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New Morning Cafe th annual “Understanding the World Through Film”® 6Tiburon International Film Festival March 22-30, 2007 • Tiburon Playhouse Theater Welcome to the 6th Annual Tiburon International Film Festival. This year TIFF INSIDE Program Overview...... 3 With so many cultures and traditions on this planet, the powerful and artistic medium A quick look at some of the highlights of the 2007 TIFF.

projecting moving images; it’s a window to other cultures and environments. It’s an invitation to see our international neighbors in their own backyards. Events...... 4 Please join us in our celebration, and enjoy the festival! Check out these exciting events taking place – Saeed Shafa, Founder & Executive Director during the 2007 TIFF.

Special Programs...... 6 TIFF STAFF Take a peek at these specially selected groups of films being featured at the 2007 TIFF. Saeed Shafa Founder & Executive Director Siamak Shafa Tributes...... 15 Associate Director TIFF is proud to honor the lives and works of David Desimini Mark Rydell, John Ford, Marcello Mastroianni, as Program Designer well as a tribute to French Film Pioneers. Duane Menting Legal Advisor Feature Films...... 16 Marcus McWaters Synopses and details for the 2007 feature films. Technical Director Sara Hadipour Hospitality Director Short Films...... 34 Synopses and details for the 2007 short films. Kim Robinson Publicity & Marketing Mark Lomas TICKETSShorts Program Schedule...... 47 Master of Ceremonies ON SALE NOW! Short Program lists, times, and locations. Patrick McDonnell You can conveniently purchase your tickets at the festival website: Transportation Barbara Gach www.TiburonFilmFestival.com Around the World...... 48 Office Manager A listing of films by country of origin. Marisa Ball Administration Tiburon Film Society Ticket Information...... 49 Siavash Fani In our continuing efforts to bring the world to our community through Poster Artist film, the TIFF has formed the Tiburon Film Society to bring you films from each of our festivals and more. Brad Fox Schedule...... 50 Official Photographer We present different films each month at Bay Club Marin, located in A complete listing of the feature films by time and Patrick Hull the Town Center in Corte Madera, and at the Bay Model in location using a grid format to help you plan your Festival Trailer Sausalito. Please check our website for the latest week at the 2007 TIFF. locations, showtimes and films. Trent Anderson For more information please contact us by e-mail or phone at: Index...... 52 Public Service Announcement [email protected] • 415.381.4123

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“Understanding the World through Film”® It’s a motto that guides the TIFF. It’s simple, but encapsulates that which we hope to accomplish each year in bringing the best of independent film from around the world to the greater Bay Area community. Film as a medium never tires, as there are always new filmmakers with fresh ideas to push the art form forward. TIFF continuously strives to mine for these new talents and bring them to the fore by way of our festival. To that end, TIFF is committed to its mission as a true independent film festival, focused on enriching the community with the works of amazing filmmakers from the world over.

TRIBUTES PIXAR FILMS children, teens, and those at the other end of the The Sixth Annual TIFF will present four tributes to: TIFF is proud to age spectrum. Check page 8 for full details. Mark Rydell (Even Money), John Ford (Directed present a series By John Ford), Marcello Mastroianni (Marcello, A of short films from MUSIC & DANCE Sweet Life), and the French Pixar Animation TIFF has this year collected a significant number film pioneers, the Lumiere Studios. In of films covering many genres of both music and Brothers. Mark Rydell will join attendance will be dance. Some are music videos, while others are a us in person for a question Andrew Jimenez, One Man Band demonstration of a style of dance, but they all will and answer session. Special director of One Man Band for a question and answer thoroughly entertain. guest, Joseph McBride, a session. cinema historian and authority WAR FILMS TIFF once again has put together a collection of on film and filmmaking, ANIMATED WORLD films dealing with the continuing fighting in the will introduce and lead a Along with the Pixar animated films, TIFF continues Middle East. These films aim to present a view discussion during the tribute its traditon of presenting wonderful animation by into the lives of soldiers and civilians that find to John Ford. Mark Rydell independent filmmakers with a collection of some of the finest and most innovative animation work in themselves in the middle of the strife. MARIN FILMMAKERS the industry today. The films include First Flight from Back again is TIFF’s original and exclusive Marin DreamWorks. A SALUTE TO NATIVE AMERICANS With a burgeoning filmmaking culture taking root in Filmmakers program, featuring fine films from the Native American community, TIFF has brought some of the best independent filmmakers our own SPOTLIGHT ON TUNISIAN CINEMA some of the best and brightest to the fore for the backyard has to offer. Tickets for this show go fast, TIFF’s annual spotlight on one region’s cinema this 2007 Festival. so be sure to get year takes us to Tunisia. With three feature films yours early as we (Checkmate Mr. President, The Prince, The TV’s Coming) and two short films (Pictures, They), the ALL ABOUT SPORTS enjoy films from TIFF continues its tradition of gathering intriguing up and coming Tunisian film scene is on full display. local residents Irving and beautifully shot films dealing with sports. The quality and diverse nature of these films is sure Saraf, Allie Light, Skateboarding and surfing take center stage to delight. The films do a wonderful job of capturing and Carol Monpere along with a a slice of Tunisian life and culture, and certainly take The Sermons of Sister Jane (The Sermons of documentary you miles from Hollywood. Sister Jane), Lionel about a Coleman (False Promise), Steve Gatlin (Down the CINEMA FOR THE AGES grueling car Line), Benjamin Lopata (Time Well Spent), Holiday race through Johnson (Sharks: Stewards of the Reef), and Adding to our tradition of presenting film programs for the young, or young at heart, TIFF this year the desert Hugues Wisniewski (Headshot). This program is that tests always a great time and is quickly becoming a well introduces a set of film programs aimed at those Rising Son: The Legend of Skate- of all ages. Cinema for the ages includes films for the will of its boarder Christian Hosoi known Marin tradition. participants.

TIFF presents a special seminar SCRIPTWRITING AND INDEPENDENT FILMMAKERS Sunday • March 25 • 1 pm • Waters Edge Hotel • Free Admission TIFF is delighted to present a panel discussion on “Scriptwriting and Independent Filmmakers” with three top independent filmmakers: Irving Saraf, Allie Light, and Matt Hader.

Light and Saraf are the winners of the 1991 Academy Award® for Best Documentary Feature (In The Shadow Of The Stars). Their latest film, The Sermons of Sister Jane, is featured in the 2007 TIFF as part of the Marin Filmmakers program.

Hader is on the American Screenwriters Association Board of Directors, and is an accomplished screen- Irving Saraf Allie Light Matt Hader writer and producer, having produced the feature film April’s Fool, and written or co-written others.

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Down the Line False Promise Headshot director Steve Gatlin director Lionel Coleman 4 min • US • 2007 • pg 36 10 min • US • 2005 • pg 36 director Hugues Wisniewski 6 min • US • 2006 • pg 38 A video blending footage from a In every city, on any given block, feature film about a single picture there’s a doorway good people taken from a roll of film on each of 24 A wannabe actor, in search of walk by daily. Good people days, and the lead singer of “Arsen” Hollywood stardom and in desperate instinctively know not to enter whose song “Down the Line” is used. need of a talent agent to represent despite it’s legitimate place in him, finds a desperate agent in search society. of the right talent to win him fame and fortune.

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The Sermons of Sister Jane Time Well Spent directors Irving Saraf, Allie Light, Carol Monpere Sharks: 53 min • US • 2006 • pg 28 director Benjamin Lopata Stewards of the Reef 5 min • US • 2006 • pg 45 Sister Jane created a scandal when she was ignored when trying to blow the whistle on a priest she discovered molesting young men. director Holiday Johnson The music video for the song 30 min • US/French Polynesia • 2006 • pg 43 “Time Well Spent” by the Matt Vrba Band, which tells the tale of a woman struggling with a An examination of the escalating and decision about love. brutal threats causing the world shark populations to plummet.

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SALUTE TO NATIVE AMERICANS Filmmaking in the Native American community is a burgeoning tradition. TIFF has selected a number of ﬁ lms from and about Native American culture and the people that carry on its customs.

The Tillamook Treasures Johnny Tootall Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart 2006 • 65 min • US • page 31 2006 • 93 min • US • page 22 2006 • 83 min • US • page 29 directed by Jane Beaumont Hall directed by Shirley Cheechoo directed by John Ferry Julie, a lonely 14-year old, moves with her A Bosnian War veteran carrying the weight of a A biography of the great Lakota Chief, Sitting estranged family to an Oregon coast town where war’s tragedies must return home and face past Bull, told in part through his own words, and she discovers a local treasure legend. demons, as the Wolf Spirit has called him. dealing with the injustices of the 19th Century.

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Disappearances The Tillamook Treasure Offside 2005 • US • 15 min 2006 • 103 min • US • page 19 2006 • 65 min • US • page 31 Page 41 directed by Jay Craven • starring Kris Kristofferson directed by Jane Beaumont Hall A Prohibition-era whiskey-running adventure, comedy, Julie, a lonely 14-year old, moves with her estranged and drama, based on the award-winning novel by family to an Oregon coast town where she discovers a Howard Frank Mosher. local treasure legend. One Rat Short 2006 • US • 10 min Page 42

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To Play and To Fight The Eye of the Dolphin Dear Lemon Lima 2006 • 70 min • Venezuela • page 31 2006 • 96 min • US • page 20 2006 • US • 12 min directed by Alberto Avelo directed by Michael D. Sellers Page 36 The captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth Orchestra Alyssa must adjust to island life and living with the father System, a network of hundreds of local orchestras in she never knew, while also discovering her gift for Venezuelan towns and villages. communicating with dolphins.

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©2007 Tiburon International Film Festival 11 SPECIAL PROGRAMS www.TiburonFilmFestival.com War Rages On SPOTLIGHT ON As fighting continues in the Middle East, TIFF has again selected a group of films to present the effect on the lives of soldiers and civilians in the region TUNISIAN CINEMA WHITE Platoon The Tunisian ﬁ lm industry is on full display in all of its glory France • 85 min with this selection of ﬁ lms at the 2007 TIFF page 33

365 BOOTSItaly/Holland ON GROUND • 78 min page 31 1995 • 107 min • page 18 ( directed by Rachid Ferchiou ) President GITMO:

Sweden/DenmarkTHE NEW RULES • 80 min OF WAR page 21

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12 www.TiburonFilmFestival.com SPECIAL PROGRAMS MUSIC & DANCE A world without music and dance is a world without excitement. This year the TIFF has collected some of the best music and dance films from around the world to suit every taste. Whether it’s Mozart (Mozartballs), tango (Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story), the story of a legend (One Man, One Voice: Kris Kristofferson), there’s something for everyone among these selections.

One Man, One Voice: Si Sus Brujo: Enrique Morente: Mozartballs To Play and To Fight Kris Kristofferson A Tango Story Alhambra Daydreams Canada/Austria/Switzerland Venezuela US • 62 min • p 25 Argentina • 79 min • p 29 Spain • 57 min • p 20 62 min • p 25 70 min • p 31

THE FILMS (from left to right): Burst (Norway/5 min/p. 35); Portrait (Finland/5 min/p. 42); Nascent (2005/US/8 min/p. 41); Jukebox (US/3 min/p. 39); Revolver Tango (Canada/5 min/p. 43); Medicine Dream (US/5 min/p. 40); While the Cat’s Away (Iceland/5 min/p. 46); Team Queen (US/4 min/p. 45); A Jazz Sketchbook (US/3 min/p. 39) ALL ABOUT SPORTS TIFF has an excellent tradition of terrific sports films that display the brilliance of athletes from around the world, as well as the beauty of the natural surroundings in which they perform their feats. THE FILMS (from left to right): Peel: The Peru Project Time Well Spent (2006/US/5 min/p. 45); 2006 • 75 min • US • p. 25 The Walls – Drowning Pool (2006/UK/10 min/p. 46); directed by Wes Brown & T.J. Barrack Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Clay (2006/US/5 min/p. 41); Nina Baby (2005/US/3 min/p. 41); Rising Son: The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi 2006 • 96 min • US • p. 27 directed by Cesario Montano Chasing the Horizon L’Shear Hair Design 2006 • 88 min • US • p. 18 directed by Markus & Mason Canter 220 Montgomery Street San Francisco, CA • 94104 Phone: 415.989.9460

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©2007 Tiburon International Film Festival 13 SPECIAL PROGRAMS www.TiburonFilmFestival.com PIXAR World of Animation ANIMATION Animation continues to be one of the brightest and most innovative forms of independent ﬁ lmmaking STUDIOS today. The selections from across the globe present this art form in brilliant, living color. presents... TIFF is proud to present this series of short films from PIXAR Animation Studios.

THE FILMS (from left to right): Guide Dog (2006/US/5 min/p. 37); Temerario (2006/UK/10 min/p. 45); Little Blue (2005/US/8 min/p. 40); Jukebox (2006/US/3 min/p. 39); Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Clay (2006/US/5 min/p. 41); Catch (2005/US/3 min/p. 35); Closed (2006/Germany/3 min/p. 35); One Rat Short (2006/US/10 min/p. 42) One Man Band (pictured above), directed by Andrew Jimenez (in person) is featured in this special presentation.

The other films being presented are Andre and Wally B, Boundin’, For the Birds, Geri’s Game, Jack-Jack Attack, Knick Knack, Luxo Jr, Mike’s New Car, THE FILMS (from left to right): Red’s Dream, Tin Toy Zero Degree (2005/Iran/8 min/p. 46); A Jazz Sketchbook (2006/US/3 min/p. 39); Sideshow (2006/US/5 min/p. 44); Vitruvius’ Toybox (2005/US/6 min/p. 46); Hallucii (2006/US/Taiwan/4 min/p. 37); First Flight (2006/US/8 min/p. 36); Saturday • March 24 • 3:30 pm Playhouse Theater Fly By Red Shoes (2004/India/6 min/p. 37); McLaren’s Negatives (2006/Canada/10 min/p. 40)

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Even Money – Sponsored by Alice Radio 97.3 FM Directed By John Ford – Sponsored by Sam’s Anchor Cafe MarkThurs • March 22 • 7 pm • Playhouse Rydell // Sun • March 25 • 7:25 pm • Playhouse Sat •John March 24 • 3 pm • Playhouse Ford TIFF is proud to honor director, producer, actor, and jazz musician Mark John Ford (born Sean Aloysius O’Fearna) originally went to Hollywood Rydell, who has compiled a body of work over his career in film worthy of high in the shadow of his older brother, Francis, an actor/ praise. writer/director who had worked on Broadway. Rydell began his career as an actor, and Originally a propman’s assistant and occasional has continued acting through the years. He first stuntman for his brother, he rose to become became known for his role as Walt Johnson an assistant director and supporting actor on “The Edge of Night” and then as Jeff before turning to directing in 1917. Baker on “As the World Turns,” on which Ford became best known for his he played from 1956 to 1962. In Robert Westerns, of which he made dozens through Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) he the 1920s, but he didn’t achieve status as won plaudits for his role as the violent a major director until the mid-1930s, when mob kingpin, Marty Augustine. He most his films for RKO (1934’s The Lost Patrol recently appeared in Hollywood Ending and 1935’s The Informer), 20th Century Fox (2002) as Woody Allen’s loyal agent to the (1939’s Young Mr. Lincoln and 1940’s The hypochondriac director. Grapes of Wrath) and Walter Wanger (1939’s As a director, Rydell’s films include Stagecoach) won over the public and critics, Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), On and earned various Academy Awards® and Golden Pond (1981, his Oscar® nomination for nominations. Best Director) and The River (1984). He can boast of To this day, Ford is considered one of the having directed eight actors to Oscar® nominations in his career. best directors of all time, and his vision of the American West established the Rydell will be presenting his latest film, Even Money, which he directed way this country would view itself for decades to come. John Ford passed away and produced, as part of TIFF’s 2007 Opening Night (see page 3 for full details in 1973. TIFF is proud to honor is memory and work with the presentation of on the Opening Night Film & Gala event). Directed By John Ford, a documentary of his life and work.

Marcello, A Sweet Life – Sponsored by Pasta Pomodoro Lumiere & Company and A Trip to the Moon MarcelloSat • March 24 Mastroianni• 5:20 pm • Playhouse FrenchSun • MarchFilm 25 • 5 pm • CorinthianPioneers Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, an Academy Award®- TIFF is delighted, as part of its tribute to the French Film Pioneers, to nominated Italian film actor, was born in Fontana honor the two great inventors of motion pictures, the Liri, a small village in the Apennines, and grew up Lumiere Brothers, with the prsentation of Lumiere in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was in- & Company. As well, TIFF will present the film A terned in a Nazi prison, but escaped and hid in Trip to the Moon by another French inventor Venice. In 1945 he started working for a film and pioneer, Georges Melies. company and began taking acting lessons. The Lumiere Brothers were the His film debut was in I Miserabili creators of the cinematographe, a three-in- (from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables) in one motion picture camera, developer, and 1947. He soon became a major interna- projector. They not only created the tool for tional star, starring in Big Deal on Madonna making films, but were among the first to Street; and in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce explore artistic creation through this new Vita with Anita Ekberg in 1960, where he medium. played a disillusioned and self-loathing Melies’ A Trip to the Moon is tabloid columnist who spends his days among the original science fiction films, made and nights exploring Rome’s high society. in 1902. The film is a critique of the day’s con- Mastroianni followed La Dolce Vita with another servative scientific community, and was inspired signature role, that of a film director who, amidst by Jules Vernes’ From the Earth to the Moon (1865) self-doubt and troubled love affairs, finds himself in a 1 and H.G. Wells’ First Men in the Moon (1901). creative block while making a movie in Fellini’s 8 /2. Mastroianni passed away in 1996 at the age of 72. He is memorial- The invention that millions of people today call movies, films, motion ized in the TIFF with the presentation of Marcello, A Sweet Life, a documentary pictures or cinema came from these trailblazers of the French film community, about his life. and with it, they cry, laugh, fantasize, enjoy, and dream.

Abeni All Aboard! Rosieʼs Family Cruise American Fugitive: The Truth About Hassan

Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 7:25 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 3:35 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 9:45 pm

2006 • Nigeria • 105 min 2006 • US • 90 min 2006 • Canada/Iran/US • 75 min director Tunde Kelani :: starring Sola Asedeko, Abdel director Shari Cookson :: starring Rosie O’Donnell directors Jean-Daniel Lafond :: starring David Theo- Hakim Amzat, Ayo Badmus dore Belfield, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Sr., Gary Sick Abeni is a beautiful, ambitious young woman born to a For years, Rosie and Kelli O’Donnell, parents of four, Revealed to the world in the 2001 movie Kandahar, rich father. Akanni is a handsome young man who has dreamed of a society free of such discrimination. In David Theodore Belfield is wanted in the U.S. for the pulled himself up from poverty. When he was a child, his 2004, they made that dream come true when 1,500 1980 killing of an Iranian diplomat, and now lives in father worked for Abeni’s father and the children were people – gay, lesbian and straight – set sail on a exile in Iran. The story is one that explores international sweethearts, but Akanni’s recklessness led to his whole seven-day cruise to the Caribbean. With a bold stroke intrigue and state sponsored violence, and it is the family relocating across the Nigerian border to Cotonou, only Rosie O’Donnell could make, a joyous new story of Hassan, a Black American, who in 1980, in in Benin. When Abeni and Akanni meet by chance as community was born in this judgment-free setting, Washington, acting on a fatwa, assassinated the Shah’s adults, their romantic fate is sealed. He is already en- as passengers celebrated their freedom and made a representative to the United States, Ali Akbar Tabatabai. gaged and she is set to be married off by her father, but positive, progressive statement about what “family” Since then, he has been wanted by the FBI and has this couple has other plans. means today. lived in exile in Iran. screening with Team Queen screening with Cries From Ramah

Amesterdam Via Amersterdam Arctic Son Balcancan Sponsored by Golden Gate Transit Northern California Premiere

Thursday, March 29 :: Corinthian :: 7:35 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Corinthian :: 3:55 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 9:45 pm

2006 • Holland/France • 80 min 2006 • US • 76 min 2005 • Macedonia • 89 min directors Rogier van Eck & Rob Rombout director Andrew Walton :: starring Stanley Njootli, director Darko Mitrevski :: starring Vlado Jovanovs- Sr., Stanley Njootli, Jr. ki, Adolfo Margiotta, Zvezda Angelovska, Branko Uri, Seka Sablji Rogier van Eck and Rob Rombout follow the footsteps A father and son are reunited in the Canadian wilder- Boldly antic and filled with flights of fancy, Mitrevski’s of two illustrious 16th Century Dutch navigators, Willem ness after nearly two decades — one adept at living epic comedy may remind audiences of Emir Kusturica’s Barenstz and Cornelis de Houtman, who left Amsterdam off the land, the other a product of Seattle’s urban monumental Underground, although Balcancan has a to open the routes to the Spice Islands. From the city jungle. The rustic Yukon town of Old Crow (population whirlwind comic energy of its own. Humor modulates to the islands, the film sketches a new geography of 250) forms the stunning backdrop of this moving, vivid from the surreal to the fantastic, yet as the film Amsterdam that unites the space of the voyage with the documentary. progresses and issues of Balkan identity come to the reality of the three places. fore, the line between comedy and tragedy becomes exhilaratingly tangled.

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Big Dreams Little Tokyo Black Eyed Dog Black Night, October 17, 1961 Northern California Premiere US Premiere Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 7:15 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 9:25 pm Dave Boyle in person 2006 • US • 86 min 2006 • Canada • 92 min 2005 • France • 108 min director Dave Boyle :: starring Dave Boyle, Drew director Pierre Gang :: starring Sonya Salomaa, director Alain Tasma :: starring Clotilde Courau, Thier- Knight, Jayson Watabe, Michael Yama, Pepe Serna, David Boutin, James Hyndman, Brendan Fletcher, ry Fortineau, Jean-Michel Portal, Ouassini Embarek, Rachel Morihiro Fred Ewanuick, Vlasta Vrana, Anne-Marie Cadioux Atmen Kelif, Florence Thomassin, Vahina Giocante The story of Boyd, an American with an uncanny ability As a teenager in 1974, Betty was going to be a winner October 17, 1961, is a forgotten night, erased from to speak Japanese. Boyd aspires to succeed in the like her idol Joni Mitchell, and sing her way out of the French history books. While de Gaulle was preparing world of Japanese business, but finds himself mostly small, violent and poor town of northern New Brunswick. to negotiate the end of the Algerian war, the chief of on the outside looking in. Meanwhile, his roommate At age 30, Betty finds herself a waitress in a diner, the Paris police, Maurice Papon, ordered the arrest of Jerome, is a Japanese American who has always felt and nobody has heard her sing in years. A mentally ill more than 11,000 Algerians called upon by the FNL to too American to be Japanese, but too Japanese to be mother, a runaway father, and a violent man have all demonstrate peacefully against the daily abuses of the American. He aspires to be a sumo wrestler, but finds worked to keep her a prisoner of that decaying town. police force and curfew to which they were subjected. his weight and blood pressure are thwarting his dreams. Betty must contend with a series of crimes that test her The final death toll was several hundred protesters. Together they struggle to find their place in a world courage and promise escape. October 17, 1961, reveals the truth of this savagery where cultural identity is seldom what it seems. carried out by the highest levels of French authority. screening with Wigald

Blame It On the Fish Blind Love Bloody Tie Sponsored by Pint Size Lounge Northern California Premiere Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 7:30 pm Matt Powers in person Janghun Troy Choi in person 2006 • US • 70 min 2006 • US • 61 min 2006 • Korea • 117 min director Matt Powers director Janghun Troy Choi :: starring Austin Ku, director Choi Ho :: starring Ja-Hyeon Chu, Jeong- Paulabianca Hattar, Angelo Mikel Arboleda, Anya min Hwang, Jung Mi Hwang, Hee-ra Kim, Jin-hyeok Prinz, Ariel Gamble, Arthur Francis Kasper Kim, Do-gyung Lee An abstract look at the 2003 Primus Tour de Fromage, The story of two strangers who, through unfortunate The story of a clash between two men. Sang-do, a Blame It On The Fish presents a surreal view of the acts of circumstance, are torn apart before they ever middleman for narcotics, and Lieutenant DO, a narcotics band’s triumphant return, including live performance meet. When not killing for money, one, a professional detective. Though in completely contrasting positions in footage, interview segments, candid behind the scenes killer, lives in a rented apartment by night while the other, life, the two men share an identical goal: to get hold of shots, and intense visual imagery. Years in the making, a young prostitute working nights, rents it during the day. Jang-chul, the key figure in the dark world of narcotics this is not a typical concert film. Blame It On The Fish is a Despite never meeting, the two develop affection for one in Korea. A life-threatening battle begins and engulfs sensory adventure pushing the limits of visual artistry. another through the objects they leave behind and find the men. themselves longing for more than what life has given them.

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Borderlands Bul déconné Burnt Out Northern California Premiere US Premiere Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 11 am Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm Robert Kelly in person

2006 • Mexico/US • 75 min 2005 • Senegal • 75 min 2005 • France • 90 min director Robert Kelly director Marc Picavez & Massaër Dieng :: starring director Fabienne Godet :: starring Olivier Gourmet, Avec Alioune Diop, Ibrahima MBaye “Sopé”, Ras- Julie Depardieu, Dominique Blanc, Marion Cotillard soul MBaye With human smuggling, drug trafficking and migrant The film Bul Déconné, tells the story of a young François is a white-collar manager with a devoted wife deaths on the rise, the two small border towns of Senegalese man, Sogui. When he presents himself and son, yet things aren’t so great on the work front. He Columbus, New Mexico, and Palomas, Mexico, are for the examination to enter the ‘Ecole Supérieure de passively submits to his boss’s demands, works long facing an international crisis. This film examines the l’Administration’, Sogui comes into direct conflict with his hours and frequently cancels family holidays. When people that live, work and pass through this stretch of examiners’ vision of the world. His outrage is grist to the a friend and colleague commits suicide after being the southwestern desert. mill of his determination to counterattack. In doing so, he summarily fired, the shell-shocked François snaps. He crosses the boundary to the underworld when he joins takes a defiant leave of absence from his oppressive forces with his friend, Max. However, he is also reunited employment, and soon finds himself on-the-run as the with his old friend Samba, who leads the vulnerable but prime suspect in a string of deaths. honourable life of a travelling salesman. screening with Illegal screening with 29 Inches screening with The Kiss

Chasing the Horizon Checkmate Mr. President! Christmas Tree Upside Down Northern California Premiere Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11 am Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 9:25 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm Markus & Mason Canter in person 2006 • US • 88 min 1995 • Tunisia • 107 min 2006 • Bulgaria • 127 min directors Markus & Mason Canter :: starring Jeff director Rachid Ferchiou :: starring Gamik Ratab, directors Vassil Zhivkov & Ivan Cherkelov Lloyd, Milo Brown, Toby O’Mara Francoise Christophe, Cherihane, Niels Tavernier, Majid Lakhal The Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 is known as the most Upon arriving at the airport on an official visit to a A huge spruce is cut down in the mountains to be treacherous and grueling off road race in the world neighboring state, President Salim holds a press used as a Christmas tree in the centre of Sofia. As where danger lurks around every curve and over every conference and learns that a coup d’état has put him out it is transported across the country, it becomes the horizon. In this close up look at a rookie off road racing of power. Accompanied by his wife Yasmine and his aide link between six stories that explore the euphoric team who are attempting this granddaddy of all races, Said, he takes refuge in a distant anonymous country. or depressive way in which their protagonists are we join three men who will come together to form a dys- He is joined by his son Mahdi, and his girlfriend Maya. experiencing the festive season. In these stories, men functional family that they call Team Horizon. Through Yasmine becomes disturbed by Maya’s temerity and and women of different ages are unwittingly brought up the ups and downs of attempting this feat, the three men has her closely surveyed. She suspects her husband’s against the question of the meaning of their lives, take soon find out “life’s a journey, not a destination.” growing fascination with Maya. In a private interlude, stock of their situations, and deal with them as best they Maya reveals her true intentions. can.

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The Color of Love A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash Darius Goes Out West: The Roll of His Life Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 8 pm Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:05 am

2005 • Iran/US • 69 min 2006 • Switzerland/Azerbaijan/Germany/Ireland • 90 min 2007 • US • 97 min director Maryam Keshavarz director Basil Gepke & Ray McCormack :: starring director Logan Smalley :: starring Darius Weems, Wade Adams, Abdul Samad Al-Awadi, Roscoe William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman Bartlett, James Blackwell, Robert Bottome Using the weeklong Ashura festival as a framework, the A Crude Awakening – The Oil Crash is examining the Eleven college students rent an RV to take Darius film documents the changing face of love and politics in state of the world’s dwindling oil resources. It finds Weems, 15, who has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, the ancient city of Shiraz, Iran. As the older generation that we’re running out of fossil fuels much sooner on a cross-country road trip. Their goal is to convince performs cathartic rituals, the city’s youth are left to their than anticipated. Industry leaders, scientists and some MTV’s “Pimp My Ride” to customize Darius’s wheel- own devices. They spend this time cruising the public politicians tell us about the dire consequences the chair. Along the way, they find joy, brotherhood and squares, hoping for a sideways glance or a brief note world is facing as it moves from cheap abundant energy the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always from a potential lover. The film’s 29-year-old, New York- supply to scarce, hard to get and expensive energy. worth the ride. based director investigates the way these shifting mores have surfaced in a culture entrenched in traditional values and the influence of western culture. screening with Return to My Homeland

The Destination Directed by John Ford Disappearances Sponsored by Sam’s Anchor Cafe Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 7:25 pm

2005 • Italy • 117 min 2006 • US • 111 min 2006 • US • 103 min director Piero Sanna :: starring Roberto Magnani, director Peter Bogdanovich :: starring Orson Welles, director Jay Craven :: starring Kris Kristofferson, Elisabetta Balia, Raffaele Ballore, Vanni Fois Peter Bogdanovich, Clint Eastwood, Steven Spiel- Genevieve Bujold, Charlie McDermott, Gary Farmer, berg, Martin Scorsese, John Wayne, Henry Fonda Lothaire Bluteau, Luis Guzman, Heather Rae This feature-length documentary examines the alarming When Martin, a young German, discovers that his father A Prohibition-era whiskey-running adventure film, growth in the prescription of powerful psychotropic – who was not greatly loved – has died in Romania, he comedy, and drama, based on the award-winning novel drugs for adolescents and children. How are large drug sets off in search of his deceased father and a little by Howard Frank Mosher. It tells the story of Quebec companies benefiting from the latest trend of selling adventure. Rather naïve and full of preconceptions, Bill Bonhomme, a hardy schemer and dreamer, who, powerful psychoactive drugs to America’s children? Do Martin expects exciting encounters with vampires to be desperate to raise money to preserve his endangered these drugs really help our children cure symptoms of the rule of the day in Transylvania. But instead of Count herd through the rapidly approaching winter, resorts to supposed mental illness, or do they tend to increase Dracula, Martin finds himself up against the mundane whiskey-smuggling, a traditional family occupation. With depression, violence, and suicide? Are we really worries of the Carpathian state. A comedy, in which the his son and two other men, they cross the border into treating the root causes of mental illness, or are we just main character’s book-keeper mentality comes face to vast reaches of Canadian wilderness for an unforget- eliminating annoying symptoms? face with the simplicity of Hungarian-Romanian life. table four days “full of terror, full of wonder.”

Dreams Duo Enrique Morente: Alhambra Daydreams Northern California Premiere Sponsored by Waters Edge Hotel West Coast Premiere Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 7:20 pm Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm 2005 • Iraq • 110 min 2006 • Canada • 106 min 2006 • Spain • 57 min director Mohamed Al-Daradji :: starring Aseel Adil, director Richard Ciupka :: starring Anick Lemay, director José Sánchez-Montes :: starring Enrique Basher Al-Maji, Mohamed Hashim, Kaheel Khalid, François Massicotte, Serge Postigo, Gildor Roy, Morente, Pat Metheny, Ute Lemper, Jose Fernandez Mortadha Saadi Julie McClemens Torres (Tomatito), Khaled, Blanca Li Filmed in Baghdad during the US invasion, its cast A romantic comedy following Pascale, an artist agent Enrique Morente was born in Granada, his artistic and and crew subject to kidnappings from both sides, who’s just been dumped by her fiancé and biggest client, social restlessness, as well as his love for listening and Dreams may be the first feature film from post-Saddam Lewis Carl. Lewis is the “It” boy of the hour and is now talking, have made of him one of the great creators of Iraq. The war-ravaged city, with its street battles and under contract with Pascale’s arch-rival and nemesis, Flamenco music of our time. His work has had great wrecked buildings, provides an astonishing immediacy Jules Simard. effect with cantaores (Flamenco singers), and guitarists to this story about a young woman, Ahlaam, confined and bailaores (Flamenco dancers). Morente is the to an asylum after seeing her husband kidnapped by rightful heir of another conception of time and space Saddam’s thugs on their wedding day. Her hospital in Flamenco, melody as an unavoidable means of destroyed, Ahlaam wanders the streets. Meanwhile, her communication. relatives and a young doctor search for her amid chaos. US Premiere screening with MAGMA, The Intruder, Machine

Estamira Even Money The Eye of the Dolphin US Premiere Sponsored by Alice Radio 97.3 FM Sponsored by Woody’s Yogurt Place Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm Thursday, March 22 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 1 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 7:25 pm Northern California Premiere 2005 • Brazil • 115 min 2006 • US • 108 min 2006 • US • 96 min director Marcos Prado director Mark Rydell :: starring Kim Basinger, Forest director Michael D. Sellers :: starring Carly Schro- Whitaker, Danny DeVito, Kelsey Grammer, Nick Cannon, eder, Adrian Dunbar, Katharine Ross, George Harris, Ray Liotta, Jay Mohr, Catherine Hepburn, Tim Roth Christine Adams, Jane Lynch, Andrea Bowen The story of a 63 year-old woman who suffers from A ferociously compelling drama following the lives of Alyssa (14) has been living with her Grandmother, Lucy, schizophrenia. She has lived and worked for the past 20 nine individuals as their fates become increasingly en- since the death of her mother a year ago. It’s been a years at the waste disposal site of Jardim Gramacho in twined in a web of addiction and gambling, culminating tough year for both of them and Lucy decides it’s time Rio de Janeiro, where she shares her life with an elderly at one critical moment where the lives of all, instigator or for Alyssa to go to the Bahamas to live with Hawk , dedi- community. In her children’s statements, her arduous victim, will be lost or reclaimed. No one is left untouched cated dolphin researcher and the father she never knew existence becomes exposed: her lost childhood in poor, – gamblers are mothers, brothers, dreamers and lovers. she had. Alyssa soon adjusts to island life and discovers rural Brazil, her tormented loves and marriages, and her As the narrative unravels, we come to understand that the gift she shares with her father for communicating frustrations. With poetic, philosophical and eloquent addiction has no loyalty to race, age or life circum- with dolphins, a skill which leads her into a powerful discourse, Estamira lives for the mission set upon her: stances. Addiction wreaks havoc on those drawn into its relationship with a wild dolphin that she will eventually to reveal and reclaim the truth. seductive world of quick fixes. prove the worth of in rescue of the research center. Mark Rydell in person screening with Sadie Turns Seven West Coast Premiere

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51 Birch Street The First Zionist Bunny Forgive Me US Premiere

Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 7:15 pm

2005 • US • 88 min 2005 • Israel • 74 min 2006 • Canada • 95 min director Doug Block :: starring Mike Block, Mina director Shiri Shahar :: starring Hugh Hefner, Noga director Denis Choinard :: starring Céline Bonnier, Block Shachar Juliette Gosselin, Patrice Robitaille, Geneviève Bu- jold Documentary filmmaker Doug Block had every reason An open competition was organized in Israel by After 10 years in prison, Annie returns to her small town. to believe his parents’ 54-year marriage was a good one. PLAYBOY international, in order to select the woman to Readjusting to life and reconnecting with her teenage But when his mother dies unexpectedly and his father be the host on the local Playboy channel. The selected daughter is difficult, as the memory of past acts and the swiftly marries his former secretary, he discovers two one, the first Israeli Bunny, will have to cope with a continuing presence of the dead impede the will to live. parents who are far more complex and troubled than massive and aggressive exposure to media and will be he ever imagined. 51 Birch Street is a riveting personal expected to take an active role in the P.R. and branding documentary that explores a universal human question campaign of the newly launched Israeli Playboy – how much about your parents do you really want to Channel. The first Zionist Bunny portrays the story of know? Noga Shachar (21) who wins the competition to become the first Israeli Playboy bunny. screening with Boxed screening with King Without a Crown screening with Fly and Fall

Frozen City Full or Empty Gitmo: The New Rules of War Sponsored by City Carpets Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 7:20 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm

2006 • Finland • 90 min 2006 • Iran • 98 min 2005 • Sweden/Denmark • 80 min director Aku Louhimies :: starring Janne Virtanen, director Abofazl Jalili :: starring Navid Raisi, Jamileh directors Erik Gandini & Tarik Saleh Susanna Anteroinen, Aada Hämes, Santtu Nuutinen, Baluchi, Sakineh Azadi Viivi Hämes Abandoned by his wife, the man who has lost his family A charmingly offbeat social comedy about an ingenious Following the recent unexplained detention of one of their is convicted of manslaughter – an act of violence which, Iranian boy thwarted in his twin ambitions to become a countrymen, a pair of Swedish filmmakers visits the U.S. hopelessly drunk at the time, he cannot remember village teacher, and marry a girl he has only glimpsed, base at Guantanamo Bay. They leave with an extremely committing. The storyline explores his life in great and Full or Empty brings out the gentle wit of filmmaker timely, quietly searing investigative documentary that moving depth and makes very real the rawest and most Abolfazl Jalili. Navid bucks society, tradition, and features interviews with military supervisors, contracted painful themes of a human life. everything else as he leaves his village in stubborn interrogators and, most unforgettably, some former pursuit of his dreams. While waiting for authorization, he prisoners of the camp. demonstrates his can-do spirit in a host of odd jobs, and almost everything lands him in trouble. But Navid, part poet and part businessman, never loses hope. screening with Avatar

Go West Going Private Hammer and Tickle: The Communist Joke Book West Coast Premiere

Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 3:35 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 7:35 pm

2005 • Bosnia and Herzegovina • 95 min 2006 • Switzerland • 98 min 2005 • France/Canada • 89 min director Ahmed Imamovic :: starring Mario Drmac, director Stina Werenfels :: starring Michael Neuen- director Ben Lewis :: starring Ronald Reagan, Joseph Tarik Filipovic, Jeanne Moreau, Rade Serbezija schwander, Susanne-Marie Wrage, Bettina Stucky, Stalin, Leonid Brezhnev, Lech Walesa, Mikhael Gor- Georg Scharegg, Olivia A. Frølich, Leonardo Nigro bachev, General Jaruselksi, Zenon Laskowik In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in Investment banker HP has allegedly ridden out the Under the oppressive Communist regimes of the Soviet bloody wars. Milan, a Serb student from a patriarchal crash of the stock exchange. One evening, at a barbe- Union and its satellites, ordinary people told thousands community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a cue event with his banker friends and their wives, HP’s of jokes about the society they lived in and the political homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, both Danish au pair girl threatens to blow the whistle on her system they suffered under. This documentary tells the intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression love affair with HP’s married boss. HP wants to please real history of Communism through the jokes and the in Bosnia and Herzegovina, whose devastating everybody. But the next morning, he has lost everything: joke-tellers, many of whom ended up in the gulags. consequences unfold in inter-ethnic hatred. Trapped in his house, his wife, his friends, and his job. The film is illustrated with a combination of rare archive Sarajevo during the siege by Serb forces, the lovers interviews and recreations of the jokes, as sketches and manage to flee to Milan’s home village and there they animations. take shelter, waiting to find a way to the Netherlands. screening with Lost Dream of Beijing

Here We Are In Transit Johnny Tootall West Coast Premiere

Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:40 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:10 pm

2005 • Slovak Republic • 76 min 2005 • Turkey • 50 min 2006 • US • 93 min director Jaroslav Vojt :: starring Dimitrij Kiossya, director Berke Bas director Shirley Cheechoo :: starring Adam Beach, Stano Krnác, Anna Kiossya, Tána Krnácová, Dimitrij Nathaniel Arcand, Alex Rice, Sheila Marie Tousey, Kiossya ml., Sona Kiossya, Nataša Kiossya Ben Cotton, Miranda Frigon, Shawn Reis In the Fall of 2000, Dimitrij’s family left their house in Istanbul famously stands as the bridge between Discharged from the Bosnian War, Johnny carries the Kazakhstan and headed for Slovakia, the country of Asia, Africa, and Europe, and is at the geographical weight of this war on his shoulders. He left combat with a their ancestors. After their arrival in the capital, they try crossroads of where three migrant families’ stories dark and frightening secret – the murder of a young boy, to find jobs and housing, but are not very successful. intersect. Far from the glorious Ottoman architecture which haunts him. But Johnny carries many demons: After traversing the country and seeing only neglect and and the glamorous Bosphorous nightlife. The film the death of his father, running from his destiny as Chief high unemployment, they settle down in a small village shows the tough life of transients stuck in Istanbul. This of his Band, and abandoning Serena, the love of his life. in the countryside, but this new beginning brings more thoroughly engaging video tracks an Iraqi Arab family, Nevertheless, Johnny must return home. The wolf spirit disappointment than joy as the older family members an Iraqi Kurdish family, and a Nigerian couple for a full has called. are homesick. On top of everything, the head of the year, witnessing their struggle to adapt to life on the family, Dimitrij, decides to head back to Kazakhstan. margins of an unforgiving city. screening with Melodrama screening with Checkpoint screening with Hero By Nature

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Journey From the Fall The Judge Just Sex and Nothing Else

Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 7:20 pm Ham Tran in person 2005 • Thailand/US • 135 min 2005 • Denmark • 86 min 2005 • Hungary • 90 min director Ham Tran :: starring Kieu Chinh, Long Nguyen, director Gert Fredholm :: starring Peter Gantzler, director Krisztina Goda :: starring Judit Schell, Kata Diem Lien, Nguyen Thai Nguyen, Khanh Doan, Cat Micky Skeel Hansen, Benjamin Boe Rasmussen, Dobó, Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Seress, Károly Gesz- Ly Nastja Maria Arcel, Heidi Holm Katzenelson tesi, Adél Jordán, Zoltán Radnóti, László Sinkó The story of a family torn apart, forced to escape across Jens Christian is a highly competent judge and newly What is an attractive, thirty-something woman to do who the unknown sea, and unified in the hope of survival. appointed chairman of the Danish Refugee Board. He is fed up with dating, but is desperate to have a child? Against his wife’s wishes, Long Nguyen chooses to stay rules to deport poet and political activist Sergo Bliadze, This dilemma is certainly shared by many single women in Vietnam and fight for his beloved country. Knowing a potential political refugee. Hearing the verdict, Bliadze of Dóra’s generation in big cities all over the world. Dóra, that his decision may separate him from his family attempts suicide. Minister, media and colleagues come a dramaturge at a Budapest theatre has had it with men forever, he asks his wife, Mai, to leave their homeland down hard on Jens Christian. In the midst of his biggest after she finds out that her fiancé is married. Listening for safer shores. Together with her son and mother-in- professional crisis, Anders, fifteen, a son he’s never to her biological clock, Dóra decides to get pregnant law, Mai reluctantly boards a tiny fishing boat bound for admitted to having, turns up. His personal life is now in a through a no-strings-attached affair. America and they begin a perilous journey across the state of chaos and Jens Christian puts up a fight in both sea, with nothing but hope to keep them alive. worlds to make it all fit together. screening with Just screening with A Cigar at the Beach

Kamataki The Lives of the Saints Loop Northern California Premiere US Premiere Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 9:40 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:05 pm

2005 • Canada/Japan • 110 min 2006 • UK • 100 min 2006 • Norway • 78 min director Claude Gagnon :: starring Tatsuya Fuji, Ka- directors Rankin & Chris Cottam :: starring James director Sjur Paulsen :: starring Arne Naess zuko Yoshiyuki, Lisle Wilkerson, Matthew Smiley, Cosmo, Marc Warren, David Leon, Emma Pierson, Naho Watanabe Bronson Webb, Sam MacLintock, Gillian Kearney Kamataki is the operation of firing pottery into the kiln It’s Paradise on the streets of north London, but fam- An investigation of modern people’s relationship with continuously for several days and nights – a tough but ily ties and relationships are becoming increasingly time, seen through the eyes of some of our time’s rather exhilarating process. Ken, a 23-year-old, is devastated strained. Life revolves around socializing, gambling and extreme consumers. The people we meet have each in by the death of his father. He decides to commit suicide trying to scrape a modest living. But that lifestyle is their own way made drastic decisions concerning their by jumping into the near-freezing river, but manages to about to be thrown into disarray by an otherworldly, life situations. We meet several individuals leaving survive. His mother sends him to his uncle Takuma in sickly-looking character. Thus begins an exhilaratingly their comfort zones in life in pursuit of adventure and a Japan. Takuma is in no way like his calm father. He strange series of events. A truly original, modern-day greater connection with the natural world. The film also is eccentric and unpredictable. His shock treatment of fable, which warns that what we wish for is not always features reflections from the 92-year-old philosopher, saké, mystery, sexual tension and art succeeds in stir- what we need. Arne Naess, as he ponders the decisions he made and ring his nephew’s curiosity. those he didn’t. screening with Motion Report

Lumiere & Company The Machine Magic Eye US Premiere Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 5 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm

1995 • France/UK/US/Germany/China/Greece • 80 min 2005 • Brazil • 94 min 2005 • Albania • 93 min directors Wim Wenders, James Ivory, James Boor- director João Falcão :: starring Paulo Autran, Gus- director Kujtim Çashku :: starring Bujar Lako, Arta man, et al :: starring Isabelle Huppert, Liv Ullmann, tavo Falcão, Mariana Ximenes Dobroshi, Alban Ukaj, Timo Flloko, Mirjana Deti, Arthur Penn, Lena Olin, Neil Jordan Rajmonda Bulku, Dhimiter Orgocka Forty of the world’s leading directors (David Lynch, In Nordestina, a godforsaken little town lost in the Petro, a retired photographer in an Albanian town on Spike Lee, Wim Wenders, Zhang Yimou, John Boorman, wilderness, young Karina dreams of becoming an the edge of a civil war in 1997, witnesses a tragedy, and others) use the original picture camera invented by actress and wants to leave to see the world. Before his which he coincidentally captures on film with his Super the Lumiere Brothers, working under conditions similar love escapes from him, Antonio, doña Nazaré’s son, will 8 camera. He travels to the capital to have the film to those of 1895, to create short films all over the world. go on a kamikaze journey to bring the world to Karina. developed as quickly as possible. Petro’s travels find There were three rules: The film could be no longer than Antonio leaves the town and announces in a TV program him with a TV journalist and his girlfriend who are also 52 seconds; no synchronized sound was permitted; and that he will perform a sensational feat: he will travel into leaving town, having been involved in the same tragic no more than three takes. the future from Nordestina’s main square. If he fails, incident. But the trio have no idea of their interconnected he guarantees a death machine will kill him live on TV stories, and the dangers they pose to one another. before everyone’s eyes. screening with A Trip to the Moon screening with Nascent

The Mao Years Marcello, A Sweet Life ...More than 1000 Words Sponsored by Pasta Pomodoro Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 5:40 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 11 am

2005 • France • 54 min 2006 • Italy • 98 min 2006 • Israel/Germany • 78 min director Bernard Debord :: starring Jean-Paul Sartre, directors Annarosa Morri & Mario Canale :: starring director Solo Avital :: starring Ziv Koren, The Rolling Stones, Jean-Piere Leaud, et al Sofia Loren, Federico Fellini, Virna Lisi, Ruggero Galit Gutman Mastroianni, Luchino Visconti, Pietro Germi France’s Red Guards, the Maoists, never numbered Even today, the name Mastroianni or Marcello evokes Ziv Koren’s photographs have become instantly recog- more than ten thousand, but at the watershed between an era, a world made of skill, beauty, charm, kindness nizable icons that have helped shape our perception of the 1960s and the 1970s, they spent ten years and seduction. The film blends several materials such the conflict in the Middle East. The film follows Ziv over occupying the streets and attracting media attention, as interviews with Mastroianni recorded at various a two-year period, shooting in the heart of riots, terror bringing into their struggles the fine flower of the world moments throughout his life, excerpts from his films, attack scenes, secret meetings with wanted militants, all of the arts, literature and show business. The Mao Years shots taken on set, testimonies from his daughters the way to Israel’s pullout from Gaza. The movie is about looks back at the crazy pages of history with the help of Barbara and Chiara, as well as actors, directors and the a man’s struggle with a history in which he is involved, the men and women who wrote it. people close to him. Marcello, A Sweet Life is the story of and the place he finds for himself in it. The movie does a man who was the most successful Italian star but often not only seek history through the photographer’s lens thought that it was perhaps just a dream. – but also the photographer through the lens of history. screening with Spyhole screening with Be Quiet

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Mozartballs Never Say Good Bye The Nightly Song of the Travellers Northern California Premiere Sponsored by Gaylord Restaurant Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 7:10 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 5:35 pm

2006 • Canada/Austria/Switzerland • 55 min 2006 • India • 192 min 2005 • Iran/France/Turkey • 85 min directors Larry Weinstein :: featuring The Music of director Karan Johar :: starring Shahrukh Khan, director Chapour Haghighat :: starring Engin Gunay, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rani Mukherjee, Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Kuzey Ozdogan, Ulku Ulker Abhishek Bachchan, Kirron Kher, Arjun Rampal Mozartballs is a tribute to the master, at once loving and Never Say Good Bye centers on the budding romance An aging Turkish tailor, just released from an Iranian irreverent. With a rich interweave of much of Mozart’s between Dev and Maya, who are both married to jail, sets off with a 12-year-old companion in search of greatest music, the film will feature a handful of sincere different people. Settled into a life of domestic ritual, his Anatolian home only to find the village has vanished devotees who have all, in wildly different ways, been and convinced that they are happy in their respective without a trace. The quest gives an evocative glimpse of profoundly and uniquely affected by the magic of relationships, the protagonists still yearn for something an age-old world filled with traditions, faith and history. Mozart. deeper and more meaningful, which is precisely what they find in each other. When their feelings come to the forefront, what results is a collision of lives and emotions, affecting everyone involved and changing them forever. screening with The Barber

On a Friday Afternoon One Man, One Voice: Kris Kristofferson Peel: The Peru Project West Coast Premiere World Premiere Sponsored by Surfline Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 7:20 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 1 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1:15 pm Mona Zandi Haghighi in person Kenneth Martinez Burgmaier in person Northern California Premiere 2006 • Iran • 79 min 2006 • US • 62 min 2006 • US • 75 min director Mona Zandi Haghighi :: starring Roya Nowna- director Kenneth Martinez Burgmaier :: starring Kris directors Wes Brown & T.J. Barrack :: starring Carlos hali, Haniye Tavassoli, Mehrdad Sedighiyan Kristofferson Mario Zapata, Sofia Mulanovich, Cristobal De Col, Gabriel Villaran, Gabriel Aramburu Sogand and her son Omid are going through a stressful Explore the world through the music and voice of the Presenting the newest film from the family that made time. Sogand, who for years has been carrying a secret legendary song writer, screen actor and musician, Kris surf-film history, the production team of Wes Brown and and painful burden, can no longer tolerate her son’s Kristofferson, with his story telling ways of finding truth T.J. Barrack proudly present…Peel: The Peru Project. difficult behavior. Meanwhile, Banafshen, Sogand’s and justice of major global issues along with his personal It was filmed entirely on-location in the beautiful waters younger sister who hasn’t had any news of her sister for battles and triumphs of life for over 70 years. of Peru, where surfing is a way of life and surfers are 15 years, decides to find her. After an extensive search, worshiped as National Heroes. Including an enchanting she finally succeeds in locating her sister. Once the two visit to Machu Picchu, this surf odyssey fuses unique sisters meet, Sogand’s life takes on a new meaning. cultural aspects and electrifying surf footage. After years of hardship and suffering, the secret of why she ran away from home is finally revealed. screening with Ladylike screening with The Cole Nobody Knows screening with The Win-Win Situation

The Perfect Afternoon PIXAR Films Playing in the Dark West Coast Premiere Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm Andrew Jimenez in person 2005 • Poland • 91 min ONE MAN BAND 2005 • Brazil • 107 min director Przemyslaw Wojcieszek :: starring Marcin 2006 • US • 5 min director Toni Venturi :: starring Leonardo Merdeiros, Cecko, Krzysztof Czeczot, Michal Czernecki, Gosia director Andrew Jimenez Débora Duboc, Jonas Bloch, Michel Bercovitch, Bri Dobrowolska, Krzysztof Dracz Fiocca, Odara Carvalho, Milhem Cortaz Mikolaj, his girlfriend, Anna and his business partner, With one coin to make a wish at the piazza fountain, This is the story of a group of young Brazilian Krzysiek are the owners of a small publishing company One Man Band tells the humorously captivating tale revolutionaries in an intense, and extreme situation. It’s in the suburbs of the Silesian town of Gliwice. After the of a peasant girl who encounters two competing street also a love story between Tiago, a student union leader commercial failure of their first published book, they performers who’d prefer the coin find its way into their turned urban warrior, and Rosa, a nurse and daughter of are determined to find a text that will give them hope tip jars. a communist worker from São Paulo’s countryside. The for success. In a few days Mikolaj and Anna are get- film’s subtext is a portrait of an age of darkness in Brazil, ting married, though they don’t care much for wedding TIFF is proud to present this series of short films a time of censorship, impositions and hardship. For a preparations. Mikolaj’s divorced mother and father travel from PIXAR Animation Studios. Along with One Man cause they so truly believed in, Brazilians of fortitude to the wedding together and give their life together an- Band, the films being presented are Andre and Wally met their crucible, forced to overcome their own physical other chance. B, Boundin’, For the Birds, Geri’s Game, Jack-Jack and emotional limits. Attack, Knick Knack, Luxo Jr, Mike’s New Car, Red’s Dream, Tin Toy

President Mir Qanbar The Prince The Real Santa

Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse:: 7:30 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 9:40 pm

2005 • Iran • 70 min 2004 • Tunisia • 108 min 2005 • Hungary • 96 min director Mohammad Shirvani :: starring Mir Qanbar director Mohamed Zran :: starring Sonia Mankai, Ab- director Péter Gárdos :: starring György Cserhalmi, delmonaam Chwayet, Moustapha Adwani, Nasred- Blanka Szilasi, Lajos Bertók, Dénes Újlaki, György dine Shili, Taeib weslati Gazsó, Eszter Csákányi, Tibor Szabó Once an employee of Iran’s Ministry of the Interior, Mir Adel is a talented flower seller known for his composi- Once upon a time there was a bar pianist, Misu, whose Qanbar is now a 74-year-old retiree who has dedicated tion of bouquets. He is unique in his area. At a delivery, life had been derailed, and an 8-year-old orphan girl himself to winning an elected position in his country’s he falls in love with Donia. Adel, by virtue of his simple named Liza. On the same day that Misu is hired as government, be it the presidency or merely a seat in background, can not expect to associate with Donia who Santa at a department store, Liza escapes from the Parliament. Despite a profound lack of success (gener- is a bank manager, but his love makes him lose his mind orphanage to claim the bike her mother promised ally being disqualified for lack of votes), Mir Qanbar and and behave audaciously. Everyday, he delivers her a her she would get from Santa when she was 8. This his faithful friend Seifollah, who distributes leaflets from complex bouquet without signature, until one day Donia fairy tale is the story of Santa, who has no intention of a mule-drawn cart and has been promised the role of refuses the bouquet of this anonymous lover. He invites buying a bicycle for a complete stranger, and Liza, who Minister for Health because he is disabled and can feel her to dinner. Donia falls under Adel’s spell. nevertheless won’t give in. for those like him, campaign tirelessly. screening with Wind, Ten Years Old

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Relatives Return of the Poet Rising Son: Northern California Premiere The Legend of Skateboarder Christian Hosoi Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 7:15 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Sponsored by Rockstar Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 1:10 pm 2006 • Hungary • 110 min 2006 • Armenia • 88 min 2006 • US • 96 min director István Szabó :: starring Sándor Csányi, Ildikó director Harutyun Khachatryan director Cesario Montaño :: starring Christian Hosoi, Tóth, Oleg Tabakov, Károly Eperjes, Erika Marozsán, Dennis Hopper, Tony Hawk, Tony Alva, Jay Adams, Csaba Pindroch, Ferenc Kállai, Piroska Molnár Robert Rusler It is a centuries-old tradition in Hungary that people don’t In his new film, the Armenian director again focuses on Rising Son documents the rise, fall, and rebirth of Chris- vote for, but rather against someone. Instead of electing the fate of his country and its inhabitants. This time he tian Hosoi, the young man who helped skateboarding the corrupt Makróczy, István Kopjáss becomes the at- seeks the assistance of his compatriot, poet and itinerant re-emerge as a major cultural influence in the 1980s. torney general of Zsarátnok. He is clean and dreams of singer Jivany, who lived in the late 19th and early 20th The inventive skater and businessman was incarcer- doing well in his new position. The job of attorney gen- centuries. This exceptionally appealing documentary ated in 2000 for trafficking controlled substances across eral comes with great power that can be used for good, study, brilliant in its artistic imagery, brings a testimony state lines, and since his parole in 2004, the Born-Again but also comes with the trappings of using that power of Jivany’s close links with Armenian traditions, both Christian has dedicated his life to being a good father improperly, not to mention many relatives who want in through the local inhabitants who sing the poet’s texts, and positive influence on the sport. on the action. Kopjáss falls in love with his power, and a and during a visit to the ancient sites lying on the road relative, and, in the end, only the corruption survives. between Yerevan and Jivany’s birthplace. screening with Regular

Risto & Minna Riviera Cocktail Romeo and Juliet Get Married Sponsored by CBS 5 Sponsored by SF Weekly Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2:20 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Corinthian :: 7:45 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 7:25 pm US Premiere US Premiere 2006 • Finland • 76 min 2006 • Switzerland • 97 min 2006 • Brazil/Ecuador • 90 min director Miko Keinonen :: starring Risto Lång , director Heinz Bütler :: starring Grace Kelly, Federico director Bruno Barreto :: starring Berta Zemel, Leon- Minna Lång Fellini, Pablo Picasso, Audrey Hepburn, Marlon ardo Miggiorin, Luana Piovani, Luis Gustavo, Marco Brando, Kirk Douglas, Sophia Loren, Edith Piaf Ricca, Martha Mellinger, Mel Lisboa Risto Lång has been sitting in a wheelchair since he No photographer offers us a more extensive, exciting Juliet, a die-hard Palmeiras fan falls in love with Romeo, was born. Nevertheless, he is a national champion in and stirring record of the social and cultural life at the die-hard fan of rival soccer team Corinthians. Juliet´s fa- dance. His wife is short statured. Together they make Côte D’Azur in the 1950’s than Irishman Edward Quinn ther would never accept such a son-in-law. Not wanting a happy couple. The film handles the relationship of (1920 – 1997). He penetrated the society jungle on the to lose Juliet, Romeo pretends to be a Palmeiras fan. Risto and Minna at the moment when Risto’s career as French Riviera for more than a decade, and salvaged The lie creates a series of hilarious twists and turns, and a dancer has just really started and Risto and Minna are invaluable treasures in this former epicenter of high when the truth comes out, the couple´s love must rise beginning to discover the practical problems related to life, big business, art, music and literature. The Quinn above their families’ sports rivalry. having performances here and there. But how does this archive comprises over 140,000 negatives and unique affect their relationship? photos of countless celebrities of the era.

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Rwanda. Through Us, Humanity... Satyajit Ray Negatives Searching for Orson US Premiere US Premiere Northern California Premiere Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7:05 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm Jakov Sedlar & Dominic Sedlar in person 2006 • Belgium • 105 min 2005 • Belgium • 52 min 2006 • Croatia/US • 80 min director Marie-France Collard director Bo Van der Werf directors Jakov Sedlar & Dominic Sedlar :: featuring Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Merv Griffin, Paul Mazursky, James Earl Jones Filmed in Rwanda in the context of the 10th Nemai Ghosh photographed film director Satyajit Ray This film is a search for Orson Welles, the search for commemoration of the genocide of the Tutsis and 90,000 times. His candid black and white pictures the essence of his genius. Everyone knows who he the massacre of Hutu moderates, and echoing the capture the working process of India’s greatest was. An actor, a director, a writer, a narrator, an editor, issues, allows the survivors of the genocide to speak filmmaker in every phase of production. Remarkably, but sometimes what is behind the curtain is far more out, in their current reality, during this special period of Ghosh, himself, was left to care for his aging negatives, intriguing than what stands in front of it. What you see mourning. The memory of the genocide is sought out, as neither government nor private sector is interested on stage, is on film. This film gives you a look inside the and is established through the traumatic awakenings, in preserving the national treasure that is his archives. shell which made Orson Welles, the Orson Welles you the evocations, the disinterment and dignified burial of In this film, Ghosh reflects upon his great passion for all know. The untold stories, the unconquered quests, victims, and the fears and worries with regard to the picturing “the master at work.” the many faces, deep emotions, and the never faltering threats that still weigh upon them today. pride. This is where this film finds Orson Welles. screening with A Very British Bollywood screening with Bawke

A Secret Life with Fidel The Sermons of Sister Jane Shakespeare Was a Big George Jones Fan US Premiere Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 5:10 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1:20 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm 2006 • Italy • 82 min 2006 • US • 53 min 2005 • US • 58 min director Enrico Coletti :: featuring Gino Done, Fidel directors Irving Saraf, Allie Light, & Carole Monpere directors Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon :: starring Castro, Emma Castro Ruz, Che Guevara starring Sister Jane Kelly Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Waylon Jennings, Irving Saraf & Allie Light in person Dolly Parton, Charlie Pride, Bono Cuba during the Castro revolution, as seen through A nun for 55 years when Sister Jane Kelly discovered Songwriter and producer Jack Clement, maverick the eyes of the Venetian partisan Gino Done, who after that a priest in her church was molesting young men entrepeneur and madcap jester of country music, is having collaborated with the Anglo-American forces in and stealing from the congregation, she went to the an unorthodox man captured here in an unorthodox the second world war on the Piave river front, by some bishop. When he ignored the evidence, she informed documentary. He began producing hits for Johnny Cash strange fluke of fate, also fought alongside Castro and the Vatican. Cardinal Ratzinger dismissed her letters. and Jerry Lee Lewis. He made his first fortune producing Che in the Cuban revolution of 1956. The documentary She contacted the press, creating a scandal. These 20 gold records for Charley Pride. He blew his money contains the first ever interview with Emma Castro Ruz, experiences shattered her faith in church dogma. Being making a horror movie, but made several more fortunes Fidel’s sister, and testimonies by the protagonists of the deeply religious, she impels the Catholic Church to through his songwriting and producing. All along, he Revolution who, with Gino, shared a historical moment return to egalitarian roots of community and of nurturing experimented with film equipment and video gear, docu- which has conditioned South America. the poor. menting his life, successes, and his failures. screening with My Last Confession (Sunday) screening with Ringo • Nina Baby Marin Filmmakers (Monday)

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Shooting Silvio Shop of Dreams The Shutka Book of Records

Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 1:05 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 5:10 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm

2006 • Italy • 95 min 2005 • Estonia • 110 min 2005 • Czech Republic • 78 min director Berardo Carboni :: starring Federico Rosati, director Peeter Urbla :: starring Maarja Jakobson, director Aleksandar Manic :: starring Muzafer Bislim, Melanie Gerren, Sofia Vigliar, Alexander Haber, Re- Anne Reemann, Evelin Pang Jashar Destani, Didara Veso motti Addle, My Blessed one, Giovanni Visentin Shooting Silvio is the story of a rich, outlandish young Costume designer Alice, seamstress Ada and make-up Shutka is the largest Roma community in the Balkans, man who decides to kill Silvio Berlusconi, the former artist Yana start a new company in Tallinn, designed to maybe in the whole world. To do it justice, or possibly Italian prime minister. In the beginning he isn’t really provide people with everything they need to make their to counterbalance what Shutka lacks, its inhabitants motivated, but he suggests to his friends to help him dreams come true. A humorous, poignant and ultimately constantly compete for the champion title in every organize the murder. But his friends refuse and leave life-affirming film about women, love and life. discipline imaginable. Who is the best at protecting the him alone, so he decides to take the matter into his own community from evil spirits? Who’s the greatest singer of hands...Shooting Silvio is a film about life; an invitation all? Meet the lamb champion for the last 35 years, or the to life, to consider how important it is to be alive. champion in boxing, fashion, or sex. It is not important to participate, just important to win. The narrator introduces various characters who perform their own stories. screening with Sunday Afternoon

Si Sos Brujo: A Tango Story The Side Effects of Love Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart Sponsored by KQED Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 9:25 pm Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1 pm John Ferry in person 2005 • Argentina • 79 min 2006 • India • 130 min 2006 • US • 83 min director Caroline Neal :: starring Ignacio Varchausky, director Saket Chaudhary :: starring Rahul Bose, Mal- director John Ferry :: starring Adam Fortunate Eagle, Emilio Balcarce, Wynton Marsalis, Pepe Libertella, lika Sherawat, Ranvir Shorey, Sophiya Chaudhary, William Theobald, Dave Hodges, Laurel Lyle, Nor- Ernesto Franco, Nestor Marconi Suchitra Pillai-Malik, Taraana Raja man Wieder, Joyce Wieder, Norman Hoffman A young Argentine musician (Ignacio) races to find It is easy to fall in love. But when one has to handle the Biography of the great Lakota chief Sitting Bull told in legendary maestros from tango’s golden age (now men excess baggage that comes along with making a lifelong great part through his own words. The main focus is in their 80’s) in order to save the lost oral transmission commitment, that is when love crashes. The film is a about the injustices committed by the U.S. government of style before the secrets of “the real tango” are lost funny, frivolous romantic comedy that explains ‘relation- toward Native Americans in the 19th century. forever. The film follows this dream to create a tango ships of today’. The story of Sid, a middle-aged DJ, full of orchestra school, and the relationship between its energy and life. He loves Trisha, a simple girl who runs founder and driving force and the 87-year-old maestro away from home on her wedding day. After three years he calls out of retirement to conduct it. In this race to of their relationship, Trisha bends down on her knees recover cultural heritage, Ignacio must convince Emilio and proposes to Sid. Here begins Sid’s confusion. Balcarce to return to the rehearsal room. screening with Revolver Tango • Reimerswaal screening with Medicine Dream

Sleep Sweet, My Darling The Sleeping Child Son of Man West Coast Premiere Sponsored by Monarch Interiors Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 3:15 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 5:50 pm

2005 • Croatia • 110 min 2004 • Belgium/Morocco • 95 min 2006 • South Africa • 86 min director Neven Hitrec :: starring Ljubomir Kerekeš, director Yasmine Kassari :: starring Mounia Osfour, director Mark Dornford-May :: starring Andile Kosi, Ivan Glowatzky, Ines Bojanic, Alan Malnar, Frank Rachida Brakni, Nermine Elhaggar, Fatna Abdessa- Andries Mbali, Pauline Malefane, James Anthony, Kos, Vlatko Dulic, Višnja Babic mïe, Khamsa Abdessamie Joel Mthethwa, Sibusiso Ziqubu, Vuyo Sonyaka A sentimental comedy, ranging in tone from engagingly In the northeast of contemporary Morocco, Zeinab, a The story of the Gospels re-told as a tale of corruption humorous to tragically comical. Sleep Sweet, My Darling young wife watches her husband leave the country to and redemption in contemporary Africa. The narrative is a story of a suburb in Zagreb, over a dozen years go underground the day after their wedding. Zeinab is unveils a portrait of a man of our time whose currency following the end of the Second World War, of people expecting a child. While she is waiting for her husband is the politics of compassion. It is a gripping journey of who find refuge from their dreary times in humor and to return she lulls the child to sleep. Time goes by and love, deception and betrayal in a conflicted society. This song and try to keep their customs and way of life. This the husband does not come back. new and adventurous interpretation of the New Testa- is both a love story and a coming-of-age story. Sleep ment features original, yet traditional, dance, songs and Sweet, My Darling is full of emotion and humor, and a rhythms that infuse it with the life and spirit that really yearning for happiness and beauty, despite the changing cuts its own voice to speak. fortunes of time.

Steel Toes Stolen Eyes A Sunday in Kigali

Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 3:05 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 5 pm Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm

2006 • Canada • 90 min 2005 • Bulgaria/Turkey • 111 min 2006 • Canada • 116 min director David Gow :: starring David Strathairn, An- director Radoslav Spassov :: starring Vessela Kaza- director Robert Favreau :: starring Luc Picard, Fatou drew W, Walker, Marina Orsini kova, Valery Yordanov, Nejat Isler, Izhak Finzi, Maria N’Diaye, Céline Bonnier, Maka Koto, Luck Mervil, Kavardzhikova, Stoyan Alexiev, Iliana Kitanova Mireille Métellus Set in Montreal, Steel Toes tells the story of Mike The Communist Regime forced the country’s Turkish Spring 1994. Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, deep in (Andrew Walker), a neo-Nazi skinhead who is on trial minority to change their names, forbade them to speak the heart of Africa. Bernard Valcourt is a man divided for a racially motivated murder. He is defended by a Turkish, and banned them from wearing their own between hope and disillusionment. In Africa to shoot court-appointed, liberal Jewish lawyer, Danny (David clothes. As a result, Turkey soon had to close its borders a documentary on the devastation wreaked by AIDS, Strathairn). The story delves into the intense and fiery to stop the massive influx of refugees. Stolen Eyes fol- Valcourt watches on as tensions rapidly escalate relationship that develops between these two men. lows two individuals with different destinies in the midst between Tutsis and Hutus. At the Hotel Des Mille of this conflict that cross paths when a young Bulgarian Collines, home to expatriates, Valcourt falls madly in soldier falls in love with the strong-willed Aiten, who in- love with Gentille, a beautiful Rwandan girl. Though sists on keeping her Muslim identity. This is the story of she feels the same way, their romance grows in fits and a strange, impossible, inexplicable love. starts; she is so young and he – he is so white. screening with Almost Home

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Teen Mothers This Girl Is Mine 365 Boots on Ground Northern California Premiere Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:05 pm Thursday, March 29 :: Corinthian :: 5:35 pm Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 3:45 pm

2005 • Brazil • 71 min 2006 • France • 91 min 2006 • US • 59 min director Sandra Werneck :: starring Edilene Ferreira director Virginie Wagon :: starring Catherine Jacob, director KC Wayland :: starring Casey Wayland, Jason da Silva, Evelin Rodrigues dos Santos, Luana Fer- Maéva Munoz, Arly Jover, Olivier Marchal, Arnaud Scott reira dos Santos Amaral, Joice Delfino Rosa Garnier A stark and honest look at the explosion of teen pregnan- Believing she recognizes in Zita, a child of 11 years old, Follow the personal experience of one soldier and his cy in Brazil, portrayed through the lives of four teenage her daughter abducted at the age of six-months, Maud unit through the process of deploying to Iraq. See the girls — each from a different region and social stratum. involves herself in the life of the girl and her mother. An daily trials and tribulations that are experienced through By following them through the course of their pregnan- ambiguous relationship intertwines between the two the eyes of a soldier. The journey begins with leaving a cies, this documentary puts a human face on what had women and the child. civilian life behind, saying goodbye to family and friends, been an impersonal statistic. Variety’s review of the film and leaving to an unknown land. From beginning to end said it was “As riveting as a true-life telenovela...an you will be carried with this soldier through good and bad engaging , thought-provoking investigative documentary times, through conflicts and celebrations, the friends, the that stirs up compassion along with shock.” foes, and all those in between.

screening with The Playground screening with Burst screening with All’s Fair

The Tillamook Treasure Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris To Play and To Fight Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere Thursday, March 29 :: Corinthian :: 3:20 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 11 am Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm Jane Beaumont Hall in person Raymond De Felitta in person 2006 • US • 107 min 2006 • US • 100 min 2006 • Venezuela • 70 min director Jane Beaumont Hall :: starring Suzanne Marie director Raymond De Felitta :: starring Anne Marie director Alberto Arvelo :: starring Placido Domingo, Doyon, Brian Thompson, Floyd Westerman, Brian Moss, Billy Vera, Dr. Billy Taylor, Gene Davis, George Claudio Abbado, Sir Simon Rattle, Guiseppe Sin- McNamara, Janine Doyon, Bradley Stryker Wein, Harlan Ellison, Howard Rumsey opoli, Eduardo Mata, Daniel Arias, Joyce Blanco Julie, a lonely 14-year old, moves with her estranged An examination into the art and mysterious life of The captivating story of the Venezuelan Youth family to an Oregon coast town where she discovers legendary jazz vocalist Jackie Paris. Using both new Orchestra System – an incredible network of hundreds a local treasure legend. Assisted by a mystical elk, and archival performance footage, found footage, still of orchestras formed within most of Venezuela’s towns Julie searches for the buried gold and in the process photography, historical audio clips and rare unreleased and villages. Once a modest program designed to uncovers more than she’s bargained for, including a recordings, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Raymond De expose rural children to the wonders of music, the ghost and danger. In the most exciting summer of her Felitta (Café Society, Two Family House, The Thing system has become one of the most important and life, Julie re-discovers the real treasure she already About My Folks) conducts on-camera interviews with beautiful music phenomena in modern history. The film possesses – her family. the late Jackie Paris as well as many of the musicians, presents interviews and performances by many of the songwriters and personalities who knew him best. world’s most renowned musicians as they reflect on the impact of such a far-reaching social project. Sponsored by Pacific Sun screening with I Named Her Angel

To the Other Side Toss Up Towards Sunset Northern California Premiere West Coast Premiere US Premiere Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 9:15 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 5:30 pm

2005 • Mexico • 80 min 2005 • Turkey/Greece • 104 min 2006 • Iran • 99 min director Gustavo Loza :: starring Héctor Suárez, Car- director Ugur Yücel :: starring Olgun Simsek, Kenan director Iraj Emami :: starring Hediyah Tehrani, Mo- men Maura, Ignacio Guadalupe, Vanessa Bauche, Imirzalioglu, Bahri Beyat, Engin Günaydin, Teoman hamed Ataei, Siamak Emami, Noormohammed Ataei Susana González, Martha Higareda, Adrián Alonso Kumbaracibasi, Erkan Can, Settar Tanriogen Shot in Morocco, Mexico and Cuba, the stories are The story of two young men. One, known as “Ridvan The story opens at night in Tehran. A man conceals a witnessed through the eyes of two boys and a girl the Devil,” is a young soccer player from Cappadocia large amount of money in a purposely built compartment who have to cope with the fact that their fathers are in Central Anatolia. The other,“Cevher the Ghost,” lives of his bag. Walking back to his car a thief seated on forced to work in other countries to better support with his father in Istanbul. Both joined the army together the back of a motorbike snatches his bag. Driving into their families. And though the children in these stories and had dreams and hopes for their future after their a park, the robber empties and throws the bag away are from different backgrounds, they do share similar military service. Ridvan and Cevher return home to their without noticing the hidden money. The owner searching situations. They share the realization of the harsh sense villages, but a mine explosion has ended their goal- desperately for his bag finally catches up with the of desertion when one of the parents has to leave. scoring days. The war has maimed the young men’s robber only to find out he did not discover the hidden bodies and poisoned their souls. Will they be able to compartment. The search for the bag is now on. come to terms with the past and start a new life? screening with McLaren’s Negatives screening with Crash screening with Lady of the East

The TVʼs Coming Valerie A Very British Bollywood US Premiere Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 7:45 pm Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 5:30 pm Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7:05 pm Anthony Wonke in person 2006 • Tunisia • 95 min 2006 • Germany • 90 min 2005 • UK • 60 min director Moncef Douib :: starring Ammar Bouthelja, director Brigit Moller :: starring Agata Buzek, Devid director Anthony Wonke :: starring Aishwarya Rai, Fatma Ben Saidane, Issa Harrath, Ali Abdelwahab, Striesow, Birol Ünel, Anne Sarah Hartung, Sabine Judith Shekoni, Luke Goss, Jason Connery Intidhar Kammarti, Chaouki Bouglia Vitua, Miriam Sachs, Jevgenij Sitochin In the serene village of El Malga, southern Tunisia, Completely broke and without any new jobs, Valerie – a When the British Government created tax breaks the inhabitants live on the rhythm of national festivities model used to the spoils of luxury – is stranded Christ- for foreign filmmakers to produce feature films in the during which the cultural committee schedules the mas evening in the fancy Hotel Hyatt in Berlin. Incapable UK, they were expecting Hollywood. Instead they same program repeatedly. A phone call from the capital of dealing with her new situation, she starts sleeping in got Bollywood. Having landed on British soil, Indian announces the arrival of a German TV production to the her car in the hotel’s underground parking lot and starts filmmakers are breaking with Bollywood traditions and region. The cultural committee decides to give a positive a double life. She can only break free through her friend- moving into different genres. Out with the musical and image of the village and proceeds to set up a new way ship with the parking lot guard, Andre. in with story lines aimed at a western audience. The film of life that disguises reality. follows the making of these films, principally, Private Moments, an erotic comedy that revolves around the sex lives of four young women in London. screening with Gorgeous Labor of Love screening with Satyajit Ray Negatives

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The Wake A White Ballad White Platoon, Baghdad US Premiere Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 7:35 pm Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm Stefano Odoardi in person 2005 • Greece • 99 min 2007 • Italy/Holland • 78 min 2005 • France • 85 min director Nikos Grammatikos :: starring Evangelia director Stefano Odoardi :: starring Nicola Lanci, Car- directors Yuri Maldavsky & Timothy Grucza Samiotaki, Dimitra Hatoupi, Yannis Economidis, mela Lanci, Simona Senzacqua, Cristina Andrea Manolis Piperakis, Christos Roupakas Andreas is a cop on the run. His life has reached a dead In an apartment, the life of an elderly couple, married This film follows the White platoon 1/7 Calvary division, end; he has just shot his wife and is trying to flee the for many years, evolves like an old record player: slow and gives an intimate portrayal of the war in Iraq, and the country. Nikos, a priest, is Andrew’s estranged younger and repetitious. The woman suffers from an incurable ‘man behind the soldier’ who fights. It focuses on four brother. They have not spoken for a decade. Andrew disease and has little time left to live. They have always main characters from Anderson’s platoon, but is typical needs someone to help him get away. Nikos is his last lived quietly, but now even more so. Words can no lon- of the 140,000 soldiers stationed in Iraq during 2004. resort. Together they spend an eventful night, during ger express meanings. The presence of death makes From the symbolic handover of power to the Iraqi people, which Andreas musters all his underground contacts every single action between the elderly couple, both to the under publicized bloody election day, to the tearful to organise his escape. This night is The Wake for their important and definite. reunion with families and wounded colleagues, we past and for Andreas’ wife. follow these characters as they transform from eager young soldiers, into hardened, cynical war veterans. screening with Gweipo

The Women of Mount Ararat MIKE HADIPOUR Auto. Home. Commercial. Life. Health. Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm Mortgage Protection. Long Term Care. Financial Planning.

2005 • Kurdistan/France • 85 min Tel: 415.710.4162 Fax: 415.883.3832 director Erwann Briand Website: www.EIBwebsite.com Email: [email protected]

In Kurdistan, as in the majority of battle zones, which have been ongoing for many years, women are making their presence increasingly felt. It is almost as if, in order to stop the murderous madness of man, they must today be in the front line, transforming themselves into human bombs or soldiers. The Women of Mount Ararat retraces the life of a women’s “manga,” a base unit of TIFF TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW the guerrilla army, made up of six women soldiers. www.TiburonFilmFestival.com

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Accidents Agatha Chrysaﬁ US Premiere 2005 :: Scotland :: 12 min 2006 :: Greece :: 13 min director Martin Smith :: starring Ryan Wallace, Kate directors Efi Latsoudi & Stelios Kraounakis Dickie, Julie Wilson, Sean Brown starring Agathi Chrysafi

The story of Marko, who, after missing out on a party Agathi Chrysafi is an old lady living in a small village on with his mates, mooches around his bedroom alone. Lesvos Island, Greece. Her life is made up of ordinary He then takes to the beach, where a chance meeting activities but when she feels like it, she paints the inner with a girl makes their lives seem better. walls of her home with murals. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Aisle 73 Allʼs Fair US Premiere Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 16 min 2006 :: US :: 19 min director Olivia Silver :: starring Bob Larkin, Angela director David Jibladze :: starring Bobby Christian, Paton, Bunny Levine, Jay Edwards, Matt Silas Ricky Russert, Tom Deters, Ned Salameh

After his dog dies, Henry never wants to look at In an occupied covert facility located in the deserts of oatmeal, pills, or his chatterbox wife again. On a trip to the Persian Gulf, two US soldiers are forced to choose the supermarket, he meets Gladys, the flashy new girl between obeying orders to guard the interrogation of a in town, and his long-dead adolescence springs to life. prisoner, and taking a stand against torture. Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 3:45 pm :: With 365 Boots on the Ground

Almost Home (MUSIC VIDEO) Avatar Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 4 min 2005 :: Spain :: 15 min director Christopher St. John :: starring Outgrabe director Lluís Quílez :: starring Rosana Pastor, Sebastián Haro, Gerard Villegas

This darkly dreaming black-and-white animated music Avatar: 1) Chance event that usually involves a sudden video was created to accompany the North American change in the course of something. Change of fortune. college radio hit “Almost Home” by the San Francisco 2) Tests someone goes through. 3) Lack of application band Outgrabe. or alternation of prosperous and adverse events. Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 3:05 pm :: With Steel Toes Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm :: With Frozen City The Barber Bawke Northern California Premiere 2005 :: Switzerland :: 21 min 2006 :: Norway :: 15 min director Marie-Catherine Theiler :: starring Pierre director Hisham Zaman :: starring Broa Rasol, Nicole, Markus Mathis Serdar Ahmad Saleh Marie-Catherine Theiler in person The hairdresser opens his store every day despite not A man and his young son have been on the run for a having any clients in a long time. He kills his time read- long time. Upon reaching their destination, they realize ing the newspaper and taking care of his plants. Until a they are still in trouble. The father is forced to choose stranger enters his store and disturbs his daily routine. the better of two evils to provide for his son’s future. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm :: With Mozartballs Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm :: With Searching for Orson

Be Quiet Beyond Samarkand

2006 :: Palestine :: 19 min 2005 :: Germany/Tajikistan :: 44 min director Sameh Zoabi :: starring Mahmood Abu Jazi, director Thomas Wartmann Alaa Ighbaryah

The film follows the story of a young boy and his Zümbüla, 17, is supposed to be married off in an father on their journey home to the city of Nazareth. arranged marriage, a tradition in the culture. But she What should be a simple car trip is beset by politically has her own views of love and marriage and falls in charged tension and a militarized reality. love with a young man, causing a rift to form. Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 11 am :: With ...More Than 1000 Words Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 6:10 pm :: With Life on their Shoulders

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Boreas Boxed US Premiere 2006 :: Turkey :: 14 min 2006 :: US :: 12 min director Belma Bas :: starring Seyma Uzunlar, director :: starring Carrie Anne Brooke, Gary Poux, Sevinc Bas, Oktay Kaptan, O. Rustu Bas Jossie Thacker, Susan Dalian

Living with elderly relatives in a remote old house in the A short film about the baggage from our past that mountains, a child reticently observes the daily routine interferes with our future. Olivia has a box that she’s of rustic life. A short film about the childhood visions of had since childhood that gets in the way of her love, and glimpses of the mysteries of life and death. relationships, but what would happen if she lost it? Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm :: With 51 Birch Street

Burst Catch West Coast Premiere 2003 :: Norway :: 5 min 2005 :: US :: 3 min directors Reynir Lyngdal & Katrin Hall :: starring director Chris Perry Kata Johnson, Elias Knudsen

A couple fights in their bedroom over a burst water The story of a young girl’s first encounter with the pipe. Techniques involving water tank explosions and stories presented by the media that influence our trampolines are used, and there are references to perceptions, and her struggle to rediscover her identity martial arts and cartoon strips. afterwards. Thursday, March 29 :: Corinthian :: 5:35 pm :: With This Girl Is Mine Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Checkpoint A Cigar at the Beach Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere 2006 :: Australia :: 12 min 2006 :: US :: 16 min director Ben Phelps :: starring Rodney Afif, Chris- director Stephen Keep Mills :: starring Billy Gillespie, tian Willis, Kate Raison, Alex Dimitriades Cathy Shim, Charlie Schmidt, Jermaine Jackson Stephen Keep Mills in person A drama/thriller with a political subtext. It is inspired by A man withdraws to an empty beach to smoke a cigar the filmmaker’s frustrations with the abuse of power and fantasize. An approaching storm mirrors the storm and the rise of racism in contemporary Australia. inside him as his fantasies push him to the edge of himself and to a surprise yearning. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:40 pm :: With In Transit Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 7:20 pm :: With Just Sex and Nothing Else Closed The Cole Nobody Knows Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere 2006 :: Germany :: 3 min 2006 :: US :: 22 min director Albert Radl director Clay Walker :: starring Freddy Cole, Nancy Wilson, John Di Martino, David ‘Fathead’ Newman

A locked door and a stubborn person – an everyday A documentary on Chicago-native Freddy Cole, the drama as it seems. And then the situation escalates. virtually unknown, yet equally talented, younger brother of Nat “King” Cole. At age 74, Freddy Cole is at last, finally being recognized for his musical talent. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 1 pm :: With One Man, One Voice

Crash Cries from Ramah West Coast Premiere Northern California Premiere 2005 :: Turkey :: 18 min 2005 :: US :: 15 min director Umut Aral :: starring Ruhi Sari, Gürkan director Loren E. Chadima :: starring Anoush Nevart, Uygun, Ali Çekirdekçi, Selçuk Uluergüven Anat Topol, Mark Ivanir, Sam Sheik, Sam Feuer

The story of three men from different corners of the The story of two mothers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, crime world: a hired gun, a con man, and a thief. Their who lose their sons in a suicide bombing and then meet paths cross at Central Station and they start to work as in a Tel Aviv police station. a team. But their pasts won’t let them go far away. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm :: With Toss Up Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 9:45 pm :: With American Fugitive

Daily Routine Daily Specials

2006 :: US/Italy :: 5 min 2005 :: US :: 10 min director Christopher Swank :: starring Christopher director Rebecca Salzer & Svetlana Cvetko :: star- Swank, Nathan Pipho, Nimish Parikh, John Zizza ring Brian Fisher, Liz Burritt Svetlana Cvetko in person An experimental film that follows the paths of a few A short comic, dance film using supermarket shopping individuals as they begin their day. Everyone has a as a way to talk about how we make life’s choices. In certain routine they follow, but in the case of these this supermarket, people are for sale. The protagonist individuals, timing is everything. is for sale in produce and he fantasizes about a buyer. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts Program Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 2:20 pm :: With Risto & Minna Dear Lemon Lima Dear Miss Mistress West Coast Premiere US Premiere 2006 :: US :: 12 min 2006 :: Germany :: 4 min director Suzi Yoonessi :: starring Miles Thompson, director Claire Walka :: starring Ariane Mayer, May Samantha Futterman, Zachary Lapes Kato, Susanne Grote, Sandra Ellinger

Dear Lemon Lima thrives off the notion that life is a A song dedicated to the underground train, presented time to celebrate our common traits and differences, in a video of photographs and text animations. D-Dear inspiring kindness, equality, and values, all kindled by Miss Mistress, Dear Dear Miss Distress…T-turn me on the diary of a 13-year-old girl. and drag me underground… Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program Down the Line Dupe

2007 :: US :: 4 min 2005 :: Scotland :: 10 min director Steve Gatlin :: starring Arsen Roulette, the director Chris Waitt :: starring Danielle McLeod, cast of Beauty 24 Nicky Short, Chris Waitt Steve Gatlin in person A video blending footage from a feature film about a Super lazy Adam buys a cloning machine on eBay in single picture taken from a roll of film on each of 24 an ingenious attempt to get out of doing his own wash- days, and the lead singer of the “Arsen” whose song ing up. Unfortunately his clone turns out to be just as “Down the Line” is used. idle as he is. Chaos and hilarity ensue. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm :: With Marin Filmmakers Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 7:25 pm :: With Romeo and Juliet Get Married Fallen False Promise Northern California Premiere West Coast Premiere 2005 :: Canada :: 17 min 2005 :: US :: 10 min director Allison Beda :: starring Marya Delver, Dov director Lionel Coleman :: starring Alice Lin, C.J. Co- Tiefenbach, John Reardon tharn, Carey Embry, Joanna Fang, Larry Varanelli

A desperately blocked writer tries to escape his trouble In every city, on any given block, there’s a doorway by helping Debra, an “amnesiac” young woman who good people walk by daily. Society says it must be falls out of the sky. Greg still can’t write, but is happily legitimate because there it is, right out in the open. But distracted by falling in love with Debra. good people, instinctively, know not to enter. Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm :: With Marin Filmmakers

The First Day of My Life First Flight US Premiere 2005 :: Canada :: 12 min 2006 :: US :: 8 min director David Uloth :: starring Amber Bernard, Kaila directors Cameron Hood & Kyle Jefferson Magnone

Teenaged Laura leaves home to start a new life with A computer-animated short film that tells the story of her French-Canadian crush, leaving her little sis Kate an uptight, fastidiously organized businessman, whose to cover for her — and deal with her own feelings of perspective on life is forever changed through an abandonment. unexpected encounter with a tiny fledgling bird. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

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First Snow Fly and Fall West Coast Premiere US Premiere 2006 :: Argentina :: 15 min 2006 :: Germany :: 13 min director Pablo Agüero :: starring Lucila Urquiola director Daniel Stieglitz :: starring Jörg Rohde, Serrano, Ayrton Rivero Villalba Alexandra Desoi

A woman with her child in a hut in the middle of no- Paul and Lisa are heroin addicts, living together and where. She is fighting for their survival. He is fighting to in need of their drugs which have not arrived. While get attention. Driven by their own urgencies, they are Paul leaves to try and get drugs, Lisa goes mad from unaware they could die before the snow comes. withdrawal, hearing a noise outside get louder. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 7:15 pm :: With Forgive Me Fly By Red Shoes Foam Cleaner US Premiere US Premiere 2004 :: India :: 6 min 2006 :: Germany :: 15 min director Harsha Nagaraju directors Christopher Lenke & Philip Nauck :: starring Dagmar Biener, Gerd Lukas Storzer Harsha Nagaraju in person Man’s fascination with flight is perpetual. This has Mr. Stölzl is an enthusiastic foam cleaner salesman. led to glorious achievements and some spectacular Ready for action he enters his new location, the shabby failures. But his journey and quest for ideas like apartment of the Schlowanz family, but he soon learns accomplishment and freedom continue. this is not going to be his best day. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! Short Program Ghost Town Gorgeous Labour of Love

2006 :: US :: 19 min 2006 :: UK :: 9 min director Tai Logsdon :: starring Bill Elverman, Dani- director Stacy Harrison :: starring Sharon Clancy, elle Dearing, David Blume, Shan Applegate Nick Ewans, Stacha Hicks

After a botched train robbery, the leader of the group A combination of fantasy with “real” reflections of the decides that his men should hide out in an abandoned everyday world. It blends the quasi-Victorian appear- town they come across. While hiding out, strange ance of its characters and accessories with modem events begin to happen that scare them. moral relativism. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program Friday, March 23 :: Corinthian :: 5:30 pm :: With Valerie

Guide Dog Gweipo US Premiere 2006 :: US :: 5 min 2006 :: UK/Hong Kong :: 10 min director Bill Plympton director Claire Leona Apps :: starring Francesca Annis, Jonathan Chan-Pensley

A sequel to the Oscar nominated short Guard Dog. The story of a British woman named Rebecca, whose This time our hero dog helps blind people with typical husband’s sudden death allows his darkest secret to disastrous results. resurface: he had a child with another woman. Her journey creates an allegory for modern Hong Kong. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With A White Ballad

Hajime Hallucii US Premiere Northern California Premiere 2005 :: Japan :: 12 min 2006 :: US/Taiwan :: 4 min director Kenshin Nawa :: starring Kyoko Kozakura, director Goo-Shun Wang Yukio Okuyama, Takashi Yuki

A story of an old husband and wife living in a mountain A drunken, chubby guy loses consciousness on his way village in Japan, sometime between WWII and the home. After he wakes up, he finds himself trapped in an present. A young man looking for their son, who did not endless-looping staircase. He tries hard to escape, but return from the war, brings happiness to the woman. the truth is another nightmare. Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

Hattenhorst Headshot West Coast Premiere 2006 :: Germany :: 5 min 2006 :: US :: 6 min director Ove Sander :: starring Hans Hattenhorst director Hugues Wisniewski :: starring Marcelo Marcondes, Charlie Meany Hugues Wisniewski in person Hans Hattenhorst moved to the German island of Just A wannabe actor, in search of Hollywood stardom and in the 1940s, where he worked as the projectionist in a in desperate need of a talent agent to represent him, small cinema. He lost his passion for movies long ago. finds a desperate agent in search of the right talent to Hans died during production. win him fame and fortune. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm :: With Marin Filmmakers

Hero By Nature Home For Good West Coast Premiere West Coast Premiere 2005 :: Canada :: 15 min 2006 :: US :: 10 min director Roger Cantin :: starring Frédérick De Grand- director Todd Tinkham :: starring Joanna Foster pré, Laurent-Christophe De Ruelle, Jesse Rath Wilson, Jeffrey Moore, Brendan Bradley

A nearly tragic accident forces a father to see beyond Amy Trentham awaits her husband’s return from a tour his prejudices and come to a new understanding and of duty in Iraq, and they then spend their first night sensitivity about people who are different than him; in together in this look at the effects of the current conflict this case, the native people. on the families of soldiers. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:10 pm :: With Johnny Tootall Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Honey and Sting House of Flesh Northern California Premiere West Coast Premeire 2006 :: UK :: 20 min 2005 :: Egypt :: 15 min director Sybil Mair :: starring Antonio Fargas, Ebony director Rami Abdul Jabbar :: starring Mona Mokhtar, Gilbert, Michael Gilroy, Nicholas Irons Asser Yassin, Yara Goubran, Farah Youssef

When love goes wrong, a young man is strangely A blind, holy book reciter marries a widow with three comforted to find that pain can bring pleasure too. daughters. Knowing her daughters are too poor to Come dusk, he, a beekeeper, wistfully welcomes his marry, the widow allows her daughters to sleep with bees back to the garden after their daily release. her husband without him knowing what is happening. Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 9:35 pm :: With Blind Love Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts I Named Her Angel Illegal

2005 :: Turkey :: 30 min 2006 :: UK :: 12 min director Nefin Dinc director Robert Cambrinus :: starring Audrey Mc- Coy, Robert Cambrinus

Follow a twelve years old Turkish girl as she learns Economic migrant Andrej strikes up a friendship about the basics of Mevlevism, known as Whirling with the much younger refugee Moya. For a fleeting Dervishes in the Western World for their ritual of moment Moya may dream of a normal life; Andrej whirling around during prayer. already knows it’s an illusion. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm :: With To Play and To Fight Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 11 am :: With Borderlands

In the Net The Intruder US Premiere US Premiere 2006 :: Spain :: 4 min 2005 :: Spain :: 7 min director Asier Altuna :: starring Jesus Gonzalez, director David Canovas :: starring Jose Coronados Javi Gonzalez, Josu Gonzalez, Jon Gaubeka

A short documentary about fishing in the Northern Everybody from the cinematographer to the make-up Seas. girl is ready on set, having completed their preparations for the shot, but the intruder simply observes.

Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! Shorts Program Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm :: With Enrique Morente • MAGMA • Machine 38 www.TiburonFilmFestival.com SHORT FILMS

A Jazz Sketchbook Jukebox West Coast Premiere 2006 :: US :: 3 min 2006 :: US :: 3 min director Ruth Beckman director Alex Budovsky :: music Jim Avignon

Set to great West Coast Jazz music, this animated film Based on the song “Jukebox” and original drawings by brings to life an artist’s sketches of live jazz musicians Jim Avignon from his album. Animation unites song and at play around clubs in Los Angeles. drawings into a story of a pig-like character trying to get a song out of the broken jukebox. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

Just King Without a Crown (MUSIC VIDEO) Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 16 min 2006 :: US :: 4 min director Jesse Wheeler :: starring Brendan Hines, director P.R. Brown :: artist Matisyahu Paul Dillon, William Windom

Eddie can’t deceive himself about his newest client, “King Without a Crown” is a song by Hasidic Jewish who beat a crossing guard to death. When the truth reggae singer Matisyahu. This is his first major single, finally catches up to him, Eddie must find a way to do except for the live version of the same song which ap- what’s right, even if it means doing wrong. peared on his album Live at Stubb’s. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm :: With The Judge Wednesday, March 28 :: Corinthian :: 6 pm :: With The First Zionist Bunny

The Kiss Lady of the East (MUSIC VIDEO)

2005 :: France :: 5 min 2007 :: US/Iran :: 7 min director Stéfan Le Lay :: starring Sara viot, Guil- director Moslem Mansouri :: vocals Ebi :: lyrics laume de Tonquedec Zoya Kakarian

A young lady awaits her beloved for their first kiss, but A salute to the women’s movement for freedom in Iran suddenly everything turns upside down. and an objection to their present condition.

Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Burnt Out Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 5:30 pm :: With Towards Sunset LadyLike Life On Their Shoulders Northern California Premiere West Coast Premiere 2006 :: US :: 6 min 2004 :: Turkey :: 38 min director Safiya Songhai :: starring Karla Williams, director Yesim Ustaoglu Lisa Conlon, Chadwick Boseman, Safiya Songhai

An exhibitionist and a devout muslim learn there is The women of the mountain people carry the hardships common ground between them, and fertile ground to of seasonal migration on their shoulders, in constant build a friendship, when they have to save each other battle against a hostile natural environment, leaving from a peeping tom. their villages with their herds as summer approaches. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 7:20 pm :: With On a Friday Afternoon Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 6:10 pm :: With Beyond Samarkand

A Linemanʼs Cabin Little Ben Northern California Premiere US Premiere 2005 :: Romania :: 30 min 2006 :: Germany :: 15 min director Constantin Popescu director Piotr Reimer :: starring Cedric Eich, Chris Dehler, Anna Loos

Two railroad men are living in a lineman’s cabin, alone Little Ben lives with his parents. He dreams of playing in the middle of nowhere. One night, a stranger has in his father´s moving theater band. But before his an accident on the nearby beach that would forever dream can come true, Ben has to learn cycling without change everything. stabilizers. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! ShortsProgram Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 am :: With Teen Flix

Little Blue Looking for Alfred

2005 :: US :: 8 min 2005 :: Belgium :: 10 min director Bob Svihovec director Johan Grimonprez :: starring Zale Kessler, Bruce Ho, Ron Burrage, Delfine Bafort

Sometimes a discovery ignites a passion. Little Blue, a This film documents the Belgian artist Johan young penguin, breaks away from tradition and learns Grimonprez’s hunt for the perfect Alfred Hitchcock look- to surf. His pursuit of the dream is a lonely quest – or is a-like, assembling a bewildering gaggle of look-a-likes it? Come see and share the joy. in a quest to find the most accurate specimen. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts Program

Lost Dream of Beijing Love Is a Stranger World Premiere World Premiere 2006 :: China :: 15 min 2006 :: Australia :: 8 min director Yang Li :: starring Sunpei (Wangfujing director Drora Machlev :: starring Carolina Meneses, Resident) J Stewart, Thomas Scott, Emma Jackson Yang Li in person With the 2008 Olympics rapidly approaching in China, One night in Sydney, two strangers: a disturbed Muslim a policy regarding architecture is put in place in Beijing girl and an arrogant policeman with attitude problems to present its supposed history and glory for the visiting meet in violent circumstances and find they’re destined world, but the real history is being left out. to be together. Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 7:35 pm :: With Hammer and Tickle Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Machine MAGMA US Premiere 2006 :: Spain :: 17 min 2007 :: Spain :: 7 min director Gabe Ibanez :: starring Lazua Larios director Vicente Navarro :: starring Maria Casl, Jorge Cruz

A girl discovers her new nature through pain and The other side of a love to find. Two strangers between confusion, and finds a way to achieve lost harmony. the crowd.

Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm :: With Enrique Morente • The Intruder • MAGMA Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:30 pm :: With Enrique Morente • The Intruder • Machine

Martiʼs Party McLarenʼs Negatives

2006 :: Australia :: 15 min 2006 :: Canada :: 10 min director Annabelle Murphy :: starring Garry McDon- director Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre :: narrator Norman ald, Diane Craig, Joan Sydney, Peter Moon McLaren :: model Patrick Coutu

A short comedy about a man who has an unhealthy An intimate look at cinematographic creation, this obsession with his health. visual essay shares with us secrets of the legendary Canadian animator Norman Mclaren and his personal view of filmmaking. Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 9:15 pm :: With To the Other Side

Meat the Campbellʼs Medicine Dream

2005 :: Scotland :: 9 min 2006 :: US :: 5 min director Simon Hynd :: starring Ichele Gomez, Derek director Steven Alvarez :: starring Medicine Dream Riddell, Liam Bartie, James Milligan, Scott Inglis artists Steven Alvarez in person When Mark hears the urban myth about the dietary Medicine Dream artists are an Intertribal First Nations habits of the new kid in school, the last thing he wants group that performs contemporary Native American is to be invited to dinner. His worst fears are realized music. when he has to endure a meal at the Campbell’s. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1 pm :: With Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart

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Melodrama Motion Report West Coast Premiere 2005 :: Poland :: 19 min 2005 :: Serbia & Montenegro :: 17 min director Filip Marczewski :: starring Alan Andersz, director Verica Patrnogic :: starring Tamara Krcu- Agnieszka Krukowna, Monika Januszkiewicz novic, Sonja Savic, Dusan Janicijevic

A tale of a 14-year-old boy emotionally and sexually Trading the grim urban grit of Belgrade for blue skies: a maturing. It’s a story of an erotic fascination with an fractured girl-meets-boy story for a time out of joint and older sister, a friendship with a girl in the courtyard, and a society fallen to pieces. a complicated relationship with his sister’s fiance. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3:10 pm :: With Here We Are Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:05 pm :: With Loop My Backyard Was a Mountain My Last Confession Northern California Premiere 2005 :: US :: 24 min 2005 :: Canada :: 21 min director Adam Schlachter :: starring Andrew Aguilar, director David Finley :: starring Maria Del Mar, David Leily Sanchez, Daniel Lugo, Johnny Ray Ferry, Graham Kartna David Finley in person The story of a Puerto Rican boy who has one day to Set in a Catholic Church in the late 1960s, this find a home for his pet goat before his family relocates darkly comic short film tells the story of a young boy to New York City in the late 1950s. Along the way, he who dreads confessing the most grievous of all sins also discovers the promise of first love. – “impure thoughts and deeds.” Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 5:10 pm :: With The Sermons of Sister Jane Nascent Nikita and the Iron Woman West Coast Premiere Northern California Premiere 2005 :: UK :: 10 min 2006 :: Russia :: 25 min director Gina Czarnecki :: starrring Australian director Vitaly Urusevsky Dance Theatre Dancers

A visual and visceral journey through and about being. World War II has just ended and Nikita is waiting for his A film and installation, the piece’s hybrid form exists father to come back home. At one point he finds out between visual art, experimental media, technology that the iron old woman has settled to live in their shed, and dance. and he boldly gets into a fight with her. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm :: With Magic Eye Wednesday, March 28 :: Corinthian :: 3:55 pm :: With Arctic Son Nina Baby No Menus Please Northern California Premiere Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 14 min 2006 :: US :: 15 min director Clyde Mason :: starring Laivan Greene director Edward Shieh :: starring Richard Chang, Kevin Rivera, Fannie Chan, Emily Rieman

A homeless, teenage musician creates fictions to deal Ming and Carlos are two immigrants who embrace with her tough reality. As she journeys through the an ingenious solution while competing to distribute streets of LA giving her take on the world, we witness restaurant menus throughout the neighborhood, but her decide to take the biggest gamble of her life. competition is tough in New York City. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1:20 pm :: With Shakespeare Was a Big..., Ringo Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Clay Offside Northern California Premiere West Coast Premiere 2006 :: US :: 5 min 2005 :: Israel :: 15 min director Nathaniel Fuller :: music The Beatles directors Daniel Sivan & Dorit Tadir

Clay animation showing the love story of Desmond and Ishaq, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy wants to play soc- Molly Jones to the song ‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ by The cer with his friends. What seems natural to any boy his Beatles. age that can play soccer whenever he wants is no easy task for Ishaq. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program

One Rat Short Our Man in Nirvana West Coast Premier 2006 :: US :: 10 min 2005 :: Germany :: 11 min director Alex Weil director Jan Koester

The tale of a subway rat who is led, by the mesmerizing John is a famous rock star. Like every time, he arrives ballet of a discarded food wrapper, into an adventure of too late at his concert, but his fans are celebrating him love and loss on a dark Manhattan night. anyway. When an accident happens and he loses his life, he awakes in nirvana. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

Out of Love Pictures

2005 :: US :: 15 min 2005 :: Tunisia :: 12 min director Ben-Hur Uribe :: starring Laura Crotte, director Nejib Belkhadi :: starring Sawsen Maalej, Johnny Yepez, Jasmine Siler Chekra Rameh, Nejib Belkadhi, Hatem Skik

When a dark secret is revealed, it forces a recent Three days before her marriage, Farah, a 30-year-old Mexican immigrant to face the most difficult choice of Tunisian woman, is preparing for her wedding when her life. In her unimaginable situation, whatever choice she finds photos of her ex-boyfriend. She is torn be- she makes will forever scar her family. tween the past and her future. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 9:30 pm :: With The Women of Ararat The Playground Portrait

2006 :: US :: 10 min 2003 :: Finland :: 5 min director Alison Marek :: starring Alexa Hughes, directors Saara Cantell & Paula Tuovinen :: starring Taliaferro Petoia, Joseph Falasca, Joanne Pankow Turo Mustakallio, Mirja Tukiainen

Eight year old Natalia tries to befriend a new girl at After 30 years of marriage there’s still room for new a local Watermelon Festival. But an accident on the portraits in the family album. Playground terrifies the adults, who know that Mandy has HIV. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 5:05 pm :: With Teen Mothers Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program

The Prestidigitador Quio: So Dazed (MUSIC VIDEO)

2006 :: Spain :: 10 min 2006 :: Germany :: 4 min director :: starring Cristian Fernandez, Luchy Lopez, director Christine Lang :: starring Quio Miguel Uribe

Christian doesn’t feel like studying for tomorrow’s exam An expirimental music video in which the lead singer at all, but he knows that if he fails again, his mother will is put to a test as gravity is suspended. Quio must be very disappointed. orient herself with her new reality, and discovers the advantages to her new surroundings. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program

Rain Is Falling Re– World Premiere 2004 :: Germany :: 15 min 2006 :: US :: 13 min director Holger Ernst :: starring Fadma Ettagoum, director Dave Kim :: starring Joe Orrach, Jennifer Zehra Ettagoum, Abdellah Agoum Rainin, Jennifer Stuckert, Everett Goeldner

The story of a solution, that comparatively abstracts the Henry comes back from the convenience store and his big in the small. Love and humanity lifts up the most wife is leaving him because she received a call from his simple action to redemption, that may bridge human as mistress. In trying to stop her he winds up in a temporal well as cultural gaps. vortex, and has the opportunity to change his fate. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program

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The Red Balloon Regular Northern California Premiere US Premiere 2006 :: US :: 4 min 2006 :: Spain :: 12 min director Michael Olesen :: starring Aidan Gould, director Alfonso Nogueroles :: starring Alfonso Pedro Miguel Arce Fernandez

It’s a sunny day and a little boy swings alone in the Alfonso Fernandez tells, in his own words and si- park. His attention is caught by a kindly traveling sales- lences, how he tried to make a living out of his passion man, but he lacks the necessary funds to purchase one for skateboarding. But accomplishing a dream is not of the bobbing red balloons. always what you expected. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix Saturday, March 24 :: Playhouse :: 1:10 pm :: With Rising Son

Reimerswaal The Remaining Days West Coast Premiere 2004 :: Netherlands :: 8 min 2004 :: Canada :: 9 min director Clara van Gool :: starring Fifi Arp, Peter director Simon Olivier Fecteau van Vuuren

The poem Reimerswaal by Gerrit Achterberg is the While cleaning out his closet, a very old widower finds point of departure of this film about a crime of passion: a list of things he wanted to do in his life. Seeing that a young man and a woman dance a fatal duet in and he might not have much time left, he decides to carry under water. them out, in his own way. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Si Sus Brujos • Revolver Tango Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Return To My Homeland Revolver Tango

2007 :: US/Iran :: 7 min 2005 :: Canada :: 5 min director Moslem Mansouri :: lyrics/music/vocals Ziba director Pascale Marcotte :: starring Bobby Thomp- Shirazi son, Chantal Dauphinais

The narrative of an expatriate’s visit to Iran, telling the In a tango interplay, a revolver is at stake for Alejandro story of nostalgic, bitter-sweet encounters with a past and Sylvia. Who’s leading this killer dance? The man or that has been virtually erased; almost nothing is remi- the woman? The revolver or the tango? niscent of her time and place in pre-revolution Iran. Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 8 pm :: With The Color of Love Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Si Sus Brujos • Reimerswaal Ringo Sadie Turns Seven Northern California Premiere US Premiere 2005 :: US :: 6 min 2006 :: US :: 10 min director Dave Monahan :: starring John Wayne, Roy director Todd Tinkham :: starring Sadie Zimet, Hol- Rogers land West, Mary Cates, Mark Ivey

A backwards celebration (in song!) of two icons of the When a birthday dinner exposes seven-year-old Sadie American Western, John Wayne and Roy Rogers. to a difficult truth about the adult world, Sadie uses everything she’s got to right a crustaceous wrong.

Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1:20 pm :: With Shakespeare Was a Big..., Nina Baby Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 1 pm :: with The Eye of the Dolphin

See You Later Sharks: Stewards of the Reef

2006 :: Lebanon/Switzerland :: 25 min 2006 :: US/French Polynesia :: 30 min director Fouad Alaywan :: starring Julia Kassar, director Holiday Johnson Nicola Daniel, Auby Hout, Ali Koteiby Holiday Johnson A close look at the daily life of a Lebanese immigrant A documentary examining the escalating threats that family in Switzerland. The adults and children encoun- are causing world shark populations to plummet. ter cultural clashes as they continue to integrate. One Humans are now the top predators of the ocean and we day, the whole family faces an unusual turn of destiny. are removing a critical link in the oceanic ecosystem. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm :: With Marin Filmmakers

The Sickie Sideshow US Premiere Northern California Premiere 2006 :: UK :: 13 min 2006 :: US :: 5 min director Rupert Jones :: starring Toby Jounes director Lisa LaBracio

When events at work prove too stressful for Douglas A story of the tragedy of love. Through the precious Knott, he decides to throw a sickie. Unfortunately, his memories of a circus clown, the fleeting quality of love attempts to enjoy a day off are soon sabotaged by the unfolds along with the story. insidious voice of his conscience. Literally. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! Short Program Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Site Speciﬁ c – Las Vegas 05 Sleepwalking

2005 :: Italy/Canada :: 13 min 2005 :: US/Singapore/Australia :: 15 min director Olivo Barbieri director Angela How :: starring Constance Hsu, Mark Slama

Part of a large series of films and large-scale stills by The tale of an extra-marital affair from the point of view Olivo Barbieri displaying unusual aerial portrayals of of the other woman in this homage to the love story international cities as filmed from a helicopter with a tilt- genre. The protagonist’s internal dialogue exposes the shift lens camera that he uses to miniaturize the world. cyclical nature of such ill-timed connections. Thursday, March 29 :: Corinthian :: 7:35 pm :: With Amsterdam Via Amsterdam Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Small Boxes Spyhole Northern California Premiere 2006 :: Australia :: 15 min 2005 :: France :: 17 min director Rene Hernandez :: starring Demain Iturra, director Nicholas Bary :: starring Jean-Pierre Cas- Isabel Olivares, Vanessa Steele sel, Delphine Serina, Romain Rondeau

An opportunity to get out of his current job unloading Alone in his apartment, an old man is listening to his trucks at the local produce markets to do something neighbors partying. The old man is grasping every completely different will mean Alberto has to face his sound. He is watching too, through the countless identity and find the courage to believe in himself. peepholes that are scattered on his walls. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! Short Program Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 5:40 pm :: With The Mao Years The Substitute Sunday Afternoon US Premiere 2005 :: Israel :: 19 min 2005 :: Czech Republic/Italy :: 13 min director Talya Lavie :: starring Dana Ivgy, Shiri Ash- director Gaia Adducchio :: starring Jana Plodkova, kenazi, Hadas Kalderon, Raffael Azran Ondrej Danis

Zohara is an Israeli soldier on an isolated military base A young woman sits on a sofa in the middle of a lake who is about to get a much-anticipated transfer. Her singing an old lullaby. She is waiting for her brother to hopes are shattered when her substitute appears to say goodbye to a loved one. be suicidal. Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 3 pm :: With Working 9 to 5! Short Program Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm :: With The Shutka Book of Records

Surgery Take Four Northern California Premiere 2006 :: Spain :: 2 min 2005 :: US :: 15 min director Alberto Gonzalez director Omar Chavez, Jr. :: starring Nicholas Alex- ander, Candace Marie, Jeremy Mitchell

Do not pay attention to this tremor. Four completely different people, in totally different situations, share an uncommon parrallel drive to accomplish their goals despite any and all obstacles.

Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Teen Flix

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Team Queen The Tell Tale Heart Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 4 min 2005 :: Luxemburg/Spain/US :: 10 min director Leah Meyerhoff :: starring Murray Hill, Julie director Raul Garcia :: narrator Bela Lugosi Atlas Muz, Miss Scarlet Sinclair, Molly the Dolly

A gender-bending, fire-breathing, burlesque- One of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous short stories, performing, post-punk rock‘n roll prom. The new girl in “The Tell-Tale Heart,” was published in 1843. The school is thrown into a topsy-turvy madhouse of high story is a psychological portrait of a mad narrator, who school hellcats. cannot stop hearing his victim’s relentless heartbeats. Tuesday, March 27 :: Corinthian :: 3:35 pm :: With All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Cruise Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program Temerario They US Premiere 2006 :: UK :: 10 min 2006 :: Russian Federation/Tunisia :: 19 min director Carl Zitelmann director Alexander Naas

The story of Rio, a young cowboy who is shot and left These are natural shots of people captured in their for dead in the desert. In the throes of his fear and everyday life, which, gathered together, create a chain agony, Rio dreams of a revenge that causes great pain of history. A history of those with whom we live, though and suffering. we do not know it. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program A Thousand Roads Three Months at Sea Northern California Premiere US Premiere 2005 :: US/Peru :: 40 min 2005 :: Australia :: 13 min director Chris Eyre :: starring John Trudell, Alex director Kylie Eddy :: starring Damian Walshe-Howl- Rice, Jeremiah Bitsui, Geraldine Keams ing, Kristen Hilton, Matt Quartermaine

A widescreen, panhemispheric journey into the world of Julian moved around the world to be with his long four contemporary Native Americans whose lives take time girlfriend. He sent a crate of possessions by sea. a significant turn as they confront the crises that arise Now, three months later, the crate has landed but their in a single day. relationship is over. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With Touched By Water Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts

Til Death Do Us Part Time Well Spent Northern California Premiere 2006 :: US :: 5 min 2006 :: US :: 5 min director Bryan Nest :: starring Marie Lusher, Jason director Benjamin Lopata Whisman

Helen gets dumped days before her wedding. She puts A visually attractive piece with a blend of black and on her dress and goes to the top of a 15-story building white and sepia tones suggesting a romantic theme. to jump. She throws her ring off the ledge and it lands in It’s the story of a young woman struggling with whether Gordon’s cup. He thinks he’s found his soul mate. she should drop it all to be with the man she loves. Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Monday, March 26 :: Playhouse :: 7 pm :: With Marin Filmmakers

Touched By Water A Trip to the Moon

2006 :: Canada :: 46 min 1902 :: France :: 14 min director Tamás Wormser :: narrator Jean Marchand director Georges Méliès :: starring Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Jeanne d’Alcy, Henri Delannoy

A documentary that dives into the lush world of The screen’s first science fiction story is a 14 minute bathing rituals, exploring the traditions of our essential masterpiece, created by imaginative French director bond with water. The variations are enormous, the and master magician Georges Melies, (1861-1938), in similarities staggering. his version of the Jules Verne story. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 5:15 pm :: With A Thousand Roads Sunday, March 25 :: Corinthian :: 5 pm :: With Lumiere & Company

29 Inches Vitruviusʼ Toybox

2005 :: Brazil :: 22 min 2005 :: US :: 6 min director Bernard Attal & Joselito Crispim director Dennis M. Iannuzzi

In a small community along the coast of Brazil, life goes Experimental animation that explores the relationship on quietly and happily. The nearby ocean and the tune between motion graphic techniques, electronic music of a local musician form the backdrop of an adulterous and the use of traditional graphic design ideas as a way romance. of visually organizing an animated film. Thursday, March 29 :: Playhouse :: 5:30 pm :: With Bul deconne Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

The Walls – Drowning Pool Wednesday 2006 :: US :: 9 min West Coast Premiere director Joel Nassan :: starring Thaine H. Allison Jr., 2006 :: Ireland :: 3 min Joyce Long, Danny Aanderud, Joel Nassan director Noah Lagin :: artist The Walls Joel Nassan in person Performance music video featuring top Irish rock band, Wednesday is as good as any other day to be lonely in The Walls for their hit single “Drowning Pool.” Filmed LA. Roger’s simple demeanor contrasts the complexity on location in Dublin, Ireland. of the city as he photographs his every move, but the real reason for the pictures is yet to be discovered. Wednesday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 5:20 pm :: With Daily Shorts! Program Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program

While the Catʼs Away Wigald 2003 :: Iceland :: 5 min Northern California Premiere directors Helena Jonsdottir & Unnur Osp Stefans- 2006 :: Germany :: 11 min dottir :: starring Margaret Olafsdottir director Timon Modersohn :: starring Tom Schilling, Manfred Zpatka, Marijam Agischewa When a young, pedantic daughter is at work, her Wigald is a starving poet, whose lack of income to mother transforms into a passionate dancer, using support his passion for verse and general frustration their overfilled flat as a stage. A heart warming comedy with the world, has him fighting inner demons. about prejudice, self-respect and dreams fulfilled. Thursday, March 28 :: Playhouse :: 7:15 pm :: With Big Dreams Little Tokyo Monday, March 26 :: Corinthian :: 4 pm :: With Senior Shorts Program Wind, Ten Years Old The Win-Win Situation Northern California Premiere 2005 :: Australia :: 4 min 2006 :: Iran :: 23 min director Oscar Germes Castro :: starring Stefan director Marzie Vafamehr :: starring Shaaf Noori, Proell Parisa kani, Mehdi Moghadam, Marzieh Vafamehr This experimental production mixes photographic One day in the life of a ten-year old girl during the techniques with video and electronic music to free the Iran/Iraq war. War propaganda nurtures her for fighting. audience, as the wild landscapes of the Tyrolean Alps Little by little she is drawn to the violence. provide the background for a breathtaking sport. Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 1:15 pm :: With Peel: The Peru Project Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 7:30 pm :: With President Mir Qanbar Wonton Yasmineʼs Song 2005 :: US :: 12 min West Coast Premiere director Wenhwa Ts’ao :: starring Jennifer Shin, 2006 :: Palestine :: 20 min Roberto Carranza, D.J. Howard director Najwa Najjar A story of a young Chinese woman and her witty escape Building the wall won’t keep two young lovers apart. during an Immigration Customs Enforcement raid of Yasmine and Ziyad move in the shadows exchanging the US restaurant where she is illegally employed. tender promises, but the realities of conflict loom. Friday, March 23 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Life in Motion Shorts Program Tuesday, March 27 :: Playhouse :: 3:05 pm :: With Love is in the Air Shorts Zero Degree

2005 :: Iran :: 8 min director Omid Koshnazar TIFF TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW Because of his villainous act, a soldier is captured in the camera cadre. He kills a man, and the camera www.TiburonFilmFestival.com wants to take revenge, but… Sunday, March 25 :: Playhouse :: 11:10 am :: With World of Animation Shorts

46 www.TiburonFilmFestival.com SHORT FILM SCHEDULE Shorts Program Schedule World of Animation Life in Motion March 25 • Playhouse • 11:10 am March 23 • Playhouse • 3:05 pm • Guide Dog • Closed • Hallucii • Wonton • Out of Love • Offside • Temerario • One Rat Short • First Flight • They • Rain Is Falling • See You Later • Little Blue • Zero Degree • Fly By Red Shoes • Jukebox • A Jazz Sketchbook • Our Man in Nirvana • Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Clay • Sideshow • Surgery Daily Shorts! • Catch • Vitruvius’ Toybox March 28 • Playhouse • 5:20 pm • The Walls – Drowning Pool • Hattenhorst • The Tell Tale Heart • Dear Miss Mistress • Quio: So Dazed • Ghost Town • Re– • Looking for Alfred • No Menus Please Love Is in the Air! • Daily Routine March 27 • Playhouse • 3:05 pm • Love Is a Stranger • Til Death Do Us Part • Three Months at Sea Senior Shorts Program • Sleepwalking • House of Flesh • Home For Good • Fallen • Yasmine’s Song March 26 • Corinthian • 4 pm • Hajime • Marti’s Party • Portrait • Aisle 73 • The Remaining Days • My Backyard Was a • Agatha Chrysafi • Wednesday Mountain • Boreas • While the Cat’s Away Teen Flix March 23 • Playhouse • 5:15 pm Working 9 to 5! • The Red Balloon • The Prestidigitador • First Snow March 26 • Playhouse • 3 pm • Dear Lemon Lima • Little Ben • Take Four • In the Net • The Foam Cleaner • The Sickie • Accidents • Meat the Campbell’s • The First Day of My Life • Small Boxes • The Substitute • A Lineman’s Cabin

©2007 Tiburon International Film Festival 47 AROUND THE WORLD IN SEVEN DAYS www.TiburonFilmFestival.com Albania Croatia Relatives Amsterdam Via Amsterdam Beyond Samarkand Hallucii Magic Eye Sleep Sweet, My Darling India Closed Thailand Headshot Searching for Orson Reimerswaal Home For Good Argentina Fly By Red Shoes A White Ballad Journey From the Fall The Intruder First Snow Cuba Never Say Good Bye Tunisia Jack-Jack Attack Si Sus Brujo: A Tango Story A Secret Life with Fidel The Side Effects of Love Nigeria A Jazz Sketchbook Abeni Checkmate Mr. President! Armenia Czech Republic Iran Pictures Johnny Tootall American Fugitive: The Norway The Prince Journey From the Fall Return of the Poet Here We Are Jukebox Sunday Afternoon Truth About Hasaan Bawke They Australia The Color of Love Loop The TV’s Coming Just The Shutka Book of Records King Without a Crown Checkpoint Full or Empty Knick Knack Love is a Stranger Denmark On a Friday Afternoon Peru Turkey Lady of the East Marti’s Party Gitmo: The New Rules of Lady of the East A Thousand Roads Boreas Ladylike Sleepwalking War The Nightly Song of the Crash Palestine Little Blue Small Boxes The Judge Travellers I Named Her Angel Be Quiet In Transit Lumiere & Company Three Months at Sea President Mir Qanbar Yasmine’s Song Ecuador Return to My Homeland Life on Their Shoulders Luxo Jr. Austria Romeo and Juliet Get Towards Sunset The Nightly Song of the Medicine Dream: “In This Poland World” Mozartballs Married Wind, Ten Years Old Melodrama Travellers Mike’s New Car The Win-Win Situation Zero Degree The Perfect Afternoon Stolen Eyes Egypt Toss Up My Backyard Was a Azerbaijan House of Flesh Iraq Mountain A Crude Awakening – The Dreams Romania UK ...More Than 1000 Words Oil Crash Estonia A Lineman’s Cabin All is Well Nina Baby Shop of Dreams Ireland Russia Gorgeous Labor of Love No Menus Please Belgium The Walls – Drowning Pool Gweipo Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Clay Looking for Alfred Finland Nikita and the Iron Woman Honey and Sting One Man Band Rwanda. Through Us, Frozen City They Israel Illegal One Man, One Voice – Kris Humanity... Risto & Minna 51 Birch Street The Lives of the Saints Kristoffersson Satyajit Ray Negatives The First Zionist Bunny Scotland France Accidents Lumiere & Company One Rat Short The Sleeping Child Offside Amsterdam Via Amsterdam Dupe Nascent Out of Love ...More Than 1000 Words Black Night, Meat the Campbells The Sickie Peel: The Peru Project Bosnia & The Substitute October 17, 1961 Temerario The Playground Herzegovina Burnt Out Italy Senegal A Very British Bollywood Re– Go West Bul deconne Hammer and Tickle: The Daily Routine The Red Balloon Communist Joke Book US Red’s Dream Brazil The Destination Aisle 73 The Kiss Serbia Return to My Homeland Estamira Marcello, A Sweet Life Motion Report All Aboard! Rosie’s Family Lumiere & Company Ringo The Machine A Secret Life with Fidel Cruise The Mao Years Rising Son: The Legend of Romeo and Juliet Get Shooting Silvio Singapore All’s Fair The Nightly Song of the Skateboarder Christian Married Site Specific – Las Vegas 05 Sleepwalking Almost Home Travellers Hosoi Teen Mothers Sunday Afternoon American Fugitive: The Spyhole Sadie Turns Seven 29 Inches A White Ballad South Africa Truth About Hasaan This Girl Is Mine Son of Man The Sermons of Sister Jane Andre and Wally A Trip to the Moon Japan Shakespeare Was a Big Bulgaria Arctic Son White Platoon Hajime Spain George Jones Fan Christmas Tree Upside Down Big Dreams Little Tokyo The Women of Mount Ararat Kamataki Avatar Sharks: Stewards of the Reef Stolen Eyes Blame It On the Fish ...More Than 1000 Words Enrique Morente: Alhambra Sideshow Blind Love Canada French Polynesia Daydreams Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Borderlands American Fugitive: The Sharks: Stewards of the Reef Korea In the Net Heart Boundin’ Truth About Hasaan Bloody Tie Machine Sleepwalking Germany Boxed Black Eyed Dog MAGMA Take Four Beyond Samarkand Kurdistan Catch Duo The Prestidigitador Team Queen Dear Miss Mistress The Women of Mount Ararat Chasing the Horizon Fallen Regular The Tell Tale Heart Fly and Fall A Cigar at the Beach The First Day of My Life Surgery 365 Boots on Ground The Foam Cleaner Lebanon The Cole Nobody Knows Forgive Me See You Later The Tell Tale Heart Til Death Do Us Part Hattenhorst Cries from Ramah Hammer and Tickle: The The Tillamook Treasure Little Ben Daily Routine Communist Joke Book Luxembourg Sweden A Thousand Roads ...More Than 1000 Words Daily Specials Hero By Nature The Tell Tale Heart Gitmo: The New Rules of Time Well Spent Our Man in Nirvana Darius Goes West: The Roll Kamataki War Tin Toy Quio: So Dazed of His Life McLaren’s Negatives Macedonia Tis Autumn: The Search for Rain is Falling Balcancan Switzerland Dear Lemon Lima Mozartballs Jackie Paris Valerie The Barber Directed By John Ford My Last Confession Vitruvius’ Toybox Wigald Mexico A Crude Awakening – The Disappearances The Remaining Days Wednesday Borderlands Oil Crash Down the Line Revolver Tango Wonton Greece To the Other Side Going Private Site Specific – Las Vegas 05 Even Money Agatha Chrysafi Mozartballs Steel Toes Montenegro The Eye of the Dolphin Venezuela Toss Up Riviera Cocktail A Sunday in Kigali Motion Report False Promise Playing In the Dark The Wake See You Later Touched By Water First Flight To Play and To Fight Morocco For the Birds China Hungary The Sleeping Child Taiwan Geri’s Game Hallucii Gweipo Just Sex and Nothing Else Ghost Town Lost Dream of Beijing The Real Santa Netherlands Tajikistan Guide Dog

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