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22nd santa barbara international film festival
announces 2007 program
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bill condon to receive montecito award,
joining smith, mirren, whitaker and gore and guggenheim as the 2007 honorees;
michael apted will serve as guest director
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fest opens with factory girl, apteds amazing grace screens as centerpiece, while gray matters closes
santa barbara, ca the 2007 santa barbara international film festival announces their slate of films for the 22nd installment. the festival, which welcomes chrysler and the new yorker as premiere sponsors, takes place over 11 days beginning thursday, january 25, through sunday, february 4, and will feature 22 world premieres, 18 us premieres, and introduce films from 40 countries. this is the most ambitious and most diverse line up of events and films the festival has ever had, commented sbiff director roger durling. theres a film to satisfy any film-lovers taste in here.
it was also announced that the sbiff will highlight the career achievements of filmmaker bill condon, director of this years dreamgirls, who will be honored with the montecito award, sponsored by ugg australia and the new yorker. seeing bill condons latest film simply solidified my admiration for him, durling said. his talent has shone with his writing and direction on gods and monsters, kinsey and now on dreamgirls and im pleased that we here in santa barbara will have the opportunity to recognize his wonderful style and achievements.
were particularly proud of our honorees this year, continues durling. together, our honorees are at the top of the heap of the best talent in the past year of film.
the special tribute presentations will once again be created by long-time fest tribute producer paul fagen, of p. fagen productions and will each take place at the historic arlington theatre. the outstanding performance of the year award tribute to helen mirren in recognition of her performance in stephen frears the queen, will take place on friday, january 26, and is sponsored by the butcher family foundation and innovative skincare. will smith, who gives a compelling performance in the inspirational film based on a true story, the pursuit of happyness, will receive the modern master award with a tribute moderated by leonard maltin on saturday, january 27. the evening is sponsored by lucky brand jeans and four seasons resort: the biltmore. bill condons montecito award tribute will take place on monday, january 29. moderated by pete hammond, the evening will also feature appearances by some of the dreamgirls cast and will be sponsored by ugg australia and the new yorker. the american riviera award will be presented to forest whitaker, whose outstanding performance in the last king of scotland has been receiving accolades and topping critics lists across the country. the evening will be moderated by film critic pete hammond on saturday, february 3.
the sir david attenborough award for excellence in nature filmmaking tribute will be presented to al gore and davis guggenheim for their powerful documentary an inconvenient truth, with last years recipient james cameron presenting the award. the evening is moderated by famed cinematographer mike degruy and will take place friday, february 2.
opening night will feature the highly-anticipated film factory girl, starring sienna miller, guy pearce, hayden christensen, and directed by george hickenlooper. factory girl imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s it girl edie sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. sedgwick, coincidentally, was not only born in santa barbara, but she died there as well. the films sienna miller and director george hickenlooper will be among the cast expected to attend the opening night festivities, which will be sponsored by salvatore ferragamo and studio 7. following the screening the festivities will continue with a party recreating the italian lifestyle as seen through the prism of cinema at paseo nuevo in downtown santa barbara.
the centerpiece film is michael apteds amazing grace, starring ioan gruffudd, albert finney and rufus sewell. this is an inspiring story of how one mans passion and perseverance changed the world. based on the true life story of william wilberforce played by ioan gruffudd (fantastic four and its sequel fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer), a leader of the british abolition movement, the film chronicles his epic struggle to pass a law to end the slave trade in the late 18th century. along the way, wilberforce meets intense opposition from members of parliament who feel the slave trade is tied to the stability of the british empire. several friends, including wilberforces minister, john newton, played by albert finney (oceans twelve, erin brockovich), a reformed slave ship captain who penned the beloved hymn amazing grace, urge him to see the cause through. in addition to director apted, also attending is cast member ioan gruffud.
the closing night film is gray matters, featuring the directorial debut of sue kramer and starring heather graham, thomas cavanagh, bridget moynahan, molly shannon, and sissy spacek. with plenty of references to 1940s classical hollywood, the film revamps the screwball comedy with a gay twist when heather grahams character falls for the same woman as her brother does. graham, cavanagh, moynahan, and director kramer are among those expected to attend. closing night festivities are sponsored by the santa barbara independent and el paseo restaurant.
the sbiff is thrilled to begin a new tradition by inviting a guest director each year who will personally select the films for a retrospective of their work. director and dga president michael apted will be the sbiffs first guest director and he has selected the following films to be screened: 49 up, his new film, amazing grace, which will be screened as the festivals centerpiece, and a third film to be announced. after a beginning as a researcher in television, apted became known for his award-winning films such as agatha, coal miners daughter, gorillas in the mist, and nell.
conversations with
sbiff continues the popular conversation with series, which features a screening of some of the years best films, followed by intimate conversations with stars from those films. conversations scheduled so far include: djimon honsou, with a screening of blood diamond (scheduled for wednesday, january 31); and michael apted, prior to the screening of 49 up (scheduled for thursday, february 1). other conversations with to be announced at a later date.
the panels
the sbiff has become renowned for creating smart, insightful and informative panels that feature a veritable whos who in the world of filmmaking, including many oscar contenders. each of the panels will take place at the lobero theatre, beginning with the directors on directing panel on saturday, january 27 at 11:00 a.m., sponsored by variety and moderated by editor-in-chief peter bart, followed by the famed it starts with the script panel at 2:00 p.m., sponsored by pacifica graduate institute and moderated by hollywood reporter columnist anne thompson. on sunday, january 28, at 11:00 a.m. is the movers and shakers panel of this years top producers, moderated by los angeles times columnist patrick goldstein and sponsored by io film. saturday, february 3, 11:00 a.m., is the creative forces: women in the biz panel co-sponsored by sandy stahl and supported in part by girls inc., moderated by madelyn hammond, senior vice president of sales, marketing and retail for landmark theatres, and featuring women from all aspects of filmmaking. the popular scoring the film panel will follow at 2:00 p.m., featuring todays hardest working composers and moderated by usc radio host/film critic jim svejda. panelists will be announced soon.
podcasts & blogs
for the second year in a row, the sbiff will provide video podcasts of the festival activities, with the help of mediatrust and their leading-edge technology. designed to bring the art of filmmaking to the broadest possible audience, the video podcasts will provide visitors with a look behind the scenes in a series of interviews with directors, producers, actors, and others. the podcasts will deliver a level of exposure to festival participants that cant be attained at other festivals, says durling. our local audience will have the opportunity to view podcasts that include the industrys most interesting talent for a period of time following the dates of our santa barbara event.
you can also get daily updates, special information, festival insights, and even a recommendation or two, on sbiff director roger durlings blog, the film geek confidential. log onto hyperlink "http://www.sbiff.org/blog2" \o "http://www.sbiff.org/blog2" www.sbiff.org/blog2 or hyperlink "http://www.filmgeekconfidential.com/" \o "http://www.filmgeekconfidential.com" www.filmgeekconfidential.com daily. roger will be constantly blogging, along with contributors josh murray and joseph matheny, leading up to and throughout the festival.
local offerings
the sbiff takes its commitment to the young people of our community to heart and with enthusiasm. artful cinema can educate as well as entertain. following are just a few of the programs the festival will offer:
10-10-10 student screenwriting competition and sothebys international realty 10-10-10 student filmmaking competition the screenwriting competition is comprised of 10 students who were selected out of 65 submissions from santa barbara high school and college students who submitted a 10-page sample of their best fiction writing - screenplay, stage play, or short story - to their schools representative. the five best script samples were chosen from the high school level and five from the college level. the finalists are then assigned a storyline and an industry professional to mentor them during the writing of their screenplay. finalists will meet with their mentor throughout the process, submitting their final draft in january 2007.
the 10 student screenplays will then be matched with a category-appropriate filmmaking finalist from the sothebys international realty 10-10-10 student filmmaking competition, which consists of 10 students selected from 30 submissions, who will then produce a 10-minute film during the 10 days of the 22nd santa barbara international film festival.
apple box a free family festival for children the sbiff will produce apple box, a family film festival for children during the mornings of the two weekends that bookend the festival - january 27 and january 28 and on february 3 and february 4 from 9:00 am until 10:30 am. childrens films, including happy feet, cars and monster house, will be shown continuously all morning for age groups 2 12 at the metro 4 theatres. screenings will be specifically programmed for each age group. the program will enable children to see wonderful movies that are not easily accessible, in a festive, entertaining and supportive environment. clowns, jugglers, face painters and stilt walkers will be present to entertain the kids as well!
field trip to the movies sbiff provides a fascinating and thought-provoking film, study guides, and transportation to field trip to the movies as part of our reel nature series for over 3,000 under-privileged 6th graders in santa barbara county. this year we again partner with the santa barbara museum of natural history for this educational program which will include an opportunity for students to explore intriguing facts and new research about the natural world as they view a film, engage in discussion, and participate in an interactive film-creating experience with industry professionals. the purpose of field trip to the movies is to inspire and excite the curiosity of children about their natural world, while at the same time assisting them in imagining themselves in the roles of filmmaker and naturalist. field trip to the movies: is sponsored by wells fargo and supported by the wood-claeyssens foundation
3rd weekend --the sbiff will continue their tradition established last year by presenting the 3rd weekend, which will feature the highlights of the 22nd festival for santa barbara residents. the winning films will be screened throughout the weekend of february 9-11 at the riviera theatre, sponsored in part by horny toad. screenings are free and tickets are available on a first come, first serve basis at the riviera theatre. screening times will be posted on the sbiff website at hyperlink "http://www.sbiff.org" www.sbiff.org in the days following closing night.
film categories and sidebars
the sbiff continues its commitment to exciting, culturally enlightening, and entertaining programming and sidebars. in addition to presenting independent features, international features, documentary features and special presentation films, programmed by jeremy platt, the sbiff will also offer films from the following sidebars: nature films series reel nature, sponsored by the city of lompoc and programmed by renowned nature film cinematographerand santa barbara resident mike degruy; east x west, a collection of the best cinema from asia, programmed by emmy-nominated actor and director tim matheson; to the maxxx, sponsored by red bull, is programmed by santa barbara filmmaker russ spencer and features extreme sports films and documentaries including two exciting world premiere films featuring one of santa barbaras main pastimessurfing! one california day is a film that recounts the history of surfing through the voices of the surfers stars of yesterday and today -- from six distinct california regions while the forgotten coast follows a group of elite surfers searching the globe for the perfect waves in undiscovered locations; continuing their commitment to spanish and latin american films, the sbiff will again present latino cinemedia, sponsored by the univision and tinta latina magazine, offering a collection of films from spain and latin america, programmed by ucsb professor cristina venegas; they will continue to feature santa barbara filmmakers, also programmed by russ spencer and which includes 7 world premiere films.
attached is a preliminary list of films scheduled to screen at the 22nd annual santa barbara international film festival; a complete list will follow soon. select films will vie for the following awards:
the awards
the spirit award sponsored by panavision for the best independent film
american independents section
juried by industry professionals
award: camera package worth approx. $60,000
the best international feature film award for the best foreign film
international competition section
juried by industry professionals
the gold vision award sponsored by york entertainment presented to the most innovative and unique film with an inspiring and groundbreaking vision feature, animation or family (not a short or documentary)
juried by york entertainment acquisition executives
award: a film distribution package valued at $30,000 (offer valid through june 2007.)
nueva vision award for the best spanish-language film
spanish and latin american film competition
juried by industry professionals
best documentary for the best documentary film
juried by industry professionals
fund for santa barbara social justice award sponsored by fund for santa barbara for documentary film that addresses social justice issues
juried by a committee selected by the fund for santa barbara
award: $1,000 cash
bruce corwin award for best live action short film
under 30 minutes
juried by industry professionals
bruce corwin award for best animation
juried by industry professionals
sothebys international realty student filmmaking competition for best of the 10-10-10 student filmmaking competition
juried by industry professionals
award: one high school prize and one college prize will be awarded. the winning films will be screened at the closing night award ceremony.
10-10-10 student screenwriting competition, sponsored by business first national bank, and final draft for best screenplay
juried by industry professionals
award: one high school prize and one college prize will be awarded.
audience choice award, sponsored by the santa barbara independent
the santa barbara international film festival, set to run january 25 through february 4, 2007, is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching local culture and raising consciousness of film as an art form. the sbiff presents quality american and world independent films, latin american and asian sidebars as well as documentary cinema within the beautiful setting of downtown santa barbara, a premier tourist destination. thesbiff is also committed to education through its student filmmaking and screenwriting competitions, field trip to the movies, and educational seminars. with a projected audience of over 60,000 viewing more than 200 films over its eleven-day run, sbiff attracts an affluent local and national consumer base, while maintaining strong ties with the entertainment industry in nearby los angeles.
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22nd santa barbara international
film festival film line-up
opening night
factory girl, usa
director: george hickenlooper
cast: guy pearce, sienna miller, hayden christensen, jimmy fallon
factory girl imaginatively unfolds the comet-like rise and fall of 60s it girl edie sedgwick, the blazing superstar who came to define both the glamour and the tragedy of our celebrity-obsessed culture. sedgwick, coincidentally, was not only born in santa barbara, but she died there as well.
centerpiece
amazing grace, uk
director: michael apted
cast: ioan gruffudd, albert finney, rufus sewell, youssou n'dour
this is an inspiring story of how one mans passion and perseverance changed the world. based on the true life story of william wilberforce played by ioan gruffudd (fantastic four and its sequel fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer), a leader of the british abolition movement, the film chronicles his epic struggle to pass a law to end the slave trade in the late 18th century. along the way, wilberforce meets intense opposition from members of parliament who feel the slave trade is tied to the stability of the british empire. several friends, including wilberforces minister, john newton, played by albert finney (oceans twelve, erin brockovich), a reformed slave ship captain who penned the beloved hymn amazing grace, urge him to see the cause through.
closing night
gray matters, usa
director: sue kramer
cast: heather graham, alan cumming, sissy spacek, james marsden, alejandro abellan
with plenty of references to 1940s classical hollywood, the film revamps the screwball comedy with a gay twist when heather grahams character falls for the same woman as her brother does.
world premieres
ayamye *goodness, kindness, bounty, usa (documentary)
director: eric matthies
in ghana, west africa, a rural village eagerly awaits a shipment of recycled bicycles from the united states. inspiring, determined, resourceful individuals let us into their daily lives in a dramatic look at how lack of transportation can impact the education, health, and livelihood of the community.
cali summer, usa (to the maxx)
director: erik hatch
cast: james rivers, erik hatch, jordan tabayoyon, george nagai, jeff macdonough, carlos juarez, david gravette, josh mattson, keith wilson
a radical look at professional and amateur skateboarders dropping in on some of most amazing skate parks in all of california.
counting backwards, usa (american independent)
director: aprill winney
cast: benjamin montague
faced with death and having recently found the girl of his dreams, joe, from the small town of sandwich, illinois, learns to finally live his life to the fullest.
darius goes west: the roll of his life, usa (documentary competition)
director: logan smalley
eleven college students rent an rv to take darius weems, 15, who has duchenne muscular dystrophy, on a cross-country road trip. their goal is to convince mtv's 'pimp my ride' to customize darius's wheelchair. along the way they find joy, brotherhood, and the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride.
do it for johnny, usa (documentary competition)
director: haylar garcia
how far would you go to attain your dream? this is the story of a seemingly never-ending quest to get a script into the hands of johnny depp.
finding kraftland, usa (documentary)
director: richard kraft
after the death of his brother, a hollywood agent drags his son through an obsessive quest to recapture his own childhood.
forgotten coast, usa (to the maxxx)
director: justin le pera
cast: travis potter, micah byrne, daniel thomson
searching for perfect waves in undiscovered locations around the world, a group of elite surfers discover eden in sumatra. but in order to surf these untouched beauties on the forgotten coast the group must endure extreme physical and mental challenges.
henry, usa/canada (documentary)
director: dara bratt
abortionist. holocaust survivor. womanizer. crusader. this documentary focuses on one of canadas most infamous figures, dr. henry morgentaler, the man who announced to the media that he had performed 7,000 illegal abortions; and then shocked the country by performing one live on television on mother's day.
jack taylor of beverly hills, usa (documentary competition)
director: cecile leroy beaulieu
documentary examines the dying art of men's custom tailoring through the eyes of one of its most colorful characters on the eve of his retirement.
living with lew, usa (documentary competition)
director: adam bardach
cast: will hooke
a young hollywood comedy writer uses his humor and unfailing optimism to cope with a terminal illness. friends, family, and colleagues in the film business rally around him as he attempts to direct his first feature film.
lost souls, usa (documentary competition)
directors: natalie sanderson and sumnima udas
filmmakers examine the impact of the illicit act of art trafficking in nepal.
man in the chair, usa (american independent)
director: michael schroeder
cast: christopher plummer, michael angarano, robert wagner, m. emmet walsh
in this coming- and ending-of-age story, christopher plummer plays a retired gaffer (the last living crew member of orson welles citizen kane) who decides to help out a troubled teenager longing to become the man in the chair.
mountain unicycle weekend, usa (to the maxxx)
director: dorothy littlejohn
two filmmakers, dorothy littlejohn (mountain unicycle weekend) and jess riegel (trials course love 99) document the obscure yet insane sport of mountain unicycling. (screens in conjunction with trials course love 99.)
quantum hoops, usa (documentary competition)
director: rick greenwald
they may have brilliant careers ahead of them, but its not going to be in the nba. this is the story of the brilliant-minded, yet physically-hapless cal tech mens basketball team, possessors of a 244 game losing streak.
season of the samurai, usa (documentary)
director: matthew asner, danny gold
cast: warren cromartie
documentary follows the on- and off-field exploits of the japan samurai bears, the first all-foreign team to play in an american professional sports league. the bears were led by former major league baseball star, warren cromartie.
spiral, usa (american independent)
director: adam green, joel moore
cast: amber tamblyn, zachary levi, joel moore
a reclusive telemarketer (joel moore), whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss (zachary levi) is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker (amber tamblyn) enters his life. but as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction.
swimming in auschwitz, usa (documentary)
director: jon kean
this is the first solely female story of survivors of the holocaust. while facing death, six women recount their experiences of friendship, religion, and laughter to help them endure.
taking guns from boys, liberia/usa (documentary)
director: jessie deeter
follow united nations force commander daniel opande as he attempts to bring peace to liberia, a west african country torn by civil wars for the last fourteen years.
the number 23, usa (special presentation sponsored by macy*s)
director: joel schumacher
cast: jim carrey, virginia madsen
a man (jim carrey) becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life but ends with a murder that has yet to happen in real life.
the pacific and eddy, usa (american independent)
director: matthew nourse
cast: ryan donowho, dominique swain, james duval, nikki sudden, susan highsmith, mark gregg
in the wake of a sudden loss and after being alienated from his friends, eddy finds refuge in the swells of the pacific where he must look inward to deal with the loss he never truly mourned.
trials course love 99, usa (to the maxxx)
director: dorothy littlejohn, jess riegel
two filmmakers, dorothy littlejohn (mountain unicycle weekend) and jess riegel (trials course love 99) document the obscure, yet insane sport of mountain unicycling.
(screens in conjunction with mountain unicycle weekend.)
we just work here, usa (to the maxxx)
director: brian vernor
from the director of last years wildly successful pure sweet hell comes a film about the artisans, frame builders, and racers of santa cruz bicycles.
u.s. premieres
bella, usa (american independent)
director: alejandro gomez monteverde
cast: eduardo verastegui, tammy blanchard, manny perez, ali landry
an international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. a waitress, struggling to make it in new york city, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. in one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.
boy on a galloping horse, poland (world cinema)
director: adam guzinski
a son's sudden illness forces an unhappily married couple to re-evaluate their relationship.
daisy, south korea/hong kong (east x west)
director: wai keung lau
cast: woo-sung jung, sung-jae lee
the inevitable showdown between a detective and a killer who fall in love with the same woman, a street artist who dreams of someday opening her own exhibition.
diggers, usa (american independent)
director: katherine dieckmann
cast: lauren ambrose, andrew cherry, ron eldard
a coming-of-age story about four working-class friends growing up in long island, new york as clam diggers. their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them.
el don, venezuela (latino cinemedia)
director: jos ramn novoa
cast: edgar ramirez, juan david restrepo, jesus cervo, laureano olivares, armando gota, mary carmen pedraza
from absolute poverty to absolute power! "el don" is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable.
glimpses of heaven, canada (documentary)
director: michael oved dayan
three artists use their craft as a catharsis of a brutal past.
illuminados por el fuego, argentina/spain (latino cinemedia)
director: tristan bauer
cast: gastn pauls, leguizamn, pablo riva, csar albarracn, hugo carrizo, virginia innocenti, juan leyrado, arturo bonn, jon lucas, mario chaparro, tony lestingi, carlos garmendia, lautaro delgado
the film narrates the memories of a 40-year-old man, esteban leguizamon, who was sent to fight on malvinas islands in 1982 at the age of 18.
la nina en la piedra, mexico (latino cinemedia)
director: marisa sistach
cast: gabino rodrguez, sofa espinosa, ricardo polanco, iyant fonseca
in a small town near mexico city, a junior high school student becomes obsessed with his ex-girlfriend and takes advantage of an opportunity to make her pay for her snubs and punish her vanity.
lake of fire, usa (special presentation)
director: tony kaye
a powerful and brave look at the endlessly rehashed issue of abortion, this 15-years-in-the-making documentary tackles the conflict with shades of grey and offers no right or wrong. while showcasing a wide range of interviews with christian fundamentalists, pro-choicers, politicians, and women, the film focuses mainly on the complexity of the issue and on its physical and psychological reality.
le dernier des fous (demented), france/belgium (world cinema)
director: laurent achard
cast: julien cochelin, annie cordy, pascal cervo, dominique reymond
a family's madness and despair are seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy in this french-belgian gothic drama.
rare bird, bermuda (reel nature)
director: lucinda spurling
cast: narrated by elisabeth noone, lawrence doughty, dr. andrew west, britten west, jacob hocking, bryan darby, rick spurling
rare bird is the true story of a 15-year-old boy who helped find a bird believed extinct for over 300 years and solve the mystery of its existence.
scenes of a sexual nature, uk (american independent)
director: ed blum
cast: ewan mcgregor, catherine tae, andrew lincoln, hugh bonneville.
sex and love. some seek it, some need it, some spurn it, and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it.
shanghai red, china/usa (world cinema)
director: oscar luis costo
cast: vivian wu, richard burgi , hong-lei sun, roger yuan , you ge
on her way to avenger her husbands murder, meili zhu meets michael johnson, an american with his own dark past. shanghai red is a tale of finding the truth in ones self and others.
the art of fighting, korea (east x west)
director: shin han-sol
the sometimes comedic drama of a picked-on weakling who enlists the help of a mysterious older man to combat bullies.
the killer within, usa (documentary competition)
director: macky alston
bob bechtel is in his seventies and teaches the psychology of youth violence at the university of arizona. leading a normal life with his wife and children, he suddenly decides to reveal a terrible secret: fifty years ago bob went on a school rampage, killing another student because of intense bullying, or so he claims...
the perverts guide to cinema, uk/austria/netherlands (documentary competition)
director: sophie fiennes
in this three-part documentary, acclaimed philosopher slavoj zizek guides us through a journey of discovery, humor and psychoanalysis to unravel cinemas dirty little secrets. be ready to reevaluate everything you thought you knew about film and the power of its language.
united gates of america, usa/united kingdom (documentary)
director: alex cooke
pulitzer prize-winning reporter charlie leduff and documentary director alex cooke journey into the heart of bush country to examine the phenomenon of gated communities.
welcome home, spain (latino cinemedia)
director: david trueba
cast: pilar lpez de ayala, alejo sauras, ariadna gil, juan echanove, jorge sanz
aspiring photographer samuel bids farewell to his country village and domineering mother and heads for madrid to live with his girl friend, eva. while investigating a murder with a female coworker, samuel discovers his biggest surprise yet.
all feature-length films
(please note this is not a complete list and is subject to change)
2:37, australia (american independent)
director: murali k. thalluri
cast: teresa palmer, joel mackenzie, frank sweet, charles baird, sam harris, marni spillane, clementine mellor
a complex and bold tale of six high school students of various types whose lives are interwoven with contemporary situations reminiscent of todays alienated youth. at 2:37, their discontent will climax to a tragedy: the suicide of one of their peers.
10 questions for the dalai lama, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: rick ray
cast: his holiness the 14th dalai lama of tibet (many films), rick ray
if you were able to ask one of the most respected global thinkers of the modern world a series of questions, what would you want to know? the film explores the relevant issues of today through discussions between filmmaker rick ray and his holiness the dalai lama.
12:08 east of bucharest, romania (international feature)
director: corneliu porumboiu
cast: mircea andreescu, teodor corban, ion sapdaru
in this wryly funny satire about memory, media, and political discontent, post-communist romania must face its own history. sixteen years after the revolution, a collection of captivating characters and their contentious narratives are placed in the center of a television debate turned quasi-vaudeville.
49 up, uk (special presentation)
director: michael apted
"49 up" is the seventh film in a series of documentaries that began 42 years ago when granada's world in action team, inspired by the jesuit maxim, "give me the child until he is seven and i will give you the man," interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over england, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.
911: dust and deceit at the world trade center, usa (sb filmmaker) world premiere
director: penny little
documentary uses interviews from scientists, city experts, volunteers, and rescue workers to exploit the health risk that permeated new york city months after september 11.
9th company, finland/russia/ukraine (world cinema)
director: fyodor bondarchuk
the biggest budget russian film ever made at the time of its release, this powerful true story depicts the journey of a platoon of russian soldiers simply forgotten and left to die during the soviet invasion in afghanistan.
a dirty carnival, south korea (east x west)
director: yoo ha
this painfully human gangster film recounts the tribulations of a smalltime thug trying to move up the ranks to support his family. although the violence is very real and visceral, the film remains an existential study of the effects of violence and gangster life on the mind.
a wake on the pier, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: thomas scheff
visitors to santa barbara react to the iraq war memorial near one of the citys most popular tourist sites, stearns wharf.
ahlaam, iraq (international feature)
director: mohamed al daradji
shot in nightmarish conditions during the american occupation in bagdhad, this tale of confusion, death, and political criticism explores the lives of three patients in a mental institution entangled by the chaos of war and its physical and spiritual destruction.
amazing grace, uk centerpiece
director: michael apted
cast: ioan gruffudd, albert finney, rufus sewell, youssou n'dour
in order to abolish the slave trade in eighteenth century england, parliamentarian william wilberforce maneuvers his way through the dark corners of power.
avenue montaigne, france (world cinema)
director: danile thompson
join the young and naive jessica as she encounters an eclectic clientele in an old-fashioned cafe on avenue montaigne, an upscale paris neighborhood where art and life intersect at a crossroads.
away from her, canada
director: sarah polley
cast: julie christie, gordon pinsent, olympia dukakis, kristen thomson, michael murphy, wendy crewson
a heartwrenching study of enduring love, sarah polleys feature directorial debut explores the compassion and guilt that seeps into a marriage faced with alzheimers disease.
ayamye *goodness, kindness, bounty, usa (documentary) world premiere
director: eric matthies
in ghana, west africa, a rural village eagerly awaits a shipment of recycled bicycles from the united states. inspiring, determined, resourceful individuals let us into their daily lives in a dramatic look at how lack of transportation can impact the education, health, and livelihood of the community.
bailando cha cha cha, cuba (latino cinemedia)
director: manuel herrera
three youths try to jump-start their lives, while a mother is determined to live her dreams, all in a society that pulses with rhythm and anticipation.
barrio cuba, cuba (latino cinemedia)
director: humberto solas
the second part of a planned trilogy from revolutionary cuban filmmaker humberto sols (honey for oshun), this film strips away the sheen of a country often glamorized by touristy stereotypes.
beautiful dreamer, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: terri farley-teruel
cast: brooke langton, colin egglesfield, james denton, barry corbin, elise jackson, william lee scott, rusty schwimmer, susan barnes, lauren woodland
a woman discovers that the husband she thought died in world war ii is living in another town with no apparent recollection of his pre-war existence.
beauty in trouble, czech republic (international feature)
director: jan hrebejk
an ensemble drama set in czech landscape ravaged by the 2002 floods, this deep look at the power of intimate relationship follows a mother struggling between moral choices and her familys well-being.
bella, usa (american independent) us premiere
director: alejandro gomez monteverde
cast: eduardo verastegui, tammy blanchard, manny perez, ali landry
an international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. a waitress, struggling to make it in new york city, discovers something about herself that she's unprepared for. in one irreversible moment, their lives are turned upside down.
beneath the surface, usa (to the maxxx)
director: dawn young
cast: wolf wigo (us olympic water polo player), us olympic team '96; 2000; and 2004, jo d jonz
centered around olympic hopeful (and current ucsb coach) wolf wigo, viewers are given a close-up and underwater view of the often brutal sport of water polo.
blind dating, usa
director: james keach
cast: chris pine, eddie kay thomas, jane seymour
a blind young man thinks he finds love with an indian woman, though their relationship is fraught with cultural differences.
blindsight, uk (documentary)
director: lucy walker
because in tibet blinds are reviled by society, an expedition decides to take six blind teenagers to the peak of mount everest and thus question our values of heroism, community, and success. along with jaw-dropping scenery, the film is a stunning tribute to the commitment and courage of a few men and women. short-listed for oscar consideration.
boy on a galloping horse, poland (world cinema) us premiere
director: adam guzinski
a son's sudden illness forces an unhappily married couple to reevaluate their relationship.
brasilia 18%, brazil (latino cinemedia)
director: nelson pereira dos santos
a star medical examiner is called to braslia, the administrative capital of brazil, to confirm the identity of a beautiful, young congressional aide's dead body. but his scientific rigor soon leads him to details of a multi-layered political scandal.
breathe!, usa (sb filmmaker) world premiere
director: don murray
cast: mick murray, cassidy freeman, tim abell, christopher murray
an adventure based on events in the life of sea, undersea, and wildlife film maker, tom campbell (of santa barbara).
cali summer, usa (to the maxx) world premiere
director: erik hatch
cast: james rivers, erik hatch, jordan tabayoyon, george nagai, jeff macdonough, carlos juarez, david gravette, josh mattson, keith wilson
a radical look at professional and amateur skateboarders dropping in on some of most amazing skate parks in all of california.
can mr. smith get to washington anymore?, usa (documentary)
director: frank popper
following the riveting campaign of u.s. senate hopeful jeff smith, the film examines whether a regular guy can make it as a politician in washington. short-listed for oscar consideration.
chasing the dream, usa (to the maxxx)
director: angelo mei
film is a compelling story of huntington beach high school students who dream of becoming professional surfers. chasing the dream chronicles a different coming-of-age story.
children, iceland (international feature)
director: ragnar bragason
the first part of twin features exploring the roles of children and parents, with twelve-year-old gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction.
chronicles of an escape, argentina (latino cinemedia)
director: israel adrian caetano
film is based on the autobiography of a goal-keeper who was abducted by the argentine secret police in 1977, tortured, held captive for four months, and eventually escaped. a very intense escape thriller.
congorama, canada/belgium/france (international feature)
director: philippe falardeau
a down-on-his-luck belgian inventor whose work never seems to pan out as expected heads to quebec in search of his biological parents, only to be involved in an accident leaving him in possession of information that could give him the status he has always craved.
counting backwards, usa (american independent) world premiere
director: aprill winney
cast: benjamin montague
faced with death and having recently found the girl of his dreams, joe, from the small town of sandwich, illinois, learns to finally live his life to the fullest.
crazy love, usa (documentary competition)
director: dan klores
a disturbing tale of a relationship born in the 1950s that was the antithesis of ozzie and harriet. crazy love is a chilling account of a pairing of a 32-year-old married man and a 21-year-old single girl that included mental cruelty, physical injury, and attempted murder...with no end in sight.
crude impact, usa (documentary)
director: james wood
riveting documentary on oil and the actions of those who control the precious resource.
daisy, south korea/hong kong (east x west) us premiere
director: wai keung lau
cast: woo-sung jung, sung-jae lee
the inevitable showdown between a detective and a killer who fall in love with the same woman, a street artist who dreams of someday opening her own exhibition.
dantes inferno, usa (american independent)
director: sean meredith
writer: paul zaloom (head puppeteer)
cast: dermot mulroney, james cromwell, john fleck, dana snyder, martha plimpton, tony hale
performed in toy theater style, this darkly comedic travelogue of the underworld is set against the archetypical backdrop of modern civilization and populated with a satirized contemporary cast of politicians and public figures.
darius goes west: the roll of his life, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
director: logan smalley
eleven college students rent an rv to take darius weems, 15, who has duchenne muscular dystrophy, on a cross-country road trip. their goal is to convince mtv's 'pimp my ride' to customize darius's wheelchair. along the way, they find joy, brotherhood and the knowledge that life, even when imperfect, is always worth the ride.
darkbluealmostblack (azuloscurocasinegro), spain (latino cinemedia)
director: daniel snchez arvalo
interweaving a dense web of storylines about family and incarceration, this graceful exploration of morally complex questions follows a love rectangle between a janitor, two convicts, and a posh girl.
days of glory, morocco (world cinema)
director: rachid bouchareb
during wwii, four north african men enlist in the french army to liberate the country from nazi oppression, and to fight racial discrimination within the french ranks.
despues del mar, argentina (latino cinemedia)
director adrin caetano
despues del mar is an entertaining story about two strangers journey of desperation through southern argentina.
diggers, usa (american independent) us premiere
director: katherine dieckmann
cast: lauren ambrose, andrew cherry, ron eldard
a coming-of-age story about four working-class friends growing up in long island, new york, as clam diggers. their fathers were clam diggers as well as their grandfathers before them.
do it for johnny, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
director: haylar garcia
how far would you go to attain your dream? this is the story of a seemingly never-ending quest to get a script into the hands of johnny depp.
el don, venezuela (latino cinemedia) us premiere
director: jos ramn novoa
cast: edgar ramirez, juan david restrepo, jesus cervo, laureano olivares, armando gota, mary carmen pedraza
from absolute poverty to absolute power! "el don" is the saga of a common man with uncommonly fierce ambition who rises to rule an empire of unspeakable.
election, hong kong (east x west)
director: johnny to
a chronicle of the political machinations and violent confrontations caused by elections in a venerable hong kong clan, johnnie tos ambitious underworld drama shows how the ruthless code of the triad gangs corrodes the souls of everyone who abides by it.
factory girl, usa opening night
director: george hickenlooper
cast: guy pearce, sienna miller, hayden christenson, jimmy fallon
a tragic look at the story of 1960s it girl edie sedgwick and her doomed relationships with andy warhol and danny quinn.
fantasy music, usa (sb filmmaker) world premiere
director: john mckinney
when man child keith fires his equally adolescent best friend tyler, both lives are thrown into a series of comic misadventures that lead them careening towards adulthood.
fido, canada
director: andrew currie
cast: carrie-anne moss, billy connolly, dylan baker, henry czerny, tim blake nelson, k'sun ray
set in a retro-future where zombies have been domesticated and conservatism reigns free, this black-comedy horror, otherwise none as the newly hip genre zomedie switches the typical house pet with a six-foot tall rotting zombie named fido.
finding kraftland, usa (documentary) world premiere
director: richard kraft
after the death of his brother, a hollywood agent drags his son through an obsessive quest to recapture his own childhood.
first snow, usa
director: mark fergus
cast: guy pearce, piper perabo, luce rains, adam scott, shea whingham
witness jimmy stark (guy pearce) spirals out of control as a psychic announces his imminent doom. a gloomy psychodrama that digs deep into ones existential angst and into the raw meaning of friendship and betrayal.
fissures, france (international feature)
director: alant alfandari
richly textured and gloomily atmospheric, the film offers a touching portrayal of an emotionally fragile woman who is brought to the edge of a breakdown after a tragedy. this simple drama takes on a fantastical allure when she comes across recordings of voices that might originate from the past.
flock of dodos, usa (reel nature)
director: randy olson
filmmaker and evolutionary biologist randy olson tries to figure out if it is the darwinists or intelligent design supporters who will become a flock of dodos.
forgotten coast, usa (to the maxxx) world premiere
director: justin le pera
cast: travis potter, micah byrne, daniel thomson
searching for perfect waves in undiscovered locations around the world, a group of elite surfers discover eden in sumatra. but in order to surf these untouched beauties on the forgotten coast the group must endure extreme physical and mental challenges.
geisha: an artists journey, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: bryan reichhardt
geisha: an artists journey looks into the enigmatic world of geisha as seen through the eyes of japanese-american dance artist shizumi shigeto manale.
ghost of mae nak, thailand (east x west)
director: mark duffield
based on an old thai legend, this atmospheric ghost story adds an unusual dose of romance to the typical asian horror genre as a creepy long haired woman with a missing piece of skull haunts a young couple madly in love.
glamorous life of sachiko hanai, japan (east x west)
director: mitsuru meike
this pink film (japanese softcore porn) follows a call girl who gets caught up in a gunfight and is shot in the forehead. rather than kill her the bullet in her head gives her psychic powers.
glimpses of heaven, canada (documentary) us premiere
director: michael oved dayan
three artists use their craft as a catharsis of a brutal past.
golden door, france/italy (world cinema)
director: emanuele crialese
set in 1913, a family of rural sicilians and an english woman (charlotte gainsbourg) leave their homeland and embark on a voyage across the ocean in search of the american dream.
good to great, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: sam tyler
based on jim collins best-selling book of the same name, good to great not only explores large businesses like walgreens, southwest airlines, and starbucks, but also looks into an elementary school classroom and the dallas police department for insight on their reason for success.
gray matters, usa closing night
director: sue kramer
cast: heather graham, alan cumming, sissy spacek, james marsden, alejandro abellan
with plenty of references to 1940s classical hollywood, the film revamps the screwball comedy with a gay twist when heather grahams character falls for the same woman as her brother does.
grbavica, austra/bosnia-herzogovina/germany/croatia (world cinema)
director: jasmila zbanic
a woman and her daughter struggle to make their way through the aftermath of the balkan war.
half nelson, usa (special screening)
director: ryan fleck
cast: ryan gosling, shareeka epps, anthony mackie, monique curnen, karen chilton, tina holmes, collins pennie
an inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
henry, usa/canada (documentary)world premiere
director: dara bratt
abortionist. holocaust survivor. womanizer. crusader. this documentary focuses on one of canadas most infamous figures, dr. henry morgentaler, the man who announced to the media that he had performed 7,000 illegal abortions; and then shocked the country by performing one live on television on mother's day.
hound dog, usa (american independent)
director: deborah kampmeier
cast: dakota fanning, robin wright penn, jill scott
a drama set in the american south where a precocious, troubled girl (dakota fanning) finds a safe haven in the music and movement of elvis presley.
hula girls, japan (east x west)
director: sang-il lee
young women in a small japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a hawaiian village tourist attraction.
humanity ascending, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: patricia gaul
world renowned futurist barbara marx hubbard discusses her vision for the world.
illuminados por el fuego, argentina/spain (latino cinemedia) us premiere
director: tristan bauer
cast: gastn pauls, leguizamn, pablo riva, csar albarracn, hugo carrizo, virginia innocenti, juan leyrado, arturo bonn, jon lucas, mario chaparro, tony lestingi, carlos garmendia, lautaro delgado
the film narrates the memories of a 40-year-old man, esteban leguizamon, who was sent to fight on malvinas islands in 1982 at the age of 18.
in the pit, mexico (latino cinemedia)
director: juan carlos rulfo
a powerful portrait of the construction workers involved in building the second deck of mexico city's periferico freeway.
jack taylor of beverly hills, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
director: cecile leroy beaulieu
documentary examines the dying art of men's custom tailoring through the eyes of one its most colorful characters on the eve of his retirement.
king & the clown, south korea (east x west)
director: jun-ik lee
set in the early 16th century amidst astonishing sets and costumes, two clowns living under the chosun dynasty are arrested for poking fun at the emperor. by cleverly blending comedy and tragedy, this tale of amorous jealousies became south koreas all-time highest grosser.
klunkerz, usa (to the maxxx)
director: william savage
klunkerz takes the viewer for a look at the birth of the sport of mountain biking in a place where it was popularized by the likes of legends gary fisher and tom richey, marin county.
la nina en la piedra, mexico (latino cinemedia) us premiere
director: marisa sistach
cast: gabino rodrguez, sofa espinosa, ricardo polanco, iyant fonseca
in a small town near mexico city, a junior high school student becomes obsessed with his ex-girlfriend and takes advantage of an opportunity to make her pay for her snubs and punish her vanity.
lake of fire, usa (special presentation) us premiere
director: tony kaye
a powerful and brave look at the endlessly rehashed issue of abortion, this 15-years-in-the-making documentary tackles the conflict with shades of grey and offers no right or wrong. while showcasing a wide range of interviews with christian fundamentalists, pro-choicers, politicians, and women, lake of fire focuses mainly on the complexity of the issue and on its physical and psychological reality.
last king of scotland, usa/uk (special presentation)
director: kevin macdonald
cast: forest whitaker, james mcavoy, kerry washington, gillian anderson, simon mcburney
based on the events of the brutal ugandan dictator idi amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
le dernier des fous (demented), france/belgium (world cinema) us premiere
director: laurent achard
cast: julien cochelin, annie cordy, pascal cervo, dominique reymond
a family's madness and despair are seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy in this french-belgian gothic drama. variety (leslie felperin)
lights in the dusk, finland (world cinema)
director: aki kaurismaki
following the masterly the man without a past, finish director aki kaurismaki delves into the noir-ish fable with a security guard done wrong by a femme fatale.
little miss sunshineusa (special presentation)
directors: hyperlink "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206760/" jonathan dayton, hyperlink "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267512/" valerie faris
cast: abigail breslin, greg kinnear, paul dano, alan arkin, toni collette, steve carell
a family determined to get their young daughter into the finals of a beauty pageant take a cross-country trip in their vw bus.
living with lew, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
director: adam bardach
cast: will hooke
a young hollywood comedy writer uses his humor and unfailing optimism to cope with a terminal illness. friends, family, and colleagues in the film business rally around him as he attempts to direct his first feature film.
lost souls, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
directors: natalie sanderson and sumnima udas
santa barbara-based filmmakers examine the impact of the illicit act of art trafficking in nepal.
madeinusa, spain/peru (latino cinemedia)
director: claudia llosa
everything changes in the life of a peruvian girl named madeinusa when salvador arrives to her isolated village in the mountains of peru during a bizarre annual religious celebration.
man in the chair, usa (american independent) world premiere
director: michael schroeder
cast: christopher plummer, michael angarano, robert wagner, m. emmet walsh
in this coming- and ending-of-age story, christopher plummer plays a retired gaffer (the last living crew member of orson welles citizen kane) decided to help out a troubled teenager longing to become the man in the chair.
manufactured landscapes, canada (documentary competition)
director: jennifer baichwal
this portrait of canadian photographer edward burtynsky follows the artist as he travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing, allowing us an unsettling look into contemporary existence.
men at work, iran (world cinema)
director: mani haghighi
a political allegory on four middle-class guys who pile into their car for a ski weekend. a brief stop at a picturesque vista leads to their chance discovery of a prominent rock formation it seems would be oh so easy to tip over, but....
mountain unicycle weekend, usa (to the maxxx) world premiere
director: dorothy littlejohn
two filmmakers, dorothy littlejohn (mountain unicycle weekend) and jess riegel (trials course love 99) document the obscure, yet insane sport of mountain unicycling.
(screening in conjunction with trials course love 99)
of wind and waves: the life of woody brown, usa (to the maxxx)
director: david brown
a retrospective look at the life of 94 year old big wave surfing legend woody brown.
offside, iran (world cinema)
director: jafar panahi
director jafar panahi continues his cinematic crusade against irans social ills and highlights the absurdity of a rule that doesnt allow women to enjoy the beautiful game of soccer.
paprika, japan (east x west)
director: satoshi kon
a machine allows therapists to enter patients' dreams. when it's stolen all hell breaks loose and only a woman therapist (nicknamed "paprika") seems able to stop it.
passion of mao, usa/india (documentary)
director: lee feigon
who knew that communism could be so funny? this madcap documentary reexamines the cultural revolution and restores the once bright reputation of mao zedong.
payback (re-release of 1999 film), usa (special presentation)
director: brian helgeland
cast: mel gibson, gregg henry, maria bello
a more violent version of the 1999 mel gibson flick showcasing the revenge spree of a man gunned in the back by his wife and friend.
pingpong, germany (world cinema)
director: matthias luthardt
in search of a perfect world, 16-year old paul intrudes upon his less-than-welcoming extended family members.
poison friends, france (world cinema)
director: emmanuel bourdieu
the chronicle of academic life as seen through the perspective of close-knit group of students at the transformative stage when they begin to break free from their mutual and dysfunctional alliances.
popular!, usa (latino cinemedia)
director: jen paz
popular! is a look into the discovery of new music experiences. just as the buena vista social club made cuban music famous around the world, charanga habanera has spearheaded the rise of the countrys new music, timba; a fusion of african american hip-hop, funk, and jazz, with afro-cuban son and rumba. (screening in conjunction with those i left behind)
princess, germany/denmark (world cinema)
director: anders morgenthaler
a gorgeous and starkly brutal tale set in the porn underworld, this controversial feature animation follows august as his desire to protect mia and avenge the death of his sister drags him further and further down a path of bloody and fiery destruction.
quantum hoops, usa (documentary competition) world premiere
director: rick greenwald
they may have brilliant careers ahead of them, but its not going to be in the nba. this is the story of the brilliant-minded, yet physically-hapless cal tech mens basketball team, possessors of a 244 game losing streak.
rare bird, bermuda (reel nature) us premiere
director: lucinda spurling
cast: narrated by - elisabeth noone, lawrence doughty, dr. andrew west, britten west, jacob hocking, bryan darby, rick spurling
rare bird is the true story of a 15-year-old boy who helped find a bird believed extinct for over 300 years and solve the mystery of its existence.
red road, uk/denmark (world cinema)
director: andrea arnold
upon coming across a man she hoped never to see again, a cctv operator feels compelled to confront him and exact revenge. in the vein of the conversation and cache, this eerie scottish thriller delves deeply into our culture of surveillance.
retrieval, poland (international feature)
director: slawomir fabicki
stuck in a polish town where money is scarce, 19-year-old wojtak rises up the criminal corporate ladder to support his newly-found girlfriend and her child.
scenes of a sexual nature, uk (american independent) us premiere
director: ed blum
cast: ewan mcgregor, catherine tae, andrew lincoln, hugh bonneville.
sex and love. some seek it, some need it, some spurn it and some pay for it, but we're all involved in it.
sea people of honduras, arctic expedition, desperate measures (sb filmmaker)
directors: rick rosenthal, nick martorano, fred weston smith
three nature films sea people of honduras, arctic expedition, and desperate measures take the viewer to places beyond the normal boundaries of human existence.
season of the samurai, usa (documentary) world premiere
director: matthew asner, danny gold
cast: warren cromartie
documentary follows the on- and off-field exploits of the japan samurai bears, the first all-foreign team to play in an american professional sports league. the bears were led by former major league baseball star, warren cromartie.
severence, germany/uk
director: christopher smith
christopher smith, director of creep, gives us just the right blend of gore and humor in this story of an arms supplier sales team that becomes stranded while on a team-building trip in central europe.
shanghai red, china/usa (world cinema) us premiere
director: oscar luis costo
cast: vivian wu, richard burgi, hong-lei sun, roger yuan , you ge
on her way to avenger her husbands murder, meili zhu meets michael johnson, an american with his own dark past. shanghai red is a tale of finding the truth in ones self and others.
sitting bull: a stone in my heart, usa (sb filmmaker)
director: john ferry
an intimate three-dimensional portrait on not only one of the last great american indian chiefs, but of what many say is one of u.s. historys greatest heroes. director john ferry uses sitting bulls own words to weave a portrait of man to fill in the gaps that history books merely made mention of.
spiral, usa (american independent) world premiere
director: adam green, joel moore
cast: amber tamblyn, zachary levi, joel moore
a reclusive telemarketer (joel moore), whose dysfunctional friendship with his boss (zachary levi) is alleviated when a whimsical co-worker (amber tamblyn) enters his life. but as he begins to sketch his new friend's portrait, disturbing feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of destruction.
stanley cuba, usa (sb filmmaker) world premiere
director: per anderson
intellectual property lawyers from hell pursue stanley cuba, a photographer whose life curiously resembles that of filmmaker stanley kubrick
still kicking, usa (documentary)
director: greg young
this 32-minute film by greg young, offers portraits of six bay area women who have danced, painted, played piano, and otherwise artfully and actively moved into their 80s and 90s and 100s. screens with glimpses of heaven
sukeban boy, japan (east x west)
director: noboru iguchi
wasting no opportunities to spread jiggling flesh across the screen, sukeban boy is a blazingly funny parody of the schoolgirl fetish film. bizarre, hysterical, and horribly wrong in absolutely all the right ways, it is an unmissable guilty pleasure.
summer palace, china/france (east x west)
director: lou ye
an intimate epic that works its way through recent chinese political and social history, roughly from 1987-2001, by depicting young people's first taste of freedom and self-expression and its brutal suppression by authorities.
summercamp!, usa (documentary competition)
director: sarah price, bradley beesley
capturing the staples of camp life, this spirited documentary draws a touching portrait of widely different characters who, in spite of being outcasts in their own communities, find a common ground of friendship, hardship, and psychiatric medication.
super amigos, canada/mexico (latino cinemedia)
director: arturo perez torres
this film follows 5 modern-day superheroes in mexico city as they fight for social justice and human rights.
swimming in auschwitz, usa (documentary) world premiere
director: jon kean
this is the first solely female story of survivors of the holocaust. while facing death, six women recount their experiences of friendship, religion, and laughter to help them endure.
taking guns from boys, liberia/usa (documentary) world premiere
director: jessie deeter
follow united nations force commander daniel opande as he attempts to bring peace to liberia, a west african country torn by civil wars for the last fourteen years.
taxidermia, austria/hungary/france (international feature)
director: gyrgy plfi
grotesque, outrageous, ghastly funny, confrontational, and ultimately memorable, are only a few terms to qualify this stylish assault on the viewing senses. take that first step and you will be mesmerized by the films outlandishly original characters: an obese speed eater, a taxidermist, and a man who shoots fire out of his penis.
ten canoes, australia (latino cinemedia)
directors: rolf de heer, peter djigirr
ten canoes, three wives, 150 spears, trouble. set centuries ago, "ten canoes" is a surreal tragi-comedy set in the remote arafura swamp region of north-eastern arnhem land, australia.
the art of crying, denmark (international feature)
director: peter schnau fog
told from the point-of-view of the youngest son, this darkly black comedy focuses on a morbidly dysfunctional rural family whose father, an egocentric monster, can only be appeased by reciting eulogies for the village residents murdered by his son.
the art of fighting, korea (east x west) us premiere
director: shin han-sol
the sometimes comedic drama of a picked-on weakling who enlists the help of a mysterious older man to combat bullies.
the art of the devil, part 2, thailand (east x west)
directors: pasith buranajan, kongkiat khomsiri, isara nadee, seree phongnithi, yosapong polsap, putipong saisikaew, art thamthrakul
six friends are brought back together after one of their friends die and they're headed into the wild jungles of thailand to honor him. in the jungle awaits someone who wants to take revenge on them for something they did in their school days.
the book of revelation, australia (world cinema)
director: ana kokkinos
cast: tom long, colin friels, greta scacchi
a dancer at the peak of his powers is abducted by three women, abused, then thrown back into the world a broken man. a psychological mystery about a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
the caiman, italy/france (world cinema)
director: nanni moretti
silvio orlando plays bruno, a luckless film producer who inadvertently green-lights a biopic on berlusconi. scenes of brunos deteriorating home life are juxtaposed with movie-within-movie recreations of the high- and lowlights from the former prime ministers career.
the great yo kai war, japan (east x west)
director: takashi miike
a young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great spirit war, where he meets a group of friendly spirits who become his companions through his journey. now he must fight to protect his friends and free the world of the spirits from oppression.
the ground truth, usa (documentary)
director: petricia foulkrod
the filmmaker's subjects are patriotic young americans - ordinary men and women who heeded the call for military service in iraq - as they experience recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to reintegrate with families and communities. short-listed for oscar consideration
the host, south korea (east x west)
director: joon-ho bong
echoing the glory days of an old-fashioned godzilla movie with its unflinching blend of suspense, comedy, and political satire, the film captures a gigantic mutant as it emerges from the han river in seoul to pulverize its citizens.
the island, russia (international feature)
director: pavel lounguine
the island is a vehement and demanding existentialist study of religious devotion and destiny, the story of a man destroyed by guilt and driven to the most extreme spiritual exhaustion as part of his eternal quest for redemption.
the italian, russia (world cinema)
director: andrey kravchuk
the italian is a very human and sympathetic study of a young boy in the grim world of a russian orphanage who remains unwaveringly focused on finding his birth mother.
the journals of knud rasmussen, canada/denmark (cinemedia)
director: zacharias kunuk
drawing from the accounts of knud rasmussen, a danish-greenlandic inuit explorer, the coming of christianity and commerce to the canadian north is seen through the eyes of the last great shaman of igloolik and his headstrong daughter.
the killer within, usa (documentary competition) us premiere
director: macky alston
bob bechtel is in his seventies and teaches the psychology of youth violence at the unviersity of arizona. leading a normal life with his wife and children, he suddenly decides to reveal a terrible secret: fifty years ago, bob went on a school rampage, killing another student because of intense bullying, or so he claims...
the lives of others, germany (world cinema)
director: florian henckel von donnersmarck
in 1984 east berlin, a stasi officer of the omni-feared communist secret police becomes fascinated with the man on which he is instructed to spy, a celebrated playwright involved with a famous stage actress.
the maid, singapore (east x west)
director: kelvin tong
a filipino maid starts work with an opera troupe on the first day of the chinese seventh month, also known as the hungry ghosts festival. oblivious to traditional customs, she trespasses onto the spiritual boundaries and begins her series of strange encounters.
the number 23, usa (special presentation) world premiere
director: joel schumacher
cast: jim carrey, virginia madsen
a man (jim carrey) becomes obsessed with a book that appears to be based on his life but ends with a murder that has yet to happen in real life.
the pacific and eddy, usa (american independent) world premiere
director: matthew nourse
cast: ryan donowho, dominique swain, james duval, nikki sudden, susan highsmith, mark gregg
in the wake of a sudden loss and after being alienated from his friends, eddy finds refuge in the swells of the pacific where he must look inward to deal with the loss he never truly mourned.
the passion of the mao, usa/india (documentary)
director: lee feigon
who knew that communism could be so funny? this madcap documentary reexamines the cultural revolution and restores the once bright reputation of mao zedong.
the perverts guide to cinema, uk/austria/netherlands (documentary competition) us premiere
director: sophie fiennes
in this three-part documentary, acclaimed philosopher slavoj zizek guides us through a journey of discovery, humor and psychoanalyis to unravel cinemas dirty little secrets. be ready to reevaluate everything you thought you knew about film and the power of its language.
the queen, uk/france/italy (special presentation)
director: stephen frears
cast: helen mirren, michael sheen, james cromwell
after the untimely death of lady diana spencer, queen elizabeth's restrained reaction causes a public relations debacle that prime minister tony blair must defuse.
the trials of darryl hunt, usa (documentary)
director: ricki stern, anne sundberg
"the trials of darryl hunt" is a feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, darryl hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film chronicles this capital case from 1984 through 2004. with exclusive footage from two decades the film frames the judicial and emotional response to a chilling crime - and the implications that reverberate from hunt's conviction - against a backdrop of class and racial bias in the south and in the american criminal justice system. short-listed for oscar consideration.
those i left behind, cuba (latino cinemedia)
director: lisandro perez-rey
filmmaker lisandro perez-rey looks into the strength of the cuban family, despite being separated by politics and the atlantic ocean. (screening in conjunction with popular!)
trade, usa
director: marco kreuzpaintner
cast: kevin kline, cesar ramos, paulina gaitan.
adriana is a 13-year-old girl from mexico city whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by her 17-year-old brother, jorge, to save her.
triad election, hong kong (east x west)
director: johnny to
a follow-up to the golden palm winner election, this sequel follows current triad chairman lok who faces competition from his godsons as he looks to increase his business relations with mainland china.
trials course love 99, usa (to the maxxx) world premiere
director: dorothy littlejohn, jess riegel
two filmmakers, dorothy littlejohn (mountain unicycle weekend) and jess riegel (trials course love 99) document the obscure, yet insane sport of mountain unicycling.
(screening in conjunction with mountain unicycle weekend.)
tv set, usa
director: jake kasdan
cast: david duchovny, sigourney weaver, ioan gruffudd, justine bateman, judy greer
the story of a tv pilot as it goes through the network tv process of casting, production, and finally airing.
united gates of america, usa/united kingdom (documentary) us premiere
director: alex cooke
pulitzer prize-winning reporter charlie leduff and documentary director alex cooke journey into the heart of bush country to examine the phenomenon of gated communities.
view from a grain of sand, usa (documentary)
director: meena nanji
taken from three individuals, the story of the initially gradual then dramatic loss of womens rights in afghanistan because of religious fundamentalism, war, and international interference.
waiter, netherlands/belgium (international feature)
director: alex van warmerdam
stuck in a crummy job at a run-down restaurant, fifty-year-old waiter edgar has had enough of his miserable existence. but he is about to find out the hard way that his life is truly stranger than fiction.
we just work here, usa (to the maxxx) world premiere
director: brian vernor
from the director of last years wildly successful pure sweet hell comes a film about the artisans, frame builders, and racers of santa cruz bicycles.
welcome home, spain (latino cinemedia) us premiere
director: david trueba
cast: pilar lpez de ayala, alejo sauras, ariadna gil, juan echanove, jorge sanz
aspiring photographer samuel bids farewell to his country village and domineering mother and heads for madrid to live with his girl friend, eva. while investigating a murder with a female coworker, samuel discovers his biggest surprise yet....
zen & zero, austria (to the maxxx)
director: michael ginthoer
young austrians travel from california to costa rica on a surfing trip that eventually becomes a philosophical journey.
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