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Ahimsa: Stop to Run
Thailand, 2006, 96 min.
With goofy humor and originality, this over-the-top Buddhist karmic thriller takes genre bending to the next level. Ahimsa lives a life of clubs, sex, and drugs until a mysterious red haired man in a red tracksuit appears: his karma.... more
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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
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The Book of Revelation
Australia, 2006, 117 min.
Ana Kokkinos, whose striking earlier films Only the Brave and Head On gripped audiences at previous editions of PSIFF, here explores a provocative world of desire, sexual power and obsession, in which a charismatic young man is kidnapped by three enigmatic women and subjected to extrem... more
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Cecilie
Denmark, 2006, 100 min.
Cecilie sees and hears things no one else does. After she experiences an assault of which no traces are found, her husband commits her to a psychiatric hospital. But is she insane? With the help of a psychiatrist, Per, she begins to unravel the past, with shocking results, in this tense, psychologic... more
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End of the Line
Canada, 2006, 95 min.
Maurice Devereaux’s offers a new twist on a classic horror tale as a group of subway riders find themselves trapped in the underground by knife-wielding religious fanatics.... more
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Fair Play
France, 2006, 99 min.
The competitive nature of office politics is given an innovative approach through the extracurricular activities of sports, in this brilliantly controlled and cynical tale that takes place entirely outside the office with colleagues rowing, jogging, playing squash, canoeing and even rock climbing th... more
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French California
France, 2006, 107 min.
Maguy (Nathalie Baye) is an idle rich woman. She lives in a luxurious mansion of the French Riviera among a bunch of odd friends and hired men. A dangerous desire game starts where no one knows the rules, creating a blazing and dangerous story of desire and power.... more
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The Girl is Mine
France, 2006, 91 min.
Perhaps a mother’s worst nightmare is that someone will take her child. This suspenseful tale revolves around Maud, who after searching 12 years for her abducted daughter, meets a child she believes is the lost girl, but must contend with another woman who claims the girl as her own.... more
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The Host
South Korea, 2006, 119 min.
Described by the New York Film Festival as “the decade’s best monster movie,” this slick and effective thriller about a creature rampaging Seoul and the dysfunctional family in pursuit of it has become a worldwide hit. Beneath the film’s scare-fest is a sharp and ironic critique of misdirected emerg... more
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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
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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
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Murderers
France, 2006, 100 min.
Grandperret takes up the script left by the late Maurice Pialat to tell the story of two ordinary girls hitting the road to escape their tedious life, attracted in a spiral of violence. This modern tale is an accusation on the blindness of a society unable to protect its youth.... more
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One to Another
France, 2006, 105 min.
Jean-Marc Barr and Pascal Arnold’s quintessentially French drama, based on a true story, focuses on a quintet of sexually experimental friends led by a hunky, charming bisexual—who will try anything (and anyone)—and his sister, who is perhaps unnaturally close to him.... more
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The Page Turner
France, 2006, 85 min.
Mélanie, a butcher’s daughter, has a passion for piano. Though failing to be accepted into a piano Conservatory, she meets a well-known pianist, Mrs. Fouchécourt, and is employed as her page-turner. Based on an ‘out-of-tune’ note of latent revenge, this disturbing encounter of two icy feminine chara... more
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Someone Else’s Happiness
Belgium, 2006, 98 min.
In the 1990s, a series of child murders hook Belgium. This highly assured first feature creates a series of vignettes centering on the inhabitants of a suburban village where a child’s body has been discovered after a hit-and-run. Emotional truths slowly unravel revealing that things are very differ... more
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Starfish Hotel
Japan, 2006, 98 min.
Starfish Hotel blends American detective fiction and Japanese ghost stories to create an original gothic mystery where an ordinary salesman falls under the spell of the darkland while tracing his wife to an underground brothel.... more
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La Terra
Italy, 2006, 112 min.
When an exiled son, Luigi, returns to his home in Southern Italy from Milan, he finds himself trapped by a murder mystery in which his brothers turn out to be the prime suspects, Luigi must become the detective in order to get the heart of this surprising whodunit.... more
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The Tiger's Tail
Ireland, 2006, 103 min.
John Boorman has created a triple-whammy black comedy thriller of sex, lies and devilish twists in one of his finest works to date, starring long-time collaborator Brendan Gleeson who gives a captivating and career-defining performance.
Liam O’Leary (played by Gleeson) is a wealthy Irish property... more
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Unnatural and Accidental
Canada, 2006, 90 min.
Rebecca (Carmen Moore), an upwardly mobile, buttoned-down woman who returns to Vancouver to visit her dying father, finds herself drawn into a nightmarish odyssey when she pursues his wish to track down her long lost mother (Tantoo Cardinal), who had disappeared into the gritty, urban streets of Van... more
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