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Film Festivals 2009

Seraphine (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Martin Provost
Starring: Yolande Moreau, Ulrich Tukur, Anne Bennent, Genevieve Mnich, Nico Rogner, Franco...

Frenchwoman Seraphine de Senlis, lived from 1864 to 1942. A shepherdess and housekeeper, in her private hours she painted incredible floral arrangemen... Read more

Silent Light (2007)

7.3/10
Director: Carlos Reygadas
Starring: Cornelio Wall Fehr, Maria Pankratz, Miriam Toews, Peter Wall, Jacobo Klassen, El...

A transcendent meditation on love and religion, filmed in Northern Mexico by native auteur Carlos Reygadas ('Battle in Heaven'). The story revolves ar... Read more

Sin Nombre (2009)

7.6/10
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Edgar Flores

Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin Ame... Read more

Solo (2008)

8.6/10
Director: David Michod, Jennifer Peedom

The tragic story of sea kayaker Andrew McAuley's fated journey as he attempted to traverse the Tasman sea between Tasmania and New Zealand. A video ca... Read more

Soul Power (2008)

7.1/10
Director: Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Starring: Muhammad Ali, James Brown, B B King, Don King, Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz, The Sp...

In 1974, concurrent with Muhammed Ali and George Foreman's 'rumble in the jungle', Kinshasa, capital of then-Zaire, also staged a 3-day music festival... Read more

Summer Hours (2008)

7.2/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Charles Berling, Dominique Reymond, Juliette Binoche, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob

Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning "Summer Hours" is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal... Read more

Synecdoche, New York (2008)

7.5/10
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Michelle Williams, Catherine Keener, Em...

Celebrated screenwriter Charlie Kaufman ('Being John Malkovich', 'Adaptation') tries his hand at directing with this tale of frustrated theatre direct... Read more

The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Nadja Uhl, Alexandra...

Meticulous fact-based drama of the Red Army Faction. Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy i... Read more

The Baader Meinhof Complex ( Blu-ray ) (2008)

7.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Nadja Uhl, Alexandra...

Meticulous fact-based drama of the Red Army Faction. Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy i... Read more

The Battle of Red Cliff (2008)

7.4/10
Director: John Woo
Starring: Chang Chen, Hu Jun, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung (Chiu Wai), Zhang Fengyi, Zhao...

Aka "The Battle of Red Cliff". An epic historical drama based on a legendary 208 A.D. battle that heralded the end of the Han Dynasty. A power hungry... Read more