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Featuring 16 of the best from across the globe. The World Jury Prize went to 13 (Tzameti). The Audience Award was scooped by No.2. Eve And The Fire Horse received a Special Jury Prize, while The House Of Sand won the Alfred P Sloan gong.
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Allegro and Madeinusa
13 (Tzameti, 13 (Tzameti))
(Country: France/Georgia; Year: 2005; Director: Gela Babluani; Writer: Gela Babluani; Stars: George Babluani, Aurelien Recoing, Philippe Passon, Pascal Bongard, Vania Villers, Fred Ulysse, Augustin Legrand, Joe Prestia, Christophe Vandevelde)
Man becomes sucked into a potentially fatal gambling ring.
North American Premiere
Allegro
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2005; Director: Christoffer Boe; Writer: Christoffer Boe, Mikeael Wulff; Stars: Ulrich Thomsen, Helena Christensen, Henning Moritzen)
Genre-bending love story sees a concert pianist confront his past.
North American Premiere
The Aura (El Aura)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2005; Director: Fabian Bielinsky; Writer: Fabian Bielinsky; Stars: Ricardo Darin, Dolores Fonzi, Pablo Cedron, Alejandro Awada, Jorge D'Elia, Rafael Castejon, Manuel Rodal)
An epileptic taxidermist finds himself caught up in a heist.
North American Premiere
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros (Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros)
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2005; Director: Auraeus Solito; Writer: Michiko Yamamoto; Stars: Nathan Lopez, Soliman Cruz, Ping Medina, Bodjie Pascua, Neil Ryan Sese, Pepe Smith, Peter Anthony Tombasa, J.R. Valentin)
Low budget, endearing look at a young boy’s first crush.
US Premiere
Eve And The Fire Horse
(Country: Canada; Year: 2005; Director: Julia Kwan; Writer: Julia Kwan; Stars: Vivian Wu, Lester Chit-Man Chan, Hollie Lo, Phoebe Kut, Jessica Amlee, Herb Beaverstone, Jan Bos, Diane Buermans, Tanya Champoux, Jennifer Cheon, Alexus Dumont)
US Premiere
Eve is a precocious nine-year-old growing up in a Vancouver Chinese immigrant family where Confucian doctrines, superstitious obsessions and divine visions abound. When Buddhism and Catholicism are thrown into the mix, life for Eve and her prim authoritative sister, Karena, escalates into a fantasia of catastrophe, sainthood and cultural confusion.
The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros and The Aura
Grbavica
(Country: Austria; Year: 2006; Director: Jasmila Zbanic; Writer: Jasmila Zbanic; Stars: Mirjana Karanovic, Luna Mijovic, Leon Lucev, Kenan Catic, Jasna Beri, Dejan Acimovic, Bogdan Diklic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic, Ermin Bravo, Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Maike Höhne)
World Premiere
A chilling story of a woman and her daughter as they fight to survive in the painful aftermath of the recent Balkan war.
House Of Sand (Casa De Areia)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2005; Director: Andrucha Waddington; Writer: Elena Soares; Stars: Fernando Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra, Seu Jorge, Luiz Melodia)
Three generations of women experience despair and hope in a remote desert.
US Premiere
Kiss Me Not On The Eyes (Dunia)
(Country: Egypt, Lebanon; Year: 2005; Director: Jocelyn Saab; Writer: Jocelyn Saab; Stars: Hanan Turk, Mohamed Mounir, Fathy Abdel Wahab, Sawsan Badr, Khaled El Sawi, Youssef Ismail, Aida Riad)
US Premiere
An educated young Egyptian woman defends her artistic integrity as a dancer and her social independence in the midst of modern Cairo’s culture wars.
Little Red Flowers (Kan shang qu hen mei)
(Country: China/Italy; Year: 2006; Director: Yuan Zhang; Writer: Dai Ning, Yuan Zhang, based on the novel Could Be Beautiful by Shuo Wang; Stars: Ning Yuanyuan, Zhao Rui, Li Xiaofeng, Dong Bowen, Chen Manyuan)
A rebellious three-year-old causes havoc in a state-run kindergarten in post-revolutionary China.
World Premiere
Madeinusa
(Country: Peru/Spain; Year: 2005; Director: Claudia Llosa; Writer: Claudia Llosa; Stars: Magaly Solier, Carlos Juan de la Torre, Yiliana Chong, Juan Ubaldo Huaman)
The festival of the Little Virgins in a Peruvian village offers one teenager an escape route.
World Premiere
Little Red Flowers and 13
No.2
(Country: New Zealand; Year: 2006; Director: Toa Fraser; Writer: Toa Fraser)
World Premiere
Nanna Maria’s family has forgotten how to party. She’s going to change all that, make them come alive with the heat and passion of the South Pacific.
One Last Dance
(Country: Singapore; Year: 2005; Director: Max Makowski; Writer: Max Makowski; Stars: Francis NG, TI Lung and Harvey Keitel, Vivian Hsu, Joseph Quek)
An assassin hunts a child-kidnapper.
World Premiere
Only God Knows (Sólo Dios Sabe)
(Country: Brazil; Year: 2006; Director: Carlos Bolado; Writer: Carlos Bolado, Diane Weipert; Stars: Diego Luna, Alice Braga, Damián Alcázar, Maria Alves, Mateo Evaristo Shapiro Bolado, Laurie Bushman, Sara Castro, Ângela Correa, Leigh Crow, Ana Csernik, Daniele Luz de Almeida)
World Premiere
On a lark in Tijuana, a young Brazilian art student crosses paths with a roguish Mexican journalist, sparking a cascade of events across both Mexico and Brazil.
Peter Pan Formula (Piteopaeneui gongshik)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2005; Director: Cho Chang-Ho; Writer: Cho Chang-Ho; Stars: Wan On-ju. Kim Ho-jeong, Kim Ho-jeing, Oh Ji-yeong, Ok Ji-young, Park Min-ji)
The teenage coming-of-age angst of a prospective swimming champion.
North American Premiere
Princesas
(Country: Spain; Year: 2005; Director: Fernando León de Aranoa; Writer: Fernando León de Aranoa; Stars: Candela Peña, Micaela Nevárez, Mariana Cordero, Llum Barrera, Violeta Pérez, Mònica Van Campen, Flora Álvarez, María Ballesteros, Alejandra Llorente, Luis Callejo, Antonio Durán 'Morris')
US Premiere
The story of two women who form an unbreakable friendship despite their differences as they fight to make ends meet in the big city.
One Last Dance and House Of Sand
Son Of Man
(Country: South Africa; Year: 2006; Director: Mark Dornford-May; Writer: Mark Dornford-May, Andiswa Kedama, Pauline Malefane)
World Premiere
A gripping journey of love, deception and betrayal, Son Of Man translates Jesus' life to modern-day South Africa, where a new politics of compassion incites revolution during a military dictatorship.
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