EVENT: BIFF Launch Party from 9 p.m. till 1 a.m. at BIFF Front Room, #6 Passenger Terminal, Front Street. Tickets, $25, available at the door or at www.biff.bm. Tickets include four free drinks and DJs Jon Legere and Montreal's Andy Williams will be on hand to spin the tunes.

FILMS TODAY

[box] Man of No Return: One of the competition films in this year's festival, this Russian film explores how several lives dramatically cross in a small town. Subtitles.>See review in today's paper. Showtime: 7 p.m. at Liberty Theatre

[box] Time: A Korean film being offered as part of the Best of World Cinema series, 'Time' looks at the dark, jealous core of a relationship gone wrong. Subtitles. Showtime: 9.45 p.m. at Liberty Theatre.

[boxB>The Violin: Another of the World's Best series, this Mexican film was expanded from Francisco Vargas Quevada's short of the same name. It tells the tender and poignant tale of a 1970s peasant revolution in the Guerrero region of Mexico. Subtitles. See review in today's paper. Showtime: 7 p.m. at Little Theatre.

nn< Row Hard, No Excuses: Competing for BIFF's documentary prize this year, this US film follows the adventures of two middle-aged men who undertake a 3,000-mile, trans-Atlantic rowing challenge. See review in today's paper. Showtime: 9.15 p.m. at Little Theatre.

n> Shortbus: Explores the lives of several characters living in NYC between the 9/11 attacks and the 2003 blackout. The characters converge on a salon called Shortbus which offers a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Showtime: 11.30 p.m. at Little Theatre.

[box] Climates: A Turkish offering in the World's Best series, 'Climates' follows the turbulent relationship of Isa and Bahar. Subtitles. Showtime: 7 p.m. at BUEI Auditorium.

[] Grbavica: Land of My Dreams: One of the World's Best, this film from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria follows a mother's relationship with her 12-year-old daughter in the context of a nation struggling to rebuild from soul-destroying civil war. Subtitles. See review in today's paper. Showtime: 9.15 p.m. at BUEI Auditorium.

x] Black Book: The opening film of BIFF 2007 is a multi-lingual film is set in the summer of 1944 as pretty Jewish singer Rachel Stein joins the Resistance and is swept into a spider's web of intrigue, treachery and betrayal as she infiltrates the German security service. Subtitles. Showtime: 7 p.m. at Southside Theatre.

[box] 12.08 East of Bucharest: This Romanian comedy picked up the Best First Film award at Cannes. The owner of a local television station invites guests onto his talk show to reflect on the time when dictator Nicolae Ceausescu fled Bucharest by helicopter 16 years ago, forever changing the country. Subtitles. Showtime: 9.45 p.m. at Southside Theatre.