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THE 2009 WORLDFEST 35mm & DIGITAL FEATURE FILM SCREENING SCHEDULE - with trailers! - v04.05
(this
is the Alphabetical Listing of the 2009 Feature
Films with Showtimes, Format, Director, Country & Mini-Synopsis)
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| FILM
TITLE |
MAIN
CAT FORMATRY |
CONDIRECTORTACT |
CC COUNTRYu |
SHOWING |
40th
Door, The |
35mm |
Elchin Musaoglu |
(Azerbajain)
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| A young boy whose father was killed by the Russian Mafia struggles to support his family but is determined to fulfill his only wish: to become a musician. | ||||
| 9mm | 35mm |
Taylan Barman |
(Belgium)
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| Behind a door at the end of a hallway, the sound of a gunshot is heard. Is it murder? Suicide? Or was it an accident? | ||||
| Air | Digital |
Ryotaro Muramatsu | (Japan) |
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| When a friend comes back to his hometown with a new girlfriend, after spending time on his artistic career in Tokyo, young Michi finds that she has very mixed emotions. Ryotaro is a former Remi Award Winner. | ||||
| All For Liberty | Digital |
Chris Weatherhead |
(USA) |
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| The true story of how Henry Felder fought for Separation from the English King, in 1776, months before Thomas Jefferson wrote his renowned Declaration of Independence. | ||||
| Angel & The Weightlifter | Digitale
Hulesia K |
Eleni Alexandrakis |
(Greece) |
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| Automorphosis | Digital |
Harrod Blank |
(USA) |
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| Documentary - The stories of America's ArtCar artists and how they were inspired. The Director, Harrod Blank, an Art Car owner will attend the premiere. | ||||
| Alone (Issiz Adam) | 35mm |
Cagan Irmak |
(Turkey) |
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| Alper, a young chef who is a womanizer begins to fall in love with Ada, a modest young 20-something who owns a shop and designs children’s costumes but his old habits are difficult to leave in the past. | ||||
| The Baker | Digital |
Gareth Lewis |
(Ireland/UK) |
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| Milo, a professional hit man running from his obligations, hides out in a remote village and becomes its new baker. | ||||
| Balancing The Books | Digital |
Meir Sharony |
(USA) |
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| An attractive woman enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. | ||||
| Bedknobs & Broomsticks | 35mme
Hulesia K |
(USA) |
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| Classic Children's film for KidFest 2009 | ||||
| Bitter/Sweet | Digital |
Jeff Hare |
(USA) |
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| with actor James Brolin ~ A romantic comedy where a young coffee expert has his life turned upside down when his boss sends him to Thailand in search of what he believes to be the common robusta coffee bean. A former Remi Award Winner. | ||||
| Blue Cobalt Night (Notte Blu Cobalto) | 35mm |
Daniele Gangemi |
(Italy) |
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| Cobalt Blue is a whimsical tale that follows first-time pizza deliverer, Dino Malaspina, who realizes that his deliveries contain more than what’s expected. | ||||
| Border |
35mm |
Harutyun Khachatryan |
(Armenia)
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| In the post-soviet period, after the Armenian-Azeri conflict, we follow the life of a village, located at the border, when the villagers find a buffalo. | ||||
| Courting Condi | Digitale
Hulesia K |
Sebastian Doggart |
(USA) |
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| Cuba-Libre | 35mm |
Rai Garcia |
(Spain) |
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| After being evicted from their Kultural center, a group of squatters enter the Cuban Embassy in Madrid at the same time that Fidel Castro announces the first democratic elections... | ||||
| Death of Alice Blue | Digital |
Park Bench |
(Canada) |
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| This is a campy look at the way vampires infiltrated a top ad agency in Canada. The director is a prior Remi Award Winner at WorldFest. | ||||
| The Disappeared | Digital |
Johnny Kervorkian |
(England
UK) |
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| When his 8-year old brother disappears, young Matthew tries to put his life and sanity back together but the past keeps coming back to haunt him. | ||||
| Disappearing Male, The | Digital |
Alan Mendelsohn |
(Canada)
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| This documentary exposes one of the most important, and least publicized, issues facing the human species: the toxic threat to the male reproductive system. | ||||
| Earth | 35mm |
Alastair Fothergill | (USA) |
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| This documentary follows three animal families and their amazing journeys across the planet we all call home. Narrated by James Earl Jones and Patrick Stewart. | ||||
| Emilio | Digital |
Kim Jorgensen |
(USA) |
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| A young Mexican man searches for his sister in Los Angeles when he suspects that she was kidnapped by a local mafia kingpin. | ||||
| Favorite Son | Digital |
Howard Libov |
(USA) |
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| A diehard baseball player still in the minor leagues and nearing 30 goes home to discover that the ghosts of the past still have not died. | ||||
| Flying By - Official Opening Night World Premiere with Patricia Neal | Digital |
Jim Amatulli |
(USA) |
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| with actors Billy Ray Cyrus, Heather Locklear, Patricia Neal (Attending) and High School Musical’s Olesya Rulin~ When a successful developer goes to his 25th high school re-union and reunites with his high school band buddies, he gets a new lease on life but may have to sacrifice some things he still values. The Director is a Prior Remi Award Winner. Official Opening Night World Premiere. | ||||
| Foodfight | Digitale
Hulesia K |
Chris Taylor |
(USA) |
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| Friends For Life | Digital |
Michael Spence |
(USA) |
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| Raising 4 orphaned wolf puppies becomes a journey of discovery for a recently widowed man and his family. | ||||
| From Heaven (Quand tu descendras du ciel) | 35mm |
Éric Guirado |
(France) |
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| A young country boy is torn between supporting his family or saving a friend. | ||||
| Giovana's Father (Il Papa di Giovanna) | 35mm |
Pupi Avati |
(Italy)
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| with actor Silvio Orlando~ During WW2, A father fights for his mentally ill daughter when she is accused of murder. | ||||
| God's Little Garden (U Pana Boga Wogrodku) | 35mm |
Jacek Bromski |
(Poland) |
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| A small town in Poland is turned upside down when a witness protection plan member arrives seeking to rehabilitate his life. | ||||
| Gooby | 35mm |
Wilson Coneybeare |
(Canada) |
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| with actors Robbie Coltrane, Eugene Levy, David James Elliott ~ An 11 year old boy’s teddy bear comes to life as a six-foot friend who helps him overcome the consequences of his over-active imagination. | ||||
| Heart of Texas, The | Digital |
Mitch Wright |
(Texas) |
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| When tragedy pierces the heart of a small community on the quiet Texas plains, its townspeople witness what can happen when grace and forgiveness triumph over anguish and outrage. With Short - Running For My Father - Cody Westheimer | ||||
| Home | Digital |
Mary Haverstick |
(USA) |
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| with actors Marcia Gay Harden, Michael Gaston and Paul L. Nolan~ A young mother must deal with the aftermath of losing a breast to cancer and facing a husband who is distant and a child who is very precocious. | ||||
| Idiots and Angels | 35mm |
Bill Plympton |
(USA) |
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| A dark comedy about a man's battle for his soul. (Midnight Madness) with a Short Film - Hot Dog - directed by Bill Plympton | ||||
| Illusion of Fear, The | 35mm |
Aleksandr Kirienko |
(Ukraine) |
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| A Russian industrialist has reoccurring dreams of what he suspects may be past life experiences ~ as King Solomon. | ||||
| Is Anybody There - Closing Night Premiere | 35mm |
John Crowley |
(England UK) |
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| A young boy whose parents run a hospice becomes obsessed with death and the dying until an old magician (Michael Caine) who comes to live there helps him to overcome his morbidity. | ||||
| It All Begins at Sea | 35mme
Hulesia K |
Eitan Green |
(Israel) |
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| Kings of the Evening | Digital |
Andrew P. Jones |
(USA) |
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| Five strangers, each struggling to survive as they scratch and scheme to dig their way out of poverty, find comfort in an underground contest that can make them feel like a king, just for one evening. | ||||
| La France | 35mm |
Serge Bozon |
(France) |
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| During WWI, a French woman disguises herself as a man in order to find her husband on the front lines. | ||||
| Lahore | 35mm |
Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan | (India) |
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| Two brothers, competing in two different sports, witness the consequences of politics and nationalism involvement in sports. | ||||
| Lucky Days | Digital |
Angelica Torn, Tony Torn |
(USA) |
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| with actors Rip Torn and Will Patton ~ The summer before it was torn down, Coney Island regulars must come to term with a changing landscape amidst their entertaining but highly dysfunctional lives. | ||||
| Mario the Magician (Mario und der Zauberer) | 35mm |
Tamas Almasi |
(Hungary) |
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| An Italian entrepreneur builds a new shoe manufacturing shop in Hungary and his top aide, a married woman begins to fall in love with him. | ||||
| Me and My sister (Les soeurs fachées) | 35mm |
Alexandra Leclère |
(France) |
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| For three days running, two sisters with opposing characters are forced to co-exist. | ||||
| Messenger, The - 360 Days of Bolivar | Digital |
Shawn S Welling |
(Texas)
Special Encore Premiere on 04/26 |
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| A documentary about four “Texas Style” characters and how their life experiences led them to the lives they now lead on Bolivar Peninsula before and after Ike. We are presenting a Special Encore Premiere on Sunday April 26th at 7:00 pm. | ||||
| Mysteries of The Great Lakes | Digitale
Hulesia K |
David Lickley |
(Canada) |
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| Not Here To Be Loved (Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour Etre Aime) | 35mm |
Stephane Brize’ |
(France) |
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| A 50 year old man, bored with his existence, finds his taste for life rekindled after taking his first tango lesson. | ||||
| On the Count of Zero (Sifir Dedigimde) | 35mm |
Gokhan Yorgancigil |
(Turkey)
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| When a young and mysterious girl tries hypnosis to remember how she misplaced a precious book, she is lead on a fantastic journey into the ancient capital of the east, Istanbul. | ||||
| On The Ropes (Dans Les Cordes) | 35mm |
Magaly Richard-Serrano |
(France) |
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| When two friends, raised like sisters both compete in the French boxing championship, their bonds will be tested and their families pay the consequences. | ||||
| Out of Control | 35mm |
Weidong Yuan |
(China
PRC) |
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| Gu Tau has devoted his whole adult life to the new car market as an after-sale specialist dealing with irksome customers, but after an issue with rust specks on a new car, things begin to unravel and this road trip to western China becomes very abnormal. | ||||
| Outsider, The (El Desconocido) | 35mm |
Rafael Pinero |
(Mexico) |
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| Tired of being bullied, a high school student turns to violence in order to find respect and acceptance. | ||||
| Palo Pinto Gold | Digital |
Anthony Henslee |
(Texas) |
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| Country legends Roy Clark and Mel Tillis are 1930’s comrades that recount an infamous Texas Rangers gun brawl set in the late 1800’s with a special appearance of Kinky Friedman as the Texas. World Theatrical Premiere | ||||
| Panic (Panik) | 35mm |
Atilla Till |
(Hungary) |
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| When a young woman wakes up one morning with panic attacks, she is confronted with one choice: she remains anxious forever or she pulls herself together and starts a new life. | ||||
| PigHunt | 35mm |
Jim Issac |
(USA) |
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| As a young man invites his friends to spend the weekend in his uncle’s remote ranch, they all begin tracking the awful truth about his uncle's demise and the legend of The Ripper. Midnight Madness. | ||||
| Prince of Cockfighting | Digital |
Yeng Grande |
(Philipines) |
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| When a young man begins searching for the best gamecock, he ends up finding love instead. | ||||
| Ratatouille | Digitale
Hulesia K |
Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava |
(USA) |
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| Classic Children's Film - KidFest Presentation. | ||||
| Shadows in The Sun | 35mm |
David Rocksavage |
(England
UK) |
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| with actress Jean Simmons ~ Set in the late 1960s, a mysterious young loner changes the lives of one family and helps them rediscover their roots and deep affection for one another. | ||||
| Small Crime - (Mikro Egklima) | 35mm |
Christos Georgiou |
(Greece) |
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| On a very small Greek Island, a young police officer’s life changes as he finds himself investigating the death of one of the island’s inhabitants. | ||||
| Sounds Like Teen Spirit | 35mm |
Jamie J. Johnson |
(England
UK) |
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| This documentary follows the journey of 4 loveable contenders to the world’s largest children’s song-writing contest including all the foibles of growing up along the way. | ||||
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| Stellina Blue | Digital |
Gabe Scott |
(USA) |
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| After having been through a terrible accident, a normally reclusive young woman is given a second chance at life and an extraordinary gift. | ||||
| Under Our Skin | 35mm |
Andy Abrahams Wilson |
(USA) |
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| A probing documentary about Lyme disease and how it often goes undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. | ||||
| Waiting for the Sun (Aspettando il Sole) | 35mm |
Ago Panini |
(Italy) |
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| One long night, three bad boys come across a remote hotel and take the hotel’s night porter hostage. | ||||
| What’s Up? (Wesh, Wesh qu’est-ce qui se passe?) | 35mm |
Rabah Ameur-Zaïméche |
(France) |
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| After being deported from France, a young man returns to his old neighborhood and is faced with its social decomposition. | ||||
| Wind Blows Round, The (Il Vento Fa Il Suo Giro) | 35mm |
Giorgio Diritti |
(Italy) |
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| When a young French couple moves to a dying little Italian village in the Alps, they do their best to rejuvenate the place but acquire many enemies along the way. | ||||
| Work Hard, Play Hard (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré) | 35mm |
Jean-Marc Moutout |
(France) |
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| A young consultant struggles to convince himself and his entourage of the merits of his new assignment. | ||||
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