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  28 Hotel Rooms

  USA , 2012 , 82 min. Matt Ross takes a new approach to filmmaking with this collage of hotel-room scenes between lovers who are married to other people yet find themselves falling deeper and deeper into a profound relationship.... more
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  Alps

  Greece , 2011 , 90 min. A paramedic, a nurse, a gymnast, and her coach provide the service of standing in for the recently deceased. In this darkly comic, existential tale, director Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth) employs intertwining plots and striking camerawork.... more
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  The American Scream

  USA , 2012 , 91 min. From the director of Best Worst Movie (SDFF 32) comes this documentary about “home haunters,” dedicated folk who spend all year transforming their homes into neighborhood haunted houses for Halloween.... more
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  Argentinian Lesson

  Poland , 2011 , 61 min. Polish documentarian Wojciech Staron follows the life lessons of his son Janek when the family moves to Argentina for a year. Janek befriends a young girl who is already spending most of her days as the adult holding her family together.... more
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  The Aviation Cocktail

  USA , 2012 , 96 min. NOW PLAYING through Thursday, May 2nd at the Sie FilmCenter Official Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival Director and cast in-person after the 7:15pm show on Saturday, April 27th! Digital presentation - Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be h... more
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  Bay of All Saints

  USA , 2012 , 74 min. Nicknamed “The Capital of Happiness,” Bahia, Brazil, is anything but for residents of the palafitas, slum dwellings perched on stilts above mounds of garbage in the filthy bay. Bay of All Saints director Annie Eastman spent six years documenting their plight.... more
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  Beauty

  Argentina , 2012 , 83 min. Yola, an indigenous girl employed as a maid in a remote village in Argentina, learns a hard truth of modern society. As the family she works for prepares a coming-out party for their daughter, Yola is taken advantage of in a devious, unexpected way.... more
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  Believing

  Netherlands , 2011 , 40 min. Martine is a successful doctor who champions emancipation, of women and immigrants. But her self-determination and worldview are challenged when her daughter decides to become a Muslim. Elsie de Brauw delivers a tour-de-force performance.... more
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  Beyond the Walls

  Belgium , 2012 , 98 min. Paulo, a sweet thing who hasn’t quite figured out his sexuality, and the hunky Ilir, whom he meets in a bar, blossom in a love affair until Ilir is arrested for drug possession. His time in prison can’t help but take a devastating toll on them both.... more
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  Special Earth Day Presentation: Bidder 70

  USA , 2012 , 73 min. Special Earth Day screening Monday, April 22nd at 7pm Activist Tim DeChristopher live via Skype for a post film Q&A Digital presentation - Tim DeChristopher, an environmental activist, will be released from prison on 4/21. On 4/22 (Earth Day) we’re holding a one-night nationwide scr... more
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  Call Me Kuchu

  USA , 2012 , 87 min. The struggle for gay rights in Uganda is played out in the life and death of David Kato, that country’s first openly gay man. He goes up against a homophobic establishment trying to enact the death penalty for engaging in homosexual acts.... more
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  Casting By

  USA , 2012 , 89 min. A love letter to legendary casting director Marion Dougherty, featuring the likes of Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Woody Allen, Glenn Close, and Martin Scorsese, plus a wealth of great clips. You don’t have to be a film buff to love this engaging doc.... more
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  Chinese Take Away

  Argentina , 2011 , 93 min. It all starts with a cow falling from the sky. Argentine screen icon Ricardo Darín plays a curmudgeon whose reluctant bond with a stranded Chinese immigrant (Ignacio Huang) helps him warm up to the human race.... more
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  City World

  USA , 2012 , 70 min. A beautifully drawn portrait of empty landscapes in Orlando, Florida, serves as backdrop for a boy’s ruminations on history and family. Images rich in atmosphere contrast with his notions about how Orlando came to be and what his life is like.... more
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  Clandestine Childhood

  Argentina , 2011 , 112 min. Benjamin Ávila’s coming-of-age tale of a boy living under an assumed name during Argentina’s military dictatorship is based on the director’s experience. While Juan’s parents continue guerrilla activities, he only wants to have a normal life.... more
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  Dark Days: Colorado Shorts

  83 min. A selection of the brightest Colorado filmmaking talent, showcasing their darker side.... more
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  Dead Man's Burden

  USA , 2012 , 93 min. In this Western with a film noir-twist, director Jared Moshé lets details of the plot unfold in tantalizing dribbles. A young couple working a desolate farm in 1870 New Mexico will do anything that needs to be done to get away.... more
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  El Huaso

  Canada , 2011 , 78 min. Chilean-Canadian filmmaker Carlo Guillermo Proto documents his family’s struggle to come to terms with the fact that his father may have inherited his mother’s Alzheimer’s and that he intends to commit suicide, despite the love of those around him.... more
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  An Evening with Bob Balaban

  90 min. Actor Bob Balaban receives the Festival’s first annual Jack Gilford Award for Comedy. Balaban is a veteran of Christopher Guest comedies, and the iconic Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which the festival will show as part of the movie’s 35th anniversary.... more
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  Fear of Water

  Canada , 2011 , 122 min. A rural Quebec police sergeant comes up against a nasty detective from Montreal and a host of aberrant locals when he tries to investigate the rape and murder of the daughter of a small-town mayor.... more
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  First Look Domestic 1: Roller Coaster

  94 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  First Look Domestic 2: Slip Sliding Away

  89 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  First Look Domestic 3: Smoke and Mirrors

  87 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  First Look International 1: From the Outside

  94 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  First Look International 2: Strangers Together

  95 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  First Look International 3: Overtaken by Events

  80 min. The First Look Student Film Section is an exclusive selection of short films reserved for outstanding student filmmakers from around the world.... more
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  Germania

  Argentina , 2012 , 75 min. A Volga German family on a farm in northern Argentina is beset by a mysterious plague, and some neighbors suspect divine punishment. Argentinian director/writer Maximiliano Schonfeld’s drama provides no answers.... more
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  Ginger & Rosa

  United Kingdom , 2012 , 90 min. NOW PLAYING through April 11th at the Sie FilmCenter Digital presentation - London, 1962. Two teenage girls—Ginger and Rosa (Elle Fanning and Alice Englert)—are inseparable; they play truant together, discuss religion, politics and hairstyles, and dream of lives bigger than their moth... more
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  Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters

  USA , 2012 , 77 min. MUST END Thursday, January 10th! Winner! Maysles Brothers Best Documentary Award - 35th Starz Denver Film Festival! An acclaimed photographer with the eye of a filmmaker, Gregory Crewdson has created some of the most gorgeously haunting pictures in the history of the medium. His meticulousl... more
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  Guilty

  France , 2011 , 101 min. This fact-based story of a man incarcerated nearly four years for horrific crimes he didn’t commit grippingly shows just how far awry the judicial process can fall. Viewers feel Alain Marécaux’s predicament with stunning immediacy.... more
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  Here and There

  Mexico , 2012 , 110 min. In director Antonio Méndez Esparza’s Cannes award winner, Pedro returns to Mexico after working in the U.S. But family struggles force him to make a decision: stay and be the man of the family, or return north as an absentee provider.... more
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  Hyde Park on Hudson

  United Kingdom , 2012 , 95 min. International affairs must be juggled with the complexities of FDR’s domestic establishment when the president (Bill Murray) and his wife host the king and queen of England in upstate New York as Britain faces imminent war with Germany.... more
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  I, Anna

  United Kingdom , 2012 , 93 min. A troubled detective becomes obsessed with a woman he meets near a murder scene. He eventually begins to see the connection between her and the crime, but his own desperation keeps him from pinpointing her as a suspect.... more
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  In Another Country

  South Korea , 2012 , 89 min. Hong Sang-soo’s amusing cross-cultural character study stars Isabelle Huppert, times three, as different French tourists in a triptych of scenarios exploring the ways Koreans interact with visitors and with one another.... more
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  Informant

  USA , 2012 , 82 min. Activist-turned-informant Brandon Darby gained fame in radical left-wing circles after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans’s Ninth Ward. A trip to Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela led him to rethink his views.... more
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  Intersexion

  New Zealand , 2012 , 68 min. Male or female? Check the box, unless you’re the one in every 2,000 people born with indecisive chromosomes. Intersexion delves into the secrecy, shame, and mystery surrounding this not-so-rare condition.... more
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  Journey to Planet X

  USA , 2012 , 78 min. Scientists Eric Swain and Troy Bernier moonlight as amateur science-fiction filmmakers. Journey to Planet X chronicles the making of their latest low-budget “epic.” Their contagious enthusiasm will have viewers rethinking just what defines art.... more
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  Kid-Thing

  USA , 2011 , 83 min. Twelve-year-old Annie has run wild in rural Texas all her life with little supervision from her laconic, tormented father. Events tend toward the absurd when she comes across a woman who’s trapped in a well, and doesn’t know how to handle the situation.... more
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  Kill Me

  Germany , 2012 , 90 min. A depressed teenager lives on a bleak farm with her emotionally distant parents after her brother’s death. One night, an escaped killer winds up in her room and asks her to help him get away. She agrees, on the condition that he kill her once he’s safe.... more
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  Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

  USA , 2012 , 120 min. Mumia Abu-Jamal joined the Black Panther Party at age 15 and reported on the revolutionary movement until his arrest for murder in 1981. Even on death row, his voice would not be silenced. This doc focuses on his writing, politics, and perseverance.... more
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  Lore

  Germany , 2012 , 109 min. NOW PLAYING through April 4th at the Sie FilmCenter Official Selection of the 35th Starz Denver Film Festival Digital presentation - Left to fend for themselves after their SS officer father and mother, a staunch Nazi believer, are interned by the victorious Allies at the end of Worl... more
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  Lotus

  Netherlands , 2011 , 102 min. Bonds of love are tested to humorous and sorrowful effect as couples and families tackle issues of suicide, injury, and infidelity. Five interwoven stories about need and desire create a rich tapestry of life-changing moments that happen within 24 hours.... more
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  Love Is Love

  Czech Republic , 2012 , 108 min. Czech filmmaker Mila Cieslar explores all kinds of love—gay, straight, parental, rekindled, and blind—in all kinds of weather. A brilliant ensemble cast mixing old and young enlivens this wry, observant comedy written by veteran Martin Horský.... more
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  Mar del Plata

  Argentina , 2012 , 82 min. When childhood friends and rivals Joaquin and David take a beach vacation together, they run into Elena, Joaquin’s ex-girlfriend, who’s married to Lautaro, a successful novelist. Suddenly their weekend escape isn’t such a getaway anymore in this comedy.... more
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  Marie Krøyer

  Denmark , 2012 , 103 min. Based on the life of artist Marie Krøyer, this tragic costume drama is suffused with the beautiful light that drew Marie and her famous husband to live and work on Denmark’s beautiful northernmost promontory, Skagen. But something’s rotten in Denmark.... more
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  Masterplan

  Argentina , 2012 , 87 min. In this comedy, Mariano dumps his beloved vintage car after a fraud scheme goes wrong. Increasingly worried about getting caught—and about his impending marriage—he befriends a vagrant who’s taken up residence in the car, and gains a new attitude.... more
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  Naral Colorado Reception

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  North Sea Texas

  Belgium , 2011 , 99 min. MUST END Thursday, December 27th at the Sie FilmCenter! Digital presentation - Pim lives with his ex-beauty queen, single mother in a small town on the Belgian coast. Introverted, he spends his childhood drawing and dreaming up fantasy lives while keeping his emerging desires a secret... more
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  Not That Funny

  USA , 2012 , 98 min. In Lauralee Farrer’s romantic comedy, Stefan Lane (Tony Hale, Arrested Development) learns the girl of his dreams wants a man who can make her laugh, so he goes to great lengths to be that guy. But there’s one problem: he’s just not that funny.... more
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  Paradise: Faith

  Austria , 2012 , 113 min. Religion and sexuality clash in unexpected ways when a woman devoted to the Catholic Church goes on her annual evangelical pilgrimage, only to have her wheelchair-bound Muslim husband return after two years to take his rightful place in the household.... more