An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post th Festival Introduction NNIVERSARY A 15 Welcome to Filmfest DC, Washington’s celebration of the best in world cinema!

The first film festival was, ironi-

Photo: Chad Evans Wyatt cally, started by Bernardo Mussolini to showcase Italian culture in Venice. The French soon followed with the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Since then, hundreds of festivals have sprouted up around the WHEREAS, the Washington, D.C. International Film Festival is celebrating its Tony Gittens, and Shirin Ghareeb, world. Why do people stand in Festival Director, fourteenth anniversary of presenting Assistant Director line to see our films? To be innovative, exciting and quality films to the citizens of the District of entertained—that’s for sure. But they also attend to learn, to have a Columbia, through its annual event known as Filmfest D.C.; and rare opportunity to look inside another culture and see it from the perspective of those who live there, rather than through our media. WHEREAS, Filmfest D.C. is working to serve the varied interests of the District’s diverse community that earned it the honor of winning the 1994 Mayor’s Arts Award for Excellence in Service to the Arts; and This is the 15th anniversary of Filmfest DC. We are proud that our festival has allowed films without over-marketed stars and huge WHEREAS, Filmfest D.C. presents the quintessential 20th century art form— promotional budgets to find their way to appreciative audiences. Our film, which embodies many other artistic disciplines such as the written word, audience has more than doubled since those early years and we can music, theater and visual arts, with the power to inform, educate and enter- only marvel at the outpouring of support we continue to receive. Over tain; and the years we have introduced hundreds of international films to WHEREAS, Filmfest D.C., presented by the Washington, D.C. International Washington. Scores of filmmakers from all over the world have shared Film Festival, has made significant contributions to the film community in their insights and interpretations with us, and media coverage for our Washington, by bringing world-wide films to its theaters, and providing a event has extended around the globe. forum for local filmmakers to showcase and market their work: NOW, THEREFORE, I, THE MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, do here- Now more than ever, film festivals are one of the few means for by proclaim April 5–16, 2000, as “WASHINGTON D.C. INTERNATIONAL FILM American audiences to see quality international films. In the global FESTIVAL DAYS” IN WASHINGTON, D.C. marketplace, Hollywood films dominate the screens and shape the tastes of moviegoers the world over. The range of choice is constantly being narrowed. But film festivals and other alternative venues open up this otherwise limiting arena. For Filmfest DC, quality is the criteri- on for participation.

Eliseo Subiela, a perennial Filmfest DC favorite, will be this year’s Director in Focus. Our unique Global Rhythms music series features African blues (Ali Farka Toure: Springing From the Roots), opera (The Table of Contents Turandot Project), gypsy flamenco (Vengo), Cuban (Cuba Feliz), Reggae (Bob Marley Live in Concert) and Indian (I Have Found It) sounds. We Opening Night 3 have also brought back a few gems from past years; these Timeframes lingered in our minds long after we screened them. Filmfest DC for Closing Night 3 Kids, Cinema for Seniors, CineCafes, and our panels and workshops Festival Guide 4–5 continue to be offered free of charge. Locations 5 As always, I would like to thank the many dedicated people who have Ticket Information 5 shared their time and talents with Filmfest DC. The Government of the Feature Film Descriptions 6–11, 14–19 District of Columbia is our major sponsor. Filmfest DC greatly appreci- ates the generous contributions of all our sponsors, patrons, numerous Film Schedule 12–13 volunteers, local businesses, and diplomatic community. Their support CineCafes 16 has been the key to the festival’s success and is evidence that the festi- val makes an important contribution to our city’s vitality. Cinema for Seniors 20 Filmfest DC for Kids 20 We’re very pleased to have you join us for the 15th edition of Filmfest DC. You will not be disappointed with this annual adventure. Panel Discussions 21 Filmfest DC Staff and Special Thanks 22 Tony Gittens Print Sources 23 Festival Director and Index 23 Executive Director, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Sponsors 24

2 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 th Compassionate Sex Sexo por compasión Laura Mañá Mexico/Spain, 2000, 107 minutes, color Exploding on the international film festival circuit by setting out to do exactly what its title says with charmingly naughty and surreal grace, Compassionate Sex begins in a barren, lifeless village that’s devoid of color. Abandoned by her husband Manolo (José Sancho) for being just plain too good, the pleasingly plump and middle-aged Dolores (Elisabeth Margoni) decides that sin is the best way to win him back. Renaming herself “Lolita,” the unrepentant housewife sleeps with first one man and then most of the other male villagers, requiring them to contribute money to the town’s dilapidated church. This ulti- mate form of charity eventually brings magic and life back to the tired burg—and Manolo back to Dolores. Mañá creates a delightfully pungent comedy of manners and morals.—Eddie Cockrell In Spanish with English subtitles Production Company: Filmax International. Producers: Fernando Camara, Julio Fernández, Miguel Torrente. Screenplay: Laura Mañá. Cinematography: Henner Hoffman. Editor: Guillermo Maldonado. Music: Francesc Gener. Principal Cast: Elisabeth Margoni, Pilar Bardem, Álex Angulo, José Sancho, Juan Carlos Colombo.

Tuesday, April 17, 6:30 p.m., Lisner Auditorium, CO-PRESENTED WITH: followed by a Champagne and Dessert Gala, The World Bank, $40, Code: FFB117APRA MEXICAN CULTURAL THE WORLD % In Person: Producer Fernando Camara INSTITUTE BANK

Closing Night: Sunday, April 29 Together Tillsammans

Lukas Moodysson Sweden/Denmark/Italy, 2000, 102 minutes, color The provocatively funny, sexually uninhibited saga of a suburban Stockholm com- mune in crisis, Together is the award-winning new film from 31-year-old novelist- turned-screenwriter Lukas Moodysson, whose Show Me Love was among FFDC 2000’s unqualified hits. It’s 1975, and collective leader Göran (Gustav Hammarsten) brings his sister Elisabeth (Lisa Lindgren) and her two children Eva (Emma Samuelsen) and Stefan (Sam Kessel) into an environment seething with sexual and political intrigue. The commune members are so entangled in their own intrigues that they scarcely notice as Eva and Stefan grapple with their own identities and their emotionally immature father Rolf (Micheal Nyqvist). With all the counterculture urges and rock music in the air, can the members actually stay together? By turns charmingly flighty and deadly serious, Together will speak to anyone who harbors a twinge of nostalgia for the days when there appeared to be a different—if not altogether better—way to live.—Eddie Cockrell In Swedish with English subtitles

Production Companies: Memfis Film/ Film i Våst/ SVT Drama Göteborg/Zentropa Entertainments/Keyfilms Roma. Producer: Lars CO-PRESENTED WITH: Jönsson. Screenplay: Lukas Moodysson. Cinematography: Ulf Brantäs. Editors: Michael Leszczylowski, Fredrik Abrahamsen. EMBASSY OF SWEDEN Principal Cast: Lisa Lindgren, Michael Nyqvist, Gustaf Hammarsten, Anja Lundqvist, Jessica Liedberg. Sunday, April 29, 4:00 p.m., Lincoln Theatre, followed by a party with live band and dancing, 2:K:9 Club, $25, Code: FFZ129APRA % In Person: Actress Lisa Lindgren

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Welcome to the 15th Annual Washington, D.C., International Film Festival, Global Rhythms Free Programs Washington’s own celebration of exciting, The collaboration of music and film is a true Our free screenings and panels are some of new, and innovative cinema from around joy, each enhancing the other. One of the best deals in the festival. Don’t miss the the world. Filmfest DC this year presents Filmfest DC’s unique sections is our series very special presentations at the National 80 films from more than 30 countries. Film of films from around the globe featuring Gallery of Art, Filmfest DC for Kids, and our is the art form of the 21st century, mirroring major international musical artists. CineCafes. Once again, we will present a who we are and who we strive to become. Directors’ Roundtable, an informal, open We hope to provide you with fresh perspec- # Ali Farka Touré page 6 exchange between the audience and our tives on our ever-changing world, and we # Calle 54 page 8 international visiting film directors, who will think you will find our film selections both # Cuba Feliz page 9 address opportunities and difficulties they entertaining and challenging. Here are a # Kathy Rose page 14 face as filmmakers in their respective few hints and highlights: # Flamenco page 10 countries. # I Have Found It page 11 The Schedule # The Spitball Story page 6 # The Turandot Project page 18 Beginning on page 6, descriptions of films # Vengo page 19 are arranged alphabetically, with show times and locations. The master schedule (on pages 12-13) lists each day’s films and Filmfest DC their show times. Films are shown in their original language with English subtitles. Audience Award Filmfest DC will give an award to the film Timeframes voted the most popular by our audience. Since this is our 15th anniversary, we have Ballots will be available after each screen- included a few gems from past Filmfest ing, and the winner will be announced on DCs. Of the over 1,000 films we have intro- Closing Night. As always, you will be the duced to Washington, we have selected judge. The Filmfest DC Audience Award is some of our personal favorites that have sponsored by the D.C. Lottery. not previously returned to Washington, are not on video, and completely sold out tick- ets when they were first screened. Director in Focus: Eliseo Subiela # Bob Marley Live In Concert page 7 Filmfest DC will feature a retrospective of legendary Argentinean # Downtime page 10 director Eliseo Subiela, with Mr. Subiela in attendance as our special # The Fencing Master page 10 guest. Most of Subiela’s earlier films will be screened, including his # Flamenco page 10 new feature, The Adventures of God. Having developed a huge fol- # The Spitball Story page 6 lowing in Washington, D.C., Eliseo Subiela’s films are among the most popular and the most requested titles of our festival. Subiela was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. At the age of 19, he made Filmography his first short film, A Long Silence (1963), which won first prize in an A Long Silence (1963) international film festival. The Conquest of Paradise (1980) was his The Conquest of Paradise first full-length feature, and his masterpiece Man Facing Southeast (1980) (1986) received worldwide acclaim. Last Images of the Subiela creates visually stunning, magical worlds—legends based on Shipwreck (1985) philosophical and psychological questions that have universal mean- Man Facing Southeast ing and validity. Since he places more importance on exploring ques- (1985) tions than on answering them, Subiela tells intellectually stimulating The Dark Side of the Heart stories. His movies are open to various interpretations and the viewer (1986) is compelled to interact with the film. The filmmaker pays great atten- Don’t Die Without Telling tion to the psychology of his characters, which allows his audience to Me Where You’re Going share the characters’ probings of love, death, and spirituality. (1995) One may divide movie directors into two groups: those who imitate Wake Up, Love (1996) the world they live in, and those who create their own world. In the Little Miracles (1997) last group we find Bresson, Bergman, Bunuel, and Kurosawa, among The Adventures of God others. In Argentina, Eliseo Subiela is one such poet of the cinema. (2000)

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An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 5 th 101 Reykjavik Aberdeen Adanggaman NNIVERSARY A 15Baltasar Kormákur Hans Petter Moland Roger Gnoan M’Bala Iceland/Denmark/France/Norway, 2000, 89 minutes, color Norway/United Kingdom, 2000, 113 minutes, color Ivory Coast, 2000, 90 minutes, color Twenty-eight-year-old Icelandic slacker Hlynur (Hilmir Snaer At the request of her In a typical 17th-century West African village on the so-called Gudnason) stumbles into a comically complicated family snafu dying mother Helen Slave Coast, the when a night of wild sex with avowed lesbian flamenco (Charlotte Rampling), old chief N’Go teacher Lola Milagros (Victoria Abril) results in her pregnancy. ambitious young insists that his Trouble is, his divorced mom, Berglind (Hanna Maria lawyer Kaisa (Lena son Ossei marry Karlsdóttir), is also in love with Lola. The pair announce they’ll Headey) searches for the daughter of a raise the baby themselves—which will give Hlynur a son who’s her estranged father, rich family. also a brother. His sometimes girlfriend Hofi (Thrudur unrepentant boozer Instead, Ossei Vihjalsmodottir) is pregnant too, leaving Hlynur with a raft of Tomas (Stellan leaves the vil- adult respon- Skarsgård), intent on lage, which sibilities he’s returning him to the Amazon warriors ill-prepared to bedside of the wife he of the neighbor- manage. left more than a ing tyrant Imagine an decade before. Their Adanggaman Almadovar journey to the titular city becomes an emotional bender as they burn and pillage. comedy bicker with each other incessantly and Kaisa even finds some When Ossei returns to his destroyed village, he searches for his played out in sort of love in the person of long-haul trucker Clive (Ian Hart). missing mother and catches up with the captured villagers led the snowy Neatly sidestepping nearly every cliché associated with movies by the cruel Amazons toward Adanggaman’s kingdom. Ossei wastes of a about alcoholics and alcoholism, Aberdeen shrewdly reinvents tries to rescue his mother and finds himself among the villagers grungy the genre by giving it an international spin and a raw, focused in chains. Adanggaman is filled with joy at the results of his Icelandic immediacy. Skarsgård reaffirms his multifaceted talents as the Amazons’ recent manhunt, the inhuman source of his prestige, ‘hood (101 is dissipated dad, while Headey’s ferocious battle with both her fortune, and power. It is evident that his own kingdom has not the area’s zip father and her own substance-abuse demons announces a escaped the hands of European slave traders by accident. code) and you’re still only halfway to 101 Reykjavik, a funny, major new dramatic talent after years of ensemble work in Forgive, but don’t forget, is the director’s message.—30th touching, off-the-wall relationer that’s one of the freshest lesser costumers. Director Hans Petter Moland isn’t above Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 debuts in world cinema this year. —Derek Elley, Variety some visual mischief to relieve the tension, and the ethereal In Gouro, More, and Senoufo with English subtitles In Icelandic and English with English subtitles yet urgent score by longtime Kieslowski composer Zbigniew Production Company: Amka Films. Producer: Tiziana Soudani. Production Companies: 101 Ltd./Zentropa Entertainments/Liberator Preisner adds yet another level of emotional complexity. Screenplay: Jean-Marie Adiaffi, Bertin Akaffou, Roger Gnoan M’Bala. Productions/Filmhuset. Producer: Ingvar Thórdarson. Screenplay: —Eddie Cockrell Principal Cast: Rasmane Ouedraogo, Albertine N’Guesan, Ziable Baltasar Kormákur, from the novel by Hallgrimur Helgason. Honore Goore. Cinematography: Peter Steuger. Editors: Skule Eriksen, Sigvaldi Production Company: Norsk Film Production, in association with Kárason, Steingrimur Karlsson. Principal Cast: Victoria Abril, Hilmir Freeway Films. Producers: Tom Remlov, Petter J. Borgli. Screenplay: Friday, April 20, 8:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFH120APRB Snaer Gudnason, Hanna Maria Karlsdóttir, Baltasar Kormákur. Hans Petter Moland, Kristin Amundsen. Cinematography: Philip Ogaard. Saturday, April 21, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK121APRA Editor: Sophie Hesselberg. Music: Zbigniew Preisner. Friday, April 20, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU120APRA Sunday, April 22, 8:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK122APRA Q Saturday, April 21, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT121APRB Co-Presented with Monday April 23, 6:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK123APRA AMERICAN UNIVERSITY The Adventures Ali Farka Touré: Springing of God From the Roots Las aventuras de Dios Ali Farka Touré: Ça coule Eliseo Subiela de source Argentina, 2000, 85 minutes, color and black Yves Billon, Henry & white Lecomte The Millennium seemed to bring out the very best France, 2000, 52 minutes, color in selected artists worldwide, and here’s a prime example of that inspiration. In an unnamed sea- During the course of this French-made side hotel, a man known only as Protagonista profile, Malinese musician Ali Farka (Pasta Dioguardi) wanders dreamily, his startling Touré leads us on a relaxed tour of the encounters given vague shape by the appearance important places in his life. From his of Valeri (Flor Sabatella) and the realization that native village of Kanau to Timbuktu he’s committed some sort of crime—the details of and his current base of operations, the which he finds it impossible to recall. Nothing verdant Niger River village of less than a grand summation of his essential Niafunké, the past is traced and the themes to date, Eliseo Subiela’s The Adventures piercing, seemingly effortless style of of God is by turns exhilarating and daunting, a his music is celebrated.—Eddie Cockrell hermetically sealed yet universally understand- In Bambara and French with English subtitles able inquiry into the very nature of existence that Production Company: Les Films du Village. Producers: Yves Billon, refines major strands from his previous work— Henry Lecomte. Screenplay: Yves Billon, Henry Lecomte. Cinematography: Yves Billon. Editors: Yves Billon, Henry Lecomte, time, memory, dreams, love—while underscoring Soazig Chappedelaine, William Morrison. his fierce and hard-fought creative independence Shown with: (students and teachers from the director’s own film school comprised much of the crew). Like the The Spitball Story red-bound title tome locked just out of reach in a glass case, Eliseo Subiela’s movies are about the Jean Bach tantalizing closeness of knowledge and the elu- USA, 1997, 21 minutes, color and black & white sive nature of wisdom.—Eddie Cockrell Here’s a celebrated bit of lore involving musicians Dizzy In Spanish with English subtitles Gillespie and Milt Hinton, bandleader Cab Calloway, and a cer- Production Company: CQ3 Films/Estudios Darwin. tain 1941 in-concert projectile that resulted in backstage vio- Producers: Victor Catania, Alejandro Galindo, Eliseo Subiela. Screenplay: Eliseo Subiela. Cinematography: Daníel Rodriguez Maseda. Editor: Laura Bua. Music: Osvaldo Montes. Principal Cast: Pasta Dioguardi, Flor Sabatella, Daniel Freire, Lorenzo Quinteros, María Concepción César. lence and Gillespie’s ejection from the band.—Eddie Cockrell Friday, April 27, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT127APRB Thursday, April 26, 8:30 p.m., American Film Institute, Saturday, April 28, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT128APRB Code: FFA126APRB % In Person: Director Eliseo Subiela Friday, April 27, 9:30 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA127APRB

6 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Angels of the Universe April Captains th Englar alheimsins Capitães de Abril Fridrik Thór Maria de Medeîros Fridriksson France/Portugal, 2000, 124 minutes, color Iceland/Norway/Germany/ Portuguese actress Maria de Medeîros steps behind the cam- Sweden/Denmark, 2000, era for the first time, choosing as her subject the historic day of 95 minutes, color April 25, 1974 In the tradition of One Flew when an almost Over the Cuckoo’s Nest bloodless military comes the latest film by coup overthrew a acclaimed Icelandic director corrupt, right- Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. wing Portuguese Based on Einar Már government. Beau Travail Gudmundsson’s book about Disillusioned by his schizophrenic brother, the ongoing wars in Claire Denis film is a brilliant and ulti- its African France, 1999, 93 minutes, color mately damning portrayal of colonies, a small Denis Lavant portrays Galoup, a warrant officer who’s demand- an all-too-often ambivalent psychiatric world. With a skilled band of junior ing with his men yet lovingly concerned for them. He admires hand, Fridriksson blurs the line between sanity and madness, officers lead a his commandant, Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor), and becomes casting doubt on how we come to decide which is which. popular revolt jealous when he starts showing favoritism toward a newcomer When we first meet Paul, he seems to be living a normal, well- that prompted in the ranks, Gilles Sentain (Gregoire Colin). Galoup tries to adjusted life with his parents in Reykjavik. But things are not democratic remove his rival, but succeeds only in removing himself from always what they seem, and something is terribly wrong in change and Portuguese withdrawal from its colonial outposts. the community of soldiers that is his whole raison d’etre. Beau Paul’s world. When his behavior becomes increasingly erratic, Medeîros tells her tale through the eyes of a number of partici- Travail is a celebration, even fetishization, of the male body, his parents have no choice but to commit him to a local psychi- pants, moving between her protagonists’ personal stories and and the homoerotic element is unmistakable. The sensual atric hospital. There, he befriends some of his fellow ‘patients.’ the more general street scenes of the rebellion. She captures imagery includes shots of the platoon naked to the waist and With grace and a light-hearted touch, the characters triumph the populace’s growing jubilation, the complex choices people going through training exercises. This is a must-see film for over an illness that at first seems beyond their control.—Steve must make as they look history in the face, the tension of the anyone who thinks the cinema can evoke powerful, subtle emo- Gravestock, 25th Toronto International Film Festival, 2000 day, and the wonder and improbability of a revolution without tions through means other than soupy stories and blatantly In Icelandic with English subtitles much bloodshed.—Piers Handling, 25th Toronto International Film manipulative close-ups.—Peter Brunette, Film.com Production Companies: Icelandic Film Corporation/Filkmhuset/Peter Festival, 2000 In French with English subtitles Rommel Film Production/ZDF/ARTE/ORB/SVT/Zentropa Productions. In Portuguese with English subtitles Producer: Fridrik Thór Fridriksson. Principal Cast: Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Production Company: La Septe Arte/Pathé Télévision/SM Films. Baltasar Kormákur, Björn Jorundur Fridbjörnsson, Hilmir Snaer Production Companies: JBA/Mutante Filmes. Producer: Jacques Bidou. Producer: Jerome Minet. Screenplay: Jean-Pol Fargeau, Claire Denis, Gudnason. Screenplay: Maria de Medeîros, Eve Deboise. Principal Cast: Stefano inspired by Herman Melville. Principal Cast: Denis Lavant, Michel Accorsi, Maria de Medeîros, Joaquim de Almeida, Frédéric Pierrot. Subor, Gregoire Colin, Richard Courcet. Saturday, April 21, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR121APRB Tuesday, April 24, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR124APRB Monday, April 23, 9:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG123APRA Sunday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR122APRA Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT125APRA Wednesday, April 25, 8:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG125APRA The Big Animal Blame It on Voltaire Duz r zwierz’ La faute à Voltaire Jerzy Stuhr Abdellatif Kechiche Poland, 2000, 70 minutes, black & white France, 2000, 130 minutes, color Adapted from Krzysztof Kieslowski’s recently discovered and Jallel is a 27-year-old Tunisian immigrant who arrives illegally unfinished 1973 screenplay by his long-time cohort Jerzy Stuhr in Paris and eludes the police with a forged passport. His (star of White and himself an established filmmaker), The Big friends tell him to tell the French officials he is Algerian. As he Animal is a gentle roams the city, he earns money by selling fruit and reading fable about the poetry in Metro stations. A marriage of convenience may solve value of dignity his prob- and the toll of indi- lems and viduality. When the he makes a title dromedary, few French left behind by a cir- friends, but cus, shows up in the harsh Bob Marley Live in Concert the yard of clarinet realities Stefan Paul enthusiast never dis- Zygmunt Sawicki appear. Germany, 1998, 65 minutes, color (Stuhr) and his Abdellatif Not long before he died in May of 1981, wife Marysia Kechiche Bob Marley & The Wailers played the Dortmund Westfalia Hall (Anna Dymna), their emotions move from suspicion to joy to chooses to in Germany, where the show was filmed by filmmaker/theater apprehension. After being ostracized by the townspeople who follow the owner Stefan Paul. He supplemented the previously unseen at first embraced the animal, the couple grow in their resolve to path taken concert footage (presented mostly uncut and unaltered) with keep it, only to have the beast disappear as suddenly as it by one Marley’s Kingston funeral, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael arrived. To this day Stuhr—the most recognized name in Polish man. In portraying the real preoccupations, difficulties, desires, Manley’s eulogy, the memorial concert, and Marley’s own cinema—refers to Kieslowski as "my best friend," and to this fears, relationships, and dreams of everyday life while trying appearance at the 1979 Reggae Sunsplash festival. Songs per- end he’s realized the screenplay as an allegorical cautionary not to concentrate on the more sensational aspects, he has formed include “Natural Mystic,” “I Shot the Sheriff,” “War/No fairy tale, at once gently provocative and a delight to anyone overcome the distance surrounding the often clandestine immi- More Trouble,” “Zimbabwe,” “Jamming,” “No Woman No Cry,” old enough to read the subtitles.—Eddie Cockrell grant.—30th Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 “Exodus,” “Get Up Stand Up,” “Coming in from the Cold,” and In Polish with English subtitles In French with English subtitles “Lively Up Yourself.”—Eddie Cockrell Production Company: Telewizja Polska. Producer: Slawomir Rogowski. Production Company: Flach Film. Producer: Jean-François Lepetit. Production Company: Arsenal Filmproduktion. Producers: Gerd Unger, Screenplay: Krzysztof Kieslowski, from a story by Kazimierz Orlos. Screenplay: Abdellatif Kechiche. Cinematography: Dominique Stefan Paul. Screenplay: Stefan Paul. Cinematography: Hans Schulk. Cinematography: Pawel Edelman. Editor: Elzbieta Kurkowska. Music: Brenguier, Marie-Emmanuelle Spencer. Editors: Tina Baz Legal, Annick Editor: Hildegard Schroder. Music: Bob Marley & The Wailers. Abel Korzeniowski. Principal Cast: Anna Dymna, Jerzy Stuhr, Dominika Baly. Music: various. Principal Cast: Sami Bouajila, Élodie Bouchez, Bednarczyk, Blazej Wójcik, Rubio. Bruno Lochet, Aure Atika, Olivier Loustau. Saturday, April 21, 10:45 p.m., Nat’l Geo., Code: FFN121APRC Saturday, April 28, 10:45 p.m., Nat’l Geo., Code: FFN128APRC Sunday, April 22, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU122APRB Monday, April 23, 8:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR123APRB % In Person: Junior Marvin, former lead guitarist for Monday, April 23, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR123APRA Wednesday, April 25, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR125APRA The Wailers

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 7 th Born Romantic Bread and Roses Bread and Tulips NNIVERSARY A 15David Kane Ken Loach Pane e tulipani United Kingdom, 2000, 96 minutes, color United Kingdom, 2000, 112 minutes, color Silvio Soldani Born Romantic is a stylish, feel-good treat. The music and Maya (Pilar Padilla) is an illegal alien in Los Angeles working Italy, 2000, dance scenes are delightfully rendered and the film is full of with her sister Rosa (Elpidia Carrillo) as a cleaner in a high-rise 115 minutes, color comic ingenuity. Following the tremendous success of his first office block. Then Maya meets union organizer Sam (Adrien film, This Year’s Love, writer-director David Kane has created a Brody), who rallies the workers to protest the low pay and lack Shirley Valentine goes to hugely enjoyable romantic comedy that makes the most of its of any holiday pay or benefits. We can see their passion for the Venice in this sparkling, London setting. issues involved, espe- madcap Italian farce. Fergus (David cially as Maya and While fishing around for Morrissey) is a Rosa clash over their some lost jewelry in a rest failed pop star opinions and as Maya stop toilet while on holi- who is looking for discovers some difficult day with her family, Mo (Jane truths about their past. Pescara housewife Horrocks), a hair- There's also a very nice Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) dresser he jilted romantic triangle in is left behind by the tour eight years earli- here, with Maya bus. This prompts a hitchhiking trip to Venice and an extended er. Eddie (Jimi attracted to Sam, while break from her comically distressed husband and two sons that Mistry) is a cheap her coworker, Ruben becomes a warm, funny search for self. Her new acquaintances and not terribly (Alonso Chavez), woos include a mysterious Icelandic waiter, an overweight plumber- successful crook her. These storylines turned-private detective, a holistic beautician, and a series of who finds himself drawn to the hypochondriac and ultra-invert- are superb, but you get realistic dreams that may or may not point her in the right ed Jocelyn (Catherine McCormack). On the other hand, Frankie the point Loach is really direction. Working from a nuanced and calibrated script, direc- (Craig Ferguson) is a Sinatra fan who determinedly pursues the interested in the poli- tor Silvio Soldani has created a benevolently wacky world of posh, stand-offish Eleanor (Olivia Williams). This trio of would- tics, and in this area he self-discovery and circumstance, and drawn from former art- be couples is connected by two things: For one thing, they take comes out with all guns film mainstay Bruno Ganz one of his most whimsically appeal- cabs with and receive advice from the sage Jimmy (Adrian blazing, attacking all ing performances in years. “Guess where I am?” Rosalba asks Lester). They also meet and dance at a salsa club. Kane depicts the traditional targets: breathlessly at one point. The obvious answer is, on her way to these characters and their topsy-turvy love lives with skillful corrupt government, big a better and more peaceful place.—Eddie Cockrell wit, energy, and verve.—Adrian Wootton, 44th London Film business, immigration law, union fat cats, bureaucracy, and, of In Italian with English subtitles Festival, 2000 course, the American healthcare and education systems. Production Company: Monogatari. Producer: Daniele Maggioni. Screenplay: Doriana Leondeff, Silvio Soldani. Cinematography: Luca Production Company: Kismet Film Company. Producer: Michele —Rich Cline, shadowsonthewall.com Bigazzi. Editor: Carlotta Cristiani. Music: Giovanni Venosta. Principal Camarda. Screenplay: David Kane. Cinematography: Robert Alazraki. Production Companies: Parallax Ltd. Producer: Rebecca O’Brien. Cast: Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston, Marina Editor: Michael Parker. Music: Simon Boswell. Principal Cast: Craig Screenplay: Paul Laverty. Cinematography: Barry Ackroyd. Editor: Massironi, Antonio Catania. Ferguson, Olivia Williams, David Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, Adrian Jonathan Morris. Music: George Fenton. Principal Cast: Pilar Padilla, Lester, Catherine McCormack, Jimi Mistry, Ian Hart. Elpidia Carrillo, Adrien Brody, Alonso Chavez, Beverly Reynolds. Monday, April 23, 8:45 p.m., Visions, Code: FFV123APRB Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m., Visions, Code: FFV124APRA Tuesday, April 24, 6:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK124APRA Friday, April 20, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU120APRB Q Saturday, April 28, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFH128APRA Monday, April 23, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU123APRB Co-Presented with the Italian Cultural Institute Breaking Out Brother Vägen ut Takeshi Kitano Daniel Lind Lagerlöf United Kingdom/Japan/USA, 2000, 107 minutes, color When Yakuza gangster Yamamoto (Beat Takeshi, Fireworks) is Sweden, 1999, 107 minutes, forcibly retired from his clan after a hostile takeover, he flies color from Tokyo to Los Angeles to find his younger half brother Ken (Claude Maki), whom he believes he has been financing After impulsively through college. When he finds out Ken has dropped out of quitting his job in a school to run a popular theatrical sloppy drug- production, newly dealing opera- out-of-work yet tion with his unflaggingly enthu- buddy Danny siastic actor Reine (Omar Epps), (Björn Kellman, who Yamamoto bears a striking Calle 54 expresses his resemblance to American actor Fisher Stevens) takes the only disgust, then Fernando Trueba position available at a local prison. As the facility's recreation shows the director, he decides to enlist the surly inmates in a play, only to Spain/France, 2000, 105 minutes, color motley crew disrupt the ward's deceptively calm balance of power—with Calle 54 is an open declaration of love to the representatives of how to take tragic and exhilarating results. Beguiling without resorting to Latin jazz, music that now enjoys worldwide popularity. A over the Los the superficial glibness often found in such character-driven sparkling musical film disguised as a documentary, it features a Angeles under- comedy, this debut feature from 30-year-old Daniel Lind series of wonderful performances by great stars such as Tito world, Yakuza style. Takeshi’s signature style of high-octane Lagerlöf has echoes of The Full Monty in its scruffy-underdogs- Puente, Gato Barbieri, Paquito D’Rivera, and Jerry Gonzales. artillery action and spattering blood is balanced with a brother- with-untapped-talent ensemble work (first-rate down the line), Trueba, who first discovered Latin jazz in the early eighties via a ly tenderness and deadpan hilarity that set the film apart from and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest in its message that one D’Rivera album, allows the musicians to speak (and play) for other gangster flicks. Flush with lyrical imagery and possessing man can make a difference to a seemingly hopeless group. "All themselves. Twelve simple sets, beautifully lit by the director, a graceful orchestral jazz score, Brother is a stylish and brutally this damn acting is a security risk," says one grumpy authority, do justice to the gifted artists’ talents. Not surprisingly, thun- enchanting meditation on loyalty, honor, and the demands of but there’s little risk in predicting the breakout success of derous applause greeted the end of each set at screenings in brotherhood.—Shari Frilot, 2001 Sundance Film Festival Breaking Out.—Eddie Cockrell Spain, New York, and the Venice and Toronto film festivals. In Japanese and English with English subtitles In Swedish with English subtitles —30th Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 Production Companies: Recorded Picture Company/Office Kitano, in In Spanish with English subtitles Production Company: Sonet Film. Producers: Björn Carlström, Joakim association with FilmFour and Bac Films. Producers: Masayuki Mori, Hansson, Lars Bjälkeskog. Screenplay: Malin Lagerlöf. Jeremy Thomas. Screenplay: Takeshi Kitano. Cinematography: Katsumi Production Companies: Fernando Trueba Production Cinematography: Jens Fischer. Editor: Anders Nylander. Music: Conny Yanagijima. Editor: Takeshi Kitano. Music: Jo Hisaishi. Principal Cast: Company/Cinétévé. Producers: Cristina Huete, Fabienne Servan Malmqvist, Hans Åkerhjelm. Principal Cast: Björn Kellman, Peter Haber, Beat Takeshi, Omar Epps, Claude Maki, Masaya Kato, Susumu Schreiber. Cinematography: Jose Luis Lópes-Linares. Editor: Carmen Viveka Seldahl, Thomas Hanzon, Oliver Loftéen, Göran Ragnerstam, Terajima. Frías. Music: Julio Martí. Michael Nyqvist, Shanti Roney, Lamine Dieng, Li-Xin Zhao. Friday, April 27, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU127APRB Saturday, April 21, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR121APRA Thursday, April 26, 9:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK126APRB Saturday, April 28, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR128APRB Sunday, April 22, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR122APRB Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF127APRA

8 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Captain Pantoja and the The Dark Side of the Heart th Special Service El lado oscuro del corazon Pantaleón y las Eliseo Subiela visitadoras Argentina/Canada, 1992, 126 minutes, color From the director of Man Francisco J. Facing Southeast and Lombardi Jesus of Montreal comes Peru, 1999, 137 minutes, a parable about one man’s color battle against the forces On the strength of his repu- of conformity. Oliverio tation as a happily married (Dario Grandinetti) is a straight-arrow, nerdily hunky handsome, defiant, alto- Peruvian army captain gether Bohemian young Pantaleón Pantoja (Salvador Cuba Feliz poet whose determination Del Solar) is selected to to be his own man leads shepherd groups of prosti- Karim Dridi him to trade verse for steaks and recite for com- tutes between Amazon River military encampments to relieve France, 1999, 96 minutes, color the lonely and restless troops. As word of the task force muters instead of writing spreads, Captain Pantoja comes under fire from the media and A road movie musical that takes us deeper into Cuba’s musical ad slogans. His search for falls into a steamy affair with one of his charges, Olga, aka “La soul than any film so far (including Buena Vista Social Club), the perfect woman leads him to Ana (Sandra Ballesteros), a no- Columbiana” (Angie Cepeda), creating a fundamental conflict Karim Dridi’s latest work follows 76-year-old singer Miguel del nonsense prostitute who admits that "a guy who likes poetry between his sense of duty and out-of-control lust. As he did in Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), as he thumbs his can’t be all bad," but charges him full price anyway. Their sub- his 1985 work The City and the Dogs (FFDC 1987), director way across the country with only a guitar for luggage. In the sequent relationship is tumultuous (he will not tolerate a Francisco J. Lombardi (Under the Skin, FFDC 1996) takes a course of his wandering, the singer meets musical people who woman who cannot fly, so she obliges). As they get to know Mario Vargas Llosa novel about a flawed underdog against an welcome him as a brother and play with him at the drop of a each other, Oliverio realizes that the dark side of the heart can unfeeling system and fashions it into a sharp satire of societal hat. El Gallo discovers laughter, dance, and improvisation, the be illuminated, but love, like everything else in life, comes with mores.—Eddie Cockrell passion of trumpets and simple songs hummed among friends. a price tag. Argentina’s official Oscar submission for 1992, The Cuba Feliz is a stunning portrait of the islander’s energy, In Spanish with English subtitles Dark Side of the Heart is a film of prodigious imagination and dynamism, and dreams.—from the production notes profound humanism from a sublime talent.—Eddie Cockrell Production Companies: América Productions/Inca Films/Tornasol Films. Producers: José Enrique Crousillat, Gerardo Herrero. Screenplay: In Spanish with English subtitles In Spanish with English subtitles Giovanna Pollarolo, Enrique Moncloa, from the novel by Mario Vargas Production Companies: ADR Productions/Le Studio Canal Plus/El Llosa. Cinematography: Teodoro Delgado. Editor: Danielle Fillios. Music: Production Companies: CQ3 Films/Max Films. Producers: Eliseo Subiela, Movimento Nacional de Video de Cuba. Producers: Alain Rozanès, Roger Frappier. Screenplay: Eliseo Subiela. Cinematography: Hugo Bingen Mendizibal. Principal Cast: Salvador Del Solar, Angie Cepeda, Pascal Verroust, Jacques Debs. Screenplay: Pascal Letellier, Karim Mónica Sanchez, Pilar Bardem, Gianfranco Brero. Colace. Editor: Marcela Sáenz. Music: Osvaldo Montes. Principal Cast: Dridi. Cinematography: Karim Dridi. Editors: Lise Beaulieu, Marie Dario Grandinetti, Sandra Ballesteros, Nacha Guevara, Jean-Pierre Liotard. Music: various. Principal Cast: Miguel del Morales, Pepín Reguerraz, André Melançon. Thursday, April 19, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT119APRB Vaillant, Mirta Gonzáles, Aníbal Ávila, Alberto Pablo. Monday, April 23, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU123APRA Thursday, April 19, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT119APRA Friday, April 27, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK127APRA Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK126APRA Wednesday, April 25, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU125APRA Saturday, April 28, 6:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG128APRA Daughters of the Sun Devils on the Doorstep Dakhtaran-e khorshid Guizi laile Maryam Shahriar Jiang Wen Iran, 2000, China, 2000, 162 minutes, black & white and color 105 minutes, color In a small 1930s Chinese farming village largely ignored by the With a freshly-shaved Japanese invasion, farmer Ma Dasan’s routine is suddenly dis- head and boyish attire rupted when two Japanese prisoners of war are dumped at his to hide her gender, door in the middle of the night. A mysterious figure who intro- young Amangol is dis- duces himself as “I” orders Ma to guard the prisoners for a few patched by her father to days until the Chinese resistance returns to pick them up. The a distant village to earn prisoners, a fanatical money for her sick Japanese soldier and his mother. Part of a small interpreter, are subjected to Divided We Fall group that weaves a chaotic interrogation by Musíme si pomáhat around the clock, the ignorant villagers, who Amangol is befriended suddenly feel very impor- Jan Hrebejk by a despondent young tant. However, the villagers Czech Republic, 2000, 123 minutes, color female co-worker, start getting nervous when Belgheis, who fails to months pass and no one In the waning days of World War II, infertile couple Josef and see through Amangol’s comes to fetch the prison- Marie Cízek hide young Jewish prison camp escapee David in disguise and views her ers. After a clumsy attempt their storeroom—right under the noses of the Nazis occupying as a savior and love to execute the prisoners, their small Czech town and pre-war pal and current collaborator interest—with tragic the villagers decide to give Horst Prohazka. When Marie rejects Horst’s advances and he results. Focusing on the them back to the Japanese begins to suspect David’s presence, he gets even by trying to despicable conditions of in exchange for some sacks move an emotionally shattered German officer into their flat. female servitude in modern Iran, Daughters of the Sun features of grain. But the paranoid Director Jan Hrebejk and screenwriter Petr Jarchovsky have fol- crisp images that vividly portray the bone-numbing cold and commander of the lowed up their 1960s comedy-drama Cozy Dens (FFDC 2000) soul-freezing repression of these young women who suffer to Japanese troops is suspicious of the unusual proposal.—30th with this memorable, emotionally draining black comedy that create such beauty.—Eddie Cockrell Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 was one of the Best Foreign Film Final Five in this year’s In Farsi with English subtitles In Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles Oscars.—Eddie Cockrell In Czech with English subtitles Production Company: Farabi Cinema Foundation. Producer: Jagangir Production Companies: Asian Union Film & Entertainment/China Film Kosari. Screenplay: Maryam Shahriar. Cinematography: Homayoun Co-Production. Producer: Jiang Wen. Screenplay: You Fengwei, Shi Production Companies: Total HelpArt THA/Czech Television. Producers: Payvar. Editor: Shahrzad Pouya. Music: Hossein Alizadeh. Principal Jianquan, Shu Ping, Jiang Wen, inspired by the novella “Shengcun” by Ondrej Trojan, Pavel Borovan. Screenplay: Petr Jarchovsky. Cast: Altinay Ghelich Taghani, Soghra Karimi, Zahra Mohamadi, Habib You Fengwei. Cinematography: Gu Changwei. Editors: Zhang Yifan, Cinematography: Jan Malír. Editor: Vladimír Barák. Music: Ales Brezina. Haddad. Folmer Weisinger. Music: Cui Jian, Liu Xing, Li Haiying. Principal Cast: Principal Cast: Boleslav Polívka, Anna Sisková, Jaroslav Dusek, Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yuan Ding, Cong Zhijun. Csongor Kassai, Jirí Pecha. Saturday, April 21, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF121APRA Sunday, April 22, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG122APRA Thursday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR119APRA Tuesday, April 24, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT124APRB Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK125APRA Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT120APRA Wednesday, April 25, 9:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU125APRB

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 9 th Don’t Die Without Telling Downtime Dust to Dust NNIVERSARY A 15Me Where You’re Going Bharat Nallur Por la libre No te Ireland, 1997, 90 minutes, color Juan Carlos de Llaca Rob (Paul McGann) is an awkward ex-cop called to a dilapidat- mueras sin Mexico, 2000, ed housing project in Liverpool to talk despondent, foul- 96 minutes, color decirme a mouthed single mother Chrissy (Susan Lynch) off the high ledge dónde vas she’d planned on jumping from with her small son Jake (Adam Teenaged cousins Rocco Johnston). When Rob returns to ask her out, the three become (Osvaldo Benavides) and trapped in the Rodrigo (Rodrigo Eliseo Cachero) couldn’t be Subiela building’s ele- vator shaft more mismatched: Rocco Argentina, 1995, when a gang is a hippie-ish free spirit, 130 minutes, color fracas sets fire while Rodrigo is serious Winner of the Best to the machin- and conservative. When Screenplay award ery. This simple their grandfather (Xavier at the Fantasy but astonish- Masse) keels over dead Festival in Sitges, Spain, and the Montreal World Film ingly effective during a large family din- Festival's Public Prize, Eliseo Subiela’s magnificent follow-up to thriller unfolds ner and the internecine The Dark Side of the Heart is a seductive and thought-provok- among some of squabblings of his chil- ing film about reincarnation, the movies, and, of course, love. the funniest dren delay his wishes to have his ashes scattered in the bay of Theater projectionist Leopoldo (Dario Grandinetti) is also a and bluest Acapulco, the boys spring into action. With Grandpa’s ashes in dreamer and tinkerer whose wife of 20 years tolerates his romantic spar- tow, they take a road trip that yields far more about their her- eccentric penchant for inventing things. When Leopoldo per- ring in recent itage than either bargained for. Director Juan Carlos de Llaca fects a "dream collector," he retrieves a beautiful apparition movie memory, sculpts a clutch of busy, fast-paced performances from his (Mariana Arias) who identifies herself as his eternal love who as well as a fresh-faced cast (TV veterans all). The original Spanish title has is patiently waiting until they’re both reunited in a future life. satisfying sub- multiple meanings about freedom of choice or direction, but by Not only that, but while married to her in a previous life, she plot that any name Dust to Dust (winner of a special mention award at claims, he was responsible for the invention of cinema. Among humanizes the the 2000 Havana Film Festival) is a pleasant, invigorating the great films of the decade, Don’t Die Without Telling Me squalor. “I surprise.—Eddie Cockrell Where You’re Going is vital and timeless.—Eddie Cockrell want to entertain people, give them a real roller coaster ride,” In Spanish with English subtitles In Spanish with English subtitles says director Bharat Nallur. Indeed, there’s very little downtime Production Company: Altavista Films. Producer: Anna Roth. Screenplay: Antonio Armonia. Cinematography: Checco Varese. Editor: Jorge Production Companies: Artear/Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes in Downtime.—Eddie Cockrell García. Music: Gabriela Ortiz. Principal Cast: Osvaldo Benavides, Audiovisuales. Producer: Jorge Rocca. Screenplay: Eliseo Subiela. Rodrigo Cachero, Ana de la Reguera, Otto Sirgo, Rosa Maria Bianchi. Principal Cast: Dario Grandinetti, Oscar Martínez, Mariana Arias, Production Companies: Pilgrim Films/Scala Productions. Producer: Mónica Galán, Tincho Zabála, Leonardo Sbaraglia. Richard Johns. Music: Simon Boswell. Principal Cast: Paul McGann, Susan Lynch, Tom Georgeson, David Roper, Denise Bryson. Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT126APRA Friday, April 20, 9:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT120APRB Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT127APRA Friday, April 20, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFH120APRA Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT124APRA % In Person: Director Juan Carlos de Llaca Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK124APRB # April 24th screening followed by a CineCafe at Chipotle Saturday, April 28, 9:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG128APRB Q Co-Presented with the Mexican Cultural Institute Faat Kine The Fencing Master Flamenco Ousmane Sembene El maestro de esgrima Carlos Saura Senegal, 1999, 120 minutes, color Pedro Alea Spain, 1995, 100 minutes, color From the director of Don't expect any castanets in Carlos Saura's definitive and bril- Spain, 1992, 88 minutes, color Camp de Thiaroye liant cinematic collection of the art of flamenco. More than 300 (FFDC 1989) and In 1868, the monarchy of Elizabeth II is beset by revolutionary artists display the best of flamenco song (cante), dance (baile), Guelwaar (FFDC fervor. Don Jaume Astarloa, a man of dignity and principles, is and guitar playing (toque). From the fandango to the tango, 1992) comes a the best fencing master in Madrid. Into his life walks the gor- through bulerias, martinetes, rumbas, soleas, and taranta, the forceful, colorful geous Adela, who becomes his pupil. Drawn to the young extraordinary new film about the woman, Astarloa power of the per- challenges of eman- feels desire formance comes cipation and social awakening that alive on the mag- change in contem- he thought was nificent stage of porary Senegal. Faat long dead. As Seville's Plaza de Kine (Venus Seye) their relationship Armas. Saura seems to have it all. grows, the fenc- mixes artists of The unwed single ing master finds today and yester- mother has worked himself drawn day, from Paco de her way up to an administrative position at her own urban gas into an elaborate Lucia, Manolo station, her two teenaged children have just successfully com- web of treachery, Sanlucar, Lole pleted their baccalaureate studies, and her expansive home in violence, and Emanuel, and Dakar is the envy of her friends and family. Yet life remains a destruction. Joaquin Cortes, to struggle for Kine as she grapples with the demands of her posi- Sumptuously photographed, with a literate script and remark- Agujeta, Moneo, el tion, the fathers of her kids, and a society that seems to make able performances by Omero Antonutti as the distinguished Torta, and Fernando her work twice as hard for half the rewards. From the flash- swordsman and the wonderful Asumpta Serna (The Secret de la Morena. backs documenting her early setbacks to her friends’ outspoken Garden) as the woman of mystery, The Fencing Master is a Flamenco's ravish- sexual talk, it’s obvious that progress is being made. Yet, as a spellbinding, masterful work.—Palm Springs International Film ing beauty, passion, character points out during this episodic, illuminating film our Festival and sounds are generation of women is affluent and conflicted. —Eddie “ In Spanish with English subtitles bound to captivate ” Cockrell Production Companies: Origin/Altube S.L.I.C.A.A./ESICMA. Producer: you.—Rosa Bosch, In Wolof and French with English subtitles Antonio Cardenal. Screenplay: Antonio Larreta, Francisco Prada, Pedro 39th London Film Festival, 1995 Olea, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, from the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Production Company: Filmi Doomireew. Producer: Wongue Mbengue. Music: José Nieto. Principal Cast: Omero Antonutti, Asumpta Serna, In Spanish with English subtitles Joaquim de Almeida, José Luis López Vázquez. Screenplay: Ousmane Sembene. Cinematography: Dominique Gentil. Production Company: Juan Lebanon Productions. Executive Producer: Editor: Kahena Attia Riveil. Music: Yande Codou Sene. Principal Cast: Friday, April 27, 10:30 p.m., National Geographic, Jose Lopez Order. Producer: Juan Lebanon. Screenplay: Carlos Sara. Venus Seye, Mame Ndumbe Diop, Awa Sene Sarr, Tabara Ndiaye, Principal Cast: Paco de Lucia, Manolo Sanlucar, Enrique Morente, Ndiagne Dia. Code: FFN127APRC Joaquin Cortes, Jose Menese. Saturday, April 28, 6:30 p.m., National Geographic, Thursday, April 26, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU126APRA Code: FFN128APRA Wednesday, April 18, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT118APRB Thursday, April 26, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU126APRB Thursday, April 19, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU119APRA

10 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 The Gleaners and I House of Wax th Les glaneurs André de Toth et la USA, 1953, 90 minutes, color, 3-D glaneuse This faithful recreation of the 1953 3-D experience features authentic polarized glasses and the original interlocked projection process. House of Wax has worn very well, thanks in no small part to Vincent Price’s heart-wrenching performance as the mad wax Agnès Varda sculptor who blames the France, 2000, world for the fire that 77 minutes, color destroyed his museum and From late 1999 disfigured his face. This through early 2000, was the actor’s first horror Agnès Varda journeyed film, and the near-perfect through parts of rural blending of dementia and France and meandered pathos set a standard for through Paris and its his invigorated career as a suburbs using a small genre superstar. For his digital video camera to record assorted scavengers, foragers, part, director André de Toth and rummagers, the gleaners of the title. The history of glean- clearly understands the ing dates back centuries in France, when peasant women used creakiness of the script, to pick up leftover wheat from the harvest fields. Varda’s film and it is no accident that shows the tradition continuing sometimes by choice and often most of the 3-D effects are by necessity. People still collect potatoes, apples, and other dis- either gratuitous (try not to carded food, but today’s gleaners are as likely to retrieve aban- look up the chorines’ skirts doned fridges or other urban detritus. The people Varda filmed during the can-can number) often exist at the margins of society, and it is testament to her or played for laughs (you’ll skill as a filmmaker and her integrity as a person that she has go cross-eyed when the gained their cooperation and trust. And, like her earlier films, paddle-balling barker does The Gleaners and I addresses her own subjective involvement his bit). But there’s no and implication in the film.—Sandra Hebron, 44th London Film denying the genuinely creepy effect of all those burning wax figures in the fiery climax and the effect it must have had on audiences Festival, 2000 when horror films were if not simpler, than at least much more ingratiating.—Eddie Cockrell In French with English subtitles Production Company: Warner Bros. Producer: Bryan Foy. Screenplay: Crane Wilbur, from a play by Charles Welden. Cinematography: Bert Glennon, Peverell Marley. Editor: Rudi Fehr. Music: David Buttolph. Principal Cast: Vincent Price, Frank Lovejoy, Phyllis Kirk, Carolyn Jones, Dabbs Greer, Production Company: Ciné Tamaris. Producer: Agnès Varda. Charles Bronson. Cinematography: Stéphane Krausz, Didier Rouget, Didier Doussin, Pascal Sautelet, Agnès Varda. Editor: Agnès Varda, Laurent Pineau. Saturday, April 28, 4:00 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA128APRA Music: Joanna Bruzdowicz. Commentary: Agnès Varda. Saturday, April 28, 6:00 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA128APRB Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 p.m., American Film Institute, Saturday, April 28, 8:00 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA128APRC Code: FFA124APRA Saturday, April 28, 10:00 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA128APRD Wednesday, April 25, 8:30 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA125APRB

Himalaya A MERICAN P REMIERE Himalaya—l’enfance d’un chef I Have Found It Eric Valli Kandukondain Kandukondain France/Switzerland/ Rajiv Menon United Kingdom, 1999, 110 minutes, India, 2000, 130 minutes, color color Under the title Accomplished director Rajiv Caravan, Himalaya was Menon’s movie is one of those one of the final five in rarities of Indian commercial cin- the 2000 foreign film ema. I Have Found It tells of two Oscar race and won young sisters looking for love. the audience award at Former Miss World Aishwarya the Flanders festival. Rai plays the stunning The people of a remote Meenakshi alongside her self- Himalayan village rely controlled sister Sowmya, played on trading the salt they by Tabu. The siblings are "to the produce for grain to manor born" and are in demand. see them through the Meenakshi attracts the attention of Captain Bala (Mammooty), harsh winter weather. an alcoholic war veteran. Of course Meenakshi promptly falls When their chief, for her dream man, a dashing young share-dealer, and Bala is Lhakpa, is brought home dead by his friend Karma, who says he If… left in the wings. Meanwhile, a young filmmaker pursues died in an accident in the mountains, the village is divided. Sowmya, who is convinced she is cursed. On their grandfa- Lhakpa’s father, Tinle, suspects foul play, as he believes Lindsay Anderson ther’s death, the family is dispossessed and Sowmya has to find work as a receptionist to support her mother and sister. Karma’s ancestors were responsible for murdering his grandfa- United Kingdom, 1968, 111 minutes, black & white ther. He is also determined to make sure that no one prevents The true lovers then show their colors.—Cary Rajinder Using the English public school as a microcosm of society, Sawhney, 44th London Film Festival, 2000 his young grandson Tsering from becoming chief when he is old Lindsay Anderson constructed a brilliant, comic, and often enough. Since the hazardous annual trading trip is traditionally In Tamil with English subtitles brutal account of the perils of authoritarian rule. Coincidentally, led by the chief, Tinle resolves to stand in for Tsering. This Production Companies: V Creations/Kalyani Infotech. Producer: the film was shot two months before the Paris riots of May drama plays out on a spectacularly beautiful stage.—Jenny Kalaipuli S. Thanu. Screenplay: Rajiv Menon. Cinematography: Ravi K. 1968. Although two Oxford students took credit for the idea, Chandran. Editor: Suresh Urs. Music: A.R. Rahman. Principal Cast: Leask, 54th Edinburgh International Film Festival, 2000 Mammooty, Ajith, Abbas, Aishwarya Rai, Tabu, Mannivannan. In Tibetan with English subtitles Anderson once stated that If… was largely autobiographical and was based on his own boyhood experiences at Cheltenham Saturday, April 21, 7:30 p.m., National Geographic, Production Companies: Galatée Films/Antelope/Les Productions JMH. Abbey. The film’s ending, however, suggests Jean Vigo’s 1933 Code: FFN121APRB Producer: Jacques Perrin, Christophe Barratier. Screenplay: Eric Valli, Monday, April 23, 9:00 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Olivier Dazat. Cinematography: Eric Guichard, Jean-Paul Meurisse. classic Zero de Conduite. This is perhaps the first English poetic Editor: Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte. Music: Bruno Colais. Principal Cast: Code: FFW123APRB Tilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe, Karma Angel. feature film.—David Robinson. % In Person: Director Rajiv Menon Saturday, April 28, 8:30 p.m., Nat’l Geo. Code: FFN128APRB April 29 at 4:00 p.m. National Gallery of Art, Free Q Co-Presented with Delta Airlines

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NNIVERSARY A 15 Tuesday, April 17 Friday, April 20 6:30 p.m. Opening Night Gala 6:30 p.m. Devils on the Doorstep Compassionate Sex Tenley Theatres Lisner Auditorium 6:30 p.m. Downtime Loews Cineplex Foundry 6:45 p.m. 101 Reykjavik Wednesday, April 18 Tenley Theatres 6:30 p.m. Man Facing Southeast 7:00 p.m. The Marcorelle Affair Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres 7:00 p.m. The Marcorelle Affair 7:00 p.m. Zar Gul Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry 7:30 p.m. The Luzhin Defence 7:30 p.m. Samia General Cinema Loews Cineplex Foundry 7:30 p.m. The Wrestlers 8:30 p.m. Adanggaman Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:00 p.m. Flamenco 9:00 p.m. Bread and Roses Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres 9:00 p.m. Ratcatcher Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:15 p.m. The Luzhin Defence Sunday, April 22 8:45 p.m. Bread and Tulips Tenley Theatres Visions Cinema 9:45 p.m. Don’t Die Without Telling Me 2:00 p.m. Directors’ Roundtable* 9:00 p.m. Beau Travail Where You’re Going Borders Books, 1801 L St., NW Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres 6:00 p.m. With a Friend Like Harry 9:00 p.m. I Have Found It Embassy of France Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. 6:30 p.m. Daughters of the Sun 9:00 p.m. The Season of Men Saturday, April 21 Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres In the Shadows of the City 9:30 p.m. Bread and Roses 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* 6:30 p.m. Tenley Theatres National Gallery of Art Tenley Theatres Placido Rizzotto 12:00 p.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 2* 6:45 p.m. National Gallery of Art Tenley Theatres The Turandot Project Tuesday, April 24 4:00 p.m. Nosferatu With The Alloy 6:45 p.m. Orchestra Live* Loews Cineplex Foundry 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* National Gallery of Art 7:00 p.m. Angels of the Universe National Gallery of Art 5:30 p.m. Wake Up, Love Tenley Theatres 12:00 p.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 2* National Geographic Society 7:00 p.m. Zar Gul National Gallery of Art 6:30 p.m. Adanggaman Loews Cineplex Foundry 6:30 p.m. Bread and Tulips Loews Cineplex Foundry 8:45 p.m. Aberdeen Visions Cinema 6:30 p.m. In the Shadows of the City Loews Cineplex Foundry 6:30 p.m. Don’t Die Without Telling Me Tenley Theatres 9:00 p.m. Calle 54 Where You’re Going 6:45 p.m. Run for Money Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres 9:15 p.m. Little Miracles 7:00 p.m. Daughters of the Sun Tenley Theatres Thursday, April 19 Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:30 p.m. The Big Animal Calle 54 Tenley Theatres The Dark Side of the Heart 7:00 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres I Have Found It Flamenco 7:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m. National Geographic Society Monday, April 23 Tenley Theatres 101 Reykjavik Devils on the Doorstep 9:00 p.m. 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* 7:30 p.m. Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres National Gallery of Art 9:00 p.m. Samia Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 3* 9:00 p.m. Captain Pantoja and the 12:00 p.m. Special Service Loews Cineplex Foundry National Gallery of Art Placido Rizzotto Tenley Theatres 9:15 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Captain Pantoja and the Tenley Theatres Special Service 9:15 p.m. The Wrestlers Ratcatcher Tenley Theatres 9:15 p.m. Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry 6:30 p.m. The Turandot Project 9:30 p.m. Angels of the Universe Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres 6:30 p.m. With a Friend Like Harry 10:45 p.m. Bob Marley Live in Concert Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. National Geographic Society 6:30 p.m. The King Is Alive Visions Cinema 6:45 p.m. Aberdeen Loews Cineplex Foundry 6:45 p.m. Little Miracles Tenley Theatres 7:00 p.m. The Big Animal Tenley Theatres 8:30 p.m. CineCafe following The King Is Alive Visions Cinema 8:45 p.m. Blame It on Voltaire Tenley Theatres For additional

12 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 6:30 p.m. Lumumba 7:00 p.m. The Dark Side of the Heart th Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. Tenley Theatres Saturday, April 28 6:30 p.m. “The West Wing” Panel* 7:00 p.m. Zar Gul 10:30 a.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* American Film Institute Loews Cineplex Foundry National Gallery of Art 6:45 p.m. Born Romantic 8:30 p.m. Beau Travail 12:00 p.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 2* Loews Cineplex Foundry Loews Cineplex Foundry National Gallery of Art 6:45 p.m. The Season of Men 8:30 p.m. The Gleaners and I 2:30 p.m. Vies* Tenley Theatres American Film Institute National Gallery of Art 7:00 p.m. Vengo 9:00 p.m. A Night With Sabrina Love 4:00 p.m. House of Wax in 3-D Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. American Film Institute 8:45 p.m. Downtime 9:00 p.m. Two for Tea 6:00 p.m. House of Wax in 3-D Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres American Film Institute 8:45 p.m. The Gleaners and I 9:15 p.m. Lumumba 6:30 p.m. The Fencing Master American Film Institute Tenley Theatres National Geographic Society 8:45 p.m. The King Is Alive 9:45 p.m. Divided We Fall 6:30 p.m. Otesanek Visions Cinema Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:00 p.m. CineCafe following Don’t Die 6:30 p.m. Sentimental Teaser Without Telling Me Where Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. You’re Going* Thursday, April 26 6:45 p.m. Cuba Feliz Chipotle, 4301 Wisconsin Ave., NW 10:00 am Cinema for Seniors: Sparkle* Sentimental Teaser Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:00 p.m. Divided We Fall 9:00 p.m. American Film Institute 6:45 p.m. Vengo Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* Two for Tea Tenley Theatres 9:15 p.m. April Captains 9:00 p.m. National Gallery of Art 7:00 p.m. Born Romantic Tenley Theatres Tenley Theatres 12:00 p.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 2* They Call This...Spring Loews Cineplex Foundry 9:30 p.m. Man Facing Southeast 9:15 p.m. National Gallery of Art 7:00 p.m. No Place To Go Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. Tenley Theatres 12:30 p.m. Latin American Filmmakers Panel* Breaking Ou Tenley Theatres 9:30 p.m. Run for Money 9:30 p.m. t Inter-American Development Bank, 8:00 p.m. House of Wax in 3-D Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry 1300 New York Ave., NW 9:30 p.m. Faat Kine American Film Institute 2:00 p.m. Cinema for Seniors: Sparkle* Tenley Theatres 8:30 p.m. Himalaya Wednesday, April 25 American Film Institute National Geographic Society 6:30 p.m. Captain Pantoja and the 8:45 p.m. Wild About Harry 10:30 am Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1* Special Service Friday, April 27 Loews Cineplex Foundry National Gallery of Art Loews Cineplex Foundry 8:45 p.m. Zoom Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 1 12:00 p.m. Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 3* 6:30 p.m. Kathy Rose in Performance 10:30 am * Tenley Theatres National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art American Film Institute 9:00 p.m. Downtime Filmfest DC for Kids: Program 3* 6:30 p.m. April Captains 6:30 p.m. A Night With Sabrina Love 12:00 p.m. Loews Cineplex Foundry National Gallery of Art Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. 9:15 p.m. The Adventures of God Short Stuff: DC Views 6:30 p.m. Daughters of the Sun 6:45 p.m. Startup.com 5:00 p.m. Tenley Theatres American Film Institute Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres 9:30 p.m. Brother Breaking Out 6:30 p.m. Kathy Rose in Performance 7:00 p.m. Faat Kine 6:30 p.m. Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Foundry American Film Institute Tenley Theatres 9:15 p.m. Marshall Tito’s Spirit Dust to Dust 6:30 p.m. Startup.com 7:00 p.m. Wild About Harry 6:30 p.m. Loews Cineplex Foundry Tenley Theatres Loews Cineplex Wisconsin Ave. Loews Cineplex Foundry 10:00 p.m. House of Wax in 3-D Wake Up, Love 6:45 p.m. Blame It on Voltaire 8:30 p.m. Ali Farka Toure: Springing From 6:30 p.m. American Film Institute National Geographic Society Tenley Theatres the Roots 10:45 p.m. Bob Marley Live in Concert No Place To Go American Film Institute 6:45 p.m. National Geographic Society Tenley Theatres 7:00 p.m. They Call This...Spring Tenley Theatres Sunday, April 29 7:00 p.m. Cuba Feliz Loews Cineplex Foundry 4:00 p.m. If...* 7:15 p.m. Short Stuff National Gallery of Art American Film Institute 4:00 p.m. Closing Night Event 8:30 p.m. Taboo Together National Geographic Society Lincoln Theatre 9:00 p.m. The Adventures of God 6:00 p.m. Closing Night Party Tenley Theatres 2:K:9 Club 9:00 p.m. Otesanek Loews Cineplex Foundry * Events marked with an 9:15 p.m. Zoom Tenley Theatres asterisk are free. 9:30 p.m. Ali Farka Toure: Springing From the Roots All programs are subject to American Film Institute 9:30 p.m. Brother change. See Filmfest DC’s daily Tenley Theatres schedule in The Washington 9:30 p.m. Marshall Tito’s Spirit Post Movie Guide. Loews Cineplex Foundry 10:30 p.m. The Fencing Master National Geographic Society

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A MERICAN P REMIERE Kathy Rose NNIVERSARY A 15In the Shadows of the City Syncopations and Kleopat’Ra Taif Al-Madina/L’ombre de la ville World-renowned filmmaker-dancer Kathy Rose returns to Jean Khalil Filmfest DC for an evening of her unique juxtapositions of live dance with live-action and animated film. Featured works Chamoun include excepts from Syncopations, in which seven film dancers Lebanon/France, integrate with the solo performer to create an almost holo- 2000, 105 minutes, graphic effect. At times, their forms resemble erotic Georgia color and black & O’Keefe imagery or a giant sea anemone construction with hands white and feet. In 1975, 12-year-old Rami (Rami Bayram) Excerpts from Kleopat’Ra, which was inspired by the supernatural leaves his village and and eerie stillness of moves to the “safety” Japanese Noh theater, of Beirut with his fami- portray the journey of a ly, only to endure the ritual figurine who voy- next dozen years in a ages through a magi- war-torn city. A dramatic recap of Lebanon’s civil war, In the cal domain. In these Shadows of the City leads the history-shy viewer by the hand sections, Kleopat’Ra’s from the first Israeli missiles on South Lebanon in 1975, corpse emerges on through the gradually escalating conflict in Beirut, to the war’s The Other Side. She end in 1990. Refusing to take sides or even to identify the pro- then sheds her gold tagonists as Christians or Muslims, acclaimed documaker Jean color and her eyes, and Khalil Chamoun (who shot much of the verite footage used enters into the world of throughout the film) paints a harrowing overview of a senseless emptiness. Kathy Rose’s conflict that left the country in physical and moral tatters. — work transcends the screen’s Deborah Young, Variety two dimensions and combines dance and film in new ways. In Arabic with English subtitles Production Companies: Nour Productions/Ciné-Sud. Producers: Jean (60 min.) Khalil Chamoun, Thierry Lenouvel. Screenplay: Jean Khalil Chamoun. Cinematography: Youcef Sahraoui. Editor: Hussein Youniss. Music: Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., Omar Bashir. Principal Cast: Majdi Machmouchi, Christine Choueiri, Ammar Chalak, Ahmed Azzein. American Film Institute, $10 Code: FFA125APRA Saturday, April 21, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU121APRA Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m., Sunday, April 22, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT122APRA American Film Institute, $10 % In Person: Director Jean Chamoun Code: FFA126APRA Q Co-Presented with % In Person: Kathy Rose

The King Is Alive Little Miracles The Luzhin Defence Kristian Levring Pequeños milagros Marleen Gorris Denmark, 2000, 108 minutes, color Eliseo Subiela United Kingdom, 2000, 108 minutes, color Stranded at an abandoned German mine in the middle of a Shy chess Argentina, 1997, 100 minutes, color vast, barren African grand master desert, 11 bus pas- Little Miracles continues and refines Eliseo Subiela’s ongoing Alexander sengers subsist on fascination with the intersection of technology, fantasy, and the Luzhin (John alcohol and tinned arts. Shy supermarket clerk Rosalia, imagining herself a strand- Turturro) carrots while await- ed fairy as she moonlights reading the poetry of Fernando unexpectedly ing rescue. When Pessoa to the elderly, discovers her true powers through an finds love in former actor Henry improbable the form of (David Bradley) relationship Russian aris- comes up with the with lonely tocrat Natalia odd notion of per- dog-lover Katkova forming Santiago, (Emily Shakespeare’s “King whose work Watson) at Lear” from texts he for the Search Italy’s Lake scribbles on rolls of for Extra- Como in the paper, the endeavor Terrestrial 1920s. The couple’s family and friends conspire to keep them heightens the Intelligence apart, which leads Luzhin to confront the ultimate choice: chess already volatile (SETI) leads or life? The newest film from Marleen Gorris, The Luzhin emotional and sexual tensions amongst the group members. him to fantas- Defence is adapted from a story by Vladimir Nabokov and has Two marriages, those of Ray and Liz (Bruce Davison, Janet tic Internet pic- won raves from film and chess fans alike. Although knowledge McTeer) and Paul and Amanda (Chris Walker, Lia Williams) tures of of the game isn’t a prerequisite for enjoying the film, it does begin to unravel, while the self-serving liaison of Gina (Jennifer Rosalia taken hint at how a top player can work out six or eight moves ahead Jason Leigh) and Charles (David Calder) results in tragedy. from a security camera that overlooks her regular bus stop. The of the play. In the most dramatic chess battle, the camera —Eddie Cockrell ordinary is once again made magic as Subiela peels back layers shows the pieces gliding automatically into the configuration In African dialect, English, and French with English of reality like so many onions, prompting tears of joy, sadness, where Luzhin’s brain has already placed them.—John B. subtitles and laughter from those fortunate enough to see them. Henderson, KasparovChess.com —Eddie Cockrell Production Companies: Zentropa Entertainments 5/ Danish Production Company: Renaissance Films. Producers: Caroline Wood, Broadcasting Corporation, in association with SVT Drama, the Danish In Spanish with English subtitles Louis Becker, Stephen Evans, Philippe Guez. Screenplay: Peter Berry, Film Institute and the Nordic Film & TV Fund. Producers: Patricia from the story by Vladimir Nabokov. Music: Alexandre Desplat. Kruijer, Vibeke Windeløv. Principal Cast: Miles Anderson, Romane Production Company: Promisa. Screenplay: Eliseo Subiela. Cinematography: Daniel Rodríguez Maseda. Editor: Marcela Sáenz. Principal Cast: John Turturro, Emily Watson, Geraldine James, Stuart Bohringer, David Bradley, David Calder, Bruce Davison, Brion James, Wilson, Christopher Thompson. Peter Kubheka, Vusi Kunene, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Janet McTeer, Music: Osvaldo Montez. Principal Cast: Julieta Ortega, Antonio Birabent, Paco Rabal, Hector Alterio. Chris Walker, Lia Williams. Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., General Cinema, Code: FFM118APRA Monday, April 23, 6:30 p.m., Visions, Code: FFV123APRA Sunday, April 22, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT122APRB Friday, April 20, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR120APRB Tuesday, April 24, 8:45 p.m., Visions, Code: FFV124APRB Monday, April 23, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT123APRA % # April 23rd screening followed by a CineCafe at Visions In Person: Director Marleen Gorris at April 18 screening

14 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Lumumba Man Facing Southeast th Raoul Peck Hombre mirando al sudeste France/Belgium/Germany/Haiti, 2000, 110 minutes, color Eliseo Subiela Lumumba is a dramatic portrait of a man’s courageous fight for his country’s independence. Almost 40 years after Patrice Emery Lumumba’s assassination, this African tragedy has a haunting relevance for modern audiences. This historical thriller opens with the Argentina, 1986, 105 minutes, color gruesome demise of Lumumba, the Eliseo Subiela’s first film to find wide art-house distribution in charismatic first leader of the newly the United States, Man Facing Southeast stars Hugo Soto as an independent Zaire. It tracks enigmatic mental patient and Lorenzo Quinteros as the jaded Lumumba’s short political career, psychiatrist who comes to believe his charge is someone very challenging official historical special indeed. accounts with a wealth of newly Writer-director unearthed material. It spans Subiela incorpo- Lumumba’s election as leader of the rates a wide vari- Congolese National Movement, his ety of influences to involvement in the independence create a fascinat- negotiations in Brussels, the mutiny ing, multifaceted of the army, the secession of the key work of art. The province of Katanga, and his defi- reworking of the ance of the neo-colonial arrange- Gospels is evident, ment. The lyricism of Peck’s“ previ- with the film clear- ous documentary,” Lumumba–The ly participating in Death of a Prophet, is superseded in and reconsidering this fictionalized account by the the mystical tradi- harsh drama of political struggle and tion in Latin treachery. Shot in Mozambique, American litera- Lumumba conveys the colonial lega- ture. Soto’s performance is remarkable, with Quinteros provid- cy of perfidy that never stopped ing an excellent counterpart. Their natural, often affectionate reverberating throughout the conti- and unique relationship becomes the heart of this profound and nent's history. It's a tribute to a hero highly personal film.—James Monaco, The Movie Guide who inspired the collective memory In Spanish with English subtitles of nations and peoples seeking true independence.—June I. Givanni, 25th Toronto International Film Festival, 2000 Production Company: Cinequanon. Producer: Lujan Pflaum. Screenplay: In French with English subtitles Eliseo Subiela. Cinematography: Ricardo de Angelis. Editor: Luis Cesar D’Angiolillo. Music: Pedro Aznar. Principal Cast: Lorenzo Quinteros, Production Company: JBA Production. Producer: Jacques Bidou. Screenplay: Raoul Peck, Pascal Bonitzer. Cinematography: Bernard Lutic. Editor: Hugo Soto, Ines Vernengo, Cristina Scaramuzzo, Rubens W. Correa, Jacques Comets. Music: Jean-Claude Petit. Principal Cast: Eriq Ebouaney, Alex Descas, Maka Kotto, Théophile Moussa Sowie, Dieudonné Kabongo. David Edery, Rodolfo Rodas, Jean-Pierre Requaraz. Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Code: FFW124APRA Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT118APRA Wednesday, April 25, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR125APRA Tuesday, April 24, 9:30 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, % In Person: Director Raoul Peck at April 24th screening Code: FFW124APRB

Marshal Tito’s Spirit A MERICAN P REMIERE Marsal A Night With Sabrina Love Vinko Bresan Una noche Croatia, 1999, 97 minutes, color con Sabrina A probing satirical comedy that targets the old-style Love Communists and the new-style capitalists of the former Yugoslav republic of Croatia, Marshal Tito’s Spirit is a pleasant Alejandro surprise. The film is set on a small island off the Croatian coast. Agresti The island’s economy is shattered from the Balkan wars of the Argentina, 2000, 1990s; tourists haven’t arrived in five years, and the only hotel 100 minutes, color is shuttered. This film is striking for The Marcorelle Affair The elderly its elegant style, beau- men and tiful production design, L’affaire Marcorelle women who and the vivacious way fought as parti- the characters con- Serge Le Péron sans during front their problems. France, 2000, 94 minutes, color World War II, The protagonist, 17- and who have A love of movies and a love of poetic and legal justice exquis- year-old Daniel Montero (Tomás Fonzi), lives with his grand- been diehard itely intertwine in The Marcorelle Affair. The film's sustained mother in a small village near Buenos Aires. He enters a con- Communists aura of anything-can-happen features an irresistible perform- test by writing a letter to porn star Sabrina Love and is stunned ever since are ance from quirky vet Jean-Pierre Léaud. An intellectual sus- to win first prize: a night with Sabrina Love (Cecilia Roth, star on the defen- penser that’s marbled with extra winds and nods for film buffs, of Almodovar’s All About My Mother and 1999 European sive in the the film starts with a bang as Judge François Marcorelle Actress of the Year). Daniel goes to Buenos Aires, where he new Croatia. These veterans must hide their red flags, their (Léaud) enters a revival house mid-film and takes a seat. The reunites with his older brother and meets a crazy writer, an out- busts“ ” of Lenin, and their photos of Marshal Jozip Broz Tito, the woman beside him fondles his leg, then keels over dead in his spoken young journalist, and finally, his idol herself. A Night late Communist leader of Yugoslavia who died in 1980. Then lap. The film’s playful structure doles out just enough informa- With Sabrina Love is a heart-warming film about a boy growing the ghost of Marshal Tito appears at the funeral of one of the tion to keep viewers constantly guessing. Utterly convincing up.—30th Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 old soldiers. News of this amazing event gets back to mainland, from first frame to last, Léaud’s ineffable cinematic presence is In Spanish with English subtitles and a young police officer is sent to investigate.—David simultaneously severe and wacky.—Lisa Nesselson, Variety Stratton, Variety Production Companies: Surf Film/Patagonik. Producer: Pablo Bossi. In French with English subtitles Screenplay: Alejandro Agresti. Cinematography: Arnaldo Catinari. In Croatian with English subtitles Editor: Stefan Kamp. Music: Paul M. van Brugge. Principal Cast: Tomás Production Company: Euripides Productions. Producer: Vincent Roget. Fonzi, Cecilia Roth, Giancarlo Giannini, Norma Aleandro, Luis Margani. Screenplay: Serge Le Péron. Cinematography: Ivan Kozelka. Editor: Production Company: Interfilm. Producer: Ivan Maloca. Screenplay: Ivo Janice Jones. Music: Antoine Duhamel. Principal Cast: Jean-Pierre Vinko Bresan, Vinko Vinko Bresan. Cinematography: Zivko Zalar. Editor: Wednesday, April 25, 9:00 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Léaud, Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Philippe Khorsand, Dominique Sandra Botica Bresan. Music: Mate Matesic. Principal Cast: Drazen Code: FFW125APRB Kühn, Linda Begonja, Ilija Ivezic, Boris Buzancic. Reymond. Thursday April 26, 6:30 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Wednesday, April 18, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU118APRA Friday, April 27, 9:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK127APRB Code: FFW126APRA Friday, April 20, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR120APRA Saturday, April 28, 9:15 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF128APRB % In Person: Director Alejandro Agresti

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 15 th Nosferatu No Place to Go Otesánek NNIVERSARY A 15F.W. Murnau Die unberührbare Jan Svankmajer Germany, 1922, Oskar Roehler Czech Republic, 2000, 126 minutes, color 83 minutes, tinted print Otesánek is a cherished Czech fable about a tree stump brought The greatest vampire movie of Germany, 2000, 100 min- utes, black & white to life as a child that goes on a gluttonous rampage. For his all time! The Alloy Orchestra fourth feature, celebrated surrealist filmmaker Jan Svankmajer of Boston performs a new “I believed in Lenin,” says has woven this tale through a tragic yet slyly funny story in score for Murnau’s classic once-celebrated East German present-day Prague. Desperate for a child, Bozena Horák vampire spectacle. This exqui- novelist Hanna Flanders (Veronika Zilková) sinks site new print reveals the (Hannelore Elsner) bitterly to into depression. creepy genius of this master- an interviewer as a nearby Meanwhile, her husband, piece for the first time in television broadcasts the Karel (Jan Hartl), fanta- decades. Shot in the destruction of the Berlin Wall. sizes children are sold on Carpathian mountains of Transylvania and in Germany, master It’s 1989, and the chain-smok- the street. On a whim, he director F.W. Murneau, has bequeathed us the mother of all ing and pill-popping Hanna presents her with a clev- nightmares. The new print was restored by Milwaukee movie embarks on a sad, doomed erly hewn tree stump and theater owner Eric Levin and has been meticulously color tinted journey from her once-glam- watches in horror as her just as it would have been in the 1920s. Newly translated orous house in Munich to a acute longing wills the English intertitles have been hand-calligraphed following the newly energized Berlin and root to life. Soon the typography of the original German print. Coupled with Alloy’s Nuremberg, only to find that colleagues, family, and even her appetite of young Otík newest score, this is silent film at its very best. ex-husband consider her a relic. As the barriers collapse, so grows to include post- does she; without the “perfect world” communism afforded her, % In Person: The Alloy Orchestra men, cabbages, and any- Hanna has no place to go. Incredibly, writer-director Oskar thing or anyone else that Preceded by: Roehler based his screenplay on the true story of his own moth- wanders into its path. As Dragonflies, The Baby Cries er. This gives such scenes as Hanna’s visit with her son (Lars always, there’s an exhila- Rudolph) an extra emotional charge. No Place to Go most rating technical precision to Svankmajer’s craft, a working Jane Gillooly recently won the Best Narrative Feature prize at Cine-quest, the method born of exquisite patience in the service of a boundless FIPRESCI international critics’ prize, and a berth at New York’s USA, 2000, 10 minutes, black and white imagination. At once mischievous and cautionary, Otesánek is a New Directors/New Films program.—Eddie Cockrell bravura display of inspired artistry.—Eddie Cockrell Deep in the forest, beyond the restraints of the adult world, a In German with English subtitles group of children meets to play. The line between fantasy and In Czech with English subtitles Production Company: Distant Dreams. Producer: Käte Ehrmann, Ulrich reality begins to blur. A nursery rhyme becomes an incantation, Caspar. Screenplay: Oskar Roehler. Cinematography: Hagen Bodganski. Production Companies: Athanor Film Production Company/ and surprising things begin to happen. Dragonflies, The Baby Editor: Isabel Meier. Principal Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Illuminations Films/State Fund of the Czech Republic for the Support Jasmin Tabatabai, Nina Petri, Lars Rudolph, Michael Gwisdek. and Promotion of Czech Cinematography/ Czech Literary Fund Cries is a contemporary short black-and-white film by award Foundation. Producer: Jaromír Kallista. Screenplay: Jan Svankmajer. Principal Cast: Veronika Zilková, Jan Hartl, Jaroslava Kretschmerová, winning filmmaker Jane Gillooly (Leona’s Sister Gerri, Theme: Friday, April 27, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Pavel Novy, Kristina Adamcová. Murder). The film was produced by Ken Winokur of the Alloy Code: FFR127APRA Orchestra; its original score was composed by the group. Saturday, April 28, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Friday, April 27, 9:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF127APRB Code: FFR128APRA Saturday, April 28, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF128APRA April 21, 4:00 p.m., National Gallery of Art, Free Q Co-Presented with Placido Rizzotto Ratcatcher Run for Money Pasquale Scimeca Lynne Ramsay Kaç para kaç Italy, 2000, 110 minutes, color United Kingdom, 1999, 93 minutes, color Reha Erdem This is the true story of the title character, a socially-conscious James (William Eadie) lives with his parents and two sisters in Turkey, 1999, 100 minutes, color trade union representative who ran afoul of the Italian Mafia in a dank Glasgow council flat where rats have gotten the upper Corleone, Sicily in the late 1940s and subsequently disap- hand. Da (Tommy Dollars falling through the air, francs in shops, pounds at bet- peared. While dramas about the scourge of the Cosa Nostra on Flanagan), a bad drunk ting tables, and lire in wallets—from the electric opening Sicily and its who hits his wife, is sequence onward, it's clear that money is the main focus of people have more interested in this film. These varied currencies are an essential part of the long been a soccer than his kids, world of scrupulously honest Istanbul shopkeeper Selim (Taner staple of but we’ve seen far Birsel). He Italian cinema, worse fathers. keeps short Pasquale Worried and worn accounts and Scimeca’s though she is, Ma charges fair Placido (Mandy Matthews) is prices. It's Rizzotto is still capable of affec- therefore sur- more than a tion. There’s a lovely prising when, cut above scene in which she jit- after finding a most in its terbugs with James, bag of almost depiction of the tragic martyrdom of a minor folk hero. but she lavishes even $500,000 Impressively rigorous, affecting, and surprisingly suspenseful, more attention on him American dol- this unconventionally calibrated, fascinating true story makes when she combs the lice out of his hair. James, in turn, per- lars in a taxi, for compelling viewing. Marcello Mazzarella quietly conveys his forms the same service for Margaret Anne (Leanne Mullen), the Selim hesitates character’s dignity, idealism, and sense of indignation, wielding slightly older girl he tries to save from the teenage toughs and misses his an unassuming but nonetheless considerable screen presence who’ve issued themselves a free pass to her body. As spare chance to return it. Once he decides to keep the loot, it weasels and raising questions about why this fine actor is so seldom and unflinching as Alan Clarke’s Christine and as poetic as Jean its way into his life and conscience. Formerly a happy family used in Italian films.—David Rooney, Variety Vigo’s Zero de Conduit, Ratcatcher is a film in which viewers man, Selim distances himself from his wife, child, colleagues, In Italian with English subtitles still close to the experience of childhood will be able to recog- and friends, desperately trying to balance his good fortune with an overwhelming sense of guilt. Birsel gives“ a striking” per- Production Company: Arbash Film, in association with RAI Cinema. nize themselves. It’s also the most audacious film of the year. Producer: Pasquale Scimeca. Screenplay: Pasquale Scimeca. —Amy Taubin, The Village Voice formance as a man wrestling with inner demons. Cinematography: Pasquale Mari. Editor: Babak Karimi. Music: —Sarah Lutton, 44th London Film Festival, 2000 Agricantus. Principal Cast: Marcello Mazzarella, Vincenzo Albanese, In English with English subtitles In Turkish with English subtitles Carmelo De Mazzarelli, Gioia Spaziani, Arturo Todaro. Production Company: Holy Cow Films. Producers: Gavin Emerson, Bertrand Faivre. Screenplay: Lynne Ramsay. Cinematography: Alwin Production Company: Atlantik Film. Producer: Ali Ömer Atay. Saturday, April 21, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU121APRB Kuchler. Editor: Lucia Zucchetti. Music: Rachel Portman. Principal Cast: Screenplay: Reha Erdem. Cinematography: Florent Hery, Jean-Louis Sunday, April 22, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU122APRA William Eadie, Tommy Flanagan, Mandy Matthews, Michelle Stewart, Vialard. Editor: Nathalie Le Guay. Music: Pressure Drop. Principal Cast: % In Person: Director Pasquale Scimeca Lynne Ramsay Jr., Leanne Mullen. Taner Birsel, Bennu Yildirimlar, Zuhal Gencer. Q Co-Presented with the Italian Cultural Institute Friday, April 20, 9:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG120APRB Saturday, April 21, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT121APRA Saturday, April 21, 9:15 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFK121APRB Tuesday, April 24, 9:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU124APRB

16 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Samia The Season of Men The Sentimental Teaser th Philippe Faucon La saison des hommes El sentimental chacotero, la pelicula France, 2000, 75 minutes, color Moufida Tlatli Christián Galaz Philippe Faucon’s unadorned yet deeply moving film reveals a Tunisia/France, 2000, 122 minutes, color Chile, 1999, 90 minutes, color very peculiar world with serious social and cultural implica- tions. Samia (Lynda Benahouda) is an Algerian teenager who On the Tunisian island of Djerba, Aïcha marries Saïd, a man When a young, eccentric radio announcer lets anonymous lis- lives in Marseilles with her family. At home, she and her two who works in Tunis teners call in to tell their tales of love, the show becomes a sisters live in an Algerian culture. They speak the language, eat for 11 months of the success and a sanctuary where people’s deepest passions and Algerian food, and observe the customs of their Muslim reli- year, like most vil- entangled love affairs are publicly exposed. The candid conver- gion. But, as youngsters, they are torn. Despite their parents’ lagers. On their sations focus on three unrelated stories both tragic and comi- objections, they want to assimilate into the French culture. As honeymoon, Aïcha cal: a uni- she begins to spread her wings, quick-witted, willful Samia announces that she versity stu- soon finds herself at loggerheads with her mother and brother. wants to move to dent and a She Tunis with him. Saïd future pub- ends up agrees, but only if licist con- on the she bears him a ceal their same son. In the first few love affair, voyage years of their mar- only to end experi- riage, Saïd’s annual up with an enced return is a feast for Aïcha. After several years, and after bear- unexpect- by thou- ing two daughters, she becomes disillusioned. Her tyrannical ed sur- sands of mother-in-law runs the household and doesn’t hide her disap- prise; a young pointment about Aïcha’s daughters. Through flashbacks, we young stu- women find out that Aïcha eventually gets a son and moves to Tunis. dent dis- who tire But this son eventually prompts Aïcha’s return to Djerba.—30th covers a of reli- Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2001 family secret through a childhood game of dressing in disguise gious In Arabic and French with English subtitles and spying on others; and a young woman and her husband and cultural restrictions.—Piers Handling, 25th Toronto Production Company: Les Films du Losange. Producers: Margaret cannot find the time to be intimate in their cramped apartment International Film Festival, 2001 Menegoz, Mohamed Tlatli. Screenplay: Moufida Tlatli. Cinematography: crowded with three children and a grandmother.—16th Chicago Youssef Ben Youssef. Editor: Isabelle Devinck. Music: Anouar Brahem. Latino Film Festival, 2000 In Arabic and French with English subtitles Principal Cast: Rabiaa Ben Abdallah, Sabeh Bouzouita, Ghalia Ben Ali, Ezzedine Guennoun, Hend Sabri. In Spanish with English subtitles Production Company: Ognon Pictures. Producer: Humbert Balsan. Screenplay: Philippe Faucon, Soraya Nini. Cinematography: Jacques Monday, April 23, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT123APRB Production Company: Cebra Producciones. Producer: Alejandro Loiseleux. Music: Rachid Taha. Principal Cast: Lynda Benahouda, Castillo. Screenplay: Mateo Iribarren. Principal Cast: Daniel Muñoz, Mohamed Chaouch, Kheira Oualhaci, Lakhdar Smati, Nadia El Koutei. Tuesday, April 24, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU124APRA Lorene Prieto, Sergio Schmied, Fernando Farías, Tamara Acosta, Martín Salinas. Friday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFG120APRA % In Person: Director Moufida Tlatli Thursday, April 26, 9:00 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Saturday, April 21, 9:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF121APRB Q Co-Presented with the Embassy of Tunisia and the Q Code: FFW126APRB Co-Presented with Agence Tunisienne Exterieure Communication Saturday, April 28, 6:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT128APRA AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

Short Stuff (107 min.) Short Stuff: DC Views (114 min.) Startup.com Baobab The Lunch Lady: A Documentary Jehane Noujaim, Chris Hegedus Laurence Attali, Leslie Mello, USA, 2000, 27 minutes, color, video USA, 2001, 103 minutes, color France/Senegal, 2000, The saga of U.S. Geological Survey grill chef Sharon Adl-Doost Directors Chris Hegedus and Jehane Noujaim track the roller 25 minutes, color and her inspirational menu hotline that became a phenomenon. coaster ride of the creation of govWorks Inc., a new-media The filmmaker learns about the A Different Kind of Black Man solution for connecting citizens with government via the title tree. Sheila J. Wise, USA, 2000, 18 minutes, color, video Internet. This exceptional filmmaking team focuses on the trials Buskers Nine gay black men relate their histories and experiences in and tribulations of Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, govWorks’ charismatic founders and leaders. The camera cap- Ian Power, Ireland, 2000, modern society. tures each 14 minutes, color At the Second Traffic Light important mile- An Irish lad and a Romanian Lucy Gebre-Egziabher, USA/France, 2000, 21 minutes, stone on the immigrant battle for begging room at a train station. color road to riches, Okénka A sudden road accident at a busy urban intersection forces a from the idea’s Joseph Cahill, Czech Republic, 2000, 11 minutes, color disparate group of strangers to interact. inception to A man waiting for a movie to begin lets his imagination run wild. Talkin’ Shop the courting of Copy Shop venture capi- Sowande talists. The Virgil Widrich, Austria, 2001, 12 minutes, black & white Tichawonna, choices and A man fills the world with his own image. USA, 2000, 16 sacrifices First Christmas (Premier Noël) minutes, color involved are At Vera’s Full- heightened by Kamel Chérif, France/Tunisia, 1999, 15 minutes, color Service Barber A young Tunisian waits up for Santa Claus. their now-infa- Salon at 8th and mous historical Ruby’s Slippers Kennedy Streets, context, the Stephen Rudder, United Kingdom, 2000, 11 minutes, the talk turns to peak Web color issues of the day. euphoria that occurred about two years ago. Startup.com has The title shoes fuel long-simmering sibling rivalries. Aisha the suspense and intriguing characters of a great fiction film.—John Cooper, 2001 Sundance Film Festival My Chorus Parine Jaddo, Richard Doherty, USA, 14 minutes, color USA, 2000, Production Companies: Pennebaker Hegedus/Noujaim Films. Producer: D.A. Pennebaker. Cinematography: Jehane Noujaim. Editors: Chris A singing, dancing quartet scrutinizes Ed’s every move. 32 minutes, Hegedus, Erez Laufer, Jehane Noujaim. color Titanic: The True Story (La veritable historie du Titan) Can the heritage of a modern Arab woman survive in mid-1990s Wednesday, April 25, 6:30 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, Julien Reininger, France, 5 minutes, animation professional Washington? Code: FFW125APRA Thursday, April 26, 6:45 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR126APRA Angry penguins do the ship in. % Friday, April 27, 5:00 p.m., American Film Institute, In Person: Directors Jehane Noujaim and Chris Friday, April 27, 7:15 p.m., American Film Institute, Code: FFA127APRA Hegedus and Producer D.A. Pennebaker at April 25th Code: FFA127APRB screening.

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 17 th Taboo They Call This… Spring NNIVERSARY A 15Gohatto On appelle ça… le printemps Nagisa Oshima Hervé Le Roux Japan/France/United Kingdom, 1999, France, 2000, 103 minutes, color 100 minutes, color A delightfully odd, blunt, bawdy, and fast-paced contemporary In the spring of 1865, after the Shinsengumi militia’s victory at comedy about love, They Call This… Spring begins when Ikedaya over Jocelyn “Joss” Légé (Marie Matheron) leaves her husband Paul the clan leaders (Pierre Berriau) and daughter, teaming with sisters Françoise who would “Fanfan” and Emmanuelle “Manu” Camon (Maryse Cupaiolo, overthrow the Marilyne Canto) to flee the befuddled and self-absorbed men in reigning their lives. Moving in with casual lovers Jean and then Claude, Shogun, offi- the gang plots and executes practical jokes on their hapless cers Hijikata mates and Claude’s and Kondo ex-con wife that cul- (directors minate in a comic The Turandot Project “Beat” Takeshi costume party. Then Kitano and things become really Allan Miller Yoichi Sai) audi- surreal. The script USA/Germany, 2000, 85 minutes, color tion promising jabs at road rage, the This visually stunning documentary tells the story of a produc- candidates for stock market, child tion that brought “Turandot,” an Italian opera set in ancient samurai warrior custody, and even China, to Beijing’s Forbidden City. Director Allan Miller does an training. They pornography. excellent job of capturing the color and detail of the costumes, choose Tashiro (Tadanobu Asano) and the extraordinarily hand- Possessed of an stages, makeup, and performances, which he mixes with some Kano (Ryuhei Matsuda). Soon after, Kano rejects Tashiro’s entirely unique tone behind-the-scenes details that the opera’s director, Zhang nighttime advances, yet rumors begin to fly after a liaison with and a serenely unas- Yimou, encounters. Miller’s camera takes us everywhere, from another samurai. Before long, the young recruit disrupts the sailable interior logic, the careful construction of the costumes that were made to Shinsengumi’s delicate balance of power. Taboo is a triumph of Hervé Le Roux’s third match the era of the City’s architecture, to the rehearsal stages Nagisa Oshima’s will after suffering a debilitating stroke in film plays like an alternately droll and madcap cross between where multiple singers practice. Large, vibrant, and colorful, 1995. Serene on the surface but charged with the seething sex- An Unmarried Woman and A Hard Day’s Night.—Eddie Cockrell this is exactly the sort of documentary that translates to the big uality that lives in the heart of his best work, it is undeniably In French with English subtitles screen in a unique way. It’s really something to see.—Greg the work of a master.—Eddie Cockrell Production Company: Agat Films & Cie. Producer: Gilles Sandoz. Dean Schmitz, upcomingmovies.com In Japanese with English subtitles Screenplay: Hervé Le Roux. Cinematography: Pierre Milon. Editor: In Chinese, Italian, and English with English subtitles Production Companies: Shochiku Company Ltd./BAC Films/Le Studio Nadine Tarbouriech. Music: Pierre Allio. Principal Cast: Marilyne Canal Plus/Recorded Picture Company Ltd./Kadokawa Shoten/ Canto, Maryse Cupaiolo, Marie Matheron, Bernard Ballet, Pierre Production Companies: Alternate Current Inc./Four Oaks Foundation. Imagica/BS Asahi/Eisei Gekijo. Producers: Nobuyoshi Otani, Jean Berriau. Producer: Margaret Smilow, Paul Smaczny. Cinematography: Tom Labadie, Jeremy Thomas. Principal Cast: “Beat” Takeshi, Ryuhei Hurwitz. Editors: Allan Miller, Donald Klocek. Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Yoichi Sai. Thursday, April 26, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR126APRB Friday, April 27, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU127APRA Sunday, April 22, 6:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFH122APRA Friday, April 27, 8:30 p.m., Nat’l Geo., Code: FFN127APRB Monday, April 23, 6:30 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF123APRA Two for Tea Vengo Tomandote Tony Gatlif Isabel Gardela France, 2000, 90 minutes, color Algerian-born filmmaker Tony Gatlif, whose remarkable career Spain, 2000, 99 minutes, color documenting indigenous musical styles in dramatic frameworks Isabel Gardela’s debut feature is a quirky romantic comedy that includes the explores sexual politics and cultural differences as Gabi, a 30- films Latcho year-old writer, and Jalil, a Drom, Mondo, Muslim florist, delicately and Gadjo dilo negotiate their develop- (aka The Crazy ing romance. Stranger), is Recognition as a back with a fla- writer finally beck- menco-themed ons when Gabi story of feuds, (Núria Prims) wins a revenge, and, literary prize. But of course, her ex-lover is angry music. On the about her misrepre- Andalusian sentation of him in her plains of southern Spain, the family of Caco (Antonio Canales) book, so he levels accusa- is engaged in an ongoing dispute with the neighboring tions against her that lead to Caravaca clan that involves Diego (Orestes Villasan Rodriquez), Vies (Lives) doubts about where inspiration for the disabled son of Caco’s brother Mario. But the music’s the her next work might come from. A budding friendship with Jalil thing, and whenever in doubt Gatlif throws in another flamenco Alain Cavalier (Zack Qureshi) introduces Gabi to an alluring new world, but set piece. One number features the extraordinary vocalist La France, 2000, 90 minutes, color she is obliged to reassess her priorities and ambitions as they Paquera de Jerez, whose musical delivery is little short of sen- This film is a change of pace for director Alain Cavalier embark on a different kind of courtship. Shot against the back- sational. Canales is a vigorous presence in the lead role. With (Therese and La Rencontre), whose paired-down narration, pre- drop of a rarely seen Barcelona and featuring accomplished fine camerawork by Thierry Pouget and a roster of exceptional cise mis-en-scene, and ingenious use of gesture have earned performances from a little-known cast, Two for Tea is a witty flamenco talents on display, the resulting film is easy on the him a reputation as one of the most uncompromising French reflection on staying in love when both partners want contrary eyes and ears.—David Stratton, Variety filmmakers. Vies is a series of documentary portraits shot with things.—Maria Delgado, 44th London Film Festival, 2000 In Spanish with English subtitles a digital camera (and transferred to 35mm film), about which he In Spanish with English subtitles Production Company: Prince Films. Producer: Tony Gatlif. Screenplay: said, “Shooting in digital video transforms all relationships in Production Company: Kilimanjaro Productions. Producer: Carlos Tony Gatlif. Cinematography: Thierry Pouget. Editor: Pauline Dairou. the space in which you’re filming…the picture-to-sound con- Benpar. Screenplay: Isabel Gardela. Cinematography: Núria Roldós. Music Supervisor: Amelie de Chassey. Principal Cast: Antonio Canales, Editors: Domi Parra, Victor Vidal. Music: Alex Solana. Principal Cast: Orestes Villasan Rodriguez, Antonio Perez Decheny, Bobote, Juan Luis nection is completely different [and] I have become an instru- Núria Prims, Zack Qureshi, Olalla Moreno, Teresa Gimpera, Txell Sust. Corrientes. mentalist.” The film’s effect is stunning, partly because of his range and his affinity with his subjects. Wednesday, April 25, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT125APRB Tuesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR124APRA In French with English Subtitles Thursday, April 26, 9:00 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFT126APRB Saturday, April 28, 6:45p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU128APRA % In Person: Director Isabel Gardela April 28 at 2:30 p.m. National Gallery of Art, Free

18 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Wake Up, Love Wild About Harry With a Friend Like Harry th Despabílate, amor Declan Lowney Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien United Kingdom/Ireland, 1999, 100 minutes, color and Eliseo Subiela black & white Dominik Moll Argentina, 1996, 98 minutes, color In contempo- France, 2000, 117 minutes, color Winner of the Argentine Film Critics’ award for Best Music and rary Dublin, Stopping to cool off on a family drive, exasperated paterfamil- Supporting Actor (Juan Leyrado), Wake Up, Love marks Eliseo Harry McKee ias Michel (Laurent Subiela’s first (Brendan Lucas) unexpectedly foray into Gleeson) is bumps into avuncular romantic com- the suave old school friend Harry edy. As in his and cheerful (Sergi Lopez). Soon, other works, host of the Harry and girlfriend the sharp and popular Plum (Sophie Guillemin) funny dialogue “What’s have ingratiated them- is laced with Cookin’” tel- selves with Michel, his meditations on evision pro- wife, Claire (Mathilde time, memory, gram. Seigner), and their music, philoso- Beneath the brood. Harry initially phy, regret, smooth sur- seems to be a gift from and hope. face, howev- God; he is, of course, Ricardo er, Harry is an unrepentant womanizer whose wife Ruth too good to be true. (Leyrado) was (Amanda Donohoe) is on the verge of divorcing him. After being —Allan Hunter, Screen International a party animal mugged, Harry embarrasses government official Walter Adair Production Company: Diaphana Films. Producer: Michel Saint-Jean. who now stays young by dancing to 1950s rock and roll at (James Nesbitt) and his wife during his show. Then he goes Screenplay: Dominik Moll, Gilles Marchand. Cinematography: Matthieu home. One day, he decides to round up old friends for a reunion Porot-Delpech. Editor: Yannick Kergoat. Music: David Sinclair Whitaker. into a six-day coma and awakes thinking he’s 18 years old— Principal Cast: Laurent Lucas, Sergi Lopez, Mathilde Seigner, Sophie bash. However, time never stands still. Once again, the poetry with no memory of the intervening quarter century. Harry’s Guillemin, Liliane Rov. of Mario Benedetti plays a major role in the proceedings. This bumpy road to comic redemption involves both the vengeful Sunday, April 22, 6:00 p.m., French Embassy, is, after all, the bright side of the heart, a tiny, joyful bauble Walter and some serious negotiations with Ruth. Perhaps the $25, Code: FFE122APRA* about keeping alive the idealism of the 1960s.—14th Miami London festival summed it up best: “Wild About Harry may not Monday, April 23, 6:30 p.m., Wisconsin Avenue, $8 Film Festival, 1997 be life-changing (although it may make you behave a little bet- Code: FFW123APRA In Spanish with English subtitles ter for a while). It’s unashamedly entertaining and an awful lot % In Person: Actress Sophie Guillemin Production Companies: Artear/CQ3/Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes of fun.”—Eddie Cockrell This event is presented under the auspices of the Audiovisuales/Kinucha Mitre/Raúl J. Naya Prodduciones. Producer: Raúl J. Naya. Screenplay: Eliseo Subiela. Cinematography: Daniel Production Companies: MBP/Scala. Producers: Robert Cooper, Laurie Cultural Service La Maison Francais at the Embassy of Rodríguez Maseda. Editor: Marcela Sáenz. Music: Martin Bianchedi. Borg, Torsten Leschly. Principal Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Amanda France Principal Cast: Dario Grandinetti, Soledad Silveyra, Juan Leyrado, Donohoe, James Nesbitt, Adrian Dunbar, Bronagh Gallagher, George Marilyn Solaya, Gustavo Garzon. Wendt. # Cocktail reception following Thursday, April 26, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF126APRA the Sunday screening sponsored by Saturday, April 21, 5:30 p.m., Nat’l Geo., Code: FFN121APRA the Cognac Industry. Friday, April 27, 6:30 p.m., Nat’l Geo., Code: FFN127APRA Saturday, April 28, 8:45 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFH128APRB The Wrestlers Zar Gul Zoom Uttara Salmaan Peerzada Otto Alexander Jahrreiss Buddhadeb Dasgupta Pakistan/United Kingdom, 1997, 187 minutes, color Germany, 2000, 101 minutes, color Think of a cross between Lawrence of Arabia and All the Unbeknownst to India, 2000, 99 minutes, color President’s Men with a little Sam Peckinpah thrown into the Berlin-based In the pastoral expanse of rural Bengal, single railroad workers mix and that begins to approximate the sprawling Pakistani Romanian hooker and best friends Balaram (Shankar Chakraborty) and Nemai revenge action epic Wanda (Oana (Tapas Pal) spend their days Zar Gul. After wit- Solomon), wrestling on a hill and kibitzing nessing the death voyeuristic with the locals, who include of his father, the technogeek the village Padre (R.I. Asad) and young Pathan Thomas Ernst his young Christian charge tribesman of the Waller (Florian Matthew (Saurav Das), a title (played by Lukas) is trailing colony of dwarfs, and a wan- writer-director her from john to dering troupe of masked Salmaan Peerzada’s john with a video dancers. When Balaram returns son, Babar) is kid- camera and an from a visit to his aged aunt napped by a bandit. array of blackmail scams. Wanda soon discovers what he’s up with wife Uttara (Jaya Seal), Zar Gul escapes and to, and the two set off to shake down her remaining clients her presence begins to tear the makes it his life’s and scrape up enough money to win back her son from some friendship apart. The violent mission to uphold shady Eastern European thugs. From its impeccably cool open- actions of three Hindu extrem- the ideals of love and honor his elders taught him. Using his ing credits to its inevitable yet offbeat conclusion, Zoom is a ists destroy the peace of the power base as a successful businessman, he morphs into a leg- cold, calculating widescreen German thriller with style and village, but a sliver of hope endary and almost mythic outlaw figure. He battles a corrupt twists to spare. Brazenly acknowledging its links to Psycho, remains. Veteran Bengali film- would-be politician (Jamil Malik) and finds love with idealistic Taxi Driver, and even what 8mm might have been, it exists in maker Buddhadeb Dasgupta schoolteacher Yasmin (Faryal Gohar). Filmed on dozens of its own quietly nasty world of preempted morality and tar- employs a unique strategy of magic-hour shooting, precisely diverse locations in Pakistan, the country’s first international nished dignity.—Eddie Cockrell matched reverse angle shots, and unusually deep focus for feature in 15 years is a rousing, thoughtful, absorbing adven- In German and Romanian with English subtitles framing and blocking.—Eddie Cockrell ture.—Eddie Cockrell Production Company: Vega Film, in association with SAT-1. Producers: In Bengali with English subtitles In Pashtu, Punjabi, Urdu, and English with English subtitles Michael Schwarz, Otto Alexander Jahrreiss. Screenplay: Otto Production Company: Buddhadeb Dasgupta Productions. Executive Alexander Jahrreiss, Markus Hoffmann. Cinematography: Hannes Production Company: Peer Films. Producer: Usman Peerzada. Hubach. Editor: Behruz Torbati. Music: Martin Todsharow, featuring Till Producer: Dulal Roy. Screenplay: Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Screenplay: Salmaan Peerzada. Cinematography: Aftab Ahmad. Editor: Cinematography: Asim Bose. Editor: Rabi Ranjan Maitra. Music: Brönner. Principal Cast: Oana Solomon, Florian Lukas, Albert Kitzl, Götz Miranda Watts. Music: Roger White. Principal Cast: Imraan Peerzada, Schubert, Gundula Köster. Biswadeb Dasgupta. Principal Cast: Jaya Seal, Tapas Pal, Shankar Faryal Gohar, Talat Hussain, Jamil Malik, Samina Peerzada. Chakraborty, R.I. Asad, Tapas Adhikari. Friday, April 27, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR127APRB Friday, April 20, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF120APRA Wednesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFR118APRA Saturday, April 28, 8:45 p.m., Tenley, Sunday, April 22, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, Code: FFF122APRA Thursday April 19, 9:15 p.m., Tenley, Code: FFU119APRB Code: FFU128APRB Wednesday, April 25, 7:00 p.m., Foundry, % In Person: Director Otto Alexander Jahrreiss Q Co-Presented with Code: FFF125APRA AMERICAN UNIVERSITY % In Person: Actor Imraan Peerzada Q Co-Presented with

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NNIVERSARY A 15Filmfest DC for Kids All programs take place at the National Gallery of Art

Leo the Late Bloomer. One day, Golden Bear for Best Short Film, Berlin Film Festival, 2001. in his own good time, Leo shows Canada, 2000, 10 min; painting on glass, dir. Martine Chartrand. everyone how glorious it is to final- On Tiptoe: Gentle Steps to Freedom chronicles the birth ly blossom. USA, 1999, 8 min; and life of the South African singing group Ladysmith Black painting on cells, dir. Michael Mambazo, whose joyous song and dance celebrate true peace. Sporn. On Tiptoe tells the story of Joseph Shabalala and his passion to Home Hole Horrors. A wood- create a new kind of music and keep it alive. Director Eric pecker decides to search for worms Simonson captures the group’s magic in one of this year’s Oscar- through the walls of Raccoon’s nominated films. USA, 2000, 40 min; documentary. home. Latvia, 1999, 6 min; puppets, dir. Nils Skapãns. Brickannia. There is a planet near PROGRAM 3 the earth where strange creatures live. They look like birds. Latvia, Nightjohn 2000, 6 min; animated objects, dir. Recommended for ages 10 and up Nils Skapãns. Mon., April 23, Wed., April 25 & Fri., April 27 at 12:00 p.m.* Ludovic: A Crocodile in My Running time: 96 min. Garden. When the paper animals Filmfest DC For Kids welcomes back its most popular film. refuse to obey him, Ludovic refuses Highly acclaimed director Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep, Sleep to play with them. Reconciliation is With Anger) tells the story of a slave girl, Sarny, who learns the not far off. This is part of a four-part power of literacy as a weapon for freedom from another slave, series by world-renowned animator Nightjohn. USA, 1996, feature. Warning: Though never shown, PROGRAM 1 Co Hoederman. The first premiered last year in the festival. there is a strong suggestion of the cutting off of a finger. Animation From Around the Canada, 2000, 10 min; puppets. World and Out of This World PROGRAM 2 *All screenings are at the National Gallery of Art and are free and open to the public. Please be aware that weekday shows may not Recommended for ages 3 and up: grades pre-K and up World Music For Freedom begin until all students on class trips are seated. Saturdays, April 21 & 28, 10:30 a.m. Monday–Friday, April 23–27, 10:30 a.m.* Recommended for ages 8 and up: grades 3 and up Total running time: 60 min. Saturdays, April 21 & 28 at 12:00 p.m. Sit back and enjoy the ride of your life with a collection of some Tues., April 24 & Thurs., April 26 at 12:00 p.m.* of the year’s best animation from such faraway places as Latvia, Total running time: 60 min. Finland, and Denmark. Returning this year are some of our festi- Each film in this series deals in one form or another with the val favorites: Ludovic and Noodles & Nedd in their new adven- idea of freedom. From painting-on-glass animation to documen- tures. A new friend joins us this year, Leo, who has a develop- tary, the films explore our realm of freedom—how we see it, mental problem. Finally, for a real treat, Sesame Workshop has attain it, and how we can pass it on to others. given us a sneak preview of its new show, Tiny Planets. Sunday in the Park. Everything is just the way we want to Tiny Planets. The heroes Bing & Bong visit the Tiny Planet of see the world: in order and in perspective. But are things really Color and learn about the mixing of colors. UK, 1999, 7 min; 3-D that way? Not on this particular Sunday. Demark, 2000, 4 min; computer, dir. Ed Taylor. North American Premiere. pastel painting on cells, dir. Teis Dyekjaer-Hansen. Akbar’s Cheetah. Akbar finally understands that cheetahs Catch of the Day. The further adventures of Noodles & Nedd. need a degree of freedom to mate, and in giving them this free- This time Noodles tries to keep Nedd from eating the love of his dom he sacrifices some of his own. England, 1999, 6 min; pastel life. USA, 1999, 10 min; drawing on cells, dir. John Dilworth. painting on cells, dir. Iain Gardner. Up, Up, Up. Piling hats leads Gussy Kangaroo to the moon. Black Soul immerses viewers into Black culture in an exhilarat- Finland, 2000, 6 min, drawing on cells; dir. Heikki Prepula. ing voyage from Africa through the Caribbean to America, rocked by the rhythms of gospel and jazz. As an old lady initiates her Ernst in Tivoli. Ernst’s mother is a little absent-minded. This grandson into his past, we watch an evolving series of images gives him a lot of freedom. Denmark, 2000, 7 min; drawing on painted directly under the animation camera. Winner of the cells, dir. Alice de Champfleury. Cinema for Seniors Sparkle

Sam O’Steen USA, 1976, 99 minutes, color Three sisters from Harlem ride the rocky road to fame in this flashy, pivotal showbiz musical. Although the story is reminiscent of the Supremes saga, the picture has gained a cult following over the years as a proving ground for both established and then- young Hollywood talent: Curtis Mayfield wrote the fictitious girl group’s songs, the original story and script came from future filmmaker Joel Schumacher (D.C. Cab, Batman Forever), and the young stars who used the film as a springboard to real-life fame include Philip Michael Thomas (“Miami Vice”), Irene Cara (Fame), Lonette McKee (Men of Honor), and Dorian Harewood (“I’ll Fly Away”).—Eddie Cockrell Production Company: Warner Bros. Producer: Howard Rosenman. Screenplay: Joel Schumacher. Cinematography: Bruce Surtees. Editor: Gordon Scott. Music: Curtis Mayfield. Principal Cast: Philip Michael Thomas, Irene Cara, Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood.

Thursday, April 26, 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., American Film Institute

20 • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post A NNIVERSARY15 Panels th “The West Wing”: Inside Film Production and the TV Trade Marketing in Latin America Learn how to break into TV production, Hollywood’s dominance of the global film and how to create and manage a suc- market presents a serious challenge to cessful television series like NBC-TV’s independent filmmakers and producers, Directors’ critically acclaimed award-winning especially in countries with fledgling show “The West Wing.” film industries and less-than-robust economies. A panel of distin- Roundtable Spend an evening with top television producer guished Latin American filmmak- Llewellyn Wells and others involved in “The West ers whose films will be featured Wing” and learn how projects are conceived, pro- in this year’s DC Filmfest will duced, and sold to television networks. Wells will discuss the issues relating to The element of surprise is a source of spon- cover casting, testing, and methods to develop your the creation, production, and taneity as directors discuss their working ideas into proposals, scripts, and actual programs. distribution of films, and how styles and contrast the conditions under Local televison producer Kathy McCampbell Vance those issues impact the cre- which their films are made. The program’s joins the panel, too, to discuss her work at NBC4-TV ative process. improvisational, unrehearsed quality allows in Washington. The panel will be moderated by a specialist in the diverse for a rare level of communication that Llewellyn Wells is currently producing “The West cinemas of the Americas, involves everyone, including CineCafe par- Wing” for John Wells Productions, Warner Bros, Jerry Carlson, a professor of ticipants…The directors don’t know each and NBC. Wells has also produced “The film and television at the City other, so it’s a revelation to discover what Adversaries” for Warner Bros./NBC, “The Kindred” University of New York. for Spelling/FOX, and “Extreme” for Universal/ABC. a shared passion sounds like. Film guest panelists will include: In the feature film arena, Wells most recently line- Moderated by Variety film critic Eddie Cockrell. produced the film Under Suspicion and line-pro- # Alejandro Agresti (A Night with duced Soulfood. Sabrina Love) Sunday, April 22, 2:00 p.m., Borders Books and Music, # Isabela Gardela (Two for Tea) Kathy McCampbell Vance heads her own produc- 1800 L Street NW, Free # Juan Carlos de Llaca (Dust to Dust) tion company, Kamax Productions, and is a partner Special thanks to # in East Meets West Productions. She spent 24 years Eliseo Subiela (various titles). at NBC-TV, most recently as director of program- April 26, 12:30 p.m. at the Andres Bello Auditorium, Cultural Center, Inter-American Development Bank, 1300 New York Avenue, NW., Free ming and community affairs. (Personal ID required to enter). Tuesday, April 24, 6:30 p.m., American Film Institute, Free CineCafes The Films of Eliseo Subiela Celebrate Filmfest’s 15th year with some of the industry’s best, bright- est, and most innovative individuals. Each year, CineCafes highlight featuring Don’t Die the festival and offer rare opportunities to exchange ideas and opin- Without Telling Me ions, ask questions, and receive answers. Meet the people behind the films that make Filmfest DC possible. The atmosphere is informal and Where You’re Going the format is interactive. All events are free and open to the public; Filmfest’s inaugural year (1987) light refreshments are available. was marked by a screening of The King Is Alive Man Facing Southeast. Since then, Filmfest DC audiences Dogme 95 is a collective of film direc- have eagerly awaited and tors founded in Copenhagen with the acclaimed Subiela’s films. goal of countering certain tendencies in Scheduled immediately after today’s cinema. Directed by Kristian the 6:30 p.m. screening of Don’t Levring, The King Is Alive is the most Die Without Telling Me Where recent Dogme 95 release. Critically You’re Going, this CineCafe acclaimed and recognized as a challenging film, it’s the work of a film- program will explore the film- maker who believes that anyone can make movies and that cinema is maker’s work. not an individual affair. The film’s journey into the desert doesn’t lead to Club Med, but you’ll survive if you stay open and willing, aware that Moderated by Variety film critic you’ve been confronted with a fresh vision and a new voice. Eddie Cockrell Tuesday, April 24, 9:00 p.m., Chipotle, Moderated by Bruce Sklarew of the Forum for the Psychoanalytic Study of Film. 4301 Wisconsin Avenue NW, immedi- ately following the 6:30 p.m. screen- Monday, April 23, 8:30 p.m., Visions, 1927 Florida Avenue NW, immediately follow- ing of Don’t Die Without ing the 6:30 p.m. screening of The King Is Alive, Free Telling Me Where You’re Going at the Tenley, Free

An Advertising Supplement to The Washington Post • Washington, DC International Film Festival 2001 • 21 th Festival Staff Katie Bocock Festival Website Ray Barry, John Sery Embassy of France Event American Film Institute NNIVERSARY Tony Gittens Westlake Consulting Group A 15Thanks Robert Sacheli Sekita Ekrek Festival Director Web Site Design Design Support Allied Advertising Shirin Ghareeb Tuan Tran John Hall Bob Jones, Kim Kowolski Assistant Festival Director Web Site Coordinator Filmfest DC Film Print Controller Loews Cineplex Theatres Jared Traver Nwenna Randall Antoine Khalife Board of Directors Film Print Coordinator Filmfest DC Intern Special thanks to… Unifrance Kandace Laass, Chair Zanne Lexow Joan Hisaoka, Diana Kaiser, Ambassador Hatem Atallah Manjula Kumar Director, Member Services Programming Coordinator, Sara Crocker Embassy of Tunisia Smithsonian Institution Public Education Network Filmfest DC for Kids Hisaoka Public Relations Luz Estela Santos de Bruck, Crystal Palmer Max N. Berry Kim Clark, Stephen Kharfen, Chad Evans Wyatt Mayor’s Office of Motion Picture Attorney-at-Law Jay Sulaiman Ignacio Duran Photographer and Television Development Hospitality Mexican Cultural Institute Alberto Casciero Oussama Romdhani Director, Learning Resources Division Katie Dargis Annamaria Lelli Programmers Agence Tunisienne de Communication University of the District of Columbia Coordinating Assistant Director, Italian Cultural Institute Exterieure Ann Barsi, Robyn Thoelke Tony Gittens Ambassador Clovis Maksoud Bonnie Cohen Pepe Vargas Audience Award Senior Programmer Director, Center for the Global South, Tony Gittens Chicago Latino Film Festival Bill McLeod, Robyn Thoelke, Linda Blackaby American University Director, Washington, DC Paul Urciolo International Film Festival Liz Wagger Peter Brunette Nancy Westman, Margerita Paul Donohoe Real Estate Services Executive Director, Volunteer Coordinators Eddie Cockrell Embassy of Sweden Hillary Dallas DC Commission Tommie Adams, Jr., Ben Curran, Marian Masone Werner Ott, Sylvia Blume American University on the Arts and Humanities Andrew Davis, Mark Fontenot, Peggy Parsons Goethe-Institut Washington Stephen X. Graham Paul Haas, Bertha Hall, Lazare Paupert President, Crosshill Financial Group, Inc. Lisa Linnell, Ron Samuels, Embassy of France Bruce Snyder, Zipper Viloski, Arnold P. Lutzker Festival Catalog Juan Ramero de Terreros Bahram Zandi Lutzker & Lutzker, LLP Eddie Cockrell Embassy of Spain Theater Managers John M. Mendonca Senior Editor Felix Angel Jim Ryan Photos: Chad Evans Wyatt Partner, KPMG LLP Jill Tunick Inter-American Development Bank Opening Night Gala Producer Jennifer Cover Payne Editor Richard Seidel, Jann Darsie Director, Mary A. Pettigrew Opening Night Gala Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington ampersand graphic design, inc. Annette Coram, Phil Harris Ted Pedas Design/Production Closing Night President, Circle Releasing Corp. Tada Burke Alberto Casciero, Norma Reyes Alan Rubin Cover Illustration Tommie Adams, Jr. Latin American Filmmakers Panel Film Consultant Katie Bocock Robert Sacheli Sandy Hassan Cinema for Seniors Creative Services Manager, American Occupational Therapy Assn. Shira Keyes, Linda Posell Ann Barsi Marilyn Weiner Alberto Casciero CineCafes President, Screenscope Annette Coram Ben Curran Festival Advisory Katie Dargis Board Jann Darsie Peggy Cooper Cafritz Chairman Emeritus, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Freeman Fisher Mark Fontenot Vice President, Distribution Services Paul Haas John Hall Loews Cineplex Theatres Bertha Hall Phil Harris Jean Firstenberg Director, American Film Institute Tom Luddy Joan Hisaoka Diana Kaiser Producer Shira Keyes Crystal Palmer Stephen Kharfen Director, Mayor’s Office of Motion Bill McLeod Picture and Television Development Mary Pettigrew Jack Valenti Linda Posell President, Motion Picture Association of America

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Barney Dr., NE Adanggaman You’re Going T 33 1 42 96 02 20, F 33 1 40 20 05 51 Suite T3, Washington, DC 20018 Blame It on Voltaire ...... 7 New Yorker Films Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Season of Men, The T 202 526 9026, E [email protected] Bob Marley Live in Concert ...... 7 16 West 61st Street, 11th Floor Audiovisuales Les Films du Losange, 22 avenue Pierre First Christmas New York, NY 10023 USA Lima 319, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina 1er de Serbie Mètis Productions Born Romantic ...... 8 T 212 247 6110, F 212 307 7855 T 54 11 4379 0951, F 54 11 4379 0918 75116 Paris, France 54 Av. Mathurin Moreau Bread and Roses ...... 8 www.newyorkerfilms.com Downtime T 33 1 44 43 87 15, F 33 1 49 52 06 40 75019 Paris, France Ali Farka Toure: Springing From Pilgrim Films, The Cinema E [email protected] T/F 33 1 42 45 72 65 Bread and Tulips ...... 8 the Roots 10 Pilgrim Street, Newcastle NEI 60G, UK Sentimental Teaser, The Lunch Lady, The Breaking Out ...... 8 Les films du village T 44 191230 3930 F 44 191 233 2930 Cebra Producciones Leslie Mello 24 - 26 Rue des prairies Dust to Dust Manuel de Salas 567 79 Grove Lane, London SE5 8SP, UK Brother ...... 8 75020 Paris, France Tequila Gang Ñuñoa, Santiago, Chile T 44 20 7708 3286, F 44 20 7787 4859 Calle 54 ...... 8 T 33 1 44 62 88 77, F 33 1 44 62 72 42 24 Hanway Street T 56 2 225 1368, F 56 2 341 6725 E [email protected] Angels of the Universe London W1P 9DD, UK E [email protected] Captain Pantoja and the Special Service . .9 www.elchacoterosentimental.cl My Chorus Menemsha Entertainment T 44 207 290 0773, F 44 207 636 2261 Mr. Richard Doherty, 7742 Darby Ave. CineCafes ...... 21 1157 S. Beverly Drive, 2nd Floor Faat Kine Sparkle Reseda, CA 91335 Cinema for Seniors: Sparkle ...... 20 Los Angeles, CA 90035 USA New Yorker Films, 16 West 61st Street Swank Motion Pictures, T 818 774 1332 T 310 712 3720, F 310 277 6602 11th Floor, New York, NY 10023 USA 350 Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, #203 E [email protected] Compassionate Sex ...... 3 Hauppauge, NY 11788 April Captains T 212 247 6110, F 212 307 7855 Okenka Art Box, ‘Le Barjac’ www.newyorkerfilms.com T 800 876 3344 F 631 434 1574 Cuba Feliz ...... 9 www.swank.com Mr. Joseph Cahill 1, boulevard Victor Fencing Master, The Pohorelec 24 Prague 1 180-00 Dark Side of the Heart, The ...... 9 75015 Paris, France Origen, P.C., c/Serrano, 211 Startup.com Czech Republic Daughters of the Sun ...... 9 T 33 1 44 25 01 62, F 33 1 44 25 01 95 28016 Madrid, Spain Artisan Entertainment T 42 0606 563526 F 718 543 3035 [email protected] T 91 443 0102, F 91344 1988 157 Chambers Street, 11th Fl, E [email protected] Devils on the Doorstep ...... 9 Beau Travail E [email protected] New York, NY 10007 USA T 212 386 6866, F 212 577 2890 Ruby’s Slippers Divided We Fall ...... 9 New Yorker Films Gleaners and I, The Jill Henderson, 114 Whitfield Street, 16 West 61st Street, 11th Floor Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre Street Taboo London WIP 5RW, England Don’t Die Without Telling Me New York, NY 10023 USA New York, NY 10013 USA New Yorker Films, 16 West 61st Street, T 44 207 383 7755 F 44 207 383 7745 Where You’re Going ...... 10 T 212 247 6110, F 212 307 7855 T 212 274 1989, F 212 274 1644 11th Floor, New York, NY 10023 USA E [email protected] www.newyorkerfilms.com www.zeitgeistfilm.com T 212 247 6110, F 212 307 7855 Downtime ...... 10 www.newyorkerfilms.com Spitball Story, The Big Animal, The Himalaya Cinema Guild, 130 Madison Ave. Dust to Dust ...... 10 Telewizja Polska S.A. Kino International They Call This…Spring NY NY 10016 Ul. J.P.Woronicza 17 333 West 39th Street, Suite 503 Mercure Distribution T 212 685 6242, F 212 685 4717 Faat Kine ...... 10 00-999 Warsawa, Poland New York, NY 10018 USA 27 rue de la Butte aux Cailles, 75013 T 48 22 647 8501, F 48 22 647 4248 Paris, France Talkin’ Shop Fencing Master, The ...... 10 T 212 629 6880, F 212 714 0871 Race Man Tell-A-Pictures Blame it on Voltaire www.kino.com T 33 1 44 16 88 44, F 33 1 45 65 07 47 Filmfest DC for Kids ...... 20 www.mercure-distribution.com 1320 Webster Street, NE Flach Pyramide International If… Washington, DC 20017 Flamenco ...... 10 5 rue de Richepanse, 75008 Paris, France Print Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Together T 202 635 1788, F 202 636 5323 T 33 1 42 96 02 20, F 33 1 40 20 05 51 IFC Films Gleaners and I, The ...... 11 I Have Found It 1888 Century Park East, 3rd Fl. Titanic: The True Story Bob Marley Live in Concert Five Star Trading Guido Films, 7 rue Cail Himalaya ...... 11 Arsenal Films Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA Kuala Lumpur Malaysia T 310 287 4740, F 310 287 2603 75010 Paris, France House of Wax in 3D ...... 11 Am Stadtgraben 33 T 6 03 241 2005 T 33 1 40 37 17 30, F 33 1 40 37 06 30 0-72070 Tübingen, Germany F 6 03 248 4976 Turandot Project, The If… ...... 11 T 49 7071 92960 F 49 7071 929611 Zeitgeist Films Filmfest DC For Kids [email protected] In the Shadows of the City 247 Centre Street I Have Found It ...... 11 Angela Masri, 23 Grove End Road New York, NY 10013 USA Akbar’s Cheetah In the Shadows of the City ...... 14 Born Romantic London NW8 9BL, UK Varga TVC Ltd. The Sales Company T 212 274 1989, F 212 274 1644 T 44 207 289 65 17, F 44 207 266 3951 39 Grafton Way, London W1P 5LA, UK 62 Shaftsbury Avenue www.zeitgeistfilm.com Kathy Rose ...... 14 [email protected] T 44 207 637 0535, F 44 171 323 3892 London W1V 7DE, U.K. Two for Tea King Is Alive, The ...... 14 T 22 207 434 9061, F 44 207 494 3293 King Is Alive, The Producciones Kilimanjaro Black Soul E [email protected] IFC Films, 1888 Century Park East, 3rd Fl. Gran Via 516, 1er 5a National Film Board of Canada Latin American Filmmakers Panel ...... 21 Los Angeles, CA 90067 USA 08015 Barcelona, Spain 3155 Côte de Liesse, St-Laurent Little Miracles ...... 14 Bread and Roses T 310 287 4740, F 310 287 2603 Quebec, H4N 2N4 Canada Lions Gate Films T 34 934 518 270, F 34 934 519 057 T 514 283 9806, F 514 496 1895 Lumumba ...... 15 4553 Glencoe Ave., Suite 200 Little Miracles Vengo www.onf.ca Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Cowboy Booking International Luzhin Defence, The ...... 14 T 310 314 9551, F 310 452 2670 Audiovisuales 6 West 24th Street Brickannia www.lionsgatefilms.com Lima 319, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina New York, NY 10010 USA AB Studio, Smerja 3, Riga, Latvia Man Facing Southeast ...... 15 T 54 11 4379 0951, F 54 11 4379 0918 T 212 929 4200, F 212 929 9786 T 371 752 0770, F 371 754 2939 Marcorelle Affair, The ...... 15 Bread and Tulips [email protected] First Look Pictures Lumumba Vies (Lives) Marshall Tito’s Spirit ...... 15 8800 Sunset Blvd., Suite 302 Zeitgeist Films, 247 Centre Street Celluloid Dreams, 24 rue Lamartine, Ernst in Tivoli Los Angeles, CA 90069 New York, NY 10013 USA 75009 Paris, France Danish Film Institute, Gotherscade 55 Night With Sabrina Love, A ...... 15 T 310 855 1199, F 310 855 0152 T 212 274 1989, F 212 274 1644 T 33 1 49 70 03 70, F 33 1 49 70 03 71 DK-1123 Copenhagen K, Denmark No Place to Go ...... 16 www.zeitgeistfilm.com www.celluloid-dreams.com T 45 33 74 34 00, F 45 33 74 35 65 Breaking Out www.dfi.dk The Sales Company Luzhin Defense, The Wake Up, Love Nosferatu With The Alloy Orchestra . . . . .16 62 Shaftesbury Avenue Sony Pictures Classics, 550 Madison Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Home Hole Horrors Otesanek ...... 16 London W1V 7DE, UK Avenue, New York, NY 10022 USA Audiovisuales AB Studio, Smerja 3, Riga, Latvia T 44 171 434 9061, F 44 171 494 3293 T 212 833 8833, F 212 833 8844 Lima 319, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina T 371 752 0770, F 371 754 2939 Placido Rizzotto ...... 16 www.sonyclassics.com [email protected] Brother T 54 11 4379 0951, F 54 11 4379 0918 Ratcatcher ...... 16 Sony Pictures Classics Man Facing Southeast Wild About Harry Leo The Late Bloomer 550 Madison Avenue Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes ID Films; 52 Berwick Street, 1st Floor, Westin Woods, 265 Post Road West Run for Money ...... 16 New York, NY 10022 USA Audiovisuales London W1V 8FS, UK; T 44 207 434 0004 Westport, CT 06880 Samia ...... 17 T 212 833 8833, F 212 833 8844 Lima 319, 1073 Buenos Aires, Argentina F 44 207 434 0005, E T 203 226 3355, F 203 226 3818 www.sonyclassics.com T 54 11 4379 0951, F 54 11 4379 0918 [email protected] Ludovic: A Crocodile Season of Men, The ...... 17 In My Garden Marcorelle Affair, The With A Friend Like Harry Sentimental Teaser, The ...... 17 Calle 54 National Film Board of Canada, 3155 Miramax International Euripide Productions, 15 rue Vézelay Miramax International Short Stuff ...... 17 375 Greenwich Street 75008 Paris, France 375 Greenwich Street Côte de Liesse, St-Laurent, Quebec, H4N New York, NY 10013 USA T 33 1 56 43 64 00, F 33 1 56 43 64 01 New York, NY 10013 USA 2N4, Canada Short Stuff: DC Views ...... 17 T 212 941 3800, F 212 941 3834 [email protected] T 212 941 3800, F 212 941 3834 T 514 283 9806, F 514 496 1895 www.onf.ca Spitball Story, The ...... 6 Captain Pantoja and the Special Marshall Tito’s Spirit Wrestlers, The Print Courtesy of Achab Films, Italy Moby-Dick Startup.com ...... 17 Service Brussels Ave S4C Film Festival Dept., Parc Ty Glas, Producciones Inca Films Night with Sabrina, A Rue des Visitandines, 1 box 48 Llanisien, Cardiff CF14 5DU, Wales, UK Taboo ...... 18 Av. San Martin 154 B-1000 Brussels, Belgium Patagonik, Buenos Aires, Argentina T 44 02920 747 444, F 44 02920 754 444 They Call This...Spring ...... 18 Lima 04 Peru T 54 11 477 77200, F 54 11 477 79447 T 32 2 511 9156, F 32 2 511 8139 www.s4c.co.uk T 511 247 0723 F 511 477 0119 [email protected] ZarGul Turandot Project, The ...... 18 E [email protected] Nightjohn No Place to Go Peer Films, Ltd.; 25-F/3, Block D Print Courtesy of the Disney Studio Compassionate Sex National Homes, New Muslim Town Together ...... 3 Bavaria Film International Sunday in the Park Turbonancia Productora Bavariafilmplatz 7, D-82031 Lahore, Pakistan Two for Tea ...... 18 S.A. De C.V., Atletas Num. 2 Col. Country T 9242 5839122, F 92 42 5869686 Danish Film Institute, Gotherscade 5 Geiselgasteig, Germany DK-1123 Copenhagen K, Denmark Vengo ...... 18 Club C.P. 04220 Mexico, D.F.; 525 5 49 30 T 49 89 6499 3506, F 49 89 6499 3720 Zoom 50 ext.970-372 F 525 5 44 57 94 E T 45 33 74 34 00, F 45 33 74 35 65 www.bavaria-film.de Bavaria Film International www.dfi.dk Vies ...... 18 Bavariafilmplatz 7, D-82031 Cuba Feliz Nosferatu Tiny Planets Wake Up, Love ...... 19 Le Studio Canal, Espace Lumiere (with The Alloy Orchestra) Geiselgasteig, Germany Sesame Workshop, One Lincoln Plaza, 5-13 Blvd. De la Republique Print Courtesy of Archival Films, Inc. T 49 89 6499 3506, F 49 89 6499 3720 New York, NY 10023, USA West Wing Panel, The ...... 21 92100 Boulogne, France New York City www.bavaria-film.de T 212 875 6586, F 212 875 6138 T 33 1 71 75 99 99, F 33 1 71 75 89 73 Wild About Harry ...... 19 Otesánek www.sesameworkshop.org Dark Side of the Heart, The Athandr, S.R.O., U 5 Baterie 21, 162 00 Shorts Up, Up, Up With a Friend Like Harry ...... 19 Film Tonic, 5130 Boul. St-Laurent Praha 6, Czech Republic At The Second Traffic Light The Finnish Film Foundation Wrestlers, The ...... 19 Bureau 400, Montréal T 42 02 243133383 F 42 92 243133383 Teret Productions, 4201 Wilson Blvd. Kanavakatu 12 Quebec H2T 1R8, Canada; Suite #110-248, Arlington, VA 22203 FIN-00160 Helsinki, Finland Zar Gul ...... 19 T 514 272 4425, F 514 274 0214 T 703 913 2747 T 358 9 6220 300, F 358 9 6220 3060 Zoom ...... 19 www.filmtonic.com E [email protected] www.ses.fi

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