THE 43RD ANNUAL WORLDFEST
HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL
APRIL 9 - 18, 2010
Here are a few choice film selections...
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OFFICIAL OPENING NIGHT FILM
WORLD PREMIERE
Director: Derrick Borte
35mm (USA)
A seemingly perfect family moves into a suburban neighborhood, but when it comes to the truth as to why they're living there, they don't exactly come clean with their neighbors.
WorldFest Opening Night Premiere Starring Demi Moore, David Duchovny and Lauren Hutton.
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12th Man Productions
Digital (Texas)
In a state known for football, no game is bigger than the annual rivalry between Texas A&M University and the University of Texas. In its 106-year history, no game had more heartfelt emotion than the 1999 contest at Kyle Field.
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(You Tube)
Director: Jack Lucarelli
Digital (USA)
Hard realities intertwine when an elite division of L.A. undercover narcotics cops, Division 123, begins to peel away the layers of a powerful drug cartel to undermine their manipulative influence.
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(Movie Trailer)
Director: Ryszard Bugajski
35 mm (Poland)
A reconstruction of the last few years in the life of the top leaders of the Polish underground Home Army (AK), general Emil "Nil" Fieldorf.
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(Official Website)
Director: Evgeny Afineevsky
35 mm (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
A romantic comedy about how far we have come and yet how far we still have to go, when two families must come to terms with their sons love for each other and their adoption of a baby.
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(Drzazgi)
(Photos / Synopses)
Director: Maciej Pieprzyca
35 mm (Poland)
A tragicomedy presenting a few days in the lives of three young people Bartek, Marta and Robert in their quest for love set in one of Silesian industrial towns.
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(IMDB)
Director: Jamil Dehlavi
Digital (England UK)
A fallen angel seeks redemption for the death of a child under his protection.
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(Official Website)
Director: John Schwert
Digital (North Carolina, USA)
A multi-narrative drama that navigates through the different lives of one city's residents, each of whom is connected to the same local homicide investigation.
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(Official Website)
Director: Eduard Parri
35 mm (Russia)
Two magical characters in a Maserati tempt Slavik (26), our unlikely hero for a ride and offer him the chance to re-invent his life where he emerges into a wacky version of the Russian corporate world as the proverbial fish-out-of-water.
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(You Tube)
Director: Corey Seymour
Digital (Texas)
What does a man experience when he's reaching his last breath...when he's between heaven and hell...
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(Official Website)
Director: Ryo Nakajima
Digital (Japan)
One year ago, Rui lost her eyesight after a hit & run accident. She's still traumatized by the accident and has yet to undergo rehab treatment. She then meets a young man named Wataru who is fascinated by paragliding.
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(You Tube)
Director: Piero Tomaselli
35mm (Italy)
When the "Captain", a sailor with a controversial past and a really aggressive nature, finds a young girl on the beach, a difficult relationship begins between the two that will change the captain's life.
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(Official Website)
Director: William Molina
Digital (Texas)
The Trans-Texas Corridor saga continues...Government has found a new way to make money on existing public infrastructure...freeways being turned into tollways.
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(Official Website)
Director: Josh Grossberg
Digital (Texas)
During the Post-Katrina displacement of New Orleanians into
Houston's Astrodome, a Floridian Good Samaritan, Dan Sheffer, makes it his
personal goal to bring as many survivors as he can to Florida to offer them a
chance to re-build themselves a better life.
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LOST ROAD OF THE POPES (VIA PAPALI)
(Official Website)
Director: Jeff Gilson
Digital (Italy)
After the sack of Rome, the Catholic church fathers re-invent the image of the church with the VIA PAPALE, a resurgence of Pilgrimage towards the see of Rome with the help of such genius as Michelangelo. Documentary Feature.
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(Official Website)
Director: Joe Ballarini
Digital (USA)
A comedy centered around a newly divorced guy (Paul Wolff also the co-writer) who moves in with his son (Josh Dean) and joins him on the singles scene.
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FOR THE SAKE OF THE SONG: ANDERSON FAIR
(Facebook)
Director: Bruce Bryant
Digital (Texas)
For 40 years, this Houston folk and acoustic music venue has nurtured some of the most important musical performers and songwriters in America. (Lyle Lovett who won his first Music Video award at WorldFest, Townes Van Zandt, Nancy Griffith, Lucinda Williams plus others).
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(IMDB)
Director: Vaclav Marhoul
Digital (Czech Republic)
North Africa, II. WW, Fall 1941. Jiri Pospichal, twenty years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak army with very naive ideas about heroism, war & the hell of the African desert.
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