2009

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Rock crushes scissors. Paper covers rock. Scissors cuts paper. Can purity beat commerce?

The Walker brothers wanted to turn a child?s game into a good-natured competitive sport, but when the RPS fanatics converge on the world championships, they?re caught between big business, talk show pundits, Playmate mascots, and a battle of good versus evil.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Mike McKeown
Cinematography:
Chris Malby, Pat KcKinnon
Cast:
Douglas Walker, Graham Walker, Master Roshambollah, C. Urbanus
Editor:
Evan Finn, Julian Cautherley, Mike McKeown
Producer:
Julian Cautherley, Michael Lane, Mike McKeown, Pat McKinnon
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Dan Raziel

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Renaldo Kuhler is a charming, funny and utterly captivating man?who just so
happens to have created his own country.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Brett Ingram
Cinematography:
Brett Ingram
Cast:
Renaldo Kuhler
Editor:
Brett Ingram
Producer:
Brett Ingram
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Shark Quest (Sara Bell, Laird Dixon, Chris Eubank, Chuck Johnson, Groves Willer)

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Ten-year-old Josh is on the wrestling team but would much rather be a cheerleader.

Josh loves dolls, fashion and desperately wants to cheer. As he continually argues his case with his school?s strict Mother Superior, his mother, Andrea, searches for her own answers on how to convince Josh that aspiring to be on the cheerleading squad, relishing the art of the French braid and calling Maria von Trapp his most influential role model is just not what little boys do!

Season:
2009
Director:
James Vasquez
Cinematography:
Elizabeth Santoro
Cast:
Lurie Poston, Carrie Preston, John G. Preston, Michael Emerson, Kali Rocha, Tara Karsian
Editor:
Piedmont Jones
Producer:
Sebastian Jobin
Executive Producer:
Mark Holmes, Carrie Preston
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy

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?In jail there are no castes. Everyone is equal.?

As two nations? uneasy armies face each other across the Indian-Pakistani border, Ramchand, an 8-year old Hindu Pakistani village boy of the Untouchable caste, followed soon by his worried father, wanders across the nearby border into India, setting off a chain of events that will test the love and endurance of a family, but proves that even in the most unlikely places understanding and affection can be found.

Season:
2009
Director:
Mehreen Jabbar
Cinematography:
Sofian Khan
Cast:
Nandita Das, Rashid Farooqui, Syed Fazal Hussain, Maria Wasti, Noman Ijaz
Editor:
Aseem Sinha, Mehreen Jabbar
Producer:
Javed Jabbar
Language:
Urdu, Hindi (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Debajyoti Mishra

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Just because you?re a member of the AARP doesn?t mean you have to stop fighting.

In the tune of nursery rhymes and musicals, veteran director Pam Walton (Liberty: 3 Stories About Life and Death, Call to Witness) presents Raging Grannies, a group who uses quirky street theater to protest causes dear to them. From women?s rights to anti-military recruiting, the antics of these grannies will surely pique your curiosity.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Pam Walton
Cinematography:
Wah Ho Chan
Editor:
Pam Walton
Producer:
Pam Walton
Language:
English
Genre:
Documentary
Music:
Neil Panton

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For these officers, facing their feelings is more dangerous than dodging bullets.

Jamil is a young French-Algerian rookie whose hotheaded approach to criminals makes him the odd man out at the Parisian police department, where he?s been assigned to. Emilie is his superior, a forty-something narcotics captain with the death of one of her men on her conscience. Brought together over shootouts, drug busts, and stakeouts, the two struggle to infiltrate a complex underworld connection but keep getting sidetracked by Jamil?s family, not to mention their growing desire for each other.

Season:
2009
Director:
Stéphanie Duvivier
Cinematography:
Denis Rouden
Cast:
Marie-Laure Descoureaux, Abdelhafid Métalsi, Théo Trifard, Olivier Marchal, Hiam Abbass
Editor:
Saskia Berthod
Producer:
MAT FILMS
Language:
French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Piere Aviat

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Even when life is difficult, you will always find someone.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Nan Achnas
Cinematography:
Yadi Sugandi
Cast:
Johan Lim Kay Tong, Sita Shanty, Surosos Lukman Sardi, Rosi Indy Barends
Editor:
Sastha Sunu
Producer:
Nan Achnas, Shanty Harmayn, Paquita Widjaja?Afief, Natacha Devillers
Language:
Indonesian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Aksan Handayani, Titi Sjuman

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In China's X'ian province, the earth is hard; the landscape, bare: factories, mountains, rocks, rivers and snow.

Season:
2009
Director:
Diao Yi Nan
Cinematography:
Dong Jinsong
Cast:
Xu Wei, Wu Yuxi, Wang Zhenjja, Meng Haiyan
Editor:
Kong Jinlei
Producer:
Vivian Qu, Steve Chow, Pascal Vaguelsy, Luca Matrundola, Julien Favre
Executive Producer:
Shu Yao, Yinghua Lu, Sean Chen
Language:
Mandarin and Shaanxi Dialect (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Wen Zi

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A gritty depiction of survival alongside a tumultuously changing city.

After having just moved to Brooklyn from South America, Marta (Blanca Lewin) quickly becomes exploited by both the city and her roommate?s brother, Eddie. Otherwise alone, she waits anxiously for her Chilean boyfriend, Alvaro, to arrive in the city, alleviate her homesickness, and piece her world back together.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Christopher Cannucciari
Cinematography:
Mark Karinja
Cast:
Blanca Lewin, Matt Cavenaugh, Frank Harts, Shelley Thomas, Pablo Cerda
Editor:
Brian Savelson
Producer:
Christopher Cannucciari, Dan Cope, Mary Ladd Cope, Alex Cope, Jennifer Dixon Howard
Executive Producer:
Andrew Lund
Language:
English and Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Kyle Bobby Dunn

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What?s most important in your life?

Recipient of the Audience Award, Special Grand Prize of the Jury and Public Prize for the Best Canadian Film at the 2008 Montreal World Film Festival, The Necessities of Life tells the moving story of Tivii, an Inuit hunter diagnosed with a lung condition, uprooted from the warmth and familiarity of his family and confined to a sanitarium in a strange, foreign civilization. Stripped of his ability to communicate and disoriented by isolation, his will to live is slowly weakened.

Season:
2009
Director:
Benoit Pilon
Cinematography:
Michel La Veaux
Cast:
Natar Ungalaaq, Eveline Gelinas, Paul-Andre Brasseur, Vincent-Guillaume Otis, Antoine Bertrand, Denis Bernard, Louise Marleau, Guy Thauvette, Luc Proulx
Editor:
Richard Corneau
Producer:
Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier
Executive Producer:
René Chénier
Language:
French (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Robert Marcel Lepage
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