2004 Program - Tiburon International Film Festival

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F EATURE FILMS
Poisons
Russia :: 2001 :: 101 min
director Karen Shakhnazarov
cast Ignat Akrachkov, Alexander YI Borgia, Oleg
Basilashvili, Zhanna Dudanova, Alexander Bashirov
Wednesday, March 17, 9:05 pm
Could a theater actor, Oleg Volkov, have imagined
that when he saw at his door his new neighbor Arnold
Sharapov, that this meeting would completely change
his life; create a classic amorous triangle and bring him
to knowledge of the Rome Pope Alexander VI Borgia;
his son Cesare and his daughter Lukrezia; Queen of
France Catherine Medici; Nero, and other distinctive
historical and present day personalities? Never could
he have imagined such a thing, but that is what happens
in the new comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.
Screening with:
Terminal
Police Woman
Portugal :: 2003 :: 84 min
director Joaquim Sapinho
cast Amelia Coroa Ludovic, Videira Maria, Silva
Sunday, March 14, 7:10 pm
Tânia is a young widow living in a village located
in northern Portugal. Rato, her 9-year-old son, is
wandering around with bad company. After getting
in trouble because of this rough crowd he's hanging
around with, he is sent to a juvenile correctional facility.
In order to stay close to her son, Tânia decides to take
him and run away to Lisbon. But in the road there will
force her to face her destiny.
Screening with:
Rendezvous
Prison Lullabies
US :: 2003 :: 83 min
director Odile Isralson & Lina Matta
Tuesday, March 16, 5:10 pm
Prison Lullabies is the journey of four women who were
arrested pregnant and were given the rare opportunity
of keeping their babies with them while serving their
sentence. The film follows them for two and half years
as they struggle to rebuild a life for themselves and their
babies on the outside.
Screening with:
Within the Wall
The Professional
Serbia/Montenegro :: 2003 :: 104 min
director Dusan Kovacevic
cast Bora Todorovic, Branislav Lecic,
Natasa Ninkovic, Dragan Jovanovic
Friday, March 12, 10:10 pm
Teja, now a manager of a big publishing house, has been
a University professor and a passionate opponent of the
Milosevic regime, when one day a stranger named Luka,
a former Serbian Security Service agent enters his life.
Luka, now a taxi driver, presents Teja with information
showing that he had been on assignment to shadow
him for the past ten years. From the unexpected, often
moving, sometimes comic, and tragic war stories, arises
a chronicle of one nation’s struggle for freedom at the
end of the 20 th Century.
Public Affair
France :: 2003 :: 83 min
director Mathieu Amalric
Wednesday, March 17, 7:20 pm
Young Filmaker Philippe is researching his latest project,
“Public Affair”, a film set in politics that integrates his
own beliefs on the equality between men and women.
Suddenly, defense of that equality becomes necessary
due to a shocking discovery about his wife’s relationship
with another man.
Rainbow
China :: 2003 :: 94 min
director Gao Xiaosong
cast Li Xiaolu. Chen Daoming,
Ding Yongdai, Zheng Jun
Saturday, March 13, 7:15 pm
A story set in the west of central China's Hunan Province
in the 1930s. The tale interweaves the lives of four
characters brought together by personal disabilities,
fate, and love. The male characters in the film (Twilight,
Twinkle, and Sunshine) share a love for the main female
character (Rainbow) and struggle to gain her affection
amidst the backdrop of an impending invasion by the
Japanese army. Their fates are finally sealed when the
Japanese army arrives in the small village and the men
must fight to defend the village and Rainbow.
Screening with:
Tell Tale Heart
Screening with:
Night
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