DATAMOSH

DescriptionDescription Yung Jake raps about tweet culture, data-moshing, hashtags and memes as he merges with Twitter, YouTube, Tumblr and Instagram. He's not on PhotoBooth.

THE COURT JESTER

DescriptionBiosDescription The Oscar®-winning writing team of Norman Panama and Melvin Frank produced and directed this beloved musical-comedy spoof of Hollywood swashbucklers. Danny Kaye stars as a good-hearted, ex-circus performer in medieval England who joins a band of forest rebels seeking to overthrow a corrupt king and foil his dastardly minions, including the scheming Lord Ravenhurst...

CONGRATULATIONS!

DescriptionBiosContactTrailerDescription The search for a missing boy takes a turn for the bizarre in director Mike Brune's debut feature CONGRATULATIONS! When little Paul Gray disappears from his oldest brother's graduation party, local police are on the scene within hours, led by Detective Skok (John Curran). The grizzled old sleuth has a peculiar style, to say the...

THE CONGRESS

DescriptionBiosDescription Elegant Robin Wright plays an aging actress who stopped working in order to prioritize her family. Desperate to avoid oblivion and rescue her career, she licenses her image and accepts an offer from Miramount Studios to be digitally replicated and turned into a virtual movie star in perpetuity. Twenty years later, Robin is summoned...

CLOSED CURTAIN (PARDE)

DescriptionBiosTrailerDescription Jafar Panahi continues to defy Iran’s brutal 20-year ban on his right to make films with CLOSED CURTAIN, an allegorical narrative that takes aim at his country’s oppressive laws. It is an emotional piece of meta-fiction, examining the director’s government-imposed artistic frustration. Initially, the film casts a critical eye on an Islamic law declaring dogs...

CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (CLÉO DE 5 À 7)

DescriptionBiosDescription It’s 5:00 p.m. in Paris, and Cleo (Corrine Marchand) is getting a Tarot card reading. Her pop song is playing in all the cafés and she’s on the verge of exploding with fame. Unfortunately, her cards display a frightening misfortune: Death. The reading overwhelms her with distress and, as she moves through the city,...

CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO

DescriptionBiosDescription With text taken solely from transcripts of real black box recordings, CHARLIE VICTOR ROMEO employs both stark theatricality and 3-D photography to insert the audience into the experience of aviation disasters. The film, which takes its title from phonetic aviation slang for Cockpit Voice Recorder, is a “performance documentary,” created and reenacted by members...

CAUCUS

DescriptionBiosDescription Every four years, a new cast of presidential hopefuls congregates in Iowa. The first state to hold its caucuses, Iowa serves as both a training ground and a battleground for the primary candidates. AJ Schnack's documentary takes us behind the scenes of straw polls and sound bites to watch the 2012 field of Republican...

CHILD’S POSE (POZITIA COPILULUI)

DescriptionBiosContactDescription Călin Peter Netzer won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale this year for this dark tragicomedy about an overly protective and domineering mother, Cornelia (Luminita Gheorghiu), who uses all of the means at her disposal to keep her adult son, Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache), out of jail when he is accused of killing a child...

CARLOTA

DescriptionDescription He will be in love with her very soon. He is sure of this.

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