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Tahaan
India , 2008 , 105 min. MUST END May 6 35mm presentation - Director Santosh Sivan’s tender fable about childhood innocence amid the realities of war is set against the rugged landscape of Kashmir, so long a flashpoint for the territorial claims of neighboring India and Pakistan. The title character, an eight... more
The Girl on the Train
France , 2009 , 105 min. MUST END May 13 Digital presentation - Émilie Dequenne (Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winner for Rosetta) is mesmerizing as Jeanne, an aimless girl who spends her time rollerblading, riding the train and (occasionally) looking for work. She lives in the suburbs with her mother (Ca... more
The 400 Blows
France , 1959 , 99 min. Überauteur François Truffaut’s profoundly affecting debut feature is a frankly autobiographical drama about growing up absurd in 1950s Paris, where feisty Antoine Doinel channels his adolescent discontent into acts of rebellion that ultimately cost him what little freedom he enjoys.... more
A Film from My Parish - 6 Farms
Ireland , 2008 , 7 min. Using minimal equipment, available light, and a bicycle for transportation, director Tony Donoghue visits six sustainable farms in Ireland. The filmmaking is green, the farmers traditional, and the storytelling magical.... more
After the Rape
Netherlands , 2008 , 75 min. This documentary follows Mukhtaran Mai, a Pakistani woman who was gang raped by order of a tribal council to avenge a perceived infraction by her twelve-year-old brother. Expected to commit suicide, she instead defied custom and took her case to court.... more
Another Glorious Day
Germany , 2009 , 95 min. As a play within a documentary, Another Glorious Day centers on a 2008 revival of The Brig, the inflammatory 1963 work that exposed the treatment of inmates in a US military prison.... more
Applause
Denmark , 2009 , 86 min. In this Cassavetes-esque Danish drama, Dogme 95 darling Paprika Steen stars as Thea, a fiercely charismatic, alcoholic actress determined to turn her life around so she can reconnect with the two sons she lost custody of in her divorce.... more
Battle for the Xingu
USA , 2009 , 11 min. The Xingu, a tributary of the Amazon, is about to be dammed. If plans continue, more than 10,000 indigenous people will be affected.... more
Before Tomorrow
Canada , 2008 , 93 min. In this evocative drama (the third in a series that includes the Cannes hit Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner), an elderly Inuit woman and her grandson come home to find their entire clan wiped out by smallpox contracted from white traders – leaving only their stories behind.... more
Behind the Wheel of Life
Iran , 2008 , 26 min. This documentary short follows the spunky divorced mother of a teenage son who makes her living as a taxi driver on the congested streets of Tehran – and who embodies the modern Iranian woman, asserting her independence within the parameters of Muslim tradition.... more
Bicycle
USA , 2009 , 22 min. Quiet young Mamoru loses his job and, coincidentally, his beloved bicycle. As he learns to piece his life back together, he finds not only his vehicle but also his voice. ... more
Big River Man
USA , 2009 , 100 min. This startling documentary follows Martin Strel – an aging, hard-drinking, bigger-than-life extreme swimmer from Slovenia – as he makes a 66-day journey, enduring infections and risking death, in an attempt to become the first human being to swim the length of the Amazon River.... more
Black Dogs Barking
Turkey , 2009 , 88 min. Like many young Turkish men, Selim and Çaça are barely getting by. As naive as they are impatient, they hatch a plot to realize their dreams of fortune only to find themselves slipping down a dangerous slope in this cautionary tale about ambition.... more
Buick Riviera
Croatia , 2009 , 86 min. Alienated in America, two immigrants meet by chance on a snowy Midwestern highway. One a Bosnian, one a Serb, they share a language – and a war-torn past. Instead of striking a friendship, they relive their ethnic conflict through a dark game of wits. The prize: a beat-up Buick Riviera.... more
Can Go Through Skin
Netherlands , 2009 , 97 min. After she is assaulted in a random act of violence, a young woman retreats to the wintry Dutch countryside to try to rebuild her life in quietude.... more
Christmas with Dad
United Kingdom , 2009 , 12 min. An insightful look at 23-year-old AJ, whose worldview is shaped by the chaos of his household – which includes his pregnant wife and their seven children.... more
Citizen Havel
Czech Republic , 2008 , 120 min. For seven years, filmmaker Pavel Koutecky had virtually unlimited access to Václav Havel, the dissident playwright and first president of the Czech Republic.... more
The Conflict Zone
Georgia , 2009 , 82 min. Based on a true story, this gorgeously realized cross between absurdist spectacle and historical cautionary tale centers on a sniper known as Spartacus, who is sent by his commander on a cross-country mission to secure munitions for the front of the ethnic civil war in 1990s Georgia.... more
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl
France , 2009 , 64 min. From Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira comes this modern romance about a man who falls in love with a woman he sees out the window of his Lisbon office. Setting off to make his fortune so he can claim his bride, he returns only to be confronted by a discovery that love cannot conquer.... more
English Strawberries
Czech Republic , 2008 , 114 min. On the morning of August 21, 1968, Soviet forces invade Czechoslovakia, setting into motion the linked dramas of three dreamy young people – discontented Tomás, who is bound for a new life in England; his pregnant girlfriend; and a Russian army deserter who fantasizes about glamorous Biarritz.... more
FILM IST. a girl & a gun
Austria , 2009 , 93 min. Drawing on European archives and material from the Kinsey Institute, avant-garde filmmaker Gustav Deutsch uses footage from silent films, shorts, pornography, and scientific and historical reels to piece together a singular and challenging meditation on sex, death, and the nature of cinema.... more
Fish Eyes
China , 2009 , 75 min. In this contemplative Chinese drama containing almost no dialogue, a bleak desert landscape tells the story of an old man who opens his home to a mysterious girl, only to watch his petty criminal of a son use her for his own purposes.... more
Fish Tank
United Kingdom , 2009 , 124 min. MUST END March 11 35mm Presentation - Though it’s only her sophomore outing, Fish Tank solidifies director Andrea Arnold’s quick-won reputation as a master of social realism. Set outside London in a bleak Essex housing project, this gritty drama zooms in on the dreary lives of ... more
The Friends at the Margherita Café
Italy , 2009 , 90 min. The protagonist of this Felliniesque charmer is Taddeo, a young man in 1950s Bologna who works as a chauffeur and dreams of gaining acceptance among the colorful regulars of the legendary Margherita Café – although, admittedly, life at home is no less exciting.... more
Gaining Ground
Germany , 2008 , 20 min. A young couple illegally residing in Germany is always on the run from the immigration authorities – until the well-being of their young son dictates that they find a better way to get by.... more
Garbage Dreams
Egypt , 2009 , 82 min. For nearly as long as anyone can remember, the Zaballeen, a Coptic Christian community, have served as Cairo’s garbage collectors. This winning documentary reveals the pride they deservedly take in a job well – and sustainably – done.... more
Gigante
Uruguay , 2009 , 84 min. MUST END Thursday, February 4
35mm presentation - The centerpiece of Uruguayan filmmaker Adrián Biniez’s quiet drama is your classic Everyman – trapped in a dead-end job and an oversized body, lonely but unable to define his own yearnings. Jara (Horacio Camandule) spends his nights as... more
Guard No. 47
Czech Republic , 108 min. Set in 1920, Filip Renc’s tragic melodrama centers on a Czech army veteran who seeks a quiet life as a railroad crossing guard in a remote mountain village. Instead he must fight two new battles – one against his terrible memories, the other against the men who lust after his beautiful wife.... more
Heart of Time
Mexico , 2008 , 90 min. In this political narrative styled as a documentary, a young woman in the volatile Mexican state of Chiapas brings the threat of chaos to her community when she breaks her engagement with a local boy in order to pursue her love for a Zapatista rebel.... more
Heiran
Iran , 2009 , 88 min. Heiran is the heart-rending saga of young lovers struggling to stay together in the face of parental fears and deep cultural prejudices. Mahi, a strong-willed young woman from a rural village in Iran, proves a modern-day Juliet when she falls in love with a handsome Afghan refugee.... more
Hotel Sahara
Germany , 2009 , 88 min. Men from all over Africa descend on Mauritania to await their chance to cross 1,000 miles of ocean in search of better lives in Europe. This moving and visually poetic documentary weighs the audacity of dreams against the risks of death these illegal immigrants face.... more
I Am Not Your Friend
Hungary , 2009 , 100 min. A circle of friends founders in a roundelay of affections, as Sara loves Mark, who loves Sophie, who is doted on by Andras, whose wife Rita cares only for the dying Natasha, whose everything is Jimmy, who’s in debt to the ruthless Attal, who, oh, by the way, loves Sara.... more
Ink
Australia , 2009 , 11 min. The dark, edgy story of a woman who continues to yearn for the beloved toy she left behind as a little girl escaping the terror of her stepfather. ... more
Irène
France , 2009 , 85 min. At 78, French director Alain Cavalier attempts to come to terms with the ghost of his long-deceased wife, actress Irène Tunc, through an act of obsessive first-person filmmaking – poring over old diaries, ruminating on the meaning of life, even showing us his gout-swollen feet.... more
Katia's Sister
Netherlands , 2008 , 85 min. A 13-year-old Russian girl in Amsterdam tries to make sense of her life as her mother and sister enter into the grim world of stripping and streetwalking. Dutch director Mijke de Jong’s poignant family drama explores the hard choices many immigrants are forced to make.... more
Laila's Birthday
Palestine , 2008 , 72 min. Over the course of a single day, Abu Laila, an ex-judge, drives his brother-in-law’s cab through occupied Palestine, transporting a motley assortment of displaced and disenfranchised passengers who embody the chaos of Ramallah.... more
Land of the Heads
Canada , 2009 , 6 min. Using stop-action puppetry, this macabre tale follows a vampire who must seek out more and more victims so that his wife can continue to have a young, pretty head to call her own.... more
Last Conversation
Netherlands , 2009 , 73 min. For this stark, experimental drama, Noud Heerkens trained 25 digital video cameras simultaneously on the troubled face of his lone character, a successful lawyer named Anna (Johanna ter Steege) who drives through the Dutch countryside while on the phone with the married lover who has jilted her.... more
The Little One
Austria , 2009 , 100 min. In this observant slice-of-life docunarrative, members of a European circus troupe wintering in a trailer park on the outskirts of Rome discover a new sense of famiglia when they take in an abandoned toddler.... more
Lost Times
Hungary , 2008 , 90 min. Car mechanic Ivan and his autistic sister Eszter eke out a pitiful living in an eastern Hungarian village, where Ivan smuggles diesel oil – to the wrath of the gas station–owning local mafia. When Eszter is raped and the local police prove useless, Ivan opts for vigilanteism.... more
Lowland Fell
Ireland , 2008 , 20 min. The lush, dark landscape of the Irish midlands is the perfect setting for this sensuously atmospheric tale of a bored teenage girl who crosses paths with two brothers one summer afternoon. ... more
A Man Who Ate His Cherries
Iran , 2009 , 77 min. When Reza, a factory worker suffering from impotence, is taken to divorce court by his wife, he has to find a way to pay back her dowry. Suddenly, the memory of an industrial accident that netted a colleague worker’s comp looms enticingly vivid.... more
A Mate
Finland , 2008 , 7 min. On a lazy afternoon in his apartment, Pera confides in his best friend that he wants his help in trying a little “something new.” Unfortunately, Pera’s wife comes home just a tad too soon. ... more
Memory
Germany , 2008 , 82 min. After disappearing in a swimming accident more than a year ago, Robert suddenly turns up at a concert – or at least his wife Helene believes it’s him; he insists he doesn’t know her. Yet he finds himself irresistibly drawn to her in this intelligent and quietly compelling thriller from Germany.... more
Mid-August Lunch
Italy , 2008 , 75 min. MUST END Thursday, June 3! 35mm Presentation - The charismatic Gianni Di Gregorio (co-scenarist of the smash hit Gomorrah), stars in his directorial debut—an utterly charming tale of good food, feisty ladies and unlikely friendships during a very Roman holiday. Broke, and armed with o... more
Miracle Fish
Australia , 2009 , 17 min. It is Joe’s eighth birthday, but life is not good. His family is struggling financially, his father is in the hospital, and his classmates tease him relentlessly. If only they would all just go away …... more
My City, Pizza
Iran , 2008 , 26 min. Who would have imagined that Tehran’s pizzerias would become the battleground between cultural traditions and global tastes? In Ala Mohseni’s often funny documentary, My City, Pizza, mozzarella serves as the rope in a tug of war between the old and the new.... more
My Dear Enemy
South Korea , 2008 , 124 min. In Lee Yoon-ki’s offbeat comedy, a dreamy young charmer travels the vivid streets of Seoul with the ex-lover to whom he owes money – a businesslike young woman who keeps her eyes fixed less on him than on his wallet.... more
My Land
USA , 2009 , 102 min. Feliciano, a young, indigenous Peruvian farmer, exemplifies the complex issues facing rural communities in his country due to isolation of lack of education and isolation.... more
My Little Country
Iran , 2008 , 26 min. In My Little Country, documentarian Abbas Mohammadi enters the classrooms of Iran’s so-called autonomous schools alongside their Afghani students. Started in 1981 by refugees without permits or funds from the host government, these schools have provided a sense of belonging to youth in exile.... more

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