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Caramel and Billy The Kid
Billy The Kid
(Country: US; Year: 2007; Director: Jennifer Venditti; Stars: Billy P., Penny Baker, Heather Pelletier)
Documentary following a boy with learning difficulties looking for romance.
Caramel (Sukkar Banat)
(Country: France, Lebanon; Year: 2007; Director: Nadine Labaki; Writer: Rodney El Haddad, Jihad Hojeily; Stars: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Elmasri, Joanna Moukarzel, Gisèle Aouad, Sihame Haddad, Adel Karam, Aziza Semaan, Fatmeh Safa, Dimitri Staneofski), Official Site, Trailer
A glimpse into the lives of five women working in and around a beauty salon in Beirut.
The Devil Came On Horseback
(Country: USA; Year: 2007; Director: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg; Writer: Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg; Stars: Brian Steidle), Official Site
One man's mission to tell the world about genocide in Sudan.
Flighty
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Leigh Hodgkinson; Writer: Leigh Hodgkinson)
Speed dating for butterflies.
Flying: Confessions Of A Free
Woman
(Country: Denmark, USA; Year: 2006; Director: Jennifer Fox; Writer: Jennifer Fox; Stars: Jennifer Fox), Official Site
A woman undertakes a quest to discover the nature of freedom.
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go and Unrelated
Her Name Is Sabine (Elle S'appelle Sabine)
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Sandrine Bonnaire; Writer: Sandrine Bonnaire, Catherine Cabrol; Stars: Sabine Bonnaire)
Sandrine Bonnaire documents the sad life of her autistic sister.
Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Kim Longinotto)
Documentary following the lives of children suffering severe emotional trauma.
How To Save A Fish From Drowning
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Kelly Neal)
Documentary exploring the death of small town America. Showing as part of Bridging The Gap and the Short Scottish Documentary Awards at EIFF 2007.
The Lady Eve
(Country: US; Year: 1941; Director: Preston Sturges; Writer: Preston Sturges; Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda,
Charles Coburn, Eugene
Pallette, William Demarest, Eric
Blore, Melville Cooper.)
Forties sex comedy at sea, with
more twists than a tornado.
The Last Mistress (Une vieille maîtresse)
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Catherine Breillat; Writer: Catherine Breillat, adapted from the novel by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly; Stars: Asia Argento, Fu'ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida, Claude Sarraute, Yolande Moreau, Michael Lonsdale, Anne Parillaud, Jean-Philippe Tesse)
Exploration of aristocratic fidelity in 18th Century France.
Flying: Confessions Of A Free Woman and How To Save A Fish From Drowning
Magic Paris
(Country: France; Year: 2007; Director: Alice Winocour; Writer: Alice Winocour; Stars: Johanna ter Steege, Eriq Ebouaney)
An unusual romance in Paris.
Make A Wish (Itmanna)
(Country: Palestine; Year: 2006; Director: Cherien Dabis; Writer: Cherien Dabis; Stars: Mayar Rantisse, Lone Khilleh, Iman Aoun)
The difficulty of buying a birthday cake in Ramallah. Showing at EIFF - World Shorts 1
Persepolis
(Country: France/US; Year: 2007; Director: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud; Writer: Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, based on the original graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi; Stars: voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, Gabrielle Lopes, François Jerosme, Sean Penn, Gena Rowlands, Iggy Pop), Trailer
A girl's eye view of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Unrelated
(Country: UK; Year: 2007; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Kathryn Worth, Tom Hiddleston, Mary Roscoe, David Rintoul, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, Harry Kershaw, Michael Hadley, Emma Hiddleston, Leonetta Mazzini)
A middle-aged woman holidays with her bourgeois friends in Tuscany. Plus read our exclusive interview with Joanna Hogg.
XXY
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2007; Director: Lucía Puenzo; Writer: Lucía Puenzo; Stars: Inés Efron, Ricardo Darín, Valeria Bertuccelli, Martín Piroyansky, Germán Palacios, Lucas Escariz, Luciano Nóbile, Carolina Pelleritti)
Coming of age drama about an intersex teen.
59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
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