2008

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All dreams are black and white.

?Spiders' legs brushing against naked skin. Unexplained noises in the dark. A hypodermic needle getting closer and closer. A dead thing trapped in a bottle of formaldehyde. A growling dog running and on the hunt. A big empty house creaking.?

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A man faints and awakens in another town as an eight-year-old boy.

In this mind-bending drama, six lives are shared through a rare mathematical phenomenon that situates people at specific coordinates, allowing them to continue life in a new body. When this threshold is crossed, an unusual mutation occurs, and as one of these characters experiences a remarkable transformation, their bizarre out-of-body experience forms an entirely new network of experiences and memories.

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Retirement can be a whole lot more fun than you think.

Director Jan Sverak astounded audiences with the Academy Award®-winning Kolya. With Empties, Sverak and his father Zdenek Sverak, writer-actor and collaborator, craft a bittersweet comedy about the antics of Josef, a cantankerous old horndog who retires from his life as a literature professor?primarily because he no longer understands his pupils.

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A writer with an audience of one.

Writer and journalist Sandor Marai was an iconoclast and revolutionary no longer welcome in his homeland of Hungary. Widely scorned in Hungary, Marai sought refuge in San Diego, California where he embarked on an arduous journey of three-pronged love: for his wife, the country that had spurned him and the vehicle for his quest, his lively and poignant prose...

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

Adapted from Nobel laureate writer Imre Kertesz's story "Fateless," Miscalculation takes place in an unnamed country where a secret police force maintains order?or this is what people have been led to believe. A supermarket tycoon, Hoffman, begins to ponder the disappearance of his friends while watching his son fall further into a pit of depression...

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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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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 guest house 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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?Is it normal for a child to levitate??

Quirky five-year-old Sara dreamily wanders through her life gazing at the stars, but when she realizes she has the ability to literally fly, those stars might not be so far out of reach. Her gift is discovered by a battery of bumbling doctors who are bent on making Sara their ticket to a Nobel Prize, but Sara?s gift supersedes the realm of science...

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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.

The titular character, a rickshaw driver in Delhi, India, goes through life with hardworking, stubborn decency. His penniless openness seems to be the polar opposite of the G.K. Jayaram, a rich old singer with reservoirs of crankiness. When their paths cross, however, the old man, who has embarked on one final trip before dying, is moved by Amal?s selflessness and decides to make him his heir...