2:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "The Dying Gaul," a dramatic-competition film, is an adaptation by Craig Lucas of his play about a fledgling screenwriter whose integrity is challenged by a Hollywood offer, with Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Campbell Scott.

3 p.m., Eccles: "Thumbsucker," a dramatic-competition film, a comedy about a high-schooler who tries to stop sucking his thumb; Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt and Vince Vaughan star.

3:15 p.m., Holiday III: "Rom�ntico," a documentary-competition film about a pair of illegal immigrants (Mexican mariachi singers) who roam the bars, restaurants and streets of San Francisco.

4 p.m., Holiday IV: "Shorts Program I," a collection of short films from the United States.

5:30 p.m., Holiday II: "Ballets Russe" is a documentary about the title ballet troupe of Russia, circa World War II, featuring extensive archival footage.

6 p.m., Egyptian: "Kekexilii: Mountain Patrol" looks at antelope being slaughtered by poachers in western China, as a Beijing journalist tries to track down the story.

8:30 p.m., Holiday II: "Shorts Program IV," a collection of short films from Great Britain, Canada and the United States.

8:30 p.m., Racquet Club: "Lonesome Jim," a dramatic-competition film, directed by character actor Steve Buscemi, has a young man (Casey Affleck) on the heels of failure, returning from New York to his Midwest home, only to be reminded of why he left; with Live Tyler, Mary Kaye Place and Seymour Cassel.

9 p.m., Egyptian: "Live-In Maid," a social satire from Argentina, stars Norma Aleandro as a formerly wealthy woman whose maid of three decades (Norma Argentina) feels she needs to resign.

9:30 p.m., Eccles: "Rory O'Shea Was Here" is an Irish film about two disparate people in a Dublin residential facility, one a loud-mouthed lout paralyzed from the neck down by muscular dystrophy and the other a quiet young man whose cerebral palsy keeps him wheelchairbound and impairs his speech.

11 p.m., Holiday II: "Stranger" is a Polish film about an unmarried pregnant woman who initially plans an abortion but then finds fulfilment in the prospect of having a child.

11:45 p.m., Holiday III: "Odessa Odessa," an Israeli documentary, looks at elderly Jews born in Odessa, Ukraine.