After 46 years in exile, former major league baseball star Luis Tiant returns to Cuba, where he encounters unexpected demons and receives unexpected gifts from his family.
Director : Jonathan Hock
Three Russian prisons unlock their doors to an international film crew and reveal what life inside is like for the nation’s most brutal criminals.
Director : Anna Rodzinski
Director : Paolo Virzì
Cast : David Riondino|Nada Malanima|Paolo Migone|Paolo Ruffini|Paolo Virzì|Roberto Rondelli|Stefano Bollani
Genre : Documentary
Release Date : 2009-05-16
The Marina Experiment’ is the result of over 10,000 photographs, super 8 home footage and reel to reel audiotape interrogations that director Marina Lutz’s father made of her during her upper class upbringing in 1960s and 1970s Manhattan. A both eerie and infinitely fascinating archive that she herself has now sorted out and reassembled. Her father’s transgressive voyeurism is turned against himself, while a courageous self portrait simultaneously grows out of the almost incestuously intimate ‘home movies’. The result is a family exposé that can’t be shaken off that easily, and which in an intelligent and absolutely unique way raises the question about the right to not be seen – a question that has become even more relevant in the present day.
Director : Marina LutzAn involving, beautifully modulated yarn about a young intellectual’s “war” with two equines in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution. A young student, Ma Jie, who is sent to a tiny Beigao village in Shanxi Province and has the mundane task of watching over livestock during the Great Cultural Revolution. Surrounded only by the extreme boredom, he initiates a war against two donkeys. What ensues as a result, is an impressive feature debut by director Li Dawei who manages to infuse a believable quirky and black humorous universe within a realistically grim setting.
Director : Dawei LiShort movie
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Thirteen German directors present short films exploring the state of their country.
Director : Angela Schanelec|Christoph Hochhäusler|Dani Levy|Dominik Graf|Fatih Akin|Hans Steinbichler|Hans Weingartner|Isabelle Stever|Jan Ole Gerster|Martin Gressmann|Nicolette Krebitz|Romuald Karmakar|Sylke Enders|Tom Tykwer|Wolfgang Becker
Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.
Director : Irena Pavlásková
David Leddick is an actor, novelist and playwright who wrote a one-man musical stage show about his 20 year friendship with Quentin Crisp, titled ‘Quentin & I,’ which he has performed in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities. ‘Becoming Quentin’ is the documentary that followed Leddick during the process he went through creating the show.
Director : Andrew Delaplaine
“A woman is born to give her body to men; her father or strangers should make no difference.” Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the victim, Becky. Under intense interrogation, Becky refused to admit that she knew all along that her boyfriend was raping her little daughter at home. The harsh interrogation drives Becky into killing herself. What is the truth that the raging Commissioner is trying to find out? What is the seemingly defenseless mother hiding? Or is she acually telling the truth? Is the phrase, “A woman is born to give her body to men.” the whole truth?
Director : Dennis Law
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