2015 MSPIFF

This will be my life during MSPIFF. Punch. Movies. Knitting.

Back once again with my list of films that I'd like to see. I'm excited because this year's program includes a whole program called Women and Film.  Thirty-five whole features including 27 directed by women. Now if only the film society would get their act together about the actual SCHEDULE of films...

In this part of the 21st century, descriptions are important and trailers are even more important. So click on the link and watch the trailer if you want.

Update: I've made my final schedule selections. A mostly correct list is here (thank you to the Film Society of Minneapolis and St. Paul for the mostly 21st century tech this year). I've *never* been this organized for MSPIFF before. As currently configured, I'm seeing 56 films from April 10-April 25; that's 3.5 films per day. Honestly I probably won't be able to make *all* of them (I never have). Because sleep. Film fatigue. Hearing bad things about films. Etc.

I'm particularly excited about:

52 Tuesdays
Accused
Antarctic Edge: 70° South
Beyond the Divide
Cuidad Delirio (This one looks like it includes a trans person of African descent)
Girlhood
The Golden Era
The Lesson
Margarita, With a Straw (Seriously, watch the trailer)
The Mask You Live In
Nena
Out in the Night
The Second Mother
The Summer of Sangaile (the trailer link on MSPIFF's website is wrong--here's the right link
)
Tales (I am swooning for this one)
Dukhtar (This should be in the Women in Film program and I don't understand why it's not): 4/10 7pm
Letters to the King
Speed Walking (MSPIFF, you had me at "From the Scandinavian director of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo..."
The Grump
Love Marriage in Kabul
Hello! Jun'ichi
Courage
Shana: The Wolf's Music
Just Eat It
Capturing Grace
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
Knucklehead
Operation Popcorn
Welcome to Leith
Bread and Butter
A Borrowed Identity
Childish Shorts
Clouds of Sils Maria (Um, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart)
The Lobby
The Dark Horse
Marie's Story
Shorts 6: Femme Regard


Less excited but likely:

1000 Rupee Note
About a Girl (about women and girls but directed, written, and produced by men)
Lola on the Pea
Secrets of War
Cheatin'   (couldn't fit into schedule)

2014 MSPIFF

My first time through the MSPIFF catalog is usually in search of films directed by women since Hollywood is so hostile to women and Iran and other countries provide more opportunities for women directors. So armed with the online catalog and Google images, I search for names that don't indicate a gender to me. Which is a lot of them, since this is an international film festival. Early on this year, I found a director whose photos didn't fit squarely in either end of the gender spectrum, from Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo. She's Finnish, and Scandinavians have a very different social contract about gender roles (which is one of the things I love about Scandinavian film). So now I have a new first preference for films.

Possibilities:

*Directed by people not solidly on the male end of the gender continuum.

*Shosh Shlam: Documentary about internet addiction being an official diagnosis in China.
Above All Else (about trying to stop the XL pipeline)
*The Amazing Catfish: Women meet at a hospital. All about women. By a woman. From Mexico.
American Arab: About that chosen identity and all its conflicts. From the POV of American Arabs.
*The Animal Project: Quirky class where students don animal costumes and live in them to discover themselves. Not documentary.
*Bends: Drama that takes place on the border between Hong Kong and China. Looks like it has themes of social class.
*Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements of Belarus: Documentary about artistic expression and repression. Images of true courage.
*Despite the Gods: Documentary directed by a woman about a white woman in India (Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch) directing a Bollywood film. What's NOT to like?
*Distance: Woman-directed near future sci-fi? Yes.
*Final Recipe: Woman-directed and the trailer made my mouth water.
*Gabrielle: Love story about two developmentally disabled young adults and their families. I hope this one makes me reconsider my hate of French film.
*Habi, the Foreigner: Spanish girl's coming of age and seeking her own identity through Islam.
Half of a Yellow Sun: based on the book with the same name by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
*Hotell: Erika joins a group to heal from trauma and they find some unique ways to deal with it. Swedish.
*I Thought It Was A Party: Two women go on vacation and a male lover shows up. Drama ensues.
*InRealLife: This documentary asks what the internet is doing to our children.
The Jingle Dress: Local, Native, but directed by a guy who looks white.
*Karaoke Girl: A young Thai woman in Thailand struggles to support her and her family.
*Longing for the Rain: Hong Kong film about a middle class Chinese family. Themes of class and gender roles and sexuality.
*Love and Lemons: "Charming" and Swedish in the description and directed by a woman? I'm there.
*Midsummer Night Tango: Finnish director claims that the Tango was invented in Finland. Three people travel to Finland to investigate.
*Shorts: Stage to Screen has one film directed by a woman.
Nobody's Daughter Haewon: A flawed Korean woman tries to find herself. Funny.
*Out of the Fire: A documentary about wood-fired kiln operations.
*Pine Ridge: Documentary profiles of residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
Remembering Nokutela: A documentary about a woman who paved the way for freedom in South Africa.
*Salma: Documentary about a young Muslim girl in India who became a poet.
*Stay Then Go: The story of a mom letting go of her son who she's built her entire life around.
Trapped: One Iranian woman fights for another's freedom.
*Twin Sisters: Two Chinese girls discover that they are twins after they'd been adopted out of the country, far from each other.
We Are the Best!: Girl punk band in Sweden.


Mayyyyyybe:

*Burts Buzz: Documentary about the guy behind Burt's Bees. About a white guy but the trailer had me wanting more. So maybe.
*Concrete Night: One night for two boys. Violent. But the trailer is beautiful and it's Finnish.
*Cyber-Seniors: Looks kinda fun, directed by a woman, but everyone is white. Gah.
*For a Woman: I hate French film and the trailer shows all that I hate about French film (sssshhhh, don't tell Mrs. Bond, my high school French teacher). I'll see this if there's absolutely nothing else to see and I don't need a nap or a run.

MSPIFF 2013 Choices

It's here! Check out the MSPIFF website for more choices.

I'm wondering, though, how long they'll be able to continue to call themselves an "international" film fest. In the program's index by country, there are six columns of films, and two columns are U.S. films. While I enjoy truly independent American film, I go to MSPIFF for the international film, for the perspective of people around the world. Is the film fest losing its way in its search for cash? MSPIFF got a big grant from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. You know, the folks who give out Oscars. Yeah, the ones who are overwhelmingly white and male. Please don't follow the Oscar's lead Film Society. Please.

Rant's over. Now for my choices. I'm out of town for the first weekend, but 45 minutes after I get off the plane, I'll be in a theater. Join me for some!

*Films directed by women

Sunday, April 14

3:45 Merry Christmas*
7:15 The Door
9:00 The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear*

Monday, April 15

5:30 After Tiller*
7:20 Alois Nebel
9:20 Violeta Went to Heaven OR
9:45 La Playa DC

Tuesday, April 16

4:15 The Towrope
7:30 Made in Ash*
9:30 Born This Way*

Wednesday, April 17

5:00 Bwakaw
7:30 Justice for My Sister*
9:45 Lunarcy!

Thursday, April 18

2:45 Goodbye Morocco
4:45 Kuma
7:00 Midnight's Children*

Friday, April 19

2:15 Eden*
4:20 Augustine*
6:45 La Bas: A Criminal Education
9:00 Key of Life

Saturday, April 20

11:10am The Mosuo Sisters*
12:45 Cinderella Moon
4:00 Shorts Program 4: American Indies
7:00 Arcadia*
9:00 The Brass Teapot*

Sunday, April 21

12:00 We Women Warriors*
3:15 Inch'Allah*
6:15 With Impunity: Men and Gender Violence
9:25 Everybody Has a Plan*

Monday, April 22

5:00 Polluting Paradise*
7:10 The Fifth Season*
9:30 Broken

Tuesday, April 23

4:45 Igor and the Crane's Journey
7:00 Mama Illegal
9:55 Children of Sarajevo*

Wednesday, April 24

4:00 The Virgin, the Copts, and Me
7:15 Too Cold Out There Without You*
9:35 The Deflowering of Eva van End

Thursday, April 25

4:30 Kauboy
6:00 Bells of Happiness*
7:20 The Reluctant Fundamentalist*

Friday, April 26

2:45 Electrick Children*
5:10 Modest Reception
9:50 The Deep

Saturday, April 27

11:45am Lucky
2:00 About 111 Girls*
4:10 Tiny: A Story About Living Small*
7:30 In a World...*

Sunday, April 28

1:00 The Parade
4:05 Jin
7:00 Zaytoun
9:30 Papadopoulos and Sons

Note for me for next year: See my 2013 MSPIFF Process note for 2014! And remember to keep your schedule light. Three weeks is far too long.

MSPIFF 2012 Best of Fest

I saw 75 65 films (thanks to an illness toward the end) and these are my choices for "best of fest" in no particular order.

Note to self for 2013: don't try to see as many as I can. Really. Three weeks is far, far too long a festival to keep up that kind of pace. Remember three days in the hospital and missing all of best of fest? Okay then.

Films noted with * were directed by women.

Turn Me On, Dammit* I couldn't review this film better than Andrew O'Hehir from Salon: "A dry, whimsical and finally sweet film that tries to turn the conventional teenage sex comedy inside out, and asks very good questions. Is female sexual desire fundamentally different from male desire? If so, why is that true?" Just see it. Landmark has picked it up. And it's available now on Netflix (DVD). Trailer.

A Secret World Lovely story about a Mexican girl who is lost and needs to find her way. The MSPIFF description is terrible (so the link is to Berkeley's IFF) and makes it seem this story is all about anonymous sex. It's not. One girl's story of finding herself, all told from her point of view. The cinematography is stunning. I loved the choices the director Gabriel Mariño about focus and point of view. A Secret World appears to be only in the film fest world, so no trailer, no Netflix. Yet.

Magic Silver* What a delightful tale, for adults and children, about a gnome princess finding her courage, making mistakes, getting help, and making things right again. I find stories like this very healing, especially given all the messages I got growing up about a woman's place in society. Thank you Norway.Trailer. No Netflix yet.

Dakota 38 Jim Miller, a Dakota man, has a dream about 38 men being hanged before knowing the full history of the largest massacre in U.S. history, on our own soil. This film is about the first ride from the Pine Ridge Reservation to Mankato, Minnesota, where the hanging happened. Trailer.

Wuthering Heights* It's the classic story by Emily Bronte beautifully rendered on the screen with one interesting change. Heathcliff isn't a "bum" but an enslaved African Catherine's family thought they could "civilize." Disclosure: I walked out because I struggled a lot with the British accent. So during my illness and recovery, I watched director Andrea Arnold's other films on Netflix, Red Road and Fish Tank. Her work is wonderful. Trailer. Netflix.

Balloon for Allah* This conversation between Muslim women about their roles in the past and present. Beautifully done. Trailer. No Netflix.

The Carrier* This documentary about one Zambian family dealing with HIV and AIDS is just about as perfect documentary about Africans I've seen. These Zambians are saving themselves and need no white savior. Breathtaking cinematography, too. Trailer. Netflix.

The Flat When director Aaron Goldfinger's grandmother dies, she leaves him and the rest of his family her flat, and everything in it. Filming the whole process, Goldfinger finds some surprising Nazi propaganda and goes in search of his family's connection to Nazis. Surprising and powerful. Trailer. Netflix.

My Mother's Farm* is about a determined Latvian woman who was one of the USSR's first independent (as opposed to cooperative) farmers. She was born after Latvia won its independence after WWI and witnessed a lot of history from Latvia getting taken by the USSR to the fall of Communism, yet stayed strong and willful and full of hope. Her daughter filmed her for almost twenty years and made this beautiful and touching documentary. Trailer. Sorry, no Netflix.

Old Man and the Lady is a pitch-perfect, beautiful, and sweet fifteen minute film. Sorry, no Netflix or trailer.

Death of a Superhero I really struggled with the decision to see this film. It's about a white straight guy. Directed by a white straight guy. (I get enough of these from Hollywood). But I'm glad I did see it. I could relate to the story of a young guy with leukemia. I understood the main character long before most people in the audience could. (I still occasionally have days like his). The ending was predictable and softer than I wanted, but I think most of my readers will really like this tender film. Trailer. Netflix.

Winter Light A short and beautiful meditation on winter light on a Norwegian archipelago. Of course no trailer or Netflix for this one.

This is My Land: Hebron I'm having a hard time finding the words for this Italian-made documentary about Hebron in Israel, a city with 120,000 Palestinians and five hundred Jewish Israelis. What that looks like shocked me beyond measure. Trailer. It's not on Netflix, but if you google it, you can see the whole thing on YouTube.

King Curling Laugh your butt off as you watch the fictional King of Curling Truls Paulsen, his fall into insanity and his return. Trailer.

The Eye of the Storm A wealthy mother lay on her deathbed and her two far-flung grown children come to see her off. Oh, if it were only that simple. Beautifully written and told and shot. Trailer. Netflix.

Grey Matter The first film by and about Rwandans themselves. Telling their own stories. Beautifully shot, and the first film of the fest that made me wish I had people to talk to about it. Trailer. Netflix.

The House* A young woman wants to get away from her father and the house he is building for her from the shell of the house he started for her sister.

Wish Me Away* follows country music darling Chely Wright's journey of coming out of the closet. Predictable, but worth the rental price. Netflix.

Cafe de Flore is a romance, suspense and etherial film that tells parallel stories but leaves you guessing about the connection until the end. Netflix

The Girls in the Band*. The untold history of women in Jazz. Beautifully told, and enlightening. They could have done a lot better around race. Diversity isn't enough. Trailer. No Netflix.

Found Memories*. Widow Magdalena's ordinary and routine life gets turned upside down when young photographer Rita shows up. Trailer. Netflix.

Juan of the Dead. I don't go in for horror films, even funny ones. But Juan's social critique of both Cuban and American politics had me intrigued. I wasn't disappointed, and you won't be either. Trailer. Netflix.

MSPIFF 2012 Schedule

Well, here it is. My schedule for the 2012 Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Care to join me for one of the 75 films I plan to see in the next three weeks?

All times are PM unless otherwise noted.

Films with an asterisk are directed by women, some of them women of color. For short film programs, some but not all the films are directed by women.

REVISED 4/29/2012!


Thursday, April 12 - Opening Night

7:30 The Intouchables

Friday, April 13

2:45 My Mother's Farm*/Old Man & Lady
5:00 Neither Allah, Nor Master*
7:30 Bert Stern, Original Madman*

Saturday, April 14

1:00 Childish Shorts (5+)*
2:00 A Balloon for Allah*/The Other Town
4:30 Target
7:15 The Eye of the Storm
9:45 The Rif Lover*

Sunday, April 15

12:00 noon Panel: Mideast (w/Keith Ellison)
1:30 Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World
5:45 The Education of Auma Obama*
7:15 Tahrir 2011*
9:00 Brooklyn Castle*

Monday, April 16

4:45 The Letter from America*/Winter Light
7:00 MN Shorts #3*
9:25 Here

Tuesday, April 17

5:30 Matchmaking Mayor*
7:00 MN Shorts #2*
9:45 King Curling

Wednesday, April 18

5:30 Up Heartbreak Hill*
7:00 Corpo Celeste*
9:00 Grey Matter

Thursday, April 19

2:45 i am a good person/i am a bad person*
4:45 The House*
6:45 I'm Carolyn Parker
8:45 A Secret World*

Friday, April 20

4:30 Harbour of Hope
7:10 Payback*
9:30 Compliance

Saturday, April 21

10:30am Childish Shorts @ The Library*
2:30 A Girl Like Her*
4:15 Wish Me Away*/Rites of Passage
7:15 Nuit #1* (I walked out--too old-school French for me, even though it was French Canadian)
EITHER:
9:40 Unforgivable (French) OR
9:30 Cafe de Flore (slight preference for this one
merely because the other is French)

Sunday, April 22

1:15 To Make a Farm
4:00 Nicky's Family
6:30 The Girls in the Band*
8:45 Fortress*

Monday, April 23

4:15 Symphony of the Soil* I walked out--too much like a science class and less like a film. Saw To Make a Farm instead because I'd missed it the previous day.
7:15 Together
9:15 In Organic We Trust

Tuesday, April 24

4:50 The British Guide to Showing Off
6:45 The Rescuers
9:15 Where Once We Walked

Wednesday, April 25

5:10 Mourning
6:50 Almanya*
9:15 The Good Life*

Thursday, April 26

4:15 Goodbye
7:00 MN Shorts #1*
9:00 Hard Labor*

Friday, April 27

1:00 Habibi*
2:45 Gun Fight*
5:00 Found Memories*
7:10 Farewell My Queen
10:00 Juan of the Dead

Saturday, April 28

1:00 Magic Silver*
2:45 US Narrative Shorts: Let's Keep It Brief*
5:00 International Shorts: A Short Trip Around the World*
7:10 Wuthering Heights*
9:30 Turn Me On, Dammit*

Sunday, April 29

1:00 Childish Shorts (8+)*
3:00 The Journey on the Wild Coast
4:45 Craft
7:20 Asma'a
9:30 Red Heart

Monday, April 30

4:20 The Prize*
7:00 The List*
9:15 Play

Tuesday, May 1

5:00 The Carrier*
7:20 The Flat
9:20 Death of a Superhero

Wednesday, May 2

4:30 Women With Cows
7:00 Dakota 38
9:40 Hmoob Blood for Freedom

Thursday, May 3

3:00 Voyage to Amasia
4:50 Free Men
7:30 Closing Night Film: Where Do We Go Now*

Then there's Best of Fest...

Best of MSPIFF 2011

Here we go, another year down, another 68 movies viewed. Though I have discovered that three weeks is entirely too long for a film festival. Here are the best films I saw this year. Put them on your to-see list (and Netflix if possible)! They are in no particular order, except the first one is the film I recommend when people ask, "What's the best movie you saw at MSPIFF?"

Pure. This film is my best-of-fest, if I have to pick just one. I'm not sure if you'll ever be able to see it here in the U.S. or not, but that's why I go to MSPIFF. Pure is about a young working class woman trying to make a better life for herself. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

Queen to Play is a delightful film about a working class French woman who discovers the joy of Chess. Kevin Kline plays the chess tutor in his first all-French role. Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman.

The Hedgehog tells the story of 11-year-old Paloma and her new working class friend, the building's janitor, Renee. Despite the film having an 11-year-old protagonist, this is not a children's film. Based on the bestselling novel Elegence of the Hedgehog. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

The Arbor, which got a decent review in the May 2nd New Yorker (Anthony Lane), is the most originally told documentary I've ever seen. Using original footage of British playwright Andrea Dunbar, scenes acted out by people lip syncing to audio interviews of her family, and pieces of Dunbar's plays, it tells the story of Dunbar's working class upbringing and life as seen from the point of view of mostly her oldest daughter. Trailer. Netflix.

Cracks is the first feature film directed by Jordan Scott, daughter of famed director Sir Ridley Scott, about a group of girls at a U.K. boarding school, their teacher, and the crazy world they create. Beautifully shot, directed and acted, especially considering this is her first film. This one is worth seeing on the big screen if you have the opportunity to do so. Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman.

Kinshasa Symphony takes you on the beautiful journey of a group of people in Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) who practice and perform two difficult Beethoven pieces. Stunning cinematography and sound, so see it on a big screen if you can. Otherwise, watch it online here. Netflix.

Happy, Happy appeared at Sundance this year and is a surprising and funny film about a straight couple in the north woods of Norway and what happens to their "happy" lives when another couple from the city moves next door. The musical interludes are fantastic. The Norwegian title "SYKT LYKKELIG" translates to "Sick Happy". Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman.

The Poll Diaries is directed by the man who brought us Four Minutes, one of my favorite films from a few years back, and he once again follows a girl who gets into a bit of trouble with her family and her community by befriending someone they want to see dead. Trailer. Netflix.

Madly In Love is fun and sweet and quirky and well-done. A woman-centered movie, but not just for women. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

Just Like Us. A stand-up comedy troupe goes on tour in Arabic countries. This art form is very new to the Middle East and older generations did not have the opportunity to appreciate this creative platform. However, through the current Internet age stand-up comedy has flourished in the Arab region over the past few years, and continues to show us that laughter is the common language of the world.Trailer. Netflix.

Louder than a Bomb, which you'll be able to see on OWN sometime later this year, is about a spoken word festival by the same name in Chicago. Trailer. Netflix.

Made in India follows one U.S. family looking for a cheaper way to find a surrogate mother for their baby. The film brings up far more questions than it answers, and it's a good start to a conversation on reproductive ethics and world poverty. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

The Interrupters is about an organization in Chicago working between rules and laws to stop gang violence. By the director of Hoop Dreams.Trailer. Netflix.

Modra** 17-year-old Canadian Lina visits her family's ancestral home in Modra, Slovakia, and discovers some of herself. The director uses her own daughter as the main character. Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman. **Google Chrome didn't like this website. Use another browser.

Orgasm, Inc. Watch the pharmaceutical industry manufacturing a disease they think will be a blockbuster for them: female sexual dysfunction. Funny, sexy, and eye-opening. Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman.

I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured follows the struggle the Coloured people are having today in South Africa, and how it relates to the end of Apartheid. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

Better This World is a stunning documentary about the two men arrested for "terrorism" during the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Watch it to see how the government uses and abuses informants and how the lives of two young men are permanently changed. There's a Quaker in the film! Trailer. Netflix. Directed by a woman.

Eichmann's End uses a combination of existing historical footage and modern historical narrative filmmaking to tell the story of how the SS officer Adolf Eichamann was tracked down by an accident of history--the daughter of a Nazi hunter goes on a date with Eichmann's son. Sorry, no trailer.

Cairo 6, 7, 8 is a fictional portrayal of three women who get enacted a law about sexual harassment in Egypt. If only I had the courage of these women. Trailer

Home for Christmas is not your Hollywood Christmas movie, but a gentle, sad and at times heartwarming. If you're looking for different visions of "home for Christmas", this film is for you. It was for me. I'm looking forward to seeing it this December again if I can. I loved this song from the film Home for Christmas by Maria Mena. Trailer

Project Nim. I grew up hearing about Nim the chimp who could use sign language. I had no idea of the crazy story of abuse behind it. A completely compelling story and well-done documentary. Trailer. Netflix.

Eleanor's Secret is about a boy who can't read but inherit's his great aunt's first edition book collection. He has to figure out how to read in order to save them from a greedy antiques seller. And magically, the books come to life to help him. Trailer. Directed by a woman.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth exposes how the Pritt-Igoe public housing project became a myth about the failure of public housing instead of a failure of government to give the project all it needed because they catered instead to big business. Trailer

In Another Lifetime Like many of the best films I see at MSPIFF, I can't find a trailer for this one, and it's not on Netflix. Set in the last days of WWII, one Austrian family houses and feeds Jews, against the will of the townspeople, being marched toward Germany. We get to look at not just what the SS or Nazis did to support the war, but common people. Directed by a woman.

MSPIFF 2011: 70 Films in Three Weeks

It's been a busy lead-in for our household for the last two weeks and the MSPIFF website has been DOWN for much of that time, but I finally 1) have chosen the 70 films I'm seeing the next three weeks and 2) can tell you about it. As for the last couple of years, the films are all at St. Anthony Main.

*If the links don't work, it's not my coding. It's MSPIFF and Minneapolis/St. Paul Film Society. Their websites are only online intermittently, apparently. They were online as I was writing this, and then when I tried to link to the closing film, I couldn't get to any of the sites. Also, I'll put up links as soon as I can find them, but I figured it's better to get the list out there. Perfect is the enemy of good.*

Thursday, April 14

7:30 pm Page One: Inside the New York Times

Friday, April 15

7:00 Triumph 67
9:45 Cracks

Saturday, April 16

5:30 Kinshasa Symphony
7:15 The Green Wave
9:30 The First Beautiful Thing

Sunday, April 17

11:00 The Ugly Duckling
1:00 Broken Dreams
5:00 Happy, Happy
6:45 Gigola
8:30 The Poll Diaries

Monday, April 18

6:30 Two Indians Talking
9:15 International Narrative Shorts

Tuesday, April 19

5:00 Familia
7:00 Madly In Love
9:45 Aftershock

Wednesday, April 20

4:45 Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
7:00 Minnesota Shorts: Emerging Filmmakers 1
9:00 The Light Thief

Thursday, April 21

4:30 International Documentary Shorts
7:00 Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
9:15 Pure

Friday, April 22

2:45 Truck Farm
4:45 Bardsongs
6:45 Bringing King to China
9:15 Just Like Us

Saturday, April 23

11:00 Childish Shorts 2
2:15 U.S. Shorts Program
3:45 Sound of Noise
7:30 Connected: An Autobiography About Love, Death & Technology

Sunday, April 24

12:00 Louder Than a Bomb
2:30 Made in India
4:30 The Interrupters
8:30 Merry-Go-Round

Monday, April 25

5:00 Modra
7:15 The Arbor
9:00 The White Meadows

Tuesday, April 26

5:00 The Queen of Hearts
7:00 Minnesota Shorts: Docs and Animation
9:30 Orgasm, Inc.

Wednesday, April 27

4:45 A Screaming Man
7:00 I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured
9:30 Better This World

Thursday, April 28

5:15 Eichmann's End
7:30 The Hedgehog
9:45 The Sleeping Beauty

Friday, April 29

2:45 Cairo 6,7,8
4:15 Reconciliation: Mandelas Miracle
7:30 Illegal
9:00 Home for Christmas

Saturday, April 30

12:00 Strictly Confidential
2:30 Paradise Recovered
5:15 10 to 11
7:15 Project Nim
9:15 The Bengali Detective

Sunday, May 1

11:00 Eleanor's Secret
2:00 The Pruitt-Igoe Myth
5:15 Twisted Roots
7:15 Tehran, Tehran
9:15 Queen to Play

Monday, May 2

4:30 Europe's Backyard/King of Oslo
6:45 The Tree
8:30 Bibliotheque Pascal

Tuesday, May 3

5:00 Vespa
7:30 In Another Lifetime
9:30 The Imperialists Are Still Alive

Wednesday, May 4

4:45 Tomorrow Will Be Better
6:30 Love During Wartime
9:45 Minnesota Shorts: Narrative

Thursday, May 5

7:00 Stuck Between Stations