2009

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The morgue; where the living and the dead connect.

Season:
2009
Director:
Victor Arregui
Cinematography:
Daniel Andrade
Cast:
Manuel Calisto Sanchez, Ramiro Logrono, Randi Krarup, José Alvear
Editor:
Alex Zito
Producer:
Paul Venegas
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Felipe Terán

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Giving a whole new meaning to the phrase "love is dead," director Ellie Kanner's (crazylove, Face to Face) third feature is a superbly crafted dark romantic comedy that reveals the future of the dating scene is not in bars, clubs or via the Internet?but at funerals.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Ellie Kanner
Cinematography:
Gavin Kelly
Cast:
Bijou Phillips, Ian Somerhalder, Jane Seymour, Danny Masterson, Marguerite Moreau, Sprague Grayden, David Zayas, Kevin Alejandro, Ian Gomez, Meagen Fay, James Eckhouse
Editor:
Naveen Singh
Producer:
Hal Schwartz, Bill Shraga, Lennox Wiseley
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Brad Segal

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If she?s not careful, she could become Stupid Woman two million and one.

On her 21st birthday, Melissa?s ready to party down with her true-love boyfriend, JT. But when she catches her beau in flagrante delicto, her plans come crashing down around her high heels in a heap. But lest the evening be a total loss, she decides to venture out into the endless L.A. night, determined to rid herself of bad hook-up karma forever by contacting all of her past boyfriends and wiping the slate clean.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Jamie Neese
Cinematography:
Jay Holben, Jay Crothers
Cast:
Sarah Lindsay Hall, Katy Stoll, Mark R. Gerson
Editor:
Meredith Young
Producer:
Jason Robinson, Jay Holben
Executive Producer:
Jamie Neese, Steven Bordelon
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy

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In a surreal, futuristic comedy that defies all expectations, a truffle hunter overcomes a bizarre diabolical plot.

In a Montreal neighborhood, truffles have mysteriously appeared underground for years. Charles, a truffle hunter with an exceptional sense of smell, supplies the Snack Shop he runs with Alice with an abundance of truffles for their customers to revel in and devour. As Charles? olfactory skills become legendary, he entertains an offer from a rather strange fur company which leads him on a path that even his well trained nose can?t sniff out.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Kim Nguyen
Cinematography:
Nicolas Bolduc
Cast:
Celine Bonnier, Roy Dupuis, Pierre Lebeau, Danielle Proulx, Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Michele Richard, Claude Lemieux, Jean Lapointe
Editor:
Richard Comeau
Producer:
Kim Nguyen, Michel Martin, Renee Gosselin
Executive Producer:
Luce Roy
Language:
French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Julien Knafo, DJ Champion

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?If you think you understand what?s going on ? you haven?t been paying attention!?

Season:
2009
Director:
Goran Marković
Cinematography:
Radoslav Vladić
Cast:
Tihomir Stanic, Jelena Djokic, Dragan Nikolic, Mira Furlan, Josif Tatic, Gordan Kicic, Slavko Stimac, Vojislav Brajovic
Editor:
Sne?ana Ivanović
Producer:
Svetozar Cvetković, Tihomir Stanić
Language:
Serbian, Bosnian, Croatian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
Zoran Simjanović

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Winner - Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, Cannes Film Festival 2008

Every family has its secrets.

Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa?s latest tale is an ironic, quietly offbeat take on a family in massive self-denial; a portrait of a seemingly ordinary Japanese family. All is normal and the same?or so it seems.

Bent, but not yet broken, the Sasaki family shows how the pride of men can bring a family to its knees, and how, sometimes, it takes the dreams of children to lift it back up again.

Season:
2009
Director:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Cinematography:
Akiko Ashizawa; Editor: Koichi Takahashi
Cast:
Teruyuki Kagawa, Kyoko Koizumi, Haruka Igawa, Yu Koyanagi, Kai Inowaki, Kanji Tsuda, Koji Yakusho
Producer:
Yukie Kito, Wouter Barendrecht
Executive Producer:
Yasushi Kotani, Michael J. Werner
Language:
Japanese (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Kazumasa Hashimoto

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Two couples, one Russian and one Kazakh, live side by side in relative harmony amidst a beautiful yet semi-desolate region of the Great Steppe. But when the fair-skinned Russians give birth to a boy of decidedly darker skin, fifteen years of suspicion and acrimony arises between them, which can only be resolved by an ironic twist of family and fate.

Season:
2009
Director:
Marat Surulu
Cinematography:
Giorgi Beridze
Cast:
Ivan Vladimir Yavorsky, Asan Dzhaidarbek Kunguzhinov, Maria Irina Agejkina, Aisha Ajzhan Ajtenova
Editor:
Karl Riedl
Producer:
Sain Gabdullin, Karsten Stöter, Benny Dreschsel, Yuri Obukhov, Guillaume De Seille
Language:
Russian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Andrey Sigle

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A supernatural thriller sure to grip even the biggest disbeliever.

Bryan (Tim Daly, Private Practice), an emphatic doubter of everything, finds his own rationality challenged by the events that beset him in an old family manor inherited from his death-stricken aunt. When rationalization fails to explain the perplexing incidents that lurk around every corner in his new home, where will he turn? Left unnervingly poised between arrested wits and command of his faculties, Bryan must turn to the unknown to decrypt these haunting disturbances.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Tennyson Bardwell
Cinematography:
Claudio Rocha
Cast:
Tim Daly, Tom Arnold, Zoe Saldana, Andrea Roth, Edward Herrmann, Robert Prosky, Bruce Altman
Editor:
Ann Marie Lizzi
Producer:
Mary-Beth Taylor, Tennyson Bardwell, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof
Executive Producer:
Paul Bardwell, Dave Silipigno
Language:
English
Genre:
Suspense
Music:
Brett Rosenberg

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This is, ?Sushi Western!?

He has waited eight years for his revenge. His family brutally murdered by Nathan Flesher and his sight taken in a desperate effort to save his wife and daughter, he trained as a samurai swordsman in order to exact his vengeance. Now known only as The Blind Wolf, he returns to face his foe. However, there is a surprise waiting for him: seven assassins await him, eager for the bounty placed on his head by the Flesher.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Kurando Mitsutake
Cinematography:
Keiko Nakahara
Cast:
Kurando Mitsutake, Jeffrey James Lippold, Domiziano Arcangeli, Amanda Plummer
Editor:
John Migdal
Producer:
Kurando Mitsutake, Chiaki Yanagimoto
Language:
English, Japanese (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Action
Music:
Dean Harada

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Winner ? Audience Award, Sydney Film Festival

?The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.? -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Season:
2009
Director:
Matt Norman
Cinematography:
Martin Smith
Cast:
Peter Norman, Tommie Smith, John Carlos
Editor:
Jane Moran, John Leonard
Producer:
Matt Norman, David Redman
Executive Producer:
Thomas Augsberger, Shana Levine, Dean Murphy
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
David Hirschfelder
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