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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
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  Touching Home

  USA , 2009 , 108 min. MUST END Thursday, July 1 35mm presentation - In 2006, after attending a tribute to four-time Academy Award nominee Ed Harris, Logan and Noah Miller talked their way backstage, where they entreated the star to accept a key role in a movie they had promised their father they would make... more
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  Spoken Word

  USA , 2009 , 116 min. Starz FilmCenter Exclusive August 13 - 19 Digital presentation - The hero of Victor Nunez’s drama about family, art, and self-determination is one Cruz Montoya (Mexican star Kuno Becker), a bright light of the West Coast poetry circuit who returns to his rural New Mexico when he learn... more
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  45365

  USA , 2009 , 93 min. MUST END March 4 Digital presentation - For nine months, directors (and brothers) Turner and Bill Ross focused their lenses on the people of their hometown, Sidney, Ohio. Named for Sidney’s zip code, the resulting documentary zigzags across town boundaries and generational lines to en... more
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  After the Storm

  USA , 2008 , 19 min. After surviving a catastrophic hurricane, Perry struggles to salvage what remains of his devastated life.... more
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  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
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  Children of Invention

  USA , 2009 , 86 min. Two first-generation Chinese kids in suburban Boston find themselves on their own after their desperate mother is unwittingly involved in a pyramid scheme and arrested. Older brother Raymond takes a page from her marketing seminars to start creating a life for himself and his sister.... more
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  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
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  Cuts

  USA , 2009 , 12 min. After striking out in a baseball game, Michael Taylor Jr. must prove his manhood to his father via the pursuit of a girl from school.... more
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  The Duke of the Bachata

  USA , 2009 , 53 min. Joan Soriano, a musician in the bachata tradition, is the focus of this documentary, which follows him on his journey from the Dominican Republic to the United States in search of stardom. Along the way, he experiences the joy of success and the pain of separation from his family.... more
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  Everybody's Fine

  USA , 2009 , 95 min. In this remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1990 drama Stanno Tutti Bene from writer/director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine), a widower (Robert De Niro) embarks on an impromptu road trip to reconnect with his grown children, only to discover that their lives are far from picture perfect.... more
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  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
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  Forgetting Dad

  USA , 2008 , 84 min. In this deeply personal documentary, Rick Minnich explores the most painful event of his childhood: the loss of his father to a mysterious case of amnesia and the havoc it wreaked on their family.... more
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  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
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  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
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  Happy Tears

  USA , 2009 , 96 min. Jayne (Parker Posey) and Laura (Demi Moore) are about to take on the first man they just might not be able to handle: their elderly, irascible father. Returning to the house they grew up in, the sisters are forced to take a closer look at their own lives – through one another's eyes.... more
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  Harmony and Me

  USA , 2009 , 75 min. MUST END February 25 Winner! Starz People's Choice Award - Best Feature Film - SDFF 32 Writer/Director Bob Byington IN-PERSON February 13 for a special post film discussion and party (also appearing at various shows Feb 14)! The Denver Film Society and Donnybrook Writing Academy have joined... more
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  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
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  The Horse Boy

  USA , 2009 , 93 min. Desperate to help their autistic son Rowan, Texas couple Rupert Isaacson and Kristin Neff travel to Outer Mongolia, traversing the countryside on horseback to visit shaman after shaman in search of miracles – with documentary filmmaker Michel Orion Scott in tow... more
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  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
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  Inside

  USA , 2009 , 9 min. Allegorical and dreamlike, this tragic coming-of-age story dramatizes the painful wait of a little girl for her father.... more
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  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
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  La Luz Del Perdón

  USA , 2009 , 15 min. This hand-processed, hand-manipulated film uses abstract imagery to represent everything from the fear of rejection and homosexuality to childhood memories and the ultimate blessing of forgiveness. ... more
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  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
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  Leaves of Grass

  USA , 2009 , 105 min. Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, and Keri Russell star in this black comedy about a mild-mannered professor of classics who returns home to rural Oklahoma for the funeral of his miscreant twin brother, where a reunion with his estranged mother isn’t all that awaits him: romance beckons too.... more
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  Little Canyon

  USA , 2009 , 20 min. Twelve-year-old Greta’s dad moves the kids cross-country, promising paradise and familial bliss when they reach California.... more
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  Northless

  Mexico , 2009 , 93 min. In Oaxacan-born director Rigoberto Perezcano’s first feature, Andrés, a young farmer from the south of Mexico, has made several attempts to cross the border into the United States – all dashed by the danger of the desert.... more
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  The Other Bank

  Georgia , 2009 , 90 min. A 12-year-old refugee of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, unhappy that his mother has taken a lover, embarks on a dangerous odyssey in an attempt to find his father, crossing landscapes of unexpected beauty – and encountering scenes of lawless brutality – as he goes.... more
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  Passenger Side

  Canada , 2009 , 85 min. Two estranged brothers set off on a supposed errand run – and wind up on a quirky odyssey through a Los Angeles populated by off-the-radar oddballs. Slowly, a bond between them is forged – until old issues of trust resurface to threaten it.... more
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  Precious - Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire

  USA , 2009 , 109 min. Advance tix sold out. Rush tix may be available 1 hr. before showtime.... more
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  Quest for Honor

  Iraq , 2009 , 65 min. In her filmmaking debut, photographer Mary Ann Smothers Bruni documents the still prevalent practice of honor killings in Kurdistan, tracking the investigation of several cases by a small number of women’s rights advocates on the ground in an attempt to bring this horrific practice to light.... more
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  Scratch

  Poland , 2008 , 89 min. Steeped in Polish tragedy, Michal Rosa’s political and psychological drama examines the terrors of an aging wife whose 40-year marriage is threatened by the discovery of a videotape containing evidence that her husband is a former agent for the secret police.... more
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  Something Blue

  USA , 2009 , 94 min. Why stop at a wedding video, Michael and Jackie figure, when you can document the entire year-long process of getting married, from the proposal through the ceremony? But as family issues surface, they find themselves under siege and their relationship thrown into jeopardy.... more
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  Son of the Sunshine

  Canada , 2009 , 95 min. Sonny, an angry young man afflicted with Tourette’s Syndrome, finds that it’s precisely his debilitating disease that may prove the cure for his whole family’s afflictions. Actor Ryan Ward directs himself against a gritty Ontario backdrop.... more
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  Souvenir

  USA , 2009 , 4 min. With his father’s coffin in the next room, William is awakened by strange noises in the middle of the night – and realizes that the line between life and death may be much closer than he imagined.... more
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  St. Nick

  USA , 2009 , 86 min. A young brother and sister flee mysteriously through the fields of rural Texas, taking refuge wherever they can find it. Finally settling, as winter arrives, in an abandoned country home, they know they will have to move on eventually in this unsettling drama.... more
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  Steel Homes

  United Kingdom , 2008 , 10 min. Self-storage units are windows into our lives – full of memories, dreams, and, of course, stuff. This documentary quietly considers the inner world of these ubiquitous structures. ... more
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  That Evening Sun

  USA , 2009 , 109 min. Hollywood veteran Hal Holbrook shines in first-time director Scott Teems’ vivid Southern drama about one Abner Meecham, a flinty Tennessee farmer who returns, at age 80, to his beloved homestead only to fight a perilous war of wills with the drunken foe who happens to have rented it.... more
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  The Big 1-0

  Canada , 2008 , 17 min. Morris is a hapless petty thief who steals a flatscreen TV and paints it pink in order to please Erin, the daughter he rarely gets to see. Much to his surprise, he finds that the ten-year-old is much more attracted to black than to pink. Can he win back her love?... more
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  The Tree

  Mexico , 2009 , 70 min. Santiago, a Madrileño bartender, is trying to come to terms with the deteriorating circumstances of his life. Thrown out by his wife, barred from seeing his children, and fired from his job, he walks the streets searching for salvation – which he might just find on a bridge in the middle of the city... more
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  The Vicious Kind

  USA , 2009 , 92 min. MUST END March 4 Director Lee Toland Krieger IN-PERSON Feb 26 35mm presentation - Embittered Caleb (Adam Scott) has a cruel streak and a vulgar, take-no-prisoners sense of humor. Trying to recover from a difficult breakup, he finds solace only in pure, unfettered misogyny. A construc... more
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  West of Pluto

  Canada , 2008 , 95 min. MUST END April 8 Digital presentation - Teenage angst is the same the world around, at least as evidenced by the way French-Canadian codirectors Myriam Verreault and Henry Bernadet get inside the troubled heads of ten adolescents in a suburban Quebec high school. Employing a mock-docu... more
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  Who's Afraid of the Wolf?

  Czech Republic , 2008 , 90 min. Terezka (Dorotka Dedková) needs help, but her mother is acting strangely, her father just doesn’t have the time, and her friend is a bit of a know-it-all. This visually stunning work from the Czech Republic combines elements of family drama and fairy tale, psychological thriller and classic mystery.... more
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  Why Sabreen?

  Palestine , 2009 , 20 min. Ayman and Sabreen, a teenaged Arab couple in Jersualem, struggle to stay together despite the seemingly endless challenges presented by family, society, and even the military.... more