Now into its 13th year, this festival of more than 100 films and videotapes from more than 25 countries runs at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton, Friday, October 14, through Sunday, October 23. Single tickets are $2.50 for adults and children; a pass good for five films is $10. For more information call 929-5437.
Saturday, October 15
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FLICKERS 1 Cordell Barker’s Canadian The Cat Came Back and Chris Randall’s English Count Duckula: No Sax Please, We’re Egyptian are both animated shorts; Cohn Finbow’s English and live-action featurette Under the Bed is a spoof of horror films. (10:00 am)
SUBWAY TO PARADISE Jannik Hastrup’s Danish animated feature has a science fiction plot involving a little girl and her grandmother. On the same program, Joyce Borenstein’s Canadian animated short, The Man Who Stole Dreams. (2:00)
PRINCESS JASNA AND THE FLYING COBBLER Zdenek Troska’s live-action Czech feature is a tale of fantasy and adventure. On the same program, three animated shorts: Virginia Wilkos’s The Boy Who Drew Cats (U.S.), Kathleen Houston’s Children of Wax: A Folktale From Zimbabwe (U.S.), and Arnie Lipsey’s The Crow and the Canary (Canada). (10:00 am)
FLICKERS 6 A program of short videos: Nursery Rhyme Time: “Mary” (England), Urp (U.S.), The Lion and the Mouse (U.S.), Fireman Sam (Wales), and Peep and the Big Wide World (Canada). (2:00)
FLICKERS 8 Three American videos: Robert Iscove’s featurette The Incredible Ida Early, Paulle Clark’s Owl/TV, and Allan Albert’s animated All About the Statue of Liberty. (3:00)
