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Lucky

Name of Film	Lucky
Director	Avie Luthra
Country	South Africa
Language	Zulu
Mins	100 mins
Producer	Christopher J. Wilmot
Synopsis	Lucky is an AIDS orphan desperate to leave his rural Zulu village for the bright lights of Durban. He is full of excitement and hope but Lucky has to learn about life the hard way, not through school or education but through an unlikely bond with a racist Indian neighbour.
Note on Director	Avie Luthra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. He began his filmmaking with a short film entitled Baby which won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Student Film in 2002.[1]His second film entitled Cross My Heart was awarded special commendation by London Film Festival TCM Shorts in 2002.[1] His screenwriting credits include episodes of The Canterbury Tales in 2003 and the screenplay for the film Indian Dream.[1] He wroteOne Night in Bhopal, a documentary for the British Broadcasting Corporation, in 2004.[1] His short film, Lucky, about a South AfricanAIDS orphan, premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival and got a special mention at the AFI Festival in Los Angeles. Lucky was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film in 2006.[1] He is currently working on an adaptation of Preethi Nair's book, A Hundred Shades of White, for the BBC.[1] As of October 2007, he was in pre-production for his first feature film, "Mad, Sad & Bad". Meera Syal and Nitin Ganatra are cast in the lead parts and the film is being produced by Bex Hopkins, who produced 'Cross My Heart' and 'Lucky', and Christine Alderson for Ipso Facto Films and Roister Doister Films.[1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rcSgBnVc7Q
Sources	en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avie_Luthra http://www.brooklynfilmfestival.org/films/detail.asp?fid=672

King of Devil's Island

Name of Film	King of Devil's Island(2010)
Original Title	Kongen av Bastøy
Director	Marius Holst
Country	Norway
Language	Norwegian
Mins	115 mins
Festival & Awards	Amanda Awards, Norway Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s) 2011 Won Amanda Best Film (Årets norske kinofilm) Karin Julsrud  Best Score (Årets musikk) Johan Söderqvist  Best Supporting Actor (Årets mannlige birolle) Trond Nilssen  Nominated Amanda Best Actor (Årets mannlige skuespiller) Benjamin Helstad  Best Cinematography (Årets foto) John Andreas Andersen  Best Production Design (Årets scenografi) Janusz Sosnowski  Best Sound Design (Årets lyddesign) Tormod Ringnes  Best Visual Effects (Årets visuelle effekter) Camilla Fossen  Otto Thorbjørnsen
Producer	Karin Julsrud
Synopsis	Norwegian winter, early 20th century. On the boys home Bastoy, a new inmate leads the boys to a violent uprising against a brutal regime. How far is he willing to go to attain freedom?
Note on Director	Marius Holst (born 16 December 1965 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian director. He went out of the International Film School in London in 1990 . Holst began his career making short film Visiting, a film that won awards both in Norway and the UK . The film 10 knives in the heart (1994) was his first feature film, and it won the Blue Angel Prize at the Film Festival in Berlin in 1995 . His next film dragonfly came in 2001 , and also it has received critical acclaim. Currently, the feature film Three Days in production and will be completed in 2010.
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DDzQBlX-M http://asianmediawiki.com/Lovely_Man
Sources	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1332134/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Devil's_Island

Lovely Man

Name of Film	Lovely Man
Director	Teddy Soeriaatmadja
Country	Indonesia
Language	Indonesian
Mins	76 mins
Producer	Indra Tamorron
Synopsis	Having grown up in the countryside, innocent Cahaya heads to Jakarta in search of her father, whom she has not seen since she was 4 years old. But the father she meets there is no longer the warm and tender man she remembers—he is selling himself to other men on the streets. Cahaya is shocked to realize that the person she runs into on the streets wearing a red miniskirt is actually her father, but can’t just dismiss her love and longing for him. Her father, Saiful, is also initially unable to accept Cahaya as his daughter, but slowly starts to open up, and the two of them start to have night time walks together.-- Busan International Film Festival
Note on Director	Teddy Soeriaatmadja (lahir di Jepang, 7 Februari 1975) adalah sutradara Indonesia. Film yang mengangkat namanya adalah Banyu Biru (2005), Ruang (2006), dan remake Badai Pasti Berlalu (2007). His first released film is Waking Banyu (Banyu Biru) an offbeat surreal road movie about a man in search of his father. His second film is Ruang (The Letter) a love triangle set in 1950s Indonesia.  The film was released March  2006 and was nominated for several categories in several Film festivals  and won Best Director in the 4th Bali International Film Festival 2006.   In February 2007 he  released the Re make of the Classic Indonesian film Badai Pasti Berlalu (Storm Shall Pass). In 2009 He released Ruma Maida which was critically acclaimed and received 13 nominations in the Indonesian Film Festival. Nowadays Teddy continues to produce films, television commercials and music videos. He is now currently based in Jakarta Indonesia.
Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DDzQBlX-M http://asianmediawiki.com/Lovely_Man
Sources	http://teddysoeriaatmadja.com/new/ http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Soeriaatmadja

The Colors of the Mountain

Name of Film	The Colors of the Mountain (2010)
Original Title	Los colores de la montaña
Director	Carlos César Arbeláez
Country	Columbia
Language	Spanish
Mins	90 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	Bogota Film FestivalYearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)2011WonGolden Precolumbian CircleBest Colombian Film Carlos César Arbeláez NominatedGolden Precolumbian CircleBest Film Carlos César Arbeláez  Los Angeles Latino International Film FestivalYearResultAwardCategory/Recipient(s)2011WonJury AwardBest Screenplay Carlos César Arbeláez
Producer	Julián Giraldo
Synopsis	Set against the breathtaking landscape of a remote mountainous area in Colombia, The Colors of the Mountain explores the lives of people caught in the middle of the war between the FARC guerillas and the army. For his ninth birthday, Manuel receives a much desired soccer ball from his father but an accident involving a runaway pig leaves his beloved ball in a minefield. Undeterred, Manuel enlists the help of Julian and Poca Luz to retrieve the ball. Manuel’s father tries to remain neutral, but he is caught in an impossible situation where families are not permitted to live in peace.This remarkable debut by Carlos César Arbeláez recounts a poignant coming of age story against the backdrop of Colombia’s armed conflict. As the pressure on the villagers increases, the only way out is to leave their land and way of life behind as they join the increasing tide of the country’s displaced. An uncertain future in the cities looms. – Diana Sanchez
Note on Director	Born in June 1967 in Medellin. Screenwriter and director of several short films and numerous documentaries for television. The colors of the mountains is his first feature film, which has won major awards at the international festival circuit, including the Kutxa-New Directors Festival San Sebastian, the first time that a Colombian received this award. His undergraduate studies were done at the Lyceum of Antioquia in Medellin and is a graduate of the School of Communication at the University of Antioquia.  http://www.proimagenescolombia.com/secciones/cine_colombiano/perfiles/perfil_persona.php?id_perfil=3892
Trailer Link	http://www.calgarylatinwave.com/2011/05/the-colors-of-the-mountain/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTlLpaD0Axs
Sources	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamen_Kalev http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Plays

IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL

IN THE NAME OF THE DEVIL (W IMIENIU DIABŁA)

Summary of the film

  

Anna is in her twenties. She’s a beautiful, clever and sensitive girl. After traumatic experiences in her “sick” family she has decided to look for shelter in a monastery. It seems that she has calmed down. But the bad memories suddenly come back in the form of nightmares. Mother Superior, who has some strange feelings for Anna claims that it is the devil that possessed Anna, promises to help using her supposedly miraculous contact with the Mother of God.

Frightened, broken down Anna confesses to the priest who helps in the parish in the nearby town. Father Stefan doesn’t believe in the devil, advices the girl to consult a doctor.

A conflict between the priest and Mother Superior breaks down. As a result of it Father Stefan can no longer minister to the monastery. The priest looks for help in the diocesan curia, which tries to intervene with no success. Mother Superior decides to break the ties with the Church which according to her is demoralized in the same way as the whole contemporary world. She undertakes to lead her nuns to the God in another way.

She calls a mysterious monk, who arrives to the monastery to help her. Both of them suggest that they were appointed by God, they promote a theory of the bodily love for Jesus, they preach The Spring of the Church, which is going to be born in their monastery.

Anna is subjected to sophisticated psychological manipulation by the undoubtedly charismatic Father Franciszek. Using his bioenergetics therapies he manages to exert enormous influence on the young nuns, who perceive him as their guru.

Anna who becomes friends with father Franciszek struggles to be loyal towards Mother Superior who once while admitting her to the monastery surrounded her with love and care. She also surrenders to Father Franciszek’s charisma and he prepares special sessions especially for her.

But the situation slowly develops.

At the closed monastery gate appears the retarded son of the sacristan, a stutterer. He is in love with Anna…

Łucja, a young nun and the closest friend of Anna in a dramatic talk tries to convince her that she is in a trap set by maniacs and the monastery turns into a sect…

Suddenly at the monastery gate appears Father Stefan. Once again he tires to explain the danger. With his noble and wise words he tells her about the real love for Jesus. Anna struggles; she doesn’t know what to do. But when she accidentally witnesses strange practices of father Franciszek and Mother Superior, who try to change into Mary and Jesus, she is nearly certain that she had been deceived.

For her “spying” she is punished with violent whipping. Father Franciszek decides to subject her to one more “trial” – partly religious, partly erotic scene when he gives her Jesus by giving her himself.  Anna escapes from the monastery.

After this terrible night she wakes up at Father Stefan’s parish. She is silence for a long time, but when she eventually starts to speak, she would say, that there is no God, neither here not there.

Soon afterwards she witnesses closing down of the monastery. Mad women together with Father Franciszek depart to the unknown.

Through the back door Anna enters the deserted monastery. She floats abort the empty interiors. The mess in the cells, food leftovers on the tables, destroyed objects of cult. Anna tries to clear this world up.