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13 (Tzameti, 13 (Tzameti)) (Country: France/Georgia; Director: Gela Babluani; Writer: Gela Babluani; Cast: George Babluani, Aurelien Recoing, Philippe Passon, Pascal Bongard, Vania Villers, Fred Ulysse, Augustin Legrand, Joe Prestia, Christophe Vandevelde)
Sebastien has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else. When he reaches his destination, he falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos.
North American Premiere. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2006: Day 9
Allegro (Country: Denmark; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Mikeael Wulff; Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, Henning Moritzen)
After a long absence, a famous amnesiac pianist returns to his native Copenhagen where he is contacted by a mysterious messenger who leads him back into his forgotten past.
North American Premiere. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2006: Day 7
The Aura (El Aura) (Country: Argentina; Director: Fabian Bielinsky; Writer: Fabian Bielinsky; Cast: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedron, Alejandro Awada, Jorge D'Elia, Rafael Castejon, Manuel Rodal)
Espinoza is an introverted taxidermist who secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first-ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams are unexpectedly made reality with one squeeze of the trigger.
North American Premiere. Full Review
Eve And The Fire Horse (Country: Canada; Director: Julia Kwan; Writer: Julia Kwan; Cast: Vivian Wu, Lester Chit-Man Chan, Hollie Lo, Phoebe Kut, Jessica Amlee, Herb Beaverstone, Jan Bos, Diane Buermans, Tanya Champoux, Jennifer Cheon, Alexus Dumont)
Eve is a precocious nine-year-old growing up in a Vancouver Chinese immigrant family where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her prim authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion. US Premiere.
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Grbavica (Country: Austria; Director: Jasmila Zbanic; Writer: Jasmila Zbanic; Cast: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic, Jasna Beri, Dejan Acimovic, Bogdan Diklic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Ermin Bravo, Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Maike Höhne)
A chilling story of a woman and her daughter as they fight to survive in the painful aftermath of the recent Balkan war. World Premiere.
Kiss Me Not On The Eyes (Dunia) (Country: Egypt, Lebanon; Director: Jocelyn Saab; Writer: Jocelyn Saab; Cast: Hanan Turk, Mohamed Mounir, Fathy Abdel Wahab, Sawsan Badr, Khaled El Sawi, Youssef Ismail, Aida Riad)
An educated young Egyptian woman defends her artistic integrity as a dancer and her social independence in the midst of modern Cairo’s culture wars. US Premiere.
Little Red Flowers (Kan shang qu hen mei) (Country: China/Italy; Director: Yuan Zhang; Writer: Dai Ning, Yuan Zhang, based on the novel Could Be Beautiful by Shuo Wang; Cast: Ning Yuanyuan, Zhao Rui, Li Xiaofeng, Dong Bowen, Chen Manyuan)
A parable about the nature and complexities of being compelled to fit into a regimented society set in a post-revolutionary Chinese orphanage.
World Premiere. Full Review
Madeinusa (Country: Peru/Spain; Director: Claudia Llosa; Writer: Claudia Llosa; Cast: Magaly Solier, Carlos Juan de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Juan Ubaldo Huaman)
Madeinusa is a sweet girl who lives in an isolated religiously zealous village in mountainous Peru. Everything changes when a geologist from Lima arrives and unknowingly reshapes Madeinusa’s destiny.
World Premiere. Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival 2006: Day 3
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No.2 (Country: New Zealand; Director: Toa Fraser; Writer: Toa Fraser)
Nanna Maria’s family has forgotten how to party. She’s going to change all that, make them come alive with the heat and passion of the South Pacific. World Premiere.
One Last Dance (Country: Singapore; Director: Max Makowski; Writer: Max Makowski; Cast: Francis NG, TI Lung and Harvey Keitel, Vivian Hsu, Joseph Quek)
An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man’s son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper’s name - his own.
World Premiere. Full Review
Only God Knows (Sólo Dios Sabe) (Country: Brazil; Director: Carlos Bolado; Writer: Carlos Bolado, Diane Weipert; Cast: Diego Luna, Alice Braga, Damián Alcázar, Maria Alves, Mateo Evaristo Shapiro Bolado, Laurie Bushman, Sara Castro, Ângela Correa, Leigh Crow, Ana Csernik, Daniele Luz de Almeida)
On a lark in Tijuana, a young Brazilian art student crosses paths with a roguish Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil. World Premiere.
Princesas (Country: Spain; Director: Fernando León de Aranoa; Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa; Cast: Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez, Mariana Cordero, Llum Barrera, Violeta Pérez, Mònica Van Campen, Flora Álvarez, María Ballesteros, Alejandra Llorente, Luis Callejo, Antonio Durán 'Morris')
The story of two women who form an unbreakable friendship despite their differences as they fight to make ends meet in the big city. US Premiere.
Son Of Man (Country: South Africa; Director: Mark Dornford-May; Writer: Mark Dornford-May, Andiswa Kedama, Pauline Malefane)
A gripping journey of love, deception and betrayal, Son Of Man translates Jesus' life to modern-day South Africa, where a new politics of compassion incites revolution during a military dictatorship. World Premiere.
