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Breakfast With Curtis

Syd, an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur, caused a rift five years ago between the bohemian residents of his house and the family next door. Driven by fervor for a new creative project, he now tries to draft the boy next door as a videographer. Can their unlikely new collaboration dissolve the bad blood between their houses? The answer is found in those hot summer days over a seemingly endless supply of wine.

Broken

British Independent Film Awards, this intriguing drama follows a shy 11-year-old named Skunk who witnesses her neighbor, Mr. Oswald, brutally attack her mentally unstable friend, Rick. Things worsen for Skunk as Mike is sent to a psychiatric ward and Mr. Oswald’s daughters harass her more and more. Starring Cillian Murphy (The Dark Knight Rises, Inception), Oscar-nominated Tim Roth, and Rory Kinnear (Skyfall).

 

Bwakaw

One of the year’s most charming surprises, this life-affirming comic drama stars veteran Filipino superstar Eddie Garcia as Rene, an elderly, hilariously cantankerous gay man who has only come out while in his 70s. Rene lives alone in the countryside with his faithful dog, Bwakaw. When Rene develops a friendship with Sol, a tough-looking tricycle taxi driver, he starts to develop a new zest for life. Garcia, now in his 80s, delivers the performance of a lifetime. Not to be missed. Winner, Audience Choice, Best Actor, NETPAC Award, Cinemalaya.

Caesar Must Die

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Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival, Caesar Must Die follows the inmates of the high-security Rebibbia prison as they rehearse a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Critically lauded, this festival highlight is an absolute must-see.

Cairo 678

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Three Cairene women from different backgrounds join together in uneasy solidarity to combat sexual harassment. We begin on an overcrowded bus line, dreaded by Fayza as a daily site of humiliation and anguish.

Camelina: Seed to Oil

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Earth Day screening

Shot on location on their beautiful farm in Southwest Minnesota, this short documentary follows a Minnesota family who grow organic Camelina seed, to be pressed into oil.

Screens with Living with the Land

Canadian Animated Shorts

My Financial Career
An animated short based on Stephen Leacock's witty account of a young man's brush with banking.
(D: Gerald Potterton, Canada, 1962, 7 min)

The Sand Castle
Enjoy Co Hoedmeman's short animated film about the sandman and the creatures he sculpts out of sand.
(D: Co Hoedeman, Canada, 1977, 14 min)

Canned Dreams

For this provocative exposé on the modern food industry, filmmaker Katja Gauriloff travelled over 30,000 kilometers to witness a single can of ravioli being made. Throughout her travels across seven different countries, Gauriloff introduces the audience to seven different workers who all contributed to making this product, including a miner in Brazil, a pig farmer in Denmark, and a tomato picker in Portugal. Gauriloff eschews editorializing to allow the images and the workers’ emotional stories to speak for themselves.

Capsule, The

Screens with F*ck for Forest

Seven young women. A mansion perched on a Cycladic rock. A series of lessons on discipline, desire, discovery, and disappearance. A melancholy, inescapable cycle on the brink of womanhood — infinitely.

Charles Lloyd: Arrows Into Infinity

Arrows Into Infinity is a journey in sound through the unusual life and career of this jazz legend Charles Lloyd, one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 1960s.

Childish Shorts at the Fest

Introduce a new generation to the International Film Festival! The whole family will enjoy an eclectic program of award winning short children’s films: animated, live-action, and documentary films from around the world.

China Fantasia
A swirl of Chinese music, folklore, and colorful ink and wash animation.
(D: Joe Chang, Bohong Qian & Fangxiao Zheng, China/Canada, 6 min)

Childish Shorts at the Library

A FREE screening at the Minneapolis Central Library located at 300 Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis of animated shorts for little ones, presented in partnership with the Friends of the Hennepin County Library

Papa Cloudy: Heartfelt Stories of a Gentle Cloud
Mustachioed Papa Cloudy cleans and mends hearts in a laundromat. Crafty stop motion animation using felt, cotton balls, and cardboard. (D: Akiko McQuerrey, USA, 5 min)

Children Next Door, The

Plays with Justice For My Sister

This hard-hitting film takes viewers on a family’s journey to overcome years of experiencing domestic violence and the atrocity of one horrific incident that shattered their lives.

Children of Sarajevo


Debuting in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, Children of Sarajevo is set in the present-day Bosnian city, a society where ghosts of Bosnia’s recent war for independence still loom large. Having turned to Islam to save her from a crime-filled adolescence, twentysomething orphan Rahima tries her best to keep her teenage brother Nedim out of jail. A fistfight between Nedim and the son of a local strongman triggers a chain of events leading Rahima to discover that her brother leads a double life.

Cinderella Moon

Did you know that one of the earliest known versions of the Cinderella fairy tale was Chinese? Cinderella Moon blends Chinese cosmology and magical realism in a spectacular adaptation filmed in the Yunnan Province of China on the Tibetan plateau. In a majestic Kingdom, events on earth reflect the balance of the sun and the moon. When orphaned girl Mei Mei is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, the moon refuses to move in the sky. Aided by the bones of a magical fish and her mother’s bejeweled slippers, Mei Mei attends the Full Moon Dance.

Circles

Simmering tension, gorgeous cinematography, and an indomitable examination of revenge and reconciliation mark this Serbian drama as a must-see during this year’s Festival. Marco, a Serbian soldier, performs a kind gesture during wartime with repercussions that echo out for more than a decade.

City Boots

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Narrative Short. A lesson in taming a beast becomes a lesson in taming each other.

Clandestine Childhood

Director Ávila’s semi-autobiographical drama is not your average coming-of-age story. Growing up in Argentina in the 1970s meant living under military rule–and for 12-year-old Juan, whose parents are radical freedom fighters, it means living with a secret identity. Juan is in a new city, with a new name, and he is just adjusting to new friends and a budding romance when it appears he will be uprooted yet again. With its confident period setting and powerful animated interludes, this is a stylish and truthful story about clandestine life and love.

Color of the Chameleon, The

Batko Stamenov, a student in communist-era Bulgaria whose entire life has been built on deception, creates his own ring of spies in this satirical black comedy. After being dismissed from the government’s espionage agency, Batko enlists the same radical student group he had infiltrated to become his own web of informants. Soon thereafter the group turns on itself, then on the government, and then on Batko. By film’s end the line between victim and villain becomes impossibly blurred.

Crocodiles: All for One

They’re back! Catch up with the latest adventure of the coolest gang, the Crocodiles! The final film in the multi-award-winning trilogy (based on Max von der Grun’s popular 1977 book) ups the ante with awesome new headquarters, high speed go kart action, and an ingenious (and crazy) life-saving rescue. Fans of this series won’t be disappointed--adorable Hannes and his scruffy gang meet every challenge in the name of loyalty to each other and The Crocodiles!

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