FREE ZONE
Director: Amos Gitai
Country: Israel/Belgium/France/Spain
Year: 2005
Runtime: 90 minutes
Englis/Hebrew/Arabic/Spanish with English subtitles
Fred Linch will moderate an audience discussion after film.
Awards: Cannes Film Festival - Best Actress
We first meet Rebecca (Natalie Portman) in a car. She is crying. She cries for a long time. Rebecca has hired a woman to drive her to the duty-free zone between Israel and Jordan where cars are traded, bought, and sold.  We get Rebecca’s story in bits and pieces.  She has broken up with her Israeli boyfriend and is looking for one of his friends, an American said to live in Jordan. But FREE ZONE is not about Rebecca and her man: it’s about her, the driver, and a third woman whom they pick up. It’s about how women survive in a part of the world always in crisis.  It’s the first Israeli film filmed in Jordan. Portman was born in Jerusalem.  If you haven’t seen a film by Gitai – one of the darlings of international film fests – FREE ZONE is a good place to start.  ~ Nick Salerno
Principal Cast: Natalie Portman, Hana Laszlo, Aki Avni, Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Uri Klauzner, Carmen Maura, Tinkerbell
Producer: Gadi Levy
Cinematographer: Laurent Brunet 
Editors: Isabelle Ingold, Yann Dedet
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 4:15pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Sunday, October 8 at 1:50pm

FROM SUBWAY WITH LOVE (ROMÁN PRO ZENY)
Director: Filip Renc
Country: Czech Republic
Year: 2005
Runtime: 100 minutes
Czech with English subtitles
Laura and her mother Jana have the same problem: men.  Actually, Jana’s problems are more serious, so to speak: she can’t love a man who hates the Poles or who wears a ski jacket to a concert.  Laura’s problems are more conventional: she can’t make up her mind.  So what happens when Jana’s past becomes Laura’s present?  Great fun, that’s what. Throw in a grandmother whose only question is “Do you have a boyfriend yet?” a more than slightly unconventional best friend, and the women at the beauty salon and you’ve got a plot made for Desperate Housewives.  This Czech chick flick, based on a very popular Czech novel, was joyously received at the Cannes Film Festival. ~ Nick Salerno.  
Principal Cast: Zuzana Kanoczova, Marek Vasut, Simona Stasova,
Miroslav Donutil, Stella Zazvorkova
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 9:00pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Monday, October 9 at 6:10pm

GREYFRIARS BOBBY - FAMILYFEST
Director: John Henderson
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2005
Runtime: 104 minutes
Rated PG
Based upon a true story. Following the death of his master, Constable John Gray, Bobby, a terrier, is entrusted to Ewan, a young man whom Gray had taken under his wing. Despite Bobby and Ewan’s friendship, the dog only ever wants to be beside his master’s grave at Greyfriars churchyard in Edinburgh. When Constable Gray’s widow, Maureen, moves to Dunbar and takes Bobby with her Ewan is heartbroken. The little dog pines for his master and, realizing how unhappy he is, Maureen sets him free. Bobby runs for miles, overcoming numerous obstacles, to get back to Edinburgh. Shortly after Bobby’s return Ewan is orphaned and sent to the workhouse. Once again, Bobby comes to the rescue and helps Ewan escape.
Principal Cast: Greg Wise, Christopher Lee, Oliver Golding,
Ian Richardson, James Cosmo, Thomas Lockyer, Gina Mckee,
Ardal O’hanlon, Sean Pertwee, Ronald Pickup
Producer: Christopher Figg
Cinematographer: John Ignatius
Editor: David Yardley 
Music: Mark Thomas 
Shows: Harkins Fashion Square 7 - Saturday, October 7 at 12:55pm and
Harkins Fashion Square 7 - Sunday, October 8 at 1:00pm
Official Website: www.bobbythedog.co.uk/intro.htm

THE ICEBERG (L'ICEBERG)
Director: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy
Country: Belgium
Year: 2005
Runtime: 84 minutes
French with English subtitles
Awards: Bogota Film Festival - Best Film, Seattle International Film Festival - Best Actress
A delightful surprise, ICEBERG is an original escapist comedy that will be a Film Festival highlight. One night a fast food restaurant manager accidentally gets locked in a cold storage chamber. After a freezing night she finally gets out, only to realize that her family hadn't cared she was missing. Frustrated and newly obsessed by all things frozen, she sets out on a quest to find a real iceberg, ending up sharing a tiny boat on the high seas with a deaf sailor, her husband hot in pursuit. ~ Leeds International Film Festival
Principal Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Robin Goupil, Philippe Martz
Producer: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Cinematographer: Sébastien Koeppel
Editor: Sandrine Deegen
Music: Jacques Luley
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 8:55pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Monday, October 9 at 8:15pm

INFAMOUS - AZ PREMIER/SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING
Director: Doug McGrath
Country: USA
Year: 2006
Runtime: 110 minutes
Dr. Deborah Landis, President of the Costume Designers Guild Local 892, will conduct a post-film presentation and discussion on costume design in the film.
By turns hilarious, compassionate, chilling and heartbreaking--this is the true story of young Truman Capote and his investigation into the 1959 murders of a wealthy Kansas family of four. What starts out as a journey to figure out "whodunit" with his childhood friend Harper Lee turns into something utterly unexpected: an intense and complex bond with one of the murderers that inspired his greatest work (IN COLD BLOOD) and indelibly changed his life.
Principal Cast: Toby Jones, Sandra Bullock, Daniel Craig,
Peter Bogdonovich, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, Gwyneth Paltrow,
Isabella Rossellini, Juliet Stevenson, Sigourney Weaver
Producers: Christine Vachon and Sidney Kimmel
Music: Rachel Portman
Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel 
Editor: Camilla Toniolo
Shows: Harkins Fashion Square 7 - Saturday, October 7 at 3:05pm

THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN - OPENING NIGHT FILM/US PREMIER
Director: Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk
Country: Canada/Denmark
Year: 2006
Runtime: 112 minutes
Inutitut/Danish with English subtitles
January 1922. With powerful forces of a new century pressing in around them, Danish explorer and scientist Knud Rasmussen visits the isolated camp of the great Iglulik shaman, Aua. For Rasmussen and his protégé, the young anthropologist Therkel Mathiassen, arriving at Aua's family camp is like falling into Paradise, an arctic Garden of Eden with an intoxicating mix of spiritual and physical vitality, joyful intelligence and exuberant generosity. What the Danes don't realize is Aua's temporary fortress of beauty and tranquility stands surrounded by the steamroller of the twentieth century – the introduction of Inuit-language Christian bibles, increasing dependence on foreign trade goods and the first police investigation of a murder of a white man – and that nomadic Inuit can't stay in one place even if there's nowhere safe to go.
Principal Cast: Leah Angutimarik, Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Kim Bodnia, Jakob Cedergren, Sofie Danielsen, Pakak Innuksuk, Neeve Irngaut, Jens Jørn Spottag, Abraham Ulayuruluk
Producers: Zacharias Kunuk, Elise Lund Larsen, Vibeke Vogel
Cinematographer: Norman Cohn
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Friday, October 6 at 8:00pm

JOY (MUCHRACHIM LEHIYOT SAMECH)
Director: Julie Shles
Country: Israel
Year: 2005
Runtime: 90 minutes
Hebrew with English subtitles
Awards: Israeli Film Academy - Best Actress/Best Costume Design/Best Supporting Actress/ Best Music, Jerusalem International Film Festival – Best Actress, Syracuse Film Festival – Best Actress/Best Music/Best Middle Eastern Film
Joy Levine is a little shabby and rough on the outside, yet filled with joy on the inside. One day she signs up to be a candidate on a TV show, GOTTA BE HAPPY. To her astonishment, she is chosen to throw a surprise party for her parents on live TV. But, there will be a price to pay: she has to let the viewers into her private inner world and reveal an event that has been overshadowing her family's life for 22 years. With forgiveness as the theme, the show will be aired just after Yom Kippur. Joy needs to get all her parents' friends together to conduct the reconciliation. Unfortunately, reality keeps getting in the way. With Joy taking the lead, for once someone is leading the Levine’s to a better place. Joy is a heartbreakingly unforgettable character and the rapturous Sigalit Fuchs is pitch perfect in her depiction. The film is a masterful work from a director who has the uncanny ability to encompass the endearing and the bleak, the innocent and the unpleasant. With richly drawn characters, Shles captures and intensifies the joys and pains of modern life – as seen on TV. ~ AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
Principal Cast: Sigalit Fuchs, Tal Friedman, Keren Mor, Yossi Polak,
Rivka Michaeli, Alexander Senderovich, Dorit Bar-Or
Producer: Amir Harel
Cinematographer: Itzik Portal
Editor: Ido Mochrik
Music: Avi Belleli
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 1:40pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Tuesday, October 10 at 6:05pm

KARDIA
Director: Su Rynard
Country: Canada
Year: 2005
Runtime: 85 minutes
Awards: Hamptons International Film Festival – Alfred P. Sloan Film Prize in Science and Technology
KARDIA weaves fable, fiction, science and metaphor to tell the story of Hope, a pathologist who embarks on an unusual journey of reconciliation. Hope discovers that the experimental heart operation she underwent as a baby has mysteriously linked her life with another. To unlock the secret of her past, Hope revisits the curious tale of her childhood and explores the landscape of love, loss and the human heart.
Principal Cast: Mimi Kuzyk, Peter Stebbings, Kristin Booth, Ariel Waller
Producer: Paul Barkin
Cinematographer: Kim Derko
Editor: Michele Francis
Music: Philip Strong
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 12:15pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 Sunday, October 8 at 8:40pm

KIDFEST - ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM
AGRICULTURAL REPORT Director: Melina Sydney Padua (IRELAND/3 minutes)
While feeding in a field, a cow listens to some distressing news over the radio.
BACKWARDS BOY Director: Nora Twomey (IRELAND/12 minutes)
Born with his head facing the wrong way, Cúilín Dualach is the object of ridicule from all but his loving mother until the day he discovers his own unique talent. Irish with English Subtitles!FUMI AND THE BAD LUCK FOOT Director: David Chai (USA/7 minutes)
Fumi must live her life with a foot that continually attracts misfortune.
JUNGLE BEAT: ALWAYS TAKE THE WEATHER WITH YOU Director: Brent Dawes (ZIMBABWE/5 minutes) A series of extreme climate changes take Monkey on a hilarious, haphazard journey.
JUNGLE BEAT: I’VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN Director: Brent Dawes (ZIMBABWE/5 minutes) Ever had an itch you just can’t scratch? Tortoise goes to dramatic, extremely funny lengths to cure an incessant itch under his shell.
LET GO Director: Wayne Gilbert (USA/5 minutes) For an aging knight, the grass really is greener on the other side of the brick wall. In order to advance to a more colorful life, he must let go of his heavy burden.
LOVE TRAIN, THE Director: Eva Bennett (UK/8 minutes) A lonely female dragon leaves home, but can such a hot-blooded woman ever find her perfect love?
MAN WHO WALKED BETWEEN THE TOWERS Director: Michael Sporn (USA/10 minutes) A vivid retelling of Philippe Petite’s tightrope walk between the Twin Towers in seventies New York City. Narrated by Jake Gyllenhaal.
MANTIS PARABLE, THE Director: Josh Straub (USA/8 minutes) A lovely and charming tale of a humble caterpillar trapped in a bug collector’s jar and in need of a helping hand.
PEN’ PALS Director: Art Curry (USA/5 minutes) A pencil takes part in a duel with a technologically superior graphic pen, for the affections of his belle.
PUMPKIN OF NYEFAR, THE Directors: Tod Polso & Mark Oftedal (USA
& THAILAND/8 minutes) The Prince of a faraway land falls in love with a beautiful Pumpkin and must choose between his Kingdom and true love.
SMALL ANT SYNDROME Director: Ann-Marie Denalam (AUSTRALIA/3 min.) One-upmanship between a big ant and his smaller counterpart has disastrous, albeit slapstick, results.
STARS! STARS! STARS! Director: Gary McGivney (USA/10 minutes) Come along for the ride! Meet the planets, the starscape and the universe in this poetic film that introduces astronomy in a unique and memorable way.
Shows: Harkins Fashion Square 7 - Saturday, October 7 at 11:00am and Sunday, October 8 at 11:00am

LOOK BOTH WAYS
Director: Sarah Watt
Country: Australia
Year: 2005
Runtime: 100 minutes
Awards: Australian Film Institute Award - Best Direction/Best Film/Best Screenplay/Best Supporting Actor, Brisbane International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize, Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards - Best Actor/Best Director/Best Editor/Best Film/Best Screenplay, IF Awards - Best Direction/Best Editing/Best Script, Toronto International Film Festival - Discovery Award
With LOOK BOTH WAYS, Australian filmmaker Sarah Watt joins the limited but exalted ranks of animators who have successfully graduated to live action (Terry Gilliam, Tim Burton). She extends the range of the mixed genre by using animation not for trickery but for plumbing the emotional depths of the female artist and male photojournalist who meet, not-cute, in her story. When cartoons intervene, they express grief and loss, fear of commitment and dreams of escape. Meanwhile, the couple, their friends, families, and exes stumble through a live-action life with lots of fate and a touch of free will. LOOK BOTH WAYS is at heart a tale of love and mortality, exploring with delicacy how we see life when haunted by death. And Watt has the sophisticated narrative skills to pull it off. When Brigitte Ikin (Jane Campion's producer) coaxed her into features, the faith was not misplaced: Look Both Ways is a dazzlingly energetic film that proves yet again that nothing is off limits to the down-under imagination. Watt's muscular tour de force goes for the jugular of both genders, energetically disassembling their emotional armatures while a sprightly musical soundtrack reassures us that silver linings may be found amid the storm clouds. Watt is a wonderfully original and talented filmmaker who is animated by a tenderness that goes beyond cinematic style. ~ San Francisco International Film Festival
Principal Cast: William McInnes, Justine Clarke, Anthony Hayes, Lisa Flanagan, Andrew S. Gilbert, Daniela Farinacci, Sacha Horler, Maggie Dence, Edwin Hodgeman, Andreas Sobik
Producer: Bridget Ikin
Cinematographer: Ray Argall
Editor: Denise Haratzis 
Music: Amanda Brown
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Sunday, October 8 at 6:35pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Monday, October 9 at 4:00pm
Official Website: http://www.lookbothways.com.au

MOLLY'S WAY
Director: Emily Atef
Country: Germany
Year: 2006
Runtime: 87 minutes
English/German/Polish with English subtitles
Awards: Munich Film Festival – Best Screenwriting
Though she only knows his first name and that he “works in coal,” Molly, a young Irish woman, travels to a small Polish town to find the man with whom she’d had a memorable one-night stand several months before. Armed with nothing more than a postcard and her own tenacity, she sets about finding her past lover, despite her landlord’s admonishments that all the coal mines closed years ago. Anchored by Mairead McKinley’s sensitive performance as Molly, writer/director Emily Atef’s perceptive drama reveals how looking for what you want sometimes leads you to finding what you need. ~ AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
Principal Cast: Mairead McKinley, Ute Gerlach, Geno Lechner,
Miroslaw Baka
Producers: Benjamin Seikel, Karma Janczyk, Tobias Brand
Cinematographers: Patricia Lewandowska
Editor: Beatrice Babin
Music: Bumcello
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Sunday, October 8 at 4:35pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Monday, October 9 at 4:00pm
Official Website: http://www.mollysway.com

MONGOLIAN PING PONG (LÛ CAO DI)
Director: Ning Hao
Country: China
Year: 2004
Runtime: 102 minutes
Mongolian with English subtitles
It starts innocently enough: a ping pong ball floats down a river in the Mongolian grasslands and is found by young Bilike (Hurichabilike). No one has even seen such an object.  Is it a magical pearl from heaven? A religious talisman? A nuisance? Or the national ball of China? Not even the monks know what it is or what to do with it. Bilike and his friends are determined to understand what the mysterious object is, why it was sent to their community, and to return it to its source. The resultant film is part comedy, part social and political satire, and part documentary.  For those who have seen none of the documentaries shot in that part of the world, MONGOLIAN PING PONG is likely to be an exhilarating journey into a natural world of unparalleled beauty. Fans of THE GODS MUST BE CRAZY will respond the most enthusiastically. ~ Nick Salerno.
Principal Cast: Hurichabilike, Dawa, Geliban, Yidexinnaribu
Producer: Bu He
Cinematographer: Jie Du
Editor: Yong Jiang
Music: Wuhe
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 11:30am and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Tuesday, October 10 at 4:00pm

ON THE SUNNY SIDE (NA PLANINCAH)
Director: Miha Hocevar
Country: Slovenia
Year: 2003
Runtime: 96 minutes
Slovenian with English subtitles
Two Bosnian boys – 11-year-old Sani and his teen brother Ado – have been orphaned by the Serbian bombing of Mostar. They've come to Ljubljana in Slovenia to stay with their aunt and uncle for what Sani thinks is a summer vacation but Ado knows that it is permanent. The film wastes no time on reopening old wounds but just follows the boys over the course of the summer. And what a summer! They both learn a bit about teen life, and adventures, and even some sex, in this witty, knowing, coming-of-age story that reminds us all of what we used to be as kids. ON THE SUNNY SIDE manages to be fresh, funny and touching all at the same time. It should take its place beside Lasse Hallstrom's classic MY LIFE AS A DOG. ~ Robert Glatzer
Principal Cast: Filip Duric, Sasa Tabakovic, Mustafa Nadarevic,
Karin Komljanec, Sabina Kogovsek, Milena Zupancic
Producer: Jure Kosak
Cinematographer: Slobodan Trninic
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Saturday, October 7 at 2:10pm and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Sunday, October 8 at 11:45am

THE QUEEN - CLOSING NIGHT FILM - AZ PREMIER/SPECIAL
ADVANCE SCREENING
Director: Stephen Frears
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2006
Runtime: 97 minutes
The post-film Q&A with Michael Sheen has been canceled.
When news of the death of Princess Diana, undoubtedly the most famous woman in the world, breaks upon a shocked and disbelieving British public, Queen Elizabeth II retreats behind the walls of Balmoral Castle with her family, unable to comprehend the public response to the tragedy. For Tony Blair, the popular and newly elected Prime Minister, the people's need for reassurance and support from their leaders is palpable. As the unprecedented outpouring of emotion grows ever stronger, Blair must find a way to reconnect the beloved Queen with the British public.
Principal Cast: Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell,
Alex Jennings, Helen McCrory, Sylvia Syms
Producers: Tracey Seaward, Andy Harries, Christine Langan
Cinematographer: Alfonso Beato
Editor: Lucia Zucchetti
Music: Alexandre Desplat
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Tuesday, October 10 at 8:30pm

WONDROUS OBLIVION
Director: Paul Morrison
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2006
Runtime: 106 minutes
Awards: Boston Jewish Film Festival - Audience Award
“Heartwarming” is perhaps overused in describing films, but it’s certainly apt in this case.  In 1960’s England an unathletic young boy and his family bond with a Jamaican family which has moved into the neighborhood and built a cricket court in its backyard.  Many of the neighbors are horrified at this infiltration of their turf by a Black family, but young David seizes the opportunity to learn cricket skills from the skilled Dennis. As the bond between the two families grows, so do the problems.  The ending may surprise you.  Think of WONDROUS OBLIVION as this year’s BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM.  Though the film is sometimes strident in expressing its anti-racism theme, still the best word to describe it is, yep, heartwarming. ~ Nick Salerno
Principal Cast: Delroy Lindo, Stanley Townsend, Emily Woof,
Angela Wynter, Sam Smith
Producer: Jonny Persey
Cinematographer: Nina Kellgren
Editor: David Freeman
Music: Ilona Sekac
Shows: Harkins Camelview 5 - Sunday, October 7 at 11:30am and
Harkins Camelview 5 - Tuesday, October 10 at 4:00pm