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Iska longs for a place free of the poverty and pain she has known her entire life.
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Cezanne said all art is in the details. When it comes to dealing with a powerful and crafty art thief, a young idealist better have all the details right.
One night, with his girlfriend?s video camera, Francis records the theft of a highly valued Italian painting from the church where his father is the organist. Afterward Francis contacts the thief, a well-respected art dealer named Benedict, and declares he?s not after any cash payoff; he only wants the painting returned to its rightful place in the church. Otherwise, he?ll go to the authorities with the evidence.
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When a life-long friendship is strong and true, not even death can intervene.
Longtime workmates and pals Zhao and Liu Quanyou are enjoying a drink together, engaged in their usual banter, when Liu falls strangely silent. Zhao tries to re-energize the conversation before suddenly realizing that his friend has died. Although there was no time for Liu?s last wishes, Zhao knows there is only one honorable thing to do and that is to take his friend home.
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All dreams are black and white.
?Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained noises in the dark. A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on the hunt. A big empty house creaking.?
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A man faints and awakens in another town as an eight-year-old boy.
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Retirement can be a whole lot more fun than you think.
Director Jan Sverak astounded audiences with the Academy Award®-winning Kolya. With Empties, Sverak and his father Zdenek Sverak, writer-actor and collaborator, craft a bittersweet comedy about the antics of Josef, a cantankerous old horndog who retires from his life as a literature professor?primarily because he no longer understands his pupils.
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Affluence, recklessness and power blend together in a bizarre and mesmerizing mystery.
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Is your name safe?
Luís Galvão Teles, whose film Elles won the Audience Favorite Choice Award in 1999 and also joined the festival in 2005 with Fado Blues, returns with Dot.Com, a wondrous tale wherein the cold hand of big business casts its ugly shadow upon a poor, unsuspecting village.
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US Premiere
Why is the case so heavy?
Frozen body parts, a milquetoast husband and his shrewish wife, and the serene scenery of Lijiang blend to sharp, entertaining effect in this fresh black comedy. He Dashang and his nagging wife run a riverside guesthouse in a well-known tourist spot. One morning, he wakes to find a suitcase floating down the river. To his surprise, inside are chopped up frozen body parts.