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Adbusters Video Competition
First Prize
City Bleach is an activist video work from 2002. In this work, black & white stills of Times Square mutate as all commercial spaces are bleached out, leaving vast white, empty areas. In 2003 it won the first prize in Adbusters magazine's video competition and has since been exhibited in Black Lab gallery in Seattle&hellip…
Adelaide Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
This 1965 Japanese feature was startling for its use of a female point of view. Set during WWII, it is the story of Harumi, one of a group of "comfort women" who spend time with soldiers during their leaves from battle. A commanding officer falls for Harumi and becomes the property of this sadistic militarist. Harumi, meanwhile, falls&hellip&hellip…
AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
ALTER-NATIVE International Short Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Amanda Awards
Best Nordic Newcomer
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's&hellip…
Anchorage International Film Festival
Best Feature
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York&hellip…
AniFest: International Festival of Animated Films
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Anima Mundi: International Animation Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Animadrid
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Annapolis Reel Cinema Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Arizona International Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Arras International Film Festival
Actress Rosanna Arquette directs this insightful documentary in which she interviews dozens of actresses in their thirties and beyond about they pressures they face in an industry which seems to provide fewer and fewer roles for women beyond their twenties. With commentary from women such as Salma Hayek, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and&hellip&hellip…
Art Film Festival
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank. This noble and serene film eschews&hellip&hellip…
Asheville Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
ASIFA - East Animation Festival
First Place
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires&hellip…
Aspen Filmfest
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Atlanta Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Jury Award, Best Screenplay
Joe Maggio's MILK AND HONEY is a probing portrait of a disintegrating relationship, set in the hypertense world of New York City. Rick Johnson (Clint Jordan) is losing his grip on reality, while his exhausted wife Joyce (Kirsten Russell) is losing her patience with Rick. Gradually, the reason for Rick's&hellip…
Auckland International Film Festival
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip&hellip…
Putting black cinema on the map and ushering in the legendary Blaxploitation genre of the 1970s, Melvin Van Peebles's SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG is a thrilling work of entertainment as well as a historically and ideologically significant essay on the issue of race. The film tells the story of Sweetback (Van Peebles), an apolitical&hellip&hellip…
Augsburg Short Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Awards of the Israeli Film Academy
Best Supporting Actress
Best Music(Nominee)
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Actress
Best Editor
Best Art Direction
Best Supporting Actor
Best Film
Best Director
Best Sound
Best Actor(Nominee)
Best Screenplay
This lovingly crafted Israeli film neatly combines kinky eroticism&hellip…
BAFTA Awards
Best Actress(Nominee)
Set in modern Mississippi, MONSTER'S BALL subtly examines the impact of personal loss and the transforming power of human connection. The movie begins in the state penitentiary's death row, where father-and-son prison guards Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) administer the execution&hellip…
Most Promising Newcomer(Nominee)
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with&hellip…
Bangkok International Film Festival
Golden Kinnaree Award(Nominee)
In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest&hellip…
Barcelona Women's International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Bearded Child Film Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Bergen International Film Festival
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married&hellip&hellip…
Berlin International Film Festival
C.I.C.A.E. Award, Forum of New Cinema
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay&hellip…
Big Bear Lake International Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
BIMINI: International Festival of Animation
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Black Nights Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Blizzard Awards
Best Art Direction(Winners)
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to&hellip…
Bogata Film Festival
Audience Award
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York&hellip…
Boston Independent Film Festival
The Feature documentary 7TH STREET draws the viewer into a neighborhood that most people were one too afraid to enter. An area that most people only heard rumors about. Alphabet City in NYC's East Village, the drug capital of the East Coast. A place where only those who had no place to go ended up&hellip…
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
Best New Filmmaker
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island&hellip…
Boston Underground Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Brasilia International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Brazilian Film Festival of Miami
Crysal Lens, Best Cinematography
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook&hellip…
Brooklyn International Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Cairo International Film Festival
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Calgary International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
California Independent Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Camerimage Film Festival
Golden Frog(Nominee)
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish&hellip…
Cannes Film Festival
In the mid-1990's, spurred both by the sudden explosion of bands like Oasis and Prime Minister Tony Blair's "Cool Brittania" campaign, British culture experienced a surge that made Anglophilia seem like a world phenomenon. At the heart of this heady craze was pop music, and suddenly, "Britpop" was born. Oasis, their would-be rivals Blur&hellip&hellip…
The world of Motorcycle Grand Prix racing attracts thrill-seeking competitors who feel the need for speed, competition, and the glorious feeling of victory. This Slamdance Film Festival-favorite takes a look at the sport, and was written and directed by acclaimed documentarian Mark Neale (WILLIAM GIBSON: NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES)&hellip&hellip…
Golden Palm(Nominee)
This melancholic, brooding romantic thriller stars Zhang Ziyi (HERO; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) as Ding Hui, a Chinese woman who is part of a secret anti-Japanese terrorist organization in 1931 Shanghai. Three years earlier, under her real name, Cynthia, she was a factory worker in Manchuria carrying&hellip…
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…
Stylish, gritty, and utterly New York City, LOVE THE HARD WAY is a slice-of-life film that pairs two total opposites in a test of wills. Jack (Adrien Brody) is a cocky young bad boy, living in a loft in the Bronx, driving a rundown car, listening to loud hip-hop, and running small scams with a close-knit group of two-bit criminals. He&hellip&hellip…
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Golden Camera
Prix Regards Jeune, Best Feature
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together&hellip…
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN sets out to put the record straight, by showing how the Italians led one of the first, and most important, battles in the war. For added realism, Montleone&hellip&hellip…
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Handsome, young, naïve, and insufferably pretentious, amateur filmmaker Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his famous actress mother, Mado (Nicole Garcia), are locked into a power-play at their country house. Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), the daughter of the caretaker, is in love with Julien. But Julien's girlfriend&hellip…
Golden Palm(Nominee)
Bertrand Bonello (THE PORNOGRAPHER) directs TIRESIA, a tale of a transsexual call-girl who undergoes a terrifying kidnapping&hellip&hellip…
Cannes Market
The life of a Jewish composer and a German journalist are cleverly intertwined in this illustration of how past events can return to reap unfortunate consequences on present-day lives. The Jewish composer, Hermann Gebirtig, is pursued by a writer who wants him to return to the town of his birth, and contribute to a courtroom battle against&hellip&hellip…
Carolines on Broadway Funny Shorts Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
Most Promising Performer(Nominee)
Most Promising Director(Nominee)
Raised Jewish, Danny (Ryan Gosling) now runs with an anti-Semitic skinhead gang in Queens. Attending a meeting held by prominent self-proclaimed fascist Curtis Zampf (Billy Zane), Danny is noticed when he proposes killing Jews as a solution to society's problems&hellip…
Chicago International Documentary Festival
Audience Award
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come&hellip…
Chicago International Film Festival
Silver Hugo, Best Female Performance
Handsome, young, naïve, and insufferably pretentious, amateur filmmaker Julien (Robinson Stévenin) and his famous actress mother, Mado (Nicole Garcia), are locked into a power-play at their country house. Jeanne (Julie Depardieu), the daughter of the caretaker, is in love with Julien&hellip…
Gold Plaque
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch&hellip…
Chlotrudis Awards
Best Supporting Actress(Nominee)
The debut film by director Christine Jeffs, RAIN, records with charm the confusion of coming of age amidst domestic disintegration. In Far North New Zealand in 1972, Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) has traveled to the beach for a long lazy summer with her family. As the days get longer, Janey&hellip…
Cine Ceará - National Cinema Festival
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Art Direction
Best Screenplay
Best Film
Best Original Score
Best Director
Best Editing
Best Cinematography
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas&hellip…
Cine Eco - Environmental International Film and Video Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Cinema Jove International Film Festival
Special Jury Prize
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN&hellip…
Cinemanila International Film Festival
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 reflective of the existential conundrum in which the characters&hellip&hellip…
Best Screenplay
Netpac Award
DIVINE INTERVENTION writer-director Elia Suleiman has been compared to Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin, presumably because he has Allen's intelligent, self-deprecating humor and Chaplin's gift for silent comedy. DIVINE INTERVENTION is not a silent film, but an intensely quiet comedy about daily&hellip…
Best Actor
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men&hellip…
Cinematexas
Best Cinematography
Perils In Nude Modeling focuses on a art students struggle between his love for a hegre art model and his demanding hegre arts teacher. Scott Rice directed Perils In Nude Modeling. IndiePix Films provides the best independent movies and top independent films online. Consumers can buy top indie movies and top&hellip…
Cleveland International Film Festival
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
Conscientious Projector Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Copenhagen International Film Festival
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN CALLAR. Momentarily frozen&hellip&hellip…
Drama about the relationship that develops between two people as they put their lives back together in post-World War I France. Major Dellaplane is a stoic soldier given the unenviable task of locating over 300,000 MIA's. Irene is a snobby socialite trying to find her missing husband, who joined the army to escape their marriage. Their&hellip&hellip…
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN sets out to put the record straight, by showing how the Italians led one of the first, and most important, battles in the war. For added realism, Montleone&hellip&hellip…
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married&hellip&hellip…
A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…
In 1922 France, the writer Marcel Proust is on his deathbed, scenes from the past flashing before his eyes. But what he is remembering is not his own life; he has become the narrator in a past filled with the characters and places of his fictional world. Director and cowriter Raoul Ruiz has fashioned a multilayered, complex, nonlinear&hellip&hellip…
Cork International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Cottbus Film Festival
Special Prize, Feature Film Competition
Award of the Ecumenical Jury
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin&hellip…
cph:dox: Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
William Gibson, famed science-fiction novelist and creator of the term "cyberspace," speaks from the back of his limousine as it meanders cross-country over nameless highways, heading no place in particular. The cameras roll as Gibson talks about his own personal philosophies, experiences, and opinions about the media-saturated culture&hellip&hellip…
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank. This noble and serene film eschews&hellip&hellip…
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…
Cucalorus Festival of Independent Film
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Dallas-Forth Worth Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
Darklights Film Festival
Best Documentary-Cultural(Nominee)
Special Prize of the Ministry for Development, Culture and Sports
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence&hellip…
David di Donatello Awards
Best Sound
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design(Nominee)
Best Editing
Best Supporting Actor(Nominee)
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN sets out to put the&hellip…
DC Independent Film Festival
Perils In Nude Modeling focuses on a art students struggle between his love for a hegre art model and his demanding hegre arts teacher. Scott Rice directed Perils In Nude Modeling. IndiePix Films provides the best independent movies and top independent films online. Consumers can buy top indie movies and top documentaries. Indiepix has&hellip…
deadCENTER Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Denver International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Directors Guild of Canada
Outstanding Achievement in Direction(Nominee)
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that&hellip…
EarthVision Environmental Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Eclipse Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Emden International Film Festival
Emden Film Award(Nominee)
The life of a Jewish composer and a German journalist are cleverly intertwined in this illustration of how past events can return to reap unfortunate consequences on present-day lives. The Jewish composer, Hermann Gebirtig, is pursued by a writer who wants him to return to the town of his birth, and contribute&hellip…
European Film Awards
European Discovery of the Year
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence&hellip…
European Discovery of the Year(Nominee)
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her&hellip…
European Union Film Festival
From the screenwriter of THE CELEBRATION comes KIRA'S REASON: A LOVE STORY, a Danish Dogme film directed by Ole Christian Madsen. A recovering mental patient, Kira (Stine Stengade) returns home to her husband after a stay in a psychiatric hospital, only to begin a long and difficult adjustment back to her old life. She struggles to accept&hellip&hellip…
Evening Standard British Film Awards
Peter Sellers Award for Comedy
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an&hellip…
Best Technical/Artistic Achievement
Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. Yet another bittersweet slice-of-life drama conceived in Leigh's now legendary improvisational style, ALL OR NOTHING&hellip…
FanTasia Festival
Best Asian Film
Named Best Film at the Deauville Asian Film Festival, SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE is the first movie in director Chanwook Park's revenge trilogy, which also includes OLDBOY and SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE. Ha-kyun Shin stars as Ryu, a young deaf mute with green hair and a job at a smelting factory. His ailing sister&hellip…
Fantasporto: Porto International Film Festival
A small town indoor pool and the limitless mind of one of the pool employees make the setting for this stunning comedic fantasy. The pool is where local residents go to escape the daily grind and enter a fantastical dream world. Adrift in these daydreams, the Anton (Denis Lavant) finds Eva (Chulpan Hamatova), a beautiful woman who has&hellip&hellip…
Fantastisk Film Festival Lund
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…
Febiofest: International Film, Television and Video Festival
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini interviewed people on the streets of Italy about their feelings and experiences with love and sex. Writer Alberto Moravia and psychologist Cesare Musatti provide commentary on Pasolini's findings&hellip&hellip…
This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens to plunge the countries into war&hellip&hellip…
In his first theatrically released film, legendary director Krzysztof Kieslowski begins his work in political commentary with a tale of a man, Stefan Bednarz (Franciszek Pieczka), who is chosen by the Communist Party to supervise a construction project in his hometown, where he has not lived for many years. Despite his negative associations&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Festival do Rio
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano
Marc Larre Miranda, influenced by the Situationist Movement, leaves his native Barcelona, Spain and travels to New York to live an extreme experience of poverty to grow and learn from it. Little does he know that he will be witnessing the worst attack ever on U.S. soil, the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001&hellip&hellip…
FIKE - Evora International Short Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Film By The Sea Film Festival
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between the two worlds forms the backbone of&hellip&hellip…
Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards
Best Foreign Film-English Language
This new and embellished version of the 2001 theatrical release, which was a cult hit, offers twenty minutes of scenes that were deleted from the original, sound improvements, new songs (such as "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS), and new special effects that give insight into Donnie's world and&hellip…
Filmfest Dresden: International Short Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Filmfest Munchen
This melancholic, brooding romantic thriller stars Zhang Ziyi (HERO; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) as Ding Hui, a Chinese woman who is part of a secret anti-Japanese terrorist organization in 1931 Shanghai. Three years earlier, under her real name, Cynthia, she was a factory worker in Manchuria carrying on a romance with a Japanese&hellip&hellip…
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Flanders International Film Festival
Golden Spur(Nominee)
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN sets out to put the record straight, by showing how the Italians led one of the first, and most important, battles in the&hellip…
Florida Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Flying Broom Women's Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Foro Internacional de la Cineteca
From Nepal to Kenya, from Australia to Brazil, people try to cope with the changes that have altered their landscape, crowding them together and speeding up daily life. The film shows us these alienated people, but also images of traditions--whirling dervishes and Tibetan monks--that offer different, peaceful ways of existence. Shot in&hellip&hellip…
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip&hellip…
Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
Audience Award
Exposing all the thrills and spills of the demolition derby, this highly personal documentary from director Jesse Moss focuses on the life of driver Ed "Speedo" Jager. Life as a top derby racer takes its toll on Jager's private life, with every professional peak being levelled out by a very personal trough. Totally&hellip…
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Garden State Film Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Genie Awards
Best Documentary Feature(Nominee)
Joseph Blasioli's gripping documentary THE LAST ROUND chronicles the legendary bout between Muhammad Ali and a little-known Canadian boxer whom the Greatest dubbed "the toughest man" he ever fought. George Chuvalo was born to immigrant parents and raised in a working-class Toronto neighborhood&hellip…
Gerardmer International Fantasy Film Festival
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
German Film Awards
Gold Award-Outstanding Cinematography
Gold Award-Best Documentary
In RIVERS AND TIDES, German documentarian Thomas Riedelshiemer attempts to capture the essence of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create site-specific pieces which he then leaves to be carried away--or destroyed altogether--by&hellip…
Get Real: City Pages Documentary Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Giggleshorts: International Comedy Short Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Gijon International Film Festival
Grand Prix Asturias, Best Feature(Nominee)
Best Actor
Special Jury Award
Best Screenplay
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin&hellip…
GLAAD Media Awards
Outstanding Documentary(Nominee)
For her film SOUTHERN COMFORT, veteran documentarian Kate Davis found a rare subject in Robert Eads, a 52-year-old female-to-male transsexual living in Tuccoa, Georgia. Eads, a charming, laconic cowboy apparently "male" enough to once be propositioned to join the Ku Klux Klan, began life as a female&hellip…
Outstanding Film(Nominee)
When Antonia (Margherita Buy) loses her husband Massimo in a terrifying car accident, she is devastated. Taking care of necessary business after his death, she runs across a painting, a gift to her husband with a note attached indicating that Antonia's partner of 15 years had been indiscreet for seven&hellip…
Golden Bauhinia Awards
Best Actress
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more&hellip…
Golden Satellite Awards
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language(Nominee)
The debut film by director Christine Jeffs, RAIN, records with charm the confusion of coming of age amidst domestic disintegration. In Far North New Zealand in 1972, Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki) has traveled to the beach for a long lazy summer with her family. As the days get&hellip…
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language(Nominee)
Best Original Screenplay(Nominee)
Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. Yet another bittersweet slice-of-life drama conceived in Leigh's now&hellip…
Grand Bell Awards
Best Actor
Best Director
Best Film
This shocking tale is designed to repulse viewers, chiefly because it's based on a horrific true story. Following the activities of South Korea's first serial killer, MEMORIES OF MURDER tracks the gruesome events through the eyes of the two detectives investigating the case. The murders&hellip…
Best Supporting Actor
Best Sound Effects
Best New Director
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun)&hellip…
Grenoble Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
In 1943, as World War II's Battle of Berlin rages, with air raids forcing families into their cellars for shelter and bombs exploding all over the city, Felice Schragenheim (Juliane Köhler) and Lilly Wust (Maria Schrader), fall in love. Director Max Färberböck's AIMEE & JAGUAR tells the true story of this passionate, forbidden love&hellip…
Hamburg Film Festival
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married&hellip&hellip…
Hamptons International Film Festival
Audience Award
Exposing all the thrills and spills of the demolition derby, this highly personal documentary from director Jesse Moss focuses on the life of driver Ed "Speedo" Jager. Life as a top derby racer takes its toll on Jager's private life, with every professional peak being levelled out by a very personal trough. Totally&hellip…
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Havana Film Festival
Best Cinematography
Coral, Best First Work
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele)&hellip…
Hawaii International Film Festival
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
High Falls Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Hong Kong Film Awards
Best Asian Film(Nominee)
This Korean thriller mines the historic tension between North and South Korea over activity in the JSA, the Joint Security Area, a region guarded by armies from both counties. When two North Korean soldiers are found dead there, it sets off a political chain of events that threatens to plunge the countries&hellip…
Best Actress
Best Film Editing(Nominee)
Best Visual Effects(Nominee)
Best Sound(Nominee)
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she&hellip…
Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards
Film of Merit
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more&hellip…
Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival
In the late 1930s thousands of German Jews, fearing for their lives under Nazi rule and unable to secure entrance visas to other countries, found refuge in the Japanese-occupied city of Shanghai. Destitute, hungry, and thrust into a strange environment, they made the best of their situation as they waited to return to Europe, little realizing&hellip&hellip…
Hot Docs: Canadian International Documentary Festival
In the mid-1990's, spurred both by the sudden explosion of bands like Oasis and Prime Minister Tony Blair's "Cool Brittania" campaign, British culture experienced a surge that made Anglophilia seem like a world phenomenon. At the heart of this heady craze was pop music, and suddenly, "Britpop" was born. Oasis, their would-be rivals Blur&hellip&hellip…
Special Jury Award
Joseph Blasioli's gripping documentary THE LAST ROUND chronicles the legendary bout between Muhammad Ali and a little-known Canadian boxer whom the Greatest dubbed "the toughest man" he ever fought. George Chuvalo was born to immigrant parents and raised in a working-class Toronto neighborhood but harbored lifelong&hellip…
Houston Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
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. Based on Allan Berube's&hellip&hellip…
Houston Worldfest Film Festival
Gold REMI Award for Creative Excellence
On the Malabar coast of southern India, along the Arabian Sea, lies a range of mountains known as the Western Ghats, or Sahyadris. Far more ancient than the larger and better-known Himalayas to the north, the Sahyadris harbor the most intact rain forests of peninsular India. Within these&hellip…
IAPL Conference
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
IFP Buzzcuts by Sundance Channel
Four years ago, Tom Haslett left his job as a dairy farmer to pursue a career selling adjustable-beds. He was attracted to the profession, he says, because he "wanted to help people a bit." Now, he's one of his company's top-grossing salesmen. Hurt & Save follows Tom as he ventures into the sanctity of people's homes and bedrooms&hellip&hellip…
IFP Los Angeles Film Festival
Best Documentary Feature
BE GOOD, SMILE PRETTY is the emotionally powerful documentary of one daughter's journey to discover the father she never knew. Director Tracy Droz Tragos was just three months old when her father died in the Vietnam War. Thirty years later, she sets out on a cross-country odyssey to find out more about&hellip…
Independent Film Festival of Boston
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
Exposing all the thrills and spills of the demolition derby, this highly personal documentary from director Jesse Moss focuses on the life of driver Ed "Speedo" Jager. Life as a top derby racer takes its toll on Jager's private life, with every professional peak being levelled out by a very personal&hellip…
Independent Spirit Awards
Best Documentary(Nominee)
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based&hellip…
Best Male Lead(Nominee)
SKINS, based on the novel by Adrian C. Louis, is the impressive second feature of Native American director Chris Eyre (SMOKE SIGNALS). Filmed on location at the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota, SKINS tells the story of Rudy (Eric Schweig), a policeman, and his older brother Mogie (Graham&hellip…
Truer Than Fiction Award(Nominee)
THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER, a documentary based on the book by British journalist Christopher Hitchens, argues that Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State and the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was a power-hungry warmonger responsible for massive military cover-ups in Vietnam, Cambodia&hellip…
Someone to Watch Award(Nominee)
Mendy (Oren Rehany) is a young man living in Bnei Brak, Israel, struggling to keep his mind focused on rabbinical school. His family is supportive of him, and they realize that adolescence involves soul-searching and discontent. But his teacher sees that deep down Mendy is full of lust, and he tells&hellip…
Infinity International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
International Comics Festival of Angouleme
Known for his best-selling graphic novel, SANDMAN, alongside other titles such as his novel AMERICAN GODS, and his foray into children's fiction, CORALINE, Neil Gaiman takes a step into the film world with A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON. Basing his movie around the work of acclaimed artist John Bolton and his paintings of nude, vampire-like&hellip&hellip…
International Documentary Association
Feature Documentaries(Nominee)
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an&hellip…
IDA Award, Feature Documetaries(Nominee)
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island&hellip…
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
Three blind sisters, linked by this extraordinary twist of fate, spend their lives singing and playing ganza for spare change on the streets and in the street markets of poverty stricken northeast Brazil. This documentary follows the daily chores of these women and how they survive on their own&hellip…
International Film Festival Rotterdam
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&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…
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
International Leipzig Festival of Documentary and Animated Film
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
International Schwenninger Short Film Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
International Young Audience Film Festival--Ale Kino
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Istanbul International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
It's All True International Documentary Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists
Best Screenplay(Nominee)
Best Editing(Nominee)
Silver Ribbon, Best Sound
Best Cinematography(Nominee)
Best Producer(Nominee)
This brutally precise drama is director Enzo Montleone's take on the Italian army's efforts during the Second World War. Although the history books make little mention of them, EL ALAMEIN&hellip…
Japanese Academy Awards
Best Foreign Film
Set in modern Mississippi, MONSTER'S BALL subtly examines the impact of personal loss and the transforming power of human connection. The movie begins in the state penitentiary's death row, where father-and-son prison guards Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) administer the execution&hellip…
Jeonju International Film Festival
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between the two worlds forms the backbone of&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Kerala International Film Festival
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida (Shilpa Shukla), and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha (Kiron Kher). Life seems to flow in measured, bucolic beauty, but old and new trauma&hellip&hellip…
Korean Film Festival
A harrowing portrait of love and desire, BAD GUY is situated deep in Seoul's seedy nightlife. Differing strains of the story follow various people inexorably caught up in an underground existence that exercises a vice-like grip over their every action; a pimp forces a prostitute to live in her booth, then falls in love with her by watching&hellip&hellip…
KROK International Animated Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
La Milanesiana International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Leeds International Film Festival
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Ljubljana International Film Festival
Kingfisher Award
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish&hellip…
Locarno International Film Festival
Golden Leopard(Nominee)
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband&hellip…
Don Quixote Award - Special Mention
Bronze Leopard, Best Actress
Youth Jury Award - Special Mention
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
Golden Leopard
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love&hellip…
Golden Leopard(Nominee)
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence&hellip…
London Critics Circle Film Awards
Best Film of the Year
Best Actress of the Year
Following 1999's Oscar-nominated period piece TOPSY-TURVY, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to the familiar terrain of modern, working-class London with ALL OR NOTHING. Yet another bittersweet slice-of-life drama conceived in Leigh's now legendary improvisational style&hellip…
London Film Festival
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
Los Angeles Film Festival
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Louisville Jewish Film Festival
Best Film
In May 1948, a group of European Jewish refugees illegally sail to Palestine via the cargo freighter Kedma, arriving only a few days before the departure of British forces and the founding of the nation of Israel. Once ashore they are received by the Palmach, Jewish fighters who help them evade arrest by British troops&hellip…
Made in Miami Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Mar del Plata International Film Festival
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN CALLAR. Momentarily frozen&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Maui Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Documentary
With STEP INTO LIQUID, Dana Brown emerges from his legendary father's shadow and adds another classic film to the surf documentary canon. Son of hugely influential filmmaker Bruce Brown (THE ENDLESS SUMMER, ON ANY SUNDAY), Dana's debut as a writer/director is a gorgeously photographed tribute to&hellip…
Mediawave "Another Connection" International Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Melbourne Independent Filmmakers Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Melbourne Queer Film Festival
German director Gabriel Baur (QUEEN OF BED) explores the world of drag kings, inter-sexed persons, and transgendered women in her documentary, VENUS BOYZ. Through in-depth interviews and clips of performances, the film focuses on biological women who push the boundaries of gender norms. Featuring drag kings Mo B. Dick, DRED Gerestant&hellip&hellip…
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Miami International Film Festival
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others&hellip&hellip…
MidCoast Film & Arts Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Milan International Film Festival
Best Music
Best Editing
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams&hellip…
Montreal World Film Festival
This powerful drama considerably ups the ante of the prison film genre by getting real-life prisoners to play themselves in a drama that spirals into unexpected despair for its protagonists. Directed by Mohammad Rosoulof, who made his name on the Iranian film scene as a documentary filmmaker, TWILIGHT follows a newly married couple who&hellip…
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between the two worlds forms the backbone of&hellip&hellip…
Moscow International Film Festival
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Golden St. George(Nominee)
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between&hellip…
Golden St. George
Silver St. George, Best Director
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced&hellip…
A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…
Mumbai International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize
Set during a dark chapter in the history of India, SHADOW KILL is a moving drama that examines the life of a hangman. Responsible for the execution of more people than he can remember, Kaliyappan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) struggles to continue with his job as he wrestles with his conscience. Having recently hanged a&hellip…
Munich International Documentary Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Nantes Three Continents Festival
Audience Award
Silver Montgolfiere
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida (Shilpa Shukla), and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha (Kiron Kher). Life seems to flow in&hellip…
Nantucket Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Nashville Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Documentary
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure&hellip…
Nashville Independent Film Festival
Best Documentary
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come&hellip…
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. Based on Allan Berube's&hellip&hellip…
NatFilm Festival: Film Festival of Denmark
In the mid-1990's, spurred both by the sudden explosion of bands like Oasis and Prime Minister Tony Blair's "Cool Brittania" campaign, British culture experienced a surge that made Anglophilia seem like a world phenomenon. At the heart of this heady craze was pop music, and suddenly, "Britpop" was born. Oasis, their would-be rivals Blur&hellip&hellip…
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip&hellip…
Directed by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, LOST IN LA MANCHA documents Terry Gilliam's disaster-prone attempt to make THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE, a film largely based on the classic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. The movie first encounters difficulties in its preproduction stage, starting with an uncomfortably small European-funded budget&hellip&hellip…
A harrowing portrait of love and desire, BAD GUY is situated deep in Seoul's seedy nightlife. Differing strains of the story follow various people inexorably caught up in an underground existence that exercises a vice-like grip over their every action; a pimp forces a prostitute to live in her booth, then falls in love with her by watching&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
National Film Awards
Silver Lotus Award
Set during a dark chapter in the history of India, SHADOW KILL is a moving drama that examines the life of a hangman. Responsible for the execution of more people than he can remember, Kaliyappan (Oduvil Unnikrishnan) struggles to continue with his job as he wrestles with his conscience. Having recently hanged&hellip…
National Film Festival Lielais Kristaps
Best Design, Animated Films
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of&hellip…
New England Film & Video Festival
Best Documentary
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come&hellip…
New Jersey International Film Festival
Best Documentary
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And&hellip…
New York Exposition of Short Film and Video
Silver
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is&hellip…
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
Best Non-Fiction Film
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a&hellip…
New York Film Festival
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having&hellip&hellip…
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…
Newport Beach Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Newport International Film Festival
Special Jury Award, Best Documentary
Exposing all the thrills and spills of the demolition derby, this highly personal documentary from director Jesse Moss focuses on the life of driver Ed "Speedo" Jager. Life as a top derby racer takes its toll on Jager's private life, with every professional peak being levelled out by a very&hellip…
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Nodance Film Festival
With STEP INTO LIQUID, Dana Brown emerges from his legendary father's shadow and adds another classic film to the surf documentary canon. Son of hugely influential filmmaker Bruce Brown (THE ENDLESS SUMMER, ON ANY SUNDAY), Dana's debut as a writer/director is a gorgeously photographed tribute to surfing and the individuals who love it&hellip&hellip…
One in Ten Film Festival
In 1943, as World War II's Battle of Berlin rages, with air raids forcing families into their cellars for shelter and bombs exploding all over the city, Felice Schragenheim (Juliane Köhler) and Lilly Wust (Maria Schrader), fall in love. Director Max Färberböck's AIMEE & JAGUAR tells the true story of this passionate, forbidden love&hellip…
One World: International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank. This noble and serene film eschews&hellip&hellip…
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Oslo International Film Festival
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Palm Beach International Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Palm Springs International Film Festival
This silent, black and white film, adapted from the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's interpretation of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, is Guy Maddin's dramatic masterpiece. It is an atmospheric, gothic work full of dance and eroticism, accompanied by Gustav Mahler's music. Clearly a modern film that has been styled to mimic the earliest works of cinema&hellip&hellip…
Few people witnessed the entire 20th Century unfold before their eyes, but one person who did was the mercurial Sicilian-American Mary Mirabito Livornese Cavalier (AKA Nana). Director and grandson of Nana, Alex Halpern meets with his grandmother on her 95th year to discuss her life, and the astonishing results are presented in NINE GOOD&hellip&hellip…
Mirra Bank directs this documentary about the making of "A Selection," a 2001 dance performance by the Pilobolus Dance Theater. A collaboration between the Pilobolus artistic directors, Robby Barnett, Michael Tracy, and Jonathan Wolken; and the artistic directors of The Night Kitchen, Arthur Yorinks and famous author-illustrator Maurice&hellip&hellip…
Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu, DAS EXPERIMENT, RUN LOLA RUN) is a shy and lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells him he will soon fall in love with a woman wearing a similar symbol--with&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
The life of a Jewish composer and a German journalist are cleverly intertwined in this illustration of how past events can return to reap unfortunate consequences on present-day lives. The Jewish composer, Hermann Gebirtig, is pursued by a writer who wants him to return to the town of his birth, and contribute to a courtroom battle against&hellip&hellip…
Paris German Film Festival
In RIVERS AND TIDES, German documentarian Thomas Riedelshiemer attempts to capture the essence of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create site-specific pieces which he then leaves to be carried away--or destroyed altogether--by the elements. Goldsworthy is seen at home in Scotland, as well as in Nova Scotia&hellip&hellip…
Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu, DAS EXPERIMENT, RUN LOLA RUN) is a shy and lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells him he will soon fall in love with a woman wearing a similar symbol--with&hellip&hellip…
Paris International Film Festival
Press Award
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men&hellip…
Philadelphia International Film Festival
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
Joe Maggio's MILK AND HONEY is a probing portrait of a disintegrating relationship, set in the hypertense world of New York City. Rick Johnson (Clint Jordan) is losing his grip on reality, while his exhausted wife Joyce (Kirsten Russell) is losing her patience with Rick. Gradually, the reason for Rick's mental instability reveals itself&hellip&hellip…
Daniel (Moritz Bleibtreu, DAS EXPERIMENT, RUN LOLA RUN) is a shy and lovelorn science teacher in Hamburg, Germany. Juli (Christiane Paul) is a dread-locked, free-spirited Hamburg street vendor. They cross paths when Juli sells Daniel a sun-inscribed ring and tells him he will soon fall in love with a woman wearing a similar symbol--with&hellip&hellip…
The life of a Jewish composer and a German journalist are cleverly intertwined in this illustration of how past events can return to reap unfortunate consequences on present-day lives. The Jewish composer, Hermann Gebirtig, is pursued by a writer who wants him to return to the town of his birth, and contribute to a courtroom battle against&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Port Townsend Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Portland Indy Animation Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Prism Awards
Theatrical Feature Film
SKINS, based on the novel by Adrian C. Louis, is the impressive second feature of Native American director Chris Eyre (SMOKE SIGNALS). Filmed on location at the Pine Ridge Oglala Lakota reservation in South Dakota, SKINS tells the story of Rudy (Eric Schweig), a policeman, and his older brother Mogie (Graham&hellip…
Prix Louis Delluc
Prix Louis Delluc
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity between the two worlds&hellip…
Provincetown International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival
Best of Puchon
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon&hellip…
Pusan International Film Festival
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
This gorgeously shot feature chronicles the lives of a mother and her teenage son in a rural Pakistani village in 1979. Saleem (Aamir Malik) is an aimless youth in love with local beauty Zubeida (Shilpa Shukla), and adored by his widowed mother, Ayesha (Kiron Kher). Life seems to flow in measured, bucolic beauty, but old and new trauma&hellip&hellip…
Question de Genre
Le Prix Comtesse des Flandres' - Best Film
A comic-tragic evening with two Indian drag queens and a gay teenager as they attempt to seduce a handsome bisexual hunk. Apart from being a drag romp set a la Bollywood entertainer with song and dance routines, the film is an exposition of the Indian gay landscape, the humanly tender&hellip…
Rencontres Audiovisuelles
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Revelation Perth International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Rhode Island International Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
Riga International Film Forum
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Robert Festival
Best American Film(Nominee)
Set in modern Mississippi, MONSTER'S BALL subtly examines the impact of personal loss and the transforming power of human connection. The movie begins in the state penitentiary's death row, where father-and-son prison guards Hank (Billy Bob Thornton) and Sonny Grotowski (Heath Ledger) administer the&hellip…
Rooftop Films
Four years ago, Tom Haslett left his job as a dairy farmer to pursue a career selling adjustable-beds. He was attracted to the profession, he says, because he "wanted to help people a bit." Now, he's one of his company's top-grossing salesmen. Hurt & Save follows Tom as he ventures into the sanctity of people's homes and bedrooms&hellip&hellip…
Russian Guild of Film Critics
Golden Aries, Best Film
Golden Aries, Best Cinematography
Golden Aries, Best Debut
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their&hellip…
San Antonio Underground Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
San Diego Comicon
Known for his best-selling graphic novel, SANDMAN, alongside other titles such as his novel AMERICAN GODS, and his foray into children's fiction, CORALINE, Neil Gaiman takes a step into the film world with A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON. Basing his movie around the work of acclaimed artist John Bolton and his paintings of nude, vampire-like&hellip&hellip…
San Diego Film Critics Society Awards
Best Documentary
In RIVERS AND TIDES, German documentarian Thomas Riedelshiemer attempts to capture the essence of Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy, who uses natural materials to create site-specific pieces which he then leaves to be carried away--or destroyed altogether--by the elements. Goldsworthy is seen at home in Scotland&hellip…
San Francisco Film Critics Circle
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
San Francisco Independent Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
San Francisco International Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
A comic-tragic evening with two Indian drag queens and a gay teenager as they attempt to seduce a handsome bisexual hunk. Apart from being a drag romp set a la Bollywood entertainer with song and dance routines, the film is an exposition of the Indian gay landscape, the humanly tender bonds between drag queens in India who form unique&hellip…
San Francisco World Film Festival
This provocative and revealing must-see documentary uniquely addresses man's relationship with wildlife. It speaks not only to animal lovers and activists, but to anyone at all who may have been duped by marine theme park propaganda. In fact, this is the film that an entire industry would rather you not see. And whether you like it or&hellip…
San Sebastián International Film Festival
Silver Seashell
Best New Director
Golden Seashell(Nominee)
FIPRESCI Prize
This shocking tale is designed to repulse viewers, chiefly because it's based on a horrific true story. Following the activities of South Korea's first serial killer, MEMORIES OF MURDER tracks the gruesome events through the eyes of the two detectives&hellip…
FIPRESCI Director of the Year
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room&hellip…
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Sao Paulo International Film Festival
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
Seattle Film Critics Awards
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
Seattle International Film Festival
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Shorts-Welcome Online Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Siena International Short Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Singapore International Film Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Christ's life is presented with respect for the traditional religious doctrine of the Church, but Pasolini's trademark naturalism "humanizes" his subject and makes him his own. The documentary-style camera captures Christ's meetings with the men who were to become his disciples, the Last Supper, the betrayal by Judas, and the Crucifixion&hellip&hellip…
The Oscar-nominated documentary film WAR PHOTOGRAPHER is a harrowing journey into the world of renowned photojournalist James Nachtwey. Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei fearlessly trails Nachtwey into the front lines of violence and human suffering in areas including Kosovo, Indonesia, and the West Bank. This noble and serene film eschews&hellip&hellip…
This documentary, focusing on intellectual Noam Chomsky and his post 9-11 political views, presents a personal interview along with snippets from lectures he delivered around the country in 2001 and 2002. Known more for his stance as a political theorist and charismatic speaker than his work as an M.I.T. linguist, Chomsky is revered by&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Slamdance Film Festival
Slamdance presents a 10th Anniversary collection featuring short films from 1999 to 2003&hellip…
Southeastern Film Critics Association Awards
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
Stockholm International Film Festival
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Stoney Brook Film Festival
A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated, angered, or forgiving, each film is drastically different from&hellip&hellip…
Stranger Than Fiction Documentary Festival
Directors Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman present this documentary portrait of the intellectual and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Beginning with his theory of deconstruction--the notion of getting to the basics behind our thought processes and the way in which we view the world--Derrida is portrayed "naturally" walking down the street&hellip&hellip…
Sundance Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Cinematography Award, Documentary
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree&hellip…
Joe Maggio's MILK AND HONEY is a probing portrait of a disintegrating relationship, set in the hypertense world of New York City. Rick Johnson (Clint Jordan) is losing his grip on reality, while his exhausted wife Joyce (Kirsten Russell) is losing her patience with Rick. Gradually, the reason for Rick's mental instability reveals itself&hellip&hellip…
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold&hellip…
Swiss American Film Festival
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
SXSW Film Festival
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others&hellip&hellip…
Exposing all the thrills and spills of the demolition derby, this highly personal documentary from director Jesse Moss focuses on the life of driver Ed "Speedo" Jager. Life as a top derby racer takes its toll on Jager's private life, with every professional peak being levelled out by a very personal trough. Totally addicted to the rush&hellip&hellip…
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
The Feature documentary 7TH STREET draws the viewer into a neighborhood that most people were one too afraid to enter. An area that most people only heard rumors about. Alphabet City in NYC's East Village, the drug capital of the East Coast. A place where only those who had no place to go ended up&hellip…
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Taos Talking Picture Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Tehran International Animation Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Tel Aviv Festival for Comics and Animation
Love Story is an animated drama, short and funny, about the separation of Love and Sex, with a happy ending. Filmmaker's Note: It was 1998, I had been in New York for three long years, and had made no films during this time. I was very frustrated. Creative juices were overflowing me spilling off in the most unexpected places&hellip…
Josh Rechnitz's Natasha focuses on a 10 min animated short about a neglected housewife who falls in love with a household appliance&hellip&hellip…
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Telluride Film Festival
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married&hellip&hellip…
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Thessaloniki Film Festival
Golden Alexander(Nominee)
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband&hellip…
FIPRESCI Prize - Parallel Sections(Special Mention)
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns&hellip…
Tindirindi International Animated Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Tokyo International Film Festival
Asian Film Award
This shocking tale is designed to repulse viewers, chiefly because it's based on a horrific true story. Following the activities of South Korea's first serial killer, MEMORIES OF MURDER tracks the gruesome events through the eyes of the two detectives investigating the case. The murders unfolded in 1986, a time&hellip…
Tokyo International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Aspiring filmmaker Dude Schmitz (AMERICAN MOVIE's Mark Borchardt) is in desperate need of money to finance his next feature film. After he blows a lucrative opportunity to interview pop singer Britney Spears for a local television station, he discovers Angel Benton (Robert Stephens), a gay Britney impersonator. Together with his brother&hellip&hellip…
Toronto Film Critics Association Awards
Best Performance
The role of the aimless young rebel hiding behind an emotional wall and steely eyes has been monopolized by men in the movies since James Dean. Samantha Morton, one of her generation's most gifted actors, makes the most of her opportunity to embody such a figure in her role as the title character of MORVERN CALLAR&hellip…
Best Documentary
Watching Andrew Jarecki's riveting non-fiction drama is like watching a slow-motion replay of a multi-car pileup; you know it's headed for disaster, but there's no way you can stop watching. On the surface, the Friedmans were a typical 1980s American family. Living in Great Neck, Long Island, Arnold was a well-respected&hellip…
Toronto International Film Festival
In the annals of pop music, there's probably no one other than legendary impresario John Hammond whose ubiquitousness compares with that of engineer/producer Tom Dowd. From the 1950s on, Dowd was both a tireless technological innovator and a uniquely musical engineer and producer. A key figure at the Atlantic and Stax labels, among others&hellip&hellip…
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
This melancholic, brooding romantic thriller stars Zhang Ziyi (HERO; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON) as Ding Hui, a Chinese woman who is part of a secret anti-Japanese terrorist organization in 1931 Shanghai. Three years earlier, under her real name, Cynthia, she was a factory worker in Manchuria carrying on a romance with a Japanese&hellip&hellip…
A car crash causes the random intersection of various lives in this Austrian film by Barbara Albert. Manu (Kathrin Resetarits) survives a plane crash only to die eight years later on impact with a carload of teenagers. She leaves behind a spooky little daughter Yvonne (Deborah Ten Brink), a grieving husband (Georg Friedrich) who was having&hellip&hellip…
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on real events, filmmaker Steve&hellip&hellip…
Ross McElwee directs this autobiographical documentary about his family's roots in the tobacco business in North Carolina. Taking a sabbatical from his home in Boston, he offers a culturally interesting history of the South as viewed through the biggest, wealthiest tobacco enterprises. Meanwhile, he examines a Hollywood movie that was&hellip&hellip…
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives are thrown into a tailspin when their father (Konstantin Lavroneko) returns after a 12-year absence. Bullish and intense, the patriarch&hellip&hellip…
Writer-director Khyentse Norbu, who scored an international hit with the 1999 drama THE CUP (PHORPA), about Tibetan refugees obsessed with watching the World Cup soccer finals, returns to his homeland to make the remarkably charming and engaging TRAVELLERS & MAGICIANS, the first feature-length film to be made completely within the Kingdom&hellip&hellip…
This is a jaw-droppingly bizarre movie from Korea that mixes scenes of gruesome torture and violence with comedy and heartbreaking profundity. Perhaps as a result of too many amphetamines and violent incidents in his past, beekeeper Lee Byeong Gu (Sin Ha-Gyun) has become convinced that an unscrupulous business tycoon (Kan Man-Shik) is&hellip&hellip…
Toulouse Latin America Film Festival
Grand Prix
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a&hellip…
Tribeca Film Festival
A celebrated form of yoga, Ashtanga has gained a loyal following amongst disciples of the discipline. This release is one of the more unusual yoga titles on the market. Originally designed as a concert film to celebrate the style, the staging was interrupted by the events of September 11th 2001. Realigned to reflect the events of that&hellip&hellip…
Best Actress
Best Emerging Filmmaker
Federica (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) has lived in her own fantasy world for much of her life. Now in her mid-30s, the wealthy daydreamer finds herself caught in a sharp divide between her exotic imaginary life and the more mundane reality that faces her every day. Her search to find some parity&hellip…
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest roams the New York streets, spraying graffiti&hellip&hellip…
Marc Larre Miranda, influenced by the Situationist Movement, leaves his native Barcelona, Spain and travels to New York to live an extreme experience of poverty to grow and learn from it. Little does he know that he will be witnessing the worst attack ever on U.S. soil, the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001&hellip&hellip…
Uppsala Horror Film Festival
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Urbanworld Film Festival
MECCA Movie Award, Best Director
Set in New York City, this compelling drama about a young graffiti artist highlights the risky--sometimes life-threatening--nature of such a pursuit. Director Adam Bhala Lough casts the talented young actor Mark Webber (DEAR WENDY) as Blest, a graffiti artist the NYPD is desperate to catch. Blest&hellip…
Uruguay International Film Festival
Filmmaker's note: This film wasn't conceived, it was spilled out by me, totally uncensored, unfiltered ideas. That's not how most of animated films are done - usually it is more controlled process. I let myself to be free to express and the result is these 5 surreal bizarre stories&hellip&hellip…
Vancouver International Film Festival
With STEP INTO LIQUID, Dana Brown emerges from his legendary father's shadow and adds another classic film to the surf documentary canon. Son of hugely influential filmmaker Bruce Brown (THE ENDLESS SUMMER, ON ANY SUNDAY), Dana's debut as a writer/director is a gorgeously photographed tribute to surfing and the individuals who love it&hellip&hellip…
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting to jump off a bridge, he watches&hellip&hellip…
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Vassar College
Four years ago, Tom Haslett left his job as a dairy farmer to pursue a career selling adjustable-beds. He was attracted to the profession, he says, because he "wanted to help people a bit." Now, he's one of his company's top-grossing salesmen. Hurt & Save follows Tom as he ventures into the sanctity of people's homes and bedrooms&hellip&hellip…
Venice International Film Festival
Upstream Prize, Best Actor
Shy Kenji is a Japanese librarian in Bangkok who lives within a neatly organized world and fantasizes about committing suicide, but gets interrupted every time he attempts to end his life. While at work, he becomes obsessed with a beautiful girl he spots through the bookshelves. Later, while attempting&hellip…
'CinemAvvenire' Award, Best First Film
Golden Lion
Sergio Trasatti Award
SIGNIS Award
Luigi De Laurentiis Award
Director Andrei Zvyagintsev makes a phenomenally assured directorial debut with THE RETURN. The spare tale focuses on two young brothers, Andrey (Vladimir Garin) and Vanya (Ivan Dobronravov), whose lives&hellip…
Vienna International Film Festival
THE EYE, directed by twin brothers Danny and Oxide Pang, is a Chinese/Thai horror film that focuses on Mun (Sin-je Lee), a cornea-transplant recipient who has been blind most of her life. As Mun adjusts to her newfound sight, she begins to see haunting visions of dead people. As these terrifying visions become more frequent, Mun turns&hellip&hellip…
Virginia Film Festival
Australian filmmaker Rolf de Heer (THE QUIET ROOM) turns his lens onto a matter that continues to trouble his fellow countrymen in this evocative drama. When an Aborigine is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men must treck through some perilous terrain to find him. Aided by an Aborigine tracker, the men undergo a tortuous&hellip&hellip…
Warsaw International Film Festival
Set in the sizeable city of Recife in Brazil, MANGO YELLOW is a tale of hardship, romance, and ordinary lives. The principle characters center around the Texas Motel, a rundown retreat that attracts a variety of weird and wonderful people. Among them are Dunga (Matheus Nachtergaele), a gay cook who has a crush on a local butcher, Wellington&hellip&hellip…
Smitten with a woman he sees on the subway platform, Alex (Nikolaj Lie Kass) impulsively leaves his girlfriend, Simone (Maria Bonnevie) in pursuit of the stranger. Alex and Aimee (also played by Maria Bonnevie) first share a conversation in a bar, and then spend the night together in her hotel room. But there's a hitch: Aimee is married&hellip&hellip…
Washington Jewish Film Festival
Audience Award, Best Documentary
Whitwell, TN is a small, rural community of less than two thousand people nestled in the mountains of Tennessee. Its citizens are almost exclusively white and Christian. In 1998, the children of Whitwell Middle School took on an inspiring project, launched out of their principal's desire to help&hellip…
WESTfest Short Film and Video Festival
Audience Award
Best Cinematography
Best Production Design
Perils In Nude Modeling focuses on a art students struggle between his love for a hegre art model and his demanding hegre arts teacher. Scott Rice directed Perils In Nude Modeling. IndiePix Films provides the best independent movies and top independent films online&hellip…
Woods Hole Film Festival
In THE SAME RIVER TWICE, director/writer/producer Robb Moss tells a true story that takes place across two separate decades: the 1970s, when Moss and a group of long-haired, free-spirited friends spent a summer rafting and camping along the Colorado River; and the 2000s, when he revisits the friends who have come through the other side&hellip&hellip…
Woodstock Film Festival
WOMAN is a visual poem about the Creation of a woman and her two ways of encountering a man. In one way she has a potential to bring Death to a man. In the other she can give him her Love. It all depends on man's actions. A woman by herself is neither good nor evil. Neither she is a passive object of man's desires. It is all about interaction&hellip&hellip…
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival
Prize of Excellence
STEVIE is non-fiction filmmaking at its bravest and most merciless. In its excruciating authenticity, STEVIE provides insight into the complexities of the human condition, and raises the question of personal responsibility to an almost unbearable degree. After directing a series of fictional films based on&hellip…