12:00PM - Capawock Theatre (Encore Performance)

Flow, For Love of Water

Director: Irena Salina

Documentary / USA / 93 mins

Grand Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival; Best Documentary, Vail Film Festival.



Join Author William Marks and Producer Matt Parker at the screening

Irena Salina's cautionary documentary is determined to stir things up. Water, the quintessence of life, sustains every creature on Earth. The time has come when we can no longer take this precious resource for granted. Unless we effect global change, impoverished nations could be wiped from the planet. Roused by a thirst for survival, people around the world are fighting for their birthright.

Flow: For Love of Water is an inspired, yet disturbingly provocative, wake-up call. The future of our planet is drying up rapidly. Focusing on pollution, human rights, politics, and corruption, filmmaker Salina constructs an exceptionally articulate profile of the precarious relationship uniting human beings and water. While each community's challenges are unique, the message is universal--the time to turn the tide is now.

2:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

International Short Film Program


Aldrig som forsta gangen! (aka Never Like the First Time)

Director: Jonas Odell

Animation / Sweden / 15 mins

Best Short Film, Berlin Film Festival

Never Like the First Time presents a unique riff on one of the most awkward and universal of human experiences, losing your virginity.

Shikashika

Director: Stephen Hyde

Documentary / Peru, USA / 10 mins

Three generations scale the Peruvian Andes to harvest ice for a colorful shaved ice treat.

The Loneliness of Short Order Cook

Director: Marcel Sawicki

Drama / USA / 20 mins

Subdued and restrained, the film offers an unsentimental and personal portrait of living in between time zones and cultures in a city indicative of a world growing smaller.

Voor een paar knikkers meer (For a Few Marbles More)

Director/Writer: Jelmar Hufen

Comedy / The Netherlands / 11 mins

Four ten-year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there's only one solution.

2:00PM - Capawock Theatre

Jellyfish

Directors: Shira Geffen and Etgar Keret

Drama / Israel / 78 mins

Golden Camera and SACD screenwriting award Cannes Film Festival, Special Mention Bratislava International Film Festival, 10 nominations for Israeli Film Academy awards.


Jellyfish is an Israeli film based on a story by Shira Geffen and directed by her and her husband, Etgar Keret. The film tells the story of three women in Tel Aviv whose intersecting lives paint a portrait of contemporary Israeli life. Batya, a waitress at weddings, comes across a mute child who seemingly emerges out of the sea. Keren, a bride whose wedding Batya worked at, breaks her leg climbing out of bathroom stall and ruins her dream honeymoon in the process. And Joy, a Filipino domestic, attends with her employer with whom she struggles to communicate. Poetic imagery draws connections between the lives of these women, all of whom find solace in the sea.

2:00PM - Katharine Cornell Theatre

Beyond the Call

Director: Adrian Belic

Documentary / USA, Afghanistan / 82 mins / Not Rated

More than 30 international awards, including awards at the Washington DC, Telluride, Santa Fe, Bahamas, Taos, Ojai, Sedona, Dixie, Tupelo, and Palms Springs film festivals.


In an Indiana Jones meets Mother Teresa adventure, three middle-aged men, former soldiers and modern-day knights travel the world delivering life-saving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors. Ed Artis, James Laws and Walt Ratterman inspire through deeds not words, in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of war.

Knightsbridge International is a unique humanitarian organization, whose motto is "High Adventure and Service to Humanity." They explain, "We're not there to change anybody's politics, we're not in the God business, and we pay our own way." They add simply, We do what we can, when we can, because we can".

"An extremely inspiring film that is also hilarious, exciting and heart-wrenching. Not only are the three men unbelievably good willed, they are enjoyable characters filled with lovable quirks and wonderful stories to tell." - Christopher Campbell, Cinematical

4:00PM - Capawock Theatre

Intimate Stories

Director: Martin Rejtman

Comedy / Argentina / 90 mins


Near the provincial town of San Julian, three vibrant characters undertake seemingly mundane journeys that turn out to be subtly life changing. A lonely, fastidious traveling salesman quests for the perfect cream cake to win the widow of his dreams. A grizzly grandfather hitchhikes to town to find his forgotten lost dog and seek forgiveness. A poor young mother hopes to win the grand prize -- a microprocessor--as a contestant on a TV game show. In the end, the three will get more or less what they set out for, but it will come to them in ways that they never expected.

A simple, quirky and delightful comic road picture. It was also interesting to see so much of Patagonia's impressive geography. I recommend this wonderfully realized slice of life from another, often unseen, part of the globe.

4:00PM - Vineyard Playhouse

The Flight of the Red Balloon

Director: Hsiao-hsien Hou

Drama / France / 113 mins

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


Suzanne is charming but she is a mother snowed under by obligations. With her puppet shows, the classes she teaches and the two children, Simon and Louise, that she has been raising alone since their father left, she hasn't got a minute to herself. To help her, she takes in a young Taiwanese babysitter, Song Fang, who is a student at Paris University. On his way home from school, Simon, who is 7 years old, leads her through the streets and cafes of his neighborhood. Soon, Song Fang and Simon share an imaginary world: a strange red balloon follows them, even in the exhibition space of the Musse d'Orsay. While Suzanne is caught up in a court case involving her tenant downstairs, who refuses to leave, every day, Son Fang becomes more important in her life. In the end, it is Song Fang's Asian perspective that helps Suzanne get to grips with her life.

4:00PM - Katharine Cornell Theatre

Bushi no ichibun (aka Love and Honor)

Director: Yoji Yamada

Drama, Romance / Japan / 121 mins / Rated PG-13

Best Cinematography-Best Lighting-Best Supporting actress, Japanese Academy Award; Blue Ribbon Award, Best New Actress; Golden Goblet for Best Music, Shanghai International Film Festival

Special Introduction by Peter Grilli, President of the Japan Society Boston


This is Director Yamada's third installment off his Samurai trilogy, amd the MV Film Society has screened the previous two in the series.

Do we need to know everything? Would our lives be better if there were certain things we didn't know? These are matters addressed in this story of a samurai family and life in feudal Japan. It was the duty of certain lower level samurai to taste the food before serving it to the lord of the clan in case it might be poisoned. When Shinnojo Mimura, one of the food tasters, eats some tainted sashimi of an off-season shellfish, he falls ill. After a period of unconsciousness, he awakes to find that he is unable to see. At first, he tries to hide the fact from his deeply loyal wife, Kayo, for fear of worrying her. When she understands that, she protests that she is his wife and it is her duty to worry for her husband. However, when she learns from the doctor, who has withheld the truth from his patient, that this blindness is permanent, she also avoids telling her husband, in order to spare his feelings. There are certain truths that are better for us not to confront. It is a fascinating look at life, duty and honor during the samurai era and well worth watching.