FEATURES 2010
WORLD CINEMA COMPETITION & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Opening Festival Screening
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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Closing Gala Screening
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
Centerpiece Screening
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
BATHORY
Director/Screenplay: Juraj Jakubisko – Producer: Deana Jakubiskova
Cast: Anna Friel, Vincent Regan, Karel Rodel, Hans Matheson, Deana Horvathova & Franco Nero
COMPETITION – World cinema
Bathory is based on the legend surrounding the beautiful Hungarian Countess Erzsebeth Bathory, proclaimed as the most prolific murderess in the history of mankind, who tortured young virgins to bathe in their blood, or could she have been a victim of the political elite in a century heaving with religious wars and witch-hunts?
Czech Republic 2008 – History/Drama – 138mn
BROKEN PROMISE (Nedodrzaný slub)
Director: Jiri Chlumsky – Screenplay: Martin Friedmann-Petrásek (autobiography) & Jan Novák ~ Producer: Iveta Cerna – Ivanova
Cast: Samo Spisak, Ondrej Vetchy, Marian Slovak, Ina Gogalova & Eva Kerekesova
COMPETITION – World Cinema
A true story of a Jewish boy Martin, talented soccer player, has to make a risky lifetime decisions in order to survive in WWII….
Slovakia 2009 – Drama – 129mn
EL SENOR PRESIDENTE
Director Romulo Guardia-Granier – Screenplay: RG based on Miguel Angel Asturia’s Nobel Laureate masterpiece “El Senor Presidente” – Producer: Jorge Granier
Cast: Carlos Mata, Gustavo Rodriguez, Chantal Baudaux & Javier Vidal
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature
The twisted story of a fierce Dictator, political corruption and chaos, all opposed to an impossible love story in a fictitious Latin American Country.
Venezuela 2008 – Political Drama – 120mn
EVERYTHING WILL HAPPEN BEFORE YOU DIE
Director: Dan Finkel – Screenplay: DF & Brian McGuire – Producers: Michelle Borth & Dean Paraskevopoulos
Cast: Brian McGuire, Bret Roberts, Nick Stahl & Anita Briem
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
Doran has 8hrs to throw Edgar a bachelor’s party. The two friends embark on a narcotic induced adventure on the streets of Hollywood that unexpectedly raises questions of God, love and marriage.
USA 2010 – Comedy – 88mn
FATHER AND GUNS (De Père en Flic)
Director: Emile Gaudreault – Screenplay: EG & Ian Lauzon – Producers: Denise Robert & Daniel Louis
Cast: Michel Côté, Louis-José Houde, Rémy Girard, Caroline Dhavernas & Robin Aubert
COMPETITION – World Cinema
Father and Guns combines the strengths of a classic comedy pop thriller with a study of a dysfunctional, father-son relationship.
Canada 2009 – Comedy – 106mn
FAWZEYA’S SECRET RECIPE (Khaltet Fawzeya)
Director: Magdy Ahmed Aly – Screenplay Hanaa Ateia
Cast: Ilham Shaheen, Fathy Abdel Wahab & Nagwa Fouad
COMPETITION – World Cinema
The Tale of a much-married woman asserting her sexuality while struggling to overxcome poverty.
Egypt 2008 – Comedy – 114mn
GOD LIVES IN THE HIMALAYAS
Director: Sanjay Srinivas – Screenplay: SR, Bala Senthil Kumar & Dhaval Shah – Producer: Jyoti Shetty
Cast: Bijwol Giri, Sapna KC, Sunil Thapa & Malvika Subba
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – European Premiere
A classic story featuring children set amidst the scenic splendor of the mighty Himalayas.
India 2009 – Family Drama – 95mn
HONEY, I’M IN LOVE (LE GRAND DEPART)
Director/Screenplay: Claude Meunier – Producer: Denise Robert & Daniel Louis
Cast: Marc Messier, Guylaine Tremblay & Remy Gerard
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature
Can one really leave a wife and children behind and start a new life from scratch?
Canada 2008 – Comedy – 100mn
HOUSE BROKEN
Director/Screenplay: Sam Harper – Producers: Richard Heller & Wayne Allan Rice
Cast: Danny DeVito, Ryan Hansen, Brie Larson & Katey Sagal
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves
USA 2009 – 91mn – Comedy
LENINGRAD
Director/Screenplay: Aleksandr Buravsky
Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Mira Sorvino, Aleksandr Abdulov Arrmin Mueller-Stahl & Olga Sutulova
COMPETITION – World Cinema
When in 1941 Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, their troops quickly besieged Leningrad. Foreign journalists are evacuated but one of them, Kate Davies, is presumed dead and misses the plane.
Russia/UK 2008 – War Drama – 106mn
www.leningradfilm.com
THE LOSS OF TEARDROP DIAMOND
Director: Jodie Markell – Screenplay: Tennessee Williams
Cast: Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ann-Margaret & Ellen Burstyn
COMPETITION – World Cinema
A newly discovered original screenplay by Tennessee Williams about a rebellious Southern debutante.
USA 2008 – Period Romance/Drama – 104mn
MIDNIGHT RECKONING aka The Fall of Night
Director/Producer: Derrick Warfel
Cast: Bruce Michael Hall, Persia White & Tony Longo
COMPETETION – Discovery First Feature
While trapped in a Twilight Zonish high desert environment, a hunted rock musician is forced to confront his whole past life when an eccentric, prophet tells him his has one night left to live.
USA 2008 – Thriller -88mn
www.midnightreckoning.com
PAULISTA (Quanto Dura o Amor?)
Director: Roberto Moreira Screenplay: RM & Anna Muylaert – Producer: Georgia Costa Araujo
Cast: Silvia Lourenco, Danni Carlos, Paulo Velhena, Maria Clara Spinelli
COMPETITION – World Cinema
Three people trying to find love in the big city of Sao Paulo.
Brazil 2009 – Drama – 88mn
http://figafilms.com
REGRESA (Love Therapy)
Director/Producer: Alejandro Gonzalez-Padilla – Screenplay: Monica Abin & AGP
Cast: Jaime Camil, Blanca Soto & Javier Tolosa
COMPETITION – World Cinema – WORLD PREMIERE
When her husband Ernesto throws himself into work and refuses to start a family, Maria begins to think he is having an affair and turns to hypnosis to help her understand her relationship. But when the therapist ends the session, she doesn’t come back as herself. Instead, Maria is convinced she is a Basque princess from the 15th century, who is engaged to a prince from that time.
Mexico/Spain – Romantic Comedy – 95mn
www.regresathemovie.com
RIWAYAT (Tradition)
Director: Vijay Patkar
Producers: Dr. Sanjay Patole & Dr. Ajay Rane
Cast: Samapika, Khalid Siddique, Gauri Kulkarni, Achint Kaur, Salil Ankola, Saurabh Dubey, and Narendra Jha
Story-Screenplay: Dr. Sanjay and Ajay Patole
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
A Musical Love Story set against the backdrop of serious social issue: the missing 100 million girls….
India 2010 – Social Drama – 118mn
SING FOR DARFUR
Director/Writer: Johan Kramer – Producer: Jony van Hees & Esther Udaeta
Cast: Melina Mathews & Pere Molina
OUT-OF-COMPRTITION – Discovery First Feature
Forty different mini-stories come together on the day a worldwide popconcert for Darfur is being held in Barcelona and we discover that the tragedy in Sudan has a different meaning for everyone, but brings some magic for those who care.
Netherlands 2008 – Drama – 78mn
THE SHADOWLESS (Golgesizler)
Director/Screenplay: Umit Unal – Producer: Hakan Karahan
Cast: Taner Birsel, Arsen Gürzap, Hakan Karahan & Bigkem Karavus
COMPETITION – World Cinema
A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a far-flung village, and as chance would have it the one-time local barber, Jingle Nuri, vanished from the place years ago
Turkey 2009 – Drama – 97mn
www.golgesizler.com
THE SILENT ARMY (Wit Licht)
Director/Screenplay: Jean Van De Velde
Cast: Marco Borsato, Abby Mukiibi Nkaaga, Andrew Kintu, Thekla Reuten, Mieke Lawino & Siebe Schoneveld
COMPETITION – World Cinema
Child soldiers in Africa are at the fore in this tale of a white restaurant owner in an African town bordering a conflict zone. When his son’s African friend Abu is abducted, he sets out to find the boy, and walks right into a training camp exploiting children like Abu.
Netherlands 2008 – Drama – 92mn
SWISHBUCKLERS
Director/Screenplay: Yule Caise – Producer: Francois Petit & Wayne Pere
Cast: Billy Francesca, Francois Petit, Luke La Fontaine & Maurice Nero
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
Three macho Martial Artists join an all gay production of the Three Musketeers in order to save their Dojo.
USA 2010 – Comedy – 86mn
31 NORTH 62 EAST
Director/Producer: Tristan Loraine – Screenwriter: Leofwine Loraine and Tristan Loraine
Cast: Heather Peace, Marina Sirtis, John Rhys-Davies, Mimi Ferrer & George Calil
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature
A psychological thriller about how an elite SAS unit’s position, is revealed by the British Prime Minister; to ensure an arms deal goes ahead and to secure his re-election.
UK 2009 – Psychological/Political Thriller – 99mn
www.factnotfictionfilms.com
WINTER NIGHTS
Director/Producer/Screenplay: Ari Dassa
Cast: Wayne Roberts, Melissa Nearman, Justin Levine, Christina Diaz, Sarah Sido & David Pevsner
COMPETITION – Discovery First Feature – WORLD PREMIERE
Romantic vignettes of love and loss in Los Angeles.
USA 2010 – Experimental Drama – 53mn
