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AWARDS:
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BEYOND BELIEF 2
by ABHIJIT DAS GUPTA - India
16 physically challenged went on an expedition to demand equal respect. They treked through areas that normal people would dread to dare.
Special Prize to Best Documentary Film | |
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PANTOMIME
by HECTOR SUÑOL BERT - Spain
TIKO, a mime, wants to discover which is his place in this complicate puzzle that is life. The mime through his performances wants to reveal the parody in which we are living.
Special Prize to the Best Fiction Film | |
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...WE DECLINE ALL RESPONSABILITY...
by LUCIENNE LANAZ - Switzerland
"La Ruine du Moujik" is an old farm house from 1590, in the Bernese Jura, which is being renovated and transformed inside. During two years the camera observed the work carried out by craftsmen and labourers on site.
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TABLE OF DELICACIES
by ALDO LAUREL and NANCY DE SANTIAGO - Mexico
Every child as every person's living child, has a special taste for his own needed "table of delicacies".
Screenplay, Nancy de Santiago | |
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NO ESCAPE
by CHIRANJEEVI NANDA - India
A slum boy is victim of physical abuse, sexual harassments, physical torture by his Master and circumstances. Veenu starts a journey to end his life and get rid of all his problems, included his inability to shoulder the burden of a deaf dumb brother and sick mother. Destiny is different from his wish, there is No Escape.
Integral Realization | |
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D'ENTRE LES MORTS
by ALAIN BASSO - France
When Roger meets Pauline, the perspective to have finally found his next masterpieces'diva incites him to consider the remake of his fetich movie, "Vertigo" by Alfred Hitchcock. But all is not gold that glitter.
Actress Performance, Patricia RECANATI | |
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THE WAIF
by NAREN MULTANI - India
The 'Hand' explores the devastation of a mind marinating in the abyss of its own darkness. The riotously colored backdrops and the fiendish details of the street add to the perversity.
Actor Performance, Vivek Sharma | |
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LIMINAL
by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS - USA
A woman. Her body. A destructive, controlling voice. These are the elements of primitive confrontation that lock the women of LIMINAL into a seething battle of elimination. Think it's a dream?
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IO PARLO !
by MARCO GIANFREDA - Italy
Bruno, 12 years old, would like to be friend of Luca (25), the boyfriend of his sister Claudia, but Luca doesn't even see him. When Bruno catches him talking with another girl, he sees the chance to reach his goal.
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KAIKOYASHINAIGUSA
by CHIKAKO TOMITA - Japan
This movie exists with sericulture as the theme. "KAIKO" (Japanese) is silkworm.
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MOUSE RACE!
by PAUL DAMIEN WILLIAMS - Australia
Australians will bet on anything - but mice!? A fascinating and quite funny journey into the seedy underworld of mouse racing. | |
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NOSHINTO SHAMPORO
by TITA PORTELA - Spain
Somewhere in the peruvian amasonian rain forest an asháninka father will try to find the better teacher for his daughter. | |
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TEENAGERS
by PAUL VERHOEVEN - France
Beside not very commendable teenagers, there exist some others, who are never showed? but who can have a beneficial influence on the youths adrift. But sometimes it is necessary to agree to pay the full price, like the corn grain which must die to bear fruit? | |
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OFFICIAL SELECTION:
In alphabetical order:
...WE DECLINE ALL RESPONSABILITY... by LUCIENNE LANAZ
A BIG BALL OF FOIL IN A SMALL NY APARTMENT by SEAN LOGAN
BEYOND BELIEF 2 by ABHIJIT DAS GUPTA
D'ENTRE LES MORTS by ALAIN BASSO
DUVIDHA by SHARAT KUMAR
EL VALOR DE LAS MUJERES; LA LUCHA POR EL DERECHO A LA TIERRA by ROSSANA LACAYO
FRIZON by JAN-EJE FERLING
IO PARLO ! by MARCO GIANFREDA
KAIKOYASHINAIGUSA by CHIKAKO TOMITA
KALANDIA -ACHECKPOINT STORY by NETA EFRONY
KATCHING by MONA HUNEIDI
LE MURMURE DES RUINES by LILIANE DE KERMADEC
LETTERS FROM AMERICA by NEZAM MANOUCHEHRI
LIMINAL by STEPHEN KEEP MILLS
LUCREZIA by RAY MIZZI
MAWLA'S WEDDING by ZOLTAN ENEVOLD
MOUSE RACE! by PAUL DAMIEN WILLIAMS
MUDHAL MUDHAL MUDHAL VARAI by KRISHNAN SESHADRI GOMATAM
NIGHTCLUB STORY by JEFFREY P. NESKER
NO APARCAR - SALIDA DE CABALLOS - GRACIAS by LUC GOBYN
NO ESCAPE by CHIRANJEEVI NANDA
NOSHINTO SHAMPORO by TITA PORTELA
PANTOMIME by HECTOR SUÑOL BERT
PASSAGE by PAULINE HIGGINS
SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR OR ONE INFINITELY SMALL DOSE by EKATERINA HRISTOVA RIBAREVA
TABLE OF DELICACIES by ALDO LAUREL and NANCY DE SANTIAGO
TEENAGERS by PAUL VERHOEVEN
THE ARCHER'S HAND by HAIXIAO DU
THE CHEF'S LETTER by SYBIL H. MAIR
THE DEVIL'S WATER by AMIRUL ARHAM
THE HEALTH AND HAPPINESS by RUTH SLINGER
THE INSEPARABLES by PANKAJA THAKUR
THE SHAFTESBURY PLAYERS by CORNELIA HAYES O'HERLIHY and JOHN HAYES
THE WAIF by NAREN MULTANI
The selection was made among more than a hundred films.
Festival du Cinéma de Bruxelles
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Festival du Cinéma de Bruxelles - 2009 Awards
