The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF), begins Thursday, January 24 and continues through Sunday, February 3, 2013, announced its film line-up for 2013.
SBIFF 2013 will kick off with the U.S. Premiere of Disconnect, directed by Henry-Alex Rubin and starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Paula Patton, Michael Nyqvist, Andrea Riseborough, Alexander Skarsgård and Max Thieriot. Disconnect holds a mirror up to our community and our obsession with all things technical. The story introduces us to a vast collection of characters: A lawyer, an estranged couple, a widowed ex-cop and an ambitious journalist who are all strangers, neighbors and colleagues whose stories collide in this compelling drama about ordinary people desperate for a human connection. Filmed with a somewhat voyeuristic style, Disconnect marks the first fiction feature from Henry-Alex Rubin, director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Murderball, from an original screenplay by Andrew Stern.
On Closing Night, SBIFF will present the U.S. Premiere of Wasteland, written and directed by Rowan Athale, marking his feature directing debut, and starring Matthew Lewis, Timothy Spall and Iwan Rheon. In this exhilarating heist thriller, a young ex-con hooks up with his best mates to embark on a wild — and risky — revenge scheme after being framed by a local drug kingpin.
SBIFF will present an International Gala Screening of Pablo Larraín’s film, “No,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The film, which is about an ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile’s 1988 referendum, was a favorite at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival and winner of their Art Cinema Award. Director Pablo Larraín and Gael Garcia Bernal will attend.
Below is the list of World and US Premiere films, followed by the list of titles by sidebar category.
WORLD PREMIERES
A Year in Burgundy USA
Directed by David Kennard
Cast: Martine Saunier
This documentary follows half a dozen wine makers in the Burgundy region of France for one full year, where the beautiful and traditional processes are revealed.
Blumenthal, USA
Directed by Seth Fisher
Cast: Seth Fisher, Brian Cox, Fred Melamed, Laila Robins, Mark Blum, Mei Melancon
Celebrated playwright, Harold Blumenthal, has passed away after succumbing to cardiac arrest while laughing at his own joke. Now, Harold’s estranged and jealous brother, Saul, must confront his personal hang-ups in order to deliver himself from an epic bout of constipation.
Crosstown, USA
Directed by Miriam Kruishoop
Cast: Manny Perez, Vivica A. Fox, Will Green, Noel Gugliemi, Paige Hurd
The promise of a better life is shattered when two families are confronted with the brutal reality of raising their children in Los Angeles. An undocumented immigrant family from El Salvador is forced to sign their 17 year-old son’s life away to the U.S. Military with the false promise of naturalization papers. The other family struggles to prevent a forbidden love affair between their Black teenage daughter and a recently initiated member of the local Salvadoran street gang.
Discovering Mavericks, USA
Directed by Joshua Pomer
Director Josh Pomer captures insider interviews and more than three decades of images and footage to tell the true story of California’s most famous, and notorious, big wave.
Driftwood, USA
Directed by Peter Trow, Jim Brewer
Cast: Shaun Tomson, Matt Becker, Genelle Ives, Joe Rowan, Sam George, Noah Yap, Ammy Naff, Jim Brewer
Narrated by surf legend Shaun Tomson, this beautiful and meditative stand-up paddle board excursion takes Sam George, Noah Yap, Ammy Naff and Jim Brewer through locations including Sri Lanka, Iceland, Colombia, USA, and Nova Scotia.
El Milagro, Spain
Directed by Salomón Shang
A Spanish film crew attempts to expose Peru’s El Milagro, where many children are forced to work in the local landfill amidst horrible health and environmental conditions.
Isolated, USA/UK
Directed by Justin Le Pera
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Travis Potter
Five world class surfers travel to the journalist dead zone of New Guinea in search of undiscovered waves and find more than they bargained for.
It’s Better to Jump, USA/Israel
Directed by Gina Angelone, Mouna B. Stewart, Patrick A. Stewart
It’s Better to Jump” is a feature-length documentary film that gives voice to the people of the ancient walled city of Akka as they and their city face a very uncertain future.
Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real, UK
Discovery Channel and NHK have joined forces to undertake the most ambitious search ever mounted to find the greatest mystery of the deep, the giant squid. With razor-toothed suckers and eyes the size of dinner plates, tales of the creature have been around since ancient times. The Norse legend of the sea monster the Kraken and the Scylla from Greek mythology might have derived from the giant squid. This massive predator has always been shrouded in secrecy, and every attempt to capture a live giant squid on camera in its natural habitat, considered by many to be the Holy Grail of natural history filmmaking, has failed. Until now.
Occupy the Movie, Canada
Directed by Corey Ogilvie
Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Tim Pool
This film sheds a light on a movement known as Occupy who stands against corporate greed. Beginning in 2011, it has quickly become the largest movement since those of the civil rights protests.
Retreat, Canada
Directed by David Cherniack
Cast: Alan Wallace
A documentary that follows the trials and tribulations of thirty-five Westerners as they go through an intense eight-week meditation retreat in Thailand led by Alan Wallace.
Sex After Kids, Canada
Directed by Jeremy Lalonde
Cast: Paul Amos, Shannon Meckner, Katie Boland, Kristin Booth, Jay Brazeau
An edgy ensemble comedy about the sexual exploits couples share in the aftermath of children.
Stable Life, USA
Directed by Sara MacPherson
A high-stakes documentary about family, immigration and the hardscrabble world of horse racing
The Signal Hill Speed Run,
Directed by Jon Carnoy, Michael Horelick
Featuring: Ben Harper (narrator)
Narrator Ben Harper explores the history of the world’s first skateboard contest and the subsequent evolution of the daredevil speed run in the small So Cal burg of Signal Hill.
U.S. PREMIERES
About 111 Girls (Darbare 111 Dokhtar), Iraq
Directed by Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zamanpira
Cast: Reza Behbudi, Mehdi Saki, Amin Sadeghi
The Iranian president receives a pleading letter from 111 Kurdish women complaining of their inability to find husbands, and says that if the government does nothing, they will commit mass suicide.
Alaska Sessions: Surfing The Last Frontier, Australia
Directed by Frederick Dickerson, Matthew McNeill
Featuring: Mike McCune, Scott Dickerson, Ice Man (Don McNamara), Stephanie Dickerson, Donna Rae Faulkner, Wendy Kinnier McCune
A Homer Alaska local sells his house and buys an old fishing boat to embark on an epic surf adventure up the isolated Alaskan coastline — in the dead of winter
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard, Australia
Directed by Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn
Cast: Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Nick Cave
From myth to legend Rowland Howard appeared on the early Melbourne punk scene like a phantom out of Kafkaesque Prague or Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A beautifully gaunt and gothic aristocrat, the unique distinctive fury of his guitar style shot him directly into the imagination of a generation.
Betrayal (Izmena), Russia
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Cast: Franziska Petri, Dejan Lilic
A man and a woman, two casual acquaintances, learn that their respective spouses are having an affair with each other in this intriguing drama.
Boucherie Halal, Canada
Directed by Babek Aliassa
Cast: Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Fariba Bonakdar, Karim Babin, Christine Aubin Khalifah
A Muslim couple opens a butcher shop in Montreal and wishes to successfully integrate into Quebec society. But the butcher’s father is an imam who sets up a little mosque in the back room and uses it to spread his fundamentalist views. When he is arrested by the RCMP on suspicions of past terrorist activities, his son, torn between love for his wife and allegiance to his father, gets involved in a plot to free him. Fed up by her husband’s unwillingness to stand up to his father’s wishes, the butcher’s wife leaves to live a more fulfilling life away from the muslim community.
Broken, UK
Directed by Rufus Norris
Cast: Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear
Skunk is only 11, but after witnessing a brutal beating, her childhood innocence gives way to fear and danger.
Chaika, Russia/Georgia/Spain/Kazakhstan
Directed by Miguel Ángel Jiminez
Cast: Salome Demuria, Gio Gabunia
A love story between a prostitute and a sailor, reconstructed between two long seasons: the eternal winter of Siberia and summer in the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan.
Chocó, Colombia
Directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza
Cast: Esteban Copete, Karent Hinestroza
A young, displaced black woman tries to maintain her two children and her husband, a musician who only knows how to play marimba, drink, and gamble.
Danube – Europe’s Amazon, Germany
Directed by Rita & Michael Schlamberger
Romantic coasts and unspoiled nature: the Danube fascinates. It dominates the landscape wherever it flows. The Danube unites and separates at the same time. In the Roman Empire – from its source to its estuary – it formed the frontier to the peoples of the North. Today the big stream flows through ten countries. 1071 kilometres of the Danube still represent national borders.
Family Meals, Croatia
Directed by Dana Budisavljevic
Through the ritual of family meals, the film talks about the importance of feeling accepted by the ones we love.
Fly With The Crane, China
Directed by Li Ruijun
Cast: Xingchun Ma, Long Tang, Siyi Wang
Serenely resigned to his impending death but deeply afraid at the prospect of being cremated, an elderly carpenter seeks to have his last wishes carried out in this gentle, beautifully realized drama from director Li Ruijun
Handmade Cinema, Italy
Directed by Guido Torlonia
Featuring: Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Millenotti, Gabriella Pescucci
Turning an actor into a character, sewing a precious dress or an antique pair of shoes as if they were art works, building a set but most of all painting it, aging it and making the stage designer’s sketch a beautiful reconstruction all this is Handmade Cinema.
High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau, Canada
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan
Featuring: Isaac Sobol
On a doctor’s philanthropic journey to give to the people of Tibet, he receives more than he could ever imagine.
Jackie, Netherlands
Directed by Antoinette Beumer
Cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter
Dutch twin sisters travel to America to help the mother (Holly Hunter) they have never met in this heartwarming, cross-cultural take on the classic American road movie.
Motorway, Hong Kong
Directed by Pou-Soi Cheang
Cast: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Shawn Yue
A young cop on Hong Kong’s top-secret, high-speed pursuit squad must learn the tricks of the trade from a grizzled veteran as he prepares to capture a legendary getaway driver in this high-octane thriller from action auteur Soi Cheang and legendary producer Johnnie To.
My Awkward Sexual Adventure, Canada
Directed by Sean Garrity
Cast: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Vik Sahay
A sexually inept accountant strikes a deal with a worldly but disorganized stripper: he’ll help her with her crushing debt if she helps him become a better lover.
Old Stock, Canada
Directed by James Genn
Cast: Noah Reid, Melanie Leishman
Stock Burton (Noah Reid) is a local legend. A monumental event from his past has frozen
him, sent his family into a tailspin and pitted his small town against him. Now he’s simply chosen to drop out of life and ‘retire’, joining his recently separated Grandfather, Harold, (Jack Daniel Wells) at the Golden Seasons senior’s home, where life is safe, comfortable and worry free.
One Mile Above, China/Taiwan
Directed by Jiayi Du
A young man’s cycle journey to the highest point in Tibet to fulfill his brother’s final wish. Based on a true story.
Perú Sabe: Cuisine as an Agent of Social Change, Perú
Directed by Jesús M. Santos
Featuring: Gaston Acurio, Ferran Adriá
Ferran Adrià, one of the world’s most prestigious chefs, and Gastón Acurio, Latin America’s most influential chef, explore the roots of Peruvian cuisine and its potential to change lives.
Queen of Montreuil, France
Directed by Sólveing Anspach
Cast: Florence Loiret Caille, Eric Caruso
It’s early summer and Agathe is back in France, at home in Montreuil. She has to get over her husband’s death and return to her work as a film director. The unexpected arrival at her house of a couple of Icelanders, a sea lion and a neighbor that she has always desired yet never vanquished will give Agathe the strength to get her life back on track…
Revolution, Canada
Directed by Rob Stewart
Featuring: Rob Stewart, David Hannan, Boris Worm, Emily Hunter, Felix Finkbeiner
REVOLUTION is a film about changing the world, going for it, taking a stand, and fighting for something. A true-life adventure following Director, Rob Stewart (SHARKWATER) over four years and 15 countries discovering there is a lot more than sharks at risk of becoming extinct. Climate change, environmental degradation, species loss, ocean acidification, pollution, and food/water scarcity are reducing the earth’s ability to house humans and we need to start doing something about it now!
Storm Surfers 3D, Australia
Directed by Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius
Featuring: Tom Carroll, Ben Matson
This 3D cinematic adventure follows two of Australia’s greatest surf legends on their quest to hunt down and ride the Pacific’s biggest and most dangerous waves.
The Ballad of The Weeping Springs (Balada le’aviv ha’bohe), Israel
Directed by Benny Toraty
Cast: Yigal Adika, Lirit Balaban, Asher Dagan, Yonatan Dani, Peri Bar Delshdefer
Amram, the son of Avraham Mufredi, turns up at the house of the legendary Persian tar (lute) player, Yosef Tawilla. Amram gives him the score of a work that his father, a member of Tawilla’s ensemble and his partner, wants to see performed before his impending death.
The Body, Spain
Directed by Oriol Paulo
Cast: José Coronado, Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva, Aura Garrido
A woman’s body vanishes from the morgue in mysterious circumstances. In the course of a single night, Inspector Jaime Peña investigates the disappearance with the help of her widower.
The Dealers, Israel
Directed by Oded Davidoff
Cast: Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ashkenazi, Rami Davidoff, Abdallah El Akal
The story of Rami and Avishay, 27 years old friends that share an apartment in a small Jerusalem neighborhood. They spend their days smoking and playing in a soccer team with other losers, which its coach Zvika is determined to take the “Jerusalem neighborhood cup” with. In need for money they get entangled in a drug deal with Sagi, a local gangster, which forces them to learn the hard way about taking responsibility, loyalty, and friendship. The movie is a humorous view of the colorful, multi culture, unique and somehow funny Israeli society.
The Deflowering of Eva Von End, Netherlands
Directed by Michiel ten Horn
Cast: Vivian Dierickx, Rafael Gareisen
The outcast in her middle-class family, Eva’s life is turned upside down by the arrival of a handsome German exchange student in this satire of petit-bourgeois family life.
The Invisible String, Germany/USA/Japan/Italy
Directed by Jan Bäss
Featuring: Chipper ‘Bro’ Bell, ‘Crazy’ John Brooks
Focusing on the 1970s and ‘80s, including vintage footage from Santa Barbara, this German documentary traces the rise in popularity of Frisbee contests, games and acrobatic exhibitions.
The Night Parade, France
Directed by Geraldine Maillet
Cast: Julie Gayet, Raphaël Peronnaz, Brisa Roché, Bakari Sangaré, Françoise Lebrun
Paris – One night. A woman and a man meet in a restaurant. Sheis beautiful. He falls for her. She is shy, he is bewitched. He talks, she is cautious. He tries, she avoids. She hesitates, he insists. An intense relationship starts then. During the night, masks fall off and the seduction game gives in to sincere feelings. Will this love last over a night ?
The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas), Mexico
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Cast: Greisy Mena, Fernando Moreno
Honduran teenager Sabina Rivas intends to get to the United States, harboring dreams of becoming a famous singer and distancing herself from her former lover, Jovany, now a gang member.
The Silent War, Hong Kong/China
Directed by Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Cast: Xun Zhou, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mavis Fan, Xuebing Wang, Yong Dong, Lap-Man Sin
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel “Year Suan/Plot Against” by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Wasteland, UK
Directed by Rowan Athale
Cast: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon
In this exhilarating heist thriller, a young ex-con hooks up with his best mates to embark on a wild — and risky — revenge scheme after being framed by a local drug kingpin.
Water, Israel
Directed by Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi, Mohammad Fuad, Tal Haring, Yona Rozenkier, Nir Saar, Maya Sarfaty, Pini Tavger
Nine directors, Israeli and Palestinian, embarked on a journey to create short films, fiction or documentary, inspired by Water. Water symbolizes the source of possibilities, the primal core of all things.
COMPETITION CATEGORIES
INDEPENDENT FEATURES
Competition
Babygirl, USA/Ireland – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Macdara Vallely
Cast: Yainis Ynoa, Rosa Arredondo, Flaco Navaja
Blumenthal, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Seth Fisher
Cast: Seth Fisher, Brian Cox, Fred Melamed, Laila Robins, Mark Blum, Mei Melancon
Broken, UK – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Rufus Norris
Cast: Tim Roth, Cillian Murphy, Rory Kinnear
Crosstown, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Miriam Kruishoop
Cast: Manny Perez, Vivica A. Fox, Will Green, Noel Gugliemi, Paige Hurd
Jackie, Netherlands – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Antoinette Beumer
Cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter
My Awkward Sexual Adventure, Canada – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Sean Garrity
Cast: Jonas Chernick, Emily Hampshire, Vik Sahay
Old Stock, Canada – U.S. Premiere
Directed by James Genn
Cast: Noah Reid, Melanie Leishman
Sex After Kids, Canada – World Premiere
Directed by Jeremy Lalonde
Cast: Paul Amos, Shannon Meckner, Katie Boland, Kristin Booth, Jay Brazeau
The Discoverers, USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Justin Schwarz
Cast: Griffin Dunne, Dreama Walker, John C. McGinley
Wasteland, UK – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Rowan Athale
Cast: Matthew Lewis, Iwan Rheon
INTERNATIONAL FEATURES
Competition
About 111 Girls (Darbare 111 Dokhtar), Iraq – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Nahid Ghobadi, Bijan Zamanpira
Cast: Reza Behbudi, Mehdi Saki, Amin Sadeghi
Betrayal (Izmena), Russia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Kirill Serebrennikov
Cast: Franziska Petri, Dejan Lilic
Boucherie Halal, Canada – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Babek Aliassa
Cast: Abdelghafour Elaaziz, Fariba Bonakdar, Karim Babin, Christine Aubin Khalifah
Chaika, Russia/Georgia/Spain/Kazakhstan – U.S, Premiere
Directed by Miguel Ángel Jiminez
Cast: Salome Demuria, Gio Gabunia
Coming of Age (Anfang 80), Austria – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Gerhard Ertl, Sabine Hiebler
Cast: Christine Ostermayer, Karl Merkatz
Gangs of Wasseypur, India – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Anurag Kashyap
Cast: Manoj Bajpayee, Piyush Mishra, Remma Sen, Jaideep Ahlawat, Zeishan Quadri, Pankaj Tripathi
The Deflowering of Eva Von End, Netherlands – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Michiel ten Horn
Cast: Vivian Dierickx, Rafael Gareisen
The Night Parade, France – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Geraldine Maillet
Water, Israel – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi, Mohammad Fuad, Tal Haring, Yona Rozenkier, Nir Saar, Maya Sarfaty, Pini Tavger
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
Competition
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard, Australia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn
Featuring: Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Nick Cave
Blood Brother, USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Steve Hoover
Featuring: Steve Hoover, Rocky Braat
Buzkashi!, Canada – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Najeeb Mirza
Handmade Cinema, Italy – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Guido Torlonia
Featuring: Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Maurizio Millenotti, Gabriella Pescucci
Men at Lunch, Ireland – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Seán Ó Cualáin
More Than Honey, Switzerland/Germany
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Featuring: Fred Jaggi, John Miller, Liane Singer
Radioman, UK – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Mary Kerr
Featuring: Josh Brolin, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Eva Mendes, Helen Mirren, Sting, Craig Castaldo, Meryl Streep
Rising From Ashes, USA/Rwanda/UK/South Africa
Directed by T. C. Johnstone
Featuring: Forest Whitaker
Somm, USA
Directed by Jason Wise
Featuring: Bo Barrett, Shayn Bjornholm
The Mosuo Sisters, USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Marlo Poras
SPANISH/LATIN AMERICA CINEMA
Competition
7 Boxes, Paraguay
Directed by Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana Schembori
Cast: Celso Franco, Victor Sosa, Lali González, Nico García, Paletita, Manuel Portillo
After Lucia (Después De Lucia), Mexico
Directed by Michel Franco
Cast: Tessa La, Gonzalo Vega Jr., Tamara Yazbek, Hernán Mendoza
Chocó, Colombia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Jhonny Hendrix Hinestroza
Cast: Esteban Copete, Karent Hinestroza
Clandestine Childhood, Argentina/Spain/Brazil
Directed by Benjamin Ávila
Cast: Teo Gutiérrez Moreno, César Troncoso
La Sirga, Colombia/France/Mexico – West Coast Premiere
Directed by William Vega
Cast: Floralba Achicanoy, Joghis Seudin Arias
Once Upon a Time Was I, Veronica, Brazil/France – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Marcelo Gomes
Cast: Hermila Guedes, Maeve Jinkings
The Body, Spain – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Oriol Paulo
Cast: José Coronado, Belén Rueda, Hugo Silva, Aura Garrido
The Passion of Michelangelo, Chile
Directed by Esteban Larraín
Cast: Sebastián Ayala, Claudia Celedón
The Precocious and Brief Life of Sabina Rivas (La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas), Mexico – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Luis Mandoki
Cast: Greisy Mena, Fernando Moreno
FUND FOR SANTA BARBARA SOCIAL JUSTICE
Competition
Art of Conflict, Ireland/USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Valeri Vaughn
Featuring: Vince Vaughn (narrator)
El Milagro, Spain – World Premiere
Directed by Salomón Shang
High Plains Doctor: Healing on the Tibetan Plateau, Canada – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Michael Oved Dayan
Featuring: Isaac Sobol
It’s Better to Jump, USA/Israel – World Premiere
Directed by Gina Angelone, Mouna B. Stewart, Patrick A. Stewart
Musicwood, USA/Madagascar – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Maxine Trump
Featuring: Kaki King, Yo La Tengo
Occupy the Movie, Canada – World Premiere
Directed by Corey Ogilvie
Featuring: Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, Tim Pool
Revolution, Canada – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Rob Stewart
Featuring: Rob Stewart, David Hannan, Boris Worm, Emily Hunter, Felix Finkbeiner
Stable Life, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Sara MacPherson
The World Before Her, Canada
Directed by Nisha Pahuja
Featuring: Pooja Chopra, Marc Robinson, Ankita Shorey, Ruhi Singh, Prachi Trivedi
SHORT FILMS
Competition
Born Yesterday, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Nate Larkin-Conolly
Cast: Alex Creasia, Maggie Lyons, and Ari Costa
Buzkashi Boys, Afghanistan/USA
Directed by Sam French
Cast: Jawanmard Paiz, Wali Talash, and Fawad Mohammadi
Byron’s Theme, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Bennett Barbakow
Cast: Bennett Barbakow, Max Marbakow, Grace Jackson, Nick Lentz, and Myles Pettengill
Dog Eat Dog, USA
Directed by Sian Heder
Cast: Sean Akers, Ellie Smith, and Sian Heder
F**k The Parents, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Ethan Kuperberg
Cast: Alexandra Barreto, Jill Soloway, and Robin Ruzan
Night Shift, New Zealand
Directed by Zia Mandviwalla
Cast: Anapela Polataivao and Leon Dobrinski
NSFW, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Joseph Armario
Cast: Ben York Jones, Jenny Hou
The Interrogation, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Drew Mylrea
Cast: Loren Lester, Caleb Thomas, Carrie Wampler
The Op Shop, Australia
Directed by Lee Rogers
Cast: Christopher Gist, Lee Rogers, and Paul Kooperman
The Other Side, Israel
Directed by Khen Shalem
Cast: David Fuerstein and Hanan Yehieli
The Tea Party, USA
Directed by Serena Reeder
Cast: Bonnie Loev, Carol Fritz, Angela Buckery, and Anthony Riley
The Test, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Anthony DiBlasi
Cast: Lauren Bowles, and Patrick Fischler
Tiger Boy, Italy- US Premiere
Directed by Gabriele Mainetti
Cast: Francesco Foti, Lidia Vitale, and Simone Santini
ANIMATED SHORTS
Competition
Butterflies, Australia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Isabel Peppard
Cast: Rachel Griffiths, Nicholas Hope, Henry Nixon, Honey Spence
Cicada Princess, USA
Directed by Mauricio Baiocchi
Cast: Stephen Fry
Head Over Heels, UK
Directed by Timothy Reckart
Cast: Nigel Anthony and Ruth Rayyah McCaul
Oh Willy…, Belgium
Directed by Emma De Swaef and Marc Roels
Old Man, USA
Directed by Leah Shore
Cast: Charles Manson and Marlin Marynick
Sleight of Hand, Australia
Directed by Michael Cusack
Yellow Stick Notes| Canadian Anijam, Canada- World Premiere
Directed by Jeff Chiba Stearns
Cast: Marv Newland, Cordell Barker, Chris Hinton, Alison Snowden, David Fine, Janet Pearlman, and Paul Driessen
KOLNOA SHORTS
Competition
Barriers, Israel
Directed by Golan Rise
The Other Side, Israel
Directed by Khen Shalem
Cast: David Fuerstein and Hanan Yehieli
Wherever You Go, Israel- US Premiere
Directed by Ronny Sasson Angel
NON-COMPETITION FILMS
APPLEBOX
Brave 3D
Directed by Mark Andrews, Brenda Chapman, Steve Purcell
Cast: Kelly Macdonald, Billy Connolly, Emma Thompson
Frankenweenie 3D
Directed by Tim Burton
Cast: Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short
ParaNorman 3D
Directed by Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Wreck It Ralph 3D
Directed by Rich Moore
Cast: John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch
CINESONIC
Autoluminescent: Rowland S. Howard, Australia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Richard Lowenstein, Lynn-Maree Milburn
Cast: Rowland S. Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Nick Cave
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation, Canada – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Laura Archibald
Featuring: Oscar Brand, Judy Collins, Tom Chapin, Kris Kristofferson
Harana, Phillippines/USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Benito Bautista
Featuring: Florante Aguilar, Celestino Aniel
In Search of Blind Joe Death: The Saga of John Fahey, Canada
Directed by James Cullingham
One Track Heart, USA/India – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Jeremy Frindel
Cast: Rick Rubin, Jason Becker, Ram Dass, Krishna Das
Punk in Africa, South Africa/Czech Republic/Zimbabwe/Mozambique – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Keith Jones, Deon Maas
Featuring: Paulo Chibanga, Michael Fleck, Ivan Kadey, Ruben Rose, Warwick Sony
KOLNOA
Hannah Arendt, Germany/Luxembourg/France
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg
Out in the Dark, Israel/USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Michael Mayer
Cast: Nicholas Jacob, Michael Aloni, Jameel Khouri, Alon Pdut
The Ballad of The Weeping Spring (Balada le’aviv ha’bohe), Israel – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Benny Toraty
Cast: Yigal Adika, Lirit Balaban, Asher Dagan, Yonatan Dani, Peri Bar Delshdefer
The Dealers, Israel – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Oded Davidoff
Cast: Alon Aboutboul, Moshe Ashkenazi, Rami Davidoff, Abdallah El Akal
Water, Israel – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Mohammad Bakri, Ahmad Bargouthi, Mohammad Fuad, Tal Haring, Yona Rozenkier, Nir Saar, Maya Sarfaty, Pini Tavger
PAN ASIA
Fly With The Crane, China – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Li Ruijun
Cast: Xingchun Ma, Long Tang, Siyi Wang
Motorway, Hong Kong – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Pou-Soi Cheang
Cast: Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Shawn Yue
One Mile Above, China/Taiwan – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Jiayi Du
Pieta, South Korea
Directed by Ki-duk Kim
Cast: Jeong-jin Lee, Min-soo Jo
The Mosuo Sisters, USA – West Coast Premiere
Directed by Marlo Poras
The Silent War, Hong Kong/China – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Cast: Xun Zhou, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Mavis Fan, Xuebing Wang, Yong Dong, Lap-Man Sin
REEL NATURE
10 Deadliest Sharks, USA
Directed by Moira Mann
Danube – Europe’s Amazon, Germany
Directed by Rita & Michael Schlamberger
Elephant Whisperer, Iceland
Directed by Jóhann Sigfússon
Featuring: Katherine Wogan (Narrator)
Hawaii: Islands of the Fire Goddess, UK
Directed by Michael deGruy
Incredible Suckers, USA
Directed by Michael deGruy
Featuring: Michael deGruy, Bruce Robison
Monster Squid: The Giant Squid Is Real, UK
Tempest From The Deep, USA
Directed by Michael deGruy
The Octopus Show, USA
Directed by Michael deGruy
Featuring: Shari Belafonte, Michael deGruy
SANTA BARBARA FILMMAKERS
Charles Lloyd, Arrows Into Infinity, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Dorothy Darr, Jeffery Morse
Mommy, I’m A Basterd!, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Max Barbakow
Featuring: Margo Barbakow, Bennett Barbakow, Jeff Barbakow, Wendy Reynolds, Lynn Reynolds, William Bradford Reynolds, Bobbi Smith
The Condor’s Shadow, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Jeff Mcloughlin
The Racket Boys, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Brandon Willer
Cast: Paul Haapaniemi, Dannikke Walkker, Brandon Willer
The Santa Ynez River Wilderness, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Michael James Love
SCREEN CUISINE
A Year in Burgundy USA – World Premiere
Directed by David Kennard
Cast: Martine Saunier
Family Meals, Croatia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Dana Budisavljevic
More Than Honey, Switzerland/Germany/Austria
Directed by Markus Imhoof
Cast: Fred Jaggi, John Miller, Liane Singer
Perú Sabe: Cuisine as an Agent of Social Change, Perú – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Jesús M. Santos
Featuring: Gaston Acurio, Ferran Adriá
Somm, USA
Directed by Jason Wise
Featuring: Bo Barrett, Shayn Bjornholm
Spinning Plates, USA
Directed by Joseph Levy
Cast: Grant Achatz, Thomas Keller
SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Barbara, Germany
Directed by Christian Petzold
Cast: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld
Bound by Flesh, USA
Directed by Leslie Zemeckis
Featuring Lea Thompson, Nancy Allen
Caesar Must Die, Italy
Directed by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
In The Shadow, Czech Republic/Slovakia/Poland
Directed by David Ondricek
Kon-Tiki, UK/Norway/Denmark
Directed by Joachim Renning, Espen Sandberg
Cast: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Laurence Anyways, Canada/France
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Cast: Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément, Nathalie Baye
Modest Reception (Paziraie sadeh), Iran
Directed by Mani Haghighi
Cast: Taraneh Alidoosti, Mani Haghighi, Saeed Changizian, Esmaeel Khalaj, Saber Abbar
No, Chile/France/USA – West Coast Premiere / International Gala
Directed by Pablo Larraín
Cast: Gael García Bernal
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself, USA
Directed by Tom Bean, Luke Poling
Cast: Ken Burns, Ric Burns
Queen of Montreuil, France – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Sólveing Anspach
Cast: Florence Loiret Caille, Eric Caruso
Retreat, Canada – World Premiere
Directed by David Cherniack
Cast: Alan Wallace
A documentary that follows the trials and tribulations of thirty-five Westerners as they go through an intense eight-week meditation retreat in Thailand.
Sister, France/Switzerland
Directed by Ursula Meier
Cast: Léa Seydoux, Martin Compston
The Sapphires, Australia
Directed by Wayne Blair
Cast: Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy
TO THE MAXXX
Alaska Sessions: Surfing The Last Frontier, Australia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Frederick Dickerson, Matthew McNeill
Featuring: Mike McCune, Scott Dickerson, Ice Man (Don McNamara), Stephanie Dickerson, Donna Rae Faulkner, Wendy Kinnier McCune
Discovering Mavericks, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Joshua Pomer
Driftwood, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Peter Trow, Jim Brewer
Cast: Shaun Tomson, Matt Becker, Genelle Ives, Joe Rowan, Sam George, Noah Yap, Ammy Naff, Jim Brewer
Isolated, USA/UK – World Premiere
Directed by Justin Le Pera
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Travis Potter
Storm Surfers 3D, Australia – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Justin McMillan, Chris Nelius
Featuring: Tom Carroll, Ben Matson
The Invisible String, Germany/USA/Japan/Italy – U.S. Premiere
Directed by Jan Bäss
Featuring: Chipper ‘Bro’ Bell, ‘Crazy’ John Brooks
The Signal Hill Speed Run, USA – World Premiere
Directed by Jon Carnoy, Michael Horelick
WARNERS ARCHIVE
Dial M For Murder
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly
Singin’ in the Rain
Directed by Stanley Donen
Cast: Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O’Connor
The Shining
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
SHORT FILMS
Documentary Shorts:
Brute Force, USA
Directed by Ben Steinbauer
Cast: Brute Force
Georgena Terry, USA
Directed by Amanda Zackem
Cast: Georgena Terry
Jujitsuing Reality, USA
Directed by Chetin Chabuk
Cast: Scott Lew
Just Add Water, Thailand- US Premiere
Directed by Franck Janin and Luc Janin
Mr. Twister- USA- World Premiere
Directed by Clay Westervelt
Cast: Brian Tolley
The Art of Boxing, USA- US Premiere
Directed by Andrew Flakelar
Cast: Newton Kidd
The Bronzer, USA
Directed by Peyton Wilson
SANTA BARBARA FILMMAKERS
SB Short Films:
A Tiny Portal, USA
Directed by Stephanie Gumpel
Cast: Stephanie Gumpel, Ann Benson, Richard Riehle, and Alan Collett
Jack, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Grace Jackson
Cast: Jack English
Memorial, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Jason Hallows
Cast: Tony Alvarez, Sarah Prikryl, Melody Zara, and Craig Welzbacher
Ride, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Chris Yasko
Cast: Seinn Schlidt
The Condition, USA
Directed by René Caballero
Cast: Brett Sherry, Aleksandr Filen, Kelly Wood, Kelly Decker, Marianne Madsen, and Matt Dumont
The Chef at the Little Washington, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Michael Pyon
Cast: Patrick O’Connell
The Meter, USA- World Premiere
Directed by Roy Hathon
Cast: Patrick Hubbard, Kevin Saunders
This is Caroline, USA
Directed by Danny Abel
Cast: Hannah Pearl Utt, Blake Berris, Zoe Farmingdale, and Leora Kalish
YOUTH CINEMEDIA
Baba Uncensored, USA
Cosmic Warrior: A Journey from LA to Albuquerque, USA
In the Studio with Nani Chacon, USA
LA Freeway Kids: the Restoration of an Olympic Mural, USA
Mictlan Murals in Boyle Heights, USA
Rhythmetik’s First Time: the making of a music video, USA
Santa Clara Pueblo, USA
The Crenshaw Wall with King CRE8, USA
Undocubus Puganini Po’kwin, USA
Willie F. Herrón III, USA
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