SCREENINGS:

FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 4:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 12:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: ROBERT THALHEIM

In this pleasantly laconic story about a young German who befriends a stubborn, grumpy concentration camp survivor and falls for a Polish interpreter, Dir. Robert Thalheim (Netto - winner of the Max Ophüls 2005 prize and a MSPFF entry) proves that it is possible to talk about Auschwitz from today’s perspective in an intelligent, emphatic and edifying way.  

PRESENTED BY:

STAR TRIBUNE

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: PETER GILBERT AND STEVEN JAMES

Awarded the "Inspiration Award" at this year's Full Frame documentary festival in Durham, NC.

DIRECTOR & PRODUCER PRESENT The documentary At the Death House Door doesn’t take a firm stance against the death penalty altogether, but it sure makes a strong case for exercising caution. It does this through the poignant, heart-rending story of Rev. Carroll Pickett, a soft-spoken Texas man who served for 13 years as chaplain at the notoriously execution-happy Huntsville Prison.

PRESENTED BY:

SYLVIA & SAM KAPLAN

CLOSING NIGHT FILM

SCREENING:
THURSDAY, MAY 1 7:00 p.m.

KERASOTES-BLOCK E THEATER,

600 Hennepin Ave

Director: WERNER HERZOG

The stark and intensive beauty of Antarctica fills the screen in this latest documentary by Werner Herzog. The powerful attraction of the South Pole has extended its magnetic pull to filmmaker Herzog. He and his cameraman traveled to McMurdo Station, on Ross Island, the headquarters for the National Science Foundation. This location is home to 1,100 persons between October and February who live and work together in scientific research.

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 9:20PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 9:40PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: KRISZTINA GODA

Screwball comedy follows thirty-three-year-old theater dramaturg Dora (Judit Schell) who meets cute with swaggering actor Tamas (ubiquitous Kontroll star Sandor Csanyi) when she’s forced to a window ledge by the sudden arrival of her current lover’s wife.  As exasperated Dora tells actress chum Zsofi (Kata Dobo), she wants a kid but as for the guy, it’s just sex and nothing else.

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 5:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: Rose La Creta

U.S. PREMIERE The vibrant drumbeat  of Rio’s slums and “capoeira” schools is captured in this revealing portrait of lively Leopoldina, a spiffy character well past his 70s who philosophizes his life and delivers street smart sagacity as he glad-hands his wide-ranging pals in visits across Rio’s teeming favela  communities, while sparring  with them also at “capoeira” contests.

PRESENTED BY:

Haberman & Associates

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 9:30 PM; ST. ANTHONY

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 4:10PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: Azazel Jacobs

Writer/director Azazel Jacobs, son of avante garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs Momma’s Man strikes a chord with anyone who’s ever been anxious about returning to the family nest after years away from home.

PRESENTED BY:

GALLERY 13 & POSTERARTEDITIONS.COM

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 9:15PM; ST. ANTHONY, SATURDAY APRIL 19, 3:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ & CESAR CHARLONE

Set in modern dress and based on the true story of a 1988 papal visit, this shaggy dog tale (El Baño del Papa) of a smuggler’s desperate, bungling attempts to escape his meager existence is elegantly crafted with style and humor.

PRESENTED BY:

Nick & Eddie

Tickets for Saturday:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 8:00PM; OAK STREET

(CHUCK D. PRESENT - FRIDAY SHOWING -

PARTY TO FOLLOW)

SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 9:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

 Director: ROBERT PATTON-SPRUILL

*Please buy tickets through Brown Paper Tickets for the Chuck D. apperance show. Musical acts don’t get much more revered than Public Enemy, the Long Island-based hip-hop group that forced the genre into a new era of political and social consciousness in the ‘80s and ‘90s.  This illuminating documentary tracks the influential and often controversial history of PE (Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X and Professor Griff) through electrifying concert footage and interviews with colleagues (Talib Kweli, Henry Rollins, The Beastie Boys) and critics, building a case for the crew’s place among the most important artists of the past century.

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18 , 6:30 PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: NAE CARANFIL

The Rest is Silence comes like a breath of fresh air, writes Variety critic Derek Elley, at a time when it’s easy to assume, from fests’ picks, that (currently “hot”) Romanian cinema is all grungy drama. This lively, witty widescreen costumer, about the making of the country’s first feature-length movie, is an intelligent crowd-pleaser made with affection for its characters and era.

PRESENTED BY:

SOFITEL

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 5:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: CLAUDE LELOUCH

Melodrama, comedy, suspense, part road movie, some western, this inventive melange from whom else but French master Claude Lelouch and the film genres he’s always loved and practiced.

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7:00PM; ST. ANTHONY

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 4:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

U.S. PREMIERE

Director:HITOSHI YAZAKI

Based on a Japanese comic book, sensitive and warm Strawberry Shortcakes follows the ups and downs of four young women in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with single life, with strands skillfully woven into a flawless whole.

PRESENTED BY:

Cara Irish Pubs

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 9:25PM; ST. ANTHONY

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 6:50PM; ST. ANTHONY

 Director: JOHN BOORMAN

John Boorman’s savage indictment of “Celtic Tiger” features Brendan Gleeson (2006’s Excellence Award honoree) in the dual role of a wealthy Dublin businessman and his sinister down-and-out doppelganger who steals his identity.

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 11:10PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: NACHO VIGALONDO

Time Crimes is a twisty sci-fi thriller that will keep audiences guessing and talking long after leaving this time-traveling genre-bending transporting the viewer to fourth-dimension reality. 

PRESENTED BY:

St. Paul Hotel

TICKETS:

SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 5:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 7:45PM; ST. ANTHONY

SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 12:30PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: VERA STOROZHEVA

Director Vera Storozheva presents a beautifully shot portrait of a woman discovering her potential after too long on the sidelines.

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 9:40 PM; ST. ANTHONY

MONDAY, APRIL 21, 9:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: SHAMIM SARIF

In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just beginning.  Free-spirited Amina (Sheetal Sheth) has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid led government, by running a fun-filled café with Jacob, her colored business partner.

PRESENTED BY:

BORTON VOLVO

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SCREENINGS:
FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 7:10PM; ST. ANTHONY
SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 3:15PM; ST. ANTHONY

Director: ROY ANDERSSON

Only the sixth feature of his decorated 40-year fi lm career, Songs From the Second Floor director Andersson’s latest was Sweden’s official submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.