Global Premiere of The Age of Stupid

Date: 21 & 22 September 2009

Location: Worldwide satellite premiere from New York

Following its record-breaking UK “Green Carpet” premiere earlier this year, in September 2009 THE AGE OF STUPID will go global. Featuring screenings of the critically-acclaimed film and a unique package of live link ups, events kick-off in New York and across North America on 21st September, followed by a global presentation on 22 September. Arts Alliance Medi...

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Sin Nombre

Winner of the Best Director prize at the world premiere of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

Sales: Focus Features

Director: Cary Fukunaga

Featuring: Paulina Gaitan, Edgar Flores and Kristyan Ferrer

Sin Nombre is an epic dramatic thriller from award-winning director Cary Fukunaga.

Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young Honduran woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaytan), joins her father a...

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Taking Woodstock

In Competition - Cannes Film Festival 2009

Sales: Focus Features

Director: Ang Lee

Featuring: Liev Schreiber, Imelda Staunton, Demetri Martin and Emile Hirsch

It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his ...

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Los Bastardos

Un Certain Regard - Cannes Film Festival 2008

Sales: Le Pacte

Director: Amat Escalante

Featuring: Jesus Moises Rodriguez, Ruben Sosa, Nina Zavarin, Kenny Johnston

A 24 hour period in the lives of Fausto and Jesus, two undocumented Mexican day-labourers in L.A. Each day another task, each day the same pressure to find money. They go about their daily routine, standing on the corner at the Home ...

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World Cinema Foundation

Cannes Classics Selection 2008

Three cinematic gems were screened in the Cannes Classics section: SUSUZ YAZ (Metin Erksan 1964), TOUKI BOUKI (Djibril Diop Mambéty 1973) and HANYO (Kim Ki-Young 1960).

Established by Martin Scorsese, the Foundation supports and encourages preservation efforts to save the worldwide patrimony of films, ensuring that they are preserved, seen and shared. Its goal is to defend the body and spirit of cinema in the belief that preserving ...

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Love Live Long

Love Live Long - Cannes 2008

Sales: Swipe Films

Director: Mike Figgis

Featuring: Daniel Lapaine and Sophie Winkleman

Darren (Daniel Lapaine) is a wealthy amateur race car driver from London who has come to Istanbul to take part in the Gumball Rally, an annual underground road race. Darren is married, but he's hoping to find some action on the side while away from home, and he meets Rachel (S...

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Bananaz

Berlin International Film Festival 2008

Sales: Hanway Films

Director: Ceri Levy

Featuring: Gorillaz - Damon Albarn & Jamie Hewlett and Ike Turner, Dennis Hopper, Neneh Cherry, De La Soul, Sean Ryder, Ibrahim Ferrer

BANANAZ takes you behind the scenes on one of the great creative partnerships of our time. For the first time the virtual walls come down and the audience sees the true brain child of Jamie Hewlett and Damon Albarn;the wo...

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In Bruges

International Junket

Sales: Focus Features

Director: Martin McDonagh

Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Ralph Fiennes & Clemence Poesy

In Bruges is the darkly comedic tale of the fates of hit men Ray (Colin Farrell) and Ken (Brendan Gleeson). After a difficult job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to cool their heels in Bruges. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increas...

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Johanna

Sales Agent: Coproduction Office

Directed by: Kornél Mundruczó

Starring: Orsi Tóth, Zsolt Trill

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Battle in Heaven

Sales Agent: Coproduction Office

Directed by: Carlos Reygadas

Starring: Marcos Hernandez, Anapola Mushkadiz

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You, the Living

Un Certain Regard - Cannes Film Festival 2007

Sales: Coproduction Office

Director: Roy Andersson

Starring: Jessica Lundberg, Elisabet Helander, Björn Englund, Leif Larsson, Ollie Olson

“YOU THE LIVING is about the human being, about her greatness and her misery, her joy, sorrow, her self-confidence and anxiety. A being with whom we want to laugh and also cry for. It is simply a tragic comedy or a comic tragedy about us.” Roy Ande...

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Import Export

In Competition - Cannes Film Festival 2007

Sales: Coproduction Office

Director: Ulrich Seidl

Starring: Ekaterina Rak, Paul Hofmann, Michael Thomas

Two individual fates move in opposite directions. Olga, a nurse from the Ukraine, abandons her family to look for a better life in the West and ends up working as a cleaning woman in a geriatric ward in Austria. Paul, an unemployed security guard from Vienna, is looking a reason to get ...

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Silent Light

Silent Light

In Competition - Cannes Film Festival 2007

Sales: BAC Films

Director: Carlos Reygadas

Starring: Cornelius Wall, Maria Pancratz

Set in Chihuaha state, Mexico, in a community of Mennonites, Johan is married to Esther and has seven sons with her. But he has been having a passionate love affair with Marianne for 2 years. Deciding between two lives, and between two women is impossible. He opens his heart t...

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La Influencia

Directors Fortnight - Cannes Film Festival 2007

Sales: BAC Films

Director: Pedro Aguilera

Starring: Paloma Morales Aguado, Romeo Manzaneado Morales, Jimena Jiménez Morales

This is the story of a disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down and her children's future is unknown.

The children's vitality draws a s...

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Little Miss Sunshine - International Press Junket

Distributor: Fox Searchlight

Directed by: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

Starring: Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Toni Collette and Alan Arkin

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Death of Mr Lazarescu

Sales Agent: Coproduction Office

Directed by: Cristi Puiu

Starring: Luminita Gheorghiu, Ioan Fiscuteanu

WINNER OF UN CERTAIN REGARD CANNES 2005

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