I n t e r n a t i o n a l F i l m F e s t i v a l V

14-20 October 2013Darkside Cinema, Corvallis OR

Organized by the School of Language, Culture, and SocietyOregon State University

http://oregonstate.edu/cla/slcs/node/51

Sixth International Film Festival:13-17 October, 2014

S p o n s o r s

School of Language, Culture, and Society

School of Writing, Literature, and Film

Center for the Humanities

School of Public Policy

Division of International Programs

Vice Provost for Student Affairs

School of History, Philosophy, and Religion

Darkside Cinema

Zeitgeist Northwest

All films are free, subtitled in English, and open to the public.

M o n d a y , 1 4 O c t o b e r

5 PM

Blancanieves - 2012

Spain

Drama

101 minutes

7 PM

Rentaneko - 2012(Rent-A-Cat)

Japan

Comedy

110 minutes

Once upon a time there was a little girl who had never known her moth-er. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by her evil stepmother. One day she ran away with a troupe of dwarves, and became a legend.

Set in southern Spain in 1920s, Blancanieves is a tribute to silent films. Blancanieves is also Spain’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2012.

Directed by: Pablo Berger

Sayoko rents out cats to help lonely people fill the emptiness in their hearts. She walks along the banks of the river with a megaphone promoting her service and her ani-mals in a handcart. It turns out that Sayoko is lonely too, ever since the death of her grandmother. All she has left is her cats. However, one day a young man shows up from Sayoko’s past. He follows her home and suddenly Sayoko’s life seems to completely fall apart.

Directed By: Naoko Ogigami

T u e s d a y , 1 5 O c t o b e r

5 PM

Beijing Flickers - 2012

China

Drama

96 minutes

7 PM

Parada - 2012(The Parade)

Serbia

Comedy / Drama

115 minutes

A young man left behind by Bei-jing’s fabulous new wealth experi-ences moments of euphoria amid despair as he roams the city with other misfit dreamers in this darkly funny, gorgeously gritty portrait of disaffected youth.

Directed By: Zhang Yuan

In exchange for some wed-ding-planning expertise, a macho Serbian crime boss recruits a ragtag group of Balkan war-bud-dies to provide protection for a Pride march in this rollicking yet poignant comedy inspired by real events.

Directed By: Srdjan Dragojevic

5 PM

Le Repenti - 2012(The Repentant)

Algeria / France

Drama

7 PM

Children of the Wall - 2012

USA

Documentary

59 minutes

Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law “of pardon and national harmony”, he has to surrender to the police and give up his weapon. He thus receives amnesty and becomes a “repenti”. But the law cannot erase his crimes and for rashid it is the beginning of a one-way journey of violence, secrets and manipulation.

Directed by: Merzak Allouache

Twenty-one years ago, the Berlin Wall fell, ending nearly thirty years of division in Germany and setting in motion great cultural change. Long a symbol of communism and oppression to the outside world, the Berlin Wall came to define Germany, like much of the country’s tumultuous history. When it fell, two worlds confronted each other in the space left behind.

Director Eric Swartz and producer Sarah Bolton will be in attendance.

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T h u r s d a y , 1 7 O c t o b e r

5 PM

Aquí y Allá - 2012 (Here and There)

Mexico

Drama

110 minutes

7 PM

Oh Boy! - 2012

Germany

Drama / Comedy

83 minutes

Pedro returns home to a small mountain village in Guerrero, Mexico after years of working in the US, and struggles to rebuild his family and follow his dream of starting a band: the Copa Kings.

“Aquí y Allá” is a story about hope, and the memories and loss of what we leave behind.

Directed By: Antonio Méndez Esparza

Twenty-something Niko is out of luck: no job, no girl, no money. We follow his meanderings through a black-and-white Berlin, but the city does not provide the flaneur an escape from his problems. Set over of the course of one day, this slyly deadpan film depicts millennial melodrama in all its unavailing, gloried detail.

Directed By: Jan-Ole Gerster

F r i d a y , 1 8 O c t o b e r

4.30 PM

Shyamal Uncle Turns off the Lights - 2012

India

Drama

65 minutes

6 PM

Cairo 678 - 2011

Egypt

Drama

100 minutes

8 PM

Life Kills Me - 2007

Chile

Drama

90 minutes

An 80-year-old Kolkata retiree is determined to get the streetlights turned off after sunrise, but finding someone to take him seriously proves a battle against an indiffer-ent bureaucracy and a complacent status quo.

Directed By: Suman Ghosh

Three Cairene women from dif-ferent backgrounds warily unite to combat the sexual harassment that has impacted each of their lives—and become a citywide plague—but their unconventional response provokes a dogged police hunt.

Directed By: Mohamed Diab

Life and death come wrapped in a mutual embrace, both absurd and poignant, in this smart comedy about an unlikely friendship be-tween a grieving cinematographer and a morbidly obsessed drifter. At work on a seriously schlocky, low-budget horror film, Gaspar is still reeling from the untimely death of his beloved older brother.

Directed By: Sebastián Silva

S a t u r d a y , 1 9 O c t o b e r

12 PM

Student - 2012

Kazakhstan

Drama

90 minutes

2 PM

Sudoeste - 2012(Southwest)

Brazil

Drama

128 minutes

A solitary philosophy student commits a calculated violent crime against the backdrop of Kazakh-stan’s growing inequality, institutional corruption and a ruthless ethic of eat-or-be-eaten in this broodingly contemporary adaptation of Dosto-evsky’s Crime and Punishment.

Directed By: Darezhan Omirbayev

A young woman gives birth on her deathbed to a child who, spirited away to a remote lakeside village, lives her lifetime in a single day, in this hauntingly dreamlike tale of incommensurable life.

Directed By: Eduardo Nunes

4.15 PM

Darbare 111 Dokhtar - 2012(About 111 Girls)

Iraq

Drama

79 minutes

6.15 PM

Ludwig II - 2012

Germany / Austria

Drama

130 minutes

An Iranian state official, his driver and a young guide race across a troubled but magnificent landscape to stop 111 young Kurdish women from committing suicide in protest against conditions that have left them spinsters.

Directed By: Nahid Ghobadi and Bijan Zamanpira

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times. From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music. From his ingenuous political commitment to his obsessive construc-tion of extravagant palaces and to his gradual withdrawal into a lonely dream world, an epic narrative of breathtaking grandeur.

Directed By: Marie Noelle and Peter Sehr

S u n d a y , 2 0 O c t o b e r

2 PM

Wickie auf grosser Fahrt - 2011(Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods)

Germany

Comedy / Drama

90 minutes

4 PM

El Fantastico mundo de Juan Orol - 2012

(The Fantastic World of Juan Oro)

Mexico

Comedy / Drama

90 minutes

6 PM

Paziraie Sadeh - 2012(Modest Reception)

Iran

Drama

100 minutes

Viking village Flake’s chief Halvar orders clever, tiny son Wickie to rob a knights convoy. The war-riors have to take over but fail to see Wicki being abducted with a cargo of Eskimo slaves, who also carry a mysterious manuscript on the eternal ice palace containing the Norse gods’ treasure.

Directed By: Christian Ditter

Move over Ed Wood! The story of Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol, receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to life, the movies and a self-made man of showbiz.

Directed By: Sebastián del Amo

Two sibling-sophisticates from Tehran travel the mountainous northern countryside, maniacal-ly pushing bags of money on locals—a hilarious and alarming exercise that unfurls with unex-pected force amid subtle themes of power and corruption.

Directed By: Mani Haghighi

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