2:00PM - Capawock Theatre

Tuya's Marriage

Director: Quanan Wang

Drama/Romance / China / 86 mins

Golden Berlin Bear and Prize if Ecumenical Jury at Berlin International Film Festival, Silver Hugo award for Best Actress and Special Jury Award at the Chicago International Film Festival

Tuya is the persevering wife of Bater, a herdsman who lost his legs exploring water in the Neimenggu (Inner Mongolia) grassland that is fast vanishing as a result of desertification. She takes up the sole responsibility to make a living for the family, but develops a dislocated lumbar from her hard labor and risks paralysis herself. Faced with harsh reality, the couple decides to divorce so that Tuya can seek a better life. Imposing her own conditions of a remarriage - her new husband must take care of Bater, their children and their poor herding land, the strong-minded, stubborn, but also gentle, susceptible Tuya embarks on an arduous search for a new husband, and meets suiters who are rich but disingenuous, likable but shy, and saves a suicidal Bater who still longs for Tuya and their children along the way.

2:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

El Violin

Director: Francisco Vargas

Drama / Mexico / 98 mins

Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Arms and music play a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse which ultimately results in painful betrayal.

4:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

A Friend of Mine

Director: Sebastian Schipper

Comedy, Drama / Germany / 84 mins

German Film Award Nomination, Best Performance by an actress in supporting role

Introduction by Karin Oehlenschlaeger, Boston Goethe Institut

There's drama aplenty in this sophisticated German comedy about two mismatched friends whose only likeness seems to be their love of fast cars.

Daniel Brahl (The Bourne Ultimatum) plays Karl; an aloof and pessimistic white-collar insurance executive who is given an undercover assignment that he believes is beneath him. When he meets the mischievous and playful blue-collar Hans, played by the charming Juergen Vogel, he finds it difficult to remain cynical.

What follows is a great deal of laddish behavior, including a naked high speed Porsche ride down the autobahn, all in the name of "bonding". Things are looking up for Karl until the ultimate test of friendship comes in the form of Stelle, (Sabine Timoteo) Hans' gorgeous and captivating girlfriend. Entertaining and heart-warming, A Friend of Mine is "European cool" with a soundtrack to match.

4:00PM - Capawock Theatre

GUCHA (aka Distant Trumpet)

Director: Dusan Milic

Comedy, Drama, Musical / Serbia, Germany / 94 mins

Audience Award Sofia International Film Festival, European Film Award Best Composer

Julijana, a white girl, falls in love with a dark-skinned Romeo, a divine trumpet player from a Roma orchestra. Her father Satchmo, a leader of the rival white band is disgusted with Romeo's skin color. At the upcoming Festival of trumpeters Romeo must prove to him that, due to his talent, he is the right man for his daughter. Satchmo's willing to overcome his belief and give up his daughter to the Roma only if Romeo proves to be better than him.

In this light-hearted retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, swords are traded in for horns as two star-crossed lovers try to unite. An audience (and my) favorite from the 2007 Berlinale – Richard Paradise

7:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

The Listening Project

Directors: Joel Weber and Dominic Howes

Documentary / USA / 84 mins

Best Documentary awards at the Durango, Oxford, and Omaha Film Festivals

Introduced by Mindy Todd of WGBH. Join Director Dominic Howes afterwards for a Q&A

The Listening Project is a captivating 84-minute cinematic journey around the world in search of the meaning of America. The documentary follows four unique Americans as they travel to 14 countries, in each place asking "what do you think of America?" In wintry Samara Russia, Probation Officer Bob Roeglin listens to college students discuss their love for Metallica and Guns N' Roses. They ask, "I wonder what young Americans think of Russian culture." In bustling Shanghai, poet and self-described 'nerd' Bao Phi hung out with "Gary," a DJ obsessed with American hip-hop. "My parents...all they want for me is to get a stable job, get married, have kids, and die. They never understand. I play music. I make money. Are you kidding me?" And on the outskirts of Kabul, American human rights activist Han Shan listened to Arifa, who lost most of her family to an errant US bomb in 2001: "The jets were coming and attacking...the bricks were smashing from the walls...my children were young." The stories that unfold explore many facets of America's profound influence over the social, political and economic landscape of the planet.

A fast-paced, absorbing examination of human fellowship and what it means to be a citizen in a globalized world.

7:00PM - Capawock Theatre

Mio fratello a figlio unico (aka My Brother is an Only Child)

Director: Daniele Luchetti

Comedy, Crime, Drama / Italy / 108 mins / Rated R

Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Screenplay at David Di Donatello Awards

Brothers Accio (Elio Germano) and Manrico (Riccardo Scamarcio) grow up in the provincial town of Latina. They are trapped in a seemingly endless wait for decent council housing. Accio joins a Seminary and initially seems destined to become a priest. Later he goes back home and is befriended by a local market trader with extreme right- wing tendencies. In the meantime Manrico gets a job in a factory, becomes a union leader, falls in love with Francesca. And then Accio meets Francesca...

MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD is a title that may confuse the casual movie viewer, but it is an apt summation of the rigorous story that this excellent Italian film by Danielle Luchetti (adapted from a novel by Antonio Pennacchi) represents - the coming of age of two brothers in the confusing and turbulent 1960's and 1970's in Italy. While the film deals with the myriad political factions that disrupted life especially among the students of that era, the main focus of the story is the indomitable brotherly love that bonds the two main characters.

7:00PM - Katherine Cornell Theatre

Shot in Bombay

Director: Liz Mermin

Documentary / UK & India/ 96 mins

In the summer of 2006, an ambitious but unproven Bollywood director started filming Shootout at Lokhandwala, a movie based on an encounter between police and gangsters in Bombay in 1991. With a star-studded cast and a true-life story, the films release was highly anticipated. In the lead role, playing a famous vigilante cop was superstar Sanjay Dutt. Unfortunately, Dutt was also involved in a massive terrorist trial that had been going on since 1993, and the case came to a head just as filming began. SHOT IN BOMBAY joins the filmmaking team on the last leg of shooting in January 2007, as they try to finish the film before their lead actor is sentenced to jail.

This fast-paced, often surreal documentary weaves together three stories about India's most complicated city: behind the scenes on the set of a star-studded gangster film helmed by director Apoorva Lakhia.

9:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

Priceless

Director: Pierre Salvadori

Romantic Comedy / France / 104 mins

Special introduction by Islander Marty Nadler - Oui

Irene (Audrey Tatou, star of AMELIE) is a woman on the prowl. Enamored of rich men of all stripes, she has built a career of exchanging her company for lavish gifts and male attention. But when she mistakes a tuxedoed bartender named Jean (Gad Elmaleh) for a wealthy target, he goes along with the mistake until romance collides with crushed expectations. Pierre Salvadori's PRICELESS is a sweet, charming romantic comedy about a gold digger with a heart of gold, proving once again that money isn't everything, but it sure helps.

Reminiscent of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S with Tatou in the Hepburn character.

9:00PM - Capawock Theatre

Up the Yangtze

Director: Yung Chang

Documentary / Canada / 93 mins

Over 10 international awards including awards at The Full Frame, HotDocs, Sundance and San Francisco International Film Festival.

Special introduction by John Anderson, freelance journalist for the LA Times and Variety

A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze - navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river's edge - a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam - contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle - provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China.

9:00PM - Katherine Cornell Theatre

All Roads Film Festival Selected Shorts/National Geographic

The aim of the All Roads Film Project is to provide indigenous filmmakers with opportunities to tell their stories in their own voices. The project is an exciting new forum for indigenous and minority-culture storytellers to bring their lives, experiences, and cultures to new audiences.

Introduced by Woody Vanderhoop of the Wampanoag Tribe

Taua - War Party

Director/Writer: Tearepa Kahi

Drama / New Zealand / 15 mins

Take a sensory-rich journey through the ancient Maori forest, where an act of compassion speaks to the true value of leadership. Tearepa Kahi was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has received numerous accolades for his documentaries and short films about Maori life. Taua is the follow-up to his much praised 2006 debut film, The Speaker.

Crocodile Dreaming

Director: Darlene Johnson

Drama / Australia / 27 mins

This is a modern-day dreamtime legend about two estranged brothers who are brought together through the spirit of their mother. Darlene Johnson is from the Dunghutti tribe of the east coast of New South Wales, Australia. Her award winning dramas and documentaries include Two-Bob Mermaid, Stolen Generations, and One Red Blood.

Miss Navajo

Director: Billy Luther

Documentary / Navajo Nation / 60 mins

Meet Director Billy Luther at screening for Q&A

From filmmaker Billy Luther, whose own mother was crowned Miss Navajo 1966, the film reveals the inner beauty of the young women who compete in this celebration of womanhood. Not only must contestants exhibit poise and grace as those in typical pageants, they must also answer tough questions in Navajo and demonstrate proficiency in skills essential to daily tribal life: fry-bread making, rug weaving and sheep butchering. Billy Luther belongs to the Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo nations. He was selected for the Sundance Ford Fellowship with Miss Navajo, which was also recently honored with a Roy W. Dean documentary award.

Land and Airwaves

Director: Patrick Boivin and Alland Flamand

Documentary / Canada / 12 mins

Like the tribal drums of the past, a community radio station serves as a unifying instrument for the Attikameks people and their language. Patrick Boivin and Alland Flamand are both originally from Wemotaci, an Atikamekw community in Quebec. They were introduced to filmmaking by Wapikoni mobile, a traveling production and distribution studio for young people in Aboriginal communities.