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A critic?s life suddenly has more drama than the films he?s reviewing.

François has just landed a position as a film critic with a small-town theater. It?s a movie lover?s dream job, but there?s only one problem: He knows practically nothing about cinema.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Lionel Baier
Cast:
Robin Harsch, Natacha Koutchoumov, Elodie Weber, Bulle Ogier
Editor:
Pauline Gaillard
Producer:
Robert Boner, SAGA Production
Language:
French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Karol Szymanowski

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While life on a quiet island off the Croatian coast seems subdued and uneventful, underneath lay the disturbing emotional temblors of the human condition.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Dra?en ?arković, Pavo Marinković
Cinematography:
Vedran ?amanović
Cast:
Josip Genda, ?arko Potočnjak, Sini?a Brajčić, Trpimir Jurkić, Bruna Bebić-Tudor, Marinko Prga, Čedo Martinić, Milan ?trljić, Ivica Vidović
Editor:
Slaven Zečević
Producer:
Vesna Mort
Language:
Serbo-Croatian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Hrvoje Crnić Boxer

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Infidelity plays out like the acts of an opera.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Juan Patricio Riveroll
Cinematography:
Roberto Macias, Jorge Senyal
Cast:
Arturo Ríos, Magdalena Flores, Martin LaSalle, Marina Magro, Daniela Schmidt
Editor:
Alejandro Molina, Roberto Garza
Producer:
Juan Patricio Riveroll
Language:
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama

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A story that starts where other romantic comedies end...

Ida is the ideal woman. She?s still as hot as she was when she was twenty. She is an ambitious architect and loving mum, and she takes a great deal of responsibility at both home and work. It is far from easy to find time for everything when she gets promoted.

Mathias is the ideal man?funny, handsome in a shabby way and a great dad. But he?s also a bit sloppy and never quite seems to finish things he initiates. Unfortunately, he does not always think ahead and buys a sailing boat without asking for permission.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Eva F. Dahr
Cinematography:
Tore Vollan
Cast:
Pia Tjelta, Torbjørn Harr, Jon Øigarden, Helena af Sandeberg, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Henriette Steenstrup, Silje Torp Færavaag, Marte Engebrigtsen
Editor:
Perry Eriksen
Producer:
Silje Hopland Eik, Tanya Badendyck
Language:
Norwegian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Ginge Anvik

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A man faints and awakens in another town as an eight-year-old boy.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Iván Ávila Dueñas
Cinematography:
Ciro Cabello, Alejandro Cantú
Cast:
Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Jostein Roustand, Enoc Leaño, Flor Payán, Jorge Zárate, Joaquín Cosío
Editor:
Elena Pardo, Pedro Jiménez
Producer:
Iván Ávila Dueñas
Executive Producer:
Elsa Reyes
Language:
Spanish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama/Fantasy

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Is it normal for a child to levitate??

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Kjell-Åke Andersson
Cinematography:
Olof Johnson
Cast:
Alice Havrell, Adam Lundgren, Frida Hallgren, Lotta Tejle, Claes Månsson, Peter Lorentzon, Tove Wiréen
Editor:
Petra Ahlin
Producer:
Francy Suntinger, Lina Jonsson
Language:
Swedish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy

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Imagine a documentary about George W. Bush?s homosexual lover assassinating him with a car bomb.

AFR is the Danish equivalent of just such a story. Anders Fogh Rasmussen (AFR) -- the current prime minister of Denmark ? aims to reform the industrialized West?s economic policies toward the Third World. He meets Emil, an anarchist with severe neuroses. Emil and Rasmussen are both bisexual and each a reformist in his own way. But their lives are as different as can be.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Morten Hartz Kaplers
Cinematography:
Lars Bonde, Magnus Nordenhof Jønck
Editor:
Per Sandholt, Rasmus Madsen
Producer:
Meta Louise Foldager, Morten Hartz Kaplers
Language:
Danish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Soren Siegumfeldt

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Can we ever know the truth, or is it too changeable and elusive, always just beyond our grasp?

A riveting, complex tale of espionage, manipulation, and betrayal, where the line between right and wrong and good and evil is constantly shifting and always blurry.

Helen Smyth, a New Zealand journalist, travels to Cuba with her family. While there, she by chance meets enigmatic, suave and beguiling Nestor Baguer. Later, however, after being pulled into a tangled web of intrigue, Smyth senses that something is wrong.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Helen Smyth
Cinematography:
Tim Rose, Helen Smyth, Ben Powdrell, Francesca Carney
Editor:
Ben Powdrell
Producer:
Helen Smyth, Tim Rose
Language:
English and Spanish w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Jonathan Crayford, Andreas Lepper, Ben Powdrell

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Of all the matches, he wanted the imperfect one.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Miel Van Hoogenbemt
Cinematography:
Frank Van Den Eeden
Cast:
Jan Decleir, Maria Popistasu, Wim Opbrouck, Manuela Servais, Leny Breederveld, Bert Haelvoet, Tom van Bauwel, Nadine Vanvossem, Mia van Roy, Mieke Bouve
Editor:
Ludo Troch
Producer:
Jean-Claude van Rijckeghem
Language:
Dutch w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Spinvis

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Winner of the Audience Award at the Pusan International Film Festival, The White Silk Dress is a magnificent drama that portrays how one poor and oppressed family manages to maintain its pride and dignity and to overcome adversities.

Season:
2007
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Huynh Luu
Cinematography:
Trinh Hoan
Cast:
Trong Anh Ngoc, Nguyen Khanh Quoc
Editor:
Nguyen Bao Bi
Producer:
Huynh Luu, Raymond Lim
Composer:
Tri Duc
Language:
Vietnamese with English Subtitles
Genre:
Unassigned
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