Movie Blog: Full List Of MSPIFF Titles Released
The words that I wrote last year still ring true, and thankfully earlier than usual this year: "There are few things sweeter than the sight of grass peeking through the snow after a long, hard winter season. But the opportunity to see new movies from world-class auteurs and local up-and-comers alike is among those things."
The (nearly) full list of titles for the 2014 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, which runs from April 3 through April 19, has just been released. You can see the full slate below.
This year's festival lineup represents more than 60 countries and also boasts three new festival partnerships with Northrup Auditorium's new Best Buy Theater, the Walker Art Center, and the MSP International Airport and the Airport Foundation. As with recent years, all five screens at the St. Anthony Main Theater will be devoted to the festival.
The opening night selection hasn't been announced just yet, as the Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul is still in negotiations for that berth. However, it has been announced the closing night selection will be The Skeleton Twins, directed by Craig Johnson and starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as twins who live on opposite sides of the country until a reunion forces them to reevaluate their lives.
In addition to the usual festival programs covering documentaries, world cinema, American independents, Minnesota originals, and grungy late night offerings, there will also be festival spotlights on Latino cinema, food-centric fare, and "Brave Now World," about the ways digital communication has changed our way of life.
Additionally, there are new films from a number of auteurs who should be familiar indeed with anyone following international cinema, including Jean-Luc Godard and Peter Greenaway (with their 3-D triptych collaboration with Edgar Pêra), Jafar Panahi, Diane Kurys, Hong Sang-soo, Tsai Ming-Liang, Claude Lanzmann, Michael Winterbottom, Xavier Dolan, Tsui Hark, and François Ozon.
Click here for more information about the festival.
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| Title | Director(s) |
| 3X3D | Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, Edgar Pêra |
| 1,000 Time Goodnight | Erik Poppe |
| A Better Life | Conor Holt |
| A Wolf at the Door | Fernando Coimbra |
| A Year in Champagne | David Kennard |
| Above All Else | John Fiege |
| Aftermath | Wladyslaw Pasikowski |
| Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq | Nancy Buirski |
| Alive Inside: A Story of Music & Memory | Michael Rossato-Bennett |
| All About the Feathers | Neto Villalobos |
| American Arab | Usma Alshaibi |
| An Arctic Space Odyssey | Lars Einar Skageberg |
| Antboy | Ask Hasselbalch |
| App | Bobby Boermans |
| Before Snowfall | Hisham Zaman |
| Bends | Flora Lau |
| Bicycling With Molière | Philippe Le Guay |
| Borgman | Alex van Warmerdam |
| Breathe In | Drake Doremus |
| Brooklyn Farmer | Michael Tyburski |
| Bryce's Story | Jeremy Ryan Carr |
| Burt's Buzz | Jody Shapiro |
| Buzzard | Joel Potrykus |
| Cannibal | Manuel Martín Cuenca |
| Cats are Warm Blooded | Ethan Kruszka, Shawn Cheatham |
| Cavedigger | Jeffrey Karoff |
| Cesar's Grill | Dario Aguirre |
| Cesar's Last Fast | Richard Ray Perez, Lorena Parlee |
| Class Enemy | Rok Bicek |
| Closed Curtain | Jafar Panahi, Kambuzia Partovi |
| Club Sandwich | Fernando Eimbcke |
| Clutch | Geoffrey George |
| Coherence | James Ward Byrkit |
| Concrete Night | Pirjo Honkasalo |
| Congress, The | Ari Folman |
| Cowpokes Livin' on the Edge | John Akre |
| Cyber-Seniors | Saffron Cassaday |
| Dangerous Acts Starring the Unstable Elements of Belarus | Madeleine Sackler |
| Death to Prom | Matthew Stenerson |
| Despite the Gods | Penny Vozniak |
| Distance | Aimee Long |
| Dom Hemingway | Richard Shepard |
| Domina | Justin Staggs |
| Eskil & Trinidad | Stephan Apelgren |
| Faith Connections | Pan Nalin |
| Final Recipe | Gina Kim |
| Food for Love | Marianna Economou |
| For A Woman | Diane Kurys |
| For No Good Reason | Charlie Paul |
| Forgotten, Kingdom, The | Andrew Mudge |
| Forward | Dustin Harminc |
| Four Ways to Die in My Hometown | Chai Chunya |
| Gabrielle | Louisse Archambault |
| Gangs of Wasseypur 1 | Anurag Kashyap |
| Gangs of Wasseypur 2 | Anurag Kashyap |
| Giselle | Toa Fraser |
| Go Home | Brittany Gustafson |
| Google and the World Brain | Ben Lewis |
| Habi, The Foreigner | Maria Florencia Alvarez |
| Hairy Who & the Chicago Imagists | Leslie Buchbinder |
| Half of a Yellow Sun | Biyi Bandele |
| Handful of Dust | Hope Tucker |
| Harmony Lessons | Emir Baigazin |
| Heli | Amat Escalante |
| Horizon Beautiful | Stefan Jäger |
| Hotell | Lisa Langseth |
| How to Disappear Completely | Raya Martin |
| Hunting Elephants | Reshef Levi |
| I Thought It Was a Party | Victoria Galardi |
| ILO ILO | Anthony Chen |
| InRealLife | Beeban Kidron |
| Intruders | Noh Young-Seok |
| Jadoo | Amit Gupta |
| Joe | David Gordon Green |
| Jouir De La Vie | Cole Seidl |
| Jungle Encounters | Bain Boehlke |
| Just a Sigh | Jérôme Bonnell |
| Karaoke Girl | Visra Vichit-Vadakan |
| Killing Happy | David Brandvik |
| Land of Hope | Sion Sono |
| Land of Storms | Ádám Császi |
| Le Chef | Daniel Cohen |
| Letter to Momo | Hiroyuki Okiura |
| Living Is Easy With Eyes Closed | David Trubeca |
| Liz Miller | Mark Wojahn |
| Locke | Steven Knight |
| Longing For the Rain | Tian-yi Yang |
| Look Box | Josiah Patrow |
| Looms | Funk Brothers |
| Love and Lemons | Teresa Fabik |
| Lucid Therapy | Ryan Thielen |
| Make Hummus Not War | Trevor Graham |
| Manakamana | Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez |
| Marina | Stijn Coninx |
| Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy | Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit |
| Me Too | Aleksei Balabanov |
| Metro Manila | Sean Ellis |
| Midsummer Night's Tango | Viviane Blumenschein |
| Monk With a Camera | Vishwanath Alluri, Tina Mascara, Guido Santi |
| Monsura is Waiting | Kevin Newbury |
| Mr Invisible | Greg Ash |
| Mussels in Love | Willemiek Kluijfhout |
| My Guide | Barnabás Tóth |
| My Sweet Pepper Land | Hiner Saleem |
| Mystery Road | Ivan Sen |
| No Small Parts | Marilyn Agrelo |
| Nobody's Daughter Haewon | Hong Sang-soo |
| Norte, the End of History | Lav Diaz |
| Of Horses and Men | Benedikt Erlingsson |
| OJ: The Musical | Jeff Rosenberg |
| Old Man | Dan S |
| One Armed Man | Tim Guinee |
| Out of the Fire | Courtenay Singer |
| Overpass Light Brigrade | Dusan Harminc, Matt Mullins |
| Paulette | Jérôme Enrico |
| Pine Ridge | Anna Eborn |
| Porcelain Horse | Javier Andrade |
| Poustinia | Kristian Berg |
| Proxy | Zack Parker |
| Purgatorio: A Journey Into the Heart of the Border | Rodrigo Reyes |
| R100 | Hitoshi Matsumoto |
| Rabbit and Deer | Péter Vácz |
| Remembering Nokutela | Cherif Keita |
| Salma | Kim Longinotto |
| Salvo | Fabio Grassadonia,Antonio Piazza |
| Sermon of the Serpent | Mark Brown |
| Sharon Isbin: Troubadour | Susan Dangel |
| Siddharth | Richie Mehta |
| Slow Food Story | Stefano Sardo |
| Stand Clear of the Closing Doors | Sam Fleischner |
| Stay Then Go | Shelli Ainsworth |
| Stop the Pounding Heart | Roberto Minervini |
| Strange Color of Your Body's Tears, The | Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani |
| Stray Dogs | Tsai Ming Liang |
| Sugar Kisses | Carlos Cuarón |
| The Amazing Catfish | Claudia Sainte-Luce |
| The Animal Project | Ingrid Veninger |
| The Apothecary | Helen Hood Scheer |
| The Attorney | Woo-seok Yang |
| The Auction | Sébastien Pilote |
| The Boy and the Bus | Simon Pitts |
| The Cleaner | Adrián Saba |
| The Curse and the Symphony | David Schulte |
| The Dam Keeper | Robert Kondo, Dict Tsutsumi |
| The Dog | Allison Berg, François Keraudren |
| The Dunsing Plan | John Scott |
| The Forest | Óscar Aibar |
| The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden | Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine |
| The Grand Seduction | Don McKellar |
| The Hero Pose | Mischa Jakupcak |
| The Human Face of Big Data | Sandy Smolan |
| The Jingle Dress | William Eigen |
| The Job of the Architect | Horacio Devoto |
| The Kill Team | Dan Krauss |
| The King of Size | Peter Dowd |
| The Last of the Unjust | Claude Lanzmann |
| The Militant | Manuel Nieto |
| The Negative | Ted Hall |
| The Organic Life | Casey Beck |
| The Overnighters | Jesse Moss |
| The Rocket | Kim Mordaunt |
| The Sacrament | Ti West |
| The Skeleton Twins | Craig Johnson |
| The Soap Myth | Arnold Mittelman |
| The Starfish Throwers | Jesse Roesler |
| The Strange Little Cat | Ramon Zürcher |
| The Summer of Flying Fish | Marcela Said |
| The System | Juan Antonio del Rosario |
| The Trip to Italy | Michael Winterbottom |
| This Movie Had No Script | Ben Lifson |
| Time Has Peeled Back the Skin of Things | Ann Prim |
| Todo se Puede | Elias Belkeddar |
| Tom at the Farm | Xavier Dolan |
| Trapped | Parviz Shahbazi |
| Trespassing Bergman | Jane Magnusson,Hynek Pallas |
| Turboencabulator | Tom Schroeder |
| Ugly | Anurag Kashyap |
| Ving Rhames | Dean Peterson |
| Waltz for Monica | Per Fly |
| Watermark | Jennifer Baichwal,Edward Burtynsky |
| We Are Mari Pepa | Samuel Kishi |
| We Don't Wanna Make You Dance | Lucy Kostelanetz |
| Web Junkie | Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia |
| When Jews Were Funny | Alan Zweig |
| When We With Daisies Lie | Ella Rowe |
| Whitewash | Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais |
| Who is Dayani Cristal? | Marc Silver |
| Who is Vermin Supreme? An Outsider Odyssey | Steve Onderick |
| Why Don't You Play in Hell? | Shion Sono |
| Wicker Kittens | Amy C. Elliott |
| Willing to Break | Sutton Raphael, JP Keenan |
| Windstorm | Katja von Garnier |
| Witching and Bitching | Álex de la Iglesia |
| Words and Pictures | Fred Schepisi |
| Workers | Jose Luis Valle |
| Young & Beautiful | François Ozon |
| Young Detective Dee: Rise of the Sea Dragon | Tsui Hark |
| Yozgat Blues | Mahmut Fazil Coskun |
| Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang | Oskar Santos |
