Miami International Film Festival 2012

Perfectly timed to just three minutes, Zico's last highstakes robbery gets complicated by love, corruption and an infiltrator. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

A defiant gaze at beauty culture from the aging supermodels who helped mold our idea of attractiveness. Includes interviews with Carol Alt, Isabella Rossellini, Christie Brinkley, Marisa Berenson, Paulina Porizkova, Jerry Hall, and Christy Turlington. Featuring an extended in-person session with Timothy Greenfield-Sanders as part of the screening.

Famous and infamous for both his artistic accomplishments and his subversive political statements, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is the ultimate avant-garde Chinese activist.

A group of stand-ins are ready to fill the shoes of a dead relative in order to help families cope with the death of a loved one. Preceded by "The Trip" (Portugal, 2011, Simão Cayatte). Running Time reflects total program length (short & feature).

Five soccer-playing teenage pals deal with dead-end prospects when a lovely bride falls from the sky and complicates their loyalties. The 30-year-old Mezzapesa stylishly revives the earthy “pink neo-realism” in the classic tradition of his native cinema.NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Moderated by UM Architecture Professor Jean Francois LeJeune, this panel brings together director Alysa Nahmias from New York to discuss how UNFINISHED SPACES was made and what it means for an American to shoot a film in Cuba. Roberto Gottardi from Havana will address his experiences as an architect in Cuba during the early years of the Revolution...

Miami New Times and Miami International Film Festival present a can't-miss cultural event: Artopia. Art, live music, fashion, film, and performance will combine to satisfy the culture fixes of artistically inclined movers and shakers.

Spanish journalist Mauricio Vicent Mulet covered Cuba for El País for 20 years, but was deported for this depiction of the joy of daily life for rural Cubans in the eastern province. INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

World premiere of made-in-Miami animated film noir, preceded by "Catharsis" (France, 2011, Cedric Prevost), "Immune" (USA, 2011, Andrew Lathrop) and "Shift" (USA, 2012, Juan Carlos Zaldivar).