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The Buddha bears a badge and badgers the monk behind bars.

A brash Moscow police officer serendipitously falls into the favor of Buddhist followers. His life begins to reflect their suggestions of his being the reincarnated Dalai Lama, in spite of his obstinate refusal of any such possibility.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Alexander Naumov
Cast:
Alexander Seridenko, Timur Bokancha, Alexei Maklakov, Valery Garkalin, Kamilla Vlasenkova, Natalya Kurdyubova, Karen Badalov, Pak Hyok Su
Producer:
Alexander Seridenko
Executive Producer:
Sergei Baklanov, Roman Stivkin, Anton Degtyarev
Language:
Russian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Stanislav Semenov

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Obsession consumes two men dead-set on winning the high-stake bet of a lifetime.

Viktor, a wealthy, arrogant oligarch, agrees to pay young Maxim, his cocky employee, $15 million if the young man can endure fifteen years of imprisonment in confined, guarded quarters. If Maxim fails to complete his detention, he will be indebted to work without pay for the rest of his life.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Natalia Bronstein
Cast:
Viktor Verzhbitsky, Vladimir Zherebtsov, Marina Mogilevskaya, Sergey Chonishvilli, Anatoly Belyi, Olesya Zheleznyak, Evgenia Loza, Daria Poverennova
Editor:
Roman Kanatnikov, Tatiana Belousova
Producer:
Natalia Bronstein
Executive Producer:
Irina Mitrofanova
Language:
Russian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Peter Klimov

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A young woman has nothing to lose, and everything to learn.

Gao Yuanyuan (Shanghai Dreams, Beijing Bicycle) stars as a young woman dying from a brain tumor; and who unexpectedly discovers that her brother-in-law ? someone she has loved and trusted since she was a little girl ? may have murdered her parents. In a desperate, yet calculating move, she kidnaps and tortures him to try to learn the truth before she dies.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Cheng Er
Cinematography:
Xu Wei
Cast:
Gao Yuanyuan, Xu Zheng; Yan Po; Tao Hong
Editor:
Yang Hongyu
Producer:
Cheerland Entertainment Organisation
Language:
Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Thriller
Music:
Lin Hai

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One woman?s life changes tempo as she gyrates along the streets of Prague in search of fulfillment.

?Proudly humanistic at a time when such fare plays against the prevailing grain of cynical hipness, Alice Nellis' distinctive third feature, strikes a pitch-perfect note of benevolent mischief as it tracks the mellow mid-life crisis of a bemused Prague housewife in an evolving city.? ? Variety

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Alice Nellis
Cinematography:
Ramunas Greicius
Cast:
Iva Bittova, Ivan Franek, Martha Issova, Miloslav Koenig
Editor:
Adam Dvorak
Producer:
Jan Svěrák
Language:
Czech w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Buty

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They?re the most loving, harmless elderly robbers you will ever meet.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Gábor Rohonyi
Cinematography:
Péter Szatmári
Cast:
Emil Keres, Teri Földi, Judit Schell, Zoltán Schmied, Djoko Rosić, Péter Barbinek, Péter Horkay
Editor:
István Király
Producer:
Mónika Mécs, Ernő Mesterházy
Executive Producer:
Károly Fehér
Language:
Hungarian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Gábor Madarász

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A writer with an audience of one.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
István Dárday, Györgyi Szalai
Cinematography:
Ferenc Pap, Zsolt Tóth
Cast:
Ferenc Bács, Katalin Gyöngyössi, Gábor Welker, Mónika Balsai
Editor:
Gabriella Koncz
Producer:
Jenő Hábermann
Language:
Hungarian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Armando Trovagliolo

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Affluence, recklessness and power blend together in a bizarre and mesmerizing mystery.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
János Vecsernyés
Cinematography:
Tamas Lajos
Cast:
Péter Haumann, Kati Takáts, Máté Haumann, Ernő Fekete, István Iglódi, Imre Csuja, Ágnes Kovalik, Balázs Czukor, Zoltán Rátóti, Tibor Gáspár, Zsolt Kovács, József Tóth
Editor:
Csaba Tóth
Producer:
Péter Baráth
Language:
Hungarian w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Thriller
Music:
Bálint Bolscó

Running time: N/A

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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.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Wang Fen
Cinematography:
Zhang Huajie
Cast:
Wu Gang, Wu Yujuan, Wang Sifei, Wang Hongwei, Tang Wei
Editor:
Zhou Xinxia
Producer:
Yin Xin
Executive Producer:
Miao Kaihe
Language:
Mandarin w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Comedy, Drama
Music:
Xiao He

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Joseph could see what no one else could.

If Woody Allen, David Lynch and M. Night Shyamalan ever had a forbidden love child, it may look something like The End?a wolf in sheep?s clothing that looks and feels like a modern noir, but unleashes surprises which burns in flames any conventional relationship an audience has with fictional cinema.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Jeremy Thomas
Cinematography:
Dan Dumouchel, Colin Sheldon
Cast:
Jeremy Thomas, Ella B. May, Katie Webber, Darren MacDonald
Executive Producer:
Charlie Ross
Language:
English
Genre:
Thriller, Dark Comedy
Music:
Christiaan Venter, Nova Pon

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Listen to the Swiss air and a soundtrack will form.

Season:
2008
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Stefan Schwietert
Cinematography:
Pio Corradi
Editor:
Stephan Krumbiegel, Calle Overweg
Producer:
Cornelia Seitler, Brigitte Hofer
Language:
Swiss and German w/ English subtitles
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Knut Jensen
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