Tales From The Golden Age
The final 15 years of the Ceausescu regime were the worst in Romania's history. Nonetheless, the propaganda machine of that time referred without fail to that period as “the golden age”... TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE adapts for screen the most popular urban myths of the period. Comic, bizarre, surprising myths abounded, myths that drew on the often surreal events of everyday life under the communist regime.
Director: Christuan Mungiu,Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Râzvan Mârcukescu, Constantin Popescu. Cast: Alexandra Potocean, Vlad Ivanov, Radu Iacoban, Dana Cavallioti, Teo Corban -2009.
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Import/Export
IMPORT/EXPORT chronicles two different migrations: a young woman who leaves behind her mother and young child in The Ukraine to begin a new life as a nurse in Vienna; and a headstrong young security guard called Paul who leaves Vienna to accompany his stepfather on a trip delivering gumball machines in Eastern Europe.
IMPORT/EXPORT is the latest film from director Ulrich Seidl (DOG DAYS). Hailed by critics as a startling and bold film, it is without doubt recent European cinema's most provocative and audacious investigation of the post-Soviet universe and the new relations between East and West.
Dir: Ulrich Seidl. Cast: Natalia Epureanu, Erich Finsches -2008.
Heartbeat Detector
HEARTBEAT DETECTOR is an immersive corporate thriller in which Mathieu Amalric (The Diving Bell And The Butterfly) plays Simon Kessler, an in-house corporate psychologist, who is asked to investigate the erratic behaviour of the company CEO (Michael Lonsdale). His investigations take him under the skin of his company, and its neutral corporate language, to dark, Caché-style transgressions.
Director: Nicolas Klotz. Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Michael Lonsdale –2008.
To Get to Heaven First You Have To Die
20 year old Kamal has been married for a few months, but his wife is still a virgin. Learning that there’s nothing physically wrong with him after visiting a doctor, Kamal sets off to town to search for another woman. The city is full of them, but Kamal is still unable to meet anyone until a chance encounter on a bus. This accidental meeting takes Kamal on a far more troubling and darker journey than he was counting on.
Dir: Djamshed Usmonov. Cast: Khurshed Golibekov, Dinara Drukarova -2008, Tajiskistan.
Beaufort
Under a relentless aerial bombardment of Hezbollah rockets, Liraz's authority is challenged on both sides: by strained soldiers who increasingly become weary of their mission's purpose and uncooperative superiors.
Rather than deliver a political commentary on the Middle East, BEAUFORT offers a rare insight into the human reality behind the tough exterior shell of the Israeli Defence Force as told by a soldier who served in Lebanon.
Dir: Joseph Ceddars. Cast: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Ohad Knoller, Gideon Levy –2008, Israel.
Academy Award Nominee ® for Best Foreign Film.
The Magician
The Magician follows charismatic, yet volatile hitman Ray Shoesmith (Ryan) around Melbourne while he is being filmed by a friend and neighbour. As he goes about his chilling business - threatening violence and in some cases making good on those threats - the camera continues to roll, fuelled by offbeat conversation, dark humour and emotional crises.
Dir: Scott Ryan. Cast: Scott Ryan, Ben Walker, Massimiliano Andrighetto -2006, Australia.
