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24 City
Foreign Title: Er Shi Si Cheng Ji

CHINA
Directed by Jia Jhang-ke
Running time: 107 minutes

24 CITY follows three generations of characters in the Chinese city of Chengdu as an industrial complex gives way to a luxury apartment complex. Though the city was once dependent these state-run factories,...

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Friday, March 20 at 2:15 pm - Past Screening

Sunday, March 22 at 6:50 pm - Past Screening

Achilles and the Tortoise
Foreign Title: Akires to kame

JAPAN
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Running time: 119 minutes

One of Zeno’s paradoxes from ancient Greece tells of the race between Achilles and the tortoise; though the tortoise has been given a head start, Achilles can never catch up to him. Director Takeshi “Beat”...

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Friday, March 20 at 9:15 am - Past Screening

Monday, March 23 at 6:50 pm - Past Screening

Wednesday, March 25 at 2:00 pm - Past Screening

Alexander the Last

USA
Directed by Joe Swanberg
Running time: 90 minutes

Alex is an actress, Elliot is a musician, Alex and Elliot are married. Alex has just landed a great new role alongside a talented (and strikingly handsome) single actor. She soon realizes that she has...

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Thursday, March 26 at 11:40 am - Past Screening

Friday, March 27 at 9:30 pm - Past Screening

All Around Us
Foreign Title: Gururi Nokoto

JAPAN
Directed by Ryosuke Hashiguchi
Running time: 140 minutes

Kanao and Shoko are complete opposites. He is easy going, while she is a control freak — even about their love life. The only thing they do have in common is that they will be having a child together,...

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Thursday, March 26 at 11:20 am - Past Screening

Friday, March 27 at 6:50 pm - Past Screening

An Alternative to Slitting Your Wrist

USA
Directed by Owen Lowery
Running time: 82 minutes

Make a stranger happy. Ride in a hot air balloon. Go squirrel fishing. Get shot with a tazer. Make someone’s wish come true. From the simple to the spectacular, from the awesome to the absurd, these...

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Tuesday, March 24 at 11:30 am - Past Screening

Wednesday, March 25 at 9:50 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 28 at 9:25 am - Past Screening

	Another One Of Me USA Directed by Dale Omori Running time: 23 minutes Twins from around the country try to explain their incredible bond, secrets and oddities. Share-with-a-Friend

Antarctica

ISRAEL
Directed by Yair Hochner
Running time: 108 minutes

A silly and seriously promiscuous romp through gay Tel Aviv — like New York, a city that never sleeps — ANTARCTICA really turns up the heat. Omer is almost 30 and longs to find true love, but can’t pull...

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Thursday, March 26 at 10:00 pm - Past Screening

Sunday, March 29 at 7:15 pm - Past Screening

Apron Strings

NEW ZEALAND
Directed by Sima Urale
Running time: 89 minutes

APRON STRINGS tells the parallel story of two families with different cultures and different problems. Anita, the beautiful host of an Indian cooking show on TV, and Tara, the owner of a traditional curry...

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Saturday, March 21 at 9:40 pm - Past Screening

Monday, March 23 at 4:45 pm - Past Screening

Art & Copy

USA
Directed by Doug Pray
Running time: 89 minutes

Somewhere out there right now, giant satellites are about to launch into space, the better to blanket the airwaves with more commercial images. ART & COPY is a stylish film about the creative heads behind...

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Friday, March 27 at 2:15 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 28 at 7:15 pm - Past Screening

Ask Not

USA
Directed by Johnny Symons
Running time: 73 minutes

A nationwide shortage of military recruits threatens US national security. But nearly 12,000 fully capable men and women have been discharged from the military as a result of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”...

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Friday, March 20 at 11:50 am - Past Screening

Saturday, March 21 at 9:20 am - Past Screening

Sunday, March 22 at 7:00 pm - Past Screening
with FilmForum.

At the Edge of the World

ANTARCTICA, AUSTRALIA, USA
Directed by Dan Stone
Running time: 92 minutes

This riveting documentary must be seen to be believed. Somewhere AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, in the grandeur of the Ross Sea near Antarctica, there’s a team of intrepid environmentalists on ships belonging...

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Friday, March 20 at 6:45 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 21 at 11:00 am - Past Screening
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Back Soon
Foreign Title: Skrapp út

ICELAND, FRANCE
Directed by Solveig Anspach
Running time: 95 minutes

Stuff just seems to happen to Anna, an internationally published poet in Reykjavik, Iceland, who finds it hard to create a living and support her family on words alone. So she’s taken to selling marijuana...

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Tuesday, March 24 at 6:45 pm - Past Screening

Wednesday, March 25 at 2:25 pm - Past Screening

Bahrtalo! (Good Luck!)
Foreign Title: Bahrtalo! (Jó szerencsét!)

HUNGARY, RUSSIA, GERMANY
Directed by Róbert Lakatos
Running time: 80 minutes

BAHRTALO! is a Transylvanian road movie about two endearingly grating Romanian friends trying to wheel and deal their way through the new global economy. Lali is a gregarious, mustachioed Gypsy, and Lóri...

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Wednesday, March 25 at 4:45 pm - Past Screening

Thursday, March 26 at 9:45 pm - Past Screening

La Belle Personne

FRANCE
Directed by Christophe Honoré
Running time: 97 minutes

In LA BELLE PERSONNE, Maverick French director Christophe Honoré recasts the machinations and hothouse atmosphere of the 17th-century French court in a 21st century French high school. Based on the novel...

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Friday, March 20 at 9:40 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 21 at 9:15 am - Past Screening

Sunday, March 22 at 2:30 pm - Past Screening

Between Love & Goodbye

USA
Directed by Casper Andreas
Running time: 97 minutes

BETWEEN LOVE & GOODBYE is a film defined perfectly by its title. The story is a sexy, dramatic comedy about love and how it can change lives. Marcel, a determined French actor, and Kyle, a handsome lead...

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Friday, March 20 at 4:45 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 21 at 9:45 pm - Past Screening

Preceeded by: Sing Opera!

Between the Folds

USA
Directed by Vanessa Gould
Running time: 55 minutes

Who knew a movie about paper folding could be such a work of art? Filmmaker Vanessa Gould studied astrophysics and architecture at Columbia University, which may begin to explain her fascination with the...

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Thursday, March 26 at 7:15 pm - Past Screening

Saturday, March 28 at 2:15 pm - Past Screening

Bitter and Twisted

AUSTRALIA
Directed by Christopher Weekes
Running time: 88 minutes

Three years after the death of their oldest son, the members of the Lombard family are still going through a deep grieving process in their own separate ways. Jordan and Penelope, the father and mother,...

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Thursday, March 26 at 2:10 pm - Past Screening

Friday, March 27 at 9:50 pm - Past Screening

Black Sea
Foreign Title: Mar Nero

ITALY
Directed by Federico Bondi
Running time: 92 minutes

Gemma is a difficult older Italian lady, a recent widow in psychological and physical pain. Angela is a sweet-tempered younger Romanian lady who has left her husband behind to make money in Italy. She...

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Saturday, March 21 at 7:10 pm - Past Screening

Sunday, March 22 at 11:40 am - Past Screening

Monday, March 23 at 9:20 am - Past Screening

Blind Loves
Foreign Title: Slepé Lásky

SLOVAKIA
Directed by Juraj Lehotský
Running time: 77 minutes

BLIND LOVES is a charmingly lyrical Slovak documentary that centers on four main characters, all of whom are sightless and all of whom actively pursue happiness. There’s Peter, an imaginative music teacher...

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Tuesday, March 24 at 7:40 pm - Past Screening

Sunday, March 29 at 2:10 pm - Past Screening

Boogie

ROMANIA
Directed by Radu Muntean
Running time: 103 minutes

On a vacation with his beautiful wife and young son, Bogdan realizes he really is living the life of an adult. Having to adjust to the demands of a family is more difficult that he thought. While on his...

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Monday, March 23 at 1:45 pm - Past Screening

Tuesday, March 24 at 11:20 am - Past Screening

Thursday, March 26 at 7:30 pm - Past Screening

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