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ITALIAN FILM SHOWCASE
The new decade has seen a rebirth of the Italian Film industry, one whose history includes many of the great filmmakers and films in cinema history. This year’s Festival includes six new films by directors whose work is synomyous with Italian film—Bernardo Bertolucci (The Dreamers), Pupi Avati (A Heart Elsewhere), Marco Bellocchio (Good Morning, Night) Marco Tullio Giordana (Best of Youth), Gabriele Salvatores (I’m Not Scared) and a debut by the promising Edmond Budina (Letters In the Wind).

We thank the Portland-Bologna Sister City Association, The Italian Cultural Institute, San Francisco and the Italian Film Commission for their support in helping making this rich selction of films possible.

OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
This year’s Festival features the Portland premieres of 20 of this year’s submissions for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, and two of last year’s just now receiving their American release. Included are Osama (Afghanistan), Valentin (Argentina), Free Radicals (Austria), Sexual Dependency (Bolivia), Reconstruction (Denmark), Bon Voyage (France), Since Otar Left (Georgia), Good Bye, Lenin (Germany), Forest (Hungary), Noi Albinoi (Iceland), I’m Not Scared (Italy), Deep Breath (Iran), Twlight Samaurai (Japan), The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolia), The Return (Russia), The Professional (Serbia), Evil (Sweden), Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Taiwan), Last Life in the Universe (Thailand), Distant (Turkey) and from last year, Hero (China) and Oasis (South Korea).

Thanks to the Rose E. Tucker Trust for supporting this showcase.



NEW DIRECTORS
Beyond discovering new films, the Festival offers the opportunity to discover new voices, filmmakers whose first work will make you look forward to their next. This year’s New Directors Showcase features 14 debut films including Siddiq Barmak’s Osama (Afghanistan), Rodrigo Bellott’s Sexual Dependency (Bolivia), Renato Falco’s Margarette’s Feast (Brazil), Li Yang’s Blind Shaft (China), Christoffer Boe’s Reconstruction (Denmark), Yann Samuell’s Love Me If you Dare (France), Julie Bertuccelli’s Since Otar Left (France/Georgia), Benedek Fliegauf’s Forest (Hungary), Dagur Kári’s Noi Albonoi (Iceland), Edmond Budina’s Letters in the Wind (Italy), Byambasuren Davaa and Luigi Falorni’s Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolia), Morten Tyldum’s Buddy (Norway), Andrey Zvyagintsev’s The Return (Russia) and Nafwel Saheb-Ettaba’s The Bookstore (Tunisia).

Thanks to the Paul G. Allen Foundation for the Arts for supporting this showcase.


DOCUMENTARY VIEWS
This year’s Festival offers 13 extraordinary new documentaries that bring the world, and the fascinating people and stories that make it go round, to life. We hope you’ll discover the intriguing worlds that unfold in Nathan Kahn’s My Architect, Jehane Noujaim’s The Control Room, Ross McElwee’s Bright Leaves, George Hickenlooper’s The Mayor of Sunset Strip, Steve James and Company’s The New Americans, Jonathan Demme’s The Agronomist, Jennifer Abbott and Mark Achbar’s The Corporation, Sebastian Denhardt’s Stalingrad, Robin Shou’s Red Trousers, Byambasuren Davaa’s The Story of the Weeping Camel, Hany Abu-Assad’s Ford Transit, Richard Schickel’s Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin and Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself.

Thanks to Tazo® Tea for supporting this showcase.




SHORT CUTS
It may be a feature-length world, but not for the 33 filmmakers whose short films are included in this year’s Festival.

Thanks to OregonLive.com for supporting this year program of animated, live action and documentary shorts.




VISITING ARTISTS
Thanks to The Independent Film Channel, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines for helping bring our guests.