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10 things to watch at the Dallas International Film Festival

This year's Dallas International Film Festival features a spotlight on Germany, including the country's greatest export to Dallas. Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot is a feature-length documentary chronicle of the Mavericks' humble, once-in-a-franchise superstar. DIFF, which knows a good thing when it gets one, has scheduled four screenings of the film: three Tuesday night and one April 16.

DIFF, which runs through April 19, kicks off Thursday night with I'll See You in My Dreams, starring Blythe Danner as a woman trying to give romance a shot after the death of her husband. Danner will also receive the Dallas Star Award, as will late Dallas filmmaker L.M. "Kit" Carson and John Landis, who will be on hand for a special screening of The Blues Brothers on April 18.

Dirk Nowitzki, from Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot
Dirk Nowitzki, from Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot(Dallas International Film Festival)
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As is our custom, we've picked 10 films to keep an eye on at this year's festival. Drum roll, please:

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Being Evel

The big takeaway from this doc on motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel: He was a master showman who treated other people horribly.

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Fresh Dressed

Sacha Jenkins, one of the writers behind the seminal hip-hop publication Ego Trip, dives into the history of hip-hop fashion.

Love and Mercy

Paul Dano and John Cusack play the tormented Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson in a drama about his rise, fall, redemption and music.

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Alfonso Gomez- Rejon's film about two high school misfits and a classmate with cancer was among the hits at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Metropolis

A restored version of Fritz Lang's 1927 future-shock classic about man enslaved by machines (and other men).

Nowitzki: The Perfect Shot 

This Nowitzki doc is at its best digging into Dirk's German roots and his unique friendship with his mentor, Holger Geschwindner.

She's the Best Thing in It

Tony Award winner Mary Louise Wilson teaches her first acting class at the age of 79. As you might expect, she's got knowledge to share.

Slow West

Kodi Smit-McPhee, Michael Fassbender and Caren Pistorius star in a bloody romance set on the 19th-century frontier.

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Thunder Broke the Heavens

This drama about two young foster children trying to make it on their own is part of the Texas Competition bracket.

Western

Brothers Bill and Turner Ross, who blew DIFF minds with their 2012 film Tchoupitoulas, return with this border town documentary set in Eagle Pass and Piedras Negras, Mexico.

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Plan your life

The Dallas International Film Festival runs Thursday-April 22 at multiple venues (most screenings at the Angelika Dallas, 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane, Suite 230, in Mockingbird Station). For information on schedule, tickets and passes, go to dallasfilm.org.