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    1/2 THE RENT details page
    Dir: Marc Ottiker, Germany, 91 min, 2002, Feature
    For the past few years Peter has been completely occupied with computers and hacking confidential codes. In the process he has lost all reference...more
    + winner: Best Screenplay - 2003

    17 TIMES CÉCILE CASSARD details page
    Dir: Christophe Honoré, France, 105 min, 2002, Feature
    Portrait of a young woman trying to rebuild her life after the devastating and accidental death of her husband. Told in 17 snapshot moments that ...more

    6ixtynin9 details page
    Dir: Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand, 115 min, 1999, Feature
    Tum is a secretary in a finance company. The ailing economy forces the company to lay-off some of its staff, and Tum happens to be one of them. T...more
    + winner: Best Feature - 2000

    7 DAYS details page
    Dir: Fernando Kalife, Mexico, 94 min, 2005, Feature
    "7 Days" is the story of desperate Claudio Caballero, a man who lives in the shadow of how great an event organizer his dead brother was. Claudi...more

    ABLE DANGER details page
    Dir: Paul Krik, United States, 85 min, 2008, Feature
    Thomas Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical cafe-bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard-hitting 9/11 conspiracy expose, fi...more
    + winner: Best Producer - 2008

    ABSOLUT details page
    Dir: Romed Wyder, Switzerland, 95 min, 2004, Feature
    What if, one day, two hackers managed to penetrate into the heart of a financial network? And what if they decided to plant a virus there? An...more

    AHLAAM details page
    Dir: Mohamed Al-Daradji, Iraq, 110 min, 2005, Feature
    Scarred Baghdad 2003... Confusion, uncertainty and death engulf the bombed ruins of a psychiatric asylum. Voyeuristically we move between the pas...more
    + winner: Best Actor & Spirit Award - 2006

    ALL HELL LET LOOSE details page
    Dir: Susan Taslimi, Sweden, 89 min, 2002, Feature
    Serbandi, a middle-aged man with a Middle Eastern background, is in turmoil. He has lost control of the women in his home. They are mean and show...more
    + winner: Best Feature - 2003

    ALL NIGHT BODEGA details page
    Dir: Félix Olivier, France, 90 min, 2002, Feature
    Venus is a 15 year-old Latina who is growing up in a foster home in the Spanish section of Harlem. Mistakenly arrested by the police and held ove...more
    + winner: Best Actress - 2003

    AMOUR FOU details page
    Dir: Felicitas Korn, Germany, 92 min, 2006, Feature
    Nadja utterly storms through life, without compromise. She is looking for the true moments in life: in her pictures during the day as a photograp...more
    + winner: Best New Director - 2007

    ANACARDIUM details page
    Dir: Scott Thomas, United States, 94 min, 2001, Feature
    A contemporary Psychological Thriller, ANACARDIUM chronicles a night in the life of two modern-day men. The story, which takes place in one sim...more

    ANNE B REAL details page
    Dir: Lisa France, United States, 91 min, 2003, Feature
    When Cynthia's father hands her "The Diary of Anne Frank" before dying, she never imagined how it would open her soul. Trapped within her own pri...more

    ANY WAY THE WIND BLOWS details page
    Dir: Tom Barman, Belgium, 127 min, 2003, Feature
    Antwerp, early June. On a sweltering Friday afternoon, eight people dream of a different life. There’s wind and music, police and paranoia,...more

    APOLLO 54 details page
    Dir: Giordano Giulivi, Italy, 98 min, 2007, Feature
    Strange symbols have been interrupting television broadcasts for days. Nobody knows who sends them, and the media begins to wonder about the natu...more
    + winner: Spirit Award & Best Editing - 2008

    ARRANGED details page
    Dir: Stefan Schaefer & Diane Crespo, United States, 89 min, 2007, Feature
    Two young women - one an Orthodox Jew, the other Muslim - meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the...more
    + winner: Best Feature & Grand Chameleon Award - 2007

    AUGUST details page
    Dir: Austin Chick, United States, 111 min, 2008, Feature
    AUGUST follows Tom Sterling (Josh Hartnett) as an aggressive, young dot-com entrepreneur who fights to keep his start-up company afloat. Tom find...more

    BAD MONEY details page
    Dir: John Hazlett, Canada, 95 min, 1999, Feature
    George has a gun, Jan has a butcher's knife and Murray and Stick are armed with attitude. The four main characters of "Bad Money" are ready to do...more

    BEAUTY QUEEN OLIVIA details page
    Dir: Federica Martino, Italy, 95 min, 2001, Feature
    Sixteen year-old Olivia is a troubled youth. It's no surprise she comes from a dysfunctional family. Her father, Salvatore is violent and vulgar....more
    + winner: Best new director - 2002

    BIGGA THAN BEN details page
    Dir: S A Halewood, England, 85 min, 2007, Feature
    Cobakka and Spiker are two Moscow drop-outs who visit London with dreams of golden pavements. But the city is a cold, unwelcoming place and the t...more

    BLOOD - DEATH DOES NOT EXIST details page
    Dir: Libero De Rienzo, Italy, 104 min, 2005, Feature
    Stella has just been accepted to the New York Ballet Academy but wonders how she will break the news to her over-dependent brother. Essentially...more
    + winner: Best Feature & Grand Chameleon Award - 2006

    BLUE HOUR, THE  details page
    Dir: Eric Nazarian, United States, 93 min, 2007, Feature
    In "The Blue Hour," several strangers in Los Angeles weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against e...more

    BODY/ANTIBODY details page
    Dir: Kerry Douglas Dye & Jordan Hoffman, United States, 98 min, 2007, Feature
    Kip Polyard (Robert Gomes) suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and hasn't left his Manhattan apartment in 10 months. When the beautiful Ce...more
    + winner: Audience Award & Best Original Score - 2007

    CACTUS details page
    Dir: Jasmine Yuen-Carrucan, Australia, 89 min, 2008, Feature
    To gain some much needed cash John Kelly accepts a job to kidnap and deliver professional gambler Eli Jones to his keepers in the Australian outb...more

    CITY LIMITS details page
    Dir: Andrea Costantini, Italy, 107 min, 2004, Feature
    Superintendent Chessari is sent to run a small police station on the outskirts of Rome - a temporary posting in a difficult area, with not much b...more
    + winner: Best Producer - 2005

    CLASS, THE  details page
    Dir: Ilmar Raag, Estonia, 97 min, 2007, Feature
    It’s a story about dignity. It begins with a misunderstanding: a regular guy, Kaspar, stands up for the loser of the class, Joosep. It is an acci...more
    + winner: Best Screenplay - 2008

    CLOUDS details page
    Dir: Don Thompson , United States, 95 min, 1999, Feature
    Clouds is the story of a physicist, Robert St. John (played by Michael Patrick Gaffney), and his quest to define the ultimate theory regarding th...more
    + winner: Best New Director - 1999

    COLLECTIVE, THE  details page
    Dir: Judson Pearce Morgan & Kelly Overton, United States, 83 min, 2008, Feature
    In New York City knowing what to believe is never easy. When Tyler Clarke gets a cryptic voicemail from her sister, she is left with no choice bu...more
    + winner: Audience Award - 2008

    CONTACT details page
    Dir: Sergej Stanojkovski, Germany, 95 min, 2006, Feature
    Forty year-old Janko is such a troublemaker, even the warden at his prison wants him let out on parole. He is soon released into the care of his...more
    + winner: Best Cinematography - 2006

    COUSINES details page
    Dir: Richard Senecal, Haiti, 95 min, 2005, Feature
    Jessica is a young Haitian woman whose quiet life in Port-au-Prince is turned upside down when her father suddenly dies. Without him around to pa...more
    + winner: Best Producer & Best Actress - 2006

    COVER BOY...LAST REVOLUTION details page
    Dir: Carmine Amoroso, Italy, 100 min, 2005, Feature
    Cover Boy is the story of the friendship between Ioan and Michele respectively Romanian and Italian. The serendipitous encounter of two worlds ap...more

    COYOTE details page
    Dir: Brian Petersen, United States, 94 min, 2007, Feature
    After their friend is deported to Mexico, two young Americans decide to smuggle him back across the border, a single event that quickly escalates...more

    CRAZY details page
    Dir: Hans-Christian Schmid, Germany, 95 min, 2000, Feature
    Based on the best-selling novel by Benjamin Lebert, which has been sold in 30 territories! The Summer Hit in Germany: 1,5 million admissions an...more

    CROOKED LINES details page
    Dir: Harry O'Reilly, United States, 90 min, 2003, Feature
    Brooklyn neighborhood knuckleheads forget that it's leap year when they are hired to knock off a deli/front on the last day of February for a mil...more
    + winner: Audience Awards - 2003

    DEAD HEAT UNDER THE SHRUBS details page
    Dir: Esmael Barari, Iran, 71 min, 2003, Feature
    On just an ordinary day, a teenage boy happens to witness a woman dumping a dead body down a well near his village on the outskirts of the desert...more

    DEEP details page
    Dir: Simone van Dusseldorp, Netherlands, 86 min, 2005, Feature
    A romantic girl in search of love collides with the reality of the turbulent seventies. She experiences a high speed change from a roller skating...more

    DEFINITION OF INSANITY, THE details page
    Dir: Robert Margolis & Frank Matter, United States, 85 min, 2004, Feature
    THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY is a tragi-comedy about elusive dreams, love, loss, and the passions that drive us. It is structured as a documentary ...more
    + winner: Best Actor - 2005

    DEVOT details page
    Dir: Igor Zaritzki, Germany, 92 min, 2003, Feature
    Henry sees what he believes to be a prostitute on the bridge. He propositions Anja, and although his shrewd perceptions immediately tell him that...more

    DOLPHINS details page
    Dir: Farhad Yawari, Germany, 40 min, 1990, Feature
    Lara is only able to escape from the harshness of the mental hospital by submerging herself in a dream world inspired by her goldfish bowl. This ...more
    + winner: Best Actress - 2000

    DOWN TO THE BONE details page
    Dir: Debra Granik, United States, 101 min, 2004, Feature
    In Upstate New York, Irene (Vera Farmiga) struggles to raise two sons, keep her stale marriage together and manage a secret cocaine habit. Isolat...more
    + winner: Best Feature & Best Actress - 2004

    EIGHT DAYS A WEEK  details page
    Dir: Michael Davis , United States, 92 min, 1997, Feature
    Peter is a seventeen-year-old geek. A thoughtful geek, but a geek nonetheless. The movie opens with him finding himself desperately in love (well...more
    + winner: Audience Award - 1998

    ELEPHANT KING, THE  details page
    Dir: Seth Grossman, United States, 92 min, 2006, Feature
    Facing fraud charges in the US, Jake (Jonno Roberts) has escaped to Thailand, where he has abandoned his anthropology research in favor of whiske...more
    + winner: Best Actor - 2007

    EROSION details page
    Dir: Ann Lu, United States, 100 min, 2005, Feature
    Haunted by a failing relationship, a man devises a dangerous game for escape: breaking into strangers' homes to have sex with his accomplice, a m...more

    EVERYTHING FOR A REASON details page
    Dir: Vlas Parlapanides, United States, 88 min, 2000, Feature
    When Manny Papadopoulos, a young aspiring writer, meets Eve Stephanopoulos, the girl of his dreams and a virgin to boot, he adamantly believes th...more

    FACTOTUM details page
    Dir: Bent Hamer, Norway, 93 min, 2005, Feature
    Henry Chinaski (Dillon) considers himself a writer, and on occasion writes. Mostly he quests for the booze and women that sidetrack and seduce, ...more

    FINGER AND BODY details page
    Dir: Kei Horie, Japan, 109 min, 2005, Feature
    Jun, a young pimp in Tokyo, is so emotionally estranged from himself and the world around him that he has forgotten much of his past. With the h...more

    FISSURES details page
    Dir: Alanté Kavaďté, France, 87 min, 2006, Feature
    Charlotte is a sound engineer whose mother is murdered in her house in the countryside. Once in the village, Charlotte realizes that she doesn’t...more

    FIX details page
    Dir: Tao Ruspoli, United States, 93 min, 2007, Feature
    Racing across Los Angeles in one, unwieldy day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Milo must race from Beverly Hills to Watts--and places in betwee...more
    + winner: Best Feature, Best Actor & Grand Chameleon Award - 2008

    FLICKERING LIGHTS details page
    Dir: Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark, 109 min, 2000, Feature
    Torkild may be forty, but he can't seem to get past his childhood high jinks. He's still indebted to a group of vicious, big-time crooks. His own...more

    FLIP A COIN details page
    Dir: David Flamholc, England, 97 min, 2004, Feature
    An un-romantic comedy in "French Wave" style, set in modern East London. Philip and Casper, two flatmates in London's east end, flip a coin abou...more

    FLYFISHING details page
    Dir: David Williams, England, 82 min, 2002, Feature
    Two men become escorts. Their debts diminish. Their problems mount. And their lives fall to pieces. Flyfishing combines the oldest profession in ...more

    FORFEIT details page
    Dir: Andrew Brendan Shea, United States, 84 min, 2006, Feature
    FORFEIT explores the human traits of greed, obsession, and revenge. This clever and engaging heist flick tells the story of a man hell-bent on e...more

    FOUR EYED MONSTERS details page
    Dir: Arin Crumley & Susan Buice, United States, 81 min, 2005, Feature
    Arin is wedding videographer, in his spare time he makes video art and is hounded by his girl-crazy roommate who can't understand why Arin is not...more
    + winner: Best new director - 2005

    GETTING MY BROTHER LAID details page
    Dir: Sven Taddicken, Germany, 94 min, 2001, Feature
    Josch, Mike and their younger sister Nic experience many ups and downs in their search for their first “big love”. Josch (Roman Kniˇ zka) is the...more
    + winner: Best Cinematography - 2002

    GOODTIMESKID, THE details page
    Dir: Azazel Jacobs, United States, 77 min, 2005, Feature
    When two men’s paths cross due to having the same names, lives intertwine, and the girl between them gets the chance to escape her daily routine....more

    HABIT details page
    Dir: Larry Fessenden , United States, 112 min, 1997, Feature
    Autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary sola...more
    + winner: Best Editing & Best Actor - 1999

    HAVE YOU ANOTHER APPLE? details page
    Dir: Bayram Fazli, Iran, 90 min, 2006, Feature
    In an unidentified, atemporal dystopia, a despot rules with an iron fist. Helping him to maintain control over the people are Dasdaran – black-...more

    HEADRUSH details page
    Dir: Shimmy Marcus, Ireland, 85 min, 2003, Feature
    ‘Headrush’ is a crazy, contemporary, black caper/crime comedy about two stoners, Charlie and T-Bag, who hope to solve all their problems by worki...more

    HERE AM I details page
    Dir: Douglas Naimer, Joshua Dorsey, Canada, 72 min, 1999, Feature
    Here Am I is set sometime in the 19th century. A horseman rides through the burning ruins of a village that he has just destroyed in search of ...more

    HOTEL details page
    Dir: Mike Figgis, England, 93 min, 2001, Feature
    In February of this year Mike Figgis travelled to the Island of Lido di Venezia in the Venetian Lagoon accompanied by a cast of over 30 actors in...more
    + winner: Spirit Award - 2002

    HOUNDED details page
    Dir: Angelina Maccarone, Germany, 87 min, 2006, Feature
    In an obsessive sexual encounter with a sixteen-year-old boy Elsa is exposed to the relentless revelation of her own desires. Elsa Seifert (MA...more

    JULIETTA details page
    Dir: Christoph Stark, Germany, 93 min, 2001, Feature
    As German youth converge on the Berlin Love Parade, Julietta meets up with her boyfriend Jiri. Separated in the crowds, Julietta enjoys the fun o...more
    + winner: Best Feature - 2002

    KAGAMI details page
    Dir: Benjamin Landshoff, Netherlands, 72 min, 2003, Feature
    Kagami is a film about a man who is stuck in the corporate ratrace of living and working in New York City in this day and age. He blindly follows...more

    KARAMUK details page
    Dir: Sülbiye V. Günar, Germany, 94 min, 2002, Feature
    Johanna, a chubby 17-year-old teenager, dreams of studying fashion design in Paris. For years Johanna has been making her own, very off-beat clot...more

    KEBAB CONNECTION details page
    Dir: Anno Saul, Germany, 96 min, 2004, Feature
    Kebab Connection is a crazily comedic tale of two fast food stands (one Turkish, the other Greek), a frustrated filmmaker, the coolest commerci...more

    KILL ME TENDER details page
    Dir: Ramón de Espańa, Spain, 89 min, 2003, Feature
    A recently widowed baker with a lot of dough. A sexy young lady big on sass but low on scruples. A bumbling ex-legionnaire who works for a debt-c...more

    KINGS OF BROOKLYN, THE details page
    Dir: Lance Lane, United States, 91 min, 2003, Feature
    Three childhood friends from Brooklyn are corrupted by the dark side of Wall Street and suffer the consequences of innocence and ignorance....more
    + winner: Audience Award - 2004

    LAST QUEEN OF THE EARTH, THE details page
    Dir: Mohammad Reza Arab, Iran, 89 min, 2006, Feature
    A simple yet powerful film about a young Afghani immigrant who works in a Henna grinding factory in Iran. As a US-led attack becomes more likely...more

    LAST SOVIET MOVIE, THE details page
    Dir: Aleksandrs Petukhovs, Latvia, 81 min, 2003, Feature
    A film about Love, Death, and Communism. "My dear Aleksandrs, we filmmakers are all sitting in the same train. Unfortunately there are very few s...more

    LEARNING TO LIE details page
    Dir: Hendrik Handloegten , Germany, 94 min, 2003, Feature
    Helmut is a shy, awkward kid…and a bit naďve when it comes to girls. When Britta, the most gorgeous girl in his high-school class, finally notice...more
    + winner: Best Cinematography - 2004

    LETTERS FROM THE DEAD details page
    Dir: Ari Taub, United States, 88 min, 2003, Feature
    Northern Italy late 1944. A German Army lieutenant desperately waits for Italian reinforcements. The Italian reinforcements finally arrive, but t...more
    + winner: Best New Director - 2003

    LIGHTNING BUG details page
    Dir: Robert Hall, United States, 109 min, 2004, Feature
    "Lightning Bug" is the story of a young boy growing up poor and misunderstood in the rural South. He dreams of escaping by becoming a special eff...more

    LITTLE FUGITIVE details page
    Dir: Joanna Lipper, United States, 90 min, 2005, Feature
    Joey and Lenny don’t realize how much they love each other. Like so many siblings, they fight often. Each brother sometimes wishes the other wer...more
    + winner: Best Editing - 2006

    LOCAL, THE  details page
    Dir: Dan Eberle, United States, 90 min, 2008, Feature
    A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to extract his daughter from the drug-induced stranglehold of her lover, a sadistic war-scarred vet...more

    LONELINESS OF THE CROCODILES, THE details page
    Dir: Jobst Oetzmann, Germany, 97 min, 2001, Feature
    Günther, an intellectual son of a butcher from East Westphalia, is considered an eccentric in his village. He antagonizes his parents by taking t...more
    + winner: Best Cinematography - 2001

    LOWER CITY details page
    Dir: Sergio Machado, Brazil, 97 min, 2005, Feature
    Deco and Naldinho are best friends in a constant struggle to earn an honest living in the gritty world of Salvador de Bahia’s Lower City. When a ...more


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