North American Premiere
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"I try to laugh at things which make us sad. I want comedy and tragedy to go hand in hand." -- Teddy Moskov. Rhapsody in White is one of the most successful Bulgarian films in recent years. Director Teddy Moskov calls it a "fight against the triviality of life," and, indeed, there has never been anything quite like it. Funny yet sad, antic yet delicate, it virtually invents its own genre as it goes along. Working in the world of comedy clubs and puppet shows, Dana (Maya Novoselska) is already saddled with a skewed view of the world.
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Madrid is a gorgeous and elegant film that generates a unique brilliance through its haunting mixture of delicate ambiance, stunning, graceful cinematography and subtle emotional resonance. In Isabel's veins flow the heat and passion of Spain, the land of her ancestors. By day, an assistant manager at a local grocery store, she lives in a suburban German town, spending her evenings discouraged by her love life. After losing one ungrateful young man, Isobel is initially intrigued by the handsome businessman, Manuel, who has taken up shop in the building across from her store.
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Being, a film of uncompromising attitude and quality, relentlessly grim, insistently artistic, is a true "lost Maverick." Because Being, originally filmed in 1991, in Russia, is inherently and intensely critical of the social conditions in Soviet Russia, the Soviet censors seized it. Being sat shelved in the archives for nearly ten years, until 2000, when the Polish director, Andrzej Czarnecki, personally bought the uncompleted film outright, took it to Poland and completed it.
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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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Writing is a revelation act.
Winner of Best Film and Best Actress (Leandra Leal from The Man Who Copied, Cinequest 2004) at the Gramado Film Festival, director Murillo Salles? Camila JAM is an arresting and provocative look at identity, redemption, and obsession.
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Brazen fantasy, transformation of the soul, the consequences of sinful pleasures are thrown overboard in a bold sexual frenzy.
All aboard the Kriemhild--a floating sin city where the booze is cheaper than anywhere else. The beauty and cruelty of humanity becomes unabashedly on display through the wonders of sexual prowess and intensity. Every morning riding down the beautiful Blue Danube, the brilliant eyes sparkle and the eerily complacent smiles dazzle the passengers to be, as the captain and his crew put on their radiant masks.
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Don't look now, but one of the world's great national cinemas just got even better!