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 :

MN PREMIERE! DIRECTOR PRESENTED

Director: Peter Marcy

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

Friday, April 20th - 9:15 P.M. - Bell Auditorium :

Sunday, April 22nd - 12:30 P.M. - 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 - 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.

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.

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 11:30p.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 - 1:00 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Director: Lotta Geffenblad, Uzi Gettenblad

A beautifully animated film about a boy’s rowdy adventures in Summer Music Camp.  Making friends with the bullied horn player, Franz finds the courage to surmount his fears with the help of a special conjuring French Horn.

In Swedish with English subtites, Sweden, 46 minutes, 2005, 35mm.

Recommended for Ages 5+

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.

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 - 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 - 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.

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.

Monday, April 23rd - 7:15 pm - Oak Street Cinema

Minnesota Documentaries Program -- Change: Past, Present and Future

"The earth and its people have been evolving and changing since the
beginning of time. This program highlights some of the people who have
been part of that change right here in Minnesota; and delves into some
changes that we can all make for the well being of our future."

Directors Present - 106 Minutes

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.

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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 - 7:15 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.

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.

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

Thursday, April 26th - 5:00p.m. - 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.  

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 P.M. - Oak Street Cinema :

Saturday, April 28th - 3:00 P.M. - St. Anthony Main :

Director: Lanre Olabisi

The date is August 1, and Tunde is holding his graduation party after putting it off all summer because of the secret surprise guest that he has invited to join the family. The arrival of his father, Dipo, all the way from Nigeria (August was the only time he could make it) draws very mixed reactions from the members of his family.

Wednesday, April 25th - 5:15pm - Oak Street Cinema :

Thursday, April 26th - 9:15pm - Bell Auditorium :

Director: Pablo Larrain

Eliseo Montalbán is a musician trapped in an unfinished symphony. As a boy, he witnessed the violent death of his sister who was murdered on top of a piano while composing a melody.

Wednesday, April 25th - 7:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Directors: John Ketchum and John Riley

In the tradition of Waking Ned Devine, this hilarious, fast-paced comedy barely leaves the audience time to catch its collective breath. A lively caper film, What Means Motley?  is all the more extraordinary because it’s based on the real-life story of the largest immigration scam in Irish history.