THE LAST CAMPAIGN
Director: Wayne Ewing
Producer: Wayne Ewing
35 mm 108 min. USA

The Last Campaign, a sequel to Ewing’s legendary 1972 film, If Elected... , covers the 2004 campaign for the re-election of Justice Warren McGraw to the West Virginia Supreme Court, considered the "nastiest" judicial race, if not the most expensive, in the nation. Scenes from If Elected..., which followed McGraw’s 1972 race for the West Virginia State Senate, are interspersed with the story of his 2004 Supreme Court race to create a unique, cinéma vérité portrait of American politics over a 32-year span.

PROGRAM B

BALLETS RUSSES
Directors: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Producers: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine, Robert Hawk, Douglas Blair Turnbaugh
35mm 118 min. USA
Zeitgeist Films

A rich tapestry woven from a treasure trove of archival gems and new vérité footage forms the backbone of this entrancing ode to the revolutionary 20th century dance companies collectively known as the Ballets Russes. The film traces the Ballets Russes' Diaghilev-era beginnings in turn-of-the-century Paris (when artists such as Nijinsky, Balanchine, Picasso, Matisse and Stravinsky united in an unparalleled collaboration) through the halcyon days of the 1930s and '40s (when the Ballets Russes toured America, astonishing audiences schooled in vaudeville with artistry never before seen) to its demise in the 1950s and '60s (when rising costs, rocketing egos, outside competition and internal mismanagement ultimately brought the last of the revered Ballets Russes companies to its knees).

PROGRAM C

TOUCH THE SOUND
Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer
Producers: Stefan Tolz, Leslie Hills, Trevor Davies
35 mm 99 min. USA/UK/Japan
Shadow Distribution

This new film from the director of Rivers and Tides-Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time is a mesmerizing exploration of the connections between sound, rhythm, time and the body. Nearly deaf, acclaimed percussionist Evelyn Glennie claims her entire body can hear. Her performances are mixed with beautiful photography, capturing the rhythms of everyday surroundings.

PROGRAM D

THE REAL DIRT ON FARMER JOHN
Director: Taggart Siegel
Producers: Teri Lang, Taggart Siegel
35mm 83 min. USA/Mexico
Collective Eye/Films Transit International, Inc.

The Real Dirt on Farmer John is the epic tale of a maverick Midwestern farmer. Branded a pariah in his community, Farmer John bravely transforms his farm amidst a failing economy, vicious rumors and arson. He succeeds in creating a bastion of free expression and a revolutionary form of agriculture in rural America.

PROGRAM E

I LIKE KILLING FLIES
Director: Matt Mahurin
Producer: Matt Mahurin
35mm 80 min. USA
THINKFilm

With over 900 items on the menu, all conjured up from scratch in a Rube Goldberg kitchen the size of a walk-in closet, Kenny Shopsin, a self-taught chef in his tiny, family-owned, New York City-based restaurant, spends his days feeding his neighbors. And when there is a lull in the cooking, Kenny steps out from behind his Frankenstein stove and holds court, serving up morsels of wisdom and wit on life, death, sex, politics and even food. But after 32 years in the same sheltered workshop, the lease is lost and the family must now find a new place for Kenny to cook.

PROGRAM F

DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE
Director: Hubert Sauper
Producers: Edouard Mauriat, Antonin Svoboda, Martin Gschlacht, Hubert Toint, Hubert Sauper
35mm 107 min Tanzania
International Film Circuit Inc.

Sometime in the 1960s in the heart of Africa, a new animal was introduced into Lake Victoria as a little scientific experiment. The Nile Perch, a voracious predator, extinguished almost the entire stock of the native fish species. However, the new fish multiplied so fast that its white fillets are today exported around the world. Huge, hulking ex-Soviet cargo planes come daily to collect the largest catch in exchange for their southbound cargo-Kalashnikovs and ammunition. This booming multinational industry has created an ungodly globalized alliance: an army of local fisherman, World Bank agents, homeless children, Indian factory owners, African ministers, EU commissioners, Tanzanian prostitutes and Russian pilots.

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LOST CHILDREN
Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi, Oliver Stoltz
Producer: Oliver Stoltz
35mm 98 min. Uganda
Telepool GmbH

For over 18 years a civil war in northern Uganda has dragged on almost completely unnoticed by the rest of the world. The rebels of the LRA ( Lord's Resistance Army) are waging a bloody guerilla campaign. They abduct children and conscript them as soldiers, forcing them to kill their own people. Lost Children documents the lives of four children, from 8 to 14 years old, who successfully escaped the LRA. They return home to be branded as killers.

PROGRAM H

OCCUPATION: DREAMLAND
Directors: Garrett Scott, Ian Olds
Producers: Selina Lewis Davidson, Nancy Roth, Garrett Scott
35mm 79 min. Iraq
Rumur Releasing

Occupation: Dreamland is an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of the US Army's 82nd Airborne deployed in the doomed Iraqi city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the squad unfolds as they cope with an environment of low-intensity conflict and confusion creeping steadily towards catastrophe. The result is a revealing, sometimes surprising look at Army life, operations and the complexity of American war in the 21st century.

39 POUNDS OF LOVE
Director: Dani Menkin
Producers: Dani Menkin, Daniel J. Chalfen
35mm 74 min. Israel/USA

Ami weighs 39 pounds, due to a rare form of muscular dystrophy. At birth, his doctor insisted that Ami won't live past the age of six. At the age of 34, Ami now lives in Israel and works as a 3-D animator. He can't move any part of his body except for the one finger he uses to work his animation. But that doesn't stop him from living his life. In fact, it encourages him, and all those around him, to live their lives more fully.

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PROTOCOLS OF ZION
Director: Marc Levin
Producers: Marc Levin, Steve Kalafer
35mm 95 min. USA
THINKFilm/HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films

Despite all the evidence, millions around the world continue to blame the Jews for 9/11. This belief is a modern-day incarnation of the infamous The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the century-old forgery that some people claimed to be the Jews' master plan to rule the world. Filmmaker Marc Levin sets out to understand why The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has been revived, and to challenge one of the most persistent, insidious conspiracy theories of all time. In the course of his explosive journey, Levin finds himself delving into the heart of hate, facing those who would traffic in bigotry, all in the name of God.

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WHO GETS TO CALL IT ART?
Director: Peter Rosen
Producer: Peter Rosen
35mm 80 min. USA

Who Gets to Call It Art? documents the downtown New York pop art scene in the 1960s, as seen through the eyes of legendary Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Henry Geldzahler. Featuring some of the artists who created the first American art style-Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, Larry Poons, David Hockney, Mark Di Suvero and others-this film is a wild ride through a politically incorrect and outrageous era.

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FAMILY PORTRAIT
Director: Patricia Riggen
Producers: Patricia Riggen, Alvaro Donado
35mm 28 min. USA
PR Films

In 1968 Gordon Parks wrote an article for Life magazine on race and poverty in the United States. For his story, Parks photographed the Fontenelle family, a disenfranchised African-American family of 12 living in extreme poverty in a small Harlem apartment. The public's response to the photo essay was so great that Parks worked with Life to purchase the family a home on Long Island. Through interviews with Parks and Richard Fontanelle and Diana Nash-the only surviving family members-we meet two survivors who have struggled confronting the social obstacles of racism, poverty, addiction and AIDS-problems that have ravaged Black communities nationwide.

GOD SLEEPS IN RWANDA
Directors: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
Producers: Kimberlee Acquaro, Stacy Sherman
35mm 28 min. Rwanda

The 1994 Rwandan genocide left the country nearly 70 percent female, handing Rwanda's women an extraordinary burden and an unprecedented opportunity. An inspiring story of loss and redemption, God Sleeps in Rwanda focuses on the spirit of women survivors to overcome the genocide's legacy of grief and loss. The film follows five courageous women as they rebuild their lives and, in doing so, redefine women's roles in Rwandan society and bring hope to a wounded nation.

POSITIVELY NAKED
Directors: Arlene Donnelly Nelson, David Nelson
Producers: Arlene Donnelly Nelson, David Nelson, Helen Hood Scheer
35mm 38 min. USA
HBO/Cinemax Documentary Films

When artist Spencer Tunick photographs one of his nude installations for POZ magazine's 10th anniversary issue, 85 HIV+ people pose in order to celebrate survival, combat stigma and bare it all. A diverse group of participants share their stories, creating an unsentimental portrait of life with AIDS in America today.

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FROZEN ANGELS
Director: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig
Producers: Eric Black, Frauke Sandig
35mm 93 min. USA
First Hand Films with ZDF, ITVS, France 2, YLE

Frozen Angels investigates the "future" as it exists today in Los Angeles through the personal stories of wealthy sperm bank presidents, expectant surrogate mothers, gene researchers, controversial radio talk show hosts, infertile suburban couples, almost adult designer babies, blonde and blue-eyed egg donors and feminist lawyers. The promise of perfect children has been added to the shopping list of the American Dream. And why not? With the potential to screen for over 2,000 genetic diseases coming on line in the immediate future, who would risk having imperfect children the old-fashioned way?