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World Cinema

The King of Escape
  • Alain GUIRAUDIE
  • France
  • 2009
  • 97min

Armand, who trades farm machines in the countryside, is a middle-aged homosexual man who is fairly popular among the group of men. When he was tired of his life, he fell in love wi...

World Cinema

Last Ride
  • Glendyn IVIN
  • Australia
  • 2009
  • 100min

Hugo Weaving turns in an award-worthy performance as Kev, the troubled father of 10-year-old Chook, on a road trip after yet another violent act sends him on the run. The story hin...

World Cinema

Lebanon
  • Samuel MAOZ
  • Israel
  • 2009
  • 92min

Last year’s autobiographical [Waltz with Bashir] looked at the Israeli-Lebanese war of 1980s as a series of remembrances wrought in animated images. With [Lebanon], Samuel Maoz exa...

World Cinema

The Legacy
  • Bernard ÉMOND
  • Canada
  • 2009
  • 96min

As he comes to the realization that his days of service may be coming to an end, Dr. Yves Rainville starts seeking his replacement?someone to come to the once vital mining town of ...

World Premiere

World Cinema

Leningrad
  • Alexander BURAVSKY
  • Russia,UK
  • 2009
  • 110min

One of World War II’s most devastating and deadly battles was not an armed fight at all. It was the 900-day siege of Leningrad, a protracted Nazi operation that took the lives of m...

World Premiere

World Cinema

Letters to Father Jacob
  • Klaus HÄRÖ
  • Finland
  • 2009
  • 74min

When the needed becomes the needy, faith can take on transcendental meaning. Leila is a convict freshly released from prison after only 12 years of a life sentence for murder. With...

World Premiere

World Cinema

Liquor Store Cactus
  • Eugene KIM
  • United States
  • 2009
  • 86min

First-time filmmaker Eugene Kim realizes a wholly contemporary teen slacker drama that rings true even as it treads in bittersweet romance. Skateboarder Kohl seems to be headed for...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Long Street
  • Revel FOX
  • SouthAfrica
  • 2009
  • 96min

Having separated parents, Sia is addicted to drugs. Sia comes home after treatment and rehabilitation, but she has already lost trust from Maria, her mother. Maris receives an offe...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Lourdes
  • Jessica HAUSNER
  • Austria,France,Germany
  • 2009
  • 99min

Lourdes has been the destination of the faithful seeking absolution, comfort, wisdom, and miracles since the late 1800s, when the Virgin Mary appeared to a miller’s daughter. Once ...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Low Lights
  • Ignas MIŠKINIS
  • Lithuania
  • 2009
  • 82min

“The main engine of nowadays life is the lack of time. Everything is developing and changing at a maximum speed and we must keep up and overtake, too… But sometimes this aimless sp...

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