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1 2 AKA proudly sponsors the 25th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Film Festival, October 20–30, 2016, with opening night at AKA Washington Square. THE WORLD’S MOST TRUSTED FURNISHED RESIDENCES STAYAKA.COM FILMADELPHIA.ORG 3 DIRECTORS’ NOTE 3 25 Festivals. That’s a lot of history. Much of it pre-dates us. Our silver anniversary coincides with our 8th year putting the festival together, and while that is only a third of our Festivals, it has been an incredible period for the Philadelphia Film Society and the Philadelphia Film Festival. From our beginnings as the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema at the International House to the years of growth as the J. ANDREW MICHAEL Philadelphia International Film Festival 25 GREENBLATT LERMAN under TLA, onward to today’s Philadelphia YEARS OF FILM EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC Film Festival produced by the Philadelphia DIRECTOR DIRECTOR Film Society, the Festival began and continues as an annual citywide celebration FESTIVAL FACTS of the best film from around the world. l 3,542 films and counting! Bringing to Philadelphia films ranging from the most highly anticipated of the year to experimental and original American independents, powerful documentaries to l First feature film debuts controversial and avant-garde international cinema, the Festival has always been an from directors Andrea Arnold, important and exciting part of Philadelphia’s arts and culture scene. Guillermo del Toro, John Carney, Lisa Cholodenko, Matthew Now, we arrive at our milestone 25th Festival. We’re so proud of our expanded Vaughn and Morgan Spurlock, programming team, who has quite frankly delivered our strongest program ever, among others complete with some of the year’s Oscar contenders — kicking off with our Opening Night l Foreign premieres of now- stunner La La Land — alongside foreign and domestic selections that are bold, unique, classics like 101 Reykjavik, and challenging. In this incredibly important election year, we are also very proud to Dekalog (back for PFF25!), offer a program designed to highlight, educate and inform on some of the critical issues Europa, Hard Boiled, Oldboy, and facing our country. Our Festival Lounge is open to all Festival ticket holders for the first Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance time since its inception, and we hope that you will join us there between screenings. l Lineups including five Academy Award Winners for Best This year, we look forward to our expanded free ticket program, now entitled PFS on Us Picture in the last decade presented by PNC Arts Alive, which, along with support from the Wyncote Foundation and Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation, allows us to offer free tickets to all films in the l Visits from distinguished American Independents and Documentary Showcase categories as well as this year’s guests Alexander Payne, Felicity State of the Union special program. After the Festival, the program will continue at our Jones, John Leguizamo, Kerry venues, providing additional free tickets to Signature Series screenings throughout Washington, Mary-Louise Parker, the year. We are thrilled to bring back our Festival Field Trip program, which we’re all Morgan Freeman, Paul Rudd, incredibly proud to offer, and to expand student engagement year-round with the Robert Zemekis, Roy Disney, launch of the Alfred M. Greenfield Student Screening Showcase, starting in 2017. Susan Sarandon, Todd Haynes, William H. Macy, and many more Before closing, we most certainly need to express our deep gratitude for all of our l Hosted a wide range of expert amazing supporters throughout the years, from founding to existing Board of Directors jurors spanning all areas of to all Philadelphia Film Society Members, past and present. We extend thanks to our the film industry, from Variety outstanding and dedicated PFS employees and awesome Festival staff and interns — lead critics to key buyers from especially to our volunteers, who have donated countless hours to make this possible. world-class distributors like The And, of course, thank you to all of the individual donors, foundations, and corporate Weinstein Company sponsors whose support has been crucial to making the Festival a reality from 1992 to l Engagement with 50+ local today, including this year’s Presenting and Official Sponsors: AKA, 6ABC, Xfinity, CBS schools, community groups, Radio, Dietz & Watson, and Philadelphia Style Magazine. Thank you. Sincerely. arts and culture organizations, social service providers, and As always, we encourage you to see as many films as you can, take risks, explore, binge other members of communities on the Festival experience. We look forward to seeing you at the movies! all across Philadelphia with outreach that expands each year 4 倀䠀䤀倀䰀爀漀甀䄀搀氀礀䐀 匀甀䔀瀀瀀漀䰀爀琀猀 倀吀栀䠀攀 䤀䄀 䘀 䤀 䰀 䴀 匀 伀 䌀 䤀 䔀 吀 夀 5 WELCOME IMPORTANT INFO Directors’ Note 3 TO THE 25TH Programmer Bios 7 PHILADELPHIA Our Sponsors 9 Attending the Festival 10 FILM FESTIVAL Ticket Information 11 Opening Night Events 13 Closing Night Festivities 13 Festival Lounge 15 Special Program: State of the Union 17 Film Awards 18 Community & Education Programs 21 Screening Schedule 22 PFS Staff Members and Associates 99 Thank Yous 100 2015 PFF Volunteers 104 Film Index 106 THE PROGRAM Opening Night Film 27 Closing Night Film 29 Centerpieces 31 Masters of Cinema 38 World Narratives 48 American Independents 62 Documentary Showcase 66 Feast 70 The Graveyard Shift 72 Greater Filmadelphia 76 New French Films 80 Sight and Soundtrack 84 Spotlights 88 State of the Union 90 From the Vaults 94 CONTENTS Animated Shorts Program 97 @phillyfilmsoc /phillyfilmsociety philafilmsociety # PFF25 6 7 PROGRAMMER BIOS 7 MICHAEL LERMAN J. ANDREW GREENBLATT ALLISON KOEHLER ARTISTIC DIRECTOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR PROGRAMMING MANAGER Philadelphia native Born and raised in In her four years with PFS, Michael Lerman is a Philadelphia, J. Andrew Allison most recently served veteran programmer of Greenblatt has been as Programming Director, film festivals, currently Executive Director/ developing a creative vision also curating The Toronto Chief Executive Officer for year-round programming International Film Festival of the Philadelphia Film across PFS venues as well and The Palm Springs Society since 2008. as integrated community International Film Festival. Prior to PFS, Greenblatt initiatives. Prior to PFF, He co-runs a production began his career in Allison spent six years as company called Tiger Industry Films for which he the entertainment industry with Film 101 Education Director & youthFEST Programmer at produces, directs, writes, and edits. Previously, Productions. He has produced films including the Sarasota Film Festival and worked in event he was the Director of Acquisitions for The Film Explicit Ills, Café, Twelve, and Everything Must management and marketing strategy as a Senior Sales Company and a film journalist. Go. Account Executive with Auster Agency. LANDON ZAKHEIM TOM QUINN RYAN WERNER SENIOR PROGRAMMER PROGRAMMER PROGRAMMER Landon is a short film Tom Quinn was previously Ryan Werner, recipient of programmer for the the co-president of Radius, The Hollywood Reporter’s Sundance Film Festival, The Weinstein Company’s “Next Gen Award,” is a Senior Head Shorts Programmer cross- platform film Executive for Cinetic Media for LA Film Festival, and releasing label. Before specializing in publicity and CEO and co-founder of that he was at Magnolia marketing. Previously, he the interactive gaming for eight years, where was the SVP of Marketing at company Bottleneck he was SVP, and Samuel IFC Entertainment, where Immersive. He was formerly Goldwyn for seven years, he oversaw marketing and Lead Programmer for AFI FEST and served as eventually becoming VP of Acquisitions. Quinn’s publicity for theatrical and home video releases. Director of Programming for an experiential first industry job was working in domestic film Werner has worked at Wellspring, Palm Pictures, horror festival in Colorado. His short films have publicity for Nancy Willen at Dennis Davidson Magnolia Pictures, Shooting Gallery, Sundance played at festivals all over the world. Associates. Channel, IFP, and the Woodstock Film Festival. CHARLOTTE COOK DOUG JONES TREY SHIELDS ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMER ASSOCIATE PROGRAMMER PROGRAMMER Charlotte Cook co-created Doug Jones has curated Trey Shields has worn many Field of Vision, a visual films for Minneapolis’ hats in his four years with journalism film unit that Oak Street Cinema, the PFS, including Membership creates original episodic Mill Valley Film Festival in Coordinator and Festival and individual short-form Northern California, the Venue Manager. Most nonfiction films. She was the San Francisco Film Society recently, Trey served as Director of Programming at and the San Francisco Programs Coordinator, Hot Docs and Head of Film International Film Festival, collaborating on year-round Programming and Training at and the Los Angeles curated programming at the The Frontline Club. She has also worked with BBC Film Festival, where he served as Associate PFS Roxy Theater and other special initiatives. Storyville, the Channel 4 BritDoc Foundation’s Director of Programming. He is currently As a Programmer, Trey oversees the Festival Puma Creative Catalyst Fund and the Edinburgh Executive Director of Images Cinema in Western submission and screening processes and runs International Film Festival. Massachusetts. PFS’ monthly local Philly Film Showcase. ADDITIONAL SCREENERS & PROGRAM GUIDE WRITERS TRAVIS TREW SCOTT FARIHAH PROGRAMMING ASSISTANT, HUDSON ZAMAN SCREENER, WRITER SCREENER, WRITER SCREENER,