SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
12:00PM - Capawock Theatre (Encore Perf.)
BEIJING TAXI 
Director: Miao Wang
Documentary/ China and USA / 78 mins
Special Guest: Introduction and Q&A with director Miao Wang, just back from China.
Miao Wang's new film follows three cabdrivers in the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics. Powerful and uncensored, the film shadows the cabbies as they move through a rapidly changing city where historical districts are razed and luxury complexes thrown up. An intimate portrait of three average Chinese citizens riding the never-smooth road to modernization. The director “vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformation arch…through a humanistic lens,” says IndieWire.
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12:00PM - Katharine Cornell Theatre
LE JOUR AVANT LE LENDEMAIN (BEFORE TOMORROW)
Director: Marie-Hélène Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu
Drama / Canada / 93 min
Winner, American Indian Film Festival (Best Film); nominee, Sundance (Grand Jury Prize)
The story of a woman facing with her grandson the ultimate challenge of survival, demonstrates that human dignity is at the core of life, from beginning to end. Shot in a stunning location in arctic conditions near Puvirnituq, Nunavik (northern Quebec).
The founding mandate of Igloolik Isuma Productions is to empower Inuit voices to tell their own stories. Isuma's first feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, won the Camera d'or at Cannes 2001 and Best Picture at Canada's 2002 Genie Awards. Isuma's second feature, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, opened the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. Isuma's executive producers, Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, continue this mandate in Isuma's third feature film, BEFORE TOMORROW, the first written and produced by the Arnait Video Women's Collective.
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12:00PM - VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE
INTERNATIONAL SHORTS PROGRAM
Festival favorites from the past year presented by Richard Paradise
Shorts/ Various Countries/ 80 min
Program includes new shorts by International filmmakers:
THE WARMTH OF ORGANE PEEL by Director Huang Ji - China - 22 mins
SEEDS OF THE FALL by Director Patrik EKLUND - Sweden - 18:30 mins
HAVET by Director Jons Jonsson - 22 mins
VENUS VS ME by Director Nathalie Teirlinck - Belgium - 26 mins
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2:00PM - Capawock Theatre
Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo
Director: Jessica Oreck
Documentary (Nature)/ Japan / 89 mins
Nominee, 2010 Independent Spirit Awards (“Truer That Fiction” category)
Introduction by Islander Paul Goldstein, Ph.D. Entomology, Research Associate, Field Museum
of Chicago
Despite the title, this is no Godzilla-wannabe but, rather, a film exploring the island nation's fascination with insects. Promising to shift Westerners' perspectives on nature, life, and beauty, the film shows how nature manages to flourish on an island the size of Montana crammed with 128 million human beings. “Bewitching,” says the Village Voice. “Bristles with kinetic energy,” adds Film Comment magazine.
Great for children with an interest in nature!
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2:00PM - Katharine Cornell Theatre
WELCOME
Director: Philippe Lioret
Drama / France / 90 min
Introduction by Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
Winner, Lumiere Awards, France (Best Film); Warsaw International Film Festival (Audience Award)
Our Screening of WELCOME is sponsored by Perrier
An emotionally affecting drama about intersecting lives, unlikely friendships, and the hope of new beginnings. Bilal, a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has travelled across Europe for months hoping to reunite with his girlfriend, who emigrated to England. His journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. He decides to swim across it and, at local swimming pool to train, meets Simon, a middle-aged swimming instructor in turmoil over his imminent divorce. They discover that they have much in common; Simon takes Bilal under his wing and learns that he too must risk all to find happiness.
Starring Vincent Linden (Le Moustache, which was a big hit at our 2007 festival)
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2:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse
Think Globally, Shoot Locally (Forum with Local Filmmakers)
Shorts/Bits & Pieces/ 90 min and discussion follow
With introduction by Victoria Campbell, local filmmaker, HOUSE OF BONES
To celebrate established and budding Vineyard media artists, a program of new, exciting works by local artists, including Richard Sandler, Jared kitsiane, Tova katzman, Jeremy Mayhew, Victoria Campbell, Jim Novak, Dawn Young, Lynn Ditchfield, and Giulia Casalino.
4:00PM - Capawock Theatre
CLOSING NIGHT SCREENING:
SOUL KITCHEN (preceded by winning short film - GOD OF LOVE)
Director: Fatih Akin
Comedy / Germany / 99 min
Winner, Venice Film Festival (Young Cinema Award; Special Jury Prize)
In this comedy by Turkish-German filmmaker Fatih Akin (HEAD ON, EDGE OF HEAVEN) the proprietor of a scruffy Hamburg restaurant can't decide whether to follow his girlfriend now in Shanghai, or stay and keep his business afloat. Plus he's coping with the return of his cat-burglar brother, just out of prison but still full of schemes and neuroses. With touches of Marx Brothers slapstick, Akin creates an appealing portrait of his hometown of Hamburg as a madcap fusion of tycoon wannabes, rockers, hipsters, diva chefs, and old German seamen. “Easily his most fun [film]”-Time Out; “High-decibel comic confection”-IndiWire.com; “As much a love letter to the place as to its people.” -Variety.
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