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3 Needles
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Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald's 3 Needles, a tripartite look at the AIDS epidemic, forgoes headline sensationalism to focus on how different communities and families in varying corners of the globe cope with the AIDS epidemic. Fri. Oct 13, 7:15PM, Sequoia |
The Astronaut Farmer
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Charlie Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is a Texas rancher with a giant dream. Once an astronaut-in-training, he's built his own rocket in his barn and is determined to launch it into space, with the US government working just as hard to see him fail. Sun, Oct 15, 5:30 pm Rafael FILM AND PARTY $65 ASTR15P  FILM ONLY $25 ASTR15R Sun, Oct 15, 6:00 pm Sequioa FILM AND PARTY $65 AST215P FILM ONLY $25 AST215S Also see: |
The Boy Who Turned Yellow
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The makers of The Red Shoes and the Thief of Baghdad turn a hat trick with this 1972 period piece about a boy, aliens, the Tower of London, television waves and the bothersome problem of being turned yellow. PRECEDED BY: The Thief Sun. Oct 15, 10:00AM, Rafael |
The Breast Cancer Diaries
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With grace, grit and humor, TV journalist and full-time mom Ann Murray Paige documents her own journey with stage 2 breast cancer. Through nine months of medical treatment, this luminous Everywoman goes through hell and keeps going, fighting to maintain a sense of herself as a woman, mother, wife and professional. PRECEDED BY: Toxic Bust: Chemicals and Breast Cancer Sat. Oct 14, 10:45AM, Sequoia |
Candy
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Heath Ledger and Abbie Cornish give electrifying performances in this seductive and harrowing tale of two junkies in love, directed by Australian theater wizard Neil Armfield and based on the novel by Luke Davies, with Geoffrey Rush as the lovers' comrade-in-heroin. Sat. Oct 14, 7:15PM, Rafael |
Deliver Us from Evil
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A chilling portrait of moral deception and innocence lost from filmmaker Amy Berg centers on one of the most unsettling documentary protagonists in memory – the twinkle-eyed local parish priest with the treacherous heart of gold. Sat. Oct 14, 6:30PM, Sequoia |
Emile Norman: By His Own Design
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A wonderfully warm portrait of a renowned and respected gay American artist in his 80s who transforms dirt, wood, rock and cement into works as beautiful and quirky as his own trademark purple beret. PRECEDED BY: Phoenix Dance Sat. Oct 14, 1:00PM, Rafael |
Frozen City
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Full of frank and believable conversations and interactions, this portrait of a taxi driver whose life is on a downward trajectory offers an indelible, intimate portrait of a life gone awry. Fri. Oct 13, 6:45PM, Rafael |
Full Grown Men
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Full Grown Men is the quirky, bittersweet tale of a clueless young man who refuses to grow up and his comic journey to adulthood. Sat. Oct 7, 4:45PM, Rafael |
Fuss, Mess and Scrumble
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These short films for little people are dedicated to the joy of discovery by new eyes.You'll enjoy a hand-picked mélange of giraffes, dinosaurs, cats, dogs, fish, ants, lobsters and an entire barnyard. SHORTS IN PROGRAM: The Brave Cat, Coconut Island, Fence, Fuss, Mess and Scrumble, Happy Day, I Love My Doctor, The Impatient Patient, Invasion of the Space Lobsters, James Marshall's Cinderella, Little Blue, Little Pig Is Flying, Moondance, On the Farm, The Propellerbird, Small Ant Syndrome, There Was the Moon and a Fox , War and Peas
Sat. Oct 14, 12:00PM, Rafael |
Have You Heard from Johannesburg?
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Academy-Award–nominated filmmaker Connie Field (Freedom on My Mind) traces the turbulent rise of the 1980s anti-apartheid movement in this tightly constructed and enlightening documentary. Sat. Oct 14, 5:00PM, Rafael |
The Host
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This surprise hit of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival—starring a 30ft. long squid-thing that terrorizes the citizens of Seoul—is a genre-bending, raucous fun and definitely frightening monster flick. Fri. Oct 13, 10:15PM, Sequoia |
Hotel Harabati
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A stylish, surreal dark comedy that boldly examines the risks of daily life in the age of terrorism. Sat. Oct 14, 4:00PM, Rafael |
I Am
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Conjuring shades of Truffaut's 400 Blows, I Am is a visually stunning film about a young boy's search for home. Piotr Jagielski's performance as 11-year-old Kundel fascinates. Fri. Oct 13, 7:00PM, Sequoia |
Lapislazuli: In the Eye of the Bear
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A meteorite crashes in the Alps, awakening a frozen Neanderthal boy. Then Bataa and Sophie meet, in a crash of modern and ancient worlds. Sophie risks everything to help Bataa, who can't survive in this time and place. Fri. Oct 6, 4:30PM, Rafael |
Little Children
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Todd Field (In the Bedroom, MVFF 2001) takes a fresh but cynical look at the myth of suburban utopia. Tensions rise as a young mom (Kate Winslet) and stay-at-home-dad (Patrick Wilson) develop a dangerously close friendship and a convicted sex offender moves into the neighborhood. Sat. Oct 14, 9:00PM, Sequoia |
Live!
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The engrossing story of a middle-aged woman who lets go of a haunted past in order to live fully and deeply in the present. Thu. Oct 12, 7:15PM, Sequoia |
The Moon on the Snow
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Three siblings (played by Julie Depardieu (A Very Long Engagement), Marie-Josee Croze (The Barbarian Invasions) and Nicolas Rossier are reunited at their mother's deathbed after years of separation-and, as the weekend progresses, find themselves facing their radically different understandings of the event that had driven them apart. Sat. Oct 14, 8:45PM, Sequoia |
Nail Polish
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Side ponytails, midriff-baring tanks and Jawzee accents abound in newcomer Jane Ainbinder's Nail Polish, an endearingly awkward look at the life of two girls in the 1980s who are navigating the difficult terrain of sexual curiosity on the Jersey shore. Thu. Oct 12, 7:00PM, Sequoia |
The Peace Tree
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World peace may best be left to the children, according to writer-director Mitra Sen's The Peace Tree, which uses the simple act of celebrating all faiths, symbolized by one decorated tree, to break down fear and prejudice. Sunday, October 15, 12:45 pm PEAC15R Also see: Childrens Filmfest Closing |
Read You Like a Book
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Set off when a mysterious book is delivered, this tale of intrigue, scandal, love and redemption follows 24 hours of an extraordinary day at a small neighborhood Berkeley bookstore. Fri. Oct 13, 9:00PM, Rafael |
The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierrez
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A green-card soldier and one of 32,000 foreign-born US military personnel shipped to the war with Iraq, José Antonio Gutierrez had a dubious distinction: He was the war's first casualty. Filmmaker Heidi Specogna commemorates a young man who triumphed over adversity to dream big dreams, in this memorial that lingers long after the credits roll. Sat. Oct 14, 4:30PM, Sequoia |
Starfish Hotel
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A hypnotic metaphysical mystery about a Tokyo businessman whose investigation of his wife's disappearance draws him into the center of his favorite author's strange fictional world. Fri. Oct 13, 9:15PM, Rafael |
Stranded
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With Stranded and The Glenmoore Job we are presented with two new directorial talents from Australia who handle their stories of lives in transition with sensitivity and a large dose of that unique Aussie humor. Thurs. Oct 12, 9:30pm Sequoia STRA12S<Buy Tickets> Sun. Oct 15, 2:45pm Rafael
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Swim for the River
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In 2004, Chris Swain swam the entire 315 miles of New York's Hudson River. Yuck! This heartfelt chronicle of his journey aims to bring a larger awareness to the river's ongoing pollution problems and to inspire more homemade environmental activism. PRECEDED BY: Titans of the Coral Sea Sat. Oct 7, 7:00PM, Rafael |
Ten Canoes
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A narrator's voice begins, "Once upon a time in a land far, far away..." and then shifts: "No, it's not like that. It's not like your story–but it's a good story all the same." Ten Canoes proves that some stories speak to all people in any time. Fri. Oct 13, 6:30PM, Rafael |
Three Women and a Chateau
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Once the grandest of residences but later reduced to decrepitude and notoriety, Chateau Carolands stands through time as one woman's disappointed dream, another woman's social fulfillment and a third woman's joyful stewardship. Sat. Oct 7, 2:30PM, Rafael |
Walking to Werner
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Would you walk 1,200 miles for Werner Herzog? Linas Phillips did, and in true Herzog fashion, his film is a diary of folly, beauty and fierce determination. Sun. Oct 8, 9:00PM, Sequoia |
Wanted: Man
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Intent on resuscitating his mother's romantic life, Bas places a classified ad. Shocked by her precocious son's bold gesture, Rosalie begins to come to terms with her fractured family, and to imagine a love life that makes space for her eccentric son. Fri. Oct 13, 7:00PM, Throckmorton |
