In its first week, the Silk Screen film festival will present 21 screenings along with select Q&A sessions.
The event will use the Pittsburgh Filmmakers venues of the Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown, along with the Regent Square Theater at 1035 S. Braddock Ave. and its Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave.
Special prices apply for opening- and closing-night movies but most tickets, available at the box office, are $9 or $5 for students with valid IDs. A four-entry festival pass can be purchased for $30 and an eight-entry pass, $60.
Details: www.silkscreenfestival.org or 724-969-2565. Scheduled to screen during the first week of the event that runs through May 15:
FRIDAY
HARRIS
7 p.m.: "I Am" -- An examination of issues and dilemmas that bruise modern Indian society. In Hindi with English subtitles.
SATURDAY
REGENT SQUARE
1 p.m.: "Tiger Factory" -- A 19-year-old young woman, already working at a pig farm and a diner to pay smugglers to get her to Japan, agrees to be impregnated to earn extra cash but learns a shocking truth about her "aunt." In Japanese with English subtitles.
3 p.m.: "Dog Sweat" -- Shot clandestinely by Hossein Keshavarz in Tehran before the 2009 elections, it presents six young people who act out their personal desires behind closed doors. In Persian with English subtitles.
5 p.m.: "Three Veils" -- Three young American women of Middle Eastern descent struggle with identity, faith and sexuality.
7:30 p.m.: "The Knot" -- A newlywed slips into married life with quiet resilience, but a chance meeting makes her question her choices. In Japanese with English subtitles.
HARRIS
2 p.m.: "Bambara Wallala" -- Sri Lankan story about an uneducated young man who spends 17 years in prison after killing the stepfather who raped his sister. He struggles to start a new life until he meets a coffin maker with a vigor for life. In Shanghainese and Sinhala with English subtitles
5 p.m.: "White Meadows" -- Rowing through the salty waters of a vast marsh, a boatman quietly collects and combines the tears and confessions of nearby island residents into a dreamlike mythology of modern Iran. In Farsi.
7 p.m.: "Dear Doctor" -- Pastoral tale about a village doctor who may not be what he seems, a winner of multiple Japanese film awards. In Japanese with English subtitles.
SUNDAY
REGENT SQUARE
Noon: "Zero Bridge" -- Hope-filled portrayal of a 17-year-old masonry apprentice turned pickpocket who is anxious to leave his double life in Kashmir. In Urdu.
2 p.m.: "Wedding Palace" -- Korean-American romcom about a man who has to marry before his 30th birthday or face the consequences of an ancient family curse.
4:30 p.m.: "SF Stories" -- Through a series of nine separate yet increasingly intertwined stories, this English-language film focuses on the relationship between Michael, a 30-something Chinese-American, and Wendy, a 25-year-old Japanese-American who is intelligent and strong-willed but secretly afraid of the world.
HARRIS
3 p.m.: "Dooman River" -- Two boys on opposite sides of the Chinese-Korean border strike a playful friendship that becomes strained after a series of thefts in a nearby town lead Chinese residents to cast suspicion on North Korean refugees. In Korean and Mandarin with English subtitles.
5 p.m.: "The Piano in a Factory" -- Ballad of devotion about a man whose estranged wife returns to take custody of their daughter, who pledges allegiance to whomever can provide her with a piano. In Chinese with English subtitles.
7:30 p.m.: "The Light Thief" -- A humble electrician intent on enlivening his windswept valley with electricity in Kyrgyzstan unwittingly strikes a deal with a politician with corrupt ambitions. In Kyrgyz with English subtitles.
MELWOOD
2:30 p.m.: "Women Without Men" -- Portrait of four Persian women affected by the ouster of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953. In Farsi with English subtitles.
4:30 p.m.: "The Break Up Club" -- A heartbroken young man discovers a website that promises to reunite him with his ex-girlfriend if he breaks up another couple. In Cantonese with English subtitles.
MONDAY
REGENT SQUARE
7 p.m.: "Wedding Palace"
9 p.m.: "Living in Seduced Circumstances" -- Dark reverie of vengeance and terror as a man finds himself gagged, bloodied and bound to a wheelchair by a woman who is eight months pregnant. In Vietnamese with English subtitles.
MELWOOD
6 p.m.: "Saigon Electric" -- Story of a ribbon dancer from the Vietnamese countryside who, unable to gain admission to a prestigious academy in Saigon, ends up with a crew preparing for the largest hip-hop competition in South Korea. In Vietnamese with English subtitles.
8:30 p.m.: "Do Dooni Chaar" -- Gentle satire of consumerism and materialistic values pervading modern India, featuring the screen team of Rishi Kapoor and Neetu Singh. In Hindi with English subtitles.
TUESDAY
REGENT SQUARE
6 p.m.: "Udaan" -- Coming-of-age story The New York Times calls "a kind of Indian cousin to Truffaut's '400 Blows' " as it follows the fortunes of an aspiring writer whose horizons shrink when he's kicked out of prep school and sent home to northeast India. In Hindi.
9:30 p.m.: "Three Veils"
WEDNESDAY
REGENT SQUARE
6:30 p.m.: "SF Stories"
9 p.m.: "Ashes" -- Actor Ajay Naidu makes his directorial debut with a crime drama about a young man living in New York who gets involved with a gang to earn money to care for his mentally ill brother.
MELWOOD
7 p.m.: "Dooman River"
9 p.m.: "The White Meadows"
First published on May 5, 2011 at 12:00 am
Source: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11125/1144076-60-0.stm?cmpid=movievideo.xml
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