THE VANISHED EMPIRE

Set during the first half of the 1970s, The Vanished Empire depicts a love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same Moscow university. As they argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories, the country they love undergoes irreversible changes. The latest film by celebrated Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov (Zero City, Jazzman) is a cinematic love letter to a unique moment in the lives of the Soviet youth.

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HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29

An extraordinary retelling of one of the most famous college football games
in history, Kevin Rafferty’s HARVARD BEATS YALE 29-29 combines rare footage
of the wildly unpredictable 1968 game with unguarded, politically-charged
recollections from the original players.

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LAILA'S BIRTHDAY

The best film yet from acclaimed Palestinian writer-director Rashid Masharawai (WAITING, CURFEW), LAILA’S BIRTHDAY is a wry, comedic vignette tracing a day in the life of an experienced judge-turned-taxi driver, a portrait of ordinary people living in impossible circumstances in contemporary Ramallah.

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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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LOS BASTARDOS

Two Mexican day laborers take a troubled housewife hostage in her own home; co-produced by Carlos Reygadas (SILENT LIGHT, BATTLE IN HEAVEN), Amat Escalante’s LOS BASTARDOS plumbs the depths of human brutality with the same cool cinematic certitude as the work of Michael Haneke and Bruno Dumont.

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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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ONE DAY YOU'LL UNDERSTAND

During the Klaus Barbie trial of 1987, a French businessman uncovers the truth about his family's actions during the Holocaust; a meditation on loss, memory, identity and family legacy, directed by acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï (KADOSH, KIPPUR, FREE ZONE) and starring Jeanne Moreau.

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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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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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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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