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World Cinema

State of Violence
  • Khalo MATABANE
  • Republic of South Africa,France
  • 2010
  • 77min

Bobedi, who has recently been appointed CEO of a large mining company, is celebrating his success with his friends and family, when his wife, Joy, is murdered in plain sight. Frust...

World Cinema

The Truce
  • Sventala PROSKURINA
  • Russia
  • 2010
  • 95min

A god-forsaken town that can’t be found on most maps; that’s where Egor Matveev is headed. It’s his hometown. He wants to live, love, maybe find a wife. Egor is a trucker who share...

World Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The First Stone
  • Ebrahim FOURJESH
  • Iran
  • 2010
  • 82min

Ebrahim Foruzesh’s black comedy about the rituals of life and death pivots on Hassan, who has been dreaming of dying every night and so goes into the city and gets himself a tombst...

World Premiere

World Cinema

Twice a Woman
  • François DELISLE
  • Canada
  • 2010
  • 94min

[Twice a Woman] is a feminist drama about Catherine, who, after her violent husband puts her life in serious danger one night, decides to run away with her son to start a new life ...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Voice over
  • Svetoslav Todorov OVCHAROV
  • Bulgaria
  • 2010
  • 107min

Bulgaria in the 1970s. A director of photography, Anton, gets his wife and their sick son to flee to West Berlin in order to cure the boy’s illness. Staying behind in Bulgaria, Ant...

International Premiere

World Cinema

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell
  • Sérgio MACHADO
  • Brazil
  • 2010
  • 101min

Through the roaring thunderstorm and tossing of the sea, the voice of Quincas who is dead for the second time, echoes in the air. When the popular bum dies before his 72nd birthday...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

The Fourth Portrait
  • CHUNG Monghong
  • Taiwan
  • 2010
  • 102min

After bed-ridden father died, a boy comes to live with his estranged mother. Having difficulties to adapt himself with new life, he spends time with a petty thief. One night, as th...

International Premiere

World Cinema

Wasted on the Young
  • Ben C. LUCAS
  • Australia
  • 2010
  • 97min

With poetic sense and keen storytelling, Ben C. Lucas creates a unique debut feature. In an elite high school that strictly enforces social status, Zack is the king, and his stepbr...

International Premiere

A Window on Asian Cinema

Gesher
  • Vahid VAKILIFAR
  • Iran
  • 2010
  • 84min

[Gesher] tells a story of three men of modest means who refuse to stop dreaming. Impoverished day workers in the affluent Southern Iranian city of Oslouyeh, Ghobad, Jahan, and Neza...

International Premiere

World Cinema

A Useful Life
  • Federico VEIROJ
  • Uruguay,Spain
  • 2010
  • 67min

Jorge is a middle - aged man in his forties who works both as a programmer of a film archive and host of a film news program at a radio station in Montevideo. After 25 year of work...

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