Tuesday, May 1st - 7:00pm - St. Anthonay Main

(Best Of The Fest) 

Wednesday, April 25th - 7:00pm - Riverview Theater

Director: Heddy Honigmann

Père-Lachaise in Paris -- one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries—is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some -- such as Edith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Jim Morrison and Frederic Chopin--are worshipped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer. In Forever, we see the mysterious, calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of people of flesh and blood.

Tuesday, May 1st - 9:15pm - Oak St. Cinema

(Best Of The Fest) 

Sunday, April 29th - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Jiska Rickels

4 Elements is an evocative meditation on mankind’s timeless connection to the natural world. The fundamental elements that make human life possible structure the film into four chapters: fire, water, earth and air. “Fire” documents the efforts of a Siberian “smokejumper” camp; “Water” follows a king crab fishing expedition in Alaska; “Earth” travels into the deep to shadow miners in Germany; and “Air” shows space shuttle preparations in Russia and Kazakhstan.

Wednesday, April 25th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Ben Hopkins with Ekber Kutlu

Escaping political oppression with five migrations of their 2000-member tribe over the past century, Pamir Kirghiz are experts at survival, as one might guess from the title.

Monday, April 23rd - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Gregorio Rocha

This documentary recaps the lively story of silent-era pioneers Felix and Edmundo Padilla, the father-son duo who traveled the northern border of Mexico exhibiting films to the public during that era.

Saturday, April 21st - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Jean-Luc Raynaud

"The advantage of aging is that we continue living intense passions, but we are now able to hold them before us and turn them around slowly in the light."

- Virginia Woolf 

French director Jean-Luc Raynaud’s film, The Art of Aging (L’Art de Vieillir) received the Award for Best Documentary at the 2006 Montreal Film Festival. “Two men and two women, between the ages of 77 and 90, mine the unexpected riches of old age. Theirs is a time of life in which platitudes and preconceived notions drop by the wayside, one by one.

Sunday, April 22 - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Allan King

EMPz 4 Life, a gripping documentary, records the street life of black youth in Toronto’s suburbs. This film presents a gritty yet ultimately compassionate understanding of young people who time and time again have been ostracized, particularly by the educational system.

Saturday, April 21st - 1:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Sunday, April 22nd - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Carlos Benpar

A follow-up to Filmmakers Against Tycoons, this film is a testimony to the manipulation and mutilation of films and to the producers battling to maintaining the integrity and respect of their works.

Tuesday, April 24th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Thursday, April 26th - 9:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Directors: Asger Leth and Milos Loncarevic

Gang violence in the streets of Port au Prince, Haiti, labled “the most dangerous place in the world,” has never been as graphically portrayed before as in this seat-of-the pants documentary by daring, Danish director Asgar Leth.

Sunday, April 22nd - 7:45 pm - Bell Auditorium

Wednesday, April 25th - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Alexander Wisting

This documentary about Henrik Ibsen follows the lion-maned dramatist through his whole life, from early shame about his father’s fall from grace because of bankruptcy, through bitterness over the conservative contemporary public life, to his later years as a national institution, whom tourists would flock to see on his way to his very punctual, daily lunch at the Grand Café in Oslo.

Monday, April 23rd - 7:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Friday, April 27th - 4:45 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Nader T. Homayoun

Through a dazzling array offilm clips and interviews this thoroughly encompassing documentary explores the history of one of the most highly regarded national cinemas to emerge in the last two decades.  Through a compelling blend of archival footage, excerpts from representative landmark Iranian films, and interviews with its filmmakers, film critics and film historians, the film traces its country’s cinema history in the face of often official opprobrium.