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Welcome 

...to the 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

2003 was called the year of the “perfect storm” for organizations 

such as the Cleveland Film Society: global, domestic and economic 

uncertainties colliding at once made for a bumpy road indeed. Like 

many other arts organizations, the Cleveland Film Society tightened 

its belt and faced some unprecedented challenges. However, thanks 

to the tireless efforts of our Development Director, Patrick Shepherd, 

and the invaluable involvement of our Board of Directors, we are proud 

to say we’ve turned the corner and now offer you one of the most 

exciting Cleveland International Film Festivals in recent memory. 

In his first year as Director of Programming, Bill Guentzler has 

assembled nearly 90 feature films and over 70 short subjects representing 

more than 50 countries, including some newly minted films 

that made their world premieres in the last six months. There are new 

films by directors as diverse as Hector Babenco, Jonathan Demme 

and Stephen Fry, and there are films ranging from a beautiful 

Buddhist lesson to a fascinating documentary on men who happily 

do society’s dirtiest work—always keeping in mind the high expectations 

of Cleveland’s sophisticated film-going audience. 

Also new this year is our Internet-based ticketing system. For the 

first time, festival goers can fill their shopping carts online at 

www.clevelandfilm.org. All advance orders can be placed by going 

online, phoning the ticket line, faxing or mailing the ticket order 

form, or buying in-person from the CIFF store in the lobby of Tower 

City Cinemas. 

In addition to purchasing tickets, we hope you will support us by 

participating in a special fundraising effort: The Cleveland Foundation 

has given us a unique opportunity by offering a $25,000 Challenge 

Grant. For every dollar contributed by an individual between now 

and the end of the festival, the Cleveland Foundation will match it. 

For previous donors, the foundation will match any donation above 

what they have donated before. We are grateful for this opportunity, 

and we want to thank all of our supporters past, present and future. 

We hope you enjoy the festival; please arrive early and often. 

Marcie Goodman Timothy J. Downing 

Executive Director President, Board of Directors 

CONTENTS PAGE 

Our Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 

Getting There, Staying There . . . . 6 

Special Programs for 2004 . . . . . 9 

Cultural Journeys . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

FilmSlam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 

Cinema for Seniors . . . . . . . . . 11 

FilmForums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 

Pre-Feature Shorts . . . . . . . . . 11 

Opening Night. . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 

Closing Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 

Service to the Field Award. . . . . 13 

Films A-Z. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 

CONTENTS PAGE 

Calendar. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 

Films A-Z, continued . . . . . . . . 39 

Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Film Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

Country List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 

Print Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 

Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 

Roxanne T. Mueller Award . . . . . 59 

Ticket Information . . . . . . . . . . 60 

Ticket Order Form . . . . . . . . . . 61 

Board, Committees . . . . . . . . . 62 

Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 

THE CLEVELAND 

INTERNATIONAL FILM 

FESTIVAL 

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OF THE 

CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY 

MISSION 

The Cleveland Film 

Society promotes 

artistically and 

culturally significant 

film arts through 

education and 

exhibition to enrich 

the life of the 

community. 

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The Cleveland Film 

Society is a leader 

in helping the 

world discover the 

power of film arts 

to educate, entertain 

and celebrate the 

human experience.

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6 GETTING THERE AND STAYING THERE The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

Free Parking 

...WHEN AVAILABLE, is offered to CIFF patrons in the Tower City Center self-parking garage and lot—which is accessible from Huron Road. 

Patrons must have their parking ticket validated in the Tower City Cinemas lobby. Complimentary valet parking is available only to CIFF 

subscribers at the Movie Mogul and Executive Producer levels (see page 60). Visit http://www.towercityparking.com/otherParking.asp for 

alternative parking choices. Riverview Parking is the only another free option for CIFF Patrons with a validated parking ticket. 

Driving Directions to 

Tower City Self-Parking 

Tower City Cinemas is located at 

Tower City Center on Public Square in 

the heart of downtown Cleveland. 

FROM THE WEST 

Shoreway (Ohio 2) East to Lakeside Ave 

exit. South (right) on W 6 St. West (right) 

on St Clair Ave. South (left) on W 9 St. 

Continue south on Huron Rd. Enter Tower 

City Center Self-Parking on the right. 

OR, FROM THE WEST 

I-90 East to Ontario Ave, Exit 171B. 

Continue North on Ontario Ave. West 

(left) on Huron Rd. Enter Tower City 

Center Parking on the left. 

FROM THE EAST 

Shoreway (Ohio 2) West to W 3 St exit. 

West (right) on St Clair Ave. South (left) 

on W 9 St. Continue south on Huron Rd. 

Enter Tower City Center Self-Parking on 

the right. 

OR, FROM THE EAST 

I-90 West to Prospect Ave, Exit 173A. 

West (right) on Prospect Ave. West (left) 

on Huron Rd. Continue West on Huron 

Rd. Enter Tower City Center Self-Parking 

on the left. 

FROM THE SOUTH 

I-71 North to I-90 East. Ontario Ave, Exit 

171B. Continue North on Ontario Ave. 

West (left) on Huron Rd. Enter Tower 

City Center Self-Parking on the left. 

OR, FROM THE SOUTH 

I-77 North to E 9 St, Exit 163C. North 

(right) on Ontario Ave. West (left) on 

Huron Rd. Enter Tower City Center Self 

Parking on the left. 

Ride RTA to the CIFF and Save Money 

It’s convenient and economical to ride RTA to the 28th Cleveland 

International Film Festival! 

If you ride RTA to the Cleveland International Film Festival, show your RTA March Monthly Pass 

(local or express) and receive $1.00 off your in-person ticket purchase. This offer is good for any 

Festival film except Special Events. Additional restrictions may apply. 

RTA’s four rapid transit lines, the Red Line (Airport to Windermere) the Blue Line (Van Aken) and 

Green Line (Green Road), and the Waterfront Line all provide direct service to Tower City Center. 

Monday through Friday, the last Red Line train leaves the Tower City Station at 12:23 AM 

westbound (Airport) and 11:37 PM eastbound to Stokes/Windermere. 

On Saturdays and Sundays, the last Red Line train leaves Tower City Station at 12:24 AM going 

westbound Airport and 11:40 PM going eastbound to Stokes/Windermere. 

Monday through Friday, the last Green Road train leaves the Tower City Station at 12:00 Midnight 

and the last Van Aken train leaves from Tower City at 12:15 AM 

On Saturdays and Sundays, the last Green Road train leaves from Tower City Station at 11:57 PM 

and the last Van Aken train leaves at 12:12 AM 

On the Waterfront Line, the last train leaves Tower City Toward South Harbor at 11:48 PM, 

7 days a week. 

Many of RTA’s major bus routes provide service to the Public Square area. 

For more detailed information about routes and schedules, please visit the RTA website at 

www.rideRTA.com or call the RTAnswerline at 216-621-9500 

Hotels 

When making your hotel reservations be sure to tell the hotel’s contact person that 

you are attending the Cleveland International Film Festival. 

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel 

Official Hotel Sponsor of the 

28th Cleveland International 

Film Festival 

1515 W. 3rd Street 

Cleveland, Ohio 44113 

216.623.1300 

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Additional Hotel Sponsors 

Holiday Inn Select Cleveland City Centre Lakeshore 

1111 Lakeside Ave 


216.241.5100 or 888.425.3835 

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$59 per night, Code: CIF 

InterContinental Hotel & 

Conference Center Cleveland 

9601 Carnegie Ave 


216.707.4100 

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$149.00 per night, Code: Cleveland Film Festival 

All rates subject to availability. 

Additional restrictions may apply. 

The Ritz-Carlton Cleveland would like to 

extend a special offer to Film Festival 

patrons during the 28th CIFF. Guests can 

enjoy the hotel’s deluxe room accommodations, 

renowned service and convenient location to 

the Film Festival. Preferred room rates are 

available for $139 per evening, and $169 

for the Film Festival Package, which includes deluxe room 

accommodations, two film vouchers, and breakfast for two the 

following morning. Call and reference the “RITZ” code to secure 

your reservation. The Ritz-Carlton and Century Restaurant & Bar 

are conveniently adjoined to The Avenue at Tower City Center. 

InterContinental Suites Cleveland 

8800 Euclid Ave 


216.707.4300 

www.cleveland-suites.intercontinental.com 

$99.00 per night, 

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Residence Inn by 

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527 Prospect Ave 

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$99 per night for a studio or one bedroom 

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Century at The Ritz-Carlton, California Greenhouse Café, 

Big City Bar & Grille, Hard Rock Café, Houlihan’s, Mortons 

Steakhouse and Panera Bread Co. Looking for a quick meal 

between movies? Then visit one of the many specialty 

eateries in our Team Diner Food Court. Enjoy an overnight 

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SOMEONE TO WATCH 

2004 DIRECTORS 

The 27th CIFF introduced a 

new program called Someone 

to Watch, in which we focused 

on three early or mid-career filmmakers 

by screening their latest 

work with an earlier film. Once 

again we honor three international 

filmmakers whom we believe 

will reach and continue acclaim 

around the world. 

Our first Someone to Watch 

director this year is veteran 

New Zealand filmmaker, 

Gaylene Preston, whose new film 

PERFECT STRANGERS will be 

her third film screened at the 

CIFF. We will also screen MR. 

WRONG, her debut feature. 

In addition, we will be showing 

three films from Thai director 

Pen-ek Ratanaruang whose 

current film, LAST LIFE IN 

THE UNIVERSE, has recently 

screened in several festivals 

around the world. His other films, 

6IXTYNIN9 and MON-RAK 

TRANSISTOR, will also be 

presented. 

Finally, Josef Fares from 

Sweden, who broke out with his 

debut feature JALLA! JALLA! in 

2000, returns to the CIFF with 

KOPS. At only 26 years old, he 

is definitely Someone to Watch. 

Chris Clark 

The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival SPECIAL PROGRAMS FOR 2004 9 

Gaylene Preston 

2004 COMPETITION 

Pen-ek Ratanaruang 

CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPEAN 

FILM COMPETITION 

Last year the Cleveland International Film Festival hosted our inaugural Central and 

Eastern European Film Competition. This year we have a new batch of 12 films from 

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Russia, 

Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland. The 2004 Competition will also be celebrating the 

15th Anniversary of the CIFF’s focus on Central and Eastern European film. Much has 

changed since the series was created to provide films of interest to Cleveland’s large Central 

and Eastern European communities—the Berlin Wall came down, the U.S.S.R. dissolved, the 

Cold War ended—and, with a change in politics, filmmakers have created new work without 

the fear of government censorship. What hasn’t changed is our commitment to bringing the 

best films from this area of the world to Cleveland. When we look back over the films that 

have been part of this special focus (which you can do at our www.clevelandfilm.org web 

archive), the growth of cinema in Central and Eastern Europe has been outstanding, both in 

number of films produced and overall vision. And now with our Competition, we look to a 

future with more great film coming out of this vital area of the world. 

The 12 films will be viewed by our jurors throughout the festival, and the winner will be 

announced at the Closing Night Reception. Our jurors this year are: 

Chris Clark, Managing & Artistic Director of Cinema St. Louis, producer and presenter of the 

St. Louis International Film Festival and the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase. Chris was recently 

named one of the top Festival Directors and Programmers in Film Festival Today magazine. 

Andrea Picard, a writer on film and art who, since 1999, has been a member of the programming 

department at Cinematheque Ontario, the celebrated year-round screening program of 

the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG). 

Andrea Picard Sheryl Mousley 

Sheryl Mousley, Associate Curator of Film/ 

Video at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis 

where she produces contemporary media 

exhibition programs, retrospective series, 

and artist-in-residence projects. She also 

directs the Women With Vision festival, a 

showcase of women filmmakers, directors 

and artists. 

To find out more about our jurors, please 

visit www.clevelandfilm.org. 

Josef Fares

10 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

Cultural Journeys 

Films 

Cultural Journeys is sponsored by 

Cultural Journeys 

A multicultural program of the Cleveland International Film Festival, 

Cultural Journeys welcomes new audiences from a broad spectrum of 

ethnic and national backgrounds. Cultural Journeys opens windows onto 

other diverse worlds, this year from Finland, Greece, Tunisia, Iran, 

Morocco, Bulgaria and Japan. It’s designed to bring people together to 

learn about each other’s customs, lifestyles and traditions through the 

shared language of film, food and dance. The Co-Chairpersons leading us 

through our Cultural Journeys this year are immigration attorney Svetlana 

Schreiber and writer Laura Taxel, author of Cleveland Ethnic Eats. 

Art, Food, 

World Celebration Event 

Dance and Music 

Saturday, March 27, 2004 

from Around 

9:00 PM – 1:00 AM 

The 530 ARTcade in the Colonial Marketplace 

the World 

Downtown Cleveland’s Gateway Neighborhood 

530 Euclid Avenue (accessible from Prospect Avenue only) 

Sample delicious cuisine at a nominal cost from all over the world and 

dance to live ethnic music at our World Celebration. Admission to this 

special event is $5 per person and everyone is welcome. (All CIFF 

passholders are admitted free.) 

Journey to Jerusalem 

The Bookshop The Handcuff King 

TUNISIA, FRANCE, MOROCCO FINLAND 

See page 17 for screening times See page 23 for screening times 

Deep Breath Hard Goodbyes: My Father 

IRAN GREECE, GERMANY 


Dream Cuisine Journey to Jerusalem 

JAPAN BULGARIA 


Tri-C presents 

FilmSlam2004 

FILMS 

4th Floor, SPAIN, see page 15 for description 

5 Sides of a Coin, CANADA, see page 15 for description 

Cuba Libre, USA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 

see page 18 for description 

Home of the Brave, USA, see page 24 for description 

I Always Wanted to Be a Saint, LUXEMBOURG, BELGIUM, 


Justice, USA, see page 26 for description 

Shorts Program, INTERNATIONAL 

FilmSlam for Students 

Monday-Friday, March 22 – 26, 2004 

9:30 AM – 12:00 Noon 

Contact Beth Radisek, FilmSlam Coordinator, at 

216.623.3456, ext.13 or filmslam@clevelandfilm.org 

for registration information. 

Students from Northeast Ohio high schools have the 

extraordinary opportunity to see new films by some of the 

world’s most innovative filmmakers. 

This year films from Spain, Canada, Dominican Republic, 

Luxembourg, Belgium and the U.S. provide everything from a 

global survey of hip-hop, to a girl with an unusual guardian 

angel, to the creation of a comic-book superhero, to a Cuban 

boy entranced with Hollywood, to the camaraderie among 

children on a cancer ward. FilmSlam also includes great 

short films. 

Participating teachers will receive study guides with 

background information on each film, discussion topics, 

curriculum links, and an introduction to media literacy. 

Also, filmmakers and other presenters will briefly speak 

and answer questions following each screening. 

The Chairperson of FilmSlam is Deb Pinter, Associate 

Educator at the Akron Art Museum. 

Additional support for FilmSlam 2004 comes from 

The Kiwanis Foundation of Cleveland 

4th Floor

Cinema for 

Seniors... 

is a new program of the Cleveland International 

Film Festival. Cinema for Seniors adds a new 

dimension to the festival—world-class films presented with 

informational perks, including private, post-screening question/ 

answer sessions with filmmakers and community leaders. 

Tuesday, March 23, Wednesday, March 24, Thursday, March 25 

9:30 to 11:30 AM each day 

Group Reservations Only 

For information on Cinema for Seniors, call 216.623.3456, 

ext. 20, or email seniors@clevelandfilm.org 

Cinema for Seniors is supported by the Eva L. and Joseph M. 

Bruening Foundation, and presented in partnership with Cuyahoga 

Community College’s TransformAging Initiative 

Cinema for Seniors Films 

Cuba Libre, USA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 


Double Dare, USA, see page 20 for description 

Granny, RUSSIA, FRANCE, see page 22 for description 

FilmForums 

The Cleveland Film Society is committed to using film as an 

impetus for educating people on timely, complex and controversial 

issues. FilmForums (read: moderated panel discussions) 

follow film screenings and include filmmakers, educators, 

professionals and/or people who have experienced issues 

addressed in the films. 

5 SIDES OF A COIN FilmForum 

Monday, March 22, 7:15 PM, page 15 

Discussion topic: The influence of hip-hop on American culture 

HOME OF THE BRAVE FilmForum 

Thursday, March 25, 7:15 PM, page 24 

Discussion topic #1: The African American Civil Rights Movement 

Discussion topic #2: The USA Patriot Act 

PARENTAL INSTINCT FilmForum 

Saturday, March 27, 5:00 PM, page 40 

Discussion topic: Second-parent adoption for lesbian-gaybisexual-transgender 

(LGBT) couples 

Visit www.clevelandfilm.org for more information on panelists. 

Cuba Libre 

African American 

Directed by Askia Holloway & 

Johnny Ramos, USA, 23 min 

Precedes A PANTHER IN AFRICA 

The harsh conflicts between Black 

Americans and Africans from the continent 

of Africa are confronted. 

David Mamet’s Gilded Stones 

Directed by James Dodson 

USA, 9 min. 

A damaged print of a David Mamet 

film is found and a section must be 

replaced. Who possibly can be found 

to film it.? 

Duke of Goo 

Directed by Richard Matson, 

USA, 15 min 

Precedes MOONLIGHT 

A mythical creature haunts the city 

while a crew of eccentrics hold a raucous 

dance party in a junkyard. 

Hummer 

Directed by Guinevere Turner 

USA, 9 min 

Precedes MANGO KISS 

Casey invites her friends over to 

meet her new “boy” toy for a dinner 

party, only to receive an unexpected 

surprise. 

In the Bar 

Directed by Cleiton Stringhini & 

Paulo de Tarso Mendonca 

Brazil, 8 min 

Precedes THE HEAT’S ON 

A Brazilian federal law enforces 

cigarette manufacturers to print 

illustrated messages on the packages, 

causing controversy. 

The M Word 

Directed by Rocky Morten 

USA, 4 min 

Precedes THE STROLL 

What happens when business 

etiquette invades the most intimate 

of proposals? 

The Martyr 

Directed by John Dolan, USA, 12 min 

Precedes THE FOURTH WORLD WAR 

A Palestinian suicide bomber, 

disguised as an Orthodox Jew, has 

a moral conflict inside an Israeli cafe. 

Moo(n) 

Directed by Leigh Hodgkinson 

United Kingdom, 4 min 

Precedes THE OVEREATER 

A look at the friendship between a girl 

and a cow, and an amalgam of nursery 

rhymes gone horribly wrong. 

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, PRE-FEATURE SHORTS 11 

Pre-Feature Shorts 

The School 

Directed by Ezra Krybus & 

Matthew Miller, Canada, 12 min 

Precedes LEARNING TO LIE 

Grade two is for laughing, playing 

and burying the dead. 

Scoub 2 

Directed by Stéphane Berla 

France, 7 min 

Precedes BUDDY 

Scoub and his friends are driving 

quietly in the Palapalas desert. 

Suddenly, a big truck appears and 

tries to kill them. 

Send Me An Angel 

Directed by Nir Ne’Eman 

Israel, 45 min 

Precedes GARDEN 

A man, who just wants to celebrate his 

30th birthday, finds love in the place 

he least expected. 

Survey 

Directed by Joe King 

United Kingdom, 6 min 

Precedes KITCHEN STORIES 

The result of a photographic tour of 

South Wales. 

Walkentalk 

Directed by Philip Zlotorynski 

USA, 11 min 

Precedes HAPPY HOUR 

A young man with a severe social 

disorder has difficulty meeting his 

brother’s girlfriend. 

Water 

Directed by Chris Graham 

New Zealand, 15 min 

Precedes PERFECT STRANGERS 

As her family home is slowly 

submerged, a young girl learns how 

to rise above the deluge. 

When the Storm Came 

Directed by Shilpi Gupta 

USA, 24 min 

Precedes THUNDER IN GUYANA 

The legacy that the global “weapon” 

of conflict has on a community is 

profiled by a village in Kashmir that 

was allegedly the site of a mass rape 

by Indian security forces. 

A Woman and Circles 

Directed by Bruce Checefsky 

USA, 12 min 

Precedes MY TOWN 

A visual poem of a script by Jan 

Brzekowski (1903-1983)—a poet and 

member of the Polish avant-garde.

12 OPENING NIGHT The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

OPENING 

NIGHT GALA 

THURSDAY, MARCH 18 

Sponsored by 

Dandelion 

Directed by Mark Milgard 

USA 2003 

94 minutes 

Thursday, March 18 

7:00 PM I Ticket Code 18A 

ONE SCREENING ONLY 

CENTRAL/EASTERN SPECIAL EVENT EUROPEAN 


AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS 

Somewhere in the wind-swept wheat fields of Idaho, young Mason tries to escape his 

tense family life. His mother (Mare Winningham) and his reserved and distant father 

(Arliss Howard), who is running for city council, have a less-than-wonderful marriage. 

Dinner time is always a touchy affair, especially when you throw in Mason’s uncle, a 

Vietnam veteran who is still suffering from some kind of post-traumatic stress syndrome. 

If Mason had any dreams, he would follow them. But instead he leads a hollow, 

teenaged existence with his best (and possibly only) friend Eddie. Along the way he 

meets Danny, a new girl in town who’s a little bit different, and the two are instantly 

drawn to each other. But forces from all sides threaten this tender bond when a series of 

accidents and complications lead to tragedy that takes Mason away. When Mason 

returns, he and Danny find intense solace in each other. It’s one of those once-in-a-lifetime 

loves that can change one forever. More than a coming-of-age movie, DANDELION 

exudes an old-fashioned poetic realism. Shot with an anamorphic lens, the big sky and 

gentle rolling hills of wheat are characters in themselves. The performances all are topnotch, 

creating characters so believable that one can hardly distinguish that this is a 

film. DANDELION is an auspicious debut by director Mark Milgard, destined to put him 

on the cinematic map. 

Producer~Molly Mayeux Screenplay~Mark Milgard, Robb Williamson, R.D. Murphy Cinematography~Tim Orr 

Editor~Amy E. Duddleston Music~Robb Williamson Principal Cast~Vincent Kartheiser, Taryn Manning, Arliss 

Howard, Mare Winningham, Blake Heron, Michelle Forbes Print Source~Ballistic Media 

About the Director~Mark Milgard co-founded the independent label Lakeshore Records, which has released artists 

such as Queens of the Stone Age and Grandaddy. In 2000, Mark turned his attention to writing and directing his 

feature debut. Filmography~DANDELION (2003) 

TICKET 

INFORMATION 

CIFF Movie Mogul, Executive Producer, 

and Director passholders are invited to 

join the Cleveland Film Society for a Gala 

Reception at MK Ferguson Plaza immediately 

following the conclusion of the film. 

Special guests will include Molly Mayeux, 

Mark Milgard, Robb Williamson, Mare 

Winningham and others from DANDELION. 

For non-passholders, Opening Night Star 

tickets gain admission to the film, the Gala 

Reception and complimentary valet parking. 

Opening Night Star tickets, which include 

the film, the party and parking, are on 

sale for 

$100 CFS Members 

$125 Non-Members 

Opening Night “Film Only” tickets 

are on sale for 



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Bright Young Things 

Directed by Stephen Fry 

UNITED KINGDOM 2003 

105 minutes 

Sunday, March 28 

7:30 PM I Ticket Code 28P 


Drugged-up royals! Celebrity gossip! 

Beautiful people drinking themselves into 

oblivion and waking up in strange situations! 

Today’s headlines in the National 

Enquirer? No, England in the jazz-age 

1930s. An all-star cast sparkles in 

actor/director Stephen Fry’s adaptation of 

the classic Evelyn Waugh satire “Vile 

Bodies,” a deconstruction of the British 

glitterati, set in the rosily remembered era 

Between the Wars, where public fascination 

with the likes of Ben(jamin Britten) and 

Jen(ny Lady Randolph Churchill) commonly 

overrode common sense. Would-be writer 

Adam Fenwick-Symes, alias Sue de Nimes, 

has his roman-a-clef manuscript taken away 

from him, a novelistic expose (entitled 

“Bright Young Things”) of the London top 

people. His marriage to money-hungry Nina 

is delayed while attempting to prove that 

he can be a provider, while his new job for 

the “The Daily Excess,” which is owned by 

Lord Monomark (Dan Aykroyd) takes him 

(and Nina) to party after party to after-party 

and even 10 Downing Street, where a “latenight 

tryst” can mean ruin for the current 

Prime Minister. Watch for guest cameos by 

Simon Callow, Jim Broadbent, Stockard 

Channing, Sir John Mills, Richard E. Grant, 

Imelda Staunton and filmmaker Stephen 

Fry himself. 

Producers~Gina Carter, Miranda Davis 

Screenplay~Stephen Fry (based on the novel “Vile 

Bodies” by Evelyn Waugh) Cinematography~Henry 

Braham Editor~Alex Mackie Music~Anne Dudley 

Principal Cast~Stephen Campbell Moore, Michael Sheen, 

Emily Mortimer, James McAvoy, David Tennant, Stockard 

Channing, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent, Peter O’Toole, 

Bill Paterson, Fenella Woolgar Print Source~ThinkFilm 

About the Director~Born in London in 1957, Stephen 

Fry was educated at Stout’s Hall, Uppingham, and 

Queens’ College, Cambridge, where he performed along 

with Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie. He has 

appeared extensively in stage, film, TV and radio, and 

has written several novels. Filmography~BRIGHT 

YOUNG THINGS (2003) 


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The Closing Night Reception will include 

a brief program with the announcement 

of the Central and Eastern European 

Competition Film Award Winner. In 

addition, a special presentation of the 

Service to the Field Award will be made 

to ThinkFilm. 

Service to the Field Award 

A Tribute to THINKFilm 

THINKFilm embodies the new face of independent 

film: bold, business-oriented and brimming 

with creativity. This young, dynamic 

company acquires and distributes the cream 

of the indie crop. Recent theatrical releases 

include the acclaimed “Spellbound,” Gus Van 

Sant’s “Gerry,” and “The Dangerous Lives of 

Altar Boys,” produced and starring Jodie 

Foster, among many others. 

Founded by President/CEO Jeff Sackman in 

2001, THINKFilm buys independent films for 

U.S. theatrical release, works with Canadian 

productions for Canadian distribution and 

acquires low-budget genre films for the directto-video 

market. They currently have offices in 

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this impressive young company, visit their 

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THINKFilm films included in our programming: 

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The Agronomist (USA, Haiti) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

Bright Young Things (United Kingdom) . . . . . . 13 

The Story of the Weeping Camel 

(Germany, Mongolia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (Denmark, UK). . . 45 

The Cleveland International Film Festival is 

delighted to present its second annual Service 

to the Field Award to ThinkFilm.

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Local Heroes. This year we 

continue to spotlight well-deserved 

attention on festival films with 

Cleveland connections. Our Local 

Heroes selections are presented 

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Documentaries from around 

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DOCUMENTARIES, LOCAL HEROES 

1 

Directed by Tim O’Hara 

USA 2004 

89 minutes 

Friday, March 19 

5:00 PM I Ticket Code 19K 

Monday, March 22 

12:15 PM I Ticket Code 22A 

Wednesday, March 24 

10:00 PM I Ticket Code 24T 

The De La Salle High Spartans from 

Concord, California possess the longest 

number of consecutive victories in the record 

books—125 games and counting. Not a 

loss since 1991. Some have half-seriously 

worried whether grief counselors should be 

summoned if/when the Spartans ever come 

out second-best. Despite all the hype, the 

school, a Catholic institution, strives to instill 

values and responsibility in the students 

and not let The Streak turn into a media and 

marketing monster that commercializes 

and cheapens sportsmanship, ethics and 

academics. “This is still high school. This is 

still 16, 17-year-old kids playing a game.” 

On the sidelines is the enigmatic “Coach 

Lad,” Bob Ladouceur, who has turned down 

lucrative outside offers of employment to 

rally the Spartans (“We’re hitting like Little 

Sisters of the Poor!”) as the team goes to 

Hawaii for another championship, and you 

have the best seat in the stadium. 

Producers~Michael Bragin, Gavin Davis Writers~ 

Rachel Morse, Tim O’Hara, Jessica Ringel, Gavin Davis 

Editors~Rachel Morse, Tim O’Hara, Jessica Ringel 

Print Source~goingdigitalfilms 

About the Director~Tim O’Hara attended University School 

in Shaker Heights. He studied architecture and cinema at 

Cornell and worked as a photojournalist before co-founding 

goingdigitalfilms in San Francisco. Filmography~1 (2004) 

The Fine Print: 

Most independent and international films are unrated by the M.P.A.A.; therefore, viewer 

discretion is advised and “adults only” warnings should be heeded. 

Recording devices are prohibited inside Film Festival theaters. Admission will be denied to 

any ticket or pass bearer who attempts to enter with a recording device. If a recording device 

is utilized, it will be forfeited and the operator will be removed from the theater. Unauthorized 

recording will be reported to law enforcement.

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WORLD TOUR 

4th Floor 

(Planta 4a) 

Directed by Antonio Mercero 

SPAIN 2003 

96 minutes 

Tuesday, March 23 

2:30 PM I Ticket Code 23G 


7:15 PM I Ticket Code 24Q 

Miguel, Angel, Dani, Izan and Pepino are 

friends. You might as well call them inseparable 

because they practically are, being 

young cancer patients with a median age of 

15, lodged in 4A, an orthopedic, long-term 

care ward in a large hospital. Despite a 

closely supervised clinical atmosphere, 

the regimen of chemotherapy and sodium 

hydration, and body parts lost to the gnawing 

disease, they remain high-spirited boys, 

quick to smile and joke and ready for a 

basketball rematch against amputees from 

another institution. When cohort Antonio 

finally earns his release with a new prosthetic 

leg (“...The Terminator 2—very different 

from last winter’s Robocop model!”) the 

clique welcomes an uneasy newcomer, Jorge, 

who still has his full head of hair and all his 

limbs, and dreads an upcoming diagnosis. 

While the guys struggle individually, facing 

quandaries of first love, trauma, solitude and 

self-sufficiency, it’s their common bonding 

that gives them strength to soldier on. (In 

Spanish with English subtitles) 

Producers~César Benítez, Claudio Coello Screenplay~ 

Albert Espinosa, Antonio Mercero, Ignacio del Moral 

Cinematography~Raúl Pérez Editor~José María Biurrun 

Music~Manuel Villalta Principal Cast~Jaun José Ballesta, 

Gorka Moreno, Luis Ángel, Maite Jauregui, Alejandro Jafra, 

Marco Martínez Print Source~Boca Boca Producciones 

About the Director~Born in San Sebastian, Spain in 1936, 

Antonio Mercero studied law at the University of Valladalid 

and cinema in Madrid. He has directed 

numerous shorts, feature films and TV 

programs. Filmography~“La Guerra de papa” 

(1977), “Esperame en el Cielo” (1987), 

“La Hora de los Valientess” (1998), 

4TH FLOOR (2003) 

DOCUMENTARIES, PAN-AFRICAN 

WORLD TOUR 

5 Sides of a Coin 

Directed by Paul Kell 

CANADA 2003 

70 minutes 

Monday, March 22 w/FilmForum 

7: 15 PM I Ticket Code 22P 



Give it up for Paul Kell’s pulsing cinematic 

essay—a global survey and history of hip-hop 

presented in less time than it takes to hear a 

double-CD (take that, Ken Burns’ “Jazz”). 

Hip-hop is a musical genre, a way of life, a 

fashion statement, a language, an economic 

and political force—even a religion for some. 

Kell uncovers the movement’s origins (did 

the first rhymes bust out in Detroit, the South 

Bronx or the West Bronx?) and his different 

“chapters” cover graffiti, breakdancing, 

turntabling and rap battles, the latter 

depicted in features like “Eight Mile” and 

“hiphopbattle.com: Hip Hop for Life” (26th 

CIFF, 2002). International sound bytes/beats 

come from DJ Spooky, KRS One, Ollie Teeba 

in the UK, Germany’s Kool Savas, Japan’s 

DJ Krush, even gangsta-rap enemy #1, 

C. Delores Tucker. Things move so fast in 

this milieu that Puff Daddy became P.Diddy 

became a clothing label before this flick 

was finished. So get in line early; one 

subject predicts a hip-hop occupant of the 

White House. 

Producers~Paul Kell, Jana Ritter Cinematography~ 

Paul Kell Editor~Paul Kell Music~Manifest, Big Dro, 

Son of Mac, DJ Emergency, DJ Bonez, DJ Schizo, Moteo, 

Jeff Spec Print Source~Seventh Art Releasing 

About the Director~5 SIDES OF A COIN is Paul Kell’s 

first feature since graduating from Concordia University’s 

Cinema Production program. His previous work is a blend 

of experimental and narrative short films and documentaries. 

Filmography~5 SIDES OF A COIN (2003) 

FilmForum Topic 

The Influence of Hip Hop on 

American Culture 

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WORLD TOUR 

6ixtynin9 

Directed by Pen-ek Ratanaruang 

THAILAND 1999 

114 minutes 


12:00 Noon I Ticket Code 19C 


9:30 PM I Ticket Code 23S 

Pen-ek Ratanaruang first came to international 

attention with this lurid, black-comedy 

caper, a high-speed “Shallow Grave” with 

Thai flavor and a crazed gallows humor. 

Downsized out of her job at the bank, 

depressed and lonely urban singleton Tum 

finds an instant-noodle carton outside the 

door of her tiny apartment. It’s not ramen, 

though. It’s cash, delivered to the wrong 

address by gangsters. The unexpected 

largesse would be enough for Tum to buy a 

plane ticket and start a new life, except for 

the complications: a series of hoodlums who 

come around hunting for the loot. And Tum’s 

neighbor, burning with revenge after mistakenly 

believing Tum has stolen her boyfriend 

away. And Tum’s closest friend, a drama 

queen suicidally pining for her absent lover. 

And the thugs from the boxing gym. And the 

police. And...Who would have known that 

such a small flat could hold so many dead 

bodies? Watch for a supporting role by Black 

Phomtong, the scene-stealer of “Mon-Rak 

Transistor,” as Ratanaruang’s cauldron of 

noodle-surprise boils over. (In Thai with 

English subtitles) 

Producer~Pen-ek Ratanaruang Screenplay~Pen-ek 

Ratanaruang Cinematography~Chankit Chamnivikaipong 

Editor~Patamanadda Yukol Principal Cast~Lalita 

Panyopas, Tasanawalai Ongartittichai, Black Phomtong, 

Sritao, Arun Wannardbodeewong, Sirisin 

Sirinpornsmathikul, Likit Tongnak Print Source~Palm 

Pictures 

About the Director~Pen-ek Ratanaruang was born in 1962. 

He studied art at New York’s Pratt Institute, becoming a 

graphic designer and illustrator before working in Thailand 

as an art director and award-winning advertising director. 

Filmography~“Fun Bar Karaoke” (1997), 6IXTYNIN9 

(1999), “Mon-Rak Transistor” (2001), “Last Life in the 

Universe” (2003)

16 FILMS A – Z [A – B] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

DOCUMENTARIES 


WORLD TOUR 



The Agronomist 

Directed by Jonathan Demme 

USA, HAITI 2003 

91 minutes 


4:45 PM I Ticket Code 26L 

Saturday, March 27 


“Haiti has something for everybody. But 

Haiti has very little for the Haitians,” wrote 

one traveler. When Hollywood director 

Jonathan Demme visited the island in 1986, 

he first met Jean Dominique, the republic’s 

foremost independent broadcast journalist. 

The outspoken Dominique had studied to be 

an agronomist, only to discover the bitter 

inequities that left his people no land of their 

own to develop. After centuries of imperialism 

by the French, the British and the Americans, 

thug regimes of “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” 

Duvalier held all the power and enforced it 

with violence and intimidation. So instead of 

seeds, Dominique sowed information, coded 

in Haiti’s first native-made films produced by 

the cinema club he helped found, and in 

audio portraits aired on his own upstart station, 

Radio Haiti Inter. Twice hounded into 

exile, the indefatigable Dominique challenged 

the dictators and the Tonton Macoutes, and 

paid the ultimate price. Now, in this chronicle 

in image, sound and music by Wyclef Jean, 

Demme pays tribute—the truth about Jean. 

(In English and French and Creole with 


Producers~Jonathan Demme, Peter Saraf, Bevin 

McNamara Cinematography~Aboudja, Jonathan Demme, 

Peter Saraf, Bevin McNamara Editor~Lizi Gelber, Bevin 

McNamara Music~Wyclef Jean, Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis 

Print Source~ThinkFilm 

About the Director~Born in Baldwin, NY in 1944, 

Jonathan Demme grew up in Florida. After working as a 

publicist, music arranger and Roger Corman scriptwriter, 

he created a widely varied and successful body of screen 

work, both in popular fare and documentaries. 

Filmography~“Citizen’s Band” (1977), “Melvin and 

Howard” (1980), “Stop Making Sense” (1984), 

“Something Wild” (1986), “Swimming to Cambodia” 

(1987), “Married to the Mob” (1988), “The Silence of the 

Lambs” (1991), “Cousin Bobby” (1992), “Philadelphia” 

(1993), THE AGRONOMIST (2002). 

The Big Empty 

Directed by Steve Anderson 

USA 2003 

94 minutes 


2:15 PM I Ticket Code 25G 



John Person (Jon Favreau) is a 30-something 

struggling actor behind on his rent and heavily 

in debt. He goes against the better judgment 

of his pretty neighbor Grace (Joey Lauren 

Adams) and accepts an unsolicited offer 

from his strange neighbor Neely (Bud Cort) 

to courier a blue suitcase up to the desert 

truck stop of Baker, California. There, in the 

middle of nowhere, at a seedy motel in the 

shadow of The World’s Largest Thermometer, 

he’ll simply deliver the locked suitcase to a 

trucker called Cowboy (Sean Bean) and be 

paid $27,000. But on arrival he discovers 

he’s already missed the mysterious man and 

soon he’s reluctantly mixed up with young 

local vixen Ruthie (Rachael Leigh Cook), her 

mother Stella (Daryl Hannah), and paranoid, 

alien-obsessed locals. Will these random 

mishaps keep John from completing his mission, 

or do they serve some higher purpose? 

Preceded by David Mamet’s Gilded Stones 

Directed by James Dodson, USA, 9 minutes 

Producers~Doug Mankoff, Gregg L. Daniel, Keith Resnick 

Screenplay~Steve Anderson Cinematography~Chris 

Manley Editor~Scott Scalise Music~Brian Tyler 

Principal Cast~Jon Favreau, Joey Lauren Adams, Bud Cort, 

Sean Bean, Rachel Leigh Cook, Daryl Hannah, Adam 

Beach, Kelsey Grammer, Gary Farmer Print Source~ 

Criterion Films 

About the Director~A Peabody Award winning cameraman, 

Steve Anderson has worked on several documentaries and 

thousands of hours of television. He makes his feature 

film writing and directing debut with THE BIG EMPTY. 

Filmography~THE BIG EMPTY (2003) 

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Book of Love 

Directed by Alan Brown 

USA 2004 

83 minutes 




12:30 PM I Ticket Code 22B 


5:15 PM I Ticket Code 23K 

There comes a time when a wonderful marriage 

settles into mundane complacency. 

That’s the state in which we find Elaine 

(Frances O’Connor) and David (Simon 

Baker). But everything changes when they 

meet Chet (Gregory Smith), an innocent 15year-old 

full of youthful wonder and energy 

whom they immediately welcome into their 

home—and their lives. The threesome form 

an immediate bond, but a momentary lapse 

in judgment threatens to rupture the core of 

the trio’s seemingly idyllic lives, which constantly 

keeps the audience wondering why the 

couple took in the teenager in the first place. 

A sensual tale of the complexity of marriage 

and desire, BOOK OF LOVE examines the 

choices we make in our daily lives—and the 

consequences that follow. 

Producer~Robert Ahrens Screenplay~Alan Brown 

Cinematography~William Rexer II Editor~Trevor Ristow 

Music~Stewart Wallace Principal Cast~Frances O’Connor, 

Simon Baker, Gregory Smith, Bryce Dallas Howard 

Print Source~Nights, LLC 

About the Director~After a career as a journalist and 

novelist, Fulbright scholar Alan Brown made his first halfhour 

narrative “O Beautiful,” which screened in the 27th 

CIFF. This is his first feature. Filmography~BOOK OF 

LOVE (2004) 

This film is presented 

with the generous support of 

THOMAS A. DUKE

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PAN-AFRICAN 

WORLD TOUR WORLD TOUR 

The Bookshop 

(El Kotbia) 

Directed by Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba 

TUNISIA, FRANCE, MOROCCO 2002 

100 minutes 


7:30 PM I Ticket Code 27N 


On his way to a job arranged for him by an 

uncle, Jamil follows a siren-like female 

singing voice through the crowded streets of 

modern Tunis to his goal—a large bookstore 

run by the same family for generations. 

Business subsists on very few customers 

(mainly gossips from the marketplace), 

thanks to a cheap, rent control situation. 

Present owner Tarik, eager to move out, 

grooms the down-on-his-luck Jamil to succeed 

him as manager-in-residence. Oh, the 

siren? That’s Tarik’s sensuous young wife 

Leila, who idolizes great Arab vocalists like 

Um Kulthum and pressures Tarik to free her 

from the solemn, constraining shop so she 

can have children and perhaps a performing 

career herself. A workable plan...until you 

factor in the unpredictability of human 

nature and the limits of sacrifice that people 

can make for the ones they love. Soon the 

Tunis market gossips will have even more to 

chatter about in a page-turning, romantic 

drama of destinies bound between two covers. 

(In Arabic with English subtitles) 

Producer:~Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba Screenplay~Nawfel 

Saheb-Ettaba, Tarek Ben Chabaane Cinematography~ 

Gilles Porte Editors~Nadia Ben Rachid, Mounira Bhar 

Music~Kaïs Sellami, Julien Omé Principal Cast~Hend 

Sabri, Ahmed El Haffiene, Martine Gafsi, Yadh Beji, Raouf 

Ben Amor, Moustapha El Adouani Print Source~Cinexport 

About the Director~Born in Tunisia in 1959, Nawfel 

Saheb-Ettaba studied cinema and communications at 

Concordia University, graduating in 1990. After working in 

Canadian TV, he founded his own production company in 

Carthage. Filmography~THE BOOKSHOP (2002) 

Buddy 

Directed by Morten Tyldum 

NORWAY 2003 

104 minutes 


7:15 PM I Ticket Code 19N 





If reality TV did not exist, storytellers would 

have had to invent it. In fact, they did. From 

Paul Bartel’s “The Secret Cinema” to 

Bernard Tavernier’s “Death Watch” to Peter 

Weir’s “The Truman Show,” moviemakers 

anticipated and vivisected video voyeurism 

and its values. Now even Average Joes from 

Ohio lower themselves to get married as part 

of a cheesy TV show; it seems like our worst 

imaginings have come to pass. The comedydrama 

BUDDY is fiction...for now. Kristoffer, 

a billboard-hanger, dwells in a communestyle 

setting with eccentrics like his crazy 

best pal Geir and Stig Inge, an apparently 

agorophobic webmaster. When Kristoffer’s 

lover dumps him for her boss, our hero pours 

his broken heart into a series of camcorder 

confessionals. By accident his digital diaries 

are seen by a TV producer and broadcast. 

Kristoffer’s “simple life” captivates audiences, 

making him the next Scandinavian 

Idol. But the spotlight’s glare turns away his 

cohorts and changes the people he truly 

cares about. What good is being everybody’s 

buddy but no one’s friend? (In Norwegian 

with English subtitles) 

Preceded by Scoub 2 

Directed by Stéphane Berla, France, 7 minutes 

Producer~Gudny Hummelvoll Screenplay~Lars 

Gudmestad Cinematography~John Andreas Anderson 

Editor~Eli Nilsen Music~Lars Lillo-Stenberg Principal 

Cast~Nicolai Cleve Broch, Aksel Hennie, Pia Tjelta, Anders 

Baasmo Christiansen, Janne Formoe Print Source~ 

Norwegian Film Institute 

About the Director~Born in 1967, Morten Tyldum 

studied cinema at New York University, then worked in 

Norwegian television. He makes his feature debut here. 

Filmography~BUDDY (2003) 

TEN PERCENT CINEMA 

WORLD TOUR 

Bulgarian Lovers 

(Los Novios Bulgaros) 

Directed by Eloy de la Iglesia 

SPAIN 2003 

90 minutes 


9:30 PM I Ticket Code 19U 



Of Madrid, Pedra da Costa Perestrello wrote, 

“Quien te quiere, no te sabe/Quien te sabe, 

no te quiere.” Or, “He who likes thee does 

not know thee. He who knows thee does not 

like thee.” What would the poet have made 

of the Chueca, the gay quarter of the 

Spanish capital? This is cruising territory 

for Daniel, a well-heeled and financially 

successful lawyer with a taste for the exotic. 

He has his choice among the masses of 

recent refugees from Eastern Europe who 

seem to wind up in the Chueca and are 

largely ignored by much of society, except 

the police, who harrass them, and the guys, 

who desire them. One newcomer is a halfstarved 

Bulgarian, Kyril, who admits he has 

a fiancee back home but nonetheless goes 

to bed with Daniel. Daniel ends up doing his 

pickup’s bidding, forging documents, smuggling 

contraband and even going to Bulgaria 

himself—to attend Kyril’s wedding. Will 

Daniel still like Kyril, if he ever gets to know 

him? (In Spanish and Bulgarian with English 

subtitles) 

Producers~Pedro Olea, Fernando Guillen Cuervco, Jesus G. 

Ciordia, Eduardo Campoy Screenplay~Fernando Guillen 

Cuervo, Eloy de la Iglesia (based on the novel by Eduardo 

Mendicutti) Cinematography~Nestor Calvo Editor~Jose 

Salcedo Music~Antonio Meliveo Principal Cast~Fernando 

Guillen Cuervo, Dritan Biba, Pepon Nieto, Anita Sinnkovic, 

Roger Pera, Fernando Albizu, Roman Lucknar, Simon 

Andreu, Julia Martinez Print Source~TLA Releasing 

About the Director~Eloy de la Iglesia was born in 1944 in 

the Basque province of Spain. He studied cinema in Paris 

at IDHEC and made his feature debut in 1966, proving 

himself a prolific and popular director. Filmography~ 

“The Glass Ceiling” (1971), “La Criaturea” (1977), “Pals” 

(1980), “La Mujer del Ministro” (1981), “El Pico” (1984), 

BULGARIAN LOVERS (2003)

18 FILMS A – Z [C–D] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

WORLD TOUR 

Carandiru 

Directed by Hector Babenco 

BRAZIL 2003 

145 minutes 


6:45 PM I Ticket Code 19R 


A sappy, 1980s Sylvester Stallone action pic 

bore the tagline, “Crime is a disease. Meet 

the cure.” In the same era—but thousands 

of miles away, figuratively and literally—was 

the Casa de Detençion in São Paulo, also 

known as Carandiru, Latin America’s largest 

jail. Where the line between righteousness 

and evil, hero and villain, is never Hollywood 

simple. Disease here can mean scourges of 

hatred, poverty, revenge, drugs, greed...as 

well as tuberculosis, leptospirosis and a new 

plague—AIDS. Into this grim fortress comes 

a physician to minister to more than 7,000 

potentially dangerous (or contagious) 

inmates. Based on a nonfiction bestseller, 

the film follows a respected prisoner called 

Black Nigger who mediates resident disputes 

in the cellblock society and a hard assassin 

who converts to an evangelical priest. 

Pressures build into a 1992 riot that stuns 

the entire nation. Hector Babenco, director 

of “Pixote” (6th CIFF, 1982), took three 

years to make this saga of humanity caged 

under criminal conditions. And if bearing 

witness is part of the cure, take heart that 

CARANDIRU has become the biggest local 

hit of Brazilian cinema in ten years. (In 

Portuguese with English subtitles) 

Producer~Hector Babenco Screenplay~Victor Navas, 

Hector Babenco, Fernando Bonassi (based on the book 

“Carandiru Station” by Drauzio Varella) Cinematography~ 

Walter Carvalho Editor~Mauro Alice Music~André 

Abujamra Principal Cast~Luiz Carlos Vasconcellos, Milhem 

Cortaz, Milton Gonçalves, Avan de Almeida, Ailton Graça, 

Maria Luisa Mendonca Print Source~Sony Pictures Classics 

About the Director~Born in 1946 in Buenos Aries, Hector 

Babenco traveled Europe and worked odd jobs (including 

as a movie extra) before becoming a highly regarded filmmaker. 

Drauzio Varella, the real-life doctor of CARANDIRU, 

helped him overcome lymphatic cancer. Filmography~ 

“King of the Night” (1975), “Pixote” (1982), “Kiss of the 

Spider Woman” (1985), “Ironweed” (1987), “At Play in 

the Fields of the Lord” (1991), CARANDIRU (2003) 



The Color of Happiness 

(A Boldogság Színe) 

Directed by József Pacskovszky 

HUNGARY 2003 

86 minutes 




2:30 PM I Ticket Code 26H 


5:30 PM I Ticket Code 27M 

A freak May snowstorm in cosmopolitan 

Budapest stirs a blizzard of passion in 

Jozsef Pacskovszky’s heady tango-dance of 

intertwined characters. This film is lensed in 

saturated hues so vibrant you can feel the 

heat—and the chills—as walking-wounded 

in the relationship wars (half the adults are 

twice-divorced) swirl around each other, 

some connecting and others colliding. 

Hanna, mistress of French expat Lorant, 

agonizes over a marriage proposal she never 

thought she’d get from her live-in boyfriend. 

Ditta, Lorant’s advice-columnist wife, tries to 

arouse her spouse’s languishing ardor, only to 

see everything undone on their child’s birthday 

by a tragedy involving a gypsy clan. Ildi, 

an ailing gallery owner, auditions potential 

stepdads for her fatherless son. These are 

people desperately in need of fairy tale 

endings. And because THE COLOR OF 

HAPPINESS is a movie, one is provided by 

Aliam, an African immigrant bus driver in 

love with love, life and his adopted land, 

despite the tribulations and twists all three 

provide. (In Magyar with English subtitles) 

Producer~Jenö Hábermann Screenplay: József Pacskovszky 

Cinematography~Francisco Gózon Editor: Gabriella Koncz 

Music~Ando Drom, Sonoton Principal Cast~Anna Györgyi, 

Erik Desfosses, Zoltán Rátóti, Teréz Rudolf, Artúr Kálid, 

Todd Williams Print Source~Magyar Filmunió 

About the Director~After receiving his diploma from the 

Gardening and Food Industry University, József Pacskovszky 

graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in 1989, 

where he has been teaching since 1995. He made his 

first feature film in 1989. Filmography~“Zafir” (1989), 

“The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti” (1994), “Our Love” 

(2000), THE COLOR OF HAPPINESS (2003). 


WORLD TOUR 

Cuba Libre 

Directed by Juan Gerard 

USA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 2003 

110 minutes 




7:30 PM I Ticket Code 25Q 

Actor Harvey Keitel teams with a roster of 

Cuban-American talent—including exiled 

actors Reinaldo Miravalles and Pedro Renteria 

—to evoke this misty coming-of-age reverie 

set in 1958, the last year of the Battista 

regime. In the town of Holguin, a boy at the 

local cinema watches the Doris Day melodrama 

“Julia” when the screen goes black in 

mid-cliffhanger. Castro’s rebels have destroyed 

the power plant. It stays dark for months as 

Hollywood gloss and the magic of childhood 

give way to the sweat, blood and tears of a 

land in turmoil. Father leaves the island, a 

revolutionary squares off against police and 

the boy’s shady grandpapa Che (Harvey Keitel) 

tries to fix deals and protect the family like 

always. Throughout, the boy’s secret companion 

is a mysterious, sleek blonde named 

Julia, who looks curiously like Doris Day. Like 

“Cinema Paradiso” (14th CIFF, 1990) and 

“Movie Days” (19th CIFF, 1995), CUBA 

LIBRE speaks the universal language of celluloid, 

the stuff that dreams are made of, in 

a world that sometimes seems nightmarish. 

Producers~Harvey Keitel, Letvia Arza-Goderich, Bonnie 

Timmerman, Andrew Pfeffer Screenplay~Juan Gerard, 

Letvia Arza-Goderich Cinematography~Kramer Morgenthau 

Editor~Duncan Burns Music~Edesio Alejandro 

Principal Cast~Harvey Keitel, Iben Hjejle, Gael Garcia 

Bernal, Daniel Lugo, Gabino Diego, Gellerman Baralt, 

Diana Bracho, Andhy Mendez, Enrique Almarante 

Print Source~ Inferno Distribution 

About the Director~First-time filmmaker Juan Gerard 

tried to shoot CUBA LIBRE in Cuba but was unable to 

secure permission, so he lensed the film in the Dominican 

Repubic. Filmography~CUBA LIBRE (2003)


WORLD TOUR 

Deep Breath 

(Nafas-E Amigh) 

Directed by Parviz Shahbazi 

IRAN 2003, 82 minutes 


12:00 Noon I Ticket Code 25D 


5:15 PM I Ticket Code 27J 

Live fast, die young, leave a pretty corpse. 

We associate that nihilistic credo with western 

decadence, not with one of the world’s 

most prominent Islamic-fundamentalist 

republics. Get ready to have your preconceptions 

shattered. Get set to take a DEEP 

BREATH. This feature dramatizes the malaise 

of young Iranians whose parents may have 

fought the Revolution against the Shah, but 

who are themselves rebels without a cause, 

enjoying native rock and roll rather than 

traditional music, living for kicks and for 

the moment. A Tehran engineering student, 

Kamran is Byronically handsome (actor 

Saeed Amini has been called a Persian Tom 

Cruise or Ethan Hawke) but utterly indifferent. 

He forsakes a wealthy family to spend nights 

with his penniless buddy Mansour. When 

Mansour is evicted they make an easy, downward 

transition to stolen cars, dingy hostels 

and acts of petty vandalism. Then they run 

across Aida, a schoolgirl from an all-female 

dormitory, frequently jacked into her walkman. 

Mansour thinks he’s made a love connection. 

Kamran has hit upon another form of quiet 

defiance; he’s given up eating. James Dean 

would understand. (In Persian with English 

subtitles) 

Producer~Amir Satavati Screenplay~Parviz Shahbazi 

Cinematography~Ali Loghmani Editor~Parviz Shahbazi 

Music~Mehrdad Palizban Principal Cast~Mansour 

Shahbazi, Maryam Palyzban, Saeed Amini Print Source~ 

Behnegar 

About the Director~Born in 1962 in Khorramabad, Iran, 

Parviz Shahbazi began his filmmaking career after graduating 

from the College of Cinema in 1990. He edited several 

films and directed 12 shorts 

before making his first feature. 

Filmography~“Traveler from the 

South” (1997), “Whispers” 

(2000), DEEP BREATH (2003) 

AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS, DOCUMENTARIES 

LOCAL HEROES 

Dirty Work 

Directed by David Sampliner, 

Tim Nackashi 

USA 2004, 58 minutes 

SCREENING WITH RED LIGHT GO; see p.41 


12:00 Noon I Ticket Code 20B 


2:15 PM I Ticket Code 24F 

HELP WANTED: Ideal applicant must work 

with mutilated corpses, human excrement, 

and large, dangerous animals in the throes 

of sexual frenzy. Benefits include bad smells, 

potential injury, sights few would ever want 

to see and a risk of social ostracism. Even 

today’s desperate job-seekers may never 

consider the three career options in David 

Sampliner’s probing (in more ways than one) 

documentary: a septic-tank pumper, a mortuary 

embalmer and a collector of bull semen, 

all of whom open up (in more ways than one) 

about the trades they ply. Although Bernard 

Holston considers filling the dead with 

formaldehyde and plastic bags an “art,” he 

otherwise takes a cheerfully pragmatic and 

unromantic philosophy toward his six-footunder 

calling. Meanwhile, homespun “honeywagon” 

man Darrell Allen happily shares the 

messy septic tank chores with his wife. 

And Dr. Russ Page, the “reproductive 

physiologist,” must carefully manuever an 

unpredictable beast to collect its semen. 

“For people who work in an office, that’s 

considered gross.” Ultimately there’s an affirmation: 

“When you can get something you 

can do that nobody else wants to do, you are 

smarter than they are.” Contains footage not 

for the faint-hearted. 

Producers~David Sampliner, Tim Nackashi 

Cinematography~David Sampliner, Tim Nackashi Editors~ 

David Sampliner, Tim Nackashi Print Source~David 

Sampliner 

About the Directors~Native Clevelander David Sampliner 

attended Yale University with actor Edward Norton (executive 

producer of DIRTY WORK). Sampliner was working as 

a photographer in Athens, Georgia when he partnered with 

local multimedia artist Tim Nackashi, who ran an Internet 

design company, to create DIRTY WORK. They are both now 

working on new projects. Filmography~DIRTY WORK (2004) 

WORLD TOUR 

Distant Lights 

(Lichter) 

Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid 

GERMANY 2003, 105 minutes 




9:45 PM I Ticket Code 20V 



Comparisons to Steven Soderbergh’s 

“Traffic” would not be too far off the mark, 

although narcotics are just about the only 

thing not being smuggled, bartered or stolen 

by the many interwoven characters in 

DISTANT LIGHTS. Here the principle cargo 

is human. Refugees from Eastern Europe 

and fortune-seekers trying to carve a new 

life along the Oder River borderline between 

Poland and Germany in the depressed city 

of Sublice. Sonja, a Russian language translator 

for the police, risks her job and her 

boyfriend’s approval to help a complete 

stranger reach Berlin. A family of black-marketeers 

comes to blows over Katharina, a 

pretty teenage drifter and the wild card in 

their midst. Ingo, a struggling small businessman, 

and Philip, a hotshot architecture 

graduate, experience betrayals and backstabs 

of the free-market economy where anything 

(and anyone) is up for grabs. Without a 

wasted moment, the edgy, hand-held camera 

tracks the ensemble through a landscape of 

promise and deception where distant lights 

are the beckoning illusion of prosperity and a 

better future—or the prowling immigration 

patrol-boats. (In German, Polish and Russian 


Producers~Jakob Claussen, Thomas Wöbke, Uli Putz 

Screenplay~Hans-Christian Schmid, Michael Gutmann 

Cinematography~Bogumil Godfrejow Editor~Hansjörg 

Weissbrich Music~The Notwist Principal Cast~Ivan 

Shvedoff, Anna Janowskaja, Sergei Frolov, Sebastian 

Urzendowsky, Devid Striesow, Zbigniew Zamachowski, 

Maria Simon Print Source~Bavaria Film International 

About the Director~Hans-Christian Schmid was born in 

1965 in Altötting, Germany. He made his feature debut in 

1995. Filmography~“Nach Fünf im Urwald” (1995), 

“23” (1998), “Crazy” (2000), DISTANT LIGHTS (2003)

20 FILMS A – Z [D – F] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 


DOCUMENTARIES 

Double Dare 

Directed by Amanda Micheli 

USA 2003 

81 minutes 





When Hollywood made PSAs against film 

piracy, who was presented as a sympathetic, 

salt-of-the-earth movie laborer with a threatened 

livelihood? Not a director, producer or 

actor, but a stuntman, who truly risks life 

and limb for the lens. But what of stuntwomen? 

This breezy peek behind the scenes 

pairs a rising ingenue with a founding-mother 

of the trade. In the 1970s, Jeannie Epper 

cat-fought Pam Grier and leapt tall buildings 

in Lynda Carter’s “Wonder Woman” breastplate. 

At 60 she’s still on her game, but not 

immune to ageism and biases afflicting 

women in showbiz as she hustles more gigs. 

Even stuntwomen feel pressured into plastic 

surgery, but when Jeannie goes under the 

knife it’s for a very different reason. Halfway 

around the world is New Zealand’s Zoe Bell, 

a young gymnast doubling Lucy Lawless as 

Xena, Warrior Princess. With “Xena” shooting 

its final episodes, Zoe decides to relocate to 

Los Angeles and nabs a career-making audition 

with Quentin Tarentino. From high falls 

to kung-fu brawls, DOUBLE DARE is the 

CIFF’s strongest infusion of girl power. Just 

ask featured commentator Steven Spielberg. 

Producers~Karen Johnson, Danielle Renfrew Writer~ 

Amanda Micheli Cinematography~Amanda Micheli 

Editor~Purcell Carson Music~Marco D’Abrosio Print 

Source~Runaway Films 

About the Director~Amanda Micheli is a documentary 

filmmaker and cinematographer who previously showcased 

the world of female rodeo performers. Filmography~“Just 

for the Ride” (1995), DOUBLE DARE (2003) 

Sponsored by 

DOCUMENTARIES 

WORLD TOUR 

Dream Cuisine 

(Aji) 

Directed by Li Ying 

JAPAN 2002, 134 minutes 


4:30 PM I Ticket Code 21J 


2:15 PM I Ticket Code 24E 

Hot. Sour. Salty. Sweet. The tongue’s four 

basic sensations, as identified by Asian 

culinary artists more than a millenium ago, 

could also chart upheavals in Chinese history 

during Hatsue Sato’s life. Japanese by 

ethnicity, she was born in Jinan, China where 

Chinese cuisine is said to have begun, and 

the first cookbook written. She learned traditional 

Shandong cuisine in the 1930s before 

the brutal Japanese occupation of WWII and 

Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution eradicated 

such ancient customs. Now Hatsue and 

Koroku, her husband of 40 years, run an 

authentic Shandong restaurant in Tokyo. 

Feeling too old to “swing the wok” in the 

kitchen, Hatsue considers returning to Jinan 

to teach true Shandong for a fresh generation 

at an eminent chefs’ school, where she and 

her food skills are revered. But Koroku doesn’t 

want to uproot himself. And repeat visits to 

Jinan leave a bitter aftertaste, as Hatsue 

learns the fates of peers from the old days 

and finds her status as a “living fossil” of 

Chinese cuisine is not exactly a compliment. 

A feast for for both epicures and non-gourmets 

alike, the ingredients on the menu of Li 

Ying’s documentary recall the finest dramatic 

work of Ozu and Zhang Yimou. (In Mandarin 

and Japanese with English subtitles) 

Producers~Zhang Yi, Tateishi Atsushi Cinematography~ 

Hotta Yasuhiro Editor~Li Ying, Miyachika Shigenori 

Music~Huang Jia Mo, Liu Xue An Print Source~ 

Dragon Films 

About the Director~Li Ying was born in 1963 and began 

directing documentaries for China Central Television in 

1984. He relocated to Japan in 1989 and co-founded the 

production company Dragon Films. 

Filmography~“Flying Flying” 

(2000), “Beijing Film Academy: 

A Tale of Dreams” (2001), 

DREAM CUISINE (2002) 



Faithless Games 

(Neverné Hry) 

Directed by Michaela Pavlátová 

CZECH REPUBLIC, SLOVAKIA 2003 

93 minutes 







Filmmaker Michaela Pavlátová defines her 

pitch-perfect debut drama as “a chamber 

piece about love, unfaithfulness, human 

failings and finding one’s self.” At the insistence 

of Peter, her composer husband, Eva 

(a professional pianist) reluctantly moves 

from Prague to a villa in a town near the 

Slovak-Hungarian border. Once this was all 

one nation, but no longer, and Eva feels 

particularly adrift and alienated when she 

can’t find employment with local musical 

institutions (because, she suspects, she’s 

not ethnic Slovak). Furthermore Mária, the 

woman from whom they bought their new 

estate, refuses to vacate the grounds, squatting 

with her fatherless daughter Janka in 

the detached guest-quarters that Peter had 

wanted to turn into his study (Peter summarily 

cuts off their water supply, to no avail). 

Peter and Eva’s resigned, brittle marriage 

becomes ever more strained as Eva finds 

excuses to visit Prague and linger with old 

friends, leaving her husband alone in his 

house of sand and fog. (In Czech, Slovak 

and Magyar with English subtitles) 

Producers~Katrˇina Černa, Pavel Strnad Screenplay~Tina 

Diosi Cinematography~Martin Sturba Editor~Tonička 

Janková Music~Petr Hromádka Principal Cast~Zuzana 

Stivínová, Peter Bebjak, Ady Hajdu, Jana Hubinska, Ivara 

Chylková Print Source~Negativ Film Productions 

About the Director~Michaela Pavlátová studied cinema at 

the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, 

graduating in 1987. Most of her work has been in animation, 

and her 1991 short “Words Words Words” received 

an Oscar nomination. Filmography~FAITHLESS GAMES 

(2003)


WORLD TOUR 

The First Night 

(La Primera Noche) 

Directed by Luis Alberto Restrepo 

COLOMBIA 2003 

90 minutes 





A story of hidden passion set in a Colombia 

drained by war, violence and ignorance. Two 

people, Paulina and Toño, like many others 

before them, flee from the countryside into 

the cities where they are not wanted and are 

considered invisible. With them they bring 

repressed secret passions. Paulina’s husband 

Wilson has abandoned her, while Wilson’s 

brother Toño has secretly loved her all along 

and wants to help. Paulina, with a disturbing 

mix of innocence and sensuality, has two 

children to care for, difficult in the rough 

streets of the city. The only friendly face in 

the city is that of El Indio, a street-smart 

survivor who tries to help the newcomers. 

Between brutality in the countryside and 

betrayal in the city, Paulina and Toño face 

immense challenges. The director says this 

film began with a vision: “One night in the 

city, I saw a young woman folding newspapers 

on the street, getting ready to put her infant 

son to bed. Her gestures were so fluid and 

sure, while full of abandonment, that for a 

long time I couldn’t forget what I’d seen.” 

(In Spanish with English subtitles) 

Producer~Luis Alberto Restrepo Screenplay~Luis Albert 

Restrepo, Alberto Quiroga Cinematography~Sergio Garcia 

Music~German Arrieta, Gonzalo Sagarminaga Principal 

Cast~Carolina Lizarazo, Jhon Alex Toro, Hernan Mendez, 

Enrique Carriazo, Julian Roman, Ana Maria Sanchez 

Print Source~Centro Films 

About the Director~Born in Medellín, Colombia in 1956, 

Luis Alberto Restrepo has directed and produced features, 

documentaries, videos and television series for over 20 

years. Filmography~“Bituima 1780” (1995), THE FIRST 

NIGHT (2003) 

PAN-AFRICAN 

WORLD TOUR 

The Forest 

(Le Silence de le Forêt) 

Directed by Didier Ouénangaré, 

Bassek ba Kobhio 

GABON, REPUBLIC OF CENTRAL AFRICA, 

FRANCE 2003 

93 minutes 





“You do not believe your first pygmy when 

you see him,” wrote the traveler Negley 

Farson. These diminutive forest people 

remain known to westerners mostly via circus 

stereotypes and Ripley’s Believe It or Not. 

Believe in THE FOREST, a drama starring 

Eriq Ebouane, whose commanding lead in 

the biopic “Lumumba” (25th CIFF, 2001) 

made him Africa’s equivalent of Denzel 

Washington. He plays Gonaba, a Europeaneducated 

school inspector who finds his 

progressive ideals ineffective in reforming 

urban Gabon’s political lassitude. He ventures 

deep in the jungle to give the gifts of his 

intellect to “liberate” the pygmy tribes, who 

still suffer persecution and exclusion. At 

least Gonaba thinks they do. The pygmies 

think they are free enough already; it’s the 

“tall person” in their midst who needs to 

learn ancestral ways and rituals. As Gonaba 

fails to teach pygmy children an alphabet, he 

falls in love with a native girl and the clan’s 

animist beliefs. And the real lessons begin. 

(In Aka, Sango and French with English 

subtitles) 

Producers~Charles Mensah, Annie Izoungou, 

Abderrahmane Sissako, Guillaume De Seille Screenplay~ 

Didier Ouénangaré, Bassek ba Kobhio (based on the novel 

by Etienne Goyemidé) Cinematography~Pierre-Olivier 

Larrieu Editor~Joseph Licide Music~Manu Dibango 

Principal Cast~Eriq Ebouaney, Sonia Zembourou, Nadége 

Beausson-Diagne, Philippe Maury, the pygmies of the 

Akunen Village Print Source~Films Distribution 

About the Director~Didier Ouénangaré was born in 

Bambari and studied film in Abidjan before graduating 

from the University of Rennes in France. Born in Nindje, 

Cameroon, Bassek ba Kobhio is a novelist as well as a 

director of documentaries and features. Filmography~ 

THE FOREST (2003) 

DOCUMENTARIES 

WORLD TOUR 

The Fourth World War 

Directed by Richard Rowley, 

Jacqueline Soohen 

USA 2003 

76 minutes 





The main reason to see this film: You will 

never, ever see these images on American 

television. Shot over the last two years by 

risk-taking guerrilla filmmakers, THE 

FOURTH WORLD WAR criss-crosses the 

world’s hotspots as the filmmakers shoot 

from the hip and go where mainstream 

media can’t—or won’t. From the Jenin 

refugee camp at eye level with Israeli tanks, 

to the people of Chiapas staring down the 

Mexican army, to the streets of Argentina, 

South Korea, Genoa, South Africa and Iraq, 

wherever there is ongoing friction and fighting. 

Breaking all rules of documentary filmmaking, 

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR never 

fully explains the context of the images or 

what date they occurred. Instead, poet 

Suheir Hammad and singer Michael Franti of 

Spearhead provide lyrical voice-overs. By not 

being always specific, the filmmakers imply 

that a world war is currently raging all over 

the globe and we’re the last to know. 

Preceded by The Martyr 

Directed by John Dolan, USA, 12 minutes 

Producers~Richard Rowley, Jaqueline Soohen 

Cinematography~Richard Rowley, Jaqueline Soohen 

Editors~Paul McNulty, Joulie Wheeler Print Source~ 

Big Noise 

About the Directors~Richard Rowley and Jaqueline 

Soohen are members of Big Noise Tactical Media, a 

New York-based radical media group. Their past features 

have won top honors at film festivals around the world. 

Filmography~“Zapatista” (1998), “Black and Gold” 

(1999), “This is What Democracy Looks Like” (2000), 

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR (2003)

22 FILMS A – Z [G – H] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

DOCUMENTARIES, TEN PERCENT CINEMA 

WORLD TOUR 

Garden 

(Gan) 

Directed by Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash 

ISRAEL 2003 

85 minutes 

SCREENING WITH SEND ME AN ANGEL; 

see below 





Over the course of one year, the filmmakers 

follow two young men who make their home 

in a desolate place called The Garden in 

downtown Tel Aviv. It’s where young gay 

prostitutes and drug addicts gather. Nino, a 

17-year-old Palestinian living illegally in 

Israel, is in and out of jail and reformatories. 

Dudu, an Arab-Israeli, is heavily into drugs. 

Both have experienced abuse by family 

members and cling together for survival on 

the street. They give the filmmakers extraordinary 

access to their daily lives and frequent 

ups and downs, resulting in a powerfully 

honest film that also provides Nino and 

Dudu with the respect and dignity no one 

else will offer. Their struggles are set against 

the much larger Israeli/Palestinian conflict, 

and the dividing lines aren’t so clear. More 

than anything, GARDEN is a film about the 

elusive meaning of home. (In Hebrew and 

Arabic with English subtitles) 

Preceded by Send Me An Angel 

Directed by Nir Ne’Eman, Israel, 45 minutes 

Producers~Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash Cinematography~ 

Adi Barash Editor~Janos Billeskov Jansen Print Source~ 

Fig Films 

About the Directors~Adi Barash and Ruthie Shatz are 

award-winning documentary filmmakers. Barash and 

Shatz are founding members of Fig Films whose previous 

feature documentary, “Diamonds and Rust,” participated 

in more than 30 international film festivals. Filmography~ 

“Diamonds and Rust” (2001), GARDEN (2003) 

TEN PERCENT CENTRAL/EASTERN CINEMA EUROPEAN 


WORLD TOUR 

Goldfish Memory 

Directed by Liz Gill 

IRELAND 2003 

85 minutes 


12:15 PM I Ticket Code 25C 



Liz Gill’s bubbly pansexual romp whirlpools 

around a university in modern Dublin. This 

is an aquarium environment where the assertion 

that St. Patrick was really a wandering 

Egyptian is just the beginning of the queer 

notions and lifestyles PH tested by students, 

faculty and civilians. “My actions are dictated 

solely by love,” defends literature instructor 

Tom Lawless, a failed poet who uses considerable 

charm, blarney and self-pity in his 

successful sideline as a campus Casanova. 

His girlfriend Clara inevitably glimpses Tom 

kissing another potential conquest, flaxenhaired 

pupil Isolde. The flirtation triggers 

a chain reaction of partner-switching and 

reappraisals among their circle; straight 

women turn lesbian, gay men accidentally 

become parents, a TV anchorlady is outed, a 

cheater gets jilted...even a marriage breaks 

out. “When it comes to love,” Tom says, 

“people are akin to goldfish, having only a 

three-second memory and fated to repeatedly 

swim the same troublesome currents of pain 

and delight.” 

Producer~Breda Walsh Screenplay~Liz Gill 

Cinematography~Ken Byrne Editor~Dermot Diskin 

Music~ Richie Buckley Principal Cast~Sean Campion, 

Flora Montgomery, Stuart Graham, Fiona O’Shaugnessy, 

Keith McErlean, Jean Butler, Aisling O’Neill, Peter Gaynor, 

Laura Brennan Print Source~Wolfe 

About the Director~Formerly an assistant for Martin 

Scorsese, Todd Haynes and Barry Levinson, screenwriter 

and playwright Liz Gill made her directing debut in 1996 

Filmography~“Gold in the Streets” (1996), GOLDFISH 

MEMORY (2003) 

Granny 

(Baboussia) 



Directed by Lidia Bobrová 

RUSSIA, FRANCE 2003, 98 minutes 




12:00 Noon I Ticket Code 25A 

Lidia Bobrová’s personal appearance on 

behalf of her debut, “Hey You, Wild Geese” 

(16th CIFF, 1992) is a treasured Festival 

memory. We are honored to present her third 

feature, another unadorned, tremendously 

moving look at ordinary Russians outside 

the modern sprawls of Moscow and St. 

Petersburg. Grandmother Tosia is an embodiment 

of Russia’s hardy stock. She endured 

Sovietization, the Great Patriotic War, purges 

and Perestroika. And she knows the old folk 

songs and hymns. That counts for nothing 

when her son-in-law Ivan declares her a burden 

and sends Tosia packing, first to stay 

with her aged sister in the countryside, then 

with the now-adult nieces, nephews and 

grandchildren she helped raise. Some, like 

chic, divorced TV commentator Lisa, prosper 

in the capitalist economy of “new Russia”; 

others have fallen victim to circumstances 

and their own flaws, like alcoholic Victor. 

None of them seem willing or able to make 

room for Granny in their lives now. While Tosia 

is a distinct cultural archetype (she could be 

Mother Russia herself), ponder whether our 

own elders are treated any better in the West. 

(In Russian with English subtitles) 

Producer~Andrej Zercalov Screenplay~Lidia Bobrová 

Cinematography~Valeri Revic Editor~Tatjána Bystrová 

Music~Sergei Anoufriev Principal Cast~Nina Shubinová, 

Olga Onisčenko, Anna Ovsjanikoková, Vladimir Kulakov, 

Sergej Anyfrjev, Galina Bokachevskala, Vladimir Baranov 

Print Source~Vision International 

About the Director~Born in 1952 in Zabailkaisk, Siberia, 

Lidia Bobrová graduated from Leningrad University in 

1975 with a history degree. She studied scriptwriting 

and direction before undertaking her 

first feature, which was delayed for a 

decade because of official censorship. 

Filmography~“Hey You, Wild Geese” 

(1991), GRANNY (2003)


FAMILY FILMS 

WORLD TOUR 

The Handcuff King 

(Kahlekuningas) 

Directed by Arto Koskinen 

FINLAND 2003 

90 minutes 


7:15 PM I Ticket Code 26N 



To fantasy-prone Esko, growing up in Röyttå 

on the Finland-Sweden border in the 1970s, 

the links in his heavy personal chains are 

squabbling parents on the verge of separation, 

an aloof brother only concerned about 

his aspiring punk-rock career and ostracism 

by his buddies after a trick Esko plays on 

their hated Swede rivals badly backfires. 

Then a potential escape appears in Esko’s 

unexpected friendship with Patrick, an affluent 

but semi-invalid Swedish kid. They share 

a summer making home movies, comparing 

their crazy relatives and practicing Houdini 

tricks. Winter is coming and with it a stark 

turning point in the two young lives. Be 

assured THE HANDCUFF KING has a padlock 

on being counted among such bluesy, 

bittersweet portraits of boyhood as “My Life 

as a Dog” (11th CIFF, 1987), “The Slingshot” 

(18th CIFF, 1994), “Odd Little Man” (25th 

CIFF, 2001) and “Sweet Dreams” (26th 

CIFF, 2002). (In Finnish and Swedish with 


Producers~Claes Olsson, Göran Lindström, Per-Erik 

Svensson Screenplay~Arto Koskinen Cinematography~ 

Hans Welin Editor~Kauko Lindfors Music~Samuli Laiho 

Principal Cast~Miikka Enbuske, Emil Lundberg, Lina 

Hofverberg, Heikki Hela, Maija Junno, Arttu Kapulainen, 

Sulevi Peltola Print Source~The Finnish Film Foundation 

About the Director~Born in Alatornio, Finland in 1962, 

Arto Koskinen studied architecture at the University of 

Oulu and cinema at the University of Industrial Arts, Film 

and Television. He has directed numerous award-winning 

documentaries and taught film at Tampere Polytechnic. 

Filmography~“Last Days of Summer” (1992), THE 

HANDCUFF KING (2003) 


Happy Hour 

Directed by Mike Bencivenga 

USA 2003 

93 minutes 




5:15 PM I Ticket Code 28L 

Set in modern-day Manhattan, a once-brilliant 

and promising literary star, Ryan Tulley 

(Anthony LaPaglia), now writes copy for an 

advertising firm and has a barstool waiting 

for him regularly at happy hour. Unlike his 

famous writer father (played by Robert 

Vaughn), Tulley suffers terminal disillusionment, 

even as he picks up women in the bar. 

One feisty girl, however, holds his attention: 

Natalie (Caroleen Feeney), a lovely young 

woman who works as a school teacher “who 

can’t stand kids.” Rounding out the trio is 

Tulley’s close friend Levine (Eric Stoltz), who 

idolizes Tulley’s talent and knows him more 

intimately than anyone. These three who 

were adrift soon become inseparable, until 

Tulley comes to a turning point in his life: 

his health is failing and he vows to complete 

his final novel, 17 years in the making. 

As befits a film about a writer, the dialogue 

is cutting and witty, the tone shifts easily 

from blistering humor to darker waters and 

the characters are played with depth and 

emotional nuance. 

Preceded by Walkentalk 

Directed by Philip Zlotorynski, USA, 11 minutes 

Producers~J. Todd Harris, Eric M. Klein, Kimberly Shane 

O’Hara Screenplay~Mike Bencivenga, Richard Levine 

Cinematography~Giselle Chamma Editor~Nina Kawasaki, 

Robert Landau Music~Jeffrey M. Taylor Principal Cast~ 

Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Stoltz, Caroleen Feeney, Robert 

Vaughn, Sandrine Holt Print Source~Happy Hour LLC 

About the Director~While in the film program at NYU, 

Mike Bencivenga won a Student Academy Award for one 

of his documentaries and had several of his short comedy 

films presented on HBO and Cinemax. His first feature won 

a number of festival prizes. Filmography~“Losers in Love” 

(1993), HAPPY HOUR (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

Hard Goodbyes: My Father 

(Dhiskoli Apoheretismi: O Babas Mou) 

Directed by Penny Panayotopoulou 

GREECE, GERMANY 2002, 108 minutes 





July 1969. As Apollo astronauts lift off for 

the moon, Elias Manolopoulous delightedly 

follows their progress. He’s a space-minded 

ten-year-old in Athens who makes an oftharsh 

homelife gentler with flights of wishful 

imagination. Elias is closest to his father, a 

traveling salesman whose long business trips 

take their toll on the household, leaving his 

wife bitter and argumentative. Elias’ older 

brother Aris seems to feel almost no connection 

to dad. He hardly shows emotion when 

he takes the phone call informing them that 

Mr. Manolopoulous has perished in a car 

wreck. Elias refuses to accept his father isn’t 

coming home. After all, he still has the last 

note that papa left, the one that said he’d be 

back before the lunar landing... HARD 

GOODBYES: MY FATHER compassionately 

portrays a child coming to terms with an 

incomprehensible black hole of grief. (In 

Greek with English subtitles) 

Producers~Thanos Karathonos, Kostas Lambropoulous, 

George Louizos Screenplay~Penny Panayotopoulou 

Cinematography~Dimitris Katsaitis Editors~Petar Markovic, 

Angelos Angelopoulos Music~Stavros Sofianopoulos 

Principal Cast~Yogos Karayannis, Stelios Mainas, Ioanna 

Tsirigouli Print Source~Sipapu Films 

About the Director~Penny Panayotopoulou was born in 

Athens. She studied at the University of Athens, directing 

at the Stavrakos Film School and 

the Polytechnic of Central London. 

This is her feature debut. 

Filmography~HARD GOODBYES: 

MY FATHER (2002) 

This film is presented with the 

generous support of 

LAURA and GEORGE KAPPOS and 

ANGELEKE and LEE ZAPIS

24 FILMS A – Z [H – J] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

WORLD TOUR 

The Heat’s On 

(Travail D’Arabe) 

Directed by Christian Philibert 

FRANCE 2003 

88 minutes 


2:30 PM I Ticket Code 20F 





The literal film title, “Arab Work,” is racist 

slang for shoddy craftsmanship, heard by 

the filmmaker as he and a code-inspector 

confronted a terrible gas-installation job. 

Christian Philibert channeled his reaction 

into a sharp comedy-drama of working class 

outrage. Tossed out by his conservative 

Muslim father after a pot bust, Momo, an 

easygoing guy in Provence, needs a job. Via 

his sister’s connections, Momo gets under-thetable 

work with Gutti Bros., a once-reliable 

local HVAC company that has backslid into 

greed and malicious incompetence. Instantly 

“licensed” as a contractor, Momo is aghast 

at customers conned into faulty wiring and 

dangerous pipe-fittings. When he turns 

whistle-blower, Momo finds one unlikely 

and steadfast ally, but mostly bureaucratic 

apathy and a mindset that blames him for 

everything. After all, he was the trainee, the 

apprentice, the guy off the books...the Arab. 

Don’t say it doesn’t happen here! (In French 


Preceded by In the Bar 

Directed by Cleiton Stringhini & Paulo de Tarso 

Mendonca, Brazil, 8 minutes 

Producer~Didier Haudepin Screenplay~Christian 

Philibert, Yamina Guebli Cinematography~Gilles Carries 

Editor~Eric Renault Music~Michel Korb Principal Cast~ 

Mohamed Metina, Cyril Lecomte, Jacques Bastide, 

Jeanne Dhivers, Didier Becchetti, Jean-Marc Ravera 

Print Source~Bloody Mary Productions 

About the Director~Creator of both documentaries and narratives 

about the history and culture of Provence, Christian 

Philibert was born in 1965. At last report he had spent 

three winters without heat and was in the middle of his 

lawsuit against the contractors. Filmography~“Espigoule’s 

Four Seasons” (1999), THE HEAT’S ON (2003) 

AMERICAN CENTRAL/EASTERN INDEPENDENTSEUROPEAN 


DOCUMENTARIES, LOCAL HEROES 

Home of the Brave 

Directed by Paola di Florio 

USA 2004 

75 minutes 

Thursday, March 25 w/FilmForum 

7:15 PM I Ticket Code 25P 



March 25, 1965. Viola Liuzzo, a white 

Detroit woman volunteering in civil-rights 

marches from Selma to Montgomery, dies on 

an Alabama highway from shots allegedy fired 

by marauding Klansmen. After the initial 

outrage, the rumors began. Vile leaks to the 

media libeled the victim as irresponsible, 

lewd, unstable. Her passenger during the 

shooting, a black youth left strangely 

uscathed, told differing versions of the incident. 

Another witness turned out to be an 

FBI undercover informant, perhaps with 

something to hide... Four decades later, 

adult children of Viola Liuzzo live with 

unhealed wounds of unanswered questions, 

paranoia and disillusion. One son practically 

vanishes into the Alabama backwoods, while 

another broadcasts the anti-government 

gospel of the Michigan Militia from his trailer. 

A daughter makes a pilgrimage to the murder 

site, seeking closure that may never come. 

HOME OF THE BRAVE shows us a heroine 

in Viola Liuzzo. 

Producers~Nancy Dickenson, Paola di Florio 

Cinematography~Joan Churchill Editor~Thomas G. Miller 

Music~Karen Childs, David Powell Print Source~CP Films 

About the Director~Born to Italian parents and raised in 

New Jersey, Paola di Florio studied at New York’s Tisch 

School of the Arts. Now based in Los Angeles, 

she has produced documentaries and news 

segments for Italian television. Filmography~ 

“Speaking in Strings” (1999), HOME OF 

THE BRAVE (2004) 

Sponsored by 


The Intersection of Civil 

Rights and Civil Liberties 



WORLD TOUR 

I Always Wanted to 

Be a Saint 

(J’ai Toujours Voulu Etre Une Sainte) 

Directed by Geneviève Mersch 

LUXEMBOURG, BELGIUM 2003 

92 minutes 





Like the heroine of primetime’s “Joan of 

Arcadia,” Norah, 17, wants to do good things 

and believes she has a direct connection to 

the higher power. No, it’s not God whom 

she imagines coming to consult with her 

regularly, but rather Nico Marcuse, a dashing 

race-car driver (inspired by Brazil’s Ayrton 

Senna) whose death Norah witnessed on TV. 

Irrationally blaming herself, Norah has conjured 

up the late Nico as a friend and sort of 

guardian angel to assist her in volunteerism 

and helping others get their lives back on 

track. Next assignment: Norah’s friend Magali, 

hurting from a dysfunctional relationship 

with her mother. The “project” ends up 

hitting closer to home than Norah had 

bargained for; her own mother abandoned 

the family right after Norah’s birth, and now 

comes the momentous revelation that the 

prodigal adult can be found living not too far 

away in the mountains of Switzerland. Her 

sainthood faltering, Norah decides to make a 

pilgrimage to the Alps for a reckoning—with 

mom, with herself, with the motives for her 

virtuous impulses and with Nico. (In French 


Producer~Claude Waringo Screenplay~Philippe Blasband, 

Geneviève Mersch, Anne Fournier Cinematography~ 

Séverine Barde Editor~Ewin Ryckaert Music~Carlo Thoss 

Principal Cast~Marie Kremer, Thierry Lefèvre, Janine 

Godinas, Barbara Roland, Julien Collard, Raphaëlle 

Blancherie, Marie Nypels Print Source~Samsa Film 

About the Director~Geneviève Mersch was born in 1963 

in Luxembourg. She studied filmmaking at the Institut des 

Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve 

and makes her feature bow here. 

Filmography~I ALWAYS WANTED TO 

BE A SAINT (2003)


PARTNERSHIP PRESENTATION 


In the Realms of the Unreal 

Directed by Jessica Yu 






Five years in the making, IN THE REALMS 

OF THE UNREAL is a touching homage to 

outsider artist Henry Darger. Born in Chicago, 

where he lived his entire life, Darger was a 

singularly odd man. He made a menial living 

as a janitor for a Catholic school, but at night 

his imagination ran wild. Over the course of 

his life, Darger wrote an epic 15,000-page 

volume of a great war between angelic young 

girls called The Vivians and child-enslaving 

men. He also painted scenes of the battles 

on long pieces of butcher paper—paintings 

that now fetch millions at auction. The director 

intentionally left out art critics, visionary 

art experts and psychologists. Instead, 

Dakota Fanning reads from his epic tome, 

while images from his paintings are tastefully 

and deliciously animated. Larry Pine in turn 

reads from Darger’s autobiography, and soon 

a cohesive picture emerges of a disturbed 

but harmless man left alone to create vast 

new worlds. People who lived in his building 

and protected him from the outside world 

talk about Henry, and how when he died in 

1973, they found and preserved his work. 

Producer~Susan West Cinematography~Russ Harper, 

Tim Bieber Music~Jeff Beal Animators~Andrew Brandou, 

Peter Ehrlich, Matt Gadbois, Meher Gourjian, Tom 

Kanchanapinyokul, David Wigfross Print Source~ 

Diorama Films 

About the Director~Jessica Yu won the Academy Award 

for Best Documentary Short for “Breathing Lessons: The 

Life and Work of Mark O’Brien” in 1997. She has directed 

numerous TV episodes for several series, and has had 

numerous articles and other fiction published. Filmography~ 

“Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien” 

(1996), IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL (2003) 

Sponsored by 

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and After Party at 

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www.spacesgallery.org 

or 216.621.2314 


WORLD TOUR 

Jalla! Jalla! 

Directed by Josef Fares 

SWEDEN 2000 

88 minutes 





The title of this ribald comedy approximates 

“Hurry up!” in Arabic, a phrase loaded with 

personal meaning for two cross-cultured pals 

in contemporary Sweden. Måns and Roro are 

best friends and public park attendants. With 

plenty of fresh air and goofing-off time, the 

world (or at least the duck pond) is their oyster 

until Roro, who is Lebanese, learns that 

his traditionalist family has promised him in 

hasty matrimony to Yasmin, an Arabic 

teenage girl he doesn’t even know, in order 

to satisfy her citizenship requirements (and 

his grandmother’s demands that he have at 

least four children). Meanwhile the husky, 

all-Nordic Måns has been suffering a crippling 

bout with impotence that makes him 

doubt his Måns-hood. He and his lover Jenny 

are reduced to role-playing games and 

strange sexual apparatuses in order to revive 

his ardor. As the appointed wedding day 

approaches, Yasmin’s domineering brother 

and a deranged dog-lover feuding with Måns 

are thrown into filmmaker Josef Fares’ hot 

and spicy Swedish meatball. (In Swedish 


Producer~Anna Anthony Screenplay~Josef Fares 

Cinematography~Aril Wretblad Editor~Michal 

Laszczylowski Music~Daniel Lemma Principal Cast~ 

Fares Fares, Torkel Petersson, Laleh Pourkarim, Tuva 

Novotny, Jan Fares Print Source~Swedish Film Institute 

About the Director~Born in Lebanon in 1977, Josef Fares 

moved to Sweden at the age of ten. He began shooting 

video shorts while a teenager and, at 21, was the youngest 

student ever to be accepted at the Dramatiska Institutet 

Film School in Stockholm. Filmography~“Jalla! Jalla” 

(2000), KOPS (2003) 



Journey to Jerusalem 

(Patuvane kam Erusalim) 

Directed by Ivan Nichev 

BULGARIA 2003 

112 minutes 


2:15 PM I Ticket Code 21H 



The year is 1942 and Elza and David are two 

German-Jewish youngsters, brother and sister, 

fleeing the horrors of Hitler’s Holocaust with 

their uncle. They get as far as Sofia, Bulgaria 

where their adult protector dies. Stranded, 

penniless and alone in a country whose language 

they don’t understand, the two children 

are “adopted” by a trio of vaudevillians who 

tour the small towns of the Bulgarian countryside 

with a threadbare magic show. It will 

call upon all the tricks and talents these illusionists 

can muster to pull off the ultimate 

disappearing act: get the children safely to 

Jerusalem. JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM shows 

the difference ordinary citizens can make in 

the face of tyranny. Director Ivan Nichev 

states his feature is based on a true story, and 

offers it in tribute to the righteous gentiles 

who helped save 50,000 Bulgarian Jews. (In 

German and Bulgarian with English subtitles) 

Producer~Ivan Nichev Screenplay~Yuri Dachev, Ivan 

Nichev Cinematography~Georgi Nikolov Editor~Tatiana 

Bodganova Music~Stefan Dimitrov Principal Cast~ 

Bernd Michael Lade, Alexander Mortov, Elena Petrova, 

Vasil Vasilev-Zueke Print Source~Cinescope 

About the Director~Ivan Nichev was born in 1940 in 

Kazanlak, Bulgaria and studied cinema in Poland under the 

legendary Andrzej Wajda. He now teaches at the National 

Academy for Theater and Film Art in Sofia. Filmography~ 

“Spomen” (1974), “Boomerang” (1978), “The Black Swans” 

(1984), “Ivan and Alexandra” (1989), 

“After the End of the World” (1998), 

JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM (2003) 

Sponsored by

26 FILMS A – Z [J – L] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 


Justice 

Directed by Evan Oppenheimer 

USA 2003 

80 minutes 





After “American Splendor,” how about 

another funny-sad rumination on making 

sense of a crazy world through the comics? 

That would be just. In fact, that would be 

JUSTICE, set in a post-September 11th 

New York City. Drew, a comics writer who lost 

his best friend in the Twin Towers, tires of 

penning hackneyed superhero word-balloons. 

He envisions a new character more in step 

with a shaken society. No superpowers or 

radioactivity. Only a decent citizen (albeit 

cloaked), fighting mortal villains. Needing 

real-life inspiration for the average-avenger 

“Justice,” Drew strategically befriends Tre, a 

handsome substitute teacher he finds playing 

pickup basketball. The debut issue is a 

hit, and a Village Voice reporter/fan starts 

asking questions. How does Drew tell Tre 

he’s a hero with a secret identity so secret 

even he didn’t know he had it? On the edges 

of the narrative are Roberta, an activist 

lawyer fighting Mayor Giuliani’s city hall, and 

Mohammed, a Muslim from India selling 

bagels from his cart. When we realize their 

significance, it hits harder than the Hulk. 

This Marvel of a sophomore feature puts Evan 

Oppenheimer in a League of Extraordinary 

Filmmakers. 

Producers~Amy R. Baird, Amelia Dallis Screenplay~Evan 

Oppenheimer Cinematography~Luke Geissbuhler 

Editor~Allison Eve Zell Music~Nenad Bach Principal 

Cast~Erik Palladino, Catherine Kellner, Michael Jai White, 

Daphne Rubin-Vega, Ajay Naidu, Marisa Ryan, David 

Patrick Kelly Print Source~Evan Oppenheimer 

About the Director~Evan Oppenheimer graduated with a 

degree in English from Yale University. After editing books 

for Atheneum Publishers, he enrolled in 

film school at New York University. 

Filmography~“The Auteur Theory” 

(2000), JUSTICE (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

Kitchen Stories 

(Salmer na Kjøkkenet) 

Directed by Bent Hamer 

NORWAY 2003 

91 minutes 




12:15 PM I Ticket Code 27B 

The 1950s. Stockholm’s great Dr. Ljungberg 

—who is experimenting with how to eliminate 

the average Scandinavian housewife’s 

unnecessary miles of walking between 

stove, table and cupboard—initiates a 

“positivisitic” study. Researchers in a fleet 

of identical trailers invade households just 

over the Norwegian border to minutely record 

every kitchen movement their host subjects 

make. Fastidious Folke Nilsson (who counts 

Linneaus a distant relation) ascends a tall 

chair to scrutinize Isak, a craggy farmer 

who volunteered for the survey due to a misunderstanding. 

Isak tries to undermine the 

stranger’s hovering presence, secretly cooking 

and eating elsewhere. Slowly, though, a 

friendship warms between the odd couple— 

even though fraternization between hosts and 

observers is strictly forbidden. Those who 

remember the deadpan humor of “Eggs” 

(20th CIFF, 1996) and “Water Easy Reach” 

(23rd CIFF, 1999) will welcome another 

serving of Bent Hamer’s droll absurdity. 

(In Swedish and Norwegian with English 

subtitles) 

Preceded by Survey 

Directed by Joe King, United Kingdom, 

6 minutes 

Producers~Jörgen Bergmark, Arve Figenschow, Bent Hamer 

Screenplay~Jörgen Bergmark, Bent Hamer 

Cinematography~Philip Øgaard Editor~Pål Geganbach 

Music~Hans Mathisen Principal Cast~Joachim Calmeyer, 

Tomas Norström, Bjørn Floberg, Reine Brynolfsson, Sveree 

Anker Ousdal Print Source~IFC Films 

About the Director~Born in 1956 in Sandefjord, Sweden, 

Bent Hamer studied literature and film at the University of 

Stockholm and Stockholm Filmskola, teaching as well as 

making his own short subjects. He started making features 

in 1995. Filmography~“Eggs” (1995), “Water Easy 

Reach” (1998), KITCHEN STORIES (2003) 


WORLD TOUR 

Kops 

(Kopps) 

Directed by Josef Fares 

SWEDEN 2003 

90 minutes 


12:30 PM I Ticket Code 20D 





One-Adam 12! One-Adam 12! Dial 911 

emergency! We hear another Adam (Sandler) 

will star in an American insta-remake of this 

rollicking Swedish farce. See the original, 

before the brains behind “The Waterboy” 

and “The Hot Chick” commit cinematic 

felony on the sidesplitting source material. 

The village of Hogbotrask hasn’t had a 

single crime in ten years, and the police are 

atrophied slackers who don’t even know how 

to start a computer or file a report. Benny 

constantly fantasizes about “Die Hard” cop 

action; Lasse and Agneta are a middle-aged, 

squabbling couple; and Dick the K-9 is a 

Pomeranian frightened by its own squeeze 

toys. Patrolman Jacob, a single father with 

obsessive-compulsive disorder, finally 

impresses a pretty face in a bar, only to learn 

she’s the government hatchet-lady, here to 

close the entire precinct. The super troopers’ 

last hope to justify their existence is a badly 

improvised hoax crime wave that careens 

out of control. (In Swedish with English 

subtitles) 

Producer~Anna Anthony Screenplay~Josef Fares, Mikael 

Håfström Vasa, Lars Johansson Cinematography~Aril 

Wretblad Editor~Michal Leszcylowski Music~Daniel 

Lemma, Bengt Nilsson Principal Cast~Fares Fares, Torkel 

Petersson, Göran Ragnerstam, Sissela Kyle, Eva Rose, 

Christian Fiedler, Erik Ahrnbom Print Source~Swedish 

Film Institute 

About the Director~Born in Lebanon in 1977, Josef Fares 

moved to Sweden at the age of ten. He began shooting 

video shorts while a teenager and, at 21, was the youngest 

student ever to be accepted at the Dramatiska Institutet 

Film School in Stockholm. Filmography~“Jalla! Jalla!” 

(2000), KOPS (2003)




Last Life In the Universe 

(Ruang Rak Noi Nid Mahasan) 


THAILAND, JAPAN 2003 

112 minutes 




For his latest feature, Pen-ek Ratanaruang is 

joined by Christopher Doyle, legendary Hong 

Kong cinematographer and shogunate of 

Japanese movie talent. LAST LIFE IN THE 

UNIVERSE is a culture-crossed mood piece 

about Kenji, a disconsolate Japanese librarian, 

displaced in Bangkok. Like the antihero 

of “Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself,” Kenji, 

well, wants to kill himself; he’s just looking 

for a sign, one way or the other. One of his 

attempts led to his shooting a marauding 

yakuza after his brother; the other made him 

witness to a tragedy that hooks him up with 

Noi, a Thai prostitute considering a relocation 

to Osaka for business reasons. Kenji 

hides out at Noi’s beach house, where her 

slovenly habits and poor taste offends his 

compulsive sense of order. In addition, he 

knows very little Thai and she’s just starting 

to learn Japanese. Yet a bond builds between 

them, although the fragile peace will soon be 

interrupted. Why should a librarian be so 

handy with firearms? (In English, Thai and 

Japanese with English subtitles) 

Producers~Wouter Barendrecht, Nonzee Nimibutr, 

Duangkamoi Lamcharoen Screenplay~Prabda Yoon, 

Pen-ek Ratanaruang Cinematography~Christopher Doyle 

Editor~Pattamanadda Yukol Music~Small Room, 

Hualampong Riddim Principal Cast~Tadanobu Asano, 

Sinitta Boonyasak, Laila Boonyasak, Yutaka Matsushige, 

Takeuchi Riki, Takashi Miike Print Source~Palm Pictures 





Filmography~“Fun Bar Karaoke” (1997), “6ixtynin9” 

(2000), “Mon Rak Transistor” (2001), LAST LIFE IN THE 

UNIVERSE (2003) 

Learning to Lie 

(Liegen Lernen) 

Directed by Hendrick Handloegten 

GERMANY 2003 

90 minutes 




2:30 PM I Ticket Code 28E 

It was a Dark and Stormy Night in 1998 

when Helmut, lying sodden in a puddle of 

rainwater, suddenly stopped being a commitment-shy 

wimp. This is his story, covering 

16 years of the hero’s romantic mishaps, 

mismatches, breakups and unrequited longings 

since his high-school days when he fell 

hard for Britta, a golden-girl class president 

and anti-nuclear activist, a left-wing Lorelei 

with boundless concern for the world’s 

oppressed millions. By contrast, Britta had 

no problem breaking Helmut’s heart and 

moving on. Helmut decides that when it 

comes to women, honesty is never the best 

policy, whether the question is “Were you 

there when the Berlin Wall came down?” or 

“Do you love me?” The trouble with his lies 

is that the Truth is Out There, and LEARNING 

TO LIE hails from X Filme, a collective of 

cutting-edge German filmmakers responsible 

for such international successes as “Run 

Lola Run,” “Heaven” and “Goodbye Lenin.” 

Here they deliver a deviously entertaining 

Teutonic twist on “High Fidelity.” Would we 

lie to you? (In German with English subtitles) 

Preceded by The School 

Directed by Ezra Krybus & Matthew Miller, 

Canada, 12 minutes 

Producer~Maria Köpf Screenplay~Hendrik Handloegten 

(based on the novel by Frank Goosen) Cinematography~ 

Florian Hoffmeister Editor~Elena Bromund Music~Dieter 

Schleip Principal Cast~Fabian Busch, Susanne Bormann, 

Fritzi Haberlandt, Sophie Rois, Anka Lea Sarstedt, Birgit 

Minichmayr, Florian Lukas Print Source~Beta Cinema 

About the Director~Hendrik Handloegten was born in 

1968 and entered the Berlin Academy for Film and 

Television in 1993. Filmography~“Paul is Dead” (2001), 

LEARNING TO LIE (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

Life is Life 

(Haïm ze Haïm) 

Directed by Michal Bat-Adam 

ISRAEL 2003 

90 minutes 





Like Tom Lawless of “Goldfish Memory,” 

Macky, the novelist protagonist of LIFE IS 

LIFE, is a literati of prodigious sexual 

appetites. “I love all women. I want to go to 

bed with every woman I like. I want to love 

and be loved,” he rhapsodizes. Macky does 

have his pick among the starstruck students 

in his Tel Aviv college courses, among random 

women in cafés—he even maintains a hotel 

room on permanent reserve for...whenever. 

But remember, Macky is a storyteller by avocation, 

one who has mined his own mother’s 

life for fictional material. How much of what 

we’re seeing is genuine, how much is fantasy? 

The 50-ish Macky finally separates from his 

wife (and child) for Ayala, a mother in her 

30s. When Ayala’s husband leaves her, 

however, the mistress’s reaction is to remain 

distant and aloof from Macky. Without his 

muse, the writer casts about for new inspiration 

to finish his latest manuscript. Michal 

Bat-Adam and Moshe Mizrahi, themselves a 

First Couple of Israeli cinema, offer us an 

ironic portrait of an aging artist. (In Hebrew 


Producers~Moshe Mizrahi, Michal Bat-Adam Screenplay~ 

Michal Bat-Adam Cinematography~Yoav Kosh Editor~ 

Sharon Guetta-Jacobi Music~Daniel Mizrahi Principal 

Cast~Moshe Ivgui, Yael Abecassis, Hari Nahmias, Igal 

Sadeh, Rivka Gur, Rivka Michaeli, Noa Port, Rita Shykroun, 

Moshe Mizrahi Print Source~Haim ze Haim Ltd. 

About the Director~Michal Bat-Adam attended the 

Academy of Music in Tel Aviv and studied acting at the 

Beit Zvi Drama School. She made a name for herself as 

an actress before becoming a prominent screenwriter and 

director. Filmography~“Moments” (1979), “The Thin 

Line” (1980), “Aya: Imagined Autobiography” (1994), 

LIFE IS LIFE (2003)

28 FILMS A – Z [L – M] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 


DOCUMENTARIES 

The Loss of 

Nameless Things 

Directed by Bill Rose 

USA 2003 

110 minutes 





In 1978 Oakley Hall III was a 28-year-old 

playwright on the verge of national acclaim. 

His work had been optioned by Joseph Papp; 

Mandy Patinkin and William Hurt starred in 

staged readings of his plays; and he was the 

charismatic co-founder and artistic director 

of the Lexington Conservatory Theater in 

upstate New York. Then his life was violently 

interrupted by a fall from a bridge; he suffered 

major head injuries, was hospitalized 

for a year and remained incapacitated much 

longer. His career was considered over. But 

25 years later, a theater in Northern 

California bid to stage the very play Hall had 

been working on when he fell, and he was 

asked to participate as playwright and consultant. 

This film is the haunting story of 

Hall’s fall from grace and his hard-won resurrection 

to a creative life. 

Producer~Bill Rose Cinematography~Mickey Freeman, 

Jerry Slick, Bill Bishop Editor~Rick LeCompte Music~ 

Barney Jones, Joan Jeanrenaud of Kronos Quartet 

Print Source~Nameless Films 

About the Director~For over 20 years, Bill Rose has been 

producing and directing documentaries and short films. He 

is the recipient of numerous film awards. This is his first 

feature documentary film. Filmography~THE LOSS OF 

NAMELESS THINGS (2003) 

Sponsored 

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Loving Glances 

(Sjaj U Očima) 

Directed by Srdjan Karanović 

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO 2003 

97 minutes 







Dedicated to Rene Clair, Srdjan Karanović’s 

comedy finds melancholy and robust humor 

in the aftermath of the civil war and genocide 

in the shattered Adriatic states. One 

needn’t be a refugee to be lonesome, but it 

helps, as Labud can attest. In Belgrade with 

nothing but a plastic bag of personal belongings, 

the young man hides his unpopular 

Serbian heritage (the reason he can’t get a 

visa to seek his beloved fiancee, long-fled 

to Chicago) and signs with Happy Milennium, 

a haphazard matchmaking service. Eventually 

Labud decides to pursue a romance with an 

upwardly-mobile Albanian named Romana, 

even though she seems quite beyond his 

reach. Our hero is lonely, but not alone; ever 

present in Labud’s eyes and ears are an 

invisible, quarrelsome host of dead or lost 

friends and relatives, still fighting yesterday’s 

battles, still determined to meddle in his 

affairs... and in Romana’s as well. For it 

turns out that she has her ghosts, too. (In 

Serbian with English subtitles) 

Producers~Milko Jodifov, Zoran Cvijanović, Mike Downey, 

Sam Taylor Screenplay~Srdjan Karanovic 

Cinematography~Radan Popović Editor~Branka Čeperac 

Music~Zoran Simjanović Principal Cast~Senad Alihodzˇic, 

Ivana Bolanča, Jelena Dokić, Gorica Popović, Milena Dravić, 

Boris Komnenić Print Source~Film and Music Ent. Ltd 

About the Director~Srdjan Karanović graduated from 

the Prague film academy FAMU in 1970. He is currently a 

full-time film instructor at Belgrade’s Faculty for Dramatic 

Arts. Filmography~“The Fragrance of Wild Flowers” 

(1978), “Something in Between” (1983), “A Film With 

No Name” (1988), “Virgina” (1991), LOVING GLANCES 

(2003) 



Made in Estonia 

(Vanad Ja Kobedad Saavad Jalad Alla) 

Directed by Rando Pettai 

Estonia 2003 

100 minutes 





If an Eastern European Coen Brothers were 

to make a madcap goof called “Raising 

Estonia,” it might go something like this: 

Vaino finds his flat in the city of Tallinn bulldozed 

for construction of a NATO airbase. 

The government relocates the fellow to a 

community where cycle-riding punks take an 

instant dislike to newcomers. When Vaino’s 

overprotective sister Maie (the same actor in 

drag) places a lonely-hearts ad for her brother, 

the attention of various village females 

further marks Vaino as a troublemaker. One 

biker hires a stranger to drive off such outsiders. 

The paid assailant? Vaino. It may (or 

may not) help escalating confusion to know 

that you are watching a mind’s eye-view of 

“Made in Estonia,” an unscripted radio serial, 

done in the studio entirely by two actors, 

Norm and Mili, who crazily blend slapstick, 

action, ribaldry, nationalism and pop-music 

numbers (especially a showstopping finale). 

On-air snafus and their own preoccupations 

warp the narrative beyond absurdity, while 

still reflecting a basic need for a better life 

and a happy ending. (In Estonian and 

Lithuanian with English subtitles) 

Producers~Tõnis Haavel, Kaupo Karelson Screenplay~ 

Peep Pedmanson Cinematography~Mait Maekivi Editor~ 

Tambet Tasuja Music~Genialistid Principal Cast~Henrik 

Normann, Madis Milling, Piret Laurimaa, Robert Gutmann, 

Viire Valdma, Marko Matvere, Jan Uuspold, Enn Reitel, 

Peeter Oja Print Source~Lifesize Entertainment & 

Releasing 

About the Director~Born in 1965, Rando Pettai is a 

prolific director of TV commercials, music-videos and the 

Baltic-nations edition of “Survivor.” He makes his feature 

theatrical debut here. Filmography~MADE IN ESTONIA 

(2003)


AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS WORLD TOUR 

Madness and Genius 

Directed by Ryan Eslinger 

USA 2003 

103 minutes 






Darren Aronofsky’s “Pi” multiplied by the 

negative of “Good Will Hunting” yields the 

root for this menacing drama of beautiful 

and un-beautiful minds in the cloisters of an 

unnamed, prestigious college. Here noble 

principles of science are not greater 

than/equal to variables of the human factor. 

Like Stephen Hawking, brilliant undergrad 

Nigel suffers from degenerative ALS, making 

him progressively helpless. While he reaches 

out to Rachel, a pretty teaching assistant in 

concubinage to a professor-lover, Nigel’s 

main solace is pure mental pleasure in doing 

homework for roommate Jordan, who had 

coasted through classes on a photographic 

memory. Now Jordan’s failing grades reflect 

his lack of comprehension. An unpopular 

physics instructor, Frank Donovan, once a 

luminary of the Manhattan Project, is a muttering, 

withdrawn paranoiac, inventing 

incredible technologies and devices only on 

pages scattered in his cluttered office—and 

vulnerable to a desperate Jordan’s blackmail. 

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to 

quantify the dark matter in Ryan Eslinger’s 

monochrome debut. 

Producer~Ryan Eslinger Screenplay~Ryan Eslinger 

Cinematography~Steve Huber Editor~Ryan Eslinger 

Music~Ryan Eslinger Principal Cast~Tom Noonan, 

David James Hayward, David Williams, Christine Meyers, 

Norm Golden, Gary Lamadore, Rick Spates, Erik Frandsen 

Print Source~Ryan Eslinger 

About the Director~Born in 1981 in Illinois to an engineer 

and a mathematician, Ryan Eslinger recently graduated 

from NYU with a degree in cinema and psychology. He 

started resarching and raising money for his feature debut 

while in 7th grade. Filmography~MADNESS AND 

GENIUS (2003) 

Magnifico 

Directed by Maryo J. delos Reyes 

PHILIPPINES 2003 

123 minutes 







The late, great Johnny Cash did that song 

about the character-strengthening travails 

of A Boy Named Sue. But the hero of this 

sentimental drama has the opposite problem. 

Despite his grandiose and pretentious name, 

Magnifico is seen as a disappointment by his 

parents, a good-hearted but slow kid, practically 

written off by age nine. Younger sister 

Helen has been stricken with cerebral palsy, 

so the rural family places their hope in older 

brother Miong, off on a scholarship in 

Manila. Magnifico finds other ways to live 

up to his great expectations, even if hardly 

anybody notices or appreciates it. When his 

beloved grandmother is diagnosed with 

terminal cancer, he takes it upon himself to 

build her coffin from scratch. He also tries to 

raise the money to buy Helen a wheelchair to 

visit the local carnival. Magnifico’s transcendent 

glory, it seems, is that he’s not smart 

enough to know when things are hopeless. 

For such a boy anything is possible... (In 

English and Tagalog with English subtitles) 

Producer~Violetta C. Sevilla Screenplay~Michiko 

Yamamoto Cinematography~Odyssey Flores Editor~ 

Manet Dayrit Music~Lutgardo Labad Principal Cast~ 

Lorna Tolentino, Albert Martinez, Jiro Manio, Gloria Romero, 

Isabella De Leon, Danilo Barrios, Tonton Gutierrez Print 

Source~Ignatius Entertainment/Vagrant Films Carada 

About the Director~Maryo J. delos Reyes was born in 

Manila in 1952. A former seminarian, he graduated with a 

degree in mass communications from the University of the 

Philippines. He has directed more than 50 feature films. 

Filmography~“High School Circa ‘65” (1979), “Diosa” 

(1985), “I Love You Mama, I Love You Papa” (1987), 

“In Efren’s Paradise” (1999) “Red Diaries” (2001), 

“Laman” (2002), MAGNIFICO (2003) 



Mango Kiss 

Directed by Sascha Rice 

USA 2003 

85 minutes 





“Am I your primary, your secondary or just 

another spoke in your wheel?” asks Lou. 

Narrator of this gaily colored sex comedy, she 

chronicles her no-longer-platonic relationship 

with her best friend, performance-artist 

Sassafras, who was long uncertain about her 

gender preference before coming down fully 

on the Sapphic side. Now they’re a couple, 

cohabitating and working downscale jobs in a 

dominatrix-owned San Francisco supermarket. 

The community is like a sexual candy store 

—full of Sweet Tarts, Red Hots and 

Jawbreakers—and Sassafras says she’s got 

to taste all 21 flavors; she cruises the S&M 

underground, hooking up with a musical 

punk while assuring Lou that she comes 

first. Rock steady Lou, secretly chagrined, 

tries to please her lover by playing along— 

heavy emphasis on “play.” For in their 

pursuit of sensual happiness, these college 

grads adopt attitudes and argot of early 

childhood. But infantilism isn’t enough to 

sugar-coat Lou’s achy heart when she realizes 

fidelity is the ultimate lifestyle. 

Preceded by Hummer 

Directed by Guinevere Turner, USA, 9 minutes 

Producers~Erin O’Malley, Joe Mellis, Sascha Rice 

Screenplay~Sarah Brown, Sascha Rice (based on the play 

“Bermuda Triangles: A Non-Monogamy Experiment” by 

Sarah Brown) Cinematography~John Pirozzi Editors~ 

Cindy Parisotto, Lauren Giorano Music~Matthew Ferraro 

Principal Cast~Michelle Wolff, Daniele Ferraro, Sally 

Kirkland, Dru Mouser, Tina Marie Murray, Shannon 

Rossiter, Joe Mellis, Malia Spanyol, Max Miller Print 

Source~Mango Me Productions 

About the Director~From a prominent California family 

(her uncle is Jerry Brown), Sascha Rice studied at UCLA- 

Santa Cruz, Hampshire College in Massachusetts and the 

American Film Institute. She helped found Santa Fe’s 

Frogs on Water stage troupe before moving to Los Angeles 

to make movies with actor husband Joe Mellis. 

Filmography~MANGO KISS (2003)

30 FILMS A – Z [M] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 



WORLD TOUR 

Merci Docteur Rey 

Directed by Andrew Litvack 

FRANCE, USA 2002 

91 minutes 





Make no mistake, MERCI DOCTEUR REY is 

a theatrical farce. With cameos by Jerry Hall 

and Vanessa Redgrave (as herself), the film 

careens wildly about the avenues of Paris. 

Dianne Wiest plays an opera diva who comes 

to Paris to both perform and smother her 

son, Thomas (Stanislas Merhar), who is just 

discovering his homosexuality and is answering 

ads in the paper. He is given money to 

witness an older man and a young hunk have 

sex, which results in the older man’s death. 

Thomas goes straight to his mother’s psychiatrist, 

Dr. Rey. But Dr. Rey is dead under the 

desk, and a paranoid patient (played by a 

real-life voice-over artist best known for 

dubbing famous actresses) with a phobia of 

divas poses as the good doctor. Meanwhile, 

Thomas’ father has been murdered, and 

Thomas somehow ends up with the young 

man he watched from the closet. Mistaken 

identities and off-the-wall encounters 

abound: think Agatha Christie crossed with 

Woody Allen. 

Producers~Rahila Bootwala, Nathalie Gastaldo 

Screenplay~Andrew Litvack Cinematography~Laurent 

Machuel Editor~Giles Gardner Music~Geoffrey Alexander 

Principal Cast~Dianne Wiest, Jane Birkin, Stanislas 

Merhar, Bulle Ogier, Simon Callow, Jerry Hall, Vanessa 

Redgrave Print Source~Regent Entertainment/here!Films 

About the Director~Born in New York City in 1964, 

Andrew Litvack graduated from Williams College in 1987. 

He moved to Paris and made a living subtitling hundreds of 

French films into English. After working with Ismail 

Merchant and James Ivory, this is his feature film debut. 

Selected Filmography~MERCI DOCTEUR REY (2002) 


Mon-Rak Transistor 


THAILAND 2001 

121 minutes 





MON-RAK TRANSISTOR comes with a longdistance 

dedication to native crooner Surapol 

Sombatcharoen—murdered in 1968. 

Beginning with a grueling ordeal in a prison 

cell, it unreels in flashback the saga of the 

aptly named Pan. An upbeat, rustic innocent, 

Pan strives to make his own luck, only 

to see it go bad. Against the wishes of a guntoting 

patriarch, he wins the hand of village 

beauty Sadow (giving her a transistor radio 

as a wedding gift), aces a talent show— 

“From the Gutter to the Stars,” the Bangkok 

equivalent of “American Idol”—and becomes 

a singing sensation. Not bad for a guy who 

often faints after giving his pipes a turn at 

the microphone. Yet this Lost Boy also gets 

drafted into the army, spends years apart 

from his wife and child, commits an 

unspeakable crime, and suffers virtual 

slavery in the canefields. And the cherished 

radio falls into decay and disrepair. Pan’s 

Candide-like journey, according to the 

filmmaker, is “a sweet and tender piece of 

candy with a satirical poison in the middle.” 

(In Thai with English subtitles) 

Producers~Nonzee Nimibutr, Duangkamol Limcharoen 

Screenplay~Pen-ek Ratanaruang (based on the novel 

by Wat Wanlayangkoon) Cinematography~Chankit 

Chamniwikaipong Editor~P. D. Yukol Music~Amombhong 

Methakunavudh, Chatchi Pongprapapan Principal Cast~ 

Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Siriyakorn Pukkaveas, Black 

Pomtong, Somlek Sakdikul, Porntip Papanai, Ampol 

Rattanawong Print Source~Fortissimo Film Sales 





Filmography~“Fun Bar Karaoke” (1997), “6ixtynin9” 

(2000), MON-RAK TRANSISTOR (2001), “Last Life in 

the Universe” (2003) 

Moonlight 

Directed by Paula van der Oest 

NETHERLANDS 2003 

90 minutes 





In a wooded suburb in the Benelux, Claire, 

an adolescent girl in an affluent but sterile 

household, suffers alone through her first 

burst of menstrual blood. Fleeing in terror to 

a shed, she finds another child bleeding— 

but from a pistol shot that was meant to kill 

him. The nameless boy, with vaguely Middle- 

Eastern features but who speaks no language 

known to Claire, is a drug syndicate’s 

expendable “mule.” His digestive tract still 

holds balloons of cocaine he was supposed 

to smuggle past customs. Claire was herself 

an abandoned orphan and feels more affinity 

for this semi-feral alien youth than for her 

adoptive parents. She treats and shelters him 

in secret, then goes on the run from his 

implaccable pursuers. As her world becomes 

larger, it also becomes threatening and terrible. 

An eerie, poetic and unsettling depiction 

of innocence lost, of the magic of childhood 

blending into the evil that adults do, MOON- 

LIGHT plays out an unforgettable nocturne. 

(In English and Dutch with English subtitles) 

Preceded by Duke of Goo 

Directed by Richard Matson, USA, 15 minutes 

Producer~Emjay Rechsteiner Screenplay~Carel Donck 

Cinematography~ Guido van Gennep Editor~Sander Vos 

Music~Fons Merkies Principal Cast~Laurien Van den 

Broeck, Hunter Bussemaker, Johan Leysen, Jemma 

Redgrave, Andrew Howard Print Source~Staccato Films 

About the Director~Paula van der Oest was born in 

1965 in Laag Soeren in Holland. She graduated in 1988 

from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy. 

Filmography~“Another Mother” (1996), “De Trip van 

Teetje” (1998), “Zus & Zo” (2001), MOONLIGHT (2003)



WORLD TOUR 

Mr. Wrong 

Directed by Gaylene Preston 

NEW ZEALAND 1984 

88 minutes 





In Gaylene Preston’s theatrical debut, she 

adapts a short-story source said to have once 

had the attention of Alfred Hitchcock. It 

anticipates later supernatural thrillers like 

“Stir of Echoes” and “What Lies Beneath.” 

When MR. WRONG briefly circulated in the 

mid-1980s (under the export title “Dark of 

the Night”), critics noted its sympathetic 

heroine and feminist sensibilities going 

against the tide of misogynistic slasher 

flicks. Meg, a timid young lady working in 

the city and living alone, has the “luck” to 

buy a bargain-priced Jaguar, a snazzy car 

enabling her to visit mum and get around in 

style. But it has unexpected accessories, like 

the disembodied sounds of heavy breathing 

and the shocking news that the vehicle’s 

previous owner came to an untimely end. 

Fueled by automotive urban legends, ghost 

stories and the isolation of the New Zealand 

roads at twilight, MR. WRONG takes Meg 

for the ride of her life. 

Producer~Robin Laing Screenplay~Gaylene Preston, 

Geoff Murphy, Graeme Tetley (based on the short story by 

Elizabeth Jane Howard) Cinematography~Thomas Burstyn 

Editor~Simon Reece Music~Jonathan Crayford Principal 

Cast~Heather Bolton, David Letch, Danny Mulheron, Gary 

Stalker, Michael Haigh, Kate Harcourt Print Source~New 

Zealand Film Commission 

About the Director~Born in Greymouth, New Zealand in 

1947, Gaylene Preston ran a drama therapy program at a 

British hospital before her film career began in 1977. She 

directed commercials, shorts and award-winning documentaries, 

making her feature debut in 1984. Filmography~ 

MR. WRONG (1984), “Ruby and Rata” (1990), “Married” 

(1992), “War Stories” (1995), “Perfect Strangers” (2003) 

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WORLD TOUR 

Mutt Boy 

(Tong-Gae) 

Directed by K.T. Kwak 

SOUTH KOREA 2003 

101 minutes 

Members Only! 





His Life as a Dog. Chul-min Park’s mother 

died in childbirth; the boy was raised offhandedly 

by a cop father so distracted by 

police duties in the city of Miryang, he didn’t 

mind calling his son and the family pooch by 

the same name: Mutt Boy. Left mostly unsupervised 

to roam like any stray, Mutt Boy 

gets into a blood feud with hoodlums from 

the upper classes (who don’t mind eating 

canine meat) and runs with a pack of schooldropout 

misfits called the Miryang Junior 

Klub. Detective Park, meanwhile, doggedly 

tries to take down a seemingly untouchable 

businessman; he has better things to do than 

repeatedly bail his feral kid out of trouble. 

Father and son are both flawed characters 

with strong moral codes and ideas of right 

and wrong. In a way, they’re fighting the 

same battle. K.T. Kwak’s hit mob drama 

“Friend” (26th CIFF, 2002) catapulted 

him into the forefront of Asian commercial 

directors, and in MUTT BOY he sires another 

street saga of outstanding pedigree. (In 

Korean with English subtitles) 

Producer~Joong-kyung Yang Screenplay~K.T. Kwak, 

Chang-woo Kim Cinematography~Ki.S Hwang Editor~ 

Yoo-kyung Park Music~Min-hwa Yun Principal Cast~ 

Woo-Sung Jung, Kab-Su Kim, Ji-Won Um Print Source~ 

Cineclick Asia 

About the Director~Born in Pusan in 1966, K.T. Kwak 

studied medicine at Koshin University before turning to 

cinema, graduating from film studies at NYU in 1998. 

Filmography~“3 p.m. Paradise” (1997), “Dr. K” (1998), 

“Friend” (2001), “Champion” (2002), MUTT BOY (2003) 

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WORLD TOUR 

My Baby 

(A Filha) 

Directed by Solveig Nordlund 

PORTUGAL, SWEDEN 2003, 90 minutes 







In a case of life imitating fiction, a wellknown 

Portuguese TV producer was embroiled 

in a pedophilia scandal shortly after Solveig 

Nordlund finished filming MY BABY, a taut 

domestic noir with a hauntingly similar 

premise. Ricardo Monteiro, an award-winning 

network producer known for his confrontational 

programs, dallies too long with one of 

his mistresses and is late (again) for the 

birthday of his motherless daughter Leonor. 

When he can’t find her, he starts asking 

questions—and hears accounts of the girl’s 

truancy from school, promiscuity and nocturnal 

routine of decadence and drugs. Sara, 

one of Leonor’s peers, exploits the father’s 

desperate search. She pretends to help him 

look for Leonor, but in fact she’s scheming to 

replace the runaway. Much like the starlets 

at Ricardo’s casting couch, Sara will do anything 

for fame. Then we notice the essence 

of Ricardo’s highly rated reality TV shows 

like “Quarto Escuro” (the Dark Room), the 

cruel psychological games they play. And 

we wonder who is the real victim here? (In 

Portuguese with English subtitles) 

Producer~Manuel João Ãquás Screenplay~Solveig 

Nordlund, Tommy Karlmark, Mario de Carvalho, Vincent 

Alves do Ó Cinematography~Acácio de Almeida Editor~ 

Stefan Sundlöf Music~Johan Zachrisson Principal Cast~ 

Nuno Melo, Joana Bárcia, Margarida Marinho, Cecilia 

Guimaraes Print Source~Torromfilm AB 

About the Director~Born in Stockholm, Solveig Nordlund 

divides her time between Sweden and Portugal. She has 

worked in live theater, television, documentaries and 

narrative film, often adapting the works of Harold Pinter 

and J.G. Ballard. Filmography~“Neither Fish Nor Fowl” 

(1977), “Dina and Django” (1980), “See You Tomorrow, 

Mario” (1992), “Comedia Infantil” (1997), “Low-Flying 

Aircraft” (2001), MY BABY (2003)

32 FILMS A – Z [M–N] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

My Town 

(Moje Miasto) 



Directed by Marek Lechki 

POLAND 2003 

60 minutes 




12:30 PM I Ticket Code 26D 



Growing up in a depressed industrial region 

in Silesia, a torpid place that seems to trap 

its unfortunate inhabitants like quicksand, 

young Gozdzik does his best to lighten things 

for his small circle of friends in a bleak 

apartment complex. After all, it’s not as 

though jobs are plentiful enough to give him 

anything else to do. Gozdzik secretly stocks 

a barren pond with fish so his indolent, 

alcoholic father will at last succeed in catching 

something. He contrives a lonely old 

neighbor’s dream date with the loveliest girl 

in town. He shields his family from a beloved 

uncle’s disgrace. And for himself... What? A 

future would be nice. And a future anywhere 

but here would be nicer. The Polish television 

anthology series “Generation 2000,” which 

last gave us the haunting “Bellissima” (27th 

CIFF, 2003), serves to showcase the debut 

work of some of Eastern Europe’s brightest 

emerging filmmakers, and Marek Lechki’s 

feature bow, a sad and funny snapshot of 

desperate lives, marks another auspicious 

entry. (In Polish with English subtitles) 

Preceded by A Woman and Circles 

Directed by Bruce Checefsky, USA, 12 minutes 

Producers~Telewizja Polska S.A., Agencja Filmwa 

Screenplay~Marek Lechki Cinematography~Przemyslaw 

Kamiński Editor~Robert Mańkowski Music~Bartek 

Straburzyński Principal Cast~Radoslaw Chrzes´ciański, 

Agnieszka Banach, Krzysztof Stroiński, Dorota Pomykala, 

Andrezej Mastalerz, Krystyna Tkacz Print Source~ 

Telewizja Polska S.A. 

About the Director~Marek Lechki was born in 1975 in 

Brzeg Dolny, Poland. In 1998 he entered the Television 

and Radio Department at Silesian University. 

Filmography~MY TOWN (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

A Nation Without Women 

(Matrubhoomi) 

Directed by Manish Jhâ 

INDIA, FRANCE 2003 

96 minutes 





Like Margaret Atwood’s feminist nightmare, 

“A Handmaid’s Tale,” A NATION WITHOUT 

WOMEN takes place in the future; however 

its tone is not futuristic but regressive. 

Extrapolating the barbaric custom of female 

infanticide, practiced in parts of India and 

China, to its logical, justly-Darwinian conclusion, 

filmmaker Manish Jhâ envisions a 

barren, rural community called Matrubhoomi. 

For ages fathers here have routinely slain their 

girl babies, desiring only boys to perpetuate 

the family name and prestige. Now women 

appear wholly on the brink of extinction and 

the coarse local youth seek solace in massviewing 

of porno tapes. Meanwhile, the elders 

—especially wealthy, high-caste Ramcharan, 

with six sons to consider—consult oracles 

and haggle with other villages to bring just 

one precious bride to Matrubhoomi. A naif 

might think that a young woman in this 

place would be a veritable queen, a goddess. 

No. She’d be prey. And when Ramcharan 

learns of a girl, a virgin beauty named Kalki, 

long protected by her peasant father, the 

stage is set for a societal apocalypse. (In 

Hindi with English subtitles) 

Producers~Patrick Sobelman, Nicolas Blanc, Punkej 

Kharabanda Screenplay~Manish Jhâ Cinematography~ 

Venu Gopal Editors~Shrish Kunder, Ashmith Kunder 

Music~Salim Sulaiman Principal Cast~Tulip Joshi, Sudhir 

Pandey, Piyush Mishra, Pankaj Jhâ, Deepak Kumar, Sanjay 

Kumar Print Source~Films Distribution 

About the Director~Manish Jhâ was born in 1978 in Bihar, 

India and studied at Ramjas College in New Dehli. He 

worked as assistant director for a number of television 

serials before making this feature debut. Filmography~ 

A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN (2003) 



Naked World 

Directed by Arlene Donnely Nelson 





Spencer Tunick has worked with more naked 

people than many a lensman for Hugh 

Hefner or Larry Flynt. But don’t lose your 

shirt; Tunick is an artist (currently exhibiting 

at MOCA Cleveland) who creates temporary 

site-related installations of nudes recruited 

from ordinary, common men and women, 

alone, in groups...and in super-sized quantities: 

unclad masses, scattered and draped 

among streets, monuments and pavements 

that Tunick has chosen instead of a studio. 

In her follow-up to her first Spencer Tunick 

chronicle, “Naked States,” Arlene Donnelly 

Nelson follows the indefatigable Tunick on 

his most ambitious (and revealing) project: to 

document with photography and video installations 

public nudes on all seven continents, 

in Ireland, England, Japan, Russia, Brazil... 

“Something about Paris, they want to attack 

the naked people,” mutters the artist, finding 

the City of Light surprisingly intolerant. 

Australia’s press denounces Tunick, yet his 

installation proves therapeutic for an HIVpositive 

volunteer. A South African subject 

with painful memories of Apartheid philosophizes 

about Tunick revealing the commonality 

of humanity, and we realize his aesthetic 

has truly gotten under peoples’ skin. NAKED 

WORLD is the most fun you can have at the 

CIFF with your clothes on. Um, contains 

nudity. (In English with French, Portuguese, 

Japanese and Russian) 

Producers~Arlene Donnelly Nelson, Helen Hood Scheer 

Cinematography~David Linstrom, Arlene Donnelly Nelson 

Editor~Tom Donahue Music~Leigh Roberts, Chris Hajian 

Print Source~Juntos Films 

About the Director~Arlene Donnelly Nelson studied philosophy 

and fine-art photography prior to embarking on a 

career as a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker. 

Filmography~“Naked States” (2001), NAKED WORLD 

(2003)


Sponsored by 

This film is presented 

with the generous support 

of TOBY DEVAN LEWIS 

For more information on the exhibition 

“Spencer Tunick: Manmade 

and Natural” (now on view at 

MOCA through April 25, 2004), 

visit www.mocacleveland.org 

or call 216.421.8671. 

Special guests Spencer Tunick and 

Arlene Donnely Nelson will join us 

for a post-film discussion. 

Sponsored by 

For more information and 

a complete schedule of 

events for the Tri-C Jazz 

Fest, which runs April 

14-25, 2004, visit 

www.tricjazzfest.com 

or call 216.986.4400. 


DOCUMENTARIES WORLD TOUR 

Nina Simone, 

Love Sorceress 

Directed by Rene Letzgus 

FRANCE 1998 

65 minutes 




In celebration of the life of Nina Simone 

(1933-2003) the CIFF is proud to host this 

partnership presentation in honor of the 

25th Anniversary of the Tri-C Jazz Fest. 

NINA SIMONE, LOVE SORCERESS is an 

extraordinary, rarely seen document of a 

1976 Paris concert. Simone’s artistry defies 

classification. From the 1950s until her 

passing away last spring, she continually 

collapsed musical boundaries, roaming 

across classical, jazz, blues, folk, pop and 

soul music. The unique perspectives and 

social protests in her songs have inspired 

generations. And of course there is her voice 

—a potent instrument unmatched in soulful 

emotion and deep texture. The many musical 

moods of this legendary songstress are captured 

in this riveting performance. Join us in 

celebrating the often unpredictable and 

always breathtaking High Priestess of Soul. 

—Peter Lucas’ Sound Unseen 

Print Source~Star Production 

“This isn’t so much a concert as a work of 

performance art, one of the best I’ve seen 

since ‘Richard Pryor: Live In Concert’” 

—Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader 

No Rest for the Brave 

(Pas De Repos Pour Les Braves) 

Directed by Alain Guiraudie 

FRANCE, AUSTRIA 2003 

107 minutes 





Having distinct ties to surrealism (the director 

prefers to call his film neo-surrealist) 

NO REST FOR THE BRAVE introduces us to 

Basile, an adolescent hero who is endowed 

with a certain maturity. Basile leaves his 

innocence behind the night he has a vision 

of Faftao-Laoupao who, as Basile understands 

it, is the angel of death. Basile realizes that 

if he sees Faftao-Laoupao again, he certainly 

will perish. He departs from his home only to 

realize that he may have committed a massmurder 

in a neighboring village, but in this 

exercise in dream versus reality, nothing can 

be for certain. Keeping with the surrealist 

feel of the film, the actor who plays Basile 

also plays Hector, a guy shuttling between a 

lively town and "Deadsville." Then there's 

Johnny Got, an adventurer ostensibly on 

Basile's trail (or vice-versa) and embroiled in 

a deal with gangsters over ten kilos of Little 

Red Balls. With seemingly random scenes, 

sub-plots and other strange characters 

thrown in, the vibrant and colorful NO REST 

FOR THE BRAVE will keep viewers equally 

confounded and entertained. (In French with 


Producers~Natalie Eybrard, Jean-Philippe Labadie 

Screenplay~Alain Guiraudie Cinematography~Antoine 

Heberlé Editor~Pierre Molin Music~Bruno Izam, Jaques 

Mestres Principal Cast~Thomas Suire, Thomas Blanchard, 

Laurent Soffiati, Vincent Martin, Pierre-Maurice Nouvel 

Print Source~The Coproduction Office 

About the Director~Self-taught Alain Guiraudie says he 

“almost” applied to the French film school IDHEC. He 

started doing shorts while working as a night watchman, 

and his first feature played the Director’s Fortnight at 

Cannes. Filmography~“Sunshine for the Scoundrels” 

(2000), “That Old Dream That Moves” (2001), NO REST 

FOR THE BRAVE (2003)

34 FILMS A – Z [O] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 



On the Sunny Side 

(Na Planincah) 

Directed by Miha Hočevar 

SLOVENIA 2003 

92 minutes 






5:15 PM I Ticket Code 25M 

Ado and Suni, two self-sufficient Bosnian 

brothers, are spending summer the usual 

way: visiting Slovenia, staying at the highrise 

of their jovial, childless uncle and his 

wife. Younger, pubescent Suni isn’t as enthusiastic 

about the change of scenery as Ado, 

who is learning Slovenian for his new girlfriend. 

But Suni soon joins a gang of rascals 

his own age; he plays ball, trespasses, gets 

into scrapes and tries to look up girls’ skirts. 

While an earthy, universal coming-of-age 

story during a life-changing summer vacation, 

ON THE SUNNY SIDE also reminds us that 

many kids lost their parents in battle over 

the past several years. This is a different 

Balkans than the minefield locale of 

“Summer in the Golden Valley.” This is a 

healing land. Infernoes of war have burned 

themselves out, mortar-guns are at last 

silent, and an unscarred generation from all 

racial affiliations and faiths can just be kids 

again, sporting and roughhousing and falling 

in love without fear. (In Slovenian and 

Bosnian with English subtitles) 

Producer~Jurij Kosˇak Screenplay~Ozren Kebo, Hocevar 

Miha Cinematography~Slobodan Trninic Editor~Olga Toni 

Music~Mitja Vrhovnik Smrekar Principal Cast~Filip Duric, 

Sasˇa Tabakovic, Milena Zupancic, Mustafa Nadarevic, 

Sabina Kogovsˇek, Kavcic Masˇa Print Source~Slovenian 

Film Fund 

About the Director~Miha Hočevar was born in 1963 in 

Ljubljana, Slovenia and studied cinema at the University of 

Ljubljana, graduating in 1989. His debut feature was a 

domestic box-office hit. Filmography~“Jebiga” (2000), 

ON THE SUNNY SIDE (2003) 



One Hand Can’t Clap 

(Jedna Ruka Netleska) 

Directed by David Ondrˇíček 

CZECH REPUBLIC 2003 

102 minutes 





Hard-luck Stanislav is framed for smuggling 

endangered eagles across the border from 

Slovakia. Released from prison after 18 

months, he ignores a tramp’s advice to 

seek revenge and instead pays a friendly 

call to his former boss Zack, a “respectable” 

businessman running a health-conscious, 

meatless restaurant and living in a palatial 

house with his eco-correct wife Sandra and 

two beautiful, if somewhat sheltered, children. 

Stan figures that since he kept his mouth 

shut and took the fall, Zack will reward him 

with a considerable sum of money, maybe 

enough for the ex-con to go traveling, perhaps 

to see Mexico and visit the Mayan pyramids. 

But Stanislav makes the mistake of first 

telling Andrew, a former security guard who 

got fired after Stan tried to help him catch a 

thief. And folks who are vegetarian can still 

be carnivores... An absurdist dark comedy, 

ONE HAND CAN’T CLAP will get a thumb(s) 

up from viewers looking for a taste of rare 

bird. (In Czech with English subtitles) 

Producer~David Ondrˇíček Screenplay~David Ondrˇíček, 

Jirˇí Macháček Cinematography~Richard Rˇ erˇicha 

Editor~Michal Lánsky Music~Jan P. Muchow Principal 

Cast~Jirˇí Macháček, Ivan Trojan, Marek Taclík, Isabela 

Bercová, Kristina Lukesˇová Print Source~Lucky Man Films 

About the Director~The son of great cinematographer 

Miroslav Ondrˇíček, David Ondrˇíček was born in 1969 and 

made his feature directorial bow in 1996. Filmography~ 

“Whispers” (1996), “Loners” (2000), ONE HAND CAN’T 

CLAP (2003) 


One Point O 

Directed by Jeff Renfroe, 

Marteinn Thorsson 

USA, GERMANY, ROMANIA 2003 

95 minutes 





Fans of Kafka, be on notice. It’s the nearfuture, 

nanotechnology rules and our hero, of 

course, is a computer programmer named 

Simon (Jeremy Sisto). One day Simon wakes 

to find a plain brown package in his apartment. 

Curiously, the bag is empty. Though he 

tries to secure his apartment, Simon keeps 

receiving strangely empty packages. Simon’s 

paranoia about the tenants in his apartment 

building is warranted: security cameras follow 

his every move. When one tenant turns up 

dead, Simon goes over the edge, hallucinates 

and believes that mysterious forces are taking 

over his life. Though he goes off the grid, 

Simon thinks that perhaps “Nanomites” 

have been placed in his brain and, try as 

he might, he can’t ignore their messages. 

Ultimately a film about corporate control, it 

also stars Lance Henriksen, Deborah Unger 

and Udo Kier. 

Producers~Kyle Gates, Thomas Mai, RD Robb 

Screenplay~Jeff Renfroe, Marteinn Thorsson 

Cinematography~Chris Soos Editor~Troy Takaki, Daniel 

Sadler Music~Terry Michael Huud Principal Cast~ 

Jeremy Sisto, Deborah Unger, Udo Kier, Lance Henriksen 

Print Source~Armada Pictures 

About the Director~Jeff Renfroe was born and raised in 

Seattle and Marteinn Thorsson in Reykjavik, Iceland. They 

met at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto and both 

graduated in 1993. Since then they have directed music 

videos and commercials; this is their first feature film. 

Filmography~ONE POINT O (2003)

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BOOK OF 

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ONE 

POINT O 

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I ALWAYS 

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TRUTH AND 

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BULGARIAN 

LOVERS 

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SUMMER 

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VALLEY 

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REMAKE 

108 min 

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LOVING 

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97 min 

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GAMES 

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KISS 

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101 min 

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YOUNG 

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SUMMER 

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CUISINE 

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ON 

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AND 

GENIUS 

103 min 

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DISTANT 

LIGHTS 

105 min 

p 19 

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THE OPPOSITE 

SEX: JAMIE’S 

STORY 

75 min 

p 39 

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SEX: RENE’S 

STORY 

75 min 

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FAITHLESS 

GAMES 

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NO REST 

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TRUTH AND 

LIES 

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A NATION 

WITHOUT 

WOMEN 

96 min 

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HARD 

GOODBYES: 

MY FATHER 

108 min 

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Code 21Q 

9:30 PM 

MY BABY 

90 min 

p 31 

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12:00 noon 

MADE IN 

ESTONIA 

100 min 

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JOURNEY 

TO 

JERUSALEM 

112 min 

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GRANNY 

98 min 

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THE 

STROLL 

94 min 

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REMAKE 

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BOOK OF 

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KISS 

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BUDDY 

111 min 

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OVEREATER 

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JALLA! 

JALLA! 

88 min 

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BULGARIAN 

LOVERS 

90 min 

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MON-RAK 

TRANSISTOR 

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THE 

TICKING 

MAN 

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ON THE 

SUNNY 

SIDE 

92 min 

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SUMMER 

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GHOSTS 

85 min 

p 43 

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COLOR OF 

HAPPINESS 

86 min 

p 18 

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ONE HAND 

CAN’T CLAP 

102 min 

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STORY 

75 min 

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THE OPPOSITE 

SEX: JAMIE’S 

STORY 

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p 39 

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THE 

OVEREATER 

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THUNDER 

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BOOK OF 

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WORLD* 

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70 min 


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PERFECT 

STRANGERS 

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KOPS 

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MOONLIGHT 

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THE TICKING 

MAN 

85 min 

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MY TOWN 

72 min 

p 32 

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LOVING 

GLANCES 

97 min 

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SUMMER IN 

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104 min 

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I ALWAYS 

WANTED TO 

BE A SAINT 

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RED LIGHT 

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JUSTICE 

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INSTINCT 

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THE BIG 

EMPTY 

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THE TENTH 

SUMMER 

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CUBA LIBRE 

110 min 

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LIFE IS LIFE 

90 min 

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BREATH 

82 min 

p 19 

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FOREST 

93 min 

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ON THE 

SUNNY 

SIDE 

92 min 

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TO 

JERUSALEM 

112 min 

p 25 

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THE STORY 

OF THE 

WEEPING 

CAMEL 

90 min 

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LOSS OF 

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THINGS 

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HOME OF 

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JUSTICE 

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DOUBLE 

DARE 

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IN THE 

REALMS 

OF THE 

UNREAL 

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WEEPING 

CAMEL 

90 min 

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LIFE IS LIFE 

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MY TOWN 


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COLOR OF 

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FAITHLESS 

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THINGS 

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THE BIG 

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YES NURSE, 

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104 min 

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TBA 

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ONE HAND 

CAN’T CLAP 

102 min 

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THE 

COLOR OF 

HAPPINESS 

86 min 

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LAST LIFE 

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UNIVERSE* 

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MY TOWN 


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AWARD 

WINNERS* 

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YES NURSE, 

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104 min 

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YOUNG 

THINGS* 

105 min 

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THINGS* 

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90 min 

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The Opposite Sex: 

Jamie’s Story 

Directed by Josh Aronson 

USA 2003 

75 minutes 





Josh Aronson’s “Sound and Fury” (24th 

CIFF, 2000), about the lives of deaf people 

transformed by advanced medical implants, 

gained an Oscar nomination. Now, in dual 

documentaries, he examines the lives of 

transgendered people in America. Jim was 

a 47-year-old husband and father from 

Grand Rapids, Michigan who, after years of 

suffering, underwent a sex change operation 

with the help of modern-day science and a 

Beverly Hills doctor. THE OPPOSITE SEX: 

JAMIE’S STORY follows Jim, now Jamie, and 

her family after Jim comes out. Despite the 

protests of her parents, Jamie’s wife Brenda 

stays and finds it in her heart to understand 

Jamie’s pain. The documentary not only 

focuses on Jamie, but also on the universal 

issues of gender, sexuality and identity— 

issues that define the journey we all must 

take, each in our own way. 

Producers~Linda York, Francine Berman, Josh Aronson, 

Jack Farrell Cinematography~Brett Wiley Editor~Janet 

Swanson Music~Michael Rohaytn Print Source~ 

Aronsonfilms 

About the Director~Formerly a prolific freelance still photographer, 

NYC-based Josh Aronson turned to music-videos, 

TV assignments and documentary filmmaking for such 

clients as MTV and Nickelodeon. Filmography~“Sound 

and Fury” (1999), “Feelin’ No Pain” (2003), THE 

OPPOSITE SEX: JAMIE’S STORY (2003), “The Opposite 

Sex: Rene’s Story” (2003) 



The Opposite Sex: 

Rene’s Story 

Directed by Josh Aronson 

USA 2003 

75 minutes 




12:30 PM I Ticket Code 23A 

The second of Josh Aronson’s dual 

documentaries continues to examine the 

metamorphosis of transgendered people— 

and this one focuses on a female-to-male 

transition. Anaheim resident Rene Pene is a 

31-year-old diminutive barrel of machismo 

with body-building athleticism who has a 

working-class profession. From as early as 

age three, Rene began assertively identifying 

as a male, dressing and acting the part. 

Rene began a relationship with demure 

Wona, whom Rene married at 18. Rene 

and Wona kept Rene’s gender identity a 

secret for years, until they were outted. 

THE OPPOSITE SEX: RENE’S STORY follows 

the journey of Rene and his family as he 

undergoes a portion of his surgical transition; 

but the strongest drama emerges from his 

dissolving marriage. 

Producers~Linda York, Francine Berman, Josh Aronson, 

Jack Farrell Cinematography~Brett Wiley, Kip Bogdahn 

Editor~Kate Hirson Music~Michael Rohaytn Print 

Source~Aronsonfilms 

About the Director~Formerly a prolific freelance still photographer, 

NYC-based Josh Aronson turned to music-videos, 

TV assignments and documentary filmmaking for such 

clients as MTV and Nickelodeon. Selected Filmography~ 

“Sound and Fury” (1999), “Feelin’ No Pain.” (2003), 

The Opposite Sex: Jamie’s Story” (2003), THE OPPOSITE 

SEX: RENE’S STORY (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

The Overeater 

(L’Outremangeur) 

Directed by Thierry Binisti 

FRANCE 2003 

88 minutes 





A sophisticated, complex Beauty and the 

Beast, THE OVEREATER revolves around a 

very strange relationship. Commissioner 

Selena is both powerful (he oversees the 

police in Marseilles) and enormous. He eats 

to fill the emptiness inside him. He eats for 

pleasure, in anger and out of great need. At 

some point his gluttony finds a perverse purpose: 

he meets Elsa, a lovely young woman 

accused of murdering her uncle. Instead of 

putting her in jail, the Commish strikes a 

deal: he will not indict her as long as she 

comes to his house every evening for a year 

to “share” a meal. His solitary gluttony now 

has a nightly witness, at first unbearable for 

both of them. But over time Elsa relaxes in 

his presence and begins to tell her story. A 

strange kind of comfort settles in between 

the two and a fragile relationship develops. 

Meanwhile, the police investigate the strange 

arrangement and start closing in. (In French 


Preceded by Moo(n) 

Directed by Leigh Hodgkinson, United Kingdom, 

4 minutes 

Producers~Jean-Louis Livi Screenplay~Thierry Binisti, 

Tonino Benacquista, Xavier Maurel Cinematography~ 

Dominique Bouilleret Editor~Jean-Paul Husson 

Music~Nicolas Errera Principal Cast~Eric Cantona, 

Rachida Brakni Print Source~TF1 International 

About the Director~Thierry Binisti started his career in film 

as an assistant to Régis Wargnier on “Indochine” (1992). 

He then directed several short films. This is his feature 

debut. Filmography~THE OVEREATER (2003)

40 FILMS A – Z [P – S] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 


DOCUMENTARIES, PAN-AFRICAN 

A Panther in Africa 

Directed by Aaron Matthews 

USA 2003 

70 minutes 





A PANTHER IN AFRICA explores the legacy 

of the 1960s through the eyes of former 

Black Panther Pete O’Neal, exiled in 

Tanzania for over 30 years. O’Neal and his 

wife Charlotte Hill O’Neal were both members 

of the Kansas City Chapter of the Black 

Panther party. After arriving in Tanzania they 

co-founded the United African American 

Community Center in 1991, which offers 

computer literacy classes, English language 

training and HIV/AIDS education. The film 

tells the story of how a 1960s radical who 

advocated violence on the streets of Kansas 

City ended up a global activist who advocates 

community service in the impoverished 

countryside of Tanzania. A PANTHER IN 

AFRICA takes viewers on a dramatic journey 

with a modern-day global citizen—a man 

whose activist work and exile status tell a 

compelling story about America’s past and 

present. 

Preceded by African American 

Directed by Askia Holloway & Johnny Ramos, 

USA, 23 minutes 

Producers~Aaron Matthews, Jennifer Mittelstadt 

Cinematography~Wayne de la Roche Editor~Aaron 

Matthews Print Source~Aaron Matthews 

About the Director~For over 20 years Aaron Matthews has 

been making award-winning documentary films and videos. 

His most recent documentary, “My American Girls: A 

Dominican Story,” was broadcast on the PBS series P.O.V. 

in 2001. Filmography~“My American Girls: A Dominican 

Story” (2001), A PANTHER IN AFRICA (2003) 

AMERICAN CENTRAL/EASTERN INDEPENDENTSEUROPEAN 



Paternal Instinct 

Directed by Murray Nossel 

USA 2003 

74 minutes 



Saturday, March 27 w/FilmForum 


A documentary with more drama and love 

would be difficult to conceive. Mark and 

Erik, an upscale pair in a committed relationship, 

have placed an internet notice: 

NYC GAY COUPLE SEEKING SURROGATE. 

Erik feels baby fever more than Mark does, 

but the duo agree to the challenge and 

decide to level the emotional playing field 

by ideally fathering two children, via the 

same mother, with each man’s sperm. But 

who will carry the babies? They receive a 

very positive response to their posting from 

Wen, a follower of the Wicca religion (“She’s 

a witch!”), dwelling in Maine with a broadminded 

husband and a healthy set of kids. 

She invokes powers of nature during the 

inseminations, but the process turns out to 

be longer and more arduous than expected. 

While pundits debate the meaning of family, 

PARENTAL INSTINCT shows it, from the 

etiquette about asking a neighbor to help 

with semen, to the strain on the trio’s bonds 

when fertilization fails, to the faith-based 

community upholding and fortifying these 

parents-to-be. 

Producers~Craig Harwood, Murray Nossel 

Cinematography~Edward Marritz Editor~Susanne 

Rostock Music~Hahn Rowe Print Source~Two Spirit 

Productions LLC 

About the Director~Murray Nossel emigrated from South 

Africa to the United States in 1990 and trained as an 

ethnographer and therapist with the Columbia University 

School of Social Work. Filmography~ “A Brooklyn Family 

Tale” (2001), PARENTAL INSTINCT (2003) 


Second Parent Adoption 




WORLD TOUR 

Perfect Strangers 

Directed by Gaylene Preston 

NEW ZEALAND 2003 

95 minutes 





Once again Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly” 

aria sends shudders up the spine in a 

suspense tale of fatal attraction. Burned 

before in romance, Melanie jadedly cruises 

the bar scene for male companionship. One 

night she’s charmed off of dry land by a 

nameless and poetic stranger (Sam Neill) 

and onto his boat. When she awakens they’re 

on their way to his shanty-like “castle” on 

a deserted island somewhere off New 

Zealand’s western coast. Soon the man’s 

affections grow more ominous, even openly 

violent. And this, Melanie knows, is the bush 

where people often walk in and never walk 

out. Remember, however, that in many 

animal species the female is the deadlier. 

Those who recall Gaylene Preston’s crowdpleasing 

comedy “Ruby and Rata” (15th 

CIFF, 1991) and her intimate documentary 

“War Stories” (20th CIFF, 1996) will once 

again be swept away by her change of pace 

in a tale of obsession, possession, isolation, 

survival and, yes, love reminiscent of Roman 

Polanski’s finest psychothrillers. 

Preceded by Water 

Directed by Chris Graham, New Zealand, 

15 minutes 

Producers~Robin Laing, Gaylene Preston Screenplay~ 

Gaylene Preston Cinematography~Alun Bollinger Editor~ 

John Gilbert Music~Plan 9 Principal Cast~Sam Neill, 

Rachael Blake, Joel Tobeck, Robyn Malcolm, Madeleine 

Sami Print Source~First Look/Overseas Film Group 

About the Director~Born in Greymouth, New Zealand in 

1947, Gaylene Preston ran a drama therapy program at 

a British hospital before her film career began in 1977. 

She directed commercials, shorts and award-winning 

documentaries, making her feature debut in 1984. 

Filmography~“Mr. Wrong” (1984), “Ruby and Rata” 

(1990), “Married” (1992), “War Stories” (1995), 

PERFECT STRANGERS (2003)



DOCUMENTARIES 

Red Light Go 

Directed by Manny Kivowitz 

USA 2003 

52 minutes 

SCREENING WITH DIRTY WORK; see p.19 





Like “The Fast and the Furious”? As they’d 

say in New York, we got your Fast and your 

Furious RIGHT HERE!!! Dodging trucks, 

angering taxi-drivers and scattering pedestrians 

like pigeons, the bicycle messengers of 

Manhattan and the Five Boroughs are a 

unique breed. Openly scorned even by the 

deskbound execs whose precious cargo they 

zip from one office skyscraper to another, 

bike couriers are a massive service industry 

who count themselves wage-slaves to no one, 

more athlete than employee-drone. In a 

high-speed verite portrait you meet Amy, 

Yac, Squid, Mike, Carlos and Tone, on the 

job and off. And off the clock they ride even 

harder —against each other in “alley cat 

races,”coordinated by “Evil E,” a shadowy 

alpha-messenger who tries not to let the 

inconvenience of being locked up in prison 

stop him from overseeing the annual 

Halloween race. Someday, he predicts, this 

will all be legend. Thanks to this documentary 

that day has arrived, signed, sealed 

and delivered. 

Producers~Ben Barraud, Toby Barraud, Manny Kivowitz 

Cinematography~Evan Fairbanks Editors~Steve Thornton, 

Laurens Van Charante Music~Various Artists Print 

Source~KSK Studios 

About the Director~Manny Kivowitz founded the 

multimedia production house, KSK Studios of New York, 

in 1988. Filmography~RED LIGHT GO (2003) 



Remake 

Directed by Dino Mustafić 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, FRANCE, 

TURKEY 2003 

108 minutes 






12:15 PM I Ticket Code 24D 

Never say “never again” in the Balkans, 

where the cycle of ethnic war, concentration 

camps, guilt and recrimination repeats for 

two generations with a precise, diabolical 

cruelty. Writer Zlatko Topčić says his 

scenario is based on actual events. It is the 

early 1990s. Screenwriter Tarik Karaga 

sends a screenplay to a contest in France. 

It dramatizes the WWII ordeal of his father 

Ahmed, a journalist seized by the chetniks 

over his signature on an anti-Nazi petition 

in defense of Jewish and Serbian Muslim 

communities. Then, like a character in his 

own film, Tarik is himself arrested by Serb 

militiamen because of his manuscript. In a 

parallel story, half a century earlier, Ahmed 

Karaga, after physical and mental torture, 

was swapped for fascists in a prisoner 

exchange. Now, during the siege of Sarajevo, 

Tarik’s film-producer contact in Paris works 

with the UN to see if his son can be similarly 

released. But the story does not end there. 

How many more “remakes” does humanity 

need before rewriting the plotline of bloodhatred 

and vengeance? (In Bosnian with 


Producer~Enes Cviko Screenplay~Zlatko Topčić 

Cinematography~Mustafa Mustafić Editor~Andrija 

Zafranović Music~Adi Lukova Principal Cast~Ermin 

Brovo, Aleksander Seksan, Ermin Sijamija, Dejan Aćimovíc, 

Lucija Sˇ erbedzˇija Print Source~Forum Sarajevo 

About the Director~Dino Mustafić was born in Sarajevo in 

1969. A director of stage, screen and opera, he graduated 

from that city’s Academy of Theatrical Arts and Faculty 

of Philosophy, where he now teaches. Filmography~ 

REMAKE (2003) 

WORLD TOUR 

Sexual Dependency 

(Dependencia Sexual) 

Directed by Rodrigo Bellott 

BOLIVIA, USA 2003 

105 minutes 





2003 saw the scandal of the Abercrombie 

& Fitch catalog, when underaged-looking 

models, eroticized as Madison Avenue marketing 

tools, crossed the line. The scenario 

was anticipated by Rodrigo Bellott’s art 

installation in Bolivia in 2001—a billboard 

and website campaign touting a fictitious 

underwear brand with scantily-clad youth. 

Clothes companies eagerly inquired about 

manufacturing rights, so dead-on was the 

put-on. Bellott’s billboards also appear in 

SEXUAL DEPENDENCY, a provocative 

portmanteau that set domestic box-office 

records despite its highly experimental 

nature. The five-part feature is improvised 

by non-pro actors and based on interviews 

with hundreds of kids growing up confused, 

abused, tantalized, lusting and hurting in 

the modern era’s oversexed milieu. Shooting 

digitally and almost entirely in split-screen, 

Bellott gives us daring, dual angles of the 

same circumstances, granting us the intimacy 

his young adult characters yearn for. (In 

Spanish with English subtitles) 

Producers~Ara Katz, Rodrigo Bellott Screenplay~ 

Rodrigo Bellott, Lenelle N. Moise Cinematography~ 

Rodrigo Bellott, Daryn Deluco Editor~Adriana Pacheco 

Music~John Dobry, Jeremiah Vancans Principal 

Cast~Alexandra Aponte, Roberto Urbina, Jorge Antonio 

Saavedra, Ronica V. Reddick, Matthew Guida, Matt 

Cavenaugh Print Source~ Cinema Vault 

About the Director~Rodrigo Bellott was born in Santa Cruz, 

Bolivia and studied cinema at Ithaca College in New York. 

He became the youngest member of CONACINE, the 

Bolivian filmmakers’ guild, and makes his feature debut 

here. Filmography~SEXUAL DEPENDENCY (2003)

42 FILMS A – Z [S] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

PAN-AFRICAN 

WORLD TOUR 

Soldiers of the Rock 

Directed by Norman Maake 

SOUTH AFRICA 2003 

94 minutes 





South Africa’s prosperity runs in veins deep 

within the earth, in the diamond deposits 

and gold seams left as though by the gods 

as a dual blessing and curse. SOLDIERS OF 

THE ROCK is a dynamic, blockbuster drama 

of the proud men who work the mines. 

Laborers from Botswana, Mozambique, 

Swaziland and the Transvaal. Here, miles 

underground, the dim light levels out skin 

tones and tribal affiliations; township roughnecks 

with Tupac Shakur tattoos work next 

to Boers working next to Zulus. Still, Vuyo 

is an exception. He is a business student 

whose miner-father died in a rockfall so his 

son never would. Nonetheless, Vuyo has forsaken 

school to descend to this netherworld. 

“Here people accept you for what you are. 

Here they force you to be yourself.” Vuyo is 

approached by miner Suto with an audacious 

proposal: gold here is almost tapped out. 

Soon the pit will close. But if all the men 

pool their redundancy pay, they can buy their 

own mine and take destiny into their own 

calloused hands. But Suto is also an ex-con. 

And the dangerous, spirit-haunted tunnels 

have claimed many lives. Can either be 

trusted? (In English and Afrikaans with 


Producer~Darren Gordon Screenplay~Norman Maake, 

Bata Passchier Cinematography~Natalie Haarhof Editor~ 

Bata Passchier Music~Benjamin Willen Principal Cast~ 

Vuyo Dabula, Lebo Maathosa, Glen Gabela, Sibusiso 

Mhlangu, Michael Dlamini Print Source~AFDA 

About the Director~Norman Maake attended AFDA, the 

South Africa School of Motion-Picture Medium and Live 

Performance. He started SOLDIERS OF THE ROCK as 

his graduation project. Filmography~SOLDIERS OF 

THE ROCK (2003) 



WORLD TOUR 

Spring, Summer, Fall, 

Winter...and Spring 

(Bom Yeorum Gaeul Gyeoul Geurigo….Bom) 

Directed by Kim Ki-duk 

SOUTH KOREA, GERMANY 2003 

103 minutes 


7:15 PM I Ticket Code 26R 


In a tour-de-force behind and before the 

camera, self-taught filmmaker Kim Ki-duk 

unfolds the life of a man in five ages, five 

chapters...four seasons. The lyrical setting 

is a small, houseboat/monastery floating 

atop tranquil Jusan Pond in the majestic 

mountain territory of South Korea’s North 

Kyungsang Province. Only two Buddhist contemplatives 

dwell here, surrounded by nature 

—an old monk and a boy novice. This is the 

boy’s spiritual pilgrimage from childhood to 

youth. And this is a summer infatuation that 

lures him away from his mentor, and, seemingly, 

off the path to enlightenment. Years 

pass before the autumn in which the young 

monk returns to the monastery, a fugitive 

from justice. But, as the Buddha teaches, 

to understand everything is to forgive everything, 

and even as the prodigal seems 

hopelessly lost, the wheel of his life is about 

to turn yet again. (In Korean with English 

Subtitles) 

Producer~Lee Seung-jae Screenplay~Kim Ki-duk 

Cinematography~Baek Dong-hyun Editor~Kim Ki-duk 

Music~Bark Ji-woong Principal Cast~Kim Ki-duk, Oh 

Young-soo, Kim Young-min, Seo Jae-Kyung, Ha Yeo-jin, 

Kim Jung-ho Print Source~Sony Pictures Classics 

About the Director~Born in 1960, Kim Ki-duk served in 

the South Korean Army and worked factory jobs before 

turning screenwriter, actor and director in the mid-90s, 

winning numerous awards. He is now at work on his tenth 

feature. Filmography~“Crocodile” (1996), “Birdcage Inn” 

(1996), “The Isle” (1999), “Real Fiction” (2000), 

“Address Unknown” (2001), SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, 

WINTER...AND SPRING (2003) 

DOCUMENTARIES 

WORLD TOUR 

The Story of the 

Weeping Camel 

(Die Geschichte vom Weinenden Kamel) 

Directed by Byambasuren Davaa, 

Luigi Falorni 

GERMANY, MONGOLIA 2003 

90 minutes 





On a nomadic farmstead in Mongolia, a rare 

white bactrian camel is born—a difficult 

birth that leaves the mother animal aloof, 

even hostile to her colt (her first offspring), 

denying the newborn the milk it needs to 

thrive. Elders decide a “hoos” ritual is 

required, with a traditional fiddle player. Two 

boys in the family, Ugna and Dude, set off for 

the nearest mass-settlement where such a 

musician (and batteries for the grandfather’s 

radio) can be found. As they ride miles for 

their camel, we enter the 21st century, a 

society of power lines, satellite TVs and video 

games. We realize these desert people, with 

their ornate costumes and ceremonies, are 

just as fragile as the camel, tempted by the 

“glass images” and technology of encroaching 

modern culture. An age from which Earth 

spirits seem to have fled in disdain. But 

maybe some magic can be coaxed back... 

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL is 

both a mesmerizing ethnography and a tale 

as gentle and warm as wool, suitable for all 

ages. (In Mongolian with English subtitles) 

Producer~Natalie Lambsdorff Writers~Byambasuren 

Davaa, Luigi Falorni Cinematography~Luigi Falorni 

Editor~Anja Pohl Music~Marcel Leniz Print 

Source~ThinkFilm 

About the Directors~Born in Mongolia, Byambasuren 

Davaa studied law and cinema and worked at Mongolian 

Public television before enrolling at Germany’s Munich Film 

School. Born in Florence, Italy, Luigi Falorni also enrolled 

at the Munich Film School. THE STORY OF THE WEEPING 

CAMEL is a graduation piece for the co-directors. 

Filmography for Byambasuren Davaa~“Wunsch” (2001), 

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL (2003) 

Filmography for Luigi Falorni~“Fools and Heroes” (1997), 

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL (2003)


The Stroll 

(Progulka) 



Directed by Alexei Uchitel 

RUSSIA 2003 

90 minutes 





One of the major events of recent world 

cinema was “Russian Ark,” a 96-minute, 

continuous camera-take touring the Winter 

Palace of the Czar in St. Petersburg, where 

costumed and choreographed re-enactors 

replayed episodes from Russian history. THE 

STROLL, made by members of the rising 

Petr Fomenko Workshop theater troupe, can 

be considered a sunny riposte. Here is also 

St. Petersburg, not ghost-haunted but young 

and carefree, forward-looking, day-lit and 

buoyant, with a real-time, 90-minute narrative 

composed of long, hand-held digital 

sequences. It’s a boy-meets-girl story, quite 

literally, as the shapely 22-year-old Olya 

disembarks from a car at the bridge over the 

Heba River and takes a walk. Straightaway 

she catches the eye of Alyosha, who starts 

chatting and proposes marriage within about 

15 minutes. His buddy Petya, who joins 

them, is a little more guarded about the 

whole situation. Who is Olya and what’s she 

really up to? Wear some comfortable shoes, 

comrades! (In Russian with English subtitles) 

Preceded by The M Word 

Directed by Rocky Morten, USA, 4 minutes 

Producer~Alexei Uchitel Screenplay~Dunya Smirnova 

Cinematography~Yuri Klimenko, Pavel Kostomarov 

Editor~ Yelena Andreeva Principal Cast~Irina Pegova, 

Pavel Barshak, Yevgeny Tsyganov, Yevgeny Grishkovets 

Print Source~Studio Rock 

About the Director~Alexei Uchitel was born in 1951 in 

Leningrad, the son of documentarian Yefim Uchitel. He 

graduated in 1975 from the state film school VGIK and 

worked at the Leningrad Documentary Film Institute. 

Filmography~“Giselle’s Mania” (1995), “His Wife’s Diary” 

(2000), THE STROLL (2003) 



Summer in the 

Golden Valley 

(Ljeto u Zlatnoj Dolini) 

Directed by Srdjan Vuletić 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINIA, FRANCE, 

UNITED KINGDOM 2003, 104 minutes 





Fikret, 16, enjoys rap music and the thought 

of escaping the drug-ridden, war-ravaged 

capital city with his girlfriend. Then Fikret’s 

father suddenly dies. As part of the traditional 

Muslim funeral ceremonies, the community 

is asked to publicly forgive the father’s 

sins. Astoundingly, one mourner does not: 

Hamid, a man whom half of Sarajevo knows, 

but nobody seems to know what he does for 

a living. Hamid claims the dead man secretly 

owed him 50,000 marks, an unexplained 

debt his family is obligated to pay to make 

everything halal. This is the ultimate humiliation, 

and Fikret determines to redeem his 

family’s disgrace and satisfy Hamid, a course 

of action that puts the youth in the path of a 

kidnapped girl and two dangerously corrupt 

cops. “I am part of a generation of sons 

whose fathers left them nothing but a legacy 

of destroyed cities, fallen principles and the 

chaos of a broken society,” declares writerdirector 

Srdjan Vuletić. His kinetic debut 

dramatizes the dilemma of sons who become 

hostages of bad decisions made in the past. 

(In Bosnian with English subtitles) 

Producer~Admir Kenović Screenplay~Srdjan Vuletić 

Cinematography~Slobodan Trninić Editor~Catherine 

Kelber Music~Simon Boswell Principal Cast~Haris 

Sijaríc, Kemal Čebo, Zana Marjanović, Svetozar Cvetković, 

Aleksander Seksan, Emir Hadzˇihafizbegović Print Source~ 

Refresh Productions 

About the Director~Srdjan Vuletić was born in 1971 in 

Bijeljina. He studied directing at the Academy of Performing 

Arts in Sarajevo and worked as a medical technician prior 

to creating a series of award-winning short subjects. 

Filmography~SUMMER IN THE GOLDEN VALLEY (2003) 

FAMILY FILMS 

WORLD TOUR 

Summer with the Ghosts 

(Sommer mit den Burggespemstern) 

Directed by Bernd Neuburger 

CANADA, AUSTRIA 2003 

85 minutes 





A haunted palace... A series of spooky accidents... 

A couple of “meddling kids” and a 

rather cowardly dog intent on saving the 

day... But it’s not what you think. Scooby 

Snacks to all those who recognize the name 

of Rock Demers. Often compared to Walt 

Disney himself, this French-Canadian producer 

is known throughout the world for his 

high-quality family features, including 

“Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller” 

(13th CIFF, 1989), “Vincent and Me” (15th 

CIFF, 1991) and “The Flying Sneaker” (17th 

CIFF, 1993). His latest is a clever fantasy 

about 10-year-old Caroline, visiting her director-father 

shooting on location at an ancient 

Austrian castle. Having a film crew around 

can disrupt anybody’s daily routine—just 

ask. But it proves especially irksome to the 

estate’s normally-invisible population of 

medieval-era ghosts, with centuries-old 

habits and strict schedules. With the help of 

local boy Jakob and Otto the special effects 

man, Caroline tries to work out compromises 

between the moviemakers and the spectres, 

in situations they just don’t prepare you for 

in film school. 

Producers~Rock Demers, Chantal Lafleur, Bernd 

Neuburger, Lukas Stepanik Screenplay~Nadja Seelich 

Cinematography~Thomas Vamos Editor~Matthieu Roy- 

Decarie Music~Zdenek Merta Principal Cast~Sarah-Jeanne 

Labrosse, Nikola Culka, Ron Lea, Karl Merkatz, Richard 

Jutras, Konstanze Breitebner Print Source~La Fête 

About the Director~Bernd Neuburger served as a 

cinematographer before turning to directing himself. He 

has done both narrative features and documentaries in 

collaboration with screenwriter Nadja Seelich. Filmography~ 

“Jonathana and the Sorceress” (1986), “Vacation with 

Sylvester” (1990), “Lisa and the Sabre-Toothed Tiger” 

(1995), SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS (2003)

44 FILMS A – Z [T – W] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

FAMILY FILMS 

WORLD TOUR 

The Tenth Summer 

(Der Zehnte Sommer) 

Directed by Jörg Grünler 

GERMANY 2003 

98 minutes 


5:15 PM I Ticket Code 25L 



From its opening moments, you will joyfully 

submit to the reign of THE TENTH SUMMER 

—a deft, sweet-spirited and instantly disarming 

evocation of a child’s magical ability to 

perceive and color the world as a wonderful 

place. After all, what boy should not be 

allowed to be king on his 10th birthday? For 

Kalli, growing up in West Germany in 1960, 

the town is his regal realm, its citizens his 

royal subjects (whether they appreciate it 

or not) and Franzi, the girl next door, his 

princess (if her mother doesn’t catch them). 

It’s the summer. School is impossibly 

distant, and Kalli and his friends/squires 

have all the time they want to convert the 

basement of their apartment complex into 

a menagerie—mostly of bugs, but there are 

awestruck rumors that a pheasant and even 

a monkey can be obtained for their zoo. 

Meanwhile, the grown-ups go about their 

business with their banal worries about jobs, 

arguments about too much time spent in 

bars and gossip about the suspect activities 

of the disreputable Mrs. Hilfers and her two 

fatherless daughters. King Kalli knows what’s 

important: how to get that monkey! (In 

German with English subtitles) 

Producer~Elke Reid Screenplay~Deiter Bongartz (based 

on his novel) Cinematography~Daneil Koppelkamm 

Editor~Jorg Baumeister Music~Mick Baumeister 

Principal Cast~Martin Stührk, Kai Wiesinger, Katherina 

Böhm, Pina Servino-Geyser, David Kotter Print Source~ 

Media Luna Entertainment 

About the Director~Jörg Grünler has directed extensively 

for German television. Filmography~“Krücke” (1993), 

THE TENTH SUMMER (2003) 

DOCUMENTARIES CENTRAL/EASTERN EUROPEAN 


WORLD TOUR 

Thunder in Guyana 

Directed by Suzanne Wasserman 

USA, GUYANA 2003, 

50 minutes 





What do radicals do after they fall in love 

and get married? For Chicago-born Janet 

Rosenberg and Cheddi Jagan, a native of 

Guyana, they travel to the South American 

British colony and start a socialist revolution. 

This was in 1943. Soon enough the Jagans 

became the most important political figures 

in Guyana. But they also faced opposition 

from world leaders such as Winston Churchill 

and John F. Kennedy. Cheddi was elected 

prime minister within ten years, and adventurous 

Janet—a world-class swimmer who 

took flying lessons and didn’t give a damn 

what anyone thought of her—was elected 

deputy speaker of Parliament. In 1997 

Cheddi died, and Janet, still popular with the 

people who had attained independence from 

Britain, was elected president—the first 

white Jewish woman to lead a potpourri of 

dark-skinned Hindus, Muslims and 

Christians. Janet’s younger cousin, the film’s 

director, weaves in documentary footage of 

Janet as a young woman, still photos and 

interviews. Now in her 80s, Janet is a font of 

history and a true independent spirit. 

Preceded by When the Storm Came 

Shilpi Gupta, USA, 24 minutes 

Producer~Suzanne Wasserman Writer~Suzanne Wasserman 

Cinematography~Debra Granik Editor~ Amanda Zinoman 

Music~Basya Schechter (with original score by Steve 

Sandberg) Print Source~Women Make Movies 

About the Director~Suzanne Wasserman is a graduate of 

NYU with a Ph.D in American history. She is currently 

Associate Director of the Gotham Center for New York City 

at CUNY. This is her first feature film. Filmography~ 

THUNDER IN GUYANA (2003) 

This film is presented with the 

generous support of 

DONNA and STEWART KOHL 

WORLD TOUR 

The Ticking Man 

Directed by Steven Lewis Simpson 

UNITED KINGDOM 2003 

85 minutes 





Lensed as crisp and lethal as the crosshairs 

in a sniper’s scope, THE TICKING MAN is a 

nail-biting thriller set on Scotland’s western 

seacoast. A multi-million-pound drug deal, 

away from prying eyes, has gone wrong and 

one of the parties is summarily eliminated. 

Despite the remote locale, two unidentified 

residents (actually a squabbling pair of 

estranged lovers) witness the murder from a 

distance. The jailed crime kingpin decides 

on the harshest solution imaginable. It’s a 

tiny community. With careful scrutiny and 

logic, the list of people who might be called 

to testify can be pared down to a handful. 

A “manageable” handful. “A wee bit of collateral 

damage,” he says. So the order goes 

out to an icy, black-clad assassin, armed 

with crossbow bolts, bullets, grenades and a 

stopwatch: kill them all. With a deadly pace 

and knife-edged use of split screen, Steven 

Lewis Simpson’s feature clocks in as the 

CIFF’s most lethal weapon. 

Producer~Steven Lewis Simpson Screenplay~Steven 

Lewis Simpson Cinematography~Ian Dodds Editor~ 

Steven Lewis Simpson Music~Steven Lewis Simpson, 

V-Twin Principal Cast~Alan McCafferty, Aaron McCusker, 

Ian Hanmore, Harriet Hunter, Gavin Marshall, Charli 

Wilson, Robert Rennie Print Source~Cinema Vault 

About the Director~Once the youngest fully qualified 

stockbroker in Britain, Steven Lewis Simpson turned to 

filmmaking in his early 20s, working for Roger Corman in 

Los Angeles. He returned to the UK and made his feature 

debut in 1993. Filmography~“The Ties” (1993), THE 

TICKING MAN (2003)


WORLD TOUR AMERICAN INDEPENDENTS 

Truth and Lies 

(La Forza del passato) 

Directed by Piergiorgio Gay 

ITALY 2002 

95 minutes 





In the city of Trieste, a man named Gianni 

receives an unexpected visitor: an unkempt, 

armed stranger calling himself Bogliasco 

(played by Bruno Ganz). He claims to be a 

veteran spy, now ready to spill old secrets 

that shake Gianni’s life to its core. 

Throughout adulthood Gianni despised and 

rejected his late, ultra-conservative, armygeneral 

father as a neo-fascist and a bigot. 

Bogliasco claims the dead man was instead 

a KGB collaborator, employed by the Soviets’ 

counter-intelligence unit in Moscow since the 

end of WWII. Along with these revelations, 

Gianni also discovers his wife’s infidelity 

and, with the foundation of his life in ruins, 

is unable to trust the people closest to him. 

He grapples with the shocking allegations of 

Bogliasco, a man of a thousand aliases and 

an unknown nationality who may not be lying 

but may not be telling the real story either. 

Let the mindgames begin. (In Italian with 


Producer~Lionello Cerri Screenplay~Lara Frembder, 

Piergiorgio Gay (based on the novel by Sandro Veronesi) 

Cinematography~Luca Bigazzi Editor~Carlotta Cristiani 

Music~Quintorigo Principal Cast~Sergio Rubini, Bruno 

Ganz, Sandra Ceccarelli, Mariangela D’Abbraccio, Valeria 

Moriconi, Aleksander Krosl Print Source~Adriana Chiesa 


About the Director~Piergiorgio Gay was born in Turin in 

1959 and entered the film industry in 1982, working his 

way up from assistant director. Filmography~“Tre Storie” 

(1998), “Guarda il Cielo” (2000), TRUTH AND LIES 

(2002) 

Two Days 

Directed by Sean McGinly 

USA 2002 

87 minutes 


10:15 PM I Ticket Code 27V 



A comedy with a black heart, TWO DAYS is 

about Paul Miller (Paul Rudd) who decides 

to make a documentary about the last two 

days of his life before he commits suicide. 

He makes the rounds of last goodbyes, seeing 

friends like Stephen (Mackenzie Astin) 

and Nancy (Stacey Travis), who thinks Paul 

will embrace life again if he has sex with her. 

Meanwhile, Paul’s conflicting crew, including 

Stu (Adam Scott) who wants to turn the film 

into a life-affirming saga, and Charlie (Karl 

Wiedergott) who wants to maintain the 

“integrity” of the project, even if it ends in 

suicide, battle for Paul’s attention. Stu meddles 

in Paul’s nonchalant family and enlists 

the girlfriend who dumped Paul the year 

before. Stu becomes more and more involved 

in saving Paul, leading to a stunning climax 

where Paul decides if he should kill himself, 

or just move to the west side. The film was 

shot from three points of view, one indicated 

by film, the other two by video. Donal Logue 

and Joshua Leonard also star. 

Producer~Mohit Ramchandani Screenplay~Sean McGinly 

Cinematography~Jens Stürup Editor~Tripp Reed Music~ 

Alan Ari Lazar Principal Cast~Paul Rudd, Donal Logue, 

Mackenzie Astin, Adam Scott, Joshua Leonard, Marguerite 

Moreau Print Source~Sean McGinly 

About the Director~Born in Philadelphia, Sean McGinly 

graduated with a degree in philosophy from Villanova 

University and received his MFA in film from USC. After 

making a few student films, he produced, wrote and directed 

his first feature. Filmography~“The Truth About Juliet” 

(1998), TWO DAYS (2002) 

WORLD TOUR 

Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself 

(Wilbur Begår Selvmord) 

Directed by Lone Scherfig 

DENMARK, UNITED KINGDOM 2003 

109 minutes 





If anyone could be considered a serial 

suicide, it’s Wilbur, hero of this exquisitely 

tender tragicomedy. Wilbur does indeed want 

to kill himself. He tries numerous times. He 

eventually wears out the patience of the antihari-kari 

support group at the hospital where 

Wilbur often ends up as an emergency room 

admission. Wilbur’s therapists send him back 

to live with his brother Harper, manager of 

the gloomy secondhand bookshop passed 

down from their late father, who might have 

intended Wilbur to have the place instead, 

but only left the guy with an inheritance of 

pain and horrible memories. As irresistible 

as the impulse towards oblivion seems to 

Wilbur, so he is to the ladies, and the latest 

lass to be thoroughly attracted by Wilbur’s 

tactless, biting, self-destructive personality is 

a fired hospital aide who once rescued him. 

She also happens to be Harper’s wife...Lone 

Scherfig, director of the hit Dogme95 comedy 

“Italian for Beginners,” here creates her own 

filmmaking style, Doleful03, where pain, 

love, humor and healing come bundled 

together in one sad sack. 

Producer~Sisse Graum Olsen Screenplay~Anders Thomas 

Jensen, Lone Scherfig Cinematography~Jørgen Johansson 

Editor~Gerd Tjur Music~Joakim Holbeck Principal Cast~ 

Jamie Sives, Adian Rawlins, Shirley Henderson, Lisa 

McKinlay, Mads Mikkelsen, Julia Davis, Susan Vidler 

Print Source~ThinkFilm 

About the Director~Niece of writer Hans Scherfig, Lone 

Scherfig was born in 1959 in Copenhagen. She graduated 

from the Danish Film Academy in 1984 and has worked 

in radio, live theater, shorts and features. Filmography~ 

“Kaj’s Fødselsdag” (1990), “Når Mor Kommer Hjem” 

(1998), “Italian for Beginners” (2000), WILBUR WANTS 

TO KILL HIMSELF (2003)

46 FILMS A – Z [W – Y] The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 


World’s Best Commercials 

INTERNATIONAL 2003 

80 minutes 







Time was, people went to the movies to 

escape advertising, but no more. Even if 

you’re lucky enough to arrive at the cinema 

late and miss a bunch of Sierra Mist and 

Fandango ads just before the trailers, 

Hollywood glommed onto the idea of “product 

placement” long ago, so you’ll see brand 

labels flashed at the camera by James Bond 

or Charlie’s Angels at every opportunity 

(though we were pleasantly surprised to see 

that nobody in “Pirates of the Caribbean” 

wielding a Macintosh computer). Well, at this 

CIFF tradition we guarantee you’ll see ads. 

Nothing but ads. These are the finalists in 

the International Advertising Awards, the 

annual Cannes Lions (celebrating its 50th 

anniversary), which bring submissions from 

all over the globe. These commercials display 

astonishing wit, simplicity, complexity and 

ingenuity, and – unlike the American networks 

– we present them in their original 

form, uncut and not interrupted by commercial 

breaks or by superfluous chatter from 

Dick Clark or the “whaaasuuup!” guys. Buy 

your tickets early, because this CIFF program 

invariably sells out. 

Print Source~International Advertising Festival Ltd. 

c/o USA Today 

Sponsored by 

Yes Nurse! No Nurse! 

Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster) 

Directed by Pieter Kramer 

NETHERLANDS 2002 

104 minutes 





This may be the most unusual film in the 

festival: a musical comedy that opens with 

white-garbed nurses performing a Busby 

Berkeley homage, followed by a barrage of 

other cinematic recollections. There is a 

story between the songs, however, and it 

concerns Nurse Klivia (who runs a curious 

rest home full of eccentrics), her virginal 

daughter Jet and the rest home’s landlord 

and neighbor named Boordevol, who is trying 

to evict them. Other people move in and out 

(a drama queen hairdresser, a burglarizing 

lesbian lusting after Jet) all with specific 

agendas and damning secrets. But right on 

schedule there’s a musical moment of dancing 

nurses that brightens the proceedings. 

The sets mix realistic design with soft pastels, 

and the period look and costumes are 

spot on. (In Dutch with English subtitles) 

Producer~Burny Bros, Michiel de Rooij, Sabine 

Veenendaal Screenplay~Frank Houtappels, Pieter Kramer 

(based on the TV-series by Annie M.G. Schmidt & Harry 

Bannink) Cinematography~Piotr Kukla Editor~Elja de 

Lange Music~Raymund van Santen, Ferdinand Boland 

Principal Cast~Loes Luca, Paul R. Kooij, Paul de Leeuw, 

Tjitske Reidinga, Waldemar Torenstra, Lennart Vader 

Print Source~Regent Entertainment/here!Films 

About the Director~Born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1952, 

Pieter Kramer graduated from the Amsterdam Drama 

Academy and has since directed countless stage plays. 

He started directing television in the 1980s and made 

his feature film debut in 1989. Selected Filmography~ 

“Theo en Thea en de Ontmaske—Ring van het Tenenkaas 

—Imperium” (1989), YES NURSE! NO NURSE! (2002) 

WORLD TOUR 

Young Adam 

Directed by David Mackenzie 

UNITED KINGDOM, FRANCE 2003 

93 minutes 




The controversial prose of the late cult 

author/Beat-Generation poet/heroin casualty 

Alexander Trocchi inspired this foreboding, 

“amoral moral tale” in the grey cityscapes 

and waterways of early 1950s Scotland. The 

discovery of a young woman’s corpse in the 

River Clyde enmeshes Ella (Tilda Swinton) 

and Les (Peter Mullan), an unhappily married 

couple, along with Joe (Ewan McGregor), the 

drifter who’s lately been working for them 

and living on their barge that ferries between 

Glasgow and Edinburgh. At first the gruesome 

find serves as a morbid diversion from the 

work routine—but perhaps it’s a warning, as 

well, of things to come. Despite his friendship 

with Les, Joe seduces Ella, and, later 

on, her sister Gwen. The interloper’s sexual 

magnetism and irresistibility is a jolt of 

live-wire electricity in the dismal, repressive 

climate of the day. But too much voltage 

can be fatal. Just ask Cathie—the dead girl. 

Watch for Ian Hanmore, the killer from “The 

Ticking Man,” as a freight inspector. 

Producer~Jeremy Thomas Screenplay~David Mackenzie 

Cinematography~Giles Nuttgens Editor~Colin Monie 

Music~David Byrne Principal Cast~Ewan McGregor, Tilda 

Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, 

Therese Bradley, Ewan Stewart, Stuart McQuarrie, Pauline 

Turner, Alan Cooke, Rory McCann Print Source~Sony 

Pictures Classics 

About the Director~David Mackenzie has directed a number 

of award-winning shorts for British television. He made 

his feature debut in 2002. Filmography~“The Last Great 

Wilderness” (2002), YOUNG ADAM (2003)

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Trip to the Dentist 

Family Shorts 

Program 

SHORTS PROGRAMS 



90 minutes 



90 minutes 

Trip to the Dentist 

Gavrilo Gnatovich, USA, 3 min 

Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts Thirty 

Corey Blake, USA, 15 min 

The Old Man, the Zither, and the Dragon 

Paul Wei, USA, 7 min 

I Want a Dog 

Sheldon Cohen, Canada, 10 min 

A Work in Progress 

Wes Ball, USA, 8 min 

Tristella’s Tears 

Emy Craciunescu, USA, 10 min 

Moo(n) 

Leigh Hodgkinson, United Kingdom, 3 min 

Spidermen 

Harry Kellerman, USA, 8 min 

Still Life 

Andre Lyon, USA, 4 min 

Masterpiece Monday 

Glenn Forbes, Canada, 22 min 

Best of the 

Pre-Feature Shorts 



Approximately 90 minutes 


Every year select feature films in 

the festival are preceded by a short 

film, which introduces the feature. 

These short films are always some 

of the most talked-about films at 

the festival. For film lovers who do 

not have the time to see all the 

films throughout the festival, we 

select some of the funniest, most 

intriguing and most compelling of 

these shorts and screen them all 

together on the last day of the 

festival. In this program the audience 

will have the chance to see 

DAVID MAMET’S GILDED STONES 

from the USA, WATER from New 

Zealand, and many more surprises. 

Make sure you buy your tickets 

early; this program is usually the 

first to go on Stand By. 

A wacky, fun-filled, animated music video deals with the anxieties present in any TRIP TO 

THE DENTIST • Gretchen is determined to avoid turning 30 in the quirky and colorful 

GRETCHEN BRETTSCHNEIDER SKIRTS THIRTY • A father tries to save his daughter from 

a jealous dragon in the animated THE OLD MAN, THE ZITHER, AND THE DRAGON • Young 

May wants a dog more than anything else in the world and she’ll do whatever it takes to get 

one in I WANT A DOG • A lonely girl finds that sometimes imagination and friendship go 

hand-in-hand in A WORK IN PROGRESS • TRISTELLA’S TEARS is the animated story of 

a young girl and a fish who together discover that even when all hope appears to be lost, 

love may still prevail over evil • A young girl befriends a cow in the animated MOO(N) • 

In SPIDERMEN a young would-be-superhero attempts to reclaim his confiscated Halloween 

candy, but he’s in for a bit of a surprise • A painter is repeatedly confounded by his 

mischievous STILL LIFE subjects • 6 People. 3 Stories. 1 Monday. A story filled with a 

fun and fateful sense of humor is featured in MASTERPIECE MONDAY. 

War Song 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS 

PROGRAM I 



103 min, ONE SCREENING ONLY 

War Song 

Fairai Richmond, USA, 16 min 

Still Life 

Andre Lyon, USA, 4 min 

Bedford 

Andres Sanz, USA, 15 min 

Downpour Resurfacing 

Frances Nkara, USA, 28 min 

Loving the In-Laws 

Glen Mcdonald, Canada, 24 min 

Within The Wall 

Paula Neiman, USA, 16 min 

U.S. airmen crash land in 

Japanese-ruled China and have 

to find their way home in WAR 

SONG • A painter is repeatedly 

confounded by his mischievous 

STILL LIFE subjects • Leaving 

New York City, Harry BEDFORD 

discovers that his shadow 

is missing • DOWNPOUR 

RESURFACING is an experimental 

rekindling of Robert Hall’s 

personal struggle to cope with a 

history of sexual and physical 

abuse • Failing to get the 

message, Jason finds himself 

home alone LOVING THE 

IN-LAWS from hell • Poetry... 

drugs ...and family intertwine to 

spiral 12-year-old Eddie into 

“The Hole” WITHIN THE WALL. 

Independent Shorts continued 

on page 48

48 INDEPENDENT SHORTS The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

Passing Hearts 

PROGRAM II 




The Rubi Girls 

Jonathan E. McNeal, USA, 28 min 

The Fine Art of Poisoning 

Bill Domonkos, USA, 6 min 

Seventy Two Faced Liar 

Mark Waites, United Kingdom, 


Andante Cantabile 

Yue Liu, USA, 24 min 

Deep Silence 

Gustavo Loza, Mexico, 16 min 


Johan Brisinger, Sweden, 15 min 

An incredible group of gay 

friends from the Midwest find 

that raising funds for HIV/AIDS 

can be “kind of a drag” in the 

funny and heartwarming 

documentary THE RUBI GIRLS 

• Deceit, secret plots and 

delicious revenge are all served 

up in THE FINE ART OF 

POISONING • Terry finds he is 

a man of many faces or masks 

in the comedic SEVENTY TWO 

FACED LIAR • An accomplished 

Chinese musician faces a cruel 

twist of fate in ANDANTE 

CANTABILE • A planned adventure 

goes terribly wrong for two 

young boys in DEEP SILENCE • 

PASSING HEARTS shows the 

unexpected meeting between a 

young man and the family whose 

late son saved his life. 

PROGRAM III 




The School 

Ezra Krybus & Matthew Miller, 

Canada, 12 min 

Left or Right for Love? 

Magali Charrier, United Kingdom, 

6 min 

Retirement Rehearsal 

Anisha Pattanaik, USA, 24 min 

Objects in the Mirror are 

Further Than They Appear 

Gorman Bechard, USA, 15 min 

3AM 

Stewart Hopewell, USA, 22 min 


Glenn Forbes, Canada, 22 min 

In THE SCHOOL we learn that 

grade two is for laughing, playing 

and burying the dead • Float in 

the moat of your milky thoughts. 

Puzzle it out and dreams may 

sprout in the experimental 

short film LEFT OR RIGHT 

FOR LOVE? • RETIREMENT 

REHEARSAL follows a couple 

adjusting to a new phase of life 

together • Things go horribly 

wrong for an inexperienced 

escort in OBJECTS IN THE 

MIRROR ARE FURTHER THAN 

THEY APPEAR • It’s 3AM at the 

crematorium. It is time • 6 

People, 3 Stories, 1 Monday 

and a lot of fun are featured in 

MASTERPIECE MONDAY 

PROGRAM IV 




Thespian X 

Gerald McMorrow, United Kingdom, 

13 min 

Iota 

Simon Dennis, United Kingdom, 

10 min 

A Second Opinion 

Hadas Ragolsky, USA, 25 min 

Suddenly It Rained 

Tim Wilkerson, USA / Egypt, 12 min 

Superfag 

Kurt Koehler, USA, 23 min 

Bazaar 

Mahboubeh Khoshrou, Iran / USA, 

11 min 

The School Iota 

In the Bar 

Cleiton Stringhini & 

Paulo de Tarso Mendonca, 

Brazil, 8 min 

Level 15 

Sally Anne Kerr, Australia, 7 min 

An unemployed actor in the 

not-too-distant-future finds a 

surprise awaits him at the state 

benefits office in THESPIAN X • 

Reminiscent of the silent era, 

IOTA is the powerful story of loss 

and rediscovered communication 

within a remote and voiceless 

family • The struggles and fears 

of Physicians for Human Rights 

Israel who travel to the West 

Bank every Saturday to provide 

medical care to Palestinians are 

documented in A SECOND 

OPINION • He says black, she 

says white. She says it will rain, 

he says it won’t, in SUDDENLY 

IT RAINED • Join our Superhero 

SUPERFAG and his Super Duper 

friends as they rid the world of 

homophobia and bad hair days • 

BAZAAR details the journey of a 

beautiful Persian rug from maker 

to market • A federal law in 

Brazil that requires manufacturers 

to print illustrated messages 

on cigarette packages leads to 

controversy IN THE BAR • 

LEVEL 15 takes an ironic look at 

the “art of film funding” and 

filmmaking set in “the ministry 

of artistic integrity.” 

PROGRAM V 




Life, Liberty and the 

Pursuit of Happiness 

Tiffany Shlain, USA, 14 min 

Blue 

Christopher Mullins, USA, 23 min 

A Blue Christmas 


Phil Brody, USA, 15 min 

The Call 

Princess Monique, USA, 24 min 

Misdemeanor 

Jonathan LeMond, USA, 13 min 

Dies Iræ 

Alexandre Astier, France, 15 min 

A 50s style school documentary 

playfully offers up political and 

social satire on the state of 

reproductive rights in LIFE, 

LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF 

HAPPINESS • Slick computer 

animation is used to tell the 

adventurous tale of a small robot 

in BLUE • A BLUE CHRISTMAS 

follows a young girl’s quest to 

deliver holiday cheer in a rather 

unusual way • The past threatens 

to haunt a young woman and 

her boyfriend in THE CALL 

• A young pickpocket rediscovers 

her conscience in the delightful 

MISDEMEANOR • Arthur and 

the knights of the round table 

meet to discuss their current 

agenda in the very funny 

DIES IRÆ. 

PROGRAM VI 




Sometimes the Neighbor 

Adam Salky, USA, 22 min 

Everloving 

Steve Johnson & Jason Hamer, 

USA, 4 min

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One Way Ticket 

The Martyr 

John Dolan, USA, 12 min 


Wes Ball, USA, 8 min 


Shilpi Gupta, USA, 24 min 

Spidermen 

Harry Kellerman, USA, 8 min 


Marie-Pierre Huster, France, 28 min 

A teenaged boy becomes infatuated 

with his artistic neighbor 

and soon finds himself caught 

up in the secret details of her 

shadowy past in SOMETIMES 

THE NEIGHBOR • EVERLOVING 

is mesmerizing animation 

inspired by the paintings of 

Beksinksi and the music of Moby 

• A would-be suicide bomber 

faces a deep moral conflict in 

THE MARTYR • A lonely girl 

discovers that sometimes 

imagination and friendship go 

hand-in-hand in the delightful 

A WORK IN PROGRESS • 

WHEN THE STORM CAME 

documents the long-lingering 

affects of a mass rape by Indian 

security forces in a small village 

in Kashmir • In SPIDERMEN 

a young would-be superhero 

attempts to reclaim his confiscated 

Halloween candy, but finds 

he’s in for a surprise • Set in 

Paris, ONE WAY TICKET is a tale 

of “Love at First Sight” and the 

ever-changing twists of fate. 

PROGRAM VII 




In/Out 

Daryll Woon, USA, 11 min 

Firepussy 

Laurel Almerinda, USA, 19 min 

Eternal Gaze 

Sam Chen, USA, 16 min 

The Promethean Why the Anderson Children Didn’t Come to Dinner 

You’re Gonna Wake Up 

One Morning... 

Mark Jay, United Kingdom, 28 min 

Tango Octogenario 

David Licata, USA, 7 min 

Say You Love Me 

Adam Feinstein, USA, 16 min 

The Promethean 

D. Kohl Glass, USA, 13 min 

Struggling to get in step with 

society, a man begins to ponder 

the question of the man behind 

the glass in the provocative 

IN/OUT • FIREPUSSY invites us 

to “get lit” as we follow the erotically 

dangerous journey of a 

volatile pyromaniac Latina poet • 

Inspired by the life and torment 

of one of the greatest artists of 

the twentieth century—Alberto 

Giacometti—ETERNAL GAZE is 

a poignant story about an artist, 

his art and reciprocated love • 

Scoring drugs and overhearing a 

plot for robbery and murder are 

just some of the misadventures 

of two teens on a blind date in 

the romantic comedy YOU’RE 

GONNA WAKE UP ONE 

MORNING... • An argumentative 

elderly couple find a unique way 

of both reconnecting and turning 

back the clock in TANGO 

OCTOGENARIO • SAY YOU 

LOVE ME documents the relationship 

between a woman with 

AIDS and her healthy younger 

groom in the months and days 

leading up to their wedding 

• The nature of justice and the 

role of fate are questioned in 

THE PROMETHEAN. 

PROGRAM VIII 




The Anniversary 

Ham Tran, USA / Vietnam, 28 min 

2 + 2 

Benita Raphan & Clayton Hemmert, 

USA, 11 min 

Rent-a-Person 

Last Stand 

Gabe Torres, USA, 23 min 

Clean Flicks 

Jennifer Van Eenenaam, USA, 

14 min 

Tides 

James Pellerito, Italy / USA, 15 min 

Rent-a-Person 

Kurt Kuenne, USA, 12 min 

A Buddhist monk is haunted by 

his memories of war and betrayal 

on THE ANNIVERSARY of his 

brother’s death • 2 + 2 is an 

experimental, animated documentary 

about Nobel Laureate, 

Dr. John F. Nash Jr • A 12-yearold 

Lakota boy comes upon the 

last surviving soldier of The 

Battle of the Little Big Horn in 

LAST STAND • CLEAN FLICKS 

documents the ongoing legal 

battle over the editing and 

censoring of Hollywood films 

by a chain of “family friendly” 

video rental stores • A father in 

war-torn Macedonia is forced to 

make a difficult decision as he 

tries to save the life of his only 

son in TIDES • RENT-A-PERSON 

is a romantic musical comedy 

about a men’s room attendant 

who stumbles upon an idea that 

just may revolutionize rush hour 

traffic and his life. 

PROGRAM IX 




Night Dawn Day 

Marc Pilvinsky, USA, 10 min 

The Spirit of Gravity 

Victor Bellomo & David Pace, USA, 

6 min 

Mimmo & Paulie 

Domenic Silipo, USA, 28 min 

Why the Anderson 

Children Didn’t Come 

to Dinner 

Jamie Travis, Canada, 16 min 

Passage 

Jimmy Nabi, USA, 20 min 


Askia Holloway & Johnny Ramos, 

USA, 23 min 

In NIGHT DAWN DAY a woman 

wishes the world would go away. 

One day, it does. Is it the end 

of the world, or the beginning? 

• THE SPIRIT OF GRAVITY 

is a flight of fancy inspired by 

Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke 

Zarathustra” • Two lifelong 

friends discover they don’t know 

each other as well as they may 

have thought in the powerful 

MIMMO & PAULIE • Three 

seven-year-olds endure the 

culinary abuses of their mother 

in the dark tale WHY THE 

ANDERSON CHILDREN DIDN’T 

COME TO DINNER • A man 

who has been overcome with 

grief discovers new hope when 

he tries to help another man 

express his love for a young 

woman in the touching 

PASSAGE • The harsh conflicts 

between Black Americans and 

Africans from the continent 

of Africa are explored in the 

documentary AFRICAN 

AMERICAN. 

Independent Shorts continued 

on page 50

50 INDEPENDENT SHORTS 

Independent Shorts Award Winners 



Approximately 100 minutes 


After reviewing all nine programs of independent shorts, our 

panel of three judges (listed below) selects winners in different 

artistic categories. The winning shorts are screened and the 

winning filmmakers are recognized during this special program. 

A $500 cash prize is awarded to each winner.* 

Best Animated Short Film 

sponsored by SpaldJack, Inc. 

Best Documentary Short Film 

sponsored by Jules and Fran Belkin 

Best Live Action Short Film 

sponsored by Anna Vedouras and Jack Ramsey 

Best Ohio Short Film* 

sponsored by Kodak and Film Craft Lab 

Best Student Short Film 

sponsored by The William Worth Wardwell Scholarship Fund 

Best Women’s Short Film 

sponsored by Jinny and John Johnson 

Humanitarian Award 

anonymously sponsored 

The Process Award for Visual Excellence 

sponsored by John Williams and Process Creative Studios 

*The winner of the Best Ohio Short Film receives $1,000 worth of Kodak 

film stock and a $500 gift certificate from Film Craft Lab for processing. 

About the Judges 

David Bergholz recently retired as Executive Director of The 

George Gund Foundation following 14 years of service. Before 

coming to Cleveland in 1989, Mr. Bergholz served as Assistant 

Executive Director of the Allegheny Conference on Community 

Development in Pittsburgh. Mr. Bergholz currently serves on 

the boards of Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest and 

Angle Magazine. 

Joe Gunderman is the Production Coordinator at WKSU 89.7 FM. 

He also works freelance doing voices for commercials and narrations. 

Occasionally he acts on stage, most recently in “Of 

Mice And Men” at Beck Center. He’s a 20-year veteran of the 

NE Ohio media market and a vocational photographer. 

Lori McClung has been involved in youth policy and advocacy 

for nearly ten years. She is currently a fellow for education and 

youth development at the Federation for Community Planning. 

She previously was Director of Government Affairs for the 

Cleveland Municipal School District. Ms. McClung serves 

on the boards for the Greater Cleveland Media Development 

Corporation, the Coalition for Cleveland’s Children, the 

Cleveland Rape Crisis Center and Parents for Public Schools. 

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1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, Local Heroes 14 

2+2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

3AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

4TH FLOOR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 

5 SIDES OF A COIN . . . . . . . . . . Documentaries, Pan-African, World Tour . . . . . . . . 15 

6IXTYNIN9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 

African American . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts, Shorts Program IX . . . 11, 40, 49 

THE AGRONOMIST . . . . . . . . . . Documentaries, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

Andante Cantabile . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

The Anniversary . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Bazaar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Bedford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

BEST OF THE 

PRE-FEATURE SHORTS . . . . . . .Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

THE BIG EMPTY . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

Blue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

A Blue Christmas . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

BOOK OF LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 

THE BOOKSHOP . . . . . . . . . . . . Pan-African, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS . . . . . . Closing Night, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 

BUDDY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

BULGARIAN LOVERS . . . . . . . . . Ten Percent Cinema, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 

The Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

CARANDIRU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

Clean Flicks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

THE COLOR OF HAPPINESS . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

CUBA LIBRE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . 18 

DANDELION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Opening Night . . . . . . . . 12 

David Mamet’s Gilded Stones. . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 16 

DEEP BREATH . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

Deep Silence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Dies Iræ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

DIRTY WORK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, 

Local Heroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

DISTANT LIGHTS. . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 

DOUBLE DARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries . . . . . . . . 20 

Downpour Resurfacing . . . . . . . . Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

DREAM CUISINE . . . . . . . . . . . . Documentaries, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

Duke of Goo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 30 

Eternal Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Everloving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

FAITHLESS GAMES . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 

FAMILY SHORTS PROGRAM . . . . Family Films, Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

The Fine Art of Poisoning . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Firepussy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

THE FIRST NIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

THE FOREST. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pan-African, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR. . . . . Documentaries, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 

GARDEN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Documentaries, Ten Percent Cinema, World Tour . . 22 

GOLDFISH MEMORY . . . . . . . . . Ten Percent Cinema, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 

GRANNY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 

Gretchen Brettschneider 

Skirts Thirty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Family Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

THE HANDCUFF KING . . . . . . . . Family Films, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

HAPPY HOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 

THE HEAT’S ON . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

HOME OF THE BRAVE . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, Local Heroes 24 

Hummer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 29 

I ALWAYS WANTED TO 

BE A SAINT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 

I Want A Dog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS I. . . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS II . . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS III . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

FILL YOUR SHOPPING The 28th CART Cleveland > www.clevelandfilm.org International Film Festival < BUY YOUR TICKETS > Call 866.865.FILM 

INDEX NOTES: 

Feature Films are in ALL CAPS 

Central/Eastern European Film Competition 

The complete 28th CIFF Festival Calendar is on pages 35-38 

FILM FILMS INDEX A – Z 33 51 

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INDEPENDENT SHORTS IV. . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS V . . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS VI. . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS VII . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS VIII. . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS IX. . . . . Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

INDEPENDENT SHORTS 

AWARD WINNERS . . . . . . . . . . .Shorts Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 

In/Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

In the Bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts, Shorts Program IV . . . 11, 24, 48 

IN THE REALMS OF American Independents, Documentaries, 

THE UNREAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Partnership Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

Iota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

JALLA! JALLA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 

JUSTICE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

KITCHEN STORIES . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

KOPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE. . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 

Last Stand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

LEARNING TO LIE . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 

Left or Right for Love? . . . . . . . . Shorts Program III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Level 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

LIFE IS LIFE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 

Life, Liberty and the 

Pursuit of Happiness . . . . . . . . .Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

THE LOSS OF 

NAMELESS THINGS . . . . . . . . .American Independents, Documentaries . . . . . . . . 28 

LOVING GLANCES . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

Loving the In-Laws . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

The M Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 43 

MADE IN ESTONIA . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 

MADNESS AND GENIUS. . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

MAGNIFICO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 

MANGO KISS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Ten Percent Cinema . . . . 29 

The Martyr . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts, Shorts Program VI . . . 11, 21, 49 

Masterpiece Monday. . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts, Shorts Program III . . . . . . . . . 47, 48 

MERCI DOCTEUR REY . . . . . . . . Ten Percent Cinema, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

Mimmo & Paulie . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Misdemeanor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

MON-RAK TRANSISTOR . . . . . . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

Moo(n) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts, Pre Feature Shorts . . . . . . 11, 39, 47 

MOONLIGHT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 

MR. WRONG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Someone To Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 

MUTT BOY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 

MY BABY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 

MY TOWN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

NAKED WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, 

Partnership Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 

Night Dawn Day. . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

NINA SIMONE: 

LOVE SORCERESS . . . . . . . . . . .Documentaries, Partnership Presentations. . . . . . . 33 

NO REST FOR THE BRAVE . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 

Objects in the Mirror are 

Further Than They Appear . . . . . .Shorts Program III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

The Old Man, the Zither, and 

the Dragon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Family Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

ON THE SUNNY SIDE . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

ONE HAND CAN’T CLAP . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

ONE POINT O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 

One Way Ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

THE OPPOSITE SEX: American Independents, Documentaries, 

JAMIE’S STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ten Percent Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

THE OPPOSITE SEX: American Independents, Documentaries, 

RENE’S STORY . . . . . . . . . . . . .Ten Percent Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

THE OVEREATER . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 

A PANTHER IN AFRICA . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, Pan-African 40 

Passage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Passing Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

PATERNAL INSTINCT . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries, 

Ten Percent Cinema. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 

PERFECT STRANGERS. . . . . . . . Someone to Watch, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 

The Promethean. . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

RED LIGHT GO . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents, Documentaries . . . . . . . . 41 

REMAKE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 

Rent-a-Person . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Retirement Rehearsal . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

The Rubi Girls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Say You Love Me . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

The School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts, Shorts Program III . . . 11, 27, 48 

Scoub 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 17 

A Second Opinion . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Send Me An Angel . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 22 

Seventy Two Faced Liar. . . . . . . . Shorts Program II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

SEXUAL DEPENDENCY . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 

SOLDIERS OF THE ROCK . . . . . . Pan-African, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

Sometimes the Neighbor . . . . . . . Shorts Program VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Spidermen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts, Shorts Program VI. . . . . . . . . . 47, 49 

The Spirit of Gravity . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, 

WINTER…AND SPRING . . . . . . .World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

Still Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts, Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

THE STORY OF THE 

WEEPING CAMEL . . . . . . . . . . .Documentaries, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 

THE STROLL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

Suddenly It Rained. . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

SUMMER IN THE 

GOLDEN VALLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . Competition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS . . . Family Films, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 

Superfag. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 26 

Tango Octogenario . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

THE TENTH SUMMER . . . . . . . . Family Films, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 

Thespian X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 

THUNDER IN GUYANA . . . . . . . . Documentaries, World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 

THE TICKING MAN . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 

Tides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

Trip to the Dentist . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Tristella’s Tears . . . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

TRUTH AND LIES . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 

TWO DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Independents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 

Walkentalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 23 

War Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

Water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 40 

When the Storm Came . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts, Shorts Program VI . . . 11, 44, 49 

Why the Anderson Children 

Didn’t Come to Dinner . . . . . . . .Shorts Program IX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

WILBUR WANTS TO KILL 

HIMSELF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 

Within the Wall . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shorts Program I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 

A Woman and Circles . . . . . . . . . Pre-Feature Shorts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11, 32 

A Work in Progress . . . . . . . . . . . Family Shorts, Shorts Program VI. . . . . . . . . . 47, 49 

WORLD’S BEST COMMERCIALS . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 

YES NURSE, NO NURSE . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 

YOUNG ADAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . World Tour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 

You’re Gonna Wake Up 

One Morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Shorts Program VII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 

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Cinemas salutes 

the 28th Cleveland 

International Film 

Festival! 

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C I N E M A S 

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Country List 

A, B 

Australia 

In the Shadow of Eden 

Level 15 

Austria 

NO REST FOR THE BRAVE 

SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS 

Belgium 

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A SAINT 

Bolivia 

SEXUAL DEPENDENCY 

Bosnia and Herzegovina 

REMAKE 

SUMMER IN THE GOLDEN VALLEY 

Brazil 

In the Bar 

CARANDIRU 

Bulgaria 

JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM 

C, D 

Canada 

5 SIDES OF A COIN 

I Want a Dog 

Loving the In-Laws 


The School 

SUMMER WITH THE GHOSTS 

Why the Anderson Children 

Didn’t Come to Dinner 

Colombia 

THE FIRST NIGHT 

Czech Republic 

FAITHLESS GAMES 

ONE HAND CAN’T CLAP 

Denmark 

WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF 

Dominican Republic 

CUBA LIBRE 

Egypt 


E, F 

Estonia 

MADE IN ESTONIA 

Finland 

THE HANDCUFF KING 

France 

THE BOOKSHOP 

Dies Iræ 

THE FOREST 

GRANNY 

THE HEAT’S ON 

MERCI DOCTEUR REY 

A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN 

NINA SIMONE: LOVE SORCERESS 

NO REST FOR THE BRAVE 


THE OVEREATER 

REMAKE 

Scoub 2 


YOUNG ADAM 


Gabon 

THE FOREST 

G, H 

Germany 

DISTANT LIGHTS 

HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER 

LEARNING TO LIE 

ONE POINT O 

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, WINTER... 

AND SPRING 

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL 

THE TENTH SUMMER 

Greece 

HARD GOODBYES: MY FATHER 

Guyana 

THUNDER IN GUYANA 

Haiti 

THE AGRONOMIST 

Hungary 

THE COLOR OF HAPPINESS 

I, J, K 

India 

A NATION WITHOUT WOMEN 

International 

WORLD’S BEST COMMERCIALS 

Iran 

Bazaar 

DEEP BREATH 

Ireland 

GOLDFISH MEMORY 

Israel 

GARDEN 

LIFE IS LIFE 

Send Me An Angel 

Italy 

Tides 

TRUTH AND LIES 

Japan 

DREAM CUISINE 

LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE 

L, M, N 

Luxembourg 

I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A SAINT 

Mexico 

Deep Silence 

Mongolia 

THE STORY OF THE WEEPING CAMEL 

Morocco 

THE BOOKSHOP 

Netherlands 

MOONLIGHT 

YES NURSE, NO NURSE 

New Zealand 

MR. WRONG 

PERFECT STRANGERS 

Water 

Norway 

BUDDY 

KITCHEN STORIES 

Philippines 

MAGNIFICO 

Poland 

MY TOWN 

Portugal 

MY BABY 

O, P, Q, R 

Republic of Central Africa 

THE FOREST 

Romania 

ONE POINT O 

Russia 

GRANNY 

THE STROLL 

S, T 

Serbia and Montenegro 

LOVING GLANCES 

Slovakia 

FAITHLESS GAMES 

Slovenia 

ON THE SUNNY SIDE 

South Africa 

SOLDIERS OF THE ROCK 

South Korea 

MUTT BOY 

SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, 

WINTER… AND SPRING 

Spain 

4TH FLOOR 

BULGARIAN LOVERS 

Sweden 

JALLA! JALLA! 

KOPS 

MY BABY 


Tanzania 

A PANTHER IN AFRICA 

Thailand 

6IXTYNIN9 

LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE 

MON-RAK TRANSISTOR 

Tunisia 

THE BOOKSHOP 

Turkey 

REMAKE 

U, V 

United Kingdom 

BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS 

Iota 

Left or Right for Love? 

Moo(n) 

Seventy Two Faced Liar 


Survey 

Thespian X 

THE TICKING MAN 

WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF 

YOUNG ADAM 

You’re Gonna Wake Up One Morning… 

USA 

1 

2 + 2 

3am 

Adante Cantabile 


THE AGRONOMIST 

The Anniversary 

Bazaar 

NOTES: 

Feature Films are in ALL CAPS 

Bedford 

THE BIG EMPTY 

Blue 


BOOK OF LOVE 

The Call 

Clean Flicks 

CUBA LIBRE 

DANDELION 

David Mamet’s Gilded Stones 

DIRTY WORK 

DOUBLE DARE 

Downpour Resurfacing 

Duke of Goo 

Eternal Gaze 

Everloving 

The Fine Art of Poisoning 

Firepussy 

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR 

Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts Thirty 

HAPPY HOUR 

HOME OF THE BRAVE 

Hummer 

In/Out 

IN THE REALMS OF THE UNREAL 

JUSTICE 

Last Stand 

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit 

of Happiness 

THE LOSS OF NAMELESS THINGS 

The M Word 

MADNESS AND GENIUS 

MANGO KISS 

The Martyr 

MERCI DOCTEUR REY 

Mimmo & Paulie 

Misdemeanor 

NAKED WORLD 

Night Dawn Day 

Objects in the Mirror are Further 

Than They Appear 

The Old Man, the Zither, 

and the Dragon 

THE OPPOSITE SEX: JAMIE’S STORY 

THE OPPOSITE SEX: RENE’S STORY 

A PANTHER IN AFRICA 

Passage 

PATERNAL INSTINCT 

The Promethean 

RED LIGHT GO 

Rent-A-Person 

Retirement Rehearsal 

The Rubi Girls 

Say You Love Me 

A Second Opinion 

SEXUAL DEPENDENCY 

Sometimes the Neighbor 

Spidermen 

The Spirit of Gravity 

Still Life 


Superfag 

Tango Octogenario 

THUNDER IN GUYANA 

Tides 

A Trip to the Dentist 

Tristella’s Tears 

TWO DAYS 

Walkentalk 

War Song 


Within the Wall 

A Woman and Circles 


Vietnam 

The Anniversary

54 PRINT SOURCES The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

Print Sources 

A 

Adriana Chiesa Enterprises 

Via Barnaba Oriani 24/A 

00197 Rome 

ITALY 

Tel: (39 06) 8086 052 

Fax: (39 06) 8068 7855 

AFDA 

18 Lower Scott St. 

Observatory 

7925 Cape Town 

SOUTH AFRICA 

Tel (27 21) 448 7600 

Fax: (27 21) 448 7610 

garth@filmdramaschool.co.za 

Armada Pictures International 

9720 Wilshire Blvd, 5th Floor 

Beverly Hills, CA 90212 

Tel: (310) 205 9600 

Fax: (310) 205 9610 

ydanielak@armada-pictures.com 

www.armada-pictures.com 

Aronson Films 

35 E. 20th, 2nd Floor 

New York, NY 10003 

Tel: (212) 253 6941 

Fax: (212)253 88 63 

josharon@aol.com 

www.aronsonfilms.com 

B 

Ballistic Media 

1237 1/4 Haverhurst Dr. 

Los Angeles, CA 90046 

mmayeux@ballistic-media.com 

Bavaria Film International 

Bavariafilmplatz 

82031 Geiselgasteig 

GERMANY 

Tel: (49 89) 6499 2686 

Fax: (49 89) 6499 3720 

bavaria.international@bavaria-film.de 

www.bavaria-film-international.de 

Behnegar 

78 Eastt Motahari Ave. 

15667 Tehran 

IRAN 

Tel: (98 21) 841 0585 

Fax: (98 21) 206 1137 

festivals@behnegar.com 

www.behnegar.com 

Beta Cinema 

Robert-Buerkle-Strasse 3 

85737 Ismaning 

GERMANY 

Tel. (49 89) 9956 2707 

Fax (49 89) 9956 2703 

ipalluaud@betacinema.com 

www.betacinema.com 

Big Noise 

56 Walker Street, 4th Floor 


Tel: (646) 641 4454 

Fax: (646) 349 4200 

rick@bignoisefilms.com 

http://www.bignoisetactical.org 

Bloody Mary Productions 

78 av. Champs-Elyées 

75008 Paris 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 1) 4256 1070 

Fax: (33 1) 4256 1071 

bloodymaryprod@yahoo.fr 

BocaBoca Producciones 

Claudio Coello 17 bis 

28001 Madrid 

SPAIN 

Tel: (34 91) 566 1500 

Fax: (34 91) 566 1515 

sales@bocaboca.com 

www.bocaboca.com 

C 

Centro Films 

131 Varick Street Suite 1010 


Tel: (212) 367 9075 

Fax: (212) 367 9078 

rodrigo@centrofilms.com 

Cineclick Asia 

3F. Incline B/D 

891-37 Daechi-dong 

Gangnam-gu 

135-280 Seoul 

SOUTH KOREA 

Tel: (82 2) 538 0211 

Fax: (82 2) 538 0479 

yoojink@cinclickasia.com 

www.cinclickasia.com 

Cinema Vault 

434 Queen Street East 

Toronto, Ontario M5A 1T5 

CANADA 

Tel: (416) 363 6060 

Fax: (416) 363 2305 

nickjensen@cinemavault.com 

www.cinemavault.com 

Cinemascope 

8 Liuben Karavelov Str. 

Sofia 1000 

BULGARIA 

Fax: (359 2) 980 7055 

Nichev@omega.bg 

Cinexport 

78 Champs Elysees 

75008 Paris 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 1) 45 62 49 45 

Fax: (33 1) 45 63 85 26 

cinexport@wanadoo.fr 

The Coproduction Office 

Mommsenstrasse 27 

10629 Berlin 

GERMANY 

Tel: (49 30) 32 77 78 79 

Fax: (49 30) 323 20 91 

festivals@thecopro.de 

CP Films 

Cpfilms3@aol.com 

Criterion Films 

8238-40 Lehigh 

Morten Grove, IL 60053 

Tel: (800) 890 9494 

www.criterionpicusa.com 

D, E 

Diorama Films LLC 

P.O. Box 1547 

La Canada, CA 91011 

Tel: (323) 854 2823 

info@realmsoftheunreal.com 

www.realmsoftheunreal.com 

Dragon Films 

25th Kyutei Bldg. #805 

3-13-22 Sendagaya 

Shibuya-ku 

151-0051 Tokyo 

JAPAN 

Tel: (81 3) 3405 7888 

Fax: (81 3) 3405 7887 

info@dragonfilmsinc.com 

www.dragonfilmsinc.com 

Ryan Eslinger 

1242 Ticonderoga 

Chesterfield, MO 63017 

Tel: (917)576 5309 

RAE675849@yahoo.com 

F 

Fig Films 

32 Namal Yaffo 

68003 el Aviv 

ISRAEL 

Tel: (972 3) 681 0644 

Fax: (972 3) 518 1676 

info@figfilms.com 

www.figfilms.com 

Film and Music Ent. Ltd 

34, Bloomsbury St 

London WC1B 3QJ 

UNITED KINGDOM 

Tel: (44 207) 636 9292 

Fax: (44 207) 636 9229 

info@fame.uk.com 

www.fame.uk.com 

Films Distribution 

6 rue l’Ecole de Medecine 

75006 Paris 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 1) 5310 3399 

Fax: (33 1) 5310 3398 

wisnia@filmsdistibution.com 

www.filmsdistribution.com 

The Finnish Film Foundation 

Kanavakatu 12 

FIN-00160 Helsinki 

FINLAND 

Tel: (358 9) 6220 300 

Fax: (358 9) 6220 3060 

aretta.vahala@ses.fi 

ses@ses.fi 

First Look/Overseas Film Group 

8000 Sunset Blvd., East Penthouse 


Tel: (323) 337 1000 

Fax: (323) 337 1037 

tnaiman@firstlookmedia.com 

www.firstlookmedia.com 

Fortissimo Film Sales 

VeeMarkt 77-79 

1019 DA Amsterdam 

NETHERLANDS 

Tel: (31 20) 627 3215 

Fax: (31 20) 626 1155 

info@fortissimo.nl 

www.fortissimofilms.com 

Forum Sarajevo 

Mis Irbina 2 

71000 Sarajevo 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 

Tel: (387 33) 668 463 

Fax: (387 33) 443 616 

forum@bih.net.ba 

G, H 

goingdigitalfilms, LLC 

15 Hunting Trail 

Chagrin Falls, OH 44022 

Tel: (440) 247 5453 

tohara@gdfilms.com 

http://www.gdfilms.com 

Happy Hour LLC 

7211 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite 400 

West Hollywood, CA 90046 

Tel: (323) 876 5920 

Fax: (323) 876 5924 

EMKlein@OharaKlein.com 

www.oharaklein.com 

Haim Ze Haim Ltd. 

12, Levi Itzhak St. 

62483 Tel-Aviv 

ISRAEL 

Tel: (972 3) 523 75 57 

Fax: (972 3) 522 81 95 

mizadam@netvision.net.il 

I, J, K 

IFC Films 

11 Penn Plaza, 15th Floor 


www.ifcfilms.com 

pkindlon@rainbow-media.com 

Ignatius Entertainment/ 

Vagrant Films Canada 

1055A Forestwood Dr, Unit 109 

Mississauga, ON L5C 2T8 

CANADA 

Tel: (905) 272 8123 

flapuz@ica.net 

Inferno Distribution 

8000 W. Sunset Blvd, Suite 8310 


Tel: (323) 848 8073 

Fax: (323) 848 8963 

maclean@infernodistribution.com 

www.dreamingofjulia.homestead.com 

International Advertising Festival Ltd. 

c/o USA Today 

535 Madison Ave. 


Tel: (212) 715 2100 

Fax: (212) 935 5576 

slilley@usatoday.com 

Juntos Films 

4119 Jackson Ave 

Culver City CA 90232 

Tel: (310) 202 7288 

lightbright@sbcglobal.net 

KSK Studios 

12 West 27th St., 8th Floor 


Tel: (212) 481 3111 

Fax: (212) 481 5404 

manny@kskstudios.com 

www.kskstudios.com 

L 

La Fête 

387 St. Paul Street West 

Montreal, QC h2Y 2A7 

CANADA 

Tel: (514) 848 0417 

Fax: (514) 848 0064 

rdemers@lafete.com 

www.lafete.com 

Lifesize Entertainment & Releasing 

194 Elmwood Drive, Suite 2 

Parsippany, NJ 07054 

Tel: (973) 884 4884 

Fax: (973) 428 9550 

bfrigeri@lser.net 

www.lser.net 

Lucky Man Films 

Perlova 1 

110 00 Prague 1 

CZECH REPUBLIC 

Tel: (420 2) 2166 7302 

Fax: (420 2) 2166 7521 

production@luckmanfilms.com 

www.luckymanfilms.com 

M 

Magyar Filmuió 

Városligeti Fasor 38 

1068 Budapest 

HUNGARY 

Tel: (36 1) 351 7760 

Fax: (36 1) 352 6734 

kati.vajda@filmunio.hu 

www.filmunio.hu

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Mango Me Productions 

2501 Kenilworth Ave. 


Tel: (323) 664 2394 

Fax: (323) 664 2035 

sascharice@sbcglobal.net 

Aaron Matthews 

151 W. Mitchell Ave. 

State College, PA 16803 

Tel: (814) 237 1614 

Fax: (718) 208 5644 

aarmatt@hotmail.com 

www.apantherinafrica.com 

Sean McGinly 

1951 Malcolm Avenue, #201 


Tel: (310) 467 5047 

mcginly@aol.com 

www.two2days.com 

Media Luna Entertainment 

Hochstadenstrasse 1-3 

D-50674 Cologne 

GERMANY 

Tel: (49 221) 139 2222 

Fax: (49 221) 139 2224 

info@medialuna-entertainment.de 

www.medialuna-entertainment.de 

N, O, P 

Nameless Films 

1990 Newell Rd 

Palo Alto, CA 94302 

Tel: (650) 328 1529 

Fax: (650) 325 3211 

bill@thelossofnamelessthings.com 

www.thelossofnamelessthings.com 

Negativ Film Productions 

Ostrovní 30 

11000 Prague 1 

Czech Republic 

Tel: (420 606) 634 688 

Fax: (420 2) 208 06353 

riley@tiscali.cz 

www.nevernehry.cz 

New Zealand Film Commission 

PO Box 11-546 

Wellington 

NEW ZEALAND 

Tel: (64 4) 382 7685 

Fax: (64 4) 384 9719 

kathleen@nzfilm.co.nz 

www.nzfilm.co.nz 

Nights, LLC 

PO Box 46850 


Tel: (310) 283 3262 

Fax: (323) 464 4887 

ahrensCA@aol.com 

Norwegian Film Institute 

P.O. Box 482 Sentrum 

N-0105 Oslo 

NORWAY 

Tel: (47 22) 47 45 00 

Fax: (47 22) 47 45 97 

stineo@nfi.no 

www.nfi.no 

Evan Oppenheimer 

12 East 14th St., 5C 


Tel: (212) 924 4994 

Fax: (801) 217 5834 

evan@nyc.rr.com 

Palm Pictures 

601 W. 26th St., 11th Floor 


Tel: (212) 320 3600 

Fax: (212) 320 3609 

ryan.werner@palmpictures.com 

www.palmpictures.com 

R 

Refresh Productions 

Splitska 11 

71000 Sarajevo 

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 

Tel: (387 3) 325 8150 

Fax: (387 3) 321 1093 

ljeto@refresh.ba 

www.refresh.ba/ljeto 

Regent Entertainment/here!Films 

10990 Wilshire Blvd, 18th Floor 


T: (310) 806 4290 

F: (310) 806 4268 

mreinhart@regnetentertainment.com 

www.regententertainment.com 

Runaway Films 

1330 Rhode Island St. 

San Francisco, CA 94107 

Tel: (415) 821 2448 

Fax: (415) 293 0806 

amicheli@mindspring.com 

www.runawayfilms.com 

S 

David Sampliner 

30 Crosby St. #4A 


Tel: (212) 625 9026 

vidnick@verizon.net 

http://www.dirtyworkdoc.com 

Samsa Film 

Rue de Luxembourg, 238C 

L-8077 Bergrange 

LUXEMBOURG 

Tel: (352) 45 18 601 

Fax: (352) 44 24 29 

Samsa.film@filmnet.lu 

www.samsa-film.com 

Seventh Art Releasing 

7551 Sunset Blvd., Suite 104 


Tel: (323) 845 1455 

Fax: (323) 845 4717 

seventhart@7thart.com 

http://www.7thart.com 

Sipapu Films 

367 Oakdale Rd. NE., Suite 8 

Atlanta, GA 30307 

Tel: (404) 688 3270 

yuanne@sipapufilms.com 

www.sipapufilms.com 

Slovenian Film Fund 

Miklosˇičeva 38 

1000 Ljubljana 

SLOVENIA 

Tel: (38 6 61) 431 3175 

Fax: (38 6 61) 430 6250 

festivals@film-sklad.si 

www.sklad.si 

Sony Pictures Classics 

550 Madison Ave. , 8th Floor , Rm. 840 


Tel: (212) 833 5621 

Fax: (212) 833 4190 

tom_prassis@spe.sony.com 

www.sonyclassics.com 

Staccato Films 

Sumatrakade 611 

1019 PS Amsterdam 

NETHERLANDS 

Tel: (31 20) 419 04 04 

Fax: (31 20) 419 05 05 

info@staccatofilms.com 

www.staccatofilms.com 

Star Production 

16, rue du 22 Novembre 

67000 Strasbourg 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 3) 88 22 73 23 

Fax: (33 3) 88 75 59 16 

samira@cinema-star.com 

Studio Rock 

Tel: (7 095) 229 0477 

rock@gagarinclub.ru 

Swedish Film Institute 

P.O. Box 27126 

SE 10252 Stockholm 

SWEDEN 

Tel: (46 8) 665 1150 

Fax: (46 8) 666 36 98 

gunnar.almer@sfi.se 

www.sfi.se 

T, U, V 

Telewizja Polska S.A. 

17, J.P. Woronicza St 

00-999 Warsaw 

POLAND 

Tel: (48 22) 547 6774 

Fax: (48 22) 547 8070 

aleksandra.biernacka@waw.tvp.pl 

www.tvp.pl 

TF1 International 

18 Quai du Point du Jour 

92100 Boulogne 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 1) 4141 4267 

Fax: (33 1) 4141 3160 

capiot@tf1.fr 

www.tf1.fr 

ThinkFilm 

155 Avenue of the Americas, 7th floor 


Tel: (646) 293 9400 

Fax: (646) 293 9407 

dfenkel@thinkfilmcompany.com 

www.thinkfilmcompany.com 

TLA Releasing 

234 Market St., 5th Floor 

Philadelphia, PA 19106 

Tel: (215) 733 0608 

Fax: (215) 733 0637 

jennifera@phillyfests.com 

www.tlareleasing.com 

Torromfilm AB 

Tobaksspinnargatan 7 

SE-11736 Stockholm 

SWEDEN 

Tel: (46) 8669 4740 

Fax: (46) 884 2133 

torromfilm@torromfilm.a.se 

www.torromfilm.a.se 

Two Spirit Productions LLC 

525 W. 22nd St., Suite 3D 


Tel: (212) 254 4748 

Fax: (212) 647 8396 

twospiritproductions@hotmail.com 

http://twospiritproductions@hotmail.com 

Vision International 

27, Rue De Solférino 

92100 Boulogne-Billancourt 

FRANCE 

Tel: (33 1) 4694 8802 

Fax: (33 1) 4694 0169 

International@visiongroupe.com 

Wolfe Films & Video 

Tel: (323) 468 8079 

Cel: (323) 610 8128 

Email: orlyravid@comcast.net 

www.wolfevideo.com 

Women Make Movies 

462 Broadway, 5th Floor 


Tel: (212) 925 0606 

cinema@wmm.com 

www.wmm.com 

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PAST WINNERS 

2003 (27th CIFF) — SPELLBOUND 

Directed by Jeff Blitz 

2002 (26th CIFF) — AUTUMN SPRING 

Directed by Vladimír Michálek 

2001 (25th CIFF) — BIG EDEN 

Directed by Thomas Bezucha, USA 

2000 (24th CIFF) — THE BUTTERFLY 

(AKA “THE BUTTERFLY’S TONGUE”) 

Directed by José Luis Cuerda, Spain 

1999 (23rd CIFF) — RETURN WITH HONOR 

Directed by Terry Sanders and Freida Lee-Mock, USA 

1998 (22nd CIFF) — CHARACTER 

Directed by Mike van Diem, The Netherlands 

1997 (21st CIFF) — SHALL WE DANCE 

Directed by Masayuki Suo, Japan 

1996 (20th CIFF) — FIDDLEFEST 

(AKA “SMALL WONDERS”) 

Directed by Allen Miller, USA 

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release, a feature whose title and nature are a closely guarded 

secret, even from the CIFF administration, until show time. Thus, 

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1995 (19th CIFF) — THE SUM OF US 

Directed by Kevin Dowling and 

Geoff Burton, Australia 

1994 (18th CIFF) — BACKBEAT 

Directed by Iain Softly, Great Britain 

1993 (17th CIFF) — INTO THE WEST 

Directed by Mike Newell, Great Britain 

1992 (16th CIFF) — ENCHANTED APRIL 

Directed by Mike Newell, Great Britain 

1991 (15th CIFF) — CROSS MY HEART 

Directed by Jacques Fansten, France 

1990 (14th CIFF) — CINEMA PARADISO 

Directed by Guiseppe Tomatore, Italy 

1989 (13th CIFF) — THE BEAST 

Directed by Kevin Reynolds, USA 

1988 (12th CIFF) — GRAND HIGHWAY 

Directed by Jean-Loup Hubert, France 

Spellbound 

Visit our new film archive at 

www.clevelandfilm.org

60 TICKET INFORMATION The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

Ticket Prices 

Regular Screenings 

Members $7.00 

Non-Members $9.00 

Students/Seniors, day of show only $7.00 

Voucher/Ticket Orders 

Save when you buy any 6 or 12 vouchers or 

tickets. Not valid for Opening/Closing Nights 

or other special events 

6-Pack 

Members $37.50 


12-Pack 



A Note About Vouchers: If you haven’t decided on all the 

films you want to see, you can round out your 6 or 12 tickets 

with vouchers. However, vouchers will not admit you to a 

film. Vouchers must be exchanged in person for tickets to 

specific screenings. Exchange as early as possible to avoid 

stand-by or sellouts! 

Opening Night Gala 

Film and Party and Parking 



Film Only and Parking 



Closing Night 

Film and Reception 



Important 

No refunds, no exchanges (except Stand-By). 

During the CIFF, doors open daily 

at 11:30 AM. 

Ticket holders and passholders who do not 

arrive ten minutes before showtime cannot 

be guaranteed a seat. 

All films are subject to change. 

No one under eight admitted, except to Family 

Films. All children must have a ticket. 

No Tower City Cinemas or Cleveland 

Cinemas discount tickets, coupons or 

passes accepted. 

Sold Out? Nope – 

Just on Stand-By! 

Only about two-thirds of the tickets to any film 

are sold in advance so that we can save room 

for our passholders. Therefore, even for “sold 

out” films, we can often accommodate many 

patrons just before showtime. Numbered 

Stand-By tickets are sold beginning one hour 

before showtime, outside the theater lobby. 

(Be aware that a line sometimes forms earlier 

than this.) Then, ten minutes before the film 

begins, Stand-By ticket holders are admitted, 

in numerical order, on a space-available basis 

until the theater is full. Those who cannot get 

in are refunded in full. Cash or vouchers only, 

please—no checks or credit cards. 

Hint: buy your tickets early or, better yet, 

buy a pass to avoid Stand-By! 

How To Buy Tickets 

For members only: Tickets on sale February 27, 2004 at 10:00 AM 

via internet, phone, mail, or fax. For the general public: Tickets on 

sale March 5, 2004 at 10:00 AM via all five options below. 

1 New Internet-based Ticketing 

System for the 28th Cleveland 

International Film Festival 

Purchasing tickets will be easiest on our 

secure web site, http://www.clevelandfilm.org 

New this year—an on-line shopping cart 

so that you can purchase all of your tickets 

at once 

No per-ticket “convenience” charges. 

A nominal handling fee of $2.00 per order 

CFS members will be given a code so that 

they can purchase tickets before the general 

public and take advantage of discounts on 

passes, tickets, and merchandise 

Tickets will be sold until 3 PM on the day 

before the screening. 

Orders received on or before March 12, 

2004 will be mailed; otherwise, tickets will 

be held at Tower City Cinemas. 

2 Phone via 866.865.FILM (toll-free) 

Toll-free calls will be directed into CFS 

offices in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. 





2004 will be mailed; otherwise, tickets will 

be held at Tower City Cinemas. 

3 U.S. Mail 

Order forms will be downloadable from the 

CFS web site and included on page 61 of the 

28th CIFF Preview Guide. 



2004 will be mailed; otherwise, tickets will be 

held at Tower City Cinemas. 

4 In Person via Film Festival Store 

Opening on March 5, 2004 and located in 

Tower City Cinemas on The Avenue at Tower 

City Center (230 W. Huron Road, Cleveland— 

Downtown/Public Square). 

Store hours between March 5 and 

March 18 are as follows: 

Monday–Saturday, 11 AM – 8 PM, and 

Sunday, 12 noon – 6 PM 

Store hours between March 19 and 

March 28 are as follows: 

11:30 AM – 9:30 PM 

No handling fees 

5 

Fax via 216.623.0103 

(Credit card orders only, please.) 




2004 will be mailed; otherwise, tickets will be 

held at Tower City Cinemas. 

A nominal handling fee of $2.00 per order. 

Festival Passes 

Easy access to all the films 

you want to see. 

Movie Mogul Subscription Pass 

Members: $600 Non-Members: $650 

Opening Night Gala ticket 

Closing Night Film and Reception ticket 

Access to all regularly scheduled 

CIFF screenings 

Reserved seating for each Festival film 

Free valet parking or self-parking at 

Tower City Center (when available) 

Hospitality Suite privileges 

Festival poster, T-shirt, and special gift 

Acknowledgement in the Preview Guide 

insert (if purchased by 3/12/04) 

Complimentary invitations to Cleveland 

Film Society special events throughout 

the year 

Executive Producer 

Subscription Pass 

Members: $400 Non-members: $450 





Seating in the reserved section for 

each screening 

Free valet parking or self-parking at 

Tower City Center (when available) 


Festival poster and T-shirt 


insert (if purchased by 3/12/04) 

Director Subscription Pass 

Members: $300 Non-members: $350 





Free self-parking at Tower City Center 

(when available) 


Festival poster 


insert (if purchased by 3/12/04)

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Name(s) 

CFS Membership # E-mail Address 

Address 

City State Zip 

Phone (Day) Phone (Evening) 

Ticket Prices 

Regular Screenings 

Members $7.00 


Students/Seniors, day of show only $7.00 

Group Rate/10 or more, per ticket $7.00 

(Call 866.865.FILM for Group Sales) 

Special Orders 

CFS Membership See page 59 

Individual @ $40 = $ 

Dual @ $65 = $ 

Opening Night Gala See page 12 

Members @ $100 = $ 

Non-Members @ $125 = $ 

Opening Night Film Only See page 12 

Members @ $20 = $ 


Closing Night Film and Reception 

See page 13 

Members @ $35 = $ 


Movie Mogul Pass See page 60 

Members @ $600 = $ 


Executive Producer Pass See page 60 

Members @ $400 = $ 


Director Pass See page 60 

Members @ $300 = $ 


6-Pack 6 vouchers, See page 60 

Members @ $37.50 = $ 

Non-Members @ $47.50 = $ 

12-Pack 12 vouchers, See page 60 

Members @ $75 = $ 


If you wish to select any tickets to specific screenings at 

this time, enter your selection on the form at right. 

Ticket Order Form 

*For Ticket Codes, 

see Calendar (pages 35-38) 

or film listings. 

Film Title Date 

Ticket 

Code* Qty. x Price = Total 

For Office Use Only 

$ 

Charge my: 

Master Card 

VISA 

AmEx 

Discover 

Card # exp. date 

Signature 

Enclosed find my check 

payable to Cleveland Film Society 

2510 Market Avenue 


Please initial to authorize adjustment to credit card 

total due to buyer miscalculation or program changes. 

Example: The Bookshop 3/27 27N 2 x $9.00 = $18.00 

x = 

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Special Orders Subtotal $ 

Handling Fee $ 2.00 

Tax-Deductible Challenge Match Donation (see below) $ 

TOTAL $ 

$25,000 Challenge Match. Thanks to the generosity of The Cleveland 

Foundation, your kindness will go twice as far: for every dollar raised through new 

or increased individual donations, we will be given the matching amount up to 

$25,000. Help us accomplish our mission to promote artistically and culturally 

significant film arts through educational and exhibition. Please make a taxdeductible 

contribution with your order today! 

Date Order Filled Initials Cash In-Person Only

62 BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND COMMITTEES The 28th Cleveland International Film Festival 

CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY 

BOARD OF DIRECTORS 

Timothy J. Downing, President 

William E. Koeth, Vice President 

Anna Vedouras, Treasurer 

David K. Ream, Secretary 

Jeffrey F. Allen 

Graham Ashmead, M.D. 

Jules Belkin 

Anne E. Bloomberg 

Peg Clifton 

Dan Conway 

Richard Crownover, M.D. 

Elizabeth Dellinger 

Howard Freedman 

Debra Gold 

George Gund III 

Marilyn Harris 

Jinny Johnson 

Toby Devan Lewis 

Alan Gordon Lipson 

Patrick McFadden 

Libby Casale McNeece 

Mark Schwartz 

Mark Smith 

Brian Sullivan 

Roy L. Turnell 

Courtney G. Watson 

Andrew Watterson 

Chris Carmody, ex-officio 

The CFS Board of Directors 

Invites You to Save the Dates 

for The 29th Cleveland 

International Film Festival: 

March 10-20, 2005 

PROGRAMMING COMMITTEES 

Shorts Programming 

Committee 

Kim Neuendorf 

Cindy Penter 

Paul Sloop, Chair 

Rob Thomas 

Shorts Selection Committee 

Emily Annandono 

Linda Bourassa 

Tim Callahan 

Peg Clifton 

Ellen Darby 

Jillian Davis 

Mara Evans 

Rice Hershey 

Michelle Johnson 

Mike Kelly 

Valda Lewis 

Sheila Markowitz 

Patrick McFadden 

Jared McGrath 

Molly Merryman 

Todd Mesek 

Michelle Morad 

Michelle Murphy 

Mercedes Noble-Reyes 

Toni Oliverio 

Kim Ann Pfau 

Miguel Polanco 

Kevin Poor 

Steve Probert 

Juniper Sage 

Mark Smith 

Lauren Steiner 

Barry Underwood 

Anna Vedouras 

Feature Screening Committee 

Mindy Benson 

Ed Boyte 

Kathie Brown 

Randy Brown 

Daniel Carl 

Charles Caton 

Donna Cornett 

Pierre Davignon 

Thom Duke 

Mary Jane Finan 

Bernadette Gillota 

Debra Gold 

David Huffman 

Mike Kechisen 

Robert Madison 

Jamie Marino 

Jason Nightingale 

Steven Petras 

Irene Shinkle 

Joe Tegreene 

Jane Temple 

Elaine Vincent 

Jennifer Vinson 

Eileen Walsh 

Daiv Whaley 

Program Advisory Committee 

Mindy Benson 

Chuck Caton 

Donna Cornett 

Thom Duke 

Shirin Ghareeb 

Anthony Gittens 

Tom Miller 

Jack Ramsey 

Amy Sparks 

Bonita Tiffany 

Anna Vedouras

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CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY EXECUTIVE STAFF 

Marcie Goodman, Executive Director 

William Frank Guentzler, Director of Programming 

Patrick Shepherd, Development Director 

Gail Sullivan, Financial Consultant 

Spalding and Jackson, Official Greeters 

28th CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL STAFF 

Karen Bloomfield, Co-editor, The Daily 

Jessica Bragg, Passholder Liaison and Merchandise Manager 

Dave Brogan, Ticket Sales 

Charles Cassady, Synopses Writer 

Pam Cerio, Preview Guide Designer 

Eric Dicken, Theater Operations 

Thomas A. Duke, Patron Services Associate, Archivist 

Jared Earley, Theater Operations 

John Farina, FilmForums Coordinator 

Pam Fine, Cinema for Seniors Assistant Coordinator 

Maureen Fitzpatrick, Volunteer Coordinator 

Linda Goldstone, Ticket Sales 

Ron Guentzler, Print Traffic Coordinator 

Todd Heckeler, Webmaster and Ticket System Designer 

Emily Ingalls, Guest Relations Coordinator 

Jason Nightingale, Liaison to the Projection Booth 

Loresa Novy, Ticket Sales 

Amy Pappas, Cultural Journeys Coordinator 

Ben Parsons, Preview Guide Distribution Coordinator 

Allison Perrett, Ticket Sales 

Judy Price, Hospitality Suite Coordinator 

Paul Putman, Theater Operations Manager 

Beth Radisek, FilmSlam Coordinator and Stand-By Manager 

Damon Reaves, Ticket Sales 

Tim Safranek, Photographer 

Debby Samples, Office Assistant 

Jae Schneider, Ticket Sales 

Janus Small Associates, Cinema for Seniors Coordinator 

Laura Smith, Ticket Sales 

Tim Smith, Patron Services Assistant 

Amy Sparks, Target Marketing Manager 

Dewayne Tindall, Theater Operations 

Jennifer Vinson, Challenge Match and Membership Campaign Coordinator 

Andrea Wedren, General Marketing and Media Manager 

Daiv Whaley, Theater Operations 

Brooke Willis, Preview Guide Distribution Coordinator 

Jim Wolan, Co-editor, The Daily 

Tim Yanko, Special Events Coordinator 

Mark Yasenchack, Business Operations Manager 

CLEVELAND CINEMAS/ 

TOWER CITY CINEMAS 

Jonathan R. Forman, President 

Kenneth Young, Director of Operations 

Jackie Koral, Office Manager 

Lisa Craig, Director of Marketing 

Joe Ruffner, Marketing Assistant 

Kim Brazina, Administrative Assistant 

Ron Fleming, Facilities Coordinator 

Charles Flowers, General Manager 

William Slate, Assistant Manager 

Melody Shiflet, Assistant Manager 

Jeffrey Hoyt, Assistant Manager 

Jamie Smith, General Manager, 

Shaker Square Cinemas 

PROJECTIONIST UNION IATSE 

LOCAL 160 

John Galinac, Business Manager Local 160 

William Taggart, Booth Manager 

Phillip Luschek, Chief Projectionist 

Scott Woodruff, Lead Projectionist 

Peter Balint, Senior Digital/Video Technician 

PROJECTIONISTS, DIGITAL/ 

VIDEO TECHNICIANS 

Fred Brown 

Chris Helaney 

Jeff Johnson 

Orville Kist 

Vincent Mercurio 

Ruben Musheyev 

Robert Potoma 

Michael Priolo 

Cline Siegenthaler 

Photo: Tim Safranek


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