World Cinema

• Mama KEITA
• France,Senegal
• 2009
• 81min

Adama, who achieved accomplishment as a scientist in France, returns to his motherland after fifteen years when he received a letter saying his grandmother was in critical conditio...

World Cinema

• Artan MINAROLLI
• Albania,Austria,France
• 2009
• 90min

Artan Minarolli says: “My film isn’t about killing and getting killed; it is instead born out of the need to show the colors and the complexity of a world in transition towards som...

World Cinema

• Frédéric DUMONT
• Belgium,Canada
• 2009
• 86min

Bruno and Marie live in Morocco with their children. Bruno called the youngest child, Louis, and tells him that he is going to commit suicide soon but asks him to keep it a secret....

World Cinema

• Marcos CARNEVALE
• Argentina
• 2009
• 106min

Buenos Aires’ 1994 AMIA bombing provides the backdrop for this story of a young woman with Down syndrome and her quest for understanding in its aftermath. That July morning is a no...

World Cinema

• Carlos CARRERA
• Mexico
• 2009
• 122min

Set in Mexico’s notorious Ciudad Juarez ? sadly known for its drug crime and the recent murders of hundreds of maquiladora, female factory workers ?, [Backyard] drapes a scathing e...

World Cinema

• Alvaro BRECHNER
• Spain,Uruguay
• 2009
• 110min

“They’re a quixotic pair, a breed of survivors eager to live: two eccentric, crepuscular Europeans passing through a little South American town where time has stood still. Two trav...

World Cinema

• Robert CONNOLLY
• Australia
• 2009
• 111min

It is 1975, shortly after the Vietnam War, and Indonesia invades neighboring East Timor. In the small town of Balibo, five Australian reporters carry out their duties and cover the...

World Cinema

• Cyril De GASPERIS
• France
• 2009
• 71min

Felicia is a helper taking care of Anna who is confined to a wheelchair after dementia. Enduring temperamental and unmanageable Anna, she seldom keeps contact with the outside othe...

World Cinema

• Ounie LECOMTE
• Korea,France
• 2009
• 92min

“I tried to transfer at the present, the emotions of a little girl facing these extraordinary incidents; abandonment and adoption. The year at the orphanage is the time and place o...

World Cinema

• Jirí CHLUMSKY
• SlovakRepublic,Czech Republic,United States
• 2009
• 124min

“The most satisfactory dramas have proven to be real life stories. Whatever we may fictionalize can never be as real as if created from the course of life. It needs to be handled m...