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.
WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION
Dec. 6^th 2:00 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Neryong Ci
The psychology of a tired, modern day man who thirsts for an exit. Combining elements that criticize a nihilist civilization and instinctively borrows fear for exoneration
HRIFF PREMIERE
Dec. 6^th 4:00p PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Krystle Houiess
The story of a love lost for inexplicable reasons and the tragedy of life in waiting for a broken tear to heal. Based on a true story where love is lost in a cold world. A moving depiction of a coming of age and a young love blossoming remembered through shattered memories. This film uses beautiful visual language and evocative soundtrack to move the audience through the hurt of a love lost constantly remembered in a pain and love.
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 6^th 4:00 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Ron Coors / Wendy Keeling
This award-winning comedy about a young girl finding love in the midst of a family gathering focuses on Hannah, a teenage girl, bored with her family and uninspired by her mundane life. Her sarcasm and lack of interest is obvious in her biting descriptions of party guests, until young Frankie arrives at the party with his father and Hannah is pleasantly surprised by the recent changes in his appearance due to puberty.
WEST COAST PREMIERE
Dec. 6^th 4:00 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Aaron Pope
LIBERATOR is a thriller starring Lou Ferrigno (The Incredible Hulk) as a washed-up, disgraced ex-superhero attempting to get his life back on the rails. Also stars Peta Wilson (La Femme Nikita,) Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation,") martial arts star Don "The Dragon" Wilson ("Bloodfist") and Edward Asner ("Up").
WORLD PREMIERE
Dec. 6^th 4:30 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Alexander Tuschinski
HRIFF recommends strongly that you see the low-budget feature-length German comedy Menschenliebe (Philanthropy). The tale of an outcast with a desperate need to learn how to seduce, finds a dangerous friend to teaches him the art of romance while turning his world upside down with bedlam and sexuality. This film brilliantly shifts between dramatic realism and Pythonesque absurdist comedy.
Screens with the short film: Quasicrystal Research
Dec. 6^th 5:00 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Alexander Tuschinski
Alexander Tuschinski’s short film Hollow Date is a sneak peak at scenes that are a part of his next feature film, his follow-up to the fantastic comedy Menschenliebe. The same cast and crew is back in familiar roles, but this time the stylistic choices reflect the “mod” 1960’s and early 1970’s films that the director has been championing and restoring over the last two years
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Dec. 6^th 5:00 PM
At Stage 22

The most notorious film ever made, for both mixing pornography with perhaps the greatest collection of acting talents of it’s time (Helen Mirren, Sir Laurence Olivier, Peter O’Toole, Malcolm McDowell), and for being one of the highest grossing films of all time that was basically unwatchable. Producer Bob Guccione kicked director Tinto Brass’ out and gave his footage to an editor that never edited film before (or since) to give us the movie we know about today.

Who is to blame for the Caligula we all know? What would Tinto Brass cut actually looked like? Director and Film Historian Alexander Tuschinski who worked with Tinto Brass on the restorations at HRIFF 2012, is on hand to talk about his careful research in discovering and restoring what the Tinto Brass Caligula shooting script & directors cut of this notorious film would look like.
Dec. 6^th 7:00 PM
At Stage 22

DIRECTOR Tinto Brass
Philosopher and novelist Umberto Eco commissioned director Tinto Brass to create two meditations: one on “Free Time” and one on “Work Time” in his montage, hyper-editing style that went on to influence a generation of filmmakers. “A frenetically paced montage, in which Dziga Vertov’s lesson and his The Man with a Movie Camera blend with the suggestions and radicalism of the avant-garde of the 1960s.”- Venice International Film Festival.
NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Screens with the short film: A Talk With Tinto Brass
Dec. 6^th 8:00 PM
At Stage 22

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. 6^th 9:30 PM
At Stage 22