2009

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Three devious schemes; three badly executed heists; and a pawnshop with one surprising treasure.

Making up director Julian M. Kheel?s hilarious debut feature are spot-on comedic performance from such talents as Danny Masterson (That 70s Show), Blanchard Ryan (Open Water), Leon (Get Rich or Die Tryin?) and Dominique Swain (Lolita).

Season:
2009
Director:
Julian Mark Kheel
Cast:
Danny Masterson, Leon, Aysan Celik, Dominique Swain, Blanchard Ryan, Phyllis Somerville
Editor:
Gregg London
Producer:
Michael Cecchi, Brett Halsey, Dave Steck, Danny Masterson
Executive Producer:
Michael Meyer, Aly Mawji
Language:
English
Genre:
Comedy
Music:
David Poe

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"Canary is to biotech what Primer is to time travel. It's a cerebral, tantalizing fantasy?[The director's] talent shows through this film in every aspect." -- Richard von Busack, Silicon Valley Metro

Director Alejandro Adams (Around the Bay, Cinequest 2008) once again creates one of the most uniquely visionary films of the year?an intellectually daring dystopian thriller set in a not-so-alternate universe in which organ harvesting is commonplace.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Alejandro Adams
Cast:
Carla Pauli, Larissa Kasian, Eli Kramer, Chloe Latch, Jennifer Latch, Marya Murphy, Arseniy Arkhipov
Editor:
Alejandro Adams
Producer:
Amanda Davis
Executive Producer:
Alejandro Adams, Marya Murphy
Language:
English, Russian, German, Vietnamese (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Sci-Fi

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Footsteps echo side-by-side, faster and faster, as the children?s laughter rings through the mountains and down the sandy road.

Saslaya undergoes hard conditions with a small smile and a skip in her step as she and her brother, Dario, boldly walk the path less taken into the heart of a big city to search for their mother. A glimmer of hope appears when she meets an eccentric puppeteer, accompanied by an exquisitely soft-spoken woman who may finally fulfill Saslaya?s dreams of a compassionate mother.

Season:
2009
Director:
Ishtar Yasin
Cast:
Sherlin Paola Velasquez, Marcos Ulises Jimenez, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Juan Borda
Editor:
Valérie Loiseleux
Producer:
Producciones Astarte, Gadeon Programmes Francia
Executive Producer:
Adrián Cruz
Language:
Spanish (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama

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Writing is a revelation act.

Winner of Best Film and Best Actress (Leandra Leal from The Man Who Copied, Cinequest 2004) at the Gramado Film Festival, director Murillo Salles? Camila JAM is an arresting and provocative look at identity, redemption, and obsession.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Murilo Salles
Cast:
Leandra Leal, Juliano Cazarré, Rosane Mulholland, Alex Disdier, Milhem Cortaz, David Cejkinski, Luciana Brites, Munir Kanaan
Editor:
Vânia Debs
Producer:
Suzana Villas Boas, Lionel Combecau
Executive Producer:
Flávio Frederico
Language:
Portuguese (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Sacha Amback

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The riveting Frank Langella (Frost/Nixon, Good Night, and Good Luck) and the incomparable Elliott Gould (Ocean?s Eleven, M.A.S.H.) lead the cast in Richard Ledes? absorbing noir thriller.

Season:
2009
Director:
Richard Ledes
Cast:
Frank Langella, Elliott Gould, Laura Harring
Editor:
Madeleine Gavin
Producer:
Linda Moran, René Bastian, Richard Ledes
Language:
English
Genre:
Film Noir
Music:
Robert Miller

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A romance a decade in the making.

Can love at first sight happen ten years down the road? Nick and Kate decide to take their longtime friendship to the next level. Starting in Las Vegas, they reveal their feelings for each other over the course of a journey across the Northwest. Tentative at first, their love grows stronger and more serious as they make their way through such monuments as the Grand Canyon and Mount Rushmore. But is their bond strong enough to withstand the often startling personal revelations along the way?

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Oliver Cukor
Cast:
Sarah Louise Lilley, Sean Matic, Roland Dixon, Starlita Deuereaux, Rose Raab, Lawence E. Raab, Vicki Skow, Alistair Baker, Rhonda M. Baker
Editor:
Oliver Cukor, Scott Brock
Producer:
Oliver Cukor, Lidija Cukor, Nina Cukor
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Robi Banerji, David Macus, Rob Taylor

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All this time and nowhere to put it.

In the living room of a suburban home, Liam Lombard lays dying. His family watches ? helpless. No warning. No signs. No time for goodbyes. Three years later the world of the four people who loved him most are inadvertently changed forever.

Season:
2009
Director:
Christopher Weekes
Cast:
Noni Hazlehurst, Steve Rodgers, Leeanna Walsman, Christopher Weekes, Matthew Newton, Rhys Muldoon, Gary Sweet
Editor:
Simon Wright
Producer:
Bridget Callow
Executive Producer:
Michael Favelle
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Brian Cachia

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The classic, I hate your guts, no wait, I like you, my brother is deaf, let?s ride a couch down the street, love story.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
World Premiere
Director:
Rhett Lewis, Burke Lewis
Cast:
Candyce Foster, Rhett Lewis, Zachary Christian, Tappan Wybrow, Jeni Thompson, Eliza Couch, Barry Parslow
Editor:
Burke Lewis
Producer:
Brent Burnett, Ben Spackman
Language:
English
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Paleo

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Obsession consumes two men dead-set on winning the high-stake bet of a lifetime.

Viktor, a wealthy, arrogant oligarch, agrees to pay young Maxim, his cocky employee, $15 million if the young man can endure fifteen years of imprisonment in confined, guarded quarters. If Maxim fails to complete his detention, he will be indebted to work without pay for the rest of his life.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
United States Premiere
Director:
Natalia Bronstein
Cast:
Viktor Verzhbitsky, Vladimir Zherebtsov, Marina Mogilevskaya, Sergey Chonishvilli, Anatoly Belyi, Olesya Zheleznyak, Evgenia Loza, Daria Poverennova
Editor:
Roman Kanatnikov, Tatiana Belousova
Producer:
Natalia Bronstein
Executive Producer:
Irina Mitrofanova
Language:
Russian (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Peter Klimov

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Brazen fantasy, transformation of the soul, the consequences of sinful pleasures are thrown overboard in a bold sexual frenzy.

All aboard the Kriemhild--a floating sin city where the booze is cheaper than anywhere else. The beauty and cruelty of humanity becomes unabashedly on display through the wonders of sexual prowess and intensity. Every morning riding down the beautiful Blue Danube, the brilliant eyes sparkle and the eerily complacent smiles dazzle the passengers to be, as the captain and his crew put on their radiant masks.

Season:
2009
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Darko Bajic
Cast:
Miki Manojlovic, Tim Seyfi, Branislav Lecic, Ana Franic, Ursula Gottwald, Michael Picirilli, Dragan Nikolic, Bojana Maljevic, Ivan Bosiljcic
Editor:
Filip Dedic
Producer:
Darko Bajic
Executive Producer:
Aleksandar Obradovic
Language:
Serbo-Croatian, German, English (w/ English subtitles)
Genre:
Drama
Music:
Boris Kovac
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