidden languages of cinema, exploring the streets were not for playing around,” skating with opportunities. But Robbie must first If that’s not enough, the joys and terrors of idea of films as collective fantasies that was as much a revolutionary act of defiance sort out his life as a prison sentence looms. dawning sexual identity and creative ambi- shape our beliefs, practices, and society. as it was a spectacular sport. Using a clutch Given one more chance and sentenced to tion are equally consuming. As her family Žižek’s high-concept take on what psycho- of priceless Super-8 films, animations, community service, he meets Rhino, implodes and the Cold War meets the analysis reveals about ideology is a treat reenactments, and archival footage, all set Albert, and Mo, former criminals who also sexual revolution, lifelong friendship will for cineastes seeking profound yet accessible against a delirious punk soundtrack, This can’t find work. But, ironically, turning to be shattered by ideology and personal analysis of the classics and is guaranteed to Ain’t California follows the three through drink changes their lives. Robbie, it turns betrayals. Looking back on the idealism provide fresh perspective. Fiennes captures adolescence and into adulthood on the eve out, has a rare gift—a great palate and a and roots of a feminist generation, Potter’s Žižek (amusingly inserted into scenes from of reunification. Through the lenses of the delicate nose for fine malt whisky. This exploration of the price of coming of age the films he talks about) as he examines a skater kids amongst the Stasi comes a rare, newly discovered talent leads to an inspira- features a striking performance by Elle wide range of works (also music, history, stylishly witty glimpse into East Berlin tion that might turn things around for Fanning and a supporting cast that includes and current events) including Robert counterculture. (90 mins.) him—but first, he faces a true test on a trip Timothy Spall, Oliver Platt, Annette Bening, Wise’s classic epic The Sound of Music, John First Feature. with the gang to the Scottish Highlands. Christina Hendricks, and Alessandro Carpenter’s alien invasion B-movie They (101 mins.) Nivola. (90 mins.) 2/9 1:00pm World Trade Center Theater Live, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, 2/12 6:00pm Cinemagic Selected Filmography: Black Jack (79), Riff-Raff Selected Filmography: The Gold Diggers (83), Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, and dozens (91), Sweet Sixteen (02), The Wind That Shakes the Orlando (92), The Tango Lesson (97), Yes (04), Sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest. more. Little did you know! (134 mins.) Barley (06), It’s a Free World… (07), Looking for Eric Rage (09). Selected Filmography: Hoover Street Revival (02), (09). 2/9 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema (06), Over Your 2/9 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/12 8:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Cities Grass Will Grow (10). 2/15 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Higgins. 2/17 12:00pm Cinema 21 Sponsored by Southpark Seafood Grill. 2/21 8:30pm Cinema 21 16 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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SIGHTSEERS TWO YEARS AT SEA WASTELAND UNFAIR WORLD Ben Wheatley Ben Rivers Rowan Athale Filippos Tsitos

Lovey-dovey Tina and Chris set out on Two Years At Sea is a nearly wordless portrait “Cross Ocean’s Eleven with The Usual “I don’t want to be unfair,” says hangdog an erotic holiday in their camper through of Jake, who lives a solitary existence in a Suspects, move the setting to a northern Athens police interrogation specialist the North of England, aiming to take in Scottish forest in Aberdeenshire. Surviving English city, and you have the basis of this Sotiris (Antonis Kafetzopoulos). But in his Yorkshire, the Lakes, and hit such must-sees frugally, he passes his time with strange remarkable debut. Harvey had dreams of line of work, and in debt-crisis-gripped as the Ribblehead Viaduct and the Keswick projects and living the radical dream he becoming a lawyer before being convicted Greece, there is little incentive for fairness. Pencil Museum. But things get off to a had as a younger man, which he spent two of drug possession. We meet him in a After a payment to an informant backfires bloody start when Chris casually rolls over years working at sea to realize. Rivers has police interview room. Bloodied, bruised, into a blackmail threat, Sotiris experiences a litterbug at the Crich Tramway Village, made 20 shorts over the past decade, free and recently paroled from prison, he’s a “disobedient” trigger finger, settling that revealing a certain antisocial behavior. of narrative, drama, and character develop- about to be interrogated about the violent score...but the money goes missing. Surely As more people meet his disapproval, Tina, ment, inspired by literature and fine art, robbery of a workingmen’s club. What cleaning lady Dora (Theodora Tzimou) initially confused, quickly opts to stand by and exploring worlds at the far fringe of follows is a series of flashbacks as Harvey must have seen it? Tsitos’s deadpan, her man, joining him on a rolling murder civilization—places of ragged, strange reveals his version of how he ended up absurdly comic crime story won the Best spree that whacks anyone who happens to beauty where inventors, seers, and eccen- back in the hands of the law. Wasteland has Director and Best Actor Prizes at the San intrude on their bliss. As this Midlands tric philosophers live in zealous communion all the elements of a classic heist thriller: Sebastian Film Festival and is this year’s Bonnie and Clyde motor through the with nature. “Too much exposition is the a likeable group of guys, a beautiful and Greek submission for the Best Foreign countryside, the laughs and mayhem unfold kind of thing that makes me bored with reluctantly involved ex-girlfriend, revenge, Language Film Oscar. (118 mins.) in equal, deranged measure. “Darkly funny, Hollywood movies,” Rivers says. “I like and the sense that all can be forgiven if Filmography: My Sweet Home (01), Plato’s Academy quasi-sweet, and incredibly bloody.”—Ain’t films that leave a lot to the audience.” justice—even of the street variety—is served. (09). It Cool News. “Hugely entertaining... Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics’ Prize A gritty, exhilarating ride.—Toronto 2/17 4:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Hilarious.”—Indiewire. (88 mins.) at the Venice Film Festival. (88 mins.) International Film Festival.” (106 mins.) 2/22 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Down Terrace (09), First Feature. First Feature. Sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Oregon. Kill List (11). 2/17 7:30pm Cinemagic 2/10 4:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/21 6:00pm Cinema 21 2/20 8:45pm Cinemagic 2/12 5:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/23 3:15pm Cinema 21 Co-presented with Cinema Project. Sponsored by Music Millennium. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 17

H O N G K ONG H U N G A RY I N D I A

A SIMPLE LIFE THE EXAM JUST THE WIND BARFI! Ann Hui Péter Bergendy Benedek Fliegauf Anurag Basu

With perfectly judged performances from Following the failed 1956 Hungarian This year’s Hungarian submission for the In this timeless, enchanting fable, rising Andy Lau and Deanie Ip (winner of the Revolution, the Soviet-appointed prime Best Foreign Language Film Oscar chroni- Bollywood star Ranbir Kapoor gives a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film minister—a very paranoid János Kádár— cles the final days of a Romany family winning performance as a deaf-mute man Festival), Ann Hui’s moving film looks at orders that each and every national security living in a provincial Hungarian backwater. whose life is a series of comic and tragic the decades-long relationship between a office’s loyalty be tested according to new Hoping to reunite with their father in misadventures. Dedicated to Charlie man and his devoted family servant. and rigorous directives. András supervises Canada before the ethnic violence that has Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the nearly Ip plays Ah Tao, who has worked for the a network of civilians spying on their recently claimed many neighbors’ lives wordless Barfi! follows the resourceful title Leung family for 60 years. For the past neighbors and coworkers. But little does he finds them too, time is growing short as character as he falls in and out of love with decade, the only member of the family left know that the government is now monitor- the authorities turn a blind eye to the the beautiful Shruti, whose parents pressure in Hong Kong is Roger (Lau), who works ing him as well. His superiors have chosen persecution. Fliegauf blends neo-realistic her into a respectable arranged marriage. in the film industry. Having cared for Christmas Eve to implement “the exam,” a elements—the actors are non-professionals, Later, he finds love again with the autistic Roger from childhood, Ah Tao suffers a procedure designed to challenge an agent’s recruited from local villages—with atmo- Jhilmil, whose father plots to defraud her stroke and asks to be admitted to a nursing loyalty without his or her knowledge. The spheric sound design and expressionistic of a sizable trust fund, only for Shruti to home. There, she becomes part of a new problem with finding surprises is that you use of music. “The film’s three leads are unexpectedly reenter his life. In between, family made up of colorful characters. may find surprises. Bergendy’s sardonic tracked by a roving camera in a naturalis- Barfi finds himself caught up in a bank All the while, as roles are reversed, Roger thriller twists and turns through a world tic style reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s robbery, two botched kidnappings, and all tenderly cares for her as she enters the final where nothing can be taken for granted Elephant; as in that film, the mundane is other manner of slapstick mayhem. This phase of her life. Based on a true story, A and personal loyalty is subservient to sur- contrasted with the horrific, here high- broadly entertaining treat for film lovers of Simple Life delicately traces a decades-long vival. Winner of the New Directors Prize lighting the ingrained nature of racism and all ages is this year’s Indian submission for bond with pathos and humor. This year’s at the Chicago International Film Festival. the isolating effects of poverty.”—Sydney the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Hong Kong submission for the Best (89 mins.) Film Festival. Winner of the Jury Grand (151 mins.) Foreign Language Film Oscar. (118 mins.) Filmography: Stop Mom Theresa! (04). Prize at the Berlin Film Festival. (86 mins.) Selected Filmography: Saaya (03), Gangster (06), Life in a Metro (07), Kites (10). Selected Filmography: Boat People (82), Song of the 2/13 8:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Selected Filmography: Forest (03), Milky Way (07), Exile (90), Ordinary Heroes (99), All About Love (10). 2/18 5:15pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Womb (10). 2/9 2:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/8 9:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/21 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/16 6:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/10 6:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/10 2:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/20 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/12 7:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Sponsored by Perkins Coie. Sponsored by Vindalho. 18 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

I N D I A (cont.) I R A N I R E L A N D I S R A EL

ENGLISH VINGLISH MODEST RECEPTION MEN AT LUNCH THE GATEKEEPERS Gauri Shinde Mani Haghighi Seán Ó Cualáín Dror Moreh

Shashi (Sridevi) is a beautiful, dedicated Leyla and Kaveh are a mysterious pair This remarkable documentary explores “How exactly do six million people main- Pune homemaker, devoted wife, and from Tehran, traveling the mountainous the untold story behind “Lunch Atop a tain control over several million stateless mother. Yet because of her poor English, countryside in their Lexus coupe to push Skyscraper,” one of the most iconic images neighbors for 45 years? That’s how long the she is made to feel insecure by her husband big bags of money on the locals. This turns of the twentieth century. Anonymously Israeli occupation of the West Bank has and teenage daughter and by society at out to be not so easy but fascinating to published in 1932 in the New York Herald lasted. Some of the occupation’s instru- large. When she is called to New York to watch as the cagey couple invent increas- Tribune, the photograph of immigrant ments are obvious—border crossings, mili- help prepare her niece’s wedding, Shashi ingly brazen stratagems to place cash in workmen taking their lunch perched on a tary checkpoints, soldiers on patrol. But overcomes her fears of traveling alone but the hands of the wary, proud, or indifferent. girder high above New York City on the the most vital and lethal lurk beneath the is nevertheless overwhelmed. Humiliated Will they push things too far? Are they losing 69th floor of Rockefeller Center symbolized surface: the vast and ubiquitous intelligence for not been able to order a cup of coffee sight of their mission? What exactly is their an era. After exhaustive research, including network of the Shin Bet, Israel’s feared properly, she secretly enrolls in an acceler- mission? This bold, perversely fascinating interviews with archivists, photographers, internal security organization. Using intel- ated English class and quickly becomes a comedy-drama unfurls with unexpected and historians, Cualáín eventually ligence operatives and informants, interro- dedicated student. With the other multi- force amid subtle themes of power, privilege, uncovers compelling evidence that a few gators and assassins, the directors of the ethnic students acting as a support system and corruption. “Setting the scene is a of the photo’s subjects may have roots in Shin Bet enable Israel to fight any who and boosted by the admiration of French brilliantly shot comic opener that starts the small village of... Part homage, part take up arms—or suicide bombs—against classmate Laurent in particular, she redis- the game over-the-top, in a tone which investigation, this is the beautiful tale of an it. Dror Moreh’s path-breaking documen- covers her own worth. “Breezy and charm- only gets shriller and wilder as the story American icon, an unprecedented race to tary interviews six former directors, who ing but with much to say about the delicate goes on. By far the director’s most daring the sky, and the immigrant workers who describe in chilling detail how they did balance between tradition and modernity, work.”—Hollywood Reporter. (100 mins.) built New York City. (80 mins.) this and how their bosses, Israel’s elected English Vinglish marks the return to the big Selected Filmography: Abadan (04), Men at Work Selected Filmography: Maírtín Ó Cadhain: King of leaders, led the Jewish state into a deadly screen—after a 15-year hiatus—of beloved (06), Canaan (08). Words (06). quagmire of unending occupation and Indian mega-star Sridevi.”—Toronto 2/8 9:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/17 5:15pm World Trade Center Theater perpetual conflict.”—Telluride Film Festival. International Film Festival. (133 mins.) 2/10 2:15pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/18 12:00pm Cinema 21 (95 mins.) First Feature. 2/16 3:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Pro Photo Supply. Filmography: Sharon (08). 2/14 8:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Co-presented by the Global Film Initiative and 2/17 5:15pm Cinema 21 2/17 7:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Global Lens 2013. 2/21 6:00pm Cinemagic 2/18 2:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Sponsored by the Institute for Judaic Studies. Sponsored by Delta Airlines. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 19

I T A LY

OFF-WHITE LIES CAESAR MUST DIE PIAZZA FONTANA: REALITY Maya Kenig Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani THE ITALIAN CONSPIRACY Matteo Garrone Marco Tullio Giordana A deadbeat Israeli inventor and his Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Garrone takes a critical swipe at contem- estranged teenage daughter try to reconcile Film Festival and this year’s Italian sub- Giordana’s engrossing tale of terrorism, porary Italian society and the powerful their differences in this delicate blend of mission for the Best Foreign Language conspiracy, and deceit is based on a devas- role of television and the media in instill- poignant coming-of-age drama and offbeat Film Oscar, Caesar Must Die deftly melds tating true story set within decades of ing obsessive envy and lust for fame. After comedy. After years living in California narrative and documentary in a powerful Italian political violence and resistance. seeing a former reality star make an elec- with her mother and stepfather, sharp- drama-within-a-drama. In Rome’s Rebibbia A bomb goes off at a Milan bank in trifying surprise appearance at his cousin’s witted but introverted 13-year-old Libi prison, the prisoners prepare to stage December 1969, killing 17 and wounding wedding (one of several paid appearances returns to Israel to spend time with her Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and in exploring dozens of others. Detective Luigi Calabresi for the enterprising self-promoter), common unemployed and homeless father Shaul. the text find a tale of fraternity, power, and heads up the investigation of the crime, man Luciano decides to try out for the With the outbreak of the Second Lebanon betrayal that parallels their own lives and which many in the government want to Italian version of “Big Brother.” Sure he War, Shaul devises a scheme to put a roof stories. Seamlessly moving in and out of pin on the anarchist left. Unconvinced, will soon get the call, Luciano begins to over their heads by posing as war refugees the text as they wrestle with notions of Calabresi wants to investigate the shadowy conduct his life as if he’s already being until they are taken in by a well-off family necessity and the boundaries of order, drama organizations on the neo-fascist right, watched. Playing Luciano’s delusions not in Jerusalem. As the masquerade wears comes alive on multiple, and timeless, levels. including possible CIA connections. But only for laughs but for thoughtful, ethical thin, the bemusing circumstances give way “This latest masterpiece from Italy’s famed after a key suspect meets an untimely examination, Garrone blends a Fellini-esque to a bourgeoning father-daughter bond Taviani brothers not only serves as a deeply death, the clock starts ticking for Calabresi love for grotesquerie and fairy-tale surreal- forged by a shared talent for telling human document but a caustic portrait of as a malevolent, Machiavellian labyrinth ism with gritty Neapolitan social realism. “off-white lies.” Winner of the Best Actor our own imprisoned societies, reminding of deceit by extremists, police, informants, Winner of the Grand Prize at the Cannes Award and nominated for six other Israeli us that a life without art truly is a prison.” and spies envelopes the investigation. Film Festival. (116 mins.) Ophirs including Best Film, Director, —AFI Fest. (76 mins.) (129 mins.) Selected Filmography: Land in the Middle (96), and Screenplay. (86 mins.) Selected Filmography: Allonsanfan (74), Padre Selected Filmography: One Hundred Steps (00), Roman Summer (00), The Embalmer (02), First First Feature. Padrone (77), The Night of Shooting Stars (82), The Best of Youth (03), Sanguepazzo (08). Love (04), Gomorrah (08). Fiorile (93). 2/10 1:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/18 1:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/10 7:30pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/11 8:30pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/8 9:00pm Cinemagic 2/22 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/14 5:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/17 2:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/11 6:00pm Cinemagic Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, Sponsored by the Consulate of Israel and Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission, San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission, San Francisco. San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission, Los Angeles. Los Angeles. Los Angeles. 20 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

I T A LY (cont.) J A P A N

THE LAST SHEPHERD SHUN LI AND THE POET KEY OF LIFE A LETTER TO MOMO Marco Bonfanti Andrea Segre Kenji Uchida Hiroyuki Okiura

Renato Zucchelli lives in the beautiful Winner of the Best First Feature Prize at “Kenji Uchida’s brilliantly entertaining From anime master Hiroyuki Okiura mountain farmlands just outside Milan. the London Film Festival, this tender story comedy-drama is essentially a riff on comes this touching, fantastical tale of a He is the last traveling shepherd in the begins with Shun Li working in a textile Trading Places, but it takes the notion that young girl’s grief and the three mischievous region, the last man tending sheep in factory near Rome. She’s slowly paying off we all play roles every day much further spirits sent to look after her. After the Lombardy, an area ever consumed by the broker who brought her from China to than John Landis ever dreamed. A failed death of her father, 13-year-old Momo and urbanization. Renato has a dream: to lead Italy, while trying to save money to bring actor, unlucky in love, steals the identity of her mother move from Tokyo to the remote his flock into the heart of Milan to meet her young son over. Transferred to work an accident victim and finds himself prey island of Shio. Here, Momo is haunted by children who have never seen someone as a bartender in Chioggia, a small island to the attentions of the mob—he discovers the discovery of an unfinished letter her like him, showing them that dreams and town in the Venetian lagoon, she meets that he’s now a famously ruthless fixer father was writing to her—and plagued by freedom will always exist as long as there Bepi, a handsome old Slav immigrant for the underworld. Meanwhile the actual the presence of three heaven-sent goblins is still room to believe in a last shepherd. nicknamed “The Poet.” A soulful friend- fixer wakes in the hospital with amnesia whose bumbling efforts to protect her tend At once funny, touching, and serious, ship grows between them, but soon preju- and has to learn to live anew as a failed to cause more chaos than good. “As gor- The Last Shepherd is ultimately a warm dice threatens their innocent relationship. actor. Perhaps fortunately, a needy woman geous as Momo is to behold, the film’s sen- and endearing portrait of a man, his dog, Both a tender portrait of survival in an executive (having set herself a two-month sitive portrayal of a teenager dealing with his family, and his sheep, who conquer immigrant world and an exploration of deadline to get married) is on hand to help grief proves its most compelling element... a city with nothing more than the power Venetian life far from the Grand Canal, him and/or get in his way. Much of this is With its complex characterizations and of imagination. (76 mins.) Segre’s delicate, bittersweet film showcases deliciously funny, not to mention brilliantly multiple storylines, [Momo] rivals mature First Feature. a memorable performance by Tao Zhao, timed and acted with relish by the all-star live-action drama.”—Variety. Winner of the who earned the David di Donatello (Italian cast.”—London Film Festival. (128 mins.) Grand Prize at the New York International 2/13 8:30pm Cinemagic 2/16 8:15pm Cinemagic Academy) Best Actress Award. (100 mins.) Filmography: A Stranger of Mine (05), After School Children’s Film Festival. (120 mins.) 2/17 12:30pm Cinemagic First Feature. (08). Selected Filmography: key animator on Roujin Z (91), Ghost in the Shell (95), Jin-Roh, The Wolf Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, 2/9 8:45pm World Trade Center Theater 2/14 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Brigade (99), Paprika (06). San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission, 2/10 5:00pm World Trade Center Theater 2/20 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Los Angeles. Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan 2/10 12:00pm World Trade Center Theater San Francisco, and the Italian Film Commission, in Portland. 2/12 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Los Angeles. Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan in Portland and Chipotle. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 21

K ENYA M E X I C O

OUR HOMELAND NAIROBI HALF LIFE AFTER LUCIA HERE AND THERE Yong-hi Yang David Tosh Gitonga Michel Franco Antonio Méndez Esparza

This year’s Japanese submission for the Despite his family’s pleas, 19-year-old Mwas Following a car accident, Roberto is left Winner of the Grand Prize at the Critics’ Best Foreign Language Film Oscar tells leaves his small village for the promise of grieving the death of his wife and raising Week at the Cannes Film Festival and a the moving story of a family divided by the life in the capital and the dream of becom- his emotionally distant yet self-sacrificing New York Film Festival selection, Esparza’s historic political conflicts between Korea ing an actor. Naïve and filled with hope, he daughter Alejandra alone. The broken lyrical film captures the reality of the life and Japan. During Japan’s colonial rule of quickly learns why the city is nicknamed family uproots their lives in Puerto Vallarta of a migrant worker who struggles on both Korea before World War II, thousands of “Nairobbery.” A few rookie mistakes land and moves to Mexico City in hopes of sides of the border. Pedro returns home to Koreans were brought to Japan where they him in jail, which eventually leads him to starting anew. After Lucia focuses on a small mountain village in Guerrero after suffered painful discrimination. After the fall in with a gang and survival on the Alejandra as she simultaneously attempts years of working in the US. His daughters war, thousands chose to be repatriated to streets via theft and violence. But under- to deal with both her mother’s death and a feel more distant than he imagined, and North Korea in hope of a better life. Few neath it all beats the heart of a dream. drunken, teenage mistake that makes her his wife Teresa is delighted that he’s back managed to escape their fateful choice. Working under the mentorship of German the target of cruel harassment and abuse but troubled by their circumstances. With Japanese-Korean director Yong-hi Yang, director Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run), from her classmates. Ashamed and unable the money he has earned, he can create a born in Japan but from a North Korean first-time director Gitonga has fashioned to tell her distressed father or anyone else better life for his family and maybe even family, tells the story of her brother Son-ho, Kenya’s second-ever Best Foreign Language about the escalating bullying at school, start the band with his cousins he has who after living in North Korea for 25 years Film Oscar submission. “Fundamentally Alejandra’s silence ultimately takes a dreamed about for years. But work back after leaving Japan at age 16, is given rare honest and vividly realistic.”—Hollywood dreadful toll. This exquisitely told tale of home remains scarce, and the temptation permission to visit his Japanese family and Reporter. (97 mins.) In Swahili and Kikuyu the heartbreaking pain of insensitive bully- of heading back north of the border receive specialized medical care. Under with English subtitles. ing won the main prize in the Un Certain remains as strong as ever. (110 mins.) the tense surveillance of a North Korean First Feature. Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival First Feature. agent, Son-ho must come to grips with and is this year’s Mexican submission for 2/11 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/16 3:00pm Cinemagic whether he has a place in either culture. 2/17 7:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. 2/18 5:00pm Cinemagic (100 mins.) (93 mins.) Sponsored by OregonLive.com. 2/19 6:00pm Cinemagic Filmography: Dear Pyongyang (05), Sona, the Other First Feature. Sponsored by the Consulate of Mexico in Portland. Myself (09). 2/17 2:15pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/21 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/21 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/23 9:00pm Cinema 21 Sponsored by the Consulate of Mexico in Portland. 22 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

M EXICO (cont.) N E T H E R L A N D S N O R T H K OREA N O R W A Y

POST TENEBRAS LUX KAUWBOY COMRADE KIM GOES FLYING KON-TIKI Carlos Reygadas Boudewijn Koole A. Daelemans, N. Bonner, K. Gwang Hun Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Reygadas’s enigmatic, visually ravishing The European Film Academy’s Best “A winning, life-affirming fable about a Thor Heyerdahl’s intrepid 1947 journey film presents the occurrences around Juan European Youth Film and the Dutch sub- young coal miner’s pursuit of her dream to across the Pacific on a primitive raft, made and Natalia, a wealthy couple living in a mission for the Best Foreign Language become an acrobat, this is the first Western- famous by his own book and documentary, stunning house in the lush countryside Film Oscar, Kauwboy tells the story of financed fiction feature made entirely in comes alive in this spirited, visually with their two little children and their pack 10-year-old Jojo, who lives alone with his North Korea. But this charming film wears dazzling epic. Ethnographer Heyerdahl of dogs. Mundane domestic events are security guard father, a sometimes volatile its heavy historical mantle with grace, (who couldn’t swim and had never sailed!), punctuated by a series of disparate, occa- man of few words. Missing his absent weaving a lovely, light-hearted tale whose along with a motley crew, constructs a sionally fantastical subplots within a tableau mother, a country singer said to be away themes—overcoming adversity and realiz- hemp and balsa wood raft inspired by the of overwhelming beauty haunted by mys- touring, worried Jojo finds solace in an ing the dream of a lifetime—upend our pre-Columbian Incas as a means of proving terious sinister forces. “In this expression- unexpected friendship with a baby jack- assumptions of a largely cloistered culture. his theory that the Polynesian Islands were istic Mexican film, magnificent dreamlike daw that has fallen from its nest. A tender Kim Yong-mi works as a coal miner in a settled by South Americans crossing the exteriors together with memories and portrait of a young boy trying to come to small village. She dreams of one day join- 4,000-mile Pacific. What follows is the Peru- dream sequences tell the story of one terms with a family that’s not what it once ing the national circus and performing on to-Polynesia excursion, which co-directors man’s ability to resist temptation and stop was and struggling to find a balance the trapeze—despite the fact that she is Rønning and Sandberg—employing a crew himself from sinning. The story is at times between reality and desire, this cinematic, deathly afraid of heights. When she is pro- of hundreds and technological magic—fill told from the perspective of Satan, showing emotionally astute film sensitively explores moted and sent to the capital, Pyongyang, with high-seas adventure and nail-biting us the world through the Devil’s ambiva- issues of loss and sorrow while painting a she seizes the opportunity. This gorgeously suspense, set against majestic cinematogra- lent eyes. The use of a nonlinear storyline joyfully upbeat picture of acceptance and filmed romantic comedy transports us to a phy and the vastness of the ocean. This gives way for emotions, hopes, and dreams love. (81 mins.) In Dutch with English fantastic world seemingly out of time, with year’s Norwegian submission for the Best of a family looking for redemption and the subtitles. Appropriate for ages 10+. astonishing, candy-colored images of the Foreign Language Film Oscar. (118 mins.) meaning of life.”—Stockholm Film Festival. First Feature. seldom-seen North Korea.”—Toronto Selected Filmography: Bandidas (06), Max Manus: Winner of the Best Director Prize at the International Film Festival. (83 mins.) Man of War (08). 2/9 1:00pm Cinemagic Cannes Film Festival. (115 mins.) 2/16 1:00pm Cinemagic Selected Filmography: Kim Gwang Hun—My Wish 2/17 7:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Japón (02), Battle in Heaven (01), Unforgettable Man (02), Watch Us (08), Great 2/19 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 (05), Silent Light (07). Bear (09). Sponsored by the Norwegian Consulate General, 2/20 6:00pm Cinema 21 2/10 5:15pm Regal Fox Tower 6 San Francisco. 2/22 6:00pm Cinema 21 2/15 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Sponsored by the Consulate of Mexico in Portland. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 23

P O L A N D P O R T U G A L R O M A NIA

80 MILLION BLOOD OF MY BLOOD TABU BEYOND THE HILLS Waldemar Krzystek João Canijo Miguel Gomes Cristian Mungiu

80 Million is set in the autumn of 1981, This year’s Portuguese submission for the “The ghosts of F.W. Murnau, Luis Buñuel, Based on a real-life case of supposed 10 days before the proclamation of martial Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and a Joseph Cornell, and Jack Smith hover above demonic possession, Mungiu’s gripping law in Poland. Three members of the anti- critical and popular hit in Portugal, Canijo’s this exquisite, absurdist entry in the canon existential drama takes place at a remote Communist union movement in Wroclaw film balances nuanced social realism and of surrealist cinema. Shot in ephemeral Orthodox monastery in Moldavia where miraculously manage to withdraw intense melodrama to fashion a sprawling, black-and-white celluloid, Tabu is movie-as- devout young women give up all. Alina 80 million zlotys (circa $2 million US then) humane portrait of a troubled working class dream—an evocation of irrational desires, (Cristina Flutur) arrives to visit her meek from the organization’s bank account, family. Márcia is a weary matriarch who extravagant coincidences, and cheesy friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan), a nun just before it is blocked by the authorities. lives with her lonely sister Ivete and grown nostalgia that nevertheless is grounded in in training, and desperately tries to con- With Security Service agents on their trail, children—delinquent Joca and nursing serious feeling and beliefs, even anti- vince her to return to Germany with her. a tense cat-and-mouse game that involves student Cláudia—in suburban Lisbon. colonialist politics. There is a story, which But Voichita is unsure, and so the tougher wily clergy, black market money changes, Cláudia’s affair with a married professor is delightful to follow and in which the cart but untethered Alina hangs around in and committed Solidarity activists unfolds and Joca’s involvement with drug dealers comes before the horse: the first half is hopes of prevailing. But as the days pass, with inspirational drama and surprising threaten Márcia’s attempts to keep her set in contemporary Lisbon, the second, the oppressive environment takes a further twists and turns. Less a political film than family afloat. Employing tracking shots involving two of the same characters, in toll on Alina and her sense of identity. a heist-thriller and dark comedy, this enter- and overlapping dialogue, Canijo follows colonial Mozambique in the early 1960s. Soon, the conflict between personal taining film is this year’s Polish submission the family through the cramped spaces of Phil Spector’s ‘Be My Baby’ belted in empowerment and religious dogma leads for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. the household, mapping the physical and Portuguese, a wandering crocodile, and to a harrowing prescription. For their (102 mins.) emotional distances between the characters a passionate, ill-advised coupling seen remarkable lead performances, Flutur and Selected Filmography: Suspended (87), Dismissed in a way that lends a sense of vivid vérité. through gently moving mosquito netting Stratan shared the Best Actress Prize at the From Life (92), The Little Moscow (08). (131 mins.) make for addled movie magic.”—New York Cannes Film Festival. This year’s Romanian Film Festival. Winner of the FIPRESCI 2/11 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Get A Life (01), In the submission for the Best Foreign Language 2/16 3:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Darkness of the Night (04), Misbegotten (07). (International Film Critics) Award at the Film Oscar. (150 mins.) Berlin Film Festival. (118 mins.) 2/19 6:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/18 7:00pm Cinema 21 Selected Filmography: 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and Sponsored by the Polish Library Association 2/20 8:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Selected Filmography: The Face You Deserve (04), 2 Days (07), Tales from the Golden Age (09). Our Beloved Month of August (08). and the Polish Festival Nonprofit Organization, 2/21 8:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/9 8:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Portland. 2/8 5:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/13 7:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/10 7:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Sponsored by the Romanian American Society. Sponsored by Nel Centro. 24 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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WHITE TIGER LA PIROGUE MASQUERADE PIETA Karen Shakhnazarov Moussa Touré Choo Chang-min Kim Ki-duk

World War II is drawing to a close. Furious It is estimated that between 2005 and 2010 During King Gwang-hae’s reign in Lee Kang-do works as a brutal, merciless fighting is exhausting both the Soviet and more than 30,000 Africans set off for 17th century Korea, conspiracies abound. loan shark who threatens and cripples those Nazi forces. The more the Soviet army Europe in small boats, with more than Driven by paranoia, Gwang-hae (Lee who can’t make their payments. One day, advances, the more often “White Tiger,” a 5,000 dying on the journey. La Pirogue is Byung-hun) orders his councilor to find a woman appears on his doorstep claiming huge, indestructible Nazi tank, appears on the moving story of a group of Senegalese him a body double. Soon after finding the to be the mother who abandoned him as a the battlefield. Emerging from the smoke taking the chance in hopes of a better life. perfect lookalike in the form of Ha-sun, a baby. At first he rejects her but eventually of combat, it ruthlessly destroys the adver- Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing simple jester and mimic, the king is poisoned, quits his job to spend his days recapturing sary and then swiftly vanishes. The Soviets pirogue—an open-top, wooden boat—who and Ha-sun is forced to take the stage. the time lost with her. When she is kid- decide they must build an extraordinary dreams of earning a better living for his The ensuing events form the dramatic, and napped, he must track down the culprit, tank—with a team headed by a commander family. When he is offered to lead one of the often comedic, heart of Masquerade, a riff revisiting all those whom he has hurt in who was nearly burnt alive. Although he many pirogues that head from Dakar to on the classic Prince and the Pauper story. the past, only to discover that his mother is no longer remembers his own name, he Spain via the Canary Islands, he reluctantly Instead of Gwang-hae’s rigid policies and harboring a dark secret of her own. Taking has gained the ability to understand the accepts the job, knowing the dangers that demeanor, the new king has charisma and his inspiration from Michelangelo’s Pietà, mystical language of tanks... The pursuit of lie ahead. Adroitly capturing the dilemmas rules on far more personal and humanitarian Kim’s searing, violent meditation probes the monster begins. Who will win in this and dangers facing these desperate men, grounds, thus risking discovery—not to the depths of human suffering as it explores duel? “This strange, potent war movie La Pirogue is a powerful depiction of a mention social and military upheaval. It’s the themes of guilt and revenge with grip- plays like Moby Dick on the Eastern front, story that is universally human. (87 mins.) clear that goodness does not automatically ping beauty. This year’s South Korean with a score by Richard Wagner. The In French with English subtitles. serve the country’s stability. Though spiced submission for the Best Foreign Language strong aesthetic and suspenseful action Selected Filmography: Toubab Bi (92), TGV (98). with humor, Masquerade provides a thought- Film Oscar and winner of the Best Film sequences should wow audiences world- ful meditation on the compromises faced Prize at the Venice Film Festival. (104 mins.) 2/16 6:00pm Cinemagic wide.”—Variety. (104 mins.) 2/18 7:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 by those who, willingly or not, take the fate Selected Filmography: The Isle (00), Address Selected Filmography: Jazzman (84), American of a nation into their hands. (131 mins.) Unknown (01), Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Sponsored by Chipotle. Daughter (95), The Rider Named Death (04), Ward Selected Filmography: Mapado: Island of Fortunes Spring (03), 3-Iron (04), Arirang (11). No. 6 (09). (05), Late Blossom (11). 2/9 6:00pm Cinemagic 2/14 9:00pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/11 8:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/11 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/16 9:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/19 7:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Sponsored by the Oregon Korea Foundation. 2/18 7:30pm Regal Fox Tower 6 Sponsored by the Oregon Korea Foundation. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 25

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CARMINA OR BLOW UP THE DOUBLE STEPS MADRID, 1987 SLEEP TIGHT Paco León Isaki Lacuesta David Trueba Jaume Balagueró

Welcome to the surreal and wild world of The best way to escape from your pursuers On a hot summer day in a vacant Madrid Toiling silently amongst the residents of an Carmina, a crass 58-year-old bar owner in without leaving any traces behind you is to during a period of social and political everyday Barcelona apartment building, Seville. When the insurance company walk backwards over your own footprints. transition in Spain, Miguel, a feared and doorman César harbors a dark secret: his refuses to pay up following a series of rob- This is what French artist and author respected journalist, sets up a meeting in sole desire in life is to make others unhappy. beries, Carmina (director León’s real-life François Augiéras (1925–1971) believed a café with Ángela, a young journalism When he sets his sights on Clara, one of mother) has to find an alternative way of as he painted every inch of the walls of a student. He takes her to a friend’s studio. his building’s cheeriest residents, his need getting the money back to support her military bunker in the desert and let it sink His intentions are clearly sexual; hers blossoms into a full-fledged obsession. family. While she waits in her kitchen for into the sand so that no one would find it are less clear. Chance events force them Embarking on a series of harassments, her plan to develop, the chain-smoking until the 21st century. But who is Augiéras? together for more time than they would César becomes determined to ruin her life Carmina reflects on her life, deeds, and A legionary, painter, writer, gunman, saint, have chosen, and the pair, who represent by any means necessary. Soon his thirst miracles and feeds the goat that lives with thief, devil, or a mix of all this? Catalan polarized generations, are pitted in a for others’ sadness becomes manically her. A box office phenomenon in Spain, filmmaker Lacuesta and one of Spain’s witty, sensual, but unevenly matched duel unquenchable. Balagueró delves into the León’s charming and wild film won the foremost living artists, Miquel Barceló, involving age, intellect, ambition, and perverse fantasies of a man on the brink Special Jury Prize, Audience Award, and guide us through the Mali desert in search experience. The political and social con- and delivers an unnerving tale of obsession Best Actress Award at the Málaga Film of a fresco painted by Augiéras in this text of the period provides the background and torment that delivers nonstop thrills Festival. (70 mins.) gorgeous film that won the Golden Shell to the power shifts that continually take right up to its shocking conclusion. Winner First Feature. at the San Sebastian International Film place between them over 24 hours. of the Gaudi Awards for Best Director and Festival. (86 mins.) In French and Bombarian (104 mins.) Best Screenplay. (102 mins.) 2/14 6:00pm Cinemagic 2/16 8:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 with English subtitles. Selected Filmography: The Good Life (96), Soldiers Selected Filmography: The Nameless (99), Fragile Selected Filmography: The Legend of Time (06), of Salamina (03), Welcome Home (06). (05), [Rec] (07), [Rec 2] (09). Co-sponsored and organized by PRAGDA, with The Condemned (09). support from the Embassy of Spain, Washington; 2/11 8:45pm Cinemagic 2/15 8:45pm World Trade Center Theater American Airlines; and the Secretary of State for 2/17 3:00pm Cinema 21 2/14 8:45pm Cinemagic 2/17 7:30pm Cinema 21 Culture-Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. 2/19 9:00pm Cinema 21 2/22 8:45pm World Trade Center Theater 2/23 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater 2/23 9:00pm World Trade Center Theater Co-sponsored and organized by PRAGDA, with Co-sponsored and organized by PRAGDA, with Co-sponsored and organized by PRAGDA, with support from the Embassy of Spain, Washington; support from the Embassy of Spain, Washington; support from the Embassy of Spain, Washington; American Airlines; and the Secretary of State for American Airlines; and the Secretary of State for American Airlines; and the Secretary of State for Culture-Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. Culture-Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. Culture-Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. 26 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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THE WILD ONES WRINKLES FLICKER THE LAST SENTENCE Patricia Ferreira Ignacio Ferreras Patrik Eklund Jan Troell

Ferreira’s elegant triptych of coming-of-age Adapted from Paco Roca’s comic book, Eklund’s surreal, acid-drenched film The Last Sentence is a biographical drama tales follows three teenage friends and winner of the Spanish National Comic has been described as being like a Coen chronicling the career of celebrated their individual struggles to define them- Prize, this beautifully crafted animated Brothers version of “The Office.” A deadpan Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who selves amidst hard family conditions and a feature focuses on the friendship of Emilio comedy about phone towers, online dating, conducted his own crusading campaign seemingly indifferent society: Graffiti artist and Miguel, two senior citizens living in a the odd tarantula, and a militant group of against the Nazis while navigating a fraught Alex, ignored by his parents and faced care facility. Suffering from the early stages people allergic to electricity, Flicker is set personal life. Officially neutral, Sweden’s with the mounting living expenses for an of Alzheimer’s, Emilio is apprehensive in the small town of Backberga, where leaders did their best to silence Segerstedt, art grant he wins; kickboxer Gabi, who about moving into a nursing home. Helping a local telecom company is planning to fearing German reprisal, especially as lives in fear of his domineering gym-owner him make the transition is his roommate freshen up its profile under a clueless CEO. the journalist began inciting the ire of top father; and wealthy Oky, who lives com- Miguel, a rascally Argentinean. Both Meanwhile, the accounts person is trying Nazi officials. Troell adds an element of fortably but without affection from her par- sensitively told and refreshingly acerbic, to find love online, the cleaning lady the supernatural as Segerstedt is visited by ents. “The sins of parents and teachers are Wrinkles smoothes its challenging subject fancies herself an inventor, and, out in the ghosts of his lovers, something that, visited on their progeny and students in into an inspiring story full of charm, wit, the field, the linesman toys with death. rather than haunting him, gives him bleak this largely subtle, compassionate, and per- and universal appeal. Winner of the Weaving in and out of these individual pleasure in a chaotic world. Reminiscent ceptive take on bad education affecting a Best Animated Film and Best Adapted stories, Eklund offers a bittersweet satire of Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries, trio of Catalan teens... An engrossing Screenplay Awards at the 2012 Goya while building a warm, if often absurd, The Last Sentence tells a melancholic tale drama as well as an urgent cry for social Awards. (89 mins.) picture of ordinary people trying to find about aging, told through the story of a man change.”—Variety. Winner of the Best Film Selected Filmography: Tokyo Onlypic 2008 (08). their place in a rapidly changing world. of great importance to Swedish journalism and Best Screenplay Prizes at the Malaga Winner of the Best Swedish Feature Award and politics. Winner of the New Director 2/8 6:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Award at the Montreal Film Festival. Spanish Film Festival and of the Grand 2/17 1:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 at the Gothenburg International Film Prize at the Montreal Film Festival. Festival. (100 mins.) (126 mins.) Sponsored by LAIKA. (100 mins.) First Feature. Selected Filmography: The Emigrants (71), Flight of the Eagle (82), Hamsun (96), As White as in Snow Selected Filmography: I Know Who You Are (00), 2/14 9:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 (01), Everlasting Moments (08). The Impatient Alchemist (02), Broken Hearts (05). 2/18 4:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 2/11 8:45pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 2/13 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/15 6:00pm Cinemagic 2/17 4:45pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/17 4:45pm Cinemagic Sponsored by New Sweden and the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 27

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MORE THAN HONEY STARRY STARRY NIGHT TOGETHER IN THE FOG Markus Imhoof Tom Lin Hsu Chao-Jen Sergei Loznitsa

Einstein supposedly said, “If the bee disap- Based on the children’s book by Taiwanese “A neighborhood’s lives and loves inter- Adapted from the novel by Vasili Bykov, pears from the surface of the Earth, man illustrator Jimmy Liao, the gentle Starry twine in this almost novelistic film, seen Loznitsa’s film is a sobering meditation on would have no more than four years left to Starry Night follows the intersecting lives of mostly through the eyes of 17-year-old the complicated moral decisions faced by live.” All over the world, bees have been inward 13-year-old Mei, who’s coping with Xiao Yang. Together’s various storylines both soldiers and citizens during wartime. dying, and although the causes are still a the death of her grandfather and her parents’ cycle through several families who live on Set in Nazi-occupied Belarus, the story mystery, one thing is already clear: more is crumbling marriage, and shy Jay, who the same street in contemporary Taipei. begins with the hanging of three villagers at stake than honey. Seeking answers—and endures a rootless existence caused by his Xiao Yang is a patient observer but not a for conspiring against their German employing incredible cinematography— abusive father. When Mei falls in love with neutral one: most of the love letters that oppressors. Later, Sushenya—a man spared Imhoof embarks on a journey to meet Jay, a recent transfer student at her school, charmingly still circulate in this working- by the Germans—is visited by two resis- with people whose lives depend on bees: she finds solace from her troubles and class Taipei community pass through his tance fighters, who intend to execute him a Swiss beekeeper living in the Alps, a begins a journey to find the missing parts hands, and he’s the catalyst of several of for presumed collaboration with the Nazis. gigantic almond plantation in California, of her troubled life. Venturing into the the story’s love affairs. The community But their plan is interrupted by enemy fire, a bee brain researcher in Berlin, and a starry night, Mei and Jay set off on a includes a costume vendor, a Japanese- and all three men become unwilling com- pollen trader in China. All report on how romantic, perilous trip into the mountainous Taiwanese newlywed couple, and Xiao panions on an evasive trek through the the bees are vanishing. The film tells much wilderness to find her grandparents’ cottage, Yang’s sometimes violent, sometimes forest. Through flashbacks, Loznitsa closely about bees’ lives—and much about our a place of comforting memories, and desti- romantically inclined classmates. Everyone examines how each of the men reached own. (90 mins.) In German with English nations further. “A charming bit of whimsy seems to be in the process of breaking up this point in the chaos of war and their subtitles. that speaks to anyone who experienced a or finding a new lover. We are gently different responses. “An intense, slow- Selected Filmography: The Boat Is Full (81), sense of emotional injustice during their induced to interpret, to be active partici- burning, and haunting drama [...] shrouded The Mountain (92), Fire in Paradise (97). formative years.”—Slant. (99 mins.) pants in framing the story. The result is a in the fog of war, the fog of fear, and the 2/14 8:45pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Winds of September (08). fully achieved first film of tangible power fathomless fog of European history.”—The and abundant humanity.”—Vancouver Guardian. (127 mins.) 2/18 2:15pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/10 5:15pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 International Film Festival. (114 mins.) Sponsored by the Consulate General of 2/15 6:00pm Regal Lloyd Center 10 Selected Filmography: My Joy (10). First Feature. Switzerland in San Francisco and Chipotle. Sponsored by Steven Smith Teamaker. 2/19 6:00pm Cinema 21 2/10 2:30pm Regal Fox Tower 6 2/23 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/15 9:15pm Cinema 21 28 3 6 TH P O R TLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

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ALIEN BOY: THE DEATH AMERICAN WINTER A FIERCE GREEN FIRE AND LIFE OF J AMES CHASSE Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz Mark Kitchell Brian Lindstrom Five years into the worst economic crisis One of the great social movements of the On September 17, 2006, James Chasse, a since the 1930s, American Winter presents a 20th century, environmentalism continues shy and gentle man with schizophrenia, telling snapshot of the state of our society as an urgent force in the 21st. Kitchell’s was tackled by three police o cers in front as it exists for millions of Americans across passionate lm charts the advent of the of dozens of eyewitnesses on a downtown the country. Shot over the course of the modern environmental movement, from street corner in Northwest Portland. He winter months of 2011–2012, the lm follows the early conservation causes of John Muir was not suspected of a crime, nor had he eight Portland families —found through to the formation of landmark organizations committed one, but nonetheless he suf- their calls to 211info, a referral service that like the Sierra Club and Greenpeace, to fered 17 broken ribs, a separated shoulder, steers thousands of families in crisis to the creation of events like Earth Day and a punctured lung, and numerous bruises available social services —battling to keep the continuing evolution of public conver - and contusions—before dying. Chasse’s their heads above water while facing over - sation about the growing threats of pollution, death and treatment shocked the city, ask - whelming nancial challenges and a climate change, overharvesting, and their ing profound questions about how we treat shrinking social safety net. The devastating eects on both our ecology and society. those with mental illness and what kind of eects of the mortgage lending crisis, soar - An essential primer for anyone interested a police force we want. Lindstrom’s moving ing unemployment, a broken healthcare in a broad overview of a remarkable era of lm, six years in the making, provides system, and the budget cuts to the social global activism or anyone who might agree both a detailed chronicle of Chasse’s tragic services are presented through the eyes of with one advocate’s observation: “There’s nal hours and a deep look at the arc of these families, all falling into poverty for no Hispanic air. There’s no African- his life from suburban childhood to trying the rst time and struggling to keep their American air. There’s air! And if you to live as an independent adult with mental kids fed, clothed, and with a roof over their breathe air —and most people I know do illness in a society ill-equipped to recognize heads. (90 mins.) breathe air —then I would consider you an his needs. (91 mins.) Selected Filmography: Sex with Strangers (02). environmentalist.” (114 mins.) Selected Filmography: Finding Normal (07). 2/17 3:00pm Whitsell Auditorium Selected Filmography: Berkeley in the Sixties (90). 2/15 7:00pm Cinema 21 2/18 7:30pm Cinemagic 2/8 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater 2/15 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater Sponsored by Chipotle. Sponsored by OPB. 2/22 8:45pm Cinema 21 Sponsored by Chipotle. 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 29

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LA CAMIONETA: THE JOURNEY LEVIATHAN LOVE, MARILYN 3 MILLION OF ONE AMERICAN SCHOOL BUS Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel Liz Garbus Jaime Roos, Yamandu Roos Mark Kendall Set in the North Atlantic, Leviathan is an Marilyn Monroe may live as Hollywood’s 3 Million is a documentary for soccer Every day, dozens of decommissioned amazing film about men at sea and fish on most iconic sex symbol, but beneath the lovers, but also for anyone who likes to root school buses leave the United States and boats. Creatively (to use an understatement) character she created and perfected was for the underdog. Like many countries, migrate through Mexico to Guatemala, deploying numerous small digital cameras, also one of the most self-possessed and Uruguay’s heart stops and starts with the where they are repaired, repainted, and the filmmakers capture the sensory experi- ambitious artists in the industry. Drawing fate of its beloved soccer team. In this joyous reborn as the brightly colored camionetas ence of the labor, ecology, sound, light, and on Monroe’s never-before-revealed diaries documentary about the passion of soccer, that bring most Guatemalans to work. motion of one of man’s oldest activities. and letters and never-before-seen footage the iconic Uruguayan musician Jaime Roos Kendall’s lyrical film follows the migration “The filmmakers have made the ne plus and photographs, including materials from and his (Dutch) photographer son Yamandu of one Pennsylvania bus as well as the per- ultra of immersive documentaries. In this the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote follow the national team’s 2010 World Cup sonal stories of five individuals whose lives stunning and unparalleled masterpiece, estates, Garbus presents a fresh, vivid por- run to the electric semi-finals in South become intertwined with its transformation. they have discovered new forms of cinema... trait of a savvy, disciplined, intellectually Africa. From Kimberley to Johannesburg Like the bus that unites their stories, the See, hear, and feel it for yourself. It’s a curious woman who, for all her tragic per- to Cape Town to Pretoria, Jaime and choice between obsolescence and innova- monster.”—Vancouver International Film sonal complexities (recounted in poignant Yamandu uncover truths about the players tion defines their decisions, propelling Festival. “The result is a hallucinatory detail as well), was much more than her and the excitement of memorable games them toward an increasingly uncertain sensory experience quite unlike any other. glamorous stereotype. Expanding the with the world’s top teams, as well as reveal future in a country where civil institutions To paraphrase Francis Ford Coppola conventions of traditional documentary, their own relationship, which has its own and authorities are powerless to protect describing his Apocalypse Now, Leviathan Garbus weaves in readings of Monroe’s suspense and surprise. A music-infused, citizens from organized crime. What slowly isn’t a movie about commercial fishing; writings by a surprising range of actresses father-son road trip in celebration of the emerges is a vivid and rich meditation it is commercial fishing.”—New York Film and actors, emerging with an overall powerful uniting force of sport. (135 mins.) on the universal quest for mobility—and Festival. (87 mins.) appreciation that will surprise even the First Feature. most informed Monroe students. survival. (71 mins.) In Spanish with Selected Filmography: Taylor—Sweetgrass (09); 2/10 2:00pm Cinemagic English subtitles. Paravel—Foreign Parts (10). (105 mins.) 2/16 9:00pm World Trade Center Theater Selected Filmography: The Farm: Angola, USA First Feature. 2/9 3:15pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by OPB and SP Newsprint. 2/13 6:00pm Cinemagic (98), The Execution of Wanda Jean (02), Bobby 2/9 6:00pm World Trade Center Theater Fisher Against the World (11). 2/17 7:30pm World Trade Center Theater Sponsored by Chipotle. 2/16 3:30pm Regal Lloyd Center 4 Sponsored by KBOO. 2/18 4:30pm Cinema 21 2/23 3:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 30 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

THE DEVIL’S BALLROOM TUMULT SHORT CUTS I: Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken, SHORT CUTS II: Johnny Barrington, Great Britain INTERNATIONAL TIES Norway/Greenland INTERNATIONAL TIES A tribe of Norse warriors retreats after a After burying his last remaining companion, bloody battle. With their chief near death, a fearless explorer has to find his way to they come upon an army they could never 2/9 1:00pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/10 12:00pm Whitsell Auditorium the North Pole alone, fighting snow blind- have expected. The comedic be-all and 2/17 12:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/18 12:00pm Whitsell Auditorium ness and physical strain. An unexpected end-all of culture clashes! (13 mins.) Sponsored by Red Giant. Sponsored by Red Giant. encounter forces him to decide between PREMATURE THE FACTORY honor and fame or keeping the moral high EDMOND WAS A DONKEY ground. (15 mins.) Rashaad Ernesto Green, United States Aly Muritiba, Brazil Franck Dion, Canada/France After Tisha, a streetwise teenager from the A mother and her imprisoned son carefully WILD Edmond is diligent, hard working, and Bronx, discovers she’s pregnant, she must prepare for her crucial visit to the peniten- Edward Bishop, Great Britain effective at his lowly job—loved by his boss face a difficult decision. With nowhere to tiary in honor of a very special occasion. The unsettling effects of rumor on a but maligned by his colleagues. But when turn, she confronts the grim realities of her (15 mins.) teenage girl. (13 mins.) co-workers play a juvenile prank, situation alone. (15 mins.) Edmond’s life begins to change. (15 mins.) THE OTHER SIDE Total program running time: 86 mins. Total program running time: 89 mins. Khen Shalem, Israel FISHING WITHOUT NETS A young Israeli boy, the last to be picked Cutter Hodierne, United States/Kenya for soccer teams but the one who owns A story of pirates in Somalia told from the the ball, finds an unusual friendship with perspective of the Somalis. (17 mins.) someone on the Palestinian side of the West Bank separation wall. But can a THE MAKER wordless, gaze-free relationship survive Christopher Kezelos, Australia with only a ball between them? (22 mins.) A strange creature races against time to make the most important and beautiful CHICKEN AND ZOE creation of his life. (6 mins.) Yael Bridge, United States Eating chicken takes on new meaning for GRANDMOTHERS four-year-old Zoe as she observes her first Afarin Eghbal, Great Britain slaughter. (4 mins.) Take a wonderfully inventive tour inside a grandmother’s apartment in Buenos Aires. 663114 A seamless blend of animation and real-life Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan testimonials creates an unforgettable tale THE OTHER SIDE FISHING WTHOUT NETS The Japanese tsunami and earthquake of history, memory loss, and new begin- from the perspective of a 66-year-old (Israel) nings. (9 mins.) (United States/Kenya) cicada. (8 mins.) CATERWAUL A CURIOUS CONJUNCTION Ian Samuels, United States OF COINCIDENCES An aging fisherman develops an intimate Joost Reijmers, Netherlands relationship with a lobster as he struggles An absurdist journey through time in to find closure with his lost wife. (14 mins.) which the worlds of three hapless heroes living in different centuries collide unexpectedly in present-day Amsterdam. (9 mins.) 663114 GRANDMOTHERS (Japan) (Great Britain) 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 31

ASAD HATCH SHORT CUTS III: Bryan Buckley, South Africa/United States SHORT CUTS IV: Christoph Kuschnig, Austria/United States INTERNATIONAL TIES In a war-torn fishing village in Somalia, a INTERNATIONAL TIES A newborn’s destiny hangs in the balance boy is faced with falling into the pirate life as grownups come to terms with what they or rising above to choose the path of an cannot have. (19 mins.) 2/14 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium honest fishing man. (18 mins.) 2/16 12:15pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/19 6:30pm Whitsell Auditorium 2/23 12:30pm Whitsell Auditorium Total program running time: 86 mins. Sponsored by Red Giant and Lamar Transit Advertising. THE GREAT RABBIT Sponsored by Red Giant. HEAD OVER HEELS Atsushi Wada, France/Japan PITCH BLACK HEIST Once we called the noble, profound, and Timothy Reckart, United States John Maclean, Great Britain mysterious existence “The Great.” We have After many years of marriage, Walter and moved with time; our thoughts and con- Michael Fassbender stars in this dark, sus- Madge have grown apart: he lives on the sciousness have changed. And yet, what penseful tale of a professional safe cracker floor and she lives on the ceiling. (10 mins.) makes us still call it “The Great”? (7 mins.) who encounters a hitch while on the job. (13 mins.) THE CURSE THE PALACE Fyzal Boulifa, Great Britain/Morocco Anthony Maras, Cyprus/Australia THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE Kealan O’Rourke, Ireland Fatine has ventured far from the village Cyprus, 1974. When a young Turkish-Cypriot to meet her older lover. When a small boy conscript soldier comes face-to-face with a After experiencing heartbreak, Rupert catches her, all she wants to do is return Greek-Cypriot family in hiding, he confronts uses a book of magic to invoke a spell to home. (16 mins.) the brutal reality of war and his role in it. shield him from emotion forever. (8 mins.) (17 mins.) THE BOY IN THE BUBBLE THE CENTRIFUGE BRAIN PROJECT MR. CHRISTMAS (United States) Till Nowak, Germany Total program running time: 97 mins. Nick Palmer, United States Since the 1970s, scientists have been Bruce Mertz is the kind of guy who lights conducting experiments with bizarre up the lives of those around him—quite amusement park rides to study their effects literally—when every holiday season he on the human brain. (7 mins.) transforms his house into a beacon with 50,000 colorful lights and himself into A BRIEF HISTORY Mr. Christmas. (15 mins.) OF JOHN BALDESSARI Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, United States WRITTEN IN INK Martin Rath, Poland No more boring films! Everything you This compelling story of a man trying to need to know about the godfather of A BRIEF HISTORY OF JOHN BALDESSARI MR. CHRISTMAS conceptual art. Narrated by Tom Waits. get back in touch with his sister after (United States) (United States) (6 mins.) 14 years asks the question, “Can one change what has already been written in ink?” ABIOGENESIS (11 mins.) Richard Mans, New Zealand DEATH OF A SHADOW A strange mechanical device lands on a Tom Van Avermaet, Belgium/France desolate world and uses the planet to under- go a startling transformation. (5 mins.) Nathan died during World War I, but a strange collector imprisoned his shadow ONE WRONG WORD and gave him a second life. (20 mins.) Nicole Volavka, Great Britain/United States Novelist Tony faces the most difficult obstacle yet to publishing his magnum ABIOGENESIS WRITTEN IN INK opus: his publishers. (11 mins.) (New Zealand) (Poland) 32 36TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

CONTENTS OF C___’S BOX, SHORT CUTS V: IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER MADE IN OREGON Ian Berry The filmmaker examines the artifacts of an ended love affair. (3 mins.) 2/12 6:00pm Whitsell Auditorium Sponsored by Red Giant. JANUARY DRIFT DEAR PLUTO Enie Vaisburd (4 mins.) Joanna Priestley DEAR PLUTO In the cold of January, a mind drifts. BIRD OF FLAMES An open letter to the celestial body formerly BIRD OF FLAMES known as a planet, written and performed Chel White by slam poet Taylor Mali and wryly With music by David Lynch and Chrysta animated by Priestley. (4 mins.) Bell, a spider-like Vietnamese sorcerer TO BEE OR NOT TO BE coaxes a beautiful chanteuse to perform (6 mins.) James Lowry like a living doll. An accidental meeting recording the possible THE BUS (last) thoughts of a bumblebee. (3 mins.) H.L. Mitchell DOING VERY WELL A young man finds a microcosm and possibilities in transit. (8 mins.) Zach Schultz CPR LOST AND FOUND A stream-of-consciousness tribute to our LOST AND FOUND own often ridiculous, rambling inner Joan Gratz monologues. (4 mins.) Metamorphosed images with the appear- WHILE YOU WERE OUT ance of sculpted wood and shifting sand (4 mins.) Noah Lambie summon memories of a life. Flip books made of memo pads and other DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS I found folios come to life. (7 mins.) Orland Nutt CPR Orland’s open letter to Peter concerns a Kimberly Warner steaming pile of woodchips, Mt. Fuji, and the concept of context. (4 mins.) While watching lifeguards perform rescue THE TITANIC OF SOUTHAMPTON DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS drills at a neighborhood pool, a woman LATER THAN USUAL faces her own need to be saved. (7 min.) David Hovan THE TITANIC OF SOUTHAMPTON An elderly couple marks time toward a (7 mins.) Justin Zimmerman not-so-inevitable end. The city of Southampton feels the lasting DEAR PETER, WOODCHIPS II and haunting effects of the Titanic disaster Orland Nutt a century later. (13 mins.) A continuation of the correspondence in which Orland’s relationship to the woodchips evolves. (4 mins.)

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How to Make Money Selling Drugs The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology Chicken and Zoe Yael Bridge, US ...... 30 Matthew Cooke, US ...... 28 Sophie Fiennes, Great Britain ...... 15 Contents of C___’s Box, in FILM INDEX The Hunt Thomas Vinterberg, Denmark ...... 12 Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy No Particular Order Ian Berry, US ...... 32 In the Fog Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine ...... 27 Marco Tullio Giordana, Italy ...... 19 CPR Kimberly Warner, US ...... 32 FEATURES In the Shadow Pieta Kim Ki-Duk, South Korea ...... 24 A Curious Conjunction of Coincidences 3 Million Jaime Roos, Yamandu Roos, David Ondrícek, Czech Republic ...... 12 Polluting Paradise Fatih Akin, Germany ...... 14 Joost Reijmers, Netherlands ...... 30 Uruguay ...... 29 Just the Wind Benedek Fliegauf, Hungary .....17 Post Tenebras Lux Carlos Reygadas, Mexico .. 22 The Curse Fyzal Boulifa, Great Britain/Morocco ...... 31 4some Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic ...... 11 Kauwboy Boudewijn Koole, Netherlands ...... 22 Purge Antti Jokinen, Finland ...... 12 Orland Nutt, US .. 32 80 Million Waldemar Krzystek, Poland ...... 23 Keep Smiling Rusudan Chkonia, Georgia ...... 14 Reality Matteo Garrone, Italy ...... 19 Dear Peter, Woodchips I Orland Nutt, US.. 32 After Lucia Michel Franco, Mexico ...... 21 Key of Life Kenji Uchida, Japan ...... 20 Renoir Gilles Bourdos, France ...... 13 Dear Peter, Woodchips II Alien Boy: The Death and Life of Kon-Tiki The Sapphires Wayne Blair, Australia ...... 8 Dear Pluto Joanna Priestley, US ...... 32 James Chasse Brian Lindstrom, US...... 28 Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg, Norway .. 22 Shun Li and the Poet Andrea Segre, Italy ...20 Death of a Shadow Tom Van Avermaet, Belgium/France ...... 31 Alois Nebel Tomáš Lunák, Czech Republic .... 11 La Camioneta: The Journey of One Sightseers Ben Wheatley, Great Britain ...... 16 American School Bus Mark Kendall, US .. 29 The Devil’s Ballroom Henrik Martin American Winter A Simple Life Ann Hui, Hong Kong ...... 17 La Pirogue Moussa Touré, Senegal ...... 24 Dahlsbakken, Norway/Greenland ...... 30 Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz, US ...... 28 Sleep Tight Jaume Balagueró, Spain ...... 25 William Vega, Colombia ...... 11 Doing Very Well Zach Schultz, US ...... 32 The Angels’ Share Ken Loach, Great Britain ...15 La Sirga Something in the Air Edmond Was a Donkey Barfi! Anurag Basu, India ...... 17 The Last Sentence Jan Troell, Sweden ...... 26 Olivier Assayas, France ...... 13 Franck Dion, Canada/France ...... 30 Beyond the Hills The Last Shepherd Marco Bonfanti, Italy ....20 Starry Starry Night Tom Lin, Taiwan ...... 27 The Factory Aly Muritiba, Brazil ...... 30 Cristian Mungiu, Romania...... 23 Laurence Anyways Xavier Dolan, Canada..... 9 Tabu Miguel Gomes, Portugal ...... 23 Fishing Without Nets Blancanieves Pablo Berger, Spain ...... 6 A Letter to Momo Hiroyuki Okiura, Japan ...20 This Ain’t California Cutter Hodierne, US/Kenya ...... 30 Blood of My Blood João Canijo, Portugal ... 23 Leviathan Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Marten Persiel, Germany ...... 15 Grandmothers Afarin Eghbal, Great Britain ..30 Caesar Must Die Véréna Paravel, US ...... 29 Together Hsu Chao-Jen, Taiwan ...... 27 The Great Rabbit Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Italy ...... 19 Lore Cate Shortland, Australia ...... 7 Two Years at Sea Ben Rivers, Great Britain ...16 Atsushi Wada, France/Japan ...... 31 Carmina Or Blow Up Paco León, Spain ..... 25 Love, Marilyn Liz Garbus, US ...... 29 Filippos Tsitos, Greece ...... 16 Unfair World Hatch Christoph Kuschnig, Austria/US ...... 31 Chinese Take-Out Madrid, 1987 David Trueba, Spain ...... 25 War Witch Kim Nguyen, Canada...... 10 Timothy Reckart, US ...... 31 Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina ...... 7 Head Over Heels Masquerade Choo Chang-Min, South Korea ... 24 Wasteland Rowan Athale, Great Britain ...... 16 Clandestine Childhood January Drift Enie Vaisburd, US ...... 32 Memories Look at Me Song Fang, China ....10 White Elephant Pablo Trapero, Argentina ..... 7 Benjamín Ávila, Argentina ...... 7 Later Than Usual David Hovan, US ...... 32 Men at Lunch Seán Ó Cualáín, Ireland...... 18 White Tiger Karen Shakhnazarov, Russia .... 24 Coming of Age Lost And Found Joan Gratz, US ...... 32 Modest Reception Mani Haghighi, Iran ...... 18 Patricia Ferreira, Spain ...... 26 Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, Austria...... 8 The Wild Ones The Maker Christopher Kezelos, Australia ....30 More Than Honey Ignacio Ferreras, Spain ...... 26 Comrade Kim Goes Flying A. Daelemans, Wrinkles Mr. Christmas Nick Palmer, US ...... 31 Markus Imhoof, Switzerland ...... 27 N. Bonner, K. Gwang Hun, North Korea ...... 22 You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet One Wrong Word Nairobi Half Life The Double Steps Isaki Lacuesta, Spain ...... 25 Alain Resnais, France ...... 13 Nicole Volavka, Great Britain/US...... 31 David Tosh Gitonga, Kenya ...... 21 The End of Time Peter Mettler, Canada ...... 9 The Other Side Khen Shalem, Israel ...... 30 Neighboring Sounds SHORT CUTS English Vinglish Gauri Shinde, India ...... 18 Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil ...... 9 The Palace Anthony Maras, Cyprus/Australia ..31 663114 Isamu Hirabayashi, Japan ...... 30 The Exam Péter Bergendy, Hungary ...... 17 No Pablo Larraín, Chile ...... 10 Pitch Black Heist Abiogenesis Richard Mans, New Zealand ...... 31 John Maclean, Great Britain ...... 31 A Fierce Green Fire Mark Kitchell, US ...... 28 Off-White Lies Maya Kenig, Israel ...... 19 A Brief History of John Baldessari Premature Rashaad Ernesto Green, US ...... 30 Flicker Patrik Eklund, Sweden...... 26 Old Dog Pema Tseden, China ...... 10 Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, US ...... 31 The Titanic of Southampton The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh, Israel ...... 18 One Night Lucy Mulloy, Cuba ...... 11 Asad Bryan Buckley, South Africa/US ...... 31 Justin Zimmerman, US ...... 32 Ginger & Rosa Sally Potter, Great Britain .....15 Our Children Joachim Lafosse, Belgium ...... 9 Bird of Flames Chel White, US ...... 32 To Bee Or Not To Be James Lowry, US ..... 32 Hannah Arendt Our Homeland Yong-Hi Yang, Japan ...... 21 Margarethe Von Trotta, Germany ...... 14 The Boy in the Bubble Tumult Johnny Barrington, Great Britain ...... 30 The Painting Kealan O’Rourke, Ireland ...... 31 While You Were Out Noah Lambie, US ..... 32 Happy People: A Year in the Taiga Jean-François Laguionie, France ...... 13 The Bus H.L. Mitchell, US...... 32 Dmitry Vasyukov, Werner Herzog, Germany .14 Wild Edward Bishop, Great Britain...... 30 Ulrich Seidl, Austria ...... 8 Paradise: Faith Caterwaul Ian Samuels, US ...... 30 Here and There Written in Ink Martin Rath, Poland ...... 31 Paradise: Love Ulrich Seidl, Austria ...... 8 Antonio Méndez Esparza, Mexico ...... 21 The Centrifuge Brain Project Till Nowak, Germany...... A Hijacking Tobias Lindholm, Denmark ...... 12 31 TRY SNEAKING THIS INTO THE THEATER

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Thursday the 7 th 2:30 WTC Chinese Take-Out (Argentina) 8:45 WH The Last Sentence (Sweden) 6:00 WTC The End of Time (Canada) 4:30 C21 Love, Marilyn (US) 8:30 C21 The Pervert’s Guide (Great Britain) 2:30 FT6 Together (Taiwan) 8:45 FT6 The Exam (Hungary) 6:15 LC4 Just the Wind (Hungary) 5:00 CM Here and There (Mexico) 8:45 WH After Lucia (Mexico) 7:30 NT Blancanieves (Spain) 4:00 LC10 Wasteland (Great Britain) 8:45 LC10 Renoir (France) 8:00 C21 Laurence Anyways (Canada) 5:15 FT6 The Exam (Hungary) 8:45 CM White Elephant (Argentina)

4:45 WH Renoir (France) 8:15 CM The Last Shepherd (Italy) 5:15 LC10 Hannah Arendt (Germany) 8:45 FT6 Blood of My Blood (Portugal) Friday the 8 th 5:00 CM The Sapphires (Australia) Thursday the 14th 8:15 LC10 Carmina Or Blow Up (Spain) 7:00 LC10 La Pirogue (Senegal) * 9:15 LC4 One Night (Cuba) 5:00 WTC Shun Li & The Poet (Italy) 8:45 WH Hannah Arendt (Germany) 7:00 C21 Blood of My Blood (Portugal) 5:45 LC10 Tabu (Portugal) 5:45 LC4 Reality (Italy) 5:15 LC4 Starry Starry Night (Taiwan) 9:00 WTC 3 Million (Uruguay) * 7:30 WH The Hunt (Denmark) nd 6:00 WH The Sapphires (Australia) 6:00 WH Short Cuts III: International Ties Friday the 22 5:15 FT6 Comrade Kim (North Korea) 9:00 LC4 White Tiger (Russia) 7:30 CM American Winter (US) 6:00 CM Paradise: Love (Austria) 6:00 CM Carmina or Blow Up (Spain) 6:00 WH Piazza Fontana (Italy) 6:45 LC10 Barfi! (India) * 7:30 FT6 White Tiger (Russia) 6:00 WTC A Fierce Green Fire (US) 6:00 FT6 Key of Life (Japan) 6:00 C21 Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico) 7:30 WH Lore (Australia) th 7:45 LC4 Keep Smiling (Georgia) 6:30 LC4 Wrinkles (Spain) 6:30 LC10 Clandestine Childhood (Argentina) Sunday the 17 6:00 WTC Paradise: Faith (Austria) 7:30 FT6 Reality (Italy) 8:30 LC10 War Witch (Canada) 8:30 LC4 English Vinglish (India) 12:00 C21 The Pervert’s Guide (Great Britain) 8:45 WH Unfair World (Greece) 7:30 LC4 Tabu (Portugal) th 8:45 WTC La Sirga (Colombia) 8:45 WH More Than Honey (Switzerland) 12:30 WH Short Cuts I: International Ties Tuesday the 19 8:45 C21 A Fierce Green Fire (US) 7:30 CM Clandestine Childhood (Argentina) 9:00 WH Modest Reception (Iran) 8:45 CM Madrid, 1987 (Spain) 12:30 CM The Last Sheperd (Italy) 6:00 CM Here and There (Mexico) 8:45 WTC Madrid, 1987 (Spain) 7:30 WTC La Sirga (Colombia) 9:00 CM Caesar Must Die (Italy) 9:00 FT6 White Tiger (Russia) 1:45 LC4 Wrinkles (Spain) 6:00 FT6 80 Million (Poland) Flicker (Sweden) After Lucia (Mexico) Kon-Tiki (Norway) 9:15 LC4 A Simple Life (Hong Kong) 9:15 LC10 2:15 FT6 6:00 LC4 th rd Monday the 11 2:15 LC10 Off-White Lies (Israel) 6:00 C21 In the Fog (Ukraine) Saturday the 23 Short Cuts IV: International Ties 5:45 LC10 Lore (Australia) th 2:30 CM Old Dog (China) * 6:30 WH Short Cuts III: International Ties 12:30 WH th Friday the 15 Saturday the 9 6:00 WH 80 Million (Poland) 3:00 WH American Winter (US) 7:00 LC10 Masquerade (South Korea) 12:45 WTC Polluting Paradise (Germany) 6:00 WH No (Chile) 1:00 WH Short Cuts I: International Ties 6:00 FT6 Nairobi Half-Life (Kenya) 3:00 WTC Polluting Paradise (Germany) 8:45 WH Happy People (Germany) 3:00 WH Love, Marilyn (US) 6:00 CM The Wild Ones (Spain) 1:00 CM Kauwboy (Netherlands) * 6:00 CM Caesar Must Die (Italy) 3:00 C21 The Double Steps (Spain) 8:45 CM 4some (Czech Republic) 3:15 C21 Sightseers (Great Britain) 6:00 WTC A Fierce Green Fire (US) 1:00 WTC This Ain’t California (Germany) 6:30 LC4 Pieta (South Korea) 4:00 LC4 Unfair World (Greece) 8:45 LC4 Keep Smiling (Georgia) 3:15 WTC Paradise: Faith (Austria) 6:00 LC10 Starry Starry Night (Taiwan) 2:00 LC4 Barfi! (India) * 8:30 FT6 Off-White Lies (Israel) 4:45 CM The Wild Ones (Spain) 9:00 FT6 Memories Look at Me (China) 6:00 WH In the Fog (Ukraine) 6:30 LC4 Comrade Kim (North Korea) White Elephant (Argentina) 3:15 WH Leviathan (US) 8:45 CM Madrid, 1987 (Spain) 4:45 FT6 The Last Sentence (Sweden) 9:00 C21 The Double Steps (Spain) 6:00 C21 7:00 C21 Alien Boy (US) 6:00 WTC Sleep Tight (Spain) 3:15 WTC The End of Time (Canada) 8:45 WH Masquerade (South Korea) 4:45 LC10 No (Chile) 8:45 WH The Angels’ Share (Great Britain) 8:45 LC10 The Wild Ones (Spain) Men at Lunch (Ireland) 9:00 WH You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (France) 3:30 CM Alois Nebel (Czech Republic) 5:15 WTC th 8:45 CM Paradise: Love (Austria) Wednesday the 20 9:15 LC4 Clandestine Childhood (Argentina) 5:15 C21 The Gatekeepers (Israel) 9:00 C21 Our Homeland (Japan) 3:30 LC10 Coming of Age (Austria) 8:45 WTC Sleep Tight (Spain) 6:00 WH One Night (Cuba) 5:30 WH The Painting (France) * 9:00 WTC The Double Steps (Spain) 5:15 LC4 Purge (Finland) 8:45 LC4 Our Children (Belgium) 6:00 CM 4some (Czech Republic) th 7:00 LC4 English Vinglish (India) * 6:00 WH Ginger & Rosa (Great Britain) Tuesday the 12 9:15 LC10 Neighboring Sounds (Brazil) 6:00 FT6 You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet (France) 7:30 WH Kon-Tiki (Norway) 6:00 CM Pieta (South Korea) 5:45 LC10 Wasteland (Great Britain) 9:15 C21 Together (Taiwan) 6:00 LC4 Just the Wind (Hungary) 7:30 CM Two Years at Sea (Great Britain) Advance tickets no longer available/ 6:00 WTC La Camioneta (US) 6:00 WH Short Cuts V: Made in Oregon 6:00 C21 Post Tenebras Lux (Mexico) 7:30 FT6 Our Children (Belgium) Rush tickets available at the door The Angels’ Share (Great Britain) 6:00 LC10 6:00 CM This Ain’t California (Germany) th 7:00 LC10 Laurence Anyways (Canada) Saturday the 16 7:30 WTC La Camioneta (US) Schedule updates 8:00 LC4 In the Shadow (Czech Republic) 6:00 LC4 A Letter to Momo (Japan) * 8:45 WH A Hijacking (Denmark) Changes posted at 7:30 LC10 Nairobi Half-Life (Kenya) 12:00 C21 In the Shadow (Czech Republic) festivals.nwfilm.org/piff36 8:30 WH Beyond the Hills (Romania) 7:00 FT6 Barfi! (India) * 8:45 CM Two Years at Sea (Great Britain) 7:30 C21 Sleep Tight (Spain) 12:15 WH Short Cuts IV: International Ties *Family Friendly 8:15 LC10 Ginger & Rosa (Great Britain) 8:45 FT6 Blood of My Blood (Portugal) 8:45 CM The Painting (France) * suitable for ages 9+ 1:00 CM Kauwboy (Netherlands) * 8:45 WTC Shun Li & The Poet (Italy) 8:30 WH Purge (Finland) 8:45 LC4 Key of Life (Japan) 2:30 C21 Memories Look at Me (China) Monday the 18 th 8:45 LC10 Neighboring Sounds (Brazil) 8:30 CM Alois Nebel (Czech Republic) 3:00 CM Here and There (Mexico) 12:00 WH Short Cuts II: International Ties st Theater Codes 3:00 WTC Chinese Take-Out (Argentina) Thursday the 21 12:00 C21 Men at Lunch (Ireland) th th C21 Cinema 21 Sunday the 10 Wednesday the 13 3:00 LC10 80 Million (Poland) 5:45 LC10 Something in the Air (France) 1:30 LC10 Piazza Fontana (Italy) CM Cinemagic 6:00 WH In the Shadow (Czech Republic) 3:30 WH Modest Reception (Iran) 6:00 WH The Exam (Hungary) 12:00 WH Short Cuts II: International Ties 2:00 C21 Old Dog (China) * FT Regal Fox Tower 6:00 CM Leviathan (US) 3:30 LC4 Love, Marilyn (US) 6:00 CM The Gatekeepers (Israel) 12:00 WTC A Letter to Momo (Japan) * 2:15 WH More Than Honey (Switzerland) LC Regal Lloyd Center 6:00 FT6 Neighboring Sounds (Brazil) 5:30 LC10 Purge (Finland) 6:00 FT6 A Hijacking (Denmark) 1:45 LC10 Off-White Lies (Israel) 2:15 LC4 English Vinglish (India) * NT Newmark Theatre 6:30 LC10 Coming of Age (Austria) 5:30 C21 Happy People (Germany) 6:00 C21 Sightseers (Great Britain) 2:00 CM 3 Million (Uruguay) * 2:30 CM La Sirga (Colombia) WH Whitsell Auditorium 7:30 LC4 Beyond the Hills (Romania) 6:00 WH Something in the Air (France) 6:30 LC4 Our Homeland (Japan) 2:15 WH Modest Reception (Iran) 4:30 WH War Witch (Canada) WTC World Trade Center Theater 8:30 CM The Last Shepherd (Italy) * 6:00 CM La Pirogue (Senegal) * 8:30 LC10 The Hunt (Denmark) 2:30 LC4 A Simple Life (Hong Kong) 4:30 LC4 Flicker (Sweden) NON-PROFIT ORG NORTHWEST FILM CENTER U.S. POSTAGE Portland Art Museum 1219 SW Park Avenue PAID Portland, OR 97205 PORTLAND OR www.nwfilm.org PERMIT NO. 664

THE NORT HWEST FILM CENTER / PORTLAND ART M USE UM PRESENTS 36TH PORTLA N D INTERNA TIONA L FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORED BY: THE OREGONIA N / R E G A L CINEMA S

F E BRU A RY 7–23, 2013