WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival

FILM TITLE	MAIN CAT FORMATRY	CONDIRECTORTACT	CC COUNTRYu	SHOWING
An American in China	Digital	RON BERRETT	CHINA / USA	WED 4/16 @ 9:30pm
	Post-Stanford 22 year old David goes to China to help his family business and falls in love despite many challenges. 94 minutes
Arabian Nights	35mm	PAUL KIEFFER	LUXEMBOURG	SAT 4/12 @ 9:30pm & MON 4/14 @ 9:30pm
	A young, beautiful & mysterious Algerian woman turns the everyday world of a young Luxembourger upside down. 110 minutes
Before the Rains	35mm	SANTOSH SIVAN	INDIA	FRI 4/11 @ 7:15pm & SAT 4/12 @ 5:00pm
	Infidelity turns the life of a British spice grower in Kerala, India into a nightmare, amidst the background of the Gandhi years and rising tide of revolution. A film in the tradition and style of David Lean! 98 minutes
The Blissful	35mm	SERGEY STRUSOVSKY	RUSSIA	MON 4/14 @ 7:15pm & TUES 4/15 @ 5:00pm
	An innocent young girl, who is an artist, is tested amidst the baser instincts of human nature. 88 minutes
BOHICA	Digital	DJ PAUL	USA	FRI 4/18 @ 9:30pm
	Four young US Army Reservists get caught in the crossfire of a meaningless mission in American-occupied Afghanistan which gets ugly when the Marines show up. 92 minutes
Bread and Tulips	35mm	SILVIA SOLDINI	PANORAMA ITALIA	SUN 4/13 @ 9:30pm & TUES 4/15 @ 9:30PM
	On a whim, housewife Rosalba decides to hitchhike and winds up in Venice encountering a number of amazing characters and a life full of different adventures for her. 114 minutes - Italian Retrospect
Chamame	35mm	COSIMA LANGE	ARGENTINA / GERMANY	TUES 4/15 @ 5:00pm & WED 4/16 @ 5:00pm
	The regional music of northern Argentina is offered by four different artists and it is not just music but a way to express their views of life with its passion, sorrows and joy. 104 minutes
Coyote Funeral	Digital	JASON MAY	USA/TEXAS	THURS 4/17 @ 7:15pm
	Two brothers walk across Texas to bury their past and rekindle their relationship. Whether they can make it or not - depends less on braving the elements than on surviving each other. 90 minutes
The Ante	35mm	MAX PERRIER	CANADA	FRI 4/18 @ 5:00pm & SAT 4/19 @ 9:30pm
	Down-on-his luck, Sam Bailey take a wrong run and winds up lost at a remote farm where a psychotic housewife frames him for murder. 82 minutes
Death Game	35mm	MEHAHEM GOLAN	USA / BELARUSSE	FRI 4/18 @ 9:30pm & SAT 4/19 @ 3:00pm
	A promising young basketball player is drawn into the violent world of drugs, high stakes and corruption as he is about to go pro. 90 minutes
Dubble / Doppio	Digital	ERIC ALEXANDER	PANORAMA ITALIA	WED 4/16 @ 7:15pm
	Two young brothers, who work at a dubbing studio in Milan, want to become filmmakers instead, in spite of many challenges. 104 minutes
Eduart	35mm	ANGELIKI ANTONIOU	GREECE	SAT 4/12 @ 9:30pm & SUN 4/13 @ 7:15pm
	A young man becomes convinced that he must make amends for the murder he has committed. 103 minutes
The Émigré	35mm	ISTVAN DARDAY	HUNGARY	SAT 4/12 @ 3:00pm & MON 4/14 @ 7:15pm
	A famous Hungarian writer must leave his homeland and forsake ever being published in his own country and comes to tragedy. 100 minutes
The Errand of Angels	Digital	CHRISTIAN VUISSA	USA	TUES 4/15 @ 7:15pm
	A young Mormon missionary woman goes to Austria and discovers her strengths and shortcomings as she witnesses to others and matures in faith. 90 minutes
FilmCamp	Digital	GARRET MAYNARD	USA	SUN 4/13 @ 5:00pm
	A successful film director is accused of financial irresponsibility by his corrupt producer and "reassigned" to work at a film camp with a bunch of out of control kids. 112 minutes
Float	Digital	CALVIN SIMMONS	USA	FRI 4/18 @ 7:15pm
	A young wanabee filmmaker almost goes Hollywood while trying to figure out what makes him tick and how to find true love. 80 minutes
Four Wings & A Prayer	Digital	NICK DE PENCIER	CANADA	SAT 4/12 @5:00pm
	The migration of the Monarch butterfly from Canada to Michoacan, Mexico is a miraculous and amazingly intelligent design found in the natural world. 80 minutes
The Fragility of Seconds	Digital	MATTHEW TOMPKINS JULIO CEDILLO	TEXAS / MEXICO	SAT 4/12 @7:15pm
	A single horrific event shatters the hope on Revolution Day Parade in the streets of Ojinaga, Mexico and three men, strangers to each other must deal with those consequences. 108 minutes
Geeta in Paradise	Digital	BENNY MATHEWS	USA / TEXAS	SAT 4/19 @ 7:15pm
	Geeta, a dreamer, Mom, and wanabee star goes to extreme lengths with the aid of her best friend and kidnaps a famous Indian film director amidst much comedic mayhem but perhaps dreams can come true. 88 minutes
Greetings from the Shore	Digital	GREG CHWERCHAK	USA	SAT 4/19 @9:30pm
	After her father's death, a young college bound girl heads to the Jersey Shore for one last summer but encounters a mysterious world of Russian sailor, high-stakes gambling and unexpected love. 118 minutes
Hotel Very Welcome	35mm	SONJA HESS	GERMANY	SAT 4/12 @ 7:15pm & SUN 4/13 @ 5:00pm
	Five western travelers wandering through India and Thailand in search of themselves find that they are incapable of escaping their own personal problems. 90 minutes
Immensity of Justice	35mm	WIESLAW SANIEWSKI	POLAND	THURS 4/17 @ 9:30pm & SAT 4/19 @ 9:30pm
	A famous Polish defense lawyer tells his best friend's son of a tragic case of injustice involving a murdered TV journalist and her lover who was sent to jail without evidence. 127 minutes
Iska’s Journey	Digital	CSABA BOLLOK	HUNGARY	SAT 4/12 @ 9:30pm
	Twelve year old Iska lives in a coal-mining community in Eastern Europe where her daily work is to collect iron from rubbish heaps to help her family out. Can her cycle of life ever be broken? 93 minutes
The Journey: The Greek American Dream	Digital	MARIA ILLIOU	GREECE	THURS 4/17 @5:00pm
	The Greek immigration to America from 1890 to 1980 is narrated in this documentary, and depicted through archival film footage and interviews with prominent Greek Americans in its USA festival premiere. 87 minutes
Kings	35mm	TOM COLLINS	IRELAND	WED 4/16 @ 7:15pm
	In the mid-70;s a group of six young Irish men set out for England in the hopes of making their fortunes and returning home, but 30 years later, only one goes home under tragic circumstances. 88 minutes
Labou	35mm	GREG ARONOWITZ	LOUISIANA, USA	SAT 4/19 @ 5:00pm & SUN 4/20 @ 5:00pm
	Three unlikely young friends set out on a journey to find the dreaded Ghost of Captain LaRouge, whose treasure-laden ship was lost in the Louisiana bayou over 200 years ago. What they find is an adventure beyond their wildest dreams, and the magical swamp creature Labou, whose whistles are rumored to be the original inspiration for jazz. 95 minutes
Magazine Gap Road	35mm	NICHOLAS CHIN	HONG KONG	WED 4/16 @ 7:15pm & FRI 4/18 @ 7:15pm
	Magazine Gap Road is the secluded enclave of wealth and privilege overlooking the commerce and crowds of Hong Kong, but here young Samantha, a curator for a private museum has to decide if she can risk saving her girlfriend from the type of life she has strived to leave in her past. 90 minutes
Mahek	35mm	KRANTI KANADE	INDIA	WED 4/16 @ 5:00pm & FRI 4/18 @ 5:00pm
	Eleven year old Mahek is a girl whose imagination is bigger than life, and her daydreams seem to always get her into trouble. In steps her fairy godmother who is not magical at all and Mahek must figure things out for herself. 80 minutes
Maui Boyz	Digital	CARSTEN MAAZ	GERMANY / USA	WED 4/16 @ 5:00pm
	Ten locals on Maui who have followed their heart and become part of the Aloha spirit share their dreams, their vision, surfing and their stories. 85 minutes
The Metro Sexual	Digital	ADAM KAUFMAN	CALIFORNIA, USA	MON 4/14 @ 7:15pm
	Eric has an obsessive attention to his appearance, manners and a preference for the finer things in life, but this distinction does not serve him very well as he tries to find love in Los Angeles. 85 minutes
Mother Toyoko	Digital	MASAMOTO SAKURAI	JAPAN	SUN 4/20 @5:00pm
	In this true story, Mother Toyoko, beginning right after WWII, finds out that her three young boys all contract muscular dystrophy and she becomes an ardent activist in Japan against this disease and continues to this day. 108 minutes
Night of the Shooting Star	35mm	PAOLO & VITTORIO TAVIANI	PANORAMA ITALIA	SAT 4/19 @ 7:15pm & SUN 4/20 @ 5:00pm
	Rosanna tells her children the story of her village of San Lorenzo in 1944 when they flee from the Nazis rumoured to coming to blow-up their town with the American close behind them to liberate them. 105 minutes - Retrospect Italia
The Nuremberg Epilogue	Digital	JERZY ANTCZAK	POLAND	MON 4/14 @ 5:00pm
	A docu-drama re-enactment of the famous and unique trial at Nuremberg using nothing but the notes from the trial proceedings; the latter half with special emphasis on the journal of Dr. Gilbert who cared for the prisoners on trial. 91 mins.
One Night (Una Notte)	35mm	TONI D'ANGELO	PANORAMA ITALIA	THUR 4/17 @ 7:15pm & SAT 4/19 @ 5:00pm
	When a common friend dies, a group of young Italians go out to celebrate his life, five lost souls with one philosophical taxi cab driver. 91 minutes
Perfect Sport	35mm	ANTHONY O'BRIEN	USA	SUN 4/13 @ 7:15pm & MON 4/14 @ 5:00pm
	A young up and coming high school wrestling champ must come to terms with his personal demons and his sister's ability to win against him on the mat. 86 minutes
Ray of Sunshine	Digital	JENNIFER TADLOCK	USA	SUN 4/12 @ 9:30pm
	An FBI agent originally from Sunshine, Louisiana comes back to face generational racism and to try to solve a cold case that becomes all too personal…will he succeed? 72 minutes
The Road to Partition + India Unleashed	Digital	ALAN MENDELSOHN	PAKISTAN / CANADA	FRI 4/18 @ 5:00pm
	This close and unflinching look at what actually transpired when India and Pakistan were divided in 1947 along religious lines. 46 minutes - India Unleashed is a remarkable look at the dynamic world of life in India today - from Daily Planet.
Saving Luna	Digital	SUZANNE CHISHOLM MICHAEL PARFIT	CANADA	SAT 4/19 @ 5:00pm
	A young Orca whale is separated from his pod-family and soon begins to make friendly overtures to the logmining camps along the fiords of western Canada. 92 minutes
Slam	35mm	JONATHAN LIM	CHINA	MON 4/14 @ 5:00pm & THURS 4/17 @ 5:00pm
	Set in Beijing, this is a coming of age story of 2 arch rivals who have to play on the same basketball team in high school…will they settle their differences in time to win the championship? 93 minutes
Sounds	Digital	RYAN HUMPHRIES	USA	MON 4/14 @ 9:30pm
	When alien invaders arrive, the relaxing weekend of four college friends becomes a series of botched FBI encounters, sci-fi eeriness and farcical mishaps in this spoof on all things cinematic. 90 minutes
The Stone Angel	35mm	KARI SKOGLAND	ENGLAND UK	SUN 4/13 @ 9:30pm & MON 4/14 @ 9:30pm
	A crusty old matriarch (Ellen Burstyn) tries to shame her son into not taking her to a nursing home, but she must come to terms with the unequivocal way she has lived her life very much to her own personal liking. 110 minutes
Svani	35mm	SOSO & BADRI JATCHVLIANI	REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA	SUN 4/13 @ 3:00pm & TUES 4/15 @ 7:15pm
	An old Georgian legend is tested when a young man tries to marry a distant cousin. 97 minutes
Swamp Devil	Digital	DAVID WINNING	CANADA	THURS 4/17 @ 9:30pm
	Going back to the southern bogs that she escaped to help her estranged father (Bruce Dern), young Melanie Blaime has to find the truth behind the trumped up charges that her father has murdered a teenage girl in the swamps. 92 minutes
They Wait	35mm	ERNIE BARBARASH	CANADA	TUES 4/15 @ 7:15pm & FRI 4/18 @ 7:15pm
	A young boy and his Mom, newly arrived to Vancouver from Shanghai, are sensitive to the restless spirits of dead ancestors who are wanting to "rest in peace" and begin haunting folks during Chinese Ghost month. 88 minutes
This Beautiful City	35mm	ED GASS-DONNELLY	CANADA	WED 4/16 @ 9:30pm & SAT 4/19 @ 7:15pm
	Five separate lives are interwoven at critical junctures at a high rise condo in Toronto's mixed West end neighborhood. 87 minutes
Tressette	35mm	DRAZEN ZARKOVIC PAVO MARINKOVIC	CROATIA	SAT 4/12 @ 7:15pm & TUES 4/15 @ 9:30pm
	On a small dying Dalmation island just off the coast of Croatia, the world of four card playing friends is suddenly thrown upside down when one of them unexpectedly dies. 80 minutes
True Love	Digital	HENRY BARRIAL	USA	SUN 4/13 @ 7:15pm
	The lives of several Los Angeles city dwellers intersect as they face the struggles of sustaining love in their primary relationships. 95 minutes

When Autumn Sunlight Comes	35mm	BUI, TRUNG HAI	HANOI, VIET NAM	THURS 4/17 @ 7:15pm & FRI 4/18 @ 9:30pm
	A young Vietnamese man tries to juggle the many elements of trying to succeed in modern day Vietnam with the hope of finding true love. 97 minutes
Flight Of The Navigator - Family/Children's Film Section - Restrospect	35mm	RANDAL KLEISER	USA	SAT 4/12 & SUN 4/12 @ 5:00pm
	Family friendly sci-fi adventure in which a 12 year old boy, David Freeman, disappears mysteriously and returns 8 years later at the exactly same age but with the navigational map of the universe software in his brain - which it turns out, allows him to navigate an intuitive spaceship that NASA has just found crashed into some electrical cables. Where will David go now...?

White Angel	35mm	MAHSUN KIRMIZIGUL	ISTANBUL, TURKEY	WED 4/16 @ 9:30pm & THURS 4/17 @ 9:30pm
	An old Kurdish man visits a nursing home in the big city where he realizes that the care old people receive in his village is a much kinder, so he invites his nursing home friends to experience the kindness his village offers the elderly. 120 minutes
With One Voice	Digital	XAVIER DE LAUZANNE	FRANCE	TUES 4/15 @ 5:00pm
	A French rock legend finds a new life and purpose when he organizes musical performances uniting and reconciling different groups of age-old enemies, Arabs and Jews. 87 minutes
ROMAN DE GARE (Official Closing Night Film Premiere)	35mm	Claude Lelouch	FRANCE	Sun 4/12 @ 7:15 p.m.
	A popular mystery novelist (Fanny Ardant) visits the French Burgundy wine region in her diligent research for her next bestselling book but her relationship with the local vintner soon becomes quite personal. Drama - 103 minutes - 35mm
Short Film Program	35mm & Digital	Sat 4/12 & 4/19 @ 1 p.m.	Sun 4/13 @ 4/20 @ 3 p.m.

Short Film Program	Digital	Sat 4/12 @ 1 p.m.	Sun 4/13 @ 3 p.m.

Short Digital Program	Digital	Mon 4/14 @ 9:30 p.m.	Tues 4/15 @ 5:00pm - 35mm

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