ADRIFT (dir. Tom Curran, USA)
Revisiting his family's past in Alaska and Cape Cod, Tom Curran provides a first person account of loss in an Irish-American family. When the four Curran children lost their father, Tom was twelve-years-old. Now, more that twenty years later, he examines how his father has influenced the lives and attitudes of himself and his siblings in adulthood.

ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (dir. Terry Gilliam, UK)
Terry Gilliam's masterpiece will be presented by guest host, Colleen Haskell. The Bethesda native and contestant from the first season of "Survivor" was dubbed "America's Sweetheart" by Bryant Gumbel and later co-starred with Rob Schneider in THE ANIMAL.

AMERICANOS (dir. Paul Callahan, USA)
A man in his twenties who lives with his mother and spends most of his time at the local bar gets wrapped up in a Cuban cigar smuggling scheme with his wealthy lawyer friend. The cinema verite style and naturalistic performances give a glimpse of Cuba not often seen on film.

BEEF (dir. Jon Baskin, USA)
Four female poets got together with four male musicians in a recording studio to put their poetry to music. This documentary follows the women, examining their poetry and their lives, culminating in the footage of the recording session.

BIG TIME (dir. Chris Blum, USA)
Chris Blum's 1988 concert film/music video documenting Tom Waits' "Frank's Wild Years" tour.

BLUE VINYL (dir. Judith Helfand and Daniel B. Gold, USA)
When her parents affixed vinyl siding to their home, Judith Helfand set out to learn more about this seemingly harmless plastic. Together with co-director Daniel Gold, she examined the environmental and health impact of vinyl production.

BODY DROP ASPHALT (dir. Junko Wada, Japan)
In this avant-garde digital film, Eri, a young Japanese woman wanders the city in existential angst until she decides to write a novel on a whim. When the novel becomes a best seller, launching Eri into the cultural elite, she becomes disillusioned. As she takes her frustrations out on the lead character in her novel, the boundaries between her real life and her fiction become blurred.

THE BOXER (dir. Jim Sheridan, USA and Ireland)
Jim Sheridan's film from 1997 stars Daniel Day-Lewis as Danny Flynn, a promising boxer who was imprisoned at the age of 18 for his association with IRA terrorists. Returning home after serving a 14-year sentence, he finds himself in the middle of political turmoil, while also dealing with his former girlfriend (played by Emily Watson) who has married another man during Danny's absence. The film will be hosted by Terrence Rafferty, critic at large for GQ magazine, whose work has also appeared in Sight and Sound, The Atlantic, Village Voice, The Nation, the New York Times, and the New Yorker, where he was a staff member for ten years.

CITIZEN KANE (dir. Orson Welles, USA)
Journalist Robert Novak hosts the classic film that has often been cited as the greatest film ever made.

CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES (dir. Eric Byler, USA)
Michael is a Japanese-American auto mechanic who is secretly in love with Lori, a Chinese-American woman who rents part of Michael's house. Michael tries to maintain a friendship, but Lori's boyfriend often spends the night, making it difficult. Then, Michael meets Darcy, a mysterious woman who disrupts his habitual existence.

CLAIRE (dir. Milford Thomas, USA)
Sunday, May 5, 11 AM, Charles Theatre
A brand new silent film, shot with an antique, hand-cranked, 35mm, silent movie camera. The film is based on a Japanese folk tale about a couple who finds a little girl in an ear of corn and raises her as their own. Atlanta filmmaker, Milford Thomas, has reset the story in the American South of the early 1900's. An original musical score will be performed live by the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the composer, Anne Richardson.

CON MAN (dir. Jesse Moss, USA)
While in his thirties, James Hogue conned his way into Princeton by posing as an eighteen-year-old self-educated orphan. He fooled Princeton for two years before his true identity was discovered, and it was learned that he had a long criminal record and had performed a similar fraud before. This documentary traces the life of Hogue as it attempts to comprehend his pathological need to re-invent himself.

CYBERMAN (dir. Peter Lynch, Canada)
A documentary about Steve Mann, a self-professed cyborg, who modifies computer components so that he can wear them at all times. He wears an "eye-tap" that feeds to his website so that visitors can "be me rather than see me", and questions the boundaries between public and private space, between body and machine.

DADDY AND PAPA (dir. Johnny Symons, USA)
A documentary that takes a personal look at the hot button issue of the adoption of children by gay men. When the director and his partner begin to consider whether they want to adopt a child, they begin by looking at other gay men who have adopted children. The film then follows the couple through the adoption procedure, covering their personal story while touching on issues such as Florida's controversial law against gay adoption.

DESIGN (dir. Davidson Cole, USA)
Mixing compelling drama and dark comedy, DESIGN received great notice at Sundance as part of the American Spectrum series. The film follows three storylines that intersect over one evening in a series of predestined encounters and bizarre circumstances, exploring the mysterious governing power of fate as the ensemble cast grapples with the reality that their lives are beyond their control.

THE DOGWALKER (dir. Jacques Thelemaque, USA)
Ellie is a young woman on the run from an abusive relationship who meets Betsy, an ailing, older woman who runs a dog walking business. Ellie is broke and desperate, and Betsy needs help with her business, so the two strike up a sometimes contentious relationship out of necessity at first as they attempt to find common ground.

EASY LISTENING (dir. Pamela Corkey, USA)
It's 1967, and Burt is the top trumpet player in an easy listening orchestra, despite his preference for jazz. Enter Linda, the orchestra's fresh-faced flautist, who takes it upon herself to teach Burt that his soul is square. EASY LISTENING is a charming throwback to the days when sweet, feel-good movies and music were not so unusual.

THE EXECUTION OF WANDA JEAN (dir. Liz Garbus, USA)
HBO sent a documentary film crew to Oklahoma to record the last part of the appeal process for a woman on death row for killing her female lover. Guilt was not an issue, and Wanda Jean had already served serious jail time for killing another woman. By participating in this final stage of the appeal process, the filmmaker takes the audience inside the capital punishment debate and lets us experience from multiple angles. Rory Kennedy (MFF 1999's American Hollow) is Garbus' partner in Moxie Firecracker Films, and is a producer on the movie.

FIVE YEARS (dir. Brett Wagner, USA)
Renee and Eric are a young married couple whose perfect life is upset when the Eric's younger brother, just out of juvenile prison after serving five years for murder, comes to live with them. The family dynamic is further strained as they confront what happened five years before.

Fluid Movement Program (BetaSP) 26 minutes
MERMAIDS OF BROOKLYN (dir. Maddy Lederman, Brooklyn, NY) (2 minutes) BetaSP
FLUID MOVEMENT (dir. Beth Pacunas, Stillwater, MN) (24 minutes) BetaSP

FREESTYLE: THE ART OF RHYME (dir. Kevin Fitzgerald, USA)
Seven years in the making, FREESTYLE is a documentary that examines the living art of spontaneous rhyming "freestyle" MC's in the world of underground hip-hop music.

FUEGO (dir. Armando Bo, Argentina)
"She's a woman on fire!" exclaims the tagline for this Kitsch Klassic from 1969 chosen by John Waters to present at this year's festival. Director Bo stars with his real-life lover and Miss Argentina 1955, Isabel Sarli, who plays a woman who can't control her constant sexual urges. When she falls in love and marries she seeks medical attention to cure her nymphomaniac ways.

A HEAD OF TIME, AHEAD OF TIME (dir. Richard T. Slade, USA)
A documentary about Hank Levy, the late great jazz composer and Towson State University band director, whose revolutionary use of exotic time signatures made him famous thanks to the recordings of jazz masters Don Ellis and Stan Kenton.

THE HOLY LAND (dir. Eitan Gorlin, Israel)
Mendy is a young rabbinical student who is instructed by his rabbi to visit Tel Aviv and get his distractions out of his system. It is there that Mendy falls in love with Sacha, a prostitute who's mixed up with a group of religious terrorists. A film about "God, war and prostitution" from Silver Spring, MD native / Israel transplant, Eitan Gorlin.

HOUSE OF WAX (IN 3D) (dir. Andre De Toth, USA)
Presented in two-projector 3D, this classic horror film from 1953 stars Vincent Price as the curator of a wax museum who has his own special method to make his wax figures look so real. The screening will be hosted by Baltimore Sun film critic, Chris Kaltenbach.

HOW TO DRAW A BUNNY (dir. John Walter, USA)
A documentary about Ray Johnson, "the most famous unknown artist in the world." One of the seminal figures of the Pop Art era, Johnson's life up to and including his death, which may have been his "greatest work."

KAATERSKILL FALLS (dir. Josh Apter and Peter Olsen, USA)
A young urban couple on vacation in the Catskills pick up and befriend a mysterious hitchhiker. As they spend the weekend with him, their marriage begins to crumble in this character driven thriller.

KALI'S VIBE (dir. Shari Carpenter, USA)
Kali works as a social worker and lives with her girlfriend, Crystal. When Crystal's infidelities become too much to handle, Kali throws her out and begins to question her ideas about romantic relationships. Things are further complicated when Kali is pursued by a male coworker who has become smitten with her.

THE LAST SEASON: THE LIFE AND DEMOLITION OF MEMORIAL STADIUM (dir. Charles Cohen and Joseph Mathew)
This work in progress documentary chronicles the stadium that became known as "the world's largest outdoor insane asylum." While covering the fight to save the stadium, which was built as a war memorial, the special place it holds in the hearts of Baltimoreans is presented.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS (dir. Przemek Wojcieszek, Poland)
A young car mechanic from South Poland deals with his father's death, as well as his girlfriend's preparations to attend school in the US. On top of that, relatives are coming from all over the country to attend the funeral, so Marcin must devote his time to being a host, instead of dealing with his own problems.

LOVE, JOSH (dir. Susan Hadary and William Whiteford, USA)
The Academy Award winning directors of King Gimp followed fifteen-year-old Josh for the year after his father's death from liver cancer, providing a chronicle of one teenager's dealing with loss.

MY BRILLIANT CAREER (dir. Gillian Armstrong, Australia)
Gillian Armstrong's classic adaptation of the Miles Franklin, among other things, introduced actress Judy Davis to American audiences. This screening will be hosted by Baltimore City District Court Judge, Catherine O'Malley.

MY FATHER THE GENIUS (dir. Lucia Small, USA)
Filmmaker, Lucia Small, bequeathed with the task of writing her father's biography, instead made this documentary about him. Glen Small has dedicated his life to "saving the world through architecture". At 31, he was a rising star, but at 61, he has barely escaped financial ruin. An irreverent documentary examining the personal and professional life of a genius who has never been given the credit he deserves.

NEVER MIND THE WALL (dir. Connie Walther, Germany)
Set among the punk rock movement of 1982 Berlin, NEVER MIND THE WALL is the love story of Nele and Captain, two teenage lovers from opposite sides of the Berlin Wall. Their friends and families are against their relationship, but the biggest threat comes from the Stasi (Secret Service) who are intent on squashing the subversive punk rock movement.

THE 95TH (dir. Davidson Cole, USA)
This documentary film follows the men of the U.S. Army's WWII 95th Infantry Division, who fought under the command of General George S. Patton and liberated the stronghold of Mertz, France from Nazi occupation. The film includes interviews with the soldiers and follows them on their emotional return fifty-five years later to the site of their pivotal victory.

THE SEASON: CAL RIPKEN (dir. Mitchell Scherr, USA)
When ESPN and MLB decided to follow Cal Ripken, Jr. with cameras to document the 2001 baseball season, they did not know that it would be his final season. When Cal decided that he would retire at the end of the season, the film become not only about one of the greatest baseball players of all time, but also about the transition made as his playing days came to a close.

SISTER HELEN (dir. Rob Fruchtman and Rebecca Cammisa, USA)
Helen was in her sixties. Her husband had died, and one of her sons was brutally murdered. She was a drunk. So Helen decided to sober up and become a Benedectine nun. This remarkable film takes us to the South Bronx where Sister Helen has set up a private home for recovering men addicted to various substances.

SOFT FOR DIGGING (dir. J.T. Petty, USA)
Virgil Manoven is an elderly man who lives alone in a cabin in the woods. One day, while searching for his runaway cat, he believes he witnesses the murder of a young girl. Though the police can find no evidence of any crime, Virgil remains obsessed as he tries to solve the mystery. Shot in the woods of Maryland on a tiny budget, using creative sound design, an intense score, and minimal dialogue, director Petty crafts a haunting mystery of tension and terror.

STANDARD TIME (dir. Robert Cary, USA)
Billie Golden fantasizes about being a cabaret singer in glamorous nightclubs, though these fantasies are dashed daily by the reality that she sings in a third rate lounge and lives in a dilapidated row house with her widow mother. When two men enter her life, one a successful lawyer, the other a bohemian musician, she must choose between following her dreams or a secure, comfortable life.

SUNDANCE 20 (dir. Doug Pray, USA)
Before the film festival, before the catalogue, long before the special Oscar, Robert Redford started the Sundance Labs to help new filmmakers develop their film projects away from studio pressure and with the comfort and guidance of established filmmakers. The list of filmmakers to emerge from this process is extraordinary: Tarantino, both Andersons, John Cameron Mitchell, to name a few. This is the first chronicle of the Sundance Labs, and Doug Pray and filmmakers from the 2001 Labs will attend the screening at the Festival.

SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAAD ASSSSS SONG (dir. Melvin Van Peebles, USA)
Melvin Van Peeble's controversial landmark film from 1971 was financed, shot, and distributed independently. Though it was "rated X by an all white jury," it became a huge hit and is often credited with launching the blaxploitation genre. The film will be hosted by Julian Bond, the Chairman of the Board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a Distinguished Professor at American University in Washington, DC, and a Professor in history at the University of Virginia.

TALKING TO STRANGERS (dir. Rob Tregenza, USA)
Rarely shown on the big screen, Rob Tregenza's ground-breaking film from 1988 follows Jesse, a young would-be artist as he travels through the city of Baltimore, encountering strangers along the way. Jesse's travels are presented as a series of ten-minute single shot segments, each done in one take. Baltimore music fans might take note that the late Stoc Marcut (from 80s Baltimore hardcore punk band, Fear of God) makes an appearance in this film.

TOO SOON FOR SORRY (dir. Katharina Weingartner, Germany)
On Valentine's Day 2000, the U.S. prison population reached two million; 70% of the inmates are African-Americans and Latinos. This documentary is based on portrait of young African-Americans and Latinos at four different prisons across the U.S. The film employs an urban musical aesthetic, while it examines political and socio-economic connections as well as personal stories.

WHAT MATTERS MOST (dir. Jane Cusumano, USA)
After putting her breast cancer into remission, Jane Cusumano decided to forge ahead with directing her screenplay for WHAT MATTERS MOST, only to learn a week prior to production that the disease had returned and metastasized. She received her chemotherapy treatments during production, and was able to fulfill her lifelong dream of finishing the film before passing away. The film is a modern day Romeo & Juliet tale set in a small West Texas border town, as Lucas, the son of the wealthiest man in town, falls in love with Heather, who comes from much more modest social and financial standing. This creates conflict against his father's wishes that he marry the "right girl" and take over the family cattle business. The film will be presented by Polly Cusumano, daughter of Jane and the star of the film.

WOMEN: THE FORGOTTEN FACE OF WAR (dir. Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdattir)
The award-winning directors of THE BRANDON TEENA STORY traveled to Kosovo during the aftermath of the civil war in Serbia. Interviews with women who bore witness to the tragic events gives record to the horrendous mistreatment of civilians during the war.

Animated Shorts Program (35mm, 16mm, BetaSP, VHS) 87 minutes
BOOBIE GIRL (dir. Brooke Keesling, Studio City, CA) (5 minutes) 35mm
DRINK (dir. Pat Smith, NY, NY) (5 minutes) 35mm
LINT PEOPLE (dir. Helder K. Sun, LA, CA) (8 minutes) 35mm
VESSEL WRESTLING (dir. Lisa Yu, LA, CA) (13 minutes) 16mm
THE HUNGER ARTIST (dir. Tom Gibbons, Oakland, CA) (16 minutes) 16mm
DEAD KITTY (dir. Rachel Max, Washington, DC) (3.5 minutes) BetaSP
DRUNKY (dir. Aaron Augenblick, Brooklyn, NY) (3 minutes) BetaSP
NESTING SEASON (dir. Paula Durette, Baltimore, MD) (2.5 minutes) BetaSP
SWEET KISS OF GRAVITY (dir. Jill Johnston-Price & Alan Price, Baltimore, MD) (22 minutes) BetaSP
VINCENT'S POCKET (dir. Brinton Jaecks, Baltimore, MD) (5 minutes) BetaSP
LADIES TEA (dir. Paula Durette, Baltimore, MD) (2.5 minutes) BetaSP
PARTHENOGENISIS (dir. Marina Zurkow, NY, NY) (1.5 minutes) VHS

Avant-Garde Shorts Program (35mm, 16mm, BetaSP) 69 minutes
PASSAGE (dir. Chel White, Portland, OR) (11 minutes) 35mm
EXPOSED (dir. Seigfried A. Fruhauf, Austria) (9 minutes) 16mm
PLAIN ENGLISH (dir. John Standiford, Baltimore, MD) (9 minutes) 16mm
SOUNDINGS (dir. Sandra Gibson, NY, NY) (5.5 minutes) 16mm
NO SUNSHINE (dir. Bjorn Mehus, Germany) (6.5 minutes) BetaSP
YA PRIVATE SKY (dir. Stom Sogo, SF, CA) (3 minutes) BetaSP
KEN BURNS GIVE YOU SOMETHING (dir. Kent Lambert, Chicago, IL) (4 minutes) BetaSP
SILVER PLAY (dir. Stom Sogo, SF, CA) (15 minutes) BetaSP
A BOY AND HIS BREAKFAST (dir. Kent Lambert & Mark Wright, Chicago, IL) (6 minutes) VHS

Black Maria Touring Film Festival of Shorts (35mm, 16mm, BetaSP) 92 minutes
1000 MARYS (dir. Christina Gruppuso, Seekonk, MA) (3 minutes) 35mm
COPYSHOP (dir. Virgil Widrich, Austria) (12 minutes) 35mm
COUNTERFIT FILM (dir. Brett Simon, Oakland, CA) (3 minutes) 35mm
DREAM WORK (dir. Peter Tscherkassky, Austria) (12 minutes) 35mm
STRANGE INVADERS (dir. Corell Barker, Canada) (8.5 minutes) 35mm
FEAR OF BLUSHING (dir. Jennifer Reeves, Brooklyn, NY) (6 minutes) 16mm
NUCLEAR FAMILY (dir. Dana Plays, LA, CA) (22 minutes) 16mm
OR CLOUD (dir. Fred Worden, Silver Spring, MD) (10 minutes) 16mm
SUBCONSCIOUS ART OF GRAFFITI REMOVAL (dir. Matt McCormick, Portland, OR) (16 minutes) BetaSP

Comedy Shorts Program (Beta SP) 100 minutes
HILLBILLY ROBOT (dir. Todd Rohal, Alexandria, VA) (23 minutes) BetaSP
LEARN TO SPEAK BODY - TAPE 5 (dir. Mitchell Rose, Hollywood, CA) (6.5 minutes) BetaSP
CASE STUDIES FROM THE GROAT CENTER FOR SLEEP DISORDERS (dir. Mitchell Rose, Hollywood, CA) (6.5 minutes) BetaSP
MEDIA WHORE (dir. Karl Hirsch, LA, CA) (9 minutes) BetaSP
ZEN & THE ART OF LANDSCAPING (dir. David Kartch, SF, CA) (17 minutes) BetaSP
ZILCH (dir. Mickey Strider, Richmond, VA) (7 minutes) BetaSP
HISTORY OF CHOKING (WITH ERICK ESTRADA) (dir. Abel Klainbaum, Miami Beach, FL) (30 minutes) BetaSP

Shorts 1 (16mm, BetaSP, VHS) 105 minutes
INSIDE TRIP (dir. John Giura, NY, NY) (20 minutes) 16mm
MEAN PEOPLE SUCK (dir. Matthew Cole Weiss, Langhorne, PA) (8 minutes) 16mm
SLITCH (dir. Diane Bellino, Baltimore, MD) (24 minutes) 16mm
SOULMATE (dir. Chel White, Portland, OR) (14 minutes) 16mm
HERE AND THERE (dir. Josh Slates, Baltimore, MD) (7 minutes) 16mm
EPIPHANY (dir. Jim Hunter, Atlanta, GA) (12 minutes) BetaSP
GIVEN FISH (dir. Tim Vasen & Melissa James Gibson, Baltimore, MD) (20 minutes) VHS

Shorts 2 (35mm) 69 minutes
EYEBALL EDDIE (dir. Elizabeth Allen, LA, CA) (28.5 minutes) 35mm
PAPERBOYS (dir. Mike Mills) (40 minutes) 35mm

Shorts 3 (was Narrative Shorts) (35mm) 74 minutes
FATER (dir. Danny Meltzer, Brooklyn, NY) (21 minutes) 35mm
BORN LOSER (dir. Stan Mendoza, NY, NY) (22 minutes) 35mm
AFRO DEUTSCH (dir. Ayassi, Germany) (13 minutes) 35mm
BURN (dir. Reynold Reynolds & Patrick Jolley, NY, NY) (6 minutes) 35mm
TIME OUT (dir. Robbie Chafitz, NY, NY) (7.5 minutes) 35mm
DIRT (dir. Chel White, Portland, OR) (4 minutes) 35mm

Slamdance Shorts Program (35mm, BetaSP) 83 minutes
ANY CREATURE (dir. Patrick Duaghters, NY, NY) (10 minutes) 35mm
OPEN HOUSE (dir. Dan Mirvish, LA, CA) (5.5 minutes) 35mm
CANDY MONEY (dir. Chris Strother, LA, CA) (10 minutes) BetaSP
HOME (dir. Paul Rachman, NY, NY) (5 minutes) BetaSP
LURCH (dir. Boris Hars-Tschachotin, Germany) (20 minutes) BetaSP
THE MAN WITH THE DV CAM (dir. Justin Adam & Mike Hawley, Canada) (10 minutes) BetaSP
PEDRO + TONY? (dir. Don Thomas, SF, CA) (19 minutes) BetaSP
PROJECT REDLIGHT (dir. Robert Peters, LA, CA) (9 minutes) BetaSP
And a surprise short video. (4 minutes) VHS

showing w/TOO SOON FOR SORRY
MILK & HONEY (dir. Niva Dorell) (22 minutes) 35mm