Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2008

90 Miles (66 min USA) 7/25 3:15pm Kenwood Depot 90 Miles refers to the distance between Cuba and southern Florida, a region that has become synonymous with Latin culture. At the core of that culture is its music. One of the seminal artists who helped bring Latin Music into the American mainstream is Grammy Award winner, Gloria Estefan. Latin music pioneers Chocolate Armenteros, Jose Feliciano and Carlos Santana reminisce about the early days of the Cuban Music cultural crossover, including stories and mini-biographies that provide a insider glimpse into these artists' lives, as the music featured throughout the documentary creates an even more personal connection to these stories.

Get Up, Stand Up! -- Africa Unite is a masterfully executed film that is at once concert tribute, Marley family travelogue, and humanitarian documentary, igniting the screen with the spirit of world-renowned reggae icon Bob Marley in its every frame. In commemoration of Bob’s 60th birthday, the movie is centered on the Marleys first-time-ever family trip to Ethiopia in 2005. It includes rare footage of the legendary reggae icon Bob Marley, appearances by UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador / actor Danny Glover, and world music sensation and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Angélique Kidjo. Please note: Purchase of $20 tickets to Africa Unite includes admission to Other People's Parties , 6:00 pm, Aug. 2 at Copia Please note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before each event. Tickets may still be available for purchase at the venue.

This latest documentary from Northern California filmmaker Les Blank (Burden of Dreams, Gap-Toothed Women and first-time director Gina Leibrecht), is a voyage of discovery, an exploration into the world of tea as seen through the eyes of American tea expert and merchant, David Lee Hoffman. Hoffman is obsessed with tea; during his youth, he spent four years with Tibetan monks in Nepal, which included a friendship with the Dalai Lama, and was introduced to some of the finest tea, the golden nectar with which we can taste the distant past. Today, Hoffman travels the same route in China as one Robert Fortune, a British botanist, who in the 1840s, traveled incognito through China, gathering the finest teas. Hoffman is after the finest handmade, organic teas that reflect the areas where the plant was grown in China and the talent of its maker. He worries that these small farmers could disappear in a society devoted to production of scale, so even as he buys tea, he is always advocating for the farmer, natural fertilizer and fair trade. After the film there will be a Q&A with filmmaker Les Blank and a Tea Ceremony presented by David Wong of Tillerman Tea Company Please note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before each event. Tickets may still be available for purchase at the venue.

In a culture that places a value on the ability to hold in ones feelings, two brothers stuck in a traffic jam must break through a wall of unexpressed emotions, to get to the heart of what is really important when faced with a life threatening situation. Please note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before each event. Tickets may still be available for purchase at the venue.

Anjali is a drama about Anjali Gupal, a rebellious Indian-American teenager whose family struggles daily to accommodate both their traditional Indian values alongside more contemporary American concerns. When Anjali brings her boyfriend home to have sex, she is surprised to find someone else is already there. Please note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before each event. Tickets may still be available for purchase at the venue.

Art of the inspired souls whose compulsion to create art in the most dire of circumstances sometimes saved their lives, but also aided thousands of others to touch upon their experiences from within the most oppressive man-slaughter in recent history. Art is indeed a liberation song.

Arts In Film Stories within a story, this enduring fairy tale combines elements of Sufi mysticism with enduring values and messages that resist the confines of time and cultures. A beautiful mystical experience that will linger in your mind's eye long after the last frame.

It's All in the Game -- Where does a troubled young teenager go to escape his seemingly miserable everyday existence and find a place of empowerment and adventure? Ben, a severely withdrawn, possibly autistic teen never speaks, except to save to his long-suffering, divorced mother and his little brother. Forced to attend the regular high school his father insisted on, Ben gets high grades, but is mercilessly bullied and viewed as a freak by his classmates. Ben's only solace is the time spent playing sword-and-sorcery video game “Overlord,” where he can be the fearless hero slaying foes left and right, as he recasts his tormentors at school as videogame combatants. Tellingly, the closest thing Ben has to a friendship is with “Scarlite,” a female online gamer he's never met. One day, Ben is horrendously humiliated at school and unable to bring himself to tell mom or school authorities what happened, he seems to be edging toward either violent revenge or suicide, or simply disappearing for keeps into his fantasy world. Can there be a happy ending when fantasy must not only defeat but meet reality? Please note: Online ticket sales end 24 hours before each event. Tickets may still be available for purchase at the venue.

Bliss is a story of modern Turkey, where cultures clash and old customs like honor killings still go on to this day in small villages. When a young woman named Meryem (Özgü Namal) is abused, her village custom requires that she be killed in order for the dishonour to be expunged from her family. A young man named Cemal (Murat Han), the son of the village leader, is given the task but at the last moment he has doubts. director Abdullah Oguz's drama is filled with intensity, vivid cultural clash, fine music and some absolutely stunning scenery (the film was shot on the Sea of Marmara).