2008
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Affluence, recklessness and power blend together in a bizarre and mesmerizing mystery.
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Is your name safe?
Luís Galvão Teles, whose film Elles won the Audience Favorite Choice Award in 1999 and also joined the festival in 2005 with Fado Blues, returns with Dot.Com, a wondrous tale wherein the cold hand of big business casts its ugly shadow upon a poor, unsuspecting village.
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US Premiere
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.
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Like its club-hopping heroine, Breaking the Surface tears across the screen.
Having just landed a gig with a trendy magazine, young photographer Nadja celebrates at the local disco, where she bumps into Darius, a 20-year-old skateboarder. Although her frankness at first scares him, the two quickly become a couple, and as their intoxicating affair takes off, they seem like passionate soul mates. Soon, however, career demands and emotional intensity gradually put a strain on their rapport, and things turn even more complicated when Nadja discovers she?s pregnant.
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Graceful and incisive, Amal cuts a unique path between sentiment and suspense.
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In a city without words, the one with ?The Voice? holds the key.
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Sex and the City meets reality.
Unfortunately, old school views of love and marriage being the most important event in a woman?s life still exist today. Meet Taylor, who is thirty-five, single, never been married and has no future prospects. Watch as Taylor and her desperate friends fish through the dating pool of Los Angeles but end up catching fetishists, phone sex operators, and self-help gurus instead of their soul mates.