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.

Saturday, April 21st - 11:30p.m. 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 - 2:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director:  Martin Koolhoven

Recommended for Ages 9+

Nine year old Bonnie lives with her mother, Lis, and her Grandma, and they are all crazy about elephants. Lis is very sweet, but a little Bonkers. Luckily Grandma takes care of them, but after an accident Lis and Bonnie have to take care of each other ... and then Lis brings home an elephant.

In Dutch with English subtitles, Netherlands/Belgium, 83 minutes, 2005, DVD

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

Tuesday, April 24th - 9:15p.m. 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 - 9:45p.m. 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.

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

Sunday, April 29th - 1:00p.m. 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.

Saturday, April 21st - 3:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema :

Director: Louise Archambault

The feature debut of Louise Archambault, Familia begs the question “Are we bound to walk in our parents’ footsteps or free to forge our own identities?” 

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.

Saturday, April 21st - 9:15 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Faisal Lutchmedial

Director Invited

As he journeys into his mother’s native country for the first time, director, writer, and producer Faisal Lutchmedial goes beyond the activist stereotype, wondering aloud whether ”globalization” does anything good for the workers behind the machines. A three month visit to Bangladesh becomes a discovery of family and home that runs parallel with his attempt to tackle the complex issue of global trade.

Saturday, April 21st - 7:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Aslak Aarhus

Director Invited

Ole Bull was Norway’s first superstar. His bath water was sold in perfume bottles to his fans, and he conquered the world while his children and wife were neglected. He was the violin king who seduced both women and his audience. His life was crazy and without limits, just like Bull himself. He was the great idol of his times, and a burning nationalist.

Saturday, April 21st - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main :

Sunday, April 22nd - 4:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Joachim Trier

Two aspiring young writers, Philip and Erik, simultaneously mail off manuscripts of their just-completed novels. Almost overnight, Philip becomes a major figure in the Oslo literary scene, while Erik’s work is rejected.  Philip’s romantic involvement with Kari, however, touches off a ‘psychosis’ that requires months of hospitalization . . .

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.

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 . . .

Friday, April 20th - 7:00pm - 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.

Saturday, April 21st - 7:45 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Adrienne Shelly

Jenna (Keri Russell) is trapped in an unhappy marriage with a controlling, jealous husband and the last thing she wants is a baby, so when she discovers she has fallen pregnant, she’s terrified of what the future holds.

Saturday, April 21st - 11:00 am - Bell Auditorium

Monday, April 23rd - 5:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Ruth Beckerman

An entertaining and informative documentary, Zorro’s Bar Mitzvah accompanies four 12-year-olds—Sharon, Tom, Moishy, and Sophie—as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvah, the traditional coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish children