2006 Phoenix Film Festival World Cinema Feature Film Selections

World Cinema Showcase

Eve and the Fire Horse
Directed by Julia Kwan
Country: Canada
Original Language: English, Cantonese (with English subtitles)
www.redstorm.ca
Running Time: 92 minutes
Starring: Phoebe Jojo Kut, Hollie Lo, Vivian Wu, Chan Chit Man, Ping Sung Wong
Drama
Screenings: Tuesday 7:10pm

Caught between her sister’s quest for premature sainthood and a wild imagination that keeps getting her into trouble, a young girl faces the challenges of childhood with fanciful humor and wide-eyed wonder.

Fetching Cody
Directed by David Ray
Country: Canada
Original Language: English
www.cheapanddirty.ca
Running Time: 87 minutes
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Sarah Lind, Jim Byrnes, Lucas Blaney,Neil Denis, Liam Mcguigan, Crane, Barclay Hope
Drama
Screenings: Wednesday 7:10pm

Art Frankel a hustler and general lay-about who is head over heels with the luminous Cody Wesson. When she falls into a coma from an apparentoverdose, it is up to Art to seek out the one person who offers him any kind of hope: hishomeless friend Harvey – and the time machine he found in a dumpster

Three Dollars
Directed by Robert Connolly
Country: Australia
Original Language: English
www.threedollars.net
Running Time: 119 minutes
Starring: David Wenham, Frances O’Connor, Sarah Wynter, Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik, Robert Menzies
Drama
Screenings: Tuesday 5:10pm

Eddie is an honest, compassionate man who finds himself with a wife, a child and no job. At any other time the world would have smiled on Eddie, but times have changed and the world values other things. With only three dollars to his name, Eddie will be faced with a choice that will change the direction of his life forever.

La mujer de mi hermano (My Brother’s Wife)
Directed by Ricardo de Montreuil
Country: Argentina
www.lamujermovie.com
Original Language: Spanish (with English subtitles)
Running Time: 89 minutesStarring: Bárbara Mori, Christian Meier, Manolo Cardona, Gabriela Espino, Bruno Bichir,Angélica Aragón, Beto Cuevas
Drama
Screenings: Monday 9:20pm

After almost ten years of marriage, the stunningly attractive Zoe realizes that her marriage to Ignacio no longer carries the passion and spark it once had. Emotionally adrift, she is left to search for those sensations once again, and soon finds herself seduced into the arms of Gonzalo, her husband’s brother. At first, Zoe becomes reinvigorated by the romance. But her decision soon launches a series of events that drives these three people through a gauntlet of revenge, secret and despair that will unravel them all.