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20: 30: 40 and Purple Butterfly
20: 30: 40
(Country: Taiwan/Hong Kong; Year: 2004; Director: Sylvia Chang; Writer: Sylvia Chang, GC Goo Bi, Cat Kwan; Stars: Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Kate Yeung, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Lee Sinje)
Three women, three stages in life, one city.
UK Premiere
Anatomy Of Hell (Anatomie de l'enfer)
(Country: France; Year: 2004; Director: Catherine Breillat; Writer: Catherine Breillat; Stars: Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi)
French intellectual take on kinky
sex between a gay man and a
suicidal woman.
UK Premiere
After The Day Before ( Masnap)
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2004; Director: Atilla Janisch; Writer: Andras Forgach; Stars: Tibor Gaspar, Bori Derzsi, Sandor Czeczo, Denes Ujlaki, Kati Lazar)
Rural life turns out to be anything but idyllic.
UK Premiere
B-Happy
(Country: Chile, Spain, Venezuela; Year: 2003; Director: Gonzalo Justiniano; Writer: Fernando Aragón, Sergio Gómez, Gonzalo Justiniano, Daniela Lillo; Stars: Manuela Martelli, Eduardo Barril, Lorene Prieto, Felipe Ríos, Ricardo Fernández, Gloria Laso, Sergio Hernández, José Martin, Juan Pablo Sáez, Gabriela Hernández, Juan Falcón)
UK Premiere
A teenager tries to get by after being abandoned by her family.
Far Side Of The Moon ( La Face Cachee De La Lune)
(Country: Canada; Year: 2003; Director: Robert Lepage; Writer: Robert Lepage; Stars: Robert Lepage, Celine Bonnier,
Anne-Marie Cadieux, Lorraine
Cote, Sophie Faucher, Richard
Frechette, Erika Gagnon,
Gregory Hlady)
Two brothers, a perpetual student
and a gay weatherman, come to
terms with life after mum dies.
Scottish Premiere
Tokyo Godfathers and Anatomy Of Hell
A Good Lawyer's Wife (Baramnan gajok)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2003; Director: Im Sang-soo ; Writer: Im Sang-soo ; Stars: Moon So-ri, Kim In-mun, Yun Yeo-Jong, Bong Tae-gyu)
UK Premiere
A bored housewife embarks upon an affair with a teenager.
Hanging Offence (Cette Femme-Là)
(Country: France; Year: 2003; Director: Guillaume Nicloux; Writer: Guillaume Nicloux; Stars: Josiane Balasko, Eric Caravaca, Ange Rodot, Aurélien Recoing, Frédéric Pierrot, Thierry Lhermitte, Didier Abot, Dominique Bettenfeld, Pascal Bongard, Stéphane Comby, Béatrice Chauvin)
UK Premiere
A detective - depressed by the death of her son - becomes obssessed with a suicide case.
Just Bea (Bare Bea)
(Country: Norway, Sweden; Year: 2004; Director: Petter Næss; Writer: Johan Bogaeus; Stars: Kaia Foss, Kamilla Grønli Hartvig, Ida Thurman-Moe, Maria Brinch, Kim S. Falck-Jørgensen, Espen Klouman-Høiner, Henrik Skjerve, Fredric Finzi Gjertsen, Christoffer Lossius, Stig Zeiner-Gundersen, Nastaran Javedani)
UK Premiere
A 16-year-old virgin falls for the most popular kid in school.
The Machinist (El Maquinista)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Brad Anderson; Writer: Scott Kosar; Stars: Christian Bale, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Michael Ironside, John Sharian)
Christian Bale lives in the subconscious of a mentally frail insomniac.
UK Premiere
Machuca
(Country: Chile/Spain/UK/France; Year: 2004; Director: Andres Wood; Writer: Andres Wood, Roberto Brodsky, Mamoun Hassan; Stars: Mathias Quer, Ariel Mateluna,
Manuela Martelli, Aline
Kuppenheim, Ernesto Malbran,
Francisco Reyes)
Friendship blossoms across the
class divide in the classrooms of
Chile.
UK Premiere
Primo Amore and Take My Eyes
Oldboy (Old Boy)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2004; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Joon-hyung, Park Chan-wook, Tsuchiya Garon, Minegishi Nobuaki; Stars: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung, Chi Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Kim Byoung-ok, Lee Seung-shin, Yoon Jin-seo, Lee Dae-yun, Oh Gwang-rok)
A revenge drama from South Korea creates a mystery for the long term prisoner who is released. Now out to own as part of the Vengeance Trilogy box set.
UK Premiere
Primo Amore (First Love)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2004; Director: Matteo Garrone; Writer: Matteo Garrone, Vitaliano Trevisan, Massismo Gaudioso; Stars: Vitaliano Trevisian, Michela Cescon)
A blind date between bald bully and wholesome girl reconstituted as an Italian art movie.
UK Premiere
Purple Butterfly ( Zi Hudie)
(Country: China/France; Year: 2003; Director: Ye Lou; Writer: Ye Lou; Stars: Zhang Ziyi, Ye Lou, Yanzheng Feng, Toru Nakamura, Li Bingbing)
Secret loves and violent action of resistance fighters in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation.
UK Premiere
Ramblers (Riarizumu No
Yado, Lializumu No Yado)
(Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Nobuhiro Yamashita; Writer: Kôsuke Mukai, Yoshiharu Tsuge, Nobuhiro Yamashita; Stars: Keiji Nagatsuka, Hiroshi Yamamoto, Machiko Ono, Masaaki Takakura, Takeshi Yamamoto, , , , , , )
UK Premiere
Two hard-up filmmakers try to get by in a deserted resort without their main actor.
Summer Clouds ( Nubes de Verano)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2004; Director: Felipe Vega; Writer: Manuel Hidalgo, Felipe Vega; Stars: Roberto Enrique, Natalia Millan, David Selvas, Irene Montala, Roger Casamajor)
A couple find their fidelity tested on summer holiday.
International Premiere
A Thousand Dreams Such As These and Machuca
A Thousand Dreams Such As These (Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, A Thousand Desires Such As These)
(Country: India; Year: 2003; Director: Sudhir Mishra; Writer: Sudhir Mishra, Shiv Kumar Subramanium, Ruchi Narain; Stars: Kay Kay Menon, Roshan Ahuja, Chitrangda Singh, Saurabh Shukla, Anupam Shyam, Arif Zakaria, Ram Kapoor, Aditya Bhattacharya, Yashpal Sharma, Sohrab Ardeshir)
Three friends live through a decade of political turmoil in India.
UK Premiere
Tokyo Godfathers
(Country: Japan; Year: 2003; Director: Satoshi Kon, Shogo Furuya; Writer: Keiko Nobumoto, Satoshi Kon, based on a story by Satoshi Kon; Stars: voices of Tori Emori, Yoshiaki Umegaki, Ava Okamoto)
Animated tale of three vagrants in Tokyo who find a baby and look after it.
UK Premiere
Take My Eyes (Te Doy Mis Ojos)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2003; Director: Iciar Bollain; Writer: Iciar Bollain, Alicia Luna; Stars: Laia Marull, Luis Tosar, Candela Pena, Rosa Maria Sarda, Sergi Calleja, Kiti Manver, Elisabet Gelabert, Nicolas Fernandez Luna, Dave Mooney, Chus Gutierrez)
Domestic abuse and its aftermath, Spanish style.
UK 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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