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14 Women
USA , 2006 , 80 min. With the opening of the 109th Congress in 2002, the number of women in the U.S. Senate shot from nine to 14 – the highest in the entire 228-year history of the legislative branch.... more
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Romania , 2007 , 113 min. Set against the background of Communism’s imminent fall, this hard-hitting drama (and winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival) quotes the shattering price a young woman must pay when she tries to procure an illegal abortion in small-town Romania.... more
The Ballad of Esequiel Hernández
USA , 2007 , 87 min. May 20, 1997: an 18-year-old high-school boy is tending his parents’ herd of goats in South Texas when a band of Marines on anti-drug patrol mistakes him for a smuggler and shoots him down.... more
Chicago 10
USA , 2006 , 103 min. The whole world watched as anti-war rioting at the 1968 Democratic National Convention threw Chicago into chaos – and as the protestors turned their trial into a media circus.... more
Grace Is Gone
USA , 2007 , 90 min. John Cusack stars as an average Joe whose wife Grace, a soldier, has been killed on tour of duty in Iraq.... more
Greensboro: Closer to the Truth
USA , 2007 , 83 min. Adam Zucker’s documentary chronicles the efforts of the first U.S. Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help the citizens of Greensboro, North Carolina, work toward understanding and forgiveness following the infamous Greensboro Massacre of 1979.... more
Irina Palm
United Kingdom , 2007 , 103 min. ENDS Thursday, May 1! Legendary pop icon and actress Marianne Faithfull stars as Maggie, a middle-aged widow who, desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson's medical bills, takes a hostess job in a London sex club. She soon transforms herself into the much sought after and highly paid... more
Karl Rove, I Love You
USA , 2007 , 97 min. In the heat of the 2004 election race, actor Dan Butler (best known as Bulldog on the TV sitcom “Frasier”) begins production on a one-man show about controversial political advisor Karl Rove.... more
Last Hat in Town
USA , 2007 , 75 min. This poignant and lyrical documentary chronicles the impact of the energy boom on the lives and livelihoods of rural Coloradans.... more
Mapping Stem Cell Research: Terra Incognita
USA , 2007 , 90 min. When his 15-year-old daughter became paralyzed in a skiing accident, neurologist and embryonic stem-cell researcher Jack Kessler immediately began investigating the possibilities of spinal-cord regeneration.... more
Me, the Other
Italy , 2007 , 88 min. Tunisian-born director Moshen Melliti's astounding feature debut could only have been made in the post-9/11 era of the war on terror, as what seems at first to be a buddy flick about two simple fishermen evolves into a paranoid thriller.... more
The Memory Thief
USA , 2007 , 94 min. A mesmerizing psychological thriller à la Taxi Driver, The Memory Thief tells the story of Lukas, an aimless young tollbooth worker for whom a chance encounter sparks an obsession with the victimized Jews of World War II – one that spurs in turn his own descent into psychosis.... more
Miss Universe 1929
Austria , 2006 , 70 min. Péter Forgács (El Perro Negro) traces the startling ascent and subsequently poignant love life of the beautiful Lisl Goldarbeiter, a Viennese Jew who became Austria’s first (and only) Miss Universe just a few years before the grim dawn of the Holocaust.... more
My Brother Is an Only Child
Italy , 2007 , 100 min. Political beliefs divide two brothers growing up in small-town Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, where one becomes a charismatic Communist leader even as the other joins the Fascists.... more
Mystic Ball
2007 , 83 min. Visually stunning, Mystic Ball introduces Western audiences to the ancient, unique and mesmerizing Burmese game of chinlone.... more
Nanking
USA , 2007 , 90 min. Must End Thursday, February 28! After the Japanese invaded Nanking, China in the early days of World War II, a small group of unarmed Westerners established a Safety Zone where over 200,000 Chinese found refuge. The story of these events is told through deeply moving interviews with Chinese ... more
Not That Kind of Christian!!
USA , 2007 , 81 min. Not That Kind of Christian!! portrays the battle gays and lesbians are waging to gain acceptance within the modern-day Episcopal Church.... more
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
USA , 2007 , 70 min. In 2004, disillusioned by the U.S. presidential elections and mourning the death of their father, sibling filmmakers Jeremy and Randy Stulberg decided to get away from it all, setting off on a trek into the New Mexican desert. There they stumbled upon a makeshift community that had rejected mainstre... more
Operation Filmmaker
USA , 2007 , 95 min. In this timely documentary – by turns tragic and wry – director Nina Davenport follows star-struck Iraqi film student Muthana Mohmed from Baghdad to Prague, where he’s serving as an intern on the set of a Hollywood production.... more
Oswald's Ghost
USA , 2006 , 83 min. Oswald’s Ghost deconstructs the myths shrouding one of the most chilling mysteries of all time, the Kennedy assassination.... more
The Outsiders of New Orleans: The Loujon Press
USA , 2007 , 56 min. Regular festival guest Wayne Ewing returns to Denver to present his latest documentary, The Outsiders of New Orleans – an intimate, multifaceted portrait of bohemians, bon vivants and bootstrap Beat-era publishers Jon and Gypsy Lou Webb.... more
The Parallax View
USA , 1974 , 102 min. Released in 1974 – the year Nixon, bowed by the Watergate scandal, resigned – The Parallax View earns the cynicism that permeated its era.... more
Persepolis
France , 2007 , 95 min. Opens February 29! With amazing wit and heart, this award-winning animated feature tells the poignant story of a young girl coming-of-age in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. Through the eyes of precocious and outspoken 9-year-old Marjane, we see a people's hopes dashed as fundamentalists ... more
Poor Boy's Game
Canada , 2007 , 104 min. Evoking classic boxing pics like Fat City, this intelligent drama explores the racial tensions flaring around an upcoming grudge match between an ex-con and a local champ.... more
The Red Elvis
Germany , 2007 , 90 min. The Red Elvis documents the incredible life of Dean Reed, a Colorado-born singer-actor who enjoyed superstardom in South America and the Eastern Bloc while embracing socialism – until 1986, that is, when he met an untimely, mysterious demise in an East Berlin lake.... more
Run Granny Run
USA , 2006 , 78 min. In 2000, New Hampshire–based activist Granny D walked from coast to coast to publicize the issue of campaign finance reform.... more
Sharq
Kuwait , 2007 , 23 min. Six small-town Kuwaiti boys won’t let anything stop them from buying the world’s strongest soccer ball – even if it means they have to travel to the sprawling metropolis of Kuwait City, where legendary shopping emporium SHARQ is located, to get it.... more
Soldiers of Conscience
USA , 2007 , 86 min. Soldiers of Conscience undertakes a wrenching and thought-provoking journey into the lives of war veterans as they rationalize or renounce their duties as combatants.... more
Stone Time Touch
Canada , 2007 , 70 min. Two Canadians of Armenian ancestry – one experimental filmmaker Gariné Torossian, the other actress Arsinée Khanjian – journey to their homeland to conduct a dialogue between the terrain of their imagination and that of the post-Soviet reality.... more
Taxi to the Dark Side
USA , 2007 , 108 min. Must END Thursday, March 6! From director Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) comes a gripping investigation into the homicide of an innocent taxi driver at the Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan, exposing a Bush Administration policy of detention and interrogation th... more
Through These Trackless Waters
USA , 2007 , 13 min. A series of film fragments adds up to a moving contemplation of the state of the world, natural and manmade.... more
Train Town
USA , 2007 , 15 min. Two middle-aged model-train retailers start a culture war over their competing visions for the idyllic miniature town that serves as their store’s centerpiece.... more
Under the Same Moon
Mexico , 2007 , 109 min. MUST END June 5! Hoping to providing a better life for her son, Rosario (Kate del Castillo) works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for nine-year-old Carlitos (Adrian Alonso) back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys i... more
The Unforeseen
USA , 2007 , 94 min. April 11 - April 17 The American dream of owning a house with a white picket fence goes head to head with environmental sustainability in this urgent, beautifully crafted documentary. In the 1980s, an ambitious real estate developer came to Austin, Texas with a dream of transforming miles of... more
Wonders Are Many: The Making of Doctor Atomic
USA , 2007 , 92 min. Acclaimed filmmaker Jon Else’s extraordinary new documentary chronicles the making of a modern opera like no other: the strange and beautiful Doctor Atomic.... more
The World, Naked as a Jaybird
USA , 2006 , 8 min. Using remarkable stop-action animation, this dark tale follows the journey of Edith, a young girl who survives an atomic bomb and optimistically sets out to find other survivors.... more

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