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Opens Friday, May 24th at the Sie FilmCenter
Digital presentation - On the beaches of Kenya, they‘re known as "Sugar Mamas:" European women who seek out African boys, selling love to earn a living. Teresa, a 50-year-old Austrian and mother of a daughter entering puberty, travels to th
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African-American basketball player Kevin Sheppard moves to Shiraz, Iran, where he takes on more than just his new teammates’ lack of skills and their league opponents, befriending a group of oppressed Iranian women.
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Matt Ross takes a new approach to filmmaking with this collage of hotel-room scenes between lovers who are married to other people yet find themselves falling deeper and deeper into a profound relationship.
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MUST END Thursday, March 14th at the Sie FilmCenter
Digital presentation - From the directors of House of the Devil, Hobo with a Shotgun, A Serbian Film, Tokyo Gore Police, You’re Next, and many more comes the genre event of 2012.
Twenty-six directors. Twenty-six ways to die.
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This romantic comedy deals poker player Uriel a mixed hand. A divorced father of two, he’s on a winning streak with women, but when former love Gloria shows up he thinks he might want to play for keeps. Only problem, he’s used to bluffing.
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A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast, and her coach provide the service of standing in for the recently deceased. In this darkly comic, existential tale, director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) employs intertwining plots and striking camerawork.
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From the director of Best Worst Movie (SDFF 32) comes this documentary about “home haunters,” dedicated folk who spend all year transforming their homes into neighborhood haunted houses for Halloween.
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The classic that terrified a generation, based on paranormal events said to have befallen the Lutz family upon moving into a Long Island home. James Brolin and Margot Kidder star.
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Join us this Friday, November 9th, 9:30pm, as Governor John Hickenlooper presents the incomparable Andy Garcia with the inaugural George Hickenlooper Honorary award at the L2 Arts and Culture Center.
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Using traditional animation techniques, participants will help create a short film. Budding animators are invited to show up with a creative mind-set and a willingness to explore.
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Using traditional animation techniques, participants will help create a short film. Budding animators are invited to show up with a creative mind-set and a willingness to explore.
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A flamboyant drag performer (Alan Cumming) and a straitlaced and tightly closeted district attorney are would-be permanent custodians of a teenager with Down syndrome in 1979 Southern California.
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Polish documentarian Wojciech Staron follows the life lessons of his son Janek when the family moves to Argentina for a year. Janek befriends a young girl who is already spending most of her days as the adult holding her family together.
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UPDATE: The John Cassavetes Award presentation will take place on Saturday, November 10 at the Art of Conflict screening at ELLIE CAULKINS OPERA HOUSE. Additional tickets available!
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A package of eight new provocative, cutting-edge works from some of Austria’s leading filmmakers.
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NOW PLAYING through Thursday, May 2nd at the Sie FilmCenter
Official Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival
Director and cast in-person after the 7:15pm show on Saturday, April 27th!
Digital presentation - Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be h
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An East German doctor who has been banished from 1980s Berlin finds comfort in her skills and her patients. She must weigh her dedication to her patients when given the chance to reunite with her West German lover.
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Nicknamed “The Capital of Happiness,” Bahia, Brazil, is anything but for residents of the palafitas, slum dwellings perched on stilts above mounds of garbage in the filthy bay. Bay of All Saints director Annie Eastman spent six years documenting their plight.
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Yola, an indigenous girl employed as a maid in a remote village in Argentina, learns a hard truth of modern society. As the family she works for prepares a coming-out party for their daughter, Yola is taken advantage of in a devious, unexpected way.
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Martine is a successful doctor who champions emancipation, of women and immigrants. But her self-determination and worldview are challenged when her daughter decides to become a Muslim. Elsie de Brauw delivers a tour-de-force performance.
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Denis Côté looks at the fascinating interplay of human beings and exotic animals in this partially staged documentary, filmed at Quebec’s Parc Safari. He suggests a kind of loneliness we may not grasp—and that the creatures are curious about us, too.
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Paulo, a sweet thing who hasn’t quite figured out his sexuality, and the hunky Ilir, whom he meets in a bar, blossom in a love affair until Ilir is arrested for drug possession. His time in prison can’t help but take a devastating toll on them both.
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Special Earth Day screening Monday, April 22nd at 7pm
Activist Tim DeChristopher live via Skype for a post film Q&A
Digital presentation - Tim DeChristopher, an environmental activist, will be released from prison on 4/21. On 4/22 (Earth Day) we’re holding a one-night nationwide scr
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Join us in welcoming Tippi Hedren to the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival. We are proud to present a special screening of The Birds, where Ms. Hedren will be presented with the Mayor’s Award for Career Achievement.
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On his second honeymoon, a sedate Englishman gets caught up in sex games with an S&M dominatrix and her angry, disabled husband. Roman Polanski’s twisted psychological thriller features standout performances by Hugh Grant and Peter Coyote.
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You may not know the name, but you’ve almost certainly heard the music of the man in the documentary Butch Walker: Out of Focus. The personal film portrays the compelling life of one man’s love for his family and his pursuit of great music.
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Incarcerated mafiosi stage Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in this documentary by the legendary Taviani brothers. The film finds deep pleasure in impassioned performances, and in the effect they have on the audience and on the prisoners themselves.
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The struggle for gay rights in Uganda is played out in the life and death of David Kato, that country’s first openly gay man. He goes up against a homophobic establishment trying to enact the death penalty for engaging in homosexual acts.
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When widower Germain, an experienced truck driver, gets into a horrific accident, his life changes dramatically. His two grown sons return home to help him deal with his ensuing depression, and the time together has unforeseen consequences for all.
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A love letter to legendary casting director Marion Dougherty, featuring the likes of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Glenn Close, and Martin Scorsese, plus a wealth of great clips. You don’t have to be a film buff to love this engaging doc.
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Join the local team behind Chasing Ice in conversation about the making of the film.
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It all starts with a cow falling from the sky. Argentine screen icon Ricardo Darín plays a curmudgeon whose reluctant bond with a stranded Chinese immigrant (Ignacio Huang) helps him warm up to the human race.
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A beautifully drawn portrait of empty landscapes in Orlando, Florida, serves as backdrop for a boy’s ruminations on history and family. Images rich in atmosphere contrast with his notions about how Orlando came to be and what his life is like.
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Benjamin Ávila’s coming-of-age tale of a boy living under an assumed name during Argentina’s military dictatorship is based on the director’s experience. While Juan’s parents continue guerrilla activities, he only wants to have a normal life.
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35th anniversary! In Steven Spielberg’s classic, a simple power-line worker’s world is thrown into disarray when he becomes obsessed with a place where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Writer/director Maggie Peren weaves the lives of her three main characters—a disgruntled cop, a benevolent tourist, and an illegal immigrant—into a story of intrigue set in the Canary Islands. In Color of the Ocean, no good deed goes unpunished as their fates intertwine.
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Meticulous pencil drawing, collage, cutout, and stop-motion animation combine to weave a spell in a tale of three tormented souls with closely guarded secrets in an Appalachian town. Chris Sullivan’s film is a haunting ride for all who take the trip.
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A selection of the brightest Colorado filmmaking talent, showcasing their darker side.
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In this Western with a film noir-twist, director Jared Moshé lets details of the plot unfold in tantalizing dribbles. A young couple working a desolate farm in 1870 New Mexico will do anything that needs to be done to get away.
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Join us at this very special Watching Hour showing as we present actress/stuntwoman Zoe Bell (Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2) with the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival Rising Star Award and show the rarely screened Cannes cut of Quentin Tarantino's 2007 hit film Death Proof!
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Chilean-Canadian filmmaker Carlo Guillermo Proto documents his family’s struggle to come to terms with the fact that his father may have inherited his mother’s Alzheimer’s and that he intends to commit suicide, despite the love of those around him.
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Believing that his enemy’s enemy is his friend, IRA hero Frank Ryan took root in Berlin, only to find at a later date that his Nazi hosts’ hospitality came at the cost of his own integrity. Archival footage enriches this dramatization of Ryan’s war years.
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Actor Bob Balaban receives the Festival’s first annual Jack Gilford Award for Comedy. Balaban is a veteran of Christopher Guest comedies, and the iconic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which the festival will show as part of the movie’s 35th anniversary.
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Stacey Steers’s labor-intensive films are composed of thousands of individual, handmade works on paper. Her films have screened at festivals and museums worldwide. She is this year’s recipient of the Denver Film Society's Stan Brakhage Vision Award.
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Before Beck and Limbaugh, another populist reigned supreme. Re-meet Morton Downey Jr., the original f**king loudmouth. Lower the safety bar for a roller-coaster ride through Downey’s euphoric ascent to fame and nauseating plummet to infamy.
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Drawing from his own life, writer-director Daniel Burman explores the relationship between father-and-son lawyers of Polish-Jewish extraction. The dramatic comedy is set to lilting klezmer music in bustling Buenos Aires.
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A rural Quebec police sergeant comes up against a nasty detective from Montreal and a host of aberrant locals when he tries to investigate the rape and murder of the daughter of a small-town mayor.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.
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Writer/director/star Ed Burns revisits the Irish-American roots of The Brothers McMullen, his 1995 Sundance breakout hit, for this holiday dramedy about a family reluctantly allowing a visit by the clan’s patriarch after a 20-year absence.
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The characters in Zdenek Jiráský’s unblinking vision of small-town Czech Republic life face tedium and depression in the uncertain aftermath of Stalinist totalitarianism. Vladimír Javorský stars as a defeated railroad worker and slot-machine junkie.
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Angry law school dropout Jillian has to hand out ice cream samples after a night of heavy drinking. Hung over, she doles out more than her customers bargain for as she faces her own existential dilemma. Jesse Eisenberg and Tippi Hedren contribute.
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Boundaries are tested when best friends Jenn and Matt both decide to stop waiting for “Mr. Right” and attempt to conceive a child together “the old-fashioned way.”
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A Volga German family on a farm in northern Argentina is beset by a mysterious plague, and some neighbors suspect divine punishment. Argentinian director/writer Maximiliano Schonfeld’s drama provides no answers.
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NOW PLAYING through April 11th at the Sie FilmCenter
Digital presentation - London, 1962. Two teenage girls—Ginger and Rosa (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert)—are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their moth
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MUST END Thursday, December 20th!
Brand NEW 35mm presentation! - WWI, and it’s a POW camp for French man-of-the-people flyboy Jean Gabin and aristocratic staff observer Pierre Fresnay after they’re shot down by equally
aristocratic German Erich von Stroheim. But meanwhile there are
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Come ROCK THE 'FEST with Reel Social Club at the Special Presentation premiere of GRASSROOTS followed by the only Rock the Vote concert in Denver at the Bluebird Theater!
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MUST END Thursday, January 10th!
Winner! Maysles Brothers Best Documentary Award - 35th Starz Denver Film Festival!
An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulousl
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This fact-based story of a man incarcerated nearly four years for horrific crimes he didn’t commit grippingly shows just how far awry the judicial process can fall. Viewers feel Alain Marécaux’s predicament with stunning immediacy.
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A May-December pairing throws two families into chaos when the young woman becomes pregnant by her 50-year-old boyfriend. His grown children are envious of their father’s love for the unborn child, while her parents see in him a grandfather.
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An ex-cop in Bangkok becomes a hit man targeting above-the-law criminals and corrupt politicians. Surviving a shot to the head, he awakens seeing the world upside down and is left to reflect on the consequences of his actions, both karmic and immediate.
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In director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Cannes award winner, Pedro returns to Mexico after working in the U.S. But family struggles force him to make a decision: stay and be the man of the family, or return north as an absentee provider.
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International affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR’s domestic establishment when the president (Bill Murray) and his wife host the king and queen of England in upstate New York as Britain faces imminent war with Germany.
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A troubled detective becomes obsessed with a woman he meets near a murder scene. He eventually begins to see the connection between her and the crime, but his own desperation keeps him from pinpointing her as a suspect.
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A panel with Brian F. Martin, founder, The Childhood Domestic Violence Foundation; Rita Smith, executive director, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence; and Lynda A. Hansen, producer, The Children Next Door. Moderated by Robert Denerstein.
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Hong Sang-soo’s amusing cross-cultural character study stars Isabelle Huppert, times three, as different French tourists in a triptych of scenarios exploring the ways Koreans interact with visitors and with one another.
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Activist-turned-informant Brandon Darby gained fame in radical left-wing circles after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. A trip to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela led him to rethink his views.
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Former exchange student Josh returns to Buenos Aires to work on a film, but can’t fit in. He meets fellow American Anna; there’s a mutual attraction, but Josh’s feelings of alienation spoil any chances of a relationship.
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Male or female? Check the box, unless you’re the one in every 2,000 people born with indecisive chromosomes. Intersexion delves into the secrecy, shame, and mystery surrounding this not-so-rare condition.
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Jesse Vile’s documentary about Jason Becker, a metal guitarist and decades-long survivor of Lou Gehrig’s disease, tells of a man’s indomitable spirit. Surrounded by family and friends, Becker continues to compose by means of computer technology.
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Two families are brought together in 1969 by the death of a woman who was married to Jim (Robert Duvall) and then to Kingsley (John Hurt). There is tension among three generations of men whose notions of manhood are shaped by their exposure to combat.
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MUST END Thursday, February 28th at the Sie FilmCenter
Digital Presentation - In JOHN DIES AT THE END, it’s all about the Soy Sauce, a drug that promises an out-of-body experience with each hit. Users drift across time and dimensions. But some who come back are no longer human. Sudden
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Scientists Eric Swain and Troy Bernier moonlight as amateur science-fiction filmmakers. Journey to Planet X chronicles the making of their latest low-budget “epic.” Their contagious enthusiasm will have viewers rethinking just what defines art.
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A 13-year-old Russian girl in Amsterdam tries to make sense of her life as her mother and sister enter the grim world of stripping and streetwalking. Mijke de Jong’s poignant family drama explores the hard choices many immigrants are forced to make.
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Twelve-year-old Annie has run wild in rural Texas all her life with little supervision from her laconic, tormented father. Events tend toward the absurd when she comes across a woman who’s trapped in a well, and doesn’t know how to handle the situation.
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A depressed teenager lives on a bleak farm with her emotionally distant parents after her brother’s death. One night, an escaped killer winds up in her room and asks her to help him get away. She agrees, on the condition that he kill her once he’s safe.
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In this powerful animated film aimed at adults, two South Korean classmates meet and relive the horrors of being bullied during their middle-school years. The former lower-class “pigs” find hidden meaning in the death of a friend who was the only one to stand up to the merciless oppression.
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A document of the beauty, joy, fear, and danger that surround an ordinary vehicle. An American school bus auctioned off for a few thousand dollars finds new life in the hills of Guatemala, where organized crime rules the lives of all who pass through.
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When cellist Peter (Christopher Walken) informs his string-quartet colleagues (Philip Seymour Hoffman, Mark Ivanir, and Catherine Keener) that he’s been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, dramatic passions arise from within their artistic souls.
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Overweight and lonely Lena, 17, lives with her passive-aggressive mother. Lena thinks that by having sex, boys will like her. She winds up in an unlikely relationship with the handsome Daan, who’s got a secret that threatens her idyllic new life.
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Octopus as oracle? So say believers in Paul the psychic cephalopod, who correctly predicted the winners of eight 2010 World Cup matches. Director Alexandre O. Philippe (The People vs. George Lucas) explores Paul’s rise to celebrity status.
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Based on Liv Ullmann’s 1977 book Changing, this touching doc is a love letter to acclaimed Swedish director Ingmar Bergman from his lover, muse and longtime friend. Their 45-year relationship is revealed through film clips, photos and letters.
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Mumia Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party at age 15 and reported on the revolutionary movement until his arrest for murder in 1981. Even on death row, his voice would not be silenced. This doc focuses on his writing, politics, and perseverance.
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NOW PLAYING through April 4th at the Sie FilmCenter
Official Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival
Digital presentation - Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interned by the victorious Allies at the end of Worl
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Young Ariel is searching for his identity while spinning his wheels as a clerk in his mother’s lingerie shop in a second-rate shopping mall. His mother’s explanation of why his father abandoned the family before he was born doesn’t ring true for him.
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Bonds of love are tested to humorous and sorrowful effect as couples and families tackle issues of suicide, injury, and infidelity. Five interwoven stories about need and desire create a rich tapestry of life-changing moments that happen within 24 hours.
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Czech filmmaker Mila Cieslar explores all kinds of love—gay, straight, parental, rekindled, and blind—in all kinds of weather. A brilliant ensemble cast mixing old and young enlivens this wry, observant comedy written by veteran Martin Horský.
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When childhood friends and rivals Joaquin and David take a beach vacation together, they run into Elena, Joaquin’s ex-girlfriend, who’s married to Lautaro, a successful novelist. Suddenly their weekend escape isn’t such a getaway anymore in this comedy.
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Based on the life of artist Marie Krøyer, this tragic costume drama is suffused with the beautiful light that drew Marie and her famous husband to live and work on Denmark’s beautiful northernmost promontory, Skagen. But something’s rotten in Denmark.
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In this comedy, Mariano dumps his beloved vintage car after a fraud scheme goes wrong. Increasingly worried about getting caught—and about his impending marriage—he befriends a vagrant who’s taken up residence in the car, and gains a new attitude.
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Friday and Sunday, October 9 & 11
35mm presentation - Alan (Justin Rice), a musician whose band has just broken up, shows up in New York to support his burgeoning rock and roll career. He starts by searching for a drummer for a show he’s already lined up and otherwise goes about the m
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Ki is a twentysomething free spirit with a two-year-old boy by her deadbeat boyfriend. She loves her son dearly, but chooses to pawn him off on friends so she can party and drink. She dumps her boyfriend and finds a new place to live for her and her son
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MUST END Thursday, December 27th at the Sie FilmCenter!
Digital presentation - Pim lives with his ex-beauty queen, single mother in a small town on the Belgian coast. Introverted, he spends his childhood drawing and dreaming up fantasy lives while keeping his emerging desires a secret
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In Lauralee Farrer’s romantic comedy, Stefan Lane (Tony Hale, Arrested Development) learns the girl of his dreams wants a man who can make her laugh, so he goes to great lengths to be that guy. But there’s one problem: he’s just not that funny.
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Since his scorching debut with In the Company of Men (1997), director Neil LaBute has brought his consistently provocative voice to American cinema. Robert Denerstein’s conversation will follow a showing of a quartet of short films by LaBute, each exploring the dark side of sex, love, and rom
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Religion and sexuality clash in unexpected ways when a woman devoted to the Catholic Church goes on her annual evangelical pilgrimage, only to have her wheelchair-bound Muslim husband return after two years to take his rightful place in the household.
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Shades of Orwell’s Big Brother are in play as a mysterious person tracks a group of suspected terrorists after a bombing. Sitting behind rows of monitors and computer equipment, he follows each suspect’s every move. Who is he and why is he spying on them?
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Small-town friends Anna and Cory drift into lives they had not foreseen as they try to connect with those they love. SDFF alum Mike Ott combines a feature-film narrative with his actors’ personal journals for a story with a strong sense of disconnection.
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Driven to make his own masterpiece, animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) devoted more than 25 years to a film based on Persian folktales before having his crowning achievement stripped away by corporate entities.
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After becoming sole caretaker for his Parkinson’s-patient dad, slacker Pincus learns some life lessons despite himself. Director David Fenster drew from his experiences caring for his own father.
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Hapless engineer Larus enters a farce of small-town bedlam when he flees his wife’s infidelity, his disastrous career, and his loopy parents. Backing an effort to revive a slaughterhouse, he must gather his own resources to rescue the town and his life.
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Four famous Czech actors join forces to make a film that could boost their careers, but they quickly run into all manner of absurdist obstacles on the way to success in director Marek Najbrt's mock documentary.
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Veteran Czech documentarian Helena Treštíková, the master of a time-lapse filming method she calls “time collection,” charts 37 years in the lives of the working-class Kettner family.
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Making his directing debut at age 75, Dustin Hoffman brings an optimistic take on aging to this dramatic comedy about a houseful of retired—but still very much kicking—theater folk.
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35th Starz Denver Film Festival Patron Packages
Now on sale!
Contact alison@denverfilm.org to purchase!
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MUST END Thursday, December 20th!
Digital presentation - In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education rewrites the teaching and textbook standards for its
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Tuna is headed to Central Park with an offbeat group of comrades for a friend’s wedding. As their conversation—from inane to profound—unfolds and wedding plans go awry, the pals’ faults and insecurities are exposed. Writer/director Onur Tukel stars.
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In pioneering lightweight cameras with their own sound systems, Richard Leacock was a seminal figure in documentary filmmaking. His protégé, Jane Weiner, used Leacock’s own innovations over several decades to capture his life, his work, and his teaching.
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When cycling legend Jock Boyer moves to Rwanda to build a professional team, he and the cyclists—survivors of that country’s 1990s genocide—are given a second chance. Actor Forest Whitaker narrates this inspirational story of hope.
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In Wojciech Smarowski’s award-winning, haunting tale, Rose, a Pole, faces brutal persecution after WWII when Poland, Germany, and Russia all lay claim to the Masuria region. Tadeusz escapes his own violent past, and the two develop a deep and mature love.
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A writer in search of authentic experience to help him produce a believable film script finds himself in a horrific predicament. A local drug lord in the middle of Chile’s driest desert mistakes him for a heroic gunslinger whom he’s been itching to kill.
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Exuberant renditions of classic Motown tunes carry this upbeat musical comedy/drama, based on the true story of a talented all-Aboriginal Australian girl group who win a contest to tour Vietnam entertaining American troops—and often dodging bullets.
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Winner of the 2012 Oscar for Best Documentary Short, Saving Face follows the lives of several Pakistani women who have survived acid attacks to the face, and their subsequent attempts to bring their attackers to justice.
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35th Starz Denver Film Festival Patron Packages
Now on sale!
Contact alison@denverfilm.org to purchase!
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When a young Irish mother (Andrea Riseborough) is arrested for planting an IRA bomb in a London subway, she must choose between separation from her son and threatening the safety of her brothers.
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This cross-cultural romantic comedy features an international cast in a magnificent setting. When his firm sends him to Shanghai for three months, high-powered American attorney Sam Chao thinks he’s in control, but his new home holds many surprises.
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Abigail Child creates an experimental Super-8 montage dramatizing the life of author Mary Shelley. Layering it with excerpts from Shelley’s diaries and her husband’s poetry, Child poses the events of their lives against the dangerous ideas of their time.
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Using all the tools at a filmmaker’s disposal, these true-life stories may be personal, amusing, contemplative, or infuriating, but they all offer insight into the human condition.
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The best animated shorts of the year. Bring hungry eyes.
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A half-dozen stories of people making plans that lead to unexpected results.
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Not much is black-and-white is this collection of powerful stories.
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Seven very different narratives from five continents.
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Shun Li bartends in a sleepy fishing village to pay off a debt that will enable her son to join her in Italy. When she meets Bepi, a retired Slavic fisherman who is also a poet, their unlikely friendship is met with disapproval by locals.
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David O. Russell explores the dysfunctional family in his darkly comic adaptation of Matthew Quick’s novel. Released from a psychiatric facility into the care of his not-so-sane parents, Pat Solatano finds solace in the company of a psychotic young widow.
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A lower-class Swiss boy steals from the wealthy patrons of luxury ski resort in order to support himself and his older sister. He handles the risky lifestyle well until family matters threaten to take away what stability he’s been able to create.
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In this docudrama, a group of displaced Moroccan boys habituate a Rotterdam snack bar owned by a likable Turk named Ali. These “lost” boys rob, steal, do drugs, and beat one another up, all while Ali tries to be an uncle to them.
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French director, screenwriter, producer, and actor Claude Berri (Jean de Florette) directed this gritty crime drama. Ex-cop Lambert has bottomed out but finds a new reason to live when he decides to avenge the murder of a young drug dealer.
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NOW PLAYING through April 4th at the Sie FilmCenter
Director Bob Byington (SDFF 32 People’s Choice Award-winning Harmony and Me) creates an offbeat energy by brilliantly pairing established actors and non-actors in this comedic fable about a man watching his life fly by. Max (Keith Po
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Intimacy, isolation and their strange correspondence are at the heart of Stages, which gauges the ambivalence of a middle-aged ex-couple as they meet to dwell on the circumstances both of their divorce and of their deeply withdrawn 17-year-old son.
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Al Pacino, Christopher Walken, and Alan Arkin star in this action comedy as retired gangsters reunited for one epic night. The three try to compensate for missed decades of crime, drugs, and sex, but one has been put in an impossible quandary.
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Unsettling and riveting, Starlet follows a young woman’s progress through aimless, druggy days as she navigates a highly questionable career choice and a moral dilemma. Dree Hemingway delivers a standout performance.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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Film historian Mark Cousins spent six years assembling this history of the cinema, which includes interviews with and about the greats of film, explorations of moviemaking around the world, and hundreds of clips from over 100 years of celluloid.
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MUST END Thursday, January 17th!
Presented by Cinema Q! Official Selection - 35th Starz Denver Film Festival!
Digital presentation - High school senior Carson Phillips (Chris Colfer) was destined for bigger things than his close-minded small town could ever offer. He was on a path to
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Passion, love, wine, soccer and divorce are the subjects of Danish director Ole Christian Madsen’s dramatic comedy, set in Buenos Aires. With a lively cast of Danes and Argentinians, the film delves into their souls while finding laugh-out-loud humor.
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In Daniel Schechter’s movie about a movie, two best friends are a sharp co-editing team brought in to polish a substandard romantic comedy. Problems in their own off-duty relationships spill over into their workdays. A smart New York buddy flick.
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Now 78, the “Animator of Prague,” Jan Svankmajer, uses an innovative mixture of live action and cutout photo animation to explore the vivid fantasy life of a middle-aged clerk who dreams constantly of a beautiful woman dressed in red.
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A diverse panel of “below-the-line” movie players, featuring a stuntwoman, a casting agent, a composer, and a costume designer. Robert Denerstein moderates a conversation about the role of talented professionals who often receive too little credit.
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Painfully shy competitive bodybuilder Dennis (an understated Kim Kold) yearns for love. He follows his uncle’s lead and travels to Thailand to find a bride, but when his domineering mother finds out, she rages against his betrayal.
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Screens Friday & Saturday, March 22nd & 23rd at 10pm in The Watching Hour!
Digital presentation - In 1975 the Lutz family vacated their home of 28 days at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. Leaving behind all their belongings, the family claimed to be the victims of a terrifyin
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Belgian politician Mario Verstraete’s fight to legalize euthanasia takes on profound meaning when he suffers a debilitating disease. This fact-based film shares both the joy of his life and his decision’s shattering effects on friends and family.
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A combat burnout and a love-starved teenager form an odd alliance in this noirish story set in the Polish countryside. Eryk returns from the Chechen war to find a waif living in his family’s ruined home.
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Chilean singer-songwriter Violeta Parra became an international sensation with her passionate songs about love and oppression. This dramatization of her life depicts this talented, volatile woman’s sorrows and triumphs as she seeks her place in the world.
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The VIP OPENING NIGHT package includes dinner at Larimer Square plus all of the Opening Night festivities. $109 for Non-members. $99 person for DFS Members!
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Randy Wilson, founder of the Purity Ball in Colorado Springs, believes young women’s bodies belong to God until the right man comes along. Virgin Tales documents two years with his evangelical Christian family as they promote chastity.
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Computer hackers known as “Anonymous” practice civil obedience online. Their targets range from a racist radio talk-show host to Scientology to PayPal. We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists documents these cyber warriors’ evolution
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A chronicle of the transformation of ancient Buddhist teachings from the caves of Tibet to meditation centers in the Western world. Actor Richard Gere and teacher Chögyam Trungpa promote the merits of meditation.
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Join us for a series of animated shorts by internationally acclaimed children’s literature dynamo Serge Bloch. Serge will showcase SamSam and other films, as well as share stories about his latest works with such luminaries as comedian Steve Martin and U.S. Children’s Poet Laureate J. Patrick
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A young European Catholic priest finds his faith tested during his tenure in Argentina, first in the jungles, where he escapes a paramilitary attack, and then in the drug-devastated slums of Buenos Aires.
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Director Gary Keys’s documentary pays homage to the late singer and her gospel roots. The film deftly balances the sorrow over her untimely death in February with the “joyful noise” created by her musical family.
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Join our accomplished panel of women whose paths have given them a powerful voice in the film industry and learn from their spirit in telling their stories.
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NOW PLAYING through April 11th at the Sie FilmCenter
Official WATCHING HOUR Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival
Digital presentation - Dolph Springer (Reno 911’s Jack Plotnick) awakens one morning to find he has lost the sole love of his life – his dog, Paul. Desperate t
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Young Filmmakers Workshop
Each summer the Denver Film Society provides a unique opportunity for aspiring filmmakers to immerse themselves in the world of moviemaking. Over the course of two weeks, participants learn not only how to watch and interpret film but also how to plan, write, shoot, and
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A new and independent-minded filmmakers’ panel featuring director Mike Ott (Pearblossom Hwy), actor David Nordstrom (Pincus), and Argentine tributee Daniel Burman, who has three films showing in this year’s festival. Robert Denerstein moderates.
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George Romero, Max Brooks and Steven Schlozman in a live, trans-generational salon talk on the rise of zombie fandom, the role and impact of the modern zombie on popular culture, and practical matters like how to zombie-proof your car.