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Beyond
Honor
Description: Beyond Honor is a graphic
rendition of the devastation of the American dream. In a
series of cultural clashes, father and daughter relentlessly
pursue radically different concepts of values and honor.
The conflict reaches barbaric proportions whereby these
everyday characters 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
Producer:
Harkeerat Dhillon | Director/ Story:
Varun Khanna | Country:
US
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Breath
- Shwaas
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.
Director:
Sandeep Sawant | Country:
India
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Spring
Summer Fall Winter...and Spring
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.
Director: Kim Ki-duk |
Country: Korea
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Children
of God - DEVARA MAKKALU
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.
Director: K. Srinivasa Murthy |
Country: India
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20
30 40
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.
Director: Sylvia Chang
| Country: China
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Inner
Senses
Description:
A suspenseful thriller in which both a young woman
and her therapist are troubled. Director:
Bruce Law Chi-Leung | Country: China
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EL
ZURDO / LEFTY
Description:
"Lefty," a young boy who is about to earn the title
of town marble champion, encounters tough adult competition.
Director: Carlos
Salces | Country: Mexico
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Un
Mundo Raro /A STRANGE WORLD
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.
Director: Armando Casas. | Country:
Mexico
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Tae
Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War 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..
Director: Kang Je Gyu
| Country: Korea
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Amodini
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.
Director/ Story: Chidananda
Dasgupta | Country : India
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Miss
Beatty’s Children
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.
Director/ Story : Pamela
Rooks | Country : India |
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Corazon
de Melon
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. Director:
Luis Velez | Country: Mexico
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Main
Hoon Na / I'll be there for you
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.
Director: Karan Johar | Country:
India
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Pachito
Rex: I’m Leaving But Not For Good 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.
Director: Fabian Hoffman
| Country: Mexico
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Seres
Humanos /About the Living
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. DIRECTOR:
Jorge Aguilera | Country: Mexico
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Lady
in the Box
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.
Director: Christian Otjen | Country:
US
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Call
Me Malcolm
Description:
The documentary story of a female-to-male transgender seminary
student and his search for himself and his faith.
Director: Joseph Parlegreco
Country: US
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Saving
Sophie
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.
Director: Lorraine Portman
Country: US
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Ocean
Odyssey
Description:
This documentary by composer Paul Gilman shows his incredible
interactions with whales around the world through flute music.
Director: Paul Gilman
Country: US
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The
Watershed
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.
Director: Mary Trunk
Country: US
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Plagues
and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
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.
Director: Chris Metzler
Country: US
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Howard
Zinn: You Can’t be Neutral on a Moving Train
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.
Directors: Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller |
Country: US
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Dog
Me: Potluck
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.
Director: M. David Lee III
Country: US |
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Stealing
Innocence (Short Film
Showcase)
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.
Director: Nancy Montuori Stein
Country: US
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Sorting
the Sunshine (Short
Film Showcase)
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.
Director: Jim Brown
Country: US
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Jayson
(Short
Film Showcase)
Description:
A little boy tries to stop the violence in his household in
the only way he knows.
Director: Arleen Lopez
Country: US
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Things
Girls Do… (Short
Film Showcase)
Description:
This film about an eating disorder is from a different point
of view.
Director: Brody Fox
Country: US
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Call
Center (Short
Film Showcase)
Description: When your computer breaks down
and you call for help, what’s happening on the other end of
the line?
Director: Manish Goyal
Country: India |
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Poetry
in Wartime (Poetry Night)
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.
Director: Rick King
Country: US
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An
Invitation to Poetry (Poetry
Night)
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.
Editor: Robert Pinsky
Country: US
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