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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ANGELICA US 2015, 95 min Director Mitchell Lichtenstein Forbidden to make love to her husband after the difficult birth of their daughter, young mother Constance Barton (Jena Malone) begins to see nightmarish visions that threaten her and her child. With ravishing art direction and a careful balance of chills and dramatic suspense, Angelica is a haunting tale of unfed appetites and the damage they can wreak. US PREMIERE

Saturday Sunday

Oct 10 Oct 11

8:00pm 8:00pm

Sequoia* Rafael

*Special Premiere & Party: See page 13 for details. US CINEMA

THE ASSASSIN (Nie Yinniang) Taiwan 2015, 105 min Director Hou Hsiao-hsien Legendary filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first feature in eight years is an intimate wuxia drama about an assassin (Shu Qi) assigned to kill a politician with whom she has a history. Hou’s deeply humane epic is filled with stunning imagery and the sort of elegant tracking shots that send cinephiles to the moon—and beyond! In Mandarin with English subtitles

Thursday Saturday

Oct 8 Oct 17

6:15pm 8:30pm

Century Larkspur Rafael

Sponsored by

Where Magazine

WORLD CINEMA

THE AUTOMATIC HATE US 2015, 97 min Director Justin Lerner Family secrets, rivalries, and attractions come to a head in Justin Lerner’s The Automatic Hate. Davis and his girlfriend are going through a rough patch, when an attractive stranger claiming to be his cousin shows up at their door. Several shades of bad decisions follow in this twisty, twitchy dark comedy.

Thursday Saturday

Oct 15 Oct 17

8:45pm 2:15pm

Sequoia Lark

US CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEZ US 2015, 91 min Directors Barbara Attie, Janet Goldwater, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon FOCUS: LIT FLIX BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez is, in her own words, a “woman with razor blades between her teeth.” A portrait of the poet, scholar, social activist, architect of the Black Arts Movement, and persistent voice for equality, this performance-rich film explodes with life. Sanchez and her poetry—sometimes transformed into jazz—light up the screen. Friday Saturday

Oct 16 Oct 17

7:30pm 6:30pm

Throckmorton Rafael

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

BEASTS OF NO NATION US 2015, 133 min Director Cary Fukunaga When militants raid his West African village, young Agu is forced to join a group of rebel ﬁ ghters led by Commandant (Idris Elba), a ruthless warlord who takes the boy as his “charge.” Writer/ director Cary Fukunaga’s (True Detective) adaptation of Uzodinma Iweala’s book is a powerful marker of how easily violence breeds violence. In Twi and English with English subtitles

Thursday

Oct 15

7:45pm

Cinema Corte Madera

Sponsored by

Marin Hotels

US CINEMA

BEYOND MEASURE US 2015, 85 min Director Vicki Abeles For students, parents, educators, and anyone who cares about the future of the American education system, this smart companion piece to Vicki Abeles’ award-winning Race to Nowhere (MVFF 2009) follows a diverse group of educators who are successfully pioneering fresh, often radically new approaches to how and what we teach. • WORLD PREMIERE Sunday Saturday

Oct 11 Oct 17

11:45am 5:15pm

Sequoia Rafael

Sponsored by

Speak To Me

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

BIG FATHER, SMALL FATHER AND OTHER STORIES (Cha Và Con Và) Vietnam 2015, 102 min Director Di Phan Dang Vu, an adolescent photography student, and his friends drift from the bright lights of Saigon to the jungle Eden of his rural hometown. There they spend a season of unbridled sensuality as Vu faces ongoing conflicts with his dad in this gorgeously photographed meditation on distant fathers and wayward sons. In Vietnamese with English subtitles

Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16

8:30pm 2:30pm

Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

BLACK GIRL (La noir de…) France/Senegal 1966, 65 min Director Ousmane Sembène Master-director Ousmane Sembène first illuminated international screens in 1966, and the results have only grown more powerful and relevant with time. Deceptively simple in its beautifully spare, minimalist style but subtly nuanced and devastatingly powerful in its impact, Sembène’s debut is essential viewing for every cinephile. In French with English subtitles

Wednesday Oct 14

6:00pm

Lark

WORLD CINEMA

BLUE BLOOD (Sangue Azul) Brazil 2014, 119 min Director Lírio Ferreira When the circus comes to town a brother and sister are reunited in their taboo love for each other. An attempt to anchor the gods to Earth, Blue Blood mines the mythological in petty human dramas against a backdrop of pristine natural beauty off the northeastern coast of Brazil. In Portuguese with English subtitles

Tuesday Thursday

Oct 13 Oct 15

8:00pm 2:00pm

Lark Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

BODY France 2015, 92 min Director Małgorzata Szumowska A widower and his daughter turn to a therapist who can channel the dead to help them manage their grief in this striking, darkly funny Polish dramedy. Leavened by flashes of quirky humor, the delightfully unpredictable Body explores how bodies reveal and betray their owners, while also giving solace and helping to heal. In Polish and Spanish with English subtitles • US PREMIERE Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

6:00pm 2:45pm

Lark Throckmorton

WORLD CINEMA

BREAKING A MONSTER US 2015, 93 min Director Luke Meyer FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Middle-schoolers Malcolm, Jarad, and Alec are Unlocking the Truth, a metal band from Brooklyn whose performance videos lead to a massive online following, an agent, and a record deal. This documentary follows the band, their families, and their agent over the course of a yearlong industry roller-coaster ride.

Sunday Monday

Oct 11 Oct 12

2:15pm 12:00pm

Throckmorton Sequoia

Sponsored by

BBSP

VALLEY OF THE DOCS Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

BRIDGE OF SPIES US 2015, 135 min Director Steven Spielberg A dramatic thriller set against the backdrop of historic events, Bridge of Spies is the story of James Donovan, a Brooklyn lawyer (Tom Hanks) thrust into the center of the Cold War when the CIA sends him on the near-impossible task of negotiating the release of a captured American U-2 pilot.

Tuesday

Oct 13

6:00pm

Cinema Corte Madera

Sponsored by

Lucasﬁlm, Ltd.

US CINEMA

BRIDGEND Denmark 2015, 104 min Director Jeppe Rønde The Welsh valley of Bridgend exudes an ineffable force that has compelled scores of young adults to end their lives in its mist-drenched midst. What made them do it? The question haunts this unforgettable coming-of-age tale, based on fact but suffused with brooding subjectivity. Hannah Murray (Game of Thrones) stars as a wide-eyed teenaged outsider drawn into the mystery.

Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

8:45pm 3:00pm

Rafael Lark

WORLD CINEMA

BROOKLYN UK/Ireland/Canada 2015, 112 min Director John Crowley Eilis Lacey’s (a radiant Saoirse Ronan) journey from Ireland to America is a search for home and for self. On her own in early 1950s New York, she must choose between the intoxicating possibilities of her new world and the familial comfort of the old—but the choices are, ultimately, Eilis’s to make. Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

4:45pm 6:30pm

Rafael Sequoia

Sponsored by

Maroevich, O’Shea & Coghlan Insurance, Inc.

WORLD CINEMA

BROOKLYN, PARIS France 2014, 83 min Director Pascal Tessaud FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) A talented, young female MC leaves Switzerland for the northern suburbs of Paris, plunging headfirst into the city’s underground hip-hop scene and sparking a romance/rivalry with a local star in this dynamic, nuanced, and music-infused feature debut from Pascal Tessaud that features a cast of real-life Parisian hip-hop artists. In French with English subtitles

Wednesday Oct 14 Thursday Oct 15 Friday Oct 16

6:30pm 11:30am 2:30pm

Rafael Rafael Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

CAROL US/UK 2015, 118 min Director Todd Haynes Christmas, early 1950s: In the bustling department store where she works, Therese (Rooney Mara) is struck by an impeccable, well-heeled woman, Carol (Cate Blanchett) who’s shopping for her daughter. An incredibly rich cinematic experience, the film is beautifully paced, impeccably observed, deeply sensual—and a breathtaking romance. Sunday Oct 11 Wednesday Oct 14

5:30pm 4:00pm

Sequoia Rafael

Sponsored by

Strawberry Village

US CINEMA

CINEMA: A PUBLIC AFFAIR Germany 2015, 99 min Director Tatiana Brandrup This is a passionate documentary profile of the Moscow Cinema Museum—a vital center of culture and intellectual life for decades—and its legendary director, Naum Kleiman, forced from his post in 2014 in a Russia at odds with the cinematheque’s cosmopolitan vision of film as an instrument of civil society. In Russian and German with English subtitles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

11:30am 6:30pm

Rafael Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

THE CLUB (El Club) Chile 2014, 98 min Director Pablo Larraín Wayward priests live their lives in shadow in Pablo Larrain’s darkly comic allegory of justice. The tension builds slowly in a drama where the clerics’ lives among the dogs, gamblers, and beachcombers along the shore of a Chilean village are abruptly thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a disturbed young visitor. In Spanish with English subtitles

Sunday Thursday

Oct 11 Oct 15

8:30pm 11:30am

Sequoia Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP US 2015, 79 min Director Robin Hauser Reynolds Big Tech needs to smash antiquated cultural stereotypes to transform a field where estimates are that, without a more diverse labor force, one million engineering jobs will go unfilled by 2020. Robin Hauser Reynolds’ insightful documentary explores the information industry and gives voice to the women and people of color inspiring change. Friday Oct 9 Wednesday Oct 14 Saturday Oct 17

6:00pm 3:30pm 2:00pm

Sequoia Rafael Throckmorton

The October 17 screening is a special intergenerational program with a panel discussion. See page 17 for details. VALLEY OF THE DOCS Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

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Capital One Services, LLC and Glassdoor

CREATIVE CONTROL US 2015, 97 min Director Benjamin Dickinson A high-powered advertising executive’s use of the latest innovation in immersive reality is at odds with his far loftier vision in this stylish drama that investigates the impact of technology on our culture, humanity, and spirituality. A rich pastiche, Creative Control offers a stirring reflection of where we are right here and right now.

Saturday Sunday

Oct 17 Oct 18

8:15pm 1:45pm

Sequoia Rafael

US CINEMA

THE DANISH GIRL US/UK 2015, 120 min Director Tom Hooper OPENING NIGHT Oscar®-winning The King’s Speech (MVFF 2010) director Tom Hooper returns with another remarkable historical drama. Based on the incredible true story of painter Lili Elbe (Academy Award®-winner Eddie Redmayne, MVFF Spotlight 2014), The Danish Girl explores the life of one of the first people in recorded history to receive gender reassignment surgery. Thursday Thursday

Oct 8 Oct 8

7:00pm 7:15pm

Century Larkspur Century Larkspur

Sponsored by

Wells Fargo Bank

WORLD CINEMA

DAY ONE Total Program 68 min A female US Army translator. A door-to-door meat salesman. A hospital visitor turned reluctant nurse. In this trio of exceptional short films, first days on the job range from the harrowing to the bewildering. Day One (Henry Hughes, US 2014, 25 min), Meat (Michael Forstein, US 2015, 15 min), and The Visit (Inbar Horesh, Israel 2014, 27 min).

Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

2:45pm 8:30pm

Rafael Rafael

US CINEMA

DHEEPAN France 2015, 109 min Director Jacques Audiard The 2015 Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner, Dheepan stars Sri Lankan author Antonythasan Jesuthasan as a Tamil Tiger hoping to start a new life in the slums of Paris. Directed by Jacques Audiard (A Prophet), this gritty immigrant drama provocatively morphs into a tense thriller as our reluctant hero learns that he can’t leave the battlefield behind. In Tamil, French, and English with English subtitles

Saturday Sunday

Oct 17 Oct 18

5:30pm 5:30pm

Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

DIRTY WOLVES (Lobos sucios) Spain 2015, 105 min Director Simón Casal de Miguel Under ancient yew trees in the Nazi-controlled tungsten mines of northwest Spain, a single mother with a sick child decides to fight someone else’s war—and ends up risking everything. Inspired by actual events and suffused with mysticism, this thriller stands as a testament to wills as hard as rock. In Spanish and German with English subtitles • WORLD PREMIERE Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

2:15pm 11:30am

Rafael Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

DOGTOWN REDEMPTION US 2015, 92 min Directors Amir Soltani, Chihiro Wimbush The fascinating faces and sturdy souls of Oakland recyclers, including a former punk rocker and a misplaced minister, are captured in this fascinating and penetrating documentary. Filmmakers Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush combine intimate interviews and all-access footage to craft an intensely honest, and sometimes hopeful portrait of society’s forgotten people. • WORLD PREMIERE Preceded by GOOD MAN US 2014, 5 min Director David Swope Saturday Thursday

Oct 10 Oct 15

1:45pm 5:00pm

Rafael Lark

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

A DOZEN SUMMERS UK 2015, 82 min Director Kenton Hall Twelve-year-old twin sisters take advantage of an opportunity to make a movie about their lives, bringing the “crazy” people they know, including their parents, friends—and enemies— along for the ride. Their sometimes silly yet wise dad keeps the twins safely grounded through all their adventures in this inventive family comedy. Ages 11+ Saturday Sunday

Oct 10 Oct 18

11:45am 11:00am

Sequoia Rafael

CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

THE DRESSMAKER Australia 2015, 118 min Director Jocelyn Moorhouse Tilly Dunnage is back. And the town of Dungatar is in for one heck of a dressing down— and an even more spectacular dressing up. Featuring a cast of Australia’s finest, this kangaroo western offers everything from murder to romance, drama to slapstick. Because when haute couture comes to the outback, all hell breaks loose. Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

7:00pm 11:00am

Rafael Sequoia

Sponsored by

Sterling Bank & Trust

WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT (El abrazo de la serpiente) Colombia/Venezuela/Argentina 2015, 125 min Director Ciro Guerra Revealed in lush black and white, a lone Amazonian shaman must help a white explorer find a sacred plant medicine to heal his soul sickness. Not once, but twice. Parallel stories decades apart follow their journeys into the heart of darkness and entrenched colonialism. Will they be saved? Will we? In Amazonian languages (Cubeo, Huitoto, Wanano, Tikuna), Spanish, Portugese, German, and Catalan with English subtitles • US PREMIERE

Wednesday Oct 14 Saturday Oct 17

8:45pm 2:00pm

Cinema Corte Madera Rafael

With support from

Gordon Radley

WORLD CINEMA

THE GIRL IN THE BOOK US 2015, 88 min Director Marya Cohn FOCUS LIT FLIX After an enticing mentorship with a family friend brings a teenager into a questionable relationship with a renowned writer (Michael Nykvist), the residual effects haunt her 15 years later when the now 29-year-old Alice (Emily VanCamp) is forced to reconnect with the man that ruined her adolescence and took her creative voice away. Saturday Monday Thursday

Oct 10 Oct 12 Oct 15

4:45pm 8:15pm 11:15am

Sequoia Rafael Sequoia

US CINEMA

THE GIRL KING Finland 2015, 106 min Director Mika Kaurismäki This handsome 17th century costume drama recounts the life of Queen Kristina of Sweden, a philosophically minded woman who ascended the throne at age six, was raised as a prince, and strived to bring peace and education to her country—all while carrying on an illicit affair with her lady-in-waiting. In English, French, and German with English subtitles • US PREMIERE

Friday Saturday Thursday

Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 15

7:30pm 1:45pm 2:00pm

Lark Sequoia Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

GOLDEN KINGDOM US 2015, 103 min Director Brian Perkins As war approaches, four young Buddhist monks left to fend for themselves must—like the Buddha himself—take a journey where they learn lessons of kindness, charity, and tolerance. Spiritual life meets a troubled world with the keen eye of compassion in this film that was beautifully shot in Myanmar with non-actors. In Burmese with English subtitles • US PREMIERE

Tuesday Thursday

Oct 13 Oct 15

5:00pm 2:30pm

Rafael Sequoia

US CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

GREENERY WILL BLOOM AGAIN (Torneranno I Prati) Italy 2015, 80 min Director Ermanno Olmi FOCUS: CINEMA BELLISSIMO In this deeply pacifist war drama, Italian cinema maestro Ermanno Olmi (The Tree of Wooden Clogs, 1978) exquisitely and impressionistically recounts the tales his grandfather told him of the snow-laden battle trenches of World War I and reveals the most intimate fears of men in battle. In Italian with English subtitles

Preceded by BREATHE US 2015, 9 min Directors Forrest Andrew Alvarez, Edward Hamel Friday Oct 9 Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16

2:00pm 3:00pm 1:45pm

Sequoia Lark Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

HAVANA MOTOR CLUB Cuba/US 2015, 84 min Director Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt Cuban auto-racing enthusiasts tweak the souped-up engines in their 1950s US hotrods, dreaming of the day their underground sport is sanctioned again by the authorities. This vibrant, street-level documentary follows the top drivers through myriad bumps in the road, culminating in a heart-pounding drag race organized by the Cuban Motor Federation. In Spanish with English subtitles

Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

11:00am 2:30pm

Sequoia Sequoia

Sponsored by

Alain Pinel Realtors

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

HEART LIKE A HAND GRENADE US 2015, 99 min Director John Roecker FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Grab a guitar and a yellow legal pad—you’re going into the studio with Green Day. More than 10 years after the release of American Idiot, the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees present this time capsule rock doc that takes us inside the songwriting and recording process of their Grammy Award®-winning punk rock opera. WORLD PREMIERE

Thursday Tuesday

Oct 8 Oct 13

7:00pm 9:00pm

Rafael Cinema Corte Madera

Sponsored by

Lagunitas Brewing Company

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

HERE IS HAROLD (Her er Harold) Norway 2014, 95 min Director Gunnar Vikene An aging dealer of high-quality Norwegian furniture, sent into a tailspin by the new IKEA store across the road, resolves to kidnap the Swedish chain’s founder and force him to apologize to the world for substandard craftsmanship. A touching but comedic saga constructed on the principle that “built to last” applies to furniture and families alike. In Norwegian with English subtitles • US PREMIERE

Sunday Tuesday Thursday

Oct 11 Oct 13 Oct 15

1:00pm 8:30pm 12:15pm

Rafael Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

THE HI DE HO SHOW Total Program 120 min FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) John Goddard veejays gems from his personal collection, riffing on the West Coast in the early ‘60s, when Sonny, Cher, Mamas, Papas, and Brothers who were Righteous upped the ante musically (and sartorially); when Bobby Freeman enticed us to “C’mon and Swim”—and when “Louie Louie” was even more popular than Louis C.K. today!

Friday Friday

Oct 9 Oct 16

8:45pm 8:30pm

Sequoia Rafael

Sponsored by

North Bay Biz

US CINEMA

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT US/France 2015, 80 min Director Kent Jones When these cinematic giants met, few expected that it would change the way people look at movies. This incisive and entertaining documentary proves that it did, employing audio clips from those talks, extensive interviews with modern Hollywood masters, and close readings of Hitchcock films to deftly show the wide-reaching legacy of this legendary conversation. In English, French, and Japanese with English subtitles

Thursday Saturday

Oct 15 Oct 17

8:00pm 3:15pm

Lark Rafael

Sponsored by

Marin Independent Journal

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

HOT TYPE: 150 YEARS OF THE NATION US 2015, 93 min Director Barbara Kopple FOCUS: LIT FLIX Academy Award®-winner Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, USA; American Dream) turns her lens on The Nation, America’s oldest continuously published weekly magazine, and the brainy, impassioned team, led by editor Katrina vanden Heuvel, keeping it relevant in its second century. A polished documentary that celebrates the still-beating heart of American journalism. Sunday Thursday

Oct 11 Oct 15

2:45pm 5:15pm

Sequoia Rafael

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

I SMILE BACK US 2014, 85 min Director Adam Salky SPOTLIGHT: SARAH SILVERMAN Sarah Silverman makes a groundbreaking departure from her comedic roots with this astonishing portrait of a troubled woman desperately looking for a path to redemption. Playing a New Jersey housewife in thrall to addiction and compulsive behavior, the actress is a revelation, delivering a courageous, bare-all performance. Friday

Oct 9

7:00pm

Rafael

US CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

THE IDEALIST Denmark 2015, 114 min Director Christina Rosendahl Set in Denmark during the Cold War and based on actual events, The Idealist is a powerful drama following one tenacious journalist’s investigation into a shocking cover-up with wideranging public health, political, and diplomatic implications. The film offers eye-opening insights into the ripple effects of the intercontinental power struggles of the era. In Danish and English with English subtitles • US PREMIERE Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

2:00pm 5:15pm

Lark Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

IN DEFENSE OF FOOD US 2015, 117 min Director Michael Schwarz “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” In this refreshing and illuminating adaptation of his best-selling “eater’s manifesto,” Berkeley-based science journalist and healthy-planet advocate Michael Pollan unpacks his seven-word prescription for reversing the human and environmental ills of our unsustainable Western diet. Pollan proves a genial, clear-eyed guide through our fraught food ecosystem. • WORLD PREMIERE Saturday Oct 10 Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16

4:45pm 4:45pm 11:45am

Throckmorton Rafael Lark

Sponsored by

KQED

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN WORDS Sweden 2015, 114 min Director Stig Björkman Timed for the centenary of Ingrid Bergman’s birth, this beautifully crafted documentary by Swedish filmmaker Stig Björkman is an intimate study of the woman behind the world cinema icon. The film gains resonance from her private diaries (read by Alicia Vikander), Michael Nyman’s elegant musical score, and Bergman’s own home movies. In English, Swedish, and Italian with English subtitles Monday

Oct 12

8:00pm

Rafael

As part of of the centennial celebration, don’t miss our special multimedia Ingrid Bergman exhibition. See page 11 for details. VALLEY OF THE DOCS

Sponsored by

Comcast

INTERWOVEN US 2015, 87 min Director VW Scheich Inspired by true tales of real lives, this visually stunning and emotionally resonant examination of the human condition delves deeply into questions of life and death, and love and loss. Featuring a tour-de-force performance by Academy Award®-winner Mo’Nique (Precious, MVFF 2009), this powerful ensemble drama delicately explores the mystery and meaning of life. • WORLD PREMIERE Friday Sunday

Oct 9 Oct 11

8:30pm 5:15pm

Rafael Rafael

US CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

IXCANUL Guatemala/France 2015, 91 min Director Jayro Bustamante With the power of a classic fable, Ixcanul tells the moving story of a family of Mayan coffee harvesters who hope to improve their situation through their daughter’s marriage. In his debut film, writer-director Jayro Bustamante shows a world where nature is pre-eminent and rituals a part of daily life. In Spanish with English subtitles Thursday Friday

Oct 15 Oct 16

8:00pm 2:15pm

Rafael Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

JOURNEY TO ROME (Cesta do Ř íma) Czech Republic/Poland 2015, 100 min Director Tomasz Mielnik A perpetual underachiever embarks on a train trip that’s equal parts art heist, chase, and freewheeling meditation on life’s mysteries in this satire on faith, philosophy, and the search for meaning in post-Cold War Czech Republic. Playful surrealism, kitschy cinematic flourishes, and visual tableaus that would make Luis Buñuel proud abound. In Czech, English, Italian, and Tibetan with English subtitles • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

5:30pm 11:45am

Rafael Throckmorton

Sponsored by

Zener Schon Gallery

WORLD CINEMA

KILL YOUR FRIENDS UK 2015, 103 min Director Owen Harris FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Nicholas Hoult (X-Men) stars as an A&R manager riding high on 1997’s Britpop craze, who will stop at nothing to land the next money-making hit. This pitch-black comedy skewers the music industry and breaks the fourth wall, a lot of records, and a few body parts along the way. • US PREMIERE

Monday Oct 12 Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16

9:15pm 8:30pm 11:30am

Sequoia Throckmorton Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

LA TIERRA ROJA Belgium/Argentina 2015, 100 min Director Diego Martinez Vignatti This stunning ecological thriller and intense love story explores the effects of toxic farming techniques on a rainforest community in Argentina. Neither Belgian supervisor Pierre nor the local teacher he’s involved with can ignore evidence that agrotoxins are poisoning people, leading to a dramatic face-off that changes the community, and Pierre, forever. In Spanish with English subtitles • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Wednesday Oct 14 Thursday Oct 15

8:00pm 3:15pm

Lark Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

A LIGHT BENEATH THEIR FEET US 2015, 90 min Director Valerie Weiss College-bound Beth is torn between the prospects of either attending her dream school or sticking closer to home to care for her mother who is struggling to stabilize her bipolar disorder in this broody, wistful, and edgy coming-of-age drama, starring the amazing Taryn Manning (Orange is the New Black) and rising star Madison Davenport. • WORLD PREMIERE Saturday Oct 10 Monday Oct 12 Wednesday Oct 14

8:15pm 11:45am 2:45pm

Sequoia* Rafael Sequoia

*Special Premiere & Party: See page 13 for details.

Sponsored by

Union Bank

US CINEMA

LOVE BETWEEN THE COVERS US 2015, 86 min Director Laurie Kahn FOCUS: LIT FLIX Romance novels comprise over a billion dollars a year in book sales. So why is the genre so often dismissed as frivolous “scribble”? Love Between the Covers explores the dynamic community centered around romantic fiction and elevates the genre to a radical literary form that pushes the envelope on race, gender, and diversity. Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16

6:00pm 11:45am

Cinema Corte Madera* Sequoia

*This screening is free for CFI members. Get your complimentary ticket at mvff.com. VALLEY OF THE DOCS

MACBETH UK/France/US 2015, 113 min Director Justin Kurzel In dream-team casting, the elemental, bold performances by Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard bring nuance and charisma to the ultimate power couple, the Macbeths. Visually breathtaking, this dynamic rendition of the Scottish play creates an atmosphere of high drama that never lets up, as it doffs its cap to the Game of Thrones generation. • US PREMIERE

Friday Oct 9 Wednesday Oct 14

8:15pm 1:00pm

Sequoia Rafael

Sponsored by

Mill Valley Library Foundation and the Friends

WORLD CINEMA

MARDAN Iraqi Kurdistan 2014, 114 min Director Batin Ghobadi Mardan is a corrupt policeman with a traumatic past working the Kurdish border region of northern Iran. Tasked with locating a missing worker on behalf of the man’s wife, he finds his wounded fraternal instincts tested in complex ways that pull us along in a dream of guilt, remorse, and passion. In Kurdish with English subtitles

Tuesday Thursday

Oct 13 Oct 15

8:45pm 6:15pm

Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

MARSHLAND (La Isla Minima) Spain 2014, 105 min Director Alberto Rodriguez A mesmerizing, moody psychological journey into the underbelly of a small Spanish town in 1980, Marshland evokes the energy of True Detective and the tone of Twin Peaks to create a fascinating and haunting first-rate thriller. This meticulous, multilayered cinematic puzzle centers on contrasting Madrid detectives in search of a murderer. In Spanish with English subtitles

Friday Monday

Oct 9 Oct 12

1:00pm 8:30pm

Rafael Lark

WORLD CINEMA

MEDITERRANEA Italy 2015, 110 min Director Jonas Carpignano FOCUS: CINEMA BELLISSIMO Putting a face on the hot-button topic of immigration, Jonas Carpignano’s exquisitely crafted film details a young man’s perilous journey from Burkina Faso to Italy. Based on the real-life experiences of mesmerizing lead actor Koudous Seihon, the vérité style film offers a profoundly compassionate counterpoint to the disengaged news-cycle immigration debates. In French with English subtitles

Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

5:45pm 2:30pm

Rafael Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

THE MESSENGER Canada/France 2015, 90 min Director Su Rynard Brightly feathered, tiny songbirds are earth’s original musicians, but this urgent, gorgeously shot documentary drives home that their delightful symphonies are in jeopardy— songbird declines worldwide are sounding a dire warning about our collective toll on nature. If we want songbirds singing tomorrow, we must change our ways now. In English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch with English subtitles • US PREMIERE Sunday Monday

Oct 11 Oct 12

8:00pm 11:45am

Sequoia Sequoia

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

MISS YOU ALREADY UK 2015, 112 min Director Catherine Hardwicke TRIBUTE: CATHERINE HARDWICKE Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen, Twilight) assembles an impeccable all-star cast for an intimate, honest portrayal of the highs, lows, and heartaches of enduring female friendship. In this poignant, often comical tale, Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette play lifelong best friends who manage to remain, in good times and bad, each other’s ultimate soulmate. Saturday Tuesday

Oct 10 Oct 13

7:30pm 11:15am

Rafael* Sequoia

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MUSTANG France/Germany/Turkey 2015, 94 min Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven Notions of freedom, escape, and liberation play out for five sisters living in a Turkish village in this beautifully directed debut film. As their grandmother and uncle seek to marry the siblings off systematically (like the Bennet girls in Pride and Prejudice), the young women must confront a variety of social and cultural strictures that lie in their path. In Turkish with English subtitles • US PREMIERE Sunday Monday

Oct 11 Oct 12

5:15pm 2:30pm

Lark Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

MY MOTHER (Mia madre) Italy 2014, 106 min Director Nanni Moretti FOCUS: CINEMA BELLISSIMO Award-winning Italian director Nanni Moretti’s (Dear Diary, MVFF 1994) My Mother is a semi-autobiographical drama that teases with perception, and stars Moretti’s frequent muse Margherita Buy as a filmmaker beset by personal trials, most notably her mother’s failing health and a lead actor (John Turturro) who can’t act or remember his lines. In Italian with English subtitles Thursday Saturday

Oct 8 Oct 17

6:30pm 11:15am

Century Larkspur Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

NENA Netherlands/Germany 2014, 94 min Director Saskia Diesing Set on the brink of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this touching, funny, and poignantly humane film focuses on 16-year-old Dutch-German Nena, a Goethe-quoting Goth punk who must balance the youthful joy of first love with the impending responsibility of caring for a disabled and despairing parent. In Dutch and German with English subtitles • NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Friday Saturday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18

8:30pm 2:00pm 5:30pm

Rafael Sequoia Throckmorton

WORLD CINEMA

A NEW COLOR: THE ART OF BEING EDYTHE BOONE US 2015, 57 min Director Marlene “Mo” Morris Meet Edythe Boon, a veteran African-American muralist and teacher. As Edy guides students in choosing mural subjects, using a grid, and mastering texture, they’re thrilled and inspired to be working with a brilliant artist whose work commemorating the great events of her time can be found all over the Bay Area. • WORLD PREMIERE Preceded by PENNY US 2014, 30 min Director Elizabeth Sher Saturday Friday

Oct 10 Oct 16

2:00pm 11:45am

Throckmorton Rafael

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The Zaentz Media Center, A Wareham Development

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THE NEW ENVIRONMENTALISTS Total Program 85 min This special environmental program features three new films from Marin County’s own Mill Valley Film Group, whose motto is “Making Films That Matter.” The Roots of ‘Ulu (John Antonelli, US 2015, 36 min), The New Environmentalists: From Myanmar to Scotland (John Antonelli, Will Parrinello, Tom Dusenbery, US 2015, 26 min), and Sea Change (John Antonelli, US 2015, 23 min). • WORLD PREMIERE Friday Oct 9 Wednesday Oct 14

2:00pm 8:00pm

Throckmorton Rafael

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VALLEY OF THE DOCS

NUMBER ONE FAN (Elle l’adore) France 2014, 105 min Director Jeanne Herry The relationship between a French pop star (Laurent Lafitte) and his biggest fan (Sandrine Kiberlain) reaches a new level of intimacy when he enlists her help in disposing of a dead body in this clever, darkly comedic thriller that plays like a Gallic Gone Girl and marks writer-director Jeanne Herry’s impressive feature debut. In French with English subtitles Friday Oct 9 Saturday Oct 10 Wednesday Oct 14

4:00pm 2:45pm 5:30pm

Rafael Sequoia Throckmorton

WORLD CINEMA

ONE FLOOR BELOW (Un Etaj Mai Jos) Romania 2015, 93 min Director Radu Muntean One summer day, the intensely private Mr. Patrascu overhears a fight between a man and his neighbor Laura, one floor below, and then encounters another tenant right outside her door. When he discovers that Laura was murdered, Patrascu is torn between his suspicion and his deeply ingrained reticence of getting involved. In Romanian with English subtitles US PREMIERE

Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

12:00pm 8:00pm

Lark Throckmorton

WORLD CINEMA

OPEN YOUR EYES US 2015, 34 min Director Irene Taylor Brodsky What would you give to have your sight and livelihood restored? An elderly Nepalese couple receives life-changing cataract surgery, and, in an everyday miracle, a whole new world is unveiled to them. Along with the film, expect some special guests—and an inspiring postscreening panel discussion (see page 20). In Nepali with English subtitles • WORLD PREMIERE Saturday

Oct 10

5:30pm

Sequoia

Live music beneﬁt to follow at Sweetwater. Separate ticket required. See page 18 for details.

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PAPER TIGERS US 2015, 102 min Director James Redford That troubled teens who fill detention halls later fill prison cells is unsurprising. That the schoolto-prison pipeline can be blocked by acts of love is a revelation. Paper Tigers shows the hard work done in one public high school to address emotional needs alongside academics, slowly inching at-risk youth away from failure.

Tuesday Friday

Oct 13 Oct 16

5:30pm 3:00pm

Sequoia Lark

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

THE PASSION OF AUGUSTINE (La Passion D’Augustine) Canada 2014, 103 min Director Léa Pool FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Sister Augustine, head of a small, rural Quebec convent school, provides top-quality music education to young women with stunning results— until the sweeping changes of Vatican II threaten the school’s survival. Director Léa Pool celebrates the joys of classical and choral music in this paean to social—and lyrical—harmony. In French with English subtitles Monday Tuesday Friday

Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 16

5:15pm 2:00pm 11:00am

Sequoia Rafael Throckmorton

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WORLD CINEMA

THE PAWN (La Prenda) Switzerland 2015, 78 min Director Jean-Cosme Delaloye Inspiring and powerful, The Pawn tells the stories of individuals and families who, despite all odds, stand up against the culture of impunity in Guatemala, where kidnappings for ransom are a daily occurrence. It’s an extraordinary testament to ordinary people who transcend unthinkable circumstances by finding the courage to speak up and fight back. In Spanish with English subtitles • US PREMIERE Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

3:00pm 3:15pm

Rafael Sequoia

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

A PERFECT DAY Spain 2015, 105 min Director Fernando León de Aranoa Benicio Del Toro and Tim Robbins star in this funny, compassionate tragicomedy, a kind of M*A*S*H comes to the Balkans. Set during the waning days of the Bosnian War, humanitarian aid workers attempt to improve conditions despite facing bureaucracy, violence, cynicism, distrust, and a shortage of necessary materials—like rope. In English, Bosnian, Spanish, and French with English subtitles

Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

5:00pm 11:15am

Sequoia Rafael

With support from

Katz Family Foundation

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PERMISSION TO TOUCH US 2015, 101 min Director Rob Nilsson Internationally renowned for his signature style, the emotionally intense approach known as Direct Action Cinema, director Rob Nilsson reprises the lead role from his 1987 Sundance Grand Jury prizewinning film Heat and Sunlight in this deeply meaningful meditation on the intimate erotics of filmmaking and the power of the image. • WORLD PREMIERE

Wednesday Oct 14 Saturday Oct 17

8:45pm 7:45pm

Rafael Throckmorton

US CINEMA

THE PREPPIE CONNECTION US 2015, 110 min Director Joeseph Castelo Based on a true (but absolutely incredible) story from the ‘80s of prep-school privilege and plebeian pluck, a lower-class scholarship student striving for social success burrows his way into the hearts and wallets of his upper-class classmates. But as newfound popularity goes to his head, he runs afoul of Colombian gangsters... • US PREMIERE Thursday Friday Saturday

Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17

5:45pm 2:00pm 8:15pm

Sequoia Throckmorton Rafael

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PRINCESS Israel 2014, 92 min Director Tali Shalom Ezer Twelve-year-old Adar (Shira Haas) and her mother’s boyfriend engage in boundarypushing games that fall somewhere between playful and predatory. Then she brings home an androgynous boy, and things move towards an inevitable boiling point. Writer-director Tali Shalom Ezer takes her coming-of-age drama to some seriously uncomfortable places while still remaining touching and remarkably tender. In Hebrew with English subtitles Friday Saturday

Oct 9 Oct 10

6:45pm 8:30pm

Rafael Lark

WORLD CINEMA

RADICAL GRACE US 2015, 75 min Director Rebecca Parrish Three American activist nuns step up to the challenge of serving those in need despite facing censure from the Catholic Church for their progressive activisim. Their very identities threatened by the Vatican, these powerful women step up their visibility. When it comes to social justice, sisters are doing it for themselves. Preceded by IRINA ROZO US 2015, 6 min Director Ashley James Monday Oct 12 Wednesday Oct 14

8:15pm 2:00pm

Sequoia Rafael

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RAMS Iceland 2015, 93 min Director Grímur Hákonarson Winner of Cannes’ Un Certain Regard competition, this touching, wry, and breathtakingly shot Scandinavian comedy wittily portrays the connection between man and beast. After an outbreak of scrapie leads officials to decree that all local sheep must be slaughtered, estranged brothers are forced to work together to save their beloved creatures. In Icelandic with English subtitles

Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

5:30pm 5:00pm

Rafael Lark

WORLD CINEMA

REMEMBER Canada 2015, 95 min Director Atom Egoyan Christopher Plummer gives a tremendous performance as a nursing home resident, plagued by dementia and haunted by memory, who embarks on a secretive cross-country road trip to purge his demons and mete out some long overdue justice in this unforgettable thriller from Canadian master Atom Egoyan.

Sunday Tuesday

Oct 11 Oct 13

2:30pm 11:15am

Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

ROBERT BLY: A THOUSAND YEARS OF JOY US 2015, 81 min Director Haydn Reiss FOCUS: LIT FLIX Poet Robert Bly stands out even among the celebrated, revolutionary generation of American artists who burst forth in the 1950s, and this loving documentary charts his singular path from second son to taciturn father on a wintry Minnesota farm to radical antiVietnam War activist to wild man of the 1990s men’s movement. • WORLD PREMIERE

Saturday Oct 10 Tuesday Oct 13 Wednesday Oct 14

8:00pm 4:00pm 2:30pm

Throckmorton Rafael Sequoia

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

ROOM Ireland 2015, 118 min Director Lenny Abrahamson SPOTLIGHT: BRIE LARSON Room is the entire world to five-year-old Jack, but for his Ma it’s a prison, one from which she’s desperate to free her child, whatever the cost. Stellar performances from Jacob Tremblay and Brie Larson are the emotional engine behind this riveting adaptation of the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue. Wednesday Oct 14

7:00pm

Rafael

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Active Cinema

SACRED BLOOD US 2015, 93 min Director Christopher Coppola From the fertile mind of Christopher Coppola, Sacred Blood is a thrilling blast of operatic vampire love and lunacy that is both moving and menacing at once. This soulful San Francisco serenade to creatures of the night is unnerving, passionate cinema for people who like ﬁlm served straight up, with a twist. In English and Georgian with English subtitles W• WORLD PREMIERE

Friday Saturday

Oct 16 Oct 17

8:15pm 5:00pm

Sequoia Throckmorton

US CINEMA

THE SATELLITE GIRL AND MILK COW South Korea 2014, 81 min Director Chang Hyung-yun There’s weird magic afoot in a Korean city in this surreal and wonderfully inventive animated fable: Heartbroken Kyung-chun transforms into a cow, the wizard Merlin has been turned into a roll of enchanted toilet paper, and a satellite becomes a metallic girl who visits Earth, lured by Kyung-chun’s love songs. Ages 10+ In Korean with English subtitles NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Sunday Sunday

Oct 11 Oct 18

12:45pm 2:00pm

Rafael Lark

CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

SECOND COMING UK 2014, 105 min Director Debbie Tucker Green Realism of the kitchen sink and magical varieties blend in this intriguing drama about a British woman who finds herself miraculously pregnant and must cope with what this epiphany means for her, her disbelieving husband (Idris Elba), and her watchful son, as their lives, her nerves, and a stagnant marriage unravel. • US PREMIERE Tuesday Oct 13 Wednesday Oct 14

8:00pm 11:45am

Rafael Sequoia

WORLD CINEMA

SEMBÈNE! US/Senegal 2014, 89 min Directors Samba Gadjigo, Jason Silverman Sembène! tells the inspiring story of the father of African film, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout who dreamed of becoming the storyteller for a new Africa. Hero to millions, Ousmane Sembène’s (Moolaade, MVFF 2004; Black Girl, MVFF 2015) life unfolds through archival footage and a wealth of interviews. Rich and moving, Sembène! is a compelling tribute to his genius.

Tuesday Thursday

Oct 13 Oct 15

5:45pm 3:15pm

Sequoia Rafael

With support from

Jim Boyce Trust and Kris Otis

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SHANA: THE WOLF’S MUSIC Switzerland/Canada 2014, 95 min Director Nino Jacusso FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Once Shana, a First Nations young woman, played violin with her mother, joyfully accompanying their tribe’s celebrations. With her mom’s passing, the magic disappears from her life. Then one day Shana senses the presence of the wolf as she plays her violin. Drawn by her music, it will lead her on a vision quest to her future. Ages 10+ Saturday Sunday

Oct 10 Oct 11

11:00am 11:00am

Rafael Lark

Sponsored by

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CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

SIR DOUG AND THE GENUINE TEXAS COSMIC GROOVE US 2015, 84 min Director Joe Nick Patoski FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) This rocking, two-stepping documentary careens through the whirlwind life of musician Doug Sahm and his career with The Sir Douglas Quintet, the Texas Tornados, and beyond. Marriage, kids, tours, drug busts, Doug did it all—and all over the world.

Sunday Monday

Oct 11 Oct 12

5:30pm 3:30pm

Sequoia Sequoia

Live music event to follow at Sweetwater. Separate ticket required. See page 18 for details.

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SON OF SAUL (Saul Fia) Hungary 2015, 107 min Director László Nemes Winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Grand Prix, László Nemes’ astonishing feature debut centers on Saul, a Jewish prisoner tasked with preparing piles of corpses for incineration. While the others in his Sonderkommando unit frantically plot a rebellion against the Nazis, he sets about arranging a proper burial for a body he believes to be his son’s. In Hungarian, German, Yiddish, Russian, Polish, French, Greek, and Slovak with English subtitles Sunday Monday

Oct 11 Oct 12

4:00pm 5:15pm

Rafael Rafael

With support from

Gruber Family Foundation

WORLD CINEMA

THE SORROW AND THE PITY (Le chagrin et la pitié) France/Germany 1969, 260 min Director Marcel Ophuls Marcel Ophuls’ brave and controversial investigation of collaboration and resistance in occupied France is a landmark in documentary filmmaking. Commemorated by a running gag in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall—one Jewish filmmaker obsessed with moral conundrums saluting another—this complex, disturbing portrait of guilt, heroism, and matter-of-fact obeisance is an unequivocal masterpiece. In French and German with English subtitles

Friday

Oct 16

12:00pm

Rafael

WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

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SPOTLIGHT US 2015, 128 min Director Tom McCarthy OPENING NIGHT / FOCUS: LIT FLIX Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo head an impeccable ensemble cast recreating the true events of 2001, when The Boston Globe broke open the massive child molestation scandal within the local Catholic Archdiocese—and the shocking Church cover-up that kept it a dirty secret for decades. It is the All the President’s Men of our generation. • US PREMIERE

Thursday Thursday

Oct 8 Oct 8

7:00pm 7:15pm

Sequoia Sequoia

Sponsored by

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US CINEMA

SUFFRAGETTE UK 2015, 106 min Director Sarah Gavron CLOSING NIGHT Profoundly moving, Suffragette tells the story of the ordinary women who risked all—their jobs, homes, children, even their lives—in the fight for the right to vote. A brilliant ensemble (Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter, Merly Streep, Anne-Marie Duff) drives this inspiring homage to the working women whose passion and vision advanced equal rights. Sunday Sunday Sunday

Oct 18 Oct 18 Oct 18

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

Rafael Sequoia Sequoia

Sponsored by

Jackson Square Partners

WORLD CINEMA

SURVIVING SKOKIE US 2015, 65 min Directors Eli Adler, Blair Gershkow This riveting documentary centers on a series of dark days in small-town America that force a resilient group of Holocaust survivors to relive a devastating past. Eli Adler’s deeply personal film combines fascinating historical footage with a penetrating first-person perspective, following the path of his father, a Polish immigrant and concentration camp survivor. • WORLD PREMIERE

Sunday Friday

Oct 11 Oct 16

11:30am 5:45pm

Sequoia Rafael

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

TAXI Iran 2015, 82 min Director Jafar Panahi Taxi is Jafar Panahi at his best and a reminder that you can put your artists under house arrest, but you can’t confine the creative spirit. He casts himself as a taxi driver whose dashboard “security” camera captures passenger conversations about life in Tehran: crime, punishment, black market DVD sales—and cinema. In Farsi and English with English subtitles

Tuesday Saturday

Oct 13 Oct 17

1:00pm 5:15pm

Rafael Lark

WORLD CINEMA

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

TIKKUN Israel 2015, 120 min Director Avishai Sivan A fascinating, slow-burn of a film, Tikkun depicts the gradual untethering of a young ultraOrthodox scholar in Jerusalem. After shy, obsessive Haim-Aaron suffers a near-death experience, he undergoes surreal physical and spiritual changes that disturb his world. Exquisite black-and-white cinematography lends a timeless, haunting quality to this modern Hasidic tale. Note: contains some graphic sexual imagery. In Hebrew and Yiddish with English subtitles • US PREMIERE

Wednesday Oct 14 Sunday Oct 18

8:15pm 5:15pm

Sequoia Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

TRUTH US 2015, 121 min Director James Vanderbilt Academy Award® winners Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford play 60 Minutes producer Mary Mapes and journalist Dan Rather in this riveting account of the 2004 television scandal that erupted after the show aired Rather’s report alleging that George W. Bush received preferential treatment that allowed him to dodge the Vietnam War draft.

Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

9:00pm 11:00am

Sequoia Rafael

Sponsored by

San Francisco Chronicle

US CINEMA

UNDER THE SAME SUN (Ek Surya Ke Taley) Canada/India 2015, 93 min Director Mitra Sen Karim, an injured fugitive, is welcomed like a beloved brother by three orphaned boys in a remote Gujarati oasis of Hindu and Muslim harmony. This simple human kindness disrupts the ominous trajectory of a young jihadi’s mission. In Mitra Sen’s profoundly compassionate drama, only the children can soothe the rage of a grieving heart. In Hindi with English subtitles • WORLD PREMIERE Saturday Sunday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12

5:45pm 7:45pm 5:30pm

Lark Throckmorton Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

VIAJE Costa Rica 2015, 72 min Director Paz Fábrega After Pedro and Lucia meet cute at a costume party, they impulsively decide to go camping—their last chance to bond before she leaves town. Paz Fábrega’s black-and-white romance is a Costa Rican Before Sunrise: The longer these 20-somethings share their dreams and let down their emotional defense systems, the sexier this film gets. In Spanish with English subtitles Saturday Monday

Oct 10 Oct 12

8:30pm 3:00pm

Rafael Lark

Sponsored by

Sol Food

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Active Cinema

VIRGIN MOUNTAIN (Fusi) Iceland/Denmark 2015, 94 min Director Dagur Kári A multiple prizewinner at several international festivals, this quirky and humorous film captures a sensitive point in the life of a 43-year-old painfully shy man as he attempts to break out of his own socially awkward (and sexually inhibited) shell. In Icelandic with English subtitles

Wednesday Oct 14 Thursday Oct 15

5:30pm 5:00pm

Sequoia Cinema Corte Madera

WORLD CINEMA

WE DID IT ON A SONG (Chante ton bac d’bord) France 2014, 82 min Director David André FOCUS: THE BEAT GOES ON(SCREEN) Five French teenagers from a rapidly de-industrializing working-class town set their ambitions, dreams, hopes, and fears to music in this refreshingly unique docudrama-musical that follows this band of outsiders through their final year of high school, focusing on the demanding pressures of concerned parents, final exams, socioeconomic depression, and crossing the threshold to adulthood. In French with English subtitles

Friday Saturday

Oct 9 Oct 10

2:45pm 12:30pm

Rafael Rafael

WORLD CINEMA

THE WIZARD OF OZ US 1939, 101 min Director Victor Fleming Poor Dorothy Gale pines for “a place where there isn’t any trouble.” Of course, that’s the movies! The City of Mill Valley, the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce, and MVFF invite you to bring the whole family to Old Mill Park for a special free outdoor screening of this timeless classic, whose Technicolor magic remains as bright and joyfully surreal as it was 76 years ago. Friday

Oct 16

6:30pm

Old Mill Park

FREE

Sponsored by

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CHILDREN’S FILMFEST

WOMEN HE’S UNDRESSED Australia 2015, 99 min Director Gillian Armstrong A stylish, fascinating, and witty look at the professional and personal life of three-time Oscar®-winning costume designer Orry-Kelly, whose creations adorned the stars of classics like Some Like It Hot and Casablanca and whose impressive tenure at Warner Brothers helped create the magic in some of history’s most memorable films. • US PREMIERE Saturday Oct 10 Tuesday Oct 13 Wednesday Oct 14

2:45pm 12:15pm 2:15pm

Lark Sequoia Throckmorton

Sponsored by

San Francisco Magazine

VALLEY OF THE DOCS

Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

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WONDROUS BOCCACCIO (Maraviglioso Boccaccio) Italy 2015, 121 min Directors Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani FOCUS: CINEMA BELLISSIMO In the Taviani Brothers’ lively adaptation of The Decameron, young people hope to escape the Black Plague by journeying to the countryside where they tell one another stories, mostly concerning forbidden love. The resulting concoction of multiple narratives is a splendid reminder of the joys of storytelling and the verdant delights of Tuscany. In Italian with English subtitles

Friday Thursday

Oct 9 Oct 15

4:30pm 5:00pm

Lark Sequoia

Sponsored by

Cavallo Point

WORLD CINEMA

YOSEMITE US/France 2015, 82 min Director Gabrielle Demeestere During the fall of 1985, three fifth-grade boys navigate the borders of their suburban Palo Alto neighborhood, equally drawn to and repelled by the threat of a roaming mountain lion. Intertwined tales—drawn from James Franco short stories—capture intimate, revelatory moments of childhood, and innocence grappling with lurking adult concerns. Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

8:45pm 11:45am

Lark Sequoia

US CINEMA

YOU’RE UGLY TOO Ireland 2015, 81 min Director Mark Noonan Fresh-out-of-prison Will (Game of Thrones’s Aiden Gillen) and his newly orphaned pre-teen niece Stacey (the brilliant Lauren Kinsella) make an unlikely duo in Mark Noonan’s witty, compassionate feature debut set in Ireland’s Midlands. Will’s attempt at creating a new life with Stacey backfires when a dark secret threatens to unravel their perfectly flawed relationship. With subtitles • US PREMIERE

Wednesday Oct 14 Friday Oct 16 Sunday Oct 18

5:15pm 4:15pm 11:45am

Sequoia Rafael Throckmorton

WORLD CINEMA

YOUTH Italy/France/Switzerland/UK 2015, 123 min Director Paolo Sorrentino FOCUS: CINEMA BELLISSIMO The stunning opening images of Oscar® winner Paolo Sorrentino’s Youth set the tone for indelible reflections on wisdom, art, and mortality, expressed by longtime friends Fred (Michael Caine), a retired composer, and film director Mick (Harvey Keitel). A startling cameo by Jane Fonda makes their sojourn at an opulent Swiss spa decidedly memorable.

Friday Sunday

Oct 16 Oct 18

6:00pm 2:00pm

Sequoia Rafael

With support from

Jennifer Coslett MacCready

WORLD CINEMA Mind the Gap: Women | Work | Film

Active Cinema

us cinema

world cinema

valley of the docs

children’s filmfest

5@5 shorts

special

panels/classes

RAFAEL

7:00PM Spotlight

7:15PM Spotlight

128 min

7:00PM Heart Like a Hand Grenade

128 min

6:15PM The Assassin

7:00PM The Danish Girl

105 min

99 min

7:15PM The Danish Girl

120 min

6:30PM My Mother

120 min

106 min

Opening Night GALA 9:00pm—midnight | See page 6 for details. marin country mart

SEQUOIA

THROCK

1 2 2:45PM Aferim! 108 min

FRIDAY OCTOBER 9

LARKSPUR LANDING

1 2 3 4

5:30PM 45 Years 93 min

8:15PM Macbeth 113 min

2:00PM Greenery Will Bloom Again 89 min

6:00PM CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap 79 min

8:45PM The Hi De Ho Show

RAFAEL

1 2 3

2:00PM The New Environmentalists 85 min

5:30PM 5@5 Little By Little 64 min

7:30PM TBA

LARK CINEMA

1:00PM Marshland

2:45PM We Did It on a Song

6:45PM Princess 92 min

4:30PM Wondrous Boccaccio

4:00PM Number One Fan

5:45PM An Act of Love

9:30PM 5@5 My Colouring Book

7:30PM The Girl King

7:00PM I Smile Back

8:30PM Interwoven

105 min 105 min 115 min

82 min 86 min

61 min

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

SEQUOIA

1 2

121 min 106 min

87 min

120 min

MONDAY OCTOBER 12

THURSDAY OCTOBER 8

Sweetwater Oct 9 Doors 8:00pm | Show 9:00pm Dean Ween Group

11:00AM Havana Motor Club

11:30AM Give Us a Break!

2:45PM Number One Fan

1:45PM The Girl King

5:30PM Open Your Eyes

4:45PM The Girl in the Book

2:00PM A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10

82 min

105 min 34 min

8:15PM A Light Beneath Their Feet 90 min

84 min

106 min

88 min

8:00PM Angelica 95 min

Tennessee Valley Active Cinema Hike | 10AM–12PM See page 20 for details.

90 min

87 min

11:00AM Shana: The Wolf’s Music 95 min

1:45PM Dogtown Redemption 97 min

4:45PM In Defense of Food

4:45PM Brooklyn

8:00PM Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

7:30PM Miss You Already

117 min

81 min

112 min 142 min

11:30AM Cinema: A Public Affair 99 min

2:15PM Dirty Wolves 105 min

5:30PM Journey to Rome 100 min

8:30PM Viaje 72 min

12:30PM We Did It on a Song

12:00PM One Floor Below

3:30PM 5@5 Little By Little

2:45PM Women He’s Undressed

82 min 64 min

6:30PM Alias Maria 92 min

9:30PM 5@5 Windmills of Your Mind 68 min

Sweetwater A Director Prepares: Bobby Roth | 10AM-1Pm See page 16 for details.

93 min

99 min

5:45PM Under the Same Sun 93 min

8:30PM Princess 92 min

Sweetwater Oct 10 Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pm Sing Out for Sight

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13

11:45AM A Dozen Summers

us cinema

world cinema

SEQUOIA

valley of the docs

THROCK

1 2

11:30AM 5@5 Doodlin’

1:00PM Here Is Harold

2:45PM Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation

2:30PM Remember

2:15PM Breaking a Monster

4:00PM Son of Saul

93 min

5:30PM Carol 118 min

8:30PM The Club 98 min

95 min

5:30PM Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove 84 min

8:00PM The Messenger 90 min

special

RAFAEL

11:45AM Beyond Measure 85 min

5@5 shorts

1 2 3

11:30AM Surviving Skokie 65 min

SUNDAY OCTOBER 11

children’s filmfest

68 min

93 min

5:00PM 5@5 Windmills of Your Mind

95 min

107 min

7:00PM TBA

81 min

3:00PM The Pawn 78 min

5:45PM Mediterranea 110 min

68 min

8:45PM Bridgend

7:45PM Under the Same Sun 93 min

12:45PM The Satellite Girl and Milk Cow

104 min

12:30PM Master Class: Catherine Hardwicke 90 min

2:45PM Day One 68 min

5:15PM Interwoven 87 min

8:00PM Angelica 95 min

Sweetwater A Director Prepares: Bobby Roth | 10AM-1Pm See page 16 for details.

12:00PM

Breaking a Monster

MONDAY OCTOBER 12

93 min

3:30PM

Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove 84 min

6:30PM

Brooklyn 112 min 9:15PM

Kill Your Friends

11:45AM

The Messenger

Journey to Rome

2:30PM

2:45PM

90 min

100 min

Havana Motor Club

An Act of Love

5:15PM

5:00PM

84 min

The Passion of Augustine 103 min 8:15PM

Radical Grace 81 min

103 min

86 min

5@5 The Other Side of Life 62 min

8:00PM

One Floor Below 93 min

11:45AM

A Light Beneath Their Feet 90 min

2:30PM

45 Years 93 min

5:15PM

Son of Saul 107 min 8:00PM

Ingrid Bergman In Her Own Words 114 min

11:30AM

Dirty Wolves 105 min 2:30PM

Mustang 94 min

5:30PM

Under the Same Sun

6:30PM

Cinema: A Public Affair 99 min

9:15PM

5@5 Breakfast in Bed 69 min

panels/classes

LARK CINEMA 11:00AM Shana: The Wolf’s Music 95 min

2:00PM The Idealist 114 min

5:15PM Mustang 94 min

8:15PM All Eyes and Ears 90 min

Sweetwater Oct 11 Doors 7:30pm | Show 8:30pm

The Mother Truckers/Shawn Sahm 3:00PM

Viaje

72 min 5:30PM

6:00PM

Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 134 min

Alias Maria 92 min

8:30PM

Marshland 105 min

93 min

8:15PM

The Girl in the Book 88 min

Sweetwater Oct 12 Doors 7:00pm | Show 8:00pm The Brothers Comatose

11:15AM Miss You Already

TUESDAY OCTOBER 13

112 min

2:30PM Mediterranea 110 min

5:30PM Paper Tigers 102 min

8:45PM Mardan 114 min

12:15PM Women He’s Undressed 99 min

3:15PM The Pawn 78 min

5:45PM Sembène! 89 min

8:30PM Here Is Harold 95 min

1:00PM Taxi

11:15AM Remember

4:00PM Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy

2:00PM The Passion of Augustine 5:00PM Golden Kingdom

82 min

81 min

7:00PM Amnesia 96 min

95 min

103 min 103 min

2:45PM 5@5 The Other Side of Life

3:00PM Bridgend

6:00PM Bridge of Spies

5:15PM The Idealist

5:45PM 5@5 Breakfast in Bed

9:00PM Heart Like a Hand Grenade

8:30PM Day One

8:00PM Blue Blood

62 min

114 min 68 min

104 min

69 min

135 min

99 min

119 min

8:00PM Second Coming 105 min

Sweetwater Oct 13 Doors 7:30pm | Show 8:30pm Olive and the Dirty Martinis

world cinema

SEQUOIA

valley of the docs

THROCK

1 2 11:45AM Second Coming

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14

105 min

2:30PM Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy 81 min

5:15PM You’re Ugly Too 81 min

8:15PM Tikkun 120 min

12:00PM 5@5 Breakfast in Bed 69 min

2:45PM A Light Beneath Their Feet 90 min

5:30PM Virgin Mountain 94 min

children’s filmfest

5@5 shorts

special

RAFAEL

1 2 3

2:15PM Women He’s Undressed 99 min

5:30PM Number One Fan 125 min

8:30PM Kill Your Friends 103 min

1:00PM Macbeth

12:30PM Amnesia

2:00PM Radical Grace

4:00PM Carol

3:30PM CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap

4:45PM In Defense of Food

113 min 118 min

7:00PM Room 148 min

96 min

79 min

6:30PM Brooklyn, Paris 83 min

panels/classes

LARK CINEMA 3:00PM Greenery Will Bloom Again

6:00PM Love Between the Covers

117 min

6:00PM Black Girl

8:00PM The New Environmentalists

8:45PM Embrace of the Serpent

8:00PM La Tierra Roja

81 min

85 min

89 min

86 min

65 min

105 min

100 min

8:45PM Permission to Touch

8:30PM Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories

101 min

102 min

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17

us cinema

Sweetwater Oct 14 Doors 8:00 pm | Show 9:00 pm Tommy Igoe

THURSDAY OCTOBER 15

98 min

2:30PM Golden Kingdom 103 min

5:45PM The Preppie Connection 110 min

8:45PM The Automatic Hate 97 min

11:15AM The Girl in the Book

12:15PM Here Is Harold

11:30AM Brooklyn, Paris

3:15PM La Tierra Roja

3:15PM Sembène!

2:00PM Blue Blood

6:15PM Mardan

7:00PM Ain’t Misbehavin’

5:15PM Hot Type: 150 Years of The Nation

9:30PM 5@5 My Colouring Book

95 min

88 min

2:00PM The Girl King

89 min

106 min

5:00PM Wondrous Boccaccio

136 min

121 min

83 min

119 min

93 min

100 min 114 min

5:00PM Dogtown Redemption

5:00PM Virgin Mountain 94 min

97 min

7:45PM Beasts of No Nation

8:00PM Hitchcock/ Truffaut

133 min

80 min

61 min

8:00PM Ixcanul

8:00PM TBA

91 min

Sweetwater Oct 15 Doors 9:30pm | Show 10:00pm Stroke 9

11:30AM Kill Your Friends

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16

103 min

2:30PM Brooklyn, Paris 83 min

5:00PM A Perfect Day 105 min

8:15PM Sacred Blood 93 min

11:45AM Love Between the Covers 86 min

2:15PM Ixcanul 91 min

6:00PM Youth 123 min

9:00PM Truth 121 min

11:00AM The Passion of Augustine 103 min

2:00PM The Preppie Connection 110 min

5:00PM 5@5 Brand New Me 70 min

7:30PM BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez 91 min

1:45PM Greenery Will Bloom Again 89 min

4:15PM You’re Ugly Too 81 min

7:00PM The Dressmaker 118 min

11:45AM A New Color: The Art of Being Edythe Boone 87 min

2:30PM Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories 102 min

5:30PM Rams 93 min

8:30PM Nena 94 min

12:00PM The Sorrow and the Pity 260 min

5:45PM Surviving Skokie 65 min

8:30PM The Hi De Ho Show 120 min

11:45AM In Defense of Food 117 min

3:00PM Paper Tigers 102 min

outdoor screening Event at Old Mill Park

6:00PM Body

6:30PM The Wizard of Oz

8:45PM Yosemite

FREE

101 min

92 min 82 min

Sweetwater Oct 16 TBA

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18

11:30AM The Club

US CINEMA

WORlD CINEMA

SEQUOIA

11:15AM MY MOTHER

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17

106 min

2:00PM NENA 94 min

5:00PM AMAzING GRACE 87 min

7:45PM TBA

2 11:30AM TBA 2:30PM TBA 5:30PM DHEEPAN 109 min

8:15PM CREATIvE CONTROl 97 min

vAllEY OF THE DOCS

THROCK 11:00AM 5@5 YOUTH REEl 90 min

2:00PM CODE: DEBUGGING THE GENDER GAP 79 min

5:00PM SACRED BlOOD 93 min

7:45PM PERMISSION TO TOUCH 101 min

CHIlDREN’S FIlMFEST

1 11:00AM THE AMAzING WIPlAlA 100 min

2:00PM EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT

5@5 SHORTS

RAFAEL 2

11:00AM THE HEROINE’S JOURNEY 90 min

125 min

2:00PM vARIETY CONTENDERS: SUFFRAGETTE

6:00PM SPOTlIGHT ON CAREY MUllIGAN

5:15PM BEYOND MEASURE

90 min

8:30PM THE ASSASSIN 105 min

90 min 85 min

8:15PM THE PREPPIE CONNECTION 110 min

SPECIAl

3 11:00AM 5@5 DOODlIN’

2:15PM THE AUTOMATIC HATE

1:00PM MvFF STATE OF THE INDUSTRY

5:15PM TAXI

68 min

90 min

3:15PM HITCHCOCK/ TRUFFAUT

91 min

9:30PM 5@5 BRAND NEW ME

11:45AM YOSEMITE

11:45AM YOU’RE UGlY TOO

11:00AM TRUTH

11:00AM A DOzEN SUMMERS

11:15AM A PERFECT DAY

2:00PM All EYES AND EARS

2:30PM TBA

2:45PM BODY

2:00PM YOUTH

1:45PM CREATIvE CONTROl

2:00PM THE FUTURE OF FIlM TECH

5:30PM NENA

5:00PM SUFFRAGETTE

5:30PM DHEEPAN

8:15PM AMAzING GRACE

8:30PM TBA

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18

90 min

5:00PM SUFFRAGETTE 106 min

8:15PM TBA

5:15PM SUFFRAGETTE 106 min

8:30PM TBA

81 min 92 min 94 min

121 min 123 min 106 min 87 min

82 min 97 min

109 min

97 min 82 min

8:15PM TBA

80 min

11:00AM THE DRESSMAKER

82 min

CINEMA

6:30PM BADDDDD SONIA SANCHEz

70 min

118 min

LARK

PANElS/ClASSES

105 min

90 min

5:15PM TIKKUN 120 min

8:15PM TBA

sweeTwaTer Oct 17 Doors 7:30pm | Show 8:30pm AMAzING GRACE GOSPEl SHOW

11:00AM THE AMAzING WIPlAlA 100 min

2:00PM THE SATEllITE GIRl AND MIlK COW 81 min

5:00PM RAMS 93 min

8:00PM AFERIM! 108 min

VENUES SAN RAFAEL

San Rafael

SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St GREEN CHILE KITCHEN 1335 Fourth St IL DAVIDE 901 A St TERRAPIN CROSSROADS 100 Yacht Club Dr VIN ANTICO 881 Fourth St

LARKSPUR CENTURY LARKSPUR 500 Larkspur Landing Cir FARMSHOP 2233 Larkspur Landing Circle LARK THEATER 549 Magnolia Ave

Larkspur

MARIN COUNTRY MART 2257 Larkspur Landing Circle

Corte Madera

CORTE MADERA CENTURY CINEMA 41 Tamal Vista Blvd IL FORNAIO Town Center Corte Madera

MILL VALLEY

Mill Valley

CINÉARTS SEQUOIA 25 Throckmorton Ave FRANTOIO RISTORANTE 152 Shoreline Hwy OUTDOOR ART CLUB 1 W Blithedale Ave PIZZA ANTICA 800 Redwood Hwy SWEETWATER MUSIC HALL & CAFE 19 Corte Madera Ave TAMALPIE 475 Miller Ave THROCKMORTON THEATRE 142 Throckmorton Ave ZENER SCHON GALLERY (Filmmaker Lounge) 23 Sunnyside

AND

San Francisco

TIBURON TAVERN 1651 Tiburon Blvd, Tiburon CAVALLO POINT 601 Murray Circle, Fort Baker, Sausalito

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