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Raindance Film Festival · 2009

Raindance Film Festival 2009

Global Celluloid

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5 films · 1 review

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25 Carat (25 kilates)

Review preview for 25 Carat

Director Patxi Amézcua sets the pace carefully – it’s fast enough to keep your heart-rate up but not in that forced, dizzying, blink-and-you’ll miss it style with which Hollywood is so enamoured.

Emma Slawinski · 4 out of 5
A thug and a thief fall for each other and try to escape a life of crime in this Barcelona-set thriller.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2008; Director: Patxi Amézcua; Writer: Patxi Amézcua; Stars: Francesc Garrido, Aida Folch, Manuel Morón) , Official site

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Carmo, Hit The Road

A lonely, handicapped smuggler and a beautiful girl embark on a reckless ride through a South American border landscape.

(Country: Spain, Brazil, Poland; Year: 2008; Director: Murilo Pasta; Writer: Murilo Pasta; Stars: Fele Martínez, Mariana Loureiro, Seu Jorge, Márcio Garcia, Paca Gabaldón, Rosi Campos, Norival Rizzo, Kiko Bertholini, Nanda Costa, Thaís Fersoza)

See: Sundance Diary: Day Eight

Guts (Agallas)

A petty criminal becomes embroiled in drug trafficking.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2009; Director: Andrés Luque, Samuel Martín; Writer: Javier Echániz, Juan Antonio Gil Bengoa; Stars: Hugo Silva, Carmelo Gómez, Carlos Sante, Rula Blanco, Tomás Lijó, Xavier Estévez, Pepo Suevos, Celso Bugallo, Yoima Valdés, Isabel Blanco, Alfonso Agra, Mabel Rivera, Lois Lemos, Samuel Martín, Andrés Luque) , Official site

The Panda Candy

Life and loves of a twentysomething Chinese girl who is looking for romance and whose life is changed when she meets another woman who is also unlucky in love.

(Year: 2009; Director: Peng Lei; Stars: Chun Sue, Taki Zhang)

Twilight Dancing

Experimental film which seems to have something to do with a man estranged from his wife and car crashes... but all the details we could find may have been lost in translation.

(Year: 2008; Director: Joshua Tong)