Saturday, October 14th |
Black Gold
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For Ethiopian coffee farmers a delicious cup of Joe represents the corrupt side of the global economy. Black Gold exposes the political, economic and cultural consequences of the worldwide coffee business. Sun. Oct 8, 2:00PM, Throckmorton |
The Breast Cancer Diaries
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With grace, grit and humor, TV journalist and full-time mom Ann Murray Paige documents her own journey with stage 2 breast cancer. Through nine months of medical treatment, this luminous Everywoman goes through hell and keeps going, fighting to maintain a sense of herself as a woman, mother, wife and professional. PRECEDED BY: Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer Sat. Oct 14, 10:45AM, Sequoia |
Candy
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Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish give electrifying performances in this seductive and harrowing tale of two junkies in love, directed by Australian theater wizard Neil Armfield and based on the novel by Luke Davies, with Geoffrey Rush as the lovers' comrade-in-heroin. Sat. Oct 14, 7:15PM, Rafael |
Catch a Fire
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Suspense-filled dramatization of Patrick Chamusso's life as a non-political family man whose apartheid-era false arrest forces him to re-examine his life and make a startling decision. Tue. Oct 10, 7:00PM, Rafael |
Cine Manifest
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This poignant, hilarious and fascinating film charts the giddy highs and teeth-gnashing lows of a unique Marxist political film collective that rose from the utopian ideologies of the '60s and somehow survived the turmoil and tumult of the '70s. PRECEDED BY: McLaren's Negatives Sun. Oct 8, 6:00PM, Rafael |
Deliver Us from Evil
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A chilling portrait of moral deception and innocence lost from filmmaker Amy Berg centers on one of the most unsettling documentary protagonists in memory – the twinkle-eyed local parish priest with the treacherous heart of gold. Sat. Oct 14, 6:30PM, Sequoia |
Emile Norman: By His Own Design
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A wonderfully warm portrait of a renowned and respected gay American artist in his 80s who transforms dirt, wood, rock and cement into works as beautiful and quirky as his own trademark purple beret. PRECEDED BY: Phoenix Dance Sat. Oct 14, 1:00PM, Rafael |
First Snow
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Can you change your destiny, or are our fates predestined? These are questions New Mexico salesman Jimmy Munson (Guy Pearce) is about to ask—and become obsessed with—in this haunting, high-adrenalin tale. Sat. Oct 14, 11:00AM, Sequoia FIRS14S  |
Fuss, Mess and Scrumble
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These short films for little people are dedicated to the joy of discovery by new eyes.You'll enjoy a hand-picked mélange of giraffes, dinosaurs, cats, dogs, fish, ants, lobsters and an entire barnyard. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Brave Cat, Coconut Island, Fence, Fuss, Mess and Scrumble, Happy Day, I Love My Doctor, The Impatient Patient, Invasion of the Space Lobsters, James Marshall's Cinderella, Little Blue, Little Pig Is Flying, Moondance, On the Farm, The Propellerbird, Small Ant Syndrome, There Was the Moon and a Fox , War and Peas
Sat. Oct 14, 12:00PM, Rafael |
Georgi and the Butterflies
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Dr. Georgi Lulchev's indefatigable entrepreneurial scheming has kept his home for psychologically challenged men afloat in the turbulent waters of post-Cold War capitalism in Bulgaria. PRECEDED BY: Outsider: The Life and Art of Judith Scott Mon. Oct 9, 6:30PM, Rafael |
Gretchen
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Winner of the Los Angeles Film Festival's Target Filmmaker Award, Gretchen explores the hilarious and aching confusion of adolescence. Often compared to Napoleon Dynamite, this darker and, yes, quirkier film celebrates a misfit we know all too well, and love just the same. Wed. Oct 11, 6:45PM, Rafael |
Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
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Academy-Award–nominated filmmaker Connie Field (Freedom on My Mind) traces the turbulent rise of the 1980s anti-apartheid movement in this tightly constructed and enlightening documentary. Sat. Oct 14, 5:00PM, Rafael |
Hotel Harabati
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A stylish, surreal dark comedy that boldly examines the risks of daily life in the age of terrorism. Sat. Oct 14, 4:00PM, Rafael |
Hyphy
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Fourteen films equals fourteen fresh views on life, including one on what hyphy means to Berkeley High students. The filmmakers and the jury are invited and will be onstage for the celebration of these talented new filmmakers. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Colony, Envious Heart, Every 15 Minutes, Humor Me, Maggie and Ernie, Mirrors, Moab Monster, Modern Attraction, Nine Days, Oranges, The Hyphy Movement, Tree in the Forest, The Trend Experiment, Valentine's Day, What If Jesus Were Gay? Sat. Oct 14, 10:15AM, Rafael |
Little Children
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Todd Field (In the Bedroom, MVFF 2001) takes a fresh but cynical look at the myth of suburban utopia. Tensions rise as a young mom (Kate Winslet) and stay-at-home-dad (Patrick Wilson) develop a dangerously close friendship and a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood. Sat. Oct 14, 9:00PM, Sequoia |
Midsummer Dream
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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream gets a fresh coat of CGI paint in this splashy animated feature from Spain, showcasing a dazzlingly rendered dream world ruled by fairy queen Titania and the fabulously beer-bellied beach bum Oberon. Wed. Oct 11, 4:30PM, Sequoia |
The Moon on the Snow
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Three siblings (played by Julie Depardieu (A Very Long Engagement), Marie-Josee Croze (The Barbarian Invasions) and Nicolas Rossier are reunited at their mother's deathbed after years of separation-and, as the weekend progresses, find themselves facing their radically different understandings of the event that had driven them apart. Sat. Oct 14, 8:45PM, Sequoia |
Outside/In
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These five fine, fearless films explore with dignity and respect the risks and rewards of lives lived outside the mainstream, either by choice, by birth or by social assignation. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Blood of Yingzhou District, The Days and the Hours, One in 2000, Reporter Zero, Stuffed Fri. Oct 6, 9:30PM, Throckmorton |
The Porcelain Doll
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In an adaptation of three Ervin Lázár short stories brimming with Eastern European magical realism, director Péter Gárdos concocts a perfect blend of pathos, psychological dread and po-faced absurdism. Sun. Oct 8, 11:30AM, Sequoia |
The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
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A green-card soldier and one of 32,000 foreign-born US military personnel shipped to the war with Iraq, José Antonio Gutierrez had a dubious distinction: He was the war's first casualty. Filmmaker Heidi Specogna commemorates a young man who triumphed over adversity to dream big dreams, in this memorial that lingers long after the credits roll. Sat. Oct 14, 4:30PM, Sequoia |
So Long Are You Young: Samuel Ullman's Poem and Passion
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An engaging documentary that traces the remarkable path of Jewish immigrant Samuel Ullman's poem, “Youth,” from its 1917 inception to its influence over a generation of Japanese war survivors to its ongoing inspiration around the world. Sun. Oct 8, 11:00AM, Sequoia |
Something Like Happiness
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Following the interconnected residents of a shabby apartment building in the Czech Republic, Bohdan Sláma's Something Like Happiness is an alternately grave and tender look at the sacrifices people make to keep their families together. Sat. Oct 7, 3:00PM, Rafael |
Stolen Holidays
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A day trip with her grandchildren takes a psychological turn when retired schoolteacher Danielle refuses to return the kids to their parents, and what begins as a grand adventure for the children becomes increasingly alarming. Thu. Oct 12, 7:00PM, Rafael |
The Trials of Darryl Hunt
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This gripping account of race and injustice in the US legal system tells the nearly incredible story of a wrongfully convicted man's 20-year quest for vindication in the North Carolina legal system. Fri. Oct 13, 9:15PM, Throckmorton |
VidéOnze
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Eleven shorts featuring some sensuous and sonorous forays into the world of abstract animation. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Afraid So, All That Remains, Ambassadors Day, Arcs of Texture , Falling , Going Home, The Intimacy of Strangers , Outside, Phantom Limb, Vitruvius' Toybox, Wakeup Fri. Oct 6, 6:30PM, Throckmorton |
Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo-The Great Mother
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A rare inside look into His Holiness the Dalai Lama's very first spiritual teacher—his mother. Thu. Oct 12, 6:45PM, Rafael |
Wristcutters: A Love Story
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From the moment Zia (Patrick Fugit, Almost Famous) takes his own life and enters an afterlife reserved for suicides, Wristcutters: A Love Story becomes an uplifting, darkly comic tale about journeying through the hereafter. Thu. Oct 12, 8:30PM, Rafael |
