As the only prominent international fall film festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Mill Valley Film Festival is an important industry resource for fall launches, premier screenings of upcoming theatrical releases and Academy Award® campaigns. The Bay Area continues to be a significant market for independent and international film, and the Mill Valley Film Festival consistently provides a forum for introducing new films to west coast audiences.
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World Cinema
Whether they aim to move, provoke, entertain, amuse or thrill, the films in the World Cinema section tell stories that reveal elements of the universal, while changing our ways of seeing and understanding our global neighbors.Valley of the Docs
Reality spins some of the most fascinating yarns of all. The Valley of the Docs presents the latest in documentary filmmaking, in which filmmakers from around the world explore the consequences of truth.Sponsored by:
US Cinema
A showcase for new American films, US Cinema celebrates the work of well-known masters and emerging filmmakers who share a talent for independent, insightful storytelling.Sponsored by:
Children's FilmFest
A cinematic globetrot for kids of all ages, the Children’s FilmFest gives young people a taste of cultures and adventures they won’t get anywhere else, including hands-on filmmaking workshops.Sponsored by:
V(ision)Fest
Tomorrow’s technology is today’s medium for the imagination. V(ision)Fest mediamakers come from the school of all possibilities. They are the innovators and experimenters who are ready to shake, rattle and reboot the state of cinema.Sponsored by:
5@5 & MVFF Shorts
Eclectic in content and style, our shorts programs are an assortment of filmic gems by emerging artists and established masters. Our 5@5 matinee series takes its program titles from the songs of a musical performer; this year’s selected artist is beloved singer-songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen.
Focus: Romania
Romania is poised to become the national cinema of choice among film aficionados. Three new award-winning films give a snapshot of life before, during and after the1989 revolution: The Way I Spent the End of the World, The Paper Will Be Blue and California Dreamin' (Endless).Focus: Germany
New German cinema includes some of the world’s most talented directors including Doris Dörrie (How to Cook Your Life); Christian Wagner (Warchild) and Christian Petzold (Yella).
Focus: India
With support from American Airlines, MVFF is proud to present Focus: India, featuring five new features. The North American premiere of Madhusree Dutta’s 7 Islands and a Metro is a poetically charged meditation on the past, present, and future of the seven-island city of Mumbai. Sumitra Bhave and Sunil Sukthankar, whose previous films Two Women and Long Live Life! were featured at MVFF, return with the world premiere of Possession, which explores variations on the theme of the battle between fear and faith. In Riding Solo to the Top of the World, Indian documentarian Gaurav Jani is director, actor and explorer—on a motorcycle trek to the highest habitable place on earth. India and its environs are also seen through the eyes of others: Bay Area filmmaker Rosemary Rawcliffe presents the world premiere of her second in a trilogy, Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution, which tells the inspiring story of the Tibetan Women’s Uprising against the Chinese invasion in 1959; and on Opening Night, there is a special screening of Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman as estranged brothers who take a train voyage across India.
Other countries and regions strongly represented this year include Africa, Iran, Israel and Sweden.Active Cinema Movement
This category offers a selection of films by filmmakers whose work is committed to the causes their stories portray, even beyond the screen. These films have the potential to inspire audiences to connect and get involved. This year’s selection: Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy; Djanta; Soldiers of Conscience; Strong Love; Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution and the documentary shorts program Bee-ing Me.
14 Women
365 (nascor nasci natus)
7 Islands and a Metro
Body & Soul: Diana & Kathy
Butterfly
California Dreamin' (Endless)
Caramel
Cassandra's Dream
The Colors of Memory
Compound Eye
Crossing The Dust
Djanta
The End of the Neubacher Project
Go Together
Heartbreak Hotel
Ice Bar
Irina Palm
Juncture
Kiviuq
Laviva
Luna: Spirit of the Whale
Mind the Gap
My Brother Is An Only Child
My Enemy's Enemy
The People's Advocate: The Life & Times of Charles R. Garry
The Pixar Story
Possession
Presque Isle
Que Viva la Lucha (Wrestling in Tijuana)
Red Robin
The Secrets
Stages
Strong Love
Things We Lost in The Fire
The Trips Festival
Uranya
Used
When Darkness Falls
Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution
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