World Cinema

• Alexei MIZGIREV
• Russia
• 2009
• 105min

At a time of social and emotional distress, director Alexei Mizgirev posits that the drive to survive ? and surpass ? a gruesome situation will prevail. The years when Russia was m...

World Cinema

• Ruba NADDA
• Canada,Ireland
• 2009
• 88min

Fleeting, intense romance has been a subject of art ? and cinema ? for decades: [Brief Encounter], [Before Sunrise], and [Lost in Translation] are just a few. In that vein comes [C...

World Cinema

• Raymond DE FELITTA
• United States
• 2009
• 103min

“I realized that the only way we can begin to solve the world’s problems is to solve our own. And the key thing that goes missing, even in the most intimate relationships, is a tru...

World Cinema

• Carl BESSAI
• Canada
• 2009
• 95min

“As a young man growing up in Alberta, I related immediately to Cole’s plight of wanting to build a better life for himself. His sense of entrapment in the town, his obligations to...

World Cinema

• Petr BUSLOV,Kirill SEREBRENNIKOV,Ivan VRYPAYEV,Alexei GERMAN Jr.,Boris KHLEBNIKOV
• Russia
• 2009
• 95min

“We didn’t invite any celebrities. The authors of the [Crush] are friends we love. And we got a chance to get together and to be a little naughty. The rules were simple: each direc...

World Cinema

• Hubert GILLET
• France
• 2009
• 83min

Adopted when he was younger, Louis leaves home to find his biological mother after a fight with his step-parents. Operating a flower shop and living alone in Solange denies when he...

World Cinema

• Jean-Philippe DUVAL
• Canada
• 2009
• 140min

“Like many young people his age, he wanted to change the world, but Dede was without a doubt the biggest idealist, dreamer and poet of us all. The one who walked taller than anyone...

World Cinema

• Ole BORNEDAL
• Denmark
• 2009
• 100min

Draped in the conventions of a thriller, Ole Bornedal looks into the heart of small town Denmark to reveal its xenophobic, classist nature. Lars, the town reprobate, runs over Anna...

World Cinema

• Yorgos Lanthimos
• Greece
• 2009
• 108min

Greece now has its own version of the Romanian film [4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days]. Grabbing the grand prize at Un Certain Regard of Cannes this year, this film brought cinematic pri...

World Cinema

• Nicolas STEIL
• Luxembourg,Switzerland
• 2009
• 100min

During World War II, young men in Luxemburg were forced to choose either one of the following: to be drafted involuntarily and fight for the Nazis, or to hide inside a coal mine at...