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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.
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Magic Paris and Flying: Confessions Of A Free Woman
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.
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Persepolis and The Last Mistress
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 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.
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