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France • 122 min • French w/English subtitles • 2012 • Narrative
Directed by: Olivier Assayas

2012 Venice Film Festival Award Winner for Best Screenplay!

"Mr. Assayas's method is observant and immersive. His camera moves among young bodies like an invisible friend, and his somewhat messy narrative is propelled by fidelity to feeling rather than by the machinery of plot."
- A.O. Scott, New York Times

"Olivier Assayas has made a distinctive and nuanced film about the much-chronicled post-1968 years of radical European politics, as well as providing droll insight into his self-discovery as an artist."
- David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

At the beginning of the seventies, Gilles, a high school student in Paris, is swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything, the political struggle all consuming. But Gilles gradually becomes more comfortable with his life choices, and learns to feel at ease in this new society.

USA • 96 min • English • 2012 • Narrative
Directed by: Shane Carruth

"A deeply sincere, elliptical movie about being and nature, men and women, self and other."
- Manohla Dargis, New York Times

"'Upstream Color’ is a stimulating and hypnotic piece of experimental filmmaking."
- Justin Chang, Variety

"Heart-stoppingly beautiful, quite literally overwhelming."
- Sam Adams, AV Club

A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the lifecycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

SHANE CARRUTH
Shane Carruth’s first project, “Primer,” premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Grand Jury Prize. “Upstream Color” is his second film.

AMY SEIMETZ
Amy Seimetz is a writer, director, actor and producer. Her acting credits include "The Off Hours," "Tiny Furniture," "Myth of the American Sleepover," "A Horrible Way to Die," and "Alexander the Last." Her first feature as a director, “Sun Don’t Shine,” premiered at the 2012 SXSW festival. She recently joined the cast of the Christopher Guest HBO series “Family Tree.”

USA • 89 min • English • 2012 • Documentary
Directed by: Shannah Laumeister

"An effusive, sad, visually gorgeous, and illuminating portrait of the artist."
- Peter Keough, Boston Globe

"'Mad Man' presents a tantalizing overview of Stern's work as a photographer, confidently placing him among the greats in his field."
- Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press

Bert Stern: Original Mad Man is a revealing look at the career of original “bad-boy” photographer and cultural icon Bert Stern. After working alongside Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine, Stern became an original Madison Avenue "mad man", his images helping to create modern advertising as well as mint the concept of photographer as "star.” From his meteoric rise during the “Golden Age of Advertising” to photographing the world’s most alluring women in fashion and Hollywood -- including Audrey Hepburn, Bridget Bardot, Liz Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe -- it seemed Stern could do no wrong, until a dramatic fall from grace. Bert Stern: Original Mad Man is a story of self-creation; rise, fall and reinvention. It explores creativity, celebrity, and desire through the eyes of a man who got everything he wanted. Almost.

USA • 128 min • English • 2012 • Narrative
Directed by: Mira Nair

"Tense, thoughtful and truly international in breadth and depth."
- Richard and Mary Corliss, Time Magazine

"'Convincingly rooted in Pakistan, its generally gripping drama painfully confronts the great cultural divide in people’s thinking created by the tragedy of 9/11."
- Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

2011, Lahore. At a café a Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tells Bobby (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist, about his experiences in the United States. Roll back ten years, and we find a younger Changez fresh from Princeton, seeking his fortune on Wall Street. The American Dream seems well within his grasp, complete with a smart and gorgeous artist girlfriend, Erica (Kate Hudson). But when the Twin Towers are attacked, a cultural divide slowly begins to crack open between Changez and Erica. Changez’s dream soon begins to slip into nightmare: he is transformed from a well-educated, upwardly mobile businessman to a scapegoat and perceived enemy. Taking us through the culturally rich and beguiling worlds of New York, Lahore and Istanbul, The Reluctant Fundamentalist is a story about conflicting ideologies where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death.

Italy • 76 min • Italian • 2012
Directed by: Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani

After multiple sell-out screenings, this 2013 MSP International Film Fest darling returns for a theatrical run!

Golden Bear Winner - Berlinale Film Festival

"Ranks among the most involving adaptations of Shakespeare ever put on screen ..." - LA Times

The theater in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison. A performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar has just ended amidst much applause. The lights dim on the actors and they become prisoners once again as they are accompanied back to their cells.

SIX MONTHS EARLIER

The warden and a theater director speak to the inmates about a new project, the staging of Julius Caesar in the prison. The first step is casting, a process both vivid and energetic. The second step is exploration of the text. Shakespeare’s universal language helps the inmate-actors to identify with their characters. The path is long and full of anxiety, hope and play. These are the feelings accompanying the inmates at night in their prison cells after each day of rehearsal.

Who is Giovanni who plays Caesar? Who is Salavtore-Brutus? For which crimes have they been sentenced to prison? The film does not hide this.

The wonder and pride for the play do not always free the inmates from the exasperation of being incarcerated. Their angry confrontations put the show in danger. On the anticipated but feared day of opening night, the audience is numerous and diversified: inmates, actors, students, directors.

Julius Caesar is brought back to life but this time on a stage inside a prison. It’s a success.

The inmates return to their cells. Even ‘Cassius,’ one of the main characters, one of the best. He has been in prison for many years, but tonight his cell feels different, hostile. He remains still. Then he turns, looks into the camera and tells us: “Since I have known art, this cell has turned into a prison.”

USA • 101 min • English • Documentary • 2012
Directed by: Richard Robbins

Girl Rising is a powerful and innovative new feature film by Academy Award-nominated director Richard E. Robbins. Produced by award-winning former ABC News journalists of The Documentary Group and Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions, Girl Rising is powered by strategic partner, Intel Corporation, and global television distribution partner, CNN Films.

Girl Rising spotlights the stories of nine unforgettable girls born into unforgiving circumstances. Girls like Sokha, an orphan who rises from a life in the garbage dump in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to become a star student and an accomplished dancer; Suma, who writes songs that help her endure forced servitude in Nepal and today crusades to free others; and Ruksana, an Indian “pavement-dweller” whose father sacrifices his own basic needs for his daughter’s dreams.

Each girl is paired with a renowned writer from her native country: Marie Arana (Peru), Edwidge Danticat (Haiti), Mona Eltahawy (Egypt), Aminatta Forna (Sierre Leone), Zarghuna Kargar (Afghanistan), Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia), Sooni Taraporevala (India), Manjushree Thapa (Nepal), and Loung Ung (Cambodia).

These stories are narrated by celebrated actresses: Cate Blanchett (Haiti), Priyanka Chopra (India), Selena Gomez (Sierra Leone), Anne Hathaway (Afghanistan), Salma Hayek (Peru), Alicia Keys (Cambodia), Chloë Moretz (Egypt), Freida Pinto, Meryl Streep (Ethiopia), and Kerry Washington (Nepal). Girl Rising also features Freida Pinto and Liam Neeson, with original music from Academy Award-winner Rachel Portman and Lorne Balfe.