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