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Academy Awards
Oscar, Best Cinematography(Nominee)
A visually dazzling gangster film from director Zhang Yimou. Nightclub singer Xiao Jingbao lives a pampered life as the mistress of Shanghai godfather Mr. Tang. However, she gets in over her head after she begins an affair with Song, Mr. Tang's number two man, who wants to wrench control of&hellip…
Amanda Awards
Best Film
Hans Peter Moland directs this bleak thriller about a jaded urban writer named Henrik Larsen whose taste for adventure and adversity makes him leave his cozy Oslo flat for a perilous Arctic adventure. He joins a fur trapping expedition with two other men, a crude, foul mouthed hunter named Randbaek (Skarsgard) and a&hellip…
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Best Actress
Scandal, shame, and destruction beset the beautiful Kristin Lavransdatter when she rejects her arranged marriage and pursues a romance with the strapping young knight Erlend. In 1995, more than half the population of Norway bought tickets to see this critically-acclaimed medieval romance, directed by Ingmar Bergman&hellip…
American Cinema Editors
Eddie Award, Best Edited Documentary(Nominee)
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces&hellip…
Angers European First Film Festival
European Jury Award, Feature Film
Laser Vidéo Titres Award, Feature Film
Amidst the political and economic upheaval of newly-democratic 1989 Hungary, Russian friends flee their homeland in search of greater freedom and new opportunity. But as they find a new niche at the titular Western-style rock club, they realize their&hellip…
Australian Cinematographers Society
Best Achievement in Costume Design(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No&hellip…
Australian Film Institute
Best Achievement in Production Design(Nominee)
Best Original Music Score
Best Film
Best Actor in a Lead Role(Nominee)
Best Screenplay, Original
Best Director
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Sound
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Actor in a Lead&hellip…
Bergamo Film Meeting
Golden Rose Camuna
Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) and Daniela Thomas co-directed this crime drama about expatriate Brazilians who get mixed up in the Lisbon underworld. Paco (Pinto), a young Brazilian looking for a way to get to Spain, is offered a job as a courier to Lisbon by Igor, a black market dealer who assures him that&hellip…
Berlin International Film Festival
Audience Prize, Best Documentary
A documentary profile of the feminine side of the cultural epicenter of Paris' Left Bank, home to a vibrant community of women artists, scholars, and other creators that reached its summit in the 1920s. Includes background on such notables as Collete, Gisele Freund, Gertrude Stein, and Alice B&hellip…
Teddy, Best Feature Film
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal&hellip…
C.I.C.A.E. Award, Forum of New Cinema
Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn&hellip…
Blue Ribbon Awards
Best New Actress
The sights and sounds of a remote Japanese village by the sea convey the isolation of a newly remarried widow trying to move forward after her first husband's inexplicable suicide. A carefully composed array of visuals carries the simple, poignant plot. Director Kore-eda's elegiac debut film earned awards at the&hellip…
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations&hellip…
Brazilian Association of Art Critics
International Jury Award
A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing in the same hospital&hellip…
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground&hellip…
Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film
Won - Silver Raven
ANGELA is the debut film from director Rebecca Miller, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2002 for her second film, PERSONAL VELOCITY. Angela (Miranda Stuart Ryne) and Ellie (Charlotte Blythe) are two sisters caught up in an increasingly deteriorating family life. They cope with their troubles by conjuring&hellip…
Camerimage Film Festival
Golden Frog(Nominee)
Best Music
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of wealthy widows. Disturbing and compelling, this acclaimed&hellip…
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Bronze Frog
Golden Frog(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach&hellip…
Cesar Awards
Best Writing - Original of Adaptation(Nominee)
Stephane (Daniel Auteuil) and Maxime (Andre Dussollier) are partners in a respectable violin making and repair business. One day a beautiful violinist named Camille (Gallic beauty Emmanuelle Beart) enters their shoppe and their lives, immediately striking up an affair with the outgoing&hellip…
Best Editing
Best Film – Mathieu Kassovitz
Best Producer – Christophe Rossignon
Best Actor(Nominee) – Vincent Cassel
Best Cinematography(Nominee) – Pierre Aim
Best Director(Nominee)&hellip…
Chicago International Film Festival
Certificate of Merit
Ralf Schmerberg, an award winning German photographer, bursts onto the film scene with the kind of achievement that will speak to audiences without ever making a sound. Presented like a black-and-white photo gallery, the film journeys through the African continent exploring its people, its cultures and a way&hellip…
Silver Plaque, Best Documentary
A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour&hellip&hellip…
Cinema Writers Circle Awards
Best Actor
An aspiring actor hones his method over the wires as a phone sex operator, thrilling the men and women of Madrid with his repertoire of exciting personae. But just as his big break seems certain, a sexy caller embroils him in her plot to entrap her roving husband, and he might not be able to talk his way out&hellip…
Cottbus Film Festival of Young Eastern European Cinema
Don Quixote Award
Grand Prize
Amidst the political and economic upheaval of newly-democratic 1989 Hungary, Russian friends flee their homeland in search of greater freedom and new opportunity. But as they find a new niche at the titular Western-style rock club, they realize their victory is bittersweet and that friendship&hellip…
Deauville Festival of American Film
Grand Special Prize(Nominee)
Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a&hellip…
Directors Guild of America
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy&hellip…
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary(Nominee)
This Oscar-winning documentary explores the life and work of architect Maya Lin, who, at the age of 21, designed the controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. Her story reads something like a fairy tale for the aspiring architect and has become the stuff&hellip…
Entrevues: Festival International du Film de Belfort
Grand Prix, Foreign Film
Walter Salles (CENTRAL STATION) and Daniela Thomas co-directed this crime drama about expatriate Brazilians who get mixed up in the Lisbon underworld. Paco (Pinto), a young Brazilian looking for a way to get to Spain, is offered a job as a courier to Lisbon by Igor, a black market dealer who assures him&hellip…
Fantasporto: Porto International Film Festival
International Fantasy Film Award, Best Film(Nominee)
International Fantasy Film Award, Special Jury Award
Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum&hellip…
Floating Film Festival
Three taxi drivers making a meager living on the streets of Los Angeles are feeling road-weary and wondering about their lives. When Legrand (Chad Lowe) joins their taxi company, his slightly mysterious, almost mystical presence spurs the drivers to reach for more meaning in their lives. In an alternately humorous and dramatic storyline&hellip&hellip…
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Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
Jury Award, Best Film
President Award, Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano&hellip…
Distinguished Award of Merit
A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing in the same hospital&hellip…
Fribourg International Film Festival
Grand Prix
From Argentine director Eliseo Subiela comes this sparkling gem of magical realism along the lines of Wim Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Leopoldo is a lonely film projectionist in a struggling theater is trying to bring his dreams to life with an invention that captures his somnambulant imaginings and makes them visible&hellip…
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Gerardmer International Fantasy Film Festival
International Critics Award
Sent to live with her grandparents in a quaint coastal Irish town, 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) is fascinated by the village's rich folk culture--especially the local myths about a half-human, half-seal creature known as a selkie. Fiona becomes convinced that her supposedly deceased little brother&hellip…
Golden Bauhinia Awards
Best Supporting Actress
Best Cinematography
Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment&hellip…
Golden Globe Awards
Best Foreign Language Film(Nominee)
A visually dazzling gangster film from director Zhang Yimou. Nightclub singer Xiao Jingbao lives a pampered life as the mistress of Shanghai godfather Mr. Tang. However, she gets in over her head after she begins an affair with Song, Mr. Tang's number two man, who wants to wrench control of&hellip…
Goya Awards
Best Lead Actor
Best Supporting Actor(Nominee)
Best Sound(Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Directing(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Production Supervision(Nominee)
An aspiring actor hones his method over the wires as a phone sex operator, thrilling the men and&hellip…
Hamptons International Film Festival
Three taxi drivers making a meager living on the streets of Los Angeles are feeling road-weary and wondering about their lives. When Legrand (Chad Lowe) joins their taxi company, his slightly mysterious, almost mystical presence spurs the drivers to reach for more meaning in their lives. In an alternately humorous and dramatic storyline&hellip&hellip…
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Havana Film Festival
Grand Coral, First Prize
Best Director
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of wealthy widows. Disturbing and compelling, this acclaimed&hellip…
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Hochi Film Awards
Best New Actor
Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang. They manage to achieve prosperity, but their reckless nature inevitably returns and they soon learn the real world is a lot less forgiving then&hellip…
Hong Kong Film Awards
Best Picture(Nominee)
Best New Performer(Nominee)
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Best Director(Nominee)
Best Costume & Makeup Design(Nominee)
Best Art Direction(Nominee)
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Film Score
Best Cinematography
Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman&hellip…
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Film of Merit
Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak&hellip…
Hong Kong International Film Festival
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's&hellip&hellip…
Hungarian Film Week
Best Actor – Antal Cserna
Best Actress – Enikö Eszenyi
Best Cinematographer – Francisco Gózon
Best Director – Peter Gothar
Grand Prize
Based on a parable told in Communist&hellip…
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ImageOut: The Rochester Lesbian and Gay Film & Video Festival
Inspired by the work and writings of outspoken gay artist David Wojnarowicz, this film dramatizes three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road, creating a powerful look at growing up gay in America. Contains graphic depictions of domestic violence and gay sex&hellip&hellip…
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Independent Spirit Awards
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Feature(Nominee)
Best Director(Nominee)
Sent to live with her grandparents in a quaint coastal Irish town, 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) is fascinated by the village's rich folk culture--especially the local myths about a half-human, half-seal creature known as a selkie. Fiona becomes&hellip…
Best First Screenplay(Nominee)
Inspired by the work and writings of outspoken gay artist David Wojnarowicz, this film dramatizes three periods in his life: abused childhood, New York street hustler, and adult artist on the road, creating a powerful look at growing up gay in America. Contains graphic depictions of domestic violence&hellip…
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Best First Feature
Two main issues are complicating the lives of the Irish, Long Island-based, working-class McMullen brothers: Catholicism and women. Jack is the married oldest brother who's cheating on his perfect wife. Barry is the relationship-wary middle brother who, to his surprise and dismay, is finally falling in love&hellip…
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
With this cerebral remake of the 1949 film noir gem CRISS CROSS, director Steven Soderbergh has renounced melodrama and suspense to instead create an art film with the emotional weight of Greek tragedy. The film weaves three time frames together to tell its story. In the present, Michael Chambers (Peter&hellip…
Best Debut Performance(Nominee)
Three aimless teenagers -- pampered, amoral Amy Blue, her naive boyfriend Jordan White, and hot-headed, mysterious hunk Xavier Red -- embark on a road trip after Xavier kills a store clerk. During their trek, the teens engage in outrageous, remorseless violent acts, and explore their sexuality&hellip…
International Festival of Women's Cinema
Audience Award
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest&hellip…
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Best Director – Peter Gothar
Based on a parable told in Communist labor camps, the magical VASKA EASOFF follows the exploits of a pair of thieves who tear open the roof of the Bank of St. Petersburg (using a magical can opener "borrowed" from a griffin) and abscond with the czar's priceless treasure&hellip…
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Kinema Junpo Awards
Best Director-Foreign Language Film
A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of friends in the Serb resistance hide in an intricate cellar. Years later, the war is over but the&hellip…
Locarno International Film Festival
Golden Leopard(Nominee)
Christopher Münch's quiet, evocative COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the beautifully elegiac story of a young man's attempt to grab a piece of the past from a stultifyingly impersonal modern world. John Lee (Peter Alexander) has loved trains all his life, often relating the story of his Chinese&hellip…
Lone Star Film & Television Awards
Best Actress
Special Award
At a suburban Texas high school, Dinah (Connie Nelson), a geometry teacher who coaches the girls' basketball team, and Carly (Dee Hennigan), a principal's assistant who is also the wife of an algebra teacher, kiss during a basketball lesson and find themselves embarking on an affair. When word gets&hellip…
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Independent/Experimental Film and Video Award
At the beginning of the 1990s, the sampler had become ubiquitous among cutting-edge musicians. Negativland were a small American band signed to the fiercely independent SST label, and had been using unauthorized samples in their work for many years. But when they took a portion of&hellip…
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Best Foreign Film
In Claude Chabrol's LA CEREMONIE, the wealthy Lelievre family live in a grand estate in the calm isolation of the French countryside. All that lacks in their lustrous lifestyle is the perfect maid, who they believe to have found in the shy and recalcitrant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire). The match seems to be perfect&hellip…
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Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations&hellip…
Lumiere Awards
Best Director – Mathieu Kassovitz
Best Film – Mathieu Kassovitz
When he was just twenty-nine years old, Mathieu Kassovitz took the international film world by storm with La haine (Hate), a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and&hellip…
Mainichi Film Concours
Best Supporting Actress
Picking off where he left off with THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE, director Kaizo Hayashi creates yet another witty, action-packed homage/spoof to French New Wave cinema, American film noir, and Japanese gangster films. THE STAIRWAY TO THE DISTANT PAST once again stars Masatoshi Nagase as Private Detective&hellip…
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
Best Screenplay
Best Director
China's rebellious and incessantly audacious Yuan Zhang delves into the secret world of illicit homosexuality in his devastatingly erotic and politically astute film, EAST PALACE, WEST PALACE. Immediately banned by the Chinese government, the film follows the young gay writer, A-Lan, as he drifts&hellip…
Miami International Film Festival
From Argentine director Eliseo Subiela comes this sparkling gem of magical realism along the lines of Wim Wenders' WINGS OF DESIRE. Leopoldo is a lonely film projectionist in a struggling theater is trying to bring his dreams to life with an invention that captures his somnambulant imaginings and makes them visible. His wife dismisses&hellip&hellip…
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NAACP Image Awards
Outstanding News, Talk or Information Special(Nominee)
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale&hellip…
Namur International Festival of French-Speaking Film
Audience Award
Best Actor
Best Film
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Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident&hellip…
National Board of Review
Best Picture
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award&hellip…
National Film Preservation Board
National Film Registry
Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm&hellip…
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Documentary
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground&hellip…
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Foreign Language Film
Building upon the revolution in Iranian cinema initiated by Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi has created a daring, innovative body of work, concerned with the human experience of social inequality as manifested on the streets of Tehran. THE MIRROR is the second in an interwoven trilogy that also includes&hellip…
Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations&hellip…
New York Film Festival
A surreal, absurd mix of politics, sex, fantasty, black comedy and brutality that has been widely hailed as one of the decade's most exhilerating cinematic efforts. During World War II, a pair of friends in the Serb resistance hide in an intricate cellar. Years later, the war is over but the lies and deceptions continue. Winner of the&hellip&hellip…
An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous film festival awards&hellip&hellip…
THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND IS NOT AVAILABLE. Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise to look after his wife and&hellip&hellip…
New Zealand Film and TV Awards
Best Director - Drama/Comedy – Peter Jackson
New Zealanders Peter Jackson and Costa Botes conspired to create this witty mockumentary about Colin MacKenzie, a fictional film pioneer who, in the early 1900s, invented the tracking shot, the close-up, color film, and the talkie. MacKenzie's colorful&hellip…
Nordic Film Festival Rouen
Young Audience Award
Hans Peter Moland directs this bleak thriller about a jaded urban writer named Henrik Larsen whose taste for adventure and adversity makes him leave his cozy Oslo flat for a perilous Arctic adventure. He joins a fur trapping expedition with two other men, a crude, foul mouthed hunter named Randbaek (Skarsgard)&hellip…
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Oslo International Film Festival
Acclaimed director Kar-Wai's neo-noir fantasy about a hitman who is disturbed to realize that he is falling for his partner. Throw into the mix a mysterious drifter who is searching for her ex-boyfriend and a humorous mute, and the results are an ingenious blend of art and entertainment, set amidst Hong Kong's bleak, urban landscape&hellip&hellip…
Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Audience Award, Outstanding Narrative Feature
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history&hellip…
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Based on a parable told in Communist labor camps, the magical VASKA EASOFF follows the exploits of a pair of thieves who tear open the roof of the Bank of St. Petersburg (using a magical can opener "borrowed" from a griffin) and abscond with the czar's priceless treasure. With the Soviet Red Guard hot on their heals, things get rougher&hellip…
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Peabody Awards
Peabody Award
A highly acclaimed, Oscar-overlooked documentary about the hopes and dreams of two inner city youths who see basketball, and especially acceptance to a school known for its outstanding basketball program, as their ticket out of poverty. Appearances by Isiah Thomas, Dick Vitale, Spike Lee and Bobby Knight. Academy&hellip…
Peabody Award
Three documentaries from acclaimed gay filmmaker Arthur Dong are contained here.
COMING OUT UNDER FIRE: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, this documentary uses first-person accounts to chronicle the development of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy during World War II&hellip…
Peñíscola Comedy Film Festival
Best Actor
An aspiring actor hones his method over the wires as a phone sex operator, thrilling the men and women of Madrid with his repertoire of exciting personae. But just as his big break seems certain, a sexy caller embroils him in her plot to entrap her roving husband, and he might not be able to talk his way out&hellip…
PGA Golden Laurel Awards
Nova Award, Most Promising Producer
Two main issues are complicating the lives of the Irish, Long Island-based, working-class McMullen brothers: Catholicism and women. Jack is the married oldest brother who's cheating on his perfect wife. Barry is the relationship-wary middle brother who, to his surprise and dismay, is finally&hellip…
queerupnorth
An unlikely friendship develops between Seth, a rural white boy fascinated by urban black culture, and Knowledge, a black prison escapee who tries to rob him. As Seth protects Knowledge from the police a bond forms between the two. A film festival favorite&hellip&hellip…
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Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
This is a film about the complexities of life, family, romance, and art. A romantic comedy that brings to the surface some very important issues about being gay and being happy, NEVER MET PICASSO is also about the challenges faced by a group of young people who party, work, and socialize, trying to balance their youthfulness with the&hellip&hellip…
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Supporting Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy&hellip…
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Golden Seashell(Nominee)
Set in 16th century India, this film chronicles the sexual adventures of Maya, a beautiful, voluptuous servant girl. After seducing the king the night before his wedding, Maya is labeled a whore and expelled from the village. After a hot affair with a sculptor, Maya decides to become an "artist" herself&hellip…
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Best New Director
A gritty independent film exploring the world of male prostitutes on the streets of L.A. John is a straight hustler, who wakes up on Christmas Eve to discover that his life savings has been stolen. He was going to use the money to celebrate his birthday, and to pay a drug dealer the $300 dollars he owes him&hellip…
Saturn Awards
Best Genre Video Release(Nominee)
Sent to live with her grandparents in a quaint coastal Irish town, 10-year-old Fiona (Jeni Courtney) is fascinated by the village's rich folk culture--especially the local myths about a half-human, half-seal creature known as a selkie. Fiona becomes convinced that her supposedly deceased little&hellip…
Seattle International Film Festival
Hans Peter Moland directs this bleak thriller about a jaded urban writer named Henrik Larsen whose taste for adventure and adversity makes him leave his cozy Oslo flat for a perilous Arctic adventure. He joins a fur trapping expedition with two other men, a crude, foul mouthed hunter named Randbaek (Skarsgard) and a scientist named Holm&hellip&hellip…
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Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia
Best Director
Prize of the Catalan Screenwriters' Critic and Writer's Association
Best Film(Nominee)
An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous&hellip…
Sochi International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
Grand Prix
Amidst the political and economic upheaval of newly-democratic 1989 Hungary, Russian friends flee their homeland in search of greater freedom and new opportunity. But as they find a new niche at the titular Western-style rock club, they realize their victory is bittersweet and that friendship is what&hellip…
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
Best Actor
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations&hellip…
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture(3rd Place)
Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy. CRUMB traces the lives of underground&hellip…
Spanish Actors Union
Best Lead Performance(Nominee)
An aspiring actor hones his method over the wires as a phone sex operator, thrilling the men and women of Madrid with his repertoire of exciting personae. But just as his big break seems certain, a sexy caller embroils him in her plot to entrap her roving husband, and he might not be able to talk…
St.Louis International Film Festival
Audience Choice Award
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy&hellip…
Stockholm International Film Festival
Bronze Horse(Nominee)
Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a rough&hellip…
Bronze Horse(Nominee)
This powerful romance proves that true love can emerge from the most unlikely of places. Lea (Lenka Vlasakova) is a mute 21-year-old who is still affected by a major childhood trauma, while Herbert (Christian Redl) is a sad 51-year-old who continues to mourn the death of his wife. Lea strikingly resembles&hellip…
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Bronze Horse
A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing in the same hospital as he, the&hellip…
Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
A forerunner to INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS, Melissa Hacker's powerful MY KNEES WERE TREMBLING remains the first feature-length documentary to reveal the human drama behind the Kindertransport of WWII. The Kindertransport was a British refugee policy set in motion during the aftermath of Kristallnacht&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic
Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a rough&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Cinematography Award, Dramatic
Christopher Münch's quiet, evocative COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the beautifully elegiac story of a young man's attempt to grab a piece of the past from a stultifyingly impersonal modern world. John Lee (Peter Alexander) has loved trains all his&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
At a suburban Texas high school, Dinah (Connie Nelson), a geometry teacher who coaches the girls' basketball team, and Carly (Dee Hennigan), a principal's assistant who is also the wife of an algebra teacher, kiss during a basketball lesson and find themselves embarking on an affair. When word gets out&hellip…
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Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
An acclaimed profile of the members of the Army's 10th Mountain Division, the ski squadron whose daring mountain expeditions helped quash the Axis forces. Contains interviews and rare archival footage of the group in training, as well as a reunion of the group at Italy's Riva Ridge. Winner&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
When a Haitian immigrant is incarcerated for a rape he steadfastly denies he committed, a disillusioned corrections officer believes his story and helps him post bail, even opening his house to the stranger. Ultimately, however, he and his wife discover that no good deed goes unpunished. First-time&hellip…
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A gritty independent film exploring the world of male prostitutes on the streets of L.A. John is a straight hustler, who wakes up on Christmas Eve to discover that his life savings has been stolen. He was going to use the money to celebrate his birthday, and to pay a drug dealer the $300 dollars he owes him. John needs to make some&hellip&hellip…
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 ("Rach 3"). Academy Award Nominations: 7, including&hellip…
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Audience Award
Golden Alexander(Nominee)
A dedicated Serbian soldier, gravely injured in the heat of battle, fondly recalls the pre-war tranquility of a unified Yugoslavia, including his relationship with his boyhood best friend, who is Muslim. But when he learns that his former friend--now his mortal enemy--is convalescing&hellip…
Tokyo International Film Festival
Best Artistic Contribution Award
An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous film festival awards&hellip&hellip…
Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Audience Award
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest&hellip…
Toronto International Film Festival
Set in 16th century India, this film chronicles the sexual adventures of Maya, a beautiful, voluptuous servant girl. After seducing the king the night before his wedding, Maya is labeled a whore and expelled from the village. After a hot affair with a sculptor, Maya decides to become an "artist" herself by studying the lovemaking techniques&hellip&hellip…
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Three taxi drivers making a meager living on the streets of Los Angeles are feeling road-weary and wondering about their lives. When Legrand (Chad Lowe) joins their taxi company, his slightly mysterious, almost mystical presence spurs the drivers to reach for more meaning in their lives. In an alternately humorous and dramatic storyline&hellip&hellip…
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Lincoln Bloom, a gay 17-year-old who hides behind a heterosexual facade, meets Minh, a poor Vietnamese immigrant, and the two travel down the Mississippi in a cabin cruiser. Their romantic and playful trip seems to be running smoothly, but soon harsh realities interrupt their lives. A highly acclaimed film that offers a new look at the&hellip&hellip…
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Two trouble-making, teenage bullies drop-out of school to try and become successful in the real world. One becomes a small-time boxer and the other joins the Yakuza gang. They manage to achieve prosperity, but their reckless nature inevitably returns and they soon learn the real world is a lot less forgiving then the schoolyard. A combination&hellip&hellip…
Christopher Münch's quiet, evocative COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY tells the beautifully elegiac story of a young man's attempt to grab a piece of the past from a stultifyingly impersonal modern world. John Lee (Peter Alexander) has loved trains all his life, often relating the story of his Chinese grandfather's early days helping&hellip&hellip…
A black independent filmmaker and video store clerk is enthralled by the evocative image of a "mammy" in a woman-directed plantation movie from the early days of cinema--and by rumors that the actress and the director were lovers. Intent on discovering a little lesbian-filmmaker history, she begins a personal quest to uncover the mammy's&hellip&hellip…
A TICKLE IN THE HEART is a touching and lively travelogue starring erstwhile klezmer giants the Epstein Brothers (Willie, Julie, and Max), who come out from retirement in Florida to hit the road on their big comeback tour&hellip&hellip…
An elderly nomadic couple own a beautiful carpet (a Gabbeh) from which a young woman suddenly emerges. She tells the story of her clan, told through the carpet. A beautifully filmed look at life and love, winner of numerous film festival awards&hellip&hellip…
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of wealthy widows. Disturbing and compelling, this acclaimed film is based on the "Lonely Hearts Killers"&hellip&hellip…
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THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY ON MORATORIUM AND IS NOT AVAILABLE. Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger to promise to look after his wife and&hellip&hellip…
People's Choice Award
Metro Media Award
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David Helfgott and his struggles with his war-traumatized, demanding father; mental illness and asylum incarceration; and his obsession with the virtually unplayable Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No&hellip…
Based on a parable told in Communist labor camps, the magical VASKA EASOFF follows the exploits of a pair of thieves who tear open the roof of the Bank of St. Petersburg (using a magical can opener "borrowed" from a griffin) and abscond with the czar's priceless treasure. With the Soviet Red Guard hot on their heals, things get rougher&hellip…
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Valencia Film Festival
Special Audience Award
A gritty independent film exploring the world of male prostitutes on the streets of L.A. John is a straight hustler, who wakes up on Christmas Eve to discover that his life savings has been stolen. He was going to use the money to celebrate his birthday, and to pay a drug dealer the $300 dollars he owes&hellip…
Valladolid International Film Festival
Golden Spike(Nominee)
Todd Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE follows the painful daily trials of Dawn "Wienerdog" Wiener (Heather Matarazzo), an awkward, nerdy 12-year-old. The middle child between her geeky older brother, Mark (Matthew Faber), and her sickeningly sweet little sister, Missy (Daria Kalinina), Dawn has a rough&hellip…
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Spike
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Roger, a teenage boy, works for his father's construction business, a company that employs illegal immigrants from all over the world. When Hamidu, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is critically injured in a workplace accident he asks Roger&hellip…
Venice International Film Festival
Best Original Music
Best Original Screenplay
Best Set Design
Golden Lion(Nominee)
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children to take up with a womanizing drifter who resembles her idol, Charles Boyer. After she blackmails him, they begin a messy crime spree in which they murder a series of&hellip…
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OCIC Award - Honorable Mention(Nominee)
This powerful romance proves that true love can emerge from the most unlikely of places. Lea (Lenka Vlasakova) is a mute 21-year-old who is still affected by a major childhood trauma, while Herbert (Christian Redl) is a sad 51-year-old who continues to mourn the death of his wife. Lea strikingly&hellip…
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Luigi De Laurentiis Award
In this political comedy, filmmaker and star Elia Suleiman returns to his Palestinian homeland after spending 12 years studying film in New York. What follows is a series of vignettes expressing the director's personal views on the quality of contemporary Israeli-Arab life. Suleiman won the New Director's&hellip…