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Act Of Dishonour (Country: Canada; Director: Nelofar Pazira; Cast: Marina Golbahari, Abdul Ghafar Quotbyar, Masood Serwary, Nelofer Pazira)
The arrival of a film crew sparks conflict in a village in Afghanistan.

Alamar (To The Sea) (Country: Mexico; Director: Pedro González-Rubio; Writer: Pedro González-Rubio; Cast: Jorge Machado, Natan Machado Palombini, Nestór Marín, Roberta Palombini)
Fathers and sons, and fishing. Full Review

Au Revoir Taipei (Country: US, Taiwan; Director: Arvin Chen; Writer: Arvin Chen; Cast: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Amber Kuo, Ko Yu-Luen, Jack Yao)
Lightweight and funny crime caper about a desperate man trying to score an air fare. Full Review

Boy (Country: New Zealand; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Taika Waititi; Cast: Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone)
When his father returns home after many years away, 11-year-old Boy and his little brother Rocky must reconcile reality with the fantasy dad they created in their imagination. Full Review

C'est déjà l'été (Country: Netherlands/Belgium; Director: Martijn Maria Smits; Writer: Bastiaan Kroeger, Martijn Maria Smits; Cast: Patrick Descamps, Benjamin Willem, Julie Anson)
Life without hope in a polluted Belgian town. Full Review

Crab Trap (El vuelco del cangrejo) (Country: Colombia, France; Director: Oscar Ruiz Navia; Cast: Arnobio Salazar Rivas, Rodrigo Vélez)
A newcomer explores a troubled paradise Full Review

Donkeys (Rounding Up Donkeys) (Country: UK, Denmark; Director: Morag McKinnon; Writer: Colin McLaren, Lone Scherfig; Cast: Martin Compston, Kate Dickie)
An ailing man seeks to reconnect with his family but inadvertently keeps making all his previous blunders worse. Full Review

Fog (Wu) (Country: US, Hong Kong; Director: Kit Hui; Writer: Kit Hui; Cast: Terence Yin, Eugenia Yuan, Camy Ting, Joman Chiang, Phat Chan, Yung Wong, Tony Ho, Ben Yuen, Lok Yu, Chun Lee, Lawrence Wong, Ching-yu Cheung, Wai-Yip Ho)
Unreliable narrators and late-twenties hedonism in a strange brew. Full Review Official Site

Foxes (Listicky, Little Foxes) (Country: Ireland, Czech Republic; Director: Mira Fornayová; Writer: Mira Fornayová; Cast: Rita Bánczi, Jonathan Byrne, Réka Derzsi, Julia Krynke, Marcus Lynch, Brendan McCormack, Aaron Monaghan, Nicholas Pinnock, Yvonne Scanlon, Christopher Simpson)
Economic migrant siblings toil for respect, or hedonism.

Frontier Blues (Country: Iran, UK, Italy; Director: Babak Jalali; Writer: Babak Jalali)
Filmmaker Babak Jalali presents an assortment of hometown stories that evoke the potential and diversity of this unfulfilled gateway between Europe and Asia. Full Review Official Site

Gravity (Schwerkraft) (Country: Germany; Director: Maximilian Erlenwein; Writer: Maximilian Erlenwein; Cast: Fabian Hinrichs, Jürgen Vogel, Nora von Waldstätten, Jule Böwe, Eleonore Weisgerber, Thorsten Merten, Jeroen Willems, Fahri Ögün Yardim, Jonas Hien, Isabell Hindersin, Waléra Kanischtscheff, Henning Peker)
A bank clerk finds himself drawn into the criminal underworld after a shock to the senses. Full Review

HIGH School (Country: US; Director: John Stalberg Jr; Writer: Erik Linthorst, John Stalberg Jr, Stephen Susco; Cast: Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Mykelti Williamson, Andrew Wilson, Yeardley Smith, Michael Vartan, Curtis Armstrong, Erica Phillips, Adhir Kaylan)
A random drug test coincides with a high school valedictorian's first hit of pot. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2010: Days Seven and Eight Official Site

Honeymooner (Country: UK; Director: Col Spector; Writer: Col Spector; Cast: Gerard Kearns, Chris Coghill, Al Weaver, Daisy Haggard)
A young man is forced to reassess his life when his fiancée dumps him days before their planned wedding. Full Review

If I Want To Whistle, I Whistle (Eu cand vreau sa fluier, fluier) (Country: Romania, Sweden; Director: Florin Serban; Writer: Catalin Mitulescu, Florin Serban; Cast: George Pistereanu, Ada Condeescu, Mihai Constantin, Clara Voda)
Drama about misguided youth and juvenile delinquency. Full Review

Kick Off (Country: Iraq, Kurdistan; Director: Shawkat Amin Korki; Writer: Shawkat Amin Korki; Cast: Shwan Atuf, Govar Anwar, Rojan Hamajaza, Mohamad Hamed, Nasir Hassan, Soheila Hasan)
Organising a football match amongst the ruins of broken lives in Kirkuk, Iraq. Full Review

Me, Too (Yo también) (Country: Spain; Director: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Writer: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Cast: Lola Dueñas, Isabel García Lorca, Antonio Naharro, Teresa Arbolí, Joaquín Perles, Ramiro Alonso, Consuelo Trujillo, Susana Monje, Pablo Pineda, Ana De los Riscos, María Bravo, Pepe Quero, Daniel Parejo, Roma Calderón, Tania Román)
A man - the first European with Down's syndrome to get a university diploma - falls for a workmate with no apparent disability.

Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok) (Country: Thailand; Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong; Writer: Anocha Suwichakornpong; Cast: Arkaney Cherkam, Phakpoom Surapongsanuruk, Paramej Noiam, Anchana Ponpitakthepkij)
A male nurse cares for a paralysed patient in Bangkok and waits for something to happen. Full Review

Northless (Norteado) (Country: Mexico, Spain; Director: Rigoberto Pérezcano; Writer: Edgar San Juan, Rigoberto Pérezcano; Cast: Harold Torres, Alicia Laguna, Sonia Couoh, Luis Cárdenas)
A man trying to cross into the US finds himself 'trapped' in Tijuana. Full Review See: San Sebastian Film Festival: Day 2 - El Secreto De Sus Ojos (The Secret Of Their Eyes), Le Refuge, Norteado (Northless)

Nothing Personal (Country: Ireland, Netherlands; Director: Urszula Antoniak; Writer: Urszula Antoniak; Cast: Stephen Rea, Lotte Verbeek, Tom Charlfa, Fintan Halpenny, Ann Marie Horan, Sean McRonnel)
Long estranged characters come together

Obselidia (Country: US; Director: Diane Bell; Writer: Diane Bell; Cast: Michael Piccirilli, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Chris Byrne, Gaynor Howe, Grant Mathis, Michael Blackman Beck, Kim Beuche)
A lonely librarian believes love is obsolete until a road trip to Death Valley with a beguiling cinema projectionist teaches him otherwise.

Peepli Live (Country: India; Director: Anusha Rizvi; Writer: Anusha Rizvi; Cast: Omkar Das, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raghubir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farukh Jaffer)
A satirical look at the predicament of a poor farmer who creates a media frenzy when, beset with debt, he announces that he will commit suicide so his family can receive government compensation. Full Review

Police Adjective (Politist, adj) (Country: Romania; Director: Corneliu Porumboiu; Writer: Corneliu Porumboiu; Cast: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Irina Saulescu, Ion Stoica, Marian Ghenea, Cosmin Selesi, George Remes, Dan Cogalniceanu, Serban Georgevici, Costi Dita, Alexandru Sabadac, Anca Diaconu, Radu Costin, Viorel Nebunu, Emanoela Tigla)
A young policeman crosses swords with his supervisor when he hesitates to turn in a teen caught with drugs. Full Review

Red Hill (Country: Australia; Director: Patrick Hughes; Writer: Patrick Hughes; Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Steve Bisley, Tommy Lewis, Claire van der Boom, Christopher Davis, Kevin Harrington)
Life proves tough for a young police officer in a small town, as he begins to wonder if he'll make it through his first day alive. Full Review

The Sentimental Engine Slayer (Country: US; Director: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez; Writer: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez; Cast: Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Tatiana Velazquez, Nomar Rizo, Kim Stodel, Rikardo Rodriguez Lopez, Angel Marcelo Rodriguez Chevrez, Marcel Rodriguez Lopez, Becky Vigil, Astrid Magallon, Daniel De La Mar, Chris Salcedo, Valentin Merz, Sonny Kay, Bud William Allen, Ramon Villa)
Reality and fantasy mix in the semi-autobiographical tale of a twentysomething misfit’s loopy trip through manhood in the dusty US-Mexico border town of El Paso, Texas. Full Review

Son Of Babylon (Country: Iraq; Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji; Writer: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Jennifer Norridge, Mithal Ghazi; Cast: Yasser Talib, Shazda Hussein, Bashir Al-Majid)
In the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a young Kurdish boy and his grandmother venture through Iraq on a quest to find the remains of their missing father/son. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2010: Days Seven and Eight

Soul Boy (Country: Kenya, Germany; Director: Hawa Essuman, Tom Tykwer; Writer: Billy Kahora; Cast: Nordeen Abdulghani, Christopher Abuga, Rose Adhiambo, Jones Onyango Ajwala, Consolata Apondi, Micheal Babu, Katherine Damaris, Lucy Gachanja, John Githui, Frank Kimani, Gilbert K. Lukalia, Clementina Makokha, Lydia Makori, Aida Mulafu, Sharleen Njeri)
A boy goes in search of his father's lost soul. Full Review Official Site

Undertow (Contracorriente) (Country: Colombia; Director: Javier Fuentes-León; Writer: Javier Fuentes-León; Cast: Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo, Cristian Mercado)
A closeted gay fisherman finds himself trapped in an unusual love triangle. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2010: Day Six - Buried, Winter's Bone, Bran Nue Day and Contracorriente

Winter's Bone (Country: US; Director: Debra Granik; Writer: Debra Granik, Anne Rosellini, Daniel Woodrell; Cast: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Lauren Sweetser, Kevin Breznahan, Isaiah Stone, Shelley Waggener, Ashlee Thompson, William White, Casey MacLaren, Valerie Richards, Beth Domann, Tate Taylor, Cody Brown, Ronnie Hall, Sheryl Lee)
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact. Full Review

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