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NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERECongo Beat the DrumARIEL TAGAR // ISRAEL // 57 MIN // $12Sunday 4-19 // 12:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1CHICAGO PREMIEREDanny SaysBRENDAN TOLLER // USA // 104 MIN // $12Thursday 4-16 // 7:15 PM // Logan Theatre 3Take a journey through Jamaica’sstoried reggae culture ledby Ariel “Kalbata” Tagar, atechno producer known forhis inventive remixes and Uri“Mixmonster” Wertheim, amember of the funk band TheApples. In the midst of recordingan album of dub music, Kalbata& Mixmonster travel from Tel Aviv to the streets ofKingston in search of their favorite but long-neglectedreggae musicians. The result is an eye-opening film & aheart-pounding soundtrack.PLAYING WITH:ANGELO SPENCER ET LES HAUTS SOMMETS“MELATONIN AND WEED” // MVREMI COSNIER // CANADA // 4 MINA groovy animation of Quebec-band Angelo Spenceret Les Hauts Sommets plays like an indie rock updateof “My Favorite Things,” with a list including tigers, sex,drugs, surfing, and fruit (especially pineapples).CHICAGO PREMIEREThe Dicks from TexasCINDY MARABITO // USA // 70 MIN // $12Thursday 4-16 // 7:00 PM // Society for ArtsLong before Austin made weirdness a civic virtue, TheDicks made it a cause. Three rawboned Marlboro Mantypes fronted by Gary Floyd, a fat queer with a penchant forfright wigs, this self-described “commie faggot band” helpedput the Texas capital on the punk map in the early ‘80s withanthems like “Dicks Hate the Police” and “WheelchairEpidemic.” Cindy Marabito was there, and her super-DIYdocumentary is an affectionate oral history of a truly distinctivehardcore scene that, like the band and community itchronicles, makes up in attitude and personality what it lacksin polish.PLAYING WITH:DONZELLE // “LIBIDO MACRO” // MVSIMON HARRISON AND NAMAÏ KHAMPOCANADA // 5 MINLibido Macro is a glimpse at how Donzelle and her dancersget ready before they go out and get what they want.A SHORT HISTORY OF MADNESS // SHORT FICTIONISABELLE HAYEUR // CANADA // 27 MINA beautifully choreographed journey through visceral andpoetic perspectives of a reality that transcends time. Thisevocative, dance-centric film follows the history of treatingmental illness when contemporary dance and architecturemerge inside the mind and movement of psychosis.A documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields,who played a pivotal role in music and “culture” ofthe late 20th century: working for The Doors, LouReed, Nico, Judy Collins and managing groundbreakingartists like the Stooges, the MC5 andthe Ramones. Danny Says follows Fields fromHarvard Law dropout to Warhol’s Silver Factory toDirector of Publicity at Elektra Records. Handcraftedfrom over 250 hours of interviews and items from Field’simmense archives (thousands of photographs, audiocassettes, ephemera). Danny Says weaves candidinterviews, animation, archival video, photographs, performancefootage, radio shows, demos and taped phoneconversations spanning decades. (With Q&A)PLAYING WITH:THRONE // “THARSIS SLEEPS” // MVNICOS LIVESEY AND TOM BUNKER // UK // 5 MINA sci-fi throwback to the 1981 animated anthologyfeature Heavy Metal with a mind-blowing twist – every singleframe is embroidered, sewn together stitch by stitch.CHICAGO PREMIEREDon’t Think I’ve ForgottenCambodia’s Lost Rock ‘n’ RollPresented in conjunction withThe Cambodian Association of IllinoisJOHN PIROZZI // USA // 105 MIN // $12Thursday 4-16 // 7:00 PM // Logan Theatre 1During the Vietnam War,Cambodian musicians crafteda sound from the various rockmusic styles sweeping America,England and France adding inunique melodies and hypnoticrhythms of their traditional music.Then on April 17, 1975, the KhmerRouge began wiping out all tracesof modernity and Westerninfluence. Intellectuals, artists and musicians were specificallyand systematically targeted and eliminated. Don’t Think I’veForgotten provides a new perspective on a country, usuallyassociated only with war and genocide.PLAYING WITH:UNCLE ESSY // SHORT DOCNIYAZ SAGHARI // IRAN // 22 MINA touching portrait of the oldest record stallholder inTehran’s largest bazaar, Uncle Essy became a well-knownmusical source, and an inspiration to young people in Iranafter the revolution. Emotional interviews at his stall revealdeep ties to a music collection he lovingly shared with others.16 // CIMMfest.org // CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL MOVIES & MUSIC FESTIVAL