Sundance 2008: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Sundance 2008: World Cinema Dramatic Competition
Just Another Love Story by Ole Bornedal
Film information from the Sundance Film Festival press release
ABSURDISTAN/ Germany/Azerbaijan (Director: Veit Helmer; Screenwriters: Veit Helmer, Zaza Buadze, Gordan Mihic, Ahmet Golbol)— This inventive and allegorical comedy centers on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple’s first night of love. Cast: Maximilian Mauff, Kristýna Malérova. World Premiere
BLUE EYELIDS (PÁRPADOS AZULES)/ Mexico (Director: Ernesto Contreras; Screenwriter: Carlos Contreras)– When Marina wins a beach getaway trip for two, her desperate search for someone to take with her leads to a complicated relationship and the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 7, 2007
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Tags: Absurdistan, Captain Abu Raed, Dog Eat Dog, Film Festivals, I Always Wanted to be a Gangster, Just Another Love Story, King of Ping Pong, Mermaid, Riprendimi, Sundance 2008, Sundance Film Festival
Dubai Film Festival 2007
The 4th Dubai International Film Festival, which runs from December 9-16, will offer several world premieres, mostly in its Arabian Nights and Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebars.
Among the premieres are: the Arabian Nights sidebar gala, Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch’s Whatever Lola Wants, starring Carmen Lebbos and Laura Ramsey (right) as, respectively, a legendary Egyptian dancer and a New York dance student; Amin Matalqa’s Captain Abu Raed, starring Nadim Sawalha, and reportedly the first Jordanian feature in decades; and Borhane Alaouié’s Khalass, about four characters struggling to resume their lives in post-civil war Beirut.
The premieres in the Celebration of Indian Cinema sidebar are: Jag Mundhra’s political thriller Shoot-on-Sight, starring Naseeruddin Shah, which follows a Scotland Yard inspector investigating the [...]
by Andre Soares | December 4, 2007
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Tags: Captain Abu Raed, Dubai Film Festival, Film Festivals, Laura Ramsey, Nabil Ayouch, Taj Mahal: An Eternal Love Story, Whatever Lola Wants
