February 22

Dropout (ITALY)	5:00 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director TINTO BRASS
Dropout, which stars (then-and-now) real-life couple Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero who produced and financed the film themselves, tells the tale of a couple who meet in swinging London and run away together to have a series of adventures with societies dropouts. This premiere restoration, has unseen material from the Tinto Brass archives, and was completed in cooperation with Tinto Brass and Alexander Tuschinski, to give viewers the most complete version of the directors original vision, in the highest quality available in the world. At Studio 22
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La Vancaza (ITALY)	7:00 PM	official selection
Director TINTO BRASS
The second film to team the real-life couple of Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero with director Tinto Brass, is perhaps their greatest collaboration; a story about women in society, and the very nature of sanity, with mediations on the absurd corruption inherent in power. New english subtitles created by HRIFF specifically for our rare HRIFF translated and Tinto Brass approved print of this hard-to-find masterpiece. At Studio 22
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Paganini (GERMANY)	9:00 PM	OFFICIAL SELECTION
Director KLAUS KINSKI
Klaus Kinski believed that he lived through the same experiences as the legendary "devil violinist" Niccolò Paganini, who set all of nineteenth-century Europe into a frenzy and through whose personality Kinski offers an incredibly profound and honest insight into his own life; a life of extremities. The last film Kinski made before his death, saw the unique actor writing the screenplay, directing the film, and casting his wife and son, in what is his most personal project. HRIFF restoration of the director's "Version Originale". At Studio 22
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RICK SHAPIRO - LIVE	11:00 PM	LIVE PERFORMANCE

Comedy Set, Book Reading, Solo Performance, and Films by Rick Shapiro Rick Shapiro, the comedy legend (Project X, Lucky Louie, The League) joins HRIFF for his own night of interactive comedy. Coming to our stage, after his Edinburgh run at the Fringe Festival. Join us for a night of video clips, stand-up, and reading from his own book of poetry UNFILTERED. At Studio 22