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AUTUMN (YET)
STRONG LOVE- WORLD PREMIER
Slovakia / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 70min / Director Zita Furkova
A simple story about the complexity of
a relationship between an aging composer and a young poet.
Every creator is by nature an egoist, and love is one of the
most egotistical of human emotions. |
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AY JUANCITO
Argentina / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 115 min / Director Hector Olivera
The life and times of Juan Ramón
Duarte, the only brother of Evita Duarte Peron. Juan is
swept up in the incredible rise of Evita and becomes a
charming social climber whose days of glory as a womanizing
bachelor, coincide with that rise. When Evita dies young,
his life is crushed. He has lost his sister, he finds he
has incurable syphilis and he falls out of favour with his
ex brother-in-law, Juan Peron. His sudden, unexpected
disappearance remains a subject of mystery and legend. Was
it suicide or a political assassination? |
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BLACKOUT JOURNEY -
WORLD PREMIER
Germany / 2003 /
Colour/ 35mm / 90min / Director Sigi Kammi
The parents of brothers Mio and
Valentin are killed in a terrorist attack and the boys are
raised separately, Mio in Berlin and Valentin in the
Austrian Mountains. Later in life, Mio has the opportunity
to realize is dream of being a musician but needs money.
His girlfriend Stella tells him of a fund which pays money
to survivors of terrorist attacks. Mio and Valentin have
scarcely communicated in the years since their separation,
undertake a journey to Vienna fraught with dramatic events
and revelations. |
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BLESS THE WOMAN (BLAGOSLOVITE
ZHENSHCHINU) – WORLD PREMIER.
Russia / 2003 /
Colour / 35mm / 110min / Director Stanislav Govorukhin
Teenager Vera dreams of a life filled
with romance and a “prince on a white horse” for a husband.
A brief seaside encounter with the much older Red Army
Commander, Laritchev may seem at first as if her dreams have
come true. She soon discovers that he is no prince at all,
and she is no princess. Vera is willing to wait for
happiness but will it ever come, as the storms clouds pf
WWII are gathering and beginning to change the characters
lives forever. |
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CHOLESTEROL- FREE
(KOLESTROL- FREE)- WORLD PREMIER
Egypt/ 2004 / Colour / 35mm /
100min / Director Mohamed Abou Seif
The film revolves around the talented
child artist like “Ayyoub” who works in television, and
cares for, together with his neighbours, his mentally
retarded mother. His talents are recognized by “Camilia” ,
the executive manager of an advertising agency run by
“Younis” who exploits everyone. During his work in the ad
agency, he realizes that people are promoting fake
commodities and concepts in contrast with his honest
personality. He nearly breaks down and decides to take
revenge on those that betrayed and destroyed him. He creates
a group of counter ads and he is arrested in the wake of the
release of this tape. |
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CRIME (JENYATI) –
WORLD PREMIER
Iran / 2004 / Colour / 35mm / 92
min. / Director Mohammed Ali Saijadi
With a knife in his pocket, law student Siavash goes to meet
an antique seller that wants to marry his sister. Torn
apart by his problems and difficulties, the tormented
Siavash kills the man in a hysterical rage and takes his
money and valuables, only to be confronted by a girl who
witnessed the crime. Dazed and confused, Siavash intends to
kill the girl but is deterred by the look in her eyes.
While he is suffering from nightmares and under
interrogation by a detective named Ebrahim, his friends try
to comfort him. Fearing that the girl is going to blackmail
him, he follows her, confronts her and finally kills her. |
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DUST (I SKONI)
Greece / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 116 min / Director Tassos Psarras
Chronis, a Greek journalist with a
wife, two children and a happy, normal life, suddenly finds
himself in turmoil. His farther, had fought in the Greek
civil war in the regular army and disappeared. The family
has been receiving a pension from the government for his
faithful service. One evening Chronis is watching a
documentary on the Greek civil was when he sees a shot of
his father fighting on the rebel side. His life is turned
upside down and he begins a gruelling investigation to find
the truth. |
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FRÁGIL- WORLD
PREMIER
Spain / 2004 / Colour / 35mm /115min/
Director Juanma Bajo Ulloa
Venus is a nine-year-old girl who
lives alone with her father in an isolated valley up north.
She’s sweet, intelligent and enchanting, although she didn’t
exactly inherit her late mother’s beauty. Her daily routine
is a calm and gentle one, helping her father with the labors
of producing a delicious homemade honey. Every day she
awaits an affectionate gesture from her statuesque father in
vain. One morning Venus’ heart finds a true direction when
she encounters the timid gaze of the bread maker’s son. The
two fall in love and for some time they express this
enchantment in secret, until the day when the bread maker
and his family abandon the valley. On that day both
children declare their eternal love for one another and
Venus receives her first kiss. Fifteen years later Venus
still awaits the return of her true love. Then,
unexpectedly one morning her father dies and Venus is able
to finally abandon her home in search of her first and only
love. Her search results in a surprising discovery. |
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GIRAFFE’S NECK (LE
COU DE LA GIRAFE)
France / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / Director Safy Nebbou
Nine-year-old Mathilde has lived alone
with her mother, Helene, since her parents got divorced and
her grandfather had a heart operation. Mathilde’s bad grades
cause a lot of friction between herself and her mother. One
night, Mathilde runs away to the nursing home where her
grandfather Paul is recovering. She has found a letter from
her grandmother Madeleine who disappeared 30 years before.
Mathilde has worked out that her family has being lying to
her; her grandmother isn’t dead. She has come to get Paul
so that he can help her find Madeleine. Helene is upset to
find dozens of letters from her mother among Mathilde’s
things and to discover that her father has been hiding what
he knows from her. She heads to the south of France by car.
The journey toward the truth begins for Mathilde Paul and
Helene. Barriers collapse, secrets and lies fade away.
Thanks to Mathildes strength and sense of purpose, the trio
will at last be able to speak honestly with each other.
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GIRLS LOOKING FOR
FREEDOM (AL BAHETHAT AN AL HOREYA)-WORLD PREMIER
Egypt / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / Director Inaas El Deghedy
Three Arab girls flee to Paris looking
for freedom. Amal from Lebanon in escaping from war, Soad,
the Moroccan is fleeing poverty and Aida, the Egyptian is
attempting to fulfill her artistic ambitions. In Paris at
last they learn that freedom is inherent in the person not
in a place. |
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GUARDED SECRETS (MEYLEN
ORZOTT TITKOK) – WORLD PREMIER
Hungary / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 89 min / Director. Zsuzsa Boszormeni
Eighteen-year-old Irma Varro leaves
the orphanage where she has been raised. All she knows
about her past is that she was abandoned at birth. There are
only a few hard facts in her life; She is pregnant, and she
has just got her first job, as a cleaning woman. She has
just made a deal to sell her unborn child abroad through a
child-dealer. Now she wants to know who she is and who her
mother was. She begins the search for the mother she never
knew so she can pay her back for the suffering she has
experienced. Suring her search, she finds that nothing she
thought she knew was true. She is not who she thought she
was. The past is shrouded by secrets and mystery. |
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GUARDIANS OF THE
CLOUDS - WORLD PREMIER
Italy / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / Director Luciano Odorisio
In
the pastures of Cancello, in the Neopolitan hinterland,
goatherders dwell – people who eke out their living day by
day grazing their herds. The clan of Don Giulini, the old
patriarch, is surrounded by the hostility and hate of the
local townsfolk and peasants and the ever increasing crime.
The war has just ended and the conflict between peasants and
goat-herders has become much more intense. The goat-herders
are fighting for their very survival. Feelings and passion
often override reason, as the goat-herders march
single-mindedly towards their goal bearing their weapons and
armed with their ancient principles and rules. The score is
a tango: the tango of the goat-herders, a death tango from
Argentina- a promised land where many of them have already
immigrated and which will ultimately welcome the survivors
of Don Giulini’s family. |
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THE IVY MANSION
LIFE –WORLD PREMIER
Turkey / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 115min / Director Abdullah Oguz
The continuation of the successful TV
series of the same name. Seymen is the head of the powerful
Karadag family. In New york, he has met and married the
free spirited and strong-willed Bahar and brings his
western-minded wife to Ivy Mansion the seat of the family in
Capadoccia, Turkey. Her presence in this traditional Eastern
household causes conflicting feelings and interests but the
love between Bahar and Seymen is so strong that they
overcome all obstacles and build an idyllic family life.
Their joy is shattered when they learn Bahar is suffering
from lymph cancer. Seymen takes her to New York to get the
best treatment possible, yet after a few months the Karadag
family is shocked to find out Bahar is in a coma and Seymen
has disappeared. |
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LE PRINCE–WORLD
PREMIER
Tunisia / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm /108min / Director Mohamed Zran
A realistic and poetic comedy
attempting to portray social relationships in contemporary
Tunisia. Entirely shot on location in documentary style in
Tunis, it tells of the adventures of Adel, a dreamer and a
flower seller, who attempts to seduce Donia, a beautiful
banker who is ten years his senior. He uses the universal
language of love and sends her flowers everyday. His friends
pull him in two directions; Some try to dissuade him and
other encourage him to pursue his dream. In the end, Donia
finally relents and agrees to meet him. |
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MEMOIRE EN
DETENTION – WORLD PREMIER
Morocco / 2004 /Colour
/35mm / Director Jillahi Ferhati
On being released from prison, a young
delinquent agrees to help another prisoner who has become an
amnesiac during his long detention. Together, the go off
looking for a friend or a close relative, but their
expedition is also a return to their own painful memories. |
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MORNING RAGA –
WORLD PREMIER
India / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 94 min. / Director Mahesh Dattani
A group of people full of hope and
aspirations are riding a bus into the city when tragedy
strikes and the bus is involved in an accident leaving the
remaining villagers coping with the loss of their loved
ones. Twenty years later the characters are still trying to
cope with the effect the accident had on their lives.
Morning Raga is the story of three of those lives,
inextricably linked by this tragic event and how they come
to terms with their loss using a strong uniting force,
music. |
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MY SOUL MATE (ENTA
OMRI) – WORLD PREMIER
Egypt / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm / 125min / Director Khaled Youssef
Youssef and his wife are leading a tranquil and happy life
in Hurghada with their young son when tragedy strikes.
Youssef is diagnosed with cancer. He decides not to tell
his wife and to spare her the pain of watching him suffer
and die, tells her he is taking a trip out of Egypt.
Dealing with his pain in suffering and solitude, he meets a
young girl who is suffering from the same disease. She has
decided she will triumph over the disease and instills the
strength in Youssef to do the same. In their joint struggle
they also fall in love. Youssef’s wife has been searching
for him and finds out about the love affair. The three
lives are tangled in an emotional dilemma, who has what
right to life love and happiness. It will take a miracle to
unravel the problems |
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SENSE OF GUILT-
WORLD PREMIER
Italy / 2004 /
Colour / 35mm /Director Claudio Fragasso
Francesco De Bernardi, Chief Inspector
of the Homicide Division, is a successful and hard-working
man and also a loving father to his rebellious
eighteen-year-old son. He has a respectful and friendly
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