This festival of films and videotapes from more than 25 countries concludes at Facets Multimedia Center, 1517 W. Fullerton, on Sunday, October 22. 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 21
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BEHAVE YOURSELF, GABI! Cornel Diaconu’s Romanian feature about a boy’s adventures at his grandparents’ country house. On the same program, two animated shorts, The Little Boy Who Has Stolen the Moon (Swiss-French) and Stepy and Stringy (Czech). (10:00 am)
DANIEL BERGMAN PRESENTS ASTRID LINDGREN ADAPTATIONS Swedish director Daniel Bergman will present the American premiere of two of his films that were adapted from stories by Astrid Lindgren, Brenda Brave and Goodnight, Mr. Vagabond. On the same program, There Are No Robbers in the Forest, Goran Carmback’s Swedish live-action short. (2:00)
ANOKHA ASPATAL The title refers to a shelter for wild animals wounded by poachers, run by a boy and his grandmother, in an Indian feature directed by Mukesh Sharma. On the same program, The Walk, a Swedish animated short. (10:00 am)
TWO VIDEOTAPES Mordicai Gerstein’s animated short The Beauty and the Beast, narrated by Mia Farrow, and Robin Crichton’s live-action Scottish Silent Mouse. (2:00)