2009

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Winner ? Prize of Hope, Cannes Film Festival

There is a hell, a hell on earth, and it?s a place once known as paradise.

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He bent the bars with music and let their souls fly free.

A guitar strung with sin and unsavory tales sings out yarns of hopeful remorse. This is an account of Cash?s long time advocacy of prison reform. At Folsom Prison was the first record ever recorded in a prison, when Johnny Cash, guitar in hand, induced the men of Folsom prison to transcend the walls that set asunder society from those inside.

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Veering from dark humor to whimsical surrealism, from laconic portrait to wild whodunit.

The Investigator is brimming with surprises and invention. Tibor, a great hulking lump of stolidity, is a human rock working in the morgue. The ultimate loner, completely satisfied with his lot, he is also a total pragmatist. When extra money is needed, he finds a way. "I had to do it. I did it." What starts off as a dourly surreal black comedy suddenly becomes a detective story with every convention turned on its head and perhaps, the most unlikely investigator ever.

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What do you do when you?re hit by a ?quarter-life crisis?? Turn your life into a hip version of The Odd Couple.

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Hugo and Julia are two high school students with separate dreams and goals, yet each share a passion for the futbol team, Pumas of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For as long as he can remember, Hugo has dreamed of playing for the Pumas?a dream that often causes him to neglect his relationship with Julia, his studies, and above all the values upon which he was raised (which has profound effects on his relationship with his father).

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Home may be where the heart is, but when the heart?s been shattered, there?s no safe place to go.

The always engrossing Marcia Gay Harden (Miller?s Crossing, (Pollack, Mystic River) stars as poet and mother Inga. For Inga, life is a wobbly structure, built upon a tangled mess of love and hope, anger and despair. The one thing that matters is Indigo her young daughter, with whom she gazes up at the clouds and discovers wondrous creatures in the vaporous forms that sail away with the wind.

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From its premiere at the Buenos Aires Festival of Independent Cinema, where it won both Best Director and the Audience Award, thence to numerous festivals in Europe, and now at Cinequest ? Historias Extraordinarias has been astounding sold-out audiences wherever it goes.

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Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ: a place well known for its violent streets. What once was one of the top schools in the U.S. is now home to gangs. As principal, Stone is ready for change and ready for change to bring back Weequahic to its glory. Don't let the scar across his cheek fool you, this principal is a mentor of the truest kind to students who need him most. Students at Weequahic cry out for something to keep them off the streets - making this the toughest, most rewarding job Stone ever faced. Failure was never an option.

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Hip-hop and senior citizens aren't words usually associated together, but in director Dori Berinstein's exuberant and affectionate documentary, they form a combination sure to change your preconceptions about age. When the New Jersey Nets hold auditions for members of a new dance team called "The Metsationals," thirteen hopefuls, ranging in age from 60 to 82, come to put on a show.

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The Solntsevis are like no other family you?ve met.

Meet the extravagant Solntsevi family: Masha, Leopold, and Albert. Living in the middle of nowhere on the shore of a sea, escaping the bedlam they?ve created. The Solntsevis want change, and according to the old tradition, new happiness and a better life lie in Moscow. But the trip to the capital is not as easy as it seems and this family has a habit of finding themselves in incredible situations?usually resulting in unpredictable and comic ways.