WINNER OF THE EMERGING FILMMAKERS AWARD 

Friday, April 27th - 9:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley's fiercely intelligent and nuanced work as an actor has made a significant contribution to the rise of cinema in English Canada.  Her feature debut as director gives us something more:  a tremendous, touching film showcasing two other phemomenal actors at their finest.  Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) have been married for decades.

Thursday, April 19th - 7:00pm - Riverview Theater

Actor/Executive Producer Danny Glover Scheduled to Appear!  

Opening night gala to follow at Riverview Wine Bar

Opening Night Film and Gala tickets

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako

“I have never seen a film quite like Bamako, Abderrahmane Sissako’s seething, complicated and disarmingly beautiful investigation of Africa’s social, economic and human crises. The agony of Africa has been explored, and exploited, in several high-profile recent documentaries and fictional features, from God Grew Tired of Us, about the “lost boys” of Sudan, to Blood Diamond and The Constant Gardener. Bamako is something different: a work of cool intelligence and profound anger, a long, dense, argument that is also a haunting visual poem.” - A. O. Scott (N.Y. Times)

Saturday, April 21st - 11:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Jonathan King

The Oldfield farm is a beautiful and sprawling haven nestled within New Zealand. Henry Oldfield (Nathan Meister) is a skilled farmer and loves tending to the farm, but the death of his father and a stress induced phobia of sheep forces him away.

Saturday, April 21st - 9:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

Tuesday, April 24th - 9:15 pm -  Oak Street Cinema 

Director: Ana Kokkinos

On the afternoon of the Melbourne premiere of their new show, modern dancer Daniel (Tom Long), disappears while running an errand for his co-star and girlfriend Bridget (Anna Torv). After 12 days, he resurfaces, shaken, inarticulate and with sexually suggestive claw marks on his back.

Saturday, April 21st - 9:45 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Lars von Trier

Danish Dogme director Lars von Trier's stylistic inventions (the chalk lines of Dogville) and preoccupation with masochistic women (Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark) has given way to a hilarious mainstream morality parable in The Boss of it All.

Monday, April 23rd - 9:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Tuesday, April 24th - 5:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Jens Lien

Andreas arrives in a gray unflattering city with no memory of how he got there and something is wrong. Tastes, smells, noises, emotions - things that he seems to remember from a past life are no longer with him. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a girlfriend.

Saturday, April 21st - 5:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Sunday, April 29th - 1:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Grigoris Karatinakis

Chariton Ulianov (Georges Corraface) has one great love: Life! His postition as School Master in a small provincial town on the island of Corfu gives him the opportunity to disseminate his own unique philosophy to the students that particapate in his greatest passion: the choir.

Tuesday, May 1st - 7:00pm - Oak St. Cinema

(Best Of The Fest)     

Tuesday, April 24th - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Thursday, April 26th - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Dai Sijie

Banned in China, sensitvely directed by reknowned novelist and filmmaker Dai Sijie (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress), The Chinese Botanist's Daughters is set in 1980's China, when not all taboos were lifted (and, still aren't). In this sensual adventure, Min (Mylene Jampanoi), reared as an orphan and now a modern young woman, sets off on an six-week internship with a renowned botanist.  

Monday, May 30th - 9:15 pm - Oak St. Cinema

(best of the fest) 

Monday, April 23rd - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Friday, April 27th - 5:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Hernan Gaffet

The first feature from the Argentine director and screenwriter Hernan Gaffet, Ciudad en celo, managed to obtain the perfect balance, between the complexity of a love triangle, friendship, a suicide, a magical and nostalgic neighborhood cafe in Buenos Aires and a stunning tango and jazz soundtrack.

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5:15 pm, Sun., Apr. 22, Oak St. Cinema

9:30 pm, Tues., Apr. 24, Bell Auditorium

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, Climates is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner Distant.