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.