Santa Fe Film Festival at the Museum Selected screenings

The Santa Fe Film Festival returns for its 10th seasons Dec. 2-6, with selected showings in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. For ticket info and a full schedule of films, go to the festival web site: http://santafefilmfestival.com.

Film-goers: Enter through the Museum's Washington Avenue entrance.

Here's a schedule of screenings at the museum:

Thursday, Dec. 3, 10 am: World premiere of "Dream" (documentary, 120 minutes). Follow the journeys of six ordinary Americans from six very different backgrounds as they attempt to achieve a lifelong dream.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 12:45 pm: "The Nature of Existence" (documentary, 94 minutes). Filmmaker Roger Nygard interviews spiritual leaders, scholars, scientists, artists, pizza chefs, and others who have influenced, inspired, or freaked out humanity.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 3 pm: "Unconquered: Alan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family" (short documentary, 33 minutes); and "More From Life" (animation, 9 minutes). Spanning from the 1860’s through today, the Houser / Haozous story is a journey exploring the incarceration of a people, growth brought on by freedom, and a family’s personal expression of these experiences through art.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 5 pm: "The Heretics" (documentary, 95 minutes); with "Words" (animation, 2 minutes). "The Heretics" uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement through the eyes of Joan Braderman who arrives in NYC in 1971 to become a filmmaker.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 7:15 pm: World premiere of "Char.ac.ter" (documentary, 88 minutes). A raw and candid dialogue about the art and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Mark Rydell, Harry Dean Stanton and including a very special interview with Sydney Pollack – the last he would do in his life.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 9:30 pm: World premiere of "The Invocation" (documentary, 90 minutes); with "A Thousand Suns" (documentary short, 27 minutes). "The Invocation" is a worldwide exploration of the notion of 'God' and Peace through religion, spirituality, science, history, politics and arts, from India to Japan to South America to South Africa to Europe to across the USA. "A Thousand Suns" tells the story of the Gamo Highlands of the African Rift Valley and the unique worldview held by the people of the region.

Friday, Dec. 4, 10:15 am: "Food Fight" (documentary, 83 minutes). A fascinating look at how American agricultural policy and food culture developed in the 20th century, and how the California food movement has created a counter-revolution against big agribusiness.

Friday, Dec. 4, 12:30 pm: "El Corazon de Santa Fe (The Heart of Santa Fe)" (documentary, 92 minutes). In the context of Santa Fe's 400th anniversary, the film explores the city's fascinating treasures of art, history, faith, lore, and legend.

Friday, Dec. 4, 2:45 pm: "Mythic Journeys" (documentary, 94 minutes). A unique fusion of documentary, animation and story, starring Tim Curry, Mark Hamill and Lance Henriksen. Documentary-style interviews are interwoven with a Hi-Def stop-motion animated adaptation of an ancient myth where a noble king is charged with the grim task of delivering a corpse to a mysterious sorcerer.

Friday, 5:15 pm: "Cowtown Ballroom: Sweet Jesus" (documentary, 85 minutes). A documentary film about Cowtown Ballroom, a legendary concert venue in Kansas City, Missouri, that featured an eclectic mix of musicians including Frank Zappa, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Van Morrison, B. B. King and Linda Ronstadt.

Friday, Dec. 4, 7:30 pm: "The Red Machine (documentary, 84 minutes); with "Gandhi at the Bat" (short narrative, 11 minutes). Full of crackling dialogue, eye-catching visuals and unpredictable twists, co-directors Stephanie Argy's and Alec Boehm's "The Red Machine" is a charming throwback to the great espionage capers of the 1930s. "Gandhi at the Bat" is a newsreel-style account of the little-known (and totally fictional) incident when Mohandas K. Gandhi pinch-hit for the New York Yankees in 1933. Based on a short story by Chet Williamson that originally appeared in the New Yorker.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 10 am to noon: Kids First! Awards Ceremony

Saturday, Dec. 5, 1 pm: "Something Unknown is Doing We Don't Know What" (documentary, 105 minutes). Filmmaker Renée Scheltema sets out across the US to meet prominent scientists with solid credentials who are doing research into psychic phenomena, to see if there is any scientific evidence.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 3:30 pm: "El Corazon de Santa Fe (The Heart of Santa Fe)" (documentary, 92 minutes). In the context of Santa Fe's 400th anniversary, the film explores the city's fascinating treasures of art, history, faith, lore, and legend.

Saturday, Dec. 5, 5:45 pm: "Split Estate" (documentary, 76 minutes). Split Estate maps a tragedy in the making, as citizens in the path of a new drilling boom in the Rocky Mountain West struggle against the erosion of their civil liberties, their communities and their health.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 10 am: "Jesus in India (documentary, 97 minutes). Author Edward T. Martin undertakes a seeker’s quest across 4,000 miles of India in search of answers and clues about where Jesus was during the “hidden years” from ages 12 to 30, looking for evidence that has long been reported as existing in India.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 12:25 pm: World premiere of "The New Sudan" (documentary, 84 minutes); with "Chasing KEINO" (documentary short, 28 minutes). The long war is over. Southern Sudan becomes New Sudan. Peace treaties are inked and enemies shake hands. But other wars still rage. The war of awakening hope against the habit of despair. The war of new alliances against decades of mistrust. The war of joyful homecoming against the lack of homes remaining. Above all, it is a war for the human heart against the heart of darkness. In "Chasing KEINO," follow six Kenyan nationals, members of the AmeriKenyan Running Club, as they train in Santa Fe, New Mexico in preparation for US marathon racing.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2:45 pm: "Made in Pakistan" (documentary, 56 minutes); with "'48 Generations" (documentary, 48 minutes). "Made in Pakistan" tells the story of four Pakistani individuals who defy the prevailing stereotype of Pakistanis prevalent in the western media today and put their energies towards the progress of Pakistan. Collecting the family narratives of Jews and Arabs who experienced the West Bank events of 1948 first-hand, "’48 Generations" represents a street-level effort to document the lived realities and human consequences of the ongoing regional conflict.

Sunday, Dec. 6, 5:15 pm: "Girls On the Wall" (documentary, 61 minutes). When the girls of this Illinois' Warrenville Prison are given a most likely shot at redemption – the chance to write and stage a musical based on their lives – they’re challenged to re-live the events that led up to their crimes, reclaim their humanity, and find their own exuberant voices in a first step toward breaking free from the prison system.