United States Premiere

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Certainly one of the most fascinating films in this year?s festival, Yang Chao?s evocative Passages is a masterpiece of modern cinema?a brilliant mosaic of life in China; filled with haunting landscapes and beautiful cinematography.

Si Xu and his girlfriend, both 18, live and study in a provincial town where their future looks fairly bleak. Unsurprisingly, they aren't particularly interested in finishing school and would rather earn money to head to the big city.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Yang Chao
Cast:
Geng Le, Chang Jieping, Gao Hu, Maizi
Editor:
Xue Fangmin
Producer:
Yang Haijun
Language:
Mandarin
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
An Wei

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Romance isn't dead, it's just a bit sick.

John Davies is a successful TV sitcom writer. But his whole life is a joke. He has multiple compulsive disorders, which keep him from flying or driving, have him checking his door three times to make sure it?s locked and even have him chatting with his fingers.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Jayson Rothwell
Cinematography:
Paul Lilley
Cast:
Ed Byrne, Cressida Whyte, Georgina Chapman, Ralf Little, Andy Nyman, Orlando Wells
Editor:
Mark Wharton
Producer:
Jayson Rothwell, Tony Ford
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Francis Macdonald

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Coming from a land of bards and minstrels, Tales of Intransigence is a celebration of the timeless art of storytelling.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Reis Çelik
Cinematography:
Reis Çelik
Cast:
Tunçel Kurtiz
Editor:
Ogün Aydonat, Ekrem Çelik
Producer:
Reis Çelik, Adil Kaya, Politic RH Filmverleih, Interforum
Language:
Turkish
Genre:
Unassigned

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Blanca can?t wait to marry Victor. She is in love. But today, just an hour before the wedding, Blanca receives an unexpected visitor, and her whole world changes.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Matias Bize
Cinematography:
Gabriel Díaz
Cast:
Blanca Lewin, Antonia Zegers, Diego Muñoz, Víctor Montero, Sebastián Layseca, Loreto Leonvendagar, Macarena Teke, Gabriel Díaz
Editor:
Matías Bize
Producer:
Gabriel Díaz, Matías Bize
Language:
Spanish
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
CHC / Bitman & Roban

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The first independent film produced in Belarus, as well as the first feature film from director Andrej Kudinyenko, Mysterium Occupation is easily the most interesting and important film dealing with World War II to emerge from that country since Elim Klimov?s Run Come See (1968).

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Andrej Anatolewitsch Kudinjenko
Cinematography:
Pawel Subrizkij
Cast:
Alexandr Kolbyschew, Anatolij Kot, Alexandr Molschanow
Producer:
Alexandr Debaljuk, Andrej Kudinjenko, Sergej Artimowitsch
Genre:
Unassigned

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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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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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A noir-ish game of deceit and revenge, Dark Arc is a highly intriguing tale that plays upon the idea of images and memories. It is the bizarre story of a love triangle between a graphic designer, an artist and their inspiring muse.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Dan Zukovic
Cinematography:
Geoff Denham, David M. Mullen
Cast:
Sarah Strange, Dan Zukovic, Kurt Max Runte
Editor:
Patrick Carroll
Producer:
Brendan Keown, Jeremy Dyson, David Barnett, Mitch Mayer
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Neil Burnett
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