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FRI.07.SEP at 2:00pm [2012]


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Aida Begic
Rahima, 23, and Nedim, 14, are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, includ… 
CastMarija Pikic, Ismir Gagula and Bojan Navojec…
LanguageBosnian   CountryBosnia-Herzegovina
CWC$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 2:30pm [2012]


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Anand Gandhi
In the first feature film from acclaimed Indian playwright Anand Gandhi, three disparate people — a devout monk stricken by illness, a blind wom… 
CastAida El-Kashef, Sohum Shah, Neeraj Kabi
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CTC$PG

FRI.07.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Marc-Henri Wajnberg
Kinshasa, Congo. About 30,000 children are accused of witchcraft and expelled from home. Living on the street, little José and his fellow friend… 
CastJosé Mawanda, Rachel Mwanza, Emmanuel Fakoko…
LanguageLingala, French   CountryBelgium
CWC$PG

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Ulrich Seidl
Perennial provocateur Ulrich Seidl (Dog Days, Import/Export) explores the politically charged issue of sex tourism in the sun-kissed "paradise" … 
CastMargarethe Tiesel, Peter Kazungu
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany/Austria
CWC$18A

FRI.07.SEP at 3:15pm [2012]


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Zézé Gamboa
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pul… 
CastAlberto Magassela, Lázaro Ramos, Pedro Hossi…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryAngola/Portugal/Braz…
CWC$18A

FRI.07.SEP at 5:45pm [2012]


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Jonas d'Adesky
Three young friends struggle to survive on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Best friends Vitaleme… 
CastJules Vitaleme, Sima Mickenson, Pierre Jean …
LanguageFrench, Creole   CountryHaiti, Belgium
CWC$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Sara Johnsen
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past — and the menacing pre… 
CastMaria Bonnevie, Kristoffer Joner, David Denc…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
CWC$18A

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Mikael Marcimain
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and… 
CastPernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berg…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
DISC$18A

FRI.07.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Grace Lee
A conservative housewife wants to “take America back” in the 2012 election, but a tough economy causes some difficulties in her life, leading he… 
CastMitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

FRI.07.SEP at 6:30pm [2012]


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Michael Mayer
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sites of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli la… 
CastNicholas Jacob and Michael Aloni
LanguageArabic/Hebrew   CountryPalestine/Israel
DISC$14A

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Marina Zenovich
A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in … 
CastRoman Polanski
LanguageEnglish, French, Ger…   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

FRI.07.SEP at 8:45pm [2012]


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Jan Hrebejk
Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged couples, Marie and Vitek, and Dita and Ondra, are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship, a shared h… 
CastJirí Langmajer, Hynek Cermak, Marika Prochaz…
LanguageCzech   CountryCzech Republic
CWC$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana S…
Victor, 17, lives in Asunción and dreams of having a TV set. He agrees to deliver seven boxes in exchange for 100 dollars. It sounds like nothin… 
CastCelso Franco, Lali González, Víctor Sosa and…
LanguageSpanish, Guarani   CountryParaguay
DISC$14A

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Asoka Handagama
Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bit… 
CastNiranjani Shanmugaraja, Raja Ganeshan, Malco…
LanguageTamil   CountrySri Lanka
CWC$14A

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Seán Ó Cualáin
As construction of the GE Building, centrepiece of New York's Rockerfeller Centre, neared completion in the autumn of 1932, a black and white ph… 
CastFionnula Flanagan
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
DOC$PG

FRI.07.SEP at 9:15pm [2012]


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Damien Ounouri
An exceedingly timely tribute of unsung everyday heroes of revolutions draws the intimate portrait of El Hadi, a seventy-year-old veteran of the… 
CastMohamed El Hadi Benadouda
LanguageFrench | Arabic   CountryFrance/Algeria/Qatar…
DOC$14A

FRI.07.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


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Abbas Kiarostami
An elderly man becomes infatuated with a young Tokyo call girl in this entrancingly elliptical anti-love story from Iranian master Abbas Kiarost… 
CastRin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Dend…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MAST$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Michael Mayer
A drama centered on the love affair between two men on opposite sites of the Mid-East conflict: Palestinian student Nimer and Roy, an Israeli la… 
CastNicholas Jacob and Michael Aloni
LanguageArabic/Hebrew   CountryPalestine/Israel
DISC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:30am [2012]


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Brad Bernstein
Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story depicts one man's wild, lifelong adventure of testing societal boundaries through his use of su… 
CastTomi Ungerer, Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

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Bernardo Bertolucci
Italian master Bernardo Bertolucci's first feature in ten years is an intimate, moving and beautifully realized study of two troubled siblings g… 
CastTea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori and Sonia Be…
LanguageItalian   CountryItaly
MAST$14A

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Dibakar Banerjee
Prime leader of a campaign against a big government project is killed in what appears to be a road accident. An IAS officer is ordered to probe … 
CastEmraan Hashmi, Abhay Deol, Prasenjit Chatter…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CTC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:45am [2012]


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Aida Begic
Rahima, 23, and Nedim, 14, are orphans of the Bosnian war. They live in Sarajevo, a transitional society that has lost its moral compass, includ… 
CastMarija Pikic, Ismir Gagula and Bojan Navojec…
LanguageBosnian   CountryBosnia-Herzegovina
CWC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 11:45am [2012]


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Michel Gondry
On the last day of school, a group of NYC teenagers on a Bronx bus head towards an uncertain future in the rollicking, charming and formally dar… 
CastMichael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VAN$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 12:15pm [2012]


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Peter Mettler
The End of Time is a cinematic experience from visionary filmmaker Peter Mettler which explores our perception of time. 
CastUnknown
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
MAST$PG

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Zézé Gamboa
Zézé Gamboa's sardonic historical drama follows a good-hearted, apolitical con man who, on the eve of Angolan independence in the mid-1970s, pul… 
CastAlberto Magassela, Lázaro Ramos, Pedro Hossi…
LanguagePortuguese   CountryAngola/Portugal/Braz…
CWC$18A

SAT.08.SEP at 12:30pm [2012]


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Sara Johnsen
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past — and the menacing pre… 
CastMaria Bonnevie, Kristoffer Joner, David Denc…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
CWC$18A

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Pete Travis
In a violent, futuristic city where the police have the authority to act as judge, jury and executioner, a cop teams with a trainee to take down… 
CastKarl Urban, Olivia Thirlby, Lena Headey, Rak…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

SAT.08.SEP at 12:45pm [2012]


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Jonas d'Adesky
Three young friends struggle to survive on the streets of Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Best friends Vitaleme… 
CastJules Vitaleme, Sima Mickenson, Pierre Jean …
LanguageFrench, Creole   CountryHaiti, Belgium
CWC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 3:15pm [2012]


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Emil Christov
This is a story without innocents. A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of intellectuals t… 
CastRuscen Vidinliev, Irena Milyankova, Rousy Ch…
LanguageBulgarian   CountryBulgaria
DISC$14A

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Nina Davenport
With the bracingly honest, occasionally hilarious and ultimately moving First Comes Love, Davenport examines husband-free parenthood. From hormo… 
CastNina Davenport
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

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Antoinette Beumer
Twin sisters Sofie and Daan, 33, have been raised by their two fathers. When they receive an unexpected phone call from their hitherto unknown b… 
CastHolly Hunter, Carice Van Houten, Jelka Van H…
LanguageDutch   CountryNetherlands
CWC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 3:30pm [2012]


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Seán Ó Cualáin
As construction of the GE Building, centrepiece of New York's Rockerfeller Centre, neared completion in the autumn of 1932, a black and white ph… 
CastFionnula Flanagan
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
DOC$PG

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Kate Miles Melville
A high school student falls for an aging rock star. Forced to repeat Grade 12, Claire's reputation is sliding from bad-ass to bad joke. At nigh… 
CastTatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck, Steven Mc…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
DISC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 3:45pm [2012]


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Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bon…
A heart-warming story for the whole family with a unique insight into North Korean culture Comrade Kim Yong Mi is a North Korean coalminer. Her… 
CastChol Kim, Jong Sim Han, Chung Guk Pak, Yong …
LanguageKorean   CountryNorth Korea
CWC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Jorge Hinojosa
Director Jorge Hinojosa blends pulp fiction imagery with ambitious biographical digging to tell the story of legendary pimp/author Iceberg Slim,… 
CastIceberg Slim, Chris Rock, Henry Rollins, Ice…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

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Mika Kaurismäki
Timo is an esteemed concert pianist whose personal life is on the rocks. One day Timo finds an older, shabby-looking man at his door. The man, L… 
CastVesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Mari Pera…
LanguageFinnish   CountryFinland
CWC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandb…
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947. 
CastPål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Chri…
LanguageEnglish | Norwegian…   CountryUnited Kingdom, Norw…
SP$PG

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Andrew Williamson
When a Marshallese family man living in Kona, Hawaii is diagnosed with stomach cancer, he keeps his illness a secret and resolves to pay off his… 
CastJonithen Jackson, Rojel Jonithen, Jeff Nashi…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 6:30pm [2012]


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Simon Ennis
In this irresistibly zany, sharp-witted documentary, director Simon Ennis introduces us to an unforgettable group of characters whose obsession … 
CastDennis Hope, Christopher Carson, Alan Bean, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
DOC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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Sébastien Betbeder
A party in a Parisian flat. Theodore meets Anna. Later in the night, while walking through Paris, they decide to climb the fence of Buttes-Chaum… 
CastPio Marmaï and Agathe Bonitzer
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
DISC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Eva Sørhaug
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising so… 
CastAksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord, Bjørn Floberg, A…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
VAN$18A

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Marina Zenovich
A follow-up to the 2008 documentary "Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired", focusing on the filmmaker's successful battle to avoid extradition in … 
CastRoman Polanski
LanguageEnglish, French, Ger…   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

SAT.08.SEP at 9:15pm [2012]


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Rowan Athale
Battered, bruised and under arrest, Harvey Denton sits in a police interview room facing interrogation. Clutching a stack of eyewitness statemen… 
CastLuke Treadaway, Iwan Rheon, Matthew Lewis, G…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
DISC$14A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


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Marcelo Gomes
This film follows the reflections of Verônica, a recently graduated medical student going through a time of uncertainty. She questions not only … 
CastHermila Guedes, WJ Solha
LanguagePortuguese   CountryBrazil
CWC$14A

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Nick Cassavetes
A dramedy centered on Mary Holmes, a young woman with a drug habit and a myriad of other problems. Nick Cassavetes' seminal work, Yellow, is a … 
CastSienna Miller, Gena Rowlands, Ray Liotta, Da…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

SAT.08.SEP at 9:45pm [2012]


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Robert Connolly
Set in 1980s Melbourne, Underground is a riveting thriller that focuses on the teenage years of one of the most controversial figures of modern … 
CastAnthony LaPaglia, Rachel Griffiths, Callan M…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
CWC$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 9:00am [2012]


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Eva Sørhaug
Director Eva Sørhaug (Cold Lunch) reveals the rage and violence lurking beneath seemingly tranquil domesticity in her bold and uncompromising so… 
CastAksel Hennie, Kaia Varjord, Bjørn Floberg, A…
LanguageNorwegian   CountryNorway
VAN$18A

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Abbas Kiarostami
An elderly man becomes infatuated with a young Tokyo call girl in this entrancingly elliptical anti-love story from Iranian master Abbas Kiarost… 
CastRin Takanashi, Tadashi Okuno, Ryo Kase, Dend…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MAST$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:15am [2012]


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Pelin Esmer
Haunted by guilt over the death of his family, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn t… 
CastOlgun Simsek, Nilay Erdonmez, Menderes Saman…
LanguageTurkish   CountryTurkey
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:30am [2012]


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Matthew Cooke
This fascinating documentary offers an in-depth look at the high-stakes world of drug dealing and drug enforcement. Ten easy steps show you how… 
Cast50 Cent, Eminem, David Simon, Arianna Huffin…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

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Toke Constantin Hebbeln
In this vivid historical drama set in 1980s East Germany, two dockworkers and best friends who dream of escaping the repressive regime are force… 
CastAugust Diehl, Alexander Fehling, Ronald Zehr…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:45am [2012]


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Baltasar Kormákur
On a cold night a few miles off the coast of Iceland in March 1984, a fishing boat sank with all of its men. Miraculously surviving after five h… 
CastÓlafur Darri Ólafsson, Jóhann G. Jóhannsson …
LanguageIcelandic   CountryIceland
SP$14A

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Jan Hrebejk
Two ostensibly ordinary middle-aged couples, Marie and Vitek, and Dita and Ondra, are linked by more than just a lifelong friendship, a shared h… 
CastJirí Langmajer, Hynek Cermak, Marika Prochaz…
LanguageCzech   CountryCzech Republic
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 12:00pm [2012]


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Tony Krawitz
Isaac, a late 20s Greek Australian, spirals out of control when he’s forced to confront his own family’s cursed legacy on his first trip to Euro… 
CastEwen Leslie, Marton Csokas and Kodi Smit-McP…
LanguageEnglish, Greek   CountryAustralia
CWC$18A

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Sally Potter
London, 1962: Two teenage girls, Ginger and Rosa, are inseparable. They play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dre… 
CastElle Fanning, Alice Englert, Christina Hendr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

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Luis Prieto
In London, a drug pusher's life spins out of control over the course of one week. Nicolas Winding Refn serves as executive producer on this Eng… 
CastRichard Coyle, Bronson Webb and Agyness Deyn
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$18A

SUN.09.SEP at 12:15pm [2012]


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Luu Huynh
In this dark love triangle that proceeds with the inexorable logic of a Greek tragedy, a dedicated wife in a small Vietnamese fishing village se… 
CastThai Hoa , Dinh Y Nhung , Huy Khanh
LanguageVietnamese   CountryVietnam
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 12:30pm [2012]


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Chuan Lu
The story of two warring generals (Liu Bang and Xiang Yu) fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty. From internationally acc… 
CastYe Liu, Daniel Wu and Chen Chang
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

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Mika Kaurismäki
Timo is an esteemed concert pianist whose personal life is on the rocks. One day Timo finds an older, shabby-looking man at his door. The man, L… 
CastVesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann, Mari Pera…
LanguageFinnish   CountryFinland
CWC$14A

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Hideki Takeuchi
Based on a Japanese manga series by Mari Yamazaki. An architect from ancient Rome is propelled into a modern-day Tokyo bath house in this kooky… 
CastAya Ueto, Hiroshi Abe and Riki Takeuchi
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
GALA$$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Mikael Marcimain
Stockholm, late 1970s. Within a stone’s throw of government buildings and juvenile homes lies the seductive world of sex clubs, discotheques and… 
CastPernilla August, Sofia Karemyr, Simon J Berg…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
DISC$18A

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Benjamin Renner, Vincent Pat…
Giant bears and tiny mice don’t tend to mingle much, but when Ernest and Célestine cross paths, the two become inseparable friends and embark on… 
CastAnne-Marie Loop, Dominique Maurin, Lambert W…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Belgium/Luxem…
KIDYouthPG

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Carlos Sorin
Marco is a travelling salesman and a recovering alcoholic who decides to change the direction of his life after a stay at a detox centre. His co… 
CastAlejandro Awada, Victoria Almeida
LanguageSpanish   CountryArgentina
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 3:30pm [2012]


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Sion Sono
In a typical Japanese village, Yoichi Ono lives with his wife, Izumi and his parents. The Ono family lives a frugal but happy life as dairy farm… 
CastIsao Natsuyagi, Naoko Otani, Megumi Kaguraza…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CWC$14A

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Stephen Chbosky
Based on the novel written by Stephen Chbosky, this is about 15-year-old Charlie (Logan Lerman), an endearing and naive outsider, coping with fi… 
CastLogan Lerman, Kate Walsh, Ezra Miller, Emma …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

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Licinio Azevedo
Veteran filmmaker Licinio Azevedo drew on the stories of real women who endured the Mozambican "re-education camps" for this dramatic and inspir… 
CastIva Mugalela, Sumeia Maculuva, Ermelinda Cim…
LanguagePortuguese/French   CountryMozambique/Portugal/…
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 4:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Marcelo Gomes
This film follows the reflections of Verônica, a recently graduated medical student going through a time of uncertainty. She questions not only … 
CastHermila Guedes, WJ Solha
LanguagePortuguese   CountryBrazil
CWC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Saïd Ould-Khelifa
Zabana! is an impassioned, meticulously researched account of the short life of Algerian freedom fighter Ahmed Zabana, whose execution in 1956 b… 
CastImad Benchenni, Nicolas Pignon, Khaled Benaï…
LanguageArabic/French   CountryAlgeria
CWC$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Grace Lee
A conservative housewife wants to “take America back” in the 2012 election, but a tough economy causes some difficulties in her life, leading he… 
CastMitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

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Brillante Mendoza
Shaleha Sarail is a barren woman who believes that to fulfill her husband’s greatest wish of having a son is tangible proof of Allah’s grace. Sh… 
CastNora Aunor, Mercedes Cabral, Lovi Poe, Bembo…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$18A

SUN.09.SEP at 6:30pm [2012]


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Manjeet Singh
Rahul roams the streets with his balloon-seller friend Arbaaz. These two kids escape the grim realities of their lives by gambling, roasting sto… 
CastRahul Bairagi, Dhanshree Jain,Salman Khan, A…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CTC$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 6:45pm [2012]


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Ektoras Lygizos
A 22-year-old boy in Athens has no job, no money, no girlfriend and no food to eat. He has only a canary bird and a beautiful singing voice. Whe… 
CastYiannis Papadopoulos, Lila Mpaklesi and Vang…
LanguageGreek   CountryGreece
DISC$14A

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Ramaa Mosley
John and Alice are in their 20s, married, very much in love, and broke. In high school, gorgeous Alice was voted “most likely to succeed” but no… 
CastJuno Temple, Michael Angarano, Alexis Bledel…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

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Gabriela Pichler
When the forceful young Muslim Swedish/Balkan factory worker Rasa loses her job, she must navigate the unemployment system. With no high school … 
CastNermina Lukac, Milan Dragisic, Peter Fält, R…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
DISC$PG

SUN.09.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


Reviews
Juan Carlos Maneglia, Tana S…
Victor, 17, lives in Asunción and dreams of having a TV set. He agrees to deliver seven boxes in exchange for 100 dollars. It sounds like nothin… 
CastCelso Franco, Lali González, Víctor Sosa and…
LanguageSpanish, Guarani   CountryParaguay
DISC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 8:45pm [2012]


Reviews
Michiel ten Horn
The Deflowering of Eva van End is a tragicomedy about the van End family who, after the arrival of an impossibly perfect German exchange student… 
CastVivian Dierickx, Abe Dijkman, Tomer Pawlicki…
LanguageDutch   CountryNetherlands
DISC$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Juan Carlos Medina
In this fascinating allegorical horror-thriller, a brilliant young neurosurgeon emerges miraculously unharmed from a devastating car crash — onl… 
CastDerek de Lint, Irene Montalà, Félix Gómez, R…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
VAN$14A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:15pm [2012]


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Damien Ounouri
An exceedingly timely tribute of unsung everyday heroes of revolutions draws the intimate portrait of El Hadi, a seventy-year-old veteran of the… 
CastMohamed El Hadi Benadouda
LanguageFrench | Arabic   CountryFrance/Algeria/Qatar…
DOC$14A

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Nick Cassavetes
A dramedy centered on Mary Holmes, a young woman with a drug habit and a myriad of other problems. Nick Cassavetes' seminal work, Yellow, is a … 
CastSienna Miller, Gena Rowlands, Ray Liotta, Da…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18A

SUN.09.SEP at 9:45pm [2012]


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Julio Hernández Cordón
In a small Guatemalan village where many "disappeared" during the country's civil war, a troubled young man struggles with the memory of his mur… 
CastAgustín Ortíz Pérez, Eduardo Spiegeler, Alej…
LanguageSpanish   CountryGuatemala/Spain/Chil…
CWC$PG

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William Vega
A Colombian refugee tries to rebuild her life at a guest house located on the shores of a great lake in the Andes. Alice is helpless. War memor… 
CastJoghis Seudin Arias, David Fernando Guacas, …
LanguageSpanish   CountryColombia/Mexico
DISC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 2:00pm [2012]


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Alex Gibney
Academy Award–winning documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney (Taxi to the Dark Side) explores the charged issue of pedophilia in the Catholic Church,… 
CastAlex Gibney, Jamey Sheridan, Chris Cooper, E…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$14A

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Hansal Mehta
The film is the true story of slain lawyer Shahid Azmi, who fought several pro-bono cases in India. This compelling drama tells the remarkable … 
CastRaj Kumar, Prabhleen Sandhu, Baljinder Kaur,…
LanguageHindi   CountryIndia
CTC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 2:15pm [2012]


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Pablo Berger
Once upon a time, there was a little girl who never knew her mother. She learned the art of her father, a famous bullfighter, but was hated by h… 
CastMaribel Verdú, Ángela Molina and Daniel Gimé…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
DISC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 2:30pm [2012]


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Joana Hadjithomas, Khalil Jo…
Lebanon's brief flirtation with space travel in the 1960s becomes a poignant metaphor for the Arab world's utopian dreams in this riveting docum… 
CastUnknown
LanguageArabic   CountryLebanon, United Arab…
WL$PG

Reviews
Sébastien Betbeder
A party in a Parisian flat. Theodore meets Anna. Later in the night, while walking through Paris, they decide to climb the fence of Buttes-Chaum… 
CastPio Marmaï and Agathe Bonitzer
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
DISC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 2:45pm [2012]


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Catriona McKenzie
While trying to save his home from being bought up by developers, a young Aboriginal boy becomes lost in the Outback with his smart-mouthed frie… 
CastDavid Gulpilil, Cameron Wallaby, Joseph Pedl…
LanguageEnglish   CountryAustralia
DISC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Costa-Gavras
We are slaves to the Capital. We tremble when it trembles. We celebrate when it grows and triumphs. Who will set us free? Should we liberate our… 
CastGabriel Byrne, Jordana DePaula and Gad Elmal…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$18A

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Michael Winterbottom
Everyday tells the story of four children separated from their father, and a wife separated from her husband. The father, Ian (John Simm), is in… 
CastShirley Henderson, John Simm and Laurence Ri…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MAST$18A

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Jorge Torregrossa
The first feature from Spanish director Jorge Torregrossa is a stunning apocalyptic thriller set against the awe-inspiring peaks of the Pyrenees… 
CastMaribel Verdú, Daniel Grao, Clara Lago, Carm…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 5:00pm [2012]


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Peng Tao
Convinced that he should not die single, lonely cremator Cao resorts to marrying a dead woman when he is diagnosed with lung cancer. The plan is… 
CastZhengwu Cheng, Wolf Girl
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
CWC$14A

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Michiel ten Horn
The Deflowering of Eva van End is a tragicomedy about the van End family who, after the arrival of an impossibly perfect German exchange student… 
CastVivian Dierickx, Abe Dijkman, Tomer Pawlicki…
LanguageDutch   CountryNetherlands
DISC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 5:15pm [2012]


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Maja Milos
Jasna is a beautiful girl in her mid-teens, leading a crude life in postwar Serbia. With a terminally ill father and dispirited mother, she is d… 
CastIsidora Simijonovic, Vukasin Jasnic, Sanja M…
LanguageSerbian   CountrySerbia
DISC$18A

MON.10.SEP at 5:45pm [2012]


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Jun Lana
An ornery old retiree — who only came to terms with his homosexuality tragically late in life — leads an isolated existence with only his faithf… 
CastEddie Garcia, Rez Cortez, Armida Siguion-Rey…
LanguageFilipino   CountryPhilippines
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Katarzyna Roslaniec
Polish director Katarzyna Roslaniec follows her controversial, irresistibly scrappy debut Mall Girls with this edgy and disarmingly frank look a… 
CastMagdalena Berus, Nikodem Rozbicki, Klaudia B…
LanguagePolish   CountryPoland
CWC$14A

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Benjamín Ávila
Argentina 1979. After years of exile, 12-year-old Juan and his family return to Argentina under fake identities. Juan’s parents and his uncle Be… 
CastNatalia Oreiro, Ernesto Alterio and César Tr…
LanguageSpanish | Portuguese…   CountryArgentina/Spain/Braz…
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Tobias Lindholm
In A Hijacking, Tobias Lindholm turns his attention to a current topic: piracy at sea. The cargo ship MV Rozen is heading for harbour when it is… 
CastAmalie Ihle Alstrup, Johan Philip Asbæk and …
LanguageDanish   CountryDenmark
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 6:30pm [2012]


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Dan Setton
In 2009, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad launched a plan to demonstrate that his people were deserving of statehood, inspiring them to c… 
CastSalam Fayaad
LanguageEnglish, Arabic, Heb…   CountryIsrael/Palestine/USA…
DOC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 8:00pm [2012]


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Javier Ruiz Caldera
A teacher with paranormal abilities helps a group of ghosts graduate high school. Modesto is a teacher who sometimes sees dead people. Not only… 
CastCarlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo, Alexandra Jimén…
LanguageSpanish   CountrySpain
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 8:15pm [2012]


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Gabriela Pichler
When the forceful young Muslim Swedish/Balkan factory worker Rasa loses her job, she must navigate the unemployment system. With no high school … 
CastNermina Lukac, Milan Dragisic, Peter Fält, R…
LanguageSwedish   CountrySweden
DISC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Andrzej Jakimowski
Ian, a new instructor at a well-known Lisbon clinic for the visually impaired, starts to teach spatial orientation to his international group of… 
CastEdward Hogg, Alexandra Maria Lara, David Atr…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
CWC$PG

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Antoinette Beumer
Twin sisters Sofie and Daan, 33, have been raised by their two fathers. When they receive an unexpected phone call from their hitherto unknown b… 
CastHolly Hunter, Carice Van Houten, Jelka Van H…
LanguageDutch   CountryNetherlands
CWC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 9:15pm [2012]


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Bence Fliegauf
A Romani family struggles to continue their simple daily routine amid the anxiety of a series of suspected racially-motivated murders of their n… 
CastKatalin Toldi, Gyöngyi Lendvai, Lajos Sárkán…
LanguageHungarian   CountryHungary
CWC$14A

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Janet Tobias
While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent … 
CastSaul Stermer, Sam Stermer, Sonia Dodyk, Sima…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA/United Kingdom
DOC$PG

MON.10.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


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Emil Christov
This is a story without innocents. A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of intellectuals t… 
CastRuscen Vidinliev, Irena Milyankova, Rousy Ch…
LanguageBulgarian   CountryBulgaria
DISC$14A

MON.10.SEP at 9:45pm [2012]


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Ryûhei Kitamura
A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they see… 
CastLuke Evans, Adelaide Clemens, Derek Magyar, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

TUE.11.SEP at 2:00pm [2012]


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Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson
A group of friends play an innocent game of capture the flag in the neighbourhood woods, arming themselves with nothing more than sticks, their … 
CastSiam Yu, Gage Munroe, Michael Friend, Aidan …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
VAN$14A

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Atiq Rahimi
In a country torn apart by a war, a beautiful woman watches over her husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to a vegetative state because of … 
CastGolshifteh Farahani, Hamid Djavadan, Massi M…
LanguageFarsi   CountryAfghanistan
CWC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 2:15pm [2012]


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Rola Nashef
Caught between the cultures of contemporary Detroit and traditional Arab-America, Sami works behind the bulletproof glass of a 24-hour gas stati… 
CastE.J. Assi, Nada Shouhayib, Mike Batayeh, Mar…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DISC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 2:30pm [2012]


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William Vega
A Colombian refugee tries to rebuild her life at a guest house located on the shores of a great lake in the Andes. Alice is helpless. War memor… 
CastJoghis Seudin Arias, David Fernando Guacas, …
LanguageSpanish   CountryColombia/Mexico
DISC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 2:45pm [2012]


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Peter Strickland
A sound engineer's work for an Italian horror studio becomes a terrifying case of life imitating art. In this tense and moody psychological thr… 
CastToby Jones, Cosimo Fusco, Antonio Mancino, F…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
VAN$14A

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Nina Davenport
With the bracingly honest, occasionally hilarious and ultimately moving First Comes Love, Davenport examines husband-free parenthood. From hormo… 
CastNina Davenport
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 3:00pm [2012]


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Julio Hernández Cordón
In a small Guatemalan village where many "disappeared" during the country's civil war, a troubled young man struggles with the memory of his mur… 
CastAgustín Ortíz Pérez, Eduardo Spiegeler, Alej…
LanguageSpanish   CountryGuatemala/Spain/Chil…
CWC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 3:15pm [2012]


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Ektoras Lygizos
A 22-year-old boy in Athens has no job, no money, no girlfriend and no food to eat. He has only a canary bird and a beautiful singing voice. Whe… 
CastYiannis Papadopoulos, Lila Mpaklesi and Vang…
LanguageGreek   CountryGreece
DISC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 3:30pm [2012]


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Laurent Cantet
The latest film from Palme d’Or winner Laurent Cantet (Entre les murs) is a vivid adaptation of the celebrated Joyce Carol Oates novel about a s… 
CastMichelle Nolden, Ali Liebert and Tamara Hope
LanguageEnglish   CountryFrance, Canada
SP$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 5:00pm [2012]


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Marc Wiese
This is the story of a man who was born and grew up in a Gulag-style North-Korean camp. After his escape at the age of 23, he discovers the “out… 
CastShin Dong-Huyk, Hyuk Kwon, Oh Yangnam
LanguageKorean   CountryGermany
DOC$14A

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Stéphane Brizé
Moving drama about a man just released from prison who is faced with a painful decision when his fatally ill mother determines that she wants to… 
CastVincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent and Emmanuell…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance
SP$PG

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Janet Tobias
While mapping out the largest cave system in Ukraine, explorer and investigator Chris Nicola discovers evidence that five Jewish families spent … 
CastSaul Stermer, Sam Stermer, Sonia Dodyk, Sima…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA/United Kingdom
DOC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 5:45pm [2012]


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Lenny Abrahamson
A high school rugby star's life is irrevocably changed when a senseless act of violence leads to a sudden, shocking tragedy. 
CastJack Reynor, Róisín Murphy, Sam Keeley, Lars…
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
CWC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 6:00pm [2012]


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Jem Cohen
A Vienna museum guard befriends a foreign visitor who has been called to Austria because of a medical emergency. The grand Kunsthistorisches Art… 
CastMary Margaret O'Hara, Bobby Sommer, Ela Pipl…
LanguageGerman   CountryAustria
CWC$PG

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Toomas Hussar
Politician Aadu and his wife set out to pick mushrooms on a day A demeaning game-show appearance, an ill-advised mushroom-picking outing that go… 
CastRaivo E. Tamm, Elina Reinold, Juhan Ulfsak, …
LanguageEstonian   CountryEstonia
DISC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 6:15pm [2012]


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Markus Imhoof
Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.” In the past five year… 
CastUnknown
LanguageGerman, English   CountryGermany/Austria/Swit…
DOC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 7:00pm [2012]


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J.T. Petty
Hellbenders, an R-rated 3D exorcism comedy, follows the Order of Hellbound Saints (Brooklyn Parish), a highly secretive and profoundly blasphemo… 
CastClancy Brown, Clifton Collins Jr., Robyn Rik…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

TUE.11.SEP at 8:00pm [2012]


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Kenji Uchida
When Kondo, a wealthy contract killer accidentally hits his head in a bathhouse, an unemployed actor named Sakurai switches their locker keys. S… 
CastMasato Sakai, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ryoko Hirosue…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
CWC$14A

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Treva Wurmfeld
Shepard & Dark is the remarkable story of a friendship in letters. Remember when close friends corresponded by letters? When intimate thoughts … 
CastSam Shepard, Johnny Dark
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 8:15pm [2012]


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Kieron J. Walsh
Jump follows the lives of four 20-somethings whose lives collide one fateful New Year's Eve in a night of fast talk, accidents and intrigue. At … 
CastMartin McCann, Nichola Burley
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland, United King…
CWC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 8:30pm [2012]


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Licinio Azevedo
Veteran filmmaker Licinio Azevedo drew on the stories of real women who endured the Mozambican "re-education camps" for this dramatic and inspir… 
CastIva Mugalela, Sumeia Maculuva, Ermelinda Cim…
LanguagePortuguese/French   CountryMozambique/Portugal/…
CWC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 8:45pm [2012]


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Bence Fliegauf
A Romani family struggles to continue their simple daily routine amid the anxiety of a series of suspected racially-motivated murders of their n… 
CastKatalin Toldi, Gyöngyi Lendvai, Lajos Sárkán…
LanguageHungarian   CountryHungary
CWC$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 9:00pm [2012]


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Pablo Stoll
Dissatisfied with his new life (and wife), a man tries to insinuate himself back into the home of the ex-wife and daughter he left ten years bef… 
CastHumberto de Vargas, Sara Bessio, Anaclara Fe…
LanguageSpanish   CountryUruguay/Argentina
CWC$PG

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Darezhan Omirbayev
Master director Darezhan Omirbayev transposes Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment to modern-day Kazakhstan, in this tale of a university student w… 
CastAmangeldy Aytaly, Nurlan Bajtasov and Edige …
LanguageKazakh   CountryKazakhstan
MAST$14A

TUE.11.SEP at 9:30pm [2012]


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Anja Daelemans, Nicholas Bon…
A heart-warming story for the whole family with a unique insight into North Korean culture Comrade Kim Yong Mi is a North Korean coalminer. Her… 
CastChol Kim, Jong Sim Han, Chung Guk Pak, Yong …
LanguageKorean   CountryNorth Korea
CWC$PG

TUE.11.SEP at 9:45pm [2012]


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Bruce Sweeney
Bruce Sweeney (Last Wedding) returns to the Festival with this neo-noir police procedural — set against the backdrop of economic hard times — ab… 
CastNicholas Lea, Gabrielle Rose, Agam Darshi, P…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
CWC$14A

WED.12.SEP at 2:00pm [2012]