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*

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