October 1-5, 2010
A YEAR AGO IN WINTER is a subtle, powerful drama about loss and reckoning. A Bavarian family struggles to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a favored son’s death but, emotionally numb to the impact it has had, they proceed by keeping up appearances.
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A YEAR AGO IN WINTER
José learns that Nora, the woman he was married to for 30 years before divorcing, has committed suicide, a few days before Passover. Forced to wait five days for the funeral, so that his son can arrive and the rabbi’s schedule can free up, José discovers....
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NORA’S WILL
THE OVER THE HILL BAND
Recently widowed 70-year-old Claire is at a loss about what to do with her life. More than 50 years ago, she sang in the rock ’n’ roll band Sisters of Love with her classmates Magda and Lutgard. She talks to her gal pals and suggests a musical reunion.
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PROTECTOR is a smart, stylish psycho-thriller about a Prague journalist and his part-Jewish wife whose lives are ravaged by the outbreak of WWII. Radio reporter Emil (Marek Daniel) is married to actress Hana (Jana Plodková), a famous film star who is initially oblivious to the Nazi threat.
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PROTEKTOR
QUICK GUN MURUGUN could very well signal the birth of a new hybrid film genre: The Time-Travelling Bollywood Comedy-Western. It draws from a wide range of cinematic sources, including the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, the stylized action sequences of the Matrix trilogy, and the comic sensi-bilities of Kung Fu Hustle.
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QUICK GUN MURUGAN
ROAD, MOVIE
Vishnu, a young man driven by wanderlust, escapes his father's faltering hair oil business. An old truck beckons, which Vishnu sees as his ticket to freedom. He offers to drive the antique Chevy across the desert to the sea, where it has been sold to a local museum.
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Oh, to be young, beautiful, Muslim—and punk rockers! Here’s one story of disaffected American youth we haven’t seen before. Yusef, a straitlaced Pakistani American college student, moves into a house with an unlikely group of Muslim misfits all of whom embrace Taqwacore, the hardcore Muslim punk-rock scene.
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THE TAQWACORES
Orphaned as a child, Gábor (Ervin Nagy) has established no real identity in his adult life. However, he has become a master of fooling women into believing the false identities he has created. His rules are simple, make them feel how they want to feel and he will take everything.
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CHAMELEON
THE CHEF OF SOUTH POLAR
An Antarctic research station is possibly the last place anyone would expect to encounter seriously fine dining, however, this is what’s on the menu in Shuichi Okita’s delicious adaptation of Jun Nishimura’s autobiographical novel.
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An adulterous affair between two office workers threatens to implode their boring, stationary lives in director Silvio Soldini’s latest insightful relationship film. Anna, a mild-mannered employee at an insurance firm, has a stable, uncomplicated marriage to Alessio, her boorish and clueless husband.
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COME UNDONE
When Audrey, a kitchen appliance designer living in Canada, discovers she is pregnant, she heads home to her native France. Upon arrival, she receives a chilly reception from her mother, Martine (Catherine Deneuve), prompting her to move into her grandparents’ old house.
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HIDDEN DIARY
KICK OFF
The setting is a half–destroyed Iraqi football stadium, where about 300 refugee families are living in a hastily assembled shanty town. The elder son of one of the families is Asu, an idealistic young man who arranges a football match between the Kurdish, Arab, Turk men and Assyrian boys of the camp...
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Nerio Winch has created an empire of wealth. In modern-day Hong Kong, that wealth has attracted the kind of greed that makes people do bad things. When Nerio Winch is slain, the world is stunned to discover that he has secured an heir in his adopted son Largo.
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LARGO WINCH
LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB is the warm-hearted and touching story of Leila, a life sentence prisoner who has just been pardoned. When she is released from prison, she is offered a job at a secluded parsonage, but she moves there against her will.
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LETTERS TO FATHER JACOB
MESRINE 1: KILLER INSTINCT
Part 1 begins during Mesrine’s military stint in Algeria, where the rush of power sends him home, looking for more of the same. Falling in with the local crime boss (Gérard Depardieu), Mesrine takes to the role of gangster like he was born to it.
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As Mesrine continues to evade and frustrate the law, he becomes increasingly burdened by his own bloated celebrity, and begins to question his thrilling but lonely existence.
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MESRINE 2: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1
Albania, 1914, freshly liberated from the Ottoman Empire. A German, Prince Wied, is installed as the King of Albania. He receives a letter from Muslim fanatics insisting that he undergo circumcision, as required by their religion. He refuses.
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TIME OF THE COMET
VENGEANCE
In a Hong Kong hospital, a French woman lies in critical condition after a gangland hit that killed her Chinese husband and two small children. Her father, Costello, (Johnny Hallyday) arrives from France and is immediately warned by police not to get involved, even as his daughter wordlessly pleads for his help.
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Alexander’s parents decide to emigrate and they leave Bulgaria. After a distressing passage though Yugoslavia and Italy, the family finally settles in Germany. When the political climate changes, they decide to visit their home country once more, but they are involved in a car accident and only Alex survives.
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THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER
ALAMAR
Jorge and Roberta have been separated for several years. They simply come from opposite worlds: he prefers an uncomplicated life in the jungle, while she likes a more urban existence. He is Mexican – she is Italian, and she has decided to return to Rome with their five-year-old son, Natan.
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The morning of July 18, 1994 begins like any other day, but things change suddenly when the nearby Argentine Israeli Mutual Association is bombed, sending Anita Feldman’s life into a tailspin. Her mother has gone to collect a check for government support of Anita, who suffers from Down syndrome.
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ANITA
BACKYARD, by Carlos Carrera, is a fictional account of the atrocities that continue to occur in Ciudad Juárez. We follow police officer Blanca Bravo (an astonishing performance by Ana de la Reguera) who is sent to Ciudad Juárez from Mexico City to investigate a series of murders of young women.
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BACKYARD
BRIDE FLIGHT
Eager to escape the damp and suffocating atmosphere of post-war Holland, three young Dutch women, Ada, Esther and Marjorie, look forward to a better life in New Zealand. They meet on the immigration flight – the “Bride Flight” – to their new country, where they are to join fiancés and marry.
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26–year–old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world. Seizing the moment at a crossroads in his life, Daniel decides to return to his homeland in Mali and start a local business building solar panels – the first of its kind in the sun-drenched nation.
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BURNING IN THE SUN
CONVICTION is the inspirational true story of a sister’s unwavering devotion to her brother. When Betty Anne Waters’ older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction.
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CONVICTION – CLOSING NIGHT FILM
FATHER & GUNS
FATHER AND GUNS is laugh-out-loud funny and the highest-grossing French-language film ever released in Canada. Jacques and Marc are father and son undercover cops in Montreal. They’re both wise-cracking hotshots, the best at what they do.
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Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life in more ways than one. In intensive care and charged with three murders, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce the very same corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life.
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THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST