The 21st Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival

Film festival

A film festival is an organised, extended presentation of films in one or more movie theaters or screening venues, usually in a single locality. More and more often film festivals show part of their films to the public by adding outdoor movie screenings...

 held in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 that ran from March 11 to 21, 2010.

This edition of the Ankara International Film Festival

Ankara International Film Festival

The Ankara International Film Festival is a film festival, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI, which has been held in Ankara, Turkey since 1988.-Editions:...

, organized by The World Mass Media Research Foundation and accredited by FIPRESCI

FIPRESCI

The International Federation of Film Critics is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world for "the promotion and development of film culture and for the safeguarding of professional interests." It was founded in June 1930 in...

, opened with a gala on the evening of March 10 at the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, at which the foundation special awards were presented, and closed with a screening of The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time

The Dust of Time is a film by Theodoros Angelopoulos shown on 12 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and well received by critics....

directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos.

11 films competed in the National Feature Competition, 28 films competed in the National Short Film Competition under fiction, experimental and animation categories and 17 films competed in the National Documentary Film Competition under amateur and professional categories. The festival films were shown at three venues, including Batı Movie Theaters, German Cultural Center and Çankata Municipality Contemporary Arts Center with the final awards being given out in a ceremony held at the Presidential Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall.

Among the filmmakers who were present to present their films at the festival were Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak

Siddiq Barmak in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute in 1987.He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films...

, Aslı Özge and Aku Louhimies

Aku Louhimies

Aku Louhimies is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.-Education:He studied at the University of Helsinki and in University of Art and Design Helsinki.-Career:Louhimies has directed six feature-length films:...

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Foundation special awards

• Aziz Nesin Endeavour Award: Turkish actress Filiz Akın
• Mass Media Award: NTV culture and art programme Gece Gündüz
  Gece Gündüz
  Gece Gündüz was a police procedural soap produced by the Altıoklar Productions, the main characters are Aslan Aydemir and Kemal . They both work at the Istanbul Organized Crime section of the police force...
  
  produced and presented by Yekta Kopan
• Oak of Art Award: Turkish poet Gülten Akın
  Gülten Akin
  Gülten Akın is a female poet, born in 1933. Her poetry is considered culturally significant to Turkey.-External links:* at Lyrikline.org, with audio, Turkish text, and translation into German....
  
  

National feature film competition awards

• Best Film Award: Men on the Bridge
  Men on the Bridge
  Men on the Bridge is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Aslı Özge. The film, which tells about the young generation who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul and come to the center of the city to make a living, follows a rose seller, a taxi driver and a traffic police officer whose...
  
  directed by Aslı Özge
• Best Movie Director Award: Pelin Esmer for 10 to 11
  10 to 11
  10 to 11 is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer’s uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a rundown apartment building that is under threat of demolion.- General release...
  
  
• Best Leading Actor Award: Mert Fırat for Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by İlksen Başarır, starring Mert Fırat as a young deaf man who falls in love with a call-center worker...
  
  
• Best Leading Actress Award: Saadet Işıl Aksoy for Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by İlksen Başarır, starring Mert Fırat as a young deaf man who falls in love with a call-center worker...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actor Award: Volga Sorgu for Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixed up with the mob in pursuit of his dream of running his own car park...
  
  
• Best Supporting Actress Award: Selen Uçar for A Step into the Darkness
  A Step into the Darkness
  A Step into the Darkness is a 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by Atıl İnaç, starring Suzan Genç as an Iraqi refugee who travels to Turkey in search of her missing brother after losing her entire family when soldiers raid their village...
  
  
• Best Screenplay Award: Pelin Esmer for 10 to 11
  10 to 11
  10 to 11 is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer’s uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a rundown apartment building that is under threat of demolion.- General release...
  
  
• Cinema Writers Association Best Film Award: Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixed up with the mob in pursuit of his dream of running his own car park...
  
  directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er and Maryna Gorbach
• Mahmut Tali Öngören Special Award: On the Way to School
  On the Way to School
  On the Way to School is an award-winning 2008 Turkish documentary film directed by Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan. It has attracted 78,000 people in eight weeks, an impressive showing for a documentary....
  
  directed by Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan

National documentary film competition awards

• Best Documentary Film Award: Prison No 5: 1980–1984 directed by Çayan Demirel
• Runner-up: The Children of September directed by Meltem Öztürk and Hülya Karcı

National Feature Film Competition Jury

• Ertan Yılmaz
• Mahir Günşiray
• Tayfun Pirselimoğlu
• Fırat Yücel
• Hasan Ali Toptaş
  Hasan Ali Toptas
  Hasan Ali Toptaş is a prominent Turkish novelist and short story writer. He was born in Denizli, Turkey. His first short story book Bir Gülüşün Kimliği was published in 1987...
  
  

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Films in Competition

• 10 to 11
  10 to 11
  10 to 11 is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Pelin Esmer.The film, loosely based on the story of Esmer’s uncle, Mithat Esmer, who also plays the leading role, follows an elderly collector in İstanbul who lives in a rundown apartment building that is under threat of demolion.- General release...
  
  directed by Pelin Esmer.
• Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking
  Black Dogs Barking is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er with co-director Maryna Gorbach, starring Cemal Toktaş as a naive young parking attendant who gets mixed up with the mob in pursuit of his dream of running his own car park...
  
  directed by Mehmet Bahadır Er and Maryna Gorbach.
• How Are You?
  How Are You? (film)
  How Are You? is a 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Özlem Akovalıgil about two groups of travelers as they travel to Europe from Istanbul.- Plot :...
  
  directed by Özlem Akovalıgil.
• Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language
  Love in Another Language is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by İlksen Başarır, starring Mert Fırat as a young deaf man who falls in love with a call-center worker...
  
  directed by İlksen Başarır.
• Men On The Bridge
  Men on the Bridge
  Men on the Bridge is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film directed by Aslı Özge. The film, which tells about the young generation who lives in the suburbs of Istanbul and come to the center of the city to make a living, follows a rose seller, a taxi driver and a traffic police officer whose...
  
  directed by Aslı Özge.
• On the Way to School
  On the Way to School
  On the Way to School is an award-winning 2008 Turkish documentary film directed by Orhan Eskiköy and Özgür Doğan. It has attracted 78,000 people in eight weeks, an impressive showing for a documentary....
  
  directed by Orhan Eskiköy.
• The Pain
  The Pain (film)
  The Pain is an award-winning 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Cemal Şan, which looks at generation gaps through the story of an old man and his granddaughter. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on , has been screened at numerous international...
  
  directed by Cemal Şan.
• Piano Girl
  Piano Girl
  Piano Girl is a 2009 Turkish comedy-drama film, directed by Murat Saraçoğlu, starring Tarık Akan and Şerif Sezer as two elderly people forced to question their histories and reveal their big secrets...
  
  directed by Murat Saraçoğlu.
• The Ringing Ball
  The Ringing Ball
  The Ringing Ball is a 2009 Turkish comedy film, written and directed by Mahir Egemen Ertürk, about a team of blind football players who want to attend the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens...
  
  directed by M. Egemen Ertürk.
• A Step into the Darkness
  A Step into the Darkness
  A Step into the Darkness is a 2009 Turkish drama film, directed by Atıl İnaç, starring Suzan Genç as an Iraqi refugee who travels to Turkey in search of her missing brother after losing her entire family when soldiers raid their village...
  
  directed by Atıl İnaç
  Atil Inac
  Ileri Atil Cayan Inac aka Atil Inac is a Turkish film writer and director.-Early life:Born into a filmmaker family, his mother a screenwriter, and father a producer, Inac went to the United States for high school education. Upon graduation, he studied philosophy at the University of...
  
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• There
  There (film)
  There is a 2009 Turkish drama film, written, produced and directed by Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu, which follows 24 hours in a the life of a troubled family...
  
  directed by Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu.

Out of Competition Screenings

• The Hopeless directed by Yılmaz Güney
  Yilmaz Güney
  Yılmaz Güney, was a Kurdish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor from Turkey. Many of his works are devoted to the plight of ordinary, working class people in Turkey.- Biography :...
  
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• The Crab Game
  The Crab Game
  The Crab Game is a 2009 Turkish drama film written and directed by Ali Özgentürk.- Plot :Asya is a research assistant working in the history department of a university in İstanbul. Taking her 5-year-old daughter with her, Asya embarks on a journey back to her hometown with the dream of starting...
  
  directed by Ali Özgentürk
  Ali Özgentürk
  Ali Özgentürk is a renowned Turkish film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was born in 1947 in Adana, Turkey. After studying philosophy and sociology at Istanbul University, he became involved in theater, as an actor, director, and playwright. He founded Istanbul's first street theater...
  
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National Documentary Film Competition Jury

• Hakan Aytekin
• Hacı Mehmet Duranoğlu
• Yaprak İşçibaşı
• Özgür Şeyben
• Mutlu Binark

Amateur Films in Competition

• Baghdad directed by Berrak Samur
• On the Coast directed by Merve Kayan and Zeynep Dadak
• The Silence Time directed by Çiğdem Mazlum and Sertaç Yıldız
• The Wall directed by Emre Karadaş and Deniz Oğuzsoy
• A Fatal Dress: Polygamy directed by Müjde Arslan
• The Song Of Romeyika directed by Yeliz Karakütük
• The Cling directed by Musa Ak
• The Colors of Zilan directed by Nagihan Çakar

Professional Films in Competition

• Prison No 5: 1980–1984 directed by Çayan Demirel
• The Children of September directed by Meltem Öztürk and Hülya Karcı
• Bullet and Pen directed by Mustafa Ünlü
• Lady Mukhtar directed by Didem Şahin
• Miraz directed by Rodi Yüzbaşı
• An Argonaut in Ordu directed by Rüya Arzu Köksal
• Silicosis directed by Ethem Özgüven, Petra Holzer and Selçuk Erzurumlu
• The Last Season: Shawaks directed by Kazım Öz
• Coffee Futures directed by Zeynep Devrim Gürsel

Out of Competition Screenings

• 4857 directed by Ethem Özgüven, Petra Holzer and Selçuk Erzurumlu
• Thoughts on the Cinema of Halit Refiğ directed by Çetin Tunca.
• Istanbul Is Naked directed by Zafer Biçen.
• Leyla and Mecnun Abroad directed by Zeynep Özkaya.
• Memduh Ün: Big World Of Small People directed by Çetin Tunca.
• The Losers directed by Gül Büyükbeşe Muyan.
• Passion of Metin Erksan directed by Sadık Battal.

Power and Rebellion

Power and Rebellion was selected as the basic theme of the festival in order, according to the organisers, to bring up the need for an uprise to the public agenda of the public, and because, In an era of uncertainty and abdication like today, we all need to watch these films and then think about our future once again.

• The Commute directed by Elías León Siminiani.
• Rabbit à la Berlin
  Rabbit à la Berlin
  Rabbit à la Berlin is a 2009 documentary film, directed by Bartek Konopka. The script was written by Konopka and Mateusz Romaszkan, and the movie was a joint German-Polish production with the producers Heino Deckert and Anna Wydra. It was nominated for an Oscar in 2010 for "Best Documentary, Short...
  
  directed by Bartosz Konopka.
• Living on Your Feet: The Struggles of Cipriano Mera directed by Valentí Figueres.
• Confessions of an Economic Hitman directed by Stelios Kouloglou
  Stelios Kouloglou
  Stelios Kouloglou is a Greek journalist and writer. He is the creator of the news web channel "TVXS" and a board member of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation. He is, also, a columnist for the LIFO magazine....
  
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• Kavalar - The White Zone directed by Ralf Küster.
• Stammheim
  Stammheim (film)
  Stammheim - Die Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe vor Gericht is a 1986 West German film directed by Reinhard Hauff...
  
  directed by Reinhard Hauff.
• If.... directed by Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Anderson
  Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an Indian-born, British feature film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading light of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave...
  
  .
• Burn!
  Burn!
  Burn! is a 1969 film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo; starring Marlon Brando. The plot is loosely based on events in the history of Guadeloupe.The main character is named after William Walker, the famous American filibuster...
  
  directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
  Gillo Pontecorvo
  Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He worked as a film director for more than a decade before his best known film La battaglia di Algeri was released...
  
  .
• Red Psalm
  Red Psalm
  Red Psalm is a 1972 film by Miklós Jancsó. The film's Hungarian title translated as And the People Still Ask, a quote from a poem by the Hungarian nationalist poet Sándor Petőfi.-Plot:Red Psalm centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890...
  
  directed by Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó
  Miklós Jancsó is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.Jancsó achieved international prominence from the mid-1960s onwards, with works including The Round Up , The Red and the White and Red Psalm .Jancsó's films are characterized by visual stylization,...
  
  .
• United Red Army
  United Red Army (film)
  is an award-winning 2007 film written, directed and produced by Kōji Wakamatsu. It stars Akie Namiki as Hiroko Nagata and Go Jibiki as Tsuneo Mori, the leaders of Japan's leftist paramilitary group the United Red Army...
  
  directed by Kôji Wakamatsu
  Koji Wakamatsu
  is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses...
  
  .
• Rosa Luxemburg
  Rosa Luxemburg (film)
  Rosa Luxemburg is a 1986 West German drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. It was entered into the 1986 Cannes Film Festival where Barbara Sukowa won the award for Best Actress.-Cast:* Barbara Sukowa as Rosa Luxemburg...
  
  directed by Margarethe von Trotta.
• Entranced Earth
  Entranced Earth
  Entranced Earth is a 1967 Brazilian drama film directed by Glauber Rocha. It was entered into the 1967 Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI Award...
  
  directed by Glauber Rocha.
• Viva Maria!
  Viva Maria!
  Viva Maria! is a 1965 comedy-adventure film starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau as two women named Maria who meet and become revolutionaries in the early 20th century. It also starred George Hamilton as Florès, a revolutionary leader. It was co-written and directed by Louis Malle, and...
  
  directed by Louis Malle
  Louis Malle
  Louis Malle was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. He worked in both French cinema and Hollywood. His films include Ascenseur pour l'échafaud , Atlantic City , and Au revoir, les enfants .- Early years in France :Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries,...
  
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Masters

The Masters programme exhibited new works by the world's most established and renowned filmmakers such as Robert Guédiguian

Robert Guédiguian

Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....

, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...

, Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke

Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...

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• Achilles and the Tortoise
  Achilles and the Tortoise (film)
  is a 2008 Japanese film written, directed, edited by Takeshi Kitano. The film is the third and final part of Kitano's surrealist autobiographical trilogy, starting with Takeshis and continuing with Glory to the Filmmaker!....
  
  directed by Takeshi Kitano
  Takeshi Kitano
  is a Japanese filmmaker, comedian, singer, actor, film editor, presenter, screenwriter, author, poet, painter, and one-time video game designer who has received critical acclaim, both in his native Japan and abroad, for his highly idiosyncratic cinematic work. The famed Japanese film critic...
  
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• The White Ribbon
  The White Ribbon
  The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...
  
  directed by Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke
  Michael Haneke is a German born Austrian filmmaker and writer best known for his bleak and disturbing style. His films often document problems and failures in modern society. Haneke has worked in television‚ theatre and cinema. He is also known for raising social issues in his work...
  
  .
• Eden Is West
  Eden Is West
  Eden Is West is a 2009 film by Greek-French director Costa-Gavras about an illegal immigrant called Elias who tries to get to Paris. The original title in Greek is “Paradissos sti Dysi” and since it is a Greek-French production, the also original French title is “Eden à l'ouest'...
  
  directed by Costa-Gavras
  Costa-Gavras
  Costa-Gavras, is a Greek filmmaker, who lives and works in France, best known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller, Z...
  
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• Rembrandt's J'Accuse...! directed by Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway
  Peter Greenaway, CBE is a British film director. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular...
  
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• The Army of Crime
  The Army of Crime
  The Army of Crime is a 2009 French drama-war film directed by Robert Guédiguian and based on a story by Serge Le Péron, one of three credited for the screenplay. It received a wide release in France on September 16, 2009 and opened in the United States in 2010.The film deals with the events of the...
  
  directed by Robert Guédiguian
  Robert Guédiguian
  Robert Jules Guédiguian is a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. Most of his films star Ariane Ascaride and Jean-Pierre Darroussin....
  
  .
• The Dust of Time
  The Dust of Time
  The Dust of Time is a film by Theodoros Angelopoulos shown on 12 February 2009 at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and well received by critics....
  
  directed by Theodoros Angelopoulos.

From All Over the World

From All Over the World was a collection of premieres and prize-winning film selections which aims to present the best of current international filmmaking.

• Opium War directed by Siddiq Barmak
  Siddiq Barmak
  Siddiq Barmak in Panjshir, Afghanistan, is a film director and producer. He received an M.A degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute in 1987.He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films...
  
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• Backyard directed by Carlos Carrera
  Carlos Carrera
  Carlos Carrera is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. He directed El crimen del Padre Amaro , which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film....
  
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• Tales from the Golden Age
  Tales from the Golden Age
  Tales from the Golden Age is a 2009 Romanian omnibus film. It was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard section at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Hanno Höfer
  Hanno Höfer
  Hanno Höfer is a German-Romanian movie director, producer and musician.Between 1990 and 1992 he studied South-eastern European History in Berlin, and later between 1994–1998, Movies and Directing at the Academy for Theatre and Film in Bucharest...
  
  , Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu & Ioana Uricaru.
• The Last Days of Emma Blank directed by Alex van Warmerdam
  Alex van Warmerdam
  Alex van Warmerdam is a Dutch screenwriter, film director, and actor. He is also a painter.-Biography:He was cofounder of the theatre group Hauser Orkater . In 1980 he founded the theatre group De Mexicaanse Hond , together with his brother Marc van Warmerdam...
  
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• The Investigator directed by Attila Gigor.
• Johnny Mad Dog
  Johnny Mad Dog
  Johnny Mad Dog is a 2008 French/Liberian film directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, based on the novel Johnny Chien Méchant by the Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala, and starring Christopher Minie, Daisy Victoria Vandy, Dagbeh Tweh, Barry Chernoh, Mohammed Sesay and Joseph Duo.It follows a group of...
  
  directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire.
• Mary and Max
  Mary and Max
  Mary and Max is a 2009 Australian clay-animated black comedy-drama film written and directed by Adam Elliot and produced by Melanie Coombs. The voice cast included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Bethany Whitmore, with narration by Barry Humphries. The film premiered on the...
  
  directed by Adam Elliot
  Adam Elliot
  Adam Elliot is an independent stop-motion animation writer and director based in Melbourne, Australia. His five films have collectively participated in over six-hundred film festivals and have received over one hundred awards, including an Oscar for Harvie Krumpet and the Annecy Cristal for Mary...
  
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• Metropia
  Metropia (film)
  Metropia is a 2009 Swedish adult animated science-fiction film directed by Tarik Saleh. The screenplay was written by Fredrik Edin, Stieg Larsson, and Tarik Saleh after a story by Tarik Saleh, Fredrik Edin and Martin Hultman. The film uses a technique where actual photographs have been altered and...
  
  directed by Tarik Saleh
  Tarik Saleh
  Tarik Saleh is Swedish television producer, animator, publisher, journalist and film director of Egyptian descent, who in early 90s was one of Sweden's most prominent graffiti artists...
  
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• Breathless
  Breathless (2009 film)
  Breathless is 2009 South Korean film by Yang Ik-Jun which revolves about child abuse and loan sharks...
  
  directed by Yang Ik-June.
• Tears of April directed by Aku Louhimies
  Aku Louhimies
  Aku Louhimies is a Finnish film director and screenwriter.-Education:He studied at the University of Helsinki and in University of Art and Design Helsinki.-Career:Louhimies has directed six feature-length films:...
  
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• The Other Bank directed by George Ovashvili
  George Ovashvili
  George Ovashvili is a Georgian film director and screenwriter.-Biography:George Ovashvili was born in Mtskheta, Georgia.He studied at the Polytechnical Institute ....
  
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• Letters to Father Jaakob directed by Klaus Härö
  Klaus Härö
  Klaus Härö, born 31 March 1971 in Porvoo , Finland, Finland-Swedish film director. In 2004, Härö won Finland's State Prize for Art.-Films:*Letters to Father Jacob *The New Mankind *Mother of Mine...
  
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• Revanche
  Revanche (film)
  Revanche is a 2008 Austrian thriller film written and directed by Götz Spielmann. It centers on the ill-fated love story between a Viennese ex-con and a Ukrainian prostitute who get involved in a bank robbery....
  
  directed by Götz Spielmann
  Götz Spielmann
  Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.Götz Spielmann grew up in Vienna. After High School, he lived in Paris for several months. From 1980 to 1987 he studied film direction and script-writing in Vienna at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien...
  
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• Samson and Delilah
  Samson and Delilah (2009 film)
  Samson and Delilah is a 2009 Australian film and was directed by Warwick Thornton. It stars Rowan McNamara and Marissa Gibson, both young first time actors. It was filmed in and around Alice Springs...
  
  directed by Warwick Thornton
  Warwick Thornton
  Warwick Thornton is an Australian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. His debut feature film, Samson and Delilah won the Caméra d'Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.-Family:Thornton was born and raised in Alice Springs...
  
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A Country: Brazil

A Country: Brazil was a lineup of 7 films, which aims to highlight the renaissance Brazilian Cinema has undergone in the 2000s.

• The Year My Parents Went on Vacation directed by Cao Hamburger
  Cao Hamburger
  Carlos Imperio Hamburger , or, simply, Cao Hamburger, is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, which gave origin also to a successful movie picture with the same title...
  
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• Brainstorm directed by Luiz Bolognesi
  Luiz Bolognesi
  Luiz Roberto Bolognesi is a Brazilian screenwriter. He won several awards as a screenwriter, including "Best Screenplay" in Grande Prêmio Cinema Brasil, Recife Cinema Festival and Troféu APCA.-External links:*...
  
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• Estamira directed by Marcos Prado.
• BirdWatchers
  BirdWatchers (film)
  BirdWatchers is a 2008 film drama set in Brazil directed by Marco Bechis. It depicts the breakdown of a community of Guarani-Kaiowa native Indians whilst attempting to reclaim their ancestral land from a local farmer....
  
  directed by Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis
  Marco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
  
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• Estômago: A Gastronomic Story directed by Marcos Jorge.
• The Elite Squad directed by José Padilha
  José Padilha
  José Padilha is an award-winning Brazilian film director and producer.Padilha emerged onto the Brazilian movie scene with his first feature film Bus 174. In 2007, Padilha directed The Elite Squad , his first fictional film. The film was a commercial and critical success, seen by more than 11...
  
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• Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
  Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures
  Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures is a 2006 Brazilian film directed by Marcelo Gomes. It was Brazil's submission to the 79th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee...
  
  directed by Marcelo Gomes
  Marcelo Gomes (director)
  Marcelo Gomes is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1999. His film Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:...
  
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In Memoriam: Eric Rohmer

In Memoriam: Eric Rohmer was a selection of two films screened in memory of the new wave auteur Eric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer

Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....

, who died that year.

• Pauline at the Beach directed by Eric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
  
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• The Green Ray
  The Green Ray
  The Green Ray is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne published in 1882 and named after the optical phenomenon . It is referenced in a film of the same name by Eric Rohmer.- Plot summary :...
  
  directed by Eric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer
  Éric Rohmer was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher. A figure in the post-war New Wave cinema, he was a former editor of Cahiers du cinéma....
  
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Immortals at Cinema's Century

Immortals at Cinema's Century was a selection of four films screened to celebrate Akira Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa

was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...

’s 100th and Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel

Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...

’s 110th birthday.

• The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
  The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz
  The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz is a 1955 Mexican film by Spanish-born writer-director Luis Buñuel. It focuses on a would-be serial killer whose plans, although elaborate, never result in an actual murder.-Plot:Archibaldo de la Cruz is a wealthy Mexican man...
  
  directed by Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
  
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• Simon of the Desert directed by Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel
  Luis Buñuel Portolés was a Spanish-born filmmaker — later a naturalized citizen of Mexico — who worked in Spain, Mexico, France and the US..-Early years:...
  
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• Yojimbo directed by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
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• Throne of Blood
  Throne of Blood
  Throne of Blood is a 1957 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. Its original Japanese title is Kumonosu-jō , which means "Spider Web Castle". The film transposes the plot of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth to feudal Japan.-Plot:...
  
  directed by Akira Kurosawa
  Akira Kurosawa
  was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 filmsIn 1946, Kurosawa co-directed, with Hideo Sekigawa and Kajiro Yamamoto, the feature Those Who Make Tomorrow ;...
  
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Midnight Cinema

Midnight Cinema was a late night screenings of the most bizarre films of the horror and thriller genres.

• Mom directed by Andres Muschietti.
• Dead Snow
  Dead Snow
  Dead Snow is a 2009 Norwegian horror film directed by Tommy Wirkola, starring Charlotte Frogner, Stig Frode Henriksen, Bjørn Sundquist, Ane Dahl Torp and Jenny Skavlan.- Plot :A woman, Sara, is being chased through the snows of Norway...
  
  directed by Tommy Wirkola
  Tommy Wirkola
  Tommy Wirkola is a Norwegian filmmaker.-Biography:Wirkola's first film was 2007's Kill Buljo that he co-wrote with Stig Frode Henriksen...
  
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• Deadspiel directed by Jay Molloy.
• Full Employment directed by Thomas Oberlies & Matthias Vogel.

Afghan Dreams

• Addicted in Afghanistan directed by Jawed Taiman.
• Afghan Chronicles directed by Dominic Morissette.
• Yelda - The Longest Night directed by Roberto Lozano.

State of the World

• Painful Years directed by Anne-Mieke van den berg.
• The Heretics directed by Joan Braderman.
• The Real World Of Peter Gabriel directed by Georg Maas & Dieter Zeppenfeld.
• Listening to The Silence directed by Pedro Flores.
• Tobacco Girl directed by Biljana Garvanlieva.