4:00PM - Capawock Theatre

MADEO (MOTHER)

Writer/Director: Bong Joon-ho
Drama / South Korea / 129 min
Winner, Asia Pacific Screen Award (Best Actress); Asian Film Award (Best Actress, Best Screenwriter, Best Film)

With introduction by Sissy Biggers, host of Plum TV's Plum Daily show

A crime thriller described as “riveting and darkly funny” (Vogue) and “one of the year's movie-going must-sees” (Salon.com). It's the story of a mother desperately searching for the killer of a young girl who has framed her son for the crime. MADEO contains, as the Wall Street Journal put it, “some of the best movie surprises I've seen in years.”

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4:00PM - KATHARINE CORNELL Theatre

1981

Writer/Director: Ricardo Trogi
Comic Drama / Canada / 92 min

With introduction by Mindy Todd, Host of WCAI's The Point

Quebec filmmaker Ricardo Trogi recalls his family's move to a new neighborhood when he was eleven. A charming story that takes us back to the year 1981 when a young, chubby, and materialistic Ricardo Trogi lies to his classmates about his Playboy collection, gets a huge crush on a girl, and mulls about the mysteries of popularity… sound familiar? A heartfelt coming of age tale with stand-out performances and unbeatable flashbacks to '80s culture (remember Star Wars bed spreads, Sony walk-mans, and calculator watches?).

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4:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

GJALLË (ALIVE!)

Writer/Director: Artan Minarolli
Drama / Albania / 90 min
Albania's official submission to the 2010 Oscars

Koli, a college student, hides in the countryside to escape a blood feud begun 60 years before when his grandfather committed a murder. Involuntarily, Koli is a mirror of his country's love-hate relationship with tradition. He tries to bring his opponents to their senses but this is futile and, unwillingly, he starts to mirror his opponents. In a country until recently under the thumb of the dictator Hoxha, the people have no right to a "modern" everyday life. And yet, says director Artan Minarolli, “My film isn't about killing and getting killed; it is instead born out of the need to show the colors and the complexity of a world in transition towards something mysterious and beautiful.”

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7:00PM - Capawock Theatre

NEW THIS YEAR: JURIED INTERNATIONAL SHORTS COMPETITION

Selected from over 200 entries, representing over 25 countries
Multiple Countries / 110 min

A festival selection committee whittled 200 entries down to 10 finalists. Jury members Amin Matalqa (writer/director/producer of last year's festival hit CAPTAIN ABU RAED); Tim Miller (Cape Cod Times entertainment editor); Susan Petersen (vice president of Shorts International); and Adam Roffman (program director, Independent Film Festival of Boston) will present the ten finalists and, at the conclusion, announce their selection for Best Over-all Short Film Prize Winner.

Here are our Finalists:

The Six Dollar Fifty Man - New Zealand
Variete - The Netherlands
Yellow Moon - Croatia
God of Love - USA
Deafness - Ukraine
The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger - USA
Watching - Britain
Out of the Blue - Ireland
Run Granny Run - Germany
Incident By A Bank - Sweden - Sweden

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7:00PM - KathArine Cornell Theatre

NANKYOKU RYORININ (THE CHEF OF SOUTH POLE)

Writer/Director: Shuichi Okita
Comedy / Antarctica and Japan / 125 min
Winner, Best Actor, Yokohama Film Festival

Life at Dome Fuji (the second highest point on Antarctica) is filled with equal measures of hard work, good times, heartache and homesickness. Throughout it all, Nishimura's cooking sustains (and sometimes confounds) the men. The film captures the interplay of personalities and each man's method of coping with the isolation imposed by this remote scientific outpost.

The Chef Of The South Pole stacks up as a food movie but it is in its depiction of ordinary people getting from day to day that the film makes its mark. In this respect too, it is delectable.

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7:00PM - VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE

No Movie - Dark from 7:00-9:15

9:15PM - Capawock Theatre

EL SECRETO DE SUS OJOS (Secret in Their Eyes)

Writer/Director: Juan José Campanella
Drama / Argentina / 129 min
2010 Oscar winner, Best Foreign Language Film

With Introduction by Carol Beecher, Fallon Inn (and recently back from Argentina)

Director Juan Jose Campanella has two stories to tell, featuring the same characters separated by time. The first is the story of a rape and murder. The other is the effect the crime has on the other characters. The film begins as a conventional crime thriller but then take off, delivery, as Paste magazine put it, “one of the most virtuosic chase sequences ever filmed.”

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9:30PM - KathArine Cornell Theatre

DET RODE KAPEL (THE RED CHAPEL)

Writer/Director: Mads Brügger
Comedy / North Korea and Denmark / 88 min
Grand Jury Prize, Sundance

With an introduction by comedy writer and Vineyarder Marty Nadler

Two Korean-born Danish comics decide to visit North Korea; they gain permission from the authoritarian regime by pretending they are a vaudeville act that offers an opportunity for a safe cultural exchange with the West. Director Mads Brügger, though, has other plans: to reveal to the West the horrific conditions inside the DPRK and “expose the very core of the evilness” of its regime. The contrast between the absurd comedy of the duo and the stifling controls of the North Korean regime under the thumb of the Dear Leader lends to a Borat-style comedy at once hilarious and uncomfortable.

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9:30PM - VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE

POLITIST, ADJECTIV (POLICE, ADJECTIVE)

Writer/Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Comedy / Romania / 115 min
Winner, Cannes (FIPRESCI Prize, Un Certain Regard Jury Prize); Transilvania International Film Festival (Transilvania Trophy)

“A brilliant black comedy,” according to the Chicago Tribune, this film follows a young undercover cop undergoing a crisis of conscience when pressured to arrest a teenager offering hash to classmates.
“A small masterpiece,” said the Village Voice; “More evidence of the remarkable recent renaissance in Romanian cinema,” adds Roger Ebert.

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