BIFF 2017 Program

FILMS

FOOD

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TWELFTH ANNUAL

2017

THE BIFF BRINGING THE WORLD

TO THE BERKSHIRES SINCE 2006

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LOVE. DANCE. ENVIRONMENT. WAR. BEAUTY. DREAMS. REFUGE. COURAGE. VISION. TRUTH.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Board of Trustees // 3 Advisory Board // 3 Sponsors // 3 REEL Friends // 4 Thanks // 6 Volunteers // 6 Tips and Tricks // 8 BIFF Pass Info // 10 2016 Recap // 13-14

GREAT BARRINGTON

Opening Night // 17 Christopher Plummer Special Event Night // 19 Closing Day // 21 Friday Schedule // 23 Saturday Schedule // 25 Sunday Schedule // 27

PITTSFIELD

Opening Night // 29 Saturday Schedule // 31 Sunday Schedule // 33

FILMS

GENERAL INFO AND MAPS

As we explored the variety of film being produced this year, it became evident that the filmmaker’s stories are reflective of our times…they are political, environmental, socially active and inspirational. The films are also full of passion, music, humor and love. Come journey with us as we travel to Germany, Egypt, Spain, Iran, Iraq, Syria, France, England, Sweden and Israel, as well as to US cities and small counties… bringing the world to the Berkshires.

BIFF will close with the highly acclaimed SXSW hit, LUCKY starring the superb Harry Dean Stanton and directed by actor-turnedfilmmaker John Carroll Lynch. The film also stars David Lynch and Tom Skerritt.

The festival opens with an incredible, inspiring documentary film STEP! This film was an instant hit at Sundance and will bring us all to our feet. At it’s Sundance premiere, a Variety review wrote, “It’s rare for a documentary to inspire applause during the feature, but there you have the power of Amanda Lipitz’s STEP, an inspiring crowd-pleaser that provides a positive look at the lives of every day teens in Baltimore…

STEP is a universal story of triumph.”

Opening night festivities include a cocktail party followed by a dinner/dance party for pass-holders catered by Rita Welch Catering at St. James Place, sponsored by the Jane Iredale Companies.

BIFF will open at the Beacon in Pittsfield with the witty and wonderful THE TRIP TO SPAIN with comedy buddies Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden as they eat their way through the cultural landscape of Spain. The opening night will begin with a party at Hotel on North followed by the presentation of the EIGHTH annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” sponsored by Berkshire Bank – you can cast

Founder and Director

BIFF is extremely proud this year to pay tribute to the iconic and legendary Academy Award winning actor, Christopher Plummer for his remarkable Achievement in Film.

We are honored to pay tribute to this extraordinary actor for his body of work he has left behind him and for the creative peaks he continues to climb. The Special Event festivities include a cocktail party and dinner-by-the-bite for pass-holders catered

by MAX Ultimate Food at St. James Place, sponsored by GWFF.

In addition to the films, BIFF will host some special events throughout the weekend including GWFF USA’s Juried Prize Award for narrative and documentary filmmaking, free family film screenings, panel discussions and “Tea Talks” with HBO’s Sheila Nevins, Karen Allen, and Paul Krugman, and a special screening with Jacob’s Pillow.

I want to thank everyone that has joined and continues to support the REEL Friends Film Society...it is vital to the organization and allows us to bring the best film to the BIFF and throughout the year. I must thank my incredibly dedicated and generous board of directors, Lauren and the festival staff, the endless, selfless efforts of the advisory board and programming producers, the generous support and loyalty of our sponsors, the energy and spirit of our volunteers, the Triplex and Beacon staff, the Mahaiwe staff as well as the towns of Great Barrington and Pittsfield and the support of the merchants, restaurant-owners and selectman of both towns.

So, leave your passport at home because BIFF will bring the world to you! Join me as we kick-off another wonderful cultural season in the Berkshires and let the cameras roll!

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Welcome to the 12th annual Berkshire International Film Festival! During these 4 days at the BIFF, you will experience an incredible array of story telling involving everything from love to truth. Over the past 12 years, BIFF has strived to find films from around the world that tell powerful, important and engaging stories.

We are committed to bringing the best of independent film to our Berkshire audience from around the world, and we are equally committed to supporting and providing filmmakers with a platform to showcase their films. As our festival grows, our mission deepens in the Berkshire community.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES KELLEY VICKERY

Founder and Director

PAT FILI-KRUSHEL Chair

RONALD FROHNE Vice-Chair

RICHARD STANLEY Treasurer

FERN PORTNOY Secretary

KAREN ALLEN SHANI ANKORI DAVID FENKEL PETER HERBST DANIEL MATHIEU KATE MORRIS MARY MOTT ELISSA MYERS ANNIE SELKE KEVIN SPRAGUE TANIA WALKER

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THE REEL FRIENDS It has been quite a year for the REEL Friends with a record number of monthly screenings and events.

No matter where we fall on the political spectrum, we come to understand that film and the stories that are told, are one of the most important ways to bring our world together.

Every year, as we select and curate a world-class film festival from around the globe to bring to you, we understand this more deeply.

By becoming a REEL Friend, your donation supports this important work and the stories that are taking place around the world. The stories that must be told.

You support our two-day Filmmaker Summit. Bringing expert guidance and advice from industry professionals to our aspiring filmmakers, as they make their mark in the world.

Thank you for understanding the role that films play in our lives. And the importance of supporting this film festival through the REEL Friends, that brings the films and often the filmmakers right to your doorstep.

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VOLUNTEERS ERICA HEINLEIN

Great Barrington Volunteer Coordinator

JOHN CLARKE

Transportation Coordinator

PAUL JOHANSEN

Pittsfield Volunteer & Program Distribution Coordinator

Official Sponsor of the Special Event Party and Film in Great Barrington and the 8th Annual Juried Prize RONALD FROHNE AND GWFF U.S.A. Official Sponsor of the Opening Night Party and Film in Great Barrington JANE IREDALE MINERAL COSMETICS, LTD. Official Theater Sponsor and Home of the BIFF RICHARD STANLEY THE TRIPLEX CINEMA AND THE BEACON CINEMA Triplex Cinema Staff Lisa Rizzo, Manager Steve Johnson, Assistant Manager/Projectionist Triplex Dream Team Lucy Burnett Kendall Chase Alyssa Duross Liz Hinds Aaron Johnson

John Mack Anne Savage Ashley Sermini Eliana Sexton

Beacon Cinema Staff Lydia Shulman, Manager Tony D’Angelo, Assistant Manager Chris Vaber, Social Media **A big thanks to all the Beacon Staff, too many to mention!

Official Sponsor of the Opening Night Party and Film in Pittsfield and the 8th Annual “Next Great Filmmaker” Award BERKSHIRE BANK Lori Gazzillo, VP, Foundation Director Gary R. Levante, AVP, Community Engagement Officer Mark Pedrotti, VP, Digital Marketing Officer Mark Tomasi, Creative Director, Marketing Officer

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Official Sponsor for Filmmaker Accommodations THE RED LION INN (Managed by Main Street Hospitality Group) Sarah Eustis, Managing Director Michele Kotek, General Manager Anne-Juliette Maurice, V.P. of Operations Brian Alberg, Executive Chef Janet Eason, V.P. of Marketing and Communications Denise Albert, Director of Catering and Events Official Media Sponsor TOWNVIBE Cara Vermeulen, Berkshire Magazine Co-Founder & Associate Publisher

Sponsors for Filmmaker Accommodations THE BARRINGTON BLANTYRE FAIRVIEW INN & SUITES Official Catering Sponsors KATE BALDWIN CATERING HAVEN CAFÉ HOTEL ON NORTH AND EAT & DRINK MAX ULTIMATE FOOD THE RED LION INN RITA WELCH CATERING Official Beer Sponsor and Underwriter of Volunteer T-Shirts STELLA ARTOIS THOMAS E. LEVEQUE EVAN THURSTON THE FOLKS AT GIRARDI DISTRIBUTORS Official Spirits Sponsor BERKSHIRE MOUNTAIN DISTILLERS Chris Weld Official Tea Talks Sponsor HARNEY & SONS FINE TEAS Michael Harney, Vice President Paul Harney, Vice President Official Wine Sponsor HUBER SELECTIONS AUSTRIAN WINES Carlo Huber Official VIP Transportation ABBOTS LIMOUSINE AND LIVERY SERVICE Donna M. Abbott, President Paul E. Abbott, Vice President Maryellen Abbott Walsh, Secretary/Vice Treasurer Rebecca Abbott, Dean/Treasurer/Vice Secretary Official Donors to Gift Bags BLUE Q COFFEE SNACKS JANE IREDALE MINERAL COSMETICS, LTD. PAWSH BUDDIES ROBIN’S CANDY STELLA ARTOIS AND GIRARDI DISTRIBUTORS Official Coiffure SEVEN SALON SPA Official 2017 Jurors Josh Braun Scott Cohen Karen Goodman Bob Harper Kent Jones Mary Kay Place Peggy Rajski Gretchen Rennell Peter Riegert Kristi Zea

Official BIFF Industry Partners A24 AMAZON FOX SEARCHLIGHT THE FILM COLLABORATIVE HBO DOCS IFC FILMS MAGNOLIA NYICFF AND GKIDS THE ORCHARD OSCILLOSCOPE Official 2017 Filmmaker Summit Producers Mary Mott Gordon Simmering Carolyn Lancaster, Filmmaker Summit Producer, CL Productions, NYC BIFF Collaborative Partners BERKSHIRE FILM AND MEDIA COLLABORATIVE CLASSICAL TENTS THE MAHAIWE THEATER SOCO CREAMERY ST. JAMES PLACE DOUG AND JULIA TRUMBULL JACOB’S PILLOW BIFF Babes Home Office Lauren Ferin, Executive Assistant Anne McLaughlin, Special Events Coordinator Lillian Lennox, International Festival Programmer Xueqi (Cissie) Jiang, BIFF Intern Emma Howie, BIFF Intern Brendan Zinser, BIFF Intern Mahaiwe Staff Beryl Jolly, Executive Director Karin Watkins, General Manager Tim Schroepfer, Production & Facilities Manager Sam Sorrentino, Projectionist Michael Beuth, Theater Operations Manager Gabrielle Senza, Box Office Manager JD Logan, Production Assistant The Wonderful Mahaiwe Ushers Great Barrington Jennifer Tabakin, Town Manager Betsy Andrus, Executive Director, So. Berkshire Chamber of Commerce and “Best Chamber Boss” Ed May, Building Inspector Helen Kuziemko, Administrative Assistant The Board of Selectmen Great Barrington Business Owners, Restaurants and Merchants Pittsfield Timothy Croce & Shelia McKenna, Engineering Department Pittsfield Business Owners, Restaurants and Merchants

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FOR ENJOYING YOURSELF AT THE BIFF ADMISSION

For all passholders, to guarantee admission and Priority Early Entry, you MUST be present at the venue 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. This is standard for all film festivals. Late seating is only permitted if easily accessible seats are available. Empty seats will be sold to those in the RUSH LINE.

RE-ENTRY INTO THEATERS

Anyone (including passholders) exiting the theater with plans to return to that particular screening must alert a BIFF usher when exiting to insure re-entry.

FESTIVAL ETIQUETTE

JUNE 1-4, 2017

• No outside food permitted in the festival theaters.

• All theaters must be cleared between show times to allow staff to clean and ready the theater for the next screening.

• Saving seats for other guests or for yourself between shows is not permitted.

• To expedite theater cleaning and seating please discard your trash and exit promptly after your screening.

• Please keep talking to a minimum when exiting theaters to not disturb the other patrons in other theaters.

• No recording equipment is permitted in the theater.

• Please turn of all cell phones during the film presentation.

• For the pleasure of all guests, there is no talking permitted during the film presentation and no late seating if the theater is at full capacity.

• Lines may lead outside of the theater and theater temperatures are regulated automatically, depending on the number of patrons in the theater. Please bring layers and dress appropriately for your comfort.

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HOW TO GET TICKETS MAIN BOX OFFICES APRIL 29 -JUNE 4 PRE-ADVANCE SALE FOR REEL FRIENDS APRIL 27TH AND 28TH ONLY Purchase tickets for all films during regular business hours at: TRIPLEX CINEMA 70 Railroad Street, Great Barrington 413.528.8885 BEACON CINEMA 57 North Street, Pittsfield 413.358.4780 MAHAIWE THEATER* 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington 413.528.0100 *Mahaiwe box office will only sell tickets for films screened at the Mahaiwe during regular box office hours (Wed - Sat, Noon - 6pm)

RUSH LINE TICKET SALES

Seats that are set aside for passholders will be released for sale 5 minutes prior to the screening.

Arrive at the theater 30 minutes before published screening time and wait in RUSH LINE for available tickets. All tickets will be sold on a first come, first serve basis, CASH ONLY. NO REFUND OR EXCHANGES ALLOWED.

HOW TO PICK UP YOUR PASS

MAY 15 - JUNE 1 All passes may be picked up at FUEL located at 293 Main Street from 10am - 1pm and then in the BIFF OFFICE located at 40 Railroad Street, Suite #5 from 1pm - 4pm, Mon-Fri. Special arrangements to pick up your passes at the Triplex Cinema or Beacon Cinema after BIFF business hours or during the weekend can be made by contacting Lauren at lauren@biffma.org or calling the BIFF office at 413.528.8030.

ONLINE

APRIL 29-JUNE 1 Tickets are available online at www.biffma.org until noon on Thursday, June 1. When the festival begins, tickets can only be purchased at the screening venues in advance.

All unclaimed passes before the Opening Night Film must be picked up at the Mahaiwe Theater, located on 14 Castle Street in Great Barrington on June 1 starting at 3pm until 30 minutes after the Opening Night film begins.

DAY-OF-SHOW SALES

JUNE 1-4 If you can no longer buy tickets online, come to the theater where the film is being screened and purchase tickets through the box office. If the show has reached RUSH LINE status, please see below.

All unclaimed passes not picked up on Opening Night at the Mahaiwe will be available for pick up at the Triplex Theater Friday morning on June 2 beginning at 8:30am and during the BIFF weekend.

NO EXCHANGES OR REFUNDS OF TICKET PURCHASES

Note: All-Access ($200) and 25 and under ($99) passes do not include the Special Event Night on Saturday, June 3 and will need to purchase individual tickets.

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TICKETS INDIVIDUAL MOVIE TICKETS $12 STEP - GREAT BARRINGTON OPENING NIGHT FILM EVENT $20 followed by a Q&A with award-winning producer Steven Cantor

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CLOSING DAY IN GREAT BARRINGTON

5PM Cocktails and appetizers catered by Rita Welch Catering, at St. James Place located on Main Street one block from The Mahaiwe Theater.

(All-Inclusive and Opening Night Passholders)

5:30PM Cocktails and dinner-by-the-bite at Hotel on North in Pittsfield.

SPECIAL EVENT TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER IN GREAT BARRINGTON

JUNE 1-4, 2017

6PM Priority Early Entry to the Opening Night Presentation of the Massachusetts Premiere of STEP, Special Jury Prize Award for best documentary at Sundance Film Festival, directed by Tony-award winning producer Amanda Lipitz.

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THE TRIP TO SPAIN - PITTSFIELD OPENING NIGHT FILM AND PARTY $25 SPECIAL EVENT TRIBUTE TO ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTOR, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER $30 Plummer Tribute and conversation CLOSING NIGHT FILM - LUCKY $15

Q&A TO FOLLOW with Steven Cantor, Producer of STEP at The Mahaiwe Theater.

(Open to the public. $25 for non-passholders) 8:30PM Cocktails, dinnerby-the-bite and dancing at St. James Place (All-Inclusive and Opening Night Passholders)

7:30PM Berkshire Bank presentation of the 8th Annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” and the screening of THE TRIP TO SPAIN at the Beacon Cinema followed by a Q&A with filmmakers.

(Open to the public. $25 for non-passholders)

5-6:30PM Cocktails and dinner-by-the-bite catered by MAX Ultimate Food at St. James Place.

(All-Inclusive and Special Event Passholders) 6:30PM SPECIAL EVENT Tribute to Academy Award winning actor, Christopher Plummerin conversation with David Edelstein, chief film critic for New York, as well as film critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning, at The Mahaiwe Theater.

Priority Early Entry to the Tribute Screening of THE EXCEPTION immediately follows.

(Tickets are $30 and open to the public. Free to $300 and $600 Passholders ONLY.) 7:30PM Screening of THE EXCEPTION at The Mahaiwe Theater, courtesy of A24.

11AM Intimate brunch with jury, filmmakers and nominees to announce the Juried Prize at allium Restaurant.

(All-Inclusive Passholders) CLOSING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON 7PM BIFF presents the closing night film, LUCKY, Audience Favorite at SXSW Film Festival at The Mahaiwe Theater. Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch and Tom Skerritt. Directed by John Carroll Lynch. Closing Night Party at the Castle Street Cafe.

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From top left to right. Kim Taylor, Yo-Yo Ma, Kelley Vickery at BIFF Opening Night Gala; BIFF Jury - Josh Braun, Kent Jones, Mary Kay Place, Dan Braun, Gretchen Rennell; Sheila Nevins, President, HBO Documentary Films at the Filmmaker Summit; Lottie Graham, Annie Selke, Charlotte Selke at BIFF Opening Night sponsored by the Annie Selke Companies; Director Xandy Janko, Producer Laura Goodenow and Karen Allen; John Valente and Lauren Ferin, with Life Animated Producers Julie Goldman and Christopher Clements; Joan Anderson, Author of “A Year By the Sea” and BIFF Board Member Mary Mott; BIFF 2016 Filmmakers; Howard Chezar and Patricia Fox.

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JUNE 1-4, 2017

From top left to right. Doug Trumull and Bruce Dern, Lindsey Schmid, Dave Neubert, Lauren Ferin, Andreas Schmid, John Vincent Mason (stuntman from TEST DRIVE) and the director, Jim Ford; BIFF 2016 Honoree Bruce Dern with the staff of SoCo with the specially made ice cream, FEEL THE DERN!; Meryl Streep and Oscar Winning Costume Designer Ann Roth honoring Mike Nichols; Morgan Whitehead, Lillian Lennox Whitehead, Anne Fredericks, Kelley Vickery, Carol Haythorne, Olga Kaiser; Jake Paltrow, Gregory Crewdson, Noah Baumbach at the closing night presentation; Mark Tomasi and Mark Pedrotti of Berkshire Bank announce the winner of the 2016 Next Great Filmmaker Award, TATTOO YOU.

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THURSDAY 6.1.17 OPENING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON 5PM Cocktails and appetizers catered by Rita Welch Catering, at St. James Place, located on Main Street one block from The Mahaiwe Theater.

(All-Inclusive and Opening Night Passholders) 6PM Opening Night Presentation of the Massachusetts Premiere of STEP, Special Jury Prize Award for best documentary at Sundance Film Festival, directed by Tony-award winning producer Amanda Lipitz.

Q&A TO FOLLOW with Steven Cantor, Producer of STEP at The Mahaiwe Theater.

(Open to the public. $20 for non-passholders) 8:30PM Cocktails, dinner-by-the-bite and dancing at St. James Place (All-Inclusive and Opening Night Passholders)

STEP US, 2016, 83 min.

STEP chronicles the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team against the background of inner-city Baltimore.

These young women find a unity through their team that pushes them to challenge themselves on and off the stage.

Empowered by their teachers, teammates, counselors, coaches and families, they chase their ultimate dreams: to win a step championship and to be accepted into college. This all female school is reshaping the futures of its students’ lives by making it their goal to have every member of their senior class accepted to and graduate from college, many of whom will be the first in their family to do so. Emotionally inspiring, STEP embodies the true meaning of sisterhood through a story of courageous young women worth cheering for.

Director // Amanda Lipitz Producers // Steven Cantor, Amanda Lipitz

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(All-Inclusive and Special Event Passholders) 6:30PM SPECIAL EVENT Tribute to Academy Award winning actor, Christopher Plummerin conversation with David Edelstein, chief film critic for New York, as well as film critic for NPR’s Fresh Air and CBS Sunday Morning, at The Mahaiwe Theater. Priority Early Entry to the Tribute Screening of THE EXCEPTION immediately follows.

(Tickets are $30 and open to the public.

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THE EXCEPTION UK, 2017, 115 min.

BIFF 2017 ACHIEVEMENT IN FILM HONOREE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING ACTOR

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER

In reviewing his memoir, In Spite of Myself, Alex Witchel for the New York Times writes “...In spite of himself — his relentlessly high artistic principles; his penchant for playing the underdog, even when he was the star; his keen ear, equally attuned to the precision of Elizabethan verse and to what passes as truth across a whiskey at 5 a.m. — this man has experienced a life rich in textures, and he is able to give most of them glorious voice. His is a life in the theater lived hard and true, in the grand tradition of those distinguished players who went before, whom he has surely made proud.”

The Berkshire International Film Festival is proud to honor Christopher Plummer with a Lifetime Achievement Award for the body of work he has left behind him and for the creative peaks he continues to climb.

Director // David Leveaux Writers // Simon Burke (screenplay), Alan Judd (based on the novel “The Kaiser’s Last Kiss”) Cast // Christopher Plummer, Lily James, Jai Courtney

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And if awards were given for living life to its fullest, Christopher Plummer would have

run out of clever acceptance speeches by now. A legendary rake. A lustful lush. A classical musician. An adroit raconteur. A world traveller. The drinking buddy of Peter O’Toole and Albert Finney. He has known, loved, drunk, acted and/or brawled with everyone who is anyone in the past seventy years of international celebrity.

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It would be easier to list the awards Christopher Plummer hasn’t won in his nearly seven decades of work in film, television, stage and concert hall. Multiple Tony awards, Emmy awards, the Golden Globe, the Genie, Screen Actor’s Awards, Canada’s Companion of Honor, countless Film Critic honors, nominations too numerous to mention, and of course an Academy Award have been earned for a body of work that is nothing less than an encyclopedia of the arts in the 20th and 21st Centuries. From his breakout role as Captain Georg von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Mr. Plummer has inhabited Oedipus, Rudyard Kipling, the Archduke Ferdinand, Sherlock Holmes, Mike Wallace, Santa Claus, Aristotle, Julius Caesar, Leo Tolstoy, Ebenezer Scrooge, Hamlet, Don Juan, F.D.R., F Lee Bailey, Iago, John Barrymore and King Lear… as well as fictional villains, scientists, thieves, doctors, bankers and, in his Oscarwinning role in The Beginners, a widower who at age 81 takes his first steps out of the closet and finds love. The New York Times called him “the finest classical actor of North America.”

A riveting World War II thriller that is filled with espionage and romance in equal measure, THE EXCEPTION follows German soldier Stefan Brandt (Jai Courtney) as he goes on a mission to investigate exiled German Monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II (Christopher Plummer). The Kaiser lives in a secluded mansion in The Netherlands, and as Germany is taking over Holland, the country’s authorities are concerned that Dutch spies may be watching the Kaiser.

As Brandt begins to infiltrate the Kaiser’s life in search of clues, he finds himself drawn into an unexpected and passionate romance with Mieke (Lily James), one of the Kaiser’s maids whom Brandt soon discovers is secretly Jewish. When Heinrich Himmler (Eddie Marsan), Head of the SS, decides to come for an unexpected visit with a large platoon of Nazis in tow, the stage is set for a breathtaking showdown, as secrets are revealed, allegiances are tested, and Brandt is forced to make the ultimate choice between honoring his country and following his heart.

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SUNDAY 6.4.17 CLOSING DAY IN GREAT BARRINGTON 11AM Intimate brunch with jury, filmmakers and nominees to announce the Juried Prize at allium Restaurant.

(All-Inclusive Passholders)

CLOSING NIGHT IN GREAT BARRINGTON 7PM BIFF presents the closing night film, LUCKY, Audience Favorite at SXSW Film Festival at The Mahaiwe Theater. Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch and Tom Skerritt. Directed by John Carroll Lynch.

Closing Night Party at the Castle Street Cafe.

(Open to the public. $15 for non-passholders)

LUCKY US, 2017, 88 min.

LUCKY follows the spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town. Having outlived and out smoked all of his contemporaries, the fiercely independent Lucky finds himself at the precipice of life, thrust into a journey of self-exploration, leading towards that which is so often unattainable: enlightenment.

Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, LUCKY, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

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Director // John Carroll Lynch Executive Producer // Jason Delane Lee Producers // Greg Gilreath, Adam Hendricks, John Lang, Danielle Renfrew Behrens, Ira Steven Behr, Richard Kahan, Drago Sumonja, Logan Sparks Writer // Logan Sparks, Drago Sumonja Cast // Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, Ron Livingston, Ed Begley Jr., Tom Skerritt, Beth Grant, James Darren, Barry Shabaka Henley, Yvonne Huff Lee

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FRIDAY 6.2.17

TRIPLEX #1

TRIPLEX #2

TRIPLEX #3

9:00am 9:00am 10:00am

PAULA

9:15am

CLASH

Germany, 2016, 120 min.

FEATURE Page 40

Egypt, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 35

11:00am

12:00pm

11:30am

BAR BAHAR (IN BETWEEN)

Israel, 2016, 100 min.

FEATURE Page 35

1:00pm

2:00pm

11:15am

1:45pm

CREEDMORIA US, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 35

3:00pm

1:00pm

SCHOOL LIFE

US, 2016, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 52

TEA TALK & BOOK SIGNING WITH SHEILA NEVINS Page 87

93 DAYS

5:45pm

LANDLINE

Nigeria, 2016, 120 min.

FEATURE Page 34

US, 2017, 96 min.

FEATURE Page 37

6:30pm

US, 2016, 96 min.

FEATURE Page 36 8:30pm

7:30pm

UNREST

8:15pm

THE STOPOVER (VOIR DU PAYS)

France, 2016, 102 min.

FEATURE Page 41

3:30pm

4:45pm

CITY OF GHOSTS

8:00pm

US, 2017, 97 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

LOOK AND SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY

US, 2017, 82 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 54

9:30pm

NELLY

Canada, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 39

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11:00pm

2:15pm

117 min.

SHORTS Page 68

THE HERO

10:00pm

SWIM TEAM

US, 2016, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57

SHORTS #1

6:00pm

9:00pm

11:45am

Ireland/Spain, 2016, 100 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

3:00pm

4:15pm

7:00pm

WALK WITH ME

Sweden/Denmark, 2016, 100 min.

FEATURE Page 42

NOWHERE TO HIDE

US/Iraq, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 55

4:00pm

5:00pm

BUGS

Netherlands, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 51

9:30am

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SATURDAY 6.3.17 TRIPLEX #1

TRIPLEX #2 TRIPLEX #3

9:15am

9:15am

9:00am

THE 3 LITTLE PIGS

10:00am

11:00am

12:00pm

1:00pm

TAKE MY NOSE...

PLEASE!

US, 2017, 99 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57

Canada, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 34

11:30am

PRIS DE COURT - NOT ON MY WATCH

SERENADE FOR HAITI

US, 2017, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

US, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 37

France, 2017, 100 min.

FEATURE Page 39

SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY

LOST IN PARIS

France/Belgium, 2016, 85 min.

FEATURE Page 38

KATIE SAYS GOODBYE

MAHAIWE 9:00am

9:15am

11:15am

11:30am

TRIPLEX SCREENING ROOM

US, 2017, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

10:00am

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

Canada, 2016, 103 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 55

11:00am

A PLASTIC OCEAN US, 2016, 100 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 50

1:15pm 2:00pm

1:45pm

PATTI CAKE$

2:00pm

CIRCUS KID

US, 2016, 108 min.

FEATURE Page 40

3:00pm

1:45pm

US, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

3:30pm

4:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm

THE WOMEN’S BALCONY

Israel, 2016, 95 min.

FEATURE Page 41

4:15pm

THIS IS EVERYTHING: GIGI GORGEOUS

US, 2017, 91 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

6:00pm 6:15pm 7:00pm

8:00pm

9:00pm

10:00pm

6:30pm

112 min.

SHORTS Page 69

8:30pm

CHARGED: THE EDUARDO GARCIA STORY US, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 51

USA, 2017, 30 min.

4:15pm

THE TENTH STEP US, 2017, 70 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57

WHOSE STREETS? US, 2017, 103 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

8:45pm 9:15pm

CENTER OF MY WORLD

Germany, 2016, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 34

A DOMESTIC DILEMMA

US, 1991, 30 min.

TEA TALK WITH KAREN ALLEN & KRISTI ZEA Page 88-89

6:30pm

6:30pm

SHORTS #2

Sweden, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 41

A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD.

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER TRIBUTE 7:30pm

THE EXCEPTION ZOOLOGY

Russia/France/Germany, 2016, 85 min.

FEATURE Page 42

UK, 2017, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 19

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11:00pm

SÁMI BLOOD

US, 2017, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 51

TRIBAL JUSTICE

US, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 52

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9:00am

THE DANCER

9:15am 10:00am

11:00am

12:00pm

1:00pm

France/Belgium/Czech Republic, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 36

11:30am

MR. GAGA

9:30am

KING OF THE BELGIANS

Belgium, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 37 11:30am

Germany/Israel/ Netherlands/Sweden, 2015, 100 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 54

DINA

1:30pm

2:00pm 2:00pm

MENASHE

US, 2017, 81 min.

FEATURE Page 38

DOLORES

3:00pm

US, 2017, 95 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 53 3:30pm

4:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm

5:30pm 6:15pm

8:00pm

Iran, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 36

US, 2017, 102 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 50

6:00pm

7:00pm

INVERSION

BENDING THE ARC

CONDUCT! EVERY MOVE COUNTS

Germany, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 52

NEWTON

India, 2017, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 39

MAHAIWE KID FLIX MIX

9:30am

9:30am

ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL US, 2016, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 50

11:30am

US, 2016, 100 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 53

TRIPLEX SCREENING ROOM

MERCENARY

France, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 38

DOLLS OF DARKNESS/ THE ART OF MICHEL ADJAR

2:00pm

60 min.

SHORTS Page 74

10:00am

THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES

Netherlands, 2017, 85 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 54

11:00am

THE PARIS OPERA

France/Switzerland, 2017, 110 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 55

2:00pm

Canada/US/France, 2017, 70 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 53

ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

US, 1976, 130 min.

TEA TALK WITH PAUL KRUGMAN

4:00pm

Page 91

RARA

Chile, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 40

THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN 6:00pm

US, 2016, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

7:00pm

LUCKY

USA, 2017, 88 min.

FEATURE Page 21

9:00pm

10:00pm BIFFMA.ORG

11:00pm

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7:30PM Berkshire Bank presentation of the 8th Annual “Next Great Filmmaker Award” and the screening of TRIP TO SPAIN. (Open to the public. $25 for non-passholders)

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CONTENDING SHORT FILMS: NIGHT SHIFT RUNNING THROUGH LIFE REFUGE 5 FILMS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

UK, 2017, 110 min.

After jaunts through northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country’s gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-thecuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it means to settle into middle age. As always, the locales are breathtaking, the cuisine to die for, and the humor delightfully devilish.

Director // Michael Winterbottom Producers // Josh Hyams, Stefano Negri, Melissa Parmenter Cast // Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Keelan, Marta Barrio, Margo Stilley, Kyle Soller, Justin Edwards, Kerry Shale, Tom Clegg, Tim Leach

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BEACON #3

9:15am

9:15am

9:00am 9:00am

SHORTS #2

10:00am

112 min.

SHORTS Page 69

US, 2017, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 56

11:00am

12:00pm

11:30am

93 DAYS

1:00pm

CIRCUS KID

US, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 52

US, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 35

KATIE SAYS GOODBYE

3:00pm

US, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 58

CREEDMORIA

1:45pm

2:00pm

TRIBAL JUSTICE

11:30am

11:45am

Nigeria, 2016, 120 min.

FEATURE Page 34

2:00pm

SERENADE FOR HAITI

TAKE MY NOSE...

PLEASE!

1:45pm

SHORTS #1

US, 2017, 99 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 57

US, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 37

117 min.

SHORTS Page 68

4:00pm 4:15pm 5:00pm

6:00pm

THE PARIS OPERA

France/Switzerland, 2017, 110 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 55

4:15pm

4:30pm

RARA

Chile, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 40

CONDUCT! EVERY MOVE COUNTS

Germany, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 52

7:00pm

8:00pm

9:00pm

10:00pm BIFFMA.ORG

11:00pm

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PITTSFIELD

SUNDAY 6.4.17 BEACON #1

BEACON #2

BEACON #3

9:30am

9:30am

9:00am

10:00am

KID FLIX MIX

9:30am

60 min.

SHORTS Page 74

UNREST

INVERSION

US, 2017, 97 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 59

Iran, 2017, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 36

11:00am 11:00am

CHARGED: THE EDUARDO GARCIA STORY

12:00pm

US, 2017, 90 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 51

1:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm

6:00pm

Sweden, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 41

2:00pm

4:15pm

THE 3 LITTLE PIGS

Canada, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 34

2:15pm

KING OF THE BELGIANS

4:30pm

PAULA

Germany, 2016, 120 min.

FEATURE Page 40

11:45am

CENTER OF MY WORLD

Germany, 2016, 115 min.

FEATURE Page 34

3:15pm

5:00pm

SÁMI BLOOD

BUGS

Netherlands, 2016, 80 min.

DOCUMENTARY Page 51

3:00pm

4:00pm

11:30am

Belgium, 2016, 90 min.

FEATURE Page 37

THE DANCER

France/Belgium/Czech Republic, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 36

NELLY

Canada, 2016, 110 min.

FEATURE Page 39

7:00pm

8:00pm

9:00pm

10:00pm BIFFMA.ORG

11:00pm

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FILMS FEATURE

THE 3 LITTLE PIGS Canada, 2016, 110 min.

Rémy (Paul Doucet) is always between two planes, travels to Shanghai on business.

During this trip, he takes the opportunity to cheat on Dominique (Sophie Prégent) first with a woman, then with a man. Upon his return, his wife puts him out after showing him more than compromising photos of his Asian aspirations.

Director // Jean-Francois Pouliot Writers // Claude Lalonde, Pierre Lamothe Cast // Paul Doucet, Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Patrice Robitaille, Sophie Prégent

Saturday 6/3, 9:15AM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 11:45AM, Beacon

93 DAYS Nigeria, 2016, 120 min.

When Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian American, collapses upon arrival at the Murtala Mohammed International airport, Lagos Nigeria, he is taken to First Consultant Hospital, where he is admitted with feverlike symptoms.

Against his denials of contact with any Ebola victim in Liberia, the team at first led

by Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh quickly deduces there is more to his case than malaria.

Their vigilance leads to an early detection that Mr Sawyer indeed had the Ebola Virus disease. Now it’s a race against time to contain a deadly disease from breaking out and infecting an entire city population and beginning what could be the biggest deadly disease outbreak the world has ever known.

The hospital institutes strict barrier nursing and notifies the appropriate authorities.

The Lagos state government and subsequently the federal governtments go into overdrive. The President declares a state of emergency on Ebola in Nigeria.

The scare is palpable across the country.

The doomsday scenario imagined is here.

Over a 93-day period from when Sawyer comes in, men and women from Nigeria, WHO and MSF do battle with this deadly disease. Lives are lost and heroes born.

At its core, 93 DAYS is a compelling human story of dedication, sacrifice, resilience and survival.

Director // Steve Gukas Writer // Paul S. Rowlston Cast // Bimbo Akintola, Danny Glover, Somkele Idhalama

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Friday 6/2, 4:45PM, Triplex Saturday 6/3, 11:30PM, Beacon

CENTER OF MY WORLD Germany, 2016, 115 min.

When confronted with his past and present, will Phil fight – or take flight?

After a summer away at camp, Phil returns home to find that his mother and twin sister aren’t speaking to one another. Not willing to confront his family during the last days of the summer holidays, Phil escapes to hang out with his best friend, Kat, eating ice cream and playing dress-up. As the school year begins, a new student arrives – the handsome and mysterious Nicholas.

Smitten, Phil watches his crush as he runs around the track after school, and is thrilled when Nicholas returns his feelings.

However, when first love’s volatility comes to light, Phil realizes he must deal with the problems of his past, in order to deal with the issues of his present.

Director // Jakob M. Erwa Writers // Jakob M. Erwa (screenplay), Andreas Steinhöfel (based on the novel by) Cast // Louis Hofmann, Inka Friedrich, Sascha Alexander Gersak, Thomas Goritzki

Saturday 6/3, 9:15PM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 2:00PM, Beacon

FILMS FEATURE

CLASH

CREEDMORIA

Egypt, 2016, 110 min.

US, 2016, 90 min.

Cairo, summer of 2013 - two years after the Egyptian revolution. In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a police truck full of detained demonstrators of divergent political and religious backgrounds roams through violent protests. Can the detainees overcome their differences to stand a chance of survival?

Family is an institution. Sometimes, you gotta break out. This is the story of how 17-year-old Candy finds the courage to walk away from everything she’s ever known with the hope of discovering a better tomorrow.

Director // Mohamed Diab Writers // Khaled Diab, Mohamed Diab Cast // Nelly Karim, Hani Adel, El Sebaii Mohamed Film in Juried Competition

Friday, 6/2, 9:15AM, Triplex

Director // Alicia Slimmer Writer // Alicia Slimmer Cast // Stef Dawson, Ray Abruzzo, James Kelley Filmmaker in attendance Film in Juried Competition

Friday, 6/2, 1:45PM, Triplex Saturday 6/3, 11:45AM, Beacon

BAR BAHAR (IN BETWEEN) Israel, 2016, 100 min.

Lalia (Mouna Hawa), Salma (Sana Jammelieh), and Nur (Shaden Kanboura) share an apartment in the vibrant heart of Tel Aviv. Lalia, a criminal lawyer with a wicked wit, loves to burn off her workday stress in the underground club scene.

Salma, slightly more subdued, is a DJ and bartender. Nur is a younger, religious Muslim girl who moves into the apartment in order to study at the university. Nur is both intrigued and intimidated by her two sophisticated roommates. When her conservative fiance visits, he is horrified by her secular friends, entreating her to hasten their marriage, leave Tel Aviv, and assume her rightful role as a wife. She refuses, and his violent rebuttal leaves all of the women shaken. Salma and Lalia also face turmoil: Lalia has found love with a modern Muslim man whose acceptance proves less than unconditional, and Salma discovers that her Christian family in a northern Galilean village is not as liberal as they claim. These three very different women find themselves doing the same balancing act between tradition and modernity, citizenship and culture, fealty and freedom.

Director // Maysaloun Hamoud Writer // Maysaloun Hamoud Cast // Mouna Hawa, Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura Film in Juried Competition

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FILMS FEATURE

THE DANCER

THE HERO

INVERSION

France/Belgium/Czech Republic, 2016, 110 min.

US, 2016, 96 min.

Iran, 2017, 90 min.

THE HERO stars the legendary Sam Elliott as an aging actor confronting mortality in the moving new film from writer/ director Brett Haley (I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS). Lee Hayden (Elliott) is a Western icon with a golden voice, but his best performances are decades behind him. He spends his days reliving old glories and smoking too much weed with his former-co-star-turned-dealer, Jeremy (Nick Offerman), until a surprise cancer diagnosis brings his priorities into sharp focus. He soon strikes up an exciting, contentious relationship with stand-up comic Charlotte (Laura Prepon), and he attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter, Lucy (Krysten Ritter), all while searching for one final role to cement his legacy.

THE HERO is a beautiful and poignant celebration of life and the legacies we all leave behind.

Tehran’s air pollution has reached maximum levels because of thermal inversion.

Unmarried 30-something Niloofar lives with her aged mother, and stays busy with her alterations shop. When doctors insist that her mother must leave smoggy Tehran for her respiratory health, Niloofar’s brother and family elders decide that she must also move away to accompany her mother.

Born in the American Midwest, nothing in her background destined farm girl Loïe Fuller to become the toast of Europe’s Belle Epoque cabarets, even less to dance at the Paris Opera.

Hidden behind metres of silk, her arms extended by long wooden rods, Loïe reinvents her body on stage and enthralls her audiences a little more every night with her revolutionary Serpentine dance.

Dazzling the Capitol, she becomes an icon, the blazing symbol of a generation. Eminent admirers fall at her feet: Toulouse-Lautrec, the Lumière Brothers, Rodin. Even if the physical effort risks destroying her back, even if the glare of the stage lights sears her eyes, she will never falter in the quest to perfect her art. But her meeting with Isadora Duncan – a young prodigy hungry for glory – will lead to the downfall of this icon of the early 20th Century…

The remarkable destiny of a modern woman who revolutionized her era.

Director // Stéphanie Di Giusto Writers // Stéphanie Di Giusto, Sarah Thibau (screenplay), Giovanni Lista (novel) Cast // Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry

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Director // Brett Haley Writers // Brett Haley, Marc Basch Cast // Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Krysten Ritter, Nick Offerman, Katherine Ross

Friday 6/2, 6:30PM, Triplex

Niloofar is torn between family loyalty and living her own life and pursuing a potential love interest.

She is the youngest and she has always obeyed their orders, but this time she must stand up for herself.

Director // Behnam Behzadi Writer // Behnam Behzadi Cast // Alireza Aghakhani, Sahar Dolatshahi, Roya Javidnia

Sunday 6/4, 9:30AM, Beacon Sunday 6/4, 3:30PM, Triplex

FILMS FEATURE

KATIE SAYS GOODBYE

KING OF THE BELGIANS

US, 2016, 90 min.

Belgium, 2016, 90 min.

A young waitress in the American southwest dreams of a new life in San Francisco. After she falls in love with an ex-convict, the fragile harmony of her world is thrown into jeopardy as she finds her spirit and determination challenged by those she loves most.This equally heartfelt and harrowing character study features a riveting central performance by Olivia Cooke (ME AND EARLE AND THE DYING GIRL) as a truck-stop waitress whose plans to escape to the big city are derailed by small-town treachery.

KING OF THE BELGIANS is a road movie in which a dormant King gets lost in the Balkans and awakens to the real world.

King Nicolas III is a lonely soul who has the distinct feeling he’s living the wrong life. He embarks on a state visit to Istanbul with a British filmmaker, Duncan Lloyd, who has been commissioned by the Palace to shoot a documentary intended to polish the monarch’s rather dull image.

Director // Wayne Roberts Writer // Wayne Roberts Cast // Mireille Enos, Olivia Cooke, Mary Steenburgen, Jim Belushi, Christopher Abbott, Chris Lowell Film in Juried Competition

Saturday 6/3, 11:30AM, Triplex Saturday 6/3, 2:00PM, Beacon

The news breaks that Wallonia, Belgium’s southern half, has declared its independence. The King, bursting with purpose, must return home at once to save his kingdom. And for once, he declares, he will write his own damn speech. As they rally to depart, a solar storm strikes the earth causing communications to collapse and airspace to shut down. No phones.

No planes. To make matters worse, Turkish security coldly dismisses the King’s suggestion they return home by road. But the King has no intention of waiting out this storm. Lloyd, sniffing an opportunity of historical proportions, hatches a dubious escape plan that involves flowery dresses and singing Bulgarians.

LANDLINE US, 2017, 96 min.

When two sisters suspect their father (John Turturro) may be having an affair, it sends them into a tailspin that reveals cracks in the family façade. For the first time, older sister Dana (Jenny Slate), recently engaged and struggling with her own fidelity, finds herself bonding with her wild teenage sister Ali (Abby Quinn). The two try to uncover the truth without tipping off their mother (Edie Falco) and discover the messy reality of love and sex in the process. Set in 1990s Manhattan, LANDLINE is a warm, insightful and comedic drama about a family united by secrets and lies, co-written and directed

by Gillian Robespierre (OBVIOUS CHILD).

Director // Gillian Robespierre Writers // Elisabeth Holm, Gillian Robespierre Cast // Jenny Slate, John Turturro, Edie Falco, Abby Quinn, Jay Duplass, Finn Wittrock Filmmaker in attendance

Friday 6/2, 5:45PM, Triplex

Thus begins their undercover odyssey across the Balkans, a journey that’s loaded with wrong turns, startling encounters and moments of fleeting joy.

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FILMS FEATURE

LOST IN PARIS

MENASHE

MERCENARY

France/Belgium, 2016, 85 min.

US, 2017, 81 min.

France, 2016, 110 min.

Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a smalltown Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond. When Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her 93-year-old Aunt Martha (delightfully portrayed by Academy Award® nominee Emmanuelle Riva) who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she encounters Dom (Abel), the affable, but annoying tramp who just won’t leave her alone. Replete with the amazing antics and intricately choreographed slapstick that has come to define Abel and Gordon’s work, LOST IN PARIS is a wondrously fun and hectic tale of peculiar people finding love while lost in the City of Lights.

Set within the New York Hasidic community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, MENASHE follows a kind but hapless grocery store clerk trying to maintain custody of his son, Rieven, after his wife, Lea, passes away.

Since they live in a tradition-bound culture that requires a mother present in every home, Rieven is supposed to be adopted by the boy’s strict, married uncle, but Menashe’s Rabbi decides to grant him one week to spend with Rieven prior to Lea’s memorial. Their time together creates an emotional moment of father/son bonding, as well as offers Menashe a final chance to prove to his skeptical community that he can be a capable parent.

A young man of Wallisian origin in New Caledonia defies his father to go and play rugby in France. Living on his own on the other side of the world, he learns there is a price to pay to find success.

Directors // Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon Writers // Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon Cast // Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva

Saturday 6/3, 9:15AM, Triplex

Shot in secret entirely within the Hasidic community depicted in the film, and one of the only movies to be performed in Yiddish in nearly 70 years, Menashe is a warm, life affirming look at the universal bonds between father and son that also sheds unusual light on a notoriously private community. Based largely on the real life of its Hasidic star Menashe Lustig, the film is a strikingly authentic and deeply moving portrait of family, love, connection, and community.

Director // Joshua Z. Weinstein Writer // Joshua Z. Weinstein, Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed Cast // Menashe Lustig

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Director // Sacha Wolff Writer // Sacha Wolff Cast // Toki Pilioko, Iliana Zabeth, Mikaele Tuugahala

Sunday 6/4, 11:30AM, Triplex

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NELLY

NEWTON

Canada, 2016, 110 min.

India, 2017, 110 min.

A film inspired by the life and work of Nelly Arcan. The portrait of a fragmented woman, lost between irreconcilable identities: writer, lover, call girl and star. Several women in one, navigating between great exaltation and great disenchantment. A film mirror of a violent life and a radical work; a tribute to a dense writing, chilling and necessary.

As India, the world’s largest democracy, braces itself for another general election with 9 million polling booths, more than 800 million voters, and costing nearly $5 billion - Newton Kumar, a rookie government clerk finds himself entrusted with a task that appears deceptively simple: conducting elections in a remote village in the jungles of central India.

Director // Anne Emond Writers // Nelly Arcan (based on the works of), Anne Émond Cast // Mylène MacKay, Marie-Claude Guérin, Catherine Brunet Filmmaker in attendance

Friday 6/2, 9:30PM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 4:30PM, Beacon

The bushes teem with Communist guerrillas, who have been waging a decades old war against the state, even as the indigenous tribals live without any access to mainland amenities. Conducting ‘free and fair’ elections in a minefield like this is no child’s play, as Newton learns over the course of this eventful day. Unfazed with the cynicism and danger all around him, Newton is determined to do his duty.

But, as they say in the jungle, ‘The more things change, the worse they will get.’

PRIS DE COURT NOT ON MY WATCH France, 2017, 100 min.

A single mother struggles to make ends meet and gets tangled in a web of crimes and lies to protect her two sons.

Director // Emmanuelle Cuau Writers // Eric Barbier, Emmanuelle Cuau Cast // Virginie Efira, Gilbert Melki, Marilyne Canto Filmmaker in attendance

Saturday 6/3, 11:30AM, Triplex

Director // Amit Masurkar Writers // Amit Masurkar, Mayank Tewari Cast // Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathy, Anjali Patil

Sunday 6/4, 5:30PM, Triplex

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FILMS FEATURE

PATTI CAKE$

PAULA

RARA

US, 2016, 108 min.

Germany, 2016, 120 min.

Chile, 2016, 90 min.

PATTI CAKE$ introduces Australian native Danielle Macdonald in a breakout role, as aspiring rapper Patricia Dombrowski, a.k.a. Killa P, a.k.a. Patti Cake$. Fighting an unlikely quest for glory in her downtrodden hometown in Jersey where her life is falling apart, Patti tries to reach the big time in the hip hop scene with original and affecting music. Cheered on by her grandmother (Cathy Moriarty) and only friends, Jheri (Siddharth Dhananjay) and Basterd (Mamoudou Athie), Patti also shoulders her mother’s (Bridget Everett) heartaches and misfortunes.

This movie, set in the 19th and 20th Centuries, follows the life of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker. It especially focuses on her most productive years in Worpswede (Germany) and Paris (France).

One central topic is the discrimination of women in the world of art, while the story also follows Modersohn-Beckers’ relationships with other artists and poets of her time, friends and family.

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister lived with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is very similar than it is for other families. The situation is actually totally fine with Sara. But not everyone sees it that way – her father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she feels rather overwhelmed: her first crush, her body is starting to change and to top it all off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents…

Everything feels wrong.

Director // Geremy Jasper Writer // Geremy Jasper Cast // Danielle Macdonald, Bridget Everett, Siddharth Dhananjay, Mamoudou Athie, Cathy Moriarty Film in Juried Competition

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Director // Christian Schwochow Writers // Stefan Kolditz, Stephan Suschke Cast // Carla Juri, Albrecht Schuch, Roxane Duran

Director // Pepa San Martin Writers // Pepa San Martín, Alicia Scherson Cast // Julia Lübbert, Emilia Ossandon, Mariana Loyola

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SÁMI BLOOD Sweden, 2016, 110 min.

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

Director // Amanda Kernell Writer // Amanda Kernell Cast // Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Hanna Alstrom, Malin Crepin

THE STOPOVER (VOIR DU PAYS)

THE WOMEN’S BALCONY

France, 2016, 102 min.

Israel, 2016, 95 min.

At the end of their tour of duty in Afghanistan, two young military women, Aurore and Marine, are given three days of “decompression leave” with their unit, among tourists, at a five-star resort in Cyprus. But it’s not that easy to forget the war and leave violence behind.

Israel’s #1 Film of the Year!

Directors // Delphine and Muriel Coulin Writers // Delphine and Muriel Coulin Cast // Marine, Ariane Labed, Ginger Roman, Karim Leklou, Andreas Konstantinou, Makis Papadimitriou, Alexis Manenti, Robin Barde, Sylvain Loreau, Jérémie Laheurte

Saturday 6/3, 6:15PM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 11:30AM, Beacon Friday 6/2, 8:30PM, Triplex

An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.

When the women’s balcony in an Orthodox synagogue collapses, leaving the rabbi’s wife in a coma and the rabbi in shock, the congregation falls into crisis. Charismatic young Rabbi David appears to be a savior after the accident, but slowly starts pushing his fundamentalist ways and tries to take control. This tests the women’s friendships and creates an almost Lysistrata-type rift between the community’s women and men.

Director // Emil Ben-Shimon Writer // Shlomit Nehama Cast // Avraham Aviv Alush, Yafit Asulin, Orna Banai

Saturday 6/3, 4:00PM, Triplex

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FILMS FEATURE

WALK WITH ME

ZOOLOGY

Sweden/Denmark, 2016, 100 min.

Russia/France/Germany, 2016, 85 min.

Deployed on mission in Helmand, Afghanistan, 25-year-old Thomas steps on a landmine and gets seriously injured.

At the local rehabilitation center he meets Sofie, an ascending ballerina from the Royal Danish Ballet, who is helping a relative to regain strength after a long-term sickness.

Thomas desperately wants back in the field and gets impatient, as progress does not emerge as fast as he wants it to. When Sofie offers to help him with a more intense rehabilitation plan, he accepts. Despite their differences, they develop a special bond and a mutual affection.

Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town.

She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.

Director // Lisa Ohlin Writer // Karina Dam Cast // Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Cecilie Lassen, Karen-Lise Mynster

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Director // Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Writer // Ivan I. Tverdovskiy Cast // Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova, Aleksandr Gorchilin

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

A PLASTIC OCEAN US, 2016, 100 min.

A PLASTIC OCEAN begins when journalist Craig Leeson, searching for the elusive blue whale, discovers plastic waste in what should be pristine ocean. In this adventure documentary, Craig teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to twenty locations around the world over the next four years to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect.

Director // Craig Leeson Writers // Mindy Elliott, Craig Leeson

ABACUS: BENDING SMALL ENOUGH THE ARC US, 2017, 102 min.

TO JAIL US, 2016, 90 min.

From acclaimed director Steve James (HOOP DREAMS, THE INTERRUPTERS, LIFE ITSELF), ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL tells the incredible saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud

by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., Abacus becomes the only U.S. bank to face criminal charges in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The indictment and subsequent trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves – and their bank’s legacy – in the Chinatown community over the course of a five-year legal battle.

Director // Steve James

Saturday 6/3, 11:00AM, Mahaiwe

Film Courtesy of PBS

Sunday 6/4, 9:30AM, Triplex

Thirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes came together on a mission that was both medical and moral, and, by everyone’s estimation other than their own, highly unlikely to succeed. Their goal was simple but daring: to make highquality healthcare available to everyone, even in the world’s poorest countries.

Fighting entrenched diseases, political and bureaucratic machinery, and the charityindustrial complex itself, these crusaders forced the international community to embrace the idea that healthcare must be a basic human right in every society, and went ahead to provide it. In doing so, they have changed the lives of millions of people across the globe. Told through interviews, rare archival material and onthe-ground contemporary footage featuring Dr. Paul Farmer (legendary founder of Partners In Health), Dr. Jim Yong Kim (maverick President of the World Bank), and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho (controversial Health Minister of Rwanda), the film is an emotionally charged, dramatic and inspiring journey with these brilliant and headstrong heroes.

Directors // Kief Davidson, Pedro Kos

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

BUGS Netherlands, 2016, 80 min.

Insects as food is a hot topic. Particularly over the last few years, since the UN recommended edible insects as a resource to combat world hunger, they have been heralded for their taste by cooks and gastronomes, for their low ecological impact by environmentalists and for their nutritional content by public health scientists. It would seem that insects are the new superfood that will fix all our problems of global food security. For the past three years a team from Copenhagenbased Nordic Food Lab made up of chefs and researchers Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore have been travelling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say.

In BUGS, film director Andreas Johnsen follows them as they forage, farm, cook and taste insects with communities in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond. During their journey they encounter everything from revered termite queens and desert-delicacy honey ants to venomous giant hornets and long-horned grasshoppers, trapped using powerful floodlights, that sometimes cause their catchers temporary blindness. Are insects a mirror that reflects our broken food systems, or the silver bullet that will fix them?

THE BULLISH FARMER US, 2017, 80 min.

Chasing his dream of a simpler life, John Ubaldo, aka “John Boy,” a successful Wall Street investment banker, called it quits after losing a best friend in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. John went from stock market to farm market and bought 185 acres in upstate N.Y. Seeking to live a quiet life, he wanted to farm the way it was done 100 years ago. His dream to live a traditional agrarian life, though, gets complicated when John comes up against Big Ag and realizes that he is not in sync with today’s prevailing agricultural methods.

Director // Ken Marsolais Filmmaker in attendance

CHARGED: THE EDUARDO GARCIA STORY US, 2017, 90 min.

A successful chef and adventurer, Eduardo Garcia’s life was forever changed after he was shocked with 2400 volts of electricity in a freak accident while hiking in the remote back country of Montana. Garcia lost his left hand, ribs, muscle mass and nearly his life, but more important than what he lost was what he found. Through the caregiving, patience, and sheer resilience of his exgirlfriend and partner Jennifer Jane, he was nursed back to health and learned to embrace his past, his family, and his future.

A love story unlike any other, CHARGED is not only about a physical recovery but also about a life newly and fully realized.

Director // Phillip Baribeau

Saturday 6/3, 1:15PM, Mahaiwe Saturday, 6/3, 8:30PM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 11:00AM, Beacon

Director // Andreas Johnsen Film Courtesy of Kino Lorber

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

CIRCUS KID US, 2016, 80 min.

Everyone’s family feels like a circus.

Lorenzo Pisoni’s actually was.

At some point or another, most kids growing up dream of running away to the circus. For Lorenzo Pisoni, growing up as the golden child in the cult classic comedy troupe, The Pickle Family Circus, all he wanted to do was run away from it.

But when your father is the head clown in charge, and you’re expected to follow in his oversized footsteps, your relationship is bound to get complicated. In the case of Lorenzo’s father, Larry, it became difficult and almost downright impossible to see the man behind the face paint. And ultimately, it was Larry who ended up running away.

In CIRCUS KID, we delve deep into the past to learn more about the family business, and the legends and tragedies that grew out of it. But most notably, we follow Lorenzo Pisoni as he reconnects with his father, Larry, to try and get a better understanding of what was going on behind the laughs, and solve some of the mysteries of his father’s epic life – from child runaway, to circus innovator, to absent father – all of which have so far in the past twenty years gone unanswered.

Director // Lorenzo Pisoni Filmmaker in attendance Film in Juried Competition

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CITY OF GHOSTS US, 2016, 90 min.

Directed, produced, and filmed by Academy Award–nominated and Emmywinning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (CARTEL LAND, 2015 Sundance Film Festival Directing Award), CITY OF GHOSTS is a singularly powerful cinematic experience that is sure to shake audiences to their core as it elevates the canon of one of the most talented documentary filmmakers working today. Captivating in its immediacy, CITY OF GHOSTS follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently”— a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014. With astonishing, deeply personal access, this is the story of a brave group of citizen journalists as they face the realities of life undercover, on the run, and in exile, risking their lives to stand up against one of the greatest evils in the world today.

Director // Matthew Heineman Filmmaker in attendance

Friday 6/2, 4:15PM, Triplex

CONDUCT! EVERY MOVE COUNTS Germany, 2016, 80 min.

Every two years, 24 young conductors travel to the Frankfurt Opera House to compete against each other in the world’s leading conducting competition, the Sir Georg Solti Conductors’ Competition. The film accompanies five of them through evaluation rounds up to the final, which two of them reach.

Director // Götz Schauder

Saturday 6/3, 4:15PM, Beacon Sunday 6/4, 6:15PM, Triplex

FILMS DOCUMENTARY

DINA US, 2016, 100 min.

Dina’s getting married in a few weeks and there’s still so much to do. She has to move her boyfriend, Scott, from his parents’ house to her apartment, and settle him into only the second home he’s ever had, all while juggling his schedule as an early morning Walmart door greeter. She has to get her dress, confirm arrangements with the venue, and make peace with her family, who remain nervous for their beloved Dina after the death of her first husband and the string of troubled relationships that followed. Throughout it all, in the face of obstacles large and small, Dina remains indomitable. She’s overcome tragedy and found the man she wants and, at age 48, is bent on building the life for herself that she believes she deserves. Dina is unstoppable, a force of nature, and as the star of her own life story, she’s an unconventional movie protagonist the likes of which hasn’t been seen before.

Directors // Dan Sickles, Antonio Santini Film Courtesy of The Orchard

Sunday, 6/4, 11:30AM, Triplex

DOLLS OF DARKNESS/ THE ART OF MICHEL ADJAR Canada/US/France, 2017, 70 min.

What is a doll? What is a doll? It’s something strange. It’s something in the shadows. It’s something from the earth. It’s something from the origin. It’s something magical. It’s something paternal. It’s something forbidden. It’s something from God. It’s something distant. It’s something without eyes. It’s something animal. It’s something birdlike. It’s something silent.

It’s something eternal. It’s something of mud. It’s something of pebbles. Something vegetal. Something from childhood.

Something cruel. Something joyous.

Something screaming. Something mute.

That’s it! - Michel Nedjar (From Gregory Whitehead & Allen S. Weiss, L’Indomptable, France Culture, 1996) DOLLS OF DARKNESS is a feature length film by Allen S. Weiss and Tom Rasky that explores the mysteries and profundities of dolls, puppets and marionettes in the context of the grotesque rag dolls of contemporary French artist Michel Nedjar. It focuses on his studio and his vast collection of magic dolls and masks from around the world, and examines the role of the Holocaust in the artist’s creative process. DOLLS OF DARKNESS is the English subtitled version of Poupées des ténèbres (2016, 63”).

DOLORES US, 2017, 95 min.

In the copious volumes written about Cesar Chavez and how he formed the first farm workers’ union in America, there’s little mention of Dolores Huerta, although she was his equal partner and co-founder of the union. DOLORES sheds light on this enigmatic, intensely private woman who is among the most important yet littleknown activists in American history. With unprecedented access to both Dolores and her children, the film reveals the raw, personal stories behind the public figure.

It portrays a woman both heroic and flawed, working tirelessly for social change even as her eleven children longed to have her at home.

Director // Peter Bratt Film Courtesy of PBS

Sunday 6/4, 2:00PM, Triplex

Directors // Allen Weiss and Tom Rasky Filmmaker in attendance

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES Netherlands, 2017, 85 min.

In their remote home in the North Atlantic, the Faroe Islanders have always eaten what nature could provide, proud to put local food on the table. The land yields little, so they have always relied on harvesting their seas. Hunting whales and seabirds kept them alive for generations, and gave them the way of life they love; a life they would pass on to their children. But today they face a grave threat to this tradition. It is not the controversy surrounding whaling that threatens the Faroese way of life; the danger is coming from the whales themselves. The Faroese are among the first to feel the affects of our ever more polluted oceans. They have discovered that their beloved whales are toxic, contaminated by the outside world. What once secured their survival now endangers their children and the Faroe Islanders must make a choice between health and tradition.

Director // Mike Day

LOOK AND SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY US, 2017, 82 min.

LOOK & SEE is a cinematic portrait of farmer and writer Wendell Berry. Through his eyes, we see both the changing landscapes of rural America in the era of industrial agriculture and the redemptive beauty in taking the unworn path.

Henry County, Kentucky, like many rural landscapes across America, has become a place of quiet ideological struggle. In the span of a generation, virtues of simplicity, land stewardship, local economies and rootedness to place have been supplanted by a capital-intensive model of industrial agriculture characterized by machine labor, chemical fertilizers, soil erosion and debt all of which have frayed the fabric of communities. Writing from a long wooden desk beneath a forty-paned window, Wendell Berry has watched this struggle unfold, becoming one the most passionate and eloquent voices in defense of agrarian life.

Directors // Laura Dunn, Jet Sewell

Sunday 6/4, 10:00AM, Triplex

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MR. GAGA Germany/Israel/Netherlands/Sweden, 2015, 100 min.

The creator of the Gaga movement in contemporary dance, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin commands the spotlight in this documentary about his dramatic personal and professional life - from performing in the 1970s New York City to challenging the Israeli government to reinterpreting the language of dance.

Director // Tomer Heymann Q&A immediately following the screening with Jacob’s Pillow Director Pamela Tatge as part of the collaboration between the BIFF and Jacob’s Pillow Dance. Jacob’s Pillow celebrates its 85th Anniversary Season this summer, including a July performance by Gaga favorite Ate9 dANCE cOMPANY.

Sunday 6/4, 11:30AM, Triplex

FILMS DOCUMENTARY

NOWHERE TO HIDE

THE PARIS OPERA

US/Iraq, 2017, 90 min.

France/Switzerland, 2017, 110 min.

After the Americans left Iraq in 2011, a male nurse named Nori Sharif was asked to report on the state of his country, providing unique access into one of the world’s most dangerous and inaccessible areas – the “triangle of death” in central Iraq. Working in the local hospital in Jalawla, he filmed the victims of war over the course of five years. The shocking images show families torn apart, maimed and damaged by the violence in Iraq. And every day more arrive, as the conflicts continue and life is disrupted by attacks over and over again.

Often it isn’t even clear who the adversaries are. But the threat level increases, and when the Iraqi army pulls out in 2013 because of militant groups, the population flees – accompanied by the majority of the hospital staff. Sharif is one of the few who remain. When IS advances on Jalawla in 2014 and finally takes over the city, Sharif continues to film. Then he too has to flee at a moment’s notice, to bring himself and his family to safety.

This all-access documentary goes behind the scenes of the Paris Opera, following the array of personnel—management, performers, costumers, cleaning crew— who work to bring breathtaking spectacle to audiences night after night. Over the course of a season, director Jean-Stéphane Bron nimbly juggles a dizzying number of storylines, from labor disputes to procuring a live bull for Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron to a PR crisis involving Benjamin Millepied, the head of the company’s ballet.

Sweeping in scope yet full of intimate human moments, THE PARIS OPERA offers a candid look at everything that goes into operating one of the world’s foremost performing arts institutions.

Director // Zaradasht Ahmed

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD Canada, 2016, 103 min.

This powerful documentary about the role of Native Americans in contemporary music history—featuring some of the greatest music stars of our time—exposes a critical missing chapter, revealing how indigenous musicians helped shape the soundtracks of our lives and, through their contributions, influenced popular culture.

Directors // Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana Film Courtesy of Kino Lorber

Director // Jean-Stéphane Bron Film Courtesy of Film Movement

Saturday 6/3, 10:00AM, Triplex

Saturday 6/3, 4:15PM, Beacon Sunday 6/4, 11:00AM, Mahaiwe

Film Courtesy of Film Transit Film in Juried Competition

Friday, 6/2, 1:00PM, Triplex

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SCHOOL LIFE Ireland/Spain, 2016, 100 min.

Housed in an 18th century estate, school life at Headfort embraces tradition and modernity. For John, rock music is just another subject alongside Math, Scripture and Latin, taught in a collaborative and often hilarious fashion. For his wife Amanda, the key to connecting with children is the book, and she uses all means to snare the young minds. For nearly half a century these two have shaped thousands of minds, but as John and Amanda ponder retirement, the film poses a quietly profound question: Will their intimate and caring cultivation of future generations live on, or will it vanish like so many communitycentered practices?

Directors // Neasa Ni Chianain, David Rane Film Courtesy of Magnolia

SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY US, 2017, 80 min.

This documentary brings Hollywood’s premier composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of one of the world’s most widely known music genre: the film score.

Director // Matt Schrader

Saturday 6/3, 9:00AM, Mahaiwe

SERENADE FOR HAITI US, 2017, 80 min.

SERENADE FOR HAITI follows the extraordinary children and faculty of the Sainte Trinité Music School of Port-auPrince, Haiti, as they turn to music to unlock the power of their own lives. When a catastrophic earthquake completely destroys the school in 2010, a stunned and devastated faculty and student body must pick up the pieces and find a way to adapt.

Filmed over a seven-year period that began before the earthquake, the documentary captures a rare look at a country known for its poverty and history of political violence and finds a story of resilience, art, and great humanity.

Director // Owsley Brown Filmmaker in attendance Film in Juried Competition

Friday, 6/2, 2:15PM, Triplex

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SWIM TEAM US, 2016, 90 min.

What would you do if your community gave up on your child?

In New Jersey, the parents of one autistic boy take matters into their own hands.

They form a competitive swim team, recruiting diverse autistic teens and training them with high expectations and zero pity.

What happens next alters the course of the boys’ lives.

SWIM TEAM chronicles the extraordinary rise of the Jersey Hammerheads, capturing a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels like winning.

Director // Lara Stolman Filmmaker in attendance Film in Juried Competition

Friday, 6/2, 11:45AM, Triplex

TAKE MY NOSE...

PLEASE!

THE TENTH STEP

US, 2017, 99 min.

US, 2017, 70 min.

More than 15 million cosmetic procedures were performed in the US in 2014; 90% of them on women. Yet plastic surgery remains an unseemly subject in our culture.

Thankfully, we have plenty of comedians— female comedians—and no one is better equipped to dismantle taboos.

World-renowned Himalayan expedition leader Gerry Moffatt embarks on a 4,000mile solo motorcycle adventure across the Himalayas for his 50th birthday, intent on exploring changes he’s seen over 30 years of guiding. As challenges and tragedies unfold, his adventure unexpectedly reveals that the biggest changes over the past 30 years were inside him. Inspired to finally revisit a river that almost killed him 20 years ago, Moffatt finds gratitude and closure in the crucible of one of the most dangerous whitewater canyons on the planet. THE TENTH STEP is an inspiring journey through self-discovery and recovery - set amidst a fascinating backdrop of adventure travel history.

This irreverent, hilarious new documentary is former costume designer and journalist Joan Kron’s filmmaking debut—and, at 89, Kron isn’t about to mince words for the sake of social niceties. Featuring commentary from such icons as Phyllis Diller, Roseanne Barr and the late, great Joan Rivers, TAKE MY NOSE… PLEASE! takes no prisoners in its quest to better understand the pressures placed on women to adhere to society’s arbitrary standards of beauty.

Director // Joan Kron Filmmaker in attendance Film in Juried Competition

Director // Gerry Moffatt Filmmaker in attendance

Saturday 6/3, 4:15PM, Triplex

Saturday 6/3, 9:15AM, Triplex Saturday 6/3, 1:45PM, Beacon

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

THIS IS TRIBAL JUSTICE THE UNTOLD US, 2017, 90 min.

EVERYTHING: TALES OF JUSTICE portrays a little known but GIGI GORGEOUS TRIBAL ARMISTEAD effective reform movement in America: tribal US, 2017, 91 min. courts creating alternative justice systems MAUPIN THIS IS EVERYTHING: GIGI GORGEOUS, chronicles the transition of Gregory Gorgeous, the young YouTube star, famous for his make up tutorials and online presence, to Gigi Gorgeous, an upcoming model and personality. The film takes you behind the scenes on Gigi and her family as they navigate this new world.

Director // Barbara Kopple Filmmaker in attendance

based on their traditions. In California, two formidable women are leading the way.

Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yuroks on the northwest coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan in the southeastern desert, are forging innovative court models focusing on restoring rather than punishing offenders. As Tribal Justice follows cases in and out of their courtrooms, we experience the reunification of a family, a felon returning to his tribe, and a teenage boy lost to the state.

Director // Anne Makepeace

Saturday 6/3, 4:15PM, Mahaiwe

US, 2016, 90 min.

Best known his ground-breaking Tales Of The City, this remarkable documentary follows the renowned author’s journey from intolerant conservative to beloved writer known for his outrageous wit and open heart. Included are interviews with Sir Ian McKellen, Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, Amy Tan, and Neil Gaiman, among others.

Director // Jennifer Kroot Film Courtesy of The Film Collaborative

Filmmaker in attendance

Sunday 6/4, 6:00PM, Triplex

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FILMS DOCUMENTARY

UNREST US, 2017, 97 min.

Jennifer Brea is an active Harvard PhD student about to marry the love of her life when suddenly her body starts failing her. Hoping to shed light on her strange symptoms, Jennifer grabs a camera and films the darkest moments unfolding before her eyes as she is derailed by M.E. (commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), a mysterious illness some still believe is “all in your head.�

Director // Jennifer Brea Film Courtesy of The Film Collaborative

Friday 6/2, 7:30PM, Triplex Sunday 6/4, 9:30AM, Beacon

WHOSE STREETS? US, 2017, 103 min.

Told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, WHOSE STREETS? is an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. Grief, long-standing racial tensions and renewed anger bring residents together to hold vigil and protest this latest tragedy. Empowered parents, artists, and teachers from around the country come together as freedom fighters.

As the National Guard descends on Ferguson with military grade weaponry, these young community members become the torchbearers of a new resistance.

Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis know this story because they are the story. Whose Streets? is a powerful battle cry from a generation fighting, not for their civil rights, but for the right to live.

Directors // Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis Film Courtesy of Magnolia

Saturday 6/3, 6:30PM, Triplex

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Designers re-imagine playhouse structures for children of all ages.

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SHORTS #1 FILMS SHORT

117 min.

Friday, 6/2, 3:00PM, Triplex Saturday 6/3, 1:45PM, Beacon

MONTAGE: GREAT FILM COMPOSERS AND THE PIANO US, 2016, 25 min.

CURPIGEON

NIGHT SHIFT

US, 2016, 10 min.

US, 2016, 15 min.

A heartwarming story about the power of community support during a time of grief.

CURPIGEON is a CG animated short film about a group of park pigeons, and their old men pals, who come together to help one of their own get through a great loss.

Get a glimpse into a day in the life of a bathroom attendant in a Los Angeles nightclub.

MONTAGE: GREAT FILM COMPOSERS AND THE PIANO chronicles what happened when celebrated pianist Gloria Cheng challenged the world’s greatest film composers - Williams, Newman, Giacchino, Broughton, Desplat and Davis - to write original pieces for solo piano. No movie. No orchestra. Just a composer and the blank page. Be a fly on the wall for these oncein-a-lifetime recording sessions that profile these titans of film music like we’ve never seen them before.

THE ASCENT

Director // Gloria Cheng

US, 2017, 9 min.

Filmmaker in attendance

Director // Marshall Tyler

Director // Dmitry Milkin

LIGHT SIGHT A young woman returns to a centuries-old redwood grove -- the site of a long-ago environmental protest -- to face her past, 250 feet in the air.

Iran, 2016, 8 min.

M.E., the imprisoned character in a room, is attracted to a hanging light and tries to catch it. But the room itself becomes an obstacle in his way.

Director // Seyed M. Tabatabaei

Directors // Sorrel Brae, Austin Bunn Filmmaker in attendance

5 FILMS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

TOKYO PROJECT

US, 2016, 5 min.

A look at the dumber side of technology.

Director // Peter Huang

RUNNING THROUGH LIFE Denmark, 2016, 8 min.

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MY FATHER’S TOOLS Canada, 2016, 7 min.

Stephen continues producing traditional baskets to honor his father and thus finds peace in his studio as he connects with the man who taught him the craft.

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RUNNING THROUGH LIFE is a bright reflection of human modern condition. ”Running Through Life” provides an insight into the relationship between the individual, their community, and the desire to live a balanced life.

Director // Helene Moltke-Leth Filmmaker in attendance

US, 2017, 30 min.

Sebastian is on a business trip to Tokyo.

Handsome and hip, Sebastian represents a high-end Brooklyn men’s grooming product company that has been finding much success in Japan. He’s also fascinated with a woman he has seen at his hotel. Claire.

Beautiful and mysterious. And so begins an erotic, highly charged night between these two Americans traveling in a foreign land. But all is not what it seems. Truth is fiction, and fiction the new reality. And these stranger’s dark pasts have more in common than you might think Director // Richard Shepard Filmmaker in attendance

SHORTS #2 112 min.

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WIG SHOP

REFUGE

THE CHOP

US, 2016, 16 min.

2017, Greece/USA, 9 min.

UK, 2016, 15 min.

Chaya (Emily Mortimer), an orthodox Jewish woman, visits a wig shop in an unfamiliar side of town looking for something. At first on edge because of her new surroundings, Chaya lets down her guard when she is quickly befriended by the shop owner Tippy (Adina Porter) only to discover that nothing is as it seems and a secret she learns changes their lives forever.

A small team of filmmakers, photographers, and storytellers traveled to Greece to document human stories from the Refugee Crisis. We wanted to focus on individuals, exploring the simple, universal questions, ‘Why did you leave your home?’ and ‘What do you hope to find where you’re going?’

Yossi, a charismatic kosher butcher, loses his job. When he cannot find work at other kosher establishments, he decides to pretend to be Muslim in order to get work at a halal butcher shop.

Director // Lewis Rose

Director // Matthew K. Firpo

Director // Kat Coiro

PANIC ATTACK US, 2016, 3 min.

You know the nagging thoughts that start with “did I leave the coffee on?” and turn into “what if I give birth to Satan’s baby?”

This hand-drawn animation explores anxiety, obsession, and one woman’s slippery hold on reality.

RAILMENT Japan, 2016, 10 min.

In a continuous scenery, his physical movement stays in the same position.

The speed of the continuity and his movement have accelerated and gradually cause a distortion.

BALCONY UK, 2016, 17 min.

In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent immigrant who is the victim of prejudice and shame.

Director // Toby Fell-Holden

Director // Shunsaku Hayashi

Director // Eileen O’Meara

SOY CUBANA Cuba, 2016, 17 min.

FISH STORY THE COLLECTION US, 2017, 11 min.

Director // Charlie Lyne

Directors // JeremyUngar, Ivaylo Getov Filmmaker in attendance

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Director // Adam Roffman

Behind a fishy tale lies this search for the truth.

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THE COLLECTION is a short documentary about two friends, DJ Ginsberg and Marilyn Wagner, and their discovery of an astonishing and unique collection of movie memorabilia, comprised of over 40,000 printer blocks and 20,000 printer plates used to create the original newspaper advertisements for virtually every movie released in the United States from the silent period through 1984, when newspapers stopped using the letterpress format.

UK, 2017, 14 min.

This short documentary follows a unique and until now little known Cuban a cappella quartet, the Vocal Vidas. Their infectious spirit, precise vocal harmonies, and melting pot of references embody the sounds of Santiago de Cuba - the cradle of AfroCuban music. We follow these four women, exploring their daily lives and artistic process and gaining a unique window into a contemporary career and relationship with music in a communist society.

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Littlecinema Presenting the best in independent and foreign films.

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8TH ANNUAL KID FLIX MIX Recommended for Ages 3 – 7 Two young girls find primate pals in ME… JANE and ZOO STORY. Fantastical journeys provide new perspectives in ONE, TWO, TREE; AN OBJECT AT REST, and THE GIRL WHO SPOKE CAT. Tiny creatures are both welcome and unwelcome additions to someone’s home in PERFECT HOUSEGUEST and THE VISITORS. Young Fidel reminisces about his family new and old on his Mother’s wedding day in MEMORIES OF THE SEA. Wild characters plus delicious food equal a perfect recipe in both OCTOPUS and TINY TUNES - FOOD. A simple lesson proves to be essential in LOOKS while an important one is ignored in THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA. BIFF in collaboration with

Sunday 6/4, 9:30AM, Beacon Sunday 6/4, 9:30AM, Mahaiwe FREE EVENT

ONE, TWO, TREE Director // Yulia Aronova

France, 2015, 7 min It’s the story of a tree, a tree like any other.

One day, it jumps into a pair of boots and goes off for a walk, inviting everyone to follow.

OCTOPUS

Director // Julia Ocker

Germany, 2015, 3.5 min Baking a cake should be much easier with eight arms, but that’s only if all arms agree on what cake they’re going to make!

ME…JANE

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Directors // Paul and Sandra Fierlinger

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US, 2014, 9 min Jane Goodall is renowned for her work with apes in the jungle, but as Patrick McDonnell’s heartwarming tale shows, her curiosity, spirit and sense of adventure started long ago with a toy chimpanzee named Jubliee.

LOOKS

PERFECT HOUSEGUEST

Germany, 2014, 3 min A grey lynx doesn’t quite fit into the colorful world around him, and resorts to dark behavior in order to blend in.

US, 2015, 1.5 min A house is visited by a clean, organized, well-mannered guest.

Director // Susann Hoffmann

MEMORIES OF THE SEA

AN OBJECT AT REST Director // Seth Boyden

Brazil/US, 2015, 9 min Fidel is six years old and has a lot of opinions, but doesn’t quite understand the changes happening within his family.

US, 2015, 5.5 min A stone will encounter lots of obstacles over the course of a millennium, but is there any greater disruption than that of human civilization?

ZOO STORY

THE VISITORS

Czech Republic, 2015, 4 min What happens when a little girl who is bored at the zoo suddenly notices a big gorilla?

Australia, 2014, 1 min A man’s home is his castle.

But not for long...

Director // Thais Drassinower

Director // Veronika Zacharova

TINY TUNES - FOOD

THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA

UK, 2015, 1 min Our new favorite band performs a pocketsized poem about our all-time favorite subject: food!

US, 2015, 7.5 min A devious spin on a classic tale of a hungry fox and plump goose, complete with a chorus of concerned little chicks!

Director // Andy Martin

Directors // Ru Kuwahata, Max Porter

Director // Pete List

Director // Philip Watts

THE GIRL WHO SPOKE CAT Director // Dotty Kultys

UK/Poland, 2014, 6 min A curious girl wants to add some color into her predictable, organized world where there’s a proper way of walking, looking — even eating soup!

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85 Anniversary Season

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7 1 0 2 MAY 31 - JUNE 1 The Berkshire International Film Festival proudly presents its 6th annual Filmmaker Summit, a two-day talent academy offered to the 2017 film selection filmmakers.

Offering a diverse, multi-dimensional program of panel discussions, lectures, special events and breakout sessions lead by known industry professionals, the BIFF Filmmaker Summit is designed to celebrate and support the advancement of filmmakers and recognize film as a relevant and important medium.

BIFF thanks Carolyn Lancaster, Mary Mott and Gordon Simmering, Doug and Julia Trumbull, Molly Thompson, Peggy Rajski, Sheila Nevins and the industry professionals for their time and participation.

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2017 JURY PRIZE The 12th Annual Berkshire International Film Festival is thrilled to host the seventh annual Juried Prize Award generously sponsored by GWFF USA. The Jury will choose from 10 films in competition; 5 films in the feature documentary category and 5 in the narrative feature category.

The Jury is comprised of talented individuals from the film community with original and diverse points of view, who will select from fresh new work from new or relatively new filmmakers in independent film this year. The Jury will screen the films in competition during the weekend and will present the winning filmmakers with a $5000 cash prize to be presented on Sunday, June 4 at allium in Great Barrington.

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JOSH BRAUN JOSH BRAUN is the co-president of SUBMARINE - a hybrid sales and production company based in New York. Recent films sold

by Submarine include CREEP, FINDING VIVIAN MAIER, THE ONE I LOVE, THE CASE AGAINST 8, IVORY TOWER, THE GREEN PRINCE, DINOSAUR 13, PING PONG SUMMER, BATTERED BASTARDS OF BASEBALL, THE DOG, BLACKFISH, DIRTY WARS, 20 FEET FROM STARDOM, THE SUMMIT, CUTIE AND THE BOXER, QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN, ME AT THE ZOO, BLACK ROCK, CHASING ICE, ROB ZOMBIE’S LORDS OF SALEM, NO PLACE ON EARTH, TABLOID, PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NY TIMES, BUCK, PROJECT NIM, BEING ELMO, THE BULLY PROJECT, YOUR SISTER’S SISTER, DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL, CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, BILL CUNNINGHAM NEW YORK, TINY FURNITURE, WINTER’S BONE, MAN ON WIRE, FOOD INC, JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK, VALENTINO THE LAST EMPEROR and others. Previously, Mr. Braun was an executive producer on David Cronenberg’s A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and produced the cult horror hit HOUSE OF THE DEVIL, as well as IVORY TOWER, PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NY TIMES. Documentaries Executive Produced by Mr. Braun include SEAMLESS, GRAMERCY PARK HOTEL, CAT DANCERS, BILLIONAIRE, EASY RIDERS RAGING BULLS, KILL YOUR IDOLS.

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Mr. Cohen is recognizable from his many character portrayals in television, theater and film. A very versatile actor, Cohen has garnered rave reviews for his varied, wide range of performances. Cohen stars opposite Famke Janssen and AnnaSophia Robb in Janet Grillo’s JACK OF THE RED HEARTS, and recently starred in Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s AS YOU ARE, Sundance ’16 Jury Prize winner, opposite Mary Stuart Masterson and Charlie Heaton and the upcoming Stacey Cochran Film, A+, with Emily Mortimer and Finn Whitrock. Cohen can be seen on Showtime’s BILLIONS opposite Paul Giamatti and the upcoming Jim Carrey’s I’M DYIN’ UP HERE on SHO. Last season, he starred opposite Hope Davis in NBC’s ALLEGIANCE. Other recent film projects include Tim Blake Nelson’s ANESTHESIA and the upcoming WHO ARE WE NOW with Emma Roberts. Cohen starred opposite Natalie Portman in Don Roos’ film adaptation of “Love and Other Impossible Pursuits.” He also appeared in the Robert DeNiro film, “Everybody’s Fine”, in the Nicole Holofcener project, “Please Give,” and Ed Zwick’s film, “Love and Other Drugs.” Cohen wrapped the third and final season of the USA hit, “Necessary Roughness”, where he played

“Nico”, the team’s mysterious fixer. Cohen has a loyal following for his role as Max Medina on “Gilmore Girls”, his portrayal of Wolf in “The 10th Kingdom”, and Harry Denby in his two season arc on NYPD BLUE. His recent and diverse television credits include ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm“, “Elementary”, “Person of Interest”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “The Good Wife”, “Mysteries of Laura” and “Unforgettable”.

On stage, Cohen starred in the Broadway comedy “Losing Louie” for the Manhattan Theater Club, in David Ives’ “The Other Woman” and “A Nervous Smile” opposite Amy Brenneman. Cohen’s prolific stage work also counts numerous appearances at the Williamstown Theater Festival, including “The Big Knife” and “La Ronde,” both directed by Joanne Woodward. Recently, Cohen was seen at Bard College in the play “In Audela” written by his wife, Anastasia Traina; he starred in the Playwrights Horizons production,” Three Changes” alongside Dylan McDermott and Maura Tierney; and appeared in the American premiere of Caryl Churchill’s “Drunk Enough To Say I Love You” at the Public Theater with Sam West. As a producer, Mr. Cohen is working to procure rights and guide multiple projects for web based series, Television and film. Along with his acting projects, Cohen is an adjunct professor at CUNY’s Hunter College, also serves on the Columbia County Film Festival Advisory Board, now in its 17th year and is on the Board of the NY International Children’s Film Festival.

KAREN GOODMAN Academy Award-winning filmmaker Karen Goodman has been making documentaries for more than three decades. Her films have garnered numerous awards including three other Oscar nominations, many Emmys and the dupont-Columbia Award for Independent Programming. She has produced and directed films and series’ for national broadcast for HBO, PBS, MTV and National Geographic.Her films include the Oscar-winning Strangers No More, a portrait of an inner city school un Tel Aviv that is home to immigrant children from more than fifty nations. Her Emmy-winning three-season HBO series Masterclass paired world renowned artists with aspiring teenagers in their disciplines. Episodes featured masters including Renee Fleming, Wynton Marsalis, Edward Albee, Patti Lupone. Bobby McFerrin, Liv Ullmann, Joshua Bell, Placido Domingo, Bruce Weber, Josh Groban, Frank Gehry, and Julian Schnabel. Her films have been selected for numerous festivals worldwide, including Sundance and MoMA’s New Directors/New Films. She is the recipient of filmmaking grants from the American Film Institute, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Documentary Branch. She has also served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities Media Program, and as a judge for the Emmy Awards and the DuPont-Columbia Awards. She is currently working on a feature

documentary, The Last Hope, profiling an international relief operation in war-torn nations in the Middle East and Africa.

BOB HARPER After graduating with a BFA in Theatre from Carnegie Mellon University in 1977, Harper began his movie career at Kaleidoscope Films in Hollywood where he eventually became Vice President and General Manager before joining 20th Century Fox in 1984. Over the next 30 years he performed in a wide variety of roles for Fox contributing in various ways to over 400 major motion picture productions and releases.

His early jobs included Vice President of Creative Advertising, Vice President of Production and President of World Wide Marketing. In 1991, he ventured into independent production with his Fox based Featherstone Productions where he developed and produced the 1993 summer hit Rookie of the Year. In 1995, Harper rejoined the executive ranks at 20th Century Fox as President of Marketing and managed the campaigns for such films as INDEPENDENCE DAY, WAITING TO EXHALE, DR. DOLITTLE and THE STAR WARS TRILOGY SPECIAL EDITION. He was named Vice Chairman of the studio in 2000 and then in 2004 was promoted to Vice Chairman of parent company, Fox Filmed Entertainment, where he had global strategic, creative and managerial responsibilities for all the Fox film divisions which included 20th Century Fox, Fox 2000, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Fox Atomic and 20th Century Fox Animation. Some of the films released during this time period include, STAR WARS EPISODE III, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM, X-MEN: THE LAST STAND, ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN and THE SIMPSONS MOVIE. In 2007 he was named CEO and Chairman of the Fox partnered independent studio New Regency Productions (a production entity that has made and owns over 100 titles including such high profile Fox releases as FIGHT CLUB, ENTRAPMENT, MAN ON FIRE, DAREDEVIL and MR AND MRS SMITH). While there he contributed to the development, production and worldwide release of such films as ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, MARLEY AND ME, BRIDE WARS and KNIGHT AND DAY. After leaving New Regency in 2011, he remained on the Fox lot for 4 years and executive produced IN TIME, WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER and DARKEST HOUR while continuing to provide strategic input to the office of the Chairman.

His Featherstone Productions is currently in development on a feature film at 20th Century Fox. Harper serves on the Advisory Boards of the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA as well as the Tom Sherak MS Hope Foundation. He has previously served as Chairman on the Board of Trustees of the Southern California Chapter of the National MS Society. As a former board member of World Neighbors he remains an active contributor and fund raiser for this Oklahoma based non-profit organization dedicated to helping third-world communities find lasting solutions to hunger, poverty and disease. He is currently a 28 year member of the Executive Branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences.

KENT JONES Kent Jones is an internationally recognized writer and filmmaker. He is the author of several books of criticism, has been a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine for many years, and was selected as a 2012 Guggenheim Fellow. He has worked with Martin Scorsese throughout the years on numerous documentaries – he was the co-writer of his survey of Italian cinema, MY VOYAGE TO ITALY, the writer and director of the 2007 film VAL LEWTON: THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS which Scorsese produced and narrated, and the co-writer and director with Scorsese of the Emmy-nominated and Peabody Awardwinning 2010 film, A LETTER TO ELIA. They are currently at work on a follow-up to MY VOYAGE TO ITALY. Jones co-wrote Arnaud Desplechin’s Portrait of Jimmy Picard starring Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric, which is currenly in post-production. He is preparing a feature film, IT NEVER ENTERED MY MIND. Jones was appointed Executive Director of The World Cinema Foundation in 2009, and he currently serves as its Artistic Director. In November of 2012, he was appointed Director of Programming for the New York Film Festival.

Kent Jones recently shot is latest film DIANE in January and is in post-production. The film stars Mary Kay Place, Jake Lacey, Deirdre O’Connell, Andrea Martin, Estelle Parsons, Joyce Van Patten.

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Peggy Rajski is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, educator, humanitarian and consultant. She’s produced over a dozen feature films with notable talent in front of and behind the camera, directed and coproduced the Oscar-winning short film TREVOR and created The Trevor Project-the groundbreaking not-for-profit recognized nationwide for its lifesaving work with LGBTQI youth. Peggy coaches filmmakers on pitching and project development, and has been teaching and serving as the Producing Area Head in NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film program since 2011.

GRETCHEN RENNELL Gretchen Rennell started her career in the theatre business answering phones for Harold Prince, the Broadway director and producer.

It was an exciting time in NYC as he had four shows up and running on Broadway. From there she moved into the world of feature film casting and trained under the sharp eye of Marion Dougherty. She was vice-president of casting at Paramount Pictures before she moved on to Head of Casting at Walt Disney Pictures in Burbank. Some of the movies cast have been FLASHDANCE, COTTON CLUB, CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD, THE COLOR OF MONEY, AGNES OF GOD, MATINEE, NOTHING TO LOSE, LEAP OF FAITH, THE HORSE WHISPERER and some she would just as soon not mention. Now living in Sheffield, Massachusetts and happy to have landed here.

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Kristi Zea was nominated for an Academy Award Award for her production design work on REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, directed by Sam Mendes. She has received worldwide acclaim for her work as a production designer, costume designer, and producer. Zea began her career in film as costume designer for Alan Parker’s FAME and SHOOT THE MOON, and James L Brooks’ Academy Awardwinning TERMS OF ENDEARMENT. As a production designer, Zea has worked with director Martin Scorsese, designing THE DEPARTED, GOODFELLAS and NEW YORK STORIES. For director Jonathan Demme , she designed THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, BELOVED, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and PHILADELPHIA. Among her numerous other design credits are Oliver Stone’s WALL STREET 2, Neil Jordan’s THE BRAVE ONE, Brett Ratner’s RED DRAGON and TOWER HEIST, Roger Michelle’s CHANGING LANES, Barry Levin- son’s SLEEPERS, and James L. Brooks’ BROADCAST NEWS. As a producer, Zea’s credits include James L. Brooks’ AS GOOD AS IT GETS, and the independent film THE JONESES, starring Demi Moore and David Duchovny. She directed the Ace Award-nominated DOMESTIC DILEMMA for the HBO Series WOMEN AND MEN 2, starring Ray Liotta and Andie MacDowell. Zea most recently production designed the pilots for the new HBO drama THE LEFTOVERS, as well as NBC new series AMERICAN ODYSSEY. After working with Nancy Myers as the production designer of Myers’ latest comedy THE INTERN starring Robert DeNiro and Anne Hathaway, Zea just finished designing the series American Odyssey shooting in New York, Morocco and Barcelona.

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Has been acting, writing, directing and producing for nearly 45 years. His movies include: ANIMAL HOUSE, LOCAL HERO, CROSSING DELANCEY, CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, COLDBLOODED, UTZ, OSCAR, PASSED AWAY, THE MASK, TRAFFIC, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, and MIDDLETON and the short films THE WALK and THE RESPONSE, which received the ABA Silver Gavel and was short listed for an Academy nomination for live-action short. Television credits include: THE SOPRANOS, DAMAGES, GYPSY, BARBARIANS AT THE GATE, CONCEALED ENEMIES, LAW AND ORDER SVU, THE GOOD WIFE and ONE TREE HILL. On Broadway he was in THE OLD NEIGHBORHOOD, AN AMERICAN DAUGHTER, THE NERD and DANCE WITH ME. Off B’Way includes:

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Mary Kay Place is an Emmy Award winning actress who was first critically acclaimed for her role as country singer Loretta Haggers on the hit comedy series MARY HARTMAN, MARY HARTMAN. Since then she has been in over 56 feature films including the recently completed MISS MEADOWS and I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, as well as SMASHED, SWEET HOME ALABAMA, IT’S COMPLICATED, JULIE & JULIA, CITIZEN RUTH, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, THE BIG CHILL, CAPTAIN RON, THE RAINMAKER, PRIVATE BENJAMIN AND NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Her many television credits include a new NBC comedy pilot, ELLEN MORE OR LESS, RAKE, THE NEW NORMAL, SUBURGATORY, BIG LOVE, BORED TO DEATH, THE WEST WING, MY SO CALLED LIFE, host of SATURDAY NIGHT LIFE, MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW, MASH and ALL IN THE FAMILY. She has also written and directed for television and recorded three albums for Columbia Records. Mary Kay just completed the second season of the Netflix series LADY DYNAMITE and guest starred in the ABC series BLACKISH and the new BRAVO series IMPOSTERS. Her upcoming films include, STATE LIKE SLEEP and DIANE directed by Kent Jones.

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SEXUAL PERVERSITY IN CHICAGO, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY, MOUTAIN LANGUAGE, ISN’T IT ROMANTIC and A ROSEN BY ANY OTHER NAME. His directorial film debut was the Academy nominated short BY COURIER, followed by his first feature, KING OF THE CORNER, with Isabella Rossellini, Eli Wallach, Rita Moreno, Beverly D’Angelo, Eric Bogosian and Dominic Chianese. He is currently preparing a TV series based on the novels of Cornelia Read and her Madeline Dare character. He’s working on a documentary about the oldest cemetery in Queens, NY, PROSPECT CEMETERY, est. 1668 (see Kickstarter campaign). Books on Tape include: THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION by Michael Chabon; WHERE I’M CALLING FROM (11 short stories) by Raymond Carver; BLACK MONEY and THE CHILL by Ross McDonald and THE LAWGIVER by Herman Wouk. He played Oscar Newman in David Simon’s upcoming mini-series for HBO, SHOW ME A HERO, with Oscar Isaac and Catherine Keener.

It’s based on Lisa Belkin’s non-fiction book of the same name and was directed by Paul Haggis. He’s Denis Leary’s father in his new FX series, SEX, DRUGS AND ROCK AND ROLL.

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This year we are adding “Tea Talks” to our roster of weekend events.

“Tea Talks” sponsored by Harney & Sons Tea, is a new BIFF speaker series that will go behind the scenes and bring you closer to the art of filmmaking, filmmakers and influencers. Screenwriters, directors, producers, actors and journalists will be with us to give insight into the true art of making movies and the stories behind them.

We know that our audience is inquisitive.

Curious about what goes on behind the scenes.

These talks will bring you closer to that goal. Bringing to the Berkshires the best and the brightest in storytelling today.

Join us in GB for all the talks during the festival. OK? See the schedule below for details.

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Mary Mott will be in conversation with our Tea Talks guests. She is wildly curious, as she knows you are, about the work of filmmakers. The inside story to the writers, directors, producers, actors, and all who bring these films to us. Mary is a writer based in the Berkshires. She has written and starred in two one-woman shows in the last few years. “From Where I Sit” and “Butter to the Edges”

Copies of Ms. Nevins book will be available to purchase at the talk, thanks to Matt Tannenbaum and The Bookstore in Lenox.

Sheila Nevins is one of the most influential people in documentary filmmaking today.

Sheila is President of HBO Documentary Films, producing over one thousand films for HBO. Her films have been recognized by over 65 Primetime Emmy Awards, 46 Peabody Awards and 26 Academy Awards. And now she has stepped out from behind the camera and written a book. “You Don’t Look Your Age….and Other Fairy Tales.” Sheila Nevins is the best friend you never knew you had.

Join us for a talk filled with hilarity, wisdom and inspiration as she covers the real life challenges of being a woman in a man’s world, an older woman in a youth-obsessed society and what being a feminist really means.

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A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD. USA, 2017, 30 min.

Based on the short story by groundbreaking southern American writer Carson McCullers, written when she was 25, the film, A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD., is set at a roadside café in the early morning in the Spring of 1947. A young boy and an older man meet by chance.

The man relates a luminous tale of personal heartbreak and loss, and of his hard won understanding of the nature of love. The film is the directorial debut of award winning actor/director Karen Allen.

Director // Karen Allen Writers // Carson McCullers, Adapted by Karen Allen Producers // Diane Pearlman, Brian Long Cast // Jeffery DeMunn, James McMenamin, Jackson Smith, William Gallatis, Terry Holland, Chip Rybak, Billy Baraw, Andrew Plimpton, Karen Beaumont & Kale Browne

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KAREN ALLEN Karen Allen (Writer/Director) is an awarding winning actor/director known for her roles in films including ANIMAL HOUSE, RAIDER’S OF THE LOST ARK, STARMAN, SCROOGED, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, WHITE IRISH DRINKERS, BAD HURT and YEAR BY THE SEA. She works in the theatre as both an actor (The Monday After the Miracle, Speaking in Tongues, A Summer Day) and as a director (Moonchildren, Extremities, Frankie and Johnnie in the Claire du Lune and the Obie Award winning Ashville) with the Berkshire Theatre Festival and Rattlestocik Theatre in NYC. Karen is a member of the Actor’s Studio and a BIFF Board member. A TREE. A ROCK. A CLOUD. is her debut as a film director.

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A DOMESTIC DILEMMA US, 1991, 30 min.

Academy-Award Nominee producer and production designer Kristi Zea (AS GOOD AS IT GETS, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, GOODFELLAS, and REVOLUTIONARY ROAD) takes on Carson McCullers short story “A Domestic Dilemma” in her directorial debut, originally produced in 1991 by Jonathan Demme for the HBO Ace nominated series Women and Men 2: In Love There are no Rules. Set in the early 1950s, advertising man Martin Meadows (Ray Liotta - GOODFELLAS, FIELD OF DREAMS) must rush home from the office regularly to check on his children under the neglectful care of wife Emily (Andie MacDowell - GREEN CARD, SEX,LIES AND VIDEOTAPE), whose alcoholism and denial now threaten their safety. Martin is far from innocent, however, since his passion for Emily proves just as seductive as her taste for sherry. This bittersweet story underscores Carson McCullers’ sensitivity and appreciation of the frailty of love and the complexity of the human condition.

Last year Zea’s documentary ”Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray” premiered at the Whitney Museum as part of the TriBeca Film Festival and also screened at BIFF. The New York Times Critic’s Pick played at the Film Forum earlier this year to enthusiastic audiences.

Director // Kristi Zea Writers // Carson McCuller, Adapted by Kristi Zea Producer // Jonathan Demme Cast // Ray Liotta, Andie MacDowell

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Carson McCullers was born in Columbus, GA in 1917. Considered one of the greatest American writers of the 20th Century, her work is being celebrated throughout the world in her Centennial year of 2017 for the extraordinary influence her writing has had on the many generations of writers who have followed in her footsteps. Her groundbreaking work in her first novel, “The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter”, established her, at the age of 22, as a unique voice in literature. She examined the psychology of lonely, isolated characters, and depicted them with deep empathy. Her later novels included “Reflections in a Golden Eye”, which was made into a film directed by John Huston starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor; “A Member of the Wedding”, adapted to both a film and a play on Broadway which launched the career of a young Julie Harris,’ “The Ballad of a Sad Café”, adapted into a play by Edward Albee; and “The Clock Without Hands”.

Her remarkable short stories, essays and poems have been published under the title “Collected Works” and recently re-issued by the Library of America. In a recent New Yorker essay Sarah Schulman wrote “McCullers had an almost singular ability to humanize any kind of person, many of whom had never appeared in American literature before she created them.” The Carson McCullers Center for Writing and Music is located at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA and has recently acquired the house in Nyack, NY where Carson lived for the last 20 years of her life. Due to a childhood illness that compromised McCullers health throughout her life, she died in 1967 at the age of 50.

She wrote the story “A Tree. A Rock. A Cloud.” at the age of 25.

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ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN US, 1976, 130 min.

The Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.

Director // Alan J. Pakula Writers // Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward Cast // Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden, Hal Holbrook, Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Meredith Baxter, Ned Beatty, Martin Balsam

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Alan Chartock is the president and chief executive officer of WAMC/Northeast Public Radio, a National Public Radio affiliate, a position he has held since 1981. He was professor of political science at SUNY New Paltz and is a Professor Emeritus of communications, at the State University of New York (SUNY) and executive publisher and project director for the Legislative Gazette, a weekly newspaper, staffed by college intern reporters, covering New York State government. Chartock hosts the weekly Capitol Connection public radio program, and writes a syndicated column on politics which appears in newspapers throughout New York state.

The Washington Monthly called Paul Krugman, “the most important political columnist in America.” He is, perhaps, best known as an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. However he is also professor emeritus of economics and international affairs at Princeton University as well as Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics. He is the author or editor of 23 books and more than 200 professional journal articles. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the New Trade Theory and the New Economic Geography. We are honored to have him with us for a discussion following ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN. ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.”

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AD INDEX 20 Railroad Public House.................. 83

FILM INDEX Guido’s Fresh Marketplace................ 72

SPECIAL EVENT FILMS

NOWHERE TO HIDE......................... 55

STEP................................................. 17

THE PARIS OPERA........................... 55

THE EXCEPTION............................... 19

RUMBLE: THE INDIANS WHO ROCKED THE WORLD...................... 55

33 Main............................................. 45

GWFF................................................ 18

Abbotts Limo Service........................ 45

Harney & Sons Teas............................ 7

Alarms of Berkshire County............... 46

Hotel On North.................................... 7

THE TRIP TO SPAIN......................... 29

Alta ................................................... 72

J.P.T. Designs ................................... 48

TEA TALK FILMS

Ambient Film Production.................... 76

Jacob’s Pillow.................................... 75

A TREE, A ROCK, A CLOUD............. 88

Aston Magna..................................... 82

Jane Iredale Cosmetics..................... 16

Awaken Healing Arts......................... 63 Baba Louie’s Sourdough Pizza.......... 46 Barnbrook Realty............................... 82 The Barrington Hotel......................... 11 Barrington Stage............................... 91 Beacon Cinema................................... 2 Berkshire Bank.................................. 28 Berkshire Botanical Gardens.............. 66 Berkshire Choral International............ 86 Berkshire Co-op................................ 82 Berkshire Country Day School........... 76 Berkshire Film and Media Collaboration........................... 61

Julia B Kaplan Photographer............. 66 Karen Allen Fiber Arts........................ 44

LUCKY.............................................. 21

A DOMESTIC DILEMMA.................... 89 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN............ 91 SHEILA NEVINS TALK & BOOK SIGNING.................... 87

CENTER OF MY WORLD.................. 34

TRIBAL JUSTICE............................... 58

CLASH.............................................. 35

THE UNTOLD TALES

CREEDMORIA................................... 35

OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN.................. 58

Mass MoCA...................................... 70 Max Ultimate Food............................ 20 MCLA................................................ 84 Mcteigue and McClelland.................. 73 Methuselah........................................ 47 Michael Wainwright USA.................... 49 Norman Rockwell.............................. 47

BAR BAHAR (IN BETWEEN).............. 35 THE DANCER.................................... 36 THE HERO........................................ 36 INVERSION....................................... 36 KATIE SAYS GOODBYE.................... 37 KING OF THE BELGIANS.................. 37

CATA................................................. 65 Chocolate Springs............................. 85 Classical Tents .................................. 46 Country and Abroad.......................... 93 Cranwell............................................ 73

WHOSE STREETS?........................... 59

SHORT FILMS 5 FILMS ABOUT TECHNOLOGY....... 68 BALCONY......................................... 69

MENASHE......................................... 38

THE CHOP........................................ 69

PRIS DE COURT NOT ON MY WATCH......................... 39

Castle Street Café ............................ 71

UNREST............................................ 59

LOST IN PARIS.................................. 38

Qualprint............................................ 32

Carlo Huber Wines............................ 43

GIGI GORGEOUS.............................. 58

THE ASCENT.................................... 68

NEWTON.......................................... 39

Body Lab GB (Briget Hughes)............ 83

THIS IS EVERYTHING:

LANDLINE......................................... 37

Prana ................................................. 9

Brava................................................. 47

THE TENTH STEP............................. 57

Limelight Productions........................ 63

Berkshire Museum............................. 72

Blue Q............................................... 71

TAKE MY NOSE...PLEASE!............... 57

93 DAYS............................................ 34

THE 3 LITTLE PIGS........................... 34

Pine Cone Hill.................................. IBC

Blantyre............................................. 11

SWIM TEAM...................................... 57

Lakehouse Inn................................... 65

Berkshire Mountain Distillers.............. 24

Berkshire South Community Center... 65

SERENADE FOR HAITI...................... 56

FEATURE FILMS

One Mercantile.................................. 73

Berkshire Property Agents................. 26

SCORE: A FILM MUSIC DOCUMENTARY....... 56

Karen Beckwith Creative.................... 63

Berkshire Health Systems ................. 64

Berkshire Natural Resources Council............................ 78

SCHOOL LIFE................................... 56

MERCENARY.................................... 38 NELLY............................................... 39 PAULA............................................... 40

THE COLLECTION............................ 69 CURPIGEON..................................... 68 FISH STORY..................................... 69 LIGHT SIGHT.................................... 68

RARA................................................ 40

MONTAGE: GREAT FILM COMPOSERS AND THE PIANO............................... 68

Pawsh Buddies................................. 62

SÁMI BLOOD.................................... 41

MY FATHER’S TOOLS....................... 69

Rubiner’s Cheesemongers & Grocers.......................................... 61

THE WOMEN’S BALCONY............... 41

Red Lion Inn...................................... 12 Robin’s Candies................................ 44

Seven Salon Spa............................... 44 Shakespeare & Company.................. 60

PATTI CAKE$.................................... 40

THE STOPOVER (VOIR DU PAYS)..... 41 WALK WITH ME................................ 42 ZOOLOGY......................................... 42

NIGHT SHIFT.................................... 68 PANIC ATTACK................................. 69 RAILMENT........................................ 69 REFUGE............................................ 69

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

Short List........................................... 30

RUNNING THROUGH LIFE................ 68

A PLASTIC OCEAN........................... 50

SOY CUBANA................................... 69

SoCo................................................. 85

ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL................. 50

Stonover Farm..................................... 9

BENDING THE ARC.......................... 50

Stella Artois....................................... 22 Stone House Properties.................... BC Studio Two.......................................... 5

BUGS................................................ 51 THE BULLISH FARMER..................... 51 CHARGED: THE EDUARDO GARCIA STORY....... 51 CIRCUS KID...................................... 52

TOKYO PROJECT............................. 68 WIG SHOP........................................ 69

KID FLIX AN OBJECT AT REST....................... 74 THE GIRL WHO SPOKE CAT............ 74 LOOKS.............................................. 74

Toole Insurance Company................. 62

CITY OF GHOSTS............................. 52

Dory & Ginger.................................... 61

Town Vibe.......................................... 15

CONDUCT! EVERY MOVE COUNTS.................... 52

Fairview Hospital.............................. IFC

Trattoria Rustica................................. 76

DINA................................................. 53

Fairfield Inn & Suites.......................... 43

Triplex.................................................. 2

DOLLS OF DARKNESS/ THE ART OF MICHEL ADJAR........... 53

Flynn BMW ....................................... 83

Suzann Lavarack Ward................ 67, 84

DOLORES......................................... 53

PERFECT HOUSEGUEST.................. 74

Freilinghuesen Morris House.............. 67

WARDS............................................. 84

THE ISLANDS AND THE WHALES.... 54

THAT IS NOT A GOOD IDEA............. 74

Wheatleigh........................................ 67

TINY TUNES - FOOD......................... 74

Fuel................................................... 45

LOOK AND SEE: A PORTRAIT OF WENDELL BERRY............................. 54

Greylock Federal Credit Union........... 62

Zinc................................................... 64

MR. GAGA........................................ 54

ZOO STORY...................................... 74

Design Menagerie.............................. 49

ME…JANE........................................ 74 MEMORIES OF THE SEA.................. 74 ONE, TWO, TREE.............................. 74

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