Thursday, May 3nd - 7:00pm - Oak St. Cinema

 (Best Of The Fest)

Saturday, April 21st - 4:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

"Best of Fest" - Mon, April 30 - 7:00 pm - Oak St. Cinema

Director: Zhang Jiarui

Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the Seventies still scars the national memory, whose  turmoil is the backdrop to this poetic love story about a young “ticket girl” on a country bus in the mountains and her tale about the passing of time and survival through forces of loyalty, inner strength and devotion.

Sunday, April 22nd - 2:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Sunday, April 29th - 4:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Juha Koiranen

“Tiger” is a young man going on 40, who still lives with his parents and who sleeps with his beloved, homemade guitar.

Wednesday, May 2nd - 7:00pm - St. Anthony Main

(Best Of The Fest)

Thursday, April 26th - 7:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Francois Favrat

Whether as an actress, writer, or director, Agnès Jaoui is a treasure of contemporary French cinema. Here, in her acting mode, she puts a Gallic spin on such recent diva-fests as Being Julia and The Devil Wears Prada, playing an imperious star who hires a mousy journalist (Karen Viard) as her personal assistant.

Thursday, May 3rd - 9:00pm - Oak St. Cinema

(Best Of The Fest)     

Friday, April 20th - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Monday, April 23rd - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Martin Koolhoven

Nordip Doenia is a talented student from a Moroccan family in Amsterdam. He is the pride of his family. He passed his final school exams with the kind of grades his fellow-pupils can only dream of. No wonder that Dad is already mapping out a bright future for his son – a degree in medicine and a subsequent career as a doctor.

Saturday, April 21st - 3:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Friday, April 27th - 9:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Naoko Ogigami

Sachie (Satomi Kobahyashi) runs Kamome Shokudo (aka "The Seagull Diner"), a streetcorner restaurant in Helsinki, Finland. She employes Midori (Hairi Katagiri) who just put her finger on the map and ended up in Finland by sheer luck and Masako (Masako Motai) recently stranded in Finland without her luggage . . .

Saturday, April 28 - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Marc Evans

Deeply affecting and quirky to the core, Snow Cake combines childlike wonder with matters of life and death to surprising effect. A taciturn Englishman recently freed from prison, Alex (Alan Rickman) is driving through Ontario when he begrudgingly picks up the vivacious 19-year-old hitchhiker Vivienne (Emily Hampshire).

Tuesday, April 24th - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Thursday, April 26th - 5:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Bohdan Slama

Dreams of hope, dreams destroyed, life imagined, life as it is. Set in a grey and dingy unnamed Czech city, Something Like Happiness is “a strange film of optimism” in the midst of disappointment, unexpected twists and turns in plans, and long-time friends with changing circumstances.

Sunday, April 22nd - 9:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Tuesday, April 24th - 7:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Lionel Baier

Lionel lives the good life: a steady job with Swiss Radio, a handsome boyfriend and a totally supportive family. But still, something is missing. Tales of the American western frontier help him fill the void.

Monday, April 30th - 7:00 pm Bell Auditorium

(Best of The Fest) 

Thursday, April 26th - 5:00 pm – Bell Auditorium

Director: Ye Lou

It is the mid-1980s, and teenage Yu Hong leaves her village, her family and her boyfriend to study at Beijing University. There she discovers a very different world, and falls passionately in love with fellow student Zhao Wei. But though their relationship soon comes to overwhelm everything else in their lives, the weight of history soon pulls them apart - their story, like those of so many others, overwhelmed by the massacre in Tiananmen Square. 

Thursday, April 26th - 7:00 pm - Riverview Theater

Saturday, April 28th - 11:00 am - Bell Auditorium

Director: Dror Shaul

While the Israeli kibbutz has been idealized as a paragon of utopian movements, Sweet Mud tells a darker, more nuanced tale of a community ill-equipped to cope with individuality and deviations from a rigidly defined norm, and of an adolescent boy stretching to compensate for what the collective cannot provide.