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This year’s 14 films were selected from 1,022 international narrative feature submissions.
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Undertow and Boy
Animal Kingdom
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: David Michôd; Writer: David Michôd; Stars: Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce, Luke Ford, Jacki Weaver, Sullivan Stapleton, James Frecheville, Daniel Wyllie, Anthony Hayes, Laura Wheelwright, Mirrah Foulkes, Justin Rosniak, Susan Prior, Clayton Jacobson, Anna Lise Phillips)
After the death of his mother, a 17-year-old boy is thrust precariously between an explosive criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him. Plus read our exclusive interview with Ben Mendelsohn.
All That I Love (Wszystko co kocham)
(Country: Poland; Year: 2009; Director: Jacek Borcuch; Writer: Jacek Borcuch; Stars: Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Olga Frycz, Jakub Gierszal, Andrzej Chyra, Anna Radwan, Katarzyna Herman, Mateusz Banasiuk, Marek Kalita, Igor Obloza, Zygmunt Malanowicz, Elzbieta Karkoszka, Brygida Turowska, Ewa Kolasinska, Halina Skoczynska, Grzegorz Gzyl)
In 1981, during the growing Polish Solidarity movement, four small-town teenagers form a punk rock band with the hope of playing at a local festival.
Boy
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2010; Director: Taika Waititi; Writer: Taika Waititi; Stars: Taika Waititi, James Rolleston, Te Aho Eketone), Official Site
A Boy and his brother find their fantasy version of their dad is somewhat different to the real deal.
Four Lions
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Christopher Morris; Writer: Christopher Morris; Stars: Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Preeya Kalidas, Nigel Lindsay, Arshal Ali, Adeel Akhtar)
Four bungling would-be suicider bombers try to go out with a bang.
Grown Up Movie Star
(Country: Canada; Year: 2009; Director: Adriana Maggs; Writer: Adriana Maggs; Stars: Shawn Doyle, Tatiana Maslany, Jonny Harris, Mark O'Brien, Andy Jones, Julia Kennedy)
After her mother runs away, a teenage girl, determined to grow up fast, is left to care for her hopelessly rural father.
Animal Kingdom and Four Lions
The Man Next Door (El hombre de al lado)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat; Writer: Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat; Stars: Rafael Spregelburd, Daniel Aráoz, Eugenia Alonso, Inés Budassi, Lorenza Acuña, Eugenio Scopel, Rubén Guzmán, Debora Zanolli, Bárbara Hang, Enrique Gagliesi)
An architectural battle of wits.
Me, Too (Yo también)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Writer: Antonio Naharro, Álvaro Pastor; Stars: 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.
Nuummioq
(Country: Greenland; Year: 2009; Director: Torben Bech, Otto Rosing; Writer: Torben Bech; Stars: Julie Berthelsen, Angunnguaq Larsen, Morten Rose, Mariu Olsen, Lars Rosing)
A young man's journey through the natural landscape of Greenland allows him to piece together elements of his past and move on with his life.
Peepli Live
(Country: India; Year: 2010; Director: Anusha Rizvi; Writer: Anusha Rizvi; Stars: Omkar Das, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Raghubir Yadav, Shalini Vatsa, Farukh Jaffer)
Social satire about not-very-suicidal but desperate farmer.
Son Of Babylon
(Country: Iraq; Year: 2009; Director: Mohamed Al-Daradji; Writer: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Jennifer Norridge, Mithal Ghazi; Stars: Yasser Talib, Shazda Hussein, Bashir Al-Majid)
In the days following the fall of Saddam, a Kurdish grandmother takes her grandson on the search for his father.
Son Of Babylon and Peepli Live
Southern District (Zona sur)
(Country: Bolivia; Year: 2009; Director: Juan Carlos Valdivia; Writer: Juan Carlos Valdivia; Stars: Ninón del Castillo, Pascual Loayza, Nicolás Fernández, Juan Pablo Koria, Mariana Vargas, Viviana Condori, Luisa De Urioste, Glenda Rodriguez, Ximena Alvarez, Juana Chuquimia)
In La Paz, Bolivia, in a villa surrounded by beautiful gardens, an upper-class family experiences final halcyon days of luxury as social change penetrates their bubble.
The Temptation of St Tony (Püha Tõnu kiusamine)
(Country: Estonia, Finland, Sweden; Year: 2009; Director: Veiko Õunpuu; Writer: Veiko Õunpuu)
A mid-level manager who develops an aversion to being "good" finds himself confronting the mysteries of middle-age and morality as he loses grasp of what was once his quiet life.
Undertow (Contracorriente)
(Country: Colombia; Year: 2009; Director: Javier Fuentes-León; Writer: Javier Fuentes-León; Stars: Manolo Cardona, Tatiana Astengo, Cristian Mercado)
A closeted gay fisherman finds himself trapped in an unusual love triangle.
Vegetarian (Chaesikjuuija)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2009; Director: Lim Seong-woon; Writer: Lim Woo-Seong; Stars: Chea Min-Seo, Kim Hyun-Sung, Kim Yeo-Jin, Kim Young-Jae)
A young housewife, finds herself having strange dreams that make her disgusted by meat, leading to trouble with her meat-loving husband and attention from her artist brother in law.
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