This year, 12 narrative and 12 documentary features will compete for combined unrestricted cash prizes amounting to $100,000, including prizes totalling $50,000 from American Express for the Best New Narrative and Documentary Filmmakers.
This year’s World Narrative Competition presenting works from eight countries, seven of which are world premieres.
The small town of Visoko heralds to the world a remarkable discovery: A valley of ancient pyramids predating Egypt exists under the hills of central Bosnia. Tourists flood the war-scarred region, and locals are caught between the real and the imagined (mirroring the film’s vacillation between documentary and fiction). With the help of a young man returning to his homeland, an American film crew determines the role of faith in capturing what cannot yet be proven. In English, Bosnian with English subtitles.
(Country: USA, UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2010; Director: Geoffrey Alan Rhodes; Writer: Geoffrey Alan Rhodes, Steven Eastwood, and Dzenan Medanovic)
There's no doubting the seriousness of the point Chapiron is trying to make either regarding the way that young criminals can become trapped in a spiral of reoffending, but by pushing all the action into barely believable melodrama, his argument is weaken
Three teenagers find life is tough on the inside in this remake of Alan Clarke's Scum.
(Country: France; Year: 2009; Director: Kim Chapiron; Writer: Kim Chapiron, Jeremie Delon; Stars: Adam Butcher, Shane Kippel, Mateo Morales, Lawrence Bayne, Alexander Conti, Tim Turnell, Dewshane Williams, Greg Butcher, Jason Daley, Shawn Doucette, William Christopher Ellis, Jason Foote, Trent McMullen, Robbie O'Neill, Slim Twig)
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Tomasso, a reluctant soon-to-be-partner in his wealthy family’s pasta business, has plans to come out—and hopefully get out of his familial obligation. But when his plans are thwarted by his brother, Tomasso gets stuck on the path that he was desperately trying to avoid. In Italian with English subtitles.
When one of them falls ill, a group of friends takes one last trip to the beach, desiring a meaningful farewell. Years later, as one of the couples plans to have a child, the trip lingers as a haunting memory.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Lee Isaac Chung; Writer: Samuel Gray Anderson, Lee Isaac Chung, Gerald Stern; Stars: Samuel Gray Anderson, Yohei Kawamata, Susan Springer Anderson, Daniel O'Keefe, Megan McKenna, Kenyon Adams, Nancia Patterson, Nancy Huse, Kyoko Shakagori, Stephanie Skaff, Richard Harvell)
It may be a little rough around the edges but there is plenty here to commend.
Three brothers go on an unpredictable road trip to replace their dying dad's watch.
(Country: Ireland; Year: 2010; Director: Paul Fraser; Writer: William Collins; Stars: Timmy Creed, Paul Courtney, TJ Griffin, Kate Ashfield, Don Wycherley, Sarah Greene, Terry McMahon, Eamonn Hunt, Siobhan Palmer)
The prim and taciturn David is forced for years to watch over his sexually predatory partner Lila and her violent urges. David longs for human connection and a less violent existence, and when a would-be victim becomes a chance at redemption, he is torn between his humanity and the only life he’s ever known.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Andrew Paquin; Writer: Andrew Paquin; Stars: Brian Geraghty)
hen young Turkish-German woman Umay can no longer stand her husband’s ill-treatment, she flees from Istanbul with her five-year-old son into the arms of her family in Berlin. But love, affection, and loyalty soon become irrelevant as they struggle to reconcile Umay’s willful self-determination with the social system that governs their lives.
A man travels round a series of islands, collecting tears.
(Year: 2009; Director: Mohammad Rasoulof; Stars: Hasan Pourshirazi, Younes Ghazali, Mohammad Rabbani, Mohammad Shirvani)
North American Premiere
William Vincent
the story of William Vincent, a quiet and peculiar criminal uninterested in the fruits of crime. When he falls for a gangster’s favorite call girl, William is forced to flee New York. But after four years in exile, William secretly returns, intent on rescuing the woman he loves from her dangerous fate.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Jay Anania; Writer: Jay Anania; Stars: James Franco, Josh Lucas, Julianne Nicholson)
