Show International Film Festival Movie Briefs Jared Maxwell Movie Writer The International onal Film F St v l s b back k at March M 26 31 The Annual presentation of films from around the world will willbe willbe willbe be held at the Redwood Technology Building in Room Speakers will discuss each film with the audience Brothers 2004 Danish min R Michael Ulrich Thomsen has everything under control a successful military career a beautiful wife Connie Nielsen and two daughters His younger brother Jannik Nikolaj Lie Kaas is a drifter living on the edge rt hen M 1 e 1 ot 01 of me ne law law V. W Wis V rc u. u ta is sent to Afghanistan on a UN U.N. mission the balance between the two brothers changes forever Comme une image Look at Me 2004 French HOmin min PG- PG 13 Lolita Marilou Berry and is a very gifted singer she's prep preparing ring for a recital with other companions But Lolita despite her great voice lives with a complex about her obesity and has a famous writer for a father Etienne tienne Pierre Jean-Pierre Bacri Baeri who doesn't care eare about herand herand her herand and hardly knows about her talent Lolita's teacher Sylvia film director Agn Agnes s is an admirer of Etienne's tiennes work nearly to the point of idolizing him Dare Dar m mo Nobody Knows 2004 Japanese min PG- PG 13 Four siblings live happily with their mother in a small apartment nt in Tokyo The children all have different fathers and have never been to school The very existence of three of them has been hidden from the landlord One day the mother leaves behind a little money and a note charging her oldest boy to look after the others And so begins the childrens children's odyssey a journey whose conclusion nobody knows Vodka Lemon 2003 Armenian I Kurdish I Russian I French 90 min nn NR In a remote village in Soviet post-Soviet Armenia Hamo a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons travels daily to his wife's grave There he meets the lovel lovely Nina who is communing with her late husband The two are penniless she works in a local bar that is about to close down while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions All seems hopelessly bleak yet yetas as Hamo begins to court Nina their unexpected union revitalizes them Horem p dem Up and Down 2004 Czech German English I English I German GermanI I Russian min R A comedy that makes you cry A drama that m makes k s you laugh The discovery of an abandoned child by two smugglers kicks into a gear a series of tragic comic events vents Up and Down presents a portrait of a country in transition Director Jan Hrebejk comments on what he is seeing around him in inthe inthe inthe the Czech Republic After years of Soviet domination the country has turned into a democracy where the old norms and the new reality clash with one another to produce an uncertain time in the country Caterina va in citta Caterina Catering in the Big City 2003 Italian 90 min NR When her father Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montaldo Di Castro year old Caterina discovers in her new classmates a totally new world an extremely divided political atmosphere She starts developing her friendship with the left side of her class represented by Margherita and the right represented by Daniela She quickly begins begins' to lose herself without knowing who she really is However maybe Edward the young Australian boy who lives inthe in inthe inthe the apartment across from her can help her more that she thinks 2000 English I French min PG 13 A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community Happy Times 2000 Mandarin min NR Zhao is an aging bachelor who hasn't been lucky in love Thinking he has finally met the woman of his dreams Zhao leads her herto herto herto to believe he is wealthy and agrees to a wedding far beyond his means Les invasion The Barbarian Invasions 2003 French I English 99 min R A provocative comedy about se seX friendship all other things that invade our lives de The Motorcycle Diaries 2004 I 1 Spanish min R Based on the journals of Che Clue Guevara leader of the Cuban Revolution Guevara recounts adventures he and best friend Alberto Granado had while crossing South America by motorcycle in inthe inthe inthe the early in Afrika Nowhere in Africa 2001 I English I Swahili I German min R A Jewish family in Germany emigrates shortly before World War II They move to Kenya to start running a farm but not all aU members of the family are happy with their new lives Things begin to to change in Germany very ry quickly and rind turning back seems impossible forcing everyone to adjust to life ona on ona ona a new continent e noor-e noor Under the Moonlight 2001 1 Persian 96 min NR Hassan a ayoung ayoung ayoung young seminary student is preparing to don the clerical attire but a run- run in with a thief steals who steals his vestments leads him to a stricken poverty-stricken world in direct contrast to the lessons hes he's learned in class Suddenly feeling at odds with the religion he has slavishly poured over for years finds him himself faced with a tough u decision about whether to to continue his studies |