- Exhibit A
Found camera footage reveals the story of a normal family disintegrating into an unimaginable nightmare. Best UK Feature Nominee. - The Inheritance
Two brothers journey through Scotland to discover their inheritance - The Killing of John Lennon
Newcomer Jonas Ball stars as the mentally disturbed obsessive responsible for the murder that shocked the world and ended an era on December 8th 1980. Using only Chapman’s on-the-record testimonies and entries from his journal, Writer / Director Andrew Piddington recreates Chapman’s deranged plot to assassinate the most famous man… - The Man Who Would Be Queen
To celebrate his birthday, Hugo invites some friends to the country for a quiet weekend. Soon it descends into a chaos of gypsies, madness and…murder? - Summer Scars
When six fourteen year old kids bunk off school to play in the woods they are befriended by a drifter, whose behaviour becomes increasingly suspect. Held hostage in their den they are forced to embrace the dark side of human nature if they are going to survive the ordeal. -… - Waz
Would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death? - Best UK Feature Nominee
- Amazing Lives Of The Fast Food Grifters
Hit Japanese blockbuster from the director of Ghost in the Shell. - Best International Feature Nominee - It's Only Talk
Ryuchi Hiroki’s second collaboration with the winning team of actress Shinobu Terajima and screenwriter Haruhiko Arai has been cited by many critics as the best Japanese film of its year. - M
Described as a Belle de Jour for the internet age, Hiroki’s psychotic drama comes to Raindance. - Prisoner/Terrorist
Tackling the immensely emotive subject of terrorism through an abstract, existentialist framework. - Thunderfish
Every year, as the end of the dry season approaches, bodies begin appearing under Mosulin Bridge. - Uncle's Paradise
The latest example of the Japanese pink film niche. - What The Snow Brings
Hit Japanese drama focusing on the troubled relationship between two brothers.
- Belle Epoque
A unique story which historically tries to describe many events in the pre-first world war Sarajevo. - The Boss Of It All
An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander. - Children
Karitas is a single mother of four who desperately tries to make ends meet. Fighting a losing battle with her ex-husband for custody over her three daughters, she's oblivious to what's going on with her twelve year old son Gudmunder, a victim of brutal bullying at school and whose life… - The Cream
A man discovers a facial cream which makes him irresistable to others around him, but soon learns that it also has consequences. - Dolina
At one time Dolina was a flourishing little place, but now everything shows the signs of destruction and poverty, even though the inhabitants are doing their best to smarten things up a bit for the arrival of a high-ranking guest in the person of the Archbishop - Drink Up!
Oscar walks into a bar. The bar's walls are covered in photographs. The pictures are the door to the lives of people that could be any one of us. - Best Debut Feature Nominee - Ex Drummer
A Flemish ‘Trainspotting meets Man Bites Dog’. Disturbing and brilliant. - Best Debut Feature Nominee - Kenedi Is Getting Married
Acclaimed Serbian feature focusing on the drastic lengths a man will go to attain legal status in the EU. - One Two Another
Enigmatic mystery and erotic coming-of age story. - Parents
Dark secrets are slowly revealed in the suburban modern day Reykjavik when a desperate trip of a dentist, a successful businessman and a young mother running away from her past meet by chance. - Red Like The Sky
A film inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today. - Shelter
Will Love Survive Class Differences? - Tesla and Katherine
The story of one of the 20th century’s most important and mysterious scientists brought to life through dance - Uranya
In a small village a group of teenagers grow up with dreams, prejudices, secrets and lies, eager to discover love as well as the whole world. - Valerie
A selfish glamour model finds herself living out of her vehicle in a car park. - Best Debut Feature Nominee
- The Amazing Grace
Not to be confused with the British version of the tale directed by Michael Apted and released this year, Jeta Amata’s film is a historical landmark, in that it is the first 35mm feature ever made in Nigeria. - La Antena
The cinema of Fritz Lang meets Tim Burton in this beautiful Argentinian movie. - Best International Feature Nominee - Bog Of Beasts
Ruthless life-on-the-edge of a young Brazilian girl growing up in a society shaped by violence and sexual abuse. - The Book Of Revelation
An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self. - Bunny Chow
A light hearted investigation of modern South Africa. - Day Watch
Synopsis Excellent sequel to the groundbreaking Russian hit Night Watch which screened at Raindance in 2005. - The Devil Dared Me To
Live fast, die faster - Hilarious action-comedy about stunt car drivers in New Zealand. - Best Debut Feature Nominee - Once
A modern-day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story. - Best International Feature Nominee - Turks In Space
Hilarious Sequel to Trash-cult movie "Man Who Saved the World". High-budget futuristic entertainment with hilarious innuendos to the original.
- Being Michael Madsen
Actor Michael Madsen decides to turn the tables on the notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of up-and-coming documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.A brilliant spoof on tabloid journalism and independent filmmaking. - Congorama
An eccentric Belgian inventor travels to Quebec to search for his family. - Day Zero
The draft is back - what would you do if called to serve? In NYC in the near future, three best friends must grapple with everything they believe after they are given thirty days to report for duty. - The GoodTimesKid
A story about stolen love and stolen identities, shot on stolen film. - Best Debut Featue Nominee - In Search Of A Midnight Kiss
A rollicking comic ride and tender journey though love, sex, and modern romance in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. - Best International Featue Nominee - Mala Noche
Based on the Walt Curtis autobiographical novel of the same name, Mala Noche is a story of amour fou. Gus Van Sant's first feature. - Paranoid Park
A teenage skateboarder's life begins to fray after he is involved in the accidental death of a security guard. - Closing Night Gala - Phantom Love
A surreal drama about an alienated family set in Koreatown, Los Angeles and Rishikesh, India. - Viva
Two suburban couples experiment with sex, drugs and bohemia in early 1970's Los Angeles. Brilliant recreation of the sexploitaion genre. - We Are The Strange
Two outcasts fight for survival in a sinister fantasy world. Their lives are constantly in jeopardy after they're caught in the middle of a deadly battle between bizarre monsters on their way to the ice cream shop. - Weirdsville
Stoners Dexter and Royce deal with drug debt, a heist, dead bodies, Satanists and dwarves and all in one slightly surreal night in Weirdsville. - Opening Night Gala
- Bolinao 52
Documentary focusing on the refugee survivors of the Vietnam War. - Crazy Love
16 years after Linda Riss has acid thrown in her face by Burt Pagach, the couple marry. - Best Documentary Nominee - Flames In The Looking Glass
A ground-breaking documentary, following the glamorous, dark and defiant lives of three Hijras, Indian Transgenders, living with AIDS. - Life in Loops (A Megacities RMX)
A remix of images and sounds, using a films original material and mixing it with new imagery. - Manufacturing Dissent
Manufacturing Dissent, a documentary that seeks to separate fact, fiction and legend, tracks Michael Moore on tour during the release of the explosive Fahrenheit 9/11. - Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa
Documentary that follows a hardscrabble community of hippies, teenage runaways, war veterans and drop-outs who live on the fringe and off the grid, without electricity or running water, along the mesas of New Mexico. - Best Documentary Nominee - Oh Saigon
A complex portrait of a Vietnamese refugee family attempting to survive their wounds after being politically and physically separated by the Vietnam War. - This Is Nollywood
An exploration of Nigeria's flourishing film industry. - Tovarisch: I Am Not Dead
Garri Urban, one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary survivors, who endured both the extremes of Nazism and Communism. - U & Me & Tennessee - an American romance...
Actor/Director PAUL BIRCHARD's disturbingly delightful portrait of the 1950's romance between playwright TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and KONRAD HOPKINS. Hopkins is a real find. A gay art house movie for the whole family! - Up At Lou's Fish
New York’s Fulton Fish Market has survived for over 180 years at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. This film captures the lives and history of the men and women of the market during their relocation to the Bronx. - We Are Together
We Are Together tells the moving and inspiring story of 12 year old Slindile and her remarkable friends at the Agape orphanage in South Africa. Filmed over three years, with unforgettable kids, soaring music and a plot full of surprises, We Are Together arrives as a stirring and uplifting theatrical… - Yokohama Mary
Compelling documentary about Japan’s oldest prostitute. - Best Documentary Nominee
- Eloge de L’Amour
Godard’s Cannes hit from 2001 focuses on Edgar (Bruno Putzulu), an author who develops a novel project exploring the four key moments of love. When a beautiful girl is considered for the project he is convinced they have met before, at which point the film jumps back two years in… - Notre Musique
"Notre Music" is divided in three kingdoms: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise like in the Dante's Inferno in the Divine Comedy. Hell shows footages of many wars; Purgatory mixes reality and fiction in n Sarajevo; and Paradise is a surrealistic view of a beach "protected" by the American Marines. - The Old Place
Two brothers' road trip through Scotland to discover their inheritance.
- Bakushi: The Incredible Lives of The Rope-Masters
A documentary focussing on a strain of this erotic art form peculiar to Japan known as kinbaku, it features three of the country’s leading practitioners of this erotic art form in action, as they perform elaborately binding their models’ bodies using multiple pieces of rope for S&M specialist stage shows,… - Blitzkrieg Bop
A punk makes a living by selling unexploded shells from WW2. - Frank & Cindy
A deeply personal documentary about Frank Garcia, an 80's one-hit wonder musician and his blonde bombshell wife Cindy, who makes him live in the basement. - Best Documentary Nominee. - Performance
Chas, a violent and psychotic East London gangster needs a place to lie low after a hit that should never have been carried out. - Silver Jew
An intimate portrait of reclusive poet / musician David Berman and his band the Silver Jews. In the midst of their first ever world tour in the summer of 2006, David, his wife Cassie, and the rest of the band stopped off in Israel to play two shows in Tel… - South Coast
This ain't East Coast, this ain't West Coast, this is South Coast! Forget bling. Forget gangstas, this character documentary exposes quintessentially British seaside hip hop. - This Filthy World
This Filthy World is John Waters' one-man show, a vaudeville act that celebrates the film career and tastes of the man William Burroughs once called "the Pope of Trash". - Twenty To Life: The Life And Times Of John Sinclair
Twenty to Life is the real-life story of John Sinclair. His exploits have since reverberated throughout the international underground for 40 years. Best Documentary Nominee.
