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4:30
Singapore, 2006, 93 min.
The melancholy story of Xiao Wu, a young boy desperately seeking human kindness and friendship from his indifferent uncle, confirms director Royston Tan as a major new talent. Tan's willingness to push the limits of cinematographic art has made him a indie hero.... more

After the Wedding
Denmark, 2006, 120 min.
When Jacob, (played by Mads Mikkelsen, the arch villain in the recent Bond film Casino Royale) who runs a struggling orphanage in Bombay, returns to Denmark to secure new funds, he discovers that his new benefactor has a secret path that will forever alter his charitable present and... more

American Visa
Bolivia, 2006, 90 min.
Simple, honest and earthy, American Visa is the story of a Bolivian English teacher trying to get a visa to the US, in post-9/11 Bolivia. Strong dialogue and contemporary visuals, plus refreshing performances by the Mexican actors Demián Bichir and Kate del Castillo make this a riveting Boliv... more

Avenue Montaigne
France, 2006, 106 min.
A series of interconnected stories serves as the basis for Danièle Thompson’s breezy, bittersweet and utterly charming Parisian comedy about the lives of the varied characters—rich and poor, famous and unknown—who populate a café on the chic Avenue Montaigne.... more

Awards Buzz Documentary Shorts Program 1
127 min.
Director Ruby Yang’s The Blood of Yingzhou District (39 min.) is a year in the life of AIDS orphans from China’s Anhui Province. In Lori Benson’s Dear Talula (34 min.), a mother is diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after the birth of her daughter. The Diary of Immaculée (38 m... more

Awards Buzz Documentary Shorts Program 2
128 min.
Leslie Iwerks’ Recycled Life (38 min.) illuminates the lives of the families who inhabit the Guatemala City garbage dump. In Rehearsing a Dream (40 min.), director Karen Goodman follows a group of gifted teenage artists who spend a week with well-known mentors. A man struggles with add... more

Before Flying Back to the Earth
Lithuania, 2006, 52 min.
A gracefully expressive journey into the lives of children living with leukemia at a pediatric hospital in Vilnius, Lithuania. Every detail is carefully chosen, composed and edited. A poetic, unsentimental, award-winning documentary about the resilience of the human spirit.... more

Belle Toujours
France, 2006, 70 min.
Thirty-eight years after Buñuel’s Belle de jour, Henri (Michel Piccoli) and Séverine (Bulle Ogier), meet again by chance in an elegant concert hall in Paris. The two have obviously changed, yet Henri seems content to dwell in their perverse past. Oliveira’s elegant style and cunning narrative... more

Beyond Hatred
France, 2006, 86 min.
After their gay son is murdered by a gang of skinheads, a close-knit French family tries to move toward understanding and even forgiveness in this devastating documentary. In classic vérité style, director Olivier Meyrou allows this immensely cathartic story to unfold at its own pace without unneces... more

Beyond the Call
USA, 2006, 82 min.
In an Indiana Jones-meets-Mother Teresa adventure, three middle-aged men, former soldiers and modern-day knights, travel the world delivering lifesaving humanitarian aid directly into the hands of civilians and doctors in some of the most dangerous yet beautiful places on Earth, the front lines of... more

Black Book
Netherlands, 2006, 145 min.
Director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Total Recall) returns to Holland to direct this World War II thriller. Rachel, a celebrated Jewish singer—who joins the Dutch resistance to track down the Nazis who killed her family—is caught in a web of seduction, betrayal, and revenge. In this comp... more

Blindsight
United Kingdom, 2006, 104 min.
This insightful documentary follows a group of blind Tibetan teenagers—outcasts in their culture—as they attempt to hike up the 23,000-foot summit of Lhakpa Ri on the north side of Mount Everest with the aid of a dedicated, mountaineering dream team. Director Lucy Walker captures the monumental land... more

The Boss of it All
Denmark, 2006, 100 min.
Danish provocateur Lars von Trier returns with an unexpectedly breezy comedy about a company director who blames his office policies on an imaginary superior, but later must hire an actor to impersonate “the boss of it all.” Von Trier deviously pulls the strings for the unwitting marionettes... more

Boy Culture
USA, 2006, 88 min.
In this sharply written gay comedy of manners, a successful male escort begins to rethink his chosen profession, spurred on by newly complex relationships with his younger gung-ho roommate and an older, unusually chivalrous client. Director Q. Allen Brocka’s sophomore directorial effort, following h... more

Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?
USA, 2006, 82 min.
When Dick Gephardt vacated his democratic Senate seat in 2004, an unknown political science instructor entered the race, defying all odds and expectations to demonstrate that with no money and lots of enthusiasm, you can become a contender. This Capra-esque documentary is an inspiring example of how... more

The Cats of Mirikitani
USA, 2006, 74 min.
When filmmaker Linda Hattendorf turned her lens on Jimmy Mirikitani, a homeless octogenarian Japanese-American artist, she got far more than she anticipated: the collapse of the World Trade Center, a family reunion more than 50 years in the making, and a series of small miracles. Audience Award Winn... more

Chicha Tu Madre
Argentina, 2006, 90 min.
When Julio Cesar, an amateur Tarot reader and cab driver, learns that his daughter is pregnant, he has to revise his sense of fate and chance to find a future for his family. Playing off local literary conventions, the film actually uses the Tarot cards to narrate its tale of fate, free will and cha... more

The Curiosity of Chance
USA, 2006, 98 min.
When new high school sophomore Chance Marquis is bullied for being openly gay, he turns to a drag queen and a high school jock to help him fight adversity in Russell P. Marleau’s John Hughes-styled ’80s comedy. Winner of the Jury Award for Best New Director at Seattle Lesbian & Gay Film Festival.... more

Curse of the Golden Flower
China, 2007, 118 min.
Zhang Yimou’s third martial arts and CGI extravaganza after Hero (2002) and House of Flying Daggers (2004) juxtaposes a tenth-century Forbidden City of courtly intrigue with superstars Chow Yun Fat, Gong Li, and epic action. Zhang’s trademark sense of primary colors gives the film an i... more

The Damned Don’t Cry
USA, 1950, 103 min.
This fantastic film noir fable, a thinly veiled version of the rags-to-riches story of gangsters’ moll Virginia Hill, is perhaps an even truer depiction of the real Joan Crawford than Mommie Dearest! And a chance to see 1950s Palm Springs! Czar of noir Eddie Muller will host this special arch... more

Devil’s Point
Argentina, 2006, 90 min.
Marcelo Pavan’s impressive Devil's Point is a moody tale of a brain surgeon's confrontation with his own mortality. The film is an exceptional experience in sight and sound set on a remote, windswept Uruguayan peninsula that serves as a physical representation of the doctor’s well-concealed e... more

East Side Story
USA, 2006, 88 min.
Drawing inevitable comparisons to Quinceañera, Carlos Portugal’s exuberant indie debut—a robust, frequently funny combination of melodrama, romance and comedy—tracks a (mostly) gay love triangle in a rapidly gentrifying Latino neighborhood in East Los Angeles.... more

Eating Out 2: Sloppy Seconds
USA, 2006, 85 min.
How far would you go to get the person of your dreams? In the first American gay sequel ever, stakes get raised and sexual boundaries are obliterated as Kyle (Jim Verraros) pretends to be straight in order to land the new guy—and nude model—in town.... more

Fat Girls
USA, 2006, 82 min.
This offbeat teen comedy asks the questions: can snappy 300-pound plus fat girl and nebbish musical gay boy find happiness and love in a back-water Texas high school? First-time director Ash has concocted a comedy about discrimination that finds a way to laugh at pretty much everything and everyone.... more

Floating Lamp Of The Shadow Valley
India, 2006, 64 min.
This inspirational documentary features nine-year-old Kashmir boy Arif, who serves as breadwinner of the family after his Muslim militant father abandons them for the sake of the jihad. Jala touches on Arif’s predicament with care and compassion, set in some of the most breathtaking scenery in the w... more

Forever
Netherlands, 2006, 95 min.
Forever takes viewers on a mesmerizing tour of artists' graves in Paris' famous Pere-Lachaise cemetery, to show that art is eternal and plays a powerful role in our lives. The tombs of departed greats prompt curious stories from dedicated visitors. Best Documentary at the Netherlands Film Festival.... more

Forever Flows
Bangladesh, 2006, 112 min.
A lower-middle class Bangladeshi family struggles after the father goes blind and the family's money has been wasted on a layabout son, forcing beautiful daughter Tithi to work as a prostitute to help out in this steady-eyed, non-judgmental look at the lives of Tithi and the people she comes in cont... more

Forget You Not
Italy, 2006, 94 min.
The first feature film of Mariantonia Avati, daughter of Pupi Avati, continues the father’s tradition with a feminine approach. Nina works in a maternity ward in post-WWII Italy where women from different backgrounds are united by motherhood. For Nina, each story becomes a source from which she will... more

Fresh Air
Hungary, 2006, 109 min.
Viola works as a bathroom attendant in the subway. Angela, her daughter, is ashamed of Viola and dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Communication between them has become almost impossible. This first contemplative feature by a young director reveals a mature craft for composition and creating at... more

Grbavica
Bosnia-Herzegovina, 2006, 90 min.
Winner of the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, this Sarajevo-set drama highlights the plight of the thousands of Muslim women raped during the Balkan wars through the story of Esma, a hard-working single mother haunted by events from her past.... more

Hula Girls
Japan, 2006, 108 min.
When a recession hits, the women of a coalmining town in 1960s Japan come up with an unlikely solution for economic salvation after a plan to build a leisure spa flounders. They form a smash hit hula dancing team that becomes the desired tourist magnet, in this charming ensemble comedy.... more

The Iceberg
Belgium, 2006, 84 min.
After surviving a night in an industrial freezer, a harried housewife becomes upset with her family who failed to realize she never made it home, to say nothing of a newfound attraction to all things sub-zero. Chock full of French physical comedy delivered with deadpan Kaurismäkian cool.... more

Ice Cream, I Scream
Turkey, 2006, 100 min.
Made with over 2,000 residents of Mugla as the cast, this comic drama follows a single tradesman’s naive struggle for survival in the global economy. Ali decides to promote his homemade ice cream on a newly purchased scooter, but when the bike is stolen, he accuses his competitors of sabotage.... more

Inland Empire
USA, 2006, 179 min.
David Lynch’s mesmerizing, hallucinatory visit to the uncharted territories of the self displays all of the master’s strengths—it may well be his most extraordinary film—a culmination of all of the themes touched on in his other masterpieces, Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drivemore

In the Pit
Mexico, 2006, 80 min.
In the chaos of Mexico City, a crew of construction works toil away to rebuild the city’s highway. Like Shakespearean characters, they react to the work with a full range of emotions in this award-winning documentary on the nature of work and workers. ... more

In the Shadow of the Dog
India, 2006, 110 min.
Achchanniah and his wife live with their widowed daughter-in-law in a traditional village of South India. When news reaches them that their son—dead for 18 years—has been reborn, they invite the boy home, setting in motion a chain of events that alters all lives around him.... more

Into Great Silence
Germany, 2006, 164 min.
Documentary filmmaker Philip Groeing shows us the never-before-seen life of a monastery high in the French Alps, in which the monks, bound by a vow of silence and solitude, live a simple life of faith.... more

I Only Wanted to Live
Italy, 2006, 75 min.
Drawing on the extensive archives of Steven Spielberg’s Shoah Foundation, director Mimmo Calopresti has crafted a straightforward, yet deeply affecting portrait of what happened to Italy's Jews. The eyewitness accounts are told with a searing intensity, each a unique and necessary testimony.... more

Iraq in Fragments
USA, 2006, 94 min.
The title of this poetic account of Iraq in 2003 has a double meaning, referring to the violence and instability of the crumbling nation as well as the film’s three-part structure, which focuses on Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish lives. The film took top honors at Sundance for directing, cinematography, ... more

Jindabyne
Australia, 2006, 123 min.
Based on the Raymond Carver short story “So Much Water, So Close to Home,” Jindabyne unravels the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a dead female body by four fishermen. Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney star in this darkly spare tale of morality, marriage and murder.... more

Lady Zee
Bulgaria, 2006, 96 min.
Wild-at-heart Zlatina, a crack shot, leaves the institution for abandoned children where she grew up, to take a job at a Sofia shooting gallery where she falls for the handsome owner. Best Film, Sarajevo Festival, Audience Award, New Montreal Festival, Best Bulgarian Film of the Year.... more

Lights in the Dusk
Finland, 2006, 80 min.
Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s latest deadpan, black comedy presents a lonely and unassuming security watchman who meets a beautiful blonde, but finds himself brutally enmeshed in a criminal heist plot of which he will become the fall guy.... more

The Line of Beauty
United Kingdom, 2006, 180 min.
Adapted from Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, this richly textured gay coming-of-age story penetrates deep under the skin of ’80s Britain. Amidst the euphoria of first love, sex and high society parties, a young graduate witnesses scandal, deception and hypocrisy when he moves in with... more

The Lives of Others
Germany, 2006, 137 min.
In this nail-biting political thriller set just years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, an agent of the East German police finds his ideology turned inside out when he is assigned to incriminate an innocent playwright. This runaway hit swept the German and Bavarian Academy Awards.... more

Longing
Germany, 2006, 88 min.
A man and a woman in their early 30s love each other tenderly and live a quiet life in a village near Berlin, until one day the husband finds himself waking up in the bed of an unknown woman with no recollection of how he got there. Grisebach captures the essence and the mystery of the couple with e... more

Love for Share
Indonesia, 2006, 120 min.
Three women from different backgrounds deal with polygamy in Indonesia and the predicament of having to share their domestic life and the love of one man with several women and often with humorous consequences.... more

Marketa Lazarova
Czech Republic, 1966, 152 min.
Something of a holy grail for cinephiles, this visually stunning moral drama isn’t available on tape or DVD. Named best Czech film of all time, it follows the doomed love affair between Mikolas and Marketa, who belong to rival, warring clans.... more

Men at Work
Iran, 2006, 75 min.
Four men encounter a giant phallic rock, and decide to topple it. Based on a story by Abbas Kiarostami, this sophisticated comic allegory charts the foursome's increasingly elaborate efforts involving shovels, chain saws and even a donkey, and takes a gentle poke at gender relations.... more

Meth
USA, 2006, 79 min.
Palm Springs-based filmmaker Todd Ahlberg has created a mesmeric exploration of a particularly timely —and emotionally charged—topic: the endemic and growing use of the drug crystal meth among gay men, in this and other communities over the course of recent years.... more

Mojave Phone Booth
USA, 2006, 88 min.
A legendary lone phone booth stuck in the middle of the Mojave Desert accepts only incoming calls. It becomes the compass for four individuals who are looking for answers in their confusing lives. Steve Guttenberg heads up this splendid ensemble cast of characters.... more

Your search by 'Camelot Theatres' identified 81 films and events

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