IndieScreen, 285 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn Heights Cinema, 70 Henry St.
June 3-12, $10 per screening
Full Festival Pass $200, 4 Pack Pass $25, Opening Night Pass $25
www.brooklynfilmfestival.org
The 2011 edition of the Brooklyn International Film Festival will take place June 3-12 at IndieScreen and Brooklyn Heights Cinema, comprising more than one hundred films from more than two dozen countries. The competitive festival, whose theme this year is “Plot” — which could relate to both story line as well as the controversial plot of land known as the Atlantic Yards — includes such feature films as Kitao Sakurai’s Aardvark (U.S.), Davey Frankel & Rasselas Lakew’s The Athlete (Ethiopia), Julien Donada’s On the Shore (France), Slava Ross’s Siberia, Monamour (Russia), and Massimiliano Verdesca’s W Zappatore and such full-length documentaries as Marjoleine Boonstra’s Among Horses and Men (the Netherlands), Daniel Bishop’s Bed Stuy — Do or Die (England), Maya Derrington’s Pyjama Girls (Ireland), and Katja Esson’s Skydancer (U.S.). Appropriately, Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky’s Battle for Brooklyn, about the continuing fight over the Atlantic Yards project and potentially bringing the Nets to Brooklyn, kicks things off on June 3, followed by a Q&A with the directors and composers and an after-party at the powerHouse Arena; it will also be shown June 9 at 9:00 in Fort Greene Park in conjunction with Rooftop Films. KidsFilmFest 2011 will take place June 4 at IndieScreen and June 5 at the Long Island Children’s Museum. Among the awards up for grabs are the Grand Chameleon for best film, Best in Category, Best New Director, the Spirit Award, and the Audience Award.