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THROUGH THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF OUR DONORS WE: • Continue the high-quality programming that has earned MVFF its international reputation; • Expand CFI Education to offer more Bay Area students the opportunity to learn about themselves, and the world, through film; and • Ensure the highest industry standards at the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, one of the nation’s premier nonprofit movie theaters. For more information about how you can support CFI, please visit cafilm.org/support or contact Liana Bender: 415.526.5838, LBender@cafilm.org. The California Film Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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MVFF PRE-FESTIVAL LAUNCH EVENT James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo together in hometown Marin County for the US PREMIERE

METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER

PROGRAM Tuesday, September 17 7:15 PM Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center Program & Reception: $85 General Admission (maximum 4 tickets per person) Followed by onstage interview and audience Q&A moderated by Mark Fishkin, Executive Director, California Film Institute and founder, Mill Valley Film Festival .

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e are excited to announce a special kick-off event in anticipation of the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival. James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo will be on hand to present the US Premiere of their new 3D feature film, which combines a spectacular live arena performance with a surreal adventure story. Picturehouse’s new release, Metallica Through the Never, stars members of the iconic rock band and emerging young star Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines, Kill Your Darlings, The Amazing Spider-Man 2). In this music-driven 3D motion picture event, award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal (Predators, Kontroll) immerses audiences in a bracing, raw and visceral cinematic experience with spectacular live performance footage of Metallica’s most iconic songs—created exclusively for film—combined with a bold narrative featuring imagery drawn from the band’s trailblazing iconography. Dane DeHaan portrays Trip, a young roadie sent on an urgent mission during Metallica’s roaring live set before a sold-out arena. Picturehouse will release Metallica Through the Never in North America on September 27, 2013, exclusively in over 300 IMAX® 3D Theatres, expanding into additional theaters on October 4, 2013.

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OPENING NIGHT Welcome to the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival! Our 11-day celebration officially kicks off with two exceptional Opening Night films and a Gala to remember.

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SPECIAL GUESTS: BRUCE DERN AND WILL FORTE After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father (Bruce Dern) thinks he’s struck it rich, and wrangles his son (Will Forte) into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Shot in black and white across four states, Nebraska tells the stories of family life in the heartland of America. Cast: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, Stacy Keach and Bob Odenkirk. See page 51 for complete film details.

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FOLLOWS THE OPENING NIGHT SCREENINGS

Thursday, October 3; 9:30 pm–midnight Corte Madera Town Center Join us at Town Center Corte Madera for a sensational party! Enjoy delicious offerings provided by Balboa Café, Big Jim’s BBQ, Champagne Baker y, Il Fornaio, Judy’s Breadsticks, KIND, Nothing Bundt Cakes, Teacake Bake Shop and The Counter. PHOTO BY TOMMY LAU

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SPECIAL GUESTS: BRIAN PERCIVAL, GEOFFREY RUSH, SOPHIE NÉLISSE A stellar cast including Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson brings to life the tale of a young German girl, played by Sophie Nélisse, who discovers that stories have extraordinar y power to sustain the human spirit. Based on Markus Zusak’s best-selling novel of the same name. See page 38 for complete film details.

Luscious libations from our friends at Lagunitas Brewing Company and Northern Sonoma wines courtesy of WIne Road are a perfect complement to the scrumptious spread. Get your party on to the infectious rhythms of James Henr yHands on Fire, or groove to the tunes spun by DJs Richard Habib and Marija Dunn. See you there! Also on Opening Night, MVFF will launch an art exhibition curated by Carly Ivan Garcia and Justin Giarla of White Walls and Shooting Galler y and featuring stunning works by cutting-edge contemporar y artists. The show will be open for view throughout the Festival at the Smith Rafael Film Center.

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Friday, October 4, 6:30 PM Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 1 Program & Reception: $85 General / $75 Members Program Only: $45 General / $40 Members Join us for a Tribute program featuring a conversation with Costa-Gavras, moderated by beloved Mill Valley actor/activist Peter Coyote, and a screening of Capital. Costa-Gavras will be presented with the MVFF Award, designed by acclaimed Mill Valley artist Alice Corning. After the screening, join us at Odalisque Café (1335 Fourth St.) just steps away from the Rafael Film Center, to enjoy cuisine that blends both French and North African fl avors using fresh, local, sustainably grown produce and meats. You will also have the opportunity to view the exhibition “Memento Mori,” a street art–based installation featuring two unique Bay Area artists, Eddie Colla and D Young V. The exhibition is on view at Art Works Downtown, adjacent to Odalisque Café. RECEPTION SPONSORED BY

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Costa-Gavras has made a career of offering no easy answers to tales of political turmoil, and his latest work, the supremely entertaining and all-too-topical Capital, is no exception as it wades through sex, money and power with the auteur’s dynamic cinematic style fully intact. Now six decades deep into an internationally lauded filmography studded with award-winning international sensations such as Z, State of Siege, Missing, Music Box and The Ax, the Greekborn master consistently eschews didactic finger-pointing and overt moralizing in favor of complex characterizations, serpentine plots and adrenaline-fueled action; his customary heroes are intellectuals who can both outthink and outrun the bad guys. For this special evening, Costa-Gavras will reflect on his extraordinary career in conversation with Peter Coyote.

CAPITAL

CAPITAL (LE CAPITAL) D I R E C T O R : C O S TA - G AV R A S F R A N C E 2 0 12 • 114 m i n s

Oscar-winning legend Costa-Gavras explores a world of economic turmoil in which a young CEO of an investment bank, set up to be a patsy figurehead, finds his survival instincts while navigating through treacherous international waters buffeted by money, power, sex and vengeance. See page 39 for complete film information. TRIBUTE SPONSORED BY

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SPOTLIGHT

JARED LETO As if being a tremendously talented performer, successful musician and charismatic character actor isn’t enough to secure Jared Leto’s status as a multi-hyphenate force to be reckoned with, this vibrant thespian radiates intelligence and integrity in all his roles. For three decades, on film and television, Leto has wowed audiences and critics alike with deeply committed performances in films as diverse as Fight Club, Prefontaine, The Thin Red Line, Requiem for a Dream, Panic Room, American Psycho and Girl, Interrupted. As a singer/ songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, Leto brings the same intensity to his rock band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, whose recordings have sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Returning to the big screen following a fi ve-year break, Leto is absolutely stunning in Dallas Buyers Club as H.I.V.-positive transsexual Rayon, a typically daring role rendered with the slyness and sensitivity for which this exciting maverick is justly celebrated.

PR O G R AM AND PA RT Y Thursday, October 10, 6:30 PM Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 1 Program & Party: $85 General / $75 Members Program Only: $45 General / $40 Members Join us for a Spotlight program featuring a conversation with Jared Leto and a screening of Dallas Buyers Club. Jared Leto will be presented with the MVFF Award, designed by acclaimed Mill Valley artist Alice Corning. After the event, join us at Farmshop, the new California-chic restaurant at the Marin Country Mart, for farm-to-table food, refreshing libations and great company. With Farmshop, which has quickly become a Bay Area destination, chef/owner Jeff Cerciello (long-time chef of the Bouchon restaurants) returns to his Northern California roots. PARTY SPONSORED BY

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With dazzling vision and technique, director Jean-Marc Vallée elicits astounding performances from Jared Leto as Rayon, a transsexual woman turned international meds smuggler, and Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a homophobic party boy turned accidental activist, in this tremendously lively and moving true story of unlikely alliances during the onset of the AIDS crisis. See page 40 for complete film information. SPOTLIGHT SPONSORED BY

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Friday, October 11, 6:30 pm Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center 1 Film & Party: $90 General / $80 Members Film Only: $50 General / $45 Members Join us for this Spotlight program featuring a conversation with 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen and lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor. In an MVFF first, Steve McQueen AND Chiwetel Ejiofor will both be presented with the MVFF Award, designed by acclaimed Mill Valley artist Alice Corning. After the event, join us for a quintessential Marin evening along a creekside redwood grove at the new Mill Valley retailer Guideboat Co. (153 Miller Ave.) located in the recently restored mercantile at the historic Mill Valley Lumber Yard. Enjoy nourishment and spirits provided by Ged Robertson and chef Todd Shoberg, wines by Donelan Family Vineyards and live music. PARTY SPONSORED BY

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S TE V E MC QUEEN Acclaimed British filmmaker Steve McQueen, born in London in 1969, made his name as a visual artist working in film and video before turning to feature filmmaking. His artwork is collected by museums the world over, and in 1999 he won Britain’s highly prestigious Turner Prize for a video based on a film by Buster Keaton. His first feature, 2008’s Hunger, about a 1981 hunger strike among Northern Ireland republican prisoners, won the Caméra d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His next feature, Shame (MVFF, 2012), stars Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan in an uncompromising drama about sexual addiction. With his latest film, 12 Years a Slave, McQueen once again brings a coruscatingly forceful imagination and unwavering integrity to the raw facts of history and human yearning.

C HI W E T EL E JIOFOR British actor Chiwetel Ejliofor, born in London to Nigerian parents in 1977, began acting at age 13, eventually entering the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA)—only to leave early after being cast in Steven Spielberg’s Amistad (1997). Since then, Eliofor has enjoyed a steadily growing and critically acclaimed career on stage and screen. His film work includes award-winning performances in Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things and Kasi Lemmons’ Talk to Me as well as appearances in Love Actually , Woody Allen’s Melinda and Melinda, Kinky Boots, Inside Man, Children of Men, American Gangster and Half of a Yellow Sun as well as numerous works for television. His theatrical career includes an award-winning performance as Othello, alongside Ewan McGregor’s Iago, in director Michael Grandage’s 2008 West End production.

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Acclaimed British filmmaker Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor brilliantly relate the little-known yet unforgettable true story of Solomon Northrup, a free black man abducted and sold into slavery in 1841. See page 34 for complete film information. BUY TICKETS: MVFF.C OM

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SPECIAL PREMIERES AND PARTY In celebration of the 36th Mill Valley Film Festival and the premieres of

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Seven childhood friends and one unexpected guest come together at a bucolic lake house to comfort one another, reconnect, reconcile and possibly rekindle romance in this wry, emotionally potent Big Chill for the Millennial Generation. See page 37 for complete film information.

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DAKOTA FANNING Having long ago disproved skeptics who wondered if an impossibly adorable, preternaturally confident one-time child star could survive the vagaries of the industry—let alone adolescence—unscathed, Dakota Fanning now shines as an even more accomplished young adult poised on the cusp of thespian greatness. From her breakout appearance at age nine in I Am Sam (for which she became the youngest-ever Screen Actors Guild Award nominee), through expert performances in Man on Fire, War of the Worlds, The Runaways, the Twilight series and The Secret Life of Bees (MVFF, 2008) to a fullfledged leading-lady role in this year’s Festival highlight Effie Gray, Fanning has demonstrated impressive range and an admirable willingness to subvert her good-girl image (as in The Motel Life, also screening this year; see page 50). With spectacular acting chops and a mature perspective that belie her youth, Fanning is no doubt one of her generation’s major talents.

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Based on true events that scandalized aristocratic circles of the Victorian era, and penned by Academy Award–winning screenwriter Emma Thompson, this sumptuous cinematic portrait explores the curiously brief marriage and abrupt annulment of famed art critic John Ruskin and his ethereal child bride, Effie Gray, played by a mesmerizing Dakota Fanning. See page 41 for complete film details.

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Acclaimed music and technology innovator Thomas Dolby’s directorial debut, The Invisible Lighthouse, will have its US premiere at this year’s Festival. For this special screening, Dolby will perform live to picture in collaboration with Academy Award–nominated music designer/ supervisor and bassist Blake Leyh (Treme, The Wire, The Abyss). Confirmed guests include Grammywinning musician/producer Don Was, film composer Mark Isham, cellist/composer Zoe Keating, singer/songwriter Dan Hicks and Grammyand Emmy-winning musician/producer Narada Michael Walden. More special guests to be announced. Produced for MVFF by Steep Productions, Inc. in association with Famous4. See page 61 for more film details.

For this year’s edition of the beloved annual Festival event, former Village Music maestro and once-and-future curator of cultural curios John Goddard celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the British Invasion (yeah, yeah, yeah…you know that can’t be bad!). Veejaying from his personal video archives, Goddard promises to have you B-side yourself with the Beatles and other mop-topped lads. See page 45 for complete details.

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Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield, Bob Sarles and Christina Keating’s raucous documentary on the groundbreaking blues guitarist and onetime Marin denizen features rare performance footage of Bloomfield wailing on his Les Paul as well as interviews with B.B. King, Bob Weir, Carlos Santana, Al Kooper, Charlie Musselwhite and other music legends. MIKE BLOOMFIELD

This tribute concert features musicians from the film alongside special guests, including musical director/ SPONSORED BY guitarist Jimmy Vivino (The Conan O’Brien Show) and producer/keyboardist Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag), who together will lead an all-star band and jam featuring guitarist Nick Gravenites (Electric Flag). More special guests to be announced. Produced for MVFF by Steep Productions, Inc. in association with Famous4. See page 59 for complete film details. MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL 3 6

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Mr. Stiller will be presented with the Mill Valley Film Festival Award at the Smith Rafael Film Center; he will appear for introductions at both CinéArts@Sequoia screenings.

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MVFF 36 PREMIERES

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WORLD PREMIERES

L’AFRIQUE, L A FR ANC E ET L’ÉC R AN

Beside Still Waters The Contest Effie Gray The Human Experiment In the Cobbler’s Shoes “John Brown’s Body” at San Quentin Prison Keeper of the Beat: A Woman’s Journey into the Heart of Drumming Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine Odd Brodsky The Organic Life PICO (Performance Indeterminate Cage Opera) Redemption Trail Sweet Blues: A Film About Mike Bloomfield The Tao of Bluegrass: A Portrait of Peter Rowan Toxic Hot Seat The Year and the Vineyard

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERES Along the Roadside August Fools Cheba Collapse Generation War I Catch a Terrible Cat The Illness and the Odyssey Mt. Zion One Man’s Show Spooks and Spirits Today Victoria

US PREMIERES Al Helm: Martin Luther King in Palestine August: Osage County Dallas Buyers Club Desert Runners The Face of Love Lion Ark A Long and Happy Life Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom One Chance Philomena Sarah Prefers to Run The Sea Standing on Sacred Ground

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Performance is front and center in this look at Francophone Africa and the African diaspora. These films herald the next generation of vibrant talents from the continent. Cheba Grigris Lumumba One Man’s Show Yema

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Stories of contemporary family life as told by Japanese filmmakers from three generations. I Catch a Terrible Cat Like Father, Like Son My Neighbor Totoro Tokyo Family

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Portraits of those who step up and speak out. Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth Lumumba Mandela: A Long Walk to Freedom Walesa, Man of Hope Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

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CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

Shorts Program: Children’s Story (ages 7+) See page 32.

Epitaph Miranda, MVFF Youth Reel (a peer-juried reel for teens) See page 65.

Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods (ages 7+) See page 64.

C HI L D RE N’ S F ILMF E S T PROGRAM S It’s a year of firsts for the Children’s FilmFest: our first 3D film (Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods), our first 26-foot blow-up shark (appearing “live” with The Shark Riddle), our first onscreen children’s art show (for My Neighbor Totoro) and our first—in a long time—personal appearances by talent from a Children and Family selection (The Contest). It’s also an interactive year for us. When we got the word that actors Kenton Duty (from Disney Channel’s Shake It Up) and Daniel Flaherty were coming with director Anthony Giunta for MVFF’s world premiere of The Contest, we were overjoyed. The film’s unique take on the problem of bullying makes it the perfect event for Mill Valley. We’re also bringing back our first shorts program in a while to feature a Berlin Kinderfest Silver Bear winner, The Amber Amulet. We’ll also have directors/writers/ stars Laura and Rob Sams with us, singing songs and telling shark tales in conjunction with their wonderful film The Shark Riddle.

The Shark Riddle (ages 6+) See page 57.

The Contest (ages 12+) See page 40.

TOTORO ART SHOW Art students in programs managed by Youth In Arts and the Al Boro Center Art Program will have their drawings of Totoro and themselves displayed on screen prior to Festival screenings of My Neighbor Totoro.

My Neighbor Totoro (all ages) See page 51.

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lthough it first appeared a long, long time ago (1983, to be exact) and in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars, Episode VI: Return of the Jedi remains a cultural touchstone for Baby Boomers who first thrilled to creator George Lucas and director Richard Marquand’s intergalactic adventures, as well as for subsequent generations of sci-fi thrill-seekers. Celebrate the 30th anniversary of this final chapter in the original Star Wars trilogy on the big screen—just as it was made to be experienced. For this pivotal installment in the saga, stalwart characters Luke, Leia, Han Solo, C-3PO and their longtime friends and foes are joined by Lando Calrissian (a suave Billy Dee Williams); monstrous baddie Jabba the Hutt; wizened, world-wise Yoda (“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you”) and those charming, clever Ewoks. Nothing less than the survival of the universe is at stake! Bring family and friends of all ages to this anniversary screening of the Force-ful blockbuster that keeps on giving. Special activities include: • Costume parade—dress up as your favorite Star Wars character and join the Imperial March • Prizes and giveaways • Post-screening Q&A with special guests (just hope that Chewbacca doesn’t sit in front of you and block the view.)

STAR WARS, EPISODE VI: RETURN OF THE JEDI Star Wars returns! Celebrate the epic conclusion (thus far) of the greatest space opera ever created at MVFF’s special 30th-anniversary screening of Return of the Jedi. See page 59 for complete film details.

STAR WARS FANS – LOOK OUT FOR THIS SPECIAL SCREENING!

BLACK ANGEL Sunday, October 13, 8:00 pm • 142 Throckmorton Theatre Presumed lost for decades, this iconic short film from Star Wars art director Roger Christian is credited with influencing some of the biggest fantasy films of the 1980s, from John Boorman’s Excalibur to Ridley Scott’s Legend. Unseen for 33 years and now digitally restored and remastered from the original interpositive print, Black Angel will be presented in a special Festival screening. MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL 3 6

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As a special treat this year, this annual collection of short films for young children draws from both international festivals and old favorites. The crowning jewel is The Amber Amulet, Australia’s Crystal Bear winner at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival’s Kinderfest, about a boy’s fantasy (or is it?) that he can move objects at will. Another boy tests his imagination and his love in Rocketship, a lovely American film that features a flying Electrolux. Perennial favorite Jungle Beat Shorts offers Somewhere Over the Rainbow, and local filmmakers give a one-minute lesson on little-known facts about the Golden Gate Bridge. Our foreign-language shorts: I Spy with My Little Eye, from Germany, weds live action with some incredible stop-motion animation for a lesson in tolerance; and Argentina’s nonverbal Luminosa utilizes stop-motion to create a world that moves with light. Subtitles will be read aloud by a professional voice artist. Ages 7+ —John Morrison

“I’d like to hammer this ring into a bullet, and I wish I had some whiskey and a gun.” Birth, death and raw confrontation rule the day in these tales of man and beast. Simple shadow animation in James Stewart’s Beatrice Coron’s Daily Battles (Canada 7 mins) highlights an epic medieval tableau in stunning 3D. A stolen lottery ticket leads to a fateful showdown in Liam Hughes’ gritty Greed (UK 15 mins). Marcel, King of Tervuren (US 6 mins) is a French rooster who repeatedly faces down death in Tom Schroeder’s gorgeous animated film. A pig farmer’s effort to train his son in his bloody livelihood opens old wounds in Jason B. Kohl’s intense The Slaughter (US 15 mins). A woman’s travels through Ireland to reunite with her father lead to unexpected revelations in Jeannie Donohoe’s Lambing Season (Ireland/US 15 mins). Finally, Adam Patch’s irresistible, animated Two Chips (US 2 mins) asks what happens when you record your drunken wife’s late-night merriment. —Sterling Hedgpeth

“Life is sweet at the edge of a razor, and down in the front row of an old picture show.” Nowhere is the future more uncertain and inevitable than in this collection of beautiful shorts. A lonely man finds an unusual kinship with a neighbor in Daniel Fickle’s lovely, melodic A House, A Home (US 7 mins). A woman’s unusual business is beset by harsh economic realities in Staten Cousins-Roe’s very dark comedy This Way Out (UK 19 mins). George Takei narrates Eoin Duffy’s animated tale of a squirrel’s search for The Missing Scarf (Ireland 7 mins). A genocide survivor returns home for difficult answers and bitter reprisal in Antoneta Kastrati’s haunting She Comes in Spring (Kosovo/US 16 mins), and a woman examines her relationship with her father after a terrible accident in Sylvia Sether’s touching King of Norway (US 17 mins). —Sterling Hedgpeth

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“It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream.” This wideranging meditation on states of awareness starts with Kyoungju Kim’s haunting Winter Shower (US 15 mins), about an elderly woman’s mysterious adventure. Dialogues on language and libations preoccupy the leads of Jason Headley’s At the Bar (US 6 mins). San Francisco’s F-Line (US 9 mins) is the transit muse for Silvia Turchin’s beautiful experimental film. An epic journey begins at home when you can walk through walls in George Dechev’s animated The Visitor (Netherlands 8 mins). Paul Trillo’s A Truncated Story of Infinity (US 8 mins) explores a universe of alternate timelines and possibilities in even the most modest of lives. Ashley Rodholm and Joe Picard’s evocative 3020 Laguna St. in Exitum (US 10 mins) chronicles the art installation within a San Francisco house slated for destruction, and in Chris Olness’ short, an astronaut finds adjusting to everyday life difficult after Coming Home (US 5 mins). —Sterling Hedgpeth

“All our scribbled love dreams are lost or thrown away, here amidst the shuffle of an overflowing day.” The diverse women in these shorts show strength and inventiveness when confronted with formative challenges. Dehanza Rogers’ Sweet Sweet Country (US 20 mins) burrows into cultural divides when an Americanized daughter clashes with her newly immigrated Kenyan parents. Some alarming news changes the dating landscape for one city girl in Eric Kissack’s Blessing in Disguise (US 10 mins). An Indian wife can’t adapt to her new country as easily as her husband in Arpita Kumar’s My Dear Americans (US 7 mins). A late-night medical emergency clashes with religious dogma in Ali Asgari’s harrowing More Than Two Hours (Iran 15 mins), and reconciling a life crisis with the details of everyday commitments is the challenge for one urbanite in Jeremy Rall’s Somewhere Between (US 15 mins). —Sterling Hedgpeth

“Who knows where the sidewalk ends? Well the road will turn and the road will bend.” Real-life excursions start with Wendy Dent’s December 25 (Australia 1 min), an email message that speaks louder than words. Kerry Kolbe documents an enduring World War II–era lesson in acceptance with the tale of The German Who Came to Tea (UK 8 mins). A Berlin-based clown takes his merriment seriously in Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee’s Laugh Clown Laugh (US 8 mins). Julien Lasseur examines a painter of Walmart interiors in Brendan O’Connell Is Blocking the Bread Aisle (US 5 mins). A Yup’ik fisherman yearns to pass along his craft in Emmanuel VaughanLee’s Yukon Kings (US 7 mins). Vanessa Hope’s China In 3 Weeks (US 15 mins.) presents a fascinating and culturally complex pursuit of post-Maoist China, as observed by preminent dissident author Yu Hua. While chronicling his father’s musical past, Mark Columbus goes on a voyage of self-discovery in The Battle of the Jazz Guitarist (US 7 mins). A chance flyover inspires Alan Snitow’s funny, scary video mashup Drones in My Backyard (US 14 mins). Harris Cohen introduces us to charming 84-year-old photographer, blogger and former marathon runner Hans (US 9 mins). With the 2008 market in a tailspin, a broker has hard decisions to make before Janek Ambros’ Closing Bell (US 5 mins), and in memorializing an abandoned building turned graffiti Mecca, Julie Rubio reminds us that Everything Is Temporary (US 3 mins). —Kelly Clement

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*Be sure not to miss the 5@5 Audience Favorites program on October 13 at 8:00 pm at 142 Throckmorton. Selections will be based on 5@5 audience votes. Also featured will be the world premiere of the digitally restored 1980 short Black Angel (see page 31 for complete film details). WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 5:00 PM SEQUOIA 2 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6:30 PM R AFAEL 3

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 5:45 PM 142 THROCKMORTON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 9:00 PM R AFAEL 3

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12 YEARS A SLAVE

AL HELM: MARTIN LUTHER KING IN PALESTINE

ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH

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VALLEY OF THE DOCS

US 2013 • 134 MINS

US 2013 • 93 MINS

US/UK 2013 • 82 MINS

Director Steve McQueen Producers Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Bill Pohlad, Arnon Milchan, Anthony Katagas Screenwriter John Ridley Cinematographer Sean Bobbitt Editor Joe Walker Cast Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, Lupita Nyong’o, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Alfre Woodard Print Source Fox Searchlight Pictures

Director/Producer Connie Field Screenwriters Connie Field, Gregory Scharpen Cinematographers Issa Aslan, Ramzi Maqdisi Editor Gregory Scharpen Print Source Clarity Films

Director/Screenwriter Pratibha Parmar Producer Shaheen Haq Cinematographer Simon Dennis Editors Pratibha Parmar, Paul Monahagn, Linda Peckham Cast Alice Walker, Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg, Quincy Jones, Sapphire, Sonia Sanchez Print Source Kali Films

One day Solomon Northup is an accomplished violinist with a wife and two children in New York; the next he is a runaway slave named Platt sold to a plantation owner in Georgia. What happens in between and thereafter is an American slavery story rarely told. Abducted and illegally sold into slavery, Solomon’s intellect is no asset in this life, and his hopes for returning to his former one are few. Acclaimed British filmmaker Steve McQueen (Hunger; Shame, MVFF 2012) demonstrates a formidable command of his material, relating Northup’s tragic circumstance with an enthralling balance of nuance and blunt force. Featuring fearless performances by a stellar cast led by Chiwetel Ejiofor (Children of Men, Kinky Boots) and including Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch and several surprise players (among them producer Brad Pitt), this brilliant, unforgettable film turns history into a visceral cinematic experience. —Joanne Parsont

*In a Festival first, both director Steve McQueen and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor will be recognized with MVFF Awards in this Spotlight program. See page 15 for pricing. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 6:30 PM R AFAEL 1

In English and Arabic with English subtitles. Martin Luther King’s dream of justice, equality and nonviolence comes to the West Bank in the form of a play by Stanford professor Clay Carson. The parallels seem clear, but the collaboration between a group of African American gospel singers and the Palestinian National Theater hits its first snag when director Kamel El Basha changes the play to make it more accessible to Palestinian audiences. In a compelling and emotional documentary, award-winning director Connie Field (Have You Heard from Johannesburg?, MVFF 2006; Freedom on My Mind, MVFF 1994) captures the eye-opening experiences of the choir as its members witness the open wound of the Palestinian struggle. Along the way, the actors perform at the Freedom Theatre and encounter its charismatic founder, Israeli-Palestinian actor, director and filmmaker Juliano Mer Khamis (Arna’s Children, MVFF 2005). Even as young Palestinians follow their Egyptian and Tunisian counterparts in an incipient nonviolent movement, the Americans witness tragedy as they and their fellow artists come to understand each other’s struggles. US PREMIERE —Sandy Handsher SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 3:00 PM R AFAEL 2 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2:15 PM SEQUOIA 2

FOCUS: INSPIRING LIVES • The youngest of eight children born to Georgia sharecroppers, Alice Walker stepped out of poverty with no more than a typewriter, suitcase and sewing machine before becoming the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize (for The Color Purple) and an outspoken activist on social justice issues ranging from female genital mutilation to unjust war. Tracing Walker’s story from Civil Rights battles of the South to her time as a contributing editor for Ms. Magazine, award-winning director Pratibha Parmar explores the woman, the African American, the Southerner, the adorer of nature and the eternally curious individual behind the author and public figure, packing remarkable breadth into a fast-moving film chock-full of archival footage, family photos and interviews with Danny Glover, Steven Spielberg and Gloria Steinem, among others. While refusing to sanitize the personal and political bumps in the road, Parmar identifies the many complimentary facets of an artist and activist who could never have been anything but. —Alexis Whitham SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 5:45 PM R AFAEL 1

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ALL IS LOST

ALONG THE ROADSIDE

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US CINEMA

US 2013 • 107 MINS

SERBIA /US 2013 • 108 MINS

US 2013 • 100 MINS

Director/Screenwriter J.C. Chandor Producers Neal Dodson, Anna Gerb Cinematographers Frankie DeMarco, Peter Zuccarini Editor Pete Beaudrea Cast Robert Redford Print Source Roadside Attractions

Director/Screenwriter Zoran Lisinac Producer Vladimir Lisinac Cinematographer John Honoré Editor Brett Sorem Cast Angelina Häntsch, Iman Crosson, Michael Madsen, Lazar Ristovski, Daniel Grozdich, Rhomeyn Johnson Print Source Metakwon Filmworks

Director Adam Rodgers Producers Glen German, Andy Garcia, Sig Libowitz Screenwriters Adam Rodgers, Glenn German Cinematographer Emmanuel Kadosh Editor Suzy Elmiger Cast Vera Farmiga, Andy Garcia, Taissa Farmiga, Spencer Lofranco, Peter Riegert, Tom Skerritt Print Source Bach’s Hands

The first time we meet Robert Redford’s nameless protagonist in J.C. Chandor’s masterful All Is Lost, his sailboat is flooding, the result of a collision with a stray shipping container in the middle of the Indian Ocean. From that straightforward introduction unfolds a remarkable tale of survival in the face of maritime misfortune—for as the title suggests, it only gets worse from there. For the audience, it’s a rare gift: a master class in minimalist acting from one of the true icons of cinema. In a virtually wordless, tour-de-force performance, Redford reminds us that he’s always been one of film’s greatest listeners—keenly observant and enormously expressive with the subtlest of gestures. And so it is here, as he conveys resourcefulness, resilience and primal fear in supple, understated strokes. This emotionally epic, intensely suspenseful and moving film comes as a high achievement in Redford’s already stellar career. —Sterling Hedgpeth SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 3:30 PM R AFAEL 1 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 8:15 PM SEQUOIA 1

In English and Serbian with English subtitles. This funny, philosophical road-trip comedy bounces from the screen as two vibrant characters take twisty turns in a world full of unexpected possibilities. Varnie (Iman Crosson) is a cynical San Francisco ideas man in search of a big break (a venture capitalist who’s all venture but no capital). Nena (Angelina Häntsch) is a wide-eyed Austrian tourist in search of her favorite band. When fate plops them together, the dynamic duo take off for the Southland on an eccentric road trip to a music festival and enlightenment, whichever comes first. As the contrasting heroes grow closer, their conversations and encounters resonate with real emotional truth and unpredictable energy. Writer-director Zoran Lisinac fuels this bent buddycomedy with thrilling visual fl ourishes and a magical musical soundtrack perfectly in sync with the mood and settings, including plenty of Bay Area spots. The result is an offbeat story filled with profound messages about love, longing and cross-cultural connections. NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE —Brendan Peterson FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 6:15 PM R AFAEL 2 MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 9:00 PM SEQUOIA 1