SPECIAL SCREENINGS

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Cinematographer: Wojciech Todorow
Director: Piotr Łazarkiewicz
Country: USA
A single day in a seashore town. This is where the characters of seven short stories live next to each other. Young people of different environments, different social statuses, education, and different tempers. Sometimes they pass each other in the street, on the quay, on the beach. Some of them know each other. The film tells their stories with simple scenes, touching on the essence of the problems of their lives.
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ANAMORPH
Cinematographer: Fred Murphy
Director: Henry Miller
Country: USA
Experienced detective Stan Aubrey is drawn into the case of a psychopathic serial killer who is enacting anamorphosis - a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create hidden meanings - only with human bodies. The crime scenes resemble those of a previous serial killer who was tracked down and killed by Aubrey five years before.
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APPALOOSA
Cinematographer: Dean Semler
Director: Ed Harris
Country: USA
Set in the Old West territory of New Mexico, Appaloosa revolves around a pair of hired guns who come to clean up a dangerous town run by a ruthless, powerful Randall Bragg and his band of outlaws. While boldly bringing new order to the town, the two fearless lawmen find their job complicated by the arrival of a young widow.
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BALLAST
Cinematographer: Lol Crawley
Director: Lance Hammer
Country: USA
The Mississippi delta in winter provides the backdrop for this socially realistic drama from the US South. Twelve-year-old James here with his mother, who has to work hard to make out an existence for the two of them. While his mother spends many hours a day working in a badly paid job, James is left to his own devices. As he wanders about the neighbourhood, he gets to know a group of teenagers. Seeking to impress them, he agrees to use his motorbike to occasionally transport drugs for them.
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BODY OF LIES
Cinematographer: Alexander Witt
Director: Ridley Scott
Country: USA
Roger Ferris is a covert CIA operative working in Jordan searching for terrorists who have been bombing civilian targets. Ferris uncovers information on the Islamist mastermind Al- Saleem. He devises a plan to infiltrate Al-Saleem’s terrorist network with the help of his boss back in Langley, Ed Hoffman. Ferris enlists the help of the Chief of Jordanian Intelligence, Hani Salaam on this operation, but he doesn’t know how far he can trust him without putting his life in danger.
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THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
Cinematographer: Benoît Delhomme
Director: Mark Herman
Country: UK, USA
Set during World War II, a story seen through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-yearold son of the commandant at a concentration camp, whose forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
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DEATH DEFYING ACTS
Cinematographer: Haris Zambarloukos
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Country: UK, Australia
During Harry Houdini’s tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a psychic. The medium and her daughter attempt to con Houdini during a highly publicised séance to contact his mother whose death has haunted him for many years. However all does not go to plan…
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THE FIGHT
Cinematographer: Philippe Lavalette
Director: Anais Barbeau-Lavalette
Country: Canada
12-year-old Jessy has a tough childhood, but he doesn’t realize it. All the kids in his neighborhood have the same. In this underprivileged area of Montreal, reality hits hard. When his family life turns chaotic, he loses what’s left of his innocence. But even when pinned down to the mat, Jessy will find the strength to fight to escape his destiny.
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GENOVA
Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Country: UK
The exotic Italian town of Genova provides a fresh start for Joe and his two daughters: a family seeking new lives after the sudden death of their mother. Kelly, the 16-year-old, explores the sexy and dangerous underbelly of this mysterious new world, while the youngest, Mary, has just seen the ghost of her mother wandering the streets.
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GOOD
Cinematographer: Andrew Dunn
Director: Vicente Amorim
Country: UK, Germany
A literary professor, John Halder explores his personal circumstances in a novel advocating compassionate euthanasia. When the book is unexpectedly enlisted by powerful political figures in support of government propaganda, Halder finds his career rising in an optimistic current of nationalism and prosperity. Seemingly inconsequential decisions lead to choices, which lead to more choices... with eventually devastating effect.
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HOUSE
Cinematographer: Marcin Koszałka
Director: Robby Henson
Country: USA
In rural Alabama, two couples find themselves in a fight for survival. Running from a maniac bent on killing them, they seek refuge in a desolate house. They soon realise the killer has purposely lured them to this house and that they are now trapped.
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JERUSALEMA
Cinematographer: Nic Hofmeyer
Director: Ralph Ziman
Country: South Africa
The tale of Lucky Kunene, a self-made entrepreneur climbing the criminal underworld ladder one rung at a time. Born into a poor family in Soweto in the dying years of Apartheid, the odds were stacked against him. However, working a menial, dead end job, was never an option for this ambitious, talented and impatient young man. For Kunene and many of his generation, battling the police is a badge of honor, and doing time in jail is an everyday reality.
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LOLA MONTES
Cinematographer: Christian Matras
Director: Max Ophüls
Country: France
The film tells the tragic story of the life of Lola Montes who was a great adventurer and stopped being the attraction of her circus after having been the lover of various important men.
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THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS
Cinematographer: Dante Spinotti
Director: Michael Mann
Country: USA
The film is set in the 18th century while the war between England and France is raging in the American colonies. It tells the story of a white Native American who raised by a Mohican tribe leads a life in accordance with nature and his tribe’s custom, without interfering into the New World matters. However, fate and the love for a general’s daughter will sweep him into a battle that is not his.
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NIGHTS IN RODANTHE
Cinematographer: Affonso Beato
Director: George C. Wolfe
Country: USA, Australia
Adrienne Willis, a woman with her life in chaos, who retreats to the tiny coastal town of Rodanthe, in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to tend to a friend’s inn for the weekend. Here she hopes to find the tranquility she so desperately needs to rethink the conflicts surrounding her - a wayward husband who has asked to come home, and a teenaged daughter who resents her every decision. Almost as soon as Adrienne gets to Rodanthe, a major storm is forecast and a guest named Dr. Paul Flanner arrives.
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PHOTOGRAPH, THE
Cinematographer: Yadi Sugandi
Director: Nan Triveni Achnas
Country: Indonesia
Sita (25), a karaoke bar hostess, recently moves in a small attic room. The room is located inside a house-cum-photo studio that belongs to Johan (50). She finds out that Johan has only a few months to live. The fact prompts Sita to help him fulfilling his three wishes, which are represented by three photographs
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RESOLUTION 819
Cinematographer: Igor Luther
Director: Giacomo Batiatto
Country: France, Poland, Italy
35-year old policeman quits his job in Marseilles to start cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal in Hague. He is sent to Bosnia. The country is still torn by war and he encounters only obstacles. He has to face women: wives, mothers and daughters desperately seeking for their loved ones and begging for help. He prepares a list of all missing, more than 8000 men and boys. His investigation leads him to traces of mass executions and large excavations, possibly mass graves.
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ROCKNROLLA
Cinematographer: David Higgs
Director: Guy Ritchie
Country: UK
When a Russian mobster sets up a real estate scam that generates millions of pounds, various members of London’s criminal underworld pursue their share of the fortune. Various shady characters, including Mr One-Two, Stella the accountant, and Johnny Quid, a druggie rock-star, try to claim their slice...
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SPRING 1941
Cinematographer: Ryszard Lenczewski
Director: Uri Barbash
Country: Israel, Poland
Adaptation of a story by Ida Fink. Clara, a famous pianist is the only person from the family to have survived the Holocaust. After many years she comes to Poland to give a concert. When she enters the concert hall, her memories immediately come back. When the Germans came, her husband and two daughters escaped to a nearby village, where a Polish peasant, Emilia, came to their aid...
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SURVEILLANCE
Cinematographer: Peter Wunstorf
Director: Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Country: USA
Two FBI agents track two sick, horrific serial killers with the help of three of their wouldbe victims - all of whom have wildly different perspectives an different stories to tell.
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W.
Cinematographer: Phedon Papamichael
Director: Oliver Stone
Country: USA
According to Oliver Stone, this biography of George W. Bush is an impartial and true portrait of the American president.





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