Festivals >> Bradford >> 2009 >> Premieres And Previews

The Adventurers (Kalandorok) (Country: Hungary; Director: Béla Paczolay; Writer: Béla Paczolay, Gergely Péterfy; Cast: Péter Haumann, Péter Rudolf, Milán Schruff, Ágnes Bánfalvy, Béla Barabás, Péter Bergendy, Dezso Csiki, Mari Csomós, Áron Dimény, Zoltán Durkó)
Three generations make a comical trip across the Romanian border.

The Agent (Country: UK; Director: Lesley Manning; Writer: Martin Wagner; Cast: William Beck, Stephen Kennedy, Marueen Lipman)
The story of a writer and his agent. Full Review

Awaydays (Country: UK; Director: Pat Holden; Writer: Kevin Sampson; Cast: Stephen Graham, Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Oliver Lee, Lee Battle, Sean Ward, Michael Ryan, Ian Puleston-Davies, Holly Grainger, Sacha Parkinson, Samantha McCarthy)
Based on Kevin Sampson's book about Tranmere Rovers hooligans in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Full Review Official Site, View Trailer

The Debt (Country: Israel; Director: Assaf Bernstein; Writer: Assaf Bernstein, Ido Rosenblum; Cast: Gila Almagor, Neta Garty, Yehezkel Lazarov, Alexander Peleg, Edgar Selge, Oded Teomi, Itay Tiran)
Drama focussing on a Mossad agent.

Down To The Dirt (Country: Canada; Director: Justin Simms; Writer: Joel Hynes, Justin Simms, Sherry White; Cast: Hugh Dillon, Joel Hynes, Robert Joy, Mary Lewis, Jane Maggs, Paula Morgan, Jody Richardson, Mylene Savoie, Sherry White)
Comical story of one man’s improbable salvation.

Everlasting Moments (Maria Larssons Eviga ögonblick, Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (Country: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany; Director: Jan Troell; Writer: Niklas Rådström, Jan Troell; Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Ghita Nørby, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Amanda Ooms)
Discovering photography provides an abused woman with a new way of experiencing life. Full Review See: Interview with Jan Troell about Everlasting Moments

Genova (Country: UK; Director: Michael Winterbottom; Writer: Laurence Coriat, Michael Winterbottom; Cast: Colin Firth, Catherine Keener, Perla Haney-Jardine, Willa Holland, Hope Davis, Demetri Goritsas)
Following the death of their mother, father Colin Firth relocates to Italy with his two young daughters (Willa Holland and Perla Haney-Jardine) in this deeply moving and resolutely unsentimental portrait of a family trying to rebuild itself in the wake of a tragic accident. Full Review

Good Cats (Hao Mao) (Country: China; Director: Ying Liang; Writer: Ying Liang, Peng Shan; Cast: Luo Liang, Peng Deming)
A young man working for a dubious property developer finds his life and marriage falling apart as China becomes a moral vacuum.

Heart Of Fire (Feuerherz) (Country: Germany, Italy, Austria, France; Director: Luigi Falorni; Writer: Luigi Falorni, Gabriele Kister, Senait Mehari; Cast: Letekidan Micael, Solomie Micael, Seble Tilahun, Daniel Seyoum, Mekdes Wegene, Samuel Semere)
The story of a young girl who is passed to the Eritrean Liberation Front.

Hour Glass (Fövenyóra) (Country: Serbia, Hungary; Director: Szabolcs Tolnai; Writer: Danilo Kis; Cast: Nebojsa Dugalic, Slobodan Custic, Jasna Zalica, David Vojnic, Lars Rudolph, Alisa Terek, János Derzsi, Kati Lázár, Mari Nagy, Ádám Rajhona)
Dreamlike narrative traces the story of a son who is trying to find out about his train inspector father's life.

Il Divo (Country: Italy, France; Director: Paolo Sorrentino; Writer: Paolo Sorrentino; Cast: Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Piera Degli Esposti, Paolo Graziosi, Giulio Bosetti, Flavio Bucci, Carlo Buccirosso, Giorgio Colangeli, Alberto Cracco, Lorenzo Gioielli, Gianfelice Imparato)
The life and times of notorious Italian politician Guilio Andreotti. Full Review Official Site, View Trailer

The Investigator (A Nyomozó) (Country: Hungary, Sweden, Ireland; Director: Attila Galambos; Writer: Attila Galambos; Cast: Zsolt Anger, András Márton Baló, Péter Blaskó, Csaba Czene, Katalin Farkas, Tamás Fodor, Zsuzsa Járó, István Juhász, Ilona Kassai, Éva Kerekes)
Black comedy crime drama, centring on a mortuary assistant.

Is Anybody There? (Country: UK; Director: John Crowley; Writer: Peter Harness; Cast: Michael Caine, Bill Milner, David Morrisey, Anne-Marie Duff, Linzey Cocker, Garrick Hagon, Rosemary Harris, Thelma Barlow)
An elderly magician reluctantly entering a retirement home bonds with an inquisitive young boy and persuades him life is for living. Full Review

Katyn (Country: Poland; Director: Andrzej Wajda; Writer: Andrzej Mularczyk, Przemyslaw Nowakowski, Wladyslaw Pasikowski, Andrzej Wajda; Cast: Artur Zmijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, Andrzej Chyra, Danuta Stenka, Jan Englert, Magdalena Cielecka, Agnieszka Glinska, Pawel Malaszynski, Maja Komorowska, Wladyslaw Kowalski, Oleg Drach)
One of Europe's master filmmakers has finally been able to depict the suffering resulting from one of the darkest episodes of 20th-century history: the 1940 slaughter of Poland's 15,000-man officer corps, which claimed the life of Wajda's father. Academy Award® nominee, Best Foreign Language Film. Full Review Official Site

Let The Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In) (Country: Sweden; Director: Tomas Alfredson; Writer: John Ajvide Lindqvist, based on his novel of the same name.; Cast: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Karin Bergquist, Peter Carlberg, Ika Nord, Mikael Rahm, Karl-Robert Lindgren, Anders T. Peedu, Pale Olofsson)
Based on Lindqvist’s best-selling novel, this beautifully touching tale tells of the first romance for bullied 12-year-old Oskar and the girl next door, Eli... who has an unusual secret. Full Review See: Tribeca Film Festival: Day 10

Mark Of An Angel (L'Empreinte De L'Ange) (Country: France; Director: Safy Nebbou; Writer: Cyril Gomez-Mathieu, Safy Nebbou; Cast: Catherine Frot, Sandrine Bonnaire, Wladimir Yordanoff, Antoine Chappey, Michel Aumont, Michèle Moretti)
A mother caught up in a custody battle becomes obsessed with another woman's child. Full Review

Mime-Mime (Country: Japan; Director: Yukiko Sode; Writer: Yukiko Sode; Cast: Ayaco Niijima Masahisa Yamazoe, Kanji Tsuda)
Story about an eccentric who is the black sheep of her family. Full Review

März (Country: Austria; Director: Klaus Händl; Cast: Benno Eberhard, Florian Eisner, Isolde Ferlesch, Julia Gschnitzer, Siggi Haider, Thomas Hiessl, Alfred Kleinheinz, Josef Kuderna, Ilse Kuen, David Schrottner)
A shopkeeper struggles to cope with her son's suicide.

Naked Of Defenses (Mubobi) (Country: Japan; Director: Ichii Masahide; Cast: Moriya Ayako, Konno Sanae, Nishimoto Ryuki, Nakamura Kuniaki, Kakinuma Naoko, Kumanomido Aya, Asama Yuki, Ichii Hayata)
A woman who suffered a miscarriage finds her world changed by an encounter with a pregnant woman.

Ordinary Boys (Chicos normales) (Country: Spain; Director: Daniel Hernandez; Writer: Daniel Hernández, Gabi Martínez ; Cast: Rabia Bouchfira, El-Khader Aoulasse, Youseff Belefki)
Distinctive and timely study of a trio of young people in the region of Morocco where five of the terrorists responsible for Spain's 11th March 2004 bombings were born and bred.

Religulous (Country: US; Director: Larry Charles; Writer: Bill Maher; Cast: Bill Maher, David Rosen, Kamal Farah, David L Parsons, Shmuel Strauss, Levi Halperin, Aki Nawaz, Jimmy Turkmani, Ferre van Beveren, Fatimah Elatik, Geert Wilders, Reginald Foster, John Westcott, Francis Collins, Dean Hamer, Jeremiah Cummings, George V Coyne, Andrew Newberg, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, Brian Weiss, Ray Suarez, Yisroel Dovid Weiss, Kathy Maher, Julie Maher, Mark Pryor, Joe Copland, Ken Ham, Steve Burg, Ted Bachman, Bill Gardiner)
According to the festival synopsis: "Religulous could be billed as the funniest, most irreverent and provocative documentary you will see in this lifetime, if its pertinence didn't give you the chills." So there. Full Review View Trailer

The Shaft (Dixia de tiankong) (Country: China; Director: Zhang Chi ; Writer: Chi Zhang; Cast: Luo Deyuan, Huang Xuan, Zheng Luoqian, Li Chen, Gong Qiya, Guan Siting, Zhou Xiang)
Tryptich of tales exploring the plight of manaul labourers in China in the face of the economic boom.

Shifty (Country: UK; Director: Eran Creevy; Writer: Eran Creevy; Cast: Riz Ahmed, Daniel Mays, Jason Flemyng, Nitin Caanatra, Francesca Annis, Kate Groombridge, Rory Jennings, Jason Maza, Enoch Frost, Tim Plester, Danielle Brent, Nathaniel Gleed, Simon Paul Sutton, Heronimo Sehmi, Gracie Fitch)
Twenty-four hours in the life of a Muslim crack dealer. Full Review Official Site, View Trailer

Slingshot (Tirador, Sling Shot) (Country: Philippines; Director: Brillante Mendoza; Writer: Ralston Jover; Cast: Coco Martin, Nathan Lopez, Kristoffer King, Jiro Manio, Jacklyn Jose, Jean Andrews, Julio Diaz, Harold Montano, Angela Ruiz)
Close-up and personal view of the slums using hidden cameras and brilliant editing. Full Review

This Beautiful City (Country: Canada; Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly; Writer: Ed Gass-Donnelly; Cast: Aaron Poole, Kristin Booth, Caroline Cave, Noam Jenkins, Stuart Hughes, Kat Germain, Tony Nappo, Jefferson Mappin, Philip Akin, Christopher Cordell)
Lives collide after a woman falls from a balcony.

Three Seasons (3 saisons) (Country: Canada; Director: Jim Donovan; Writer: Jim Donovan, Carinne Leduc; Cast: Caroline Néron, Romano Orzari, Frank Schorpion, Carinne Leduc, Shawn Baichoo, Dan Bigras, Dino Tavarone, Amélie Dallaire, Claudia Ferri, Karim Bourara)
Five destinies collide in not only blood and anguish but also hope and love.

Ting che (Country: Taiwan; Director: Mong-Hong Chung; Writer: Mong-Hong Chung; Cast: Chen Chang, Lunmei Kwai, Leon Dai, Chapman To, Jack Kao, Peggy Tseng, Kai-jung Lin, Mei-Yao Chang, Chin Shih-chieh, Chung Hua Tou)
A night with strangers on the fringes of a city.

The Tour (Turneja) (Country: Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Director: Goran Markovic; Writer: Goran Markovic; Cast: Tihomir Stanic, Jelena Djokic, Dragan Nikolic, Mira Furlan, Josif Tatic, Gordan Kicic, Slavko Stimac, Vojislav Brajovic, Sergej Trifunovic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Svetozar Cvetkovic)
A group of touring actors find themselves caught up in war. Official Site

Traitor (Country: US; Director: Jeffrey Nachmanoff; Writer: Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Steve Martin; Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, Neal McDonough, Alyy Khan, Archie Panjabi, Raad Rawi, Hassam Ghancy, Mozhan Marnò, Adeel Akhtar)
A taut globe-hopping thriller set in the world of counter-espionage. Full Review Official Site, View Trailer

Vogelfrei (Country: Latvia; Director: Janis Kalejs, Janis Putnins, Gatis Smits, Anna Viduleja; Writer: Janis Kalejs, Gatis Smits, Janis Putnins, Anna Viduleja, Jurgis Liepnieks, Kaspars Rolsteins; Cast: Igors Suhoverhovs, Karlis Spravniks, Ints Teterovskis, Liubomiras Lauciavicius, Tatjana Jansone-Nazarova, Girts Krumins, Emilija Leiskalne, Jurgis Liepnieks, Armands Reinfelds, Kaspars Rolsteins, Irena Tjunina)
An experimental directorial quartet taking on the four ages of a single character's life. Full Review

When Life Was Good (Country: Canada; Director: Terry Miles; Writer: Terry Miles; Cast: Rob Carpenter, Kristine Cofsky, Shauna Eve, Ryan Haneman, Brody Harms, Keri Horton, Kristen Hovet, Rob Leickner, Duncan MacLellan, Casey Manderson)
Study of improvisational cinema which effectively intrudes into the lives of young urbanites and their romantic angst in contemporary Canada.

Who Is KK Downey? (Country: Canada; Director: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely; Writer: Darren Curtis, Pat Kiely, Matt Silver; Cast: Darren Curtis, Kristin Adams, Matt Silver, Pat Kiely, Dan Haber, Abdul Ayoola, Dan Beirne, Claire Brosseau, Pilar Cazares, Jared Curtis, John Elliott)
Dark comedy about a loser who offers to pretend he is a trans-gender whore who has written a memoir in order to find fame for he and his friend. Official Site

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