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All Will Be Well
Poland , 2007 , 96 min. When a fatherless boy with a dying mother sets off on a journey to a distant holy shrine in hopes of a miracle, his companion is an alcoholic track coach in need of some faith himself. Polish helmer Tomasz Wiszniewski puts a tender but tough-minded spin on the road movie.... more
AM 1200
USA , 2008 , 40 min. A skillfully rendered thriller about a hotshot investment analyst who leaves town in a hurry after a financial scam goes terribly wrong. But the isolated highway leads him into an even more terrifying situation amid madness and murder. ... more
Amal
India , 2008 , 101 min. In this gently absorbing fable, the titular character, a Delhi auto-rickshaw driver, lets himself be cheated by an apparent vagrant—who is so moved by this act of compassion that he bequeaths his actually vast fortune to Amal, sparking a battle with his scheming children.... more
American / Sandinista
USA , 2007 , 30 min. As Nicaragua descended into civil war in the 1980s, the American government backed the Contras in an effort to destabilize the government. This fascinating documentary follows three American engineers whose grassroots activism changed global politics. ... more
American Swing
USA , 2008 , 81 min. Led by self-proclaimed King of Swing Larry Levenson, the devotees of Plato’s Retreat gyrated right along with the disco rhythms of New York circa 1977. American Swing chronicles the highs and lows of the sexual revolution in an age of grandiose narcissism.... more
La Americana
USA , 2008 , 65 min. Carmen, a single mother from Bolivia living illegally in New York in order to provide for her severely disabled daughter back home, embodies the current anti-immigration struggle in the United States—and the uncertain future of the American dream.... more
August 15
China , 2008 , 22 min. Acclaimed at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, August 15 traces the dynamics among strangers on a bus in rural China after two thugs climb aboard.... more
Be Like Others
Canada , 2008 , 74 min. A sex change operation in Tehran costs $4,500—but the price young Iranians pay to get one far exceeds mere money, as director Tanaz Eshagian reveals in the painfully provocative documentary Be Like Others.... more
Bean
USA , 2008 , 20 min. At fifteen, Bean has had a hard time saying goodbye to her surrogate father. So when her mother takes up with a good-for-nothing, Bean takes action.... more
Because You're Gorgeous
South Africa , 2007 , 5 min. It is a challenge for a warthog to look his best when one lock of fur refuses to cooperate.... more
Behind the Glass
Croatia , 2008 , 80 min. Croatian director Zrinko Ogresta, who won the Krzysztof Kieslowski Award for his 2003 drama Here at SDFF 27, returns with a postmodern parable about an architect who tempts fate through his own inaction when his life begins spinning out of control.... more
Black Sea
Italy , 2008 , 95 min. In a warmhearted drama, Federico Bondi examines the complex relationship between a lonely old Florentine widow and the Romanian girl who serves as her caregiver—as well as her companion on an unexpected, arduous journey abroad.... more
The Border Wall
USA , 2008 , 75 min. The Border Wall is Wayne Ewing’s uncompromising investigation into the potential repercussions of the Department of Homeland Security’s proposal to erect 670 miles of fence that would divide private properties, communities, wildlife reserves—and lives.... more
Opening Night
USA , 2008 , 109 min. In Rian Johnson’s rollicking, round-the-world road movie, a pair of dedicated con men think they’re taking an innocent New Jersey heiress for a ride. But who's really driving?... more
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
USA , 1969 , 110 min. As rollicking, wisecracking outlaws who can’t ride far or fast enough to escape their own infamy, Paul Newman and Robert Redford generate chemistry galore in George Roy Hill’s semirevisionist, seriocomic Western (which SDFF 31 is presenting in a brand-new 35mm print).... more
By the Numbers
USA , 2008 , 8 min. Claude is obsessed with numbers—and with finding love in all the wrong places. Driven to desperation, he places his fate in the hands of the New York telephone network.... more

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