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MIFF 2011 Tickets & Passes Individual Tickets - $9* (*$12 for special events, including Opening, Centerpiece, Closing, and Mid-Life Achievement Award); Individual tickets for all screenings are now available online. Passes may be purchased now through the festival. Please note, individual hard copy tickets will not be mailed. Your name will be on a list at the door. Other questions about tickets, check out the MIFF FAQs.
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| 3:10 to Yuma (Newly restored!) |
 Desperate for money, frontier rancher Van Heflin holds outlaw Glenn Ford at gunpoint, intending to collect the $200 reward. While both men await the train to Yuma that will escort Ford to prison, the cagey outlaw offers Heflin $10,000 if he’ll set Ford free. The rest of the film is a sweat-inducing cat-and-mouse game between captive and captor, interrupted with bursts of violence from both Ford’s gang (commandeered by Richard Jaeckel) and the vacillating townsfolk... more & buy tickets
| | Acceptance, The |
 At times, unforeseen events can almost literally befall us, unexpectedly and violently tearing into the web of our interconnections and relationships. In The Acceptance, one such event has disrupted the core existence of Elli (compellingly played by Alicia Lobo). Yogesh Khubchandani’s poetic, spellbinding film uses images and sounds to create an urgent sense of mystery as he traces her inner journey from near despair to a calm acceptance... more & buy tickets
| | American Folk Festival, The |
 For the past several years, The American Folk Festival has galvanized Bangor, Maine, turning it into a world cultural celebration. This new documentary showcases what it means to the community and what kind of work people put into this non-profit event. Emphasis here is on the music and their makers—a section featuring the fabulous Quebecois group Le Vent du Nord is particularly amazing—and on the diversity of both music and festival-goers... more & buy tickets
| | Another Earth (Closing Night Film!) |
 Rhoda Williams, a bright young woman recently accepted into MIT’s astrophysics program, aspires to explore the cosmos. John Burroughs, a brilliant composer, has just reached the pinnacle of his profession, and is about to have a second child with his loving wife. On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, tragedy strikes, and the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined... more & buy tickets
| | Assassin of the Tsar |
 In this very unusual film from acclaimed Russian director Karen Shakhnarazov (Jazzman), “McDowell, with shock-white hair and a death-mask visage, delivers a powerful and intense performance in this British/Russian co-production, also starring popular Russian actor Oleg Yankovsky (Tarkovsky’s The Mirror). McDowell plays a schizophrenic patient in a Russian hospital named Timofeyev who is convinced that he was Yakov Yurovsky, the man who executed Tsar Nicholas II and the royal family during the Russian Revolution in 1918. Timofeyev tries to convince the doctors that he is cured of his delusions, but a new doctor, Smirnov (Yankovsky), thinks that there is something hidden beneath the surface of Timofeyev’s delusions that has yet to be revealed... more & buy tickets
| | Athlete, The (Opening Night Film!) |
 “A visually ravishing, revelatory mixed-medium narrative of the great Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila. A global indie film that could have been made by David Lean—it's that quietly epic in scope and ambition. ”—Montreal Gazette... more & buy tickets
| | Autumn Gold |
 “The very definition of a crowd-pleaser, Autumn Gold was greeted with a standing ovation and thunderous applause at its world premiere screening. It’s a can’t-miss formula. Follow five athletes, all over 80 years of age, as they prepare for the World Masters Athletics Championships, held in 2009 in Lahti, Finland... more & buy tickets
| | Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, The (Shown with Gone Gone Gone) |
 Defying artistic boundaries, Genesis P-Orridge, who links the worlds of “industrial” music, performance art and fine art in his work with groups like Psychic TV, has re-defined his art as a challenge to the limits of biology. In 2000, Genesis and his love, other half and artistic partner, Lady Jaye (née Jacqueline Breyer), began a series of surgeries in order to more closely resemble each other. It was the ultimate act of devotion, and a risky, ambitious, and subversive performance to dwarf their previous work... more & buy tickets
| | Battleship Potemkin (Newly restored!) |
 Sergei Eisenstein’s revolutionary sophomore feature has so long stood as a textbook example of montage editing, that many have forgotten what an invigoratingly cinematic experience he created. Created just 20 years after the Russian Revolution of 1905, Eisenstein portrays the revolt in microcosm with a dramatization of the real-life mutiny aboard the battleship Potemkin. Building tension throughout, the film climaxes with the justly famous (and often imitated and parodied) Odessa Steps massacre... more & buy tickets
| | Bronx Morning, A / The City (Archival Prints!) |
 These two films—shown here in unique and very rarely seen beautiful 35mm prints—are not only fascinatingly immediate portraits of their time, but glorious works of art in themselves. Like the photographs included in Colby College Museum of Art's current American Modern exhibition, these films underscore the inspiration urban space provided to US artists in the 1930s. A Bronx Morning, Jay Leyda's 1931 depiction of the Bronx, combines cinema's documentary realism with a poetic sensibility... more & buy tickets
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