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Misanthrope, contrarian, malcontent, naysayer, negative. Alan Zweig has been called all of these, and more, and wants to know why.

In his search to understand why he can?t just accept things as they are and be happy about it, Zweig talks to curmudgeons of all shapes and sizes: the famous?Larry David and Andy Rooney; the near famous?Harvey Pekar and Fran Lebowitz; and the unknown, including Zweig?s friends, most of whom seem to suffer from a similar affliction of crankiness and dissatisfaction.

Season:
2005
Director:
Alan Zweig
Cast:
Alan Zweig, Fran Lebowitz, Harvey Pekar, Cintra Wilson, Toby Young, Andy Rooney, Scott Thompson, Mark Eitzel
Editor:
Christopher Donaldson
Producer:
Kristina McLaughlin, Michael McMahon
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Drysdale

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Irma Varró is orphaned, pregnant and fed up. She has just turned 18-years-old and is leaving the state orphanage, her only link to her past, the necklace her mother placed around her neck when she abandoned her.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Zsuzsa Böszörményi
Cinematography:
Márton Miklauziè
Cast:
Eszter Bagaméri, Anna Györgyi, Andrea Fullajtár, Dezsö Garas, Kati Outinen, Peter Franzén, Ervin Nagy
Editor:
Gabriella Koncz
Producer:
Livia Gyarmathy, Veit Heiduschka, Hanna Hemilä
Language:
Hungarian
Genre:
Unassigned

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Set against the harsh reality of the desert of southern Iran, From the Land of Silence is a stunningly beautiful film of two young brothers eking out their solitary existences against an inhospitable, unforgiving landscape. All but abandoned by their truck-driving father, they have each found questionable but successful ways to survive. Struggling every day merely to stay alive, they encounter a man actively running away from life, returning to the desert on a quest to negate his previous life. From this meeting, each of them has something to impart to the others; each has something to learn.

Season:
2005
Director:
Saman Salur
Cast:
Hossein Bande-Ali, Hassan Bande-Ali, Omid Rokhafrooz, Roohollah Farokh Nejad
Editor:
Saman Salur
Producer:
Saman Salur
Language:
Farsi
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Mehrdad Nosrati

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Akaash is looking for love, and has arrived in America in search of an all-American, but still Indian, girl. Visiting with, Rohit, his childhood friend, Akaash asks for his help to find his dream girl. Yet, as Akaash goes from girl to girl?simple situations often leading to hilarious outcomes?he begins to realize that finding love is never easy and no girl is what she seems. Still, poor Akaash will do whatever it takes to find his Dulhan.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Manoj Kumar Sen
Editor:
Thomas Koch
Producer:
Atul Parikh, Paresh Patel
Executive Producer:
Parul Parikh
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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It?s been nearly two years since Josey has been with a woman and things are beginning to look bleak. Charisma and looks are seriously lacking, but Josey is determined to end the drought.

With coaching from his friends, Josey sets out to break his dry spell with his desperation knowing no limits of decency. Making it all worse is the memory of his ex-girlfriend, Julie. Josey would give anything to have her back, along with everything that used to annoy him. But will he go crawling back, or will he meet someone new despite the odds stacked against him?

Season:
2005
Director:
John Erick Dowdle
Cast:
Chip Godwin, Casey Strand, Megan Edwards, Jennifer Fitzgerald, Scott Beehner, George Kostuch
Editor:
John Erick Dowdle
Producer:
Andrew Dowdle, Michael Drescher, Melinda Woolf
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Max Bright is in hell. And he has a lot of problems with women?mostly due to his rather malignant attitude. Max, who is the epitome of a male chauvinist pig, resolves to find a submissive woman as his mate, after an explosive bout with his lover. So, he purchases a Chinese mail-order bride.

Season:
2005
Director:
David Beaird
Editor:
Shawn David Thompson
Producer:
Steven Wolfe
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Greg Ellis

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Winner of the 2004 Israeli Academy Award for Best Picture, Campfire, journeys to 1981, a more innocent time, when the West Bank settlements were less of a political statement than a desire by pioneers to seek adventure.

Season:
2005
Director:
Joseph Cedar
Cast:
Michaela Eshet, Hani Furstenberg, Maya Maron, Moshe Ivgy, Assi Dayan
Editor:
Einat Glaser Zarhin
Producer:
David Mandil, Eyal Shiray, Dan Shiray
Language:
Hebrew
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Ofer Shalchin

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Neslted in the far north of Sweden is the town of Ensamheten (Solitude). It is a town occupied by sixteen inhabitants, all of which are related, and all of which have a similar passion: armwrestling.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Lisa Munthe, Helen Ahlsson
Editor:
Anders Teigen
Producer:
Helen Ahlsson
Language:
Sweden
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Joakim Häggström

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The Accordion Tribe has a seemingly impossible mission: to return their long disregarded instrument to the worldwide recognition it once enjoyed as a powerhouse of emotions.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Stefan Schwietert
Cinematography:
Wolfgang Lehner
Cast:
Guy Klucevsek, Lars Hollmer, Maria Kalaniemi, Otto Lechner, Bratko Bibic
Editor:
Stephan Krumbiegel
Language:
English, German
Genre:
Unassigned

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Randy Credico is not your ordinary stand-up comic. Sure, he has that uniquely irreverent view of the world. But who was the last comedian to take on the federal government and win?

Season:
2005
Director:
Laura Kightlinger
Cinematography:
Matyas Ereley
Cast:
Randy Credico
Editor:
David Dawkins
Producer:
Laura Kightlinger, Judith Cohen
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Music Jim Harry
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