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2008 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL OVERVIEW:

PART 2

SPEED RACER ZOOMS INTO

2008 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL

EMILE HIRSCH as Speed Racer in the Mach 5, in a scene from Warner Bros. Pictures' and Village

Roadshow Pictures' action adventure "Speed Racer," distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

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Love, Pain & Vice Versa

(Amor, Dolor y Viceversa) In Spanish with English subtitles.

[World Narrative Feature Competition]

[LOVEP] | 2008 | 86 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa

World Premiere

Interests: Drama, Latin American, Psychological, Romance, Sex, Suspense, Thriller

Cast & Credits

Director: Alfonso Pineda-Ulloa Barbara Mori Leonardo Sbaraglia Marina De Tavira Irene Azuela Joaquin Cosio Tony Dalton

Program Notes

This stirring and moody psychological thriller finds two strangers subconsciously

linked when their recurring dreams begin to topple their reality. Featuring strong

performances by the sizzling Bárbara Mori (La mujer di mi hermano) and Leonardo

Sbaraglia (Intacto).


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Mamitas

(Mamitas) In English, Spanish with English subtitles.

[Short Student Competition]

[SDEAL] | 2007 | 24 min | Short Narrative

Directed by: Nicholas Ozeki

New York Premiere

Interests: Dramedy, Latino, Teens, Youth

Cast & Credits

Director: Nicholas Ozeki Boris Orozco Minni Jo Mazzola Maynor Alvarado Cecilia Franco Ramon Chavez Antonio Farre

Program Notes

A teenage cassanova teaches his best buddy how to talk to girls in Mamitas.


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Mandatory Service

(Mandatory Service) In English, Hebrew, Arabic with English subtitles.

[Short Documentary Competition]

[SWIND] | 2007 | 19 min | Short Documentary

Directed by: Jessica Habie

World Premiere

Interests: Documentary, Jewish, War

www.artandapathyfilms.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Jessica Habie

Program Notes

Mandatory Service is a timely tale of today's military.


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Marina Of The Zabbaleen

(Marina Of The Zabbaleen) In Arabic with English subtitles.

[Discovery]

[MARIN] | 2008 | 70 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Engi Wassef

World Premiere

Interests: Documentary, Female Directors, Middle Eastern, Politics, Youth

www.marinathemovie.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Engi Wassef

Program Notes

In the sandy villages outside Cairo, the Zabbaleen eke out a living recycling the flood

of waste pouring out of the most populous area on the African continent. But one girl-

-six-year-old free spirit Marina--dreams of a better life. This poetic documentary tells

her story.


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My Life Inside

(Mi vida dentro) In Spanish, English with English subtitles.

[World Documentary Feature Competition]

[MYLIF] | 2007 | 122 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Lucía Gajá

North American Premiere

Interests: Documentary, Female Directors, Immigration, Latin American, Social Issues, Women

www.mividadentro.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Lucía Gajá

Program Notes

At 17, mild-mannered Rosa Jiménez came to the United States to provide a better life

for her family back in Mexico. This riveting, heartbreaking film examines how she

comes to stand accused of murder in a Texas courtroom.


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My Marlon and Brando

(Gitmek) In English, Kurdish, Turkish with English subtitles. [Feature Narrative] 7 Cities


[MARLO] | 2008 | 92 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Hüseyin Karabey


Interests: Drama, Middle Eastern, Women

www.asifilm.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Hüseyin Karabey Ayça Damgaci Hama Ali Khan Savas Emrah Ozdemir Cengiz Bozkurt Ani Pekkaya Volga Sorgu Tekinoglu


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Program Notes

In March 2003, as American bombs began falling on Baghdad, Turkish actress Ayça

Damgaci left her flat in Istanbul and headed for the Iraq border. Behind that cordon

was Kurdish actor Hama Ali Khan, the love of Damgaci's life-her moon and stars, her

Marlon and her Brando, her everything. Hüseyin Karabey makes his narrative debut

retelling the tale of Damgaci's quixotic road trip to the war zone, with Damgaci

playing herself and Khan appearing in the actual video love notes he sent to her

during their time apart. My Marlon and Brando is a piece of rough magic, a film with

a soul as light, a heart as heavy, and a will as steely as its heroine's own. Karabey's

experience as a director of documentaries shines through in his devotion to

ethnographic detail-he's eager to let the camera stray, vérité-style, and this helps to

bring home Damgaci's growing sense of dislocation. Borders may be porous, but it is

still possible to feel a stranger in a strange land. Really, though, the movie is

Damgaci's-a brave, tender, and frequently very funny tribute to her love for Khan.

Read aloud, her letters to him make for something wonderful and new in the history

of lovers beseeching. Communicating in English, their shared tongue, Damgaci's

clumsy grasp of the language elevates into rhetoric all the more moving for being

flawed. Likewise, through Khan's ham-fistedly hilarious videos, you miss him on

Dagmaci's behalf. Politics may turn this comedy about unlikely lovers into a tragedy,

but even in its fleeting ungainliness,My Marlon and Brando is a fitting homage to

Damgaci and Khan,two matched souls that no impassable border could ever tear

asunder.

--– Peter Scarlet

New Boy

(New Boy)

[Short Narrative Competition]


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[SOFFT] | 2007 | 11 min | Short Narrative

Directed by: Steph Green

New York Premiere

Interests: African, Coming of Age, Drama

www.zanzibarfilms.net/newboy.htm

Cast & Credits

Director: Steph Green Olutunji Ebun-Cole Norma Sheahan Simon O'Driscoll Sinead Maguire Fionn O'Shea Byron Kumbala

Program Notes

Being the New Boy isn't easy if you're trying to fit in and make friends.

Old Man Bebo

(Old Man Bebo) In Spanish with English subtitles.


[OLDMA] | 2007 | 111 min | Feature Documentary


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Directed by: Carlos Carcas


Interests: Documentary, Latin American, Music

www.oldmanbebo.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Carlos Carcas Bebo Valdés Chucho Valdés Leonardo Acosta Omara Portuondo Israel López "Cachao" Fernando Trueba

Program Notes

Nearly 90, Bebo Valdés is one of the greatest living Cuban musicians. This joyful

documentary celebrates the man who was a key figure in the development of mambo

and whose life reflects the experiences of many Cubans since 1959.

An Omar Broadway Film

(An Omar Broadway Film)


[OMARB] | 2007 | 93 min | Feature Documentary


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Directed by: Douglas Tirola and Omar Broadway

World Premiere

Interests: African American, Crime, Documentary, Social Issues, Urban, Violence

www.omarbroadwayfilm.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Douglas Tirola and Omar Broadway

Program Notes

Using a contraband video camera inside the notorious gang unit at Newark's

Northern State Prison, a jailed Bloods member puts his life on the line to document

guards' corruption and excessive force. His groundbreaking footage exposes the

violent and unseen world behind bars.

Paraiso Travel

(Paraiso Travel) In Spanish, English with English subtitles.

[PARAI] | 2008 | 116 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Simon Brand

International Premiere

Interests: Drama, Immigration, Latin American, Latino, New York, Romance, Social Issues

www.paraisotravelmovie.com


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Cast & Credits

Director: Simon Brand Aldemar Correa Angelica Blandon John Leguizamo Ana de la Reguera Margarita Rosa de Fransico Pedro Capo

Program Notes

In this Colombian box office hit, a lovesick teen (Aldemar Correa) follows his

seductive girlfriend as they illegally travel from Medellín to New York. When they are

separated in Queens, he begins a desperate search to find her. Featuring John

Leguizamo and Ana de la Reguera (Nacho Libre).

Playing

(Jogo de Cena) In Portuguese with English subtitles.

[Showcase]

[PLAYI] | 2007 | 104 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Eduardo Coutinho

New York Premiere


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Interests: About Cinema, Documentary, Women

Cast & Credits

Director: Eduardo Coutinho Marília Pêra Fernanda Torres Andréa Betrão

Program Notes

One of Brazil's most respected documentary filmmakers invited two dozen women to

be filmed as they told their life stories. Months later, he filmed a group of actresses as

they reenacted the same stories. The result couldn't be simpler-or more inexplicably

magical!

Playing for Change: Peace Through Music

(Playing for Change: Peace Through Music) In English, Spanish, Tibetan, Zulu with English subtitles.

[PEACE] | 2007 | 76 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Jonathan Walls and Mark Johnson

World Premiere

Interests: Documentary, Music, Social Issues

www.playiingforchange.com


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Cast & Credits

Director: Jonathan Walls and Mark Johnson

Program Notes

True devotees of music's uniting power, Johnson and Walls hauled recording

equipment around the world in search of great music and inspiration. The result is a

rousing tribute to both music and the adventurous spirit.

A Powerful Noise

(A Powerful Noise) In Vietnamese, Bosnian, Bambara with English subtitles.

[POWER] | 2008 | 90 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Tom Cappello

World Premiere

Interests: African, Documentary, Female Directors, Health Issues, Social Issues, Women

www.apowerfulnoise.org

Cast & Credits

Director: Tom Cappello


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Program Notes

Bookended by call-to-action quotes from Margaret Mead and Mahatma Gandhi, this

inspiring documentary follows three extraordinary women--in Bosnia-Herzegovina,

Mali, and Vietnam--as they lead day-to-day battles against ignorance, poverty,

oppression, and ethnic strife.

Pray the Devil Back to Hell

(Pray the Devil Back to Hell)


[PRAYT] | 2008 | 72 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Gini Reticker

World Premiere

Interests: African, Documentary, Female Directors, Politics, Social Issues, War, Women

www.praythedevilbacktohell.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Gini Reticker Leymah Ghowee Etweda "Sugars" Cooper Vaiba Flomo Asatu Kenneth Janet Johnson-Bryant Etty Weah


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Program Notes

After more than a decade of civil wars leading to more than 250,000 deaths and one

million refugees, a group of courageous women rose up to force peace on their

shattered Liberia and propel to victory the first female head of state on the African

continent.

Ramchand Pakistani

(Ramchand Pakistani) In Urdu with English subtitles.


[RAMCH] | 2008 | 105 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Mehreen Jabbar

World Premiere

Interests: Family Issues, Female Directors, Social Issues, War

www.ramchandpakistani.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Mehreen Jabbar Nandita Das Rashid Farooqui Syed Fazal Hussain Maria Wasti Noman Ijaz Navaid Jabbar


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Program Notes

The most haunting frame of Ramchand Pakistani may be its first. Over a black

screen, the words appear: adapted from actual events. The world is full of mad facts,

but among the maddest is that in 2002, as Indian and Pakistani troops massed against

each other on the countries' border, an eight-year-old boy named Ramchand

wandered over the invisible line separating his own side of the desert from that of

India's and was taken prisoner. Going in search of Ramchand, his father followed

him across and was captured as well. They were held in an overcrowded Indian jail

for five years. In her first feature film, Mehreen Jabbar lays out the political contexts

of Ramchand's situation with exceptional fluidity. Titles at the top establish the

geopolitics, and the more localized issues are threaded through early scenes. Most

salient of all is the fact that Ramchand's family is part of a Hindu tribe of

untouchables, making them both suspect and powerless in Pakistan. Bollywood star

Nandita Das thus proves doubly brave for taking the part of Ramchand's mother:

Ramchand Pakistani isn't exactly a valentine to India. But the film does have a heart,

paying heed to the characters crowding the jailhouse and shaping the child's universe

within it. Playing the younger Ramchand, Syed Fazal Hussain proves one of those

miracle discoveries-he's a real kid, all piss and vinegar and shaking vulnerabilities-

and Jabbar does well to dwell on his face as much as she does. Special note must also

go to cinematographer Sofian Khan, who shoots both the actors and the ravishing

desert scenery with an elegant, wide-angled tenderness. The world is, after all, full of

mad facts-but full of beauty, too.

--– Peter Scarlet

Redbelt

(Redbelt)

[Gala]


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[REDBE] | 2008 | 99 min | Feature Narrative

World Premiere

Interests: *ESPN*, Action, Drama, Sports

Cast & Credits

Chiwetel Ejiofor Alice Braga Tim Allen Joe Mantegna Emily Mortimer Rodrigo Santoro

Program Notes

Mike Terry (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is a Jiu-jitsu teacher who has avoided the prizefighting

circuit by operating a self-defense studio. An accident on a dark, rainy night changes

Terrys life dramatically, introducing him to a world of promoters (Ricky Jay, Joe

Mantegna) and movie star Chet Frank (Tim Allen). In order to regain his honor,

Terry must step into the ring for the first time in his life. A Sony Pictures Classics

presentation

The Second Line

(The Second Line)


[SSPLI] | 2007 | 20 min | Short Narrative


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Directed by: John Magary

New York Premiere

Interests: Drama

http://www.cufilmfest.com/films/second_line.html

Cast & Credits

Director: John Magary Al Thompson J.D. Williams Dane Rhodes Karen Pritchett Saida Arrika Ekulona Brittany Parker

Program Notes

Two cousins search for work in post-Katrina New Orleans in The Second Line. After

MacArthur’s savings are stolen from his FEMA trailer, he and his cousin Natt take

work gutting a house. The Second Line was a national finalist for the Student

Academy Awards® and has played at Sundance, SXSW, and the Edinburgh

International Film Festival.

Seven Days Sunday

(Sieben Tage Sonntag) In German with English subtitles.

[Discovery]


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[SUNDA] | 2007 | 80 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Niels Laupert


Interests: Drama, Teens, Violence, Youth

www.sevendayssunday.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Niels Laupert Ludwig Trepte Martin Kiefer Jil Funke Jennifer Ulrich Antonio Wannek Karin Baal

Program Notes

Teenage dropouts Adam and Tommek pass their days hanging out and drinking in

their grim housing complex, but as grinding boredom combines with Adam's

insecurity and Tommek's penchant for petty crime, they make a bet that plunges

them into violence. Based on actual events.

Speed Racer

(Speed Racer)

[Gala]


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[SPEED] | 2008 | 120 min | Feature Narrative

World Premiere

Interests: Action, Coming of Age

Cast & Credits

Christina Ricci Matthew Fox Emile Hirsch Susan Sarandon John Goodman

Program Notes

Action. Born to race cars, Speed Racer (Emile Hirsch) is aggressive, instinctive and,

most of all, fearless. His only real competition is the memory of the brother he

idolized-the legendary Rex Racer, whose death in a race has left behind a legacy that

Speed is driven to fulfill. Speed is loyal to the family racing business, led by his father,

Pops Racer (John Goodman), the designer of Speed's thundering Mach 5. When

Speed turns down a lucrative and tempting offer from Royalton Industries, he not

only infuriates the company's maniacal owner (Roger Allam) but uncovers a terrible

secret-some of the biggest races are being fixed by a handful of ruthless moguls who

manipulate the top drivers to boost profits. If Speed won't drive for Royalton,

Royalton will see to it that the Mach 5 never crosses another finish line. The only way

for Speed to save his family's business and the sport he loves is to beat Royalton at his

own game. With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie (Christina

Ricci), Speed teams with his one-time rival-the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox)-to

win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally

known as The Crucible.

--- Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures / Village Road

A Story of the Red Hills

(Lal Pahare'r Katha) In Bengali with English subtitles.


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[Discovery]

[STORY] | 2007 | 117 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Remo


Interests: Dance

Cast & Credits

Director: Remo Mithun Chakraborty Shankar Chakraborty Bidipta Chakraborty Moumita Gupta Kayyum Ali Rishi Mitra

Program Notes

The story of a disheartened dancer and a disabled boy--both of whose lives are

transformed by the magic and power of Chhou, a traditional Bengali dance of great

spectacle and color-is recounted movingly, if improbably, by a renowned Bollywood

choreographer.

Strangers

(Strangers) In English, Hebrew, Arabic, French with English subtitles.


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[Showcase]

[STRAN] | 2007 | 81 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv

New York Premiere

Interests: Drama, Middle Eastern, Politics, Romance

www.strangers.co.il

Cast & Credits

Director: Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv Liron Levo Lubna Azabal Abdaliah El Akal Birol Ünel Partick Albenque Dominique Loilia

Program Notes

In Berlin, an Israeli man and a Palestinian woman accidentally swap backpacks on

their way to the World Cup. Meeting again, they discover an instant connection, but

can two people from the same land but different worlds transcend the larger struggle

between their communities?

Terra

(Terra)

[Encounters]


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[TERRA] | 2007 | 80 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Aristomenis Tsirbas

U.S. Premiere

Interests: Adventure, Animation, Drama, Youth

Cast & Credits

Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas Evan Rachel Wood Luke Wilson Brian Cox David Cross Chris Evans Justin Long

Program Notes

When the last remaining humans exhaust Earth's resources, an alien girl on the

idyllic planet Terra must fight the earthlings who want to inhabit her planet!

Featuring the voices of Evan Rachel Wood, Brian Cox, James Garner, Danny Glover,

Amanda Peet, David Cross, and Luke Wilson

This Is Not A Robbery

(This Is Not A Robbery)

[Discovery]


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[ROBBE] | 2008 | 75 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: Lucas Jansen and Adam Kurland

World Premiere

Interests: Aging, Biography, Coming of Age, Crime, Documentary

thisisnotarobbery.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Lucas Jansen and Adam Kurland

Program Notes

One morning, J.L. "Red" Rountree woke, ate breakfast, went for a drive, and robbed

a bank. He was 87. This is the unusual story of how this devoted family man and law

abiding senior citizen became one of the country's most notorious serial bank robbers.

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon

(Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon) In Mandarin with English subtitles.

[Encounters]

[KINGD] | 2008 | 101 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Daniel Lee


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Interests: Asian, Drama, History, Violence, War

Cast & Credits

Director: Daniel Lee Andy Lau Sammo Hung Maggie Q Andy On Vanesse

Program Notes

A conscript into the faceless war among China's ancient kingdoms, Zhao (Andy Lau,

House of Flying Daggers) earns his stripes in this epic's thrillingly stylish battle

sequences. Decades later, he meets his match in Cao (Maggie Q, Mission: Impossible

III ).

Thriller Night

(Thriller Night)

[THRIL] | 120 min | Uncategorized

Unknown Premiere


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Cast & Credits

Director: John Landis Michael Jackson

Program Notes

Join filmmaker and “Thriller” video director John Landis for a special 25th

anniversary screening of Michael Jackson's epic 1984 music video, plus the classic

Making of Thriller. Learn the Thriller dance and take part in the world's largest

zombie disco. Become a zombie at the Thriller face-painting station. Cast your ballot

at our Michael Jackson look-alike contest. We're kicking off the evening with a classic

Solid Gold Dance Party. . . and bringing out the ghouls as soon as the sun goes down.

The Wackness

(The Wackness)

[Spotlight]

[WACKN] | 2008 | 110 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Jonathan Levine

New York Premiere

Interests: Comedy

www.thewackness.com


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Cast & Credits

Director: Jonathan Levine Ben Kingsley Josh Peck Mary-Kate Olsen Method Man Olivia Thirlby

Program Notes

Jonathan Levine's quirky, bittersweet coming-of-age comedy follows the last summer

before college in the life of Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck). His family lives under the

constant threat of eviction, his parents fight relentlessly, and he's stuck in a scorching

Manhattan with few friends, depressed and lonely. He spends his days selling

marijuana to stoners in Central Park and crushing on the hottest girl in school,

Stephanie (Olivia Thirlby). But he finds his closest friendship and most reliable

relationship by trading weed for therapy with Stephanie's stepfather, Dr. Squires (Sir

Ben Kingsley), a man with issues of his own. Levine's mid-'90s memory play is one of

the first films to truly treat the period with a loving sense of nostalgia. Reminiscing

about a New York City slowly adjusting to the Giuliani way of life and a pop culture

that finds white boys embracing hip-hop music and culture, Levine creates a new kind

of tale about teenage identity and angst, one viewed through the prism of a post-turn-

of-the-Millennium and post-9/11 world. The Wackness exposes a teenage lifestyle that

is messy and complicated but still filled with wonderment, romance, and new

understandings of the world and one's place in it. The director's stylistic flourishes

combined with playful but complex performances by Kingsley, up-and-comers Peck

(Nickelodeon's Drake and Josh) and Thirlby (Juno), Method Man, and Famke

Janssen help the audience learn exactly what the difference is between the wackness

and the dopeness!

--– Aaron Dobbs

War Child

(War Child) In English, Nuer, Dinka with English subtitles.


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[Discovery]

[WCHIL] | 2008 | 93 min | Feature Documentary

Directed by: C. Karim Chrobog


Interests: About Cinema, African, Documentary, Music, Social Issues, War

www.warchildmovie.com

Cast & Credits

Director: C. Karim Chrobog Emmanuel Jal

Program Notes

Emmanuel Jal spent his childhood as a soldier in the Sudanese People's Liberation

Army. Now this rising hip-hop star is using his music to raise awareness about his

homeland's ongoing humanitarian crisis.

War, Inc.

(War, Inc.)

[Spotlight]

[WAINC] | 2006 | 106 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Joshua Seftel


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U.S. Premiere

Interests: Action, Comedy, Middle Eastern, Politics, Satire, Thriller

hhttp://www.firstlookmedia.com

Cast & Credits

Director: Joshua Seftel John Cusack Hilary Duff Marisa Tomei Joan Cusack Sir Ben Kingsley Dan Ackroyd

Program Notes

A hit man is sent to a fictional war-torn Middle Eastern country where the United

States is waging the first fully outsourced war. John Cusack (who co-wrote and

produced), Joan Cusack, Marisa Tomei, Hilary Duff, and Sir Ben Kingsley star in this

biting satire

Whatever Lola Wants

(Whatever Lola Wants) In English, Arabic with English subtitles.

[Encounters]

[LOLAW] | 2007 | 115 min | Feature Narrative


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Directed by: Nabil Ayouch


Interests: Dance, Islam, Women

Cast & Credits

Director: Nabil Ayouch Laura Ramsey Assaad Bouab Carmen Lebbos Hichem Rostom Achmed Akkabi Nadim Sawalha

Program Notes

Perky blonde Lola is an aspiring dancer in New York, and she's so smitten by a

hunky Egyptian that when he unexpectedly heads home, she follows him. In Cairo,

she discovers an even bigger passion-for belly dancing-and vows to master the art.

Worlds Apart

(To Verdener) In Danish with English subtitles.

[Discovery]

[WORLD] | 2008 | 108 min | Feature Narrative


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Directed by: Thomas Heinesen and Niels Arden Oplev


Interests: Coming of Age, Drama, Family Issues, Religion, Teens, Women, Youth

www.toverdener.dk

Cast & Credits

Director: Thomas Heinesen and Niels Arden Oplev Rosalinde Mynster Pilou Asbæk Jens Jørn Spottag Sarah Boberg Sarah Juel Werner Anders W. Berthelsen

Program Notes

The world of a dutiful daughter and Jehovah's Witness unravels when she falls for a

nonbeliever. She is torn between her conscience, faith, and passion-and forced to

make a choice between a love and a family that are worlds apart. Based on a true

story.

The Year of the Pig

(El año del cerdo) In Spanish with English subtitles.



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[SOFFT] | 2007 | 10 min | Short Narrative

Directed by: Claudia Calderón


Interests: Social Issues

Cast & Credits

Director: Claudia Calderón José Antonio Rodríguez Antulio Marín Annia Bu Caridad Amarán Alejandro Chiu Mario Guerra Luis Alberto Delgado Hilda Chiu Marlenys Choy Chang Bárbara Díaz Joan Abreu

Program Notes

Chang Rodríguez, a delivery boy from Havana’s Chinatown, is tired of his routine

and longs for anything that’ll change his life. Completely unaware of his own power,

he becomes an instrument of destiny every 12 years, on the year of the pig.

Yonkers Joe

(Yonkers Joe)

[Discovery]


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[YONKE] | 2008 | 100 min | Feature Narrative

Directed by: Robert Celestino

World Premiere

Interests: Crime, Drama, Family Issues, New York

Cast & Credits

Director: Robert Celestino Chazz Palminteri Christine Lahti Tom Guiry Michael Lerner Linus Roache Michael Rispoli

Program Notes

A small-time con man's search for the perfect scam is disrupted by unexpected family

challenges. This heartwarming drama features memorable performances by Chazz

Palminteri and Christine Lahti.

Zoned In

(Zoned In)

[Discovery]

[ZONED] | 2008 | 90 min | Feature Documentary


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Directed by: Daniela Zanzotto

World Premiere

Interests: African American, Biography, Coming of Age, Documentary, New York, Social Issues

www.disruptive.co.uk

Cast & Credits

Director: Daniela Zanzotto

Program Notes

Filmed over the course of nine years, this documentary traces the remarkable journey

of 16-year-old Daniel from a Bronx high school to an Ivy League university while

simultaneously exploring the role of race and class in the American education system.

By

David L. “Money Train” Watts

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