SIFF 2013 Top Film Picks

African Films

The African Cypher (South Africa) * TOP PICK *
Dancing is an integral part of many societies, but in South Africa, it becomes a fashion, a status symbol, and a set of morals to guide by and a way of life. Bryan Little does a fantastic job of letting the story tell itself as he follows and interviews various dancers throughout South African townships as they eventually end up at the “Big Dance Competition”. Featuring breathtaking dance sequences, it is clear that in South Africa, dancing is less of a social experience and more a form of personal expression. - PETER WOODBURN
May 18, 2013 – 6:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 19, 2013 – 1:00 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11

Horses of God – Les Chevaux de Dieu (Morocco)
On May 16, 2003, a total of 45 people died in Casablanca, Morocco in what is the country’s worst terrorist attack in history. Horses of God follows the trials and tribulations of the youths living in the shanty towns of Sidi Moumen, where eventually all of the suicide bombers would hail from. Horses of God is wide in its scope, following the kids from childhood to adulthood as they become disenfranchised from the richer Moroccan sector and find their solace in extremist Islamic views. - PETER WOODBURN
June 7, 2013 – 6:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 8, 2013 – 6:00 PM – Kirkland Performance Center

East Asian & Southeast Asian Films

The Act of Killing (Denmark / Indonesia) * TOP PICK *
Harrowing and bizarre in almost every way imagined by humanity, The Act of Killing follows perpetrators of 1960s death squad genocides as they recreate the historical events, scaring babies, relishing in hypothetical murder, and stirring up horrific memories and sights along the way. This film feels like something that truly needs to be seen to be believed. Documentary master Werner Herzog describes the film, saying, “I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade… it is unprecedented in the history of cinema.” - Vivian Hua
May 18, 2013 – 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
May 22, 2013 – 9:30 PM Harvard Exit

The Guillotines – 血滴子 (China / Hong Kong)
Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) makes an ode to Fatal Flying Guillotine that looks kind of like a Transformers movie. I’ve had pretty good luck with big dumb wuxia epics at SIFF before, so why not try my luck again? - Allen Huang
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June 1, 2013 – 11:55 PM – Egyptian Theatre

Pieta – 피에타 (South Korea) * TOP PICK *
I haven’t seen a Kim Ki-Duk movie since 2006′s Time, at which point I got fairly sick of the director’s predictable formula and aesthetic tics. But there’s always been something fascinating about his absurdist morality plays (3-Iron being the best execution of this), and since the waning of the Korean Film Wave, it’d be nice to get reacquainted with Kim’s style. A little research says he’s been through a lot of personal shit lately, culminating in the documentary Arirang. It’ll be interesting to see whether his meditations on death and loss and tragedy actually lead to a revised outlook on life. - Allen Huang
May 17, 2013 – 10:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 19, 2013 – 9:00 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11

A River Changes Course (Cambodia) * TOP PICK *
The things which move me with burning desire to see this film lies in the spaces beyond words or even location. Arresting cinematography turn everything in this documentary focus on Cambodia – from the country’s most rural to its most industrial centers – into splendid, arresting works of moving art. Vivian Hua
May 26, 2013 – 5:30 PM - SIFF Cinema Uptown Uptown
May 27, 2013 – 12:00 PM - SIFF Cinema Uptown Uptown

The Rocket (Australia / Laos)
October Sky but in Laos, and instead of Chris Cooper, a dude named Uncle Purple. I liked October Sky, but it definitely needed more lush jungle scenes and a James Brown impersonator. - Allen Huang
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May 22, 2013 – 4:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 24, 2013 – 6:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

Wolf Children – Ookami Kodomo no Ame to Yuki (Japan) * TOP PICK *
When people talk about who will take up Hayao Miyazaki‘s mantle as the king of Japanese animated film, two names come up time and time again. One, Makoto Shinkai, whose last film Children Who Chase Lost Voices took those comparisons very seriously, and two, Mamoru Hosoda, whose last three films have won a plethora of awards, including the Japan Academy Animation of the Year for all three films. Hosoda shares many of Miyazaki’s traits: fascination with young women as protagonists, bright color schemes, and a firm grasp of character development. But while his last two films were sci-fi in nature, Wolf Children is pure fantasy that doesn’t hesitate to deal with some very real themes. - Allen Huang
June 1, 2013 – 11:00 AM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 3, 2013 – 7:00 PM – Egyptian Theatre

Eastern European & Western European Films

Celestial Wives of Meadow Mari – Nebesnye Ženy Lugovykh Mari (Russia)
Folkloric and full of whimsy, this film by Aleksey Fedorchenko, the director of Silent Souls, is deeply embedded in nature and sunshine as it bizarrely and playfully links together the stories of twenty-two women whose names all begin with the letter O. Magic, strange creatures, and beautiful women abound, and it seems like anything goes. - Vivian Hua
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June 6, 2013 – 8:30 PM – Kirkland Performance Center
June 8, 2013 – 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
June 9, 2013 – 4:00 PM Harvard Exit

Cockneys vs. Zombies (United Kingdom)
Lazy comparisons will label this film the East London version of Shaun of the Dead; and while it lacks the insatiable wit and satire the Edgar Wright/Simon Pegg masterpiece had, Cockneys vs. Zombies has plenty of odes to the working class section of London, plenty of blood to satisfy the zombie craving, and enough Cockney accents to make this a borderline foreign film. It is a tribute to the less glamorous side of London in the best way possible. - PETER WOODBURN
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June 8, 2013 – 11:55 PM – Egyptian Theatre
June 9, 2013 – 8:30 PM – Kirkland Performance Center

Harmony Lessons – Uroki Garmonii (Kazakhstan) * TOP PICK *
The work of Kazakh director Emir Baigazin, Harmony Lessons takes a look at the rarely-represented Eurasian country through the eyes of young boys, as they bully and are bullied, abuse and are abused. The interactions between characters are raw, often feeling unrefined in their simplicity – but it is this sense of raw honesty that makes the moments captivating, as well as made it a main contender of the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival. - Vivian Hua
June 4, 2013 – 8:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 6, 2013 – 3:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

The Hunt – Jagten (Denmark) * TOP PICK *
Thomas Vinterburg is the other guy when it comes to Dogma 95. Less prolific, less incendiary but no less talented than Von Trier, Vinterburg weaves similarly intricate character studies, all without dooming the entirety of humanity time and time again. The Hunt, his first film since 2010′s Submarino, won best actor at Cannes for Mads Mikkelsen, whose best known in America for playing the main antagonist in Casino Royale. A desperate, pained character study about a man wrongfully accused of being a child molester, the visual tone alone make it look worthwhile. - Allen Huang
June 4, 2013 – 7:00 PM Harvard Exit
June 6, 2013 – 4:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

Paradise: Love – Paradies: Liebe (Austria)
Paradise: Faith – Paradies: Glaube (Austria)
Paradise: Hope – Paradies: Hoffnung (Austria)
The Paradise Trilogy by Ulrich Siedl might be grouped as such, but each chapter of the series explores a facet of humanity in a vastly different way, as it follows an overweight 50-year-old Caucasian woman as she explores Kenya’s sex tourism scene (Love), a religious self-flagellating missionary (Faith), and a 13-year-old as she experiences the highs and lows of weight-loss camp (Hope). - Vivian Hua
Paradise: Love – VIEW TRAILER
May 23, 2013 – 3:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 27, 2013 – 8:30 PM Harvard Exit
Paradise: Faith – VIEW TRAILER
May 22, 2013 – 6:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 25, 2013 – 12:30 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11
Paradise: Hope – VIEW TRAILER
May 23, 2013 – 6:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 25, 2013 – 3:00 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11

Yesterday Never Ends – Ayer no termina nunca (Spain)
In this age, the near future might be more compelling than the distant beyond. To formulate what the world might be like in the next five, ten years is in many ways much more difficult than imagining a distant utopia/dystopia. Spanish Director Isabel Coixet takes a stab at it, framing a love story with a world where financial ruin is the norm and not the fear. - Allen Huang
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June 1, 2013 – 5:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 2, 2013 – 12:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

Middle Eastern Films

A World Not Ours – Alam laysa lana (Lebanon)
It’s a rare occasion that I enjoy a purposely awkward film, but A World Is Not Ours is not awkward because it is channeling Napoleon Dynamite hipness – but because it is a home video surrounding topics which one might never expect to see via home videos. This is awkwardness on screen that feels its way into your bones, as you realize, while watching videos of small children posing jokingly with guns or grown men filmed on cellphones while commenting on how trapped they feel in society, that you’re damned fortunate for being in a movie theatre, or in your home, or wherever, being given the luxury of watching a film from the other side of the world, while some people might never be able to even imagine what that would be like. Not that the film is necessarily purposely trying to be a bummer or anything, necessarily – there certainly seem to be funny casual moments from time-to-time – but often, even those are rooted in scenarios we might consider way too discomforting in their “realness”.
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May 23, 2013 – 3:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 27, 2013 – 8:30 PM Harvard Exit

After the Battle – Baad el Mawkeaa (France / Egypt)
This drama is based on the true story of the horsemen President Mubarak hired to stifle the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The horsemen, many of whom were caught between personal poverty and political turmoil during the Arab Spring, were widely condemned by fellow Egyptians following the event. Yousry Nasrallah paints a delicate picture of these horsemen, vilified throughout the country for good reason, but also widely misunderstood for their actions as well. - PETER WOODBURN
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May 23, 2013 – 6:30 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11
May 25, 2013 – 2:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

North American Films

A Band Called Death (United States)
When people throw around the names of bands that birthed punk rock, the Motown-based trio Death are often left off the list. This is quite understandable, as the three brothers from a working-class black neighborhood never saw the success that their peers in The Ramones and The Sex Pistols did at the time, and it wasn’t until much later in life that anyone actually heard of the band. Jeff Howlett and Mark Convino craft an interesting documentary in A Band Called Death, doing the most punk rock thing possible — being a punk band without even realizing it. - PETER WOODBURN
May 18, 2013 – 3:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 28, 2013 – 9:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

Blackbird (Canada)
Sean Randall is a social outcast in high school and makes threats online, which, after the terrors of the Newtown shootings, land him in the hands of the police and eventually in jail. Toeing the fine line that of what constitutes enough action to be guilty of jail time, Randall’s experience in Waterville, one of the country’s toughest youth prisons, forces him to realize that although he may have changed, public and media perceptions of the non-teen killer only drive him further down the spiral of depression. - PETER WOODBURN
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May 31, 2013 – 8:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 2, 2013 – 11:00 AM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

The Bling Ring (United States)
Perfect companion piece to Spring Breakers? I’ve never been thrilled by a Sofia Coppola film but I wasn’t a big Korine fan either, and his film blew me away. Here’s hoping that these teenage criminals aren’t given some reductivist morally-redemptive ending and the film stays meta. - ALLEN HUANG
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June 9, 2013 – 6:30 PM Cinerama (Closing Night Gala)

I Declare War (United States)
A group of kids gathered with arms and sticks head off into the woods to play a game of Capture the Flag. On this day, the two sides find out the treacheries of war as their fake weapons turn into real instruments of death in a homage to Stand By Me and Lord of the Flies. - PETER WOODBURN
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May 20, 2013 – 7:00 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11
May 21, 2013 – 4:30 PM – AMC Pacific Place 11

Muscle Shoals (United States)
I’m a huge fan of the Numero Group’s archivist efforts, and especially the amount of context they provide with their releases. They’ve devoted chapter after chapter to the musically rich legacy of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and I’m going to eat up every second of this documentary because of that. - Allen Huang
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May 29, 2013 – 7:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 30, 2013 – 4:30 PM – Egyptian Theatre

Somm (United States)
The Master Sommelier exam is one of the hardest exams in the world, with one of the lowest passing rates across the globe. Jason Wise follows four individuals attempting to pass the Master Sommelier exam, something less than 200 people have ever done, also granting humorous insights into the bizarre and glamorous world of high-priced wine. - PETER WOODBURN
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June 2, 2013 – 4:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 4, 2013 – 7:30 PM – Kirkland Performance Center

The Way, Way Back (United States) * TOP PICK *
14-year-old Duncan is forced to spend the summer at his mother’s new boyfriend’s house in this coming-of-age story rife with dysfunction. This is worth seeing just for the directorial debut of Jim Rash and Nat Faxon, who won Oscars for writing The Descendants. Featuring Steve Carrell and Sam Rockwell. - PETER WOODBURN
May 25, 2013 – 6:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 26, 2013 – 4:30 PM – Egyptian Theatre

Yellow (United States)
Mary Holmes mental breakdowns force wild hallucinations and daddy dreams as a substitute teacher flees to her Oklahoman upbringing to try and get some peace and quiet. Instead of solace, she finds drama in the family that was never resolved when she left home in the first place. Yellow a visually stunning, excessively colorful film showcasing what happens when people truly hit rock bottom. - PETER WOODBURN
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May 23, 2013 – 7:00 PM – Egyptian Theatre
May 24, 2013 – 4:30 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 25, 2013 – 6:00 PM – Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center

South American Films

7 Boxes – 7 Cajas (Paraguay)
This low -budget action film from Paraguay proves you don’t need big Hollywood bucks to keep the chase scenes interesting. 17-year-old Victor is offered $100 dollars to deliver the contents of seven boxes across town, and of course, little does he know the boxes contain something from some sinister plot. Soon, he is being chased by both the police and others who want those boxes at a breakneck, foot-racing speed throughout town. - PETER WOODBURN
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May 29, 2013 – 6:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 30, 2013 – 4:00 PM – SIFF Cinema Uptown

Éden (Brazil)
What can I say? I love me a good cult film – in the literal, religious dysfunction sense of the term. Éden, which tells the story of a pregnant woman who finds a charismatic evangelist and his strange Church of Éden after her husband is murdered, certainly fits the bill with paranoid tension and visually-striking imagery. - Vivian Hua
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June 7, 2013 – 10:00 PM - SIFF Cinema Uptown Uptown
June 8, 2013 – 2:00 PM - SIFF Cinema Uptown Uptown

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2. SIFF 2012 Festival Preview: Asian & Middle Eastern Film Picks
3. SIFF 2012 Festival Preview: Documentary Film Picks

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Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) 2013 Preview: Films We’re Looking At Potentially Being Excited About

The Portland International Film Festival (PIFF) is upon us again, and we have whittled down their list of 100+ international shorts and full-length films to summarize the most interesting, socially-conscious, and boundary-pushing of the bunch.

This year’s festival runs from February 7th through the 23rd, beginning with an Opening Night celebration featuring Blancanieves, a silent Spanish reworking of Snow White. Purchase tickets and find out more.

Our festival preview begins below with this year’s top five picks, followed by the rest in alphabetical order.

Beyond The Hills
Directed by Cristian Mungiu (Romania)
Based on the novels of Tatiana Niculescu Bran, which are real-life documents of demonic possession, Beyond The Hills is a bleak and stark religious drama set an Orthodox monastery in Moldovia. Though Alina (Cirstina Flutur) heads to the monastery to convince her friend Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) to leave and return to Germany, Alina finds herself sucked more and more into the environment and its callings. Flutur and Stratan both shared the Best Actress Prize at Cannes Film Festival for these performances.
         Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:30 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

Hannah Arendt
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta (Germany)
Based on the life of German philosopher and writer Hannah Arendt, Hannah Arendt chronicles her writings for The New Yorker on the 1961 war crimes trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann covered a scenario that was not black and white but veiled in greys, causing great conflict and protest amongst an American public and the publication’s editing staff. Hannah Arendt is a drama about journalism, and the social duty of reporting as one sees as truthful, rather than as it is idealized or pressured to be.
         Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

Laurence Anyways
Directed by Xavier Dolan (Canada)
Despite being happy and in love, high school teacher Laurence finally reveals to his girlfriend Fred his long-standing desire to become a woman. Fred agrees to support him on his quest, though once the transformations begin, social complications begin to pressure, ostracize, and place fear into the hearts of the couple. Through it all, Laurence Anyways is a tale of love and the ability to weather storms for it.
         Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 8 PM (Cinema 21)
         Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10)

Leviathan
Directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel (United States)
Leviathan presents experimental filmmaking at its finest or its worst, depending on your opinion of macro-view, immersive documentary art. The New York Film Festival describes Leviathan as “a hallucinatory sensory experience quite unlike any other”, and the trailer is seems to assert this with views of commercial fishing, as presented with only abstract sounds and imagery.
         Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:15 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6 PM (Cinemagic)

Lore
Directed by Cate Shortland (Australia)
After World War II and the death of Adolf Hitler, five young children are left to fend for themselves when their Nazi SS parents are captured. In an attempt to reach their grandparents in Hamburg, they traverse 500 miles of changing landscapes, meeting unfortunate families along the way and finding a savior in a young Jewish man whose kindness goes against all of their programmed teachings.
         Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:45 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10)

After Lucia
Directed by Michel Franco (Mexico)
In this jarring Mexican drama about teenage cruelty, unfortunate circumstances become exponentially worse after bullying enters the equation. Alejandra is a young teen still dealing with the death of her mother, when she finds herself in a new town. One drunken mistake soon spins into a web of social abuse and bends stunted familial communication further beyond repair. After Lucia won the main prize in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes Film Festival and is this year’s Mexican submission for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:15 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)
         Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)

Alien Boy: The Death and Life of James Chasse
Directed by Brian Lindstrom (United States)
The ever-complex circumstances surrounding the United States’ mental health resources are examined in Alien Boy: The Death and Life of James Chasse, a documentary about a schizophrenic young man who was beaten to death by police officers in Portland, Oregon in 1996.
         Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7 PM (Cinema 21)

American Winter
Directed by Joe Gantz, Harry Gantz (United States)
Shot over the winter months of 2011 to 2012, American Winter is an intimate portrait that follows the lives of eight Portland households that find themselves falling into poverty for the first time. A reflection on the current economic crisis, these families are just a small cross-section of the larger trend, as American Winter navigates how families deal with new financial difficulties and the use of social services.
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Cinemagic)

Chinese Take-Out (Un Cuento Chino)
Directed by Sebastián Borensztein (Argentina)
South America is surprisingly prevalent with Chinese immigrants, and this multicultural comedy takes a close look at the life of Roberto, a routine-oriented owner of a hardware store in Buenos Aires, after a Chinese immigrant named Jun begins living in his home. Listed as Chinese Take-Out at PIFF, this film is more often listed as Chinese Take-Away.
         Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 2:30 PM (World Trade Center Theater)
         Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3 PM (World Trade Center Theater)

Coming of Age (Anfang 80)
Directed by Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl (Austria)
Almost everyone fears to grow old and to die alone, or to never truly fall in love. Bruno and Rosa meet when Rosa only has six months left to live – but despite internal and external opposition, the two seniors decide to choose a life of mortality and happiness rather than its dreary opposite. The description “cute old people” seems to sum up Coming of Age fairly accurately.
         Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10)
         Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10)

Comrade Kim Goes Flying
Directed by Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bonner, Kim Gwang Hun (North Korea)
There’ve been times when I have mentioned Korea’s music or art scene and been met with the question, “North or South?” To these people, I’ve often scoffed, relaying that nothing comes out of North Korea, for its dictatorship is in full reign and its free speech mostly suppressed. Yet now, with Comrade Kim Goes Flying, my less politically-savvy friends can finally rest assured that their inquiries are in part valid, for North Korea is now sending films to the global marketplace. The calisthenics-participating ways of gymnast and coal miner Kim Yong-mi may lead one to believe romance is alive and well in North Korea, in a film that is visually and musically reminiscent of grainy old-school films from mainland China. The trailer may not reveal much – and seems not to give one any sense of the “comedy” that is supposedly inherent in this “romantic comedy” — but on the basis of seeing a different side of North Korea that is not Vice Magazine’s expository fright-fest, one might take interest in Comrade Kim Goes Flying.
         Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:15 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)
         Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

The End of Time
Directed by Peter Mettler (Canada)
How, oh how, do we as mere humans, with our three-dimensional knowledge of the world, learn to wrap our heads around Father Time? Swiss-Canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler apparently wondered the same when he set out around the globe to explore the past and the present, with modern and primitive cultures, to document and research how they relate to and philosophize about time. The film seems to bring up a series of rhetorical questions set against pleasant imagery — and it seems unclear whether the film actually brings one any closer to understanding the nature of time… but it seems that Mettler is at least trying.
         Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 3:15 PM (World Trade Center Theater)
         Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6 PM (World Trade Center Theater)

The Gatekeepers
Directed by Dror Moreh (Israel)
A film with great explosive and divisive potential, The Gatekeepers gives an inside look at the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, as pieced together via interviews from intelligence officers and former directors of the Israeli security agency Shin Bet.
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 5:15 PM (Cinema 21)
         Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6 PM (Cinemagic)

A Hijacking (Kapringen)
Directed by Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
Possibilities are bound and sea-stranded in this tense drama about a cargo ship that is hijacked by Somali pirates, who take all of the crew members hostage. Ransom and negotiations are far from smooth as the company’s alpha male president decides to take matters into his own hands, at the risk of sacrificing the life of his workers.
         Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 6 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)

The Hunt (Jagten)
Directed by Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark)
A small community becomes a dangerous breeding ground of misunderstanding and suspicion as Lucas (Mads Mikkelsen) is charged with child molestation. Though the charge is overturned, the outcome remains unchanged in the eyes of the community, as Lucas feels first-hand the cruelty of former friends and neighbors who wish to exact vengeance.
         Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Whitsell Auditorium)
         Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10

Just The Wind (Csak a Szél)
Directed by Benedek Fliegauf (Hungary)
Simply watching the trailer for Just The Wind will give one a sense of the film’s near-documentary style of capturing mundane oddities in backwoods Hungary. All things said, the destination seems almost as important as the filmmaking vehicle. This year’s Hungarian submission for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
         Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)
         Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

Keep Smiling (Gaigimet)
Directed by Rusudan Chkonia (Georgia)
A roving eye captures the drama between ten housewives shallowly hoping to win a beauty competition open only to mothers with three or more children. Soon it becomes apparent that the competition is all a fraud, and things begin to fall apart even further, unraveling in true tragicomic fashion.
         Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:45 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)
         Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
Directed by Mark Kendall (United States)
Decommissioned school busses leave the United States daily to become transformed into community vehicles for Guatemalans. La Camioneta: The Journey of the American School Bus, follows one repurposed vehicle on its pilgrimage towards a more useful and colorful life, wherein five Guatemalans impacted by the bus reveal their stories.
         Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6 PM (World Trade Center Theater)
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM (World Trade Center Theater)

Reality
Directed by Matteo Garrone (Italy)
Reality is a color explosion that pokes fun at Italian high society and its population’s shallow desires for fame! Part fantastical and part realistic, this film light-heartedly portrays reality as it sometimes really exists – in ways stranger and more whimsical than fiction.
         Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)
         Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:45 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)

Nairobi Half Life
Directed by David Tosh Gitonga (Kenya)
19-year-old Mwas leaves his village life to pursue his dreams in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi — but his starry-eyed view of the world is soon shattered. As he falls into a life of crime and violence, Mwas struggles with holding onto glimpses of his former dreams. This is Kenya’s second film ever to be nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
         Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 10)

Our Children (À Perdre La Raison)
Directed by Joachim Lafosse (Belgium)
Based on the story of Genevieve Lhermitte, Our Children tells of Murielle (Émilie Dequenne), who can’t seem to escape a nightmarish marriage full of financial struggle and suffocating interpersonal relationships, as she is surrounded by a demanding husband and a domineering father-in-law.
         Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Regal Lloyd Center 4)
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Regal Fox Tower 6)

Paradise: Love (Paradies: Liebe)
Directed by Ulrich Seidl (Austria)
The first in director Ulrich Seidl’s Paradise trilogy, Paradise: Love is about the collision of Christian virtues with secular life. Middle-aged Teresa visits a sex tourism destination in Kenya, where what she wants and the rigid rules she believes in become ever more obscured and foreign.
         Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6 PM (Cinemagic)
         Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:45 PM (Cinemagic)

The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
Directed by Sophie Fiennes (Great Britain)
2006′s The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (see our review HERE) gets a follow-up, as Slovenian philosopher and film theoretician Slavoj Žižek once again waxes poetic — this time, on how films are representations of collective fantasies. A hodge-podge of films are included in The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, including Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music, John Carpenter’s They Live, Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, and Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver.
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 12 PM (Cinema 21)
         Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:30 PM (Cinema 21)

Polluting Paradise (Der Müll im Garten Eden)
Directed by Fatih Akin (Germany)
In the 2000s, the Turkish village of Çamburnu was accidentally turned into a garbage landfill when a nearby site began to pollute the village’s air and groundwater. From 2006 to 2011, director Fatih Akin returned to Turkey numerous times to chronicle the ever-growing problem and government neglect of Çamburnu’s environmental woes.
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 3 PM (World Trade Center Theater)
         Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 12:45 PM (World Trade Center Theater)

Post Tenebras Lux
Directed by Carlos Reygadas (Mexico)
Post Tenebras Lux is a film that could most certainly fall flat on its face or be a work of genius, but the words of the Stockholm Film Festival make it sound eerily enticing: “In this expressionistic Mexican film, magnificent dreamlike exteriors together with memories and dream sequences tell the story of one man’s ability to resist temptation and stop himself from sinning. The story is at times told from the perspective of Satan, showing us the world through the Devil’s ambivalent eyes. The use of a nonlinear storyline gives way for emotions, hopes, and dreams of a family looking for redemption and the meaning of life.”
         Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6 PM (Cinema 21)
         Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6 PM (Cinema 21)

Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes)
Directed by Jaume Balagueró (Spain)
A film that grows ever more sinister as it develops, Sleep Tight follows César, the doorman of a Barcelona apartment building, and his ever-growing distaste for one of the building’s residents, Clara. In unpredictable fashion, César becomes increasingly obsessed with the woman – not as a person in love, but as one who aims to ruin her life as completely as possible.
         Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:45 PM (World Trade Center Theater)
         Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:30 PM (Cinema 21)
         Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 6 PM (World Trade Center Theater)

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During the 1960s, a flood of immigration brought thousands of Turks from their homeland to Germany, with promises of well-paying career opportunities. Without cultural context, one might find such a German and Turkish association to be bizarre — but when given historical context, which the heartwarming and humorous Almanya — Willkommen in Deutschland provides, one begins to understand the fascinating culture surrounding that population, which has now spent decades in a foreign country.

Almanya documents the story of a Turkish family, headed by a grandpa who has seen his children grow to father more children in Germany. Each member of the large family seems to hold a different opinion about his or her Turkish-German upbringing and personal degree of assimilation — so when grandpa declares over dinner that he has purchased a home in Turkey and would like to take a family trip for everyone to see it, he is met with much resistance. Even his wife of many years is surprised and disappointed by the news. To this, he sternly questions, “Have I ever asked anything of you?” and the family falls silent, only to eventually acquiesce to grandpa’s will. From there, the film flies through timelines and decades, recapping the family’s immigration from Turkey to Germany with all of the pomp and romanticism that all who dream of a new opportunities no doubt have. But while the film humorously spotlights the excitement of grandpa’s past, it also expresses, on the behalf of both the grandparents and their Turkish-born children, a sense of nostalgia for a motherland that lies as a gateway between Europe and Asia.

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The first half of Almanya is mostly fun and games, but the film’s cultural relevance truly becomes apparent once the family goes to Turkey. There, family chemistries are examined and mixed-culture dynamics become fertile breeding grounds for both profound ideas and great misunderstandings. The film oscillates back and forth between Turkish and German; and with seemingly no rhyme or reason guiding their language choices, the speech becomes reminiscent of dreams — or even more abstractly, the intangible ambiguities where cultures collide. When it is not being exceptionally humorous, Almanya stirs up serious sentiments by raising questions about family, dedication to family, and cultural belonging on an individual as well as mass scale. One is left musing over what culture really is — whether it is steeped in language or tradition, or if it is a sense of oneself.

Glimpses into the lives of family members serve as clues in unraveling this mystery, which has answers that vary with each and every person. Grandma’s simple modesty and child-like giddiness at finally receiving her German passport becomes adorable; grandpa’s severity proves itself to be the necessary strong arm in the family. One feels deeply for the children who departed from Turkey at a young age only to remain eternally confused about their place between two countries, and for the second-generation Turkish-German child whose city of origin, Anatolia, is so foreign to Germans that it is excluded from his classroom’s all-Europe map.

Despite being a seemingly unlikely cultural comedy-drama, Almanya proves time and time again that it is a film that breaks new ground. Whether poking fun at the sausage and potato-eating ways of Germans or hilariously showing the lack of modern sanitation facilities in Almanya, its jokes are simultaneously closed-minded and very sympathetic — a duality wherein anyone with even a bit of context about Islam or the differences between German and Turkish cultures will agree: Almaya is impartial in its teasing. It is a film that boldly bridges cultural gaps while celebrating ethnic eccentricities, and it succeeds in a way that only a film crew respectful and knowledgeable about both German and Turkish culture can.

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Almanya – Welcome To Germany (Almanya – Willkommen in Deutschland) (2011) Film Review

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Wes Anderson’s Moonrise Kingdom Giveaway!

Directed by Naoko Ogigami

Director Naoko Ogigami is sort of a Japanese Wes Anderson — someone who lives and dies by the quirkiness of her films. Rent-A-Cat is chock full of repeated scenarios. Each time Sayoko loans a cat to someone, that person returns the cat a later date, once his or her life has moved on in the way that he or she had hoped it would. But in the end, for an American audience, Rent-A-Cat is a film about a crazy cat lady. Ichikawa is charming enough as the good-natured Sayoko, but the film gets stuck in a rut that doesn’t really move anywhere. Just when it seems that Sayoko is cracking under the pressure of her loneliness, she is back to loaning out cats to strangers. Characters come in and out as they please, sometimes with little to no reason at all. The pinnacle of all this randomness is Sayoko’s neighbor, an old man dressed as a woman with a tendency for unusually cruel remarks.

The film tends to slow down when not much is going on, and these moments usually involve Sayoko talking to her cats or to herself. It happens often, but when Rent-A-Cat gets going with its quirkiness, the whole plotline becomes a bit too adorable to ignore. The idea of someone loaning out cats to combat loneliness seems so foreign, yet so appropriate for a Japanese movie.

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Fuck My Wedding takes up where its predecessor Fuck My Life ends. Javier (Ariel Levy) proposes to his berserkly attractive girlfriend Ángela (Andrea Velasco) after she accidentally gets pregnant. From the onset, it is clear that Javier’s head isn’t in the relationship, as he is tempted by his boss’s daughter Lucia (Lorenzo Izzo), and romantic comedy affairs follow. Javier makes mistakes, Angela sticks with him, breaking points are reached, and whether the couple stay together or not becomes the underlying theme.

Director Nicolás López does a good job of keeping the laughs coming throughout Fuck My Wedding. Jávier’s mother’s rotating collection of tracksuits keep the ridiculousness of her character aloof, and outside of a rather unnecessary, slightly racist bit on the topic of an adopted Haitian child, most of the jokes come in the form of good humor and taste. Jávier somehow maintains a slightly loveable demeanor despite being one of the most moronic fiances seen this side of the Panama Canal.

At its heart, Fuck My Wedding is a slightly inoffensive and pretty standard romantic comedy. Of course, the problem with this is that most standard romantic comedies aren’t anything to write home about. Although López tries to keep it a bit different at times, Fuck My Wedding still falls victim to standard cliches that drown a lot of romantic comedies, with characters making decisions that no real person would ever make. But that is the beauty of cinema, perhaps; individuals like the bumbling, yet loveable, Javier still have a fighting chance with the beauties of the world.

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June 6th @ 3:30pm, Harvard Exit Theatre

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Fellipe Legorjus (Kassovitz) is the captain of the GIGN, a special forces unit trained to tactically deal with terrorist operations generally involving hostages. Legorjus arrives on the island of New Caledonia because Kanak separatists led by Alphonse Dianou (Iabe Lapacas) have taken 30 French policemen hostage. Legorjus meets with Dianou in an effort to peacefully return the hostages against the odds and pressures of the French government and elections back home.

The film is based on real life events and challenges the notion that the victor gets to tell the story. The politics of France throughout the film challenge Legorjus’ efforts throughout the entire film. But outside of one fantastically shot warlike sequence, Rebellion moves the story along and a quick pace. The film counts down the ten days leading up to the chaos forshadowed at the beginning and Kassovitz has a knack for making sure things never slow down too much.

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz

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Hofer and Ragazzi forgo the renaissance splendors of Florence and Rome, and head off to the real bastions of Italy — the northern part of the country in Milan and the southern portion of the country in Cambria — to find whether or not Italy is a country worth sticking around in. They interview people from all ages and all spectrums who are tirelessly working to correct many of Italy’s very public ills, from sexism in the media to support for the immigrant laborers that live in squalid conditions. Italy: Love It or Leave It is a tongue-in-cheek look at a country with very serious issues, and while the duo find themselves in the depths of government spending gone crazy in Sicily, they still aren’t willing to take the country to task over it. There isn’t much brought up in the film that really jabs at the heart of Italian culture — because to do that would be tearing at the hearts of Hofer and Ragazzi as well, and also brings up the ultimate issue with a scathing criticism of Italy: most Italians are just nice, hard-working (sometimes), honest individuals who believe in family, wine, and the goodness of the Earth.

The fact that the duo stay off the beaten path for the most part is the beauty of the docu-drama. Italy is a two headed beast, with a government in shambles, but whatever; they have the Ponte Vecchio and there are many memories made throughout life there. The romanticism of Italy stays surprisingly in check and alive through the film, and for anyone that has been to the country and loves it, Italy: Love It or Leave It won’t make you love it any less. If anything, it will make you chuckle more at how such a seemingly civilized society can live in such a crumbling, backwards fashion.

Directed by Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi

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June 5th @ 6:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown

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Klown follows the clueless and witless Frank (Frank Hvam), who just found out his wife Mia (Mia Lyhne) is pregnant and doesn’t think that Frank has what it takes to be a good father. To prove her wrong, in a series of severe and increasingly poor decisions, Frank kidnaps his 12-year-old nephew Bo (Marcus Jazz Petersen) and takes him on a trip for high-priced prostitutes — a plot conceived by Frank’s friend Casper (Casper Christensen). Frank is intent on showing Mia he can be a good father while Casper is intent on having as much sex as possible. The sexual romp, under the poor disguise of a canoe trip, leads the trio into worse and worse scenarios while all the while giving them a common bond to live with.

From pretty close to its beginning, where a group of old Danish men are teaching Frank the way of a “pearl necklace” in order to revitalize the passion between him and Mia, it is clear that Klown is operating on a sexualized mindset unseen on American soil since the first American Pie. But Klown is less American Pie than it is Sideways, as it is a romp between two middle-aged men having their own separate but real middle-aged issues. Frank is desperate to show that he can be a father and sustain a family; Casper is desperate to forget he even has one.

Christensen also wrote the film, and him and director Mikkel Norgaard don’t hold back on the juvenile sexual escapades that will leave you gasping for air. Frank is a jaw-droppingly dumb character, who slowly but lets you in on the reasoning behind his poor decisions — many of which are severely logically-flawed, but still understandable. Despite the fact that virtually all of the major laughs of the film rely on bizarre sexual scenarios, Norgaard doesn’t let the film just turn into another stupid gross-out comedy. Hvam is brilliant in his oafish cluelessness and leaves you pulling for him to succeed, despite his demonstrating with every decision that his parenting ability is a large question mark. Petersen is fantastic as the socially inept and “small-willied” Bo, who, for a time, is the only one who sees the good in what Frank is trying to accomplish.

Shock factor is truly present in Klown — including one of the most outrageous sexual scenarios put to film in recent years and an ending showcasing a photo of male anatomy that might be borderline illegal in the United States. The heart that goes into Frank and Casper’s exploit keeps the film going and makes it one of the funnier, more disgusting, and phenomenally raunchy comedies to come by the States in a while.

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Set in 1945 and based off a true story, 4 Days Of May follows the days before the official end of World War II. The Germans have already lost, but as soldiers and civilians both learn how to deal with the change, drama and unconventional decision-making ensue.

May 31st @ 4:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 7th @ 9:00pm, Harvard Exit
June 9th @ 4:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Stark and minimal beauty pervades this film from the Netherlands about two deafmute youth who fall in love against their parents’ wishes.

May 31st @ 9:00pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
June 9th @ 2:00pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
June 7th @ 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown

A comedy and light romantic tale about the ups and downs of being a supermarket check-out girl, full of feminine humor.

May 30th @ 4:00pm, Egyptian Theatre
June 8th @ 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 9th @ 12:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown

Jean Reno stars in this comedy about a high-end chef who has lost his flair and a relative nobody whose mind is bursting with ideas.

June 2nd @ 6:00pm, Egyptian Theatre

When a woman sets out to avenge her brother’s murder, she reveals a fantastical, imaginatively shot gothic tale involving mysterious keys, secret hiding places, and the fate of two families who are forever intertwined.

May 28th @ 3:00pm, Harvard Exit
June 2nd @ 8:30pm, Harvard Exit
June 10th @ 4:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

A dry and sardonically witty British espionage thriller.

May 26th @ 9:00pm, Everett Performing Arts Center
May 28th @ 11:00am, Egyptian Theatre
May 29th @ 9:00pm, Egyptian Theatre

In this unlikely romantic comedy, two strangers – who have just met after a one-night stand – find themselves in close quarters after massive alien spaceships arrive in Madrid.

May 25th @ 9:30pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
May 27th @ 2:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 31st @ 8:30pm, Everett Performing Arts Center

In this charming ode to 1970s psychedelia, Peppino is an awkward nine-year-old with family issues. While his mother (Valeria Golino) recovers from a betrayal, Peppino’s super-mod aunt and uncle take him to love-ins and demonstrations.

June 2nd @ 1:30pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
June 3rd @ 6:30pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
June 8th @ 8:30pm, Kirkland Performance Center

In this absurdist, deadpan comic debut, a professional driver who lives in his car and delivers honey to a narcoleptic man goes through a mid-life crisis when another driver threatens his very specialized profession.

June 5th @ 8:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 6th @ 9:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 9th @ Noon, Harvard Exit

A monk played by Vincent Cassel falls from grace deep into temptation.

June 3rd @ 12:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 5th @ 6:45pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown

Set circa 1986, this charming end-of-Soviet-era tale (BILLY ELLIOT meets GOODBYE LENIN!) follows an irrepressible youth enrolled at a strict dance academy, who pretends that his father is the famous dissident dancer, Mikhail Baryshnikov.

June 6th @ 6:30pm, Majestic Bay Cinemas
June 7th @ 6:30pm, Egyptian Theatre
June 9th @ 1:30pm, Egyptian Theatre

Set in 1970s Belgium, Bavo Defurne’s FIPRESCI Award-winning film is a sensitively rendered coming-of-age story about an introverted boy’s developing crush on his hunky next-door neighbor.

May 25th @ 6:30pm, Harvard Exit
May 26th @ 11:00am, Harvard Exit

A documentary-like thriller/horror, where a woman chases down a spectre she sees on numerous video cameras. The film remains gripping all the way until the end.

June 9th @ 11:00am, Harvard Exit

Waitress Nana, policeman Niko, and homeless teen Sopo are restless, each dreaming of better futures. When they intersect in a resort town on Georgia’s Black Sea coast, none of their lives will remain the same.

May 28th @ 9:00pm, AMC Pacific Place 11
May 30th @ 4:00pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
June 4th @ 8:30pm, Kirkland Performance Center

One of Seville’s best drug units does whatever it takes to bust the cities most notorious drug trafficking ring, sometimes taking less than legal actions, in this highly stylized action film.

June 8th @ 9:15pm, Egyptian Theatre
June 9th @ 3:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown

Retired janitor Hannes is brusque and distant with his wife and grown kids, but is compelled to re-examine his familial relationships following his wife’s stroke in this moving, delicately played drama about love that has grown old.

May 23rd @ 6:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 25th @ 3:30pm, SIFF Cinema Uptown
May 30th @ 6:30pm, Harvard Exit

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