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 Argentina |
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GEMINIS
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Argentina, 2005, 85 min)
From Argentina comes this provocative tale of an aristocratic family hiding the incestuous relationship between two siblings. More>>
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THE GRONHOLM METHOD
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Argentina, 2005, 115 min)
In Madrid, while protestors rally against globalization a group of prospective canidates are being put through a selction process for a huge corporation. When the prospective canidates find out that they are being assed using the notorious gronolm method, tensions rise. What begins as a day at the office quickly devolves into a case study of human cruelty. More>>
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TATTOOED
[Feature] - Int'l Feature Competition
(Argentina, 2005, 82 min)
A gorgeous film about loss and longing, TATTOOED tells the story of Paco, abandoned by his mother at the age of two. Before leaving, however, she tattooed a cobra killing a mongoose on his arm. After years of mourning the loss of his wife, Paco's father, Alvaro, has recently remarried and now has a new baby. When Paco runs away to discover the true meaning of his tattoo, his father follows to put the past to rest for himself. More>>
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CLARA
[Short] - Intl. Shorts Competion
(Australia, 2005, 7 min)
A beautiful and haunting portrait of a little girl alone. This
film uses meticulous stop motion animation to create an eerie and
otherworldly scenario. More>>
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GREEN BUSH
[Short] - Intl. Shorts Competion
(Australia, 2005, 26 min)
Over one heartbreaking but empowering night, radio DJ Kenny realizes
that his job at an Aboriginal community radio station is about more
than just playing music. More>>
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HIDDEN
[Feature] - European Film Showcase
(Austria, 2005, 117 min)
The films of Michael Haneke have consistently left audiences transfixed by their audacity and ability to evoke impending doom. In typical Haneke style, HIDDEN begins with the comfortable but complacent life of a bourgeois European family. However, someone has been videotaping their home from the street. The unknown voyeur mails the tapes—accompanied by strange, violent drawings—to Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche) and their son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky). More>>
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 Belgium |
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HELL
[Feature] - Int'l Feature Competition
(Belgium, 2005, 98 min)
Danis Tanovic, director of the Academy(r) Award winning NO MAN'S LAND, returns with another masterful and compelling film, featuring some of France's major actors—including Emmanuelle Béart, Carole Bouquet and Karin Viard. Loosely inspired by the second part of Dante's Inferno, HELL is thoroughly chilling, often feeling like a metaphysical ghost story. More>>
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MERRY CHRISTMAS
[Feature] - European Film Showcase
(Belgium, 2005, 110 min)
War broke out in the lull of summer 1914, pulling millions of men into its wake. But that winter, on the bitterly cold field of battle, something momentous happened. With rifles left in trenches and candles in hand, weary troops meet their enemy in the middle to shake hands, share cigarettes and wish them a Merry Christmas. More>>
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THE WEDDING PARTY
[Feature] - Made In Germany
(Belgium, 2005, 92 min)
Based on the cult comic book Lune de Guerre by Hermann and Van Hamme, THE WEDDING PARTY tells the story of Hermann and his family. It's Hermann's son's wedding and he is determined to get his money's worth. A beautiful countryside restaurant on the German-Belgian border is the setting for the wedding banquet—only the best is good enough for the short-tempered Hermann and his clan. He insults the star chef Franz Berger, after which Franz promptly seals off the inn, holding the bride and mother-in-law ransom. The quiet inn becomes a battlefield. More>>
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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MY VERY BEST YEARS
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Bolivia, 2005, 93 min)
Three friends struggle to find meaning in their lives as their relationships force them to find out what it means to love and be loved. This visually moving story from Bolivia has at its center a love square—two men, a woman and their car. More>>
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CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES
[Feature] - Int'l Feature Competition
(Brazil, 2005, 99 min)
Winner of the Prix de Education Nationale at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, CINEMA, ASPIRIN AND VULTURES is set in 1942, in the middle of northeast Brazil. Two men meet: Johann, a German who has escaped from the war; and Ranulpho, a Brazilian leaving the drought that haunts the region. Driving from village to village, they show a film to the inhabitants who have never before experienced cinema in order to sell a brand new "miracle medicine. Continuing to cross dusty roads in the old-fashioned hinterland, they search for new horizons in their lives. More>>
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PELE FOREVER
[Feature] - Special Screenings
(Brazil, 2005, 120 min)
TThroughout his 21-year career, the best athlete of the 20th century scored 1,281goals, played 1,375 games, won 60 titles and, for 10 consecutive years, was the center forward for the Sao Paulo championship. PELE FOREVER is the Bible on Pele, with the contribution of hundreds of archival film clips—most of which underwent painstaking restoration due to lack of conservation—from all over the world, recording his most incredible and unimaginable plays as the King of Soccer. More>>
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 Canada |
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C.R.A.Z.Y
[Feature] - Int'l Feature Competition
(Canada, 2005, 127 min)
Zachary was born on Christmas Day, 1960, a fitting date for one
destined for the road less traveled. His mom, Laurianne—who has a
proclivity for ironing toast —certainly thinks her son is special. But
can a sexually confused teenager with an affinity for Bruce Lee, John
Lennon and, most importantly, David Bowie survive four brutal brothers
and the pop culture-saturated Montreal middle class of the ‘70s?
Brimming with humor and bittersweet drama, C.R.A.Z.Y. is ultimately the
triumphant story of a beautifully ordinary family struggling to find
their place in the world and to meet the challenges of growing up.
Canada's official Oscar“ submission. More>>
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LIFE WITH MY FATHER
[Feature] - Int'l Feature Competition
(Canada, 2005, 110 min)
Paul and Patrick are brothers by last name only. On a warm fall night, the man who gave them their last name comes back inot their lives. Francois Agira reappears, completly financially devastated and physically reduced. Forced to live together, the three men will face a greater challenge than they ever imagined. More>>
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RISE UP
[Short] - Intl. Shorts Competion
(Canada, 2005, 9 min)
A woman attempts to revive her comatose husband by taking him back to the cabaret—the place where they first met. More>>
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ROMANCING THE WIND
[Short] - Intl. Shorts Competion
(Canada, 2005, 6 min)
In a seaside park in Vancouver, Canada, World Champion multiple
sport kite flyer Ray Bethell flies three kites at once—to the music of
Lakmeî by Leo Delibes. More>>
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 Chile |
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IN BED
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Chile, 2005, 85 min)
Two strangers in bed, loving, betraying and clinging to each other—becoming intimates, finding love and losing it in only one night. In a cheap motel room, Daniela and Bruno spend one night together. They hardly know each other, having met only a few hours earlier. Two strangers in sexy limbo, closely entwined in one night. Behind the veil of words, two strangers become intimate. But with the light of the sunrise, this intimacy will already belong to the past. More>>
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PABLO - THE POET'S LIVES
[Feature] - Int'l Doc Competion
(Chile, 2005, 81 min)
Dario Baldi's hypnotic documentary is a journey to the memory of a great Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda. Neruda is believed to be one of the greatest poets of all time, and this film is neorealism with innovation—a story created through the staging of people met along the way day-by-day. More>>
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SHANGHAI DREAMS
[Feature] - Asian New Classics
(China, 2005, 120 min)
Set in the early 1980s, against the backdrop of China’s reform and opening, SHANGHAI DREAMS is the story of first love. Nineteen-year-old Qing Hong comes from a typical emigrant family who relocated to Guizhou Province from their hometown of Shanghai in the mid 1960s. Her father is eager to go back to Shanghai, but, for Qing Hong, the choice to relocate is complicated by her budding romance with Hong Gen, a young man from a local peasant family. More>>
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SPL
[Feature] - Asian New Classics
(China, 2005, 100 min)
Good and evil collide in a bone-shattering smackdown in SPL, a brooding and nihilistic action thriller. Detective Chan (Simon Yam, from BULLET IN THE HEAD and PTU) relentlessly pursues crime boss Po (martial arts veteran Sammo Hung), but eventually gives up and looks toward retirement. His replacement, Ma (Donnie Yen, performing some of the most intense action sequences in recent cinema, including the first onscreen showdown between Yen and Hung), is a principled, committed cop who is skilled in martial arts and has a reputation for violence. More>>
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SUNFLOWER
[Feature] - Asian New Classics
(China, 2005, 129 min)
From acclaimed director Zhang Yang—one of the shining stars of the new wave of Chinese contemporary cinema—comes this brilliant story of a family struggling to repair itself after the tyranny of Chairman Mao's reign. SUNFLOWER stars Joan Chen, Sun Hai Ying and Liu ZiFeng More>>
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ROSARIO TIJERAS
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Colombia, 2005, 120 min)
They say she gives her victims a kiss right before killing them. She is Rosario Tijeras, the sexy and brutal assassin for the Columbian drug cartels. When two best friends both end up falling in love with this dangerous beauty, they head down a path of drugs and violence from which no one will return unharmed. More>>
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 Cuba |
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LA FABRIK / THE CUBAN HIP-HOP FACTORY
[Feature] - Latin Cinema Series
(Cuba, 2005, 64 min)
When two popular rap duos join forces to create a new musical revolution in Cuba, they never expected to be thrust into an intense journey into the heart of hip-hop. This documentary follows the artists of Doble-Filo and Obsesion, known collectively as LA FABRI-K (The Factory), from their humble homes in Havana throughout their unforgettable summer concert tour as they record their first album and travel to the United States for a groundbreaking concert at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. More>>
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WRONG SIDE UP
[Feature] - European Film Showcase
(Czech Republic, 2005, 110 min)
Life is a bitch and love is a quest. And then you ship yourself off to Cuba in a box. WRONG SIDE UP is a comedy of manners where a love story is an excuse to meet people in search of love and understanding. People desperate to make contact with each other—whether jumping from planes, living with shop-window mannequins, making extra money by watching the neighbors have sex, or going mad out of concern for all the wars and disasters of the world. More>>
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