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Winner - Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2008
Every family has its secrets.
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa?s latest tale is an ironic, quietly offbeat take on a family in massive self-denial; a portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. All is normal and the same?or so it seems.
Bent, but not yet broken, the Sasaki family shows how the pride of men can bring a family to its knees, and how, sometimes, it takes the dreams of children to lift it back up again.
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Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakh, live side by side in relative harmony amidst a beautiful yet semi-desolate region of the Great Steppe. But when the fair-skinned Russians give birth to a boy of decidedly darker skin, fifteen years of suspicion and acrimony arises between them, which can only be resolved by an ironic twist of family and fate.
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A supernatural thriller sure to grip even the biggest disbeliever.
Bryan (Tim Daly, Private Practice), an emphatic doubter of everything, finds his own rationality challenged by the events that beset him in an old family manor inherited from his death-stricken aunt. When rationalization fails to explain the perplexing incidents that lurk around every corner in his new home, where will he turn? Left unnervingly poised between arrested wits and command of his faculties, Bryan must turn to the unknown to decrypt these haunting disturbances.
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This is, ?Sushi Western!?
He has waited eight years for his revenge. His family brutally murdered by Nathan Flesher and his sight taken in a desperate effort to save his wife and daughter, he trained as a samurai swordsman in order to exact his vengeance. Now known only as The Blind Wolf, he returns to face his foe. However, there is a surprise waiting for him: seven assassins await him, eager for the bounty placed on his head by the Flesher.
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Winner ? Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival
?The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rock crushes scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts paper. Can purity beat commerce?
The Walker brothers wanted to turn a child?s game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when the RPS fanatics converge on the world championships, they?re caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate mascots, and a battle of good versus evil.
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Renaldo Kuhler is a charming, funny and utterly captivating man?who just so
happens to have created his own country.
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Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.
Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s strict Mother Superior, his mother, Andrea, searches for her own answers on how to convince Josh that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do!
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?In jail there are no castes. Everyone is equal.?
As two nations? uneasy armies face each other across the Indian-Pakistani border, Ramchand, an 8-year old Hindu Pakistani village boy of the Untouchable caste, followed soon by his worried father, wanders across the nearby border into India, setting off a chain of events that will test the love and endurance of a family, but proves that even in the most unlikely places understanding and affection can be found.
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Just because you?re a member of the AARP doesn?t mean you have to stop fighting.
In the tune of nursery rhymes and musicals, veteran director Pam Walton (Liberty: 3 Stories About Life and Death, Call to Witness) presents Raging Grannies, a group who uses quirky street theater to protest causes dear to them. From women?s rights to anti-military recruiting, the antics of these grannies will surely pique your curiosity.