World Cinema

• Andrea ŠTAKA
• Switzerland
• 2006
• 87min

Three women from the former Yugoslavia are the central figures in Andrea Staka`s nuanced look at survival and generational misunderstanding. The rigid Ruza is 50, originally from S...

World Cinema

• Boris KHLEBNIKOV
• Russia
• 2006
• 101min

It is summertime, and young Lyonya`s cursed with the need to make a decision for the first time in his life. In a town where a factory career was the default, its closing forces ev...

World Cinema

• David GLEESON
• Ireland,UK,Germany
• 2006
• 93min

Security guard Joe Yumba (an incredible Eriq Ebouaney) is a Congolese refugee whose life is on an upswing. He has won asylum in Ireland, and learns his family has been granted stat...

World Cinema

• Jasmila ŽBANIĆ
• Bosnia and Herzegovina,Austria
• 2006
• 90min

Esma, a single mother living in the Grbavica neighborhood of Sarajevo, is compelled to deal with history when her 12-year-old daughter Sara demands proof that her father died a mar...

World Cinema

• Guy MOSHE
• USA,Cambodia
• 2006
• 113min

The agonizing subject of child prostitution is at the center of [Holly], the debut film from writer Guy Moshe. The complex relationship between 12-year-old Holly and American antiq...

World Cinema

• Laila PAKALNIŊA
• Latvia,Slovenia,Estonia
• 2006
• 74min

When a hijacker forces a plane to land at Riga airport, seven-year-old Tom, traveling along, volunteers himself as a hostage. When the highjacker begins to make his demands, Tom`s ...

World Cinema

• Ray LAWRENCE
• Australia
• 2006
• 123min

Based on a story by Raymond Carver, [Jindabyne] is a typically layered emotional study of people at a moral crossroads from acclaimed filmmaker Ray Lawrence. While on a fishing tri...

World Cinema

• Aki KAURISMÄKI
• Finland
• 2006
• 80min

This is the film that completes a trilogy begun in [Drifting Clouds] and continued with [The Man Without a Past]. Rather than making the a series of connected films with clear caus...

World Cinema

• Florian Henkel von DONNERMARCK
• Germany
• 2006
• 137min

First-time filmmaker Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck looks to recent German history for this gripping tale of what happens when an observer teeters over the line into participatio...

World Cinema

• Paul Andrew WILLIAMS
• UK
• 2006
• 86min

"The aim of [London to Brighton] was to create a piece of work that bled reality, that created a world generally ignored in today`s society, a world full of characters that we pass...