MY FATHER MY LORD

WINNER BEST DRAMATIC FILM
TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL 2007

An intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional
gap between the impish child and the stern father. A dramatic retelling of
the story or Abraham & Isaac with a devastating "twist".

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MOMMA'S MAN

"This is Independent Film Defined."
- The New York Times

One of the most acclaimed films of this year's Sundance Film Festival, Azazel Jacobs' third feature is both a tribute to his parents (and to the lost New York of his childhood) and an acutely perceptive, deeply personal take on a universal experience: the fear of growing up.

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LOVE COMES LATELY

Based on the short stories “Alone,” “The Briefcase” and “Old Love” by the Yiddish writer and Nobel Prize-winner Isaac Bashevis Singer, Love Comes Lately is the utterly enchanting story of a charming old Jewish writer whose fiction is constantly getting mixed up with his "real" life.

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BACK TO NORMANDY

In Nicolas Philibert’s follow-up to his acclaimed ÊTRE ET AVOIR, the filmmaker travels to the Normandy countryside to catch up with the locals he helped cast in René Allio’s MOI, PIERRE RIVIÈRE three decades earlier — a starting point for a remarkably rich exploration of memory, history, motivation, madness, family ties, rural life and death, documentation and, of course, the cinema.

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WONDERFUL TOWN

During the reconstruction of Tsunami devastated Thailand, a mysterious architect arrives. Searching for a place to live he meets Na, a young hotel manager. When their relationship takes a romantic turn, this small community’s newly achieved equilibrium begins to crack once again. What does this man’s presence mean for Na and Thailand itself?

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BEAUFORT

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival’s Best Director award, BEAUFORT chronicles the final days of an Israeli army unit’s tense, painful withdrawal in 2000 from a strategic bunker inside a 12th century Crusader fortress near the Lebanese border, marking the end of nearly two decades of controversial occupation.

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TIMES AND WINDS

The intensely lyrical TIMES AND WINDS, winner of both the FIPRESCI and Best Turkish Film Awards at the 2006 Istanbul Film Festival, is the fourth feature from director Reha Erdem. The film depicts the bumpy emotional lives of three preteen friends and the ways their families curb their dreams and desires as surely as the mountain and sea confine their isolated village.

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POISONED BY POLONIUM

When former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko died a slow painful death in
London in November 2006 it was revealed he had been poisoned by Polonium-210: a rare & toxic radioactive material.
In this fascinating documentary, director Andrei Nekrosov makes a withering
indictment of Russia under Putin and the role of FSB ( successor of the KGB)
in Litvinenko's murder.

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BLIND MOUNTAIN

In his first film since the acclaimed and equally devastating BLIND SHAFT, (Kino 2003) Director Li Yang turns from corruption of China's illegal mining
to the even more horrifying illegal trade in women. Bax Xuemei is young college graduate who yearns for a life as budding urban capitalist but ends up drugged and sold as the "bride" of rural brute.

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