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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2008, 102 min
Directed by: Vikram Jayanti
Interests: Art & Artists, Biography, Documentary, Experimental, Music Films
Phil Spector is a pioneer of American music, a legendary producer to John Lennon and Tina Turner, and, as of April 13th 2009, a convicted murderer. Director Vikram Jayanti overlays unprecedented personal interviews with harrowing court footage and original music recordings to create a dizzying portrait of genius and insanity, and a profound insight into a notorious subject. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2008, 102 min
Directed by: Vikram Jayanti
Interests: Art & Artists, Biography, Documentary, Experimental, Music Films
Phil Spector is a pioneer of American music, a legendary producer to John Lennon and Tina Turner, and, as of April 13th 2009, a convicted murderer. Director Vikram Jayanti overlays unprecedented personal interviews with harrowing court footage and original music recordings to create a dizzying portrait of genius and insanity, and a profound insight into a notorious subject. Read More
Audience Award Winner: Documentary
World Cinema
Feature Documentary,
Audience and Jury Award winners will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on Sunday, October 11th and rescreened on Monday. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary,
Audience and Jury Award winners will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on Sunday, October 11th and rescreened on Monday. Read More
Audience Award Winner: Narrative
World Cinema
Feature Narrative,
Audience and Jury Award winners will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on Sunday, October 11th and rescreened on Monday. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative,
Audience and Jury Award winners will be announced at our Awards Ceremony on Sunday, October 11th and rescreened on Monday. Read More
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Carlito's Way
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 1993, 145 min
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Interests: Drama
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 1993, 145 min
Directed by: Brian De Palma
Interests: Drama
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC. Read More
Corso: The Last Beat
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 87 min
Directed by: Gustave Reininger
Interests: Art & Artists, Biography, Documentary
Gregory Corso, the youngest of the influential Beat Poet movement, is given his own spotlight in Gustave Reinenger's affectionate documentary. Reinenger's long friendship with Corso late in his life affords him an intimacy with his iconic subject and Corso‚'s larger-than-life character is captured like lightning in a bottle. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 87 min
Directed by: Gustave Reininger
Interests: Art & Artists, Biography, Documentary
Gregory Corso, the youngest of the influential Beat Poet movement, is given his own spotlight in Gustave Reinenger's affectionate documentary. Reinenger's long friendship with Corso late in his life affords him an intimacy with his iconic subject and Corso‚'s larger-than-life character is captured like lightning in a bottle. Read More
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2008, 78 min
Directed by: Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward
Interests: Environmental Issues & Nature Films, Family Films
On Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania, an island of salt emerges from the water. Set against the lush and dramatic colors of the African landscape, elegant flamingos struggle against predators and the environment to ensure that the next generation makes it back to the salt shore. THE CRIMSON WING is a touching tale gorgeous and moving nature documentary for the whole family. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2008, 78 min
Directed by: Matthew Aeberhard and Leander Ward
Interests: Environmental Issues & Nature Films, Family Films
On Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania, an island of salt emerges from the water. Set against the lush and dramatic colors of the African landscape, elegant flamingos struggle against predators and the environment to ensure that the next generation makes it back to the salt shore. THE CRIMSON WING is a touching tale gorgeous and moving nature documentary for the whole family. Read More
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Daniel and Abraham
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 74 min
Directed by: Ryan Eslinger
Interests: Drama
To spread his father's ashes, Daniel's traveled to the mountains of upstate New York. There he meets Abraham, a mysterious man whose condescending helpfulness becomes increasingly sinister. This small feature recalls the work of Samuel Beckett and Jack London, contrasting the natural beauty of its winter setting with sudden violence. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 74 min
Directed by: Ryan Eslinger
Interests: Drama
To spread his father's ashes, Daniel's traveled to the mountains of upstate New York. There he meets Abraham, a mysterious man whose condescending helpfulness becomes increasingly sinister. This small feature recalls the work of Samuel Beckett and Jack London, contrasting the natural beauty of its winter setting with sudden violence. Read More
Deliver Us From Evil
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 93 min
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Interests: Mystery-Suspense-Thriller
Ole Bornedal- THE SUBSTITUTE (HIFF ’07), NIGHTWATCH- delivers again with this dynamic social thriller. When local lout Lars runs down a beloved neighborhood woman, he tries to shift the community’s wrath onto taciturn Bosnian refugee Alain, careening the viewer towards a shocking conclusion as the whole town becomes implicated in a rampant moral corruption. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 93 min
Directed by: Ole Bornedal
Interests: Mystery-Suspense-Thriller
Ole Bornedal- THE SUBSTITUTE (HIFF ’07), NIGHTWATCH- delivers again with this dynamic social thriller. When local lout Lars runs down a beloved neighborhood woman, he tries to shift the community’s wrath onto taciturn Bosnian refugee Alain, careening the viewer towards a shocking conclusion as the whole town becomes implicated in a rampant moral corruption. Read More
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Edie & Thea: A Very Long Engagement
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 61 min
Directed by: Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir
Interests: Documentary, Gay Interest, Jewish Interest, Romance, View From Long Island
EDIE AND THEA: A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT is a wonderfully poignant and intimate portrait of an incredible couple and the wait they endured for their entire adult lives to legalize their union. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 61 min
Directed by: Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir
Interests: Documentary, Gay Interest, Jewish Interest, Romance, View From Long Island
EDIE AND THEA: A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT is a wonderfully poignant and intimate portrait of an incredible couple and the wait they endured for their entire adult lives to legalize their union. Read More
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Forbidden Fruit
World Cinema , Scandinavian Focus
Feature Narrative, 2009, 103 min
Interests: Coming of Age, Romance
When Raakel's best friend Maria leaves their cloistered religious community to experience life in the city, she follows, ostensibly to protect Maria from the predations of "The Archfiend" and, hopefully, bring her back to the fold. As the two young women explore their new surroundings both of them change in unexpected ways in this quiet, affecting drama. Read More
World Cinema , Scandinavian Focus
Feature Narrative, 2009, 103 min
Interests: Coming of Age, Romance
When Raakel's best friend Maria leaves their cloistered religious community to experience life in the city, she follows, ostensibly to protect Maria from the predations of "The Archfiend" and, hopefully, bring her back to the fold. As the two young women explore their new surroundings both of them change in unexpected ways in this quiet, affecting drama. Read More
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Here and There
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2008, 90 min
Directed by: Darko Lugulov
Interests: View From Long Island
Robert is a middle-aged musician barely getting by in New York when he meets Branko, a young Serbian immigrant desperate to bring his girlfriend to America. On the promise of five grand Robert travels to Belgrade for a quick green card marriage. But a simple plan becomes complicated when Branko fails to pay and Robert falls for Branko's beautiful mother. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2008, 90 min
Directed by: Darko Lugulov
Interests: View From Long Island
Robert is a middle-aged musician barely getting by in New York when he meets Branko, a young Serbian immigrant desperate to bring his girlfriend to America. On the promise of five grand Robert travels to Belgrade for a quick green card marriage. But a simple plan becomes complicated when Branko fails to pay and Robert falls for Branko's beautiful mother. Read More
How to Live Forever
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 92 min
Directed by: Mark S. Wexler
Interests: Documentary
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. Featuring interviews with everyone from a chain-smoking, beer-drinking centenarian marathoner to an elder porn star and health, fitness, and life-extension experts, Wexler's engaging new documentary challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 92 min
Directed by: Mark S. Wexler
Interests: Documentary
Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. Featuring interviews with everyone from a chain-smoking, beer-drinking centenarian marathoner to an elder porn star and health, fitness, and life-extension experts, Wexler's engaging new documentary challenges our notions of youth and aging with comic poignancy. Read More
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In My Hands: A Story of Marfan Syndrome
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 56 min
Directed by: Brenda Siemer Scheider
Preceded by: Smiles: A Story of Roy Scheider
Interests: Documentary
It is estimated that 1 in 5000 people in the United States have Marfan Syndrome, a genetic disorder of the body's connective tissue. IN MY HANDS follows the inspirational stories of a group of children and adults living with Marfan. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Documentary, 2009, 56 min
Directed by: Brenda Siemer Scheider
Preceded by: Smiles: A Story of Roy Scheider
Interests: Documentary
It is estimated that 1 in 5000 people in the United States have Marfan Syndrome, a genetic disorder of the body's connective tissue. IN MY HANDS follows the inspirational stories of a group of children and adults living with Marfan. Read More
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The Ladies Get Their Say
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 94 min
Directed by: Enzo Monteleone
Interests: Drama, Women's Interest
Four women in the 1960s and their four daughters in the present day experience parallel joys and woes in their personal lives. Read More
World Cinema
Feature Narrative, 2009, 94 min
Directed by: Enzo Monteleone
Interests: Drama, Women's Interest
Four women in the 1960s and their four daughters in the present day experience parallel joys and woes in their personal lives. Read More
Little Soldier
World Cinema , Scandinavian Focus
Feature Narrative, 2008, 100 min
Directed by: Annette K. Olesen
Interests: Drama, Women's Interest
Tough and masculine Lotte (Trine Dyrholm, star of last year’s HIFF hit TROUBLED WATER) has just returned from military service in Afghanistan to the town in Denmark where her father runs an underground brothel. Offered employment as driver for her father's mistress and top earner, Lily, the two women start out at odds, but soon the two women bond and their lives become unpredictably intertwined. Read More
World Cinema , Scandinavian Focus
Feature Narrative, 2008, 100 min
Directed by: Annette K. Olesen
Interests: Drama, Women's Interest
Tough and masculine Lotte (Trine Dyrholm, star of last year’s HIFF hit TROUBLED WATER) has just returned from military service in Afghanistan to the town in Denmark where her father runs an underground brothel. Offered employment as driver for her father's mistress and top earner, Lily, the two women start out at odds, but soon the two women bond and their lives become unpredictably intertwined. Read More