Favorite movies from CIFF so far

I'm hardly the one to recommend the best movies at the Cleveland International Film Fest.  I'm only catching 10 of them while I know others who have director's passes, watching upwards of 50 films over the course of 10 or so days.  Still, I've seen two movies in which I voted as excellent for the Roxanne T. Mueller Audience Choice Award. 

Fiddlesticks - The German comedy is like a modern day Little Rascals where the kids are far too young to really take good direction resulting in precious moments.  Add to that the endless slapstick throughout and I can't remember the last time I laughed so much during a movie. 

Here's the original German trailer

Here it is dubbed in English.  The showing was German with English subtitles.

Mr. Kaplan - A film from Uruguay which starts off as comedy but turns serious as the human condition becomes inescapable.  Superb acting from the two main characters makes me wonder how many foreign actors there are in the world deserving of a bigger stage.