2005

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Matti is a family man, content to prove his manhood by changing diapers and cooking. But his wife is bored not only with their humdrum existence, but also with Matti?s macaroni casserole. An angry exchange, resulting in a slap, is the only excuse Matti?s wife needs to take their daughter and leave.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Veikko Aaltonen
Cinematography:
Pekka Uotila
Cast:
Eero Aho, Tiina Lymi, Ella Aho, Kari Väänänen, Kaija Pakarinen
Editor:
Kimmo Kohtamäki
Producer:
Lasse Saarinen
Language:
Finnish
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Mauri Sumen

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Deshan is an old farmer living at the outskirts of a remote village. He shares a hard, but serene, destiny with his fellow villagers until the government intervenes in his life in the form of two rare foreign sheep sent to improve the old farmer's life and the village's poor economy.

Season:
2005
Director:
Liu Hao
Cinematography:
Li Bingqiang
Cast:
Sun Yunkun
Editor:
Qiao Jinglin, Liu Hao
Producer:
LOLA, Wang Xinping
Language:
Mandarin
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Xu Zhitong

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There is no bottom David discovers, as his already fragile world crumbles beneath him. Enduring life with his terminally ill father, mentally retarded brother and estranged mother, David's only escape is the gym where he works and acts as peacekeeper, taking the fall for every misstep of the gym owner's son, a small-time dealer.

Season:
2005
Director:
Aksel Hennie
Cinematography:
Jon Andreas Andersen
Cast:
Aksel Hennie, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Bjorn Floberg, Espen Juul Kristiansen, Martin Skaug
Editor:
Vidar Flataukan
Producer:
Jorgen Storm Rosenberg
Language:
Norwegian
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Ulver, Tom Mcrae

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Fans of high-octane action will not want to miss Vares ? Private Eye, a stylish adventure film and the first movie adaptation of the popular Finnish books by Reijo Maki, whose trademark qualities (great characters, edgy humor, brutality tempered with humor) make it to the screen with dazzling bravura.

Season:
2005
Director:
Aleksi Mäkelä
Cinematography:
Pini Hellstedt
Cast:
Juha Veijonen, Laura Malmivaara, Jari Halonen, Markku Peltola, Jorma Tommila, Minna Turunen
Editor:
Kimmo Taavila
Producer:
Markus Selin
Executive Producer:
Jukka Helle
Language:
Finnish
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Kalle Chydenius

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Jorgen is burdened by his father, Valentin, an old man who neither talks nor moves and is leading something hard to be called a life at his villa. The nurses come and go as Valentin sits in his chair, never moving, never reacting.

Anna is a 24-year-old unemployed actress who, to get a paycheck, participates in a ridiculous commercial, where she meets Jørgen, who offers her a room at his father?s villa to look after Valentin. She takes the job and turns out to be the only person able to deal with this old, miserable man.

Season:
2005
Director:
Erik Clausen
Cinematography:
Rasmus Videbæk
Cast:
Sonja Richter, Frits Heltmuth, Erik Clausen, Søren Westerberg Bendtsen, Sidse Babett Knudsen
Editor:
Kasper Leick
Producer:
Peter Ingemann
Language:
Danish
Genre:
Unassigned

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Winner ? Grand Prix, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Female, Best Editing from the Gdynia Polish Film Festival

It?s winter and five complete strangers have found their way to Warsaw. Despite its crippling temperature, Warsaw bustles with close to two million people, but today only the lives of these five people matter. Each is looking for something different but will find more than each bargained for before the day is finished.

Season:
2005
Director:
Dariusz Gajewski
Cinematography:
Wojciech Szepel
Cast:
Agnieszka Grochowska, Lukasz Garlicki, Dominika Ostalowska, Lech Mackiewicz, Slawomir Orzechowski
Editor:
Jaroslaw Barzan
Producer:
Andrzej Serdiukow, Janusz Kijowski
Language:
Polish
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
M. Litwiniec, P. Czepulkowski, J. Fedorowicz

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Born HIV positive, Bert is a 13-year-old, raised since he was weeks old by his foster parents. But now that it has been determined that he is HIV negative, the State of Florida wants to take him away from the only parents he has ever known. Why? Because his foster parents are Roger and Steven, two gay dads, and the State feels that Bert is now eligible to be adopted by a ?normal? couple.

Season:
2005
Director:
Michel Horvat
Cinematography:
Michel Horvat
Editor:
Michel Horvat
Producer:
Michel Horvat
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Eli Depres and Kim Roberts? Wilderness Survival for Girls is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the rich and intoxicating inner lives of teenage girls when three best friends spend one last weekend together before they go their separate ways.

Ruth, Deborah and Kate arrive at an idyllic and remote cabin high in the Rockies and settle in for an evening of beer, pot and fun. As events unfold, the girls start to reveal their deepest secrets, and the good time becomes a little more intense than anticipated.

Season:
2005
Director:
Eli Despres, Kim Roberts
Cinematography:
Robin Melhuish
Cast:
Jeanette Brox, Megan Henning, Ali Humiston, James Morrison
Editor:
Eli Despres, Kim Roberts
Producer:
Eli Despres, Kim Roberts
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned
Music:
Hector H. Perez, B. Quincy Griffin

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To some, music has the power to change. Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck?s inspiring and probing Young Rebels takes up the dictum to examine how hip-hop, like any other art, can become a form of commitment and conscience in even the most oppressive of environments.

Season:
2005
Premiere status:
WORLD PREMIERE
Director:
Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck
Cinematography:
Alfonso Pollard
Cast:
Adrianci Gonzalez, Alexander Guerra Hoez, Alexis Rodriguez
Editor:
Anna Boden
Producer:
Anna Boden
Language:
English, Spanish
Genre:
Unassigned

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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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