The CineVegas film festival runs Friday through June 17 at the Palms; screenings are at the Palms' Brenden Theatres unless otherwise indicated.

Tickets for individual films are $10; passes range from $50 (for a local student pass) and $100 (local film lover's pass) to $500 for an all-access pass.

Tickets and passes are available online at www.cinevegas.com or by telephone (through today) at (888) 883-4278; tickets also are available at the CineVegas box office at the Palms, which is open from noon to 8 p.m. today and noon to 9:30 p.m. throughout the festival.

Here is a complete screening schedule:

FRIDAY

7:30 p.m. "Strangers With Candy" -- A 46- year-old ex-junkie and ex-con (Amy Sedaris) tries to start over by returning to high school. This prequel to the Comedy Central hit features director Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert, Dan Hedaya, Matthew Broderick, Ian Holm, Sarah Jessica Parker, Allison Janney and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

SATURDAY

12:30 p.m. Shorts One: A Cast of Characters -- Seven short subjects focus on people and predicaments.

1 p.m. "Running Stumbled" (U.S. premiere) -- A dramatic exploration of family, life, art, drugs, murder, love and legacy.

2:30 p.m. Multimedia Lecture (free admission) -- Critic Ed Halter's presentation based on his new book "From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games."

3:30 p.m. "The Favor" (world premiere) -- Through a series of unexpected events, a lonely middle-aged man adopts a troubled teenager who wreaks havoc in his life.

4 p.m. "Mary" -- Maverick director Abel Ferrara, Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche, Forest Whitaker, Matthew Modine and Heather Graham explore the greatest story ever told in controversial style.

4 p.m. Shorts Two: Drug of Choice -- Cow-tipping, strange psychedelic bugs, pigeon cults, old flames, mysterious strangers, lab mice and/or washed-up country superstars inspire seven short subjects.

6 p.m. "Skin City" (work-in-progress) -- Local writer Jack Sheehan's documentary odyssey through the sexification of Las Vegas.

6:30 p.m. "The Puffy Chair" -- A man and his girlfriend drive cross-country to deliver his father's birthday gift: a purple La-Z-Boy recliner.

8:30 p.m. "Danika" (world premiere) -- A wife and mother (Oscar-winner Marisa Tomei) experiences terrifying delusions, wondering whether they're visions -- or signs of insanity.

9 p.m. "13 Tzameti" -- A young man follows instructions intended for someone else, not knowing where they will lead.

SUNDAY

12:30 p.m. The Movie Team Project (free screening) -- A short film written, directed, produced and starring members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Las Vegas, followed by a short Movie Team documentary.

1 p.m. Outlaw Cinema Panel (at The Lounge at Palms) -- Filmmakers Gregg Araki, Abel Ferrara, James Fotopoulos, Bobcat Goldthwait and Nina Menkes discuss topics ranging from cult films to taboos.

1:30 p.m. "The Favor" -- See 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

3:30 p.m. "Thanks To Gravity" (world premiere) -- A Jewish Latin-American girl ponders questions of identity, culture, tradition and love; with Sean Astin, Gina Phillips, Shirley Knight and Adam Rodriguez.

6 p.m. "G.I. Jesus" (world premiere) -- Returning to California, a Mexican who fought in Iraq in exchange for U.S. citizenship suffers battle-related trauma.

6:30 p.m. "Skin City" -- See 6 p.m. Saturday.

7 p.m. "Wild Tigers I Have Known" -- In this coming-of-age tale, a 13-year-old boy learns to cope with his newfound sexuality and his unrequited love for the coolest kid in school.

8:30 p.m. "5 Up 2 Down" (world premiere) -- Struggling with drug addiction in New York, an artist and his best friend undertake a spiritual journey.

9:30 p.m. "Running Stumbled" -- See 1 p.m. Saturday.

MONDAY

1 p.m. "Danika" -- See 8:30 p.m. Saturday.

1:30 p.m. -- "The 4th Dimension" (world premiere) -- An introverted genius obsesses to solve the complexity of time.

3 p.m. "Love Sick" (U.S. premiere) -- When it happens, love may look sick, but it's deep and painful.

3:30 p.m. "Full Grown Men" -- A absurdly comedic reunion tour of two friends, with Matt McGrath, Judah Friedlander, Alan Cumming, Deborah Harry, Amy Sedaris and Joie Lee.

4:30 p.m. Shorts Two: Drug of Choice -- See 4 p.m. Saturday.

6 p.m. "Park" (world premiere) -- Sex, love, suicide, betrayal, nudism, sushi and dog grooming in a quiet little park, with Billy Baldwin, Ricki Lake and Cheri Oteri.

7 p.m. Laurence Fishburne Tribute -- Actor Laurence Fishburne will receive the CineVegas Half-Life Award and discuss his career, followed by a screening of the new psychological thriller "Five Fingers."

8:30 p.m. "Wet Dreams" (world premiere) -- In this documentary, two friends (one of them "X-Men" star Rebecca Romijn) try to choreograph a Bellagio fountain show.

9 p.m. "Interkosmos" -- A tongue-in-cheek homage to a fictional East German space project uses re-created newsreels and musical interludes to resurrect the '70s.

TUESDAY

1 p.m. "Wild Tigers I Have Known" -- See 7 p.m. Sunday.

3 p.m. "Wet Dreams" -- See 8:30 p.m. Monday.

3:30 p.m. "Park" -- See 6 p.m. Monday.

6 p.m. "Thanks to Gravity" -- See 3:30 p.m. Sunday.

6:30 p.m. "5 Up 2 Down" -- See 8:30 p.m. Sunday.

7 p.m. Shorts One: A Cast of Characters -- See 12:30 p.m. Saturday.

8:30 p.m. "G.I. Jesus" -- See 6 p.m. Sunday.

9:30 p.m. UNLV Student Showcase -- A program of shorts by students from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

WEDNESDAY

3 p.m. Nevada Filmmaking Shorts: We Know What You Did in Vegas -- Seven shorts on subjects ranging from all-you-can-eat buffets to Monti Rock III.

3:30 p.m. "Interkosmos" -- See 9 p.m. Monday.

5:30 p.m. Shorts Three: How It All Works -- Six shorts focus on the intricacies of paperwork, love for hire, tattoos, stormy relationships, trained assassins and the wild world of nature.

6 p.m. "Full Grown Men" -- See 3:30 p.m. Monday.

6:30 p.m. "Rocky" -- A 30th-anniversary screening of the 1976 Oscar-winner, in honor of CineVegas and Brenden Star Award-winner Sylvester Stallone.

8:30 p.m. "The 4th Dimension" -- See 1:30 p.m. Monday.

9:30 p.m. CCSN Student Showcase --A program of shorts by students from the Community College of Southern Nevada.

JUNE 15

1:30 p.m. Nevada Filmmaking Shorts -- See 3 p.m. June 14.

2 p.m. "Apart From That" -- An American Indian road striper, a student beautician, a Vietnamese banker, his adopted American son and an elderly exhibitionist try to find their footing in a world of miscommunication, denial and disappointment.

4:30 p.m. Shorts Four: Seeing Is Believing -- Four documentaries explore America, from the new New York to the unknown South, the U.S.-Mexico border -- and Las Vegas.

5 p.m. "Somebodies" -- A black college student (director Hadjii) stumbles toward adulthood, surrounded by eccentric relatives, prankster classmates and more-or-less rehabilitated ex-cons.

7 p.m. "Nacho Libre" -- Jack Black teams up with "Napoleon Dynamite" director Jared Hess for a comedy about a Mexican orphanage cook moonlighting as a freestyle wrestler.

7:30 p.m. "Once In A Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story Of The New York Cosmos" -- This documentary recounts the rise and fall of the New York soccer team that brought Pelé to America in the '70s.

8 p.m. "The Ring Finger (L'annulaire)" -- After losing the tip of the title digit at work, a woman switches jobs, becoming an assistant at a very peculiar laboratory.

9:30 p.m. The Group Collectively -- A program of shorts from the local filmmaking team The Group Collectively.

JUNE 16

11:30 p.m. "Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" -- A 1987 documentary salute to the rock pioneer, directed by Vanguard Director Award-winner Taylor Hackford.

2 p.m. Taylor Hackford Tribute -- The director will receive the CineVegas Vanguard Director Award and discuss his career, followed by a screening of his 1980 fiction feature debut, "The Idolmaker."

2:30 p.m. "The Ring Finger (L'annulaire)" -- See 8 p.m. June 15.

4 p.m. Shorts Three: How It All Works -- See 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.

5 p.m. "Somebodies" -- See 5 p.m. June 15.

6 p.m. Helen Mirren Tribute -- Mirren will receive the CineVegas Marquee Award and discuss her career, followed by a screening of the 1999 Showtime drama "The Passion of Ayn Rand," for which she won an Emmy.

7 p.m. "Artie Lange's Beer League" (world premiere) -- A misfit team's weekly softball games involve more fights and drinking than home runs in this irreverent comedy featuring Lange and Ralph Macchio.

7:30 p.m. "One Last Dance" -- Harvey Keitel stars in this tale of an assassin hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son.

10 p.m. "Lunacy" -- Surrealist master Jan Svankmajer's latest is loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allen Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade.

JUNE 17

12:30 p.m. "Apart From That" -- See 2 p.m. June 15.

1 p.m. "The Road To Guantanamo" -- Three British Muslims who were held at Guantanamo Bay for two years, then released without charge, inspire this part-drama, part-documentary from directors Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross.

1:30 p.m. "One Last Dance" -- See 7:30 p.m. June 16.

3:30 p.m. Shorts Four: Seeing Is Believing -- See 4:30 p.m. June 15.

4 p.m. Christina Ricci Tribute -- Ricci will receive the CineVegas Half-Life Award and discuss her work, followed by a screening of the 1998 comedy "The Opposite of Sex."

7 p.m. "Lies and Alibis" (U.S. premiere) -- A man (Steve Coogan) who runs an alibi service for adulterous husbands gets in a jam with a new client in this comedy featuring Rebecca Romijn, James Marsden, Selma Blair, James Brolin, Sam Elliott, Henry Rollins and Jaime King.