Nesnadny + Schwartz
Documentary Film Competition

The CIFF is excited to present our seventh Nesnadny + Schwartz Documentary Film Competition. In 2005, after CIFF attendees voted documentaries as the winners of its audience choice award three years in a row, we decided to highlight these films since they hold such enormous interest for our audience.

Nesnadny + Schwartz is a preeminent international visual communications con- sultancy committed to providing clients what they least expect. Nesnadny + Schwartz is very proud to continue their support of the Cleveland International Film Festival and to sponsor a program that has such social, artistic, and popular appeal.

Documentaries in competition that are screening in the Festival will be viewed by our panel of jurors throughout the week, and the winner of a $5,000 cash prize will be announced at the Closing Night Reception.

Beyond This Place (SWITZERLAND, USA)
Bobby Fischer Against the World (USA)
Eleanore & The Timekeeper (USA)
A Matter of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt (USA)
My Avatar and Me (DENMARK)
Norman Mailer: The American (USA)
The Other F Word (USA)
PressPausePlay (SWEDEN)
Secrets of the Tribe (BRAZIL, UNITED KINGDOM)
Self Made (UNITED KINGDOM)
Space Tourists (SWITZERLAND)
Steam of Life (FINLAND)
These Amazing Shadows (USA)

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Central and Eastern European Film Competiton

Over two decades ago, the Cleveland International Film Festival launched a special focus on films from Central and Eastern Europe, the native lands of many Clevelanders. When we began our series, the world was a very different place: the Berlin Wall was still standing, the U.S.S.R. was still one country, and the Cold War was chilling out. Throughout these past two decades, the films from Central and Eastern Europe have changed dramatically due to filmmakers exerting their rights to make films without government involvement and censorship. We now see films from a plethora of genres, including colorful comedies, slice-of-life sketches, and unusual love stories. The results provide us with a rare and unique look inside the lives of the ordinary as well as the extraordinary.

One thing that has remained the same for the past 22 years is our commitment to bringing some of the most soughtafter films from this area of the world to Cleveland. This year the CIFF is proud to present its ninth Central and Eastern European Film Competition. This competition not only gives recognition to the films coming to us from Central and Eastern Europe, but it also awards one filmmaker a $10,000 cash prize that will be announced at the Closing Night Reception.

72 Days (CROATIA, SERBIA, MONTENEGRO)
Bibliotheque Pascal (HUNGARY, GERMANY)
The Border (SLOVAKIA)
An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Hello! How Are You? (ROMANIA, SPAIN, ITALY)
If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (ROMANIA, SWEDEN)
Kawasaki's Rose (CZECH REPUBLIC)
Mothers (MACEDONIA, FRANCE, BULGARIA)
The Rowan Waltz (RUSSIA)
Tilva Ros (SERBIA)
The Ugly Duckling (RUSSIA, FRANCE)
Venice (POLAND)

Presented with the generous support of George Gund III and Lara Lee

Greg Gund Memorial Standing Up Film Competition

Our Standing Up Film Competition is a tribute to Greg Gund. Greg's friends and family described him as "intensely creative and talented, and wholly without preten- sion." For five years Greg lived in Playa Negro near Tamarindo, Costa Rica where he immersed himself by becoming part of the local community. As much as he deeply loved his home there, Greg was also an extensive world traveler with an adventurous spirit and an insatiable curiosity about different cultures and people. He lived by this Mahatma Gandhi quote inscribed in his passport: "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Greg died at the age of 32 in a small plane crash off the Pacific Coast on July 16, 2005.

Our Standing Up program includes "films with a conscience." These films especially celebrate social justice and activism. Through the films, Standing Up honors Greg Gund—as well as others with a different view of the world in which we live—and the continual fight to make it a better world. Based on audience vote, the winner of this competition's $5,000 cash prize will be announced at the Closing Night Reception.

Addicted In Afghanistan (AFGHANISTAN, UNITED KINGDOM)
An African Election (USA, GHANA, SWITZERLAND )
Armadillo (DENMARK)
Autumn Gold (GERMANY)
Connected (USA)
Crime After Crime (USA)
Danny Greene: The Rise and Fall of the Irishman (USA)
Dying to Do Letterman (USA)
Facing Forward (USA)
Feathered Cocaine (ICELAND)
The Green Wave (GERMANY, IRAN)
Holy Wars (USA)
I Am (USA)
In the Name of the Family (CANADA)
The Interrupters (USA)
Into Eternity (DENMARK, FINLAND, SWEDEN, ITALY)
Jane's Journey (GERMANY)
Kinyarwanda (USA, RWANDA)
Made in India (USA, INDIA)
March of the Living (USA, BRAZIL)
The Market (INDIA, CANADA)
More to Live For (USA)
My Kidnapper (UNITED KINGDOM, COLOMBIA, GERMANY)
My So-Called Enemy (USA)
One Lucky Elephant (USA)
Outside the Wire: The Forgotten Children of Afghanistan (USA)
Paradise Hotel (BULGARIA)
The Pipe (IRELAND)
The Redemption of General Butt Naked (USA, LIBERIA)
Surviving Hitler: A Love Story (USA, GERMANY)
There Once Was an Island (NEW ZEALAND, USA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA)
This Prison Where I Live (UNITED KINGDOM, GERMANY)
Trust: Second Acts in Young Lives (USA)
We Were Here (USA)
Welcome to Shelbyville (USA)
The Woman with the 5 Elephants (SWITZERLAND, GERMANY)
! Women Art Revolution (USA)

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The Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film

Roxanne T. Mueller served as the film critic at The Plain Dealer from 1983 until 1988 when she lost a six-month battle with cancer at the age of 36. Mueller was a strong supporter of the Festival and, through her writing, helped to raise the general level of film appreciation in Cleveland. She was an exceptionally engaging writer who managed to weave personal insights into her film reviews, whether she was covering popular Hollywood fare or sophisticated foreign cinema. In its 12th year, the CIFF established the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award for Best Film to help bring this important Festival friend back into focus a bit each year. Festival patrons rate each film they see and the most popular film is announced at our Closing Night Reception.

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