Fashion on Film Festival
Lagerfeld Confidential

Directed by Rodolphe Marconi/France/2007/91min. With Nicole Kidman, Karl Lagerfeld, Princess Caroline of Monaco

For the first time, Karl Lagerfeld, the innovative designer who has ruled the House of Chanel for more than two decades, agreed to trust a director to create an film based on his life. After three years of crisscrossing the globe filming the outspoken icon, Rodolphe Marconi unveils the inner workings of the influential and enigmatic star. In English and French with English subtitles.
Friday, Oct. 16 at 7 p.m.

Miami Film Festival 2009
Valentino: The Last Emperor

Directed by Matt Tyrnauer/USA/2009. With Valentino, Giancarlo Giammetti, Giorgio Armani, Tom Ford, Karl Lagerfeld, Claudia Schiffer, Donatella Versace, Anna Wintour

This feature-length film on the legendary designer Valentino Garavani in the wake of his 2008 exit from the company he founded in Rome more than 45 years ago was produced and directed by Matt Tyrnauer, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair magazine. The film is an intimate, engaging and very funny fly-on-the-wall exploration of the singular world of one of Italy's richest and most famous men.
Friday, Oct. 16 and Saturday, Oct. 17 at 9 p.m.

Yves Saint Laurent 5 Avenue Marceau 75116 Paris

Directed by David Teboul/France/2002/85 min. With Yves Saint Laurent, Catherine Deneuve

The detailed documentary portrait of Yves Saint Laurent and his final Spring Line, is beautifully illustrated by his sketches and final versions of his designs. The clothes have a starring role: spectacularly beautiful, made of the most exotic and fragile materials, and modeled by women whose dimensions defy reality. In French with English subtitles.
Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7 p.m.

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Coco Before Chanel

Directed by Anne Fontaine/France/2009/110min. With Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain

This is the story of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, who begins her life as a headstrong orphan, and through an extraordinary journey becomes the legendary couturier who embodied the modern woman and became a timeless symbol of success, freedom and style. In French with English subtitles.
Sunday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m.

Global Lens Series
My Time Will Come

Directed by Víctor Arregui /Equador/2008/90mins.

A predawn murder sets in motion a series of interlocking tragedies that eventually find their way to the city morgue's brooding Dr. Arturo Fernandez. Physically and emotionally isolated from the world around him, Arturo develops an oddly intimate relationship with the personal lives of his cases. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 8:30 p.m.

Vu Par VARDA Series
Vagabond

Directed by Agnès Varda/France/1985/105 min. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Macha Méril, Stephane Freiss,Yolande Moreau

Sandrine Bonnaire stars as the defiant young drifter Mona, found frozen to death in a ditch at the beginning of “Vagabond.”Agnès Varda pieces together Mona's story through flashbacks told by those who encountered her. In French with English subtitles.
Thursday, Oct. 22 at 8:30 p.m.