Today's SIFF schedule

Movies listed without capsule descriptions or without star ratings did not screen in advance for critics.

Admiral Theater, 2343 California Ave. S.W., Seattle

11 a.m. — "Mamma Moo and Crow"

1:30 p.m. — "Nurse.Fighter.Boy": This sad, heavy-handed Canadian drama features a dying young single mother, her exquisitely beautiful 12-year-old son, and an illegal boxer named Silence. The kid (Daniel J. Gordon) is a vivid though quiet presence and may well be a talent to watch, but "Nurse.Fighter.Boy" feels very slow and familiar, like we've seen this movie before.

— Moira Macdonald

4 p.m. — "Kanchivaram"

7 p.m. — "Swimsuit Issue": A charmer in the "Full Monty" vein, this Swedish comedy follows the misadventures of a ragtag bunch of aging athletes who go for gold at the world championship of male synchronized swimming. Along the way, a loser dad makes good with his teen daughter. Clichéd? Yes. Delightful? Yes. And upbeat tunes by Swedish rock band The Soundtrack of Our Lives add a little extra juice. — Lynn Jacobson

9:30 p.m. — "Beauties at War"

Egyptian, 801 E. Pine St., Seattle

11 a.m. — "Il Divo"

1:30 p.m. — "True Adolescents"

4 p.m. — "FutureWave Shorts 2009"

6:30 p.m. — "World's Greatest Dad"

9:30 p.m. — "The Burning Plain"

Midnight — "Black Dynamite": Scott Sanders' very funny blaxploitation spoof stars Michael Jai White as Black Dynamite, a badass fellow who bellows all his lines, fights The Man and has a soft spot for orphans. ("These children are orphans, and orphans don't have parents," he explains.) Intentionally shlocky (watch for a scene in which B.D. warily eyes a very visible boom mike), and filled with lines like "Doughnuts don't wear alligator shoes," this should be a late-night hit. — M.M.

Harvard Exit, 807 E. Roy St., Seattle

11 a.m. — "The Wild Bees": See "The Country Teacher," below.

1:30 p.m. — "The Country Teacher": Czech director Bohdan Sláma has been anointed one of the "Emerging Masters" in this year's SIFF (his earlier "Wild Bees" plays at the Harvard Exit at 11 a.m.). With this sharp study of a closeted gay teacher from Prague taking a village-school job for convoluted, self-defeating reasons of his own, it's easy to see why. The film boasts subtle performances, curious situations with unpredictable outcomes and beguiling camerawork (long, slow, almost headily mobile takes that transform the Czech countryside into an inviting but disorienting paradise). — M.M.

4:30 p.m. — "Mommy is at the Hairdresser's"

7 p.m. — "At West of Pluto"

9:30 p.m. — "The Square"

Juanita Beach Park, 9703 N.E. Juanita Dr., Kirkland

9 p.m. — "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies": Closer to Maxwell Smart or Inspector Clouseau than Austin Powers, the swaggering boob who laughs at his own leaden quips is the hero of a sharp and hilarious deadpan French-import spy spoof that won the Audience Award for Best Film at the 2006 Seattle International Film Festival. — Mark Rahner

Pacific Place, 600 Pine St., fourth floor, Seattle

11 a.m. — "Prodigal Sons"

1 p.m. — "Everything Strange and New": This indie film about debt, dead ends and marital malaise in Oakland, Calif., starts out on such a drab and downbeat note, it feels downright dejected. But it does — listlessly — build up to something raw and intense, and it pulls off some curious visual tricks, too. For patient viewers only. — Michael Upchurch

3:30 p.m. — "Inland"

06:30 p.m. — "That Evening Sun"

9:30 p.m. — "Grace"

SIFF Cinema, McCaw Hall, 321 Mercer St., Seattle

11 a.m. — "Moonbeam Bear and His Friends"

1:30 p.m. — "Le Amiche"

4 p.m. — "A Woman Under the Influence": The most popular and broadly acclaimed of writer-director John Cassavetes' movies, this lengthy 1975 drama about a troubled marriage earned Academy Award nominations for Cassavetes (as best director) and Gena Rowlands (best actress).

7:15 p.m. — "Little Joe": Joe Dallesandro, the often-naked star of Andy Warhol/Paul Morrissey films ("Flesh," "Trash," "Heat"), later parlayed his looks into a career as a character actor ("The Cotton Club," "The Limey"). If you already know who he is, this documentary — in which he gives a wry, humble, skeptical account of his ascent from street kid to film legend — has lots to offer. What's missing is an outsider's take on just how sweetly taboo-shattering his work with the Warhol crowd was. (Unrated: full-frontal nudity). — M.U.

9:45 p.m. — "The Baby Formula"

Uptown, 511 Queen Anne Ave. N., Seattle

11 a.m. — "Final Arrangements"

1:15 p.m. — "Inju, the Beast in the Shadow": The new thriller from Barbet Schroeder ("Reversal of Fortune") aspires to things Hitchcockian and does include some nicely orchestrated macabre moments, especially in its dream sequence. But the far-fetched tale, about a French crime-fiction writer preening his way through Tokyo, only to meet his nemesis, gets unintentional laughs as well. Elegant, nasty, silly. — M.U.

4:15 p.m. — "A Woman in Berlin"

7:15 p.m. — "Black"

9:45 p.m. — "Melodrama Habibi"