The Boss of It All, ★★½ (96 minutes, narrative feature in Danish, Icelandic, English and Russian with English subtitles, contains adult language and sexual situations). Showing at 10 p.m. Friday at Main and 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Babcock.

When the owner of an information-technology company decides to sell, he needs to hire an actor to seal the deal because he has invented a non­existent boss to hide his ownership of the firm. Sound complicated? Not really.

The techniques that inspire fans of Lars von Trier's Dogma films and recent, more experimental works are more compelling when used to enhance the drama of the human condition than when employed in the service of comedy. The Boss of It All plays like a cross between The Office and a Dogma film with a dash of Christopher Guest's "mocumentaries" tossed in for good measure.

The Cats of Mirikitani, ★★★½ (74 minutes, documentary feature in English, family friendly). Showing at 4 p.m. Friday at Reynolda House and 1 p.m. Saturday at Reynolda House.

What starts off as a portrait of homeless artist Jimmy Mirikitani changes drastically at the moment that changed so many lives - when the planes hit the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Director Linda Hattendorf comes across Mirikitani coughing in a cloud of dust in Soho and takes him home with her.

Mirikitani, 80, was born in California to Japanese parents. He was sent to an internment camp during World War II, where he was stripped of his citizenship. Hattendorf works to get Mirikitani back into the system and track down family members.

Hattendorf also draws parallels between the way America treated its Japanese citizens during WWII with the way it started treating its Arab citizens after Sept. 11. It's a surprising and timely film, and well worth seeing.

Dare Not Walk Alone, ★★★ (80 minutes, documentary feature, contains adult themes, language and violence). Showing at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Babcock and 10 p.m. Saturday at Sawtooth.

Dare Not Walk Alone chronicles an important piece of Civil Rights history that isn't told very often. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was leading integration efforts in St. Augustine, Fla., a city referred to as "Florida's Birmingham" because of its level of racial tension.

Things reached a flash point when black demonstrators jumped into a swimming pool at a "whites only" motor lodge and the manager poured two gallons of muriatic acid into the pool to drive them out. The incident influenced President Lyndon Johnson's decision to sign the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The film, directed by Jeremy Dean, also looks race relations in St. Augustine today and finds signs of healing but also continuing disparities. Potent stuff.

The Edge of Eden: Living With Grizzlies, ★★★ (89 minutes, family friendly, documentary feature in English). Showing at 10 a.m. Friday at Gold and 4:30 p.m. Sunday at Babcock.

First, Canadian directors Sue and Jeff Turner make their point with hard, cold facts. During the past 100 years, they say, 91 humans have died from encounters with grizzly bears and 597 have been seriously wounded. During that time, humans have killed 200,000 grizzlies.

What follows is a film that is lyrical, enchanting and heartbreaking by turns. In eastern Russia, Charlie Russell pursues his lifelong work of proving that grizzlies are not the monsters that they have been portrayed as. Their degree of aggressiveness, Russell contends, depends on how they are treated.

To prove this, Russell spends his summers caring for orphan grizzlies and teaching them how to handle themselves in the wild. He does his best, in short, to be a Papa Bear.

In the Shadow of the Moon, ★★★★ 100 minutes, family friendly, documentary feature in English). Showing at 4 p.m. Friday at Main and 4 p.m. Saturday at Sawtooth.

In the Shadow of the Moon focuses on the race between the United States and the Soviet Union to reach the moon. This is territory that has been mined many times before, so what's so surprising about the film is how fresh it feels. Director David Sington manages to sustain a sense of excitement, even though we all know how this is going to turn out. Talk about your spoilers.

Sington uses footage from NASA's archives that hasn't been seen in public before, coupled with interviews with many of the surviving astronauts from the Apollo missions. The production values are terrific, and the film moves at a swift pace. In the Shadow of the Moon ends up being thrilling, inspiring and emotional.

Liquid Vinyl, ★★★ (84 minutes, documentary feature in English, contains adult language and fleeting drug references). Showing at midnight Thursday and 9 p.m. Friday at The Garage.

The world of dance music and DJ culture can seem mysterious to people who wonder what's so special about watching a DJ mix and mash-up dance records into bone-rattling grooves.

Liquid Vinyl, directed by Taylor Neary and produced/filmed by George Reasner explores the evolution of club DJs from underground sonic-collage artists to high-paid international superstars.

Neary does a nice job of condensing the 30-year rise of DJ culture from creating house music in New York through the onset of European acid-house and the massive drug-fueled raves that turned creative DJs into stars. Frank interviews music-industry movers-and-shakers and assorted DJs (big names such as Moby and Fat Boy Slim are glaringly absent) make a convincing case for dance culture even as they raise pertinent questions about its future in the digital age.

Ode To Joy, ★★★ (110 minutes, narrative feature in Polish with English subtitles, contains brief nudity, adult language and situations). Showing at 12:30 p.m. Friday at Gold and 10:30 p.m. Friday at Babcock.

This wistful Polish drama by three directors deals with young people whose lives are at crossroads. One is a young woman who has returned to Poland after working in England and finds that things back home have gotten worse in her absence. Another is a politically-aware hip-hop musician whose career is on the rise, but whose personal life is in disarray. The third is a college graduate who returns home with no focus in his life.

There are thematic similarities among the three tales, but each is told in a self-contained fashion, and filmed in a distinct style. Each story is interesting in itself, but collectively these three tales present a compelling, melancholic take on life among Polish youths … and, for that matter, on how youthful idealism in general eventually comes to an end, no matter what your nationality.

The Paper Will Be Blue, ★★★½ (97 minutes, narrative feature in Romanian with English subtitles, contains violence and adult language). Showing at 6:30 p.m. Friday at Gold and 3 p.m. Saturday at Gold.

With meticulous attention to detail, director Radu Muntean creates a portrait of the confusion surrounding a group of militia during the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu in December 1989. When one young, impressionable soldier abandons his platoon to join "the people" trying to defend the television station from terrorists, the others decide to look for him.

The muted palette is dominated by gray, which reinforces the confusion and lack of moral clarity explored in the narrative. At first the members of the platoon are nearly indistinguishable one from another, but their personalities emerge over time and draw the viewer into the chaos and conflicting emotions that the men experience.

Vanaja, ★★★ (111 minutes, narrative feature in Telugu with English subtitles, contains sexual situations, including implied rape). Showing at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Babcock and 6 p.m. Saturday at Gold.

Writer-director Rajnesh Domalpalli won the prize for best debut film at the Berlin International Film Festival for this colorful, touching drama.

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