World Cinema

• Elchin GULIYEV
• Azerbaijan
• 2009
• 82min

Among the petty street thugs and young hustlers living in the far-flung outskirts of Baku is Rustam, a teenaged boy with aspirations to musical stardom. Upon hearing of his father’s death, Rustam is forced to find a way to provide...

World Cinema

• Adama DRABO,Ladji DIAKITE
• Mali
• 2009
• 84min

In the dark night of Mali, with the sound of Kora, the traditional musical instrument of Mali, the legend of “Fantan Fanga (The Power of the Poor)” begins. Prior to the presidential election, an albino is found decapitated. Fafa, ...

World Cinema

• Felix van GROENINGEN
• Belgium
• 2009
• 96min

Becoming successful doesn’t require a good rearing environment. The thirteen-year-old boy in this film is proof of just that. Although the boy grew up in an environment where his father behaved like a dog and lived in his grandmot...

World Cinema

• Patrice CHÉREAU
• France
• 2009
• 90min

Daniel works as a handyman in a newly rising building, and he sleeps there. Due to his free but rebellious personality, few people pay visit to him except an unknown mentally challenged man who occasionally breaks into the buildin...

World Cinema

• Cyril De GASPERIS
• France
• 2009
• 71min

Felicia is a helper taking care of Anna who is confined to a wheelchair after dementia. Enduring temperamental and unmanageable Anna, she seldom keeps contact with the outside other than the nurse Michelle who visits occasionally....

World Cinema

• Dagur KÁRI
• Iceland
• 2009
• 90min

Jacques is the surly, heart attack prone owner of a dive bar. After yet another coronary, he meets Lucas in the hospital, a homeless man despondent beyond repair. With an eye to passing on his legacy, Jacques takes Lucas under win...

World Cinema

• Mama KEITA
• France,Senegal
• 2009
• 81min

Adama, who achieved accomplishment as a scientist in France, returns to his motherland after fifteen years when he received a letter saying his grandmother was in critical condition. His grandmother and sister, Aicha, greet him, b...

World Cinema

• GUO Xiaolu
• UK,France,Germany
• 2009
• 98min

“As a Mainland Chinese filmmaker, I think world cinema needs to move away from its focus on specific cultural identities?to go further, and to do something broader and wilder.” ? Guo Xiaolu Mei is a young Chinese woman feeling tr...

World Cinema

• Claire MCCARTHY
• Australia
• 2009
• 101min

A young Australian couple adopting from India fall into a bureaucratic nightmare in Calcutta when they go to collect their daughter. While they wait for the adoption to be completed, Fiona and Ben come to learn some hard truths ab...

World Cinema

• Alexander PROSHKIN
• Russia
• 2009
• 112min

In 1956, a woman in a small Russian town picked up a religious icon, danced with it, and allegedly froze on the spot. She remained that way for 128 days, and the event came to be known as Zoya’s Trance. In a series of individual s...