12:45pm The Teacher1:00pm Endless Poetry1:20pm Pop Aye

12:45pm Chavela1:00pm Aida’s Secrets1:20pm In Syria

12:45pm Bending the Arc1:00pm Bad Lucky Goat1:20pm Rebels on Pointe

12:45pm White Sun1:00pm The Teacher1:20pm Truman

12:45pm Bending the Arc1:00pm Chavela1:20pm In Syria

12:45pm Aida’s Secrets1:00pm The Teacher1:20pm Truman

12:45pm The Student1:00pm Bad Lucky Goat1:20pm Rebels on Pointe

3:30pm White Sun3:45pm Aida’s Secrets4:00pm Truman

3:30pm The Student3:45pm Bad Lucky Goat4:00pm Rebels on Pointe

3:30pm White Sun3:45pm Endless Poetry4:00pm Pop Aye

3:30pm Bending the Arc3:45pm Bad Lucky Goat4:00pm In Syria

3:30pm Aida’s Secrets3:45pm Endless Poetry4:00pm Pop Aye

3:30pm The Student3:45pm Bad Lucky Goat4:00pm Rebels on Pointe

3:30pm White Sun3:45pm The Teacher4:00pm Truman

6:10pm Bad Lucky Goat6:30pm Chavela7:30pm Rebels on Pointe*Q&A with DirectorKickoff Dance Party

6:10pm Bending the Arc6:30pm Truman6:50pm The Teacher

6:10pm The Student6:30pm Chavela6:50pm In Syria

6:10pm Aida’s Secrets6:30pm Endless Poetry6:50pm Pop Aye

6:10pm The Student6:30pm Bad Lucky Goat6:50pm Rebels on Pointe

6:10pm Bending the Arc6:30pm Chavela6:50pm In Syria

6:10pm Pop Aye6:30pm Endless Poetry6:50pm Aida’s Secrets

7:30pm No Man’s Land*Q&A with DirectorClosing Night Party

9:10pm The Student9:30pm Bending the Arc10:00pm In Syria

8:50pm White Sun9:10pm Endless Poetry9:30pm Pop Aye

8:50pm Truman9:10pm The Teacher9:30pm Aida’s Secrets

8:50pm The Student9:10pm Chavela9:30pm Rebels on Pointe

8:50pm White Sun9:10pm The Teacher9:30pm Truman

8:50pm Endless Poetry9:10pm Pop Aye9:30pm White Sun

8:50pm Bending the Arc9:10pm Chavela9:30pm In Syria

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Coming Attractions Theatres & the Ashland Independent Film Festival

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*Tickets for these special events must be purchased at ashlandfilm.org. Passports may not be used for these events. All other tickets available at the Varsity Theatre Box Office or catheatres.com

Opening Night FestivitiesFriday, October 6 7:30pm Rebels on Pointe screening and Q&A with Director Bobbi Jo Hart Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., Ashland

9:45pm Varsity World Film Week Kickoff Dance Party Featuring special drag performances Lite Bites + Cash Bar Ashland Springs Hotel, 212 E. Main St., Ashland

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Tickets for these special events are available exclusively at ashlandfilm.org/vwfwProceeds to benefit the nonprofit Ashland Independent Film Festival.

Friday, October 137:30pm No Man’s Land screening and Q&A with Director David Byars Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., Ashland9:45pm Varsity World Film Week Closing Party Lite Bites + Cash Bar Black Sheep Pub & Restaurant, 51 N. Main St., AshlandTickets: $25 Screening + Closing Party

obligatory charming princes becoming objects of ridicule and envy from the ensemble. A highlight is the “dying swan” number from Swan Lake in which a Trock soloist struggles with the bird’s final wheezing breaths as feathers fly off his tutu and he draws out the death scene in one loony feat of hogging the spotlight. The dancers dish on the inconsistencies of ballet that make their company a necessity. The high art sensibility of dance, for example, frequently demands a certain “type” (ie: petite white women) for lead roles while male dancers vie for her affection. One interviewee, the lead for a more traditional company, points out that he always plays Prince Charming going after the girl and that his success depends on repeating a role that is wildly inconsistent with his own life. Hart makes a notable effort to highlight the cultural diversity within the company as she talks with Trocks from around the world who have flocked to join the company. Dancers from Italy and Cuba, for example, share stories about finding comfort in this surrogate family when opportunities for them to be out and on stage didn’t fly back home. At the same time, Hart highlights the relationships that form within the company as two dancers ready for marriage and become the third couple among the Trocks to wed. Artist director Tory Dobrin notes that the trio of marriages within the company is a feat he didn’t expect to see in his lifetime. They’re encouraging signs of social progress that’s developed as the Trocks continue to hit their stride with audiences. Hart does an admirable job of approaching the company from multiple angles to create an inclusive doc portrait. Interviews with the dancers’ parents are especially touching as Rebels on Pointe builds to the reunion of one family that’s been separated for far too long. Hart buoys the film with a light sense of humor and charm that comes easily when the subject’s mission is to make audiences have a good time. The dancers of Rebels on Pointe are good company for any audience.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Montreal filmmaker Bobbi Jo Hart has directed and produced documentaries since 1997 filming in countries including Pakistan, Russia, Great Britain, Guatemala, Zimbabwe and Romania. With films like A Calling to Care (1997), Shrinkage (2001), She Got Game (2003), I Am Not a Rock Star (2012) and Rise (2015), she explores a wide range of different, often misunderstood, lifestyles in a spirit of shared humanity. Hart's last feature documentary, I Am Not a Rock Star, was nominated for three and won two prestigious Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Performing Arts Documentary, Best Editing and Best Direction.

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SPAIN/ARGENTINA

Truman Narrative | English/Spanish (subtitles) | 2015 | 108 min.Director: Cesc GayDiagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián (Ricardo Darín) has decided to forgo treatment, and spend his final days tying up loose ends. When child-hood friend Tomás (Javier Cámara) pays his ail-ing friend an unexpected visit, he quickly realizes he won’t be able to change his mind. In what will be their final reunion, the two friends set out to finalize Julián’s funeral arrangements, settle his accounts and, most importantly, find a home for his beloved dog, Truman, in this heartfelt and surprisingly humorous film.

CANADA/GERMANY/USA/ISRAEL Aida’s SecretsDoc | English/Hebrew (subtitles) | 2016 | 90 min.Directors: Alon Schwarz, Shaul SchwarzFamily secrets and the last century of world history unspool in this international story that begins with World War II and concludes with an emotional 21st-century family reunion. Timely questions of identity, resilience, and the plight of displaced persons are brought to life as brothers Izak and Shep learn late in life of each other’s survival and meet in Canada. They then confront their elderly mother, Aida, in an attempt to piece together their pasts.

COLUMBIA

Bad Lucky GoatNarrative | Creole (subtitles) | 2017 | 76 min. Director: Samir OliverosAfter accidentally hitting a bearded goat with their father’s truck, two warring teenage sib-lings embark on a journey of reconciliation. Corn and Rita must find a way to repair the truck in time to pick up the tourists that will be staying at their family’s hotel. As they struggle to find the means necessary to conceal the ac-cident, the siblings will visit a butcher, Rastafari drum makers, pawn shops, car mechanics and even a witch doctor, in a 24-hour adventure around Port Paradise.

USA/MEXICO/SPAIN

ChavelaDoc | English/Spanish (subtitles) | 2017 | 90 min.Directors: Catherine Gund, Daresha KyiThrough its lyrical structure, Chavela takes viewers on an evocative, thought-provoking journey through the iconoclastic life of the leg-endary lesbian ranchera singer Chavela Vargas. Centered around never before-seen interview footage of Chavela and guided by the stories in her songs, and the myths and tales others told about her—as well as those she spread about herself—the film weaves an arresting portrait of a woman who dared to dress, speak, sing, and dream her unique life into being.

CHILE/UK/FRANCE

Endless PoetryNarrative | Spanish/French/English (subtitles) | 2016 | 128 min.Director: Alejandro JodorowskyEndless Poetry details El Topo director Jodorows-ky’s life from the time he left the Chilean coastal town of Tocopilla and his authoritarian father for Santiago at the age of nine, through his decision to move to France and live the life of a poet when he was in his 20s. Told through Jodorowsky’s unique surreal and psychedelic visual language, Endless Poetry is an ode to the quest for beauty and inner truth as a universal force capable of changing one’s life forever.

USA

No Man’s LandDoc | English | 2017 | 81 min.Director: David ByarsIn January 2016, armed protestors in Oregon oc-cupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge to call attention to what they felt was an intrusion by the federal government. The film offers a detailed ac-count of the impasse, displaying unprecedented access to the protagonists of this incident, and culminating in a dramatic climax that resulted in the arrest and acquittal of occupation leaders, and left another man dead. One screening only, with an appearance by director David Byars!

USA

Bending the ArcDoc | English | 2017 | 102 min. Directors: Kief Davidson, Pedro KosThirty years ago, a group of improbable heroes including Dr. Paul Farmer and Dr. Jim Young Kim came together on a daring mission to make qual-ity healthcare available to everyone, even in the world’s poorest countries. Fighting entrenched diseases, political and bureaucratic machinery, and the charity-industrial complex itself, these crusaders forced the international community to embrace the idea that health care must be a basic human right.

RUSSIA

The StudentNarrative | Russian (subtitles) | 2016 | 118 min.Director: Kirill SerebrennikovTeenaged Venya grows confident that his strict and rigorous study of the Bible gives him the ability to manipulate all forms of authority. Chal-lenged by a teacher who refuses to consent to his dogma, he sets out to eliminate her and subdue an entire community. At a time when ar-guments over the teaching of religion in public schools are prominent in the media, this wildly escalating classroom drama serves as a fright-ening cautionary tale.

CANADA/USA

Rebels on PointeDocumentary | English | 2017 | 90 min.Director: Bobbi Jo HartRebels on Pointe follows Les Ballets Trockade-ro de Monte Carlo—the all male, drag ballet company founded over 40 years ago on the heels of New York’s Stonewall riots. The film juxtaposes behind-the-scenes access and in-timate, character-driven stories of its dancers, highlighted by amazing performances shot around the world. Montreal-based director and SOU alumnus Bobbi Jo Hart will attend the film on opening night.

BELGIUM/FRANCE/LEBANON

In SyriaNarrative | Arabic (subtitles) | 2017 | 85 min.Director: Philippe Van LeeuwTrapped inside her house in a city under siege, Oum Yazan, mother of three, turned her flat into a safe harbor for her family and neighbors, try-ing to protect them from the war outside. When bombs threaten to destroy the building, when snipers turn the courtyards into deadly zones, and burglars break in to claim their dreadful bounties, maintaining the thin balance of rou-tine inside the walls becomes a matter of life and death.

THAILAND/SINGAPORE

Pop AyeNarrative | Thai (subtitles) |2017 | 102 min.Director: Kirsten TanPop Aye is the story of a Bangkok architect whose late-midlife crisis leads him to an en-counter with the elephant, Popeye, with whom he spent an idyllic childhood in the Thai coun-tryside. Together they embark on a road trip to deliver both man and beast to their origins. Popeye is the center of a mysterious, funny and often absurd universe that, while seem-ingly particular to Thailand is, ultimately, not unlike our own.

SLOVAKIA/CZECK REPUBLI

The TeacherNarrative | Slovak (subtitles) | 2016 | 102 min.Director: Jan HrebejkA new teacher, Maria Drazdechova, arrives in a middle school classroom in Bratislava in 1983. It slowly becomes clear that perhaps the pupils’ grades are related to how willing their guardians are to helping out with her errands, her house-cleaning, and other random services. After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school calls for an emergency par-ents’ meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high-ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are fearful.

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NEPAL/USA/QATAR/NETHERLANDS

White Sun Narrative | Nepali (subtitles) | 2016 | 89 min.Director: Deepak RauniyarTwo Nepalese brothers, Suraj and Chandra, cannot put aside political feelings while carry-ing their father’s body down a steep mountain path to the river for cremation. Suraj storms off in a rage, leaving Chandra with no help. Under pressure from the village elders, Chandra must seek help from outside the village to obey the rigid caste and discriminatory gender traditions he fought to eliminate during the war. Chandra searches for a solution in neighboring villages, among the police, guests at a local wedding, and rebel guerrillas...

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TICKETSPrice per single film: Adult: $9 Other: $7† Save with a 6-film Passport! Adult: $40 Other: $35† †AIFF Member/Senior/Student/Child/Active Military I.D.

Passports are only available for purchase at the Varsity Theatre Box Office and are only valid for regularly priced VWFW films 10/6/2017-10/12/2017.Passports have no cash value and are not refundable if lost or unused. Multiple Passports may be purchased. Sorry, no passes accepted for these films. No early bird or bargain matinee pricing available. Seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis only. Films subject to change.

All screenings held at the Varsity Theatre, 166 E. Main St., AshlandTickets available at the Varsity Box Office or catheatres.comMore information about the films: ashlandfilm.org/vwfwExpanded synopses, reviews, trailers and more!

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Join Marla Estes and Kay Sandberg for an in-depth and free Community Conversation at the Elks Club (255 E Main) on Monday, Oct 9, at 5:30pm.

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