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Night Watch
Russia, 2005, Croatian Premiere
Dir.: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Konstantin Khabensky, Valeri Zolotukhin,
Aleksei Chadov, Ilya Lagutenko
2046
Hong Kong, 2005, 129 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Wong Kar Wai
Cast: Tony Leung, Ziyi Zhang, Gong Li, Faye Wong, Carina Lau,
Dong Jie, Maggie Cheung
Picking up where after In The Mood For Love left off, 2046 is a visually seductive reverie of memory and regret, refracted through a serial womanizer's experiences with six women.
5th World
USA, 2004, 75 min. European Premiere
Director: Blackhorse Lowe
Cast: Livandrea Knoki, Sheldon Silentwalker, Ernest Tsosie III,
James June
Two young Navajos hitch hike home through the Navajo reservation, falling in love along the way.
Absolut
Switzerland, 2004, 94 min. Croatian Premiere
Director: Romed Wyder
Cast: Vincent Bonillo, Irene Godel, Francois Nadin, Delphine Lanza
One day, two hackers manage to penetrate into the heart of a major financial network. That same day, one of the hackers suffers a strange accident... based on a true story.
Buy It Now
USA, 2005, 62 min. European Premiere
Dir: Antonio Campos
Cast: Chelsea Logan, Tiffany Yaraghi, Stacy Jordan,
Rosemarie DeWitt, Christopher McCann
A 16 year-old girl sells her virginity on eBay. A story told in two parts -- documentary and narrative.
Cavite
USA, 2004, 80 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Neill Dela Llana, Ian Gamazon
Cast: Ian Gamazon
A young man returning home to the Phillipines to attend his father's funeral finds out that his mother and sister have been kidnapped by a terrorist faction.
 Devil's Rejects
Dir: Rob Zombie
Cast: Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon, William Forsythe
Three members of the Firefly family escape a full-scale
Texas State police attack, hitting the road and launching
a cross-country killing spree.
Dark Water
CLOSING NIGHT FILM
Directed by:
Walter Salles
Cast:
Jennifer Connelly, Tim Roth, John C. Reilly,
Pete Postlethwaite, Ariel Gade, Shelley Duvall
After a bitter separation from her husband, Dahlia Williams is determined to start a new life, in a new apartment with a new job. However, dark waters in the apartment seem to close around her very soon and she needs to connect the links between the riddles or... A remake of a famous Japanese horror.
 Emperor's Wife
Netherlands/Luxembourg/Belgium, 2003, 100 min.
Croatian Premiere
Dir: Julien Vrebos
cast: Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Max Beesley, Rosana Pastor,
Leticia Dolera, Johnny de Mol
The Emperor searches for a new bride after his current Empress fails to bear him an heir and he chooses a girl he's not allowed to meet. As the exotic fairytale unfolds, the Emperor finds himself caught in a steamy love triangle.
 Forty Shades of Blue
USA, 2004, 107 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Ira Sachs
Cast: Rip Torn, Dina Korzun, Darren E. Burrows,
Paprika Steen, Red West
A Russian woman living in Memphis with a much older rock-n-roll legend experiences a personal awakening when her husband's estranged son comes to visit.
The Puffy Chair
USA, 2005, 85 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Jay Duplass
Cast: Mark Duplass, Kathryn Aselton, Rhett Wilkins
Josh Sagers drives cross-country on a mission of epic proportions: to delivery his father's birthday gift--a giant purple LazyBoy.
PuŐža Bistra
Croatia, 2005
Dir: Fillip Šovagoviž
After numerous unfortunate events, Pero Petroviž called Petar, becomes very depressed and cannot get out of it. His goal - inner peace and if possible - revenge.
The Talent Given Us
USA, 2005, 97 min. European Premiere
Dir: Andrew Wagner
Cast: Allen Wagner, Judy Wagner, Emily Wagner, Maggie Wagner
Casting his own family, director Andrew Wagner creates a brave and honest journey of a retired New York City couple on a drive across country.
Trona
USA, 2004, 63 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: David Fenster
Cast: David Nordstrom, Libby Hux, Lee Lynch A man, disillusioned with his life and bored by his surroundings, mysteriously finds himself in a barren desert. After making his way back to civilization, the man decides to abandon his former life.
What Iva recorded on October 21, 2003
Croatia, 2005.
Dir.: Tomislav Radiž
Iva gets a small digital video camera as a present for her fourteenth birthday. Delighted with her new toy, girl begins recording everything around herself, including all what's happening around her birthday party. Those ninety minutes are what makes this movie.
Art & Crimes of Ron English
USA, 2004, 78 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Pedro Carvajal
Cast: Ron English, Pedro Carvajal, Shepard Fairey
In a country saturated with advertising and inundated by commercial messages at every turn, guerilla artist Ron English hijacks corporate advertising in America and replaces familiar billboard campaigns with his own form of subversive pop culture parodies.
Broadway: The Golden Age
USA, 2004, 111 min. European Premiere
Dir: Rick McKay
Cast: Elaine Stritch, Angela Lansbury, Stephen Sondheim,
Carol Burnett,
Carol Channing, Barbara Cook, Uta Hagen,
Al Hirschfeld, Jeremy Orbach, Chita Rivera, Tommy Tune, Fay Wray
Curtains up! Light the lights! Broadway: The Golden Age is one of the most ambitious and comprehensive films ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form.
Deep Blue
Germany, U.K., 2003, 83 min. Croatian Premiere Dir: Directors Alastair Fothergill, Andy Byatt
Directors Alastair Fothergill and Andy Byatt assembled 20 specialized cameras, shot over 7,000 hours of footage in more than 200 locations around the world for more than 5 years, and descended as far as 5000 meters in the most powerful submersible crafts to bring to the screen new species of ocean dwellers never before seen until now.
McLibel
UK, 2005, 85 min. European Premiere
Dir: Franny Armstrong
Cast: Dave Morris, Helen Steel
In the longest trial in British legal history, the "McLibel Two", gardener Helen Steel and postman Dave Morris, represented themselves against McDonald's £10 million legal team for disseminating a newsletter about the fast-food giant's ill effects on society and culture.
Screaming Masterpiece
Iceland, 2005, 87 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Ari Alexander Ergis
Cast: Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum, Bang Gang, Mugison, Minus, Slowblow Director Ari Alexander Ergis' documentary follows many of Iceland's top bills--Bjork, Sigur Ros, Mum, Bang Gang, Mugison, Minus and Slowblow--from Reyjavik's irrepressible musical underground to the world, producing a heart-pounding visual and aural experience rich with raw energy and insatiable drive.
Seoul Train
USA, 2005, 54 min., Croatian Premiere
directors: Jim Butterworth, Lisa Sleeth, Aaron Lubarksy
Seoul Train is a gripping documentary into the life and death of North Koreans as they try to escape their homeland and China.
Smashing Machine
USA, 2002, 92 min. Croatian Premiere
Director: John Hyams
Cast: Mark Kerr, Bas Rutten, Igor Vovchanchyn, Ricco Rodriguez,
Mark Coleman, Renzo Gracie
A sport so dangerous it was once banned, No Holds Barred (NHB) fighting is simple in concept and savage in execution; It consists of one ring, two fighters, and no rules.
9:30
USA, 2003, 13 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Mun Chee Yong
They say intensity is inversely proportionate to the square
of distance. What is a safe distance?
Among Thieves
USA, 2004, 24 min., European Premiere
Dir: Oscar Daniels
On the run, an armed robber develops a strange, symbiotic
relationship with a dying woman.
 Carnival craziness in éubraniževa Street
Croatia, 2005, 27 min.
Dir: Tina Violiž, Marijana Sparavalo
Filmed in February 2005 during four days of Carnival in Dubrovnik, ancient costumes and masks become alive and streets are full of fantasy characters known to people of Dubrovnik throughout centuries.
Cuadrilatero
Spain, 2004, 16 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Jose Carlos Ruiz
Four characters incapable of expressing their feelings,
love without being loved.
Dani & Alice
USA, 2005, 12 min., Croatian Premiere
Dir: Roberta Marie Monroe
As Dani and Alice prepare to leave their favorite girl bar,
the ramifications of Alice's actions earlier in the night are
brought up with tragic results.
Fallen Art
Poland, 2004, 6 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Tomek Baginski
Exemplary soldiers suffering from posttraumatic stress
syndrome are sent far away from civilization, where laws
and rules nurture their insanities.
Flotsam/Jetsam
USA, 2004, 5 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: David and Nathan Zellner
Fact and fiction collide on the high seas.
Foxy and the Weight of the World
USA, 2004, 8 min. European Premiere
Dir: David Zellner
A boy and his dog; til death do they part.
Get The Picture
UK, 2004, 11 min. Croatian Premiere
Four prisoners are about to be executed in front
of a photographer and journalist. Is their presence
inciting the event?
The Idealist
USA, 2005, 16 min. World Premiere
Dir: Clay Epstein The Idealist attempts to save the world one day at a time...
 In Time
USA, 2004, 19 min., Croatian Premiere
On her wedding day, a Nigerian American Bisi, balances her life between the freedom of an American lifestyle and the beliefs of her Yoruba ancestors.
The Meaning of Life
USA, 2005, 13 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Don Hertzfeldt
The inimitable Don Hertzfeldt returns with an animated
opus magnificently exploring time, space, life, death, and
interplanetary evolution.
Swim Test
USA 2004, 13 min. European Premiere
Dir: Alex Chung
To graduate from high school, Danny must pass the swim test.
Victoria Para Chino
USA/Mexico, 2004, 13 min.
Dir.: Cary Fukunaga
In May 2003, a refrigerated truck carrying more than 80
undocumented immigrants drove across the Mexican border
into the heartland of Texas with horrifying results.
Wasp
UK, 2003, 25 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir: Andrea Arnold
A young working-class woman tries to escape the harsh
realities of single motherhood for an evening, with tragic results.
Wellman
Croatia, 2003, 30 min.
Dir: Vladimir Spicer
One of the last wellmans digs and digs and digs... a well.
Texas Doughnut Shop
USA, 2003, 21 min. Croatian Premiere
There are 700 doughnut shops in Texas, 500 are Korean
owned. This the story of one of them.
The Youth In Us
USA, 2004, 11 min. Croatian Premiere
Dir.: Joshua Leonard
A young couple confronts a painful future by looking into the past.
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