WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival

TITLE	MAIN CATEGORY	CONTACT	COUNTRY	SHOWING
11 MINUTES AGO	Digital	BOB GEBERT	CALIFORNIA	Thur 04/26 - 7:15pm
	A time-traveler from the future accidentally lands in the middle of a wedding reception and discovers that he’s already been there all night long.
20,000 MILES ON A HORSE	Digital	TOM JENNINGS	CALIFORNIA	Sat 04/21 - 5:00pm
	Over a five-year period, two men travel 20,000 miles on horseback from the southern tip of Argentina to the northern tip of Alaska.
5 UP 2 DOWN	Digital	STEVEN KESSLER	NEW YORK	Sun 04/22 - 9:30pm
	Two drug addicts under the influence are haunted by their own actions, in this life and in another.
ALLA LUCE DEL SOLE (COME IN THE LIGHT)	35mm	ROBERTO FAENZA	PANORAMA ITALIA	Thur 04/26 - 7:15pm Fri 04/27 - 9:30pm
	A young priest struggles against the interests of the local Mafia to improve life in his home parish.
AMOUR LEGENDE	35mm	MI-SEN WU	TAIWAN, ROC	Sun 04/22 - 9:30pm Tues 04/24 - 9:30pm
	A young man starts out on a journey with one young woman, then wakes up in the middle of a desert island with another – and without his memory.
AURORE	35mm	LUC DIONNE	CANADA	Sat 04/21 - 9:30pm Tues 04/24 -9:30pm
	In a sensational trial in Quebec in the early 20th century, a young girl’s father and stepmother are accused of her murder.
BEN'S BIOGRAPHY	35mm	DAN WOLMAN	ISRAEL	Sun 04/22 - 7:15pm Mon 04/23 - 5:00pm
	Tamar befriends Ben and finds out why he deals with the pain of his childhood in such zany and humorous ways since he has used his imagination to overcome childhood abuse.
BOLLY DOUBLE	Digital	ARUN BHARALI	CANADA	Mon 04/23 - 9:30pm
	A difficult Bollywood Diva gets kidnapped just before she arrives on location, but rather than pay the ransom, the intrepid filmmakers choose to use a total newcomer, her exact lookalike who is much easier to work with, however in this comedy of errors the Diva soon is back on the scene.
CHILDREN OF THE MOON - (MONDSCHEIN KINDER)	35mm	MANUELA STACKE	GERMANY	Sun 04/22 - 5:00pm Tues 04/24 - 5:00pm
	When twelve-year-old Lisa experiences first love, she begins to grow apart from her incurably ill younger brother who she has nurtured through a boundless imagination.
CHOSYU FIVE	35mm	SHO IGARASHI	JAPAN	Thur 04/26 - 9:30pm Sat 04/28 - 9:30pm
	The true story of five young Japanese men who stowed away to England in1853 and used what they learned there to shape modern Japan.
THE COLLECTOR (KOMORNIK)	35mm	FELIKS FALK	POLAND	Sat 04/21 - 3:00pm Sun 04/22 - 7:15pm
	A formerly ruthless debt collector tries to make amends for his past.
CRIME & PUNISHMENT	35mm	MENACHEM GOLAN	RUSSIA	Wed 04/25 - 9:30pm Sat 04/28 - 9:30pm
	In this interpretation of Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, set in modern-day Russia, a struggling law student commits what he believes to be a justified murder.
DOPPO MEZZANOTTE (AFTER MIDNIGHT)	35mm	DAVIDE FERRARIO	PANORAMA ITALIA	Sat 04/21 - 7:15pm Sun 04/22 - 5:00pm
	At the Turin Museum of Cinema, the night guard’s peaceful domain is disturbed by a young woman on the run from the police.
THE DUKES (Official Closing Night Film - Critic's Choice by Joe Leydon)	35mm	ROBERT DAVI	CALIFORNIA	Sun 04/29- 7:15pm
	A doo wop group - who at 22 were on top of the world, find themselves struggling for survival in 2007, with a manager who is desperately trying to get them work, but at each turn is met with failure. Finally pushed to the extreme, they pull a heist only a fool would attempt, which leaves them worse than before, when all seems lost, they find themselves.
EINSTEIN'S GREATEST MISTAKE - (EINSTEINOVA NAJVECA POGRESKA)	Digital	BRANKO KARABATIC	CROATIA	Tues 04/24 - 7:15pm
	Notions of space and time, reality and imagination, the ordinary and the unexpected are tackled at the moment in which people and families become dysfunctional.
EYE OF THE DOLPHIN	Digital	MICHAEL SELLERS	CALIFORNIA	Thur 04/26 - 5:00pm
	With the help of her wild dolphin friend, a young girl re-united with her long estranged father tries to help him save a dolphin research station threatened by greedy developers.
FERN HILL	Digital	COLE CLAASSEN	CALIFORNIA	Wed 04/25 -5:00pm
	Four thirteen-year-old boys try to find out what happened when the father of one of them disappeared eight years ago and discover the importance of their friendship.
FRANK	Digital	DOUGLAS CHENEY	CALIFORNIA	Mon 04/23 - 5:00pm
	A young urban family is spending a summer on an idyllic island when an abandoned mangy mutt wanders onto the scene and soon their lives change forever in ways no one imagined.
FRENCH FOR BEGINNERS (FRANZÖSISCH FUR ANFANGERO)	35mm	CHRISTIAN DITLER	GERMANY	Fri 04/27 - 5:00pm Sun 04/29 - 5:00pm
	A German teenager who doesn’t even like French finds himself on an exchange trip to France with his best friend and the object of his major crush.
THE GARAGE	Digital	CARL THIBAULT	CALIFORNIA	Wed 04/25 - 7:15pm
	An eighteen-year-old mechanic dreams of leaving his small town, but family bonds and his strong feelings for a new girlfriend may change his mind.
GRADUATION	Digital	MICHAEL MAYER	CALIFORNIA	Tues 04/24 - 5:00pm
	Things don’t go according to plan when four lifelong friends decide to rob a local bank on their graduation day.
GREYFRIARS BOBBY	35mm	JOHN HENDERSON	SCOTLAND	Thur 04/26 - 5:00pm Sat 04/28 - 5:00pm
	A terrier named Bobby spends his nights by his recently deceased master’s grave despite the cemetery’s strict “no dogs” policy and soon the townspeople of Edinburg become inspired by this terrier and his new owner’s loyalty.
HIGH WATER BLUES	Digital	ALAN MENDEHLSON	CANADA	Fri 04/27 - 5:00pm
	The Hurricane Katrina disaster was reminiscent of the Mississippi Flood of 1927, which also resulted in a massive migration of African-Americans.
HOLLYWOOD DREAMS	35mm	HENRY JAGLOM	CALIFORNIA	Wed 04/25 - 7:15pm Fri 04/27 - 7:15pm
	A psychologically scarred young woman from a small town arrives in Los Angeles and struggles, sometimes comically, to achieve her dream of stardom.
HOUSE OF DREAMS	Digital	SHAWN WELLING	HOUSTON, TEXAS	Sat 04/21 - 7:15pm
	A multi-cultural dance studio located in an all-white upper class neighborhood in Houston fights a campaign to shut it down at City Hall.
HUNTING FOR ENGLISHMEN (VADASZAT ANGOLOKRA)	35mm	BERTALAN BAGO	HUNGARY	Sat 04/21 - 5:00pm Mon 04/23 - 7:15pm
	A hunting party has assembled in Hungary in 1839; it includes an English engineer who may be a spy for the British Foreign Secretary.
THE BICYCLE THIEF	35mm	VITTORIO DE SICA	ITALY	Tues 04/24 - 7:15pm Sun 04/29 - 1:00pm
	The Classic, Must-See Italian Film, postwar Italy, one of the greatest Italian films ever. A new 35mm restored print on the big AMC Screen!
THE INEVITABLE UNDOING OF JAY BROOKS	Digital	JENNIFER SHARP	CALIFORNIA	Fri 04/27 - 7:15pm
	Jay, the only black guy in his Indie-rock social scene, embarks on “Operation Brown Sugar”, his (possibly doomed) effort to meet and date black women.
INFINITE JUSTICE	Digital	JAMIL DEHLAVI	ENGLAND UK	Wed 04/25 - 9:30pm
	A Jewish American investigative journalist and a politicized British Muslim meet and bond in Pakistan.
THE JAMMED	Digital	DEE MCLACHLAN	AUSTRALIA	Sat 04/28 - 7:15pm
	A young Melbourne woman, trying to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter, is exposed to the world of human trafficking, prostitution, and deportation.
JUST SEX & NOTHING ELSE (CJAK SEX ÉS MÁS SEMMI)	35mm	KRYSZTINA GODA	HUNGARY	Fri 04/27 - 9:15pm Sat 04/28 - 7:15pm
	Playwright Dóra has had it with men, but her biological clock is ticking, so she decides to get pregnant through a no-strings-attached affair.
KING OF BEGGARS	35mm	URI PASTER	LITHUANIA / ISRAEL	Sun 04/22 - 1:00pm Wed 04/25 - 5:00pm
	A 16th century Jewish warrior leader struggles against both his divided Jewish community and its hostile masters in a Russian village.
KOKODA	35mm	ALISTER GRIERSON	AUSTRALIA	Tues 04/24 - 5:00pm Sun 04/29 - 1:00pm
	A small band of Australian soldiers, isolated in the Papua New Guinea jungle behind enemy lines in 1942, struggle to make their way back to safety.
LABOUR EQUALS FREEDOM (DELO OSVOBAJA)	35mm	DAMJAN KOZOLE	SLOVENIA	Sat 04/21 - 1:00pm Sun 04/22 - 3:00pm
	With Slovenia’s integration into the European Union, Peter, a mid-forties family man loses his machinist job which consequently triggers many problems and he loses almost everything but one day an interesting episode changes his life.
LA FEBBRE (THE FEVER)	35mm	ALESSANDRO D'ALATRI	PANORAMA ITALIA	Wed 04/25 - 9:30pm Sat 04/28 - 1:00pm
	In this declaration of love and anger towards modern Italy, a young man struggles to open a nightspot with his friends.
THE LITTLE THINGS	Digital	STEPHEN PADILLA	NEW YORK	Sat 04/28 - 9:30pm
	Miranda is leading a placid, comfortable life with her boyfriend in New York City until she meets Michael and has the chance to develop a more substantial relationship.
LOSERS AND WINNERS	35mm	ULRIKE FRANKE / MICHAEL LOEKEN	GERMANY	Sat 04/21 - 5:00pm Mon 04/23 - 5:00pm
	A gigantic industrial site is dismantled in the Ruhr region of Germany, with profound effects on both local workers and imported Chinese laborers.
MEXICAN SUNRISE	Digital	ROWDY STOVALL	TEXAS	Mon 04/23 - 7:15pm
	How does a bachelor party across the border in Mexico lead to someone being buried alive in a barrel?
ONE LONG NIGHT - OPENING NIGHT FILM	Digital	DAVID SIQUEIROS	USA / MEXICO	Fri 04/20 - 8:00pm Sat 04/21 - 9:30m
	A young Mexican-American businessman suffers an odyssey of romance, adventure, and danger in Mexico. OPENING NIGHT GALA PREMIERE
(PYAAR KE) - SIDE / EFFECTS	Digital	SAKET CHAUDHARY	INDIA	Tues 04/24 - 9:30pm
	Sid has a perfect life, until his perfect girlfriend, Trisha, proposes marriage, and the comic nightmare begins!
RARE BIRD	Digital	LUCINDA SPURLING	BERMUDA	Sun 04/29 5:00pm
	A 15-year-old boy discovers a bird believed extinct for over 300 years, but it is threatened anew by climate change and a hurricane.
RETURN WITH HONOR	35mm	MICHAEL AMUNDSEN	UTAH	Wed 04/25 - 7:15pm Thur 04/26 - 5:00pm
	After a near-death experience, a missionary is granted a second chance at life that changes him forever.
SAIGON ECLIPSE	35mm	OTHELLO KHANH	VIET NAM	Thur 04/26 - 7:15pm Sat 04/28 - 7:15pm
	In this update of a classic Vietnamese epic poem from the early 19th century, a beautiful young woman tries to save her family after her uncle turns to crime.
SHAKESPEARE'S - RICHARD III	Digital	SCOTT ANDERSON	CALIFORNIA	Fri 04/27 - 9:30pm
	Modern Los Angeles is the setting for Shakespeare’s tale, in which the York and Lancaster families are rival branches of the former England Studios.
SOMETHING BENEATH	Digital	DAVID WINNING	CANADA	Thur 04/26 - 9:30pm
	From inside the depths of a mysterious old Grand Hotel, a Mud Beast rises to terrorize the guests. Shades of The Shining!
STEEL TOES	35mm	DAVID GOW / MARK ADAM	CALIFORNIA	Sat 04/21 - 7:15pm Mon 04/23 - 7:15pm
	An intense and fiery relationship develops between a neo-Nazi skinhead on trial for murder and his Jewish liberal defense attorney.
SUNDAY IN KIGALI	35mm	ROBERT FAVREAU	CANADA	Wed 04/25 - 5:00pm Sat 04/28 5:00pm
	During the Rwandan genocide, a dissolute French journalist meets a beautiful young waitress, who is tragically mistaken for a Tutsi.
TRUTH BE TOLLED	Digital	WILLIAM MOLINAS	TEXAS	Sun 04/22 - 5:00pm
	A powerful expose of what the term TTC -Trans-Texas Corridor really means and the true role that the state capitol has in proposing toll-roads to Texans.
VANAJA	35mm	RAJNESH DOMALPALLI	INDIA	Sun 04/22 - 9:30pm Mon 04/23 - 9:30pm
	An innocent flirtation between a fisherman’s daughter and the landlady’s son threatens to unravel the local social structure in rural southern India.
Remi Award Winning Short Film / Digital Projection Programs (16 shows)			Sat 04/21& Sun 04/22, Sat 04/28 & Sun 04/29
VINETA: THE SECRET PROJECT	35mm	FRANZISKA STÜNKEL	GERMANY	Fri 04/27 - 5:00pm Sat 04/28 - 1:00pm
	Six men meet to design the perfect futuristic city, but their leader leaves them in the dark about his true intentions.

THE WAITER	Digital	JASON KONOPISOS	TEXAS	Sun 04/22 - 7:15m
	An earlier short experimental film led to this discussion of several large corporate legal cases and their underlying stories.
THE WHISPERERS	35mm	RAJEEV MAROJ VIRANI	INDIA / USA	Fri 04/27 7:15pm Sun 04/29 - 5:00pm
	An aggressive young stock-trader has fought his way up from poverty to become the KING OF BOMBAY but what has it truly cost him along the way?
WHOLETRAIN	35mm	FLORIAN GAAG	GERMANY	Sat 04/21 - 9:30pm Mon 04/23 - 9:30pm
	Four graffiti writers, the KSB crew, fight for fame and respect at any price in modern day Germany.
URANYA	35mm	COSTAS KAPAKAS	GREECE	Sat 04/21 - 3:00pm Sun 04/22 - 1:00pm
	Coming of age - In a small village in Greece, summer of 1969, 5 teenagers discover love and the world at large. Obsessed in securing a television to be able to watch the imminent launching of Apollo to the moon, they soon have another dilemma.
THE WONDER OF IT ALL	Digital	JEFFREY ROTH	CALIFORNIA	Sat 04/28 - 5:00pm
	Focusing on the rarely told human side of the men behind the Apollo missions expressed through thoughtful and candid accounts from seven of the surviving 12 Moonwalkers. Some of the Astronauts will attend the Premiere.
PANDORA	35mm	GEORGE STAMBOULOPOULOS	GREECE	Tues 04/24 - 7:15pm Thur 04/26 - 9:30pm

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