Leeds International Film Festival 2007
Planet Terror Planet Terror
Planet Terror and Rescue Dawn
The Darjeeling Limited (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman; Stars: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Amara Karan, Wallace Wolodarsky, Waris Ahluwalia, Irfan Khan, Barbet Schroeder, Bill Murray, Anjelica Huston, Camilla Rutherford, Natalie Portman), Official Site
Three brothers take a 'spiritual journey' across India by train.
Dog Altogether (Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Paddy Considine; Writer: Paddy Considine; Stars: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Karl Johnson)
A man has to deal with the outcome of his rage. Screening alongside Somers Town at many venues.
Enemies Of Happiness (Vores lykkes fjender) (Country: Denmark, Norway, Finland; Year: 2006; Director: Eva Mulvad)
Sundance award-winning documentary about Malalai Joya's campaign to be elected to the Afghanistan parliament.
Faro - Goddess Of The Waters (Faro - La Reine Des Eaux) (Country: France, Canada, Mali, Burkina Faso, Germany; Year: 2007; Director: Salif Traoré; Writer: Olivier Lorelle, Salif Traoré ; Stars: Fili Traoré, Maimouna Hélène Diarra, Michel Mpambara, Habib Dembele, Helene M Diarra, Rokia Traoré)
An engineer ties to lay old ghosts to rest when he returns to his home village.
Kurt Cobain - About A Son (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: AJ Schnack; Stars: Kurt Cobain)
A look at the life and music of Kurt Cobain, narrated by the man himself.
Rock The Bells Rock The Bells
Rock The Bells and Vexille
A Man's Job (A Man's Work, Miehen työ) (Country: Finland; Year: 2007; Director: Aleksi Salmenperä; Writer: Aleksi Salmenperä; Stars: Tommi Korpela, Maria Heiskanen, Jani Volanen, Konsta Pylkkonen, Stan Saanila, Sara Paavolainen, Minna Suuronen), Official Site
An out-of-work father tries his hand at male prostitution to keep supporting his family.
Motodrom (Country: Germany; Year: 2006; Director: Joerg Wagner; Writer: Joerg Wagner)
The riders of The Wall of Death still defy gravity and thrill a diminishing crowd.
No Country For Old Men (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen; Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy; Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Woody Harrelson, Kelly Macdonald, Garret Dillahunt, Tess Harper, Barry Corbin, Stephen Root, Rodger Boyce, Beth Grant)
A man goes on the run from a psychopath in Texas after coming across a briefcase of stolen cash.
The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (Country: Mexico, Spain; Year: 2007; Director: Juan Antonio Bayona; Writer: Sergio G Sánchez; Stars: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Geraldine Chaplin, Montserrat Carulla, Mabel Rivera, Andrés Gertrúdix, Roger Príncep, Carla Gordillo Alicia, Georgina Avellaneda, Alejandro Campos, Oscar Guillermo Garretón), Official Site
Ghost story about a family who live in an orphanage.
Planet Terror (Grindhouse) (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Robert Rodriguez; Writer: Robert Rodriguez; Stars: Freddy Rodríguez, Rose McGowan, Marley Shelton, Josh Brolin, Michael Biehn, Naveen Andrews, Michael Parks, Jerili Romeo, Tom Savini, Rebel Rodriguez, Carlos Gallardo), Trailer
Survivors take on infected zombies in the second part of the double-bill formerly known as Grindhouse.
The Orphanage The Orphanage
The Orphanage and The Darjeeling Limited
Princess (Country: Germany, Denmark; Year: 2006; Director: Anders Morgenthaler; Writer: Mette Heeno and Anders Morgenthaler; Stars: The voices of Thure Lindhardt, Liv Corfixen, Stine Fischer Christensen, Mira Hilli Møller Hallund)
A priest adopts his orphaned niece and grows furious upon discovering what happened to her and her mother.
Rock The Bells (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Casey Suchan, Denis Henry Hennelly)
A concert promoter tries to reunite the Wu-Tang Clan.
Rescue Dawn (Country: US; Year: 2006; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Zahn, Jeremy Davies, Marshall Bell, Brad Carr, François Chau, Craig Gellis, GQ, Zach Grenier, Pat Healy, Toby Huss)
A US fighter pilot shot down in the Vietnamese jungle must go to extraordinary lengths to survive.
Silent Light (Stellet Licht) (Country: Mexico, France, Netherlands, Germany; Year: 2007; Director: Carlos Reygadas; Writer: Carlos Reygadas; Stars: Elizabeth Fehr, Jacobo Klassen, Maria Pankratz, Miriam Toews, Cornelio Wall, Peter Wall), Official Site
A deeply religious, married man falls in love with another woman and has to question his whole life.
Silk (Country: Canada/France/Italy/UK/Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Francois Girard; Writer: Francois Girard, Michael Golding, based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco; Stars: Michael Pitt, Keira Knightley, Alfred Molina, Sei Ashina, Koji Yakusho, Kenneth Welsh, Miki Nakatani, Callum Keith Rennie, Mark Rendall, Chiara Stampone)
19th century travels in search of silk worms introduces the perfectly naked Japanese concubine.
WAZ WAZ
WAZ and Princess
Soft (Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Simon Ellis; Writer: Simon Ellis; Stars: Jonny Phillips, Matthew O'Shea, Michael Socha), Official Site
Youth Gang Terrorises Suburbia. Winner of European Film Academy Short Film Prix UIP.
Sleeping Betty (Isabelle Au Bois Dormant) (Country: Canada; Year: 2007; Director: Claude Cloutier; Writer: Claude Cloutier), Official Site
The palace try to wake their princess.
Tekkonkinkreet (Tekon Kinkurîto) (Country: Japan; Year: 2006; Director: Michael Arias; Writer: Anthony Weintraub, based on the comic by Taiyo Matsumoto.; Stars: Yû Aoi, Alex Fernandez, Yusuke Iseya, Kankurô Kudô, Sanchu Mori, Masahiro Motoki)
Two young boys try to stop gangsters taking over their city.
Teeth (Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Mitchell Lichtenstein; Writer: Mitchell Lichtenstein; Stars: Jess Weixler, John Hensley, Vivienne Benesch, Lenny Von Dohlen, Ashley Springer, Josh Pais, Nicole Swahn, Julia Garro), Trailer
A virgin's anatomical quirk means she bites off more than she can chew.
Tyger (Country: 2006; Year: 2006; Director: Guilherme Marcondes; Writer: Guilherme Marcondes), Official Site
A tyger brings the jungle to town.
Faro - Goddess Of The Waters Faro - Goddess Of The Waters
Faro - Goddess Of The Waters and Soft
Vexille (Country: Japan; Year: 2007; Director: Fumihiko Sori; Writer: Haruka Handa, Fumihiko Sori; Stars: Voices of Meisa Kuroki, Shosuke Tanihara, Yasuko Matsuyuki, Tetsuya Kakihara, Toshiyuki Morikawa, Akio Ôtsuka, Romi Pak, Takahiro Sakurai), Official Site
In 2077, Japan’s secretive, advanced bio-technology could pose an unimaginable threat.
WAZ (Country: UK, US; Year: 2007; Director: Tom Shankland; Writer: Clive Bradley; Stars: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian), Official Site
A detective caught in a battle of wits with a killer is forced to pay for his past failings.
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