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Factotum
World Cinema
Director : Bent Hamer Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Norway Running Time : 90min
Based on iconic pseudo-Beat writer Charles Bukowski¡¯s second novel, is about Henry, a low-life would-be writer who boozes his way from one dead-end job to the next, and from one meaningless relationship with anonymous women to the next. Discouraged by rejection but ...

Don¡®t Come Knocking
World Cinema
Director : Wim Wenders Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : German,USA Running Time : 122min
The latest film by Wim Wenders is about a fading Hollywood star and his search to first discover and then rebuild his fractured family. Howard Spence is leading a life filled with booze, drugs and girls when a visit to his mother¡¯s home leads him to discover that he may have a...

The Courage to Love
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : - Running Time : 103min
The latest incarnation of Lelouch¡¯s ensemble comedy-drama is a more streamlined and captivating film that the previous ones - criticisms of which stung Lelouch a great deal. The story winds back and forth around a busker, a thief on wheels, a bar waitress, a street peddler and...

The Beat that my Heart Skipped
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : France Running Time : 107min
Based on James Toback¡¯s , tells the tale of would-be concert pianist Tom, seemingly destined to follow his father into the world of real estate. A chance meeting with a Chinese pianist gives him hope for himself, but the sleazy, cutthroat business of land e...

International Premiere
Lie With Me
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Canada Running Time : 92min
[Lie With Me] tells the story of one summer in the life of Leila when she discovers the meeting point between sex and emotion. Leila is committed to casual, unconnected sexual encounters until she meets David - emotional and demanding of more than just sex. With the chaos of h...

Hotel Rwanda
World Cinema
Director : Terry George Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Running Time : 121min
The Hutu-Tutsi tensions that had been smouldering for decades erupted into violence and genocide in the mid-1990s - and the world watched with indifference. In Kigali, four-star hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina does his job with grace and discretion. While Rwanda tears itself a...

U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Running Time : 120min
Bizet¡¯s tale of Carmen - the classic gangster story of woman in a man¡¯s world, set in the slums of Seville - is adapted and re-imagined for a modern South African township. This Carmen is a sensuous, independent woman who works in a cigarette factory. She takes a fancy to the ...

Zozo
World Cinema
Director : Josef Fares Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Running Time : 103min
Growing up amid civil war makes a normal life difficult, but that is what Zozo does. Surrounded by family and friends, Zozo lives his life in Beirut as regularly as can be imagined. But when tragedy strikes, Zozo has his safety net of loved ones torn from him and must make his...

Willenbrock
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Germany Running Time : 108min
Brend Willenbrock has it all. He¡¯s the owner of a booming car dealership, has a wonderful wife, an undemanding mistress and is possessed of such an unshakeable self-assuredness that he seems impervious to misfortune. But a burglary at his home and an attack on his wife cause W...

What¡®s A Man Without A Moustache?
World Cinema
Director : Entry Year : 2005 (10) Country : Croatia Running Time : 109min
A pair of unlucky souls is at the center of this tale of bias, illusion and barriers. A young widow falls in love with the local, alcoholic priest whose parish is going bankrupt. Even though he knows that the young woman is fond of him, he¡¯s unable to choose between her and th...




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