• VIDEO | Watch Trailer for TOM’S RESTAURANT, Documentary About Famous Diner on Seinfeld

    Tom's Restaurant

    Tom’s Restaurant was the locale that inspired Suzanne Vega’s 1987 song “Tom’s Diner” but it is probably more known for its exterior which became famous worldwide thanks to the popular sitcom Seinfeld,  since Jerry Seinfeld’s and his friends regularly gathered to eat and chat at the diner. However, Tom’s Restaurant is a diner located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Frequented by artists, musicians, comedians, students and faculty of nearby Columbia University, it has been owned and operated by the Greek-American family of Minas Zoulis since the 1940s.

    The documentary highlights past and present owners, clientèle and pop culture references. When President Barack Obama was a student at Columbia, he frequently used to eat at Tom’s Restaurant, and Senator John McCain often ate at Tom’s when he visited his daughter Meghan when she was a student at Columbia. 

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  • DC Independent Film Festival Unveils Finalists Films for 2014 Festival Set For Feb 19 to 23

    Furever

    From over 1,000 submitted films, the DC Independent Film Festival announced the finalists films selected to screen in the upcoming festival set for February 19 to 23, 2014. The feature film finalist include 3 MILE LIMIT, BLOOD AND CIRCUMSTANCE, FINDING NEIGHBORS, GREENCARD WARRIORS, LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN, PAAT, SONS OF THE CITY, THE TOASTMASTER, and THEY WILL OUTLIVE US ALL. The documentary finalists include BROTHERS HYPNOTIC, FUREVER, OFIR, PARTNERS FOR PEACE, THE ROAD TO FAME, and THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC!.

    FEATURE FILM FINALISTS

    3 MILE LIMIT

    Directed by Craig Newland 
    (New Zealand  /2013 / 105mins / DC Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Matt Whelan and Belinda Crawley
    It’s 1965 and rock music is shaking up the world but not in New Zealand. Richard Davis is determined to break the Government’s monopoly on broadcasting and bring rock n’ roll to the younger generation, and at the same time hold onto the woman he loves. A pirate radio station is born (based on a true story).

    BLOOD AND CIRCUMSTANCE

    Directed by Tim Gordan
    (USA / 2014 / 97mins / World Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Nathan Keyes, Cynthia Watros, David Baker
    Inmate Joel Stabler is being examined by a psychiatrist charged with determining whether Joel is fit to stand trial.  The result is a psychological puzzle box, filled with questions in a world where there are no easy answers.

    FINDING NEIGHBORS

    Directed by  Ron Judkins
    (USA / 2013 / 96mins / East Coast Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Michael O’Keefe,  Blake Bashoff, Catherine Dent, Julie Mont
    Late on a book delivery, stay-at-home graphic novelist Sam Tucker battles a mid-life crisis.  A comedic drama about the relationships between next-door neighbors as they explore creativity, aging, sexuality and friendship.

    GREENCARD WARRIORS

    Directed by Miriam Kruishoop
    (USA / 2013 / 90 mins / East Coast Premiere)
    Lead Cast; Angel Amaral and Manny Perez
    The story of 14-year-old Angel, an undocumented Latino teen, and his family in Los Angeles struggling  to find their place in American society; set against the backdrop of American military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    LAWRENCE & HOLLOMAN

    Directed by Matthew Kowalchuk
    (Canada/ 2013 / 88mins / US Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Amy Matysio, Ben Cotton, Daniel Arnold
    Lawrence is an ever-optimistic suit salesman for whom everything always goes right —  until he takes the cynical and suicidal credit collector Holloman under his wing, and everything starts to go very wrong. Based on the hilarious play by two-time Governor General’s Award winning writer Morris Panych.

    PAAT  

    Directed by Amir Toodehroosta
    (Iran / 2013 / 77mins / US Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Mostafa Sasani, Saed Soheili, Sonia Sanjari, Negar Hasanzade, Jamshid Noori, Mandana Nosrati, Fahime Dabbaghi, Babak Hamidifard, Behzad Ashkan, Maryam Movaghar
    One dog, a big city, three women and a few days.  Many stories, but just the one dog.

    SONS OF THE CITY

    Directed by Marcus Richardson
    (USA / 2014 / 77mins / World Premiere)
    Lead Actor: Howard Brown
    After the murder of his best friend, DC native Joe Young’s  bright future is thrown into a war he does not want to fight yet cannot find the courage to leave.

    THE TOASTMASTER

    Directed by Eric Boadella
    (Spain and USA / 2013 / 81mins / East Coast Premiere)
    Lead Cast: David Hovan. Kali Flanagan and Sevag Mahserejian
    After a weekend of surreal adventures, Alek and Uncle Kapriel realize that, although they use very different tools—cinematography and actors versus poetry and cognac—their ultimate goal is the same: to immortalize a story.

    THEY WILL OUTLIVE US ALL

    Directed by Patrick Shearer
    (USA / 2013 / 77mins / DC Premiere)
    Lead Cast: Jessi Gotta, Nat Kennedy
    New York City. 2016. Roommates Margot and Daniel attempt to survive this ‘new’ New York by avoiding it at all costs.  But with the advent of three strange deaths in their Brooklyn building…

     

    DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

    BROTHERS HYPNOTIC

    Directed by Reuben Atlas
    Netherlands & USA / 2013 / 86mins
    The eight young men in the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble are all sons of anti-establishment Chicago jazz musician, Phil Cohran. They grew up in the same house, in a family of 24 siblings, on a strict diet of jazz, funk, and Black Consciousness. Now grown, they must decide whether their fathers’ principles really are their own.

    FUREVER

    Directed by Amy Finkel
    USA / 2013 / 80mins
    An exploration of the dimensions of grief people experience over the loss of a pet, Furever confronts assumptions regarding attachment, religion, ritual, grief, and death, and studies the bonds that form between humans and animals, both psychological and physiological.

    OFIR

    Directed by  Mark McDannald
    USA / 2013 / 58mins
    When Ofir Drori discovered that no one was fighting to disprove Jane Goodall’s dark prophecy that apes in the wild would soon be extinct, he decided that he was the man for the job.   Fearless guerilla filmmaking to save the gorillas.

    PARTNERS FOR PEACE

    Directed by Ed Kucerak
    Canada / 2013 / 101mins
    Under the leadership of Nobel Peace Laureates Jody Williams and Mairead Maguir, a delegation of American and Canadian women journey to Israel and Palestine to learn about the decades-long conflict and to reach out in solidarity to women activists forging a path toward peace.

    THE ROAD TO FAME

    Directed by Hao Wu
    China / 2013 / 80mins
    A rare, intimate look at the coming-of-age of some of China’s most promising yet confused youth as we follow the rehearsal process of the graduating class at China’s top drama academy staging ‘Fame’ the musical, China’s first official collaboration with Broadway.

    THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC!

    Directed by Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling
    USA / 2013 / 92mins
    The story of Chris Strachwitz, the guiding force behind the legendary Arhoolie Records. Since 1960, Strachwitz has traveled with tape-recorder in hand  to plantations and prisons, roadhouses and whorehouses, churches and bayou juke joints. He returned with recordings that would revolutionize the sound of popular music.

    DOCUMENTARY SHORTS

    A SYNAPTIC ADVENTURE: TOURETTES AND BEYOND

    Directed by Stephen Dijoseph
    USA / 2013 / 12mins
    A humorous and insightful journey through the mind of a composer/performing artist who grew up, lives and thrives with Tourette’s Syndrome .

    ACE OF DIAMONDS

    Directed by Anna Overgaard
    USA / 2013 / 34mins
    Nelson Dellis climbs mountains to raise awareness  for Alzheimer’s research and defends his extraordinary  title of two-time U.S. National World Memory Champion.

    GUARDIAN OF GUANO

    Directed by Ana Elisa Sotelo
    USA / 2013 / 12mins
    Isolation, commitment and knowledge shape the powerful work of guarding island birdlife in Peru.

    LEAVING SHARPE

    Directed by Justin Reifert
    USA / 2013 / 12mins
    In 2013, Washington D.C. Public Schools closed 15 schools in an attempt to cut costs and reduce under-enrollment. Sharpe Health, a school for students with special needs, was among them and the impact is real.

    NO STRANGERS

    Directed by Steven Kochones
    USA / 2012 / 27mins
    A celebration of cultural diversity through the images and commentary of acclaimed photographers, anthropologists and ethnographers.

    SEARCHING FOR PERFECTION

    Directed by Sergey Gavrilov
    Russian Federation / 2013 / 18mins
    Californian born ballerina – Joy Annabelle Womack – moved on her own at the age of 15  to Russia to dance Russian classic ballet professionally.

    WHEELCHAIR DIARIES: ONE STEP UP

    Directed by Reid Davenport
    USA / 2013 / 27mins
    Director Reid Davenport has cerebral palsy and was discouraged from studying in Europe based on his disability…so he went to Europe to find out the truth.

    ANIMATION FINALISTS


    A Life with Asperger’s
    Directed by Jamie Ekkens  (USA / 2013 / 4mins)

    Creation & Hope
    Directed by Keith Carter and Gia Kereselidze  (USA / 2013 / 10mins)

    Dogonauts: Enemy Line
    Directed by Shel Rasch  (USA / 2013 / 17mins)

    Elysian Fields
    Directed by Ina Conradi  (Singapore/ 2013 / 10:50mins)

    Fallt
    Directed by Chadwick Whitehead  (USA / 2013 / 2:06mins)

    Fibonacci Bread
    Directed by Danijel Zezelj  (Croatia / 2012 / 7:40mins)

    Girl Meets Boys
    Directed by Shiyu Luo  (China / 2013 / 2:31mins)

    Handle With Care
    Directed by Jun Iwakawa  (UK / 2013 / 4:30mins)

    Light Me Up
    Directed by Derek Dolechek and Ryan Walton  (USA / 2012 / 9mins)

    Salmon Deadly Sins
    Directed by Steven Vander Meer  (USA/ 2013 / 7mins)

    Sidewalk
    Directed by Celia Bullwinkel  (USA / 2013 / 4:15mins)

    Sausage
    Directed by Robert Grieves  (UK / 2013 / 8mins)

    Si Lunchai
    Directed by Hannes Rall  (Germany / 2013 / 8:36mins)

    The Missing Scarf
    Directed by Eoin Duffy  (Ireland / 2013 / 6:35mins)

    The Rose of Turaida
    Directed by Ryan Grobins  (Australia / 2013 / 6:13mins)

    Virtuoso Virtuell
    Directed by Thomas Stellmach and Maja Oschmann  (Germany / 2013 / 7:20mins)

     

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  • VIDEO: Watch TRAILER for Mona Fastvold’s THE SLEEPWALKER to World Premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival

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    Mona Fastvold's THE SLEEPWALKER

    The first trailer is released for Mona Fastvold’s feature debut THE SLEEPWALKER starring Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, and Stephanie Ellis, scheduled to World Premiere in In Compeitition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. THE SLEEPWALKER chronicles the unraveling of the lives of four disparate characters as it transcends genre conventions and narrative contrivance to reveal something much more disturbing. 

    Mona Fastvold's THE SLEEPWALKER

    A young couple, Kaia and Andrew, are renovating Kaia’s secluded family estate. Their lives are violently disrupted upon the unexpected arrival of Kaia’s sister, Christine, and her fiance, Ira…Prior tensions and jealousies burgeon as new alliances form and childhood patterns resurface. 

    Mona Fastvold's THE SLEEPWALKER

    As the days grow darker and the nights more disturbing, Kaia is forced to confront Christine’s increasingly tangled perception of reality, which in turn may have begun to alter her own.  When one of the four characters goes missing, the three left behind are flung into upheaval trying to fill in the blanks.

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  • THE RAID 2 to World Premiere at 2014 Sundance Film Festival, Sets US Release Date | Watch TRAILER

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    Gareth Evans's THE RAID 2

    Gareth Evans’s THE RAID 2, scheduled to World Premiere at the upcoming 2014 Sundance Film Festival will be released in the United States on March 28, 2014. THE RAID 2 picks up right where the first film left off and follows Rama (Iko Uwais) as he goes undercover and infiltrates the ranks of a ruthless Jakarta crime syndicate in order to protect his family and uncover the corruption in his own police force. 

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  • 12 YEARS A SLAVE, THE DIRTIES Lead 2013 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Nominations

    THE DIRTIESTHE DIRTIES

    Steve McQueen’s 12 YEARS A SLAVE leads the 2013 Vancouver Film Critics Circle’s International category with six nominations including Best Film.  12 YEARS A SLAVE is joined in the Best Film category by Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY and Joel and Ethan Coen’s INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS.The nominees for Best Documentary are THE ACT OF KILLING, BLACKFISH and WEST OF MEMPHIS. Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film are BLANCANIEVES, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR and THE HUNT.

    Matt Johnson’s THE DIRTIES, a conceptually daring story of two film geeks planning a high school shooting, received five VFCC nominations in the Canadian category, including Best Canadian Film and Best First Film by a Canadian Director. THE DIRTIES will face off against Louise Archambault’s GABRIELLE and Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky’s WATERMARK for Best Canadian Film. In the new award for Best First Film by a Canadian Director, THE DIRTIES is joined by Barnaby’s RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS and Chloé Robichaud’s SARAH PREFERS TO RUN.

    In addition to its Best Canadian Film nomination, Baichwal and Burtynsky’s WATERMARK is in the running for Best Canadian Documentary, competing against Chelsea McMullan’s MY PRAIRIE HOME and Charles Wilkinson’s OIL SANDS KARAOKE. Karaoke is also in contention for Best British Columbia Film, vying for the award with Ben Ratner’s DOWN RIVER and Jason DaSilva’s WHEN I WALK.

    Canadian animation pioneer Al Sens is the winner of the 2014 Ian Caddell Award for Achievement.

    A full list of nominees in the International category follows.

    BEST FILM

    12 Years a Slave
    Gravity
    Inside Llewyn Davis

    BEST ACTOR

    Chiwetel Ejiofor, 12 Years a Slave
    Oscar Isaac, Inside Llewyn Davis
    Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

    BEST ACTRESS

    Cate Blanchett, Blue Jasmine
    Sandra Bullock, Gravity
    Greta Gerwig, Frances Ha

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

    Bradley Cooper, American Hustle
    Michael Fassbender, 12 Years a Slave
    Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

    Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle
    Lupita Nyong’o, 12 Years a Slave
    June Squibb, Nebraska

    BEST DIRECTOR

    Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
    Alfonso Cuaron, Gravity
    Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave

    BEST SCREENPLAY

    Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
    Spike Jonze, Her
    John Ridley, 12 Years a Slave

    BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

    Blancanieves
    Blue is the Warmest Colour
    The Hunt

    BEST DOCUMENTARY

    The Act of Killing
    Blackfish
    West of Memphis

     

    A full list of nominees in the Canadian category follows.

    BEST CANADIAN FILM

    The Dirties
    Gabrielle
    Watermark

    BEST ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM

    Thomas Haden Church, Whitewash
    Matt Johnson, The Dirties
    Tom Scholte, The Dick Knost Show

    BEST ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM

    Michelle Giroux, Blood Pressure
    Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day
    Sophie Desmarais, Sarah Prefers to Run

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A CANADIAN FILM

    Marc Labreche, Whitewash
    Alexandre Landry, Gabrielle
    Owen Williams, The Dirties

    BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A CANADIAN FILM

    Romane Bohringer, Vic + Flo Saw a Bear
    Lise Roy, Tom at the Farm
    Gabrielle Rose, The Dick Knost Show

    BEST DIRECTOR OF A CANADIAN FILM

    Louise Archambault, Gabrielle
    Jeff Barnaby, Rhymes for Young Ghouls
    Matt Johnson, The Dirties

    BEST CANADIAN DOCUMENTARY

    My Prairie Home
    Oil Sands Karaoke
    Watermark

    BEST BRITISH COLUMBIA FILM

    Down River
    Oil Sands Karaoke
    When I Walk

    BEST FIRST FILM BY A CANADIAN DIRECTOR

    The Dirties
    Rhymes for Young Ghouls
    Sarah Prefers to Run

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  • Fargo Film Festival Unveils 2014 Documentary Shorts; FRAMING THE OTHER Wins Best Documentary Short | VIDEO

    FRAMING THE OTHER directed by Willem Timmers and Ilja Kok

    FRAMING THE OTHER directed by Willem Timmers and Ilja Kok

    The Fargo Film Festival unveiled its official program of documentary shorts for the 2014 festival. FRAMING THE OTHER directed by Willem Timmers and Ilja Kok is announced as the winner of Best Documentary Short.  FRAMING THE OTHER is a short documentary about tourism and its complex relationships with indigenous communities.  It reveals the intriguing thoughts of a Mursi woman from Southern Ethiopia and that of a Dutch tourist as they prepare themselves for meeting each other.  This ultimately results in an awkward encounter. Duk County directed byJordan Campbell received an Honorable Mention.

    http://youtu.be/owIX60_vIZI

    OFFICIAL SELECTIONS:

    Call Me Ehsaan (Micah Garen)

    Cardboard Titanias (Sam Frazier, Jr.)

    A Good Wife (Linda Brieda)

    Haenyeo: Women of the Sea (Kevin Sawicki)

    Herd in Iceland (Lindsay Blatt)

    I Never Said I Wasn’t Happy (Sara Peak Convery)

    Life Changing Moments (Sherry Thomas)

    The No Name Painting Association (Joe Griffin)

    The Pier (Chris Abernathy)

    Sweet Crude Man Camp (Isaac Gale)

    There She Is (Emily Sheskin)

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  • VIDEO: Watch Creator and Producer of DUCK DYNASTY in Indie Gay Movie THE FLUFFER

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    Scott Gurney starred in THE FLUFFER

    Amidst all the controversy surrounding A&E reality TV show DUCK DYNASTY star Phil Robertson’s comments about gays and minorities to GQ magazine and the network’s decision to suspend him, now reports are circulating that the creator and producer of the series, Scott Gurney, once starred in a popular independent gay movie. Scott Gurney starred in THE FLUFFER, “a terrific, gripping and sexy fictional (non-hardcore) drama that manages to both expose the nasty underbelly of the gay porn industry and show its allure” that debuted at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, he played a gay-for-pay porn star who’s addicted to crystal meth. 

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  • Finalists Named for 2014 Beaufort International Film Festival

    Eighth Annual Beaufort International Film Festival Poster

     The Eighth Annual Beaufort International Film Festival taking place from February 12 to 16, 2014, has announced the finalists of the 34 films and screenplays selected in the categories of animation, documentary, short film, student film and features.

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  • Pratibha Parmar’s ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH Wins “Public Award for Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color” at the 2013 African Diaspora International Film Festival

    ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTHALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH

    Pratibha Parmar, director of ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH is the winner of the “Public Award for Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color” at the 2013 African Diaspora International Film Festival. The runner up is SPIES OF MISSISSIPPI by Dawn Porter.  ALICE WALKER: BEAUTY IN TRUTH is the story of Alice Walker’s journey from her birth in a paper-thin shack in the cotton fields of Eatonton, Georgia to her recognition as a key writer of the 20th Century. Alice Walker made history as the first black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for her groundbreaking novel, The Color Purple.

    http://youtu.be/H-a49NJIuH4

    SPIES OF MISSISSIPPISPIES OF MISSISSIPPI

    SPIES OF MISSISSIPPI tells the story of a secret spy agency formed by the state of Mississippi to preserve segregation and maintain white supremacy. The anti-civil rights organization was hidden in plain sight in an unassuming office in the Mississippi State Capitol. Funded with taxpayer dollars and granted extraordinary latitude to carry out its mission, the Commission evolved from a propaganda machine into a full blown spy operation. How do we know this is true? The Commission itself tells us in more than 146,000 pages of files preserved by the State. This wealth of first person primary historical material guides us through one of the most fascinating and yet little known stories of America’s quest for Civil Rights.

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  • 9 Foreign Language Films Advance in 86th Academy Awards Oscar Race

    Bosnia and Herzegovina, "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," Danis Tanovic, directorBosnia and Herzegovina, “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker,” Danis Tanovic, director 

    Nine features will advance to the next round of voting in the Foreign Language Film category for the 86th Academy Awards. Seventy-six films had originally been considered in the category. The shortlist will eventually be winnowed down to the five nominees by specially invited committees in New York and Los Angeles.  The 86th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on Thursday, January 16, 2014,and the Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2013 will be presented on Oscar Sunday, March 2, 2014.

    The films, listed in alphabetical order by country, are:

    Belgium, “The Broken Circle Breakdown,” Felix van Groeningen, director;

    Bosnia and Herzegovina, “An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker,” Danis Tanovic, director;

    Cambodia, “The Missing Picture,” Rithy Panh, director;

    Denmark, “The Hunt,” Thomas Vinterberg, director;

    Germany, “Two Lives,” Georg Maas, director;

    Hong Kong, “The Grandmaster,” Wong Kar-wai, director;

    Hungary, “The Notebook,” Janos Szasz, director;

    Italy, “The Great Beauty,” Paolo Sorrentino, director;

    Palestine, “Omar,” Hany Abu-Assad, director.

     

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  • VIDEO: Watch TRAILER for Israel’s Oscar Entry BETHLEHEM

    Yuval Adler’s BETHLEHEM

    The official trailer has been released for Yuval Adler’s BETHLEHEM, winner of six Israeli Academy Awards and Israel’s Official Entry for the Best Foreign Language Film – 86th Academy Awards.  BETHLEHEM tells the story of the unlikely bond between Razi, an Israeli secret service officer, and his Palestinian informant Sanfur. BETHLEHEM is set to be released in the U.S. on February 21, 2014.

    Sanfur is the younger brother of a senior Palestinian militant. Razi recruited him when he was just 15, and developed a very close, almost fatherly relationship to him. Now 17, Sanfur tries to navigate between Razi’s demands and his loyalty to his brother, living a double life and lying to both. When the Israeli secret service discovers how deeply involved Sanfur is in his brother’s activities, Razi is faced with an impossible dilemma.

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  • Berlin International Film Festival Announces First Films for Panorama 2014; Jalil Lespert’s YVES SAINT LAURENT to Open Program

    Daniel Ribeiro’s Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks)Daniel Ribeiro’s Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks)

    19 films have been invited to join the lineup for Panorama 2014 at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival taking place February 6 to 16, 2014.  Jalil Lespert’s latest film YVES SAINT LAURENT has been selected to open the Panorama Special program. Other films confirmed to date are new works by Michel Gondry, Kutluğ Ataman, Robert Lepage, Sophie Fillières, Benjamin Heisenberg, Maximilian Erlenwein, John Michael McDonagh, and Tsai Ming-liang. Directorial debuts from the USA includes THINGS PEOPLE DO by Saar Klein and THE BETTER ANGELS by A. J. Edwards. Films from Latin America include two Brazilian productions – Daniel Ribeiro’s Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (THE WAY HE LOOKS), and Marcelo Gomes’ and Cao Guimarães’ O Homem das Multidões (THE MAN OF THE CROWD).

    Arrête ou je continue (If You Don’t, I Will) 
    France
    By Sophie Fillières
    With Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric
    World premiere

    Bai Mi Zha Dan Ke (The Rice Bomber) 
    Taiwan
    By Cho Li
    With Huang Chien-wei, Nikki Hsieh, Michael Chang
    World premiere

    Bing Du (Ice Poison) 
    Taiwan / Myanmar
    By Midi Z
    With Wang Shin-Hong, Wu Ke-Xi
    World premiere

    Calvary 
    Ireland / Great Britain
    By John Michael McDonagh
    With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen
    European premiere

    Hoje Eu Quero Voltar Sozinho (The Way He Looks) 
    Brazil
    By Daniel Ribeiro
    With Ghilherme Lobo, Tess Amorim, Fabio Audi
    World premiere

    Is the Man Who Is Tall Happy? 
    France
    By Michel Gondry
    With Noam Chomsky
    European premiere

    O Homem das Multidões (The Man of the Crowd) 
    Brazil
    By Marcelo Gomes, Cao Guimarães
    With Paulo André, Silvia Lourenço
    International premiere

    Papilio Buddha 
    India / USA
    By Jayan Cherian
    With Kallen Pokkudan, Saritha Sunil, Sreekumar SP, David Briggs, Prakash Bare, Thampy Antony
    European premiere

    Quick Change 
    Philippines
    By Eduardo Roy Jr.
    With Mimi Juareza, Jun jun Quintana, Miggs Cuaderno, Natashia Yumi, Francine Garcia
    International premiere

    Stereo
    Germany
    By Maximilian Erlenwein
    With Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Georg Friedrich, Rainer Bock
    World premiere

    Test 
    USA
    By Chris Mason Johnson
    With Scott Marlowe, Matthew Risch
    European premiere

    The Better Angels 
    USA
    By A. J. Edwards
    With Jason Clarke, Diane Kruger, Brit Marling, Wes Bentley
    International premiere

    The Lamb
    Germany / Turkey
    By Kutluğ Ataman
    With Nesrin Cavadzade, Cahit Gök, Mert Taştan, Sıla Lara Cantürk, Nursel Köse
    World premiere

    Things People Do 
    USA 
    By Saar Klein
    With Wes Bentley, Jason Isaacs, Vinessa Shaw, Haley Bennett
    World premiere

    Triptyque (Triptych) 
    Canada
    By Robert Lepage, Pedro Pires
    With Lise Castonguay, Frédérike Bédard, Hans Piersbergen
    International premiere

    Über-Ich und Du (Superegos)
    Germany / Switzerland / Austria
    By Benjamin Heisenberg
    With André Wilms, Georg Friedrich
    World premiere

    Unfriend 
    Philippines
    By Joselito Altarejos
    World premiere

    Xi You (Journey to the West) 
    France / Taiwan
    By Tsai Ming-liang
    With Lee Kang-sheng, Denis Lavant
    World premiere

    Yves Saint Laurent 
    France
    By Jalil Lespert
    With Pierre Niney, Guillaume Gallienne, Charlotte Le Bon, Laura Smet, Marie De Villepin
    International premiere – Opening film Panaroma Special

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