Cleveland Film Society :: Cleveland International Film Festival

	10+4 IRAN Directed by Mania Akbari Running time: 77 minutes In what can be considered a sequel to Abbas Kiarostami’s award-winning masterpiece “10,” in which she starred, Mania Akbari reprises her role as a strong woman dealing with the everyday struggles of life... Share-with-a-Friend Saturday, March 8 at 12:00 pm Sunday, March 9 at 7:15 pm

3 Days to Forever
Foreign Title: 3 hari untuk selamanya

INDONESIA
Directed by Riri Riza
Running time: 104 minutes

Yusuf, a serious-minded college student, is asked by his aunt to drive the family’s fine china 250 miles from Jakarta to Jogjakarta, the traditional site of their family weddings. His cousin is getting...

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Friday, March 7 at 4:15 pm
Sunday, March 9 at 11:45 am

Alice's House
Foreign Title: A Casa de Alice

BRAZIL
Directed by Chico Teixeira
Running time: 92 minutes

The people in Alice’s house live too close to each other for comfort, yet too far apart for understanding. Alice is a São Paulo manicurist who’s bored and frustrated with her life. Confined to living in...

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Wednesday, March 12 at 7:15 pm
Thursday, March 13 at 11:30 am

	All of Us USA Directed by Emily Abt Running time: 82 minutes Dr. Mehret Mandefro is a woman on a mission. An Ethiopian-American in the last year of her medical residency at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, she’s made it her life’s work to empower young, heterosexual,... Share-with-a-Friend Saturday, March 15 at 12:00 pm Sunday, March 16 at 4:15 pm (STAND BY) What's this?

	American Teen USA Directed by Nanette Burstein Running time: 95 minutes AMERICAN TEEN was a huge hit at the recent Sundance Film Festival, winning the Documentary Directing Award for director Nanette Burstein. Burstein spent the 2005-2006 school year shooting footage of seniors... Share-with-a-Friend Sunday, March 16 at 7:00 pm (STAND BY) What's this?

And Along Come Tourists
Foreign Title: Am Ende Kommen Touristen

GERMANY
Directed by Robert Thalheim
Running time: 85 minutes

Sven is a rudderless but amiable enough young man who signs up for a year of civil service abroad rather than serving in the German army. He’s sent to Oswiecim in Poland -- a place of humdrum lives and...

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Wednesday, March 12 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, March 13 at 2:00 pm

	Armin CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, GERMANY Directed by Ognjen Svilicic Running time: 82 minutes A Bosnian teenager and his father are waiting for a bus in their small, war-pocked village; they’re bound for the big city of Zagreb, Croatia. Armin is an expressionless youth who quietly tolerates the... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 14 at 9:45 pm Saturday, March 15 at 4:15 pm

The Art of Negative Thinking
Foreign Title: Kunsten å tenke negativt

NORWAY
Directed by Bård Breien
Running time: 79 minutes

This is the story of a self-help weekend gone crazy! Geirr and Ingvild are struggling in their relationship after an accident has left Geirr paralyzed and impotent. He spends his days watching war movies...

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Wednesday, March 12 at 9:30 am
Thursday, March 13 at 2:15 pm
Saturday, March 15 at 9:30 pm

El Baño del Papa

URUGUAY, BRAZIL, FRANCE
Directed by César Charlone, Enrique Fernández
Running time: 97 minutes

The Pope is coming to Melo, and everyone’s getting ready. Melo is a poor Uruguayan village on the Brazilian border whose inhabitants are used to barely scraping by. Chief among occupations is petty smuggling,...

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Wednesday, March 12 at 1:45 pm
Thursday, March 13 at 7:15 pm

	Battle in Seattle USA Directed by Stuart Townsend Running time: 100 minutes On November, 30, 1999, thousands of people converged onto the streets of Seattle, Washington. Some were there to attend the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference, some were there to protest... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 14 at 7:00 pm Saturday, March 15 at 2:15 pm - Sold out.

	Ben X BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS Directed by Nic Balthazar Running time: 90 minutes Ben is a hero in his own mind. There he is not the student who is bullied mercilessly at his vocational school. Nor is he the person who can't feel emotions like other people or talk about the things... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 14 at 9:30 am Saturday, March 15 at 7:30 pm Sunday, March 16 at 11:45 am

	Big Man Japan Foreign Title: Dainipponjin JAPAN Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto Running time: 113 minutes Dai Sato seems like your average inarticulate everyman, except that his hair is sort of weird, he has an unusual fondness for his foldable umbrella, and he lives alone in a messy house where he eats out... Share-with-a-Friend Thursday, March 13 at 4:15 pm Friday, March 14 at Midnight

	Bing Ai CHINA Directed by Feng Yan Running time: 114 minutes The Three Gorges Dam project on the Yangtze River is almost completed, and residents from Guilin Village are being systematically “relocated” under inequitable terms. Once the project is finished, over... Share-with-a-Friend Wednesday, March 12 at 11:30 am Friday, March 14 at 2:00 pm

	Blind NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, BULGARIA Directed by Tamar van den Dop Running time: 98 minutes A dark, Dutch 19th-century fairy tale set on a frozen European landscape, BLIND is a visually stunning film deeply concerned with the emotional pain of its protagonists. Ruben is a blind young man who... Share-with-a-Friend Tuesday, March 11 at 4:45 pm Wednesday, March 12 at 10:00 pm

Bliss
Foreign Title: Mutluluk

TURKEY, GREECE
Directed by Abdullah Oguz
Running time: 105 minutes

Zülfü Livaneli is a Turkish Renaissance man: an internationally renowned parliamentarian, peace activist, musician, and author whose 2002 novel “Bliss” won an award from Barnes and Noble as part of their...

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Tuesday, March 11 at 10:00 pm
Thursday, March 13 at 1:45 pm
Friday, March 14 at 4:30 pm - Sold out.

Bluff

CANADA
Directed by Marc-André Lavoie, Simon Oliver Fecteau
Running time: 90 minutes

"If these walls could talk" takes on a most literal meaning in BLUFF. At the impending demolition of an old Montreal duplex, a member of the crew completes a last safety check and makes an unusual discovery....

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Friday, March 7 at 9:30 pm
Saturday, March 8 at 4:45 pm
Sunday, March 9 at 9:30 am

	Bomb It! USA Directed by Jon Reiss Running time: 93 minutes An explosive, cutting-edge documentary, BOMB IT! explores the art, politics, and philosophy of graffiti writers on five continents. Filmmaker Jon Reiss intercuts interviews of “bombers,” the graffiti artists,... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 14 at 10:00 pm Sunday, March 16 at 9:30 am

	Boystown Foreign Title: Chuecatown SPAIN Directed by Juan Flahn Running time: 93 minutes Loosely based on a Spanish comic book, BOYSTOWN is a romp through Madrid’s chic gay district, known as “Chuecatown.” Victor is an insufferably smug real estate agent with the body of an Adonis. His greatest... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 14 at 11:45 am Saturday, March 15 at 9:45 pm

	The Brother From Another Planet USA Directed by John Sayles Running time: 108 minutes When a fugitive alien (Joe Morton)–indistinguishable from a black human apart from his three-toed feet–crashes his space ship in the waters surrounding Manhattan, he seeks refuge in a Harlem bar. Confused... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 7 at 4:30 pm

	The Calling Game Foreign Title: Die Anruferin GERMANY Directed by Felix Randau Running time: 80 minutes A little girl calls random strangers on the phone, stating she's in the hospital with leukemia. Her parents are not there right now, she says, and she wants to hear a story. She's sick and she's afraid... Share-with-a-Friend Thursday, March 13 at 11:45 am Friday, March 14 at 9:30 pm

	Caramel LEBANON, FRANCE Directed by Nadine Labaki Running time: 95 minutes Layal works in a beauty salon in Beirut along with two other women. Each one has a problem: Layal loves Rabih, but Rabih is married… Nisrine is Muslim and, no longer a virgin, faces complications with... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 7 at 7:15 pm - Sold out.

	Cargo 200 Foreign Title: Gruz 200 Russia Directed by Alexey Balabanov Running time: 90 minutes Alexey Balabanov (27th CIFF Someone to Watch) brings to the screen an unflinching view of the mindless violence within the final breaths of the Soviet Union. CARGO 200, the term that referred to the returned... Share-with-a-Friend Wednesday, March 12 at 2:00 pm Saturday, March 15 at 10:00 pm

Chaos
Foreign Title: Heya Fawda

EGYPT, FRANCE
Directed by Youssef Chahine, Khaled Youssef
Running time: 122 minutes

Politics and love are equally chaotic and all the more dangerous in the hands of a crooked cop with an insatiable crush on his neighbor. Young and bright, Nour is a teacher in Cairo who has long admired...

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Thursday, March 13 at 9:45 pm
Friday, March 14 at 1:45 pm

	Chasin' Gus' Ghost USA Directed by Todd Kwait Running time: 97 minutes Cleveland businessman Todd Kwait has long harbored passions for film and music. He manages to meld the two with his first independently produced documentary, CHASIN’ GUS’ GHOST, which traces the roots... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 7 at 11:30 am Saturday, March 8 at 7:15 pm Monday, March 10 at 12:00 pm

	Children Foreign Title: Börn ICELAND Directed by Ragnar Bragason Running time: 93 minutes CHILDREN is the first film to the highly successfully and critically acclaimed Icelandic two-parter (PARENTS, also showing in the 32nd CIFF, is the second part) filmed in stunning black and white. Both... Share-with-a-Friend Friday, March 7 at 11:45 am Monday, March 10 at 9:30 pm

Chinese Art Today: Cao Fei and Yang Fudong

CHINA
Running time: 90 minutes