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My Year Without Sex and The Fish Child
The Athlete (Atletu)
(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Davey Frankel, Rasselas Lakew; Writer: Rasselas Lakew, Davey Frankel, Mikael Aemiro Awake; Stars: Rasselas Lakew, Dag Malmberg, Ruta Gedmintas, Abba Waka Dessalegn)
Biopic/ documentary hybrid about Ethiopian marathon runner Abebe Bikila.
World Premiere
The Architect (Der Architekt)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Ina Weisse; Stars: Matthias Schweighöfer, Josef Bierbichler, Sandra Hüller)
UK Premiere
Georg Winter visits the distant past when he goes to his mother's funeral and uncovers personal demons.
Baraboo
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Mary Sweeney; Writer: Mary Sweeney; Stars: Sabrina S. Sutherland, Justin Daering, Lee Ernst, James Pickering, Patrick S. Sweeney, Jonathan West, Barney Sweeney, Flora Coker, Ruth Schudson, Michael Fuss, Brenda DeVita, Brian Liston, Rick Sherman, Joseph Filmanowicz, Peter Morse)
People come and go in a Midwestern small town motel.
World Premiere
Be Good (Sois sage)
(Country: France, Denmark; Year: 2009; Director: Juliette Garcias; Writer: Juliette Garcias; Stars: Anaïs Demoustier, Bruno Todeschini, Nade Dieu, Alexandra Fleischer, Stéphane Chivot, Véronique Nordey, Marie-Françoise Audollent, Cyril Troley, Hélène López de la Torre)
UK Premiere
A young woman moves to a small village but despite initially settling in her lies soon begin to find her out.
Big Things
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Mark Devenport; Writer: Tony Claassen, Mark Devenport; Stars: Jonathan Phillips, Steven Sheil, Micaiah Dring, Phil Smeeton, Gregory Chisholm, Rupert Procter, Mark Devenport, Chris Cooke, Will Tristram, Tony Claassen, Shaun Mechen, Penn Linfield, Yvonne Varnier, Jai Abbott, Dean Palo)
World Premiere
Low-budget comedy sees a would-be filmmaker tries to realise his vision.
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti and Can Go Through Skin
Birdwatchers (La terra degli uomini rossi)
(Country: Italy, Brazil; Year: 2008; Director: Marco Bechis; Writer: Marco Bechis, Luiz Bolognesi, Lara Fremder; Stars: Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Abrísio da Silva Pedro, Matheus Nachtergaele, Ambrósio Vilhava, Ademilson Concianza Verga, Leonardo Medeiros, Eliane Juca da Silva, Fabiane Pereira da Silva, Taiane Arce, César Chedid, Temily Comar, Nelson Concianza, Luciane da Silva), Official Site
A drama which explores the tensions between the white and indigenous cultures of Brazil.
UK Premiere
Breathless (Ddongpari)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2009; Director: Lee Hwan, Yang Ik-June, Kim Kkobbi; Writer: Yang Ik-June; Stars: Yang Ik-June, Jeong Man-shik, Kim Gol-bi), Trailer
Can a schoolgirl offer salvation to a Korean gangster?
UK Premiere
Can Go Through Skin (Kan door huid heen)
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2009; Director: Esther Rots; Writer: Esther Rots; Stars: Rifka Lodeizen, Wim Opbrouck, Chris Borowski)
A woman responds to assault by moving to the countryside and reconstructing an old farmhouse, but her sanity proves fragile.
UK Premiere
Distance (Distanz)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2009; Director: Thomas Sieben; Writer: Christian Lyra, Thomas Sieben; Stars: Ken Duken, Franziska Weisz, Josef Heynert, Jan Uplegger)
A serial killer tries to juggle his hobby, his girlfriend and his job.
UK Premiere
Easier With Practice
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez; Writer: Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Davy Rothbart; Stars: Brian Geraghty, Kel O'Neill, Marguerite Moreau, Jeanette Brox, Jenna Gavigan, Kathryn Aselton, Danielle Lozeau, Lucas CorVatta, Lauren Petzke, Allison Hensel, Leandro Di Salvo, Daniel J Gonzales, Tavia Schwartz, Z Ray Wakeman)
An unpublished author embarks on an unusual relationship after receiving a seemingly random phone call.
International Premiere
Thanks Maa and Sin Nombre
Elkland
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2009; Director: Per Hanefjord; Writer: Per Hanefjord; Stars: Sara Arnia, Anna Azcárate, Örjan Landström, Jimmy Lindström)
The prodigal son returns to bury his dead father in a black
as night tragi-comedy featuring a friendly elk.
International Premiere
The Fish Child (El Niño Pez)
(Country: Argentina, France, Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Lucía Puenzo; Writer: Lucía Puenzo; Stars: Inés Efron, Mariela Vitale, Carlos Bardem, Pep Munné, Arnaldo André, Diego Velázquez, Julián Doregger, Sandra Guida)
A middle-class teen and her lesbian maid find plans to forge a life together thwarted by a death.
UK Premiere
Jalainur
(Country: China; Year: 2008; Director: Ye Zhao; Writer: Ye Zhao; Stars: Yuan-Sheng Liu, Zhi-Zhong Li)
An ageing train driver decides to visit his family and ends up on a road trip through China with his young apprentice.
UK Premiere
Katalin Varga
(Country: Romania, UK, Hungary; Year: 2009; Director: Peter Strickland; Writer: Peter Strickland, Peter Strickland; Stars: Hilda Péter, Norbert Tankó, Tibor Pálfy, Sebastian Marina, Melinda Kántor)
A woman is disowned after it is discovered that she has been raped, prompting her to seek revenge.
UK Premiere
A Light In The Fog
(Country: Iran; Year: 2008; Director: Panahbarkhoda Rezaee)
Story of a widow and her sick dad, who live in isolation.
UK Premiere
Van Diemen's Land and A Light In The Fog
The Maid (La Nana)
(Country: Chile; Year: 2008; Director: Sebastián Silva; Writer: Sebastián Silva, Pedro Peirano; Stars: Catalina Saavedra, Claudia Celedón, Mariana Loyola, Alejandro Goic, Anita Reeves, Del?na Guzmán)
A servant goes to extreme lengths to stay with the family she's obsessed with - and to get rid of the competition.
UK Premiere
Masquerades (Mascarades)
(Country: Algeria, France; Year: 2008; Director: Lyes Salem; Writer: Lyes Salem, Nathalie Saugeon; Stars: Lyes Salem, Sarah Reguieg, Mohamed Bouchaïb, Rym Takoucht, Merouane Zmirli, Mourad Khen)
UK Premiere
A man spins an outrageous fable to impress his village but as the lie begins to unravel surprising allegiances form.
Members Of The Funeral (Jang-rae-sig-ui member)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2008; Director: Baek Seung-Bin; Stars: Lee Ju-Seung, Yoo Ha-Bok, Park Myung-Shin, Kim Byul)
UK Premiere
The tribulations of family members who don't want to attend the funeral of one of their own.
My Year Without Sex
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Sarah Watt; Writer: Sarah Watt; Stars: Sacha Horler, Matt Day, Jonathan Segat, Portia Bradley, Roy Davies, Catherine Hill, Sonya Suares, Petru Gheorghiu, Eddie Baroo, Travis Cotton, Fred Whitlock, Sean Rees-Wemyss, Lauren Mikkor, Chloe Guymer, Katie Wall)
Film traces a year of recovery in a family hit by sickness.
International Premiere
No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti (Bu Neng Mei You Ni)
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2009; Director: Leon Dai; Stars: Chen Wen-Pin, Chao Yo-Hsuan, Lin Chih-Ju, Ma Ting-Ni)
A single dad faces a battle with bureaucrats as he struggles to bring up his daughter.
UK Premiere
Katalin Varga and Birdwatchers
Pomegranates And Myrrh (al-Mor wa al rumman)
(Country: Palestine; Year: 2008; Director: Najwa Najjar; Writer: Najwa Najjar; Stars: Hiam Abbass, Yasmine Elmasri, Ali Sliman, Ahmad Abu Sal'oum, Ashraf Farah, Lufuf Nuweiser, Lea Tsmeal, Walid Abdul Salam, Manal Awad, Samia Kuzmoz)
The wife of a Palestinian prisoner searches for freedom.
UK Premiere
Sin Nombre
(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Cary Fukunaga; Writer: Cary Fukunaga; Stars: Edgar Flores, Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Luis Fernando Peña, Diana García)
The paths of a Honduran migrant and a gangland youth trying to escape his past cross on the top of a train.
European Premiere
Thanks Maa
(Country: India; Year: 2008; Director: Irlan Kamal; Stars: Master Shams, Master Shalman, Master Fayaaz, Master Jafar, Baby Almas, Barry John, Raghubir Yadav), Official Site
A snapshot of life on the streets of Mumbai, sees a boy try to unite an abandoned baby with its mum.
World Premiere
Van Diemen's Land
(Country: Australia; Year: 2009; Director: Jonathan auf der Heide; Stars: Oscar Redding, Jason Glover, Thomas Wright, Paul Ashcroft, Arthur Angel, Mark Winter), Official Site
Things get desperate after a prison breakout in Tasmania in 1822.
International Premiere
Wasted
(Country: UK; Year: 2009; Director: Caroline Paterson, Stuart Davids; Writer: Caroline Paterson, Stuart Davids; Stars: Neil Leiper, Emma Hartley Miller, Kate Dickie, Paul Thomas Hickey, David Hayman, Gary Lewis, Alan Tripney)
World Premiere
Two addicts run away together and live rough in Glasgow.
Easier With Practice and The Maid
Wide Open Spaces
(Country: Ireland/UK; Year: 2009; Director: Tom Hall; Writer: Arthur Mathews; Stars: Ardal O’Hanlon, Ewen Bremner, Owen Roe, Morwenna Banks, Don Wycherley)
Two young men are recruited to develop a tourist attraction celebrating the Irish potato famine.
World Premiere
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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