Attractive leads, exotic locales, fine acting and a fast-paced story give promise to a new era in Mexican filmmaking. —Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema

The winner of the 2001 Chicago Latino Film Festival Audience Award, Dust to Dust is a humorous and sweet coming-of-age tale that brings together two cousins whose animosity transforms into trust and understanding through the course of an adventurous journey to Acapulco. Acclaimed Mexican director Juan Carlos de Llaca will answer questions after the screening. (2000, 96 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Uniquely spirited, radiating the exuberance and sexual heat of an Elvis musical —Philadelphia Inquirer

From the team behind the international smash hit Bend It Like Beckham comes a Jane Austen adaptation like never before. Pride and Prejudice gets the Bollywood treatment, and the result is a spectacular fusion of East meets West. Austen’s classic love story unfolds in a riot of color and emotion, song and dance, that jet-sets from rural India via London to Los Angeles. (Gurinder Chadha, 204, 111 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare —TV Guide

This eloquent documentary makes effective use of battle footage, commentary by soldiers, historians and war correspondents and, above all, the words of poets in a stirring search for meaning. From Wilfred Owen’s unparalleled evocations of World War I to Vietnam vet David Connolly’s haunted remembrances to the work of contemporary writers from Nigeria, Colombia, India and Iraq, Voices in Wartime is “a searing chronicle of the effects of armed conflict on humanity” (Los Angeles Times). (Rick King, 2005, 74 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Moviemaking doesn’t get much smarter, funnier, handsomer, better than this. —Time

The terrifying Ax Gang rumbles with the poor but surprisingly feisty denizens of Pig Sty Alley in this relentlessly entertaining, unflaggingly inventive Hong Kong martial arts comedy from Stephen Chow (Shaolin Soccer). The Chicago Tribune asserts, “Kung Fu Hustle not only is an endearing homage to a genre’s history, but an astonishing piece of cinema in its own right.” (2004, 95 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

A dizzying array of visual treats that evoke stories and moods that are anything but conventional. —Los Angeles Times

A collection of ten of the world’s best award-winning and critically acclaimed animated short films, personally programmed by co-producers Mike Judge (Beavis and Butt-Head, Office Space) and Academy Award nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt. Filmmaker, curator and UCSB graduate Don Hertzfeldt will introduce both screenings. (2005, 87 minutes)

General public $10 / UCSB students $8

Extraordinary...inherently spiritual...takes on profound questions —Los Angeles Times

The second opus from the directors of Microcosmos, Genesis is an eye-poppingly intimate look at all kinds of creatures, from sea horses to panther chameleons, gestating, eating, strolling, fighting and courting. Six years in the making, Genesis is a nature film to end all nature films. (Claude Nuridsany & Marie Pérennou, 2005, 80 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5

Contains some of the best flying sequences ever captured on celluloid —All Movie Guide

This WW I tale features still-spectacular aerial and land battle sequences and a love triangle centered on Clara Bow, the famed It Girl of the 1920s. The film also stars Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen and a dashing Gary Cooper in one of his first roles. Don’t miss this rare 35 mm screening of this landmark film. (William Wellman, 1927, 139 minutes)

General public $6 / UCSB students $5