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Canada, 2009, 102 min.
This cheeky, semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale tells the story of Ricardo, 11, who, struggling with his family's move and a new school, decides to become a liar. With a flare for inventiveness and a desperate desire to impress his classmates, Ricardo dismisses his family and weaves untruths.... more
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About Elly
Iran, 2009, 119 min.
In his fourth feature, talented writer/director Asghar Farhadi casts a revealing light on the elaborate culture of deceit that's part and parcel of modern Iranian society with a gripping drama about upper-middle-class Tehranis on a catastrophic seaside holiday.... more
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Adrift
Vietnam, 2009, 110 min.
This poetic, languidly sensual story of tangled loves in modern Vietnam illustrates changing values in a traditional society as it explores sexual awakening, lesbian desire and marital infidelity.... more
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Air Doll
Japan, 2009, 116 min.
The internationally acclaimed director of Nobody Knows and After Life returns with a romantic fantasy that explores the complexities of love, loneliness and loss through the story of a life-size inflatable doll who comes to life and begins exploring what it means to be human.... more
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Alive!
Albania, 2009, 90 min.
A carefree Albanian student gets drawn into an ancient gjakmarrja, or blood feud, when he returns to his native village for his father's funeral. This fascinating drama considers how deeply the traditions of one's forebears can affect one's life.... more
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Angel at Sea
Belgium, 2009, 86 min.
Twelve-year-old Louis lives a charmed life in a small Moroccan town. But one night his father shares a secret with him that changes their relationship, and Louis' life, forever. This visually arresting and emotionally gripping film won the top prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.... more
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Artois the Goat
USA, 2009, 110 min.
Lab technician Virgil embarks on an epic quest to create the greatest goat cheese the world has ever known and reclaim the heart of his beloved Angie. A felonious German baker, a grave-digging hermit and a tiny white goat color this journey of love, destiny and dairy products.... more
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Backyard
Mexico, 2009, 122 min.
This chilling thriller, from the director of The Crime of Father Amaro, dramatizes the tragic true story of border town Juárez, Mexico, where since the mid-'90s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert.... more
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The Balibo Conspiracy
Australia, 2009, 111 min.
In 1975, five young Australian TV journalists covering the invasion of East Timor by the Indonesian army disappeared at the border village of Balibo. Their story, denied and covered up for more than 30 years, is grippingly recreated in this tense and moving film from Robert Connolly.... more
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Beautiful Kate
Australia, 2009, 101 min.
Actor Rachel Ward makes a stunningly assured feature writing and directing debut with this emotional drama about a self-hating writer Ned (Ben Mendelsohn) who returns to his childhood home in the Australian Outback in search of answers about his family's dysfunctional past.... more
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Berlin '36
Germany, 2009, 100 min.
With Berlin facing boycotts if Jewish athletes aren't allowed to participate in its Olympic Games, the Nazis bully a Jewish expat into training for the German high jumping team -- but they're also waging a covert campaign to defeat her.... more
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The Big Dream
Italy, 2009, 101 min.
A three-way love story between Laura, a college student, Libero, the leader of the student movement, and Nicola, a policeman, set against the background of the student demonstrations of 1968. A look at a generation, in the tradition of The Best of Youth.... more
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Blessed
Australia, 2009, 115 min.
Focusing on the often-fraught bond between mothers and their children, Blessed unfolds in a blue-collar suburb of Melbourne over the course of 24 hours. The intersecting stories are divided into two parts, told from the viewpoint of the troubled offspring and the struggling moms.... more
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A Brand New Life
South Korea, 2009, 92 min.
It's 1975. Jinhee is nine years old, and the life she knows is about to be shattered. Inexplicably abandoned by her father in a Catholic orphanage outside Seoul, Jinhee begins an extraordinary emotional journey marked by rage and hope, death and rebirth.... more
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Breathless
South Korea, 2009, 130 min.
Song-hoon is a violent, foul-mouthed enforcer for local gangster Man-shik. But things change when an unlikely bond develops between him and wayward schoolgirl, Han Yeon-hee. This semi-autobiographical, often brutal look at cyclical violence shows how love might just redeem a lost soul.... more
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Brotherhood
Denmark, 2009, 90 min.
Former Danish servicemen Lars and Jimmy are thrown together while training in a neo-Nazi group. Moving from hostility through grudging admiration to friendship and finally passion, events take a darker turn when their illicit relationship is uncovered.... more
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The Contenders: Lee Daniels
120 min.
Join director Lee Daniels for a Q&A following a special screening of "Precious."... more
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The Contenders: Lone Scherfig
120 min.
Join director Lone Scherfig for a Q&A following a special screening of "An Education."... more
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The Contenders: Rob Marshall
140 min.
Join director Rob Marshall for a Q&A following a special screening of "Nine."... more
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Daniel & Ana
Mexico, 2009, 90 min.
Daniel and Ana Torres enjoy a careless, affluent existence. But when the siblings are kidnapped on the streets of Mexico and forced to perform the unthinkable in front of a camera, their relationship is violently shattered and their lives thrown into an utterly uncharted route. ... more
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Dark Resonance
Bangladesh, 2009, 105 min.
If a child is sent to university by parents who are beggars, is she an emancipated person who can choose her destiny or only the literate daughter of beggars? This sensitive first feature comes from award-winning painter Khalid Mahmood Mithu.... more
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Dev.D
India, 2009, 144 min.
Dev.D is a modern take on the classic love story Devdas, illustrating the sensibilities, aggression and free thought of youth today. At times reckless, it reflects the conflicts of a generation caught between their Eastern roots and Western sensibilities.... more
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Devil's Town
Serbia, 2009, 82 min.
A stylish black comedy about life in contemporary Belgrade that satirizes the moral malaise clouding Serbia, Devil's Town features a host of top actors as city dwellers whose lives intersect on a hot summer day while the country's tennis stars compete in an important tournament.... more
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Different from Whom?
Italy, 2009, 106 min.
A slapstick comedy about a handsome gay politician paired with a conservative woman in a campaign for mayor. They work together, fight and eventually have an affair which shakes their lives. But an alternative solution is at hand, and they grab it.... more
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Dogtooth
Greece, 2009, 96 min.
In this shocking satire on middle-class mores, the über-controlling parents of three teenage offspring plot to preserve them from worldly contamination. But the introduction of a lusty female security guard into their secluded life acts like a spark to tinder.... more
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Draft Dodgers
Luxembourg, 2009, 97 min.
When the Nazis annex Luxembourg, François must make a choice: either be conscripted and fight the Allies on the Russian front, or become a draft dodger living underground. This gritty psychological drama depicts a world in which his fascist father and shackled nation are weapons in a war.... more
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Dumbstruck
USA, 2010, 85 min.
At the annual Vent Haven Convention in Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky, ventriloquism capital of the world, director Mark Goffman discovers five extraordinary characters straight out of a Christopher Guest mockumentary. But in this delightful, it's-all-true documentary, the characters are real.... more
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Eamon
Ireland, 2009, 85 min.
A family holiday at the Irish seaside brings the tensions between a little boy with behavioral problems, his selfish mother and sexually frustrated father to a blackly comic peak. An entertainingly horrific, confidently stylized vision of the Oedipus complex in action.... more
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An Education
United Kingdom, 2009, 95 min.
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Excited
Canada, 2009, 83 min.
In this smart dramatic comedy that impishly bills itself as a relationship movie "about premature ejaculation," successful businessman and sexual sad-sack Kevin learns a thing or two about relationships when he is introduced to the sexy Hayamm. Funny, pithy and profane in equal measure.... more
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Father and Guns
Canada, 2009, 106 min.
Jacques and Mark are cops who just don't get along. Unfortunately they are also father and son. When they are assigned as an undercover team to infiltrate an outdoor adventure group-therapy camp for fathers and sons, hilarity ensues. An American remake is already in the works.... more
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For a Moment, Freedom
Austria, 2009, 110 min.
Combining realism, warmth, suspense, humor and tragedy, For A Moment, Freedom, centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.... more
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Forgotten Transports: To Poland
Czech Republic, 2009, 90 min.
From a forbidden love affair to participation in the Sobibor uprising, those who escaped Nazi ghettos, labor and death camps speak out, some for the first time. This is the final entry in a monumental quartet of documentaries that meticulously trace the history of these Czech Jews.... more
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The Girl
Sweden, 2009, 98 min.
A haunting, poetic portrait of childhood solitude that brings to mind resonant mood pieces such as Lynne Ramsay's Ratcatcher, The Girl excels at depicting the private realms kids create when free of adult supervision.... more
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Glorious 39
United Kingdom, 2009, 130 min.
Set in the days leading up to World War II, Glorious 39 is a complex mystery built around Britain's secret plot to bargain with Hitler to stay out of the war. Uncovering secrets about her upstanding ruling-class family, one strong young woman finds herself in terrible danger.... more
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Gordos
Spain, 2009, 120 min.
Five people deal with the common difficulty of being overweight. Group therapy seems to be the obvious forum to work out their individual issues. However, Gordos soon becomes a tasty study about guilt, fear, love and passion.... more
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Happy Tears
USA, 2009, 91 min.
Demi Moore and Parker Posey star as a pair of polar opposite sisters coming together to care for their ailing father (Rip Torn), a rascally womanizer now shacked up with a crackbrained drifter (Ellen Barkin).... more
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Hipsters
Russia, 2009, 125 min.
Moscow, 1955. Incurring the wrath of all the grim-faced Soviets in Russia isn't enough to stop a group of splashy young swingers from showing their true colors. Hipsters is a tender love story wrapped in an infectiously fun musical.... more
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Home
Switzerland, 2008, 97 min.
Marthe and Michel live with their kids on the edge of a near-completed freeway. When the road is suddenly opened up to traffic, the noise and pollution threatens to destroy the family unit. Ursula Meier's absurd comedy -- a "road movie in reverse" -- brilliantly redefines the meaning of home.... more
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Huacho
Chile, 2009, 90 min.
Huacho is a poignant but unsentimental look at the harsh life of the rural population in southern Chile. Following a small peasant family through its day, we are privy to the hardships they bear but also to their indomitable resilience and resourcefulness.... more
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I Killed My Mother
Canada, 2009, 100 min.
Written when he was just 17-years-old and directed when he was 21, Xavier Dolan's hilarious, corrosive and ultimately touching debut drama -- about a gay teen's embattled relationship with his manipulative mother -- captured a trio of prizes at Cannes last year.... more
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I Love You Phillip Morris
USA, 2009, 100 min.
Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor are madly in love in this deliriously daring and hilariously entertaining story of a con man (Carrey) continually breaking out of jail to be with his man (McGregor). Unlike anything else you will see this year. From the writers of the deliciously subversive Bad Santa... more
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I Saw the Sun
Turkey, 2009, 106 min.
With the introduction of the Turkish governments forced migration policies, the Kurdish Altun clan is wrenched from the Anatolian mountain village it has called home for generations. Spanning a period of 25 years, the film recounts the experiences of the family members.... more
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In My Father's Country
Australia, 2008, 80 min.
In one of the most remote corners of indigenous Australia a boy will soon become a man. Following preparations for the ritual, the film shows the life lessons he receives from his father and grandfather.... more
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Inside Hana's Suitcase
Canada, 2009, 90 min.
The delivery of a battered suitcase to the Tokyo Holocaust Museum launches a quest to learn the fate of the owner, Hana Brady. The voices of children from Japan, Canada and the Czech Republic telling Hana's story are woven around the dramatic search, creating a film of astonishing power and hope.... more
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Involuntary
Sweden, 2008, 98 min.
A quirky comedy about the nature of group dynamics. Two teenage girls take risqué pictures and get drunk; a group of young men experiment with sex; a righteous teacher tries to set things right; and a bus driver holds a group of passengers prisoner.... more
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Is It Just Me?
USA, 2010, 93 min.
Frustrated by his ongoing failure to meet Mr. Right, Blaine stumbles upon what might be his perfect match in an online chat room -- Xander, a sweet, hunky guy who's recently moved to LA. Smitten, Blaine then finds that he's been chatting to Xander under his go-go dancer roommate's profile.... more
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La Pivellina
Austria, 2009, 100 min.
In an impoverished trailer park on the outskirts of Rome, a small band of social outcasts eke out an existence in the dreary Italian winter. Circus performers Patty and Walter wait patiently for the summer to come, until one day Patty finds a small two-year-old girl standing alone in the rain.... more
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Last Ride
Australia, 2009, 100 min.
When his ex-con father (Hugo Weaving) bundles him into the car in the middle of the night, 10-year-old Chook knows that something is wrong. As the two drive into the desert towards an unknown future, their troubled relationship and the need to survive sees them battling the elements and each other.... more
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Letters to Father Jacob
Finland, 2009, 74 min.
In the latest from the talent behind the PSIFF 2006 Audience Award Winner, a simple but transcendent story about faith and human frailty achieves a state of grace. A tough ex-con temporarily serving as an amanuensis for a blind pastor in rural Finland.... more
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