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Cinema Is Everywhere – 2011

A documentary feature film that ties four narratives – from China, India, Scotland, and Tunisia – together with countless insights from venerable filmmakers and ordinary moviegoers. An aspiring actress in Mumbai battles to break into Bollywood; two friends in Scotland take a mobile film festival across the highlands; a young crew in Hong Kong embarks on the shooting of its first film; a Tunisian director anxiously anticipates the premiere of his controversial film at a major festival. These stories are woven together with scenes from video stores, projection booths, studios, cinemas, and slums into a vivid meditation on the power of cinema to shape our world.

Director : Teal Greyhavens
Cast : Mark Cousins|Stanley Kwan|Tilda Swinton
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 10/22/2011
Country : United States

The Wishmakers – 2011

Three young gay men arrive in Los Angeles to fulfill their dreams and aspirations, during a summer which will change their lives. In a world of You Tube celebrities, unemployment, downward mobility, and socializing through Facebook, they make a wish in a fountain to find love, fame, and transcendence. Will any of them do it?

Director : David Grotell
Cast :
Genre : Comedy|Romance
Release Date : 5/15/2011
Country : United States

Whores’ Glory – 2011

Tells several stories of sex work around the world. The documentary revolves around the lives and individual hopes, needs and experiences of the women.

Director : Michael Glawogger
Cast :
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 9/9/2011
Country : Germany

Valley of the Wolves: Palestine – 2011

After the Freedom Flotilla attempts to bring humanitarian assistance to Gaza refuses to turn back, it is attacked by the Israeli military. In a dramatic battle scene, activists resist and are killed by the Israeli soldiers. A Turkish commando team led by Polat Alemdar (Necati Şaşmaz) travels to West Bank in Palestine, where they launch a campaign against Israeli military personnel in an attempt to track down and eliminate an Israeli general, leader Moşe Ben Eliyezer (Erdal Beşikçioğlu), who is the responsible for the flotilla raid.

Director : Zübeyr Şaşmaz
Cast : Erdal Besikçioglu|Gurkan Uygun|Kenan Çoban|Muhammed Necati Şaşmaz|Nur Aysan
Genre : Action
Release Date : 1/27/2011
Country : Turkey

Die! Directors, Die! – 2011

Shimazaki, who is a teacher at a film school and film director, criticizes the works of a student at the preview of their graduation project. However, he is driven into a frenzy when the audience denounces his film, and massacres 42 people on the spot. 4 years later, Natsuka, who was a high school student at that time, decides to film the ultimate horror film at the exact same location.

19 Doors – 2011

When a producer suggests that screenwriter Grace Mitchel pen a horror story set in an old hotel, the lond-abandoned Lyndora seems theperfect inspiration. The turn-of-the-century hotel is known for its rough and seedy past – the doors to its rooms sealed 50 years ago following a series of gruesome murders – and local lore says it’s haunted. Despite the reservations of family and friends, an undaunted Grace takes up residence in the eerie inn to immerse herself in writing … But now that the doors are open, the secrets of the past begin to emerge. As disturbing, but seemingly explicable, events begin to escalate, Grace struggles to define reality from insanity and begins a descent into darkness from which some will never return.

Director : Bruce Koehler
Cast : Al Kandrack|Bill Laing|John W. Iwanonkiw|Natalie Bail|Norm Wash
Genre : Horror
Release Date : 8/22/2011
Country : United States

Vito – 2011

In the aftermath of Stonewall, a newly politicized Vito Russo found his voice as a gay activist and critic of LGBT representation in the media. He went on to write “The Celluloid Closet”, the first book to critique Hollywood’s portrayals of gays on screen. During the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Vito became a passionate advocate for justice via the newly formed ACT UP, before his death in 1990.

10 Plus 10 – 2011

10+10 is a project initiated by the Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival to demonstrate the solidarity between Taiwanese film-makers. 20 directors are invited to make a 5-minute short film each on the theme of the “Uniqueness of Taiwan,” but allowed total freedom in all other aspects.

Rocky Mountain Express – 2011

A history of the nation’s first transcontinental railway accompanies a steam-train ride through the Canadian Rockies.

Director : Stephen Low
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Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 9/30/2011
Country : Canada

Arthur – 2011

A drunken playboy stands to lose a wealthy inheritance when he falls for a woman, his family doesn’t like.