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EVENTS
In a rare personal appearance, David Ogden Stiers, best known for his emmy nominated role on "M*A*S*H", will be holding a live Q&A at the Portland International Film Festival following the screening of Porco Rosso on February 26th, 2005.

OSCAR SUBMISSIONS
This year’s Festival features the Portland premieres of 12 of this year’s submissions
for the Best Foreign Film Oscar. Included are 20:30:40 (Taiwan/Hong Kong), Campfire (Israel), Cold Light (Iceland), Kontroll (Hungary), Crónicas (Ecuador), Crying Ladies (Philippines), Downfall (Germany), The House Keys (Italy), Machuca (Chile), Nobody Knows (Japan), Producing Adults (Finland) and Turtles Can Fly (Iraq/Iran).

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

VISITING ARTISTS
Thanks to American Airlines and Alaska Airlines for helping bring our guests.

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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 16 debut films including Juan Antin’s Mercano the Martian, Cate Shortland’s Somersault, Marcos Bernstein’s The Other Side of the Street, Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda’s Czech Dream, Aleksi Salmenperä’s Producing Adults, Tomy Wigand’s The Flying Classroom, Nimrod Antal’s Kontroll, Bharatbala’s Hari Om, Keren Yedaya’s Or, Guka Omarova’s Schizo, Josué Méndez’s Days of Santiago, Mark Meley’s Crying Ladies, Tomas Alfredson’s Four Shades of Brown, Charles Dance’s Ladies In Lavender, Dan Harris’ Imaginary Heroes, Xan Cassavetes’ Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession and Minh Nguyen-Vô’s Buffalo Boy.

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

DOCUMENTARY VIEWS
This year’s Festival offers 15 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 Xan Cassavetes’ The Z Channel, Thomas Reidelsheimer’s Touch the Sound, Christian Bauer’s The Ritchie Boys, Pieter-Rim de Kroon’s Dutch Light, Eugenio Polgovsky’s Tropic of Cancer, Raymond Depardon’s 10th District Court, Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman’s Born into Brothels, Alaistair Fothergill and Andy Byatt’s Deep Blue, Steve James’ Reel Paradise, David Barison and Daniel Ross’ The Ister, Sean McAllister’s Liberace of Baghdad, Vít Klusák’s and Filip Remunda’s Czech Dream, David Redmond’s Mardi Gras: Made In China, Mark Wexler’s Tell Them Who You Are and Leonard Retel Helmrich’s Shape of the Moon.

Thanks to Tazo® Tea for supporting this showcase.

SHORT CUTS
It may be a feature-length world, but not for the 54 filmmakers whose short films are included in this year’s Festival.

Thanks to Oregon Live for supporting this year program of animated, live action and
documentary shorts, and to Comcast for presentation of the Best of the Young People’s Film & Video Festival.

Sundance Channel Audience Awards
As always, you get to be the judge. Let us know your opinion about the films presented in this year’s Festival. Ballots will be available at screening to rate and comment on the films that you see. At the conclusion of the Festival the results of the audience balloting will be announced, with awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Documentary, Best Short, the New Directors Awards and other special recognition that emerges.