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.

Monday, April 23rd - 9:30p.m. Oak Street Cinema :

Tuesday, April 24th - 5:00p.m. St. Anthony Main

Director: Jens Lien

Andreas arrives in a gray unflattering city with no memory of how he got there and something is wrong. Tastes, smells, noises, emotions - things that he seems to remember from a past life are no longer with him. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a girlfriend.

Tuesday, April 24th - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Thursday, April 26th - 5:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Dai Sijie

Banned in China, sensitvely directed by reknowned novelist and filmmaker Dai Sijie (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress), The Chinese Botanist's Daughters is set in 1980's China, when not all taboos were lifted (and, still aren't). In this sensual adventure, Min (Mylene Jampanoi), reared as an orphan and now a modern young woman, sets off on an six-week internship with a renowned botanist.  

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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.

Tuesday, April 24th - 7:00pm - Riverview Theater :

Saturday, April 28th - 4:45pm - Oak Street Cinema :

Director: Taika Waititi

Lily (Loren Horsley) works as a cashier at a fast-food restaurant, "Meaty Joe", where Jarrod (Jermaine Clement), a self-aggandizing, clueless geek, works at the electronics store next door.

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.

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.

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.

Tuesday, April 24th - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium

Director: Garine Torossian

Director Invited

Into the richy-layered culture of ancient and post-Soviet Armenia, a woman of the diaspora embarks on a journey of discovery, encountering the country for the first time, distilling the realities vs. what she has constructed over her lifetime about the place of her family and their ancestors. Woven into her narrative are the insights and poetic reflections of Canadian-Armenian actress Arsinée Khanjian as she confronts Armenia for the fourth time.