World Cinema Feature Films

Angel’s Fall (Melegin Dususu)
Directed by Semih Kaplanoglu
Turkey/Greece
In Turkish with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

Every day, young Zeynep performs her duties as a chambermaid in an expensive city hotel. But she feels oddly disconnected - from her violent, unpredictable father, from the workmate who awkwardly and ineptly tries to date her, and even from her former friends... Until a chance encounter with a recently separated man leads her to sudden, shocking act of rebellion.
http://www.kaplanfilm.com/en/angels_falls.asp

The Edge of Eden: Living with Grizzlies
Directed by Jeff Turner
Canada, United Kingdom
*Arizona Premiere*

Canadian, Charlie Russell has been raising orphaned grizzly bear cubs in the wilderness of Russia for the past decade. Becoming their surrogate mother he struggles to teach them everything they need to survive a life in the wild. But will it be enough?

Frozen Days (Yamim Kfuim)
Directed by Danny Lerner
Israel
In Hebrew with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

A lonely young woman survives a suicide bombing and assumes the identity of one of its victims. As she moves into his apartment her grip on reality starts to crack.
http://www.frozendays.com/EngIndex.htm

A Little Piece Of Heaven (Kousek Nebe)
Directed by Petr Nikolaev
Czech Republic
In Czech with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

A fleeting encounter between two young people who meet in a Czech communist prison compound in the 1950s. More than a political statement, this small love story with a big heart shows how love and youth find their own way to fulfillment, in spite of the dramatic circumstances.
http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/kouseknebe/ (in Czech only)

Speed Dating
Directed by Tony Herbert
Ireland
*Arizona Premiere*

A heartbroken heir to millions becomes obsessed with Speed Dating in the search for love and meaning. A brief encounter with a mysterious stranger leaves him amnesiac and suspected in a murder. With help from his quirky friends and family he must clear his name, if he can remember it!

A Sunday In Kigali
Directed by Robert Favreau
Canada
In French with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

Bernard Valcourt, in Africa to shoot a documentary on the devastation wreaked by AIDS, falls madly in love with Gentille, a beautiful Rwandan waitress. As tensions rapidly escalate between Tutsis and Hutus, Gentille and Bernard throw caution to the wind and marry. Then war breaks out. In the ensuing chaos the lovers are brutally separated. Months later, when Valcourt returns to Kigali in search of his wife, Rwanda is stained with the blood of close to a million Tutsis. Will Bernard find Gentille and recapture their love, or will the scars of Africa’s most brutal war run too deep?
http://www.equinoxefilms.com/film.php?1=0&f=5

Vanaja
Directed by Rajnesh Domalpalli
India/USA
In Telugu with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

Set in rural South India, a place where social barriers are built stronger than ancient fort walls, the film explores the chasm that divides classes as a young girl struggles to come of age.
http://www.vanajathefilm.com/

World Cinema Short Films

Angela’s Decision
World Cinema Shorts B
Directed by Mat King
Australia
*Arizona Premiere*

Angela has been waiting all her life. Waiting for her boyfriend to return from the army and marry her, waiting for her mother to sober up, waiting for her life to begin. Realizing that she cannot spend the rest of her life with no future, Angela makes a decision that will change her life forever.
http://www.angelasdecision.com/

Dreamers (Twee Dromen)
World Cinema Shorts A
Directed by Arend Steenbergen
Netherlands
In Dutch with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

A man meets a woman is his dream. Or is it her dream? Or do they share the same dream? And why are they naked? He is intrigued. She just wants to wake up.

Fall
World Cinema Shorts A
Directed by Jonathan Helpert
France
In French with English subtitles
*World Premiere*

The introversion of a boy that falls into madness when trying to escape, the wrong way, from the hard reality of his life.

Hunter
World Cinema Shorts A
Directed by Nigel Douglas
United Kingdom
*North American Premiere*

Two unnamed men begin on a journey on a night that is predestined for them. A beautiful woman is their target but what drives them is an obsession that only they understand.
http://www.nigeldouglas.co.uk/short-films.htm

Missing Person
World Cinema Shorts B
Directed by Trevor Smith
Canada
*Arizona Premiere*

The story of an estrangement--told through the unreliable mind of a man, Eddie, that shifts between multiple levels of his guilty consciousness. His wife Maria is missing. The key mystery is the capacity in which she may, or may not, be missing and whether Eddie himself may not be in a place that is farther gone.

The Other Room (El otro cuarto)
World Cinema Shorts A
Directed by Acan Coen
Mexico
In Spanish with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

Story of a man and a woman who only know each other through a photograph that each one has of the other.

Sexy Thing
World Cinema Shorts B
Directed by Denie Pentecost
Australia
*Arizona Premiere*

On a dry suburban day, a 12 year old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination. Struggling to endure a confusing love, and longing simply to be seen, the child survives by transforming pain into beauty.
http://www.sexything.com.au/

The Song Of The Cricket (El Canto Del Grillo)
World Cinema Shorts B
Directed by Dany Campos
Spain
In Spanish with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

Joseba Perurena wants to start a new life together with his girlfriend. However, cutting ties with the past is never an easy thing to do especially when the consequences have not been fully considered.

We are everywhere (Estamos por todos lados)
World Cinema Shorts B
Directed by Sofia Perez Suinaga
Mexico
In Spanish with English subtitles
*Arizona Premiere*

In the Chinese District of Mexico City, Piolo and Claudio undergo psychological intimidation, and ultimately end up being robbed. During the assault an incident occurs that turns the tables on the attacker.