Group Portrait With Lady

LOST & FOUND: Aleksandar Petrovic's Group Portrait with Lady is based on Nobel prize winning author Heinrich Boll novella stars Romy Schneider and Brad Dourif and set during the rise of facism in the 30s to the1960s when Germany is in its height of economic boom. The film premiered at the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

Deadfall

COMING SOON: Stefan Ruzowitzky's Deadfall (US - 2012) - Eric Bana, Olivia Wilde, Charlie Hunnam and Kate Mara star in this violent quasi-Western set in snowbound north Michigan and directed by Stefan Ruzowitsky, whose film "The Counterfeiters" won the foreign-language Oscar in 2008. Official Selection 2012TRI. 

Harlan County USA

GREAT MOVIES: Barbara Kopple's Harlan County USA is an Academy Award winning documentary about coal mining strike in Kentucky where the brutal conditions and low wages cause the miners to fight against the power company with general strike that lasted almost a year. Official Selection 1976NYFF, 1977AA, 2012SANF. RATING ****

The Exchange

Eran Kolirin's The Exchange - An early mid life crisis send a man to the deep end by trying to do everything that is unusual or outside his routine. Official Selection 2011VENic, 2012SANF. RATING **

Elfie Hopkins

COMING SOON: Ryan Andrews' Elfie Hopkins (UK - 2012) - Low-budget British shocker Elfie Hopkins plays at being a whimsical, chilling and at times gory little dark fairytale, finding its feet at the story develops into horror territory and sensibly relying on a strong sense of design that helps mask a rather stuttering story. In the UK, though, it will likely get most attention from that fact it is something of a family affair – starring young actress Jaime Winstone alongside her more well-known father Ray.

The Do Deca Pentahlon

COMING SOON: Mark Duplass' The Do Deca Pentahlon (US -2012) - Followers of the prolific Duplass Brothers will be mildly surprised at this highly original take on middle-aged sibling rivalry, which addresses some of their usual subjects (tensions involving ordinary in ordinary situations) but with amped-up pacing and a daring, bold use of music. Riskier and more intense than their other work, it could easily win them new admirers oversaturated with banal mumblecore chitchat and de-dramatised narratives that have proliferated in the indie scene in recent years. (Source: SCREEN)

Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey

COMING SOON: Romana S. Diaz's Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (US - 2012) - Impressively entertaining and gently uplifting, Ramona Diaz’s ‘rags to riches’ rock documentary will appeal to music and film fans alike as it charts the real-life story of how a young impoverished singer from Manila became the lead singer of a classic-rock supergroup JOURNEY. Official Selection 2012TRI. (Source: SCREEN)

Cheerful Weather for The Wedding

COMING SOON: Donald Rice's Cheerful Weather for The Wedding (UK - 2012) - Donald Rice’s impressive debut film Cheerful Weather For The Wedding features a series of deftly presented performances all set against the delightfully claustrophobic backdrop of a small British  country house where a mismatched extended family gather for a wedding. official Selection 2012TRI. (Source: SCREEN)

Struck By Lightning

COMING SOON: Brian Donnelly's Struck By Lightning (US - 2012) - The ‘high school misfit against the world’ concept has been mined in the movie world many times before, but that doesn’t stop Glee star Chris Colfer’s scripting debut (he also stars) offer up plenty of smart and quirky moments as is heads into familiar territory. Official Selection 2012TRI.(Source: SCREEN)

While We Were Here

COMING SOON: Kat Coiro's While We Were Here (UK - 2012) - This elegant and beautifully staged Italy-set drama offers Kate Bosworth the perfect acting vehicle, playing a beautiful but emotionally troubled young woman who seeks to escape the mundanity of her marriage while on a trip to the Amalfi coast. The story of a woman at a crossroads in her life is delicately handled and makes great use of stunning locations. Official Selection 2012TRI. (Source:SCREEN)

2012 Tribeca Film Festival Winners

Kim Nguyen's War Witch won Best Film and Best Actress (Rachel Mwanza) Award

Lucy Mulloy's Una Noche won Best Actor (Dariel Arrechada and Javier Nunez Florian) and Best Cinematography Award

Daniel Burman's All In won Best Screenplay Award

Nisha Pahuja's The World Before Her won Best Documentary Award

Jeroen Van Velzen's Wavumba won Best New Documentary Director award.

2012 Cannes Classics

Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time in America

After The Curfew / Lewat Jam Malam  Usmar Ismail            Indonesia          1953

Ballad of Narayama, The             Shohei Imamura            Japan            1983

Claude M Le Cinema             Emmanuel Barnault             France             2011

Cleo From 5 To 7     Agnes Varda   France             1961

Great Day In Harlem, A             Jean Bach    US             1994

Great Spy Chase, The             Georges Lautner             France             1964

Imagination / Kalpana             Uday Shankar             India             2012

Jaws       Steven Spielberg            US             1975

Lawrence of Arabia    David Lean     UK            1962

Me and Me Dad      Katrine Boorman             UK             2011

Method To The Madness of Jerry Lewis            Gregg Barson             US             2011

Once Upon A Time In America            Sergio Leone   US             1983

Ring, The            Alfred Hitchcock            US            1927

Runaway Train            Andrei Konchalovsky            Russia            1985

Tess     Roman Polanski            France             1979

Voyage to Italy / Journey To Italy             Roberto Rossellini            Italy            1953

Woody Allen: A Documentary             Robert Weide US             2012
Final Cut      Gyorgy Palfi  Hungary   2012   (Closing Film)
 

House By The River

GREAT MOVIES: House by The River is Fritz Lang's lost masterpiece. A man was framed for murder by his own brother who accidentally killed his maid after she refused his advances. A great mix of murder mystery, romantic melodrama and ghost story make Hose by the River one of the best film from the early 50s. Official Selection 2012SANF. RATING ****

Leave Me Like You Found Me

Adele Romanski's Leave Me Like You Found Me is a mumblecore style film set in the wilderness as a couple try to restart their once loving relationship. Official Selection 2012SANF, 2012SXSW. RATING **

Tokyo Waka

John Haptas's Tokyo Waka is a poetic documentary look at crows infestation in the city of Tokyo and how it effect it's inhabitants. Official Selection 2012SANF. RATING **1/2.

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

MUST SEE: Robert Guediguian's The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a very powerful morality tale that started as petite bourgeois guilt as robbed Marseilles family found out that one of the man who robbed them use the money to feed his two younger brother as he has no other option. Inspired not by the eponymous Hemingway novel but by Victor Hugo’s poem How Good are the Poor, the latest film from Marseilles director Robert Guédiguian will strike many as old-school leftie sentimentalism of the most shameless kind. But, despite the obvious creakiness of its melodramatic narrative, there’s no denying the passion, big-heartedness and political conviction that go into The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro). Official Selection 2011CANucr, 2012PALM, 2012SANF. RATING *** 1/2

Terraferma

Emanuele Crialese's Terraferma is a look at the negative effect of globalization seen through the eyes of one Sicilian family as they deal with their dying fishing industry and the arrival of illegal immigrant on their small island. Official Selection of 2011TOR, 2011VENic, 2012OE, 2012PALM, 2012SANF. RATING ***

Golden Slumbers

Davy Chou's Golden Slumbers was premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival - Forum. The docs take a look at the golden age of Cambodian cinema between 1960 -1974 as they produce 600 titles and it's downfall in the aftermath of the civil war. The filmmaker use found footage and interviews with surviving filmmakers of the era where most of them were beheaded by the communist regime as they were labeled Enemy of The People.  Official Selection 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival. RATING ***

The Waiting Room

Peter Nicks' The Waiting Room is a powerful documentary look at a day in the life of hospital staff and patients in Oakland Highland Hospital. The docs give a very strong argument in the need for universal healthcare in America, as the over burden hospital staff must deal with the health mounting need of the very poor and the bottom dwellers of the city of Oakland. RATING ***

Chimpanzee

Alastair Fothergill's Chimpanzee, third edition of Disney Nature release to commemorate Earth Day, follows 3 year old chimp who after losing her mother, must learn to survived the jungle as she was adopted by a full grown male leader of the pack. RATING ***

2012 CANNES Directors' Forthnight

Michel Gondry's The We and The I will open 2012 Cannes Directors' Forthnight

 The full Directors’ Fortnight line-up:
(*denotes first film eligible for the Caméra d’Or)
3, dir. Pablo Stoll Ward (Uruguay)
Adieu Berthe, dir. Bruno Podalydès (France)
Aliyah, dir. Elie Wajeman (France)*
Camille Rewinds (Camille Redouble), dir. Noémie Lvovsky (France) (Closing Film)
The King Of Pigs (Dae Gi Eui Wang), dir. Yeun Sang-Ho (South Korea)*
Dangerous Liaisons, dir. Jin-ho Hur (China)
Ernest And Célestine, dir. Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner (France, Belgium, Luxembourg)
Fogo, dir. Yulene Olaizola (Canada)
Gangs Of Wasseypur, dir. Anurag Kashyap (India)
Infancia Clandestina, dir. Benjamin Ávila (Argentina)
La Sirga, dir. William Vega (Colombia)*
No, dir. Pablo Larraín (Chile)
Opération Libertad, dir. Nicolas Wadimoff (Switzerland)
Hold Back (Rengaine), dir. Rachid Djaidani (France)*
Le Repenti, dir. Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Room 237, dir. Rodney Ascher (US)*
Dream And Silence (Sueño Y Silencio), dir. Jaime Rosales (Spain)
The We And The I, dir. Michel Gondry (US) (Opening Film)
A Respectable Family (Yek Khanévadéh-e Mohtaram), dir. Massoud Bakhshi (Iran)*
Special Screenings
The Night In Front (La Noche De Enfrente), dir. Raul Ruiz (Chile, France)
Sightseers, dir. Ben Wheatley (UK)
Short films
Avec Jeff, A Moto, dir. Marie-Eve Juste (Canada)
Rodri, dir. Franco Lolli  (France)
Konigsberg, dir. Philipp Mayrhofer (France)
Porcos Raivosos, dir. Leonardo Sette (Brazil)
Os Vivos Tamben Choram, dir. Basil da Cunha (Switzerland)
Drawn From Memory (Portret Z Pamieci), dir. Marcin Bortkiewicz (Poland)
The Curse, dir. Fyzal Boulifa (UK, Morocco)
Tram, dir. Michaela Pavlátová  (Czech Republic, France)
The Living Dead (Os Mortos-Vivos), dir. Anita Rocha da Silveira (Brazil) 
Wrong Cops, dir. Quentin Dupieux (France)

2012 CANNES Critics' Week

Rufus Norris' drama 'Broken,' starring Tim Roth, will open the 2012 Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

Opening film

 

Broken, dir. Rufus Norris (UK)

 

Features

 

Aquí y Allá d’Antonio, dir. Ménde Esparza (Spain, US, Mexico)

 

Au Galop, dir. Louis-Do de Lencquesaing (France)

 

Hors Les Murs, dir. David Lambert (Belgium, Canada, France)

 

Peddlers, dir, de Vasan Bala (India)

 

Los Salvajes, dir. Alejandro Fadel (Argentina)

 

Sofia’s Last Ambulance, dir. Ilian Metev (Germany, Croatia, Bulgaria)

 

Les Voisins de Dieu, dir. Meni Yaesh (Israel, France)

 

 

Special Screenings

 

Augustine, dir. Alice Winocour (France)

 

J’enrage de son Absence, dir. Sandrine Bonnaire (France, Luxembourg, Belgium)

 

 

Short and Medium Length Films

 

La Bifle, dir. Jean-Baptiste Saurel (France)

 

Ce n’est pas un film de cowboys, dir. Benjamin Parent (France)

 

Circle Line, dir. Shin Suwon (South Korea)

 

O Duplo, dir. Juliana Rojas (Brazil)

 

Family Dinner, dir. Stefan Constantinescu (Sweden)

 

Fleuve rouge, Song Hong, dir. Stéphanie Lansaque, François Leroy (France)

 

Hazara, dir. Shay Levi (Israel)

 

Horizon, dir. Paul Negoescu (Romania)

 

Un Dimanche Matin, dir. Damien Manivel (France)

 

Yeguas y cotorras, dir. Natalia Garagiola (Argentina)

MAY 2012 HOME VIEWING

Eric Englang's Madison County

Darren Lynn Bousman's Mother's Day

OTHER TITLES
9:06 - Slovenia AMZCA
Afghan Luke - Nick Stahl
Alexander Sokurov 3 Disc Set - AMZUK
Awakening, The - Rabecca Hall - AMZUK
Beyond - John Voight Child Kidnapping film AMZUK
Carjacked - Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff NET
Dark Tide - Halle Barry and Olivier Martinez - NET 4/24
Goon - Seann William Scott
Hayabusa - Japan Asteroid film - AMZUK
Hot Summer Days - Daniel Wu, Jacky Cheung NTSC 0
Intruders - Daniel Bruhl Cllive Owens - AMZUK
Island of Lost Souls - CRI NTSC 1
Island President - AMZUK
Lethal Vengeance - Josh Brolin, Timothy Plyphant, Josh Lucas - AMZUK
Lucky Luke - Jean Du Jardin - AMZUK
My Perestroika - 2010SUN - NET
Playback - Christian Slater NET
River Murders, The - Ray Liotta - NET
Sanam - Rafi Pitts - AMZUK
Shrine, The NETINS
There Be Dragons - Jesuits NET
Topp Twins NETINS
Transit - Jim Caviezel AMZUK
Tuesday After Christmas - NETINS

MUST HAVE
AVE - Bulgaria 2011CANcw - AMZUK
Eclipse: Robert Downey Sr. Up All Night
Harakiri: Death of A Samurai - Takashi Miike AMZUK
Tatsumi - Eric Khoo 2011CANucr - AMZUK

COMING SOON: Ron Howard's Rush

Daniel Bruhl as Niki Lauda

Chris Hemsworth as James Hunt

Ron Howard's Rush is about the rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt in the glory days of Formula One in the 70s.

Think Like A Man

Tim Story's Think Like A Man is surprisingly charming battle of the sexes set in inner city Los Angeles. Based on Steve Harvey's bestseller "Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man", the film had a jaw dropping 33 million opening weekend. RATING ***

The Deep Blue Sea

Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weisz in Terence Davies's The Deep Blue Sea. Set in post WWII England, a young woman who married to a much older man had an adulterous affair with a young ex RAF pilot. Bases on Terence Rattigan chamber play, the film premiered at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival and also screen in competition at 2011 San Sebastian Film Festival

Black's Game

Oskar Thor Axelsson's Black's Game set in the eve of the new millennium in Reykjavik underworld where drugs running and bank heist is day to day activity. With nothing new to offer, this gangster film rely heavily on it's charismatic leading actors to hook the viewer from beginning to end. Consider one of the best Icelandic thriller, Black's Game nabs In Competition slot at 2012 Rotterdam Film Festival. RATED *** 1/2.                       

The Lucky One

Scott Hick's The Lucky One stars Zac Efron as a marine, who after three tour of duty, searches an unknown woman in the photo that he found in Iraq that he believed work as his good luck charm and had save him several times. The film is based on Nicholas Sparks best selling novel. RATED ** 1/2

Yossi

MUST SEE: Eytan Fox's Yossi is a sequel to his gay masterpiece Yossi and Jagger as the film follows Yossi, 10 years later, now a heart surgeon who still try to come to term with his homosexuality. The film premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival.

2012 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL LINEUP

Walter Salles' On The Road

OPENER
"Moonrise Kingdom," U.S., Wes Anderson

COMPETITION
"After The Battle," Yousry Nasrallah
"Amour," France-Austria-Germany, Michael Haneke
"The Angels' Share," U.K.-France, Ken Loach
"Beyond the Hills," Romania, Cristian Mungiu
"Cosmopolis," France-Canada-Portugal-Italy, David Cronenberg
"Holy Motors," France, Leos Carax
"The Hunt," Denmark, Thomas Vinterberg
"In Another Country," South Korea, Hong Sang-soo
"In the Fog," Germany-Netherlands-Belarus-Russia-Latvia, Sergei Loznitsa
"Killing Them Softly," U.S., Andrew Dominik
"Lawless," U.S., John Hillcoat
"Like Someone in Love," France-Japan, Abbas Kiarostami
"Mud," U.S., Jeff Nichols
"On the Road," France-U.K.-U.S., Walter Salles
"The Paperboy," U.S., Lee Daniels
"Paradise: Love," Germany-France, Ulrich Seidl
"Post tenebras lux," Mexico-France-Netherlands, Carlos Reygadas
"Reality," Italy-France, Matteo Garrone
"Rust and Bone," Belgium-France, Jacques Audiard
"Taste of Money," South Korea, Im Sang-soo
"You Haven't Seen Anything Yet," France, Alain Resnais

OUT OF COMPETITION
"Hemingway & Gellhorn," U.S., Philip Kaufman
"Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted," U.S., Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath
"Me and You," Italy, Bernardo Bertolucci

UN CERTAIN REGARD
"7 Days in Havana," France-Spain, Benicio del Toro, Pablo Trapero, Julio Medem, Elia Suleiman, Juan Carlos Tabio, Gaspar Noe, Laurent Cantet
"11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate," Japan, Koji Wakamatsu
"Antiviral," Canada-U.S., Brandon Cronenberg
"Beasts of the Southern Wild," U.S., Benh Zeitlin
"Children," Bosnia-Herzegovina, Aida Begic
"Confession of a Child of the Century," France, Sylvie Verheyde
"Despues de Lucia," Mexico, Michel Franco
"Gimme the Loot," US, Adam Leon
"God's Horses," Morocco-Belgium, Nabil Ayouch
"La Pirogue," France-Senegal, Moussa Toure
"La playa," Colombia, Juan Andres Arango
"Laurence Anyways," Canada-France, Xavier Dolan
"Le grand soir," France, Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern
"Loving Without Reason," Belgium-Luxembourg-France-Switzerland, Joachim Lafosse
"Miss Lovely," India, Ashim Ahluwalia
"Mystery," China-France, Lou Ye
"Renoir," France, Gilles Bourdos (closing film)
"Student," Kazakhstan, Darezhan Omirbayev
"Trois mondes," France, Catherine Corsini
"White Elephant," Argentina-Spain, Pablo Trapero

MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS
"Dracula 3D," Italy-France-Spain, Dario Argento
"Maniac," US-France, Franck Khalfoun
"The Legend of Love & Sincerity," Japan, Takashi Miike
"The Sapphires," Australia, Wayne Blair

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
"A musica segundo Tom Jobim," Nelson Pereira Dos Santos
"The Central Park Five," Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
"Der Mull im Garten Eden," Germany, Fatih Akin
"Journal de France," Claudine Nougaret, Raymond Depardon
"Les Invisibles," Sebastien Lifshitz
"Mekong Hotel," Apichatpong Weerasethakul
"Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir," U.K.-Germany, Laurent Bouzereau
"Trashed, " UK, Candida Brady

"Villegas," Argentina-Netherlands-France, Gonzalo Tobal

CLOSER
"Therese Desqueyroux," France, Claude Miller

Chicken with Plums

Chicken With Plums - Marjane Satrapi - France/ Iran - 2011 ****

Persepolis's Marjane Satrapi first live action film stars Mathieu Almaric, Maria De Madeiros, Eric Caravaca, Isabella Rossellini follows the life of a talented violinist who decide to end his life after his wife broke his violin. Official Selection 2011 Venice Film Festival.

To Rome With Love

To Rome with Love - Woody Allen - US - 2012 ** 1/2
The Woody Allen latest combine US and Italian actors plus Penelope Cruz to mix result. It explores his usual themes of life and death, love, life happiness and disappointments. The film sets in the Eternal City and stars Alec Baldwin, Jesse Eisenberg, Roberto Benigni, Judy Davis, Great Gerwig and Riccardo Scarmarcio.

The Divide

The Divide - Xavier Gens - US - 2011 ** 1/2 

In the aftermath of nuclear attack in NYC, a group of survivor trap in the basement of NYC building. As the supplies dwindling down, everyone involved starts losing their humanity and survival of the fittest applies to the group. This ultra violence film stars Michael Biehn and Rosanna Arquette and premiered at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival.

No Return

Miguel Cohan's No Return

No Return - Miguel Cohan - Argentina - 2010 *** 1/2 

Leonardo Sbaraglia stars as a man who is falsely accused of hit and run. Miguel Cohan impressive directorial debut take a deep look into the aftermath of the accident as it effect the victim family, the falsely accused family and the family of the real culprit. 2010VAL, 2011SILCON.

The Devils

Ken Russell's The Devils with Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave

The Devils - Ken Russell - UK - 1971 ****

Ken Russell's controversial masterpiece set in 17 century France where power struggle put charismatic priest against corrupt state power and sexually repressed nuns. The film stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. 1972NBR, 2001TEL.

Post Mortem

2011 Cartagena Film Festival Best Film Winner

Post Mortem - Pablo Larrain - Chile - 2010 *** 1/2 

Pablo Larrain third film take a look on Chile in the eve of 1973 assassination of Salvador Alende through the eyes of morgue worker as he falls for a burlesque dancer who is connected to the wrong side of political faction. 2010NYFF, 2010VENic, 2011CAR.

2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival Lineup and Highlights

Abu, Son of Adam    Salim Ahamed             India             2011   

Albert Nobbs             Rodrigo Garcia             Ireland             2011            ***

All Your Dead Ones    Carlos Moreno             Colombia        2011            **

Almanya             Yasemin Samdereli             Germany          2011   

Alois Nebel             Tomas Lunak   Czech             2011   

Apartment in Athens            Ruggero Dipaola             Italy             2012   

Arranged Happiness             Daniela DarCreutz             India             2012   

Asma'a   Amr Salama             Egypt             2011            ***

Attenberg             Athina Rachel Tsangari             Greece             2010            ***

August    Eldar Rapaport             US             2011   

Back to Your Arms             Kristijonas Vildziunas             Lithuania          2011   

Baikonur             Veit Helmer             Germany          2011   

Beast             Christoffer Boe             Denmark          2011   

Becoming Bert Stern        Shannah Laumeister             US             2011   

Beyond            Pernilla August             Sweden          2010            *** 1/2

Bitter Seeds             Micha Peled    India             2011   

Black Bread             Agustin Villaronga            Spain             2010            *** 1/2

Blood of My Blood   Joao Canijo             Portugal           2011   

Bol       Shoaib Mansoor             Pakistan          2012            ***

Breathing            Karl Markovics             Austria             2011   

British Guide to Showing Off, The      Jes Benstock             UK             2011   

Bullhead             Michael R. Roskam            Belgium             2011            ***

By The Fire             Alejandro Fernandez Almendras             Chile             2011            ***

Café De Flore             Jean Marc Vallee            Canada             2011   

Cairo 678             Mohamed Diab             Egypt             2010   

Cairo Station            Youssef Chahine            Egypt            1958   

California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown   Sascha Rice     US             2011   

Carol Channing: Lager Than Life             Dori Berinstein             US             2011   

Chronicle of My Mother             Masato Harada             Japan             2011   

Cloudburst             Thom Fitgerald             Canada             2011   

Cold Steel             David Wu       China             2011   

Come As You Are / Hasta La Vista            Geoffrey Enthoven             Belgium             2011   

Conformist, The             Bernardo Bertolucci             Italy             1970            *****

Corpo Celeste             Alice Rohrwacher             Italy             2011   

Cracks in The Shell, The     Christian Schwochow             Germany          2011   

David   Joel Fendelman             US             2011   

Declaration of War     Valerie Donzelli             France             2011            *** 1/2

Devi / Goddess, The            Satyajit Ray      India             1960   

Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel   Lisa Vreeland             US             2011   

Die Standing Up             Jacaranda Correa             Mexico             2011            ***

Dolphin Boy             Dani Menkin             Israel             2011   

Dragon / Wu Xia       Peter Chan    Hong Kong    2011            *** 1/2

Edwin Boyd             Nathan Morlando            Canada             2011   

Elena    Andrei Zvyagintsev            Russia             2011   

Eliminate: Archie Cookson             Rob Holder UK             2011   

Elite Squad 2, The      Jose Padilha             Brazil             2010            ****

Escort In Love             Massimiliano Bruno             Italy             2011   

Expiration Date             Kenya Marquez             Mexico             2011   

First Position             Bess Kargman             US             2011   

Flowers of War / Heroes of Nanking             Zhang Yimou  China             2011   

Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story            Jonathan Gruber             US             2011   

Footnote             Joseph Cedar   Israel             2011            *** 1/2

Foreverland             Maxwell McGuire             Canada             2011   

Forgiveness Of Blood, The            Joshua Marston            US             2011            *** 1/2

Front Line, The             Jang Hun      South Korea 2011            *** 1/2

Generation P             Victor Ginzburg             Russia             2011   

Girls in The Band, The            Judy Chaikin             US             2011   

Good Son, The             Zaida Bergroth             Finland             2011            ***

Goodbye First Love    Mia Hansen Love            France            2011            *** 1/2

Graveyard Keeper's Daughter            Katrin Laur     Estonia             2011            ***

Guilty / Presumed Guilty   Vincent Garenq             France            2011            *** 1/2

Habibi    Susan Youssef             Palestine          2011   

Happy New Year, Grandma     Telmo Esnal    Spain             2011            ***

Happy, Happy            Anne Sewitsky             Norway          2011            ***

Haywire             Steven Soderbergh            US             2011            **

Headhunters             Morten Tyldum            Norway          2011   

Holidays By The Sea             Pascal Rabate             France             2011   

Hotel Lux             Leander Hausmann             Germany          2011 

The House - 2012 PSIFF New Voices / New Visions Award Winner

House, The             Zuzana Liova    Czech             2011   

How Big Is Your Love             Fatma Zohra Zamoum             Algeria             2011   

If I Were You             Joan Carr Wiggin             Canada             2011   

If Not Us, Who?   Andres Veiel            Germany          2011   

In Darkness            Agnieszka Holland            Poland            2011            ***

Innocence             Jan Hrebejk             Czech            2011   

Invader, The             Nicolas Provost             Belgium             2011            ***

Island President, The             Jon Shenk   US             2011   

Jiro Dreams of Sushi    David Gelb     US             2011   

Jose and Pilar             Miguel Goncalves Mendes             Portugal           2011   

Kid With A Bike, The             Jean Pierre Dardenne            Belgium             2011            ****

Kiss Me             Alexandra Therese Keining             Sweden          2011   

Knuckleball             Ricki Stern    US             2012   

Land of Oblivion             Michale Boganim             Ukraine            2011            ***

Las Acacias             Pablo Giorgelli            Argentina         2011   

Last Winter             John Shank   France            2011            ***

Le Havre             Aki Kaurismaki             Finland             2011            *** 1/2

Lena             Christophe Van Rompaey             Netherlands     2011   

Let My People Go       Mikael Buch    France             2011   

Love In The Medina             Abdelhai Laraki             Morocco        2011   

Lovely Man             Teddy Soeriaatmadja            Indonesia          2011   ***

Loving Story, The      Nancy Buirski   US             2011   

Lucky   Avie Luthra    South Africa   2011   

Man Without A Cell Phone             Sameh Soabi             Palestine, Israel            2010   

Michael             Markus Schleinzer             Austria             2011            *** 1/2

Michel Petrucciani             Michael Radford             France             2011   

Miss Bala             Gerardo Naranjo             Mexico             2011            *** 1/2

Monk, The             Dominik Moll France             2011   

Monsieur Lazhar  Philippe Falardeau            Canada             2011            *** 1/2

Montevideo, God Bless You            Dragan Bjelogrlic            Serbia             2011   

Morgen             Mircea Crisan             Romania          2010            *** 1/2

Mulberry Child             Susan Morgan Cooper             China             2011   

My Australia             Ami Drozd   Israel             2011   

My Best Enemy             Wolfgang Murnberger            Austria            2011            ***

My Father Baryshnikov             Dmitri Povolotsky             Russia             2011   

Nino     Loy Arcenas             Philippines       2011   

North Sea Texas   Bavo Devurne             Belgium             2011   

Nuit No 1            Anne Emon   Canada             2011   

Off White Lies             Maya Kenig   Israel             2012   

Old Goats             Taylor Guterson             US             2010   

Omar Killed Me             Roschdy Zem   France, Morocco             2011   

On The Edge / Sur La Planche             Leila Kilani            Morocco        2011   

Once Upon A Time in Anatolia             Nuri Bilge Ceylan             Turkey             2011   

Orator, The             Tusi Tamasese             Samoa             2011   

P - 047            Kongdej Jaturanrasmee             Thailand          2011   

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory             Joe Berlinger             US             2011   

Pariah   Dee Rees     US             2011   

Patagonia            Marc Evans   UK            2010   

Perfect Sense             David MacKenzie             UK             2011            ** 1/2

Perfect Stranger, The             Toni Bestrad             Spain             2011   

Pig       Henry Barrial  US             2011   

Pina      Wim Wenders             Germany          2011            ***

Postcard             Kaneto Shindo Japan             2010   

Real Truths: The Life of Estella Nicolas Gil Lavedra             Argentina         2011   

Record of a Tenement Gentleman            Yasujiro Ozu   Japan            1947   

Restoration             Yossi Madmoni             Israel             2011            ***

Return         Liza Johnson             US             2011   

Return to Murder             Dain Said             Malaysia          2011   

Rif Lover, The             Narjiss Nejjar             Morocco        2011   

Rose    Wojtek Smarzowski             Poland             2011   

Rumble of The Stones, The             Alejandro Bellame Palacios            Venezuela        2011   

Run For Life             Mladen Maticevic             Serbia             2011   

Sacrifice           Chen Kaige   China             2010            ***

Sal       James Franco             US             2011   

Salesman, The             Sebastien Pilote             Canada             2011            ***

Salmon Fishing In The Yemen             Lasse Hallstrom             US             2011            ** 1/2

Salt of Life, The      Gianni Di Gregorio             Italy             2010   

Sandman, The             Peter Luisi             Switzerland       2011   

Sea Shadow             Nawaf Al Janahi             UAE            2011   

Semper Fi: Always Faithful             Rachel Libert   US             2011   

Separation, A             Asghar Farhadi             Iran             2011            ****

Shakespeare High     Alex Rotaru US             2011   

Silver Cliff, The             Karim Ainouz Brazil             2011            ***

Simon and The Oaks    Lisa Ohlin             Denmark          2011   

Simple Life, A             Ann Hui       Hong Kong, China             2011   

Snows of Kilimanjaro, The      Robert Guediguian             France             2011   

Sonny Boy             Maria Peters             Netherlands     2011   

Sons of Norway             Jens Lien             Norway          2011            *** 1/2

Sound of My Voice   Zal Batmanglij             US             2011   

Squad, The / El Paramo             Jaime Osorio             Argentina         2011   

Starbuck            Ken Scott    Canada             2011   

Starbuck - 2012 PSIFF Audience Award winner

Story of Film: An Odyssey, The      Mark Cousins             UK             2011   

Student, The             Santiago Mitre             Argentina         2011            *** 1/2

Summer Games / Giochi D'estate             Rolando Colla            Switzerland       2011            ***

Superclasico             Ole Christian Madsen            Denmark          2011   

Tall Man, The            Tony Krawitz             Australia          2011   

Tatsumi             Eric Khoo             Singapore       2011   

Terraferma             Emanuele Crialese            Italy             2011   

Thin Ice / Convincer, The             Jill Sprecher            US             2011            ** 1/2

Thousand Cuts, A         Charles Evered             US             2012   

Three Disappearances of Soade Hosni             Rania Stephan             Lebanon          2011   

Three Quarter Moon             Christian Zubert             Germany          2010   

Tilt       Victor Chouchkov Jr            Bulgaria          2011   

Time To Spare             Job Gosschalk             Netherlands     2011   

Tiniest Place, The      Tatiana Huezo  Mexico            2011            ** 1/2

Transit Cities             Mohammed al Hushki             Jordan             2010   

Turin Horse, The      Bela Tarr            Hungary          2011            *** 1/2

The Turin Horse  2012 PSIFF FIPRESCI Prize winner

Turn Me On, Goddammit            Jannicke Systad Jacobsen             Norway          2011   

Unfinished Spaces             Benjamin Murray             Cuba             2011   

Vito      Jeffrey Schwarz            US             2012   

Volcano             Runar Runarsson            Iceland             2011            ***

War of The Buttons, The             Christophe Barratier             France             2011   

Warriors of The Rainbow: Siddiq Bale             Wei Te Sheng   Taiwan             2011   

Watch Indian Circus             Mangesh Hadawale             India             2011   

We Have A Pope / Habemus Papam Nanni Moretti Italy             2011            **

We Need To Talk About Kevin   Lynne Ramsay             UK             2011            *** 1/2

When The Night / Quando La Notte             Cristina Comencini             Italy             2011   

Wish Me Away             Bobbie Birleffi US             2011   

Woman In The Fifth     Pawel Pawlikoswki            UK            2011   

Women With Cows   Peter Gerdehag             Sweden          2011   

Wreckers             D. R. Hood        UK             2011            ***

Wrinkles             Ignacio Ferreras             Spain             2011   

Wunderkinder             Marcus O. Rosenmuller             Germany          2011   

Yeelen / Brightness            Souleymane Cisse            Mali            1987   

You've Been Trumped            Anthony Baxter             UK             2011  

OTHER AWARD WINNERS

The Girls in the Band and Wish Me Away Tie for Audience Award Best Doc Feature

The Tiniest Place Receives The John Schlesinger Award

Matthias Schoenaerts received the FIPRESCI Award for Best Actor for his role in Bullhead (Belgium) directed by Michaël R. Roskam, “for his superb portrayal of an innocent and sensitive man trapped in a truculent body.”

The ensemble female cast (Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi) from A Separation (Iran) received the FIPRESCI Award for Best Actress. 

Terraferma (Italy), directed by Emanuele Crialese, received the HP Bridging the Borders Award