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2005 Riverside International Film Festival Films & Filmmakers: |
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Description: Beyond Honor is a graphic rendition of the devastation of the American dream. In a series of cultural clashes, father and daughter relentlesly pusue radically different concepts of values and honor. The conflict reaches barbaric proportions whereby these everyday charecters come face-to-face with extraordinary events and wage a full-blown battle to preserve and regain their honor. The film was shot entirely in Riverside, CA. |
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Description: This multiple award winner is the story of a seven-year-old boy stricken with cancer of the eyes and the painful emotional journey he and his grandfather make to accept the fact that a life-saving operation may condemn the boy to a future without sight. |
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Description: The film portrays the life of a Buddhist monk who has experienced the vicissitudes of life as four seasons come and go. Set in the spring, a baby monk torments frogs, snakes and fish and is scolded by an old monk who says that the acts will bring upon bad karma. In the summer, the infant has grown into a 17-year-old man. He suffers from unrequited love and leaves the mountain temple. In the fall, he comes back to the temple 10 years later as the murderer of his wife who had betrayed him, and tries to commit suicide in front of a Buddhist statue. |
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Description: In the days of bloodshed and violence on screen here is a film filled with morals, emotions, and undercurrents to various issues besides providing lilting music throughout the film. Ramu is an ambitious child who runs away from home to seek an education, only to become involved in bonded child labor. |
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Description:Three stories about different women in different stages of their lives: a lonely young 20-something woman (Angelina Lee) leaves her hometown to live her dreams of fame as a pop-star singer, a 30-something flight attendant (Rene Liu) with a string of failed love affairs with married men finds solace in the most unlikely place; a 40-something divorcee (Sylvia Chang) searches for love despite the odds stacked against her. |
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Description:A suspenseful thriller in which both a young woman and her therapist are troubled. |
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Description: "Lefty , " a young boy who is about to earn the title of town marble champion , encounters tough adult competition. |
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Description: Emilio (Emilio Guerrero), a criminal (and aspiring stand-up comic), sees his dream coming true when his gang assaults famous TV host Salvador (Victor Hugo Arana). Using blackmail and harassment, Emilio may finally get his big break in television. The film employs ironic humor to show the influence of the Mexican TV world on its audience. |
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Description: When brothers Jin-tae (Jang Dong-gun) and Jin-seok (Won Bin) are forced into the South Korean army in 1950, an officer tells older sibling Jin-tae the only way to send his baby brother home is to win medals and fame... |
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Description: Amodini is a rich land owner’s daughter. Unable to face social stigma, her father arranges her marriage to a much older person, who fails to turn up on the wedding day. To save the situation she is forced to marry a 15-year-old boy, but he also runs away to return later. See what happens then. |
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Description: Set in1936 – an idealistic English School Teacher comes to Trippuvur to work with Mable Forster, a strong willed missionary devoted to saving young girls from being sold into prostitution. |
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Description: Rosita is a plump cook who has a crush on Tomas Santa Cruz, the debonair host of a TV cooking show. Unfortunately, Tomas is the boyfriend of Rosita’s friend Fernanda, a beautiful and sophisticated woman. Will things heat up in the kitchen for Rosita or will she get burned. |
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Description: In order to complete an important special project which should bridge the political gap between Indian and Pakistan, Major Ram Prasad Sharma goes under cover as a teen-aged student. |
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Description: This provocative political satire presents a three episode conjecture about the title character, a pop singer turned demagogue politician who may or may not have been murdered in an undetermined Latin American country. |
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Addtional Films: Seres Humanos / About the Living Director: Jorge Aguillera Country: Mexico Description: When tragedy occurs in a close family, all members find their own ways to block the memory and blunt the pain. Eleven years later, circumstances force them to finally face and deal with their memories. Lady in the Box Director: Christian Otjen Country: USA Description: A bartender looking for something to happen in his life gets more than he bargained for when a patron at the bar offers him $500 to dump a steamer trunk into Lake Michigan . After completing the deed, Jerry returns home to find his apartment the site of an apparent murder—with no sign of his girlfriend. Call Me Malcolm Director: Joseph Parlegreco Country: USA Description: The documentary story of a female-to-male transgender seminary student and his search for himself and his faith. Saving Sophie Director: Lorraine Portman Country: USA Description: A group of loving but sometimes confused aunts try to make their niece Sophie’s second wedding more successful than her first… no matter who dies in the meantime. Ocean Odyssey Director: Paul Gilman Country: USA Description: This documentary by composer Paul Gilman shows his incredible interactions with whales around the world through flute music. The Watershed Director: Mary Trunk Country: USA Description: Director Mary Trunk, her six siblings, and her mother were deserted by her father, then her alcoholic mother retreated to her bedroom for three years, leaving the children to fend for themselves. Trunk’s documentary shows interviews with her siblings and her parents today, looking at their past, present, and future. Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea Director: Chris Metzler Country: USA Description: This documentary shows the evolution of the nearby Salton Sea , from its beginnings, through its years as an outstanding southern California resort, the disastrous ecological problems that brought it down, and its current precarious survival and possible restoration. Howard Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train Directors: Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller Country: USA Description: This documentary shows an extraordinary history professor and activist who began his work at Spelman College in 1958 with the southern civil rights struggles and has never let up to this day. His credo has always been that history is important and that to be passive is to collaborate with what’s going on. One of his best known books is A People’s History of the United States. Dog Me: Potluck Director: M. David Lee III Country: USA Description: In this film shot according to the DogMe95 School of filmmaking, only a hand-held camera and ambient light and sound are used to tell the story of a troubled couple who invite a houseful of wacky friends over for a potluck. Stealing Innocence (Short Film Showcase) Director: Nancy Montuori Stein Country: USA Description: The long-time friendship of an Israeli and a Palestinian girl is set against newsreel accounts of the tumultuous times in which they grow up. Sorting the Sunshine (Short Film Showcase) Director: Jim Brown Country: USA Description: This documentary shows the role played by the citrus packing houses in Riverside , employing many migrant workers from the earliest days of the industry, and most recently serving as a major employer in the Hispanic community of Riverside. Jayson (Short Film Showcase) Director: Arleen Lopez Country: USA Description: A little boy tries to stop the violence in his household in the only way he knows. Things Girls Do… (Short Film Showcase) Director: Brody Fox Country: USA Description: This film about an eating disorder is from a different point of view. Call Center (Short Film Showcase) Director: Manish Goyal Country: India Description: When your computer breaks down and you call for help, what’s happening on the other end of the line? Poetry in Wartime (Poetry Night) Director: Rick King Country: USA Description: Armed conflict has always pulled some participants and observers into poetry to deal with their times. In this collection, poets read their own works, reflecting a world of conflicts. An Invitation to Poetry (Poetry Night) Editor: Robert Pinsky Country: USA Description: A DVD accompanies the book of the same name by Robert Pinsky (U.S. Poet Laureate), documenting the Favorite Poem Project, in which Americans from all walks of life read or recite their favorite poems. |
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