Mill Valley Film Festival - Short Films

12:08 East Bucharest

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 23:19:14 -0500

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Winner of the Camera d’Or at Cannes, Corneliu Porumboiu’s tragicomic blend of bitterness and poignancy is reminiscent of the great 1960s Czech political comedies by Forman, Passer and Menzel.

PRECEDED BY: A Quiet Street

50 Watt Fuse

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:09:11 -0500

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50 Watt Fuse presents the musical life of quintessential sideman, musicologist and guitarist G.E. Smith, front man for Saturday Night Live's house band for 10 years and guitarist for Hall & Oates, Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger, among others.

PRECEDED BY: Darryl Henriques Is in Show Business

Discussion and mini-set by G.E. Smith and Simon Kirke follows the October 6 screening. G.E. Smith & Friends perform a live concert at 142 Throckmorton Theatre on October 7. Click here for more details.

5@5: Change Your Mind

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:44:57 -0500

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When our mind plays tricks on us, many strange and beautiful things can happen. From deep dreams to mental challenges, these shorts travel the byways of our brains to great effect.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Assertion Techniques, Paradox, Phobias, Rose, She He, Vagabond Shoes

5@5: Comes a Time

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:47:44 -0500

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There comes a time when our lives call out for a change. Follow the journeys of the colorful characters in this array of shorts as they each embark on their singular searches to find a new way of life.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Cold Kenya, Disappearing, Duck Man, Dupe, Fishy, It's My Turn Now, Ready

5@5: Falling off the Face of the Earth

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 21:27:22 -0500

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With suspense, humor, poignancy and often surprising equanimity, these captivating shorts encourage us to confront mortality-some with a gentle nudge and others with a powerful punch.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Across the Hall, Kuboå, Morbid Curiosity, The Shovel, The Substitute, 'Til Death

5@5: I Am a Child

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:34:31 -0500

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Family dynamics are an endless resource of rich, funny and heartbreaking stories. And, as in these shorts, it's often our childhood experiences that set us up for the tales to be told later.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Bright Lights, Father's Day, Fourteen, Locked Upstairs, The Ranch, The Stories, What Remains

5@5: Truth Be Known

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:49:10 -0500

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How do we judge what is true and what is real? How can the medium of film or video manipulate the truth and fabricate a whole new reality? Complicated questions call for shrewd shorts, and here's where to get 'em!

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: 00h17, Apocalypse Oz, Cataract, Filter, Gandhi at the Bat, Screening

5@5: When You Dance You Can Really Love

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:46:20 -0500

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The beautiful but complicated choreography of love and intimacy is explored from many perspectives and camera angles in these shorts of passion, both blossoming and breaking.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Breathe Me, I'm Not Going to Think About Her, The Lovers, Minutiae, Mono, Orange Blossom, Shortstop

Beneath the Southern Cross

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:33:40 -0500

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Christmas comes in summer, and water drains in the other direction, but filmmakers on the south side of the equator are anything but backward. These eclectic shorts demonstrate keen attention to the human condition and the ways that others' choices can dramatically affect our lives.

SHORTS IN PROGRAM: Blue Willow, Break, Elalini (Place of Rest), Fish Out of Water, Karma, Story of Hong

Boy Who Turned Yellow

Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:33:46 -0500

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The makers of The Red Shoes and the Thief of Baghdad turn a hat trick with this 1972 period piece about a boy, aliens, the Tower of London, television waves and the bothersome problem of being turned yellow.

PRECEDED BY: The Thief

Breast Cancer Diaries

Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:22:14 -0500

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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

Can You Hear Me? Israeli and Palestinian Women Fight for Peace

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:16:05 -0500

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Narrated by Debra Winger, Lilly Rivlin's passionate documentary focuses on Israeli and Palestinian women who insist on dialogue, inspiring hope that women may lead the way to peaceful coexistence in the Middle East.

PRECEDED BY: Voices of Patriots: Why Are We In Iraq?

Cine Manifest

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:15:25 -0500

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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

Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:03:19 -0500

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This irreverent yet unexpectedly poignant documentary relates the incredible-but-true saga of the German Jewish chemist behind that hippy-chic iconic bottle of peppermint Castile soap, and the son who devised his own inspiring way of following in dad's footsteps.

PRECEDED BY: Diet Leibovich

Emile Norman: By His Own Design

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 18:13:57 -0500

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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