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NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL SHORTS
Nine short films will be presented with the twenty-five feature films and several special events in the 42nd New York Film Festival, which runs from October 1 to 17, 2004. Three of the nine shorts are from the United States and the other entries are from Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Highway 403, Mile 39 (USA, 2004, 8 minutes) Mitch McCabe's fractured, highly personal account of an accident, in which memory competes with fear in trying to establish what really happened. Shows before Triple Agent.
The Patio (El Patio) (Switzerland/Argentina, 2003, 15 minutes) In Milagros Mumenthaler's languid vignette, two sisters bide their time waiting for their mother to call from abroad. Shows before In the Battlefields. Frozen River (USA, 2004, 15 minutes) One Christmas eve, the maternal instincts of two women who smuggle immigrants across the Canadian border are tested. Directed by Courtney Hunt. Shows before Or (My Treasure).
Boy (New Zealand, 2004, 15 minutes) A hit-and-run accident sets in motion Welby Ings's haunting, visually inventive tale about coming of age and into sexuality. Shows before Tarnation.
Little Apocrypha No. 2 (Kis Apokrif 2) (Hungary, 2004, 22 minutes)
A moody, dream-like work by Kornel Mundruczo, in which the whole world seems to open up on the banks of a river. Shows before Woman is the Future of Man.
Flowers for Diana (France, 2003, 8 minutes) In Reynald Bertrand's unsettling portrait of willful abjection, a documentary crew trails a belligerent, freeloading dropout on her way to the bottom. But who will get the last laugh? Shows before The Holy Girl.
Supermarket (USA, 2003, 12 minutes) In show biz you're one flop away from minimum wage, so count your blessings and smile: you still have your fan base. Directed by Illeanna Douglas. Shows before Rolling Family.Nits (UK, 2004, 11 minutes) In Harry Wootliff's film, seven-year-old James wants to tell his mum something, but when his parents come back from the hospital, he learns how hard it is to say certain things. With Keane.
Never Even (Nie Solo Sein) (Germany, 2003, 10 minutes) Done than said easier is drink to something getting, backwards going world a in up wake you when: end the was beginning the in. Schomburg Jan by directed. With Sideways.
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GLOBAL LENS FILM SERIES 2005
Film festival favorites Whisky (from Uruguay; with multiple awards at Cannes, soon to screen at the Toronto Film Festival), Uniform (China, award winner at Rotterdam and Vancouver festivals), Buffalo Boy (Vietnam, to be screened at Toronto) and What's A Human Anyway (Turkey, award at Istanbul Film Festival) are among the titles to be distributed in the U.S. in 2005 by The Global Film Initiative, it was announced today by Susan Weeks Coulter, Chairperson of the Initiative, and Holly Ornstein Carter, the Initiative's Executive Director.
All are part of the slate of developing-world films that comprise the Initiative's 2005 Global Lens touring series, to be seen in major cities across the United States.
The full roster of titles includes:
Buffalo Boy (Vietnam; Minh Nguyen-Vo) A coming-of-age tale set in 1940 French-occupied Vietnam about 15-year-old Kim, his aged father, and their lives raising water buffaloes in the country's southernmost landscape. Premiere at 2004 Locarno Film Festival.
Daughter of Keltoum (Algeria; Mehdi Charef) A young woman raised in urban Switzerland, returning to a remote part of Algeria to reunite with her estranged mother, confronts her past and culture.
Fuse (Bosnia/Herzegovina; Pjer Zalica) A comedic look at an opportunistic town in Bosnia preparing for a visit from President Clinton.
Hollow City (Angola; Maria Joao Ganga) The story of an Angolan orphan and the characters he meets on the run in a country wracked by a 30-year war. Winner of prizes at the Film Festival of African, Asian and Latin American Cinema and at the Paris Film Festival.
Kabala (Mali; Assane Kouyate) A young African, banished from his village in shame, returns four years later to experience the conflict between local traditions and modern ways.
Lili's Apron (Argentina; Mariano Galperin) A broad comedy about Argentina's economic crisis, involving an out-of-work man who masquerades as a woman to work as a live-in maid.
Uniform (China; Diao Yinan) New guises alter the lives of a man and his girlfriend in an industrial city in a remote part of China. Winner of awards at Vancouver International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam.
What's A Human Anyway (Turkey, Reha Erdem) The chaos of daily life consumes a large cast of characters in Istanbul, involving the loss of memory and the mystery of a precious ring. Winner of the FIPRESCI (International Critics' Association) Award at the 2004 Istanbul Film Festival.
Whisky (Uruguay; Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll) The story of the owner and his employee in a sock factory in Montevideo, who, having barely communicated over the years, are suddenly forced to pose as a long-married couple. Winner, Prize of Regard Original from the Un Certain Regard Jury and the FIPRESCI (International Critics' Association) Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival
Five of the films are recipients of the Initiative's completion grants to films from the developing world.
# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 9/7/2004 03:17:44 PM Comments (0)
According to Variety, "Vincent Gallo will star in indie helmer Abel Ferrara's Mary, an eclectic Bible-themed drama that Ferrara described [at the Venice Film Festival] as 'a search for the heart of my religious upbringing.'" Gallo will reportedly play two roles in the film, including the star-director of a controversial film-within-the film about the life of Christ. The actress who plays Mary Magdalene in that film, and who later develops an obsession with her, is the central focus of Mary.
"I had been thinking about this project since way before The Passion [of the Christ]," said Ferarra.
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