Amid the chaos of a busy extended family, 5-year-old girl can’t get an answer to her fundamental question of “what is the color of human insides?
LOS ANGELES PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 2:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Martin Vrede Nielsen
A man has abandoned hope. He fuels and drowns his indifference with drugs and alcohol. One night he comes upon a sensuous woman who searches in him his lust for life. At the same time an unsettling stranger seems to have other interests in the man.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 2:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Kenneth Oefelein
A retired Marshal receives a letter his only son has been murdered in a nearby town. His goal is to bring his son back home and avoid any outlaws from his past but things don't go as planned in this western.
HRIFF PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 2:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Victor Teran
Jim's career hasn't panned out. He has abandoned his dreams, but doesn't want to abandon his enthusiasm. He needs a purpose and is willing to do whatever work is necessary. Or so he thinks. Tim might just have a job to offer.
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 2:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Tinto Brass
The second film to teams the (then-and-now) real life couple Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero with 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 subtitles created by HRIFF for the screening of this very rare masterpiece. This World 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, to assist it’s first screening in 35 years.
WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION
Dec. 3^rd 3:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Stephanie Hubbard
In this fascinating documentary, Director Stephanie Hubbard layers stop-motion animation and classic footage into the story of art dealer Harvey Jordan and his quest to uncover the mysteries of a never built, Bible-based, 1960’s theme park, that was inspired (almost identically) by Disneyland. The quest to create BIBLE STORYLAND was an epic goal, invested in by the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz (actor Jack Haley), and opposed by local clergy
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 5:00 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Ronnie Cramer
The strange saga of female bodybuilder Christine Fetzer, who earns her living traveling the country wrestling men on beds in hotel rooms. Between 'sessions,' she discusses her unique career and talks about her former life as an exotic dancer. After pulling down a couple of beers, she even spills the beans about bodybuilders and drugs!
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 6:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Luciana Lagana
They have a lot in common but never connect, even when she victimizes him. In this quirky silent experimental short, we experience first-hand how appearances may be deceiving
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 6:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Jake Rice
First ridiculed by his friends for loving the classic 1979 album 'Keep The Fire', but soon the album gets it's due spin, and the audience is transported back, into the world of Kenny Loggins' recording session in 1979 in this short comedy film.
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 6:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR James Boss
A young woman realizes that in her line of business, she can't trust anyone. The fight for survival ensues as she becomes entangled in the cycle of revenge. Killing is all she knows, and it seems as though she can never escape it.
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 6:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Zac Wong
A young ballet dancer crippled by an unknown fear prepares for an audition that could wash away the past. Minutes before her performance, she contemplates changing her name, all the while wrestling with her old dreams and expectations.
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 6:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Uwe Boll
Bailout: The Age of Greed is a thriller that looks at the effects of Wall Street’s 2008 financial crisis on an average American pushed to the brink when he loses his savings and decides to take revenge. Bailout stars Dominic Purcell, Eric Roberts, Edward Furlong, Erin Karpluk, and John Heard. Q&A with director, Uwe Boll, Dominic Purcell, and the entire cast and crew of Bailout follows the American Premiere at HRIFF 2012.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Dec. 3^rd 7:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema

DIRECTOR Tinto Brass
Also known as “Attraction” and “Black on White” NEROSUBIANCO is a meditation on sex and repression, Anita Sanders plays Barbara, a woman whose quiet sexuality masks deep-rooted repression. She secretly hungers for a torrid love affair. A chance meeting with a handsome man she meets randomly in a park culminates in a series of surreal dream sequences revealing that, despite her aversion to meeting this man, she can think of nothing else.

This HRIFF 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, to properly have it’s first screening in 35 years. Q&A with Tinto Brass, Alexander Tuschinski, and special guests from Tinto Brass’ 1960’s & 1970’s casts & crews on hand for a panel Q&A to follow.
WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION
Screens with the short film: Hollow Date
Dec. 3^rd 9:30 PM
At The New Beverly Cinema