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All neo-Nazi Adam (Ulrich Thomsen) wants to do is finish his community service as soon as possible and get back to his job terrorizing the Danish populace. But Ivan (Mads Mikkelsen), the minister whose job it is to supervise his... more>
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Old flames and old feuds flare up in Farlinger’s screen adaptation of Brad Smith’s neo-Western novel, gorgeously filmed in Ontario’s horse country. The film opens on the suitably laconic hero, Ray Dokes, as he is released from prison... more>
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Named in the Top Ten Canadian Films for 2007
In chaotic New Delhi, an aged and irascible man cheats everyone he meets. Amal, Rupinder Nagra an auto-rickshaw wallah, generously allows him to dodge his fare. When a beautiful client has... more>
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Winner of the Audience Award at Mill Valley Film Festival
Winner of the Audience Award at Newport International Festival
Responding to the needs of her autistic son and her own need to go back to work, innovative educator Elaine... more>
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BC Premiere
Young Ishtar is traveling across the desert with her aged grandfather Bab ‘Aziz en route to a ceremony of dervishes. On their journey, the
delight is not just in the interesting people who cross their paths but in the... more>
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Once, not long ago, a small Egyptian Police band arrived in Israel. They came to play at an initiation ceremony but due to bureaucracy, bad luck or bad organization, they were left stranded at the airport. They try to manage on their... more>
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In Prague, a series of events leads to a chance meeting between Marcela and the much-older Mr. Benes. Marcela is in a troubled marriage made worse by sudden financial problems. When Marcela’s husband Jarda is arrested while running a... more>
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The lives of Boston soccer moms Patti Quigley and Susan Retik are shattered on 9/11 when their husbands die in the attack. After grieving their losses, they set out on an inspiring journey to help widows from another world – Afghanista... more>
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Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong.
The antiseptic metropolis’ stark,... more>
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In the early summer of 1999 the Kosovo War is in its last stages. Aboard a train that transports NATO equipment and army personnel
through Romania, US army Captain Doug Jones (Armand Assante) is in charge. One of their stops is at an... more>
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World Premiere
The vehicle drifts across the centre-line, its speed pushing 70 km/
hr. As it races downhill, the rider hangs on. Metal screams and
rattles, and small wheels struggle to grip the pavement. Welcome to
the picture-po... more>
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Operation Bernhard was the Nazi plan to forge millions of British pounds and US dollars, with which to flood their enemies’ economies while filling their own flagging war chest. In the biggest counterfeiting scam ever, Jewish printers,... more>
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BC Premiere
Conrad is a gravedigger and family man who’s badly married. When he meets a beautiful woman by chance at a dance hall, his life is flipped upside down, and he finds himself at the center of a reprehensible act that... more>
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BC Premiere
What would happen if 40 of the world’s most forward thinkers assembled in Dharamsala to discuss, and solve, the world’s problems. What if an opportunity was presented to hold extensive meetings with the Dalai Lama to ... more>
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BC Premiere
They call him “the Champ” and he once was the king of the Mexican Lucha Libre wrestling ring. But “once” was a very long time ago, on
the other side of a debt he can never repay and down too many lines of coke to count.... more>
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Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soapbox is an offbeat, funny, and ultimately moving documentary about a socially responsible company and the family that runs it. Dr. Emanuel Bronner was a master soapmaker, self-proclaimed rabbi and, allegedly,... more>
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World Premiere
When boy genius Matt Hanson comes across two plots that can both be used for evil, and that will put his girlfriend in harm’s way, he teams up with his uncle, a former football great, to create one of cinema’s finest... more>
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BC Premiere
The town of Falkenberg is dying.
But it is dying a poet’s death unlike any other: gorgeously and without ceremony. Its only citizens are the vacationers who can’t be bothered to stay year-round, the senior citizens who... more>
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A mock-anthropological context is the vehicle for this deliciously dark, cutting satire that poses the notion that perhaps how we define
savages should have less to do with the third world than it does with America’s rich and... more>
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