Catalog 2010

FILM MOVEMENT

CATALOG 2010 A b o The Company u t Launched in 2003, Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of U award-winning American independent and foreign films, based in New York City. s Film Movement has released more than 90 feature films from 40 countries on six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, SXSW and other prestigious film festivals. Mission Statement Why did we launch Film Movement? As fans of American independent and foreign cinema, we had become increasingly frustrated by the lack of access to the year's most critically acclaimed films. We kept reading about films from the major film festivals, such as Cannes and Sundance, that the top critics raved about, but never reached a theater near you. Film choices are dictated to us by a smaller and smaller group of major studios, which decide to release films based mostly on their star quotient and “marketability”. Many of the films that we want to see get squeezed out of thea- ters by Hollywood blockbusters and face skyrocketing marketing costs that make it daunting—if not impossible—to reach appreciative audiences. We created Film Movement because the system of releasing independent, foreign and documentary films needed to be changed. At its heart, Film Movement is dedicated to getting great films seen by as many people as possible, and providing intelligent, beautiful and compelling art to an ever-growing audience, who does not necessarily live in the top ten metropolitan areas, and who want more than the standard Hollywood fare. In order to achieve our goal, we work with programmers around the country, making it as easy as possible for them to rent, market and publicize quality art- house fare in their community. By supporting Film Movement, you are directly supporting American independent and foreign film. This is our mission. We hope that you will join us, and we always welcome your comments. Sincerely, Film Movement

2 A b o The Company u t Launched in 2003, Film Movement is a full-service North American distributor of U award-winning American independent and foreign films, based in New York City. s Film Movement has released more than 90 feature films from 40 countries on six continents, including top prize winners from Sundance, Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Tribeca, SXSW and other prestigious film festivals. Mission Statement Why did we launch Film Movement? As fans of American independent and foreign cinema, we had become increasingly frustrated by the lack of access to the year's most critically acclaimed films. We kept reading about films from the major film festivals, such as Cannes and Sundance, that the top critics raved about, but never reached a theater near you. Film choices are dictated to us by a smaller and smaller group of major studios, which decide to release films based mostly on their star quotient and “marketability”. Many of the films that we want to see get squeezed out of thea- ters by Hollywood blockbusters and face skyrocketing marketing costs that make it daunting—if not impossible—to reach appreciative audiences. We created Film Movement because the system of releasing independent, foreign and documentary films needed to be changed. At its heart, Film Movement is dedicated to getting great films seen by as many people as possible, and providing intelligent, beautiful and compelling art to an ever-growing audience, who does not necessarily live in the top ten metropolitan areas, and who want more than the standard Hollywood fare. In order to achieve our goal, we work with programmers around the country, making it as easy as possible for them to rent, market and publicize quality art- house fare in their community. By supporting Film Movement, you are directly supporting American independent and foreign film. This is our mission. We hope that you will join us, and we always welcome your comments. Sincerely, Film Movement

2 T a b Pages el New Releases o A Call Girl 44 f Alamar 55 C For My Father 66 o Gigante 77 n Mine 88 e t Only When I Dance 99 n Storm 10 s t TTroubled Water 1111 Welcome 12 The Wind Journeys 13

Feature Film Catalog by Continent Africa 14 Asia & Middle East 16 Australia 19 Europe 21 North America 33 South & Central America 39

IIndexes Title Index 44 Director Index 47 Subject Index 49 Country Index 53 Year of Release Index 55

3 N e w R e e l WINNER a Best Actress s Valencia Festival e of Mediterranean s Cinema

Official Selection Rotterdam Film Festival

Official Selection Toronto Film Festival

Official Selection Pusan Film Festival

Directed by Damjan Kozole “Features the breathtaking debut of new talent Nina Ivanisin in the title role.” -- Basil Tsiokos,, Indiewire “Nina Ivanisin’s performance as the title character [is] one of the most coolly calculating anti-heroines to grace the silver screen.”

–– Alissa Simon,, Variety Growing up in small-town Slovenia, 23 year-old Aleksandra is grateful for DRAMA the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital, and she plans to take advantage of everything that the city has to offer—quickly styl- Slovenia ing herself as a high-priced call girl. Dropping out of society, she barricades her- Slovenian self inside her penthouse apartment, and watches the world pass her by. But her 2009 isolated existence—English studies and mortgage payments by day, her call girl 90min lifestyle by night—is thrown into chaos when one of her clients, a visiting politician, dies of a heart attack on her watch. All of a sudden, Aleksandra must con- Rights: USA & Canada front a new range of emotions—fear, guilt, loneliness—all the while being pursued Format: 35mm, Digibeta, by a band of local pimps, as well as the cops, who are hot on her trail. The old vil- DVD lage life she had escaped from might now become her only refuge.

4 4 N e WINNER w Audience Award & Competition Award R Morelia Int’l Film Festival e el a Official Selection s Berlin e Film Festival s

Official Selection Toronto Film Festival

WINNER Tiger Award Rotterdam Int’l FF ALAMAR Directed by Pedro González-Rubio “A lovely, soulful feature!” - Jay Weissberg , , Variety

“González-Rubio’s film [gets] the simplicity and details of a wonderful but limited experience down to their most honest, most untroubled, most tender, and often most beautiful essences.” -- The Auteurs

DRAMA J orge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he likes an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she prefers Mexico a more urban existence. He is Mexican and she is Italian, and she has decided to re- Spanish, Italian turn to Rome with their five-year-old son, Natan. But before they leave, Jorge wishes to take young Natan on a trip, hoping to teach him about his Mayan origins 2009 in Mexico. At first the boy is physically and emotionally uncomfortable with the 73 min whole affair, and gets seasick on the boat taking them to their destination. But as fa- Rights: USA & Canadada ther and son spend more time together, Natan begins a learning experience that will Format: HDCam, remain with him forever. Digibeta, DVD, 35mm

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WINNER R Best Film e Asian Film Festival l Mumbai e a s WINNER e Audience Award s Moscow Film Festival

WINNER Audience Award Cinequest Film Festival

Official Selection Montreal World Film Festival FOR MY FATHER Directed by Dror Zahavi

“Quite simply the most powerful and moving film I can remember seeing in years.” The Huffington Post

Tarek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his fa- DRAMA/ ther’s honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to THRILLER detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Tarek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise, he connects with Israel, Germany several Israelis on the outskirts of society, including the beautiful Keren, who has Hebrew, Arabic cut off contact with her Orthodox family and upbringing. With nothing to lose, 2008 Tarek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two 100min isolated and damaged individuals, raised to be enemies. With the deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, Tarek must spend 48 hours in the city, caught be- Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, tween remote bomb detonators, the Israeli police patrolling the streets, and his new- DVD found companions. When the weekend ends, Tarek must make the decision of his life.

6 6 N e WINNER w Best First Feature Alfred Bauer Prize R Berlin Film Festival e el WINNER a Silver Bear s Berlin e Film Festival s

Official Selection Toronto Int’l Film Festival

WINNER Best New Director Chicago Int’l Film Festival

“Impeccable… GIGANTE with inherent charm!” Directed by Adrián Biniez - Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter

"A Gem! Unpredictable (and) engaging." - Kevin Thomas, L.A. Times

Jara, who is 35, is a shy and lonely man who works in a suburb of Montevi- DRAMA deo as a supermarket security guard. It’s his job to keep an eye on the security COMEDY cameras installed throughout the building. He doesn’t have a great deal to do because he works the graveyard shift when the store is like a ghost town. And so Uruguay Spanish his life continues—until one day Julia, who works at the supermarket as a cleaner, enters his field of vision. Jara immediately feels a strong attraction to- 2008 wards her. At first he spends hour after hour in front of the security monitors 84min watching her. But, before long, he begins to follow her after work. His whole life gradually begins to revolve around Julia’s daily routine. When one day rumors Rights: USA & Canada Format: 35mm, Digibeta, begin to spread among the staff that the company intends to lay off some of the DVD workers, some people are indeed made redundant—one of them is Julia. Jara now has a difficult decision to make. Should he drop his obsession? Or should he admit his feelings to Julia? 7 N e w R e e l a WINNER s e Best Film s San Francisco DocFest

Official Selection SilverDoc Film Festival

WINNER Audience Award for Best Documentary SXSW FF

Official Selection Mill Valley Film Festival MINE “[A] triumph!! Directed by Geralyn Pezanoski Emotionally engaging… The documentary has a lot to say!” - G. Allen Johnson, SF Gate/San Francisco Chronicle “One from the heart! Smart, sincere and affecting!”

- Manohla Dargis, The New York Times “Absorbing… a quintessentially American story.”

- Eddie Cockrell, Variety H ailed as “absorbing,” “a must see,” “Oscar material” and “the best movie at DOCUMENTARY SXSW,” MINE is a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans and animals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst USA natural disasters in modern U.S. history: Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, char- English acter-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting 2009 task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by families all 81min over the country, and chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals—and the people— Rights: USA & Canada involved? A compelling meditation on race, class and the power of compassion, Format: DigiBeta, DVCam, MINE examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view and treat Beta SP, DVD, each other. 8 8 N e w Official Selection Edinburgh Int’l R Film Festival e el Official Selection a Int’l Documentary s Film Festival e Amsterdam s

Official Selection San Francisco Doc Fest

Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival ONLY WHEN I DANCE Directed by Beadie Finzi “A real life Billy Elliot!”

– Jane Rosenthal, The New York Times “An unforgettable experience… Only the hardest of hearts could fail to be moved by this tremendously warm-hearted, yet clear-sighted documentary.” -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian DOCUMENTARY Only When I Dance is a documentary following two young teenagers, Isabela and Irlan, as they strive to realize an extraordinary dream. One girl, one boy; both Brazil black and poor, and living in one of the most violent favelas on the outskirts of Rio. Portuguese, English Irlan and Isabela both want to dance ballet, and their ambition is to leave Brazil to join one of the great companies in North America. For them, dance is the way out, 2009 an escape, and on stage, an ecstasy that is rarely found in their day-to-day lives. 78min The question is can they make it? Only When I Dance is Mad Hot Ballroom meets Rights: USA & Canada Billy Elliot —a classic narrative of coming of age; it is about chasing a dream to Format: Digibeta, DVD, dance the most perfect dance against all the odds of race and of circumstance. And HDCam of course, the price you must pay for talent, for ambition and for success.

9 N e w R e e l WINNER a Amnesty International s Film Prize e Berlin s Film Festival

NOMINATED Golden Bear Berlin Film Festival

Official Selection London Film Festival

Official Selection Taipei Film Festival

“Acting across the board is splendid.” - Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter STORM Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid “A tense legal thriller” - Mike La Salle, “Harrowing, provocative and deeply probing!” San Francisco Chronicle - Kevin Thomas, LA Times

POLITICAL H annah Maynard (Kerry Fox), prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribu- THRILLER nal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bos- Germany, Denmark, nian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, and it looks like the Netherlands case will unravel, Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she English, German, travels to the witness’ burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira (4 Months, 3 Bosnian, Serbian star Anamaria Marinca), who she senses has much more to say Weeks and 2 Days 2009 than she is willing to admit. Despite threats of violence, Mira reluctantly agrees to 105min testify at The Hague. She and Hannah must both risk life and limb to make it to the court, only to discover that there are traitors among their own ranks. Rights: USA & Canada Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD

10 10 WINNER Audience Award Jury Award Hamptons Int’l Film Festival

WINNER Best Film 2009 Norwegian Film Critics

Opening Night Selection Traverse City Film Festival

Official Selection Rotterdam Int’l Film Festival TROUBLED WATER Directed by Erik Poppe “It’s absolutely the best “Everything with this film is perfect… [The performances] are fantastic and movie I have seen in years!” the direction is without fault.” -Michael Moore, Academy Award® winning director -Alec Baldwin, Academy Award® nominated actor “Brilliantly conceived, magisterially orchestrated!”

-Ronnie Scheib, Variety

J an, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, THRILLER- has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A DRAMA gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. Norway, Sweden His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well Norwegian as the love of the pastor, Anna. Thomas even overcomes his initial panic to return 2008 the affection of Anna's young son, Jens. But his past catches up with him when 120 min Agnes, a local teacher, comes to the church on a school visit and recognizes the organist as Jan, the young man who was convicted for the murder of her son. Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, DVD

11 WINNER Ecumenical Jury & Label Europa Cinemas Award Berlin Int’l Film Festival

WINNER 2009 Lux Prize Eu Parliament LUX Competition

WINNER Crystal Heart Award Heartland Film Festival

NOMINATED 9 Categories Cesar Awards WELCOME Directed by Philippe Lioret “Mesmerizing... haunting, “A smoothly crafted, uplifting and gut-wrenching... emotionally affecting A truly moving drama driven by piece of cinema!” powerful perform- -Caine Gardner , TheFilmYap.com ances!”

elcome is an emotionally affecting drama about intesecing lives, unlikely DRAMA Wfriendships and the hope of new beginnings. Bilal, (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has spent the last three months of his life traveling across Europe France French, English and so he can reunite with his girlfriend, who recently emigrated to England. But his Kurdish journey comes to an abrupt halt when he is stopped in Calais, on the French side of the Channel. Deciding to swim across, Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to 2009 train, where he meets Simon, (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged swimming instruc- 109 min tor in turmoil over his imminent divorce. Despite their differences, the two men Rights: USA & Canada discover that they have much in common, and a strong bond emerges between Format: 35mm, Digibeta, them. Simon takes Bilal under his wing, realizing that he too must risk everything DVD to reach happiness.

12 12 N e w Official Selection Un Certain Regard R Cannes e Film Festival el a Official Selection s San Sebastian e Int’l Film Festival s

Official Selection Toronto Int’l Film Festival

Colombian Submission Academy Awards Best Foreign Film THE WIND JOURNEYS Directed by Ciro Guerra “Gorgeous! Enormously satisfying.”

-Justin Chang, Variety

“Heartfelt without ever becoming sentimental, The Wind Journeys has a pure and honest simplicity that makes it wonderfully compelling.” –Diana Sanchez, Toronto Int’l Film Festival

For most of his life, Ignacio Carrillo travelled the villages of northern Colombia, DRAMA playing traditional songs on his accordion, a legendary instrument said to have once belonged to the devil. He eventually married and settled in a small town, leaving Colombia, Germany, the nomadic life behind. But after the traumatic death of his wife, he vows to never Argentina, Nether- play the accursed accordion again, and embarks on one last journey to return the lands instrument to its rightful owner. On the way, Ignacio is followed by Fermín, a spir- Spanish ited teenager determined to become his apprentice. Tired of loneliness, Ignacio ac- 2009 cepts the young man as his pupil and together they traverse the vast Colombian ter- 117min rain, discovering the musical diversity of Caribbean culture. Hardened by a life of solitude, Ignacio tries to discourage Fermín from following in his footsteps, but Rights: USA & Canada Format: 35mm, Digibeta, destiny has different plans for them. DVD

13 AFRICA

Algeria INCH’ALLAH DIMANCHE (WINNER: FIPRESCI Award Best Film at Toronto Int’l FF; WINNER: OCIC Award and Prize of the City of Amiens at Amiens Int’l FF; WIN- NER: Audience Award, Best Film, Best Actress at Bordeaux Int’l Festival of Women in Cinema; WINNER: Golden Star at Marrakech Int’l FF; Official Selection at Cairo Int’l FF and Karlovy Vary FF)

Drama Directed by Yamina Benguigi - 2001 - France/Algeria - French/Arabic - 98 min.

French/Algerian director Yamina Benguigi brings us a passionate immigrant story of a woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with three children to join her husband in France, where he’s been living for the past ten years. In a land and culture foreign to her, Zouina struggles against her mother-in-law’s tyrannical hand and her husband’s distrustful bitterness in an attempt to adjust to her life in exile. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Algeria VIVA LALDJERIE (Official Selection at Thessaloniki FF, Karlovy Vary FF, Toronto Arab FF, Cairo Int’l FF, Film Fest Kansas City, and Arab FF San Francisco)

Drama Directed by Nadir Moknèche - 2004 - France/Algeria - French/Arabic - 113 min.

The heart of Algiers, the winter of 2003. Three women: a mother, her daughter and a pros- titute have been living in a hotel in the center of town amid creeping fundamentalism. Goucem, the daughter, has chosen a modern, emancipated life for herself; she works for a photographer and spends steamy weekends in nightclubs. Fifi, her faithful friend, prosti- tutes herself under the thumb of a local protector. Papicha, the mother, eats pizzas in front of the television, torn between fear and nostalgia. Director Nadir Moknèche, known in Europe as the ‘Algerian Almodovar,’ weaves a richly drawn portrait of women exiled in their own country. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Burkina Faso DREAMS OF DUST (Official Selection at Sundance FF, Melbourne Int’l FF, Karlovy Vary FF, Venice Int’l FF, Shanghai FF, Rome FF, and Sarasota FF)

Drama Directed by Laurent Salgues - 2006 - Burkina Faso/France/Canada - French - 86 min.

Mocktar, a Nigerian peasant, comes looking for work in Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he hopes to forget the past that haunts him. In Essa- kane, he quickly finds out, the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this strange, timeless wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. The beautiful Coumba, however, is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter after the death of her family. Mocktar will soon be fighting not only to survive, but also to provide a better future for this mother and her child.

Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 14 14 A f i r Morocco ALI ZAOUA: Prince of the Streets (WINNER: Ecumenical Jury Prize at Montreal c World FF; WINNER: Buster Grand Prix for Best Film at Buster Int’l Children’s FF; WIN- a NER: Interfaith Award at St. Louis Int’l FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Berlin Int’l FF, Sundance FF, Seattle Int’l FF, and Vancouver Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Nabil Ayouch - 2000 - Morocco - Arabic/French - 99 min.

Ali, Kwita, Omar, and Boukber are a group of street urchins living on the hard streets of Casablanca. Their everyday lives are filled with violence, begging, and indifference. In order to survive they create a bond of friendship and family between then. The bond is cut short when Ali is senselessly killed at the beginning of the film by a blow to the head; his life taken by a single act of a rival gang. Ali's friends decide not to report his death to the police, who would have the boy buried in a potter's field. Instead they decide to give him a worthy burial, Rights: USA to bury Ali on the private island he so often dreamed of. Ali Zaoua captures the power of Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, dreams and presence of hope in the harshest of circumstances. DVD

Morocco LE GRAND VOYAGE (WINNER: Luigi De Laurentiis Award at Venice FF; WINNER: Best Film and Best Actor at Mar de la Plata FF; WINNER: Special Jury Prize [Main Com- petition], Jury Prize [Junior Jury] and Best First Film at Namur FF; WINNER: Best Script at Tehran FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, New York FF, Los Angeles FF, Seattle Int’l FF, New Directors/New FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, Jerusalem FF, Minneapolis-St. Paul FF, and Victoria Film and Video Festival )

Drama Directed by Ismael Ferroukhi - 2004 - France/Morocco - French/Arabic - 108 min.

A few weeks before his college entrance exams, Reda, a young man who lives in the south of France, finds himself obligated to drive his father to Mecca. From the start, the journey looks to be difficult: Reda and his father have nothing in common. The wide cultural and genera- tional gap is worsened by the lack of communication between the two. Reda finds it hard to Rights: USA accommodate his father, who demands respect for himself and his pilgrimage. From France, Format: 35mm, Digibeta, through Italy, Serbia, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, the two will embark on a road Beta SP, DVD trip that will change their lives.

Rwanda MUNYURANGABO (WINNER: Grand Jury Prize at AFI FF; WINNER: Best First Film at Mexico City Int’l Contemporary FF; WINNER: Best Narrative Feature at Sarasota FF; Official Selection: Un Certain Regard at Cannes FF, Berlin FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Pusan Int’l FF, Rotterdam Int’l FF, Sao Paulo Int’l FF and London Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Lee Isaac Chung - 2007 - Rwanda/USA - Kinyarwanda - 97min.

After stealing a machete from a market in Kigali, Munyurangabo and his friend, Sangwa, leave the city on a journey tied to their pasts. Munyurangabo wants justice for his parents who were killed in the genocide, and Sangwa wants to visit the home he deserted years ago. Though they plan to visit Sangwa’s home for just a few hours, the boys stay for several days. From two separate ethnic groups, their friendship is tested when Sangwa’s wary parents dis- approve of Munyurangabo, warning that “Hutus and Tutsis are supposed to be enemies.” Rights: USA & Canada Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD.

15 ASIA & MIDDLE EAST China IN LOVE WE TRUST (WINNER: Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Special Mention at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Actress Lan Weiwei, Golden Arena Award at Pula Film; Official Selection: Hong Kong FF, Karlovy Vary FF, Ghent Int’l FF, and Haifa Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Xiaoshuai Wang - 2007 - China - Mandarin - 115 min.

A divorced couple learns that the only way to save their little daughter Hehe, who suffers from a blood disease, is to have another child. Now both remarried, Mei Zhu and Xiao Lu are forced to test their love and their commitment to the child that bonds them by putting their current relationships in danger. A story of parenthood, love, marriage, betrayal, trust and giving that touches upon changes in contemporary society and family life, as well as the moral and ethical dilemmas brought on by modernity. Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, DVD

India A PECK ON THE CHEEK (WINNER: In Spirit for Freedom Award at Jerusalem FF; WINNER: 6 Silver Lotus Awards (Best Child Artist, Best Audiography, Best Editing, Best Music Direction, Best Regional Film [Tamil], Best Lyrics) at National Film Awards, India; WINNER: Audience Award (Best Film) at Los Angeles Indian FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Palm Springs Int’l FF, Cleveland Int’l FF, Philadelphia Int’l FF, and San Francisco Int’l FF)

Drama/Comedy Directed by Mani Ratnam - 2002 - India - Tamil/Sinhala - 123 min.

Amudha, adopted by Thiru and Indira and growing up with the couple’s two sons, is bliss- fully unaware of her parentage, until the couple decide to inform her of it on her ninth birthday. At first shocked into disbelief, Amudha then expresses her determination to search for Rights: USA her biological mother who abandoned her as a new born baby. The search takes the family to Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD strife-torn Sri Lanka, where Amudha comes face-to-face with reality, and reconciles herself to it.

Iran DAY BREAK (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Tribeca FF, Annonay FF, Bangkok FF, and Indianapolis Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Hamid Rahmanian - 2005 - Iran - Persian - 84 min.

In Iran, capital punishment is carried out according to Islamic law, which gives the family of the victim ownership of the offender’s life. Day Break—based on a compilation of true stories and shot inside Tehran's century-old prison—revolves around the imminent execution of Mansour, a man found guilty of murder. When the family of the victim repeatedly fails to show up on the appointed day, Mansour’s execution is postponed again and again. Stuck inside the purgatory of his own mind, he waits as time passes on without him, caught between life and death, retribution and forgiveness. Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

16 16 A s i Iran MEN AT WORK (WINNER: Best Film at Traverse City FF; WINNER: Best Screenplay a at Fajr Int’l FF; Official Selection at Berlin Int’l FF, Tribeca FF, Singapore Int’l FF, & and Moscow Int’l FF) M Comedy Directed by Mani Haghighi - 2006 - Iran - Farsi - 75 min. d i The hilarious story of four old friends who, driving back from a failed skiing trip, encounter d a strange and enormous rock. The men’s frivolous attempt to dislodge the rock gradually l disintegrates into a tale of betrayal, defeat and renewed hope. The heroes of the film are e doctors, engineers and businessmen in the throes of mid-life crises. Their middleclass prob- E lems and the absurd phallic rock venture gives rise to great humor. a s Rights: USA & Canada t Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Israel CAMPFIRE (WINNER: 5 Israeli Academy Awards; WINNER: Don Quixote Award at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize at Chicago Int’l FF; Official Selection at Se- attle Int’l FF, San Francisco Jewish FF, Rio de Janeiro Int’l FF, and Vancouver Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Joseph Cedar - 2005 - Israel - Hebrew - 96 min.

The year is 1981. Rachel Gerlik, a 42 year-old widowed mother of two beautiful teenage daughters, wants to join the founding group of a new religious settlement in the West Bank. The problem is that the settlement’s acceptance committee won’t approve her unless she remarries and demonstrates that she and her daughters can meet the group’s religious and ideological standards. When Tami, her youngest daughter, is accused of seducing some boys from her youth movement, Rachel is forced to weigh her allegiances. Only Yossi, a 50 year-old bachelor and the new Rights: USA man in Rachel’s life, can show Rachel that living as an outcast is not as bad as it seems. Format: 35mm, Beta SP, DVD

Israel FOR MY FATHER (WINNER: Audience Award at Moscow Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Film at Asian Film Fest Mumbai; NOMINATED: 7 Israeli Film Academy Awards; Offi- cial Selection at Hamptons Int’l FF, Montreal World FF, Zurich FF, FilmFest Ham- burg)

Political Thriller Directed by Dror Zahavi - 2008 - Israel, Germany - Hebrew - 100 min.

Terek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father’s honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Terek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise he connects with several Israelis on the outskirts of society, including the beautiful Keren, who has cut off contact with her Orthodox family and upbringing. With nothing to lose, Terek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two isolated and damaged individuals, raised to be enemies. With the Rights: USA deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, Tereck must spend 48 hours in the city, Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD caught between remote bomb detonators, the Israeli police, patrolling the streets, and his newfound companions. When the weekend ends, Terek must make the decision of his life.

17 Japan WHO’S CAMUS ANYWAY? (WINNER: Best Picture at Tokyo Int’l FF; Official Selec- tion at Cannes FF (Director’s Fortnight), New York FF, and Hong Kong Int’l FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Mitsuo Yanagimachi - 2005 - Japan - Japanese - 115 min.

The story is set on the campus of a university in Tokyo. Students from the literature depart- ment’s “film workshop” are about to start shooting their movie “The Bored Murderer”, part of their course curriculum. Everyone is in a rush to prepare for the shoot, but the lead actor drops out suddenly, and the team is forced to search for a replacement at the last minute. Matsukawa, the director, and Hisada, the first assistant, and other members of the team have their own personal problems with life and love, and the story unfolds “just like in the movies”. Matsukawa’s shallow attitude to his girlfriend, Yukari, and the behavior of the mysterious Ikeda, who is to play the lead role of the schoolboy murderer, add to the confusion of the whole situation. As for Rights: USA & Canada the one-time director, now lecturer, professor Nakajo, he is also harboring desires for the female Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD student Rei, whilst hiding behind his calm, supportive exterior. Rei, in turn, has a completely different agenda. Everything comes to a head in an unexpected and tumultuous climax.

Lebanon UNDER THE BOMBS (WINNER: Altre Visioni Award and Human Rights Film Award at Venice Int’l FF; WINNER: Golden Pony Award, Best Actress at Dubai Int’l FF; Of- ficial Selection at Sundance FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Stockholm Int’l FF, NY Human Rights Watch FF, and Vancouver Int’l FF)

Political Drama Directed by Philippe Aractingi - 2007 - France/Lebanon/UK - Arabic - 98 min.

During a cease-fire in the Lebanon-Israel conflict of 2006, a Christian taxi driver brings an untraditional Shiite woman from Beirut to the heart of the conflict in the country’s south. While looking for her son scouring the rubble of local towns, they discover that despite their very different backgrounds they have much in common. During their trip through the desolate countryside, the two travelers develop a deep bond as a response to the death striking all around them. The film was shot entirely on location during the summer of Rights: USA & Anglophone 2006, in the middle of the ruins of war-torn Lebanon. Aractingi only hired two profes- Canada sional actors, the rest are real refugees, journalists, soldiers, etc…, playing themselves. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD

Singapore BE WITH ME (WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize at Stockholm FF; WINNER: Asian Film Award at Tokyo Int’l FF; WINNER: Special Mention at Mar de Plata FF; Official Selec- tion at Cannes FF [Opening film at Director’s Fortnight], Toronto Int’l FF, Telluride FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, and Chicago Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Eric Khoo - 2005 - Singapore - Cantonese/English - 93 min.

The film is a tapestry of stories woven around the themes of love, hope and destiny. The characters lead separate lives but are bound by one common desire—to be with their loved one. The protagonists in the movie are fictitious bar one—Theresa Chan, a courageous deaf and blind woman whose life story inspired Be With Me.

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18 18 A s ai Taiwan DRIFTERS (Official Selection at Cannes FF, Toronto Int’l FF, AFI Fest, Seattle Int’l FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, Film Festival Kansas City, and Hawaii Int’l FF) & Drama M Directed by Xiaoshuai Wang - 2003 - Taiwan/China - Mandarin - 102 min. d i Would-be immigrant Er Di is back in China, expelled from the United States for working illegally. While in the U.S. he fathered a child, and when his American-born son comes d to China for a visit, Er Di is barred from seeing him. At the same time, Er Di becomes l involved with a beautiful member of a touring Shanghai opera company. Caught be- e tween his past and his future, his son’s culture and his own, Er Di seeks bonds with both. E a s Rights: USA t Format: DVD only / Taiwan THE DRUMMER (Winner: Best Supporting Actor at Golden Horse FF; Nominated: Out- A standing Taiwanese Film of the Year at Golden Horse FF, Nominated: Best Original Film u Score, Best Sound Design at Hong Kong Film Awards; Official Selection at Sundance FF, s Locarno FF, Antalya Int’l FF, Tokyo FilmEx, Gijon Int’l FF, Miami Int’l FF, Sofia t Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Sydney FF, Munich FF, Moscow FF, Melbourne Int’l FF, r Riga Int’l FF, Zagreb FF, Toronto Reel Asian Int’l FF, Palm Springs Int’l FF, Febio a FF, Washington D.C. Int’l FF, Muestra Internacional de Cine) i l Action/Thriller a Directed by Kenneth Bi - 2007 - Hong Kong/Taiwan/Germany - Mandarin and Cantonese - 115 min .

Sid, the rebellious son of a controlling and savage crime boss in Hong Kong, must flee to Taiwan upon enraging his father’s adversary, a powerful tycoon and underground business Rights: USA & Canada leader. Hiding out in the mountains, Sid discovers a group of Zen drummers whose mesmer- Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD izing art, rigorous physical training, and austere way of life pique his interest, and he re- quests to join them. Immersed in the world of the Zen drumming, Sid morphs into a firm and focused young man. His independence from the crime life and his father is profoundly challenged, however, when a twist of fate back home in Hong Kong forces him to choose between loyalty to his family and his newfound faith in himself. With Jackie Chan (son of Jackie) as Sid. AUSTRALIA

Australia ALEXANDRA’S PROJECT (WINNER: Golden Zenith at Montreal World FF; WIN- NER: Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay; WINNER: Best Actress at Valladolid Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Screenplay at Victorian Premier's Literary Awards; Official Selection at Berlin FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Telluride FF [closing night film] , Chi- cago Int’l FF, Edinburgh Int’l FF, Stockholm Int’l FF, and Buenos Aires FF)

Thriller Directed by Rolf de Heer - 2003 - Australia - English - 103 min.

It’s Steve’s birthday, and things can’t seem to get better. After receiving a much awaited promotion, Steve returns home expecting to find his wife Alexandra and his two children waiting to surprise him. Instead, he discovers an abandoned house and a mysterious video tape that he is forced to watch. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 19 Australia HE DIED WITH A FELAFEL IN HIS HAND (WINNER: Grand Jury Prize for Best Film, Best Supp. Actress and Best Screenplay at New York Independent Film and Video Festival ; Nominated for Australian Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay; Nomi- nated for AFI Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at Australian Film Institute (AFI); Official Selection at Brussels Int’l Festival of Fantastic Film, and Isola del Cinema Fes- tival )

Comedy Directed by Richard Lowenstein - 2001 - Australia - English - 109 min.

He Died With A Felafel In His Hand is a darkly humorous search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Faithful to the cult novel by John Birmingham upon which it is based, the film follows Danny through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a forceful, sometimes Rights: USA turbulent narrative that leaves the viewer entertained, exhausted and surprisingly reflective. Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD DVD

Australia NOISE (WINNER: AFI Award for Best Sound, and nominated for 8 others, including Best Film and Best Direction, at Australian Film Institute (AFI); WINNER: 6 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, including Best Film; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Seat- tle Int’l FF, and Newport Beach FF)

Thriller Directed by Matthew Saville - 2006 - Australia - English - 109 min.

Two heinous crimes have left a suburban town reeling. As the local community enfolds itself in a shroud of secrecy, borne from fear and an untrammeled mistrust of authority, the police remain desperate for witnesses. Graham McGahan, a young police constable suffer- ing from a chronic hearing problem, is stationed at a police caravan near the crime scene. Living on the periphery of the investigation, McGahan crosses paths with the various people affected by the tragedies, and gradually unravels a nightmare of guilt and suspicion that Rights: USA & Canada will involve him more than he could have imagined. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Australia THE RAGE IN PLACID LAKE (WINNER: Most Popular Feature at Melbourne Int’l FF; WINNER: AFI Award for Best Screenplay at Australian Film Institute (AFI); Offi- cial Selection at Edinburgh Int’l FF)

Romantic Comedy Directed by Tony McNamara - 2003 - Australia - English - 112 min.

Placid Lake (Ben Lee) has always been different. His crayon eating scientific genius of a best friend, Gemma (Rose Byrne), also has a few issues with ‘blending in’. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. Soon he’s embracing conformity on the fast track to corporate success. But can Placid finally retire his rage in the pursuit of normalcy? Or will his plan backfire? Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 20 20 E u r EUROPE o Austria ANTARES (Austria’s Selection for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards®; Official p Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, Edinburgh Int’l FF, Palm Springs e FF, Locarno Int’l FF, Philadelphia FF, Mill Valley FF, and Mannheim-Heidelberg Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Götz Spielmann - 2004 - Austria - German - 119 min.

Austria’s Oscar selection for Best Foreign Film, Antares skillfully interweaves the stories of three couples at a crossroads over three momentous days. Set in a ubiquitous, concrete high-rise apartment complex on the outskirts of a big city, the couples emerge from this uniform coexistence to search for love, closeness and some form of happiness. Alex and Nicole are divorced, but Alex cannot let go of what has passed. Sonja is becoming wildly jealous of her husband Marco. Eva, a loyal wife and mother, has turned her life upside Rights: USA down. Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Belgium AALTRA (WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize at London FF; WINNER: Best Belgian Actor at Belgian Academy Awards; Official Selection at Telluride FF, Chicago Int’l FF and Tribeca FF)

Comedy Directed by Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern - 2004 - France/Belgium - French/English/Finnish - 92 min.

In this irreverent road movie, two feuding Belgian neighbors come to blows and end up in a tractor accident, leaving them paralyzed, wheelchair-bound, and simmering with spite. Rather than give up on life, the embittered paraplegics take to the road, redirecting their frustration to the people they meet on their way to take revenge on the company that manu- factured the fateful tractor. Captured in sharp black-and-white cinematography that com- plements its exquisite Tati-like sight gags, Aaltra undermines conventional attitudes toward the disabled with its dry wit and acerbic, vengeful characters. Comedians Benoît Delépine Rights: USA and Gustave Kervern, who co-wrote, directed and star in the film, show a distinct flair for Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD understated physical comedy and defiantly non-PC humor.

Belgium BEN X (WINNER: Grand Prize, Audience Award for Most Popular Film and Ecumenical Jury at Montreal Int’l FF; WINNER: Black Pearl Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at Middle East Int’l FF; Official Selection at Berlin Int’l FF, Palm Spring Int’l FF, and Cleveland Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Nic Balthazar - 2007 - Belgium/The Netherlands - Flemish/Dutch - 93 min.

Ben is a bit different and often seems to be living in another universe—while he is a courageous hero in the computer gaming world that consumes him, Ben is tormented by classmates and ignored by apathetic teachers in his daily life. As the bullies’ relentless attacks push him over the edge and out of control, his online dreamgirl, Scarlite, steps in to help him devise a perfect plan to make them pay for their persecution. Director Nic Balthazar’s dazzling debut blends fantasy and harsh social realism to bring us an utterly original and Rights: USA important film. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 21 Belgium ELDORADO (WINNER: Best European Film - Director’s Fortnight at Cannes FF; Spe- cial Mention at Pesaro FF; Official Selection at Warsaw Int’l FF, London Int’l FF, Thessaloniki Int’l FF, and Gijon Int’l FF)

Dark Comedy Directed by Bouli Lanners - 2008 - Belgium - French - 80 min.

Yvan and Elie are two loners. They wander aimlessly through their lives. Yvan is a quick- tempered 40-year-old dealer in vintage cars. Elie is a young burgler and ex-junkie. One day Yvan catches young Elie trying to burgle him. Instead of beating him up, Yvan becomes strangely attached to him and agrees to drive Elie home to his parents in his old Chevrolet. Both men are nostalgic about lost relationships, which is what leads them to undertake a bizarre journey through a region that is as spectacular as it is crazy. Both are trying to find the pieces of a puzzle that they want to put back together. But it is too late. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD

Belgium HOP (WINNER: Two Belgian Academy Awards, for Best Belgian Actress and Best Bel- gian Composer; WINNER: Interfaith Award at Brisbane Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Film and C.I.F.E.J at Buster Int’l Children’s FF; Audience Award Nominee at European Film Awards; Official Selection at Cannes FF; Berlin Int’l FF, and Int’l FF Rotterdam)

Drama Directed by Dominique Standaert - 2002 - Belgium - Dutch/French - 104min.

All Justin and his father want to do is sit down and enjoy a soccer game together. This simple act sparks a chain of events leading to Justin running from the law. He must embark on a thrilling adventure to reunite with his father. But in order to fight the system, he must enlist the help of a former anarchist and together they will need to apply the secret of the Hop. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Czech Republic SOMETHING LIKE HAPPINESS (WINNER: Best Film and Best Actress at San Sebastian Int’l FF; WINNER: 8 Czech Lions [Czech Academy Awards] including Best Film, and nominated for 2 more; WINNER: Golden Athena at Athens FF; Official Selec- tion at Toronto Int’l FF, London FF, and New York FF)

Drama Directed by Bohdan Slama - 2005 - Czech Republic/Germany - Czech -102min.

Monika, Tonik and Dasha grew up together in the same housing project on the outskirts of a small industrial city. Now the childhood friends are adults, each struggling with feelings of desire and loneliness, longing and failure. Though none would admit it, each craves something the other has and it's these unspoken longings which bind them in difficult, complex, passionate friendships. Vibrant and deeply affecting, Something Like Happiness is a funny, tender and very human drama of passions and lives half-understood, shadowed Rights: USA by tragedy, shot through with hope. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 22 22 E u r Czech Republic THE COUNTRY TEACHER (WINNER: Best Actress (Zuzana Bydzovska) and Best o Cinematography (Divis Marek) at Stockholm Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Actress, Best p Screenplay at Czech Lion Awards; WINNER: Best Queer Film at Reykjavik FF, WIN- e NER: Audience Award at Film Festival Cottbus; Official Selection at Venice Int’l FF and Toronto Int’l FF; Nominated Outstanding Film, Limited Release GLAAD Award )

Drama Directed by Bohdan Sláma - 2008 - Czech Republic/ Germany/ France - Czech - 113 min.

A gifted young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year-old son. The teacher has no romantic interest in the woman but they quickly form a strong friendship, each recognizing the other’s uncertainties, hopes and longing for love. When the teacher's ex-boyfriend comes to visit from the city, he quickly realizes that nobody in the village knows that the teacher is gay and harbors a secret affection for the teenage boy. His Rights: USA jealous actions set in motion a series of events that will test the inner strength and compas- Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD sion of the teacher, the woman and her son to a breaking point. A beautifully shot, power- fully acted, profoundly moving story of desire, responsibility, forgiveness and the need to belong, from the internationally-acclaimed director of Something Like Happiness and Wild Bees.

Croatia WITNESSES (WINNER: Peace Prize and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Philip Morris Award at Karlovy Vary FF; WINNER: In Spirit for Freedom Award at Jerusalem FF; WINNER: Film and Literature Award at Film by the Sea Int’l FF; Official Selection at Seattle Int’l FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, Sydney Int’l FF, and Pusan Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Vinko Bresan - 2003 - Croatia - Serbo - Croatian - 90 min.

Set amid the atrocities of war in the Balkans, Witnesses is retold, Rashomon-style, from various characters` viewpoints, adding new information about the complexity of war and humanity. Beginning inside a rustic house with a woman in black standing beside her husband`s coffin, Witnesses interweaves the stories of a small town confronting ethnic hatred and deep moral ambiguities. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Denmark ADAM’S APPLES (WINNER: Audience Award at Warsaw FF; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, San Francisco Int’l FF, Cleveland Int’l FF, Helsinki Int’l FF, Sydney Int’l FF, and Singapore Int’l FF)

Dark Comedy Directed by Anders Thomas Jensen - 2005 - Denmark/Germany - Danish - 94 min.

Ivan is an insanely optimistic preacher who takes in convicts to help around the remote, rural church he ministers to. His current charges are a psychotic Saudi immigrant addicted to robbing gas stations and an alcoholic tennis pro convicted of sexual assault. His newest "helper" is Adam, a vicious neo-Nazi anxiously biding his time before he can return to hell- raising. Asked to set a goal for his stay, Adam sarcastically answers that he'd like to bake a pie. Ivan cheerfully takes that statement at face value and puts him in charge of the parish's pride and joy: the only apple tree in the vicinity. Grasping the extent of Ivan's crazed, pre- Rights: USA & Anglophone ternatural determination to look on the bright side of everything, Adam immediately de- Canada cides to shake him out of his rose-colored stupor. Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 23 Finland MOTHER OF MINE (WINNER: Audience Award at Palm Springs Int’l FF; WINNER: Golden Pyramid (Best Film), Best Director and Best Actress at Cairo Int’l FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Portland Int’l FF, Rio de Janeiro FF, Dublin Int’l FF, and Milwaukee Int’l FF) Drama Directed by Klaus Härö - 2005 - Finland/Sweden - Finnish and Swedish - 111 min.

Mother of Mine highlights a little known aspect of World War II, when more than 70,000 Fin- nish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. The film tackles that painful patch of history in the tale of 9-year-old Eero, whose father is killed on the front. Eero´s mother makes the painful decision to send her only child to safety in neutral Sweden. There, Eero´s foster mother, Signe, welcomes him to her home but not to her heart. Eero doesn´t speak any Swedish and feels unwelcome in his foster family while missing his mother terribly. All the long-awaited letters from her are addressed to Signe, not to him. One day, Eero accidentally Rights: USA & Anglophone discovers a letter which he never was supposed to read. Canada Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

France THE GROCER’S SON (WINNER: Shooting Star Award for Outstanding Actor at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Audience Award at Berkshire Int’l FF; Nominated for César for Most Promising Actor at César Awards [French Academy Awards]; Official Selection at Vancouver Int’l FF, Minneapolis Int’l FF, St. Louis FF, Ft. Lauderdale FF and Cabourg FF )

Romantic Comedy Directed by Eric Guirado - 2007 - France - French - 96 min.

It is summer, and 30-year-old Antoine is forced to leave the city to return to his family in Provençe. His father is sick, so he must assume the lifestyle he thought he had shed— driving the family grocery cart from hamlet to hamlet, delivering supplies to the few re- maining inhabitants. Accompanied by Claire, a friend from Paris whom he has a secret crush on, Antoine gradually warms up to his experience in the country and his encounters Rights: USA & Anglophone with the villagers, who initially seem stubborn and gruff, but ultimately prove to be funny Canada and endearing. This surprise French box-office hit is about the coming-of-age of a man re- Format: 35mm, Digibeta, discovering life and love in the countryside. Beta SP, DVD

France HER NAME IS SABINE (WINNER: FIPRESCI Award at Cannes FF (Director’s Fort- night); Official Selection at Pusan Int’l FF, Sao Paolo Int’l FF, and Chicago Int’l FF)

Documentary Directed by Sandrine Bonnaire - 2007 - France - French - 85 min.

An intelligent, moving and beautiful portrait of Sabine, a 38-year-old autistic woman, filmed by her sister, French actress Sandrine Bonnaire. Through personal footage filmed over a period of 25 years, it is revealed that Sabine's growth and many talents were crushed by improper diagnosis and an inadequate care structure. After a tragic five-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Sabine finally finds a new lease on life, in a home together with other young people living with similar mental and emotional illnesses. This very intimate film also sends an urgent message to a society that still does not know how to properly take care of its citizens with physical and psychological disabilities. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

24 24 E u r France RAJA (WINNER: France Culture Award at Cannes FF; WINNER: Marcello Mastroianni o Award at Venice FF; Official Selection at New York FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l p FF, Melbourne Int’l FF, and Bahamas Int’l FF) e Drama Directed by Jacques Doillon - 2003 - France/Morocco - French/Arabic - 115 min.

Raja is a nineteen-year-old orphan literally and figuratively scarred by life. Fred is an emotionally bankrupt westerner living amid his plush gardens and palm trees. Set against the backdrop of contemporary Marrakech, Raja is a cross-cultural drama about a wealthy middle-aged Frenchman’s complex relationship with local youth. Fred’s attempts to seduce Raja, and their mutual attempt at manipulation are fractured by their gross disparity in in- come, age and cultural sophistication.

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WELCOME (WINNER: Grand Prize for Dramatic Feature (Crystal Heart Award), Heart- France land FF ; WINNER: Audience Award, Warsaw Int’l FF ; Official Selection at in over 37 film festivals, including – Karlovy Vary Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Istanbul Int’l FF, Shanghai Int’l FF, Helsinki Int’l FF, Haugesund FF, Seoul Int’l FF, Mumbai Int’l FF, Dubai Int’l FF )

Drama Directed by Philippe Loret - 2009 - France - French/Arabic - 105 min.

Welcome is an emotionally affecting drama about intersecting lives, unlikely friendships and the hope of new beginnings. Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee, has spent the last three months of his life traveling across Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend who recently emigrated to England. But his journey comes to an abrupt end when he is stopped on the French side of the Channel. Having decided to swim across, Bilal goes to the local swimming pool to train. It is here he meets Simon (Vincent Lindon), a middle-aged swimming instructor, who is privately reeling in turmoil as he dreads an immi- Rights: USA & Canada nent divorce from his wife (Audrey Dana). Despite their differences, the two men discover Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD that they have much in common, and a strong bond emerges between them. Simon decides to take Bilal under his wing, realizing that he too must risk everything to reach the other side of happiness .

Germany THE FOREST FOR THE TREES (WINNER: Special Jury Prize at Sundance FF; WIN- NER: Best Film and Best Actress at Newport FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Los Angeles FF, San Francisco Int’l FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, and Rio de Janeiro FF)

Drama Directed by Maren Ade - 2003 - Germany - German - 81 min.

Full of idealism, Melanie, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. The daily school routine soon catches up with her, her idealism is challenged, and things are much tougher than she had imagined. Apart from one colleague, Thorsten, who does his best to make her feel welcome, she has little contact with the rest of the staff, who are all much older and not really interested in new teaching methods. When she gets to know her neighbor Tina, she seems to get in touch with her new surroundings. But her expectations are not fulfilled as quickly as she would hope. And the more Melanie tries to become Tina’s friend, the more Tina starts to hide. The forest surrounding Melanie starts to close in. Melanie begins des- Rights: USA perately running in the wrong direction. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 25 Germany STORM (WINNER: Amnesty International Film Prize at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Reader Jury of the "Berliner Morgenpost" at Berlin Int’l FF; NOMINATED: Golden Bear at Berlin Int’l FF)

Political Thriller Directed by Hans-Christian Schmid - 2009 - Germany/Denmark/Netherlands - English/ German/Bosnian/Serbian - 105 min.

Hannah Maynard (Kerry Fox), prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague, is leading a trial against a former commander of the Yugoslavian National Army who is accused of the deportation and later killing of dozens of Bosnian-Muslim civilians. When a key witness commits suicide, and it looks like the case will unravel, Hannah refuses to give in. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness’ burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days star Anamaria Marinca), who she Rights: USA & Canada senses has much more to say than she is willing to admit. Despite threats of violence, Mira Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD reluctantly agrees to testify at The Hague. She and Hannah must both risk life and limb to make it to the court, only to discover that there are traitors among their own ranks.

Italy AGATA AND THE STORM (Nominated for 8 Italian Academy Awards; Official Selec- tion at Palm Springs FF, Sao Paulo Int’l FF, Sevilla Festival de Cine, Stockholm FF, Norwegian Int’l FF, Italian FF of London, Toronto FF of Italian Cinema, Int’l FF of India, Istanbul Int’l FF, Tokyo Italian FF, and Italian FF of New Zealand )

Romantic Comedy Directed by Silvio Soldini - 2004 - Italy - Italian - 118 min.

When Agata, the popular bookshop proprietor and dispenser of sunny wisdom, is suddenly wooed by a man almost half her age, her electricity hits high-voltage. At the same time, Agata’s brother Gustavo discovers he is in fact an adopted son, “bought” by his parents as an infant. And an incorrigible skirt-chaser and traveling salesman, appropriately named Romeo, turns out to be Gustavo’s unlikely real brother. The chorus of this ensemble comedy reaches impossible heights of suspense, laughter and tenderness as the destinies of a Rights: USA myriad of other equally endearing and outrageous characters interweave in the adventures Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD of this bizarre triangle.

Italy DAYS AND CLOUDS (WINNER: David Di Donatello Awards [Italian Academy Awards] for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, and nominated for 13 others; WIN- NER: Nastri D'Argento Award for Best Actress; WINNER: Best Actress at Moscow Int’l FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, London FF, Roma FF, and Seattle Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Silvio Soldini - 2007 - Italy/ Switzerland - Italian - 115 min.

Well-to-do, sophisticated couple, Elsa and Michele have a 20-year-old daughter, Alice, and enough money for Elsa to leave her job and fulfill an old dream of studying art history. After she graduates, however, their lives change. Michele confesses he hasn't worked in two months and was fired by the company he founded years ago. Elsa overcomes her initial shock by pouring extra energy into facing the crisis while Michele, exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy. The growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when apart will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD

26 26 E u r Italy o GINGER AND CINNAMON (Official Selection at Lincoln Center – Open Roads New p Italian FF; European Union FF, MIFED, and Italian FF (Auckland, New Zealand)) e Romantic Comedy Directed by Daniele Luchetti - 2003 - Italy - Italian - 109 min.

When Stefania breaks up with her boyfriend Andrea, little does she realize what the summer has in store for her. She winds up on vacation at a Greek resort `isle of love' with her 14 year old niece. Unfortunately, her teenage niece has something more than sun and surf on her mind; she decides that this Mediterranean paradise is where she will finally lose her virginity. However, in an ironic twist, the cute guy she has her eye on turns out to be none other than Andrea, her aunt's ex-boyfriend. This light-hearted "comedy-of-errors" is a valu- able lesson in what being a woman means at any age.

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Italy LIGHT OF MY EYES (WINNER: Pasinetti and Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Best Ac- tress, and Sergio Trasatti Award at Venice FF; Official Selection at Toronto FF, and Montreal FF)

Drama Directed by Giuseppe Piccioni - 2001 - Italy - Italian - 113 min.

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the pulp science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance encounter with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that’s been lacking in his detached existence. Antonio is drawn into the suffer- ing of Maria’s world, where she draws her inner strength from her fragile solitude. A haunting score, poetic atmosphere and award-winning lyrical performances by the two leads evoke the beauty of a precarious existence. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD

Netherlands MORLANG (WINNER: Best Actor and Best 1st /2nd Feature at Cairo FF; WINNER: Best New Director & Best Actor at Dutch FF of NY; Official Selection at Int’l FF Rotterdam, and Tribeca FF)

Thriller Directed by Tjebbo Penning - 2001 - The Netherlands - English - 95 min.

Julius Morlang is a successful artist. For fifteen years, he has been married to Ellen, his muse and personal manager. When Ellen confesses to a brief affair with a rival up-and- coming artist, Morlang retreats into the arms of a young admirer. An unexpected and devas- tating development strains Julius and Ellen’s relationship even more. Based loosely on a true story, Morlang is a chilling, psychological drama about jealousy, betrayal and revenge.

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27 Norway THE BOTHERSOME MAN (WINNER: Jury’s Special Mention Award, AQCC Award at Montreal World FF; WINNER: Best Narrative Feature Film, Best Cinematography at Hampton’s Int’l FF; WINNER: City of Athens Best Director Award at Athens Int’l FF; Official Selection at Cannes FF (Critic’s Week), Toronto Int’l FF, London FF, AFI Fest, Karlovy Vary Int’l FF, and Pusan Int’l FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Jens Lien - 2005 - Norway - Norwegian - 95 min.

40-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is pre- sented with a job, an apartment, even a wife! But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion, and communicate only in superficialities. The ominous "Caretakers", who make sure the city runs smoothly, keep an in- creasing watch over Andreas as they find he doesn’t fit in. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there´s no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has the same longings as Rights: USA himself. Hugo has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched.

Norway BUDDY (WINNER: Audience Award at Karlovy Vary FF; WINNER: 2 Amanda Awards [Norwegian Academy Awards] for Best Film and Best Actor; WINNER: Audience Award and Most Enjoyable Film at Norwegian Int’l FF; WINNER: Audience Award at Warsaw Int’l FF; Official Selection at London FF, AFI Fest, Seattle Int’l FF, Portland Int’l FF, Philadelphia Int’l FF, Milwaukee Int’l FF, and Cleveland Int’l FF)

Romantic Comedy Directed by Morten Tyldum - 2003 - Norway - Norwegian - 100 min.

Kristoffer’s love life is on the rocks. But what can you expect from a guy who likes to videotape himself and his friends pulling outrageous stunts? When Kristoffer’s video diary winds up at a popular TV show, it’s not just his love life that turns upside down. A vibrant young cast explores the true meaning of friendship and love in a heart-warming story about high jinks, crazy roommates and reality television. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Norway HAWAII, OSLO (WINNER: 2 Amanda Awards [Norwegian Academy Awards] for Best Film, Best Screenplay; WINNER: Ecumenical Jury Prize and Baardsen Critic’s Award at Norwegian Int’l FF; Norway’s selection for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards®; Official Selection at Seattle Int’l FF, Palm Springs FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, San Fran- cisco Int’l FF, and Karlovy Vary FF)

Drama Directed by Erik Poppe - 2003 - Denmark/Norway/Sweden - Norwegian - 125 min.

As Oslo suffers through the hottest day of the year, the paths of several strangers cross. A male nurse believes he can sense the future (as long as he's asleep), while a suicidal former pop star pines for the past. "Hawaii" is a local bar where two long-lost lovers swear to meet to fulfill their childhood promise; Hawaii, the American state, is also the place where one lover's brother dreams of fleeing during his one-day furlough from jail. Meanwhile, a grief- Rights: USA stricken married couple hope to make a desperate trip to the United States for an experi- Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD mental operation that might save their child's life.

28 28 E u Norway r MONSTER THURSDAY (WINNER: Audience Award at Mannheim-Heidelberg Inter- o national FF; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Cleveland Int’l FF, Iceland Int’l FF, p Minneapolis/St. Paul FF, and Newport Beach FF) e Drama Directed by Arild Østin Ommundsen - 2004 - Norway - Norwegian/Danish - 103 min.

Old friends Even and Tord live on Norway's west coast. A handsome career guy and an excellent surfer, Tord marries Karen, whom Even has always loved. Despite the fact that Karen is expecting a child, Tord goes on a business trip to Singapore and asks Even to look after Karen while he is gone. With Tord away, Even decides to make his move; he even decides to learn to surf to impress Karen. But which way will the waves break? Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Norway TROUBLED WATER (WINNER: Ecumenical Prize, The Norwegian Int’l FF; WIN- NER: Best Actor, Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen; Kanon Awards (Norwegian Film Awards 2009) ; WINNER: Best Film (Golden Quill Award), Film & Art Festival Summer (Poland) WINNER: Audience Award, Libertas FF. Official Selection at Seattle Int’l FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, & Guadalajara Int’l FF )

Drama / Thriller Directed by Erik Poppe - 2008 - Norway, Sweden - Norwegian - 120 min.

Jan, recently released from prison after serving time for the murder of a child, has always maintained his innocence and is ready to put the past behind him. A gifted organist, he takes a job at an Oslo church under his middle name, Thomas. His talent and gentle manner quickly earn him the respect of his superiors, as well as the love of the pastor, Anna. Thomas even overcomes his initial panic to return the affection of Anna's young son, Jens. But his past catches up with him when Agnes, a local teacher, comes to the church on a Rights: USA & Canada school visit and recognizes the organist as Jan, the young man who was convicted for the Format: Digibeta, DVD murder of her son.

Romania THE WAY I SPENT THE END OF THE WORLD (WINNER: Un Certain Regard, Best Actress at Cannes FF; WINNER: Audience Award at South East European FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Venice Int’l FF, Berlin Int’l FF, Palm Springs Int’l FF, Melbourne Int’l FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, and Hong Kong Int’l FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Catalin Mitulescu - 2006 - Romania - Romanian - 106 min.

Bucharest 1989. Last year of Ceausescu’s dictatorship. Eva, 17, lives with her parents and her 7-year-old brother Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime before a disciplinary committee. Eva is expelled from school and transferred to a reformatory establishment. There she meets Andrei and decides to escape Romania with him. Lalalilu is more and more convinced that Ceausescu is the main reason for Eva’s decision to leave. So, with his Rights: USA & Canada friends from school, he devises a plan to kill the dictator. Executive produced by Martin Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Scorsese. Beta SP, DVD

29 Russia THE ISLAND (WINNER: Best Film (Jury and Audience Award) and Best Actor at Mos- cow Premiere Fest; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Venice Int’l FF (closing film), London FF, Moscow FF, and Montreal World FF)

Drama Directed by Pavel Lounguine - 2006 - Russia - Russian - 112 min.

Somewhere in Northern Russia, in a small Russian Orthodox monastery, lives a very un- usual man. His fellow monks are confused by his bizarre conduct, and those who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future. However, he considers himself unworthy because of a sin he committed in his youth. He has decided to spend the rest of his life in repentance, atoning for this past wrongdoing, in order to rest in peace once he dies, but little does he know that he will find closure well before his death. Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, DVD

Russia ROADS TO KOKTEBEL (WINNER: Philip Morris Award at Karlovy Vary FF; WIN- NER: Special Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Prize at Moscow Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Film at Festival of Central and Eastern European Film; Official Selection at Cannes FF [Critic’s Week] , Toronto Int’l FF, Los Angeles FF, London FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Van- couver Int’l FF, Melbourne Int’l FF, Brussels Festival of European Film, and Sevilla Festival de Cine)

Drama Directed by Boris Khlebnikov and Alexei Popogrebsky - 2003 - Russia - Russian - 105 min.

After his wife’s death and the loss of his job, an aerodynamics engineer sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister’s house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transport, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self- Rights: USA & Canada respect, piece together his broken life and win back the trust of his son. For the boy, the Format: Digibeta, DVD mythic costal town holds the key to a new life and emancipation.

Serbia THE TRAP (WINNER: Grand Prix at Sofia Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Director and FIPRESCI Prize at GoEast Film Festival Wiesbaden; Official Selection at Berlin Int’l FF, Belgrade Int’l FF (Opening Film) , and Transylvania FF)

Thriller Directed by Srdan Golubovic - 2007 - Serbia/Germany/Hungary - Serbo/Croatian - 106 min.

Mladen, his wife Marija and their son Nemanja live in Belgrade. When Nemanja develops a serious heart condition, the doctors urge an operation abroad. But where to obtain the 26,000 Euros? Just when the boy’s parents give up hope of raising the money, a man con- tacts Mladen and offers to pay the whole amount. But there is one thing Mladen must do: kill the man’s business rival. The proposal repulses Mladen, but as his son’s condition suddenly deteriorates, he begins to seriously consider the offer. If he accepts, he saves his boy’s life but loses his soul; if he refuses, he will grieve as a righteous man until the end of Rights: USA & Canada his life. The trap is set... Format: Digibeta, DVD

30 30 E u r Slovenia A CALL GIRL (WINNER: Best Supporting Actor, Slovene FF, Official Selection at o Sarajevo FF, Warsaw FF, Pusan FF, Raindance FF, Reykjavik FF, Palm Springs Int’l p FF, and Thessaloniki FF ) e Drama Directed by Damjan Kozole - 2009 - Slovenia - Slovenian - 90 min.

Growing up in small-town Slovenia, 23 year-old Aleksandra is grateful for the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital, and she plans to take advantage of everything that the city has to offer—quickly styling herself as a high-priced call girl. Dropping out of society, she barricades herself inside her penthouse apartment, and watches the world pass her by. But her isolated existence—English studies and mortgage payments by day, her call girl lifestyle by night—is thrown into chaos when one of her Rights: USA clients, a visiting politician, dies of a heart attack on her watch. All of a sudden, Aleksandra Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD must confront a new range of emotions—fear, guilt, loneliness—all the while being pursued by a band of local pimps, as well as the cops, who are hot on her trail. The old village life she had escaped from might now become her only refuge.

Slovenia SPARE PARTS (Official Selection at Berlin Int’l FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Montreal World FF, Edinburgh FF, Philadelphia Int’l FF, Chicago Int’l FF, Karlovy Vary FF, Pusan Int’l FF, Warsaw FF, Sao Paulo FF, and Thessaloniki Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Damjan Kozole - 2003 - Slovenia - Slovenian - 87 min.

Ludvik is a bitter widower and small-time car-racing champion, who smuggles refugees from Slovenia to Italy with his friends, as long as the people being smuggled can pay his asking price. His partners, Rajc and Drago, are breaking in a newcomer, Rudi. Although Ludvik challenges the inexperienced Rudi at first, their relationship gradually deepens, while Rudi starts experiencing a moral dilemma.

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Spain CAROL’S JOURNEY (WINNER: Glass Bear at Berlin FF; Nominated for 3 Goya Awards [Spanish Academy Awards], and Nominated for the CEC Award for Best Screen- play by the Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain; Official Selection at Montreal World FF, San Sebastian Int’l FF , Portland Int’l FF, Cairo Int’l FF, and Giffoni FF)

Drama Directed by Imanol Uribe - 2002 - Spain - Spanish - 100 min.

Carol, a 12-year-old Spanish-American girl from New York, travels with her mother to Spain in the spring of 1938, at the height of the Civil War. Separated from her beloved father, Carol arrives in her mother's home village and transforms the secretive family environment. Her innocence and rebellious nature drive her at first to reject a world that is at once new and foreign. But she soon journeys into adulthood through a friendship with Maruja, the village teacher, and a young local boy, Tomiche. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD

31 Spain EL BOLA (WINNER: 4 Goya Awards [Spanish Academy Awards] for Best Film, Best New Actor, Best New Director and Best Screenplay; WINNER: OCIC Award at San Sebastian Int’l FF; WINNER: European Discovery of the Year at European Film Awards; Official Selection at New Directors/New Films Festival )

Drama Directed by Achero Mañas - 2000 - Spain - Spanish - 88 min.

Pablo is a 12-year-old boy raised in a violent and unforgiving environment. The arrival of a new boy at school, from whom he learns a new definition of friendship, leads to the discovery of a family where communication and love prevail over domination and violence. The film poignantly parallels the lives of a caring father, unable to connect with his willful yet loving son, and that of distant Pablo and his abusive father, who is incapable of giving Rights: USA him the love he needs and replaces it with something far more sinister. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Spain THE GREAT MATCH (Official Selection at Berlin Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Sydney Int’l FF, and Karlovy Vary Int’l FF)

Comedy Directed by Gerardo Olivares - 2006 - Spain/Germany - Kazajo dialect (Mongolia)/ Tamashek (Niger)/Tupi (Brazil) - 88 min.

This film tells the adventurous story of three heroes, none of whom have ever met, but who nevertheless have two things in common: firstly, they all live in the farthest-flung corners of the planet, and secondly, they are all three determined to see on TV the final in Japan of the 2002 World Cup between Germany and Brazil. The protagonists in this ‘global’ comedy are: a family of Mongolian nomads, a camel caravan of Tuareg in the Sahara, and a group of indigenous people in the Brazilian Amazon. They all live about 500 kilometers away from the next town – and the next television – making their task a particularly daunting one. Nevertheless, these inventive people possess the resourcefulness and the willpower Rights: USA & Canada to achieve their goal. Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD

Switzerland FRAULEIN (WINNER: Golden Leopard for best Film, First Prize of the Junior Jury, FICC Don Quijote Prize and Youth Jury Prize at Locarno FF; WINNER: Award for Best Film, Best Actress Award at Sarajevo FF; WINNER: FIPRESCI Award at Valladolid Int’l FF; WINNER: Swiss Film Prize [Swiss Academy Awards] for Best Screenplay; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Tribeca FF, Cleveland Int’l FF, and Hong Kong Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Andrea Staka - 2006 - Switzerland/Germany - SwissGerman/Bosnian/ SerboCroatian - 81 min.

A story of the friendship among three women from the former Yugoslavia. Reza left Bel- grade more than 30 years ago to seek a new life in Zurich. She owns a cafeteria and main- tains an orderly, joyless existence. Mila, a waitress there, is a good-humored Croatian woman who also emigrated decades ago. Unlike Reza, Mila dreams of returning to a house on the Croatian coast. Both of them receive a jolt when Ana, a young, itinerant woman who Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, has fled Sarajevo, breezes into the cafeteria looking for work. Reza hires her but is annoyed Beta SP, DVD by Ana's impulsive and spirited efforts to inject life into the cafeteria. The acrimony dissi- pates as Ana begins to thaw Reza's chill.

32 32 E u r United Kingdom o SOMERS TOWN (WINNER: Best Actor at Tribeca FF; WINNER: Best new British p Feature at Edinburgh FF; Official Selection at Berlin FF and Karlovy Vary FF) e Drama / Comedy / Directed by Shane Meadows - 2008 - UK - English - 70min. N Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek, a Polish immigrant, lives in o the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is t r working on a new rail link. When Marek agrees to let homeless Tomo move into his room, h unbeknownst to his father, the pair forms a strong bond, as they work odd jobs for an ec- centric neighbor and compete for the attention of Maria, a beautiful young French waitress A with whom they are both infatuated. But it's only a matter of time before Marek's dad dis- m Rights: USA covers what's going on… Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD e r ci NORTH AMERICA a Canada A SIMPLE CURVE (WINNER: 2 Leo Awards [British Columbia Academy Awards] for Best Supporting Actress and Best Cinematography, and nominated for 9 others; WINNER: Writer/Director Award for Best Film at Nantucket FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, and Vancouver Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Aubrey Nealon - 2005 - Canada - English - 92 min.

Caleb is 27, and was raised in the majestic Kootenays by his bush hippie parents. He loves his father Jim and understands his reverence for wood working, coriander and Soya prod- ucts, but he just doesn't get Jim's determined effort to achieve economic disaster at every turn. His father is a relentlessly unsuccessful business man, and as the junior partner in their carpentry shop, Caleb is powerless to stop the fiscal self sabotage. When Matthew, an old friend of Jim's, arrives in the valley to develop a high-end fishing lodge, Caleb sees Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD fortune looming, provided he can keep his father distracted long enough. But a small deception leads to colossal betrayal, and soon Caleb must face the fact that he's reached that treasured day when a boy becomes man enough to tell his father to get lost.

Canada FALLING ANGELS (WINNER: 2 Genie Awards [Canadian Academy Awards] for Best Achievement in Art Direction/ Production Design and Best Achievement in Music (Original Song); WINNER: Silvie Award at Nanaimo inFEST FF; Nominated for 2 DGC Craft Awards [Achievement in Production Design and Best Director] at Director’s Guild of Canada; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, SXSW FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, Palm Springs Int’l FF, Milwaukee Int’l FF Karlovy Vary FF, and Thessaloniki FF )

Drama / Comedy Directed by Scott Smith - 2003 - Canada - English - 109 min.

Set against the backdrop of the 1960’s, free love, the Cold War and the dawn of feminism, Falling Angels is a wickedly funny story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunc- tional family. Based on Barbara Gowdy’s novel, Falling Angels is a keen observation of Rights: USA the destructive effects of secrecy and the bonds of duty between parents and children. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

33 E u or Canada FAMILIA (WINNER: Best Canadian Feature at Toronto Int’l FF; Nominated for 7 Genie p Awards [Canadian Academy Awards] including Best Picture; Official Selection at Lo- carno Int’l FF, and Vancouver Int’l FF) e / Drama N Directed by Louise Archambault - 2005 - Canada - French - 102 min. o Michele, a thirty-something aerobics instructor, flees Montreal with her 14-year-old daugh- r ter Marguerite after her fiancé/boss withholds her paychecks to cover her gambling debts. t Their destination is California but, penniless, they make it as far as the suburbs and the h well-appointed home of Michele's childhood friend Janine. While the two women re- establish their relationship, Marguerite and Gabrielle, Janine's daughter, forge a friendship A through tentative forays into the adult world of drugs and sex. The characters of Michele m and Janine are further illuminated through relationships with their own mothers, and the Rights: USA inherited behaviors that seem impossible to either change or accept. e Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD r ci a Canada LONG LIFE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY (WINNER: Special Mention for Best Canadian Screenplay and runner-up for Most Popular Canadian Film at Vancouver Int’l FF; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Toronto Int’l FF, San Francisco Int’l Asian FF, Hawaii Int’l FF, and Asian American Int’l FF)

Drama/Comedy Directed by Mina Shum - 2002 - Canada - English - 98 min.

Set against a background of richly drawn characters, each of whom are exploring their own fate and destiny, the film focuses on the story of Kin (Sandra Oh), a young divorced mother raising her 12-year-old daughter, Mindy. When Mindy sets her sights on finding her mother a new boyfriend by using ancient Chinese magic, the results are unexpected, hysterically funny and heart warming.

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Canada MARION BRIDGE (WINNER: Best Canadian First Feature at Toronto Int’l FF; WIN- NER: Outstanding Writer Award at Atlantic FF; Nominated for 3 Genie Awards [Canadian Academy Awards]; Official Selection at London FF, Vancouver FF, Seattle Int’l FF, and Int’l FF Rotterdam)

Drama Directed by Wiebke von Carolsfeld - 2002 - Canada - English - 93 min.

Agnes (Molly Parker), in the midst of a struggle to overcome her own self destructive behavior, returns to Sydney, Nova Scotia from Toronto because of the failing health of her mother Rose. She is met by her older sister Theresa, a devout Catholic who has recently been dumped by her husband for a younger woman, and Louise, the middle child who has retreated from the outside world. Her arrival sets in motion a chain of events that allows the family to reconnect with the world and one another. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD 34 34 N o r Canada THE REPUBLIC OF LOVE (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Belfast FF, Atlan- t tic FF, and Scottsdale FF) h A Romantic Comedy Directed by Deepa Mehta - 2003 - Canada/UK - English - 96 min. m

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Carol Shields, The Republic of Love is a e romantic comedy about the barriers facing the lucky and the unlucky in love in the 21st r century. Tom is a charismatic late-night radio talk show host whose unconventional up- ci bringing has made him a little too quick to fall in love and marry. Fay is an academic a whose expectations are impossibly high as a result of the living perfection that is her parents’ marriage. The characters connect in a maze of malls, condos and family homes, un- derpinning the idea that ‘geography is destiny’ and that each of us has our own ‘republic’, where lives intersect. From the director of Water , Earth and Fire. Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD

Canada WILBY WONDERFUL (WINNER: Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Sup- porting Actress at Vancouver Int’l FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Palm Springs Int’l FF, Atlantic FF, Santa Barbara FF, Reno FF, Stony Brook FF, Whistler FF, New Fest [NY Gay and Lesbian FF], Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian FF, London Lesbian and Gay FF, and Seattle Lesbian and Gay FF)

Comedy Directed by Daniel McIvor - 2004 - Canada - English - 99 min.

Wilby Island is just a few minutes by ferry from the mainland, but as far as loyal Islanders are concerned, it might as well be years away from the fast-lane living of the mainland. Recently a scandal has rocked the town and it is only days before the details are to be pub- lished in the local paper, bringing shame and scorn to all involved. Academy Award® nominees Sandra Oh and Ellen Page star in this film about second chances. Rights: USA Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Canada WOLVES IN THE SNOW (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Michael Welterlin - 2002 - Canada - French - 95 min.

Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine’s death. After lying about Antoine’s whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events in which Lucie learns how to lie, to live, and perhaps also to like. Wolves in the Snow is an intense drama set against the backdrop of Montreal.

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35 N o t r USA AUGUST THE FIRST (WINNER: Audience Award at Urbanworld FF; WINNER: Best h Feature Film at San Francisco Black FF; WINNER: Best American Film at Harlem Int’l FF; Nominated Gotham Awards; Official Selection at SXSW FF, Karlovy Vary Int’l FF, A AFI Dallas FF, Philadelphia Int’l FF. Boston FF, Minneapolis-St. Paul FF, and At- lanta Film and Video FF) m

Drama e Directed by Lanre Olabisi - 2007 - USA - English - 81 min. r ci It is the morning of Tunde’s graduation party and things have already begun to unravel. Tunde has managed to alienate his sister, Simisola. His older brother, Ade, persistently plagues him a with criticism, and their mother has started drinking again. Unbeknownst to most, Tunde has orchestrated the return of his long estranged father, resurrecting unresolved family anguish against the backdrop of Tunde’s celebration. As the day turns to night, old wounds are re- Rights: USA & Canada opened and bad habits are revived. Layer by layer, deception and half-truths are peeled away as Format: 35mm, Digibeta, secrets are uncovered in what will be become the most unforgettable day the family has ever Beta SP, DVD experienced.

USA ANYTOWN, USA (WINNER: Emerging Filmmaker Award for Best Documentary at Minneapolis-St. Paul Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Documentary at Long Island FF; WIN- NER: Best Director at Trenton FF; Official Selection at Woodstock FF, Atlanta FF, True/False FF, and Newport Beach FF)

Documentary Directed by Kristian Fraga - 2005 - USA - English - 93 min.

All politics are local in this hilarious burlesque of a documentary following a tightly-run mayoral race in the small town of Bogota, New Jersey. When the much-reviled—and legally blind—Republican incumbent Steven Lonegan boldly announces he will run for re- election, the citizens of Bogota go on the offensive to unseat him. Enter Democrat Fred Pesce, coaxed from retirement to share the ticket. With his health in question, and his politics compared to those of Tony Soprano, the field is wide open for sight-challenged town Rights: USA booster and former local football hero Dave Musikant to step in as a long shot write-in in- Format: 35mm, Digibeta, dependent candidate—officially making it the only mayoral race in the nation where two of Beta SP, DVD the three candidates are legally blind! Add to the mix the machinations of Jesse "The Body" Ventura's campaign manager, and Anytown, USA resonates as an all-too-familiar look at the charade of partisan politics in our increasingly polarized nation.

USA ARRANGED (WINNER: Best Narrative Feature at Washington Jewish FF; WINNER: Grand Chamaleon Award and Best Feature Film Award at Brooklyn Int’l FF; WINNER: Best of Fest Audience Award (Narrative Feature) at Berkshire Int’l FF; Official Selection at SXSW, Miami Jewish FF, Atlanta Jewish FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo - 2006 - USA - English - 89 min.

Rochel is an Orthodox Jew, and Nasira a Muslim of Syrian origin.They are both young teachers at a public school in Brooklyn, going through the process of getting “arranged marriages” through their respective religious and traditional customs. With both family pressure on the one hand, and the rejection of traditional values from the outside world on the other, Rochel and Nasira will have to rely on each other and their friendship to pull through this difficult time of their lives. They will eventually prove to everyone around Rights: USA them that they can be strong women in charge of their own happiness while keeping their Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD deep religious and cultures convictions. Most importantly, they will show the world that friendship doesn’t discriminate.

36 36 N o t r USA CHOKING MAN (WINNER: Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You, Gotham h Award, WINNER: Best Director, Best Newcomers, Best Soundtrack, Special Jury Award at Ibiza Int’l FF; Official Selection at Tribeca FF, Miami FF, Deauville FF, and Bergen A Int’l FF ) m Drama e Directed by Steve Barron - 2006 - USA - English - 84 min. i r Jorge is a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher toiling away in a shabby diner in Queens, c New York. From his solitary kitchen corner, Jorge quietly attempts to forge a bond with a Amy, the newly hired Chinese waitress. Even though she tries to reciprocate, the gulf that separates them may be too large. On the job he is continually tormented by a coworker, and at home in his Harlem apartment, under the psychological control of his domineering “roommate,” he battles his inner demons. Choking Man captures the feeling of claustro- Rights: USA & Canada phobia, and almost literal asphyxiation, newcomers to America experience as they struggle Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD to find a place and purpose in this strange land.

USA LET THE CHURCH SAY AMEN (Official Selection at Sundance FF, Brooklyn Int’l FF, True/False FF, Bangkok FF, ReelWorld FF, and RiverRun Int’l FF)

Documentary Directed by David Petersen - 2004 - USA - English - 87 min.

Fifty years since the Brown vs. Board of Education decision to improve the lives of people of color in American society, the rewards have yet to reach many residents of Washington, D.C., where that very court decision was made. Blocks away from the Capitol and White House stands a tiny storefront church, endeavoring to combat the street violence, unem- ployment, and homelessness that threaten American families living in poverty. Over the course of a year, this feature-length documentary by Academy Award® nominated director David Petersen follows four church members as they work to fulfill their dreams for a better life. Rights: USA & Canada Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD

USA MANITO (WINNER: Special Jury Prize at Sundance FF; WINNER: SXSW Competi- tion Award at SXSW FF , WINNER: Best Emerging Filmmaker at Tribeca FF; Nominated for 3 Independent Spirit Awards)

Drama Directed by Eric Eason - 2002 - USA - English - 78 min.

Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant Spanish- speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue to disappear, their violent legacy still casts a shadow over the neighborhood and its residents. Junior, an ex-convict struggling to get his life back on track, is a product of this legacy. His younger brother Manny, the salutatorian of his high school class, embodies the hope of the future. On the night of his graduation party, Manny finds himself faced with an ill-fated decision Rights: USA that could change his life forever. Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

37 N o r USA MINE (WINNER: Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature SXSW FF; WINNER: t Best Film San Francisco DocFest; Official Selection at SilverDocs FF) h A Documentary Directed by Geralyn Pezanoski - 2009 - USA - English - 81 min. m

Hailed as “absorbing,” “a must see,” “Oscar material” & “the best movie at SXSW,” Mine is e a feature-length, independent documentary about the essential bond between humans & ani- r mals, set against the backdrop of one of the worst natural disasters in modern U.S. history: ci Hurricane Katrina. This gripping, character-driven story follows New Orleans residents as they attempt the daunting task of trying to reunite with their pets who have been adopted by a families all over the country, & chronicles the custody battles that arise when two families / love the same pet. Who determines the fate of the animals—and the people—involved? A S compelling meditation on race, class & the power of compassion, Mine examines how we treat animals as an extension of how we view & treat each other. o Rights: USA u Format: Digibeta, DVCam, t BetaSP, DVD h & USA OT: OUR TOWN (WINNER: Audience Award at Palm Springs Int’l FF; WINNER: Best C Documentary at LA IFP/West FF; WINNER: Audience Award at Aspen FF; WINNER: e Best Documentary at New York Int’l Latino FF; WINNER: Best Documentary at Heart- n land FF; WINNER: Jury Prize and Best Doc at Orinda FF; Nominated Best Documentary t at Independent Spirit Awards; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, SXSW FF, Tribeca r FF, True/False FF, and Santa Monica FF) a l Documentary A Directed by Scott Hamilton Kennedy - 2002 - USA - English - 76 min. m Against all odds, the first theatrical production in over twenty years at Dominguez High School is going to be Thorton Wilder's American classic Our Town. The kids at this Comp- e ton school are about to experience more than a culture clash, as they embark on a rich jour- r Rights: USA ney and discover the educational and social value of theater. OT: Our Town tells a story of i Format: 35mm, Digibeta, c Beta SP, DVD the human spirit and of its strength against the stereotypes holding the students down. a Where Thorton Wilder wrote about little Grover's Corners, this documentary exemplifies

USA THE PARTY’S OVER (Official Selection at Cannes FF, SXSW FF, Los Angeles FF, Havana Int’l FF, Locarno Int’l FF, and Santa Fe FF)

Documentary Directed by Rebecca Chaiklin and Donovan Leitch - 2001 - USA - English - 82 min.

The Party’s Over follows Academy Award® Winner Philip Seymour Hoffman as a concerned citizen on an uncensored journey of the state of democracy in America. The film examines how the American political process addresses, and often fails to address, the country’s most pressing issues. As we count down to the pivotal 2004 election, the film addresses the question: Is there a difference between Republicans and Democrats?

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38 38 S o SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA u t Argentina THE WINDOW (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Valladolid FF, Havana Int’l FF, h Cairo Int’l FF, Rome Cinema FF, Antalya Golden Orange FF, San Francisco Int’l FF) & Drama Directed by Carlos Sorín - 2008 - Argentina/Spain - Spanish - 77 min. C It is a significant day for 80-year-old Antonio. After an absence of many years, his estranged e son is coming to visit. All must be perfect. There will be a toast with a very special cham- n pagne; an embrace; warm words that will maybe finally bridge the gap between them… Be- t fore all this, Antonio must wait. Bedridden, he looks out the window of his pink hacienda r overlooking endless Patagonian fields and sees light and life, the past and the present, while a sensing the future. He decides to secretly leave the house, unseen by his faithful caretakers, l to take what might be a last walk in his fields, breathe the air, tread the earth, inhale the A scent of the land that has been his life. What could otherwise seem like insignificant memo- m Rights: USA & Canada ries or moments in one’s life take a special, beautiful meaning and weight in this poetic, Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD humanistic film. e i r XXY (WINNER: Critics Week Grand Prize & Golden Rail Award at Cannes Int’l FF; c Argentina WINNER: Golden Athena Award for Best Film at Athens Int’l FF; WINNER: New Di- a rector’s Award at Edinburgh Int’l FF (opening night film); WINNER: Association of Quebec’s Cinema Critics Prize at Montreal World FF; WINNER: Audience Award at Frameline (GLBT) FF, San Francisco; WINNER: Grand Jury Award for Outstanding Int’l Dramatic Feature at Outfest (GLBT) FF, Los Angeles; WINNER: Audience Award for Best Feature Film at Inside Out, Ottawa LGBT FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF and New Directors /New Films FF)

Drama Directed by Lucía Puenzo - 2007 - Argentina/Spain/France - Spanish - 91 min.

Alex is a 15-year-old teenager with a dark secret. Soon after her birth, her parents decide to leave Buenos Aires to settle in an isolated wooden house tucked away in the dunes of the Uruguayan shoreline. As Alex begins to explore her sexuality, her mother invites friends from Buenos Aires to come for a visit with their 16-year-old son Álvaro. Álvaro´s father is Rights: USA & Canada a plastic surgeon who acceptes the invitation because of his medical concern for Alex. The Format: 35mm, Digibeta, inevitable attraction between the teenagers forces both families to face their worst fears. Beta SP, DVD Rumors begin to spread around town, and her classmates label Alex ‘a freak.’ As the film progresses, people’s fascination with her becomes dangerous.

Brazil THE MAN OF THE YEAR (WINNER: Special Mention at San Sebastian FF; WIN- NER: Best Film at San Francisco Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Actor, Best Director and Best Film at Miami Brazilian FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF and Berlin Int’l FF )

Thriller Directed by Jose Henrique Fonseca - 2003 - Brazil - Portuguese - 116 min.

Maiquel has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This little event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which Maiquel goes from nobody to hero to outlaw…all in 24 hours. Based on the award-winning novel “O Matador" by Patricia Melo, this vibrant and brazen crime saga follows in the vein of recent Brazilian cinema such as Vicente Amorim’s The Middle of the World, Walter Salles’ Central Station and Fernando Meirelles’ City of God . Rights: USA Format: Digibeta, Beta SP,DVD 39 Brazil THE MIDDLE OF THE WORLD (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, New Directors/New Films Festival, San Sebastian Int’l FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, San Francisco Int’l FF, Miami Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Milwaukee Int’l FF, Sydney FF, and Int’l FF of Mumbai)

Drama Directed by Vicente Amorim - 2003 - Brazil - Portuguese - 85 min.

Based on a true story, The Middle of the World is about a couple and their five children – ages ranging from 6 months to 14 years old – as they travel 3,200 km by bi- cycle to chase a dream. Romão, an illiterate and unemployed truck driver, and his wife Rose, leave the State of Paraíba in Brazil, and, over the course of six months, travel across five states to reach Rio de Janeiro, in a quest for a job and a decent life. Rights: USA & Canada Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD

Brazil ONLY WHEN I DANCE (Official Selection at Tribeca Int’l Film Festival, Edin- burgh Int’l Film festival , Int’l Documentary FF Amsterdam)

Documentary Directed by Beadie Finzi - 2009 - Brazil, UK - Portuguese - 75 min.

Only When I Dance is a documentary following two young teenagers, Isabela and Irlan, as they strive to realize an extraordinary dream. One girl, one boy; both black and poor, and living in one of the most violent favelas on the outskirts of Rio. Irlan and Isabela both want to dance ballet, and their ambition is to leave Brazil to join one of the great companies in North America. For them, dance is the way out, an escape, and on stage, an ecstasy that is rarely found in their day-to-day lives. The question is can they make it? Only When I Dance is Mad Hot Ballroom meets Billy Elliot —a classic narrative of coming of age; it is about chasing a dream to dance the Rights: USA & Canada most perfect dance against all the odds of race and of circumstance. And of course, Format: HDCam, Digibeta, the price you must pay for talent, for ambition and for success. DVD

Colombia THE WIND JOURNEYS (Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Cannes Int’l FF, San Sebastian FF, London FF, Mar Del Plata Int’l FF, Munich FF, São Paulo FF ; Colombia’s submission Academy Awards Best Foreign Film)

Drama Directed by Beadie Finzi - 2009 - Colombia, Germany, Argentina & Netherlands - Spanish - 117 min.

Only When I Dance is a documentary following two young teenagers, Isabela and Irlan, as they strive to realize an extraordinary dream. One girl, one boy; both black and poor, and living in one of the most violent favelas on the outskirts of Rio. Irlan and Isabela both want to dance ballet, and their ambition is to leave Brazil to join one of the great companies in North America. For them, dance is the way out, an escape, and on stage, an ecstasy that is rarely found in their day-to-day lives. The question is Rights: USA & Canada can they make it? Only When I Dance is Mad Hot Ballroom meets Billy Elliot —a Format: 35mm, Digibeta, classic narrative of coming of age; it is about chasing a dream to dance the most per- DVD fect dance against all the odds of race and of circumstance. And of course, the price you must pay for talent, for ambition and for success.

40 40 S o u Cuba VIVA CUBA (WINNER: Junior Prize at Cannes FF; WINNER: Special Mention at Gif- t foni FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, London FF, Vancouver Int’l FF, Rio de h Janeiro FF, San Francisco FF, Miami Int’l FF, and Havana FF) & Drama / Comedy Directed by Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti - 2005 - Cuba - Spanish - 80 min. C e In a tale akin to “Romeo and Juliet,” the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from an upper-class family, and her single mother does n not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. t r Jorgito’s mother, a poor socialist proud of her family’s social standing, places similar re- a strictions on her son. What neither woman recognizes is the immense strength of the bond between Malú and Jorgito. When the children learn that Malú’s mother is planning to leave l Cuba, they decide to travel to the other side of the island to find Malú’s father and persuade A Rights: USA him against signing the forms that would allow it. m Format: Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD e r Mexico i ALAMAR (WINNER: Audience Award & Competition Award Morelia Int’l FF; WIN- c NER: Tiger Award, Rotterdam Int’l FF, Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Berlin Int’l a FF)

Drama Directed by Pedro González-Rubio - 2009 - Mexico - Spanish and Italian - 73 min.

Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he likes an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she prefers a more urban existence. He is Mexican and she is Italian, and she has decided to return to Rome with their five-year-old son, Natan. But before they leave, Jorge wishes to take young Natan on a trip, hoping to teach him about his Mayan origins in Mexico. At first the boy is physically and emotionally uncomfortable with the whole affair, and gets seasick on the boat taking them to their destination. But as father and son spend more time together, Natan begins a learning Rights: USA experience that will remain with him forever Format: 35mm, HDCam, Digibeta, DVD

LAKE TAHOE (WINNER: Alfred Bauer Prize, FIPRESCI Prize at Berlin Int’l FF; WIN- Mexico NER: Best Feature Film, Best Actor and Best Director at Mexican Ariel Awards; WINNER: Mayahuel Award, Best Director at Guadalajara Mexican FF; WINNER: Special Jury Prize at Transylvania Int’l FF; Nominated: Golden Berlin Bear at Berlin Int’l FF; Official Se- lection: San Sebastian FF, Karlovy Vary FF, Helsinki Int’l FF, and AFI FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Fernando Eimbcke - 2008 - Mexico - Spanish - 85 min.

Teenage Juan crashes his family’s car into a telegraph pole on the outskirts of town, and then scours the streets searching for someone to help him fix it. His quest will bring him to Don Heber, an old paranoid mechanic whose only companion is Sica, his almost human boxer dog; to Lucía, a young mother who is convinced that her real place in life is as a lead singer in a punk band; and to “The One who Knows”, a teenage mechanic obsessed with martial arts and Kung Fu philosophy. The absurd and bewildering worlds of these charac- Rights: USA ters drag Juan into a one day journey in which he will come to accept what he was escaping Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD from in the first place—an event both as natural and inexplicable as a loved one’s death.

41 Mexico THE VIOLIN (WINNER: Best Actor at Cannes FF; WINNER: Horizons Award and Special Mention at San Sebastian Int’l FF; WINNER: Best Ibero-American Film at Miami Int’l FF; WINNER: Skyy Prize for Best First Feature and Audience Award at San Francisco Int’l FF; Official Selection at Toronto Int’l FF, Chicago Int’l FF, Se- attle Int’l FF, Pusan Int’l FF, Sao Paulo Int’l FF, and Montreal World FF)

Drama Directed by Francisco Vargas - 2006 - Mexico - Spanish - 98 min. Black & White

Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: musicians and humble farmers, they also support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the re- bels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his Rights: USA & Canada appearance as a harmless violin player, and makes it back into the military-occupied Format: 35mm, Digibeta, village to recuperate the ammunition hidden in his cornfield. His violin playing charms Beta SP, DVD the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Plutarco has music, but needs ammunition. The Captain wants to stifle the rebellion, but he loves music. Arms and music play cat-and-mouse and result in painful betrayal.

Peru MADEINUSA (WINNER: FIPRESCI Prize at Int’l FF Rotterdam; WINNER: Roberto “Tato” Miller Award for Best Latin-American Narrative Feature at Mar de Plata FF; WINNER: Best Screenplay at Havana FF; Official Selection at Sundance FF, Int’l FF Rotterdam, Seattle Int’l FF, Edinburgh Int’l FF, Miami Int’l FF, Seattle Int’l FF, Tribeca FF, Guadalajara Int’l FF, and Helsinki Int’l FF)

Drama Directed by Claudia Llosa - 2006 - Peru/Spain - Spanish - 100 min.

Madeinusa is a sweet-faced 14-year-old girl who lives in a dirt-floor house and dreams of the world beyond her village in the Andes. It is the custom of her town that from Good Friday at three in the afternoon (just when Christ died on the cross) through Easter Sunday, sin does not exist. On the eve of this time of small-town debauchery, Salvador, a young geologist from Lima, accidentally comes to town. The town greets him with curiosity and ire, then imprisons him out of fear that he will interfere with the festivities. Rights: USA & Canada But Madeinusa, ever curious about things from the big city, is drawn to him, and her fate Format: 35mm, Digibeta, Beta SP, DVD begins to turn in unexpected ways.

Uruguay GIGANTE (WINNER: Grand Jury Prize Silver Bear, Best First Feature Film, Alfred Bauer Prize at Berlin Int’l FF; WINNER: Best New Director at Chicago Int’l FF)

Drama / Comedy Directed by Adrián Biniez - 2008 - Uruguay - In Spanish - 84 min.

Jara, who is 35, is a shy and lonely man who works in a suburb of Montevideo as a supermarket security guard. It’s his job to keep an eye on the security cameras installed throughout the building. He doesn’t have a great deal to do because he works the graveyard shift when the store is like a ghost town. And so his life continues—until one day Julia, who works at the super market as a cleaner, enters his field of vision. Jara immediately feels a strong attraction towards her. At first he spends hour after hour in front of the security monitors watching her. But, before long, he begins to follow her after work. His whole life gradually begins to revolve around Julia’s daily routine. When one day Rights: USA & Canada rumors begin to spread among the staff that the company intends to lay off some of the Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD workers, some people are indeed made redundant—one of them is Julia. Jara now has a difficult decision to make. Should he drop his obsession? Or should he admit his feelings to Julia? 42 42 S o u Uruguay THE POPE’S TOILET (WINNER: Horizontes Award at San Sebastian Int’l FF; WIN- t NER: International Jury Award at Sao Paulo Int’l FF; WINNER Audience Award, h Golden Kikito, and Kikito’s Critic’s Prize at Gramado FF; Official Selection at Cannes FF, Toronto Int’l FF, Thessaloniki Int’l FF, Guadalajara Int’l FF, Palm Springs FF, & and Miami Int’l FF) C Drama e Directed by César Charlone and Enrique Fernández - 2007 - Uruguay - Spanish - 90 min. n It’s 1988, and Melo, an Uruguayan town on the Brazilian border, awaits the visit of Pope t r John Paul II. 50,000 people are expected to attend, and the most humble locals believe that a selling food and drink to the multitude will just about make them rich. Petty smuggler Beto l thinks he has the best idea of all—he decides he will build a public toilet in front of his A Rights: USA house and charge for its use. His efforts bring about unexpected consequences, and the Format: 35mm, Digibeta, DVD final results will surprise everyone. m e r ci a

43 T i t l A Call Girl 31 Buddy 28 e Short: Honored Short: A Ninja Pays Half My Rent nI d A Peck on the Cheek 16 Campfire 17 e Short: The Mantis Parable Short: In The Box x A Simple Curve 33 Carol’s Journey 31 Short: Lucky Short: A Fall from the Clouds

Aaltra 21 Choking Man 37 Short: Something Other Than Other Short: The Boy With No Name

Adam’s Apples 23 Country Teacher, The 23 Short: Clara Short: Peter and Ben

Agata and the Strom 26 Day Break 16 Short: Jesus Henry Christ Short: Dumb Angel

Alamar 41 Days and Clouds 26 Short: TBD Short: Lebenslauf

Alexandra’s Project 19 Dreams of Dust 14 Short: Bror Min Short: Dreamer

Ali Zaoua 15 Drifters 19 Short: Architecture of Reassurance Short: Robot Boy

Antares 21 Drummer, The 19 Short: Holland Tunnel Short: Love and War

Anytown, USA 36 El Bola 32 Short: Clown Car Short: More

Arranged 36 Eldorado 22 Short: The Raft Short: Icebergs

August the First 36 Falling Angels 33 Short: Tell Us the Truth Josephine Short: Ten

Be With Me 18 Familia 34 Short: Two Cars, One Night Short: Recycle

Ben X 21 For My Father 17 Short: My Name is Lisa Short: Ali and the Ball

Bothersome Man, The 28 Forest for the Trees 25 Short: True Story Short: Estes Avenue 44 T i t l Fraulein 32 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 e Short: Happiness Short: Friday Night Fever nI d Gigante 42 Madeinusa 42 e Short: Dennis Short: Fallen Art x Ginger and Cinnamon 27 Man of the Year, The 39 Short: Mirror Man Short: Confection

Great Match, The 32 Manito 37 Short: Elephants Never Forget Short: Morning Breath

Grocer’s Son, The 24 Marion Bridge 34 Short: The Odd Shoe Short: Better or Worse?

Hawaii, Oslo 28 Men at Work 17 Short: Harold, the Amazing Contortionist Short: Hold Up Pig Middle of the World, The 40 He Died With a Felafel in His Hand 20 Short: The Ecology of Love Short: Time Out Mine 38 Her Name is Sabine 24 Short: The Life of a Dog Short: The Visitor Monster Thursday 29 Hop 22 Short: Youngster Short: Lick the Star Morlang 27 In Love We Trust 16 Short: The Oath Short: Hugo Mother of Mine 24 Inch’Allah Dimanche 14 Short: Uncle Short: Black Rider Munyurangabo 15 Island, The 30 Short: Alptraum Short: Brother Noise 20 Lake Tahoe 41 Short: Motorcycle Short: Noodles Only When I Dance 40 Le Grand Voyage 15 Short: TBD Short: Date OT: Our Town 38 Let the Church Say Amen 37 Short: Border Short: A Stolen Moment Party’s Over, The 38 Light of My Eyes 27 Short: Eau Short: Dreamscapes 45 T t i Pope’s Toilet, The 43 Welcome 25 el Short: Video 3000 Short: The Berlin Wall nI Rage in Placid Lake, The 20 Who’s Camus Anyway 18 d Short: At Dawning Short: Birthday Boy e x Raja 25 Wilby Wonderful 35 Short: That Day A Thousand Words

Republic of Love, The 35 Wind Journeys, The 40 Short: Persistence Short: Danzak

Roads to Koktebel 30 Window, The 39 Short: The Box Man Short: Seventy

Somers Town 33 Witnesses 23 Short: The Odd Shoe Short: Little Terrorist

Something Like Happiness 22 Wolves in the Snow 35 Short: Backseat Bingo Short: Colorforms

Spare Parts 31 XXY 39 Short: The Youth In Us Short: The Pick-Up Artist

Storm 26 Short: Toyland (Spielzeugland)

Trap, The 30 Short: Fallen

Troubled Water 29 Short: The Kolaborator

Under The Bombs 18 Short: Porno

Violin, The 42 Short: Un Bisou pour le Monde

Viva Cuba 41 Short: Cousin

Viva Laldjerie 14 Short: Yashmak

Way I Spent the End of the World, The 29 Short: The Last Man in Brooklyn

46 D r i ADE, Maren Forest for the Trees 25 e ARACTINGI, Philippe Under The Bombs 18 c ARCHAMBAULT, Louise Familia 34 o t AYOUCH, Nabil Ali Zaoua 15 r BALTHAZAR, Nick Ben X 21 BARRON, Steve Choking Man 37 nI BENGUIGUI, Yamina Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 d BINIEZ, Adrián Gigante 42 e BRESAN, Vinko Witnesses 23 x BONNAIRE, Sandrine Her Name is Sabine 24 CEDAR, Joseph Campfire 17 CHAIKLIN, Rebecca Party’s Over, The 38 CHARLONE, César Pope’s Toilet, The 43 CHUNG, Lee Isaac Munyurangabo 15 CREMATA MALBERTI, Juan Carlos Viva Cuba 41 CRESPO, Diane Arranged 36 DE HEER, Rolf Alexandra’s Project 19 DELÉPINE, Benoît Aaltra 21 DOILLON, Jacques Raja 25 EASON, Eric Manito 37 EIMBCKE, Fernando Lake Tahoe 41 FERNÁNDEZ, Enrique Pope’s Toilet, The 43 FERROUKHI, Ismaël Le Grand Voyage 15 FINZI, Beadie Only When I Dance 40 FONSECA, Jose Henrique Man of the Year, The 39 FRAGA, Kristian Anytown, USA 36 GOLUBOVI, Srdan Trap, The 30 GUERRA, Ciro Wind Journeys, The 40 GUIRADO, Eric Grocer’s Son, The 24 HAGHIGHI, Mani Men at Work 17 HÄRÖ, Klaus Mother of Mine 24 JENSEN, Anders Thomas Adam’s Apples 23 KENNEDY, Scott Hamilton OT: Our Town 38 KERVERN, Gustave Aaltra 21 KHLEBNIKOV, Boris Roads to Koktebel 30 KHOO, Eric Be With Me 18 KOZOLE, Damjan A Call Girl 31 Spare Parts 31 LANNERS, Bouli Eldorado 22 LEITCH, Donovan Party’s Over, The 38 LIEN, Jens Bothersome Man, The 28 LIORET, Philippe Welcome 25 LLOSA, Claudia Madeinusa 42 LOUNGUINE, Pavel Island, The 30 LOWENSTEIN, Richard He Died With a Felafel in His Hand 20 LUCHETTI, Daniele Ginger and Cinnamon 27 MACLVOR, Daniel Wilby Wonderful 35 MAÑAS, Achero El Bola 32 47 D r i MCNAMARA, Tony Rage in Placid Lake, The 20 e MEHTA, Deepa Republic of Love, The 35 c MITULESCU, Catalin Way I Spent the End of the World, The 29 o t MOKNECHE, Nadir Viva Laldjerie 14 r NEALON, Aubrey A Simple Curve 33 OLABISI, Lanre August the First 36 nI OLIVARES, Gerardo Great Match, The 32 d OMMUNDSEN, Arild Østin Monster Thursday 29 e PENNING, Tjebbo Morlang 27 x PETERSEN, David Let the Church Say Amen 36 PEZANOSKI, Geralyn MIne 38 PICCIONI, Giuseppe Light of My Eyes 27 POPOGREBSKY, Alexei Roads to Koktebel 30 POPPE, Erik Hawaii, Oslo 28 Troubled Water 29 PUENZO, Lucia XXY 39 RAHMANIAN, Hamid Day Break 16 RATNAM, Mani A Peck on the Cheek 16 RUBIO, Pedro Gonzales Alamar 41 SALGUES, Laurent Dreams of Dust 14 SAVILLE, Matthew Noise 20 SCHAEFER, Stefan C. Arranged 36 SCHMID, Hans-Christian Storm 26 SHUM, Mina Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 SLAMA, Bohdan Country Teacher, The 23 Something Like Happiness 22 SMITH, Scott Falling Angels 33 SOLDINI, Silvio Agata and the Storm 26 Days and Clouds 26 SORÍN, Carlos Window, The 39 SPIELMANN, Götz Antares 21 STAKA, Andrea Fraulein 32 STANDAERT, Dominique Hop 22 TYLDUM, Morten Buddy 28 URIBE, Imanol Carol’s Journey 31 VARGAS, Francisco Violin, The 42 VINCENTE, Amorim Middle of the World, The 40 VON CAROLSFELD, Wiebke Marion Bridge 34 WANG, Xiaoshuai Drifters 19 In Love We Trust 16 WELTERLIN, Michael Wolves in the Snow 35 YANAGIMACHI, Mitsuo Who’s Camus Anyway 18 ZAHAVI, Dror For My Father 17

48 S u b ADOLESCENCE/COMING OF AGE CRIME/THRILLER j Alamar 41 Alexandra’s Project 19 e A Peck on the Cheek 16 Drummer, The 19 c A Simple Curve 33 For My Father 17 t August the First 36 Man of the Year, The 39 I Ben X 21 Manito 37 n Campfire 17 Morlang 27 d Carol’s Journey 31 Noise 20 e Choking Man 37 Trap, The 30 x Drummer, The 19 Troubled Water 29 El Bola 32 Storm 26 Familia 34 CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Ginger and Cinnamon 27 Alamar 41 Hop 22 A Peck on the Cheek 16 Only When I Dance 40 Ali Zaoua 15 Lake Tahoe 41 Arranged 36 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 Be With Me 18 Madeinusa 42 Campfire 17 Manito 37 Carol’s Journey 31 Munyurangabo 15 Day Break 16 OT: Our Town 38 Dreams of Dust 14 Somers Town 33 Drifters 19 Way I Spent the End of the World, The 29 Drummer, The 16 Wind Journeys, The 40 Fraulein 32 AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES For My Father 17 August the First 36 Hop 22 Let the Church Say Amen 37 Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Mine 38 Munyurangabo 15 OT: Our Town 38 Under The Bombs 18 AFRICAN STUDIES Wind Journeys, The 40 Dreams of Dust 14 DIFFERENTLY ABLED Hop 22 Aaltra 21 Munyurangabo 15 Be With Me 18 AMERICAN INDEPENDENT Ben X 21 Anytown, USA 36 Her Name is Sabine 24 Arranged 36 DOCUMENTARY August the First 36 Anytown, USA 36 Choking Man 37 Her Name is Sabine 24 Let the Church Say Amen 37 Let the Church Say Amen 37 Manito 37 Mine 38 Mine 38 Only When I Dance 40 OT: Our Town 38 OT: Our Town 38 Party’s Over, The 38 Party’s Over, The 38 ASIAN STUDIES ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES A Peck on the Cheek 16 Alamar 41 Be With Me 18 Mine 38 Drifters 19 Drummer, The 19 Who’s Camus Anyway 18 In Love We Trust 16

49 S u ENGLISH LANGUAGE Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 b A Simple Curve 33 Manito 37 j Alexandra’s Project 19 Marion Bridge 34 e Anytown, USA 36 Morlang 27 c Arranged 36 Party’s Over, The 38 t August the First 36 Rage in Placid Lake, The 20 I Choking Man 37 Republic of Love, The 35 n Falling Angels 33 Storm 26 d He Died With a Felafel in His Hand 20 Welcome 25 e Let the Church Say Amen 37 Wilby Wonderful 35 x Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 XXY 39 Manito 37 FRENCH LANGUAGE Marion Bridge 34 Aaltra 21 Mine 38 Ali Zaoua 15 Morlang 27 Dreams of Dust 14 Noise 20 Eldorado 22 OT: Our Town 38 Familia 34 Party’s Over, The 38 Grocer’s Son, The 24 Rage in Placid Lake, The 33 Her Name is Sabine 24 Republic of Love, The 35 Hop 22 Somers Town 33 Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Storm 26 Le Grand Voyage 15 Welcome 25 Raja 25 Wilby Wonderful 35 Viva Laldjerie 14 EROTIC Welcome 25 Alexandra’s Project 19 GAY AND LESBIAN STUDIES Antares 21 Country Teacher, The 23 FAMILY Wilby Wonderful 35 Alamar 41 XXY 39 A Peck on the Cheek 16 GENDER STUDIES Arranged 36 A Call Girl 31 Carol’s Journey 31 Alexandra’s Project 19 Great Match, The 32 Arranged 36 Grocer’s Son, The 24 Be With Me 18 Hop 22 Campfire 17 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 Familia 34 Middle of the World, The 40 Forest for the Trees 25 Mine 38 Fraulein 32 Mother of Mine 24 Inch'allah Dimanche 14 Only When I Dance 40 Madeinusa 42 OT: Our Town 38 Marion Bridge 34 Roads to Koktebel 30 Mother of Mine 24 Viva Cuba 41 Only When I Dance 40 Way I Spent the End of the World,The 29 Raja 25 Wind Journeys, The 40 Storm 26 FILMS WITH CELEBRITIES Viva Laldjerie 14 A Simple Curve 33 XXY 38 Choking Man 37 Drummer, The 19 Falling Angels 33 He Died With a Felafel in His Hand 20

50 S u HIGH SCHOOL APPROPRIATE Spare Parts 31 b Alamar 41 Welcome 25 j A Peck on the Cheek 16 INDIGENOUS STUDIES e Anytown, USA 36 Alamar 41 c Arranged 36 Great Match, The 32 t August the First 36 Madeinusa 42 nI Carol’s Journey 31 Wind Journeys, The 40 El Bola 32 ISLAMIC STUDIES d Her Name is Sabine 24 Arranged 36 e Hop 22 Day Break 16 x Gigante 42 Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Lake Tahoe 41 Le Grand Voyage 15 Le Grand Voyage 15 Raja 25 Let the Church Say Amen 37 JEWISH STUDIES Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 Arranged 36 Middle of the World, The 40 Campfire 17 Mine 38 For My Father 17 Mother of Mine 24 LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Munyurangabo 15 Alamar 41 Only When I Dance 40 Gigante 42 OT: Our Town 38 Great Match, The 32 Roads to Koktebel 30 Lake Tahoe 41 Storm 26 Madeinusa 42 Troubled Water 29 Man of the Year, The 39 Under The Bombs 18 Manito 36 Viva Cuba 41 Middle of the World, The 40 Welcome 25 Only When I Dance 40 Wind Journeys, The 40 Pope’s Toilet, The 43 Window, The 39 Violin, The 42 HUMAN RIGHTS Viva Cuba 41 A Call Girl 31 Wind Journeys, The 40 Ali Zaoua 15 Window, The 39 Day Break 16 XXY 39 El Bola 32 LATINO STUDIES For My Father 17 Choking Man 32 Her Name is Sabine 24 Manito 36 Muyurangabo 15 MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES Spare Parts 31 Campfire 17 Storm 26 Day Break 16 Under the Bombs 18 For My Father 17 Violin, The 42 Le Grand Voyage 15 Welcome 25 Under the Bombs 18 XXY 39 Welcome 25 IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE MYSTERY Arranged 36 Bothersome Man, The 28 Choking Man 37 Morlang 27 Drifters 19 Noise 20 Fraulein 31 PERIOD Hop 22 Carol’s Journey 31 Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Falling Angels 33 Mother of Mine 24 Somers Town 33 51 S u POLITICAL STUDIES SCANDINAVIAN STUDIES b Anytown, USA 36 Adam’s Apples 23 e j Campfire 17 Brothersome Man 28 Carol’s Journey 31 Buddy 17 c Day Break 16 Hawaii, Oslo 28 t For My Father 17 Monster Thursday 29 nI Mine 38 Mother of Mine 24 d Mother of Mine 24 Troubled Water 29 Munyurangabo 15 WOMEN DIRECTORS e Party’s Over, The 38 Arranged 36 x Storm 26 Familia 34 Violin, The 42 Forest for the Trees 25 Way I Spent the End of the World,The 29 Fraulein 32 Welcome 25 Her Name is Sabine 24 RELIGION/ SPIRITUALITY Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Arranged 36 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 Campfire 17 Marion Bridge 34 Drummer, The 19 Mine 38 For My Father 17 Only When I Dance 40 Island, The 30 Party’s Over, The 38 Le Grand Voyage 15 Republic of Love, The 35 Let the Church Say Amen 37 XXY 39 Madeinusa 42 Munyurangabo 15 Troubled Water 29 ROMANCE Agata and the Storm 26 Arranged 36 Be With Me 18 Buddy 28 Drifters 19 For My Father 17 Gigante 42 Ginger and Cinnamon 27 Grocer’s Son, The 24 Monster Thursday 29 Rage in Placid Lake, The 20 Republic of Love, The 35 SPANISH LANGUAGE Alamar 41 Carol’s Journey 31 El Bola 32 Gigante 42 Lake Tahoe 41 Madeinusa 42 Pope’s Toilet, The 43 Violin, The 42 Viva Cuba 41 Wind Journeys, The 40 Window, The 39 XXY 39

52 C o u Algeria 14 Finland 24 Inch'Allah Dimanche 14 Mother Of Mine 24 n Viva Laldjerie 14 France 24 t r Argentina 39 Grocer's Son, The 24 y Window, The 39 Her Name Is Sabine 24 I XXY 39 Raja 25 n Australia 19 Welcome 25 d Alexandra's Project 19 Germany 25 e He Died with a Felafel in his Hand 20 Forest for the Trees 25 x Noise 20 Storm 26 Rage in Placid Lake, The 20 India 16 Austria 21 A Peck on the Cheek 16 Antares 21 Iran 16 Belgium 21 Day Break 16 Aaltra 21 Men At Work 17 Ben X 21 Israel 17 Eldorado 22 Campfire 17 Hop 22 For My Father 17 Brazil 39 Italy 26 Man of the Year, The 39 Agata and the Storm 26 Middle of the World, The 40 Days and Clouds 26 Only When I Dance 40 Ginger and Cinnamon 27 Burkina Faso 14 Light of my Eyes 27 Dreams of Dust 14 Japan 18 Canada 33 Who’s Camus Anyway 18 A Simple Curve 33 Lebanon 18 Falling Angels 33 Under The Bombs 18 Familia 34 Mexico 38 Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity 34 Alamar 38 Marion Bridge 34 Lake Tahoe 41 Republic of Love, The 35 Violin, The 42 Wilby Wonderful 35 Morocco 15 Wolves in the Snow 35 Ali Zaoua 15 China 16 Le Grand Voyage 15 In Love We Trust 16 Netherlands 27 Colombia 40 Morlang 27 Wind Journeys, The 40 Norway 28 Croatia 23 Bothersome Man, The 28 Witnesses 23 Buddy 28 Cuba 41 Hawaii, Oslo 28 Viva Cuba 41 Monster Thursday 29 Czech Republic 22 Troubled Water 29 Something Like Happiness 22 Peru 42 Country Teacher, The 23 Madeinusa 42 Denmark 23 Romania 29 Adam's Apples 23 Way I spent the End of the World, The 29

53 C o Russia 29 u Island, The 29 n Roads to Koktebel 29 t r Rwanda 15 y Munyurangabo 15 I Serbia 30 n Trap, The 30 d Singapore 18 e Be With Me 18 x Slovenia 31 Spare Parts 31 A Call Girl 31 Spain 31 Carol's Journey 31 El Bola 32 Great Match, The 32 Switzerland 31 Fraulein 31 Taiwan 19 Drifters 19 Drummer, The 19 United Kingdom 33 Somers Town 33 United States 36 August the First 36 Anytown, USA 36 Arranged 36 Choking Man 37 Let the Church Say Amen 37 Manito 37 Mine 38 OT: Our Town 38 The Party’s Over 38 Uruguay 42 Gigante 42 Pope's Toilet, The 43

54 Y e a Year 1 (2003) Year 4 (2006) r El Bola (Film 1) Hawaii, Oslo (Film 1) o He Died With a Felafel in His Hand Forest For the Trees (Film 2) (Film 2) Aaltra (Film 3) f Ali Zaoua (Film 3) Day Break (Film 4) R Marion Bridge (Film 4) Familia (Film 5) e Light of My Eyes (Film 5) A Peck on the Cheek (Film 6) el Manito (Film 6) Monster Thursday (Film 7) a Inch’Allah Dimanche (Film 7) Who’s Camus Anyway? (Film 8) s OT: Our Town (Film 8) Be With Me (Film 9) e Hop (Film 9) Men At Work (Film 10) The Party’s Over (Film 10) Something Like Happiness (Film 11) nI Ginger and Cinammon (Film 11) A Simple Curve (Film 12) d Morlang (Film 12) e Year 5 (2007) x Year 2 (2004) The Great Match (Film 1) Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity Madeinusa (Film 2) (Film 1) The Bothersome Man (Film 3) Carol’s Journey (Film 2) Mother of Mine (Film 4) Raja (Film 3) Viva Cuba (Film 5) The Middle of the World (Film 4) The Island (Film 6) The Rage in Placid Lake (Film 5) The Way I Spent the End of the World The Man of the Year (Film 6) (Film 7) The Republic of Love (Film 7) Fraulein (Film 8) Wolves in the Snow (Film 8) Dreams of Dust (Film 9) Buddy (Film 9) Adam’s Apples (Film 10) Falling Angels (Film 10) Her Name is Sabine (Film 11) Witnesses (Film 11) Arranged (Film 12) Viva Laldjerie (Film 12) Year 6 (2008) Year 3 (2005) Festival Shorts Collection (Film 1) Alexandra’s Project (Film 1) The Violin (Film 2) Wilby Wonderful (Film 2) August the First (Film 3) Antares (Film 3) Noise (Film 4) Let the Church Say Amen (Film 4) XXY (Film 5) Art of the Short Film (Film 5) Choking Man (Film 6) Le Grand Voyage (Film 6) The Grocer’s Son (Film 7) Agata and the Storm (Film 7) Days and Clouds (Film 8) Roads to Koktebel (Film 8) Ben X (Film 9) Drifters (Film 9) The Trap (Film 10) Campfire (Film 10) Under the Bombs (Film 11) Spare Parts (Film 11) The Pope’s Toilet (Film 12) Anytown, USA (Film 12)

55 Y e a Year 7 (2009) r In Love We Trust (Film 1) o Eldorado (Film 2) f Lake Tahoe (Film 3) The Country Teacher (Film 4) R Munyurangabo (Film 5) e The Window (Film 6) el The Drummer (Film 7) a Somers Town (Film 8) s Gigante (Film 9) e For My Father (Film 10) I Troubled Water (Film 11) n Mine (Film 12) d e Year 8 (2010) x Storm (Film 1) Welcome (Film 2) A Call Girl (Film 3) The Wind Journeys (Film 4) Only When I Dance ( Film 5) Alamar (Film 6)