Sarasota Film Society’s 22nd Annual Cine-World Film Festival schedule
Information provided by Sarasota Film Society:
Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler
Showing:
TUES, 11/15: 2:00 p.m.
WED, 11/16: 5:00 p.m.
Director: Peter Rosen
Country: USA/Russia
Language: English
Runtime: 87 min.
Synopsis: This musical release profiles modern violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz, renowned as the most impressive player since Paganini, tracing the musician’s life and career from early shows of childhood brilliance, on through his ascent to musical stardom in the classical world.
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Granito
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Pamela Yates
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 103 min.
Synopsis: Granito is a story of destinies joined by Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film, intertwined with a nation’s turbulent history, emerges as an active player in the present. Each of the five main characters whose destinies collide in Granito are connected by the Guatemala of 1982, then engulfed in a war where a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military exterminated nearly 200,000 Maya people. Now, as if a watchful Mayan god were weaving back together threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time forgotten by most, our characters become integral to the overarching narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of sand, to the epic tale.
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Charlotte Rampling: The Look
Showing:
MON, 11/14: 2:30 p.m.
TUES, 11/15: 5:00 p.m.
Director: Angelina Maccarone
Country: France, Germany
Language: French w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 94 min.
Synopsis: A biographical study of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller. Intercut with footage from some of Rampling’s most famous films, this “self-portrait through others” is a revealing look at one of our most iconic screen stars.
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Khodorkovsky
Showing:
TUES, 11/15: 4:30 p.m.
THUR, 11/17: 12:00 p.m.
Director: Cyril Tuschi
Country: Germany
Language: German, English, Russian w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 111 min.
Synopsis: A documentary on the transformation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky – from a perfect socialist to a perfect capitalist and finally, in a Siberian prison, becoming a perfect martyr. Khodorkovsky – the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him, but Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia – knowing that he will be imprisoned once he returns.
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My Reincarnation
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 11:30 a.m.
SUN, 11/13: 12:00 p.m.
Director: Jennifer Fox
Country: USA
Language: English, Italian, and Tibetan w/ English Subtitles
Runtime: 82 min.
Synopsis: Filmed over twenty years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, My Reincarnation chronicles the epic story of the high Tibetan Buddhist Master, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, and his western-born son, Yeshi. The film follows Namkhai Norbu’s rise to greatness as a Buddhist teacher in the West, while his son, Yeshi, recognized at birth as the reincarnation of a famous spiritual master, breaks away from his father’s tradition to embrace the modern world. Can the father convince his son to keep the family’s threatened spiritual legacy alive? Never before has a high Tibetan Master allowed such complete access to his private life and it is doubtful that another ever will. With her signature intimate entry to both family and icons including the Dalai Lama, Fox expertly distills a decades-long drama into a universal story about love, transformation, and destiny.
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Hell and Back Again
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 5:00 p.m.
SAT, 11/12: 12:00 p.m.
Director: Danfung Dennis
Country: USA
Language: English and Pashtu w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 88 min.
Synopsis: From his embed with US Marines Echo Company in Afghanistan, photojournalist and filmmaker Danfung Dennis reveals the devastating impact a Taliban machine-gun bullet has on the life of 25-year-old Sergeant Nathan Harris. The film seamlessly transitions from stunning war reportage to an intimate, visceral portrait of one man’s personal struggle at home in North Carolina, where Harris confronts the physical and emotional difficulties of re-adjusting to civilian life with the love and support of his wife, Ashley. Masterfully contrasting the intensity of the frontline with the unsettling normalcy of home, Hell and Back Again lays the true cost of war.
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Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 4:30 p.m.
SUN, 11/20: 11:30 a.m.
Director: Constance Marks
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 76 min.
Synopsis: Beloved by children of all ages around the world, Elmo is an international icon. Few people know his creator, Kevin Clash, who dreamed of working with his idol, master puppeteer Jim Henson. Displaying his creativity and talent at a young age, Kevin ultimately found a home on Sesame Street. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, this documentary includes rare archival footage, interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson, Joan Ganz Cooney and others and offers a behind-the-scenes look at Sesame Street and the Jim Henson Workshop.
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Elevate
Showing:
SUN, 11/13: 5:00 p.m.
MON, 11/14: 11:30 a.m.
Director: Anne Buford
Country: USA
Language: English, with Wolof and French w/ English Subtitles
Runtime: 81 min.
Synopsis: From a basketball academy in Senegal to the high-pressure world of American prep schools, Elevate documents the extraordinary personal journeys of four particularly tall West African Muslim teenage boys with NBA dreams.
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Paul Goodman Changed My Life
Showing:
MON, 11/14: 5:00 p.m.
THUR, 11/17: 2:30 p.m.
Director: Jonathan Lee
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 89 min.
Synopsis: Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American Zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing up Absurd (1960), Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer (and family man), pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy--and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the ’60s. Paul Goodman Changed My Life is the first documentary about Paul Goodman, the late social critic, poet, philosopher of education, or, as he called himself, “man of letters in the old-fashioned sense.”
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The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground
Showing:
THUR, 11/17: 11:30 a.m.
FRI, 11/18: 5:00 p.m.
Director: Erik Greenberg Anjou
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 106 min.
Synopsis: The Klezmatics: On Holy Ground, is a feature-length documentary about the Grammy Award-winning, New York-based, Klezmer Band. The Klezmatics have made numerous television and radio appearances, including PBS’s Great Performances series with Itzhak Perlman as well as on Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion on NPR. In 2006 the band released “Wonder Wheel: Lyrics by Woody Guthrie.” It was their first English language LP which won a Grammy Award for Best World Music. Anjou and crew followed the Klezmatics for over three years capturing the band’s highs, lows, and relentless march forward.
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The Swell Season
Showing:
FRI, 11/18: 11:30 a.m.
SUN, 11/20: 5:00 p.m.
Directors: Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, and Carlo Mirabella-Davis
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtimes: 90 min.
Synopsis: In 2008, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova captivated audiences and earned two Academy Awards for their musical collaboration in the film “Once” which reached $10 million at the box office and grew their popularity and fan base by tens of thousands in North America and throughout the world. As their fictional romance blurred with reality, they fell in love, recorded an album, and embarked on a world tour. Fueled by two years of exhilaration, performance, and psychological turmoil, The Swell Season is much more than a music documentary. It is a volatile and intimate portrait of a romance that fractures in the face of life on the road and personal tragedy. As Glen and Marketa’s relationship unhinges, ultimately music prevails as their enduring connection. With incredible performances from around the world and an intimate seat on Glen and Marketa’s tour, The Swell Season will resonate with film fans and music fans alike.
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Richard Garriott: Man on a Mission
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 2:00 p.m.
Director: Mike Woolf
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 94 min.
Synopsis: Richard Garriott became the first son of an astronaut to go to space. This documentary tells the story of his dream–from his training in Russia to his launch in Kazakhstan--while he pioneers the idea of private space travel. This incredible journey holds the power to inspire dreamers and awaken the astronaut in all of us.
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Semper Fi: Always Faithful
Showing:
WED, 11/16: 7:00 p.m.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILMMAKER
Directors: Tony Hardmon and Rachel Libert
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 76 min.
Synopsis: When Jerry’s nine-year old daughter Janey died of a rare type of leukemia, his world collapsed. As a grief-stricken father, he struggled for years to make sense of what happened. His search for answers led to the shocking discovery of a Marine Corps cover-up of one of the largest water contamination incidents in U.S. history. Semper Fi: Always Faithful follows Jerry’s mission to expose the Marine Corps and force them to live up to their motto to the thousands of soldiers and their families exposed to toxic chemicals. His fight reveals a grave injustice at North Carolina’s Camp Lejeune and a looming environmental crisis at military sites across the country.
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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 12:00 p.m.
Director: John Foy
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 85 min
Synopsis: Strangeness is afoot. Most people don’t notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this long-standing urban mystery has been his obsession. He has been collecting clues that the tiler has embedded in the streets of major cities across the U.S. and South America. But as Justin starts piecing together key events of the past he finds a story that is more surreal than he imagined, and one that hits disturbingly close to home.
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The Good Life
Showing:
WED, 11/16: 12:00 p.m.
THUR, 11/17: 5:00 p.m.
Director: Eva Mulvad
Country: Denmark
Language: Danish w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 86 min.
Synopsis: Two ladies – mother and daughter – live on the sunny Portuguese coast. Throughout their entire lives, they have had more than enough money to live the good life – no work and lots of pleasure. But now they have a problem: Their wealth has run out! A jet set upper-class life is substituted by unpaid bills and by a constant fear of not being able to pay next month’s rent – and the daughter, who has never worked a day in her life, is now forced to forget her decadent lifestyle and try to create an independent life for herself at the age of 56. We meet the little family when the father has just died. Mother and daughter have unwillingly had to move from their huge luxurious home into a small flat – which they can hardly afford. The mother gets a Danish pension, but that is far from enough to cover the monthly expenses of two grown women who are used to having all the money they need. So Annemette and her mother Mette borrow money from friends, shop on credit at the local grocery stores and pay their dentist with a painting from their living room wall. Annemette tries to find a job, but it is more than difficult to enter a strained job market in times of worldwide economic crisis with an empty CV and a rich kid attitude.
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The Day He Arrives
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 12:00 p.m.
SUN, 11/20: 7:30 p.m.
Director: Sang-soo Hong
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean w/English subtitles
Runtime: 79 min.
Synopsis: Sang-Joon is a professor in the film department at a provincial university. He goes to Seoul to meet his senior, Young-Ho, who works as a film critic. Sang-Joon stays in a northern village in Seoul for 3 days.
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Tomboy
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 7:30 p.m.
SUN, 11/20: 12:00 p.m.
Director: Céline Sciamma
Country: France
Language: French w/English subtitles
Runtime: 82 min.
Synopsis: Ten year old Laure isn’t like most girls. She prefers football to dolls and sweaters to dresses. When Laure, her parents and little sister Jeanne move to a new neighborhood, family life remains much the same. That is, until local girl Lisa mistakes Laure to be a boy. Indulging in this exciting new identity, Laure becomes Michael, and so begins a summer of long sunny afternoons, playground games and first kisses. Yet with the school term fast approaching, and with suspicions arising amongst friends and family, Laure must face up to an uncertain future.
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Tales from the Golden Age
Showing:
MON, 11/14: 12:00 p.m.
Directors: Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Rzvan Mrculescu, Constantin Popescu, Cristian Mungiu
Country: Romania
Language: Romanian w/English subtitles
Runtime: 155 min.
Synopsis: The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania’s history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the Golden Age.” Tales from the Golden Age adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime. Humor is what kept Romanians alive, and Tales from the Golden Age aims to re-capture that mood, portraying the survival of a nation having to face every day the twisted logic of a dictatorship. The film combines several true stories to portray an era during which food was more important than money, freedom more important than love and survival more important than principles.
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Disengagement
Showing:
THUR, 11/17: 7:30 p.m.
FRI, 11/18: 2:00 p.m.
Director: Amos Gitai
Country: Italy/Israel/Germany/France
Language: English, French, Hebrew, Arabic w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 116 min.
Synopsis: Ana is reunited with her estranged Israeli stepbrother, Uli, when he travels to France for the death of their father. She decides to return to Israel to search for the daughter she gave up at birth 20 years ago. Crossing frontiers by car, train and boat, Ana and Uli are caught up in the turmoil and emotion of the military-enforced disengagement of Israeli settlers from Gaza in 2005.
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A French Gigolo
Showing:
TUES, 11/15: 2:30 p.m.
WED, 11/16: 11:30 a.m.
SAT, 11/12: 11:00 a.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
SUN, 11/13: 11:00 a.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
Director: Josiane Balasko
Country: France
Language: French w/English subtitles
Runtime: 104 min.
Synopsis: Judith is an attractive, level-headed woman in her fifties. She lives alone and regularly treats herself to the sexual services of young men selected on Internet escort sites. That’s how she meets Patrick, whose kindness and simplicity win her over. She starts seeing him regularly. This charming young man, whose real name is Marco, only works as an escort to pay the mortgage on the hair salon run by his beloved wife, Fanny. Fanny thinks he works on construction sites. When she learns the truth, Marco stops selling his favors; however, little by little, as times get tougher and money grows scarce, Fanny herself pushes her husband back to his lucrative activities.
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Le Havre
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 2:00 p.m.
MON, 11/14: 7:00 p.m.
FRI, 11/18: 11:00 a.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
SAT, 11/19: 11:00 a.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
Director: Aki Kaurismaki
Country: Finland/France
Language: French w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 93 min.
Synopsis: In his wry and warm-hearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, legendary Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki (The Man Without a Past, The Match Factory Girl) pays tribute to the Gallic cinema he loves with a film that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Michel Carné. Winner of the FIPRESCI Critics’ prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, Kaurismäki’s 16th feature concerns a young African refugee (newcomer Blondin Miguel) who is thrown by fate into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-read bohemian who works as a shoe-shiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering solidarity of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation.
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Romantics Anonymous
Showing:
WED, 11/16: 7:30 p.m.
THUR, 11/17: 2:00 p.m.
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Country: France/Belgium
Language: French w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 80 min.
Synopsis:Romantics Anonymous tells the story of Angélique (Isabelle Carré, Private Fears in Public Places), a gifted chocolate-maker whose uncontrollable shyness prevents her from acknowledging her talents. Struggling chocolatier Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde, Coco Before Chanel), who also suffers from a similar case of awkward bashfulness that threatens to drown his company, hires Angelique as his new sales associate. Realizing she’s attracted to her boss, Angelique decides to anonymously develop a new line of chocolates to save the company. With the future of the business hanging in the balance, Angelique and Jean-Rene must overcome their limitations and confess their sweet affections for one another in this delectable comedy.
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Love During Wartime
Showing:
MON, 11/14: 2:00 p.m.
TUES, 11/15: 7:30 p.m.
Director: Gabriella Bier
Country: Sweden
Language: Hebrew, Arabic, German w/English subtitles
Runtime: 92 min.
Synopsis: Love During Wartime follows Osama and Jasmin, newlyweds trying to build a life together against what look like impossible odds: She’s Israeli, he’s Palestinian. When their homelands turn their backs on them, they choose to live in exile. This tender tale of a love infiltrated by politics follows a real-life Romeo and Juliet on their odyssey from the Middle East through an inhospitable Europe. As their hopes rise and fade with each bureaucratic hurdle, will their love survive?
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Silent Souls
Showing:
MON, 11/14: 7:30 p.m.
TUES, 11/15: 11:30 a.m.
Director: Aleksei Fedorchenko
Country: France
Language: Russian w/ English Subtitles
Runtime: 75 min.
Synopsis: “In this land there are only two gods: love and water.” When Miron’s beloved wife Tanya passes away, he asks his best friend Aist to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero, a picturesque region in West-Central Russia. Although the Merja people assimilated into Russians in the 17th century, their myths and traditions live on in their descendants’ modern life. The two men set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless lands; with them, two small birds in a cage. Along the way, as is custom for the Merjas, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. But as they reach the banks of the sacred lake where they will forever part with the body, he realizes he wasn’t the only one in love with Tanya.
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Curling
Showing:
SUN, 11/13: 7:30 p.m.
MON, 11/14: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Denis Côté
Country: Canada
Language: French w/ English Subtitles
Runtime: 92 min.
Synopsis: Set on the fringe of society in a remote part of the countryside, Curling takes a keen look at the unusual private life of a father and his daughter. Between his unremarkable jobs, Jean-François Sauvageau (Emmanuel Bilodeau) devotes an awkward energy to Julyvonne (Philomène Bilodeau). The fragile balance of their relationship will be jeopardized by some dreary circumstances.
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Hermano
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 2:30 p.m.
SAT, 11/12: 7:30 p.m.
Director: Marcel Rasquin
Country: Venezuela
Language: Spanish w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 97 min.
Synopsis:Raised as brothers, intense teammates and competitors on the soccer field – the gregarious, swaggering Julio (Eliu Armas) and the more wiry and focused Daniel “El Gato” (Fernando Moreno) have remained virtually inseparable ever since the newborn Daniel was found abandoned in a trash heap in their La Ceniza slum. The opportunity of their lives arrives when a football scout invites them to tryout for the city’s top professional team, just as a tragic act of violence threatens to tear them apart and prevent them from achieving their dreams.
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The Conquest
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 7:30 p.m.
SAT, 11/12: 2:30 p.m.
Director: Xavier Durringer
Country: France
Language: French w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 105 min.
Synopsis: The day is May 6, 2007, France’s run-up to the presidential elections. As the French people are getting ready to go to the polls to elect their new president, presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy has shut himself away in his home. Though Sarkozy soon learns he has won the election, he is alone, gloomy and despondent. For hours he has been trying to reach his wife, Cécilia, to no avail. The last five years start to unfurl before our eyes, recounting Sarkozy’s unstoppable ascent to power, riddled with in-party backstabbing, media manipulation, riots, sarcastic confrontations and extra-marital affairs. The Conquest chronicles the volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power. On the day the diminutive Sarkozy conquered his ultimate ambition, his wife – who for twenty years had struggled to pull the man she loved from the shadow into the light – walked out on him for another man.
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Young Goethe in Love
Showing:
FRI, 11/18: 7:30 p.m.
SAT, 11/19: 2:30 p.m.
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Country: Germany
Language: German w/ English subtitles
Runtime: 100 min
Synopsis: Germany 1772 – the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Hubchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte’s hand to another man.
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Shit Year
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 10:00 p.m.
SAT, 11/19: 10:00 p.m.
Director: Cam Archer
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 95 min.
Synopsis:Renowned actress Colleen West abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the quiet and peace of mind she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she really can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing that she has ever truly been passionate about. As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor and reconnects with her estranged brother. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through the characters she has played on stage and screen.
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The Oregonian
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 10:00 p.m.
FRI, 11/18: 10:00 p.m.
Director: Calvin Lee Reeder
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 81 min.
Synopsis: There is a place. A place where the skies are wide and the forests are thick--and strange. You can lose yourself forever in these woods. You’ll meet truckers with problems and old women with strange powers. You may even make a furry friend. Just be sure to stay quiet. Spend some time with a woman from Oregon who is lost on the road and running away from her past. Now she has a chance to experience everything the grotesque Northwest has to offer, whether she likes it or not.
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The Mill and the Cross
Showing:
SUN, 11/13: 2:00 p.m.
TUES, 11/15: 12:00 p.m.
Director: Lech Majewski
Country: Sweden/Poland
Language: English
Runtime: 92 min
Synopsis: Pieter Bruegel’s epic masterpiece The Way To Calvary depicts the story of Christ’s Passion set in Flanders under brutal Spanish occupation in the year 1564, the very year Bruegel created his painting. From among the more than five hundred figures that fill Bruegel’s remarkable canvas, The Mill and the Cross focuses on a dozen characters whose life stories unfold and intertwine in a panoramic landscape populated by villagers and red-caped horsemen. Among them are: Bruegel himself (played by Rutger Hauer), his friend and art collector Nicolaes Jonghelinck (Michael York), and the Virgin Mary (Charlotte Rampling).
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Boy
Showing:
FRI, 11/18: 12:00 p.m.
SUN, 11/20: 2:00 p.m.
Director: Taika Waititi
Country: New Zealand
Language: English
Runtime: 87 min.
Synopsis: The year is 1984, and on the rural East Coast of New Zealand, “Thriller” is changing kids’ lives. Inspired by the Oscar nominated “Two Cars, One Night”, Boy is the hilarious and heartfelt coming-of-age tale about heroes, magic and Michael Jackson. Boy is a dreamer who loves Michael Jackson. He lives with his brother Rocky, a tribe of deserted cousins and his Nan. Boy’s other hero, his father, Alamein, is the subject of Boy’s fantasies, and he imagines him as a deep sea diver, war hero and a close relation of Michael Jackson (he can even dance like him). In reality he’s “in the can for robbery.” When Alamein returns home after 7 years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential and learn to get along without the hero he had been hoping for.
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The Off Hours
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 5:00 p.m.
SUN, 11/20: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Megan Griffiths
Country: USA
Language English
Runtime: 93 min.
Synopsis: In The Off Hours, Amy Seimetz (Tiny Furniture) alluringly commands the screen as Francine, a waitress whose liberation from her mundane existence is long overdue. In the restless world of the night shift at a highway diner, Francine’s life consists of casual encounters and transient friendships. What she wants is out of reach--or is it that she’s lost track of wanting anything at all? When a banker turned big-rig driver (Baghead’s Ross Partridge) becomes a regular, he sparks hope in Francine. As change begins to invade the quiet diner, Francine is reminded that it is never too late to become the person she was meant to be.
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Jess + Moss
Showing:
FRI, 11/18: 2:30 p.m.
SAT, 11/19: 2:00 p.m.
TUES, 11/15: 7:45 p.m.
Director: Clay Jeter
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 83 min.
Synopsis: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
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The Lie
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 5:00 p.m.
SUN, 11/13: 11:30 a.m.
Director: Joshua Leonard
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 80 min.
Synopsis: When they first met, Lonnie and Clover were young idealists, but an unplanned baby forced them to flip the script. Lonnie put his music on hold and got a bad job. Now Clover is abandoning her activism for an “opportunity” in the corporate world. Drowning in disappointments, Lonnie decides he needs some time off work to reexamine his life. He calls in sick, but his abusive boss demands he show up or get fired. Lonnie panics and tells a shocking lie to justify his absence – and once the lie is out, there’s no going back. Now it’s only a matter of time before the grenade he’s thrown on his life explodes and Lonnie is suddenly pushed to figure out who he is, what he wants, and just maybe, what it means to be a father.
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Deconstructing the Beatles
A special live AV presentation by Beatles expert Scott Freiman!
Showing:
Looking Through A Glass Onion: Deconstructing The Beatles’ ‘White Album’
FRI, 11/18: 4:30 p.m.
Synopsis: Released in 1968, the White Album’s thirty songs span almost every style of music -- from hard rock to country to chamber music to avant garde. Its recording took place during a remarkable year in Beatles history that included a lengthy trip to India and the arrival of Yoko Ono. In Looking Through A Glass Onion: Deconstructing The Beatles’ White Album, Mr. Freiman traces the creation of some of the Beatles’ most memorable songs, such as “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Revolution”, from demo to final version. Mr. Freiman will also cover the recording of “Hey Jude”, the Beatles’ most successful single. Mr. Freiman will discuss the studio techniques used by the Beatles during 1968 and share many examples of rare audio and video of the Beatles in action.
Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper (LAKEWOOD RANCH PRESENTATION)
THUR 11/17: 7:45 p.m.
Synopsis: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the most influential albums of our time. In Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper, composer, musician, and Beatles expert Scott Freiman looks at Sgt. Pepper from multiple angles, exploring the history behind the music. Using rare and unreleased recordings, Mr. Freiman walks the audience through the construction of songs from take one to the final version. You are guaranteed to leave amazed at the Beatles’ innovation in the studio and have a newfound appreciation for the writing of Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison and even the drumming of Ringo Starr!
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A Chance to Live
Showing:
FRI, 11/18: 7:00 p.m.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILMMAKER AND SUBJECT OF DOCUMENTARY
Director: Marc Reese
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 45 min.
Synopsis: As a small boy, Pieter Kohnstam lived with his parents in an apartment in Amsterdam during World War II. Anne Frank,whose diary later became world famous, was a neighbor and playmate. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands, the Frank family went into hiding, but the Kohnstams decided to flee.
Their year-long odyssey across Europe was filled with hardship, danger and miraculous
escapes. In addition to Pieter’s story, other Holocaust survivors all living locally, share their
personal stories of survival, and loss. “A Chance to Live” will make its television premiere as part of “Diamonds Along the Highway,” a new PBS series focusing on some of Florida’s most interesting people and places. Hosted byGus Mollasis, the series will air locally on WEDU in early 2012. Get a first look at this powerfuland moving tale of family, fate, and love, and how these elements came together during
one man’s journey, earning him the right to be placed among the sacred ranks of “Survivor.”
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East Fifth Bliss
Showing:
TUES, 11/15: 7:00 p.m.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILMMAKER
MON, 11/14: 7:45 p.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
Director: Michael Knowles
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 97 min.
Synopsis: Comedy/drama about 35-year-old Morris Bliss, who is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and perhaps worst of all the premature death of his mother still lingers and has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with the sexually precocious, 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
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The Man on the Train
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 11:30 a.m.
SUN, 11/13: 2:30 p.m.
Director: Mary McGuckian
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 106 min.
Synopsis: In this English-language remake of Patrice Leconte’s award-winning French film of the same name, Man on the Train stars Donald Sutherland and musician Larry Mullen, Jr. in his acting debut. A mysterious criminal (Mullen, Jr.) rolls into a small town planning to knock off the local bank, assuming it will go off without a hitch. But when he encounters a retired poetry professor (Sutherland), his plans take an unlikely turn. With no place to stay, the professor generously welcomes him into his home. As the two men talk, a bond forms between these two polar opposites, and surprising moments of humor and compassion emerge. As they begin to understand each other more, they each examine the choices they’ve made in their lives; secretly longing to live the type of lifestyle the other man has lived, based on the desire to escape their own.
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The Last Rites of Joe May
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 11:30 a.m.
SUN, 11/20: 2:30 p.m.
WED, 11/16: 7:45 p.m. (LAKEWOOD RANCH SCREENING)
Director: Joe Maggio
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 107 min.
Synopsis: Small-time Chicago hustler Joe May (the incomparable Dennis Farina) always felt like a great destiny awaited him, but with his health ailing and his age advancing, he’s never looked more like a bum. Broke and evicted, he’s taken in by a troubled young mother and daughter, in whom he finds one last shot to be a hero. Pulsing with the spirit of classic urban dramas, The Last Rites of Joe May is a subtle, sophisticated tale of redemption.
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Oranges & Sunshine
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 4:30 p.m.
SUN, 11/13: 7:00 p.m.
Director: Jim Loach
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 105 min.
Synopsis: Oranges & Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered one of the most significant social scandals in recent times: the organized deportation of children in care from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds, and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families while bringing authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
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Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Showing:
THURS, 11/17: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Roman Paska
Country: Italy
Language: Italian w/English subtitles
Runtime: 77 min.
Synopsis: In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. There, while exploring the island’s vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of one of the puppet theater’s few remaining practitioners, Mimmo Cuticchio, who instructs him in the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry. Filmed during preparations for the Sicilian Day of the Dead, this evocative, magical-realist documentary was directed by Turturro’s longtime collaborator, Roman Paska, himself a world-renowned puppeteer. Both a homage to the art of storytelling and a portrait of a Sicily little known to the outside world, Paska’s film brings viewers to an otherworldly place, lost in time.
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A Dangerous Method
Showing:
FRI, 11/11: 7:00 p.m.
Director: David Cronenberg
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 99 min.
Synopsis: On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them. Sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought.
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The Artist
Showing:
SUN, 11/20: 7:00 p.m.
Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 100 min.
Synopsis: Hollywood 1927 George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a silent movie superstar. The advent of talkies will sound the death knell for his career and see him fall into oblivion. For young extra Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo), it seems the sky’s the limit – major movie stardom awaits. The Artist tells the story of their interlinked destinies.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
Showing:
SAT, 11/12: 7:00 p.m.
SUN, 11/13: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 112 min.
Synopsis: A suspenseful and gripping psychological thriller, Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin explores the factious relationship between a mother and her son. Tilda Swinton, in a bracing, tour-de-force performance, plays the mother, Eva, as she contends for 15 years with the increasing malevolence of her first-born child, Kevin (Ezra Miller). Based on the best-selling novel of the same name, We Need to Talk About Kevin explores nature vs. nurture on a whole new level as Eva’s own culpability is measured against Kevin’s innate evilness. Ramsay’s masterful storytelling simultaneously combines a provocative moral ambiguity with a satisfying and compelling narrative, which builds to a chilling, unforgettable climax.
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Into the Abyss
Showing:
THUR, 11/17: 7:00 p.m.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILMMAKER
Director: Werner Herzog
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 120 min.
Synopsis: In his fascinating exploration of a triple homicide case in Conroe, Texas, master filmmaker Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Grizzly Man) probes the human psyche to explore why people kill--and why a state kills. In intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry (scheduled to die within eight days of appearing on-screen) Herzog achieves what he describes as “a gaze into the abyss of the human soul.” Herzog’s inquiries also extend to the families of the victims and perpetrators as well as a state executioner and pastor who’ve been with death row prisoners as they’ve taken their final breaths. As he’s so often done before, Herzog’s investigation unveils layers of humanity, making an enlightening trip out of ominous territory.
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Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Showing:
WED, 11/16: 4:30 p.m.
Director: Werner Herzog
Country: France/Canada/USA/UK/Germany
Language: English
Runtime: 90 min.
Synopsis: Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting.
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Encounters at the End of the World
Showing:
WED, 11/16: 2:00 p.m.
Director: Werner Herzog
Country: USA
Language: English
Runtime: 99 min.
Synopsis: Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica to capture its landscape’s rarely seen beauty on film.
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Rockin’ the Wall
Showing:
SAT, 11/19: 7:00 p.m.
FOLLOWED BY Q&A WITH FILMMAKER
Director: Marc Leif
Country: USA
Language: English
Synopsis: Rockin’ the Wall is the compelling story of rock and roll’s part in bringing down the Berlin Wall and smashing the Iron Curtain. Told from the perspective of rockers who played at the time, on both sides of the Wall, and from survivors of the communist regimes who recalled the lifeline that rock music provided them, Rockin’ the Wall features new interviews and several original songs written exclusively for the film. The message that emerges is that music is a force of liberation, and in a society like America’s, where it was seldom (if ever) truly suppressed, music failed to ignite a social revolution. But behind the Iron Curtain, where the mere act of expressing one’s individuality constituted a potential act of revolution, music provided the key thread upon which the anti-communist struggle gained ground.
This story was originally published November 6, 2011 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Sarasota Film Society’s 22nd Annual Cine-World Film Festival schedule ."