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Festival Celebrates 2nd Year of Discovering and Sharing Independent Film August 6, 2009 Strasbourg, France - The Strasbourg International Film Festival presents feature films selected to screen in the following categories - Drama, Post Modern Drama, Culturally-Inclined Drama, Dramedy, Romantic Comedy, Psychological Thriller, SciFi-Fantasy-Horror, Experimental, Animation and Documentary . The 2009 Strasbourg International FIlm Festival runs August 28 through Sept 6 in Strasbourg, France and Kehl, Germany. Strasbourg, France - Le Strasbourg International Film Festival pr�sente les longs-m�trages s�l�ctionn�es pour participation dans les cat�gories suivants - Drame, Drame Post-Moderne, Drames de Th�me Culurelle, Com�die Romantique, Thriller Psychologique, Sci-Fi/Fantaisie/Horror, Experimentale, Animation et Documentaire. Le 2009 Strasbourg International Film Festival aura lieu du 28 ao�t au 6 septembre � Strasbourg, en France et � Kehl, en Allemagne. For the 2009 Strasbourg International FIlm Festival 50 feature-length films were selected including 11 World Premieres, 13 International Premieres, 11 European Premieres, 3 Mainland European Premieres, 8 French Premieres, and 3 Strasbourg Premieres representing 37 countries with 31 first-time filmmakers. Pour le 2009 Strasbourg International Film Festival 50 long-m�trages ont �t� s�l�ctionn�es avec 11 premi�res mondiales, 13 premi�res internationales, 11 premi�re europ�enes, 3 premi�res Europ�enes continentales, 8 premi�res Fran�aises et 3 premi�res Strasbougeoises repr�sentant 37 pays et 31 r�alisateurs o� c'�tait leur premier long-m�trage. The films screening in DRAMA are: Les films en projection en DRAME sont: Baghdad, Texas / USA (Director: David H. Hickey) 90 mins. - 2009 - While a Middle Eastern dictator is fleeing his occupied country his plane crashes on the Mexican Border. He is inadvertently carried into Texas by illegal immigrants. Struck by a truck driven by three cowboys, he is taken back to their exotic game ranch where they slowly discover his identity. (Pendant qu'un dictateur arab se sauve de son pays en situation de guerre son avion s'�crase sur la fronti�re mexicain. Il est donc ammen� en Texas par des immigrants ill�gals. Ecras� par une voiture conduit par trois cowboys, il est ammen� � leur ranch de gibier o� ils d�couvrent en cours de temps, son identit�.) International Premiere Bergfest (Without You I'm Nothing) / Germany (Directed by Florian Eichinger, 1st Feature) 89 mins. - 2008 - A weekend in the Bavarian Alps. 25-year-old HANNES meets his father after 8 years of separation in a little mountain hut. By the influence of their very different girl friends ANN and LAVINIA, the stage-director-father and his actor-son cautiously try to make a new start. A bold venture, leading all of them to an abyss of unforeseen cruelty. (Un week-end aux Alpes Bavariens. HANNES, ag� de 25 ans, retrouve son p�re apr�s 8 ans de s�paration dans une petite maison de montagne. Sous l'influence de leurs petitets copines tr�s diff�rentes, ANN et LAVINA, le r�laisateur de th�atre/p�re et son fils/acteur essayent de se faire une nouvelle vie.) French Premiere Broken Hill / Australia/USA (Directed by Dagen Merrill. Starring Timothy Hutton) 105 mins. - 2009 - Set against the backdrop of a drought-ridden, rural sheep-ranching community in the heart of Australia's desolate Outback, BROKEN HILL is the story of an aspiring high school music composer, Tommy McAlpine (18), who struggles against his father's expectations, cultural stereotypes, and the lack of musicians in his small town. (Film� dans la d�sol�e brousse australienne, Broken Hill est l'histoire d'un lyc�en apsirant � avoir une carri�re de compositeur de musique, Tommy McAlpine (18), qui lutte contre les attentes de son p�re, des st�r�otypes culturelles et le manque de musiciens habitant dans son village.) French Premiere God's Ear / USA (Directed by Michael Worth) 110 mins. - 2008 - Noah Connelly is a boxer with a tireless opponent: Autism. When he meets a fly-by-the-seat-of-her-pants dancer named Alexia, both find themselves becoming atracted to each other and must face a bridge between them that neither are sure they are prepared to cross. (Noah Connelly est un boxer avec un adversaire infatiguable -l'Autisme. Quand il renconre une strip-teaseuse spontan�e, ils se retrouvent attir�s l'un par l'autre et doivent faire des pas que ni l'un ni 'autre n'est a�r d'�tre pr�par� � faire.) European Premiere Forecast / Bulgaria (Directed by Sophia Zornitsa) 102 mins. - 2008 - Margarita leaves the famous reporter Marco Matanich and joins her brother going for a windsurfing vacation with his friends from different Balkan countries on a Turkish island. Marco arrives on the island �only� for the board Margarita stole from him. (Margarita finit par quitter le journalist c�l�bre, Marco Matanich et rejoint son fr�re en vacances avec ses amis des diff�rents pays balkaniques sur une �sle turke. Marko d�barque sur l'�sle "que" pour la planque de surf que Margarita lui a vol�.) French Premiere Madre Mia / France (Directed by Stefan Libiot) 71 mins. - 2009 - Conversations with mother. (Conversations avec la m�re) Strasbourg Premiere Mita Meista Tuli (What Became of Us) / Finland, Russia/Finland (Directed by Miika Ullakko) 123 mins. - 2009 - Haunted by their childhood pasts friends are faced with their demons and made to tell the tale.(Tracass�s par leurs histoires d'enfance des amis sont forc�s � confronter leurs propres d�mons et d'en raconter l'histoire.) European Premiere Films selected for POST MODERN DRAMA are: Films s�l�ctionn�es en DRAME POST-MODERNE sont: 3 Saisons (3 Seasons) / Canada (Directed by Jim Donovan) 100 mins - 2008 - Life finds a way. (La vie trouve un moyen.) Mainland European Premiere Aspettando Il Sole/ Italy (Directed by Ago Panini, 1st Feature) 95 mins. - 2008 - The place is Italy, anywhere at the beginning of the Eighties. Three bad boys stumble across a remote hotel, looking for something to amuse them through the long hours until dawn, they decide to take the hotel�s night porter hostage. The Bellevue Hotel is full of guests who breathe and sob behind doors. They act out of love and despair, in whispers and screams. Only when these stories start to intertwine do the walls dissolve revealing the visible thread that links their destinies. ( L'endroit c'est l'Italie, vera le d�but des ann�es quatre-vingt. Trois voyous tombent sur un hotel isol�, cherchant de quoi s'qmuser pendqnt les longues heures qui suivent avant le jour, ils d�cident de prendre en hotage le concierge de nuit. La Bellevue Hotel est rempli de clients pleurant et respirant deri�re les portes. Ils agissent par amour et par d�s�spoir, en murmurant et en criant. Que quand ces histoires commencent � se m�ler peut-on voir les liens connectant leurs destins.) Strasbourg Premiere Bureaucracy / USA (Directed by Mark Perreault, 1st Feature) 87 mins. - 2009 - A loyal employee overburdened by a corrupt boss carefully plots a murder to save himself and his blind sister from economic hardship. (Un employ� surcharg� par un chef corrompu complot attentivement un meurtre pour se sauver lui-m�me et sa soeur des privations �conomiques.) International Premiere La Rina/The Pit / Brazil (Directed by Marcelo Galv�o) 85 mins. - 2008 - Instead of showing typical poverty in Brazil, La Ri�a unveils the opposite by unmasking a sick and cruel elite. Based on true facts, La Ri�a highlights the polemic of bare knuckle fights in a playboy party where drugs and drinks are served on silver trays. (En lieu de montrer la pauvret� de Brazil comme on le fait d'habitude, La Rina d�montre l'inverse en d�voilant une �lite cruel et impitoyable. Bas� sur des faits vrai, La Rina met l'accent sur la pol�mique des bagarres � mains nue dans des f�tes de playboy o� les drogues ainsi que les boissons vous sont servis sur des plateaux en argent.) European Premiere Love Me Still / UK (Directed by Danny Hiller, 1st Feature) 96 mins. - 2007 - �Love Me Still� is an urban street movie with elements of the classical gangster Brit flick combined with the melodrama of unrelenting love. ('Love Me Still' est un film contemporain de la rue avec les �l�ments d'un film gangster classique de la Grande Bretagne combin�s avec la melodrame d'un amour acharn�.) Mainland European Premiere MURO �Nalet Olsun Icimdeki Insan Sevgisine� / Turkey (Directed by Sasmaz Zubeyr, 1st Feature) 97 mins. - 2008 - Muro and �eto who were released from prison recently, come back to homeland to start their revolution from their village. Their aim is to get married and to be an honorable reformist. However there is an unexpected surprise waiting for them in the village. Muro and �eto were married off two Russian women by the headman of the village when they were at prison. Muro and �eto have to carry out their revolution dream by being divorced from them. Therefore they return to İstanbul� (Muro et �eto, r�camment lib�r�s du prison reviennet � leur pays de naissance pour commencer une r�volution. Leur but est de se marier et de devenir des reformistes honn�tes. Cependant il y a une surprise inattendu qui les attend au village. Muro et �eto ont �tait mari�s � deux femmes russes par le maire de la village pendant qu'ils �tait en prison. Muro et �eto doivent continuer poursuivre leur r�ve de r�volutionaires en se divor�ant. Ils rentrent donc en Istanbul.) European Premiere Uneasy / USA (Directed by Kenneth Compton, 1st Feature) 80 mins. - 2009 - Michael, a disconnected youth, is involved in the death of an old Russian woman. Easily escaping his pursuers, he cannot run from his conscience, forcing him to make the ultimate sacrifice. (Michael, un jeune perdu, se retrouve impliqu� dans la mort d'une femme russe ag�e. S'�chappant facilement de ses poursuivants, il ne peut pas s'�chapper � son conscience, ce qui le force � faire la sacrifice supr�me.) World Premiere Un peu plus d'�ternit� / France (Directed by Niav Conty, 1st Feature) 75 mins. - 2008 - Anne exists. She doesn't know why, or how long it will last. She is alone. In her routine life, she is confronted by the absurdity of human behavior, the strange nature of communication, and the tragic-comedy of jumbled encounters. (Anne existe, mais ne sait pas pourquoi, ou pendant combien de temps �a durera. Elle est seule. Dans sa vie ordinaire, elle est confront� par l'absurdit� de la comportement humaine, la nature �trange de la communication, et la trag�die comique des rencontres inexplicables.) World Premiere Films screening in CULTURALLY-INCLINED DRAMA are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en DRAME DE THEME CULTURAL sont: Forward/Backward / USA (Directed by Elizabeth Spear/Kendall Lynch, 2nd/1st Feature respectively) 96 mins. - 2009 - Clayton lost his wallet, and he hasn�t paid the water bill. Which wouldn�t be so bad, except he also lost his job sweeping up at the theater. Small, East Texas towns like Reklaw don�t have too many jobs for guys with a brain injury, slight paralysis and an occasional lack of good judgment. And no, in case you were wondering, he ain�t retarded. (Clayton a perdu son portefeuille, et n'a pas pay� son facture d'�l�ctricit�. Ce qui ne serait pas une situation de d�s�sp�ration, sauf qu'il a aussi perdu son taffe comme gardien � un th��tre. Des petits villages � l'est du Texas n'ont pas beaucoup de taffes pour un mec avec un l�ger blessure au cerveau, une faible paralysie et une manque de bon jugement occasionelle. Et non, cas o� vous vous le demandiez, il n'est pas attard�.) International Premiere Jose Ignacio / Uruguay (Directed by Ricardo Preve) 83 mins. - 2009 - A summer love story that happens in a little village of the coast of Uruguay between a writer and a woman who teaches surf. (Une histoire d'amour d'�t� dans une village en en Uraguay entre un �crivain et une enseignante de surf.) International Premiere Shiro's Head / Guam (Directed by Kel Muna/Don Muna, 1st Feature) 80 mins. - 2008 - A modern part of a forgotten history, 'Shiro's Head' takes us to the Pacific island of Guam, USA where outcast Vince Flores (Don Muna) struggles to come to terms with his family's history of secrets and a dark past of his own. Shunned from his family for the death of his father, his attempt to reconcile causes his family's past to catch up to him for the last time. (Une partie moderne d'une histoire oubli�e, � la T�te de Shiro � nous prend � l'�le Pacifique de Guam, USA o� Vince Flores banni (Don Muna) les luttes pour en venir � un accomodement avec l'histoire de sa famille de secrets et un pass� sombre � lui. *La T�te de Shiro est le d�but de film de caract�ristique produit, �crit et dirig� par les fr�res Don et Kel Muna. Leur sc�nario est adapt� de leur nouvelle originale autoris�e � La L�gende de Shiro �. Tire tout � fait sur l'emplacement dans Guam, USA, l'�le r�gle naturellement le cadre pour les circonstances de vie dans une petite ville. ) European Premiere El regalo de la Pachamama / Bolivia (Directed by Toshifumi Matsushita, 1st Feature) 104 mins. - 2008 - A spiritual docudrama set in Bolivia, where a 13-year-old boy lives a traditional life with his family near Uyuni, a salt lake. (Un docudrame spirituelle qui tient lieu en Bolivie, o� un gar�on de 13 ans vit une vie traditionelle avec sa famille pr� d'Uyuni, un gravi�re en sel.) European Premiere Village Tales / Poland (Directed by Wlodzimierz Krygier, 1st Feature) 62 mins. - 2008 - A culturally-inclined rural docudrama about life in Poland. (Un docudrame culturelle au sujet de la mode de vie en Pologne.) World Premiere Films screening in DRAMEDY are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en DRAMEDY sont: Boppin' At The Glue Factory / USA (Directed by Jeff Orgill, 1st Feature) 81 mins. - 2009 - A junkie nurse stumbles into his dream job � running the graveyard shift at a convalescent home. (Un infimier junkie se retrouve avec son taffe parfait en tant qu'infirmier de nuit � une maison pour les convalescents.) Strasbourg Premiere Der Mond und Andere Liebhaber (The Moon and Other Lovers) / Germany (Directed by Bernd B�hlich) 101 mins. - 2008 - The film narrates the story of Hanna, a woman who will not take life's set backs and knock-downs sitting down. Instead, she takes them in her stride, picks herself up and marches onward. This is a woman who continually draws new courage from her inexhaustible will to live. Whatever losses and uncertainties come her way, she remains true to herself. (Le film raconte l'histoire d'Hanna, une femme qui fait face aux probl�mes de la vie. Cette femme touve son courage � travers sa volont� in�puisable de vivre. Quoique lui arrive, elle reste fid�le � sois-m�me.) French Premiere Herbeast Comes to Life / USA (Directed by Timothy Williams, 1st Feature) 90 mins. - 2009 - An over-the-top comedy about a young man who goes on a journey to find his place in the world. (Un excendent com�die superieur au sujet d'un jeune homme qui part en voyage pour trouver sa voie dans le monde.) World Premiere Na Lepom Plavom Dunavu (The Beautiful Blue Danube) / Austria, Hungary, Serbia/Montenegro / Serbia/Montenegro (Directed by Darko Bajic) 107 mins. - 2008 - The ship �Kriemhild� is a floating sin city where people from East and West share the same bourgeois dreams and consumer�s utopia. In the post heroic, post aesthetic phase- only a dream has survived: the need for love. (Le bateau "Kriemhild" est une ville de p�cher flottaisant o� les gens de l'est et de l'ouest partagnet les m�mes r�ves bourgeois. Dans cette phase non-h�roique et non-glorifi� - qu'une seule r�ve a survecu: le besoin d'amour.) French Premiere Films screening in ROMANTIC COMEDY are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en COMEDIE ROMANTIQUE sont: Love Hurts / USA (Directed by Barra Grant) 95 mins. - 2008 - Ben (Richard E. Grant) A successful doctor but an obtuse husband, is finally left by his wife (Carrie Anne Moss). Befuddled by life and romance and obsessed with winning her back, Ben is tutored by his extremely popular 17 year-old son. To his amazement Ben becomes the most desirable single man in town. (Un medcin connu mais un mari obtus est enfin quitt� par sa femme (Carrie Anne Moss). Brouill� de l'�sprit par la vie et l'amour et convaincu de la retrouver, Ben est enseign� en ce qui concerne les femmes par son fils de 17 ans, qui a pas mal de succ�s dans ce domaine l�. Ben devient donc l'homme de plus recherch� de la ville.) World Premiere Pussyfoot / USA/USA, Serbia/Montenegro (Directed by Dusan Sekulovic, 1st Feature) 97 mins. - 2008 - Irwin Pelkalvski, a bristly faced resident alien, and friends face their second coming of age in New York City. For Irwin, there are 'women' and then there are 'girls': women want to get married and girls just want to have fun. For the single Anny there are three types of men: married, gay and idiots. Polish polka bars, confusing self help books and a mythical hooker that never sleeps with her clients, confound their American journey. (Irwin Pelkalvski, un immigrant ill�gal, et ses amis, doivent se maturer pour la deuxi�me fois � New York City. Selon Irwin, il y a les 'femmes' puis les 'filles': les femmes veulent se marier et les filles ne veulent que s'amuser. Selon Annie, une c�libataire, il y a trois genres d'hommes: les mari�s, les gays et les idiots. Des bar polonais, des livres confondants et une prostitu�e mythique qui enfqite ne couche jamais avec ses clients, confonent leur voyage american.) International Premiere Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead / USA (Directed by Jordan Galland) 83 mins. - 2008 - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead is a comedy about the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some sexy vampires. Our hero, an unemployed theater director, is unwittingly dragged into an ancient conspiracy, and his friend's warning--'Don't let your ex-girlfriend suck the life out of you' -- takes on a new meaning. (Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Undead est une com�die au sujet des liens entre Shakespeare, le Sait Graal et quelques vampirers attirantes. Notre protagonist, un r�alisateur de th��tre au chomage, se retrouve tomb� dans une conspiration ancienne, et l'avertissement de son ami "ne laisse pas ta petite copine te prendre la vie" -- devient tout d'un coup plus litt�rale.) International Premiere Films screening in PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en THRILLER PSYCHOLOGIQUE sont: 31 North 62 East / Jordan, UK/UK (Directed by Tristan Loraine, 1st Feature) 100 mins. - 2009 - A female Captain in the SAS who survives an attack on her unit in Afghanistan, later discovers that her unit was sacrificed for political reasons. (Une capitaine f�minin dans les forces sp�ciales britanniques (SAS) qui survit � une attaque sur son unit� en Afghanistan, d�couvre plus tard que son unit� a �t� sacrifi�e pour des raisons politiques.) World Premiere Eugene / USA (Directed by Jake Barsha, 1st Feature) 85 mins. - 2008 - A psychological thriller about a lonely bachelor who befriends a young hustler and his girlfriend, with disastrous results for all involved. (Un thriller psychologique au sujet d'un c�libataire qui rencontre un jeune gigolo et sa petite copine, avec des r�sultats d�satreux pour tous les trois.) International Premiere Four of a Kind / Australia (Directed by Fiona Cochrane, 1st Feature) 115 mins. - 2008 - Four different women, each with a well-hidden secret they are coaxed, tricked or forced into revealing� sometimes it�s better to omit the truth. (Quatre femmes diff�rentes, chaqu'une avec un secret bien gard� auquel elles sont persuad�s, dup�s ou forc�s de r�v�ler... d�s fois la v�rit� n'est pas la bonne r�ponse.) European Premiere Print / USA (Directed by Ashley C. Beyer, 1st Feature) 81 mins. - 2008 - Print is a taut psychological thriller about Chase, a young man who sets out to confront the best-selling author he is convinced stole his life story. The only problem is, the author may be a fabrication from the mind of a duplicitous photographer. (Print est un thriller psychologique au sujet de Chase, un jeun homme qui d�barque confronter l'auteur qu'il est convqincu lui a vol� l'histoire de sa vie. La seule probl�me est que l'auteur vient peut-�tre de l'imagination d'une photographe.) International Premiere Films screening in SCI-FI - FANTASY - HORROR are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en SCI-FI - FANTAISIE - HORROR sont: The Antidote / USA (Directed by Randy Cole) 63 mins. - 2008 - A voyeuristic teenager named Jimmy witnesses a scientist's transformation into a nightmarish creature. When Jimmy investigates, the scientist turned creature pleads with him to help restore him to his former human self. What ensues is a dark bargaining between teenager and monster over homework, lust, love, and eventually death. (Un adolecent qui s'appele Jimmy est t�moin de la transformation d'un scientific en monstre. Quand Jimmy fait un peu de recherches, le scientific/monstre lui supplie de le remettre en forme humain. Ce qui suit est une suite de n�gociations noires au sujet des devoirs, des passions, de l'amour et enfin la mort.) International Premiere Clear Lake, WI / USA (Directed by Brian Ide, 1st Feature. Starring Michael Madsen) 87 mins. - 2008 - A group of six people return to their former home town (now a ghost town) to revisit the evil that drove them away 15 years ago. (Une bande de six personnes rentrent � leur ville de naissance, actuellement abandonn� pour revivre le mal qui leur a chass� de la ville il y a 15 ans.) International Premiere Finale / USA (Directed by John Elfers, 1st Feature) 93 mins. - 2008 - When Helen discovers her son was sacrificed by a demonic cult, no one believes her. Alone, she must destroy the cult to save her family. (Quand H�l�ne d�couvre que son fils a �t� sacrifi� par une culte dominique, personne ne lq croit, Seule, elle doit d�tuire la culte pour sauver sa famille.) European Premiere The Fourth Pillar / Australia (Directed by Leo Flander, 1st Feature) 87 mins. - 2009 - Rheya Fitzgerald arrives at NSG-E42, she soon finds out the school is run like a prison. The students plight becomes worse when a failed rebellion causes students to begin to disappear. (Rheya Fitzgerald arrive � NSG-E42, elle se rend vite compte que e lyc�e est ger� comme un prison. Les probl�mes des �tudiants deviennent pires quand quand une rebellion rat� fait en sortes que les lyc�ens commencent � disparra�tre.) World Premiere Locked Out / Japan (Directed by Yasunobu Takahashi, 1st Feature) 81 mins. - 2008 - Hiroshi is lost, on the road, driving aimlessly by himself, radio blaring, when he slowly realizes he is nowhere. He doesn't know exactly where he is, and reflects that he doesn't even have a specific destination. The feeling of loss lingers around him. On the way, he encounters a projection of a more violent HIMSELF, seething with hatred and viciousness. (Hiroshi est perdu, en voiture, conduisant seul avec le radio � fond quand il se rend compte qu'il n'est nulle part. Il ne sait pas exactement o� il est, et se rend compte qu'il n'a pas non plus de destination. Le setiment de perte lui comble dessus. En route, il rencontre une projection d'un version plus violent de lui-m�me, groillant d'haine et de cruaut�.) Strasbourg Premiere Treis Stigmes (Three Moments) / Greece (Directed by Petros Sevastikoglou) 80 mins. - 2008 - Love confronting three ages, three moments. (Tous les vingt ans une com�te passe et trace un chemin lumineux sur un lac. Ceux qui s�aiment r�ellement peuvent faire la travers�e en marchant sur les eaux. Un conte qui va hanter un jeune couple durant toute sa vie. Comment vivre l�amour dans son absolu. Comment affronter l�amour dans son quotidien. La maturit� ne s�inscrit pas dans le temps, elle est le fait de chaque instant.) International Premiere Films screening in EXPERIMENTAL are: Films s�l�ction�es en EXPERIMENTALE sont: The Day / Mexico (Directed by Tao Ren� Mijares, 1st Feature) 106 mins. - 2008 - One day in the life of a woman. (Un jour dans la vie d'une femme.) World Premiere For the End of Time / Slovenia (Directed by Ema Kugler, 2nd Feature. Narration by Lydia Lunch) 127 mins. - 2009 - A film about the mind... about the body, and the inability to merge these two entities. (Un film au sujet de la pens�e... du corps, et incapacit� de rejoindre ces deux entit�s.) World Premiere Jane's Paradise / Netherlands (Directed by Dee Wills, 1st Feature) 80 mins. - 2008 - Fragments of a life. Fragments of a mind. The life and mind of Jane Doe, an every-girl dealing with the 'gift' of imagination. Unraveling the darker side of her present, she struggles to break free from her past. To become what this Jane dreams of becoming...a filmmaker. (Des frangment d'une vie. Des fragments d'une pens�e, La vie et les pens�es de Jane Doe, une fille comme tous les autres qui lutte contre son imagination. D�m�lant le c�t� noir de son existance actuelle, elle veut se liberer de son pass�. De devienir ce que cette Jane r�ve de revenir...une r�alisatrice.) World Premiere The Why / USA (Directed by Anthony Pedone, 1st Feature) 97 mins. - 2009 - In the absence of love� In the absence of hate� In the absence of reason... (Quand il y a un manque d'amour... Quand il y a un manque de heine... Quand il y a un manque de raison...) World Premiere Film screenings in DOCUMENTARY are: Films s�l�ctionn�s en DOCUMENTAIRE sont: Betrayal: The Life and Art of Rudolf Bauer / Germany, U S A /USA (Directed by Ken Swartz, 1st Feature) 72 mins. - 2008 - From a Gestapo prison to the Guggenheim Museum, the story of twentieth-century abstract artist Rudolf Bauer is one of Shakespearean proportion. Yet Bauer's name and art have been largely forgotten. This documentary revisits the life and art of this important painter, from his artistic beginnings in Berlin before World War I to his pioneering contributions to abstract art and his patronage by copper magnate Solomon R. Guggenheim. Sixty years later the art of Rudolf Bauer is rediscovered. (Du prison Gestapo au musee Guggenheim, l'hisoire de l'artiste cotemporain de style abstract, Rudolf Baur en est un de proportion Shakespeareian. Cepandant, l'art de Bauer a ete largement oublie. Ce documentaire revisite la vie et l'are de cet artist important.) International Premiere Children of Armageddon / Canada, French Polynesia, Japan, Marshall Islands, New Zealand/Canada (Directed by Fabienne Lips-Dumas, 1st Feature) 95 mins. - 2008 - In the face of a potential nuclear renaissance, this passionate and deeply moving account explores the legacy of nuclear arms in Japan, the Marshall Islands, French Polynesia, New Zealand, and around the world. With the participation of: Noam Chomsky, Hans Blix, Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Arjun Makhijani, and Douglas Roche. (Ce documentaire raconte l'histoire des survivants de l'attaque nucleaire au Japon et la situation nucleaire de nos jours. Avec la participation de: Noam Chomsky, Hans Blix, Judge C.G. Weeramantry, Arjun Makhijani, et Dougals Roche.) European Premiere Guerrilla Midwife / Indonesia, U S A (Directed by Deja Bernhardt, 1st Feature) 67 mins. - 2008 - Follows Ibu Robin Lim into the trenches of her work. From Bali, where hemorrhage after childbirth is a leading cause of death, into the Tsunami disaster zone in Aceh, where her battle is fought with only one weapon, love. In this culturally mesmerizing, heart-wrenching documentary, you will discover why we must reinvent our protocols for pregnancy and childbirth in order to preserve our Planet's Humanity. (La Sage-femme Guerriere suit Ibu Robin Lim aux foss�s de son travaille. De Bali, ou l'h�morragie qui suit l'accouchement, c'est l'une des principales causes de d�c�s a au zone sinistr�e dans la province d'Aceh�l� ou sa bataille est combattu avec une seule arme, l'amour. Dans ce documentaire culturellement fascinant, qui arrache le coeur�vous decouvrirez pourquoi nous devons r�inventer nos protocoles pour la grossesse et l'accouchement, afin de preserver l'humanite de notre plan�te.) Mainland European Premiere Nuestros Desaparecidos/Our Disappeared / Argentina, U S A/USA (Directed by Juan Mandelbaum) 99 mins. - 2008 - After learning that Patricia, a long lost girlfriend from Argentina, is among the thousands who 'disappeared' during the 1976-1983 dictatorship, director Juan Mandelbaum embarks on a journey to find out what happened to her and others he knew who were kidnapped and never seen again. (Apres avoir su que Patricia, une petite copine du passe argentinienne, est parmi les milliers des gens qui ont "disparus" pendant la dictoriat de 1976-1983, realisateur Juan Mandelbaum entreprend la t�che de decouvrir ce qui lui est arrive a elle et a d'autres qu'il a connu qui ont ete kidnappes et plus jamais revus.) European Premiere Pirate for the Sea / Antarctica, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, South Africa, U S A/USA (Directed by Ron Colby) - 101 mins. - 2008 - A biographical film of Captain Paul Watson. The youngest founding member of Greenpeace Canada, he organized early campaigns protesting the killing of seals,whales and dolphins. Greenpeace ejected him for being too much of an activist. Starting his own organization, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, he went on to sink illegal whaling ships, stopped the Canadian seal hunt for ten years, permanently halted sealing in British Isles, killing of dolphins on Iki Island, Japan, etc. This documentary witnesses his latest campaigns & explores the personal and environmental history of this controversial marine environmentalist. (Un film biographical de capitain Paul Watson. Le plus jeune fondateur de Greenpeace Canada, il a organsie les plus tots exhibitions pour la protection des foks, des balines et des dolphins. Greenpeace l'a vire pour avoir ete trop activiste. Commencant son propre organisation, le Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, il a continuer par couler des bateaux de p�che illegales, a arrete la chasse des focks au Canada pendant 10 ans, arretant pour du bien la chasse des focks en Grande Bretagne, etc. Ce documentaire t�moigne ces excursions les plus recents et raconte l'histoire personelle et environmental de cet activiste maraine.) French Premiere Sweet Crude / Nigeria/USA (Directed by Sandy Cioffi, 1st Feature) 93 mins. - 2009 - Sweet Crude is the story of Nigeria's Niger Delta - the human and environmental consequences of 50 years of oil extraction, the history of non-violent protest, and the members of a new insurgency who, in the three years since the filmmakers met them as college students, became the young men of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). (Sweet Crude raconte l'hisoire du Niger Delta en Nigeria - les consequnces humaines et environmentales de 50 ans d'exploitation de p�trol et comment, en trois ans de tournage, les etudiants faisants des mainfestasions non-violents sont devenus les jeunes hommes du Mouvement pour l'emanciapation du Niger Delta (MEND). Mainland European Premiere (*Country of Filming/Country of Production) --------------------- Strasbourg International Film Festival The Strasbourg International Film Festival is an alternative, cutting-edge discovery film festival showcasing independent film from around the world mainly focusing on the works of new and emerging filmmakers, held annually. Presenting 50 feature films and over 150 short films, the Strasbourg International Film Festival works to empower and assist independent filmmakers while bringing audiences a uniquely rich and cultural filmic experience they might not otherwise have the opportunity to experience and embrace. Le Strasbourg International Film Festival est un festival alternative qui se focalise sur la decouverte du nouveau talent en ce qui concerne le cinema independant de partout dans le monde, et qui tient lieu annuelement. Presentant 50 longs-metrages et plus de 150 courts-metrages, le Strasbourg International Film Festival a pour but de donner le pouvoir aux realisateurs independants et d'ammener au public une experience uniquement enrichit et culturelle qu'ils n'aurait pas eu la chance de vivre sinon. Strasbourg International Film Festival on Facebook
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