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April 22, 2008 - Hand-picked by our curators each week from more than 3,000 films from indiePix catalog, these films bring you hard-to-find and award-winning titles from around the indie world.

The Inner Tour Ra'anan Alexandrowicz's THE INNER TOUR is a deeply affecting documentary that addresses the Middle Eastern conflict with a penetrating eye. The film follows a group of Palestinians as they embark on a three-day bus tour through Israel in 2000, just months before the historical Arab-Israeli war recommenced. What at first appears to be…    more      Children Underground Showing the horrendous effects of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's oppressive regime, Edet Belzberg's CHILDREN UNDERGROUND is an unflinchingly brutal, eye-opening work of social commentary. Ceausescu's decision to ban contraception and abortion as a way of increasing the country's work force resulted in a generation of children born…    more      Onibaba From the mind of Kaneto Shindo comes ONIBABA, a haunting folk nightmare.In medieval Japan, a peasant woman and her daughter stay alive by murdering stray soldiers and selling their armor for food. A crafty warrior saves his life by seducing the daughter - until the mother's witchcraft exacts her revenge. A truly original film, Shindo's…    more      Who The Hell Is Juliette? A absolutely stunning documentary from Mexico, WHO THE HELL IS JULIETTE interweaves the story of Juliette, a 16 year-old Mexican prostitute with that of the Mexican model Fabiola Quiroz. The two could be twins, and their family lives are similarly anarchic; Juliette never knew her father, and Fabiola's mother can't quite recall who her…    more      The Ultimate Lesbian Short Film Festival A collection of lesbian-directed short films with lesbian themes. This collection of 10 short films includes A Woman Reported, directed by Chris J. Russo (5 min., USA); Dani & Alice, directed by Roberta Marie Munroe (12 mins., USA/Canada); Frozen Smile, directed by Silas Howard (7 mins., USA); Everything Good, directed by Elizabeth…    more      The Five Obstructions With THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONS, notoriously mischievous director Lars von Trier performs yet another cinematic experiment. This time around, the Danish prankster tries to outwit his mentor, director Jorgen Leth, forcing him to remake his classic 1967 short, "The Perfect Human," five different times, with a series of increasingly outlandish…    more      Kedma In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest by British troops. Hiding amid the…    more      Camera Buff Krzysztof Kieslowski presents this initially comic yet ultimately moving drama about finding one’s calling in life. Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr), a Polish factory worker, purchases an eight-millimeter movie camera to record his baby daughter's first few years of life. Looking for other things to do with his new toy, Filip makes a rather shoddy…    more      Grass Using snappy, comic book-like graphics, great newsreel and film footage, stills, and music, GRASS chronicles the history of the American government's relationship with marijuana and marijuana users. A slick, entertaining, witty documentary narrated by known grass activist Woody Harrelson, the film is a fast-paced, coherent (if somewhat…    more      Johnny Berlin With a dry wit and self-effacing humor, as well as an endearing eccentricity, Jon Hyrns gives voice to his life and dreams in Dominic J. DeJoseph’s hour-long documentary, narrating a journey that traverses much of the West Coast by 1930’s Pullman car. The camera is silent witness to a monologue delivered by 40-something Hyrns, whose job…    more      Salaam Bombay! Mira Nair's first feature was an acclaimed drama depicting the desperate lives of homeless children in one of India's poorest cities. Krishna is a 10-year-old country boy forced to live on his own in the streets of Bombay after his family tosses him out. While he hopes to earn 500 rupees for his mother and return home, the all-consuming…    more      High Life Soundtrack Now Available! "A solid fest item… a razor-sharp miniature, capturing the precise moment when prolonged adolescence surrenders to sober adulthood. Performances, language, and technical/design aspects are perfectly honed…certainly bodes well for the future of director Lila Yomtoob…    more      Wild Style A graffiti "tagger" taken under the wing of an East Village art collector prepares for a festival of rap and hip-hop music. This film details the early 1980's cultural turning point which occurred in the South Bronx, New York, at which time Old School hip-hop was first crystallizing. A fairly authentic document of the early '80s South…    more