The fifth annual Vail Film Festival will take place April 3 – April 6, 2008 in scenic Vail Village, surrounded by Colorado’s majestic snow capped mountains, in the heart of America’s most famous ski resort.

Adventures of Power
Ari Gold (US, 2008, 96 min)
Adventures of Power is an epic music-driven comedy about an outcast named Power whose love of the beat sends him on a quest across America to compete in the first-ever Air Drum Battle. On his journey, he gathers an assortment of outcasts who believe that their strange skill could change the world.
Starring: Ari Gold, Adrian Grenier, Michael McKean, Jane Lynch

Cake Eaters
Mary Stuart Masterson
Mary Stuart Masterson's directorial debut is a romantic drama set in a small town where the intimate secrets and tensions of two families force them to come to terms with life, love and death.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Bruce Dem, Elizabeth Ashley, Jayce Bartok, Jesse L. Martin

Diminished Capacity
Terry Kinney (US, 2007, 92 min)
After a concussion leaves him unfocused, short on short-term memory, and demoted from the political pages to the comics, Cooper (Matthew Broderick), a Chicago newspaper editor, travels home to Missouri to visit his aging Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda). On the verge of losing his home and exhibiting signs of senility, Rollie spends his time stubbornly refusing to pay bills, compulsively drying socks, and sitting by the lake editing "fish poetry" (think typewriter keys tied to baited fishing lines). But when he shows Cooper a near-mint-condition Frank "Wildfire" Schulte baseball card, the two muddled men, along with Cooper's high school sweetheart Charlotte (Virginia Madsen), drive back to Chicago hoping to sell the antique card at a memorabilia convention. It's with a hint of melancholy that we accept that our memories are fleeting, or as Rollie's fish point out in one of their more-accessible poems, "Time is the guest of the north." They may be on to something.
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen

Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Nicholas Stoller
To clear his head, Peter (Jason Segel) takes an impulsive trip to Oahu, where he is confronted by his worst nightmare: his ex-girlfriend, Sarah (Kristen Bell) and her tragically hip new British-rocker boyfriend, Aldous (Russell Brand), are sharing his hotel. For anyone who has ever had their heart ripped out and cut into a billion pieces comes a hilarious, heartfelt look at relationships. . Forgetting Sarah Marshall is the world’s first romantic disaster comedy.
Starring: Jason Segel, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, and Russell Brand

Fix
Tao Ruspoli (US, 2008, 90 min)
Shot in the first person by the actors in the film, Fix is a one day odyssey through the myriad worlds of Los Angeles as documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo race to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8pm, or Leo goes to prison for 3 years. Inspired by true events, we follow the trio as they document their trip from a suburban police station in Calabasas, mansions in Beverly Hills, east LA chop shops, and housing projects in Watts.
Starring: Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tao Ruspoli, DeDee Pfeiffer

Goodbye Baby
Daniel Schechter
When Melissa Brooks (Evangelista) discovers she can't afford college she moves to New York City and gets a job as a waitress at a comedy club. Living with her eccentric, older brother (Sandomire), she enters an unlikely love triangle while trying to raise the nerve to get on stage and perform.
Starring: Christine Evangelista, Jerry Adler, Kevin Corrigan

In Search of a Midnight Kiss
Alex Holdridge (US, 2007, 99 min)
In Search of a Midnight Kiss is a rollicking comic ride and tender journey through love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve.
Starring: Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds

Mister Foe
David Mackenzie (UK, 2007, 95 min)
Jamie Bell plays Hallam Foe, a troubled young man whose knack for voyeurism paradoxically reveals his darkest fears, and his most peculiar desires. A 17-year-old misfit, Hallam spends his days spying on people from a tree house on the grounds of his father's (Ciarán Hinds) house in the Scottish Highlands.
Starring: Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds

Off Jackson Avenue
John-Luke Montias
An intersecting crime story set in New York involving a Mexican woman who has been tricked into sex-slavery and must find a way to break out/a Japanese hit man who is in town to do a job for the Chinese mob and perseveres to finish his assignment despite the fact that he is haunted by his recently-dead mother's ghost/a local car-thief who goes on a steal-a-thon in order to raise enough capital to buy a tire store and go legit.
Starring: Jun Suenaga, Jessica Pimenti, Stivi Paskoski, Aya Cash, Dan Oreskes, Judith Hawking

Remarkable Power!
Brandon Beckner
A late night talk show host masterminds an elaborate scheme to save his cancelled show and avenge his wife's affair entangling an eclectic collection of tinsel towners in the process.
Starring: Kevin Nealon, Tom Arnold, Nora Zehetner, Kip Pardue, Due Hill

Summerhood
Jacob Medjuck
This serrated sendoff on childhood is a heartfelt coming-of-age comedy that observes an inverse relationship between one’s level of stress and the ability to grow pubic hair. “Does camp feel like prison?” asks this summer saga of four best friends who hate each other. Young Fetus struggles for status while confused by his first summer love. Abandoned by friends, rejected by love, and confined, Fetus risks summers without sunlight for romance and glory.
Starring: Christopher McDonald, Lucian Maisel, Scott Beaudin, Jacob Medjuck, Joe Flaherty

The Collective
Judson Pearce Morgan & Kelly Overton
Tyler Clarke is on the redeye to New York City. Her sister is in trouble. But when she arrives, Jessica is nowhere to be found. In order to discover the truth, Tyler must delve into a world of darkness and lies…the underbelly of a spiritually depraved community living in a deconsecrated cathedral.
Starring: Kelly Overton, Laura Allen, Shane Mcrae, Donnie Keshawarz, Wynn Everett, James Yaegashi

The Guitar
Amy Redford (US, 2008, 93 min)
One morning Mel, a mousy, harried New Yorker with a thankless job and even less-appealing boyfriend, learns that the tumor in her throat is terminal, so it seems that both her job and her relationship are kaput. She embarks on an endless spree, the kind of self-indulgent wish fulfillment that we all fantasize about. Based on a real story, this beautifully realized parable speaks volumes about living.
Starring: Saffron Burrows, Isaach De Bankole, Paz de la Huerta, Janeane Garofalo, Reg Rogers, Adam Trese

The Living Wake
Sol Tyron (US, 2008, 90 min)
The Living Wake is a dark comedy, which chronicles the final day in the life of a self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew. Over the course of his last 24 hours Binew and his best friend/biographer Joquin Mills travel around town setting his affairs in order and handing out invitations to his final party, a living wake, during which K. Roth will perform and then drop dead on the spot. A completely original and charming comedy, The Living Wake is a film for everyone that knows, no matter what the evidence to the contrary, that they are the stars of their own stories.

This Beautiful City
Ed Gass-Donnelly
The lives of five people living in Toronto's lower west end intersect three months after they met under a tragic circumstance.
Starring: Aaron Poole, Caroline Cave, Kristin Booth, Noam Jenkins

Up With Me
Greg Takoudes
After winning a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school, Francisco must struggle to maintain his relationships with his girlfriend, Erika, who fears he will no longer be the boy from El Barrio she loves, and best friend Brandon, who acts out in increasingly serious ways to force Francisco back home.
Starring: Francisco Vicioso, Erika Rivera, Brandon Thorpe