A press release arrived today with “highlights” from the lineup for the Sarasota Film Festival, which runs April 4-13. For me, the highlights of the highlights include a program called Face To Face: The Films of Liv Ullmann and Ingmar Bergman, which will include screenings of a dozen Bergman/Ullmann collaborations, and an appearance by Ullmann, who will be presented with the Festival’s 2008 Master of Cinema Award. Also of note: the Independent Visions Competition, which includes four films that we’ve profiled for our SXSW Preview series (Natural Causes, Medicine For Melancholy, My Effortless Brilliance and Yeast) as well as two films that I’ve been looking forward to: Josh Safdie’s The Pleasure of Being Robbed, and Alex Karpovsky’s Woodpecker.

The full Sarasota lineup will be announced on March 11.