Sunday, April 22nd - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Judy Irola

Actor/Director Rob Nilsson Present

What do you get when you cross an idealistic group of young filmmakers with a radical Marxist collective? According to former member Judy Irola: "A car wreck." 

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

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

2006 Turkey/France -- 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.

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.

Sunday, April 22nd - 9:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

Sunday, April 29th - 3:30pm - Bell Auditorium :

Director: Chris Kraus

Four Minutes is a well-crafted film telling the story of two scarred women who fight with each other as they confront themselves to hang on to life. A long-time piano teacher at a local women’s prison, Traudel Kruger meets an unapproachable and violent young woman, Jenny von Loeben, recently-admitted to the facility.

Sunday, April 22nd - 2:30 pm - St. Anthony Main

New Screening! Saturday, April 28th - 5:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Gerardo Olivares

As this “ethno-romp” illustrates, where there is a will, there is way! We meet football fans from three remote corners of the earth: the steppes of Mongolia, the rainforests of the Amazon and the Tenere Desert of Niger, respectively, who devise (often hilarious and farcical) means to overcome their isolated locations (500 Km or more distance away from a town with a t.v. screen) in order to watch the final match of the 2002 World Cup (Germany vs. Brazil). 

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.

Screening postponed! We hope to show this film during Best of the Fest.

Sunday, April 22nd - 5:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Tuesday, April 24th - 9:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Cem Yilmaz

In his latest film, the enormously popular Turkish comedian Cem Yilmaz plays the struggling magician Iskender. The only person who believes in him is his childhood friend Maradona (Tuna Orhan) and together they dream of a better life. They embark on a tour of Anatolia to escape the hustle and bustle of Istanbul’s streets, and to make as much money as possible.

Sunday, April 22nd - 12:30pm St. Anthony Main

Director: Rob Nilsson

Director Present! 

It starts with betrayal.  The occasion is a First Friday show opening at the DM Brown Gallery in the Crossraods arts district of Kansas City.  Two women, Rossana and Sally, have a number of pieces newly hung on the walls as art enthusiasts and patrons begin to appear.  We soon learn that both believe they've been short-changed.  Rossana doesn't like the placement of her paintings, and Sally is offended that Zach a TV reporter from a local station, only interviews her rival.  Rossana prowls the room looking for an opportunity to be alone with her girlfriend, the wife of one of her patrons.

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 . . .

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.

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.

Sunday, April 22nd - 11:00 am - Oak Street Cinema

Director: various

Recommended for Ages 7+

Simple true stories told from children‘ s perspectives about their daily lives. While highlighting many cultural differences and travelling to  far reaches of the globe, these short docs demonstrate all that children have  in common in spite of them.

Sunday, April 22nd - 7:45 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Francis Veber

In this story by France’s top comedy director, Francis Veber (scripter of La Cage aux Folles), about mistaken identity, François Pignon (Gad Elmeleh), a valet at a smart Parisian restaurant, gets caught up in a bizarre scheme to save the marriage of a wealthy businessman. The film also stars France’s most versatile actor Daniel Auteuil and a French-speaking Kristin Scott-Thomas.

Friday, April 20th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Sunday, April 22nd - 4:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Néjib Belkadhi 

Tunisia is not a country renowned for its film industry. In fact, there is very little film industry at all. Apparently no one told this to Moncef Kahloucha. A charismatic, impassioned house painter, Kahloucha has always harbored a great love for cinema, especially 1970s genre cinema.