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.

Sunday, April 29th - 7:00 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Jiska Rickels

4 Elements is an evocative meditation on mankind’s timeless connection to the natural world. The fundamental elements that make human life possible structure the film into four chapters: fire, water, earth and air. “Fire” documents the efforts of a Siberian “smokejumper” camp; “Water” follows a king crab fishing expedition in Alaska; “Earth” travels into the deep to shadow miners in Germany; and “Air” shows space shuttle preparations in Russia and Kazakhstan.

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

Monday, April 23rd - 5:00pm - 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 - 5:00pm - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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

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 - 7:00 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." 

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 - 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.

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.

Monday, April 23rd - 7:00 pm - Bell Auditorium

Friday, April 27th - 4:45 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Nader T. Homayoun

Through a dazzling array of film clips and interviews this thoroughly encompassing documentary explores the history of one of the most highly regarded national cinemas to emerge in the last two decades.  Through a compelling blend of archival footage, excerpts from representative landmark Iranian films, and interviews with its filmmakers, film critics and film historians, the film traces its country’s cinema history in the face of often official opprobrium.

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 - 7:15 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 - 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 - 5:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

Friday, April 27th - 7:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

Director: Claudia Llosa

Far away in the Peruvian Andes, there are isolated villages where tribes, full of religious fervor, believe that during Holy Week, God doesn’t exist and anything goes. In one such strange place, from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (just when Christ dies on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like.

Wednesday, April 25th - 7:15 pm - St. Anthony Main

Director: Ben Hopkins with Ekber Kutlu

Escaping political oppression with five migrations of their 2000-member tribe over the past century, Pamir Kirghiz are experts at survival, as one might guess from the title.

Wednesday, April 25th - 9:15 pm - St. Anthony Main :

Saturday, April 28th - 1:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

Sunday, April 29th - 11:00 pm - Bell Auditorium :

Director: Alexander Leclere

A wonderful French “kitchen sink” drama, a tale of two mis-matched sisters, perhaps more aptly described by its French title,  Les Soeurs Fâchées (The Angry Sisters)!  Growing up in a small town in the provinces, older sister Martine now lives in the Parisian upper middle class with snobbish friends and a boring husband.  Her younger sister,  Louise – natural and straightforward -- works as a beautician in a provincial town.   

Wednesday, April 25th - 5:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

Friday, April 27th - 7:00pm - St. Anthony Main :

Director: Claudia Llosa

Far away in the Peruvian Andes, there are isolated villages where tribes, full of religious fervor, believe that during Holy Week, God doesn’t exist and anything goes. In one such strange place, from Good Friday at three o’clock in the afternoon (just when Christ dies on the cross) to Easter Sunday, the whole village can do whatever it feels like.

Thursday, April 26th - 7:30 pm - St. Anthony Main :

Director: Slawomir Fabicki

The Polish equivalent of Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, this tough and enterprising first feature by Slawomir Fabicki follows the fortunes of a nineteen-year-old trying to make his way in society.

Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:30 PM

Director: Gene Graham USA, 2007 – 90 Minutes

Director Invited A feature length documentary based on Mel Cheren’s powerful auto-biography, “My Life with the Paradise Garage, Keep on Dancin”.

WINNER OF THE EMERGING FILMMAKERS AWARD 

Friday, April 27th - 9:30pm St. Anthony Main :

Director: Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley's fiercely intelligent and nuanced work as an actor has made a significant contribution to the rise of cinema in English Canada.  Her feature debut as director gives us something more:  a tremendous, touching film showcasing two other phemomenal actors at their finest.  Grant (Gordon Pinsent) and Fiona (Julie Christie) have been married for decades.