A woman's point of view from Russia.
Vera Storozheva: TRAVELING WITH PETS (2007) .
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A woman's point of view from Russia.
Vera Storozheva: TRAVELING WITH PETS (2007) .
A young woman gets dumped in Argentina enroute to a vacation.
ANA KATZ: A STRAY GIRLFRIEND (2007) .
An Indian first film shot high in Himalayas.
SHIVAJHEE CHANDRABHUSHAN: FROZEN (2007)
From Poland, a luminous evocation of resistance in old age.
DOROTA KEDZIERZOWSKA: TIME TO DIE (2007)
A former member of the Mujahideen in Afghanistan lives a life of quiet desperation in his home town of Zarqa, Jordan.
MAHMOUD AL MASSAD: RECYCLE (2007)
A story about a mother searching for her lost son shot in the actual aftermath of the Israel bombing of Lebanon in 2006.
PHILIPPE ARACTINGI: UNDER THE BOMBS (2008)
Wandering soldiers sing songs during WWI and Sylvie Testud poses as a boy. Winner of the Jean Vigo Award in France last year.
SERGE BOZON: LA FRANCE (2007)
I'd love to watch La France.
The only film by Kedziersowska I've seen is The Crows (94). Apparently the films that followed are equally good. In America they have been "festival films", which underlines the importance of festivals and the need to attend them if one wants to get a sense of the cinema being made abroad.
ANUTA SZAFLARSKA was already in several of Kedziersowska's films, they said, but it took 18 years to create this perfect vehicle. Excellent.
La France was about what I was expecting. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite jell, but lovers of the odd will and do go for it.
Wonderful Town seemed to me a more successful recommendation, though opinions vary on both, as usual.
In Thailand where the tsunami struck a young architect falls in love with a hotel employee.
ADITYA ASSARAT: WONDERFUL TOWN (2007)
The drama of a boy solider in Africa.
NEWTON I. ADUAKA: EZRA (2007)
Powerful African-American family drama from the Mississippi Delta.
LANCE HAMMER: BALLAST (2007)
Great job, Chris. I assume you are watching these films during the fest with a regular audience. Or not? How does it work for correspondents?
Kino International will distribute Wonderful Town in the US.
Yes, press attend mainly the public screenings. No press screenings at the festival venue at all since 2006. Ten of this year's festival films had commercial press screenings in San Francisco before the festival began. Of the "over 170" selections there is a rough list of 27 new ones with US distribution. Yes, Wonderful Town is one of them. If you want to know the others are
Alexandra
American Teen
Ballast
Big Man Japan
Brick Lane
Dust
Ezra
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
A Girl Cut in Two
Glass: A Portrait of Phillip in Twelve Parts
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
I Served the King of England
The Last Mistress
Mongol
The Mother of Tears
My Winnipeg
Redbelt
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon
Standard Operating Procedure
Still Life
Timecrimes
Up the Yangtze
The Wackness
Water Lilies
Wonderful Town
You, the Living
La Zona
Of course these are not guaranteed to be wide distributions or long local runs or necessarily any runs at all here in most cases.
They forgot to list Cachao: Uno Mas, which also had a press screening.
Were the tickets to the screenings easier to get this time? I just might be able to join you next year. I have a place to stay in the Bay Area (Daly City. Is that reasonably close to the venues?)