Monday, March 5 10:00AM – 11:40AM WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (100 min) – MOMA 12PM – 1:40PM THE RAID: REDEMPTION (100 min) – MOMA
Tuesday, March 6 10:00AM – 11:44AM GOODBYE (104 min) – MOMA 12PM – 1:35PM AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY (90 min) – MOMA
Wednesday, March 7 10:00AM – 11:25AM OMAR KILLED ME (85 min) – MOMA 11:45AM – 1:06PM GIMME THE LOOT (81 min) – MOMA
Thursday, March 8 10:00AM – 11:13AM CRULIC (73 min) – MOMA 11:30AM – 12:50PM HEMEL (80 min) – MOMA 1:15PM – 3:10PM THE MINISTER (115 min) – MOMA Friday, March 9 10:00AM – 11:25AM LAS ACACIAS (85 min) – MOMA 11:45AM – 1:40PM ROMANCE JOE (115 min) – MOMA
Monday, March 12 10:00AM – 11:29AM THE RABBI’S CAT (89 min) – WRT 11:45AM – 1:49PM NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (124 min) – WRT 2:30PM – 4:19PM HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (109 min)– WRT
Tuesday, March 13 10:00AM – 11:38AM FOUND MEMORIES (98 min) – WRT 12PM – 1:30PM 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (90 min) – WRT 1:45PM – 3:18PM NOW, FORAGER (93 min) – WRT 3:45PM – 5:09PM SHORTS PROGRAM #1 (84 min) – WRT
Wednesday, March 14 10:00Am – 11:30AM HUAN HUAN (90 min) – WRT 11:45AM – 1:21PM OSLO, AUGUST 31st(96 min) – WRT
Thursday, March 15 10:00AM – 11:30AM BREATHING (90 min) – WRT 11:45AM – 1:02PM IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE (77 min) – WRT
Friday, March 16 10:00AM – 11:32AM TEDDY BEAR (92 min) – WRT 11:45AM – 12:57PM FEAR AND DESIRE (72 min) – WRT
Monday, March 19 10:00AM – 11:56AM GENERATION P (112 min) – MOMA 12:15PM – 2:28PM DONOMA (135 min) – MOMA
Tuesday, March 20 10AM – 11:45AM TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (105 min) – MOMA 12PM – 1:34PM THE AMBASSADOR (93 min) – MOMA
Wednesday, March 21 10AM – 11:41AM PORFIRIO (106 min) – MOMA 12PM – 1:36PM SHORTS PROGRAM #2 (96 min) – MOMA
Press screening schedule with blurbs of the films added:
Monday, March 5 10:00AM – 11:40AM WHERE DO WE GO NOW? (100 min) – MOMA Director: Nadine Labaki Countries: France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt Labaki’s film focuses on a group of women of different religions in a remote Lebanese village A Sony Pictures Classics Release. 12PM – 1:40PM THE RAID: REDEMPTION (100 min) – MOMA Director: Gareth Huw Evans Countries: Indonesia/USA In Gareth Huw Evans’ sensational thriller, THE RAID, a police SWAT team storms a housing project ruled by gangsters A Sony Pictures Classics release.
Tuesday, March 6 10:00AM – 11:44AM GOODBYE (Bé omid é didar, 2011, 104min – MOMA Director: Mohammad Rasoulof. Country: Iran A dramatic and tense tale set in Tehran, where a young woman is desperately attempting to acquire a visa to leave the country. 12PM – 1:35PM AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY (90 min) – MOMA Directed by Terence Nance Country: USA [/B] Frank, funny, and bracingly contemporary, visual artist Terence Nance gleefully bends the cinematic rules for his personal meditation on love in the new millennium with his film.
Wednesday, March 7 10:00AM – 11:25AM OMAR KILLED ME (Omar m’a tuer, 2011, 85min) – MOMA Director: Roschdy Zem Country: France Actor-turned-director Roschdy Zem’s OMAR KILLED ME tells a story of racism, politics, and injustice with the clarity of a documentary and the pacing of a thriller. 11:45AM – 1:06PM GIMME THE LOOT (2012, 81 min) – MOMA Director: Adam Leon Country: USA In his feature film debut, Adam Leon has created a raucous, car-less road trip that is an homage to street-smart kids and New York City.
Thursday, March 8 10:00AM – 11:13AM CRULIC (2011, 73 min) – MOMA Director: Anca Damian Country: Romania Anca Damian’s documentary about a young Romanian’s hunger strike in a Polish jail. 11:30AM – 12:50PM HEMEL (2011,80 min) – MOMA Director: Sacha Polak Country: The Netherlands/Spain Sacha Polak’s HEMEL features Hannah Hoekstra as a strong-willed, complicated, and vulnerable heroine who longs to connect with her elusive father. 1:15PM – 3:10PM THE MINISTER (L’exercice de l’État), 2011, 115 min) – MOMA Director: Pierre Schöller Country: France Pierre Schöller’s political thriller focuses on a cabinet minister (Olivier Gourmet) in charge of national transportation.
Friday, March 9 10:00AM – 11:25AM LAS ACACIAS (85 min) – MOMA Director: Pablo Giorgelli Country: Argentina One of the discoveries of the 2011 Cannes Critics Week, Pablo Giogelli’s road movie with a difference takes a 900-mile trip from Asunción in Paraguay to Buenos Aires in the company of Rubén, a gruff, taciturn truck driver. 11:45AM – 1:40PM ROMANCE JOE (115 min) – MOMA ROMANCE JOE (Ro-maen-seu Jo ) (2011) 115min Director: Lee Kwang-Kuk Country: South Korea In his playful first feature, Lee Kwang-Kuk expertly weaves several narrative strands into an elegant web and a meditation on storytelling. A teasing and pleasing portrait of a filmmaker in search of a story to tell.
Monday, March 12 10:00AM – 11:29AM THE RABBI’S CAT ((Le chat du rabbin, 2011)89 min) – WRT Director: Antoine Delesvaux Countries: France/Austria Adapted from the graphic novels by Joanne Sfar, THE RABBI’S CAT is a vivid, lively, and imaginative animated film co-directed by Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux . Set in 1920’s Algiers. 11:45AM – 1:49PM NEIGHBORING SOUNDS (O som ao redor, 2011, 124min – WRT Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho Country: Brazil A thrilling debut from a breakout talent, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s NEIGHBORING SOUNDS delves into the lives of a group of prosperous middle-class families residing on a quiet street, close to a low-income neighborhood. A private security firm hired to police the street becomes the catalyst for an exploration of the neighbors’ discontents and anxieties. 2:30PM – 4:19PM HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (2012, 109 min)– WRT Director: David France Country: USA David France’s immersive moving-image document chronicling the rise of AIDS activism shows a movement though the lenses of those who captured it firsthand. A Sundance Selects release.
Tuesday, March 13 10:00AM – 11:38AM FOUND MEMORIES (Historias Que So Existem Quando Lembradas) (2011) 98min – WRT Director: Julia Murat Country: Brazil Julia Murat's poetic rendering of the fictive town of Jotuomba. The visit of Rita, a young photographer, to this place where time has seemingly stood still and life is rooted in the fixed roles of tradition soon to be rendered obsolete. A Film Movement release. 12PM – 1:30PM 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (90 min) – WRT 1:45PM – 3:18PM NOW, FORAGER (93 min) – WRT 5 BROKEN CAMERAS (2011) 90min Directors: Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Countries: Palestine/Israel/France Emad Burnat’s and Guy Davidi’s documentary began five years ago in the Palestinian town of Bil’in when Burnat bought a camera to record the birth of his son Gibreel. A Kino Lorber release. 3:45PM – 5:09PM SHORTS PROGRAM #1 (84 min) – WRT
Wednesday, March 14 10:00Am – 11:30AM HUAN HUAN (2011) 90min – WRT Director: Song Chuan Country: China Song Chuan’s first feature captures the dreams and desires, disappointments and regrets, of a life not fully lived via the title character in a rural Chinese village. 11:45AM – 1:21PM OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (2011) 96min – WRT Director: Joachim Trier Country: Norway Daylight lingers at the end of August in Oslo, but sunlight is not a friend to Anders, a semi-recovered addict, facing a new life, which may not be appealing without former habits. Adapted from the same novel as Louis Malle's THE FIRE WITHIN.
Thursday, March 15 10:00AM – 11:30AM BREATHING ( (Atmen) (2011, 90 min) – WRT Director: Karl Markovics Country: Austria[/B] The remarkably assured directorial debut from veteran Austrian actor Karl Markovics (THE COUNTERFEITERS) tells the story of an inmate at a juvenile detention center whose last hope of parole rests on his ability to hold down a job...as a morgue assistant. A Kino Lorber release. 11:45AM – 1:02PM IT LOOKS PRETTY FROM A DISTANCE (Z daleka widok jest piekny) (2011) 77min – WRT Directors: Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal Country: Poland Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal’s film is set in a Polish village effectively cut off from civilization, where rough and impassive Pawel makes a living scavenging for scrap metal. A brooding, almost wordless drama vision of a world in an advanced state of entropy.
Friday, March 16 10:00AM – 11:32AM TEDDY BEAR (2012, 92 min) – WRT Director: Mads Matthiesen Country: Denmark Mads Matthiesen's character-based and understated comedy, TEDDY BEAR tells the story of a gentle giant of a body builder. 11:45AM – 12:57PM FEAR AND DESIRE (1953, 72 min) – WRT Director: Stanley Kubrick Country: USA Directed, photographed, and edited by the talented and ambitious 24-year-old Kubrick, FEAR AND DESIRE was written by his high school classmate, Howard Sackler A Kino Lorber release.
Monday, March 19 10:00AM – 11:56AM GENERATION P (2011, 116 min) – MOMA Director: Victor Ginzburg Country: Russia The film offers a “view” of postCommunist Russia as the arrival of democracy and Pepsi-Cola brought the advance of capitalism with all of its mechanisms and fuzzy messages. 12:15PM – 2:28PM DONOMA (2011, 135 min) – MOMA Directed by Djinn Carrénard Country: France Rumored to have been shot for about $200, DONOMA is a choral piece that chronicles the romantic destinies of three women, offering a fresh, funny portrait of an emerging French generation.
Tuesday, March 20 10AM – 11:45AM TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (2011, 105 min) – MOMA Director: Angelina Nikonova Country: Russia TWILIGHT PORTRAIT is a powerhouse collaboration co-written and coproduced by Angelina Nikonova, who directed, and Olga Dihovichnaya, who stars in this very dark, provocative and constantly surprising debut feature film set in a modern Russian city where corruption, apathy and class warfare are the norm 12PM – 1:34PM THE AMBASSADOR (Ambassadøren, 2011, 93 min) – MOMA Directed by Mads Brügger Country: Denmark The consummate agent-provocateur--his method fittingly described as “Graham Greene meets Borat”--Brügger (THE RED CHAPEL, NDNF 2010) shocks and mightily entertains by performing an artistic intervention in reality using roleplaying and hidden cameras to expose an awful truth about life in central Africa.
Wednesday, March 21 10AM – 11:41AM PORFIRIO (2011) 101min --MOMA Director: Alejandro Landes Country: Colombia Paralyzed from the waist down by a stray police bullet, the title character in Alejandro Landes' remarkable film spends his days selling minutes on his cell phone when not flirting with his comely neighbor. 12PM – 1:36PM SHORTS PROGRAM #2 (96 min) – MOMA
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