WEEK 1

Please note: all films will be shown at the Hooker-Dunham Theater unless otherwise noted - i.e. Latchis = Latchis Theater; Falls = Falls Cinema
* denotes accompanying special event - click the asterisk to learn more. Where there is a special event - a director's talk (d), or panel (p), the following show will start a half-hour later.
Agnes Varda (Varda) mini-fest is embedded in the festival schedule.

Festival programs will be available starting February 17 wherever festival tickets and coupons are sold. Please visit our "tickets" page to find a location near you.

Fri., March 7 -

5:00- 8:00 Gala reception

8:30 Reno: Rebel Without A Pause
U.S., 2002, 71 min. Director: Nancy Savoca
Reno, the fabulously radical feminist comedian delivers a tour de force of raw but also healing energy in this film version of her one-woman stage show that takes on American patriotism and the U.S. war on terrorism. more...

Sat., Mar.8 –

2:00 Gleaners And I (Varda)
France, 2000, 82 minutes, Directed by Agnes Varda
One of the finest recent films from this pioneering French "New Wave" director. An intimate inquiry into life as lived by France’s poor and marginal, and a personal odyssey for the filmmaker. more...

4:00 Bend It Like Bekham (Latchis)
UK., 2002, 112mins., Directed by Gurinder Chadha
English football star David Beckham’s uncanny ability to kick the ball in an arc around the keeper is the metaphor and inspiration point for this film’s heroine, more...

*6:00 Some Real Heat/ Cowgirls (d)
Some Real Heat: Germany, 2001, 54 min. Filmmaker: Stephanie Jordan, a documentary.
This documentary explores the small and relatively new world of female firefighters in San Francisco. more...
Cowgirls: Canada/U.S.A., 2002, 30 minutes , Director: Sally Clark
Yipee Yi Yay! Women on the rodeo circuit. Through a series of portraits from daredevil trick riders to septuagenarian barrel racers to rodeo queens more...

8:30 Mai's America
USA/ Vietnam, 2002, 86 minutes. Directed by Marlo Poras
A spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh’s revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi on a highschool exchange program. Anticipating Hollywood, Mai crash lands in rural Mississippi, more...

Sun., Mar.9 –

2:00 Vagabond (Varda)
France, 1985, 105 mins. Directed by Agnes Varda
Sondrine Bonnaire in an award-winning role as Mona, a homeless drifter who is found frozen in a ditch. She is recalled and reconstructed in flashback by those she met in her final weeks, more...

4:00 Bend It Like Bekham
UK., 2002, 112mins., Directed by Gurinder Chadha
English football star David Beckham’s uncanny ability to kick the ball in an arc around the keeper is the metaphor and inspiration point for this film’s heroine, more...

* 6:00 Mai's America (d)
USA/ Vietnam, 2002, 86 minutes. Directed by Marlo Poras
A spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh’s revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi on a highschool exchange program. Anticipating Hollywood, Mai crash lands in rural Mississippi, more...

8:30 Some Real Heat/ Cowgirls
Some Real Heat: Germany, 2001, 54 min. Filmmaker: Stephanie Jordan, a documentary. This documentary explores the small and relatively new world of female firefighters in San Francisco. more...
Cowgirls: Canada/U.S.A., 2002, 30 minutes , Director: Sally Clark
Yipee Yi Yay! Women on the rodeo circuit. Through a series of portraits from daredevil trick riders to septuagenarian barrel racers to rodeo queens more...

Mon., Mar.10 –

7:00 Cowards (Latchis)
U.S.A., 2001, 60 mins., Directed by Michel Moyse
A multiscreen work about a couple locked in a destructive relationship. more...