Today's SIFF schedule

Today's schedule

Egyptian

4:30 p.m. — "Summer 04 "

7 p.m. — "Orange Revolution ": Director Steve York is scheduled to attend the screening.

9:45 p.m. — "This is England": As Combo, a destructive ex-con who adopts any prejudice that suits him at the moment, Stephen Graham gives the kind of scary yet strangely sympathetic performance that transcends arguments about nature vs. nurture. The setting of this provocative drama by Shane Meadows ("TwentyFourSeven") is northern England following the Falklands war, when 11-year-old Shaun (Thomas Turgoose) joins an older gang that is transformed by the deeply divisive Combo. At first Shaun sees Combo as a father figure, replacing the parent Shaun loved and lost in the war, but their alliance has nowhere to go. 102 minutes. (John Hartl)

Harvard Exit

4:15 p.m. — "The Price of Sugar"

6:45 p.m. — "The Year of Living Dangerously": Local photographer Art Wolfe continues the festival's Talking Pictures series by selecting and introducing Peter Weir's 1983 drama, which won an Oscar for Linda Hunt's moving performance as a conscience-driven male photographer in 1960s Indonesia. Mel Gibson plays his friend, an opportunistic reporter who falls for a government attaché (Sigourney Weaver) in a series of unabashedly romantic episodes. Especially memorable: her determined walk in the steaming tropical rain to his office, where they can't take their hands off each other. 115 minutes. (J.H.)

9:30 p.m. — "Small Engine Repair": Director Niall Heery is scheduled to attend the screening.

Neptune

4:30 p.m. — "El Benny"

7 p.m. — "Death at a Funeral": Director Frank Oz is scheduled to attend the screening.

9:30 p.m. — "Never on a Sunday"

Northwest Film Forum

7 p.m. — "Ghosts of Cité Soleil": Only a few tickets left.

9 p.m. — "I Dot the Eye"

Pacific Place

Cinema

2 p.m. — "Hounds"

4:30 p.m. — "Manufactured Landscapes": Where does our industrial waste go? What happens to computer screens and parts? As Jennifer Baichwal's stimulating Canadian documentary illustrates, much of it ends up in China, where it's methodically recycled into the country's already-contaminated air and water. In the most chilling sequence, eager Chinese teenagers use their bare hands to salvage oil from a tanker; the job is considered too dangerous for older folks. Reminiscent of Al Gore's slide-and-lecture show, "An Inconvenient Truth," Baichwal's film takes a more abstract and poetic approach to the pollution of Mother Earth. The opening tracking shot, filmed at a giant factory, is a stunner. 90 minutes. Director Baichwal is scheduled to attend the screening. (J.H.)

7 p.m. — "Born and Bred"

9:30 p.m. — "After This Our Exile"

SIFF Cinema

5 p.m. — "Sanctuary: Lisa Gerrard": Clive Collier's loose, flickering portrait of Australian-born musician/composer Lisa Gerrard is not a typical documentary — and that's appropriate, because the Australian-born Gerrard is not a typical artist. Her often wordless, haunting songs (their nonverbal quality, she says, "unlocks the imagination") dance on the border between music and sound; Collier shows her in a freeway tunnel, her notes echoing and harmonizing with the cars' hum. Michael Mann ("The Insider"), Niki Caro ("Whale Rider") and Russell Crowe talk about working with her, but the calm, soft-spoken Gerrard dominates, as well she should. 90 minutes. (Moira Macdonald)

7 p.m. — "Slipstream": Director Anthony Hopkins is scheduled to attend the screening.

9:45 p.m. — "Salty Air"