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14-18: The Noise and the Fury
"Not everything has been said about the “war to end all wars”, about the
history of that immense treachery and infinite waste. Far from it.
Between 1914 and 1918 entire armies were submerged in unprecedented brutality
and a hitherto...
history of that immense treachery and infinite waste. Far from it.
Between 1914 and 1918 entire armies were submerged in unprecedented brutality
and a hitherto...
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- Nov 6, 2008
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a 1916 silent film directed by Stuart Paton. The film's storyline is based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne, along with other elements used from Verne's The Mysterious Island.
This version is notable for...
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- Dec 24, 1916
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A Brand New Life
"Striking a perfect balance between the vague, distant memories of childhood and the accuracy of a rigorous script, Ounie Lecomte makes her directorial debut with A Brand New Life, a remarkable film that has the pace and the humility of a precocious...
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- 2009
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Afterimage
Afterimage is a short animated film.
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- 2010
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Air Doll
Air Doll (空気人形, Kūki Ningyō) is a 2009 Japanese drama film directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. It is based on the manga series Kuuki Ningyo by Yoshiie Gōda, which was serialized in the seinen manga magazine Big Comic Original, and is about an inflatable...
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- May 14, 2009
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Alisha
Alisha is a short film directed and written by Daniel Citron.
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- 2009
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All About Evil
All About Evil is a 2010 American black comedy horror film written and directed by Joshua Grannell.
The adventure tells of a shy librarian (Natasha Lyonne) who inherits the old and not very tolerable cinema of her father, to protect the family from...
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- May 15, 2010
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Alma
Alma is a 2009 Spanish short film produced by ex-Pixar animator Rodrigo Blaas. It was received notable recognition at the Fantastic Fest awards. The word "alma" in Spanish means "soul".
The film has no spoken dialogue, just lighthearted music...
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- 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films ,
- 2009 LA Shorts Fest ,
- 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival
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Animal Heart
"Paul lives in the Swiss mountains near the timberline. He loves his wife even less than his animals. Rosine has to work for him, always in danger of being raped as if she was his animal property. When he employs a new Spanish seasonal worker things...
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- Aug 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Montreal World Film Festival ,
- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Febiofest
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Around a Small Mountain
36 Views from the Pic Saint-Loup (French: 36 vues du pic Saint-Loup) is a 2009 French-language drama film directed by Jacques Rivette. It was screened in the main competition at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.
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- Sep 9, 2009
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Between Two Worlds
"Sri Lanka's civil conflict raged so furiously for twenty-six long years that when it was declared over, one of the main reactions was numb disbelief. Director Vimukthi Jayasundara last explored the hollow absurdities of his homeland's war in The...
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- 2009
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Bill Cunningham New York
"Rarely has anyone embodied contradictions as happily and harmoniously as octogenarian New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. Obsessed with how people dress, he unfailingly dons the same shapeless jacket; a chronicler of ritzy charity events,...
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- Mar 24, 2010
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Blink
Blink is a short film.
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- 2009
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Blink Another Day (Part 1)
Blink Another Day (Part 1) is a short film.
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- 2009
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Blink Another Day (Part 2)
Blink Another Day (Part 2) is a short film.
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- 2009
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Bodyguards and Assassins
Bodyguards and Assassins is a 2009 Hong Kong film directed by Teddy Chan, featuring an all-star cast, including Donnie Yen, Nicholas Tse, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Leon Lai, Wang Xueqi, Simon Yam, Hu Jun, Eric Tsang and Fan Bingbing.
In 1905, Sun Wen...
Initial release date:
- Dec 18, 2009
Bolinas
Bolinas is a 2008 short film.
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- 2008
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Budrus
Budrus (also known as Budrus Has a Hammer) is a 2009 Israeli/Palestinian/American documentary film directed by Julia Bacha, produced by Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha, and with a screenplay by Bacha. The film is about non-violent demonstrations...
Initial release date:
- Dec 13, 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Tribeca Film Festival ,
- 2009 Dubai International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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Cairo Time
Cairo Time is a 2009 film by Canadian director Ruba Nadda. It is a romantic drama about a brief, unexpected love affair that catches two people completely off-guard.
This movie won the "Best Canadian Feature Film" at the Toronto International Film...
Initial release date:
- Oct 9, 2009
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Cargo
Cargo is a 2009 science fiction film, the first from Swiss production and the first major feature film by Ivan Engler.
It is the year 2267. After the earth has become uninhabitable due to an ecological collapse, the remaining people live on...
Initial release date:
- Sep 24, 2009
Cherry on the Cake
Cherry in the Cake is a 2009 short animation film written and directed by Hyebin Lee.
"It’s Cherry’s birthday, and she’s excited about spending it with her family. But Mom and Dad and Sister and Brother are all caught up in their own worlds, and...
"It’s Cherry’s birthday, and she’s excited about spending it with her family. But Mom and Dad and Sister and Brother are all caught up in their own worlds, and...
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- 2009
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is a 2009 French film directed by Jan Kounen. It was chosen as the Closing Film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, and was shown on 24 May 2009.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is based on the 2002 fictional novel Coco &...
Initial release date:
- Jul 31, 2009
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Coffee Futures
Coffee Futures is a short film.
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- 2009
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Cold Weather
Cold Weather is an American mystery film written by Aaron Katz, Ben Stambler, and Brendan McFadden and directed by Katz with Stambler and McFadden producing. The film stars Cris Lankenau as a former forensic science student investigating the...
Initial release date:
- Feb 4, 2011
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Colony
"We admire some documentaries for their artistry and others for their urgency. Rarely do we see a film that combines both of these qualities as impressively as this debut by directors Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell. Their unlikely topic is the world...
Initial release date:
- 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2010 AFI Dallas International Film Festival
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Constantin and Elena
"‘It’s really a pity I haven’t left it in. This is a genuine ‘darling’, Andrei Dascalescu says about this sequence. His film consists of a succession of domestic scenes featuring his grandparents, Constantin and Elena, all shot from the same camera...
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- Aug 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2009 Valdivia International Film Festival
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Cracks
Cracks is an independent drama film starring Eva Green, Juno Temple, María Valverde, and Imogen Poots, which was released theatrically in the UK and Ireland on December 4, 2009. In the United States it was released by IFC Films on March 18, 2011,...
Initial release date:
- Dec 4, 2009
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Crazy Hair Day
Crazy Hair Day is a short, animated film directed by Virginia Wilkos.
"Stanley arrives at school, all set to celebrate Crazy Hair Day, only to find out he has mixed up the date with School Picture Day. In this uplifting story of friendship and...
"Stanley arrives at school, all set to celebrate Crazy Hair Day, only to find out he has mixed up the date with School Picture Day. In this uplifting story of friendship and...
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- 2009
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Cyrus
Cyrus is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by brothers Jay and Mark Duplass and starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei, and Catherine Keener.
The film opens as Jamie (Catherine Keener) walks in on her ex-husband John (John C....
Initial release date:
- Jan 23, 2010
De Luce 1: Vegetare
De Luce 1: Vegetare is a 2009 film directed by Janis Crystal Lipzin.
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- 2009
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Diplomacy
"The UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE is about to meet with the IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER in the first high-level diplomatic talks between the two countries in thirty years. Each has an interpreter in tow: on the American side, MICHAEL, a young...
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- 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Newport Beach Film Festival ,
- 2009 Festival Paris Cinéma ,
- 2009 Rhode Island Film Festival
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Domain
"Pierre, a teen of 17, spends all his time with 40 year old mathematician Nadia. Their rapport is friendly, ambiguous, bordering on amorous. The anarchy that reigns Nadia's life fascinates this young man on the threshold of adulthood. But Nadia is a...
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- Sep 5, 2009
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Electric Literature
Electric Literature is a 2010 short film.
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- 2010
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Embrace of the Irrational
"Embrace of the Irrational, begins as what appears to be an hour long educational video written and directed by the fictitious Martin Thebes. It centers around a meditation on the Romantics’ ideal of emotional confusion as a way to find truth. ...
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- 2009
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Empire of Silver
Empire of Silver (simplified Chinese: 白银帝国; traditional Chinese: 白銀帝國; Mandarin Pinyin: Báiyín Dìguó; Jyutping: Baak6 Ngan4 Dai3 Gwok3) is a 2009 film written and directed by Christina Yao. The historical epic concerns the turn-of-the-century...
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- Feb 12, 2009
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Escargots
Escargots is a short film.
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- 2009
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Evening of Passion
Evening of Passion is a short film.
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- 2009
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Everyone Else
"One of the most accomplished unraveling-couple films of recent years, writer-director Maren Ade’s second feature brilliantly captures the growing disconnect between mismatched young lovers Chris (Lars Eidinger) and Gitti (Birgit Minichmayr), whose...
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- Jun 18, 2009
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- 2010 Locarno International Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Berlin International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema
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Fiddlestixx
"Fiddlestixx is about a monkey . . . a very special monkey."
Quotihng the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Quotihng the description from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival site.
Initial release date:
- Jan 26, 2010
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Frontier Blues
"Whatever isn't conveyed about Frontier Blues by its title is dealt with in the film's 30 minutes. Director Babak Jalali exhibits assured command in crafting his portrait of four citizens of the Northern Iranian province of Golestan, interconnecting...
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- Aug 11, 2009
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Garbo: The Spy
Garbo: The Spy is a 2009 documentary film written by Edmon Roch, Isaki Lacuesta and Maria Hervera and directed by Edmon Roch.
"A portrait of the Spaniard Joan Pujol Garcia, who fought on both sides in two wars without ever having held a weapon....
"A portrait of the Spaniard Joan Pujol Garcia, who fought on both sides in two wars without ever having held a weapon....
Initial release date:
- Oct 20, 2009
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- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2009 Rome Film Feast ,
- 2010 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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Get Low
Get Low is a 2009 drama film directed by Aaron Schneider, written by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, and starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, Sissy Spacek, Lucas Black, Gerald McRaney, Bill Cobbs, Lori Beth Edgeman, Andrea Powell, Rebecca...
Initial release date:
- Sep 12, 2009
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- 2010 Edinburgh International Film Festival ,
- 2010 South by Southwest Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2010 Tribeca Film Festival
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Ghost Algebra
Ghost Algebra is a 2009 short film directed by Jane Geiser.
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- 2009
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Hadewijch
Hadewijch is a 2009 French film directed by Bruno Dumont. It won the International Film Critics' award at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
Hadewijch (Julie Sokolowski), a young novice Sister, is a fanatic Christian making herself suffer...
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- 2009
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Happythankyoumoreplease
happythankyoumoreplease is a 2010 comedy-drama film written and directed by Josh Radnor in his directorial debut. The film stars Radnor, Malin Åkerman, Kate Mara, Zoe Kazan, Michael Algieri, Pablo Schreiber, and Tony Hale, and it tells the story of...
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- Jan 20, 2010
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Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
"The French director Henri-Georges Clouzot is renowned for suspenseful classics such as Le Salaire de la peur (in English, The Wages of Fear) and Diabolique. Now this incredible documentary gives us new appreciation for his creativity by bringing to...
Initial release date:
- 2009
Film festivals:
- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 The Times BFI London Film Festival ,
- 2009 New York Film Festival
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I Am Love
"The polished rooms of a Milanese villa ignite with anxious activity as the wealthy industrial family, the Recchis, prepare to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch. It is an occasion designed to ensconce family traditions—the handsome grandson,...
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- Mar 19, 2010
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Incident at Tower 37
Incident at Tower 37 is a short animated film.
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- 2009
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work is a 2010 documentary film about the life and career of comedienne Joan Rivers. It premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival at the Castro Theatre on May 6, 2010.
The film earned very high critical...
Initial release date:
- Jan 2010
Joseph's Snails
Joseph's Snails is a 2009 short film written and directed by Sophie Roze.
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- 2009
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Julia
Julia is a 2008 French crime drama film, directed by Erick Zonca, starring Tilda Swinton. It was shot in California and Mexico. The film was inspired by the John Cassavetes film Gloria.
In California, an alcoholic named Julia (Tilda Swinton) is out...
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- Mar 8, 2008
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Kaden Later
"A trans guy post his reconstructive surgery tries to figure out how he fits into society, not as female or male but in a space in between."
Quoting the description from the 2010 Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival site
Quoting the description from the 2010 Kashish-Mumbai International Queer Film Festival site
Initial release date:
- 2008
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La Pivellina
La Pivellina (The Little One) is a 2009 Austrian feature film debut directed by Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel. The film premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight, where it has been awarded the Europa Cinemas Label as...
Initial release date:
- 2009
Film festivals:
- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival ,
- 2009 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
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Last Train Home
Last Train Home (simplified Chinese: 归途列车; traditional Chinese: 歸途列車; pinyin: Guītú Lièchē; literally "Homeward Train") is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lixin Fan and produced by Daniel Cross and Mila Aung-Thwin of EyeSteelFilm. Last Train...
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- Sep 3, 2010
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- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ,
- 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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Laundry
Laundry is a 2009 short film.
Initial release date:
- 2009
Lebanon
Lebanon (Hebrew title: לבנון) is an Israeli war film directed by Samuel Maoz. It won the Leone d'Oro at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, becoming the first Israeli-produced film to have won that honour. In Israel itself the film has...
Initial release date:
- Oct 15, 2009
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- 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival ,
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2009 New York Film Festival ,
- 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
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Life 2.0
"Every day, across all corners of the globe, hundreds of thousands of users log onto Second Life, a virtual online world not entirely unlike our own. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assume alternate personas in the form of avatars...
Initial release date:
- Jan 22, 2010
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Linha de Passe
Linha de Passe is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas. Written by Salles, Thomas and Bráulio Mantovani, the film stars Vinícius de Oliveira and Sandra Corveloni, who won the Best Actress Award at the 2008 Cannes Film...
Initial release date:
- 2008
Film festivals:
- 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival ,
- 2008 Cannes Film Festival ,
- 2008 Toronto International Film Festival
