September 25 – October 7th

Feature Films and Feature Documentaries Screening

THE AMAZING LIVES OF THE FAST FOOD GRIFTERS [TACHIGUISHI RESTUDEN] Japan 104'
Director: Mamoru Osuii
Principal Cast: Kaito Kissuoji, Mako Hyodo, Tosuio Suzuki, Shinji Higuchi
Short Synopsis: Hit Japanese blockbuster from the director of Ghost in the Shell.

THE AMAZING GRACE Nigeria 83'
Director: Jeta Amata
Director of Photography: Joseph Taylor
Principal Cast: Nick Moran, Scott Cleverdon, Mbong Odungide
Short Synopsis: The story of the world's most popular hymn, and also the first Nigerian film to be shot on 35mm.

LA ANTENA Argentina 90'
Director: Esteban Sapir
Director of Photography: Cristian Cottet
Principal Cast: Alejandro Urdapilleta, Valeria Bertuccelli, Julieta Cardinali
Short Synopsis: The cinema of Fritz Lang meets Tim Burton in this beautiful Argentinian movie.

BAKUSHI: THE INCREDIBLE LIVES OF THE ROPE-MASTERS Japan 94’
Director: Ryuchi Hiroki (attending the festival)
Short Synopsis: A documentary focussing on a strain of this erotic art form peculiar to Japan known as kinbaku.

BEING MICHAEL MADSEN USA 88’
Director: Michael Mongillo
Principal Cast: Michael Madsen, Jason Alan Smith, David Carradine, Virginia Madsen, Daryl Hannah
Short Synopsis: Actor Michael Madsen decides to turn the tables on the notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of up-and-coming documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.

BOG OF BEASTS [BAIXIO DAS BESTAS] Brazil 83'
Director: Claudio Assis
Principal Cast: Mariah Teixeira, Fernando Teixeira, Samuel Vieira
Print Source Email: marthe@medialuna.de
Short Synopsis: A study of sexual manifestation in a poverty stricken Brazillian villiage.

BOLINAO 52 Philippines / Japan 58'
Director: Duc Nguyen
Principal Cast: Tung Trinh, William Cloonan
Short Synopsis: Documentary focusing on the refugee survivors of the Vietnam War.

BOOK OF REVELATION, THE Australia 119'
Director: Ana Kokkinos
Principal Cast: Tom Long, Greta Scacchi, Colin Friels.
Short Synopsis: An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.

BREATH [SOOM] South Korea
Director: Kim Di-Duk
Principal Cast: Chang Chen, Ha Jung-Woo, Kim Di-Duk
Short Synopsis: A love story involving a convicted prisoner who slowly falls for a woman who decorates his prison cell. From acclaimed director Kim Di-Duk.

BUNNY CHOW South Africa 92'
Director: John Barker
Principal Cast: David Kizuuka, Kim Engelbrecht, Kagiso Lediga, Joey Raddien
Short Synopsis: A light hearted investogation of modern South Africa.

CHILDREN [BORN] Iceland 93'
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Principal Cast: Gisili Orn Garoarsson, Nina Dogg Filippusdottir, Olafur Darru Olafsson
Short Synopsis: Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's going on with her twelve year old son Gudmund, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life is on the fast track to destruction.

CONGORAMA Canada 105'
Director: Philippe Falardeau
Principal Cast: Olivier Gourmet, Paul Ahmarani, Pean-Pierre Cassel, Gabriel Arcand
Short Synopsis: An eccentric Belgian inventor travels to Quebec to search for his family.

CRAZY LOVE USA 92'
Directors: Dan Klores, Fisher Stevens
Principal Cast: Linda Pugach, Burt Pugach, Jimmy Breslin
Short Synopsis: Sixteen years after Linda Riss has acid thrown in her face by Burt Pagach, the couple marry.

THE CREAM [LA CRÈME] France 83'
Director: Reynald Bertrand
Principal Cast: Laurent Legeay, Nicolas Abraham, Marie-Anne Pauly
Short Synopsis: A man discovers a facial cream which makes him irresistable to others around him, but soon learns that it also has consequences.

DAY WATCH [DNEVNOY DOZOR] Russia 140'
Original Format: 35mm
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Principal Cast: Konstantin Khabenski, Maria Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov
Short Synopsis: Excellent sequel to the groundbreaking Russian hit Night Watch.

DAY ZERO USA 90'
Director: Bryan Gunnar Cole
Principal Cast: Elijah Wood, Chris Klein, Ginnifer Goodwin
Short Synopsis: The draft is back - what would you do if called to serve? In NYC in the near future, three best friends must grapple with everything they believe after they are given thirty days to report for duty.

THE DEVIL DARED ME TO New Zealand 75'
Director: Chris Stapp
Principal Cast: Bonnie Soper, Chriss Stapp, Phil Brough
Short Synopsis: Live fast, die faster - A stunt-fuelled action-comedy.

DOLINA Hungary 122'
Director: Zoltán Kamondi
Principal Cast: Adriano Giannini, Piroska Molnár, Stefania Rivi, János Derzsi
Short Synopsis: At one time Dolina was a flourishing little place, but now everything shows the signs of destruction and poverty, even though the inhabitants are doing their best to smarten things up a bit for the arrival of a high-ranking guest in the person of the Archbishop.

DRINK UP! [DE BARES] Spain 93'
Director: Mario Iglesias
Principal Cast: Emma Alvarez Leon, Javier Alabala, Nancho Novo, Jesus Cabrero
Short Synopsis: Oscar walks into a bar. The bar's walls are covered in photographs. The pictures are the door to the lives of people that could be any one of us.

EX-DRUMMER Belgium 90'
Director: Koen Mortier
Principal Cast: Norman Baert, Francois Beukelaers, Dolores Bouckaert
Short Synopsis: A low-key Belgian rock band take on a formerly famous drummer to complete their line-up in a "battle of the bands" contest.

EXHIBIT A UK 85'
Director: Dom Rotheroe
Principal Cast: Angela Forrest, Bradley Cole, Brittany Ashworth
Short Synopsis: The story of a normal family disintegrating into an unimaginable nightmare.

FLAMES IN THE LOOKING GLASS UK / India 48'
Director: Shona Charlton
Principal Cast: Bobby a.k.a. Badu
Short Synopsis: A ground-breaking documentary, following the glamorous, dark and defiant lives of three Hijras, Indian Transgenders, living with AIDS.

FRANK & CINDY USA 73'
Director: G.J Echternkamp
Principal Cast: Frank Garcia, Cindy Brown
Short Synopsis: FRANK & CINDY is a deeply personal documentary about Frank Garcia, an 80's one-hit wonder musician and his blonde bombshell wife Cindy, who makes him live in the basement.

THE GOODTIMESKID USA 77'
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Principal Cast: Sara Diaz, Geraldo Naranjo, Azazel Jacobs
Short Synopsis: A story about stolen love and stolen identities, shot on stolen film.

IDENTITY (w/ How I Produced a Cherry Boy) Japan 83’
Director: Tetsuaki Matsue
Principal Cast: Hiromi Aikawa, Jitta Hanaoka
Short Synopsis: A documentary focusing on performers working in Japan’s huge adult video (AV) industry.

I'M A CYBORG BUT THAT'S OK [SAIBOGUJIMAN KWENCHANA]
South Korea 105'
Director: Park Chan-Wook
Principal Cast: Lim Su-Jeong, Rain, Choi Hie-Jin
Short Synopsis: A girl who thinks she is a combat cyborg checks into a mental hospital, where she encounters other psychotics. From the director of Oldboy and Lady Vengeance.

IN PRAISE OF LOVE [ELOGE DE L'AMOUR] France/Switzerland 97'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Principal Cast: Bruno Putzulu, Cecile Camp, Jean Davy, Francoise Verny, Audrey Klebaner
Short Synopsis: A chance to see Godard’s Cannes hit from 2001.

IN SEARCH OF A MIDNIGHT KISS USA 98'
Director: Alex Holdridge
Principal Cast: Scoot McNairy, Sara Simmonds, Brian McGuire
Short Synopsis: A rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. 

THE INHERITANCE UK 57'
Director: Charlie Belleville
Principal Cast: Tim Barrow, Fraser Sivewright, Imogen Toner, Tom Hardy
Short Synopsis: Two brothers' road trip through Scotland to discover their inheritance.

IT'S ONLY TALK  Japan 126'
Director: Ryuchi Hiroki (attending the festival)
Principal Cast: Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyakawa, Akira Emoto
Short Synopsis: Ryuchi Hiroki’s second collaboration with the winning team of actress Shinobu Terajima and screenwriter Haruhiko Arai has been cited by many critics as the best Japanese film of its year.

KENEDI IS GETTING MARRIED [KENEDI SE ZENI] Serbia 80'
Director: Zelimir Zilnik
Principal Cast: Kenedi Hasani, Beni Haliti, Max Steiner
Short Synopsis: Acclaimed Serbian feature focusing on the drastic lengths a man will go to attain legal status in the EU.

THE KILLING OF JOHN LENNON UK 114'
Director: Andrew Piddington
Principal Cast: Jonas Ball, Thomas A. McMahon, Joe Abbate, Robert C. Kirk
Short Synopsis: A dramatisation of Mark Chapman's plan to murder John Lennon

LIFE IN LOOPS (A MEGACITIES RMX) Austria 79'
Director: Timo Novotny
Short Synopsis: A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery.

M [EMU] Japan 110'
Director: Ryuchi Hiroki (attending the festival)
Principal Cast: Miwon, Kengo Koura, Tomorowo Taguchi
Short Synopsis: Described as a Belle de Jour for the internet age, Hiroki’s psychotic drama comes to Raindance.
 
MALA NOCHE USA 78'
Director: Gus Van Sant
Principal Cast: Doug Cooeyate, Sam Downey, Nyla McCarthy
Short Synopsis: Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name, Mala Noche is a story of amour fou. Gus Van Sant's first feature.

MANUFACTURING DISSENT Canada 74'
Director: Debbie Melnyk, Rick Caine
Principal Cast: Michael Moore, Mick Jagger, Janeane Garofolo
Short Synopsis: Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary that seeks to separate fact, fiction and legend, tracks Michael Moore on tour during the release of the explosive Fahrenheit 9/11

NOTRE MUSIQUE France/Switzerland 80'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Principal Cast: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine
Short Synopsis: Godard’s acclaimed 2004 documentary dealing with war through the themes of heaven, hell and purgatory.

OFF THE GRID: LIFE ON THE MESA USA 64'
Director: Jeremy Stulberg, Randy Stulberg
Short Synopsis: Documentary that follows a hardscrabble community of hippies, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs who live on the fringe and off the grid, without electricity or running water, along the mesas of New Mexico.

OH SAIGON USA / Vietnam 58'
Director: Doan Hoang
Principal Cast: Hoàng Nam, Vân Tran, Hoàng (Hai) Dú'c
Short Synopsis: A complex portrait of a Vietnamese refugee family attempting to survive their wounds after being politically and physically separated by the Vietnam War.

OLD PLACE, THE France/Switzerland 49'
Director: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Meiville
Principal Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Meiville
Short Synopsis:  A rare chance to see Godard and Anne-Marie Meiville’s documentary about art and its’ place in history.

ONE TWO ANOTHER [CHASUN SA NUIT] France 90'
Director: Pascal Arnold, Jean-Marc Barr
Principal Cast: Lizzie Brochere, Arthur Dupont, Pierre Perrier
Short Synopsis: Enigmatic mystery and erotic coming-of age story.

PARANOID PARK USA
Director: Gus Van Sant
Principal Cast: Gabe Nevins, Daniel Liu, Taylor Momsen
Short Synopsis: A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard.

PARENTS [FORELDRAR] Iceland 89'
Original Format: 35mm
Director: Ragnar Bragason
Principal Cast: Gisili Orn Garoarsson, Nina Dogg Filippusdottir, Olafur Darru Olafsson
Short Synopsis: Dark secrets are slowly revealed in the suburban modern day Reykjavik when a desperate trip of a dentist, a successful businessman and a young mother running away from her past meet by chance.

PHANTOM LOVE USA 87'
Director: Nina Menkes
Principal Cast: Marina Choif, Juliete Marquis, Laura Liguori, Noel Olken
Short Synopsis: A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India.

PRISONER/TERRORIST [YUHEISHA/TERORISUTO] Japan 113'
Director: Masao Adachi
Principal Cast: Tomorowo Taguchi, Arata, Taka Okubo
Short Synopsis: Tackling the immensely emotive subject of terrorism through an abstract, existentialist framework.

RED LIKE THE SKY [ROSSO COME IL CIELO] Italy 95'
Director: Christiano Bortone
Principal Cast: Paolo Sassanelli, Luca Capriotti, Marco Cocci, Simone Colombari, Rosanna Gentile
Short Synopsis: A film inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today.

SHELTER ME [RIPARO] Italy 98'
Director: Marco S. Puccioni
Principal Cast: Maria de Medeiros, Antonia Liskov, Mounir Ouadi
Short Synopsis: Will Love Survive Class Differences?

SOUTH COAST UK 85'
Director: Will Jewell
Principal Cast: Norman Cook, Buzz, Dirty Diggers
Short Synopsis: This ain't East Coast, this ain't West Coast, this is South Coast! Forget bling. Forget gangstas, this character documentary exposes quintessentially British seaside hip hop.

THIS IS NOLLYWOOD Nigeria 55'
Director: Franco Sacchi
Short Synopsis: An exploration of Nigeria's flourishing film industry.

THIS FILTHY WORLD USA 86'
Director: Jeff Garlin
Principal Cast: John Waters
Short Synopsis: This Filthy World is John Waters' one-man show, a vaudeville act that celebrates the film career and tastes of the man William Burroughs once called "the Pope of Trash".

TOVARISCH: I AM NOT DEAD UK 83'
Director: Stuart Urban
Short Synopsis: Garri Urban, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary survivors, who endured both the extremes of Nazism and Communism.

TURKS IN SPACE [DNYAYI KURTARAN ADM'IN OGLU] Turkey 103'
Director: Kartal Tibet
Principal Cast: Mehmet Ali Erbil, Cüneyt Arkin, Deniz Zeki
Short Synopsis: Turks in Space is the sequel of Trash-cult movie "Man who saved the world". High-budget futuristic entertainment with hilarious innuendos to the original.

TWENTY TO LIFE: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JOHN SINCLAIR USA 96’
Director: Steve Gebhardt
Short Synopsis: Twenty to Life is the real-life story of John Sinclair. His exploits have since reverberated throughout the international underground for 40 years.

U & ME & TENNESSEE UK 90’
Director: Paul Birchard
Principal Cast: Konrad Hopkins, Paul Birchard
Short Synopsis: U & Me  & Tennesse tells the story of the romance between the late Tennessee and Konrad Hopkins in the early 1950's. Disturbing, shocking, hilarious and sobering.

UNCLE'S PARADISE [OJISAN TENGOKU/ZETSURIN ZETSUJO] Japan 67'
Director: Shinji Imaoka
Principal Cast: Shiro Shimomoto, Mutsuo Yoshioka, Minami Aoyama
Short Synopsis: The latest example of the Japanese pink film niche.

UP AT LOU’S FISH Japan 67' / 32'
Director: Alex Brook Lynn, Corinna Mantio
Principal Cast: Barbara Mensch, Edward Koch, Evita Mendiola, John Avlon, Joseph Fordstat
Short Synopsis: New York’s Fulton Fish Market has survived for over 180 years at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. This film captures the lives and history of the men and women of the market during their relocation to the Bronx.

URANYA Greece 95'
Director: Costas Kapakai
Principal Cast: Aris Tsapis, Andreas Kyriakis, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Short Synopsis: In a small village a group of teenagers grow up with dreams, prejudices, secrets and lies, eager to discover love as well as the whole world.

VALERIE Germany 83'
Director: Birgit Möller
Principal Cast: Agata Buzek, Devid Striesow, Birol Ünel, Guntbert Warns, Anne Sarah Hartung
Short Synopsis: A selfish glamour model finds herself living out of her vehicle in a car park.

VIVA USA 120'
Director: Anna Biller
Principal Cast: Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno, Chad England
Short Synopsis: Two suburban couples experiment with sex, drugs and bohemia in early 1970's Los Angeles.

WEIRDSVILLE Canada 90'
Director: Allan Moyle
Principal Cast: Scott Speedman, Wes Bentley, Taryn Manning
Short Synopsis: Stoners Dexter and Royce deal with drug debt, a heist, dead bodies, Satanists and dwarves and all in one slightly surreal night in Weirdsville.

WHAT THE SNOW BRINGS [YUKI NI NEGAUKOTO] Japan 112'
Director: Kichitaro Negishi
Principal Cast: Yusuke Iseya, Koichi Sato
Short Synopsis: Hit Japanese drama focusing on the troubled relationship between two brothers.

YOKOHAMA MARY Japan 92’
Director: Takahiro Nakamura
Principal Cast: Michiko Godai, Genjiro Negato, Yoko Yamazaki
Short Synopsis: Compelling documentary about Japan’s oldest prostitute.