TICKET PROGRAM

miamifilmfestival.com
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 3

Welcome
...to the 34th Miami Film Festival!

CONTENTS PAGE Youve probably seen those 2014 YouTube videos where a group of young marines sing
along to the Let it Go scene from the Disney movie Frozenthe videos collectively
TICKETS & INFORMATION 5
have about a kabillion hits. The videos are funny, but I especially like them because they
POSTER ARTIST 7 demonstrate the most fundamental appeal of the movies: they equalize us. If a brawny
CINEDWNTWN GALAS 9 marine can identify with a mythical ice princess in a land far, far away, then movies are

KNIGHT COMPETITION
KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
HBO IBERO-AMERICAN
COMPETITION
11 still weaving their powerful magic. At this years 34th Miami Film Festival, I challenge you
to step outside of your comfort zone and take in a movie whose story and setting are
13
as different from your own experience as you might imagine, to see how the movies can
rouse and fortify your ability to empathize with characters and dilemmas far removed
15
from your own. With films from over 40 countries encompassing a broad spectrum

JORDAN RESSLER AWARD 17 of themes and ideas, I am certain youll be challenged, moved and enthralled. Let the
movies renew your internal global citizenship.
SHORTS COMPETITION & 19
ZENO MOUNTAIN AWARD
This years Festival presents a new publication: the one you are holding now! It is
MIAMI FILM 2017 & CINEMASLAM 21
designed to present more detail, better organization and easier browsing and selection
CANADA 150 23
options as you plan your Festival experience. On behalf of the many organizations and
FLORIDA FOCUS 24 individuals involved in putting together this treasured annual event, from Miami Dade
RICHARD GERE & 28 Colleges presidentand recent Presidential Medal of Freedom winnerDr. Eduardo
OPENING NIGHT J. Padron; the Board of Trustees; our new Cultural Affairs executive director Natalia
AWARDS NIGHT 31 Crujeiras; long-term sponsors such as Knight Foundation, American Airlines, HBO

AN EVENING WITH 32 and so many more; and the passionate and exceptional Festival team and volunteers,
ROSSY DE PALMA I invite you to explore our world as only the movies can reflect it.
MARQUEE SERIES 35
Find your character this yearand sing your heart out!
SOIREE SERIES 36

FILMS A-Z 40

GOOGLE TALKS 81

MASTERCLASSES 83

MIAMI FILM SOCIETY 86

SPECIAL THANKS 89

PROGRAMMERS & 90
FESTIVAL TEAM

SCHEDULE GRID 92 Jaie Laplante

Executive Director & Director of Programming
COUNTRY INDEX 100 Miami Film Festival
FILM INDEX 101

SEE YOU AT THE MOVIES!

 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 5

TICKETS PRICES
Regular Screenings
MIAMI FILM SOCIETY: Friday, February 3 General Admission $13
Look for special instructions via email to place your order Miami Film Society Members $10
(by February 9 for priority). Seniors $12
Students $10
Review benefits and/or become a member at Masterclass Seminars $9 (MDC students FREE)
miamifilmfestival.com or call 305-237-7979
GENERAL PUBLIC: Friday, February 10 CINEDWNTWN Galas
General Admission $16
Online: miamifilmfestival.com Miami Film Society Members $12
Phone: 1 -844-565-6433 (MIFF) Seniors $14
Mon-Fri: 9 AM 6 PM Students $12
Sat-Sun: 10 AM 2 PM
Special Events
In Person: Opening Night Film $30 | MFS $20
Olympia Box Office: Opening Night Party $95 | MFS $85
174 East Flagler Street, Miami Opening Night Film & Party $125 | MFS $105
Friday, February 10 Saturday, March 11
Mon-Sun: 12 PM - 6 PM Awards Night Film $30 | MFS $20
Awards Night Party $95 | MFS $85
Tower Box Office: Awards Night Film & Party $125 | MFS $105
1508 SW 8 Street, Miami
Friday, February 10 - Saturday, March 11 Additional Special Event Prices (Marquee Series, Soire
during open theater hours Series, Culinary Events, Parties) listed on event pages
Venue Box Offices: Group Rates
Venue box offices open one hour before the first screening 15% off with a single purchase of 20 or more tickets to the
of the day. Patrons may purchase tickets for all Festival same screening. To order, call the box office.
screenings at all venues, when available. Venue-specific,
same-day tickets take priority in lines. NOTE: A $1 per ticket processing fee applies to all regular
screenings and seminars. A higher per-ticket fee may be
Rush Line: applied to special events.
When screenings sell out, and no more advanced tickets are
available, a RUSH LINE will form at the door of a screening. If there
are empty seats, tickets will be sold on a first-come, first-served
basis to the line. Limit 1 per person. Cash only.
You may not hold a space in line for additional people,
only yourself.

SCREENING VENUES
1 Olympia Theater (OLY)
174 East Flagler Street, Miami
2 Regal South Beach Cinemas (R17, R18)
1100 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach
3 MDCs Tower Theater (TWR1, TWR2)
1508 SW 8th Street, Little Havana
4 O Cinema Miami Beach (OCMB)
500 71st Street, Miami Beach
5 Coral Gables Art Cinema (CGAC)
260 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables
6 MDC Live Arts Lab at Miami Dade College,
Wolfson Campus, Building 1 (LAB)
300 NE 2nd Ave, Miami
7 Miami Beach Cinematheque (MBC)
1130 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach
8 The Screening Room (TSR)
2626 NW 2nd Ave, Miami
Additional Special Event Venues listed on event pages

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF)

PLEASE NOTE
*Students & Seniors must show valid ID at Box Office. Seating for Ticketholders is guaranteed up Connect with us! /MiamiFilmFestival

#MiamiFF
to 15 minutes prior to start of screening. At 15 minute to show time, empty seats will be sold. All /miamifilmfest
programs and show times are subject to change without notice. No refunds or exchanges. @miamifilm
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 7

Festival Poster Artist

Juan Gatti

Miami Film Festival has selected

Argentinian designer, photographer
and graphic artist Juan Gatti, founder
of Gatti Studios in Madrid, as the
official poster artist for the
34th edition.

Having recently lent his seductively

ornate style to Faena Hotel Miami
Beach, Gatti is renowned for his work
as an illustrator for advertising
agencies, magazines, and
record covers.

For over 4 decades, Gatti has

contributed some of modern
cinemas most unique credit and
title sequences, in films for Pedro
Almodvar (including Women on the
Nervous Breakdown, High Heels,
Broken Embraces, Volver),
Alex de la Iglesia, Manuel Gmez
Pereira, Susan Seidelman,
Flix Sabroso and many more.

He has worked as a designer in

New York, and Madrid, with other
fashion and culture greats through
the countercultural movement in
the 1970s, and held the post of
art director of Italian Vogue, as
well as art director of CBS Records.

Gatti was bestowed with Spains

National Design Award in 2004 and
the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts
in 2009.

On October 12, 2016, Juan Gatti was our
honored guest at the beautiful Faena Hotel
Miami Beach, where a collection of his film
credit sequences was screened, and the
2017 poster was revealed to the public for
the first time.
 Down
CINEDWNTWN 9

GALAS
PROGRAM OVERVIEW

town
Red carpet events featuring the years most compelling star-driven works by top-tier
directors showcased at the historic Olympia Theater.

Miami
the only place to be
for shopping, dining,
sports, lm, live music, FILM TITLE PAGE

art & culture.

A CHANGE OF HEART 36

AN EVENING WITH ROSSY DE PALMA 33

FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 31

THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35

IM GILDA 57

LAST DAYS IN HAVANA 61

downtownMIA
NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE 30
AND TRAGIC FALL OF A
downtownMIA NEW YORK FIXER

downtownMIA
 LOS CAMINOS INESPERADOS KNIGHT 11

TE LLEVAN A DESTINOS INCREBLES. COMPETITION

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

KNIGHT COMPETITION presents $40,000 in prizes courtesy of FILM TITLE PAGE

John S. & James L. Knight Foundation.
THE BAR 41
All feature films directed by filmmakers who have presented at
THE CANDIDATE 42
least one feature as part of the Festivals Official Selection are
eligible in this category. Competing films are eligible for a $30,000 CARGO 43
Knight Grand Jury Prize that will be split between the producer and DONT BLAME IT ON YOUR KARMA! 48
the U.S. distributor of the film. If no U.S. distributor is secured before EL PAMPERO 49
April 2017 then the full award will be made to the producer.
THE EMPTY BOX 51
The Grand Jury, in its own discretion, will also award up to a total FAMILY LIFE 51
of $10,000 additional funds for distinctions for Best Performance THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35
and Best Director.
ITS ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD 59
LAST DAYS IN HAVANA 61
JURORS THE LOST BROTHER 62
MAY GOD SAVE US 64
Michel Franco was born in Mexico City in 1979.
The films he has written, directed and produced THE NIGHT MY MOTHER KILLED MY FATHER 68
include Chronic (2016) - Winner of the Best SANTA & ANDRES 70
Screenplay award at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival
SMOKE & MIRRORS 71
and a success at 2016 Miami Film Festival ; After
Lucia (2012) a 2012 Cannes Film Festival Certain SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS 73
Regard Winner and 30th Miami Film Festival TESOROS 74
Program . He also produced From Afar (2015)
by Lorenzo Vigas winner of the Leone dOro at THAT THING CALLED LOVE 74
the 2015 Venice Film Festival and 2016 Miami Film THE UNKNOWN GIRL 75
Festivals Jordan Ressler Screenwriter Award.
ZIP & ZAP AND THE CAPTAINS ISLAND 79

Grainne Humphreys has worked in film

programming for over twenty years, she started
her career working with young audiences with the KNIGHT GRAND JURY PRIZE
Junior Dublin Film Festival in 1994. During her tenure
at the Irish Film Institute she included programming RECENT PAST WINNERS
seasons on Andy Warhol, Agnes Varda and Harold
Pinter, and in 2001 she was named Assistant Director.
She has served as a jury member and coordinated 2016 | DHEEPAN by Jacques Audiard
film programs on a number of international film 2015 | THE OBSCURE SPRING
festivals and events. She has been, since 2007, (LAS OSCURAS PRIMAVERAS)
Festival Director of the Dublin International Film by Ernesto Contreras
Festival, an eleven day event that showcases more
than 140 feature films. 2014 | A WOLF AT THE DOOR
(O LOBO ATRAS DA PORTA)
by Fernando Coimbra
LA LNEA DE SUVs DE LUJO DE LEXUS 2013 | SO MUCH WATER
Bahia Ramos is Knight Foundations Arts Program (TANTA AGUA)
Toma tu lugar en el mundo en un SUV de lujo de Lexus. Elije entre la combinacin de Director. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she has by Ana Guevara & Leticia Jorge
diseo sofisticado y tecnologa intuitiva del NX, el confort y la capacidad del GX de siete had an extensive career in the cultural nonprofit
sector serving as government and community
pasajeros, o el expresivo estilo interior y avanzadas caractersticas de seguridad del RX. affairs director at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and
Redefine el lujo a tu manera. Brooklyn Childrens Museum. She joined the
Knight Foundation in September 2009. She has
Lexus.com | #Lexus also served as a member of The Miami Foundations
signature leadership program the Miami Fellows.
Ramos earned a Bachelor of Arts in history from
Williams College and a Master of Public Administration
Congratulations to the Miami International Film Festival for its 34th year of service to the film industry. from the Baruch College School of Public Affairs, as a
Thank you for your commitment to cultural understanding and encouraging artistic development. National Urban Fellow.

Se muestran opciones. 2017 Lexus.

 KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY
MUSIC
13

ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
DANCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW

THEATER KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD is a $10,000 cash prize courtesy of John S. & James L. Knight Foundation, given to
one documentary film as voted upon by the Festival audience. All Florida Premiere feature-length documentary (50 min or longer)
playing in the Festivals Official Selection (except for From the Vault screenings) are eligible for this Award.

FILM TITLE PAGE FILM TITLE PAGE

KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY
THE CAT FROM HAVANA 43 NOBODY SPEAK: HULK HOGAN, GAWKER 68
AND TRIALS OF A FREE PRESS
ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
MUSIC! CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY 44 RECENT PAST WINNERS
RESTLESS CREATURE: WENDY WHELAN 70
A CONCRETE CINEMA 46
SERENADE FOR HAITI 70 2016 | QUEEN OF THURSDAYS
DREAM EMPIRE 48 by Orlando Rojas
SEX. MARACAS & CHIHUAHUAS 71
DUBFIRE: ABOVE GROUND LEVEL 37
SYMPHONY IN D 73 2015 | TEA TIME
ELLA BRENNAN: COMMANDING THE TABLE 50 (LA ONCE)
TAKE MY NOSE... PLEASE! 74 by Maite Alberdi
EMBARGO 50
DANCE! GIVE ME FUTURE: MAJOR LAZER IN CUBA 54
UNTOUCHABLE 75
2014 | FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
VEGAS BABY 76 by Charlie Siskel and
THE GROWN-UPS 55 John Maloof;
VEINTE AOS 76
THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35 THE OVERNIGHTERS
VISITORS DAY 76 by Jesse Moss
THE LAMBIRDS 60
VOICES BEYOND THE WALL: TWELVE LOVE 77 2013 | GIDEONS ARMY
LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE DANCERS 61 POEMS FROM THE MURDER CAPITAL OF
by Dawn Porter
COMEDY! THE WORLD
Visit our website at LOVE AND SAUCERS 62
WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS OF 77 *formerly KNIGHT DOCUMENTARY
MR. CHIBBS 67
MiamiDadeCountyAuditorium.org DAMON J. KEITH COMPETITION AWARD
and check out a colorful season of events
that celebrates our vibrant community.
SOUTH MIAMI-DADE Season highlights include:
CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
presents an exciting lineup of EVENTS! Jose Negroni
performances:
Florida Chamber Orchestra
BEST OF SECOND CITY
TAJ EXPRESS Tigertail Productions
DRUMLINE LIVE
Bistoury Physical Theatre
ONE NIGHT OF QUEEN
PABLO VILLEGAS
OPERA!
Global Cuba Fest
MOMIX
GALLIM DANCE
Nilo Cruz
MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS LIVE! Sergio Dalma
and much more!
Albita
PLUS Look for the return of our INDIE FLICKS film series!
XXXII International
Hispanic Theatre Festival
Information:

smdcac.org
786.573.5300
10950 SW 211 St. For more information call
Cutler Bay, FL 33189 305.547.5414
2901 W Flagler St. | Miami, FL 33135

SOUTH MIAMI-DADE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER AND THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY AUDITORIUM ARE MANAGED BY THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS, WITH FUNDING SUPPORT FROM THE
OFFICE OF THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY MAYOR AND BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. IT IS THE POLICY OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY TO COMPLY WITH ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES
ACT. THE FACILITY IS ACCESSIBLE AND ASSISTIVE LISTENING DEVICES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE MAIN STAGE AUDITORIUM AND THE BLACK BOX THEATER SPACE. TO REQUEST MATERIALS IN ACCESSIBLE FORMAT, AND/
OR ANY ACCOMMODATION TO ATTEND AN EVENT AT THE SOUTH MIAMI-DADE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER, PLEASE CONTACT STEPHANIE APONTE, 786-573-5314, SAPONTE@MIAMIDADE.GOV, OR AT THE MIAMI-DADE
COUNTY AUDITORIUM, CONTACT JAVIER SIUT, 305.547.5414, SIUTJ@MIAMIDADE.GOV, AT LEAST FIVE DAYS IN ADVANCE TO INITIATE YOUR REQUEST. TTY USERS MAY ALSO CALL 711 (FLORIDA RELAY SERVICE).
 HBO IBERO-AMERICAN 15

COMPETITION
PROGRAM OVERVIEW

HBO IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITION is open to all U.S. Hispanic FILM TITLE PAGE
and Ibero-American films in the Official Selection, making a
minimum a Florida Premiere, which compete for a jury-selected THE BAR 41
THE BLIND CHRIST 41
cash achievement award of $10,000.
THE CANDIDATE 42
THE DARKNESS 47
THE DEATH OF MARGA MAIER 47
JURORS
DONT BLAME IT ON YOUR KARMA! 48
EL AMPARO 49
Leslie Cohen is Vice President of Film Programming EL INCA 49
at HBO, being responsible for the acquisition of EL PAMPERO 49
Spanish language films and series for HBO Latino THE EMPTY BOX 51
as well as acquisition of films from the major studios FAMILY LIFE 51
for both HBO and Cinemax. Leslies tenure at HBO FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 31
spans over 20+ years, where she worked on the HERO STEPS 56
launch of HBOs international ventures in Asia and IM GILDA 57
Central Europe and performed financial forecasting JEFFREY 59
and deal analysis in HBOs strategic planning group. JESUS 59
Leslie serves as a Board Member of the Picture LA SOLEDAD 60
House Regional Film Center in New York and an LAST DAYS IN HAVANA 61
Advisory Board Member for Floridas Gasparilla LITTLE WHITE LIE 62
Film Festival Cinema by the Bay. She holds a BA in THE LOST BROTHER 62
English from Dartmouth College and an MBA from MARIA (AND EVERYBODY ELSE) 64
New York University. She lives in New York with her MAY GOD SAVE US 64
husband and two children. MONDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN 66
THE MOTHER 67
THE NIGHT MY MOTHER KILLED MY FATHER 68

HBO Hctor Medina is from Havana, Cuba. His early

feature film screen roles include Gerardo Chijonas
Boleto al paraso (10) and Esther en alguna parte
ON THE ROOF
THE ONE-EYED KING
SANTA & ANDRES
68
69
70

PROUDLY (13). He played the role of Yunisleidi in The King

of Havana (15), 2016 Miami Film Festival Official
SMOKE & MIRRORS
SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS
71
73

SUPPORTS Selection. He was seen in the title role of the Irish/ TESOROS 74
Cuban film Viva (15), released in theaters in spring THAT THING CALLED LOVE 74
2016. Medina recently finished shooting Alejandro WOODPECKERS 78

THE 2017 MIAMI Andjars The Watchman (17). X500

ZIP & ZAP AND THE CAPTAINS ISLAND
79
79

INTERNATIONAL Shrihari Sathe is a New York and Mumbai-based

FILM FESTIVAL
director and producer. His credits as a producer include HBO IBERO-AMERICAN COMPETITION
Jaron Henrie-McCreas Pervertigo (12), Eliza Hittmans It
RECENT PAST WINNERS
Felt Like Love (13) and Beach Rats (17). Sathe is a 2013
Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and a
2016 | PAULINA by Santiago Mitre
2015 Independent Spirit Awards Nominee. His feature
directorial debut 1000 Rupee Note (Ek Hazarachi 2015* | IN THE GRAYSCALE
Note) won the Special Jury Award and Centenary (EN LAS GAMAS DE GRIS)
by Claudio Marcone
Award for Best Film at the 2014 International Film
Festival of India and has received over 35 awards. 2014* | MATEO by Maria Gamboa
Sathe is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia
2013* | SOLO by Guillermo Rocamora
Universitys School of the Arts and frequently does and THE SWIMMING POOL
master classes at various universities. (LA PISCINA) by
Carlos Machado Quintela

*formerly IBERO-AMERICAN OPERA

PRIMA COMPETITION
2017 Home Box Office, Inc. All rights reserved. HBO and related channels and service marks are the property of Home Box Office, Inc.
 JORDAN RESSLER 17

SCREENWRITING AWARD
PROGRAM OVERVIEW

The Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award this year awards $10,000 to the FILM TITLE PAGE
best first-produced screenplay at the 2017 Miami Film Festival. The cash
prize was created by the South Florida family of the late Jordan Ressler, ARE WE NOT CATS 40
an aspiring screenwriter who died in a tragic accident at the age of 23. BILLY BOY 41

CHRONICALLY METROPOLITAN 44

THE DANCER 46
JURORS JEFFREY 59

Sebastian Cordero was born in Quito, Ecuador. LA SOLEDAD 60

His films Cronicas (04) and Pescador (11) both LITTLE WHITE LIE 62
screened at the Festival. His other films include
Ratas, ratones, rateros (99) Rage (09) and NAMOUR 67
Europa Report (13). Such is Life in the Tropics ON THE ROOF 68
(16) is his latest film.
THE ONE-EYED KING 69

THE SUMMER IS GONE 73

WITHOUT NAME 78

WLU 78

Ana Guevara was born in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Co-directed with Leticia Jorge the short films The
Guests Room (06), Summer Runners (09) and JORDAN RESSLER
the award winning feature So Much Water, which
SCREENWRITING AWARD
premiered at Berlinales Panorama in 2013 and won
the 2013 Miami Film Festival Grand Jury Prize. Her RECENT PAST WINNERS
latest short 60 Candles (14) debuted at Miami
Film Festival in 2015. 2016 | Lorenzo Vigas for FROM AFAR
(DESDE ALL)

2015 | Naji Abu Nowar and Bassel

Ghandour for THEEB

2014 | Maria Gamboa and Adriana

Arjona for MATEO
Brandon Harris An Assistant Professor of Film at
2013 | Ana Guevara and Leticia Jorge
SUNY Purchase, Festival Programmer at the Indie for SO MUCH WATER
Memphis Film Festival and Contributing Editor of (TANTA AGUA)
Filmmaker Magazine, Brandon Harris criticism and
journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, The
Guardian, Vice, New Republic and N+1. His film
Redlegs, released in 2012, is a New York Times
Critics Pick. His memoir Making Rent in Bed-Stuy is
forthcoming from HarperCollins Publishers.

www.tiliarts.com
 19
SHORTS COMPETITION
PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Shorts Competition presents FILM TITLE PAGE

to the jury-selected winner a
$2,500 cash prize.
ALTERATIONS 63 SHORTS COMPETITION
AS TIME GOES BY 51 RECENT PAST WINNERS
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 63
BIG 76 2016 | THE MAN OF MY LIFE
BUSINESS 49 by Melanie Delloye

GREAT MUY BIEN 63 2015 | YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY

(A CIAMBRA)
HAVANA HOUSE 76 by Jonas Carpignano
THE HEAD VANISHES 41
2014 | A BIG DEAL by Yoyo Yao
HOUSE FOR SALE 63
I AM HERE 60 2013 | ANNA AND JEROME
(ANNA ET JRME
LA FEMME ET LE TGV 63 by Mlanie Delloye
A MAN RETURNED 63
SCENES FROM OUR YOUNG MARRIAGE 63
SPARK 49
WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63
WHIPPET 63

Jurors: Samuel Albis, Rachel Lauren Bleemer, Pola Bunster, Nicolas Calzada, Margaret Cardillo, Michelle Contreras,
Adam Dunshee, Luis F. Hernandez, Myriam Grad, Jonathan David Kane, Steve Mesa, Ileana Oroza, Donald Papy, Rita
Pereyra, Carolina Pia, Ronnie Rivera, Kevin Sharpley, Lisa Sloat, Jose-Antonio Valencia

ZENO MOUNTAIN AWARD

The Zeno Mountain Award is a $5,000 cash prize

open to all Festival entries courtesy of Fringe
Partners. This jury-selected award celebrates the
diversity of abilities and disabilities and seeks to

FASTER THAN ANY OTHER

reward the film which helps break down barriers to
our understanding of people living with disabilities.
The award is named after Zeno Mountain Farm in

RADAR IN SOUTH FLORIDA Lincoln, VT and inspired by the actors and filmmakers
in the documentary Becoming Bulletproof.

KEEPING YOU SAFER

 MIAMI FILM 2017 21

ELEVATING LUXURY PROGRAM OVERVIEW

WITH ART JURORS
MIAMI FILM 2017 presented by The Related Group is an
initiative that awarded 3 cash prizes in the amount of
At the Related Group we believe in integrating art in every project. $5,000 each to short films from Latin America.
We feature elegant works by world-renowned artists to inspire and The winners are:
enchant residents. We are committed to promoting the vitality of Miamis
Art Community. Because when it comes to innovative, superior residential JORGE PEREZ RINA CARVAJAL
developments and supporting local arts endeavors like the The Related Group MDC Museum of

Miami International Film Festival

AND THE WHOLE SKY FIT IN THE Chairman and Chief Art + Design

DEAD COWS EYES

Executive Officer Executive Director +
Chief Curator
(Y TODO EL CIELO CUPO EN EL OJO DE LA VACA)
...WE ARE ALL by Francisca Alegria (Chile)

CONNECTION
(CONECTIFAI) CARLOS ROSSO
The Related Group JESSICA RODRIGUEZ
by Zoe Garcia (Cuba) President Condominium Filmmaker & 2015 Emerging
Division Cuban Independent Film
Series
THE INCONVENIENCE
(EL INCONVENIENTE)
by Adriana Yurcovich (Argentina)

For complete list of films refer to page 66

GONZALO TOBAL
Filmmaker & Miami Film
2016 Winner

CINEMASLAM
Miami Film Festivals film school competition, aims to discover, showcase, JURORS
and celebrate the work of undergraduate and graduate students in Miami &
South Florida film schools. Open to any student enrolled in a participating
South Florida college/university on the completion date of the film. Schools
include Barry University, Center of Cinematography Arts & Television Miami
(CCAT-Miami), Florida International University, Miami Dade College, Miami
International University, New World School of the Arts (University of ANDREW GARCIA
Florida), St. Thomas University, and University of Miami. Filmmaker

Finalists will compete for the Sara Fuller Scholarship a $500

prize courtesy of Film Florida and the following awards:

CinemaSlam Champion 2017

CREATING THE NEW URBAN MIAMI SINCE 1979 JOSE JACHO
Best Director Co-Founder of FilmGate
SOUTH FLORIDAS PREEMINENT DEVELOPER Miami
Best Actor
RELATEDGROUP.COM Best Actress
Best Drama
The Related Group is a trade name for a group of companies and partnerships that develop distinctive real estate projects. Each particular real estate development project that uses the
name Related Group or The Related Group is a separate, single purpose entity that is solely responsible for its own separate development project, contracts, obligations, duties, and Best Documentary
responsibilities and each uses the Related Group trade name by license agreement and each condominium project depicted is developed by one such distinct and separate, single purpose
entity. This is not intended to be an offer to sell, nor a solicitation of an offer to buy, any condominium units to residentsof CT, ID, NY, NJ and OR, or of any other jurisdiction where prohibited by Best Technical Achievement
law, unless the condominium has been registered or is exempt from registration, and your eligibility to purchase may depend upon your state of residency. Any offering made for, or by, any of TIFFANY LIGHTY
For complete list of films refer to page 44
Filmmaker
 CANADA FOCUS 23

courtesy of Sons of Manual

Photo: Shayne Laverdire,
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
SHORT FILM Canadas Foreign-Language Entry US Premiere
to the Academy
I Am Here La Soledad
Juste la fin du monde The Solitude
Canada 150
EOIN DUFFY
World Sales: NFB Its Only the End JORGE THIELEN ARMAND
of the World (Venezuela, Italy, Canada)
XAVIER DOLAN World Sales: La Faena Films
(Canada, France)
World Sales: Seville International In recognition of the 150th Anniversary offers a window on a world that few of endlessly inventive National Film Board
of Canadas Confederation, the Festival us know. comes two outstanding shorts The
will highlight Canadas internationally Head Vanishes by Franck Dion and
influential film culture, with the support Miami will also host the North American I Am Here by Eoin Duffy.
of the Consulate General of Canada in premiere of The History of Love, a
Miami and Telefilm Canada. sweeping story about Polish-Jewish
sweethearts separated during WWII, FILM TITLE PAGE
Maliglutit SHORT FILM US Premiere Canadian films being celebrated in the who relocate to Brooklyn. Co-starring
Searchers The Head Vanishes The History of Love 2017 edition of the Miami Film Festival Canadian actress Sophie Nelisse, this THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35
ZACHARIAS KUNUK Une tte disparat LHistoire de lamour
World Sales: Isuma Distribution FRANCK DION RADU MIHAILEANU
include the world premiere of Quebeois epic production was shot in Montreal,
International filmmaker Denis Langlois A Paradise Quebec and was co-produced by I AM HERE 60
(France, Canada) (Canada, France)
World Sales: NFB World Sales: Wild Bunch Too Far, a beautiful fable of two adult Canadas Caramel Films.
ITS ONLY THE END OF
siblings who have lost their mother. THE WORLD 59
Dont miss the Cannes-winning, X500, from new Canadian resident
Oscar-shortlisted Its Only The End Juan Andres Arango, tells three related THE HEAD VANISHES 41
of the World from Xavier Dolan. stories of migrants in Canada, Mexico
and Colombia. Another new Canadian LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE
See Big. Voir grand. Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, resident, Jorge Thielen Armand, presents DANCERS 61
The League of X Quinientos World Premiere whose feature debut, Atanarjuat: The the Venezuelan-shot story La Soledad.
Exotique Dancers X500 Yest o le paradis ? Fast Runner, won the Camera dOr at MALIGLUTIT 64
RAMA RAU JUAN ANDRS ARANGO GARCIA A Paradise Too Far Cannes, will share his stunning new Rama Rau presents her fascinating
World Sales: TVF International (Canada, Colombia, Mexico) DENIS LANGLOIS A PARADISE TOO FAR 69
World Sales: Visit Films World Sales: 1976 Productions update of John Fords classic western documentary of the vintage days of
The Searchers. Entitled Maliglutit, this Burlesque League of Exotic Dancers. X500 79
universal story of adventure and revenge And from Canadas venerable and

TOYED
FLORIDA FOCUS
As always, Floridiansand especially
Miamianswill play a dominant role in
this years Festival.
Notable world premieres include the
Emilio Estefan-produced A Change of
Heart, filmed in Miami and featuring
Gloria Estefan and William Levy
among its starry cast, and Miami-born
Blake Jenners feature film screenwriting
debut Billy Boy.
Miamians Jill Bauer and Ronna Gradus
will return to the Festival to showcase
an episode of the forthcoming Netflix
series Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On,
a continuation of the exploration of sex
and technology they began with their
Emmy-nominated 2015 feature Hot
Girls Wanted.
Alfred Spellman and Billy Corben of
Rakontur will preview clips from their
upcoming works, A Sunny Place for
Shady People and the new Cocaine
Cowboys mini-series, in an extended
discussion with Festival programmer
Thom Powers billed as Straight Out
Of Miami. Documentarians Dennis
Scholl and Marlon Johnson will world
premiere Symphony in D, about MIT
composer Tod Machovers commission
to create a new symphony in Detroit.
Machover is now actively involved in
Project 305, the New World Sympho-
nys upcoming musical collaboration
with MIT.
Oscar winning director David Frankel
and first-time director Xavier Manrique
both long-time Miami residentswill
talk about the process of developing,
producing and directing a debut feature
film in the panel discussion Learn From
The Best: An Oscar-Winning Mentor.
Miami natives Yara Travieso and Jona-
than David Kane will present the Florida
premiere of his new live film La Madea,
an interactive project filmed just last
weekend in New York City. Ultra Music
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL 25
family, and examines how the law FILM TITLE PAGE
deals with such cases. In Mr. Chibbs,
former NBA All-Star Kenny An- ALTERATIONS 63
derson, now a Pembroke Pines, FL
resident, lets us in on his incredible ARE WE NOT CATS 40
journey through a mid-life crisis,
A CHANGE OF HEART his struggle with addiction, and his BLOOD AND WATER 40
journey to find himself ten years after
A CHANGE OF HEART 36
retiring from professional sports. New
Port St. Lucie, FL residents Silvia Pl CHRONICALLY METROPOLITAN 44
Camao and Danilo Perdomo are
one of the couples found in Alice de CINEMASLAM 44
SYMPHONY IN D Andrades 20-year story of love in
Cuba, Veinte aos. And from Fort DREAM EMPIRE 48
Pierce, FL comes the incredible
Camille 2000, whose story is EMBARGO 50
one of the most incredible to HAVANA HOUSE 76
be found among the League
Festivals headliner Dub- of Exotique Dancers. LA MEDEA 60
fire will attend a world pre-
miere documentary about Brad Abrahams is a Canadian- LOVE AND SAUCERS 62
his own meteoric rise in born, currently South Florida-
the EDM world in Dubfire: based documentarian. His new MR. CHIBBS 67
Above Ground Level, and film Love and Saucers is about THE MUCK 54
Miami-born-and-raised the ultimate alien close encounter.
documentarian David Jonathan Mason spent some SCENES FROM OUR 63
Borenstein presents the time growing up in Miami and is a YOUNG MARIAGE
North American premiere UM graduate. His short film Wait STRAIGHT OUT OF MIAMI: 71
of Dream Empire, based For Me, Italia debuts in Love Is RAKONTUR PREVIEWS
on his personal experi- The Answer, Vol. 1. NEW WORK
ence of being a white
monkey in the center of Jesse Nesser grew up in SUNGHOSTS 54
the Chongqing, China real Hollywood, FL prior to moving
estate boom. overseas with his military family, SYMPHONY IN D 73
but Florida remains his home
Miami born and raised TOYED 54
state. His powerful new
Xander Robin brings us documentary Walk With Me: UNTOUCHABLE 75
Are We Not Cats, a highly The Trials of Damon J. Keith
original doomed/obses- comes home for its Florida VEINTE AOS 76
sive romance about a BILLY BOY MR. CHIBBS debut. Miami filmmaker
young man who meets Fini Maza will bring us his first VOICES BEYOND THE WALL: 77
a woman who shares his feature film, the documentary TWELVE LOVE POEMS FROM
strangest habitan inclination for eating The Lambirds. THE MURDER CAPITAL OF
hair. Emmy-winning Miami documentary THE WORLD
filmmaker Gasper Gonzalez brings us Dudley Alexis will appear with a WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63
inside Havana House, a chronicle of special presentation of his documentary
life and love in a stately Havana home Liberty in a Soup, about the Haitian WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS 77
over the past 50 years. New Years tradition of the Soup OF DAMON J. KEITH
Joumou, a symbol of freedom for the
Miamian Juan Carlos Zaldivar will Haitian people.
present the world premiere of his new
project, Alterations, in Love Is The An SB Nation production of The
Answer Vol. 1, and Dominican-American, Muck, a 40-minute documentary
Miami-born Ronald Baez, program about west Palm Beach Countys
manager of Miami Film Development Pahokee high school football program,
Project, will present for the first time which has produced a number of NFL
in Florida his new Scenes From Our professional players disproportionate
Young Marriage, in Love Is The Answer to both its population of 5,000 and its
Vol. 2. poverty-stricken environment.
South Floridians make on-screen Jokes Yanes returns to the Festival
appearances in several thought-provoking with his new out-of-competition
documentaries. In Embargo, Miami short Toyed, as does Pioneer
developer Jorge Perez comments Winter and Tabatha Mudra with
on the ongoing impact of the Cuban their short Gimp Gait. Making their
embargo. In Untouchable, Ron Book Festival debuts out-of-competition
and State Senator Lauren Book take are Miamians Brian Blum with
us back through the horrific sex ARE WE NOT CATS Blood and Water and Michael
offender saga that enveloped their Lowney with Sunghosts.
 P RO U D S P O N S O R O F T H E M I A M I F I L M F E S T I VA L

C E L E B R AT E R E S P O N S I B LY.

2017 F. Korbel & Bros., Guerneville, Sonoma County, CA. Producers of fine California mthode champenoise champagnes for 135 years. KORBEL is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. korbel.com | responsibility.org

the historic alfred i. dupont building

thedupontbuilding.com | events@thedupontbuilding.com | 305.777.1637
 AN OFFICER AND
A GENTLEMAN
n many of Richard Geres most
popular roles, he plays a hero who
earns our sympathies by revealing
a deep vulnerability beneath his
handsome, romantic, out-of-every-
ones-league exterior. As Navy pilot
hopeful Zack Mayo in An Officer and a
Gentleman (82), Geres cockiness is
upended twice; at a military hazing
where Zack is forced to admit he cant
quit because he has nowhere else to
go, and again when his best friend
hangs himself and Zack realizes what
he has been fighting for: love. The
way Gere navigated both moments
were pivotal for the films success,
with Zacks coy rebellious posturing
gave way to hysterical rage, seething
anger and brooding introspection. And
redemption: the humble, frightening
acknowledgement that he possessed
sensitivity. Love lifted him up where he
belongedand Geres star power has
remained stratospheric ever since.
Born in 1949 and raised in New
England, Gere showed an early
aptitude for gymnastics and an
interest in philosophy; the former
RICHARD GERE
laid the foundation for the graceful
physicality of his acting, the latter
drove him toward storytelling,
In Person
Buddhism and the activism to which
he has dedicated himself since his
earliest successes. After making it to
the London stage and Broadway,
Gere gained traction in Hollywood
while pursuing bold material and
maverick collaborators. He worked
opposite Diane Keaton in Oscar
winner Richard Brooks Looking for
Mr. Goodbar (77); with the visionary
Terrence Malick on Days of Heaven
(78); and with Paul Schrader on the
very edgy American Gigolo (80),
in which Gere risked his likeability
at the exact moment he was
establishing himself as a leading
man. His fearlessness made waves.
An Officer and a Gentleman, and
elebrity, followed.
Watching Geres characters reluctantly
open up is one of the chief joys of
charting a career that continues to gain
PRETTY WOMAN
in strength as he enters his fifth decade
in the movie business. In Pretty Woman
(90), his corporate creep Edward Lewis
learns that its possible to be honest in
his dealings, thanks to a blossoming
romance with a lady-of-the-evening. As
defense attorney Martin Vail in Primal
Fear (96), his skilled manipulation of
the law collides with his conscience.
And even when his other lawyer, Billy
Flynn in Chicago (02), stood on the
other side of the moral spectrum,
Geres delighted self-acceptance was
one of the main reasons the film won
the Best Picture Academy Award.
And yet, beginning in his 60s, a new
force has crept into Geres screen roles,
something deeper, more personal,
more profound. No longer does Gere
Gere in Norman
just show us his humanityhe shows us
his fragility, as well. It was felt with full
force in Arbitrage (12), where he played
corrupt financier Robert Miller, who
leverages lies to build his storied Wall
Street castle until he boxes himself in.
Critic David Denby, writing in The New
Yorker, said, Gere can draw on his past
of playing winners, but when things
dont work out Gere looks drawn and
desperate...its a shock. His impatience
and his anger are much closer to the
surface; at times, he achieves the s
elf-justifying rage that comes so easily
to Al Pacino. Geres compassion and
activism have started to dovetail with
his film projects. In 2014, he produced
and starred in the homelessness drama
Time Out of Mind, which he convinced
ARBITRAGE
Owen Moverman to write and direct.
The breathtaking film was influenced
heavily by European techniques from
the 1970s, and Geres methodical
approach to the crafting of George
Hammond, a once successful
businessman who lost everything,
was so deeply committed that he
literally disappeared in the role: a
scene of Gere begging on the street
was filmed with a hidden camera, and
not one New Yorker recognized the
famous actor as he panhandled.
And now comes Norman: The
Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a
New York Fixer (16), which will open
this years Miami Film Festival and
marks the third major role in Geres
new artistic trajectory. Norman, a
cognate for normal, could be Geres
most Willy Lomanesque part. Norman
brings together people in the realms
of business, politics or religion. Hes a
brokerthats all he does. Normans
talent, and the source of his profit, is
pure schmooze. As the noose of
narrowing options tightens, Norman
must resort to increasingly shadier
tactics just to stay afloat... until hes
lucky enough to make a favorable
impression on the man who will go
on to become the prime minister of
Israel. Norman is a story of how
people of power and influence will
treat each other in a pinch, and
Gere, with his newfound mastery of
identification, somehow makes us
feel that he knows exactly the trail
of tiny compromises that every
working adult accrues to make it
through life. At 67, the force of
wisdom Gere has accumulated
through 40-plus years in the movie
business has fully merged with his
stunning body of work. His
intelligence, heart and rigor are
a beacon for us all.
____________________________
Richard Gere at the Opening Night
Gala on Friday, March 3.
See page 30 for further details.
 30 OPENING NIGHT MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
OPENING
OPENING
NIGHT
NIGHT PARTY FRIDAY, MARCH 3
7:00 pm | OLY
NORMAN:
Norman (Richard Gere) is a fixer. He lives to
connect people. He always claims to know a
guy. He ingratiates. Sometimes he irritates.
THE MODERATE
When Israeli Foreign Minister Eshel visits
New York, Norman buys him outrageously
RISE AND TRAGIC
expensive shoes and cements a gold-star
connection. When Eshel later becomes Israels
Prime Minister a scandal develops, and Norman,
FALL OF A NEW
accustomed to flailing on high societys
periphery, suddenly finds himself precariously
YORK FIXER
occupying its center.
Writer-director Joseph Cedar, whose Beaufort
and Footnote garnered Oscar nods, has crafts
Directed by a mysterious character study while brilliantly
capturing a cloistered milieu. Normans
Joseph Cedar astonishing cast includes Michael Sheen,
Charlotte Gainsbourg and Steve Buscemi, but
USA, Israel | 2016 |117 minutes its Gere, never better, who draws us close and
DRAMA keeps us guessing.
CHAMPAGNE AND STARS OPENING NIGHT PARTY PRESENTED BY KORBEL
MARCH 3, 9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Well have the bottles of bubbly ready for a night to remember at the
Historic Alfred I. Dupont Building. Enjoy culinary delights paired with an
open bar and enough champagne to forget it all the next morning. Party
amongst the stars as we kick off 10 days of renowned cinema.
Alfred I. DuPont Building, 169 E Flagler St, Miami, FL 33131
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
DIRECTORS BIO
Joseph Cedar was born
in New York and raised
in Jerusalem. He studied
philosophy and theatre
history at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem
and cinema at New York University. His films
Beaufort (07) and Footnote (11), were nominated
for Oscars. Norman (16) is his latest film.
International Premiere
Producer: Oren Moverman, Gideon Tadmor, Eyal Rim-
mon, David Mandil, Miranda Bailey, Lawrence Inglee;
Screenwriter: Joseph Cedar; Principal Cast: Richard
Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Hank Azaria, Steve Buscemi,
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Michael Sheen, Dan Stevens
COMEDY
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 31
AWARDS
NIGHT SATURDAY, MARCH 11
7:00 pm | OLY
FOR YOUR OWN
Javier Cmara, Jos Coronado and Roberto
lamo star in this uproarious Spanish comedy DIRECTORS BIO
about the wrath of three overprotective
GOOD
Carlos Thern is a
daddies no suitor in his right mind would
Spanish filmmaker.
ever want to meet. Each of these daddies
He has directed
has a beloved daughterand each of these
ES POR TU BIEN daughters is very desirable and barely legal.
extensively for
television. His
When the daughters start bringing home feature film credits include Fuga de
Directed by boyfriends the daddies must join forces to cerebros 2 (11), Impvido (12) and
Carlos Thern rid their families of these interlopers by For Your Own Good (17).
exposing their despicable sides.
Producer: Ghislain Barrois; Screenwriter: Manuel
Spain | 2017 |92 minutes Burque, Josep Gatell; Cast: Jos Coronado, Javier
For Your Own Good brilliantly makes fun
Spanish with English Subtitles Cmara, Roberto lamo, Pilar Castro, Carmen Ruiz,
of male insecurities un-tempered by age or
Category: HBO Ibero-American ostensible wisdom. Cmera, Coronado and
Silvia Alonso, Miki Esparb
Competition lamo, with their chemistry and crackerjack
timing make this an explosively funny
fatherly comedy.
EL COTO DE RIOJA AWARDS NIGHT PARTY
MARCH 11, 9:30 PM - 12:30 AM
Party under the stars with award winning filmmakers and Miamis cinema
lovers. Indulge in Spanish cuisine paired with El Coto de Rioja wine and Stella
Artois brews as we celebrate the end of Miami Film Festival 2017. Microtheater
Miami presents mini plays in their artful shipping container stages, all original
brand new plays on theme, that celebrate the magical world of movies!
CCE Miami Centro Cultural Espaol, 1490 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33132
32 RDP MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL | MARCH 3-12, 2017
MARQUEE SERIES 33

Saturday Join actress, musician, fashion icon and Almodvar muse Rossy de
Palma for a wild night of laughter, style, art and musica night as
March 4 unique as Rossy herself!

7:00 pm | OLY Rossy stars in Travelling Lady, Colombian-born artist Jessica Mitranis
COMEDY, MUSIC daring exploration into the pioneering spirit of Nellie Bly, the 19th
century American journalist known for her record-breaking 72-day
trip around the world, a journey that memorialized her as a woman
aheadand yet very much ofher time.

Mitrani will lead an onstage conversation about Rossys film career

and the Travelling Lady project. A musical surprise and a screening
will round out a perfectly eclectic, glamorous evening.

DIRECTORS BIO
Jessica Mitrani is an artist working in performance and film. She recently
wrote and directed Travelling Lady (Crossing the Line Festival, Pariss New
Settings), La Divanee (Marfa Film Festival, Oaxaca Film Fest, Nowness),
and Headpieces for Peace (ASVOFF5 Festival Grand Prix). Other film
festivals include: Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Festival Hors Pistes
(Centre Pompidou, Paris).

Presented in collaboration with Faena Arts and The Screening Room.

AN EVENING WITH NIGHT UNDER THE PALMS PARTY

Top off this electrifying evening with tapas on the roof!

ROSSY DE PALMA
These savory bites paired with Barton & Guestier wines and MARQUEE PACKAGES
the beautiful views of the Downtown Miami skyline will leave
An Evening with Rossy de Palma: $25 | $20 MFS
you feeling transported. Experience a stunning Flamenco
performance and sway to Spanish tunes all night long. Ol! An Evening with Rossy de Palma + Party: $50 | $40 MFS

Rooftop of the Suntrust Building, 1 SE 3rd Ave, Miami, FL 33131

 MARQUEE SERIES 35

A film paired with an extended on-stage conversation with a featured guest.

choosing your rewards!

THE HISTORY OF LOVE

LHISTOIRE DE LAMOUR
THEIR FINEST
Directed by Lone Scherfig
Directed by Radu Mihaileanu UK | 2016 | 117 minutes
North American Premiere COMEDY
France, Canada | 2016 | 134 minutes
Category: CINEDWNTWN Galas, Knight Competition
Sunday, March 5
ROMANCE
6:00 pm | OCMB

Tuesday, March 7 Set within the milieu of Britians wartime film industry, this stir-
ring and delightful new film from An Education director Lone
RD 7:00 pm | OLY Scherfig follows a screenwriter (Gemma Arterton) who experi-
OUR CA
STORE Y ences both an emotional blitzkrieg and unexpected liberation
Based on American author Nicole Krauss bestseller, The History
WARDS while shooting on location for the British Ministry of Informa-
EARN RE of Love is a sprawling saga of undaunted ardor and merciless tions Film Division.
COUNTS twists of fate. Spanning decades and continents, the films central
GET DIS narrative begins in prewar Poland and follows Leo Gurski and Based on the novel by Lissa Evans, Their Finest is deeply
Alma Mereminski, neighbours and sweethearts whose romance satisfying and utterly entertaining. It boasts a marvelous cast
is thwarted by the rise of fascism. Before the war Alma is sent that includes Bill Nighy, Richard E. Grant and Jeremy Irons, yet
to America; after the war Leo tries to find her, oblivious to the its richest, subtlest, most moving performance comes from
surprises that await him. Arterton, who imbues her inspiring heroine with vulnerability
and grace.
Aided by a brilliant cast that includes Gemma Arterton and
veteran actors Derek Jacobi and Elliott Gould, director Radu
Mihileanu deftly weaves the many threads of Krauss novel
into a soaring epic that touches on the duties of Jewishness,
literature and love.

A CONVERSATION WITH
Get our app at A CONVERSATION WITH
LONE SCHERFIG
RADU MIHILEANU

REGmovies.com
and earn rewards fast
Radu Mihileanu is a Romanian-born French
filmmaker. He is a graduate of Paris Institut des
hautes tudes cinmatographiques. His credits
include Train of Life (98), which won the Audience
Award here in Miami, and Live and Become (05), for which Mihileanu
Lone Scherfig was born in Copenhagen. She is a
graduate of the Danish Film School. Her films Italian
for Beginners (00), Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself
(02), Just Like Home (07), An Education (09), The
Riot Club (14) and Their Finest (16) In 2010, An Education was nominated
for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
won a Csar. The History of Love (16) is his latest film.

Producers: Finola Dwyer, Amanda Posey, Stephen Woolley; Screenwriter:
Producers: Marc-Antoine Robert , Xavier Rigault, Radu Mihaileanu; Screenwriters: Radu Gaby Chiappe - Based on the novel Their Finest by Lissa Evans; Principal Cast:
Mihaileanu, Marcia Romano - Adapted from the novel Lhistoire de lamour by Nicole Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin, Patrick Gibson, Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irons,
Krauss; Principal Cast: Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nelisse, Gemma Arterton , Elliott Gould Jack Huston, Bill Nighy

MOVIE + CONVERSATION MOVIE + CONVERSATION

$25 PUBLIC | $20 MFS MEMBERS $25 PUBLIC | $20 MFS MEMBERS

Proud Host of Miami Film Festival

 SOIRE SERIES PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
America's #1 French Wine
37

A film paired with a party for a unforgettable evening.

Friday, March 10
7:00 pm | OLY
Frustrated with the cards life has dealt him, Hank (Jim Belushi) is
man whose circumstances have driven him to fear diversity, yet
his Central Florida town is adhering less and less to the white,

A CHANGE OF HEART
straight profile with which hes comfortable. After suffering a
heart attack, Hanks life is saved by a transplantbut will Hanks
body accept a donation from a Puerto Rican drag queen?
Directed by Kenny Ortega Playing on both the literal and symbolic significance of that
World Premiere most treasured of organs, A Change of Heart conveys the sort
of story America needs right now, reminds us that even the most
USA | 2017 |105 minutes

DUBFIRE: LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA

hardened among us can learn to embrace difference, accept
Category: CINEDWNTWN Gala, Cinema 360, Florida Focus love, and move on with life.
COMEDY

BEHIND THE CURTAIN PARTY

Party behind the curtain at the iconic Olympia Theater. When
the screen raises, celebrations will begin on stage with cast,
crew and film aficionados. Stella Artois will keep you dancing
the night away with special performances and surprise guests.
Olympia Theater, 174 East Flagler Street, Miami
SOIRE PACKAGES
Film + Party: $50 | $45 MFS
(Film or party only not available)
DIRECTORS BIO
Kenny Ortega was born in Palo Alto, California.
He is a prolific director for film and television.
His credits include Newsies (92), Hocus Pocus
(93), High School Musical (06) and Michael
Jacksons This is It (09). A Change of Heart (17)
is his latest film.
Producers: Emilio Estefan, Kenny Ortega; Screenwriters: Luis Santeiro, James Orr;
Principal Cast: Jim Belushi, Gloria Estefan, Cody Horn, Amy Teegarden, William Levy,
Kathy Najimi, Dawn Oliveri, Eduardo Yanez
OCEAN DRIVE MAGAZINE
IS A PROUD MEDIA SPONSOR
of the
MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
ABOVE GROUND LEVEL
Directed by Michael Koczynski, Mino Kodama
World Premiere | USA | 2017 | 77 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement Award, REEL Music
MUSIC
Sunday, March 5
Wednesday, March 8
7:00 pm | OCMB
Iranian-American Ali Shirazinia, aka Dubfire, is one half of the
Grammy Award-winning duo known as Deep Dish and one of
the most influential and innovative producer-DJs of our time.
This documentary profile from Berlin-based directors Michael
Koczynski and Mino Kodama traces Shirazinias wild journey from
his Iranian childhood, which was thrown into turmoil by the 1979
Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, to his emergence in the world of
electronic dance music via the nightclubs of Washington, DC.
Featuring commentary from illustrious peers such as David Guetta,
Pete Tong, Paul Oakenfold and Ritchie Hawtin, Dubfire:Above
Ground Level is an intimate and insightful look at one of the most
dynamic forces in modern music.
DIRECTORS BIOS
Michael Koczynsk and Mino Kodamai are Berlin-
based designers and filmmakers. Dubfire: Above
Ground Level (17) is their debut film.
Producer: Prakash Jha; Screenwriter: Alankrita Shrivastava; Principal Cast: Konkona
Producer: Arash Shirazi
LIPSTICK WAALE SAPNE
Directed by Alankrita Shrivastava
North American Premiere | India | 2016 |116 minutes
Hindi with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA
6:00 pm | TWR1
Gloriously audacious in its presentation of Indian women in all their
complexity and sexuality, Alankrita Shrivastavas high-spiritedand
sometimes hilarioussecond feature tracks its four heroines as they
seek liberation from oppressive gender codes.
A young mother and secret saleswoman; a college student hiding her
partying from her parents; a beautician who enjoys a healthy sex life
with her boyfriend yet is condemned to a limpid arranged marriage; an
older woman whose addiction to erotic fiction threatens to spill over
into real life: the ladies in Lipstick Under My Burkha are each of them
bursting with ideas and appetites that no social order can crush.
DIRECTORS BIO
Alankrita Shrivastava is an Indian filmmaker. She
was the longtime assistant to her uncle, legendary
Bollywood director Prakash Jha. Shrivastavas
directorial credits include Turning 30!!! (11) and
Lipstick Under My Burkha (16).
Sen Sharma, Ratna Pathak Shah, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur

THE STANDARD AFFAIR PARTY DESSERTS AND DIRECTORS PARTY

Miamis unparalleled waterfront deck once again hosts The Indulge all your cravings with sweet treats from the citys best
Standard Affair under the stars with special guest DJs. Slip eateries, and dance the night (and desserts) away in the
FOR MORE INFORMATION REGARDING Design District. Barton & Guestier wines and Stella Artois beer
ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT US AT into a trance with minimalist electronic beats and unwind with
signature libations from The Standards Lido Grill. will be flowing as Glamsquad beauty professionals give guests
305.531.9724 | OCEANDRIVE.COM
scene-stealing lipstick makeovers.
OCEAN DRIVE MAGAZINE @OCEANDRIVEMAG 9:00 pm @ The Standard The Standard
40 Island Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139 9:00 pm @ Miami Design District, Palm Court
140 NE 39th Street, Miami, FL 22137
SOIRE PACKAGES
SOIRE PACKAGES
GREENGALE PUBLISHING FILM ONLY: $13 | $10 MFS FILM ONLY: $13 | $10 MFS
PARTY ONLY: $30 | $25 MFS PARTY ONLY: $30 | $25 MFS
AUSTIN WAY | ASPEN PEAK | BOSTON COMMON | CAPITOL FILE | GOTHAM | HAMPTONS FILM + PARTY: $40 | $30 MFS FILM + PARTY: $40 | $30 MFS
LOS ANGELES CONFIDENTIAL | MICHIGAN AVENUE | OCEAN DRIVE | PHILADELPHIA STYLE | VEGAS
 TRAVEL
SMARTER
MIA AIRPORT OFFICIAL
YOUR PERSONAL TRAVEL ASSISTANT
Find everything with just a few clicks
Navigate with user-friendly maps
Scan boarding pass or subscribe for latest flight info
Find closest shopping & dining with Near Me feature
Search robust database - Put MIA in your pocket

DOWNLOAD TODAY!

miami-airport.com iflymia StellaArtois.com

ENJOY RESPONSIBLY
2016 Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A., Stella Artois Beer, Imported by Import Brands Alliance, St. Louis, MO
40 FILMS AZ
AFTERIMAGE
POWIDOKI
Directed by Andrzej Wajda
Poland | 2016 |98 minutes
Polish with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA
March 8
Monday
March 6
7:30 pm | R17
Wladyslaw Strzeminski was an iconoclastic
artist, educator and author whose work clashed
with the Stalinist ideology of postwar Poland,
and his story serves as an inspiration for all of us
seeking the strength to speak truth to power in
todays troubled political climate.
This passionate, masterfully made final work
from Oscar-winning Polish director Andrzej
Wajda vividly chronicles Strzeminskis struggles
with the darkening skies of totalitarianism.
Boldly embodied by Polish superstar Boguslaw
Linda, Strzeminski bucks against the dominant
social realist conventions while navigating
numerous challenges as a creator, parent,
mentor and double-amputee. His story serves
both as a transporting history lesson and an
inspiration for all of us seeking the strength
to speak truth to power in todays troubled
political climate.
DIRECTORS BIO
Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016)
was a groundbreaking icon of
Polish cinema. His more than
50 features include Ashes and
Diamonds (58), The Promised
Land (75), Man of Iron (81) and Katyn (07). Four of
his films were nominated for Oscars, and he was
awarded an Honorary Oscar in 2000 for his lifetime
of work. He died last October.
In collaboration with Miami Beach Cinematheque,
the Festival co-presents a retrospective of some of
Wajdas most important films, throughout the month
of March.
Producers: Joshua Sobel, Thelonious Brooks;
Producer: Michal Kwiecinski; Screenwriters: Andrzej
Mularczyk, Andrzej Wajda; Principal Cast: Boguslaw
Linda, Aleksandra Justa, Bronislawa Zamachowska,
Zofia Wichlacz, Krzysztof Pieczynski
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
ARE WE NOT CATS
Directed by Xander Robin
USA | 2016 |77 minutes
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
Florida Focus
EDGY
Wednesday
DARK COMEDY
9:00 pm | OCMB
Proceded by short film:
BLOOD AND WATER
DIRECTED BY BRIAN BLUM
WORLD PREMIERE
USA | 2017 | 21 MIN.
Newly bereft of his girlfriend, his job and
his home, raggedly handsome Eli accepts a
one-off delivery gig that takes him to some
upstate backwater where he stumbles
into a relationship with Anya, a beguiling,
eccentric young woman with some
exceedingly peculiar predilections. The
situation is about to get hairyliterally.
A sort of giddy, slacker spin on Cat People,
Xander Robins inventive, lovably weird
feature debut is a little gross and a lot
charming. Old-school horror tropes worm
their way into Are We Not Cats, but make
no mistake: this is at heart a story of people
connecting and the sometimes surprising
things we do for love.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Xander Robin is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. He
received a BFA in motion picture arts at Florida
State University College. His directorial credits
include the short films Kodachrome (10), The
Virgin Herod (11), Post Fracas (11) and Love
is a Rhombus (15). Are We Not Cats (16) is his
feature debut.
partner on the Wajda retrospective. Additional
Wajda retrospective screenings outside of the
Screenwriter: Xander Robin; Principal Cast: Chelsea
Lopez, Michael Patrick, Michael Godere
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
ASHES AND DIAMONDS
POPI I DIAMENT
Directed by Andrzej Wadja
Poland | 1958 |103 minutes
Polish with English Subtitles
Category: From the Vault
DRAMA
Thursday
March 9
7:00 pm | MBC
May, 1945. Germany has surrendered. In a
small Polish town two soldiers are ordered to
assassinate a communist commissar searching
for his son. In the midst of the assassination
attempt one of the soldiers becomes
infatuated with a barmaid. As the fateful hour
grows closer each of these characters will be
drawn closer to some decisive realization.
Originally released in 1958, Andrzej Wajdas
Ashes and Diamonds is a bracing yet romantic
war film that surveys the ways in which
the dousing of one conflict can lead to the
kindling of others. We are honored to offer this
memorial screening of one of the late Polish
masters most revered works.
DIRECTORS BIO
Andrzej Wajda (1926-2016)
was a groundbreaking icon
of Polish cinema. His more
than 50 features include
Ashes and Diamonds (58),
The Promised Land (75), Man of Iron (81) and
Katyn (07). Four of his films were nominated for
Oscars, and he was awarded an Honorary Oscar
in 2000 for his lifetime of work. The Festival
is also presenting his final feature, Afterimage
(16), in this years Official Selection.
Producers: Carolina Bang, Kiko Martnez, Mikel Lejarza,
Tickets for this special screening are available
only through Miami Beach C inematheque, our
Ordez, Terele Pvez, Joaqun Climent, Alejandro Awada
Festival dates include A Generation (56) on
March 2nd and Danton (83) on March 16th,
visit www.mbfilm.com for more information.
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 41
THE BAR BILLY BOY THE BLIND CHRIST
EL BAR EL CRISTO CIEGO
Directed by Bradley Buecker
Directed by lex de la Iglesia World Premiere Directed by Christopher Murray
North American Premiere USA | 2017 |90 minutes North American Premiere
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
Spain | 2017 |102 minutes Chile, France | 2016 |85 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles DRAMA Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero- Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
American Competition Saturday DRAMA, FAITH
March 4
7:00 pm | R17 Sunday
Sunday Monday March 5
Miamis own Blake Jenner is the star,
March 5 March 6 9:00 pm | CGAC
9:30pm | TWR2 9:45 pm | R17
scenarist and co-producer of this absorbing
drama about a disenfranchised young mans
struggle to balance the temptations of crime
Proceded by short film:
Genre maestro lex de la Iglesia, whose My with his ambitions for a better future. Billy
Big Night was last years Opening Night Film,
returns to the Festival with this wicked little
Forsetti (Jenner) came of age with a dearth
of prospects and an abundance of angst. Hi THE HEAD VANISHES
chamber thriller that will keep you on the friends introduce him to the fast thrills and DIRECTED BY FRANCK DION
edge of your stool. easy money of carjacking, while a budding CANADA, FTRANCE | 2016 | 9 MIN.
romance plants in Billys mind the possibility
The Bar focuses on a huddle of clients held of a different life, one grounded in love, faith
hostage in their beloved local after an unseen and legit work. Ever since he was a child Michael (Michael
Silva) has known that God speaks directly
gunman kills one of their peers. With the
gunman threatening to liquidate anyone Sensitively directed by Jenners Glee cohort to him. Traversing across Chiles Pampa del
Tamarugal barefoot, Michael searches for
who leaves, the regulars try to determine the Bradley Buecker, Billy Boy is a tale of youth in
rationale behind their being targeted. As they peril and a society that cant afford to let its a friend who has been injured in a mining
accident. Michael is ready to perform his
do so, queasy secrets begin seeping out. citizens slip between the cracks.
first miracle.
With its high-concept, The Bar echoes It is, of course, what happens along the way to
Hitchcock and Buuel, not to mention Tony
Scott and Larry Cohen. Its distinctive black
DIRECTORS BIO this miracle that occupies much of Christopher
Murrays new film and makes it so fascinating.
humor, ingenious characterizations and manic
style, however, are 100% pure de la Iglesia.
Bradley Buecker is an American
film and television director,
A weave of fiction and documentarySilva
is the sole professional actor in the sprawling
producer and editor. His television credits include castTheThe Blind Christ is a sort of spiritual
DIRECTORS BIO
several episodes of Glee (10-15) and American Horror
Story (11-16) for which he received a total of six
travelogue, a stirring survey of faith in all its
diverse forms.
lex de la Iglesia was born
Primetime Emmys. Billy Boy (17) is his first feature film.
in Bilbao, Spain. He studied
philosophy at the University SCREENWRITERS BIO DIRECTORS BIO
of Deusto. His Perfect Crime
(04), The Last Circus (10)
Blake Jenner was born in Miami.
He took improv classes with Los
Christopher Murray was born in
Santiago de Chile. His directorial
and Witching and Bitching (13) all screened at the Angeles legendary Groundlings
credits include the documentary
Festival. My Big Night (15) was last years Opening before launching a career in film
Propaganda (14) and the fiction
Night Film. The Bar (17) is his latest film. and television. Hes best known for his performances
features Manuel de Ribera (10)
in the series Glee (10-15) and the films Everybody
and The Blind Christ (16).
Wants Some (16) and Edge of Seventeen (16).
Mercedes Gamero, lex de la Iglesia; Screenwriters: Jorge Billy Boy (17) is his first writing credit.
Guerricaechevarra, lex de la Iglesia; Principal Cast: Blanca
Producers: Augusto Matte, Thierry Lenouvel;
Surez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Secun de la Rosa, Jaime Producers: Bradley Buecker, Robert Ulrich, Blake Jenner, Screenwriter: Christopher Murray; Principal Cast:
Mike Jenner; Screenwriter: Blake Jenner; Principal Cast: Michael Silva
Blake Jenner, Melissa Benoist, Jim Beaver, Andre Royo
42 FILMS AZ
THE BLOOM OF
YESTERDAY
DIE BLUMEN VON GESTERN
Directed by Chris Kraus
North American Premiere
Germany, Austria | 2016 | 125 minutes
German with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
ROMANCE
Beware of babies: they are smarter than
Wednesday
March 8
9:00pm | R18
Toto is an esteemed Holocaust scholar. He is
also the grandson of a Nazi war criminal. While
organizing a conference, Toto takes on an
intern whos the granddaughter of a Holocaust
victim. After a rocky meet-cute, the two bond,
speak candidly about their familial legacies,
and stumble toward romance. Which may or
may not be a problem for the marriedyet
ostensibly impotentToto.
Chris Kraus audacious The Bloom of Yesterday
wrings comedy from unfathomable atrocity.
Yet the films lightness allows its inherent
gravity to settle fully once we apprehend its
true message: that every generation must find
its own path to reckoning with the daunting
shadows of history.
DIRECTORS BIO
Chris Kraus was born in
Gttingen, Germany. He worked
as a journalist and illustrator
before becoming a filmmaker.
His directorial credits include
Shattered Glass (02), 4 Minutes (06), The Poll Diaries
(10) and The Bloom of Yesterday (16), which won the
Grand Prix at the Tokyo Film Festival.
Producers: Danny Krausz, Kathrin Lemme, Chris Kraus,
Gerd Huber, Kurt Stocker; Screenwriter: Chris Kraus;
Principal Cast: Lars Eidinger, Adle Haenel, Jan Josef
Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
THE BOSS BABY
Directed by Tom McGrath
USA | 2017 | 97 minutes
Category: MIFFecito
CHILDREN & FAMILY
Sunday
March 12
1:00 pm | CGAC
Thursday
they let on. The baby at the center of this
new animated comedy from Dreamworks
Animation and the director of Madagascar
is dangerously intelligent and determined
to rid the world of the greatest threat to
babies monopoly on adult attention: dogs.
Also notable: this baby sounds just like
Alec Baldwin.
Watch as Baldwins be-suited baby
assembles an all-baby task force to take on
the canine menace, with or without the help
of big brother Tim, the only one who knows
what these babies are scheming. Featuring
the voices of Baldwin, Steve Buscemi and
Jimmy Kimmel, The Boss Baby makes for big
entertainment infused with a heartwarming
message about the importance of family.
DIRECTORS BIO
Tom McGrath was born in
Lynwood, Washington. As an
actor he has lent his voice to
such films as Madagascar (05)
and Megamind (10), which he also directed or co-
directed. His other directorial credits include The Ren
& Stimpy Show (95), both Madagascar sequels (08,
12) and The Boss Baby (17).
Producer: Producer: Ramsey Ann Naito; Screenwriter:
Michael McCullers Based on the book The Boss Baby
by Marla Frazee; Principal Cast: Alec Baldwin, Steve
Buscemi, Jimmy Kimmel, Tobey Maguire, Lisa Kudrow
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
THE CANDIDATE
EL CANDIDATO
Directed by Daniel Hendler
International Premiere
Uruguay, Argentina | 2016 | 84 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition
DRAMA
6:00 pm | R17
March 9
9:00 pm | R18
One neednt be a cynic to recognize that a
politicians persona is very much a designed
thing, the product of various mindsand
various agendas. Martn Marchand, the
titular character in Uruguayan director
Daniel Hendlers pitch-perfect political
comedy, radiates charisma, intelligence and
commitmentattributes that seem set to win
Marchand his countrys highest office. But as
his team of advisers and creatives assemble
at his country home to devise campaign
strategies, it appears that not everyone
present agrees that a Marchand presidency is
a foregone conclusion.
DIRECTORS BIO
Daniel Hendler was born in
Montevideo, Uruguay. He has
acted in numerous television
series and feature films. His
directorial credits include
the feature Norbertos Deadline (10), which
screened at Miami Film Festival. The Candidate
(16), his second feature as director, won the
directorial credits include the
Miami Encuentros 2016 post-production prize,
sponsored by Knight Foundation
(07) and I Am Not a Dummy (09) and the fiction
Producers: Micaela Sol, Daniel Hendler, Pablo Udenio,
Miami Film Festival, and Cargo (17).
Hernn Guerchuny, Daniel Burman; Screenwriter:
Daniel Hendler; Principal Cast: Martin Marchand, Matas
Singer, Ana Katz, Csar Troncoso, Roberto Surez, Alan
Sabbagh, Jos Luis Arias, Vernica Llins
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
CARGO
Directed by Kareem J Mortimer
World Premiere
Bahamas | 2017 | 110 minutes
Category: Knight Competition
DRAMA
Sunday
March 5
9:00 pm | R17
Preceded by short film:
SUGAR
DIRECTED BY MICHELLE SERIEUX
JAMAICA | 2016 | 18 MIN.
English, Jamaican Patois with English
Subtitles
When his income as a fisherman proves
woefully insufficient to cover his sons school
fees, Kevin turns to human smuggling in order
to raise desperately needed funds. Kevin finds
that hes good at this dangerous yet profitable
vocationgood enough to trust himself with
smuggling his own girlfriend and her son to the
US. But when faced with having to abandon
refugees at sea far from Miami shores, Kevin is
suddenly forced to reassess his responsibilities.
Inspired by true events, Cargo examines
the worlds refugee crisis from a very local
perspective. The largest Bahamian film project
to date, this latest feature from Kareem J.
Mortimer is a thrilling, vital call for empathy in
troubled times.
DIRECTORS BIO
Kareem J. Mortimer is a
Bahamian filmmaker. His
short film Float (07), the
documentaries Charted Course
features Children of God (10), which premiered at
Producers: Kareem Mortimer, Alexander Younis, Nicole
Sylvester, Kristie Lutz, Trevite Willis; Screenwriter: Kareem J
Mortimer; Principal Cast: Warren Brown, Gessica Gnus, Omar
J. Dorsey, Persia White, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Jamie Donnelly
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 43
CARRIE PILBY THE CAT FROM HAVANA
Directed by Susan Johnson O GATO DE HAVANA
Directed by Dacio Malta
USA | 2016 | 98 minutes
North American Premiere
Category: Cinema 360
Brazil | 2016 | 88 minutes
ROMANTIC COMEDY Portuguese, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Sunday Monday Award
March 5 March 6 MUSIC
7:30 pm | TWR2
Wednesday Sunday
If ever you presumed life was easier for
geniuses, Carrie Pilby (Bel Powley) will set March 8 March 12
you straight. Carrie graduated from Harvard 7:15 pm | TWR2 3:30 pm | CGAC
at the age of 19, yet shes utterly adrift in life,
To this day, Havana remains that rare city
with no work, no sense of purpose and no
where music-lovers can still wander into a
talent for friendshipin part because she
small club and, for a nominal fee, witness
cant stand most people. Can her fathers
some of the worlds most vibrant sounds
therapist friend (the ever-adorable Nathan
being generated by some of its greatest
Lane) help the fearsomely clever Carrie
settle into functional adulthood? Maybe talents. Perhaps the most illustrious of
even find someone shes willing to date? all Havanas clubs is Gato Tuerto, now in
its sixth decade of existence. Its stage
Susan Johnsons adaptation of Caren is small but has hosted giants, among
them Omara Portuondo, Pablo Milans
Lissners bestseller is a smart, surprisingly
and Chucho Valds, while around its
resonant coming-of-age comedy that turns
tables have sat the likes of Gabriel Garca
notions of privilege inside out. Carrie may
Mrquez and Julio Cortzar.
have a hard time liking people, but shes
doing her best!
Dacio Maltas documentary chronicles the
long, fascinating story of Gato Tuerto in
DIRECTORS BIO
all its bohemian glamor and creative bliss.
Susan Johnson is a filmmaker
based in San Francisco. She
graduated from the American
DIRECTORS BIO
Film Institute and has produced
numerous films, including Mean
Dacio Malta was born in Rio
de Janeiro. He was a journalist
Creek (04), Eye of the Hurricane (11), The Between before forging a career in
(13), and God Help the Girl (14). Carrie Pilby (16) filmmaking. His debut feature
marks her feature directorial debut. film was Noel Rosa: Poeta da
Vila e do povo (10). The Cat From Havana (17) is his
Producers: Suzanne Farwell, Susan Johnson, Susan latest film.
Cartsonis, Brent Emery, Lisa Wolofsky; Screenwriters:
Kara Holden, Dean Craig - Based on the novel Carrie Pilby
Producers: Gretel Medina, Julia Mirabal; Screenwriters:
by Caren Lissner; Principal Cast: Bel Powley, Nathan
Dacio Malta, Livia Arbex; Subjects: Pablo Milans, Chucho
Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vanessa Bayer, Colin ODonoghue,
Valds, Omara Portuondo, Caetano Veloso
Jason Ritter, William Moseley
44 FILMS AZ MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL | MARCH 3-12, 2017

CHRONICALLY CINEMASLAM AWARDS CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE

METROPOLITAN 150 minutes
Category: Florida Focus
FOR THE CITY
Directed by Xavier Manrique Directed by Matt Tyrnauer
USA | 2016 | 85 minutes
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award, Saturday USA | 2016 | 92 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Florida Focus
March 4 Award

FILMS A-Z
ROMANTIC COMEDY 12:00 pm | TWR1

Thursday
March 9
7:00 pm | R17
Stories can imbue our lives with meaning and
order; they can also be our undoing. Fenton,
a promising young writer, is reeling from the
latter effect: he lost his girlfriend Jessie after
The New Yorker published his thinly veiled story
about her family. And when Fenton returns to
New York after a year away he finds that time
hasnt healed the wound in his favour: Jessie is
engaged to another man.
With its crack cast of newcomers and
veteransamong them Chris Noth, Josh Peck
and Mary-Lousie ParkerMiami director Xavier
Manriques feature debut naviagtes numerous
emotional geometries with sophistication, wit
and understated wisdom.
DIRECTORS BIO
Xavier Manrique was born in
Guayaquil, Ecuador. He studied
marketing and film at George
Washington University and the
New York Film Academy. He has directed the short
films Scandal (09) and Losing Sam (11). Chronically
Metropolitan (16) is his feature directorial debut.
Center of Cinematography,
Arts and Television
_____________________________
CASTING
by Alexander Beregovoy | 12 min.
OSCURO
by Yolanda Baez Oyola | 13 min.
Miami Dade College
_____________________________
KURU
by Jonathan Cuartas | 22 min.
OCD
by Alexander Beregovoy | 4 min.
Miami International University
_____________________________
AT YOUR SERVICE
by Christine Vorsteg | 19min.
New York Film Academy Miami
_____________________________
RED STRING
by Minghao Shen | 10 min.
Monday
March 6
7:00 pm | R18
The late, great Jane Jacobs, author of
the seminal The Death and Life of Great
American Cities, helped change the way
we look at urban living. In the 1960s she
led a citizens movement against ruthless
developer Robert Moses, who wanted to
build a highway through the New York
City neighborhoods of Little Italy, SoHo
and Greenwich Village. The battle against
Moses saved those neighborhoods
and serves as a model for standing up
to powerful bullies and defending
minority communities.
Citizen Janes Matt Tyrnauer previously
directed Valentino: The Last Emperorthe
Festivals 2009 opening night filmand
has spent the last two years working on a
Miami-based project.
DIRECTORS BIO
Matt Tyrnauer is a
documentary producer and

SCREENWRITERS BIO University of Miami

director. His credits include
Miami Film Festival 2009
_____________________________ Opening Night selection
Nicholas Schutt was born in Valentino: The Last Emperor (08), Citizen
New York City and lives in Los BALLET BUS Jane: Battle Cry for the City (16) and the short
Angeles. He is a graduate from by Isaac Mead-Long | 8 min. documentary Jean Nouvel: Reflections (16).
the Carnegie Mellon School of
Drama. He has written for the DEER GOD
television series Blood & Oil (15) and is the creator of Producers: Matt Tyrnauer, Robert Hammond, Corey
by Tomorrow Mingtian | 14 min. Reeser, Jessica Van Garsse
the series Citizen (16). Chronically Metropolitan (16) is
his feature screenwriting debut. PARADISE
by Andrea Garcia Marquez | 16 min.
Producers: Jamin OBrien, Chuy Hernandez;
Screenwriter: Nicholas Schutt; Principal Cast: Shiloh
Fernandez, Ashley Benson, Mary-Louise Parker, Chris
Noth, Addison Timlin, Josh Peck
46 FILMS AZ
A CONCRETE CINEMA
UN CINE EN CONCRETO
Directed by Luz Ruciello
World Premiere
Argentina | 2017 |72 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Thursday
March 9
9:30 pm | TWR2
Cinema is the art closest to dreaming.
Its also the product of dreaming, both in
production and exhibition.
Omar is a soft-spoken, sinewy, middle-aged
bricklayer. He has a passion for movies and
cannot forget the magic of beholding them
in a theatre as a child. Through sweat and
willpower, he opens a cinema with ancient
equipment in his small Argentine town.
Then his brothers sell the land. And then
Omar endeavors to construct his cinema all
over again, brick by brick.
Omars quixotic vision quest is the subject
of Luz Ruciellos beguiling feature
documentary debut. A Concrete Cinema
is an homage, a character study, a prayer. I
n short, it is a work of, and about,
sheer devotion.
DIRECTORS BIO
Luz Ruciello is an Argentine
filmmaker. She studied
cinema at Buenos Aires
University. She has worked
extensively as an assistant
director and script supervisor. Her directorial
credits include Six Hours Like That (01),
Madreselva (15) and The Rising (16). A Dancer (16). Sarah Thibau, another first-time feature
Concrete Cinema (17) is her feature debut.
Producer: Maria Soledad Laici; Screenwriter: Luz
Ruciello; Subject: Omar Borcard
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
THE DANCER
LA DANSEUSE
Directed by Stephanie Di Giusto
France | 2016 | 108 minutes
English, French with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
DRAMA, ROMANCE
DRAMA
Saturday Monday
March 4 March 6
3:30 pm | TWR1 7:00 pm | OCMB
An inspired fusion of fact and fiction, Stphanie
di Giustos debut takes as its subject the life and
work of the underappreciated American dancer
Loe Fuller. The Dancer follows Fuller (alluringly
portrayed by the singer Soko) as she makes
her way from America to Belle poque Europe,
where her innovations in movement, costume
and lighting dazzle audiences and bring her
into contactand some frictionwith the likes
of Isadora Duncan (played by Lily-Rose Depp).
Based on Giovanni Listas novel about Fuller, The
Dancer is a bio-pic buoyed with conjecture
which is another way of saying that this is history
transformed into rapturous, visually breathtaking
cinema, reminding us of the legacy of one of
Americas forgotten artistic pioneers.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS BIO
Stphanie di Giusto is a French
filmmaker, photographer and
designer. She studied at Paris
cole nationale suprieure des arts dcoratifs. She
worked in advertising, collaborated with designers
and directed music videos before making her
feature directorial and screenwriting debut with The
screenwriter, worked with her on the first draft.
Producer: Mehmet Akta; Screenwriters: Mehmet Akta,
Producers: Marie Jardillier, Emma Javaux; Screenwriter:
Stphanie Di Giusto - Adapted from the novel Loe Fuller,
danseuse de la Belle Epoque by Giovanni Lista; Principal
Cast: Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, Mlanie Thierry, Lily-Rose
Depp, Franois Damiens
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
THE DARK WIND
RESEBA
Directed by Hussein Hassan
North American Premiere
Iraq, Germany, Qatar | 2016 | 89 minutes
Arabic, Kurdish with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
Sunday
March 5
6:30 pm | CGAC
The Dark Wind begins with a couples happy
engagement in a Shingal villagean event
rapidly followed by a murderous ambush.
The bride-to-be survives the attack but
is kidnapped and trafficked. When she
finally makes it back home, will she still be
considered marriageable material?
ISIS campaign to exterminate the Yazidia
Kurdish religious community whose roots
date back to Mesopotamiais at the heart
of Hussein Hassan Alis second feature.
But The Dark Wind does more than simply
memorialize the 2014 Yazidi genocide; it is
also a critique of cultural attitudes than span
various parts of the Muslim world, particularly
with regards to women. This is harsh, but also
essential, viewing.
DIRECTORS BIO
Hussein Hassan Ali is a Kurdish
filmmaker. He has appeared as
an actor in Narcissus Blossom
(06), which he also co-wrote
and directed, Car Jack (08) and
Where is the Land? (13). The Dark Wind (16) is his
second feature as director.
Producer: Pablo Zimbrn Alva; Screenwriters: Daniel
Hussein Hassan; Principal Cast: Rekesh Shabaz, Diman
Zandi, Maryam
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
THE DARKNESS
LAS TINIEBLAS
Directed by Daniel Castro Zimbrn
Mexico | 2016 | 94 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
THRILLER
ENVIROMENTAL
Monday Tuesday
March 6 March 7
9:15 pm | R18 8:30 pm | TWR2
Gustavo (Brontis Jodorowsky) and his
three children live alone in a fog-shrouded
wood. There are allusions to some recent
apocalypse. Twilight seems permanent
here, prompting Gustavo to carefully
shutter out all light from their home
when it is time to sleep. But there are
more troubling things than the midnight
penumbra, such as 12-year-old Argels
strange dreamsor an apparent haunting.
The second film in Daniel Castro Zimbrns
trilogy of light, shot by the gifted
cinematographer Diego Garca (Neon Bull,
Cemetery of Splendor
Splendor) is a stunning work
of primal fear and atmosphere, drawing us
into the darkness, just as it reminds us why
we are instinctively afraid of it.
DIRECTORS BIO
Daniel Castro Zimbrn is
a Mexican filmmaker. His
directorial credits include the
short films Bestiario (06)
and Negro (14) and the
features Tu (12) and The Darkness (16).
Jake Kheel studied Spanish and Latin American
Castro Zimbrn, Denis Langurand, David Pablos;
management at Cornell University. He has acted as Vice
Principal Cast: Brontis Jodorowsky, Aliocha Sotnikoff
Ramos, Camila Robertson Glennie
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
DEATH BY
A THOUSAND CUTS
Directed by Juan Meja Botero,
Jake Kheel
Dominican Republic, USA | 2016 | 73 minutes
Kreyol, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Special Presentation
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
Saturday
March 11
4:00 pm | TWR1
Dominican park ranger Eligio Eloy Vargas and
his Haitian wife Calina led a life emblematic
of the complex relationship between
their respective countriesand, just as
emblematically, Eligios life ended when he was
killed in a machete attack against the backdrop
of an illegal trade in charcoal.
With investigative rigor and stunning
cinematography, filmmakers Juan Mejia Botero
and Jake Kheel use Eloy Vargas murder case
to address rising tensions along the Dominican
Republic-Haiti border and larger issues
concerning environmental devastation, ethnic
violence and the fight over natural resources.
Death By a Thousand Cuts was the winner of
the Audience Award at the DOC NYC festival.
DIRECTORS BIO
Juan Mejia Botero is an award-
winning filmmaker. His directorial
credits include the documentary
short Uprooted (08) and the
documentary features The Battle
for the Land (12) and Death By a Thousand Cuts (16).
literature at Wesleyan University and environmental
President of the Grupo Puntacana Foundation. Death
By a Thousand Cuts (16) is his filmmaking debut.
Producers: Ben Selkow, Jake Kheel
47
THE DEATH OF
MARGA MAIER
LA MUERTE DE MARGA MAIER
Directed by Camila Toker
World Premiere
Argentina, Brazil | 2017 | 103 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
THRILLER, STRONG FEMALE LEAD
Friday, March 10
9:45 pm | R18
We are in a remote town somewhere very
far from the Argentina we know. In the wake
of a carnival parade the river washes a corpse
onto the shore. A crime has been committed,
a mystery blossoms to life, and the legend of
mythical cursed diamond is tantalizingly revived.
Shot on location in Punta Indio, the latest
from director Camila Toker (Upa! An
Argentinian Movie) combines elements of the
thriller and the western to relay an intricate,
timeless, darkly seductive detective story set
in a strange and lonely place.
DIRECTORS BIO
Camila Toker was born in
Buenos Aires. She studied acting
at Ricardo Barts studio, art
direction at the Escuela de Arte
Escnico Saulo Benavente and
film directing at the Universidad del Cine. Her directorial
credits include Upa! An Argentinian Movie (07),
Ramanegra (10) and The Death of Marga Maier (17).
Producers: Roberto me Dej Films, Oh my Gmez! Films,
Kinoosfera Filmes; Screenwriters: Camila Toker, Anne-
Sophie Vignoles; Principal Cast: Pilar Gamboa, Ivo Mller,
Willy Prociuk, Alberto Surez, Mirta Busnelli, Luis Machn
48 FILMS AZ
THE DISTINGUISHED
CITIZEN
EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE
Directed by Gastn Duprat,
Mariano Cohn
Argentina | 2016 | 118 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Special Presentation
DARK COMEDY
Saturday Sunday
March 4 March 12
9:00pm | OCMB 8:00pm | CGAC
Success for Nobel Prize-winning, Barcelona-
based novelist Daniel Mantovani (Wild Tales
star and Miami favorite Oscar Martnez) is a
double-edged sword: he enjoys its fruits, but
it may be spoiling the integrity of his work.
Desperate for self-renovation, Daniel accepts
an invitation to return to his hometown of
Salas, Argentina, to accept an award. Salas
has served as the setting for all Daniels
storiesthough he hasnt been back for 40
years. Daniels journey becomes a comic
odyssey underpinned by irony: hes a fish out
of water in his own home.
A universal story about place, identity
and the peculiar nature of nostalgia, The
Distinguished Citizen has already been
nominated for a Goya and won prizes at
Haifa, Thessaloniki, Valladolid and Venice.
DIRECTORS BIO
Gastn Duprat and
Mariano Cohn are
Argentine filmmakers.
Among the films they
have co-directed together are The Artist (08), The
Man Next Door (09), Querida voy a comprar cigaril-
los y vuelvo (11) and The Distinguished Citizen (16).
which screened as part of Miamis GEMS 2015.
Producer: Fernando Sokolowicz, Mariano Cohn, Gastn
Duprat, Juan Pablo Gugliotta, Nathalia Videla Pea, Adolfo
Blanco; Screenwriter: Andrs Duprat; Principal Cast: scar
Martnez, Nora Navas, Dady Brieva, Andrea Frigerio
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
DONT BLAME IT ON
YOUR KARMA!
NO CULPES AL KARMA DE LO QUE
TE PASA POR GILIPOLLAS
Directed by Maria Ripoll
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 98 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition
COMEDY
Dream Empire follows Yana, an ambitious
Friday Sunday
March 10 March 12
7:00 pm | R17 5:30pm | OCMB
Karma can play tricks on you when you least
expect it. In the case of Madrid-based fashion
designer Sara, everything should have been
perfect as she anticipates the return of her
boyfriend after a year abroad. But with only
a week before the reunion, Saras life goes
bananas: her parents announce their divorce and
her little sister gets engaged to famous musician
(played by Festival favorite Alex Garcia) who
just happens to be Saras high-school crush.
Based on the eponymous bestselling novel by
Laura Norton, the latest from Spanish director
Maria Ripoll is a careening comedy of manners
and mania.
DIRECTORS BIO
Maria Ripoll was born in
Barcelona. She studied at the
American Film Institute. Her
feature debut, Twice Upon a
Yesterday (98) earned her a
Goya nomination for Best New Director. Her other
films include Tortilla Soup (01), Its Now or Never (15),
Empire (16) is his first feature directorial credit.
Producer: Francisco Ramos; Screenwriters: Carlos
Montero, Breixo Corral - Adapted from the novel No culpes
al Karma de lo que te pasa por gilipollas by Laura Norton;
Principal Cast: Vernica Echegui, David Verdaguer, Alex
Garca, Alba Galocha, Elvira Mnguez, Jordi Snchez,
James Williams, Cecilia Freire
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
DREAM EMPIRE
Directed by David Borenstein
North American Premiere
Denmark, China | 2016 | 75 minutes
Chinese, English with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
Thursday
Tuesday
March 7
6:45 pm | CGAC
7:00 pm | CGAC
SPARK
young woman who leaves her rural home
to pursue the fabled Chinese Dream in
Chongqings thriving real estate market. Yana
opens an agency designed to aid Chinese
developers in reaching foreign investors,
but she soon discovers that her clients
expectationsnot to mention economic
realitiesmay prove too tumultuous for her
dream to weather.
Filmed over several years, Miami-native
director David Borensteins incisive
documentary dissects the chaotic, reckless,
often mind-boggling world of the globalized
real estate market, showing its merciless
effects not only in the abstract, but also
on the life of a single, hugely determined
individual.
DIRECTORS BIO
David Borenstein was
born in Miami. He has
studied languages, political
science and anthropology
at Princeton University
in Beijing, the University of Florida, the
Southwestern University of Finance and
Economics in Chengdu, China, and the City
University of New York Graduate Center. Dream
de abril (13) and El Amparo (16), his feature debut.
Producer: Jesper Jack
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
EL AMPARO
Directed by Rober Calzadilla
Venezuela, Colombia | 2016 | 99 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA
DRAMA, SPORTS
Saturday
March 9 March 11
5:00 pm | TWR2
Proceded by short film:
Based on the story of undefeated two-time
DIRECTED BY JUAN MARTINEZ VERA
USA, VENEZUELA, MEXICO | 2016 | 19 MIN.
English, Spanish with English Subtitles
In October 1988, 14 men were murdered
by the Venezuelan military in El Amparo, a
village near the Arauca River. The victims
were fishermen, but the military claimed they
were guerilla fighters. This painful atrocity
and its tumultuous aftermath are the subject
of Rober Calzadillas haunting first feature.
Based on a play by Calzadilla and scriptwriter
Karin Valecillos, El Amparo invests much time
in its characters, their relationships and way
of life, while, in a masterstroke of directorial
judiciousness, the massacre itself is elided,
its horrors left to our imagination. This is a
profound meditation on how communities
contend with outrage and grief, and the
troubling question of who gets to control
historical truth.
DIRECTORS BIO
Rober Calzadilla is an actor,
screenwriter and director. He
trained at the Juana Sujo School
of Performing Arts and the
Central University of Venezuela School of the Arts.
His directorial credits include the mid-length El pas
Producer: Nathalie Sar-Shalom; Screenwriters:
Ignacio Castillo Cottin, Ada Hernndez; Principal
Producers: Nella Ilas, Rubn Sierra Salles; Screenwriter:
Karin Valecillos - Adapted from the play El Amparo by
Rober Calzadilla; Principal Cast: Vicente Quintero,
Giovanny Garca, Vicente Pea, Rossana Hernndez
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
EL INCA
Directed by Ignacio Castillo Cottin
International Premiere
Venezuela | 2016 | 128 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
THRILLER
Monday Saturday
Thursday
March 6 March 11
9:15 pm | TWR1 8:30 pm | R17
World Boxing Champion Edwin Valero, El
Inca is a powerhouse biographical drama
about talent and charisma, love and
ambition, excess and self-destruction.
Valero, aka El Inca, rose from humble
Andean roots to international celebrity by
defeating one rival after anotherhe set a
world record by winning his first 18 fights
with a first-round knockout. But as Valeros
professional life bloomed his personal life
began to stagger, with insecurities leading
to marital infidelities and perilous addiction,
aspects of Valeros life that still spark
controversy: following a brief, successful
theatrical run, the Venezuelan Government
removed the film from theaters.
El Inca tells of an exhilarating rise, a tragic
fall, and the riveting displays of athletic
mastery in between.
DIRECTORS BIO
Ignacio Castillo Cottin is a
Venezuelan filmmaker. He is
a graduate of the University
of Southern California. His
directorial credits include La
virgen negra (08) and El Inca (16).
and Savannah (09) and
the features Natural Sciences
Cast: Alexander Leterni, Scarlett Jaime, Miguel Ferrari,
Daniela Bueno, Carolina Torres
49
EL PAMPERO
Directed by Matias Luchessi
World Premiere
Argentina, Uruguay, France | 2017 | 80 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero- Pr
American Competition
B
DI
AR
Sp
March 9
6:30 pm | R18
Preceded by short film:
BUSINESS
DIRECTED BY MALENA VAIN
ARGENTINA | 2016 | 20 MIN.
Spanish with English Subtitles
Suffering from a secret terminal illness,
Fernando (Julio Chvez) decides to leave
urban life behind, setting out in a sailboat to
find whatever solace remains available to him
in nature. Fernandos solitude is compromised,
however, by his unexpected encounter with
Carla (Pilar Gamboa), a young woman pursued
by authorities for a crime she did not commit.
The latest from Argentine director Matas
Lucchesi echoes the bucolic setting and
intergenerational dynamics of his feature debut,
Natural Sciences, while introducing a quicker
pulse and greater urgency into his repertoire.
Instead of a burden, Carlas desperate situation
becomes a sort of gift for Fernando, an
opportunity for him to feel meaningfully alive
and in human communion one last time.
DIRECTORS BIO
Matas Lucchesi was born
in Crdoba, Argentina. His
directorial credits include the
short films Distances (09)
(14), which screened at Miami Film Festival, and El
pampero (17).
Producer: Juan Pablo Miller; Screenwriters: Matias Lucchesi,
Gonzalo Salaya; Principal Cast: Julio Chavez, Pilar Gamboa,
Cesar Troncoso
50 FILMS AZ
BIG EASY BRUNCH
Saturday
March 11
11:30 am | River Yacht Club
Before the film ELLA BRENNAN:
COMMANDING THE TABLE, by Academy
Award and Golden Globe nominated
director Leslie Iwerks, join us for a New
Orleans style feast. Hosted at Miamis
own River Yacht Club, a waterfront
destination known for its global seafood,
its a perfect culinary Saturday in Miami.
With a meal inspired by the cuisine of
matriarch Ella Brennans famed New
Orleans establishment Commanders
Palace, youll experience tastes that
reflect a creole-flavored dynasty dating
back half a century.
Presented by Lee Brian Schrager, founder
of Food Network South Beach Wine &
Food Festival
__________________________________
Brunch menu, served family style:
Hash Skillet hash brown served with
tomato bacon jam topped with fried egg
Shrimpn Grits Parmesan grits, shrimp and
white wine reduction
French Toasts berries, crme anglaise
Dessert:
Cheese Cake Mousse
Strawberries & Balsamic Reduction
Chocolate Fudge Cake
Milk Chocolate Cream,
Bourbon Ice Cream
Sodas, water, teas, and coffee are
included. Alcoholic beverages are
not included and must be purchased
separately by the individual guest.
FILM+BRUNCH: $80 ($77 MFS)
FILM ONLY: $13 ($10 MFS)
Must arrive promptly at 11:30am start time.
Latecomers cannot be served.
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
ELLA BRENNAN: EMBARGO
COMMANDING THE TABLE Directed by Jeri Rice
Directed by Leslie Iwerks
USA | 2016 | 95 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
CULINARY
Tuesday
Saturday
March 11
2:30 pm | TWR2
Americans know Ella Brennan as the
matriarch of the family behind Brennans and
Commanders Palace, an inspiring creator of
New Orleans breakfasts and jazz brunches,
a great proponent of Creole cuisine, and a
pioneer in what would become the modern
American food movement. But theres
a fascinating story beneath the glory, a
biographical trajectory that swings between
familial conflict and dazzling success.
Oscar and Emmy-nominated filmmaker
Leslie Iwerks delves deep into Brennans
roots, life and work, her struggles and
strategies, and the triumphs that make her
an iconic figure in American culinary culture
and business. Bon apptit!
DIRECTORS BIO
Leslie Iwerks is an American
filmmaker. She graduated from
the University of Southern
California School of Cinema-
Television. Her directorial
credits include Recycled Life (06), which was
nominated for an Oscar, The Pixar Story (07), which
was nominated for an Emmy, and Ella Brennan:
Commanding the Table (16).
Mark Monroe
Producers: Michael Tang, Leslie Iwerks; Screenwriter: Mo
Stoebe, Leslie Iwerks, Mark Catalena - based on the Book
Miss Ella of Commanders Palace: I Dont Want a Restaurant
Where a Jazz Band Cant Come Marching Through; Subjects:
Ella Brennan, Daniel Boulud, Emeril Lagasse, Ti Martin,
Tory McPhail, Danny Meyer, Drew Nieporent, Chris Owens,
Jeremiah Tower, Hal Williamson, Tim and Nina Zagat
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
World Premiere
USA | 2017 | 92 minutes
English, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
American Competition
Sunday DRAMA
March 7 March 12
7:00 pm | TWR1 4:00 pm | R18
In 2002, Jeri Rice travelled to Cuba with a
group of 40 influential American women.
Her experiences there spurred that oft-asked
question: Why does the US still have an
embargo against Cuba? This remarkable
documentary, 14 years in the making, is Rices
deeply researched response to that question.
Embargo tracks the embargos long history,
impact and evolution. Utilizing recently
declassified documents and interviews with
Robert Kennedy, Jr., Sergei Khrushchev, Ted
Sorensen, and Lucie Arnaz, Rice takes us from
pre-Revolution days through the Cuban Missile
Crisis to the current eras attempts to end the
embargo and rebuild diplomatic and economic
relations between the US and this singular
island so very near to American soiland
American hearts.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jeri Rice enjoyed a
successful 30-year career in
the fashion industry before
transitioning into film. She
acted as associate producer
on the documentary Fields of Fuel (08).
Embargo (17) is her directorial debut.
Producer: Jeri Rice; Screenwriters: Jeri Rice,
Sainte-Luce; Principal Cast: Jimmy Jean-Louis, Claudia
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
THE EMPTY BOX
LA CAJA VACA
Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce
US Premiere
Mexico | 2016 | 101 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
Friday
March 3
7:00 pm | OCMB
Saturday Tuesday
March 4 March 7
9:00 pm | R18 6:30 pm | R18
Jazmin had long been estranged from her
father Toussaint, a Haitian immigrant and
drifter, when she receives a phone call from
the hospital informing her that Toussaint is
suffering from vascular dementia. Suddenly
charged with caring for a man she hardly
knows, Jazmin must reckon with an unresolved
past while Toussaints illness abandons him in
an increasingly baffling present.
In this captivating, heartfelt follow-up to
her winsome debut The Amazing Catfish,
Mexican writer, director and star Claudia
Sainte-Luce sensitively explores the
precarious terrain of familial loyalties, old
wounds and fraught forays into reconciliation.
DIRECTORS BIO
Claudia Sainte-Luce was
born in Veracruz, Mexico. She
has directed the short films
Muerte anunciada (06) and
El milagrito de San Jacinto
(07). She made her feature debut with The
starting her career as a filmmaker. Her directorial
Amazing Catfish (13). The Empty Box (16) is her
second feature.
Producer: Christian Kregel; Screenwriter: Claudia
Sainte-Luce, Pablo Sigal, Monica La Presle-Santana
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 51
EVERYTHING BUT A MAN FAMILY LIFE
Directed by Nnegest Likk VIDA DE FAMILIA
Directed by Alicia Scherson,
USA | 2016 | 109 minutes
Cristin Jimenez
Category: Special Presentation
ROMANCE, STRONG FEMALE LEAD Chile | 2017 | 80 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
Sunday American Competition
March 5 DARK COMEDY
4:00 pm | R18
Vanessa is a self-made, African-American Friday
career woman. She seems to have March 10
everything going for her, yet there is one
9:15 pm | CGAC
element of a happy life that continues
to elude her: a good man. Could Max, a Bruno and his family leave their Santiago
mysterious, French-speaking foreigner home for a three-month visit to France.
be the one to change Vanessas luck? Brunos cousin Martn is left in charge of the
His lifestyle is so different from hers, house and cat. The cat goes missing, which
yet these differences could be just what leads Martn to meet Pachi. A romance
begins, albeit one based on false pretenses:
Vanessa needs: a challenge to her fixed
Martn claims the house is his, and that hes
notions of love, relationships and what
a father and divorc. Martn invents a whole
being a strong woman really means.
new lifebut when happens when real life
This second feature from writer-director comes back from holiday?
Nnegest Likk explores romance and self-
discovery from a bold, intelligent, female
perspectiveand it might just provoke
the rest of us to question our idea of DIRECTORS BIO
personal success.
Alicia Scherson was born
in Santiago, Chile. After
graduating as a biologist, she
studied filmmaking at the
DIRECTORS BIO Escuela de Cine de Cuba and
Nnegest Likk was born
the University of Illinois in Chicago. Her directorial
credits include Play (05), Tourists (09) and Il futuro
in Oakland, California. She (13). Family Life (17), co-directed with Cristin
earned her bachelors degree Jimnez, is her latest film.
in communications from Clark
Cristin Jimnez is a Chilean sociologist and
Atlanta University. She was
filmmaker. His film Bonsi (11) won the Grand Jury
a high school English and drama teacher before Prize and Jordan Ressler Award at the Miami Film
Festival. His other films include Optical Illusions (09)
credits include Phat Girlz (06) and Everything But
and La voz en off (14). Family Life (17), co-directed
a Man (16). with Alicia Scherson, is his latest film.
Producers: Carlos Olivares, Fernando Bascun;
Producers: Nnegest Likk, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Steven
J. Wolfe; Screenwriter: Nnegest Likk; Principal Cast:
Screenwriters: Alejandro Zambra, Alicia Scherson, Cristin
Jimenez - Based on the short story Vida de familia by
Monica Calhoun, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Camille Winbush,
Alejandro Zambra; Principal Cast: Jorge Becker, Gabriela
Gessica Gnus, Mike Faiola, Bambadjan Bamba, Rodney
Arancibia, Blanca Lewin, Cristin Carvajal
Charles, Jean-Pierre Vertus
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH
AMERICAN BLACK FILM FESTIVAL (ABFF)
Try to count the black dots.
Your brain wont let you.

ITS SCIENCE.
Find out why at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science.
Opening spring 2017.

1101 Biscayne Blvd Miami, FL 33132 | frostscience.org

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science is supported by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners of Miami-
Dade County. This project is supported by the Building Better Communities Bond Program and the City of Miami. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, and the Florida Council on
Arts and Culture. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution and a member of the Association of Science and Technology Centers. Frost Science is an accessible facility.
All contents Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science. All rights reserved.
Scintillating grid illusion, first described by M. Schrauf, B. Lingelbach, and E. Wist in The Scintillating Grid Illusion, Vision Research (1997).
54 FILMS AZ MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
FLORIDA STORIES FRANTZ
76 minutes
Category: Shorts Program
Directed by Francois Ozon
Germany, France | 2016 | 113 minutes
French, German with English Subtitles
Saturday Category: Special Presentation
March 4 ROMANCE
9:45 pm | TWR1
From the resonance of a young graffiti Saturday
artists run-ins with the law, to Palm Beach
March 4
Countys Pahokee High School football
program, and a portrait of Miamis garage 4:00 pm | R17
rock n roll band Sunghosts, these are three
In a small German town grieving in the
exceptional stories from our own backyard.
immediate aftermath of the Great War, Anna
is surprised to find a stranger laying roses
on the grave of Frantz, her fallen fianc. The
stranger is Adrien, a Frenchman who knew
Frantz in the years before the war and who
brings with him memories of music and
dancingand of colour, which bursts joyously
onto the screen for fleeting passages in
Franois Ozons elegantly rendered, mostly
monochromatic tale of loss and recovery.
THE MUCK Based on the same play that inspired Ernst
Directed by Ron Langevin Lubitschs Broken Lullaby, the sublime Frantz
shifts between France and Germany, French
USA | 2016 | 40 min.
and German, past and present.
DIRECTORS BIO
Franois Ozon was born in
Paris and studied at La Fmis.
His directorial credits include
Water Drops on Burning
TOYED Rocks (00), Under the Sand
(00), 8 Women (02), Swimming Pool (03), Time
Directed by Jokes Yanes to Leave (05), In the House (12) and Young and
Beautiful (13). Frantz (16) is his latest feature.
USA | 2016 | 22 min.
Andrew Mcinnes, Noah Rothman, Todd Lubin, Kevin
Producers: Stefan Arndt, Uwe Schott; Screenwriters:
Franois Ozon in collaboration with Philippe Piazzo -
Adaptation based on Broken Lullaby by Ernst Lubitsch;
Principal Cast: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Sttzner, Marie
Gruber, Johann Von Blow, Anton Von Lucke, Anton Von
Lucke, Cyrielle, Alice De Lencquesaing
SUNGHOSTS
Directed by Michael Lowney
USA | 2016 | 14 min.
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
GIVE ME FUTURE:
MAJOR LAZER IN CUBA
Directed by Austin Peters
Cuba, USA | 2017 | 85 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, REEL Music
MUSIC
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Tuesday Wednesday
March 7 March 8
9:00 pm | R17 9:30 pm | TWR2
Major Lazer is a major force in the world
of electronic dancehall. In 2015, riding
the wave of their hit Leon On, the EDM
supergroup undertook a world tour
with a stop in Havana, a destination few
international acts have had permission or,
given its infrastructural issues, inclination
to perform. The show was a gamblebut
500,000 habaneros turned up for what
turned out to be a history-making event.
Fun, fascinating and inspirational, Give
Me Future exudes Major Lazers motto:
Making the world smaller by making
the party bigger. Director Austin Peters
captures the concert while seizing
glimpses of a great city in a moment
of dizzying transition
DIRECTORS BIO
Austin Peters was raised
in Los Angeles. He studied
film at the Tisch School of
the Arts. He has directed
documentary shorts and
music videos. Give Me Future: Major Lazer in
Cuba (16) is his feature documentary debut.
Producers: Jack Turner, Wesley Pentz, Jay Peterson,
Maite Alberdi is a Chilean
Kusatsu;
Major Lazer member and Global Ambassador
of Music & Culture, Walshy Fire will introduce
the screening and participate in a question
and answer session with the audience
following the Tuesday night screening. Join
Walshy Fire at his Rum & Bass after-party
following the screening at Coyo Taco, 2300
NW 2ND Ave.
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
THE GROWN-UPS
LOS NIOS
Directed by Maite Alberdi
US Premiere
Chile, Netherlands, France, Colombia
2016 | 83 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Saturday
Award
6:30 pm | R18
Sunday
March 5
4:00 pm | CGAC
The subjects of Maite Alberdis
documentary are four middle-aged
students at a Chilean school for Downs
Syndrome children. The quartet studies
and works in their catering department,
but to what end? This winsome,
opinionated group feels ready for a
life of greater autonomy, yet financial
independence is elusive in a system that
marginalizes them as disabled.
Those who caught Tea Time at the 2015
Festival know Alberdis capacity for
generating tremendous charisma, but
Grown-ups infectious warmth is balanced
with indignation over its subjects dearth
of options. Grown-ups doesnt dismiss
the innate challenges faced by those with
Downs Syndrome; rather, it merely urges
us to consider their desires and abilities
on a case-by-case basis.
DIRECTORS BIO
making his feature debut with The Stag (13).
filmmaker. Her film Tea
Time (14) won won Best
Documentary at both Miami
Film Festival and Cartagena
Film Festival, and was nominated for a Goya.
Her other films include El salvavidas (11), Yo no
soy de aqu (16) and Grown-ups (16).
Producers: Maite Alberdi; Screenwriter: Maite Alberdi
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 55
HANDSOME DEVIL HARMONIUM
Directed by John Butler FUCHI NI TATSU
Directed by Kji Fukada
Ireland | 2016 | 95 minutes
Category: Cinema 360 Japan | 2016 | 120 minutes
ROMANCE Japanese with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
THRILLER
March 4
Saturday
March 4
More invested in subversive, effete classic
rock than the brutish, macho rugby 3:00 pm | TWR2
culture favored by his peers, 16-year-old
Ned seeks to draw as little attention to Toshiro is a quiet, dependable husband
and father who runs a machinery shop
himself as possible as he endures his
out of his house. His familys placid
sentence at boarding school. Things
domestic life is disrupted, however, when
take a radical turn, however, when Ned
Toshiros old friend Yasaka comes calling
befriends Connor, a dashing rugby wizard
after having just been released from
with a secret only Ned knows.
prison. Mysterious yet well-mannered,
Yasaka movies in, Toshiro gives him
Witty, wise and delicate, Irish filmmaker
work, and the situation seems tenable
John Butlers sophomore feature vividly
invokes those years of adolescent angst. until shadows from the mens shared
past begin creeping in, and the smooth
Both Ned and Connor are forced to
veneer of Toshiros marriage starts
reckon with questions of loyalty and
showing cracks.
self-interest while stumbling toward the
realization that being true to yourself is
Kji Fukadas latest is a meticulously
the only way to truly be in the world.
rendered slow-burn, a psychologically
acute tale of punishment and crime that
DIRECTORS BIO pulls us deeper into its world of familial
tension and fraught allegiances with
John Butler was born in every elegantly measured scene.
Dublin. His debut novel, The
Tenderloin, was shortlisted
for Best Newcomer at the DIRECTORS BIO
Irish Book Awards. He
directed short films and for television before Kji Fukada was born in
Tokyo and graduated from
Handsome Devil (16) is his second feature. the Film School of Tokyo.
His films include Hospitalit
(10), Hotori no sakuko (13),
Producers: Robert Walpole, Rebecca OFlanagan;
Saynara (15), and Harmonium (16).
Screenwriter: John Butler; Principal Cast: Andrew
Scott, Fionn OShea, Nicholas Galitzine, Michael
McElhatton, Moe Dunford
Producers: Hiroshi Niimura, Yoshito Ohyama, Masa
Sawada, Tsuyoshi Toyama; Screenwriter: Kji Fukada
- Based on the novel Rparer les vivants by Maylis de
Kerangal; Principal Cast: Mariko Tsutsui, Tadanobu
Asano, Kanji Furutachi, Kana Mahiro, Takahiro Miura
56 FILMS AZ MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL | MARCH 3-12, 2017 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 57

HEAL THE LIVING
RPARER LES VIVANTS
Directed by Katell Quillvr
France, Belgium | 2016 | 104 minutes
French with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA
CHILDREN & FAMILY
Friday
March 10
7:00 pm | OCMB
A teenaged boy goes on a road trip with
friends to the sea. A woman learns that her
health is worsening. The staff at a regional
hospital valiantly endeavors to save lives.
These disparate narrative threads will
gradually weave into an absorbing whole in
this third feature from the talented Ivorian
director Katell Quillvr.
Based on the Booker-long-listed novel by
Maylis de Kerangal, Heal the Living is an
intense yet elegantly crafted film, exploring
the ways that strangers can come together
in times of crisis and hope can emerge
from the most despairing of situations.
DIRECTORS BIO
Katell Quillvr was born
in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
She studied cinema and
philosophy at the University
of Paris. Her films include the
shorts bras les corps (05), LImprudence
(07), and Lchappe (09), and the features
Un poison violent (10), Suzanne (13), and Heal
the Living (16).
Men (14). Hero Steps (17) marks his feature
Producers: Philippe Martin, Justin Tauran, David Thion;
Co-producers: Jean-Yves Roubin, Cassandre Warnauts
Screenwriters: Katell Quillvr, Gilles Taurand - Based
on the novel Rparer les vivants by Maylis de Kerangal;
Principal Cast: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne
Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen , Monia Chokri, Alice
Taglioni, Karim Keklou
HERO STEPS
PASOS DE HROE
Directed by Henry Rincon
North American Premiere
Colombia | 2016 | 90 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: MIFFecito, HBO Ibero-American
Competition
Saturday
March 11
1:00 pm | CGAC
This feature debut from Colombian writer-
director Henry Rincn centers on Eduardo,
a ten-year-old boy who has more than his
share of harrowing challenges: he is poor, a
victim of Colombias armed conflict, and is
missing a leg. Yet, with the help of his music
teacher and some valiant friends, Eduardo
is determined follow through with what he
considers his mission: to participate in a
childrens soccer tournament without being
discovered.
Hero Steps is a heartrending drama
about triumph in the face of seemingly
insurmountable adversity. If little Eduardo
can follow his dreams, then surely theres
hope for all of us.
DIRECTORS BIO
Henry Rincn is a Colombian
filmmaker. He has worked in
various capacities on films
such as Lo azul del cielo
(12) and City of Dead
directorial debut.
Producers: Henry Rincn, Mnica Giraldo, Natalia
Correa; Screenwriter: Henry Rincn; Principal Cast-
Federico Lpez, Valentina Cifuentes, Hctor Garca,
lvaro Garca, David Norea, Ana Maria Perez,
Marcela Valencia
HEROES WANTED
CUERPO DE LITE
Directed by Joaqun Mazn
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 97 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
COMEDY
March 7
Friday Saturday
March 3 March 11
9:30 pm | OCMB 6:00 pm | OCMB
An atomic bomb has been stolen; the
highly skilled agents who were attempting
to recover it have perished. Our only hope
now lies in a team of, well, lets just call
them less-skilled agents. A secret elite
corps is assembled from various regions of
Spain, among them a Madrid traffic cop,
an insufferable Catalonian, a Basque brute,
and an arrogant politician.
An inspired send-up of Spanish
stereotypes, Joaqun Mazns hilarious
feature debut places mankinds future
in the hands of a motley crew of
defenders who individually might be the
most bumbling heroes imaginable, but
collectively will rise to the occasion. Or
anyway, you know, thats the idea.
day sexuality.
Fingers crossed.
DIRECTORS BIO
Joaqun Mazn was born
in Madrid. He has directed
extensively for television. His
credits include numerous
episodes of Doctor Mateo
(11), Con el cuto al aire (12-14) and All abajo
(15). Heroes Wanted (16) is his feature debut.
Producers: Fernando Bovaira, Mikel Lejarza, Mercedes
Gamero; Screenwriters-Cristbal Garrido, Adolfo Valor;
Principal Cast: Mara Len, Miki Escarbe, Jordi Snchez,
Andoni Agirregomez, Korta, Juan Carlos Aduviri
HOT GIRLS WANTED:
TURNED ON
Directed by Rashida Jones
USA | 2017 | 90 minutes
Category: Special Presentation
Tuesday
DRAMA, MUSIC
7:00 pm | R17
Former Miami Herald writer Jill Bauer and
former staff photographer Ronna Gradus
team up with writer-actor-filmmaker
Rashida Jones to create this new Netflix
series that spins off from their feature
documentary Hot Girls Wanted (2015),
which was set in South Florida. Hot Girls
Wanted: Turned On is an anthology
series with each episode examining a
different aspect of the intersection of
sex and technology and how Internet
pornography and social media have
changed us in the 21st century. This
tragic story.
special festival preview features Women
on Top, directed by Jones, that looks
Making the leap from documentaries
at the idea of feminist pornography. The
screening will be followed by an extended
conversation with Jones, Bauer and
Gradus discussing what theyve learned
over the last 10 years of covering modern
dreams come true.
DIRECTORS BIO
Rashida Jones was born
in Los Angeles. Her acting
credits include I Love You,
Man (09), The Social Network
(10) and the television series
zador es un corazn soli-
Parks and Recreation (09-15). She has written
for episodic television and the feature Celeste &
Jesse Forever (12). Hot Girls Wanted: Turned On
pasados (06). I am Gilda (17) is her latest film.
(17) marks her directorial debut.
Producer: Lorena Muoz, Benjamin Avila, Maximiliano
Executive Producers: Rashida Jones, Ronna Gradus,
Jill Bauer, Peter LoGreco
I AM GILDA
GILDA, NO ME ARREPIENTO DE
ESTE AMOR
Directed by Lorena Muoz
North American Premiere
Argentina | 2016 | 118 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: CINEDWNTWN Gala, HBO Ibero-
American Competition, Reel Music
Monday
Sunday
March 5
7:00 pm | OLY
She took her stage name from Rita
Hayworths titular siren in Charles Vidors
noir classic, but she was born Miriam
Alejandra Bianchi in Buenos Aires in 1961.
The cumbia singer fans knew as Gilda
gleamed in the spotlight far too briefly,
but she had already lived a life as arduous
as it was glamorous. I am Gilda tells
her astonishing, inspiring, ultimately
to this sweeping bio-pic, Argentine
filmmaker Lorena Muoz takes us for a
thrilling ride along the hard road this
legendary vocalist took to make her
DIRECTORS BIO
Lorena Muoz is an
Argentine filmmaker. Her
directorial credits include
the short films Pintor
Gmez (98) and El ca-
include the documentaries Solfrino (09) and
tario (00) and the documentaries Yo no s qu
me han hecho tus ojos (03) and Los prximos
Victoria (16).
Producer: Emmanuel Chaumet; Screenwriter: Justine
Dubois, Axel Kuschevatzky; Screenwriters: Lorena
Triet; Principal Cast: Virginie Efira, Vincent Lacoste,
Muoz, Tamara Vies; Principal Cast: Natalia Oreiro, Lau-
taro Delgado, Javier Drolas, Roly Serrano, Daniel Melingo,
Angela Torres, Susana Pampin, Roberto Vallejos
IN BED WITH VICTORIA
VICTORIA
Directed by Justine Triet
France | 2016 | 98 minutes
French with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
ROMANTIC COMEDY,
STRONG FEMALE LEAD
Saturday
March 6 March 11
9:30 pm | OCMB 6:00 pm | R17
Victoria (Elles Virginie Efira) is a criminal
lawyer and divorced mother tumbling into
midlife crisis. Shes highly capable, smart
and attractive, but sexual satisfaction
is proving maddeningly elusive. At a
wedding she reunites with a former client
looking to be her intern and an old friend
hoping to be her new clienthes accused
of stabbing his girlfriend.
In Bed With Victoria is at once smart
and totally bananas: a chimpanzee that
takes selfies is but one of this rom-coms
more outr supporting characters. French
director Justine Triets follow-up to
Age of Panic is knowing, inventive and
refreshingly frank about female sexuality
and neuroses.
DIRECTORS BIO
Justine Triet was born in
Fcamp, France. She is
a graduate of the Paris
National School of Fine
Arts. Her directorial credits
Des ombres dans la masion (10) and the fiction
features Age of Panic (13) and In Bed With
Melvil Poupaud, Laurent Poitrenaux
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
ITS ONLY THE END OF
THE WORLD
JUSTE LA FIN DU MONDE
Directed by Xavier Dolan
Canada, France | 2016 | 95 minutes
French with English Subtitles
FILMS A-Z
Category: Knight Competition
DRAMA
Wednesday
Monday Saturday
March 6 March 11
9:30 pm | CGAC 1:00pm | OCMB
Oscar-shortlisted and winner of the
Grand Jury Prize at 2016 Cannes Film
Festival, the latest from French-Canadian
enfant terrible Xavier Dolan chronicles
an unusually fraught family reunion: after
more than a decade away, a dramatist
returns to his hometown to inform his kin
of his impending death.
Deploying a characteristic battery of high-
style cinema wizardry, Dolan balances
verbal fireworks with probing close-ups
and wry behavioral observation, drawing
magnificent performances from the crme
de la crme of French cinemaMarion
Coutillard, Vincent Cassel, La Seydoux,
Nathalie Bayeto tell a story of sadness,
rage and, finally, unconditional love.
DIRECTORS BIO
Xavier Dolan was born
in Montral. All of his
films have won awards at
major international film
festivals. They include I
Killed My Mother (09), Heartbeats (Les amours
imaginaires) (10), Tom at the Farm (13), Mommy
(14), and Laurence Anyways (12), which screened
at Miami Film Festival
Yanillys Perez; Principal Cast: Joselito de la Cruz, Junior
Producers: Nancy Grant, Xavier Dolan, Sylvain Corbeil,
Nathanal Karmitz, Elisha Karmitz, Michel Merkt;
Screenwriter:Xavier Dolan - Adapted from the play
Juste la Fin du Monde by Jean-Luc Lagarce; Principal
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard,
La Seydoux, Gaspard Ulliel
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
JEFFREY
Directed by Yanillys Perez
Dominican Republic, France | 2016 | 78 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
HBO Ibero-American Competition
MUSIC
Tuesday
March 8
6:45 pm | TWR1
Jeffrey is only 12-years-old, but he
helps put food on his familys table by
working as a Santo Domingo windshield
washerand he helps feed his spirit by
composing and recording music with his
big brother Jeyson.
Director Yanillys Perez sensitively
contrasts her loveable subjects dreams of
making it big as a reggaeton singer with
the complex reality of life on the streets
of the Dominican Republics teeming
capital, a place as marked by poverty as
it is by beauty. Jeffrey is a tribute to the
resilience of youthful aspiration even in
the most daunting circumstances.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Yanillys Perezs acting
credits include Olivier
Assayas Carlos (10). Her directorial credits
include the short films), Techos Rotos
(14), and Firefly (16). Jeffrey (16), her first
feature, won the Discovery Prize at Toronto
International Film Festival.
Producers: Thibaud Billiard, Yanillys Perez; Screenwriter:
de la Cruz, Jeyson de la Cruz, Ana Maria de la Cruz
59
JESUS
Directed by Fernando Guzzoni
Chile, France, Colombia, Germany,
Greece | 2016 | 85 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA, FAITH
March 7
9:45 pm | OCMB
A darkly captivating character study,
writer-director Fernando Guzzonis
sensational second feature follows
Santiago youth Jess (Nicols Durn)
as he slips from adolescent inertia to
criminal activity. Much to the frustration
of his widower father (Alejandro Goic),
Jess shows little interest in finishing
high school or spending money wisely.
Yet neither father nor son is prepared for
what happens after Jess and his pals
viciously gang up on a defenseless kid
late one night in a cemetery.
With its arresting crepuscular images
and superb naturalistic performances,
Guzzonis carefully calibrated drama
raised complicated moral questions about
ones responsibility to oneself, to ones
society and, most problematic of all,
ones own kin.
DIRECTORS BIO
Fernando Guzzoni was
born in Santiago, Chile. His
directorial credits include
the documentary La colorina
(08) and the fiction feature
Dog Flesh (12). Jesus (16) is his latest film.
Producers: Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin,
Giancarlo Nasi; Screenwriter: Fernando Guzzoni
Principal Cast: Nicols Durn, Sebastin Ayala,
Alejandro Goic
60 FILMS AZ
LA MEDEA
Directed by Yara Travieso
USA | 2017 | 90min.
Category: Special Presentation, Florida Focus
MUSIC
HBO Ibero-American Competition
Friday
March 10
9:30 pm | OCMB
Proceded by short film:
I AM HERE
DIRECTED BY EOIN DUFFY
CANADA | 2016 | 5 MIN.
A ferociously inventive new interpretation
of a timeless tragic tale of revenge, this
one-of-a-kind film is the product of
Miami-born filmmaker and choreographer
Yara Traviesos recent New York dance-
theatre event, which was performed, shot
and edited in real time.
Reimagining Euripides infanticidal anti-
heroine as the subject of a live, tell-all
TV special, La Medea uses aspects of
contemporary media culture to provoke
questions regarding notions of justice
and the so-called hysterical woman. Part
opera and part soap opera, part myth and
part reality, partly improvised and partly
scripted, this electrifying, blackly comic
melodrama promises to deliver brutality
and tenderness, spectacle and intimacy.
DIRECTORS BIO
Yara Travieso was born
in Miami. She received
her BFA from the Juiliard
School. She is a director
and choreographer creating
hybrid works of cinema, opera, theatre and
dance across the US and in France. La Medea
(17) is her first feature film to emerge from
this practice.
Agamez, Jorge Thielen Hedderich
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
LA SOLEDAD
Directed by Jorge Thielen Armand
North American Premiere
Venezuela | 2016 | 89 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
Award
DRAMA
Monday
March 6
7:00 pm | TWR1
Handyman Jos lives with his family in
La Soledad, a ramshackle villa located
in what was once among Caracas most
affluent neighborhoods. After learning
that the villas owners are planning to
sell the estate, Jos seeks any solution
that might keep his six-year-old daughter
from growing up in Caracas crime-
sodden slums. Might that fabled treasure
supposedly hidden in La Soledads walls
offer Joss family a chance at a better
life? Jorge Thielen Armands feature
debut carves fiction from reality: La
Soledad is a magnificent feat of real-life
storytellingand a profound fusion of
creativity and compassion.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jorge Thielen Armand is
a Venezuelan director based
in Toronto and Caracas.
La Soledad (16) marks his
feature debut as a
screenwriter and director.
SCREENWRITERS BIO
Rodrigo Michelangeli is
a Venezuelan filmmaker,
cinematographer and writer.
La Soledad (16), which he
also produced and shot, is his
feature debut as a screenwriter.
Producers: Adriana Herrera, Rodrigo Michelangeli,
Jorge Thielen Armand; Screenwriters: Jorge Thielen
Armand, Rodrigo Michelangeli; Principal Cast: Jos
Dolores Lpez, Adrializ Lpez, Marley Alvillares, Mara
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
THE LAMBIRDS
Directed by Fini Maza
World Premiere
USA | 2017 | 95 minutes
English, Nepali with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Saturday
March 5
3:30 pm | TWR2
Some offers really are too good to be
true. In 2015, 68 Nepalese and Indians
students learned this lesson the hard
way. Each paid $10,000 to study at
an American institution calling itself
Lambirds Academy. Lambirds promised
eight months of education, a work visa
and a guaranteed job on a cruise ship.
When the students arrived at Lambirds
campus on the Caribbean isle of St. Lucia,
they found nothing but an empty room
above a grocery store. They were left
stranded, broke and homeless, with their
passports confiscated.
Fini Mazas documentary recounts the
story of these ruthlessly scammed
students as they struggle to redeem their
investmentand their dreams.
DIRECTORS BIO
Fini Maza has worked in
various capacities on film
and television projects. His
directorial debut with The
Lambirds (17).
nominated for Goyas. Life is to Whistle (98) won
Producer: Ana Castaosa, Fini Maza; Subjects: Celysa
Xhetrii, Seemanta Thapaliya, Pravn Vhandari, Sapanjit
Singh, Bijay Shrestha
Producers: Jos Mara Morales, Danilo Len;
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
LAST DAYS IN HAVANA
LTIMOS DIAS EN LA HABANA
Directed by Fernando Prez
North American Premiere
Cuba, Spain | 2016 | 93 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Award
Category: CINEDWNTWN Galas, Knight
Competition, HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA
Thursday
March 9
7:00 pm | OLY
Miami favorite Fernando Prez (Havana
Suite) returns to the Festival with this
story of two modern habaneros whose
deepest desires steer them in very
different directions. Middle-aged busboy
Miguel dreams of leaving Havana for New
York, but waits for a visa seems like it will
never arrive. Diego, who is HIV-positive
and in poor health, dreams only of staying
alive. These men share a home, but while
one lies low the other strives to stay open
to whatever possibilities life still holds.
Last Days in Havana poignantly portrays
lives lived in suspensionand the way
waiting and hoping can alter how we
inhabit the moment.
DIRECTORS BIO
Fernando Prez is a Cuban
filmmaker. He studied
language and Hispanic
literature at the University
of Havana. His films Hello,
Hemingway (90) and Havana Suite (03) were
Exoitque Dancers (16).
the Goya for Best Spanish Language Foreign
Film. Last Days in Havana (16) is his latest film.
Subjects: Gina Bon Bon, Marinka, Toni Elling, Delilah
Jones, Holiday OHara, Kitten Natividad, Judith Stein,
Screenwriters: Fernando Prez, Abel Rodrguez; Principal
Cast: Jorge Martnez, Patricio Wood, Gabriela Ramos
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 61
LEAGUE OF LIBERTY IN A SOUP
EXOTIQUE DANCERS Directed by Dudley Alexis
USA, Haiti | 2016 | 70min
Directed by Rama Rau
Creole, English, French with English Subtitles
Canada, UK, USA | 2016 | 90 minutes Category: Special Presentation
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Tuesday
March 7
Saturday 6:30pm | TWR2
March 4
9:00 pm | CGAC Food is nourishment, food is pleasure,
food is comfortand food is also history,
culture and memory. This delectable
Sassy and empowering, Rama Raus
League of Exotique Dancers offers documentary from Miami artist and
both front-row seats and a backstage filmmaker Dudley Alexis explores the
pass to Legends of Burlesque, an depths of significance to be digested
in joumou, a traditional pumpkin-based
annual extravaganza hosted by Las
soup consumed in Dudleys native Haiti
Vegas Burlesque Hall of Fame. Were
every Haitian Independence Day, which
introduced to veterans like Gina Bon Bon,
also happens to be New Years Day.
Camille 2000 and Marinka, Queen of the
The ritual preparation of joumou is an
Amazons, all of them in their 60s or 70s,
emblem of freedom for Haitians, redolent
preparing to present their vintage vamps
of Revolutionary ideals, emancipation
from the pre-pole-dancing era.
and victory. Join Dudley on this personal
journey as he returns to Haiti to
Raus subjects speak eloquently about
investigates joumou, its meaningsand
the art of the tease, as well as the pitfalls
its culinary delights. .
of the trade, such as substance abuse.
The dominant feeling League leaves you
with is one of women wresting control of
their sexuality and careers, and thriving
on the liberation of performance. DIRECTORS BIO
Dudley Alexis was born in
DIRECTORS BIO Haiti, moved to the US as an
Rama Rau is a filmmaker
adolescent and has become
a fixture of Miamis visual arts
community. Liberty in a Soup
from India who now lives (16) is his first feature directorial credit.
in Toronto. Her directorial
credits include the
documentaries Fingers of
Fire (06), The Market (11), No Place to Hide:
Producer: Dudley Alexis, Ludlow Bailey, Shahilia Reid
Subjects: Edwidge Danticat, Jean Claude Exulien,
The Rehtaeh Parsons Story (15) and League of Bayyaynah E. Bello, David Destinoble, Hugh Chef Irie
Sinclair, Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Frederic G. Chery
Producer: Ed Barreveld; Screenwriter: Rama Rau-
Camille 2000
62 FILMS AZ
LITTLE WHITE LIE
LA MENTIRITA BLANCA
Directed by Toms Alzamora
World Premiere
Chile | 2017 | 80 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
HBO Ibero-American Competition
DARK COMEDY
Wednesday Saturday
March 8 March 11
9:30 pm | R17 1:30 pm | R18
In an age where fact-based news has
become increasingly compromised by
social media, counter-knowledge and
the cult of personality, this feature debut
from rapper, deejay and director Toms
Alzamora feels piercingly del momento.
The protagonist of Little White Lie is a
journalist struggling to maintain a career
in a small Chilean town. Worrying that
hes on the verge of losing his job, he
fabricates a storya little white liethat
turns into a very big deal, transforming
him into a hugely popular local celebrity.
Should our humble hero confess his
peccadillo or sacrifice his integrity at
the altar of fame? Find out in one of the
wittiest debuts of this or any other year.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Toms Alzamora (aka
Fourd) is a rapper, deejay and filmmaker. He
has produced video clips for various Chilean
musical stars and several short films. Little
White Lie (17) is his feature directorial debut.
Miami Film Festival, and The Lost Brother (17).
Producer: Pablo Calisto; Screenwriter: Toms Alzamora
Principal Cast: Rodrigo Salinas, Catalina Saavedra,
Daniel Antivilo, Jonas Sanche
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL | MARCH 3-12, 2017 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 63
LOVE IS THE ANSWER LOVE IS THE ANSWER MADE IN CUBA:
VOL. 1 VOL. 2 GREAT MUY BIEN, HOUSE FOR
THE LOST BROTHER LOVE AND SAUCERS
86 Minutes
Category: Shorts Program
87 minutes
Category: Shorts Program
SALE, CONNECTION
MADE IN CUBA: GREAT MUY BIEN,
EL OTRO HERMANO Saturday, March 11 CASA EN VENTA, CONECTIFAI
Directed by Brad Abrahams Saturday, March 4 47 minutes
Directed by Adrin Caetano North American Premiere 3:00 pm | OCMB 3:30pm | OCMB
Spanish with English Subtitles
USA | 2017 | 55 minutes This beguiling collection brings
World Premiere Category: Special Presentation
Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Category: Knight Documentary Achievement In all of these extraordinary, major new high-powered award pedigree 2017
Award, Florida Focus films, love proves to be an answer for each Oscar nominee La Femme et la TGV;
France | 2017 | 92 minutes protagonist, although in four very different Oscar-nominated cinematographer Tuesday Saturday
Spanish with English Subtitles ways. Gender identity, social integration, Papamichaels directorial debut; former
sexuality, the pain and loneliness of a Miami Film Festival Short Competition March 7 March 11
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition Tuesday stranger in a strange land - the struggles winner Cedric Prevost; and Miamis own 9:30 pm | TWR1 3:30 pm | CGAC
THRILLER
March 7 are real, and very vividly told. Ronald Baez, poised to win accolades
with his stirring new work.
9:30 pm | R18 Three young Cuban filmmakers present
an eye toward their changing country
Friday Whenever life on Earth seems too in these brilliantly affecting portraits,
the result of a collaboration between
March 10 dire, or simply too limiting to our
Sundance Institute, The Guardian and La
imaginations, many of us look to
7:00 pm | TWR1 the heavens for solace, sensing that Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV.
somewhere out there, just maybe,
Unemployed and without purpose, Cetarti another creature is looking back at
(Daniel Hendler)s days seem blurred us. Brad Abrahams new documentary ALTERATIONS BASED ON A TRUE STORY
and interchangeableuntil he learns Directed by Juan Carlos Zaldivar (DAPRS UNE HISTOIRE VRAIE)
introduces us to someone unusually
that his mother and brother have been WORLD PREMIERE Directed by Cdric Prvost
invested in that vision of intelligent life
shot to death in Lapachito, a town in USA | 2017 | 19 min. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
on distant planets. David Huggins claims
the north of Argentina. Roused from his to have made contact repeatedly over France | 2016 | 18 min.
sofa in Buenos Aires, Cetarti journeys French with English Subtitles
the course of his 72 yearsincluding
to Lapachito in order to collect the the closest encounter of all: an CONNECTION
life insurance. There he meets Duarte interspecies romance. (CONECTIFAI)
Directed by Zoe Garcia
(Leonardo Sbaraglia), a local thug
Cuba | 2017 | 18 min.
involved in kidnapping schemes and Wondrous, fun and respectful, Love
friend to the man who murdered Cetartis
kin. A hugely precarious alliance is
and Saucers lets Huggins tell his story
without shame, and display his collection
A MAN RETURNED
Directed by Mahdi Fleifel
formedone that drags Cetarti into ever-
darker, unpredictable places.
of surreal paintings documenting his
astonishing experiences.
UK, Lebanon, Denmark, A BEAUTIFUL DAY
Netherlands | 2016 | 30 min. Directed by Phedon Papamichael
Arabic with English Subtitles USA | 2016 | 21min.
This grittily absorbing new feature from
Adrin Caetano draws us into an intricate
web of mystery, crime and loyalty.
DIRECTORS BIO GREAT MUY BIEN
Directed by Sheyla Pool
Brad Abrahams is a
Florida-based documentary
Cuba | 2017 | 15min.
DIRECTORS BIO filmmaker originally
from Toronto. Among his
Adrin Caetano was born directorial credits are On the
WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA LA FEMME ET LE TGV
in Montevideo, Uruguay. His Back of a Tiger (16), co-directed with Jeremy
Stuart, Miami Film Festival selection Swan
Directed by Hamid Sajid, Jonathan Mason Directed by Timo von Guten
films have won numerous
Song of the Skunk Ape (15) and Love and Algeria, France, Lebanon | 2016 | 20 min. Switzerland | 2016 | 30min.
awards at major international
festivals. They include Pizza, Saucers (17). French with English Subtitles
Beer and Cigarettes (98), Bolivia (01), Red Bear
HOUSE FOR SALE
(02), Chronicle of an Escape (06), presented at (CASA A VENTA)
Producer- Matt Ralston
Directed by Emanuel Giraldo Betancur
Cuba, Colombia | 2017 | 14min.
Producers: Natacha Cervi, Hernn Musaluppi; Principal
Cast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, Daniel Hendler, Alian Devetac,
ngela Molina WHIPPET
Directed by Jos Mara Espinosa de los SCENES FROM OUR
Monteros, Ricardo Espinosa de los Monteros
WORLD PREMIERE
YOUNG MARRIAGE
Directed by Ronald Baez
Mexico | 2016 | 17min.
USA | 2016 | 18min.
Spanish with English Subtitles
64 FILMS AZ
MALIGLUTIT
MALIGLUTIT
Directed by Zacharias Kunuk
Canada | 2016 | 94 minutes
Inuktitut with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
Saturday
March 4
9:00 pm | TWR2
Set upon the sprawling tundra of the
Canadian Arctic, this entrancing new
work from visionary filmmaker Zacharias
Kunukwhose Atanarjuat: The Fast
Runner was recently voted the greatest
Canadian film of all timetracks a search
led by an Inuk man for the marauders who
pillaged his home and kidnapped his wife.
60 years after John Fords iconic The
Searchers, Kunuk and his collaborators
have crafted a companion piece that is
both homage and a critique, a searing
mediation on vengeance and the colonialist
doctrine lodged deep in the heart of
the western. Maliglutit is an astonishing
spectacle, a thrilling story, an iconoclastic
reassessment of genre, and a window into
a world seldom seen at the movies.
DIRECTORS BIO
Zacharias Kunuk was born
at Kapuivik, Canada. He
continues to live and work
in what is now the territory
of Nunavut. His directorial
credits include Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
(01), won the Camra dOr at Cannes, and The
Journals of Knud Rasmussen (06). Maliglutit
(Searchers) (16) is his latest feature.
Producers: Zacharias Kunik, Jonathan Frantz, Cara Di
Staulo; Screenwriters: Zacharias Kunuk, Norman Cohn;
Principal Cast: Benjamin Kunuk, Karen Ivalu, Jonah
Qunaq, Joey Sarpinak, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Joseph Uttak
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
MARIA
(AND EVERYBODY ELSE)
MARA (Y LOS DEMS)
Directed by Nely Reguera
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 96 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
THRILLER
COMEDY
Thursday Saturday
March 9 March 11
9:30 pm | CGAC 3:30 pm | R17
Nothing is exactly as it should be for
Mara (Barbara Lennie). She has a lover,
but he doesnt seem to actually like her.
She has a job at a publishing house, but
what she really wants is to be a writer.
Her beloved father is out of hospital, but
she cant believe he now wants to marry
his nurse. No matter how frustrated Mara
is with her world, however, the only thing
she has the power to change is herself.
Spanish director Nely Regueras debut
is a charming comedy about self-
actualization. As played by the luminous
Goya-Award winning Lennie, Mara
reminds us that adult independence is
always a work in progress.
DIRECTORS BIO
Nely Reguera was born in
Barcelona. She has worked
extensively as an assistant
director on major features.
She has directed the short
films Ausencias (02) and Pablo (09).
Mara (and Everybody Else) (16) is her feature
directorial debut.
Producers: Luisa Romeo; Screenwriter: Nely Reguera;
Principal Cast: Brbara Lennie, Jos ngel Egido, Roco
Len, Pablo Derqui, Vito Sanz, Julin Villagrn, Mara
Vzquez, Aixa Villagrn
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
MAY GOD SAVE US
QUE DIOS NOS PERDONE
Directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 127 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition
Friday Sunday
March 10 March 12
9:15 pm | R17 12:30 pm | R17
Though its plot follows police on the
trail of a serial killer, the Goya-nominated
May God Save Us is much more than
a standard procedural. Set in Madrid
in 2011, with a Papal visit looming and
anti-austerity protests burgeoning,
this intricate thriller from Rodrigo
Sorogoyanwhose spare romance
Stockholm screened here in 2014
combines genre thrills with searing social
critique and psychological complexity.
The films true detectives are played by
Almodvar alumni Roberto Alamo and
Antonio da la Torrewho recently did
some killing himself in Cannibal. The
closer they get to capturing their killer,
the more they realize how much all three
of them have in common.
DIRECTORS BIO
Rodrigo Sorogoyan is a
Spanish filmmaker. His
directorial credits include
the television series Impares
(08-10) and La pecera de Eva
(10-11), and the features Stockholm (13), which
screened at the Festival in competition, and May
God Forgive Us (16), which has been nominated
for six Goya awards.
Producers: Gerardo Herrero, Mikel Lejarza, Mercedes
Gamero; Screenwriters: Isabel Pea, Rodrigo Sorogoyen;
Principal Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto lamo
66 FILMS AZ
MIAMI FILM 2017
52 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Special Presentation
Wednesday, March 8
7:30pm | R18
For the third consecutive year, The Related
Group has collaborated with Miami Film
Festival on a new program aimed at
supporting emerging Latin American cinema
artists. MIAMI FILM 2017 locates 3 new
short filmmakers working at a high standard
of artistic value, representing work of
significant promise for future development,
particularly toward feature films. This
program will screen all three winning films,
and an Awards ceremony and
post-screening celebration.
AND THE WHOLE SKY FIT IN
THE DEAD COWS EYE
(Y TODO EL CIELO CUPO EN EL OJO
DE LA VACA MUERTA)
Directed by Francisca Alegria
Chile | 2016 | 19min.
CONNECTION
(CONECTIFAI)
Directed by Zoe Garcia, Cuba | 2017 | 18min.
THE INCONVENIENCE
(EL INCONVENIENTE)
Directed by Adriana Yurcovich
US PREMIERE, Argentina | 2016 | 15min.
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
MOKA
Directed by Frdric Mermoud
France | 2016 | 89 minutes
French with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
THRILLER
Saturday
March 4
9:30 pm | R17
Consumed with grief and infuriated by
the Lausanne authorities inability to
apprehend a suspect, Diane (Emmanuelle
Devos) becomes convinced that a certain
vintage mocha-colored Mercedes was the
vehicle that killed her son in a hit-and-run;
that Mercedes is owned by Evian beauty
salon proprietor Marlene (Nathalie Baye).
Diane poses as a potential buyer of the
Mercedes so as to get close to Marlene
and, when the moment is right, exact
her revenge.
Showcasing the talents of two of
Frances finest actressesand utilizing
Lac Leman, the lake that serves as a
border between Switzerland and France,
to great metaphoric effectMoka is a
riveting thriller driven by loss, suspicion
and duplicity.
DIRECTORS BIO
Frdric Mermoud is a Swiss
filmmaker. He has directed
numerous short films, several
episodes of the acclaimed
television series The
Returned (12) and the feature films Accomplices
(09) and Moka (16).
Producer: Laura Lynn Keys, Edward James Olmos, Marty
Producers: Damien Couvreur, Julien Rouch and Tonie
Marshall; Screenwriters: Frdric Mermoud and Antonin
Martin-Hilbert - Adapted from the novel Moka by Tatiana
de Rosnay; Principal Cast: Emmanuelle Devos, Nathalie
Baye, David Clavel, Diane Rouxel, Olivier Chantreau
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
MONDAY NIGHTS AT
SEVEN
Directed by Marty Sader
USA | 2016 | 104 minutes
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA
Thursday
March 9
7:00 pm | OCMB
This second feature from multi-hyphenate
Marty Sader merges fiction and real-life,
un-choreographed events to tell the
story of Persian-American Lazo (Sader),
a damaged single father clinging to his
past, and Isabel (Vanessa Cure), a young
Hispanic woman whose own troubled
history mirrors that of Lazo. Together,
they have a shot at determining a new,
better future.
With an inspired supporting cast that
includes UFC middleweight champion
Anderson Silva and the legendary Edward
James Olmos (who also produced the
film), Sader has sculpted a visceral, soul-
stirring work of neorealism about forging
ahead by staying true to ones dreams.
DIRECTORS BIO
Marty Sader is an actor,
writer, director and
producer. His directorial
credits include the short
film 32 (05) and the
features Most High (04)
and Monday Nights at Seven (16).
and The Mother (16).
Sader, Kenyon Robertson; Screenwriters: Laura Lynn Keys,
Marty Sader; Principal Cast: Marty Sader, Vanessa Leon
Cure, Edward James Olmos, Anderson Silva
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
THE MOTHER
LA MADRE
Directed by Alberto Morais
US Premiere
France, Romania, Spain | 2016 | 89 minutes
Romanian, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA
March 5
Thursday Sunday
March 9 March 12
9:45pm | TWR1 1:00 pm | R18
Miguel (Javier Mendo) is only 14, but has
already taken on countless responsibilities.
His mother, Carmen, is unemployed and
emotionally unstable, so Miguel does
the housework, sells what he can and
shoplifts when he has to. When social
services comes calling, Miguel, preferring
freedom at all costs to state assistance,
flees. He winds up staying with Carmens
ex and befriends the proprietor of a bar.
Meanwhile, Carmen has disappeared.
Anchored in a heartrending, brave,
seemingly artless performance from
Mendo, this third fiction feature from
Spains Alberto Morais is an arresting
drama about youth in peril and the
vagaries of a family in which traditional
roles have become unnervingly blurred.
DIRECTORS BIO
Alberto Morais was born
in Valladolid, Spain. His
directorial credits include
the documentary Un lugar
en el cine (08) and the fiction
features Las olas (11), The Kids From the Port (13)
Gerhard, Michael Brunetti, John Getz; Screenwriter:
Producers: Alberto Morais, Adrian Lustig, Paulo Branco;
Screenwriters: Alberto Morais, Igncio Gutirrez-Solana,
Vernica Garca; Principal Cast: Javier Mendo, Laia Marull,
Nieve De Medina, Ovidiu Crisan, Alexandru Stanciu
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
MR. CHIBBS
Directed by Jill Campbell
USA | 2016 | 86 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
SPORTS, RECOVERY
Sunday
March 4
9:30 pm | R18
Ten years after retirement, former NBA
all-star Kenny Anderson finds that
basketball was easyits life thats hard.
When Anderson was a baby, his beloved
mother gave him the nickname Mr
Chibbs as a play on cheeks. Anderson
grew into a big-league charmer, fathering
several kids with different mothers, including
DJ Spinderella of Salt-n-Pepa.
Filmmaker Jill Campbell follows Anderson,
who lives in south Florida, as he seeks to
repair his relationships after his mothers
death and his own bankruptcy. Facing
his demons head-on, Anderson candidly
comes to terms with his past in order to
make a better future.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jill Campbell is a director,
editor, producer and writer.
She established herself as a
playwright before moving
into film. Her directorial credits
include the documentary short After
After Tomorrow
Tomorrow
(13) and the documentary features The Hamlet of
Canfield Gardens (16) and Mr. Chibbs (16).
Producers: Jill Campbell, Barry Greenstein, Gregory
Jill Campbell; Subject: Kenny Anderson
Producers: Matthew Keene Smith, Heidi Saman;
67
NAMOUR
Directed by Heidi Saman
USA | 2016 | 80 minutes
Arabic, English with English subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
DRAMA
Saturday
6:30pm | TWR2
Among the various services that form
the backdrop of life in Los Angeles,
none is perhaps more simultaneously
ubiquitous and invisible as the parking
valet. Writer-director Heidi Samans
feature debut smartly centers on one
such figure, a young Egyptian-American
who over the course of Namour gradually
succumbs to a nervous breakdown.
Set during 2008s economic collapse,
Namour is an elegantly understated
character study that perceptively
assesses the toll of financial, cultural and
work-related stress on ones family and
psyche. With its striking widescreen
compositions, Namour is also a stark,
bracing ode to Angelino light, space and
often alienating glitz.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Heidi Saman has directed the
short film The Maid (08) and the feature Namour
(16), which won the LA Muse Award at the Los
Angeles Film Festival.
Screenwriter: Heidi Saman; Principal Cast: Karim Saleh,
Waleed Zuaiter, Nicole Haddad, Tom Lenk, Jessica Lu,
Terry Walters Chloe Hurst
68 FILMS AZ
THE NIGHT MY MOTHER
KILLED MY FATHER
LA NOCHE QUE MI MADRE MATO
A MI PADRE
Directed by Ins Paris
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 94 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition
DARK COMEDY
6:45pm | CGAC
Monday Thursday
March 6 March 9
9:45 pm | TWR2 9:45 pm | OCMB
Actress Isabel (The Orphanages Beln
Rueda) has just turned 40 and is despairing
over her failure to launch. At her country
home she assembles her screenwriter beau,
a boozing producer and an Argentine
comic to concoct that elusive star vehicle.
Unexpected guests arrive, among them Isabels
exwho winds up dropping dead after
ingesting dessert. Whodunnit? Come see!
Spanish director Ins Pars delighted
Miami audiences with her 2007 comedy,
Miguel and William. She returns to the
Festival in peak form with this unpredictable
screwball murder-mystery. Fair warning: you
might die of laughter.
DIRECTORS BIO
Ins Pars was born in Madrid.
Her directorial credits include
My Mother Likes Women (02),
for which she was nominated
for a Goya and won the Miami
Latin Film Festival Audience Award, Semen, a Love
Sample (05) and Miguel and William (07), her
Miami Film Festival debut.
Producer: Femke Wolting
Producer: Beatriz de la Gndara; Screenwriters: Ins
Pars with the collaboration of Fernando Colomo;
Principal Cast: Belen Rueda, Eduard Fernndez, Diego
Peretti, Mara Pujalte, Fele Martnez, Patricia Montero
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
NOBODY SPEAK: HULK
HOGAN, GAWKER AND
TRIALS OF A FREE PRESS
Directed by Brian Knappenberger
USA | 2017 | 93 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Wednesday
March 8
When Hulk Hogan sued Gawker in a Florida
state court for releasing a sex tape, it
opened a can of worms concerning the
limits of the First Amendment. Hogans
case was funded by Silicon Valley
libertarian Peter Thiel, who had his own
vendetta against Gawker. Filmmaker Brian
Knappenberger digs deep into this case
and others to reveal an burgeoning battle
over free speech in America.
Besides Hogans case, Nobody Speak also
looks at casino owner Sheldon Adelsons
purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal
to influence its coverage. For billionaires
who want to shape the media according to
their wishes, money is no object. For the
rest of us, this film is a bracing wake-up call.
DIRECTORS BIO
Brian Knappenberger
has directed numerous
documentaries, among them
Into the Body (01), Life After
War (03), We Are Legion:
The Story of the Hacktivists (12), The Internets
Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (14) and
Nobody Speak: Hulk Hogan, Gawker and the
Trials of a Free Press (17).
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
ON THE ROOF
EL TECHO
Directed by Patricia Ramos Hernndez
International Premiere
Cuba, Nicaragua | 2016 | 75 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
HBO Ibero-American Competition
DRAMA
Friday Sunday
March 10 March 12
9:30 pm | TWR1 6:30 pm | R18
A pizzeria may seem a modest venture, but
for the three enterprising habaneros at the
center of Cuban filmmaker Patricia Ramos
winsome feature debut, success in the pizza
business holds the promise of prosperity,
purpose and, just maybe, love and happiness.
A deliciously off-beat romantic comedy, On
the Roof offers an impeccable balance of
colloquial charm and universal appeal.
Ramos and her excellent cast have crafted
highly relatable characters with varying
degrees of ambition, ingenuity and quirk.
Some current Cuban films seek to correct
sweeping social ailments; by contrast, Ramos
and her collaborators understand that sometimes
the world is changed one dream at a time.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Patricia Ramos studied
Spanish at Havana University and screenwriting
at the International School of
Cinema in San Antonio de los Baos. Her
credits include the television documentary
Amprame (09) and the short films Na-Na
(04) and My Homes Courtyard (08). On the
Roof (16) is her first feature.
Producers: Alain Hernndez, Miki Esparb, Betsy Trnez,
Xavi Gimnez, Sylvia Steinbrecht, Anna Vilella, Alejandra
Producer: Humberto Jimnez Penha; Screenwriter:
Patricia Ramos Hernndez; Principal Cast: Enmanuel
Galbn, Andrea Doimeadis, Jonathan Navarro Eloseguis,
Noslen Snchez Alonso, Roberto Abellar Hernndez, Yoaris
Rodrguez Avils, Elena Garay Garca, Tahs Quiones Ordaz
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
THE ONE-EYED KING
EL REY TUERTO
Directed by Marc Crehuet
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 82 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award,
HBO Ibero-American Competition
DARK COMEDY
Thursday Sunday
March 9 March 12
6:30 pm | CGAC
9:30 pm | R17 6:00 pm | CGAC
David is a riot cop; hes shot a bullet into
the eyes of two protestors already this year.
Lidia is Davids foodie wife; shes invited their
friend Sandra for dinner. Sandra brings along
her boyfriend, Ignasiwho just happens to
be wearing an eye-patch.
Based on his own play, Catalan writer-director
Marc Crehuets feature debut synthesizes
sundry aspects of post-financial crisis
Spanish life into a wickedly comic satire.
When Lidia walks out on him, David winds
up soliciting advice from Ignasiwhich he
interprets as a prompt to kidnap a politician.
Rife with twists and resisting easy polemics,
The One-Eyed King burns with ideas and
savage dramatics.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Marc Crehuet was born in
Santander, Spain. His writing credits include numerous
works for theatre and television. He has directed
several episodes of Pop rpid
rpid(11-13). His feature debut,
The One-Eyed King (16), based on his play, earned him
a Goya nomination for Best New Director.
Screenwriters: Bertrand Lachance, Denis Langlois;
Principal Cast: Maxime Dumontier, Marine Johnson,
Guimer, Marc Crehuet, Tono Folguera, Sergi Moreno;
Screenwriter: Marc Crehuet Adapted from a theater play
El Rey Tuerto by Marc Crehuet; Principal Cast: Miki Esparb,
Alain Hernndez, Ruth Llopis, Betsy Turnez, Xesc Cabot
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
A PARADISE TOO FAR
YEST O LE PARADIS?
Directed by Denis Langlois
World Premiere
Canada | 2017 | 90 minutes
French with English Subtitles
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA
Wednesday
Saturday
March 4
Following the death of their mother, Samuel
and Emilie, two siblings with developmental
disabilities, leave the safe harbor of their
lifelong home. They set out for Matchi
Manitou, the magical territory in northwestern
Quebec where Emilie believes her mothers
soul was delivered. Samuel and Emilies is a
journey at once geographical and spiritual
one that will test the limits of their resources
and their relationship.
Weaving Cree and Anicinabe myths into
a contemporary narrative about loss and
regeneration, this fourth feature from
Quebecois filmmaker Denis Langlois is an
iconoclastic, heartfelt road movie that
allows space for reality and fable to
coalesce and arrive at a greater truth.
DIRECTORS BIO
Denis Langlois is a Canadian
filmmaker. His directorial
credits include The Escort
(96), Danny in the Sky (01),
Amnesia: The James Brighton
Enigma (05) and A Paradise Too Far (17).
directorial efforts have screened at the Miami
Producers: Bertrand Lachance, Nicolas Comeau;
de morada (98). His other directorial credits
include Nobody Knows Anybody (99),
lyse Aussant, Patrick Renaud, Gisle Trpanier, Brad
Gros-Louis, Denise Andrieu, Michel Thriault
69
REALIVE
PROYECTO LZARO
Directed by Mateo Gil
US Premiere
Spain, France | 2016 | 112 minutes
Category: Cinema 360
EDGY
March 8
9:00pm | TWR1
We know we cant live forever. Its part
of what drives us to have kids, build
monuments, leave legacies. We hope to
remain, somehow, after weve passed.
Such concerns weigh heavily on the mind
of Marc, a successful artist who heads his
own advertising firm, and is deeply in love
with the beautiful Naomi (Oona Chaplin).
Hes recently learned he has inherited
the same painful terminal illness that his
father perished from. Shock is followed
by sorrow, and then a denial instinct that
will usher Marc into uncharted territorya
journey for which he will fall asleep and
wake up in 2084.
Writer-director Mateo Gil is one of
Spains most profoundly revelatory and
uncommonly visceral filmmakers.
Realive is his most visionary work yet.
DIRECTORS BIO
Mateo Gil is a Spanish
filmmaker. He won Goyas
for his screenplays for The
Sea Inside (04), The Method
(05) and Agora (09). His
Film Festival since the short Allanameinto
Blackthorn (11) and Realive (16).
Producer: Ibon Cormenzana, Ignasi Estap, Jrme
Vidal; Screenwriter: Mateo Gil; Principal Cast: Tom
Hughes, Oona Chaplin, Charlotte le Bon, Barry Ward
70 FILMS AZ
RESTLESS CREATURE:
WENDY WHELAN
Directed by Adam Schlesinger,
Linda Saffire
USA | 2016 | 92 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
DANCE, BALLET
Saturday
March 4
1:30pm | R17
Proceded by short film:
GIMP GAIT
DIRECTED BY PIONEER WINTER,
TABATHA MUDRA
USA | 2016 | 5MIN.
This elegant, transporting film offers an intimate
portrait of prima ballerina Wendy Whelan on the
occasion of her departure from New York City
Ballet following a record-setting three decades
with the company. Restless Creature opens to find
Whelan 46-years-old and struggling with a painful
injury. From here we step back and forth in time,
to revisit Whelans Kentucky roots and witness her
new collaboration with young choreographers to
create an exquisite quartet of vignettes.
Co-directed by Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger,
Restless Creature profiles an artist undergoing
great change, asking fundamental questions
about creativity, identity, longevity and self-
worth. Through it all, Whelan is frank, articulate,
inspiring and very much alive and restless.
DIRECTORS BIO
Linda Saffire is a documentary
filmmaker with over 20 years of
experience. She has collaborated with such non-fiction
luminaries as Barbara Kopple and Michael Apted.
Adam Schlesinger is a
documentary filmmaker. His
credits as producer include the
acclaimed films Page One: Inside
the New York Times (11) and Ai
Weiwei: Never Sorry (12). His directorial credits include
Sporting Dreams (15), co-directed with Leon Gast and
Linda Saffire, and Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
(17), co-directed with Saffire.
Producers: Adam Schlesinger, Linda Saffire
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
SANTA & ANDRES
SANTA Y ANDRS
Directed by Carlos Lechuga
Cuba, France, Colombia | 2016 | 105 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
American Competition
DRAMA
Sunday
March 5
9:00 pm | TWR1
Set in 1983, the second feature from
Cuban writer-director Carlos Lechuga
(Melaza) chronicles an encounter between
Andrs, a novelist ostracized for his
ideological problems and his sexuality,
and Santa, a woman charged with keeping
this ostensibly dangerous dissident from
disrupting a political event and gaining the
attention of the foreign press.
Santa & Andrs is at once intimate and
expansive, a chamber drama whose
central action is a dialogue between
two souls on either side of a profound
cultural divide. Proximity inevitably
prompts captive and warden to realize
how much they have in commonand
how completely the last six decades have
affected the Cuban psyche.
DIRECTORS BIO
Carlos Lechuga was born in
Havana. He studied directing
at Cubas Instituto Superior
de Arte, and scriptwriting at
the International Film and
TV School in San Antonio de los Baos. After
directing several short films he made his feature
debut with Melaza (12). Santa & Andres (16) is
his second feature.
Producer: Claudia Calvio; Screenwriter: Carlos Lechuga;
Principal Cast: Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
SERENADE FOR HAITI
SERENAD POU AYITI
Directed by Owsley Brown
USA | 2016 | 70 minutes
Creole, French with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Catalan, English, Spanish with English Subtitles
MUSIC
Saturday
March 4
4:30pm | R18
At Sainte Trinit Music School in Port-
au-Prince, children use classical music to
channel their creativity and nurture their
sense of empowerment. School director
Father David Csar has extended music
education throughout the island, and, even
after unimaginable disaster strikes, Csar,
his faculty and students refuse to
let Sainte Trinits legacy come to an end.
Filmmaker Owsley Brown began
documenting the school long before
Haitis devastating 2010 earthquake
and he continued to follow its fate over
several years of rebuilding. Serenade for
Haiti captures the resilience and talent of
this widely misunderstood country, and
the soundtrack highlights outstanding
Haitian composers who are largely
unknown to international audiences.
DIRECTORS BIO
Owsley Brown acted as
co-producer on Marina
Abramovic: The Artist is
Present (12) and Look & See:
A Portrait of Wendell Berr
Berry
(16). His directorial credits include Night Waltz:
The Music of Paul Bowles (99), which won an
Independent Spirit award, and Serenade for
Haiti (16).
Javier Gurruchaga, Jess Garca Dueas, Joan Valls
Producers: Owsley Brown, Anne Flatt, Christy McGill;
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
SEX, MARACAS
& CHIHUAHUAS
SEXO, MARACAS Y CHIHUAHUAS
Directed by Diego Mas Trelles
North American Premiere
Spain | 2016 | 87 minutes
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
MUSIC
Tuesday
Friday
March 10
7:00 pm | CGAC
This joyous documentary profile from
director Diego Mas Trelles chronicles the
colorful life of Xavier Cugat (1900-1990),
the Spanish-born, Cuban-bred Rhumba
King who was instrumental in bringing
Latin music to American earsand
dancing feet.
Featuring extracts from Cugats numerous
Hollywood screen appearances while
paying tribute to his years of work in radio
and in countless casinos, hotel ballrooms and
nightclubsincluding the legendary Coconut
GroveSex, Maracas and Chihuahuas tells an
incredible story of hard work and wild times,
of romance, gangsters and opulence, and of
glorious, infectious, beautiful music.
DIRECTORS BIO
Diego Mas Trelles is a
Spanish filmmaker. He is
also a programmer for the
DocumentaMadrid festival.
His directorial credits include
Pharos, sentinelles de la mer (99), Women in
Arms (09) and Sex, Maracas and Chihuahiuas (16).
Producer: Albert Sol Jordi Ambrs; Screenwriter: Diego
Mas Trelles; Subjects: Isabel Coixet, Joana Biarns, Nina,
Cobos Lopez, Alberto Rodriguez - Adapted from the
scar Gmez, Roman Gubern and Chucho Valds
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
SMOKE & MIRRORS
EL HOMBRE DE LAS MIL CARAS
Directed by Alberto Rodriguez
North American Premiere
Spain, France | 2016 | 122 minutes
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
with English Subtitles
American Competition
THRILLER
Friday
March 7
7:00 pm | OCMB
Set in the mid-1990s, this fact-based thriller
recounts the story of Spanish banker, arms
dealer and spy Francisco Paesa. Narrated
by Jesus Camoes (Jos Coronado), whose
complicity in the action constitutes a
seductive mystery all its own, Smoke &
Mirrors tracks Paesa (Eduard Fernandez)
from his return to Madrid after years of
exile to his involvement in a former police
chiefs sprawling embezzlement operation
to his elaborate program of revenge.
The latest from Goya-winning director
Alberto Rodrguez (Marshland) is a
dazzling saga of crime and duplicity that
recalls Scorsese and Sorrentino while
blazing a trail all its own.
DIRECTORS BIO
Alberto Rodrguez was born
in Seville. He won Goyas
for Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay, shared
with Rafael Cobos, for
Marshland (14), which US premiered at Miami
Film Festival. Rodrguezs 7 Virgins (06) earned
a special mention in our Knight Ibero-American
Cinema competition.
weekly screening series Stranger than
Fiction at IFC Center, cited by Time Out
Producer: Jose Antonio Felez; Screenwriters: Rafael
magazine as the citys Best Documentary
novel Paesa, el espa de las mil caras by Manuel Cerdn;
Principal Cast: Eduard Fernndez, Jose Coronado,
Marta Etura, Carlos Santos
71
STRAIGHT OUT OF MIAMI:
RAKONTUR PREVIEWS
NEW WORK
Directed by Billy Corben,
Alfred Spellman
USA | 2017 | 90 minutes
Category: Florida Focus, Special Presentation
March 10
7:30 pm | R18
Miami-based production company
Rakontur has an outstanding track record
of attention-getting documentaries, from
Cocaine Cowboys to ESPNs The U. In this
special Miami Film Festival presentation,
director Billy Corben and producer
Alfred Spellman preview clips from their
upcoming projects including A Sunny Place
for Shady People, a doc series about the
scams and schemes that flourish in Florida,
and a new documentary miniseries that
returns to the milieu of Cocaine Cowboys
to profile a Miami-based Cuban crime
family with a longstanding involvement in
the drug trade. Corben and Spellman will
reflect on the factors that have allowed
them to thrive in Miami.
Moderated by
Festival Programmer Thom Powers
Thom Powers divides his time between
New York, Miami and Toronto with roles
in several festivals. The New York Times
described him as a kingmaker for
documentaries for his programming at
the Toronto International Film Festival,
where he launched titles that later won
Oscars. In Manhattan, he created the
Programming. He and his wife Raphaela
Neihausen are the directors of Americas
largest documentary festival DOC
NYC. Powers also curates Doc Club at
SundanceNOW.com.
 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
The Summer is Gone
MARCH 9, 2017
The Confucius Institute promotes international education,
cross-cultural understanding, global citizenship and lifelong
learning through its Chinese language and cultural programs.
The Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College, in association
with the Miami Film Festival, will feature the Chinese film The
Summer is Gone on March 9 at the Tower Theater. SUCH IS LIFE IN
On March 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a daylong Master Class
Symposium will be held at Miami Dade College, Wolfson
THE TROPICS
SIN MUERTOS NO HAY CARNAVAL
Campus.
Directed by Sebastin Cordero
The Symposium will explore the underlying theme in the feature
North American Premiere
film as well as serve as a forum for discussion of how individuals 34
can learn about Chinese culture and society through Chinese Ecuador, Germany | 2016 | 85 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
films. A number of exciting events will also be available for
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
attendees, including presentations from renowned keynote American Competition
speakers, panel discussions and networking opportunities. www.mdc.edu/confucius
DRAMA
March 9
For more information, contact Arely Ruiz at arely@arelypr.com or visit our website at www.mdc.edu/confucius
Thursday Sunday
March 9 March 12
7:30 pm | TWR1 3:30 pm | R17
Guayaquil is Ecuadors populous city. It is
also the most afflicted with class disparity.
Such is Life in the Tropics focuses on a
wealthy young man struggling to evict 250
families who have been squatting on the
land he has inherited from his father. The
appointed leader of the squatters is willing to
negotiatebut can this high-tension conflict,
so emblematic of the citys fraught economic
imbalances, be resolved without bloodshed?
At once an homage and a scalding social
critique, the latest from Miami Film Festival
veteran Sebastin Cordero (Cronicas,
Pescador) portrays Guayaquil in all its
Pescador
colour and chaos.
DIRECTORS BIO
Sebastin Cordero was
born in Quito, Ecuador. His
films Cronicas (04) and
Pescador (11) both screened
at the Festival. His other films
include Ratas, ratones, rateros (99) Rage (09)
and Europa Report (13). Such is Life in the Tropics
(16) is his latest film.
Producers: Arturo Ypez, Sebastin Cordero, Bertha
Navarro, Stelios Ziannis; Screenwriters: Andrs Crespo
Arosemena, Sebastin Cordero; Principal Cast: Daniel
Adum Gilbert, Vctor Aruz, Diego Catao Elizondo,
Andrs Crespo Arosemena, Erando Gonzlez, Antonella
Valeriano, Mara Josefina Viteri, Maya Zapata
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433
THE SUMMER IS GONE
BA YUE
Directed by Zhang Dalei
North American Premiere
China | 2016 | 108 minutes
Mandarin with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
DRAMA
Thursday
4:00 pm | OCMB
7:00pm | TWR2
Provincial China, the early 1990s. It is
summer, and Xiaolei is 12. As the nation
shifts toward a market economy, Xiaoleis
mother worries over his grades, his
grandmother is ill, and his father in danger
of losing his supposedly fixed position
with a regional state-run film studio. All
Xiaolei really wants to do is watch movies
and play with his nunchucks.
Zhang Daleis feature debut is preternaturally
exquisiteand so much more than your
standard coming-of-age period film.
Reminiscent of the films of Edward Yang,
The Summer is Gone captures our imagination
by lending its immense curiosity to each
family member and focusing on tiny details
that evoke immense feelings.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Zhang Dalei was born in
Hohhot City, China, where
his father edited film at the Inner Mongolia
Film Studio. Zhang is a graduate of Russias St.
Petersburg State Film and Television University.
The Summer is Gone (16) is his first film.
include Theaster Gates (13),
Deep City: The Birth of the
Producers: Yu Gong, Xufeng Liu, Lisi Mai, Jiahua Zhang;
Screenwriter: Zhang Dalei; Principal Cast: Kong Weiyi,
Zhang Chen, Guo Yanyun, Fu Gang, Guo Xu, Maomao,
Zhang Kun, Du Xing, Zhang Jiashen
73
SYMPHONY IN D
Directed by Dennis Scholl,
Marlon Johnson
World Premiere
USA | 2017 | 53 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus, REEL Music
MUSIC
Sunday
March 5
This soaring documentary from Dennis Scholl
and Miami native Marlon Johnsonwhose
Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound world
premiered at the Festival in 2014tracks the
highly unusual and inspired collaboration
between Pulitzer Prize-nominated musician
Tod Machover and the people of Detroit.
Machover received over 15,000 individual
contributions; bars of music, but also field
recordings capturing the everyday sounds
of the city. Over 13 months Machover
assembles the material and shapes it
into a symphony for the Motor City, to
be performed by the Detroit Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin
and accompanied by Detroit citizens.
Symphony in D is the awe-inspiring profile
of this unique celebration of a great
American metropolis.
DIRECTORS BIO
Dennis Scholl is a
documentary filmmaker
focusing on arts and culture.
His directorial credits include
Theaster Gates (13), Deep
City: The Birth of the Miami
Sound (14), which world premiered at the Festival,
and Symphony in D (17), all of which were co-
directed by Marlon Johnson.
Marlon Johnson is a Miami
native. His directorial credits
Miami Sound (14), which world
premiered at the Festival, and
Symphony in D (17), all of
which were co-directed by
Dennis Scholl.
Producers: Dennis Scholl, Marlon Johnson; Subject: Tod Machover
74 FILMS AZ
TAKE MY NOSE... PLEASE! TESOROS
Directed by Joan Kron
World Premiere
USA, Mexico | 2017 | 99 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Saturday Monday
March 4 March 6
6:00 pm | OCMB 7:00 pm | CGAC
More than 15 million cosmetic procedures
were performed in the US in 2014; 90%
of them on women. Yet plastic surgery
remains an unseemly subject in our culture.
Thankfully, we have plenty of comedians
female comediansand no one is better
equipped to dismantle taboos.
This irreverent, hilarious new
documentary is former costume designer
and journalist Joan Krons filmmaking
debutand, at 89, Kron isnt about
to mince words for the sake of social
niceties. Featuring commentary from
such icons as Phyllis Diller, Roseanne Barr
and the late, great Joan Rivers, Take My
Nose Please! takes no prisoners in its
quest to better understand the pressures
placed on women to adhere to societys
arbitrary standards of beauty.
.
DIRECTORS BIO
Joan Kron graduated from
the Yale School of Drama
in 1948. She was among
the first costume designers
hired by NBC-TV. She an
avant-garde impresario in Philadelphia. She
contributing editor at Allure. Now, at age
89, she has reinvented herself yet again as a
filmmaker. Take My Nose Please! (17) is her
filmmaking debut.
Chvez, Jacinta Chavez De Len, Aranza Bauelos,
Producers: Joan Kron, Brian David Cange, Andrea Miller,
W. Wilder Knight II, Bill Scheft, Adrianne Tolsch
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
Directed by Mara Novarro
North American Premiere
Mexico | 2017 | 90 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: MIFFecito, Knight Competition, HBO
Ibero-American Competition
Category: Knight Competition, HBO Ibero-
CHILDREN & FAMILY
Sunday
March 5
1:00 pm | CGAC
Set in a small community on Mexicos
spectacular Pacific Coast, this enchanting
new feature from veteran writer-director
Mara Novarowhose Danzn delighted
Miami Film Festival audiences back in
1992follows siblings Dylan and Andrea
as they and their new friends set out, map
in hand, to seize a pirates treasure thats
been hiding for centuries. What theyll
find, however, will prove to be far more
priceless than any old fabled booty.
Tesoros is a spirited tale of high
adventure and discovery that promises a
cache of cinematic riches for the whole
family to enjoy.
DIRECTORS BIO
Mara Novaro is an award-
winning Mexican filmmaker.
She studied at Mexico Citys
CUEC/UNAM, the Sundance
Institute and Cubas Escuela
Internacional de Cine y Televisin de San
Antnio de los Baos. Her directorial credits
include Danzn (91), which screened at the
Miami Film Festival, The Good Herbs (10) and
Tesoros (17).
Producer: Pamela Guinea; Screenwriter: Mara Novaro;
Principal Cast: Andrea Sutton Chvez, Dylan Sutton
Michelle Organiz, Fabiana Hernndez, Matilde
Hernndez, Julieta Brcenas.
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
THAT THING CALLED LOVE
ESO QUE LLAMAN AMOR
Directed by Carlos Csar Arbelez
North American Premiere
Colombia | 2016 | 92 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
American Competition Genre
Tuesday
March 7
9:15 pm | CGAC
Camila must contend with long-stifled
emotions when she learns the cemetery
where her sons ashes are kept has been
condemned. Erika is on the cusp of leaving
for Spain to start a new life with her daughter
when a meeting with a client yields a startling
surprise. Marlon and The Happy Girl are street
performers whose makeup and costumes
shield their troubled true identities.
This enchanting anthology film from
Colombian writer-director Carlos Csar
Arbelez offers a trio of beguiling tales,
each originating on Mothers Day at the
same Medelln coffee shopeach
offering delight and catharsis in their
disparate ratios.
DIRECTORS BIO
Carlos Csar Arbelez is a
Colombian filmmaker. His
feature debut, The Colors of
the Mountain (10), won prizes
at the Bogot, Fribourg,
Kerala, Los Angeles and San Sebastan Film
Festivals, and screened at Miami Film Festival.
That Thing Called Love (16) is his latest film.
Producer: Juan Pablo Tamayo Giraldo; Screenwriter:
Carlos Csar Arbelez; Principal Cast: Beatriz ngel,
Cristbal Pelez, Linsy Holgun, Hiroyuki Ono, Pedro
Julio Arias, Yira Plaza Obime
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
TOMMYS HONOUR
Directed by Jason Connery
UK | 2016 | 77 minutes
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA, SPORTS
Friday
March 3
7:00 pm | CGAC
Cannes Best Actor Award-winner Peter
Mullan (My Name is Joe), multi-Golden
Globe-nominee Sam Neill (Jurassic Park)
and rising star Jack Lowden (71) share
the screenand don some fetching
kiltsin this exhilarating period drama
about family, tradition, ambition and the
transcending of seemingly fixed notions
of caste.
Set in 19th century Scotland, Tommys
Honour chronicles the true story of
beloved caddie master Tom Morris
(Mullan) and his son Tommy (Lowden),
who dares to defy his station in life so as
to fulfill his talent as a golfer. In the face
of powerful naysayers, young Tommy
risks everything to realize his goals, marry
the woman he loves, and help elevate and
popularize the game of golf.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jason Connery was born in
London. The son of Diane
Cilento and screen legend
Sean Connery, he is an actor
with decades of experience
in dozens of film. His directing credits include
The Devils Tomb (09), Pandemic (09), 51 (11),
The Philly Kid (12) and Tommys Honour (16).
Producers: Keith Banks, Jim Kreutzer, Tim Moore, Bob
Miami Film Festival.
Last; Screenwriter: Pamela Marin Adapted from the
novel Tommys Honour by Kevin Cook; Principal Cast:
Peter Mullen, Jack Lowden, Ophelia Lovibond, Sam Neill
Producers: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne,
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 75
THE UNKNOWN GIRL UNTOUCHABLE
LA FILLE INCONNUE Directed by David Feige
Directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne, USA | 2016 | 105 minutes
Luc Dardenne Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
Belgium, France | 2016 | 106 minutes
French with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Competition Saturday
THRILLER March 11
1:00pm | R17
Sunday Sunday Attorney-turned-filmmaker David
March 5 March 12 Feiges feature documentary debut is a
challenging investigation into a profound
9:00 pm | OCMB 6:00 pm | R17
legal mire. The term sex offence
applies to a broad range of infractions,
Late one night, the door buzzer rings at
from child-rape to sexting, and yet sex
a medical clinic in Liege. Dr. Jenny Davin
offender is a scarlet letter that can
ignores it. The next morning Jenny learns
make ordinary life impossible for those
that the caller was an unidentified young
who bear it, even after being ostensibly
woman who has since died. Punctured
reformed.
with guilt, Jenny determines to discover
who this woman was and how her short
Featuring the horrifying case of South
life came to its end.
Florida lobbyist Ron Book and his
daughter Lauren, who founded Laurens
The latest from Belgian maestros Luc and
Kids and is now a Florida state senator,
Jean-Pierre Dardenne showcases their
Untouchable explores all sides of this
distinctively dogged, deeply compassion-
hot-button issue. Feige urges us not
ate approach to storytelling while giving
to simplify a complex subject, to look
their familiar MO an ingenious genre
closely at the pariahs we create and what
twist. Think of The Unknown Girl as a
we consider to be genuine justice.
social realist noir procedural. It will both
tug at your heartstrings and keep you on
the edge of your seat.
DIRECTORS BIO
DIRECTORS BIO David Feige is an American
filmmaker. He studied law at the
University of Chicago and the
Luc Dardenne and Jean-
University of Wisconsin. He was
Pierre Dardenne were born
a public defender and professor
in Liege, Belgium. Their many
of law before embarking on a career in film and
co-directorial credits include
television. He directed the short documentary
Rosetta (99) and LEnfant
Sex Offender Village (13). Untouchable (16) is his
(05), both of which won the Palme dOr at
feature documentary debut.
Cannes, as well as The Son (02), Lornas Silence
(08)and Two Days, One Night (14). LEnfant
Producers: David Feige, Rebecca Richman Cohen;
and The Kid with a Bike (11) both played at
Screenwriters: David Feige, Jay Arthur Sterrenberg;
Subjects: Lauren Book, Ron Book, Shawna Baldwin,
Patty Wetterling, Eric Janus
Denis Freyd; Screenwriters: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc
Dardenne; Principal Cast: Adle Haenel, Jrmie Renier,
Olivier Bonnaud, Louka Minnella
76 FILMS AZ
VEGAS BABY
Directed by Amanda Micheli
USA | 2016 | 77 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Saturday
March 4
2:00pm | R18
The tremendous anxieties that underlie
struggles with fertility and the decision
to seek medical intervention are given
an inquisitive, empathetic voice in Oscar-
nominated director Amanda Michelis
new documentary. Profiling contestants
in an annual video contest to receive free
in-vitro fertilization treatmentswhich
can cost as much as $20,000 and which
have a success rate average of 30%
Micheli uncovers a peculiar world in which
womens desperation to conceive is
regarded as material for a reality show.
But the heart of Vegas Baby lies
in Michelis interactions with the
contests finalists, who speak with
affecting openness about their dreams,
disappointments and diverse reasons for
wanting children to begin with.
DIRECTORS BIO
Amanda Micheli is a director
and cinematographer. Her
films include Just for the Ride
(95), Double Dare (04), La
corona (08), for which she
was nominated for an Oscar,
One Nation Under Dog (12) and Vegas Baby (16).
DIRECTORS
Producers: Amanda Micheli, Serin Marshall
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
VEINTE AOS
VINTE ANOS
Directed by Alice de Andrade
International Premiere
Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica | 2016 | 80 minutes
Portuguese, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
March 8
Friday Saturday
March 10 March 11
6:30 pm | TWR2 5:00 pm | CGAC
Preceded by short film:
HAVANA HOUSE
DIRECTED BY GASPAR GONZLEZ
WORLD PREMIERE
USA | 2016 | 12 MIN.
Spanish with English Subtitles
As we bear witness to this time of
momentous transition for Cuba, Brazilian-
born, Cuban-educated filmmaker Alice de
Andrades stirring new documentary focuses
on an aspect of life in Cuba thats easily as
essential as politics or economics: love.
Veinte aos invokes the passage of timein
a country where time seems to stand still
through the myriad experiences of three families.
In 1992, Andrade documented the ritual of
marriage in Cuba after the fall of the USSR in her
short documentary Luna de miel. Twenty years
later, she revisits three families, in Havana, Miami
and Costa Rica, where some are exiled. Dealing
only with love, the new film reflects on recent
transformations in Cuban society. No one knows
for certain how the islands culture will change,
but we know that these couples and their kin will
weather it with fortitude, resourcefulness and all
the loving solidarity they can muster.
BIO
Alice de Andrade was born in
Rio de Janeiro. Her directorial
credits include the fiction
feature O Diablo a quarto (04)
and the documentaries Luna de
miel (93), Memoria Cubana (10), and Veinte aos (16).
miel
which received an Emmy nomination. She received
Producers: Gustavo Snchez, Serge Gordey, Zita
Carvalhosa, Alice de Andrade; Screenwriter: Alice
de Andrade; Subjects: Miriam Planas Grillo, Andrs
Martnez, Silvia Pl Camao, Danilo Perdomo, Marlene
Berg Borbn, Mario Cotilla Aldama, Karla Ceclia Berg,
Winnie Camila Berg
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
VISITORS DAY
Directed by Nicole Opper
USA, Mexico | 2016 | 75 minutes
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Wednesday
Honduras | 2017 | 87 minutes
9:30 pm | CGAC
Preceded by short film:
BIG
DIRECTED BY PEDRO GARCA-MEJA
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
COLOMBIA, MEXICO | 2016 | 16 MIN.
Spanish with English Subtitles
This intimate documentary from Emmy-
nominated director Nicole Opper follows
an adolescent boys inspiring journey
from destitution and hopelessness to
determination and reconciliation.
Juan Carlos is a 16-year-old. He ran away
from an abusive home and lived on
The debut documentary from filmmaker
Mexico Citys streets before finally finding
stability at Pueblas Instituto Poblano de
Readaptacin, A.C., aka IPODERAC, a
unique group home that offers shelter and
brotherhood to young people in need.
Oppers film allows us to witness Juan
Carlos experience at IPODERAC, along
with those of others. Visitors Day is about
the transformations that can occur when
organizations go the extra mile to reach
out to those ready to overcome adversity
DIRECTORS BIO
Nicole Opper is an American
filmmaker. Among her
directorial credits are the
documentaries Song of Hannah
(03) and Off and Running (09),
a Fulbright Fellowship to direct Visitors Day (17).
Producers: Nicole Opper, Manuel Tsingaris, Carlo Corea;
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com
VOICES BEYOND THE WALL: WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS WHATS LEFT OF MY LIFE
TWELVE LOVE POEMS FROM THE OF DAMON J. KEITH
Directed by Jens Wischnewski
MURDER CAPITAL OF THE WORLD
Directed by Brad Coley
World Premiere
JUSTICE, CIVIL RIGHTS
English, Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: Knight Documentary Achievement
Award, Florida Focus
March 4
Sunday
March 5
3:00 pm | TWR1
Over the last quarter-century, in a bunker-
like building in San Pedro Sula, Honduras,
70 girls ranging in age from one to 18
have found refuge from poverty and
violence. Our Little Roses is Honduras
only orphanage for girls. Its charges
are looked after by a devoted staff who
supply food, shelter, medical attention
and nurturing care.
of housing, education, employment and
Brad Coley is a moving, eye-opening
tribute to the courageous work
performed at Our Little Roses. Voice
Beyond the Wall tracks the long and
difficult process of recovering from
trauma, healing deep wounds and
preparing for a better future.
DIRECTORS BIO
Brad Coley has written
and directed the films The
Undeserved (04) and Frank
the Bastard (13). He also
created the socially minded
education project Little People Productions,
an innovative moviemaking workshop for
children on the Passamaquoddy Reservation in
Washington County, Maine. Voices Beyond the
Wall (17) is his first documentary.
THIS IS A FREE SCREENING.
NO TICKETS ARE REQUIRED.
Producer: Cassidy Friedman
< TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 77
DIE RESTE MEINES LEBENS
Directed by Jesse Nesser
North American Premiere
USA | 2016 | 104 minutes
Germany | 2016 | 108 minutes
German with English Subtitles
Award, Florida Focus
Category: Cinema 360
DRAMA, ROMANCE
Saturday Wednesday
March 8
3:30 pm | CGAC 7:00pm | R17
The career of Damon Jerome Keith is
Everything is falling into place for
among the most remarkable in the annals Schimon. He has the career he always
of American justice. This unconventional,
dreamed of, a wife he loves deeply, and a
Detroit-born judge was once a janitor,
child on the way. Then disaster hits. Has
and his personal struggles, like several of
everything fallen apart? Or is Schimon
his high-profile rulings, resonate with our
allowed to start anew?
ongoing conversation about civil rights.
German director Jens Wischnewskis
Walk With Me focuses on four highly
second feature is an honest examination
fraught cases that appeared on
of devastating loss that has the bravery
Keiths docket, all of which concerned
to approach its topic with a life-affirming
discriminatory practices within the realms
and comic spirit. The title Whats Left
of My Life is both a question and a
law enforcement. Keiths decisions placed
statement: Schimon survives catastrophe,
him in precarious opposition to angry
slowly picks up the pieces and, just as
crowds, corporate America, the KKK
importantly, leaves space in his life for the
and a certain former President.
unexpected, whether good or bad.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jesse Nesser is a Floridian
DIRECTORS BIO
filmmaker. He has worked
Jens Wischnewski is a
as a screenwriter for the
German filmmaker. He
television series Leslie
(12). He directed the studied at the Film Academy
documentaries The Ranch For Kids (13) and Baden-Wrttemberg. He
Walk With Me: The Trials of Damon J. Keith (16). has directed the short films
Der letzte Rest (09) and Die Welt danach
(12) and the feature films Live Stream (10) and
Producers: Patrick Lane, Sally Davis, Jack Rossiter Whats Left of My Life (16).
Munley, Jesse Nesser; Subjects: Damon J. Keith, Mitch
Albom, John Conyers, Julian Bond
Producers: Christoph Holthof, Daniel Reich;
Screenwriters: Julia C. Kaiser, Jens Wischnewski;
Principal Cast: Christoph Letkowski, Luise Heyer,
Karoline Br, Ulrike Kriener, Hartmut Volle, Irene Rindje,
Fritz Roth, Christian Grashof
78 FILMS AZ
WITHOUT NAME
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Ireland | 2016 | 93 minutes
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
THRILLER
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
Friday, March 3
FILMS A-Z
9:00 pm | CGAC
A land surveyor is charged with
conducting a surreptitious topographical
analysis in a dense, gloomy wood.
Isolated from his family and in the
throes of an affair, our protagonists
psyche is increasingly unmoored by
strange apparitions arising from personal
anxieties, a predecessors testimony or
some ecological curse.
Deeply mysterious yet infused with a
knowingness about the myriad ways an
ordinary life can slip into some hidden
abyss, Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegans
atmospheric, eerily beguiling feature
debut, smartly scripted by Garret Shanley,
recalls such esteemed precedents as The
Tenant and The Shining, deftly traversing
the slender frontier where the familiar
and the uncanny collide.
DIRECTORS BIO
Lorcan Finnegan was born
in Dublin, where he received
his bachelors degree in
graphic design. His short
films include Defaced (07),
Changes (07), and Foxes (12). Without Name
(16) is his debut feature.
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Garret Shanley is a
screenwriter from Dublin. He
holds a B.Des in filmmaking
and an M.A. in Media Studies. His screenwriting
credits include two collaborations with director
Lorcan Finnegan: the short film Foxes (12) and
the feature Without Name (16).
Producer: Brunella Cocchiglia; Screenwriter: Garret
Shanley; Principal Cast: Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar,
James Browne
MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL
WOODPECKERS
CARPINTEROS
Directed by Jos Mara Cabral
Dominican Republic | 2017 | 109 minutes
Spanish with English Subtitles
DRAMA
DRAMA
Saturday Friday
March 4 March 10
7:00 pm | TWR1 9:00 pm | TWR2
Most of us have had moments where we
have felt ourselves to be prisoners of
love. This ingeniously conceived feature
from the Dominican Republics Jos Mara
Cabral, meanwhile, explores the possibility
of finding love in an actual prison.
Julin is an inmate with a rather peculiar
task. At the risk of engendering harsh
punishment, Julin communicates across
gender-restricted prison yards with
Yanelly, having been hired by her ex-
husband to act as a messenger. Julin and
Yanelly innovate their own form of sign
language, which they call woodpecking.
As they peck away at each other from
an otherwise unbridgeable divide, the
two fall in love, sparking a precarious
secret romance in the face of unusually
forbidding odds.
DIRECTORS BIO
Jos Maria Cabral is a
Dominican filmmaker. His
credits as writer-director
include Excexos (08),
Check Mate (12), Arrob
(13), Despertar (14), Detective Willy (15) and
Woodpeckers (17).
Producers: Eric Nev, Oumar Sy; Screenwriter: Daouda
Producers: Jos Mara Cabral; Screenwriter: Jos
Mara Cabral; Principal Cast: Jean Jean, Ramon Emilio
Candelario, Judith Rodriguez
| MARCH 3-12, 2017
WLU
Directed by Daouda Coulibaly
France, Senegal, Mali | 2016 | 95 minutes
Bambara, French with English Subtitles
Category: Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Award
Sunday
March 5
6:30pm | TWR2
Ladji lives hand-to-mouth selling bus
tickets on the streets of Bamako. With
no opportunity for advancement, Ladji
decides to take on a more profitableand
far more precariousvocation. Ladji finds
fast success as a drug trafficker, but with
that success comes uneasy alliances with
the upper echelons of the underworld,
Malis military, and even Al-Qaeda.
A sort of African variation on Scarface,
Wlu marks the sizzling debut of Malian-
French director Daouda Coulibaly. The
film begins as a gritty crime story before
transforming into a political thriller. Along
the way it sheds light on a part of the
world too rarely seenand the brutal,
externally manipulated social order that
holds it captive.
DIRECTOR &
SCREENWRITERS
BIO
Daouda Coulibaly is a
Malian-French filmmaker. His directorial
credits include the short films A History of
Independence (09) and Tinye So (10). Wlu
(16) is his feature debut.
Coulibaly; Principal Cast: Ibrahim Koma, Inna Modja
PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 79
X500 ZIP & ZAP AND
Directed by Juan Andres Arango THE CAPTAINS ISLAND
Canada, Colombia, Mexico | 2016 | 108 min. ZIPI Y ZAPE Y LA ISLA DEL CAPITN
English, French, Mazahua, Spanish, Tagalog
with English Subtitles Directed by Oskar Santos
JOIN TODAY
Category: HBO Ibero-American Competition
Spain | 2016 | 105 minutes
DRAMA
TO RECEIVE
Spanish with English Subtitles
Category: MIFFecito, Knight Competition, HBO
VIP ACCESS
Ibero-American Competition
Sunday
March 5 CHILDREN & FAMILY
6:30 pm | R18 membership@
Saturday miamifilmfestival.com
A gorgeous and moving trilogy of
migration and loss, X500 follows Maria, March 4 305-237-7979
a Filipino woman recently transplanted 1:00 pm | CGAC
to Montreal, David, a man from the
countryside who moves to Mexico City, Spanish director Oskar Santos and his
and Alex, a Colombian fisherman unable loveably naughty brothers are back in
to disentangle his business from the Miami for more mischief with Zip & Zap
criminals that control commerce in and the Captains Island.
his region.
Last time around, in Zip & Zap and the
This second feature from Colombias Marble Gang, Zip and Zap spearheaded a
Juan Andrs Arango (La Playa DC) resistance movement at a sinister summer
dexterously navigates its trio of narrative school. This fiendishly fun sequel finds
34
threads, which unfold in such different them stuck on a boring boat trip with
worlds and yet are unified by aspiration, their parents. Yet once they reach their
violence and personal transformation. remote island destination, a sudden storm
forces them to seek shelter at an eerie
X500 is an ambitious work of curiosity
and compassion. Arango acknowledges mansion inhabited by the mysterious
the legitimacy of his characters fears, Miss Pamand maybe some ghosts!
while still angling for hope.
DIRECTORS BIO
DIRECTORS BIO Oskar Santos was born in
Bilbao, Spain. Among his
Juan Andrs Arango was
born in Bogot. He studied
directorial credits are the
short films Torre (00) and
cinematography and
television at the National
El soador (04) and the
features For the Good of Others (10), Zip & Zap
University of Colombia. His and the Marble Gang (13) and Zip & Zap and the
Captains Island (16).
feature films are La Playa DC (12) and X500 (16).
Producers: Fernando Bovaira, Francisco Ramos, Mikel
Producers: Yanick Letourneau, Jorge Botero, Edher
Lejarza, Mercedes Gamero, Koldo Zuazua; Screenwriters:
Campos, Luis Salinas; Screenwriter: Juan Andres Arango;
Jorge A. Lara, Oskar Santos - Based on the characters
Principal Cast: Jembie Almazan, Bernardo Garnica,
Zipi and Zape, created by Jos Escobar Saliente.;
Jonatahn Diaz Angulo
Principal Cast: Teo Panell, Toni Gmez, Elena Anaya
 We believe that
diverse perspectives lead
to better discussions,
decisions, and outcomes
for everyone.
google.com/careers
We're proud to support Miami Film Festival
as part of our commitment to fostering diversity
and inclusion at Google and beyond.
BRING QUESTIONS. BUILD ANSWERS.
GOOGLE TALKS: GENDER & 81
RACIAL GAPS IN FILM + TECH
A unique partnership with Google, in its second year, bring on a new seminar series addressing gender and racial gaps in the
film industry, particularly in creative, producing, and technical roles.
Disrupting the Status Quo: Saturday, March 4
Reshaping the Film Ecosystem 11:00 am | LAB
Tilane Jones - Tilane Jones is Executive Director of the independent film distribution collaborative ARRAY, which is
disrupting current distribution models to change the ecosystem of the film industry by being dedicated to amplifying
the voices of women filmmakers and filmmakers of color around the globe. Jones will discuss how the company is
creating new distribution avenues and what wider distribution for different stories can mean for reshaping societal
narratives of race and gender. Since 2011, ARRAY has distributed thirteen feature films, including: Ava DuVernays
award-winning Middle of Nowhere; Andrew Dosunmus Restless City; Storm Saulters Better Mus Come;
Neil Drummings Big Words; and Haile Gerimas Ashes and Embers.
Lady Boss: Saturday, March 4
Asserting Yourself Professionally 1:30 pm | LAB
Sarah Gadon Sarah Gadon is rising star known for her eclectic roles in films such as Indignation (based on Philip
Roths novel), A Royal Night Out, Maps to the Stars, Belle, and the lead in Netflixs forthcoming mini-series Alias
Grace (based on the book by Margaret Atwood, directed by Mary Harron). Gadon will draw on her experience in
front of the camera and the process of making her directorial debut, Reelside, to discuss how shes asserted herself
professionally to build a successful career.
Why Criticism Matters: Race, Sunday March 5
Representation and Rewriting the Canon 11:00 am | LAB
Rebecca Theodore-Vachon Film/TV Editor at The Urban Daily, founder of the blog Film Fatale NYC, and co-host
of the Cinema in Noir podcast (which discusses all things cinema from a black female perspective), Rebecca
Theodore-Vachon will speak to how vital it is to have a multitude of voices talking about film. Rebecca will also
speak to why criticism matters, how it can champion--and challenge--a wider range of stories, and will shed light
on how shes carved such a large platform for herself in the field.
Laughing Instead of Crying: Sunday, March 5
Subverting Stereotypes with Comedy 1:30 pm | LAB
Radhika Vaz and Nadia P Manzoor - The creators of Shugs & Fats (a Gotham award-winning comedy web series)
team up to talk about using comedy to spark difficult dialogues and overturn stereotypes. They will walk you through
their creative journey from developing two unlikely comedic characters, to pitching a long form TV show on the mean
streets of Hollywood. They will talk about their evolution as creators, writers, and eventually as producers, and how
despite living on different continents they were able to make it work. Finally, they will discuss how their desire to
spread the word of feminism was ultimately the driving force behind their comedy.
Keynote Speaker Moderated by
Daraiha Green, Kiva Reardon
Google Diversity in
Entertainment Ambassador
 MASTER CLASS 83

SEMINAR SERIES
Presented in collaboration with The Screening Room, Confucius Institute, FilmGate, CineVisun and BFMG

LEARN FROM THE BEST: Wednesday March 8

AN OSCAR-WINNING MENTOR 7:00 pm | The Screening Room

Oscar winning director David Frankel and first time director Xavier Manrique talk about the
process of developing, producing and directing a first feature film. Long time Miami resident
and Miami Film Festival alum, Frankel has directed films such as Academy Award nominated
David Frankel at the Miami Rhapsody
The Devil Wears Prada, as well as locally shot favorites such as Miami Rhapsody and Marley
Cast Reunion in 2013.
& Me. Manrique, who worked as Frankels assistant while on set for Hope Springs and The Big
Year, now sits in the directors chair for his feature film debut Chronically Metropolitan, star-
ring Shiloh Fernandez, Ashley Benson, Chris Noth and Mary-Louise Parker (pg. 44)

FROM NOVEL TO BIG SCREEN Saturday, March 11

MODERATED BY DILIANA ALEXANDER 10:30 am | The Screening Room

Some movies dont start from scratch. How do you take a short story or a movie you love and
make it into a good film? From optioning, to finding your audience and your financiers, this
interactive panel will guide you through the process.

CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE Saturday, March 11

SYMPOSIUM 9:00 am | Wolfson Campus

FREE EVENT

This daylong event will explore the underlying theme in the feature film as well as serve as a
forum for discussion of how individuals can learn about Chinese culture and society through
Chinese films. A number of exciting events will also be available for attendees, including pre-
sentations from renowned keynote speakers, panel discussions and networking opportunities.

PRODUCING IN FLORIDA
AND BEYOND Saturday, March 11
MODERATED BY KEVIN SHARPLEY 1:00 pm | The Screening Room

The Producing in Florida and Beyond fifth edition in conjunction with CineVisun and the BFMG
will focus on computer graphics, visual effects, production and distribution with some of the
biggest names in the industry. Now in its fifth year, the Producing in Florida and Beyond panels
have been filled with information that has covered project development from pre-production to
post production, marketing, finance, legal, equipment, distribution and more. This year the panel
will touch on many of the same themes, but will also give a bigger focus on how to utilize
computer graphics, visual effects, virtual reality, 360 degree storytelling and integrated produc-
tion on big budgets, small budgets and micro budgets.

SIGN UP FOR THE

N FILM NEWSLETTER
AND GET DETAILS ABOUT WHATS HAPPENING IN FILM,
FREE LOCAL MOVIE SCREENINGS, DVD GIVEAWAYS AND
EXCLUSIVE THEATER OFFERS
SIGN UP HERE:
HTTP://WWW.MIAMINEWTIMES.COM/SIGNUP
 Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall
Palmetto Bay When its Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the

.
Just what is South Floridas most talked about, South Miami

MIAMI
.

..
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LO CA R N O
.............................. SHANGHAI

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S O PA U LO

.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LO N D O N
Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I S TA N B U L

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . K A R LOV Y VA RY
argued over, clipped, pinned, dog-eared, referenced,

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PA R I S
.................................... SAN SEBASTIN
.

..
................................................................. ROME
Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay

........................................................... BUSAN
.......................................... NEW YORK
.......................................... MADRID

........................................... LO S A N G E L E S
.............................................. CANNES
archived, hated and loved...magazine?

............................... VENICE
South Miami Coralof Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea

..........................................................TURIN
.

.......................................... TO KYO
................................... SYDNEY
East Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables

......................................................
.............................. MOSCOW
TCMC Inc. (Town Center Marketing Concepts) JOHN EDWARD SMITH COMMUNICATIONS
Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami

.............................. WARSAW
Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall
NOVEMBER, 2015

JANUARY, 2017

................................................ TO RO N TO
SUMMER, 2016

SUMMER, 2016
APRIL, 2016

APRIL, 2016

Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables

is at the
Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay

.
1
1 1
TROPIC MAGAZINE 1
TROPIC MAGAZINE 1

South Miami Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea

1

East Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables

DECEMBER, 2015

DECEMBER, 2015

..
..
of it all.
OCT/NOV, 2016
OCT/NOV, 2016

OCT/NOV, 2016

.
Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall Palmetto Bay

.
FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN

Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest

OPENING

. ..
.
Palmetto Bay South Miami Coral Gables Cocoplum
by the Sea Pinecrest EastSouth
Kendall Palmetto Bay South Miami
1 1 TROPIC MAGAZINE 1 TROPIC MAGAZINE 1 1
Miami Town Center
Coral Gables Cocoplum Gables by the Sea Pinecrest East Kendall THE DOORS TO
GERMAN CINEMA
WE ARE YOUR LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE,
serving the communities of Coral Gables, Cocoplum, Gables by the Sea,
Advertising 954 224.7706 TropicFL.com Find us on Pinecrest, East Kendall, Palmetto Bay and South Miami.
MIAMI FILM SOCIETY PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 87

PLATINUM CORPORATE Gloria Erdmann Silva Donald M. Papy Milagros Acosta Raymond Garcia Lualdi Minervino
B. Carlin Foundation Sonia Figueroa Judy Payer Al Alschuler Nancy Gillespie Margaret Moizel
Fortun Insurance Susan A. Grad Brenda L. Perez Ruth Alvarez Shelly Gitlow Brayam Morales
Mercedes Guitian Carolina Pina Teresa Ancona Ted Goldberg, Esquire Judith Noval
PLATINUM
Luis & Clara Lamela Alicio A. Pia Diane Archer Angie Gonzalez Emanuel Offen
Rita Cohen
Susan Lipman & Louis Solish Jose A. Pons Joaquin Arguello Victor Gonzalez Marina Oppenheimer
Ronaldo Foresti
Guillermo Malpica Joseph Quinones Sandra Arill Florence Graff Edgar Patino
Andre Gardner
Isabel C. Montejo & Madeleine Paredes Richard Ramos Samer Atassi Rocio Granados Rory Paull
Jeffrey C. Hooper
Margene Munoz Rosemary Ravinal Stephen Bander Marlene Green Blanca Perera
Corinne & Hal Prewitt
Kimberly Palmer Nair Revilla Gregory Barnes Carol Haggiag Inge Peters
Silvia Rios-Fortun & Rigo Lesteiro
Roberto Pesant Alice Roque-Velasco Richard Bassin Fruzsina Harsanyi Luciana Platas
Janet and Joseph Shein
Route 7 Productions Faye L. & Jeffrey C. Roth Margarita Batlle Sarah Hartman Beatriz Portela
Sara Solomon
Eliane Sobral Nicoletta Sacchetti Raquel Bild-Libbin Alberto Hernendez Gage Powell
Marjorie Zolot & Irene Barr
Pilar Somoza Jennifer Saldarriaga Jennifer Blackmore Ingrid Hill Eduardo Prieto
VISIONARY Jon Weiser Michelle Samplin-Salgado Gabriel Bodner Michael Hill Amanda Ratcliffe
Lourdes Almagro Araujo Lisa Sloat Karyl Boynton Valerie Hummel Leach Alicia Robles De La Lama
CONNOISSEUR
Claire Amerena- London & Peace Sullivan & Bernardo Gutierrez Daniel Bras Maria del Carmen Jimenez Marcos Rigoberto Rodriguez
Ken Alexander & Jerry Calcaterra
Edward London David Tietjen-Wiener Harvey Burstein Jorge Jimenez Marcos Shanka Roseanne
Antonella Bacchelli
Eduardo & Susan Comella Patricia Titterton Carmen Cadavid Matt Johnson Barbara Rosenbaum
JoAnne Bander
Glenda R. Day-Cummings, M.D. & Daniel Torres John Cantillo Gloria Johnson Renee Rosenberg
Rogelio & Gema Basnuevo
Michael Cummings Helen Travers David Carlson Dr. Alma Kadragic Lisa Rotella
Maria Bechily
Ana Maria Estrada Alison Washco Mercedes Carlson Ulrich Lachler Jo Jo & Tony Russo
Sheila & Michael Berke
Jos Luis Fernandez Nora & Nick Weir Tom Carney Eleanora Bianca Lanza Beatricia Sagar
Annette & Peder Bonnier
Dr. Carrie Horst Monica Casas Luz Helena Latorre Gisela Savdie
Donna Cristina & Barbara Dente CINECLUB
Francoise & George Ibars Henry Castelo Victoria Legra Edna Schenkel
Lynn Delman Kristine Acosta
Robert E. Jacobson MD and Richard Contreras Ed Lesen Professor Aldo Serafini
Robert Dinerstein & Karen Fry Jeannette Barker
Maritza Jacobson Richard Contreras Robert Levite Hector Silva
Katherine Domitrovich Valerie Batrice
Virginia Johnson Janet Copeland Joannne Levite Gail Silver
Adam Dunshee Veronica Bruggen
Villy Kourafalou-Hirschtritt, Ph.D. Henry Courtney Randall Lewis Myra Silverstein
Natalia Garces Hoby Buppert
Lucrecia, Juan & Mariana Loumiet Elena Cuenca Marc Lichtman Tom Singer
Myriam Grad Christina De Nicola
Lois A. Mamula Marianna Cuervo Esther Litvin Mara Beth Sommers
Mary Lou Olson Sara Garrido Gomez
Cruz Otazo Phillis Dapper Maria Madruga Shahnawaz Soomro
Raul Hernandez-Morales Fiona Green
Jan Peltz Sheryl DeGreff Mandy Manna Bernard Spinrad
Todd Heustess Alexia Hirschtritt
Liz Powell Esther Devarona Toby Mannheimer Dr. Jodi Stoner
Lucinda Hoffman & William McCauley Gabriela Laurino
Michael Raynes Debbie Dombroff Steffani Martin Michelle Talarico
Michael Jankulak & Sim Aberson Isabelle Miller
Lee & Diane Sandler Lisa Dorfman Beatriz and Pedro Martinez-Fonts Basak Tan
Nancy Koeppel Samuel Munoz
Everett Rett Sheslow Irene Dumaurier-Oleksiak Alicia Martinez-Fonts Dr. Marcia Valdesuso
Laurel/Sonnabend Gianfranco Nicolaci
Jeffrey Solomon Louise Farnsworth Cristina Martinho Jan Valdesuso
Renee S. Lieberman Alessandro Nicolaci
John Faust Douglas R. Mayer Hedwig Van De Kreeke
CINEPHILE Harold Logan Fabiana Parra
Reverend Priscilla Felisky Whitehead William Mckeon James Veber
Dr. Amy Buchman Maria Miranda & Miguel Veloso Roni Tamir
Mariana Fernandez Alberto L. Mederos Adis Maria Vila, JD, MBA
Blanche Cueto Mimna Montes de Oca
Jonathan Feuerman Monica Melamid Barbara Weiser
Gabino Cuevas and Thomas Yoli Santiago & Eloisa Morales
Rebeca Franco-Freifeld Rick Mendez Maurice Wiener
Carmen Del Dago Angel Morono AFICIONADO
Sam Freeman George Mendoza
Elena Diaz de Villegas Susan Nielsen Rose Abraira
Adrian Garcia Ellen Miller *as of 1/15/17
Eileen Nunes Koo Marcos Ackerman
 SPECIAL THANKS 89

Sarah Abrahams Patrice Courtaban Daraiha Greene Jose Maria Morales UniFrance
Miami New Times TV5Monde Google Computer Science Wanda
Education Ana Valdes
Isabella Acker Andre Coutard Hans Morgenstern Miami Dade College
Arts + Entertainment District Gerry Guarch
Danish Film Institute Rosa Munguia Gisela Valdes
Jonathan Ali Dickie Davis Diane Gursky
Third Horizon Miami International Airport Charmein Murillo Lucy Valdes
Film Festival Juliana Hernandez
Eddy Davis American Airlines Patricia Narvaez Raphael Viana
MAGAZINE DIGITAL CONFERENCES Delilah Almeida MDC Live Arts
Aude Hesbert Nelson O Jessica Wade Pfeffer JWI,
Oscar Alonso Eileen de la Cuesta-Selva Unifrance films Inc.
Latido Films Miami Beach VCA Jamin OBrien
Brigitte Hubmann Matt Walter
Frank Amadeo Guillaume De Seille Telefilm Edward James Olmos O Cinema
Estefan Enterprises Lisette Ortiz
Juan De Varona Paul Hudson Teresa White
Heidy Anthony Outsider Pictures Ruben Paz
Miami International Airport Benjamin Domenech Dennis Williams
Jon Douglas Jessica Huppert Berman Christopher Pennant HBO
Estrella Arraiza Regal Entertainment Group Enterprise Rental Car
FICG Boris Ibacache Ronnie Williams
Brandon Dumlao Georgette Pepper Miami Dade College
Robbie Arrington Subculture Filmworks Sahir Imam Foreign Affairs Trade and
Regal Entertainment Group Development of Canada Graham Winick
Craig Evans Pablo Ingercher
Curro Tardio Baeza Jorge Perez Rich Wolff Breaking Glass
Centro Cultural Espaol Patti Evers American Airlines Iwerks & Co The Related Group Pictures

Latin America's Premier Business Manon Barat

Film Factory
Marcia Fernandez-Morin
Miami International Airport
Jimmy Jean-Louis Bill Pierce
IMG Tickets
Peter Worsley
Eagle Rock
Publication is proud to support Michael Barker Zachary Fetaru
Mary Johnson
HBO Tom Prassis Jokes Yanes
the Miami Film Festival Sony Pictures Classics IMG Tickets Sony Pictures Classics
Ernie Johnson Joe Yanick
w w w . s e l e c t a m a g a z i n e . c o m Juan Barquin Sonia Figueroa Warner Bros Pascale Ramonda Visit Films
Find Us Miami New Times The Related Group
Ryan Kampe Michael Repsch Rebecca Zada
www.americaeconomia.com Alejandro Barreto Sandro Fiorin Visit Films Breaking Glass Pictures HBO
LC Solutions FIGA
Dana Keith Gary Ressler Karina Zayas
Roman Bayarri Jason Fitzroy Jeffers Miami Beach Cinematheque Tilia Miami Dade College
Faena Arts Third Horizon Film Festival

WIRE MAGAZINE
Craig Kiley Protective Gabriel Riera Team at O Cinema
Gary Bleemer Ilona Friedman Services International (PSI) Miami Dade College Miami Beach
Premiere Parking German Consulate
General in Miami Annette Koubiak Alyce Robertson Team at Coral Gables
Kevin Bosch Miami DDA Art Cinema
O Cinema Miami Beach Rick Gallegos Vanessa Krause
Society Awards Allied THA Rene Rodriguez Team at Regal South Beach
Elayne Bryan Miami Herald 18
PICK UP YOUR COPY

The Colony Theater | Mercedes Gamero Raphal Linart

Miami New Drama ATRES Media Tweet Wall Pro Michael Rojas Team at Olympia Theater

Lauren Burgoyne Kathryn Garcia Sandy Lighterman Carlos Rosso Team at Casa Faroy trophies
Miami DDA MDC Live Arts Miami-Dade County The Related Group and engraving

Bruni Burres Richard Garcia Dr. Ridwan Lin Lina Santiago Team at Miami Beach
Sundance Institute Miami International Airport American Airlines Cinematheque
Maria Londono
Claudia Calvio Patricia Garcia-Velez Eric Schnedecker Team at Wolfson Network
Hanna Marika Lynch Services
Alfredo Calvio The Related Group Knight Foundation Dennis Scholl
Habanero Team at Wolfson Bursar
Patrick Garlock Katravia Lynn Torsten Schulze
Ximena Caminos Regal Entertainment Group M-Appeal Team of Student Life
Faena Arts Oliver Mahrdt Directors
Robert Geitner German Films Ilan Segal
Alberto Canales Olympia Theater Miami Design District Team at The Colony Theater |
Larry Maloney Miami New Drama
Vicente Canales Patrick Gimenez Society Awards Melanie Sharee
Film Factory American Black Team at The Screening Room
Dan Goldberg Lisa Marion Film Festival
Cynthia Cantello The Orchard Team at MDC Live Arts LAB
The Standard Spa, Vivian Marthell Melissa Silva Leos
Miami Beach Alison Goldberg O Cinema Team at Residence Inn, South
The Related Group Elba McAllister Charm Stone Beach by Marriott
Rene Casellas
Miami International Airport Danielle McCarthy-Boles Kareem Tabsch Team at IMG Tickets
Melissa Gomez Magnolia Pictures O Cinema
Carlos Cedanos O Cinema Team at Tilia Events & The
Jenny Medina Bill Thompson Historic Alfred I. DuPont
Ana Cedeo Jose Manuel Gomez Cohen Media Group Building
Do you want to reach South Floridas hottest Accion Cultural Espanola Juan Mendieta
Erin Clark Irma Tirnidad Team at Shiftboard, Inc.
market? Theres only one choice: The Standard Spa, George H. Gomez Jessica Mitrani Prisca Tomasi
Miami Beach Miami DDA
Brickell Magazine! Blanca Granados Adeline Monzier
Ali Codina Unifrance Jack Turner
Nick Green Matador
Vanessa Contreras Regal South Beach 18
305-854-4794 | contact@brickellmag.com | www.brickellmag.com
90
90 FESTIVAL
FILMS AZ PROGRAMMERS MIAMI
MIAMI DADE
DADE COLLEGES
COLLEGES MIAMI
MIAMI FILM
FILM FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL || MARCH
MARCH 3-12,
3-12, 2017
2017 www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 FESTIVAL TEAM 91

MIAMI DADE COLLEGE LEADERSHIP FESTIVAL TEAM

MIAMI DADE COLLEGE

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
MIAMI DADE COLLEGE DISTRICT
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
JAIE LAPLANTE

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING
DR. EDUARDO J. PADRN ARMANDO J. BUCELO JR.
PRESIDENT CHAIR

RACHEL LAUREN BLEEMER
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, BRAND
DR. LENORE RODICIO ARMANDO J. OLIVERA
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT AND PROVOST VICE CHAIR
BETSEY GREENE FREEMAN
GEORGE F. ANDREWS HELEN AGUIRRE FERR ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ADMINISTRATION & MIAMI FILM SOCIETY
CHIEF OF STAFF MARILI CANCIO
BENJAMN LEN III
NATALIA CRUJEIRAS DANIEL DIAZ LEYVA ELOISA LPEZ-GOMEZ
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CULTURAL AFFAIRS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, INDUSTRY & PROGRAMS
BERNIE NAVARRO
JUAN C. MENDIETA
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS DR. EDUARDO J. PADRN, SARAH ROFFMAN
PRESIDENT, MIAMI DADE COLLEGE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, ACTIVATION & MARKETING

ADMINISTRATION & BRANDON DUMLAO

MIAMI FILM SOCIETY Web Development GUEST SERVICES ARNEL SAN PEDRO
Subculture Filmworks FESTIVAL at O Cinema Miami

FESTIVAL PROGRAMMERS NEUZA FARACHE DIANA CASTRILLON Beach Theater Manager

Assistant to Executive Director PRISM CREATIVE STORYTELLING Guest Services Coordinator
ARSIMMER MCCOY
MICHELLE CONTRERAS MOCHEE BETO GIRALDO FESTIVAL at O Cinema Miami
Administration & Miami Film Social Media, Tower Theater Vibe Manager Beach Theater, Asst. Theater
Society Coordinator Manager
Jaie Laplante is an internationally Thom Powers divides his time between FILM & INDUSTRY OFFICE ERIN FONTES
recognized leader and influencer in film New York, Miami and Toronto with DAVID RAMOS Transportation Coordinator FIONA GREEN
culture. Since the fall of 2010, Laplante roles in several festivals. Described by Miami Film Society Coordinator PATRICIA JOAQUIM FESTIVAL at Coral Gables Art
Film Office Manager PEDRO CARMONA Cinema,
has directed Miami Film Festival and The New York Times as a kingmaker Theater Manager
significantly reshaped the personality of for documentaries he is the director, NATALIA VALENCIA Assistant Transportation
the Festivals program. He has successfully alongside his wife Raphaela Neihausen, Miami Film Society Intern ANGELICA RODRIGUEZ Coordinator
Film Office Assistant ROBERT COLOM
strengthened the Festivals commitment as of Americas largest documentary festival COMMUNICATIONS, MARKETING JACIT GONZALEZ Google Talks Venue Manager
a strong platform for Miami and Floridas DOC NYC. & PUBLIC RELATIONS EVA SILOT BRAVO Hospitality Suite Supervisor
filmmakers. Industry Coordinator DANNIEL RODRIGUEZ
DIANA FLEMING TECHNICAL SERVICES The Screening Room Venue
JEN FORD DEBBIE GOLD Manager
Blue Daisy Media Jury Coordinator DEWITT DAVIS
Media Planning Technical Consultant MDCS TOWER THEATER
BRAND & EVENTS
ANDREA SALAZAR ROBERT PADILLA ORLANDO ROJAS
Kiva Reardon is a writer, programming Eloisa Lpez-Gmez joined Miami Film Manager & Programmer
associate at TIFF, and the founding editor Festivals team in 2007. With more than Salazar PR MACKENZIE SHELDON Technical Assistant
of clo, a journal of film and feminism. Her ten years of experience in the industry, she Local Press Agency Brand Manager
CHARLES LANZDORF HECTOR MORENO
writing has been published in The Globe has worked in several high profile and DINA ALLENDE CHRISTINE ARCHILLA Print Traffic Coordinator Assistant Manager
and Mail, National Post, Hazlitt, The A.V. prestigious events in several US Cities, Clique PR Events & Submissions Coordinator
Club and others. Previously, shes worked Brazil, Colombia Canada, U.A.E and Local Press Agency ALBERTO MIRANDA
TILIA EVENTS THEATER MANAGEMENT Projectionist
at the Doha Film Institute in Qatar and Panam.
for Hot Docs Canadian International ADAM KERSH Opening Night Event Team
NATHANIEL BARUCH CONNY QUINTANILLA LAURA LEAL
Documentary Film Festival. Box Office
Brigade Marketing CARON COLE FESTIVAL at Olympia, Theater
National Press Agency Awards Night Event Coordinator Manager
MARTA MORENO
LAUREN COHEN PRODUCTION JULISSA PEREZ Custodian
Promotions Coordinator FESTIVAL at Regal South Beach,
MARIA MELENDEZ Theater Manager HOST COMMITTEE
Jos Teodoro is a critic and playwright. Orlando Rojas is a recognized Cuban CRISTINA ISABEL RIVERA Street Team & Presentation
His essays, reviews and interviews filmmaker best known for the artistically bold Social Media + Outreach Coordinator NAIS SANCHEZ ALEX GONZALEZ-MIR
feature films Supporting Roles and Sometimes Coordinator FESTIVAL at Regal South Beach, ALICE ROQUE
about film and literature appear in such ANDREW LANE
publications as Cinema Scope, The Globe I Look at My Life. His latest work, The Queen of CAROLINA GARCIA Asst Theater Manager
ANGIE CAPO JUAN ALMECIGA CAROLINA PINA
& Mail, Film Comment, The National Post Thursdays won the 2016 Miami Film Festivals DANA RHODEN
Digital Media & Website Coordinator Volunteer Coordinators SUSANNE AZEN
and Brick. His plays include Mote, Steps Knight Documentary Achievement Award. FESTIVAL at MDCS Tower Theater, DANNY DIAZ
and The Tourist. He is currently at work on Since 2008, he has served as the film MICHAEL LUGO CHRISTINE VORSTEG Theater Manager DAVID TIETJEN-WIENER
a new play and a book of conversations programmer for MDCs Tower Theater. Publications Design Ticketing Coordinator GIGI GUERMONT (IN MEMORIAM)
Electricphish Designs AUSTIN SCHLADANT JOSEPH A. QUINONES
with filmmaker Peter Mettler. FESTIVAL at MDCs Tower Theater, MARGENE MUNOZ
DIEGO LIZARZABURU
Distribution Coordinator Theater Manager
 FRIDAY, MARCH 3
FILM CATEGORY COLOR CODES
6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM
n CINEDWNTWN Galas presented by Miami DDA
n Soire Series
n Marquee Series 7:00 NORMAN: H
THE MODERATE RISE
OLY n Knight Competition OLY AND TRAGIC FALL OF A
n Knight Documentary Achievement Award NEW YORK FIXER
USA, Israel, 117min., pg. 30
n HBO Ibero-American Competition
n Jordan Ressler Screenwriting Competition
n Cinema 360
R17 n Short Programs R17
n Florida Focus
n Special Presentation
n Google Seminar Series On Gender & Racial Gaps
In Film & Tech
R18 n Master Class Seminar Series R18
n MIFFecito
n Miami Film 2017 presented by The Related Group
n From The Vault

TWR1 Visit miamifilmfestival.com for most up-to-date information TWR1

PLEASE NOTE
VENUE Runtimes are approximate and do not include allowances for VENUE
TWR
5
2 TWR
5
2
intros or Q&A's.
When selecting films, remember to allow yourself enough time
to travel between the venues.
Start and end times are subject to change without notice. 7:00
H
9:30
OCMB EVERYTHING
OCMB Schedule is color-coded by film section. HEROES WANTED
BUT A MAN Spain, 97min., pg. 56
USA, 109min., pg. 51
To select a film by section, find the corresponding colored box.
Please visit miamifilmfestival.com for the most up-to-date
schedule info, trailers, and online ticketing. 7:00
VENUE VENUE TOMMY'S 9:00
CGAC
7
CGAC
7 HONOUR WITHOUT NAME
UK, 77min., Ireland, 93min., pg. 78
pg. 75

LAB/ LAB/
TSR Legend TSR
+ SHORT Event will be preceded by one or more short films
9:30
Talent in attendance with Q&A, running time may run up to OPENING NIGHT PARTY:
SPECIAL
VENUE H 15 minutes past the end time of the film SPECIAL
VENUE CHAMPAGNE & STARS
9
EVENTS 9
EVENTS PRESENTED BY KORBEL
Alfred I. Dupont Building
pg.30

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival
Connect with /miamifilmfest
us! #MiamiFF@miamifilm
tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm

SATURDAY, MARCH 4

11:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

7:00 H
AN EVENING
OLY WITH ROSSY
DE PALMA
Spain
90min., pg. 32

1:30 H H H H
RESTLESS 4:00 7:00 9:30
R17 CREATURE FRANTZ BILLY BOY MOKA
Germany, France, 113min., USA France, Switzerland,
preceded by GIMP GAIT pg. 54 90min., pg. 41 89min., pg. 66
USA, 97min., pg. 70

2:00 4:30 9:00

H
VEGAS BABY SERENADE 6:30 THE EMPTY BOX
R18 USA FOR HAITI HANDSOME DEVIL preceded by AS TIME GOES BY
77min., pg. 76 USA, 70min., Ireland, 95min., pg. 55 Mexico, 116min., pg. 51
pg. 70

7:00
H 9:45
H
12:00 3:30
TWR1 CINEMASLAM THE DANCER WOODPECKERS FLORIDA
USA, 150min., pg. 44 France, 108min., pg. 46 Dominican Republic, 109min., STORIES
pg. 48 USA, 76min., pg. 54

3:00 6:30 9:00

TWR2 HARMONIUM NAMOUR MALIGLUTIT
Japan, 120min., pg. 55 USA, 80min., pg. 67 Canada, 94min., pg. 64

3:00
H 6:00 H 9:00
LOVE IS THE TAKE MY NOSE... THE DISTINGUISHED
OCMB ANSWER VOL.1 PLEASE! CITIZEN
USA, Mexico, 99min., Argentina, Spain, 118min., pg. 48
86min., pg. 63 pg. 74

1:00 3:30 6:30

H 9:00 LEAGUE H
ZIP & ZAP AND THE WALK WITH ME: A PARADISE OF EXOTIQUE
CGAC CAPTAIN'S ISLAND THE TRIALS OF
TOO FAR DANCERS
DAMON J. KEITH Canada, UK, USA, 90min.,
Spain, 105min., pg. 49 USA, 104min., pg. 77 Canada, 90min., pg. 69 pg. 61

11:00am 1:30
LAB/ GOOGLE TALKS - GOOGLE TALKS -
TILANE JONES SARAH GADON
TSR Miami Dade College
90min., pg. 81 90 min., pg. 81

9:00
SPECIAL NIGHT UNDER THE PALMS
EVENTS Suntrust Rooftop
pg. 33

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
 SUNDAY, MARCH 5

11:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

H
7:00
OLY I AM GILDA
Argentina, 118 min. pg. 57

6:00 H H
CARGO 9:00
R17 precede by SUGAR Bahamas
CARRIE PILBY
USA, 98 min., pg. 43
128 min., pg. 43

4:00
H 6:30
H
EVERYTHING BUT 9:30
R18 X500 MR. CHIBBS
A MAN Canada, Colombia, Mexico, 108
USA, 109 min., pg. 51 USA, 86 min., pg. 67
min., pg. 79

3:00 H 6:00
H 9:00
H
VOICES BEYOND LIPSTICK UNDER SANTA & ANDRES
TWR1 THE WALL MY BURKHA Cuba, France, Colombia
Honduras, India, 116 min., pg. 37 105 min., pg. 70
87 min., pg. 77

H 6:30
3:30 9:30
TWR2 THE LAMBIRDS WLU THE BAR
France, Senegal, Mali Spain, 102 min., pg. 41
USA, 92 min., pg. 60 95 min., pg. 78

4:00 H H 9:00
SYMPHONY 6:00
OCMB IN D THEIR FINEST THE UNKNOWN GIRL
Belgium, France
USA, 53 min., UK, 117 min., pg. 35 106 min., pg. 75
pg. 73

4:00 THE H 6:30

9:00 H
1:00 GROWN-UPS THE BLIND CHRIST
CGAC THE DARK WIND preceded by
TESOROS Chile, Netherlands, Iraq, Germany, Qatar THE HEAD VANISHES
Mexico, 90 min., pg. 74 France, 83 min., 89 min., pg. 46 Chile, France, 94 min.,
pg. 55 pg. 41

11:00 1:30
LAB/ GOOGLE TALKS - GOOGLE TALKS -
REBECCA
TSR THEODORE VACHON SHUGS AND FATS
90 min., pg. 81 90 min., pg. 81

9:00
SPECIAL DESSERTS & DIRECTORS
EVENTS Design District, Palm Court pg. 37

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival
Connect with /miamifilmfest
us! #MiamiFF@miamifilm
tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm

MONDAY, MARCH 6 TUESDAY, MARCH 7

6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

7:00
H
OLY OLY THE HISTORY OF LOVE
France, Canada
134min., pg. 35

7:00 H 9:00 H
7:30 9:45 HOT GIRLS GIVE ME FUTURE:
AFTERIMAGE THE BAR WANTED:
R17 R17 TURNED ON MAJOR LAZER IN
Poland, 98 min., pg. 40 Spain, 102 min., pg. 41
USA, 90 min., CUBA
pg. 57 Cuba, USA,85 min., pg. 54

7:00 H H 6:30 H 9:30 H

CITIZEN JANE: 9:15 THE EMPTY BOX preceded by LOVE AND
R18 BATTLE FOR THE DARKNESS R18 AS TIME GOES BY SAUCERS
THE CITY Mexico, 94 min., pg. 47 Mexico, 116 min. USA, 55 min.
USA, 92 min., pg. 44 pg. 51 pg. 67

7:00
H H 7:00
H 9:30 H
9:15 MADE IN
TWR1 LA SOLEDAD EL INCA TWR1 EMBARGO
Venezuela, 89 min. USA, 92 min. CUBA:
Venezuela, 128 min, pg. 49 Cuba, USA,
pg. 60 pg. 50
47 min. pg. 63

H 9:45 6:30 H 8:30 H

VENUE 7:30 THE NIGHT MY VENUE LIBERTY IN THE
TWR
5
2 CARRIE PILBY MOTHER KILLED TWR
5
2 A SOUP DARKNESS
USAM 98 min., pg. 43 MY FATHER USA, Haiti, Mexico, 94 min.
Spain, 94 min., pg. 68 70 min., pg. 61 pg. 47

9:30 7:00 9:45

7:00 JESUS
IN BED WITH SMOKE & MIRRORS
OCMB THE DANCER OCMB Spain, France Chile, France, Colombia,
France, 108 min., pg. 46 VICTORIA Germany, Greece
France, 98 min., pg. 57 122 min., pg. 71
85 min., pg. 59

7:00 9:30 7:00 H 9:15

H
VENUE TAKE MY NOSE... IT'S ONLY THE END VENUE DREAM THAT THING
CGAC
7 PLEASE! OF THE WORLD CGAC
7 EMPIRE
USA, Mexico, 99 min. Canada, France Denmark, China
CALLED LOVE
95 min., pg. 59 Colombia, 92 min., pg. 74
pg. 74 75 min., pg. 48

LAB/ LAB/
TSR TSR

SPECIAL
VENUE SPECIAL
VENUE
9
EVENTS 9
EVENTS

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8 THURSDAY, MARCH 9

6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

7:00
LAST DAYS IN
OLY OLY HAVANA
Cuba, Spain
93 min., pg. 61

7:00
H 9:30
H 7:00 H 9:30 H
WHAT'S LEFT OF LITTLE WHITE CHRONICALLY THE ONE-EYED
R17 MY LIFE LIE
R17 METROPOLITAN KING
Germany, 108 min., pg. 71 Chile, 80 min., pg. 62 USA Spain, 82 min.
85 min., pg. 44 pg. 69

7:30 9:00 H 6:30

H 9:00 THE
H
THE BLOOM OF EL PAMPERO CANDIDATE
R18 MIAMI FILM R18 preceded by BUSINESS Uruguay,
2017 YESTERDAY Argentina, Uruguay, France,
Germany, Austria, 125 min. Argentina
52 min. pg. 66 100 min., pg. 49 84 min., pg. 42
pg. 42

6:45
H 7:30 H 9:45 H
9:00 SUCH IS LIFE IN THE
JEFFREY REALIVE TROPICS THE MOTHER
TWR1 Dominican Republic, TWR1 Ecuador, France, Romania, Spain,
France, 78 min. Spain, France
112 min., pg. 69 Germany, 89 min.
pg. 59 85 min., pg. 43 pg. 67

H 9:30 GIVE ME 7:00 H 9:30

H
7:15 FUTURE: A CONCRETE
VENUE THE CAT FROM MAJOR LAZER VENUE THE SUMMER IS
TWR
5
2 TWR
5
2 GONE CINEMA
HAVANA IN CUBA
Cuba, USA, 85 min. China, 108 min. Argentina,
Brazil, 88 min., pg. 43 72 min., pg. 46
pg. 54 pg. 73

7:00
H 9:00 H 7:00 H 9:45
DUBFIRE: ARE WE NOT MONDAY NIGHTS THE NIGHT MY MOTHER
OCMB ABOVE GROUND CATS OCMB AT SEVEN KILLED MY FATHER
LEVEL preceded by Spain, 94 min
BLOOD AND WATER USA, 104 min.
USA, 77 min., pg. 37 pg. 66 pg. 68
USA, 98 min., pg. 40

6:45
H 9:30 6:45 H 9:30
H
VENUE NOBODY SPEAK: VISITOR'S DAY VENUE EL AMPARO
CGAC HULK HOGAN, GAWER AND CGAC MARIA (AND EVERYBODY ELSE)
7 preceded by BIG 7 preceded by SPARK Spain, 96 min.
TRIALS OF A FREE PRESS USA, Mexico, 91 min, Venezuela, Colombia,
USA, 93 min., pg. 68 pg. 64
pg. 76 118 min., pg. 49

7:00
LEARN FROM THE
LAB/ BEST: AN OSCAR- LAB/
WINNING MENTOR
TSR 90 min., pg. 83 TSR

7:00
ASHES AND
SPECIAL
VENUE
9:00 SPECIAL
VENUE DIAMONDS
THE STANDARD AFFAIR Poland, 103 min.
9
EVENTS The Standard, pg. 37 9
EVENTS
Miami Beach Cinematheque
pg. 40

Connect
Connectwith
withus!
us!#MiamiFF
#MiamiFF
tickets: /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
1-844-565-6433(MIFF)
tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm

FRIDAY, MARCH 10

6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

7:00 H 9:00
A CHANGE OF BEHIND THE
OLY HEART CURTAIN PARTY OLY
USA, 105 min., pg. 36 pg. 36

7:00
H H
DON'T BLAME IT 9:15
R17 ON YOUR KARMA! MAY GOD SAVE US R17
Spain, 127 min., pg. 64
Spain, 98 min., pg. 48

7:30 H 9:45 H
STRAIGHT OUT THE DEATH OF
R18 OF MIAMI: MARGA MAIER R18
RAKONTUR PREVIEWS
Argentina, Brazil, 103 min.
NEW WORK, 90 min.
pg. 47
pg. 71
7:00 H H
THE LOST 9:30
BROTHER ON THE ROOF
TWR1 Cuba, Nicaragua TWR1
Argentina, Uruguay,
75 min.
Spain, France, 92 min.
pg. 68
pg. 62

6:30 H
VEINTE AOS 9:00
VENUE preceded by WOODPECKERS VENUE
TWR
5
2 TWR
5
2
HAVANA HOUSE Dominican Republic
Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica 109 min., pg. 78
92 min., pg. 76

7:00 9:30
H
OCMB HEAL THE LIVING LA MEDEA OCMB
France, Belgium, 104 min. preceded by I AM HERE
pg. 56 USA, 95 min., pg. 60

7:00 H 9:15
H
VENUE SEX, MARACAS FAMILY LIFE VENUE
CGAC
7
CGAC
7
& CHIHUAHUAS Chile, 80 min.
Spain, 87 min., pg. 71 pg. 51

LAB/ LAB/
TSR TSR

SPECIAL
VENUE SPECIAL
VENUE
9
EVENTS 9
EVENTS

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
 SATURDAY, MARCH 11

11:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

7:00
H
OLY FOR YOUR OWN
GOOD
Spain, 95 min., pg. 31

1:00
H 3:30
H 6:00
MARIA (AND IN BED WITH 8:30
R17 UNTOUCHABLE EL INCA
USA, 105 min. EVERYBODY ELSE) VICTORIA Venezuela, 128 min., pg. 49
pg. 75 Spain, 96 min., pg. 64 France, 98 min., pg. 57

1:30
H
LITTLE WHITE
R18 LIE
Chile, 80 min., pg. 62

4:00
DEATH BY A THOU-
H
SAND CUTS
TWR1 Dominican Republic,
USA, 73 min.
pg. 47

2:30 H 5:00
ELLA BRENNAN: EL AMPARO
TWR2 COMMANDING preceded by SPARK
THE TABLE Venezuela, Colombia, 118 min.
USA, 95 min., pg. 50 pg. 49

1:00 IT'S 3:30

H
ONLY THE END OF 6:00
OCMB THE WORLD LOVE IS THE HEROES WANTED
Canada, France, 95 min. ANSWER VOL.2 Spain, 97 min., pg. 56
pg. 59 87 min., pg. 63

1:00
H 3:30 5:00 H
MADE IN VEINTE AOS
CGAC HERO STEPS preceded by
Colombia, 90 min., CUBA HAVANA HOUSE
Cuba, USA
pg. 56 47 min., pg. 63 Cuba, Brazil, Costa Rica
92 min., pg. 76

10:30 1:00 PRODUCING

FROM NOVEL IN FLORIDA AND
LAB/ TO BIG SCREEN BEYOND
moderated by moderated by
TSR DILIANA ALEXANDER KEVIN SHARPLEY
90 min., pg. 83 90 min., pg. 83

11:30 9:30
SPECIAL BIG EASY BRUNCH EL COTO DE RIOJA
EVENTS River Yacht Club AWARDS NIGHT PARTY
pg. 50 CCE Miami, pg. 31

Connect
Connect with us!
with us! #MiamiFF
#MiamiFF
tickets: /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
1-844-565-6433(MIFF)
tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm

SUNDAY, MARCH 12

11:00AM 12:00PM 1:00PM 2:00PM 3:00PM 4:00PM 5:00PM 6:00PM 7:00PM 8:00PM 9:00PM 10:00PM 11:00PM

OLY

H 3:30 H 6:00
12:30 SUCH IS LIFE IN
R17 MAY GOD SAVE US THE UNKNOWN GIRL
THE TROPICS Belgium, France, 106 min.
Spain, 127 min., pg. 64 Ecuador, Germany pg. 75
85 min., pg. 73

1:00
H 6:30
4:00
R18 THE MOTHER EMBARGO ON THE ROOF
France, Romania, Spain Cuba, Nicaragua
89 min., pg. 67 USA, 92 min., pg. 50 75 min., pg. 68

TWR1

TWR2

5:30
OCMB DON'T BLAME IT
ON YOUR KARMA!
Spain, 98 min., pg. 48

1:00 3:30 6:00 8:00

CGAC THE BOSS BABY THE CAT FROM THE ONE-EYED THE DISTINGUISHED
USA 97 min., pg. 42 HAVANA KING CITIZEN
Brazil, 88 min., pg. 43 Spain, 82 min., pg. 69 Argentina, Spain, 118 min., pg. 48

LAB/
TSR

SPECIAL
EVENTS

Connect with us! #MiamiFF

tickets: 1-844-565-6433 (MIFF) /MiamiFilmFestival /miamifilmfest @miamifilm
100 COUNTRY INDEX MIAMI DADE COLLEGES MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL | MARCH 3-12, 2017 PROGRAM UPDATES > www.miamifilmfestival.com < TICKETS > Call 1-844-565-6433 101

ALGERIA DENMARK LEBANON

USA
WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63 DREAM EMPIRE 48 A MAN RETURNED 63 A AN EVENING WITH LOVE IS THE ANSWER SUCH IS LIFE IN
A MAN RETURNED 63 WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63 ALTERATIONS 63 ROSSY DE PALMA 32 VOL.1 63 THE TROPICS 73
ARGENTINA ARE WE NOT CATS 40 LOVE IS THE ANSWER SUGAR 43
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MALI AT YOUR SERVICE 44 AFTERIMAGE 40 THE EMPTY BOX 51
BUSINESS 49 BALLET BUS 44 ALTERATIONS 63 EVERYTHING BUT A MAN 51 VOL.2 63 THE SUMMER IS GONE 73
THE CANDIDATE 42 DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS 47 WLU 78 A BEAUTIFUL DAY 63 AND THE WHOLE SKY FIT F M SUNGHOSTS 54
A CONCRETE CINEMA 46 JEFFREY 59 BILLY BOY 41
EL PAMPERO 49 WOODPECKERS 78 MEXICO BLOOD AND WATER 40 IN THE DEAD COWS EYES 66 SYMPHONY IN D 73
THE DEATH OF MARGA MAIER 47 CASTING 44 ARE WE NOT CATS 40 FAMILY LIFE 51 MADE IN CUBA 63
THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN 48 ECUADOR AS TIME GOES BY 51 CARRIE PILBY 43 ASHES AND DIAMONDS 40 FLORIDA STORIES 54 MALIGLUTIT 64
IM GILDA 57 BIG 76 A CHANGE OF HEART 35
THE INCONVENIENCE 66 SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS 73 THE DARKNESS 47 CHRONICALLY METROPOLITAN 44 AS TIME GOES BY 51 FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 31 A MAN RETURNED 63
THE LOST BROTHER 62 THE EMPTY BOX 51 CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR FRANTZ 54 MARIA (AND
FRANCE SPARK 49 THE CITY 44 EVERYBODY ELSE) 64 T
AUSTRIA TAKE MY NOSE... PLEASE! 74 DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS 47
B
BASED ON A TRUE STORY 63 TESOROS 74 DEER GOD 44 MAY GOD SAVE US 64
G
THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY 42 THE BLIND CHRIST 41 VISITORS DAY 76 DUBFIRE: ABOVE BASED ON A TRUE STORY 63 MIAMI FILM 2017 66 TAKE MY NOSE... PLEASE! 74
THE DANCER 46 WHIPPET 63 GROUND LEVEL 37 MOKA 66 TESOROS 74
BAHAMAS EL PAMPERO 49 X500 79 ELLA BRENNAN: THE BAR 41 GIMP GAIT 70
FRANTZ 54 COMMANDING THE TABLE 50 A BEAUTIFUL DAY 63 MONDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN 66 THAT THING CALLED LOVE 74
CARGO 43 THE GROWN-UPS 55 NETHERLANDS EMBARGO 50 GIVE ME FUTURE:
BIG 76 THE MOTHER 67 THEIR FINEST 35
THE HEAD VANISHES 41 EVERYTHING BUT A MAN 51 MAJOR LAZER IN CUBA 54
BELGIUM HEAL THE LIVING 56 THE GROWN-UPS 55 GIMP GAIT 70 BILLY BOY 41 MR. CHIBBS 67 TOMMYS HONOUR 75
GREAT MUY BIEN 63
THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35 A MAN RETURNED 63 GIVE ME FUTURE: THE BLIND CHRIST 41 THE MUCK 54
HEAL THE LIVING 56 IN BED WITH VICTORIA 57 MAJOR LAZER IN CUBA 54
THE GROWN-UPS 55 TOYED 54
THE UNKNOWN GIRL 75 ITS ONLY THE END OF THE NICARAGUA HAVANA HOUSE 76 BLOOD AND WATER 40
WORLD 59 HOT GIRLS WANTED: THE BLOOM OF H N U
BRAZIL JEFFREY 59 ON THE ROOF 68 TURNED ON 57 YESTERDAY 42
JESUS 59 KURU 44 THE BOSS BABY 42
THE CAT FROM HAVANA 43 THE LOST BROTHER 62 POLAND LA MEDEA 60 HANDSOME DEVIL 55 NAMOUR 67
THE DEATH OF MARGA MAIER 47 MOKA 66 THE LAMBIRDS 60 BUSINESS 49 THE UNKNOWN GIRL 75
HARMONIUM 55 THE NIGHT MY MOTHER
VEINTE AOS 76 THE MOTHER 67 AFTERIMAGE 40 LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE UNTOUCHABLE 75
REALIVE 69 ASHES AND DIAMONDS 40 DANCERS 61 HAVANA HOUSE 76 KILLED MY FATHER 68
CANADA SANTA & ANDRES 70 LIBERTY IN A SOUP 61 C
HEAL THE LIVING 56 NOBODY SPEAK: HULK
SMOKE & MIRRORS 71 QATAR LOVE AND SAUCERS 62 V
THE HEAD VANISHES 41 THE UNKNOWN GIRL 75 MADE IN CUBA 63 THE HEAD VANISHES 41 HOGAN, GAWKER AND
THE CANDIDATE 42 TRIALS OF A
THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35 WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63 THE DARK WIND 46 MONDAY NIGHTS AT SEVEN 66 HERO STEPS 56
I AM HERE 60 WLU 78 MR. CHIBBS 67 CARGO 43 FREE PRESS 68 VEGAS BABY 76
ITS ONLY THE END OF THE ROMANIA
HEROES WANTED 56
THE MUCK 54 CARRIE PILBY 43 NORMAN: THE MODERATE
WORLD 59 GERMANY NAMOUR 67 THE HISTORY OF LOVE 35 VEINTE AOS 76
LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE THE MOTHER 67 NOBODY SPEAK: HULK HOGAN,
THE CAT FROM HAVANA 43 RISE AND TRAGIC FALL
HOUSE FOR SALE 63 VISITORS DAY 76
DANCERS 61 THE BLOOM OF YESTERDAY 42 GAWKER AND TRIALS OF A A CHANGE OF HEART 36 OF A NEW YORK FIXER 30
MALIGLUTIT 64 THE DARK WIND 46 SENEGAL FREE PRESS 68 HOT GIRLS WANTED: VOICES BEYOND THE WALL:
CHRONICALLY
A PARADISE TOO FAR 69 FRANTZ 54 NORMAN: THE MODERATE TURNED ON 57 TWELVE LOVE POEMS
METROPOLITAN 44
X500 79 JESUS 59 WLU 78 RISE AND TRAGIC FALL OF O FROM THE MURDER
SUCH IS LIFE IN THE TROPICS 73 A NEW YORK FIXER 30 CINEMASLAM 44
CHILE SPAIN I CAPITAL OF THE WORLD 77
WHATS LEFT OF MY LIFE 77 OCD 44 CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE
OSCURO 44
FOR THE CITY 44 ON THE ROOF 68
AND THE WHOLE SKY FIT IN GREECE THE BAR 41 PARADISE 44 I AM HERE 60
THE DEAD COWS EYE 66 THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN 48 RED STRING 44 A CONCRETE CINEMA 46 THE ONE-EYED W
THE BLIND CHRIST 41 JESUS 59 DONT BLAME IT ON YOUR RESTLESS CREATURE: IM GILDA 57 KING 69
CONNECTION 66
FAMILY LIFE 51 KARMA! 48 WENDY WHELAN 70 IN BED WITH VICTORIA 57 WAIT FOR ME, ITALIA 63
THE GROWN-UPS 55 HAITI AN EVENING WITH ROSSY SCENES FROM OUR YOUNG INCONVENIENCE 66 P
JESUS 59 DE PALMA 32 MARRIAGE 63 D WALK WITH ME: THE
LITTLE WHITE LIE 62 LIBERTY IN A SOUP 61 FOR YOUR OWN GOOD 31 SERENADE FOR HAITI 70 ITS ONLY THE END OF TRIALS OF DAMON J. KEITH 77
HEROES WANTED 56 SPARK 49 THE WORLD 59
CHINA HONDURAS LAST DAYS IN HAVANA 61 SUNGHOSTS 54 THE DANCER 46 A PARADISE WHATS LEFT OF MY LIFE 77
THE LOST BROTHER 62 SYMPHONY IN D 73 THE DARK WIND 46 TOO FAR 69 WHIPPET 63
DREAM EMPIRE 48 VOICES BEYOND THE WALL: MARIA (AND EVERYBODY TAKE MY NOSE... PLEASE! 74 J
THE SUMMER IS GONE 73 TWELVE LOVE POEMS FROM ELSE) 64 TOYED 54 THE DARKNESS 47 WITHOUT NAME 78
THE MURDER CAPITAL OF MAY GOD SAVE US 64 UNTOUCHABLE 75 DEATH BY A R WOODPECKERS 78
COLOMBIA THE WORLD 77 THE MOTHER 67 VISITORS DAY 76 JEFFREY 59
THOUSAND CUTS 47
THE NIGHT MY MOTHER WALK WITH ME: THE TRIALS JESUS 59 WLU 78
BIG 76 INDIA KILLED MY FATHER 68 OF DAMON J. KEITH 77 THE DEATH OF
REALIVE 69
EL AMPARO 49 THE ONE-EYED KING 69 MARGA MAIER 47
HERO STEPS 56 LIPSTICK UNDER MY BURKHA 37 REALIVE 69 VENEZUELA THE DISTINGUISHED L RESTLESS CREATURE: 70 X
HOUSE FOR SALE 63 SEX. MARACAS & CITIZEN 48 WENDY WHELAN
JESUS 59 IRAQ CHIHUAHUAS 71 EL AMPARO 49
SANTA & ANDRES 70 SMOKE & MIRRORS EL INCA 49 DONT BLAME IT ON LA FEMME ET LE TGV 63 X500 79
THAT THING CALLED LOVE 74 THE DARK WIND 46 ZIP & ZAP AND THE LA SOLEDAD 60 YOUR KARMA! 48 LA MEDEA 60 S
X500 79 CAPTAINS ISLAND 79 SPARK 49 DREAM EMPIRE 48 LA SOLEDAD 60
IRELAND Z
COSTA RICA SWITZERLAND DUBFIRE: ABOVE THE LAMBIRDS 60
SANTA & ANDRES 70
HANDSOME DEVIL 55 GROUND LEVEL 37 LAST DAYS IN HAVANA 61
VEINTE AOS 76 WITHOUT NAME 78 LA FEMME ET LE TGV 63 SCENES FROM OUR ZIP & ZAP AND THE
LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE
MOKA 66 YOUNG MARRIAGE 63 CAPTAINS ISLAND 79
CUBA ISRAEL E DANCERS 61
UK LIBERTY IN A SOUP 61 SERENADE FOR HAITI 70
CONNECTION 63 NORMAN: THE MODERATE RISE LIPSTICK UNDER SEX, MARACAS &
GIVE ME FUTURE: AND TRAGIC FALL OF A NEW LEAGUE OF EXOTIQUE EL AMPARO 49
EL INCA 49 MY BURKHA 37 CHIHUAHUAS 71

34
MAJOR LAZER IN CUBA 54 YORK FIXER DANCERS 61
GREAT MUY BIEN 63 30 A MAN RETURNED 63 EL PAMPERO 49 LITTLE WHITE LIE 62 SMOKE & MIRRORS 71
HOUSE FOR SALE 63 JAMAICA THEIR FINEST 35 THE LOST BROTHER 62
MADE IN CUBA 63 TOMMYS HONOUR 75 ELLA BRENNAN: SPARK 49
ON THE ROOF 68 SUGAR 43 COMMANDING LOVE AND SAUCERS 62 STRAIGHT OUT OF MIAMI:
SANTA & ANDRES 70 URUGUAY THE TABLE 50 RAKONTUR PREVIEWS
VEINTE AOS 76 JAPAN
THE CANDIDATE 42 EMBARGO 50 NEW WORK 71
HARMONIUM 55 EL PAMPERO 49
THE LOST BROTHER 62
 Miami Dade
Miami
CollegesDade
Miami Film
Colleges
Festival Miami Film Festival
Thanks Our Valued Thanks
Sponsors Our Valued Sponsors
PREMIERE SPONSORS

PRINCIPAL SPONSORS

PRODUCING SPONSORS

SUPPORTING SPONSORS

America's #1 French Wine America's #1 French Wine

GARNER
GARNER
FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION

Whether your passion is for film, music,

books, or visual arts, Miami Dade College
is your beacon for world-class cultural
Garner
Garner
Foundation
Foundation
Inc Inc programming.
INDUSTRY SPONSORS
For more than 50 years, MDC has brought
to you cutting-edge, thought-provoking
endeavors in film, the visual arts, literature
and the performing arts. Experience
the wonder of MDCs vibrant cultural
programming that is as diverse as the mdc.edu/arts
community it calls home! 305.237.8888
MEDIA SPONSORS

Tropic
FLORIDA LIVING & DESIGN
Tropic
F L O R I D A L I V I N G & D E S I G N