21 Jan 2009 Director: Lucía Puenzo Argentina, France, Spain 2007 90 min Alex is a 15 year old with a hermaphroditic condition, possessing both male and female genitalia. She lives as a girl but as puberty approaches her sexual identity threatens to impact on both Alex and her family. Her parents move from Argentina to… Continue reading XXY
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Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
08 Oct 2008 Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky Austria, Germany 2007 98 min It takes a clever man to make money. It takes a genius to stay alive. Salomon ʻSallyʼ Sorowitsch is a master counterfeiter. He lives a roguish life of booze, women and cards. His luck runs out when he is arrested by the Nazis and… Continue reading Die Falscher – Counterfeiters
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
05 Nov 2008 Director: Julian Schnabel France, USA 2007 112min The winner of a BAFTA and two awards at Cannes, this is the true story of Jean-Dominique Bauby. In 1995, Bauby, the French editor of Elle, has a stroke at the age of 43. His entire body is paralyzed with the exception of his left… Continue reading Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon – The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
In The Valley Of Elah
18 Feb 2009 Director: Paul Haggis USA 2007 121 min Mike Deerfield returns home from a tour of duty in Iraq and disappears. His father, Hank (Tommy Lee Jones), a retired military policeman from the Vietnam era, sets out to find him. He finds help from detective Emily Saunders (Charlize Theron), but the pair face… Continue reading In The Valley Of Elah
Tais Toi! – Shut Up!
7 Jan 2009 Director: Jason Reitman USA, Canada 2007 96min Quentin (Gérard Depardieu), a dim-witted giant who loves to talk, finds himself in jail after a botched bank robbery. He is placed in a cell with Ruby (Jean Reno), a brooding, taciturn outlaw with 15 million pounds waiting on the outside. Quentin mistakes Rubyʼs silence… Continue reading Tais Toi! – Shut Up!
Persepolis
1 Apr 2009 Directors: Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi France, USA 2007 97 min Marji is an outspoken 8 year old girl at the time of the Iranian revolution. As she grows up she finds her unique perspective on life repeatedly challenged by the country’s fundamentalist rulers. Worried for her safety, her parents send her… Continue reading Persepolis
