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Thursday, June 7
7 p.m.
The Grand
Woody Harrelson, Werner Herzog, Cheryl Hines, David Cross
Directed by Zak Penn
Penn gives the mockumentary treatment to the overexposed world of professional poker in the story of six poker players who make it to the final table of the world’s most famous high stakes tournament. Screening at the Golden Nugget.
7:30 p.m.
The Devil Came on Horseback
Directed by Ricki Stern & Annie Sundberg
This documentary follows Marine Captain Brian Steidle during his stint as a military observer in Darfur.
Friday, June 8
3 p.m.
The Grand
3:30 p.m.
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone
Lee Kang-sheng, Chen Siang-chyi, Norman Atun
Directed by Tsai Ming-liang
Homeless on the streets of Kuala Lumpur, Hsiao Kang is robbed, beaten and left for dead; he is found and nursed by an immigrant worker who lives in the shell of a building abandoned during construction.
6 p.m.
Choose Connor
Steven Weber, Alex Linz, Escher Holloway
Directed by Luke Eberl
Fifteen-year-old Owen Norris gets his dream job as the youth campaign spokesperson for a senatorial candidate, but soon learns about the dark side of politics.
6:30 p.m.
Bad Habits
Jimena Ayala, Elena de Haro, Marco Treviño
Directed by Simón Bross
The story of three women whose eating habits determine and dominate their lives in extreme ways.
8:30 p.m.
The Living Wake
Mike O’Connell, Jesse Eisenberg, Ann Dowd
Directed by Sol Tryon
Self-proclaimed artist and genius K. Roth Binew (O’Connell) has decided that he has reached the end of life. He enlists his best friend, the unknown poet and biographer Mills Joquin (Eisenberg), to chronicle his final hours.
9 p.m.
Viva
Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno
Directed by Anna Biller
A suburban housewife in 1972 goes out to find herself in the middle of the swinging Playboy-era sexual revolution, in a tribute to vintage sexploitation films.
Saturday, June 9
1 p.m.
Loren Cass
Kayla Tabish, Travis Maynard, Lewis Brogan
Directed by Chris Fuller
The year is 1997. Cale, Jason, and Nicole are awake in St. Petersburg, Florida. The city is plagued by uprisings on the south side after a young black motorist is gunned down by a white police officer.
1:30 p.m.
Never on a Sunday
Silverio Palacios, Humberto Busto, Maya Zapata
Directed by Daniel Gruener
In trying to bury his uncle, who dies on the unluckiest of Sundays, a young man becomes embroiled in a series of gruesome adventures through modern-day Mexico City.
3 p.m.
Look
Hayes McArthur, Giuseppe Andrews, Miles Dougal
Directed by Adam Rifkin
Shot entirely from the point of view of the hundreds of surveillance cameras we live under every day, Look is a film about the things people do when they don’t know they’re being watched.
3:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 1
4:30 p.m.
Choose Connor
6 p.m.
All God’s Children Can Dance
Joan Chen, Jason Lew, Sonja Kinski
Directed by Robert Logevall
A young man raised to view himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father.
6:30 p.m.
Eagle vs. Shark
Loren Horsley, Jemaine Clement, Craig Hall
Directed by Taika Waititi
The tale of two socially awkward misfits and the strange ways they try to find love.
7:30 p.m.
Once Upon a Time Maria
Julio Bracho, Ana Serradilla, Mahalat, Diana Bracho
Directed by Jesus Magaña Vázquez
A melding of real and surreal that follows the tempestuous love life of Mexican filmmaker Tonatiuh as he seeks the mesmerizing subject (and title character) of his latest documentary.
8:30 p.m.
Careless
Colin Hanks, Tony Shalhoub, Rachel Blanchard
Directed by Peter Spears
Wiley Roth (Hanks) finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, Wiley and his best friend set out across LA trying to solve the mystery of the finger.
9 p.m.
Garbanzo Gas
Miles Dougal, Walt Dongo, Vietnam Ron
Directed by Giuseppe Andrews
A very lo-fi, surreal statement against animal abuse dedicated to PETA.
11 p.m.
My Name is Bruce
Bruce Campbell, Grace Thorsen, Taylor Sharpe
Directed by Bruce Campbell
The residents of Gold Lick, Oregon, decide to kidnap Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell, who surely can help them defeat the evil monster that is terrorizing their small town.
Sunday, June 10
Noon
Hollywood Heart
A film created by the participants in the LA non-profit organization’s filmmaking workshop for at-risk youth. Free screening.
1:30 p.m.
The Living Wake
3 p.m.
Throwing Stars
Scott Grimes, Jason London, Scott Michael Campbell
Directed by Todd Breau
The bond among four childhood friends is tested when they have to cover up a murder.
3:30 p.m.
Bad Habits
4:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 2
6 p.m.
The Fifth Patient
Nick Chinlund, Isaach De Bankolé, Brendan Fehr
Directed by Amir Mann
In a flyblown African hospital, a man named John—or maybe Nick—wakes up with no memory of who, or what, he is.
6:30 p.m.
Drama/Mex
Miriana Moro, Emilio Valdés, Juan Pablo Castañeda
Directed by Gerardo Naranjo
Acapulco serves as the backdrop for the stories of a suicidal man, a 15-year-old runaway and a young couple facing hardship after a tragic breakup.
7:30 p.m.
Loren Cass
8:30 p.m.
Have Love, Will Travel
Tae Davies, Chandler Rylko, Roxanne Arvizu
Directed by Dan Peterson
A journey into the underground world of Private Dancing as seen through the eyes of a new dancer and her new driver-bodyguard.
Monday, June 11
2 p.m.
Once Upon a Time Maria
2:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 1
3 p.m.
All God’s Children Can Dance
5 p.m.
Never on a Sunday
5:30 p.m.
Careless
6 p.m.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
Kim Jiang, Jane Kim, Patrick Heusinger
Directed by Joy Dietrich
Jenny Mason (Jiang) is a Korean adoptee and aspiring photographer who works as a barista at a cafe in New York and keeps a safe emotional distance from everyone around her.
8 p.m.
Look
8:30 p.m.
Great World of Sound
Pat Healy, Kene Holliday, Rebecca Mader
Directed by Craig Zobel
Two Southern guys get caught up in the excitement of a record-industry talent-scouting scheme.
9 p.m.
Kurt Cobain About a Son
Directed by AJ Schnack
An intimate meditation on the late musician and artist in his own words and voice, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audio interviews with Kurt Cobain conducted by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad.
Tuesday, June 12
3 p.m.
The Fifth Patient
4 p.m.
Have Love, Will Travel
6 p.m.
Rocket Science
Reece Daniel Thompson, Anna Kendrick, Nicholas D’Agosto
Directed by Jeffrey Blitz
A teenage boy with a horrific stuttering problem joins his high-school debate team in an ill-fated effort to win the girl of his dreams.
6:30 p.m.
Throwing Stars
7 p.m.
Shorts Program 2
9:30 p.m.
UNLV Shorts
Midnight
TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies
A performance by found-video remix artist TV Sheriff, at the Rockhouse inside the Imperial Palace.
Wednesday, June 13
1 p.m.
La Vie En Rose
Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory
Directed by Olivier Dahan
The life story of French singing legend Edith Piaf.
3:30 p.m.
Nevada Filmmaking Shorts
4 p.m.
I Have Never Forgotten You
Directed by Richard Trank
A documentary on Simon Wiesenthal, the Austrian-Jewish architectural engineer who became a Nazi-hunter after surviving the Holocaust.
4:30 p.m.
Tie a Yellow Ribbon
6:30 p.m.
Sun Dogs
Directed by Andrea Stewart
A documentary following the Jamaican dogsled team at the 2006 UK championships in Scotland.
7 p.m.
Blue State
Breckin Meyer, Anna Paquin, Adriana O’Neil
Directed by Marshall Lewy
While campaigning for John Kerry in 2004, John Logue (Meyer) vows to move to Canada if George W. Bush wins the election. John returns to San Francisco to find his job and girlfriend gone and his friends egging him on to keep his campaign promise.
9 p.m.
Frownland
Dore Mann, Mary Wall, Paul Grimstad
Directed by Ronald Bronstein
The miserable existence of Keith, from living in the kitchen of his shared one-bedroom apartment to his daily reverse-commute to the suburbs to hock coupon packets door-to-door.
9:30 p.m.
CCSN Shorts
Thursday, June 14
12:30 p.m.
La Vie En Rose
1:30 p.m.
Frownland
3 p.m.
California Dreamin’ (Endless)
Armand Assante, Razvan Vasilescu, Jamie Elman
Directed by Cristian Nemescu
U.S. Marine Captain Jones is assigned to escort a train carrying NATO equipment headed for the former Yugoslavia during the war in Kosovo. His mission is held back by a very thorough station master in a godforsaken village, who halts the train over a paperwork technicality.
3:30 p.m.
Blue State
4:30 p.m.
Phantom Love
Marina Shoif, Juliette Marquis, Yelena Apartseva
Directed by Nina Menkes
A surreal drama about a woman trapped in an enmeshed family, and her slow process of personal liberation.
6:30 p.m.
Chavez
Directed by Diego Luna
A documentary on the life of boxer Julio César Chávez.
7 p.m.
Broken English
Parker Posey, Melvil Poupaud, Drea de Matteo
Directed by Zoe Cassavetes
After a series of disastrous first dates, cynical thirtysomething Nora meets a devil-may-care Frenchman who will open her eyes to a lot more than love.
7:30 p.m.
In the Land of Merry Misfits
Doug Sherin, Danielle Weeks, Keven Undergaro
Directed by Keven Undergaro
A naive young man takes a wrong turn through a mystical tunnel and lands in a fable-like universe.
9:30 p.m.
Art Institute of Las Vegas Shorts
10 p.m.
Blue Velvet
Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper
Directed by David Lynch
A 20th-anniversary screening of Lynch’s surreal classic, with a live appearance by Hopper.
Friday, June 15
1 p.m.
In the Land of Merry Misfits
1:30 p.m.
Nevada Filmmaking Shorts
3 p.m.
Half-Life Award: Charlize Theron
Live conversation with Theron, followed by clips from her upcoming film Ferris Wheel.
4 p.m.
Shorts Program 3
6 p.m.
Marquee Award: Anthony Hopkins
Live conversation with Hopkins, followed by a screening of his directorial debut, the hallucinogenic drama Slipstream.
6:30 p.m.
Penelope
Christina Ricci, James McAvoy, Catherine O’Hara
Directed by Mark Palansky
Ricci is a woman cursed with a pig snout in a modern romantic fairy tale about love and self-acceptance.
7 p.m.
Mr. Untouchable
Directed by Marc Levin
Documentary about 1970s Harlem heroin kingpin Nicky Barnes.
9 p.m.
On the Road With Judas
Aaron Ruell, Kevin Corrigan, Eddie Kaye Thomas
Directed by JJ Lask
A film based on a real novel, written by a writer, played by an actor, about the real characters and the actors playing those characters in this story.
Saturday, June 16
1 p.m.
On the Road With Judas
1:30 p.m.
Shorts Program 3
2 p.m.
Vanguard Director Award: Mike Newell
Live conversation with Newell, followed by clips from his upcoming film Love in the Time of Cholera.
4 p.m.
Penelope
4:30 p.m.
Chavez
5 p.m.
Vanguard Actor Award: Ben Kingsley
Live conversation with Kingsley.
7 p.m.
You Kill Me
Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson
Directed by John Dahl
An alcoholic hitman befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it’s time for him to settle old scores.
7:30 p.m.