JOHN RABE
Director/Screemplay: Florian Gallenberger – Producer: Hoffman & Vosges EntertainmentGmbH, EOS Entertainment, Majestic Filmproduktion, Pampa Production
Cast: Ulrich TUKUR, Daniel BRÜHL, Steve BUSCEMI, Anne CONSIGNY, Dagmar MANZAL, Zhang JINGCHU, Mathias HERRMANN

COMPETITION – World Cinema
Revolted by the Japanese’s cruelty during the rape of Nanjing (1937-38), the German director of Siemens (Ulrich TUKUR), who’s registered at the Nazi party, will do everything possible to save the Chinese from this massacre, with helps of an American medical (Steve BUSCEMI) and a French teacher (Anne CONSIGNY).
Germany/China/France 2009 – Biography/Drama – 134mn

KELIN (The Daughter-in-Law)
Director: Ermek Tursunov – Screenplay: ET & Aktan Arym Kubat – Producer: Gulnara Abikeyeva
Cast: Gulsharat Zhubyeva, Kuandyk Kystykbaev & Nurzhan Turganbayev

COMPETITION – World Cinema – WORLD PREMIERE
A woman is led by her family to her new husband’s home, to live with, presumably, his elderly mother and younger brother. Despite being forced into the marriage, she discovers that he is not such a bad catch after all but domestic bliss does not last long.
Kazakhstan 2009 – Epic Drama – 80mn
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BY THE WILL OF GENGHIS KHAN
“Tayna Chingis Khaana” (The Secret of Chingis Khaan)
Director: Andrei BORISOV (Minister for Culture & Intellectual Development of the Sakha Republic Yakutia, Russian Federation) – Screenplay: Nikolay Luginov – Producer: Vladimir IVANOV (Russia), Ichinkhorloo NYAMGAVAA (Mongolia), Sarnai TESSITORE (USA)
Cast: Eduard ONDAR, Orgil MAKHAAN, Tu MEN & Gernot GRIMM

OUT OF COMPETITION – World Cinema
Same as the ancient epic, the film By the Will of Genghis Khan is a vivid, multidimensional narration about the character’s life, extended both in time and space. It covers the period from birth of a boy named Temujin and up to his becoming the emperor Genghis Khan. The plot is rich with events and inextricably interwoven fates of those, who wrote the story of Genghis Khan along with him.
Russia/Mongolia/USA 2009 – Epic Bio – 122mn
www.chingiskhanfilm.ru/eng

ALICE’S HOUSE (A Casa De Alice)
Director: Chico Teixeira – Screenplay: CT, Marcelo Gomes, Julio Pessoa, & Sabina Anzuategui – Producer: Patick LeBlanc
Cast: Carla Ribas, Vinicious Zinn & Berta Zemel
In every house, you never know what secrets lie behind the front door.
Brazil 2007 – Drama – 97mn

FIRE UNDER THE SNOW
Director/Producer: Makoto Sasa – Screenplay: MS & Aaron Mendez

The Venerable Palden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent 33 years in prison for the ‘crime’ of demonstrating peacefully. He was starved and tortured. His nation and culture were destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Despite this, he remained unbroken, and kept the flame of his spirit ablaze.
Japan/USA 2008 – Documentary – 75mn

GOD NO SAY SO
Director/Producer/Screenplay: Brigitte Uttar Kornetzky

COMPETITION
“The hand you have voted with for the civilian government,” rebels would say, “you will never vote with again.”
God is the backdrop, not the centerpiece, for this film about a flourish of humanity in the wake of evil disaster in West Africa.
Sierra Leone/Switzerland 2009 – Documentary – 88mn
www.kornetzky.ch/godnosayso

DEAD CAT BOUNCE
Director: Daric Gates – Screenplay: Joshua J. Durkin – Producers: Matthew J. Ryan & Rachel Stratman
Cast: Joshua Durkin, Nathan Marlowe, Greg Osbourne & Christina Iannuzzi

A Wall Street Broker discovers the secret code to the stock market and goes head to head with an underground society that’s been controlling the World Market since the fall of the Roman Empire.
COMPETITION – USA 2020 – Thriller – 30mn – European premiere