Opening night ticket prices are $15 general admission and $8 for students with ID. Festival Films are $5 general admission and $3 for students with ID. The Box Office is located in Wells Hall. The Bresson Theater is 102B Wells, Capra Theater is 104B Wells, Fellini Theater is 106B Wells, and Hitchcock Theater is 108B Wells. For more information and a full schedule of the festival, including short films and student films, visit www.elff.com.

Wednesday

• 7:30 p.m. The film festival opens with “Super Sucker,” directed by Jeff Daniels, at the Hannah Community Center, Albert A. White Performing Arts Theater, 819 Abbott Road. The comedy follows two competing door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales teams that come across an housewives tool used for nontraditional purposes.

Thursday

• 7:30 p.m. “Innocence,” directed by Paul Cox, will run at Hitchcock Theater. The film is about a 40-year-old -hiatus love that is rekindled and now complicated by the two lovers previous life experiences of children, old habits and obligations.

• 9:45 p.m. “Hip Hop: The New World Order,” directed by Muhammida El Muhajir, will run at Hitchcock Theater. The documentary displays the global effect hip-hop has had on youths and how it has diluted culture barriers. The movie takes the audience through Tokyo, Havanan, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rio de Jeneiro and Johannesburg. The director, a Nike executive, is schedule to attend the screening.

Friday

• 7 p.m. “Wild Flowers,” directed by F.A. Brabec, will be shown at Bresson Theater. The movie is an arrangement of seven fairy tales based on Czech poet K.J Erben’s century-old “Ballads.”

• 7 p.m. “Strange Fruit,” directed by Joel Katz, will be shown at Fellini Theater. The movie is based on the 1930s anti-lynching protest song “Strange Fruit” written by Abel Meeropol. “The Angry Eye,” directed by Susan A. Golenbock, William Talmodge and Denis O’Keefe, will be shown afterward, and is a showcase on how to prevent discrimination and prejudice.

• 7 p.m. “Parsley Days,” directed by Andrea Dorfman, will be shown at Hitchcock Theater. The Canadian film explores when the perfect couple that is despised by their friends call it quits.

• 9 p.m. “Take it From Me,” directed by Emily Abt, will be screened at Bresson Theater. The movie is about four women fighting the odds of poverty, while clearing up the stereotypes portrayed by the media.

• 9 p.m. “Dirt Boy,” directed by Jay Frasco, runs at Capra Theater. The film is a comedic thriller about a recovering drug-addict fascinated by crime scene investigations.

• 9 p.m. “Unfinished Symphony,” directed by Bestor Cram and Mike Majoros, will be shown at Fellini Theater. The black-and-white film is a documentary about Vietnam and a 1971 anti-war resistance protest in Lexington, Mass.

• 9 p.m. “Plaster Caster,” directed by Jessica Villines, will run at Hitchcock Theater. The documentary is about Cynthia Plaster Caster who is best know for making plaster cast replicas of male rock star genitals. Cynthia Plaster Caster is scheduled to attend the screening.

Saturday

• 1:30 p.m. “Dear Fidel: Marita’s Story,” directed by Wilfried Huismann, is scheduled to play at Bresson Theater. The documentary is about the life experience of Marita Lorenz, who survived a concentration camp at age 5, became Castro’s lover and was recruited by the CIA to assassinate him, recruited by the FBI, and was involved with the Mafia. An embellished tale? Maybe.

• 1:30 p.m. “Margarita Happy Hour,” directed by Ilya Chaiken, will be shown at Capra Theater. The film, set in the NYC avant-garde scene, premiered at Sundance Film Festival.

• 1:30 p.m. “Going to School (Ir a la Escuela),” directed by Richard Cohen, will be shown at Fellini Theater. The movie details the education experiences of four disabled children in Los Angeles.

• 1:30 p.m. “Lumumba,” directed by Roaul Peck, is scheduled to run in Hitchcock Theater. This politically-based movie tells a true story about African leader Patrice Emery Lumumba.

• 4 p.m. “See How They Run,” directed by Emily Morse, will be shown at Bresson Theater. The film takes a behind-the-scenes look at American politics during a San Francisco mayoral election.

• 4 p.m. “Jails, Hospitals and Hip-Hop,” directed by Danny Hoch and Mark Benjamin, will play at Capra Theater. The film is a realization of New York performance artist Danny Hoch’s one-man show.

• 4 p.m. “La Tropical,” directed by David Turnley, will run at Fellini Theater. The film takes a look at legendary dance club La Tropical located in a remote barrio in Havana.

• 6:30 p.m. “Hybrid,” directed by Monteith McCollum, plays at Bresson Theater. “Hybrid” traces the life of the director’s grandfather, Milford Beeghly.

• 6:30 p.m. “Book of Stars, directed by Michael Miner, will run at Hitchcock Theater. This film follows two sisters who are fighting for acceptance of others, of themselves and for the inevitable.

• 9 p.m. “Pie in the Sky; The Brigid Berlin Story,” directed by Shelly Dunn Fremont and Vincent Fermont, will play at Bresson Theater in Wells Hall. This movie peeks into the past of the life of Brigid Berlin, an underground film legend.

• 9 p.m. “Joyful Partaking,” directed by William Moreing, will play at the Capra Theater. The film is a day in the life of a man the life of man agonizing over his participation of his son accidental death.

• 9 p.m. “Time of Favor,” directed by Joseph Cedar, will be shown at The Fellini Theater. The tells the story of a religious army officer implicated in a plot to bomb a mosque on the Temple Mount of Jerusalem.

• 9 p.m. “dirt,” directed by Trace Fraim and Micheal Covert, will run in Hitchcock Theater. The movie follows two adult brothers who kidnap a woman to replace their deceased mother.

Sunday

• Noon: “Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey,” directed by William Greaves, is scheduled to be shown in Hitchcock Theater. Narrated by Sidney Poitier, this documentary follows the life of Ralph Bunche, a black scholar and statesman. William Greaves, an Emmy-winner, is scheduled to appear at the screening.

• Noon: “Adio Kerida,” (Goodbye, Dear Love) directed by Ruth Behar, will run at Bresson Theater. The personal documentary is about Behar’s search for her past as a Sephardic Jew in Cuba.

• Noon: Michigan’s Own Student Film Competition and Showcase will run “Tokyo Below,” “Hit and Run,” “Canoes on the Avenue, “Every Third Hit” and others at Capra Theater.

• Noon: “Coping,” directed by Christopher Robin Hood, is scheduled to run at Fellini Theater. This movie is about a man’s citywide search for his true love after being mistaken for a terrorist at an airport.

• 2 p.m. “Early Bird Gets the Wild Double,” directed by Dhera Strauss, will be shown at Bresson Theater. The movie displays how deep Bingo conversation can get.

• 2 p.m. “Mergers and Acquisitions,” directed by Mitchell Bard, will run at Capra Theater. The movie follows a writer torn between choose his family and corporate values. Brian Vander Ark is scheduled to appear.

• 2 p.m. “Living With the Fosters,” directed by Joe Schanderson, will run at Hitchcock Theater. This film follows a family’s year of paranoid preparation for the Y2K crisis that never was.

l 4:30 p.m. “We Were Known As: African Americans in Lansing,” directed by Robert Burke, will be shown at Fellini Theater. The documentary takes a look at life in Lansing for blacks from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s

• 4:30 p.m. “Wicked Spring,” directed by Kevin Hershberger, will be shown at Hitchcock Theater. This film is about three confederate soldiers and three union soldiers at a campfire, unaware they’re on opposing sides.

Compiled by Aja Carmichael