First Run Features: Theatrical Catalog

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	Animation
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	Erotica
	Family
	Films About Faith
	Foreign
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	Jewish Interest

Foreign

Aberdeen	Hans Petter Moland	103 min, 35mm, Color, 2000
A Film by Hans Petter Molland. Stellan Skarsgard, Lena Headey and Charlotte Rampling star in this moving drama about an alcoholic who is reunited with his estranged daughter.

Agnes and His Brothers	Oskar Roehler	35mm, 115 minutes, German w/English Subtitles, 2004
Agnes and his brothers have little in common except an eccentric father, relationship problems that are screwing up their lives, and a suspicion that there is a distinct possibility those two things are connected.

Alice	Jan Svankmajer	84 min, 35mm, Color, 1989
A Film by Jan Svankmajer. The Czech master animator creates a surrealist dream universe with his interpretation of Lewis Carroll's classic tale of childhood, Alice in Wonderland.

Almost Brothers	Lúcia Murat	102 min, 35mm, Color, Portuguese w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. Miguel and Jorge, one a government official and the other a drug lord in Rio de Janeiro, discover that their lives have more in common than they ever realized.

The Architecture of Doom	Peter Cohen	35mm, Color/B&W, English, 1991
A Film by Peter Cohen. Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, this spectacular film shows the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture and popular culture.

Beyond the Sky	Berit Nesheim	90 min, 35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 1993
A Film by Berit Nesheim. A twelve-year-old rebel spends an enchanted summer vacation with the only adult with whom she connects--her oddball teacher, Miss Kjaer, who is about to retire.

Blush	Li Shaohong	119 min, 35mm, Color, Chinese w/English Subtitles, 1995
A Film by Li Shaohong. A passionate and thrilling drama about two close friends and former prostitutes who fall for the same man in 1950's Shanghai, from the author of Raise the Red Lantern.
Border Café	Kambozia Partovi	105 min, 35mm, Color, Greek, Persian & Turkish w/English Subtitles, 2005
Part of the Global Lens Collection. A young woman from a village in Iran must choose between marrying her brother-in-law--as custom dictates--or re-opening her late husband's restaurant.


The Bridesmaid	Claude Chabrol	110 min, 35mm, Color, French w/ English Subtitles, 2004
Directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel by Ruth Rendell. It's love at first sight when Senta falls into the life of handsome young Philippe, but Philippe soon discovers that Senta's life is shrouded in mystery.

Buffalo Boy	Minh Nguyen-Vo	98 min, 35mm, Color, Vietnamese w/ English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. In this powerful coming-of-age story set in rural 1940s Vietnam, a young man takes up with a rough band of nomadic buffalo herders and discovers freedom, violence and love - but also secrets about his past that will change his life forever.

Cane Toads	Mark Lewis	48 min, 16mm, Color, English, 1988
A Film by Mark Lewis. An absolutely hilarious, somewhat true look at "an assault of sex-mad giant toads munching their way across Australia!" (NY Post). A comedy classic!

Cinema, Aspirin and Vultures	Marcelo Gomes	99 min, 35mm, Color, Portuguese w/English Subtitles, 2005
Part of the Global Lens Collection. Johann, a young German opposed to Hitler’s war, travels the roads of Brazil where he meets Ranulpho, a sharp-tongued hitchhiker. But as Brazil enters the war against Germany and Johann is ordered home, each man must decide his own fate.

Cool and Crazy	Knut Erik Jensen	35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 2001
A Film by Knut Erik Jensen. Meet a group of men who find purpose, companionship and even fame as members of a male choir in Berlevag, Norway!

Cup Final	Fran Riklis	107 min, Hebrew w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color, 1992
A Film by Eran Riklis. When an Israeli soldier is captured by a band of PLO fighters en route to Beirut, a passion for soccer leads to a tale of shared humanity.

Dad on the Run	Dante Desarthe	92 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2000
A Film by Dante Desarthe. Fueled by klezmer and set in the Paris night world, Dad On The Run is an intelligent & hilarious screwball comedy involving Bar Mitzvahs, frozen fish and a misplaced foreskin.

The Dancer	Donya Feuer	35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1994
A Film by Donya Feuer. Watch the gifted Katja Bjorner as she endures years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School and then becomes an international ballet star.

Darkness, Light, Darkness	Jan Svankmajer	7 min, 35mm, Color, 1989
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room.

Daughter of Keltoum	Mehdi Charef	101 min, 35mm, Color, 2001
Part of the Global Lens Collection. A 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace – an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria – to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct.

The Day Silence Died	Paolo Agnazzi	108 min, 35mm, Color, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 1998
A Film by Paolo Agazzi. A sheltered Bolivian town changes forever when a mysterious stranger sets up a radio and loudspeakers for the townspeople to air their dirty laundry.

Deserted Station	Alireza Raisian	88 minutes, Color, Farsi w/English subtitles, 2002
In this lyrical and intimately nuanced story conceived by Abbas Kiarostami and starring Leila Hatami, a photographer and his young wife are stranded in a remote Iranian village after their car breaks down.

Details of a Duel	Sergio Cabrera	97 min, 35mm, Color, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 1989
A Film by Sergio Cabrera. Set in the Andes in the 1950's, a local school teacher and the town butcher must fight a duel to the death over an unnamed woman.

The Disenchanted	Benoit Jacquot	78 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Benoit Jacquot. A beautiful 17 year-old school girl (Judith Godreche) who lives with her younger brother and ailing mother in Paris must come to terms with three different men in her life.

Don't Let Me Die On A Sunday	Didier Le Pecheur	86 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 1999
A Film By Didier Le Pecheur. Starring Elodie Bouchez (Dreamlife of Angels) and Jean-Marc Barr (Dancer in the Dark) this provocative, disturbing film takes you on a dangerous sexual odyssey.

Dreaming Lhasa	Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam	90 min, 35mm, Color, English & Tibetan w/English Subtitles, 2005
A Film by Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam. Karma, a Tibetan filmmaker from New York, goes to Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama's exile headquarters in northern India, to make a documentary about former political prisoners who have escaped from Tibet. It becomes a journey into Tibet's fractured past and a voyage of self-discovery.

Dreaming of Rita	Jon Lindstrom	108 min, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 35mm, Color 1993
A Film by Jon Lindstrom. A romantic adventure about a young mother who helps her widowed father search for an old flame, as she too is pursued by her husband and baby.

Electric Shadows	Xiao Jiang	95 min, 35mm, Color, Mandarin w/English Subtitles, 2004
From one of China's newest cinematic voices comes a charming tale set into motion by a disastrous encounter between a delivery boy and a young woman. Her passion for the movies reignites his own longing for the days when the cinema was the only real mass medium and when audiences breathed and dreamed as one.

The Embalmer	Matteo Garrone	100 min, 35mm, Color, Italian w/English Subtitles, 2002
The story of a romantic triangle that starts when a middle-aged dwarf and zoo taxidermist, Peppino befriends an extremely tall teenager, Valerio, offering him his first job as Peppino's assistant, and then a place to stay, out of a growing love for Valerio. Peppino's hopes for a relationship with Valerio are frustrated however, when a young woman, Deboarah, enters the picture.

Freud Leaving Home	Susanne Bier	100 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1991
At 25, Freud still lives at home with her parents, but just when her mother's 60th birthday approaches she falls in love and finally attempts to leave her nest.

Friends	Elain Proctor	109 min, 35mm, Color, 1993
A Film by Elaine Proctor. Passion and politics mix in this powerful drama about three young women, all friends, in contemporary South Africa.

Fuse	Pjer Zalica	105 min, 35mm, Color, 1993
Part of the Global Lens Collection. In this bitingly funny story set in Bosnia two years after the civil war, a small town is turned upside down as it prepares for a visit by President Bill Clinton. The entire community scrambles to create a squeaky clean image of itself, but a ruthless black marketeer and an unhinged former police chief threaten to ruin things for everyone.

Go For Zucker	Dani Levy	95 min, 35mm, Color, German w/English Subtitles, 2005
Dani Levy's controversial and hilarious contemporary farce about pool shark and all-around hustler Jaeckie Zucker is the first German-Jewish comedy to come out of Germany since World War II.

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg	Kjell Grede	115 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Kjell Grede. The story of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg who helped Jews in Budapest, Hungary in 1944 obtain Swedish passports to get them out of Adolph Eichmann's deadly path.

Le Grand Role	Steve Suissa	90 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles
Thinking he has been cast in a Yiddish version of The Merchant of Venice, Parisian actor Maurice tells his beloved wife Perla. But when the part goes to another, Maurice must play the role of his life to be sure she doesn’t find out.

Hamsun	Jan Troell	160 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1996
A Film by Jan Troell. The shocking, true story of Knut Hamsun (Max von Sydow), the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author who stunned the world by siding with Hitler and the Nazis.

Heaven's A Drag	Peter MacKenzie Litten	96 min, 35mm, Color, 1994
A Film by Peter Litten. Longtime Companion meets Ghost in this sexy British comedy about romance and cruising in the afterlife.

Hip Hip Hoorah!	Kjell Grede	110 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Kjell Grede. Stellan Skarsgard stars in this acclaimed film about a group of Scandinavian painters who gather in Northern Denmark at the end of the 19th century.

Hollow City	Maria Joao Ganga	88 min, 35mm, Color, w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. One of the few films to have been made in Angola since it was torn apart by civil war, this eye-opening drama is set in Luanda, the capital of Angola, in the aftermath of the war. N’dala is a war orphan who escapes from his caretakers, hoping to find his way back to the village where he grew up. Wandering the streets of Luanda, he meets an array of characters, all the while pursued by a missionary nun across the bewildering and dangerous city.

I,The Worst of All	Luisa Bemberg	105 min, 35mm, Color, Spanish w/English Subtitles, 1990
A Film by Maria Luisa Bemberg. In 17th century Mexico, the brilliant and beautiful poet Sister Juana Ines de la Cruz (Assumpta Serna) enters a convent, and the local vicereine (Dominique Sanda) becomes her protectress and erotic muse.

L'Iceberg	Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy	84 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2005
When Fiona accidentally gets locked into a walk-in freezer, she develops an obsession for everything cold and icy - snow, polar bears, refrigerators, icebergs - and drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home. For a real iceberg.

In the Battlefields	Danielle Arbid	90 min, 35mm, Color, Arabic w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. Lina, 12, comes of age in 1980s Beirut. Director Danielle Arbid depicts Lina's troubled relationships affected by the turbulence of this urban warzone.

Insomnia	Erik Skjoldbjaerg	35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 1997
Norwegian filmmaker Erik Skjoldbjærg makes his directorial debut with the psychological police drama Insomnia. Swedish homicide detective Jonas Engström (Stellan Skarsgård) and his partner, Erik Vik (Sverre Anker Ousdal), arrive in a small Northern Norwegian town to help the local police investigate the murder of a teenage girl.

The Jew	Jom Tob Azulay	85 min, 35mm, Color, Portuguese w/English Subtitles, 1996
A Film by Jom Tob Azulay. In 18th Century Portugal, a talented and popular Jewish writer battles the repressive and dangerous forces of the Inquisition.

Kabala	Assane Kouyate	107 min, 35mm, Color, w/English Subtitles, 2002
Part of the Global Lens Collection.

Kira's Reason: A Love Story	Ole Christian Madsen	94 min, 35mm, Color, Danish w/English Subtitles, 2001
A Film by Ole Christian Masen.Enjoying life in their mid-thirties, Kira and her husband Mads have a large house and two wonderful children. Their world is perfectly secure and comfortable until Kira develops a psychiatric disorder, which eventually commits her to a hospital.

Legend of Paul & Paula	Heiner Carow	106 min, Color, German w/English Subtitles, 1973
A Film by Heiner Carow. One of the most popular of all East German films, The Legend of Paul and Paula is both a romantic and an ironic view of love, with music by the German cult band The Puhdys.

Like It Is	Paul Oremland	93 min, 35mm, Color, 1998
A Film by Paul Oremland. London's gay club world comes alive in this sexy, funny drama about two young men who fall in love despite enormously different backgrounds. With Roger Daltrey.

Lili's Apron	Mariano Galperin	90 min, 35mm, Color, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection.

Marquis	Henri Xhonneux	88 min, 35mm, Color, 1990
A Film by Henri Xhonnuex. Based on the life of the Marquis de Sade, Marquis combines animation and live action to create a bizarre tale of sex, lust, and the French Revolution.

Max and Mona	Teddy Mattera	98 min, 35mm, Color, Afrikaans, English & Zulu w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. In this funny and engaging film from South Africa, a young man leaves his small village to become a doctor in the big city, but is mistakenly sent on his journey with the village goat.

Mendel	Alexander Rosler	98 min, 35mm, Color, Norwegian w/English Subtitles, 1997
A Film by Alexander Rosler. When a Jewish family relocates from post-war Nazi Germany to Norway a young boy must learn how to fit in as he uncovers the secret his parents are keeping from him.

Merci Pour Le Chocolat	Claude Chabrol	99 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2000
A Film by Claude Chabrol. With his accomplice, the world's greatest living screen actress, Isabel Huppert, French master Claude Chabrol weaves a tangled, nervy web of circumstance, mischief and malevolence.

Mongolian Ping Pong	Ning Hao	102 min, 35mm, Color, Mongolian w/ English Subtitles, 2004
A Film by Ning Hao. When young Bilike finds an ordinary ping pong ball, he and his friends take to flights of imaginative whimsy and embark on a journey to find the source of the mysterious unknown object.

Moscow Parade	Ivan Dykhovichny	103 min, 35mm, Color, Russian w/ English Subtitles, 1993
A Film by Ivan Dykhovichny. Set in Russia before the Nazi invasion, Moscow Parade focuses on a sexy cabaret singer (Ute Lemper) who is caught between shifting alliances.

The Mozart Brothers	Suzanne Osten	98 min, 35mm, Color, Swedish w/English Subtitles, 1986
A Film by Suzanne Osten. Stars of the Stockholm Opera are terrified by an opera director's erotic vision for an avant garde production of Don Giovanni.

The Night of Truth	Fanta Régina Nacro	100 min, 35mm, Color, Dioula & French w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. This award-winning feature debut by one of Africa’s most talented female directors takes place in an unnamed country, where two peoples, the ruling Nayak and the opposition Bonandés, have finally embarked on a path to peace after a decade of atrocities. To commemorate the reconciliation, a celebratory feast is planned. But with each side haunted by memories of the past, will the night of truth bring understanding - or revenge?

No Fear, No Die	Claire Denis	97 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 1992
A Film by Claire Denis (Chocolat). Set in Paris, this neo-noir thriller revolves around two African immigrants and the beautiful mistress of a nightclub owner.

The Personals	Chen Kuo-fu	104 min, 35mm, Color, Chinese w/English Subtitles, 1999
A Film by Chen Kuo-fu. Honored at Cannes, The Personals presents "funny, beautifully observed modern day sexual relationships."

Petits Freres	Jacques Doillon	92 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 1999
A Film by Jacques Doillon. A wonderful follow-up from the Director ofPonette, Petits Freres is the gritty and lyrical story of a young girl who finds real friendship in a Paris housing project.

La Petite Lili	Claude Miller	94 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2003
Ludivine Sagnier stars as Lili, the love and muse of an idealistic young filmmaker named Julien. in this modern adaptation of Chekov’s The Seagull.

The Quarry	Marion Hansel	112 min, 35mm, Color, Russian w/ English Subtitles, 1998
A Film by Marion Hansel. Acclaimed Irish actor John Lynch stars as the strangely sympathetic fugitive who battles inner demons in this provocative, mysterious thriller!

S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine	Rithy Panh	105 min, 35mm, Color, 2003
A Film by Rithy Panh. In 1975-79, the Khmer Rouge waged a campaign of genocide on Cambodia’s population. 1.7 million Cambodians lost their lives to famine and murder as the urban population was forced into the countryside to fulfill the Khmer Rouges’ dream of an agrarian utopia.

Seaside	Julie Lopes-Curval	88 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2002
Seaside (Bord de Mer) is a film about Cayeux, a small beach town in France. Beautiful young Marie works at a pebble processing plant. Her boyfriend, Paul, a warehouse employee in winter and a lifeguard in summer, doesn't understand Marie's dreamy temperament and stifles her with his clumsy love.

Secret Things	Jean-Claude Brisseau	115 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 2002
Secret Things (Choses secretes) is helmed by veteran director Jean-Claude Brisseau. Variety writes “there's plenty for both the eyes and the intellect to groove over in Secret Things, a taut, juicy feast of sexual and office politics.”

The Sexual Life of Belgians	Jan Bucquoy	85 min, 35mm, Color, French w/English Subtitles, 1994
A Film by Jan Bucquoy. From one sexual misadventure to another, Jan Bucquoy's autobiographical comedy is a deadpan, funny account of a young man's sexual awakening.

Silent Waters	Sabiha Sumar	35mm, Color, Punjabi w/English Subtitles, 2003
Silent Waters is set in 1979 in Pakistan, when General Zia-ul-Haq took control of the country and stoked the fires of Islamic nationalism. Ayesha, a Muslim woman who gets by on her late husband’s pension and by teaching young girls the Koran, invests her hopes in her beloved son Saleem. But when Saleem takes up with a group of Islamic fundamentalists just as a group of Sikh pilgrims come to town, Ayesha’s haunted past turns her present life upside down.

Stolen Life	Li Shaihong	90 min, 35mm, Color, Mandarin w/English Subtitles, 2005
Part of the Global Lens Collection. From the director of Blush comes the tale of Yanni, a young woman living in Beijing who is unexpectedly accepted into college. As she prepares to begin her new life, an encounter with a delivery boy triggers a series of unexpected events.

Thirst	Tawfik Abu Wael	110 min, 35mm, Color, ??? w/English Subtitles, 2004
Part of the Global Lens Collection. After one of his daughters "shames" him, Abu Shukri brings his family to the edge of nowhere to scratch out a living by burning wood to make charcoal. When he decides that the family should build a pipeline to bring in running water, he sets off a chain of events that alters life irrevocably.

Today and Tomorrow	Alejandro Chomski	87 min, 35mm, Color, ??? w/English Subtitles, 2003
Part of the Global Lens Collection. Paula, a 24-year-old aspiring actress in Buenos Aires, is trapped in a cycle of unpaid bills and debts. Reluctantly, she calls a friend who mentors her in a new way to make money - streetwalking. The two set out and meet a variety of clients in quick succession. Advice from her friend flashes through Paula's head: she must try to not gain any pleasure and keep it strictly business.

Uminchu	John Junkerman	101 min, 16mm, Color, Japanese w/English Subtitles, 2000
A Film by John Junkerman. In Uminchu, Academy Award Nominee John Junkerman (Hellfire) follows the travails of 82 year old fisherman Shigeru Itokazu, who daily rises before the sun to continue his solitary quest for marlin.

Uniform	Diao Yinan	92 min, 35mm, Color, Mandarin w/English Subtitles, 2003
Part of the Global Lens Collection. Wang, a young tailor struggling to pay his father’s medical bills and simultaneously gain the attention of a pretty girl, discovers a solution for both problems: a policeman’s uniform, left in the family shop. He begins to impersonate a police officer, extorting money and impressing the attractive Zheng, who also leads a double life - as an escort. A humorous but realistic portrait of the clashing values of modern-day China.

The Unknown Soldier	Michael Verhoeven	97 min, 35mm, Color/B&W, German w/English Subtitles, 2006
A Film by Michael Verhoeven. The Wehrmacht-Exhibition, shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their forefathers did during the war. Director Michael Verhoeven (The Nasty Girl) interviews historians and experts, including those who allege or deny the crimes, and films in the killing fields of Ukraine and White Russia.