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Baghead: A frequently bracing, lo-fi revisitation of the concept behind the 1972 zombie flick Children ShouldnaE™t Play With Dead ThingsaE”ham actors isolated in the woods canaE™t decipher if the horror stalking them is real, or their own theatrical prankishness run amokaE”the Duplass brothersaE™ latest imagines four Hollywood never-beens holed up in an isolated cabin to write themselves a breakthrough. (NR) NICK PINKERTON Egyptian: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Mon., June 9.)
Baghead: A frequently bracing, lo-fi revisitation of the concept behind the 1972 zombie flick Children ShouldnaE™t Play With Dead ThingsaE”ham actors isolated in the woods canaE™t decipher if the horror stalking them is real, or their own theatrical prankishness run amokaE”the Duplass brothersaE™ latest imagines four Hollywood never-beens holed up in an isolated cabin to write themselves a breakthrough. (NR) NICK PINKERTON Egyptian: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Mon., June 9.)

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Derek: Neatly dodging the standard pitfalls of the biographical documentary, Isaac JulienaE™s Derek has only two voices to steer it: subject Derek Jarman (mostly from an apparently exhaustive interview conducted by fellow cult-fave film director Bernard Rose in 1990) and his frequent star/muse Tilda Swinton. A wonderfully unsparing Jarman discusses with disarming frankness everything from having public sex in the aE™80s to why he was a cinematic pioneer. (NR) VADIM RIZOV Harvard Exit: 7 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Sat. June 7.)

Derek: Neatly dodging the standard pitfalls of the biographical documentary, Isaac JulienaE™s Derek has only two voices to steer it: subject Derek Jarman (mostly from an apparently exhaustive interview conducted by fellow cult-fave film director Bernard Rose in 1990) and his frequent star/muse Tilda Swinton. A wonderfully unsparing Jarman discusses with disarming frankness everything from having public sex in the aE™80s to why he was a cinematic pioneer. (NR) VADIM RIZOV Harvard Exit: 7 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Sat. June 7.)

Boystown: An underwear-model-esque villain wants to gentrify Chueca, MadridaE™s dowdy but cozy gay ghetto. Whenever some old lady declines to sell her apartmentaE”so it can be converted into an airy white box and flipped to a pir of nesting twinksaE”he bumps her off. One of the victims has willed her apartment to Rey, so he and his boyfriend, Leo, become prime suspects. (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT Harvard Exit: 9:15 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 4 p.m. Sun. June 8.)

Boystown: An underwear-model-esque villain wants to gentrify Chueca, MadridaE™s dowdy but cozy gay ghetto. Whenever some old lady declines to sell her apartmentaE”so it can be converted into an airy white box and flipped to a pir of nesting twinksaE”he bumps her off. One of the victims has willed her apartment to Rey, so he and his boyfriend, Leo, become prime suspects. (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT Harvard Exit: 9:15 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 4 p.m. Sun. June 8.)

Under the Bombs: The film, about a Lebanese mother searching for her young son following IsraelaE™s misguided 2006 war in her country, is meant aEœto tell the suffering of the innocents.aE (NR) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema: 7 p.m., Monday, June 9 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Tues., June 10.)

Under the Bombs: The film, about a Lebanese mother searching for her young son following IsraelaE™s misguided 2006 war in her country, is meant aEœto tell the suffering of the innocents.aE (NR) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema: 7 p.m., Monday, June 9 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Tues., June 10.)

Timecrimes: During a quiet retreat to the country, a man spies some suspicious activity in the forest through his binoculars. He goes out to investigate, and then thingsaE¦happen. (R) FRANK PAIVA Pacific Place: 9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 7 (Also: Egyptian, 7 p.m. Sun., June 15.)

Timecrimes: During a quiet retreat to the country, a man spies some suspicious activity in the forest through his binoculars. He goes out to investigate, and then thingsaE¦happen. (R) FRANK PAIVA Pacific Place: 9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 7 (Also: Egyptian, 7 p.m. Sun., June 15.)

Man on Wire: In 1974, French funambulist Philippe Petit and his determined cohorts smuggled and installed a high-wire rig on top of the World Trade Center, where Petit then walked, danced, and laid down between the Twin TowersaE”criminal performance art to the ESPN2 extreme. In Brit filmmaker James MarshaE™s exhilarating doc account, PetitaE™s adventure is re-enacted like a slick heist thriller. (NR) AARON HILLIS Egyptian: 7 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 11 a.m. Sat., June 7.)

Man on Wire: In 1974, French funambulist Philippe Petit and his determined cohorts smuggled and installed a high-wire rig on top of the World Trade Center, where Petit then walked, danced, and laid down between the Twin TowersaE”criminal performance art to the ESPN2 extreme. In Brit filmmaker James MarshaE™s exhilarating doc account, PetitaE™s adventure is re-enacted like a slick heist thriller. (NR) AARON HILLIS Egyptian: 7 p.m., Thursday, June 5 (Also: 11 a.m. Sat., June 7.)

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame: The 2001 destruction of the famous giant Buddhas in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan has already been the subject of a documentary or two. What Hana MakhmalbafaE”of the famous Iranian filmmaking familyaE”hoped to do with the subject isnaE™t clear in this tortuously slow, grindingly obvious debut feature. (NR) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema: 9:15 p.m., Monday, June 9 (Also: Egyptian, 7 p.m. Wed., June 11.)

Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame: The 2001 destruction of the famous giant Buddhas in the Bamiyan region of Afghanistan has already been the subject of a documentary or two. What Hana MakhmalbafaE”of the famous Iranian filmmaking familyaE”hoped to do with the subject isnaE™t clear in this tortuously slow, grindingly obvious debut feature. (NR) BRIAN MILLER SIFF Cinema: 9:15 p.m., Monday, June 9 (Also: Egyptian, 7 p.m. Wed., June 11.)

Seachd: The Crimson Snowdrop: Young Angus and his two siblings are orphaned after their parents fall during a treacherous climb in remote Scotland. The death of their parents doesnaE™t just tear apart the small family, itaE™s another hit to the rapidly shrinking group of people who still speak the medieval Scottish Gaelic of their ancestors, outlawed in 1616. (NR) LAURA ONSTOT SIFF Cinema: 9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 7 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Wed., June 11.)

Seachd: The Crimson Snowdrop: Young Angus and his two siblings are orphaned after their parents fall during a treacherous climb in remote Scotland. The death of their parents doesnaE™t just tear apart the small family, itaE™s another hit to the rapidly shrinking group of people who still speak the medieval Scottish Gaelic of their ancestors, outlawed in 1616. (NR) LAURA ONSTOT SIFF Cinema: 9:30 p.m., Saturday, June 7 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Wed., June 11.)

Theater of War: John W. WalteraE™s doc tells the backstage story of New York CityaE™s Public TheateraE™s 2006 staging of Bertolt BrechtaE™s 1939 Mother Courage and its status as (says artistic director Oskar Eustis) aEœthe greatest antiwar play ever written.aE (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT SIFF Cinema: 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 10 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Thurs. June 12.)

Theater of War: John W. WalteraE™s doc tells the backstage story of New York CityaE™s Public TheateraE™s 2006 staging of Bertolt BrechtaE™s 1939 Mother Courage and its status as (says artistic director Oskar Eustis) aEœthe greatest antiwar play ever written.aE (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT SIFF Cinema: 7 p.m., Tuesday, June 10 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Thurs. June 12.)

Be Like Others: How far would you go to be with the one you love? In Tanaz EshaghianaE™s powerful documentary, the answer is a dangerous sex-change operation that carries the additional risk of being permanently shunned by your family. (NR) AIMEE CURL Harvard Exit: 9:15 p.m., Friday, June 6 (Also: Egyptian, 1:30 p.m. Sat. June 7.)

Be Like Others: How far would you go to be with the one you love? In Tanaz EshaghianaE™s powerful documentary, the answer is a dangerous sex-change operation that carries the additional risk of being permanently shunned by your family. (NR) AIMEE CURL Harvard Exit: 9:15 p.m., Friday, June 6 (Also: Egyptian, 1:30 p.m. Sat. June 7.)

Postcards from Leningrad: If major themes didnaE™t include guerilla warfare, torture, and death, IaE™d almost call it adorable, thanks to the quirky innocence of its unnamed six-year-old narrator (Claudia Usubillaga), the daughter of two rebels in aE™60s Venezuela. Crucial moments include her nonsensical explanation of her fatheraE™s plan to escape from prison by becoming aEœFrog Man,aE which we seeaE”and comprehend how itaE™s been (mis)translated to a childaE™s understanding. (NR) EMMA BREYSSE Pacific Place: 9:15 p.m., Tuesday, June 10 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Thurs., June 12.)

Postcards from Leningrad: If major themes didnaE™t include guerilla warfare, torture, and death, IaE™d almost call it adorable, thanks to the quirky innocence of its unnamed six-year-old narrator (Claudia Usubillaga), the daughter of two rebels in aE™60s Venezuela. Crucial moments include her nonsensical explanation of her fatheraE™s plan to escape from prison by becoming aEœFrog Man,aE which we seeaE”and comprehend how itaE™s been (mis)translated to a childaE™s understanding. (NR) EMMA BREYSSE Pacific Place: 9:15 p.m., Tuesday, June 10 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Thurs., June 12.)

The Wave: During a weeklong study of authoritarianism, an unorthodox teacher encourages his complacent students to start their own society to experience life under a dictatorship. Things soon (surprise, surprise) take a turn for the worse, with teens dressing in uniform, attacking outsiders, and giving suspicious hand salutes. (NR) FRANK PAIVA Pacific Place: 6:30 p.m., Friday, June 6 (Also: 1:30 p.m. Sat., June 7.)

The Wave: During a weeklong study of authoritarianism, an unorthodox teacher encourages his complacent students to start their own society to experience life under a dictatorship. Things soon (surprise, surprise) take a turn for the worse, with teens dressing in uniform, attacking outsiders, and giving suspicious hand salutes. (NR) FRANK PAIVA Pacific Place: 6:30 p.m., Friday, June 6 (Also: 1:30 p.m. Sat., June 7.)

Tulia, Texas: At the prompting of a regional task force, undercover agent Tom Coleman conducted an 18-month investigation that ended with the arrest of 46 people, 39 of them black. Despite solid alibis and witnesses, juries sent away the defendants for up to 99 years solely on ColemanaE™s word. (NR) JESSE FROEHLING Harvard Exit: 1:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 7 p.m. Mon., June 9.)

Tulia, Texas: At the prompting of a regional task force, undercover agent Tom Coleman conducted an 18-month investigation that ended with the arrest of 46 people, 39 of them black. Despite solid alibis and witnesses, juries sent away the defendants for up to 99 years solely on ColemanaE™s word. (NR) JESSE FROEHLING Harvard Exit: 1:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 7 p.m. Mon., June 9.)

EncarnaciA³n: Pacific Place: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Mon., June 9.)

EncarnaciA³n: Pacific Place: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Mon., June 9.)

Saturn in Opposition: From Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, whose Facing Windows was a favorite at SIFF aE™04, this sensitively observed drama follows a month or so in the lives of a circle of Italian friends. (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT Pacific Place: 9:15 p.m. (Also: 11 a.m. Sun. June 8.)

Saturn in Opposition: From Turkish-Italian director Ferzan Ozpetek, whose Facing Windows was a favorite at SIFF aE™04, this sensitively observed drama follows a month or so in the lives of a circle of Italian friends. (NR) GAVIN BORCHERT Pacific Place: 9:15 p.m. (Also: 11 a.m. Sun. June 8.)