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Festival Introduction Theatre Locations Festival screenings will take place at the following convenient venues: Welcome to Filmfest DC, Washington’s ★ AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ★ Regal Cinemas celebration of the best in world cinema! 4000 Wisconsin Ave., NW 701 7th St., NW Take Metro Red Line to the Take Metro Blue, Green, Orange, There is nothing like a Tenleytown Metro stop. Parking is Red, or Yellow line to the Metro great movie and the 20th available in the building for $2.00 Center or Gallery Place/Chinatown Anniversary edition of with a validated parking ticket. Metro stops. Three hours of free parking with validation are avail- Filmfest DC promises to ★ Avalon Theatre able at Gallery Place Parking on 6th deliver an exceptional 5612 Connecticut Ave., NW Street between G and H Streets. entertainment experience. Prepare to be amused, ★ The Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre Other Locations provoked, and inspired by ★ 4200 Wisconsin Ave, NW Busboys and Poets extraordinary new films 14th and V Streets, NW Take Metro Red Line to the Take Metro Green line to the from some of the world’s Tenleytown Metro stop. Paid U Street/Cardozo Metro stop. most talented and innova- parking is available in the building along Van Ness Sreet and at 4000 tive filmmakers. From Rio ★ Embassy of Canada Wisconsin Avenue. to Reel, our selection of 501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW new films from Brazil, takes ★ Landmark’s E Street Cinema ★ us to the country that gave 555 11th St., NW Embassy of France Photo: Chad Evans Wyatt Evans Chad Photo: us Dona Flor and Her Two Take Metro Blue, Green, Orange, 4101 Reservoir Road, NW Tony Gittens, Festival Director, and Shirin Red, or Yellow Lines to Metro Husbands, Bossa Nova, and Ghareeb, Assistant Director ★ Center and/or Gallery Place/ GW’s Lisner Auditorium Pelé. Our Hip-Hop 4 Reel Chinatown stops. Three hours 730 21st St., NW. series explores this American urban phenomena and its influence on of reduced rate parking is avail- Take Metro Orange or Blue Lines 2 popular culture throughout the world. able in the adjacent garage (with to Foggy Bottom/GWU Metro stop. validation), Monday through Friday after 6 pm and anytime ★ National Gallery of Art As the festival has flourished, we are more aware than ever of the on weekends. East Building Auditorium, important role it plays in our city’s cultural life. We greatly value the 4th St. & Constitution Ave., NW. opportunity to create this platform from which talented filmmakers Take Metro Green or Yellow Lines to can tell their stories with passion, humor, and integrity. Filmfest DC is Archives/Navy Memorial Metro stop. an adventure and we invite you to join us. Ticket Information

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Gabriel Byrne Wah-Wah

Richard E. Grant United Kingdom/France, 2005, 99 minutes, color Filmfest DC special guest Gabriel Byrne, star of Miller’s Crossing, The Usual Suspects, and many others, gives perhaps the strongest and most well-rounded performance of his distin- guished career in Wah-Wah, a mischievous, superbly acted, and utterly confident directorial debut from popular actor Richard E. Grant. The semi-autobiographical work takes its name from such impenetrable British slang as “toodle-pip” and “hubbly-jubbly,” and Grant’s obvi- ous affection for Swaziland and its people shines through in every widescreen frame. Among the superlative ensemble cast are Julie Walters and British character stalwarts Celia Imrie, Julian Wadham, and Fenella Woolgar. The film is set in Swaziland in the mid-1960s, when 11-year-old Ralphie Compton (Zachary Fox) witnesses the indiscretion of his mother, Lauren Opening Night Sponsor (Miranda Richardson) with the best friend of his father, Harry (Gabriel Byrne). Harry’s public wrath and subsequent drinking prompts Lauren’s departure and Ralphie’s banishment to boarding school, events played out in front of the entire expatriate community. Two years later, Ralph (Nicholas Hoult) returns to find his father remarried to a brassy American air hostess, Ruby (Emily Watson). A movie to cherish on an evening to celebrate, Wah-Wah grandly and officially kicks off the third decade of Filmfest DC.—Eddie Cockrell

Wednesday, April 19, GW’s Lisner Auditorium, followed by gala reception, $40.00

★ In Person: Star Gabriel Byrne who will be Introduced by Sydney Pollack 3 Closing Night Sunday, April 30 Housewarming Brigitte Rouan France/United Kingdom, 2005, 95 minutes, color A thoroughly unexpected and lightning-fast comedy from director Brigitte Rouan, Housewarming is perhaps the perfectly pitched coda to a 20th anniversary Filmfest DC. A hard-charging and beautiful Parisian immigration lawyer who literally dances around the prosecution, Chantal (Carole Bouquet) puts her bankroll alongside her beliefs by hiring a United Nations in miniature of illegal aliens to connect an upstairs flat to the apartment she shares with dope-smoking son Martin (Ferdinand Chesnais) and pre-pubescent daughter Pulcheria (Giulia Dussollier). Whether she’s trying to visualize the “well of light” promised by the hyperkinetic Colombian architect, fend off the comically elaborate advances of a bearish Russian suitor, or deal with the eccentricities of the various laborers who gleefully destroy her walls and expensive tiling, Chantal is the model of tolerance. Warm and benevolent even in the midst of its comedic flights-of-fancy, Housewarming (the original French translates loosely as “Remodeling: You know when it starts but not when it’ll be over”) pauses to ponder the tensions and frustrations of the disenfranchised in Paris, while offering Chantal the chance to do an impromptu Hip-Hop breakdance for a hard-hearted magistrate. Energetic proof of cinema’s ability to simultaneously educate and entertain, Housewarming is a sunny screwball sendoff. See you next year at Filmfest DC.—Eddie Cockrell

IN FRENCH, RUSSIAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN, AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Sunday, April 30, 4:00 pm, Regal Cinemas, followed by a party at Lucky Strike, $15.00 Closing Night Sponsor

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From Rio to Hip-Hop 4 Reel Hip-Hop: From the Street to the Screen Reel: The New The voices, beats, and rhymes of Hip-Hop have traveled from America’s cities to communi- Saturday, April 22, 4:30 to 6:30 pm, Busboys Brazilian Cinema ties around the globe. This year’s Filmfest DC and Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW presents a series of films exploring the growth Brazilian film is hot again and is currently under- and influence of this popular art form. Once Directors of films in the Hip-Hop 4 Reel series going a second renaissance. Filmfest DC pres- considered a unique expression of America’s discuss the making of their work, their influences ents a series of new features and documentaries urban streets, Hip-Hop music, dance, art, fash- and how they view the future and impact of Hip- reflecting this new trend. Our series includes ion, and social awareness have been absorbed Hop culture. Romeo and Juliet Get Married, the new film from by a diverse audience of young people around Bruno Barreto (who gave us Dona Flor and Her the world. The Hip-Hop culture continues to • Moderator: Mona Ibrahim, Director of Two Husbands), as well as wonderfully entertain- serve as a medium for voices that may other- Community Building and Preservation, Hip-Hop Association ing documentaries on Bossa Nova and soccer leg- wise go unheard. Fortunately, Hip-Hop refuses end Pelé. The energy and momentum we find in to go mainstream and still flourishes amongst • Thomas Gibson, Director, Letter to the today’s Brazilian cinema has not been seen since the creative minds that gave it life. Films in the President the 1960s’ Cinema Novo movement. Due to fund- series are drawn from Cuba, Senegal, Palestine, • Maori Karmael Holmes, Director, Scene ing shortage, cinema in Brazil all but completely Morocco, Kenya, and the USA. Filmmakers will Not Heard disappeared by the mid-1980s. Fortunately, cir- be on hand to discuss their work • Byron Hurt, Director, Beyond Beats and cumstances have improved and the innovative, Rhymes crowd-pleasing films audiences have come to Films in the Hip-Hop 4 Reel Series • Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, Director, Inventos: expect from the world’s fifth-largest country have • Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Hip Hop Cubanos 4 returned to the screen. Head Weighs in on Manhood in Hip-Hop Culture (USA) Films in the From Rio to Reel Series • Bellek (Belgium) The Business of Hip-Hop • Brasileirinho • East of Havana (Produced by Charlize Theron, USA) Saturday, April 29, 2:30 to 4:30 PM, Busboys • Favela Rising • Hali Halisi (Tanzania) and Poets, 14th and V Streets, NW • Lost and Found • Hip-Hop Colony (Kenya) • Maria Bethânia: Music is Perfume This is a panel of those who create and maintain • Hip-Hop from the Street to the Screen • Maria’s Place the infrastructure in which Hip-Hop thrives. These • Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop (USA) folks do not rhyme in front of the mic. Instead, • My Uncle Killed A Guy • La Fabri-K (Cuba) they book the shows, find new talent, spin the • Pelé Forever beats on the airwaves and generally take care of • Letter to the President (USA) • Romeo and Juliet Get Married business. Come hear what they have to say about • Scene Not Heard (USA) • This is Bossa Nova: The History and the Stories what goes on between the beats and rhymes. • Underground Game Films in the Hip-Hop Planet • Gabriel Benn (Boondocks/Guerilla Arts) Shorts Program • Brandon Flowers (BET) - Bling: Consequences and Repercussions • Lamar Lee-Kane (Maven-Branded Drinks & Flicks (USA) Entertainment) at The Arts Club - Estilo Hip-Hop (Latin America) • Ben Willis (Rawkus/Sony) - Inventos: Hip Hop Cubanos (Cuba) • Jenny Jones (WKYS) of Washington - Sling Shot Hip-Hop (Palestine) - United Nations of Hip Hop (Senegal) Join Filmfest DC’s guest international directors for ■ Co-presented with: a roundtable discussion of their work featured in this year’s festival. The informal panel follows a cash bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres at the historic Arts Club of Washington. Tuesday, April 25 from 5:15 to 7:00 pm. The Arts Club of Washington, 2017 Eye Street NW

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Capital Focus Award

The Capital Focus Award is a juried competition An Evening with of selected films deserving of increased recogni- tion. Films in the competition were selected by festival’s programming staff and the winner will Sydney Pollack be determined by a jury of accomplished film professionals. A cash award will be given to the “I want to explore questions to which I don’t winning film’s director in recognition of his or know the answer,” Sydney Pollack once told an her achievements. interviewer, and in a directing career that began Films selected for this year’s award in 1961 with an episode of the television pro- competition include: gram “The Defenders” and has grown to include East of Havana (USA) some 21 features since 1965—not to mention The Fisherman and His Wife (Germany) close to 50 films as producer or executive pro- The Grönholm Method (Spain/Argentina/Italy) ducer—that’s exactly what he’s done. October 17, 1961 (France) Remarkably, he’s developed a cordial relation- Romeo and Juliet Get Married (Brazil) ship from a distance with Hollywood that allows Swindled (Spain/France) him to tackle high-profile projects while at the same time remain far enough away to pursue his own interests. “It’s a little tougher than working with a studio from Three Times (Taiwan) an economic point of view,” Pollack explains, “but it’s often more interesting. I U-Carmen eKhayelitsha (South Africa) can be slightly riskier.” Or, as he told another interviewer, “I’ve produced my own films for 20 years now. It means I have to talk to fewer people.”

Circle Audience For all his caution at being consumed by the studio system, Pollack the direc- tor perhaps most resembles those now-legendary craftsmen who made economic, Award profitable entertainments in a variety of genres. He’s helmed westerns (Jeremiah Johnson), thrillers (Three Days of the Condor, The Firm, The Interpreter), war 5 Founded by Ted and Jim Pedas, Washington’s films (Castle Keep), romantic melodramas (This Property is Condemned, The Way Circle Theatres set the standard for innovative quality film programming. Filmfest DC will pres- We Were, Out of Africa, Havana, Random ent an award to the feature film voted the most Hearts), and even a comedy (Tootsie). His popular by our audience. Ballots will be available latest credit? A feature-length documenta- after each screening. The winners for both the ry on architect Frank Gehry, shot on digital Circle Audience Award and the Capital Focus video and 16mm film. Award will be announced on Closing Night. In all, Pollack’s directed 12 actors to Oscar®-winning performances, includ- Legend ing Jane Fonda, Barbra Streisand, Paul Newman, Dustin Hoffman, and Meryl Look for the following icons throughout the catalog: Streep. He’s even had a measure of suc- cess in front of the camera, with memorable supporting roles in Tootsie, The Cinema for Seniors Player, Husbands and Wives, Eyes Wide Shut, and—yes, you weren’t hallucinating— “Will & Grace.” Filmfest DC for Kids So what does this incredible body of work tell us about Sydney Pollack? That he values the integrity of his work in equal measure to its ability to provide an audience Free! with entertainment. That smart movies can be successful movies. And that working hard at one’s craft can yield dazzling results that will last.—Eddie Cockrell From Rio to Reel, The Cinema of Brazil Thursday, April 20, 6:30 pm, National Gallery of Art, FREE, program will include film clips

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Hip-Hop 4 Reel

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3 Needles FILMFEST DC FOR KIDS — FREE! Thom Fitzgerald Akeelah Canada, 2005, 125 minutes, color Along the windswept South African coast, young novitiate Sister Clara and the Bee (Chloë Sevigny) does mission work under the tutelage of veteran nuns Sister Hilde (Olympia Dukakis) and Sister Mary (Sandra Oh). Meanwhile, Doug Atchison in China’s rural mainland, pregnant Jin Ping (Lucy Liu) runs a blood USA, 2006, 112 minutes, color collection business. And in Montreal, lowlife porn actor Denny (Shawn Ashmore) dodges blood tests by surreptitiously swapping samples with Doug Atchison’s Akeelah his father. Balancing and the Bee is an inspira- natural beauty with the tional drama about defy- difficulty of HIV infec- ing adversity with cour- tion and human greed, age, determination, and the triptych of good love. An eleven-year-old in south Los Angeles, Akeelah intentions in 3 Needles Anderson feels different from most girls in her neigh- begins to unravel: Sister borhood; she can spell “prestidigitation” without blink- Clara deals with a very ing an eye. Realizing her gift for words, Dr. Larabee human devil to obtain supplies, Jin Ping’s corrupted business (Laurence Fishburne) encourages the young protégé results in human loss for a farmer, and Denny’s long-suffering to pursue dreams that are ordinarily unattainable in mother (Stockard Channing) does what she must to salvage her her neighborhood’s crime-ridden streets. Despite dis- family. Among the most unabashedly ambitious films you will couragement from her mother Tanya (Angela Bassett), see this year, 3 Needles burns with a fire of noble intentions Akeelah enters and wins spelling contests with the that transfer into mesmerizing, thought-provoking, life-affirming help and support of Larabee, her principal, Mr. Welch drama.—Eddie Cockrell (Curtis Armstrong), and her proud neighbors. Excelling in the spelling bee circuit, Akeelah earns a spot in the IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, XHOSA, AFRIKAANS, AND MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Scripps National Spelling Bee, where she once again Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, Embassy of Canada, ADVANCE SALES ONLY feels out of place, this time compared to her well-off Followed by a reception competitors.— Cleveland International Film Festival Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm, Avalon Theatre ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Canada Sponsored by ★ In Person: Star Olympia Dukakis and Director Friday, April 21, 10:00 am, Avalon Theatre, FREE, by reservation only Thom Fitzgerald Friday, April 21, 1:00 pm, Avalon Theatre, FREE, by reservation only 6 Antarmahal: Views of the Bal Can Can Bellek Inner Chamber Darko Mitrevski Bart Van Dijk Italy/United Kingdom/Macedonia, 2005, 89 minutes, color Belgium, 2003, 54 minutes, color Rituparno Ghosh This turbocharged sociopolitical farce is sort of a With a name derived India, 2005, 118 minutes, color cross between Emir Kusturica’s Underground and from the word ven- From acclaimed National Lampoon’s Vacation. It’s spring 2001 in civil dors use to clear filmmaker war–torn Macedonia, and hapless Trendafil Karanfilov the crowded path in Rituparno Ghosh, is skipping town to avoid conscription, with his fam- front of them, Bellek whose Chokher ily and mother-in-law Zumbula in tow. In Bulgaria, is a Belgian-made Bali and opening the old woman dies of the heat. To avoid red tape, documentary about the night attraction Trendafil stashes her in a rolled-up carpet for the trip vibrant Hip-Hop scene Raincoat were home—and promptly loses her. Enter faux Italian in the Moroccan city among the high- blood brother of Sale. Principally lights of FFDC Santino, with whom known as the loca- 2005, comes a Trendafil begins a tion for the filming of Black Hawk Down, it also turns sumptuous new harrowingly funny out to be an urban hotbed of American influences widescreen drama chase to Serbia from extensive breakdancing to an impromptu acous- about sexual and Montenegro in tic guitar version of James Brown’s “Sex Machine.” gamesmanship in 19th century Bengal. In 1878, search of, well, a Determined to elbow aside the more traditional a year after Queen Victoria has become Empress corpse wrapped in Gnawa, Chaabi, and Andalouse forms of Moroccan of India, moody village landowner Bhubaneswar a rug. “The film is music, the DJs and performers who hosted director Chowdhury neglects first wife Mahamaya but hopes for shot flawlessly, paradoxically, cleverly, and without any Bart Van Dijk’s cook’s tour of the alleys and clubs that an heir with young second spouse Jasomati. Hoping strain [from a] spectacular screenplay,” raved one crit- fuel the scene admit that the country’s innocence of to curry favor with the newly-arrived Brits by having a ic. “It is possible that we are witnessing the appear- the musical form is “what makes Morocco charming” statue sculpted in the Queen’s likeness, he summons ance of yet another Balkan wunderkind.” but are committed to the more idealistic facets of the handsome young sculptor Brijbhushan (Abhishek —Eddie Cockrell lifestyle.—Eddie Cockrell Bachchan)—only to find his arrival creating even more tensions.—Eddie Cockrell IN MACEDONIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN ARABIC AND FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 24, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Wednesday, April 26, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas IN ENGLISH AND BENGALI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Tuesday, April 25, 8:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Thursday, April 27, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas Sunday, April 23, 6:00 pm, Avalon Theatre ★ In Person: Director Darko Mitrevski ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Saturday, April 29, 7:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ★ In Person: Director Bart Van Dijk An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006

Beyond Beats Bombon: El Perro Brasileirinho and Rhymes Carlos Sorin Mika Kaurismaki A Hip Hop Head Weighs in on Argentina, 2004, 97 minutes, color Finland/Brazil/Switzerland, 2005, 90 minutes, color A lauded new film from director Carlos Sorin (Minimal Forged in and Manhood in a Hip Hop Culture Stories), Bombon: El Perro is a seductive crowd-pleaser around Rio de Byron Hurt that resonates with audiences by virtue of the non-pro- Janeiro from fessional cast’s honest dignity and the deadpan demean- the blending USA, 2006, 62 minutes, color or of Sorin’s approach. A quiet, 52-year-old mechanic of European Byron Hurt was watching Hip-Hop laid off from a filling station, Juan gets by selling knives polkas and music videos one day when he realized he patiently crafts himself. When a good deed results in waltzes with the music he loved glorified misogyny, the gift of a striking and sizeable Dogo Argentino show Afro-Brazilian violence, and male domination. “I dog named Bombon, Juan falls in with a burly and excit- music some need,” he says in the narration to able canine show 130 years ago, Cholo is credited with being the first Beyond Beats and Rhymes, “to make vet. A period of musical expression of Brazil’s melting pot and the first a film that breaks all of this down.” That it does, as training produces genuinely Brazilian urban music form. Samba and Bossa Hurt records valuable interview time with many of the a show win, Nova sprung from Cholo in the 1920s, and the form players in the commercial Hip-Hop industry. Jadakiss although dreams went moribund in the 1970s and 1980s. Contemporary justifies his work by saying, “I’m just trying to feed my of big money are players have rediscovered Cholo and speak to its unique daughters,” while Russell Simmons claims to be selec- dashed when balance of improvisation and demanding structure. tive about the issues he promotes. On the plus side, Bombon’s stud Brasileirinho is a visually striking 35mm valentine to his Chuck D is one of a handful of artists who urge a more services prove adopted country by Finnish expatriate Mika Kaurismaki. accurate and benevolent reflection of black manhood less than effec- A leisurely exploration of the music and the dedicated in the genre. From the studio to the streets, Hurt asks tive. After he’s musicians who keep it alive today, this is an immersion all the right questions and receives some distressing yet supported briefly in what composer Villa-Lobos calls “the essence and illuminating answers.—Eddie Cockrell by singer Susana, Juan finds himself alone once again soul of Brazilian music.”—Eddie Cockrell but is relieved to learn that both he and Bombon have ■ Shown with Scene Not Heard IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES something left in the tank.—Eddie Cockrell Saturday, April 22, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas Friday, April 21, 9:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Sunday, April 23, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 22, 7:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Thursday, April 27, 8:30 pm, The Greenberg Theatre ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil Saturday, April 29, 9:30 pm, The Greenberg Theatre ★ In Person: Director Byron Hurt 7 Changing Times C.R.A.Z.Y. Les temps qui changent Jean-Marc Vallee Canada, 2005, 125 minutes, color Andre Techine By the time France, 2004, 96 minutes, color Montréal-born The seventh pairing of French screen greats Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu is also the acclaimed new Zachary Beaulieu film from Andre Techine, whose Wild Reeds thrilled FFDC audiences in 1995. Antoine Lavau (Depardieu) arrives in (Marc-André Tangiers to oversee the building of a media communications center. Paralleling his professional mission is a crucial Grondin) is old personal one: For nearly 32 years he’s never stopped thinking about Cecile (Deneuve), with whom he shared a sym- enough to begin rec- biosis of love and desire ognizing the world that’s eluded him since, around him, he real- and he plans to track her izes he’s different. down in Tangiers where she The fourth of five now lives. Cecile, who hosts boys sired by Patsy the French portion of a Cline-loving blue-collar dad Gervais (Michel Côté), the nightly French-Arabic radio young Zac (played by Émile Vallée) struggles with the show, is married to Natan weight of being born on Christmas Day 1960, a perva- (Gilbert Melki), a Moroccan sive Catholic upbringing, and the curse of individual- doctor at least a decade her ism in a milieu that discouraged it. Thankfully for Zac, junior. When Antoine meets his teenage years coincide with the maturation of rock Natan under tragicomic and roll. As difficult as things get, Zac’s got “Louie circumstances, Cecile is Louie,” Roy Buchanan, “The Dark Side of the Moon,” abruptly confronted with David Bowie, and the Rolling Stones to see him this lovesick puppy from through his quest for sexual identity. C.R.A.Z.Y. is a her past.—Lisa Nesselson, rare work of art, a film drenched in its time and place Variety that nevertheless speaks with clarity and joy to anyone IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES who’s ever felt like a fish out of water.—Eddie Cockrell Friday, April 28, 8:45 pm, IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday, April 25, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Saturday, April 29, 6:30 pm, Thursday, April 27, 9:00 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Canada

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Crossing the Bridge WORLD PREMIERE The Sweet Sound of Istanbul Dance Party: The Teenarama Story Fatih Akin Herb Grimes USA, 2006, 45 minutes, color and black Germany/Turkey, 2005, & white 90 minutes, color Do you remember Waxie Maxie’s? This new documentary from Miles Long Sandwich Shops? “What’s the director of last year’s happening at WOOK? Everything in remarkable Head On is a the Book?” If so, then you remember fascinating journey through “Teenarama,” the forerunner to “Soul the music scene in mod- Train” that allowed Washington’s ern Istanbul. Alexander black teenagers the opportunity to Hacke (bass player with dance together on UHF channel 14 Einstürzende Neubauten) from 1963 to 1970. Although the sets up his mobile recording show’s entire archive of kinescopes studio to capture everything was destroyed when new ownership from classical Arabesque to indie rock and rap and swept in, Howard University Television teases out impressions of the city and its people. producer Beverly Lindsay-Johnson has Among the featured artists are the hugely popular lovingly pieced together the history Sezen Aksu and Orhan Gencebay, Kurdish singer of this groundbreaking TV show from Anyar, and newer generations of musicians such as vintage clips, archive material, and fusion DJ Orient Express, digital maestro Mercan interviews with those behind, and in Dede, and bands including Duman and Replikas. The front of, the camera. Born of the late camera roves through Istanbul’s streets, dipping in 1950s rise of civil rights and televi- and out of buildings and alleyways, peering round cor- sion, “Teenarama” grew from the regional success of such programs as Philadelphia’s “American Bandstand,” ners, and building up a beautifully filmed and paced Baltimore’s “The Buddy Dean Show,” and Washington’s “The Milt Grant Show,” drew such top-tier talent as James portrait of the city’s cultural life.—Sandra Hebron, Brown, Martha Reeves, and Marvin Gaye, and made stars of the teenagers who danced on it.—Eddie Cockrell Times London Film Festival Friday, April 28, 9:00 pm, Regal Cinemas IN TURKISH, GERMAN, AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ★ In Person: Motown Legend Martha Reeves and ■ Co-presented with the Saturday, April 22, 9:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Producer Beverly Lindsay-Johnson

8 CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Factotum East of Havana Bent Hamer Jauretsi Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal Norway/USA/Germany, 2005, 94 minutes, color USA, 2006, 86 minutes, color Matt Dillon is Henry Chinaski The kind of out-of-left-field sensation at the recent South By Southwest Film Festival that affirms the value of who takes and such events in the first place, East of Havana was produced by Oscar®-winning actress Charlize Theron (Monster), loses a series whose last appearance at FFDC was in John Duigan’s sweeping romantic drama Head in the Clouds. East of of menial jobs Havana is an unflinching close-up view of the lives and friendships of three young rappers compelled to address as he fills legal their generation’s future from pads with sto- the confines of a Cuban ghetto. ries. Jan (Lili Soandry, Magyori, and Mikki Taylor) segues possess the undeniable talent to prostitute and charisma of pop icons, Laura (Marisa but within Cuba’s fearless and Tomei) and rebellious underground move- then to eccen- ment they are also the de facto tric French leaders, creating music whose millionaire cross-pollination early American Pierre (Didier rap and Latin influences brings Flammand) self-expression to its sharp- and his two women, Jerry (Adrienne Shelly) and Grace est, riskiest, and most trium- (Karen Young). It was a very good idea to entrust the phant point.—2006 South By work of Charles Bukowski to the Norwegian-born direc- Southwest Film Festival tor Bent Hamer, whose Eggs and Kitchen Stories have Friday, April 28, 6:30 pm, been hits in previous editions of Filmfest DC. Episodic Regal Cinemas and note-perfect, the entire film was shot in and Saturday, April 29, 9:00 pm, around a summery Minneapolis-St. Paul. Factotum has Regal Cinemas the same spacey deadpan feel of early Jim Jarmusch ★ In Person: Directors Jauretsi but is in a league all its own.—Eddie Cockrell Saizarbitoria, Emilia Menocal Tuesday, April 25, 6:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Favela Rising NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary Fire at my Heart Brazil/USA, 2005, 82 minutes, color Fuoco su di me Part social document, part rousing concert Lamberto Lambertini film, and part harrow- Italy, 2005, 104 minutes, color ing personal journey, International star Omar Sharif and rising Bollywood Favela Rising is a star Sonali Kulkarni are featured in this sumptuous kinetic, joyous affirma- costumer set in 1815 during the final days of Joachim tion of music’s ability Murat’s brief rule as King of Naples. Returning there to transcend poverty from the battlefields of France, wounded officer and strife. In Vigario Eugenio (Massimiliano Varrese) feels an existential Geral, the “Brazilian restlessness that war cannot assuage. His grandfather Bosnia,” a brutal police Nicola (Omar Sharif) is also troubled by recent events, raid claimed the life of which will lead to the execution of Murat (Zoltan Anderson Sa’s brother. Ratoti) and the end of the Bonapartist monarch’s patri- Working with nothing otic dream for a united Italy. As he recovers, Eugenio more than determina- woos peasant tion, Sa and other beauty Graziella dedicated young people (Sonali Kulkarni) harnessed the hypnotic by reciting poetry power of a percussive style of Hip Hop to focus the energies of youth who might otherwise sink into drug dealing to her. Sharif and violence. “Through music we changed our reality,” says Sa. Between 1987 and 2001, nearly 4,000 minors brings his trade- were murdered in Rio de Janeiro, most of them in the slums, or favelas, of the city. Lauded by critics everywhere, marked gravitas Favela Rising explores the grim conditions of the favelas and the exuberant rise of the music.—Eddie Cockrell to the role of Nicola.—Jay IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Weissberg, Variety Friday, April 21, 9:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Sunday, April 23, 8:15 pm, Regal Cinemas IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Sunday, April 23, 8:30 pm, Avalon Theatre Wednesday, April 26, 6:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil

9 CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Free Zone CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD The Fisherman Amos Gitai The Grönholm Method and His Wife France/Israel/Spain/Belgium, 2005, 90 minutes, color El Metoldo Three women traveling together experience dilemmas Der fischer und seine frau threaded with personal histories of loss and anguish Marcelo Pineyro in this gripping tale about displacement and personal Spain/Argentina/Italy, 2005, 115 minutes, color Dorris Doerrie identity. Rebecca (Natalie Portman) breaks off her “This Grönholm Method is starting to worry me,” some- Germany, 2005, 102 minutes, color engagement in Jerusalem. Emotional and heartbroken, one says early in this darkly funny film, and there’s There’s nothing coy about she flees from certainly cause for alarm. On the 35th floor of a down- Doris Doerrie’s exuberant her ex-fiancé town office tower in Madrid, the Dekia Corporation The Fisherman and His Wife, to get her life has gathered seven finalists for what they’ve been told which wraps a Japanese fish together and is a high-level position. The seven are subjected to story around the eponymous gets into a cab the titular process, a “personnel selection” program Brothers Grimm fairytale. While driven by Hanna involving a decidedly strange battery of tests. They’re backpacking around Japan, (Hanna Laszlo), told upfront there’s a mole from Dekia hiding in their 27-year-old German fashion who is on her midst, and, like a modern version of Rod Serling’s clas- designer Ida meets countrymen way to Jordan’s sic TV morality play “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Otto and Leo. Known as the "Flying Fish Doctors" for Free Zone to pick Street” crossed with “Survivor,” the group begins to their lucrative business selling Japanese koi fish to rich up some money choose up sides and press their individual advantages. collectors, Otto and Leo take the hitchhiker under their owed to her. Once The Grönholm wing. In time, Otto and Ida become smitten with each there, a woman named Leila breaks the news that Method is a sly, other; she soon becomes pregnant and they marry in a the money has vanished. “The physical journey is the widescreen con- colorful Japanese ceremony. Otto watches as Ida suc- freshest aspect of Free Zone,” writes Variety’s Derek demnation of the cessfully designs koi-inspired hand-knitted scarves which Elley. “This is the first Israeli production shot in co- dehumanizing she sells to the wife of the fish doctors’ chief patron. operation with the Jordanian Royal Film Commission, effects of corpo- Meanwhile, Leo has married Yoko and opened his own taking the average viewer into rarely seen areas. It is rate methodology fish clinic. Then things get complicated.—Eddie Cockrell Amos Gitai’s most satisfying film since the war drama on human inter- Kippur.”—Chicago International Film Festival IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES action.—Eddie Cockrell Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas IN ENGLISH, HEBREW, AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Wednesday, April 26, 6:15 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ■ Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Friday, April 28, 9:00 pm, The Greenberg Theatre An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post Saturday, April 29, 7:00 pm, The Greenberg Theatre 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Hali Halisi Hard Candy Heart Lift Martin Meulenberg David Slade Lifting de corazón The Netherlands, Tanzania, 1999, 30 minutes, color USA, 2005, 103 minutes, color Hali Halisi portrays rap as an alternative medium One of the in Tanzania. Rappers and experts give their views most shocking on the emerging Hip-Hop scene in Dar es Salaam films to emerge and Zanzibar (Tanzania), and their thoughts on the from the 2005 importance of rap as a medium for communication. Sundance Film In many African countries Hip-Hop is becoming more Festival was and more important to the urban youth. The music Hard Candy, and the lifestyle it symbolizes are appealing to them, the cat-and- and in the ’90s mouse tale rap has become of a teen- a soundtrack age girl who to their lives. turns the tables on a man she thinks is an Internet Through rap lyr- pedophile. Empire magazine included the film in its ics young people “jaw on the floor” roundup of festival films, noting in Africa express that “like the ear-slicing scene in Reservoir Dogs, this their views on dark two-hander left even the most hardened view- their own situa- ers shell-shocked.” It played at Sundance as part of tion, living con- the Park City at Midnight section and is directed by ditions, ideals, David Slade, from a screenplay by Brian Nelson. Trevor and problems.— Groth, writing on the Sundance Web site, declared that africanhiphop. “the film boasts truly breakout performances by its two com leads (Ellen Page, Patrick Wilson) which are career- making revelations.” He concludes, “Hard Candy is a Eliseo Subiela IN SWAHILI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES chilling film, completely and intricately crafted, and Argentina, 2006, 90 minutes, color Thursday, April 27, 6:15 pm, Regal Cinemas has a riveting final denouement. It is a rare achieve- Saturday, April 29, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas ment.”—Jack Foley, indielondon.com The much anticipated new feature from Dark Side of ■ Shown with La Fabri-K the Heart writer-director and FilmfestDC fave Eliseo Friday, April 21, 9:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Subiela continues his career-long fascination with the ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Saturday, April 22, 9:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue multifaceted dilemmas and yawning pitfalls of love. Antonio is a plastic surgeon who thinks of himself as 10 a warrior, fighting the fight against the deterioration Hip-Hop Planet of the human body. Middle-aged yet content, Antonio has never gone under the knife himself, keeping old age at bay through a combination of exercise, facial Bling: Consequences and creams, and a youthful, energetic spirit. But during Repercussions a business trip to Buenos Aires, Antonio stumbles upon the fountain of youth in the beautiful (and much Kareem Edouard younger) Delia, who awakens something unexpected in USA, 2005, 11 minutes, color him. When he reluctantly returns home to Seville, his ★ In Person: Director Kareem Edouard wife immediately senses something’s up and makes an appointment with a marriage counselor. But is it too Estilo Hip Hop: America Latina late?—Rene Rodriguez, The Miami Herald Virgilio Bravo IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES USA, 2001, 9 minutes, color Sunday, April 23, 8:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES An Internet blogger observed recently that if Hip-Hop and rap Inventos: Hip Hop Cubano were to vanish from the American cultural scene, the worldwide Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi network of its disciples and practitioners would rise to fill in USA, 2003, 49 minutes, color and black & white the gap. This gathering of new and recent films bears that out; Estilo Hip Hop explores the movements in São Paulo, Chile, IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES and Argentina, while Inventos inventories different facets of the ★ In Person: Director Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi Cuban Hip-Hop experience. Slingshot HipHop reveals the music is alive and well in Gaza, Tel Aviv, and among Muslims, even Slingshot HipHop: The Palestinian as United Nations of Hip-Hop explains how rappers in Senegal, Lyrical Front West Africa have molded the music to their oral history tradition and Bling connects the dots between the jewelry prominently Jacqueline Salloum featured in mainstream videos and the so-called blood diamonds USA, 2005, 5 minutes, color from war-torn Sierra Leone. The same message emerges in all of these raw, vital works: At its idealistic core, Hip-Hop is about United Nations of Hip-Hop information and empowerment.—Eddie Cockrell Christina Choe Friday, April 21, 6:45 pm, Regal Cinemas USA, 2004, 9 minutes, color Saturday, April 22, 9:00 pm, Regal Cinemas In French and English with English subtitles ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Hip Hop Colony In Bed Iraq in Fragments Michael Wanguhu En la cama USA, 2005, 97 minutes, color and black & white Matias Bize Following a thumbnail history of Kenya, director Chile/Germany, 2005, 85 minutes, color Michael Wanguhu jumps right into the country’s thriv- In Bed won the Golden Spike grand prize at the 50th ing Hip-Hop scene, interviewing and/or documenting anniversary edition of Spain’s Valladolid festival. such notable performers as Bamboo (whose acoustic Having just met at a Santiago bar, Daniela and Bruno music is a distinctive treat), rapper Harry K (Kimani), are first seen as a blur of bedclothes and flesh, pant- K-Shaka, Mau Mau ing through frantic sex in a garishly decorated motel Camp, Mercy Myra, room. Afterwards, they can’t even remember each Gidi Gidi Maji Maji, other’s names, and like a carnal inversion of Samuel and many others. Beckett, keep meaning to leave but never actually Wanguhu also traces do. Gradually, a relationship develops as they share James Longley the melding of tradi- secrets, work their way through a box of condoms, and USA, 2006, 92 minutes, color tional Kenyan styles stake out the parameters of love and trust. Matias Bize Iraq in Fragments was culled from some 300 hours and western rap into has injected a completely original concept with ner- of footage shot over a two-year period commenc- a new entity, dubbed vous energy and intense performances. The edgy cin- ing immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Genge Music, and ematography prowls the motel room while jittery jump Originally conceived as an ongoing series, the focus illustrates how Hip-Hop and rap have stimulated a cuts reflect this cou- was scaled back when conditions became too danger- rebirth in the speaking of indigenous tribal dialects. ple’s apprehension ous. What survives are leisurely, intimate portraits of The message is clear: When focusing on social strug- at baring their souls the struggles faced by average, diverse people in a gles instead of materialistic trappings, Hip-Hop can be (although they have time of great uncertainty. Eleven-year-old Mohammed a powerful force for good. This film is a fine introduc- no trouble baring is a fatherless Sunni whose struggles with school and tion to Kenyan Hip-Hop and the music’s power to unite everything else).— the changes around him bring the wrath of the brusque and focus a community.—Eddie Cockrell Eddie Cockrell auto mechanic for whom he works. In Najaf, follow- IN ENGLISH, KISWAHILI, KIKUYU, AND VARIOUS DIALECTS WITH IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ers of self-styled Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr hammer ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday , April 28, 9:45 pm, Avalon Theatre out political positions and enforce ultra-conservative Sunday, April 23, 6:15 pm, Regal Cinemas Saturday, April 29, 9:45 pm, Avalon Theatre Islamic law. On a farm south of Arbil, two brick-making Monday, April 24, 9:15 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Chile families grapple with closely-linked issues of politics ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association and faith. Winner of director, cinematography, and ★ In Person: Director Matias Bize editing awards at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. Also, winner of the International Federation of Film 11 Critics Awards at the 2006 Thessaloniki Documentary Isn’t This a Time! Film Festival, as well as the winner of the Documentary A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal Film Competition at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Iraq in Fragments is progressive cinema vérité Jim Brown at its most urgent and immediate.—Eddie Cockrell USA, 2004, 89 minutes, color IN ARABIC AND KURDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES “There’s no age to the spirit,” 85-year-old Saturday, April 22, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema folk icon Pete Seeger says toward the end of Sunday, April 23, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema this rousing concert documentary. Indeed, ★ In Person: Director James Longley young bands can only hope to have the energy Seeger’s durable folk group The Weavers exhib- its today. Director Jim Brown’s belated fol- low-up to his 1982 film The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time?, this new film alternates between a 2003 Carnegie Hall reunion concert laud- ing the folk movement’s long-time promoter (who died in 2005) and backstage looks at the performers today. Partly a where-are-they-now? update and a primer for the uninitiated, the film features fiery performances from move- ment stalwarts Arlo Guthrie (who points out he’s been playing with Seeger twice as long as his dad Woody knew him), Leon Bibb, Theodore Bikel, and Peter, Paul & Mary. The film’s message transcends political affiliations to affirm the art of aging gracefully and staying involved. “Participating,” says Seeger, “is a wonderful thing.”—Eddie Cockrell

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7:00 pm Opening Night Gala 7:00 pm My Uncle Killed a Guy 9:45 pm Letter to the President 6:45 pm The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides Wah-Wah AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Regal Cinemas Landmark’s E Street Cinema With Gabriel Byrne & Introduced by 8:45 pm Three Times Sydney Pollack Landmark’s E Street Cinemas Sunday, April 23 U-Carmen eKhayelitsha, p.20 GW’s Lisner Auditorium 9:00 pm Brasileirinho 11:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue My Brother Is a Dog* Thursday, April 20 9:00 pm October 17, 1961 National Gallery of Art Landmark’s E Street Cinemas 4:00 pm Piaf: Her Songs...Her 6:30 pm An Evening with Sydney Pollack* Stories National Gallery of Art 9:00 pm Swindled Avalon Theatre Embassy of France 7:00 pm Letter to the President 5:30 pm This Is Bossa Nova: Regal Cinemas 9:00 pm Tapas The History and Stories followed by a party at Busboys Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas and Poets 9:30 pm Favela Rising 6:00 pm Antarmahal 7:00 pm Tapas Regal Cinemas Avalon Theatre Regal Cinemas 9:30 pm Hard Candy AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:00 pm Romeo and Juliet Get Married Friday, April 21 AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:45 pm Underground Game 10:00 am Filmfest DC for Kids Saturday, April 22 Regal Cinemas Akeelah and the Bee* 6:00 pm Three Times 8:30 pm Lost and Found Avalon Theatre 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids Landmark’s E Street Cinema My Brother Is a Dog* AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:15 pm Hip Hop Colony 1:00 pm Filmfest DC for Kids National Gallery of Art Regal Cinemas 8:45 pm Maria’s Place 12 Akeelah and the Bee* 4:30 pm Hip-Hop Panel* Regal Cinemas Avalon Theatre 6:30 pm John & Jane Toll-Free From the Street to the Screen 8:45 pm October 17, 1961 6:30 pm Look Both Ways Landmark’s E Street Cinema Busboys and Poets Landmark’s E Street Cinema Landmark’s E Street Cinemas 6:30 pm Opa! 6:00 pm Water 8:45 pm To Die in San Hilario 6:30 pm A World Without Thieves AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Avalon Theatre Landmark’s E Street Cinema Regal Cinemas 8:15 pm Favela Rising 6:30 pm Short Cuts 8:45 pm Wrong Side Up 6:45 pm Hip-Hop Planet Regal Cinemas Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Regal Cinemas 8:30 pm Fire at my Heart 6:30 pm U-Carmen eKhayelitsha 9:15 pm Hip Hop Colony 6:45 pm Netto Avalon Theatre Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas Landmark’s E Street Cinemas 8:30 pm My Uncle Killed a Guy 6:45 pm Look Both Ways AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:45 pm Zozo Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 8:30 pm Netto 6:45 pm Zozo Landmark’s E Street Cinema Tuesday, April 25 AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 8:45 pm Beyond Beats and Rhymes 7:00 pm Beyond Beats and Rhymes 10:00am Cinema for Seniors Shown with Scene Not Heard Shown with Scene Not Heard Only the Strong Survive* Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas Avalon Theatre 8:45 pm Heart Lift 7:30 pm Brasileirinho 5:15 pm Drinks & Flicks* AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue The Arts Club of Washington 8:45 pm Iraq in Fragments 8:45 pm Iraq in Fragments Landmark’s E Street Cinema 6:15 pm To Die in San Hilario Landmark’s E Street Cinema Landmark’s E Street Cinema

9:00 pm Crossing the Bridge: The Sound 6:30 pm Heart Lift of Istanbul Monday, April 24 AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:30 pm The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes 9:00 pm Hip-Hop Planet 6:00 pm Romeo and Juliet Get Married Landmark’s E Street Cinema Regal Cinemas AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:30 pm Underground Game 9:00 pm Piaf: Her Songs...Her Stories 6:30 pm Bal Can Can Regal Cinemas Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:45 pm Factotum 9:15 pm La Moustache 6:30 pm The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Avalon Theatre Landmark’s E Street Cinema 6:45 pm Isn’t This a Time! Regal Cinemas Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, p.16 An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Festival Schedule 8:30 pm Opa! 8:45 pm John & Jane Toll-Free 8:45 pm Changing Times 9:30 pm The Second Wedding Night AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue

8:30 pm Passion 8:45 pm Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey 9:00 pm Dance Party: The Teenarama 9:45 pm In Bed Landmark’s E Street Cinema Landmark’s E Street Cinema Story Avalon Theatre Regal Cinemas 8:45 pm Bal Can Can AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 9:00 pm The Grönholm Method Thursday, April 27 The Greenberg Theatre Sunday, April 30 8:45 pm C.R.A.Z.Y. Landmark’s E Street Cinema 6:15 pm Iron Island 9:00 pm The Second Wedding Night 4:00 pm Closing Night Event AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 8:45 pm Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Housewarming Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas 6:15 pm La Fabri-K 9:45 pm In Bed Followed by a party at Shown with Hali Halisi Avalon Theatre 9:00 pm Maria’s Place Lucky Strike Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas 9:45 pm Jails, Hospitals & Hip Hop 4:30 pm Return of the Poet* 6:15 pm Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey Regal Cinemas National Gallery of Art Landmark’s E Street Cinema Wednesday, April 26 6:30 pm 3 Needles A World Without Theives, p.21 Embassy of Canada 6:15 pm Free Zone AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:30 pm The Fisherman and His Wife Regal Cinemas 6:30 pm Factotum AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:30 pm Free Zone AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue 6:30 pm The Fisherman and his Wife Regal Cinemas 6:30 pm Live-In Maid The Greenberg Theatre 6:30 pm Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume 6:30 pm Maria Bethânia: Music Is Perfume Landmark’s E Street Cinema Landmark’s E Street Cinema

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8:45 pm Bellek 2:30 pm The Business of Hip Hop Panel* are free. Bal Can Can, p.6 Regal Cinemas Busboys and Poets All programs are subject to change. 8:45 pm Passion 6:30 pm Changing Times Landmark’s E Street Cinema AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Take Metrobus or Metrorail to 8:45 pm Pelé Forever 6:30 pm A World Without Thieves Filmfest DC Regal Cinemas Regal Cinemas

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An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Iron Island Jails, Hospitals John & Jane Toll-Free Jazire ahani & Hip Hop Ashim Ahluwalia India, 2005, 82 minutes, color Mohammad Rasoulof Mark Benjamin, Danny Hoch Ashim Ahluwalia’s documentary John & Jane Toll-Free Iran, 2005, 85 minutes, color USA, 2001, 91 minutes, color meditates on the split identities of Mumbai call center Mohammad Rasoulof’s examination of life onboard a If you know Danny Hoch at workers, the outsourced masses touted as beneficia- decrepit tanker in the Persian Gulf is a mythic expres- all, it’s probably from the ries of globalization by the likes of Thomas Friedman. sion of people in a constant state of flux. With the aid press he received 10 years “At the end of the day,” Friedman declares in his of Captain Nemat (Ali Nasirian), the ship’s population ago for passing up the role book The World Is Flat, “these new jobs actually carves out an existence away from the prying and of Ramon the pool guy on allow them to be more Indian”—apparently because disdainful hands of the outside world. The ship begins a “Seinfeld” episode and they can eat rice and curry after a long night hawking to sink but certainly not with the hopes of its people, a small part in From Dusk phone service plans to cranky Americans. John & Jane who persevere despite Till Dawn. Instead, the Toll-Free undermines this blinkered boosterism, evok- their loss. Iron Island is an Obie-winning performance ing the glassy near-future nowhereness of Demonlover even-handed vision of peo- artist honed this one-man and Jem Cohen’s recently released Chain. Ahluwalia ple in a perpetual state of show in which he assumes eavesdrops on accent elimination classes and cultural- migration. It acknowledges a number of different per- training seminars that teach “American values” such the struggle of minorities sonas: Montana teenager and rapper wannabe Flip as “individualism” left to their own devices Dog, rage-choked upstate New York prison guard Sam, and “achievement and their self-devouring brain-damaged Victor, good-hearted paraplegic Gabriel, in success.” The instinct in times of crisis. Hip-Hop entrepreneur Emcee Enuff, and others. results suggest that The film is both an elegy Seamlessly edited from staged sequences, an onstage the brave new glo- to the oppressed and a performance, an appearance at Washington Square balization indeed call for majority com- Park, and a stand-up gig in the day room of a wing at promotes a kind of passion.—Ed Gonzalez, Rikers Island, this exploration of social identity from two-dimensional slatemagazine.com the Queens native one writer called “an urban Hip-Hop man programmed to buy into and blindly serve the soothsayer” is a major cinematic find.—Eddie Cockrell IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES capitalist dream.—Dennis Lim, The Village Voice Thursday, April 27, 6:15 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Sunday, April 23, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Wednesday, April 26, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Tuesday, April 25, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, Friday, April 28, 9:45 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, American University ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association American University 14 La Fabri-K La Moustache Letter to the The Cuban Hip-Hop Factory Emmanuel Carrere President Lisandro Perez-Re France, 2005, 86 minutes, color Thomas Gibson Successful architect USA, 2004, 91 minutes, color Cuba, 2005, 62 minutes, color Marc impulsively Subtitled The Cuban Hip-Hop Factory, this involving decides to surprise Thomas Gibson’s Letter to the President marshals an and inspirational documentary follows the collaboration his wife Agnès by impressive array of voices and personalities to trace the of two Hip-Hop groups from the dynamic Cuban shaving off his way national politics affected the development of rap rap scene and their subsequent tour of the United moustache, a facial and the way rap has influenced the political discourse. States. The dirt-poor Cuban coastal town of Alamar is feature that he has From Jesse Jackson’s rejection of the original, socially known as the birthplace sported through- aware Hip-Hop generation in 1984, through the rise of Cuban Hip-Hop- out much of his of more commercial music under Bill Clinton and the primarily because of the adult life. When he current tsunami of divisiveness and ironic photo ops Miami radio broadcasts realizes nobody’s provided by George W. Bush, such heavyweights as that have reached and noticed, he begins to suspect his wife of a ruse, a KRS-One, Dilated Peoples, Chuck D, Luther “Luke” influenced the young wounded perception that Agnès tries to quell by insist- Campbell, Ice T, and 50 Cent reflect on the nuances of people there. When Yrak ing that he had never had a moustache. Marc attempts the history and social fab- and Edgar from Doble- to catch Agnès in a lie by finding some proof of his ric, urge fans to vote, and Filo join forces with the moustache’s former existence. Soon, Marc’s obses- suggest new strategies. husband-and-wife team known as Obsesion, La Fabri-K sion begins to place a strain on their relationship. At Narrated with outspoken is born. “What we do is manufacture,” says one. “The the core of Emmanuel Carrère’s surreal descent into candor by Snoop Dogg, factory is where honest laborers in the community can madness, disconnection, and fugue is a thoughtful, Letter to the President is be found.” But can the integrity of their grassroots, lucid, and penetrating exposition into the inevitable a terse, startling, glossy socially charged music withstand the culture shock of transformation of all human relationships from visceral summation of where Hip-Hop has been, where it is, American consumerism?—Eddie Cockrell passion to emotional partnerships, when a relationship and where it might be going.—Eddie Cockrell inevitably begins to evolve and lovers no longer see Thursday, April 20, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES things through the same blissful prism of lovestruck Saturday, April 22, 9:45 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Shown with Hali Halisi intoxication.—Acquarello, Strictly Film School ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association

Thursday, April 27, 6:15 pm, Regal Cinemas IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ■ April 20 screening followed by a party at Busboys Saturday, April 29, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas and Poets. Friday, April 21, 7:00 pm, Avalon Theatre ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Saturday, April 22, 9:15 pm, Avalon Theatre ★ In Person: Director Thomas Gibson An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Live and Become Live-in Maid The Long Haul of Va, vis et deviens Jorge Gaggero A.I. Bezzerides Spain/Argentina, 2004, 85 minutes, color Radu Mihaileanu Fay Efrosini Lellios Continuing her smashing run of socially relevant com- France/Israel, 2005, 148 minutes, color USA, 2006, 51minutes, color and black & white edies and dramas, the great Norma Aleandro (A Night Live and Become with Sabrina Love, Son of the Bride, Cleopatra, Oscar® “I was never part of the picture people,” says 98-year- depicts the winner for The Official Story) stars in this close-to- old Albert Isaac “Buzz” Bezzerides. “I just wrote.” The migration of the the-vest satiric drama as Beba, a haughty, divorced prolific and committed champion of the working class Ethiopian Jews to Buenos Aires bourgeoisie who drinks too much and has Joe on page and screen, Bezzerides combined the Israel in 1984. taken to selling off her jewelry and peddling cosmetics inspiration of William Faulkner with a natural talent for Thousands of door-to-door to pay the bills. Although her maid, Dora clean, realistic prose into a writing career that included Africans from (Norma Argentina), has been with her for 30 years, his breakthrough novel “The Long Haul” and the sub- many famine-rav- Beba hasn’t paid her in seven months. When Dora sequent Hollywood films They Drive by Night, Thieves’ aged nations have decides enough is enough, Beba’s stuffy attempts to Highway (from his book “Thieves’ Market,”), On found themselves save face and hang onto her life’s last constant pro- Dangerous Ground, and Kiss in refugee camps vide a droll Me Deadly. “Whoever wrote in Sudan. Faced framework this story sure knew his with certain death, for the folks,” Bezzerides remem- a Christian Ethiopian mother steers her young son, panic of bers a moviegoer saying Soloman, to the lineup, quietly insisting he declare Argentina’s about his second screenplay, himself to be Jewish. Once in Israel and officially an middle Juke Girl, and this is the leg- orphan, the newly renamed Schlomo is adopted by a class during acy of this feisty Armenian/ French Sephardic family in Tel Aviv and throws himself the recent Greek immigrant. The Long into absorbing Hebrew, French, and the Jewish faith. economic Haul of A.I. Bezzerides He is a Christian pretending to be Jewish, an orphan upheaval reminds us that this gifted with two mothers, and an African in a Western culture. there. novelist and screenwriter, in addition to holding a place —Jane Schoettle, Toronto International Film Festival —Eddie in the pantheon of film noir greats, at his core is one of the great exponents of what novelist George Pelecanos IN AMHARIC, HEBREW, AND FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Cockrell calls “proletariat literature.”—Eddie Cockrell Wednesday, April 26, 8:15 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Thursday, April 27, 8:15 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Monday, April 24, 6:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, The Greenberg Theatre ★ In Person: Star Sirak Sabahat Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm, The Greenberg Theatre ★ In Person: Novelist George Pelecanos 15 Look Both Ways Lost and Found Maria Bethânia: Sarah Watt Achados e perdidos Music Is Perfume Australia, 2005, 100 minutes, color Jose Joffily Georges Gachot Look Both Ways is a breathtakingly assured treatise Brazil, 2005, France/Switzerland, 2005, 82 minutes, color on the urgent importance of braving an unstable world 102 minutes, color each and every day. A woman who imagines all sorts Fans of Brazilian music in general and tropicalia in A former high- of animated disasters in the course of her day, Meryl particular won’t want to miss this intimate, involving ranking Rio cop (Justine Clarke) happens across a tragedy in Adelaide portrait of a passionate superstar. “Music is perfume,” retired after on the way home from says 1970s tropicalia superstar Maria Bethânia. three decades her father’s funeral: A “Nothing instantly affects you or changes you.” Like on the force, man has been hit and the lingering impact of a seductive scent, Georges Vieira (Antonio killed by a slow-moving Gachot’s documentary hovers around the Brazilian Fagundes) argues train. This event has a superstar as she rehearses and records. Through this with his hooker girlfriend Magali (Zeze Pollesa) and ripple effect on those sanctioned eavesdropping, viewers come to know the the next morning she’s found murdered. Initially a who were there at the meticulous detail that goes into her delivery of songs. suspect, he’s cut adrift to wallow in his own misery— scene of the accident, Viewers will also learn a good bit about her birthplace, until Magali’s younger co-worker Flor (Juliana Knust) including photographer Bahia, where begins to show an interest. As Vieira works through Nick (William McInnes), she visits her his grief, flashbacks to his good times with Magali who’s just been diag- lovable mother also reveal his sordid past with former partner and nosed with testicular and her equally current politico Monteiro (Genezio de Barros). What’s cancer, journalist Andy famous brother, with the briefcase full of American dollars, what’s with (Anthony Hayes), whose Caetano Veloso. nervous whore Vanessa (Malu Galli), and how exactly sometimes girlfriend has just announced her preg- A high point: did Magali die? This taut, ambitious, largely hand-held nancy, newspaper editor and apprehensive family man after a con- thriller from veteran director Jose Joffily is a solid Phil (Andrew S. Gilbert), and a number of others. A cert, Maria is joined backstage by Nana Caymmi and hard-boiled genre entry, with political intrigue added to bravura ensemble drama, Look Both Ways is the tri- Miucha for a samba siren’s call. —Eddie Cockrell the mix.—Eddie Cockrell umphant live-action feature debut of animator Sarah IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Watt.—Eddie Cockrell IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Wednesday, April 26, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Australia Monday, April 24, 8:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Thursday, April 27, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Wednesday, April 26, 8:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Friday, April 21, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil Saturday, April 22, 6:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil ★ In Person: Director Georges Gachot An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Maria’s Place Metal: Music Is My Life, Bendito fruto A Headbanger’s Politics My Mistress Sergio Goldenberg Journey (Oscar Brown Jr.) Brazil, 2005, 90 minutes, color Strange things Sam Dunn, Scott McFayden, Jessica Joywise happen when a Canada, 2005, 98 minutes, color and black and white widow on vacation Sam Dunn confronts the musical obsession of his teen- is accidentally age years in this whirlwind tour of the complex inter- hit in the head national world of heavy metal music. Traveling from by a flying man- London to New York to Los Angeles—with side trips to hole cover. The the four-day bacchanalia Wacken Open Air in north- accident leads to ern Germany and the a fortuitous meet- Norwegian black metal ing between two movement—Dunn talks old friends who to dozens of the lead- haven’t seen each other in years. The victim of the fly- ing lights of the scene. ing cover, out on her own for the first time since the Commenting on the death of her husband, is looking for a new, more excit- roots, religious elements, ing life. Her former classmate owns a beauty shop and and fans of the music shares his home and affections with his much younger are Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi, Rush’s Geddy Lee, maid. As she recovers from her injury, the widow is Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson, Twisted Sister’s Dee wined and dined by her old friend, who feels an odd Snider, Mötley Crüe’s Vince Neil, Motörhead’s Lemmy attraction to someone who can relate to his mid-life Kilmister, Cannibal Corpse’s George “Corpsegrinder” crisis concerns. A game of seduction ensues, with hid- Fisher, Rob Zombie, and Alice Cooper. “You either feel den passions and desires coming to the fore.—Sandy it or you don’t,” Dunn concludes; for those who do, this Wolf, Cinequest Film Festival film is a clip-filled affirmation.—Eddie Cockrell

IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Wednesday, April 26, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Thursday, April 27, 6:15 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Monday, April 24, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas Tuesday, April 25, 9:00 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Canada ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil ★ In Person: Directors Sam Dunn and Scott McFayden Donnie L. Betts 16 USA, 2005, 110 minutes, color FILMFEST DC FOR KIDS — FREE! My Uncle Killed Considered by many to be the father of rap music, Oscar Brown Jr.’s rich and full life is given a lovingly My Brother A Guy detailed documentary treatment. After dabbling in communism, politics, and journalism, Brown began Is a Dog Meu tio matou um cara writing lyrics in earnest while holding down a day job Peter Timm selling insurance. He’s written and recorded numerous Jorge Furtado albums for Columbia, RCA, Atlantic, and others, while Germany, 2004, 93 minutes, color Brazil, 2005, 85 minutes, his acclaimed stage shows include “Kicks & Co.,” color There’s nothing that ten-year old Marietta wants more “Big Time Buck White,” and “Opportunity Please for her birthday than a little dog. But what does she Fifteen-year-old Duca Knock.” Among those singing his praises are Studs get instead? A silly old rock. This rock is special, (Darlan Cunha), the Terkel, Abbey Lincoln, Amiri Baraka, Nichelle Nichols, however; it fulfills its owner’s greatest wish. And sure only black kid in his and Al Freeman Jr. And, as numerous mesmerizing enough, one morning school, is a keen performance clips indicate, this lyricist, poet, activist, Marietta wakes up to observer of human playwright, actor, vocalist, and all around raconteur find a little dog wait- nature. When his uncle Eder (Lazaro Ramos) admits to is still going strong. “My aim,” he says, “is to deliver ing to play with her. Duca’s parents that he’s shot the husband of his lover, messages that swing and entertainment which is But when she notices the boy’s natural curiosity kicks in. Duca methodically meaningful.” By this criteria, the life and work of that her four-year-old gets to the bottom of the mystery, aided and abetted Oscar Brown Jr. are on target.—Eddie Cockrell brother Tobias is miss- by would-be girlfriend Isa (Sophia Reis) and chum Kid ing, she realizes that he (Renan Gioelli). Forty-seven-year-old writer-director Friday, April 28, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas Saturday, April 29, 9:15 pm, Regal Cinemas has been transformed Jorge Furtado (Two Summers, FFDC 2004) makes dis- ★ into the dog. With their parents away and grandma too armingly simple films about the ways in which young In Person: Director Donnie Betts obsessed with cleaning to notice that anything’s wrong, people navigate the mysterious and often hazardous Marietta begins to feel lonely and does her best to turn world around them. My Uncle Killed a Guy raises “Toby” the dog back into “Tobias” the boy. But Tobias probing questions under the guise of comedy. Caetano apparently likes being a dog, especially after a film Veloso’s peppy score includes a lovely cover version of crew discovers the talented mutt and offers him a role Talking Heads’ “Nothing But Flowers.”—Eddie Cockrell in a production.—Bavaria Film IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 21, 7:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Sponsored by Sunday, April 23, 8:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil Saturday, April 22, 10:30 am, National Gallery of Art, FREE Sunday, April 23, 11:30 am, National Gallery of Art, FREE ★ In Person: Star Darlan Cunha

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Netto CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Robert Thalheim Germany, 2005, 86 minutes, color October 17, 1961 Marcel was a small-time electronics repairman in Nuit noire, 17 octobre, 1961 the former Communist era and now splits his time between the rundown shop and a Vietnamese café, Alain Tasma where he holds court ranting against globalization France, 2005, 108 minutes, color and dreams of becoming a security expert. When his Those who know their contemporary French history or those who were prompted to research the topic after it was 15-year-old computer-savvy son arrives from the west used in Michael Haneke’s Cache (Hidden) are already familiar with the events of October 17, 1961. After seven as a protest against his remarried and newly-pregnant years of war, negotiations between Algerian nationalist forces and the De Gaulle government were at a stalemate. mother, the stage is set for a father-son showdown In the late summer and early fall of that year, forces from the National Liberation Front assassinated Paris police in that illustrates not only the still-wide gulf between retaliation for the “dirty war.” east and west, but the good old-fashioned generation Tensions boiled over during a gap that transcends politics. Graced with an unshake- supposedly peaceful demon- able fondness stration, and under shoot-to-kill for its eccentric orders between 50 and 200 characters, the marchers were killed. To this film is scored day, the massacre has not been to the music officially investigated. Director of 1970s icon Alain Tasma’s terrifying rec- Peter Tschernig, reation of these events brings Germany’s to mind the visceral, idealistic answer to Johnny power of similar films, Battle Cash. Netto is of Algiers and Bloody Sunday the kind of focused, immensely satisfying character chief among them.—Eddie study that used to be the backbone of European art- Cockrell house fare.—Eddie Cockrell IN FRENCH AND ARABIC WITH ENGLISH IN GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES SUBTITLES Friday, April 21, 6:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Friday, April 21, 9:00 pm, Sunday, April 23, 8:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Landmark’s E Street Cinema Monday, April 24, 8:45 pm, ■ Co-presented with the Goethe-Institut Landmark’s E Street Cinema 17 CINEMA FOR SENIORS — FREE! Opa! Passion Only the Udayan Prasad Baba el makam Strong Survive United Kingdom/Greece, 2005, 97 minutes, color Mohammad Malas The newest film from Udayan Prasad (My Son the France/Tunisia/Syria, 2005, 102 minutes, color Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker Fanatic, FFDC 1999) is a charming, light-hearted USA, 2002, 95 minutes, color delight. Matthew Modine plays Eric, an American Thirty-year-old Imane lives with Only the Strong archaeologist obsessed with proving his dead father’s her husband, Survive is a trib- theories about the beautiful, fabled Greek island Adnan, and three ute to rhythm of Patmos. He arrives there one day on a packed children in a and blues per- ferry, convinced he has discovered the location of modest house formers who an archeological goldmine. All business at first, Eric across from the have stood the quickly comes to learn that life is lived more easily historic city of test of time and on Patmos. The first eccentric character he meets is Aleppo. Adnan is their inspira- his father’s old friend, Tierney, a bumbling excavator a simple, hard- tional stage per- and ouzo working man, formances. The addict. His but his job in the film features life is further civil service doesn’t pay enough to support his fam- knockout per- complicated ily so he moonlights as a taxi driver. With less time to formances from when he spend with his family, Imane takes to listening to the such R&B leg- falls in love songs of Um Kalthoum and develops a great passion ends as Wilson with the for the legendary Egyptian singer. She tries singing Pickett, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Butler, the Chi-Lights, Carla vivacious herself, first timidly, then with more assurance and Thomas, Mary Wilson, Ann Peebles, and many more, owner of pleasure. Her greatest joy is to comb the bazaar for as well as interviews in which the artists discuss the the local cassettes of Um Kalthoum. Her husband is thrilled ups and downs of their lives in music. Only the Strong taverna. by the transformation of his wife and encourages her Survive also features performance footage of Memphis Unfortunately, he cannot tell her that the buried chal- new passion. Her uncle, however, is suspicious of this R&B pioneer Rufus Thomas, who died at the age of 84 ice lies immediately beneath her restaurant.—Noah new passion. Could she be seeing another man? They less than two months before the film was completed. Cowan, Toronto International Film Festival decide to follow her.—IMDB —Pennebaker Hegedus Films Sunday, April 23, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday, April 25, 8:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue IN ARABIC WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Sponsored by Tuesday, April 25, 8:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Tuesday, April 25, 10:00 am, Avalon Theatre, FREE Thursday, April 27, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Pelé Forever Piaf: Her Stories…Her Songs Pele eterno George Elder USA, 2003, 95 minutes, color and black Aníbal Massaini Neto & white Brazil, 2005, 110 minutes, color French singer Edith Piaf (1915–1963) rose In a small Brazilian village in 1950, a young boy through sheer talent and determination listened to the World Cup soccer final on a transistor from humble beginnings to become one of radio with his father. When Uruguay pulled off a 2-1 the most famous and highest-paid perform- victory over the Brazilian team, the man broke down ers in the world. Her spirit lives in Raquel sobbing, prompting the Bitton, one of the greatest interpreters of 10-year-old to console his the music from the Edith Piaf repertoire. father with the promise “It was never about the tragedies,” she that he would one day help explains in her charming voiceover. “To Brazil win the World Cup. me, it was always about the music and the Thus began the legend of stories in the songs. They grabbed me by Pelé. In an amazing career, the heart and never let me go.” During the spanning two decades and course of Bitton’s stage show, in which she nearly 1,400 games, Pelé performs 20 of Piaf’s classic songs and tells dribbled, lobbed, stutter-kicked, faked, cannonballed, stories about the singer’s extraordinary life, and headered his way into the hearts of soccer fans. this heartfelt tribute weaves vintage film His grace, skill, work ethic, and uncontainable enthu- clips and photographs plus the memories siasm for the game allowed him to deliver on that of friends and collaborators in Paris and promise to his father. The film combines first-person elsewhere into the story of a legend.—Eddie narration fwith stunning highlight footage. The synco- Cockrell pated beat of Brazilian samba music perfectly sets off IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES the amazing acrobatics.”—P.E. Thomas, AFI Fest Saturday, April 22, 9:00 pm, Landmark’s IN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES E Street Cinema Sunday, April 23, 4:00 pm, Embassy of France Wednesday, April 26, 8:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Thursday, April 27, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of France ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil ★ In Person: Filmmaker, Writer, Star Raquel ★ In Person: Director Aníbal Massaini Neto Bitton and Producer Gerald Prolman 18 The Piano Tuner Return of the Poet Rice Rhapsody Harutyun Khachatryan Hainan jifan of Earthquakes Armenia, 2006, 88 minutes, Timothy Quay, Stephen Quay color Kenneth Bi United Kingdom/Germany/France, 2005, 99 minutes, color The American premiere of this Hong Kong/Singapore/Australia, 2004, 105 minutes, color and black & white feature-length documentary on Rice Rhapsody is a warm and witty comedy and a Welcome back to the startlingly singular and seduc- Armenia’s 19th century folk flavorful Southeastern Asian dish. Single mom Fan tively beautiful world of the brothers Quay and their poet Ashugh Jivani eloquently Jen, whose Hainan Chicken Rice restaurant is the first feature in a traces the creative process to most famous in Singapore’s Chinatown, has worked decade. Intense the accompaniment of a richly evocative and haunting hard to raise three sons. Two of her sons, a success- and beautiful soundtrack. Jivani is given a new life in the film—first ful businessman and a hairdresser, are proudly gay. opera singer through a sculptor who step by step creates his image Worried that her teenager is spending too much time Malvina van Stille and later as a statue roaming around the countryside, with a cycling chum, she conspires to take in beautiful is murdered exposed to all elements on the back of a truck. It’s as if French exchange student Sabine—who turns out to be onstage in mid- we see Armenia through the poet’s eyes and work. The a vegetarian and an animal rights activist. Meanwhile, performance by pride of the nation acquires shape in the attitude of the she manages the attentions of smitten rival restaura- diabolical inventor sculpture.—Rotterdam International Film Festival teur Tan Kim- Dr. Emmanuel IN ARMENIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES chui (celebrity Droz, who spirits chef Martin “Yan Shown with the corpse off to his seaside mountaintop retreat. Droz Can Cook” Yan). is planning a “diabolical opera” starring the muse as Roads of Kiarostami In spite of it all, a kind of mechanized nightingale. What he can’t fore- Fan Jen remains see is Malvina’s instant attraction to titular technician Abbas Kiarostami positive and Felisberto. From the delicate machinery that provides Iran, 2005, 20 minutes, black & white upbeat.—Eddie animated interludes to the demented groundskeepers, This is a short experimental work that Abbas Kiarostami Cockrell the desaturated colors and lush soundtrack produce a made almost en passant. Yet another thoughtful piece IN MANDARIN, world that could only exist in the minds that created from the Iranian master, the film combines poetry, pho- ENGLISH, SINGLISH, the magnificent Street of Crocodiles.—Eddie Cockrell tography, classical music, and cinema with the leitmo- AND FRENCH WITH tif of the road.—Rotterdam International Film Festival IN ENGLISH AND PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 28, 6:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Monday, April 24, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 29, 9:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Sunday, April 30, 4:30 pm, National Gallery of Art, FREE An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006

CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Scene Not Heard Romeo and Juliet Get Married Maori Karmael Holmes O casamento de Romeu e Julieta USA, 2005, 44 minutes, color and black & white Bruno Barreto Scene Not Heard is a Brazil, 2005, 92 minutes, color kaleidoscopic overview of a This sparkling, Shakespeare-inspired comedy is the bouncy tale of a star-crossed couple whose allegiances to movement at once vibrant competing soccer teams can’t stand in the way of their love. Successful lawyer and sports addict Alfredo (Luis and nationally overlooked. Gustavo) is such a huge fan of São Paolo’s real-life Palmeiras football club he’s the chairman of the organization “Philly is soul; Philly has and has even named his daughter Juliet: “Juli” for Julinho, and “et” for Echevarietta, two of the team’s most always been,” explains famous players. One day, as her beloved Palmeiras plays their arch-rival Corinthians, Juliet is smitten with oph- one of the mostly female thalmologist Romeo, who just happens performers, promoters, and to run the Corinthians’ lusty band of DJs interviewed by direc- boosters. As he did in his canny 2000 tor Maori Karmael Holmes. sex comedy Bossa Nova, director Bruno “Hip-Hop is incorporated Barreto kicks things off at breakneck in that soul.” The film speed and rarely pauses for breath; if coalesces around The Preston Sturges had made movies in Black Lily, a performance space within the city’s hot Portuguese, they’d look and sound a lot Five Spot club that hosted a female-centric open mic like the dazzling Romeo and Juliet Get jam from 1999 to 2005. “Do we have to be in a bikini Married.—Eddie Cockrell in the background?” wonders poet Ursula Rucker. “Is that all we’re good for?” On the strength of this eye- ■ Co-presented with the Embassy opening, performance-filled tribute to a scene that of Brazil must be heard, the answer is obvious.—Eddie Cockrell ★ In Person: Director Bruno Barreto ■ Shown with Beyond Beats and Rhymes Saturday, April 22, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas Sunday, April 23, 8:45 pm, Regal Cinemas Sunday, April 23, 6:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue ■ Co-presented with the Hip-Hop Association Monday, April 24, 6:00 pm, AMC Loews ★ Wisconsin Avenue In Person: Director Maori Karmael Holmes for April 22 screening only 19 The Second Wedding Night Short Cuts La seconda notte di nozze Be Quiet 50 Cents Moonglow Pupi Avati Sameh Zoabi Mathijs Geijskes Peter Ghesquiere Italy, 2005, 103 minutes, color France/Palestine, 2005, 19 min., color Holland, 2005, 5 min., color Belgium, 2004, 15 min., color This gentle, comedic melodrama set in post-war Italy A strong-willed boy and his As she walks past a homeless man, A mother shields her son from focuses on Giordano, an Apulian “Forrest Gump,” who complacent father journey home a young woman asks herself: If I learning the truth about his father’s gets a chance to relive his adolescent infatuation with to Nazareth to attend a family give him some change, what will he death by telling him that his father his sister-in-law, Lilliana, funeral. do with it? has taken a trip to the moon. when she returns to the family estate in the south as a war widow. Hiro Meander Prodded by the pov- Matthew Swanson Joke Liberge erty of the immediate Canada, 2005, 19 min., color Belgium, 2005, 14 min., color post-war period and A shy Japanese insect collector her sly son Nino, she A group of teenagers enjoy a finds himself thrust into a wild attempts to see if there summer’s day by the riverside. chase to recover a stolen beetle. is any love left in her for Giordano. Most of the laughs come from the hilarious antics of Nino and Nothing Special the two sour aunts who live with Giordano. The com- Helena Brooks bination of the pitch-perfect performance of Antonio New Zealand, 2005, 11 min., color Albanese as Giordano and the intelligent script (written In this black comedy, a young Kitchen by the director) gives the film much of its emotional man tries desperately to be nor- Alice Winocour leverage.—Boyd van Hoeij, europeanfilms.net mal and “nothing special” despite France, 2005, 14 min., color his mother’s image of him as IN ITALIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES A young woman attempts to make something more. Friday, April 28, 9:00 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue a special lobster dinner for her Saturday, April 29, 9:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue disinterested husband, with comi- cally disastrous results. ■ Co-presented with the Italian Cultural Institute Saturday, April 22, 6:30 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Tapas This Is Bossa Nova: Swindled Jose Corbacho, Juan Cruz The History and Stories Incautos Spain, 2005, 84 minutes, color Coisa mais linda: história e Five interlocking stories of love, desperation, depen- Miguel Bardem dence, and tolerance are expertly juggled in a delight- casos da bossa nova Spain/France, 2004, 110 minutes, color ful bittersweet comedy. Welcome to L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the other side of tourist-saturated Paolo Thiago Swindled is a crackerjack thriller from start to finish, Barcelona, where summer is in full swing, tempers Brazil, 2005, 129 minutes, color a showpiece for strutting actors and a merry string of are fraying, and everybody’s looking to get away. This Is Bossa Nova: The double-crosses and fake-outs. Mamet goes to Madrid Shopkeeper History and Stories focuses in this stylish Spanish spin on The Sting. “I’ve always Raquel (Elvira on the Brazilian musical conned people,” says smooth thief Ernesto (Ernesto Mínguez) has form born in the early 1950s Alterio) with pragmatic pride. “That’s my job.” Forged suffered a that would attain interna- by an early talent for lying in Catholic school, Ernesto very public tional recognition in 1962 with a memorable concert falls into three-card monte scams with talented loose separation and at New York’s Carnegie Hall. Two of the great living cannon Gypsy (Alejandro Casaseca) but is taken under is searching composers from this movement, Roberto Menescal the wing of elderly gentleman swindler Fingers (Manuel for love on (composer of the classical “O Barquinho”) and Carlos Alexandre) when Gypsy is jailed. Fingers, in turn, takes the Internet. Lyra (of the timeless “Lobo Bobo, Coisa Mais Linda” Ernesto to master con artist Federico (the great Federico Meanwhile, and “Voce e Eu”) share their anecdotes and musings Luppi). Together with femme fatale Pilar (Victoria Abril) bar-owner Lolo (Ángel de Andrés) is slowly driving his about this unforgettable era. The music composed and newly-sprung wife-cum-short-order-cook to walk out on him and the in that period would revolutionize Brazilian popular Gypsy, the unstable bar. César (Rubén Ochandiano) and Opo (Dario Paso) music composition in melody, harmony, and arrange- mob plans the con are planning to escape the drudgery of supermarket ments. More than forty years later, Bossa Nova has to end all cons. “I shelf-stacking for a bit of adventurous backpacking earned acclaim throughout the world. The film’s par- was going to be an and Mariano (Alberto de Mendoza) is battling illness ticipants include Carlos Lyra, Roberto Menescal, Iko actor,” shrugs one while his wife (María Galiana) finds imaginative ways Castro Neves, Lenny Andrade, and many more.—Palm unapologetic felon, of making ends meet.—Maria Delgado, Times London Springs International Film Festival “but this pays bet- Film Festival ter.”—Eddie Cockrell IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Sunday, April 23, 5:30 pm, Regal Cinemas IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Thursday, April 20, 7:00 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil Friday, April 21, 9:00 pm, Avalon Theatre Friday, April 21, 9:00 pm, Regal Cinemas Saturday, April 29, 7:15 pm, Avalon Theatre 20 CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD To Die in San Hilario CAPITAL FOCUS AWARD Three Times Morir en San Hilario U-Carmen Zuihaode shiguang Laura Mana eKhayelitsha Hou Hsiao-hsien Spain, 2005, 103 minutes, color Mark Dornford-May Taiwan, 2005, 130 minutes, color To Die in San Hilario is an oddball piece of whimsy in South Africa, 2005, 126 minutes, color which Laura Mana returns to the magical realist ter- Full of magical U-Carmen eKhayelitsha is a rous- rain of her widely praised debut, Compassionate Sex moments that capture ing musical that transports Bizet’s [FFDC 2001]. San Hilario’s toad-like mayor, Mariano, fleeting pleasures and famous opera “Carmen” into the dust is seeking to revive the town’s reputation as a place transient emotions, and lust of Cape Town’s Khayelitsha where people go to die happy. Following a failed bank Three Times is Hou township. In this adaptation, Carmen heist, a crook named German (Lluis Homar) escapes Hsiao-hsien’s most works in a cigarette factory. Her Don with the booty and jumps from a train at the god- seductive film. Each José is Jongikhaya, a policeman set forsaken pueblo, where he is surprised to receive a of its three “chapters” to marry another woman. Director Mark Dornford-May warm welcome from stars Shu Qi and Chang Chen and—is set in a different first mounted this African “Carmen” on stage, and the the townspeople, year. In 1911, Shu Qi is a tea-house courtesan worry- film version shows a depth that goes beyond the mere who are waiting ing about her prospects of marriage. Chang Chen is her “what if?” It integrates local rhythms, movement, and for someone else regular customer, an activist who visits Taiwan between color, and draws on South Africa’s already strong vocal named German. fundraising trips to Japan and dangerous forays into tradition. The result is a remarkable synthesis; when From then on, China. In 1966, Chang Chen is a young man in the Pauline Malefane sings the "Habanera" early on in the it’s standard mis- military service who chases Shu Qi from one pool hall film, she makes the familiar utterly new. In fact, the taken-identity fare to the next. And in 2005, she’s a bisexual rock chick entire Dimpho Di Kopane lyric theatre company brings as German edges (actually a singer who keeps having epileptic episodes) such passion and invention to its performance that U- toward redemption, and he’s a photographer; both are involved with other Carmen eKhayelitsha demands to be appreciated on involving Esther, a widow, a doubting priest (Juan people when they begin their dangerous liaison. The its own terms.—Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Echanove), and wannabe artist Teodoro. To Die in San “fashions” of love change through the years, Hou sug- Film Festival Hilario was nominated for Best Catalan Film of 2005 gests, but the underlying emotion stays the same.— by the Butaca Awards.—Jonathan Holland, Variety 2005 Vancouver International Film Festival IN XHOSA WITH ENGLISH IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Saturday, April 22, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas IN MANDARIN AND TAIWANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 24, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Monday, April 24, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Friday, April 21, 8:45 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema Tuesday, April 25, 6:15 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema ■ Co-presented with the Center for the Global South, Sunday, April 23, 6:00 pm, Landmark’s E Street Cinema American University An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 Underground Game Water Jogo subterraneo Deepa Mehta Canada, 2005, Roberto Gervitz 117 minutes, color Brazil, 2005, 105 minutes, color Water is a profoundly Eccentric São Paulo nightclub pianist Martin amuses moving drama about himself with a game: Using his extensive knowledge of an eight-year-old Hindu the city’s subway grid, he chooses lines and stops at widow, Chuyia, sent to random. He then follows live in an Indian ash- women traveling the same ram with other widows itinerary on the blind who, in strict adherence chance one of them will with Hindu texts, are be the love of his life. He condemned to the same meets beguiling tattoo art- outcast fate regardless ist Tania and blind writer of their age. It’s 1938 Laura, but it’s not until India, and the progres- he spots neurotic model sive ideas of Mahatma Ana that the underground Gandhi are working their game really begins; she’s way across the country. even crazier than Martin is. Part Dark Side of the But behind the walls Heart, part Sliding Doors, this seductive noir is styl- of the ashram, young Chuyia forges allegiances with foul-tempered Madhumati, beautiful Kalyani, and her even- ishly adapted from the short story “Manuscript Found tual savior, deceptively quiet Shakuntala. The final film in Deepa Mehta’s thematically linked “Elemental Trilogy” in a Pocket” by Argentine author Julio Cortazar. Keep (1996’s Fire, 1998’s Earth), this deeply satisfying film shows no sign of being the second pass at production fol- your eyes peeled next time you’re on the Metro; this lowing a 2000 shutdown in the wake of on-set riots sparked by Hindu fundamentalists. The strife, which prompted sleekly modernist tale is sure to have a local ripple recasting and reshooting under a fake production title, has toughened the director’s focus and resulted in the best effect.—Eddie Cockrell film of her career to date.—Eddie Cockrell

IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN HINDI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Monday, April 24, 6:45 pm, Regal Cinemas Saturday, April 22, 6:00 pm, Avalon Theatre Tuesday, April 25, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Canada ■ Co-presented with the Embassy of Brazil ★ In Person: Director Deepa Mehta ★ In Person: Director Roberto Gervitz 21 A World Without Thieves Wrong Side Up Zozo Tianxia wu zei Pribehy obycenjneho silenstvi Josef Fares Sweden/Denmark, 2005, 102 minutes, color Feng Xiaogang Petr Zelenka and his friends During the 1987 height of the Lebanese civil war, 10- China/Hong Kong, 2005, 112 minutes, color Czech Republic, year-old dreamer Zozo waits with his family in Beirut for The nimble thriller A World without Thieves is the new 2005, 107 minutes, color the tickets and passports that will take them to join his film from director Feng Xiaogang (Cell Phone, FFDC grandparents in Sweden. When tragedy strikes, the boy A morose freight 2005). Wang Li and Wang Bo are a married couple of must rely on his own pluck to make the passage, only worker at Prague’s con artists who score a BMW from an interpreting scam to find that Sweden isn’t the paradise he’d been led international air- and promptly drive to to believe it was. Writer/director Josef Fares, himself a port, Peter still the Labrang Monastery first-generation Lebanese immigrant to Sweden, is well- pines for lost love to lift cell phones from known to Filmfest DC audiences for his comedies Jalla! Jana after six unsuspecting worship- Jalla! and Kopps. In this film, magnificent widescreen months, even as his pers. When Wang Li photography graphically evokes the horrors of war in stodgy father David, becomes fed up with life Lebanon and formerly a voiceover artist for socialist era propaganda on the hustle, the couple the decep- films, finds escape from Peter’s flighty mother via a split, only to reunite on a tive peace of close friendship with a free-spirited sculptor. As these train boarded by a naïve Scandinavia, eccentric dramedies play themselves out, Peter’s being villager with a sizeable while skill- paid on the side to watch new neighbors Alice and cash nest egg. The trip ful editing Jerry have sex. “Hey, it’s a job like any other,” he tells is disrupted by Uncle Li accommo- Jana. One-of-a-kind Czech filmmaker Petr Zelenka is and his gang of master dates a wide back with another fable of gently skewed humanism. grifters, the most ambi- range of Adapted from his immensely popular 2001 stage play tious of who takes an human “Tales of Common Insanity,” Wrong Side Up preserves immediate and carnal shine to Wang Bo. The stage is emotions. the intimate feel of the director’s wry approach to life set for a complex series of character-driven crosses and —Eddie and relationships; thus his ongoing credit: A film by double crosses, culminating in the inevitable showdown Cockrell between Uncle Li and Wang Bo.—Eddie Cockrell Petr Zelenka and his friends.—Eddie Cockrell IN ARABIC AND SWEDISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN MANDARIN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES IN CZECH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Friday, April 21, 6:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Friday, April 21, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Monday, April 24, 8:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Saturday, April 22, 6:45 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue Saturday, April 29, 6:30 pm, Regal Cinemas Thursday, April 27, 8:30 pm, AMC Loews Wisconsin Avenue

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post 20th Annual International Filmfest DC 2006 hotos: Chad Evans Wyatt P Left to Right: Kandace Laas, Darin Kinzer, Jacqueline Lenchek, Tuan Tran, Linda Posell, Bertha Hall, Constance Blackwell, Jonathan Lifland, Martina Gauss, Jared Traver, Robyn Thoelke, Bill McLeod, Bahram Zandi Thanks Filmfest DC Board of Directors Festival Staff John Hall Jill Tunick Rita Venturelli Kandace Laass, Chair Tony Gittens Film Print Controller Editor Michele Giacaiona Italian Cultural Institute Max N. Berry Festival Director Carla Sims, Nicole Hayes, Mary Pettigrew Attorney-at-Law Shirin Ghareeb Samantha Palans, Megan Ampersand Graphic Design, Inc. Sylvia Blume Assistant Festival Director Hirshey, Ralph Posner, Michael Matt Dawson Goethe-Institut Washington Alberto Casciero Stanton-Geddes, Will Sullivan Director, Learning Resources Jared Traver Illustrator Antoine Khalife Fleishman-Hillard Unifrance Division, University of the District Technical Director & Programmer Public Relations Leslie Nayman of Columbia Production Linda Blackaby Bill McLeod Tone Walters, Bonnie Cohen Volunteer Director San Francisco Brent “Munch” Joseph Festival Website International Film Festival Anthony Gittens Varissa McMickens Groove Gumbo Public Relations Westlake Consulting Group Director, Washington, DC Volunteer Coordinator William Guentzler Chad Evans Wyatt Web Site Design Cleveland International Film International Film Festival Jane Fox Photographer Tuan Tran Festival Executive Director, DC Assistant Volunteer Coordinator Commission on the Arts and Regan Spurlock Web Site Coordinator Crystal Palmer Humanities Darin Kinzer, Alain Fournier, Coordinating Assistant Mayor’s Office of Motion Picture Line Jumper and Jacqueline Lenchek Sun Hee Chung, Adam Telesco and Television Development Stephen X. Graham Hospitality Coordinators Security Camera Trailers Interns Sarah Taylor President, Crosshill Financial Dan Corrigan, Producer Group, Inc. Robyn Thoelke, Andrew Davis, Allied Advertising 22 Constance Blackwell Programmers Mark Traver, Director Arnold P. Lutzker Bob Jones, Debbie Pennie Theatre Coordinators Tony Gittens Monument Films Lutzker, Lutzker & Settlemyer LLP AMC Loews Theatres Tommie Adams, Jr., Martina Senior Programmer John M. Mendonca Filmfest DC Trailer Ted Cooper, Elvis Waterman Gauss, Bertha Hall, Charles Shirin Ghareeb Partner, KPMG LLP Kovatch, Jonathan Lifland, John Black, Cory Williams Regal Entertainment Group Jared Traver Jennifer Cover Payne Donné Malloy-Murray, Bruce Red Cactus Films Laurie Kaplowitz Shorts & Local Film Programs Director, Cultural Alliance of Snyder, Zipper Viloski, Mara Landmark Theatres Mona Ibrahim Special Thanks to… Greater Washington Voss, Bahram Zandi Vicki Toye, Nathalie Ryan Hip Hop Foundation Ted Pedas Theatre Managers Roland Colette National Gallery of Art Hip Hop 4 Reel President, Circle Films, Inc. Aisha Davis Antoine Sebire Embassy of France Ambassador Clovis Maksoud Rick Rickertsen Opening & Closing Night Gala Programming Advisors Director, Center for the Global Producer Anne Delaney Pine Creek Partners Eddie Cockrell South, American University Richard Seidel Counselor, Cultural Affairs Alan Rubin Mariangela Bittencourt-Emilio Embassy of Canada Allison Manion Film Consultant Opening Night Gala D.C. Arts and Humanities Embassy of Brazil Murilo Gabrielli Robert Sacheli Jennifer Bradford From Rio to Reel: Education Collaborative Audience Award Mariangela Bittencourt-Emiliü Creative Services Manager, New Brazilian Cinema Counselor, Cultural Affairs Erju Ackman American Occupational Susan Buzzelli Peggy Parsons Embassy of Brazil Silk Road Therapy Association Events Coordinator Chi-hui Yang Lydia Bendersky Brennan Hurley, Evelyn Woolston Marilyn Weiner Linda Posell Embassy of Chile Arts Club of Washington President, Screenscope Director’s Roundtable Manjula Kumar Ron Ramsey Susan Barocas Sandy Hassan Festival Catalog Director of Cultural Affairs Capital Focus Award Coordinator Cinema for Seniors Eddie Cockrell Embassy of Australia Barry Glasser Senior Editor Boro Park Productions

Left to Right: Bruce Snyder, Samantha Palans, Carla Sims, Nicole Hayes, Regan Spurlock, Varissa McMickens, Andrew Davis, Phil Harris, Zipper Viloski, Bob Sacheli, Donne Malloy-Murray, Jennifer Bradford, Tommie Adams, Jr., Alain Fournier, John Hall Not pictured: Susan Buzzelli, Alberto Casiero, Sun Hee Chung, Eddie Cockrell, Aisha Davis, Jane A. Fox, Sandy Hassan, Charles Kovatch, Leslie Nayman, Peggy Parsons, Mary Pettigrew, Richard Seidel, Jill Tunick, Tone Walters, Chad Wyatt

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