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Riza

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Riza
  • Turkey
  • 2007
  • 109min

“Rıza, a typical example of life here, is the victim of his fears and is pursued by feelings of guilt. One of my concerns as writer and director was to represent the complexity of his inner life.” ?Tayfun Pirselimo?lu Riza is ...

World Premiere The Ring

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The Ring
  • Canada
  • 2007
  • 90min

The Ring is a coming-of-age drama where 12-year-old Jessy sees his destiny and vows to fight it. Weighing down on Jessy is his brother’s life as a drug trafficker, his sister’s uncomfortable, burgeoning sexuality, a runaway junkie...

Magnus

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Magnus
  • Estonia,UK
  • 2007
  • 86min

Inspired by a true event, Magnus tells the story of a young man that neither parent expected to live beyond his mid-teens. With an ineffective mother on one side, and a hedonistic, oblivious father on the other, Magnus’ illness dr...

Counterparts

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Counterparts
  • Germany
  • 2007
  • 96min

Increasing rage defines the family at the heart of Counterparts. Cop Georg is married to schoolteacher Anne, a compulsively angry woman. Her children fear her outbursts, and her husband tolerates them with reticence. Georg has con...

Munyurangabo

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Munyurangabo
  • Rwanda,United States,Hong Kong
  • 2007
  • 97min

The 1994 genocide in Rwanda has been explored in several films over the past several years, most notably in the high profile Hotel Rwanda and Shooting Dogs. But Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyurangabo is the most elegant and moving so far ...

International Premiere Boxing Day

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Boxing Day
  • Australia
  • 2007
  • 82min

One of Australia’s most innovative and daring filmmakers, Kriv Stenders returns with this film about a man’s harrowing, struggle with a choice between domestic reconciliation and permanent destruction. Co-conceived with lead actor...

The Art of Negative Thinking

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The Art of Negative Thinking
  • Norway
  • 2007
  • 79min

Referred to as a burlesque drama, The Art of Negative Thinking is a razor-sharp black comedy that subverts the correctness of positivism and revels in reality and the acceptance of it. When thirty-something Geirr is confined to a ...

International Premiere West 32nd

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West 32nd
  • United States,Korea
  • 2007
  • 86min

The classic case of friends on opposing side of the law is the basis for Michael Kang’s follow-up to the coming of age comedy-drama The Motel. John Kim is a lawyer at a Manhattan law firm investigating a Korean gangland murder. On...

Jellyfish

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Jellyfish
  • Israel,France
  • 2007
  • 78min

Jellyfish is a serio-comic ensemble wherein multiple lives intersect and occasionally touch. Laced with a whimsy to complement the angst, the characters live their lives against the backdrop of an allegorical sea. Among them are c...

The Hard-Hearted

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The Hard-Hearted
  • Russia
  • 2007
  • 82min

First time director Alexey Mizgirev tackles the thorny subject of corruption in contemporary Moscow through the filter of a young man just arrived in the city. Anton arrives from the country fresh out of the military and with only...

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