38TH PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FEBRUARY 5-21, 2015 WELCOME Welcome to the 38th Portland International Film and of course, filmmakers who continue to Festival, the Northwest Film Center’s annual ­surprise, delight, inform, and energize with their showcase of new world cinema. With this year’s vision of our world. They bring the Festival to life, 97 features and 60 shorts, we celebrate the and we thank them all. world’s filmmakers—and those who love their work—no matter the language spoken. As with For the Film Center, the Festival is not an end, November’s annual Northwest Filmmakers’ but a means. We want this annual sampling of the Festival, which surveys the perspectives of our vitality of international cinema to be more than region’s makers, we hope you set aside some a special event, but rather to be the impetus for a time for a bit of armchair travel, discovery, and deeper dive into the art of film—whether it is on inspiration. the big screen or in the palm of your hand. Between Opening and Closing night the choices The programmatic centerpiece of this year’s are many, and we hope you find among them the Festival is a showcase of Hispanic language gems that will keep you searching for more. films from ten countries, and the accompanying Cine-Lit Conference on Hispanic Film and Enjoy! Literature co-produced by the foreign language departments at Oregon State University, Portland State University and the University of Oregon. This is the eighth such Festival and Conference collaboration, a sharing of films, ­visiting directors, scholars, and students that Bill Foster, Director enriches one another and the community. Our Northwest Film Center warm welcome extends to the many guests ­traveling from throughout the world to Portland for both events. The Festival continues to flourish for countless reasons—enthusiastic audiences, Silver Screen Club members, generous sponsors, volunteers and staff, film industry and media supporters, PIFF 38 3 PROGRAMPROGRAM HIGHLIGHTSHIGHLIGHTS

THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM The Festival program is arranged alphabetically by title, with showtimes and locations listed at the end of each film description. Programs of short films ­follow the feature listings. The master schedule on page 47 lists each day’s films, showtimes, and locations. Please note that a few films have only one showing. Sometimes, for reasons beyond our control, screenings may be changed, rescheduled, or canceled. For the most up-to-date information, WILD TALES call the Advance Ticket Outlet at OPENING NIGHT CELEBRATION 503-276-4310, check the Festival DAMIÁN SZIFRÓN The Northwest Film Center and The Oregonian invite you to ­schedule board at the Advance Ticket ARGENTINA/SPAIN join us after the screening of Wild Tales at the Fox Tower to Outlet or the Whitsell Auditorium, Living up to the expectations of the title, Damián Szifrón’s celebrate the opening of this year’s Festival with co-hosts or log on to the Festival’s website at outrageously entertaining anthology of six blackly-comic King Estate Winery, Sierra Nevada Brewing, Swank & Swine, festivals.nwfilm.org/piff38. short stories packs a buzz-inducing wallop. Though each is and Pearl Catering. unconnected from the other, they share thematic unity in their tales of frustration, ­bestial revenge, and the past com- THE FESTIVAL SCENE ing back to haunt in escalating fashion. There is a betrayed Stay connected through PIFF’s social bride, a road rage incident gone to hell, a meltdown with media outlets. Schedule updates, visit- the Buenos Aires parking patrol, two passengers on a plane ing artist information, party details, making a very uncomfortable discovery, and a waitress and ­discussion threads can all be meeting someone from her past she would rather not see. found here: Produced by Pedro AlmodÓvar and possessed with over- the-top flair, this portrait of Argentinians on the verge has newsroom.nwfilm.org the laughter of universal recognition. This year’s OPENING NIGHT TICKETS Argentinian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film $25 general; $20 Silver Screen Club Friends and Portland Art facebook.com/nwfilmcenter Oscar. (122 mins.) Museum members. Admission is free for Silver Screen Club Director, Producer, Benefactor, and Sustainer members. @nwfilmcenter 2/5 7:00PM | FOX TOWER Sign up for the Silver Screen Club, which in addition to PIFF, @nwfilmcenter offers access to more than 400 screenings annually. Share your posts with 4 PIFF 38

Human Capital (Italy), The Light Shines HISPANIC FILM NEW DIRECTORS Only There (Japan), Rocks in My Pocket ANIMATED WORLDS SHOWCASE As always, the Festival has its share (Latvia), The Gambler (Lithuania), Eyes In addition to the two-dozen award-­ of new works by established directors of a Thief (Palestine), The Japanese Dog winning animated shorts in the Short & CINE-LIT VIII already familiar to those who love (Romania), Living Is Easy With Eyes Cuts programs, this year’s Festival Closed (Spain), Mr. Kaplan (Uruguay), This year’s Festival offers a broad ­international cinema. This year, such includes three animated features that and The Liberator (Venezuela). ­spectrum of new films from Argentina, renowned masters as Albert Maysles, have charmed audiences and critics Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Susanne Bier, Yoji Yamada, Peter Ho-Sun world-wide. They include international Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela show­ Chan, Ann Hui, Olivier Assayas, Mohsen prizewinners The Boy and the World casing new work from both established Makhmalbaf, Rolf de Heer, and Sergei SHORT CUTS (Brazil), Giovanni’s Island (Japan), and and emerging filmmakers. Accompanying Loznitsa bring us new films. We are also This year’s Festival features eight shorts Rocks in My Pockets (Latvia/US). the films is Cine-Lit 2015, the eighth proud to present several new makers programs featuring 60 memorable snap- International Conference on Hispanic whose first feature films hold promise for shots from across the world. Among the Film & Fiction, co-produced by Oregon great films to come. Among the 14 eligi- special programs are showcases of new PIFF AFTER DARK ble for this year’s New Director Audience State University, Portland State University, French and Spanish shorts, animated Our late-night series—for the nocturnally Award are: Fernando Armando Coimbra, and University of Oregon, in partnership gems plucked from top international inclined whose cinematic tastes are A Wolf at the Door; Miroslav Slaboshpitsky, with the Northwest Film Center and ­festivals by LAIKA’s Mark Shapiro, adventurous—offers special treats for The Tribe; Gabriel Mascaro, August Portland International Film Festival. experimental work curated by Cinema devotees of genre films that push bound- Winds; Teodorah Mihai, Waiting for Project, and a baker’s dozen of new aries. All of the screenings take place The Conference (February 19–21) will August; Tomislav Mršic´, Cowboys; Kiah shorts by Oregon filmmakers. at the Hollywood Theatre and start at offer a wide range of panels, papers, and Roache-Turner, Wyrmwood; July Jung, 10:30 pm. The selections include: discussions by academics, writers, and A Girl at My Door; Kristina Grozeva, The Backcountry (Canada), Electric Boogaloo: directors from the United States and Lesson; Geethu Mohandas, Liar’s Dice; The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films ­participating countries. Presenting their Jonas Ohman, Vincas Sruoginis, Invisible DOCUMENTARY VIEWS (Australia), Darkness by Day (Argentina), films at the Festival and as part of the Front; Alonso Ruiz Palacios, Güeros; This year’s Festival boasts 18 fresh R100 (Japan), and Wyrmwood (Australia). Conference are Peruvian filmmaker Ronnie Sandhal, Underdog; and Marah ­perspectives on the world we live in and Our thanks to Yelp! Portland for support- Javier Corcuera (I’m Still), Mexican Strauch, Sunshine Superman. the fascinating people and stories that ­filmmaker Mariana Chenillo (Paradise), surround us. The non-fiction selections ing this series. Argentine filmmaker Celina Murga (The include: I Am Big Bird (US), Hotel Nueva Third Side of the River), Bolivian film- OSCAR SUBMISSIONS Isla (Cuba/Spain), I’m Still (Peru), In a maker Juan Carlos Valdivia (Yvy Maraey), Foreign Land (Spain), Invisible Front FILMS FOR FAMILIES Spanish screenwriter Alicia Luna (In a This year’s Festival features the Portland (Lithuania), Iris (US), The Iron Ministry Film lovers from nine to 90 will be Foreign Land), and Spanish filmmaker premieres of 25 films submitted for the (US), Jalanan (Indonesia/The Netherlands/ charmed by these award-winning films Mariano Barroso (All the Women). More Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, US), The Look of Silence (Denmark/ suitable for younger viewers, depending information about Conference programs including: Charlie’s Country (Australia), Indonesia/Norway), Magician: The on subject interest and subtitle-reading and activities may be found at cinelit.org. Wild Tales (Argentina), The Dark Valley Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles ability. Check the film descriptions for (Austria), Mateo (Columbia), Cowboys (US), Maidan (Ukraine), On the Way to age suitability suggestions. The films (Croatia), Behavior (Cuba), Sorrow and School (France), Red Army (US), Stop include: Belle and Sebastian (France), Joy (Denmark), Factory Girl (Egypt), the Pounding Heart (France), Sunshine The Boy and the World (Brazil), Mateo Concrete Night (Finland), Corn Island Superman (US), Waiting for August (Colombia), On the Way to School (Georgia), Beloved Sisters (Germany), (Romania), and A Year in Champagne (US). (France), Secrets of War (Netherlands), Golden Era (Hong Kong), White God and Timbuktu (Mauritania). Special (Hungary), Life in a Fishbowl (Iceland), thanks to the Lamb-Baldwin Foundation Liar’s Dice (India), Today (Iran), Gett: for supporting these films. The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Israel), PIFF 38 5 GLOBAL CLASSROOM TICKETS PAYMENT OPTIONS FESTIVAL VOUCHERS Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Please be aware that a voucher may not The Festival’s Global Classroom program GENERAL: $12 and Discover cards are accepted at the be used at a theater for admission. It serves as a point of introduction for the PORTLAND ART MUSEUM MEMBER: $11 Advance Ticket Outlet and online. 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’71 THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO 10,000 KM AFTERLIFE YANN DEMANGE CLIMBED OUT THE WINDOW CARLOS MARQUES-MARCET VIRÁG ZOMBORÁCZ UK AND DISAPPEARED SPAIN HUNGARY “A riveting thriller set in the mean FELIX HERNGREN Sergi and Alex, a young couple in Mózes, a rather neurotic young man streets of Belfast over the course of SWEDEN Barcelona, are ready to take their in his twenties, is unable to meet his 24 hours, ’71 brings the grim reality of ­passionate affair to the next level domineering father’s expectations. So Based on a bestselling novel by Jonas the Troubles to vivid, shocking life. when 10,000 kilometers suddenly when his father suddenly has a heart Jonasson, this delightful comedy tells Within days of being posted to Northern come between them. Alex is offered a attack and dies, Mózes is almost the unbelievable story of former dyna- Ireland, which would soon turn into a year-long, all-expenses-paid artist’s relieved; the pressure on him has been mite expert Allan Karlsson, the titular war zone after January 1972’s Bloody residency in Los Angeles. Sergi, hesi- lifted. But at the funeral he notices 100-year-old man, who isn’t ready to Sunday, squaddie Gary finds himself tant at first, encourages Alex to follow his father’s disoriented ghost, which, stop life’s party. Fleeing his nursing trapped and unarmed in hostile terri- her dream, leaving them with only one although it cannot speak, follows him home, Allan boards a bus and acciden- tory when a house raid provokes a riot. way to bridge the divide: digital. With around, confused and searching. tally picks up a skinhead’s suitcase Running for his life as the lines between Skype acting as their savior, we witness Mózes panics at first, then decides to filled with 50 million kronor. On the friend and foe become increasingly the happy, painful, and revelatory complete his father’s unfinished tasks run from the cops and the skinheads, blurred, Gary gets a baptism of fire ­process of a long-distance relationship because, according to a spiritualist car the droll fugitive centenarian is accom- and we get a stark, eye-opening look at sustained-and reinvented-through the repair man, this is the only way to get panied by his many memories; in the dirty war that tore Northern Ireland ether. 10,000 KM mediates our experi- rid of a ghost. This energetic coming- Zelig- and Forrest Gump-like fashion, apart. Suggesting an update of Carol ence, as it does theirs, through texts, of-age story from female director Virág it turns out he has brushed shoulders Reed’s classic Odd Man Out, this video chats, and social media updates, Zomborácz won the Best Feature Award with the likes of Franco, Truman, tough, compact suspense is handled probing the nature of technology and at the Valladolid Film Festival, where Stalin, and Reagan over the years— with a dynamic, vigorous energy.” connection while it chronicles the story it earned audience kudos with its fresh all remembered in richly absurd flash- —New York Film Festival. (99 mins.) of a young couple separated not only blend of sweet absurdity, high drama, backs. The top-grossing film in Sweden by distance, but also dreams and and inventive style. (95 mins.) 2/9 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 last year, Herngen’s zany romp won desires. (99 mins.) the national audience vote for Best 2/8 4:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER Film at the Swedish Guldbagge 2/8 1:00PM | FOX TOWER 2/14 6:00PM | FOX TOWER (Academy) Awards. (114 mins.) 2/18 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/7 9:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/9 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by Scandinavian Heritage Foundation and the New Sweden Cultural Heritage Society. 8 PIFF 38

ALL THE WOMEN ALLÉLUIA ÄRTICO AUGUST WINDS MARIANO BARROSO FABRICE DU WELZ GABRIEL VELÁZQUEZ GABRIEL MASCARO SPAIN BELGIUM/FRANCE SPAIN BRAZIL “Spanish machismo is picked apart Updated for the Internet era, Du Welz’s In Ärtico, winner of special mention Shirley has left the big city to live in a with surgical precision in Barroso’s remake of the classic The Honeymoon honors at the Berlin Film Festival, small seaside town and look after her engrossing All the Women, Winner of Killers is based on the true story of ’60s Jota and Simón are two “quinquis” elderly grandmother. She drives a trac- the Goya (Spanish Academy Award) serial killers Martha Beck and Raymond (nomads), aged 20, who wander the tor on a local coconut plantation, loves for Best Adapted Screenplay. Nacho Fernandez, who met women through streets every day to make ends meet. rock music, and wants to be a tattoo (Eduard Fernández), a down and out personal ads, moved in, and then But apart from their carefree thefts artist, but she feels trapped in the tiny middle-aged veterinarian, seeks advice ­murdered them. Here, lonely Gloria and wheelings and dealings, both coastal village. She is involved with from the most important women in his meets conman Michel through an want something they don’t have. Jeison, who free dives for lobster and life—his lover, his ex-wife, his mother, online dating service and quickly falls Simon, already a father, wishes to find octopus in his spare time. During the his sister-in-law, and his psychologist— for his charms. When she discovers his freedom. Jota, whose girlfriend is month of August, when tropical storms after his scheme to steal cattle from his he’s swindled both her heart and her a drug-addict, wants to build a family. pound the coastline, a researcher father-in-law falls apart. He soon finds wallet, she agrees to help him seduce What will it take for these two—and a ­registering the sound of the trade his character indicted by each one of other women just so she can be with drifting ­generation like them—to find winds arrives in their village. The high them. A scaled-back, sharp-eyed, him. Gloria’s obsession with Michel a life? Gritty, bleak, and breathtaking, tides and the growing winds mark the David Mamet-inspired deconstruction turns their relatively innocent hustle with intensely physical performances ­following days of the village, and a of the fragile psyches of Spanish and into something much darker when she from its amateur cast, Ärtico contrasts surprise discovery takes Shirley and other males, anchored in Fernandez’s jealously murders his subsequent love the picturesque natural landscapes Jeison on a journey that confronts life memorable central performance.” interests. This violent and frenetic tale of the Spanish province of Salamanca and death, loss and memory, the wind —The Hollywood Reporter. (90 mins.) of sex, lust, and obsession plays with with the dire circumstances of dis­ and the sea. First feature. (77 mins.) 2/18 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 genre conventions with wicked delight. affected youth. (78 mins.) 2/14 9:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/19 9:00PM | FOX TOWER In French with English subtitles. 2/12 9:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/17 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/21 7:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM (95 mins.) 2/21 5:00PM | FOX TOWER Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, 2/7 9:30PM | CINEMA 21 Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry 2/13 8:30PM | FOX TOWER Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. of Education, Culture, and Sport. Sponsored by TV5Monde. PIFF 38 9

BACKCOUNTRY BELLE AND SEBASTIAN BELOVED SISTERS BLACK COAL, THIN ICE ADAM MACDONALD NICHOLAS VANIER DOMINIK GRAF DIAO YINAN CANADA FRANCE GERMANY CHINA What begins as a romantic weekend Set during World War II in the French In this sumptuous costume drama Haunted by a botched police investiga- camping trip deep into the Canadian Alps, Belle and Sebastian is based on a set in late-18th-century Germany, two tion five years earlier, former policeman woods quickly decends into an exer- beloved 1960s French TV series featur- aristocratic sisters find themselves Zhang has retired to a distant mining cise in abject horror in actor-director ing resourceful young Sebastian and drawn inexorably to the young ‘Sturm town in Northern China in an attempt Adam MacDonald’s Backcountry. the giant mountain sheepdog he calls und Drang’ poet Friedrich Schiller and to drink his past away. But when a new Despite the warnings of a seemingly Belle. Sebastian is a lonely six-year-old daringly forge a lifelong secret trian- string of murders unfold in strikingly prescient park ranger, Alex and Jenn boy who dreams of the day his mother gle. When younger sister Charlotte first familiar fashion to the old case, Zhang venture blindly along the Blackfoot will return from America—the place meets Schiller in 1788, he is a penni- sees a chance to atone for the sins of Trail with Alex’s memory their sole that his adoptive grandfather tells him less dramatist whose early controver- his past. A one-man investigation compass and only a few supplies on she’s gone. He finds needed compan- sial writings and penury render him team, he vows to unearth the brutal hand. Before long, the couple encoun- ionship with “the beast” that local an unsuitable husband. But Charlotte killer at all costs, and his journey ters a multitude of dangers including farmers are convinced is killing their and her married sister Caroline discover takes him down a dark road from which a menacing backwoods guide with sheep—an enormous sheepdog that an intoxicating kinship with Schiller there is no return. Winner of the Golden questionable intentions towards each quickly proves anything but dangerous, and his Romantic ideals of universal Bear for Best Film at the Berlin Film of them, a complete loss of direction, instead becoming the boy’s best friend knowledge and the transformational Festival, this surreal mix of Western and, most threatening of all, a wild and protector. With Nazis rooting out power of literature. The sisters’ pact pulp fiction and Eastern philosophical force of nature that stalks them relent- the Resistance fighters helping Jewish of loyalty to each other and Schiller is ruminations is “A salute to the classic lessly. Backcountry “will have you refugees cross the border, Belle and tested as their private intrigues— Hollywood film noir—an exciting thinking twice about your next camp- Sebastian soon prove their courage. revealed through an exchange of stylistic­ tour-de-force.”—The Hollywood ing trip.”—Nick Watson, Black Sheep (104 mins.) Ages 8+. coded letters—unfold against a back- Reporter. (106 mins.) Reviews. (92 mins.) 2/8 12:30PM | MORELAND THEATER drop of revolutionary Europe at the 2/13 8:45PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/7 10:30PM | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 2/13 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER violent dawn of democracy. This year’s 2/16 3:30PM | FOX TOWER German submission for the Best Foreign Sponsored by Yelp! 2/16 12:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Language Film Oscar. (170 mins.) Sponsored by TV5Monde and the French American International School. 2/11 6:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/14 7:00PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest and the Oregon State University Language Department. 10 PIFF 38

THE BOY AND THE WORLD CHARLIE’S COUNTRY CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA COME TO MY VOICE ALÊ ABREU ROLF DE HEER OLIVIER ASSAYAS HUSEYIN KARABEY BRAZIL AUSTRALIA FRANCE TURKEY Brazilian artist Alê Abreu’s whimsical, This year’s Australian submission for “Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) is a In a snowy Kurdish mountain village exquisitely-rendered, animated film the Best Foreign Film Oscar features a middle-aged actress who soared to in the east of Turkey, an old woman views contemporary society through soulful performance from David Gulpilil, stardom in her twenties in a play and her granddaughter are distressed. the eyes of a child. Cuca, a small boy who received the Best Actor award at called Maloja Snake, in which she The only man in the household, the growing up in the rainforest, finds his the Cannes Film Festival. Gulpilil is ­created the role of a ruthless young son of one and the father of the other, serene life thrown upside down when Charlie, a restless elder in alcohol-free woman named Sigrid who engages in a was arrested by the Turkish military. his father leaves to work in the indus- Arnhem Land reservation who feels power game with her older boss. Now The commanding officer has been told trialized city, prompting an adventur- the government’s growing grip on an established international actress, that the villagers are hiding weapons, ous journey to find him. Along the way his culture while he decries the rapid Maria is considering the role of the so he arrests all the town’s men and he uncovers a whole new, modern disappearance­ of Yolngu traditions. older woman in a heavily promoted announces that they will be kept in world dominated by animal machines Although well past his prime, Charlie revival, with an infamous young prison until their families hand over and a variety of strange characters that decides to “go bush” and sets out into superstar (Chloë Grace Moretz) as the weapons. The problem is that no are a far cry from the natural environ- the wild to practice the old ways, with- Sigrid. What begins as a chronicle of weapons actually exist. Desperate, ment they came from. Melding mes- out reckoning how much things really an actress going through the paces the pair embarks on a long journey in merizing sound design with uniquely have changed and exactly where he of celebrity culture (fashion shoots, search of a gun that they can exchange original hand-drawn visuals, a samba might be going. Eloquently depicting official dinners, interviews, Internet for their beloved family member. and hip-hop score by some of Brazil’s the daily indignities endured by a rumors) gradually develops into some- “A beautifully crafted drama whose stars is a perfect match for the playful, ­marginalized and impoverished people, thing more powerfully mysterious: traditional storytelling movingly con- vibrant images, which come alive with Charlie, with both bemusement and a close meditation on time and how veys a sense of a community burdened nearly wordless eloquence. Audience despair, confronts modern society with one comes to terms with its passage.” by loss.”—Variety. Audience Awards, Award, Annecy International Animation outrage, resilient humor, and more —Film Society of Lincoln Center. Istanbul and Milan Film Festivals. Festival. (80 mins.) Ages 8+. than a measure of mischief. (108 mins.) (124 mins.) (105 mins.) 2/7 1:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/14 6:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/7 9:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/8 1:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/11 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/16 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/9 5:45PM | FOX TOWER 2/11 5:45PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by LAIKA. Sponsored by TV5Monde. PIFF 38 11

CONCRETE NIGHT CONDUCTA CORN ISLAND COWBOYS PIRJO HONKASALO ERNESTO DARANAS SERRANO GEORGE OVASHVILI TOMISLAV MRŠIC´ FINLAND CUBA GEORGIA CROATIA In a run-down Helsinki ghetto, One of the most heralded Cuban films The Inguri River forms Georgia’s Based on a popular, award-winning 14-year-old Simo spends 24 hours with of the last decade, Conducta provides ­border with the breakaway Republic Croatian play, Cowboys mixes social his dangerous older brother Ilkka as a sensitive, unembellished look at con- of Abkhazia, and tensions between the drama and dark comedy as it puts a he prepares to go to prison. As they temporary life in Cuba. Life isn’t easy nations run high. Every spring the river fresh spin on a lovingly familiar cine- talk and drink and explore the con- for 11-year-old Chala. When he isn’t brings fertile soil from the Caucasus, matic scenario. Offered an opportunity crete jungle they’re trapped in, both getting into trouble at school for his creating tiny islands: small clusters of to re-start the neglected community Simo and Ilkka find themselves violent behavior, or with the police for no man’s land. An old Abkhaz farmer theatre in his hometown, big-city pushed to the very edge by a city that raising fighting dogs, he has to ­contend and his teenage granddaughter build a director Saša reluctantly returns to wants to forget they exist. Based on with an alcoholic mother who spends hut on one of the islands, plowing the the dull industrial town of his youth. the acclaimed cult novel of the same her nights hustling in Havana’s night- earth to sow corn. When the corn has Without any experienced actors, Saša name, Concrete Night’s lustrous black clubs. Chala has one person on his shot up, the girl, herself blossoming, is forced to cast a group of eight lovable and white images hauntingly portray side: his teacher Carmela, who abso- finds a wounded Georgian soldier misfits, his troupe wildly unprepared a seething, urban underworld of dis- lutely believes that no child is a lost ­hiding among the stalks as border for the rigors of show business. Settling carded men and women who power cause. But when Carmela falls ill, patrol boats look for trouble in a no- on a classic Hollywood Western, the big-city dreams. “Stunning to look at Chala himself is in danger of falling man’s land. “An astonishing feat of underdogs must come together and and chilling at its core . . . a visual through the cracks of an unforgiving cinema presented with the utmost give it their all if they want to make it knockout.”—The Hollywood Reporter. system. Winner of the Best Film Prize modesty . . . an unparalleled big screen to opening night, which, as they do in Winner of six Finnish film awards, at the Málaga Film Festival and this experience.”—Variety. Winner of the cheering fashion, changes the course including Best Film, Best Director, and year’s Cuban submission for the Best Best Film Prize, Karlovy Vary Film of their lives. This year’s Croatian sub- Best Cinematography and this year’s Foreign Language Film Oscar. Festival and this year’s Georgian sub- mission for the Best Foreign Language Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (108 mins.) mission for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. First feature. (107 mins.) ­submission. (96 mins.) 2/18 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Film Oscar. (100 mins.) 2/14 1:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/12 8:45PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/20 4:15PM | FOX TOWER 2/7 9:00PM | FOX TOWER 2/15 3:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/15 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by Delta Airlines. 2/14 12:30PM | FOX TOWER Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation and the Finlandia Foundation Columbia- Pacific Chapter. 12 PIFF 38

CRACKS IN CONCRETE THE DARK VALLEY DARKNESS BY DAY DEAREST UMUT DAG ANDREAS PROCHASKA MARTIN DE SALVO PETER HO-SUN CHAN AUSTRIA AUSTRIA/GERMANY ARGENTINA HONG KONG After a decade in prison for second- Greider, a lone traveler, arrives in a “In an a old house in a tiny village, Based on a true story, Dearest is about degree murder, hardened but broken small village in the Alps. Initially, Virginia is left alone after her father the sensitivity, complexity, and indelible 35-year-old Ertan is intent on making no one wants him to stay, especially leaves to check on his ill niece. That is, pain of child abduction. The lives of a new start by staying away from the Brenner, who keeps the community until her cousin Anabel, who also Shenzhen residents Wen-jun and his criminal world, but nobody really under tight control with his threaten- seems to be under the weather, is ex-wife Xiao-juan are thrown into tur- believes him. Returning to the grim ing ways. But a few gold coins sway brought and left with her. Thankful moil when their young son goes missing. streets of Vienna, he seeks out his son the townsfolk, and they opt to shelter for another person to talk to, Virginia They join a support group active in Mikail, now a teenager and unaware Greider for the winter. Soon a tragic makes every effort to keep Anabel exposing child abduction rings and, that his father even exists. Mikail accident leads to the death of one of comfortable and to bond with her. enduring several years of false-sightings dreams of being a rapper, but has Brenner’s beloved sons. But when a Anabel sleeps most of the day, and and scams, finally find their son living turned to drug dealing and stealing to second son is mysteriously killed, it at night can be found wandering the with a foster mother. But their troubles get his career started. To try and save seems evident that more than coinci- woods alone. The radio reports a are far from over. With delicacy and his son from the life that ruined his dence is at play. “The hills are alive rabies outbreak in the remote region of nuance, Chan explores the lasting guilt own, Ertan works his way into his with the sound of gunfire in this Argentina where the women are holed of having ‘lost’ a child; the difficulty son’s quickly spiraling world without alpine revenge drama, a superior genre up. In this perpetual shadow of of reintegration, and the discovery that letting on who he really is. But what piece which applies classic western impending doom, Virginia and her an adopted child has been abducted. will happen when the inevitable truth tropes to a remote Austrian mountain cousin are left to face the darkness With subtle observations about class, is bound to come out? In German and village.”—The Hollywood Reporter. of things to come.”—Fantastic Fest. contemporary Chinese values, and the Turkish with English subtitles. This year’s Austrian submission for Winner, Best Director (horror feature) difference between city and rural life, (105 mins.) the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. at Fantastic Fest. (76 mins.) Chan weaves a universal tale. (130 mins.) 2/8 3:30PM | FOX TOWER (115 mins.) 2/21 10:30PM | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 2/13 8:15PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/14 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/7 3:30PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by Yelp! 2/15 6:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/15 8:45PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco. PIFF 38 13

DUKE OF BURGUNDY ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: EYES OF A THIEF FACTORY GIRL PETER STRICKLAND THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY NAJWA NAJJAR MOHAMED KAHN UK OF CANNON FILMS PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES EGYPT “Strickland’s latest reconfigures the MARK HARTLEY This taut political thriller weaves a tale Hiyam, a young clothing factory vintage erotic melodrama into some- AUSTRALIA of love and loss, revealing the suspi- ­worker, lives in a lower-middle-class thing altogether deeper and darker. cions and sacrifices lurking beneath neighborhood in Cairo. Under the spell Taking its title from a rare species of “Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram the surface of contemporary Palestinian of the factory’s new supervisor Salah, butterfly, The Duke of Burgundy chron- Globus helped to create the modern society. At the height of the 2002 she believes love can transcend the icles the increasingly intimate relation- Israeli film industry. . . . During the Palestinian Uprising, Tareq, an enig- class differences between them. When ship between wealthy amateur lepi- ’80s, Golan and Globus set up shop in matic man bearing fresh wounds, is a pregnancy test kit is discovered, her dopterist Cynthia and her newly hired Hollywood by purchasing The Cannon tended to by local nuns who help him family and friends accuse her of losing housekeeper Evelyn. As Cynthia’s Group. Dismal titles such as The Apple to escape. He is soon arrested by her virginity. Deciding to ignore them, demands begin to betray a sadomas- quickly gained Cannon a reputation Israeli soldiers. Ten years later, Tareq she pays a high price in a society that ochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a as purveyors of rotten movies. Despite is released from prison and returns to can’t accept independent women. domestic servant than an outright sex the criticism, the pair . . . went on to his town, a place drastically trans- Following the changes that take place slave, submitting to her progressively produce a stunningly eclectic array of formed and filled with secrets, to find in her life over the course of the year, extreme humiliations with a surprising films, ranging from straight-up genre his daughter. As secrets are uncovered, from falling in love to facing heart- relish. Strickland demonstrates a mar- (Invasion USA; Death Wish 3) to more Tareq’s hidden past is revealed, and as break, Factory Girl’s portrait of every- velous gift for modulating tone, pitch- esteemed fare (King Lear; Barfly). moral certainty is replaced by ques- day female struggle earned the Critic’s ing the tenor of his film in a strange, Hartley expertly weaves together clips tionable choices, it is clear there are no Prize for Best Arab Feature at the beguiling register somewhere between from Cannon’s back catalog with an easy answers. This year’s Palestinian Dubai International Film Festival and Buñuel’s Belle de Jour and Losey’s impressive array of interviews with submission for the Best Foreign is this year’s Egyptian submission for The Servant. By turns kinky, dryly Cannon players. The result is a whip- Language Film Oscar. (98 mins.) the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. lash-inducing ride through decades of comic, and compellingly surreal, and 2/14 9:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER (92 mins.) boasting gorgeous, gothic cinematog- exploitation cinema and high-rolling business deals.”—Fantastic Fest. 2/17 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/15 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM raphy . . . a richly immersive sensory 2/16 3:30PM | MORELAND THEATER experience.”—Toronto Film Festival. (107 mins.) (101 mins.) 2/20 10:30PM | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE 2/7 8:30PM | ROSEWAY THEATER Sponsored by Yelp! 2/10 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 14 PIFF 38

THE FAREWELL PARTY FELIX & MEIRA THE FOOL THE GAMBLER TAL GRANIT MAXIME GIROUX YURIY BYKOV IGNAS JONYNAS SHARON MAYMON CANADA RUSSIA LITHUANIA ISRAEL Winner of the Audience Best Canadian A plumber’s assistant, honest and A celebrated paramedic, Vincentas The question “Who has the right to play Feature at the Toronto International ­idealistic Dima devotes his free time has a dangerous addiction: gambling. God?” is at the center of this comedic Film Festival, Felix & Meira is set in studying to fulfill his dream of becom- Desperate to hit it big and pay off his tale of a group of friends at a Jerusalem Montreal’s Mile End neighborhood, ing an engineer. Leaving his family at mounting debts, he’s quick to place a retirement home who construct a characterized by a mixture of hipsters home one evening, he goes to a seem- bet on just about anything. In over his machine for self-euthanasia in order to and Hasidism, which coexists amicably ingly derelict building housing the city’s head, he ups the ante by betting on help a terminally ill pal. With a dream but independently. When Meira, an poor to investigate a leak. What he the odds of his own patients’ survival. cast of septuagenarian talent, a finely Orthodox Jewish wife and mother with finds is much worse, however, and he This twisted game, played with his honed visual sense, and superbly ironic an undercurrent of rebelliousness, realizes that the 800 tenants need to ­fellow paramedics, soon becomes a comic timing and dialogue, this com- meets Félix, a middle-aged atheist-loner be evacuated immediately. Requiring major enterprise after the hospital’s passionate film doesn’t belabor the adrift grieving the recent death of his municipal authorization, he goes to doctors and nurses want in on the ethics of assisted suicide but instead estranged father, Félix hopes her reli- see the mayor, where he discovers that action, and Vincentas finds himself treats this tricky topic with rare sensi- gious devotion will provide insight other interests come before those of becoming a big-time bookie. Jonynas’ tivity. “A provocative issue is addressed into his loss. Though she rebuffs him ordinary citizens. Dima spends the gimlet-eyed black comedy is this year’s with wisdom, sensitivity, and a welcome at first, a mutual, slow-blooming affair night chasing the corrupt in order to Lithuanian submission for the Best strain of humor. Anyone ever touched takes shape that will present Meira save those whom everyone has forgot- Foreign Language Film Oscar. by the inexorable decline of an elderly with a difficult fork in the road: remain ten. In Bykov’s dark view of contempo- (109 mins.) family member afflicted with terminal within the community she has always rary Russia, “Kafka meets The Sopranos 2/7 6:30PM | FOX TOWER illness or dementia will be moved by known or pursue an uncertain future as Bykov creates a murky yet absurdist 2/18 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER outside of it. In French, English, and world of deep secrets and unmarked this tender, unexpectedly charming Sponsored by the Lithuanian American Community, tale.”—The Hollywood Reporter. Brain Yiddish with English subtitles. graves.”—Variety. (116 mins.) Portland Chapter. Award, BNL People’s Choice Award (105 mins.) 2/11 9:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER Venice Film Festival. (95 mins.) 2/6 8:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/13 5:45PM | FOX TOWER 2/7 6:30PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/8 1:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/19 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/9 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by TV5Monde. PIFF 38 15

GETT: THE TRIAL GHADI GIOVANNI’S ISLAND A GIRL AT MY DOOR OF VIVIANE AMSALEM AMIN DORA MIZUHO NISHIKUBO JULY JUNG LEBANON RONIT ELKABETZ JAPAN SOUTH KOREA SHLOMI ELKABETZ Lebanon’s Best Foreign Language Film After Japan’s surrender at the end of After a personal scandal, young police ISRAEL Oscar submission is a gently barbed World War II, the lives of brothers officer Young-Nam gets transferred social satire about bigotry and redemp- Junpei and Kanta are turned upside- from Seoul to a small fishing town. “Gett” is Hebrew for a divorce decree— tion that unfolds in a traditional down as the Soviet Union occupies There, the police force is mainly older something that is very difficult to get Lebanese coastal town. After having their small island of Shikotan, and they men, and she struggles with her role as in Israel, where rabbinical courts hold two daughters with his childhood must work to keep their family together station chief. Her path crosses with a jurisdiction and mutual consent is sweetheart Lara, a beloved music while struggling to understand an bullied teenage girl whose thug step­ required. This riveting drama follows instructor Leba has a son. Unfortunately, unfamiliar culture. Their new friend father, the man who informally rules the five-year struggle of Viviane Ghadi is born with Down syndrome Tanya, a Soviet girl their age, helps the town, beats her. Young-Nam opens Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz) to break and the loud noises he makes trying to make the transition smoother, but it’s her doors to the girl, an act that is not from her loveless marriage to husband imitate his father’s singing start to take not long before Junpei and Kanta are without consequences. The two find Elisha (Simon Abkarian). A powerful a toll on the neighbors. Without much separated from their father and sent comfort in each other and a friendship examination of the roles of men and understanding of the disability, the away from their home. Based on true grows stronger, but when Young-Nam’s women in a religious society. Gett, village people start calling the boy a events, as well as the classic Japanese old lover turns up, devastating rumors the winner of two Israeli Film Awards “demon” and try to evict him from the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, start spreading in the small community. including Best Film and Best Supporting town. Unwilling to send his son to an Giovanni’s Island is a beautifully In A Girl at My Door, director July Jung Actor, is an absurdist journey into the institution, Leba hatches a clever plan ­animated story about the importance deals with questions of sexism, enigmas of a couple and a society to convince his neighbors to change of familial bonds and persevering ­domestic abuse, and salvation with caught between tradition and modernity. their minds. “Conceived in a fanciful through the greatest of hardships. devastating frankness. First feature. This year’s Israeli submission for the vein that Frank Capra might well have In Japanese and Russian with English (119 mins.) Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. appreciated.”—Variety. (100 mins.) subtitles. (102 mins.) Ages 8+. In Hebrew, French, and Arabic with 2/16 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/8 6:30PM | CINEMA 21 English subtitles. (115 mins.) 2/8 3:15PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/19 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/15 3:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/10 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/10 5:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by the Oregon Korea Foundation. 2/12 5:30PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan in Portland and LAIKA. Sponsored by the Institute for Judaic Studies, Portland, Oregon and the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, San Francisco. 16 PIFF 38

THE GOLDEN ERA GÜEROS HORSE MONEY HOTEL NUEVA ISLA ANN HUI ALONSO RUIZ PALACIOS PEDRO COSTA IRENE GUTIÉRREZ HONG KONG MEXICO PORTUGAL JAVIER LABRADOR Selected as the closing night film at the “This plucky and effortlessly cool Set in a crumbling infirmary, Pedro CUBA/SPAIN Venice Film Festival, Hui’s modernist black-and-white film from newcomer Costa’s haunting, dreamlike film serves The formerly luxurious Hotel Nueva biopic tells the epic tale of Manchurian Alonso Ruiz Palacios follows three as an indictment of social injustice Isla in Old Havana is now in ruins, but essayist and novelist Xiao Hong (1909– restless teens during the student in postcolonial Europe. Ventura, a it is home to people living on the fringes 1941), one of the most radical and con- strikes of 1999. Federico and Santos 70-year-old Cape Verdean immigrant, of society, like the retired public ser- troversial Chinese female writers of the are roommates in Mexico City, students has been worn down from a lifetime vant Jorge. Abandoned by his wife and early twentieth century and an iconic ‘on strike from the strike’ now that of manual labor and civil strife in the children, Jorge’s only motivation, like a historical figure. The film’s title signals their university has been shut down, Lisbon slums of Fountainhas. He is Don Quixote forgotten and gone astray, the irony of the era through which when Federico’s brother Tomás arrives. recuperating from a nervous disease is to continue a quest he’s followed for Hong lived, one of the most turbulent Looking to kill some time and their and looks back on his life through a years: dig among the dangerous ruins times in Chinese history featuring a boredom, they hit the streets of the series of fragmented and ghostly of the hotel, where he is convinced that seismic shift from dynastic imperial city looking for famed rock star encounters in a film of considerable the former owners hid valuable objects rule to a modern state history. Through Epigmenio Cruz, who once allegedly visual and narrative originality and before fleeing the Cuban Revolution. all this, Hong survives poverty, family made Bob Dylan cry.”—AFI Fest. power. “In the soul-space of Ventura With a keen eye that is both highly chaos, the Japanese invasion in the “A coming-of-age comedy which pays . . . a self-reckoning, a moving memori- stylized and intimate, Gutiérrez cap- 1930s, and post-war trauma. Hui’s homage to the French new wave.” alization of lives in danger of being tures Jorge’s life spent doing rudimen- ­intimate tale of history, love, loss, and —Indiewire. Best New Narrative forgotten, and a great and piercingly tary “maintenance” on a building poetry is beautifully brought to life Director, Tribeca Film Festival and beautiful work of cinema.”—New York haunted by faded glory and knowing by actress Wei Tang as the tenacious, Audience Awards at the Morelia and Film Festival. Winner of the Best Film that with the demolition of the hotel enigmatic Xiao. This year’s Hong Kong AFI Film Festivals. First feature. Prize, Locarno Film Festival. (103 mins.) will come the end of an era. (70 mins.) submission for the Best Foreign (106 mins.) 2/17 8:30PM | FOX TOWER Language Film Oscar. (177 mins.) 2/7 1:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/16 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/18 6:00PM | FOX TOWER 2/8 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/8 7:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/18 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/11 6:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/19 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, San Francisco. PIFF 38 17

HUMAN CAPITAL I AM BIG BIRD: I’M STILL IN A FOREIGN LAND PAOLO VIRZÌ THE CAROLL SPINNEY STORY JAVIER CORCUERA ICÍAR BOLLAÍN ITALY DAVE LAMATTINA PERU SPAIN Winner of all the top Italian film CHAD WALKER Corcuera’s documentary is more than a The current financial crisis in Spain awards, this stylish ensemble piece US celebration of Peru’s rich musical heri- has forced an estimated 700,000 young offers a powerful commentary on tage. Through these diverse musicians’ people to emigrate in the hope of a One of the most recognizable and Italian social class, privilege, and the personal stories (some of them filmed ­better life. Edinburgh is one of the most beloved children’s television characters value of human life in a crucible. A for the first time) and their music, popular destinations, and the city is in history, Big Bird has been entertain- cyclist is run off the road by a careen- Corcuera explores issues of identity home to more than 20,000 Spanish ing and educating children around the ing SUV. As details emerge of the events and nationality. Divided in three parts— people. In a Foreign Land follows three world for over 40 years. But few fans leading up to the accident, the lives of Lima, Ayacucho, and the Amazon— expatriates as they build new lives and know about the man who brings Big the privileged and detached Bernaschi I’m Still captures some of the country’s search for new opportunities while Bird (and Oscar the Grouch) to life: family intertwine with the Rovellis, most beautiful and distant spots with- suffering the indignation of having Caroll Spinney. A delightfully sweet who struggle to keep up appearances out turning its back to some of its most been cast aside by their own country. examination of the power of following and their comfortable middle-class pressing social and economic problems. One of them is Gloria, 32, a teacher your dreams, I Am Big Bird chronicles life. A taut character study that observes Winner of the Documentary Prize, from Almería who works in Edinburgh a fascinating life journey with epic the transformative events from each Lima Film Festival. (120 mins.) as a shop assistant. Gloria decided to loves and losses, those of a man who character’s perspective, the result is a create the collective “Ni perdidos ni has brought joy to millions by never 2/19 6:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM nuanced account of desire and greed callados” (“Not lost and not silenced”) losing his childlike sense of wonder. 2/20 9:30PM | FOX TOWER in the age of rampant capitalism and to express the anger and frustration Even at age 79, he is Big Bird. “If your Sponsored by Music Millennium and Ace Hotel. financial manipulation. “An elegant felt by many Spaniards who have heart warmed to the big yellow bird Chinese puzzle of a movie, deftly moved to Scotland’s capital. (75 mins.) that entertained generations, your ­constructed, and boosted by strong heart will melt in this loving portrait 2/19 9:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM performances.”—The Observer, of the creative genius who brought him 2/21 9:45PM | FOX TOWER London. (110 mins.) to life.”—Twitch. (90 mins.) All ages. Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, 2/7 4:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry 2/10 5:45PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/14 1:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER of Education, Culture, and Sport. 2/15 1:30PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco and Italian Film Commission, Sponsored by Journal Graphics. Los Angeles. 18 PIFF 38

IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE THE INVISIBLE FRONT IRIS THE IRON MINISTRY HANS PETTER MOLAND JONAS OHMAN ALBERT MAYSLES J.P. SNIADECKI NORWAY VINCAS SRUOGINIS US US Weaving dark Scandinavian comedy LITHUANIA The great documentarian Albert “This thrilling new film, shot over with Tarantino-esque revenge thriller, The Invisible Front was the code name Maysles’s (Grey Gardens, Gimme Shelter) three years during a series of train Moland tells the tale of an ordinary, used by the Soviet Union’s Interior latest film is about fashion and interior journeys across China, begins with upstanding Swedish snowplow driver Forces for the armed resistance in design maven Iris Apfel, now 93 years metal: the sounds and sights of gears, in a small Norwegian town who Lithuania, a key occupied territory. old, as she celebrates the late wave of wheels on tracks and linked railway ­suddenly has his own roads to clear. The resistance arose with hardly any career popularity enjoyed on the heels cars meshing, crunching, and grinding. Dickman (Stellan Skarsgård) suddenly outside support during World War II, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s We are gradually introduced to the finds that his son has apparently over- continuing in various forms until the 2006 exhibition “Rare Bird of Fashion” people who ride and work on the cars, dosed and died—mysterious since he fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The featuring her collection of often with their luggage, their produce, the didn’t do drugs. It’s not long before he’s film tells the story of one of the most ­affordably priced fashion accessories. products they’re hawking, the goods plowing into what really happened— significant anti-Soviet resistance Maysles, himself 89, who pops up from they’re transporting. People are the boy was just collateral damage in a movements through the words and time to time as a cheerful on-camera crammed into every corner of every drug war between “The Count” (Tobias experiences of its leaders, Juozas presence, follows Iris as she makes train car, with the exception of a first- Santelmann) and a Serbian crime don Luksa and his fellow Forest Brothers. selections for the touring exhibition, class compartment from which the (Bruno Ganz)—and a odd assortment Luksa risked his life to escape to Paris advises young women on their fashion filmmaker is barred. Moving from one of henchmen. It will be methodical, in 1948, joined up with Western intelli- choices, and bargains with store end of a train to the other, little by but “A father must avenge his son.” gence agencies, wrote a memoir, and ­owners, usually in the company of her ­little, the passengers begin to speak “A delightfully droll tale of bloody married Nijole, the love of his life. husband of 66 years, Carl, now 100. about their country, their lives, their revenge.”—Mark Adams, Screen Shortly after their wedding, Luksa was In all, testimony that creativity knows dreams for the future.”—Film Society International, Best Comedy Feature, air-dropped back into Soviet Lithuania no age. (78 mins.) of Lincoln Center. In Mandarin with Austin Fantastic Fest. (116 mins.) by the CIA to help liberate his country. 2/14 3:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM English subtitles. (82 mins.) 2/12 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM In English and Lithuanian with English 2/18 5:45PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/10 9:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER 2/15 12:45PM | FOX TOWER subtitles. (87 mins.) Sponsored by Hotel deLuxe. 2/16 6:00PM | FOX TOWER Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage 2/12 8:45PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER Foundation and the Royal Norwegian Consulate 2/15 3:30PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER General, San Francisco. Sponsored by the Lithuanian American Community, Portland Chapter. PIFF 38 19

JALANAN THE JAPANESE DOG JAUJA THE LESSON DANIEL ZIV TUDOR CRISTIAN JURGIU LISANDRO ALONSO KRISTINA GROZEVA INDONESIA/THE NETHERLANDS/US ROMANIA ARGENTINA/DENMARK/FRANCE PETAR VALCHANOV Part music documentary and part This year’s Romanian submission for “A work of tremendous beauty and a BULGARIA examination of the frenetically paced the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, source of continual surprise, Alonso’s Nadezhda is a young, hardworking megacity of Jakarta (10 million people), this subtle and movingly told tale of film is set during the Argentinian teacher in a small Bulgarian town. Jalanan (“Streetside”) tells the capti- loss and recovery is reminiscent of the army’s Conquest of the Desert in the One day she is shocked to discover that vating story of Boni, Ho, and Titi, three work of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu. 1870s and is his first with international there is a thief in her class. Determined gifted, charismatic street musicians, Recent floods in rural southern stars (Viggo Mortensen), and with a to find out who it is so she can teach over a tumultuous five-year period. Romania have swept away 80-year-old ­co-writer—poet and novelist Fabián him or her the difference between right The film deftly uses their experiences Costache’s wife and all of their belong- Casas. But the emphasis, as in all his and wrong, at the same time she is as a lens on Indonesia’s teeming capital, ings. Now, after a 20-year absence, his work, is on bodies in landscapes. frantically struggling to deal with the conjuring up a striking, moody, and estranged son Ticu arrives with his Danish military engineer Gunnar looming foreclosure on her house and intimate portrait of a place caught in Japanese wife and young son. The Dinesen (Mortensen, in a Technicolor- the squanderings of her unemployed, the grip of globalization. Using the unexpected visit forces father and son bright cavalry uniform) traverses a drunk husband. As financial ruin closes powerful soundtrack of the musicians’ to relearn how to rebuild their relation- visually stunning variety of Patagonian in, personal values meet their test. original compositions to drive the film, ship. Costache becomes a real grand­ shrub, rock, grass, and desert on Grozeva and Valchanov maintain a Ziv traces their elusive quest for identity father to his seven-year-old grandson, horseback and on foot in search of his seemingly dispassionate air in the face and love in the day-to-day of a city while Ticu straightens out past mistakes. teenage daughter, who has eloped with of their heroine’s escalating desperation, overrun by the effects of economic “A satisfying, unexpectedly upbeat a new love. Alonso’s style reaches new a distance that only increases their expansion and corruption. “One of the film, superbly played, in which hope is heights of sensory attentiveness and story’s emotional impact. The Lesson finest portrayals of Indonesian life to always just about visible through the physicality, driving the action toward offers a tough, unsentimental educa- emerge for outside audiences in tragedy.”—The Hollywood Reporter. In a thrilling conclusion that transcends tion in the limits of honesty when con- years.”—The Culture Trip. In English. Romanian and Japanese with English the limits of cinematic time and space.” fronted with brutal economic reality. (108 mins.) subtitles. (86 mins.) —New York Film Festival. (108 mins.) New Director Prize, San Sebastian Film 2/14 6:30PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER 2/6 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/12 5:30PM | ROSEWAY THEATER Festival. First feature. (105 mins.) 2/16 12:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/11 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/16 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/6 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by Pro Photo Supply. 2/19 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/8 6:00PM | FOX TOWER Sponsored by the Romanian American Society. 20 PIFF 38

LIAR’S DICE THE LIBERATOR LIFE IN A FISHBOWL THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE GEETU MOHANDAS ALBERTO ARVELO BALDVIN ZOPHONÍASSON MIPO O INDIA VENEZUELA ICELAND JAPAN Part road movie, part slow-burn thriller, Arvelo’s lush film tells the epic personal Director Baldvin ZophonÍasson This year’s Japanese submission for actress Geetu Mohandas’s atmospheric story of Venezuelan military and polit- explores the roots of the 2008 Icelandic the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar film examines the ominous under­ ical leader Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), economic collapse with an emotionally- and the winner of the Best Director currents in contemporary working-class who played a crucial role in freeing gripping ensemble piece focusing on award at the Montreal World Film India. Kamala has not heard from her Latin America from the grip of the the lives of three characters, each lead- Festival, O’s film is set in the grittiest husband, who is away on a construction Spanish Empire. The caddish aristocrat- ing a surprising double-life and all in fringes of Hokkaido, a port town in a job in the city. Though others in their turned-revolutionary fought more than search of redemption: a gifted poet permanent polluted haze. The trauma- rural village near the Tibetan border a hundred battles—never conquering, haunted by his past, a debt-ridden tized Tatsuo spends his days drifting know of men who started new families but “liberating”—that led to the found- young mother making ends meet aimlessly and his nights drinking to and never returned, they urge Kamala ing of the first union of independent through illicit ‘moonlighting,’ and a oblivion. At a smoke-filled pachinko to wait to hear from him. She refuses, nations in Hispanic America. “Bolívar former soccer star-turned-international- bar, he meets Takuji, a brash blonde ­setting off with her young daughter manages to rile the troops with pas- banker. In the ‘fishbowl’ of their lives, teen parolee, who impulsively invites and pet goat on a dangerous and sionate speeches on freedom, equality, they navigate the dark and shark- him to the seaside hovel she shares unprepared for journey to Delhi. Along and dignity—themes that resonate infested waters, hoping to survive. with her bedridden father, careworn the way, they encounter the mysterious today be it in Ferguson, Missouri or One of the biggest domestic critical mother, and world-weary older sister Nawazuddin, who acts as a reluctant Ukraine. . . . The writing here is as and box-office hits in Iceland, Fishbowl Chinatsu. As Tatsuo and Chinatsu take guide and protector to the pair for his refined as it is moving.”—Los Angeles is this year’s submission for the Best tentative steps towards a relationship, own unclear motives. This year’s Times. In Spanish, English, and French Foreign Language Film Oscar. a ray of light in their hopeless world, Indian submission for the Best Foreign with English subtitles. This year’s (130 mins.) the happy go lucky Takuji latches on to Language Film Oscar. In Hindi with Venezuelan submission for the Best 2/11 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER Tatsuo with unforeseen consequences. English subtitles. First feature. Foreign Language Film Oscar. 2/14 12:30PM | CINEMA 21 (120 mins.) (104 mins.) (119 mins.) 2/6 7:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/16 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/12 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/8 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/21 2:00PM | FOX TOWER 2/15 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan in Portland and Shigezo Restaurant. PIFF 38 21

THE LITTLE HOUSE LIVING IS EASY WITH THE LOOK OF SILENCE THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS YOJI YAMADA EYES CLOSED JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER IN SUMMER JAPAN DAVID TRUEBA DENMARK/INDONESIA/NORWAY PIF When Takeshi’s unmarried great-aunt SPAIN Joshua Oppenheimer follows his ITALY Taki passes away, he goes to her house Beatles fans will recognize the title ­riveting The Act of Killing (2012), about Pierfrancesco Diliberto (a renowned with his family to help clean up her from the lyrics in “Strawberry Fields Indonesia’s anti-communist massacres TV host and political comedian), better belongings. There, they discover a Forever,” which John Lennon wrote in the 1960s, with this searing com- known as Pif, wrote, directed, and memoir that Taki had been writing, while in southern Spain playing a panion piece. Here, focus shifts from stars in this subversive, irreverent documenting her experiences as minor character in Richard Lester’s the perpetrators to their victims, who ­feature debut about Arturo, a young housemaid for the well-to-do Hirai anti-war movie How I Won the War. decades later seek closure for family boy whose obsession with the Mafia’s family during World War II. Compelled This event forms the backdrop of members. We accompany Adi, a middle- casual presence in his city surpasses to learn more about his great-aunt, Trueba’s charming road movie about aged optician caring for his centenarian even his passion for Flora, the beautiful Takeshi begins to read. As he does, he Antonio, a Spanish schoolteacher who parents, as he sets out to confront his schoolmate who remains his main discovers the source of the regret and is also an avid Beatles fan. When he older brother’s killers. While he probes love interest until adulthood. Pif uses sadness that Taki had taken with her learns that Lennon is filming in former death-squad leaders about their Arturo’s unrequited love story as the to the grave. “In the masterful hands Almeria, he sets out to meet him. roles and revisits the scenes of the vehicle to narrate the most tragic of Yamada, this simple tale of family Along the way he makes friends with crimes, their denial that the killings events in Italy’s recent history, starting secrets and scandalous love triangles, Belen, a 20-year-old pregnant girl even occurred proves challenging. with the Cosa Nostra’s criminal actions adapted from a best-selling novel on her way home to her family, and In pressing perpetrators to confess, in Sicily in the ’70s, which soon spread by Kyoko Nakamura, is a gorgeously Juanjo, a teenage boy. Lennon’s words Oppenheimer exposes the high level through the country. A brave and intel- art-directed melodrama that reveals take on special significance in a story of accepted misinformation about the ligent dark comedy with a powerful a domestic side of nationalistic Japan set in Franco’s Spain. Winner of four politics, participants, and events that message, Italian Senate President Pietro rarely seen on screen.”—Japan Times. Goya Awards including Best Film and occurred, which are rapidly being Grasso referred to the film as the best (136 mins.) Best Director and this year’s Spanish erased from cultural memory. In one the Mafia ever made. (90 mins.) 2/9 7:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER submission for Best Foreign Language Indonesian and Javanese with English subtitles. (99 mins.) 2/15 3:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/12 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 Film Oscar. (108 mins.) 2/17 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by the Consular Office of Japan 2/8 9:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/6 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by Hotel Modera. in Portland. 2/11 5:45PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/11 8:30PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER Sponsored by Sierra Nevada Brewing. 22 PIFF 38

MAGICAL GIRL MAGICIAN: MAIDAN MARIE’S STORY CARLOS VERMUT THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND SERGEI LOZNITSA JEAN-PIERRE AMÉRIS SPAIN WORK OF ORSON WELLES UKRAINE FRANCE In this dark and offbeat social satire, CHUCK WORKMAN Loznitsa, whose My Joy and In the Fog Inspired by the life of Marie Heurtin, Alicia, a 12-year-old dying girl, asks US have screened in recent PIFFs, brings Marie’s Story is a playful, inspiration- her father Luis to buy her a wildly his distinctively vision to a remarkable al, and moving emotional journey “Oscar-winner Chuck Workman’s expensive gift: the dress of anime eye-witness account of the protests in between teacher and student set in (famed for his Academy Award clip character “Magical Girl Yukiko,” once Kiev’s Independence (Maidan) Square, the 19th century French countryside. montages and iconic trailers) impres- worn by a Japanese pop star. Fate puts which led to the departure of pro-­ Fourteen-year-old Marie arrives at a sive, comprehensive documentary tells Luis in the path Bárbara, a deeply Russian president Viktor Yanukovych. school for deaf girls run by Catholic the tragic, extraordinary story of Orson unstable married woman, and Damian, Filmed between December 2013 and sisters. Born deaf and blind and Welles, a great filmmaking genius a retired teacher with a troubled past. February 2014 in long, fixed-point trapped ever since in a world of dark- whose masterpieces were interspersed Bárbara, Luis, and Damian are thrown takes, we watch the ebb and flow of ness and silence, she is, at first, wild, with films compromised by studio into a world of blackmail that will actual events, from celebration and disheveled, and nearly unreachable. intervention or never completed at all. change their lives forever. “A noirish community to violent conflict with But the idealistic Sister Marguerite Workman tells Welles’s story through a social critique . . . the ­dangerous inter- armed riot police. Without commentary feels a deep and instant need to free wealth of interviews with the director action between money and emotion, and only occasional identifying inter- her from her sensory prison. Featuring and actor, an impressive assortment of which feels authentically independent, titles, Loznitsa paints a timeless portrait fierce performances by newcomer clips, and testimonies by luminaries the sideways slant of its director’s of protest and change that will grip Ariana Rivoire as the courageous including Martin Scorsese, Peter vision continually shifting the viewer anyone interested in what it takes to young woman struggling to connect Bogdanovich, George Lucas, Walter out of the comfort zone.”—The Hollywood stand for change. “This stunning, epic- to the world and Isabelle Carré as her Murch, and Steven Spielberg.”—Telluride Reporter. Best Film, Best Director, San scaled film harkens back to the heroic, idealistic mentor, Améris has fashioned Film Festival. (94 mins.) Short: Sebastian Film Festival. (127 mins.) journalistic roots of documentary-­ a story that awakens the heart and the 2/19 3:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM LUCINDA PARKER: making and yet feels ineffably modern senses. (95 mins.) 2/21 4:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM WATER AND CLOUDS and formally daring.”—Film Comment. 2/6 5:45PM | FOX TOWER | (133 mins.) Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, MICHAEL ANNUS OREGON 2/8 6:15PM | MORELAND THEATER Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry Portland painter Lucinda Parker’s poetic 2/14 3:15PM | FOX TOWER Sponsored by TV5Monde. of Education, Culture, and Sport. works emerge from her fascination with 2/15 8:30PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER clouds and water. (21 mins.) 2/7 1:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/12 5:45PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER PIFF 38 23

MATEO MR. KAPLAN NUOC 2030 ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL MARIA GAMBOA ÁLVARO BRECHNER NGHIEM-MINH NGUYEN-VO PASCAL PLISSON COLOMBIA URUGUAY VIETNAM FRANCE Sixteen-year-old Mateo works with his Jacob Kaplan lives an ordinary life in Nuoc 2030 is set in a near-futuristic Plisson’s César-winning documentary uncle extorting local small business Uruguay. Like many of his other Jewish Vietnam, where a beautiful coastal extols the true worth of getting, and owners and is about to be expelled friends, Jacob fled Europe for South region has been flooded as a result getting to, an education. Shot in Kenya, from school. The only way he can save America during World War II. But now of global warming and multinational Patagonia, Morocco, and the Bay of himself is to join a theater group led by turning 76, he’s become grumpy and ­corporations compete to build floating Bengal, the film follows the perilous the town’s priest. Mateo’s uncle views fed up with his life, community, and vegetable farms. Forced by the rising journeys of four children on their ways this as an opportunity for Mateo to spy his family’s lack of interest in its own waters to live their own tenuous float- to school: Jackson crosses the savannah on the priest, who is extolling people heritage. When a quiet, elderly German ing existence, Sao and her husband on foot, avoiding elephants; Carlito to resist the extortion and the gangs raises Mr. Kaplan’s suspicions of being Thi survive in the primal tradition of rides on horseback across lonely plains of kids involved in petty crime. To his a runaway Nazi, he ignores his family’s fishing in the now the over-harvested and rushing rivers; Zahira treks over uncle’s surprise, Mateo begins to enjoy concerns and secretly recruits Contreras, waters and collecting rainwater to treacherous Atlas Mountain passes; the eccentric bunch of performers and a former police officer, to help him drink. But tragedy strikes, leaving Samuel, in his antediluvian wheel- begins to fall for star pupil Ana. Trapped investigate. Together, they try to repeat Sao alone to solve the mystery of Thi’s chair, is pushed by his brothers over between two worlds, Mateo must the historic capture of Adolf Eichmann unfortunate and suspicious demise. sand dunes and through swamps. choose which path he really wants. by unmasking and kidnapping the This poetic film is at once a dystopian While the breathtaking cinematography This heart-warming, inspirational German and secretly taking him to sci-fi fable, an eco-thriller, and a love- reveals the splendor of their homelands drama exploring the true power of the Israel. Brechner’s entertaining black story, evocatively conveyed through and the dangers of these voyages keep arts is this year’s Colombian submis- comedy is this year’s Uruguayan sub- lush and lyrical panoramic visuals you on the edge of your seat, at the sion for the Best Foreign Language mission for the Best Foreign Language and beautiful underwater sequences. heart is the children’s resilience and Film Oscar. (86 mins.) Ages 13+. Film Oscar. (98 mins.) (98 mins.) their unstoppable yearning to learn 2/14 9:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/7 5:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/9 6:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER and improve their lives. (77 mins.) 2/15 4:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/10 5:45PM | FOX TOWER 2/13 8:45PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER Ages 10+. 2/8 4:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/14 4:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER Sponsored by The World Affairs Council of Oregon, the Consulate General of France and French American Cultural Society, San Francisco, and TV5Monde. 24 PIFF 38

PARADISE PHOENIX THE PRESIDENT QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM MARIANA CHENILLO CHRISTIAN PETZOLD MOHSEN MAKHMALBAF ANDREI GRUZSNICKI MEXICO GERMANY GEORGIA/FRANCE ROMANIA A touching comedy about how true Petzold’s riveting film follows Nelly In this dark satire, The President and The story of the man on the edge beauty comes from the inside and how (Nina Hoss), a concentration camp his family rule their land with an iron becomes a film about people who are ­paradise is closer to home than you ­survivor returning to Berlin, in her fist, enjoying lives of luxury and leisure at crossroads. Set in Romania, 1984, a might think. Carmen and Alfredo live search for Johnny (Ronald Zehrfeld), at the expense of their population’s mathematician’s decision to publish a a happy, quiet life in the suburbs sur- the husband she still loves who may or misery. When a coup d’état overthrows paper in a magazine, edited by an rounded by friends and family. After may not have betrayed her to the Nazis. his brutal rule and the rest of his family American university and not asking for Alfredo receives a promotion, the two Set in the period immediately follow- flees, The President is suddenly left to the authorities’ permission, triggers a move away to Mexico City where they ing the war that gave rise to the care for his young grandson and is chain of events that will change his immediately feel the social pressure of Trümmerfilm (literally “rubble film”) forced to escape. Now the country’s friends’ lives. After all, decisions with being overweight in a bustling metrop- —or “After the Camp,” as Petzold puts most wanted fugitive with a bounty on no consequences do not exist. What olis full of beautiful people. Taking it—Phoenix is an engrossing reflection his head, they crisscross the country to follows is a tense story of paranoia and the initiative, Carmen convinces her on the postwar reconstruction of iden- reach a ship waiting for them. Posing betrayal—skillfully shot in black and husband to join her in losing weight, tity couched as a noirish thriller of as street musicians and traveling white with remarkable attention to but their relationship is put to the test mistaken identity. Co-written with the together with the people who suffered period details—in which the issues when Alfredo’s program yields far better late writer/artist Harun Farocki, it is a for years under the dictatorship, they explored are anything but black and results than Carmen’s. Paradise is a precisely crafted chamber piece, reso- are exposed first hand to the hardships white. “The film tries to reproduce the romantic comedy at heart that offers nant and gripping, softly building up that inspired unanimous hatred for nostalgia and immobility of those compelling commentary on the pressure to knock-out finale. “The final scene, the regime. Best Film, Chicago Film years.”—Andrei Gruzsnicki. “The that people—especially women— without spoiling anything, is a movie Festival. (115 mins.) ­villains here are sincere, hard-working receive from society to be thin at all moment for the ages.”—Roger Ebert. 2/15 6:30PM | MORELAND THEATER bureaucrats, and their victims are costs. (105 mins.) com. (98 mins.) 2/17 5:45PM | FOX TOWER ­frequently confused or duplicitous.” 2/20 6:45PM | FOX TOWER 2/6 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM —New York Times. (107 mins.) 2/21 9:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/8 4:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/16 3:00PM | CINEMA 21 Sponsored by Zeitgeist Northwest and the 2/17 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER Oregon State University Language Department. Sponsored by the Romanian American Society. PIFF 38 25

R100 RED ARMY ROCKS IN MY POCKET A SECOND CHANCE HITOSHI MATSUMOTO GABE POLSKY SIGNE BAUMANE SUSANNE BIER JAPAN US LATVIA/US DENMARK From the director of Big Man Japan Whether or not you know anything Latvian-born, New York-based animator On what initially appears to be a comes this edgy, absurd, and whip- about hockey, or US-Soviet cold war Signe Baumane’s charming film is a ­routine police raid, partners Andreas smart dark comedy, featuring the best history, you’ll be entertained by witty and moving examination of the and Simon encounter low-life junkie use of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” since Polsky’s fascinating story of the inter- director’s battle with depression, nar- Tristan. Knowing his history of domestic Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Facing section of sports and politics. Played rated by Baumane herself. Combining violence, Andreas is understandably down potential familial tragedy, a out on Olympic ice, Red Army chroni- both papier-mâché stop-motion and unsettled to find Tristan living with lonely man named Takafumi explores cles the rise and fall of the dynastic hand-drawn animation, the film is another vulnerable woman. Fears the edges of his own repressed sexual Soviet Army Hockey Team, revisiting also a history of her family and how worsen when he discovers their young desire by hiring the services of a secre- the era using an incredible collection their lives have been touched by the baby locked away in a cupboard, crying tive S&M club. Without any warning, a of archival material from both sides of sting of depression. “People assume one and clearly neglected. A recent father leather-clad dominatrix may appear at the Iron Curtain. Featuring revealing makes a personal film to get rid of one’s himself, Andreas becomes fixated on any time or place and humiliate and commentary from the players them- own demons . . . as some kind of psy- safeguarding the child. It soon borders beat him to gratification. All the while, selves, including one of Russia’s great- chotherapy. I make films to entertain, on obsession, dangerously blinding our quiet department store clerk strug- est players Slava Fetisov, the film skill- to engage people in a conversation, at him to very real problems within his gles to balance fatherhood, work, and fully balances the personal and political times provoke—but mainly to offer my own family life. “A Second Chance is the need to not be caught. Writer- drama behind one of hockey’s greatest point of view on the world”—Signe an intense personal drama about what director Hitoshi Matsumoto intercuts stories, revealing the thin line between Baumane. “Sharp, surprising, Funny happens when vulnerable people are the action with a hilariously meta, national hero and political enemy. “[A] . . . Remorseless psychological intelli- forced into circumstances beyond their film-within-a-film critique that contin- stirring, crazy story—a Russian novel gence, wicked irony, and an acerbic control; about how we aren’t as immune ually questions our hero’s onscreen of Tolstoyan sweep and Gogol-esque sense of humor.”—New York Times. to chaos as we like to think; and about choices and the very scenario upon absurdity.”—The New York Times. This year’s Latvian submission for Best the secrets harbored by those closest which the plot hangs. (100 mins.) In English and Russian with English Foreign Picture Oscar. First feature. to us.”—Susanne Bier. (105 mins.) 2/13 10:30PM | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE subtitles. (85 mins.) (88 mins.) 2/10 8:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by Yelp! 2/14 3:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/9 8:30PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER 2/12 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/16 8:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/14 6:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by SP Newsprint. Sponsored by LAIKA. 26 PIFF 38

SECRETS OF WAR SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION SORROW AND JOY STATIONS OF THE CROSS DENNIS BOTS ETHAN HAWKE NILS MALMROS DIETRICH BRÜGGEMANN THE NETHERLANDS US DENMARK GERMANY During World War II, everyone had to This intimate portrait of classical In Malmros’s moving autobiographical Devout teenager Maria and her family keep secrets to survive, but at what ­pianist, composer, author, teacher, and film, a meditation on the limits of belong to the ultra-conservative price? Lambert and Tuur, two 12-year- sage Seymour Bernstein offers a wise human law and the infinite possibilities Society of St. Paul. Maria is intent on old boys living in a small village in and charismatic reflection on art and of kindness, Johannes, a filmmaker, walking a godly path, and yet she has Nazi-occupied Holland, share a strong life. The question “why make art?” is married to Signe, a schoolteacher. questions. Why would God give her friendship. But even this bond is put at winds its way through the film in con- Together, they experience the biggest brother a learning disability? Why risk with the arrival of a lively young versations with accomplished friends sorrow and misfortune one can ever does her mother forbid her from seeing girl named Maartje, carrying with such as art critic Michael Kimmelman imagine. When Johannes returns from a boy from a different church? As the her a heavy secret about her past. As and religious scholar Andrew Harvey. a trip, he discovers that Signe—not out contradictions of devout faith and Tuur and Maartje become close, the Seymour also reflects on the careers of of spite or hate but out of a sense of modern life multiply, Maria eschews estranged Lambert grows increasingly such pianists Glenn Gould and Clifford despair and loneliness and psychosis— the easy way out and chooses to follow jealous and acts irrationally, exposing Curzon, seen in archival footage, and has killed their infant child during a the hardest road of all—that of the Maartje’s secret with far-reaching con- his deep love of piano music proves psychotic fit. Johannes doesn’t judge ­savior, with all the pain and sacrifice it sequences that are beyond his under- infectious. “Calling to mind My Dinner her but tries to come to grip with all may entail. Told in single-shot tableaux standing. The danger and the humani- With Andre, his film is full of urbane the ways he has failed her without ever that parallel Christ’s journey to his own ty of wartime friendships asks three conversation and infused with the meaning any harm. Her students and crucifixion, Brüggemann’s provocative children to find maturity far beyond sophisticated rhythms of New York their parents want her back, and only film serves as both an indictment of their years. Winner, Best Live Action City. Whether aficionados or newcomers the State and its representatives need fundamentalist faith’s inflexibility and Feature, Chicago International to the world of classical music, viewers to be convinced that society needs this an exploration of one impressionable Children’s Film Festival. In Dutch with will find much to gain from this intro- woman. This year’s Danish submission teen’s struggle to find her own path in English subtitles. (95 mins.) Ages 10+. duction to Seymour.”—Toronto Film for the Best Foreign Language Film life. (107 mins.) 2/15 1:00PM | CINEMA 21 Festival. (81 mins.) Oscar. (107 mins.) 2/8 8:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/18 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/8 6:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/14 4:00PM | MORELAND THEATER 2/10 9:00PM | ROSEWAY THEATER 2/11 5:45PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER 2/17 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Sponsored by the Scandinavian Heritage Foundation and the ScanDesign Foundation. PIFF 38 27

STOP THE POUNDING HEART SUNSHINE SUPERMAN THE THIRD SIDE OF THE RIVER TIMBUKTU ROBERTO MINERVINI MARAH STRAUCH CELINA MURGA ABDERRAHMANE SISSAKO ITALY/BELGIUM/US US/NORWAY/UK ARGENTINA MAURITANIA Blurring the line between documentary After graduating from USC and a stint Seventeen-year-old Nicholas’s father is Not far from Timbuktu, now ruled and fiction, Italian director Roberto as an engineer, Carl Boenish devoted a respected doctor, but he lives a double by religious fundamentalists, mild-­ Minervini’s absorbing film is a portrait himself to “freefall cinematography” life: one, seemingly harmonious, with mannered herdsman Kidane lives of adolescence as experienced by a (John Frankenheimer’s The Gypsy Nico and his mother and siblings; and peacefully in the dunes with his wife sheltered girl in a conservative farm Moths). He and his wife Jean became the other, mere blocks away, with his and daughter. In town, the people suf- family in rural Texas. Without conde- the prime movers in BASE jumping— second family—with whom he spends fer, powerless, from the regime of terror scension or judgment, we see life the act of leaping from Buildings, most of his time and the bulk of his imposed by the Jihadists; music, laugh- through the eyes of 14-year-old Sarah, Antennas, Spans (bridges), and Earth money. The titular third side of the ter, cigarettes, even soccer have been who is homeschooled alongside her 11 (i.e., sheer cliffs) before hopefully river refers to a sort of purgatory or banned. Every day, the new improvised other siblings by her loving mother but ­saving yourself from a bad ending with limbo, effective imagery for Nicholas, courts issue tragic and absurd sentences, destined for a life of serving her hus- a parachute. To some, the idea is mad- who, torn between protecting the family and when Kidane accidentally kills a band as prescribed in the Bible. As she ness if not suicide, but for the Boenishes he loves and choosing his own future, neighbor, he is forced to confront the falls for a boy from a vastly different it was about the essence of life, of free- becomes tormented by a tension so chaos head on. Set in the early days of background, an intimate drama unfolds dom, and the experience of defying tightly wound it threatens to become the jihadist takeover of northern Mali revealing Sara’s turmoil about her gravity. Strauch’s exhilarating film explosive. Executive produced by in 2012, Sissako’s drama delivers a place in a faith where women are sub- tells their incredible story, not only Martin Scorsese and winner of the warm and often humorous condemna- servient. A portrait of contemporary in words, but in breathtaking deed. Special Prize of the Jury at the Cartagena tion of religious intolerance. This American life not often seen, Minervini’s Sunshine Superman is a love story— Film Festival, The Thrid Side of the year’s Mauritanian submission for the film was the Best Documentary winner about what it feels like to fall, first River is a devastating drama of family Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. at the David di Donatello (Italian uncontrollably, then willingly, and duty and duplicity. (92 mins.) In French, Arabic, and Bambara with Oscar) Awards. (101 mins.) then finally ecstatically. First feature. 2/20 6:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM English subtitles. (97 mins.) Ages 13+. 2/13 5:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM (96 mins.) 2/21 7:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/7 6:45PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/16 6:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/7 6:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/10 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by Hotel deLuxe and Sierra Nevada Brewing. 28 PIFF 38

TODAY THE TRIBE TU DORS NICOLE UNDERDOG REZA MIRKARIMI MIROSLAV SLABOSHPITSKY STÉPHANE LAFLEUR RONNIE SANDAHL IRAN UKRAINE CANADA SWEDEN Writer-director Mirkarimi provides a Winner of the Critics Week Grand Prize Infused with absurdist humor and a Dino, a young Swedish girl, has fled detailed, emotional snapshot of two at the Cannes Film Festival, the aston- sense of ennui, Lafleur’s film hones Sweden’s mass unemployment for better individuals struggling for genuine ishing The Tribe uses only sign language in on young adults at existential cross- fortune in Oslo. But like many other ­connection: an aging taxi driver and a and the actors’ body language to propel roads. Twenty-something Nicole is young immigrant Swedes, she finds young woman coping with the strug- the tense drama. Somewhere in adrift after college, working a dead-end herself an outcast and barely surviving gles of being pregnant without a man. Ukraine, Sergey enters a specialized summer job in her small Quebec home- on irregular work and hard partying. In the middle of a bustling Tehran boarding school for the deaf. He quick- town and spending evenings with her When she lands a job as a housekeeper afternoon, Youness is accosted by a ly encounters the Tribe, a student gang best pal, Véronique. When her older in an upper middle-class Norwegian desperate new fare: a frantic young dealing in crime and prostitution. brother Remi unexpectedly returns household she is thrown into a life woman named Sedigheh, begging to After passing their hazing rituals and with his bandmates in tow, disrupting very far from her own. During a few be taken to the hospital. A man of few being inducted into the group, he takes the girls’ wheel-spinning summer, it sultry summer weeks she ends up in words, Youness retains his stoic com- part in several robberies, works his becomes clear to Nicole that something the center of an odd love triangle and posure despite the young woman’s way up, and becomes pimp/protector must—and will—change. Shot in lumi- an unpredictable struggle for affection ­visible distress. Upon their arrival at for two girls who turn tricks at the nous black and white and infused with and dominance. Underdog is both a the hospital he reluctantly escorts her local truck stop. Finding himself in a sultry melancholy, Tu Dors Nicole tender story of privilege and longing inside in the absence of accompanying love with one of them, Sergey ultimately captures that liminal stage where the and a humorous recognition of the family members. As personal secrets breaks other unwritten rules, with fading yet familiar attachments of shifted power balance between Sweden are revealed throughout the night, tragic consequences. “An unforgettable youth still seem far more appealing, and Norway—a reality in which Swedes his silent compassion and Sedigheh’s cinematic experience, from its epic, precious, and real than the limitations have become Norwegians’ servants. timid dependence will entwine. This wordless opening shot to the brutal of the grown-up world. In French with First feature. (100 mins.) year’s Iranian submission for the Best finale.”—AFI. First feature. (132 mins.) English subtitles. (93 mins.) 2/7 4:00PM | FOX TOWER Foreign Language Oscar. In Persian Adult. 2/7 1:30PM | CINEMA 21 2/10 8:30PM | CINEMA 21 with English subtitles. (87 mins.) 2/6 8:45PM | CINEMA 21 2/9 6:00PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by Scandinavian Heritage Foundation. 2/9 6:00PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/10 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER Sponsored by TV5Monde. 2/12 6:00PM | FOX TOWER PIFF 38 29

WAITING FOR AUGUST WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS WHITE GOD A WOLF AT THE DOOR TEODORAH MIHAI JEMAINE CLEMENT KORNÉL MUNDRUCZÓ FERNANDO COIMBRA BELGIUM/ROMANIA TAIKA WAITITI HUNGARY BRAZIL Georgiana Halmac is about to turn 15. NEW ZEALAND Man’s best friend becomes his worst Set in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, She lives with her six brothers and Winner of the People’s Choice Award at nightmare when war breaks out A Wolf at the Door opens with a mother ­sisters in a social housing condo on the Toronto International Film Festival, between humans and dogs. After teen- arriving to pick up her young daughter the outskirts of Bacau, Romania. When this laugh-filled salute to the mocu- age Lili’s father decides to abandon her at school, only to learn that the girl their mother Liliana is forced to leave mentary form and monster movie genre dog Hagen on the street, we follow the already left with another woman. the family to work in Italy, Georgiana offers a clever salute to pop vampire lost canine as he tries to find his way A parent’s worst nightmare takes is abruptly catapulted into the role of myths. Viago, Deacon, Vladislav, and home, making friends with fellow increasingly sinister turns as it delves the head of the family, and her adoles- Peter are four vampires—each from a strays and evading the relentless into the events that led to the girl’s cence is cut brutally short. History is different historical time and place— dog-patrol only to be captured by an kidnapping, the story morphing into repeating itself in Romania, says the sharing a house in Wellington, New organizer of dog fights. Hagen is put an intense psychological drama of lust, filmmaker Mihai, who as a child saw Zealand and trying to balance being through the brutal torture of being betrayal, and revenge told through her parents flee the Ceaus¸escu regime, undead with the most basic everyday trained as a fighting dog, driving him flashbacks revealing a marriage on the leaving her behind until they could problems. None of them are quite past sanity and spurring him to lead verge of crumbling and a secret, erotic send for her. Referred to as the “home equipped to deal with the modern age, his fellow dogs in a revolt against their affair. Director Fernando Coimbra has alone generation,” children today are leading to hilarious encounters with oppressors. An ambitious morality play described his inventive, neo-noir being left behind due to economic potential victims, other creatures of of epic impact featuring the most stun- thriller as a modern-day variation on migration as people are forced to leave the night, and modern technology. ning performances by dogs (250) you Medea, which provides a hint on where the country annually to work abroad. As a documentary film crew follows will ever see, White God screened in the riveting story heads. Best Film, Rio Best Documentary, Karlovy Vary them round, we learn about each of Un Certain Regard program at Cannes, de Janeiro Film Festival and Best First International Film Festival. First feature. their histories and what it means to where it came out top dog. “The movie Film, Havana Film Festival. First feature. (88 mins.) be hundreds of years old in the 21st takes a leap into bold political meta- (100 mins.) 2/13 6:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER century. (86 mins.) phor, offering up a memorable image 2/7 4:00PM | CINEMA 21 2/15 1:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER of the great unwashed gone (literally) 2/9 8:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/6 8:45PM | MORELAND THEATER barking mad.”—New York Times. 2/13 8:45PM | CINEMA 21 (119 mins.) Sponsored by Ace Hotel. 2/13 5:45PM | CINEMA 21 30 PIFF 38

WYRMWOOD XENIA A YEAR IN CHAMPAGNE YVY MARAEY, KIAH ROACHE-TURNER PANOS H. KOUTRAS DAVID KENNARD LAND WITHOUT EVIL AUSTRALIA GREECE US/FRANCE JUAN CARLOS VALDIVIA Routine family life comes to an abrupt After the death of their Albanian mother, Only sparkling wine produced within BOLIVIA end for outback mechanic Barry, who, two brothers—the younger Dany, a the boundaries of the Champagne Valdivia’s lyrical and philosophical armed with a nail gun, finds little flamboyantly gay teen, and the elder region is truly “Champagne.” Wine road movie provides a journey not to a comfort in having resisted an airborne Ody (short for Odysseas), a hunky importer Martine Saunier leads us on a destination, but to a deeper under- contagion that’s kicked off an aspiring singer—set out on a road trip tours of six Champagne makers to see standing of memory and identity. Using Australian zombie apocalypse. Quickly from Crete to Thessaloniki to find their how they make their product, from a 1911 Swedish ethnographic film as a joining forces with other survivors, he long-lost, reputedly rich Greek father. small independent producer Saint- starting point, a Bolivian filmmaker and his merry band of zombie slayers The plan is to sort out their citizenship Chamant to the illustrious houses of (Valdivia) and a Guaraní guide travel hit the road looking to rescue his punk and then get Ody an audition for a TV Gosset and Bollinger. Most Champagne together through the forests of south- rock sister from the hands of the singing contest (think “Greek Idol”) is not just the product of a specific eastern Bolivia to make a film about ­sadistic, gas-mask wearing government and a shot at stardom. The two broth- year and Signature house styles are the Guaraní people. Each man creates officials who have kidnapped her. ers experience their share of hassles creations that happen behind closed and interprets his own character, Harvesting more than a smidgeon of along the way, but also benefit from doors and in the miles of cellars walking the thin line between docu- that old Mad Max energy, first-time xenia—the warm hospitality and kind- beneath the countryside. Pull back the mentary, fiction, and performance. feature director Roache-Turner pushes ness of strangers. Dreamy fantasy curtain and see how the people of a The journey not only takes them to the this tale of the walking dead into auda- sequences and classic euro disco ­enliven cold, tough land with a grim history of interior of the country, but to their own cious new territory, producing a zombie a quirky, campy romp that tackles wars and conflict triumph in producing inner selves, as they seek to define comedy with visual thrills reminiscent recession, homophobia, immigration, the drink of joy, seduction, and cele- their identities within a country under- of the best early work by Peter Jackson and fraternal bonding. In Greek, bration. In Champagne, they don’t sell going enormous social, political, and and Sam Raimi. (98 mins.) Albanian, and Italian with English Appellations, they sell Brands, many of historical change framed by colonial 2/14 10:30PM | HOLLYWOOD THEATRE subtitles. (128 mins.) which have been famous for 200 years. legacy and the epic history of an indig- In English and French with English Sponsored by Yelp! 2/9 8:30PM | MORELAND THEATER enous people. (107 mins.) subtitles. (82 mins.) 2/19 3:30PM | FOX TOWER 2/19 6:30PM | FOX TOWER Sponsored by Hotel Modera. 2/10 6:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER 2/20 9:30PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM 2/15 6:00PM | WORLD TRADE CENTER Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, Sponsored by TV5Monde and King Estate Winery. Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport. JOIN OUR LEARNING COMMUNITY + + + iFilmmaking Series Digital Storytelling Spring Break get creative with 4-session class Film Camps your i-device starts February 24 for kids + teens

934 SW Salmon | 503 221 1156 | nwfilm.org/school 32 PIFF 38 SHORTS CUTS I: LOS ROSALES SHORT CUTS 2: SHERLOCK HOMELESS DANIEL FERREIRA | ITALY MYCHAL SARGENT, MATT CORNELIUS INTERNATIONAL TIES A humble and solitary robot is stuck in MADE IN OREGON | EUGENE 2/7 1:30 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM a repetitive life, turning wheels and cogs 2/8 1:00 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM Tallboy Tarrance lacks a home and tradi- all day to produce his only means of tional charm, but has a knack for solving ME + HER survival—until he finds a way to feed his ROUGHSTOCK mysteries. (5 mins.) heart instead. (10 mins.) JOSEPH OXFORD | US JESSICA BACLESSE | PORTLAND When Jack and Jill of Cardboard City are TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 76 MINS. An injured rodeo star must juggle his LAYOVER separated by Jill’s untimely death, Jack dreams with his responsibilities. (14 mins.) VANESSA RENWICK | PORTLAND goes on an animated journey to mend his Swirling in flight, the Vaux’s Swifts layover (literally) broken heart. (13 mins.) INVISIBLE SAILS for three weeks in Portland each fall on | their migration to South America. (6 mins.) SHIPWRECK MICHAEL ANNUS PORTLAND A point of merge at a busy traffic artery | MORGAN KNIBBE THE NETHERLANDS demonstrates a curious human tendency AMERICAN GLADIATORS On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying 500 to cooperate. (7 mins.) LARA GALLAGHER | PORTLAND Eritrean refugees sank off the coast of the Jean’s little sister, Mae, may be gravely ill, Italian island Lampedusa. Abraham, one of MONKEY but Jean is sick of it. (11 mins.) the survivors, walks through a graveyard | of shipwrecks and vividly remembers the MATT CHRISTY EUGENE nightmarish experience. (15 mins.) Sidney’s wife brings a monkey home to live A YEAR & A DAY ME + HER (US) in a giant cage in the middle of their living PAM MINTY | PORTLAND room, but an aggressive territorialism NOT IT quickly develops. (5 mins.) A series of images of Bond Butte taken each PABLO ORTA | MEXICO month over the course of a year precede a series of the same butte taken hourly on An afternoon with a group of young boys LONG WAY GONE June 21, 2014. (2 mins.) who draw straws to see who will perform | a grim task. (5 mins.) AUSTIN WILL PORTLAND This surreal portrait follows a lost soul MELVIN THE BIRDER MY FRIEND NIETZSCHE ­navigating ghostly landscapes by motorcycle DAVID EMMITE, SPENCER LOTT in search of shelter from a vicious storm. | FÁUSTON DA SILVA | BRAZIL (15 mins.) PORTLAND The improbable meeting between Lucas Melvin is a lonely fellow who is obsessed and Nietzsche will be the beginning of a SHIPWRECK (THE NETHERLANDS) THE FRAMER with capturing every species of woodpecker known to man. (5 mins.) violent revolution. (15 mins.) DAN SADOWSKY | PORTLAND Portland’s Peter Murdoch builds picture NOAH frames that are themselves works of art. THE PUNISHING BUSINESS | PATRICK CEDERBERG | CANADA (3 mins.) HEATHER HARLOW PORTLAND A relationship steeped in social media and Life isn’t easy for Ellen, her parole officer, told through the lens of Noah’s computer BOTTLE NECK or her developmentally disabled neighbor. screen. (18 mins.) JOANNA PRIESTLEY | PORTLAND (19 mins.) Still life silhouettes, abstract shapes, and TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 95 MINS. complex, interlocking patterns renovate the Sponsored by Pond5 and the Governor’s Office of commonplace objects of a classical painting Film and Television. Join us for a reception following MY FRIEND NIETZSCHE (BRAZIL) genre in a modern setting. (3 mins.) the screening, sponsored by Pond5. PIFF 38 33 SHORT CUTS 3: THE QUEEN SHORT CUTS 4: THE RUNAWAY MANUEL ABRAMOVICH | ARGENTINA JEAN-BERNARD MARLIN | FRANCE INTERNATIONAL TIES Memi is 11-years-old and is going to be the FRESH FRENCH SHORTS Laktar, a youth worker in a home for juve- 2/12 6:00 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM queen of the carnival. Her elaborate head- 2/14 1:00 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM nile deliquents in Marseille, accompanies piece is too heavy, but she looks so pretty. Sabrina, one of his wards, to court where PONY PLACE (19 mins.) AÏSSA she will be tried for an earlier crime. He sets off confidently, convinced that their | | JOOST REIJMERS THE NETHERLANDS CLÉMENT TRÉHIN-LALANNE FRANCE efforts will be rewarded. (22 mins.) When young Emma is prohibited from HIPOPOTAMY Aïssa is Congolese, residing illegally in | t­aking her iPad on holiday, she asks her PIOTR DUMALA POLAND France. She claims to be a minor, but the grandma to look after her digital horse authorities believe she is over 18, which OGRE Naked women and children are bathing | farm. Koba is a seasoned agrarian, but in a river. They are being secretly observed means she could be deported. In order to JEAN-CHARLES PAUGAM FRANCE nothing she learned in the garden prepares by a group of men who decide to approach establish whether or not she can remain in A house on the beach. Inside, an over- her for this leap across the generation gap. them in a violent manner, as if inspired by the country, a doctor gives her a physical weight man remains confined, observing (10 mins.) the behavior of hippo­potamuses. (13 mins.) examination. (9 mins.) from behind his curtains the young girls in their swimsuits. He waits for the night. THE PHONE CALL TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 86 MINS. 5 METERS 80 (15 mins.) MATT KIRBY | UK NICOLAS DEVEAUX | FRANCE When a shy lady (Sally Hawkins) who This delightful animated fantasy pairs MILLIONAIRES | works in a suicide helpline call center takes ­animal life with an aquatic sport to STÉPHANE BERGMANS BELGIUM a phone call from a distraught man (Jim ­beguiling effect. (5 mins.) All her life, Christian and Ludo’s mother Broadbendt), she has no idea that the played the same numbers in the lottery but encounter will change her life forever. CARGO CULT never won a single penny. After her death, (19 mins.) the two brothers decide to continue the | BASTIEN DUBOIS FRANCE family tradition. (16 mins.) SYMPHONY NO. 42 It’s the middle of WWII and inhabitants | of a remote Pacific island are captivated by TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MINS. RÉKA BUSCI HUNGARY mysterious cargo gods who appear to drop Sponsored by Alliance Française and the Consulate A series of surreal and comedic vignettes good fortune by the crateful. Inspired by General of France and French American Cultural exploring the often-anthropomorphising true events. (12 mins.) Society, San Francisco. nature of human/animal interaction; set in a strange forest where anything is possible. (10 mins.) MR HUBLOT LAURENT WITZ | FRANCE/LUXEMBOURG A TROPICAL SUNDAY (MOZAMBIQUE/ITALY) A TROPICAL SUNDAY Mr. Hublot finds his reclusive life turned | upside down when he overcomes personal FABIAN RIBEZZO MOZAMBIQUE/ITALY obstacles to do a good deed. (12 mins.) It’s Sunday and crowds of eager children line up for rides at the fairground. Among them are four street kids who have spent THE AUDITION the week begging and scavenging. Today, PIERRE NINEY | FRANCE all they want is to feel like children again. François, a young actor, goes to a casting (15 mins.) call that proves surprising. (14 mins.)

THE QUEEN (ARGENTINA) 5 METERS 80 (FRANCE) 34 PIFF 38 SHORT CUTS 5: WIND SHORT CUTS 6: THE KÁRMÁN LINE ROBERT LÖBEL | GERMANY OSCAR SHARP | UK ANIMATED WORLDS About the daily life of people living in a INTERNATIONAL TIES When a mother contracts a rare condition, 2/15 1:00 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM windy area who seem helplessly exposed to 2/16 3:30 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM her husband and daughter must console the weather. The inhabitants have learned, themselves with the thought that she’s This selection of new international anima- however, to deal with their difficult living THE CHICKEN bound for a (much) higher place. (24 mins.) tion is selected by LAIKA’S Mark Shapiro conditions. (4 mins.) from visits to animation festivals worldwide. UNA GUNJAK | GERMANY/CROATIA He will be on-hand to talk about the films. On her sixth birthday, Selma receives a THE CUT | THE WOUND chicken from her dad, a soldier away at the GENEVIÈVE DULUDE-DE CELLES CANADA ANNA BUDANOVA | RUSSIA AUBADE front, but her joy is quickly squashed when The story of a father and a daughter, whose | A little girl’s resentment, embodied in a she realizes her mother has other plans for relationship fluctuates between proximity MAURO CARRARO SWITZERLAND shaggy creature that becomes her best the new pet. (15 mins.) and detachment, at the moment of a haircut. In a surrealist, backlit scene, swimmers friend, starts to completely control her life. (15 mins.) and birds witness the spectacle of the (9 mins.) THE LAST DAYS dawn, hypnotized by the music of a cellist. TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 105 MINS. (5 mins.) OF PETER BERGMANN 365—ONE YEAR. ONE FILM. CIARAN CASSIDY | IRELAND ONE SECOND A DAY. MY OWN PERSONAL MOOSE In 2009 a mysterious man showed up in THE BROTHERS MCLEOD | UK LENOID SHMELKOV | RUSSIA Sligo Town, Ireland. He then went to great Illustrator Greg and writer Myles produced lengths to eradicate himself from history Misha, a quiet, dreamy boy, has his fantasy one second of animation every day for a and to disappear. All that is left are testi- come true: to meet a real elk. The film year. No storyline, script or storyboard— monials and CCTV footage. (19 mins.) ­conjures up the power of the imagination, just from ideas that come. (6 mins.) loneliness and the passing of time. (17 mins.) CARRY ON THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE THROUGH THE HAWTHORN YATAO LI | CHINA ANNA BENNER, PIA BORG, GEMMA BURDITT DANIELA SHERER | ISRAEL/UK During the brutal withdrawal of Japanese | GERMANY forces at the end of WWII, a Chinese father An abstract narrative about childhood does whatever he can to save his family. Three characters, three perspectives, three and adulthood, escapism, and sexuality. (17 mins.) (9 mins.) directors: A session between a psychiatrist, a schizophrenic patient, and his mother. A triptych exploring three very different LEIDI TIMBER senses of reality. (9 mins.) SIMÓN MESA SOTO | COLOMBIA/UK NILS HEDINGER | SWITZERLAND THE LAST DAYS OF PETER BERGMANN Leidi lives with her mom and her baby. (IRELAND) A group of logs freezing in the snow work YEARBOOK Her boyfriend Alexis hasn’t shown up in out how they can stay warm. (6 mins.) BERNARDO BRITTO | BRAZIL days. A guy tells her he has seen Alexis with another girl, but Leidi won’t be going A man is hired to compile the definitive home until she finds the father of her child. THE BIGGER PICTURE ­history of human existence before the (15 mins.) DAISY JACOBS | UK ­planet blows up. (5 mins.) Life-size animated characters tell the stark and darkly humorous tale of caring for an TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 77 MINS. elderly parent. (7 mins.) Sponsored by LAIKA.

THE CUT (CANADA) PIFF 38 35 SHORT CUTS 7: SLEEPING DISTRICT SHORT CUTS 8: KOALA TINNE ZENNER | DENMARK/RUSSIA DANIEL REMÓN | SPAIN SHE NEVER DREAMS Combining outside and inside views of resi- NEW SPANISH SHORTS A psychologist interviews the members dential areas built during the Soviet Era 2/20 4:15PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM of a company due to an incident: Mercedes, OF PLACES with disjointed conversations translated 2/21 2:00 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM one of the executives, has insulted his new 2/17 8:30 PM | WHITSELL AUDITORIUM from Russian into a broken English, the assistant, a young man who suffers from film explores notions of home shaped by Down syndrome. (16 mins.) This program of experimental cinema, memory, history, relations, and objects. INHABITANTS | ­programmed and introduced by Cinema (11 mins.) LETICIA DOLERA SPAIN BIRDBOY Project, delves into personal, familial, and We live anesthetized, isolated, immune to cultural pasts, revealing the difficulty in ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ, PEDRO RIVERO TIME BEING I-VI pain. What would happen if one day that going back to or moving between physical emotional anesthesia disappeared? | SPAIN and psychic spaces. BARBARA STERNBERG | CANADA (11 mins.) A terrible industrial accident changes Little Brief moments of being, fleeting bits of the Dinki’s life forever. Now Dinki’s fate may NOW EAT MY SCRIPT surrounding chaos. (11 mins.) A WHOLE FUTURE TOGETHER ride on the wings of her eccentric friend MOUNIRA AL SOLH | LEBANON | Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the Dead TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 63 MINS. PABLO REMÓN SPAIN Forest, lost in his fantasies. (13 mins.) The camera hovers over a car packed Two bankers who have sold a substantial with food to be smuggled across the Syria- amount of preferred shares have a conver- TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 MINS. Lebanon border, including the segmented sation at a bar. One of them, the general carcass of a sacrificed lamb, becoming a manager, is suffering a protest: a group of Thanks to PRAGDA, Spain Arts and Culture, Accíon Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Ministry reflection on the exchange of goods and victims guard his house and his family. of Education, Culture, and Sport. food between Syria and Lebanon. Now, after several sleepless nights, he has (24 mins.) finally had an epiphany. (18 mins.) RETURN TO AEOLUS STREET I CAN’T RIGHT NOW MARIA KOURKOUTA | FRANCE ROSER AGUILAR | SPAIN Found-footage of popular Greek movies Sara is a young actress who, after becoming from the 50s and 60s is manipulated and a mother, decides to go back to her profes- looped toward the hypnotic and touching, sional life. She becomes a finalist in an accompanied by extracts of Greek poems audition in which the stakes couldn’t be and music. (14 mins.) higher. (12 mins.)

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FEATURES COLOMBIA GREECE LEBANON MATEO Maria Gamboa...... 23 ...... GHADI Amin Dora...... 15 XENIA Panos H. Koutras 30 ARGENTINA CROATIA HONG KONG LITHUANIA DARKNESS BY DAY Martin De Salvo...... 12 ...... 11 COWBOYS Tomislav Mršic´ DEAREST Peter Ho-Sun Chan...... 12 THE GAMBLER Ignas Jonynas...... 14 JAUJA Lisandro Alonso...... 19 THE GOLDEN ERA Ann Hui...... 16 THE INVISIBLE FRONT Jonas Ohman, Vincas Sruoginis.... 18 THE THIRD SIDE OF THE RIVER Celina Murga...... 27 CUBA WILD TALES Damián Szifrón...... 3 ...... HUNGARY MAURITANIA CONDUCTA Ernesto Daranas Serrano 11 AUSTRALIA HOTEL NUEVA ISLA Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador...16 AFTERLIFE Virág Zomborácz...... 7 TIMBUKTU Abderrahmane Sissako...... 27 WHITE GOD Kornél Mundruczó...... 29 CHARLIE’S COUNTRY Rolf De Heer...... 10 DENMARK MEXICO ELECTRIC BOOGALOO: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY JAUJA Lisandro Alonso...... 19 ICELAND GÜEROS Alonso Ruiz Palacios...... 16 OF CANNON FILMS Mark Hartley...... 13 THE LOOK OF SILENCE Joshua Oppenheimer...... 21 LIFE IN A FISHBOWL Baldvin Zophoníasson...... 20 PARADISE Mariana Chenillo...... 24 WYRMWOOD Kiah Roache-Turner...... 30 A SECOND CHANCE Susanne Bier...... 25 AUSTRIA SORROW AND JOY Nils Malmros...... 26 INDIA THE NETHERLANDS LIAR’S DICE Geetu Mohandas...... 20 JALANAN Daniel Ziv...... 19 CRACKS IN CONCRETE Umut Dag...... 12 EGYPT SECRETS OF WAR Dennis Bots...... 26 THE DARK VALLEY Andreas Prochaska...... 12 FACTORY GIRL Mohamed Kahn...... 13 INDONESIA NEW ZEALAND BELGIUM JALANAN Daniel Ziv...... 19 FINLAND THE LOOK OF SILENCE Joshua Oppenheimer...... 21 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS ALLÉLUIA Fabrice Du Welz...... 8 CONCRETE NIGHT Pirjo Honkasalo...... 11 Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi...... 29 STOP THE POUNDING HEART Roberto Minervini...... 27 IRAN ...... WAITING FOR AUGUST Teodorah Mihai 29 FRANCE NORWAY TODAY Reza Mirkarimi...... 28 BOLIVIA ALLÉLUIA Fabrice Du Welz...... 8 IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE Hans Petter Moland...18 YVY MARAEY, LAND WITHOUT EVIL BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Nicholas Vanier...... 9 ISRAEL THE LOOK OF SILENCE Joshua Oppenheimer...... 21 CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA Olivier Assayas...... 10 SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Marah Strauch...... 27 Juan Carlos Valdivia...... 30 THE FAREWELL PARTY Tal Granit, Sharon Maymon...14 JAUJA Lisandro Alonso...... 19 GETT: THE TRIAL OF VIVIANE AMSALEM MARIE’S STORY ...... PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES BRAZIL Jean-Pierre Améris 22 Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz...... 15 ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL Pascal Plisson...... 23 EYES OF A THIEF Najwa Najjar...... 13 AUGUST WINDS Gabriel Mascaro...... 8 THE PRESIDENT Mohsen Makhmalbaf...... 24 ITALY THE BOY AND THE WORLD Alê Abreu...... 10 A YEAR IN CHAMPAGNE David Kennard...... 30 PERU A WOLF AT THE DOOR Fernando Coimbra...... 29 HUMAN CAPITAL Paolo Virzì...... 17 THE MAFIA ONLY KILLS IN SUMMER Pif...... 21 I’M STILL Javier Corcuera...... 17 GEORGIA BULGARIA STOP THE POUNDING HEART Roberto Minervini...... 27 CORN ISLAND George Ovashvili...... 11 PORTUGAL THE LESSON Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov...... 19 THE PRESIDENT Mohsen Makhmalbaf...... 24 JAPAN ...... HORSE MONEY Pedro Costa 16 GIOVANNI’S ISLAND Mizuho Nishikubo...... 15 CANADA GERMANY THE LIGHT SHINES ONLY THERE Mipo O...... 20 ROMANIA BACKCOUNTRY Adam Macdonald...... 9 BELOVED SISTERS Dominik Graf...... 9 THE LITTLE HOUSE Yoji Yamada...... 21 THE JAPANESE DOG Tudor Cristian Jurgiu...... 19 FELIX & MEIRA Maxime Giroux...... 14 THE DARK VALLEY Andreas Prochaska...... 12 R100 Hitoshi Matsumoto...... 25 QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM Andrei Gruzsnicki.. 24 TU DORS NICOLE Stéphane Lafleur...... 28 PHOENIX Christian Petzold...... 24 WAITING FOR AUGUST Teodorah Mihai...... 29 CHINA STATIONS OF THE CROSS Dietrich Brüggemann...... 26 LATVIA ROCKS IN MY POCKET Signe Baumane...... 25 RUSSIA BLACK COAL, THIN ICE Diao Yinan...... 9 THE FOOL Yuriy Bykov...... 14 PIFF 38 45

SOUTH KOREA CARGO CULT Bastien Dubois...... 33 RUSSIA URUGUAY MR HUBLOT Laurent Witz...... 33 A GIRL AT MY DOOR July Jung...... 15 MY OWN PERSONAL MOOSE Lenoid Shmelkov...... 34 MR. KAPLAN Álvaro Brechner...... 23 OGRE Jean-Charles Paugam...... 33 SLEEPING DISTRICT Tinne Zenner...... 35 RETURN TO AEOLUS STREET Maria Kourkouta...... 35 SPAIN THE WOUND Anna Budanova...... 34 VENEZUELA THE RUNAWAY Jean-Bernard Marlin...... 33 10,000 KM Carlos Marques-Marcet...... 7 THE LIBERATOR Alberto Arvelo...... 20 SPAIN ALL THE WOMEN Mariano Barroso...... 8 GERMANY ÄRTICO Gabriel Velázquez...... 8 BIRDBOY Alberto Vázquez, Pedro Rivero...... 35 VIETNAM THE CHICKEN Una Gunjak...... 34 HOTEL NUEVA ISLA Irene Gutiérrez, Javier Labrador...16 I CAN’T RIGHT NOW Roser Aguilar...... 35 NUOC 2030 Nghiem-Minh Nguyen-Vo...... 23 THROUGH THE HAWTHORN IN A FOREIGN LAND Icíar Bollaín...... 17 INHABITANTS Leticia Dolera...... 35 Anna Benner, Pia Borg, Gemma Burditt...... 34 LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED David Trueba... 21 INSIDE THE BOX David Martín-Porras...... 35 WIND Robert Löbel...... 34 MAGICAL GIRL Carlos Vermut...... KOALA Daniel Remón...... 22 35 WILD TALES Damián Szifrón...... 3 SHORT CUTS HUNGARY A WHOLE FUTURE TOGETHER Pablo Remón...... 35

SYMPHONY NO. 42 Réka Busci...... 33 SWEDEN ARGENTINA SWITZERLAND THE 100 YEAR OLD MAN WHO CLIMBED OUT THE AUBADE Mauro Carraro...... 34 THE QUEEN Manuel Abramovich...... 33 IRELAND WINDOW AND DISAPPEARED Felix Herngren...... 7 TIMBER Nils Hedinger...... 34 THE LAST DAYS OF PETER BERGMANN UNDERDOG Ronnie Sandahl...... 28 BELGIUM Ciaran Cassidy...... 34 UNITED KINGDOM MILLIONAIRES Stéphane Bergmans...... 33 TURKEY ISRAEL 365—ONE YEAR. ONE FILM. ONE SECOND A DAY. COME TO MY VOICE Huseyin Karabey...... 10 The Brothers Mcleod...... 34 BRAZIL THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE Daniela Sherer...... 34 THE BIGGER PICTURE Daisy Jacobs...... 34 MY FRIEND NIETZSCHE Fáuston Da Silva...... 32 UKRAINE THE KÁRMÁN LINE Oscar Sharp...... 34 YEARBOOK Bernardo Britto...... 34 ITALY MAIDAN Sergei Loznitsa...... 22 LEIDI Simón Mesa Soto...... 34 A TROPICAL SUNDAY Fabian Ribezzo...... 33 THE TRIBE Miroslav Slaboshpitsky...... 28 THE PHONE CALL Matt Kirby...... 33 CANADA LOS ROSALES Daniel Ferreira...... 32 THE SHIRLEY TEMPLE Daniela Sherer...... 34 UNITED KINGDOM THE CUT Geneviève Dulude-De Celles...... 34 NOAH Patrick Cederberg...... 32 LEBANON ’71 Yann Demange...... 7 UNITED STATES TIME BEING I-VI Barbara Sternberg...... 35 NOW EAT MY SCRIPT Mounira Al Solh...... 35 DUKE OF BURGUNDY Peter Strickland...... 13 AMERICAN GLADIATORS Lara Gallagher...... 32 ...... SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Marah Strauch...... 27 CHINA LUXEMBOURG BOTTLE NECK Joanna Priestley 32 BROKEN TONGUE Mónica Savirón...... 35 CARRY ON Yatao Li...... 34 MR HUBLOT Laurent Witz...... 33 UNITED STATES THE FRAMER Dan Sadowsky...... 32 INVISIBLE SAILS Michael Annus...... 32 I AM BIG BIRD: THE CAROLL SPINNEY STORY COLOMBIA MEXICO Dave Lamattina, Chad Walker...... 17 LAYOVER Vanessa Renwick...... 32 LEIDI Simón Mesa Soto...... 34 NOT IT Pablo Orta...... 32 IRIS Albert Maysles...... 18 LONG WAY GONE Austin Will...... 32 ...... LUCINDA PARKER: WATER AND CLOUDS THE IRON MINISTRY J.P. Sniadecki 18 CROATIA MOZAMBIQUE JALANAN Daniel Ziv...... 19 Michael Annus...... 22 THE CHICKEN Una Gunjak...... MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE AND WORK 34 A TROPICAL SUNDAY Fabian Ribezzo...... 33 MELVIN THE BIRDER David Emmite, Spencer Lott.....32 OF ORSON WELLES Chuck Workman...... 22 MONKEY Matt Christy...... 32 DENMARK THE NETHERLANDS RED ARMY Gabe Polsky...... 25 ME + HER Joseph Oxford...... 32 SLEEPING DISTRICT Tinne Zenner...... 35 ...... ROCKS IN MY POCKET Signe Baumane...... 25 PONY PLACE Joost Reijmers 33 THE PUNISHING BUSINESS Heather Harlow...... 32 SEYMOUR: AN INTRODUCTION Ethan Hawke...... 26 SHIPWRECK Morgan Knibbe...... 32 ROUGHSTOCK Jessica Baclesse...... 32 FRANCE STOP THE POUNDING HEART Roberto Minervini...... 27 SHERLOCK HOMELESS SUNSHINE SUPERMAN Marah Strauch...... 27 5 METERS 80 Nicolas Deveaux...... 33 POLAND Mychal Sargent, Matt Cornelius...... 32 A YEAR IN CHAMPAGNE David Kennard...... 30 AÏSSA Clément Tréhin-Lalanne...... 33 HIPOPOTAMY Piotr Dumala...... 33 A YEAR & A DAY Pam Minty...... 32 THE AUDITION Pierre Niney...... 33 Reel insight.

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KAPLAN (Uruguay) 6:45 WH THIRD SIDE OF THE RIVER (Argentina) 4:00 FT UNDERDOG (Sweden) 10:30 HW R100 (Japan) 3:30 FT BLACK COAL, THIN ICE (China) 5:45 WH GETT (Israel) 6:45 FT PARADISE (Mexico) 5:00 RW MR. 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