CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN
Director/Story: Jim Pasternak – Producer: Richard Marshall
Cast: Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams, Jeffrey Tambor, Ryan Stiles, Sarah Silverman, Rob Reiner, Gary Owens, Howie Mandel, Robert Klein, Jimmy Kimmel, Nora Dunn, Kevin Dunn, Tim Conway, Rosanna Arquette, Patricia Arquette & David Arquette

COMPETITION – World Cinema – European Premiere
CERTIFIABLY JONATHAN is a comedy/mockumentary that weaves in and out of the bi-polar world of comedy genius, Jonathan Winters, where reality and fantasy collide.
USA 2008 – Documentary/Mockumentary – 79mn
www.certifiablyjonathan.com

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 2010 – Documentary – 88mn
World premiere Rotterdam IFF Feb. 2010
www.kornetzky.ch/godnosayso

A HISTORY LESSON (Darson Fel Tareekh)
Director/Screenplay: Hady Zaccakm – Producer: Issam Dakroub (Al Jazeera)

COMPETITION
This Documentary follows history classes in five different schools located in the Greater Beirut. The History of Lebanon has been in arrested development since the Country’s Independence.
Lebanon/Qatar 2009 – Social Documentary – 51mn
www.hadyzaccak.com/ahistorylesson.html

HOLODOMOR: UKRAINE’S GENOCIDE
Director Bobby Leigh – Written by BL & Taras Hunczak – Producers: BL & Marta Tomkiw
Narrated by Jim Henderson

OUT OF COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE
The biggest lie, the best kept secret.
Winner of Last Year’s Short version of HOLODOMOR.
AWARD of DISCOVERY & HUMAN INTEREST: HOLODOMOR by Bobby Leigh for his harrowing and painful Documentary that shows one of the most horrific and overlooked Genocide in World History. For his courage and endurance and for overcoming every hurdle along the way!
USA/Canada/ Ukraine 2010 – Documentary – 93mn
www.HOLODOMORthemovie.com

KIDS WITH CAMERAS
Director/Producer Alex Rotaru
Cast: Brad Koepenick

COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE
Autistic Children create Art guided by an exceptional Educator.
USA 2010 – Documentary – 52mn
Q&A with Director Alex Rotaru
www.kidswithcamerasmovie.com

KIMJONGILIA
Director/Writer: N.C. Heikin

COMPETITION
For some, the Korean War was a clear example of American imperialism. For others, it was a valiant effort on the part of the UN and the Koreans to quash the spread of communism. For all Koreans, it was a tragedy. The country was not just divided; it was devastated. The death toll was astronomical, and the destruction profound. Many engage in assigning blame for the war according to their political beliefs, but this is a useless exercise. The point is that the human rights situation in North Korea today is catastrophic. KIMJONGILIA is the first film to let North Korean refugees tell their stories in their own words.
USA/France/South Korea 2009 – Documentary – 75mn
Q & A Director N.C. Heikin
www.kimjongiliathemovie.com

THE LAND LEFT BEHIND ( La Tierra se Quedo)
Director/Screenplay: Juan Sarmiento G – Producer: Tilman Kolb

LEAVING THE FOLD
Director/Screenplay: Eric R. Scott – Producers: Frederic Bohbot & Ivan Beloff

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE
A Film about young people born and raised within the ultra-Orthodox Jewish world who no longer wish to remain on the inside.
Canada 2008 – Documentary – 53mn
www.idcommunications.org/EFM

MEETING ANDREI TARKOVSKY
Director/Screenplay/ Producer: Dmitry Trakovsky

COMPETITION
A young Filmmaker’s Journey from Los Angeles to Moscow by way of Italy trying to decipher what the late Filmmaker genius Andrei Tarkovsky meant when he mysteriously proclaimed: “Death does not exist!”
USA 2009 – Documentary – 90mn
Q&A with Writer/Director Dmitry Trakovsky
http://trakovskyfilm.com

NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM
Directors/Producers: Micki Dickoff & Tony Pagano – Screenplay: MD
Cast: Carolyn Goodman, Fannie Lee Chaney, Ben Chaney, Stephen Schwerner, Rita Bender, Jerry Mitchell, Dave Dennis, Hollis Watkins, Florence Mars, Philadelphia Coalition, Preacher Edgar Ray Killen.

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE
40 years after the murders of three civil rights workers, a Mississippi town struggles to face its violent, racist past by finally telling the unvarnished truth.
USA 2010 – Documentary – 86mn

PLAYGROUND
Director: Libby Spears – Producers: George Clooney, Jeff Vespa, Steven Soderbergh, Abby Disney, Lauren & Gayle Embrey, David de Rothschild.

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE
Child sex trafficking is a problem that we tend to relegate to back-alley brothels in developing countries, but very little thrives on this planet without American capital, and as Playground concludes, the commercial sex industry is certainly flourishing the most in America’s own backyard.
USA 2009 – Documentary – 80mn
Q&A with Director Libby Spears*

RESTORATION (회복)
Director/Screenplay: Kim Jong-chul – Producers: Lee Im-ju & Kim Sung-kwun
Narration: Park Ji-yoon

COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE
A Story of the Messianic Jews in the Holly Land.
South Korea 2009 – Documentary – 94mn
www.restorationthemovie.com

A SINGLE WOMAN
Director/Producer: Kamala Lopez – Screenplay: Jeanmarie Simpson
Cast: Jeanmarie Simpson, Patricia Arquette, Peter Coyote, Karen Black, Frances Fisher, Margot Kidder & Elizabeth Pena

COMPETITION – EUROPEAN PREMIERE
The story of the 1st US Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin, noted pacifist and co-founder of the ACLU.
USA 2008 – Documentary – 92mn
www.asinglewomanmovie.com

TAKING ROOT: The Vision of Wangari Maathai
Director/Screenplay/Producers: Lisa Merton & Alan Dater

COMPETITION
TAKING ROOT follows Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai in her quest to reclaim her land and her culture through the disarmingly simple act of teaching village women to plant trees: direct actions that have resulted in restoring environmental literacy, community solidarity, political resolve and hope for Kenya’s future.
USA 2008 – Documentary – 80mn
www.takingrootfilm.com

TAPESTRIES OF HOPE
Director: Michealene Cristini Risley – Screenplay: Susan Black & MCR

COMPETITION – WORLD PREMIERE *Tapestries of Hop*e is an astounding story, told through the eyes of filmmaker Michealene Cristini Risley. The film shares her sojourn to Africa as she investigates the longstanding myths surrounding the power of virgin blood, including its ability to cure HIV/AIDS.
USA 2009 – Documentary – 77mn
www.tapestriesofhope.com

THE WAR OF PEACE (Harb el Salam)
Director: Hady Zaccak – Screenplay Diana Moukalled & HZ – Producer: Jerry Mosier

COMPETITION
The agitations in a divided Lebanon after the July 2006 War lived by several young Lebanese adults.
Lebanon/UAE 2007 – Documentary – 53mn
www.hadyzaccak.com/thewarofpeace.html