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  • News

    Media Asia adds Dante Lam, Ning Hao titles to Cannes slate

    2009-04-29T15:41:00Z

    Hong Kong-based Media Asia Distribution is bulking up its Cannes slate with a new project from hotHong Kong action director Dante Lam and Chinese director Ning Hao’s smash hit comedy CrazyRacer.

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    Taiwan enacts controversial "three strikes" copyright law

    2009-04-29T15:51:00Z

    Taiwan’s legislature has passed an amendment to the Copyright Act to authorise a controversial”three strikes and you’re out” policy for online intellectual property violations.

  • Features

    Being Dead

    2009-04-29T15:45:00Z

    A married couple are found murdered in the dunes. How did they come to be there? The film explores the themes of love and family, life and death, how we live our lives, and what we leave behind.

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    Beneath Hill 60 — The Silent War

    2009-04-29T15:49:00Z

    The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward. It’s 1916 and Woodward must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines, he and his secret platoon of Australian tunnellers fight to defend a leaking, labyrinthine tunnel ...

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    A Heartbeat Away

    2009-04-29T15:53:00Z

    When his father is hit by a bus just four weeks before a major competition, Kevin is forced to become the musical director of his father’s brass band. He decides to give the band a rock ‘n’ roll make over.

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    I Love You Too

    2009-04-29T15:55:00Z

    I Love You Too is a buddy movie about the meaning of relationships, the importance of male friendship and having the courage to pursue the one you love.

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    Kin

    2009-04-29T15:57:00Z

    They’re anything but ordinary: they’re deviant, deluded and dangerously familiar. They’re KIN, just thank God they’re not yours …

  • News

    Jennifer Baichwal to direct documentary on Atwood’s Payback

    2009-04-27T16:00:00Z

    Jennifer Baichwal is to direct a feature documentary based on novelist Margaret Atwood’sPayback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth, a non-fiction treatise on the notion of debt.

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    Lou

    2009-04-29T16:00:00Z

    A young girl finds love through a dangerous game with her grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s.

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    Aglaja

    2009-04-29T16:03:00Z

    The story of a young woman growing up in family of circus artists. Adaptation of the popular novel by Aglaja Veteranyi.

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    TIFF gets C$6m federal grant to promote Toronto

    2009-04-27T16:04:00Z

    The Toronto International Film Festival will receive a two-year grant of $4.9m (C$6m) from the Canadian government to promote Toronto to the world.

  • Features

    Alois Nebel

    2009-04-29T16:06:00Z

    A provincial train dispatcher is haunted by the ghosts of history and a murder.

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    Conan

    2009-04-29T16:13:00Z

    The tale of Conan the Cimmerian and his adventures across the continent of Hyboria. Based on the character created by Robert E. Howard.

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    Fuga Mortis

    2009-04-29T16:18:00Z

    An adolescent hustler tries to save his sister from the streets, and discovers his best option is to kill one of his grandfather’s ageing comrades.

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    Habermann

    2009-04-29T16:27:00Z

    In 1938 in a small village in Sudetenland, a mill owner marries a beautiful Czech woman who is half Jewish. Although not interested in politics or ideology, they will soon be steamrolled by the insanity of war.

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    Rambo V

    2009-04-29T16:29:00Z

    It is rumoured that the film’s plot involves Rambo’s daughter being kidnapped by cult leaders

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    Wonderful World

    2009-04-29T16:41:00Z

    Dir. Josh Goldin. US, 2009, 89 minutes

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    News

    Danish director Boe starts shooting fourth feature

    2009-04-27T16:31:00Z

    Danish director Christoffer Boe has begun shooting his fourth feature, which has the working title Everything Will Be Fine (Alting Bliver Godt Igen).

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    Norwegian Film Institute backs Terje Rangnes' debut

    2009-04-27T16:32:00Z

    Norwegian director Terje Rangnes’ feature debut, An Ordinary Day at Work (En Helt Vanlig Dag På Jobben), about the daily life of an unscrupulous journalist, will be backed by $1.4m (NOK 9m) from the Norwegian Film Institute.

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    Ocean Films takes French rights to Kore-eda's Air Doll

    2009-04-27T16:40:00Z

    France’s Ocean Films has snapped up all French rights to Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air Doll from Fortissimo Films. The film has secureda berth in the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes film festival.