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Leila and Kaveh are a mysterious pair from Tehran, traveling the mountainous countryside in their Lexus coupe to push big bags of money on the locals. This turns out to be not so easy, but fascinating to watch, as the cagey couple invent increasingly brazen stratagems to place cash in the hands of the wary, proud or indifferent. Will they push things too far? Are they losing sight of their mission? What exactly is their mission?

Left with few options, Juma and Latso leave Beijing for home, a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. But home is no longer what it was, as growing exposure to the modern world changes the provocative traditions the Mosuo have built around their belief that marriage is an attack on the family. Determined to keep their mother and siblings out of poverty, Latso sacrifices her dream of an education and stays home to farm, while Juma leaves to try her luck in the city.

*Director Emilio Maillé Attending*
Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) documents the work of one of the keenest eyes in film history, Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa, who’s responsible for many of the lasting images from Mexico’s golden age of cinema. From 1932 through 1983, Figueroa worked for such greats as John Ford, Howard Hawks and Luis Buñuel. While many cinematographers of today appear to praise the master, Multiple Visions works best when it lets Figueroa’s films play for long stretches uninterrupted, allowing the work to speak for itself.

Filmmakers Attending

Documentary Short. A short first person documentary about the loss of a sacred place.

Director Patrick Farrelly & Kate O’Callighan Scheduled to Attend
The title of this film refers to Nuala O’Faolain (1940-2008), author of the bestselling memoir Are You Somebody? and the novel My Dream Of You.

In the farming plains of Tibet, a sheepherder sells the family dog, a Tibetan mastiff, which angers his father who demands he finds the dog and bring it back home. In such poor conditions, dogs like the Tibetan mastiff are worth a fortune, but, for this family, the dog is worth much more than any money can buy. Old Dog captures the evolving Tibetan society through this tale of a family caught between old traditions and economic realities.

Successful businessman Harry Papadopoulos loses all his money and assets in the worst financial crash in London’s history—that is everything except an abandoned fish and chips shop that he co-owns with his burnout brother Spyros. With nothing else to lose, and with a lot of convincing from his family, Harry reluctantly agrees to re-open the same shop that kick-started his career. This unpretentious crowd-pleaser delivers spectacularly on its promise of pure cinematic joy.

MINNESOTA-Made Director Kevin Schreck Attending
Feature Documentary. Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, acclaimed and visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) toiled on his epic masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler, for nearly three decades – only to have it torn from his hands.

After a bomb goes off at a busy downtown bank in 1969 Milan, conspiracy theories quickly mar the attempts of the police to track down the guilty parties. Based on a true story, Piazza Fontana closely follows Commissioner Luigi Calabresi, who is under constant pressure to file charges, even if it’s against an innocent man. Piazza Fontana won the Special Jury Prize at Karlovy Vary for its intoxicating sets and scenery as well as its restrained, emotional acting.