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Siberia. Monamour
Directed by Slava Ross
Running time: 1hr 41mins
We are taken to Siberia in late autumn; to Taiga, a deserted village. There lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. When a pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighbourhood, Leshia finds one of the dogs was his best friend.
Their relative uncle Yuri occasionally brings them food, but once on his way back from Ivan's village uncle Yuri is attacked by the dogs & perishes., thus leaving Ivan & Leshia without supply. Leshia witnesses Ivan shooting at 'his' dog & runs away. A while after, the old Man finds him in a dry well, but he fails to get him out on his own and sets out through Taiga in search of help.
Now the dogs are hunting him...And the boy is waiting for his father...
The Italian Key
Directed by Rosa Karo
Running time: 1hr 35 mins
A 19-year-old orphan girl, Cabella, who has never known her parents, has lived with her non-related uncle Max for as long as she can remember. When Max dies and his upper-class relatives claim everything, Cabella only gets and old key that Max has left for her in secret. Distraught and without much to look forward to, she travels to Italy and finds a run-down villa in a little village where she stays as she has nowhere else to go.
Little by little, Cabella starts to fit into the life of the village. She decorates the house amicably and becomes friends with three local sisters.
The oldest of the sisters, Maria, is smitten with mysterious, aristocratic Lord Jai, a young Indian man who lives in the village castle. Middle sister Sophia is a budding artist who roams the woods and mountaintops, painting wildlife - and little sister Giulia waits for the man of her dreams every day at the village square, but no one ever arrives on the daily bus. In her new home, Cabella befriends a 9-year-old chimney sweeper who died in the house long ago. With the ghost's and the sisters' help, she begins to discover more about the enigmatic woman who lived in the house before and whose clothes she has been wearing ever since she moved in. As the mysteries slowly unfold, Cabella rediscovers her joie de vivre, as do many others in whose life she has suddenly drifted. A romantic fairytale starring Joeanna Saylor, who made an appearance alongside Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and John Shea, who has played Lex Luther in the Superman series as well as Adam Kane in Mutant X and making an appearance as Harold Waldorf in Gossip Girl.
Treasure of the Black Jaguar
Directed by Mike Bruce
Running time: 1hr 32mins
Two boys with a get rich quick scheme end up in prison, but when they meet a famed treasure hunter named Blake West with a plan to break out they agree to journey out into the unforgiving desert to uncover a mysteriously cursed artifact. Blake West's former employer, a Japanese industrialist, is determined to beat our hero to the treasure and stop the boys by any means necessary. Starring Timothy V. Murphy, who worked alongside the Saturday Night Live team in the hilariously stupid MacGruber, and Michael Drayer, who made an appearance alongside Mickey Rourke in the well acclaimed The Wrestler.
Risen
Directed by Neil Jones
Running time: 2hr 0 mins
Howard Winstone lost three fingers on his right hand at the age of 16, meaning his impressive amateur boxing career would come to an end. But through sheer determination, despite only being able to make a fist with one hand, he went on to defy the world and win every boxing title in his division and eventually be crowned the champion of the world. Set in 1960's Britain, this true story is inspirational, powerful and full of drama. For as Howard reaches the heights of his success, his marriage suffers and his wife struggles with the pressures of his fame.
Featuring more world champions than any other film in history and with explosive boxing, this is a story that deserves to be seen.
A compelling tale starring Eastenders’ own Alfie Moon (Shane Richie), WWF Smackdown! player Erik Morales, and fine actor John Noble, who made appearences in Fringe, The Last Airbender, and played Denethor in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Frontman
Directed by Ben Hyland
Running time: 1hr 45mins
A comedy about struggling with life, coping with death and playing soft rock along the way.
When the former frontman of 'Stanley and the Knives' suddenly dies his old friends and band mates are forced back together after twenty-five years apart. Cracks soon start to appear in their relationships and it becomes clear why they split up in the first place. Frontman is a musical journey of five strangers, becoming friends for the second time.
Andante
Directed by Assaf Tager
Running time: 1hr 36mins
In a post-industrial world people are no longer able to dream. A factory run by Mr Terrier sells the frightened, sleepless masses a dreaming experience. Sarah, the single surviving dreamer, sets out to the only place that can provide answers to her strange night-time visions: the dream factory. Her arrival excites Mr Terrier who is searching for a new dreamer. The visions of the old comatose man, whose dreams Mr Terrier taps into, have become repetitive and dull. He must be replaced. Didi, Sarah’s lover, cuts and edits the dreams for Mr Terrier. To avoid Sarah turning out like the old man, Didi must save her. But for Terrier, Sarah holds the future of his company. He kidnaps her, tying her up then forcibly drugging her. After awakening, Sarah comes to realize the repercussions her dreams have had in the real world.
Being Italian With Signora Enrica
Directed by Ali Ilhan
Running time: 1hr 47mins
After her husband had left her years ago leaving his son behind, Signora Enrica became famous in her town with not letting in a single male even through the door of her house. She rents the spare rooms in her house to female students, tailors as a secondary job and also works at the local markets. She breaks this rule which she kept for many years for a male Turkish student who ended up at her doorstep with a misunderstanding on a rainy night... Although in the beginning she would not want to let this stranger in, Enrica would later not only open the house doors but also her heart which she kept locked for many years to this young Turkish man...Starring the very beautiful and once very famous Claudia Cardinal, who appeared in Once Upon a Time in the West, 8½, Fitzcarraldo and The Leopard in her prime.
The Unforgettable Proposal
Directed by Mohammad Alkazemi
Running time: 0hr 10mins
Michael, 31, decides finally to propose to Becky, 28. He's shy, nervous, and doesn't know how to say the words. When he tries he goes into daydreaming sequences to relieve himself and feel more confident. When the time comes to propose for real, he ruins it.
One Sunny Morning
Directed by BK Lim
Running time: 0hr 18mins
After a chanced meeting, Juan, a young professional and Nick, a university student, find themselves intertwined in a tussle of love, agony and confusion. Is it '...better to have loved and lost. Than never to have loved at all'? That's the dilemma Juan is confronted with as he struggles between society's expectations and the calling of his heart.
Vento
Directed by Marcio Salem
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A haunting tale about a small isolated town in Brazil. The local population begin to act strange once the wind stops blowing; they have no hope and no optimism. And in the middle of all of this, a little boy wants to change his life and pursue his dreams.
Who Am I?
Directed by Klim Shipenko
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This story begins at the Sevastopol train station in the early rainy morning. On the platform near Moscow-Sevastopol train the police finds a young man without documents, who has lost his memory. He remembers a lot of facts: historical dates, songs of his favorite band “Serga“, but he can’t recollect his name or say where he is from and what his family is.
Two Men in a Boat - Chasing Spring
Directed by Jeremy Norman
Running time: 1hr 2mins
'Spring travels up through Britain at the pace of a walking man.' This chance-heard quote struck Jeremy Norman as an intensely romantic notion, and, along with his partner Derek Frost, he set out to find the proof. Chartering Kalani, an 80-foot, twin-screw motor yacht, they set out on an amazing journey, chasing spring up the west coast of the British Isles. This charming film documents their extraordinary odyssey.
On April 13 the two men started their journey at the south-western-most tip of England – the Scilly Isles – then headed north along the west coast of England. Along the way, they visited Wales and Northern Ireland, keeping pace with the arrival of spring, and gathered visual and anecdotal evidence of climate change wherever they went. They then headed further north to Scotland through the Hebrides before changing course to head west on the dangerous 7-hour journey to St. Kilda, a remote group of three islands off the north-western coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site for both their natural and cultural significance, and a place that Jeremy had wanted to visit since he was a boy. The journey would take Jeremy and Derek two months, and would satisfy the varied interests of both men, including natural history, archeology, fine art and photography. Along the way they visited with friends and acquaintances both famous and fascinating, explored both well and lesser known places, and documented the ecological changes threatening the natural habitats of Britain’s native plants, animals and birds.
The Spanish Wine Cathedrals
Directed by ETERIO ORTEGA SANTILLANA
Running time: 1hr 23mins
From the budding of the first shoots in spring, to the harvesting of the grapes in autumn and the pruning of the vine stock in winter, The Spanish Wine Cathedrals looks at the landscape, architecture and human histories behind the wine-growing and making process. The film focuses on two different Spanish regions, each with its own distinct culture and type of wines: Rioja in the north and Jerez in the south.
The film features a number of real people engaged in their everyday work; together their testimonies offer a profound insight into the world of wine. Each has his or her own role to play in the story and they each convey their own personal passions as they take us inside the culture of wine.
Orient Top Town
Directed by See-yuen Wong
Running time: 1hr 23mins
Orient Top Town is a real estate developer’s nightmare and is situated in the south east of greater Shanghai. It remains largely empty and unsold despite a booming property market in the city. Desperate, the developers decided to let artists live in the 500 vacant shop spaces for free. In return, the artists give the developer 2 works each year. Soon, a community of over 100 artists who cannot afford the high rents in the city, live and work there. Shanghai is hoping to surprise the world when World Expo opens in May 2010, with a budget that rivals Beijing’s Olympics. Against this backdrop of the big city, the artists in Orient Top Town told a personal account of being an artist in China right at this juncture in time. It is also a new phenomenon in China that real estate developers have oddly become a major power player in the new and emerging Chinese art market. The artists shed light on the artist’s path to success in China today and why art and property is now the new best partner.
Eternal Sunrise
Directed by Guzman De Yarza
Running time: 1hr 50mins
Madrid-Rio De Janeiro-Santiago De Chile-Miami-Mexico DF-Las Vegas-Los Angeles-Honolulu-Sydney-Singapore-Tokyo-Beijing-Johannesburg-London-Madrid.16 airports in 25 days.Two artists turn the world around without ever leaving an airport.
Out of the Darkness
Directed by Stefano Levi
Running time: 1hr 12mins
More than half of the world’s preventable blindness is caused by cataract disease, a clouding of the clear lens of the eye. In developing countries like Nepal, it is not only a personal tragedy, but can devastate the economy of entire communities. Fortunately, it is also easy to cure. Cataract surgery is one of the most effective medical interventions on earth, but until recently was considered too expensive to provide to the rural poor. Most of the world’s blind people live in remote, impoverished areas. The majority of doctors able to cure them work in cities. Dr. Sanduk Ruit from Nepal, and his American partner, Dr. Geoff Tabin, have made perfecting a portable low cost surgical procedure to restore sight their life‘s work. They trek to Nepal’s remote Northeast, carrying an entire hospital on porters‘ backs. Their mission is to bring the needlessly blind out of the darkness.
Left by the Ship
Directed by Emma Rossi Landi
Running time: 1hr 9mins
Robert, Jr, Charlene and Margarita are Amerasians: the sons and daughters of Filipina sex workers and American servicemen stationed at the Subic Bay Naval Base, once the largest US Naval Base outside mainland USA. When the Base closed in 1992, thousands of Amerasian children were left behind. Unlike Amerasian children from other countries, Filipino Amerasians were never recognized by the US government. Over the course of two years, we followed the lives of our four Amerasians, as they struggle with discrimination, family problems and identity related issues, trying to overcome a past they are in no way responsible for.
Salt in the Salad: Sonata in Seven Parts
Directed by Michael Kovensky
Running time: 0hr 48mins
The stories of seven persons, Jews of the Persian origin, immigrated from Iran to Israel in the last 30 years. The circumstances of their life are different, however they share the painful feeling of nostalgia and loss of the land they once lived and loved. Their fatherland became for a meanwhile to the biggest enemy of their new country. Fear and hope contradict each other in their thoughts and feelings. They are all seeking for the ways to balance their past and present.
Challenging Impossibility
Directed by Sanjay Rawal & Natabara Mark Rollosson
Running time: 0hr 28mins
Challenging Impossibilities chronicles the weightlifting odyssey of the late spiritual teacher and peace advocate Sri Chinmoy.
Surprisingly, at the age of 53, this Indian-born mystic took up weightlifting. Already an advocate of the necessity of physical fitness in the spiritual life, this New York City-based Guru was inspired to demonstrate the tangible power of inner peace by performing incredible, but real feats of strength.
Sri Chinmoy's lifts were featured on hundreds of newscasts globally, including on CNN, Fox, ESPN and NBC affiliates.
CHALLENGING IMPOSSIBILITY focuses on an exhibition he held on 13 November 2004 where he lifted a total of 200,408 pounds. He was 73 years old. Featuring: Bill Pearl, Frank Zane, Carl Lewis and Hugo Girard. Appearances by Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela.
Here Comes the Wolf: The Pandemic Hoax
Directed by Juan Jose Rendon
Running time: 0hr 53mins
The H1N1 Flu pandemic caused mass hysteria throughout the world, but was this hysteria founded on fact or fabricated to manipulate public opinion? The Epidemic Island questions how fear shapes the public consciousness and how governments and trusted institutions use fear to exploit the public’s vulnerability. The H1N1 flu was labeled as a deadly virus, but why then, in Veracruz, the so called epicenter of the pandemic, was there no death or panic?
Beatboxing - The Fifth Element of Hip Hop
Directed by Klaus Schneyder
Running time: 0 hr 55 mins
It was in the late 70s that a youth culture evolved in the poorer parts of New York which combined several disciplines under the name of Hip Hop. Apart from the four classic elements of Graffiti writing, DJing, Breakdancing, and Rapping, the musical side of this culture was enhanced by a fifth element called 'Beatboxing'.From the hardship of poverty and the lack of instruments, a pioneer was inspired to imitate drum rhythms with his mouth - his brilliance creating the term 'Human Beatbox'.
The documentary integrally covers a variety of musical technical abilities. Beatboxing has become a multilingual and diverse instrument applied in all genres of music. The documentary shows how this modern style of music has spread and how it continues to enrich the entertainment world.
Recycling in India
Directed by Nilesh Vasave
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Recycling in India is a documentary about the traditional and unorganized recycling in India, which is going on since decades but is not being highlighted anywhere. Its story of people involved in this effort that might or might not know the importance of the work they are doing in helping environment and are example of sustainable development. The documentary is an effort to show the process of traditional recycling which starts from normal house hold and ends in big factories making recycled goods, and how its part of peoples every day lives since generations.
Neander-Jin: The Return of the Neanderthal Man
Directed by Florian Steinbiss
Running time: 1hr 20mins
Even before the World premiere, Neander Jin - The Return Of The Neanderthal Man received two Awards in the United States of America.: Best of Show (main prize: Narrative Feature) at the Indie Fest, La Jolla, California and 'Emerging Narrative Feature Filmmaker' at the Geneva Film Festival, Illinois. 'Neander Jin - The Return Of The Neanderthal Man plays with different genres and styles, parodying a wide range of movies. It delivers a highly entertaining story that is joyful with absurd surprises. Audiences are sure to enjoy this movie.'
Rev
Directed by Cesar Espada
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Two sides of the same story, REV-VER. A woman alone in a house receives text messages and makes strange phone calls. In another part of the world a couple receives these phone calls and reacts to them in an unpredictable way.
Naughty
Directed by Deborah Hadfield
Running time: 0hr 5mins
Seven ways to sin, how naughty are you? Seven people all practicing a different sin.
The Golden Pomegranate
Directed by Dan Turgeman
Running time: 1hr 42mins
Mazal, a Jewish child-bride from Yemen, preserves her religion, culture, family and her unique art, surviving the harsh, violent conditions of Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the late 19th through the mid-20th centuries. She becomes the mother of two, a young widow, and the family's breadwinner through her skills as a jeweler in gold and silver. In time, a woman of property and an ardent patriot, she prevails through the unfolding bloody decades while living in the Old City of Jerusalem. She heads a family of extraordinary, unforgettable characters and grows old in strength and determination, remaining true to her traditions and ideals.
Buggy
Directed by Andrey Bogatyrev
Running time: 1hr 51mins
Two characters. They represent two generations. One is 68 from plenty Soviet Union background, another 23 whom is without any targets in his life. They don't know each other and they are both not good at the new Russian reality.
Urban high contrast life passes by where rapid wave of advertising, glam and joy are on each corner: 'It's going to be best, man ... Win a million! ... You're the first!' But one human life depends on both heroes. Solution hard to archive. Solution is huge amount of money that will unite them in tragic circumstances.
Blood of Eagles
Directed by Conor Allyn & Yadi Sugandi
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Indonesia 1947: Divided by the secrets of their past and deep conflicts in personality, class and religion, four young men unite to stage a desperate assault on a Dutch internment camp in order to rescue the women they love.
The cadets link up with General Sudirman’s guerrilla headquarters, where they are given a top-secret mission behind enemy lines in West Java: a commando-style strike on a vital airfield that could help turn the tide of rebel resistance against the ruthless advance of General Van Mook’s August 1947 offensive. The guerrillas penetrate deep into West Java, where they encounter a rival band of Islamic separatists, along with new allies, suspected traitors, colonial spies, heroic partisans, and an old enemy in charge of Dutch intelligence.
Surrounded by the enemy around, the enemy above and the enemy within, the heroes must band together and trust each other as they battle intrigue, infighting, betrayal and the overwhelming power of a mighty European empire, in pursuit of a single goal: Freedom.
To Become Free, They Became One
The Death | Dreamed Of
Directed by Panagiotis Kravvas
Running time: 1hr 34mins
The characters of the movie is a group of adolescents - with a normal domestic background, the sons and daughters next door- who experience daily the disappointments of the Greek middle class family ∙ a family trapped in a desperate attempt to balance, on the one hand, the tradition, the social pretensions, the orthodoxy, and on the other, the modernization and the western bourgeois style of life. The unsuccessful finding of an equilibrium between these two aspects, leads to the rupture of the adolescents’ personalities, but also to the rupture of the institution of the family itself. The lack of identity and purpose for these children leads them to a pursuit of self – determination through paths of darkness and fear, paths of excitement and power as well. In this pursuit the group of young people has a leader, an eighteen year old boy, who magnetize with his imposing presence and his mysterious, enigmatic attitude. The atmosphere that is created by him is psychonarcotic, capable of seducing everyone. The teenagers become a part of a vicious circle full of crimes, paroxysm and paranoia, where the blood is considered to be “catharsis” and the occult ceremonies some sort of participation into something metaphysical, superior, untouched and seductive. The crimes are being exposed, but in the end who is the real criminal and instigator? The teenagers themselves or a hypocritical society who not only does it turn a blind eye to its own wounds, but also lets them fester…
Mrs Carey's Concert
Directed by Bob Connolly & Sophie Raymond
Running time: 1hr 35mins
At a Sydney girls School, Music Director Karen Carey prepares her young students for a concert at he Opera House. Believing in the trans-formative power of great music, Carey insists upon a Classical repertoire, sets a dauntingly high performance standard and requires the participation of every girl in the school. But not everyone shares her passion.Mrs Carey's Concert is about music making and coming of age, about talent and courage, compliance and rebellion. About those prepared to open their minds and hearts to what the world has to offer ... and those yet to discover the potential within. A feature documentary by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond
The Beethoven Project
Directed by Christian Berger
Running time: 1hr 33mins
The film shows how The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen and conductor Paavo Jaervi approach Beethoven's symphonies, as they prepare to play all nine of them in four days at the Beethovenfest Bonn. The Estonian conductor and members of the orchestra demonstrate their enthusiasm for the music in rehearsals, concerts and behind the scenes. How was this former youth orchestra able to reach the top of the classical music world? What is their vision? The documentary 'The Beethoven Project' answers these and other questions in 90 minutes. A conductor, an orchestra, Beethoven and his music.
El Rio/The River
Directed by Adrian Saba
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A man stuck between his dreams and his memories struggles to find his lost wife.
So Far Removed
Directed by Muhammad Faizal Bin Mazlan
Running time: 0hr 16mins
A young woman is forced to reminisce her past with an ex-lover when she interviews him for her documentary on Singapore's high emigration rate.
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