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City Paper’s Guide to the 10th Annual Washington, D.C., International Film Festival
Cover Story
Filmfest DC has its schedule on the World Wide Web this year (http://www.capaccess.org/filmfestdc), but the 10th incarnation of this annual cinematic binge is otherwise not especially cutting-edge. The festival opened Wednesday with Caught, a Robert M. Young film co-produced by Jim and Ted Pedas, the former owners of the local Circle Theater chain and longtime Filmfest patrons. The featured programs include such familiar, time-tested ones as “Global Rhythms,” “Filmfest DC for Kids,” a silent classic with live organ accompaniment (this year it’s 1924’s Romola), a selection of films chosen by Women in Film and Video, and the winners from the Rosebud competition, a showcase for local filmmakers. And the country whose filmmaking will be saluted this year is France, not a nation whose contribution to world cinema is obscure or widely disputed.
As with many other second-tier U.S. film festivals that don’t attract an industry crowd (like Sundance) or focus exclusively on the season’s upcoming art-house releases (like New York), Filmfest DC is a slightly motley collection of the commercial and the obscure, the anthropological and the artistic, the extraordinary and the merely interesting. This is a recipe that seems to suit the fest’s diverse local audience, which ranges from hard-core cineastes to public-policy junkies to foreign nationals seeking a glimpse of home. According to festival director Tony Gittens, ticket sales are “way ahead of where we were last year,” when more than 50 percent of the screenings sold out.... Continued 
Issue of Apr. 26 - May. 2, 1996
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