2010 Montreal World Film Festival
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A filmmaker eschews his contractural duties to make a zombie epic&hellip…
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2010 Montreal World Film Festival
A filmmaker eschews his contractural duties to make a zombie epic&hellip…
2009 Montreal World Film Festival
Carmen Rosa the Champion, the passionate leader of a group of indigenous Bolivian women wrestlers (think Hulk Hogan in petticoats and a bowler hat), is faced with a brutal decision when forced to choose between her love of sport and love of her family&hellip…
As a family struggles to survive in rural America during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown. Mary-Ann has been completely altered by the tragedy at home. Their family, as they knew it, is gone, and soon something strangely familiar will emerge in its place. Watch the Redland DVD on Indiepix&hellip…
2007 Montreal World Film Festival
When Vali and Mimi closed their couture shop on Lexington Avenue they kepy a dozen of their best clients, moved the business into the spare bedroom, and moved Mimi to the pull-out couch. Still sewing forty hours a week, the 87 and 93 year old sisters reflect on the dying of a craft, the important of family, and the persistence of the&hellip&hellip…
Diagnosed with ALS, a fatal neurodegenerative disease, filmmaker Ben Byer starts documenting his life on camera. What begins as a series of video diaries grows into an epic journey spanning three years and six countries as he scours the globe looking for answers - and a cure&hellip&hellip…
2004 Montreal World Film Festival
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…
2003 Montreal World 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…
2001 Montreal World Film Festival
The Berlevag Male Choir are a group of men who sing songs of spirituality in and around their home country of Norway. This documentary introduces audiences to this unique singing group. It also follows the singers as they prepare for a Russian tour. This portrait of the choir highlights both the talent on display as well as the deep bond&hellip&hellip…
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 of them. She tracks down his lover&hellip&hellip…
1999 Montreal World Film Festival
The Taiwanese romantic comedy THE PERSONALS follows the often hilarious, sometimes sad meetings that a pretty young woman has with the men who respond to the ad that she placed in the personals section of the newspaper. Du Jiazhen (Rene Liu), the woman, is a young eye doctor on a mission to find a husband. After spontaneously putting&hellip&hellip…
A dramatic Chinese thriller with the feel of Hollywood film noir, SO CLOSE TO PARADISE follows two friends heading in opposite directions. One settles in a manual labor job on the docks. The other wants more and begins running with an organized crime unit. The gangster falls for a lounge singer he has kidnapped and finds himself in trouble&hellip&hellip…
1998 Montreal World Film Festival
Best Artistic Contribution
Grand Prix des Amériques
A mysterious fugitive, known only as The Man, wanders through rural South Africa, until he is taken in by a small town minister. However, when the minister makes it clear his motives for taking in The Man are not completely altruistic, it results in a confrontation that&hellip…
1997 Montreal World Film Festival
UNRATED DIRECTOR'S CUT! MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY! BEST-SELLING DANCE SOUNDTRACK INCLUDES: FLUKE, THE ALOOF, WAY OUT WEST and OMNI TRIO! A young infiltrator, Peter (Christien Anholt), is dispatched by moral crusaders in Parliament to gather evidence for a private prosecution against fetish clubs operating all over Britain, where many of&hellip&hellip…
1992 Montreal World Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize, Out-of-Competition
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&hellip…
1986 Montreal World Film Festival
Best Actor
A deeply shocking and insidiously funny film, David Lynch's offbeat vision uncovers the nasty underside of small-town America. When a young man finds a human ear in a field, he embarks on an investigation into the dark world of a dangerous psychopath, which leads him to a beautiful nightclub singer. Truly an auteur&hellip…