World Cinema

• Stéphane BRIZÉ
• France
• 2009
• 101min

Jean is living an unsophisticated and stable life with his lovely wife and son. One day, when he went to school to pick up his son, Jean meets his son’s homeroom teacher, ‘Mademois...

World Cinema

• Daniel KAMWA
• Cameroon,France
• 2009
• 92min

Nchare, whose parents died when he was sixteen, lives in Cameroun helping his uncle who is a potter. He seeks love from Mapon after falling in love with her at first sight, but in ...

World Cinema

• Adam ELLIOT
• Australia
• 2009
• 94min

It could be said that the clay-animation [Mary and Max] is a film by, for, and about people who don’t “fit in,” or who don’t think they do?whatever that may entail. Based on animat...

World Cinema

• Oren MOVERMAN
• United States
• 2009
• 105min

“The film is not about casualties of war really. It′s about the people left behind to deal with life after casualties of war have gone. [The Messenger] may say a thing or two about...

World Cinema

• Branko SCHMIDT
• Croatia
• 2009
• 85min

Croatia as a nation is still emerging from the shadow of war, and in [Metastases], that shadow looms long. Set in Zagreb’s criminal underworld and drug subculture, the film explore...

World Cinema

• Tarik SALEH
• Sweden,Denmark,Norway
• 2009
• 82min

An all-star cast that includes Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan and Alexander Skarsgard lends their voices to this ambitious film four years in the making. In class...

World Cinema

• Claudia LLOSA
• Spain,Peru
• 2009
• 94min

Because of the dread inspired in her by her the horrors of systematic sexual violence her mother suffered during the Shining Path years in Peru, Fausta keeps a potato lodged in her...

World Cinema

• Alexander PROSHKIN
• Russia
• 2009
• 112min

In 1956, a woman in a small Russian town picked up a religious icon, danced with it, and allegedly froze on the spot. She remained that way for 128 days, and the event came to be k...

World Cinema

• Jaroslaw SZODA,Boleslaw PAWICA
• Poland,Sweden
• 2009
• 107min

The road movie as a metaphor often feels rote, but in the hands of skilled filmmakers, it can also be heartbreaking, humorous, inspiring, and bittersweet. Boleslaw Pawica and Jarek...

World Cinema

• Felix van GROENINGEN
• Belgium
• 2009
• 96min

Becoming successful doesn’t require a good rearing environment. The thirteen-year-old boy in this film is proof of just that. Although the boy grew up in an environment where his f...