Fresno Filmworks

FESTIVAL SCHEDULE

Friday, April 18

7 p.m. • THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (w/ short film LIGHT YEARS)

A gloriously unlocked experience, with some of the freest and most creative uses of the camera and some of the most daring, cruel, and heartbreaking emotional explorations that have appeared in recent movies.

David Denby

New Yorker

9:30 p.m. • Opening Night Reception

At the conclusion of THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY, join the Fresno Filmworks board in welcoming visiting filmmakers and the public to the fourth annual Fresno Film Festival. Admission to the reception is included with a festival pass or with general admission to the opening night film. The reception will include a Mediterranean feast, champagne, and dessert, catered by Whole Foods Market. The local swing band Scats On The Sly will provide entertainment.

Saturday, April 19

11 a.m. • MODERN TIMES (w/ short film SIMULACRA)

Chaplin’s sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.

Ty Burr

Boston Globe

1:30 p.m. • SHORTS PROGRAM 1

Fresno Film Festival short film category

THE CAVE: AN ADAPTATION OF PLATO’S ALLEGORY IN CLAY
Michael Ramsay, USA, 3 min.

LULLABY
Kevin Markwick, UK, 15 min.

UNDERPASS
Rain Breaw, USA, 15 min.

PK-GRANNY
Jo Meuris, USA, 2 min.

AGNIESZKA 2039
Martin Gauvreau, UK, 12 min.

YASIN
Betty Lee Kim, USA, 13 min.

POLLEN NATION
Singeli Agnew and Joshua Fisher, USA, 26 min.

4:30 p.m. • THE BETRAYAL (NERAKHOON) (w/ short film PAPIROFLEXIA)

…both exquisitely beautiful and emotionally compelling…

Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

8:00 p.m. • A NIGHT AT THE OSCARS

Academy Award-nominated Shorts

EVEN PIGEONS GO TO HEAVEN
Samuel Tourneux & Simon Vanesse
France, 9 minutes, French w/ English subtitles

TANGHI ARGENTINI
Guido Thys and Anja Daelemans
Belgium, 13 minutes, French w/ English subtitles

PETER AND THE WOLF
Suzie Templeton and Hugh Welchman
UK and Poland, 27 minutes, Silent

THE SUBSTITUTE
Andrea Jublin
Italy, 17 minutes, Italian w/ English subtitles

I MET THE WALRUS
Josh Raskin
Canada, 5 minutes, English

THE MOZART OF PICKPOCKETS

Philippe Pollet-Villard
France, 31 minutes, French w/ English subtitles

Sunday, April 20

noon • JELLYFISH (w/ short film CARNIVAL DARING-DO)

[A] tightly constructed, cleverly stylized, serio-comic ensemble piece

Alissa Simon
Variety

2 p.m. • SHORTS PROGRAM 2

Fresno Film Festival short film category

PARACHUTE
Lucas Fleischer and Paul Grellong, USA, 12 min.

PAPIROFLEXIA
Joaquin Baldwin, USA, 3 min.

PATIENCE
Robert Hackett, UK, 7 min.

WAITING ON FOUNTAIN
Evan Wasserstrom, USA, 4 min.

CHILES
Tyrone HuFF, USA, 15 min.

HOTEL FRESNO
Teresa Flores, USA, 4 min.

CARISSA
David Sauvage, USA, 21 min.

4:30 p.m. • KENNY (w/ short film PK-GRANNY)

Full of deft character turns (most notably Shane Jacobson’s mesmerising, total-immersion tour de force in the title role) and some delightfully outré (though never crude) comic touches in the script, KENNY has nothing but respect for its central character, and it’s all the better for it.

David Jenkins
Time Out London

7:30 p.m. • STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING

Langella is superb, and Starting Out in the Evening is a classy film

David Denby
New Yorker

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