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Academy Awards
Best Music, Original Dramatic Score(Nominee)
Best Picture(Nominee)
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(Nominee)
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Director(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of&hellip…
AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
An L.A. shop owner (Foyt) and a London painter (Dillane) meet and fall instantly in love, despite the fact that they both have other lovers, believing they are meant for each other and ready to face the consequences. Star Foyt and director Jaglom are husband and wife&hellip…
American Cinema Editors
Best Edited Feature Film(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…
Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival
Special Jury Award
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog's LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler, a survivor of both WWII and Vietnam. Dengler grew up in Germany, and, dreaming of one day flying a plane, left for the US when he was 18, unable to speak English. Soon, he&hellip…
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Angers European First Film Festival
European Jury Award, Feature Film
Telcipro 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&hellip…
Telcipro Award
C.I.C.A.E. Award, Feature Film
Audience Award
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&hellip…
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European Jury Award-Feature Film
When Glasgow matriarch Mrs. Flynn passes away, her four adult children--Thomas, Michael, Sheila and John--gather at her home to mourn. Having prepared for the funeral in the morning, the four go to the pub for a drink. When Thomas, the eldest, performs his mother's favorite song karaoke-style and&hellip…
Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival
Best Director
Best Soundtrack
Best Film
An Italian designer travels to Istanbul to sell a traditional Turkish steam bath left to him by a deceased aunt. Upon arrival, he becomes enthralled by the city and decides to renovate and return the bath to the public. This sudden change of heart may have something to do with the&hellip…
Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards
Silver Condor-Best Foreign Film(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Best Music
Best Supporting Actor
Best Actor(Nominee)
Best Actress(Nominee)
Best Director(Nominee)
Best Art Direction(Nominee)
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
A group of forty-something Argentinean friends who came of age under a cruel dictatorship of the 1960's get together for&hellip…
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Ariel Awards
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Cinematography
Best Supporting Actress
Golden Ariel(Nominee)
Best Actress in a Minor Role(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Sound(Nominee)
Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
In 1940s Mexico, an unhappy, overweight nurse abandons her children&hellip…
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Art Film Festival
Golden Key, Art Fiction: Best Direction
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&hellip…
Austin Film Festival
Feature Film Award(Nominee)
Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of THE ONION, America's finest news source, steps in to direct SPACEMAN, a film about a young boy abducted by aliens who has been returned to Earth as a man with incredible powers. Though, programmed as a warrior-drone throughout his intergalactic youth Spaceman perseveres&hellip…
Feature Film Award(Nominee)
Autumn in New York. Alone and on the rebound, Sam finds solace in the arms of Anna, a stranger who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness. Winner of the 1997 Independent Spirit Award "Someone to Watch": Larry Fessenden (writer/director/star)&hellip&hellip…
BAFTA Awards
David Lean Award for Direction(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Screenplay - Original(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Film(Nominee)
Best Sound
Anthony Asquith&hellip…
Bavarian Film Awards
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…
Berlin International Film Festival
Frances has dug herself a hole of boredom and misery with her lifeless job and her loveless marriage. She begins to combat her lack of identity by creating a wild nightlife character for herself to play. Frances is soon clubhopping through Boston, taking home a different man every night in this darkly comedic study of identity crisis&hellip&hellip…
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Silver Berlin Bear, Special Jury Prize
Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by&hellip…
Blue Angel
Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)
Javi is a nine year old living in a small town in the early 1960s. He becomes fascinated by the idea that he can hear ghosts, especially in the room where his father died. Javi begins to investigate his family life and learns a great deal about his mother, uncle, and aunts. A delicate&hellip…
Golden Berlin Bear(Nominee)
Raoul Ruiz's GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME is based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence. The nephew proved her right by strangling her. The always compelling Catherine&hellip…
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Black Maria Film and Video Festival
Director's Citation
Twenty-two women talk about their most public private parts
Breasts, an hour-long documentary, consists of interviews with twenty-two women - ages 6 to 84-years-old - discussing how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. Interspersed throughout the&hellip…
Blue Ribbon 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…
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best 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 lies and&hellip…
Best Documentary(Nominee)
Performance artist Bob Flanagan suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout his 42 years. This disturbing, poignant, and disarmingly funny documentary examines his odyssey to have control over his body through inflicting pain on himself. Through private moments captured on camera, his performances, and direct&hellip…
Best Documentary(3rd Place)
MESSAGE TO LOVE: THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL is a vital historical document that depicts a climate in which the boundless hippie optimism of the 1960s was about to be chewed up and spit out by the materialistic capitalism of the 1970s. Poorly organized by three upstart concert promoters, the festival&hellip…
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Brazilian Association of Art Critics
Critics Award(Honorable Mention)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the director (Ann Hui) to play a corpse&hellip…
Critics Award
A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…
Brazilian Film Festival of Miami
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 when he gets to Lisbon he'll&hellip&hellip…
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Best Picture(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Brussels International Film Festival
Crystal Star, Best European Feature(Nominee)
Cora (Asia Argento) has been taking care of a rich woman's dog, walking the pet and playing with him for a nominal fee. Ada, the rich woman, offers Cora more money to follow her confused father (Michel Piccoli). Cora begins to track the wanderings of the father as he hops a train to&hellip…
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Best Belgian 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 he asks Roger to promise&hellip…
Crystal Star, Best European Feature
Audience Award
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&hellip…
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Cannes Film Festival
Golden Palm
Emerging out of an Iranian cinema renaissance, TASTE OF CHERRY is seen by many as its crowning achievement. The story of somber yet intense Mr. Badii and his journey through Tehran, the film emerges as a sort of spiritual road movie. Intent on finding an aid for his planned suicide, Badii encounters citizens from every&hellip…
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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 in and out of China's hidden homosexual&hellip&hellip…
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Best Director
HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job at a tango club, while Ho turns&hellip…
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In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining revenge on her sex. While one of the junior execs&hellip&hellip…
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Golden Palm(Nominee)
Based on the play by Heinrich Von Kleist, Marco Bellocchio's THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG tells the classic tale of one man's unfortunate demise. Andrea Di Stefano portrays the handsome Prince, a 17th century German who is in the midst of an intense battle with the Swedes. Unfortunately, he's finding it hard to concentrate&hellip…
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Cherbourg-Octeville Festival of Irish and British Film
Ex-con George, expecting to be repaid after taking a fall for his crime boss, is reduced to driving classy call girl Simone to her jobs at London's finer hotels. Despite their differences (he's a poorly-educated, unattractive, and unsophisticated bigot; she's a beautiful, elegant, and intelligent black woman), George falls in love with&hellip&hellip…
The second directorial effort from Irish director Neil Jordan (THE CRYING GAME), THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is a psychologically themed retelling of Little Red Riding Hood from a Freudian and slightly feminist angle. Angela Lansbury is Grandma, who tells her granddaughter strange stories of handsome yet heavily eyebrowed strange men, spouses&hellip&hellip…
A unique, unusual travel guide, ROBINSON IN SPACE sees filmmaker Patrick Keiller taking viewers on a remarkable trip around England. Mixing up footage of historic sites with offbeat glimpses of more commonly found objects such as industrial landscapes and shopping malls, Keiller aims to show the breadth of diversity present in English&hellip&hellip…
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Chicago International Film Festival
Silver Hugo, Jury Special Prize
Gold Hugo, Best Film(Nominee)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the&hellip…
Audience Choice Award
Gold Hugo(Nominee)
Javi is a nine year old living in a small town in the early 1960s. He becomes fascinated by the idea that he can hear ghosts, especially in the room where his father died. Javi begins to investigate his family life and learns a great deal about his mother, uncle, and aunts. A delicate&hellip…
Gold Hugo, Best Film(Nominee)
Based on the play by Heinrich Von Kleist, Marco Bellocchio's THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG tells the classic tale of one man's unfortunate demise. Andrea Di Stefano portrays the handsome Prince, a 17th century German who is in the midst of an intense battle with the Swedes. Unfortunately, he's finding it&hellip…
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Chlotrudis Awards
Best Actor(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 3"). Academy&hellip…
CINE Golden Eagle Film and Video Awards
Cine Golden Eagle
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An organization called Colors United helps foster these burgeoning&hellip…
Cineprix Swisscom
Best Documentary, Audience Choice
THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in one of the most remote locations in the world. The holy salt lakes of the Chantang region in Tibet is the destination of a three-month pilgrimage surrounded by beauty, untainted landscapes&hellip…
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Czech Lions
Best Film(Nominee)
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&hellip…
David di Donatello Awards
Best Actress
Cora (Asia Argento) has been taking care of a rich woman's dog, walking the pet and playing with him for a nominal fee. Ada, the rich woman, offers Cora more money to follow her confused father (Michel Piccoli). Cora begins to track the wanderings of the father as he hops a train to Rome and continues to travel throughout&hellip…
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Deauville Festival of American Film
Grand Special Prize(Nominee)
Jury Special Prize
Fun Radio Trophy
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose&hellip…
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Directors Guild of America
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Picture(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&hellip…
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Channel 4 Director's Award-Special Mention
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining&hellip…
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Channel 4 Director's Award(Special Mention)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the director (Ann Hui) to&hellip…
European Film Awards
Screen International Award
A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…
Fantasporto: Porto International Film Festival
Directors' Week Award, Best Director
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…
Audience Jury Award – 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 career&hellip…
Festival of Autumn
A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and logic to solve a baffling string of gruesome, unexplained murders. As the corpses accumulate, the only connection between the crimes is the&hellip&hellip…
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Festroia: Troia 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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Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Film
Best Supporting Actor - Male
Best Actor, Male
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&hellip…
Best Foreign-Language Film
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 cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically in the low-income banlieue districts on Paris's outskirts&hellip…
Filmfare Awards
Best Comedian – Satish Kaushik
In this wild Bollywood comedy,Shyam has the kind of problem some men might envy. Two beautiful women are in love with him- but he unwittingly married both of them! The trouble begins after Shyam learns that his beloved Pooja has died in a flood. So he gives in to&hellip…
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Florida Film Critics Circle 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…
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
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 soldier renews his&hellip&hellip…
Frameline: San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
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, they find themselves in the middle&hellip&hellip…
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Truly a landmark film, COMING OUT is billed as the first and only motion picture dealing with homosexuality ever produced in communist East Germany. The story centers on Philipp, who was heavily attracted to his best friend throughout childhood, but has now left that behind in order to fit into "normal" society. After moving in with&hellip&hellip…
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Fribourg International Film Festival
Travel and Culture Award
Youth Jury Award
A group of forty-something Argentinean friends who came of age under a cruel dictatorship of the 1960's get together for a reunion for the first time in 25 years at the behest of journalist Ernesto and his friend, Ricardo. Through the joy of seeing each other and the healing of old&hellip…
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German Film Awards
Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Individual Achievement Cinematography
In director Werner Herzog's most conceptual and perhaps most challenging film, HEART OF GLASS, a small Bavarian town is plunged into a mysterious and haunted despair when the owner of the town's preindustrial glass factory dies, failing to pass on the secret&hellip…
Film Award in Gold, Outstanding Feature Film(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&hellip…
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Golden Bauhinia Awards
Special Award, Best Hong Kong Film of Past 10 Years
DAYS OF BEING WILD is the film that started it all for auteur art film director Wong Kar Wai, exhibiting many of the preoccupations and devices that would characterize his work throughout his career until the present time. The precise, almost melodic slowness of the pacing is&hellip…
Golden Globe Awards
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Best Original Score - Motion Picture(Nominee)
Best Screenplay - Motion Picture(Nominee)
Best Motion Picture - Drama(Nominee)
Best Director - Motion Picture(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait of the life of Australian piano virtuoso David&hellip…
Golden Satellite Awards
Best Actress(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…
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language(Nominee)
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)&hellip…
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Drama
Best Director of a Motion Picture(Nominee)
Best Motion Picture Screenplay - Original(Nominee)
Best Motion Picture - Drama(Nominee)
This acclaimed film paints a wrenching portrait&hellip…
Gotham Awards
Open Palm Award(Nominee)
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&hellip…
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Hamptons International Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature
In 1936, vaudeville performer Dave Chasen opened a modest restaurant on the edge of West Hollywood, serving up a specialty chili which, according to legend, he originally concocted in the kitchen of director Frank Capra. Over the next 60 years, Chasen's restaurant rose to culinary and cultural fame as&hellip…
Audience Award, Most Popular Documentary
Special Documentary Jury Citation
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An&hellip…
UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT! MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY! BEST-SELLING DANCE SOUNDTRACK INCLUDES: FLUKE, THE ALOOF, WAY OUT WEST and OMNI TRIO! A young infiltrator, Peter (Christien Anholt), is dispatched by moral crusaders in Parliament to gather evidence for a private prosecution against fetish clubs operating all over Britain, where many of&hellip&hellip…
Hochi Film Awards
Best Actor
A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and logic to solve a baffling string of gruesome, unexplained murders. As the corpses accumulate, the only connection between&hellip…
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Huntington International Independent Film Festival
Creative Artist Award
Frances has dug herself a hole of boredom and misery with her lifeless job and her loveless marriage. She begins to combat her lack of identity by creating a wild nightlife character for herself to play. Frances is soon clubhopping through Boston, taking home a different man every night in this darkly comedic&hellip…
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Independent Spirit Awards
Best Cinematography(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…
Best Supporting Male(Nominee)
Best Feature(Nominee)
Best Director(Nominee)
Best Debut Performance(Nominee)
Best Debut Performance
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&hellip…
Producers Award(Nominee)
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&hellip…
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Someone to Watch Award
Autumn in New York. Alone and on the rebound, Sam finds solace in the arms of Anna, a stranger who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness. Winner of the 1997 Independent Spirit Award "Someone to Watch": Larry Fessenden (writer/director/star)&hellip&hellip…
International Film and Video Festival
Chris Award
High school students Mark and Terese are involved in a dangerous relationship. Mark is becoming more possessive and abusive. Terese thinks it's probably her fault but is convinced she can handle it...until Mark physically attacks her in front of a group of friends. Kelly cares deeply for her boyfriend Benson, but&hellip…
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Tiger Award(Nominee)
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&hellip…
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Tiger Award
A unique, unusual travel guide, ROBINSON IN SPACE sees filmmaker Patrick Keiller taking viewers on a remarkable trip around England. Mixing up footage of historic sites with offbeat glimpses of more commonly found objects such as industrial landscapes and shopping malls, Keiller aims to show the breadth of diversity&hellip…
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Audience 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 Award&hellip…
Tiger Award(Nominee)
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…
FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention
Tiger Award
Qi Lei is a young performance artist whose depression has driven him to commit suicide in a piece which would consist of encasing himself in a block of ice until he suffers hypothermia. While his girlfriend is sympathetic, his sister, whom he lives with, fails to take him seriously&hellip…
Itinerant - National Council on Family Relations
First Place(Category: Sexuality and Sex Role Development)
High school students Mark and Terese are involved in a dangerous relationship. Mark is becoming more possessive and abusive. Terese thinks it's probably her fault but is convinced she can handle it...until Mark physically attacks her in front of a group of friends. Kelly&hellip…
Japanese Academy Awards
Best Film Score(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Japanese Professional Movie Awards
Best Director
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…
Joseph Plateau Awards
Best Belgian Actress
Best Belgian Director
Best Belgian Film
Joseph Plateau Box Office Award
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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&hellip…
Kinema Junpo 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…
Liepzig DOK Festival
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An organization called Colors United helps foster these burgeoning talents, with kids learning&hellip&hellip…
Locarno International Film Festival
An Englishwoman living in France with her husband and baby daughter is abruptly confronted by a backpacker, who demands to be allowed to pitch her tent nearby. The two women grow closer and share a series of potentially dangerous encounters, culminating in disaster. Also includes a short film, A SUMMER DRESS, in which a young man on a&hellip&hellip…
Golden Leopard
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 THE WHITE&hellip…
Special Prize
Silver Leopard
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
A fresh and vibrant look at Gypsy culture, seen through the eyes of a conflicted Frenchman who allows himself to embrace the freedom of a unique way of life&hellip&hellip…
Lone Star Film & Television Awards
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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Long Island Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize
Frances has dug herself a hole of boredom and misery with her lifeless job and her loveless marriage. She begins to combat her lack of identity by creating a wild nightlife character for herself to play. Frances is soon clubhopping through Boston, taking home a different man every night in this darkly comedic&hellip…
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Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Best Foreign 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 he asks Roger to promise&hellip…
Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Feature Film
Performance artist Bob Flanagan suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout his 42 years. This disturbing, poignant, and disarmingly funny documentary examines his odyssey to have control over his body through inflicting pain on himself. Through private moments captured on camera, his performances&hellip…
Lucas - International Festival of Films for Children and Young People
C.I.F.E.J. Award
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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 to promise&hellip…
Mainichi Film Concours
Sponichi Grand Prize New Talent Award
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&hellip…
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
An Italian designer travels to Istanbul to sell a traditional Turkish steam bath left to him by a deceased aunt. Upon arrival, he becomes enthralled by the city and decides to renovate and return the bath to the public. This sudden change of heart may have something to do with the fact that he's fallen in love with a beautiful young local&hellip&hellip…
Max Ophüls Festival
Audience Award
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 Herbert's&hellip…
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Miami International Film Festival
A group of forty-something Argentinean friends who came of age under a cruel dictatorship of the 1960's get together for a reunion for the first time in 25 years at the behest of journalist Ernesto and his friend, Ricardo. Through the joy of seeing each other and the healing of old wounds, Ernesto must cope with his former love Ana's&hellip&hellip…
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Mill Valley Film Festival
A smalltown sheriff (Dennis Hopper) and Innkeeper (Mariel Hemingway) unknowingly harbor Maceda, a former FBI informant (Chris Sarandon) who is being hotly pursued by Gere, a bitter agent (Peter Coyote), in order to have him testify against Orosco, a drug kingpin. But when Orosco finds out, he sets out to kill Maceda before Gere finds&hellip&hellip…
Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival
Best Full-Length Fiction Film(Nominee)
An Italian designer travels to Istanbul to sell a traditional Turkish steam bath left to him by a deceased aunt. Upon arrival, he becomes enthralled by the city and decides to renovate and return the bath to the public. This sudden change of heart may have something to do with the fact that&hellip…
Montreal World Film Festival
HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job at a tango club, while Ho turns tricks for a living. Inevitably, they grow apart&hellip&hellip…
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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 THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE&hellip&hellip…
Grand Prix Special des Amériques
A fresh and vibrant look at Gypsy culture, seen through the eyes of a conflicted Frenchman who allows himself to embrace the freedom of a unique way of life&hellip&hellip…
UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT! MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY! BEST-SELLING DANCE SOUNDTRACK INCLUDES: FLUKE, THE ALOOF, WAY OUT WEST and OMNI TRIO! A young infiltrator, Peter (Christien Anholt), is dispatched by moral crusaders in Parliament to gather evidence for a private prosecution against fetish clubs operating all over Britain, where many of&hellip&hellip…
National Educational Media Network Competition
Bronze Apple Award
High school students Mark and Terese are involved in a dangerous relationship. Mark is becoming more possessive and abusive. Terese thinks it's probably her fault but is convinced she can handle it...until Mark physically attacks her in front of a group of friends. Kelly cares deeply for her boyfriend Benson&hellip…
National Film Preservation Board
National Film Registry
Seven friends who were political activists are reunited during a weekend gathering. The changing course of their various lives provides insight into each of their personalities and evolving adult identities&hellip…
National Film Registry
When a seven-year-old Brooklyn boy's older brother tricks him into thinking the tyke has killed him, the youngster takes what money he can find and hightails it to Coney Island. While his brother searches for him, the scared runaway encounters all manner of adventures among the summer throngs. A pioneering&hellip…
National Society of Film Critics Awards
Best Foreign Language 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&hellip…
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New York Festivals
Silver Medal
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An organization called Colors United helps foster these burgeoning talents&hellip…
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best First Film
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining revenge on her sex. While&hellip…
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New York Film Festival
Emerging out of an Iranian cinema renaissance, TASTE OF CHERRY is seen by many as its crowning achievement. The story of somber yet intense Mr. Badii and his journey through Tehran, the film emerges as a sort of spiritual road movie. Intent on finding an aid for his planned suicide, Badii encounters citizens from every walk of life; a&hellip&hellip…
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An Englishwoman living in France with her husband and baby daughter is abruptly confronted by a backpacker, who demands to be allowed to pitch her tent nearby. The two women grow closer and share a series of potentially dangerous encounters, culminating in disaster. Also includes a short film, A SUMMER DRESS, in which a young man on a&hellip&hellip…
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…
HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job at a tango club, while Ho turns tricks for a living. Inevitably, they grow apart&hellip&hellip…
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A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&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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Gold Medal
Gold Medal
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&hellip…
Gold Medal Documentary Award
Twenty-two women talk about their most public private parts
Breasts, an hour-long documentary, consists of interviews with twenty-two women - ages 6 to 84-years-old - discussing how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. Interspersed throughout&hellip…
Olympia Film Festival
A collection of three films from cult director Guy Maddin. In TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), Shelly Duvall (POPEYE) and Frank Gorshin (BATMAN: THE MOVIE) star in a tale of passion and fantasy set in a far away land where the sun always shines. ARCHANGEL (1990) is a story of obsessive love in a war-torn Russian town. HEART OF THE WORLD&hellip&hellip…
Ondas Awards
Best Film
Javi is a nine year old living in a small town in the early 1960s. He becomes fascinated by the idea that he can hear ghosts, especially in the room where his father died. Javi begins to investigate his family life and learns a great deal about his mother, uncle, and aunts. A delicate story of childhood, nominated for&hellip…
Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Grand Jury Award, Outstanding Screenwriting
Grand Jury Award, Outstanding Actor
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&hellip…
Outstanding Emerging Talent
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&hellip…
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Palm Springs 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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PGA Golden Laurel Awards
Motion Picture Producer of the Year Award(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&hellip…
Polish Film Festival
Golden Lion
In these four love-themed stories, Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr (THE DECALOGUE) writes, directs, and stars as a priest who learns he has a daughter, a university professor who discovers a student's infatuation, a thief who is blackmailed by his lover, and an army officer who attempts to reunite with an old flame&hellip…
Pusan International Film Festival
Best Foreign Independent Film
THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in one of the most remote locations in the world. The holy salt lakes of the Chantang region in Tibet is the destination of a three-month pilgrimage surrounded by beauty, untainted landscapes&hellip…
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New Currents Award
Room 407 of Motel Cactus is home to all of the action in this moody, dark depiction of disconnection by first-time Korean director Ki-Yong Park. In four loosely-connected vignettes, the characters' unhappiness is expressed in a myriad of ways, with cinematographer Christopher Doyle (HERO, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE)&hellip…
Reeling: Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival
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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The first film to positively depict homosexual relations was released in Germany in 1919, 50 years before the gay liberation movement began in the US. A masterpiece of the silent era from acclaimed director Richard Oswald (AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS, LUCRETIA BORGIA) DIFFERENT FROM THE OTHERS starred one of the most popular German&hellip&hellip…
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San Francisco International Film Festival
Golden Spire
Set in the precarious surrounding of South Central, Los Angeles, COLORS STRAIGHT UP is a documentary that explores the lives of children who have managed to escape slipping into a life of crime via their commitments to various artistic endeavors. An organization called Colors United helps foster these burgeoning talents&hellip…
Certificate of Merit - Film & Video, Sociology/US
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&hellip…
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Gael Morel's ambitious directorial debut examines issues of race, politics, art, and romance in modern France through a quartet of very diverse young friends united by a common factor: unrequited love&hellip&hellip…
San Sebastián International Film Festival
An Englishwoman living in France with her husband and baby daughter is abruptly confronted by a backpacker, who demands to be allowed to pitch her tent nearby. The two women grow closer and share a series of potentially dangerous encounters, culminating in disaster. Also includes a short film, A SUMMER DRESS, in which a young man on a&hellip&hellip…
Golden Seashell(Nominee)
Based on the controversial novella by Balzac, this is the story of a young army officer who becomes stranded in the Sahara desert. Once there, he begins forming a bond with a wild leopard. The leopard saves his life and the two continue to connect, eventually consummating their relationship through a passionate&hellip…
Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Audience Award(2nd Place)
A fresh and vibrant look at Gypsy culture, seen through the eyes of a conflicted Frenchman who allows himself to embrace the freedom of a unique way of life&hellip&hellip…
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role(Nominee)
Outstanding Cast(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&hellip…
Seattle International Film Festival
Golden Space Needle Award, Best Documentary
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"&hellip…
New Director's Showcase Special Jury Prize
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&hellip…
Singapore International Film Festival
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…
Silver Screen Award, Special Jury Prize
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the director (Ann Hui) to play&hellip…
Silver Screen Award, Best Asian Feature Film
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…
Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia
Best Film(Nominee)
Based on the play by Heinrich Von Kleist, Marco Bellocchio's THE PRINCE OF HOMBURG tells the classic tale of one man's unfortunate demise. Andrea Di Stefano portrays the handsome Prince, a 17th century German who is in the midst of an intense battle with the Swedes. Unfortunately, he's finding it hard to concentrate&hellip…
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Slamdance Film Festival
Jury Prize(Honorable Mention)
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&hellip…
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Sochi International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
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 Herbert's&hellip…
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Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
Best Documentary
Twenty-two women talk about their most public private parts
Breasts, an hour-long documentary, consists of interviews with twenty-two women - ages 6 to 84-years-old - discussing how breasts play a crucial role in the experiences of puberty, motherhood, sex, health, and aging. Interspersed throughout the documentary&hellip…
Society of Texas Film Critics Awards
Best Original Screenplay
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining revenge on her&hellip…
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Stockholm International Film Festival
Honorable Mention, Best Actress – Karolina Ostrozna
In these four love-themed stories, Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr (THE DECALOGUE) writes, directs, and stars as a priest who learns he has a daughter, a university professor who discovers a student's infatuation, a thief who is blackmailed by his&hellip…
Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Special Recognition
Performance artist Bob Flanagan suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout his 42 years. This disturbing, poignant, and disarmingly funny documentary examines his odyssey to have control over his body through inflicting pain on himself. Through private moments captured&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
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&hellip…
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Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy, Dramatic
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping&hellip…
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Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
A grave documentary account of the struggles of European Jews liberated from Nazi encampment to survive the isolationist aftermath of World War II. While the Allied nations strengthened their immigration laws and the survivors' formerly occupied homelands still bore the taint of anti-Semitism&hellip…
Latin America Cinema Award(Honorable Mention)
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&hellip…
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Director's Award, Documentary
Filmmakers Trophy, Documentary
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
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&hellip…
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Best Actor(Nominee)
Malaysian born, Taiwan-based writer-director Tsai Ming-Liang's (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD) third feature is a languorously paced, darkly absurdist tale of a troubled Taipei family. One afternoon, Xiao-Kang (Lee Kang-sheng) visits a movie set, and is drafted by the director (Ann Hui) to play a corpse floating in&hellip…
Best Director(Nominee)
Best Actor(Nominee)
Best Cinematography
HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job&hellip…
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Taormina International Film Festival
Best Film
THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in one of the most remote locations in the world. The holy salt lakes of the Chantang region in Tibet is the destination of a three-month pilgrimage surrounded by beauty, untainted landscapes, and the dedicated strength&hellip…
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Taos Talking Picture 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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Thessaloniki Film Festival
Golden Alexander(Nominee)
In writer-director Neil LaBute's debut feature film, a pair of thirtysomething white-collar businessmen, embittered by their shallow lives and bad experiences with women, target and romance a beautiful deaf secretary (Stacy Edwards) solely for the purpose of dumping her and thus gaining revenge on her&hellip…
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Tokyo International Film Festival
Best Actor
A stunningly original take on the traditional serial killer film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's CURE follows the determined and tortured trail of detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) as he races against time and logic to solve a baffling string of gruesome, unexplained murders. As the corpses accumulate, the only connection between&hellip…
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Toronto International Film Festival
Hartley has crafted here what many consider to be his crowning achievement: a sprawling epic of a story that tackles any and everything he decides to mock, satirize, or challenge. Simon is a factory worker who lives with his nymphomaniac sister and manic depressive mother. Along comes Henry Fool, a convicted sexual offender who moves&hellip&hellip…
A collection of three films from cult director Guy Maddin. In TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS (1997), Shelly Duvall (POPEYE) and Frank Gorshin (BATMAN: THE MOVIE) star in a tale of passion and fantasy set in a far away land where the sun always shines. ARCHANGEL (1990) is a story of obsessive love in a war-torn Russian town. HEART OF THE WORLD&hellip&hellip…
Performance artist Bob Flanagan suffered from cystic fibrosis throughout his 42 years. This disturbing, poignant, and disarmingly funny documentary examines his odyssey to have control over his body through inflicting pain on himself. Through private moments captured on camera, his performances, and direct conversations with Flanagan&hellip&hellip…
In this amalgam of comedy styles and genres, a young man believes he may be turning into a werewolf; meanwhile, a lonely housewife is confused by her mysterious blackouts, and meets an irreverent and brash waitress who leads to an unusual and unforgettable relationship. All these quirky characters and more interact in this crazy comedy&hellip&hellip…
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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 in and out of China's hidden homosexual&hellip&hellip…
Mystery writer Tucker Harding finds herself suddenly yanked out of her life in 1953 and transported to the year 1997 by an old lover who has discovered the secret to time travel and hopes to get Tucker's help in changing the future. As Tucker explores the strange future and gets to know a fellow struggling writer, she must escape shadowy&hellip&hellip…
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A poor Kingston street vendor, the principal breadwinner for her struggling family, finds new vitality after discovering the pulsing, anonymous world of the dancehall. Not only can she allow herself the freedom to become a star, she may also be able to win the lucrative dancehall contest and pull her family out of despair. A reggae/dancehall-fueled&hellip&hellip…
HAPPY TOGETHER chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Buenos Aires. The two possess very divergent ways of dealing with the world; Lai is more responsible, holding down a job at a tango club, while Ho turns tricks for a living. Inevitably, they grow apart&hellip&hellip…
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A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…
Swedish detective Jonas Engstrom is working out of the Norwegian city of Oslo after being transferred following an indiscretion with a witness. When he finds himself investigating the murder of a young woman just beyond the Arctic Circle in the gray Norwegian coastal town of Tromso, sunlight, fog, the 24-hour sunlight, and suspicious&hellip&hellip…
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 soldier renews his&hellip&hellip…
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 THE WHITE BALLOON and THE CIRCLE&hellip&hellip…
This gritty crime drama takes place in the underworld of contemporary Tokyo, following a young woman who gives up her job as a successful computer programmer and her stable lifestyle for the downward spiral of drugs and dangerous sex in the Tokyo fringe. Along the way, director Masashi Yamamoto uses a mix of widescreen cinematography&hellip&hellip…
A unique, unusual travel guide, ROBINSON IN SPACE sees filmmaker Patrick Keiller taking viewers on a remarkable trip around England. Mixing up footage of historic sites with offbeat glimpses of more commonly found objects such as industrial landscapes and shopping malls, Keiller aims to show the breadth of diversity present in English&hellip&hellip…
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Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
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, they find themselves in the middle&hellip&hellip…
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Valladolid International Film Festival
Golden Spike(Nominee)
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 THE&hellip…
Best Documentary(2nd Place)
A grave documentary account of the struggles of European Jews liberated from Nazi encampment to survive the isolationist aftermath of World War II. While the Allied nations strengthened their immigration laws and the survivors' formerly occupied homelands still bore the taint of anti-Semitism, the Jews&hellip…
Vancouver International 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…
Venice International Film Festival
Mystery writer Tucker Harding finds herself suddenly yanked out of her life in 1953 and transported to the year 1997 by an old lover who has discovered the secret to time travel and hopes to get Tucker's help in changing the future. As Tucker explores the strange future and gets to know a fellow struggling writer, she must escape shadowy&hellip&hellip…
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Golden Lion
A tough ex-cop is troubled by his ill wife and his partner, who was shot on duty. He proceeds to confront his demons in a bloody rampage, doing whatever is necessary to help those he loves. A simultaneously tender and violent masterwork from Takeshi, one of Japan's most popular entertainers&hellip&hellip…
Part of the 2000 SEEN BY... series in which six directors filmed their vision of the night of December 31, 1999, Laurent Cantet's film finds a group of people escaping to a small island to remove themselves from the hubbub surrounding Paris. Led by Francois, the group, consisting of some of his friends and their children, wastes no time&hellip&hellip…
Anicaflash Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
OCIC Award - Honorable Mention
Sergio Trasatti Award
In these four love-themed stories, Polish actor Jerzy Stuhr (THE DECALOGUE) writes, directs, and stars as a priest who learns he has a daughter, a university professor who discovers a student's infatuation, a thief who is blackmailed&hellip…
Vienna International Film Festival
THE SALTMEN OF TIBET is a film documenting the traditions and rituals of a small Tibetan group of nomads in one of the most remote locations in the world. The holy salt lakes of the Chantang region in Tibet is the destination of a three-month pilgrimage surrounded by beauty, untainted landscapes, and the dedicated strength of a nomadic&hellip…
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Writers Guild Awards
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen(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&hellip…
Young Artist Awards
Best Performance in a Feature Film(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)&hellip…