Exhibit A (2007)

Highly Recommended

UK

Feature Film

Director: Dom Rotheroe

Writers: Dom Rotheroe, Darren Bender

Cinematographer: Rob Hardy

Cast: Bradley Cole, Brittany Ashworth, Angela Forrest, Oliver Lee, Charles Davies, Emily Button

A teenage girl’s new camcorder allows her to document the mental deterioration of her father and the social disintegration of their family home, when secrets, lies, and financial pressures begin to take their toll, in Rotheroe’s painfully credible, rightly horrific, and quite remarkable second feature, which easily manages to transcend its slightly hackneyed form. Iain.Stott

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Whisky (2004)

Highly Recommended

Uruguay/Germany/Argentina

Feature Film

Directors: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll

Writers: Gonzalo Delgado, Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll

Cinematographer: Bárbara Álvarez

Composer: Pequeña Orquesta Reincidentes

Cast: Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani

When his younger brother flies in from Brazil for their mother’s unveiling ceremony, an ageing sock factory owner asks one of his employees to pose as his wife for a few days; all goes smoothly until an impromptu trip to an off-season tourist resort brings simmering sibling rivalry (almost) to the fore, in Rebella and Stoll’s quietly funny, gently moving, and subtly perceptive film, filled with melancholically expressive mise en scène. Iain.Stott

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Micro Men (2009)

Cautiously Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: Saul Metzstein

Writer: Tony Saint

Cinematographer: Hubert Taczanowski

Composer: Ilan Eshkeri

Cast: Alexander Armstrong, Martin Freeman, Edward Baker-Duly, Sam Phillips, Stefan Butler, Colin Michael Carmichael

Micro Men is an oft funny, vaguely tongue-in-cheek though perhaps slightly patronising portrait of the friendship-turned-rivalry between home computer pioneers Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry, depicting the meteoric rise and sad fall of their respective companies, Sinclair and Acorn. Iain.Stott

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The Child (2005)

Highly Recommended

Belgium/France

Feature Film

Original Title: L’enfant

Writer/Directors: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne

Cinematographer: Alain Marcoen

Cast: Jérémie Renier, Déborah François, Jérémie Segard

A young chancer, who spends his days stealing, begging, and generally enjoying himself, sells his 9-day-old baby son behind his girlfriend’s back, but when she finds out and goes to the police, he arranges for his return, which leaves him severely and dangerously in debt to some local gangsters, in this searing, visceral, and ultimately tremendously moving thriller cum character study from the ever brilliant Dardenne brothers. Iain.Stott

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The Day of the Triffids (2009)

Not Recommended

UK/Canada

Television Mini-Series

Director: Nick Copus

Writers: Patrick Harbinson, John Wyndham

Cinematographer: Ben Smithard

Composer: Alan D. Boyd

Cast: Dougray Scott, Joely Richardson, Jason Priestley, Eddie Izzard, Brian Cox, Jenn Murray, Julia Joyce, Troy Glasgow, Shane Taylor

When a series of solar flares results in the blindness of the majority of the human race, society collapses and a breed of genetically altered man eating plant is set upon the world, but one man, an expert on such creatures, becomes to determined to find a way to stop them, in this mildly diverting but horribly uneven and rather loose adaptation of Wyndham’s classic novel, which suffers terribly from a lack of logic, but just about makes up for it with a certain amount of camp charm (but not quite). Iain.Stott

John Wyndham's novel was previously adapted as The Day of the Triffids (1981).

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Antichrist (2009)

Recommended

Denmark/France/Sweden/Italy/Poland/Germany

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Lars von Trier

Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle

Cast: Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Following the accidental death of their infant son, a grieving couple travel to an isolated cabin in the woods in an attempt to work through their grief, guilt, and fear, but their problems merely become exacerbated, in von Trier’s polarising psychological horror film; a harrowing, painful, and occasionally brilliant work, boasting two exceptional and exceptionally brave performances. Iain.Stott

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Brother (1997)

Recommended

Russia

Feature Film

Original Title: Брат

Writer/Director: Aleksey Balabanov

Cinematographer: Sergei Astakhov

Composer: Vyacheslav Butusov

Cast: Sergei Bodrov Jr., Viktor Sukhorukov, Svetlana Pismichenko, Mariya Zhukova, Yuri Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Butusov, Irina Rakshina

A young but rather old fashioned man, recently demobbed from the army, goes to live in St. Petersburg with his brother, a low-level gangster, and becomes involved in the family business, but his personality – a strange mix of ruthlessness, compassion, and pride – soon gets him into trouble, in Balabanov’s low-key crime film, which features an excellent performance from Bodrov and provides an intriguing look at a society in the process of change. Iain.Stott

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Incendiary (2008)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Cayman Islands

Feature Film

Director: Sharon Maguire

Writers: Sharon Maguire, Chris Cleave

Cinematographer: Ben Davis

Composers: Barrington Pheloung, Umebayashi Shigeru

Cast: Michelle Williams, Ewan McGregor, Matthew Macfadyen, Nicholas Gleaves, Sidney Johnston, Usman Khokhar, Sasha Behar

Although much of its plot detail defies credibility, and its overly insistent score becomes rather distracting after a while, this much maligned film – in which a doting young mother, in a slightly unhappy marriage, tentatively begins an affair with a journalist, only to have her life ripped apart when her husband and son are killed in a terrorist attack – proves to be, never the less, a really quite moving work, thanks in the main to Williams’s brave performance. Iain.Stott

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The Poisoner (2006)

Recommended

France/Belgium

Television Mini-Series

Original Title: Marie Besnard: L'empoisonneuse...

Director: Christian Faure

Writers: Daniel Riche, Olga Vincent, Anne Giafferi

Cinematographer: Willy Stassen

Composers: Charles Court, Carolin Petit

Cast: Muriel Robin, Mélanie Bernier, Jean-Yves Chatelais, Mado Maurin, Frank Geney, Annie Grégorio, Olivier Saladin, Gérard Chaillou, Marie-France Santon, Grégory Fitoussi, Pascal Reneric, Jean-Noël Brouté

When a wealthy landowner dies unexpectedly, his lover points an accusatory finger at his wife, levelling charges of poisoning, which gradually acquire public and official support, leading to her eventually being charged with twelve murders, in this well-made and decidedly unpredictable account of the real-life legal case of Marie Besnard, which proves to be an interesting examination of guilt and its perception. Iain.Stott

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Festival Round-up, 2000

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid A Sigh (2000)

Silver Pyramid The Storm (2000)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Me, You, Them (2000)

Special Jury Prize Big Animal (2000) & Peppermint Candy (1999)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Father (2000)

Silver Leopard Little Cheung (2000) & Manila (2000)

Official Jury Prize Gostanza da Libbiano (2000)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Innocence (2000) & Le Goût des Autres (2000)

Special Jury Prize Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2000)

MOSCOW

Golden George Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease (2000)

Silver George The Garden Was Full of Moon (2000)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell The Ruination of Men (2000)

Special Jury Prize Paria (2000)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Long Night's Journey Into Day (2000)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Girlfight (2000) & You Can Count on Me (2000)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Amores Perros (2000)

Special Jury Prize Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000)

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Festival Round-up, 2001

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Pauline and Paulette (2001)

Silver Pyramid Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Amelie (2001)

Special Jury Prize Hi Tessa (2001)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Off to the Revolution in a 2CV (2001)

Silver Leopard L'Afrance (2001) & Love the Hard Way (2001)

Special Jury Prize Delbaran (2001)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor It's Me, the Thief (2000)

Special Jury Prize City of Women (2000)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Abandoned (2001) & Baran (2001)

Special Jury Prize Son of the Bride (2001)

MOSCOW

Golden George The Believer (2001)

Silver George Under the City's Skin (2001)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Taxi for Three (2001)

Special Jury Prize Work in Progress (2001)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Antitrust (2001)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Southern Comfort (2001)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic The Believer (2001)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Slogans (2001)

Special Jury Prize Under the Moonlight (2001)

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Festival Round-up, 2002

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid The Last Blues (2002)

Silver Pyramid Big Man, Little Love (2001) & Ticket to Jerusalem (2002)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Year of the Devil (2002)

Special Jury Prize Nowhere in Africa (2001)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard The Longing (2002)

Silver Leopard Pleasant Days (2002) & Suddenly (2002)

Special Jury Prize I'm Taraneh, 15 (2002)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Bolivar Is Me (2002)

Special Jury Prize Black Box (2002)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas The Best Day of My Life (2002)

Special Jury Prize In Nowhere Land (2002)

MOSCOW

Golden George Resurrection (2001)

Silver George Wishes of the Land (2001)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Mondays in the Sun (2002)

Special Jury Prize Historias Minimas (2002)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Life Show (2002)

Special Jury Award All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Daughter from Danang (2002)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Personal Velocity (2002)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Broken Wings (2002)

Special Jury Prize Hotel Hibiscus (2002)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Roger Dodger (2002)

Best Documentary Feature Chiefs (2002)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Edi (2002)

Special Mention Bark! (2002), The Orphan of Anyang (2001), & The Wild Bees (2001)

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Festival Round-up, 2003

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid The King (2003)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Facing Window (2003)

Special Jury Prize Granny (2003)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Silent Waters (2003)

Silver Leopard Fuse (2003) & Thirteen (2003)

Special Jury Prize Maria (2003)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Breaking Up (2002)

Special Jury Prize Valentin (2002)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas The Cordon (2002)

Special Jury Prize Gaz Bar Blues (2003)

MOSCOW

Golden George The End of a Mystery (2003)

Silver George Koktebel (2003)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Gun-shy (2003)

Special Jury Prize The Station Agent (2003)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Capturing the Friedmans (2003)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic American Splendor (2003)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Nuan (2003)

Special Jury Prize Chic (2003)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Blind Shaft (2003)

Best Documentary Feature A Normal Life (2003)

WARSAW

Grand Prix With Love, Lilly (2003)

Special Mention Conspiracy of Silence (2003) & Since Otar Left (2003)

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Festival Round-up, 2004

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Guardians of the Clouds (2004)

Silver Pyramid Bless the Woman (2003)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe A Children's Story (2004)

Special Jury Prize Here (2003)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Private (2004)

Silver Leopard En Garde (2004) & Story Undone (2004)

Special Jury Prize Tony Takitani (2004)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Good Life Delivery (2004)

Special Jury Prize I Like to Work (Mobbing) (2004)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas The Syrian Bride (2004)

Special Jury Prize Around the Bend (2004) & The Parking Attendant in July (2004)

MOSCOW

Golden George Our Own (2004)

Silver George Revolution of Pigs (2004)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Turtles Can Fly (2004)

Special Jury Prize Midwinter Night's Dream (2004)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Tradition of Lover Killing (2004)

Jury Grand Prize Jasmine Flower (2004)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Dig! (2004)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Primer (2004)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Whisky (2004)

Special Jury Prize Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Green Hat (2004)

Best Documentary Feature Arna's Children (2003)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Beautiful City (2004)

Special Mention The Gift (2003)

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Festival Round-up, 2005

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Mother of Mine (2005)

Silver Pyramid Magic Eye (2005)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe My Nikifor (2004)

Special Jury Prize What a Wonderful Place (2005)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Nine Lives (2005)

Silver Leopard Fratricide (2005) & 3 Degrees Colder (2005)

Special Jury Prize A Perfect Couple (2005)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Le Grand Voyage (2004)

Special Jury Prize Bitter Dream (2004)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Off Screen (2005)

Special Jury Prize The Milkwoman (2005) & Snowland (2005)

MOSCOW

Golden George Dreaming of Space (2005)

Silver George Frozen Land (2005)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Something Like Happiness (2005)

Special Jury Prize Blessed by Fire (2005)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Photo Album of the Village (2004)

Jury Grand Prize Gimme Kudos (2005)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Why We Fight (2005)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Forty Shades of Blue (2005)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary Shape of the Moon (2004)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic The Hero (2004)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix What the Snow Brings (2005)

Special Jury Prize Conversations with Other Women (2005)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Stolen Life (2005)

Best Documentary Feature El Perro Negro (2005)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Sorry for Kung Fu (2004)

Special Jury Prize First on the Moon (2005)

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Festival Round-up, 2006

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid The Road (2006)

Silver Pyramid Sankara (2006)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe SherryBaby (2006)

Special Jury Prize Beauty in Trouble (2006) & Christmas Tree Upside Down (2006)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Fraulein (2006)

Special Jury Prize Half Nelson (2006)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor News from Afar (2005)

Special Jury Prize Molly's Way (2005)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas The Greatest Love of All (2006) & A Long Walk (2006)

Special Jury Prize Snow in the Wind (2006)

MOSCOW

Golden George About Sara (2005)

Silver George Driving Lessons (2006)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Half Moon (2006) & My Son (2006)

Special Jury Prize The Road to San Diego (2006)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Four Minutes (2006)

Jury Grand Prize The Forest Ranger (2006)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary God Grew Tired of Us (2006)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Echo Park, L.A. (2006)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary In the Pit (2006)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic 13 Tzameti (2005)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)

Special Jury Prize Thirteen Princess Trees (2006)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Blessed by Fire (2005)

Best Documentary Feature The War Tapes (2006)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Euphoria (2006)

Special Jury Prize Longing (2006)

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Festival Round-up, 2007

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Intimate Enemies (2007)

Silver Pyramid In the Name of God (2007)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Jar City (2006)

Special Jury Prize Lucky Miles (2007)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard The Rebirth (2007)

Special Jury Prize Memories (2007)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Fiction (2006)

Special Jury Prize Gardens in Autumn (2006)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Ben X (2007) & A Secret (2007)

Special Jury Prize Noodle (2007)

MOSCOW

Golden George Travelling with Pets (2007)

Silver George The Russian Triangle (2007)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (2007)

Special Jury Prize Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet According to the Plan (2007)

Jury Grand Prize The New Man (2007)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Send a Bullet (2007)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Sangre de Mi Sangre (2007)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary Enemies of Happiness (2006)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic Sweet Mud (2006)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix The Band's Visit (2007)

Special Jury Prize The Western Trunk Line (2007)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature My Father My Lord (2007)

Best Documentary Feature Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Night Train (2007)

Special Jury Prize Ex Drummer (2007)

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Festival Round-up, 2008

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Return to Hansala (2008)

Silver Pyramid Cut Loose (2008)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Terribly Happy (2008)

Special Jury Prize The Photograph (2007)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard Parque Vía (2008)

Special Jury Prize 33 Scenes from Life (2008)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Still Walking (2008)

Special Jury Prize Involuntary (2008)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Departures (2008)

Special Jury Prize The Necessities of Life (2008)

MOSCOW

Golden George As Simple as That (2008)

Silver George The Simple Heart (2008)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell Pandora's Box (2008)

Special Jury Prize Two-Legged Horse (2008)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Mukha (2008)

Jury Grand Prize Old Fish (2008)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Trouble the Water (2008)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Frozen River (2008)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary Man on Wire (2008)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic The King of Ping Pong (2008)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Tulpan (2008)

Special Jury Prize Four Nights with Anna (2008)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature Let the Right One In (2008)

Best Documentary Feature Pray the Devil Back to Hell (2008)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Go with Peace Jamil (2008)

Special Jury Prize The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008)

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Festival Round-up, 2009

CAIRO

Golden Pyramid Letters to Father Jaakob (2009)

Silver Pyramid The Hedgehog (2009)

KARLOVY VARY

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe Angel at Sea (2009)

Special Jury Prize Bist (2009)

LOCARNO

Golden Leopard She, a Chinese (2009)

Special Jury Prize Tambourine, Drum (2009)

MAR DEL PLATA

Golden Astor Nora's Will (2008)

Special Jury Prize Horn of Plenty (2008)

MONTRÉAL

Grand prix des Americas Korkoro (2009)

Special Jury Prize Weaving Girl (2009)

MOSCOW

Golden George Pete on the Way to Heaven (2009)

Silver George The Miracle (2009)

SAN SEBASTIÁN

Golden Shell City of Life and Death (2009)

Special Jury Prize Le Refuge (2009)

SHANGHAI

Golden Goblet Original (2009)

Jury Grand Prize Empire of Silver (2009)

SUNDANCE

Grand Jury Prize: Documentary We Live in Public (2009)

Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic Precious (2009)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Documentary Rough Aunties (2008)

World Cinema Jury Prize: Dramatic The Maid (2009)

TOKYO

Sakura Grand Prix Eastern Plays (2009)

Special Jury Prize Rage (2009) (Cordero)

TRIBECA

Best Narrative Feature About Elly (2009)

Best Documentary Feature Racing Dreams (2009)

WARSAW

Grand Prix Seven Minutes in Heaven (2008) & Eastern Plays (2009)

Special Jury Prize Gabriel's Passion (2008)

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Shanghai, 2006

Golden Goblet

Four Minutes (2006)

Jury Grand Prize

The Forest Gang (2006)

Best Director

Fabienne Godet, Burnt Out (2006)

Best Screenplay

Hugo van Laere, Love Belongs to Everyone (2006)

Best Actress

Els Dottermans, Love Belongs To Everyone (2006)

Best Actor

Olivier Gourmet, Burnt Out (2006)

Best Cinematography

Fabio Cianchetti, The Land (2006)

Best Music

Karl Jenkins, River Queen (2006)

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Shanghai, 2007

Golden Goblet

According to the Plan (2007)

Jury Grand Prize

The New Man (2007)

Best Director

Tian Zhuangzhuang, The Go Master (2007)

Best Screenplay

Shemi Zarhin, Aviva My Love (2007)

Best Actress

Corinna Harfouch, Dagmar Manzel, Kirsten Block,& Christine Schorn, According To The Plan (2007)

Best Actor

Juan Jose Ballesta, Doghead (2007)

Best Cinematography

Wang Yu, The Go Master (2007)

Best Music

Tomita Isao, Love and Honor (2006)

In Competition

• According to the Plan (2007)
• Aviva My Love (2007)
• Bizan (2007)
• Doghead (2007)
• Eye in the Sky (2007)
• The Gamblers (2007)
• The Go Master (2007)
• Jump! The Philip Halsman Story (2007)
• The Knot (2007)
• Love and Honor (2006)
• Miguel & William (2007)
• The New Man (2007)
• Olga, Victoria Olga (2007)
• Radio Star (2007)
• Shanghai Red (2007)

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Shanghai, 2008

Golden Goblet

Mukha (2008)

Jury Grand Prize

Old Fish (2008)

Best Director

Maris Martinsons, Loss (2008)

Best Screenplay

Marek Epstein, Vaclav (2008)

Best Actress

Emilia Vasaryova, Vaclav (2008)

Best Actor

Ma Guowei, Old Fish (2008)

Best Cinematography

Florian Schilling, My Mother's Tears (2008)

Best Music

Andrius Mamontovas, Loss (2008)

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Shanghai. 2009

Golden Goblet

Original (2009)

Jury Grand Prize

The Search (2009)

Jury Award

Empire of Silver (2009)

Best Director

Julius Sevcik, Normal (2009)

Best Screenplay

Fabio Bonifacci & Giulio Manfredonia, We Can Do That (2009)

Best Actress

Simone Tang, Aching Hearts (2009)

Best Actor

Sverrir Gudnason, Original (2009)

Best Cinematography

Nicolas Guicheteau & Hans Meier, Nowhere Promised Land (2009)

Best Music

Roh Hyoung-woo, Rough Cut (2009)

In Competition

• Aching Hearts (2009)
• Chameleon (2009)
• Empire of Silver (2009)
• The Girl on the Train (2009)
• Normal (2009)
• Nowhere Promised Land (2009)
• Original (2009)
• A Piece of Me (2009)
• Romance (2009)
• Rough Cut (2009)
• Schemes of Affection (2009)
• The Search (2009)
• Small Crime (2009)
• Splinters (2009)
• The Storm in My Heart (2009)
• We Can Do That (2009)

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Cairo, 2000

Golden Pyramid

A Sigh (2000)

Silver Pyramid

The Storm (2000)

Best Director

Roch Stéphanik, Stand-by (2000)

Best Screenplay

Feng Xiaogang, A Sigh (2000)

Best Actress

Dominique Blanc, Stand-by (2000)

Xu Fan, A Sigh (2000)

Best Actor

Zhang Guoli, A Sigh (2000)

Best Artistic Contribution

Dmitri Svetozarov, Fourteen Rainbow Colours (2000)

In Competition

• The Detour (2000)
• Edge of Night (2000)
• The Envy of Gods (2000)
• Fiasco (2000)
• Fourteen Rainbow Colours (2000)
• The Gateway of Europe (2000)
• Happy Funeral Director (2000)
• Lisbon (1999)
• A Map of the World (2000)
• A Sigh (2000)
• Stand-by (2000)
• The Storm (2000)
• Tobia al Caffè (2000)
• Winds of Passion (2000)

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Cairo, 2001

Golden Pyramid

Pauline and Paulette (2001)

Silver Pyramid

Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)

Best Director

Sinisa Dragin, Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)

Best Screenplay

Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous (2000)

Best Actress

Niki Karimi, The Hidden Half (2001)

Best Actor

Paul Freeman, Morlang (2001)

Best Artistic Contribution

Tahmineh Milani, The Hidden Half (2001)

In Competition

• Abuzer Kadayif (2000)
• Against the Wind (2001)
• All About Love (2001)
• Almost Famous (2000)
• Black Grind (2001)
• Daughters of This Century (2001)
• Deathrow (2001)
• Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth (2001)
• The Hidden Half (2001)
• Inch'Allah Sunday (2001)
• An Island of Their Own (2001)
• A Love of Blueness (2001)
• Moonlight Tariff (2001)
• Morlang (2001)
• Mothakerat Morahkah (2001)
• Natasha (2001)
• Nobody Loses Forever (2001)
• Pauline and Paulette (2001)
• Sia, the Myth of the Python (2001)
• Tayf Nizar (2001)
• Tender Age (2001)

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Cairo, 2002

Golden Pyramid

The Last Blues (2002)

Silver Pyramid

Big Man, Little Love (2001)

Ticket to Jerusalem (2002)

Best Director

Mrinal Sen, My Land (2002)

Best Screenplay

Handan Ipekçi, Big Man, Little Love (2001)

Best Actress

Nandita Das, My Land (2002)

Katayoun Riahi, The Last Supper (2002)

Best Actor

Ahmed Zaki, His Excellency the Minister (2002)

Best Artistic Contribution

Andreas Pantzis, Evagora's Vow (2002)

In Competition

• Adam's Autumn (2002)
• Bed of Procust (2002)
• Big Man, Little Love (2001)
• Broken Hearts (2002)
• Evagora's Vow (2002)
• Ferocious (2002)
• His Excellency the Minister (2002)
• I Am Sam (2001)
• Kites over Helsinki (2002)
• The Last Blues (2002)
• The Last Supper (2002)
• Low-Flying Aircraft (2002)
• Manhunt (2002)
• The Mastermind (2002)
• A Minute of Sun Less (2002)
• My Land (2002)
• Nobel (2002)
• Requiem (2001)
• Shanghai Women (2002)
• Sleeping Beauties (2002)
• Ticket to Jerusalem (2002)
• Va, Petite! (2002)

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Cairo, 2003

Golden Pyramid

The King (2003)

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Cairo, 2004

Golden Pyramid

Guardians of the Clouds (2004)

Silver Pyramid

Bless the Woman (2003)

Best Director

Héctor Olivera, Ay Juancito (2004)

Best Screenplay

Jillali Ferhati, Memory in Detention (2004)

Best Actress

Eszter Bagaméri, Guarded Secrets (2004)

Nelly Karim, My Soul Mate (2004)

Best Actor

Adrián Navarro, Ay Juancito (2004)

Sofocles Peppas, Dust (2004)

Best Artistic Contribution

Mahesh Dattani, Morning Raga (2004)

In Competition

• Asmali Konak: Hayat (2003)
• Autumn (Yet) Strong Love (2004)
• Ay Juancito (2004)
• Blackout Journey (2004)
• Bless the Woman (2003)
• Concorso di Colpa (2004)
• Crime (2004)
• Dust (2004)
• Fragile (2004)
• The Giraffe's Neck (2004)
• Guarded Secrets (2004)
• Guardians of the Clouds (2004)
• Memory in Detention (2004)
• Morning Raga (2004)
• My Soul Mate (2004)
• Le Prince (2004)
• Women in Search of Freedom (2004)

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Cairo, 2005

Golden Pyramid

Mother of Mine (2005)

Silver Pyramid

Magic Eye (2005)

Best Director

Klaus Härö, Mother of Mine (2005)

Best Screenplay

Vath Koreshi & Kujtim Çashku, Magic Eye (2005)

Best Actress

Bujar Lako, Magic Eye (2005)

Maria Lundqvist, Mother of Mine (2005)

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Cairo, 2006

Golden Pyramid

The Road (2006)

Silver Pyramid

Sankara (2006)

Best Director

Khosro Masoumi, Somewhere Too Far (2006)

Best Screenplay

Judit Elek, The Eighth Day of the Week (2006)

Best Actress

Zhang Jingchu, The Road (2006)

Best Actor

Nicolás Mateo, Velocity Begets Oblivion (2006)

Best Artistic Contribution

Vishal Bharadwaj, Omkara (2006)

In Competition

• Call Me Salome (2006)
• Civic Duty (2006)
• The Eighth Day of the Week (2006)
• Le Grand Meaulnes (2006)
• The Last Gaze (2006)
• Omkara (2006)
• Raval, Raval (2006)
• The Road (2006)
• Sankara (2006)
• Somewhere Too Far (2006)
• Velocity Begets Oblivion (2006)
• Zuzu Angel (2006)

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Cairo, 2007

Golden Pyramid

Intimate Enemies (2007)

Silver Pyramid

In the Name of God (2007)

Best Director

Florent Emilio Siri, Intimate Enemies (2007)

Best Screenplay

Albert Ter Heerdt, Kicks (2007)

Best Actress

Tatyana Lyutaeva, A Full Breath (2007)

Marina Magro, Opera (2007)

Best Actor

Albert Dupontel, Intimate Enemies (2007)

Best Artistic Contribution

Derviş Zaim, Waiting for Heaven (2007)

In Competition

• And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
• An Angel Hooked On Me (2007)
• Ataul: For Rent (2007)
• A Full Breath (2007)
• I, the Other (2007)
• In the name of God (2007)
• Intimate Enemies (2007)
• Jasminum (2007)
• Kicks (2007)
• Life in a Metro (2007)
• The Lost Beauty (2007)
• Moon in the Bottle (2007)
• No Mercy (2007)
• On Air (2007)
• Opera (2007)
• Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle (2007)
• Seventh Heaven (2007)
• Waiting for Heaven (2007)
• Waiting for Pasolini (2007)

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Cairo, 2008

Golden Pyramid

Return to Hansala (2008)

Silver Pyramid

Cut Loose (2008)

Best Director

Pernille Fischer Christensen, Dancers (2008)

Best Screenplay

Ahmed Rashwan, Basra (2008)

Best Actress

Yolande Moreau, Séraphine (2008)

Best Actor

Juan Diego Botto, El Greco (2008)

Best Artistic Contribution

Oliver Paulus & Valerie Fischer, Tandoori Love (2008)

In Competition

• Basra (2008)
• The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
• The Collectress (2008)
• Cut Loose (2008)
• Dancers (2008)
• The Day We Met (2008)
• Finding Shangri-La (2007)
• El Greco (2008)
• In the Flesh (2008)
• Mark of an Angel (2008)
• Mario the Magician (2008)
• The Messenger (2008)
• Return to Hansala (2008)
• Séraphine (2008)
• Tandoori Love (2008)
• Tea Fight (2008)
• The Tango Singer (2008)
• The Vanished Empire (2008)
• Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)

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Cairo, 2009

Golden Pyramid

Letters to Father Jaakob (2009)

Silver Pyramid

The Hedgehog (2009)

Best Director

Mona Achache, The Hedgehog (2009)

Best Screenplay

Klaus Härö, Letters to Father Jaakob (2009)

Best Actress

Karolina Piechota, Splinters (2009)

Best Actor

Subrat Dutta, Madholal Keep Walking (2009)

Best Artistic Contribution

Vera Glagoleva, One War (2009)

In Competition

• Amália (2009)
• Crossword Destinies (2009)
• The Days of Desire (2009)
• The Friends at the Margherita Cafe (2009)
• The Hedgehog (2009)
• I Believe in Angels (2009)
• I Saw the Sun (2009)
• Letters to Father Jaakob (2009)
• Luisa (2009)
• Madholal Keep Walking (2009)
• New York (2009)
• The Nile Birds (2009)
• One War (2009)
• Slaves in Their Bonds (2009)
• Splinters (2009)
• Tiny Dust, True Love (2009)
• Vortex (2009)

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Karlovy Vary, 2000

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Me, You, Them (2000)

Special Jury Prize

Big Animal (2000)

Peppermint Candy (1999)

Best Director

Vinko Bresan, Marsal (1999)

Best Actress

Regina Casé, Me, You, Them (2000)

Best Actor

Hamid Farokhnezhad, Bride of Fire (2000)

Ian Hart, Aberdeen (2000)

Special Mention

Angels of the Universe (2000)

A Question of Taste (2000)

In Competition

• Aberdeen (2000)
• Angels of the Universe (2000)
• Big Animal (2000)
• Bride of Fire (2000)
• First Love (2000)
• His Wife's Diary (2000)
• House of Memories (2000)
• Jadviga's Pillow (2000)
• The Magic of Marciano (2000)
• Marsal (1999)
• Me, You, Them (2000)
• No Place to Go (2000)
• Nora (2000)
• The Other's Life (2000)
• Peppermint Candy (1999)
• The Pilgrimage of Students Peter and Jacob (2000)
• A Place Nearby (2000)
• A Question of Taste (2000)
• Yoyes (2000)

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Karlovy Vary, 2001

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Amelie (2001)

Special Jury Prize

Hi Tessa (2001)

Best Director

Ibolya Fekete, Chico (2001)

Best Actress

Viveka Seldahl, A Song for Martin (2001)

Best Actor

Sven Wollter, A Song for Martin (2001)

Special Mention

The Unfinished Song (2001)

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)

In Competition

• Amelie (2001)
• Angel Exit (2000)
• Birthday (2001)
• Blow (2001)
• Bongja (2000)
• Cabin Fever (2000)
• Firefly Dreams (2001)
• Ghost World (2001)
• Hi Tessa (2001)
• Luna's Game (2001)
• Poisons or the World History of Poisoning (2001)
• A Song for Martin (2001)
• Touched by God (2001)
• The Unfinished Song (2001)
• Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)
• War Live (2000)

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Karlovy Vary, 2002

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Year of the Devil (2002)

Special Jury Prize

Nowhere in Africa (2001)

Best Director

Asghar Massombagi, Khaled (2001)

Best Actress

Ugla Egilsdóttir, The Seagull's Laughter (2001)

Best Actor

William H. Macy, Focus (2001)

Special Mention

Let's Not Cry (2001)

Smoking Room (2002)

In Competition

• Bedtime Fairy Tales for Crocodiles (2002)
• The Brats (2002)
• Filament (2002)
• Focus (2001)
• Gebürtig (2002)
• Iranian Spread (2002)
• The Italian (2002)
• Khaled (2001)
• Leaving by the Way (2001)
• Let's Not Cry (2001)
• Light Falls on Your Face (2002)
• Nowhere in Africa (2001)
• Pot Luck (2002)
• The Seagull's Laughter (2001)
• Silence (2001)
• Smoking Room (2002)
• The Star (2002)
• Year of the Devil (2002)

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Karlovy Vary, 2003

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Facing Window (2003)

Special Jury Prize

Granny (2003)

Best Director

Ferzan Ozpetek, Facing Window (2003)

Best Actress

Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Facing Window (2003)

Sylvie Testud, Fear and Trembling (2003)

Best Actor

Björn Kjellman, Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)

Special Mention

Fear and Trembling (2003)

Rose's Songs (2003)

In Competition

• Buddy (2003)
• The Coast Guard (2002)
• The Cooler (2003)
• Cruel Joys (2002)
• Dead Man's Memories (2002)
• Facing Window (2003)
• Fear and Trembling (2003)
• Granny (2003)
• Magnifico (2003)
• Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
• Paradise Is Somewhere Else (2003)
• Pupendo (2003)
• Red and Blue (2003)
• Rose's Songs (2003)
• Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
• The World Again (2002)

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Karlovy Vary, 2004

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

A Children's Story (2004)

Special Jury Prize

Here (2003)

Best Director

Xavier Bermúdez, León and Olvido (2004)

Best Actress

Marta Larralde, León and Olvido (2004)

Karen-Lise Mynster, Aftermath (2004)

Best Actor

Max Riemelt, Napola (2004)

In Competition

• After the Day Before (2004)
• Aftermath (2004)
• Cavedweller (2004)
• Champions (2004)
• A Children's Story (2004)
• The Chorus (2004)
• Here (2003)
• León and Olvido (2004)
• My Step Brother Frankenstein (2004)
• Napola (2004)
• Niceland (Population. 1.000.002) (2004)
• Out of This World (2004)
• Raincoat (2004)
• The Riverside (2004)
• Symmetry (2003)

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Karlovy Vary, 2005

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

My Nikifor (2004)

Special Jury Prize

What a Wonderful Place (2005)

Best Director

Krzysztof Krauze, My Nikifor (2004)

Best Actress

Krystyna Feldman, My Nikifor (2004)

Best Actor

Uri Gavriel, What a Wonderful Place (2005)

Luca Zingaretti, In the Light of the Sun (2005)

Special Mention

Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)

In Competition

• Chinaman (2005)
• The City of the Sun (2005)
• A Driver for Vera (2004)
• In the Light of the Sun (2005)
• Life with My Father (2005)
• The Lost Domain (2005)
• My Nikifor (2004)
• Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
• Portrait of a Lady Far Away (2005)
• The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004)
• Tuning (2005)
• The Unburied Man (2004)
• Unveiled (2005)
• What a Wonderful Place (2005)

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Karlovy Vary, 2006

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

SherryBaby (2006)

Special Jury Prize

Beauty in Trouble (2006)

Christmas Tree Upside Down (2006)

Best Director

Joachim Trier, Reprise (2006)

Best Actress

Maggie Gyllenhaal, SherryBaby (2006)

Best Actor

Andrzej Hudziak, A Few People, a Little Time (2005)

Special Mention

This Girl Is Mine (2006)

In Competition

Beauty in Trouble (2006)

Christmas Tree Upside Down (2006)

A Few People, a Little Time (2005)

Frozen City (2006)

Goodbye Life (2006)

Love Talk (2005)

The Man Who Came to a Village (2006)

Mezcal (2004)

Mouth to Mouth (2005)

My Quick Way Out (2006)

Reprise (2006)

This Girl Is Mine (2006)

Transit (2006)

Winter Journey (2006)

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Karlovy Vary, 2006

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

SherryBaby (2006)

Special Jury Prize

Beauty in Trouble (2006)

Christmas Tree Upside Down (2006)

Best Director

Joachim Trier, Reprise (2006)

Best Actress

Maggie Gyllenhaal, SherryBaby (2006)

Best Actor

Andrzej Hudziak, A Few People, a Little Time (2005)

Special Mention

This Girl Is Mine (2006)

In Competition

• Beauty in Trouble (2006)
• Christmas Tree Upside Down (2006)
• A Few People, a Little Time (2005)
• Frozen City (2006)
• Goodbye Life (2006)
• Love Talk (2005)
• The Man Who Came to a Village (2006)
• Mezcal (2004)
• Mouth to Mouth (2005)
• My Quick Way Out (2006)
• Reprise (2006)
• SherryBaby (2006)
• This Girl Is Mine (2006)
• Transit (2006)
• Winter Journey (2006)

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Karlovy Vary, 2007

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Jar City (2006)

Special Jury Prize

Lucky Miles (2007)

Best Director

Bård Breien, The Art of Negative Thinking (2006)

Best Actress

Elvira Mínguez, Pudor (2007)

Best Actor

Sergei Puskepalis, Simple Things (2007)

Special Mention

Zdenek Sverák, Empties (2007)

Leonid Bronevoy, Simple Things (2007)

In Competition

• The Art of Negative Thinking (2006)
• Conversations with My Gardener (2007)
• Empties (2007)
• The Good Night (2007)
• Jar City (2006)
• Karger (2007)
• Lucky Miles (2007)
• Pruning Vines (2006)
• Saturn in Opposition (2007)
• Savior's Square (2006)
• Shyness (2007)
• Simple Things (2006)
• Valley (2007)
• When she jumped (2007)

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Karlovy Vary, 2008

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Terribly Happy (2008)

Special Jury Prize

The Photograph (2007)

Best Director

Aleksei Uchitel, Captive (2008)

Best Actress

Martha Issová, Night Owls (2008)

Best Actor

Jirí Mádl, Night Owls (2008)

Special Mention

The Karamazov Brothers (2008)

In Competition

• Behind the Glass (2008)
• Captive (2008)
• Distant Tremors (2008)
• Dr. Alemán (2008)
• The Early Bird Catches the Worm (2008)
• The Guitar (2007)
• The Investigator (2008)
• The Karamazovs (2008)
• Night Owls (2008)
• The Photograph (2007)
• Pretexts (2007)
• The Shaft (2008)
• Terribly Happy (2008)
• True Enough (2007)

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Karlovy Vary, 2009

Grand Prix – Crystal Globe

Angel at Sea (2009)

Special Jury Prize

Bist (2009)

Best Director

Andreas Dresen, Whisky with Vodka (2009)

Best Actress

Paprika Steen, Applause (2009)

Best Actor

Paul Giamatti, Cold Souls (2009)

Olivier Gourmet, Angel at Sea (2009)

Special Mention

Filip Garbacz, Piggies (2009)

In Competition

• Angel at Sea (2009)
• Applause (2009)
• Black Sheep (2009)
• Cold Souls (2009)
• Freedom (2009)
• Himalaya, Where the Wind Dwells (2009)
• I Am Not Your Friend (2009)
• Piggies (2009)
• Soul at Peace (2009)
• Twenty (2009)
• Villa Amalia (2008)
• Whisky with Vodka (2009)
• Will Not Stop There (2008)
• Wolfy (2009)

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Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)

Highly Recommended

Japan

Feature Film

Original Title: 人情紙風船

Director: Yamanaka Sadao

Writer: Mimura Shintarō

Cinematographer: Mimura Akira

Composer: Ota Tadashi

Cast: Kawarasaki Chojuro, Nakamura Kan'emon, Nakamura Tsuruzo, Bando Choemon, Sukedakaya Sukezo, Ichikawa Emitaro, Kiritachi Noboru, Yamagishi Shizue

Every square inch of Yamanaka and Mimura’s exquisitely composed frame drips with meaning and portent in this gently humorous and terribly moving work; a portrait of the poor inhabitants of an 18th Century Japanese backstreet, depicting their troubled encounters with a high ranking samurai and the thugs with whom he associates. Iain.Stott

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Julia (2008)

Recommended

France/USA/Mexico/Belgium

Feature Film

Director: Erick Zonca

Writers: Aude Py, Erick Zonca, Roger Bohbot, Michael Collins

Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux

Cast: Tilda Swinton, Saul Rubinek, Kate del Castillo, Aidan Gould, Jude Ciccolella, Bruno Bichir, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Gastón Peterson

A hopeless alcoholic commandeers a young Mexican woman’s plan to kidnap her estranged son, contriving to demand two million dollars from the boy’s rich grandfather, but her plan, like her life in general, doesn’t run at all smoothly, in Zonca’s painfully authentic feeling thriller, which can boast of a harrowingly dexterous performance from Swinton. Iain.Stott

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Veronika Voss (1982)

Highly Recommended

West Germany

Feature Film

Original Title: Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Writers: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pea Fröhlich, Peter Märthesheimer

Cinematographer: Xaver Schwarzenberger

Composer: Peer Raben

Cast: Rosel Zech, Hilmar Thate, Cornelia Froboess, Annemarie Düringer, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Doris Schade, Erik Schumann, Peter Berling

Veronika Voss – a down-on-her-luck, drug addicted actress, who was a huge film star during the Nazi era, but now finds herself totally beholden to her morally dubious, morphine pushing doctor – stumbles into the life a sports journalist, who becomes obsessively intrigued by her and her perplexing lifestyle, in this beautifully photographed and adroitly acted film, the final part of Fassbinder’s BRD Trilogy. Iain.Stott

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The Fattest Man in Britain (2009)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Director: David Blair

Writers: Caroline Aherne, Jeff Pope

Cinematographer: David Odd

Composer: Damon Gough

Cast: Timothy Spall, Aisling Loftus, Bobby Ball, Frances Barber

Georgie Godwin, marketed as Britain’s fattest man by his agent (a foul-mouthedly brilliant Bobby Ball), spends his days watching Jeremy Kyle and chomping down Viennetta, happily eating his way towards an early grave, contented by the thought of bringing momentary happiness to Japanese tourists, that is until he makes a rather unlikely friendship with a pregnant teenager, in this trouser-soilingly funny and surprisingly tender comedy-drama. Iain.Stott

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The Baby's Room (2006)

Recommended

Spain

Television Film

Original Title: La habitación del niño

Director: Álex de la Iglesia

Writers: Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia

Cinematographer: José Luis Moreno

Composer: Roque Baños

Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Leonor Watling, Sancho Gracia, María Asquerino, Antonio Dechent

A young couple with a seven-month-old son move into the house of their dreams – a grand, old fixer-upper – but their perfect life is soon put under pressure when the father begins to see ghostly figures on the baby monitor, leading to some rather obsessive behaviour, in de la Iglesia’s decidedly creepy, thoroughly unpredictable, and surprisingly perceptive little ghost story. Iain.Stott

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Strike (1925)

Cautiously Recommended

Soviet Union

Feature Film

Original Title: Стачка

Director: Sergei Eisenstein

Writers: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Ilya Kravchunovsky, Valeryan Pletnyov

Cinematographers: Vasili Khvatov, Vladimir Popov, Eduard Tisse

Composers: The Alloy Orchestra (1998)

Cast: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov, Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Yudif Glizer

When a worker kills himself after being falsely accused of theft, his comrades go out on strike, demanding an eight-hour workday and a 30% wage increase; but the factory owners, with the aid of the police, violently quell the unrest, in Eisenstein’s formally playful and campily entertaining film, which is let down somewhat by its laughable depiction of the chin-stroking, baby-killing, and distinctly inhuman capitalists. Iain.Stott

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Our Winnie (1982)

Recommended

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Objects of Affection (1982)

Director: Malcolm Mowbray

Writer: Alan Bennett

Composer: George Fenton

Cast: Elizabeth Spriggs, Constance Chapman, Sheila Kelley, Peter Lorenzelli, Veronica Roberts, Lesley Manville, Max Hafler, Jim Broadbent, Avril Elgar, Jimmy Yuill, Jackie Shinn

Winnie, a mentally retarded young woman from Lancashire, accompanies her mother and aunt on one of their regular trips to the cemetery to visit the her father’s grave, but they find their day interrupted by an art student, determined to take their photograph, in Alan Bennett’s deftly acted, thought provoking, and all too brief drama. Iain.Stott

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Tokyo Sonata (2008)

Recommended

Japan/The Netherlands

Feature Film

Original Title: トウキョウソナタ

Director: Kurosawa Kiyoshi

Writers: Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Max Mannix, Tanaka Sachiko

Cinematographer: Ashizawa Akiko

Composer: Hashimoto Kazumasa

Cast: Kagawa Teruyuki, Koizumi Kyōko, Koyanagi Yū, Kai Inowaki, Igawa Haruka, Tsuda Kanji, Kojima Kazuya, Yakusho Kōji

When his department is transferred to China, a household’s patriarch loses his job, the fact of which he contrives to conceal from them, continuing to leave the house each day as normal; as the days pass, family life (now built on lies) slowly but surely begins to disintegrate, in Kurosawa’s quietly enigmatic, thoughtfully unsettling, and brilliantly acted piece of social commentary. Iain.Stott

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Which Way Home (2009)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Documentary

Director: Rebecca Cammisa

Cinematographers: Lorenzo Hagerman, Eric Goethals, Rebecca Cammisa

Composers: James Lavino, Alberto Iglesias

Rebecca Cammisa’s remarkable, eye-opening, and deeply moving documentary follows the plights of a number of guardianless Central American child migrants attempting to reach the USA in search of a better life, documenting their precarious train top journeys, detailing their hopes and dreams, and following home those lucky enough to escape with their lives (and the bodies of those not). Iain.Stott

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Margot (2009)

Recommended

UK

Television Film

Series Title: Women We Loved (2009)

Director: Otto Bathurst

Writers: Amanda Coe, Meredith Daneman

Cinematographer: Florian Hoffmeister

Cast: Anne-Marie Duff, Michiel Huisman, Con O'Neill, Derek Jacobi, Lindsay Duncan, Penelope Wilton

Filmed as part of the BBC’s Women We Loved season, this visually arresting, deftly acted portrait of the famed ballerina, Margot Fonteyn – depicting her failing relationship with her wannabe revolutionary husband Tito Arias and her brief, passionate affair with Rudi Nureyev, who was half her age – proves to be a thoroughly entertaining work, and perhaps the most interesting of the trio of BBC4 films. Iain.Stott

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A Woman of No Importance. (1982)

Essential Viewing

UK

Short Television Film

Series Title: Objects of Affection (1982)

Director: Giles Foster

Writer: Alan Bennett

Cinematographer: Duncan Brown

Composer: George Fenton

Cast: Patricia Routledge

As we move from waiting room to living room to hospital bed, a lonely middle-aged woman with a love for office gossip delivers several monologues, which ostensibly update us about her ailing health, but are dominated more by the seemingly trivial details her everyday life and her observations of those around her, in this painfully funny, wincingly perceptive, and devastatingly moving one woman play; a groundbreaking masterpiece. Iain.Stott

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Autism: The Musical (2007)

Recommended

USA

Television Documentary

Director/Cinematographer: Tricia Regan

Composer: Mike Semple

In this enlightening documentary, Tricia Regan entertainingly documents the progress of The Miracle Project – a scheme designed to help children with Autism, which culminates in a staged musical – from tentative beginnings through chaotic rehearsals up until its heart-warming opening night, as well as taking a look at several of the participants’ home lives, highlighting the effects that their condition has had on their wealthy parents. Iain.Stott

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Locarno, 2000

Golden Leopard
Father (2000)

Silver Leopard
Little Cheung (2000)
Manila (2000)

Bronze Leopard
The Cast of The Hold-up (2000)
Sabine Timoteo, Love, Money, Love (2000)

Official Jury Prize
Gostanza da Libbiano (2000)

Special Jury Mention
Bronx-Barbès (2000)
In Vanda's Room (2000)

In Competition

• The Ark (2000)
• Baise-Moi (2000)
• Bronx-Barbès (2000)
• Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
• Father (2000)
• Firefly (2000)
• Gostanza da Libbiano (2000)
• Hamlet (2000)
• The Hold-up (2000)
• In Vanda's Room (2000)
• A Lingering Face (2000)
• Little Cheung (2000)
• Love, Money, Love (2000)
• The Low Down (2000)
• Manila (2000)
• 101 Reykjavík (2000)
• The Root of the Heart (2000)
• The Season of Guavas (2000)

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