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The Grönholm Method
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2005, 115 min)
A tale of excutive überdogs from director Marcelo Piñeyro (Kamchatka, VIFF 03) that possesses a truly savage bite. A group of masters of the universe corporate types are assembled to compete for one position using something called the Grönholm method, an system meant to separate the weak from the strong. But the weak may be more wily than they appear...
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The Hours Go By
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Argentina, 2005, 85 min)
A wonderful addition to the ranks of New Argentine Cinema, Inés de Oliveira Cézar's deliciously languid film examines 12 hours in the life of a family of four--mother Rene, father Juan, four-year-old Santiago and grandmother Virginia. With minimal dialogue but a keen eye for detail and the interactions between family members, the film speaks volumes about life's ultimate truths.
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Roma
[Feature] - Vancouver Int'l Film Centre
(Argentina, 2004, 155 min)
One young man's life serves as the focal point for the struggles that tore Argentina apart in the 60s and 70s. "Argentinean director Adolfo Aristarain turns a compassionate eye towards his own spiritual and political education in the rangy, quietly affecting and rewardingly intense Roma, his most accomplished work to date."--Variety
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A Social Genocide
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Argentina, 2004, 118 min)
Fernando Solanas' shattering documentary about the systematic disemboweling of Argentina's resources and culture is a cinematic J'accuse! in which the director names those responsible for the country's spiralling national debt and abject poverty. For his honesty Solanas received six bullets but lived to tell this dark and troubling tale.
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All Points of the Compass
[Mid-Length] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Australia, 2005, 55 min)
plays with Vietnam Symphony
Charles Tran Van Lam, a lover of democracy, was foreign minister in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. Judy Rymer's affecting contemporary documentary looks at the cost of conflict and the reality of exile by telling the story of Tran Van Lam and his nine children, forced to flee to all points of the compass.
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Dhakiyarr vs. the King
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Australia, 2004, 56 min)
plays with Native New Yorker
A thought-provoking look at the clash of cultures and injustice built on ignorance, Tom Murray and Allan Collins' documentary follows the attempts of the Australian Aboriginal people known as the Yolngu to find answers and justice for their leader, who fell foul of the white man's law in the 1930s. A beautifully realized film, sure to resonate with Vancouver audiences.
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Look Both Ways
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Australia, 2005, 100 min)
A mix of tender live action and abrupt animation, Sarah Watt's mesmerizing debut takes place over a scorchingly hot weekend, as photographer Nick gets an alarming medical diagnosis, and runs into Meryl, who is dealing with her own personal crises. The convergence of their paths creates an intimate, universal and uplifting tale.
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Three Dollars
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Australia, 2005, 115 min)
Eddie has a wife, a sick child, a childhood sweetheart, a strong sense of moral courage and exactly three dollars to his name. Director Robert Connolly's story of a decent man in an indecent world is a film about the thin line between taking a stand and living on the street. "Three Dollars is easily the best Australian film of the year."--The Daily Telegraph
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Vietnam Symphony
[Mid-Length] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Australia, 2005, 52 min)
plays with All Points of the Compass
Documentarian Tom Zubrycki tells the remarkable story of the Hanoi conservatory of music's staff and students who, facing the threat of massive US bombing in 1965, fled to the countryside There they built an entire campus underground...
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Caché
[Feature] - Special Presentations
(Austria, 2005, 111 min)
Again filming in France, Austrian provocateur Michael Haneke (The Piano Teacher, The Time of the Wolf) turns to the thriller genre to critique First World complacency. Juliette Binoche and Daniel Auteuil star as a bourgeois couple who start receiving ominous videotapes on their doorstep, including tapes of themselves... A gripping, tension-filled winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes.
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Crash Test Dummies
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Austria, 2005, 93 min)
It should be clear from recent Austrian cinema that this Catholic, repressed, and sexually weird country would be inclined to use live humans as automobile industry crash test dummies. Jörg Kalt's debut feature thrusts a bickering Romanian couple into the extremely bland Viennese heartland, where they've come to make a quick buck by transporting a stolen car back home to Bucharest.
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Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine
[Short] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Austria, 2005, 17 min)
precedes Slavoj Zizek:The Reality of the Virtual
In which Austrian experimental filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky transforms a Roman Western--Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly--into a Greek tragedy... without the use of a movie camera.
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New World
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Austria, 2005, 100 min)
In 1900, Europe was a far different place. "Modern" history started in central Europe and the calamities of the past century have taken a tremendous toll on this area. Director Paul Rosdy spent years researching this film and deftly shuffles contemporary and archival footage like a deck of cards. The stories he tells make for a fascinating explication of what's become of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
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Sleeper
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Austria, 2005, 100 min)
A film of strategy and not action, this seemingly low-key feature debut from German writer-director Benjamin Heisenberg works with powerful themes of betrayal, trust and ambition to tell the story of a scientist who befriends a co-worker suspected by security officials of being part of a terrorist sleeper cell.
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Workingman's Death
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Austria, 122 min)
From the abandoned coal mines of the Ukraine to the slaughterhouses of Nigeria, working men the world over are coping with societies that increasingly have no use for them or the products of their labour. This documentary from Michael Glawogger (Megacities, VIFF 99) provides a startling glimpse of the profound impact a rapidly changing global economy has had on ordinary people.
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L' Enfant
[Feature] - Galas
(Belgium, 2005, 95 min)
Bruno is 20, and a thief. His girlfriend Sonia (Déborah François) is 18, and has just given birth to Jimmy, their child. Ill-equipped to handle this new responsibility, Bruno undertakes an horrific act, which itself begets other drastic, life-changing crises. Gripping, concise and flawless, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Palme d'Or-winner is a masterpiece.
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Hell
[Feature] - Spotlight on France
(Belgium, 2005, 98 min)
Danis Tanovic, the director of No Man's Land, returns with this gripping story chronicling the lives of three sisters, bound forever by an act of violence that they witnessed in their childhood. Starring Emmanuelle Béart, the film was written by Krzysztof Piesiewicz, who developed this film as part of a trilogy with the late Krzysztof Kieslowski.
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Mahaleo
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Belgium, 2005, 102 min)
A portrait of seven musicians who give voice to the desires and wants of their country. Made by a trio of writers and filmmakers, it is more than a documentary about music, but a statement of a country's struggle. "Over and above the sublime soundtrack, what we discover is the Malagasy people, filmed straightforwardly, with their suffering and their hope."--Le Figaro
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When the Tide Comes In
[Feature] - Spotlight on France
(Belgium, 2003, 93 min)
"All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players" applies fully to Gilles Porte and Yolande Moreau's evocative tale about Irène, an actress who makes her living performing a one woman Commedia dell'Arte-inspired show about sex and crime. When she meets a young man on the road, life imitates art and vice versa. Winner of César awards for Best First Film and Best Actress for Moreau.
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Brasileirinho
[Feature] - Brazilian Music
(Brazil, 2005, 90 min)
Now living part-time in Brazil, Finland's Mika Kaurismäki has made his second soul-stirring documentary on Brazilian music, this time focusing on choro, Brazil's original traditional music that pre-dates samba and bossa nova. Gathering together the best choro players in Brazil, Kaurismäki gives us a history of the form and plenty of astonishingly beautiful performances. It will make your heart sing.
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Cafundó
[Feature] - Cinema of Our Time
(Brazil, 2005, 101 min)
João de Camargo started life as a slave and ended it as a saint. Directors Paulo Betti and Clovis Bueno bring his story of love, religion, war, and slavery to heated and brimming life. In the role of de Camargo actor Lazaro Ramos is simply stunning.
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Estamira
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Brazil, 2004, 115 min)
Marcos Prado's poetic, philosophical and eloquent documentary follows 63-year-old Estamira, a woman with schizophrenia who, for the past 20 years, has been living at and scavenging the garbage dump known as Jardim Gramacho in Rio de Janeiro. A fascinating and ultimately humbling journey.
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Everything Blue:The Colour of Music
[Feature] - Brazilian Music
(Brazil, 2004, 76 min)
A sweeping exploration of Brazilian music--from director Jesse Acevedo--that uncovers the long history of struggle, sorrow and political dissent that underlies the soul of Brazilian samba. We follow the lives of four black women artists and one famous transvestite as they navigate the violent favelas. Beautiful to watch and wonderful to listen to.
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Favela Rising
[Feature] - Brazilian Music
(Brazil, 2005, 78 min)
Winner of the director's award at Tribeca, this electric nonfiction film by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary tells the story of a remarkable man who emerged from Rio's most violent favela and set off the nonviolent movement of Afro-Brazilian music and culture in the form of the music group known as AfroReggae.
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Georgi and the Butterflies
[Feature] - Nonfiction Features of 2005
(Bulgaria, 2004, 60 min)
plays with Phantom Limb
When state funding was cut in Bulgaria, Dr. Georgi Lulchev had to find alternate means of making money to support his home for "psychologically challenged" men. From ostrich farms to raising soybeans and silkworms, he tried--and failed--at everything... Director Andrey Paounov approaches the material with humour and humanity. Winner of the Silver Wolf Award at the Amsterdam Documentary Festival.
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