2011 Sundance Film Festival in the competition line-up announced
Some of the competitors this year include Vera Farmiga directorial debut of Higher Ground, Paddy Considine feature directorial debut of tyrannosaurus, Matthew Chapman thriller from the ledge, hitting Michael Rapaport of documentaries, children and Life (which is on hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest), and a documentary about adorable residents of Sesame Street Elmo (or rather, his puppeteer).Movies playing in competition at Sundance this year have been announced.
This will be my first year attending the festival and I’m super excited to go. However, playback of movies in competition at Sundance are just a fraction of the total number of films that played at the festival. Hit the jump for a complete list of films in competition. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs from January 20 – 30.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Beverages Flint.Other Earth (Director: Mike Cahill, Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate of the Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love story.
Born Benavides (Director: Amy Wendel, Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A school in a forgotten town has gained admission to the University of Texas at Austin, but can not afford to go. His only shot is a scholarship for winning the State Powerlifting Championship. Cast: Corina Calderon, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Joseph Julian Soria, Julia Vera, Julio Cesar Cedillo.
Circumstance / USA, Iran (Director and Screenwriter: Maryam Keshavarz) – A wealthy Iranian family struggling to contain a growing rebellion teenage and dangerous sexual obsession with his brother. Starring: Boosheri Nikohl, Kazemy Sarah, Sixo Reza Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho.
Cast: Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Santana Harmony, Vanessa Aspillaga.Gun Hill Road (Director and Screenwriter: Rashaad Ernesto Green) – After three years in prison, Henry is back in his beloved Bronx, back in the arms of an ex-wife and again in the life of his teenage son which is teetering towards a transformation that will put the beleaguered family ties to the test.
Starring: Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal with Narek Nersisyan, Kostanyan Sofiko Yuri Sarkisyan.Here (Director: Braden King, Written by: Braden King and Dani Valent) – With the task of creating a new survey, more accurate satellite Armenia, an American cartographer is a powerful link to an Armenian expatriate art photographer.
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, John Hawkes, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz.Higher Ground (Director: Vera Farmiga, Screenwriters: Carolyn S. Briggs and Tim Metcalfe) – A frustrated young mother becomes a fundamentalist community in search of answers, but after years of dogma and loss, you must find the courage to ask questions that help her reclaim her life.
Cast: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser with Rita Wilson and Blair Underwood.Task (Director and Screenwriter: Gavin Wiesen) – Fancy George rebels have no other ambitions to cut your next class. But one day, a girl gives a perfect reason to find out who he really is.
The Ledge (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Chapman) – Located on a shelf, a man says he must go at noon, while police race against time to get to the bottom of it. Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson and Terrence Howard to Christopher Gorham.
Starring: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston.Their love is tested when it is necessary to leave the country and facing the challenges of a long distance relationship. Crazy (Director: Drake Doremus; Screenwriters: Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones) – A young American woman and a young British girl meet in college and love.
Little Birds (Director and Screenwriter: James Elgin) – Amid the bleak picture of the Salton Sea, two girls aged 15 to test the limits of their friendship when one follows the other in Los Angeles, only to discover that boredom of your home may be better to learn to survive in the big city. Starring: Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann, Kate Bosworth, Kyle Gallner.
Starring: Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth, Jeffrey DeMunn, Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Haden Church.The Loved One (Director and Screenwriter: Sam Levinson) – A pair of brothers are drawn reckless to a family wedding chaotic overwrought mother.
Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson.Martha Marcy Marlene May (Director and Screenwriter: Sean Durkin) – Haunted by painful memories and growing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to assimilate back to her family after fleeing an abusive cult.
Starring: Patkotak Josiah Qutuq Frank Irelan, Kyle Smith Teddy, Kerr Adamina, Sierra Jade Sampson.On ice (Director and Screenwriter: Andrew MacLean Okpeaha) – In the Arctic tundra snow cover, two teenagers trying to get away with it.
Paria (Director and Screenwriter: Dee Rees) – When forced to choose between losing his best friend or the destruction of his family, a Bronx teen juggles conflicting identities and distress lives on in a desperate search for the term sexual. Starring: Oduye Adepero, Pernell Walker, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Davis AASHA.
Taking Refuge (Director and Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols) – The husband of the working class father and questions whether their terrifying dreams of a real signal something apocalyptic storm coming or the emergence of a hereditary mental illness is feared all his life. Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker.
When the vice-director feared sees something of himself in the Terri, establishing a friendship that Terri opens the possibility that life is not something to be endured, but something to be shared and enjoyed yet. Starring: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, Creed Bratton, Crocicchia Olivia, Bridger Zadina.Terri (Director: Azazel Jacobs; Screenwriters: Patrick Dewitt and Azazel Jacobs) – orphaned by a guy who is slipping away mercilessly teased by their peers and roundly ignored by his teachers, Terri is alienated and alone.
U.S. Documentary Competition
Rhythms, Rhymes and Life (Director: Michael Rapaport) – The story of the rise and influence of gangs hop’s most innovative and influential hip of all time, the group known as A Tribe Called Quest.
Being Elmo: The Journey of a puppet master (Director: Constance Marks) – The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters in children worldwide. Meet the man behind the puppet unlikely – the heart and soul of Elmo – Kevin Clash.
Buck (Director: Cindy Meehl) – In a story about the power of nonviolence, master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses the principles of respect and confidence to train horses and inspire their human counterparts.
For centuries we have been the declaration of independence. With knowledge, curiosity and humor, the film explores whether it is time to declare our interdependence.Connected: An Autoblogography on Love, Death and Technology (Director: Tiffany Shlain, Screenwriters: Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg, Carlton Evans and Steele Sawyer) – Attached is an exhilarating ride stream of consciousness through the interconnection humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st century.
After transnational crime (Director: Yoav Potash) – Debbie Peagler is a survivor of brutal domestic violence in prison for his connection with the murder of her abuser. Two decades later, a pair of rookies land use lawyers cut their teeth on his event, which attracts world attention to the intersection with issues of domestic violence and criminal justice.
Hot Coffee (Director: Susan Saladoff) – Following the subjects whose lives have been devastated by lack of access to the courts, this film shows that many old beliefs about our civil justice system have been paid by U.S. companies.
How to die in Oregon (Director: Peter D. Richardson) – In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to die in Oregon gently enters the life of the terminally ill in Oregon to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
” Daniel McGowan, a member of the FEB, faces life in prison for two multimillion-dollar arson against the logging companies in Oregon. If a Tree Falls: A History of the Liberation Front of the Earth (Director: Marshall Curry) – The Front for the Liberation of the Earth is a radical environmental group the FBI calls the U.S. ‘number one domestic terrorist threat. But who is really to blame?
The last Mountain (Director: Bill Haney, Screenwriters: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes) – A coal mining company and a small community compete for the ultimate big mountain in Appalachia, in a battle for the future of energy that affects us everyone.
Miss Representation (Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Screenwriters: Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Jessica Congdon) – Miss Representation discover how American mainstream media representations limited and contemptuous of women contribute to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power – creating a new generation of women defined by youth, beauty and sexuality, and not their ability as leaders.
Page one: A year inside the New York Times (Director: Andrew Rossi; Screenwriters: Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi) – unprecedented access to the drafting of the New York Times gives a complex view of the transformation of a landscape full of media both danger and opportunity.
Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Anastasion Daniele) – A brutal warlord who killed thousands during Liberia’s horrific civil war 14 years renounces his violent past and reinvented himself as an evangelist, compared those who once terrorized.
UU. and South America.Raising the dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee tiles (Director: Jon Foy) – A mystery unfolds as a man city to form parts surreal sense of cryptic messages hundreds of tiles that have appeared on the streets of the city in the U.S. .
Sing your song (A film by Susanne Rostock) – Most people know the legacy of Harry Belafonte, the artist, the film discovers its important contributions and leadership in the civil rights movement in America and social justice worldwide.
Troubadours (Director: Morgan Neville) – A musical journey tracking the life and career of James Taylor and Carole King, pillars of the singer of California or the scene composer, who converged in and around Troubadour LA’s Club in 1960 and early 1970.
We were here (Director: David Weissman) – A deep and thoughtful look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the early years of this unimaginable crisis.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Abraxas / Japan (Director: Dai Sako; Screenwriters: Sako Dai and Naoki Kato) – After spoiling a speech on career guidance in a local high school, a Zen monk depressed with a history of heavy metal realizes that music can only revive his spirit. International PremiereStarring: Suneohair, Tomosaka Rie, Honjou Manami, Ryouta Murai, Kaoru Kobayashi.
When will the authorities, who quickly realizes that the dead are a problem that nobody wants to face. All Your Dead Ones (Todos Tus Muertos) / Colombia (Director Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres and Carlos Moreno) – One morning, a farmer awakes to find a pile of corpses in the middle of their crops. World PremiereStarring: Alvaro Rodríguez, Jorge Herrera, Martha Marquez, devastate Harold, John Alex Castillo.
Cast: Gabino Rodríguez, Juan Pablo de Santiago, Angel Sosa, Paulina Avalos. Everyone hopes that the theft was precipitated last obstacles of life, only to realize that the adventure of the risks all they have: their friendship. The film Hold Up (Assault on Film) / Mexico (Director: Iria Gomez Concheiro; Screenwriters: Iria Gomez and Juan Pablo Gomez Concheiro) – Four childhood friends in the sport of Mexico, Colonia Guerrero, with the idea to rob a film. World Premiere
Cast: Marina Vlady, Samir Guesmi, Amor Hakkar. A few days of respite (Quelque Jours de RÉPIT) / Algeria, France (Director and Screenwriter: Amor Hakkar) – A pair of gay men who have escaped from Iran seeking refuge in a small French village, where a lonely middle-aged woman of offers of assistance. World Premiere
However, a surreal chain of events drives him to action. Guard / Ireland (Director and Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh) – A policeman from a small town in Ireland has a personality of confrontation, a subversive sense of humor, a taste for prostitutes and absolutely no interest in the international smuggling network drugs has brought a straight FBI agent attached to your door. Starring: Don Cheadle Gleeson, Brendan, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Fionnula Flanagan. World Premiere
World PremiereStarring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen Saerens Maibritt, Joachim Rafaelsen. Feliz, Feliz (Sykt Lykkelig) / Norway (Director: Anne Sewitsky; Screenwriter: Ragnhild Tronvoll) – A perfect housewife who just happens to be sex hunger, struggles to keep his emotions under control when a family moves attractive house next door.
World PremiereKinyarwanda / Rwanda, USA (Director and Screenwriter: Alrick Brown) – Based on accounts of survivors, Kinyarwanda tells the story of the Rwandans who crossed the lines of hatred during the 1994 genocide, turning mosques into places of refuge for Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis. Starring: Edouard Bamporiki, Cassandra Freeman, Kabasiita Cleophas, Hadidja Zaninka, Mazimpaka Kennedy, Kabera Hassan.
Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre, Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli) – A 13-year-old private on the outskirts of a city of Sicily becomes a local celebrity your community need when word spreads that she might be able to perform miracles. International PremiereStarring: Donatella Finocchiaro, Pino Micol, Giuseppe Fiorello, Carla Palacio Marqués, Martina Galletta, Tony.
Starring: Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait, John Watson, Ngaire Pigram, Yeed Lucas. Mad bastards / Australia (Director: Brendan Fletcher, Screenwriters: Brendan Fletcher, in collaboration with Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait and John Watson) – In a border town in northern Australia Kimberley Region, the urban warrior street meets his match in a local police. Actions and stories of real people in Kimberley are woven through the music of legendary musicians Broome, The Pigram Brothers. International Premiere
World PremiereRestoration (Boker Tov Fidelman Adon) and Israel (Director: Yossi Madmoni; Screenwriter: Erez Kav-El) – With the help of a mysterious young apprentice, a restorer of antique furniture strives to keep alive his studio, while its relationship with his own child away, which is trying to close the store, he begins to disintegrate. Starring: Sasson Gabay, David Henry, Nevo Kimchi, Sarah Adler.
The salesman (Le Vendeur) and Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Sébastien Pilote) – Marcel Lévesque car salesman operates by the rules of a bygone era, turning on the charm to make their quota. But the dwindling of the fading industrial town threatens to collapse the seller of dreams in a hostile reality. Cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Nathalie Cavezzali. World Premiere
Starring: Miriel Cejas, Hector Medina, Dunia Matos, Jorge Perugorria, Luis A. García. Ticket to Paradise (Ticket to Paradise), Cuba (Director: Gerardo Valdés Chijona; Screenwriters: Chijona Gerardo Valdés, Francisco González García and Maykel Rodriguez Ponjuan) – A teenager fleeing the sexual harassment of his father meets a young rocker who has escaped Havana with his lovely group of friends. World PremiereSet in 1993 during a period of acute shortages in Cuba, the local AIDS hospice begins to look like an unlikely refuge for teens hopeless.
World PremiereCast: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman. Tyrannosaurus / UK (Director and Screenwriter: Paddy Considine) – For Joseph, a man affected by self-destructive violence and anger, a chance for redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity worker with a devastating secret store of own.
World PremiereSecretly, he is forced to search through online chat rooms and message boards, looking for the perfect girl to be responsible for their own survival. Vampire / Japan, Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai) – On the surface, Simon looks like a fairly normal, average young man, dedicated to his work as a teacher and sick mother. Starring: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle Hughes, Rachel Leigh Cook, Kristin Kreuk, Yu Aoi and Adelaide Clemens.
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Choosing an African / Ghana, Switzerland, USA (Director: Jarreth Merz) – The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, provide a backdrop for this documentary that looks behind the scenes in the complex machinery of a third world political democracy struggling to avoid civil war and establish stability for good. North American Premiere
World PremiereThe detective Bengali / India, USA, United Kingdom (Director: Phil Cox) – Chubby, private detective obsessed dance Rajesh Bharti and motley band of helpers to deal with the poisonings, the adultery and the occasional murder the frantic streets of Kolkata.
World PremiereThe Mixtape Blackpower 1967-1975 / Sweden, USA (Director: Göran Olsson) – From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicle of the Black Power movement in America. The combination of 16-mm film, undiscovered until now, with modern audio interviews, this film enlightens people and culture that prompted the change and the movement has created a new life.
World PremiereTheir stories expose the harsh realities of growing up as a biracial child in Eastern Europe. Family Portrait in Black and White / Canada, Ukraine (Director: Julia Ivanova) – In a small city in Ukraine, Olga Nenya, raised 16 orphaned black in the middle of a population of Slavic blonde with blue eyes.
An imaginative blend file, animation and personal stories offers a devastating indictment of unbridled capitalism that has led to crippling inequality, catastrophic income in the land of freedom. North American PremiereFailure / UK (Director: David Sington) – In a few months in 2008, several non-US financial institutions, and before I knew the U.S. was in the red.
North American PremiereThe Green Wave (Iran grüner Sommer), Germany (Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi) – blogs and tweets cartoons tell the story of democracy under fire and shattered hopes when protesters were arrested, tortured and raped during the tumultuous election of Iran June 2009.
World PremiereHell and back again / USA, United Kingdom (Director: Dennis Danfung) – Told through the eyes of a Marine from the beginning of his 2009 tour he returned Aghanistan distressing and rehabilitation in the U.S.. UU., we see the modern “unconventional” war really means men who are struggling.
World PremiereKnuckles / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Ian Palmer) – An epic journey of 12 years in the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveller fight without gloves, this film follows a history of violent disputes between rival clans.
International PremierePosition among the stars (Stand Van De Sterren) / Netherlands (Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich) – The effects of globalization in Indonesia ripple rapidly changing society in the life of a poor Christian woman in the slums of Jakarta Muslim children and young granddaughter.
World PremiereProject Nim / UK (Director: James Marsh) – From the Oscar winning team behind Man on Wire is the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who learned to communicate with language as he was raised and fed as a human child.
Senna / UK (Director: Asif Kapadia; Writer: Manish Pandey) – The story of the legendary racing driver Ayrton Senna and Brazilian hero takes us into the final journey of what it means to become the largest when faced with the possibility constant death. North American Premiere
World PremiereShut Up Little Man! A setback of audio / Australia, USA (Director: Matthew Bate) – When two friends recorded fights violent noisy neighbors who accidentally creates one of the world’s first “viral” pop culture sensations.
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Beverages Flint.Other Earth (Director: Mike Cahill, Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate of the Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love story.
His only shot is a scholarship for winning the State Powerlifting Championship. Born Benavides (Director: Amy Wendel, Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A school in a forgotten town has gained admission to the University of Texas at Austin, but can not afford to go. Cast: Corina Calderon, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Joseph Julian Soria, Julia Vera, Julio Cesar Cedillo.
Starring: Boosheri Nikohl, Kazemy Sarah, Sixo Reza Safai, Soheil Parsa, Nasrin Pakkho.Circumstance / USA, Iran (Director and Screenwriter: Maryam Keshavarz) – A wealthy Iranian family struggling to contain a growing rebellion teenage and dangerous sexual obsession with his brother.
Gun Hill Road (Director and Screenwriter: Rashaad Ernesto Green) – After three years in prison, Henry is back in his beloved Bronx, back in the arms of an ex-wife and again in the life of his teenage son which is teetering towards a transformation that will put the beleaguered family ties to the test. Cast: Esai Morales, Judy Reyes, Santana Harmony, Vanessa Aspillaga.
Starring: Ben Foster and Lubna Azabal with Narek Nersisyan, Kostanyan Sofiko Yuri Sarkisyan.HERE (Director: Braden King, Written by: Braden King and Dani Valent) – With the task of creating a new survey, more accurate satellite Armenia, an American cartographer is a powerful link to an Armenian expatriate art photographer.
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Joshua Leonard, John Hawkes, Dagmara Dominczyk, Norbert Leo Butz.Higher Ground (Director: Vera Farmiga, Screenwriters: Carolyn S. Briggs and Tim Metcalfe) – A frustrated young mother becomes a fundamentalist community in search of answers, but after years of dogma and loss, you must find the courage to ask questions that help her reclaim her life.
Task (Director and Screenwriter: Gavin Wiesen) – Fancy George rebels have no other ambitions to cut your next class. Cast: Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser with Rita Wilson and Blair Underwood.But one day, a girl gives a perfect reason to find out who he really is.
Cast: Charlie Hunnam, Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson and Terrence Howard to Christopher Gorham.The Ledge (Director and Screenwriter: Matthew Chapman) – Located on a shelf, a man says he must go at noon, while police race against time to get to the bottom of it.
Their love is tested when it is necessary to leave the country and facing the challenges of a long distance relationship. Crazy (Director: Drake Doremus; Screenwriters: Drake Doremus and Ben York Jones) – A young American woman and a young British girl meet in college and love. Starring: Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlie Bewley, Alex Kingston.
Starring: Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Leslie Mann, Kate Bosworth, Kyle Gallner.Little Birds (Director and Screenwriter: James Elgin) – Amid the bleak picture of the Salton Sea, two girls aged 15 to test the limits of their friendship when one follows the other in Los Angeles, only to discover that boredom of your home may be better to learn to survive in the big city.
Starring: Demi Moore, Kate Bosworth, Jeffrey DeMunn, Ellen Barkin, Ellen Burstyn, Thomas Haden Church.The Loved One (Director and Screenwriter: Sam Levinson) – A pair of brothers are drawn reckless to a family wedding chaotic overwrought mother.
Martha Marcy Marlene May (Director and Screenwriter: Sean Durkin) – Haunted by painful memories and growing paranoia, a damaged woman struggles to assimilate back to her family after fleeing an abusive cult. Starring: Elizabeth Olsen, Brady Corbet, Hugh Dancy, John Hawkes, Sarah Paulson.
Starring: Patkotak Josiah Qutuq Frank Irelan, Kyle Smith Teddy, Kerr Adamina, Sierra Jade Sampson.On ice (Director and Screenwriter: Andrew MacLean Okpeaha) – In the Arctic tundra snow cover, two teenagers trying to get away with it.
Paria (Director and Screenwriter: Dee Rees) – When forced to choose between losing his best friend or the destruction of his family, a Bronx teen juggles conflicting identities and distress lives on in a desperate search for the term sexual. Starring: Oduye Adepero, Pernell Walker, Kim Wayans, Charles Parnell, Davis AASHA.
Starring: Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon, Kathy Baker.Taking Refuge (Director and Screenwriter: Jeff Nichols) – The husband of the working class father and questions whether their terrifying dreams of a real signal something apocalyptic storm coming or the emergence of a hereditary mental illness is feared all his life.
Starring: Jacob Wysocki, John C. Reilly, Creed Bratton, Crocicchia Olivia, Bridger Zadina.When the vice-director feared sees something of himself in the Terri, establishing a friendship that Terri opens the possibility that life is not something to be endured, but something to be shared and enjoyed yet. Terri (Director: Azazel Jacobs; Screenwriters: Patrick Dewitt and Azazel Jacobs) – orphaned by a guy who is slipping away mercilessly teased by their peers and roundly ignored by his teachers, Terri is alienated and alone.
U.S. Documentary Competition
Rhythms, Rhymes and Life (Director: Michael Rapaport) – The story of the rise and influence of gangs hop’s most innovative and influential hip of all time, the group known as A Tribe Called Quest.
BE ELMO: Journey of a puppeteer (Director: Constance Marks) – The Muppet Elmo is one of the most beloved characters in children worldwide. Meet the man behind the puppet unlikely – the heart and soul of Elmo – Kevin Clash.
Buck (Director: Cindy Meehl) – In a story about the power of nonviolence, master horse trainer Buck Brannaman uses the principles of respect and confidence to train horses and inspire their human counterparts.
With knowledge, curiosity and humor, the film explores whether it is time to declare our interdependence.For centuries we have been the declaration of independence. Connected: An Autoblogography on Love, Death and Technology (Director: Tiffany Shlain, Screenwriters: Tiffany Shlain, Ken Goldberg, Carlton Evans and Steele Sawyer) – Attached is an exhilarating ride stream of consciousness through the interconnection humankind, nature, progress and morality at the dawn of the 21st century.
After transnational crime (Director: Yoav Potash) – Debbie Peagler is a survivor of brutal domestic violence in prison for his connection with the murder of her abuser. Two decades later, a pair of rookies land use lawyers cut their teeth on his event, which attracts world attention to the intersection with issues of domestic violence and criminal justice.
Hot Coffee (Director: Susan Saladoff) – Following the subjects whose lives have been devastated by lack of access to the courts, this film shows that many old beliefs about our civil justice system have been paid by U.S. companies.
How to die in Oregon (Director: Peter D. Richardson) – In 1994 Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. How to die in Oregon gently enters the life of the terminally ill in Oregon to illuminate the power of death with dignity.
” Daniel McGowan, a member of the FEB, faces life in prison for two multimillion-dollar arson against the logging companies in Oregon. If a Tree Falls: A History of the Liberation Front of the Earth (Director: Marshall Curry) – The Front for the Liberation of the Earth is a radical environmental group the FBI calls the U.S. ‘number one domestic terrorist threat. But who is really to blame?
The last Mountain (Director: Bill Haney, Screenwriters: Bill Haney and Peter Rhodes) – A coal mining company and a small community compete for the ultimate big mountain in Appalachia, in a battle for the future of energy that affects us everyone.
Miss Representation (Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Screenwriters: Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Jessica Congdon) – Miss Representation discover how American mainstream media representations limited and contemptuous of women contribute to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power – creating a new generation of women defined by youth, beauty and sexuality, and not their ability as leaders.
Page one: A year inside the New York Times (Director: Andrew Rossi; Screenwriters: Kate Novack and Andrew Rossi) – unprecedented access to the drafting of the New York Times gives a complex view of the transformation of a landscape full of media both danger and opportunity.
Redemption of General Butt Naked (Directors: Eric Strauss and Anastasion Daniele) – A brutal warlord who killed thousands during Liberia’s horrific civil war 14 years renounces his violent past and reinvented himself as an evangelist, compared those who once terrorized.
Raising the dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee tiles (Director: Jon Foy) – A mystery unfolds as a man city to form parts surreal sense of cryptic messages hundreds of tiles that have appeared on the streets of the city in the U.S. . UU. and South America.
Sing your song (A film by Susanne Rostock) – Most people know the legacy of Harry Belafonte, the artist, the film discovers its important contributions and leadership in the civil rights movement in America and social justice worldwide.
Troubadours (Director: Morgan Neville) – A musical journey tracking the life and career of James Taylor and Carole King, pillars of the singer of California or the scene composer, who converged in and around Troubadour LA’s Club in 1960 and early 1970.
We were here (Director: David Weissman) – A deep and thoughtful look at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco and how individuals rose to the occasion during the early years of this unimaginable crisis.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
International PremiereAbraxas / Japan (Director: Dai Sako; Screenwriters: Sako Dai and Naoki Kato) – After spoiling a speech on career guidance in a local high school, a Zen monk depressed with a history of heavy metal realizes that music can only revive his spirit. Starring: Suneohair, Tomosaka Rie, Honjou Manami, Ryouta Murai, Kaoru Kobayashi.
When will the authorities, who quickly realizes that the dead are a problem that nobody wants to face. World PremiereStarring: Alvaro Rodríguez, Jorge Herrera, Martha Marquez, devastate Harold, John Alex Castillo. All Your Dead Ones (Todos Tus Muertos) / Colombia (Director Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres and Carlos Moreno) – One morning, a farmer awakes to find a pile of corpses in the middle of their crops.
Everyone hopes that the theft was precipitated last obstacles of life, only to realize that the adventure of the risks all they have: their friendship. World PremiereThe film Hold Up (Assault on Film) / Mexico (Director: Iria Gomez Concheiro; Screenwriters: Iria Gomez and Juan Pablo Gomez Concheiro) – Four childhood friends in the sport of Mexico, Colonia Guerrero, with the idea to rob a film. Cast: Gabino Rodríguez, Juan Pablo de Santiago, Angel Sosa, Paulina Avalos.
A few days of respite (Quelque Jours de RÉPIT) / Algeria, France (Director and Screenwriter: Amor Hakkar) – A pair of gay men who have escaped from Iran seeking refuge in a small French village, where a lonely middle-aged woman of offers of assistance. World PremiereCast: Marina Vlady, Samir Guesmi, Amor Hakkar.
However, a surreal chain of events drives him to action. Starring: Don Cheadle Gleeson, Brendan, Mark Strong, Liam Cunningham, David Wilmot, Fionnula Flanagan. Guard / Ireland (Director and Screenwriter: John Michael McDonagh) – A policeman from a small town in Ireland has a personality of confrontation, a subversive sense of humor, a taste for prostitutes and absolutely no interest in the international smuggling network drugs has brought a straight FBI agent attached to your door. World Premiere
Feliz, Feliz (Sykt Lykkelig) / Norway (Director: Anne Sewitsky; Screenwriter: Ragnhild Tronvoll) – A perfect housewife who just happens to be sex hunger, struggles to keep his emotions under control when a family moves attractive house next door. World PremiereStarring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen Saerens Maibritt, Joachim Rafaelsen.
Premierel WorldStarring: Edouard Bamporiki, Cassandra Freeman, Kabasiita Cleophas, Hadidja Zaninka, Mazimpaka Kennedy, Kabera Hassan. Kinyarwanda / Rwanda, USA (Director and Screenwriter: Alrick Brown) – Based on accounts of survivors, Kinyarwanda tells the story of the Rwandans who crossed the lines of hatred during the 1994 genocide, turning mosques into places of refuge for Muslims and Christians, Hutus and Tutsis.
Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) / Italy (Director: Roberta Torre, Screenwriters: Roberta Torre and Laura Nuccilli) – A 13-year-old private on the outskirts of a city of Sicily becomes a local celebrity your community need when word spreads that she might be able to perform miracles. Starring: Donatella Finocchiaro, Pino Micol, Giuseppe Fiorello, Carla Palacio Marqués, Martina Galletta, Tony. International Premiere
International PremiereMad bastards / Australia (Director: Brendan Fletcher, Screenwriters: Brendan Fletcher, in collaboration with Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait and John Watson) – In a border town in northern Australia Kimberley Region, the urban warrior street meets his match in a local police. Actions and stories of real people in Kimberley are woven through the music of legendary musicians Broome, The Pigram Brothers. Starring: Dean Daley-Jones, Greg Tait, John Watson, Ngaire Pigram, Yeed Lucas.
Restoration (Boker Tov Fidelman Adon) and Israel (Director: Yossi Madmoni; Screenwriter: Erez Kav-El) – With the help of a mysterious young apprentice, a restorer of antique furniture strives to keep alive his studio, while its relationship with his own child away, which is trying to close the store, he begins to disintegrate. World PremiereStarring: Sasson Gabay, David Henry, Nevo Kimchi, Sarah Adler.
The salesman (Le Vendeur) and Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Sébastien Pilote) – Marcel Lévesque car salesman operates by the rules of a bygone era, turning on the charm to make their quota. But the dwindling of the fading industrial town threatens to collapse the seller of dreams in a hostile reality. Cast: Gilbert Sicotte, Nathalie Cavezzali. World Premiere
Set in 1993 during a period of acute shortages in Cuba, the local AIDS hospice begins to look like an unlikely refuge for teens hopeless. Ticket to Paradise (Ticket to Paradise), Cuba (Director: Gerardo Valdés Chijona; Screenwriters: Chijona Gerardo Valdés, Francisco González García and Maykel Rodriguez Ponjuan) – A teenager fleeing the sexual harassment of his father meets a young rocker who has escaped Havana with his lovely group of friends. World PremiereStarring: Miriel Cejas, Hector Medina, Dunia Matos, Jorge Perugorria, Luis A. García.
Tyrannosaurus / UK (Director and Screenwriter: Paddy Considine) – For Joseph, a man affected by self-destructive violence and anger, a chance for redemption appears in the form of Hannah, a Christian charity worker with a devastating secret store of own. Cast: Peter Mullan, Eddie Marsan, Olivia Colman. World Premiere
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Keisha Castle Hughes, Rachel Leigh Cook, Kristin Kreuk, Yu Aoi and Adelaide Clemens. Vampire / Japan, Canada (Director and Screenwriter: Shunji Iwai) – On the surface, Simon looks like a fairly normal, average young man, dedicated to his work as a teacher and sick mother. Secretly, he is forced to search through online chat rooms and message boards, looking for the perfect girl to be responsible for their own survival. World Premiere
World Cinema Documentary Competition
Choosing an African / Ghana, Switzerland, USA (Director: Jarreth Merz) – The 2008 presidential elections in Ghana, West Africa, provide a backdrop for this documentary that looks behind the scenes in the complex machinery of a third world political democracy struggling to avoid civil war and establish stability for good. North American Premiere
The detective Bengali / India, USA, United Kingdom (Director: Phil Cox) – Chubby, private detective obsessed dance Rajesh Bharti and motley band of helpers to deal with the poisonings, the adultery and the occasional murder the frantic streets of Kolkata. World Premiere
The combination of 16-mm film, undiscovered until now, with modern audio interviews, this film enlightens people and culture that prompted the change and the movement has created a new life. World PremiereThe Mixtape Blackpower 1967-1975 / Sweden, USA (Director: Göran Olsson) – From 1967 to 1975, Swedish journalists chronicle of the Black Power movement in America.
Family Portrait in Black and White / Canada, Ukraine (Director: Julia Ivanova) – In a small city in Ukraine, Olga Nenya, raised 16 orphaned black in the middle of a population of Slavic blonde with blue eyes. World PremiereTheir stories expose the harsh realities of growing up as a biracial child in Eastern Europe.
North American PremiereFailure / UK (Director: David Sington) – In a few months in 2008, several non-US financial institutions, and before I knew the U.S. was in the red. An imaginative blend file, animation and personal stories offers a devastating indictment of unbridled capitalism that has led to crippling inequality, catastrophic income in the land of freedom.
North American PremiereThe Green Wave (Iran grüner Sommer), Germany (Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi) – blogs and tweets cartoons tell the story of democracy under fire and shattered hopes when protesters were arrested, tortured and raped during the tumultuous election of Iran June 2009.
World PremiereHell and back again / USA, United Kingdom (Director: Dennis Danfung) – Told through the eyes of a Marine from the beginning of his 2009 tour he returned Aghanistan distressing and rehabilitation in the U.S.. UU., we see the modern “unconventional” war really means men who are struggling.
World PremiereKNOTS / Ireland, United Kingdom (Director: Ian Palmer) – An epic journey of 12 years in the brutal and secretive world of Irish Traveller fight without gloves, this film follows a history of violent disputes between rival clans.
International PremierePosition among the stars (Stand Van De Sterren) / Netherlands (Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich) – The effects of globalization in Indonesia ripple rapidly changing society in the life of a poor Christian woman in the slums of Jakarta Muslim children and young granddaughter.
Project Nim / UK (Director: James Marsh) – From the Oscar winning team behind Man on Wire is the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who learned to communicate with language as he was raised and fed as a human child. World Premiere
Senna / UK (Director: Asif Kapadia; Writer: Manish Pandey) – The story of the legendary racing driver Ayrton Senna and Brazilian hero takes us into the final journey of what it means to become the largest when faced with the possibility constant death. North American Premiere
World PremierA setback of audio / Australia, USA (Director: Matthew Bate) – When two friends recorded fights violent noisy neighbors who accidentally creates one of the world’s first “viral” pop culture sensations. Shut Up Little Man!