Directed by: Samuel Tourneux
Running Time: 9:00

Even Pigeons Go To Heaven
[Même les pigeons vont au paradis]

A priest tries to sell an old man a machine that he promises will transport him to heaven.

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Directed by: Josh Raskin
Running Time: 5:10

I Met The Walrus

In 1969, 14-year-old Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon's hotel room with his tape recorder and persuaded him to do an interview.

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Directed by: Chris Lavis,
Maciek Szczerbowski
Running Time: 17:21

Madame Tutli-Putli

Madame Tutli-Putli boards the night train, weighed down with all her earthly possessions and the ghosts of her past. Traveling alone, she is caught up in a desperate metaphysical adventure between real and imagined worlds. Madame Tutli-Putli confronts her demons and is drawn into an undertow of mystery and suspense. Jungian thriller? Hitchcockian suspense? Artistic tour de force? The night train awaits you.

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Directed by: Alexandre Petrov
Running Time: 26:35

My Love (Moya Lyubov)

Set in Moscow in the late 19th century, against a sonorous spring and a summer downpour, Anton, a 16-year old high-school student dreams of another reality full of romanticism and heroism. Daily life, however, is just routine. Nevertheless, he looks for something bright and pure in this life as he searches for his unique beloved, to whom he'll give his first feelings.

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Directed by: Suzie Templeton
Running Time: 32:32

Peter and the Wolf

In this new animated adaptation of the classic fable set to Prokofiev's musical score, Peter and his grandfather live in contemporary Russia, where threatening bullies line graffiti-daubed streets. The boy and old man live in depressing squalor in what looks like a makeshift army barracks. Outside is a decaying urban sprawl, yet the terrified Grandfather tries to prevent Peter from exploring the countryside with its dangerously inviting frozen lakes and giant, gnarled oaks.

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Directed by: Cynthia Wade
Running Time: 38 minutes
USA

Freeheld

Facing death from cancer, Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester of the New Jersey Police Department spends the final year of her life fighting a policy that will not allow her to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.

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Directed by: Amanda Micheli,
Isabel Vega
Running Time: 40 minutes
Colombia

La Corona (The Crown)

The contestants are murderers, guerillas and thieves. The runner-up will cry when she doesn’t get the tiara, wiping her tears with a tattooed hand. The winner will be crowned Queen, but she won’t be invited on a press tour as a role model for young girls. Instead, she will be escorted back to her cell. This is a beauty pageant like no other, and it happens every year in the Women’s Penitentiary in Bogotá, Colombia. La Coronais a character-driven documentary that follows four inmates competing for the crown in the annual beauty pageant of the Bogotá women’s prison.

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Directed by: Tim Sternberg
Running Time: 14 minutes
USA/India

Salim Baba

Salim Muhammad lives in North Kolkata, India, with his wife and five children. Since the age of ten, he has made a living screening discarded film scraps for the kids in his surrounding neighborhood, using a hand-cranked projector that he inherited from his father. A pragmatic businessman as well as a cinephile, Salim runs his projector with his sons in the hopes that they will carry on his legacy of showing films to the local children.

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Directed by: James Longley
Running Time: 21 minutes
USA

Sari's Mother

Sari’s Mother follows the struggle of an Iraqi mother to help her 10-year-old son, Sari, who is dying of AIDS. The Zegum family lives in the restive Mahmudiyah area of central Iraq. Sari’s mother administers injections to her son, whose condition is gradually deteriorating. She seeks help in Baghdad’s hospitals and ministries, but discovers that the Iraq healthcare system is in even worse condition under the US occupation than before the war.

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The Tonto Woman

A cattle rustler meets a woman who is living in isolation after being held prisoner for eleven years by the Mojave Indians.

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At Night

Three young women share their problems while spending the holidays in a hospital cancer ward.

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Il Supplente (The Substitute)

The arrival of an unusual newcomer galvanizes the students in a high school classroom.

 

Le Mozart des Pickpockets (The Mozart of Pickpockets)

Two bumbling pickpockets encounter and then cannot shake a young deaf-mute boy. After adopting him as their own, their fortunes take a turn for the better.

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Tanghi Argentini

A man who must learn to dance the tango in two weeks asks an office colleague for help.