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2011-12-12T14:03:00.000-08:00

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Lucky

2011-12-07T10:30:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Lucky
Director	Avie Luthra
Country	South Africa
Language	Zulu
Mins	100 mins
Producer	Christopher J. Wilmot
Synopsis	Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian neighbour.
Note on Director	Avie Luthra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He began his filmmaking with a short film entitled Baby which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Student Film in 2002.[1]His second film entitled Cross My Heart was awarded special commendation by London Film Festival TCM Shorts in 2002.[1] His screenwriting credits include episodes of The Canterbury Tales in 2003 and the screenplay for the film Indian Dream.[1] He wroteOne Night in Bhopal, a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corporation, in 2004.[1] His short film, Lucky, about a South AfricanAIDS orphan, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and got a special mention at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Lucky was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2006.[1] He is currently working on an adaptation of Preethi Nair's book, A Hundred Shades of White, for the BBC.[1] As of October 2007, he was in pre-production for his first feature film, "Mad, Sad & Bad". Meera Syal and Nitin Ganatra are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and Christine Alderson for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films.[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcSgBnVc7Q
Sources	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=672

King of Devil's Island

2011-12-07T10:18:00.001-08:00

Name of Film

King of Devil's Island(2010)

Original Title

Kongen av Bastøy

Director

Marius Holst

Country

Norway

Language

Norwegian

Mins

115 mins

Festival & Awards

Amanda Awards, Norway
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2011	Won	Amanda	Best Film (Årets norske kinofilm) Karin Julsrud
			Best Score (Årets musikk) Johan Söderqvist
			Best Supporting Actor (Årets mannlige birolle) Trond Nilssen
	Nominated	Amanda	Best Actor (Årets mannlige skuespiller) Benjamin Helstad
			Best Cinematography (Årets foto) John Andreas Andersen
			Best Production Design (Årets scenografi) Janusz Sosnowski
			Best Sound Design (Årets lyddesign) Tormod Ringnes
			Best Visual Effects (Årets visuelle effekter) Camilla Fossen Otto Thorbjørnsen

Producer

Karin Julsrud

Synopsis

Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?

Note on Director

Marius Holst (born 16 December 1965 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian director. He went out of the International Film School in London in 1990 . Holst began his career making short film Visiting, a film that won awards both in Norway and the UK . The film 10 knives in the heart (1994) was his first feature film, and it won the Blue Angel Prize at the Film Festival in Berlin in 1995 . His next film dragonfly came in 2001 , and also it has received critical acclaim. Currently, the feature film Three Days in production and will be completed in 2010.

Trailer Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DDzQBlX-M

http://asianmediawiki.com/Lovely_Man

Sources

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332134/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Devil's_Island

Lovely Man

2011-12-07T10:04:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Lovely Man

Director	Teddy Soeriaatmadja
Country	Indonesia
Language	Indonesian
Mins	76 mins


Producer	Indra Tamorron
Synopsis	Having grown up in the countryside, innocent Cahaya heads to Jakarta in search of her father, whom she has not seen since she was 4 years old. But the father she meets there is no longer the warm and tender man she remembers—he is selling himself to other men on the streets. Cahaya is shocked to realize that the person she runs into on the streets wearing a red miniskirt is actually her father, but can’t just dismiss her love and longing for him. Her father, Saiful, is also initially unable to accept Cahaya as his daughter, but slowly starts to open up, and the two of them start to have night time walks together.-- Busan International Film Festival
Note on Director	Teddy Soeriaatmadja (lahir di Jepang, 7 Februari 1975) adalah sutradara Indonesia. Film yang mengangkat namanya adalah Banyu Biru (2005), Ruang (2006), dan remake Badai Pasti Berlalu (2007). His first released film is Waking Banyu (Banyu Biru) an offbeat surreal road movie about a man in search of his father. His second film is Ruang (The Letter) a love triangle set in 1950s Indonesia. The film was released March 2006 and was nominated for several categories in several Film festivals and won Best Director in the 4th Bali International Film Festival 2006. In February 2007 he released the Re make of the Classic Indonesian film Badai Pasti Berlalu (Storm Shall Pass). In 2009 He released Ruma Maida which was critically acclaimed and received 13 nominations in the Indonesian Film Festival. Nowadays Teddy continues to produce films, television commercials and music videos. He is now currently based in Jakarta Indonesia.

Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DDzQBlX-M http://asianmediawiki.com/Lovely_Man
Sources	http://teddysoeriaatmadja.com/new/ http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Soeriaatmadja

The Colors of the Mountain

2011-12-07T09:52:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
Original Title	Los colores de la montaña
Director	Carlos César Arbeláez
Country	Columbia
Language	Spanish
Mins	90 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	Bogota Film FestivalYearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)2011WonGolden Precolumbian CircleBest Colombian Film Carlos César Arbeláez NominatedGolden Precolumbian CircleBest Film Carlos César Arbeláez Los Angeles Latino International Film FestivalYearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)2011WonJury AwardBest Screenplay Carlos César Arbeláez
Producer	Julián Giraldo
Synopsis	Set against the breathtaking landscape of a remote mountainous area in Colombia, The Colors of the Mountain explores the lives of people caught in the middle of the war between the FARC guerillas and the army. For his ninth birthday, Manuel receives a much desired soccer ball from his father but an accident involving a runaway pig leaves his beloved ball in a minefield. Undeterred, Manuel enlists the help of Julian and Poca Luz to retrieve the ball. Manuel’s father tries to remain neutral, but he is caught in an impossible situation where families are not permitted to live in peace.This remarkable debut by Carlos César Arbeláez recounts a poignant coming of age story against the backdrop of Colombia’s armed conflict. As the pressure on the villagers increases, the only way out is to leave their land and way of life behind as they join the increasing tide of the country’s displaced. An uncertain future in the cities looms. – Diana Sanchez
Note on Director	Born in June 1967 in Medellin. Screenwriter and director of several short films and numerous documentaries for television. The colors of the mountains is his first feature film, which has won major awards at the international festival circuit, including the Kutxa-New Directors Festival San Sebastian, the first time that a Colombian received this award. His undergraduate studies were done at the Lyceum of Antioquia in Medellin and is a graduate of the School of Communication at the University of Antioquia. http://www.proimagenescolombia.com/secciones/cine_colombiano/perfiles/perfil_persona.php?id_perfil=3892

Trailer Link	http://www.calgarylatinwave.com/2011/05/the-colors-of-the-mountain/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlLpaD0Axs
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Kalev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Plays

IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL

2011-12-07T09:42:00.001-08:00

IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL (W IMIENIU DIABŁA)

Summary of the film

Anna is in her twenties. She’s a beautiful, clever andsensitive girl. After traumatic experiences in her “sick” family she hasdecided to look for shelter in a monastery. It seems that she has calmed down.But the bad memories suddenly come back in the form of nightmares. MotherSuperior, who has some strange feelings for Anna claims that it is the devil thatpossessed Anna, promises to help using her supposedly miraculous contact withthe Mother of God.

Frightened, broken down Anna confesses to the priestwho helps in the parish in the nearby town. Father Stefan doesn’t believe inthe devil, advices the girl to consult a doctor.

A conflict between the priest and Mother Superiorbreaks down. As a result of it Father Stefan can no longer minister to themonastery. The priest looks for help in the diocesancuria, which tries to intervene with no success. Mother Superior decides to breakthe ties with the Church which according to her is demoralized in the same wayas the whole contemporary world. She undertakes to lead her nuns to the God inanother way.

She calls a mysterious monk, who arrives to themonastery to help her. Both of them suggest that they were appointed by God,they promote a theory of the bodily love for Jesus, they preach The Spring ofthe Church, which is going to be born in their monastery.

Anna is subjected to sophisticated psychologicalmanipulation by the undoubtedly charismatic Father Franciszek. Using his bioenergeticstherapies he manages to exert enormous influence on the young nuns, whoperceive him as their guru.

Anna who becomes friends with father Franciszekstruggles to be loyal towards Mother Superior who once while admitting her tothe monastery surrounded her with love and care. She also surrenders to Father Franciszek’scharisma and he prepares special sessions especially for her.

But the situation slowly develops.

At the closed monastery gate appears the retarded sonof the sacristan, a stutterer. He is in love with Anna…

Łucja, a young nun and the closest friend of Anna in adramatic talk tries to convince her that she is in a trap set by maniacs andthe monastery turns into a sect…

Suddenly at the monastery gate appears Father Stefan.Once again he tires to explain the danger. With his noble and wise words hetells her about the real love for Jesus. Anna struggles; she doesn’t know whatto do. But when she accidentally witnesses strange practices of fatherFranciszek and Mother Superior, who try to change into Mary and Jesus, she isnearly certain that she had been deceived.

For her “spying” she is punished with violentwhipping. Father Franciszek decides to subject her to one more “trial” – partlyreligious, partly erotic scene when he gives her Jesus by giving herhimself. Anna escapes from themonastery.

After this terrible night she wakes up at FatherStefan’s parish. She is silence for a long time, but when she eventually startsto speak, she would say, that there is no God, neither here not there.

Soon afterwards she witnesses closing down of themonastery. Mad women together with Father Franciszek depart to the unknown.

Through the back door Anna enters the desertedmonastery. She floats abort the empty interiors. The mess in the cells, foodleftovers on the tables, destroyed objects of cult. Anna tries to clear thisworld up.

Apartment in Athens

2011-12-07T09:35:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Apartment in Athens (2011)
Original Title	Appartamento ad Atene (2011)
Director	Ruggero Di Paola
Country	Italy
Language	Greek
Mins	95 min.
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	The film ' Apartment in Athens 'by Roger DiPaolo and you 'won the award for Best Film of' youth showcase Italian filmmakers' last International Film Festival of Rome, virtually the only Italian film to receive an award at the sixth editions of the the festival.
Producer	Ruggero Dipaola
Synopsis	Athens, 1943. An apartment is requisitioned to provide accommodation for a German officer. In the apartment live the Helianos, a middle-aged couple who used to be welloff. They have a 10-year old son who is filled with revenge fantasies and a 12-year old daughter. With the arrival of Captain Kalter everything is wiped out. The cruel Kalter is a military god who inflicts terror. And the Helianos give in, submissive. At night, they dread the following day’s orders; they exchange sparse, terse words. The master leaves for Germany and the servants find out that freedom doesn’t have any meaning. When Kalter comes back, they feel relieved. He is a changed man: he’s kinder, even indulgent. But it is a fragile balance.
Note on Director	Born in Brescia, Italy, 1972, Ruggero Dipaola has a degree in law and in 2002 became a Member of the Order of Lawyers, Rome. In the meanwhile, he also got his diploma in editing (1995-96) and diploma in direction (1992-95) from the the Isitito di Scienze Cinematografiche ed Audiovisive, Florence (1995-‘96).

Trailer Link	http://www.movieplayer.it/film/appartamento-ad-atene_27627/video/
Sources	http://www.mumbaifilmfest.com/catalogue/cat_4.pdf http://www.indie-eye.it/cinema/nuove-illusioni/appartamento-ad-atene-di-ruggero-dipaola-migliore-tra-i-giovani-cineasti-italiani-al-festival-di-roma.html

Ogul-The Son

2011-12-07T09:27:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	The son (Ogul)
Original Title	Ogul
Director	Atilla Cengiz
Country	Turkey
Language	Turkish
Mins	97 min.
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards
Producer
Synopsis	An outstanding, powerful and atmospheric first feature from writerdirector Atilla Cengiz. Soner, a naive 18-year-old, leaves his hometown on the Black Sea coast for the first time to see his girlfriend but the journey becomes a dangerous adventure as his path crosses with that of Musa, a Kurdish villager whose son is a guerrilla fighter in the mountains of southeastern Turkey. But what begins as a road movie becomes a powerful depiction of the tragedy of conflict. As a tale of two sons becomes a tale of two fathers that is climaxed by a moving, memorable meeting between the two. One from the heart. The Son (Turkish: Oğul) is a 2011 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Atilla Cengiz, starring Rıza Akın and Enes Atış as respectively a Kurdish villager whose son is fighting in the mountains and a young man who journeys east to meet his beloved. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on October 14, 2011, premiered at the 35th Montreal World Film Festival August (18-28, 2011) and was screened in competition at the 30th International Istanbul Film Festival (April 2 to 17, 2011). —Turkish Cinema (Türk Sineması) on Facebook
Note on Director	Director and writer Atilla Cengiz’s ‘Oğul’ (The Son) tackles war in southeastern Turkey through two fathers’ tragedy. While the story feels half-baked at times, the film reflects the grim atmosphere of war. Sunday, October 16, 2011 EMRAH GÜLER ANKARA - Hürriyet Daily News

Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg-uZWI1WCo http://www.ltff.org.uk/feature_films/the_son.php
Sources	http://www.ltff.org.uk/feature_films/the_son.php

BUSONG

2011-12-07T09:18:00.001-08:00

Name of the Film: PALAWAN FATE
Original Title: BUSONG
Director: AURAEUS SOLITO
Country: PHILIPPINES
Language: PALAWANON, TAGALOG
Mins: 93
Format to be screened: DCP/English Subs
Festival & Awards: @Cinemalaya FF/Best Director, Best Sound Design, Best Original Music Score, @Eurasia International Film Festival/FIPRESCI Prize, @Brussels International Festival of Independent Films/ Tomorrow's Cinema Award
Producer: JONG DE CASTRO
Note on Director: ATTACHED
Trailer Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeASJt-DrQI

Beyond

2011-12-07T08:55:00.001-08:00

Name of Film

Beyond (2010)

Original Title

Svinalängorna

Director

Pernilla August

Country

Sweden

Language

Swedish

Mins

99 mins

Format to be screened

Festival & Awards

Guldbagge Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2011	Won	Guldbagge	Best Direction (Bästa regi) Pernilla August
	Won	Guldbagge	Best Supporting Actress (Bästa kvinnliga biroll) Outi Mäenpää
	Nominated	Guldbagge	Best Actress (Bästa kvinnliga huvudroll) Noomi Rapace
			Best Cinematography (Bästa foto) Erik Molberg Hansen
			Best Film (Bästa film) Helena Danielsson Ralf Karlsson
			Best Screenplay (Bästa manuskript) Lolita Ray Pernilla August
			Best Supporting Actor (Bästa manliga biroll) Ville Virtanen
			Best Supporting Actress (Bästa kvinnliga biroll) Tehilla Blad

Hamburg Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Foreign Press Award	Pernilla August (Director)
2010	Nominated	Critics Award	Best Film Pernilla August

Lübeck Nordic Film Days
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	NDR Promotion Prize	Pernilla August

São Paulo International Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	International Jury Award	Best Actress Noomi Rapace (actress)
	Won	Special Jury Award	Best Fictional Film Pernilla August
	Nominated	International Jury Award	Best Film Pernilla August

Venice Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Christopher D. Smithers Foundation Special Award	Pernilla August
2010	Won	International Critics' Week Award	Pernilla August

Producer

Helena Danielsson
Ralf Karlsson

Synopsis

A drama set in 1970s Sweden and centered on a young woman's experiences growing up in a home riddled with abuse and alcoholism.

Beyond is a 2010 Swedish drama film directed by Pernilla August, starring Noomi Rapace, Ola Rapace, Tehilla Blad, Outi Mäenpää and Ville Virtanen. The original Swedish title isSvinalängorna, which means "The swine rows" and refers to the housing project where parts of the story are set. The film is based on the novel with the same name by Susanna Alakoski. It was shown at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 2010 and got the International Critic's Week Award.^[1][2] The Swedish Film Institute submitted Beyond for a 2011Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination.^{[3][4] (}http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_(film))

Note on Director

Pernilla August (born Mia Pernilla Hertzman-Ericson 13 February 1958) is a Swedish actress and director. She won the Best Actress Award at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival for her role inThe Best Intentions. Her international career includes the role of Shmi Skywalker in the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

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Trailer Link

http://www.heppfilm.se/beyond/beyond/Hem.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNR6NMxyJPc

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pernilla_August

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_(film)

No. 89 Shimen Road

2011-12-01T02:56:00.001-08:00

A Haolun Shu Film

A Film Factory Productionspresent

No. 89 SHIMEN Road

Screenplay Haolun Shu

Starring Ewen Chen ZhufeiZhai

Assistant to the Director Guo Tian

DOP Shu Hao

Gaffer Shen Zhonghong

Art direction Xian Ruiqing

Casting director Sheng Jian Zhu

Sound production Yoong Zhang

Sound design & Re-recordingmixer Benjamin L’Hotelier

Composer Xiao He

Editor Menno Boerema

Production manager John Zhang

Producer Isabelle Le

With the Support of Hubert Bals Fund ofthe International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Church DevelopmentService (EED), Vision Sud Est, PPP of the Pusan Film Festival

INVISIBLE

2011-12-01T02:44:00.001-08:00

INVISIBLE – לארואים עליך– Credits & Information

Name of the Film: Invisible

Original Title: LoRoim Alaich

Director: Michal Aviad

Country: Israel – Germany 2011

Language: Hebrewand English with English subtitles

Length: 90 min

Format to be screened: 35 mm

Festivals &Awards:

BestIsraeli Film and Best Actress Awards in Haifa International Film Festival (October2011)

Winner of the Ecumenical Prize Berlin International Film Festival (February 2011)

Taormina Film Festival, Sicily, Italy (June 2011)

Montreal World Film Festival (August 2011)

Israel Film Festival, Moscow (September 2011)

Rio International Film Festival (October 2011)

Thessaloniki Film Festival (November 2011)

International Women Film festival Israel (November 2011)

Goteborg International Film Festival (February 2012)

Producer: Ronen Ben-Tal

Script: Michal Aviad, Tal Omer

Camera: Guy Raz

Editing: Era Lapid

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz,Evgenia Dodina, Gil Frank, Sivan Levy, Mederic Ory

Production Company: Plan B Productions ltd., Tel Aviv

Synopsis:

Haunted by the same unspeakable nightmare intheir past, a random encounter brings two women together. Emotions that were once left buried will haveto be dealt with and confronted.

Lily (Ronit Elkabetz) is an outspoken left-wingactivist, Nira (Evgenia Dodina) a reserved television editor. Both areoutwardly independent and strong women. Lily is married with two grownchildren, her marriage long dead. Nira is a single mum who refuses to think shecould ever be interested in a man being a part of her life. Twenty yearsearlier they both experienced a trauma so severe, they had to suppress theordeal to be able to survive. A fleeting moment unites them and the two womenjoin forces to confront the past, realizing how this tragedy has deeplyaffected their lives and relationships. Now they must bridge the gapbetween the women they once were and the women they have become. They musteither continue to push the pain in or confront the cracks in their lives. It’s time to heal and move on.

What begins as a hard yet liberating journeyturns into a subtle and moving friendship: through this relationship, they willfinally be able to stop feeling humiliated and guilty. They will no longer beINVISIBLE. An emotionally powerful film, INVISIBLE mixes fact with fictionusing televised material and recorded testimonies of women who like Lily andNira, have survived despite their nightmare.

Note on Director:

Michal Aviad is afaculty member of the Tel Aviv University's Department of Film and Television.Aviad writes, directs and produces award-winning documentary films that examinethe complex relations between women's issues and the Palestinian-Israeliconflict, militarism, and ethnicity. Her credits include: Acting Our Age (1987),The Women Next Door (1992), Ever Shot Anyone?(1995), Jenny & Jenny (1997), Ramleh (2001) andFor My Children (2002). Invisible, her feature debut won BestIsraeli Film and Best Actress Awards in Haifa International Film Festival, itwas presented in the Panorama section of the 2011 Berlin Festival andwon the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.

Trailer Link:

4:3(57mb) - http://www.4shared.com/video/FLsPa3FJ/invsbl_trlr_4-3_WMV_6000.html

16:9(61mb) - http://www.4shared.com/video/gNrKGMEB/invsbl_trlr_16-9_WMV_6000_001.html

Stretch (65mb) - http://www.4shared.com/video/CiKKyREP/invsbl_trlr_WMV_6000.html

When We Leave

2011-12-01T02:06:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	When We Leave (2010)
Original Title	Die Fremde
Director	Feo Aladag
Country	Germany
Language	German
Mins	119 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	The film won Best Narrative Feature at the 9th Tribeca Film Festival, Best Film at the 37th Ghent Film Festival in Belgium, the European Parliament's Lux Prize, and was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards,[1][2][3][4] but it didn't make the final shortlist.[5] Internationally, the film has won the following awards:[6] 60th German Film Awards, Germany 2010 Best Leading Actress, Sibel Kekilli Best Film – Lola In Bronze 60th Berlin International Film Festival, Germany 2010 Europa Cinema Label Award 9th Tribeca Film Festival, USA 2010[7] Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli Best Film, World Narrative Feature Competition LUX Film Prize 2010, Film Prize Of The European Parliament, Europe 2010 Best European Film New Faces Award, Germany 2010 Best Debutfilm, Feo Aladag 20th German Camera Prize, Germany 2010 Best Camera, Judith Kaufmann, Bvk 15th German/Turkish Film Festival Nuremberg, Germany 2010 Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli 32nd Créteil Womens Film Festival, France 2010 Best Film – Audience Award 1st Recklinghausen Film Festival, Germany 2010 Best Film Bernhard Wicki Film Prize, Germany 2010 German Cinema Award For Peace, Sibel Kekilli For When We Leave 20th Cologne Conference, Germany 2010 German Casting Award 2010, Ulrike Mueller 11th Video Champions Awards, Germany 2010 Video Champion Artist Award, Sibel Kekilli For When We Leave 11th Calgary International Film Festival, Canada 2010 Best International Feature 37th Flanders International Film Festival Ghent, Belgium 2010 Port Of Ghent Audience Award Best Film 39th Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma De Montréal, Canada 2010 Best Actress, Sibel Kekilli 23rd Panorama Of European Cinema In Athen, Greece 2010 Best Film - International Jury Award 34th São Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil 2010 Best Film Defa Foundation, Germany 2010 Award To Support Artistic Talent, Feo Aladag 25th Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, Usa 2010 Best Film 10th International Film Festival Marrakech, Morocco 2010 Best Performance For The Entire Cast Award 21st Diva - German Entertainment Award 2011, Germany 2011 Jury Award - Best Art Direction Of The Year 2010, Feo Aladag 22rd Premiers Plans Film Festival In Angers, France 2011 European First Feature Films - Audience Award 18th Victoria Film Festival, Canada 2011 Best Feature German Film Critics Awards 2010, Germany 2011 Best Film - Feo Aladag Best Debut Film - Feo Aladag Best Screenplay - Feo Aladag Best Actress - Sibel Kekilli Best Cinematography - Judith Kaufmann Best Editing - Andrea Mertens Best Score - Max Richter Und Stéphane Moucha Die Goldene Zwiebel Esslingen 2010, Germany 2011 Best Debut - Feo Aladag Best Leading Actress - Sibel Kekilli
Producer	Feo Aladag
Synopsis	When We Leave (German: Die Fremde) is a 2010 German drama film, produced, written and directed by Feo Aladag, which highlights the problem of honour killings by depicting the drama of a Turkish family living in Germany. Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results in a life-threatening situation. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1288376/)
Note on Director	Feo Aladag is an Austrian film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. Aladag was born in Vienna, Austria in 1972. She began her film career as an actress, completing her training in London and Vienna from 1990-1995. While studying acting she also completed a masters in Psychology and Journalism, continuing on to receive her Doctorate of Philosophy in 2000. She acted in numerous film and television productions while attending master-classes and directing seminars at the European Film Academy and the German Film and Television Academy. During this time she also maintained a career as a successful scriptwriter and commercial film director; directing various spots for Amnesty International and writing scripts for the German television series Tatort.[1] Her 2010 film When We Leave was selected as the German entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards,[2] but didn't make the final shortlist.[3]
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbwFmUgEhys
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_We_Leave

True Grit

2011-11-28T00:15:00.001-08:00

Name :True Grit (USA/2010/110mins)
Original title - True Grit
Language - English
Director : Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon and Hailee Steinfeld

Synopsis-
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and surprises on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested
source- imdb

Trailer link- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GkAH7IUWOE

Biutiful

2011-11-28T00:05:00.001-08:00

Title-Biutiful (Spain/2009/148mins)
Original title- Biuiful
Language-spanish,chinese,wolof
Director : Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Produced by-Alejandro González Iñárritu
            Alfonso Cuarón
            Guillermo del Toro
            Fernando Bovaira
            Sandra Hermida
            Jon Kilik
            Ann Ruark
Synopsis-
Biutiful is the story of Uxbal – a single father who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amid the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona -- all before his time is up. He must deal with his loving but unreliable, reckless, and bipolar wife (from whom he is separated and who poses a threat to the safety of their children), and a large group of illegal immigrants for whom he obtains material so that they may not be deported. In the middle of all of this, he is diagnosed with terminal cancer, which he tries to hide from his two children.source- wikipedia

Beaufort

2011-11-27T23:14:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Beaufort 2007
Original Title
Director	Joseph Cedar
Country	Israel
Language	Hebrew
Mins	131 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	Academy Awards, USA YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2008 Nominated Oscar Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Israel. Awards of the Israeli Film Academy YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Art Direction Miguel Markin Best Cinematography Ofer Inov Best Editing Zohar M. Sela Best Sound Israel David Alex Claude Asher Milo (as Ashi Milo) Nominated Award of the Israeli Film Academy Best Actor Oshri Cohen Best Costumes unknown Best Director Joseph Cedar Best Film Best Music unknown Best Screenplay Joseph Cedar Ron Leshem Bangkok International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Nominated Golden Kinnaree Award Best Film Joseph Cedar Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2007 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Director Joseph Cedar Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Joseph Cedar
Production design	Miguel Markin
Synopsis	BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop. As LIRAZ lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical disintegration.
Note on Director	Yossef (Joseph) Cedar (born August 31, 1968, Hebrew: יוסף סידר) is an Israeli film director and screenwriter. He has won a Silver Bear and an Ophir Award for Best Director, and an Ophir Award for writing a Best Screenplay. He also won the best screenplay award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. for his film Footnote (2011). Cedar was born in New York. When he was 6 his family moved to Israel, and he grew up in the Bayit VeGan neighborhood in Jerusalem. He studied in a Yeshiva High School. In the Israeli army he served as a paratrooper. After graduating in Philosophy and History of theatre from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he studied cinema studies in the New York University. When he came back to Israel he started working on the screenplay for his debut film, Time of Favor (2000), for which he moved and lived for 2 years in the Israeli settlement Dolev. The film became a big success and won 6 Ofir Academy Awards, including Best Picture. His second film was Campfire (2004) who was also a success with 5 Ofir Academy Awards including Best Picture, with 2 of them, Best Director and Best Screenplay, going to Cedar. For Beaufort (2007), his third film, he received the Silver Bear award for Best Director in the Berlin International Film Festival. Beaufort became one of the most critically acclaimed and successful Israeli films of the decade and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, the first such nomination for an Israeli film in 24 years. It also received 4 Ofir Academy Awards and was based on Cedar's own experiences during his army service on Israel's border with Lebanon. Cedar is an Orthodox Jew. His films are known to touch delicate issues of Israeli society. Israeli critic Yair Rave wrote: One of the reasons I like Cedar's films so much is... his ability to merge the Israeli spirit... with the universal cinematic codes. His upcoming film Footnote was premiered In Competition at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyl2JEFkxmo
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB

Apart Together

2011-11-27T23:02:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Apart Together
Original Title	Tuan yuan
Director	Quan'an Wang
Country	China
Language	Mandarin
Mins	97 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	Berlin International Film Festival YearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s) 2010 Won Silver Berlin Bear Best Screenplay Quan'an Wang Na Jin Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Quan'an Wang
Producer	Daning Du
Synopsis	Liu returns to his native city Shanghai after 50 years spent in Taiwan. He has come to find the first love of his life, Qiao, who he left behind pregnant. In the meantime, Qiao has married and formed a family. But Liu is determined to get the family's approval to take her away with him.
Note on Director	Wang (born. 1965) is a Sixth Generation Chinese film director. Wang was born in Yan'an, China. He graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1991. He had a ten year relationship with actress and muse Yu Nan, which ended in 2009. ^{Wang's films have often emphasized China's rural life, including Jingzhe and Tuya's Marriage (2007). Wang's films have also often focused on female protagonists, including his first four films, who all starred actress Yu Nan. Wang's 2009 film, Weaving Girl took him to familiar territory, exploring working class female experiences in modern day China.} ^{Wang's most recent film, Apart Together—his first without Yu Nan in the starring role—follows an old Kuomintang soldier who returns to China from Taiwan after fifty years to find his first love. Apart Together opened the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival.}
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7VbW7XPMRA
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB

Eastern Plays

2011-11-27T22:49:00.001-08:00

Name of Film	Eastern Plays
Original Title	Iztochni piesi)
Director	Kamen Kalev
Country	Bulgaria
Language	Bulgarian
Mins	83 mins
Format to be screened	35 MM
Festival & Awards	§ Tokyo International Film Festival 2009 § Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix (Award for Best Film) § Award for Best Director (Kamen Kalev) § Award for Best Actor (Hristo Hristov, posthumously) § Sarajevo Film Festival 2009 § CICAE Award § Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival 2009 § Youth Jury's Award § Warsaw International Film Festival 2009 § 1-2 Competition Award (competition for directors' first and second feature films) § International Film Festival Bratislava 2009 § Best Actor (Hristo Hristov, tied with Harold Torres for 'Norteado' ) § Best Director (Kamen Kalev) § Prize of the Ecumenical Jury (Kamen Kalev) § Estoril Film Festival 2009 § Special Prize of the Jury - João Bénard da Costa (tied with 'The Girl') § Trieste Film Festival - Alpe Adria Cinema 2010 § Premio CEI § Angers European First Film Festival 2010 § Grand prix du jury long metrage Europeen (Ex-aequo) (tied with 'La Pivellina') § Mons International Love Film Festival 2010 § Le Prix du Public – Prix Be TV § Sofia International Film Festival 2010 § The Kodak Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film § Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival 2010 § Best First Time Director (Kamen Kalev)
Producer	Kamen Kalev & Stefan Piryov (Waterfront Film) Film i Väst Fredrik Zander (The Chimney Pot)
Synopsis	Eastern Plays is the story of two alienated brothers, Hristo or Itso (Hristo Hristov), an artistwoodcarver who is struggling with his methadone addiction, and Georgi (Ovanes Torosyan), a high school student who is dragged into a neo-Nazi gang. The central point of the film is an ethnically-motivated attack by Georgi's neo-Nazi gang on a Turkish family from Istanbul, who are spending the night in Sofia en route to Germany. While Georgi initially participates in the beating, he is frightened and runs away. Itso, who had seen the family at a restaurant while he dined with his now-ex-girlfriend Niki (Nikolina Yancheva), ends up intervening and saving the family, including the beautiful daughter Işıl (Saadet Işıl Aksoy). In his developing feelings for Işıl, Itso sees hope of a positive change in his destiny, while Georgi's actions and his brother's help make him question his philosophy and reconsider his outlook on life
Note on Director	Kamen Kalev (born 8 June 1975) is a Bulgarian film director and screenwriter. Kalev came to prominence in 2009 with the film Eastern Plays, earning him numerous international film awards as director and screenwriter. After graduating a highschool in his hometown Bourgas, Kamen Kalev spent two years in Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria, studying at first photography, and then switched to cinematography. During his sophomore year he continued his education in moviemaking in the French state film school La Fémis in Paris. Kalev graduated Le Département Image in 2002.
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Trailer Link	www.easternplays.com/en/trailer
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Kalev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Plays

Katalin Vagra

2011-11-27T22:37:00.001-08:00

Name of Film

Katalin Vagra

Original Title

Director

Peter Strickland

Country

Hungary

Language

Hungarian

Mins

82 mins

Format to be screened

Festival & Awards

Berlin International Film Festival

Silver Berlin Bear

Golden Berlin Bear

British Independent Film Awards

British Independent Film Award

Douglas Hickox Award

CPH:PIX

CPH:PIX Award

European Film Awards

European Discovery of the Year

Evening Standard British Film Awards

Evening Standard British Film Award

London Critics Circle Film Awards

ALFS Award

Romanian Union of Filmmakers

Romanian Union of Filmmakers Award

Producer


Oana Giurgiu	....	co-producer
Oana Giurgiu	....	producer
Tudor Giurgiu	....	co-producer
Tudor Giurgiu	....	producer
Peter Strickland	....	producer

Synopsis

In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder. When her village discovers her secret, Katalin's husband rejects her. With nothing to lose, she is free to seek revenge on the perpetrators. As she puts human faces to horrible acts, she is forced to consider that morality might not be as black and white as she had imagined.

Note on Director

The directorial debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over several years in a Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project for £28,000.

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Trailer Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PTjObn2W5I

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Varga

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1360875/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/oct/08/katalin-varga-review

BIFFES Bengaluru International Film festival

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Film Screening Schedule

Lucky

King of Devil's Island

King of Devil's Island(2010)

Lovely Man

The Colors of the Mountain

IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL

Apartment in Athens

Ogul-The Son

BUSONG

Beyond

Beyond (2010)

No. 89 Shimen Road

INVISIBLE

Cast: Ronit Elkabetz,Evgenia Dodina, Gil Frank, Sivan Levy, Mederic Ory

When We Leave

True Grit

Biutiful

Beaufort

Beaufort 2007

Miguel Markin

Apart Together

Tuan yuan

Daning Du

Eastern Plays

Iztochni piesi)

Kamen Kalev & Stefan Piryov (Waterfront Film) Film i Väst Fredrik Zander (The Chimney Pot)

Katalin Vagra

Kamen Kalev & Stefan Piryov (Waterfront Film)
Film i Väst
Fredrik Zander (The Chimney Pot)