THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL Washington, DC International Film Festival

April 19 - 29, 2007

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Welcome to Filmfest DC Primary Venues Tickets A world of films…. a window into our world. Festival screenings will take place at General Admission is $9.00. Special the following two convenient venues: Admissions are noted. There are many wonderful films waiting to be discovered at this Wisconsin Avenue Cinemas Tickets are available through year’s Filmfest DC. 4000 Wisconsin Ave., NW. Tickets.com by calling (800) 955- We are pleased that more and more people look to our festival to find what’s Take Metro Red Line to the 5566, or at all Olsson’s Books and new and exciting. One of the primary roles of a film festival is to constantly Tenleytown metro stop. Paid parking is Records and CD Game Exchange available in building along Upton St. stores. explore and discover, to take audiences down roads they didn’t even know existed. To ask questions, challenge The Harold and Sylvia Tickets are also available assumptions and provide unique Greenberg Theatre at through the experiences. American University Filmfest DC 4200 Wisconsin Ave, NW. website (www.filmfestdc.org) Filmfest DC features films that you Take Metro Red Line to the or the Tickets.com website might never otherwise see and Tenleytown metro stop. Paid parking is at www.tickets.com. appreciate. Voila Cinema!, a series of available in the building for $2.00 with validated ticket. new films from , is this year’s Call Tickets.com at (800) 955-5566 from 9:00 AM - geographical focus. Working with the 9:00 PM (Monday-Sunday) Embassy of France, we think we have for tickets. Advance tickets

Photo: Chad Evans Wyatt gathered a selection of films reflect- Other Locations also available at Wisconsin Tony Gittens, Festival Director, and ing the current state of one of the Busboys & Poets Avenue Cinemas beginning Shirin Ghareeb, Assistant Director longest and most respected cinemas 2021 14th St, NW. at 5:30 PM daily. in the world. A new section this year, Views from the News, presents films placing Take Metro Green line to U Street/ No Tickets.com sales the 2 us behind today’s headlines and giving us human perspectives into major events. Cardozo metro stop. day of the show. Our Global Rhythms music-on-film series is always fun and a pleasure to pro- Historic Lincoln Theatre Tickets may also be pur- gram. As always, World View and its selection of new work by some of the 1215 U St., NW chased at the theatre one world’s best filmmakers, represents the major section of our program. Take Metro Green or Yellow Line to hour before the first show U Street/Cardozo metro stop. of the day. Cash or Check None of this would be possible without the many dedicated people who have sales only at the Theatres. shared their time and talents with Filmfest DC. To all of our sponsors, staff and National Gallery of Art volunteers, we owe an immense amount of gratitude. East Building Auditorium, 4 th St. & Free events are on a first come, first Constitution Ave., NW. serve basis, with no reservations Film is life written across the screen available for all to enjoy. It has evolved from Take Metro Green or Yellow Line to accepted or tickets required. a brief flickering of images to an industry of constant innovation. We produce Archives/Navy Memorial metro stop. this festival for you and invite you to join us for this celebration honoring the art Director’s Pass: Ten-ticket package valued at $90.00 will be form we so love. See you at the movies…. Regal Cinemas 701 7th St., NW. discounted to $80.00. Available through Tickets.com BY PHONE Take Metro Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Yellow lines at the Metro Center ONLY (not applicable for Opening or Gallery Place/Chinatown metro and Closing Nights or Special stops. Three hours free parking with Events). Anthony Gittens, Director validation at Gallery Place Parking on 6th Street between G and H. Washington, DC International Film Festival For more information go to and Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities Take Metrobus or Metrorail to Filmfest DC filmfestdc.org

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Thursday, April 19 La Vie en Rose La Môme Olivier Dahan France/United Kingdom/Czech Republic, 2007, 140 minutes, color With France in focus at this year’s FFDC, it’s only natural that the program would be bookended by two of the country’s most popular exports in recent memory. Last year, festival patrons thrilled to the documentary portrait of French singer Edith Piaf, Piaf: Her Story….Her Songs. Now, straight from its triumphant European premiere as the gala opening night attraction at the Berlin International Film Festival, comes an intimate yet epic fictional telling of Piaf’s life, La Vie en Rose. Marion Cotillard, last seen on these shores playing Russell Crowe’s love interest in director Ridley Scott’s A Good Year, stars as Piaf, and it’s a fierce, proud, abrasive, altogether stunning performance. Working from a boldly time-shifting script written in collaboration with Isabelle Sobelman, director Olivier Dahan touches on both the highs and lows of Piaf’s eventful life, from her upbringing in a Normandy brothel to international success as an immensely talented and dis- tinctive singer. Set at presstime to open domestically in June, La Vie en Rose has earned more than $40 million from adoring French audiences in a little more than two months of release and proven a solid hit throughout Europe. Now it’s time for America to experience Cotillard’s triumph as France’s own strong yet vulnerable, and immensely talented la mome, or sparrow, the immortal Edith Piaf.—Eddie Cockrell IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Thursday, April 19, 6:00 PM, Historic Lincoln Theatre, $40.00 ★ With Special Guest Director Olivier Dahan Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France and with support from the French-American Cultural Foundation 3 Paris, Je T’aime Sunday, April 29 Bruno Podalydes, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle in collaboration with Gabrielle Keng Peralta and Rain Kathy Li, Isabelle Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuaron, Richard LaGravanese, Olivier Assayas, Olivier Schmitz, Tetsuo Nagata, Wes Craven, Gerard Depardieu and Frederic Auburtin, and France/Liechtenstein/Switzerland, 2006, 120 minutes, color Imagine giving 20 of the world’s most prominent filmmakers a camera and turning each one loose— well, a few work in teams—on one of Paris’ distinctive neighborhoods with the single instruction: make a film about love. FFDC 2007 wraps with this mischievous, diverse collection of meditations on l’amour. Amongst these snapshots of a city, Joel and Ethan Coen take over the Tuileries Metro station, Wes Craven explores Pere-Lachaise, Alexander Payne visits the 14th Arrondissement, and so on. In addition to the dazzling directorial talent listed above, stars of individual segments include Marianne Faithfull, Steve Buscemi, Catalina Sandino Moreno, director Barbet Schroeder, Miranda Richardson, , , Nick Nolte, Maggie Gyllenhaall, , , , and Ben Gazzara. To introduce the screening, FFDC is pleased to welcome French legend Fanny Ardant, who co-stars with as ex-lovers attempting to rekindle their romance in the Pigalle sequence. A busy and accomplished actress for 30 years, Fanny Ardant’s many films include ’ Life is a Bed of Roses, Volker Schloendorff’s Swann in Love, and Francois Ozon’s . For long-time companion Francois Truffaut, she starred in The Woman Next Door and Confidentially Yours. If you didn’t love the City of Lights before tonight, Paris, je t’aime should seal the deal.—Eddie Cockrell IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ★ With Special Guest Star Fanny Ardant Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Sunday, April 29, 3:30 PM, Regal Cinemas Gallery Place, followed by a party, $15.00

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Voila Cinéma! Views from the News Ever since the Lumière brothers’ invention, France Filmmakers have a tradition of using their craft to tackle topics has prided itself as the pioneer in the world of cine- drawn from current events. They take us beyond ma, a country where cinéma has been elevated to an art form. the statistics and put a human face on the news. In recent years, a new generation of artists has emerged, capa- Their stories resonate with us long after the VIEWS from the ble of achieving that fragile balance between “artistic” and “pop- lights come on in the theater. The films gathered NEWS ular” cinéma. Today, French cinématic production is the most in this series are based on this tradition. dynamic in Europe; 187 films came out in 2005, and their budg- ets have increased by 240% over the past decade. The award-winning The Cats of Mirikitani shows us the rich human complexity of those living on our streets. Paul Wagner’s The selection of Voila Cinéma! featured by Filmfest DC 2007 The God of a Second Chance provides an intimate look into a represents a marvelous journey to the heart of modern French troubled community and tells how its people are battling their cinema. It is an opportunity to discover — or rediscover — a circumstances every single day. Two films from Africa, the docu- vast array of talents, from legendary Alain Resnais to newcom- mentary Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars and the feature Sounds ers such as Joachim Lafosse and Jean-Pascal Hattu, to the master of Sand, introduce people of incredible courage determined to of the political thriller: Costa-Gavras. French cinéma has been overcome the political conditions not of their making, in which 4 around for a while, but it remains alive and well, with great they find themselves. In Cairo we meet These Girls, who would promise for the future. rather live on the street, where at least they have each other. And the wide-ranging The Epic of Black Gold makes clear how oil Bon voyage! became so important in our lives and how that importance has Embassy of France in the made us dependent on it.

The Wire with George Pelecanos The HBO hit, The Wire, centers on the ongoing struggles between police units and drug-dealing gangs on the west side of Baltimore, as well as the city’s politics, unions, and public school systems. A crucial member of the show’s writing and production team, George Pelecanos is the author of 14 crime novels set in and around Washington, DC and brings an authenticity to The Wire that few others can provide.

Join Mr. Pelecanos as he discusses the inspiration behind the scripts of the television program. He is a three-time recipient of the International Crime Novel of the Year Award and two-time winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Award. His journalism and short fiction works have appeared in GQ, Esquire, The Times, The Washington Post, Uncut, Mojo, and numerous other publications. His latest novel, “Hard Revolution”, was a New York Times bestseller. Esquire magazine has called him “the poet laureate of the DC crime world.”

Saturday, April 21, 12:00 PM, Busboys & Poets, FREE  Co-presented with the Mayor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development

All screenings will be at 4000 Wisconsin Avenue Cinemas unless otherwise noted. Filmfest DC ★ 2007

Directors’ Roundtable Each year, a group of international filmmakers converge at Filmfest DC for screen- ings of their films and interaction with each other and our audiences. Join the festi- val’s guest directors for an informal discussion of their working styles and the contrasting conditions under which their films are made.

Saturday, April 28, 3:00 PM Busboys & Poets, FREE

Capital Focus Award Legend 5 The Capital Focus Award is a juried competi- The Awards Jury is composed of: tion of selected films deserving of increased ■ Susan Barocas, Competition Coordinator Look for the following icons throughout the recognition. Films in the ■ Manjula Kumar, Smithsonian Institution Capital competition were selected catalog: Focus Award ■ Arnie Lutzker, Entertainment Attorney by the Festival’s program- Cinema Cinema for ■ Andrew Mencher, Programming Director, for Seniors ming staff and the winner will be deter- Seniors Avalon Theatre mined by a jury of accomplished film ■ Peggy Parsons, Curator, Department of professionals. Filmfest DC Film Programs, National Gallery of Art for Kids Films selected for this year’s award Free! competition are: Circle Audience Award ✫ The Cats of Mirikitani (USA) Founded by Ted and Jim Pedas, Global ✫ Eden (Switzerland) Washington’s Circle Theatres set the Rhythms ✫ The Education of Fairies (Argentina) standard for innovative quality film pro- ✫ The King and the Clown (S. Korea) gramming. Filmfest DC will present an VIEWS award to the feature film voted the most from the Views from ✫ The Page Turner NEWS the News (France) popular by our audience. Ballots will be ✫ The Postmodern Life of my Aunt (China) available after each screening. The winners ✫ Red Road (UK) for both the Circle Audience Award and the Voila Cinéma! Capital Focus Award will be announced on ✫ What a Wonderful World (Morocco) Closing Night.

All screenings will be at 4000 Wisconsin Avenue Cinemas unless otherwise noted. Filmfest DC ★ 2007 The 2 Sides 7 Years Antonio Vivaldi, of the Bed Jean-Pascal Hattu a Prince of Venice Emilio Martinez-Lazaro France, 2006, 85 minutes, color Jean-Louis Guillermou 7 Years Spain, 2006, 108 minutes, color Masterfully paced and superbly acted, is a no- France/Italy, 2006, 96 minutes, color nonsense rural French drama about the effect of sex on This sumptuous, unconventional portrait of composer This vividly rendered and thoroughly enjoyable sequel to love and loneliness. Somewhere in the drab French country- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) opens with a concert at a Emilio Martinez-Lazro’s popular The Other Side of the Bed side, faithful wife Maite regularly visits her husband Vincent Venetian girls’ orphanage, where Vivaldi was master of the features many of the same attractive characters and much in prison. Barely a year into a 7-year sentence for an violin. Despite his reputation as one of Venice’s greatest sons, romantic entanglement. On the eve of their wedding, Javier unspecified crime, Vincent is very much in love with his wife Vivaldi wasn’t always lionized in his birthplace. Born into the (Ernesto Alterio) and but also somewhat of a jerk. For her part, Maite busies her- working class, he struggled to create sublime music in an fiancé Marta (Veronica self with caring for a neighbor’s son, yet misses Vincent so often-hostile environment. Although ordained as a priest, he Sanchez) are celebrating much that she was frequently forced to with their friend Pedro becomes defend his compositions (Guillermo Toledo) at aroused while against the church. The the club where Pedro’s smelling his Bishop of Venice, in particular, girlfriend Raquel (Lucia shirts. Her life is was determined to destroy Jimenez) sings. When as neat as the his career. Vivaldi aroused Raquel takes a break laundry over much jealousy among his and meets Marta in the which she fusses, peers, who resented his bathroom for sex…well, let’s just say that it comes as no but now Maite is refusal (on health grounds) surprise that Marta leaves Javier standing alone at the altar. about to embark to perform mass, his many What follows is fast-paced, funny, and highly musical (charac- on a turbulent foreign patrons (including the Pope), and his curious relation- ters sing revamped versions of 1970s and 1980s Spanish emotional journey of frank sexual gamesmanship that begins ship with Anna Giro, his favorite singer. Like many composers pop hits) entertainment that gently skewers male precon- with an initially loveless affair with a new guard at the of his time, he died in poverty and obscurity, and it took ceptions and expectations and comments on how the prison. Director Jean-Pascal Hattu’s impressive debut comes another three centuries for his musical genius to be younger generation’s desire for immediate gratification can after a period of training that included serving as assistant recognized.—Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 be a dead-end road. director to Andre Techine on .—Eddie Cockrell —Palm Springs International Film Festival 2007 IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 21, 11:15 PM Sunday, April 22, 7:30 PM Sunday, April 22, 5:30 PM Sunday, April 22, 3:00 PM Monday, April 23, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 24, 6:45 PM ❂ Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Spain ★ In Person: Director Jean-Louis Guillermou Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France 6 Armenia Australian Short Film Today Le Voyage en Armenie The 9:13 Hold, Please The Saviour Robert Guediguian Matthew Phipps Chris Cudlipp Peter Templeman France, 2006, 117 minutes, color 15 minutes, color 18 minutes, color 18 minutes, color A middle-aged French immi- Waiting for the 9:13 train, Joe meets Cheated on, dumped, out of a job, A gentle door-to-door evangelist falls grant reconnects with her eth- Thunder and a routine trip turns alone—and now, placed on hold. in love with a married woman. nic roots in the latest collabo- sinister. How much can a person take? ration between director Smile for Me Robert Guediguian and actress Anna Fraser How Many Doctors Does Ariane Ascaride, together Booth Story 13 minutes, color responsible for festival favorites Edwin It Take to Change a Light Another Saturday night at the beach Marius and Jeannette, Marie-Jo Bulb? surf parties, boys, and boredom. and her 2 Lovers, and numer- McGill and Marie ous other collaborations. Ascaride plays Anna, the hard- Kasimer Vend Patane nosed Marseilles-based cardiologist daughter of an Italian Burgess James Findlay mother and Armenian dad Barsam (Marcel Bluwal). When 7 minutes, color 11 minutes, color 10 minutes, color the stubborn patriarch takes off for the old country to avoid Rosie visits the A film about experience, freedom, and life-saving surgery, Anna follows—and learns a great deal Loneliness in an underground car local medical center for a routine dispensing with reality, while dispensing about herself and her heritage in the week that follows. park—and one small miracle. check-up, and unfortunately it’s any- soft drinks. Working from an original story by Ascaride, Guediguian has thing but routine. made a leisurely yet precise road movie that constitutes Carnivore Reflux both an immersion in Armenian culture and an involving Eddie White and family detective story. The film features many of Guediguian’s Pacific immediately recognizable stock players and is imbued with James Calvert Peter Carstairs genre elements that prove yet again that he is a filmmaker 7 minutes, animation 7 minutes, color with industry savvy and story smarts—Eddie Cockrell The average human will, in a lifetime, On a lonely beach, a chance IN FRENCH AND ARMENIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES consume 10 cows, 1.5 tons of fish, 760 encounter with a fisherman is the key chickens, 37 sheep, and 42 pigs. This to a young man letting go of his past Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 PM Saturday, April 21, 6:45 PM Thursday, April 26, 6:30 PM must have consequences on the ani- and embracing his future. Sunday, April 22, 7:30 PM mal world. Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Presented in cooperation with the ★ In Person: Guest Curator Embassy of Australia Susan Talbot Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Beauty in Trouble The Ax Border Café ` Kraska v nesnazich Le Couperet Kambozia Partovi Jan Hrebejk Costa-Gavras Iran/France, 2005, 104 minutes, color Czech Republic, 2006, 110 minutes, France/Belgium/Spain, 2005, 123 minutes, color Winner of high-profile awards at the Fajr and color A change of pace for celebrated leftist filmmaker Costa- Mar Del Plata festivals, The newest film from director Jan Gavras (Z, Missing), The Ax is his best film in years, deftly inte- Border Café is a cau- Hrebejk and long-time screenwrit- grating his political concerns into the framework of a black tionary tale of restric- ing partner Petr Jarchovsky comedy/thriller. Based on a novel by crime specialist Donald tive patriarchy, inspira- (Divided We Fall, Up and Down). E. Westlake, whose credits as novelist and screenwriter tional determination, Young mother Marcela (Zelary include Point Blank, The Grifters, and The Stepfather, the story and the potency of star Ana Geislerova), having lost centers on a veteran engineer (Jose Garcia) who is uncere- fine cooking. Upon everything in the 2002 floods that swept through Prague, moniously downsized. Unable to find work, he finally decides the death of her hus- lives in the chop shop run by her decent but desperate that it’s better to give the ax than to receive it, and he begins band Ismael, Reyhan is pressured by brother-in-law Nasser to mechanic husband Jarda (Roman Luknar). When Jarda is assassinating his top competitors in the job market. become absorbed into his family. Determined to keep thrown into jail, Marcela begins a hesitant relationship with —Gene Siskel Film Center Ismael’s diner near the Iranian-Turkish border open, the émigré Czech wine seller Evzen Benes (Josef Abrham) under IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the watchful eye of her mother Zdena (Jana Brejchova) and widow politely but firmly refuses, and the business becomes a bitter step-father Richard (Jiri Schmitzer). Inevitably, recent Friday, April 27, 6:45 PM runaway success with long-haul truckers. When one such history intrudes on the lives of these well-meaning Czechs in Saturday, April 28, 8:45 PM driver, Greek nice guy Zacharia, becomes infatuated with this delicate, emotionally complex widescreen drama. Beauty Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Reyhan, Nasser, who wants her as his wife, is forced into deci- in Trouble features choice tunes from Irish singer Glen sive action. Each of these players is trapped in hidebound tra- Hansard, whose breakout performance in John Carney’s dition, but Reyhan insists on making her own place in this Once was the hit of the 2007 Sundance festival. world. Since he last directed a film, 1997’s Naneh Lala, —Eddie Cockrell Kambozia Partovi has become one of Iran’s most prominent screenwriters; His credits include Earth and Ashes, The IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Deserted Station, I Am Taraneh, I Am Fifteen, and The Circle. Monday, April 23, 8:45 PM —Eddie Cockrell Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 PM IN FARSI, TURKISH, GREEK, RUSSIAN, AND GERMAN WITH ENGLISH ★ In Person: Director Jan Hrebejk for April 23 screening only SUBTITLES  Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of the Czech Monday, April 23, 6:45 PM Republic Tuesday, April 24, 6:45 PM 7 Border Post The Boss of It All Karaula Direktoren for det hele Denmark/Sweden/France/Italy, 2006, 98 minutes, color “Life is a Dogme film. It’s hard to hear, but the words are still important.” This is one of the many in-jokes peppering Lars von Trier’s newest feature, The Boss of It All, an engaging comedy with a classic bait-and-switch premise. With shadowy motives, a cor- porate lawyer entices an idle actor to pretend to be the “superboss” whom the IT staff has never met. Unfortunately for Rajko Grlic the actor, the lawyer has con- Bosnia/Slovenia/Macedonia/Croatia/Serbia/U.K., 2006, 94 minutes, color structed a persona for the boss Based on the best-selling novel “Nothing Must Surprise Us” through a series of e-mails sent by Ante Tomic, this bittersweet black comedy unfolds at a to the staff—and, as it turns out, small army base along the Yugoslav-Albanian border in the has created several personae and spring of 1987, where yet another generation of young sol- relayed a different one to each diers awaits the end of their service. Their boring daily rou- employee. The actor must play tine suddenly changes when the perennially frustrated and many parts before finally, in a frequently drunk commanding officer, Lt. Pasic, contracts series of reversals, he “finds” the syphilis. Looking for an excuse to stay away from home until real character. Von Trier augments he is cured, Pasic declares a state of emergency, claiming that his lively satire of the corporate the Albanian army is preparing an attack against Yugoslavia. A world by mocking management joke transforms into war hysteria and soldiers dig trenches. catchphrases du jour (not “out- Meanwhile, Sinisa Sircevic, the only doctor among the sol- sourcing,” we’re told, but “off- diers, embarks on a dangerous liaison, and his jokester best shoring”) and touchy-feely friend Ljuba Paunovic, plans a pilgrimage to Tito’s grave. hugging.—David Bordwell, —Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 davidbordwell.net IN SERBO-CROAT WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN DANISH AND ICELANDIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 23, 8:15 PM Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 PM Friday, April 27, 9:00 PM Saturday, April 28, 6:30 PM Filmfest DC ★ 2007

American Premiere Bunny Chow The Cats of Mirikitani Linda Hattendorf VIEWS Capital Focus from the John Barker USA, 2006, 74 minutes, color Award NEWS South Africa, 2006, 95 minutes, black and white An audience hit in Bunny Chow has the raw charm of ’s She’s Gotta Have It or Bruce McDonald’s Roadkill. For those who have never numerous festivals been drinking in Johannesburg, a “bunny chow” is a huge mishmash of a sandwich. It is also a metaphor for South Africa‘s cultur- and winner of awards al mélange and slang for a sexual act. All these meanings come into play in this wickedly humorous film about three at the Tokyo and Johannesburg friends who Tromso film festivals, want to be stand-up The Cats of Mirikitani comics but show more skill is unforced yet urgent with beer-fuelled trash talk. social filmmaking as Joey mines his relationship timely as it is reveal- with his Chinese girlfriend ing. In early 2001, for material. Dave struggles New York filmmaker to find his groove at the and SoHo resident Linda Hattendorf became aware of 80- microphone. And Kags sim- year-old Satomo “Jimmy” Mirikitani, a Japanese artist specializ- ply cannot keep it in his ing in cats, who lived and worked on Sixth Avenue only a pants. When the boys hit block or so from her apartment. Following the September 11 the road to attend an attacks, Hattendorf took the artist into her cramped flat, only open-air music festival, to discover that he was all too happy to stay. Mixed in with Dave meets Carla and falls his feline-centric work, she also found studies of a desert prey to two kinds of per- landscape with long, low buildings. It turns out that formance anxiety, Joey buys Sacramento-born Mirikitani, who was raised in , some dubious drugs, and had been interred at a camp for Japanese Americans during Kags is as randy as ever. World War II in Tule Lake, California. The filmmaker then —Toronto International Film arranged a visit to Tule Lake for herself and her stubborn Festival 2006 houseguest.—Eddie Cockrell

Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 PM Monday, April 23, 6:30 PM Wednesday, April 25, Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 PM 6:30 PM ★ In Person: Director Linda Hattendorf and Producer ★ In Person: Masa Yoshikawa Director John Barker 8 Change of Address Congorama Changement d’adresse Philippe Falardeau Dry Season Emmanuel Mouret Canada/Belgium/France, 2006, 105 minutes, color Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France, 2006, 85 minutes, color In Congorama, director Philippe Falardeau takes us on a jour- France/Belgium/Chad/, 2006, 96 minutes, color ney of self-discovery through multiple perspectives. Newly arrived Daratt is a tight-lipped Harebrained inventor Michel Roy has two months to sell in Paris, sin- yet supremely focused one of his less-than-practical products—the “de-icer” or the cere musician questioning of good vs. “turtle trotter”—or he will lose his laboratory. Making David (writer- evil and the fragile com- Michel’s life more complicated, his paralyzed father just told director plicity between the two. him, after 40 years of secrecy, that he was adopted from Emmanuel In the wake of Chad’s two unidentified Quebecois. Fearing the loss of everything Mouret, who 40-year civil war, general he knows, Michel leaves Belgium (and his Congolese wife looks a bit like amnesty is announced Alice and their Robert for war criminals. This son Jules) on a Downey, Jr., or maybe a young ) rents a includes Nassara, now a baker, who killed the father of 16- mission to room in the flat of dizzy, demonstrative blonde Anne year-old Atim. The boy is dispatched with a pistol by grandfa- Canada, where (Frederique Bel). “Show me your horn,” she demands, yet is ther Oumar to kill Nassara, but, lacking the courage, Atim is he plans to try shocked at his inevitable, inept pass. They become fast instead mentored by the man and his young, pregnant wife his luck at a friends, even as Anne becomes enamored with a customer in Aicha. Thus begins a mercurial relationship between the two: new market the copy shop she owns and David falls in love with French will Atim avenge the death of his father? This taut moral mas- and track down horn student Julia (Fanny Valette). Julia’s kind of a cold fish, at terpiece is another in the series of seven non-Western films his biological least until she meets restaurateur Julien (Dany Brillant) while financed in celebration of Mozart’s 250th birthday under the parents. But on a seaside trip with David. Their subsequent entanglements “New Crowned Hope” rubric. Writer-director Mahamat- nothing comes make for a quirky, verbal, warm-hearted comedy that tran- Saleh Haroun (Bye Bye Africa, Abouna) drew inspiration from easily for scends subtitles. Some critics’ quotes are too good to pass Mozart’s “La clemena di Tito,” although Daratt is both original Michel: After a fiasco at Canadian Customs, Michel must sell up, and this one from Variety’s Derek Elley surely qualifies: and riveting.—Eddie Cockrell his de-icer product in an unconventional way, and his Change of Address, he writes, is “Eric Rohmer meets Woody rumored family name seems to be non-existent. IN FRENCH AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Allen.”—Eddie Cockrell —2007 Cleveland International Film Festival Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 PM IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Wednesday, April 25, 8:45 PM  Thursday, April 26, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 22, 5:15 PM Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, American Monday, April 23, 6:30 PM University Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Eagle vs. Shark Eden Capital Focus Michael Hofmann Award New Zealand, 2006, 94 minutes, color Germany/Switzerland, 2006, 93 minutes, color Which is the more dangerous predator: an eagle or a shark? You’ll have your own opinion by the end of Taika Waititi’s As he did in his startling previous film, deliciously tangy, deadpan film debut about two colorful mis- Sophiiiie!, writer-director Michael fits thrown into each other’s orbit. Lily (Loren Horsley) is one Hofmann mixes disparate emotions of those weird, into a filling meal of a film. A surprise sweet-natured girls winner of the audience award at the who is quite lovely 2006 Rotterdam film festival, Eden is and charismatic the beguiling story of the unusual under a surface of friendship between corpulent, com- shy awkwardness. mitted chef Gregor (Josef Osten- She is a cashier at dorf) and waitress Eden (German TV a fast-food restau- star Charlotte Roche), who’s stuck in rant and pines for a rut with dance instructor husband Jarrod (Jemaine Xaver (Devid Striesow) and daughter Clement), a self- Leonie (Leonie Stepp), who has aggrandizing, clue- Down syndrome. Gregor makes less geek who Leonie a chocolate birthday cake, and works at a nearby computer store. Fiercely optimistic, Lily with one taste Eden is in thrall with crashes Jarrod’s animal/video-game extravaganza, impressing his culinary charisma. At first, such him enough with her shark suit and gaming prowess to score delicacies as bulls’ testicles and choco- a hookup with him. However, Jarrod’s self-absorption might late cola sauce stimulate her home drive even the most adoring of girlfriends away. Subtlety and life with Xaver, but, when Eden precision underscores the straight-faced, oddball performanc- announces she’s pregnant, her es, making Lily and Jarrod’s attempts to reach each other husband fears the worst. hilarious and excruciatingly real.—2007 —Eddie Cockrell

Wednesday, April 25, 9:00 PM IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 28, 9:30 PM Friday, April 27, 6:30 PM Saturday, April 28, 6:30 PM 9

The Education of Fairies Capital Focus Emmanuel’sGift Award Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern La educacion de las hadas USA, 2005, 80 minutes, color Jose Luis Cuerda Ages 8 and up Spain/France/Argentina/Portugal, 2006, 103 minutes, color Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah Erstwhile Alejandro Amenabar producer Jose was born with a severely Luis Cuerda returns to his favorite theme— impaired right leg. Using the transformational power of a child-like only one leg, he pedaled a imagination—in the engagingly idiosyncratic bicycle 610 kilometers The Education of Fairies, based on a best- across Ghana in West Africa selling French novel. Toy inventor Nicolas to spread the message that meets widowed ornithologist Ingrid and her disability does not equal son Raul on a plane. Nicolas turns on the inability and became a news charm, and soon he and Ingrid are married sensation along the way. and living an idyllic existence in a beautiful This inspiring film docu- old house in the Catalan countryside. The ments his journey to the imaginative Nicolas tells Raul stories about U.S., where he received a fairies who make the world a better place prosthetic leg, and his return and takes him to an old hut in the woods to Ghana to distribute where he hung out as a child. After a couple wheelchairs and set up edu- of years, however, Ingrid surprises Nicolas by cation funds and tells the asking for . When Nicholas true story of how a single encounters an injured Algerian girl, he picks person changed a nation’s her up and takes her back to his hut in the perception of those with woods, where Raul mistakes her for a fairy. physical disabilities. —Jonathan Holland, Variety

Sunday, April 22, 11:30 AM, National Gallery of Art, FREE IN SPANISH AND FRENCH WITH ENGLISH Sunday, April 29, 11:30 AM, National Gallery of Art, FREE SUBTITLES All film programs are shown in the National Gallery of Art’s East Saturday, April 21, 6:45 PM Building Auditorium. No advance registration. Seating is offered Sunday, April 22, 7:30 PM on a first-come, first-seated basis. For more information, please ✳ Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of call (202) 789-3030. Argentina. Filmfest DC ★ 2007 The Epic of Black Gold Exiled

VIEWS Jean-Pierre Beaurenaut, Yves Billon from the Fongchuk France, 2005, 208 minutes, color NEWS Johnnie To In the past 100 years, oil has affected almost every part of Hong Kong, 2006, 108 minutes, human life in almost every region of the globe. This four-part color series sets out to tell the tale of “black gold” in suitably epic Now that an American detail and scope: from John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford’s remake of a Hong Kong gang- Model-T, through both world wars, to the current U.S. ster movie—’s engagement in Iraq. As oil-consuming countries sought to The Departed—has won the control oil- Best Picture Oscar®, it’s time producing to jump onboard the Johnnie countries, To express. This immensely social move- gifted and breathtakingly prolif- ments turned ic filmmaker is most often into revolu- compared to Sergio Leone for tions and final- action staging and Howard ly into multiple Hawks for male bonding. His and ongoing newest film, Exiled, has strong traces of both directors in wars. Oil spades, but is uniquely and forcefully To’s nonetheless. In 1998 nationalism Macao, which is about to be handed over to China, there are gave way to lots of “scores to be settled.” The action revolves around five conglomera- childhood friends who are now grown hitmen. They must put tions of international oil companies that determined that aside their deadly differences to handle a variety of jobs— energy, not money, was the driving force of the past century. including the killing of one of their traitorous own. To give But, if oil reserves peak within the next 3 to 5 years, things away more would spoil the bloody fun, but rest assured that are about to change. these infernal affairs make for a dazzling two hours of genre —Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 thrills.—Eddie Cockrell Saturday, April 21, 12:00 PM, followed by Q&A with John Felmy, American Petroleum Institute IN CANTONESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 28, 12:00 PM, followed by Q&A with Frederick Friday, April 20, 6:30 PM J. Lawrence, Independent Petroleum Association of America Saturday, April 21, 9:15 PM 10 Fay Grim WORLD PREMIERE The First Basket USA/Germany, 2006, 118 minutes, color David Vyorst Hal Hartley fans rejoice: Not only is the gifted writer-director USA, 2007, 86 minutes, color and black and white back with a scabrously funny new feature, but Fay Grim is Who knew? On the evening of Saturday, November 1, 1946, also the much-anticipated sequel to Hartley’s 1997 triumph, just over 60 years ago, Oscar “Ossie” Schectman of the New . Remember Henry (Thomas Jay Ryan), the myste- York Knickerbockers scored rious literary giant who arrived in the lives of garbageman- the first basket in the first Falling turned-author Simon Grim game of the first season of () and his the Basketball Association of Barbara Albert ditzy sister Fay (Parker America (BAA). The Austria, 2006, 88 minutes, color Posey)? As you may recall, Knickerbockers went on to at the end of Henry Fool, “Falco’s dead, too,” someone says glumly after the funeral beat the Toronto Huskies Henry eluded capture for that opens Falling, the new drama from Free Radicals writer- that day at Maple Leaf a murder and got on a director Barbara Albert, and it’s a good point: The quintet of Gardens, and in 1949 the plane to Scandinavia while girl chums reunited after 14 years to bid goodbye to a BAA morphed into the Simon was thrown in jail as favorite schoolteacher have mixed emotions about their NBA. Washington-based an accomplice. Nearly a school days, and a lot to catch up on. What better way to writer-producer-director decade later, Fay’s drawn The First do that then a frenetic all-nighter? So that’s exactly what David Vyorst’s back into a preposterously Basket they do, seguing from a rural wedding to a disco, and even- traces the little- convoluted series of inter- tually back to their real lives. Along the way, axes are ground, known Jewish history of the national intrigues sparked scores are settled, rifts are mended, and new allegiances are game invented by Dr. James Naismith and spread to turn-of- by government agent forged. Albert plays cleverly with time and perspective, from the-century New York settlement houses via the YMCA cir- Fulbright (Jeff Goldblum) the vintage folksongs and snapshots that punctuate the cuit. Chock full of vivid anecdotes and distinctive charac- that finds her chasing her The First Basket episodes to the jarring visuals that include a bride riding a ters— does for roundball what Washington Henry from Paris to The Life and Times of Hank mechanical bull. For more from Albert’s Coop 99 produc- filmmaker Aviva Kempner’s Istanbul. Fay Grim lives up to the opening maxim in Henry’s Greenberg Eddie Cockrell tion company, see Forever Never Anywhere elsewhere in this did for baseball.— mysterious and vaunted “Confessions”: “An honest man is catalog.—Eddie Cockrell Sunday, April 22, 5:00 PM always in trouble.”—Eddie Cockrell IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ★ In Person: Director David Vyrost Friday, April 20, 9:00 PM Sunday, April 22, 7:45 PM Saturday, April 21, 7:00 PM ✤ Presented in cooperation with the Washington Jewish Film Monday, April 23, 8:45 PM Festival Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Forever Never Anywhere Four Minutes The God of a Second Chance

Immer nie am Meer Vier Minuten Paul Wagner VIEWS from the Antonin Svoboda Chris Kraus USA, 2006, 82 minutes, color NEWS Austria, 2007, 89 minutes, color Germany, 2006, 114 minutes, color With a title taken from David Frazier’s classic Forever Never Anywhere is as conceptually out there as any In Germany’s notorious Luckau Prison, 80-year-old piano Gospel tune, The God of a film in this year’s festival. When inept lounge singer teacher Traude Krueger (Monica Bleibtreu, mother of Run Second Chance is at once Schwanenmeister (Heinz Strunk) backs his car off a road Lola Run star Moritz Bleibtreu) has attempted to bring classi- cautionary and inspirational. while arousing himself in the middle of the night, he’s picked cal culture to an ever-dwindling group of hardened female “In my heart I believe that up by stuffy archeologist Rafael (Dirk Stermann) and his inmates and loutish male guards, including faithful turnkey every black man longs to drunk brother-in-law Manfred (Christoph Grissemann). Muetze (Sven make a contribution to soci- Swerving to avoid a pedestrian, they rocket into the woods Pippig), since ety,” Washington-based and are pinned between two trees. That’s Forever Never she first arrived Community Action Group Anywhere, the newest film by Antonin Svoboda, a producer as a young (CAG) executive director in the Coop 99 company with Barbara Albert (Falling). So nurse during Hal Gordon tells Oscar®-winning local filmmaker Paul they’re stuck in the car with champagne and herring salad; the waning Wagner. “And if he’s in an environment where that contribu- just kick out the windows, right? Wrong. The car has bullet- days of World tion is recognized and appreciated, he’s going to be all right.” proof glass. Rafael bought the automobile on eBay, and it War II. On the In Anacostia, that attention is far from a given. Wagner filmed used to belong to Kurt Waldheim. Soon, a sadistic pre-teen verge of losing there for over a year, gaining a remarkably intimate level of shows up, and decides to make the trio part of a behavioral her program access to two men approaching the same challenge from dif- research study.—Eddie Cockrell after more ferent angles: 18-year-old Tyrone Leonard David Israel than half a cen- IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES “Sleepy” Curry is beginning to make choices, while 40-year- tury, the elderly disciplinarian spots breathtaking raw talent Friday, April 20, 6:45 PM old recovering addict Richie Barkley is freeing himself from in the form of former prodigy, traumatized killer, and current Saturday, April 21, 7:00 PM poor decisions made long ago. What unites them is Gordon’s wild child Jenny von Loeben (newcomer Hannah CAG, Steve Fitzhugh’s “The House,” and other faith-based Herzsprung). At first, these polar opposites circle each other community outreach programs.—Eddie Cockrell warily. Over time, they form a volatile bond that unites them against an unbending authority. Four Minutes is packed with Sunday, April 22, 4:00 PM, The Greenberg Theatre drama, thrills, and lurid secrets.—Eddie Cockrell Saturday, April 28, 4:00 PM ★ IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES In Person: Director Paul Wagner ✿ Tuesday, April 24, 8:15 PM CAG Gospel Choir to perform at April 22 screening Thursday, April 26, 8:30 PM 11 American Premiere Guru Gypsy Caravan Hula Girls Mani Ratnam Lee Sang-il India, 2007, 161 minutes, Jasmine Dellal , 2006, color and black and white USA, 2006, 111 minutes, color 110 minutes, color Once again painting on Jasmine Dellal’s Gypsy Caravan tells the inspiring story of the Rooting for the an ambitious, color- U.S. tour of five disparate bands from four countries. From eccentric under- drenched widescreen Romania comes the 18-piece Gypsy ensemble Taraf de dog has always canvas, South Indian film- Haidouks as well as Fanfare Ciocarlia’s 11-piece brass unit. been a special maker and FFDC Macedonian “Queen of the Gypsies” Esma Redzepova sings movie-going treat, favorite Mani Ratnam amongst the audiences, while Spain’s Antonio El Pipa com- which makes the (From the Heart, A Peck on the Cheek) is back with a sweep- bines swaggering dance moves with a vulnerable female charming regional ing new rags-to-riches-to-rags dramatic musical. Climbing voice. Indian collective Japanese comedy from humble 1950s Gujarati beginnings to a stint in Istanbul Maharaja builds a cross- Hula Girls a must and eventually to dominant success in the 1980s Bombay caste sound that features a for any FFDC clothing business, Gurukant Desai (Abhishek Bachchan) takes female impersonator. dance card. It’s wife Sujata (Aishwarya Rai) along the way. Ruthlessly attack- Dynamic, exciting perform- 1965, and there’s ing the competition, he loses the support of stalwart publish- ances are punctuated by not much to do in the chilly northeastern Japanese mining er Manik Das Gupta (Mithun Chakraborty), and eventually discussions on what it town of Iwaki City. So when the local mining company succumbs to greed and corruption. The on-screen chemistry means to be Roma, and announces plans to shut down a 100-year-old shaft in favor between Bachchan and Rai is palpable, and the rhythmic, their place in today’s of a -themed tourist attraction built around a local hot propulsive score by long-time collaborator A.R. Rahman pro- world. What they all share spring, teenager Kimiko is one of the first to sign up for Hula vides plenty of opportunity for eye-catching musical num- is a love of Gyspy heritage and music. As the players travel lessons. Unfortunately, she’s one of only four inept wallflow- bers—which are character-driven and skillfully integrated into together, they begin to imitate each other’s styles, and from ers to do so, yet under the tutelage of Tokyo-based hoofer the plot. Guru is another successful excursion into Hindi-lan- there it’s a short stanza to jamming and joint songwriting. By Madoka Hirayama, is there any doubt that the troupe will guage storytelling for the indefatigable Mani Ratnam. journey’s end, the influences are intertwined yet again, contin- grow or that they shall dance? Hula Girls is based on a true —Eddie Cockrell uing the rich heritage of tzigane music.—Eddie Cockrell story, won the Japanese film critics award for best film of IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, ROMANI, SPANISH, ROMANIAN, MACEDONIAN, HINDI, AND 2006, and was the country’s official submission for the ® MARWARI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Foreign Film Oscar .—Eddie Cockrell Saturday, April 21, 3:00 PM Saturday, April 28, 5:00 PM Thursday, April 26, 8:30 PM IN JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, American Friday, April 27, 6:45 PM Friday, April 27, 7:00 PM University ★ In Person: Director Jasmine Dellal Saturday, April 28, 7:00 PM Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Festival Schedule Sunday, April 22 11:30 AM Filmfest DC for Kids Emmanuel’s Gift * NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART 2:00 PM The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema 2:00 PM Yatra 3:00 PM The 2 Sides of the Bed 4:00 PM The God of a Second , p.19 La Vie en Rose, p.3 Chance THE GREENBERG THEATRE 6:45 PM The Silly Age Thursday, April 19 3:00 PM Guru 4:00 PM Opera Jawa 8:15 PM Border Post 6:30 PM The King and the Clown 4:00 PM The Yacoubian Building 6:00 PM Opening Night Gala 8:30 PM Yatra 6:30 PM Old, Weird America La Vie en Rose 5:00 PM The First Basket 8:45 PM Antonio Vivaldi THE GREENBERG THEATRE With Director 5:00 PM Lonesome* 8:45 PM Beauty in Trouble 6:30 PM The Postmodern Life of NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART Olivier Dahan My Aunt 8:45 PM Falling HISTORIC LINCOLN THEATRE 5:15 PM Congorama 8:45 PM Opera Jawa 5:30 PM 7 Years Hula Girls, p.11 Friday, April 20 5:30 PM Sounds of Sand Tuesday, April 24 6:30 PM Exiled 7:00 PM Never on a Sunday THE GREENBERG THEATRE 10:00 AM Cinema for Seniors 6:30 PM Red Road Ray * 7:30 PM Antonio Vivaldi 12 6:30 PM Sounds of Sand HISTORIC LINCOLN THEATRE 7:30 PM Australian Short Film 6:45 PM Forever Never Anywhere 6:30 PM Bunny Chow Today 6:45 PM The Tiger and the Snow 6:30 PM The Cats of Mirikitani 7:30 PM The Education of Fairies 7:00 PM Prague 6:30 PM Sierra Leone’s Refugee 7:30 PM Naming Number Two All Stars 8:30 PM The Postmodern Life of 7:45 PM Falling My Aunt 6:45 PM 7 Years 8:00 PM Prague 8:45 PM The King and the Clown 6:45 PM Border Café 9:00 PM Fay Grim Monday, April 23 7:00 PM Border Post 9:00 PM Just Sex and Nothing Else 8:15 PM Four Minutes 6:30 PM Congorama 9:00 PM Twice Upon a Time 8:45 PM Beauty in Trouble 6:30 PM The Cats of Mirikitani 9:15 PM Samoan Wedding 8:45 PM Naming Number Two 6:45 PM Australian Short Film 6:30 PM The Page Turner 8:45 PM The Silly Age The Tiger and the Snow, p.20 Today 6:45 PM Border Café 8:45 PM Sound of the Soul 6:45 PM The Education of Fairies 6:45 PM Sierra Leone’s Refugee 8:45 PM Vanaja 7:00 PM Fay Grim All Stars 7:00 PM Forever Never Anywhere Armenia p.6 9:00 PM Red Road 9:00 PM The Tiger and the Snow 9:00 PM Twice Upon a Time 9:15 PM Exiled Saturday, April 21 9:15 PM Samoan Wedding 12:00 George Pelecanos on 9:30 PM Just Sex and Nothing Else The Wire* 9:30 PM Never on a Sunday BUSBOYS & POETS THE GREENBERG THEATRE 12:00 The Epic of Black Gold 11:15 PM The 2 Sides of the Bed 2:30 PM The Yacoubian Building All screenings will be at 4000 Wisconsin Avenue Cinemas unless otherwise noted. Filmfest DC ★ 2007

Wednesday, April 25 Change of Address, p.8 For more information go to 6:30 PM Armenia 6:30 PM Bunny Chow filmfestdc.org 6:30 PM Daratt 6:30 PM Lights in the Dusk 7:00 PM Ten Canoes 7:00 PM These Girls 8:15 PM Vanaja 202 628 film 8:30 PM Paris, je t’aime, p.3 8:45 PM Change of Address 8:45 PM Time 9:00 PM Eagle vs. Shark 9:00 PM The Page Turner 6:45 PM Rocket Science 9:00 PM Rocket Science Time, p.20 THE GREENBERG THEATRE THE GREENBERG THEATRE 7:00 PM Hula Girls 9:15 PM My Mexican Shivah 7:00 PM The President 9:15 PM Manda Bala 8:45 PM Private Fears in Public 9:30 PM Eagle vs. Shark Places 9:00 PM Boss of it All Sunday, April 29 9:15 PM The Magician 11:30 AM Filmfest DC for Kids 9:15 PM What a Wonderful World Emmanuel’s Gift* National Gallery of Art 9:30 PM Private Property 3:30 PM Closing Night Event 9:30 PM Short Cuts 13 Paris, je t‘aime 9:30 PM Vinicius REGAL CINEMAS THE GREENBERG THEATRE * Events marked with GALLERY PLACE an asterisk are free. Thursday, April 26 Saturday, April 28 All programs are subject Falling, p.10 to change. 6:30 PM Armenia 12:00 PM The Epic of Black Gold Take Metrobus or Metrorail 6:30 PM Change of Address 1:00 PM The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema to Filmfest DC 6:30 PM Ten Canoes 1:00 PM Filmfest DC for Kids 6:45 PM These Girls The Ugly Duckling and 7:00 PM The King of Kong Me 7:00 PM Lights in the Dusk 3:00 PM Director’s Roundtable* BUSBOYS & POETS 8:30 PM Four Minutes Sound of the Soul, p.19 4:00 PM The God of a Second 8:30 PM Gypsy Caravan Chance 8:30 PM Private Fears in Public 5:00 PM Guru Places 6:00 PM Vinicius 8:45 PM Sound of the Soul THE GREENBERG THEATRE 8:45 PM Time 6:30 PM Boss of it All 9:00 PM What a Wonderful World 6:30 PM Eden 6:45 PM The President Friday, April 27 6:45 PM Short Cuts 6:30 PM Eden 7:00 PM Hula Girls 6:30 PM My Mexican Shivah 8:30 PM The Magician 6:45 PM The Ax 8:45 PM The Ax 6:45 PM Gypsy Caravan 8:45 PM Private Property

All screenings will be at 4000 Wisconsin Avenue Cinemas unless otherwise noted. Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Just Sex and Nothing Else The King and the Clown Capital Focus Csak szex es mas semi Wang-ui namja Award Krisztina Goda Jun-ik Lee Hungary, 2006, South Korea, 2005, 120 minutes, color 97 minutes, color Lavish and raucous, dramatic and absorbing, this rousing drama of royal skullduggery in the 16th century Chosun Dynasty A bright, snappy rela- appeals to a broad range of audiences both at home and in South Korea, where last year it became the country’s highest gross- tionship comedy that ing film of all time. After performing an acrobatically lewd spoof of domineering King Yonsan (Jeong Jin-yeong) and his conniving represents a still-new consort Nok-su (Gang Seong-yeon), male traveling acrobats Jang-seng (Kam Woo-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Jun-gi), the latter of strain of commercial whom specializes in Hungarian cinema with female roles, are arrested. smarts, Just Sex and Eventually earning their Nothing Else was a release, the pair is endan- huge local hit that won gered again when the king the Best Screenplay becomes obsessed with award at the 2006 Gong-gil, provoking the Hungarian Film Week. Witty dialogue is delivered smartly by violent ire of Nok-su. an easy-on-the-eyes cast in a sophisticated, picturesque Moving from a lusty physi- Budapest. Thirty-three-year-old theater dramaturg Dora cality in the first hour to a (Judit Schell) meets cute, swaggering actor Tamas (Kontroll Hamlet-like complexity in star Sandor Csanyi) when she’s forced half-dressed onto a the second, this is an window ledge by the arrival of her current lover’s wife. As ambitious, broad-ranging the exasperated Dora tells her actress chum Zsofi (Kata adventure about the have- Dobo), she wants a kid but as for the guy, it’s “just sex and nots thumbing their noses nothing else.” As she sorts things out with Tamas via a fling at the haves. “The king’s with composer Peter (Zoltan Seress) and the advice of bed,” we’re reminded, “is Turkish counterman Ali (Antal Czapko), laughs are plentiful where the money is.” as her theater troupe grapples with her dodgy translation of —Eddie Cockrell “Dangerous Liaisons.”—Eddie Cockrell IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH IN HUNGARIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SUBTITLES Friday, April 20, 9:00 PM Friday, April 20, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 21, 9:30 PM Saturday, April 21, 6:30 PM 14 The King of Kong Lights in the Dusk Lonesome Lincoln Ruchti Laitakaupungin valot Paul Fejos USA, 2007, 91 minutes, color Aki Kaurismaki USA, 1928, 70 minutes, black and white Ground zero for competitive retro gaming is Fairfield, Iowa, Finland, 2006, 77 minutes, color Boston’s famed Alloy Orchestra returns to the National where Transcendental Meditation devotee and self-appoint- Gallery to perform its original score for a new restoration of “Don’t get too ed “World’s Video Game Referee” runs an outfit the exquisite and rarely seen romantic silent Lonesome by happy,” a hostile col- called . Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, Galaga, Hungarian director Paul Fejos. Released in the late 1920s, league warns securi- Defender, Centipede, Q*bert: gamers who continue to when most theaters in America were adopting the new ty guard and world- hone their skills a quarter century after the introduction of sound tech- class nebbish these arcade games can either submit tapes of their high nology, Koiskinen. But, given scores or compete in person. Every bit as absorbing as it Lonesome that Lights in the sounds, The King of Kong is about the unorthodox show- had last- Dusk is another down between minute inspired exercise acknowledged additions of from the great Aki several Kaurismaki, there’s king Billy dialogue little chance that the Mitchell, a gamer sequences. hapless chump will fare any better than the protagonists of who describes Viewed as Drifting Clouds and The Man Without a Past, the first two films himself as “the silent film in the trilogy of work that culminates with this exquisitely all-around most pantomime, deadpan comic gem. Sure enough, Koiskinen’s too thick to seasoned person however, see that sausage vendor Aila carries a torch for him, prefer- in the hot sauce Lonesome is ring the company of femme fatale Mirja, who proves to be chicken wing one of the his undoing. Nominated for a Golden Palm at Cannes and industry,” and challenger , an aw-shucks family most beau- the European Film Award, Lights in the Dusk won four Jussi man who takes on the champ. “It’s not about Donkey Kong tiful and awards, which is Finland’s version of the Oscar®; beyond best anymore,” Wiebe says near the end of this complex, edge- sophisticated films of all time —just the footage on Coney film and direction, kudos for cinematography and production of-the-seat documentary thriller, and he’s right: The King of Island alone, when the two young lovers have lost one design acknowledge a visual palette inspired by Alfred Kong can perhaps best be described as Spellbound with a another, is on par with the greatest modernist Hitchcock and Edward Hopper.—Eddie Cockrell joystick.—Eddie Cockrell masterpieces.—Peggy Parsons, National Gallery of Art IN FINNISH AND RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Wednesday, April 25, 8:30 PM Sunday, April 22, 5:00 PM, National Gallery of Art, FREE Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 PM Thursday, April 26, 7:00 PM ✰ Live musical accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra Filmfest DC ★ 2007 The Magician Manda Bala My Mexican Shivah Alejandro Springall Hokkabaz Send a Bullet VIEWS from the Mexico, 2006, 98 minutes, color Ali Taner Baltaci, Cem Yilmaz Jason Kohn NEWS Turkey, 2006, 122 minutes, color USA, 2007, 85 minutes, color A widescreen culture clash comedy executive produced One of the most popular comedians and actors in Turkey— Brazil is known for its beautiful beaches, lush rain forests, and by John Sayles and Maggi he played Fikri in the FFDC hit Vizontele—Cem Yilmaz vibrant culture. However, in recent years, the country has Renzi, My Mexican Shivah is follows up his immensely popular sci-fi comedy writing- developed more of a reputation for corrupt politicians, kid- the newest film from direc- directorial debut G.O.R.A. with napping, and plastic surgery. Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) art- tor-producer Alejandro the ambitious and very funny fully connects these seemingly disparate elements and con- Springall, whose directorial road movie The Magician. Life ducts a dazzling yet harrowing examination of the tragic debut Santitos was a high- is a series of magic tricks for domino effect that has reshaped the face of the country and light of FFDC 2000. In the conjurer Iskender Tunaydin created an entire industry built on corruption. From its Jewish quarter of Mexico City, much-loved Moishe dies of a (Yilmaz), an inept and unlucky unlikely opening on a money-laundering frog farm, Manda heart attack during a Jewish theater group celebration. The magician whose only friend is Bala displays a strikingly distinctive tone. Featuring a stylish family and community immediately prepare for the week- his faithful childhood chum score and articulate interviews with kidnappers, kidnap vic- long wake, or shivah. The local funeral coordinator works to Maradona (Tuna Orhan). Forced to take Iskender’s nutty dad tims, and those whose lives are affected by kidnapping, the ensure all rules are followed, but must contend with Sait (popular singer Mazhar Alanson, channeling Alan Arkin in film seems more like a stylized fiction film than a political bemused help who insist on calling the proceedings a “chiva.” Little Miss Sunshine) along on a road trip to escape troubles documentary. Manda Bala reveals that corruption and kid- And let’s not get started on the emotional complexities and in Istanbul, their problems escalate when a botched disap- napping represent two sides of the same violent crime. territorial tensions that underscore Moishe’s family. Thankfully, pearing trick leaves them with an unexpected traveling com- —2007 Sundance Film Festival there’s a mariachi band that does a mean version of “Hava panion. Co-director Ali Taner Baltaci was post-production IN PORTUGUESE AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Nagila.” Springall’s message through all this is clear: Petty dif- supervisor on Vizontele. Straight from its North American Saturday, April 28, 9:15 PM ferences aside, Moishe’s family loves each other, loved Moishe premiere at the Boston Turkish Film Festival, The Magician is ★ himself, and will do whatever’s necessary to keep the rich a fast-paced populist rollercoaster of a comedy that promis- In Person: Producers Joey Frank and Jared Goldman traditions alive.—Eddie Cockrell es to be a hot ticket.—Eddie Cockrell IN SPANISH, YIDDISH, AND HEBREW WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN TURKISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 27, 6:30 PM Friday, April 27, 9:15 PM Saturday, April 28, 9:15 PM Saturday, April 28, 8:30 PM ★ In Person: Director Alejandro Springall ★ In Person: Directors Cem Yilmaz and Ali Taner Baltaci ✤ ❋ Presented in cooperation with the Washington Jewish Film Presented in cooperation with Silk Road Festival 15 Naming Number Two Never on The Old,Weird America Toa Fraser a Sunday Harry Smith’s Anthology of New Zealand, 2006, 93 minutes, color Morirse en Domingo American Folk Music As imperiously focused as its opinionated lead character, Daniel Gruener Rani Singh Naming Number Two is the confident, insightful directorial USA, 2007, 90 minutes, color and black and white debut of play- Mexico, 2006, 125 minutes, color wright Toa Fraser, A corrosive widescreen black The same year he died, legendary enthomusicologist Harry adapting his 2000 comedy about bureaucratic Smith received an Emmy for his conservation efforts, specifi- stage work about and moral decay in a - cally the landmark 1952 vinyl collection of American folk a strong-willed oughly corrupt modern music culled from the tens of thousands of 78s he’d collected Fijian matriarch Mexico, Never on a Sunday for years. “My dreams came true,” he said at that 1991 into a crisp, funny makes Weekend at Bernie’s broadcast. “I saw America changed through music.” Built film about the look like a routine vacation. around the 1999-2001 series of concerts organized by music magical complexity Director Daniel Gruener’s producer and “ringmaster” Hal Willner and the breathtakingly of family. One first feature since 1996’s All of broad roster of musicians assembled, The Old, Weird America night, Nana Maria Them Witches (Sobrenatural) argues forcefully against dying on is a history and celebra- (the great Ruby the Lord’s day: When poor Uncle Julio does just that, his tion of Smith’s singular Dee) orders her teenage nephew Carlos doesn’t stay for the cremation and contribution to music. long-suffering adult only discovers that sleazy mortician Joaquin switched the From David Johansen to grandson Erasmus (Rene Naufahu) to summon her grand- body when drug-addled pal Jorge recognizes the corpse on a David Thomas by way children to a feast at her house the very next day so that table in his anatomy class. Can Carlos find a proper resting of Nick Cave, Beth she can announce her successor. Dee’s fierce energy sets a place for his uncle without provoking the ire of his father? Orton, and Sonic Youth, high bar that is cleared by the capable and good-looking Making time for a romance of sorts between Carlos and the cavalcade of stars ensemble of local talent. And Fraser’s point, that family Joaquin’s daughter Ana, Never on a Sunday is by turns mor- interpreting the songs trumps all, is delivered with an energy both fresh and beguil- dant and moving, both a love letter and mash note to a sys- from what Johansen calls “the Rosetta stone of the folk ing. Under its original title, No. 2, Naming Number Two tem rotting from the top with the alarming speed of poor boom” include Beck, the ubiquitous Elvis Costello, Bob trumped a strong lineup to win the World Cinema Uncle Julio.—Eddie Cockrell Neuwirth, Steve Earle, and the McGarrigles.—Eddie Cockrell Competition audience award at Sundance 2006 as well as IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 21, 6:30 PM, The Greenberg Theatre the jury award from the Atlanta film festival.—Eddie Cockrell Saturday, April 21, 9:30 PM, The Greenberg Theatre ★ In Person: Director Rani Singh Sunday, April 22, 7:00 PM, The Greenberg Theatre Sunday, April 22, 7:30 PM ✰ Performance by the Hoover Uprights band following the Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 PM ★ In Person: Director Daniel Gruener screening Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Opera Jawa The Page Turner The Pervert’s Guide Garin Nugroho La tourneuse de pages to Cinema Indonesia/Austria, 2006, 119 minutes, color Denis Dercourt Sophie Bold and original, Opera Jawa is a feast for the eyes and ears. Capital Focus France, 2006, 85 minutes, color Award Fiennes The action is dressed with an astonishing array of props and French writer-director Denis Dercourt is a professional viola U.K./Austria/The installations to create a visually ravishing and narratively hyp- player and music teacher whose half-dozen feature films, Netherlands, 2006, notic epic as seductive as it including The Freelancers and My Children Are Different, have 150 minutes, color and is unique. Former Ramayana black and white examined the lives of musicians with both humor and dancers Siti (Artika Sari drama. His newest film, The Page Turner, takes a more sinister A virtuoso mar- Devi) and Setio (Miroto) approach to the milieu. The only child of butchers, young riage of image and now run a struggling earth- piano prodigy Melanie Prouvost is doing fine in an audition thought, The enware business in a small until one of the judges, Ariane Fouchecourt, turns away to Pervert’s Guide to Indonesian village. When her sign an autograph. Although poised, Melanie is devastated Cinema is a propul- husband is called away, Siti and gives up her studies. Years later, Melanie interns for high- sive, stream of con- becomes the object of powered attorney Jean sciousness sprint desire of rich town bully Fouchecourt—whose through the movie projector mind of Slovenian philosopher Ludiro (Eko Supriyanto). As wife is none other than psychoanalyst Slavoj Zizek, who uses clean film sequences did the couple’s characters her old judge. Melanie from some 43 mostly high-profile films to illustrate his ideas in the ritualized dance, Siti patiently ingratiates her- on sexuality, subjectivity and that old stand-by, fantasy versus and Setio find their fates self with the family, but reality. It’s an exhilarating twist on the idea of a clip show, sealed. Opera Jawa was orig- nothing good can come pulled off with wit and assurance by director Sophie Fiennes, inally commissioned as part of this. And nothing sister of Ralph and Joseph, who explains the title as “some- of the New Crowned Hope does. A precise intellec- thing of a McGuffin, just a way to get you into this network.” festival in Austria, which celebrates the 250th anniversary of tual thriller laced with And what a network it is: thanks to spot-on sets constructed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth and pays tribute to the sprightly classical music, The Page Turner finds Dercourt at in Holland, Zizek seems to slump in Neo’s leather chair, composer’s tradition of blending progressive social ideas the top of his game.—Eddie Cockrell cower in the Bates basement, and observe the harrowing with distinctive artistic vision (Daratt, also found in this cata- showdown between Dorothy and Frank Booth. If you know IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES log, was also commissioned for the festival).—Eddie Cockrell who those characters are, you’re ready for this whirlwind IN JAVANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 23, 6:30 PM ride.—Eddie Cockrell Wednesday, April 25, 9:00 PM Sunday, April 22, 4:00 PM Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Sunday, April 22, 2:00 PM Monday, April 23, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 28, 1:00 PM 16 The PostModern Life Prague The President Capital Focus Award of My Aunt Ole Christian Madsen Lionel Delplanque Yi ma de hou xian dai sheng huo Denmark, 2006, 95 minutes, color France, 2006, 97 minutes, color Ann Hui The story of a Copenhagen marriage that slowly crumbles “I’ve met someone,” during a darkly quirky trip to the Czech Republic, Prague is a pretty Nahama tells her China, 2006, 113 minutes, color widescreen wedge of underplayed Danish discord. Arriving at father—who just hap- Ann Hui’s new film charts the the Socialist-era Hotel Praha in the midst of slow burning pens to be leader of the tragi-comic downfall of Mrs. marital conflict French republic. That Ye (Mongolian star Siqin are the Hojholts, someone is young Gaowa), who leads a frugal impassive Mathieu, and when the and “proper” life in a shabby Cristoffer, who compassionate yet trou- old apartment in Shanghai refuses to bled president hires him and still clings to the ideals of acknowledge his to advise on the econo- honesty, decency, selflessness, own failings, and my and then consult on speeches, Mathieu is thrust directly and social responsibility that nervous Maja. into the corridors of power. Along the way, important inter- the Communist Party incul- The mood isn’t ests are disturbed, allegiances that began 25 years earlier, cated back in the 1950s. lightened by the when the president was still a young attaché in 1979 West Despite these traits, Mrs. Ye clashes with her nephew when purpose of their Africa. All cool surfaces and hushed interiors, The President he stays with her to convalesce from a broken leg, her “airs trip: Cristoffer’s been summoned by an eccentric lawyer to thrums with the gamesmanship of politics, from the retired and graces” neighbor, and the neighbor’s odious cat. Mrs. Ye’s claim the body of his estranged father, which he’s determined veteran Saint-Guillaume to the jumpy press secretary Nicolas. occasional other-worldliness leaves her vulnerable to con to inter in the family plot back home. With the announce- The added level of familial pressures propels the film into the artists such as Pan Zhichang (Chow Yun-Fat), a charming ment that Maja’s in love with someone else, Cristoffer begins realm of “The West Wing.” “No one wants secrets casting fraud who seduces her with poetry, romances her, and leads an odd relationship with Dad’s housekeeper who tells him shadows over politics,” someone cautions early in the game, her into a graveyard-plot scam. When Mrs. Ye’s blowsy and the facts of his father’s life. Prague represents a huge leap for- but when it comes to movies such as The President, that’s resentful daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) shows up in an emer- ward for director Ole Christian Madsen from his Dogme precisely what audiences—particularly those in Washington, gency, she reveals some truths that lend a very different debut, Kira’s Reason: A Love Story. This balance of chamber DC, crave.—Eddie Cockrell perspective to the matriarch’s life and attitudes. drama and sly dark humor is strongly reminiscent of vintage IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES —Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 European art-house fare.—Eddie Cockrell Friday, April 27, 7:00 PM IN MANDARIN AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN DANISH, ENGLISH, AND CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 28, 6:45 PM Friday, April 20, 8:30 PM Friday, April 20, 7:00 PM ★ In Person: Director Lionel Delplanque Saturday, April 21, 6:30 PM Sunday, April 22, 8:00 PM Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Filmfest DC ★ 2007

Cinema Private Fears Private Property Ray for Seniors in Public Places Nue propriete Taylor Hackford Coeurs Joachim Lafosse USA, 2004, 152 minutes, color Belgium/France/Luxembourg, 2006, 92 minutes, color Charismatic musician Ray Charles began life in a hardscrab- Alain Resnais ble, small town in Georgia. He lost his eyesight at the age of Following an acrimonious divorce, Pascale () France/Italy, 2006, 123 7, but, inspired by his fiercely independent single mother, he lives with twin sons Francois and Thierry (Yannick and minutes, color found his talent at a piano keyboard. Charles became a sen- Jeremie Renier) in a large house bought by ex Luc (Patrick In Private Fears in sation by incor- Descamps). Thierry and Pascale, who’s on the edge of a Public Places, space is porating gospel, nervous breakdown, have a turbulent relationship, and this as much of a character country, and jazz friction leads to an inevitable blow-up. Belgian filmmaker as the well-dressed, into his style all Joachim Lafosse brilliantly employs a stationary camera to up well-groomed rats the while fighting the tension. Although Private Property is billed as an actors’ trapped in their lavishly-appointed mazes. Working once racism in the showcase, the strongest presence in the film actually belongs again from a play by British author Alan Ayckbourn following very clubs that to the director. While his static set-ups and long-take style the epic Smoking/No Smoking in 1993, Resnais has set the launched his would seem to connote self-effacement, Lafosse asserts him- action in a contemporary Paris beset by a non-stop snow- career. Featuring self towards the end with a few quietly bravura compositions storm. Real estate agent Thierry (a delightful Andre a tour-de-force and an unexpected and effective moment of camera move- Dussollier) shows flats to Nicole (Laura Morante), who’s performance by ment.—Eye Weekly (Toronto) arguing with her boyfriend Dan (Lambert Wilson), who Jamie Foxx in dates Thierry’s sister Gaelle (Isabelle Carre) and drinks at the IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the title role, this bar presided over by Lionel (Pierre Arditi), who hires Friday, April 27, 9:30 PM unflinching yet Thierry’s co-worker Charlotte (Sabine Azema, Mrs. Resnais) Saturday, April 28, 8:45 PM sensitive portrait to look after his invalid father Arthur (an unseen Claude Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France spotlights both Rich). And so on, in a sparkling whirl of love and yearning. Charles’ musical Winner of the Venice festival award for best director, Private genius as well as Fears in Public Places continues Resnais’ reign as a master his crippling filmmaker.—Eddie Cockrell addiction to IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES drugs. —Courtesy of Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. Thursday, April 26, 8:30 PM Friday, April 27, 8:45 PM Tuesday, April 24, 10:00 AM Avalon Theatre, FREE Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France 17 Red Road Rocket Science Capital Focus Andrea Arnold Award Jeffrey Blitz United Kingdom/Denmark, 2006, USA, 2007, 101 minutes, color 113 minutes, color Jeffrey Blitz’s ingenious story of adolescent love and finding Winner of the jury prize at the one’s voice seems to constantly reinvent itself. Hal Hefner 2006 , the (Reece Daniel Thompson) is a young man of few words. A voyeuristic Red Road is a muted, high school student in Plainsboro, New Jersey, he has a per- absorbing feminist thriller in which sistent stutter for which he endures countless indignities at closed-circuit surveillance camera the hands of his classmates. His older brother, Earl, a direc- operator Jackie Morrison stumbles tionless kleptomaniac, tells him he needs an agenda, but with across the familiar face of Clyde none apparent, Hal takes to hiding in the school’s custodial Henderson by accident. She begins closet. Enter Virginia Reyerson, star of the debate team. stalking the ex-con, but to what pur- Dismissing the pose? Jackie begins a meticulous obvious issue of documentation of Henderson’s Hal’s public every move, from his locksmith busi- speaking as ness to his regular pub crawls. Taking something pent- its title from a gargantuan public up anger will housing cluster in a bleak section of resolve, she Glasgow, Scotland, Red Road is the recruits him for directorial début of Andrea Arnold, the team. who announces herself as a distinc- Strewn with tive filmmaker with strong, contro- sardonic images, versial ideas. The film is the first in a hilarious dia- series of Scottish films by different logue, wonder- directors under the umbrella title fully idiosyncratic expressions of character, and a narrator at Advance Party; all the films will pains to convey the mysterious connections of life, Rocket feature the same core group of Science evokes teenage confusion with humor and honesty. characters.—Eddie Cockrell —2007 Sundance Film Festival

Friday, April 20, 6:30 PM Friday, April 27, 6:45 PM, The Greenberg Theatre Saturday, April 21, 9:00 PM Saturday, April 28, 9:00 PM, The Greenberg Theatre Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Samoan Wedding Sierra Leone’s Refugee Sione’s Wedding All Stars VIEWS Chris Graham from the Zach Niles, Banker White NEWS New Zealand, 2006, 97 minutes, color USA, 2006, 78 minutes, color The big, burly Samoan Wedding is a shrewdly written, impeccably timed, and audaciously played widescreen romantic comedy Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars showcases a hardy group of about four thirtysomething slacker buddies in New Zealand forced to clean up their acts and find respectable dates in order to positive souls making a joyful noise in the face of adversity. attend their best mate’s nuptials. In an Auckland suburb, Albert (co-writer and co-producer ) is a good-natured The tiny West African nation of Sierra Leone was convulsed office drone who lives with his mom; Michael (Robbie Magasiva) is a hunky Lothario with a weakness for Caucasian women; by civil war from 1991 to 2002. During those years, thou- Sefa (Shimpal Lelisi) actually has a girlfriend, Leilani (Teuila Blakely), but keeps forgetting this fact in his quest for the next party; sands of Sierra Leoneans fled to neighboring Guinea, where and Stanley (Iaheto Ah Hi) is so busy trying to find the perfect woman through dating services that the world is passing him by. six of them banded together to perform original, reggae-fla- The film’s stopwatch-tight comedic timing was developed by Kightley and a chunk of the cast in the long-running Naked vored tunes documenting their struggle and create musical Samoans touring theater troupe.—Eddie Cockrell testaments such as “Living Like a Refugee” and “Weapon Friday, April 20, 9:15 PM Conflict.” Thus were Saturday, April 21, 9:15 PM the Refugee All Stars born. Although the groups’ members are from different walks of life and struggle with the loss of family and friends, the music transforms them, and a U.N.-sponsored tour of other refugee camps leads to a return home and a recording date. From 2002 to 2005, American filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White followed the band and their individual members on their grueling, ultimately successful journey.—Eddie Cockrell IN ENGLISH AND KRIO WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 23, 6:45 PM Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 PM ★ In Person: Director Zach Niles 18 Short Cuts Deface Ten to Two John Arlotto Tien voor Twie USA, 19 min., color Mathijs Geijkses After losing his family to starvation, a North Korean man Netherlands, 6 mins., color rebels against the government through vandalizing propagan- Ab, a strict driving instructor, is through with another routine da billboards. day until disaster strikes.

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Security Before Dawn Lars Henning Balint Kenyeres Germany, 13 min., color Hungary, 13 min., color No-nonsense security guard takes an interest in a young female shoplifter. Winner of the 2006 European Film Award for Best Short Film, all in one shot. Tube With a Hat Les Volets Lampa Cu Caciula The Shutters Radu Jude Lyèce Boukhitine Romania, 23min., color France, 12 min., color Father and son go on what appears to be a routine journey. Movie set runner is sent on an uncomfortable mission. Filmfest DC ★ 2007 The Silly Age Sounds of Sand VIEWS from the La edad de la peseta Si le vent souleve les sables NEWS Pavel Giroud Marion Hänsel Cuba, 2006, 90 minutes, color Belgium/France, 2006, 96 minutes, color Wistful and nostalgic, The Superbly acted and magnificently photographed, Sounds of Sand is an adap- Silly Age signals the emer- tation of Marc Durin-Valois’ prize-winning French-language novel gence of a new, creative “Chamelle,” in which a family from a tiny sub-Saharan village faces the twin talent capable of meshing cruelties of nature and mankind in their trek across the desert to find many contrasting themes. water. In the end, it is young daughter Shasha (Asma Nouman Aden) who It’s 1958 and 10-year-old proves the toughest as well as the most compassionate of survivors, taking Samuel (Iván Carreira) has strength from the family camel she’s named Chamelle. Coincidentally, Issaka just arrived in Havana with Sawadogo, memorable as his recently divorced the courageous family patri- mother, Alicia (Susana arch, shared the best actor Tejera). They take up resi- prize at last year’s third dence in the house of annual film festival in Cape Samuel’s eccentric grand- Town, South Africa, splitting mother Violeta (Mercedes the prize with the lead actor Sampietro), and Samuel is introduced to a new, mysterious of South African production world: Violeta’s house has rooms where entry is prohibited Bunny Chow, also found in and cupboards filled with images of saints. The relationship this catalog. Veteran Belgian between Samuel and his grandmother is strained at first, but writer-director Marion Violetta soon discovers a kindred spirit in her grandson Hänsel may never be a when he begins to help her in her craft as a portrait household name stateside, photographer. Samuel eventually becomes an accomplished but once seen, her films are photographer as well, an avocation that leads to his first rarely forgotten. experiences with love and with death. —Eddie Cockrell —Toronto International Film Festival 2006 IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SUBTITLES Monday, April 23, 6:45 PM Friday, April 20, 6:30 PM Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 PM Sunday, April 22, 5:30 PM 19 Ten Canoes These Girls , Peter Djigirr El-banate dol VIEWS Australia, 2006, 91 minutes, color and black and white from the Tahani Rached NEWS Ten Canoes is not only a spectacular evocation of Aboriginal Egypt, 2006, 66 minutes, color oral storytelling traditions, but a guaranteed contemporary If the success of a documentary film hinges on access to its crowd-pleaser. A thousand years ago in northern Australia’s subject, then These Girls, which follows the lives of young run- spectacularly rugged Arnhelm Land, a young Ylongu aways on the trash-strewn streets of Cairo, is an unqualified tribesman covets his older brother’s youngest wife but is triumph. “To live on the streets,” Sound of the Soul warned off by an elder who tells a similar story from even says one, “a girl must defend her- The Fez Festival of World Sacred Music further back in their history. From Filmfest DC favorite Rolf self.” And they do, living in aban- de Heer, director of , , doned cars and buses and Stephen Ollson and Alexandra’s Project, comes another voyage into challeng- remaining constantly wary of the USA, 2005, 78 minutes, color ing physical and emotional environments. The first feature cruel cops, predatory boys, and shot primarily in an Australian Aboriginal language, Ten Sound of the Soul is a stirring work of musical faith. Each angry fathers that come with the Canoes laces an anthropological adventure with the rather spring, thousands of musicians and music fans descend on territory. They tell harrowing sto- scatological humor de Heer discovered among a people the North African city of Fez, Morocco to express their joy ries of confrontation and survival, whose true nature is rarely revealed to the outside world. of worship through music. Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, but what’s most striking about —Eddie Cockrell Sufi: all are welcome in the ancient, walled town of Fez. this ever-shifting sorority is their Filmmaker Stephen Olsson (Last Images of War) brought his IN ENGLISH, GANALBINGU, DJINUNG, AND OTHER AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL fierce loyalty to one another. This widescreen digital cameras to the 10th anniversary of the LANGUAGES WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES spirit is embodied by Tata, the festival, and the results are galvanizing. From the delicate Irish Wednesday, April 25, 7:00 PM spunkiest and most outspoken of vocal group Anuna to the big sound of ’s Sons Thursday, April 26, 6:30 PM the bunch. Occasionally, a woman named Hind comes to help of Thunder, the music on display from numerous acts Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Australia and them: “I had my reasons, personal reasons,” she says simply. encompasses reflective spirituality, unbridled celebration, and Australia's Outback Northern Territory, Tourism NT “It’s a feeling, not a science.” Credit filmmaker Tahani Rached the positive spirit of devotional expression. “It is true that the for throwing a spotlight on these heartbreakingly vulnerable mystics of the world, whatever their religion, most often get lives.—Eddie Cockrell along just fine,” Olsson told an interviewer at the Vancouver IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Film Festival. “They also have the most fun.”—Eddie Cockrell Wednesday, April 25, 7:00 PM Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 PM Thursday, April 26, 6:45 PM Thursday, April 26, 8:45 PM Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, American ★ In Person: Director Stephen Olsson University Filmfest DC ★ 2007 The Tiger and the Snow Time La tigre e la neve Shigan Kim Ki-duk Italy, 2005, 114 minutes, color South Korea/Japan, 2006, 97 minutes, color How does one follow up an unabashedly sentimental, Oscar®- Recent statistics suggest per- winning dramatic comedy set haps half of Korean women during the Holocaust? If you’re in their 20s, as well as a Roberto Benigni, why not make a growing number of men, film of much the same emotional have undergone elective temperature as , plastic surgery in search of only set in the middle of the Iraq the perfect face—“ul-jjang.” war? Rome-based poet Attilio With this as the point of (Benigni) has variations of the departure, Kim Ki-duk same bizarre dream in which he’s (Spring, Summer, Fall, marrying love of his life writer Winter…and Spring, 3-Iron) Vittoria (Nicola Braschi) as Tom has made the elegantly Waits croons nearby. When she’s unsettling Time, in which tensions over a 2-year relationship gravely wounded in Baghdad lead to the ultimate re-imagining. “I’m sorry for always having while interviewing Attilio’s friend, the same boring face,” jealous girlfriend Se-heui (Park Ji-yeon) Iraqi poet Fuad (Jean Reno), the tells sincere lover Ji-woo (Ha Jeong-woo) after a tiff in a cof- poet rushes to her side and nur- fee shop. “You know, you’re getting weirder,” he observes, and tures her back to health—even he’s more right than he knows. Shortly thereafter Se-heui as the American invasion rages disappears, and, unbeknownst to Ji-woo, goes under the knife. around them. Less interested in a Lonely and confused, the lovelorn Ji-woo has a series of puz- political statement than in drama- zlingly inconclusive romantic misadventures before meeting tizing the enduring power of love, Benigni echoes Chaplin, , and Robin Williams in his manic, sentimental perform- waitress Sae-heui (Seong Hyeon-ah)—and the similar name ance. To call The Tiger and the Snow a bold move would be an understatement.—Eddie Cockrell is no coincidence.—Eddie Cockrell IN ITALIAN, ENGLISH, AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 20, 6:45 PM Wednesday, April 25, 8:45 PM Saturday, April 21, 9:00 PM Thursday, April 26, 8:45 PM 20 Twice Upon a Time Vanaja Desaccord parfait Rajnesh Domalpalli Antoine de Caunes India, 2006, 111 minutes, color France/United Kingdom/Romania, 2006, 92 minutes, color The caste system, apparently still with us, is truly serious busi- ness. Throw in a storyline vaguely harkening back to Romeo Starring the ageless and French cinema and Juliet and you’ve really got trouble. Vanaja (Mamatha icon Jean Rochefort, Bhukya) is 15, gorgeous, and more than a little bit mischie- this engaging vous. She wheedles her way into the home of Mrs. Rama romantic comedy Devi (Urmila Dammannagari), the grand dame of the entire follows two celebri- town. To boot, Rama Devi is a past master of Kuchipudi, a ties who might The Ugly Duckling South Indian narrative dance rekindle a relation- for high-caste Brahmins. ship that inexplicably and Me Despite her lowly social ended 30 years ear- Michael Hegner, Karsten Kiilerich position, Vanaja is desperate lier. Film director Ireland/Denmark/France/Germany, 2006, 90 minutes, color, animation to learn how to dance and Louis Ruinard (Rochefort) and his favorite actress Alice becomes Rama Devi’s pro- d’Abanville (Rampling) were one of the most flamboyant Ages 6 and up tégé. When Rama Devi’s star couples of the 1970s, and the films they made together Hans Christian Andersen’s renowned fairytale about an ugly son returns home, things get enjoyed huge success at the time. But the love affair came to duckling that turns into a beautiful swan inspires this complicated. In his portrait an abrupt end when Alice disappeared from Louis’ life one enriched, humorous plot with many new characters. Ratso is of a complex young girl day without explanation. She returned to her native England, an unlucky, dishonest impresario rat desperately seeking fame coming into her own, writer- married a young lord with whom she had a son, and put an and fortune. He winds up on a duck farm where he director Rajnesh Domalpalli end to her film career. Thirty years later, when Louis arrives becomes surrogate father to a large egg that turns into an bucks the boundaries of in London to make his thirty-fourth film, the organizers of exceptionally hideous duckling, Ugly. Ratso is not a loving caste, gender, and sexuality. the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards father until he discovers that his son has an uncommon tal- In a truly breakout role, decide to honor him with a lifetime achievement award. ent, and his plans change. The Ugly Duckling and Me is a cap- Bhukya was an eighth grader Naturally, they invite Alice to present it to him. tivating story of how hard it is to be cast out of society, that in a government school when she was cast as Vanaja. —Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2007 being ugly doesn’t mean being bad and that relationships are —Starz Denver Film Festival, 2006 IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES more important than wealth or celebrity. This is a delightful film sure to entertain the whole family. – Dubai International IN TELAGU AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 20, 9:00 PM Saturday, April 21, 9:00 PM Film Festival 2007 Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 PM Wednesday, April 25, 8:15 PM Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of France Saturday, April 28, 1:00 PM, $4.00 Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Vinicius American Premiere What a Wonderful World Miguel Faria, Jr. Capital Focus Brazil, 2005, 120 minutes, color Faouzi Bensaidi Award Quick, who wrote the play on which ’ film France/Morocco/Germany, 2006, 98 minutes, color Black is based? Who’s the credited co-writer of the From the eye-catching Saul Bass-style opening credits to the Bonnie and Clyde ending, What a Wonderful World is a visually immortal tune “Girl from Ipanema”? The answer inventive tour-de-force for writer-director-actor Faouzi Bensaidi. Kind of a cross between and , to both is Bensaidi has set an episodic story of four Casablanca denizens at the intersection of Playtime’s architectural mischievousness and (1913-1980), the Rio de ’s inventive genre-mashing. Kamel (Bensaidi) is a stone-faced hitman who takes his assignments from hieroglyphics Janeiro-based legend who was scattered around town. Kenza (Nezha Rahil, from the director’s previous film A Thousand Months) is a traffic cop so morose she also a poet, playwright, and has a private thunderstorm hovering around her. Her pal Souad (Fatima diplomat (his bridging of the Attif) is a hooker who runs her business via Kenza’s mobile phone. Finally, racial gap through music is key). there’s 20-year-old Hicham (El Mehdi Elaaroubi), who runs elaborate emi- This affectionate documentary, gration ruses. Their paths eventually cross in inventive ways, and Bensaidi’s directed by his ex-son-in-law Casablanca is a widescreen wonderland of droll coincidence.—Eddie and produced by his daughter, Cockrell marshals a literal Who’s Who of IN FRENCH AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Brazilian arts and letters to Thursday, April 26, 9:00 PM reminisce about the man, read Friday, April 27, 9:15 PM his poetry, and sing his songs. There is, of course, archival footage of de Moraes himself, and the closing credits unfold to his own rendition of “ de Bencao.” Reportedly the second most popular Brazilian doc- umentary of all time—trailing only a movie about Brazil’s 1994 World Cup soccer championship—Vinicius is an ingen- ious, resonant tribute.—Eddie Cockrell IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 27, 9:30 PM, The Greenberg Theatre Saturday, April 28, 6:00 PM, The Greenberg Theatre x Presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Brazil 21 The Yacoubian Building Yatra Omaret Yacoubian The Journey Marwan Hamed Goutam Ghose Egypt, 2006, 172 minutes, color India, 2006, 129 minutes, color Adapted from a controversial best-seller by Alaa Al-Aswany, As dense and rich as a good book, Yatra is the new film from writer-director-cinematographer-editor-musician Goutam Ghose. this engrossing film retains the book’s strong critique of Beloved family man and successful novelist Dasrath is shaping a new tome, tentatively titled “The Bazaar.” While traveling to Egyptian society and frank treatment of normally taboo sub- receive a prestigious award, he jects such as homosexuality, fundamentalism, corruption, strikes up a conversation with curi- prostitution, and terrorism. The risqué subject matter, high- ous filmmaker Mohan about cine- quality production, and all-star cast have helped make The ma’s debt to literature and the inspi- Yacoubian Building a ration behind Dasrath’s most runaway hit on its renowned book, the autobiographi- home turf. The plot cally flavored dance novel “Janaza.” develops through Yatra then visualizes that book. Back the prism of a in the real world, Dasrath collects downtown Cairo his award and uses the opportunity high-rise built in to comment on cultural erosion. 1934 by a scion of Both modern and traditional, rever- the Armenian com- ential of Bollywood tropes and criti- munity. Once the standard for comfort and elegance, the cal of the corporatization of the arts Yacoubian building, like the nation, now seems to be in a in India, Yatra is a personal odyssey state of genteel decay. Its upper-crust tenants are slightly of questioning and contemplation shabby and huge families of low-income workers crowd into from one of India’s most original and makeshift shacks on the roof. But every resident, whether imaginative filmmakers. rich or poor, harbors secret needs for money, security, love, —Eddie Cockrell sex, power, or revenge. Their paths cross in unexpected ways IN HINDI AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH as they variously pursue their desires. SUBTITLES —Vancouver International Film Festival 2006 Sunday, April 22, 2:00 PM IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 23, 8:30 PM Saturday, April 21, 2:30 PM ★ In Person: Director Sunday, April 22, 4:00 PM Goutam Ghose Filmfest DC ★ 2007 Thanks

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