Friday, April 20th - 9:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Satoshi Kon

Brainy 29 year-old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese psychotherapist, whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Chiba’s alter ego, a dream detective known only as “Paprika,” in this surreal top anime hit, can enter into people’s dream and synchronize with their unconscious to uncover their hidden anxieties or neuroses.

Friday, April 20th - 11:30 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Peter Marcy

MN Premiere! Director Present

Firefly interweaves the stories of three people seeking the mysterious truth about what happened one fateful Halloween night.

Friday, April 20th - 4:45 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Attention, All Perverts! And others as well!  Here is your guide to the movies, led by the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, the philosopher and psychoanalyst from a place called Slovenia (he taught at the U of MN in the nineties). In this delightful intellectual feast and exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made, Zizek passionately delves into the hidden language of the cinema to uncover what movies can tell us about ourselves.

Friday, April 20th - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Sunday, April 22nd - 12:30 pm - Oak St. Cinema

Director: Rolf de Heer

Ten canoes and ten aboriginal men paddle out to search for food in the remote Arafura Swamp in North Eastern Australia. The tribe's leader has three wives, but his cunning, jealous and younger brother plans to steal one of his wives. The leader tells an ancient tale to his brother, a tale of murder, violence, betrayal, and lust in times long ago.

Friday, April 20th - 5:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Chitra Palekar

Renowned screenwriter and producer Chitra Palekar makes her directorial debut with this affecting tale of a low caste woman shunned by a patriarchal and superstitious society.

Friday, April 20th - 9:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Monday, April 23rd - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Jesper Ganslandt

Five childhood friends just finishing high school and trying to decide what to do with the rest of their lives spend one last summer together in their hometown of Falkenberg, a small burg on the water in southeast Sweden.

Friday, April 20th - 7:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema 

Saturday, April 21st - 11:00 am - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Rajnesh Domalpalli

Director Present for both screenings

Vanaja (Mamatha Bhukya) is the 14 year-old daughter of a poor, low caste fisherman, who dreams of becoming something more. She goes to work for a local landlady, Rama Devi (Urmila Dammannagari), in hopes of learning Kuchipudi dance.

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.

Friday, April 20th - 7:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Wednesday, April 25th - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Petr Lom

Have you ever wanted to be a tightrope walker in the circus? Or wondered how such an art can be mastered? This beautifully-filmed documentary shows us a place in which this sometimes happens: an orphanage in Xinjiang Province, China, where Uyghur youngsters of the largest Muslim minority undergo rigorous training in this ancient art.